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2014-08-10Clarify type resolution behavior for domain types.Tom Lane
The user documentation was vague and not entirely accurate about how we treat domain inputs for ambiguous operators/functions. Clarify that, and add an example and some commentary. Per a recent question from Adam Mackler. It's acted like this ever since we added domains, so back-patch to all supported branches.
2014-08-09Clean up handling of unknown-type inputs in json_build_object and friends.Tom Lane
There's actually no need for any special case for unknown-type literals, since we only need to push the value through its output function and unknownout() works fine. The code that was here was completely bizarre anyway, and would fail outright in cases that should work, not to mention suffering from some copy-and-paste bugs.
2014-08-09Further cleanup of JSON-specific error messages.Tom Lane
Fix an obvious typo in json_build_object()'s complaint about invalid number of arguments, and make the errhint a bit more sensible too. Per discussion about how to word the improved hint, change the few places in the documentation that refer to JSON object field names as "names" to say "keys" instead, since that's what we've said in the vast majority of places in the docs. Arguably "name" is more correct, since that's the terminology used in RFC 7159; but we're stuck with "key" in view of the naming of json_object_keys() so let's at least be self-consistent. I adjusted a few code comments to match this as well, and failed to resist the temptation to clean up some odd whitespace choices in the same area, as well as a useless duplicate PG_ARGISNULL() check. There's still quite a bit of code that uses the phrase "field name" in non-user- visible ways, so I left those usages alone.
2014-08-09Reject duplicate column names in foreign key referenced-columns lists.Tom Lane
Such cases are disallowed by the SQL spec, and even if we wanted to allow them, the semantics seem ambiguous: how should the FK columns be matched up with the columns of a unique index? (The matching could be significant in the presence of opclasses with different notions of equality, so this issue isn't just academic.) However, our code did not previously reject such cases, but instead would either fail to match to any unique index, or generate a bizarre opclass-lookup error because of sloppy thinking in the index-matching code. David Rowley
2014-08-09Small message fixesPeter Eisentraut
2014-08-08Add -F option to pg_receivexlog, for specifying fsync interval.Fujii Masao
This allows us to specify the maximum time to issue fsync to ensure the received WAL file is safely flushed to disk. Without this, pg_receivexlog always flushes WAL file only when it's closed and which can cause WAL data to be lost at the event of a crash. Furuya Osamu, heavily modified by me.
2014-08-08Fix typo in docs.Tom Lane
s/XIDs XIDs/XIDs/ in one place in maintenance.sgml. Guillaume Lelarge
2014-08-07pg_upgrade: prevent oid conflicts with new-cluster TOAST tablesBruce Momjian
Previously, TOAST tables only required in the new cluster could cause oid conflicts if they were auto-numbered and a later conflicting oid had to be assigned. Backpatch through 9.3
2014-08-07Improve comment.Heikki Linnakangas
Based on the old comment, it took me a while to figure out what the problem was. The importnat detail is that SSL_read() can return WANT_READ even though some raw data was received from the socket.
2014-08-06Add PG_RETURN_UINT16 macro.Robert Haas
Manuel Kniep
2014-08-06Don't require sort support functions to provide a comparator.Robert Haas
This could be useful for datatypes like text, where we might want to optimize for some collations but not others. However, this patch doesn't introduce any new sortsupport functions that work this way; it merely revises the code so that future patches may do so. Patch by me. Review by Peter Geoghegan.
2014-08-06Fix alternate regression test output file.Robert Haas
Commit 0ef99bdce3a6cd3195d7df12093042c16328c71c broke this. Jeff Janes
2014-08-06Refactor pg_receivexlog main loop code, for readability, take 2.Fujii Masao
Previously the source codes for processing the received data and handling the end of stream were included in pg_receivexlog main loop. This commit splits out them as separate functions. This is useful for improving the readability of main loop code and making the future pg_receivexlog-related patch simpler.
2014-08-06Change ParseConfigFp() so that it doesn't process unused entry of each ↵Fujii Masao
parameter. When more than one setting entries of same parameter exist in the configuration file, PostgreSQL uses only entry appearing last in configuration file scan. Since the other entries are not used, ParseConfigFp() doesn't need to process them, but previously it did that. This problematic behavior caused the configuration file scan to detect invalid settings of unused entries (e.g., existence of multiple entries of PGC_POSTMASTER parameter) and log the messages complaining about them. This commit changes the configuration file scan so that it processes only last entry of each parameter. Note that when multiple entries of same parameter exist both in postgresql.conf and postgresql.auto.conf, unused entries in postgresql.conf are still processed only at postmaster startup. The problem has existed since old version, but a user is more likely to encounter it since 9.4 where ALTER SYSTEM command was introduced. So back-patch to 9.4. Amit Kapila, slightly modified by me. Per report from Christoph Berg.
2014-08-05Fix typo in C comment.Kevin Grittner
2014-08-05Improve some JSON error messages.Robert Haas
These messages are new in 9.4, which hasn't been released yet, so back-patch to REL9_4_STABLE. Daniele Varrazzo
2014-08-04pg_upgrade: assume user is install userBruce Momjian
The user specified to the upgrade was effectively the install user, but that was not clearly stated in the comments, documentation, or error messages.
2014-08-04pg_upgrade: remove reference to autovacuum_multixact_freeze_max_ageBruce Momjian
autovacuum_multixact_freeze_max_age was added as a pg_ctl start parameter in 9.3.X to prevent autovacuum from running. However, only some 9.3.X releases have autovacuum_multixact_freeze_max_age as it was added in a minor PG 9.3 release. It also isn't needed because -b turns off autovacuum in 9.1+. Without this fix, trying to upgrade from an early 9.3 release to 9.4 would fail. Report by EDB Backpatch through 9.3
2014-08-04Windows doesn't have M_PI; define it ourselves when needed.Heikki Linnakangas
This should fix the Windows build, broken by commit ed802e7d.
2014-08-02Add missing PQclear() calls into pg_receivexlog.Fujii Masao
Back-patch to 9.3.
2014-08-02Fix bug in pg_receivexlog --verbose.Fujii Masao
In 9.2, pg_receivexlog with verbose option has emitted the messages at the end of each WAL file. But the commit 0b63291 suppressed such messages by mistake. This commit fixes the bug so that pg_receivexlog --verbose outputs such messages again. Back-patch to 9.3 where the bug was added.
2014-08-01Fix typo in user manualHeikki Linnakangas
2014-07-31Move log_newpage and log_newpage_buffer to xlog.c.Heikki Linnakangas
log_newpage is used by many indexams, in addition to heap, but for historical reasons it's always been part of the heapam rmgr. Starting with 9.3, we have another WAL record type for logging an image of a page, XLOG_FPI. Simplify things by moving log_newpage and log_newpage_buffer to xlog.c, and switch to using the XLOG_FPI record type. Bump the WAL version number because the code to replay the old HEAP_NEWPAGE records is removed.
2014-07-30Avoid wholesale autovacuuming when autovacuum is nominally off.Tom Lane
When autovacuum is nominally off, we will still launch autovac workers to vacuum tables that are at risk of XID wraparound. But after we'd done that, an autovac worker would proceed to autovacuum every table in the targeted database, if they meet the usual thresholds for autovacuuming. This is at best pretty unexpected; at worst it delays response to the wraparound threat. Fix it so that if autovacuum is nominally off, we *only* do forced vacuums and not any other work. Per gripe from Andrey Zhidenkov. This has been like this all along, so back-patch to all supported branches.
2014-07-30pgbench: Allow \setrandom to generate Gaussian/exponential distributions.Robert Haas
Mitsumasa KONDO and Fabien COELHO, with further wordsmithing by me.
2014-07-30Fix mishandling of background worker PGPROCs in EXEC_BACKEND builds.Robert Haas
InitProcess() relies on IsBackgroundWorker to decide whether the PGPROC for a new backend should be taken from ProcGlobal's freeProcs or from bgworkerFreeProcs. In EXEC_BACKEND builds, InitProcess() is called sooner than in non-EXEC_BACKEND builds, and IsBackgroundWorker wasn't getting initialized soon enough. Report by Noah Misch. Diagnosis and fix by me.
2014-07-30doc: Clean up some recently added PL/pgSQL documentationPeter Eisentraut
- Capitalize titles consistently. - Fix some grammar. - Group "Obtaining Information About an Error" under "Trapping Errors", but make "Obtaining the Call Stack Context Information" its own section, since it's not about errors.
2014-07-30pg_upgrade: improve C comment wordingBruce Momjian
2014-07-29Avoid uselessly looking up old LOCK_ONLY multixactsAlvaro Herrera
Commit 0ac5ad5134f2 removed an optimization in multixact.c that skipped fetching members of MultiXactId that were older than our OldestVisibleMXactId value. The reason this was removed is that it is possible for multixacts that contain updates to be older than that value. However, if the caller is certain that the multi does not contain an update (because the infomask bits say so), it can pass this info down to GetMultiXactIdMembers, enabling it to use the old optimization. Pointed out by Andres Freund in 20131121200517.GM7240@alap2.anarazel.de
2014-07-29Simplify multixact freezing a bitAlvaro Herrera
Testing for abortedness of a multixact member that's being frozen is unnecessary: we only need to know whether the transaction is still in progress or committed to determine whether it must be kept or not. This let us simplify the code a bit and avoid a useless TransactionIdDidAbort test. Suggested by Andres Freund awhile back.
2014-07-29Oops, fix recoveryStopsBefore functions for regular commits.Heikki Linnakangas
Pointed out by Tom Lane. Backpatch to 9.4, the code was structured differently in earlier branches and didn't have this mistake.
2014-07-29Treat 2PC commit/abort the same as regular xacts in recovery.Heikki Linnakangas
There were several oversights in recovery code where COMMIT/ABORT PREPARED records were ignored: * pg_last_xact_replay_timestamp() (wasn't updated for 2PC commits) * recovery_min_apply_delay (2PC commits were applied immediately) * recovery_target_xid (recovery would not stop if the XID used 2PC) The first of those was reported by Sergiy Zuban in bug #11032, analyzed by Tom Lane and Andres Freund. The bug was always there, but was masked before commit d19bd29f07aef9e508ff047d128a4046cc8bc1e2, because COMMIT PREPARED always created an extra regular transaction that was WAL-logged. Backpatch to all supported versions (older versions didn't have all the features and therefore didn't have all of the above bugs).
2014-07-29Reword the sentence for pg_logical_slot_peek_changes function.Fujii Masao
Previously the duplicated paragraphs were used next to each other in the document to demonstrate that the changes in the stream were not consumed by pg_logical_slot_peek_changes function. But some users misunderstood that the duplication of the same paragraph was just typo. So this commit rewords the sentence in the latter paragraph for less confusing. Christoph Moench-Tegeder
2014-07-28Fix obsolete statement in smgr/README.Tom Lane
Since commit 2d00190495b22e0d0ba351b2cda9c95fb2e3d083, fork numbers are defined in relpath.h not relfilenode.h. Fabrízio de Royes Mello
2014-07-27doc: Fix up ALTER TABLESPACE reference pagePeter Eisentraut
The documentation of ALTER TABLESPACE ... MOVE was added without any markup, not even paragraph breaks. Fix that, and clarify the text in a few places.
2014-07-25Fix a performance problem in pg_dump's dump order selection logic.Tom Lane
findDependencyLoops() was not bright about cases where there are multiple dependency paths between the same two dumpable objects. In most scenarios this did not hurt us too badly; but since the introduction of section boundary pseudo-objects in commit a1ef01fe163b304760088e3e30eb22036910a495, it was possible for this code to take unreasonable amounts of time (tens of seconds on a database with a couple thousand objects), as reported in bug #11033 from Joe Van Dyk. Joe's particular problem scenario involved "pg_dump -a" mode with long chains of foreign key constraints, but I think that similar problems could arise with other situations as long as there were enough objects. To fix, add a flag array that lets us notice when we arrive at the same object again while searching from a given start object. This simple change seems to be enough to eliminate the performance problem. Back-patch to 9.1, like the patch that introduced section boundary objects.
2014-07-25Handle WAIT_IO_COMPLETION return from WaitForMultipleObjectsEx().Noah Misch
This return code is possible wherever we pass bAlertable = TRUE; it arises when Windows caused the current thread to run an "I/O completion routine" or an "asynchronous procedure call". PostgreSQL does not provoke either of those Windows facilities, hence this bug remaining largely unnoticed, but other local code might do so. Due to a shortage of complaints, no back-patch for now. Per report from Shiv Shivaraju Gowda, this bug can cause PGSemaphoreLock() to PANIC. The bug can also cause select() to report timeout expiration too early, which might confuse pgstat_init() and CheckRADIUSAuth().
2014-07-25Move PGAC_LDAP_SAFE to config/programs.m4.Noah Misch
This restores the style of keeping configure.in free of AC_DEFUN. Per gripe from Tom Lane.
2014-07-24Prevent shm_mq_send from reading uninitialized memory.Robert Haas
shm_mq_send_bytes didn't invariably initialize *bytes_written before returning, which would cause shm_mq_send to read from uninitialized memory and add the value it found there to mqh->mqh_partial_bytes. This could cause the next attempt to send a message via the queue to fail an assertion (if the queue was detached) or copy data from a garbage pointer value into the queue (if non-blocking mode was in use).
2014-07-24Fix checkpointer crash in EXEC_BACKEND builds.Robert Haas
Nothing in the checkpointer calls InitXLOGAccess(), so WALInsertLocks never got initialized there. Without EXEC_BACKEND, it works anyway because the correct value is inherited from the postmaster, but with EXEC_BACKEND we've got a problem. The problem appears to have been introduced by commit 68a2e52bbaf98f136a96b3a0d734ca52ca440a95. To fix, move the relevant initialization steps from InitXLOGAccess() to XLOGShmemInit(), making this more parallel to what we do elsewhere. Amit Kapila
2014-07-24Properly remove ephemeral replication slots after a crash restart.Andres Freund
Ephemeral slots - slots that shouldn't survive database restarts - weren't properly cleaned up after a immediate/crash restart. They were ignored in the sense that they weren't restored into memory and thus didn't cause unwanted resource retention; but they prevented a new slot with the same name from being created. Now ephemeral slots are fully removed during startup. Backpatch to 9.4 where replication slots where added.
2014-07-24Avoid access to already-released lock in LockRefindAndRelease.Robert Haas
Spotted by Tom Lane.
2014-07-24docs: Improve documentation of \pset without arguments.Robert Haas
The syntax summary previously failed to clarify that the first argument is also optional. The textual description did mention it, but all the way at the bottom. It fits better with the command overview, so move it there, and fix the summary also. Dilip Kumar, reviewed by Fabien Coelho
2014-07-24Fix bug where pg_receivexlog goes into busy loop if -s option is set to 0.Fujii Masao
The problem is that pg_receivexlog calls select(2) with timeout=0 and goes into busy loop when --status-interval option is set to 0. This bug was introduced by the commit, 74cbe966fe2d76de1d607d933c98c144dab58769. Per report from Sawada Masahiko
2014-07-24Fix TAP installcheck tests when current directory name contains spacesPeter Eisentraut
This fixes the installcheck part. The check part has additional problems that will be addressed in a separate commit.
2014-07-23Rearrange documentation paragraph describing pg_relation_size().Tom Lane
Break the list of available options into an <itemizedlist> instead of inline sentences. This is mostly motivated by wanting to ensure that the cross-references to the FSM and VM docs don't cross page boundaries in PDF format; but it seems to me to read more easily this way anyway. I took the liberty of editorializing a bit further while at it. Per complaint from Magnus about 9.0.18 docs not building in A4 format. Patch all active branches so we don't get blind-sided by this particular issue again in future.
2014-07-23Report success when Windows kill() emulation signals an exiting process.Noah Misch
This is consistent with the POSIX verdict that kill() shall not report ESRCH for a zombie process. Back-patch to 9.0 (all supported versions). Test code from commit d7cdf6ee36adeac9233678fb8f2a112e6678a770 depends on it, and log messages about kill() reporting "Invalid argument" will cease to appear for this not-unexpected condition.
2014-07-23MSVC: Substitute $(top_builddir) in REGRESS_OPTS.Noah Misch
Commit d7cdf6ee36adeac9233678fb8f2a112e6678a770 introduced a usage thereof. Back-patch to 9.0, like that commit.
2014-07-22Re-enable error for "SELECT ... OFFSET -1".Tom Lane
The executor has thrown errors for negative OFFSET values since 8.4 (see commit bfce56eea45b1369b7bb2150a150d1ac109f5073), but in a moment of brain fade I taught the planner that OFFSET with a constant negative value was a no-op (commit 1a1832eb085e5bca198735e5d0e766a3cb61b8fc). Reinstate the former behavior by only discarding OFFSET with a value of exactly 0. In passing, adjust a planner comment that referenced the ancient behavior. Back-patch to 9.3 where the mistake was introduced.
2014-07-22Check block number against the correct fork in get_raw_page().Tom Lane
get_raw_page tried to validate the supplied block number against RelationGetNumberOfBlocks(), which of course is only right when accessing the main fork. In most cases, the main fork is longer than the others, so that the check was too weak (allowing a lower-level error to be reported, but no real harm to be done). However, very small tables could have an FSM larger than their heap, in which case the mistake prevented access to some FSM pages. Per report from Torsten Foertsch. In passing, make the bad-block-number error into an ereport not elog (since it's certainly not an internal error); and fix sloppily maintained comment for RelationGetNumberOfBlocksInFork. This has been wrong since we invented relation forks, so back-patch to all supported branches.