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2020-06-17Don't export basebackup.c's sendTablespace().Robert Haas
Commit 72d422a5227ef6f76f412486a395aba9f53bf3f0 made xlog.c call sendTablespace() with the 'sizeonly' argument set to true, which required basebackup.c to export sendTablespace(). However, that's kind of ugly, so instead defer the call to sendTablespace() until basebackup.c regains control. That way, it can still be a static function. Patch by me, reviewed by Amit Kapila and Kyotaro Horiguchi. Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoYq+59SJ2zBbP891ngWPA9fymOqntqYcweSDYXS2a620A@mail.gmail.com
2020-04-08Rationalize GetWalRcv{Write,Flush}RecPtr().Thomas Munro
GetWalRcvWriteRecPtr() previously reported the latest *flushed* location. Adopt the conventional terminology used elsewhere in the tree by renaming it to GetWalRcvFlushRecPtr(), and likewise for some related variables that used the term "received". Add a new definition of GetWalRcvWriteRecPtr(), which returns the latest *written* value. This will allow later patches to use the value for non-data-integrity purposes, without having to wait for the flush pointer to advance. Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGJ4VJN8ttxScUFM8dOKX0BrBiboo5uz1cq%3DAovOddfHpA%40mail.gmail.com
2020-03-24Prefer standby promotion over recovery pause.Fujii Masao
Previously if a promotion was triggered while recovery was paused, the paused state continued. Also recovery could be paused by executing pg_wal_replay_pause() even while a promotion was ongoing. That is, recovery pause had higher priority over a standby promotion. But this behavior was not desirable because most users basically wanted the recovery to complete as soon as possible and the server to become the master when they requested a promotion. This commit changes recovery so that it prefers a promotion over recovery pause. That is, if a promotion is triggered while recovery is paused, the paused state ends and a promotion continues. Also this commit makes recovery pause functions like pg_wal_replay_pause() throw an error if they are executed while a promotion is ongoing. Internally, this commit adds new internal function PromoteIsTriggered() that returns true if a promotion is triggered. Since the name of this function and the existing function IsPromoteTriggered() are confusingly similar, the commit changes the name of IsPromoteTriggered() to IsPromoteSignaled, as more appropriate name. Author: Fujii Masao Reviewed-by: Atsushi Torikoshi, Sergei Kornilov Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/00c194b2-dbbb-2e8a-5b39-13f14048ef0a@oss.nttdata.com
2020-01-30Remove excess parens in ereport() callsAlvaro Herrera
Cosmetic cleanup, not worth backpatching. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200129200401.GA6303@alvherre.pgsql Reviewed-by: Tom Lane, Michael Paquier
2020-01-01Update copyrights for 2020Bruce Momjian
Backpatch-through: update all files in master, backpatch legal files through 9.4
2019-12-24Avoid splitting C string literals with \-newlineAlvaro Herrera
Using \ is unnecessary and ugly, so remove that. While at it, stitch the literals back into a single line: we've long discouraged splitting error message literals even when they go past the 80 chars line limit, to improve greppability. Leave contrib/tablefunc alone. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20191223195156.GA12271@alvherre.pgsql
2019-12-19Fix minor problems with non-exclusive backup cleanup.Robert Haas
The previous coding imagined that it could call before_shmem_exit() when a non-exclusive backup began and then remove the previously-added handler by calling cancel_before_shmem_exit() when that backup ended. However, this only works provided that nothing else in the system has registered a before_shmem_exit() hook in the interim, because cancel_before_shmem_exit() is documented to remove a callback only if it is the latest callback registered. It also only works if nothing can ERROR out between the time that sessionBackupState is reset and the time that cancel_before_shmem_exit(), which doesn't seem to be strictly true. To fix, leave the handler installed for the lifetime of the session, arrange to install it just once, and teach it to quietly do nothing if there isn't a non-exclusive backup in process. This is a bug, but for now I'm not going to back-patch, because the consequences are minor. It's possible to cause a spurious warning to be generated, but that doesn't really matter. It's also possible to trigger an assertion failure, but production builds shouldn't have assertions enabled. Patch by me, reviewed by Kyotaro Horiguchi, Michael Paquier (who preferred a different approach, but got outvoted), Fujii Masao, and Tom Lane, and with comments by various others. Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmobMjnyBfNhGTKQEDbqXYE3_rXWpc4CM63fhyerNCes3mA@mail.gmail.com
2019-11-12Make the order of the header file includes consistent in backend modules.Amit Kapila
Similar to commits 7e735035f2 and dddf4cdc33, this commit makes the order of header file inclusion consistent for backend modules. In the passing, removed a couple of duplicate inclusions. Author: Vignesh C Reviewed-by: Kuntal Ghosh and Amit Kapila Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALDaNm2Sznv8RR6Ex-iJO6xAdsxgWhCoETkaYX=+9DW3q0QCfA@mail.gmail.com
2019-09-23Message style fixesPeter Eisentraut
2019-09-06Make pg_promote() detect postmaster death while waiting for promotion to end.Fujii Masao
Previously even if postmaster died and WaitLatch() woke up with that event while pg_promote() was waiting for the standby promotion to finish, pg_promote() did nothing special and kept waiting until timeout occurred. This could cause a busy loop. This patch make pg_promote() return false immediately when postmaster dies, to avoid such a busy loop. Back-patch to v12 where pg_promote() was added. Author: Fujii Masao Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHGQGwEs9ROgSp+QF+YdDU+xP8W=CY1k-_Ov-d_Z3JY+to3eXA@mail.gmail.com
2019-08-19Fix inconsistencies and typos in the tree, take 11Michael Paquier
This fixes various typos in docs and comments, and removes some orphaned definitions. Author: Alexander Lakhin Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/5da8e325-c665-da95-21e0-c8a99ea61fbf@gmail.com
2019-01-02Update copyright for 2019Bruce Momjian
Backpatch-through: certain files through 9.4
2018-12-19Remove function names from error messagesAlvaro Herrera
They are not necessary, and having them there gives useless work for translators.
2018-11-23Add WL_EXIT_ON_PM_DEATH pseudo-event.Thomas Munro
Users of the WaitEventSet and WaitLatch() APIs can now choose between asking for WL_POSTMASTER_DEATH and then handling it explicitly, or asking for WL_EXIT_ON_PM_DEATH to trigger immediate exit on postmaster death. This reduces code duplication, since almost all callers want the latter. Repair all code that was previously ignoring postmaster death completely, or requesting the event but ignoring it, or requesting the event but then doing an unconditional PostmasterIsAlive() call every time through its event loop (which is an expensive syscall on platforms for which we don't have USE_POSTMASTER_DEATH_SIGNAL support). Assert that callers of WaitLatchXXX() under the postmaster remember to ask for either WL_POSTMASTER_DEATH or WL_EXIT_ON_PM_DEATH, to prevent future bugs. The only process that doesn't handle postmaster death is syslogger. It waits until all backends holding the write end of the syslog pipe (including the postmaster) have closed it by exiting, to be sure to capture any parting messages. By using the WaitEventSet API directly it avoids the new assertion, and as a by-product it may be slightly more efficient on platforms that have epoll(). Author: Thomas Munro Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi, Heikki Linnakangas, Tom Lane Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm%3D1TCviRykkUb69ppWLr_V697rzd1j3eZsRMmbXvETfqbQ%40mail.gmail.com, https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=2LqHzizbe7muD7-2yHUbTOoF7Q+qkSD5Q41kuhttRTwA@mail.gmail.com
2018-11-20Remove WITH OIDS support, change oid catalog column visibility.Andres Freund
Previously tables declared WITH OIDS, including a significant fraction of the catalog tables, stored the oid column not as a normal column, but as part of the tuple header. This special column was not shown by default, which was somewhat odd, as it's often (consider e.g. pg_class.oid) one of the more important parts of a row. Neither pg_dump nor COPY included the contents of the oid column by default. The fact that the oid column was not an ordinary column necessitated a significant amount of special case code to support oid columns. That already was painful for the existing, but upcoming work aiming to make table storage pluggable, would have required expanding and duplicating that "specialness" significantly. WITH OIDS has been deprecated since 2005 (commit ff02d0a05280e0). Remove it. Removing includes: - CREATE TABLE and ALTER TABLE syntax for declaring the table to be WITH OIDS has been removed (WITH (oids[ = true]) will error out) - pg_dump does not support dumping tables declared WITH OIDS and will issue a warning when dumping one (and ignore the oid column). - restoring an pg_dump archive with pg_restore will warn when restoring a table with oid contents (and ignore the oid column) - COPY will refuse to load binary dump that includes oids. - pg_upgrade will error out when encountering tables declared WITH OIDS, they have to be altered to remove the oid column first. - Functionality to access the oid of the last inserted row (like plpgsql's RESULT_OID, spi's SPI_lastoid, ...) has been removed. The syntax for declaring a table WITHOUT OIDS (or WITH (oids = false) for CREATE TABLE) is still supported. While that requires a bit of support code, it seems unnecessary to break applications / dumps that do not use oids, and are explicit about not using them. The biggest user of WITH OID columns was postgres' catalog. This commit changes all 'magic' oid columns to be columns that are normally declared and stored. To reduce unnecessary query breakage all the newly added columns are still named 'oid', even if a table's column naming scheme would indicate 'reloid' or such. This obviously requires adapting a lot code, mostly replacing oid access via HeapTupleGetOid() with access to the underlying Form_pg_*->oid column. The bootstrap process now assigns oids for all oid columns in genbki.pl that do not have an explicit value (starting at the largest oid previously used), only oids assigned later by oids will be above FirstBootstrapObjectId. As the oid column now is a normal column the special bootstrap syntax for oids has been removed. Oids are not automatically assigned during insertion anymore, all backend code explicitly assigns oids with GetNewOidWithIndex(). For the rare case that insertions into the catalog via SQL are called for the new pg_nextoid() function can be used (which only works on catalog tables). The fact that oid columns on system tables are now normal columns means that they will be included in the set of columns expanded by * (i.e. SELECT * FROM pg_class will now include the table's oid, previously it did not). It'd not technically be hard to hide oid column by default, but that'd mean confusing behavior would either have to be carried forward forever, or it'd cause breakage down the line. While it's not unlikely that further adjustments are needed, the scope/invasiveness of the patch makes it worthwhile to get merge this now. It's painful to maintain externally, too complicated to commit after the code code freeze, and a dependency of a number of other patches. Catversion bump, for obvious reasons. Author: Andres Freund, with contributions by John Naylor Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180930034810.ywp2c7awz7opzcfr@alap3.anarazel.de
2018-10-25Add pg_promote functionMichael Paquier
This function is able to promote a standby with this new SQL-callable function. Execution access can be granted to non-superusers so that failover tools can observe the principle of least privilege. Catalog version is bumped. Author: Laurenz Albe Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier, Masahiko Sawada Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/6e7c79b3ec916cf49742fb8849ed17cd87aed620.camel@cybertec.at
2018-04-09Further cleanup of client dependencies on src/include/catalog headers.Tom Lane
In commit 9c0a0de4c, I'd failed to notice that catalog/catalog.h should also be considered a frontend-unsafe header, because it includes (and needs) the full form of pg_class.h, not to mention relcache.h. However, various frontend code was depending on it to get TABLESPACE_VERSION_DIRECTORY, so refactoring of some sort is called for. The cleanest answer seems to be to move TABLESPACE_VERSION_DIRECTORY, as well as the OIDCHARS symbol, to common/relpath.h. Do that, and mop up inclusions as necessary. (I found that quite a few current users of catalog/catalog.h don't seem to need it at all anymore, apparently as a result of the refactorings that created common/relpath.[hc]. And initdb.c needed it only as a route to pg_class_d.h.) Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/6629.1523294509@sss.pgh.pa.us
2018-04-09Revert "Allow on-line enabling and disabling of data checksums"Magnus Hagander
This reverts the backend sides of commit 1fde38beaa0c3e66c340efc7cc0dc272d6254bb0. I have, at least for now, left the pg_verify_checksums tool in place, as this tool can be very valuable without the rest of the patch as well, and since it's a read-only tool that only runs when the cluster is down it should be a lot safer.
2018-04-05Allow on-line enabling and disabling of data checksumsMagnus Hagander
This makes it possible to turn checksums on in a live cluster, without the previous need for dump/reload or logical replication (and to turn it off). Enabling checkusm starts a background process in the form of a launcher/worker combination that goes through the entire database and recalculates checksums on each and every page. Only when all pages have been checksummed are they fully enabled in the cluster. Any failure of the process will revert to checksums off and the process has to be started. This adds a new WAL record that indicates the state of checksums, so the process works across replicated clusters. Authors: Magnus Hagander and Daniel Gustafsson Review: Tomas Vondra, Michael Banck, Heikki Linnakangas, Andrey Borodin
2018-01-02Update copyright for 2018Bruce Momjian
Backpatch-through: certain files through 9.3
2017-12-04Simplify do_pg_start_backup's API by opening pg_tblspc internally.Tom Lane
do_pg_start_backup() expects its callers to pass in an open DIR pointer for the pg_tblspc directory, but there's no apparent advantage in that. It complicates the callers without adding any flexibility, and there's no robustness advantage, since we surely have to be prepared for errors during the scan of pg_tblspc anyway. In fact, by holding an extra kernel resource during operations like the preliminary checkpoint, we might be making things a fraction more failure-prone not less. Hence, remove that argument and open the directory just for the duration of the actual scan. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/28752.1512413887@sss.pgh.pa.us
2017-12-04Clean up assorted messiness around AllocateDir() usage.Tom Lane
This patch fixes a couple of low-probability bugs that could lead to reporting an irrelevant errno value (and hence possibly a wrong SQLSTATE) concerning directory-open or file-open failures. It also fixes places where we took shortcuts in reporting such errors, either by using elog instead of ereport or by using ereport but forgetting to specify an errcode. And it eliminates a lot of just plain redundant error-handling code. In service of all this, export fd.c's formerly-static function ReadDirExtended, so that external callers can make use of the coding pattern dir = AllocateDir(path); while ((de = ReadDirExtended(dir, path, LOG)) != NULL) if they'd like to treat directory-open failures as mere LOG conditions rather than errors. Also fix FreeDir to be a no-op if we reach it with dir == NULL, as such a coding pattern would cause. Then, remove code at many call sites that was throwing an error or log message for AllocateDir failure, as ReadDir or ReadDirExtended can handle that job just fine. Aside from being a net code savings, this gets rid of a lot of not-quite-up-to-snuff reports, as mentioned above. (In some places these changes result in replacing a custom error message such as "could not open tablespace directory" with more generic wording "could not open directory", but it was agreed that the custom wording buys little as long as we report the directory name.) In some other call sites where we can't just remove code, change the error reports to be fully project-style-compliant. Also reorder code in restoreTwoPhaseData that was acquiring a lock between AllocateDir and ReadDir; in the unlikely but surely not impossible case that LWLockAcquire changes errno, AllocateDir failures would be misreported. There is no great value in opening the directory before acquiring TwoPhaseStateLock, so just do it in the other order. Also fix CheckXLogRemoved to guarantee that it preserves errno, as quite a number of call sites are implicitly assuming. (Again, it's unlikely but I think not impossible that errno could change during a SpinLockAcquire. If so, this function was broken for its own purposes as well as breaking callers.) And change a few places that were using not-per-project-style messages, such as "could not read directory" when "could not open directory" is more correct. Back-patch the exporting of ReadDirExtended, in case we have occasion to back-patch some fix that makes use of it; it's not needed right now but surely making it global is pretty harmless. Also back-patch the restoreTwoPhaseData and CheckXLogRemoved fixes. The rest of this is essentially cosmetic and need not get back-patched. Michael Paquier, with a bit of additional work by me Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAB7nPqRpOCxjiirHmebEFhXVTK7V5Jvw4bz82p7Oimtsm3TyZA@mail.gmail.com
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
2017-06-21Phase 3 of pgindent updates.Tom Lane
Don't move parenthesized lines to the left, even if that means they flow past the right margin. By default, BSD indent lines up statement continuation lines that are within parentheses so that they start just to the right of the preceding left parenthesis. However, traditionally, if that resulted in the continuation line extending to the right of the desired right margin, then indent would push it left just far enough to not overrun the margin, if it could do so without making the continuation line start to the left of the current statement indent. That makes for a weird mix of indentations unless one has been completely rigid about never violating the 80-column limit. This behavior has been pretty universally panned by Postgres developers. Hence, disable it with indent's new -lpl switch, so that parenthesized lines are always lined up with the preceding left paren. This patch is much less interesting than the first round of indent changes, but also bulkier, so I thought it best to separate the effects. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1dAmxK-0006EE-1r@gemulon.postgresql.org Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/30527.1495162840@sss.pgh.pa.us
2017-06-17Fix typos in commentsMagnus Hagander
Author: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
2017-06-09Update code commentsPeter Eisentraut
Author: Neha Khatri <nehakhatri5@gmail.com>
2017-05-17Post-PG 10 beta1 pgindent runBruce Momjian
perltidy run not included.
2017-05-12Replace "transaction log" with "write-ahead log"Peter Eisentraut
This makes documentation and error messages match the renaming of "xlog" to "wal" in APIs and file naming.
2017-05-11Rename WAL-related functions and views to use "lsn" not "location".Tom Lane
Per discussion, "location" is a rather vague term that could refer to multiple concepts. "LSN" is an unambiguous term for WAL locations and should be preferred. Some function names, view column names, and function output argument names used "lsn" already, but others used "location", as well as yet other terms such as "wal_position". Since we've already renamed a lot of things in this area from "xlog" to "wal" for v10, we may as well incur a bit more compatibility pain and make these names all consistent. David Rowley, minor additional docs hacking by me Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKJS1f8O0njDKe8ePFQ-LK5-EjwThsDws6ohJ-+c6nWK+oUxtg@mail.gmail.com
2017-03-24Fix backup cancelingTeodor Sigaev
Assert-enabled build crashes but without asserts it works by wrong way: it may not reset forcing full page write and preventing from starting exclusive backup with the same name as cancelled. Patch replaces pair of booleans nonexclusive_backup_running/exclusive_backup_running to single enum to correctly describe backup state. Backpatch to 9.6 where bug was introduced Reported-by: David Steele Authors: Michael Paquier, David Steele Reviewed-by: Anastasia Lubennikova https://commitfest.postgresql.org/13/1068/
2017-03-22Expose waitforarchive option through pg_stop_backup()Stephen Frost
Internally, we have supported the option to either wait for all of the WAL associated with a backup to be archived, or to return immediately. This option is useful to users of pg_stop_backup() as well, when they are reading the stop backup record position and checking that the WAL they need has been archived independently. This patch adds an additional, optional, argument to pg_stop_backup() which allows the user to indicate if they wish to wait for the WAL to be archived or not. The default matches current behavior, which is to wait. Author: David Steele, with some minor changes, doc updates by me. Reviewed by: Takayuki Tsunakawa, Fujii Masao Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/758e3fd1-45b4-5e28-75cd-e9e7f93a4c02@pgmasters.net
2017-03-12Use wrappers of PG_DETOAST_DATUM_PACKED() more.Noah Misch
This makes almost all core code follow the policy introduced in the previous commit. Specific decisions: - Text search support functions with char* and length arguments, such as prsstart and lexize, may receive unaligned strings. I doubt maintainers of non-core text search code will notice. - Use plain VARDATA() on values detoasted or synthesized earlier in the same function. Use VARDATA_ANY() on varlenas sourced outside the function, even if they happen to always have four-byte headers. As an exception, retain the universal practice of using VARDATA() on return values of SendFunctionCall(). - Retain PG_GETARG_BYTEA_P() in pageinspect. (Page images are too large for a one-byte header, so this misses no optimization.) Sites that do not call get_page_from_raw() typically need the four-byte alignment. - For now, do not change btree_gist. Its use of four-byte headers in memory is partly entangled with storage of 4-byte headers inside GBT_VARKEY, on disk. - For now, do not change gtrgm_consistent() or gtrgm_distance(). They incorporate the varlena header into a cache, and there are multiple credible implementation strategies to consider.
2017-02-09Remove all references to "xlog" from SQL-callable functions in pg_proc.Robert Haas
Commit f82ec32ac30ae7e3ec7c84067192535b2ff8ec0e renamed the pg_xlog directory to pg_wal. To make things consistent, and because "xlog" is terrible terminology for either "transaction log" or "write-ahead log" rename all SQL-callable functions that contain "xlog" in the name to instead contain "wal". (Note that this may pose an upgrade hazard for some users.) Similarly, rename the xlog_position argument of the functions that create slots to be called wal_position. Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CA+Tgmob=YmA=H3DbW1YuOXnFVgBheRmyDkWcD9M8f=5bGWYEoQ@mail.gmail.com
2017-01-17Generate fmgr prototypes automaticallyPeter Eisentraut
Gen_fmgrtab.pl creates a new file fmgrprotos.h, which contains prototypes for all functions registered in pg_proc.h. This avoids having to manually maintain these prototypes across a random variety of header files. It also automatically enforces a correct function signature, and since there are warnings about missing prototypes, it will detect functions that are defined but not registered in pg_proc.h (or otherwise used). Reviewed-by: Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>
2017-01-03Update copyright via script for 2017Bruce Momjian
2016-12-22Skip checkpoints, archiving on idle systems.Andres Freund
Some background activity (like checkpoints, archive timeout, standby snapshots) is not supposed to happen on an idle system. Unfortunately so far it was not easy to determine when a system is idle, which defeated some of the attempts to avoid redundant activity on an idle system. To make that easier, allow to make individual WAL insertions as not being "important". By checking whether any important activity happened since the last time an activity was performed, it now is easy to check whether some action needs to be repeated. Use the new facility for checkpoints, archive timeout and standby snapshots. The lack of a facility causes some issues in older releases, but in my opinion the consequences (superflous checkpoints / archived segments) aren't grave enough to warrant backpatching. Author: Michael Paquier, editorialized by Andres Freund Reviewed-By: Andres Freund, David Steele, Amit Kapila, Kyotaro HORIGUCHI Bug: #13685 Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20151016203031.3019.72930@wrigleys.postgresql.org https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAB7nPqQcPqxEM3S735Bd2RzApNqSNJVietAC=6kfkYv_45dKwA@mail.gmail.com Backpatch: -
2016-10-20Rename "pg_xlog" directory to "pg_wal".Robert Haas
"xlog" is not a particularly clear abbreviation for "write-ahead log", and it sometimes confuses users into believe that the contents of the "pg_xlog" directory are not critical data, leading to unpleasant consequences. So, rename the directory to "pg_wal". This patch modifies pg_upgrade and pg_basebackup to understand both the old and new directory layouts; the former is necessary given the purpose of the tool, while the latter merely avoids an unnecessary backward-compatibility break. We may wish to consider renaming other programs, switches, and functions which still use the old "xlog" naming to also refer to "wal". However, that's still under discussion, so let's do just this much for now. Discussion: CAB7nPqTeC-8+zux8_-4ZD46V7YPwooeFxgndfsq5Rg8ibLVm1A@mail.gmail.com Michael Paquier
2016-06-09pgindent run for 9.6Robert Haas
2016-06-07Message style and wording fixesPeter Eisentraut
2016-04-06Use GRANT system to manage access to sensitive functionsStephen Frost
Now that pg_dump will properly dump out any ACL changes made to functions which exist in pg_catalog, switch to using the GRANT system to manage access to those functions. This means removing 'if (!superuser()) ereport()' checks from the functions themselves and then REVOKEing EXECUTE right from 'public' for these functions in system_views.sql. Reviews by Alexander Korotkov, Jose Luis Tallon
2016-04-05Implement backup API functions for non-exclusive backupsMagnus Hagander
Previously non-exclusive backups had to be done using the replication protocol and pg_basebackup. With this commit it's now possible to make them using pg_start_backup/pg_stop_backup as well, as long as the backup program can maintain a persistent connection to the database. Doing this, backup_label and tablespace_map are returned as results from pg_stop_backup() instead of being written to the data directory. This makes the server safe from a crash during an ongoing backup, which can be a problem with exclusive backups. The old syntax of the functions remain and work exactly as before, but since the new syntax is safer this should eventually be deprecated and removed. Only reference documentation is included. The main section on backup still needs to be rewritten to cover this, but since that is already scheduled for a separate large rewrite, it's not included in this patch. Reviewed by David Steele and Amit Kapila
2016-03-18Merge wal_level "archive" and "hot_standby" into new name "replica"Peter Eisentraut
The distinction between "archive" and "hot_standby" existed only because at the time "hot_standby" was added, there was some uncertainty about stability. This is now a long time ago. We would like to move forward with simplifying the replication configuration, but this distinction is in the way, because a primary server cannot tell (without asking a standby or predicting the future) which one of these would be the appropriate level. Pick a new name for the combined setting to make it clearer that it covers all (non-logical) backup and replication uses. The old values are still accepted but are converted internally. Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>
2016-01-12Add new user fn pg_current_xlog_flush_location()Simon Riggs
Tomas Vondra, reviewed by Michael Paquier and Amit Kapila Minor edits by me
2016-01-02Update copyright for 2016Bruce Momjian
Backpatch certain files through 9.1
2015-05-12Map basebackup tablespaces using a tablespace_map fileAndrew Dunstan
Windows can't reliably restore symbolic links from a tar format, so instead during backup start we create a tablespace_map file, which is used by the restoring postgres to create the correct links in pg_tblspc. The backup protocol also now has an option to request this file to be included in the backup stream, and this is used by pg_basebackup when operating in tar mode. This is done on all platforms, not just Windows. This means that pg_basebackup will not not work in tar mode against 9.4 and older servers, as this protocol option isn't implemented there. Amit Kapila, reviewed by Dilip Kumar, with a little editing from me.
2015-01-06Update copyright for 2015Bruce Momjian
Backpatch certain files through 9.0
2014-12-23Revert "Use a bitmask to represent role attributes"Alvaro Herrera
This reverts commit 1826987a46d079458007b7b6bbcbbd852353adbb. The overall design was deemed unacceptable, in discussion following the previous commit message; we might find some parts of it still salvageable, but I don't want to be on the hook for fixing it, so let's wait until we have a new patch.
2014-12-23Use a bitmask to represent role attributesAlvaro Herrera
The previous representation using a boolean column for each attribute would not scale as well as we want to add further attributes. Extra auxilliary functions are added to go along with this change, to make up for the lost convenience of access of the old representation. Catalog version bumped due to change in catalogs and the new functions. Author: Adam Brightwell, minor tweaks by Álvaro Reviewed by: Stephen Frost, Andres Freund, Álvaro Herrera
2014-08-29pg_is_xlog_replay_paused(): remove super-user-only restrictionBruce Momjian
Also update docs to mention which function are super-user-only. Report by sys-milan@statpro.com Backpatch through 9.4
2014-07-15Add missing serial commasPeter Eisentraut
Also update one place where the wal_level "logical" was not added to an error message.