Contention on the relation extension lock can become quite fierce when
multiple processes are inserting data into the same relation at the same
time at a high rate. Experimentation shows the extending the relation
multiple blocks at a time improves scalability.
Dilip Kumar, reviewed by Petr Jelinek, Amit Kapila, and me.
In cases where joins use multiple columns we currently assess each join
separately causing gross mis-estimates for join cardinality.
This patch adds use of FK information for the first time into the
planner. When FKs are present and we have multi-column join information,
plan estimates will be drastically improved. Cases with multiple FKs
are handled, though partial matches are ignored currently.
Net effect is substantial performance improvements for joins in many
common cases. Additional planning time is isolated to cases that are
currently performing poorly, measured at 0.08 - 0.15 ms.
Please watch for planner performance regressions; circumstances seem
unlikely but the law of unintended consequences may apply somewhen.
Additional complex tests welcome to prove this before release.
Tests can be performed using SET enable_fkey_estimates = on | off
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Authors: Tomas Vondra and David Rowley
Reviewed and tested by Simon Riggs, adding comments only
We shouldn't be adding roles during the regression tests as that can
cause back-to-back installcheck runs to fail and users running the
regression tests likley don't want those extra roles.
Pointed out by Tom
Extracted from pending unique-join patch, since this is a rather large
delta but it's simply moving code out into separately-accessible
subroutines.
I (tgl) did choose to add a bit more logic to rel_supports_distinctness,
so that it verifies that there's at least one potentially usable unique
index rather than just checking indexlist != NIL. Otherwise there's
no functional change here.
David Rowley
While prior to this patch the user-visible effect on the database
of any set of successfully committed serializable transactions was
always consistent with some one-at-a-time order of execution of
those transactions, the presence of declarative constraints could
allow errors to occur which were not possible in any such ordering,
and developers had no good workarounds to prevent user-facing
errors where they were not necessary or desired. This patch adds
a check for serialization failure ahead of duplicate key checking
so that if a developer explicitly (redundantly) checks for the
pre-existing value they will get the desired serialization failure
where the problem is caused by a concurrent serializable
transaction; otherwise they will get a duplicate key error.
While it would be better if the reads performed by the constraints
could count as part of the work of the transaction for
serialization failure checking, and we will hopefully get there
some day, this patch allows a clean and reliable way for developers
to work around the issue. In many cases existing code will already
be doing the right thing for this to "just work".
Author: Thomas Munro, with minor editing of docs by me
Reviewed-by: Marko Tiikkaja, Kevin Grittner
Patch introduces new text search operator (<-> or <DISTANCE>) into tsquery.
On-disk and binary in/out format of tsquery are backward compatible.
It has two side effect:
- change order for tsquery, so, users, who has a btree index over tsquery,
should reindex it
- less number of parenthesis in tsquery output, and tsquery becomes more
readable
Authors: Teodor Sigaev, Oleg Bartunov, Dmitry Ivanov
Reviewers: Alexander Korotkov, Artur Zakirov
Commit c22650cd64 sparked a discussion
about diverse interpretations of "token user" in error messages. Expel
old and new specimens of that phrase by making all GetTokenInformation()
callers report errors the way GetTokenUser() has been reporting them.
These error conditions almost can't happen, so users are unlikely to
observe this change.
Reviewed by Tom Lane and Stephen Frost.
GetTokenUser() will have reported an adequate error message. These
error conditions almost can't happen, so users are unlikely to observe
this change.
Reviewed by Tom Lane and Stephen Frost.
Now that pg_dump will properly dump out any ACL changes made to
functions which exist in pg_catalog, switch to using the GRANT system
to manage access to those functions.
This means removing 'if (!superuser()) ereport()' checks from the
functions themselves and then REVOKEing EXECUTE right from 'public' for
these functions in system_views.sql.
Reviews by Alexander Korotkov, Jose Luis Tallon
Now that all of the infrastructure exists, add in the ability to
dump out the ACLs of the objects inside of pg_catalog or the ACLs
for objects which are members of extensions, but only if they have
been changed from their original values.
The original values are tracked in pg_init_privs. When pg_dump'ing
9.6-and-above databases, we will dump out the ACLs for all objects
in pg_catalog and the ACLs for all extension members, where the ACL
has been changed from the original value which was set during either
initdb or CREATE EXTENSION.
This should not change dumps against pre-9.6 databases.
Reviews by Alexander Korotkov, Jose Luis Tallon
Historically, the "dump" component of the namespace has been used
to decide if the objects inside of the namespace should be dumped
also. Given that "dump" is now a bitmask and may be partial, and
we may want to dump out all components of the namespace object but
only some of the components of objects contained in the namespace,
create a "dump_contains" bitmask which will represent what components
of the objects inside of a namespace should be dumped out.
No behavior change here, but in preparation for a change where we
will dump out just the ACLs of objects in pg_catalog, but we might
not dump out the ACL of the pg_catalog namespace itself (for instance,
when it hasn't been changed from the value set at initdb time).
Reviews by Alexander Korotkov, Jose Luis Tallon
pg_dump has historically used a simple boolean 'dump' value to indicate
if a given object should be included in the dump or not. Instead, use
a bitmap which breaks down the components of an object into their
distinct pieces and use that bitmap to only include the components
requested.
This does not include any behavioral change, but is in preperation for
the change to dump out just ACLs for objects in pg_catalog.
Reviews by Alexander Korotkov, Jose Luis Tallon
This new catalog holds the privileges which the system was
initialized with at initdb time, along with any permissions set
by extensions at CREATE EXTENSION time. This allows pg_dump
(and any other similar use-cases) to detect when the privileges
set on initdb-created or extension-created objects have been
changed from what they were set to at initdb/extension-creation
time and handle those changes appropriately.
Reviews by Alexander Korotkov, Jose Luis Tallon
It inserts a new value into an jsonb array at arbitrary position or
a new key to jsonb object.
Author: Dmitry Dolgov
Reviewers: Petr Jelinek, Vitaly Burovoy, Andrew Dunstan
Some object types have names that are only unique for one table. But
for those we generally didn't put the table name into the dump TOC tag.
So it was impossible to identify these objects if the same name was used
for multiple tables. This affects policies, column defaults,
constraints, triggers, and rules.
Fix by adding the table name to the TOC tag, so that it now reads
"$schema $table $object".
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
API and mechanism to allow generic messages to be inserted into WAL that are
intended to be read by logical decoding plugins. This commit adds an optional
new callback to the logical decoding API.
Messages are either text or bytea. Messages can be transactional, or not, and
are identified by a prefix to allow multiple concurrent decoding plugins.
(Not to be confused with Generic WAL records, which are intended to allow crash
recovery of extensible objects.)
Author: Petr Jelinek and Andres Freund
Reviewers: Artur Zakirov, Tomas Vondra, Simon Riggs
Discussion: 5685F999.6010202@2ndquadrant.com
Previously synchronous replication offered only the ability to confirm
that all changes made by a transaction had been transferred to at most
one synchronous standby server.
This commit extends synchronous replication so that it supports multiple
synchronous standby servers. It enables users to consider one or more
standby servers as synchronous, and increase the level of transaction
durability by ensuring that transaction commits wait for replies from
all of those synchronous standbys.
Multiple synchronous standby servers are configured in
synchronous_standby_names which is extended to support new syntax of
'num_sync ( standby_name [ , ... ] )', where num_sync specifies
the number of synchronous standbys that transaction commits need to
wait for replies from and standby_name is the name of a standby
server.
The syntax of 'standby_name [ , ... ]' which was used in 9.5 or before
is also still supported. It's the same as new syntax with num_sync=1.
This commit doesn't include "quorum commit" feature which was discussed
in pgsql-hackers. Synchronous standbys are chosen based on their priorities.
synchronous_standby_names determines the priority of each standby for
being chosen as a synchronous standby. The standbys whose names appear
earlier in the list are given higher priority and will be considered as
synchronous. Other standby servers appearing later in this list
represent potential synchronous standbys.
The regression test for multiple synchronous standbys is not included
in this commit. It should come later.
Authors: Sawada Masahiko, Beena Emerson, Michael Paquier, Fujii Masao
Reviewed-By: Kyotaro Horiguchi, Amit Kapila, Robert Haas, Simon Riggs,
Amit Langote, Thomas Munro, Sameer Thakur, Suraj Kharage, Abhijit Menon-Sen,
Rajeev Rastogi
Many thanks to the various individuals who were involved in
discussing and developing this feature.
This introduces a new dependency type which marks an object as depending
on an extension, such that if the extension is dropped, the object
automatically goes away; and also, if the database is dumped, the object
is included in the dump output. Currently the grammar supports this for
indexes, triggers, materialized views and functions only, although the
utility code is generic so adding support for more object types is a
matter of touching the parser rules only.
Author: Abhijit Menon-Sen
Reviewed-by: Alexander Korotkov, Álvaro Herrera
Discussion: http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20160115062649.GA5068@toroid.org
has_parallel_hazard() was ignoring the proparallel markings for
aggregates, which is no good. Fix that. There was no way to mark
an aggregate as actually being parallel-safe, either, so add a
PARALLEL option to CREATE AGGREGATE.
Patch by me, reviewed by David Rowley.
Experimentation shows this only costs about 6kB, which seems well
worth it given the major performance effects that can be caused
by insufficient alignment, especially on larger systems.
Discussion: 14166.1458924422@sss.pgh.pa.us
PL/Python failed if a PL/Python function was invoked recursively via SPI,
since arguments are passed to the function in its global dictionary
(a horrible decision that's far too ancient to undo) and it would delete
those dictionary entries on function exit, leaving the outer recursion
level(s) without any arguments. Not deleting them would be little better,
since the outer levels would then see the innermost level's arguments.
Since PL/Python uses ValuePerCall mode for evaluating set-returning
functions, it's possible for multiple executions of the same SRF to be
interleaved within a query. PL/Python failed in such a case, because
it stored only one iterator per function, directly in the function's
PLyProcedure struct. Moreover, one interleaved instance of the SRF
would see argument values that should belong to another.
Hence, invent code for saving and restoring the argument entries. To fix
the recursion case, we only need to save at recursive entry and restore
at recursive exit, so the overhead in non-recursive cases is negligible.
To fix the SRF case, we have to save when suspending a SRF and restore
when resuming it, which is potentially not negligible; but fortunately
this is mostly a matter of manipulating Python object refcounts and
should not involve much physical data copying.
Also, store the Python iterator and saved argument values in a structure
associated with the SRF call site rather than the function itself. This
requires adding a memory context deletion callback to ensure that the SRF
state is cleaned up if the calling query exits before running the SRF to
completion. Without that we'd leak a refcount to the iterator object in
such a case, resulting in session-lifespan memory leakage. (In the
pre-existing code, there was no memory leak because there was only one
iterator pointer, but what would happen is that the previous iterator
would be resumed by the next query attempting to use the SRF. Hardly the
semantics we want.)
We can buy back some of whatever overhead we've added by getting rid of
PLy_function_delete_args(), which seems a useless activity: there is no
need to delete argument entries from the global dictionary on exit,
since the next time anyone would see the global dict is on the next
fresh call of the PL/Python function, at which time we'd overwrite those
entries with new arg values anyway.
Also clean up some really ugly coding in the SRF implementation, including
such gems as returning directly out of a PG_TRY block. (The only reason
that failed to crash hard was that all existing call sites immediately
exited their own PG_TRY blocks, popping the dangling longjmp pointer before
there was any chance of it being used.)
In principle this is a bug fix; but it seems a bit too invasive relative to
its value for a back-patch, and besides the fix depends on memory context
callbacks so it could not go back further than 9.5 anyway.
Alexey Grishchenko and Tom Lane
This lets us use parallel aggregate for a variety of useful cases
that didn't work before, like sum(int8), sum(numeric), several
versions of avg(), and various other functions.
Add some regression tests, as well, testing the general sanity of
these and future catalog entries.
David Rowley, reviewed by Tomas Vondra, with a few further changes
by me.
Previously non-exclusive backups had to be done using the replication protocol
and pg_basebackup. With this commit it's now possible to make them using
pg_start_backup/pg_stop_backup as well, as long as the backup program can
maintain a persistent connection to the database.
Doing this, backup_label and tablespace_map are returned as results from
pg_stop_backup() instead of being written to the data directory. This makes
the server safe from a crash during an ongoing backup, which can be a problem
with exclusive backups.
The old syntax of the functions remain and work exactly as before, but since the
new syntax is safer this should eventually be deprecated and removed.
Only reference documentation is included. The main section on backup still needs
to be rewritten to cover this, but since that is already scheduled for a separate
large rewrite, it's not included in this patch.
Reviewed by David Steele and Amit Kapila
As noted by Julian Schauder in bug #14063, the configuration-file parser
doesn't support embedded newlines in string literals. While there might
someday be a good reason to remove that restriction, there doesn't seem
to be one right now. However, ALTER SYSTEM SET could accept strings
containing newlines, since many of the variable-specific value-checking
routines would just see a newline as whitespace. This led to writing a
postgresql.auto.conf file that was broken and had to be removed manually.
Pending a reason to work harder, just throw an error if someone tries this.
In passing, fix several places in the ALTER SYSTEM logic that failed to
provide an errcode() for an ereport(), and thus would falsely log the
failure as an internal XX000 error.
Back-patch to 9.4 where ALTER SYSTEM was introduced.
Alex Shulgin complained that the underlying strategy wasn't all that
apparent, particularly not the fact that we intentionally have two
code paths depending on whether we think the column has a limited set
of possible values or not. Try to make it clearer.
On reflection, the pre-existing logic in ANALYZE is specifically meant to
compare the frequency of a candidate MCV against the estimated frequency of
a random distinct value across the whole table. The change to compare it
against the average frequency of values actually seen in the sample doesn't
seem very principled, and if anything it would make us less likely not more
likely to consider a value an MCV. So revert that, but keep the aspect of
considering only nonnull values, which definitely is correct.
In passing, rename the local variables in these stanzas to
"ndistinct_table", to avoid confusion with the "ndistinct" that appears at
an outer scope in compute_scalar_stats.
\gexec executes the just-entered query, like \g, but instead of printing
the results it takes each field as a SQL command to send to the server.
Computing a series of queries to be executed is a fairly common thing,
but up to now you always had to resort to kluges like writing the queries
to a file and then inputting the file. Now it can be done with no
intermediate step.
The implementation is fairly straightforward except for its interaction
with FETCH_COUNT. ExecQueryUsingCursor isn't capable of being called
recursively, and even if it were, its need to create a transaction
block interferes unpleasantly with the desired behavior of \gexec after
a failure of a generated query (i.e., that it can continue). Therefore,
disable use of ExecQueryUsingCursor when doing the master \gexec query.
We can still apply it to individual generated queries, however, and there
might be some value in doing so.
While testing this feature's interaction with single-step mode, I (tgl) was
led to conclude that SendQuery needs to recognize SIGINT (cancel_pressed)
as a negative response to the single-step prompt. Perhaps that's a
back-patchable bug fix, but for now I just included it here.
Corey Huinker, reviewed by Jim Nasby, Daniel Vérité, and myself
This elevel is useful for logging audit messages and similar information
that should not be passed to the client. It's equivalent to LOG in terms
of decisions about logging priority in the postmaster log, but messages
with this elevel will never be sent to the client.
In the current implementation, it's just an alias for the longstanding
COMMERROR elevel (or more accurately, we've made COMMERROR an alias for
this). At some point it might be interesting to allow a LOG_ONLY flag to
be attached to any elevel, but that would be considerably more complicated,
and it's not clear there's enough use-cases to justify the extra work.
For now, let's just take the easy 90% solution.
David Steele, reviewed by Fabien Coelho, Petr Jelínek, and myself
The first iteration of the signal-checking loop would compute sigmask(0)
which expands to 1<<(-1) which is undefined behavior according to the
C standard. The lack of field reports of trouble suggest that it
evaluates to 0 on all existing Windows compilers, but that's hardly
something to rely on. Since signal 0 isn't a queueable signal anyway,
we can just make the loop iterate from 1 instead, and save a few cycles
as well as avoiding the undefined behavior.
In passing, avoid evaluating the volatile expression UNBLOCKED_SIGNAL_QUEUE
twice in a row; there's no reason to waste cycles like that.
Noted by Aleksander Alekseev, though this isn't his proposed fix.
Back-patch to all supported branches.
When adjusting the estimate for the number of distinct values from a
rel in a grouped query to take into account the selectivity of the
rel's restrictions, use a formula that is less likely to produce
under-estimates.
The old formula simply multiplied the number of distinct values in the
rel by the restriction selectivity, which would be correct if the
restrictions were fully correlated with the grouping expressions, but
can produce significant under-estimates in cases where they are not
well correlated.
The new formula is based on the random selection probability, and so
assumes that the restrictions are not correlated with the grouping
expressions. This is guaranteed to produce larger estimates, and of
course risks over-estimating in cases where the restrictions are
correlated, but that has less severe consequences than
under-estimating, which might lead to a HashAgg that consumes an
excessive amount of memory.
This could possibly be improved upon in the future by identifying
correlated restrictions and using a hybrid of the old and new
formulae.
Author: Tomas Vondra, with some hacking be me
Reviewed-by: Mark Dilger, Alexander Korotkov, Dean Rasheed and Tom Lane
Discussion: http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/56CD0381.5060502@2ndquadrant.com
If archive_timeout > 0 we should avoid logging XLOG_RUNNING_XACTS if idle.
Bug 13685 reported by Laurence Rowe, investigated in detail by Michael Paquier,
though this is not his proposed fix.
20151016203031.3019.72930@wrigleys.postgresql.org
Simple non-invasive patch to allow later backpatch to 9.4 and 9.5
The restore() function assumed that the result of sprintf() with %e format
would necessarily contain an 'e', which is false: what if the supplied
number is an infinity or NaN? If that did happen, we'd get a
null-pointer-dereference core dump. The case appears impossible currently,
because seg_in() does not accept such values, and there are no seg-creating
functions that would create one. But it seems unwise to rely on it never
happening in future.
Quite aside from that, the code was pretty ugly: it relied on modifying a
static format string when it could use a "*" precision argument, and it
used strtok() entirely gratuitously, and it stripped off trailing spaces
by hand instead of just not asking for them to begin with.
Coverity noticed the potential null pointer dereference (though I wonder
why it didn't complain years ago, since this code is ancient).
Since this is just code cleanup and forestalling a hypothetical future
bug, there seems no need for back-patching.
The code was supposing that rd_amcache wouldn't disappear from under it
during a scan; which is wrong. Copy the data out of the relcache rather
than trying to reference it there.
Coverity complained about implicit sign-extension in the
BloomPageGetFreeSpace macro, probably because sizeOfBloomTuple isn't wide
enough for size calculations. No overflow is really possible as long as
maxoff and sizeOfBloomTuple are small enough to represent a realistic
situation, but it seems like a good idea to declare sizeOfBloomTuple as
Size not int32.
Add missing check on BloomPageAddItem() result, again from Coverity.
Avoid core dump due to not allocating so->sign array when
scan->numberOfKeys is zero. Also thanks to Coverity.
Use FLEXIBLE_ARRAY_MEMBER rather than declaring an array as size 1
when it isn't necessarily.
Very minor beautification of related code.
Unfortunately, none of the Coverity-detected mistakes look like they
could account for the remaining buildfarm unhappiness with this
module. It's barely possible that the FLEXIBLE_ARRAY_MEMBER mistake
does account for that, if it's enabling bogus compiler optimizations;
but I'm not terribly optimistic. We probably still have bugs to
find here.
Robert Haas