Until now functional dependencies supported only simple equality clauses
and clauses that can be trivially translated to equalities. This commit
allows estimation of some ScalarArrayOpExpr (IN/ANY) clauses.
For IN clauses we can do this thanks to using operator with equality
semantics, which means an IN clause
WHERE c IN (1, 2, ..., N)
can be translated to
WHERE (c = 1 OR c = 2 OR ... OR c = N)
IN clauses are now considered compatible with functional dependencies,
and rely on the same assumption of consistency of queries with data
(which is an assumption we already used for simple equality clauses).
This applies also to ALL clauses with an equality operator, which can be
considered equivalent to IN clause.
ALL clauses are still considered incompatible, although there's some
discussion about maybe relaxing this in the future.
Author: Pierre Ducroquet
Reviewed-by: Tomas Vondra, Dean Rasheed
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/13902317.Eha0YfKkKy%40pierred-pdoc
This should of course be just "PG_ARGISNULL()".
Also reorder a couple of paras to make the discussion of PG_ARGISNULL
less disjointed.
Back-patch to v10 where the error was introduced.
Laurenz Albe and Tom Lane, per an anonymous docs comment
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/158399487096.5708.10696365251766477013@wrigleys.postgresql.org
Use the new MyBackendType instead. More similar changes for other "am
something" variables are possible. This one was just particularly
simple.
Reviewed-by: Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Kuntal Ghosh <kuntalghosh.2007@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/c65e5196-4f04-4ead-9353-6088c19615a3@2ndquadrant.com
Add a new global variable MyBackendType that uses the same BackendType
enum that was previously only used by the stats collector. That way
several duplicate ways of checking what type a particular process is
can be simplified. Since it's no longer just for stats, move to
miscinit.c and rename existing functions to match the expanded
purpose.
Reviewed-by: Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Kuntal Ghosh <kuntalghosh.2007@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/c65e5196-4f04-4ead-9353-6088c19615a3@2ndquadrant.com
If an index was explicitly set as replica identity index, this setting
was lost when a table was rewritten by ALTER TABLE. Because this
setting is part of pg_index but actually controlled by ALTER
TABLE (not part of CREATE INDEX, say), we have to do some extra work
to restore it.
Based-on-patch-by: Quan Zongliang <quanzongliang@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Euler Taveira <euler.taveira@2ndquadrant.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/c70fcab2-4866-0d9f-1d01-e75e189db342@gmail.com
This commit refactors and simplifies the definitions of StaticAssertStmt,
StaticAssertExpr and StaticAssertDecl. By unifying the C and C++
fallback implementations, this reduces the number of different
implementations from four to three.
Author: Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Georgios Kokolatos, Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200204081503.GF2287@paquier.xyz
I forgot that the WAL directory might hold other files besides WAL
segments, notably including new segments still being filled.
That means a blind test for the first file's size being 16MB can
fail. Restrict based on file name length to make it more robust.
Per buildfarm.
pg_dump is oblivious to this kind of dependency, so they're lost on
dump/restores (and pg_upgrade). Have pg_dump emit ALTER lines so that
they're preserved. Add some pg_dump tests for the whole thing, also.
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane (offlist)
Reviewed-by: Ibrar Ahmed
Reviewed-by: Ahsan Hadi (who also reviewed commit 899a04f5ed)
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200217225333.GA30974@alvherre.pgsql
This coding technique is undesirable because (a) it leaks the FD for
the rest of the transaction if the SRF is not run to completion, and
(b) allocated FDs are a scarce resource, but multiple interleaved
uses of the relevant functions could eat many such FDs.
In v11 and later, a query such as "SELECT pg_ls_waldir() LIMIT 1"
yields a warning about the leaked FD, and the only reason there's
no warning in earlier branches is that fd.c didn't whine about such
leaks before commit 9cb7db3f0. Even disregarding the warning, it
wouldn't be too hard to run a backend out of FDs with careless use
of these SQL functions.
Hence, rewrite the function so that it reads the directory within
a single call, returning the results as a tuplestore rather than
via value-per-call mode.
There are half a dozen other built-in SRFs with similar problems,
but let's fix this one to start with, just to see if the buildfarm
finds anything wrong with the code.
In passing, fix bogus error report for stat() failure: it was
whining about the directory when it should be fingering the
individual file. Doubtless a copy-and-paste error.
Back-patch to v10 where this function was added.
Justin Pryzby, with cosmetic tweaks and test cases by me
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200308173103.GC1357@telsasoft.com
The init_ps_display() arguments were mostly lies by now, so to match
typical usage, just use one argument and let the caller assemble it
from multiple sources if necessary. The only user of the additional
arguments is BackendInitialize(), which was already doing string
assembly on the caller side anyway.
Remove the second argument of set_ps_display() ("force") and just
handle that in init_ps_display() internally.
BackendInitialize() also used to set the initial status as
"authentication", but that was very far from where authentication
actually happened. So now it's set to "initializing" and then
"authentication" just before the actual call to
ClientAuthentication().
Reviewed-by: Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Kuntal Ghosh <kuntalghosh.2007@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/c65e5196-4f04-4ead-9353-6088c19615a3@2ndquadrant.com
If the command is attempted for an extension that the object already
depends on, silently do nothing.
In particular, this means that if a database containing multiple such
entries is dumped, the restore will silently do the right thing and
record just the first one. (At least, in a world where pg_dump does
dump such entries -- which it doesn't currently, but it will.)
Backpatch to 9.6, where this kind of dependency was introduced.
Reviewed-by: Ibrar Ahmed, Tom Lane (offlist)
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200217225333.GA30974@alvherre.pgsql
The code around InitPostmasterChild() from commit 31c453165b somehow
ended up in the middle of a block of code related to "User ID state".
Move it into its own block instead.
Previously, hard links were not used on Windows and Cygwin, but they
support them just fine in currently supported OS versions, so we can
use them there as well.
Since all supported platforms now support hard links, we can remove
the alternative code paths.
Rename durable_link_or_rename() to durable_rename_excl() to make the
purpose more clear without referencing the implementation details.
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/72fff73f-dc9c-4ef4-83e8-d2e60c98df48%402ndquadrant.com
This commit eliminates lossiness in check for missing parent downlinks in
B-tree. Instead of collecting lossy bitmap, we check for missing downlinks
while visiting child pages referenced by downlinks of target level. We
traverse from previous child page to the subsequent child page by right links.
Intermediate pages are candidates to have lost parent downlinks.
Also this commit introduces matching of child high key to the pivot key of
it's parent.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAPpHfduoF-c4RhOyOm%3D4-Y367%2B8txq9Q6iM_ty0OYc8si1Abww%40mail.gmail.com
Author: Alexander Korotkov
Reviewed-by: Peter Geoghegan
Commit 074251db added an assertion that verified the fastpath/rightmost
page insert optimization's assumption about free space: There should
always be enough free space on the page to insert the new item without
splitting the page. Otherwise, we end up using the "concurrent root
page split" phony/fake stack path in _bt_insert_parent(). This does not
lead to incorrect behavior, but it is likely to be far slower than
simply using the regular _bt_search() path. The assertion catches
serious performance bugs that would probably take a long time to detect
any other way.
It seems much more natural to make this assertion just before the point
that we generate a fake/phony descent stack. Move the assert there.
This also makes _bt_insertonpg() a bit more readable.
Fix up some imprecise comments and poor markup from ba79cb5dc. Also try
to convert the documentation of log_min_duration_sample and friends into
passable English.
Only a very basic logic bug in a _bt_insertonpg() caller could lead to a
violation of this invariant. Besides, any newitemoff used for an
internal page is sanitized using other "can't happen" errors in
_bt_getstackbuf() or its callers, before _bt_insertonpg() even gets
called.
Also, move the error/assertion from the insert-without-split path of
_bt_insertonpg() to the top of the same function. There is no reason
why this invariant only applies to insertions that happen to not result
in a page split; cover every insertion. The assertion naturally belongs
next to the existing generic assertions that document relatively
high-level invariants for the item being inserted.
Since the documentation about LIKE doesn't say that a copied constraint
has properties different from the original, it seems that ignoring
a NO INHERIT property doesn't meet the principle of least surprise.
So make it copy that.
(Note, however, that we still don't copy a NOT VALID property;
CREATE TABLE offers no way to do that, plus it seems pointless.)
Arguably this is a bug fix; but no back-patch, as it seems barely
possible somebody is depending on the current behavior.
Ildar Musin and Chris Travers; reviewed by Amit Langote and myself
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAONYFtMC6C+3AWCVp7Yd8H87Zn0GxG1_iQG6_bQKbaqYZY0=-g@mail.gmail.com
Previously, this code just smashed all types of DefElem values to
strings, cavalierly reasoning that nobody would care. But in point of
fact, most of the defGetFoo functions do distinguish among different
input syntaxes; for instance defGetBoolean will accept 1 as an integer
but not "1" as a string. This led to CREATE/ALTER TEXT SEARCH
DICTIONARY accepting 0 and 1 as values for boolean dictionary
properties, only to have the dictionary fail at runtime.
We can upgrade this behavior by teaching serialize_deflist that it
does not need to quote T_Integer or T_Float nodes' values on output,
and then teaching deserialize_deflist to restore unquoted integer or
float values as the appropriate node type. This should not break
anything using pg_ts_dict.dictinitoption, since that field is just
defined as being something valid to include in CREATE TEXT SEARCH
DICTIONARY.
deserialize_deflist is also used to parse the options arguments
for the ts_headline family of functions, but so far as I can see
this won't cause any problems there either: the only consumer of
that output is prsd_headline which always uses defGetString.
(Really that's a bad idea, but I won't risk changing it here.)
This is surely a bug fix, but given the lack of field complaints
I don't think it's necessary to back-patch.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMkU=1xRcs_BUPzR0+V3WndaCAv0E_m3h6aUEJ8NF-sY1nnHsw@mail.gmail.com
This catalog-handling code was previously together with the rest of
CastCreate() in src/backend/commands/functioncmds.c. A future patch
will need a way to add casts internally, so this will be useful to have
separate.
Also, move the nearby get_cast_oid() function from functioncmds.c to
lsyscache.c, which seems a more natural place for it.
Author: Paul Jungwirth, minor edits by Álvaro
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200309210003.GA19992@alvherre.pgsql
This removes another relic from the old nmake-based Windows build.
version_stamp.pl put version number information into win32ver.rc. But
win32ver.rc already gets other version number information from the
preprocessor at build time, so it would make more sense if all version
number information would be handled in the same way and we don't have
two places that do it.
What we need for this is having the major version number and the minor
version number as separate integer symbols. Both configure and
Solution.pm already have that logic, because they compute
PG_VERSION_NUM. So we just keep all the logic there now. Put the
minor version number into a new symbol PG_MINORVERSION_NUM. Also, add
a symbol PG_MAJORVERSION_NUM, which is a number, alongside the
existing PG_MAJORVERSION, which is a string.
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/1ee46ac4-a9b2-4531-bf54-5ec2e374634d@2ndquadrant.com
The need for this was removed by
8b9e9644dc.
A number of files now need to include utils/acl.h or
parser/parse_node.h explicitly where they previously got it indirectly
somehow.
Since parser/parse_node.h already includes nodes/parsenodes.h, the
latter is then removed where the former was added. Also, remove
nodes/pg_list.h from objectaddress.h, since that's included via
nodes/parsenodes.h.
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/7601e258-26b2-8481-36d0-dc9dca6f28f1%402ndquadrant.com
When a partitioned table is added to a publication, changes of all of
its partitions (current or future) are published via that publication.
This change only affects which tables a publication considers as its
members. The receiving side still sees the data coming from the
individual leaf partitions. So existing restrictions that partition
hierarchies can only be replicated one-to-one are not changed by this.
Author: Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Rafia Sabih <rafia.pghackers@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CA+HiwqH=Y85vRK3mOdjEkqFK+E=ST=eQiHdpj43L=_eJMOOznQ@mail.gmail.com
Such indexes can only be duplicated leftovers of a previously failed
REINDEX CONCURRENTLY command, and a valid equivalent is guaranteed to
exist. As toast indexes can only be dropped if invalid, reindexing
these would lead to useless duplicated indexes that can't be dropped
anymore, except if the parent relation is dropped.
Thanks to Justin Pryzby for reminding that this problem was reported
long ago during the review of the original patch of REINDEX
CONCURRENTLY, but the issue was never addressed.
Reported-by: Sergei Kornilov, Justin Pryzby
Author: Julien Rouhaud
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/36712441546604286%40sas1-890ba5c2334a.qloud-c.yandex.net
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200216190835.GA21832@telsasoft.com
Backpatch-through: 12
This commit replaces 0 used as an initial value of XLogSource variable,
with XLOG_FROM_ANY. Also this commit changes those variable so that
XLogSource instead of int is used as the type for them. These changes
are for code readability and debugger-friendliness.
Author: Kyotaro Horiguchi
Reviewed-by: Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200227.124830.2197604521555566121.horikyota.ntt@gmail.com
Previously, event triggers were restored just after regular triggers
(and FK constraints, which are basically triggers). This is risky
since an event trigger, once installed, could interfere with subsequent
restore commands. Worse, because event triggers don't have any
particular dependencies on any post-data objects, a parallel restore
would consider them eligible to be restored the moment the post-data
phase starts, allowing them to also interfere with restoration of a
whole bunch of objects that would have been restored before them in
a serial restore. There's no way to completely remove the risk of a
misguided event trigger breaking the restore, since if nothing else
it could break other event triggers. But we can certainly push them
to later in the process to minimize the hazard.
To fix, tweak the RestorePass mechanism introduced by commit 3eb9a5e7c
so that event triggers are handled as part of the post-ACL processing
pass (renaming the "REFRESH" pass to "POST_ACL" to reflect its more
general use). This will cause them to restore after everything except
matview refreshes, which seems OK since matview refreshes really ought
to run in the post-restore state of the database. In a parallel
restore, event triggers and matview refreshes might be intermixed,
but that seems all right as well.
Also update the code and comments in pg_dump_sort.c so that its idea
of how things are sorted agrees with what actually happens due to
the RestorePass mechanism. This is mostly cosmetic: it'll affect the
order of objects in a dump's TOC, but not the actual restore order.
But not changing that would be quite confusing to somebody reading
the code.
Back-patch to all supported branches.
Fabrízio de Royes Mello, tweaked a bit by me
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAFcNs+ow1hmFox8P--3GSdtwz-S3Binb6ZmoP6Vk+Xg=K6eZNA@mail.gmail.com
Increases the number of tapes in a logical tape set. This will be
important for disk-based hash aggregation, because the maximum number
of tapes is not known ahead of time.
While discussing this change, it was observed to regress the
performance of Sort for at least one test case. The performance
regression was because some versions of GCC switch to an inlined
version of memcpy() in LogicalTapeWrite() after this change. No
performance regression for clang was observed.
Because the regression is due to an arbitrary decision by the
compiler, I decided it shouldn't hold up this change. If it needs to
be fixed, we can find a workaround.
Author: Adam Lee, Jeff Davis
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/e54bfec11c59689890f277722aaaabd05f78e22c.camel%40j-davis.com
Previously "waiting" could appear twice via PS in case of lock conflict
in hot standby mode. Specifically this issue happend when the delay
in WAL application determined by max_standby_archive_delay and
max_standby_streaming_delay had passed but it took more than 500 msec
to cancel all the conflicting transactions. Especially we can observe this
easily by setting those delay parameters to -1.
The cause of this issue was that WaitOnLock() and
ResolveRecoveryConflictWithVirtualXIDs() added "waiting" to
the process title in that case. This commit prevents
ResolveRecoveryConflictWithVirtualXIDs() from reporting waiting
in case of lock conflict, to fix the bug.
Back-patch to all back branches.
Author: Masahiko Sawada
Reviewed-by: Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+fd4k4mXWTwfQLS3RPwGr4xnfAEs1ysFfgYHvmmoUgv6Zxvmg@mail.gmail.com
At the end of recovery, standby mode is turned off to re-fetch the last
valid record from archive or pg_wal. Previously, if recovery target was
reached and standby mode was turned off while the current WAL source
was stream, recovery could try to retrieve WAL file containing the last
valid record unexpectedly from stream even though not in standby mode.
This caused an assertion failure. That is, the assertion test confirms that
WAL file should not be retrieved from stream if standby mode is not true.
This commit moves back the current WAL source to archive if it's stream
even though not in standby mode, to avoid that assertion failure.
This issue doesn't cause the server to crash when built with assertion
disabled. In this case, the attempt to retrieve WAL file from stream not
in standby mode just fails. And then recovery tries to retrieve WAL file
from archive or pg_wal.
Back-patch to all supported branches.
Author: Kyotaro Horiguchi
Reviewed-by: Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200227.124830.2197604521555566121.horikyota.ntt@gmail.com
This commit changes the GUC ssl_passphrase_command so that
it's examinable by only superuser and a member of pg_read_all_settings.
Per discussion, we determined to do this because the parameter may
contain a sensitive informtaion like a passphrase itself.
Author: Insung Moon
Reviewed-by: Keisuke Kuroda
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEMmqBuHVGayc+QkYKgx3gWSdqwTAQGw+0DYn3WhcX-eNa2ntA@mail.gmail.com
This addresses a couple of issues in the documentation:
- Description of PG_COLOR was missing for some tools (pg_archivecleanup
and pg_test_fsync), while the other descriptions had grammar mistakes.
- pgbench supports more environment variables: PGUSER, PGHOST and
PGPORT.
- vacuumlo, oid2name and pgbench support coloring (HEAD only)
Author: Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Fabien Coelho, Daniel Gustafsson, Juan José Santamaría
Flecha
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200304075418.GJ2593@paquier.xyz
Backpatch-through: 12
This commit provides psql commands for listing operator classes, operator
families and its contents in psql. New commands will be useful for exploring
capabilities of both builtin opclasses/opfamilies as well as
opclasses/opfamilies defined in extensions.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1529675324.14193.5.camel%40postgrespro.ru
Author: Sergey Cherkashin, Nikita Glukhov, Alexander Korotkov
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier, Alvaro Herrera, Arthur Zakirov
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi, Andres Freund
The data types that contrib/pageinspect's bt_metap() function were
declared to return as OUT arguments were wrong in some cases. For
example, the oldest_xact column (a TransactionId/xid field) was declared
integer/int4 within the pageinspect extension's sql file. This led to
errors when an oldest_xact value that exceeded 2^31-1 was encountered.
Some of the other columns were defined incorrectly ever since
pageinspect was first introduced, though they were far less likely to
produce problems in practice.
Fix these issues by changing the declaration of bt_metap() to
consistently use data types that can reliably represent all possible
values. This fixes things on HEAD only. No backpatch, since it doesn't
seem like there is a safe way to fix the issue without including a new
version of the pageinspect extension (HEAD/Postgres 13 already
introduced a new version of the extension). Besides, the oldest_xact
issue has been around since the release of Postgres 11, and we haven't
heard any complaints about it before now.
Also, throw an error when we detect a bt_metap() declaration that must
be from an old version of the pageinspect extension by examining the
number of attributes from the tuple descriptor for the return tuples.
It seems better to throw an error in a reliable and obvious way
following a Postgres upgrade, rather than letting bt_metap() fail
unpredictably. The problem is fundamentally with the CREATE FUNCTION
declared data types themselves, so I see no sensible alternative.
Reported-By: Victor Yegorov
Bug: #16285
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16285-df8fc1000ab3d5fc@postgresql.org
I noticed while testing some other stuff that the CHECK_ENCODING_ROUNDTRIP
logic in ginCompressPostingList could account for over 50% of the runtime
of an INSERT with a GIN index. While that's not relevant to production
performance, it's still kind of annoying in a debug build. Replacing
the loop around short memcmp's with one long memcmp works just as well
and is significantly faster, at least on my machine.
Some reference pages contained id attributes on refname elements.
These were apparently copied around from ancient times, but they don't
serve a purpose. FOP issues minor warnings about them. So it's
easiest to just remove them.
plperl's default handling of bool arguments or results is not terribly
satisfactory, since Perl doesn't consider the string 'f' to be false.
Ideally we'd just fix that, but the backwards-compatibility hazard
would be substantial. Instead, build a TRANSFORM module that can
be optionally applied to provide saner semantics.
Perhaps usefully, this is also about the minimum possible skeletal
example of a plperl transform module; so it might be a better starting
point for user-written transform modules than hstore_plperl or
jsonb_plperl.
Ivan Panchenko
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1583013317.881182688@f390.i.mail.ru
SQL includes provisions for numeric Unicode escapes in string
literals and identifiers. Previously we only accepted those
if they represented ASCII characters or the server encoding
was UTF-8, making the conversion to internal form trivial.
This patch adjusts things so that we'll call the appropriate
encoding conversion function in less-trivial cases, allowing
the escape sequence to be accepted so long as it corresponds
to some character available in the server encoding.
This also applies to processing of Unicode escapes in JSONB.
However, the old restriction still applies to client-side
JSON processing, since that hasn't got access to the server's
encoding conversion infrastructure.
This patch includes some lexer infrastructure that simplifies
throwing errors with error cursors pointing into the middle of
a string (or other complex token). For the moment I only used
it for errors relating to Unicode escapes, but we might later
expand the usage to some other cases.
Patch by me, reviewed by John Naylor.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2393.1578958316@sss.pgh.pa.us
Specifically, this patch allows ALTER TYPE to:
* Change the default TOAST strategy for a toastable base type;
* Promote a non-toastable type to toastable;
* Add/remove binary I/O functions for a type;
* Add/remove typmod I/O functions for a type;
* Add/remove a custom ANALYZE statistics functions for a type.
The first of these can be done by the type's owner; all the others
require superuser privilege since misuse could cause problems.
The main motivation for this patch is to allow extensions to
upgrade the feature sets of their data types, so the set of
alterable properties is biased towards that use-case. However
it's also true that changing some other properties would be
a lot harder, as they get baked into physical storage and/or
stored expressions that depend on the type.
Along the way, refactor GenerateTypeDependencies() to make it easier
to call, refactor DefineType's volatility checks so they can be shared
by AlterType, and teach typcache.c that it might have to reload data
from the type's pg_type row, a scenario it never handled before.
Also rearrange alter_type.sgml a bit for clarity (put the
composite-type operations together).
Tomas Vondra and Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200228004440.b23ein4qvmxnlpht@development
A long time ago, it was necessary to declare datatype I/O functions,
triggers, and language handler support functions in a very type-unsafe
way involving a single pseudo-type "opaque". We got rid of those
conventions in 7.3, but there was still support in various places to
automatically convert such functions to the modern declaration style,
to be able to transparently re-load dumps from pre-7.3 servers.
It seems unnecessary to continue to support that anymore, so take out
the hacks; whereupon the "opaque" pseudo-type itself is no longer
needed and can be dropped.
This is part of a group of patches removing various server-side kluges
for transparently upgrading pre-8.0 dump files. Since we've had few
complaints about dropping pg_dump's support for dumping from pre-8.0
servers (commit 64f3524e2), it seems okay to now remove these kluges.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/4110.1583255415@sss.pgh.pa.us
Tomas Vondra