field of the WAL record. The previous coding always wrote to the main fork,
resulting in data corruption if the page was meant to go into a non-default
fork.
At present, the only operation that can produce such WAL records is
ALTER TABLE/INDEX SET TABLESPACE when executed with archive_mode = on.
Data corruption would be observed on standby slaves, and could occur on the
master as well if a database crash and recovery occurred after committing
the ALTER and before the next checkpoint. Per report from Gordon Shannon.
Back-patch to 8.4; the problem doesn't exist in earlier branches because
we didn't have a concept of multiple relation forks then.
MaxStandbyDelay. Use the GUC units mechanism for the value, and choose more
appropriate timestamp functions for performing tests with it. Make the
ps_activity manipulation in ResolveRecoveryConflictWithVirtualXIDs have
behavior similar to ps_activity code elsewhere, notably not updating the
display when update_process_title is off and not truncating the display
contents at an arbitrarily-chosen length. Improve the docs to be explicit
about what MaxStandbyDelay actually measures, viz the difference between
primary and standby servers' clocks, and the possible hazards if their clocks
aren't in sync.
returns EINVAL for an existing shared memory segment. Although it's not
terribly sensible, that behavior does meet the POSIX spec because EINVAL
is the appropriate error code when the existing segment is smaller than the
requested size, and the spec explicitly disclaims any particular ordering of
error checks. Moreover, it does in fact happen on OS X and probably other
BSD-derived kernels. (We were able to talk NetBSD into changing their code,
but purging that behavior from the wild completely seems unlikely to happen.)
We need to distinguish collision with a pre-existing segment from invalid size
request in order to behave sensibly, so it's worth some extra code here to get
it right. Per report from Gavin Kistner and subsequent investigation.
Back-patch to all supported versions, since any of them could get used
with a kernel having the debatable behavior.
It appears that gmake gets confused if postgres.sgml is not present in
the working directory, and instantiates some default rule or other that
would let postgres.sgml be built from postgres.xml. I haven't been able
to track down exactly where that's coming from, but the problem can be
dodged by specifying srcdir explicitly in the rule for postgres.xml.
Per report from Vladimir Kokovic.
The previous coding had it in a pipe, which on most shells won't report
the error. Per experimentation with a bug report from Vladimir Kokovic.
This doesn't actually fix his problem, but it does explain why make
didn't report that there was a problem.
possible to set most of the SHM kernel parameters without a reboot.
Also, reorder the paragraph to explain the modern configuration method first.
There are probably not too many people who still care about how to do it on
OS X 10.3 or older.
memory if the result had zero rows, and also if there was any sort of error
while converting the result tuples into Python data. Reported and partially
fixed by Andres Freund.
Back-patch to all supported versions. Note: I haven't tested the 7.4 fix.
7.4's configure check for python is so obsolete it doesn't work on my
current machines :-(. The logic change is pretty straightforward though.
to perform a backup without archive_mode being enabled. This gives up some
user-error protection in order to improve usefulness for streaming-replication
scenarios. Per discussion.
confusion with streaming-replication settings. Also, change its default
value to "off", because of concern about executing new and poorly-tested
code during ordinary non-replicating operation. Per discussion.
In passing do some minor editing of related documentation.
when building PDF output for recent versions of the documentation.
There is probably a better answer out there somewhere, but
we need something now so we can build beta releases.
contrib/intarray is loaded. Per bug #5417 from Kenaniah Cerny.
Not forcing initdb since backend doesn't directly depend on this,
and few people have run into it.
rather than returning NULL for some-but-not-all failures as they used to.
Remove now-redundant tests for NULL from call sites.
We had to do something about this because many call sites were failing to
check for NULL; and changing it like this seems a lot more useful and
mistake-proof than adding checks to the call sites without them.
archival or hot standby should be WAL-logged, instead of deducing that from
other options like archive_mode. This replaces recovery_connections GUC in
the primary, where it now has no effect, but it's still used in the standby
to enable/disable hot standby.
Remove the WAL-logging of "unlogged operations", like creating an index
without WAL-logging and fsyncing it at the end. Instead, we keep a copy of
the wal_mode setting and the settings that affect how much shared memory a
hot standby server needs to track master transactions (max_connections,
max_prepared_xacts, max_locks_per_xact) in pg_control. Whenever the settings
change, at server restart, write a WAL record noting the new settings and
update pg_control. This allows us to notice the change in those settings in
the standby at the right moment, they used to be included in checkpoint
records, but that meant that a changed value was not reflected in the
standby until the first checkpoint after the change.
Bump PG_CONTROL_VERSION and XLOG_PAGE_MAGIC. Whack XLOG_PAGE_MAGIC back to
the sequence it used to follow, before hot standby and subsequent patches
changed it to 0x9003.
to RFC 3986. In particular, these characters now terminate the path part
of a URL: '"', '<', '>', '\', '^', '`', '{', '|', '}'. The previous behavior
was inconsistent and depended on whether a "?" was present in the path.
Per gripe from Donald Fraser and spec research by Kevin Grittner.
This is a pre-existing bug, but not back-patching since the risks of
breaking existing applications seem to outweigh the benefits.
and be more tense about the locking requirements for it, to improve performance
in Hot Standby mode. In passing fix a few bugs and improve a number of
comments in the existing HS code.
Simon Riggs, with some editorialization by Tom
in WAL recovery when it sees the shutdown checkpoint record. It's more
user-friendly to find out about it at that point than at the end of
recovery, and you're not left wondering why your hot standby server never
opens up for read-only connections.
Normal superuser processes are allowed to connect even when the database
system is shutting down, or when fewer than superuser_reserved_connection
slots remain. This is intended to make sure an administrator can log in
and troubleshoot, so don't extend these same courtesies to users connecting
for replication.
Heikki Linnakangas