The list of external language drivers and procedural languages was
never complete or exhaustive, and rather than attempting to manage
it the content has migrated to the wiki. This replaces the tables
altogether with links to the wiki as we regularly get requests for
adding various projects, which we reject without any clear policy
for why or how the content should be managed.
The threads linked to below are the most recent discussions about
this, the archives contain many more.
Backpatch to all supported branches since the list on the wiki
applies to all branches.
Author: Jonathan Katz <jkatz@postgresql.org>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/169165415312.635.10247434927885764880@wrigleys.postgresql.org
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/169177958824.635.11087800083040275266@wrigleys.postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: v11
The new_cluster parameter in check_for_new_tablespace_dir was
shadowing the globally defined new_cluster variable, causing
compiler warnings when running with -Wshadow. The function is
only applicable to the new cluster, so remove the parameter
rather than rename to match check_new_cluster_is_empty which
also only applies to the new cluster.
Author: Peter Smith <peter.b.smith@fujitsu.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHut+PvS_PHLntWy1yTgXv0O1tWm4iVcKBQFzpoQRDsm2Ce_Fg@mail.gmail.com
This commit introduces descriptively-named macros for the
identifiers used in wire protocol messages. These new macros are
placed in a new header file so that they can be easily used by
third-party code.
Author: Dave Cramer
Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera, Tatsuo Ishii, Peter Smith, Robert Haas, Tom Lane, Peter Eisentraut, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CADK3HHKbBmK-PKf1bPNFoMC%2BoBt%2BpD9PH8h5nvmBQskEHm-Ehw%40mail.gmail.com
Commit 31966b15 invented a way for functions dealing with relation
extension to accept a Relation in online code and an SMgrRelation in
recovery code. It seems highly likely that future bufmgr.c interfaces
will face the same problem, and need to do something similar.
Generalize the names so that each interface doesn't have to re-invent
the wheel.
Back-patch to 16. Since extension AM authors might start using the
constructor macros once 16 ships, we agreed to do the rename in 16
rather than waiting for 17.
Reviewed-by: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKG%2B6tLD2BhpRWycEoti6LVLyQq457UL4ticP5xd8LqHySA%40mail.gmail.com
Attribute missing values might be needed past the lifetime of the tuple
descriptors from which they are extracted. To avoid possibly using
pointers for by-reference values which might thus be left dangling, we
cache a datumCopy'd version of the datum in the TopMemoryContext. Since
we first search for the value this only needs to be done once per
session for any such value.
Original complaint from Tom Lane, idea for mitigation by Andrew Dunstan,
tweaked by Tom Lane.
Backpatch to version 11 where missing values were introduced.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1306569.1687978174@sss.pgh.pa.us
This commit fixes the function of $subject for shared relations. This
feature has been added by e042678. Unfortunately, this new behavior got
removed by 5891c7a when moving statistics to shared memory.
Reported-by: Mitsuru Hinata
Author: Masahiro Ikeda
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi, Masahiko Sawada
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/7cc69f863d9b1bc677544e3accd0e4b4@oss.nttdata.com
Backpatch-through: 15
This new view, wrapped around a SRF, shows some information known about
wait events, as of:
- Name.
- Type (Activity, I/O, Extension, etc.).
- Description.
All the information retrieved comes from wait_event_names.txt, and the
description is the same as the documentation with filters applied to
remove any XML markups. This view is useful when joined with
pg_stat_activity to get the description of a wait event reported.
Custom wait events for extensions are included in the view.
Original idea by Yves Colin.
Author: Bertrand Drouvot
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi, Masahiro Ikeda, Tom Lane, Michael
Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/0e2ae164-dc89-03c3-cf7f-de86378053ac@gmail.com
A significant chunk of the time on the macos CI task is spent installing
packages using homebrew. The downloads of the packages are cached, but the
installation needs to happen every time. We can't cache the whole homebrew
installation, because it is too large due to pre-installed packages.
Speed this up by installing packages using macports and caching the
installation as .dmg. That's a lot faster than unpacking a tarball.
In addition, don't install llvm - it wasn't enabled when building, so it's
just a waste of time/space.
This substantially speeds up the mac CI time, both in the cold cache and in
the warm cache case (the latter from ~1m20s to ~5s).
It doesn't seem great to have diverging sources of packages for CI between
branches, so backpatch to 15 (where CI was added).
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230805202539.r3umyamsnctysdc7@awork3.anarazel.de
Backpatch: 15-, where CI was added
Commit d2e15083 got rid of the main configure probe and HAVE_FDATASYNC
macro, but we still searched -lrt and -lposix4 for old Solaris systems.
It's in the C library on modern Solaris, as on other supported systems.
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
Reviewed-by: Tristan Partin <tristan@neon.tech>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGLLVx4drdvXats9PxH3eeB%2BE2NkJReJ%2BRGmaOpU%3D9rgEA%40mail.gmail.com
The OAT hooks are added in ALTER TABLE for the following subcommands:
- { ENABLE | DISABLE | [NO] FORCE } ROW LEVEL SECURITY
- { ENABLE | DISABLE } TRIGGER
- { ENABLE | DISABLE } RULE. Note that there was hook for pg_rewrite,
but not for relation ALTER'ed in pg_class.
Tests are added to test_oat_hook for all the subcommand patterns gaining
hooks here. Based on an ask from Legs Mansion.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/tencent_083B3850655AC6EE04FA0A400766D3FE8309@qq.com
The source code comment already said that the presence of the field
element_types.domain_default might be a bug in the standard, since it
never made sense there. Indeed, the field is gone in newer versions
of the standard. So just remove it.
Previously, if a specialized comparator found equal datum1 keys,
the "comparetup" function would repeat the comparison on the
datum before proceeding with the unabbreviated first key
and/or additional sort keys.
Move comparing additional sort keys into "tiebreak" functions so
that specialized comparators can call these directly if needed,
avoiding duplicate work.
Reviewed by David Rowley
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAFBsxsGaVfUrjTghpf%3DkDBYY%3DjWx1PN-fuusVe7Vw5s0XqGdGw%40mail.gmail.com
This was disabled in commit 6f80a8d9c due to the lack of support for
handling of pseudoconstant quals assigned to replaced joins in
createplan.c. To re-allow it, this patch adds the support by 1)
modifying the ForeignPath and CustomPath structs so that if they
represent foreign and custom scans replacing a join with a scan, they
store the list of RestrictInfo nodes to apply to the join, as in
JoinPaths, and by 2) modifying create_scan_plan() in createplan.c so
that it uses that list in that case, instead of the baserestrictinfo
list, to get pseudoconstant quals assigned to the join, as mentioned in
the commit message for that commit.
Important item for the release notes: this is non-backwards-compatible
since it modifies the ForeignPath and CustomPath structs, as mentioned
above, and changes the argument lists for FDW helper functions
create_foreignscan_path(), create_foreign_join_path(), and
create_foreign_upper_path().
Richard Guo, with some additional changes by me, reviewed by Nishant
Sharma, Suraj Kharage, and Richard Guo.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CADrsxdbcN1vejBaf8a%2BQhrZY5PXL-04mCd4GDu6qm6FigDZd6Q%40mail.gmail.com
Commit b91dd9de was concerned with a theoretical problem with our
non-atomic condition variable operations. If you stop sleeping, and
then cancel the sleep in a separate step, you might be signaled in
between, and that could be lost. That doesn't matter for callers of
ConditionVariableBroadcast(), but callers of ConditionVariableSignal()
might be upset if a signal went missing like this.
Commit bc971f4025 interacted badly with that logic, because it doesn't
use ConditionVariableSleep(), which would normally put us back in the
wait list. ConditionVariableCancelSleep() would be confused and think
we'd received an extra signal, and try to forward it to another backend,
resulting in wakeup storms.
New idea: ConditionVariableCancelSleep() can just return true if we've
been signaled. Hypothetical users of ConditionVariableSignal() would
then still have a way to deal with rare lost signals if they are
concerned about that problem.
Back-patch to 16, where bc971f4025 arrived.
Reported-by: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@enterprisedb.com>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2840876b-4cfe-240f-0a7e-29ffd66711e7%40enterprisedb.com
The new relation extension logic, introduced in 00d1e02be2, could lead to
slowdowns in some scenarios. E.g., when loading narrow rows into a table using
COPY, the caller of RelationGetBufferForTuple() will only request a small
number of pages. Without concurrency, we just extended using pwritev() in that
case. However, if there is *some* concurrency, we switched between extending
by a small number of pages and a larger number of pages, depending on the
number of waiters for the relation extension logic. However, some
filesystems, XFS in particular, do not perform well when switching between
extending files using fallocate() and pwritev().
To avoid that issue, remember the number of prior relation extensions in
BulkInsertState and extend more aggressively if there were prior relation
extensions. That not just avoids the aforementioned slowdown, but also leads
to noticeable performance gains in other situations, primarily due to
extending more aggressively when there is no concurrency. I should have done
it this way from the get go.
Reported-by: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAD21AoDvDmUQeJtZrau1ovnT_smN940=Kp6mszNGK3bq9yRN6g@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch: 16-, where the new relation extension code was added
Currently, the names of the custom wait event must be registered for
each backend, requiring all these to link to the shared memory area of
an extension, even if these are not loaded with
shared_preload_libraries.
This patch relaxes the constraints related to this infrastructure by
storing the wait events and their names in two dynamic hash tables in
shared memory. This has the advantage to simplify the registration of
custom wait events to a single routine call that returns an event ID
ready for consumption:
uint32 WaitEventExtensionNew(const char *wait_event_name);
The caller of this routine can then cache locally the ID returned, to be
used for pgstat_report_wait_start(), WaitLatch() or a similar routine.
The implementation uses two hash tables: one with a key based on the
event name to avoid duplicates and a second using the event ID as key
for event lookups, like on pg_stat_activity. These tables can hold a
minimum of 16 entries, and a maximum of 128 entries, which should be plenty
enough.
The code changes done in worker_spi show how things are simplified (most
of the code removed in this commit comes from there):
- worker_spi_init() is gone.
- No more shared memory hooks required (size requested and
initialization).
- The custom wait event ID is cached in the process that needs to set
it, with one single call to WaitEventExtensionNew() to retrieve it.
Per suggestion from Andres Freund.
Author: Masahiro Ikeda, with a few tweaks from me.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230801032349.aaiuvhtrcvvcwzcx@awork3.anarazel.de
We deduce a LogicalRepWorker's type from the values of several different
fields ('relid' and 'leader_pid') whenever logic needs to know it.
In fact, the logical replication worker type is already known at the time
of launching the LogicalRepWorker and it never changes for the lifetime of
that process. Instead of deducing the type, it is simpler to just store it
one time, and access it directly thereafter.
Author: Peter Smith
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila, Bharath Rupireddy
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAHut+PttPSuP0yoZ=9zLDXKqTJ=d0bhxwKaEaNcaym1XqcvDEg@mail.gmail.com
The option causes a measurable slowdown. Macos is, by far, the most expensive
platform for CI, therefore it doesn't make sense to run such a test there.
d3b111e320 used a small segment size for two tasks, one with autoconf, one
with meson. In hindsight that is a bit overkill, it's unlikely that the option
would silently break. Thus don't move the -Dsegsize_blocks=6, just remove
it. I did however change the autoconf test to use 6 instead of 8 blocks, as
long as we allow it, a non-power-of-two test seems like a good idea.
While at it, add a comment explaining why we use a small segment size for CI.
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-by: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230808021541.7lbzdefvma7qmn3w@awork3.anarazel.de
Backpatch: 16-, where d3b111e320 introduced the use of -Dsegsize_blocks=6
RANDOMIZE_ALLOCATED_MEMORY causes a measurable slowdown. Macos is, by far, the
most expensive platform for CI, therefore it doesn't make sense to run such a
test there.
Ubsan and asan on linux should detect most of the the cases of uninitialized
memory, so it doesn't really seem worth using -DRANDOMIZE_ALLOCATED_MEMORY in
another instance type.
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-by: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230808021541.7lbzdefvma7qmn3w@awork3.anarazel.de
Backpatch: 16-, where 89d16b635 added the use of -DRANDOMIZE_ALLOCATED_MEMORY
pg_logical_emit_message(false, '_', repeat('x', 1069547465)) failed with
self-contradictory message "WAL record would be 1069547520 bytes (of
maximum 1069547520 bytes)". There's no particular benefit from allowing
or denying one byte in either direction; XLogRecordMaxSize could rise a
few megabytes without trouble. Hence, this is just for cleanliness.
Back-patch to v16, where this check first appeared.
This relies on the "location" field added to TransactionStmt in 31de7e6,
now applied to the "gid" field used by 2PC commands. These commands are
now reported like:
COMMIT PREPARED $1
PREPARE TRANSACTION $1
ROLLBACK PREPARED $1
Applying constants for these commands is a huge advantage for workloads
that rely a lot on 2PC commands with different GIDs. Some tests are
added to track the new behavior.
Reviewed-by: Julien Rouhaud
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ZMhT9kNtJJsHw6jK@paquier.xyz
Store function config settings in lists to avoid the need to parse and
allocate for each function execution.
Speedup is modest but significant. Additionally, this change also
seems cleaner and supports some other performance improvements under
discussion.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/04c8592dbd694e4114a3ed87139a7a04e4363030.camel@j-davis.com
Reviewed-by: Nathan Bossart
The fix itself is fine, but the test revealed other problems related
to parallel query that are not easily fixable. Remove the test for
now to fix the buildfarm.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/88825.1691665432@sss.pgh.pa.us
Backpatch-through: 11
Commit 19d8e2308b changed the list of set-of-columns that can be
returned by RelationGetIndexAttrBitmap, but didn't update its
"documentation". That was pretty hard to read already, so rewrite to
make it more comprehensible, adding the missing values while at it.
Backpatch to 16, like that commit.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230809091155.7c7f3gttjk3dj4ze@alvherre.pgsql
Reviewed-by: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@enterprisedb.com>
Daniel Gustafsson