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2020-08-31doc: document how the backup manifest is transferredBruce Momjian
Reported-by: Bernd Helmle Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/31acf8b0f1f701d53245e0cae38abdf5c3a0d559.camel@oopsware.de Backpatch-through: 13
2020-08-31doc: add commas after 'i.e.' and 'e.g.'Bruce Momjian
This follows the American format, https://jakubmarian.com/comma-after-i-e-and-e-g/. There is no intention of requiring this format for future text, but making existing text consistent every few years makes sense. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200825183619.GA22369@momjian.us Backpatch-through: 9.5
2020-08-31pg_upgrade doc: mention saving postgresql.conf.auto filesBruce Momjian
Also mention files included by postgresql.conf. Reported-by: Álvaro Herrera Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/08AD4526-75AB-457B-B2DD-099663F28040@yesql.se Backpatch-through: 9.5
2020-08-31doc: Update partitioning limitation on BEFORE triggersAlvaro Herrera
Reported-by: Erwin Brandstetter <brsaweda@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAGHENJ6Le7S3qJJx2TvWvTwRNS3N=BtoNeb7AF2rZvfNBMeQcg@mail.gmail.com
2020-08-31docs: in mapping SQL to C data types, timestamp isn't a pointerBruce Momjian
It is an int64. Reported-by: ajulien@shaktiware.fr Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/159845038271.24995.15682121015698255155@wrigleys.postgresql.org Backpatch-through: 9.5
2020-08-31doc: cross-link file-fdw and CSV config log sectionsBruce Momjian
There is an file-fdw example that reads the server config file, so cross link them. Reported-by: Oleg Samoilov Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/159800192078.2886.10431506404995508950@wrigleys.postgresql.org Backpatch-through: 9.5
2020-08-31docs: clarify intermediate certificate creation instructionsBruce Momjian
Specifically, explain the v3_ca openssl specification. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200824175653.GA32411@momjian.us Backpatch-through: 9.5
2020-08-31docs: replace "stable storage" with "durable" in descriptionsBruce Momjian
For PG, "durable storage" has a clear meaning, while "stable storage" does not, so use the former. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200817165222.GA31806@momjian.us Backpatch-through: 9.5
2020-08-31doc: improve description of subscripting of arraysBruce Momjian
It wasn't clear the non-integers are cast to integers for subscripting, rather than throwing an error. Reported-by: sean@materialize.io Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/159538675800.624.7728794628229799531@wrigleys.postgresql.org Backpatch-through: 9.5
2020-08-31docs: improve 'capitals' inheritance exampleBruce Momjian
Adds constraints and improves wording. Reported-by: 2552891@gmail.com Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/159586122762.680.1361378513036616007@wrigleys.postgresql.org Backpatch-through: 9.5
2020-08-31doc: clarify the useful features of proceduresBruce Momjian
This was not clearly documented when procedures were added in PG 11. Reported-by: Robin Abbi Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAGmg_NX327KKVuJmbWZD=pGutYFxzZjX1rU+3ji8UuX=8ONn9Q@mail.gmail.com Backpatch-through: 11
2020-08-31Fix docs bug stating file_fdw requires absolute pathsMagnus Hagander
It has always (since the first commit) worked with relative paths, so use the same wording as other parts of the documentation. Author: Bruce Momjian Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CABUevExx-hm=cit+A9LeKBH39srvk8Y2tEZeEAj5mP8YfzNKUg@mail.gmail.com
2020-08-30Mark factorial operator, and postfix operators in general, as deprecated.Tom Lane
Per discussion, we're planning to remove parser support for postfix operators in order to simplify the grammar. So it behooves us to put out a deprecation notice at least one release before that. There is only one built-in postfix operator, ! for factorial. Label it deprecated in the docs and in pg_description, and adjust some examples that formerly relied on it. (The sister prefix operator !! is also deprecated. We don't really have to remove that one, but since we're suggesting that people use factorial() instead, it seems better to remove both operators.) Also state in the CREATE OPERATOR ref page that postfix operators in general are going away. Although this changes the initial contents of pg_description, I did not force a catversion bump; it doesn't seem essential. In v13, also back-patch 4c5cf5431, so that there's someplace for the <link>s to point to. Mark Dilger and John Naylor, with some adjustments by me Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/BE2DF53D-251A-4E26-972F-930E523580E9@enterprisedb.com
2020-08-25docs: client certificates are always sent to the serverBruce Momjian
They are not "requested" by the server. Reported-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200825.155320.986648039251743210.horikyota.ntt@gmail.com Backpatch-through: 9.5
2020-08-25doc: Fix up title casePeter Eisentraut
This fixes some instances that were missed in earlier processings and that now look a bit strange because they are inconsistent with nearby titles.
2020-08-22doc: Fix format, incorrect structure names and markup inconsistenciesMichael Paquier
Author: Alexander Lakhin Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2345841-10a5-4eef-257c-02302347cf39@gmail.com Backpatch-through: 13
2020-08-21docs: improve description of how to handle multiple databasesBruce Momjian
This is a redesign of the intro to the managing databases chapter. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/159586122762.680.1361378513036616007@wrigleys.postgresql.org Author: David G. Johnston Backpatch-through: 9.5
2020-08-21docs: add COMMENT examples for new features, rename rtreeBruce Momjian
Reported-by: Jürgen Purtz Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15ec5428-d46a-1725-f38d-44986a977abb@purtz.de Author: Jürgen Purtz Backpatch-through: 11
2020-08-21Rework EXPLAIN for planner's buffer usage.Fujii Masao
Commit ce77abe63c allowed EXPLAIN (BUFFERS) to report the information on buffer usage during planning phase. However three issues were reported regarding this feature. (1) Previously, EXPLAIN option BUFFERS required ANALYZE. So the query had to be actually executed by specifying ANALYZE even when we want to see only the planner's buffer usage. This was inconvenient especially when the query was write one like DELETE. (2) EXPLAIN included the planner's buffer usage in summary information. So SUMMARY option had to be enabled to report that. Also this format was confusing. (3) The output structure for planning information was not consistent between TEXT format and the others. For example, "Planning" tag was output in JSON format, but not in TEXT format. For (1), this commit allows us to perform EXPLAIN (BUFFERS) without ANALYZE to report the planner's buffer usage. For (2), this commit changed EXPLAIN output so that the planner's buffer usage is reported before summary information. For (3), this commit made the output structure for planning information more consistent between the formats. Back-patch to v13 where the planner's buffer usage was allowed to be reported in EXPLAIN. Reported-by: Pierre Giraud, David Rowley Author: Fujii Masao Reviewed-by: David Rowley, Julien Rouhaud, Pierre Giraud Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/07b226e6-fa49-687f-b110-b7c37572f69e@dalibo.com
2020-08-20Revise REINDEX CONCURRENTLY recovery instructionsAlvaro Herrera
When the leftover invalid index is "ccold", there's no need to re-run the command. Reword the instructions to make that explicit. Backpatch to 12, where REINDEX CONCURRENTLY appeared. Author: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> Reviewed-by: Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200819211312.GA15497@alvherre.pgsql
2020-08-17Doc: fix description of UNION/CASE/etc type unification.Tom Lane
The description of what select_common_type() does was not terribly accurate. Improve it. David Johnston and Tom Lane Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1019930.1597613200@sss.pgh.pa.us
2020-08-17doc: Fix description about bgwriter and checkpoint in HA sectionMichael Paquier
Since 806a2ae, the work of the bgwriter is split the checkpointer, but a portion of the documentation did not get the message. Author: Masahiko Sawada Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+fd4k6jXxjAtjMVC=wG3=QGpauZBtcgN3Jhw+oV7zXGKVLKzQ@mail.gmail.com Backpatch-through: 9.5
2020-08-15Doc: various improvements for pg_basebackup reference page.Tom Lane
Put the -r option in the right section (it certainly isn't an option controlling "the location and format of the output"). Clarify the behavior of the tablespace and waldir options (that part per gripe from robert@interactive.co.uk). Make a large number of small copy-editing fixes in text that visibly wasn't written by native speakers, and try to avoid grammatical inconsistencies between the descriptions of the different options. Back-patch to v13, since HEAD hasn't meaningfully diverged yet. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/159749418850.14322.216503677134569752@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2020-08-15Prevent concurrent SimpleLruTruncate() for any given SLRU.Noah Misch
The SimpleLruTruncate() header comment states the new coding rule. To achieve this, add locktype "frozenid" and two LWLocks. This closes a rare opportunity for data loss, which manifested as "apparent wraparound" or "could not access status of transaction" errors. Data loss is more likely in pg_multixact, due to released branches' thin margin between multiStopLimit and multiWrapLimit. If a user's physical replication primary logged ": apparent wraparound" messages, the user should rebuild standbys of that primary regardless of symptoms. At less risk is a cluster having emitted "not accepting commands" errors or "must be vacuumed" warnings at some point. One can test a cluster for this data loss by running VACUUM FREEZE in every database. Back-patch to 9.5 (all supported versions). Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190218073103.GA1434723@rfd.leadboat.com
2020-08-14Fix postmaster's behavior during smart shutdown.Tom Lane
Up to now, upon receipt of a SIGTERM ("smart shutdown" command), the postmaster has immediately killed all "optional" background processes, and subsequently refused to launch new ones while it's waiting for foreground client processes to exit. No doubt this seemed like an OK policy at some point; but it's a pretty bad one now, because it makes for a seriously degraded environment for the remaining clients: * Parallel queries are killed, and new ones fail to launch. (And our parallel-query infrastructure utterly fails to deal with the case in a reasonable way --- it just hangs waiting for workers that are not going to arrive. There is more work needed in that area IMO.) * Autovacuum ceases to function. We can tolerate that for awhile, but if bulk-update queries continue to run in the surviving client sessions, there's eventually going to be a mess. In the worst case the system could reach a forced shutdown to prevent XID wraparound. * The bgwriter and walwriter are also stopped immediately, likely resulting in performance degradation. Hence, let's rearrange things so that the only immediate change in behavior is refusing to let in new normal connections. Once the last normal connection is gone, shut everything down as though we'd received a "fast" shutdown. To implement this, remove the PM_WAIT_BACKUP and PM_WAIT_READONLY states, instead staying in PM_RUN or PM_HOT_STANDBY while normal connections remain. A subsidiary state variable tracks whether or not we're letting in new connections in those states. This also allows having just one copy of the logic for killing child processes in smart and fast shutdown modes. I moved that logic into PostmasterStateMachine() by inventing a new state PM_STOP_BACKENDS. Back-patch to 9.6 where parallel query was added. In principle this'd be a good idea in 9.5 as well, but the risk/reward ratio is not as good there, since lack of autovacuum is not a problem during typical uses of smart shutdown. Per report from Bharath Rupireddy. Patch by me, reviewed by Thomas Munro Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALj2ACXAZ5vKxT9P7P89D87i3MDO9bfS+_bjMHgnWJs8uwUOOw@mail.gmail.com
2020-08-13Doc: improve examples for json_populate_record() and related functions.Tom Lane
Make these examples self-contained by providing declarations of the user-defined row types they rely on. There wasn't room to do this in the old doc format, but now there is, and I think it makes the examples a good bit less confusing.
2020-08-10Document clashes between logical replication and untrusted users.Noah Misch
Back-patch to v10, which introduced logical replication. Security: CVE-2020-14349
2020-08-10Make contrib modules' installation scripts more secure.Tom Lane
Hostile objects located within the installation-time search_path could capture references in an extension's installation or upgrade script. If the extension is being installed with superuser privileges, this opens the door to privilege escalation. While such hazards have existed all along, their urgency increases with the v13 "trusted extensions" feature, because that lets a non-superuser control the installation path for a superuser-privileged script. Therefore, make a number of changes to make such situations more secure: * Tweak the construction of the installation-time search_path to ensure that references to objects in pg_catalog can't be subverted; and explicitly add pg_temp to the end of the path to prevent attacks using temporary objects. * Disable check_function_bodies within installation/upgrade scripts, so that any security gaps in SQL-language or PL-language function bodies cannot create a risk of unwanted installation-time code execution. * Adjust lookup of type input/receive functions and join estimator functions to complain if there are multiple candidate functions. This prevents capture of references to functions whose signature is not the first one checked; and it's arguably more user-friendly anyway. * Modify various contrib upgrade scripts to ensure that catalog modification queries are executed with secure search paths. (These are in-place modifications with no extension version changes, since it is the update process itself that is at issue, not the end result.) Extensions that depend on other extensions cannot be made fully secure by these methods alone; therefore, revert the "trusted" marking that commit eb67623c9 applied to earthdistance and hstore_plperl, pending some better solution to that set of issues. Also add documentation around these issues, to help extension authors write secure installation scripts. Patch by me, following an observation by Andres Freund; thanks to Noah Misch for review. Security: CVE-2020-14350
2020-08-09Doc: update v13 release notes for changes through today.Tom Lane
2020-08-07Add list of acknowledgments to release notesPeter Eisentraut
This contains all individuals mentioned in the commit messages during PostgreSQL 13 development. current through 79a3ab1e98d6b5952e29ad91e07c0e9fc777cc0b
2020-08-05doc: clarify "state" table reference in tutorialBruce Momjian
Reported-by: Vyacheslav Shablistyy Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/159586122762.680.1361378513036616007@wrigleys.postgresql.org Backpatch-through: 9.5
2020-08-03doc: PG 13 relnotes: hash_mem_multiplier can restore old behav.Bruce Momjian
Document that hash_mem_multiplier can get query behavior closer to the pre-PG 13 behavior of allowing hashing to use more memory. Reported-by: Peter Geoghegan Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-Wzn3kwQm_pe6g2=ki+P7+ZRqH5GvFGn6SWfv_j7UUgcLdQ@mail.gmail.com Backpatch-through: 13 only
2020-08-03Doc: fix obsolete info about allowed range of TZ offsets in timetz.Tom Lane
We've allowed UTC offsets up to +/- 15:59 since commit cd0ff9c0f, but that commit forgot to fix the documentation about timetz. Per bug #16571 from osdba. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16571-eb7501598de78c8a@postgresql.org
2020-08-03Fix behavior of ecpg's "EXEC SQL elif name".Tom Lane
This ought to work much like C's "#elif defined(name)"; but the code implemented it in a way equivalent to endif followed by ifdef, so that it didn't matter whether any previous branch of the IF construct had succeeded. Fix that; add some test cases covering elif and nested IFs; and improve the documentation, which also seemed a bit confused. AFAICS the code has been like this since the feature was added in 1999 (commit b57b0e044). So while it's surely wrong, there might be code out there relying on the current behavior. Hence, don't back-patch into stable branches. It seems all right to fix it in v13 though. Per report from Ashutosh Sharma. Reviewed by Ashutosh Sharma and Michael Meskes. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAE9k0P=dQk9X0cU2tN49S7a9tv733-e1pVdpB1P-pWJ5PdTktg@mail.gmail.com
2020-08-02Fix minor issues in psql's new \dAc and related commands.Tom Lane
The type-name pattern in \dAc and \dAf was matched only to the actual pg_type.typname string, which is fairly user-unfriendly in cases where that is not what's shown to the user by format_type (compare "_int4" and "integer[]"). Make this code match what \dT does, i.e. match the pattern against either typname or format_type() output. Also fix its broken handling of schema-name restrictions. (IOW, make these processSQLNamePattern calls match \dT's.) While here, adjust whitespace to make the query a little prettier in -E output, too. Also improve some inaccuracies and shaky grammar in the related documentation. Noted while working on a patch for intarray's opclasses; I wondered why I couldn't get a match to "integer*" for the input type name.
2020-07-31Doc: fix high availability solutions comparison.Tatsuo Ishii
In "High Availability, Load Balancing, and Replication" chapter, certain descriptions of Pgpool-II were not correct at this point. It does not need conflict resolution. Also "Multiple-Server Parallel Query Execution" is not supported anymore. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200726.230128.53842489850344110.t-ishii%40sraoss.co.jp Author: Tatsuo Ishii Reviewed-by: Bruce Momjian Backpatch-through: 9.5
2020-07-30doc: Mention index references in pg_inheritsMichael Paquier
Partitioned indexes are also registered in pg_inherits, but the description of this catalog did not reflect that. Author: Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/87k0ynj35y.fsf@wibble.ilmari.org Backpatch-through: 11
2020-07-29Add hash_mem_multiplier GUC.Peter Geoghegan
Add a GUC that acts as a multiplier on work_mem. It gets applied when sizing executor node hash tables that were previously size constrained using work_mem alone. The new GUC can be used to preferentially give hash-based nodes more memory than the generic work_mem limit. It is intended to enable admin tuning of the executor's memory usage. Overall system throughput and system responsiveness can be improved by giving hash-based executor nodes more memory (especially over sort-based alternatives, which are often much less sensitive to being memory constrained). The default value for hash_mem_multiplier is 1.0, which is also the minimum valid value. This means that hash-based nodes continue to apply work_mem in the traditional way by default. hash_mem_multiplier is generally useful. However, it is being added now due to concerns about hash aggregate performance stability for users that upgrade to Postgres 13 (which added disk-based hash aggregation in commit 1f39bce0). While the old hash aggregate behavior risked out-of-memory errors, it is nevertheless likely that many users actually benefited. Hash agg's previous indifference to work_mem during query execution was not just faster; it also accidentally made aggregation resilient to grouping estimate problems (at least in cases where this didn't create destabilizing memory pressure). hash_mem_multiplier can provide a certain kind of continuity with the behavior of Postgres 12 hash aggregates in cases where the planner incorrectly estimates that all groups (plus related allocations) will fit in work_mem/hash_mem. This seems necessary because hash-based aggregation is usually much slower when only a small fraction of all groups can fit. Even when it isn't possible to totally avoid hash aggregates that spill, giving hash aggregation more memory will reliably improve performance (the same cannot be said for external sort operations, which appear to be almost unaffected by memory availability provided it's at least possible to get a single merge pass). The PostgreSQL 13 release notes should advise users that increasing hash_mem_multiplier can help with performance regressions associated with hash aggregation. That can be taken care of by a later commit. Author: Peter Geoghegan Reviewed-By: Álvaro Herrera, Jeff Davis Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200625203629.7m6yvut7eqblgmfo@alap3.anarazel.de Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-WzmD%2Bi1pG6rc1%2BCjc4V6EaFJ_qSuKCCHVnH%3DoruqD-zqow%40mail.gmail.com Backpatch: 13-, where disk-based hash aggregation was introduced.
2020-07-28Doc: Remove obsolete CREATE AGGREGATE note.Peter Geoghegan
The planner is in fact willing to use hash aggregation when work_mem is not set high enough for everything to fit in memory. This has been the case since commit 1f39bce0, which added disk-based hash aggregation. There are a few remaining cases in which hash aggregation is avoided as a matter of policy when the planner surmises that spilling will be necessary. For example, callers of choose_hashed_setop() still conservatively avoid hash aggregation when spilling is anticipated. That doesn't seem like a good enough reason to mention hash aggregation in this context. Backpatch: 13-, where disk-based hash aggregation was introduced.
2020-07-28Doc: Improve documentation for pg_jit_available()David Rowley
Per complaint from Scott Ribe. Based on wording suggestion from Tom Lane. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1956E806-1468-4417-9A9D-235AE1D5FE1A@elevated-dev.com Backpatch-through: 11, where pg_jit_available() was added
2020-07-28doc: Mention the rename of wal_keep_segments GUC in release note.Fujii Masao
Commit f5dff45962 renamed wal_keep_segments to wal_keep_size. This commit adds the mention to this change in the release note. Author: Fujii Masao Reviewed-by: David Steele Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/dc4768f2-1eff-d2fc-35ba-6b2985b7cb6c@oss.nttdata.com
2020-07-27Remove hashagg_avoid_disk_plan GUC.Peter Geoghegan
Note: This GUC was originally named enable_hashagg_disk when it appeared in commit 1f39bce0, which added disk-based hash aggregation. It was subsequently renamed in commit 92c58fd9. Author: Peter Geoghegan Reviewed-By: Jeff Davis, Álvaro Herrera Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/9d9d1e1252a52ea1bad84ea40dbebfd54e672a0f.camel%40j-davis.com Backpatch: 13-, where disk-based hash aggregation was introduced.
2020-07-26Tweak behavior of pg_stat_activity.leader_pidMichael Paquier
The initial implementation of leader_pid in pg_stat_activity added by b025f32 took the approach to strictly print what a PGPROC entry includes. In short, if a backend has been involved in parallel query at least once, leader_pid would remain set as long as the backend is alive. For a parallel group leader, this means that the field would always be set after it participated at least once in parallel query, and after more discussions this could be confusing if using for example a connection pooler. This commit changes the data printed so as leader_pid becomes always NULL for a parallel group leader, showing up a non-NULL value only for the parallel workers, and actually as long as a parallel query is running as workers are shut down once the query has completed. This does not change the definition of any catalog, so no catalog bump is needed. Per discussion with Justin Pryzby, Álvaro Herrera, Julien Rouhaud and me. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200721035145.GB17300@paquier.xyz Backpatch-through: 13
2020-07-23doc: Document that ssl_ciphers does not affect TLS 1.3Peter Eisentraut
TLS 1.3 uses a different way of specifying ciphers and a different OpenSSL API. PostgreSQL currently does not support setting those ciphers. For now, just document this. In the future, support for this might be added somehow. Reviewed-by: Jonathan S. Katz <jkatz@postgresql.org> Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
2020-07-21Minor glossary tweaksAlvaro Herrera
Add "(process)" qualifier to two terms, remove self-reference in one term. Author: Jürgen Purtz <juergen@purtz.de> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/95f90a5d-7692-701d-2c0c-0c88eb5cea7d@purtz.de
2020-07-21Assert that we don't insert nulls into attnotnull catalog columns.Tom Lane
The executor checks for this error, and so does the bootstrap catalog loader, but we never checked for it in retail catalog manipulations. The folly of that has now been exposed, so let's add assertions checking it. Checking in CatalogTupleInsert[WithInfo] and CatalogTupleUpdate[WithInfo] should be enough to cover this. Back-patch to v10; the aforesaid functions didn't exist before that, and it didn't seem worth adapting the patch to the oldest branches. But given the risk of JIT crashes, I think we certainly need this as far back as v11. Pre-v13, we have to explicitly exclude pg_subscription.subslotname and pg_subscription_rel.srsublsn from the checks, since they are mismarked. (Even if we change our mind about applying BKI_FORCE_NULL in the branch tips, it doesn't seem wise to have assertions that would fire in existing databases.) Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/298837.1595196283@sss.pgh.pa.us
2020-07-20Correctly mark pg_subscription_rel.srsublsn as nullable.Tom Lane
The code has always set this column to NULL when it's not valid, but the catalog header's description failed to reflect that, as did the SGML docs, as did some of the code. To prevent future coding errors of the same ilk, let's hide the field from C code as though it were variable-length (which, in a sense, it is). As with commit 72eab84a5, we can only fix this cleanly in HEAD and v13; the problem extends further back but we'll need some klugery in the released branches. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/367660.1595202498@sss.pgh.pa.us
2020-07-20Rename wal_keep_segments to wal_keep_size.Fujii Masao
max_slot_wal_keep_size that was added in v13 and wal_keep_segments are the GUC parameters to specify how much WAL files to retain for the standby servers. While max_slot_wal_keep_size accepts the number of bytes of WAL files, wal_keep_segments accepts the number of WAL files. This difference of setting units between those similar parameters could be confusing to users. To alleviate this situation, this commit renames wal_keep_segments to wal_keep_size, and make users specify the WAL size in it instead of the number of WAL files. There was also the idea to rename max_slot_wal_keep_size to max_slot_wal_keep_segments, in the discussion. But we have been moving away from measuring in segments, for example, checkpoint_segments was replaced by max_wal_size. So we concluded to rename wal_keep_segments to wal_keep_size. Back-patch to v13 where max_slot_wal_keep_size was added. Author: Fujii Masao Reviewed-by: Álvaro Herrera, Kyotaro Horiguchi, David Steele Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/574b4ea3-e0f9-b175-ead2-ebea7faea855@oss.nttdata.com
2020-07-19Correctly mark pg_subscription.subslotname as nullable.Tom Lane
Due to the layout of this catalog, subslotname has to be explicitly marked BKI_FORCE_NULL, else initdb will default to the assumption that it's non-nullable. Since, in fact, CREATE/ALTER SUBSCRIPTION will store null values there, the existing marking is just wrong, and has been since this catalog was invented. We haven't noticed because not much in the system actually depends on attnotnull being truthful. However, JIT'ed tuple deconstruction does depend on that in some cases, allowing crashes or wrong answers in queries that inspect pg_subscription. Commit 9de77b545 quite accidentally exposed this on the buildfarm members that force JIT activation. Back-patch to v13. The problem goes further back, but we cannot force initdb in released branches, so some klugier solution will be needed there. Before working on that, push this simple fix to try to get the buildfarm back to green. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/4118109.1595096139@sss.pgh.pa.us
2020-07-18doc: Refresh more URLs in the docsMichael Paquier
This updates some URLs that are redirections, mostly to an equivalent using https. One URL referring to generalized partial indexes was outdated. Author: Kyotaro Horiguchi Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200717.121308.1369606287593685396.horikyota.ntt@gmail.com Backpatch-through: 9.5