It wasn't in the documentation at all (even though we document all the
other debugging-like options). Also, change the --help output to show
that it exits after showing, similar to other options.
Parameter column_name must be an existing column because ALTER
MATERIALIZED VIEW cannot add new columns. The old description was
likely copied from ALTER TABLE.
Author: Erik Wienhold
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/6880ca53-7961-4eeb-86d5-6bd05fc2027e@ewie.name
Backpatch-through: 12
When MERGE/SPLIT created new partitions, it was cloning the extended
statistics of the parent table.
However, extended stats on partitioned tables don't behave like
indexes on partitioned tables (which exist only to create physical
indexes on child tables). Rather, extended stats on a parent 1) cause
extended stats to be collected and computed across the whole partition
hierarchy, and 2) do not cause extended stats to be computed for the
individual partitions.
"CREATE TABLE ... PARTITION OF" command doesn't copy extended
statistics. This commit makes createPartitionTable() behave
consistently.
Reported-by: Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ZiJW1g2nbQs9ekwK%40pryzbyj2023
Author: Alexander Korotkov, Justin Pryzby
Specifically, it terminates a background worker even if the caller
couldn't terminate the background worker with pg_terminate_backend().
Commit 3a9b18b309 neglected to update
this. Back-patch to v13, which introduced DROP DATABASE FORCE.
Reviewed by Amit Kapila. Reported by Kirill Reshke.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20240429212756.60.nmisch@google.com
The CREATE SUBSCRIPTION documentation mentions "false" is the default
option, so let's use true|false rather than on|off in the text which
talks about this option in the ALTER SUBSCRIPTION page.
The other boolean options mentioned in create_subscription.sgml use true
and false so it makes sense to be consistent with these. The "failover"
option is new to v17.
Author: Peter Smith
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHut+Ps-RqrggaJU5w85BbeQzw9CLmmLgADVJoJ=xx_4D5CWvw@mail.gmail.com
This feature set did not handle empty ranges correctly, and it's now
too late for PostgreSQL 17 to fix it.
The following commits are reverted:
6db4598fcb Add stratnum GiST support function
46a0cd4cef Add temporal PRIMARY KEY and UNIQUE constraints
86232a49a4 Fix comment on gist_stratnum_btree
030e10ff1a Rename pg_constraint.conwithoutoverlaps to conperiod
a88c800deb Use daterange and YMD in without_overlaps tests instead of tsrange.
5577a71fb0 Use half-open interval notation in without_overlaps tests
34768ee361 Add temporal FOREIGN KEY contraints
482e108cd3 Add test for REPLICA IDENTITY with a temporal key
c3db1f30cb doc: clarify PERIOD and WITHOUT OVERLAPS in CREATE TABLE
144c2ce0cc Fix ON CONFLICT DO NOTHING/UPDATE for temporal indexes
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/d0b64a7a-dfe4-4b84-a906-c7dedfa40a3e@eisentraut.org
There are some problems with the new way to handle these constraints
that were detected at the last minute, and require fixes that appear too
invasive to be doing this late in the cycle. Revert this (again) for
now, we'll try again with these problems fixed.
The following commits are reverted:
b0e96f3119 Catalog not-null constraints
9b581c5341 Disallow changing NO INHERIT status of a not-null constraint
d0ec2ddbe0 Fix not-null constraint test
ac22a9545c Move privilege check to the right place
b0f7dd915b Check stack depth in new recursive functions
3af7217942 Update information_schema definition for not-null constraints
c3709100be Fix propagating attnotnull in multiple inheritance
d9f686a72e Fix restore of not-null constraints with inheritance
d72d32f52d Don't try to assign smart names to constraints
0cd711271d Better handle indirect constraint drops
13daa33fa5 Disallow NO INHERIT not-null constraints on partitioned tables
d45597f72f Disallow direct change of NO INHERIT of not-null constraints
21ac38f498 Fix inconsistencies in error messages
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/202405110940.joxlqcx4dogd@alvherre.pgsql
Both the pgbench --help output and the reference page have sections
for initialization options, benchmarking options, and common options.
But the --debug option ended up in the wrong place on the reference
page. Fix that by making the documentation match the --help output.
Both the initdb --help output and the reference page have a section
for options and a section for less commonly used options. But some
recently added options were sprinkled around inconsistently. Fix that
by making the documentation match the --help output.
We support changing NO INHERIT constraint to INHERIT for constraints in
child relations when adding a constraint to some ancestor relation, and
also during pg_upgrade's schema restore; but other than those special
cases, command ALTER TABLE ADD CONSTRAINT should not be allowed to
change an existing constraint from NO INHERIT to INHERIT, as that would
require to process child relations so that they also acquire an
appropriate constraint, which we may not be in a position to do. (It'd
also be surprising behavior.)
It is conceivable that we want to allow ALTER TABLE SET NOT NULL to make
such a change; but in that case some more code is needed to implement it
correctly, so for now I've made that throw the same error message.
Also, during the prep phase of ALTER TABLE ADD CONSTRAINT, acquire locks
on all descendant tables; otherwise we might operate on child tables on
which no locks are held, particularly in the mode where a primary key
causes not-null constraints to be created on children.
Reported-by: Alexander Lakhin <exclusion@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/7d923a66-55f0-3395-cd40-81c142b5448b@gmail.com
This commit makes new partitions created by ALTER TABLE ... SPLIT PARTITION
and ALTER TABLE ... MERGE PARTITIONS commands inherit the paret table access
method.
Reported-by: Alexander Lakhin
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/84ada05b-be5c-473e-6d1c-ebe5dd21b190%40gmail.com
Reviewed-by: Pavel Borisov
The createPartitionTable() function is responsible for creating new partitions
for ALTER TABLE ... MERGE PARTITIONS, and ALTER TABLE ... SPLIT PARTITION
commands. It emulates the behaviour of CREATE TABLE ... (LIKE ...), where
new table persistence should be specified by the user. In the table
partitioning persistent of the partition and its parent must match. So, this
commit makes createPartitionTable() copy the persistence of the parent
partition.
Also, this commit makes createPartitionTable() recheck the persistence after
the new table creation. This is needed because persistence might be affected
by pg_temp in search_path.
This commit also changes the signature of createPartitionTable() making it
take the parent's Relation itself instead of the name of the parent relation,
and return the Relation of new partition. That doesn't lead to
complications, because both callers have the parent table open and need to
open the new partition.
Reported-by: Alexander Lakhin
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/dbc8b96c-3cf0-d1ee-860d-0e491da20485%40gmail.com
Author: Dmitry Koval
Reviewed-by: Alexander Korotkov, Robert Haas, Justin Pryzby, Pavel Borisov
The --tablespace-mapping option was specified with required_argument
rather than no_argument, which is wrong. Since the actual argument
string passed to getopt_long() included "T:", the single-character
form of the option still worked, but the long form did not. Repair.
The call to getopt_long() erroneously included "P", which doesn't
correspond to any supported option. Remove.
The help message used "do not" in one place and "don't" in another.
Standardize on "do not".
The documentation erroneously stated that the tablespace mappings
would be applied relative to the pathnames in the first backup
specified on the command line, rather than the final one. Fix.
Thanks to Tomas Vondra and Daniel Gustafsson for alerting me to
these mistakes.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoYFznwwaZhHSF1Ze7JeyBv-1yOoSrucKMw37WpF=7RP8g@mail.gmail.com
If not all backups have the same checksum status, but the final backup
has checksums enabled, then the output directory may include pages
with invalid checksums. Document this limitation and explain how to
work around it.
In a future release, we may want to teach pg_combinebackup to
recompute page checksums when required, but as feature freeze has come
and gone, it seems a bit too late to do that for this release.
Patch by me, reviewed by Daniel Gustafsson
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoZugzOSmgkx97u3pc0M7U8LycWvugqoyWBv6j15a4hE5g@mail.gmail.com
Do not allow ALTER SUBSCRIPTION ... SET (failover = on|off) in a
transaction block as the changed failover option of the slot can't be
rolled back. For the same reason, we refrain from altering the replication
slot's failover property if the subscription is created with a valid
slot_name and create_slot=false.
Reprted-by: Kuroda Hayato
Author: Hou Zhijie
Reviewed-by: Shveta Malik, Bertrand Drouvot, Kuroda Hayato
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/OS0PR01MB57165542B09DFA4943830BF294082@OS0PR01MB5716.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com
We don't want users to think that pg_combinebackup is trying to check
the validity of individual backups, because it isn't. Adjust the wording
about sanity checks to make it clear that verification of individual
backups is the job of pg_verifybackup, and that the checks performed
by pg_combinebackup are around the relationships between the backups.
Per discussion with David Steele.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/e6f930c3-590c-47b9-b094-217bb2a3e22e@pgmasters.net
The code associated with EXEC SQL DEFINE was unreadable and full of
bugs, notably:
* It'd attempt to free a non-malloced string if the ecpg program
tries to redefine a macro that was defined on the command line.
* Possible memory stomp if user writes "-D=foo".
* Undef'ing or redefining a macro defined on the command line would
change the state visible to the next file, when multiple files are
specified on the command line. (While possibly that could have been
an intentional choice, the code clearly intends to revert to the
original macro state; it's just failing to consider this interaction.)
* Missing "break" in defining a new macro meant that redefinition
of an existing name would cause an extra entry to be added to the
definition list. While not immediately harmful, a subsequent undef
would result in the prior entry becoming visible again.
* The interactions with input buffering are subtle and were entirely
undocumented.
It's not that surprising that we hadn't noticed these bugs,
because there was no test coverage at all of either the -D
command line switch or multiple input files. This patch adds
such coverage (in a rather hacky way I guess).
In addition to the code bugs, the user documentation was confused
about whether the -D switch defines a C macro or an ecpg one, and
it failed to mention that you can write "-Dsymbol=value".
These problems are old, so back-patch to all supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/998011.1713217712@sss.pgh.pa.us
The documentation for SET ROLE states that superusers who switch to
a non-superuser role lose their superuser privileges. While this
is true for most commands, there are exceptions such as SET ROLE
and SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION, which continue to use the current
session user and the authenticated user, respectively.
Furthermore, the description of this command already describes its
effect, so it is arguably unnecessary to include this special case.
This commit removes the note about the superuser case and adds a
sentence about the aforementioned exceptions to the description.
Co-authored-by: Yurii Rashkovskii
Reviewed-by: Shubham Khanna, Robert Haas, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BRLCQysHtME0znk2KUMJN343ksboSRQSU-hCnOjesX6VK300Q%40mail.gmail.com
This addresses a few problems with commit e5da0fe3c2 ("Catalog domain
not-null constraints").
In CREATE DOMAIN, a NOT NULL constraint looks like
CREATE DOMAIN d1 AS int [ CONSTRAINT conname ] NOT NULL
(Before e5da0fe3c2, the constraint name was accepted but ignored.)
But in ALTER DOMAIN, a NOT NULL constraint looks like
ALTER DOMAIN d1 ADD [ CONSTRAINT conname ] NOT NULL VALUE
where VALUE is where for a table constraint the column name would be.
(This works as of e5da0fe3c2. Before e5da0fe3c2, this syntax
resulted in an internal error.)
But for domains, this latter syntax is confusing and needlessly
inconsistent between CREATE and ALTER. So this changes it to just
ALTER DOMAIN d1 ADD [ CONSTRAINT conname ] NOT NULL
(None of these syntaxes are per SQL standard; we are just living with
the bits of inconsistency that have built up over time.)
In passing, this also changes the psql \dD output to not show not-null
constraints in the column "Check", since it's already shown in the
column "Nullable". This has also been off since e5da0fe3c2.
Reviewed-by: jian he <jian.universality@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/9ec24d7b-633d-463a-84c6-7acff769c9e8%40eisentraut.org
The tools.ietf.org site has been decommissioned and replaced by a
number of sites serving various purposes. Links to RFCs and BCPs
are now 301 redirected to their new respective IETF sites. Since
this serves no purpose and only adds network overhead, update our
links to the new locations.
Backpatch to all supported versions.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3C1CEA99-FCED-447D-9858-5A579B4C6687@yesql.se
Backpatch-through: v12
What the documentation calls an exclude_element is an index_elem
according to gram.y, and it allows all the same options that
a CREATE INDEX column specification does. The COLLATE patch
neglected to update the CREATE/ALTER TABLE docs about that,
and later the opclass-parameters patch made the same oversight.
Add those options to the syntax synopses, and polish the
associated text a bit.
Back-patch to v13 where opclass parameters came in. We could
update v12 with just the COLLATE omission, but it doesn't quite
seem worth the trouble at this point.
Shihao Zhong, reviewed by Daniel Vérité, Shubham Khanna and myself
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAGRkXqShbVyB8E3gapfdtuwiWTiK=Q67Qb9qwxu=+-w0w46EBA@mail.gmail.com
This new DDL command splits a single partition into several parititions.
Just like ALTER TABLE ... MERGE PARTITIONS ... command, new patitions are
created using createPartitionTable() function with parent partition as the
template.
This commit comprises quite naive implementation which works in single process
and holds the ACCESS EXCLUSIVE LOCK on the parent table during all the
operations including the tuple routing. This is why this new DDL command
can't be recommended for large partitioned tables under a high load. However,
this implementation come in handy in certain cases even as is.
Also, it could be used as a foundation for future implementations with lesser
locking and possibly parallel.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/c73a1746-0cd0-6bdd-6b23-3ae0b7c0c582%40postgrespro.ru
Author: Dmitry Koval
Reviewed-by: Matthias van de Meent, Laurenz Albe, Zhihong Yu, Justin Pryzby
Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera, Robert Haas, Stephane Tachoires
This new DDL command merges several partitions into the one partition of the
target table. The target partition is created using new
createPartitionTable() function with parent partition as the template.
This commit comprises quite naive implementation which works in single process
and holds the ACCESS EXCLUSIVE LOCK on the parent table during all the
operations including the tuple routing. This is why this new DDL command
can't be recommended for large partitioned tables under a high load. However,
this implementation come in handy in certain cases even as is.
Also, it could be used as a foundation for future implementations with lesser
locking and possibly parallel.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/c73a1746-0cd0-6bdd-6b23-3ae0b7c0c582%40postgrespro.ru
Author: Dmitry Koval
Reviewed-by: Matthias van de Meent, Laurenz Albe, Zhihong Yu, Justin Pryzby
Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera, Robert Haas, Stephane Tachoires
Adds --clone/--copy-file-range options to pg_combinebackup, to allow
copying files using file cloning or copy_file_range(). These methods may
be faster than the standard block-by-block copy, but the main advantage
is that they enable various features provided by CoW filesystems.
This commit only uses these copy methods for files that did not change
and can be copied as a whole from a single backup.
These new copy methods may not be available on all platforms, in which
case the command throws an error (immediately, even if no files would be
copied as a whole). This early failure seems better than failing later
when trying to copy the first file, after performing a lot of work on
earlier files.
If the requested copy method is available, but a checksum needs to be
recalculated (e.g. because of a different checksum type), the file is
still copied using the requested method, but it is also read for the
checksum calculation. Depending on the filesystem this may be more
expensive than just performing the simple copy, but it does enable the
CoW benefits.
Initial patch by Jakub Wartak, various reworks and improvements by me.
Author: Tomas Vondra, Jakub Wartak
Reviewed-by: Thomas Munro, Jakub Wartak, Robert Haas
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3024283a-7491-4240-80d0-421575f6bb23%40enterprisedb.com
EXPLAIN (ANALYZE, SERIALIZE) allows collection of statistics about
the volume of data emitted by a query, as well as the time taken
to convert the data to the on-the-wire format. Previously there
was no way to investigate this without actually sending the data
to the client, in which case network transmission costs might
swamp what you wanted to see. In particular this feature allows
investigating the costs of de-TOASTing compressed or out-of-line
data during formatting.
Stepan Rutz and Matthias van de Meent,
reviewed by Tomas Vondra and myself
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ca0adb0e-fa4e-c37e-1cd7-91170b18cae1@gmx.de
