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2017-05-17Make psql handle EOF during COPY FROM STDIN properly on all platforms.Tom Lane
When stdin is a terminal, it's possible to end a COPY FROM STDIN with a keyboard EOF signal (typically control-D), and then keep on issuing SQL commands. One would expect another COPY FROM STDIN to work as well, but on some platforms it did not. This turns out to be because we were not resetting the stream's feof() flag, and BSD-ish versions of fread() and fgets() won't attempt to read more data if that's set. The misbehavior is observed on BSDen (including macOS), but not Linux, Windows, or SysV-ish Unixen, which makes this a portability bug not just a missing feature. Add a clearerr() call to fix the behavior, and improve the prompt that's issued when copying from a TTY to mention that EOF signals work. It's been like this forever, so back-patch to all supported branches. Thomas Munro Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=0MCGfYf=JAMiYhO6JPtv9-3ZfBo8fcGeCZ8oMzaw+Z+Q@mail.gmail.com
2017-05-17Check relkind of tables in CREATE/ALTER SUBSCRIPTIONPeter Eisentraut
We used to only check for a supported relkind on the subscriber during replication, which is needed to ensure that the setup is valid and we don't crash. But it's also useful to tell the user immediately when CREATE or ALTER SUBSCRIPTION is executed that the relation being added to the subscription is not of a supported relkind. Author: Petr Jelinek <petr.jelinek@2ndquadrant.com> Reported-by: tushar <tushar.ahuja@enterprisedb.com>
2017-05-17psql: publication/subscription tab completion fixesPeter Eisentraut
2017-05-17Preventive maintenance in advance of pgindent run.Tom Lane
Reformat various places in which pgindent will make a mess, and fix a few small violations of coding style that I happened to notice while perusing the diffs from a pgindent dry run. There is one actual bug fix here: the need-to-enlarge-the-buffer code path in icu_convert_case was obviously broken. Perhaps it's unreachable in our usage? Or maybe this is just sadly undertested.
2017-05-16Fix leakage of memory context header in find_all_inheritors().Tom Lane
Commit 827d6f977 contained the same misunderstanding of hash_create's API as commit 090010f2e. As in 5d00b764c, remove the unnecessary layer of memory context. (This bug is less significant than the other one, since the extra context would be under a relatively short-lived context, but it's still a bug.)
2017-05-16Revert "Add a test for transition table usage in FOR EACH ROW trigger."Kevin Grittner
This reverts commit 4a03f935b3438de27ee00d9e562ffe4e225978a9.
2017-05-16Add a test for transition table usage in FOR EACH ROW trigger.Kevin Grittner
2017-05-16Try to ensure that stats collector's receive buffer size is at least 100KB.Tom Lane
Since commit 4e37b3e15, buildfarm member frogmouth has been failing occasionally with symptoms indicating that some expected stats data is getting dropped. The reason that that commit changed the behavior seems probably to be that more data is getting shoved at the collector in a short span of time. In current sources, the stats test's first session sends about 9KB of data while exiting, which is probably the same as what was sent just before wait_for_stats() in the previous test design. But now, the test's second session is starting up concurrently, and it sends another 2KB (presumably reflecting its initial catalog accesses). Since frogmouth is running on Windows XP, which reputedly has a default socket receive buffer size of only 8KB, it is not very surprising if this has put us over the threshold where the receive buffer can overflow and drop messages. The same mechanism could very easily explain the intermittent stats test failures we've been seeing for years, since background processes such as the bgwriter will sometimes send data concurrently with all this, and could thus cause occasional buffer overflows. Hence, insert some code into pgstat_init() to increase the stats socket's receive buffer size to 100KB if it's less than that. (On failure, emit a LOG message, but keep going.) Modern systems seem to have default sizes in the range of 100KB-250KB, but older platforms don't. I couldn't find any platforms that wouldn't accept 100KB, so in theory this won't cause any portability problems. If this is successful at reducing the buildfarm failure rate in HEAD, we should back-patch it, because it's certain that similar buffer overflows happen in the field on platforms with small buffer sizes. Going forward, there might be an argument for trying to increase the buffer size even more, but let's take a baby step first. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/22173.1494788088@sss.pgh.pa.us
2017-05-16Fix relcache leak when row triggers on partitions are fired by COPY.Robert Haas
Thomas Munro, reviewed by Amit Langote Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=15Jss-yhFApuKzxcoCuFnb8TR8iQiWMjG=CLYPx48QLw@mail.gmail.com
2017-05-16doc: Remove unnecessary RETURN statements from example.Robert Haas
Paul Jungwirth, reviewed by Ashutosh Bapat. Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/e24a6a6d-5670-739b-00f3-41a226a80f25@illuminatedcomputing.com
2017-05-16In SSL tests, don't scribble on permissions of a repo file.Tom Lane
Modifying the permissions of a persistent file isn't really much nicer than modifying its contents, even if git doesn't currently notice it. Adjust the test script to make a copy and set the permissions of that instead. Michael Paquier, per a gripe from me. Back-patch to 9.5 where these tests were introduced. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/14836.1494885946@sss.pgh.pa.us
2017-05-16Update CREATE SUBSCRIPTION docs for recent syntax change.Tom Lane
Masahiko Sawada
2017-05-15Stamp 10beta1.Tom Lane
2017-05-15git-ignore intermediate files from new docs toolchain.Tom Lane
Building PDFs with the new toolchain creates *.fo temporary files.
2017-05-15Add missing apostrophe.Robert Haas
Masahiko Sawada Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAD21AoAzaR_XV7j7Wk9-QYXaFoT8H4egKwXvFY63wc8Lw2C9cg@mail.gmail.com
2017-05-15Update oidjoins regression test for v10.Tom Lane
2017-05-15Add assertion to quiet CoverityPeter Eisentraut
2017-05-15Translation updatesPeter Eisentraut
Source-Git-URL: git://git.postgresql.org/git/pgtranslation/messages.git Source-Git-Hash: 398beeef4921df0956f917becd7b5669d2a8a5c4
2017-05-15doc: Remove unused filePeter Eisentraut
sql.sgml has not been part of the documentation since forever, so it's pointless to keep it around.
2017-05-15Fix bogus syntax for CREATE PUBLICATION commands emitted by pg_dump.Tom Lane
Original coding was careless about where to insert commas. Masahiko Sawada Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3427593a-61aa-b17e-64ef-383b7742d6d9@enterprisedb.com
2017-05-15Fix unsafe reference into relcache in constructed CommentStmt.Tom Lane
The CommentStmt made by RebuildConstraintComment() has to pstrdup the relation name, else it will contain a dangling pointer after that relcache entry is flushed. (I'm less sure that pstrdup'ing conname is necessary, but let's be safe.) Failure to do this leads to weird errors or crashes, as reported by Marko Elezovic. Bug introduced by commit e42375fc8, so back-patch to 9.5 as that was. Fix by David Rowley, regression test by Michael Paquier Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/DB6PR03MB30775D58E732D4EB0C13725B9AE00@DB6PR03MB3077.eurprd03.prod.outlook.com
2017-05-15Fix ALTER SEQUENCE lockingPeter Eisentraut
In 1753b1b027035029c2a2a1649065762fafbf63f3, the pg_sequence system catalog was introduced. This made sequence metadata changes transactional, while the actual sequence values are still behaving nontransactionally. This requires some refinement in how ALTER SEQUENCE, which operates on both, locks the sequence and the catalog. The main problems were: - Concurrent ALTER SEQUENCE causes "tuple concurrently updated" error, caused by updates to pg_sequence catalog. - Sequence WAL writes and catalog updates are not protected by same lock, which could lead to inconsistent recovery order. - nextval() disregarding uncommitted ALTER SEQUENCE changes. To fix, nextval() and friends now lock the sequence using RowExclusiveLock instead of AccessShareLock. ALTER SEQUENCE locks the sequence using ShareRowExclusiveLock. This means that nextval() and ALTER SEQUENCE block each other, and ALTER SEQUENCE on the same sequence blocks itself. (This was already the case previously for the OWNER TO, RENAME, and SET SCHEMA variants.) Also, rearrange some code so that the entire AlterSequence is protected by the lock on the sequence. As an exception, use reduced locking for ALTER SEQUENCE ... RESTART. Since that is basically a setval(), it does not require the full locking of other ALTER SEQUENCE actions. So check whether we are only running a RESTART and run with less locking if so. Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com> Reported-by: Jason Petersen <jason@citusdata.com> Reported-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
2017-05-15Fix typo in commentMagnus Hagander
Michael Paquier
2017-05-15stats regression test's wait_for_stats() must check timestamp too.Tom Lane
pg_stat_get_snapshot_timestamp() returns the timestamp seen in the "global" stats file. Because pgstat_write_statsfiles() writes per-DB stats files before the global file (or at least before renaming it into place), there is a window where the test backend can see all the stats updates that wait_for_stats() was checking for (all of which come from the per-DB file) but also see the same global stats file it had seen at the start of the test script. This results in a failure in only the "snapshot_newer" query, as reported by a couple of buildfarm members recently. I suspect that this ought to be back-patched. Commit 4e37b3e15 has evidently increased the probability of this window getting hit, but it's not apparent why it could not have been hit before. I'll refrain for the moment though.
2017-05-15doc: update the "current as of" date in the PG 10 release notesBruce Momjian
2017-05-15Make pgstat tabstat lookup hash table less fragile.Tom Lane
Code review for commit 090010f2e. Fix cases where an elog(ERROR) partway through a function would leave the persistent data structures in a corrupt state. pgstat_report_stat got this wrong by invalidating PgStat_TableEntry structs before removing hashtable entries pointing to them, and get_tabstat_entry got it wrong by ignoring the possibility of palloc failure after it had already created a hashtable entry. Also, avoid leaking a memory context per transaction, which the previous code did through misunderstanding hash_create's API. We do not need to create a context to hold the hash table; hash_create will do that. (The leak wasn't that large, amounting to only a memory context header per iteration, but it's still surprising that nobody noticed it yet.)
2017-05-15doc: update PG 10 release notes for recent changesBruce Momjian
2017-05-15Make stats regression test more robust in the face of parallel query.Tom Lane
Commit 60690a6fe attempted to fix the wait_for_stats() function in this test so that it would wait properly if the tenk2 scans were done in parallel workers instead of the main session (typically as a consequence of force_parallel_mode being turned on). However, we made it test for whether the main session's actions had been reported by looking for inserts on 'trunc_stats_test'. This is the Wrong Thing, because those aren't the last updates we expect the main session to do. As shown by recent failures on buildfarm member frogmouth, it's entirely likely that the trunc_stats_test updates will be reported in a separate message from later updates, which means there can be a window in which wait_for_stats() will exit but not all the updates we are expecting to see will have arrived. We should test for the last updates we're expecting, namely those on 'trunc_stats_test4'. Unfortunately, I doubt that this explains frogmouth's failures, because there's no reason to believe that it's running the tenk2 queries in parallel. Still, the test is wrong on its own terms, so fix and back-patch to 9.6 where parallel query came in.
2017-05-15Attempt to fix compiler warning.Robert Haas
Per a report from Tom Lane, newer versions of gcc apparently think that partexprs_item_saved can be used uninitialized. Try to convince them otherwise.
2017-05-14Edit SGML documentation related to extended statistics.Tom Lane
Use the "statistics object" terminology uniformly here too. Assorted copy-editing. Put new catalogs.sgml sections into alphabetical order.
2017-05-14Fix maintenance hazards caused by ill-considered use of default: cases.Tom Lane
Remove default cases from assorted switches over ObjectClass and some related enum types, so that we'll get compiler warnings when someone adds a new enum value without accounting for it in all these places. In passing, re-order some switch cases as needed to match the declaration of enum ObjectClass. OK, that's just neatnik-ism, but I dislike code that looks like it was assembled with the help of a dartboard. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170512221010.nglatgt5azzdxjlj@alvherre.pgsql
2017-05-14Fix handling of extended statistics during ALTER COLUMN TYPE.Tom Lane
ALTER COLUMN TYPE on a column used by a statistics object fails since commit 928c4de30, because the relevant switch in ATExecAlterColumnType is unprepared for columns to have dependencies from OCLASS_STATISTIC_EXT objects. Although the existing types of extended statistics don't actually need us to do any work for a column type change, it seems completely indefensible that that assumption is hidden behind the failure of an unrelated module to contain any code for the case. Hence, create and call an API function in statscmds.c where the assumption can be explained, and where we could add code to deal with the problem when it inevitably becomes real. Also, the reason this wasn't handled before, neither for extended stats nor for the last half-dozen new OCLASS kinds :-(, is that the default: in that switch suppresses compiler warnings, allowing people to miss the need to consider it when adding an OCLASS. We don't really need a default because surely getObjectClass should only return valid values of the enum; so remove it, and add the missed OCLASS entries where they should be. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170512221010.nglatgt5azzdxjlj@alvherre.pgsql
2017-05-14Update config.guess and config.subPeter Eisentraut
2017-05-14Remove no-longer-needed fields of Hash plan nodes.Tom Lane
skewColType/skewColTypmod are no longer used in the wake of commit 9aab83fc5, and seem unlikely to be wanted in future, so let's drop 'em. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16364.1494520862@sss.pgh.pa.us
2017-05-14Standardize terminology for pg_statistic_ext entries.Tom Lane
Consistently refer to such an entry as a "statistics object", not just "statistics" or "extended statistics". Previously we had a mismash of terms, accompanied by utter confusion as to whether the term was singular or plural. That's not only grating (at least to the ear of a native English speaker) but could be outright misleading, eg in error messages that seemed to be referring to multiple objects where only one could be meant. This commit fixes the code and a lot of comments (though I may have missed a few). I also renamed two new SQL functions, pg_get_statisticsextdef -> pg_get_statisticsobjdef pg_statistic_ext_is_visible -> pg_statistics_obj_is_visible to conform better with this terminology. I have not touched the SGML docs other than fixing those function names; the docs certainly need work but it seems like a separable task. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/22676.1494557205@sss.pgh.pa.us
2017-05-14Suppress indentation from Data::Dumper in regression testsAndrew Dunstan
Ultra-modern versions of the perl Data::Dumper module have apparently changed how they indent output. Instead of trying to keep up we choose to tell it to supporess all indentation in the hstore_plperl regression tests. Backpatch to 9.5 where this feature was introduced.
2017-05-13Specify --outputdir for isolation install check, not just plain check.Andres Freund
This should probably have been part of 60f826c5e62. Reported-By: Andrew Gierth
2017-05-13Avoid superfluous work for commits during logical slot creation.Andres Freund
Before 955a684e0401 logical decoding snapshot maintenance needed to cope with transactions it might not have seen in their entirety. For such transactions we'd to assume they modified the catalog (could have happened before we were watching), and thus a new snapshot had to be built, and distributed to concurrently running transactions. That's problematic because building a new snapshot isn't that cheap , especially as the the array of committed transactions needs to be sorted. When creating a slot on a server with a lot of transactions, this could make logical slot creation infeasibly expensive. After 955a684e0401 there's no need to deal with transaction that aren't guaranteed to be fully observable. That allows to avoid building snapshots for transactions that haven't modified catalog, even before reaching consistency. While this isn't necessarily a bugfix, slot creation being impossible in some production workloads, is severe enough to warrant backpatching. Author: Andres Freund, based on a quite different patch from Petr Jelinek Analyzed-By: Petr Jelinek Reviewed-By: Petr Jelinek Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/f37e975c-908f-858e-707f-058d3b1eb214@2ndquadrant.com Backpatch: 9.4-, where logical decoding has been introduced
2017-05-13Fix race condition leading to hanging logical slot creation.Andres Freund
The snapshot assembly during the creation of logical slots relied waiting for transactions in xl_running_xacts to end, by checking for their commit/abort records. Unfortunately, despite locking, it is possible to see an xl_running_xact record listing transactions as ready, that have already WAL-logged an commit/abort record, as the locking just prevents the ProcArray to be adjusted, and the commit record has to be logged first. That lead to either delayed or hanging snapshot creation, because snapbuild.c would wait "forever" to see commit/abort records for some transactions. That hang resolved only if a xl_running_xacts record without any running transactions happened to be logged, far from certain on a busy server. It's impractical to prevent that via more heavyweight locking, the likelihood of deadlocks and significantly increased contention would be too big. Instead change the initial snapshot creation to be solely based on tracking the oldest running transaction via xl_running_xacts->oldestRunningXid - that actually ends up significantly simplifying the code. That has two disadvantages: 1) Because we cannot fully "trust" the contents of xl_running_xacts, we cannot use it to build the initial snapshot. Instead we have to wait twice for all running transactions to finish. 2) Previously a slot, unless the race occurred, could be created when the all transaction perceived as running based on commit/abort records, now we have to wait for the next xl_running_xacts record. To address that, trigger logging new xl_running_xacts record from within snapbuild.c exactly when necessary. Unfortunately snabuild.c's SnapBuild is stored on disk, one of the stupider ideas of a certain Mr Freund, so we can't change it in a minor release. As this is going to be backpatched, we have to hack around a bit to keep on-disk compatibility. A later commit will rejigger that on master. Author: Andres Freund, based on a quite different patch from Petr Jelinek Analyzed-By: Petr Jelinek Reviewed-By: Petr Jelinek Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/f37e975c-908f-858e-707f-058d3b1eb214@2ndquadrant.com Backpatch: 9.4-, where logical decoding has been introduced
2017-05-13Redesign get_attstatsslot()/free_attstatsslot() for more safety and speed.Tom Lane
The mess cleaned up in commit da0759600 is clear evidence that it's a bug hazard to expect the caller of get_attstatsslot()/free_attstatsslot() to provide the correct type OID for the array elements in the slot. Moreover, we weren't even getting any performance benefit from that, since get_attstatsslot() was extracting the real type OID from the array anyway. So we ought to get rid of that requirement; indeed, it would make more sense for get_attstatsslot() to pass back the type OID it found, in case the caller isn't sure what to expect, which is likely in binary- compatible-operator cases. Another problem with the current implementation is that if the stats array element type is pass-by-reference, we incur a palloc/memcpy/pfree cycle for each element. That seemed acceptable when the code was written because we were targeting O(10) array sizes --- but these days, stats arrays are almost always bigger than that, sometimes much bigger. We can save a significant number of cycles by doing one palloc/memcpy/pfree of the whole array. Indeed, in the now-probably-common case where the array is toasted, that happens anyway so this method is basically free. (Note: although the catcache code will inline any out-of-line toasted values, it doesn't decompress them. At the other end of the size range, it doesn't expand short-header datums either. In either case, DatumGetArrayTypeP would have to make a copy. We do end up using an extra array copy step if the element type is pass-by-value and the array length is neither small enough for a short header nor large enough to have suffered compression. But that seems like a very acceptable price for winning in pass-by-ref cases.) Hence, redesign to take these insights into account. While at it, convert to an API in which we fill a struct rather than passing a bunch of pointers to individual output arguments. That will make it less painful if we ever want further expansion of what get_attstatsslot can pass back. It's certainly arguable that this is new development and not something to push post-feature-freeze. However, I view it as primarily bug-proofing and therefore something that's better to have sooner not later. Since we aren't quite at beta phase yet, let's put it in. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16364.1494520862@sss.pgh.pa.us
2017-05-13Teach \d+ to show partitioning constraints.Robert Haas
The fact that we didn't have this in the first place is likely why the problem fixed by f8bffe9e6d700fd34759a92e47930ce9ba7dcbd5 escaped detection. Patch by Amit Langote, reviewed and slightly adjusted by me. Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoYWnV2GMnYLG-Czsix-E1WGAbo4D+0tx7t9NdfYBDMFsA@mail.gmail.com
2017-05-13Fix multi-column range partitioning constraints.Robert Haas
The old logic was just plain wrong. Report by Olaf Gawenda. Patch by Amit Langote, reviewed by Beena Emerson and by me. Minor adjustments by me also.
2017-05-13Avoid hard-wired sleep delays in stats regression test.Tom Lane
On faster machines, the overall runtime for running the core regression tests is under twenty seconds these days, of which the hard-wired delays in the stats test are a significant fraction. But on closer inspection, it seems like we shouldn't need those. The initial 2-second delay is there only to reduce the risk of the test's stats messages not getting sent due to contention. But analysis of the last ten years' worth of buildfarm runs shows no evidence that such failures actually occur. (We do see failures that look like stats messages not getting sent, particularly on Windows; but there is little reason to believe that the initial delay reduces their frequency.) The later 1-second delay is there to ensure that our session's stats will have gotten sent. But we could also do that by starting a fresh session, which takes well under 1 second even on very slow machines. Hence, let's remove both delays and see what happens. The first delay was the only test of pg_sleep_for() in the regression tests, but we can move that responsibility into wait_for_stats(). Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17795.1493869423@sss.pgh.pa.us
2017-05-13Use a better way of skipping all subscription tests on WindowsAndrew Dunstan
This way we only need to specify the number of tests in one place, and the output is also less verbose.
2017-05-13Complete tab completion for DROP STATISTICSAlvaro Herrera
Tab-completing DROP STATISTICS would only work if you started writing the schema name containing the statistics object, because the visibility clause was missing. To add it, we need to add SQL-callable support for testing visibility of a statistics object, like all other object types already have. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/22676.1494557205@sss.pgh.pa.us
2017-05-12Avoid searching for callback functions in CallSyscacheCallbacks().Tom Lane
We have now grown enough registerable syscache-invalidation callback functions that the original assumption that there would be few of them is causing performance problems. In particular, let's fix things so that CallSyscacheCallbacks doesn't have to search the whole array to find which callback(s) to invoke for a given cache ID. Preserve the original behavior that callbacks are called in order of registration, just in case there's someplace that depends on that (which I doubt). In support of this, export the number of syscaches from syscache.h. People could have found that out anyway from the enum, but adding a #define makes that much safer. This provides a useful additional speedup in Mathieu Fenniak's logical-decoding test case, although we're reaching the point of diminishing returns there. I think any further improvement will have to come from reducing the number of cache invalidations that are triggered in the first place. Still, we can hope that this change gives some incremental benefit for all invalidation scenarios. Back-patch to 9.4 where logical decoding was introduced. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHoiPjzea6N0zuCi=+f9v_j94nfsy6y8SU7-=bp4=7qw6_i=Rg@mail.gmail.com
2017-05-12doc: update markup for release note "release date" blockBruce Momjian
This has to be backpatched to all supported releases so release markup added to HEAD and copied to back branches matches the existing markup. Reported-by: Peter Eisentraut Discussion: 2b8a2552-fffa-f7c8-97c5-14db47a87731@2ndquadrant.com Author: initial patch and sample markup by Peter Eisentraut Backpatch-through: 9.2
2017-05-12Reduce initial size of RelfilenodeMapHash.Tom Lane
A test case provided by Mathieu Fenniak shows that hash_seq_search'ing this hashtable can consume a very significant amount of overhead during logical decoding, which triggers frequent cache invalidation. Testing suggests that the actual population of the hashtable is often no more than a few dozen entries, so we can cut the overhead just by dropping the initial number of buckets down from 1024 --- I chose to cut it to 64. (In situations where we do have a significant number of entries, we shouldn't get any real penalty from doing this, as the dynahash.c code will resize the hashtable automatically.) This gives a further factor-of-two savings in Mathieu's test case. That may be overly optimistic for real-world benefit, as real cases may have larger average table populations, but it's hard to see it turning into a net negative for any workload. Back-patch to 9.4 where relfilenodemap.c was introduced. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHoiPjzea6N0zuCi=+f9v_j94nfsy6y8SU7-=bp4=7qw6_i=Rg@mail.gmail.com
2017-05-12getObjectDescription: support extended statisticsAlvaro Herrera
This was missed in 7b504eb282ca. Remove the "default:" clause in the switch, to avoid this problem in the future. Other switches involving the same enum should probably be changed in the same way, but are not touched by this patch. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170512204800.iqt2uwyx3c32j45r@alvherre.pgsql
2017-05-12Avoid searching for the target catcache in CatalogCacheIdInvalidate.Tom Lane
A test case provided by Mathieu Fenniak shows that the initial search for the target catcache in CatalogCacheIdInvalidate consumes a very significant amount of overhead in cases where cache invalidation is triggered but has little useful work to do. There is no good reason for that search to exist at all, as the index array maintained by syscache.c allows direct lookup of the catcache from its ID. We just need a frontend function in syscache.c, matching the division of labor for most other cache-accessing operations. While there's more that can be done in this area, this patch alone reduces the runtime of Mathieu's example by 2X. We can hope that it offers some useful benefit in other cases too, although usually cache invalidation overhead is not such a striking fraction of the total runtime. Back-patch to 9.4 where logical decoding was introduced. It might be worth going further back, but presently the only case we know of where cache invalidation is really a significant burden is in logical decoding. Also, older branches have fewer catcaches, reducing the possible benefit. (Note: although this nominally changes catcache's API, we have always documented CatalogCacheIdInvalidate as a private function, so I would have little sympathy for an external module calling it directly. So backpatching should be fine.) Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHoiPjzea6N0zuCi=+f9v_j94nfsy6y8SU7-=bp4=7qw6_i=Rg@mail.gmail.com