Commit 19d8e2308b changed when the HOT update optimization is possible
but neglected to update the Heap-Only Tuples (HOT) documentation. This
patch updates that documentation accordingly.
Author: Elizabeth Christensen
Backpatch-through: 16
Reviewed-By: Stephen Frost, Alvaro Herrera
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CABoUFXRjisr58Ct_3VsFEdQx+fJeQTWTdJnM7XAp=8MUbtoa9A@mail.gmail.com
The datatype for analyze_sampling had accidentally been set to text
and not string. Backpatch to v16 where analyze_sampling first was
introduced.
Author: Shinya Kato <Shinya11.Kato@oss.nttdata.com>
Reviewed-by: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/7fd9166b9fda267411793f39986d7f24@oss.nttdata.com
Backpatch-through: v16
Add a note about the additional privileges required after the fix in
4989ce72644b (wording per Tom Lane); also change marked-up mentions of
"target_table_name" to be simply "the target table" or the like. Also,
note that "join_condition" is scouted for requisite privileges.
Backpatch to 15.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/202402211653.zuh6objy3z72@alvherre.pgsql
The explanation of interval's behavior in datatype.sgml wasn't wrong
exactly, but it was unclear, partly because it buried the lede about
there being three internal fields. Rearrange and wordsmith for more
clarity.
The discussion of extract() claimed that input of type date was
handled by casting, but actually there's been a separate SQL function
taking date for a very long time. Also, it was mostly silent about
how interval inputs are handled, but there are several field types
for which it seems useful to be specific.
Improve discussion of justify_days()/justify_hours() too.
In passing, remove vertical space in some groups of examples,
as there was little consistency about whether to have such space
or not. (I only did this within the datetime functions section;
there are some related inconsistencies elsewhere.)
Per discussion of bug #18348 from Michael Bondarenko. There
may be some code changes coming out of that discussion too,
but we likely won't back-patch them. This docs-only patch
seems useful to back-patch, though I only carried it back to
v13 because it didn't apply easily in v12.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18348-b097a3587dfde8a4@postgresql.org
Commits 1b2c6b756 et al affected the core BRIN "bloom" opclasses,
not contrib/bloom. This only corrected a bad assertion so it's not
too significant to end users, but since we documented it we should
do so accurately.
Spotted by Takatsuka Haruka.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18353-926aa99cfe58aa78@postgresql.org
The pgcrypto docs contained a set of links for useful reading and
technical references. These sets of links were however not actively
curated and had stale content and dead links. Rather than investing
time into maintining these, this removes them altogether since there
are lots of resources online which are actively maintained.
Backpatch to all supported versions since these links have been in
the docs for a long time.
Reported-by: Hanefi Onaldi <hanefi.onaldi@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/170774255387.3279713.2822272755998870925@wrigleys.postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: v12
The macOS Finder application creates .DS_Store files in directories
when opened, which creates problems for serverside utilities which
expect all files to be PostgreSQL specific files. Skip these files
when encountered in pg_checksums, pg_rewind and pg_basebackup.
This was extracted from a larger patchset for skipping hidden files
and system files, where the concencus was to just skip these. Since
this is equally likely to happen in every version, backpatch to all
supported versions.
Reported-by: Mark Guertin <markguertin@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Reviewed-by: Tobias Bussmann <t.bussmann@gmx.net>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E258CE50-AB0E-455D-8AAD-BB4FE8F882FB@gmail.com
Backpatch-through: v12
Cover scram_iterations, which was added in commit b577743000cd. While
at it, turn the list into a <simplelist> with 2 columns, which is much
nicer to read.
In master, remove mentions of antediluvian versions before which some
parameters were not reported.
Noticed while investigating a question by Maiquel Grassi.
Backpatch to 16.
Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
Reviewed-by: Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres@jeltef.nl>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/202401301236.mc5ebrohhtsd@alvherre.pgsql
An OS crash could leave PG_VERSION empty or missing. The same symptom
appeared in a backup by block device snapshot, taken after the next
checkpoint and before the OS flushes the PG_VERSION blocks. Device
snapshots are not a documented backup method, however. Back-patch to
v15, where commit 9c08aea6a3090a396be334cc58c511edab05776a introduced
STRATEGY=WAL_LOG and made it the default.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20240130195003.0a.nmisch@google.com
Role option management was changed in Postgres 16. This patch improves
the docs around these changes, including CREATE ROLE's INHERIT option,
inheritance handling, and grant's ability to change role options.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/Zab9GiV63EENDcWG@momjian.us
Co-authored-by: David G. Johnston
Backpatch-through: 16
The Parameters subsection had an extra TRIGGER in the grammar
for DISABLE/ENABLE which is incorrect. Backpatch down to all
supported versions since it's been like this all along.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/0AFB171E-7E78-4A90-A140-46AB270212CA@yesql.se
Backpatch-through: v12
The openssl command for displaying the DN of a client certificate was
using --subject and not the single-dash option -subject. While recent
versions of openssl handles double dash options, earlier does not so
fix by using just -subject (which is per the openssl documentation).
Backpatch to v14 where this was introduced.
Reported-by: konkove@gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/170672168899.666.10442618407194498217@wrigleys.postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: v14
We seem to have only documented a foreign key can reference the columns of
a primary key or unique constraint. Here we adjust the documentation
to mention columns in a non-partial unique index can be mentioned too.
The header comment for transformFkeyCheckAttrs() also didn't mention
unique indexes, so fix that too. In passing make that header comment
reflect reality in the various other aspects where it deviated from it.
Bug: 18295
Reported-by: Gilles PARC
Author: Laurenz Albe, David Rowley
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/18295-0ed0fac5c9f7b17b%40postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 12
One instance of "WITH clause" was not using <literal> tags around
WITH, while others were, so add markup to the last one to ensure
consistency. Backpatch to v15 where MERGE was added.
Reported-by: jian he <jian.universality@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CACJufxGJKY9ZCPV2WDM6xFsXq9C8r7r3vU6AkScN+p9k6CEpMw@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: v15
A superuser may create a subscription with password_required=true, but
which uses a connection string without a password.
Previously, if the owner of such a subscription was changed to a
non-superuser, the non-superuser was able to utilize a password from
another source (like a password file or the PGPASSWORD environment
variable), which should not have been allowed.
This commit adds a step to re-validate the connection string before
connecting.
Reported-by: Jeff Davis
Author: Vignesh C
Reviewed-by: Peter Smith, Robert Haas, Amit Kapila
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/e5892973ae2a80a1a3e0266806640dae3c428100.camel%40j-davis.com
Backpatch-through: 16
UNIQUE and PRIMARY KEY constraints can be created on ONLY the
partitioned table. We already had an example demonstrating that,
but forgot to mention it in the documentation of the limits of
partitioning.
Author: Laurenz Albe
Reviewed-By: shihao zhong, Shubham Khanna, Ashutosh Bapat
Backpatch-through: 12
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/167299368731.659.16130012959616771853@wrigleys.postgresql.org
The note regarding character encoding form in "The Information Schema"
said that LATIN1 character repertoires only use one encoding form
LATIN1. This is not correct because LATIN1 has another encoding form
ISO-2022-JP-2. To fix this, replace LATIN1 with LATIN2, which is not
supported by ISO-2022-JP-2, thus it can be said that LATIN2 only uses
one encoding form.
Back-patch to supported branches.
Author: Tatsuo Ishii
Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/flat/20240102.153925.1147403616414525145.t-ishii%40sranhm.sra.co.jp
The documentation has been missing one value in the list of catalog OIDs
that can be given to the validator function of a FDW, as of
AttributeRelationId, when changing the attribute options of a foreign
table.
Author: Ian Lawrence Barwick
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAB8KJ=i16t2yJU_Pq2Z+hnNGWFhagp_bJmzxHZu3ZkOjZm-+rQ@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 12
The example for dropping an option was incorrectly quoting the
option key thus making it a value turning the command into an
unqualified ADD operation. The result of dropping became adding
a new key/value pair instead:
d=# alter foreign data wrapper f options (drop 'b');
ALTER FOREIGN DATA WRAPPER
d=# select fdwoptions from pg_foreign_data_wrapper where fdwname='f';
fdwoptions
------------
{drop=b}
(1 row)
This has been incorrect for a long time so backpatch to all
supported branches.
Author: Tim <tim.needham2@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/170292280173.1876505.5204623074024041738@wrigleys.postgresql.org
We didn't explain this clearly until somewhere deep in the
"Extending SQL" chapter, but really it ought to be mentioned
in the introductory material too.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/4097442.1694967650@sss.pgh.pa.us
The wording changed here comes from 991bfe11d28a, when the only way to
trigger a promotion was with a trigger file. There are more options to
achieve this operation these days, like the SQL function pg_promote() or
the command `pg_ctl promote`, so it is confusing to assume that only a
trigger file is able to do the work.
Note also that promote_trigger_file has been removed as of cd4329d9393f
in 16~.
Author: Shinya Kato
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/201b08ea29aa61f96162080e75be503c@oss.nttdata.com
Backpatch-through: 12
Commit f40c6969d0 added the information schema usage tables but added
documentation that they did not fully work yet. Commit e717a9a18b
then added SQL-standard function bodies, which made the information
schema views fully functional, but it neglected to update the
documentation. This is now done here.
Reported-by: Erki Eessaar <erki.eessaar@taltech.ee>
Reviewed-by: Erki Eessaar <erki.eessaar@taltech.ee>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/AM9PR01MB8268EC7B696F9FE346CA5B93FEB8A%40AM9PR01MB8268.eurprd01.prod.exchangelabs.com
On the MERGE page, the description of the privileges required could be
taken to imply that the SELECT privilege is required on all columns of
the data source, whereas actually it is only required on the columns
referred to by conditions or expressions in the MERGE command. Re-word
it to make that a little clearer, and mention expressions as well as
conditions.
Also, add a glossary entry for MERGE, and nearby on the glossary page,
mention MERGE in the list of commands that cannot update a
materialized view.
Noted by Jian He. Patch by me, reviewed by Jian He.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CACJufxHuSoRXKwr0MtSFLXuT2nFVWcVfEWhxg7qdP9h%2Bs3a%2BUw%40mail.gmail.com
Clarify that default privileges are not inherited and reorder
paragraphs. This is a follow up to a recent ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES
doc patch.
Reported-by: Sanjay Minni
Diagnosed-by: AMpxBo=M35hcH1g4Vg=KRJ0-77FOJcvdrdiVF5KSOAdOG-LvKQ@mail.gmail.com
Co-authored-by: Laurenz Albe
Backpatch-through: 16
One of the examples on the SELECT page was missing a semicolon from
a listing which has the look and feel of being a psql session. This
adds the missing semicolon and also removes the newline between the
query and results to match the other examples nearby.
Backpatch to all supported branches to avoid backpatching issues on
this page.
Reported-by: tim.needham2@gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/169965004097.225187.12941375915673151540@wrigleys.postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: v12
