This prevents false-positive reports about "the first child of leftmost
target page is not leftmost of its level", "block %u is not leftmost"
and "left link/right link pair". They appeared if amcheck ran before
VACUUM cleaned things, after a cluster exited recovery between the
first-stage and second-stage WAL records of a deletion. Back-patch to
v11 (all supported versions).
Reviewed by Peter Geoghegan.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20231005025232.c7.nmisch@google.com
Under interval_ops, some equal values are distinguishable. One such
pair is '24:00:00' and '1 day'. With that being so, btequalimage()
breaches the documented contract for the "equalimage" btree support
function. This can cause incorrect results from index-only scans.
Users should REINDEX any btree indexes having interval-type columns.
After updating, pg_amcheck will report an error for almost all such
indexes. This fix makes interval_ops simply omit the support function,
like numeric_ops does. Back-pack to v13, where btequalimage() first
appeared. In back branches, for the benefit of old catalog content,
btequalimage() code will return false for type "interval". Going
forward, back-branch initdb will include the catalog change.
Reviewed by Peter Geoghegan.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20231011013317.22.nmisch@google.com
Split nbtree's _bt_getbuf function is two: code that read locks or write
locks existing pages remains in _bt_getbuf, while code that deals with
allocating new pages is moved to a new, dedicated function called
_bt_allocbuf. This simplifies most _bt_getbuf callers, since it is no
longer necessary for them to pass a heaprel argument. Many of the
changes to nbtree from commit 61b313e4 can be reverted. This minimizes
the divergence between HEAD/PostgreSQL 16 and earlier release branches.
_bt_allocbuf replaces the previous nbtree idiom of passing P_NEW to
_bt_getbuf. There are only 3 affected call sites, all of which continue
to pass a heaprel for recovery conflict purposes. Note that nbtree's
use of P_NEW was superficial; nbtree never actually relied on the P_NEW
code paths in bufmgr.c, so this change is strictly mechanical.
GiST already took the same approach; it has a dedicated function for
allocating new pages called gistNewBuffer(). That factor allowed commit
61b313e4 to make much more targeted changes to GiST.
Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Reviewed-By: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-Wz=8Z9qY58bjm_7TAHgtW6RzZ5Ke62q5emdCEy9BAzwhmg@mail.gmail.com
While executing maintenance operations (ANALYZE, CLUSTER, REFRESH
MATERIALIZED VIEW, REINDEX, or VACUUM), set search_path to
'pg_catalog, pg_temp' to prevent inconsistent behavior.
Functions that are used for functional indexes, in index expressions,
or in materialized views and depend on a different search path must be
declared with CREATE FUNCTION ... SET search_path='...'.
This change addresses a security risk introduced in commit 60684dd834,
where a role with MAINTAIN privileges on a table may be able to
escalate privileges to the table owner. That commit is not yet part of
any release, so no need to backpatch.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/e44327179e5c9015c8dda67351c04da552066017.camel%40j-davis.com
Reviewed-by: Greg Stark
Reviewed-by: Nathan Bossart
Run pgindent, pgperltidy, and reformat-dat-files.
This set of diffs is a bit larger than typical. We've updated to
pg_bsd_indent 2.1.2, which properly indents variable declarations that
have multi-line initialization expressions (the continuation lines are
now indented one tab stop). We've also updated to perltidy version
20230309 and changed some of its settings, which reduces its desire to
add whitespace to lines to make assignments etc. line up. Going
forward, that should make for fewer random-seeming changes to existing
code.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230428092545.qfb3y5wcu4cm75ur@alvherre.pgsql
a9c70b46 added the statistics view pg_stat_io which contained columns
"io_context" and "io_object". Given that the columns are in the
pg_stat_io view, the "io" prefix is somewhat redundant, so remove it.
The code variables referring to these fields are kept unchanged so as
they can keep their context about I/O.
Bump catalog version.
Author: Melanie Plageman
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi, Fabrízio de Royes Mello
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAKRu_aAQoJWrvT2BYYQvJChFKra_O-5ra3jhzKJZqWsTR1CPQ@mail.gmail.com
This fixes many spelling mistakes in comments, but a few references to
invalid parameter names, function names and option names too in comments
and also some in string constants
Also, fix an #undef that was undefining the incorrect definition
Author: Alexander Lakhin
Reviewed-by: Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/d5f68d19-c0fc-91a9-118d-7c6a5a3f5fad@gmail.com
This breaks out the background and interactive psql functionality into a
new class, PostgreSQL::Test::BackgroundPsql. Sessions are still initiated
via PostgreSQL::Test::Cluster, but once started they can be manipulated by
the new helper functions which intend to make querying easier. A sample
session for a command which can be expected to finish at a later time can
be seen below.
my $session = $node->background_psql('postgres');
$bsession->query_until(qr/start/, q(
\echo start
CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY idx ON t(a);
));
$bsession->quit;
Patch by Andres Freund with some additional hacking by me.
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230130194350.zj5v467x4jgqt3d6@awork3.anarazel.de
This is done in preparation for logical decoding on standby, which needs to
include whether visibility affecting WAL records are about a (user) catalog
table. Which is only known for the table, not the indexes.
It's also nice to be able to pass the heap relation to GlobalVisTestFor() in
vacuumRedirectAndPlaceholder().
Author: "Drouvot, Bertrand" <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/21b700c3-eecf-2e05-a699-f8c78dd31ec7@gmail.com
Commit e88754a196 caused that case
to be reported as corruption, but Peter Geoghegan pointed out that
it can legitimately happen in the case of a speculative insertion
that aborts, so we'd better not flag it as corruption after all.
Back-patch to v14, like the commit that introduced the issue.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAH2-WzmEabzcPTxSY-NXKH6Qt3FkAPYHGQSe2PtvGgj17ZQkCw@mail.gmail.com
Commit bbc1376b39 checked that if
a redirected line pointer pointed to a tuple, the tuple should be
marked both HEAP_ONLY_TUPLE and HEAP_UPDATED. But Andres Freund
pointed out that *any* tuple that is marked HEAP_ONLY_TUPLE should
be marked HEAP_UPDATED, not just one that is the target of a
redirected line pointer. Do that instead.
To see why this is better, consider a redirect line pointer A
which points to a heap-only tuple B which points (via CTID)
to another heap-only tuple C. With the old code, we'd complain
if B was not marked HEAP_UPDATED, but with this change, we'll
complain if either B or C is not marked HEAP_UPDATED.
(Note that, with or without this commit, if either B or C were
not marked HEAP_ONLY_TUPLE, we would also complain about that.)
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA%2BTgmobLypZx%3DcOH%2ByY1GZmCruaoucHm77A6y_-Bo%3Dh-_3H28g%40mail.gmail.com
Commit bbc1376b39 added a new lp_valid[]
array which records whether or not a line pointer was thought to be
valid, but entries could sometimes get set to true in cases where that
wasn't actually safe. Fix that.
Suppose A is a redirect line pointer and B is the other line pointer
to which it points. The old code could mishandle this situation in a
couple of different ways. First, if B was unused, we'd complain about
corruption but still set lp_valid[A] = true, causing later code
to try to access the B as if it were pointing to a tuple. Second,
if B was dead, we wouldn't complain about corruption at all, which is
an oversight, and would also set lp_valid[A] = true, which would
again confuse later code. Fix all that.
In the case where B is a redirect, the old code was correct, but
refactor things a bit anyway so that all of these cases are handled
more symmetrically. Also add an Assert() and some comments.
Andres Freund and Robert Haas
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/20230323172607.y3lejpntjnuis5vv%40awork3.anarazel.de
In such cases, get_xid_status() doesn't set its output parameter (the
third argument), so we shouldn't fall through to code which will test
the value of that parameter. There are five existing calls to
get_xid_status(), three of which seem to already handle this case
properly. This commit tries to fix the other two.
If we're checking xmin and find that it is invalid (i.e. 0) just
report that as corruption, similar to what's already done in the
three cases that seem correct. If we're checking xmax and find
that's invalid, that's fine: it just means that the tuple hasn't
been updated or deleted.
Thanks to Andres Freund and valgrind for finding this problem, and
also to Andres for having a look at the patch. This bug seems to go
all the way back to where verify_heapam was first introduced, but
wasn't detected until recently, possibly because of the new test cases
added for update chain verification. Back-patch to v14, where this
code showed up.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoZAYzQZqyUparXy_ks3OEOfLD9-bEXt8N-2tS1qghX9gQ@mail.gmail.com
We shouldn't set successor[whatever] to an offset number that is less
than FirstOffsetNumber or more than maxoff. We already avoided that
for redirects, but not for CTID links. Allowing bad offset numbers
into the successor[] array causes core dumps.
We shouldn't use HeapTupleHeaderIsHotUpdated() because it checks
stuff other than the status of the infomask2 bit HEAP_HOT_UPDATED.
We only care about the status of that bit, not the other stuff
that HeapTupleHeaderIsHotUpdated() checks. This mistake can cause
verify_heapam() to report corruption when none is present.
The first hunk of this patch was written by me. The other two were
written by Andres Freund. This could probably do with more review
before commit, but I'd like to try to get the buildfarm green again
sooner rather than later.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/20230322204552.s6cv3ybqkklhhybb@awork3.anarazel.de
Prior to this commit, we only consider each tuple or line pointer
on the page in isolation, but now we can do some validation of a line
pointer against its successor. For example, a redirect line pointer
shouldn't point to another redirect line pointer, and if a tuple
is HOT-updated, the result should be a heap-only tuple.
Himanshu Upadhyaya and Robert Haas, reviewed by Aleksander Alekseev,
Andres Freund, and Peter Geoghegan.
64bit xids can't represent xids before epoch 0 (see also be504a3e97). When
FullTransactionIdFromXidAndCtx() was passed such an xid, it'd create a 64bit
xid far into the future. Noticed while adding assertions in the course of
investigating be504a3e97, as amcheck's test create such xids.
To fix the issue, just return FirstNormalFullTransactionId in this case. A
freshly initdb'd cluster already has a newer horizon. The most minimal version
of this would make the messages for some detected corruptions differently
inaccurate. To make those cases accurate, switch
FullTransactionIdFromXidAndCtx() to use the 32bit modulo difference between
xid and nextxid to compute the 64bit xid, yielding sensible "in the future" /
"in the past" answers.
Reviewed-by: Mark Dilger <mark.dilger@enterprisedb.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230108002923.cyoser3ttmt63bfn@awork3.anarazel.de
Backpatch: 14-, where heapam verification was introduced
The initialization order in update_cached_xid_range() was wrong, calling
FullTransactionIdFromXidAndCtx() before setting
->next_xid. FullTransactionIdFromXidAndCtx() uses ->next_xid.
In most situations this will not cause visible issues, because the next call
to update_cached_xid_range() will use a less wrong ->next_xid. It's rare that
xids advance fast enough for this to be a problem.
Found while adding more asserts to the 64bit xid infrastructure.
Reviewed-by: Mark Dilger <mark.dilger@enterprisedb.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230108002923.cyoser3ttmt63bfn@awork3.anarazel.de
Backpatch: 14-, where heapam verification was introduced
Per discussion, the existing routine name able to initialize a SRF
function with materialize mode is unpopular, so rename it. Equally, the
flags of this function are renamed, as of:
- SRF_SINGLE_USE_EXPECTED -> MAT_SRF_USE_EXPECTED_DESC
- SRF_SINGLE_BLESS -> MAT_SRF_BLESS
The previous function and flags introduced in 9e98583 are kept around
for compatibility purposes, so as any extension code already compiled
with v15 continues to work as-is. The declarations introduced here for
compatibility will be removed from HEAD in a follow-up commit.
The new names have been suggested by Andres Freund and Melanie
Plageman.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20221013194820.ciktb2sbbpw7cljm@awork3.anarazel.de
Backpatch-through: 15
Remove the Trap and TrapMacro macros, which were nearly unused
and confusingly had the opposite condition polarity from the
otherwise-functionally-equivalent Assert macros.
Having done that, it's very hard to justify carrying the errorType
argument of ExceptionalCondition, so drop that too, and just
let it assume everything's an Assert. This saves about 64K
of code space as of current HEAD.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3928703.1665345117@sss.pgh.pa.us
The generated resource files aren't exactly the same ones as the old
buildsystems generate. Previously "InternalName" and "OriginalFileName" were
mostly wrong / not set (despite being required), but that was hard to fix in
at least the make build. Additionally, the meson build falls back to a
"auto-generated" description when not set, and doesn't set it in a few cases -
unlikely that anybody looks at these descriptions in detail.
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Author: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
Make sure that function declarations use names that exactly match the
corresponding names from function definitions in contrib code.
Like other recent commits that cleaned up function parameter names, this
commit was written with help from clang-tidy.
Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-WznJt9CMM9KJTMjJh_zbL5hD9oX44qdJ4aqZtjFi-zA3Tg@mail.gmail.com
Autoconf is showing its age, fewer and fewer contributors know how to wrangle
it. Recursive make has a lot of hard to resolve dependency issues and slow
incremental rebuilds. Our home-grown MSVC build system is hard to maintain for
developers not using Windows and runs tests serially. While these and other
issues could individually be addressed with incremental improvements, together
they seem best addressed by moving to a more modern build system.
After evaluating different build system choices, we chose to use meson, to a
good degree based on the adoption by other open source projects.
We decided that it's more realistic to commit a relatively early version of
the new build system and mature it in tree.
This commit adds an initial version of a meson based build system. It supports
building postgres on at least AIX, FreeBSD, Linux, macOS, NetBSD, OpenBSD,
Solaris and Windows (however only gcc is supported on aix, solaris). For
Windows/MSVC postgres can now be built with ninja (faster, particularly for
incremental builds) and msbuild (supporting the visual studio GUI, but
building slower).
Several aspects (e.g. Windows rc file generation, PGXS compatibility, LLVM
bitcode generation, documentation adjustments) are done in subsequent commits
requiring further review. Other aspects (e.g. not installing test-only
extensions) are not yet addressed.
When building on Windows with msbuild, builds are slower when using a visual
studio version older than 2019, because those versions do not support
MultiToolTask, required by meson for intra-target parallelism.
The plan is to remove the MSVC specific build system in src/tools/msvc soon
after reaching feature parity. However, we're not planning to remove the
autoconf/make build system in the near future. Likely we're going to keep at
least the parts required for PGXS to keep working around until all supported
versions build with meson.
Some initial help for postgres developers is at
https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Meson
With contributions from Thomas Munro, John Naylor, Stone Tickle and others.
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Author: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>
Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
Reviewed-By: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20211012083721.hvixq4pnh2pixr3j@alap3.anarazel.de
guc.c has grown to be one of our largest .c files, making it
a bottleneck for compilation. It's also acquired a bunch of
knowledge that'd be better kept elsewhere, because of our not
very good habit of putting variable-specific check hooks here.
Hence, split it up along these lines:
* guc.c itself retains just the core GUC housekeeping mechanisms.
* New file guc_funcs.c contains the SET/SHOW interfaces and some
SQL-accessible functions for GUC manipulation.
* New file guc_tables.c contains the data arrays that define the
built-in GUC variables, along with some already-exported constant
tables.
* GUC check/assign/show hook functions are moved to the variable's
home module, whenever that's clearly identifiable. A few hard-
to-classify hooks ended up in commands/variable.c, which was
already a home for miscellaneous GUC hook functions.
To avoid cluttering a lot more header files with #include "guc.h",
I also invented a new header file utils/guc_hooks.h and put all
the GUC hook functions' declarations there, regardless of their
originating module. That allowed removal of #include "guc.h"
from some existing headers. The fallout from that (hopefully
all caught here) demonstrates clearly why such inclusions are
best minimized: there are a lot of files that, for example,
were getting array.h at two or more levels of remove, despite
not having any connection at all to GUCs in themselves.
There is some very minor code beautification here, such as
renaming a couple of inconsistently-named hook functions
and improving some comments. But mostly this just moves
code from point A to point B and deals with the ensuing
needs for #include adjustments and exporting a few functions
that previously weren't exported.
Patch by me, per a suggestion from Andres Freund; thanks also
to Michael Paquier for the idea to invent guc_funcs.c.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/587607.1662836699@sss.pgh.pa.us
This replaces all MemSet() calls with struct initialization where that
is easily and obviously possible. (For example, some cases have to
worry about padding bits, so I left those.)
(The same could be done with appropriate memset() calls, but this
patch is part of an effort to phase out MemSet(), so it doesn't touch
memset() calls.)
Reviewed-by: Ranier Vilela <ranier.vf@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/9847b13c-b785-f4e2-75c3-12ec77a3b05c@enterprisedb.com
The macro is being applied to a TOAST pointer, not a varlena header.
Therefore the use of VARATT_IS_COMPRESSED() is wrong. We can check
VARATT_EXTERNAL_IS_COMPRESSED(), but then we don't need the length
check that follows.
Report and fix by Kyotaro Horiguchi.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/20220517.162719.1671558681467343711.horikyota.ntt@gmail.com
Since a117cebd6, some older gcc versions issue "variable may be used
uninitialized in this function" complaints for brin_summarize_range.
Silence that using the same coding pattern as in bt_index_check_internal;
arguably, a117cebd6 had too narrow a view of which compilers might give
trouble.
Nathan Bossart and Tom Lane. Back-patch as the previous commit was.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220601163537.GA2331988@nathanxps13
When a feature enumerates relations and runs functions associated with
all found relations, the feature's user shall not need to trust every
user having permission to create objects. BRIN-specific functionality
in autovacuum neglected to account for this, as did pg_amcheck and
CLUSTER. An attacker having permission to create non-temp objects in at
least one schema could execute arbitrary SQL functions under the
identity of the bootstrap superuser. CREATE INDEX (not a
relation-enumerating operation) and REINDEX protected themselves too
late. This change extends to the non-enumerating amcheck interface.
Back-patch to v10 (all supported versions).
Sergey Shinderuk, reviewed (in earlier versions) by Alexander Lakhin.
Reported by Alexander Lakhin.
Security: CVE-2022-1552
This makes the code more consistent with SpGiST, GiST and GIN, that
already use this style, and the idea is to make easier the introduction
of more sanity checks for each of these AM-specific macros. BRIN uses a
different set of macros to get a page's type and flags, so it has no
need for something similar.
Author: Matthias van de Meent
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEze2WjE3+tGO9Fs9+iZMU+z6mMZKo54W1Zt98WKqbEUHbHOBg@mail.gmail.com
The previous method for doing that was to write zeroes into a
predetermined set of page locations. However, there's a roughly
1-in-64K chance that the existing checksum will match by chance,
and yesterday several buildfarm animals started to reproducibly
see that, resulting in test failures because no checksum mismatch
was reported.
Since the checksum includes the page LSN, test success depends on
the length of the installation's WAL history, which is affected by
(at least) the initial catalog contents, the set of locales installed
on the system, and the length of the pathname of the test directory.
Sooner or later we were going to hit a chance match, and today is
that day.
Harden these tests by specifically inverting the checksum field and
leaving all else alone, thereby guaranteeing that the checksum is
incorrect.
In passing, fix places that were using seek() to set up for syswrite(),
a combination that the Perl docs very explicitly warn against. We've
probably escaped problems because no regular buffered I/O is done on
these filehandles; but if it ever breaks, we wouldn't deserve or get
much sympathy.
Although we've only seen problems in HEAD, now that we recognize the
environmental dependencies it seems like it might be just a matter
of time until someone manages to hit this in back-branch testing.
Hence, back-patch to v11 where we started doing this kind of test.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3192026.1648185780@sss.pgh.pa.us
The Config and Cwd modules were no longer used, but remained imported,
in a number of tests. Remove to keep the imports to the actually used
modules.
Reviewed-by: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/A5A074CD-3198-492B-BE5E-7961EFC3733F@yesql.se
9e98583 introduced a helper to centralize building their needed state
(tuplestore, tuple descriptors, etc.), checking for any errors. This
commit updates all places of contrib/ that can be switched to use
SetSingleFuncCall() as a drop-in replacement, resulting in the removal
of a lot of boilerplate code in all the modules updated by this commit.
Per analysis, some places remain as they are:
- pg_logdir_ls() in adminpack/ uses historically TYPEFUNC_RECORD as
return type, and I suspect that changing it may cause issues at run-time
with some of its past versions, down to 1.0.
- dblink/ uses a wrapper function doing exactly the work of
SetSingleFuncCall(). Here the switch should be possible, but rather
invasive so it does not seem the extra backpatch maintenance cost.
- tablefunc/, similarly, uses multiple helper functions with portions of
SetSingleFuncCall() spread across the code paths of this module.
Author: Melanie Plageman
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAKRu_bvDPJoL9mH6eYwvBpPtTGQwbDzfJbCM-OjkSZDu5yTPg@mail.gmail.com
Slow hosts may avoid load-induced, spurious failures by setting
environment variable PG_TEST_TIMEOUT_DEFAULT to some number of seconds
greater than 180. Developers may see faster failures by setting that
environment variable to some lesser number of seconds. In tests, write
$PostgreSQL::Test::Utils::timeout_default wherever the convention has
been to write 180. This change raises the default for some briefer
timeouts. Back-patch to v10 (all supported versions).
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220218052842.GA3627003@rfd.leadboat.com
Rather than doing manual book keeping to plan the number of tests to run
in each TAP suite, conclude each run with done_testing() summing up the
the number of tests that ran. This removes the need for maintaning and
updating the plan count at the expense of an accurate count of remaining
during the test suite runtime.
This patch has been discussed a number of times, often in the context of
other patches which updates tests, so a larger number of discussions can
be found in the archives.
Reviewed-by: Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <ilmari@ilmari.org>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/DD399313-3D56-4666-8079-88949DAC870F@yesql.se
Some pre-2017 Test::More versions need perfect $Test::Builder::Level
maintenance to find the variable. Buildfarm member snapper reported an
overall failure that the file intended to hide via the TODO construct.
That trouble was reachable in v11 and v10. For later branches, this
serves as defense in depth. Back-patch to v10 (all supported versions).
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220202055556.GB2745933@rfd.leadboat.com
Standardize on xoroshiro128** as our basic PRNG algorithm, eliminating
a bunch of platform dependencies as well as fundamentally-obsolete PRNG
code. In addition, this API replacement will ease replacing the
algorithm again in future, should that become necessary.
xoroshiro128** is a few percent slower than the drand48 family,
but it can produce full-width 64-bit random values not only 48-bit,
and it should be much more trustworthy. It's likely to be noticeably
faster than the platform's random(), depending on which platform you
are thinking about; and we can have non-global state vectors easily,
unlike with random(). It is not cryptographically strong, but neither
are the functions it replaces.
Fabien Coelho, reviewed by Dean Rasheed, Aleksander Alekseev, and myself
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/alpine.DEB.2.22.394.2105241211230.165418@pseudo
Expand the checks of toasted attributes to complain if the rawsize is
overlarge. For compressed attributes, also complain if compression
appears to have expanded the attribute or if the compression method is
invalid.
Mark Dilger, reviewed by Justin Pryzby, Alexander Alekseev, Heikki
Linnakangas, Greg Stark, and me.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/8E42250D-586A-4A27-B317-8B062C3816A8@enterprisedb.com
Commits fdd965d07 and 3cd9c3b92 tested CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY by
launching two separate pgbench runs concurrently. This was needed so
that only a single client thread would run CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY,
avoiding deadlock between two CICs. However, there's a better way,
which is to use an advisory lock to prevent concurrent CICs. That's
better in part because the test code is shorter and more readable, but
mostly because it automatically scales things to launch an appropriate
number of CICs relative to the number of INSERT transactions.
As committed, typically half to three-quarters of the CIC transactions
were pointless because the INSERT transactions had already stopped.
In passing, remove background_pgbench, which was added to support
these tests and isn't needed anymore. We can always put it back
if we find a use for it later.
Back-patch to v12; older pgbench versions lack the
conditional-execution features needed for this method.
Tom Lane and Andrey Borodin
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/139687.1635277318@sss.pgh.pa.us
Noah Misch