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David Rowley
1cbbee0338 Add VACUUM/ANALYZE BUFFER_USAGE_LIMIT option
Add new options to the VACUUM and ANALYZE commands called
BUFFER_USAGE_LIMIT to allow users more control over how large to make the
buffer access strategy that is used to limit the usage of buffers in
shared buffers.  Larger rings can allow VACUUM to run more quickly but
have the drawback of VACUUM possibly evicting more buffers from shared
buffers that might be useful for other queries running on the database.

Here we also add a new GUC named vacuum_buffer_usage_limit which controls
how large to make the access strategy when it's not specified in the
VACUUM/ANALYZE command.  This defaults to 256KB, which is the same size as
the access strategy was prior to this change.  This setting also
controls how large to make the buffer access strategy for autovacuum.

Per idea by Andres Freund.

Author: Melanie Plageman
Reviewed-by: David Rowley
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund
Reviewed-by: Justin Pryzby
Reviewed-by: Bharath Rupireddy
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230111182720.ejifsclfwymw2reb@awork3.anarazel.de
2023-04-07 11:40:31 +12:00
Tom Lane
31ae2aa9d2 psql: set SHELL_ERROR and SHELL_EXIT_CODE in more places.
Make the \g, \o, \w, and \copy commands set these variables
when closing a pipe.  We missed doing this in commit b0d8f2d98,
but it seems like a good idea.

There are some remaining places in psql that intentionally don't
update these variables after running a child program:
	* pager invocations
	* backtick evaluation within a prompt
	* \e (edit query buffer)

Corey Huinker and Tom Lane

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CADkLM=eSKwRGF-rnRqhtBORRtL49QsjcVUCa-kLxKTqxypsakw@mail.gmail.com
2023-04-06 17:33:38 -04:00
Tom Lane
00beecfe83 psql: add an optional execution-count limit to \watch.
\watch can now be told to stop after N executions of the query.

With the idea that we might want to add more options to \watch
in future, this patch generalizes the command's syntax to a list
of name=value options, with the interval allowed to omit the name
for backwards compatibility.

Andrey Borodin, reviewed by Kyotaro Horiguchi, Nathan Bossart,
Michael Paquier, Yugo Nagata, and myself

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAhFRxiZ2-n_L1ErMm9AZjgmUK=qS6VHb+0SaMn8sqqbhF7How@mail.gmail.com
2023-04-06 13:18:14 -04:00
Tomas Vondra
2820adf775 Support long distance matching for zstd compression
zstd compression supports a special mode for finding matched in distant
past, which may result in better compression ratio, at the expense of
using more memory (the window size is 128MB).

To enable this optional mode, use the "long" keyword when specifying the
compression method (--compress=zstd:long).

Author: Justin Pryzby
Reviewed-by: Tomas Vondra, Jacob Champion
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230224191840.GD1653@telsasoft.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220327205020.GM28503@telsasoft.com
2023-04-06 17:18:42 +02:00
Tomas Vondra
84adc8e20f pg_dump: Add support for zstd compression
Allow pg_dump to use the zstd compression, in addition to gzip/lz4. Bulk
of the new compression method is implemented in compress_zstd.{c,h},
covering the pg_dump compression APIs. The rest of the patch adds test
and makes various places aware of the new compression method.

The zstd library (which this patch relies on) supports multithreaded
compression since version 1.5. We however disallow that feature for now,
as it might interfere with parallel backups on platforms that rely on
threads (e.g. Windows). This can be improved / relaxed in the future.

This also fixes a minor issue in InitDiscoverCompressFileHandle(), which
was not updated to check if the file already has the .lz4 extension.

Adding zstd compression was originally proposed in 2020 (see the second
thread), but then was reworked to use the new compression API introduced
in e9960732a9. I've considered both threads when compiling the list of
reviewers.

Author: Justin Pryzby
Reviewed-by: Tomas Vondra, Jacob Champion, Andreas Karlsson
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230224191840.GD1653@telsasoft.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20201221194924.GI30237@telsasoft.com
2023-04-05 21:39:33 +02:00
Robert Haas
482675987b Add a run_as_owner option to subscriptions.
This option is normally false, but can be set to true to obtain
the legacy behavior where the subscription runs with the permissions
of the subscription owner rather than the permissions of the
table owner. The advantages of this mode are (1) it doesn't require
that the subscription owner have permission to SET ROLE to each
table owner and (2) since no role switching occurs, the
SECURITY_RESTRICTED_OPERATION restrictions do not apply.

On the downside, it allows any table owner to easily usurp
the privileges of the subscription owner - basically, to take
over their account. Because that's generally quite undesirable,
we don't make this mode the default, but we do make it available,
just in case the new behavior causes too many problems for someone.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoZ-WEeG6Z14AfH7KhmpX2eFh+tZ0z+vf0=eMDdbda269g@mail.gmail.com
2023-04-04 12:03:03 -04:00
Amit Kapila
ed94e8563e Add XML ID attributes to create_publication.sgml.
This commit adds XML ID attributes to all varlistentries in
create_publication.sgml. This allows us to include links to refer to
publication options, making documents more readable.

Author: Kuroda Hayato
Reviewed-by: Peter Smith, Amit Kapila
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/TYAPR01MB58668219FEA4EC231486A433F58E9@TYAPR01MB5866.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com
2023-03-31 08:59:55 +05:30
Robert Haas
9c487efe35 Fix documentation build for c3afe8cf5a.
This documentation hunk was intended to be part of that commit,
but I goofed.
2023-03-30 12:06:34 -04:00
Robert Haas
c3afe8cf5a Add new predefined role pg_create_subscription.
This role can be granted to non-superusers to allow them to issue
CREATE SUBSCRIPTION. The non-superuser must additionally have CREATE
permissions on the database in which the subscription is to be
created.

Most forms of ALTER SUBSCRIPTION, including ALTER SUBSCRIPTION .. SKIP,
now require only that the role performing the operation own the
subscription, or inherit the privileges of the owner. However, to
use ALTER SUBSCRIPTION ... RENAME or ALTER SUBSCRIPTION ... OWNER TO,
you also need CREATE permission on the database. This is similar to
what we do for schemas. To change the owner of a schema, you must also
have permission to SET ROLE to the new owner, similar to what we do
for other object types.

Non-superusers are required to specify a password for authentication
and the remote side must use the password, similar to what is required
for postgres_fdw and dblink.  A superuser who wants a non-superuser to
own a subscription that does not rely on password authentication may
set the new password_required=false property on that subscription. A
non-superuser may not set password_required=false and may not modify a
subscription that already has password_required=false.

This new password_required subscription property works much like the
eponymous postgres_fdw property.  In both cases, the actual semantics
are that a password is not required if either (1) the property is set
to false or (2) the relevant user is the superuser.

Patch by me, reviewed by Andres Freund, Jeff Davis, Mark Dilger,
and Stephen Frost (but some of those people did not fully endorse
all of the decisions that the patch makes).

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoaDH=0Xj7OBiQnsHTKcF2c4L+=gzPBUKSJLh8zed2_+Dg@mail.gmail.com
2023-03-30 11:37:19 -04:00
Amit Kapila
062a844424 Avoid syncing data twice for the 'publish_via_partition_root' option.
When there are multiple publications for a subscription and one of those
publishes via the parent table by using publish_via_partition_root and the
other one directly publishes the child table, we end up copying the same
data twice during initial synchronization. The reason for this was that we
get both the parent and child tables from the publisher and try to copy
the data for both of them.

This patch extends the function pg_get_publication_tables() to take a
publication list as its input parameter. This allows us to exclude a
partition table whose ancestor is published by the same publication list.

This problem does exist in back-branches but we decide to fix it there in
a separate commit if required. The fix for back-branches requires quite
complicated changes to fetch the required table information from the
publisher as we can't update the function pg_get_publication_tables() in
back-branches. We are not sure whether we want to deviate and complicate
the code in back-branches for this problem as there are no field reports
yet.

Author: Wang wei
Reviewed-by: Peter Smith, Jacob Champion, Kuroda Hayato, Vignesh C, Osumi Takamichi, Amit Kapila
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/OS0PR01MB57167F45D481F78CDC5986F794B99@OS0PR01MB5716.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com
2023-03-29 10:46:58 +05:30
Amit Kapila
de5a47af2d Add XML ID attributes to create_subscription.sgml.
Commit ecb696527c added an XML ID attribute to one varlistentry in
create_subscription.sgml. Following 78ee60ed84, this commit adds XML ID
attributes to all varlistentries in create_subscription.sgml.
Additionally, links are added to refer to the subscription options,
enhancing the readability of documents.

Author: Kuroda Hayato
Reviewed-by: Peter Smith, Amit Kapila
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/TYAPR01MB58667AE04D291924671E2051F5879@TYAPR01MB5866.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com
2023-03-29 09:58:14 +05:30
Tom Lane
3c05284d83 Invent GENERIC_PLAN option for EXPLAIN.
This provides a very simple way to see the generic plan for a
parameterized query.  Without this, it's necessary to define
a prepared statement and temporarily change plan_cache_mode,
which is a bit tedious.

One thing that's a bit of a hack perhaps is that we disable
execution-time partition pruning when the GENERIC_PLAN option
is given.  That's because the pruning code may attempt to
fetch the value of one of the parameters, which would fail.

Laurenz Albe, reviewed by Julien Rouhaud, Christoph Berg,
Michel Pelletier, Jim Jones, and myself

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/0a29b954b10b57f0d135fe12aa0909bd41883eb0.camel@cybertec.at
2023-03-24 17:07:22 -04:00
Amit Kapila
ecb696527c Allow logical replication to copy tables in binary format.
This patch allows copying tables in the binary format during table
synchronization when the binary option for a subscription is enabled.
Previously, tables are copied in text format even if the subscription is
created with the binary option enabled. Copying tables in binary format
may reduce the time spent depending on column types.

A binary copy for initial table synchronization is supported only when
both publisher and subscriber are v16 or later.

Author: Melih Mutlu
Reviewed-by: Peter Smith, Shi yu, Euler Taveira, Vignesh C,  Kuroda Hayato, Osumi Takamichi, Bharath Rupireddy, Hou Zhijie
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAGPVpCQvAziCLknEnygY0v1-KBtg%2BOm-9JHJYZOnNPKFJPompw%40mail.gmail.com
2023-03-23 08:45:51 +05:30
Tom Lane
3e51b278db Add "-c name=value" switch to initdb.
This option, or its long form --set, sets the GUC "name" to "value".
The setting applies in the bootstrap and standalone servers run by
initdb, and is also written into the generated postgresql.conf.

This can save an extra editing step when creating a new cluster,
but the real use-case is for coping with situations where the
bootstrap server fails to start due to environmental issues;
for example, if it's necessary to force huge_pages to off.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2844176.1674681919@sss.pgh.pa.us
2023-03-22 13:49:05 -04:00
Tom Lane
b0d8f2d983 Add SHELL_ERROR and SHELL_EXIT_CODE magic variables to psql.
These are set after a \! command or a backtick substitution.
SHELL_ERROR is just "true" for error (nonzero exit status) or "false"
for success, while SHELL_EXIT_CODE records the actual exit status
following standard shell/system(3) conventions.

Corey Huinker, reviewed by Maxim Orlov and myself

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CADkLM=cWao2x2f+UDw15W1JkVFr_bsxfstw=NGea7r9m4j-7rQ@mail.gmail.com
2023-03-21 13:03:56 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut
4c8044c044 pg_waldump: Allow hexadecimal values for -t/--timeline option
This makes it easier to specify values taken directly from WAL file
names.

The option parsing is arranged in the style of option_parse_int() (but
we need to parse unsigned int), to allow future refactoring in the
same manner.

Reviewed-by: Sébastien Lardière <sebastien@lardiere.net>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/8fef346e-2541-76c3-d768-6536ae052993@lardiere.net
2023-03-21 08:05:23 +01:00
Tom Lane
bc8cd50fef Fix pg_dump for hash partitioning on enum columns.
Hash partitioning on an enum is problematic because the hash codes are
derived from the OIDs assigned to the enum values, which will almost
certainly be different after a dump-and-reload than they were before.
This means that some rows probably end up in different partitions than
before, causing restore to fail because of partition constraint
violations.  (pg_upgrade dodges this problem by using hacks to force
the enum values to keep the same OIDs, but that's not possible nor
desirable for pg_dump.)

Users can work around that by specifying --load-via-partition-root,
but since that's a dump-time not restore-time decision, one might
find out the need for it far too late.  Instead, teach pg_dump to
apply that option automatically when dealing with a partitioned
table that has hash-on-enum partitioning.

Also deal with a pre-existing issue for --load-via-partition-root
mode: in a parallel restore, we try to TRUNCATE target tables just
before loading them, in order to enable some backend optimizations.
This is bad when using --load-via-partition-root because (a) we're
likely to suffer deadlocks from restore jobs trying to restore rows
into other partitions than they came from, and (b) if we miss getting
a deadlock we might still lose data due to a TRUNCATE removing rows
from some already-completed restore job.

The fix for this is conceptually simple: just don't TRUNCATE if we're
dealing with a --load-via-partition-root case.  The tricky bit is for
pg_restore to identify those cases.  In dumps using COPY commands we
can inspect each COPY command to see if it targets the nominal target
table or some ancestor.  However, in dumps using INSERT commands it's
pretty impractical to examine the INSERTs in advance.  To provide a
solution for that going forward, modify pg_dump to mark TABLE DATA
items that are using --load-via-partition-root with a comment.
(This change also responds to a complaint from Robert Haas that
the dump output for --load-via-partition-root is pretty confusing.)
pg_restore checks for the special comment as well as checking the
COPY command if present.  This will fail to identify the combination
of --load-via-partition-root and --inserts in pre-existing dump files,
but that should be a pretty rare case in the field.  If it does
happen you will probably get a deadlock failure that you can work
around by not using parallel restore, which is the same as before
this bug fix.

Having done this, there seems no remaining reason for the alarmism
in the pg_dump man page about combining --load-via-partition-root
with parallel restore, so remove that warning.

Patch by me; thanks to Julien Rouhaud for review.  Back-patch to
v11 where hash partitioning was introduced.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1376149.1675268279@sss.pgh.pa.us
2023-03-17 13:31:40 -04:00
Tom Lane
f170b572d2 Doc: mention CREATE+ATTACH PARTITION with CREATE TABLE...PARTITION OF.
Clarify that ATTACH/DETACH PARTITION can be used to perform partition
maintenance with less locking than straight CREATE TABLE/DROP TABLE.
This was already stated in some places, but not emphasized.

Back-patch to v14 where DETACH PARTITION CONCURRENTLY was added.
(We had lower lock levels for ATTACH PARTITION before that, but
this wording wouldn't apply.)

Justin Pryzby, reviewed by Robert Treat and Jakub Wartak;
a little further wordsmithing by me

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220718143304.GC18011@telsasoft.com
2023-03-16 16:50:56 -04:00
Tom Lane
a563c24c95 Allow pg_dump to include/exclude child tables automatically.
This patch adds new pg_dump switches
    --table-and-children=pattern
    --exclude-table-and-children=pattern
    --exclude-table-data-and-children=pattern
which act the same as the existing --table, --exclude-table, and
--exclude-table-data switches, except that any partitions or
inheritance child tables of the table(s) matching the pattern
are also included or excluded.

Gilles Darold, reviewed by Stéphane Tachoires

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/5aa393b5-5f67-8447-b83e-544516990ee2@migops.com
2023-03-14 16:09:03 -04:00
Andrew Dunstan
9f8377f7a2 Add a DEFAULT option to COPY FROM
This allows for a string which if an input field matches causes the
column's default value to be inserted. The advantage of this is that
the default can be inserted in some rows and not others, for which
non-default data is available.

The file_fdw extension is also modified to take allow use of this
option.

Israel Barth Rubio

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAO_rXXAcqesk6DsvioOZ5zmeEmpUN5ktZf-9=9yu+DTr0Xr8Uw@mail.gmail.com
2023-03-13 10:01:56 -04:00
Jeff Davis
c45dc7ffbb initdb: derive encoding from locale for ICU; similar to libc.
Previously, the default encoding was derived from the locale when
using libc; while the default was always UTF-8 when using ICU. That
would throw an error when the locale was not compatible with UTF-8.

This commit causes initdb to derive the default encoding from the
locale for both providers. If --no-locale is specified (or if the
locale is C or POSIX), the default encoding will be UTF-8 for ICU
(because ICU does not support SQL_ASCII) and SQL_ASCII for libc.

Per buildfarm failure on system "hoverfly" related to commit
27b62377b4.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/d191d5841347301a8f1238f609471ddd957fc47e.camel%40j-davis.com
2023-03-10 10:51:24 -08:00
Peter Eisentraut
cd42785974 doc: Better example for custom ICU rules
Use a more practical example, and also add some explanation.

Reported-by: Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>
2023-03-10 09:25:03 +01:00
Jeff Davis
27b62377b4 Use ICU by default at initdb time.
If the ICU locale is not specified, initialize the default collator
and retrieve the locale name from that.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/510d284759f6e943ce15096167760b2edcb2e700.camel@j-davis.com
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut
2023-03-09 10:52:41 -08:00
Peter Eisentraut
30a53b7929 Allow tailoring of ICU locales with custom rules
This exposes the ICU facility to add custom collation rules to a
standard collation.

New options are added to CREATE COLLATION, CREATE DATABASE, createdb,
and initdb to set the rules.

Reviewed-by: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Verite <daniel@manitou-mail.org>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/821c71a4-6ef0-d366-9acf-bb8e367f739f@enterprisedb.com
2023-03-08 16:56:37 +01:00
Daniel Gustafsson
d3406d8036 Fix handling of default option values in createuser
Add description of which one is the default between two complementary
options of --bypassrls and --replication in the help text and docs. In
correspondence let the command always include the tokens corresponding
to every options of that kind in the SQL command sent to server. Tests
are updated accordingly.

Also fix the checks of some trivalue vars which were using literal zero
for checking default value instead of the enum label TRI_DEFAULT. While
not a bug, since TRI_DEFAULT is defined as zero, fixing improves read-
ability improved readability (and avoid bugs if the enum is changed).

Author: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220810.151243.1073197628358749087.horikyota.ntt@gmail.com
2023-03-06 14:16:32 +01:00
Michael Paquier
4211fbd841 Add PROCESS_MAIN to VACUUM
Disabling this option is useful to run VACUUM (with or without FULL) on
only the toast table of a relation, bypassing the main relation.  This
option is enabled by default.

Running directly VACUUM on a toast table was already possible without
this feature, by using the non-deterministic name of a toast relation
(as of pg_toast.pg_toast_N, where N would be the OID of the parent
relation) in the VACUUM command, and it required a scan of pg_class to
know the name of the toast table.  So this feature is basically a
shortcut to be able to run VACUUM or VACUUM FULL on a toast relation,
using only the name of the parent relation.

A new switch called --no-process-main is added to vacuumdb, to work as
an equivalent of PROCESS_MAIN.

Regression tests are added to cover VACUUM and VACUUM FULL, looking at
pg_stat_all_tables.vacuum_count to see how many vacuums have run on
each table, main or toast.

Author: Nathan Bossart
Reviewed-by: Masahiko Sawada
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20221230000028.GA435655@nathanxps13
2023-03-06 16:41:05 +09:00
Tom Lane
6949b921d5 Avoid failure when altering state of partitioned foreign-key triggers.
Beginning in v15, if you apply ALTER TABLE ENABLE/DISABLE TRIGGER to
a partitioned table, it also affects the partitions' cloned versions
of the affected trigger(s).  The initial implementation of this
located the clones by name, but that fails on foreign-key triggers
which have names incorporating their own OIDs.  We can fix that, and
also make the behavior more bulletproof in the face of user-initiated
trigger renames, by identifying the cloned triggers by tgparentid.

Following the lead of earlier commits in this area, I took care not
to break ABI in the v15 branch, even though I rather doubt there
are any external callers of EnableDisableTrigger.

While here, update the documentation, which was not touched when
the semantics were changed.

Per bug #17817 from Alan Hodgson.  Back-patch to v15; older versions
do not have this behavior.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17817-31dfb7c2100d9f3d@postgresql.org
2023-03-04 13:32:35 -05:00
Tom Lane
3dfae91f7a Show "internal name" not "source code" in psql's \df+ command.
Our previous habit of showing the full function body is really
pretty unfriendly for tabular viewing of functions, and now that
we have \sf and \ef commands there seems no good reason why \df+
has to do it.  It still seems to make sense to show prosrc for
internal and C-language functions, since in those cases prosrc
is just the C function name; but then let's rename the column to
"Internal name" which is a more accurate descriptor.

Isaac Morland

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMsGm5eqKc6J1=Lwn=ZONG=6ZDYWRQ4cgZQLqMuZGB1aVt_JBg@mail.gmail.com
2023-03-02 17:15:13 -05:00
Tomas Vondra
6095069b40 Improve wording in pg_dump compression docs
A couple minor corrections in pg_dump comments and docs, related to the
recently introduced compression API.

Reported-by: Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230227044910.GO1653@telsasoft.com
2023-03-01 16:11:38 +01:00
Heikki Linnakangas
46647cc4b8 Replace single-quotes with double-quotes in a few SGML attributes.
Both are valid SGML, but let's be consistent.

Author: Peter Smith
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAHut%2BPtghjg0SBUTv%3D4Bpcy68d1zD3VAnZ3wX1DQSp39XKD9Sw%40mail.gmail.com
2023-02-27 09:55:39 +02:00
Heikki Linnakangas
0a0500207a pg_rewind: Remove notice in docs about running CHECKPOINT after promote.
Commit 009eeee746 made it unnecessary. pg_rewind now works on a
recently promoted standby.

Author: Kyotaro Horiguchi, Keisuke Kuroda
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/aeb5f31a-8de2-40a8-64af-ab659a309d6b%40iki.fi
2023-02-27 09:34:43 +02:00
Dean Rasheed
ee7e8f3838 Doc: Miscellaneous doc updates for MERGE.
Update a few places in the documentation that should mention MERGE
among the list of applicable commands. In a couple of places, a
slightly more detailed description of what happens for MERGE seems
appropriate.

Reviewed by Alvaro Herrera.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAEZATCWqHLcxab89ATMQZNGFG_mxDPM%2BjzkSbXKD3JYPfRGvtw%40mail.gmail.com
2023-02-26 09:06:04 +00:00
Tomas Vondra
0da243fed0 Add LZ4 compression to pg_dump
Expand pg_dump's compression streaming and file APIs to support the lz4
algorithm. The newly added compress_lz4.{c,h} files cover all the
functionality of the aforementioned APIs. Minor changes were necessary
in various pg_backup_* files, where code for the 'lz4' file suffix has
been added, as well as pg_dump's compression option parsing.

Author: Georgios Kokolatos
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier, Rachel Heaton, Justin Pryzby, Shi Yu, Tomas Vondra
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/faUNEOpts9vunEaLnmxmG-DldLSg_ql137OC3JYDmgrOMHm1RvvWY2IdBkv_CRxm5spCCb_OmKNk2T03TMm0fBEWveFF9wA1WizPuAgB7Ss%3D%40protonmail.com
2023-02-23 21:19:26 +01:00
Jeff Davis
a8a44828a2 Correct docs for the default locale_provider of a new database.
If the locale provider is not specified, it defaults to be the same as
the template from which it was created. Previously, the documentation
said the default was libc.

Also adjust wording of CREATE DATABASE and CREATE COLLATION docs to be
definite that there are exactly two possible collation providers.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/6befdaada61c046b67f3b269f7fa6f069a35803e.camel%40j-davis.com
Reviewed-by: Nathan Bossart
2023-02-13 17:16:13 -08:00
Michael Paquier
ef7002dbe0 Fix various typos in code and tests
Most of these are recent, and the documentation portions are new as of
v16 so there is no need for a backpatch.

Author: Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230208155644.GM1653@telsasoft.com
2023-02-09 14:43:53 +09:00
Michael Paquier
d07c2948bf Add support for progress reporting to pg_verifybackup
This adds a new option to pg_verifybackup called -P/--progress, showing
every second some information about the progress of the checksum
verification based on the data of a backup manifest.

Similarly to what is done for pg_rewind and pg_basebackup, the
information printed in the progress report consists of the current
amount of data computed and the total amount of data that will be
computed.  Note that files found with an incorrect size do not have
their checksum verified, hence their size is not appended to the total
amount of data estimated during the first scan of the manifest data
(such incorrect sizes could be overly high, for one, falsifying the
progress report).

Author: Masahiko Sawada
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAD21AoC5+JOgMd4o3z_oxw0f8JDSsCYY7zSbhe-O9x7f33rw_A@mail.gmail.com
2023-02-06 14:40:31 +09:00
Peter Eisentraut
2010d8b75a doc: Fix XML formatting that psql cannot handle
Breaking <phrase> over two lines is not handled by psql's
create_help.pl.  (It creates faulty \help output.)

Undo the formatting change introduced by
9bdad1b515 to fix this for now.
2023-02-03 09:04:35 +01:00
Tom Lane
856ca51a23 Doc: clarify use of NULL to drop comments and security labels.
This was only mentioned in the description of the text/label, which
are marked as being in quotes in the synopsis, which can cause
confusion (as witnessed on IRC).

Also separate the literal and NULL cases in the parameter list, per
suggestion from Tom Lane.

Also add an example of dropping a security label.

Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker, with some tweaks by me

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/87sffqk4zp.fsf@wibble.ilmari.org
2023-01-31 14:32:24 -05:00
Tom Lane
ec7e053a98 Doc: clarify behavior of boolean options in replication commands.
defGetBoolean() allows the "value" part of "option = value"
syntax to be omitted, in which case it's taken as "true".
This is acknowledged in our syntax summaries for relevant commands,
but we don't seem to have documented the actual behavior anywhere.
Do so for CREATE/ALTER PUBLICATION/SUBSCRIPTION.  Use generic
boilerplate text for this, with the idea that we can copy-and-paste
it into other relevant reference pages, whenever someone gets
around to that.

Peter Smith, edited a bit by me

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHut+PvwjZfdGt2R8HTXgSZft=jZKymrS8KUg31pS7zqaaWKKw@mail.gmail.com
2023-01-30 11:59:37 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut
37e2673350 Don't install postmaster symlink anymore
This has long been deprecated.  Some of the build systems didn't even
install it.

Also remove man page.

Reviewed-by: Karl O. Pinc <kop@karlpinc.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/ece84b69-8f94-8b88-925f-64207cb3a2f0@enterprisedb.com
2023-01-26 11:33:01 +01:00
Peter Geoghegan
6c6b497266 Revert "Add eager and lazy freezing strategies to VACUUM."
This reverts commit 4d41799261.  Broad
concerns about regressions caused by eager freezing strategy have been
raised.  Whether or not these concerns can be worked through in any time
frame is far from certain.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230126004347.gepcmyenk2csxrri@awork3.anarazel.de
2023-01-25 22:22:27 -08:00
Jeff Davis
8b5f36bb6c Clarify documentation for CLUSTER on partitioned tables.
Author: Nathan Bossart
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230114224000.GA2505377@nathanxps13
2023-01-25 20:23:32 -08:00
Peter Geoghegan
4d41799261 Add eager and lazy freezing strategies to VACUUM.
Eager freezing strategy avoids large build-ups of all-visible pages.  It
makes VACUUM trigger page-level freezing whenever doing so will enable
the page to become all-frozen in the visibility map.  This is useful for
tables that experience continual growth, particularly strict append-only
tables such as pgbench's history table.  Eager freezing significantly
improves performance stability by spreading out the cost of freezing
over time, rather than doing most freezing during aggressive VACUUMs.
It complements the insert autovacuum mechanism added by commit b07642db.

VACUUM determines its freezing strategy based on the value of the new
vacuum_freeze_strategy_threshold GUC (or reloption) with logged tables.
Tables that exceed the size threshold use the eager freezing strategy.
Unlogged tables and temp tables always use eager freezing strategy,
since the added cost is negligible there.  Non-permanent relations won't
incur any extra overhead in WAL written (for the obvious reason), nor in
pages dirtied (since any extra freezing will only take place on pages
whose PD_ALL_VISIBLE bit needed to be set either way).

VACUUM uses lazy freezing strategy for logged tables that fall under the
GUC size threshold.  Page-level freezing triggers based on the criteria
established in commit 1de58df4, which added basic page-level freezing.

Eager freezing is strictly more aggressive than lazy freezing.  Settings
like vacuum_freeze_min_age still get applied in just the same way in
every VACUUM, independent of the strategy in use.  The only mechanical
difference between eager and lazy freezing strategies is that only the
former applies its own additional criteria to trigger freezing pages.
Note that even lazy freezing strategy will trigger freezing whenever a
page happens to have required that an FPI be written during pruning,
provided that the page will thereby become all-frozen in the visibility
map afterwards (due to the FPI optimization from commit 1de58df4).

The vacuum_freeze_strategy_threshold default setting is 4GB.  This is a
relatively low setting that prioritizes performance stability.  It will
be reviewed at the end of the Postgres 16 beta period.

Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Reviewed-By: Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>
Reviewed-By: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-By: Matthias van de Meent <boekewurm+postgres@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-WzkFok_6EAHuK39GaW4FjEFQsY=3J0AAd6FXk93u-Xq3Fg@mail.gmail.com
2023-01-25 14:15:38 -08:00
Robert Haas
f1358ca52d Adjust interaction of CREATEROLE with role properties.
Previously, a CREATEROLE user without SUPERUSER could not alter
REPLICATION users in any way, and could not set the BYPASSRLS
attribute. However, they could manipulate the CREATEDB property
even if they themselves did not possess it.

With this change, a CREATEROLE user without SUPERUSER can set or
clear the REPLICATION, BYPASSRLS, or CREATEDB property on a new
role or a role that they have rights to manage if and only if
that property is set for their own role.

This implements the standard idea that you can't give permissions
you don't have (but you can give the ones you do have). We might
in the future want to provide more powerful ways to constrain
what a CREATEROLE user can do - for example, to limit whether
CONNECTION LIMIT can be set or the values to which it can be set -
but that is left as future work.

Patch by me, reviewed by Nathan Bossart, Tushar Ahuja, and Neha
Sharma.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmobX=LHg_J5aT=0pi9gJy=JdtrUVGAu0zhr-i5v5nNbJDg@mail.gmail.com
2023-01-24 10:57:09 -05:00
Tom Lane
09d465c397 Doc: fix a few oddly-spelled SGML ID attributes.
Avoid use of "_" in SGML IDs.  Awhile back that was actually
disallowed by the toolchain, as a consequence of which our convention
has been to use "-" instead.  Fix a couple of stragglers that are
particularly inconsistent with that convention and with related IDs.

This is just neatnik-ism, so no need for back-patch.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/769446.1673478332@sss.pgh.pa.us
2023-01-17 17:13:20 -05:00
Robert Haas
6fa66ec88f Assorted improvements to SECURITY DEFINER functions documentation.
Add a cross-reference from the part of the page that introdues SECURITY
INVOKER and SECURITY DEFINER to the part of the page that talks about
writing SECURITY DEFINER functions safely, so that users are less likely
to miss it.

Remove discussion of the pre-8.3 behavior on the theory that it's
probably not very relevant any more, that release having gone out of
support nearly a decade ago.

Add a mention of the new createrole_self_grant GUC, which in
certain cases might need to be set to a safe value to avoid
unexpected consequences.

Possibly this section needs major surgery rather than just these
small tweaks, but hopefully this is at least a small step
forward.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+Tgmoauqd1cHQjsNEoxL5O-kEO4iC9dAPyCudSvmNqPJGmy9g@mail.gmail.com
2023-01-16 10:49:59 -05:00
Robert Haas
3cdf7502f8 More documentation update for GRANT ... WITH SET OPTION.
Update the reference pages for various ALTER commands that
mentioned that you must be a member of role that will be the
new owner to instead say that you must be able to SET ROLE
to the new owner. Update ddl.sgml's generate statement on this
topic along similar lines.

Likewise, update CREATE SCHEMA and CREATE DATABASE, which
have options to specify who will own the new objects, to say
that you must be able to SET ROLE to the role that will own
them.

Finally, update the documentation for the GRANT statement
itself with some general principles about how the SET option
works and how it can be used.

Patch by me, reviewed (but not fully endorsed) by Noah Misch.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoZk6VB3DQ83+DO5P_HP=M9PQAh1yj-KgeV30uKefVaWDg@mail.gmail.com
2023-01-16 10:35:29 -05:00
Jeff Davis
ff9618e82a Fix MAINTAIN privileges for toast tables and partitions.
Commit 60684dd8 left loose ends when it came to maintaining toast
tables or partitions.

For toast tables, simply skip the privilege check if the toast table
is an indirect target of the maintenance command, because the main
table privileges have already been checked.

For partitions, allow the maintenance command if the user has the
MAINTAIN privilege on the partition or any parent.

Also make CLUSTER emit "skipping" messages when the user doesn't have
privileges, similar to VACUUM.

Author: Nathan Bossart
Reported-by: Pavel Luzanov
Reviewed-by: Pavel Luzanov, Ted Yu
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230113231339.GA2422750@nathanxps13
2023-01-14 00:16:23 -08:00
Jeff Davis
c44f6334ca Simplify permissions for LOCK TABLE.
The prior behavior was confusing and hard to document. For instance,
if you had UPDATE privileges, you could lock a table in any lock mode
except ACCESS SHARE mode.

Now, if granted a privilege to lock at a given mode, one also has
privileges to lock at a less-conflicting mode. MAINTAIN, UPDATE,
DELETE, and TRUNCATE privileges allow any lock mode. INSERT privileges
allow ROW EXCLUSIVE (or below). SELECT privileges allow ACCESS SHARE.

Reviewed-by: Nathan Bossart
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/9550c76535404a83156252b25a11babb4792ea1e.camel%40j-davis.com
2023-01-13 14:33:19 -08:00
Michael Paquier
5f6401f81c Fix typos in code and comments
Author: Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230110045722.GD9837@telsasoft.com
2023-01-11 15:16:38 +09:00