Michael Paquier

Michael Paquier

Amit Langote

I'd accidentally missed to rename PG_FORCE_NULL to BKI_FORCE_NULL in one
place.

Author: Jeevan Chalke
Discussion: CAM2+6=VPoow5PqgqiTjPX4QNeokb7op8aD_8Zg3QnHZMvvU0GQ@mail.gmail.com

FORCE option has been marked "obsolete" since very old version 7.4
but existed for backwards compatibility. Per discussion on pgsql-hackers,
we concluded that it's no longer worth keeping supporting the option.

When certain event-trigger-only functions are called when not in the
wrong context, they were reporting the "feature not supported" SQLSTATE,
which is somewhat misleading.  Create a new custom error code for such
uses instead.

Not backpatched since it may be seen as an undesirable behavioral
change.

Author: Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAB7nPqQ-5NAkHQHh_NOm7FPep37NCiLKwPoJ2Yxb8TDoGgbYYA@mail.gmail.com

It was previously possible to have the launcher re-execute its main loop
before shutting down if some other signal was received or an error
occurred after getting SIGTERM, as reported by Qingqing Zhou.

While investigating, Tom Lane further noticed that if autovacuum had
been disabled in the config file, it would misbehave by trying to start
a new worker instead of bailing out immediately -- it would consider
itself as invoked in emergency mode.

Fix both problems by checking the shutdown flag in a few more places.
These problems have existed since autovacuum was introduced, so
backpatch all the way back.

Report by Tom Lane

Previously an odd error message was generated.  Nested service files are
not supported.

Report by David Johnston

Since file_ops.c contains translatable strings, it should have been listed
in GETTEXT_FILES.

This is consistent with what the new numeric suppor for abbreviated keys
now does, and seems much more convenient than having a separate compiler
define to control this debug output.

Peter Geoghegan

While gcc doesn't complain if you declare a function "static" and then
define it not-static, other compilers do; and in any case the code is
highly misleading this way.  Add the missing "static" keywords to a
couple of recent patches.  Per buildfarm member pademelon.

pg_fatal never returns, so a multi-line message cannot be printed by
calling it twice.

Michael Paquier and Fujii Masao

Commit a2e35b53 should have removed the variable declaration in the
inner block, but didn't.  As a result, the returned address might end up
not being what was intended.

Don't allow pg_rewind to run as root on Unix platforms, as any new or
replaced files in the data directory would become owned by root. On Windows,
it can run under a user that has Administrator rights, but a restricted
token needs to be used. This is the same we do e.g. in pg_resetxlog.

Also, add missing set_pglocale_pgservice() call, to fix localization.

Michael Paquier and Fujii Masao

It now also reports temporary objects dropped that are local to the
backend.  Previously we weren't reporting any temp objects because it
was deemed unnecessary; but as it turns out, it is necessary if we want
to keep close track of DDL command execution inside one session.  Temp
objects are reported as living in schema pg_temp, which works because
such a schema-qualification always refers to the temp objects of the
current session.

This was already fixed in 0d906798, but I failed to update the
array-formatted case.  This is not backpatched, since this only affects
the code path introduced by commit a6762014.

Back-patch to all supported versions.

Michael Paquier

Considering the number of cases in which "unused" command line arguments
are silently ignored by compilers, it's fairly astonishing that anybody
thought this warning was useful; it's certainly nothing but an annoyance
when building Postgres.  One such case is that neither gcc nor clang
complain about unrecognized -Wno-foo switches, making it more difficult
to figure out whether the switch does anything than one could wish.

Back-patch to 9.3, which is as far back as the patch applies conveniently
(we'd have to back-patch PGAC_PROG_CC_VAR_OPT to go further, and it doesn't
seem worth that).

This is a long-standing inconsistency that was probably just missed when
we got 64 bit MSVC builds. This brings the platform into line with all
other systems.

Reduce lock levels to ShareRowExclusive for the following SQL
 CREATE TRIGGER (but not DROP or ALTER)
 ALTER TABLE ENABLE TRIGGER
 ALTER TABLE DISABLE TRIGGER
 ALTER TABLE … ADD CONSTRAINT FOREIGN KEY

Original work by Simon Riggs, extracted and refreshed by Andreas Karlsson
New test cases added by Andreas Karlsson
Reviewed by Noah Misch, Andres Freund, Michael Paquier and Simon Riggs

Previously we would re-use input subexpressions in all expression trees
attached to a Join plan node.  However, if it's an outer join and the
subexpression appears in the nullable-side input, this is potentially
incorrect for apparently-matching subexpressions that came from above
the outer join (ie, targetlist and qpqual expressions), because the
executor will treat the subexpression value as NULL when maybe it should
not be.

The case is fairly hard to hit because (a) you need a non-strict
subexpression (else NULL is correct), and (b) we don't usually compute
expressions in the outputs of non-toplevel plan nodes.  But we might do
so if the expressions are sort keys for a mergejoin, for example.

Probably in the long run we should make a more explicit distinction between
Vars appearing above and below an outer join, but that will be a major
planner redesign and not at all back-patchable.  For the moment, just hack
set_join_references so that it will not match any non-Var expressions
coming from nullable inputs to expressions that came from above the join.
(This is somewhat overkill, in that a strict expression could still be
matched, but it doesn't seem worth the effort to check that.)

Per report from Qingqing Zhou.  The added regression test case is based
on his example.

This has been broken for a very long time, so back-patch to all active
branches.

Some of the TAP tests were supposing that PG programs would accept switches
after non-switch arguments on their command lines.  While GNU getopt_long()
does allow that, our own implementation does not, and it's nowhere
suggested in our documentation that such cases should work.  Adjust the
tests to use only the documented syntax.

Back-patch to 9.4, since without this the TAP tests fail when run with
src/port's getopt_long() implementation.

Michael Paquier

When committing abd94bca, I tried to make
it decide what kind of abbreviation to use based only on SIZEOF_DATUM,
without regard to USE_FLOAT8_BYVAL.  That attempt was a few bricks short
of a load, so try to fix it, and add a comment explaining what we're
about.

Patch by me; review (but not a full endorsement) by Andrew Gierth.

Commit ed9cc2b5 made it unnecessary to pass
start_nblkno to _hash_splitbucket(), and for that matter unnecessary to
have the internal nblkno variable either.  My compiler didn't complain
about that, but some did.  I also rearranged the use of oblkno a bit to
make that case more parallel.

Report and initial patch by Petr Jelinek, rearranged a bit by me.
Back-patch to all branches, like the previous patch.

This lets later stages have access to the transformed expression; in
particular it allows DDL-deparsing code during event triggers to pass
the transformed expression to ruleutils.c, so that the complete command
can be deparsed.

This shuffles the timing of the transform calls a bit: previously,
nothing was transformed during parse analysis, and only the
RELKIND_RELATION case was being handled during execution.  After this
patch, all expressions are transformed during parse analysis (including
those for relkinds other than RELATION), and the error for other
relation kinds is thrown only during execution.  So we do more work than
before to reject some bogus cases.  That seems acceptable.

This is useful to control autovacuum log volume, for situations where
monitoring only a set of tables is necessary.

Author: Michael Paquier
Reviewed by: A team led by Naoya Anzai (also including Akira Kurosawa,
Taiki Kondo, Huong Dangminh), Fujii Masao.

They have historically ignored it, but it's been said to be useful at
times to change their settings mid-flight.

Author: Michael Paquier

Similarly to previous fix 9b8d4782, commit 2c03216d has switched
XLogReaderAllocate() to use a set of palloc calls instead of malloc,
causing any callers of this function to fail with an error instead of
receiving a NULL pointer in case of out-of-memory error. Fix this by
using palloc_extended with MCXT_ALLOC_NO_OOM that will safely return
NULL in case of an OOM.

Michael Paquier, slightly modified by me.

Be more aggressive about aborting early on if it looks like it's not
helping, but be less aggressive about aborting later on, since it's
more expensive at that point, and also since we're currently aborting
in some cases where abbreviation can still deliver a substantial win.

Peter Geoghegan. Extensive testing by Tomas Vondra.

Commit 2c03216d changed allocate_recordbuf() so that it uses a palloc to
allocate the read buffer and fails immediately when an out-of-memory error
shows up, even though its callers still expect that NULL is returned in that
case. This bug is fixed making allocate_recordbuf() use a palloc_extended
with MCXT_ALLOC_NO_OOM flag and return NULL in OOM case.

Michael Paquier

This commit also adds pg_malloc_extended for frontend. These interfaces
can be used to control at a lower level memory allocation using an interface
similar to MemoryContextAllocExtended. For example, the callers can specify
MCXT_ALLOC_NO_OOM if they want to suppress the "out of memory" error while
allocating the memory and handle a NULL return value.

Michael Paquier, reviewed by me.

While a new backend nominally participates in sinval signaling starting
from the SharedInvalBackendInit call near the top of InitPostgres, it
cannot recognize sinval messages for unshared catalogs of its database
until it has set up MyDatabaseId.  This is not problematic for the catcache
or relcache, which by definition won't have loaded any data from or about
such catalogs before that point.  However, commit 568d4138
introduced a mechanism for re-using MVCC snapshots for catalog scans, and
made invalidation of those depend on recognizing relevant sinval messages.
So it's possible to establish a catalog snapshot to read pg_authid and
pg_database, then before we set MyDatabaseId, receive sinval messages that
should result in invalidating that snapshot --- but do not, because we
don't realize they are for our database.  This mechanism explains the
intermittent buildfarm failures we've seen since commit 31eae602.
That commit was not itself at fault, but it introduced a new regression
test that does reconnections concurrently with the "vacuum full pg_am"
command in vacuum.sql.  This allowed the pre-existing error to be exposed,
given just the right timing, because we'd fail to update our information
about how to access pg_am.  In principle any VACUUM FULL on a system
catalog could have created a similar hazard for concurrent incoming
connections.  Perhaps there are more subtle failure cases as well.

To fix, force invalidation of the catalog snapshot as soon as we've
set MyDatabaseId.

Back-patch to 9.4 where the error was introduced.

This would have been worth doing on general principle anyway, but the
recent addition of an expression syntax to pgbench makes it an even
better idea than it would have been otherwise.

Fabien Coelho