Split the "Authentication and Security" section into two separate
sections "Authentication" and "SSL". The latter part has gotten much
longer over time, and doesn't primarily have to do with authentication.
Also, the row_security parameter was inconsistently categorized, so
clean that up while we're here.
This patch rearranges the division of labor between pg_dump and pg_dumpall
so that pg_dump itself handles all properties attached to a single
database. Notably, a database's ACL (GRANT/REVOKE status) and local GUC
settings established by ALTER DATABASE SET and ALTER ROLE IN DATABASE SET
can be dumped and restored by pg_dump. This is a long-requested
improvement.
"pg_dumpall -g" will now produce only role- and tablespace-related output,
nothing about individual databases. The total output of a regular
pg_dumpall run remains the same.
pg_dump (or pg_restore) will restore database-level properties only when
creating the target database with --create. This applies not only to
ACLs and GUCs but to the other database properties it already handled,
that is database comments and security labels. This is more consistent
and useful, but does represent an incompatibility in the behavior seen
without --create.
(This change makes the proposed patch to have pg_dump use "COMMENT ON
DATABASE CURRENT_DATABASE" unnecessary, since there is no case where
the command is issued that we won't know the true name of the database.
We might still want that patch as a feature in its own right, but pg_dump
no longer needs it.)
pg_dumpall with --clean will now drop and recreate the "postgres" and
"template1" databases in the target cluster, allowing their locale and
encoding settings to be changed if necessary, and providing a cleaner
way to set nondefault tablespaces for them than we had before. This
means that such a script must now always be started in the "postgres"
database; the order of drops and reconnects will not work otherwise.
Without --clean, the script will not adjust any database-level properties
of those two databases (including their comments, ACLs, and security
labels, which it formerly would try to set).
Another minor incompatibility is that the CREATE DATABASE commands in a
pg_dumpall script will now always specify locale and encoding settings.
Formerly those would be omitted if they matched the cluster's default.
While that behavior had some usefulness in some migration scenarios,
it also posed a significant hazard of unwanted locale/encoding changes.
To migrate to another locale/encoding, it's now necessary to use pg_dump
without --create to restore into a database with the desired settings.
Commit 4bd371f6f's hack to emit "SET default_transaction_read_only = off"
is gone: we now dodge that problem by the expedient of not issuing ALTER
DATABASE SET commands until after reconnecting to the target database.
Therefore, such settings won't apply during the restore session.
In passing, improve some shaky grammar in the docs, and add a note pointing
out that pg_dumpall's output can't be expected to load without any errors.
(Someday we might want to fix that, but this is not that patch.)
Haribabu Kommi, reviewed at various times by Andreas Karlsson,
Vaishnavi Prabakaran, and Robert Haas; further hacking by me.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJrrPGcUurV0eWTeXODwsOYFN=Ekq36t1s0YnFYUNzsmRfdAyA@mail.gmail.com
In each of the supplied procedural languages (PL/pgSQL, PL/Perl,
PL/Python, PL/Tcl), add language-specific commit and rollback
functions/commands to control transactions in procedures in that
language. Add similar underlying functions to SPI. Some additional
cleanup so that transaction commit or abort doesn't blow away data
structures still used by the procedure call. Add execution context
tracking to CALL and DO statements so that transaction control commands
can only be issued in top-level procedure and block calls, not function
calls or other procedure or block calls.
- SPI
Add a new function SPI_connect_ext() that is like SPI_connect() but
allows passing option flags. The only option flag right now is
SPI_OPT_NONATOMIC. A nonatomic SPI connection can execute transaction
control commands, otherwise it's not allowed. This is meant to be
passed down from CALL and DO statements which themselves know in which
context they are called. A nonatomic SPI connection uses different
memory management. A normal SPI connection allocates its memory in
TopTransactionContext. For nonatomic connections we use PortalContext
instead. As the comment in SPI_connect_ext() (previously SPI_connect())
indicates, one could potentially use PortalContext in all cases, but it
seems safest to leave the existing uses alone, because this stuff is
complicated enough already.
SPI also gets new functions SPI_start_transaction(), SPI_commit(), and
SPI_rollback(), which can be used by PLs to implement their transaction
control logic.
- portalmem.c
Some adjustments were made in the code that cleans up portals at
transaction abort. The portal code could already handle a command
*committing* a transaction and continuing (e.g., VACUUM), but it was not
quite prepared for a command *aborting* a transaction and continuing.
In AtAbort_Portals(), remove the code that marks an active portal as
failed. As the comment there already predicted, this doesn't work if
the running command wants to keep running after transaction abort. And
it's actually not necessary, because pquery.c is careful to run all
portal code in a PG_TRY block and explicitly runs MarkPortalFailed() if
there is an exception. So the code in AtAbort_Portals() is never used
anyway.
In AtAbort_Portals() and AtCleanup_Portals(), we need to be careful not
to clean up active portals too much. This mirrors similar code in
PreCommit_Portals().
- PL/Perl
Gets new functions spi_commit() and spi_rollback()
- PL/pgSQL
Gets new commands COMMIT and ROLLBACK.
Update the PL/SQL porting example in the documentation to reflect that
transactions are now possible in procedures.
- PL/Python
Gets new functions plpy.commit and plpy.rollback.
- PL/Tcl
Gets new commands commit and rollback.
Reviewed-by: Andrew Dunstan <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com>
Add support for huge pages (called large pages on Windows) to the
Windows build.
This (probably) breaks compatibility with Windows versions prior to
Windows 2003 or Windows Vista.
Authors: Takayuki Tsunakawa and Thomas Munro
Reviewed by: Magnus Hagander, Amit Kapila
Document how to properly create root and intermediate certificates using
v3_ca extensions and where to place intermediate certificates so they
are properly transferred to the remote side with the leaf certificate to
link to the remote root certificate. This corrects docs that used to
say that intermediate certificates must be stored with the root
certificate.
Also add instructions on how to create root, intermediate, and leaf
certificates.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180116002238.GC12724@momjian.us
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier
Backpatch-through: 9.3
When an UPDATE causes a row to no longer match the partition
constraint, try to move it to a different partition where it does
match the partition constraint. In essence, the UPDATE is split into
a DELETE from the old partition and an INSERT into the new one. This
can lead to surprising behavior in concurrency scenarios because
EvalPlanQual rechecks won't work as they normally did; the known
problems are documented. (There is a pending patch to improve the
situation further, but it needs more review.)
Amit Khandekar, reviewed and tested by Amit Langote, David Rowley,
Rajkumar Raghuwanshi, Dilip Kumar, Amul Sul, Thomas Munro, Álvaro
Herrera, Amit Kapila, and me. A few final revisions by me.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAJ3gD9do9o2ccQ7j7+tSgiE1REY65XRiMb=yJO3u3QhyP8EEPQ@mail.gmail.com
When CREATE INDEX is run on a partitioned table, create catalog entries
for an index on the partitioned table (which is just a placeholder since
the table proper has no data of its own), and recurse to create actual
indexes on the existing partitions; create them in future partitions
also.
As a convenience gadget, if the new index definition matches some
existing index in partitions, these are picked up and used instead of
creating new ones. Whichever way these indexes come about, they become
attached to the index on the parent table and are dropped alongside it,
and cannot be dropped on isolation unless they are detached first.
To support pg_dump'ing these indexes, add commands
CREATE INDEX ON ONLY <table>
(which creates the index on the parent partitioned table, without
recursing) and
ALTER INDEX ATTACH PARTITION
(which is used after the indexes have been created individually on each
partition, to attach them to the parent index). These reconstruct prior
database state exactly.
Reviewed-by: (in alphabetical order) Peter Eisentraut, Robert Haas, Amit
Langote, Jesper Pedersen, Simon Riggs, David Rowley
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20171113170646.gzweigyrgg6pwsg4@alvherre.pgsql
Ability to advance both physical and logical replication slots using a
new user function pg_replication_slot_advance().
For logical advance that means records are consumed as fast as possible
and changes are not given to output plugin for sending. Makes 2nd phase
(after we reached SNAPBUILD_FULL_SNAPSHOT) of replication slot creation
faster, especially when there are big transactions as the reorder buffer
does not have to deal with data changes and does not have to spill to
disk.
Author: Petr Jelinek
Reviewed-by: Simon Riggs
~> (cube, int) operator was especially designed for knn-gist search.
However, knn-gist supports only ascending ordering of results. Nevertheless
it would be useful to support descending ordering by ~> (cube, int) operator.
We provide workaround for that: negative coordinate give us inversed value
of corresponding cube bound. Therefore, knn search using negative coordinate
gives us an effect of descending ordering by cube bound.
Author: Alexander Korotkov
Reviewed by: Tomas Vondra, Andrey Borodin
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/a9657f6a-b497-36ff-e56-482a2c7e3292@2ndquadrant.com
~> (cube, int) operator was especially designed for knn-gist search.
However, it appears that knn-gist search can't work correctly with current
behavior of this operator when dataset contains cubes of variable
dimensionality. In this case, the same value of second operator argument
can point to different dimension depending on dimensionality of particular cube.
Such behavior is incompatible with gist indexing of cubes, and knn-gist doesn't
work correctly for it.
This patch changes behavior of ~> (cube, int) operator by introducing dimension
numbering where value of second argument unambiguously identifies number of
dimension. With new behavior, this operator can be correctly supported by
knn-gist. Relevant changes to cube operator class are also included.
Backpatch to v9.6 where operator was introduced.
Since behavior of ~> (cube, int) operator is changed, depending entities
must be refreshed after upgrade. Such as, expression indexes using this
operator must be reindexed, materialized views must be rebuilt, stored
procedures and client code must be revised to correctly use new behavior.
That should be mentioned in release notes.
Noticed by: Tomas Vondra
Author: Alexander Korotkov
Reviewed by: Tomas Vondra, Andrey Borodin
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/a9657f6a-b497-36ff-e56-482a2c7e3292@2ndquadrant.com
These functions are stated to be Oracle-compatible, but they weren't.
Yugo Nagata noticed that while our code returns zero for a zero or
negative fourth parameter (occur_index), Oracle throws an error.
Further testing by me showed that there was also a discrepancy in the
interpretation of a negative third parameter (beg_index): Oracle thinks
that a negative beg_index indicates the last place where the target
substring can *begin*, whereas our code thinks it is the last place
where the target can *end*.
Adjust the sample code to behave like Oracle in both these respects.
Also change it to be a CDATA[] section, simplifying copying-and-pasting
out of the documentation source file. And fix minor problems in the
introductory comment, which wasn't very complete or accurate.
Back-patch to all supported branches. Although this patch only touches
documentation, we should probably call it out as a bug fix in the next
minor release notes, since users who have adopted the functions will
likely want to update their versions.
Yugo Nagata and Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20171229191705.c0b43a8c.nagata@sraoss.co.jp
These are compatible with Oracle and required for the datetime template
language for jsonpath in an upcoming patch.
Nikita Glukhov and Andrew Dunstan, reviewed by Pavel Stehule.
Added:
- variable now might contain integer, double, boolean and null values
- functions ln, exp
- logical AND/OR/NOT
- bitwise AND/OR/NOT/XOR
- bit right/left shift
- comparison operators
- IS [NOT] (NULL|TRUE|FALSE)
- conditional choice (in form of when/case/then)
New operations and functions allow to implement more complicated test scenario.
Author: Fabien Coelho with minor editorization by me
Reviewed-By: Pavel Stehule, Jeevan Ladhe, me
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/alpine.DEB.2.10.1604030742390.31618@sto
This adds a second standard channel binding type for SCRAM. It is
mainly intended for third-party clients that cannot implement
tls-unique, for example JDBC.
Author: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
While ldaptls=1 provides an RFC 4513 conforming way to do LDAP
authentication with TLS encryption, there was an earlier de facto
standard way to do LDAP over SSL called LDAPS. Even though it's not
enshrined in a standard, it's still widely used and sometimes required
by organizations' network policies. There seems to be no reason not to
support it when available in the client library. Therefore, add support
when using OpenLDAP 2.4+ or Windows. It can be configured with
ldapscheme=ldaps or ldapurl=ldaps://...
Add tests for both ways of requesting LDAPS and a test for the
pre-existing ldaptls=1. Modify the 001_auth.pl test for "diagnostic
messages", which was previously relying on the server rejecting
ldaptls=1.
Author: Thomas Munro
Reviewed-By: Peter Eisentraut
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=1s+pA-LZUjQ-9GQz0Z4rX_eK=DFXAF1nBQ+ROPimuOYQ@mail.gmail.com
Polygon opclass uses compress method feature of SP-GiST added earlier. For now
it's a single operator class which uses this feature. SP-GiST actually indexes
a bounding boxes of input polygons, so part of supported operations are lossy.
Opclass uses most methods of corresponding opclass over boxes of SP-GiST and
treats bounding boxes as point in 4D-space.
Bump catalog version.
Authors: Nikita Glukhov, Alexander Korotkov with minor editorization by me
Reviewed-By: all authors + Darafei Praliaskouski
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/54907069.1030506@sigaev.ru
Introduce parallel-aware hash joins that appear in EXPLAIN plans as Parallel
Hash Join with Parallel Hash. While hash joins could already appear in
parallel queries, they were previously always parallel-oblivious and had a
partial subplan only on the outer side, meaning that the work of the inner
subplan was duplicated in every worker.
After this commit, the planner will consider using a partial subplan on the
inner side too, using the Parallel Hash node to divide the work over the
available CPU cores and combine its results in shared memory. If the join
needs to be split into multiple batches in order to respect work_mem, then
workers process different batches as much as possible and then work together
on the remaining batches.
The advantages of a parallel-aware hash join over a parallel-oblivious hash
join used in a parallel query are that it:
* avoids wasting memory on duplicated hash tables
* avoids wasting disk space on duplicated batch files
* divides the work of building the hash table over the CPUs
One disadvantage is that there is some communication between the participating
CPUs which might outweigh the benefits of parallelism in the case of small
hash tables. This is avoided by the planner's existing reluctance to supply
partial plans for small scans, but it may be necessary to estimate
synchronization costs in future if that situation changes. Another is that
outer batch 0 must be written to disk if multiple batches are required.
A potential future advantage of parallel-aware hash joins is that right and
full outer joins could be supported, since there is a single set of matched
bits for each hashtable, but that is not yet implemented.
A new GUC enable_parallel_hash is defined to control the feature, defaulting
to on.
Author: Thomas Munro
Reviewed-By: Andres Freund, Robert Haas
Tested-By: Rafia Sabih, Prabhat Sahu
Discussion:
https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=2W=cOkiZxcg6qiFQP-dHUe09aqTrEMM7yJDrHMhDv_RA@mail.gmail.comhttps://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=37HKyJ4U6XOLi=JgfSHM3o6B-GaeO-6hkOmneTDkH+Uw@mail.gmail.com
This parameter can be used to enforce the channel binding type used
during a SCRAM authentication. This can be useful to check code paths
where an invalid channel binding type is used by a client and will be
even more useful to allow testing other channel binding types when they
are added.
The default value is tls-unique, which is what RFC 5802 specifies.
Clients can optionally specify an empty value, which has as effect to
not use channel binding and use SCRAM-SHA-256 as chosen SASL mechanism.
More tests for SCRAM and channel binding are added to the SSL test
suite.
Author: Author: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
Remove the designation that Flex is a GNU package. Even though Bison is
a GNU package, leave out the designation to not make the sentence
unnecessarily complicated.
Author: Pavan Maddamsetti <pavan.maddamsetti@gmail.com>
When we create an Append node, we can spread out the workers over the
subplans instead of piling on to each subplan one at a time, which
should typically be a bit more efficient, both because the startup
cost of any plan executed entirely by one worker is paid only once and
also because of reduced contention. We can also construct Append
plans using a mix of partial and non-partial subplans, which may allow
for parallelism in places that otherwise couldn't support it.
Unfortunately, this patch doesn't handle the important case of
parallelizing UNION ALL by running each branch in a separate worker;
the executor infrastructure is added here, but more planner work is
needed.
Amit Khandekar, Robert Haas, Amul Sul, reviewed and tested by
Ashutosh Bapat, Amit Langote, Rafia Sabih, Amit Kapila, and
Rajkumar Raghuwanshi.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAJ3gD9dy0K_E8r727heqXoBmWZ83HwLFwdcaSSmBQ1+S+vRuUQ@mail.gmail.com
Hopefully, the additional logging will help avoid confusion that
could otherwise result.
Nathan Bossart, reviewed by Michael Paquier, Fabrízio Mello, and me
Commit 8355a011a0124bdf7ccbada206a967d427039553 was reverted in
f05230752d53c4aa74cffa9b699983bbb6bcb118, but this attempt is
hopefully better-considered: we now pass the correct value to
ExecOpenIndices, which should avoid the crash that we hit before.
Amit Langote, reviewed by Simon Riggs and by me. Some final
editing by me.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/7ff1e8ec-dc39-96b1-7f47-ff5965dceeac@lab.ntt.co.jp
This adds a new object type "procedure" that is similar to a function
but does not have a return type and is invoked by the new CALL statement
instead of SELECT or similar. This implementation is aligned with the
SQL standard and compatible with or similar to other SQL implementations.
This commit adds new commands CALL, CREATE/ALTER/DROP PROCEDURE, as well
as ALTER/DROP ROUTINE that can refer to either a function or a
procedure (or an aggregate function, as an extension to SQL). There is
also support for procedures in various utility commands such as COMMENT
and GRANT, as well as support in pg_dump and psql. Support for defining
procedures is available in all the languages supplied by the core
distribution.
While this commit is mainly syntax sugar around existing functionality,
future features will rely on having procedures as a separate object
type.
Reviewed-by: Andrew Dunstan <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com>
rewriteTargetListUD's processing is dependent on the relkind of the query's
target table. That was fine at the time it was made to act that way, even
for queries on inheritance trees, because all tables in an inheritance tree
would necessarily be plain tables. However, the 9.5 feature addition
allowing some members of an inheritance tree to be foreign tables broke the
assumption that rewriteTargetListUD's output tlist could be applied to all
child tables with nothing more than column-number mapping. This led to
visible failures if foreign child tables had row-level triggers, and would
also break in cases where child tables belonged to FDWs that used methods
other than CTID for row identification.
To fix, delay running rewriteTargetListUD until after the planner has
expanded inheritance, so that it is applied separately to the (already
mapped) tlist for each child table. We can conveniently call it from
preprocess_targetlist. Refactor associated code slightly to avoid the
need to heap_open the target relation multiple times during
preprocess_targetlist. (The APIs remain a bit ugly, particularly around
the point of which steps scribble on parse->targetList and which don't.
But avoiding such scribbling would require a change in FDW callback APIs,
which is more pain than it's worth.)
Also fix ExecModifyTable to ensure that "tupleid" is reset to NULL when
we transition from rows providing a CTID to rows that don't. (That's
really an independent bug, but it manifests in much the same cases.)
Add a regression test checking one manifestation of this problem, which
was that row-level triggers on a foreign child table did not work right.
Back-patch to 9.5 where the problem was introduced.
Etsuro Fujita, reviewed by Ildus Kurbangaliev and Ashutosh Bapat
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170514150525.0346ba72@postgrespro.ru
Since some preparation work had already been done, the only source
changes left were changing empty-element tags like <xref linkend="foo">
to <xref linkend="foo"/>, and changing the DOCTYPE.
The source files are still named *.sgml, but they are actually XML files
now. Renaming could be considered later.
In the build system, the intermediate step to convert from SGML to XML
is removed. Everything is build straight from the source files again.
The OpenSP (or the old SP) package is no longer needed.
The documentation toolchain instructions are updated and are much
simpler now.
Peter Eisentraut, Alexander Lakhin, Jürgen Purtz
wal_receiver_timeout, wal_receiver_status_interval and
wal_retrieve_retry_interval configuration parameters affect the logical rep
worker, but previously only wal_receiver_status_interval was not mentioned
as such parameter in the doc.
Back-patch to v10 where logical rep was added.
Author: Masahiko Sawada
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAD21AoBUnuH_UsnKXyPCsCR7EAMamW0sSb6a7=WgiQRpnMAp5w@mail.gmail.com
pgbench can skip some transactions when both -R and -L options are used.
Previously, this resulted in slightly silly statistics both in progress
reports and final output, because the skipped transactions were counted
as executed for TPS and related stats. Discount skipped xacts in TPS
numbers, and also when figuring the percentage of xacts exceeding the
latency limit.
Also, don't print per-script skipped-transaction counts when there is
only one script. That's redundant with the overall count, and it's
inconsistent with the fact that we don't print other per-script stats
when there's only one script. Clean up some unnecessary interactions
between what should be independent options that were due to that
decision.
While at it, avoid division-by-zero in cases where no transactions were
executed. While on modern platforms this would generally result in
printing "NaN" rather than a crash, that isn't spelled consistently
across platforms and it would confuse many people. Skip the relevant
output entirely when practical, else print zeroes.
Fabien Coelho, reviewed by Steve Singer, additional hacking by me
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/26654.1505232433@sss.pgh.pa.us
Previously, any attempt to request a 3.x protocol version other than
3.0 would lead to a hard connection failure, which made the minor
protocol version really no different from the major protocol version
and precluded gentle protocol version breaks. Instead, when the
client requests a 3.x protocol version where x is greater than 0, send
the new NegotiateProtocolVersion message to convey that we support
only 3.0. This makes it possible to introduce new minor protocol
versions without requiring a connection retry when the server is
older.
In addition, if the startup packet includes name/value pairs where
the name starts with "_pq_.", assume that those are protocol options,
not GUCs. Include those we don't support (i.e. all of them, at
present) in the NegotiateProtocolVersion message so that the client
knows they were not understood. This makes it possible for the
client to request previously-unsupported features without bumping
the protocol version at all; the client can tell from the server's
response whether the option was understood.
It will take some time before servers that support these new
facilities become common in the wild; to speed things up and make
things easier for a future 3.1 protocol version, back-patch to all
supported releases.
Robert Haas and Badrul Chowdhury
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/BN6PR21MB0772FFA0CBD298B76017744CD1730@BN6PR21MB0772.namprd21.prod.outlook.com
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/30788.1498672033@sss.pgh.pa.us
