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2020-10-12Fix memory leak when guc.c decides a setting can't be applied now.Tom Lane
The prohibitValueChange code paths in set_config_option(), which are executed whenever we re-read a PGC_POSTMASTER variable from postgresql.conf, neglected to free anything before exiting. Thus we'd leak the proposed new value of a PGC_STRING variable, as noted by BoChen in bug #16666. For all variable types, if the check hook creates an "extra" chunk, we'd also leak that. These are malloc not palloc chunks, so there is no mechanism for recovering the leaks before process exit. Fortunately, the values are typically not very large, meaning you'd have to go through an awful lot of SIGHUP configuration-reload cycles to make the leakage amount to anything. Still, for a long-lived postmaster process it could potentially be a problem. Oversight in commit 2594cf0e8. Back-patch to all supported branches. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16666-2c41a4eec61b03e1@postgresql.org
2020-10-04Make postgres.bki use the same literal-string syntax as postgresql.conf.Tom Lane
The BKI file's string quoting conventions were previously quite weird, perhaps as a result of repurposing a function built to scan single-quoted strings to scan double-quoted ones. Change to use the same rules as we use in GUC files, allowing some simplifications in genbki.pl and initdb.c. While at it, completely remove the backend's scanstr() function, which was essentially a duplicate of the string dequoting code in guc-file.l. Instead export that one (under a less generic name than it had) and let bootscanner.l use it. Now we can clarify that scansup.c exists only to support the main lexer. We could alternatively have removed GUC_scanstr, but this way seems better since the previous arrangement could mislead a reader into thinking that scanstr() had something to do with the main lexer's handling of string literals. Maybe it did once, but if so it was a long time ago. This patch does not bump catversion, since the initially-installed catalog contents don't change. Note however that successful initdb after applying this patch will require up-to-date postgres.bki as well as postgres and initdb executables. In passing, remove a bunch of very-long-obsolete #include's in bootparse.y and bootscanner.l. John Naylor Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CACPNZCtDpd18T0KATTmCggO2GdVC4ow86ypiq5ENff1VnauL8g@mail.gmail.com
2020-09-14Message fixes and style improvementsPeter Eisentraut
2020-09-09Minor fixes in docs and error messages.Tom Lane
Alexander Lakhin Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ce7debdd-c943-d7a7-9b41-687107b27831@gmail.com
2020-08-11Rename VariableCacheData.nextFullXid to nextXid.Andres Freund
Including Full in variable names duplicates the type information and leads to overly long names. As FullTransactionId cannot accidentally be casted to TransactionId that does not seem necessary. Author: Andres Freund Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200724011143.jccsyvsvymuiqfxu@alap3.anarazel.de
2020-08-03Add %P to log_line_prefix for parallel group leaderMichael Paquier
This is useful for monitoring purposes with log parsing. Similarly to pg_stat_activity, the leader's PID is shown only for active parallel workers, minimizing the log footprint for the leaders as the equivalent shared memory field is set as long as a backend is alive. Author: Justin Pryzby Reviewed-by: Álvaro Herrera, Michael Paquier, Julien Rouhaud, Tom Lane Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200315111831.GA21492@telsasoft.com
2020-07-31Fix compiler warning from Clang.Thomas Munro
Per build farm. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200731062626.GD3317%40paquier.xyz
2020-07-31Preallocate some DSM space at startup.Thomas Munro
Create an optional region in the main shared memory segment that can be used to acquire and release "fast" DSM segments, and can benefit from huge pages allocated at cluster startup time, if configured. Fall back to the existing mechanisms when that space is full. The size is controlled by a new GUC min_dynamic_shared_memory, defaulting to 0. Main region DSM segments initially contain whatever garbage the memory held last time they were used, rather than zeroes. That change revealed that DSA areas failed to initialize themselves correctly in memory that wasn't zeroed first, so fix that problem. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGLAE2QBv-WgGp%2BD9P_J-%3Dyne3zof9nfMaqq1h3EGHFXYQ%40mail.gmail.com
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.
2020-07-27Remove 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.
2020-07-20Rename 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
2020-07-17Add huge_page_size setting for use on Linux.Thomas Munro
This allows the huge page size to be set explicitly. The default is 0, meaning it will use the system default, as before. Author: Odin Ugedal <odin@ugedal.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200608154639.20254-1-odin%40ugedal.com
2020-07-08code: replace 'master' with 'leader' where appropriate.Andres Freund
Leader already is the more widely used terminology, but a few places didn't get the message. Author: Andres Freund Reviewed-By: David Steele Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200615182235.x7lch5n6kcjq4aue@alap3.anarazel.de
2020-07-08code: replace 'master' with 'primary' where appropriate.Andres Freund
Also changed "in the primary" to "on the primary", and added a few "the" before "primary". Author: Andres Freund Reviewed-By: David Steele Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200615182235.x7lch5n6kcjq4aue@alap3.anarazel.de
2020-07-05Rename enable_incrementalsort for clarityPeter Eisentraut
Author: James Coleman <jtc331@gmail.com> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/df652910-e985-9547-152c-9d4357dc3979%402ndquadrant.com
2020-06-11Rework HashAgg GUCs.Jeff Davis
Eliminate enable_groupingsets_hash_disk, which was primarily useful for testing grouping sets that use HashAgg and spill. Instead, hack the table stats to convince the planner to choose hashed aggregation for grouping sets that will spill to disk. Suggested by Melanie Plageman. Rename enable_hashagg_disk to hashagg_avoid_disk_plan, and invert the meaning of on/off. The new name indicates more strongly that it only affects the planner. Also, the word "avoid" is less definite, which should avoid surprises when HashAgg still needs to use the disk. Change suggested by Justin Pryzby, though I chose a different GUC name. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAKRu_aisiENMsPM2gC4oUY1hHG3yrCwY-fXUg22C6_MJUwQdA%40mail.gmail.com Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200610021544.GA14879@telsasoft.com Backpatch-through: 13
2020-06-10Change default of password_encryption to scram-sha-256Peter Eisentraut
Also, the legacy values on/true/yes/1 for password_encryption that mapped to md5 are removed. The only valid values are now scram-sha-256 and md5. Reviewed-by: Jonathan S. Katz <jkatz@postgresql.org> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/d5b0ad33-7d94-bdd1-caac-43a1c782cab2%402ndquadrant.com
2020-06-10Update description of parameter password_encryptionPeter Eisentraut
The previous description string still described the pre-PostgreSQL 10 (pre eb61136dc75a76caef8460fa939244d8593100f2) behavior of selecting between encrypted and unencrypted, but it is now choosing between encryption algorithms.
2020-06-07Formatting and punctuation improvements in postgresql.conf.samplePeter Eisentraut
2020-05-28Fix some mentions to memory units in postgresql.conf.sampleMichael Paquier
The default unit for max_slot_wal_keep_size is megabytes. While on it, also change temp_file_limit to use a more consistent wording. Reported-by: Jeff Janes, Fujii Masao Author: Kyotaro Horiguchi Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMkU=1wWZhhjpwRFKJ9waQGxxROeC0P6UqPvb90fAaGz7dhoHA@mail.gmail.com
2020-05-21Clear some style deviations.Noah Misch
2020-05-14Initial pgindent and pgperltidy run for v13.Tom Lane
Includes some manual cleanup of places that pgindent messed up, most of which weren't per project style anyway. Notably, it seems some people didn't absorb the style rules of commit c9d297751, because there were a bunch of new occurrences of function calls with a newline just after the left paren, all with faulty expectations about how the rest of the call would get indented.
2020-05-13Dial back -Wimplicit-fallthrough to level 3Alvaro Herrera
The additional pain from level 4 is excessive for the gain. Also revert all the source annotation changes to their original wordings, to avoid back-patching pain. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/31166.1589378554@sss.pgh.pa.us
2020-05-12Add -Wimplicit-fallthrough to CFLAGS and CXXFLAGSAlvaro Herrera
Use it at level 4, a bit more restrictive than the default level, and tweak our commanding comments to FALLTHROUGH. (However, leave zic.c alone, since it's external code; to avoid the warnings that would appear there, change CFLAGS for that file in the Makefile.) Author: Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123@gmail.com> Author: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200412081825.qyo5vwwco3fv4gdo@nol Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/flat/E1fDenm-0000C8-IJ@gemulon.postgresql.org
2020-04-07Allow users to limit storage reserved by replication slotsAlvaro Herrera
Replication slots are useful to retain data that may be needed by a replication system. But experience has shown that allowing them to retain excessive data can lead to the primary failing because of running out of space. This new feature allows the user to configure a maximum amount of space to be reserved using the new option max_slot_wal_keep_size. Slots that overrun that space are invalidated at checkpoint time, enabling the storage to be released. Author: Kyotaro HORIGUCHI <horiguchi.kyotaro@lab.ntt.co.jp> Reviewed-by: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Jehan-Guillaume de Rorthais <jgdr@dalibo.com> Reviewed-by: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170228.122736.123383594.horiguchi.kyotaro@lab.ntt.co.jp
2020-04-06Implement Incremental SortTomas Vondra
Incremental Sort is an optimized variant of multikey sort for cases when the input is already sorted by a prefix of the requested sort keys. For example when the relation is already sorted by (key1, key2) and we need to sort it by (key1, key2, key3) we can simply split the input rows into groups having equal values in (key1, key2), and only sort/compare the remaining column key3. This has a number of benefits: - Reduced memory consumption, because only a single group (determined by values in the sorted prefix) needs to be kept in memory. This may also eliminate the need to spill to disk. - Lower startup cost, because Incremental Sort produce results after each prefix group, which is beneficial for plans where startup cost matters (like for example queries with LIMIT clause). We consider both Sort and Incremental Sort, and decide based on costing. The implemented algorithm operates in two different modes: - Fetching a minimum number of tuples without check of equality on the prefix keys, and sorting on all columns when safe. - Fetching all tuples for a single prefix group and then sorting by comparing only the remaining (non-prefix) keys. We always start in the first mode, and employ a heuristic to switch into the second mode if we believe it's beneficial - the goal is to minimize the number of unnecessary comparions while keeping memory consumption below work_mem. This is a very old patch series. The idea was originally proposed by Alexander Korotkov back in 2013, and then revived in 2017. In 2018 the patch was taken over by James Coleman, who wrote and rewrote most of the current code. There were many reviewers/contributors since 2013 - I've done my best to pick the most active ones, and listed them in this commit message. Author: James Coleman, Alexander Korotkov Reviewed-by: Tomas Vondra, Andreas Karlsson, Marti Raudsepp, Peter Geoghegan, Robert Haas, Thomas Munro, Antonin Houska, Andres Freund, Alexander Kuzmenkov Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAPpHfdscOX5an71nHd8WSUH6GNOCf=V7wgDaTXdDd9=goN-gfA@mail.gmail.com Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAPpHfds1waRZ=NOmueYq0sx1ZSCnt+5QJvizT8ndT2=etZEeAQ@mail.gmail.com
2020-04-04Skip WAL for new relfilenodes, under wal_level=minimal.Noah Misch
Until now, only selected bulk operations (e.g. COPY) did this. If a given relfilenode received both a WAL-skipping COPY and a WAL-logged operation (e.g. INSERT), recovery could lose tuples from the COPY. See src/backend/access/transam/README section "Skipping WAL for New RelFileNode" for the new coding rules. Maintainers of table access methods should examine that section. To maintain data durability, just before commit, we choose between an fsync of the relfilenode and copying its contents to WAL. A new GUC, wal_skip_threshold, guides that choice. If this change slows a workload that creates small, permanent relfilenodes under wal_level=minimal, try adjusting wal_skip_threshold. Users setting a timeout on COMMIT may need to adjust that timeout, and log_min_duration_statement analysis will reflect time consumption moving to COMMIT from commands like COPY. Internally, this requires a reliable determination of whether RollbackAndReleaseCurrentSubTransaction() would unlink a relation's current relfilenode. Introduce rd_firstRelfilenodeSubid. Amend the specification of rd_createSubid such that the field is zero when a new rel has an old rd_node. Make relcache.c retain entries for certain dropped relations until end of transaction. Bump XLOG_PAGE_MAGIC, since this introduces XLOG_GIST_ASSIGN_LSN. Future servers accept older WAL, so this bump is discretionary. Kyotaro Horiguchi, reviewed (in earlier, similar versions) by Robert Haas. Heikki Linnakangas and Michael Paquier implemented earlier designs that materially clarified the problem. Reviewed, in earlier designs, by Andrew Dunstan, Andres Freund, Alvaro Herrera, Tom Lane, Fujii Masao, and Simon Riggs. Reported by Martijn van Oosterhout. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20150702220524.GA9392@svana.org
2020-04-02Improve user control over truncation of logged bind-parameter values.Tom Lane
This patch replaces the boolean GUC log_parameters_on_error introduced by commit ba79cb5dc with an integer log_parameter_max_length_on_error, adding the ability to specify how many bytes to trim each logged parameter value to. (The previous coding hard-wired that choice at 64 bytes.) In addition, add a new parameter log_parameter_max_length that provides similar control over truncation of query parameters that are logged in response to statement-logging options, as opposed to errors. Previous releases always logged such parameters in full, possibly causing log bloat. For backwards compatibility with prior releases, log_parameter_max_length defaults to -1 (log in full), while log_parameter_max_length_on_error defaults to 0 (no logging). Per discussion, log_parameter_max_length is SUSET since the DBA should control routine logging behavior, but log_parameter_max_length_on_error is USERSET because it also affects errcontext data sent back to the client. Alexey Bashtanov, editorialized a little by me Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/b10493cc-a399-a03a-67c7-068f2791ee50@imap.cc
2020-04-02Add maintenance_io_concurrency to postgresql.conf.sample.Thomas Munro
New GUC from commit fc34b0d9.
2020-03-28Trigger autovacuum based on number of INSERTsDavid Rowley
Traditionally autovacuum has only ever invoked a worker based on the estimated number of dead tuples in a table and for anti-wraparound purposes. For the latter, with certain classes of tables such as insert-only tables, anti-wraparound vacuums could be the first vacuum that the table ever receives. This could often lead to autovacuum workers being busy for extended periods of time due to having to potentially freeze every page in the table. This could be particularly bad for very large tables. New clusters, or recently pg_restored clusters could suffer even more as many large tables may have the same relfrozenxid, which could result in large numbers of tables requiring an anti-wraparound vacuum all at once. Here we aim to reduce the work required by anti-wraparound and aggressive vacuums in general, by triggering autovacuum when the table has received enough INSERTs. This is controlled by adding two new GUCs and reloptions; autovacuum_vacuum_insert_threshold and autovacuum_vacuum_insert_scale_factor. These work exactly the same as the existing scale factor and threshold controls, only base themselves off the number of inserts since the last vacuum, rather than the number of dead tuples. New controls were added rather than reusing the existing controls, to allow these new vacuums to be tuned independently and perhaps even completely disabled altogether, which can be done by setting autovacuum_vacuum_insert_threshold to -1. We make no attempt to skip index cleanup operations on these vacuums as they may trigger for an insert-mostly table which continually doesn't have enough dead tuples to trigger an autovacuum for the purpose of removing those dead tuples. If we were to skip cleaning the indexes in this case, then it is possible for the index(es) to become bloated over time. There are additional benefits to triggering autovacuums based on inserts, as tables which never contain enough dead tuples to trigger an autovacuum are now more likely to receive a vacuum, which can mark more of the table as "allvisible" and encourage the query planner to make use of Index Only Scans. Currently, we still obey vacuum_freeze_min_age when triggering these new autovacuums based on INSERTs. For large insert-only tables, it may be beneficial to lower the table's autovacuum_freeze_min_age so that tuples are eligible to be frozen sooner. Here we've opted not to zero that for these types of vacuums, since the table may just be insert-mostly and we may otherwise freeze tuples that are still destined to be updated or removed in the near future. There was some debate to what exactly the new scale factor and threshold should default to. For now, these are set to 0.2 and 1000, respectively. There may be some motivation to adjust these before the release. Author: Laurenz Albe, Darafei Praliaskouski Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera, Masahiko Sawada, Chris Travers, Andres Freund, Justin Pryzby Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAC8Q8t%2Bj36G_bLF%3D%2B0iMo6jGNWnLnWb1tujXuJr-%2Bx8ZCCTqoQ%40mail.gmail.com
2020-03-27Allow walreceiver configuration to change on reloadAlvaro Herrera
The parameters primary_conninfo, primary_slot_name and wal_receiver_create_temp_slot can now be changed with a simple "reload" signal, no longer requiring a server restart. This is achieved by signalling the walreceiver process to terminate and having it start again with the new values. Thanks to Andres Freund, Kyotaro Horiguchi, Fujii Masao for discussion. Author: Sergei Kornilov <sk@zsrv.org> Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> Reviewed-by: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/19513901543181143@sas1-19a94364928d.qloud-c.yandex.net
2020-03-27Set wal_receiver_create_temp_slot PGC_POSTMASTERAlvaro Herrera
Commit 329730827848 gave walreceiver the ability to create and use a temporary replication slot, and made it controllable by a GUC (enabled by default) that can be changed with SIGHUP. That's useful but has two problems: one, it's possible to cause the origin server to fill its disk if the slot doesn't advance in time; and also there's a disconnect between state passed down via the startup process and GUCs that walreceiver reads directly. We handle the first problem by setting the option to disabled by default. If the user enables it, its on their head to make sure that disk doesn't fill up. We handle the second problem by passing the flag via startup rather than having walreceiver acquire it directly, and making it PGC_POSTMASTER (which ensures a walreceiver always has the fresh value). A future commit can relax this (to PGC_SIGHUP again) by having the startup process signal walreceiver to shutdown whenever the value changes. Author: Sergei Kornilov <sk@zsrv.org> Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> Reviewed-by: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200122055510.GH174860@paquier.xyz
2020-03-24Fix compiler warning on CygwinPeter Eisentraut
bf68b79e50e3359accc85c94fa23cc03abb9350a introduced an unused variable compiler warning on Cygwin.
2020-03-22Revert "Skip WAL for new relfilenodes, under wal_level=minimal."Noah Misch
This reverts commit cb2fd7eac285b1b0a24eeb2b8ed4456b66c5a09f. Per numerous buildfarm members, it was incompatible with parallel query, and a test case assumed LP64. Back-patch to 9.5 (all supported versions). Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200321224920.GB1763544@rfd.leadboat.com
2020-03-21Skip WAL for new relfilenodes, under wal_level=minimal.Noah Misch
Until now, only selected bulk operations (e.g. COPY) did this. If a given relfilenode received both a WAL-skipping COPY and a WAL-logged operation (e.g. INSERT), recovery could lose tuples from the COPY. See src/backend/access/transam/README section "Skipping WAL for New RelFileNode" for the new coding rules. Maintainers of table access methods should examine that section. To maintain data durability, just before commit, we choose between an fsync of the relfilenode and copying its contents to WAL. A new GUC, wal_skip_threshold, guides that choice. If this change slows a workload that creates small, permanent relfilenodes under wal_level=minimal, try adjusting wal_skip_threshold. Users setting a timeout on COMMIT may need to adjust that timeout, and log_min_duration_statement analysis will reflect time consumption moving to COMMIT from commands like COPY. Internally, this requires a reliable determination of whether RollbackAndReleaseCurrentSubTransaction() would unlink a relation's current relfilenode. Introduce rd_firstRelfilenodeSubid. Amend the specification of rd_createSubid such that the field is zero when a new rel has an old rd_node. Make relcache.c retain entries for certain dropped relations until end of transaction. Back-patch to 9.5 (all supported versions). This introduces a new WAL record type, XLOG_GIST_ASSIGN_LSN, without bumping XLOG_PAGE_MAGIC. As always, update standby systems before master systems. This changes sizeof(RelationData) and sizeof(IndexStmt), breaking binary compatibility for affected extensions. (The most recent commit to affect the same class of extensions was 089e4d405d0f3b94c74a2c6a54357a84a681754b.) Kyotaro Horiguchi, reviewed (in earlier, similar versions) by Robert Haas. Heikki Linnakangas and Michael Paquier implemented earlier designs that materially clarified the problem. Reviewed, in earlier designs, by Andrew Dunstan, Andres Freund, Alvaro Herrera, Tom Lane, Fujii Masao, and Simon Riggs. Reported by Martijn van Oosterhout. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20150702220524.GA9392@svana.org
2020-03-18Disk-based Hash Aggregation.Jeff Davis
While performing hash aggregation, track memory usage when adding new groups to a hash table. If the memory usage exceeds work_mem, enter "spill mode". In spill mode, new groups are not created in the hash table(s), but existing groups continue to be advanced if input tuples match. Tuples that would cause a new group to be created are instead spilled to a logical tape to be processed later. The tuples are spilled in a partitioned fashion. When all tuples from the outer plan are processed (either by advancing the group or spilling the tuple), finalize and emit the groups from the hash table. Then, create new batches of work from the spilled partitions, and select one of the saved batches and process it (possibly spilling recursively). Author: Jeff Davis Reviewed-by: Tomas Vondra, Adam Lee, Justin Pryzby, Taylor Vesely, Melanie Plageman Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/507ac540ec7c20136364b5272acbcd4574aa76ef.camel@j-davis.com
2020-03-16Introduce a maintenance_io_concurrency setting.Thomas Munro
Introduce a GUC and a tablespace option to control I/O prefetching, much like effective_io_concurrency, but for work that is done on behalf of many client sessions. Use the new setting in heapam.c instead of the hard-coded formula effective_io_concurrency + 10 introduced by commit 558a9165e08. Go with a default value of 10 for now, because it's a round number pretty close to the value used for that existing case. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGJUw08dPs_3EUcdO6M90GnjofPYrWp4YSLaBkgYwS-AqA%40mail.gmail.com
2020-03-16Simplify the effective_io_concurrency setting.Thomas Munro
The effective_io_concurrency GUC and equivalent tablespace option were previously passed through a formula based on a theory about RAID spindles and probabilities, to arrive at the number of pages to prefetch in bitmap heap scans. Tomas Vondra, Andres Freund and others argued that it was anachronistic and hard to justify, and commit 558a9165e08 already started down the path of bypassing it in new code. We agreed to drop that logic and use the value directly. For the default setting of 1, there is no change in effect. Higher settings can be converted from the old meaning to the new with: select round(sum(OLD / n::float)) from generate_series(1, OLD) s(n); We might want to consider renaming the GUC before the next release given the change in meaning, but it's not clear that many users had set it very carefully anyway. That decision is deferred for now. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGJUw08dPs_3EUcdO6M90GnjofPYrWp4YSLaBkgYwS-AqA%40mail.gmail.com
2020-03-15Add backend type to csvlog and optionally log_line_prefixPeter Eisentraut
The backend type, which corresponds to what pg_stat_activity.backend_type shows, is added as a column to the csvlog and can optionally be added to log_line_prefix using the new %b placeholder. Reviewed-by: Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Kuntal Ghosh <kuntalghosh.2007@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> Reviewed-by: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/c65e5196-4f04-4ead-9353-6088c19615a3@2ndquadrant.com
2020-03-13Unify several ways to tracking backend typePeter Eisentraut
Add a new global variable MyBackendType that uses the same BackendType enum that was previously only used by the stats collector. That way several duplicate ways of checking what type a particular process is can be simplified. Since it's no longer just for stats, move to miscinit.c and rename existing functions to match the expanded purpose. Reviewed-by: Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Kuntal Ghosh <kuntalghosh.2007@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/c65e5196-4f04-4ead-9353-6088c19615a3@2ndquadrant.com
2020-03-11Refactor ps_status.c APIPeter Eisentraut
The init_ps_display() arguments were mostly lies by now, so to match typical usage, just use one argument and let the caller assemble it from multiple sources if necessary. The only user of the additional arguments is BackendInitialize(), which was already doing string assembly on the caller side anyway. Remove the second argument of set_ps_display() ("force") and just handle that in init_ps_display() internally. BackendInitialize() also used to set the initial status as "authentication", but that was very far from where authentication actually happened. So now it's set to "initializing" and then "authentication" just before the actual call to ClientAuthentication(). Reviewed-by: Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Kuntal Ghosh <kuntalghosh.2007@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/c65e5196-4f04-4ead-9353-6088c19615a3@2ndquadrant.com
2020-03-10Remove utils/acl.h from catalog/objectaddress.hPeter Eisentraut
The need for this was removed by 8b9e9644dc6a9bd4b7a97950e6212f63880cf18b. A number of files now need to include utils/acl.h or parser/parse_node.h explicitly where they previously got it indirectly somehow. Since parser/parse_node.h already includes nodes/parsenodes.h, the latter is then removed where the former was added. Also, remove nodes/pg_list.h from objectaddress.h, since that's included via nodes/parsenodes.h. Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/7601e258-26b2-8481-36d0-dc9dca6f28f1%402ndquadrant.com
2020-03-09Mark ssl_passphrase_command as GUC_SUPERUSER_ONLY.Fujii Masao
This commit changes the GUC ssl_passphrase_command so that it's examinable by only superuser and a member of pg_read_all_settings. Per discussion, we determined to do this because the parameter may contain a sensitive informtaion like a passphrase itself. Author: Insung Moon Reviewed-by: Keisuke Kuroda Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEMmqBuHVGayc+QkYKgx3gWSdqwTAQGw+0DYn3WhcX-eNa2ntA@mail.gmail.com
2020-03-04Introduce macros for typalign and typstorage constants.Tom Lane
Our usual practice for "poor man's enum" catalog columns is to define macros for the possible values and use those, not literal constants, in C code. But for some reason lost in the mists of time, this was never done for typalign/attalign or typstorage/attstorage. It's never too late to make it better though, so let's do that. The reason I got interested in this right now is the need to duplicate some uses of the TYPSTORAGE constants in an upcoming ALTER TYPE patch. But in general, this sort of change aids greppability and readability, so it's a good idea even without any specific motivation. I may have missed a few places that could be converted, and it's even more likely that pending patches will re-introduce some hard-coded references. But that's not fatal --- there's no expectation that we'd actually change any of these values. We can clean up stragglers over time. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16457.1583189537@sss.pgh.pa.us
2020-02-24Account explicitly for long-lived FDs that are allocated outside fd.c.Tom Lane
The comments in fd.c have long claimed that all file allocations should go through that module, but in reality that's not always practical. fd.c doesn't supply APIs for invoking some FD-producing syscalls like pipe() or epoll_create(); and the APIs it does supply for non-virtual FDs are mostly insistent on releasing those FDs at transaction end; and in some cases the actual open() call is in code that can't be made to use fd.c, such as libpq. This has led to a situation where, in a modern server, there are likely to be seven or so long-lived FDs per backend process that are not known to fd.c. Since NUM_RESERVED_FDS is only 10, that meant we had *very* few spare FDs if max_files_per_process is >= the system ulimit and fd.c had opened all the files it thought it safely could. The contrib/postgres_fdw regression test, in particular, could easily be made to fall over by running it under a restrictive ulimit. To improve matters, invent functions Acquire/Reserve/ReleaseExternalFD that allow outside callers to tell fd.c that they have or want to allocate a FD that's not directly managed by fd.c. Add calls to track all the fixed FDs in a standard backend session, so that we are honestly guaranteeing that NUM_RESERVED_FDS FDs remain unused below the EMFILE limit in a backend's idle state. The coding rules for these functions say that there's no need to call them in code that just allocates one FD over a fairly short interval; we can dip into NUM_RESERVED_FDS for such cases. That means that there aren't all that many places where we need to worry. But postgres_fdw and dblink must use this facility to account for long-lived FDs consumed by libpq connections. There may be other places where it's worth doing such accounting, too, but this seems like enough to solve the immediate problem. Internally to fd.c, "external" FDs are limited to max_safe_fds/3 FDs. (Callers can choose to ignore this limit, but of course it's unwise to do so except for fixed file allocations.) I also reduced the limit on "allocated" files to max_safe_fds/3 FDs (it had been max_safe_fds/2). Conceivably a smarter rule could be used here --- but in practice, on reasonable systems, max_safe_fds should be large enough that this isn't much of an issue, so KISS for now. To avoid possible regression in the number of external or allocated files that can be opened, increase FD_MINFREE and the lower limit on max_files_per_process a little bit; we now insist that the effective "ulimit -n" be at least 64. This seems like pretty clearly a bug fix, but in view of the lack of field complaints, I'll refrain from risking a back-patch. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1izCmM-0005pV-Co@gemulon.postgresql.org
2020-02-07Revert "Add GUC checks for ssl_min_protocol_version and ↵Michael Paquier
ssl_max_protocol_version" This reverts commit 41aadee, as the GUC checks could run on older values with the new values used, and result in incorrect errors if both parameters are changed at the same time. Per complaint from Tom Lane. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/27574.1581015893@sss.pgh.pa.us Backpatch-through: 12
2020-02-03Add declaration-level assertions for compile-time checksMichael Paquier
Those new assertions can be used at file scope, outside of any function for compilation checks. This commit provides implementations for C and C++, and fallback implementations. Author: Peter Smith Reviewed-by: Andres Freund, Kyotaro Horiguchi, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker, Michael Paquier Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/201DD0641B056142AC8C6645EC1B5F62014B8E8030@SYD1217
2020-01-30Clean up newlines following left parenthesesAlvaro Herrera
We used to strategically place newlines after some function call left parentheses to make pgindent move the argument list a few chars to the left, so that the whole line would fit under 80 chars. However, pgindent no longer does that, so the newlines just made the code vertically longer for no reason. Remove those newlines, and reflow some of those lines for some extra naturality. Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier, Tom Lane Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200129200401.GA6303@alvherre.pgsql
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
2020-01-26Fix EXPLAIN (SETTINGS) to follow policy about when to print empty fields.Tom Lane
In non-TEXT output formats, the "Settings" field should appear when requested, even if it would be empty. Also, get rid of the premature optimization of counting all the GUC_EXPLAIN variables at startup. Since there was no provision for adjusting that count later, all it'd take would be some extension marking a parameter as GUC_EXPLAIN to risk an assertion failure or memory stomp. We could make get_explain_guc_options() count those variables on-the-fly, or dynamically resize its array ... but TBH I do not think that making a transient array of pointers a bit smaller is worth any extra complication, especially when you consider all the other transient space EXPLAIN eats. So just allocate that array at the max possible size. In HEAD, also add some regression test coverage for this feature. Because of the memory-stomp hazard, back-patch to v12 where this feature was added. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/19416.1580069629@sss.pgh.pa.us