Originally, we palloc'd this buffer just barely big enough to hold the
largest xlog backup block seen so far. We now MAXALIGN the palloc size.

The original coding could result in many repeated palloc cycles, in the
worst case where we see a series ofgradually larger xlog records.  We
ameliorate that similarly to 8735978e
by imposing a minimum buffer size of BLCKSZ.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1eHa4J-0006hI-Q8@gemulon.postgresql.org

Andreas Karlsson

Originally, we palloc'd this buffer just barely big enough to hold the
largest xlog record seen so far.  It turns out that that can result in
valgrind complaints, because some compilers will emit code that assumes
it can safely fetch padding bytes at the end of a struct, and those
padding bytes were unallocated so far as aset.c was concerned.  We can
fix that by MAXALIGN'ing the palloc request size, ensuring that it is big
enough to include any possible padding that might've been omitted from
the on-disk record.

An additional objection to the original coding is that it could result in
many repeated palloc cycles, in the worst case where we see a series of
gradually larger xlog records.  We can ameliorate that cheaply by
imposing a minimum buffer size that's large enough for most xlog records.
BLCKSZ/2 was chosen after a bit of discussion.

In passing, remove an obsolete comment in struct xl_heap_new_cid that the
combocid field is free due to alignment considerations.  Perhaps that was
true at some point, but it's not now.

Back-patch to 9.5 where this code came in.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1eHa4J-0006hI-Q8@gemulon.postgresql.org

The various has_*_privilege() functions all support an optional
WITH GRANT OPTION added to the supported privilege types to test
whether the privilege is held with grant option. That is, all except
has_sequence_privilege() variations. Fix that.

Back-patch to all supported branches.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/005147f6-8280-42e9-5a03-dd2c1e4397ef@joeconway.com

Missed this dependency in commits 7cce222c et al.

Traditionally IANA has distributed their timezone data in pure source
form, replete with extensive historical comments.  As of release 2017c,
they've added a compact single-file format that omits comments and
abbreviates command keywords.  This form is way shorter than the pure
source, even before considering its allegedly better compressibility.
Hence, let's distribute the data in that form rather than pure source.

I'm pushing this now, rather than at the next timezone database update,
so that it's easy to confirm that this data file produces compiled zic
output that's identical to what we were getting before.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1915.1511210334@sss.pgh.pa.us

hstoreUniquePairs() often called memcpy with equal source and destination
pointers.  Although this is almost surely harmless in practice, it's
undefined according to the letter of the C standard.  Some versions of
valgrind will complain about it, and some versions of libc as well
(cf. commit ad520ec4).  Tweak the code to avoid doing that.

Noted by Tomas Vondra.  Back-patch to all supported versions because
of the hazard of libc assertions.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/bf84d940-90d4-de91-19dd-612e011007f4@fuzzy.cz

When nodeValuesscan.c was written, it was impossible to have a SubPlan in
VALUES --- any sub-SELECT there would have to be uncorrelated and thereby
would produce an InitPlan instead.  We therefore took a shortcut in the
logic that throws away a ValuesScan's per-row expression evaluation data
structures.  This was broken by the introduction of LATERAL however; a
sub-SELECT containing a lateral reference produces a correlated SubPlan.

The cleanest fix for this would be to give up the optimization of
discarding the expression eval state.  But that still seems pretty
unappetizing for long VALUES lists.  It seems to work to just prevent
the subexpressions from hooking into the ValuesScan node's subPlan
list, so let's do that and see how well it works.  (If this breaks,
due to additional connections between the subexpressions and the outer
query structures, we might consider compromises like throwing away data
only for VALUES rows not containing SubPlans.)

Per bug #14924 from Christian Duta.  Back-patch to 9.3 where LATERAL
was introduced.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20171124120836.1463.5310@wrigleys.postgresql.org

Commit 11e26451 removed BufFile's isTemp flag, thereby eliminating
the possibility of resurrecting BufFileCreate().  But it left that
function in place, as well as a bunch of comments describing how things
worked for the non-temp-file case.  At best, that's now a source of
confusion.  So remove the long-since-commented-out function and change
relevant comments.

I (tgl) wanted to rename BufFileCreateTemp() to BufFileCreate(), but
that seems not to be the consensus position, so leave it as-is.

In passing, fix commit f0828b2f's failure to update BufFileSeek's
comment to match the change of its argument type from long to off_t.
(I think that might actually have been intentional at the time, but
now that 64-bit off_t is nearly universal, it looks anachronistic.)

Thomas Munro and Tom Lane

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1eFVyl-0008J1-RO@gemulon.postgresql.org

Improve query_is_distinct_for() to accept SRFs in the targetlist when
we can prove distinctness from a DISTINCT clause.  In that case the
de-duplication will surely happen after SRF expansion, so the proof
still works.  Continue to punt in the case where we'd try to prove
distinctness from GROUP BY (or, in the future, source relations).
To do that, we'd have to determine whether the SRFs were in the
grouping columns or elsewhere in the tlist, and it still doesn't
seem worth the trouble.  But this trivial change allows us to
recognize that "SELECT DISTINCT unnest(foo) FROM ..." produces
unique-ified output, which seems worth having.

Also, fix estimate_num_groups() to consider the possibility of SRFs in
the grouping columns.  Its failure to do so was masked before v10 because
grouping_planner() scaled up plan rowcount estimates by the estimated SRF
multiplier after performing grouping.  That doesn't happen anymore, which
is more correct, but it means we need an adjustment in the estimate for
the number of groups.  Failure to do this leads to an underestimate for
the number of output rows of subqueries like "SELECT DISTINCT unnest(foo)"
compared to what 9.6 and earlier estimated, thus breaking plan choices
in some cases.

Per report from Dmitry Shalashov.  Back-patch to v10 to avoid degraded
plan choices compared to previous releases.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKPeCUGAeHgoh5O=SvcQxREVkoX7UdeJUMj1F5=aBNvoTa+O8w@mail.gmail.com

It's most often the case that the target list for the Gather (Merge)
node matches the target list supplied by the underlying plan node;
when this is so, we can avoid the overhead of projecting.

This depends on commit f455e112 for
proper functioning.

Idea by Andres Freund.  Patch by me.  Review by Amit Kapila.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoZ0ZL=cesZFq8c9NnfK6bqy-wwUd3_74iYGodYrSoQ7Fw@mail.gmail.com

Revise aset.c so that all the "private" fields of chunk headers are
marked NOACCESS when outside the module, improving on the previous
coding which protected only requested_size.  Fix a couple of corner
case bugs, such as failing to re-protect the header during a failure
exit from AllocSetRealloc, and wrong padding-size calculation for an
oversize allocation request.

Apply the same design to generation.c, and also fix several bugs therein
that I found by dint of hacking the code to use generation.c as the
standard allocator and then running the core regression tests with it.
Notably, we have to track the actual size of each block, else the
wipe_mem call in GenerationReset clears the wrong amount of memory for
an oversize-chunk block; and GenerationCheck needs a way of identifying
freed chunks that isn't fooled by palloc(0).  I chose to fix the latter
by resetting the context pointer to NULL in a freed chunk, roughly like
what happens in a freed aset.c chunk.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1eHa4J-0006hI-Q8@gemulon.postgresql.org

Add commentary about what we're doing and why.  Apply the method used for
padding in GenerationChunk to AllocChunkData, replacing the rather ad-hoc
solution used in commit 7e3aa03b.  Reorder fields in GenerationChunk so
that the padding calculation will work even if sizeof(size_t) is different
from sizeof(void *) --- likely that will never happen, but we don't need
the assumption if we do it like this.  Improve static assertions about
alignment.

In passing, fix a couple of oversights in the "large chunk" path in
GenerationAlloc().

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1eHa4J-0006hI-Q8@gemulon.postgresql.org

This doesn't look like the last such bug, but it's one that the
test_decoding regression test is tripping over.  Per buildfarm.

Tomas Vondra

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/c903f275-2150-fa52-64bf-dca7b53ebf8d@fuzzy.cz

The comments in get_policies_for_relation() say that CREATE POLICY
does not support defining restrictive policies. This is no longer
true, starting from PG10.

Commit 87c2a17f failed to close some tags (necessary now that the
SGML docs are in fact XML).

This table summarizes which RLS policy expressions apply to each
command type, and whether they apply to the old or new tuples (or
both), which saves reading through a lot of text.

Rod Taylor, hacked on by me. Reviewed by Fabien Coelho.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHz80e4HxJShm6m9ZWFrHW=pgd2KP=RZmfFnEccujtPMiAOW5Q@mail.gmail.com

The query didn't really have a preferred index, leading to platform-
specific choices of which one to use.  Adjust it to make sure tenk1_hundred
is always chosen.

Per buildfarm.

This is necessary for ActivePerl 5.18 onwards and for Strawberry Perl.
It is not sufficient for 32-bit builds with newer Visual Studio; these
fail with error LINK2026.  Back-patch to 9.3 (all supported versions).

Reported by Victor Wagner.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20160326154321.7754ab8f@wagner.wagner.home

When strict aggregate combine functions, used in multi-stage/parallel
aggregation, returned NULL, we didn't check for that, invoking the
combine function with NULL the next round, despite it being strict.

The equivalent code invoking normal transition functions has a check
for that situation, which did not get copied in a7de3dc5. Fix the
bug by adding the equivalent check.

Based on a quick look I could not find any strict combine functions in
core actually returning NULL, and it doesn't seem very likely external
users have done so. So this isn't likely to have caused issues in
practice.

Add tests verifying transition / combine functions returning NULL is
tested.

Reported-By: Andres Freund
Author: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20171121033642.7xvmjqrl4jdaaat3@alap3.anarazel.de
Backpatch: 9.6, where parallel aggregation was introduced

Per buildfarm.

Also improve some comments.

Since some preparation work had already been done, the only source
changes left were changing empty-element tags like <xref linkend="foo">
to <xref linkend="foo"/>, and changing the DOCTYPE.

The source files are still named *.sgml, but they are actually XML files
now.  Renaming could be considered later.

In the build system, the intermediate step to convert from SGML to XML
is removed.  Everything is build straight from the source files again.
The OpenSP (or the old SP) package is no longer needed.

The documentation toolchain instructions are updated and are much
simpler now.

Peter Eisentraut, Alexander Lakhin, Jürgen Purtz

wal_receiver_timeout, wal_receiver_status_interval and
wal_retrieve_retry_interval configuration parameters affect the logical rep
worker, but previously only wal_receiver_status_interval was not mentioned
as such parameter in the doc.

Back-patch to v10 where logical rep was added.

Author: Masahiko Sawada
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAD21AoBUnuH_UsnKXyPCsCR7EAMamW0sSb6a7=WgiQRpnMAp5w@mail.gmail.com

This hack closes a race condition in "make -j check-world" and "make -j
installcheck-world".  Back-patch to v10, before which these parallel
invocations had worse problems.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20171106080752.GA1298146@rfd.leadboat.com

Daniel Gustafsson

Attempt to quiesce build farm

Author: Tomas Vondra

Add new style of memory allocator, known as Generational
appropriate for use in cases where memory is allocated
and then freed in roughly oldest first order (FIFO).

Use new allocator for logical decoding’s reorderbuffer
to significantly reduce memory usage and improve performance.

Author: Tomas Vondra
Reviewed-by: Simon Riggs

Minor patch to change sort order only

Author: Ashutosh Bapat
Reviewed-by:  Álvaro Herrera, Simon Riggs

Author: Amit Langote, Ashutosh Bapat
Reviewed-by:  Álvaro Herrera, Simon Riggs

Allows triggers to operate correctly

Author: Petr Jelinek <petr.jelinek@2ndquadrant.com>
Reported-by: Konstantin Knizhnik <k.knizhnik@postgrespro.ru>

pgbench can skip some transactions when both -R and -L options are used.
Previously, this resulted in slightly silly statistics both in progress
reports and final output, because the skipped transactions were counted
as executed for TPS and related stats.  Discount skipped xacts in TPS
numbers, and also when figuring the percentage of xacts exceeding the
latency limit.

Also, don't print per-script skipped-transaction counts when there is
only one script.  That's redundant with the overall count, and it's
inconsistent with the fact that we don't print other per-script stats
when there's only one script.  Clean up some unnecessary interactions
between what should be independent options that were due to that
decision.

While at it, avoid division-by-zero in cases where no transactions were
executed.  While on modern platforms this would generally result in
printing "NaN" rather than a crash, that isn't spelled consistently
across platforms and it would confuse many people.  Skip the relevant
output entirely when practical, else print zeroes.

Fabien Coelho, reviewed by Steve Singer, additional hacking by me

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/26654.1505232433@sss.pgh.pa.us

Previously, any attempt to request a 3.x protocol version other than
3.0 would lead to a hard connection failure, which made the minor
protocol version really no different from the major protocol version
and precluded gentle protocol version breaks.  Instead, when the
client requests a 3.x protocol version where x is greater than 0, send
the new NegotiateProtocolVersion message to convey that we support
only 3.0.  This makes it possible to introduce new minor protocol
versions without requiring a connection retry when the server is
older.

In addition, if the startup packet includes name/value pairs where
the name starts with "_pq_.", assume that those are protocol options,
not GUCs.  Include those we don't support (i.e. all of them, at
present) in the NegotiateProtocolVersion message so that the client
knows they were not understood.  This makes it possible for the
client to request previously-unsupported features without bumping
the protocol version at all; the client can tell from the server's
response whether the option was understood.

It will take some time before servers that support these new
facilities become common in the wild; to speed things up and make
things easier for a future 3.1 protocol version, back-patch to all
supported releases.

Robert Haas and Badrul Chowdhury

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/BN6PR21MB0772FFA0CBD298B76017744CD1730@BN6PR21MB0772.namprd21.prod.outlook.com
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/30788.1498672033@sss.pgh.pa.us

Fix the function header comment to describe the actual behavior.
Check that table OID, modulus, and remainder arguments are not NULL
before accessing them.  Check that the modulus and remainder are
sensible.  If the table OID doesn't exist, return NULL instead of
emitting an internal error, similar to what we do elsewhere.  Check
that the actual argument types match, or at least are binary coercible
to, the expected argument types.  Correctly handle invocation of this
function using the VARIADIC syntax.  Add regression tests.

Robert Haas and Amul Sul, per a report by Andreas Seltenreich and
subsequent followup investigation.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/871sl4sdrv.fsf@ansel.ydns.eu

To do this, we only have to remove the compress and decompress support
functions, which have never done anything more than detoasting.
In the wake of commit d3a4f89d, this results in automatically enabling
index-only scans, since the core code will now know that the stored
representation is the same as the original data (up to detoasting).

The only exciting part of this is that ALTER OPERATOR FAMILY lacks
a way to drop a support function that was declared as being part of
an opclass rather than being loose in the family.  For the moment,
we'll hack our way to a solution with a manual update of the pg_depend
entry type, which is what distinguishes the two cases.  Perhaps
someday it'll be worth providing a cleaner way to do that, but for
now it seems like a very niche problem.

Note that the underlying C functions remain, to support use of the shared
libraries with older versions of the modules' SQL declarations.  Someday
we may be able to remove them, but not soon.

Andrey Borodin, reviewed by me

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/D0F53A05-4F4A-4DEC-8339-3C069FA0EE11@yandex-team.ru

David Carlier (from a patch being carried by OpenBSD packagers)

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+XhMqzwFSGVU7MEnfhCecc8YdP98tigXzzpd0AAdwaGwaVXEA@mail.gmail.com

Apparently there are still people out there who care about this old
architecture.  They probably care about dusty versions of Postgres
too, so back-patch to all supported branches.

David Carlier (from a patch being carried by OpenBSD packagers)

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+XhMqzwFSGVU7MEnfhCecc8YdP98tigXzzpd0AAdwaGwaVXEA@mail.gmail.com

Author: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>
Reported-By: Andreas Seltenreich <seltenreich@gmx.de>

Specifically, pass the outer plan's PlanState instead of our own
PlanState.  At present, ExecContextForcesOids doesn't actually care
which PlanState we pass; it just looks through to the underlying
EState to find the result relation or top-level eflags.  However, in
the future it might care.  If that happens, and if our goal is to get
a tuple descriptor that matches that of the outer plan, then I think
what we care about is whether the outer plan's context forces OIDs,
rather than whether our own context forces OIDs, just as we use the
outer node's target list rather than our own.

Patch by me, reviewed by Amit Kapila.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoZ0ZL=cesZFq8c9NnfK6bqy-wwUd3_74iYGodYrSoQ7Fw@mail.gmail.com