Reformat various places in which pgindent will make a mess, and
fix a few small violations of coding style that I happened to notice
while perusing the diffs from a pgindent dry run.
There is one actual bug fix here: the need-to-enlarge-the-buffer code
path in icu_convert_case was obviously broken. Perhaps it's unreachable
in our usage? Or maybe this is just sadly undertested.
Consistently refer to such an entry as a "statistics object", not just
"statistics" or "extended statistics". Previously we had a mismash of
terms, accompanied by utter confusion as to whether the term was
singular or plural. That's not only grating (at least to the ear of
a native English speaker) but could be outright misleading, eg in error
messages that seemed to be referring to multiple objects where only one
could be meant.
This commit fixes the code and a lot of comments (though I may have
missed a few). I also renamed two new SQL functions,
pg_get_statisticsextdef -> pg_get_statisticsobjdef
pg_statistic_ext_is_visible -> pg_statistics_obj_is_visible
to conform better with this terminology.
I have not touched the SGML docs other than fixing those function
names; the docs certainly need work but it seems like a separable task.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/22676.1494557205@sss.pgh.pa.us
The mess cleaned up in commit da0759600 is clear evidence that it's a
bug hazard to expect the caller of get_attstatsslot()/free_attstatsslot()
to provide the correct type OID for the array elements in the slot.
Moreover, we weren't even getting any performance benefit from that,
since get_attstatsslot() was extracting the real type OID from the array
anyway. So we ought to get rid of that requirement; indeed, it would
make more sense for get_attstatsslot() to pass back the type OID it found,
in case the caller isn't sure what to expect, which is likely in binary-
compatible-operator cases.
Another problem with the current implementation is that if the stats array
element type is pass-by-reference, we incur a palloc/memcpy/pfree cycle
for each element. That seemed acceptable when the code was written because
we were targeting O(10) array sizes --- but these days, stats arrays are
almost always bigger than that, sometimes much bigger. We can save a
significant number of cycles by doing one palloc/memcpy/pfree of the whole
array. Indeed, in the now-probably-common case where the array is toasted,
that happens anyway so this method is basically free. (Note: although the
catcache code will inline any out-of-line toasted values, it doesn't
decompress them. At the other end of the size range, it doesn't expand
short-header datums either. In either case, DatumGetArrayTypeP would have
to make a copy. We do end up using an extra array copy step if the element
type is pass-by-value and the array length is neither small enough for a
short header nor large enough to have suffered compression. But that
seems like a very acceptable price for winning in pass-by-ref cases.)
Hence, redesign to take these insights into account. While at it,
convert to an API in which we fill a struct rather than passing a bunch
of pointers to individual output arguments. That will make it less
painful if we ever want further expansion of what get_attstatsslot can
pass back.
It's certainly arguable that this is new development and not something to
push post-feature-freeze. However, I view it as primarily bug-proofing
and therefore something that's better to have sooner not later. Since
we aren't quite at beta phase yet, let's put it in.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16364.1494520862@sss.pgh.pa.us
Tab-completing DROP STATISTICS would only work if you started writing
the schema name containing the statistics object, because the visibility
clause was missing. To add it, we need to add SQL-callable support for
testing visibility of a statistics object, like all other object types
already have.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/22676.1494557205@sss.pgh.pa.us
We have now grown enough registerable syscache-invalidation callback
functions that the original assumption that there would be few of them
is causing performance problems. In particular, let's fix things so that
CallSyscacheCallbacks doesn't have to search the whole array to find
which callback(s) to invoke for a given cache ID. Preserve the original
behavior that callbacks are called in order of registration, just in
case there's someplace that depends on that (which I doubt).
In support of this, export the number of syscaches from syscache.h.
People could have found that out anyway from the enum, but adding a
#define makes that much safer.
This provides a useful additional speedup in Mathieu Fenniak's
logical-decoding test case, although we're reaching the point of
diminishing returns there. I think any further improvement will have
to come from reducing the number of cache invalidations that are
triggered in the first place. Still, we can hope that this change
gives some incremental benefit for all invalidation scenarios.
Back-patch to 9.4 where logical decoding was introduced.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHoiPjzea6N0zuCi=+f9v_j94nfsy6y8SU7-=bp4=7qw6_i=Rg@mail.gmail.com
A test case provided by Mathieu Fenniak shows that hash_seq_search'ing
this hashtable can consume a very significant amount of overhead during
logical decoding, which triggers frequent cache invalidation. Testing
suggests that the actual population of the hashtable is often no more
than a few dozen entries, so we can cut the overhead just by dropping
the initial number of buckets down from 1024 --- I chose to cut it to 64.
(In situations where we do have a significant number of entries, we
shouldn't get any real penalty from doing this, as the dynahash.c code
will resize the hashtable automatically.)
This gives a further factor-of-two savings in Mathieu's test case.
That may be overly optimistic for real-world benefit, as real cases
may have larger average table populations, but it's hard to see it
turning into a net negative for any workload.
Back-patch to 9.4 where relfilenodemap.c was introduced.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHoiPjzea6N0zuCi=+f9v_j94nfsy6y8SU7-=bp4=7qw6_i=Rg@mail.gmail.com
A test case provided by Mathieu Fenniak shows that the initial search for
the target catcache in CatalogCacheIdInvalidate consumes a very significant
amount of overhead in cases where cache invalidation is triggered but has
little useful work to do. There is no good reason for that search to exist
at all, as the index array maintained by syscache.c allows direct lookup of
the catcache from its ID. We just need a frontend function in syscache.c,
matching the division of labor for most other cache-accessing operations.
While there's more that can be done in this area, this patch alone reduces
the runtime of Mathieu's example by 2X. We can hope that it offers some
useful benefit in other cases too, although usually cache invalidation
overhead is not such a striking fraction of the total runtime.
Back-patch to 9.4 where logical decoding was introduced. It might be
worth going further back, but presently the only case we know of where
cache invalidation is really a significant burden is in logical decoding.
Also, older branches have fewer catcaches, reducing the possible benefit.
(Note: although this nominally changes catcache's API, we have always
documented CatalogCacheIdInvalidate as a private function, so I would
have little sympathy for an external module calling it directly. So
backpatching should be fine.)
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHoiPjzea6N0zuCi=+f9v_j94nfsy6y8SU7-=bp4=7qw6_i=Rg@mail.gmail.com
Previously, we had the WITH clause in the middle of the command, where
you'd specify both generic options as well as statistic types. Few
people liked this, so this commit changes it to remove the WITH keyword
from that clause and makes it accept statistic types only. (We
currently don't have any generic options, but if we invent in the
future, we will gain a new WITH clause, probably at the end of the
command).
Also, the column list is now specified without parens, which makes the
whole command look more similar to a SELECT command. This change will
let us expand the command to supporting expressions (not just columns
names) as well as multiple tables and their join conditions.
Tom added lots of code comments and fixed some parts of the CREATE
STATISTICS reference page, too; more changes in this area are
forthcoming. He also fixed a potential problem in the alter_generic
regression test, reducing verbosity on a cascaded drop to avoid
dependency on message ordering, as we do in other tests.
Tom also closed a security bug: we documented that table ownership was
required in order to create a statistics object on it, but didn't
actually implement it.
Implement tab-completion for statistics objects. This can stand some
more improvement.
Authors: Alvaro Herrera, with lots of cleanup by Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170420212426.ltvgyhnefvhixm6i@alvherre.pgsql
Increase from the historical value of 32 to 64. We are up to 31 callers
of CacheRegisterSyscacheCallback() in HEAD, so if they were all to be
exercised in one process that would leave only one slot for add-on modules.
It's probably not possible for that to happen, but still we clearly need
more daylight here. (At some point it might be worth making the array
dynamically resizable; but since we've never heard a complaint of "out of
syscache_callback_list slots" happening in the field, I doubt it's worth
it yet.)
Back-patch as far as 9.4, which is where we increased the companion limit
MAX_RELCACHE_CALLBACKS (cf commit f01d1ae3a). It's not as urgent in
released branches, which have only a couple dozen call sites in core, but
it still seems that somebody might hit the limit before these branches die.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/12184.1494450131@sss.pgh.pa.us
Per discussion, "location" is a rather vague term that could refer to
multiple concepts. "LSN" is an unambiguous term for WAL locations and
should be preferred. Some function names, view column names, and function
output argument names used "lsn" already, but others used "location",
as well as yet other terms such as "wal_position". Since we've already
renamed a lot of things in this area from "xlog" to "wal" for v10,
we may as well incur a bit more compatibility pain and make these names
all consistent.
David Rowley, minor additional docs hacking by me
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKJS1f8O0njDKe8ePFQ-LK5-EjwThsDws6ohJ-+c6nWK+oUxtg@mail.gmail.com
Previously, the memory used by the logical replication apply worker for
processing messages would never be freed, so that could end up using a
lot of memory. To improve that, change the existing ApplyContext memory
context to ApplyMessageContext and reset that after every
message (similar to MessageContext used elsewhere). For consistency of
naming, rename the ApplyCacheContext to ApplyContext.
Author: Stas Kelvich <s.kelvich@postgrespro.ru>
Values in a STATISTIC_KIND_RANGE_LENGTH_HISTOGRAM slot are float8,
not of the type of the column the statistics are for.
This bug is at least partly the fault of sloppy specification comments
for get_attstatsslot()/free_attstatsslot(): the type OID they want is that
of the stavalues entries, not of the underlying column. (I double-checked
other callers and they seem to get this right.) Adjust the comments to be
more correct.
Per buildfarm.
Security: CVE-2017-7484
Some selectivity estimation functions run user-supplied operators over
data obtained from pg_statistic without security checks, which allows
those operators to leak pg_statistic data without having privileges on
the underlying tables. Fix by checking that one of the following is
satisfied: (1) the user has table or column privileges on the table
underlying the pg_statistic data, or (2) the function implementing the
user-supplied operator is leak-proof. If neither is satisfied, planning
will proceed as if there are no statistics available.
At least one of these is satisfied in most cases in practice. The only
situations that are negatively impacted are user-defined or
not-leak-proof operators on a security-barrier view.
Reported-by: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Security: CVE-2017-7484
Storing passwords in plaintext hasn't been a good idea for a very long
time, if ever. Now seems like a good time to finally forbid it, since we're
messing with this in PostgreSQL 10 anyway.
Remove the CREATE/ALTER USER UNENCRYPTED PASSSWORD 'foo' syntax, since
storing passwords unencrypted is no longer supported. ENCRYPTED PASSWORD
'foo' is still accepted, but ENCRYPTED is now just a noise-word, it does
the same as just PASSWORD 'foo'.
Likewise, remove the --unencrypted option from createuser, but accept
--encrypted as a no-op for backward compatibility. AFAICS, --encrypted was
a no-op even before this patch, because createuser encrypted the password
before sending it to the server even if --encrypted was not specified. It
added the ENCRYPTED keyword to the SQL command, but since the password was
already in encrypted form, it didn't make any difference. The documentation
was not clear on whether that was intended or not, but it's moot now.
Also, while password_encryption='on' is still accepted as an alias for
'md5', it is now marked as hidden, so that it is not listed as an accepted
value in error hints, for example. That's not directly related to removing
'plain', but it seems better this way.
Reviewed by Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/16e9b768-fd78-0b12-cfc1-7b6b7f238fde@iki.fi
It only produced <row> elements but no wrapping <table> element.
By contrast, cursor_to_xmlschema produced a schema that is now correct
but did not previously match the XML data produced by cursor_to_xml.
In passing, also fix a minor misunderstanding about moving cursors in
the tests related to this.
Reported-by: filip@jirsak.org
Based-on-patch-by: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@enterprisedb.com>
create_singleton_array() was not really as useful as we perhaps thought
when we added it. It had never accreted more than one call site, and is
only saving a dozen lines of code at that one, which is considerably less
bulk than the function itself. Moreover, because of its insistence on
using the caller's fn_extra cache space, it's arguably a coding hazard.
text_to_array_internal() does not currently use fn_extra in any other way,
but if it did it would be subtly broken, since the conflicting fn_extra
uses could be needed within a single query, in the seldom-tested case that
the field separator varies during the query. The same objection seems
likely to apply to any other potential caller.
The replacement code is a bit uglier, because it hardwires knowledge of
the storage parameters of type TEXT, but it's not like we haven't got
dozens or hundreds of other places that do the same. Uglier seems like
a good tradeoff for smaller, faster, and safer.
Per discussion with Neha Khatri.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAFO0U+_fS5SRhzq6uPG+4fbERhoA9N2+nPrtvaC9mmeWivxbsA@mail.gmail.com
This goes together with the changes made to enable replication on the
sending side by default (wal_level, max_wal_senders etc) by making the
receiving stadby node also enable it by default.
Huong Dangminh
Our general rule for pg_get_X(oid) functions is to simply return NULL
when passed an invalid or inappropriate OID. Teach pg_get_partkeydef to
do this also, making it easier for users to use this function when
querying against tables with both partitions and non-partitions (such as
pg_class).
As a concrete example, this makes pg_dump's life a little easier.
Author: Amit Langote
Per discussion, plain "scram" is confusing because we actually implement
SCRAM-SHA-256 rather than the original SCRAM that uses SHA-1 as the hash
algorithm. If we add support for SCRAM-SHA-512 or some other mechanism in
the SCRAM family in the future, that would become even more confusing.
Most of the internal files and functions still use just "scram" as a
shorthand for SCRMA-SHA-256, but I did change PASSWORD_TYPE_SCRAM to
PASSWORD_TYPE_SCRAM_SHA_256, as that could potentially be used by 3rd
party extensions that hook into the password-check hook.
Michael Paquier did this in an earlier version of the SCRAM patch set
already, but I didn't include that in the version that was committed.
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/fde71ff1-5858-90c8-99a9-1c2427e7bafb@iki.fi
We'd already recognized that we can't pass function pointers across process
boundaries for functions in loadable modules, since a shared library could
get loaded at different addresses in different processes. But actually the
practice doesn't work for functions in the core backend either, if we're
using EXEC_BACKEND. This is the cause of recent failures on buildfarm
member culicidae. Switch to passing a string function name in all cases.
Something like this needs to be back-patched into 9.6, but let's see
if the buildfarm likes it first.
Petr Jelinek, with a bunch of basically-cosmetic adjustments by me
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/548f9c1d-eafa-e3fa-9da8-f0cc2f654e60@2ndquadrant.com
Formerly, the bootstrap backend looked up the OIDs corresponding to
names in regproc catalog entries using brute-force searches of pg_proc.
It was somewhat remarkable that that worked at all, since it was used
while populating other pretty-fundamental catalogs like pg_operator.
And it was also quite slow, and getting slower as pg_proc gets bigger.
This patch moves the lookup work into genbki.pl, so that the values in
postgres.bki for regproc columns are always numeric OIDs, an option
that regprocin() already supported. Perl isn't the world's speediest
language, so this about doubles the time needed to run genbki.pl (from
0.3 to 0.6 sec on my machine). But we only do that at most once per
build. The time needed to run initdb drops significantly --- on my
machine, initdb --no-sync goes from 1.8 to 1.3 seconds. So this is
a small net win even for just one initdb per build, and it becomes
quite a nice win for test sequences requiring many initdb runs.
Strip out the now-dead code for brute-force catalog searching in
regprocin. We'd also cargo-culted similar logic into regoperin
and some (not all) of the other reg*in functions. That is all
dead code too since we currently have no need to load such values
during bootstrap. I removed it all, reasoning that if we ever
need such functionality it'd be much better to do it in a similar
way to this patch.
There might be some simplifications possible in the backend now that
regprocin doesn't require doing catalog reads so early in bootstrap.
I've not looked into that, though.
Andreas Karlsson, with some small adjustments by me
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/30896.1492006367@sss.pgh.pa.us
To prevent future bugs along the lines of the one corrected by commit
8ff518699f, or find any that remain
in the current code, add an Assert() that the difference between
parallel_register_count and parallel_terminate_count is in a sane
range.
Kuntal Ghosh, with considerable tidying-up by me, per a suggestion
from Neha Khatri. Reviewed by Tomas Vondra.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAFO0U+-E8yzchwVnvn5BeRDPgX2z9vZUxQ8dxx9c0XFGBC7N1Q@mail.gmail.com
This commit also does
- add REPLICATION_SUBSCRIBERS into config_group
- mark max_logical_replication_workers and max_sync_workers_per_subscription
as REPLICATION_SUBSCRIBERS parameters
- move those parameters into "Subscribers" section in postgresql.conf.sample
Author: Masahiko Sawada, Petr Jelinek and me
Reported-by: Masahiko Sawada
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAD21AoAonSCoa=v=87ZO3vhfUZA1k_E2XRNHTt=xioWGUa+0ug@mail.gmail.com
The backend local copy of dsa_area_control->freed_segment_counter was
not properly initialized / maintained. This could, if unlucky, lead
to keeping attached to a segment for too long.
Found via valgrind bleat on buildfarm animal skink.
Author: Thomas Munro
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170407164935.obsf2jipjfos5zei@alap3.anarazel.de
This extends the castNode() notation introduced by commit 5bcab1114 to
provide, in one step, extraction of a list cell's pointer and coercion to
a concrete node type. For example, "lfirst_node(Foo, lc)" is the same
as "castNode(Foo, lfirst(lc))". Almost half of the uses of castNode
that have appeared so far include a list extraction call, so this is
pretty widely useful, and it saves a few more keystrokes compared to the
old way.
As with the previous patch, back-patch the addition of these macros to
pg_list.h, so that the notation will be available when back-patching.
Patch by me, after an idea of Andrew Gierth's.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/14197.1491841216@sss.pgh.pa.us
Commit 4deb41381 modified isolationtester's query to see whether a
session is blocked to also check for waits occurring in GetSafeSnapshot.
However, it did that in a way that enormously increased the query's
runtime under CLOBBER_CACHE_ALWAYS, causing the buildfarm members
that use that to run about four times slower than before, and in some
cases fail entirely. To fix, push the entire logic into a dedicated
backend function. This should actually reduce the CLOBBER_CACHE_ALWAYS
runtime from what it was previously, though I've not checked that.
In passing, expose a SQL function to check for safe-snapshot blockage,
comparable to pg_blocking_pids. This is more or less free given the
infrastructure built to solve the other problem, so we might as well.
Thomas Munro
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170407165749.pstcakbc637opkax@alap3.anarazel.de
Defaults match the fixed behavior of prior releases, but now DBAs
have better options to tune serializable workloads.
It might be nice to be able to set this per relation, but that part
will need to wait for another release.
Author: Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker
With this change array fields are populated from json(b) arrays, and
composite fields are populated from json(b) objects.
Along the way, some significant code refactoring is done to remove
redundancy in the way to populate_record[_set] and to_record[_set]
functions operate, and some significant efficiency gains are made by
caching tuple descriptors.
Nikita Glukhov, edited some by me.
Reviewed by Aleksander Alekseev and Tom Lane.
Add a "copy" argument to make it optional to receive a copy of caller
tuple that is safe to use following a subsequent manipulating of
tuplesort's state. This is a performance optimization. Most existing
tuplesort_gettupleslot() callers are made to opt out of copying.
Existing callers that happen to rely on the validity of tuple memory
beyond subsequent manipulations of the tuplesort request their own
copy.
This brings tuplesort_gettupleslot() in line with
tuplestore_gettupleslot(). In the future, a "copy"
tuplesort_getdatum() argument may be added, that similarly allows
callers to opt out of receiving their own copy of tuple.
In passing, clarify assumptions that callers of other tuplesort fetch
routines may make about tuple memory validity, per gripe from Tom
Lane.
Author: Peter Geoghegan
Discussion: CAM3SWZQWZZ_N=DmmL7tKy_OUjGH_5mN=N=A6h7kHyyDvEhg2DA@mail.gmail.com
The original code was overly optimistic about the cost of scanning a
BRIN index, leading to BRIN indexes being selected when they'd be a
worse choice than some other index. This complete rewrite should be
more accurate.
Author: David Rowley, based on an earlier patch by Emre Hasegeli
Reviewed-by: Emre Hasegeli
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKJS1f9n-Wapop5Xz1dtGdpdqmzeGqQK4sV2MK-zZugfC14Xtw@mail.gmail.com
Bruce Momjian