In streaming mode, the transaction can be decoded in multiple streams and
those streams can be interleaved with streams of other transactions. So,
we can't remember the transaction's write status in the logical decoding
context because that might get changed due to some other transactions and
lead to wrong answers for 'skip-empty-xacts' option. We decided to keep
each transaction's write status in the ReorderBufferTxn to avoid
interleaved streams changing the status of some unrelated transactions.
Diagnosed-by: Amit Kapila
Author: Dilip Kumar
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAA4eK1LR7=XNM_TLmpZMFuV8ZQpoxkem--NZJYf8YXmesbvwLA@mail.gmail.com
Change the attribute 'name' to 'slot_name' in pg_stat_replication_slots
view to make it clear and that way we will be consistent with the other
places like pg_stat_wal_receiver view where we display the same attribute.
In the passing, fix the typo in one of the macros in the related code.
Bump the catversion as we have modified the name in the catalog as well.
Reported-by: Noriyoshi Shinoda
Author: Noriyoshi Shinoda
Reviewed-by: Sawada Masahiko and Amit Kapila
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+fd4k5_pPAYRTDrO2PbtTOe0eHQpBvuqmCr8ic39uTNmR49Eg@mail.gmail.com
The test cases added by that commit were trying to test the exact number of
times a particular transaction has spilled. However, that number can vary if
any background transaction (say by autovacuum) happens in parallel to the main
transaction. So let's not try to verify the exact count.
Author: Amit Kapila
Reviewed-by: Sawada Masahiko
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+fd4k5_pPAYRTDrO2PbtTOe0eHQpBvuqmCr8ic39uTNmR49Eg@mail.gmail.com
We were decoding empty transactions via streaming APIs added in commit
45fdc9738b even when the user used the option 'skip-empty-xacts'. The APIs
makes no effort to skip empty xacts under the assumption that we will
never try to stream such transactions. However, that is not true because
we can pick to stream a transaction that has change messages for
REORDER_BUFFER_CHANGE_INTERNAL_SNAPSHOT and we don't send such messages to
downstream rather they are just to update the internal state. So, we need
to skip such xacts when plugin uses the option 'skip-empty-xacts'.
Diagnosed-By: Amit Kapila
Author: Dilip Kumar
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAA4eK1+OqgFNZkf7=ETe_y5ntjgDk3T0wcdkd4Sot_u1hySGfw@mail.gmail.com
REPLICA IDENTITY USING INDEX behaves the same way as NOTHING if the
associated index is dropped, even if there is a primary key that could
be used as a fallback for the changes generated. There have never been
any tests to cover such scenarios, so this commit closes the gap.
Author: Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Masahiko Sawada, Rahila Syed, Euler Taveira
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200522035028.GO2355@paquier.xyz
Commit 7259736a6e added the capability to stream changes in ReorderBuffer
which has some tests to test the streaming mode. It is quite possible that
while this test is running a parallel transaction could be logged by
autovacuum. Such a transaction won't perform any insert/update/delete to
non-catalog tables so will be shown as an empty transaction. Fix it by
skipping the empty transactions during this test.
Per report by buildfarm.
Instead of serializing the transaction to disk after reaching the
logical_decoding_work_mem limit in memory, we consume the changes we have
in memory and invoke stream API methods added by commit 45fdc9738b.
However, sometimes if we have incomplete toast or speculative insert we
spill to the disk because we can't generate the complete tuple and stream.
And, as soon as we get the complete tuple we stream the transaction
including the serialized changes.
We can do this incremental processing thanks to having assignments
(associating subxact with toplevel xacts) in WAL right away, and
thanks to logging the invalidation messages at each command end. These
features are added by commits 0bead9af48 and c55040ccd0 respectively.
Now that we can stream in-progress transactions, the concurrent aborts
may cause failures when the output plugin consults catalogs (both system
and user-defined).
We handle such failures by returning ERRCODE_TRANSACTION_ROLLBACK
sqlerrcode from system table scan APIs to the backend or WALSender
decoding a specific uncommitted transaction. The decoding logic on the
receipt of such a sqlerrcode aborts the decoding of the current
transaction and continue with the decoding of other transactions.
We have ReorderBufferTXN pointer in each ReorderBufferChange by which we
know which xact it belongs to. The output plugin can use this to decide
which changes to discard in case of stream_abort_cb (e.g. when a subxact
gets discarded).
We also provide a new option via SQL APIs to fetch the changes being
streamed.
Author: Dilip Kumar, Tomas Vondra, Amit Kapila, Nikhil Sontakke
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila, Kuntal Ghosh, Ajin Cherian
Tested-by: Neha Sharma, Mahendra Singh Thalor and Ajin Cherian
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/688b0b7f-2f6c-d827-c27b-216a8e3ea700@2ndquadrant.com
This patch removes the hardcoded check for superuser privileges when
executing replication origin functions. Instead, execution is revoked
from public, meaning that those functions can be executed by a superuser
and that access to them can be granted.
Author: Martín Marqués
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi, Michael Paquier, Masahiko Sawada
Discussion: https:/postgr.es/m/CAPdiE1xJMZOKQL3dgHMUrPqysZkgwzSMXETfKkHYnBAB7-0VRQ@mail.gmail.com
Lack of these checks could cause visible misbehavior, including
assertion failures. This was missed in commit c655077639, whereby
restart_lsn becomes invalid when the size limit is exceeded.
Also reword some existing error messages, and add errdetail(), so that
the reported errors all match in spirit.
Author: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200408.093710.447591748588426656.horikyota.ntt@gmail.com
The txid_XXX family of fmgr functions exposes 64 bit transaction IDs to
users as int8. Now that we have an SQL type xid8 for FullTransactionId,
define a new set of functions including pg_current_xact_id() and
pg_current_snapshot() based on that. Keep the old functions around too,
for now.
It's a bit sneaky to use the same C functions for both, but since the
binary representation is identical except for the signedness of the
type, and since older functions are the ones using the wrong signedness,
and since we'll presumably drop the older ones after a reasonable period
of time, it seems reasonable to switch to FullTransactionId internally
and share the code for both.
Reviewed-by: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@oss.nttdata.com>
Reviewed-by: Takao Fujii <btfujiitkp@oss.nttdata.com>
Reviewed-by: Yoshikazu Imai <imai.yoshikazu@fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Mark Dilger <mark.dilger@enterprisedb.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190725000636.666m5mad25wfbrri%40alap3.anarazel.de
Manifested as
ERROR: subtransaction logged without previous top-level txn record
this check forbids legit behaviours like
- First xl_xact_assignment record is beyond reading, i.e. earlier
restart_lsn.
- After restart_lsn there is some change of a subxact.
- After that, there is second xl_xact_assignment (for another subxact)
revealing the relationship between top and first subxact.
Such a transaction won't be streamed anyway because we hadn't seen it in
full. Saying for sure whether xact of some record encountered after
the snapshot was deserialized can be streamed or not requires to know
whether it wrote something before deserialization point --if yes, it
hasn't been seen in full and can't be decoded. Snapshot doesn't have such
info, so there is no easy way to relax the check.
Reported-by: Hsu, John
Diagnosed-by: Arseny Sher
Author: Arseny Sher, Amit Kapila
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila, Dilip Kumar
Backpatch-through: 9.5
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/AB5978B2-1772-4FEE-A245-74C91704ECB0@amazon.com
In commit 18555b132 we tentatively established a rule that regression
tests should use names containing "regression" for databases, and names
starting with "regress_" for all other globally-visible object names, so
as to circumscribe the side-effects that "make installcheck" could have on
an existing installation. However, no enforcement mechanism was created,
so it's unsurprising that some new violations have crept in since then.
In fact, a whole new *category* of violations has crept in, to wit we now
also have globally-visible subscription and replication origin names, and
"make installcheck" could very easily clobber user-created objects of
those types. So it's past time to do something about this.
This commit sanitizes the tests enough that they will pass (i.e. not
generate any visible warnings) with the enforcement mechanism I'll add
in the next commit. There are some TAP tests that still trigger the
warnings, but the warnings do not cause test failure. Since these tests
do not actually run against a pre-existing installation, there's no need
to worry whether they could conflict with user-created objects.
The problem with rolenames.sql testing special role names like "user"
is still there, and is dealt with only very cosmetically in this patch
(by hiding the warnings :-(). What we actually need to do to be safe is
to take that test script out of "make installcheck" altogether, but that
seems like material for a separate patch.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16638.1468620817@sss.pgh.pa.us
When reindexing individual indexes on pg_class it was possible to
either trigger an assertion failure:
TRAP: FailedAssertion("!(!ReindexIsProcessingIndex(((index)->rd_id)))
That's because reindex_index() called SetReindexProcessing() - which
enables an asserts ensuring no index insertions happen into the index
- before calling RelationSetNewRelfilenode(). That not correct for
indexes on pg_class, because RelationSetNewRelfilenode() updates the
relevant pg_class row, which needs to update the indexes.
The are two reasons this wasn't noticed earlier. Firstly the bug
doesn't trigger when reindexing all of pg_class, as reindex_relation
has code "hiding" all yet-to-be-reindexed indexes. Secondly, the bug
only triggers when the the update to pg_class doesn't turn out to be a
HOT update - otherwise there's no index insertion to trigger the
bug. Most of the time there's enough space, making this bug hard to
trigger.
To fix, move RelationSetNewRelfilenode() to before the
SetReindexProcessing() (and, together with some other code, to outside
of the PG_TRY()).
To make sure the error checking intended by SetReindexProcessing() is
more robust, modify CatalogIndexInsert() to check
ReindexIsProcessingIndex() even when the update is a HOT update.
Also add a few regression tests for REINDEXing of system catalogs.
The last two improvements would have prevented some of the issues
fixed in 5c1560606d from being introduced in the first place.
Reported-By: Michael Paquier
Diagnosed-By: Tom Lane and Andres Freund
Author: Andres Freund
Reviewed-By: Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190418011430.GA19133@paquier.xyz
Backpatch: 9.4-, the bug is present in all branches
This allows the user to create duplicates of existing replication slots,
either logical or physical, and even changing properties such as whether
they are temporary or the output plugin used.
There are multiple uses for this, such as initializing multiple replicas
using the slot for one base backup; when doing investigation of logical
replication issues; and to select a different output plugins.
Author: Masahiko Sawada
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier, Andres Freund, Petr Jelinek
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAD21AoAm7XX8y_tOPP6j4Nzzch12FvA1wPqiO690RCk+uYVstg@mail.gmail.com
Ever since its birth, ReorderBufferBuildTupleCidHash() has contained an
assertion that a catalog tuple cannot change Cmax after acquiring one. But
that's wrong: if a subtransaction executes DDL that affects that catalog
tuple, and later aborts and another DDL affects the same tuple, it will
change Cmax. Relax the assertion to merely verify that the Cmax remains
valid and monotonically increasing, instead.
Add a test that tickles the relevant code.
Diagnosed by, and initial patch submitted by: Arseny Sher
Co-authored-by: Arseny Sher
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/874l9p8hyw.fsf@ars-thinkpad
Repeatedly rewriting a mapped catalog table with VACUUM FULL or
CLUSTER could cause logical decoding to fail with:
ERROR, "could not map filenode \"%s\" to relation OID"
To trigger the problem the rewritten catalog had to have live tuples
with toasted columns.
The problem was triggered as during catalog table rewrites the
heap_insert() check that prevents logical decoding information to be
emitted for system catalogs, failed to treat the new heap's toast table
as a system catalog (because the new heap is not recognized as a
catalog table via RelationIsLogicallyLogged()). The relmapper, in
contrast to the normal catalog contents, does not contain historical
information. After a single rewrite of a mapped table the new relation
is known to the relmapper, but if the table is rewritten twice before
logical decoding occurs, the relfilenode cannot be mapped to a
relation anymore. Which then leads us to error out. This only
happens for toast tables, because the main table contents aren't
re-inserted with heap_insert().
The fix is simple, add a new heap_insert() flag that prevents logical
decoding information from being emitted, and accept during decoding
that there might not be tuple data for toast tables.
Unfortunately that does not fix pre-existing logical decoding
errors. Doing so would require not throwing an error when a filenode
cannot be mapped to a relation during decoding, and that seems too
likely to hide bugs. If it's crucial to fix decoding for an existing
slot, temporarily changing the ERROR in ReorderBufferCommit() to a
WARNING appears to be the best fix.
Author: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180914021046.oi7dm4ra3ot2g2kt@alap3.anarazel.de
Backpatch: 9.4-, where logical decoding was introduced
Without that the tests fail when forced to be run against a cluster
with synchronous_commit = off (as the WAL might not yet be flushed to
disk by the point logical decoding gets called, and thus the expected
output breaks). Most tests already do that, add it to a few newer tests.
Author: Andres Freund
This was broken in commit 9c7d06d606, which inadvertently gave the
wrong value to fast_forward in one StartupDecodingContext call. Fix by
flipping the value. Add a test for the obvious error, namely trying to
initialize a replication slot with an nonexistent output plugin.
While at it, move the CreateDecodingContext call earlier, so that any
errors are reported before sending the CopyBoth message.
Author: Dave Cramer <davecramer@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CADK3HHLVkeRe1v4P02-5hj55H3_yJg3AEtpXyEY5T3wuzO2jSg@mail.gmail.com
Such replication slots are physical slots freshly created without WAL
being reserved, which is the default behavior, which have not been used
yet as WAL consumption resources to retain WAL. This prevents advancing
a slot to a position older than any WAL available, which could falsify
calculations for WAL segment recycling.
This also cleans up a bit the code, as ReplicationSlotRelease() would be
called on ERROR, and improves error messages.
Reported-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi
Author: Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund, Álvaro Herrera, Kyotaro Horiguchi
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180626071305.GH31353@paquier.xyz
Change a whole-database VACUUM into doing just pg_attribute, which is
the portion that verifies what we want it to do. The original
formulation wastes a lot of CPU time, which leads the test to fail when
runtime exceeds isolationtester timeout when it's super-slow, such as
under CLOBBER_CACHE_ALWAYS. Per buildfarm member friarbird.
It turns out that the previous shape of the test doesn't always detect
the condition it is supposed to detect (on unpatched reorderbuffer
code): the reason is that there is a good chance of encountering a
xl_running_xacts record (logged every 15 seconds) before the checkpoint
-- and because we advance the xmin when we receive that WAL record, and
we *don't* advance the xmin twice consecutively without receiving a
client message in between, that means the xmin is not advanced enough
for the tuple to be pruned from pg_attribute by VACUUM. So the test
would spuriously pass.
The reason this test deficiency wasn't detected earlier is that HOT
pruning removes the tuple anyway, even if vacuum leaves it in place, so
the test correctly fails (detecting the coding mistake), but for the
wrong reason.
To fix this mess, run the s0_get_changes step twice before vacuum
instead of once: this seems to cause the xmin to be advanced reliably,
wreaking havoc with more certainty.
Author: Arseny Sher
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/87h8lkuxoa.fsf@ars-thinkpad
Two closely related bugs are fixed. First, xmin of logical slots was
advanced too early. During xl_running_xacts processing, xmin of the
slot was set to the oldest running xid in the record, but that's wrong:
actually, snapshots which will be used for not-yet-replayed transactions
might consider older txns as running too, so we need to keep xmin back
for them. The problem wasn't noticed earlier because DDL which allows
to delete tuple (set xmax) while some another not-yet-committed
transaction looks at it is pretty rare, if not unique: e.g. all forms of
ALTER TABLE which change schema acquire ACCESS EXCLUSIVE lock
conflicting with any inserts. The included test case (test_decoding's
oldest_xmin) uses ALTER of a composite type, which doesn't have such
interlocking.
To deal with this, we must be able to quickly retrieve oldest xmin
(oldest running xid among all assigned snapshots) from ReorderBuffer. To
fix, add another list of ReorderBufferTXNs to the reorderbuffer, where
transactions are sorted by base-snapshot-LSN. This is slightly
different from the existing (sorted by first-LSN) list, because a
transaction can have an earlier LSN but a later Xmin, if its first
record does not obtain an xmin (eg. xl_xact_assignment). Note this new
list doesn't fully replace the existing txn list: we still need that one
to prevent WAL recycling.
The second issue concerns SnapBuilder snapshots and subtransactions.
SnapBuildDistributeNewCatalogSnapshot never assigned a snapshot to a
transaction that is known to be a subtxn, which is good in the common
case that the top-level transaction already has one (no point in doing
so), but a bug otherwise. To fix, arrange to transfer the snapshot from
the subtxn to its top-level txn as soon as the kinship gets known.
test_decoding's snapshot_transfer verifies this.
Also, fix a minor memory leak: refcount of toplevel's old base snapshot
was not decremented when the snapshot is transferred from child.
Liberally sprinkle code comments, and rewrite a few existing ones. This
part is my (Álvaro's) contribution to this commit, as I had to write all
those comments in order to understand the existing code and Arseny's
patch.
Reported-by: Arseny Sher <a.sher@postgrespro.ru>
Diagnosed-by: Arseny Sher <a.sher@postgrespro.ru>
Co-authored-by: Arseny Sher <a.sher@postgrespro.ru>
Co-authored-by: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Reviewed-by: Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/87lgdyz1wj.fsf@ars-thinkpad
This reverts commits d204ef6377,
83454e3c2b and a few more commits thereafter
(complete list at the end) related to MERGE feature.
While the feature was fully functional, with sufficient test coverage and
necessary documentation, it was felt that some parts of the executor and
parse-analyzer can use a different design and it wasn't possible to do that in
the available time. So it was decided to revert the patch for PG11 and retry
again in the future.
Thanks again to all reviewers and bug reporters.
List of commits reverted, in reverse chronological order:
f1464c5380 Improve parse representation for MERGE
ddb4158579 MERGE syntax diagram correction
530e69e59b Allow cpluspluscheck to pass by renaming variable
01b88b4df5 MERGE minor errata
3af7b2b0d4 MERGE fix variable warning in non-assert builds
a5d86181ec MERGE INSERT allows only one VALUES clause
4b2d44031f MERGE post-commit review
4923550c20 Tab completion for MERGE
aa3faa3c7a WITH support in MERGE
83454e3c2b New files for MERGE
d204ef6377 MERGE SQL Command following SQL:2016
Author: Pavan Deolasee
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier
Add a new WAL record type for TRUNCATE, which is only used when
wal_level >= logical. (For physical replication, TRUNCATE is already
replicated via SMGR records.) Add new callback for logical decoding
output plugins to receive TRUNCATE actions.
Author: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>
Author: Marco Nenciarini <marco.nenciarini@2ndquadrant.it>
Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
Reviewed-by: Petr Jelinek <petr.jelinek@2ndquadrant.com>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
MERGE performs actions that modify rows in the target table
using a source table or query. MERGE provides a single SQL
statement that can conditionally INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE rows
a task that would other require multiple PL statements.
e.g.
MERGE INTO target AS t
USING source AS s
ON t.tid = s.sid
WHEN MATCHED AND t.balance > s.delta THEN
UPDATE SET balance = t.balance - s.delta
WHEN MATCHED THEN
DELETE
WHEN NOT MATCHED AND s.delta > 0 THEN
INSERT VALUES (s.sid, s.delta)
WHEN NOT MATCHED THEN
DO NOTHING;
MERGE works with regular and partitioned tables, including
column and row security enforcement, as well as support for
row, statement and transition triggers.
MERGE is optimized for OLTP and is parameterizable, though
also useful for large scale ETL/ELT. MERGE is not intended
to be used in preference to existing single SQL commands
for INSERT, UPDATE or DELETE since there is some overhead.
MERGE can be used statically from PL/pgSQL.
MERGE does not yet support inheritance, write rules,
RETURNING clauses, updatable views or foreign tables.
MERGE follows SQL Standard per the most recent SQL:2016.
Includes full tests and documentation, including full
isolation tests to demonstrate the concurrent behavior.
This version written from scratch in 2017 by Simon Riggs,
using docs and tests originally written in 2009. Later work
from Pavan Deolasee has been both complex and deep, leaving
the lead author credit now in his hands.
Extensive discussion of concurrency from Peter Geoghegan,
with thanks for the time and effort contributed.
Various issues reported via sqlsmith by Andreas Seltenreich
Authors: Pavan Deolasee, Simon Riggs
Reviewer: Peter Geoghegan, Amit Langote, Tomas Vondra, Simon Riggs
Discussion:
https://postgr.es/m/CANP8+jKitBSrB7oTgT9CY2i1ObfOt36z0XMraQc+Xrz8QB0nXA@mail.gmail.comhttps://postgr.es/m/CAH2-WzkJdBuxj9PO=2QaO9-3h3xGbQPZ34kJH=HukRekwM-GZg@mail.gmail.com
Logical decoding should not publish anything about tables created as
part of a heap rewrite during DDL. Those tables don't exist externally,
so consumers of logical decoding cannot do anything sensible with that
information. In ab28feae2b, we worked
around this for built-in logical replication, but that was hack.
This is a more proper fix: We mark such transient heaps using the new
field pg_class.relwrite, linking to the original relation OID. By
default, we ignore them in logical decoding before they get to the
output plugin. Optionally, a plugin can register their interest in
getting such changes, if they handle DDL specially, in which case the
new field will help them get information about the actual table.
Reviewed-by: Craig Ringer <craig@2ndquadrant.com>
AclObjectKind was basically just another enumeration for object types,
and we already have a preferred one for that. It's only used in
aclcheck_error. By using ObjectType instead, we can also give some more
precise error messages, for example "index" instead of "relation".
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
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
The logical decoding functions do BeginInternalSubTransaction and
RollbackAndReleaseCurrentSubTransaction to clean up after themselves.
It turns out that AtEOSubXact_SPI has an unrecognized assumption that
we always need to cancel the active SPI operation in the SPI context
that surrounds the subtransaction (if there is one). That's true
when the RollbackAndReleaseCurrentSubTransaction call is coming from
the SPI-using function itself, but not when it's happening inside
some unrelated function invoked by a SPI query. In practice the
affected callers are the various PLs.
To fix, record the current subtransaction ID when we begin a SPI
operation, and clean up only if that ID is the subtransaction being
canceled.
Also, remove AtEOSubXact_SPI's assertion that it must have cleaned
up the surrounding SPI context's active tuptable. That's proven
wrong by the same test case.
Also clarify (or, if you prefer, reinterpret) the calling conventions
for _SPI_begin_call and _SPI_end_call. The memory context cleanup
in the latter means that these have always had the flavor of a matched
resource-management pair, but they weren't documented that way before.
Per report from Ben Chobot.
Back-patch to 9.4 where logical decoding came in. In principle,
the SPI changes should go all the way back, since the problem dates
back to commit 7ec1c5a86. But given the lack of field complaints
it seems few people are using internal subtransactions in this way.
So I don't feel a need to take any risks in 9.2/9.3.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/73FBA179-C68C-4540-9473-71E865408B15@silentmedia.com
The snapshot assembly during the creation of logical slots relied
waiting for transactions in xl_running_xacts to end, by checking for
their commit/abort records. Unfortunately, despite locking, it is
possible to see an xl_running_xact record listing transactions as
ready, that have already WAL-logged an commit/abort record, as the
locking just prevents the ProcArray to be adjusted, and the commit
record has to be logged first.
That lead to either delayed or hanging snapshot creation, because
snapbuild.c would wait "forever" to see commit/abort records for some
transactions. That hang resolved only if a xl_running_xacts record
without any running transactions happened to be logged, far from
certain on a busy server.
It's impractical to prevent that via more heavyweight locking, the
likelihood of deadlocks and significantly increased contention would
be too big.
Instead change the initial snapshot creation to be solely based on
tracking the oldest running transaction via
xl_running_xacts->oldestRunningXid - that actually ends up
significantly simplifying the code. That has two disadvantages:
1) Because we cannot fully "trust" the contents of xl_running_xacts,
we cannot use it to build the initial snapshot. Instead we have to
wait twice for all running transactions to finish.
2) Previously a slot, unless the race occurred, could be created when
the all transaction perceived as running based on commit/abort
records, now we have to wait for the next xl_running_xacts record.
To address that, trigger logging new xl_running_xacts record from
within snapbuild.c exactly when necessary.
Unfortunately snabuild.c's SnapBuild is stored on disk, one of the
stupider ideas of a certain Mr Freund, so we can't change it in a
minor release. As this is going to be backpatched, we have to hack
around a bit to keep on-disk compatibility. A later commit will
rejigger that on master.
Author: Andres Freund, based on a quite different patch from Petr Jelinek
Analyzed-By: Petr Jelinek
Reviewed-By: Petr Jelinek
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/f37e975c-908f-858e-707f-058d3b1eb214@2ndquadrant.com
Backpatch: 9.4-, where logical decoding has been introduced
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
Commit f82ec32ac3 renamed the pg_xlog
directory to pg_wal. To make things consistent, and because "xlog" is
terrible terminology for either "transaction log" or "write-ahead log"
rename all SQL-callable functions that contain "xlog" in the name to
instead contain "wal". (Note that this may pose an upgrade hazard for
some users.)
Similarly, rename the xlog_position argument of the functions that
create slots to be called wal_position.
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CA+Tgmob=YmA=H3DbW1YuOXnFVgBheRmyDkWcD9M8f=5bGWYEoQ@mail.gmail.com
Fix the tests on slow machines (per buildfarm).
Add test for dropping on error. And also try to consume real changes
from temporary slots.
From: Petr Jelinek <petr.jelinek@2ndquadrant.com>
This test, just added in commit a924c327e, sometimes fails because
the old backend hasn't finished dropping the temporary replication slot
when the new backend looks. Borrow the previously-invented methodology
for waiting for the old process to disappear from pg_stat_activity.
Petr Jelinek
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/62935e6f-4f1b-c433-e0fa-7f936a38b3e5@2ndquadrant.com
This allows creating temporary replication slots that are removed
automatically at the end of the session or on error.
From: Petr Jelinek <petr.jelinek@2ndquadrant.com>
A little COLLATE "C" goes a long way.
Pavel Stehule, per suggestion from Craig Ringer
Discussion: <CAFj8pRA8nJZcozgxN=RMSqMmKuHVOkcGAAKPKdFeiMWGDSUDLA@mail.gmail.com>
Similar to 0137caf273, this makes contrib and pl tests less dependant on
hash-table order. After this commit, at least some order affecting
changes to execGrouping.c don't result in regression test changes
anymore.
Before initializing iteration over a subtransaction's changes, the last
few changes were not spilled to disk. That's correct if the transaction
didn't spill to disk, but otherwise... This bug can lead to missed or
misorderd subtransaction contents when they were spilled to disk.
Move spilling of the remaining in-memory changes to
ReorderBufferIterTXNInit(), where it can easily be applied to the top
transaction and, if present, subtransactions.
Since this code had too many bugs already, noticeably increase test
coverage.
Fixes: #14319
Reported-By: Huan Ruan
Discussion: <20160909012610.20024.58169@wrigleys.postgresql.org>
Backport: 9,4-, where logical decoding was added
This oversight could cause logical decoding to fail to decode an outer
transaction containing changes, if a subtransaction had an XID but no
actual changes. Per bug #14279 from Marko Tiikkaja. Patch by Marko
based on analysis by Andrew Gierth.
Discussion: <20160804191757.1430.39011@wrigleys.postgresql.org>
To ensure that "make installcheck" can be used safely against an existing
installation, we need to be careful about what global object names
(database, role, and tablespace names) we use; otherwise we might
accidentally clobber important objects. There's been a weak consensus that
test databases should have names including "regression", and that test role
names should start with "regress_", but we didn't have any particular rule
about tablespace names; and neither of the other rules was followed with
any consistency either.
This commit moves us a long way towards having a hard-and-fast rule that
regression test databases must have names including "regression", and that
test role and tablespace names must start with "regress_". It's not
completely there because I did not touch some test cases in rolenames.sql
that test creation of special role names like "session_user". That will
require some rethinking of exactly what we want to test, whereas the intent
of this patch is just to hit all the cases in which the needed renamings
are cosmetic.
There is no enforcement mechanism in this patch either, but if we don't
add one we can expect that the tests will soon be violating the convention
again. Again, that's not such a cosmetic change and it will require
discussion. (But I did use a quick-hack enforcement patch to find these
cases.)
Discussion: <16638.1468620817@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Amit Kapila