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2018-01-27Add missing semicolons in documentation examplesMagnus Hagander
Author: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
2018-01-26Avoid unnecessary use of pg_strcasecmp for already-downcased identifiers.Tom Lane
We have a lot of code in which option names, which from the user's viewpoint are logically keywords, are passed through the grammar as plain identifiers, and then matched to string literals during command execution. This approach avoids making words into lexer keywords unnecessarily. Some places matched these strings using plain strcmp, some using pg_strcasecmp. But the latter should be unnecessary since identifiers would have been downcased on their way through the parser. Aside from any efficiency concerns (probably not a big factor), the lack of consistency in this area creates a hazard of subtle bugs due to different places coming to different conclusions about whether two option names are the same or different. Hence, standardize on using strcmp() to match any option names that are expected to have been fed through the parser. This does create a user-visible behavioral change, which is that while formerly all of these would work: alter table foo set (fillfactor = 50); alter table foo set (FillFactor = 50); alter table foo set ("fillfactor" = 50); alter table foo set ("FillFactor" = 50); now the last case will fail because that double-quoted identifier is different from the others. However, none of our documentation says that you can use a quoted identifier in such contexts at all, and we should discourage doing so since it would break if we ever decide to parse such constructs as true lexer keywords rather than poor man's substitutes. So this shouldn't create a significant compatibility issue for users. Daniel Gustafsson, reviewed by Michael Paquier, small changes by me Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/29405B24-564E-476B-98C0-677A29805B84@yesql.se
2018-01-26Remove the obsolete WITH clause of CREATE FUNCTION.Tom Lane
This clause was superseded by SQL-standard syntax back in 7.3. We've kept it around for backwards-compatibility purposes ever since; but 15 years seems like long enough for that, especially seeing that there are undocumented weirdnesses in how it interacts with the SQL-standard syntax for specifying the same options. Michael Paquier, per an observation by Daniel Gustafsson; some small cosmetic adjustments to nearby code by me. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180115022748.GB1724@paquier.xyz
2018-01-25Support --no-comments in pg_dump, pg_dumpall, pg_restore.Tom Lane
We have switches already to suppress other subsidiary object properties, such as ACLs, security labels, ownership, and tablespaces, so just on the grounds of symmetry we should allow suppressing comments as well. Also, commit 0d4e6ed30 added a positive reason to have this feature, i.e. to allow obtaining the old behavior of selective pg_restore should anyone desire that. Recent commits have removed the cases where pg_dump emitted comments on built-in objects that the restoring user might not have privileges to comment on, so the original primary motivation for this feature is gone, but it still seems at least somewhat useful in its own right. Robins Tharakan, reviewed by Fabrízio Mello Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEP4nAx22Z4ch74oJGzr5RyyjcyUSbpiFLyeYXX8pehfou92ug@mail.gmail.com
2018-01-25Clean up some aspects of pg_dump/pg_restore item-selection logic.Tom Lane
Ensure that CREATE DATABASE and related commands are issued when, and only when, --create is specified. Previously there were scenarios where using selective-dump switches would prevent --create from having any effect. For example, it would fail to do anything in pg_restore if the archive file had been made by a selective dump, because there would be no TOC entry for the database. Since we don't issue \connect either if we don't issue CREATE DATABASE, this could result in unexpectedly restoring objects into the wrong database. Also fix pg_restore's selective restore logic so that when an object is selected to be restored, we also restore its ACL, comment, and security label if any. Previously there was no way to get the latter properties except through tedious mucking about with a -L file. If, for some reason, you don't want these properties, you can match the old behavior by adding --no-acl etc. While at it, try to make _tocEntryRequired() a little better organized and better documented. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/32668.1516848577@sss.pgh.pa.us
2018-01-25Update documentation to mention huge pages on other OSesPeter Eisentraut
Previously, the docs implied that only Linux and Windows could use huge pages. That's not quite true: it's just that we only know how to request them explicitly on those OSes. Be more explicit about what huge_pages really does and mention that some OSes may use huge pages automatically. Author: Thomas Munro and Catalin Iacob Reviewed-By: Justin Pryzby, Peter Eisentraut Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=3qzR-hfjepymohuC4XO5phxoSoipOjm6BEhnJHjNR+jg@mail.gmail.com
2018-01-24doc: properly indent CREATE TRIGGER paragraphBruce Momjian
This was done to match the surrounding indentation. Text added in PG 10. Backpatch-through: 10
2018-01-24doc: clarify use of RegisterDynamicBackgroundWorkerBruce Momjian
Document likely use of RegisterDynamicBackgroundWorker by another background worker. Reported-by: Chapman Flack Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAB7nPqTdi=J9HH8PPPiEOohebdd+xkgbbhdY7=VbGnZ3CkZXxA@mail.gmail.com Author: Chapman Flack
2018-01-23doc: mention psql -l uses the 'postgres' database by defaultBruce Momjian
Reported-by: Mark Wood Bug: 14912 Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20171116171735.1474.30450@wrigleys.postgresql.org Author: David G. Johnston Backpatch-through: 10
2018-01-23Documentation fix: pg_ctl no longer makes connection attempts.Tom Lane
Overlooked in commit f13ea95f9. Noted by Nick Barnes. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180123093723.7407.3386@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2018-01-23doc: simplify intermediate certificate mention in libpq docsBruce Momjian
Backpatch-through: 9.3
2018-01-23Split out documentation of SSL parameters into their own sectionPeter Eisentraut
Split the "Authentication and Security" section into two separate sections "Authentication" and "SSL". The latter part has gotten much longer over time, and doesn't primarily have to do with authentication. Also, the row_security parameter was inconsistently categorized, so clean that up while we're here.
2018-01-22Move handling of database properties from pg_dumpall into pg_dump.Tom Lane
This patch rearranges the division of labor between pg_dump and pg_dumpall so that pg_dump itself handles all properties attached to a single database. Notably, a database's ACL (GRANT/REVOKE status) and local GUC settings established by ALTER DATABASE SET and ALTER ROLE IN DATABASE SET can be dumped and restored by pg_dump. This is a long-requested improvement. "pg_dumpall -g" will now produce only role- and tablespace-related output, nothing about individual databases. The total output of a regular pg_dumpall run remains the same. pg_dump (or pg_restore) will restore database-level properties only when creating the target database with --create. This applies not only to ACLs and GUCs but to the other database properties it already handled, that is database comments and security labels. This is more consistent and useful, but does represent an incompatibility in the behavior seen without --create. (This change makes the proposed patch to have pg_dump use "COMMENT ON DATABASE CURRENT_DATABASE" unnecessary, since there is no case where the command is issued that we won't know the true name of the database. We might still want that patch as a feature in its own right, but pg_dump no longer needs it.) pg_dumpall with --clean will now drop and recreate the "postgres" and "template1" databases in the target cluster, allowing their locale and encoding settings to be changed if necessary, and providing a cleaner way to set nondefault tablespaces for them than we had before. This means that such a script must now always be started in the "postgres" database; the order of drops and reconnects will not work otherwise. Without --clean, the script will not adjust any database-level properties of those two databases (including their comments, ACLs, and security labels, which it formerly would try to set). Another minor incompatibility is that the CREATE DATABASE commands in a pg_dumpall script will now always specify locale and encoding settings. Formerly those would be omitted if they matched the cluster's default. While that behavior had some usefulness in some migration scenarios, it also posed a significant hazard of unwanted locale/encoding changes. To migrate to another locale/encoding, it's now necessary to use pg_dump without --create to restore into a database with the desired settings. Commit 4bd371f6f's hack to emit "SET default_transaction_read_only = off" is gone: we now dodge that problem by the expedient of not issuing ALTER DATABASE SET commands until after reconnecting to the target database. Therefore, such settings won't apply during the restore session. In passing, improve some shaky grammar in the docs, and add a note pointing out that pg_dumpall's output can't be expected to load without any errors. (Someday we might want to fix that, but this is not that patch.) Haribabu Kommi, reviewed at various times by Andreas Karlsson, Vaishnavi Prabakaran, and Robert Haas; further hacking by me. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJrrPGcUurV0eWTeXODwsOYFN=Ekq36t1s0YnFYUNzsmRfdAyA@mail.gmail.com
2018-01-22Transaction control in PL proceduresPeter Eisentraut
In each of the supplied procedural languages (PL/pgSQL, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Tcl), add language-specific commit and rollback functions/commands to control transactions in procedures in that language. Add similar underlying functions to SPI. Some additional cleanup so that transaction commit or abort doesn't blow away data structures still used by the procedure call. Add execution context tracking to CALL and DO statements so that transaction control commands can only be issued in top-level procedure and block calls, not function calls or other procedure or block calls. - SPI Add a new function SPI_connect_ext() that is like SPI_connect() but allows passing option flags. The only option flag right now is SPI_OPT_NONATOMIC. A nonatomic SPI connection can execute transaction control commands, otherwise it's not allowed. This is meant to be passed down from CALL and DO statements which themselves know in which context they are called. A nonatomic SPI connection uses different memory management. A normal SPI connection allocates its memory in TopTransactionContext. For nonatomic connections we use PortalContext instead. As the comment in SPI_connect_ext() (previously SPI_connect()) indicates, one could potentially use PortalContext in all cases, but it seems safest to leave the existing uses alone, because this stuff is complicated enough already. SPI also gets new functions SPI_start_transaction(), SPI_commit(), and SPI_rollback(), which can be used by PLs to implement their transaction control logic. - portalmem.c Some adjustments were made in the code that cleans up portals at transaction abort. The portal code could already handle a command *committing* a transaction and continuing (e.g., VACUUM), but it was not quite prepared for a command *aborting* a transaction and continuing. In AtAbort_Portals(), remove the code that marks an active portal as failed. As the comment there already predicted, this doesn't work if the running command wants to keep running after transaction abort. And it's actually not necessary, because pquery.c is careful to run all portal code in a PG_TRY block and explicitly runs MarkPortalFailed() if there is an exception. So the code in AtAbort_Portals() is never used anyway. In AtAbort_Portals() and AtCleanup_Portals(), we need to be careful not to clean up active portals too much. This mirrors similar code in PreCommit_Portals(). - PL/Perl Gets new functions spi_commit() and spi_rollback() - PL/pgSQL Gets new commands COMMIT and ROLLBACK. Update the PL/SQL porting example in the documentation to reflect that transactions are now possible in procedures. - PL/Python Gets new functions plpy.commit and plpy.rollback. - PL/Tcl Gets new commands commit and rollback. Reviewed-by: Andrew Dunstan <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com>
2018-01-22Fix docs typoMagnus Hagander
Spotted by Thomas Munro
2018-01-21Support huge pages on WindowsMagnus Hagander
Add support for huge pages (called large pages on Windows) to the Windows build. This (probably) breaks compatibility with Windows versions prior to Windows 2003 or Windows Vista. Authors: Takayuki Tsunakawa and Thomas Munro Reviewed by: Magnus Hagander, Amit Kapila
2018-01-21Fix wording of "hostaddrs"Magnus Hagander
The field is still called "hostaddr", so make sure references use "hostaddr values" instead. Author: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
2018-01-20doc: update intermediate certificate instructionsBruce Momjian
Document how to properly create root and intermediate certificates using v3_ca extensions and where to place intermediate certificates so they are properly transferred to the remote side with the leaf certificate to link to the remote root certificate. This corrects docs that used to say that intermediate certificates must be stored with the root certificate. Also add instructions on how to create root, intermediate, and leaf certificates. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180116002238.GC12724@momjian.us Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier Backpatch-through: 9.3
2018-01-19Allow UPDATE to move rows between partitions.Robert Haas
When an UPDATE causes a row to no longer match the partition constraint, try to move it to a different partition where it does match the partition constraint. In essence, the UPDATE is split into a DELETE from the old partition and an INSERT into the new one. This can lead to surprising behavior in concurrency scenarios because EvalPlanQual rechecks won't work as they normally did; the known problems are documented. (There is a pending patch to improve the situation further, but it needs more review.) Amit Khandekar, reviewed and tested by Amit Langote, David Rowley, Rajkumar Raghuwanshi, Dilip Kumar, Amul Sul, Thomas Munro, Álvaro Herrera, Amit Kapila, and me. A few final revisions by me. Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAJ3gD9do9o2ccQ7j7+tSgiE1REY65XRiMb=yJO3u3QhyP8EEPQ@mail.gmail.com
2018-01-19Local partitioned indexesAlvaro Herrera
When CREATE INDEX is run on a partitioned table, create catalog entries for an index on the partitioned table (which is just a placeholder since the table proper has no data of its own), and recurse to create actual indexes on the existing partitions; create them in future partitions also. As a convenience gadget, if the new index definition matches some existing index in partitions, these are picked up and used instead of creating new ones. Whichever way these indexes come about, they become attached to the index on the parent table and are dropped alongside it, and cannot be dropped on isolation unless they are detached first. To support pg_dump'ing these indexes, add commands CREATE INDEX ON ONLY <table> (which creates the index on the parent partitioned table, without recursing) and ALTER INDEX ATTACH PARTITION (which is used after the indexes have been created individually on each partition, to attach them to the parent index). These reconstruct prior database state exactly. Reviewed-by: (in alphabetical order) Peter Eisentraut, Robert Haas, Amit Langote, Jesper Pedersen, Simon Riggs, David Rowley Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20171113170646.gzweigyrgg6pwsg4@alvherre.pgsql
2018-01-18doc: Expand documentation of session_replication_rolePeter Eisentraut
2018-01-17Ability to advance replication slotsSimon Riggs
Ability to advance both physical and logical replication slots using a new user function pg_replication_slot_advance(). For logical advance that means records are consumed as fast as possible and changes are not given to output plugin for sending. Makes 2nd phase (after we reached SNAPBUILD_FULL_SNAPSHOT) of replication slot creation faster, especially when there are big transactions as the reorder buffer does not have to deal with data changes and does not have to spill to disk. Author: Petr Jelinek Reviewed-by: Simon Riggs
2018-01-12docs: replace dblink() mention with foreign data mentionBruce Momjian
Reported-by: steven.winfield@cantabcapital.com Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20171031105039.17183.850@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2018-01-11doc: add JSON acronymBruce Momjian
Reported-by: torsten.grust@gmail.com Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20171024201849.1488.71071@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2018-01-11llow negative coordinate for ~> (cube, int) operatorTeodor Sigaev
~> (cube, int) operator was especially designed for knn-gist search. However, knn-gist supports only ascending ordering of results. Nevertheless it would be useful to support descending ordering by ~> (cube, int) operator. We provide workaround for that: negative coordinate give us inversed value of corresponding cube bound. Therefore, knn search using negative coordinate gives us an effect of descending ordering by cube bound. Author: Alexander Korotkov Reviewed by: Tomas Vondra, Andrey Borodin Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/a9657f6a-b497-36ff-e56-482a2c7e3292@2ndquadrant.com
2018-01-11Fix behavior of ~> (cube, int) operatorTeodor Sigaev
~> (cube, int) operator was especially designed for knn-gist search. However, it appears that knn-gist search can't work correctly with current behavior of this operator when dataset contains cubes of variable dimensionality. In this case, the same value of second operator argument can point to different dimension depending on dimensionality of particular cube. Such behavior is incompatible with gist indexing of cubes, and knn-gist doesn't work correctly for it. This patch changes behavior of ~> (cube, int) operator by introducing dimension numbering where value of second argument unambiguously identifies number of dimension. With new behavior, this operator can be correctly supported by knn-gist. Relevant changes to cube operator class are also included. Backpatch to v9.6 where operator was introduced. Since behavior of ~> (cube, int) operator is changed, depending entities must be refreshed after upgrade. Such as, expression indexes using this operator must be reindexed, materialized views must be rebuilt, stored procedures and client code must be revised to correctly use new behavior. That should be mentioned in release notes. Noticed by: Tomas Vondra Author: Alexander Korotkov Reviewed by: Tomas Vondra, Andrey Borodin Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/a9657f6a-b497-36ff-e56-482a2c7e3292@2ndquadrant.com
2018-01-10Fix sample INSTR() functions in the plpgsql documentation.Tom Lane
These functions are stated to be Oracle-compatible, but they weren't. Yugo Nagata noticed that while our code returns zero for a zero or negative fourth parameter (occur_index), Oracle throws an error. Further testing by me showed that there was also a discrepancy in the interpretation of a negative third parameter (beg_index): Oracle thinks that a negative beg_index indicates the last place where the target substring can *begin*, whereas our code thinks it is the last place where the target can *end*. Adjust the sample code to behave like Oracle in both these respects. Also change it to be a CDATA[] section, simplifying copying-and-pasting out of the documentation source file. And fix minor problems in the introductory comment, which wasn't very complete or accurate. Back-patch to all supported branches. Although this patch only touches documentation, we should probably call it out as a bug fix in the next minor release notes, since users who have adopted the functions will likely want to update their versions. Yugo Nagata and Tom Lane Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20171229191705.c0b43a8c.nagata@sraoss.co.jp
2018-01-09Implement TZH and TZM timestamp format patternsAndrew Dunstan
These are compatible with Oracle and required for the datetime template language for jsonpath in an upcoming patch. Nikita Glukhov and Andrew Dunstan, reviewed by Pavel Stehule.
2018-01-09Improve scripting language in pgbenchTeodor Sigaev
Added: - variable now might contain integer, double, boolean and null values - functions ln, exp - logical AND/OR/NOT - bitwise AND/OR/NOT/XOR - bit right/left shift - comparison operators - IS [NOT] (NULL|TRUE|FALSE) - conditional choice (in form of when/case/then) New operations and functions allow to implement more complicated test scenario. Author: Fabien Coelho with minor editorization by me Reviewed-By: Pavel Stehule, Jeevan Ladhe, me Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/alpine.DEB.2.10.1604030742390.31618@sto
2018-01-04Implement channel binding tls-server-end-point for SCRAMPeter Eisentraut
This adds a second standard channel binding type for SCRAM. It is mainly intended for third-party clients that cannot implement tls-unique, for example JDBC. Author: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
2018-01-03Allow ldaps when using ldap authenticationPeter Eisentraut
While ldaptls=1 provides an RFC 4513 conforming way to do LDAP authentication with TLS encryption, there was an earlier de facto standard way to do LDAP over SSL called LDAPS. Even though it's not enshrined in a standard, it's still widely used and sometimes required by organizations' network policies. There seems to be no reason not to support it when available in the client library. Therefore, add support when using OpenLDAP 2.4+ or Windows. It can be configured with ldapscheme=ldaps or ldapurl=ldaps://... Add tests for both ways of requesting LDAPS and a test for the pre-existing ldaptls=1. Modify the 001_auth.pl test for "diagnostic messages", which was previously relying on the server rejecting ldaptls=1. Author: Thomas Munro Reviewed-By: Peter Eisentraut Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=1s+pA-LZUjQ-9GQz0Z4rX_eK=DFXAF1nBQ+ROPimuOYQ@mail.gmail.com
2018-01-02Update copyright for 2018Bruce Momjian
Backpatch-through: certain files through 9.3
2017-12-29Extend near-wraparound hints to include replication slotsSimon Riggs
Author: Feike Steenbergen Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier
2017-12-27Add pow(), aka power(), function to pgbench.Robert Haas
Raúl Marín Rodríguez, reviewed by Fabien Coelho and Michael Paquier, with a minor fix by me. Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAM6_UM4XiA14y9HnDqu9kAAOtwMhHZxW--q_ZACZW9Hsrsf-tg@mail.gmail.com
2017-12-25Add polygon opclass for SP-GiSTTeodor Sigaev
Polygon opclass uses compress method feature of SP-GiST added earlier. For now it's a single operator class which uses this feature. SP-GiST actually indexes a bounding boxes of input polygons, so part of supported operations are lossy. Opclass uses most methods of corresponding opclass over boxes of SP-GiST and treats bounding boxes as point in 4D-space. Bump catalog version. Authors: Nikita Glukhov, Alexander Korotkov with minor editorization by me Reviewed-By: all authors + Darafei Praliaskouski Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/54907069.1030506@sigaev.ru
2017-12-22Add optional compression method to SP-GiSTTeodor Sigaev
Patch allows to have different types of column and value stored in leaf tuples of SP-GiST. The main application of feature is to transform complex column type to simple indexed type or for truncating too long value, transformation could be lossy. Simple example: polygons are converted to their bounding boxes, this opclass follows. Authors: me, Heikki Linnakangas, Alexander Korotkov, Nikita Glukhov Reviewed-By: all authors + Darafei Praliaskouski Discussions: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/5447B3FF.2080406@sigaev.ru https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/54907069.1030506@sigaev.ru#54907069.1030506@sigaev.ru
2017-12-21Add parallel-aware hash joins.Andres Freund
Introduce parallel-aware hash joins that appear in EXPLAIN plans as Parallel Hash Join with Parallel Hash. While hash joins could already appear in parallel queries, they were previously always parallel-oblivious and had a partial subplan only on the outer side, meaning that the work of the inner subplan was duplicated in every worker. After this commit, the planner will consider using a partial subplan on the inner side too, using the Parallel Hash node to divide the work over the available CPU cores and combine its results in shared memory. If the join needs to be split into multiple batches in order to respect work_mem, then workers process different batches as much as possible and then work together on the remaining batches. The advantages of a parallel-aware hash join over a parallel-oblivious hash join used in a parallel query are that it: * avoids wasting memory on duplicated hash tables * avoids wasting disk space on duplicated batch files * divides the work of building the hash table over the CPUs One disadvantage is that there is some communication between the participating CPUs which might outweigh the benefits of parallelism in the case of small hash tables. This is avoided by the planner's existing reluctance to supply partial plans for small scans, but it may be necessary to estimate synchronization costs in future if that situation changes. Another is that outer batch 0 must be written to disk if multiple batches are required. A potential future advantage of parallel-aware hash joins is that right and full outer joins could be supported, since there is a single set of matched bits for each hashtable, but that is not yet implemented. A new GUC enable_parallel_hash is defined to control the feature, defaulting to on. Author: Thomas Munro Reviewed-By: Andres Freund, Robert Haas Tested-By: Rafia Sabih, Prabhat Sahu Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=2W=cOkiZxcg6qiFQP-dHUe09aqTrEMM7yJDrHMhDv_RA@mail.gmail.com https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=37HKyJ4U6XOLi=JgfSHM3o6B-GaeO-6hkOmneTDkH+Uw@mail.gmail.com
2017-12-19Add libpq connection parameter "scram_channel_binding"Peter Eisentraut
This parameter can be used to enforce the channel binding type used during a SCRAM authentication. This can be useful to check code paths where an invalid channel binding type is used by a client and will be even more useful to allow testing other channel binding types when they are added. The default value is tls-unique, which is what RFC 5802 specifies. Clients can optionally specify an empty value, which has as effect to not use channel binding and use SCRAM-SHA-256 as chosen SASL mechanism. More tests for SCRAM and channel binding are added to the SSL test suite. Author: Author: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
2017-12-18doc: Fix figures in example descriptionPeter Eisentraut
oversight in 244c8b466a743d1ec18a7d841bf42669699b3b56 Reported-by: Blaz Merela <blaz@merela.org>
2017-12-14Add approximated Zipfian-distributed random generator to pgbench.Teodor Sigaev
Generator helps to make close to real-world tests. Author: Alik Khilazhev Reviewed-By: Fabien COELHO Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/BF3B6F54-68C3-417A-BFAB-FB4D66F2B410@postgrespro.ru
2017-12-05doc: Flex is not a GNU packagePeter Eisentraut
Remove the designation that Flex is a GNU package. Even though Bison is a GNU package, leave out the designation to not make the sentence unnecessarily complicated. Author: Pavan Maddamsetti <pavan.maddamsetti@gmail.com>
2017-12-05Fix broken markup.Tom Lane
2017-12-05Support Parallel Append plan nodes.Robert Haas
When we create an Append node, we can spread out the workers over the subplans instead of piling on to each subplan one at a time, which should typically be a bit more efficient, both because the startup cost of any plan executed entirely by one worker is paid only once and also because of reduced contention. We can also construct Append plans using a mix of partial and non-partial subplans, which may allow for parallelism in places that otherwise couldn't support it. Unfortunately, this patch doesn't handle the important case of parallelizing UNION ALL by running each branch in a separate worker; the executor infrastructure is added here, but more planner work is needed. Amit Khandekar, Robert Haas, Amul Sul, reviewed and tested by Ashutosh Bapat, Amit Langote, Rafia Sabih, Amit Kapila, and Rajkumar Raghuwanshi. Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAJ3gD9dy0K_E8r727heqXoBmWZ83HwLFwdcaSSmBQ1+S+vRuUQ@mail.gmail.com
2017-12-05doc: Update memory requirements for FOPPeter Eisentraut
Reported-by: Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org>
2017-12-05doc: Turn on generate.consistent.ids parameterPeter Eisentraut
This ensures that automatically generated HTML anchors don't change in every build.
2017-12-04When VACUUM or ANALYZE skips a concurrently dropped table, log it.Robert Haas
Hopefully, the additional logging will help avoid confusion that could otherwise result. Nathan Bossart, reviewed by Michael Paquier, Fabrízio Mello, and me
2017-12-01Re-allow INSERT .. ON CONFLICT DO NOTHING on partitioned tables.Robert Haas
Commit 8355a011a0124bdf7ccbada206a967d427039553 was reverted in f05230752d53c4aa74cffa9b699983bbb6bcb118, but this attempt is hopefully better-considered: we now pass the correct value to ExecOpenIndices, which should avoid the crash that we hit before. Amit Langote, reviewed by Simon Riggs and by me. Some final editing by me. Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/7ff1e8ec-dc39-96b1-7f47-ff5965dceeac@lab.ntt.co.jp
2017-11-30SQL proceduresPeter Eisentraut
This adds a new object type "procedure" that is similar to a function but does not have a return type and is invoked by the new CALL statement instead of SELECT or similar. This implementation is aligned with the SQL standard and compatible with or similar to other SQL implementations. This commit adds new commands CALL, CREATE/ALTER/DROP PROCEDURE, as well as ALTER/DROP ROUTINE that can refer to either a function or a procedure (or an aggregate function, as an extension to SQL). There is also support for procedures in various utility commands such as COMMENT and GRANT, as well as support in pg_dump and psql. Support for defining procedures is available in all the languages supplied by the core distribution. While this commit is mainly syntax sugar around existing functionality, future features will rely on having procedures as a separate object type. Reviewed-by: Andrew Dunstan <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com>
2017-11-27Fix creation of resjunk tlist entries for inherited mixed UPDATE/DELETE.Tom Lane
rewriteTargetListUD's processing is dependent on the relkind of the query's target table. That was fine at the time it was made to act that way, even for queries on inheritance trees, because all tables in an inheritance tree would necessarily be plain tables. However, the 9.5 feature addition allowing some members of an inheritance tree to be foreign tables broke the assumption that rewriteTargetListUD's output tlist could be applied to all child tables with nothing more than column-number mapping. This led to visible failures if foreign child tables had row-level triggers, and would also break in cases where child tables belonged to FDWs that used methods other than CTID for row identification. To fix, delay running rewriteTargetListUD until after the planner has expanded inheritance, so that it is applied separately to the (already mapped) tlist for each child table. We can conveniently call it from preprocess_targetlist. Refactor associated code slightly to avoid the need to heap_open the target relation multiple times during preprocess_targetlist. (The APIs remain a bit ugly, particularly around the point of which steps scribble on parse->targetList and which don't. But avoiding such scribbling would require a change in FDW callback APIs, which is more pain than it's worth.) Also fix ExecModifyTable to ensure that "tupleid" is reset to NULL when we transition from rows providing a CTID to rows that don't. (That's really an independent bug, but it manifests in much the same cases.) Add a regression test checking one manifestation of this problem, which was that row-level triggers on a foreign child table did not work right. Back-patch to 9.5 where the problem was introduced. Etsuro Fujita, reviewed by Ildus Kurbangaliev and Ashutosh Bapat Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170514150525.0346ba72@postgrespro.ru
2017-11-27Additional docs for toast_tuple_target changesSimon Riggs