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Peter Eisentraut
506183bce7 Remove unnecessary (char *) casts [string]
Remove (char *) casts around string functions where the arguments or
result already have the right type and the cast is useless (or worse,
potentially casts away a qualifier, but this doesn't appear to be the
case here).

Reviewed-by: Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <ilmari@ilmari.org>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/fd1fcedb-3492-4fc8-9e3e-74b97f2db6c7%40eisentraut.org
2025-02-12 08:49:18 +01:00
John Naylor
0bc34ad692 Doc: Fix punctuation errors
Author: 斉藤登 <noborusai@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: David G. Johnston <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAM3qnL6i-BSu5rB2+KiHLjMCOXiQEiPMBvEj7F1CgUzZMooLA@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 13
2025-02-12 13:18:14 +07:00
Nathan Bossart
bb8dff9995 Add cost-based vacuum delay time to progress views.
This commit adds the amount of time spent sleeping due to
cost-based delay to the pg_stat_progress_vacuum and
pg_stat_progress_analyze system views.  A new configuration
parameter named track_cost_delay_timing, which is off by default,
controls whether this information is gathered.  For vacuum, the
reported value includes the sleep time of any associated parallel
workers.  However, parallel workers only report their sleep time
once per second to avoid overloading the leader process.

Bumps catversion.

Author: Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Sami Imseih <samimseih@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Masahiro Ikeda <ikedamsh@oss.nttdata.com>
Reviewed-by: Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Sergei Kornilov <sk@zsrv.org>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ZmaXmWDL829fzAVX%40ip-10-97-1-34.eu-west-3.compute.internal
2025-02-11 16:38:14 -06:00
Melanie Plageman
d0d649e916 Limit pgbench COPY FREEZE to ordinary relations
pgbench client-side data generation uses COPY FREEZE to load data for most
tables. COPY FREEZE isn't supported for partitioned tables and since pgbench
only supports partitioning pgbench_accounts, pgbench used a hard-coded check to
skip COPY FREEZE and use plain COPY for a partitioned pgbench_accounts.

If the user has manually partitioned one of the other pgbench tables, this
causes client-side data generation to error out with:

ERROR:  cannot perform COPY FREEZE on a partitioned table

Fix this by limiting COPY FREEZE to ordinary tables (RELKIND_RELATION).

Author: Sergey Tatarintsev <s.tatarintsev@postgrespro.ru>
Reviewed-by: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/flat/97f55fca-8a7b-4da8-b413-7d1c57010676%40postgrespro.ru
2025-02-11 16:52:08 -05:00
Melanie Plageman
052026c9b9 Eagerly scan all-visible pages to amortize aggressive vacuum
Aggressive vacuums must scan every unfrozen tuple in order to advance
the relfrozenxid/relminmxid. Because data is often vacuumed before it is
old enough to require freezing, relations may build up a large backlog
of pages that are set all-visible but not all-frozen in the visibility
map. When an aggressive vacuum is triggered, all of these pages must be
scanned. These pages have often been evicted from shared buffers and
even from the kernel buffer cache. Thus, aggressive vacuums often incur
large amounts of extra I/O at the expense of foreground workloads.

To amortize the cost of aggressive vacuums, eagerly scan some
all-visible but not all-frozen pages during normal vacuums.

All-visible pages that are eagerly scanned and set all-frozen in the
visibility map are counted as successful eager freezes and those not
frozen are counted as failed eager freezes.

If too many eager scans fail in a row, eager scanning is temporarily
suspended until a later portion of the relation. The number of failures
tolerated is configurable globally and per table.

To effectively amortize aggressive vacuums, we cap the number of
successes as well. Capping eager freeze successes also limits the amount
of potentially wasted work if these pages are modified again before the
next aggressive vacuum. Once we reach the maximum number of blocks
successfully eager frozen, eager scanning is disabled for the remainder
of the vacuum of the relation.

Original design idea from Robert Haas, with enhancements from
Andres Freund, Tomas Vondra, and me

Reviewed-by: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-by: Robert Treat <rob@xzilla.net>
Reviewed-by: Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/flat/CAAKRu_ZF_KCzZuOrPrOqjGVe8iRVWEAJSpzMgRQs%3D5-v84cXUg%40mail.gmail.com
2025-02-11 13:53:48 -05:00
Andres Freund
4dd09a1d41 config: Rename "Asynchronous Behavior" to "I/O"
"I/O" seems more descriptive than "Asynchronous Behavior", given that some of
the GUCs in the section don't relate to anything asynchronous.

Most other abbreviations in the config sections are un-abbreviated, but
"Input/Output" seems less likely to be helpful than just IO or I/O.

Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/x3tlw2jk5gm3r3mv47hwrshffyw7halpczkfbk3peksxds7bvc@lguk43z3bsyq
2025-02-11 12:53:40 -05:00
Andres Freund
740766d37c config: Split "Worker Processes" out of "Asynchronous Behavior"
Having all the worker related GUCs in the same section as IO controlling GUCs
doesn't really make sense. Create a separate section for them.

Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/x3tlw2jk5gm3r3mv47hwrshffyw7halpczkfbk3peksxds7bvc@lguk43z3bsyq
2025-02-11 12:53:40 -05:00
Andres Freund
32c34006b2 docs: EUC_TW can be up to four bytes wide, not three
Backpatch-through: 13
Security: CVE-2025-1094
2025-02-10 10:03:37 -05:00
Tom Lane
ecb8226af6 PDF docs build: avoid spurious "warn" in build logs.
Improve on e4c886519 so that the string "warn" appears in
the output when there's a problem, and not when there isn't.
This should silence noise I've been seeing in my buildfarm
warning scraper.
2025-02-07 22:12:38 -05:00
Tom Lane
11bba6e494 Doc: clarify behavior of timestamptz input some more.
Try to make it absolutely plain that we don't retain the
originally specified time zone, only the UTC timestamp.

While at it, make glossary entries for "UTC" and "GMT".

Author: Robert Treat <rob@xzilla.net>
Co-authored-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/173796426022.1064.9135167366862649513@wrigleys.postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 13
2025-02-07 12:40:41 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut
83ea6c5402 Virtual generated columns
This adds a new variant of generated columns that are computed on read
(like a view, unlike the existing stored generated columns, which are
computed on write, like a materialized view).

The syntax for the column definition is

    ... GENERATED ALWAYS AS (...) VIRTUAL

and VIRTUAL is also optional.  VIRTUAL is the default rather than
STORED to match various other SQL products.  (The SQL standard makes
no specification about this, but it also doesn't know about VIRTUAL or
STORED.)  (Also, virtual views are the default, rather than
materialized views.)

Virtual generated columns are stored in tuples as null values.  (A
very early version of this patch had the ambition to not store them at
all.  But so much stuff breaks or gets confused if you have tuples
where a column in the middle is completely missing.  This is a
compromise, and it still saves space over being forced to use stored
generated columns.  If we ever find a way to improve this, a bit of
pg_upgrade cleverness could allow for upgrades to a newer scheme.)

The capabilities and restrictions of virtual generated columns are
mostly the same as for stored generated columns.  In some cases, this
patch keeps virtual generated columns more restricted than they might
technically need to be, to keep the two kinds consistent.  Some of
that could maybe be relaxed later after separate careful
considerations.

Some functionality that is currently not supported, but could possibly
be added as incremental features, some easier than others:

- index on or using a virtual column
- hence also no unique constraints on virtual columns
- extended statistics on virtual columns
- foreign-key constraints on virtual columns
- not-null constraints on virtual columns (check constraints are supported)
- ALTER TABLE / DROP EXPRESSION
- virtual column cannot have domain type
- virtual columns are not supported in logical replication

The tests in generated_virtual.sql have been copied over from
generated_stored.sql with the keyword replaced.  This way we can make
sure the behavior is mostly aligned, and the differences can be
visible.  Some tests for currently not supported features are
currently commented out.

Reviewed-by: Jian He <jian.universality@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Shlok Kyal <shlok.kyal.oss@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/a368248e-69e4-40be-9c07-6c3b5880b0a6@eisentraut.org
2025-02-07 09:46:59 +01:00
Nathan Bossart
401a6956fa Disallow COPY FREEZE on foreign tables.
This didn't actually work: the COPY succeeds, but the FREEZE
optimization isn't applied.  There doesn't seem to be an easy way
to support FREEZE on foreign tables, so let's follow the precedent
established by commit 5c9a5513a3 by raising an error early.  This
is arguably a bug fix, but due to the lack of reports, the minimal
discussion on the mailing list, and the potential to break existing
scripts, I am not back-patching it for now.

Author: Sami Imseih <samimseih@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Zhang Mingli <zmlpostgres@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAA5RZ0ujeNgKpE3OrLtR%3DeJGa5LkGMekFzQTwjgw%3DrzaLufQLQ%40mail.gmail.com
2025-02-06 15:23:40 -06:00
Nathan Bossart
306dc520b9 Introduce autovacuum_vacuum_max_threshold.
One way autovacuum chooses tables to vacuum is by comparing the
number of updated or deleted tuples with a value calculated using
autovacuum_vacuum_threshold and autovacuum_vacuum_scale_factor.
The threshold specifies the base value for comparison, and the
scale factor specifies the fraction of the table size to add to it.
This strategy ensures that smaller tables are vacuumed after fewer
updates/deletes than larger tables, which is reasonable in many
cases but can result in infrequent vacuums on very large tables.
This is undesirable for a couple of reasons, such as very large
tables incurring a huge amount of bloat between vacuums.

This new parameter provides a way to set a limit on the value
calculated with autovacuum_vacuum_threshold and
autovacuum_vacuum_scale_factor so that very large tables are
vacuumed more frequently.  By default, it is set to 100,000,000
tuples, but it can be disabled by setting it to -1.  It can also be
adjusted for individual tables by changing storage parameters.

Author: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Frédéric Yhuel <frederic.yhuel@dalibo.com>
Reviewed-by: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>
Reviewed-by: Michael Banck <mbanck@gmx.net>
Reviewed-by: Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>
Reviewed-by: Sami Imseih <samimseih@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: wenhui qiu <qiuwenhuifx@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Vinícius Abrahão <vinnix.bsd@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Robert Treat <rob@xzilla.net>
Reviewed-by: Alena Rybakina <a.rybakina@postgrespro.ru>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/956435f8-3b2f-47a6-8756-8c54ded61802%40dalibo.com
2025-02-05 15:48:18 -06:00
Daniel Gustafsson
ee4667f018 doc: Update links which returned 404
Two links in the isn module documentation were pointing to tools
which had been moved, resulting in 404 error responses.  Update
to the new URLs for the tools.  The link to the Sequoia 2000 page
in the history section was no longer working, and since the page
is no longer available online update our link to point at the
paper instead which is on a stable URL.

These links exist in all versions of the documentation so backpatch
to all supported branches.

Author: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
Reported-by: charukiewicz@protonmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/173679670185.705.8565555804465055355@wrigleys.postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 13
2025-02-05 13:58:40 +01:00
Amit Kapila
0ec3c295e7 Avoid updating inactive_since for invalid replication slots.
It is possible for the inactive_since value of an invalid replication slot
to be updated multiple times, which is unexpected behavior like during the
release of the slot or at the time of restart. This is harmless because
invalid slots are not allowed to be accessed but it is not prudent to
update invalid slots. We are planning to invalidate slots due to other
reasons like idle time and it will look odd that the slot's inactive_since
displays the recent time in this field after invalidated due to idle time.
So, this patch ensures that the inactive_since field of slots is not
updated for invalid slots.

In the passing, ensure to use the same inactive_since time for all the
slots at restart while restoring them from the disk.

Author: Nisha Moond <nisha.moond412@gmail.com>
Author: Bharath Rupireddy <bharath.rupireddyforpostgres@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Vignesh C <vignesh21@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Smith <smithpb2250@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Hou Zhijie <houzj.fnst@fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CABdArM7QdifQ_MHmMA=Cc4v8+MeckkwKncm2Nn6tX9wSCQ-+iw@mail.gmail.com
2025-02-05 08:56:14 +05:30
Michael Paquier
a051e71e28 Add data for WAL in pg_stat_io and backend statistics
This commit adds WAL IO stats to both pg_stat_io view and per-backend IO
statistics (pg_stat_get_backend_io()).  This change is possible since
f92c854cf406, as WAL IO is not counted in blocks in some code paths
where its stats data is measured (like WAL read in xlogreader.c).

IOContext gains IOCONTEXT_INIT and IOObject IOOBJECT_WAL, with the
following combinations allowed:
- IOOBJECT_WAL/IOCONTEXT_NORMAL is used to track I/O operations done on
already-created WAL segments.
- IOOBJECT_WAL/IOCONTEXT_INIT is used for tracking I/O operations done
when initializing WAL segments.

The core changes are done in pg_stat_io.c, backend statistics inherit
them.  Backend statistics and pg_stat_io are now available for the WAL
writer, the WAL receiver and the WAL summarizer processes.

I/O timing data is controlled by the GUC track_io_timing, like the
existing data of pg_stat_io for consistency.  The timings related to
IOOBJECT_WAL show up if the GUC is enabled (disabled by default).

Bump pgstats file version, due to the additions in IOObject and
IOContext, impacting the amount of data written for the fixed-numbered
IO stats kind in the pgstats file.

Author: Nazir Bilal Yavuz
Reviewed-by: Bertrand Drouvot, Nitin Jadhav, Amit Kapila, Michael
Paquier, Melanie Plageman, Bharath Rupireddy
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAN55FZ3AiQ+ZMxUuXnBpd0Rrh1YhwJ5FudkHg=JU0P+-W8T4Vg@mail.gmail.com
2025-02-04 16:50:00 +09:00
Peter Eisentraut
c09e5a6a01 Convert strategies to and from compare types
For each Index AM, provide a mapping between operator strategies and
the system-wide generic concept of a comparison type.  For example,
for btree, BTLessStrategyNumber maps to and from COMPARE_LT.  Numerous
places in the planner and executor think directly in terms of btree
strategy numbers (and a few in terms of hash strategy numbers.)  These
should be converted over subsequent commits to think in terms of
CompareType instead.  (This commit doesn't make any use of this API
yet.)

Author: Mark Dilger <mark.dilger@enterprisedb.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/E72EAA49-354D-4C2E-8EB9-255197F55330@enterprisedb.com
2025-02-02 10:26:04 +01:00
Daniel Gustafsson
59d6c03956 doc: Fix pg_buffercache_evict() title
Use <function> rather than <structname> in the <title> to be consistent
with how other functions in this module are documented. Also suffix the
function name with () for consistency.

Backpatch to v17 where pg_buffercache_evict was introduced.

Author: Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh.bapat.oss@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAExHW5uKWH8CuZc9NCb8XxSQc6uzvACV0cScebm54kF763ERAw@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 17
2025-01-31 10:44:21 +01:00
Amit Kapila
6252b1eaf8 Doc: Generated column replication.
Commit 7054186c4e added the support to publish generated stored columns.
This patch adds detailed documentation for that feature.

Author: Peter Smith <smithpb2250@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Vignesh C <vignesh21@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/B80D17B2-2C8E-4C7D-87F2-E5B4BE3C069E%40gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHut+PsYmAvKhUjA1AaR1rxLdeSBKiBko8wKyf4_H8nEEqDuOg@mail.gmail.com
2025-01-30 11:09:18 +05:30
Amit Kapila
75eb9766ec Rename pubgencols_type to pubgencols in pg_publication.
The column added in commit e65dbc9927, pubgencols_type, was inconsistent
with the naming conventions of other columns in the pg_publication
catalog.

Author: Vignesh C <vignesh21@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Smith <smithpb2250@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALDaNm1u-ufVOW-RUsXSooqzkpohxfZYy=z78fbcr_9Pq5hbCg@mail.gmail.com
2025-01-28 10:42:46 +05:30
Michael Paquier
30a6ed0ce4 Track per-relation cumulative time spent in [auto]vacuum and [auto]analyze
This commit adds four fields to the statistics of relations, aggregating
the amount of time spent for each operation on a relation:
- total_vacuum_time, for manual vacuum.
- total_autovacuum_time, for vacuum done by the autovacuum daemon.
- total_analyze_time, for manual analyze.
- total_autoanalyze_time, for analyze done by the autovacuum daemon.

This gives users the option to derive the average time spent for these
operations with the help of the related "count" fields.

Bump catalog version (for the catalog changes) and PGSTAT_FILE_FORMAT_ID
(for the additions in PgStat_StatTabEntry).

Author: Sami Imseih
Reviewed-by: Bertrand Drouvot, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAA5RZ0uVOGBYmPEeGF2d1B_67tgNjKx_bKDuL+oUftuoz+=Y1g@mail.gmail.com
2025-01-28 09:57:32 +09:00
Peter Eisentraut
5afaba6297 doc: Meson is not experimental on Windows
The installation documentation stated that using Meson is
experimental.  But since this is the only way to build using Visual
Studio on Windows, this would imply that that whole build procedure is
experimental, which isn't true.  So qualify this statement a bit more.
We keep the statement that Meson is experimental on other platforms,
since it doesn't have full, confirmed feature parity with the make
build system.

Author: Aleksander Alekseev <aleksander@timescale.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/a3e76618-4cb5-4d54-a71c-da4fb8ba571b@eisentraut.org
2025-01-27 12:02:00 +01:00
Tom Lane
d83a108c10 Doc: recommend "psql -X" for restoring pg_dump scripts.
This practice avoids possible problems caused by non-default psql
options, such as disabling AUTOCOMMIT.

Author: Shinya Kato <Shinya11.Kato@oss.nttdata.com>
Reviewed-by: Robert Treat <rob@xzilla.net>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/96ff23a5d858ff72ca8e823a014d16fe@oss.nttdata.com
Backpatch-through: 13
2025-01-25 12:42:22 -05:00
Jeff Davis
d2ca16bb50 Fix PDF doc build.
Reported-by: Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/608525.1737781222@sss.pgh.pa.us
2025-01-25 00:12:30 -08:00
Jeff Davis
bfc5992069 Add SQL function CASEFOLD().
Useful for caseless matching. Similar to LOWER(), but avoids edge-case
problems with using LOWER() for caseless matching.

For collations that support it, CASEFOLD() handles characters with
more than two case variations or multi-character case variations. Some
characters may fold to uppercase. The results of case folding are also
more stable across Unicode versions than LOWER() or UPPER().

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a1886ddfcd8f60cb3e905c93009b646b4cfb74c5.camel%40j-davis.com
Reviewed-by: Ian Lawrence Barwick
2025-01-24 14:56:22 -08:00
Daniel Gustafsson
035f99cbeb pgcrypto: Make it possible to disable built-in crypto
When using OpenSSL and/or the underlying operating system in FIPS
mode no non-FIPS certified crypto implementations should be used.
While that is already possible by just not invoking the built-in
crypto in pgcrypto, this adds a GUC which prohibit the code from
being called.  This doesn't change the FIPS status of PostgreSQL
but can make it easier for sites which target FIPS compliance to
ensure that violations cannot occur.

Author: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
Author: Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>
Reviewed-by: Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
Reviewed-by: Hayato Kuroda <kuroda.hayato@fujitsu.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16b4a157-9ea1-44d0-b7b3-4c85df5de97b@joeconway.com
2025-01-24 14:25:08 +01:00
Daniel Gustafsson
924d89a354 pgcrypto: Add function to check FIPS mode
This adds a SQL callable function for reading and returning the status
of FIPS configuration of OpenSSL.  If OpenSSL is operating with FIPS
enabled it will return true, otherwise false.  As this adds a function
to the SQL file, bump the extension version to 1.4.

Author: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
Reviewed-by: Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/8f979145-e206-475a-a31b-73c977a4134c@joeconway.com
2025-01-24 14:18:40 +01:00
Peter Eisentraut
aeb8ea361a Convert sepgsql tests to TAP
Add a TAP test for sepgsql.  This automates the previously required
manual setup before the test.  The actual tests are still run by
pg_regress, as before, but now called from within the TAP Perl script.

The previous manual test script (test_sepgsql) is left in place, since
its purpose is (also) to test whether a running instance was properly
initialized for sepgsql.  But it has been changed to call pg_regress
directly and no longer require make.

Reviewed-by: Andreas Karlsson <andreas@proxel.se>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/651a5baf-5c45-4a5a-a202-0c8453a4ebf8@eisentraut.org
2025-01-24 12:39:47 +01:00
Amit Kapila
6fc4fc42da Doc: Fix a typo introduced in 4a0e7314f1.
Author: Erik Rijkers <er@xs4all.nl>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/6e625c81-968e-42d0-802d-edfaf9cfac11@xs4all.nl
2025-01-24 08:25:21 +05:30
Amit Kapila
117f9f328e Doc: Fix column name in pg_publication catalog.
Commit e65dbc9927 incorrectly spelled the column name in the
pg_publication catalog. In passing make the order of columns in the doc
match the actual catalog.

Author: Shinoda, Noriyoshi <noriyoshi.shinoda@hpe.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Smith <smithpb2250@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/DM4PR84MB1734F8F140E4477580761F93EEE02@DM4PR84MB1734.NAMPRD84.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM
2025-01-24 08:11:29 +05:30
Tom Lane
01463e1ccc Ensure that AFTER triggers run as the instigating user.
With deferred triggers, it is possible that the current role changes
between the time when the trigger is queued and the time it is
executed (for example, the triggering data modification could have
been executed in a SECURITY DEFINER function).

Up to now, deferred trigger functions would run with the current role
set to whatever was active at commit time.  That does not matter for
foreign-key constraints, whose correctness doesn't depend on the
current role.  But for user-written triggers, the current role
certainly can matter.

Hence, fix things so that AFTER triggers are fired under the role
that was active when they were queued, matching the behavior of
BEFORE triggers which would have actually fired at that time.
(If the trigger function is marked SECURITY DEFINER, that of course
overrides this, as it always has.)

This does not create any new security exposure: if you do DML on a
table owned by a hostile user, that user has always had various ways
to exploit your permissions, such as the aforementioned BEFORE
triggers, default expressions, etc.  It might remove some security
exposure, because the old behavior could potentially expose some
other role besides the one directly modifying the table.

There was discussion of making a larger change, such as running as
the trigger's owner.  However, that would break the common idiom of
capturing the value of CURRENT_USER in a trigger for auditing/logging
purposes.  This change will make no difference in the typical scenario
where the current role doesn't change before commit.

Arguably this is a bug fix, but it seems too big a semantic change
to consider for back-patching.

Author: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>
Reviewed-by: Joseph Koshakow <koshy44@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/77ee784cf248e842f74588418f55c2931e47bd78.camel@cybertec.at
2025-01-23 12:25:55 -05:00
Álvaro Herrera
b663b9436e
Allow NOT VALID foreign key constraints on partitioned tables
This feature was intentionally omitted when FKs were first implemented
for partitioned tables, and had been requested a few times; the
usefulness is clear.

Validation can happen for each partition individually, which is useful
to contain the number of locks held and the duration; or it can be
executed for the partitioning hierarchy as a single command, which
validates all child constraints that haven't been validated already.

This is also useful to implement NOT ENFORCED constraints on top.

Author: Amul Sul <sulamul@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAJ_b96Bp=-ZwihPPtuaNX=SrZ0U6ZsXD3+fgARO0JuKa8v2jQ@mail.gmail.com
2025-01-23 15:54:38 +01:00
Amit Kapila
e65dbc9927 Change publication's publish_generated_columns option type to enum.
The current boolean publish_generated_columns option only supports a
binary choice, which is insufficient for future enhancements where
generated columns can be of different types (e.g., stored or virtual). The
supported values for the publish_generated_columns option are 'none' and
'stored'.

Author: Vignesh C <vignesh21@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Smith <smithpb2250@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/d718d219-dd47-4a33-bb97-56e8fc4da994@eisentraut.org
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/B80D17B2-2C8E-4C7D-87F2-E5B4BE3C069E@gmail.com
2025-01-23 15:28:37 +05:30
Tom Lane
172e6b3adb Support RN (roman-numeral format) in to_number().
We've long had roman-numeral output support in to_char(),
but lacked the reverse conversion.  Here it is.

Author: Hunaid Sohail <hunaidpgml@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Maciek Sakrejda <m.sakrejda@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Reviewed-by: Tomas Vondra <tomas@vondra.me>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMWA6ybh4M1VQqpmnu2tfSwO+3gAPeA8YKnMHVADeB=XDEvT_A@mail.gmail.com
2025-01-22 15:18:50 -05:00
Amit Kapila
4a0e7314f1 Doc: Update the interaction of tablesync with wal_retrieve_retry_interval.
In passing, update the documentation that explains the process of initial
data replication to explicitly state that it uses a table synchronization
worker.

Author: Vignesh C
Reviewed-by: Peter Smith, Shlok Kyal, Amit Kapila
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALDaNm3RxGcD4cDAV5Q0_A4n06F3+AAMpxiyND9Zn0dB86hFmg@mail.gmail.com
2025-01-22 10:54:53 +05:30
Tom Lane
4907ba304c Doc: simplify the tutorial's window-function examples.
For the purposes of this discussion, row_number() is just as good
as rank(), and its behavior is easier to understand and describe.
So let's switch the examples to using row_number().

Along the way to checking the results given in the tutorial,
I found it helpful to extract the empsalary table we use in the
regression tests, which is evidently the same data that was used
to make these results.  So I shoved that into advanced.source
to improve the coverage of that file a little.  (There's still
several pages of the tutorial that are not included in it,
but at least now 3.5 Window Functions is covered.)

Suggested-by: "David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/173737973383.1070.1832752929070067441@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2025-01-21 14:43:21 -05:00
Jeff Davis
d3d0983169 Support PG_UNICODE_FAST locale in the builtin collation provider.
The PG_UNICODE_FAST locale uses code point sort order (fast,
memcmp-based) combined with Unicode character semantics. The character
semantics are based on Unicode full case mapping.

Full case mapping can map a single codepoint to multiple codepoints,
such as "ß" uppercasing to "SS". Additionally, it handles
context-sensitive mappings like the "final sigma", and it uses
titlecase mappings such as "Dž" when titlecasing (rather than plain
uppercase mappings).

Importantly, the uppercasing of "ß" as "SS" is specifically mentioned
by the SQL standard. In Postgres, UCS_BASIC uses plain ASCII semantics
for case mapping and pattern matching, so if we changed it to use the
PG_UNICODE_FAST locale, it would offer better compliance with the
standard. For now, though, do not change the behavior of UCS_BASIC.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ddfd67928818f138f51635712529bc5e1d25e4e7.camel@j-davis.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/27bb0e52-801d-4f73-a0a4-02cfdd4a9ada@eisentraut.org
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut, Daniel Verite
2025-01-17 15:56:30 -08:00
Tom Lane
86e4efc52b Add documentation about calling version-1 C functions from C.
This topic wasn't really covered before, so fill in some details.

Author: Florents Tselai <florents.tselai@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/90853055-5BBD-493D-91E5-721677C7C59B@gmail.com
2025-01-17 14:37:38 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut
0869ea43e9 Remove flex version checks
Remove the flex version checks from configure and meson.  The cutoff
versions are all so ancient that this is no longer relevant, and what
the actual cutoff should be is a bit fuzzy.

This also removes the ancient behavior that configure would also
accept a "lex" program if it is actuall flex.  This aligns the check
with meson in this respect.

For future reference, as of this commit, these are relevant flex
versions:

- The hard required minimum is flex 2.5.34 as of commit b1ef48980dd,
  but this has not actually been tested.

- Prior to this, the minimum enforced by configure/meson was flex
  2.5.35, which is the oldest present in the buildfarm right now.

- As of commit 6fdd5d95634, the oldest version that will compile
  without warnings due to flex-generated code is flex 2.5.36.

- The oldest version that probably still has some practical relevance
  is flex 2.5.37, which ships with CentOS/RHEL 7.

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/1a204ccd-7ae6-478c-a431-407b5c48ccc6@eisentraut.org
2025-01-17 09:30:42 +01:00
Tom Lane
d7674c9fab Seek zone abbreviations in the IANA data before timezone_abbreviations.
If a time zone abbreviation used in datetime input is defined in
the currently active timezone, use that definition in preference
to looking in the timezone_abbreviations list.  That allows us to
correctly handle abbreviations that have different meanings in
different timezones.  Also, it eliminates an inconsistency between
datetime input and datetime output: the non-ISO datestyles for
timestamptz have always printed abbreviations taken from the IANA
data, not from timezone_abbreviations.  Before this fix, it was
possible to demonstrate cases where casting a timestamp to text
and back fails or changes the value significantly because of that
inconsistency.

While this change removes the ability to override the IANA data about
an abbreviation known in the current zone, it's not clear that there's
any real use-case for doing so.  But it is clear that this makes life
a lot easier for dealing with abbreviations that have conflicts across
different time zones.

Also update the pg_timezone_abbrevs view to report abbreviations
that are recognized via the IANA data, and *not* report any
timezone_abbreviations entries that are thereby overridden.
Under the hood, there are now two SRFs, one that pulls the IANA
data and one that pulls timezone_abbreviations entries.  They're
combined by logic in the view.  This approach was useful for
debugging (since the functions can be called on their own).
While I don't intend to document the functions explicitly,
they might be useful to call directly.

Also improve DecodeTimezoneAbbrev's caching logic so that it can
cache zone abbreviations found in the IANA data.  Without that,
this patch would have caused a noticeable degradation of the
runtime of timestamptz_in.

Per report from Aleksander Alekseev and additional investigation.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJ7c6TOATjJqvhnYsui0=CO5XFMF4dvTGH+skzB--jNhqSQu5g@mail.gmail.com
2025-01-16 14:11:19 -05:00
Dean Rasheed
80feb727c8 Add OLD/NEW support to RETURNING in DML queries.
This allows the RETURNING list of INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE/MERGE queries
to explicitly return old and new values by using the special aliases
"old" and "new", which are automatically added to the query (if not
already defined) while parsing its RETURNING list, allowing things
like:

  RETURNING old.colname, new.colname, ...

  RETURNING old.*, new.*

Additionally, a new syntax is supported, allowing the names "old" and
"new" to be changed to user-supplied alias names, e.g.:

  RETURNING WITH (OLD AS o, NEW AS n) o.colname, n.colname, ...

This is useful when the names "old" and "new" are already defined,
such as inside trigger functions, allowing backwards compatibility to
be maintained -- the interpretation of any existing queries that
happen to already refer to relations called "old" or "new", or use
those as aliases for other relations, is not changed.

For an INSERT, old values will generally be NULL, and for a DELETE,
new values will generally be NULL, but that may change for an INSERT
with an ON CONFLICT ... DO UPDATE clause, or if a query rewrite rule
changes the command type. Therefore, we put no restrictions on the use
of old and new in any DML queries.

Dean Rasheed, reviewed by Jian He and Jeff Davis.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEZATCWx0J0-v=Qjc6gXzR=KtsdvAE7Ow=D=mu50AgOe+pvisQ@mail.gmail.com
2025-01-16 14:57:35 +00:00
Amit Kapila
965b2cc0a4 Doc: Improve the Replica Identity information.
This commit improves the Replica Identity information and clarifies its
related restrictions.

Reported-by: James Coleman
Author: Peter Smith
Co-authored-by: Robert Treat
Reviewed-by: Laurenz Albe, Amit Kapila
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAaqYe_=7qFSqW7qavvhVy58mmzk1uSQ0RReRiUHyKO5znvr7g@mail.gmail.com
2025-01-16 08:53:39 +05:30
Peter Eisentraut
761c79508e postgres_fdw: SCRAM authentication pass-through
This enables SCRAM authentication for postgres_fdw when connecting to
a foreign server without having to store a plain-text password on user
mapping options.

This is done by saving the SCRAM ClientKey and ServeryKey from the
client authentication and using those instead of the plain-text
password for the server-side SCRAM exchange.  The new foreign-server
or user-mapping option "use_scram_passthrough" enables this.

Co-authored-by: Matheus Alcantara <mths.dev@pm.me>
Co-authored-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/27b29a35-9b96-46a9-bc1a-914140869dac@gmail.com
2025-01-15 17:58:05 +01:00
Peter Eisentraut
630f9a43ce Change gist stratnum function to use CompareType
This changes commit 7406ab623fe in that the gist strategy number
mapping support function is changed to use the CompareType enum as
input, instead of the "well-known" RT*StrategyNumber strategy numbers.

This is a bit cleaner, since you are not dealing with two sets of
strategy numbers.  Also, this will enable us to subsume this system
into a more general system of using CompareType to define operator
semantics across index methods.

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/E72EAA49-354D-4C2E-8EB9-255197F55330@enterprisedb.com
2025-01-15 11:34:04 +01:00
Dean Rasheed
00f4c2959d psql: Add option to use expanded mode to all list commands.
This allows "x" to be appended to any psql list-like meta-command,
forcing its output to be displayed in expanded mode. This improves
readability in cases where the output is very wide. For example,
"\dfx+" (or equivalently "\df+x") will produce a list of functions,
with additional details, in expanded mode.

This works with all \d* meta-commands, plus \l, \z, and \lo_list, with
the one exception that the expanded mode option "x" cannot be appended
to "\d" by itself, since "\dx" already means something else.

Dean Rasheed, reviewed by Greg Sabino Mullane.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEZATCVXJk3KsmCncf7PAVbxdDAUDm3QzDgGT7mBYySWikuOYw@mail.gmail.com
2025-01-14 16:29:15 +00:00
Dean Rasheed
4cb560b53f Consistently spell "leakproof" without a hyphen.
The overwhelming majority of places already did this, but a small
handful of places had a hyphen.

Yugo Nagata.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEZATCXnnuORE2BoGwHw2zbtVvsPOLhbfVmEk9GxRzK%2Bx3OW-Q%40mail.gmail.com
2025-01-14 13:50:54 +00:00
Dean Rasheed
2355e51110 psql: Add leakproof indicator to \df+, \do+, \dAo+, and \dC+ output.
This allows users to determine whether particular functions are
leakproof, and whether the underlying functions used by operators and
casts are leakproof. This is useful to determine whether indexes can
be used in queries on security barrier views or tables with row-level
security policies.

Yugo Nagata, reviewed by Erik Wienhold and Dean Rasheed.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20240701220817.483f9b645b95611f8b1f65da%40sranhm.sraoss.co.jp
2025-01-14 13:23:24 +00:00
Michael Paquier
f92c854cf4 Make pg_stat_io count IOs as bytes instead of blocks for some operations
Currently in pg_stat_io view, IOs are counted as blocks of size
BLCKSZ.  There are two limitations with this design:
* The actual number of I/O requests sent to the kernel is lower because
I/O requests may be merged before being sent.  Additionally, it gives
the impression that all I/Os are done in block size, which shadows the
benefits of merging I/O requests.
* Some patches are under work to extend pg_stat_io for the tracking of
operations that may not be linked to the block size.  For example, WAL
read IOs are done in variable bytes and it is not possible to correctly
show these IOs in pg_stat_io view, and we want to keep all this data in
a single system view rather than spread it across multiple relations to
ease monitoring.

WaitReadBuffers() can now be tracked as a single read operation
worth N blocks.  Same for ExtendBufferedRelShared() and
ExtendBufferedRelLocal() for extensions.

Three columns are added to pg_stat_io for reads, writes and extensions
for the byte calculations.  op_bytes, which was always hardcoded to
BLCKSZ, is removed.  IO backend statistics are updated to reflect these
changes.

Bump catalog version.

Author: Nazir Bilal Yavuz
Reviewed-by: Bertrand Drouvot, Melanie Plageman
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAN55FZ0oqxBaaHAEsj=xFqkzE3n5P=3RA1V_igXwL-RV7QRzyw@mail.gmail.com
2025-01-14 12:14:29 +09:00
Peter Eisentraut
ca87c415e2 Add support for NOT ENFORCED in CHECK constraints
This adds support for the NOT ENFORCED/ENFORCED flag for constraints,
with support for check constraints.

The plan is to eventually support this for foreign key constraints,
where it is typically more useful.

Note that CHECK constraints do not currently support ALTER operations,
so changing the enforceability of an existing constraint isn't
possible without dropping and recreating it.  This could be added
later.

Author: Amul Sul <amul.sul@enterprisedb.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
Reviewed-by: jian he <jian.universality@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Triveni N <triveni.n@enterprisedb.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CAAJ_b962c5AcYW9KUt_R_ER5qs3fUGbe4az-SP-vuwPS-w-AGA@mail.gmail.com
2025-01-11 10:52:30 +01:00
Melanie Plageman
ca9c6a5680 Consolidate docs for vacuum-related GUCs in new subsection
GUCs related to vacuum's freezing behavior were documented in a
subsection of the Client Connection Defaults documentation. These GUCs
don't belong there, as they affect the freezing behavior of all vacuums
-- including autovacuums.

There wasn't a clear alternative location, so this commit makes a new
"Server Configuration" docs subsection, "Vacuuming", with a subsection
for "Freezing". It also moves the "Automatic Vacuuming" subsection and
the docs on GUCs controlling cost-based vacuum delay under the new
"Vacuuming" subsection.

The other vacuum-related GUCs under the "Resource Consumption"
subsection have been left in their current location, as they seem to fit
there.

The GUCs' documentation was largely lifted and shifted. The only
modification made was the addition of a few missing <literal> tags.

Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/flat/CAAKRu_aQUOaMYrcjNuXeSkJtaX9oRUzKP57bsYbC0gVVWS%2BcbA%40mail.gmail.com
2025-01-10 18:22:19 -05:00