Explain partition pruning more thoroughly, in a section above the one
that explains constraint exclusion, since the new feature is the one
that will be used more extensively from now on. Move some of the
material from the constraint exclusion subsection to the one on
partition pruning, so that we can explain the legacy method by
explaining the differences with the new one instead of repeating it.
Author: David Rowley, Álvaro Herrera
Reviewed-by: Amit Langote, David G. Johnston, Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKJS1f8PECxEi1YQ9nhVtshtfOMHUzAMm_Zp4gGCOCnMPjEKJA@mail.gmail.com
I get "WARNING: nested link may be undefined in output: <xref @linkend =
'pgbench'> nested inside parent element link" from this.
Also remove some trailing whitespace.
- Change vacuum_cleanup_index_scale_factor GUC to PGC_USERSET.
vacuum_cleanup_index_scale_factor GUC was defined as PGC_SIGHUP. But this
GUC affects not only autovacuum. So it might be useful to change it from user
session in order to influence manually runned VACUUM.
- Add missing tab-complete support for vacuum_cleanup_index_scale_factor
reloption.
- Fix condition for B-tree index cleanup.
Zero value of vacuum_cleanup_index_scale_factor means that user wants B-tree
index cleanup to be never skipped.
- Documentation and comment improvements
Authors: Justin Pryzby, Alexander Korotkov, Liudmila Mantrova
Reviewed by: all authors and Robert Haas
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/20180502023025.GD7631%40telsasoft.com
DST law changes in North Korea. Redefinition of "daylight savings" in
Ireland, as well as for some past years in Namibia and Czechoslovakia.
Additional historical corrections for Czechoslovakia.
With this change, the IANA database models Irish timekeeping as following
"standard time" in summer, and "daylight savings" in winter, so that the
daylight savings offset is one hour behind standard time not one hour
ahead. This does not change their UTC offset (+1:00 in summer, 0:00 in
winter) nor their timezone abbreviations (IST in summer, GMT in winter),
though now "IST" is more correctly read as "Irish Standard Time" not "Irish
Summer Time". However, the "is_dst" column in the pg_timezone_names view
will now be true in winter and false in summer for the Europe/Dublin zone.
Similar changes were made for Namibia between 1994 and 2017, and for
Czechoslovakia between 1946 and 1947.
So far as I can find, no Postgres internal logic cares about which way
tm_isdst is reported; in particular, since commit b2cbced9e we do not
rely on it to decide how to interpret ambiguous timestamps during DST
transitions. So I don't think this change will affect any Postgres
behavior other than the timezone-view outputs.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/30996.1525445902@sss.pgh.pa.us
Commit 8b08f7d482 failed to update these modules to at least give
non-broken error messages for partitioned indexes. Add appropriate
error support to them.
Peter G. was complaining about a problem of unfriendly error messages;
while we haven't fixed that yet, subsequent discussion let to discovery
of these unhandled cases.
Author: Michaël Paquier
Reported-by: Peter Geoghegan
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-WzkOKptQiE51Bh4_xeEHhaBwHkZkGtKizrFMgEkfUuRRQg@mail.gmail.com
Fix the lone error message in the whole source tree to use capitalized
HASH when referring to hash indexes, making it look like all the other
messages.
Someday it would be good to standardize 'B-Tree', 'B-tree', 'btree', and
random other spellings, too, but that's a larger patch ...
Author: Álvaro Herrera
match_clause_to_partition_key failed to consider COERCION_PATH_ARRAYCOERCE
cases in scalar-op-array expressions, so it was possible to crash the
server easily. To handle this case properly (ie. prune partitions) we
would need to run a bit of executor code during planning. Maybe it can
be improved, but for now let's just not crash. Add a test case that
used to trigger the crash.
Author: Michaël Paquier
match_clause_to_partition_key failed to indicate that operators that
don't have a commutator in a btree opclass are unsupported. It is
possible for this to cause a crash later if such an operator is used in
a scalar-op-array expression. Add a test case that used to the crash.
Author: Amit Langote
One caller of gen_partprune_steps_internal in
match_clause_to_partition_key was too optimistic about the former never
returning an empty step list. Rid it of its innocence. (Having fixed
the bug above, I no longer know how to exploit this, so no test case for
it, but it remained a bug.) Revise code flow a little bit, for
succintness.
Author: Álvaro Herrera
Reported-by: Marina Polyakova
Reviewed-by: Michaël Paquier
Reviewed-by: Amit Langote
Reviewed-by: Álvaro Herrera
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ff8f9bfa485ff961d6bb43e54120485b@postgrespro.ru
The vertical tightness settings collapse vertical whitespace between
opening and closing brackets (parentheses, square brakets and braces).
This can make data structures in particular harder to read, and is not
very consistent with our style in non-Perl code. This patch restricts
that setting to parentheses only, and reformats all the perl code
accordingly. Not applying this to parentheses has some unfortunate
effects, so the consensus is to keep the setting for parentheses and not
for the others.
The diff for this patch does highlight some places where structures
should have trailing commas. They can be added manually, as there is no
automatic tool to do so.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2f2b87c-56be-c070-bfc0-36288b4b41c1@2ndQuadrant.com
There's no need to export this function, so don't. Michaël didn't
actually write the patch, but we list him as first author because with a
trivial one like this, intellectual authorship is as important (if not
more) as bit shovelling.
Author: Michaël Paquier, Amit Langote
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/c91299c4-199b-0f16-339b-a29d6d2a39ee@lab.ntt.co.jp
The regexes used in 102_vacuumdb_stages.pl to check the postmaster log
for expected output contained several places with ".*.*", which is
underdetermined and can cause exponential runtime growth in Perl's regex
matcher (since it's not bright enough not to waste time seeing whether
different splits of the same substring would allow a match). We were
fortunate that the amount of text in the postmaster log was generally not
enough to make the runtime go to the moon; although commit 6271fceb8 had
been on the hairy edge of an obvious problem, thanks to its increasing the
default log verbosity to DEBUG1. Experimentation shows that anyone who
tried to run this test case with an even higher log verbosity would have
been in for serious pain. But even at default logging level, fixing this
saves several hundred ms on my workstation, more on slower buildfarm
members.
Remove the extra ".*"s, restoring more-or-less-linear matching speed.
Back-patch to 9.4 where the test case was added, mostly in case anyone
tries to do related debugging in a back branch.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/32459.1525657786@sss.pgh.pa.us
While poking into initdb's performance, I noticed that this query
wasn't being done very intelligently. By forcing it to execute
obj_description() for each pg_proc/pg_operator join row, we were
essentially setting up a nestloop join to pg_description, which
is not a bright query plan when there are hundreds of outer rows.
Convert the check for a "deprecated" operator into a NOT EXISTS
so that it can be done as a hashed antijoin. On my workstation
this reduces the time for this query from ~ 35ms to ~ 10ms.
Which is not a huge win, but it adds up over buildfarm runs.
In passing, insert forced query breaks (\n\n, in single-user mode)
after each SQL-query file that initdb sources, and after some
relatively new queries in setup_privileges(). This doesn't make
a lot of difference normally, but it will result in briefer, saner
error messages if anything goes wrong.
Brown-paper-bag bug in commit 7c91a0364: when we rearranged the placement
of "reltuples += 1" statements, we missed including one in this code path.
The net effect of that was that CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY would set the
table's pg_class.reltuples to zero, as would index builds done during
bootstrap mode. (It seems like parallel index builds ought to fail
similarly, but they don't, perhaps because reltuples is computed in some
other way. You certainly couldn't figure that out from the abysmally
underdocumented parallelism code in this area.)
I was led to this by wondering why initdb seemed to have slowed down as
a result of 7c91a0364, as is evident in the buildfarm's timing history.
The reason is that every system catalog with indexes had pg_class.reltuples
= 0 after bootstrap, causing the planner to make some terrible choices for
queries in the post-bootstrap steps. On my workstation, this fix causes
the runtime of "initdb -N" to drop from ~2.0 sec to ~1.4 sec, which is
almost though not quite back to where it was in v10. That's not much of
a deal for production use perhaps, but it makes a noticeable difference
for buildfarm and "make check-world" runs, which do a lot of initdbs.
In Catalog.pm, mark eval of a string instead of a block as allowed.
Disallow perlcritic completely in Gen_dummy_probes.pl, as it's
generated code.
Protect a couple of lines in plperl code from perltidy, so that the
annotation for perlcritic stays on the same line as the construct it
would otherwise object to.
Commit 6271fceb8 changed PostgresNode.pm to force log_min_messages = debug1
in all TAP tests, without any discussion and without a concrete need for
it. This makes some of the TAP tests noticeably slower (although much of
that may be due to poorly-written regexes), and for certain it's bloating
the buildfarm logs. Revert the change.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/32459.1525657786@sss.pgh.pa.us
Commit 86f575948 already manually updated the oidjoins test for the
new pg_constraint.conparentid => pg_constraint.oid relationship, but
failed to update findoidjoins/README, thus the apparent inconsistency
here.
Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180507001811.GA27389@paquier.xyz
Most versions of "dtrace -h" drop const qualifiers from the declarations
of probe functions (though macOS gets it right). This causes compiler
warnings when we pass in pointers to const. Repair by extending our
existing post-processing of the probes.h file. To do so, assume that all
"char *" arguments should be "const char *"; that seems reasonably safe.
Thomas Munro
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=2j1pWSruQJqJ91ZDzD8w9ZZDsM4j2C6x75C-VryWg-_w@mail.gmail.com
The set of functions that need parallel-safety adjustments isn't the
same in 9.6 as 10, so I shouldn't have blindly back-patched that list.
Adjust as needed. Also, provide examples of the commands to issue.
There shouldn't be a line break between two adjacent tags, because that
will appear as whitespace in the output. (The rendering engine might in
turn collapse that whitespace away, so it might not actually make a
difference, but it's more correct this way.)
In 9.6, we moved a number of functions over to using the GRANT system to
control access instead of having hard-coded superuser checks.
As it turns out, adminpack was creating another function in the catalog
for one of those backend functions where the superuser check was
removed, specifically pg_rotate_logfile(), but it didn't get the memo
about having to REVOKE EXECUTE on the alternative-name function
(pg_logfile_rotate()), meaning that in any installations with adminpack
on 9.6 and higher, any user is able to run the pg_logfile_rotate()
function, which then calls pg_rotate_logfile() and rotates the logfile.
Fix by adding a new version of adminpack (1.1) which handles the REVOKE.
As this function should have only been available to the superuser, this
is a security issue, albeit a minor one.
In HEAD, move the changes implemented for adminpack up to be adminpack
2.0 instead of 1.1.
Security: CVE-2018-1115
Mark Dilger pointed out that the bootstrap parser does not allow
any of its keywords to appear as column values unless they're quoted,
and proposed dealing with that by quoting such values in genbki.pl.
Looking closer, though, we also have that problem with respect to table,
column, and type names appearing in the .bki file: the parser would fail
if any of those matched any of its keywords. While so far there have
been no conflicts (that I've heard of), this seems like a booby trap
waiting to catch somebody. Rather than clutter genbki.pl with enough
quoting logic to handle all that, let's make the bootstrap parser grow
up a little bit and treat its keywords as unreserved.
Experimentation shows that it's fairly easy to do so with the exception
of _null_, which I don't have a big problem with keeping as a reserved
word. The only change needed is that we can't have the "close" command
take an optional table name: it has to either require or forbid the
table name to avoid shift/reduce conflicts. genbki.pl has historically
always included the table name, so I took that option.
The implementation has bootscanner.l passing forward the string value
of each keyword, in case bootparse.y needs that. This avoids needing to
know the precise spelling of each keyword in bootparse.y, which is good
because that's not always obvious from the token name.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3024FC91-DB6D-4732-B31C-DF772DF039A0@gmail.com
This reverts commit 55e0e45817.
It's served its purpose of demonstrating what was wrong on
buildfarm member opossum. We could consider putting some kind
of single-purpose hack into ftod() to make the test pass there;
but I don't think it's worth the trouble, since there are surely
many other places whether this platform bug could manifest.
In commit 8b29e88cd, I'd dithered about whether to make
in_range_float4_float8 be a standalone copy of the float in-range logic
or have it punt to in_range_float8_float8. I went with the latter, which
saves code space though at the cost of performance and readability.
However, it emerges that this tickles a compiler or hardware bug on
buildfarm member opossum. Test results from commit 55e0e4581 show
conclusively that widening a float4 NaN to float8 produces Inf, not NaN,
on that machine; which accounts perfectly for the window RANGE test
failures it's been showing. We can dodge this problem by making
in_range_float4_float8 be an independent function, so that it checks
for NaN inputs before widening them.
Ordinarily I'd not be very excited about working around such obviously
broken functionality; but given that this was a judgment call to begin
with, I don't mind reversing it.
If a continuation record is split so that its first half has already been
removed from the master, and is only present in pg_wal, and there is a
recycled WAL segment in the standby server that looks like it would
contain the second half, recovery would get stuck. The code in
XLogPageRead() incorrectly started streaming at the beginning of the
WAL record, even if we had already read the first page.
Backpatch to 9.4. In principle, older versions have the same problem, but
without replication slots, there was no straightforward mechanism to
prevent the master from recycling old WAL that was still needed by standby.
Without such a mechanism, I think it's reasonable to assume that there's
enough slack in how many old segments are kept around to not run into this,
or you have a WAL archive.
Reported by Jonathon Nelson. Analysis and patch by Kyotaro HORIGUCHI, with
some extra comments by me.
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CACJqAM3xVz0JY1XFDKPP%2BJoJAjoGx%3DGNuOAshEDWCext7BFvCQ%40mail.gmail.com
Dan Wood diagnosed a long-standing problem that pages containing tuples
that are locked by multixacts containing live lockers may spuriously end
up as candidates for getting their all-visible flag set. This has the
long-term effect that multixacts remain unfrozen; this may previously
pass undetected, but since commit XYZ it would be reported as
"ERROR: found multixact 134100944 from before relminmxid 192042633"
because when a later vacuum tries to freeze the page it detects that a
multixact that should have gotten frozen, wasn't.
Dan proposed a (correct) patch that simply sets a variable to its
correct value, after a bogus initialization. But, per discussion, it
seems better coding to avoid the bogus initializations altogether, since
they could give rise to more bugs later. Therefore this fix rewrites
the logic a little bit to avoid depending on the bogus initializations.
This bug was part of a family introduced in 9.6 by commit a892234f830e;
later, commit 38e9f90a22 fixed most of them, but this one was
unnoticed.
Authors: Dan Wood, Pavan Deolasee, Álvaro Herrera
Reviewed-by: Masahiko Sawada, Pavan Deolasee, Álvaro Herrera
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/84EBAC55-F06D-4FBE-A3F3-8BDA093CE3E3@amazon.com
This should have been done some years ago as promised in commit
c4dcdd0c2. However, better late than never.
Along the way do a little housekeeping, including using a simpler test
for the python version being tested, and removing a redundant subroutine
parameter. These changes only apply back to release 9.5.
Backpatch to all live releases.
Msys2's uname -s outputs a string beginning MSYS rather than MINGW as is
output by Msys. Allow either in pg_upgrade's test.sh.
Backpatch to all live branches.
The non-cosmetic changes involve teaching the "zic" tzdata compiler about
negative DST. While I'm not currently intending that we start using
negative-DST data right away, it seems possible that somebody would try
to use our copy of zic with bleeding-edge IANA data. So we'd better be
out in front of this change code-wise, even though it doesn't matter for
the data file we're shipping.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/30996.1525445902@sss.pgh.pa.us
For querying pg_database about information about the database being
dumped, look up by using current_database() instead of the value
obtained from PQdb(). When using a connection proxy, the value from
PQdb() might not be the real name of the database.
nbtsort.c does not need to truncate away non-key attributes for the
minimum key of the leftmost page on a level, since this is only used to
build a minus infinity downlink for the level's leftmost page.
Truncating away non-key attributes in advance of truncating away all
attributes in _bt_sortaddtup() does not affect the correctness of CREATE
INDEX, but it is misleading.
Author: Peter Geoghegan
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAH2-WzkAS2M3ussHG-s_Av=Zo6dPjOxyu5fNRkYnxQV+YzGQ4w@mail.gmail.com
Bruce Momjian