This will create two bytes of padding space in xl_hash_vacuum_one_page which
can be used for future patches. This makes the datatype of
xl_hash_vacuum_one_page.ntuples same as gistxlogDelete.ntodelete which is
advisable as both are used for the same purpose.
Author: Bertrand Drouvot
Reviewed-by: Nathan Bossart
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/b0e20c40-cb7a-fc1c-c607-2a78dac5021e@gmail.com
It's been this way for a very long time, but it appears to have been
masking an issue that only manifests with different settings. Therefore,
run the tests in the installation's default encoding/locale.
Backpatch to all live branches.
We already tried to fix this in commits 3f7323cbb et al (and follow-on
fixes), but now it emerges that there are still unfixed cases;
moreover, these cases affect all branches not only pre-v14. I thought
we had eliminated all cases of making multiple clones of an UPDATE's
target list when we nuked inheritance_planner. But it turns out we
still do that in some partitioned-UPDATE cases, notably including
INSERT ... ON CONFLICT UPDATE, because ExecInitPartitionInfo thinks
it's okay to clone and modify the parent's targetlist.
This fix is based on a suggestion from Andres Freund: let's stop
abusing the ParamExecData.execPlan mechanism, which was only ever
meant to handle initplans, and instead solve the execution timing
problem by having the expression compiler move MULTIEXPR_SUBLINK steps
to the front of their expression step lists. This is feasible because
(a) all branches still in support compile the entire targetlist of
an UPDATE into a single ExprState, and (b) we know that all
MULTIEXPR_SUBLINKs do need to be evaluated --- none could be buried
inside a CASE, for example. There is a minor semantics change
concerning the order of execution of the MULTIEXPR's subquery versus
other parts of the parent targetlist, but that seems like something
we can get away with. By doing that, we no longer need to worry
about whether different clones of a MULTIEXPR_SUBLINK share output
Params; their usage of that data structure won't overlap.
Per bug #17800 from Alexander Lakhin. Back-patch to all supported
branches. In v13 and earlier, we can revert 3f7323cbb and follow-on
fixes; however, I chose to keep the SubPlan.subLinkId field added
in ccbb54c72. We don't need that anymore in the core code, but it's
cheap enough to fill, and removing a plan node field in a minor
release seems like it'd be asking for trouble.
Andres Freund and Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17800-ff90866b3906c964@postgresql.org
If a rule action contains a subquery that refers to columns from OLD
or NEW, then those are really lateral references, and the planner will
complain if it sees such things in a subquery that isn't marked as
lateral. However, at rule-definition time, the user isn't required to
mark the subquery with LATERAL, and so it can fail when the rule is
used.
Fix this by marking such subqueries as lateral in the rewriter, at the
point where they're used.
Dean Rasheed and Tom Lane, per report from Alexander Lakhin.
Back-patch to all supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/5e09da43-aaba-7ea7-0a51-a2eb981b058b%40gmail.com
A unique index which is created with non-distinct NULLS cannot be
used for backing a primary key constraint. Make sure to disallow
such table alterations and teach pg_dump to drop the non-distinct
NULLS clause on indexes where this has been set.
Bug: 17720
Reported-by: Reiner Peterke <zedaardv@drizzle.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17720-dab8ee0fa85d316d@postgresql.org
In d0366bfb3b I said:
Instead of trying to do this in meson.build, call out to the implementation
meson install uses. This isn't pretty, but it's more reliable than what we had
before.
Unfortunately it was too ugly - to fix a bug, meson 1.0.1 changed the way the
meson internal runpython helper works, resulting in the previous sys.argv[]
indices not working anymore. Just open-code it - it's just a few characters
longer.
Committing this quickly to allow ci/cfbot to work with meson 1.0.1 on windows.
Multiple cycles of starting up and shutting down the plugin within a
single session would eventually lead to "out of relcache_callback_list
slots", because pgoutput_startup blindly re-registered its cache
callbacks each time. Fix it to register them only once, as all other
users of cache callbacks already take care to do.
This has been broken all along, so back-patch to all supported branches.
Shi Yu
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/OSZPR01MB631004A78D743D68921FFAD3FDA79@OSZPR01MB6310.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com
Expand pg_dump's compression streaming and file APIs to support the lz4
algorithm. The newly added compress_lz4.{c,h} files cover all the
functionality of the aforementioned APIs. Minor changes were necessary
in various pg_backup_* files, where code for the 'lz4' file suffix has
been added, as well as pg_dump's compression option parsing.
Author: Georgios Kokolatos
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier, Rachel Heaton, Justin Pryzby, Shi Yu, Tomas Vondra
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/faUNEOpts9vunEaLnmxmG-DldLSg_ql137OC3JYDmgrOMHm1RvvWY2IdBkv_CRxm5spCCb_OmKNk2T03TMm0fBEWveFF9wA1WizPuAgB7Ss%3D%40protonmail.com
Offers a generally better separation of responsibilities for collation
code. Also, a step towards multi-lib ICU, which should be based on a
clean separation of the routines required for collation providers.
Callers with NUL-terminated strings should call pg_strcoll() or
pg_strxfrm(); callers with strings and their length should call the
variants pg_strncoll() or pg_strnxfrm().
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut, Peter Geoghegan
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a581136455c940d7bd0ff482d3a2bd51af25a94f.camel%40j-davis.com
Switch pg_dump to use the Compression API, implemented by bf9aa490db.
The CompressFileHandle replaces the cfp* family of functions with a
struct of callbacks for accessing (compressed) files. This allows adding
new compression methods simply by introducing a new struct instance with
appropriate implementation of the callbacks.
Archives compressed using custom compression methods store an identifier
of the compression algorithm in their header instead of the compression
level. The header version is bumped.
Author: Georgios Kokolatos
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier, Rachel Heaton, Justin Pryzby, Tomas Vondra
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/faUNEOpts9vunEaLnmxmG-DldLSg_ql137OC3JYDmgrOMHm1RvvWY2IdBkv_CRxm5spCCb_OmKNk2T03TMm0fBEWveFF9wA1WizPuAgB7Ss%3D%40protonmail.com
It's possible, in admittedly-rather-contrived cases, for an eclass
to generate a derived "join" qual that constrains the post-outer-join
value(s) of some RHS variable(s) without mentioning the LHS at all.
While the mechanisms were set up to work for this, we fell foul of
the "get_common_eclass_indexes" filter installed by commit 3373c7155:
it could decide that such an eclass wasn't relevant to the join, so
that the required qual clause wouldn't get emitted there or anywhere
else.
To fix, apply get_common_eclass_indexes only at inner joins, where
its rule is still valid. At an outer join, fall back to examining all
eclasses that mention either input (or the OJ relid, though it should
be impossible for an eclass to mention that without mentioning either
input). Perhaps we can improve on that later, but the cost/benefit of
adding more complexity to skip some irrelevant eclasses is dubious.
To allow cheaply distinguishing outer from inner joins, pass the
ojrelid to generate_join_implied_equalities as a separate argument.
This also allows cleaning up some sloppiness that had crept into
the definition of its join_relids argument, and it allows accurate
calculation of nominal_join_relids for a child outer join. (The
latter oversight seems not to have been a live bug, but it certainly
could have caused problems in future.)
Also fix what might be a live bug in check_index_predicates: it was
being sloppy about what it passed to generate_join_implied_equalities.
Per report from Richard Guo.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMbWs4-DsTBfOvXuw64GdFss2=M5cwtEhY=0DCS7t2gT7P6hSA@mail.gmail.com
Commit bf9aa490db introduced a compression API in compress_io.{c,h} to
make reuse easier, and allow adding more compression algorithms.
However, pg_backup_archiver.c was not switched to this API and continued
to call the compression directly.
This commit teaches pg_backup_archiver.c about the compression API, so
that it can benefit from bf9aa490db (simpler code, easier addition of
new compression methods).
Author: Georgios Kokolatos
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier, Rachel Heaton, Justin Pryzby, Tomas Vondra
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/faUNEOpts9vunEaLnmxmG-DldLSg_ql137OC3JYDmgrOMHm1RvvWY2IdBkv_CRxm5spCCb_OmKNk2T03TMm0fBEWveFF9wA1WizPuAgB7Ss%3D%40protonmail.com
If the source server was just promoted, and it hasn't written the
checkpoint record yet, pg_rewind considered the server to be still on
the old timeline. Because of that, it would claim incorrectly that no
rewind is required. Fix that by looking at minRecoveryPointTLI in the
control file in addition to the ThisTimeLineID on the checkpoint.
This has been a known issue since forever, and we had worked around it
in the regression tests by issuing a checkpoint after each promotion,
before running pg_rewind. But that was always quite hacky, so better
to fix this properly. This doesn't add any new tests for this, but
removes the previously-added workarounds from the existing tests, so
that they should occasionally hit this codepath again.
This is arguably a bug fix, but don't backpatch because we haven't
really treated it as a bug so far. Also, the patch didn't apply
cleanly to v13 and below. I'm sure sure it could be made to work on
v13, but doesn't seem worth the risk and effort.
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi, Ibrar Ahmed, Aleksander Alekseev
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/9f568c97-87fe-a716-bd39-65299b8a60f4%40iki.fi
Given an updatable view with a DO ALSO INSERT ... SELECT rule, a
multi-row INSERT ... VALUES query on the view fails if the VALUES list
contains any DEFAULTs that are not replaced by view defaults. This
manifests as an "unrecognized node type" error, or an Assert failure,
in an assert-enabled build.
The reason is that when RewriteQuery() attempts to replace the
remaining DEFAULT items with NULLs in any product queries, using
rewriteValuesRTEToNulls(), it assumes that the VALUES RTE is located
at the same rangetable index in each product query. However, if the
product query is an INSERT ... SELECT, then the VALUES RTE is actually
in the SELECT part of that query (at the same index), rather than the
top-level product query itself.
Fix, by descending to the SELECT in such cases. Note that we can't
simply use getInsertSelectQuery() for this, since that expects to be
given a raw rule action with OLD and NEW placeholder entries, so we
duplicate its logic instead.
While at it, beef up the checks in getInsertSelectQuery() by checking
that the jointree->fromlist node is indeed a RangeTblRef, and that the
RTE it points to has rtekind == RTE_SUBQUERY.
Per bug #17803, from Alexander Lakhin. Back-patch to all supported
branches.
Dean Rasheed, reviewed by Tom Lane.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17803-53c63ed4ecb4eac6%40postgresql.org
This was previously only documented in a comment. Given the size of the
struct, it's not hard to miss that comment. As evidenced by the commits
leading up to fe3caa1439, 67b26703b4.
It's possible, but not likely, that we might have to weaken these assertions
on a less commonly used architecture.
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/295606.1677101684@sss.pgh.pa.us
A couple of code paths in CONNECTION_AWAITING_RESPONSE will eagerly read
bytes off a connection that should be closed. Don't let a misbehaving
server chew up client resources here; a v2 error can't be infinitely
long, and a v3 error should be bounded by its original message length.
For the existing error_return cases, I added some additional error
messages for symmetry with the new ones, and cleaned up some message
rot.
Author: Jacob Champion
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/8e729daf-7d71-6965-9687-8bc0630599b3%40timescale.com
initsplan.c figured that it could push Var-free qual clauses to
the top of the current JoinDomain, which is okay in the abstract.
But if the current domain is inside some outer join, and we later
commute an inside-the-domain outer join with one outside it,
we end up placing the pushed-up qual clause incorrectly.
In distribute_qual_to_rels, avoid this by using the syntactic scope
of the qual clause; with the exception that if we're in the top-level
join domain we can still use the full query relid set, ensuring the
resulting gating Result node goes to the top of the plan. (This is
approximately as smart as the pre-v16 code was. Perhaps we can do
better later, but it's not clear that such cases are worth a lot of
sweat.)
In process_implied_equality, we don't have a clear notion of syntactic
scope, but we do have the results of SpecialJoinInfo construction.
Thumb through those and remove any lower outer joins that might get
commuted to above the join domain. Again, we can make an exception
for the top-level join domain. It'd be possible to work harder here
(for example, by keeping outer joins that aren't shown as potentially
commutable), but I'm going to stop here for the moment. This issue
has convinced me that the current representation of join domains
probably needs further refinement, so I'm disinclined to write
inessential dependent logic just yet.
In passing, tighten the qualscope passed to process_implied_equality
by generate_base_implied_equalities_no_const; there's no need for
it to be larger than the rel we are currently considering.
Tom Lane and Richard Guo, per report from Tender Wang.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHewXNk9eJ35ru5xATWioTV4+xZPHptjy9etdcNPjUfY9RQ+uQ@mail.gmail.com
Whe decoding a transactional logical message, logicalmsg_decode called
SnapBuildGetOrBuildSnapshot. But we may not have a consistent snapshot
yet at that point. We don't actually need the snapshot in this case
(during replay we'll have the snapshot from the transaction), so in
practice this is harmless. But in assert-enabled build this crashes.
Fixed by requesting the snapshot only in non-transactional case, where
we are guaranteed to have SNAPBUILD_CONSISTENT.
Backpatch to 11. The issue exists since 9.6.
Backpatch-through: 11
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/84d60912-6eab-9b84-5de3-41765a5449e8@enterprisedb.com
In ExecInitPartitionInfo(), the Assert when building the WITH CHECK
OPTION list for the new partition assumed that the command would be an
INSERT or UPDATE, but it can also be a MERGE. This can be triggered by
a MERGE into a partitioned table with RLS checks to enforce.
Fix, and back-patch to v15, where MERGE was introduced.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEZATCWWFtQmW67F3XTyMU5Am10Oxa_b8oe0x%2BNu5Mo%2BCdRErg%40mail.gmail.com
This ensures that the row count in the command tag for a MERGE is
correctly computed. Previously, if MERGE updated a partitioned table,
the row count would be incorrect if any row was moved to a different
partition, since such updates were counted twice.
Back-patch to v15, where MERGE was introduced.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEZATCWRMG7XX2QEsVL1LswmNo2d_YG8tKTLkpD3=Lp644S7rg@mail.gmail.com
SQL:2023 defines an ANY_VALUE aggregate whose purpose is to emit an
implementation-dependent (i.e. non-deterministic) value from the
aggregated rows.
Author: Vik Fearing <vik@postgresfriends.org>
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
Reviewed-by: David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/5cff866c-10a8-d2df-32cb-e9072e6b04a2@postgresfriends.org
The -Dcassert and -Db_coverage that can be specified to a meson command
require values after an equal sign but the documentation did not
properly reflect that. All the other options specify the argument
values they expect, so close the gap.
Author: Jelte Fennema
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAGECzQRXd1z+AoQ4tC5tqPk1_NQJohf6xwdEL=z9KgxHau2maQ@mail.gmail.com
WAL_LOG does a scan of the template's pg_class to determine the set of
relations that need to be copied from a template database to the new
one. However, as coded in 9c08aea, this copy strategy would load the
pages of pg_class without considering it as a permanent relation,
causing the loaded pages to never be flushed when they should. Any
modification of the template's pg_class, mostly through DDLs, would then
be missed, causing corruptions.
STRATEGY = WAL_LOG is the default over FILE_COPY since it has been
introduced, so any changes done to pg_class on a database template would
be gone. Updates of database templates should be a rare thing, so the
impact of this bug should be hopefully limited. The pre-14 default
strategy FILE_COPY is safe, and can be used as a workaround.
Ryo Matsumura has found and analyzed the issue, and Nathan has written a
test able to reproduce the failure (with few tweaks from me).
Backpatch down to 15, where STRATEGY = WAL_LOG has been introduced.
Author: Nathan Bossart, Ryo Matsumura
Reviewed-by: Dilip Kumar, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/TYCPR01MB6868677E499C9AD5123084B5E8A39@TYCPR01MB6868.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com
Backpatch-through: 15
If asked to decrease the size of a large (>8K) palloc chunk,
AllocSetRealloc could improperly change the Valgrind state of memory
beyond the new end of the chunk: it would mark data UNDEFINED as far
as the old end of the chunk after having done the realloc(3) call,
thus tromping on the state of memory that no longer belongs to it.
One would normally expect that memory to now be marked NOACCESS,
so that this mislabeling might prevent detection of later errors.
If realloc() had chosen to move the chunk someplace else (unlikely,
but well within its rights) we could also mismark perfectly-valid
DEFINED data as UNDEFINED, causing false-positive valgrind reports
later. Also, any malloc bookkeeping data placed within this area
might now be wrongly marked, causing additional problems.
Fix by replacing relevant uses of "oldsize" with "Min(size, oldsize)".
It's sufficient to mark as far as "size" when that's smaller, because
whatever remains in the new chunk size will be marked NOACCESS below,
and we expect realloc() to have taken care of marking the memory
beyond the new official end of the chunk.
While we're here, also rename the function's "oldsize" variable
to "oldchksize" to more clearly explain what it actually holds,
namely the distance to the end of the chunk (that is, requested size
plus trailing padding). This is more consistent with the use of
"size" and "chksize" to hold the new requested size and chunk size.
Add a new variable "oldsize" in the one stanza where we're actually
talking about the old requested size.
Oversight in commit c477f3e44. Back-patch to all supported branches,
as that was, just in case anybody wants to do valgrind testing on back
branches.
Karina Litskevich
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CACiT8iaAET-fmzjjZLjaJC4zwSJmrFyL7LAdHwaYyjjQOQ4hcg@mail.gmail.com
Commits 04cad8f7 and 0c088568 supported old macOS systems that didn't
define O_CLOEXEC or O_DSYNC yet, but those arrived in macOS releases
10.7 and 10.6 (respectively), which themselves reached EOL around a
decade ago. We've already made use of other POSIX features that early
macOS vintages can't compile (for example commits 623cc673, d2e15083).
A later commit will use O_CLOEXEC on POSIX systems so it would be
strange to pretend here that it's optional, and we might as well give
O_DSYNC the same treatment since the reference is also guarded by a test
for a macOS-specific macro, and we know that current Macs have it.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGKb6FsAdQWcRL35KJsftv%2B9zXqQbzwkfRf1i0J2e57%2BhQ%40mail.gmail.com
postgres_fdw.application_name relies on MyProcPort to define the data
that should be added to escape sequences %u (user name) or %d (database
name). However this code could be run in processes that lack a
MyProcPort, like an autovacuum process, causing crashes.
The code generating the application name is made more flexible with this
commit, so as it now generates no data for %u and %d if MyProcPort is
missing, and a simple "unknown" if MyProcPort exists, but the expected
fields are not set.
Reported-by: Alexander Lakhin
Author: Kyotaro Horiguchi, Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Hayato Kuroda, Masahiko Sawada
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17789-8b31c5a4672b74d9@postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 15
Failing to do so results in an error when a pgbench script tries to
start a serializable transaction inside a pipeline, because by the time
BEGIN ISOLATION LEVEL SERIALIZABLE is executed, we're already in a
transaction that has acquired a snapshot, so the server rightfully
complains.
We can work around that by preparing all commands in the pipeline before
actually starting the pipeline. This changes the existing code in two
aspects: first, we now prepare each command individually at the point
where that command is about to be executed; previously, we would prepare
all commands in a script as soon as the first command of that script
would be executed. It's hard to see that this would make much of a
difference (particularly since it only affects the first time to execute
each script in a client), but I didn't actually try to measure it.
Secondly, we no longer use PQsendPrepare() in pipeline mode, but only
PQprepare. There's no specific reason for this change other than no
longer needing to do differently in pipeline mode. (Previously we had
no choice, because in pipeline mode PQprepare could not be used.)
Backpatch to 14, where pgbench got support for pipeline mode.
Reported-by: Yugo NAGATA <nagata@sraoss.co.jp>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210716153013.fc53b1c780b06fccc07a7f0d@sraoss.co.jp
Historically we've accepted interval input like 'P.1e10D'. This
is probably an accident of having used strtod() to do the parsing,
rather than something anyone intended, but it's been that way for
a long time. Commit e39f99046 broke this by trying to parse the
integer and fractional parts separately, without accounting for
the possibility of an exponent. In principle that coding allowed
for precise conversions of field values wider than 15 decimal
digits, but that does not seem like a goal worth sweating bullets
for. So, rather than trying to manage an exponent on top of the
existing complexity, let's just revert to the previous coding that
used strtod() by itself. We can still improve on the old code to
the extent of allowing the value to range up to 1.0e15 rather than
only INT_MAX. (Allowing more than that risks creating problems
due to precision loss: the converted fractional part might have
absolute value more than 1. Perhaps that could be dealt with in
some way, but it really does not seem worth additional effort.)
Per bug #17795 from Alexander Lakhin. Back-patch to v15 where
the faulty code came in.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17795-748d6db3ed95d313@postgresql.org
This was not something that required consideration before MERGE
was invented; but MERGE builds a join tree that left-joins to the
result relation, meaning that remove_useless_joins will consider
removing it. That should generally be stopped by the query's use
of output variables from the result relation. However, if the
result relation is inherited (e.g. a partitioned table) then
we don't add any row identity variables to the query until
expand_inherited_rtentry, which happens after join removal.
This was exposed as of commit 3c569049b, which made it possible
to deduce that a partitioned table could contain at most one row
matching a join key, enabling removal of the not-yet-expanded
result relation. Ooops.
To fix, let's just teach join_is_removable that the query result
rel is never removable. It's a cheap enough test in any case,
and it'll save some cycles that we'd otherwise expend in proving
that it's not removable, even in the cases we got right.
Back-patch to v15 where MERGE was added. Although I think the
case cannot be reached in v15, this seems like cheap insurance.
Per investigation of a report from Alexander Lakhin.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/36bee393-b351-16ac-93b2-d46d83637e45@gmail.com
GetWALRecordsInfo() and pg_get_wal_fpi_info() can leak memory across
WAL record iterations. Fix this by using a temporary memory context
that's reset for each WAL record iteraion.
Also a use temporary context for loops in GetXLogSummaryStats(). The
number of iterations is a small constant, so the previous behavior was
not a leak, but fix for clarity (but no need to backport).
Backport GetWALRecordsInfo() change to version
15. pg_get_wal_fpi_info() didn't exist in version 15.
Reported-by: Peter Geoghegan
Author: Bharath Rupireddy
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAH2-WznLEJjn7ghmKOABOEZYuJvkTk%3DGKU3m0%2B-XBAH%2BerPiJQ%40mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 15
For no clearly good reason, make_modifytable assumed that it
could not reach its get-the-FDW-info-the-hard-way path in MERGE.
It's currently possible to demonstrate that assertion failing,
which seems to be due to an upstream planner bug; but there's no
good reason to do it like this at all. Let's apply the principle
of separation of concerns and make the MERGE check separately,
after getting or not getting the fdwroutine pointer.
Per report from Alexander Lakhin. No test case, since I think
the potential test condition will go away soon.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/36bee393-b351-16ac-93b2-d46d83637e45@gmail.com
The RelOptInfo->userid field (the user ID to check permissions as) of an
"otherrel" relation was being copied from its parent relation, which is
correct in most cases but wrong when the parent is a subquery. In that
case, using the value from the RTEPermissionInfo of the child itself is
the appropriate thing to do.
Coming up with a test case where user-visible behavior changes proves
hard enough, so we don't add one here.
Bug introduced by a61b1f7482, discovered by Amit while reviewing
nearby code.
Author: Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+HiwqE0WY_AhLnGtTsY7eYebG212XWbM-D8gr2A_ToOHyCywQ@mail.gmail.com
In generate_orderedappend_paths(), when match_partition_order_desc was
true, we would lcons() items to various lists in a loop over each live
partition. When the number of live partitions was large, the lcons()
could show up in profiles due to it having to perform memmove() to make
way for the new list item.
Here we adjust things so that we just perform the loop over the live
partitions backwards when match_partition_order_desc is true. This allows
us to simplify the logic in the loop. Now, as far as the guts of the loop
knows, there's no difference between match_partition_order and
match_partition_order_desc. We can just set match_partition_order to true
so that we build the correct list of paths for the asc and desc case. Per
idea from Andres Freund.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230217002351.nyt4y5tdzg6hugdt@awork3.anarazel.de
Peter Eisentraut