There isn't really any reason not to; the original comments here were
partly confused about subplans versus subquery-in-FROM, and partly
dependent on restrictions that no longer apply now that subqueries return
Paths not Plans.  Depending on what's inside the subquery, it might fail
to produce any parallel_safe Paths, but that's fine.

Tom Lane and Robert Haas

The previous coding assumed that the value derived by
set_rel_consider_parallel() for an appendrel parent would be accurate for
all the appendrel's children; but this is not so, for example because one
child might scan a temp table.  Instead, apply set_rel_consider_parallel()
to each child rel as well as the parent, and then take the AND of the
results as controlling parallel safety for the appendrel as a whole.

(We might someday be able to deal more intelligently than this with cases
in which some of the childrels are parallel-safe and others not, but that's
for later.)

Robert Haas and Tom Lane

This was the intention all along, but an extraneous "return;" in
set_rel_consider_parallel() caused sampled rels to never be marked
consider_parallel.

Since we don't have any partial tablesample path/plan type yet, there's
no possibility of parallelizing the sample scan itself; but this fix
allows such a scan to appear below a parallel join, for example.

We were just leaving the cost fields zeroes, which produces obviously bogus
output with force_parallel_mode = on.  With force_parallel_mode = regress,
the zeroes are hidden, but I wonder if they wouldn't still confuse add-on
code such as auto_explain.

I'd been wondering why I was sometimes seeing fractional rowcount
estimates in parallel-query situations, and this seems to be the
reason.  (You won't see the fractional parts in EXPLAIN, because it
prints rowcounts with %.0f, but they are apparent in the debugger.)
A fractional rowcount is not any saner for a partial path than any
other kind of path, and it's equally likely to break cost estimation
for higher paths, so apply clamp_row_est() like we do in other places.

Instead of calling PLy_elog() for reporting Python argument parsing
errors, generate appropriate exceptions.  This matches the existing plpy
functions and is more consistent with the behavior of the Python
argument parsing routines.

In commit 915b703e I gave get_agg_clause_costs() the responsibility of
marking Aggref nodes with the appropriate aggtranstype.  I failed to notice
that where it was being called from, it might see only a subset of the
Aggref nodes that were in the original targetlist.  Specifically, if there
are duplicate aggregate calls in the tlist, either make_sort_input_target
or make_window_input_target might put just a single instance into the
grouping_target, and then only that instance would get marked.  Fix by
moving the call back into grouping_planner(), before we start building
assorted PathTargets from the query tlist.  Per report from Stefan Huehner.

Report: <20160702131056.GD3165@huehner.biz>

Document that index storage is dependent on the operating system's
collation library ordering, and any change in that ordering can create
invalid indexes.

Discussion: 20160617154311.GB19359@momjian.us

Backpatch-through: 9.1

In commit 68fa28f7 I tried to teach SS_finalize_plan() to cope with
initPlans attached anywhere in the plan tree, by dint of moving its
handling of those into the recursion in finalize_plan().  It turns out that
that doesn't really work: if a lower-level plan node emits an initPlan
output parameter in its targetlist, it's legitimate for upper levels to
reference those Params --- and at the point where this code runs, those
references look just like the Param itself, so finalize_plan() quite
properly rejects them as being in the wrong place.  We could lobotomize
the checks enough to allow that, probably, but then it's not clear that
we'd have any meaningful check for misplaced Params at all.  What seems
better, at least in the near term, is to tweak standard_planner() a bit
so that initPlans are never placed anywhere but the topmost plan node
for a query level, restoring the behavior that occurred pre-9.6.  Possibly
we can do better if this code is ever merged into setrefs.c: then it would
be possible to check a Param's placement only when we'd failed to replace
it with a Var referencing a child plan node's targetlist.

BTW, I'm now suspicious that finalize_plan is doing the wrong thing by
returning the node's allParam rather than extParam to be incorporated
in the parent node's set of used parameters.  However, it makes no
difference given that initPlans only appear at top level, so I'll leave
that alone for now.

Another thing that emerged from this is that standard_planner() needs
to check for initPlans before deciding that it's safe to stick a Gather
node on top in force_parallel_mode mode.  We previously guarded against
that by deciding the plan wasn't wholePlanParallelSafe if any subplans
had been found, but after commit 5ce5e4a1 it's necessary to have this
substitute test, because path parallel_safe markings don't account for
initPlans.  (Normally, we'd have decided the paths weren't safe anyway
due to appearances of SubPlan nodes, Params, or CTE scans somewhere in
the tree --- but it's possible for those all to be optimized away while
initPlans still remain.)

Per fuzz testing by Andreas Seltenreich.

Report: <874m89rw7x.fsf@credativ.de>

Author: Masahiko Sawada
Discussion: CAD21AoBD=Of1OzL90Xx4Q-3j=-2q7=S87cs75HfutE=eCday2w@mail.gmail.com

As of 9.6, pg_regress doesn't build unless storage/lwlocknames.h has been
created; but there was nothing forcing that to happen if you just went into
src/test/regress/ and built there.  We previously had a similar complaint
about plpython.

To fix in a way that won't break next time we invent a generated header,
make src/backend/Makefile expose a phony target for updating all the
include files it builds, and invoke that before building pg_regress or
plpython.  In principle, maybe we ought to invoke that everywhere; but
it would add a lot of usually-useless make cycles, so let's just do it
in the places where people have complained.

I made a couple of cosmetic adjustments in src/backend/Makefile as well,
to deal with the generated headers in consistent orders.

Michael Paquier and Tom Lane

Report: <31398.1467036827@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Report: <20150916200959.GB32090@msg.df7cb.de>

There are two problems in the original coding: one is that if one
walreceiver process exits, the ready_to_display flag remains set in
shared memory, exposing the conninfo of the next walreceiver before
obfuscating.  Fix by having WalRcvDie reset the flag.

Second, the sleep-and-retry behavior that waited until walreceiver had
set ready_to_display wasn't liked; the preference is to have it return
no data instead, so let's do that.

Bugs in 9ed551e0 reported by Fujii Masao and Michël Paquier.

Author: Michaël Paquier

In the previous design, the GetForeignUpperPaths FDW callback hook was
called before we got around to labeling upper relations with the proper
consider_parallel flag; this meant that any upper paths created by an FDW
would be marked not-parallel-safe.  While that's probably just as well
right now, we aren't going to want it to be true forever.  Hence, abandon
the idea that FDWs should be allowed to inject upper paths before the core
code has gotten around to creating the relevant upper relation.  (Well,
actually they still can, but it's on their own heads how well it works.)
Instead, adopt the same API already designed for create_upper_paths_hook:
we call GetForeignUpperPaths after each upperrel has been created and
populated with the paths the core planner knows how to make.

Commit 3fc6e2d7 introduced new "upper"
RelOptInfo structures but didn't set consider_parallel for them
correctly, a point I completely missed when reviewing it.  Later,
commit e06a3896 made the situation
worse by doing it incorrectly for the grouping relation.  Try to
straighten all of that out.  Along the way, get rid of the annoying
wholePlanParallelSafe flag, which was only necessarily because of
the fact that upper planning stages didn't use paths at the time
that code was written.

The most important immediate impact of these changes is that
force_parallel_mode will provide useful test coverage in quite a few
more scenarios than it did previously, but it's also necessary
preparation for fixing some problems related to subqueries.

Patch by me, reviewed by Tom Lane.

We were merely Assert'ing that the Var matched the RTE it's supposedly
from.  But if the user passes incorrect information to pg_get_expr(),
the RTE might in fact not match; this led either to Assert failures
or core dumps, as reported by Chris Hanks in bug #14220.  To fix, just
convert the Asserts to test-and-elog.  Adjust an existing test-and-elog
elsewhere in the same function to be consistent in wording.

(If we really felt these were user-facing errors, we might promote them to
ereport's; but I can't convince myself that they're worth translating.)

Back-patch to 9.3; the problematic code doesn't exist before that, and
a quick check says that 9.2 doesn't crash on such cases.

Michael Paquier and Thomas Munro

Report: <20160629224349.1407.32667@wrigleys.postgresql.org>

This is fallout from join pushdown; get_relid_attribute_name can't
handle an attribute number of 0, indicating a whole-row reference,
and shouldn't be called in that case.

Etsuro Fujita, reviewed by Ashutosh Bapat

As pointed out by Ashutosh Bapat, the header comments for this file
say that schema-qualification is needed for all and only those types
outside pg_catalog.  pg_catalog.text is not outside pg_catalog.

If serialized_snapshot->subxcnt > 0 and serialized_snapshot->xcnt == 0,
the old coding would do the wrong thing and crash.  This can happen
on standby servers.

Report by Andreas Seltenreich.  Patch by Thomas Munro, reviewed by
Amit Kapila and tested by Andreas Seltenreich.

Previously, workers sent data to the leader using the client encoding.
That mostly worked, but the leader the converted the data back to the
server encoding.  Since not all encoding conversions are reversible,
that could provoke failures.  Fix by using the database encoding for
all communication between worker and leader.

Also, while temporary changes to GUC settings, as from the SET clause
of a function, are in general OK for parallel query, changing
client_encoding this way inside of a parallel worker is not OK.
Previously, that would have confused the leader; with these changes,
it would not confuse the leader, but it wouldn't do anything either.
So refuse such changes in parallel workers.

Also, the previous code naively assumed that when it received a
NotifyResonse from the worker, it could pass that directly back to the
user.  But now that worker-to-leader communication always uses the
database encoding, that's clearly no longer correct - though,
actually, the old way was always broken for V2 clients.  So
disassemble and reconstitute the message instead.

Issues reported by Peter Eisentraut.  Patch by me, reviewed by
Peter Eisentraut.

This looks like it would cause changes from subtransactions to be missed
by the iterator being constructed, if those changes had been spilled to
disk previously.  This implies that large subtransactions might be lost
(in whole or in part) by logical replication.  Found and fixed by
Petru-Florin Mihancea, per bug #14208.

Report: <20160622144830.5791.22512@wrigleys.postgresql.org>

VS2013 apparently has a problem with taking the address of a formal
parameter in some cases.  We do that elsewhere without trouble, but
in this case the address is being passed to a subroutine that will
probably get inlined, so maybe the combination of those things is
what tickles the bug.  Anyway, introducing an extra copy of the
parameter value is enough to work around it.  Per trouble report
from Umair Shahid.

Report: <CAM184AcjqKYZSdQqBHDrnENXHhW=mXbUC46QYPJ=nAh0gUHCGA@mail.gmail.com>

In non-text output formats, parallelized aggregates were reporting
"Partial" or "Finalize" as a field named "Operation", which might be all
right in the absence of any context --- but other plan node types use that
field to report SQL-visible semantics, such as Select/Insert/Update/Delete.
So that naming choice didn't seem good to me.  I changed it to "Partial
Mode".

Also, the field did not appear at all for a non-parallelized Agg plan node,
which is contrary to expectation in non-text formats.  We're notionally
producing objects that conform to a schema, so the set of fields for a
given node type and EXPLAIN mode should be well-defined.  I set it up to
fill in "Simple" in such cases.

Other fields that were added for parallel query, namely "Parallel Aware"
and Gather's "Single Copy", had not gotten the word on that point either.
Make them appear always in non-text output.

Also, the latter two fields were nominally producing boolean output, but
were getting it wrong, because bool values shouldn't be quoted in JSON or
YAML.  Somehow we'd not needed an ExplainPropertyBool formatting subroutine
before 9.6; but now we do, so invent it.

Discussion: <16002.1466972724@sss.pgh.pa.us>

Per buildfarm.

Commit b1a9bad9 introduced a stats view to provide insight into the
running WAL receiver, but neglected to include the connection string in
it, as reported by Michaël Paquier.  This commit fixes that omission.
(Any security-sensitive information is not disclosed).

While at it, close the mild security hole that we were exposing the
password in the connection string in shared memory.  This isn't
user-accessible, but it still looks like a good idea to avoid having the
cleartext password in memory.

Author: Michaël Paquier, Álvaro Herrera
Review by: Vik Fearing

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAB7nPqStg4M561obo7ryZ5G+fUydG4v1Ajs1xZT1ujtu+woRag@mail.gmail.com

Since get_relation_foreign_keys doesn't try to determine whether RTEs
are actually part of the query semantics, it might make FK info records
linking to RTEs that won't have a RelOptInfo at all.  Cope with that.
Per bug #14219 from Andrew Gierth.

Report: <20160629183338.1397.43514@wrigleys.postgresql.org>

Fix some now-obsolete statements that were overlooked in commits
6734a1ca, 3dbbd0f0, 028350f6.  Document the behavior of <0>.
Also do a little bit of rearranging and copy-editing for clarity.

Commit 3bd261ca should have updated
this, but didn't.

Extracted from a larger patch by Piotr Stefaniak.

Oleg Bartunov

Reported-by: Manlio Perillo

Bug: 14016

Discussion: 20160311163928.6674.94707@wrigleys.postgresql.org

Reviewed-by: David G. Johnston

SSDs are no longer exotic, so recommend a default in the hundreds for
them.

These arguments became unused in commit 2c03216d.  Noticed while
skimming code for unrelated development.

This is cosmetic, so no backpatch.

This is a followup to commit 6d8b2aa8.

Used to say "character set conversion"

Reported-by: Tatsuo Ishii

Discussion: 20160618.210417.343199294611427151.t-ishii@sraoss.co.jp

UT1 was incorrectly specified as our time representation.  (UT1 is
astronomical time.)  We are not actually UTC either because we ignore
leap seconds.

Reported-by: Thomas Munro

Discussion: CAEepm=3-TW9PLwGZhqjSSiEQ9UzJEKE-HELQDzRE0QUSCp8dgw@mail.gmail.com

If we need to use a gating Result node for pseudoconstant quals,
create_scan_plan() intentionally suppresses use_physical_tlist's checks
on whether there are matches for sortgroupref labels, on the grounds that
we don't need matches because we can label the Result's projection output
properly.  However, it then called apply_pathtarget_labeling_to_tlist
anyway.  This oversight was harmless when written, but in commit aeb9ae64
I made that function throw an error if there was no match.  Thus, the
combination of a table scan, pseudoconstant quals, and a non-simple-Var
sortgroupref column threw the dreaded "ORDER/GROUP BY expression not found
in targetlist" error.  To fix, just skip applying the labeling in this
case.  Per report from Rushabh Lathia.

Report: <CAGPqQf2iLB8t6t-XrL-zR233DFTXxEsfVZ4WSqaYfLupEoDxXA@mail.gmail.com>

Michael Paquier

Previously, these commands always planned the given query and went through
executor startup before deciding not to actually run the query if WITH NO
DATA is specified.  This behavior is problematic for pg_dump because it
may cause errors to be raised that we would rather not see before a
REFRESH MATERIALIZED VIEW command is issued.  See for example bug #13907
from Marian Krucina.  This change is not sufficient to fix that particular
bug, because we also need to tweak pg_dump to issue the REFRESH later,
but it's a necessary step on the way.

A user-visible side effect of doing things this way is that the returned
command tag for WITH NO DATA cases will now be "CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW"
or "CREATE TABLE AS", not "SELECT 0".  We could preserve the old behavior
but it would take more code, and arguably that was just an implementation
artifact not intended behavior anyhow.

In 9.5 and HEAD, also get rid of the static variable CreateAsReladdr, which
was trouble waiting to happen; there is not any prohibition on nested
CREATE commands.

Back-patch to 9.3 where CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW was introduced.

Michael Paquier and Tom Lane

Report: <20160202161407.2778.24659@wrigleys.postgresql.org>

<-> operator now have higher predecence than & (AND) operator. This change
was motivated by unexpected difference of similar queries:
'a & b <-> c'::tsquery and 'b <-> c & a'. Before first query means
(a & b) <-> c and second one - '(b <-> c) & a', now phrase operator evaluates
first.

Per suggestion from Tom Lane 32260.1465402409@sss.pgh.pa.us

If there is no positional information of lexemes then phrase operator will not
fallback to AND operator. This change makes needing to modify TS_execute()
interface, because somewhere (in indexes, for example) positional information
is unaccesible and in this cases we need to force fallback to AND.

Per discussion c19fcfec308e6ccd952cdde9e648b505@mail.gmail.com