- 17 Sep, 2020 6 commits
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Heikki Linnakangas authored
This adds a new optional support function to the GiST access method: sortsupport. If it is defined, the GiST index is built by sorting all data to the order defined by the sortsupport's comparator function, and packing the tuples in that order to GiST pages. This is similar to how B-tree index build works, and is much faster than inserting the tuples one by one. The resulting index is smaller too, because the pages are packed more tightly, upto 'fillfactor'. The normal build method works by splitting pages, which tends to lead to more wasted space. The quality of the resulting index depends on how good the opclass-defined sort order is. A good order preserves locality of the input data. As the first user of this facility, add 'sortsupport' function to the point_ops opclass. It sorts the points in Z-order (aka Morton Code), by interleaving the bits of the X and Y coordinates. Author: Andrey Borodin Reviewed-by: Pavel Borisov, Thomas Munro Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/1A36620E-CAD8-4267-9067-FB31385E7C0D%40yandex-team.ru
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Michael Paquier authored
OpenSSL was quoted in inconsistent ways in many places of the docs, sometimes with <application>, <productname> or just nothing. Author: Daniel Gustafsson Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/DA91E5F0-5F9D-41A7-A7A6-B91CDE0F1D63@yesql.se
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Michael Paquier authored
It is not possible to get a list of foreign schemas as the server is not known, so this provides instead a list of local schemas, which is more useful than nothing if using a loopback server or having schema names matching in the local and remote servers. Author: Jeff Janes Reviewed-by: Tom Lane, Michael Paquier Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMkU=1wr7Roj41q-XiJs=Uyc2xCmHhcGGy7J-peJQK-e+w=ghw@mail.gmail.com
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Tom Lane authored
Because the code path taken for SQL commands executed in a walsender will update the process title, we pretty much have to update the title for replication commands as well. Otherwise, the title shows "idle" for the rest of a logical walsender's lifetime once it's executed any SQL command. Playing with this, I confirm that a walsender now typically spends most of its life reporting walsender postgres [local] START_REPLICATION Considering this in isolation, it might be better to have it say walsender postgres [local] sending replication data However, consistency with the other cases seems to be a stronger argument. In passing, remove duplicative pgstat_report_activity call. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/880181.1600026471@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Tom Lane authored
Adjust the whitespace in the emitted files so that it matches what pgindent would do. This makes the generated files look like they match project style, and avoids confusion if someone does run pgindent on the generated files. Also, add probes.h to pgindent's exclusion list, because it can confuse pgindent, plus there's not much point in processing it. Daniel Gustafsson, additional fixes by me Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/79ed5348-be7a-b647-dd40-742207186a22@2ndquadrant.com
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Alvaro Herrera authored
Since commit fd5942c1 (2012, 9.3-era), walsender has been sending completion tags for certain replication commands twice -- and they're not even consistent. Apparently neither libpq nor JDBC have a problem with it, but it's not kosher. Fix by remove the EndCommand() call in the common code path for them all, and inserting specific calls to EndReplicationCommand() specifically in those places where it's needed. EndReplicationCommand() is a new simple function to send the completion tag for replication commands. Do this instead of sending a generic SELECT completion tag for them all, which was also pretty bogus (if innocuous). While at it, change StartReplication() to use EndReplicationCommand() instead of pg_puttextmessage(). In commit 2f966131, I failed to realize that replication commands are not close-enough kin of regular SQL commands, so the DROP_REPLICATION_SLOT tag I added is undeserved and a type pun. Take it out. Backpatch to 13, where the latter commit appeared. The duplicate tag has been sent since 9.3, but since nothing is broken, it doesn't seem worth fixing. Per complaints from Tom Lane. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1347966.1600195735@sss.pgh.pa.us
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- 16 Sep, 2020 12 commits
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Tom Lane authored
We decided that the policy established in commit 7634bd4f for the bgwriter, checkpointer, walwriter, and walreceiver processes, namely that they should accept SIGQUIT at all times, really ought to apply uniformly to all postmaster children. Therefore, get rid of the duplicative and inconsistent per-process code for establishing that signal handler and removing SIGQUIT from BlockSig. Instead, make InitPostmasterChild do it. The handler set up by InitPostmasterChild is SignalHandlerForCrashExit, which just summarily does _exit(2). In interactive backends, we almost immediately replace that with quickdie, since we would prefer to try to tell the client that we're dying. However, this patch is changing the behavior of autovacuum (both launcher and workers), as well as walsenders. Those processes formerly also used quickdie, but AFAICS that was just mindless copy-and-paste: they don't have any interactive client that's likely to benefit from being told this. The stats collector continues to be an outlier, in that it thinks SIGQUIT means normal exit. That should probably be changed for consistency, but there's another patch set where that's being dealt with, so I didn't do so here. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/644875.1599933441@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Tom Lane authored
Since there is only one place that actually needs the partition check expression, namely ExecPartitionCheck, it's better to fetch it from the relcache there. In this way we will never fetch it at all if the query never has use for it, and we still fetch it just once when we do need it. The reason for taking an interest in this is that if the relcache doesn't already have the check expression cached, fetching it requires obtaining AccessShareLock on the partition root. That means that operations that look like they should only touch the partition itself will also take a lock on the root. In particular we observed that TRUNCATE on a partition may take a lock on the partition's root, contributing to a deadlock situation in parallel pg_restore. As written, this patch does have a small cost, which is that we are microscopically reducing efficiency for the case where a partition has an empty check expression. ExecPartitionCheck will be called, and will go through the motions of setting up and checking an empty qual, where before it would not have been called at all. We could avoid that by adding a separate boolean flag to track whether there is a partition expression to test. However, this case only arises for a default partition with no siblings, which surely is not an interesting case in practice. Hence adding complexity for it does not seem like a good trade-off. Amit Langote, per a suggestion by me Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/VI1PR03MB31670CA1BD9625C3A8C5DD05EB230@VI1PR03MB3167.eurprd03.prod.outlook.com
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Peter Geoghegan authored
Commit d114cc53 overlooked the fact that pg_upgrade'd B-Tree indexes have leaf page high keys whose offset numbers do not match the one from the copy of the tuple one level up (the copy stored with a downlink for leaf page's right sibling page). This led to false positive reports of corruption from bt_index_parent_check() when it was called to verify a pg_upgrade'd index. To fix, skip comparing the offset number on pg_upgrade'd B-Tree indexes. Author: Anastasia Lubennikova <a.lubennikova@postgrespro.ru> Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie> Reported-By: Andrew Bille <andrewbille@gmail.com> Diagnosed-By: Anastasia Lubennikova <a.lubennikova@postgrespro.ru> Bug: #16619 Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16619-aaba10f83fdc1c3c@postgresql.org Backpatch: 13-, where child check was enhanced.
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Tom Lane authored
If a partitioned table's column is already marked NOT NULL, there is no need to examine its partitions, because we can rely on previous DDL to have enforced that the child columns are NOT NULL as well. (Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for traditional inheritance, so for now we have to restrict the optimization to partitioned tables.) Hence, we may skip recursing to child tables in this situation. The reason this case is worth worrying about is that when pg_dump dumps a partitioned table having a primary key, it will include the requisite NOT NULL markings in the CREATE TABLE commands, and then add the primary key as a separate step. The primary key addition generates a SET NOT NULL as a subcommand, just to be sure. So the situation where a SET NOT NULL is redundant does arise in the real world. Skipping the recursion does more than just save a few cycles: it means that a command such as "ALTER TABLE ONLY partition_parent ADD PRIMARY KEY" will take locks only on the partition parent table, not on the partitions. It turns out that parallel pg_restore is effectively assuming that that's true, and has little choice but to do so because the dependencies listed for such a TOC entry don't include the partitions. pg_restore could thus issue this ALTER while data restores on the partitions are still in progress. Taking unnecessary locks on the partitions not only hurts concurrency, but can lead to actual deadlock failures, as reported by Domagoj Smoljanovic. (A contributing factor in the deadlock is that TRUNCATE on a child partition wants a non-exclusive lock on the parent. This seems likewise unnecessary, but the fix for it is more invasive so we won't consider back-patching it. Fortunately, getting rid of one of these two poor behaviors is enough to remove the deadlock.) Although support for partitioned primary keys came in with v11, this patch is dependent on the SET NOT NULL refactoring done by commit f4a3fdfb, so we can only patch back to v12. Patch by me; thanks to Alvaro Herrera and Amit Langote for review. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/VI1PR03MB31670CA1BD9625C3A8C5DD05EB230@VI1PR03MB3167.eurprd03.prod.outlook.com
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Tom Lane authored
The code recorded cache invalidation events by zeroing the "localreloid" field of affected cache entries. However, it's possible for an inval event to occur even while we have the entry open and locked. So an ill-timed inval could result in "cache lookup failed for relation 0" errors, if the worker's code tried to use the cleared field. We can fix that by creating a separate bool field to record whether the entry needs to be revalidated. (In the back branches, cram the bool into what had been padding space, to avoid an ABI break in the somewhat unlikely event that any extension is looking at this struct.) Also, rearrange the logic in logicalrep_rel_open so that it does the right thing in cases where table_open would fail. We should retry the lookup by name in that case, but we didn't. The real-world impact of this is probably small. In the first place, the error conditions are very low probability, and in the second place, the worker would just exit and get restarted. We only noticed because in a CLOBBER_CACHE_ALWAYS build, the failure can occur repeatedly, preventing the worker from making progress. Nonetheless, it's clearly a bug, and it impedes a useful type of testing; so back-patch to v10 where this code was introduced. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1032727.1600096803@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Fujii Masao authored
Commit b8fdee7d added leader_pid field into csvlog, but forgot to update the example of file_fdw for csvlog. Author: Yuta Katsuragi
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Michael Paquier authored
Those extra queries are not necessary when doing a data-only dump. With this change, this means that the dependencies between CHECK/DEFAULT and the parent table are not tracked anymore for a data-only dump. However, these dependencies are only used for the schema generation and we have never guaranteed that a dump can be reloaded if a CHECK constraint uses a custom function whose behavior changes when loading the data, like when using cross-table references in the CHECK function. Author: Julien Rouhaud Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson, Michael Paquier Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200712054850.GA92357@nol
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Jeff Davis authored
Previously, it was based on nBlocksAllocated to account for tapes with open write buffers that may not have made it to the BufFile yet. That was unnecessary, because callers do not need to get the number of blocks while a tape has an open write buffer; and it also conflicted with the preallocation logic added for HashAgg. Reviewed-by: Peter Geoghegan Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ce5af05900fdbd0e9185747825a7423c48501964.camel@j-davis.com Backpatch-through: 13
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Jeff Davis authored
This was an oversight. The purpose of 7fdd919a was to avoid keeping tape buffers around unnecessisarily, but HashAgg didn't rewind early enough. Reviewed-by: Peter Geoghegan Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1fb1151c2cddf8747d14e0532da283c3f97e2685.camel@j-davis.com Backpatch-through: 13
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Amit Kapila authored
In commit 46482432, for each RelationSyncEntry we maintained the list of xids (streamed_txns) for which we have already sent the schema. This helps us to track when to send the schema to the downstream node for replication of streaming transactions. Before this list got initialized, we were processing invalidation messages which access this list and led to an assertion failure. In passing, clean up the nearby code: * Initialize the list of xids with NIL instead of NULL which is our usual coding practice. * Remove the MemoryContext switch for creating a RelationSyncEntry in dynahash. Diagnosed-by: Amit Kapila and Tom Lane Author: Amit Kapila Reviewed-by: Tom Lane and Dilip Kumar Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/904373.1600033123@sss.pgh.pa.us
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David Rowley authored
This function could often be seen in profiles of vacuum and could often be a significant bottleneck during recovery. The problem was that a qsort was performed in order to sort an array of item pointers in reverse offset order so that we could use that to safely move tuples up to the end of the page without overwriting the memory of yet-to-be-moved tuples. i.e. we used to compact the page starting at the back of the page and move towards the front. The qsort that this required could be expensive for pages with a large number of tuples. In this commit, we take another approach to tuple compactification. Now, instead of sorting the remaining item pointers array we first check if the array is presorted and only memmove() the tuples that need to be moved. This presorted check can be done very cheaply in the calling functions when the array is being populated. This presorted case is very fast. When the item pointer array is not presorted we must copy tuples that need to be moved into a temp buffer before copying them back into the page again. This differs from what we used to do here as we're now copying the tuples back into the page in reverse line pointer order. Previously we left the existing order alone. Reordering the tuples results in an increased likelihood of hitting the pre-sorted case the next time around. Any newly added tuple which consumes a new line pointer will also maintain the correct sort order of tuples in the page which will also result in the presorted case being hit the next time. Only consuming an unused line pointer can cause the order of tuples to go out again, but that will be corrected next time the function is called for the page. Benchmarks have shown that the non-presorted case is at least equally as fast as the original qsort method even when the page just has a few tuples. As the number of tuples becomes larger the new method maintains its performance whereas the original qsort method became much slower when the number of tuples on the page became large. Author: David Rowley Reviewed-by: Thomas Munro Tested-by: Jakub Wartak Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+hUKGKMQFVpjr106gRhwk6R-nXv0qOcTreZuQzxgpHESAL6dw@mail.gmail.com
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Alvaro Herrera authored
ALTER TABLE commands in an extension script are added to an event trigger command list; but starting with commit b5810de3 they do so in a memory context that's too short-lived, so when execution ends and time comes to use the entries, they've already been freed. (This would also be a problem with ALTER TABLE commands in a multi-command query string, but these serendipitously end in PortalContext -- which probably explains why it took so long for this to be reported.) Fix by using the memory context specifically set for that, instead. Backpatch to 13, where the aforementioned commit appeared. Reported-by: Philippe Beaudoin Author: Jehan-Guillaume de Rorthais <jgdr@dalibo.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200902193715.6e0269d4@firost
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- 15 Sep, 2020 3 commits
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David Rowley authored
Reporting this has been rather useful in some recent recovery speedup work. It also seems like something that will be useful to the average DBA too. Author: David Rowley Reviewed-by: Thomas Munro Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvqYVORiZxq2xPvP6_ndmmsTkvr6jSYv4UTNaFa5i1kd%3DQ%40mail.gmail.com
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David Rowley authored
This expands on the work done in d2d8a229 and allows incremental sort to be considered during create_window_paths(). Author: David Rowley Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson, Tomas Vondra Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvoOHobiA2x13NtWnWLcTXYj9ddpCkv9PnAJQBMegYf_xw%40mail.gmail.com
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David Rowley authored
Introduced in 0aa8f764. MSVC warned about performing 32-bit bit shifting when it appeared like we might like a 64-bit result. We did, but it just so happened that none of the calls to this function could have caused the 32-bit shift to overflow. Here we just cast the constant to int64 to make the compiler happy. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvofA_vsrpC13mq_hZyuye5B-ssKEaer04OouXYCO5-uXQ@mail.gmail.com
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- 14 Sep, 2020 6 commits
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Tom Lane authored
A walsender process that has executed a SQL command left the text of that command in pg_stat_activity.query indefinitely, which is quite confusing if it's in RUNNING state but not doing that query. An easy and useful fix is to treat replication commands as if they were SQL queries, and show them in pg_stat_activity according to the same rules as for regular queries. While we're at it, it seems also sensible to set debug_query_string, allowing error logging and debugging to see the replication command. While here, clean up assorted silliness in exec_replication_command: * The SQLCmd path failed to restore CurrentMemoryContext to the caller's value, and failed to delete the temp context created in this routine. It's only through great good fortune that these oversights did not result in long-term memory leaks or other problems. It seems cleaner to code SQLCmd as a separate early-exit path, so do it like that. * Remove useless duplicate call of SnapBuildClearExportedSnapshot(). * replication_scanner_finish() was never called. None of those things are significant enough to merit a backpatch, so this is for HEAD only. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/880181.1600026471@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Noah Misch authored
A pre-commit review had reported the problem, but the fix reached only v10 and earlier. Back-patch to v11. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200423.140546.1055476118690602079.horikyota.ntt@gmail.com
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Fujii Masao authored
Author: Naoki Nakamichi Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/b6919d145af00295a8e86ce4d034b7cd@oss.nttdata.com
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Michael Paquier authored
3c840464 is the original commit that introduced index_set_state_flags(), where the presence of SnapshotNow made necessary the use of an in-place update. SnapshotNow has been removed in 813fb031, so there is no actual reasons to not make this operation transactional. Note that while making the operation more robust, using a transactional operation in this routine was not strictly necessary as there was no use case for it yet. However, some future features are going to need a transactional behavior, like support for CREATE/DROP INDEX CONCURRENTLY with partitioned tables, where indexes in a partition tree need to have all their pg_index.indis* flags updated in the same transaction to make the operation stable to the end-user by keeping partition trees consistent, even with a failure mid-flight. REINDEX CONCURRENTLY uses already transactional updates when swapping the old and new indexes, making this change more consistent with the index-swapping logic. Author: Michael Paquier Reviewed-by: Anastasia Lubennikova Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200903080440.GA8559@paquier.xyz
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Peter Eisentraut authored
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Michael Paquier authored
If there are no objects of a certain type, there is no need to do an allocation for a set of DumpableObject items. The previous coding did an allocation of 1 byte instead as per the fallback of pg_malloc() in the event of an allocation size of zero. This assigns NULL instead for a set of dumpable objects. A similar rule already applied to findObjectByOid(), so this makes the code more defensive as we would just fail with a pointer dereference instead of attempting to use some incorrect data if a non-existing, positive, OID is given by a caller of this function. Author: Daniel Gustafsson Reviewed-by: Julien Rouhaud, Ranier Vilela Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/26C43E58-BDD0-4F1A-97CC-4A07B52E32C5@yesql.se
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- 13 Sep, 2020 1 commit
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Tom Lane authored
transformCreateStmt() adjusts the transformed statement's RangeVar to specify the target schema explicitly, for the express reason of making sure that auxiliary statements derived by parse transformation operate on the right table. But the refactoring I did in commit 50289819 got this wrong and passed the untransformed RangeVar to expandTableLikeClause(). This could lead to assertion failures or weird misbehavior if the wrong table was accessed. Per report from Alexander Lakhin. Like the previous patch, back-patch to all supported branches. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/05051f9d-b32b-cb35-6735-0e9f2ab86b5f@gmail.com
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- 12 Sep, 2020 3 commits
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Amit Kapila authored
We use the timestamp of the global statfile if we are not able to determine it for a particular database in case the entry for that database doesn't exist. However, we were using it even when the statfile is corrupt. As there is no user reported issue and it is not clear if there is any impact of this on actual application so decided not to backpatch. Reported-by: Amit Kapila Author: Amit Kapila Reviewed-by: Sawada Masahiko, Magnus Hagander and Alvaro Herrera Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAA4eK1J3oTJKyVq6v7K4d3jD+vtnruG9fHRib6UuWWsrwAR6Aw@mail.gmail.com
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Amit Kapila authored
In the passing, fix a typo in pgoutput.c. Reported-by: Tomas Vondra Author: Tomas Vondra Reviewed-by: Dilip Kumar Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200909084353.pncuclpbwlr7vylh@development
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Jeff Davis authored
The preallocation logic is only useful for HashAgg, so disable it when sorting. Also, adjust an out-of-date comment. Reviewed-by: Peter Geoghegan Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-Wzn_o7tE2+hRVvwSFghRb75AJ5g-nqGzDUqLYMexjOAe=g@mail.gmail.com Backpatch-through: 13
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- 11 Sep, 2020 6 commits
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Tom Lane authored
The bgwriter, checkpointer, walwriter, and walreceiver processes claimed to allow SIGQUIT "at all times". In reality SIGQUIT would get re-blocked during error recovery, because we didn't update the actual signal mask immediately, so sigsetjmp() would save and reinstate a mask that includes SIGQUIT. This appears to be simply a coding oversight. There's never a good reason to hold off SIGQUIT in these processes, because it's going to just call _exit(2) which should be safe enough, especially since the postmaster is going to tear down shared memory afterwards. Hence, stick in PG_SETMASK() calls to install the modified BlockSig mask immediately. Also try to improve the comments around sigsetjmp blocks. Most of them were just referencing postgres.c, which is misleading because actually postgres.c manages the signals differently. No back-patch, since there's no evidence that this is causing any problems in the field. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALDaNm1d1hHPZUg3xU4XjtWBOLCrA+-2cJcLpw-cePZ=GgDVfA@mail.gmail.com
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Alvaro Herrera authored
The stats target can be set since commit d06215d0, but wasn't shown by psql. Author: Justin Pryzby <justin@telsasoft.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200831050047.GG5450@telsasoft.comReviewed-by: Georgios Kokolatos <gkokolatos@protonmail.com> Reviewed-by: Tatsuro Yamada <tatsuro.yamada.tf@nttcom.co.jp>
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Tom Lane authored
Currently, no useful trace is left in the logs when the postmaster is forced to use SIGKILL to shut down children that failed to respond to SIGQUIT. Some questions were raised about how often that scenario happens in the buildfarm, so let's add a LOG-level message showing that it happened. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1850884.1599601164@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Tom Lane authored
Although 58c6fecc fixed the case for SIGQUIT, we were still calling proc_exit() from signal handlers for SIGTERM and timeout failures in ProcessStartupPacket. Fortunately, at the point where that code runs, we haven't yet connected to shared memory in any meaningful way, so there is nothing we need to undo in shared memory. This means it should be safe to use _exit(1) here, ie, not run any atexit handlers but also inform the postmaster that it's not a crash exit. To make sure nobody breaks the "nothing to undo" expectation, add a cross-check that no on-shmem-exit or before-shmem-exit handlers have been registered yet when we finish using these signal handlers. This change is simple enough that maybe it could be back-patched, but I won't risk that right now. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1850884.1599601164@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Alvaro Herrera authored
Thinko in 40b3e2c2. Reported-by: "Wang, Shenhao" <wangsh.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ed98706b82694b57a8c0d339a10732aa@G08CNEXMBPEKD06.g08.fujitsu.local
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Amit Kapila authored
We were decoding empty transactions via streaming APIs added in commit 45fdc973 even when the user used the option 'skip-empty-xacts'. The APIs makes no effort to skip empty xacts under the assumption that we will never try to stream such transactions. However, that is not true because we can pick to stream a transaction that has change messages for REORDER_BUFFER_CHANGE_INTERNAL_SNAPSHOT and we don't send such messages to downstream rather they are just to update the internal state. So, we need to skip such xacts when plugin uses the option 'skip-empty-xacts'. Diagnosed-By: Amit Kapila Author: Dilip Kumar Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAA4eK1+OqgFNZkf7=ETe_y5ntjgDk3T0wcdkd4Sot_u1hySGfw@mail.gmail.com
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- 10 Sep, 2020 3 commits
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Alvaro Herrera authored
This helps debuggability when looking at WAL streams containing logical messages. Author: Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh.bapat@2ndquadrant.com> Reviewed-by: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAExHW5sWx49rKmXbg5H1Xc1t+nRv9PaYKQmgw82HPt6vWDVmDg@mail.gmail.com
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Tom Lane authored
Bring the signal handling for startup-packet collection into line with the policy established in commits bedadc73 and 8e19a826, namely don't risk running atexit callbacks when handling SIGQUIT. Ideally, we'd not do so for SIGTERM or timeout interrupts either, but that change seems a bit too risky for the back branches. For now, just improve the comments in this area to describe the risk. Also relocate where BackendInitialize re-disables these interrupts, to minimize the code span where they're active. This doesn't buy a whole lot of safety, but it can't hurt. In passing, rename startup_die() to remove confusion about whether it is for the startup process. Like the previous commits, back-patch to all supported branches. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1850884.1599601164@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Robert Haas authored
Sometimes it happens that the visibility information for a tuple becomes corrupted, either due to bugs in the database software or external factors. Provide a function heap_force_kill() that can be used to truncate such dead tuples to dead line pointers, and a function heap_force_freeze() that can be used to overwrite the visibility information in such a way that the tuple becomes all-visible. These functions are unsafe, in that you can easily use them to corrupt a database that was not previously corrupted, and you can use them to further corrupt an already-corrupted database or to destroy data. The documentation accordingly cautions against casual use. However, in some cases they permit recovery of data that would otherwise be very difficult to recover, or to allow a system to continue to function when it would otherwise be difficult to do so. Because we may want to add other functions for performing other kinds of surgery in the future, the new contrib module is called pg_surgery rather than something specific to these functions. I proposed back-patching this so that it could be more easily used by people running existing releases who are facing these kinds of problems, but that proposal did not attract enough support, so no back-patch for now. Ashutosh Sharma, reviewed and tested by Andrey M. Borodin, M. Beena Emerson, Masahiko Sawada, Rajkumar Raghuwanshi, Asim Praveen, and Mark Dilger, and somewhat revised by me. Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoZW1fsU-QUNCRUQMGUygBDPVeOTLCqRdQZch=EYZnctSA@mail.gmail.com
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