- 30 Jun, 2017 5 commits
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Tom Lane authored
It's possible for WalSndWaitForWal to be asked to wait for WAL that doesn't exist yet. That's fine, in fact it's the normal situation if we're caught up; but when the client requests shutdown we should not keep waiting. The previous coding could wait indefinitely if the source server was idle. In passing, improve the rather weak comments in this area, and slightly rearrange some related code for better readability. Back-patch to 9.4 where this code was introduced. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/14154.1498781234@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Peter Eisentraut authored
ICU does not support "collate" and "ctype" being different, so the collctype catalog column is ignored. But for catalog neatness, ensure that they are the same.
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Robert Haas authored
Masahiko Sawada Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAD21AoA0jjXXhqK6Ym3jZNoUdVhXFyTkWTTTsVSr1vPuKcjsjA@mail.gmail.com
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Peter Eisentraut authored
This command used to compute the collencoding entry like when a completely new collation is created. But for example when copying the "C" collation, this would then result in a collation that has a collencoding entry for the current database encoding rather than -1, thus not making an exact copy. This has probably no practical impact, but making this change keeps the catalog contents neat. Reported-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
- 29 Jun, 2017 1 commit
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Tom Lane authored
The point of this loop is to insert 1000 rows into the test table and consume 1000 XIDs. I can't see any good reason why it's useful to launch 1000 psqls and 1000 backend processes to accomplish that. Pushing the looping into a plpgsql DO block shaves about 10 seconds off the runtime of the src/test/recovery TAP tests on my machine; that's over 10% of the runtime of that test suite. It is, in fact, sufficiently more efficient that we now demonstrably need wait_slot_xmins() afterwards, or the slaves' xmins may not have moved yet.
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- 28 Jun, 2017 7 commits
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Tom Lane authored
Per buildfarm.
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Tom Lane authored
Traditionally, "pg_ctl start -w" has waited for the server to become ready to accept connections by attempting a connection once per second. That has the major problem that connection issues (for instance, a kernel packet filter blocking traffic) can't be reliably told apart from server startup issues, and the minor problem that if server startup isn't quick, we accumulate "the database system is starting up" spam in the server log. We've hacked around many of the possible connection issues, but it resulted in ugly and complicated code in pg_ctl.c. In commit c61559ec, I changed the probe rate to every tenth of a second. That prompted Jeff Janes to complain that the log-spam problem had become much worse. In the ensuing discussion, Andres Freund pointed out that we could dispense with connection attempts altogether if the postmaster were changed to report its status in postmaster.pid, which "pg_ctl start" already relies on being able to read. This patch implements that, teaching postmaster.c to report a status string into the pidfile at the same state-change points already identified as being of interest for systemd status reporting (cf commit 7d17e683). pg_ctl no longer needs to link with libpq at all; all its functions now depend on reading server files. In support of this, teach AddToDataDirLockFile() to allow addition of postmaster.pid lines in not-necessarily-sequential order. This is needed on Windows where the SHMEM_KEY line will never be written at all. We still have the restriction that we don't want to truncate the pidfile; document the reasons for that a bit better. Also, fix the pg_ctl TAP tests so they'll notice if "start -w" mode is broken --- before, they'd just wait out the sixty seconds until the loop gives up, and then report success anyway. (Yes, I found that out the hard way.) While at it, arrange for pg_ctl to not need to #include miscadmin.h; as a rather low-level backend header, requiring that to be compilable client-side is pretty dubious. This requires moving the #define's associated with the pidfile into a new header file, and moving PG_BACKEND_VERSIONSTR someplace else. For lack of a clearly better "someplace else", I put it into port.h, beside the declaration of find_other_exec(), since most users of that macro are passing the value to find_other_exec(). (initdb still depends on miscadmin.h, but at least pg_ctl and pg_upgrade no longer do.) In passing, fix main.c so that PG_BACKEND_VERSIONSTR actually defines the output of "postgres -V", which remarkably it had never done before. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMkU=1xJW8e+CTotojOMBd-yzUvD0e_JZu2xHo=MnuZ4__m7Pg@mail.gmail.com
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Andrew Gierth authored
We now disallow having triggers with both transition tables and ON INSERT OR UPDATE (which was a PG extension to the spec anyway), because in this case it's not at all clear how the transition tables should work for an INSERT ... ON CONFLICT query. Separate ON INSERT and ON UPDATE triggers with transition tables are allowed, and the transition tables for these reflect only the inserted and only the updated tuples respectively. Patch by Thomas Munro Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm%3D11KHQ0JmETJQihSvhZB5mUZL2xrqHeXbCeLhDiqQ39%3Dw%40mail.gmail.com
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Andrew Gierth authored
The original coding didn't handle this case properly; each separate DML substatement needs its own set of transitions. Patch by Thomas Munro Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAL9smLCDQ%3D2o024rBgtD4WihzX8B3C6u_oSQ2K3%2BR5grJrV0bg%40mail.gmail.com
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Andrew Gierth authored
We disallow row-level triggers with transition tables on child tables. Transition tables for triggers on the parent table contain only those columns present in the parent. (We can't mix tuple formats in a single transition table.) Patch by Thomas Munro Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BTgmoZzTBBAsEUh4MazAN7ga%3D8SsMC-Knp-6cetts9yNZUCcg%40mail.gmail.com
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Tom Lane authored
Buildfarm evidence shows that TCP_KEEPALIVE_THRESHOLD doesn't exist after all on Solaris < 11. This means we need to take positive action to prevent the TCP_KEEPALIVE code path from being taken on that platform. I've chosen to limit it with "&& defined(__darwin__)", since it's unclear that anyone else would follow Apple's precedent of spelling the symbol that way. Also, follow a suggestion from Michael Paquier of eliminating code duplication by defining a couple of intermediate symbols for the socket option. In passing, make some effort to reduce the number of translatable messages by replacing "setsockopt(foo) failed" with "setsockopt(%s) failed", etc, throughout the affected files. And update relevant documentation so that it doesn't claim to provide an exhaustive list of the possible socket option names. Like the previous commit (f0256c77), back-patch to all supported branches. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170627163757.25161.528@wrigleys.postgresql.org
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Stephen Frost authored
Commit 330b84d8 didn't contemplate the case where the public schema has been dropped and introduced a query which fails when there is no public schema into pg_dump (when used with -c). Adjust the query used by pg_dump to handle the case where the public schema doesn't exist and add tests to check that such a case no longer fails. Back-patch the specific fix to 9.6, as the prior commit was. Adding tests for this case involved adding support to the pg_dump TAP tests to work with multiple databases, which, while not a large change, is a bit much to back-patch, so that's only done in master. Addresses bug #14650 Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20170512181801.1795.47483%40wrigleys.postgresql.org
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- 27 Jun, 2017 2 commits
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Tom Lane authored
Turns out that the socket option for this is named TCP_KEEPALIVE_THRESHOLD, at least according to the tcp(7P) man page for Solaris 11. (But since that text refers to "SunOS", it's likely pretty ancient.) It appears that the symbol TCP_KEEPALIVE does get defined on that platform, but it doesn't seem to represent a valid protocol-level socket option. This leads to bleats in the postmaster log, and no tcp_keepalives_idle functionality. Per bug #14720 from Andrey Lizenko, as well as an earlier report from Dhiraj Chawla that nobody had followed up on. The issue's been there since we added the TCP_KEEPALIVE code path in commit 5acd417c, so back-patch to all supported branches. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170627163757.25161.528@wrigleys.postgresql.org
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Tom Lane authored
check_agg_arguments_walker threw an error upon seeing a SRF or window function, but that is too aggressive: if the function is within a sub-select then it's perfectly fine. I broke the SRF case in commit 0436f6bd by copying the logic for window functions ... but that was broken too, and had been since commit eaccfded. Repair both cases in HEAD, and the window function case back to 9.3. 9.2 gets this right.
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- 26 Jun, 2017 8 commits
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Tom Lane authored
By default, wal_retrieve_retry_interval is five seconds, which is far more than is needed in any of our TAP tests, leaving the test cases just twiddling their thumbs for significant stretches. Moreover, because it's so large, we get basically no testing of the retry-before- master-is-ready code path. Hence, make PostgresNode::init set up wal_retrieve_retry_interval = '500ms' as part of its customization of test clusters' postgresql.conf. This shaves quite a few seconds off the runtime of the recovery TAP tests. Back-patch into 9.6. We have wal_retrieve_retry_interval in 9.5, but the test infrastructure isn't there. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/31624.1498500416@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Tom Lane authored
When a walreceiver dies, the startup process will notice that and send a PMSIGNAL_START_WALRECEIVER signal to the postmaster, asking for a new walreceiver to be launched. There's a race condition, which at least in HEAD is very easy to hit, whereby the postmaster might see that signal before it processes the SIGCHLD from the walreceiver process. In that situation, sigusr1_handler() just dropped the start request on the floor, reasoning that it must be redundant. Eventually, after 10 seconds (WALRCV_STARTUP_TIMEOUT), the startup process would make a fresh request --- but that's a long time if the connection could have been re-established almost immediately. Fix it by setting a state flag inside the postmaster that we won't clear until we do launch a walreceiver. In cases where that results in an extra walreceiver launch, it's up to the walreceiver to realize it's unwanted and go away --- but we have, and need, that logic anyway for the opposite race case. I came across this through investigating unexpected delays in the src/test/recovery TAP tests: it manifests there in test cases where a master server is stopped and restarted while leaving streaming slaves active. This logic has been broken all along, so back-patch to all supported branches. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/21344.1498494720@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Tom Lane authored
The stats collector disregards inquiry messages that bear a cutoff_time before when it last wrote the relevant stats file. That's fine, but at startup when it reads the "permanent" stats files, it absorbed their timestamps as if they were the times at which the corresponding temporary stats files had been written. In reality, of course, there's no data out there at all. This led to disregarding inquiry messages soon after startup if the postmaster had been shut down and restarted within less than PGSTAT_STAT_INTERVAL; which is a pretty common scenario, both for testing and in the field. Requesting backends would hang for 10 seconds and then report failure to read statistics, unless they got bailed out by some other backend coming along and making a newer request within that interval. I came across this through investigating unexpected delays in the src/test/recovery TAP tests: it manifests there because the autovacuum launcher hangs for 10 seconds when it can't get statistics at startup, thus preventing a second shutdown from occurring promptly. We might want to do some things in the autovac code to make it less prone to getting stuck that way, but this change is a good bug fix regardless. In passing, also fix pgstat_read_statsfiles() to ensure that it re-zeroes its global stats variables if they are corrupted by a short read from the stats file. (Other reads in that function go into temp variables, so that the issue doesn't arise.) This has been broken since we created the separation between permanent and temporary stats files in 8.4, so back-patch to all supported branches. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16860.1498442626@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Tom Lane authored
pg_ctl has traditionally waited one second between probes for whether the start or stop request has completed. That behavior was embodied in the original shell script written in 1999 (commit 5b912b08) and I doubt anyone's questioned it since. Nowadays, machines are a lot faster, and the shell script is long since replaced by C code, so it's fair to reconsider how long we ought to wait. This patch adjusts the coding so that the wait time can be any even divisor of 1 second, and sets the actual probe rate to 10 per second. That's based on experimentation with the src/test/recovery TAP tests, which include a lot of postmaster starts and stops. This patch alone reduces the (non-parallelized) runtime of those tests from ~4m30s to ~3m5s on my machine. Increasing the probe rate further doesn't help much, so this seems like a good number. In the real world this probably won't have much impact, since people don't start/stop production postmasters often, and the shutdown checkpoint usually takes nontrivial time too. But it makes development work and testing noticeably snappier, and that's good enough reason for me. Also, by reducing the dead time in postmaster restart sequences, this change has made it easier to reproduce some bugs that have been lurking for awhile. Patches for those will follow. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18444.1498428798@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Tom Lane authored
Remove hard-wired sleep(2) delays in 001_stream_rep.pl in favor of using poll_query_until to check for the desired state to appear. In addition, add such a wait before the last test in the script, as it's possible to demonstrate failures there after upcoming improvements in pg_ctl. (We might end up adding polling before each of the get_slot_xmins calls in this script, but I feel no great need to do that until shown necessary.) In passing, clarify the description strings for some of the test cases. Michael Paquier and Craig Ringer, pursuant to a complaint from me Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/8962.1498425057@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Tom Lane authored
This arises in practice if the partition only admits NULL values. Jeevan Ladhe Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAOgcT0OChrN--uuqH6wG6Z8+nxnCWJ+2Q-uhnK4KOANdRRxuAw@mail.gmail.com
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Tom Lane authored
Fix its header comment, which described the old behavior of the <N> phrase distance operator; we missed updating that in commit 028350f6. Also, reset errno before strtol() call, to defend against the possibility that it was already ERANGE at entry. (The lack of complaints says that it generally isn't, but this is at least a latent bug.) Very minor stylistic improvements as well. Victor Drobny noted the obsolete comment, I noted the errno issue. Back-patch to 9.6 where this code was added, just in case the errno issue is a live bug in some cases. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2b5382fdff9b1f79d5eb2c99c4d2cbe2@postgrespro.ru
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Magnus Hagander authored
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- 25 Jun, 2017 1 commit
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Tom Lane authored
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- 24 Jun, 2017 3 commits
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Tom Lane authored
pg_import_system_collations() refused to create any ICU collations if the current database's encoding didn't support ICU. This is wrongheaded: initdb must initialize pg_collation in an encoding-independent way since it might be used in other databases with different encodings. The reason for the restriction seems to be that get_icu_locale_comment() used icu_from_uchar() to convert the UChar-format display name, and that unsurprisingly doesn't know what to do in unsupported encodings. But by the same token that the initial catalog contents must be encoding-independent, we can't allow non-ASCII characters in the comment strings. So we don't really need icu_from_uchar() here: just check for Unicode codes outside the ASCII range, and if there are none, the format conversion is trivial. If there are some, we can simply not install the comment. (In my testing, this affects only Norwegian Bokmål, which has given us trouble before.) For paranoia's sake, also check for non-ASCII characters in ICU locale names, and skip such locales, as we do for libc locales. I don't currently have a reason to believe that this will ever reject anything, but then again the libc maintainers should have known better too. With just the import changes, ICU collations can be found in pg_collation in databases with unsupported encodings. This resulted in more or less clean failures at runtime, but that's not how things act for unsupported encodings with libc collations. Make it work the same as our traditional behavior for libc collations by having collation lookup take into account whether is_encoding_supported_by_icu(). Adjust documentation to match. Also, expand Table 23.1 to show which encodings are supported by ICU. catversion bump because of likely change in pg_collation/pg_description initial contents in ICU-enabled builds. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20c74bc3-d6ca-243d-1bbc-12f17fa4fe9a@gmail.com
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Simon Riggs authored
Author: Masahiko Sawada
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Simon Riggs authored
Reported-by: Tom Lane
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- 23 Jun, 2017 7 commits
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Tom Lane authored
The maxResultSize argument of uloc_getDisplayName is the number of UChars in the output buffer, not the number of bytes. In principle this could result in a stack smash, although at least in my Fedora 25 install there are no ICU locales with display names long enough to overrun the buffer. But it's easily proven to be wrong by reducing the length of displayname to around 20, whereupon a stack smash does happen. (This is a rather scary bug, because the same mistake could easily have been made in other places; but in a quick code search looking at uses of UChar I could not find any other instances.)
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Peter Eisentraut authored
The comparison with the target rows on the subscriber side was done with datumIsEqual(), which can have false negatives. For instance, it didn't work reliably for text columns. So use the equality operator provided by the type cache instead. Also add more user documentation about replica identity requirements. Reported-by: Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@sraoss.co.jp>
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Tom Lane authored
Marco Atzeri reported that initdb would fail if "locale -a" reported the same locale name more than once. All previous versions of Postgres implicitly de-duplicated the results of "locale -a", but the rewrite to move the collation import logic into C had lost that property. It had also lost the property that locale names matching built-in collation names were silently ignored. The simplest way to fix this is to make initdb run the function in if-not-exists mode, which means that there's no real use-case for non if-not-exists mode; we might as well just drop the boolean argument and simplify the function's definition to be "add any collations not already known". This change also gets rid of some odd corner cases caused by the fact that aliases were added in if-not-exists mode even if the function argument said otherwise. While at it, adjust the behavior so that pg_import_system_collations() doesn't spew "collation foo already exists, skipping" messages during a re-run; that's completely unhelpful, especially since there are often hundreds of them. And make it return a count of the number of collations it did add, which seems like it might be helpful. Also, re-integrate the previous coding's property that it would make a deterministic selection of which alias to use if there were conflicting possibilities. This would only come into play if "locale -a" reports multiple equivalent locale names, say "de_DE.utf8" and "de_DE.UTF-8", but that hardly seems out of the question. In passing, fix incorrect behavior in pg_import_system_collations()'s ICU code path: it neglected CommandCounterIncrement, which would result in failures if ICU returns duplicate names, and it would try to create comments even if a new collation hadn't been created. Also, reorder operations in initdb so that the 'ucs_basic' collation is created before calling pg_import_system_collations() not after. This prevents a failure if "locale -a" were to report a locale named that. There's no reason to think that that ever happens in the wild, but the old coding would have survived it, so let's be equally robust. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20c74bc3-d6ca-243d-1bbc-12f17fa4fe9a@gmail.com
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Simon Riggs authored
After sitting idle and fully replayed for a while and then encountering a new burst of WAL activity, we interpolate between an ancient sample and the not-yet-reached one for the new traffic. That produced a corner case report of lag after receiving first new reply from standby, which might sometimes be a large spike. Correct this by resetting last_read time and handle that new case. Author: Thomas Munro
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Simon Riggs authored
Startup process is displayed in pg_stat_activity, noted by Yugo Nagata. Transactions can be resolved at end of recovery. Author: Yugo Nagata, with addition by me
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Tom Lane authored
Callers of icu_to_uchar() neglected to pfree the result string when done with it. This results in catastrophic memory leaks in varstr_cmp(), because of our prevailing assumption that btree comparison functions don't leak memory. For safety, make all the call sites clean up leaks, though I suspect that we could get away without it in formatting.c. I audited callers of icu_from_uchar() as well, but found no places that seemed to have a comparable issue. Add function API specifications for icu_to_uchar() and icu_from_uchar(); the lack of any thought-through specification is perhaps not unrelated to the existence of this bug in the first place. Fix icu_to_uchar() to guarantee a nul-terminated result; although no existing caller appears to care, the fact that it would have been nul-terminated except in extreme corner cases seems ideally designed to bite someone on the rear someday. Fix ucnv_fromUChars() destCapacity argument --- in the worst case, that could perhaps have led to a non-nul-terminated result, too. Fix icu_from_uchar() to have a more reasonable definition of the function result --- no callers are actually paying attention, so this isn't a live bug, but it's certainly sloppily designed. Const-ify icu_from_uchar()'s input string for consistency. That is not the end of what needs to be done to these functions, but it's as much as I have the patience for right now. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1955.1498181798@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Tom Lane authored
It's essential that initdb.c's setup_depend() scan each system catalog that could contain objects that need to have "p" (pin) entries in pg_depend or pg_shdepend. Forgetting to add that, either when a catalog is first invented or when it first acquires DATA() entries, is an obvious bug hazard. We can detect such omissions at reasonable cost by probing every OID-containing system catalog to see whether the lowest-numbered OID in it is pinned. If so, the catalog must have been properly accounted for in setup_depend(). If the lowest OID is above FirstNormalObjectId then the catalog must have been empty at the end of initdb, so it doesn't matter. There are a small number of catalogs whose first entry is made later in initdb than setup_depend(), resulting in nonempty expected output of the test, but these can be manually inspected to see that they are OK. Any future mistake of this ilk will manifest as a new entry in the test's output. Since pg_conversion is already in the test's output, add it to the set of catalogs scanned by setup_depend(). That has no effect today (hence, no catversion bump here) but it will protect us if we ever do add pin-worthy conversions. This test is very much like the catalog sanity checks embodied in opr_sanity.sql and type_sanity.sql, but testing pg_depend doesn't seem to fit naturally into either of those scripts' charters. Hence, invent a new test script misc_sanity.sql, which can be a home for this as well as tests on any other catalogs we might want in future. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/8068.1498155068@sss.pgh.pa.us
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- 22 Jun, 2017 6 commits
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Alvaro Herrera authored
There was a logic error in a formula, reported by Atsushi Torokoshi. Ashutosh Bapat furthermore recommended to change notation for a variable that was re-using a letter from a previous formula, though his proposed patch contained a small error in attributing what the new letter is for. Also, instead of his proposed d' I ended up using e, to avoid confusing the reader with quotes which are used differently in the explaining prose. Bugs appeared in commit 2686ee1b. Reported-by: Atsushi Torikoshi, Ashutosh Bapat Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAFjFpRd03YojT4wyuDcjhCfYuygfWfnt68XGn2CKv=rcjRCtTA@mail.gmail.com
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Alvaro Herrera authored
Once upon a time, WAL pointers could be NULL, but no longer. We talk about "valid" now. Reported-by: Amit Langote Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/33e9617d-27f1-eee8-3311-e27af98eaf2b@lab.ntt.co.jp
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Robert Haas authored
Etsuro Fujita, slightly adjusted by me. Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/e87c4a6d-23d7-5e7c-e8db-44ed418eb5d1@lab.ntt.co.jp
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Alvaro Herrera authored
The autovacuum launcher doesn't actually do anything with its DSA other than creating it and attaching to it, but it's been observed that after longjmp'ing to the standard error handling block (for example after getting SIGINT) the autovacuum enters an infinite loop reporting that it cannot attach to its DSA anymore (which is correct, because it's already attached to it.) Fix by only attempting to attach if not already attached. I introduced this bug together with BRIN autosummarization in 7526e102. Reported-by: Yugo Nagata. Author: Thomas Munro. I added the comment to go with it. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170621211538.0c9eae73.nagata@sraoss.co.jp
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Robert Haas authored
Commit 15c121b3 seems to have overlooked the need to trim this part of the comment. Pavan Deolasee Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CABOikdPq_9+cWRNZ0RLKTwuZyj=uL85X=Usifa-CbPee1ZCM5A@mail.gmail.com
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Alvaro Herrera authored
I misplaced the IF NOT EXISTS clause in commit 7b504eb2, before the word STATISTICS. Put it where it belongs. Patch written independently by Amit Langote and myself. I adopted his submitted test case with a slight edit also. Reported-by: Bruno Wolff III Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170621004237.GB8337@wolff.to
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