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Bruce Momjian
997188b6e0 doc: show functions returning record types and use of ROWS FROM
Previously it was unclear exactly how ROWS FROM behaved and how to cast
the data types of columns returned by FROM functions.  Also document
that only non-OUT record functions can have their columns cast to data
types.

Reported-by: guyren@gmail.com

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/158638264419.662.2482095087061084020@wrigleys.postgresql.org

Backpatch-through: 9.5
2020-10-05 16:27:33 -04:00
Tom Lane
f6a23344f8 Fix two latent(?) bugs in equivclass.c.
get_eclass_for_sort_expr() computes expr_relids and nullable_relids
early on, even though they won't be needed unless we make a new
EquivalenceClass, which we often don't.  Aside from the probably-minor
inefficiency, there's a memory management problem: these bitmapsets will
be built in the caller's context, leading to dangling pointers if that
is shorter-lived than root->planner_cxt.  This would be a live bug if
get_eclass_for_sort_expr() could be called with create_it = true during
GEQO join planning.  So far as I can find, the core code never does
that, but it's hard to be sure that no extensions do, especially since
the comments make it clear that that's supposed to be a supported case.
Fix by not computing these values until we've switched into planner_cxt
to build the new EquivalenceClass.

generate_join_implied_equalities() uses inner_rel->relids to look up
relevant eclasses, but it ought to be using nominal_inner_relids.
This is presently harmless because a child RelOptInfo will always have
exactly the same eclass_indexes as its topmost parent; but that might
not be true forever, and anyway it makes the code confusing.

The first of these is old (introduced by me in f3b3b8d5b), so back-patch
to all supported branches.  The second only dates to v13, but we might
as well back-patch it to keep the code looking similar across branches.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1508010.1601832581@sss.pgh.pa.us
2020-10-05 13:15:39 -04:00
Bruce Momjian
cf42550d51 doc: libpq connection options can override command-line flags
Reported-by: Alexander Lakhin

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16486-b9c93d71c02c4907@postgresql.org

Backpatch-through: 9.5
2020-10-02 22:19:30 -04:00
Bruce Momjian
d449ec6d52 doc: clarify the use of ssh port forwarding
Reported-by: karimelghazouly@gmail.com

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/159854511172.24991.4373145230066586863@wrigleys.postgresql.org

Backpatch-through: 9.5
2020-10-02 21:39:33 -04:00
Tom Lane
19e7982681 Fix handling of BC years in to_date/to_timestamp.
Previously, a conversion such as
	to_date('-44-02-01','YYYY-MM-DD')
would result in '0045-02-01 BC', as the code attempted to interpret
the negative year as BC, but failed to apply the correction needed
for our internal handling of BC years.  Fix the off-by-one problem.

Also, arrange for the combination of a negative year and an
explicit "BC" marker to cancel out and produce AD.  This is how
the negative-century case works, so it seems sane to do likewise.

Continue to read "year 0000" as 1 BC.  Oracle would throw an error,
but we've accepted that case for a long time so I'm hesitant to
change it in a back-patch.

Per bug #16419 from Saeed Hubaishan.  Back-patch to all supported
branches.

Dar Alathar-Yemen and Tom Lane

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16419-d8d9db0a7553f01b@postgresql.org
2020-09-30 15:40:23 -04:00
Fujii Masao
7be02a3bf0 Archive timeline history files in standby if archive_mode is set to "always".
Previously the standby server didn't archive timeline history files
streamed from the primary even when archive_mode is set to "always",
while it archives the streamed WAL files. This could cause the PITR to
fail because there was no required timeline history file in the archive.
The cause of this issue was that walreceiver didn't mark those files as
ready for archiving.

This commit makes walreceiver mark those streamed timeline history
files as ready for archiving if archive_mode=always. Then the archiver
process archives the marked timeline history files.

Back-patch to all supported versions.

Reported-by: Grigory Smolkin
Author: Grigory Smolkin, Fujii Masao
Reviewed-by: David Zhang, Anastasia Lubennikova
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/54b059d4-2b48-13a4-6f43-95a087c92367@postgrespro.ru
2020-09-29 16:25:20 +09:00
Tom Lane
acab757ce9 Revise RelationBuildRowSecurity() to avoid memory leaks.
This function leaked some memory while loading qual clauses for
an RLS policy.  While ordinarily negligible, that could build up
in some repeated-reload cases, as reported by Konstantin Knizhnik.
We can improve matters by borrowing the coding long used in
RelationBuildRuleLock: build stringToNode's result directly in
the target context, and remember to explicitly pfree the
input string.

This patch by no means completely guarantees zero leaks within
this function, since we have no real guarantee that the catalog-
reading subroutines it calls don't leak anything.  However,
practical tests suggest that this is enough to resolve the issue.
In any case, any remaining leaks are similar to those risked by
RelationBuildRuleLock and other relcache-loading subroutines.
If we need to fix them, we should adopt a more global approach
such as that used by the RECOVER_RELATION_BUILD_MEMORY hack.

While here, let's remove the need for an expensive PG_TRY block by
using MemoryContextSetParent to reparent an initially-short-lived
context for the RLS data.

Back-patch to all supported branches.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/21356c12-8917-8249-b35f-1c447231922b@postgrespro.ru
2020-09-26 16:04:06 -04:00
Tom Lane
7c154f2fd2 Fix handling of -d "connection string" in pg_dump/pg_restore.
Parallel pg_dump failed if its -d parameter was a connection string
containing any essential information other than host, port, or username.
The same was true for pg_restore with --create.

The reason is that these scenarios failed to preserve the connection
string from the command line; the code felt free to replace that with
just the database name when reconnecting from a pg_dump parallel worker
or after creating the target database.  By chance, parallel pg_restore
did not suffer this defect, as long as you didn't say --create.

In practice it seems that the error would be obvious only if the
connstring included essential, non-default SSL or GSS parameters.
This may explain why it took us so long to notice.  (It also makes
it very difficult to craft a regression test case illustrating the
problem, since the test would fail in builds without those options.)

Fix by refactoring so that ConnectDatabase always receives all the
relevant options directly from the command line, rather than
reconstructed values.  Inject a different database name, when necessary,
by relying on libpq's rules for handling multiple "dbname" parameters.

While here, let's get rid of the essentially duplicate _connectDB
function, as well as some obsolete nearby cruft.

Per bug #16604 from Zsolt Ero.  Back-patch to all supported branches.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16604-933f4b8791227b15@postgresql.org
2020-09-24 18:19:39 -04:00
Thomas Munro
d38e15979b Fix missing fsync of SLRU directories.
Harmonize behavior by moving reponsibility for fsyncing directories down
into slru.c.  In 10 and later, only the multixact directories were
missed (see commit 1b02be21), and in older branches all SLRUs were
missed.

Back-patch to all supported releases.

Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGLtsTUOScnNoSMZ-2ZLv%2BwGh01J6kAo_DM8mTRq1sKdSQ%40mail.gmail.com
2020-09-24 10:35:10 +12:00
Tom Lane
b1fbb7d08f Avoid possible dangling-pointer access in tsearch_readline_callback.
tsearch_readline() saves the string pointer it returns to the caller
for possible use in the associated error context callback.  However,
the caller will usually pfree that string sometime before it next
calls tsearch_readline(), so that there is a window where an ereport
will try to print an already-freed string.

The built-in users of tsearch_readline() happen to all do that pfree
at the bottoms of their loops, so that the window is effectively
empty for them.  However, this is not documented as a requirement,
and contrib/dict_xsyn doesn't do it like that, so it seems likely
that third-party dictionaries might have live bugs here.

The practical consequences of this seem pretty limited in any case,
since production builds wouldn't clobber the freed string immediately,
besides which you'd not expect syntax errors in dictionary files
being used in production.  Still, it's clearly a bug waiting to bite
somebody.

Fix by pstrdup'ing the string to be saved for the error callback,
and then pfree'ing it next time through.  It's been like this for
a long time, so back-patch to all supported branches.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/48A4FA71-524E-41B9-953A-FD04EF36E2E7@yesql.se
2020-09-23 11:36:13 -04:00
Tom Lane
1e00333ffa Use factorial rather than numeric_fac in create_operator.sql.
These two SQL functions are aliases for the same C function, so this
change has no semantic effect.  However, because we dropped the
numeric_fac alias in HEAD (commit 76f412ab3), operator definitions
based on that one don't port forward, causing problems for cross-version
upgrade tests based on the regression database.

Patch all active back branches to dodge the problem.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/449144.1600439950@sss.pgh.pa.us
2020-09-18 18:03:44 -04:00
Noah Misch
e09391a0a0 Fix race in test of pg_switch_wal().
The test failed when something added WAL between pg_switch_wal() and
pg_current_wal_lsn(), seen on buildfarm members hornet and sungazer.
Fix v10, v9.6 and v9.5 by making this code mirror its v13+ counterpart.
v12 and v11 lack a counterpart.
2020-09-13 23:14:56 -07:00
Tom Lane
1a9c93ec3b Use the properly transformed RangeVar for expandTableLikeClause().
transformCreateStmt() adjusts the transformed statement's RangeVar
to specify the target schema explicitly, for the express reason
of making sure that auxiliary statements derived by parse
transformation operate on the right table.  But the refactoring
I did in commit 502898192 got this wrong and passed the untransformed
RangeVar to expandTableLikeClause().  This could lead to assertion
failures or weird misbehavior if the wrong table was accessed.

Per report from Alexander Lakhin.  Like the previous patch, back-patch
to all supported branches.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/05051f9d-b32b-cb35-6735-0e9f2ab86b5f@gmail.com
2020-09-13 12:51:21 -04:00
Tom Lane
dc71c64098 Use _exit(2) for SIGQUIT during ProcessStartupPacket, too.
Bring the signal handling for startup-packet collection into line
with the policy established in commits bedadc732 and 8e19a8264,
namely don't risk running atexit callbacks when handling SIGQUIT.

Ideally, we'd not do so for SIGTERM or timeout interrupts either,
but that change seems a bit too risky for the back branches.
For now, just improve the comments in this area to describe the risk.

Also relocate where BackendInitialize re-disables these interrupts,
to minimize the code span where they're active.  This doesn't buy
a whole lot of safety, but it can't hurt.

In passing, rename startup_die() to remove confusion about whether
it is for the startup process.

Like the previous commits, back-patch to all supported branches.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1850884.1599601164@sss.pgh.pa.us
2020-09-10 12:06:26 -04:00
Magnus Hagander
4f737ca15b Fix title in reference section
Reported-by: Robert Kahlert
Author: Daniel Gustafsson
2020-09-10 14:18:48 +02:00
Michael Paquier
a4c0dbc447 doc: Fix some grammar and inconsistencies
Some comments are fixed while on it.

Author: Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200818171702.GK17022@telsasoft.com
Backpatch-through: 9.6
2020-09-10 15:51:00 +09:00
Tom Lane
b2eaddd9b0 Make archiver's SIGQUIT handler exit via _exit().
Commit 8e19a8264 changed the SIGQUIT handlers of almost all server
processes not to run atexit callbacks.  The archiver process was
skipped, perhaps because it's not connected to shared memory; but
it's just as true here that running atexit callbacks in a signal
handler is unsafe.  So let's make it work like the rest.

In HEAD and v13, we can use the common SignalHandlerForCrashExit
handler.  Before that, just tweak pgarch_exit to use _exit(2)
explicitly.

Like the previous commit, back-patch to all supported branches.

Kyotaro Horiguchi, back-patching by me

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1850884.1599601164@sss.pgh.pa.us
2020-09-09 15:32:34 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut
27acbd51e6 Use return instead of exit() in configure
Using exit() requires stdlib.h, which is not included.  Use return
instead.  Also add return type for main().

Reviewed-by: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@enterprisedb.com>

Backpatched because Apple macOS 10.16/11 (Big Sur) compiler makes
calling undeclared functions an error, so these configure tests would
fail.

Reported-by: Thomas Gilligan <thomas.gilligan@icloud.com>
Reported-by: Jesse Zhang <sbjesse@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/09A4B554-82B1-4536-B191-2461342EE0BB%40icloud.com
2020-09-08 10:09:43 +02:00
Tom Lane
2939f613fa Fix misleading error message about inconsistent moving-aggregate types.
We reported the wrong types when complaining that an aggregate's
moving-aggregate implementation is inconsistent with its regular
implementation.

This was wrong since the feature was introduced, so back-patch
to all supported branches.

Jeff Janes

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMkU=1x808LH=LPhZp9mNSP0Xd1xDqEd+XeGcvEe48dfE6xV=A@mail.gmail.com
2020-09-06 12:55:59 -04:00
Tom Lane
1f8c163c5a Remove useless lstat() call in pg_rewind.
This is duplicative of an lstat that was just done by the calling
function (traverse_datadir), besides which we weren't really doing
anything with the results.  There's not much point in checking to
see if someone removed the file since the previous lstat, since the
FILE_ACTION_REMOVE code would have to deal with missing-file cases
anyway.  Moreover, the "exists = false" assignment was a dead store;
nothing was done with that value later.

A syscall saved is a syscall earned, so back-patch to 9.5
where this code was introduced.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1221796.1599329320@sss.pgh.pa.us
2020-09-06 11:50:41 -04:00
Bruce Momjian
7f79f95821 C comment: correct use of 64-"byte" cache line size
Reported-by: Kelly Min

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAPSbxatOiQO90LYpSC3+svAU9-sHgDfEP4oFhcEUt_X=DqFA9g@mail.gmail.com

Backpatch-through: 9.5
2020-09-04 13:27:52 -04:00
Tom Lane
b2fcaed66a Fix rare deadlock failure in create_am regression test.
The "DROP ACCESS METHOD gist2" test will require locking the index
to be dropped and then its table; while most ordinary operations
lock a table first then its index.  While no concurrent test scripts
should be touching fast_emp4000, autovacuum might chance to be
processing that table when the DROP runs, resulting in a deadlock
failure.  This is pretty rare but we see it in the buildfarm from
time to time.

To fix, acquire a lock on fast_emp4000 before issuing the DROP.

Since the point of the exercise is mostly to prevent buildfarm
failures, back-patch to 9.6 where this test was introduced.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/839004.1599185607@sss.pgh.pa.us
2020-09-04 12:40:28 -04:00
Tom Lane
2500e51e7b Avoid lockup of a parallel worker when reporting a long error message.
Because sigsetjmp() will restore the initial state with signals blocked,
the code path in bgworker.c for reporting an error and exiting would
execute that way.  Usually this is fairly harmless; but if a parallel
worker had an error message exceeding the shared-memory communication
buffer size (16K) it would lock up, because it would wait for a
resume-sending signal from its parallel leader which it would never
detect.

To fix, just unblock signals at the appropriate point.

This can be shown to fail back to 9.6.  The lack of parallel query
infrastructure makes it difficult to provide a simple test case for
9.5; but I'm pretty sure the issue exists in some form there as well,
so apply the code change there too.

Vignesh C, reviewed by Bharath Rupireddy, Robert Haas, and myself

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALDaNm1d1hHPZUg3xU4XjtWBOLCrA+-2cJcLpw-cePZ=GgDVfA@mail.gmail.com
2020-09-03 16:52:09 -04:00
Bruce Momjian
34071aa1a2 doc: clarify that max_wal_size is "during" checkpoints
Previous wording was "between".

Reported-by: Pavel Luzanov

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/26906a54-d7cb-2f8e-eed7-e31660024694@postgrespro.ru

Backpatch-through: 9.5
2020-09-01 17:00:09 -04:00
Tom Lane
ba23174dd9 Teach libpq to handle arbitrary-length lines in .pgpass files.
Historically there's been a hard-wired assumption here that no line of
a .pgpass file could be as long as NAMEDATALEN*5 bytes.  That's a bit
shaky to start off with, because (a) there's no reason to suppose that
host names fit in NAMEDATALEN, and (b) this figure fails to allow for
backslash escape characters.  However, it fails completely if someone
wants to use a very long password, and we're now hearing reports of
people wanting to use "security tokens" that can run up to several
hundred bytes.  Another angle is that the file is specified to allow
comment lines, but there's no reason to assume that long comment lines
aren't possible.

Rather than guessing at what might be a more suitable limit, let's
replace the fixed-size buffer with an expansible PQExpBuffer.  That
adds one malloc/free cycle to the typical use-case, but that's surely
pretty cheap relative to the I/O this code has to do.

Also, add TAP test cases to exercise this code, because there was no
test coverage before.

This reverts most of commit 2eb3bc588, as there's no longer a need for
a warning message about overlength .pgpass lines.  (I kept the explicit
check for comment lines, though.)

In HEAD and v13, this also fixes an oversight in 74a308cf5: there's not
much point in explicit_bzero'ing the line buffer if we only do so in two
of the three exit paths.

Back-patch to all supported branches, except that the test case only
goes back to v10 where src/test/authentication/ was added.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/4187382.1598909041@sss.pgh.pa.us
2020-09-01 13:14:44 -04:00
Bruce Momjian
5394b87a30 doc: add commas after 'i.e.' and 'e.g.'
This follows the American format,
https://jakubmarian.com/comma-after-i-e-and-e-g/. There is no intention
of requiring this format for future text, but making existing text
consistent every few years makes sense.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200825183619.GA22369@momjian.us

Backpatch-through: 9.5
2020-08-31 18:33:36 -04:00
Bruce Momjian
160c8a4d38 C comment: remove mention of use of t_hoff WAL structure member
Reported-by: Antonin Houska

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/21643.1595353537@antos

Backpatch-through: 9.5
2020-08-31 17:51:31 -04:00
Bruce Momjian
cda4397f2b pg_upgrade doc: mention saving postgresql.conf.auto files
Also mention files included by postgresql.conf.

Reported-by: Álvaro Herrera

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/08AD4526-75AB-457B-B2DD-099663F28040@yesql.se

Backpatch-through: 9.5
2020-08-31 17:36:22 -04:00
Bruce Momjian
511d51acb3 docs: in mapping SQL to C data types, timestamp isn't a pointer
It is an int64.

Reported-by: ajulien@shaktiware.fr

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/159845038271.24995.15682121015698255155@wrigleys.postgresql.org

Backpatch-through: 9.5
2020-08-31 17:05:53 -04:00
Bruce Momjian
e80e7891d3 doc: cross-link file-fdw and CSV config log sections
There is an file-fdw example that reads the server config file, so cross
link them.

Reported-by: Oleg Samoilov

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/159800192078.2886.10431506404995508950@wrigleys.postgresql.org

Backpatch-through: 9.5
2020-08-31 16:59:58 -04:00
Bruce Momjian
361217659d docs: clarify intermediate certificate creation instructions
Specifically, explain the v3_ca openssl specification.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200824175653.GA32411@momjian.us

Backpatch-through: 9.5
2020-08-31 16:21:03 -04:00
Bruce Momjian
aa02d352b5 docs: replace "stable storage" with "durable" in descriptions
For PG, "durable storage" has a clear meaning, while "stable storage"
does not, so use the former.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200817165222.GA31806@momjian.us

Backpatch-through: 9.5
2020-08-31 15:23:18 -04:00
Bruce Momjian
dd00de928c doc: improve description of subscripting of arrays
It wasn't clear the non-integers are cast to integers for subscripting,
rather than throwing an error.

Reported-by: sean@materialize.io

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/159538675800.624.7728794628229799531@wrigleys.postgresql.org

Backpatch-through: 9.5
2020-08-31 13:49:17 -04:00
Bruce Momjian
4d93773798 docs: improve 'capitals' inheritance example
Adds constraints and improves wording.

Reported-by: 2552891@gmail.com

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/159586122762.680.1361378513036616007@wrigleys.postgresql.org

Backpatch-through: 9.5
2020-08-31 13:43:04 -04:00
Magnus Hagander
fd0f8a6c3a Fix docs bug stating file_fdw requires absolute paths
It has always (since the first commit) worked with relative paths, so
use the same wording as other parts of the documentation.

Author: Bruce Momjian
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CABUevExx-hm=cit+A9LeKBH39srvk8Y2tEZeEAj5mP8YfzNKUg@mail.gmail.com
2020-08-31 13:09:03 +02:00
Tom Lane
1ce20826ce Mark factorial operator, and postfix operators in general, as deprecated.
Back-patch key parts of 4c5cf5431 and 6ca547cf7 into stable branches.
I didn't touch pg_description entries here, so it's purely a docs
change; and I didn't fool with any examples either.  The main point
is so that anyone who's wondering if factorial() exists in the stable
branches will be reassured.

Mark Dilger and John Naylor, with some adjustments by me

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/BE2DF53D-251A-4E26-972F-930E523580E9@enterprisedb.com
2020-08-30 16:03:19 -04:00
Tom Lane
0dfec43c82 Fix code for re-finding scan position in a multicolumn GIN index.
collectMatchBitmap() needs to re-find the index tuple it was previously
looking at, after transiently dropping lock on the index page it's on.
The tuple should still exist and be at its prior position or somewhere
to the right of that, since ginvacuum never removes tuples but
concurrent insertions could add one.  However, there was a thinko in
that logic, to the effect of expecting any inserted tuples to have the
same index "attnum" as what we'd been scanning.  Since there's no
physical separation of tuples with different attnums, it's not terribly
hard to devise scenarios where this fails, leading to transient "lost
saved point in index" errors.  (While I've duplicated this with manual
testing, it seems impossible to make a reproducible test case with our
available testing technology.)

Fix by just continuing the scan when the attnum doesn't match.

While here, improve the error message used if we do fail, so that it
matches the wording used in btree for a similar case.

collectMatchBitmap()'s posting-tree code path was previously not
exercised at all by our regression tests.  While I can't make
a regression test that exhibits the bug, I can at least improve
the code coverage here, so do that.  The test case I made for this
is an extension of one added by 4b754d6c1, so it only works in
HEAD and v13; didn't seem worth trying hard to back-patch it.

Per bug #16595 from Jesse Kinkead.  This has been broken since
multicolumn capability was added to GIN (commit 27cb66fdf),
so back-patch to all supported branches.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16595-633118be8eef9ce2@postgresql.org
2020-08-27 17:36:13 -04:00
Bruce Momjian
6efa6aa962 docs: client certificates are always sent to the server
They are not "requested" by the server.

Reported-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200825.155320.986648039251743210.horikyota.ntt@gmail.com

Backpatch-through: 9.5
2020-08-25 09:53:12 -04:00
Tom Lane
d3701bc8a2 Avoid pushing quals down into sub-queries that have grouping sets.
The trouble with doing this is that an apparently-constant subquery
output column isn't really constant if it is a grouping column that
appears in only some of the grouping sets.  A qual using such a
column would be subject to incorrect const-folding after push-down,
as seen in bug #16585 from Paul Sivash.

To fix, just disable qual pushdown altogether if the sub-query has
nonempty groupingSets.  While we could imagine far less restrictive
solutions, there is not much point in working harder right now,
because subquery_planner() won't move HAVING clauses to WHERE within
such a subquery.  If the qual stays in HAVING it's not going to be
a lot more useful than if we'd kept it at the outer level.

Having said that, this restriction could be removed if we used a
parsetree representation that distinguished such outputs from actual
constants, which is something I hope to do in future.  Hence, make
the patch a minimal addition rather than integrating it more tightly
(e.g. by renumbering the existing items in subquery_is_pushdown_safe's
comment).

Back-patch to 9.5 where grouping sets were introduced.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16585-9d8c340d23ade8c1@postgresql.org
2020-08-22 14:46:40 -04:00
Bruce Momjian
190fb57c44 docs: improve description of how to handle multiple databases
This is a redesign of the intro to the managing databases chapter.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/159586122762.680.1361378513036616007@wrigleys.postgresql.org

Author: David G. Johnston

Backpatch-through: 9.5
2020-08-21 20:23:09 -04:00
Tom Lane
37681d7e94 Fix handling of CREATE TABLE LIKE with inheritance.
If a CREATE TABLE command uses both LIKE and traditional inheritance,
Vars in CHECK constraints and expression indexes that are absorbed
from a LIKE parent table tended to get mis-numbered, resulting in
wrong answers and/or bizarre error messages (though probably not any
actual crashes, thanks to validation occurring in the executor).

In v12 and up, the same could happen to Vars in GENERATED expressions,
even in cases with no LIKE clause but multiple traditional-inheritance
parents.

The cause of the problem for LIKE is that parse_utilcmd.c supposed
it could renumber such Vars correctly during transformCreateStmt(),
which it cannot since we have not yet accounted for columns added via
inheritance.  Fix that by postponing processing of LIKE INCLUDING
CONSTRAINTS, DEFAULTS, GENERATED, INDEXES till after we've performed
DefineRelation().

The error with GENERATED and multiple inheritance is a simple oversight
in MergeAttributes(); it knows it has to renumber Vars in inherited
CHECK constraints, but forgot to apply the same processing to inherited
GENERATED expressions (a/k/a defaults).

Per bug #16272 from Tom Gottfried.  The non-GENERATED variants of the
issue are ancient, presumably dating right back to the addition of
CREATE TABLE LIKE; hence back-patch to all supported branches.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16272-6e32da020e9a9381@postgresql.org
2020-08-21 15:00:43 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera
d4d2149037
Disable autovacuum for BRIN test table
This should improve stability in the tests.

Per buildfarm member hyrax (CLOBBER_CACHE_ALWAYS) via Tom Lane.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/871534.1597503261@sss.pgh.pa.us
2020-08-17 16:20:05 -04:00
Tom Lane
722564cf0d Doc: fix description of UNION/CASE/etc type unification.
The description of what select_common_type() does was not terribly
accurate.  Improve it.

David Johnston and Tom Lane

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1019930.1597613200@sss.pgh.pa.us
2020-08-17 15:40:07 -04:00
Michael Paquier
5b39f772e2 doc: Fix description about bgwriter and checkpoint in HA section
Since 806a2ae, the work of the bgwriter is split the checkpointer, but a
portion of the documentation did not get the message.

Author: Masahiko Sawada
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+fd4k6jXxjAtjMVC=wG3=QGpauZBtcgN3Jhw+oV7zXGKVLKzQ@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 9.5
2020-08-17 10:24:42 +09:00
Noah Misch
85aa22cb12 Move new LOCKTAG_DATABASE_FROZEN_IDS to end of enum LockTagType.
Several PGXN modules reference LockTagType values; renumbering would
force a recompile of those modules.  Oversight in back-patch of today's
commit 566372b3d6435639e4cc4476d79b8505a0297c87.  Back-patch to released
branches, v12 through 9.5.

Reported by Tom Lane.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/921383.1597523945@sss.pgh.pa.us
2020-08-15 16:16:34 -07:00
Noah Misch
5ae01df6f6 Prevent concurrent SimpleLruTruncate() for any given SLRU.
The SimpleLruTruncate() header comment states the new coding rule.  To
achieve this, add locktype "frozenid" and two LWLocks.  This closes a
rare opportunity for data loss, which manifested as "apparent
wraparound" or "could not access status of transaction" errors.  Data
loss is more likely in pg_multixact, due to released branches' thin
margin between multiStopLimit and multiWrapLimit.  If a user's physical
replication primary logged ":  apparent wraparound" messages, the user
should rebuild standbys of that primary regardless of symptoms.  At less
risk is a cluster having emitted "not accepting commands" errors or
"must be vacuumed" warnings at some point.  One can test a cluster for
this data loss by running VACUUM FREEZE in every database.  Back-patch
to 9.5 (all supported versions).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190218073103.GA1434723@rfd.leadboat.com
2020-08-15 10:15:57 -07:00
Tom Lane
7241edc4fa Be more careful about the shape of hashable subplan clauses.
nodeSubplan.c expects that the testexpr for a hashable ANY SubPlan
has the form of one or more OpExprs whose LHS is an expression of the
outer query's, while the RHS is an expression over Params representing
output columns of the subquery.  However, the planner only went as far
as verifying that the clauses were all binary OpExprs.  This works
99.99% of the time, because the clauses have the right shape when
emitted by the parser --- but it's possible for function inlining to
break that, as reported by PegoraroF10.  To fix, teach the planner
to check that the LHS and RHS contain the right things, or more
accurately don't contain the wrong things.  Given that this has been
broken for years without anyone noticing, it seems sufficient to just
give up hashing when it happens, rather than go to the trouble of
commuting the clauses back again (which wouldn't necessarily work
anyway).

While poking at that, I also noticed that nodeSubplan.c had a baked-in
assumption that the number of hash clauses is identical to the number
of subquery output columns.  Again, that's fine as far as parser output
goes, but it's not hard to break it via function inlining.  There seems
little reason for that assumption though --- AFAICS, the only thing
it's buying us is not having to store the number of hash clauses
explicitly.  Adding code to the planner to reject such cases would take
more code than getting nodeSubplan.c to cope, so I fixed it that way.

This has been broken for as long as we've had hashable SubPlans,
so back-patch to all supported branches.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1549209182255-0.post@n3.nabble.com
2020-08-14 22:14:03 -04:00
Tom Lane
b4d8be9f6d Fix postmaster's behavior during smart shutdown.
Up to now, upon receipt of a SIGTERM ("smart shutdown" command), the
postmaster has immediately killed all "optional" background processes,
and subsequently refused to launch new ones while it's waiting for
foreground client processes to exit.  No doubt this seemed like an OK
policy at some point; but it's a pretty bad one now, because it makes
for a seriously degraded environment for the remaining clients:

* Parallel queries are killed, and new ones fail to launch. (And our
parallel-query infrastructure utterly fails to deal with the case
in a reasonable way --- it just hangs waiting for workers that are
not going to arrive.  There is more work needed in that area IMO.)

* Autovacuum ceases to function.  We can tolerate that for awhile,
but if bulk-update queries continue to run in the surviving client
sessions, there's eventually going to be a mess.  In the worst case
the system could reach a forced shutdown to prevent XID wraparound.

* The bgwriter and walwriter are also stopped immediately, likely
resulting in performance degradation.

Hence, let's rearrange things so that the only immediate change in
behavior is refusing to let in new normal connections.  Once the last
normal connection is gone, shut everything down as though we'd received
a "fast" shutdown.  To implement this, remove the PM_WAIT_BACKUP and
PM_WAIT_READONLY states, instead staying in PM_RUN or PM_HOT_STANDBY
while normal connections remain.  A subsidiary state variable tracks
whether or not we're letting in new connections in those states.

This also allows having just one copy of the logic for killing child
processes in smart and fast shutdown modes.  I moved that logic into
PostmasterStateMachine() by inventing a new state PM_STOP_BACKENDS.

Back-patch to 9.6 where parallel query was added.  In principle
this'd be a good idea in 9.5 as well, but the risk/reward ratio
is not as good there, since lack of autovacuum is not a problem
during typical uses of smart shutdown.

Per report from Bharath Rupireddy.

Patch by me, reviewed by Thomas Munro

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALj2ACXAZ5vKxT9P7P89D87i3MDO9bfS+_bjMHgnWJs8uwUOOw@mail.gmail.com
2020-08-14 13:26:57 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera
e5902117dd
Handle new HOT chains in index-build table scans
When a table is scanned by heapam_index_build_range_scan (née
IndexBuildHeapScan) and the table lock being held allows concurrent data
changes, it is possible for new HOT chains to sprout in a page that were
unknown when the scan of a page happened.  This leads to an error such
as
  ERROR:  failed to find parent tuple for heap-only tuple at (X,Y) in table "tbl"
because the root tuple was not present when we first obtained the list
of the page's root tuples.  This can be fixed by re-obtaining the list
of root tuples, if we see that a heap-only tuple appears to point to a
non-existing root.

This was reported by Anastasia as occurring for BRIN summarization
(which exists since 9.5), but I think it could theoretically also happen
with CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY (much older) or REINDEX CONCURRENTLY
(very recent).  It seems a happy coincidence that BRIN forces us to
backpatch this all the way to 9.5.

Reported-by: Anastasia Lubennikova <a.lubennikova@postgrespro.ru>
Diagnosed-by: Anastasia Lubennikova <a.lubennikova@postgrespro.ru>
Co-authored-by: Anastasia Lubennikova <a.lubennikova@postgrespro.ru>
Co-authored-by: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/602d8487-f0b2-5486-0088-0f372b2549fa@postgrespro.ru
Backpatch: 9.5 - master
2020-08-13 17:33:49 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera
7a3c261fbb
BRIN: Handle concurrent desummarization properly
If a page range is desummarized at just the right time concurrently with
an index walk, BRIN would raise an error indicating index corruption.
This is scary and unhelpful; silently returning that the page range is
not summarized is sufficient reaction.

This bug was introduced by commit 975ad4e602ff as additional protection
against a bug whose actual fix was elsewhere.  Backpatch equally.

Reported-By: Anastasia Lubennikova <a.lubennikova@postgrespro.ru>
Diagnosed-By: Alexander Lakhin <exclusion@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2588667e-d07d-7e10-74e2-7e1e46194491@postgrespro.ru
Backpatch: 9.5 - master
2020-08-12 15:33:36 -04:00