PostgreSQL Weekly News - April 11, 2021

Posted on 2021-04-12 by PWN
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PostgreSQL Weekly News - April 11, 2021

Feature freeze for PostgreSQL 14 has arrived. Any new feature that could be in PostgreSQL 14 is in the git repository.

PostgreSQL Product News

AGE 0.4.0, a PostgreSQL extension that provides graph database functionality, released. https://github.com/apache/incubator-age/releases/tag/0.4.0

PostgreSQL Jobs for April

https://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-jobs/2021-04/

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Applied Patches

Tom Lane pushed:

  • Fix more confusion in SP-GiST. spg_box_quad_leaf_consistent unconditionally returned the leaf datum as leafValue, even though in its usage for poly_ops that value is of completely the wrong type. In versions before 12, that was harmless because the core code did nothing with leafValue in non-index-only scans ... but since commit 2a6368343, if we were doing a KNN-style scan, spgNewHeapItem would unconditionally try to copy the value using the wrong datatype parameters. Said copying is a waste of time and space if we're not going to return the data, but it accidentally failed to fail until I fixed the datatype confusion in ac9099fc1. Hence, change spgNewHeapItem to not copy the datum unless we're actually going to return it later. This saves cycles and dodges the question of whether lossy opclasses are returning the right type. Also change spg_box_quad_leaf_consistent to not return data that might be of the wrong type, as insurance against somebody introducing a similar bug into the core code in future. It seems like a good idea to back-patch these two changes into v12 and v13, although I'm afraid to change spgNewHeapItem's mistaken idea of which datatype to use in those branches. Per buildfarm results from ac9099fc1. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3728741.1617381471@sss.pgh.pa.us https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/dfc843d465689d2c2af8b0e01c66c51ccaae2343

  • Support INCLUDE'd columns in SP-GiST. Not much to say here: does what it says on the tin. We steal a previously-always-zero bit from the nextOffset field of leaf index tuples in order to track whether there is a nulls bitmap. Otherwise it works about like included columns in other index types. Pavel Borisov, reviewed by Andrey Borodin and Anastasia Lubennikova, and rather heavily editorialized on by me Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALT9ZEFi-vMp4faht9f9Junb1nO3NOSjhpxTmbm1UGLMsLqiEQ@mail.gmail.com https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/09c1c6ab4bc5764dd69c53ccfd43b2060b1fd090

  • Clean up treatment of missing default and CHECK-constraint records. Andrew Gierth reported that it's possible to crash the backend if no pg_attrdef record is found to match an attribute that has atthasdef set. AttrDefaultFetch warns about this situation, but then leaves behind a relation tupdesc that has null "adbin" pointer(s), which most places don't guard against. We considered promoting the warning to an error, but throwing errors during relcache load is pretty drastic: it effectively locks one out of using the relation at all. What seems better is to leave the load-time behavior as a warning, but then throw an error in any code path that wants to use a default and can't find it. This confines the error to a subset of INSERT/UPDATE operations on the table, and in particular will at least allow a pg_dump to succeed. Also, we should fix AttrDefaultFetch to not leave any null pointers in the tupdesc, because that just creates an untested bug hazard. While at it, apply the same philosophy of "warn at load, throw error only upon use of the known-missing info" to CHECK constraints. CheckConstraintFetch is very nearly the same logic as AttrDefaultFetch, but for reasons lost in the mists of time, it was throwing ERROR for the same cases that AttrDefaultFetch treats as WARNING. Make the two functions more nearly alike. In passing, get rid of potentially-O(N^2) loops in equalTupleDesc by making AttrDefaultFetch sort the entries after fetching them, so that equalTupleDesc can assume that entries in two equal tupdescs must be in matching order. (CheckConstraintFetch already was sorting CHECK constraints, but equalTupleDesc hadn't been told about it.) There's some argument for back-patching this, but with such a small number of field reports, I'm content to fix it in HEAD. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/87pmzaq4gx.fsf@news-spur.riddles.org.uk https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/091e22b2e673e3e8480abd68fbb827c5d6979615

  • Fix missing #include in nodeResultCache.h. Per cpluspluscheck. https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/789d81de8a50d9a23cc1a3b8ea5d839246020689

  • Postpone some stuff out of ExecInitModifyTable. Arrange to do some things on-demand, rather than immediately during executor startup, because there's a fair chance of never having to do them at all: * Don't open result relations' indexes until needed. * Don't initialize partition tuple routing, nor the child-to-root tuple conversion map, until needed. This wins in UPDATEs on partitioned tables when only some of the partitions will actually receive updates; with larger partition counts the savings is quite noticeable. Also, we can remove some sketchy heuristics in ExecInitModifyTable about whether to set up tuple routing. Also, remove execPartition.c's private hash table tracking which partitions were already opened by the ModifyTable node. Instead use the hash added to ModifyTable itself by commit 86dc90056. To allow lazy computation of the conversion maps, we now set ri_RootResultRelInfo in all child ResultRelInfos. We formerly set it only in some, not terribly well-defined, cases. This has user-visible side effects in that now more error messages refer to the root relation instead of some partition (and provide error data in the root's column order, too). It looks to me like this is a strict improvement in consistency, so I don't have a problem with the output changes visible in this commit. Extracted from a larger patch, which seemed to me to be too messy to push in one commit. Amit Langote, reviewed at different times by Heikki Linnakangas and myself Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+HiwqG7ZruBmmih3wPsBZ4s0H2EhywrnXEduckY5Hr3fWzPWA@mail.gmail.com https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/c5b7ba4e67aeb5d6f824b74f94114d99ed6e42b7

  • Postpone some more stuff out of ExecInitModifyTable. Delay creation of the projections for INSERT and UPDATE tuples until they're needed. This saves a pretty fair amount of work when only some of the partitions are actually touched. The logic associated with identifying junk columns in UPDATE/DELETE is moved to another loop, allowing removal of one loop over the target relations; but it didn't actually change at all. Extracted from a larger patch, which seemed to me to be too messy to push in one commit. Amit Langote, reviewed at different times by Heikki Linnakangas and myself Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+HiwqG7ZruBmmih3wPsBZ4s0H2EhywrnXEduckY5Hr3fWzPWA@mail.gmail.com https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/a1115fa0782378a8238045d238ae70cac36be8ae

  • Tighten up allowed names for custom GUC parameters. Formerly we were pretty lax about what a custom GUC's name could be; so long as it had at least one dot in it, we'd take it. However, corner cases such as dashes or equal signs in the name would cause various bits of functionality to misbehave. Rather than trying to make the world perfectly safe for that, let's just require that custom names look like "identifier.identifier", where "identifier" means something that scan.l would accept without double quotes. Along the way, this patch refactors things slightly in guc.c so that find_option() is responsible for reporting GUC-not-found cases, allowing removal of duplicative code from its callers. Per report from Hubert Depesz Lubaczewski. No back-patch, since the consequences of the problem don't seem to warrant changing behavior in stable branches. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/951335.1612910077@sss.pgh.pa.us https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/3db826bd55cd1df0dd8c3d811f8e5b936d7ba1e4

  • Comment cleanup for a1115fa07. Amit Langote Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+HiwqEcawatEaUh1uTbZMEZTJeLzbroRTz9_X9Z5CFjTWJkhw@mail.gmail.com https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/0d46771eaaf77ad08555cf34e421234d5943edfa

  • Remove channel binding requirement from clientcert=verify-full test. This fails on older OpenSSL versions that lack channel binding support. Since that feature is not essential to this test case, just remove it, instead of complicating matters. Per buildfarm. Jacob Champion Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/fa8dbbb58c20b1d1adf0082769f80d5466eaf485.camel@vmware.com https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/a282ee68a070a8adc6e6d45e8e643769c587ecc3

  • Allow psql's \df and \do commands to specify argument types. When dealing with overloaded function or operator names, having to look through a long list of matches is tedious. Let's extend these commands to allow specification of (input) argument types to let such results be trimmed down. Each additional argument is treated the same as the pattern argument of \dT and matched against the appropriate argument's type name. While at it, fix \dT (and these new options) to recognize the usual notation of "foo[]" for "the array type over foo", and to handle the special abbreviations allowed by the backend grammar, such as "int" for "integer". Greg Sabino Mullane, revised rather significantly by me Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKAnmmLF9Hhu02N+s7uAyLc5J1xZReg72HQUoiKhNiJV3_jACQ@mail.gmail.com https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/a3027e1e7f3d3a107ecd72d3b4d6333ea2aab6a5

  • Suppress uninitialized-variable warning. Several buildfarm critters that don't usually produce such warnings are complaining about e717a9a18. I think it's actually safe, but move initialization to silence the warning. https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/01add89454d5dc289ed3126d5de03169bdeff41b

  • Add support for tab-completion of type arguments in \df, \do. Oversight in commit a3027e1e7. https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/d1fcbde579d440c35023baa0de7ebf27f644a314

  • Doc: update documentation of check_function_bodies. Adjust docs and description string to note that check_function_bodies applies to procedures too. (In hindsight it should have been named check_routine_bodies, but it seems too late for that now.) Daniel Westermann Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/GV0P278MB04834A9EB9A74B036DC7CE49D2739@GV0P278MB0483.CHEP278.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/07b76833b15163c6574ea2c12d05d9a0800665e2

  • Fix failure of xlogprefetch.h to include all prerequisite headers. Per cpluspluscheck. https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/99964c4ade468c35a3f6e248a2380a1ff67d9cd3

  • Fix uninitialized variable from commit a4d75c86b. The path for *exprs != NIL would misbehave, and likely crash, since pull_varattnos expects its last argument to be valid at call. Found by Coverity --- we have no coverage of this path in the regression tests. https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/9cb92334092fa75afc62a71243bbc1f4612ecfa4

  • Add macro PGWARNING, and make PGERROR available on all platforms. We'd previously noted the need for coping with Windows headers that provide some other definition of macro "ERROR" than elog.h does. It turns out that R also wants to define ERROR, and WARNING too. PL/R has been working around this in a hacky way that broke when we recently changed the numeric value of ERROR. To let them have a more future-proof solution, provide an alternate macro PGWARNING for WARNING, and make PGERROR visible always, not only when #ifdef WIN32. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CADK3HHK6iMChd1yoOqssxBn5Z14Zar8Ztr3G-N_fuG7F8YTP3w@mail.gmail.com https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/d7cff12c4c035b7cf12bb8454824f48f13018730

Michaël Paquier pushed:

  • Refactor all TAP test suites doing connection checks. This commit refactors more TAP tests to adapt with the recent introduction of connect_ok() and connect_fails() in PostgresNode, introduced by 0d1a3343. This changes the following test suites to use the same code paths for connection checks: - Kerberos - LDAP - SSL - Authentication Those routines are extended to be able to handle optional parameters that are set depending on each suite's needs, as of: - custom SQL query. - expected stderr matching pattern. - expected stdout matching pattern. The new design is extensible with more parameters, and there are some plans for those routines in the future with checks based on the contents of the backend logs. Author: Jacob Champion, Michael Paquier Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/d17b919e27474abfa55d97786cb9cfadfe2b59e9.camel@vmware.com https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/c50624cdd248c13b4ba199f95e24c88d2cc8a097

  • Fix typo in collationcmds.c. Introduced by 51e225d. Author: Anton Voloshin Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/05477da0-703c-7de7-998c-5879738e8f39@postgrespro.ru https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/9f6f1f9b8e61f9ce47e1936fc68c21a4a8d6722c

  • Change PostgresNode::connect_fails() to never send down queries. This type of failure is similar to what has been fixed in c757a3da, where an authentication failure combined with psql pushing a command down its communication pipe causes a test failure. This routine is designed to fail, so sending a query has little sense anyway. Per buildfarm members gaur and hoverfly, based on an analysis and fix from Tom Lane. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/513200.1617634642@sss.pgh.pa.us https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/6d41dd045ada28ee14182112fc4cf50fb3879d28

  • Fix some issues with SSL and Kerberos tests. The recent refactoring done in c50624c accidentally broke a portion of the kerberos tests checking after a query, so add its functionality back. Some inactive SSL tests had their arguments in an incorrect order, which would cause them to fail if they were to run. Author: Jacob Champion Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/4f5b0b3dc0b6fe9ae6a34886b4d4000f61eb567e.camel@vmware.com https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/5a71964a832febfee23cedc3bb354049d6ca78a7

  • Add some information about authenticated identity via log_connections. The "authenticated identity" is the string used by an authentication method to identify a particular user. In many common cases, this is the same as the PostgreSQL username, but for some third-party authentication methods, the identifier in use may be shortened or otherwise translated (e.g. through pg_ident user mappings) before the server stores it. To help administrators see who has actually interacted with the system, this commit adds the capability to store the original identity when authentication succeeds within the backend's Port, and generates a log entry when log_connections is enabled. The log entries generated look something like this (where a local user named "foouser" is connecting to the database as the database user called "admin"): LOG: connection received: host=[local] LOG: connection authenticated: identity="foouser" method=peer (/data/pg_hba.conf:88) LOG: connection authorized: user=admin database=postgres application_name=psql Port->authn_id is set according to the authentication method: bsd: the PostgreSQL username (aka the local username) cert: the client's Subject DN gss: the user principal ident: the remote username ldap: the final bind DN pam: the PostgreSQL username (aka PAM username) password (and all pw-challenge methods): the PostgreSQL username peer: the peer's pw_name radius: the PostgreSQL username (aka the RADIUS username) sspi: either the down-level (SAM-compatible) logon name, if compat_realm=1, or the User Principal Name if compat_realm=0 The trust auth method does not set an authenticated identity. Neither does clientcert=verify-full. Port->authn_id could be used for other purposes, like a superuser-only extra column in pg_stat_activity, but this is left as future work. PostgresNode::connect_{ok,fails}() have been modified to let tests check the backend log files for required or prohibited patterns, using the new log_like and log_unlike parameters. This uses a method based on a truncation of the existing server log file, like issues_sql_like(). Tests are added to the ldap, kerberos, authentication and SSL test suites. Author: Jacob Champion Reviewed-by: Stephen Frost, Magnus Hagander, Tom Lane, Michael Paquier Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/c55788dd1773c521c862e8e0dddb367df51222be.camel@vmware.com https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/9afffcb833d3c5e59a328a2af674fac7e7334fc1

  • Remove redundant memset(0) calls for page init of some index AMs. Bloom, GIN, GiST and SP-GiST rely on PageInit() to initialize the contents of a page, and this routine fills entirely a page with zeros for a size of BLCKSZ, including the special space. Those index AMs have been using an extra memset() call to fill with zeros the special page space, or even the whole page, which is not necessary as PageInit() already does this work, so let's remove them. GiST was not doing this extra call, but has commented out a system call that did so since 6236991. While on it, remove one MAXALIGN() for SP-GiST as PageInit() takes care of that. This makes the whole page initialization logic more consistent across all index AMs. Author: Bharath Rupireddy Reviewed-by: Vignesh C, Mahendra Singh Thalor Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALj2ACViOo2qyaPT7krWm4LRyRTw9kOXt+g6PfNmYuGA=YHj9A@mail.gmail.com https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/4c0239cb7a7775e3183cb575e62703d71bf3302d

  • Fix some failures with connection tests on Windows hosts. The truncation of the log file, that this set of tests relies on to make sure that a connection attempt matches with its expected backend log pattern, fails, as reported by buildfarm member fairywren. Instead of a truncation, do a rotation of the log file and restart the node. This will ensure that the connection attempt data is unique for each test. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/YG05nCI8x8B+Ad3G@paquier.xyz https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/c7578fa64019f27edc31261ea49066a4b2569a6c

  • Fix typos and grammar in documentation and code comments. Comment fixes are applied on HEAD, and documentation improvements are applied on back-branches where needed. Author: Justin Pryzby Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210408164008.GJ6592@telsasoft.com Backpatch-through: 9.6 https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/609b0652af00374b89411ea2613fd5bb92bca92c

Peter Eisentraut pushed:

Álvaro Herrera pushed:

Fujii Masao pushed:

  • Shut down transaction tracking at startup process exit. Maxim Orlov reported that the shutdown of standby server could result in the following assertion failure. The cause of this issue was that, when the shutdown caused the startup process to exit, recovery-time transaction tracking was not shut down even if it's already initialized, and some locks the tracked transactions were holding could not be released. At this situation, if other process was invoked and the PGPROC entry that the startup process used was assigned to it, it found such unreleased locks and caused the assertion failure, during the initialization of it. TRAP: FailedAssertion("SHMQueueEmpty(&(MyProc->myProcLocks[i]))" This commit fixes this issue by making the startup process shut down transaction tracking and release all locks, at the exit of it. Back-patch to all supported branches. Reported-by: Maxim Orlov Author: Fujii Masao Reviewed-by: Maxim Orlov Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ad4ce692cc1d89a093b471ab1d969b0b@postgrespro.ru https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/ad8b674922eb70dc5cd02951dd82fe2c4c37c80a

  • Add function to log the memory contexts of specified backend process. Commit 3e98c0bafb added pg_backend_memory_contexts view to display the memory contexts of the backend process. However its target process is limited to the backend that is accessing to the view. So this is not so convenient when investigating the local memory bloat of other backend process. To improve this situation, this commit adds pg_log_backend_memory_contexts() function that requests to log the memory contexts of the specified backend process. This information can be also collected by calling MemoryContextStats(TopMemoryContext) via a debugger. But this technique cannot be used in some environments because no debugger is available there. So, pg_log_backend_memory_contexts() allows us to see the memory contexts of specified backend more easily. Only superusers are allowed to request to log the memory contexts because allowing any users to issue this request at an unbounded rate would cause lots of log messages and which can lead to denial of service. On receipt of the request, at the next CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS(), the target backend logs its memory contexts at LOG_SERVER_ONLY level, so that these memory contexts will appear in the server log but not be sent to the client. It logs one message per memory context. Because if it buffers all memory contexts into StringInfo to log them as one message, which may require the buffer to be enlarged very much and lead to OOM error since there can be a large number of memory contexts in a backend. When a backend process is consuming huge memory, logging all its memory contexts might overrun available disk space. To prevent this, now this patch limits the number of child contexts to log per parent to 100. As with MemoryContextStats(), it supposes that practical cases where the log gets long will typically be huge numbers of siblings under the same parent context; while the additional debugging value from seeing details about individual siblings beyond 100 will not be large. There was another proposed patch to add the function to return the memory contexts of specified backend as the result sets, instead of logging them, in the discussion. However that patch is not included in this commit because it had several issues to address. Thanks to Tatsuhito Kasahara, Andres Freund, Tom Lane, Tomas Vondra, Michael Paquier, Kyotaro Horiguchi and Zhihong Yu for the discussion. Bump catalog version. Author: Atsushi Torikoshi Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi, Zhihong Yu, Fujii Masao Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/0271f440ac77f2a4180e0e56ebd944d1@oss.nttdata.com https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/43620e328617c1f41a2a54c8cee01723064e3ffa

  • Fix typo in pgstat.c. Introduced by 9868167500. Author: Vignesh C Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALDaNm1DqgaLBAJrtGznKk1sR1mH-augmp7LfGvxWwTUhah+rg@mail.gmail.com https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/f5d94e405e17a49487672316610630be2f9d0bb7

  • Stop archive recovery if WAL generated with wal_level=minimal is found. Previously if hot standby was enabled, archive recovery exited with an error when it found WAL generated with wal_level=minimal. But if hot standby was disabled, it just reported a warning and continued in that case. Which could lead to data loss or errors during normal operation. A warning was emitted, but users could easily miss that and not notice this serious situation until they encountered the actual errors. To improve this situation, this commit changes archive recovery so that it exits with FATAL error when it finds WAL generated with wal_level=minimal whatever the setting of hot standby. This enables users to notice the serious situation soon. The FATAL error is thrown if archive recovery starts from a base backup taken before wal_level is changed to minimal. When archive recovery exits with the error, if users have a base backup taken after setting wal_level to higher than minimal, they can recover the database by starting archive recovery from that newer backup. But note that if such backup doesn't exist, there is no easy way to complete archive recovery, which may make the database server unstartable and users may lose whole database. The commit adds the note about this risk into the document. Even in the case of unstartable database server, previously by just disabling hot standby users could avoid the error during archive recovery, forcibly start up the server and salvage data from it. But note that this commit makes this procedure unavailable at all. Author: Takamichi Osumi Reviewed-by: Laurenz Albe, Kyotaro Horiguchi, David Steele, Fujii Masao Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/OSBPR01MB4888CBE1DA08818FD2D90ED8EDF90@OSBPR01MB4888.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/9de9294b0c4dac77edb80f029648afca79d14653

  • postgres_fdw: Allow partitions specified in LIMIT TO to be imported. Commit f49bcd4ef3 disallowed postgres_fdw to import table partitions. Because all data can be accessed through the partitioned table which is the root of the partitioning hierarchy, importing only partitioned table should allow access to all the data without creating extra objects. This is a reasonable default when importing a whole schema. But there may be the case where users want to explicitly import one of a partitioned tables' partitions. For that use case, this commit allows postgres_fdw to import tables or foreign tables which are partitions of some other table only when they are explicitly specified in LIMIT TO clause. It doesn't change the behavior that any partitions not specified in LIMIT TO are automatically excluded in IMPORT FOREIGN SCHEMA command. Author: Matthias van de Meent Reviewed-by: Bernd Helmle, Amit Langote, Michael Paquier, Fujii Masao Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEze2Whwg4i=mzApMe+PXxCEfgoZmHGqdqQFW7J4bmj_5p6t1A@mail.gmail.com https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/a3740c48eb2f91663c7c06c948dfcfb6493d2588

  • Fix test added by commit 9de9294b0c. The buildfarm members "drongo" and "fairywren" reported that the regression test (024_archive_recovery.pl) added by commit 9de9294b0c failed. The cause of this failure is that the test calls $node->init() without "allows_streaming => 1" and which doesn't add pg_hba.conf entry for TCP/IP connection from pg_basebackup. This commit fixes the issue by specifying "allows_streaming => 1" when calling $node->init(). Author: Fujii Masao Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3cc3909d-f779-7a74-c201-f1f7f62c7497@oss.nttdata.com https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/8ee9b662daa6d51b54d21ec274f22a218462ad2d

  • Allow TRUNCATE command to truncate foreign tables. This commit introduces new foreign data wrapper API for TRUNCATE. It extends TRUNCATE command so that it accepts foreign tables as the targets to truncate and invokes that API. Also it extends postgres_fdw so that it can issue TRUNCATE command to foreign servers, by adding new routine for that TRUNCATE API. The information about options specified in TRUNCATE command, e.g., ONLY, CACADE, etc is passed to FDW via API. The list of foreign tables to truncate is also passed to FDW. FDW truncates the foreign data sources that the passed foreign tables specify, based on those information. For example, postgres_fdw constructs TRUNCATE command using them and issues it to the foreign server. For performance, TRUNCATE command invokes the FDW routine for TRUNCATE once per foreign server that foreign tables to truncate belong to. Author: Kazutaka Onishi, Kohei KaiGai, slightly modified by Fujii Masao Reviewed-by: Bharath Rupireddy, Michael Paquier, Zhihong Yu, Alvaro Herrera, Stephen Frost, Ashutosh Bapat, Amit Langote, Daniel Gustafsson, Ibrar Ahmed, Fujii Masao Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAOP8fzb_gkReLput7OvOK+8NHgw-RKqNv59vem7=524krQTcWA@mail.gmail.com Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJuF6cMWDDqU-vn_knZgma+2GMaout68YUgn1uyDnexRhqqM5Q@mail.gmail.com https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/8ff1c94649f5c9184ac5f07981d8aea9dfd7ac19

  • Remove COMMIT_TS_SETTS record. Commit 438fc4a39c prevented the WAL replay from writing COMMIT_TS_SETTS record. By this change there is no code that generates COMMIT_TS_SETTS record in PostgreSQL core. Also we can think that there are no extensions using the record because we've not received so far any complaints about the issue that commit 438fc4a39c fixed. Therefore this commit removes COMMIT_TS_SETTS record and its related code. Even without this record, the timestamp required for commit timestamp feature can be acquired from the COMMIT record. Bump WAL page magic. Reported-by: lx zou zoulx1982@163.com Author: Fujii Masao Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16931-620d0f2fdc6108f1@postgresql.org https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/08aa89b326261b669648df97d4f2a6edba22d26a

  • Avoid unnecessary table open/close in TRUNCATE command. ExecuteTruncate() filters out the duplicate tables specified in the TRUNCATE command, for example in the case where "TRUNCATE foo, foo" is executed. Such duplicate tables obviously don't need to be opened and closed because they are skipped. But previously it always opened the tables before checking whether they were duplicated ones or not, and then closed them if they were. That is, the duplicated tables were opened and closed unnecessarily. This commit changes ExecuteTruncate() so that it opens the table after it confirms that table is not duplicated one, which leads to avoid unnecessary table open/close. Do not back-patch because such unnecessary table open/close is not a bug though it exists in older versions. Author: Bharath Rupireddy Reviewed-by: Amul Sul, Fujii Masao Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALj2ACUdBO_sXJTa08OZ0YT0qk7F_gAmRa9hT4dxRcgPS4nsZA@mail.gmail.com https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/81a23dd87999ec9fb62554328c69c5b678612d56

Stephen Frost pushed:

  • Add pg_read_all_data and pg_write_all_data roles. A commonly requested use-case is to have a role who can run an unfettered pg_dump without having to explicitly GRANT that user access to all tables, schemas, et al, without that role being a superuser. This address that by adding a "pg_read_all_data" role which implicitly gives any member of this role SELECT rights on all tables, views and sequences, and USAGE rights on all schemas. As there may be cases where it's also useful to have a role who has write access to all objects, pg_write_all_data is also introduced and gives users implicit INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE rights on all tables, views and sequences. These roles can not be logged into directly but instead should be GRANT'd to a role which is able to log in. As noted in the documentation, if RLS is being used then an administrator may (or may not) wish to set BYPASSRLS on the login role which these predefined roles are GRANT'd to. Reviewed-by: Georgios Kokolatos Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200828003023.GU29590@tamriel.snowman.net https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/6c3ffd697e2242f5497ea4b40fffc8f6f922ff60

Peter Geoghegan pushed:

  • Simplify state managed by VACUUM. Reorganize the state struct used by VACUUM -- group related items together to make it easier to understand. Also stop relying on stack variables inside lazy_scan_heap() -- move those into the state struct instead. Doing things this way simplifies large groups of related functions whose function signatures had a lot of unnecessary redundancy. Switch over to using int64 for the struct fields used to count things that are reported to the user via log_autovacuum and VACUUM VERBOSE output. We were using double, but that doesn't seem to have any advantages. Using int64 makes it possible to add assertions that verify that the first pass over the heap (pruning) encounters precisely the same number of LP_DEAD items that get deleted from indexes later on, in the second pass over the heap. These assertions will be added in later commits. Finally, adjust the signatures of functions with IndexBulkDeleteResult pointer arguments in cases where there was ambiguity about whether or not the argument relates to a single index or all indexes. Functions now use the idiom that both ambulkdelete() and amvacuumcleanup() have always used (where appropriate): accept a mutable IndexBulkDeleteResult pointer argument, and return a result IndexBulkDeleteResult pointer to caller. Author: Peter Geoghegan pg@bowt.ie Reviewed-By: Masahiko Sawada sawada.mshk@gmail.com Reviewed-By: Robert Haas robertmhaas@gmail.com Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-WzkeOSYwC6KNckbhk2b1aNnWum6Yyn0NKP9D-Hq1LGTDPw@mail.gmail.com https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/b4af70cb210393c9c8f41643acf6b213e21178e7

  • Propagate parallel VACUUM's buffer access strategy. Parallel VACUUM relied on global variable state from the leader process being propagated to workers on fork(). Commit b4af70cb removed most uses of global variables inside vacuumlazy.c, but did not account for the buffer access strategy state. To fix, propagate the state through shared memory instead. Per buildfarm failures on elver, curculio, and morepork. Many thanks to Thomas Munro for off-list assistance with this issue. https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/49f49defe7c0a330cca084de5da14ccdfdafc6a3

  • Allocate access strategy in parallel VACUUM workers. Commit 49f49def took entirely the wrong approach to fixing this issue. Just allocate a local buffer access strategy in each individual worker instead of trying to propagate state. This state was never propagated by parallel VACUUM in the first place. It looks like the only reason that this worked following commit 40d964ec was that it involved static global variables, which are initialized to 0 per the C standard. A more comprehensive fix may be necessary, even on HEAD. This fix should at least get the buildfarm green once again. Thanks once again to Thomas Munro for continued off-list assistance with the issue. https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/f6b8f19a084ce949522fcbc940dc116c034cfc47

  • Refactor lazy_scan_heap() loop. Add a lazy_scan_heap() subsidiary function that handles heap pruning and tuple freezing: lazy_scan_prune(). This is a great deal cleaner. The code that remains in lazy_scan_heap()'s per-block loop can now be thought of as code that either comes before or after the call to lazy_scan_prune(), which is now the clear focal point. This division is enforced by the way in which we now manage state. lazy_scan_prune() outputs state (using its own struct) that describes what to do with the page following pruning and freezing (e.g., visibility map maintenance, recording free space in the FSM). It doesn't get passed any special instructional state from the preamble code, though. Also cleanly separate the logic used by a VACUUM with INDEX_CLEANUP=off from the logic used by single-heap-pass VACUUMs. The former case is now structured as the omission of index and heap vacuuming by a two pass VACUUM. The latter case goes back to being used only when the table happens to have no indexes (just as it was before commit a96c41fe). This structure is much more natural, since the whole point of INDEX_CLEANUP=off is to skip the index and heap vacuuming that would otherwise take place. The single-heap-pass case doesn't skip any useful work, though -- it just does heap pruning and heap vacuuming together when the table happens to have no indexes. Both of these changes are preparation for an upcoming patch that generalizes the mechanism used by INDEX_CLEANUP=off. The later patch will allow VACUUM to give up on index and heap vacuuming dynamically, as problems emerge (e.g., with wraparound), so that an affected VACUUM operation can finish up as soon as possible. Also fix a very old bug in single-pass VACUUM VERBOSE output. We were reporting the number of tuples deleted via pruning as a direct substitute for reporting the number of LP_DEAD items removed in a function that deals with the second pass over the heap. But that doesn't work at all -- they're two different things. To fix, start tracking the total number of LP_DEAD items encountered during pruning, and use that in the report instead. A single pass VACUUM will always vacuum away whatever LP_DEAD items a heap page has immediately after it is pruned, so the total number of LP_DEAD items encountered during pruning equals the total number vacuumed-away. (They are not equal in the INDEX_CLEANUP=off case, but that's okay because skipping index vacuuming is now a totally orthogonal concept to one-pass VACUUM.) Also stop reporting the count of LP_UNUSED items in VACUUM VERBOSE output. This makes the output of VACUUM VERBOSE more consistent with log_autovacuum's output (because it never showed information about LP_UNUSED items). VACUUM VERBOSE reported LP_UNUSED items left behind by the last VACUUM, and LP_UNUSED items created via pruning HOT chains during the current VACUUM (it never included LP_UNUSED items left behind by the current VACUUM's second pass over the heap). This makes it useless as an indicator of line pointer bloat, which must have been the original intention. (Like the first VACUUM VERBOSE issue, this issue was arguably an oversight in commit 282d2a03, which added the heap-only tuple optimization.) Finally, stop reporting empty_pages in VACUUM VERBOSE output, and start reporting pages_removed instead. This also makes the output of VACUUM VERBOSE more consistent with log_autovacuum's output (which does not show empty_pages, but does show pages_removed). An empty page isn't meaningfully different to a page that is almost empty, or a page that is empty but for only a small number of remaining LP_UNUSED items. Author: Peter Geoghegan pg@bowt.ie Reviewed-By: Robert Haas robertmhaas@gmail.com Reviewed-By: Masahiko Sawada sawada.mshk@gmail.com Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-WznneCXTzuFmcwx_EyRQgfsfJAAsu+CsqRFmFXCAar=nJw@mail.gmail.com https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/7ab96cf6b312cfcd79cdc1a69c6bdb75de0ed30f

  • Remove tupgone special case from vacuumlazy.c. Retry the call to heap_prune_page() in rare cases where there is disagreement between the heap_prune_page() call and the call to HeapTupleSatisfiesVacuum() that immediately follows. Disagreement is possible when a concurrently-aborted transaction makes a tuple DEAD during the tiny window between each step. This was the only case where a tuple considered DEAD by VACUUM still had storage following pruning. VACUUM's definition of dead tuples is now uniformly simple and unambiguous: dead tuples from each page are always LP_DEAD line pointers that were encountered just after we performed pruning (and just before we considered freezing remaining items with tuple storage). Eliminating the tupgone=true special case enables INDEX_CLEANUP=off style skipping of index vacuuming that takes place based on flexible, dynamic criteria. The INDEX_CLEANUP=off case had to know about skipping indexes up-front before now, due to a subtle interaction with the special case (see commit dd695979) -- this was a special case unto itself. Now there are no special cases. And so now it won't matter when or how we decide to skip index vacuuming: it won't affect how pruning behaves, and it won't be affected by any of the implementation details of pruning or freezing. Also remove XLOG_HEAP2_CLEANUP_INFO records. These are no longer necessary because we now rely entirely on heap pruning taking care of recovery conflicts. There is no longer any need to generate recovery conflicts for DEAD tuples that pruning just missed. This also means that heap vacuuming now uses exactly the same strategy for recovery conflicts as index vacuuming always has: REDO routines never need to process a latestRemovedXid from the WAL record, since earlier REDO of the WAL record from pruning is sufficient in all cases. The generic XLOG_HEAP2_CLEAN record type is now split into two new record types to reflect this new division (these are called XLOG_HEAP2_PRUNE and XLOG_HEAP2_VACUUM). Also stop acquiring a super-exclusive lock for heap pages when they're vacuumed during VACUUM's second heap pass. A regular exclusive lock is enough. This is correct because heap page vacuuming is now strictly a matter of setting the LP_DEAD line pointers to LP_UNUSED. No other backend can have a pointer to a tuple located in a pinned buffer that can be invalidated by a concurrent heap page vacuum operation. Heap vacuuming can now be thought of as conceptually similar to index vacuuming and conceptually dissimilar to heap pruning. Heap pruning now has sole responsibility for anything involving the logical contents of the database (e.g., managing transaction status information, recovery conflicts, considering what to do with HOT chains). Index vacuuming and heap vacuuming are now only concerned with recycling garbage items from physical data structures that back the logical database. Bump XLOG_PAGE_MAGIC due to pruning and heap page vacuum WAL record changes. Credit for the idea of retrying pruning a page to avoid the tupgone case goes to Andres Freund. Author: Peter Geoghegan pg@bowt.ie Reviewed-By: Andres Freund andres@anarazel.de Reviewed-By: Masahiko Sawada sawada.mshk@gmail.com Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-WznneCXTzuFmcwx_EyRQgfsfJAAsu+CsqRFmFXCAar=nJw@mail.gmail.com https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/8523492d4e349c4714aa2ab0291be175a88cb4fc

  • Truncate line pointer array during VACUUM. Teach VACUUM to truncate the line pointer array of each heap page when a contiguous group of LP_UNUSED line pointers appear at the end of the array -- these unused and unreferenced items are excluded. This process occurs during VACUUM's second pass over the heap, right after LP_DEAD line pointers on the page (those encountered/pruned during the first pass) are marked LP_UNUSED. Truncation avoids line pointer bloat with certain workloads, particularly those involving continual range DELETEs and bulk INSERTs against the same table. Also harden heapam code to check for an out-of-range page offset number in places where we weren't already doing so. Author: Matthias van de Meent boekewurm+postgres@gmail.com Author: Peter Geoghegan pg@bowt.ie Reviewed-By: Masahiko Sawada sawada.mshk@gmail.com Reviewed-By: Peter Geoghegan pg@bowt.ie Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEze2WjgaQc55Y5f5CQd3L=eS5CZcff2Obxp=O6pto8-f0hC4w@mail.gmail.com Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-Wzn6a64PJM1Ggzm=uvx2otsopJMhFQj_g1rAj4GWr3ZSzw@mail.gmail.com https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/3c3b8a4b26891892bccf3d220580a7f413c0b9ca

  • Add wraparound failsafe to VACUUM. Add a failsafe mechanism that is triggered by VACUUM when it notices that the table's relfrozenxid and/or relminmxid are dangerously far in the past. VACUUM checks the age of the table dynamically, at regular intervals. When the failsafe triggers, VACUUM takes extraordinary measures to finish as quickly as possible so that relfrozenxid and/or relminmxid can be advanced. VACUUM will stop applying any cost-based delay that may be in effect. VACUUM will also bypass any further index vacuuming and heap vacuuming -- it only completes whatever remaining pruning and freezing is required. Bypassing index/heap vacuuming is enabled by commit 8523492d, which made it possible to dynamically trigger the mechanism already used within VACUUM when it is run with INDEX_CLEANUP off. It is expected that the failsafe will almost always trigger within an autovacuum to prevent wraparound, long after the autovacuum began. However, the failsafe mechanism can trigger in any VACUUM operation. Even in a non-aggressive VACUUM, where we're likely to not advance relfrozenxid, it still seems like a good idea to finish off remaining pruning and freezing. An aggressive/anti-wraparound VACUUM will be launched immediately afterwards. Note that the anti-wraparound VACUUM that follows will itself trigger the failsafe, usually before it even begins its first (and only) pass over the heap. The failsafe is controlled by two new GUCs: vacuum_failsafe_age, and vacuum_multixact_failsafe_age. There are no equivalent reloptions, since that isn't expected to be useful. The GUCs have rather high defaults (both default to 1.6 billion), and are expected to generally only be used to make the failsafe trigger sooner/more frequently. Author: Masahiko Sawada sawada.mshk@gmail.com Author: Peter Geoghegan pg@bowt.ie Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAD21AoD0SkE11fMw4jD4RENAwBMcw1wasVnwpJVw3tVqPOQgAw@mail.gmail.com Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-WzmgH3ySGYeC-m-eOBsa2=sDwa292-CFghV4rESYo39FsQ@mail.gmail.com https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/1e55e7d1755cefbb44982fbacc7da461fa8684e6

  • Teach VACUUM to bypass unnecessary index vacuuming. VACUUM has never needed to call ambulkdelete() for each index in cases where there are precisely zero TIDs in its dead_tuples array by the end of its first pass over the heap (also its only pass over the heap in this scenario). Index vacuuming is simply not required when this happens. Index cleanup will still go ahead, but in practice most calls to amvacuumcleanup() are usually no-ops when there were zero preceding ambulkdelete() calls. In short, VACUUM has generally managed to avoid index scans when there were clearly no index tuples to delete from indexes. But cases with close to no index tuples to delete were another matter -- a round of ambulkdelete() calls took place (one per index), each of which performed a full index scan. VACUUM now behaves just as if there were zero index tuples to delete in cases where there are in fact "virtually zero" such tuples. That is, it can now bypass index vacuuming and heap vacuuming as an optimization (though not index cleanup). Whether or not VACUUM bypasses indexes is determined dynamically, based on the just-observed number of heap pages in the table that have one or more LP_DEAD items (LP_DEAD items in heap pages have a 1:1 correspondence with index tuples that still need to be deleted from each index in the worst case). We only skip index vacuuming when 2% or less of the table's pages have one or more LP_DEAD items -- bypassing index vacuuming as an optimization must not noticeably impede setting bits in the visibility map. As a further condition, the dead_tuples array (i.e. VACUUM's array of LP_DEAD item TIDs) must not exceed 32MB at the point that the first pass over the heap finishes, which is also when the decision to bypass is made. (The VACUUM must also have been able to fit all TIDs in its maintenance_work_mem-bound dead_tuples space, though with a default maintenance_work_mem setting it can't matter.) This avoids surprising jumps in the duration and overhead of routine vacuuming with workloads where successive VACUUM operations consistently have almost zero dead index tuples. The number of LP_DEAD items may well accumulate over multiple VACUUM operations, before finally the threshold is crossed and VACUUM performs conventional index vacuuming. Even then, the optimization will have avoided a great deal of largely unnecessary index vacuuming. In the future we may teach VACUUM to skip index vacuuming on a per-index basis, using a much more sophisticated approach. For now we only consider the extreme cases, where we can be quite confident that index vacuuming just isn't worth it using simple heuristics. Also log information about how many heap pages have one or more LP_DEAD items when autovacuum logging is enabled. Author: Masahiko Sawada sawada.mshk@gmail.com Author: Peter Geoghegan pg@bowt.ie Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAD21AoD0SkE11fMw4jD4RENAwBMcw1wasVnwpJVw3tVqPOQgAw@mail.gmail.com Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-WzmkebqPd4MVGuPTOS9bMFvp9MDs5cRTCOsv1rQJ3jCbXw@mail.gmail.com https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/5100010ee4d5c8ef46619dbd1d17090c627e6d0a

  • Silence another _bt_check_unique compiler warning. Per complaint from Tom Lane Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1922884.1617909599@sss.pgh.pa.us https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/796092fb84c08162ae803e83a13aa8bd6d9b23d0

Amit Kapila pushed:

David Rowley pushed:

  • Fix compiler warning in fe-trace.c for MSVC. It seems that in MSVC timeval's tv_sec field is of type long. localtime() takes a time_t pointer. Since long is 32-bit even on 64-bit builds in MSVC, passing a long pointer instead of the correct time_t pointer generated a compiler warning. Fix that. Reviewed-by: Tom Lane Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvoRG25X_=ZCGSPb4KN_j2iu=G2uXsRSg8NBZeuhkOSETg@mail.gmail.com https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/9bc9b4609a246ded5caf3f3d4c0013a002ba2323

  • Fix compiler warning for MSVC in libpq_pipeline.c. DEBUG was already defined by the MSVC toolchain for "Debug" builds. On these systems the unconditional #define DEBUG was causing a 'DEBUG': macro redefinition warning. Here we rename DEBUG to DEBUG_OUPUT and also get rid of the #define which defined this constant. This appears to have been left in the code by mistake. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvqTTgDm38s4HRj03nhzhzQ1oMOj-RXFUB1pE6Bj07jyuQ@mail.gmail.com https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/3b82d990ab784881153c0f127e4c1211e9b6065c

  • Cleanup partition pruning step generation. There was some code in gen_prune_steps_from_opexps that needlessly checked a list was not empty when it clearly had to contain at least one item. This prompted a further cleanup operation in partprune.c. Additionally, the previous code could end up adding additional needless INTERSECT steps. However, those do not appear to be able to cause any misbehavior. gen_prune_steps_from_opexps is now no longer in charge of generating combine pruning steps. Instead, gen_partprune_steps_internal, which already does some combine step creation has been given the sole responsibility of generating all combine steps. This means that when we recursively call gen_partprune_steps_internal, since it always now adds a combine step when it produces multiple steps, we can just pay attention to the final step returned. In passing, do quite a bit of work on the comments to try to more clearly explain the role of both gen_partprune_steps_internal and gen_prune_steps_from_opexps. This is fairly complex code so some extra effort to give any new readers an overview of how things work seems like a good idea. Author: Amit Langote Reported-by: Andy Fan Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi, Andy Fan, Ryan Lambert, David Rowley Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKU4AWqWoVii+bRTeBQmeVW+PznkdO8DfbwqNsu9Gj4ubt9A6w@mail.gmail.com https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/5ac9c4307337313bedeafc21dbbab93ba809241c

  • Speedup ScalarArrayOpExpr evaluation. ScalarArrayOpExprs with "useOr=true" and a set of Consts on the righthand side have traditionally been evaluated by using a linear search over the array. When these arrays contain large numbers of elements then this linear search could become a significant part of execution time. Here we add a new method of evaluating ScalarArrayOpExpr expressions to allow them to be evaluated by first building a hash table containing each element, then on subsequent evaluations, we just probe that hash table to determine if there is a match. The planner is in charge of determining when this optimization is possible and it enables it by setting hashfuncid in the ScalarArrayOpExpr. The executor will only perform the hash table evaluation when the hashfuncid is set. This means that not all cases are optimized. For example CHECK constraints containing an IN clause won't go through the planner, so won't get the hashfuncid set. We could maybe do something about that at some later date. The reason we're not doing it now is from fear that we may slow down cases where the expression is evaluated only once. Those cases can be common, for example, a single row INSERT to a table with a CHECK constraint containing an IN clause. In the planner, we enable this when there are suitable hash functions for the ScalarArrayOpExpr's operator and only when there is at least MIN_ARRAY_SIZE_FOR_HASHED_SAOP elements in the array. The threshold is currently set to 9. Author: James Coleman, David Rowley Reviewed-by: David Rowley, Tomas Vondra, Heikki Linnakangas Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAaqYe8x62+=wn0zvNKCj55tPpg-JBHzhZFFc6ANovdqFw7-dA@mail.gmail.com https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/50e17ad281b8d1c1b410c9833955bc80fbad4078

  • Improve slightly misleading comments in nodeFuncs.c. There were some comments in nodeFuncs.c that, depending on your interpretation of the word "result", could lead you to believe that the comments were badly copied and pasted from somewhere else. If you thought of "result" as the return value of the function that the comment is written in, then you'd be misled. However, if you'd correctly interpreted "result" to mean the result type of the given node type, you'd not have seen any issues. Here we do a small cleanup to try to prevent any future misinterpretations. Per wording suggestion from Tom Lane. Reviewed-by: Tom Lane Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvp+Bw=2Qiu5=uXMKfC7gd0+B=4JvexVgGJU=am2g9a1CA@mail.gmail.com https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/152d33bccec7176f50be225bdbedf2e6de214e54

Etsuro Fujita pushed:

Dean Rasheed pushed:

  • pgbench: Function to generate random permutations. This adds a new function, permute(), that generates pseudorandom permutations of arbitrary sizes. This can be used to randomly shuffle a set of values to remove unwanted correlations. For example, permuting the output from a non-uniform random distribution so that all the most common values aren't collocated, allowing more realistic tests to be performed. Formerly, hash() was recommended for this purpose, but that suffers from collisions that might alter the distribution, so recommend permute() for this purpose instead. Fabien Coelho and Hironobu Suzuki, with additional hacking be me. Reviewed by Thomas Munro, Alvaro Herrera and Muhammad Usama. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/alpine.DEB.2.21.1807280944370.5142@lancre https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/6b258e3d688db14aadb58dde2a72939362310684

Heikki Linnakangas pushed:

Tomáš Vondra pushed:

  • Fix handling of clauses incompatible with extended statistics. Handling of incompatible clauses while applying extended statistics was a bit confused - while handling a mix of compatible and incompatible clauses it sometimes incorrectly treated the incompatible clauses as compatible, resulting in a crash. Fixed by reworking the code applying the selected statistics object to make it easier to understand, and adding a proper compatibility check. Reported-by: David Rowley Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvpYT10-nkSp8xXe-nbO3jmoaRyRFHbzh-RWMfAJynqgpQ%40mail.gmail.com https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/518442c7f334f3b05ea28b7ef50f1b551cfcc23e

  • Don't add non-existent pages to bitmap from BRIN. The code in bringetbitmap() simply added the whole matching page range to the TID bitmap, as determined by pages_per_range, even if some of the pages were beyond the end of the heap. The query then might fail with an error like this: ERROR: could not open file "base/20176/20228.2" (target block 262144): previous segment is only 131021 blocks In this case, the relation has 262093 pages (131072 and 131021 pages), but we're trying to acess block 262144, i.e. first block of the 3rd segment. At that point _mdfd_getseg() notices the preceding segment is incomplete, and fails. Hitting this in practice is rather unlikely, because:

  • Most indexes use power-of-two ranges, so segments and page ranges align perfectly (segment end is also a page range end). * The table size has to be just right, with the last segment being almost full - less than one page range from full segment, so that the last page range actually crosses the segment boundary. * Prefetch has to be enabled. The regular page access checks that pages are not beyond heap end, but prefetch does not. On older releases (before 12) the execution stops after hitting the first non-existent page, so the prefetch distance has to be sufficient to reach the first page in the next segment to trigger the issue. Since 12 it's enough to just have prefetch enabled, the prefetch distance does not matter. Fixed by not adding non-existent pages to the TID bitmap. Backpatch all the way back to 9.6 (BRIN indexes were introduced in 9.5, but that release is EOL). Backpatch-through: 9.6 https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/23607a8156d595522c232ff3933d77041d3adaa1

Andres Freund pushed:

Magnus Hagander pushed:

Robert Haas pushed:

  • amcheck: Remove duplicate XID/MXID bounds checks. Commit 3b6c1259f9ca8e21860aaf24ec6735a8e5598ea0 resulted in the same xmin and xmax bounds checking being performed in both check_tuple() and check_tuple_visibility(). Remove the duplication. While at it, adjust some code comments that were overlooked in that commit. Mark Dilger Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/AC5479E4-6321-473D-AC92-5EC36299FBC2@enterprisedb.com https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/4573f6a9af6e232ba073392716a051ae2017d1e9

  • amcheck: fix multiple problems with TOAST pointer validation. First, don't perform database access while holding a buffer lock. When checking a heap, we can validate that TOAST pointers are sane by performing a scan on the TOAST index and looking up the chunks that correspond to each value ID that appears in a TOAST poiner in the main table. But, to do that while holding a buffer lock at least risks causing other backends to wait uninterruptibly, and probably can cause undetected and uninterruptible deadlocks. So, instead, make a list of checks to perform while holding the lock, and then perform the checks after releasing it. Second, adjust things so that we don't try to follow TOAST pointers for tuples that are already eligible to be pruned. The TOAST tuples become eligible for pruning at the same time that the main tuple does, so trying to check them may lead to spurious reports of corruption, as observed in the buildfarm. The necessary infrastructure to decide whether or not the tuple being checked is prunable was added by commit 3b6c1259f9ca8e21860aaf24ec6735a8e5598ea0, but it wasn't actually used for its intended purpose prior to this patch. Mark Dilger, adjusted by me to avoid a memory leak. Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/AC5479E4-6321-473D-AC92-5EC36299FBC2@enterprisedb.com https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/ec7ffb8096e8eb90f4c9230f7ba9487f0abe1a9f

Bruce Momjian pushed:

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Pending Patches

Bharath Rupireddy sent in another revision of a patch to add table AMs for multi- and single inserts, and use same for CTAS, REFRESH MATERIALIZED VIEW, and COPY.

Sait Talha Nisanci sent in another revision of a patch intended to fix a bug that manifested as a crash in record_type_typmod_compare.

Bharath Rupireddy sent in two more revisions of a patch to clarify the error message caused by adding a non-table to a publication, naming the type of object it is rather than the type (table) it's not.

Jaime Casanova sent in a patch to use AV worker items infrastructure for GIN pending list's cleanup.

Jürgen Purtz sent in another revision of a patch to add a chapter on architecture to the tutorial.

Andres Freund sent in another revision of a patch to move the stats collector's temporary storage from files to shared memory.

Amul Sul sent in three more revisions of a patch to implement ALTER SYSTEM READ {ONLY | WRITE}.

Michaël Paquier sent in another revision of a patch to make it possible to use NSS as a libpq TLS backend.

Vigneshwaran C, Amit Kapila, and Masahiko Sawada traded patches to use HTAB for replication slot stats.

Bruce Momjian sent in two revisions of a patch to fix and clarify the documentation for some corner cases in interval arithmetic.

Jaime Casanova sent in a patch to document the fact that BRIN's autosummarize parameter is off by default.

Heikki Linnakangas sent in another revision of a patch to simplify COPY FROM parsing by forcing lookahead.

Bruce Momjian sent in another revision of a patch to implement key management.

Amit Langote sent in two more revisions of a patch to allow batching of inserts during cross-partition updates.

Bertrand Drouvot sent in three more revisions of a patch to make it possible to have minimal logical decoding on standbys.

Himanshu Upadhyaya sent in two revisions of a patch to fix an infelicity between PREPARE TRANSACTION and TEMP TABLEs.

Thomas Munro and Kyotaro HORIGUCHI traded patches to remove the read_page callback from XLogReadRecord.

Justin Pryzby sent in two more revisions of a patch to make pg_ls_* show directories and shared filesets.

Hou Zhijie, Masahiko Sawada, Amit Langote, and Shi Yu traded patches to plug a table reference leak in logical replication.

Fabien COELHO and Michaël Paquier traded patches to add a SHOW_ALL_RESULTS option to psql.

Takamichi Osumi sent in another revision of a patch to make it possible to disable WAL logging to speed up data loading.

Yugo Nagata sent in another revision of a patch to implement incremental view maintenance.

Michael Banck sent in another revision of a patch to add a new PGC_ADMINSET GUC context, administrator, and add a pg_change_role_settings predefined role.

Pavel Borisov sent in a patch to ensure same treatment of page header and page special size alignment during page init. Both are now just checked for proper alignment with asserts not MAXALIGNing anything silently. Caller should give properly maxalinged values into page init function.

Thomas Munro sent in another revision of a patch to add a PSQL_WATCH_PAGER setting for psql's \watch command.

Tom Lane sent in three more revisions of a patch to make it possible for psql \df to choose functions by their arguments.

Vigneshwaran C sent in another revision of a patch to identify missing publications from publishers during CREATE/ALTER SUBSCRIPTION.

Ajin Cherian and Amit Kapila traded patches to add missing documentation for streaming in-progress transactions.

Peter Smith sent in three more revisions of a patch to add logical decoding of two-phase transactions.

Thomas Munro sent in another revision of a patch to implement WAL prefetching.

Thomas Munro and Andrey Borodin traded patches to make all SLRU buffer sizes configurable.

Andrey V. Lepikhov sent in another revision of a patch to remove the 64k rangetable limit.

Haotian Wu sent in a patch to add a --drop-cascade to pg_dump/restore.

Bharath Rupireddy sent in a patch to disallow the RESTART option for CREATE SEQUENCE, as it only makes sense in the case of ALTER SEQUENCE.

Andres Freund sent in a patch to fix a race in InvalidateObsoleteReplicationSlots() and re-remove SlotAcquireBehavior.

Bharath Rupireddy sent in three revisions of a patch to simplify the backend terminate and wait logic in the postgres_fdw test.

Justin Pryzby sent in another revision of a patch to change track_activity_query_size from the previously correct Resource Usage / Memory to STATS_COLLECTOR category, make log_autovacuum_min_duration LOGGING_WHAT, make track_commit_timestamp REPLICATION_SENDING, and change force_parallel_mode to a DEVELOPER GUC, and remove it from sample config to help avoid users finding this option and changing it in hopes that it'll make their queries faster, but without reading the documentation or understanding what it does.

Justin Pryzby sent in another revision of a patch to speed up COPY FROM to partitioned tables with foreign partitions.

Thomas Munro sent in a patch to use SIGIO to detect postmaster death.

Pavel Borisov sent in a patch to stabilize the tablespaces test for partitioned indexes. When doing tablespace tests, sometimes (very rarely) the order of parent and child tables changed, which made the test fail.

Maxim Orlov sent in another revision of a patch intended to fix a bug that manifested as SSL negotiation error on massive connect/disconnect.

Andrey V. Lepikhov sent in another revision of a patch to make asymmetric partitionwise joins work more efficiently by teaching the optimizer to consider a partitionwise join of a non-partitioned table with each partition of partitioned table. This technique causes changes to the 'reparameterize by child' machinery.

Michaël Paquier sent in a patch to move tablespace path re-creation from the makefiles to pg_regress.

Pavel Stěhule sent in another revision of a patch to implement schema variables.

Tom Lane sent in a patch intended to fix a bug that manifested as reference leak with type by giving up on associating a long-lived tupdesc refcount with these expression nodes at all, relying instead on the fact that typcache entries never go away once made.

Rémi Lapeyre sent in three more revisions of a patch to add header support to "COPY TO" text format, and a corresponding header matching mode to "COPY FROM".

Justin Pryzby sent in another revision of a patch to ALTER TABLE ... DETACH CONCURRENTLY to avoid creation of redundant constraint.

Pavel Stěhule sent in another revision of a patch to add an --options-file option to pg_dump/pg_restore.

Tom Lane sent in a patch to make PGWARNING and PGERROR universally available.

Peter Geoghegan sent in a patch intended to fix a bug that manifested as PANIC: wrong buffer passed to visibilitymap_clear by acquiring a super-exclusive lock in lazy_vacuum_heap_rel() again.

Ranier Vilela sent in a patch to fix an uninitialized scalar variable in src/backend/statistics/extended_stats.c.