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2012-09-19Update release notes for 9.2.1, 9.1.6, 9.0.10, 8.4.14, 8.3.21.Tom Lane
2012-09-19Put back AcceptInvalidationMessages calls in heap_openrv(_extended).Tom Lane
These calls were removed in commit 4240e429d0c2d889d0cda23c618f94e12c13ade7 as part of a general refactoring and improvement of DDL locking. However, there's a problem not solved by the rewrite, which is that GRANT/REVOKE update pg_class.relacl without taking any particular lock on the target table as such. If another backend fails to do AcceptInvalidationMessages, it won't notice a recently-committed change in ACLs. Bug #7557 from Piotr Czachur demonstrates that there's at least one code path in 9.2.0 in which a command fails to do any AcceptInvalidationMessages calls at all, if the current transaction already holds all the locks it will need. Since we're hard up against the release deadline for 9.2.1, fix this by putting back the AcceptInvalidationMessages calls in heap_openrv and heap_openrv_extended, thereby restoring the historical behavior in this area. We ought to look for a more elegant and perhaps more bulletproof solution, but there's no time for that right now.
2012-09-19Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2012f.Tom Lane
DST law changes in Fiji.
2012-09-19Translation updatesPeter Eisentraut
2012-09-19pg_upgrade: Remove check for pg_configPeter Eisentraut
It is no longer used, but was still being checked for. bug #7548 from Reinhard Max
2012-09-18Fix planning of btree index scans using ScalarArrayOpExpr quals.Tom Lane
In commit 9e8da0f75731aaa7605cf4656c21ea09e84d2eb1, I improved btree to handle ScalarArrayOpExpr quals natively, so that constructs like "indexedcol IN (list)" could be supported by index-only scans. Using such a qual results in multiple scans of the index, under-the-hood. I went to some lengths to ensure that this still produces rows in index order ... but I failed to recognize that if a higher-order index column is lacking an equality constraint, rescans can produce out-of-order data from that column. Tweak the planner to not expect sorted output in that case. Per trouble report from Robert McGehee.
2012-09-18Fix array_typanalyze to work for domains over arrays.Tom Lane
Not sure how we missed this case, but we did. Per bug #7551 from Diego de Lima.
2012-09-17Provide adequate documentation of the "table_name *" notation.Tom Lane
Somewhere along the line, somebody decided to remove all trace of this notation from the documentation text. It was still in the command syntax synopses, or at least some of them, but with no indication what it meant. This will not do, as evidenced by the confusion apparent in bug #7543; even if the notation is now unnecessary, people will find it in legacy SQL code and need to know what it does.
2012-09-16Rethink heuristics for choosing index quals for parameterized paths.Tom Lane
Some experimentation with examples similar to bug #7539 has convinced me that indxpath.c's original implementation of parameterized-path generation was several bricks shy of a load. In general, if we are relying on a particular outer rel or set of outer rels for a parameterized path, the path should use every indexable join clause that's available from that rel or rels. Any join clauses that get left out of the indexqual will end up getting applied as plain filter quals (qpquals), and that's generally a significant loser compared to having the index AM enforce them. (This is particularly true with btree, which can skip the index scan entirely if it can see that the given indexquals are mutually contradictory.) The original heuristics failed to ensure this, though, and were overly complicated anyway. Rewrite to make the code explicitly identify each useful set of outer rels and then select all applicable join clauses for each one. The one plan that changes in the regression tests is in fact for the better according to the planner's cost estimates. (Note: this is not a correctness issue but just a matter of plan quality. I don't yet know what is going on in bug #7539, but I don't expect this change to fix that.)
2012-09-16Fix bufmgr so CHECKPOINT_END_OF_RECOVERY behaves as a shutdown checkpoint.Simon Riggs
Recovery code documents clearly that a shutdown checkpoint is executed at end of recovery - a shutdown checkpoint WAL record is written but the buffer manager had been altered to treat end of recovery as a normal checkpoint. This bug exacerbates the bufmgr relpersistence bug. Bug spotted by Andres Freund, patch by me.
2012-09-16Fix documentation reference to maximum allowed for autovacuum_freeze_max_age.Kevin Grittner
The documentation mentioned setting autovacuum_freeze_max_age to "its maximum allowed value of a little less than two billion". This led to a post asking about the exact maximum allowed value, which is precisely two billion, not "a little less". Based on question by Radovan Jablonovsky. Backpatch to 8.3.
2012-09-14Back-patch fix and test case for bug #7516.Tom Lane
Back-patch commits 9afc6481117d2dd936e752da0424a2b6b05f6459 and b8fbbcf37f22c5e8361da939ad0fc4be18a34ca9. The first of these is really a minor code cleanup to save a few cycles, but it turns out to provide a workaround for the misoptimization problem described in bug #7516. The second commit adds a regression test case. Back-patch the fix to all active branches. The test case only works as far back as 9.0, because it relies on plpgsql which isn't installed by default before that. (I didn't have success modifying it into an all-plperl form that still provoked a crash, though this may just reflect my lack of Perl-fu.)
2012-09-14Properly set relpersistence for fake relcache entries.Robert Haas
This can result in buffers failing to be properly flushed at checkpoint time, leading to data loss. Report, diagnosis, and patch by Jeff Davis.
2012-09-13Fix case of window function + aggregate + GROUP BY expression.Tom Lane
In commit 1bc16a946008a7cbb33a9a06a7c6765a807d7f59 I added a minor optimization to drop the component variables of a GROUP BY expression from the target list computed at the aggregation level of a query, if those Vars weren't referenced elsewhere in the tlist. However, I overlooked that the window-function planning code would deconstruct such expressions and thus need to have access to their component variables. Fix it to not do that. While at it, I removed the distinction between volatile and nonvolatile window partition/order expressions: the code now computes all of them at the aggregation level. This saves a relatively expensive check for volatility, and it's unclear that the resulting plan isn't better anyway. Per bug #7535 from Louis-David Mitterrand. Back-patch to 9.2.
2012-09-13Fix typo in comment for pclose_check() function.Kevin Grittner
Backpatch to 9.2. Etsuro Fujit
2012-09-12Fix a couple other leftover uses of 'conisonly' terminology.Tom Lane
2012-09-12Fix catalog docs to reflect connoinherit change in 09ff76f.Andrew Dunstan
Backpatch to 9.2.
2012-09-12Fix typo: lexemes misspelled in full text search docs.Kevin Grittner
Dan Scott Backpatch original commit 4bc0d2e2cfa8ac523524dccf6f849989c6739083 to 9.1
2012-09-12Fix logical errors in tsquery selectivity estimation for prefix queries.Tom Lane
I made multiple errors in commit 97532f7c29468010b87e40a04f8daa3eb097f654, stemming mostly from failure to think about the available frequency data as being element frequencies not value frequencies (so that occurrences of different elements are not mutually exclusive). This led to sillinesses such as estimating that "word" would match more rows than "word:*". The choice to clamp to a minimum estimate of DEFAULT_TS_MATCH_SEL also seems pretty ill-considered in hindsight, as it would frequently result in an estimate much larger than the available data suggests. We do need some sort of clamp, since a pattern not matching any of the MCELEMs probably still needs a selectivity estimate of more than zero. I chose instead to clamp to at least what a non-MCELEM word would be estimated as, preserving the property that "word:*" doesn't get an estimate less than plain "word", whether or not the word appears in MCELEM. Per investigation of a gripe from Bill Martin, though I suspect that his example case actually isn't even reaching the erroneous code. Back-patch to 9.1 where this code was introduced.
2012-09-10Add vcregress.pl target for checking pg_upgrade.Andrew Dunstan
This follows recent addition of Windows/Mingw testing. Backpatch to Release 9.2 so we can get some buildfarm testing going.
2012-09-10Make plperl safe against functions that are redefined while running.Tom Lane
validate_plperl_function() supposed that it could free an old plperl_proc_desc struct immediately upon detecting that it was stale. However, if a plperl function is called recursively, this could result in deleting the struct out from under an outer invocation, leading to misbehavior or crashes. Add a simple reference-count mechanism to ensure that such structs are freed only when the last reference goes away. Per investigation of bug #7516 from Marko Tiikkaja. I am not certain that this error explains his report, because he says he didn't have any recursive calls --- but it's hard to see how else it could have crashed right there. In any case, this definitely fixes some problems in the area. Back-patch to all active branches.
2012-09-09Use .NOTPARALLEL in ecpg/Makefile to avoid a gmake parallelism bug.Tom Lane
Investigation shows that some intermittent build failures in ecpg are the result of a gmake bug that was reported quite some time ago: http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?30653 Preventing parallel builds of the ecpg subdirectories seems to dodge the bug. Per yesterday's pgsql-hackers discussion, there are some other things in the subdirectory makefiles that seem rather unsafe for parallel builds too, but there's little point in fixing them as long as we have to work around a make bug. Back-patch to 9.1; parallel builds weren't very well supported before that anyway.
2012-09-08Adjust PL/Python regression tests some more for Python 3.3.Tom Lane
Commit 2cfb1c6f77734db81b6e74bcae630f93b94f69be fixed some issues caused by Python 3.3 choosing to iterate through dict entries in a different order than before. But here's another one: the test cases adjusted here made two bad entries in a dict and expected the one complained of would always be the same. Possibly this should be back-patched further than 9.2, but there seems little point unless the earlier fix is too.
2012-09-08Fix PARAM_EXEC assignment mechanism to be safe in the presence of WITH.Tom Lane
The planner previously assumed that parameter Vars having the same absolute query level, varno, and varattno could safely be assigned the same runtime PARAM_EXEC slot, even though they might be different Vars appearing in different subqueries. This was (probably) safe before the introduction of CTEs, but the lazy-evalution mechanism used for CTEs means that a CTE can be executed during execution of some other subquery, causing the lifespan of Params at the same syntactic nesting level as the CTE to overlap with use of the same slots inside the CTE. In 9.1 we created additional hazards by using the same parameter-assignment technology for nestloop inner scan parameters, but it was broken before that, as illustrated by the added regression test. To fix, restructure the planner's management of PlannerParamItems so that items having different semantic lifespans are kept rigorously separated. This will probably result in complex queries using more runtime PARAM_EXEC slots than before, but the slots are cheap enough that this hardly matters. Also, stop generating PlannerParamItems containing Params for subquery outputs: all we really need to do is reserve the PARAM_EXEC slot number, and that now only takes incrementing a counter. The planning code is simpler and probably faster than before, as well as being more correct. Per report from Vik Reykja. Back-patch of commit 46c508fbcf98ac334f1e831d21021d731c882fbb into all branches that support WITH.
2012-09-06Stamp 9.2.0.REL9_2_0Tom Lane
2012-09-06Fix "too many arguments" messages not to index off the end of argv[].Robert Haas
This affects initdb, clusterdb, reindexdb, and vacuumdb in master and 9.2; in earlier branches, only initdb is affected.
2012-09-06Translation updatesPeter Eisentraut
2012-09-06Fix typo in information_schema documentation.Tom Lane
Shigeru Hanada
2012-09-06In pg_upgrade, try a few times to open a log file.Andrew Dunstan
If we call pg_ctl stop, the server might continue and thus hold a log file for a short time after it has deleted its pid file, (which is when pg_ctl will exit), and so a subsequent attempt to open the log file might fail. We therefore try to open it a few times, sleeping one second between tries, to give the server time to exit. This corrects an error that was observed on the buildfarm. Backpatched to 9.2,
2012-09-06Fix WAL file replacement during cascading replication on Windows.Heikki Linnakangas
When the startup process restores a WAL file from the archive, it deletes any old file with the same name and renames the new file in its place. On Windows, however, when a file is deleted, it still lingers as long as a process holds a file handle open on it. With cascading replication, a walsender process can hold the old file open, so the rename() in the startup process would fail. To fix that, rename the old file to a temporary name, to make the original file name available for reuse, before deleting the old file.
2012-09-06Fix inappropriate error messages for Hot Standby misconfiguration errors.Tom Lane
Give the correct name of the GUC parameter being complained of. Also, emit a more suitable SQLSTATE (INVALID_PARAMETER_VALUE, not the default INTERNAL_ERROR). Gurjeet Singh, errcode adjustment by me
2012-09-06Make one last copy-editing pass over the 9.2 release notes.Tom Lane
Also, set the release date to 2012-09-10, since we're pretty well committed to that now.
2012-09-05Fix pg_upgrade test script's line end handling on Windows.Andrew Dunstan
Call pg_dumpall using -f switch instead of redirection, to avoid writing the output in text mode and generating spurious carriage returns. Remove to carriage return ignoring hack introduced by commit e442b0f0c6fd26738bafdeb5222511b586dfe4b9. Backpatch to 9.2.
2012-09-05Fix line end mishandling in pg_upgrade on Windows.Andrew Dunstan
pg_upgrade opened the output from pg_dumpall in text mode and wrote the split files in text mode. This caused unwanted eating of intended carriage returns on input and production of spurious carriage returns on output. To avoid this, open all these files in binary mode. On non-Windows platforms, this change has no effect. Backpatch to 9.0. On 9.0 and 9.1, we also switch from redirecting pg_dumpall's output to using pg_dumpall's -f switch, for the same reason.
2012-09-05Restore SIGFPE handler after initializing PL/Perl.Tom Lane
Perl, for some unaccountable reason, believes it's a good idea to reset SIGFPE handling to SIG_IGN. Which wouldn't be a good idea even if it worked; but on some platforms (Linux at least) it doesn't work at all, instead resulting in forced process termination if the signal occurs. Given the lack of other complaints, it seems safe to assume that Perl never actually provokes SIGFPE and so there is no value in the setting anyway. Hence, reset it to our normal handler after initializing Perl. Report, analysis and patch by Andres Freund.
2012-09-05Silence -Wunused-result warning in contrib/pg_upgrade.Tom Lane
This is just neatnik-ism, but since we do it for comparable code in elog.c, we may as well do it here.
2012-09-05Fix compiler warnings about unused variables, caused by my previous commit.Heikki Linnakangas
Reported by Peter Eisentraut.
2012-09-05In pg_upgrade, document why we can't issue \n\n in the command logfileBruce Momjian
on Windows. Slightly cleanup log output on Windows given this restriction. Backpatch to 9.2.
2012-09-05Fix bugs in cascading replication with recovery_target_timeline='latest'Heikki Linnakangas
The cascading replication code assumed that the current RecoveryTargetTLI never changes, but that's not true with recovery_target_timeline='latest'. The obvious upshot of that is that RecoveryTargetTLI in shared memory needs to be protected by a lock. A less obvious consequence is that when a cascading standby is connected, and the standby switches to a new target timeline after scanning the archive, it will continue to stream WAL to the cascading standby, but from a wrong file, ie. the file of the previous timeline. For example, if the standby is currently streaming from the middle of file 000000010000000000000005, and the timeline changes, the standby will continue to stream from that file. However, the WAL on the new timeline is in file 000000020000000000000005, so the standby sends garbage from 000000010000000000000005 to the cascading standby, instead of the correct WAL from file 000000020000000000000005. This also fixes a related bug where a partial WAL segment is restored from the archive and streamed to a cascading standby. The code assumed that when a WAL segment is copied from the archive, it can immediately be fully streamed to a cascading standby. However, if the segment is only partially filled, ie. has the right size, but only N first bytes contain valid WAL, that's not safe. That can happen if a partial WAL segment is manually copied to the archive, or if a partial WAL segment is archived because a server is started up on a new timeline within that segment. The cascading standby will get confused if the WAL it received is not valid, and will get stuck until it's restarted. This patch fixes that problem by not allowing WAL restored from the archive to be streamed to a cascading standby until it's been replayed, and thus validated.
2012-09-05Fix serializable mode with index-only scans.Kevin Grittner
Serializable Snapshot Isolation used for serializable transactions depends on acquiring SIRead locks on all heap relation tuples which are used to generate the query result, so that a later delete or update of any of the tuples can flag a read-write conflict between transactions. This is normally handled in heapam.c, with tuple level locking. Since an index-only scan avoids heap access in many cases, building the result from the index tuple, the necessary predicate locks were not being acquired for all tuples in an index-only scan. To prevent problems with tuple IDs which are vacuumed and re-used while the transaction still matters, the xmin of the tuple is part of the tag for the tuple lock. Since xmin is not available to the index-only scan for result rows generated from the index tuples, it is not possible to acquire a tuple-level predicate lock in such cases, in spite of having the tid. If we went to the heap to get the xmin value, it would no longer be an index-only scan. Rather than prohibit index-only scans under serializable transaction isolation, we acquire an SIRead lock on the page containing the tuple, when it was not necessary to visit the heap for other reasons. Backpatch to 9.2. Kevin Grittner and Tom Lane
2012-09-05Allow isolation tests to specify multiple setup blocks.Kevin Grittner
Each setup block is run as a single PQexec submission, and some statements such as VACUUM cannot be combined with others in such a block. Backpatch to 9.2. Kevin Grittner and Tom Lane
2012-09-04Fix transcription error.Andrew Dunstan
2012-09-04Document that pg_upgrade requires PGHOST be set for any pre-9.1 serversBruce Momjian
with a socket directory mismatch with the new server. Backpatch to 9.2.
2012-09-04Mention basebackup-from-slave next to cascading replicationMagnus Hagander
2012-09-04Fix command echoing in pg_upgade's analyze script for Windows.Andrew Dunstan
2012-09-04Indent fix_path_separator() header properly.Andrew Dunstan
2012-09-04Allow pg_upgrade "make check" to run on Windows/MSys.Andrew Dunstan
Backpatch to 9.2.
2012-09-04In pg_upgrade, pull the port number from postmaster.pid, like we do forBruce Momjian
socket location. Also, prevent putting the socket in the current directory for pre-9.1 servers in live check and non-live check mode, because pre-9.1 pg_ctl -w can't handle it. Backpatch to 9.2.
2012-09-03Use correct path separator for Windows builtin commands.Andrew Dunstan
pg_upgrade produces a platform-specific script to remove the old directory, but on Windows it has not been making sure that the paths it writes as arguments for rmdir and del use the backslash path separator, which will cause these scripts to fail. The fix is backpatched to Release 9.0.
2012-09-03Fix bugs in exec.c that prevented pg_upgrade working in Windows.Andrew Dunstan
Backpatch to 9.2 - code before that is quite different and should not have these defects.