1. 17 Mar, 2020 8 commits
    • Alvaro Herrera's avatar
      Fix consistency issues with replication slot copy · bcd1c363
      Alvaro Herrera authored
      Commit 9f06d79e's replication slot copying failed to
      properly reserve the WAL that the slot is expecting to see
      during DecodingContextFindStartpoint (to set the confirmed_flush
      LSN), so concurrent activity could remove that WAL and cause the
      copy process to error out.  But it doesn't actually *need* that
      WAL anyway: instead of running decode to find confirmed_flush, it
      can be copied from the source slot. Fix this by rearranging things
      to avoid DecodingContextFindStartpoint() (leaving the target slot's
      confirmed_flush_lsn to invalid), and set that up afterwards by copying
      from the target slot's value.
      
      Also ensure the source slot's confirmed_flush_lsn is valid.
      
      Reported-by: Arseny Sher
      Author: Masahiko Sawada, Arseny Sher
      Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/871rr3ohbo.fsf@ars-thinkpad
      bcd1c363
    • Tom Lane's avatar
      Doc: clarify behavior of "anyrange" pseudo-type. · 31d846e0
      Tom Lane authored
      I noticed that we completely failed to document the restriction
      that an "anyrange" result type has to be inferred from an "anyrange"
      input.  The docs also were less clear than they could be about the
      relationship between "anyrange" and "anyarray".
      
      It's been like this all along, so back-patch.
      31d846e0
    • Tom Lane's avatar
      Remove bogus assertion about polymorphic SQL function result. · 9d9784c8
      Tom Lane authored
      It is possible to reach check_sql_fn_retval() with an unresolved
      polymorphic rettype, resulting in an assertion failure as demonstrated
      by one of the added test cases.  However, the code following that
      throws what seems an acceptable error message, so just remove the
      Assert and adjust commentary.
      
      While here, I thought it'd be a good idea to provide some parallel
      tests of SQL-function and PL/pgSQL-function polymorphism behavior.
      Some of these cases are perhaps duplicative of tests elsewhere,
      but we hadn't any organized coverage of the topic AFAICS.
      
      Although that assertion's been wrong all along, it won't have any
      effect in production builds, so I'm not bothering to back-patch.
      
      Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/21569.1584314271@sss.pgh.pa.us
      9d9784c8
    • Tom Lane's avatar
      Use pkg-config, if available, to locate libxml2 during configure. · 0bc8cebd
      Tom Lane authored
      If pkg-config is installed and knows about libxml2, use its information
      rather than asking xml2-config.  Otherwise proceed as before.  This
      patch allows "configure --with-libxml" to succeed on platforms that
      have pkg-config but not xml2-config, which is likely to soon become
      a typical situation.
      
      The old mechanism can be forced by setting XML2_CONFIG explicitly
      (hence, build processes that were already doing so will certainly
      not need adjustment).  Also, it's now possible to set XML2_CFLAGS
      and XML2_LIBS explicitly to override both programs.
      
      There is a small risk of this breaking existing build processes,
      if there are multiple libxml2 installations on the machine and
      pkg-config disagrees with xml2-config about which to use.  The
      only case where that seems really likely is if a builder has tried
      to select a non-default xml2-config by putting it early in his PATH
      rather than setting XML2_CONFIG.  Plan to warn against that in the
      minor release notes.
      
      Back-patch to v10; before that we had no pkg-config infrastructure,
      and it doesn't seem worth adding it for this.
      
      Hugh McMaster and Tom Lane; Peter Eisentraut also made an earlier
      attempt at this, from which I lifted most of the docs changes.
      
      Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAN9BcdvfUwc9Yx5015bLH2TOiQ-M+t_NADBSPhMF7dZ=pLa_iw@mail.gmail.com
      0bc8cebd
    • Fujii Masao's avatar
    • Fujii Masao's avatar
      Fix comment in xlog.c. · 1429d3f7
      Fujii Masao authored
      This commit fixes the comment about SharedHotStandbyActive variable.
      The comment was apparently copy-and-pasted.
      
      Author: Atsushi Torikoshi
      Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CACZ0uYEjpqZB9wN2Rwc_RMvDybyYqdbkPuDr1NyxJg4f9yGfMw@mail.gmail.com
      1429d3f7
    • Tom Lane's avatar
      Remove useless pfree()s at the ends of various ValuePerCall SRFs. · 41b45576
      Tom Lane authored
      We don't need to manually clean up allocations in a SRF's
      multi_call_memory_ctx, because the SRF_RETURN_DONE infrastructure
      takes care of that (and also ensures that it will happen even if the
      function never gets a final call, which simple manual cleanup cannot
      do).
      
      Hence, the code removed by this patch is a waste of code and cycles.
      Worse, it gives the impression that cleaning up manually is a thing,
      which can lead to more serious errors such as those fixed in
      commits 085b6b66 and b4570d33.  So we should get rid of it.
      
      These are not quite actual bugs though, so I couldn't muster the
      enthusiasm to back-patch.  Fix in HEAD only.
      
      Justin Pryzby
      
      Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200308173103.GC1357@telsasoft.com
      41b45576
    • Tom Lane's avatar
      Avoid holding a directory FD open across assorted SRF calls. · b4570d33
      Tom Lane authored
      This extends the fixes made in commit 085b6b66 to other SRFs with the
      same bug, namely pg_logdir_ls(), pgrowlocks(), pg_timezone_names(),
      pg_ls_dir(), and pg_tablespace_databases().
      
      Also adjust various comments and documentation to warn against
      expecting to clean up resources during a ValuePerCall SRF's final
      call.
      
      Back-patch to all supported branches, since these functions were
      all born broken.
      
      Justin Pryzby, with cosmetic tweaks by me
      
      Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200308173103.GC1357@telsasoft.com
      b4570d33
  2. 16 Mar, 2020 8 commits
  3. 15 Mar, 2020 1 commit
  4. 14 Mar, 2020 6 commits
    • Tomas Vondra's avatar
      Improve test coverage for multi-column MCV lists · d8cfa82d
      Tomas Vondra authored
      The regression tests for extended statistics were not testing a couple
      of important cases for the MCV lists:
      
        * IS NOT NULL clauses - We did have queries with IS NULL clauses, but
          not the negative case.
      
        * clauses with variable on the right - All the clauses had the Var on
          the left, i.e. (Var op Const), so this adds (Const op Var) too.
      
        * columns with fixed-length types passed by reference - All columns
          were using either by-value or varlena types, so add a test with
          UUID columns too. This matters for (de)serialization.
      
        * NULL-only dimension - When one of the columns contains only NULL
          values, we treat it a a special case during (de)serialization.
      
        * arrays containing NULL - When the constant parameter contains NULL
          value, we need to handle it correctly during estimation, for all
          IN, ANY and ALL clauses.
      
      Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/20200113230008.g67iyk4cs3xbnjju@development
      Author: Tomas Vondra
      d8cfa82d
    • Tomas Vondra's avatar
      Improve test coverage for functional dependencies · f9696782
      Tomas Vondra authored
      The regression tests for functional dependencies were only using clauses
      of the form (Var op Const), i.e. with Var on the left side. This adds
      a couple of queries with Var on the right, to test other code paths.
      
      It also prints one of the functional dependencies, to test the data type
      output function. The functional dependencies are "perfect" with degree
      of 1.0 so this should be stable.
      
      Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/20200113230008.g67iyk4cs3xbnjju@development
      Author: Tomas Vondra
      f9696782
    • Tom Lane's avatar
      Rearrange pseudotypes.c to get rid of duplicative code. · 87c9c257
      Tom Lane authored
      Commit a5954de1 replaced a lot of manually-coded stub I/O routines
      with code generated by macros.  That was a good idea but it didn't
      go far enough, because there were still manually-coded stub input
      routines for types that had live output routines.  Refactor the
      macro so that we can generate just a stub input routine at need.
      
      Also create similar macros to generate stub binary I/O routines,
      since we have some of those now.  The only stub functions that remain
      hand-coded are shell_in() and shell_out(), which need to be separate
      because they use different error messages.
      
      While here, rearrange the commentary to discuss each type not each
      function.  This provides a better way to explain the *why* of which
      types need which support, rather than just duplicatively annotating
      the functions.
      
      Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/24137.1584139352@sss.pgh.pa.us
      87c9c257
    • Tom Lane's avatar
      Restructure polymorphic-type resolution in funcapi.c. · 4dbcb3f8
      Tom Lane authored
      resolve_polymorphic_tupdesc() and resolve_polymorphic_argtypes() failed to
      cover the case of having to resolve anyarray given only an anyrange input.
      The bug was masked if anyelement was also used (as either input or
      output), which probably helps account for our not having noticed.
      
      While looking at this I noticed that resolve_generic_type() would produce
      the wrong answer if asked to make that same resolution.  ISTM that
      resolve_generic_type() is confusingly defined and overly complex, so
      rather than fix it, let's just make funcapi.c do the specific lookups
      it requires for itself.
      
      With this change, resolve_generic_type() is not used anywhere, so remove
      it in HEAD.  In the back branches, leave it alone (complete with bug)
      just in case any external code is using it.
      
      While we're here, make some other refactoring adjustments in funcapi.c
      with an eye to upcoming future expansion of the set of polymorphic types:
      
      * Simplify quick-exit tests by adding an overall have_polymorphic_result
      flag.  This is about a wash now but will be a win when there are more
      flags.
      
      * Reduce duplication of code between resolve_polymorphic_tupdesc() and
      resolve_polymorphic_argtypes().
      
      * Don't bother to validate correct matching of anynonarray or anyenum;
      the parser should have done that, and even if it didn't, just doing
      "return false" here would lead to a very confusing, off-point error
      message.  (Really, "return false" in these two functions should only
      occur if the call_expr isn't supplied or we can't obtain data type
      info from it.)
      
      * For the same reason, throw an elog rather than "return false" if
      we fail to resolve a polymorphic type.
      
      The bug's been there since we added anyrange, so back-patch to
      all supported branches.
      
      Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/6093.1584202130@sss.pgh.pa.us
      4dbcb3f8
    • Tomas Vondra's avatar
      Use multi-variate MCV lists to estimate ScalarArrayOpExpr · e83daa7e
      Tomas Vondra authored
      Commit 8f321bd1 added support for estimating ScalarArrayOpExpr clauses
      (IN/ANY) clauses using functional dependencies. There's no good reason
      not to support estimation of these clauses using multi-variate MCV lists
      too, so this commits implements that. That makes the behavior consistent
      and MCV lists can estimate all variants (ANY/ALL, inequalities, ...).
      
      Author: Tomas Vondra
      Review: Dean Rasheed
      Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/13902317.Eha0YfKkKy%40pierred-pdoc
      e83daa7e
    • Tomas Vondra's avatar
      Use functional dependencies to estimate ScalarArrayOpExpr · 8f321bd1
      Tomas Vondra authored
      Until now functional dependencies supported only simple equality clauses
      and clauses that can be trivially translated to equalities. This commit
      allows estimation of some ScalarArrayOpExpr (IN/ANY) clauses.
      
      For IN clauses we can do this thanks to using operator with equality
      semantics, which means an IN clause
      
          WHERE c IN (1, 2, ..., N)
      
      can be translated to
      
          WHERE (c = 1 OR c = 2 OR ... OR c = N)
      
      IN clauses are now considered compatible with functional dependencies,
      and rely on the same assumption of consistency of queries with data
      (which is an assumption we already used for simple equality clauses).
      This applies also to ALL clauses with an equality operator, which can be
      considered equivalent to IN clause.
      
      ALL clauses are still considered incompatible, although there's some
      discussion about maybe relaxing this in the future.
      
      Author: Pierre Ducroquet
      Reviewed-by: Tomas Vondra, Dean Rasheed
      Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/13902317.Eha0YfKkKy%40pierred-pdoc
      8f321bd1
  5. 13 Mar, 2020 6 commits
  6. 11 Mar, 2020 10 commits
    • Tom Lane's avatar
      Fix test case instability introduced in 085b6b66. · a029a064
      Tom Lane authored
      I forgot that the WAL directory might hold other files besides WAL
      segments, notably including new segments still being filled.
      That means a blind test for the first file's size being 16MB can
      fail.  Restrict based on file name length to make it more robust.
      
      Per buildfarm.
      a029a064
    • Alvaro Herrera's avatar
      Add pg_dump support for ALTER obj DEPENDS ON EXTENSION · b08dee24
      Alvaro Herrera authored
      pg_dump is oblivious to this kind of dependency, so they're lost on
      dump/restores (and pg_upgrade).  Have pg_dump emit ALTER lines so that
      they're preserved.  Add some pg_dump tests for the whole thing, also.
      
      Reviewed-by: Tom Lane (offlist)
      Reviewed-by: Ibrar Ahmed
      Reviewed-by: Ahsan Hadi (who also reviewed commit 899a04f5)
      Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200217225333.GA30974@alvherre.pgsql
      b08dee24
    • Tom Lane's avatar
      Avoid holding a directory FD open across pg_ls_dir_files() calls. · 085b6b66
      Tom Lane authored
      This coding technique is undesirable because (a) it leaks the FD for
      the rest of the transaction if the SRF is not run to completion, and
      (b) allocated FDs are a scarce resource, but multiple interleaved
      uses of the relevant functions could eat many such FDs.
      
      In v11 and later, a query such as "SELECT pg_ls_waldir() LIMIT 1"
      yields a warning about the leaked FD, and the only reason there's
      no warning in earlier branches is that fd.c didn't whine about such
      leaks before commit 9cb7db3f.  Even disregarding the warning, it
      wouldn't be too hard to run a backend out of FDs with careless use
      of these SQL functions.
      
      Hence, rewrite the function so that it reads the directory within
      a single call, returning the results as a tuplestore rather than
      via value-per-call mode.
      
      There are half a dozen other built-in SRFs with similar problems,
      but let's fix this one to start with, just to see if the buildfarm
      finds anything wrong with the code.
      
      In passing, fix bogus error report for stat() failure: it was
      whining about the directory when it should be fingering the
      individual file.  Doubtless a copy-and-paste error.
      
      Back-patch to v10 where this function was added.
      
      Justin Pryzby, with cosmetic tweaks and test cases by me
      
      Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200308173103.GC1357@telsasoft.com
      085b6b66
    • Peter Eisentraut's avatar
      Refactor ps_status.c API · bf68b79e
      Peter Eisentraut authored
      The init_ps_display() arguments were mostly lies by now, so to match
      typical usage, just use one argument and let the caller assemble it
      from multiple sources if necessary.  The only user of the additional
      arguments is BackendInitialize(), which was already doing string
      assembly on the caller side anyway.
      
      Remove the second argument of set_ps_display() ("force") and just
      handle that in init_ps_display() internally.
      
      BackendInitialize() also used to set the initial status as
      "authentication", but that was very far from where authentication
      actually happened.  So now it's set to "initializing" and then
      "authentication" just before the actual call to
      ClientAuthentication().
      Reviewed-by: default avatarJulien Rouhaud <rjuju123@gmail.com>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarKuntal Ghosh <kuntalghosh.2007@gmail.com>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarAlvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
      Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/c65e5196-4f04-4ead-9353-6088c19615a3@2ndquadrant.com
      bf68b79e
    • Alvaro Herrera's avatar
      Avoid duplicates in ALTER ... DEPENDS ON EXTENSION · 899a04f5
      Alvaro Herrera authored
      If the command is attempted for an extension that the object already
      depends on, silently do nothing.
      
      In particular, this means that if a database containing multiple such
      entries is dumped, the restore will silently do the right thing and
      record just the first one.  (At least, in a world where pg_dump does
      dump such entries -- which it doesn't currently, but it will.)
      
      Backpatch to 9.6, where this kind of dependency was introduced.
      
      Reviewed-by: Ibrar Ahmed, Tom Lane (offlist)
      Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200217225333.GA30974@alvherre.pgsql
      899a04f5
    • Peter Eisentraut's avatar
      Clean up order in miscinit.c a bit · 1c918381
      Peter Eisentraut authored
      The code around InitPostmasterChild() from commit 31c45316 somehow
      ended up in the middle of a block of code related to "User ID state".
      Move it into its own block instead.
      1c918381
    • Peter Eisentraut's avatar
      Remove HAVE_WORKING_LINK · aaa3aedd
      Peter Eisentraut authored
      Previously, hard links were not used on Windows and Cygwin, but they
      support them just fine in currently supported OS versions, so we can
      use them there as well.
      
      Since all supported platforms now support hard links, we can remove
      the alternative code paths.
      
      Rename durable_link_or_rename() to durable_rename_excl() to make the
      purpose more clear without referencing the implementation details.
      
      Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/72fff73f-dc9c-4ef4-83e8-d2e60c98df48%402ndquadrant.com
      aaa3aedd
    • Alexander Korotkov's avatar
      Improve checking of child pages in contrib/amcheck. · d114cc53
      Alexander Korotkov authored
      This commit eliminates lossiness in check for missing parent downlinks in
      B-tree.  Instead of collecting lossy bitmap, we check for missing downlinks
      while visiting child pages referenced by downlinks of target level.  We
      traverse from previous child page to the subsequent child page by right links.
      Intermediate pages are candidates to have lost parent downlinks.
      
      Also this commit introduces matching of child high key to the pivot key of
      it's parent.
      
      Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAPpHfduoF-c4RhOyOm%3D4-Y367%2B8txq9Q6iM_ty0OYc8si1Abww%40mail.gmail.com
      Author: Alexander Korotkov
      Reviewed-by: Peter Geoghegan
      d114cc53
    • Peter Geoghegan's avatar
      Remove stray parenthesis in nbtree.h. · a88a285c
      Peter Geoghegan authored
      Oversight in commit 0d861bbb.
      a88a285c
    • Peter Geoghegan's avatar
      nbtree: Move fastpath NULL descent stack assertion. · 39eabec9
      Peter Geoghegan authored
      Commit 074251db added an assertion that verified the fastpath/rightmost
      page insert optimization's assumption about free space: There should
      always be enough free space on the page to insert the new item without
      splitting the page.  Otherwise, we end up using the "concurrent root
      page split" phony/fake stack path in _bt_insert_parent().  This does not
      lead to incorrect behavior, but it is likely to be far slower than
      simply using the regular _bt_search() path.  The assertion catches
      serious performance bugs that would probably take a long time to detect
      any other way.
      
      It seems much more natural to make this assertion just before the point
      that we generate a fake/phony descent stack.  Move the assert there.
      This also makes _bt_insertonpg() a bit more readable.
      39eabec9
  7. 10 Mar, 2020 1 commit