Thom Brown and Fujii Masao

When reading large amounts of preexisting WAL during logical decoding
using the SQL interface we possibly could fail to check interrupts in
due time. Similarly the same could happen on systems with a very high
WAL volume while creating a new logical replication slot, independent
of the used interface.

Previously these checks where only performed in xlogreader's read_page
callbacks, while waiting for new WAL to be produced. That's not
sufficient though, if there's never a need to wait.  Walsender's send
loop already contains a interrupt check.

Backpatch to 9.4 where the logical decoding feature was introduced.

The assertion failed if WAL_DEBUG or LWLOCK_STATS was enabled; fix that by
using separate memory contexts for the allocations made within those code
blocks.

This patch introduces a mechanism for marking any memory context as allowed
in a critical section. Previously ErrorContext was exempt as a special case.

Instead of a blanket exception of the checkpointer process, only exempt the
memory context used for the pending ops hash table.

The "false" case was really quite useless since all it did was to throw
an error; a definition not helped in the least by making it the default.
Instead let's just have the "true" case, which emits nested objects and
arrays in JSON syntax.  We might later want to provide the ability to
emit sub-objects in Postgres record or array syntax, but we'd be best off
to drive that off a check of the target field datatype, not a separate
argument.

For the functions newly added in 9.4, we can just remove the flag arguments
outright.  We can't do that for json_populate_record[set], which already
existed in 9.3, but we can ignore the argument and always behave as if it
were "true".  It helps that the flag arguments were optional and not
documented in any useful fashion anyway.

When running several postgres clusters on one OS instance it's often
inconveniently hard to identify which "postgres" process belongs to
which postgres instance.

Add the cluster_name GUC, whose value will be included as part of the
process titles if set. With that processes can more easily identified
using tools like 'ps'.

To avoid problems with encoding mismatches between postgresql.conf,
consoles, and individual databases replace non-ASCII chars in the name
with question marks. The length is limited to NAMEDATALEN to make it
less likely to truncate important information at the end of the
status.

Thomas Munro, with some adjustments by me and review by a host of people.

Support for running postgres on Alpha hasn't been tested for a long
while. Due to Alpha's uniquely lax cache coherency model it's a hard
to develop for platform (especially blindly!) and thought to be
unlikely to currently work correctly.

As Alpha is the only supported architecture for Tru64 drop support for
it as well. Tru64's support has ended 2012 and it has been in
maintenance-only mode for much longer.

Also remove stray references to __ksr__ and ultrix defines.

We can allow this even without any specific knowledge of the semantics
of the window function, so long as pushed-down quals will either accept
every row in a given window partition, or reject every such row.  Because
window functions act only within a partition, such a case can't result
in changing the window functions' outputs for any surviving row.
Eliminating entire partitions in this way obviously can reduce the cost
of the window-function computations substantially.

The fly in the ointment is that it's hard to be entirely sure whether
this is true for an arbitrary qual condition.  This patch allows pushdown
if (a) the qual references only partitioning columns, and (b) the qual
contains no volatile functions.  We are at risk of incorrect results if
the qual can produce different answers for values that the partitioning
equality operator sees as equal.  While it's not hard to invent cases
for which that can happen, it seems to seldom be a problem in practice,
since no one has complained about a similar assumption that we've had
for many years with respect to DISTINCT.  The potential performance
gains seem to be worth the risk.

David Rowley, reviewed by Vik Fearing; some credit is due also to
Thomas Mayer who did considerable preliminary investigation.

Instead of truncating pg_multixact at vacuum time, do it only at
checkpoint time.  The reason for doing it this way is twofold: first, we
want it to delete only segments that we're certain will not be required
if there's a crash immediately after the removal; and second, we want to
do it relatively often so that older files are not left behind if
there's an untimely crash.

Per my proposal in
http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20140626044519.GJ7340@eldon.alvh.no-ip.org
we now execute the truncation in the checkpointer process rather than as
part of vacuum.  Vacuum is in only charge of maintaining in shared
memory the value to which it's possible to truncate the files; that
value is stored as part of checkpoints also, and so upon recovery we can
reuse the same value to re-execute truncate and reset the
oldest-value-still-safe-to-use to one known to remain after truncation.

Per bug reported by Jeff Janes in the course of his tests involving
bug #8673.

While at it, update some comments that hadn't been updated since
multixacts were changed.

Backpatch to 9.3, where persistency of pg_multixact files was
introduced by commit 0ac5ad51.

We were allowing a table's pg_class.relminmxid value to move backwards
when heaps were swapped by VACUUM FULL or CLUSTER.  There is a
similar protection against relfrozenxid going backwards, which we
neglected to clone when the multixact stuff was rejiggered by commit
0ac5ad51.

Backpatch to 9.3, where relminmxid was introduced.

As reported by Heikki in
http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/52401AEA.9000608@vmware.com

Don't assert MultiXactIdIsRunning if the multi came from a tuple that
had been share-locked and later copied over to the new cluster by
pg_upgrade.  Doing that causes an error to be raised unnecessarily:
MultiXactIdIsRunning is not open to the possibility that its argument
came from a pg_upgraded tuple, and all its other callers are already
checking; but such multis cannot, obviously, have transactions still
running, so the assert is pointless.

Noticed while investigating the bogus pg_multixact/offsets/0000 file
left over by pg_upgrade, as reported by Andres Freund in
http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20140530121631.GE25431@alap3.anarazel.de

Backpatch to 9.3, as the commit that introduced the buglet.

A WHERE clause applied to the output of a subquery with DISTINCT should
theoretically be applied only once per distinct row; but if we push it
into the subquery then it will be evaluated at each row before duplicate
elimination occurs.  If the qual is volatile this can give rise to
observably wrong results, so don't do that.

While at it, refactor a little bit to allow subquery_is_pushdown_safe
to report more than one kind of restrictive condition without indefinitely
expanding its argument list.

Although this is a bug fix, it seems unwise to back-patch it into released
branches, since it might de-optimize plans for queries that aren't giving
any trouble in practice.  So apply to 9.4 but not further back.

These should not have existed to begin with, but there was apparently some
misunderstanding of the purpose of the opr_sanity regression test item
that checks for operator implementation functions with their own comments.
The idea there is to check for unintentional violations of the rule that
operator implementation functions shouldn't be documented separately
.... but for these functions, that is in fact what we want, since the
variadic option is useful and not accessible via the operator syntax.
Get rid of the extra pg_proc entries and fix the regression test and
documentation to be explicit about what we're doing here.

Commit a87c7291 already fixed the bug this
is checking for, but the regression test case it added didn't cover this
scenario.  Since we managed to miss the fact that there was a bug at all,
it seems like a good idea to propagate the extra test case forward to HEAD.

7380b638 changed log_filename so that epoch was not appended to it
when no format specifier is given. But the example of CSV log file name
with epoch still left in log_filename document. This commit removes
such obsolete example.

This commit also documents the defaults of log_directory and
log_filename.

Backpatch to all supported versions.

Christoph Berg

I noticed that the functions in jsonfuncs.c sometimes printed error
messages that claimed I'd called some other function.  Investigation showed
that this was from repurposing code into "worker" functions without taking
much care as to whether it would mention the right SQL-level function if it
threw an error.  Moreover, there was a weird mismash of messages that
contained a fixed function name, messages that used %s for a function name,
and messages that constructed a function name out of spare parts, like
"json%s_populate_record" (which, quite aside from being ugly as sin, wasn't
even sufficient to cover all the cases).  This would put an undue burden on
our long-suffering translators.  Standardize on inserting the SQL function
name with %s so as to reduce the number of translatable strings, and pass
function names around as needed to make sure we can report the right one.
Fix up some gratuitous variations in wording, too.

Re-pgindent, remove a lot of random vertical whitespace, remove useless
(if not counterproductive) inline markings, get rid of unnecessary
zero-padding of strings for hashtable searches.  No functional changes.

populate_recordset_object_start() improperly created a new hash table
(overwriting the link to the existing one) if called at nest levels
greater than one.  This resulted in previous fields not appearing in
the final output, as reported by Matti Hameister in bug #10728.
In 9.4 the problem also affects json_to_recordset.

This perhaps missed detection earlier because the default behavior is to
throw an error for nested objects: you have to pass use_json_as_text = true
to see the problem.

In addition, fix query-lifespan leakage of the hashtable created by
json_populate_record().  This is pretty much the same problem recently
fixed in dblink: creating an intended-to-be-temporary context underneath
the executor's per-tuple context isn't enough to make it go away at the
end of the tuple cycle, because MemoryContextReset is not
MemoryContextResetAndDeleteChildren.

Michael Paquier and Tom Lane

This fixes a bug that caused vacuum to fail when the '0000' files left
by initdb were accessed as part of vacuum's cleanup of old pg_multixact
files.

Backpatch through 9.3

The syntax doesn't let you specify "WITH OIDS" for foreign tables, but it
was still possible with default_with_oids=true. But the rest of the system,
including pg_dump, isn't prepared to handle foreign tables with OIDs
properly.

Backpatch down to 9.1, where foreign tables were introduced. It's possible
that there are databases out there that already have foreign tables with
OIDs. There isn't much we can do about that, but at least we can prevent
them from being created in the future.

Patch by Etsuro Fujita, reviewed by Hadi Moshayedi.

Normally, this won't matter too much; but if I/O is really slow, for
example because the system is overloaded, we might write many pages
before checking for interrupts.  A single toast insertion might
write up to 1GB of data, and a multi-insert could write hundreds
of tuples (and their corresponding TOAST data).

At "DROP RULE/TRIGGER triggername ON ...", tab-complete tables that have
a rule/trigger with that name.

At "ALTER TABLE tablename ENABLE/DISABLE TRIGGER/RULE ...", tab-complete to
rules/triggers on that table. Previously, we would tab-complete to all
rules or triggers, not just those that are on that table.

Also, filter out internal RI triggers from the list. You can't DROP them,
and enabling/disabling them is such a rare (and dangerous) operation that
it seems better to hide them.

Andreas Karlsson, reviewed by Ian Barwick.

The record header was not copied correctly to the buffer that was passed
to the rm_desc function. Broken by my rm_desc signature refactoring patch.

Backpatch through 9.4

Backpatch to 9.4

By using curly braces, the template had specified that one of
"NOT DEFERRABLE", "INITIALLY IMMEDIATE", or "INITIALLY DEFERRED"
was required on any CREATE TRIGGER statement, which is not
accurate.  Change to square brackets makes that optional.

Backpatch to 9.1, where the error was introduced.

The catcache code is effectively assuming this already, so let's insist
that the catalog and index are actually declared that way.

Having done that, the comments in indexing.h about non-unique indexes
not being used for catcaches are completely redundant not just mostly so;
and we didn't have such a comment for every such index anyway.  So let's
get rid of them.

Per discussion of whether we should identify primary keys for catalogs.
We might or might not take that further step, but this change in itself
will allow quicker detection of misdeclared catcaches, so it seems worth
doing in any case.

dblink uses a short-lived data conversion memory context. However it
was not deleted when no longer needed, leading to a noticeable memory
leak under some circumstances. Plug the hole, along with minor
refactoring. Backpatch to 9.2 where the leak was introduced.

Report and initial patch by MauMau. Reviewed/modified slightly by
Tom Lane and me.

Since fdf9e211 lazy_vacuum_page() rechecks the all-visible status
of pages in the second pass over the heap. It does so inside a
critical section, but both visibilitymap_test() and
heap_page_is_all_visible() perform operations that should not happen
inside one. The former potentially performs IO and both potentially do
memory allocations.

To fix, simply move all the all-visible handling outside the critical
section. Doing so means that the PD_ALL_VISIBLE on the page won't be
included in the full page image of the HEAP2_CLEAN record anymore. But
that's fine, the flag will be set by the HEAP2_VISIBLE logged later.

Backpatch to 9.3 where the problem was introduced. The bug only came
to light due to the assertion added in 4a170ee9 and isn't likely to
cause problems in production scenarios. The worst outcome is a
avoidable PANIC restart.

This also gets rid of the difference in the order of operations
between master and standby mentioned in 2a8e1ac5.

Per reports from David Leverton and Keith Fiske in bug #10533.

The existance of the assert_enabled variable (backing the
debug_assertions GUC) reduced the amount of knowledge some static code
checkers (like coverity and various compilers) could infer from the
existance of the assertion. That could have been solved by optionally
removing the assertion_enabled variable from the Assert() et al macros
at compile time when some special macro is defined, but the resulting
complication doesn't seem to be worth the gain from having
debug_assertions. Recompiling is fast enough.

The debug_assertions GUC is still available, but readonly, as it's
useful when diagnosing problems. The commandline/client startup option
-A, which previously also allowed to enable/disable assertions, has
been removed as it doesn't serve a purpose anymore.

While at it, reduce code duplication in bufmgr.c and localbuf.c
assertions checking for spurious buffer pins. That code had to be
reindented anyway to cope with the assert_enabled removal.

ExecMakeTableFunctionResult evaluated the arguments for a function-in-FROM
in the query-lifespan memory context.  This is insignificant in simple
cases where the function relation is scanned only once; but if the function
is in a sub-SELECT or is on the inside of a nested loop, any memory
consumed during argument evaluation can add up quickly.  (The potential for
trouble here had been foreseen long ago, per existing comments; but we'd
not previously seen a complaint from the field about it.)  To fix, create
an additional temporary context just for this purpose.

Per an example from MauMau.  Back-patch to all active branches.

Most of the necessary quoting was in place; this catches the exceptions.

Give passwords to each user created in support of an ECPG connection
test case.  Use SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION, not a fresh connection, to
reduce privileges during a dblink test case.

To test against such a server, both the "make installcheck-world"
environment and the postmaster environment must provide the default
user's password; $PGPASSFILE is the principal way to do so.  (The
postmaster environment needs it for dblink and postgres_fdw tests.)

Haribabu Kommi, somewhat rewritten by me

Commit ea9df812 failed to include
NUM_BUFFER_PARTITIONS in this offset, resulting in a bad offset.
Ultimately this threw off NUM_FIXED_LWLOCKS which is based on
earlier offsets, leading to memory allocation problems.  It seems
likely to have also caused increased LWLOCK contention when
serializable transactions were used, because lightweight locks used
for that overlapped others.

Reported by Amit Kapila with analysis and fix.
Backpatch to 9.4, where the bug was introduced.

data_directory could be set both in postgresql.conf and postgresql.auto.conf so far.
This could cause some problematic situations like circular definition. To avoid such
situations, this commit forbids a user to set data_directory in postgresql.auto.conf.

Backpatch this to 9.4 where ALTER SYSTEM command was introduced.

Amit Kapila, reviewed by Abhijit Menon-Sen, with minor adjustments by me.

Arrange for postmaster child processes to respond to two environment
variables, PG_OOM_ADJUST_FILE and PG_OOM_ADJUST_VALUE, to determine whether
they reset their OOM score adjustments and if so to what.  This is superior
to the previous design involving #ifdef's in several ways.  The behavior is
now available in a default build, and both ends of the adjustment --- the
original adjustment of the postmaster's level and the subsequent
readjustment by child processes --- can now be controlled in one place,
namely the postmaster launch script.  So it's no longer necessary for the
launch script to act on faith that the server was compiled with the
appropriate options.  In addition, if someone wants to use an OOM score
other than zero for the child processes, that doesn't take a recompile
anymore; and we no longer have to cater separately to the two different
historical kernel APIs for this adjustment.

Gurjeet Singh, somewhat revised by me

The check was confusing and is a condition that should never in fact
happen.

Per gripe from Dmitry Dolgov.

Seems to have been introduced in 1a3458b6.