Since its introduction in fc34b0d9de, the default
maintenance_io_concurrency has been larger than the default
effective_io_concurrency. maintenance_io_concurrency primarily
controlled prefetching done on behalf of the whole system, for
operations like recovery. Therefore it makes sense for it to have a
value equal to or greater than effective_io_concurrency, which controls
I/O concurrency for reading a relation in a bitmap heap scan.
ff79b5b2ab increased effective_io_concurrency to 16, so we'll increase
maintenance_io_concurrency as well. For now, though, we'll keep the
defaults of effective_io_concurrency and maintenance_io_concurrency
equal to one another (16).
On fast, high IOPs systems, significantly higher values of
maintenance_io_concurrency are observably beneficial [1]. However, such
values would flood low IOPs systems and increase overall system I/O
latency.
It is worth mentioning that since 9256822608 and c3e775e608,
maintenance_io_concurrency also controls the I/O concurrency of each
vacuum worker. Since many autovacuum workers may be simultaneously
issuing I/Os, we want to keep maintenance_io_concurrency appropriately
conservative.
[1] https://postgr.es/m/c5d52837-6256-0556-ac8c-d6d3d558820a%40enterprisedb.com
Suggested-by: Jakub Wartak <jakub.wartak@enterprisedb.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKZiRmxdHQaU%2B2Zpe6d%3Dx%3D0vigJ1sfWwwVYLJAf%3Dud_wQ_VcUw%40mail.gmail.com
This commit just does the minimal wiring up of the AIO subsystem, added in the
next commit, to the rest of the system. The next commit contains more details
about motivation and architecture.
This commit is kept separate to make it easier to review, separating the
changes across the tree, from the implementation of the new subsystem.
We discussed squashing this commit with the main commit before merging AIO,
but there has been a mild preference for keeping it separate.
Reviewed-by: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>
Reviewed-by: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/uvrtrknj4kdytuboidbhwclo4gxhswwcpgadptsjvjqcluzmah%40brqs62irg4dt
This commit introduces a new GUC, log_lock_failure, which controls whether
a detailed log message is produced when a lock acquisition fails. Currently,
it only supports logging lock failures caused by SELECT ... NOWAIT.
The log message includes information about all processes holding or
waiting for the lock that couldn't be acquired, helping users analyze and
diagnose the causes of lock failures.
Currently, this option does not log failures from SELECT ... SKIP LOCKED,
as that could generate excessive log messages if many locks are skipped,
causing unnecessary noise.
This mechanism can be extended in the future to support for logging
lock failures from other commands, such as LOCK TABLE ... NOWAIT.
Author: Yuki Seino <seinoyu@oss.nttdata.com>
Co-authored-by: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres@jeltef.nl>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/411280a186cc26ef7034e0f2dfe54131@oss.nttdata.com
Add log_connections option 'setup_durations' which logs durations of
several key parts of connection establishment and backend setup.
For an incoming connection, starting from when the postmaster gets a
socket from accept() and ending when the forked child backend is first
ready for query, there are multiple steps that could each take longer
than expected due to external factors. This logging provides visibility
into authentication and fork duration as well as the end-to-end
connection establishment and backend initialization time.
To make this portable, the timings captured in the postmaster (socket
creation time, fork initiation time) are passed through the
BackendStartupData.
Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@oss.nttdata.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
Reviewed-by: Jacob Champion <jacob.champion@enterprisedb.com>
Reviewed-by: Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres@jeltef.nl>
Reviewed-by: Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume.lelarge@dalibo.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/flat/CAAKRu_b_smAHK0ZjrnL5GRxnAVWujEXQWpLXYzGbmpcZd3nLYw%40mail.gmail.com
Convert the boolean log_connections GUC into a list GUC comprised of the
connection aspects to log.
This gives users more control over the volume and kind of connection
logging.
The current log_connections options are 'receipt', 'authentication', and
'authorization'. The empty string disables all connection logging. 'all'
enables all available connection logging.
For backwards compatibility, the most common values for the
log_connections boolean are still supported (on, off, 1, 0, true, false,
yes, no). Note that previously supported substrings of on, off, true,
false, yes, and no are no longer supported.
Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@oss.nttdata.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/flat/CAAKRu_b_smAHK0ZjrnL5GRxnAVWujEXQWpLXYzGbmpcZd3nLYw%40mail.gmail.com
Calculate the insert threshold for triggering an autovacuum of a
relation based on the number of unfrozen pages.
By only considering the unfrozen portion of the table when calculating
how many tuples to add to the insert threshold, we can trigger more
frequent vacuums of insert-heavy tables. This increases the chances of
vacuuming those pages when they still reside in shared buffers
This also increases the number of autovacuums triggered by tuples
inserted and not by wraparound risk. We prefer to freeze these pages
during insert-triggered autovacuums, as anti-wraparound vacuums are not
automatically canceled by conflicting lock requests.
We calculate the unfrozen percentage of the table using the recently
added (99f8f3fbbc) relallfrozen column of pg_class.
Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Greg Sabino Mullane <htamfids@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Robert Treat <rob@xzilla.net>
Reviewed-by: wenhui qiu <qiuwenhuifx@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/flat/CAAKRu_aj-P7YyBz_cPNwztz6ohP%2BvWis%3Diz3YcomkB3NpYA--w%40mail.gmail.com
This commit is a rework of 2421e9a51d, about which Andres Freund has
raised some concerns as it is valuable to have both track_io_timing and
track_wal_io_timing in some cases, as the WAL write and fsync paths can
be a major bottleneck for some workloads. Hence, it can be relevant to
not calculate the WAL timings in environments where pg_test_timing
performs poorly while capturing some IO data under track_io_timing for
the non-WAL IO paths. The opposite can be also true: it should be
possible to disable the non-WAL timings and enable the WAL timings (the
previous GUC setups allowed this possibility).
track_wal_io_timing is added back in this commit, controlling if WAL
timings should be calculated in pg_stat_io for the read, fsync and write
paths, as done previously with pg_stat_wal. pg_stat_wal previously
tracked only the sync and write parts (now removed), read stats is new
data tracked in pg_stat_io, all three are aggregated if
track_wal_io_timing is enabled. The read part matters during recovery
or if a XLogReader is used.
Extra note: more control over if the types of timings calculated in
pg_stat_io could be done with a GUC that lists pairs of (IOObject,IOOp).
Reported-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Author: Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3opf2wh2oljco6ldyqf7ukabw3jijnnhno6fjb4mlu6civ5h24@fcwmhsgmlmzu
MAX_BACKENDS influences many things besides postmaster. I e.g. noticed that we
don't have static assertions ensuring BUF_REFCOUNT_MASK is big enough for
MAX_BACKENDS, adding them would require including postmaster.h in
buf_internals.h which doesn't seem right.
While at that, add MAX_BACKENDS_BITS, as that's useful in various places for
static assertions (to be added in subsequent commits).
Reviewed-by: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/wptizm4qt6yikgm2pt52xzyv6ycmqiutloyvypvmagn7xvqkce@d4xuv3mylpg4
The four following attributes are removed from pg_stat_wal:
* wal_write
* wal_sync
* wal_write_time
* wal_sync_time
a051e71e28 has added an equivalent of this information in pg_stat_io
with more granularity as this now spreads across the backend types, IO
context and IO objects. So, keeping the same information in pg_stat_wal
has little benefits.
Another benefit of this commit is the removal of PendingWalStats,
simplifying an upcoming patch to add per-backend WAL statistics, which
already support IO statistics and which have access to the write/sync
stats data of WAL.
The GUC track_wal_io_timing, that was used to enable or disable the
aggregation of the write and sync timings for WAL, is also removed.
pgstat_prepare_io_time() is simplified.
Bump catalog version.
Bump PGSTAT_FILE_FORMAT_ID, due to the update of PgStat_WalStats.
Author: Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/Z7RkQ0EfYaqqjgz/@ip-10-97-1-34.eu-west-3.compute.internal
The signedness of the 'char' type in C is
implementation-dependent. For instance, 'signed char' is used by
default on x86 CPUs, while 'unsigned char' is used on aarch
CPUs. Previously, we accidentally let C implementation signedness
affect persistent data. This led to inconsistent results when
comparing char data across different platforms.
This commit introduces a new 'default_char_signedness' field in
ControlFileData to store the signedness of the 'char' type. While this
change does not encourage the use of 'char' without explicitly
specifying its signedness, this field can be used as a hint to ensure
consistent behavior for pre-v18 data files that store data sorted by
the 'char' type on disk (e.g., GIN and GiST indexes), especially in
cross-platform replication scenarios.
Newly created database clusters unconditionally set the default char
signedness to true. pg_upgrade (with an upcoming commit) changes this
flag for clusters if the source database cluster has
signedness=false. As a result, signedness=false setting will become
rare over time. If we had known about the problem during the last
development cycle that forced initdb (v8.3), we would have made all
clusters signed or all clusters unsigned. Making pg_upgrade the only
source of signedness=false will cause the population of database
clusters to converge toward that retrospective ideal.
Bump catalog version (for the catalog changes) and PG_CONTROL_VERSION
(for the additions in ControlFileData).
Reviewed-by: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CB11ADBC-0C3F-4FE0-A678-666EE80CBB07%40amazon.com
This commit implements OAUTHBEARER, RFC 7628, and OAuth 2.0 Device
Authorization Grants, RFC 8628. In order to use this there is a
new pg_hba auth method called oauth. When speaking to a OAuth-
enabled server, it looks a bit like this:
$ psql 'host=example.org oauth_issuer=... oauth_client_id=...'
Visit https://oauth.example.org/login and enter the code: FPQ2-M4BG
Device authorization is currently the only supported flow so the
OAuth issuer must support that in order for users to authenticate.
Third-party clients may however extend this and provide their own
flows. The built-in device authorization flow is currently not
supported on Windows.
In order for validation to happen server side a new framework for
plugging in OAuth validation modules is added. As validation is
implementation specific, with no default specified in the standard,
PostgreSQL does not ship with one built-in. Each pg_hba entry can
specify a specific validator or be left blank for the validator
installed as default.
This adds a requirement on libcurl for the client side support,
which is optional to build, but the server side has no additional
build requirements. In order to run the tests, Python is required
as this adds a https server written in Python. Tests are gated
behind PG_TEST_EXTRA as they open ports.
This patch has been a multi-year project with many contributors
involved with reviews and in-depth discussions: Michael Paquier,
Heikki Linnakangas, Zhihong Yu, Mahendrakar Srinivasarao, Andrey
Chudnovsky and Stephen Frost to name a few. While Jacob Champion
is the main author there have been some levels of hacking by others.
Daniel Gustafsson contributed the validation module and various bits
and pieces; Thomas Munro wrote the client side support for kqueue.
Author: Jacob Champion <jacob.champion@enterprisedb.com>
Co-authored-by: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
Co-authored-by: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
Reviewed-by: Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at>
Reviewed-by: Kashif Zeeshan <kashi.zeeshan@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/d1b467a78e0e36ed85a09adf979d04cf124a9d4b.camel@vmware.com
This commit introduces idle_replication_slot_timeout GUC that allows
inactive slots to be invalidated at the time of checkpoint. Because
checkpoints happen checkpoint_timeout intervals, there can be some lag
between when the idle_replication_slot_timeout was exceeded and when the
slot invalidation is triggered at the next checkpoint. To avoid such lags,
users can force a checkpoint to promptly invalidate inactive slots.
Note that the idle timeout invalidation mechanism is not applicable for
slots that do not reserve WAL or for slots on the standby server that are
synced from the primary server (i.e., standby slots having 'synced' field
'true'). Synced slots are always considered to be inactive because they
don't perform logical decoding to produce changes.
The slots can become inactive for a long period if a subscriber is down
due to a system error or inaccessible because of network issues. If such a
situation persists, it might be more practical to recreate the subscriber
rather than attempt to recover the node and wait for it to catch up which
could be time-consuming.
Then, external tools could create replication slots (e.g., for migrations
or upgrades) that may fail to remove them if an error occurs, leaving
behind unused slots that take up space and resources. Manually cleaning
them up can be tedious and error-prone, and without intervention, these
lingering slots can cause unnecessary WAL retention and system bloat.
As the duration of idle_replication_slot_timeout is in minutes, any test
using that would be time-consuming. We are planning to commit a follow up
patch for tests by using the injection point framework.
Author: Nisha Moond <nisha.moond412@gmail.com>
Author: Bharath Rupireddy <bharath.rupireddyforpostgres@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Smith <smithpb2250@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Hayato Kuroda <kuroda.hayato@fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Vignesh C <vignesh21@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Hou Zhijie <houzj.fnst@fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALj2ACW4aUe-_uFQOjdWCEN-xXoLGhmvRFnL8SNw_TZ5nJe+aw@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/OS0PR01MB5716C131A7D80DAE8CB9E88794FC2@OS0PR01MB5716.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com
This commit improves the description of a couple of GUCs, to be more
consistent with the style of their surroundings:
* array_nulls
* enable_self_join_elimination
* optimize_bounded_sort
* row_security
* synchronize_seqscans
Author: Kyotaro Horiguchi
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20250218.103240.1422205966404509831.horikyota.ntt@gmail.com
The Self-Join Elimination (SJE) feature removes an inner join of a plain
table to itself in the query tree if it is proven that the join can be
replaced with a scan without impacting the query result. Self-join and
inner relation get replaced with the outer in query, equivalence classes,
and planner info structures. Also, the inner restrictlist moves to the
outer one with the removal of duplicated clauses. Thus, this optimization
reduces the length of the range table list (this especially makes sense for
partitioned relations), reduces the number of restriction clauses and,
in turn, selectivity estimations, and potentially improves total planner
prediction for the query.
This feature is dedicated to avoiding redundancy, which can appear after
pull-up transformations or the creation of an EquivalenceClass-derived clause
like the below.
SELECT * FROM t1 WHERE x IN (SELECT t3.x FROM t1 t3);
SELECT * FROM t1 WHERE EXISTS (SELECT t3.x FROM t1 t3 WHERE t3.x = t1.x);
SELECT * FROM t1,t2, t1 t3 WHERE t1.x = t2.x AND t2.x = t3.x;
In the future, we could also reduce redundancy caused by subquery pull-up
after unnecessary outer join removal in cases like the one below.
SELECT * FROM t1 WHERE x IN
(SELECT t3.x FROM t1 t3 LEFT JOIN t2 ON t2.x = t1.x);
Also, it can drastically help to join partitioned tables, removing entries
even before their expansion.
The SJE proof is based on innerrel_is_unique() machinery.
We can remove a self-join when for each outer row:
1. At most, one inner row matches the join clause;
2. Each matched inner row must be (physically) the same as the outer one;
3. Inner and outer rows have the same row mark.
In this patch, we use the next approach to identify a self-join:
1. Collect all merge-joinable join quals which look like a.x = b.x;
2. Add to the list above the baseretrictinfo of the inner table;
3. Check innerrel_is_unique() for the qual list. If it returns false, skip
this pair of joining tables;
4. Check uniqueness, proved by the baserestrictinfo clauses. To prove the
possibility of self-join elimination, the inner and outer clauses must
match exactly.
The relation replacement procedure is not trivial and is partly combined
with the one used to remove useless left joins. Tests covering this feature
were added to join.sql. Some of the existing regression tests changed due
to self-join removal logic.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/flat/64486b0b-0404-e39e-322d-0801154901f3%40postgrespro.ru
Author: Andrey Lepikhov <a.lepikhov@postgrespro.ru>
Author: Alexander Kuzmenkov <a.kuzmenkov@postgrespro.ru>
Co-authored-by: Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Alena Rybakina <lena.ribackina@yandex.ru>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Reviewed-by: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-by: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan S. Katz <jkatz@postgresql.org>
Reviewed-by: David Rowley <david.rowley@2ndquadrant.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@enterprisedb.com>
Reviewed-by: Konstantin Knizhnik <k.knizhnik@postgrespro.ru>
Reviewed-by: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>
Reviewed-by: Hywel Carver <hywel@skillerwhale.com>
Reviewed-by: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>
Reviewed-by: Ronan Dunklau <ronan.dunklau@aiven.io>
Reviewed-by: vignesh C <vignesh21@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Zhihong Yu <zyu@yugabyte.com>
Reviewed-by: Greg Stark <stark@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Jaime Casanova <jcasanov@systemguards.com.ec>
Reviewed-by: Michał Kłeczek <michal@kleczek.org>
Reviewed-by: Alena Rybakina <lena.ribackina@yandex.ru>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov@gmail.com>
Many GUCs accept special values like -1 or an empty string to
disable the feature, use a system default, etc. While the
documentation consistently lists these special values, the GUC
descriptions do not. Many such descriptions fail to mention the
special values, and those that do vary in phrasing and placement.
This commit aims to bring some consistency to this area by applying
the following rules:
* Special values should be listed at the end of the long
description.
* Descriptions should use numerals (e.g., "0") instead of words
(e.g., "zero").
* Special value mentions should be concise and direct (e.g., "0
disables the timeout.", "An empty string means use the operating
system setting.").
* Multiple special values should be listed in ascending order.
Of course, there are exceptions, such as
max_pred_locks_per_relation and search_path, whose special values
are too complex to include. And there are cases like
listen_addresses, where the meaning of an empty string is arguably
too obvious to include. In those cases, I've refrained from adding
special value information to the GUC description.
Reviewed-by: Peter Smith <smithpb2250@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: "David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/Z6aIy4aywxUZHAo6%40nathan
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
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
"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
Most GUCs that accept a special value to disable the feature
mention it in their GUC description. This commit adds that
information to autovacuum_vacuum_max_threshold's description.
Oversight in commit 306dc520b9.
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
logging_collector was only mentioning stderr and csvlog, and forgot
about jsonlog. Oversight in dc686681e0, that has added support for
jsonlog in log_destination.
While on it, the description in the GUC table is tweaked to be more
consistent with the documentation and postgresql.conf.sample.
Author: Umar Hayat
Reviewed-by: Ashutosh Bapat, Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAD68Dp1K_vBYqBEukHw=1jF7e76t8aszGZTFL2ugi=H7r=a7MA@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 13
When syslogger.c was first written, we didn't want to assume that
all platforms have 64-bit ftello. But we've been assuming that
since v13 (cf commit 799d22461), so let's use that in syslogger.c
and allow log_rotation_size to range up to INT_MAX kilobytes.
The old code effectively limited log_rotation_size to 2GB regardless
of platform. While nobody's complained, that doesn't seem too far
away from what might be thought reasonable these days.
I noticed this while searching for instances of "1024L" in connection
with commit 041e8b95b. These were the last such instances.
(We still have instances of L-suffixed literals, but most of them
are associated with wait intervals for pg_usleep or similar functions.
I don't see any urgent reason to change that.)
This change adapts these functions to the machine's address width
without depending on "long" to be the right size. (It isn't on
Win64, for example.) While it seems unlikely anyone would care
to run with a stack depth limit exceeding 2GB, this is part of a
general push to avoid using type "long" to represent memory sizes.
It's convenient to use ssize_t rather than the perhaps-more-obvious
choice of size_t/Size, because the code involved depends on working
with a signed data type. Our MAX_KILOBYTES limit already ensures
that ssize_t will be sufficient to represent the maximum value of
max_stack_depth.
Extracted from a larger patch by Vladlen, plus additional hackery
by me.
Author: Vladlen Popolitov <v.popolitov@postgrespro.ru>
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1a01f0-66ec2d80-3b-68487680@27595217
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 b1ef48980d,
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 6fdd5d9563, 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
ca9c6a5680 consolidated most of the vacuum-related GUCs' documentation
into a new subsection. af2317652d then enforced this order in
postgresql.conf.sample. This commit reorganizes the GUC groups in
guc_tables.c/h to match the updated ordering in the docs.
Reported-by: Álvaro Herrera
Reviewed-by: Álvaro Herrera, Alena Rybakina
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/202501132046.m4mcvxxswznu%40alvherre.pgsql
ca9c6a5680 consolidated most of vacuum-related GUCs' documentation into
a new subsection. It neglected, however, to reorganize
postgresql.conf.sample to match the new order. Do this now.
Reported-by: Álvaro Herrera
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/202501110902.5banlseavz7c%40alvherre.pgsql
This commit introduces a new parameter named
autovacuum_worker_slots that controls how many autovacuum worker
slots to reserve during server startup. Modifying this new
parameter's value does require a server restart, but it should
typically be set to the upper bound of what you might realistically
need to set autovacuum_max_workers. With that new parameter in
place, autovacuum_max_workers can now be changed with a SIGHUP
(e.g., pg_ctl reload).
If autovacuum_max_workers is set higher than
autovacuum_worker_slots, a WARNING is emitted, and the server will
only start up to autovacuum_worker_slots workers at a given time.
If autovacuum_max_workers is set to a value less than the number of
currently-running autovacuum workers, the existing workers will
continue running, but no new workers will be started until the
number of running autovacuum workers drops below
autovacuum_max_workers.
Reviewed-by: Sami Imseih, Justin Pryzby, Robert Haas, Andres Freund, Yogesh Sharma
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20240410212344.GA1824549%40nathanxps13
Trying to clean up the code a bit while we're working on these files
for the reentrant scanner/pure parser patches. This cleanup only
touches the code sections after the second '%%' in each file, via a
manually-supervised and locally hacked up pgindent.
Previously we did this in PostmasterMain() and InitPostmasterChild(),
which meant that stack depth checking was disabled in non-postmaster
server processes, for instance in single-user mode. That seems like
a fairly bad idea, since there's no a-priori restriction on the
complexity of queries we will run in single-user mode. Moreover, this
led to not having quite the same stack depth limit in all processes,
which likely has no real-world effect but it offends my inner neatnik.
Setting the depth in main() guarantees that check_stack_depth() is
armed and has a consistent interpretation of stack depth in all forms
of server processes.
While at it, move the code associated with checking the stack depth
out of tcop/postgres.c (which was never a great home for it) into
a new file src/backend/utils/misc/stack_depth.c.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2081982.1734393311@sss.pgh.pa.us
POSIX says that the global variable environ shouldn't be declared in a
header, and that you have to declare it yourself. MinGW declares it in
<stdlib.h> with some macrology that messes up our declarations. Visual
Studio doesn't warn (there are clues that it may also declare it, but if
so, apparently compatibly). Suppress our declarations, on MinGW only.
This clears the last warnings on CI's optional MinGW task, and hopefully
on build farm animal fairywren too.
Like 1319997d, no back-patch for now as it's not known to be breaking
anything, and my humble goal is just to keep the MinGW build clean going
forward.
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> (earlier version)
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGJLMh%2B6W5E4M_jSFb43gnrA_-Q6-%2BBf3HkBXyGfRFcBsQ%40mail.gmail.com
MD5 has been considered to be unsuitable for use as a cryptographic
hash algorithm for some time. Furthermore, MD5 password hashes in
PostgreSQL are vulnerable to pass-the-hash attacks, i.e., knowing
the username and hashed password is sufficient to authenticate.
The SCRAM-SHA-256 method added in v10 is not subject to these
problems and is considered to be superior to MD5.
This commit marks MD5 password support in PostgreSQL as deprecated
and to be removed in a future release. The documentation now
contains several deprecation notices, and CREATE ROLE and ALTER
ROLE now emit deprecation warnings when setting MD5 passwords. The
warnings can be disabled by setting the md5_password_warnings
parameter to "off".
Reviewed-by: Greg Sabino Mullane, Jim Nasby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ZwbfpJJol7lDWajL%40nathan
The ordering of DISTINCT items is semantically insignificant, so we
can reorder them as needed. In fact, in the parser, we absorb the
sorting semantics of the sortClause as much as possible into the
distinctClause, ensuring that one clause is a prefix of the other.
This can help avoid a possible need to re-sort.
In this commit, we attempt to adjust the DISTINCT keys to match the
input path's pathkeys. This can likewise help avoid re-sorting, or
allow us to use incremental-sort to save efforts.
For DISTINCT ON expressions, the parser already ensures that they
match the initial ORDER BY expressions. When reordering the DISTINCT
keys, we must ensure that the resulting pathkey list matches the
initial distinctClause pathkeys.
This introduces a new GUC, enable_distinct_reordering, which allows
the optimization to be disabled if needed.
Author: Richard Guo
Reviewed-by: Andrei Lepikhov
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMbWs48dR26cCcX0f=8bja2JKQPcU64136kHk=xekHT9xschiQ@mail.gmail.com
After commit 5a2fed911a, the catalog state
resulting from these commands ceased to affect sessions. Restore the
longstanding behavior, which is like beginning the session with a SET
ROLE command. If cherry-picking the CVE-2024-10978 fixes, default to
including this, too. (This fixes an unintended side effect of fixing
CVE-2024-10978.) Back-patch to v12, like that commit. The release team
decided to include v12, despite the original intent to halt v12 commits
earlier this week.
Tom Lane and Noah Misch. Reported by Etienne LAFARGE.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CADOZwSb0UsEr4_UTFXC5k7=fyyK8uKXekucd+-uuGjJsGBfxgw@mail.gmail.com
InjectionPointEntry->name was described as a hash key, which was fine
when introduced in d86d20f0ba, but it is not now.
Oversight in 86db52a506, that has changed the way injection points are
stored in shared memory from a hash table to an array.
Backpatch-through: 17
The SQL spec mandates that SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION implies
SET ROLE NONE. We tried to implement that within the lowest-level
functions that manipulate these settings, but that was a bad idea.
In particular, guc.c assumes that it doesn't matter in what order
it applies GUC variable updates, but that was not the case for these
two variables. This problem, compounded by some hackish attempts to
work around it, led to some security-grade issues:
* Rolling back a transaction that had done SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION
would revert to SET ROLE NONE, even if that had not been the previous
state, so that the effective user ID might now be different from what
it had been.
* The same for SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION in a function SET clause.
* If a parallel worker inspected current_setting('role'), it saw
"none" even when it should see something else.
Also, although the parallel worker startup code intended to cope
with the current role's pg_authid row having disappeared, its
implementation of that was incomplete so it would still fail.
Fix by fully separating the miscinit.c functions that assign
session_authorization from those that assign role. To implement the
spec's requirement, teach set_config_option itself to perform "SET
ROLE NONE" when it sets session_authorization. (This is undoubtedly
ugly, but the alternatives seem worse. In particular, there's no way
to do it within assign_session_authorization without incompatible
changes in the API for GUC assign hooks.) Also, improve
ParallelWorkerMain to directly set all the relevant user-ID variables
instead of relying on some of them to get set indirectly. That
allows us to survive not finding the pg_authid row during worker
startup.
In v16 and earlier, this includes back-patching 9987a7bf3 which
fixed a violation of GUC coding rules: SetSessionAuthorization
is not an appropriate place to be throwing errors from.
Security: CVE-2024-10978
The ssl_ecdh_curve GUC only accepts a single value, but the TLS
handshake can list multiple curves in the groups extension (the
extension has been renamed to contain more than elliptic curves).
This changes the GUC to accept a colon-separated list of curves.
This commit also renames the GUC to ssl_groups to match the new
nomenclature for the TLS extension.
Original patch by Erica Zhang with additional hacking by me.
Author: Erica Zhang <ericazhangy2021@qq.com>
Author: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
Reviewed-by: Jacob Champion <jacob.champion@enterprisedb.com>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
Reviewed-by: Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres@jeltef.nl>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/tencent_063F89FA72CCF2E48A0DF5338841988E9809@qq.com
max_parallel_maintenance_workers has been introduced in 9da0cc3528,
and used a hardcoded limit of 1024 rather than this variable.
max_parallel_workers and max_parallel_workers_per_gather already used
MAX_PARALLEL_WORKER_LIMIT (1024) as their upper-bound since
6599c9ac33.
Author: Matthias van de Meent
Reviewed-by: Zhang Mingli
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEze2WiCiJD+8Wig_wGPyn4vgdPjbnYXy2Rw+9KYi6izTMuP=w@mail.gmail.com
The name extracted from the record of the GUC tables is applied to more
internal places of guc.c. This change has the advantage to simplify
parse_and_validate_value(), where the "name" was only used in elog
messages, while it was required to match with the name from the GUC
record.
pg_parameter_aclcheck() now passes the name of the GUC from its record
in two places rather than the caller's argument. The value given to
this function goes through convert_GUC_name_for_parameter_acl() that
does a simple ASCII downcasing.
Few GUCs mix character casing in core; one test is added for one of
these code paths with "IntervalStyle".
Author: Peter Smith, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ZwNh4vkc2NHJHnND@paquier.xyz
This change improves the description of the
restrict_nonsystem_relation_kind parameter in guc_table.c and the
documentation for better clarity.
Backpatch to 12, where this GUC parameter was introduced.
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/6a96f1af-22b4-4a80-8161-1f26606b9ee2%40eisentraut.org
Backpatch-through: 12
It's normal for the name in a free slot to match the new name. The
max_inuse mechanism kept simple cases from reaching the problem. The
problem could appear when index 0 was the previously-detached entry and
index 1 is in use. Back-patch to v17, where this code first appeared.
Report search_path changes to the client. Multi-tenant applications
often map tenants to schemas, and use search_path to pick the tenant a
given connection works with. This breaks when a connection pool (like
PgBouncer), because the search_path may change unexpectedly.
There are other GUCs we might want reported (e.g. various timeouts), but
search_path is by far the biggest foot gun that can lead either to
puzzling failures during query execution (when objects are missing or
are defined differently), or even to accessing incorrect data.
Many existing tools modify search_path, pg_dump being a notable example.
Ideally, clients could specify which GUCs are interesting and should be
subject to this reporting, but we don't support that. GUC_REPORT is what
connection pools rely on for other interesting GUCs, so just use that.
When this change was initially proposed in 2014, one of the concerns was
impact on performance. But this was addressed by commit 2432b1a040,
which ensures we report each GUC at most once per query, no matter how
many times it changed during execution.
Eventually, this might be replaced / superseded by allowing doing this
by making the protocol extensible in this direction, but it's unclear
when (or if) that happens. Until then, we can leverage GUC_REPORT.
Author: Alexander Kukushkin, Jelte Fennema-Nio
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAFh8B=k8s7WrcqhafmYhdN1+E5LVzZi_QaYDq8bKvrGJTAhY2Q@mail.gmail.com
