Vinayak Pokale

Daniel Gustafsson

That used to be accepted, so let's try to give a hint to users on why
their PL/python functions no longer work.

Reviewed by Pavel Stehule.

Discussion: <CAH38_tmbqwaUyKs9yagyRra=SMaT45FPBxk1pmTYcM0TyXGG7Q@mail.gmail.com>

Multi-dimensional arrays can now be used as arguments to a PL/python function
(used to throw an error), and they can be returned as nested Python lists.

This makes a backwards-incompatible change to the handling of composite
types in arrays. Previously, you could return an array of composite types
as "[[col1, col2], [col1, col2]]", but now that is interpreted as a two-
dimensional array. Composite types in arrays must now be returned as
Python tuples, not lists, to resolve the ambiguity. I.e. "[(col1, col2),
(col1, col2)]".

To avoid breaking backwards-compatibility, when not necessary, () is still
accepted for arrays at the top-level, but it is always treated as a
single-dimensional array. Likewise, [] is still accepted for composite types,
when they are not in an array. Update the documentation to recommend using []
for arrays, and () for composite types, with a mention that those other things
are also accepted in some contexts.

This needs to be mentioned in the release notes.

Alexey Grishchenko, Dave Cramer and me. Reviewed by Pavel Stehule.

Discussion: <CAH38_tmbqwaUyKs9yagyRra=SMaT45FPBxk1pmTYcM0TyXGG7Q@mail.gmail.com>

The ArchiveHandle structure contained the archive format version number
twice, once as a single field and once split into components.  Simplify
that by just keeping the single field and adding some macros to extract
the components.  Introduce some macros for composing version numbers, to
eliminate the repeated use of magic formulas.  Drop the unused trailing
zero byte from the run-time composite version representation.

reviewed by Tom Lane

Not strictly necessary since we quite after, but could become important
in the future if we do restarts etc.

Michael Paquier with nitpicking from me

Michael Paquier

Previously we only mentioned SIGHUP and 'pg_ctl reload' in
postgresql.conf and pg_hba.conf.

A query that only aggregates one row isn't a great argument for pushdown,
and buildfarm member brolga decides against it.  Adjust the query a bit
in the hopes of getting remote aggregation to win consistently.

Jeevan Chalke, per suggestion from Tom Lane

Noted by Alexander Korotkov

An oversight in setting the boundaries of known commit timestamps during
startup caused old commit timestamps to become inaccessible after a
server restart.

Author and reporter: Julien Rouhaud
Review, test code: Craig Ringer

INSERT ... ON CONFLICT (specifically ExecCheckHeapTupleVisible) contains
another example of this unsafe coding practice.  It is much harder to get
a failure out of it than the case fixed in commit 6292c233, because in
most scenarios any hint bits that could be set would have already been set
earlier in the command.  However, Konstantin Knizhnik reported a failure
with a custom transaction manager, and it's clearly possible to get a
failure via a race condition in async-commit mode.

For lack of a reproducible example, no regression test case in this
commit.

I did some testing with Asserts added to tqual.c's functions, and can say
that running "make check-world" exposed these two bugs and no others.
The Asserts are messy enough that I've not added them to the code for now.

Report: <57EE93C8.8080504@postgrespro.ru>
Related-Discussion: <CAO3NbwOycQjt2Oqy2VW-eLTq2M5uGMyHnGm=RNga4mjqcYD7gQ@mail.gmail.com>

A transaction that conflicts against itself, for example
	INSERT INTO t(pk) VALUES (1),(1) ON CONFLICT DO NOTHING;
should behave the same regardless of isolation level.  It certainly
shouldn't throw a serialization error, as retrying will not help.
We got this wrong due to the ON CONFLICT logic not considering the case,
as reported by Jason Dusek.

Core of this patch is by Peter Geoghegan (based on an earlier patch by
Thomas Munro), though I didn't take his proposed code refactoring for fear
that it might have unexpected side-effects.  Test cases by Thomas Munro
and myself.

Report: <CAO3NbwOycQjt2Oqy2VW-eLTq2M5uGMyHnGm=RNga4mjqcYD7gQ@mail.gmail.com>
Related-Discussion: <57EE93C8.8080504@postgrespro.ru>

Despite the argumentation I wrote in commit 7a2fe85b, it's unsafe to do
this, because in corner cases it's possible for HeapTupleSatisfiesSelf
to try to set hint bits on the target tuple; and at least since 8.2 we
have required the buffer content lock to be held while setting hint bits.

The added regression test exercises one such corner case.  Unpatched, it
causes an assertion failure in assert-enabled builds, or otherwise would
cause a hint bit change in a buffer we don't hold lock on, which given
the right race condition could result in checksum failures or other data
consistency problems.  The odds of a problem in the field are probably
pretty small, but nonetheless back-patch to all supported branches.

Report: <19391.1477244876@sss.pgh.pa.us>

Using the name fsync clashed with the #define we have on Windows that
redefines it to _commit. Naming it sync should remove that conflict.

Per all the Windows buildfarm members

Per numerous buildfarm manuals

C99-specific feature, and wasn't intentional in the first place.

Per buildfarm member mylodon

This will write the received transaction log into a file called
pg_wal.tar(.gz) next to the other tarfiles instead of writing it to
base.tar. When using fetch mode, the transaction log is still written to
base.tar like before, and when used against a pre-10 server, the file
is named pg_xlog.tar.

To do this, implement a new concept of a "walmethod", which is
responsible for writing the WAL. Two implementations exist, one that
writes to a plain directory (which is also used by pg_receivexlog) and
one that writes to a tar file with optional compression.

Reviewed by Michael Paquier

Show how to get the system's huge page size, rather than misleadingly
referring to PAGE_SIZE (which is usually understood to be the regular
page size).  Show how to confirm whether huge pages have been allocated.
Minor wordsmithing.  Back-patch to 9.4 where this section appeared.

As usual, the release notes for other branches will be made by cutting
these down, but put them up for community review first.

Set enable_hashagg to false for tests involving least_agg(), so that
we get the same plan regardless of local costing variances.  Also,
remove a test involving sqrt(); it's there to test deparsing of
HAVING clauses containing expressions, but that's tested elsewhere
anyway, and sqrt(2) deparses with different amounts of precision on
different machines.

Per buildfarm.

Replace "Full path to ..." with "Full path name of ...".  At least one
user has misinterpreted the existing wording as meaning "Directory
containing ...".

Now that the upper planner uses paths, and now that we have proper hooks
to inject paths into the upper planning process, it's possible for
foreign data wrappers to arrange to push aggregates to the remote side
instead of fetching all of the rows and aggregating them locally.  This
figures to be a massive win for performance, so teach postgres_fdw to
do it.

Jeevan Chalke and Ashutosh Bapat.  Reviewed by Ashutosh Bapat with
additional testing by Prabhat Sahu.  Various mostly cosmetic changes
by me.

With track_io_timing = on, EXPLAIN (ANALYZE, BUFFERS) will emit fields
named like "I/O Read Time".  The slash makes that invalid as an XML
element name, so that adding FORMAT XML would produce invalid XML.

We already have code in there to translate spaces to dashes, so let's
generalize that to convert anything that isn't a valid XML name character,
viz letters, digits, hyphens, underscores, and periods.  We could just
reject slashes, which would run a bit faster.  But the fact that this went
unnoticed for so long doesn't give me a warm feeling that we'd notice the
next creative violation, so let's make it a permanent fix.

Reported by Markus Winand, though this isn't his initial patch proposal.

Back-patch to 9.2 where track_io_timing was added.  The problem is only
latent in 9.1, so I don't feel a need to fix it there.

Discussion: <E0BF6A45-68E8-45E6-918F-741FB332C6BB@winand.at>

This absorbs a fix for a symlink-manipulation bug in zic that was
introduced in 2016g.  It probably isn't interesting for our use-case,
but I'm not quite sure, so let's update while we're at it.

(Didn't I just do this?  Oh well.)

DST law changes in Palestine.  Historical corrections for Turkey.
Switch to numeric abbreviations for Asia/Colombo.

"xlog" is not a particularly clear abbreviation for "write-ahead log",
and it sometimes confuses users into believe that the contents of the
"pg_xlog" directory are not critical data, leading to unpleasant
consequences.  So, rename the directory to "pg_wal".

This patch modifies pg_upgrade and pg_basebackup to understand both
the old and new directory layouts; the former is necessary given the
purpose of the tool, while the latter merely avoids an unnecessary
backward-compatibility break.

We may wish to consider renaming other programs, switches, and
functions which still use the old "xlog" naming to also refer to
"wal".  However, that's still under discussion, so let's do just this
much for now.

Discussion: CAB7nPqTeC-8+zux8_-4ZD46V7YPwooeFxgndfsq5Rg8ibLVm1A@mail.gmail.com

Michael Paquier

Before 5d305d86, this comment was
correct, but now it says we do something which we don't actually do.
Accordingly, remove the comment.

clang points out that SIZE_MAX wouldn't fit into an int, which means
this comparison is pretty useless.  Per report from Thomas Munro.

Per buildfarm.

This is mostly to absorb some corner-case fixes in zic for year-2037
timestamps.  The other changes that have been made are unlikely to affect
our usage, but nonetheless we may as well take 'em.

IANA got rid of the really silly "abbreviation" and replaced it with one
that's only moderately silly.  But it's still pointless, so keep on not
showing it.

DST law changes in Turkey.  Historical corrections for America/Los_Angeles,
Europe/Kirov, Europe/Moscow, Europe/Samara, and Europe/Ulyanovsk.
Rename Asia/Rangoon to Asia/Yangon, with a backward compatibility link.

The IANA crew continue their campaign to replace invented time zone
abbrevations with numeric GMT offsets.  This update changes numerous zones
in Antarctica and the former Soviet Union, for instance Antarctica/Casey
now reports "+08" not "AWST" in the pg_timezone_names view.  I kept these
abbreviations in the tznames/ data files, however, so that we will still
accept them for input.  (We may want to start trimming those files someday,
but today is not that day.)

An exception is that since IANA no longer claims that "AMT" is in use
in Armenia for GMT+4, I replaced it in the Default file with GMT-4,
corresponding to Amazon Time which is in use in South America.  It may be
that that meaning is also invented and IANA will drop it in a future
update; but for now, it seems silly to give pride of place to a meaning
not traceable to IANA over one that is.

Reviewed-by: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Geoghegan <pg@heroku.com>

Switch TAP tests to use the new wait mode of pg_ctl promote.  This
allows avoiding extra logic with poll_query_until() to be sure that a
promoted standby is ready for read-write queries.

From: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>

--noclean and --nosync were the only options spelled without a hyphen,
so change this for consistency with other options.  The options in
pg_basebackup have not been in a release, so we just rename them.  For
initdb, we retain the old variants.

Vik Fearing and me