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2017-10-06Basic partition-wise join functionality.Robert Haas
Instead of joining two partitioned tables in their entirety we can, if it is an equi-join on the partition keys, join the matching partitions individually. This involves teaching the planner about "other join" rels, which are related to regular join rels in the same way that other member rels are related to baserels. This can use significantly more CPU time and memory than regular join planning, because there may now be a set of "other" rels not only for every base relation but also for every join relation. In most practical cases, this probably shouldn't be a problem, because (1) it's probably unusual to join many tables each with many partitions using the partition keys for all joins and (2) if you do that scenario then you probably have a big enough machine to handle the increased memory cost of planning and (3) the resulting plan is highly likely to be better, so what you spend in planning you'll make up on the execution side. All the same, for now, turn this feature off by default. Currently, we can only perform joins between two tables whose partitioning schemes are absolutely identical. It would be nice to cope with other scenarios, such as extra partitions on one side or the other with no match on the other side, but that will have to wait for a future patch. Ashutosh Bapat, reviewed and tested by Rajkumar Raghuwanshi, Amit Langote, Rafia Sabih, Thomas Munro, Dilip Kumar, Antonin Houska, Amit Khandekar, and by me. A few final adjustments by me. Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAFjFpRfQ8GrQvzp3jA2wnLqrHmaXna-urjm_UY9BqXj=EaDTSA@mail.gmail.com Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAFjFpRcitjfrULr5jfuKWRPsGUX0LQ0k8-yG0Qw2+1LBGNpMdw@mail.gmail.com
2017-10-05Allow DML commands that create tables to use parallel query.Robert Haas
Haribabu Kommi, reviewed by Dilip Kumar and Rafia Sabih. Various cosmetic changes by me to explain why this appears to be safe but allowing inserts in parallel mode in general wouldn't be. Also, I removed the REFRESH MATERIALIZED VIEW case from Haribabu's patch, since I'm not convinced that case is OK, and hacked on the documentation somewhat. Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAJrrPGdo5bak6qnPWe8Kpi8g_jfQEs-G4SYmG9y+OFaw2-dPvA@mail.gmail.com
2017-10-04Document and use SPI_result_code_string()Peter Eisentraut
A lot of semi-internal code just prints out numeric SPI error codes, which is not very helpful. We already have an API function to convert the codes to a string, so let's make more use of that. Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
2017-10-03Allow multiple tables to be specified in one VACUUM or ANALYZE command.Tom Lane
Not much to say about this; does what it says on the tin. However, formerly, if there was a column list then the ANALYZE action was implied; now it must be specified, or you get an error. This is because it would otherwise be a bit unclear what the user meant if some tables have column lists and some don't. Nathan Bossart, reviewed by Michael Paquier and Masahiko Sawada, with some editorialization by me Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E061A8E3-5E3D-494D-94F0-E8A9B312BBFC@amazon.com
2017-10-02Expand collation documentationPeter Eisentraut
Document better how to create custom collations and what locale strings ICU accepts. Explain the ICU examples in more detail. Also update the text on the CREATE COLLATION reference page a bit to take ICU more into account.
2017-10-02Grammar typo in security warning about md5Simon Riggs
2017-10-01Update v10 release notes, and set the official release date.Tom Lane
Last(?) round of changes for 10.0.
2017-10-01Add list of acknowledgments to release notesPeter Eisentraut
This contains all individuals mentioned in the commit messages during PostgreSQL 10 development. current through babf18579455e85269ad75e1ddb03f34138f77b6 Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/54ad0e42-770e-dfe1-123e-bce9361ad452%402ndquadrant.com
2017-09-30Support arrays over domains.Tom Lane
Allowing arrays with a domain type as their element type was left un-done in the original domain patch, but not for any very good reason. This omission leads to such surprising results as array_agg() not working on a domain column, because the parser can't identify a suitable output type for the polymorphic aggregate. In order to fix this, first clean up the APIs of coerce_to_domain() and some internal functions in parse_coerce.c so that we consistently pass around a CoercionContext along with CoercionForm. Previously, we sometimes passed an "isExplicit" boolean flag instead, which is strictly less information; and coerce_to_domain() didn't even get that, but instead had to reverse-engineer isExplicit from CoercionForm. That's contrary to the documentation in primnodes.h that says that CoercionForm only affects display and not semantics. I don't think this change fixes any live bugs, but it makes things more consistent. The main reason for doing it though is that now build_coercion_expression() receives ccontext, which it needs in order to be able to recursively invoke coerce_to_target_type(). Next, reimplement ArrayCoerceExpr so that the node does not directly know any details of what has to be done to the individual array elements while performing the array coercion. Instead, the per-element processing is represented by a sub-expression whose input is a source array element and whose output is a target array element. This simplifies life in parse_coerce.c, because it can build that sub-expression by a recursive invocation of coerce_to_target_type(). The executor now handles the per-element processing as a compiled expression instead of hard-wired code. The main advantage of this is that we can use a single ArrayCoerceExpr to handle as many as three successive steps per element: base type conversion, typmod coercion, and domain constraint checking. The old code used two stacked ArrayCoerceExprs to handle type + typmod coercion, which was pretty inefficient, and adding yet another array deconstruction to do domain constraint checking seemed very unappetizing. In the case where we just need a single, very simple coercion function, doing this straightforwardly leads to a noticeable increase in the per-array-element runtime cost. Hence, add an additional shortcut evalfunc in execExprInterp.c that skips unnecessary overhead for that specific form of expression. The runtime speed of simple cases is within 1% or so of where it was before, while cases that previously required two levels of array processing are significantly faster. Finally, create an implicit array type for every domain type, as we do for base types, enums, etc. Everything except the array-coercion case seems to just work without further effort. Tom Lane, reviewed by Andrew Dunstan Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/9852.1499791473@sss.pgh.pa.us
2017-09-29Add background worker typePeter Eisentraut
Add bgw_type field to background worker structure. It is intended to be set to the same value for all workers of the same type, so they can be grouped in pg_stat_activity, for example. The backend_type column in pg_stat_activity now shows bgw_type for a background worker. The ps listing also no longer calls out that a process is a background worker but just show the bgw_type. That way, being a background worker is more of an implementation detail now that is not shown to the user. However, most log messages still refer to 'background worker "%s"'; otherwise constructing sensible and translatable log messages would become tricky. Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
2017-09-29Remove replacement selection sort.Robert Haas
At the time replacement_sort_tuples was introduced, there were still cases where replacement selection sort noticeably outperformed using quicksort even for the first run. However, those cases seem to have evaporated as a result of further improvements made since that time (and perhaps also advances in CPU technology). So remove replacement selection and the controlling GUC entirely. This makes tuplesort.c noticeably simpler and probably paves the way for further optimizations someone might want to do later. Peter Geoghegan, with review and testing by Tomas Vondra and me. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-WzmmNjG_K0R9nqYwMq3zjyJJK+hCbiZYNGhAy-Zyjs64GQ@mail.gmail.com
2017-09-28Remove SGML marked sectionsPeter Eisentraut
For XML compatibility, replace marked sections <![IGNORE[ ]]> with comments <!-- -->. In some cases it seemed better to remove the ignored text altogether, and in one case the text should not have been ignored.
2017-09-28Run only top-level recursive lcovPeter Eisentraut
This is the way lcov was intended to be used. It is much faster and more robust and makes the makefiles simpler than running it in each subdirectory. The previous coding ran gcov before lcov, but that is useless because lcov/geninfo call gcov internally and use that information. Moreover, this led to complications and failures during parallel make. This separates the two targets: You either use "make coverage" to get textual output from gcov or "make coverage-html" to get an HTML report via lcov. (Using both is still problematic because they write the same output files.) Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
2017-09-27Revert to 9.6 treatment of ALTER TYPE enumtype ADD VALUE.Tom Lane
This reverts commit 15bc038f9, along with the followon commits 1635e80d3 and 984c92074 that tried to clean up the problems exposed by bug #14825. The result was incomplete because it failed to address parallel-query requirements. With 10.0 release so close upon us, now does not seem like the time to be adding more code to fix that. I hope we can un-revert this code and add the missing parallel query support during the v11 cycle. Back-patch to v10. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170922185904.1448.16585@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2017-09-27Improve the CREATE POLICY documentation.Dean Rasheed
Provide a correct description of how multiple policies are combined, clarify when SELECT permissions are required, mention SELECT FOR UPDATE/SHARE, and do some other more minor tidying up. Reviewed by Stephen Frost Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEZATCVrxyYbOFU8XbGHicz%2BmXPYzw%3DhfNL2XTphDt-53TomQQ%40mail.gmail.com Back-patch to 9.5.
2017-09-27Get rid of parameterized marked sections in SGMLPeter Eisentraut
Previously, we created a variant of the installation instructions for producing the plain-text INSTALL file by marking up certain parts of installation.sgml using SGML parameterized marked sections. Marked sections will not work anymore in XML, so before we can convert the documentation to XML, we need a new approach. DocBook provides a "profiling" feature that allows selecting content based on attributes, which would work here. But it imposes a noticeable overhead when building the full documentation and causes complications when building some output formats, and given that we recently spent a fair amount of effort optimizing the documentation build time, it seems sad to have to accept that. So as an alternative, (1) we create our own mini-profiling layer that adjusts just the text we want, and (2) assemble the pieces of content that we want in the INSTALL file using XInclude. That way, there is no overhead when building the full documentation and most of the "ugly" stuff in installation.sgml can be removed and dealt with out of line.
2017-09-27pg_basebackup: Add option to create replication slotPeter Eisentraut
When requesting a particular replication slot, the new pg_basebackup option -C/--create-slot creates it before starting to replicate from it. Further refactor the slot creation logic to include the temporary slot creation logic into the same function. Add new arguments is_temporary and preserve_wal to CreateReplicationSlot(). Print in --verbose mode that a slot has been created. Author: Michael Banck <michael.banck@credativ.de>
2017-09-26Don't recommend "DROP SCHEMA information_schema CASCADE".Noah Misch
It drops objects outside information_schema that depend on objects inside information_schema. For example, it will drop a user-defined view if the view query refers to information_schema. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170831025345.GE3963697@rfd.leadboat.com
2017-09-26Remove heuristic same-transaction test from check_safe_enum_use().Tom Lane
The blacklist mechanism added by the preceding commit directly fixes most of the practical cases that the same-transaction test was meant to cover. What remains is use-cases like begin; create type e as enum('x'); alter type e add value 'y'; -- use 'y' somehow commit; However, because the same-transaction test is heuristic, it fails on small variants of that, such as renaming the type or changing its owner. Rather than try to explain the behavior to users, let's remove it and just have a rule that the newly added value can't be used before being committed, full stop. Perhaps later it will be worth the implementation effort and overhead to have a more accurate test for type-was-created-in-this-transaction. We'll wait for some field experience with v10 before deciding to do that. Back-patch to v10. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170922185904.1448.16585@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2017-09-26Use a blacklist to distinguish original from add-on enum values.Tom Lane
Commit 15bc038f9 allowed ALTER TYPE ADD VALUE to be executed inside transaction blocks, by disallowing the use of the added value later in the same transaction, except under limited circumstances. However, the test for "limited circumstances" was heuristic and could reject references to enum values that were created during CREATE TYPE AS ENUM, not just later. This breaks the use-case of restoring pg_dump scripts in a single transaction, as reported in bug #14825 from Balazs Szilfai. We can improve this by keeping a "blacklist" table of enum value OIDs created by ALTER TYPE ADD VALUE during the current transaction. Any visible-but-uncommitted value whose OID is not in the blacklist must have been created by CREATE TYPE AS ENUM, and can be used safely because it could not have a lifespan shorter than its parent enum type. This change also removes the restriction that a renamed enum value can't be used before being committed (unless it was on the blacklist). Andrew Dunstan, with cosmetic improvements by me. Back-patch to v10. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170922185904.1448.16585@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2017-09-26Sort pg_basebackup options betterPeter Eisentraut
The --slot option somehow ended up under options controlling the output, and some other options were in a nonsensical place or were not moved after recent renamings, so tidy all that up a bit.
2017-09-25Support building with Visual Studio 2017Andrew Dunstan
Haribabu Kommi, reviewed by Takeshi Ideriha and Christian Ullrich Backpatch to 9.6
2017-09-24doc: Expand user documentation on SCRAMPeter Eisentraut
Explain more about how the different password authentication methods and the password_encryption settings relate to each other, give some upgrading advice, and set a better link from the release notes. Reviewed-by: Jeff Janes <jeff.janes@gmail.com>
2017-09-22doc: Document commands that cannot be run in a transaction blockPeter Eisentraut
Mainly covering the new CREATE SUBSCRIPTION and DROP SUBSCRIPTION, but ALTER DATABASE SET TABLESPACE was also missing.
2017-09-22Remove contrib/chkpassPeter Eisentraut
The recent addition of a test suite for this module revealed a few problems. It uses a crypt() method that is no longer considered secure and doesn't work anymore on some platforms. Using a volatile input function violates internal sanity check assumptions and leads to failures on the build farm. So this module is neither a usable security tool nor a good example for an extension. No one wanted to argue for keeping or improving it, so remove it. Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/5645b0d7-cc40-6ab5-c553-292a91091ee7%402ndquadrant.com
2017-09-22Document further existing locks as wait eventsAlvaro Herrera
Reported-by: Jeremy Schneider Author: Michael Paquier Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+fnDAZaPCwfY8Lp-pfLnUGFAXRu1VfLyRgdup-L-kwcBj8MqQ@mail.gmail.com
2017-09-21Provide a test for variable existence in psqlAndrew Dunstan
"\if :{?variable_name}" will be translated to "\if TRUE" if the variable exists and "\if FALSE" otherwise. Thus it will be possible to execute code conditionally on the existence of the variable, regardless of its value. Fabien Coelho, with some review by Robins Tharakan and some light text editing by me. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/alpine.DEB.2.20.1708260835520.3627@lancre
2017-09-20Fix erroneous documentation about noise word GROUP.Tom Lane
GRANT, REVOKE, and some allied commands allow the noise word GROUP before a role name (cf. grantee production in gram.y). This option does not exist elsewhere, but it had nonetheless snuck into the documentation for ALTER ROLE, ALTER USER, and CREATE SCHEMA. Seems to be a copy-and-pasteo in commit 31eae6028, which did expand the syntax choices here, but not in that way. Back-patch to 9.5 where that came in. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170916123750.8885.66941@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2017-09-20docs: re-add instructions on setting wal_level for rsync useBruce Momjian
This step was erroneously removed four days ago by me. Reported-by: Magnus via IM Backpatch-through: 9.5
2017-09-20Sync process names between ps and pg_stat_activityPeter Eisentraut
Remove gratuitous differences in the process names shown in pg_stat_activity.backend_type and the ps output. Reviewed-by: Takayuki Tsunakawa <tsunakawa.takay@jp.fujitsu.com>
2017-09-20Mention need for --no-inc-recursive in rsync commandMagnus Hagander
Since rsync 3.0.0 (released in 2008), the default way to enumerate changes was changed in a way that makes it less likely that the hardlink sync mode works. Since the whole point of the documented procedure is for the hardlinks to work, change our docs to suggest using the backwards compatibility switch.
2017-09-19Make WAL segment size configurable at initdb time.Andres Freund
For performance reasons a larger segment size than the default 16MB can be useful. A larger segment size has two main benefits: Firstly, in setups using archiving, it makes it easier to write scripts that can keep up with higher amounts of WAL, secondly, the WAL has to be written and synced to disk less frequently. But at the same time large segment size are disadvantageous for smaller databases. So far the segment size had to be configured at compile time, often making it unrealistic to choose one fitting to a particularly load. Therefore change it to a initdb time setting. This includes a breaking changes to the xlogreader.h API, which now requires the current segment size to be configured. For that and similar reasons a number of binaries had to be taught how to recognize the current segment size. Author: Beena Emerson, editorialized by Andres Freund Reviewed-By: Andres Freund, David Steele, Kuntal Ghosh, Michael Paquier, Peter Eisentraut, Robert Hass, Tushar Ahuja Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAOG9ApEAcQ--1ieKbhFzXSQPw_YLmepaa4hNdnY5+ZULpt81Mw@mail.gmail.com
2017-09-19Allow no-op GiST support functions to be omitted.Tom Lane
There are common use-cases in which the compress and/or decompress functions can be omitted, with the result being that we make no data transformation when storing or retrieving index values. Previously, you had to provide a no-op function anyway, but this patch allows such opclass support functions to be omitted. Furthermore, if the compress function is omitted, then the core code knows that the stored representation is the same as the original data. This means we can allow index-only scans without requiring a fetch function to be provided either. Previously you had to provide a no-op fetch function if you wanted IOS to work. This reportedly provides a small performance benefit in such cases, but IMO the real reason for doing it is just to reduce the amount of useless boilerplate code that has to be written for GiST opclasses. Andrey Borodin, reviewed by Dmitriy Sarafannikov Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJEAwVELVx9gYscpE=Be6iJxvdW5unZ_LkcAaVNSeOwvdwtD=A@mail.gmail.com
2017-09-19doc: add example of % substitution for connection URIsBruce Momjian
Reported-by: Zhou Digoal Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170912133722.25637.91@wrigleys.postgresql.org Backpatch-through: 10
2017-09-18Update some dead external links in the documentationPeter Eisentraut
2017-09-18Remove dead external links from documentationPeter Eisentraut
2017-09-17Doc: update v10 release notes through today.Tom Lane
Add item about number of times statement-level triggers will be fired. Rearrange the compatibility items into (what seems to me) a less random ordering.
2017-09-17Ensure that BEFORE STATEMENT triggers fire the right number of times.Tom Lane
Commit 0f79440fb introduced mechanism to keep AFTER STATEMENT triggers from firing more than once per statement, which was formerly possible if more than one FK enforcement action had to be applied to a given table. Add a similar mechanism for BEFORE STATEMENT triggers, so that we don't have the unexpected situation of firing BEFORE STATEMENT triggers more often than AFTER STATEMENT. As with the previous patch, back-patch to v10. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/22315.1505584992@sss.pgh.pa.us
2017-09-16Doc: add example of transition table use in a trigger.Tom Lane
I noticed that there were exactly no complete examples of use of a transition table in a trigger function, and no clear description of just how you'd do it either. Improve that.
2017-09-16Fix SQL-spec incompatibilities in new transition table feature.Tom Lane
The standard says that all changes of the same kind (insert, update, or delete) caused in one table by a single SQL statement should be reported in a single transition table; and by that, they mean to include foreign key enforcement actions cascading from the statement's direct effects. It's also reasonable to conclude that if the standard had wCTEs, they would say that effects of wCTEs applying to the same table as each other or the outer statement should be merged into one transition table. We weren't doing it like that. Hence, arrange to merge tuples from multiple update actions into a single transition table as much as we can. There is a problem, which is that if the firing of FK enforcement triggers and after-row triggers with transition tables is interspersed, we might need to report more tuples after some triggers have already seen the transition table. It seems like a bad idea for the transition table to be mutable between trigger calls. There's no good way around this without a major redesign of the FK logic, so for now, resolve it by opening a new transition table each time this happens. Also, ensure that AFTER STATEMENT triggers fire just once per statement, or once per transition table when we're forced to make more than one. Previous versions of Postgres have allowed each FK enforcement query to cause an additional firing of the AFTER STATEMENT triggers for the referencing table, but that's certainly not per spec. (We're still doing multiple firings of BEFORE STATEMENT triggers, though; is that something worth changing?) Also, forbid using transition tables with column-specific UPDATE triggers. The spec requires such transition tables to show only the tuples for which the UPDATE trigger would have fired, which means maintaining multiple transition tables or else somehow filtering the contents at readout. Maybe someday we'll bother to support that option, but it looks like a lot of trouble for a marginal feature. The transition tables are now managed by the AfterTriggers data structures, rather than being directly the responsibility of ModifyTable nodes. This removes a subtransaction-lifespan memory leak introduced by my previous band-aid patch 3c4359521. In passing, refactor the AfterTriggers data structures to reduce the management overhead for them, by using arrays of structs rather than several parallel arrays for per-query-level and per-subtransaction state. I failed to resist the temptation to do some copy-editing on the SGML docs about triggers, above and beyond merely documenting the effects of this patch. Back-patch to v10, because we don't want the semantics of transition tables to change post-release. Patch by me, with help and review from Thomas Munro. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170909064853.25630.12825@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2017-09-16docs: clarify pg_upgrade docs regarding standbys and rsyncBruce Momjian
Document that rsync is an _optional_ way to upgrade standbys, suggest rsync option --dry-run, and mention a way of upgrading one standby from another using rsync. Also clarify some instructions by specifying if they operate on the old or new clusters. Reported-by: Stephen Frost, Magnus Hagander Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170914191250.GB6595@momjian.us Backpatch-through: 9.5
2017-09-15After a MINVALUE/MAXVALUE bound, allow only more of the same.Robert Haas
In the old syntax, which used UNBOUNDED, we had a similar restriction, but commit d363d42bb9a4399a0207bd3b371c966e22e06bd3, which changed the syntax, eliminated it. Put it back. Patch by me, reviewed by Dean Rasheed. Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+Tgmobs+pLPC27tS3gOpEAxAffHrq5w509cvkwTf9pF6cWYbg@mail.gmail.com
2017-09-15Apply pg_get_serial_sequence() to identity column sequences as wellPeter Eisentraut
Bug: #14813
2017-09-14lo: Add test suitePeter Eisentraut
Reviewed-by: David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>
2017-09-14fuzzystrmatch: Add test suitePeter Eisentraut
Reviewed-by: David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>
2017-09-13Distinguish selectivity of < from <= and > from >=.Tom Lane
Historically, the selectivity functions have simply not distinguished < from <=, or > from >=, arguing that the fraction of the population that satisfies the "=" aspect can be considered to be vanishingly small, if the comparison value isn't any of the most-common-values for the variable. (If it is, the code path that executes the operator against each MCV will take care of things properly.) But that isn't really true unless we're dealing with a continuum of variable values, and in practice we seldom are. If "x = const" would estimate a nonzero number of rows for a given const value, then it follows that we ought to estimate different numbers of rows for "x < const" and "x <= const", even if the const is not one of the MCVs. Handling this more honestly makes a significant difference in edge cases, such as the estimate for a tight range (x BETWEEN y AND z where y and z are close together). Hence, split scalarltsel into scalarltsel/scalarlesel, and similarly split scalargtsel into scalargtsel/scalargesel. Adjust <= and >= operator definitions to reference the new selectivity functions. Improve the core ineq_histogram_selectivity() function to make a correction for equality. (Along the way, I learned quite a bit about exactly why that function gives good answers, which I tried to memorialize in improved comments.) The corresponding join selectivity functions were, and remain, just stubs. But I chose to split them similarly, to avoid confusion and to prevent the need for doing this exercise again if someone ever makes them less stubby. In passing, change ineq_histogram_selectivity's clamp for extreme probability estimates so that it varies depending on the histogram size, instead of being hardwired at 0.0001. With the default histogram size of 100 entries, you still get the old clamp value, but bigger histograms should allow us to put more faith in edge values. Tom Lane, reviewed by Aleksander Alekseev and Kuntal Ghosh Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/12232.1499140410@sss.pgh.pa.us
2017-09-13doc: Remove incorrect SCRAM protocol documentationPeter Eisentraut
The documentation claimed that one should send "pg_same_as_startup_message" as the user name in the SCRAM messages, but this did not match the actual implementation, so remove it.
2017-09-13docs: adjust "link mode" mention in pg_upgrade streaming stepsBruce Momjian
Backpatch-through: 9.5
2017-09-13docs: improve pg_upgrade standby instructionsBruce Momjian
This makes it clear that pg_upgrade standby upgrade instructions should only be used in link mode, adds examples, and explains how rsync works with links. Reported-by: Andreas Joseph Krogh Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/VisenaEmail.6c.c0e592c5af4ef0a2.15e785dcb61@tc7-visena Backpatch-through: 9.5
2017-09-12Add psql variables to track success/failure of SQL queries.Tom Lane
This patch adds ERROR, SQLSTATE, and ROW_COUNT, which are updated after every query, as well as LAST_ERROR_MESSAGE and LAST_ERROR_SQLSTATE, which are updated only when a query fails. The expected usage of these is for scripting. Fabien Coelho, reviewed by Pavel Stehule Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/alpine.DEB.2.20.1704042158020.12290@lancre