- 18 Jul, 2019 8 commits
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Peter Geoghegan authored
Commit 857f9c36, which taught nbtree VACUUM to avoid unnecessary index scans, bumped the nbtree version number from 2 to 3, while adding the ability for nbtree indexes to be upgraded on-the-fly. Various assertions that assumed that an nbtree index was always on version 2 had to be changed to accept any supported version (version 2 or 3 on Postgres 11). However, a few assertions were missed in the initial commit, all of which were in code paths that cache a local copy of the metapage metadata, where the index had been expected to be on the current version (no longer version 2) as a generic sanity check. Rather than simply update the assertions, follow-up commit 0a64b451 intentionally made the metapage caching code update the per-backend cached metadata version without changing the on-disk version at the same time. This could even happen when the planner needed to determine the height of a B-Tree for costing purposes. The assertions only fail on Postgres v12 when upgrading from v10, because they were adjusted to use the authoritative shared memory metapage by v12's commit dd299df8. To fix, remove the cache-only upgrade mechanism entirely, and update the assertions themselves to accept any supported version (go back to using the cached version in v12). The fix is almost a full revert of commit 0a64b451 on the v11 branch. VACUUM only considers the authoritative metapage, and never bothers with a locally cached version, whereas everywhere else isn't interested in the metapage fields that were added by commit 857f9c36. It seems unlikely that this bug has affected any user on v11. Reported-By: Christoph Berg Bug: #15896 Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15896-5b25e260fdb0b081%40postgresql.org Backpatch: 11-, where VACUUM was taught to avoid unnecessary index scans.
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Tom Lane authored
Now that commit fec0778c drew a clear line between public and private fields in SPITupleTable, it seems pretty silly that the count of valid tuples isn't on the public side of that line. The reason why not was that there wasn't such a count. For reasons lost in the mists of time, spi.c preferred to keep a count of remaining free entries in the array. But that seems pretty pointless: it's unlike the way we handle similar code everywhere else, and it involves extra subtractions that surely outweigh having to do a comparison rather than test-for-zero to check for array-full. Hence, rearrange so that this code does the expansible array logic the same as everywhere else, with a count of valid entries alongside the allocated array length. And document the count as public. I looked for core-code callers where it would make sense to start relying on tuptable->numvals rather than the separate SPI_processed variable. Right now there don't seem to be places where it'd be a win to do so without more code restructuring than I care to undertake today. In principle, though, having SPITupleTables be fully self-contained should be helpful down the line. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16852.1563395722@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Tomas Vondra authored
When evaluating clauses on a multivariate MCV list, we build a bitmap tracking how the clauses match each item of the MCV list. When updating the bitmap we need to consider the current value (tracking how the item matches preceding clauses), match for the current clause and whether the clauses are connected by AND or OR. Until now the logic was copied on every place updating the bitmap, which was not quite readable. So just move it to a separate function and call it where needed. Backpatch to 12, where the code was introduced. While not a bugfix, this should make maintenance and future backpatches easier. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/8736jdhbhc.fsf%40ansel.ydns.eu
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Tomas Vondra authored
There were two issues in how the extended statistics handled NULL values in opclauses. Firstly, the code was oblivious to the possibility that Const may be NULL (constisnull=true) in which case the constvalue is undefined. We need to treat this as a mismatch, and not call the proc. Secondly, the MCV item itself may contain NULL values too - the code already did check that, and updated the match bitmap accordingly, but failed to ensure we won't call the operator procedure anyway. It did work for AND-clauses, because in that case false in the bitmap stops evaluation of further clauses. But for OR-clauses ir was not easy to get incorrect estimates or even trigger a crash. This fixes both issues by extending the existing check so that it looks at constisnull too, and making sure it skips calling the procedure. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/8736jdhbhc.fsf%40ansel.ydns.eu
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Tomas Vondra authored
We expect opclauses to have exactly one Var and one Const, but the code was checking the Const by calling is_pseudo_constant_clause() which is incorrect - we need a proper constant. Fixed by using plain IsA(x,Const) to check type of the node. We need to do these checks in two places, so move it into a separate function that can be called in both places. Reported by Andreas Seltenreich, based on crash reported by sqlsmith. Backpatch to v12, where this code was introduced. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/8736jdhbhc.fsf%40ansel.ydns.eu Backpatch-to: 12
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Tomas Vondra authored
The TYPECACHE_GT_OPR is not needed (it used to be in older version of the MCV code), but the compiler failed to detect this as the result was used in a fmgr_info() call, populating a FmgrInfo entry. Backpatch to v12, where this code was introduced. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/8736jdhbhc.fsf%40ansel.ydns.eu Backpatch-to: 12
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Andres Freund authored
Author: Brad DeJong Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJnrtnxDYOQFsDfWz2iri0T_fFL2ZbbzgCOE=4yaMcszgcsf4A@mail.gmail.com Backpatch: 12-
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Michael Paquier authored
The documentation mentioned that data checksums cannot be changed after initialization, which is not true as pg_checksums can do that with its --enable option introduced in v12. This simply removes the sentence telling so. Reported-by: Basil Bourque Author: Michael Paquier Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15909-e9d74271f1647472@postgresql.org Backpatch-through: 12
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- 17 Jul, 2019 7 commits
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Tom Lane authored
Brazil no longer observes DST. Historical corrections for Palestine, Hong Kong, and Italy.
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Tom Lane authored
A large fraction of this diff is just due to upstream's somewhat random decision to rename a bunch of internal variables and struct fields. However, there is an interesting new feature in zic: it's grown a "-b slim" option that emits zone files without 32-bit data and other backwards-compatibility hacks. We should consider whether we wish to enable that.
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Tom Lane authored
The fields that we consider public are "tupdesc" and "vals", which historically are in the middle of the struct. Move them to the front (this should be perfectly safe to do in HEAD) and add comments to make it quite clear which fields are public or not. Also adjust spi.sgml's documentation of the struct to match. That doc had bit-rotted somewhat, as it was missing some fields. (Arguably we should just remove all the private fields from the docs, but for now I refrained.) Daniel Gustafsson, reviewed by Fabien Coelho Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/0D19F836-B743-4340-B6A2-F148CA3DD1F0@yesql.se
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Tom Lane authored
At least on Fedora and RHEL, it's not in the same RPM that's needed for building sepgsql itself. Today is the second or third time I've had to rediscover how to install that, so let's document it this time.
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Tom Lane authored
The aggregate-order difference explained in my previous commit turns out to also affect the order of log entries emitted in the contrib/sepgsql regression test. Per buildfarm. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/21272.1563318411@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Tom Lane authored
Formerly, lcons was about the same speed as lappend, but with the new List implementation, that's not so; with a long List, data movement imposes an O(N) cost on lcons and list_delete_first, but not lappend. Hence, invent list_delete_last with semantics parallel to list_delete_first (but O(1) cost), and change various places to use lappend and list_delete_last where this can be done without much violence to the code logic. There are quite a few places that construct result lists using lcons not lappend. Some have semantic rationales for that; I added comments about it to a couple that didn't have them already. In many such places though, I think the coding is that way only because back in the dark ages lcons was faster than lappend. Hence, switch to lappend where this can be done without causing semantic changes. In ExecInitExprRec(), this results in aggregates and window functions that are in the same plan node being executed in a different order than before. Generally, the executions of such functions ought to be independent of each other, so this shouldn't result in visibly different query results. But if you push it, as one regression test case does, you can show that the order is different. The new order seems saner; it's closer to the order of the functions in the query text. And we never documented or promised anything about this, anyway. Also, in gistfinishsplit(), don't bother building a reverse-order list; it's easy now to iterate backwards through the original list. It'd be possible to go further towards removing uses of lcons and list_delete_first, but it'd require more extensive logic changes, and I'm not convinced it's worth it. Most of the remaining uses deal with queues that probably never get long enough to be worth sweating over. (Actually, I doubt that any of the changes in this patch will have measurable performance effects either. But better to have good examples than bad ones in the code base.) Patch by me, thanks to David Rowley and Daniel Gustafsson for review. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/21272.1563318411@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Thomas Munro authored
Potential future SMGR implementations may not want to create tablespace directories when creating an SMGR relation. Move that logic to mdcreate(). Move the initialization of md-specific data structures from smgropen() to a new callback mdopen(). Author: Thomas Munro Reviewed-by: Shawn Debnath (as part of an earlier patch set) Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKG%2BOZqOiOuDm5tC5DyQZtJ3FH4%2BFSVMqtdC4P1atpJ%2Bqhg%40mail.gmail.com
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- 16 Jul, 2019 7 commits
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Tom Lane authored
This should lappend the OIDs, not lcons them; the existing code produced a list in reversed order. This is harmless for single-key FKs or FKs where all the key columns are of the same type, which probably explains how it went unnoticed. But if those conditions are not met, ATAddForeignKeyConstraint would make the wrong decision about whether an existing FK needs to be revalidated. I think it would almost always err in the safe direction by revalidating a constraint that didn't need it. You could imagine scenarios where the pfeqop check was fooled by swapping the types of two FK columns in one ALTER TABLE, but that case would probably be rejected by other tests, so it might be impossible to get to the worst-case scenario where an FK should be revalidated and isn't. (And even then, it's likely to be fine, unless there are weird inconsistencies in the equality behavior of the replacement types.) However, this is a performance bug at least. Noted while poking around to see whether lcons calls could be converted to lappend. This bug is old, dating to commit cb3a7c2b, so back-patch to all supported branches.
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Tom Lane authored
It seems worth getting rid of these functions because they require the caller to retain a ListCell pointer into a List that it's modifying, which is a dangerous practice with the new List implementation. (The only other List-modifying function that takes a ListCell pointer as input is list_delete_cell, which nowadays is preferentially used via the constrained API foreach_delete_current.) There was only one remaining caller of these functions after commit 2f5b8eb5, and that was some fairly ugly GEQO code that can be much more clearly expressed using a list-index variable and list_insert_nth. Hence, rewrite that code, and remove the functions. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/26193.1563228600@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Tom Lane authored
heap.c and relcache.c contained nearly identical copies of logic to insert OIDs into an OID list while preserving the list's OID ordering (and rejecting duplicates, in one case but not the other). The comments argue that this is faster than qsort for small numbers of OIDs, which is at best unproven, and seems even less likely to be true now that lappend_cell_oid has to move data around. In any case it's ugly and hard-to-follow code, and if we do have a lot of OIDs to consider, it's O(N^2). Hence, replace with simply lappend'ing OIDs to a List, then list_sort the completed List, then remove adjacent duplicates if necessary. This is demonstrably O(N log N) and it's much simpler for the callers. It's possible that this would be somewhat inefficient if there were a very large number of duplicates, but that seems unlikely in the existing usage. This adds list_deduplicate_oid and list_oid_cmp infrastructure to list.c. I didn't bother with equivalent functionality for integer or pointer Lists, but such could always be added later if we find a use for it. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/26193.1563228600@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Tom Lane authored
In the wake of commit 1cff1b95, the obvious way to sort a List is to apply qsort() directly to the array of ListCells. list_qsort was building an intermediate array of pointers-to-ListCells, which we no longer need, but getting rid of it forces an API change: the comparator functions need to do one less level of indirection. Since we're having to touch the callers anyway, let's do two additional changes: sort the given list in-place rather than making a copy (as none of the existing callers have any use for the copying behavior), and rename list_qsort to list_sort. It was argued that the old name exposes more about the implementation than it should, which I find pretty questionable, but a better reason to rename it is to be sure we get the attention of any external callers about the need to fix their comparator functions. While we're at it, change four existing callers of qsort() to use list_sort instead; previously, they all had local reinventions of list_qsort, ie build-an-array-from-a-List-and-qsort-it. (There are some other places where changing to list_sort perhaps would be worthwhile, but they're less obviously wins.) Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/29361.1563220190@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Michael Paquier authored
This is numbered take 7, and addresses a set of issues around: - Fixes for typos and incorrect reference names. - Removal of unneeded comments. - Removal of unreferenced functions and structures. - Fixes regarding variable name consistency. Author: Alexander Lakhin Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/10bfd4ac-3e7c-40ab-2b2e-355ed15495e8@gmail.com
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Tom Lane authored
These memory context switches are useless in the wake of commit 1cff1b95. Noted by Jesper Pedersen. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/f078ce63-9e04-0f3e-d200-d7ee66279abe@redhat.com
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Bruce Momjian authored
Reported-by: Ian Barwick Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/538950ec-b86a-1650-6078-beb7091c09c2@2ndquadrant.com Backpatch-through: 9.4
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- 15 Jul, 2019 6 commits
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Thomas Munro authored
Author: Fabien Coelho Reviewed-by: Ibrar Ahmed Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/alpine.DEB.2.21.1904081737390.5867%40lancre
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Thomas Munro authored
Author: Fabien Coelho Reviewed-by: Ibrar Ahmed Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/alpine.DEB.2.21.1904061810510.3678%40lancre
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Peter Geoghegan authored
The logic just added by commit e3899ffd falls back on a 50:50 page split in the event of a new item that's just to the right of our provisional "many duplicates" split point. Fix a comment that incorrectly claimed that the new item had to be just to the left of our provisional split point. Backpatch: 12-, just like commit e3899ffd.
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Peter Geoghegan authored
Specific ever-decreasing insertion patterns could cause successive unbalanced nbtree page splits. Problem cases involve a large group of duplicates to the left, and ever-decreasing insertions to the right. To fix, detect the situation by considering the newitem offset before performing a split using nbtsplitloc.c's "many duplicates" strategy. If the new item was inserted just to the right of our provisional "many duplicates" split point, infer ever-decreasing insertions and fall back on a 50:50 (space delta optimal) split. This seems to barely affect cases that already had acceptable space utilization. An alternative fix also seems possible. Instead of changing nbtsplitloc.c split choice logic, we could instead teach _bt_truncate() to generate a new value for new high keys by interpolating from the lastleft and firstright key values. That would certainly be a more elegant fix, but it isn't suitable for backpatching. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-WznCNvhZpxa__GqAa1fgQ9uYdVc=_apArkW2nc-K3O7_NA@mail.gmail.com Backpatch: 12-, where the nbtree page split enhancements were introduced.
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Tom Lane authored
Originally, Postgres Lists were a more or less exact reimplementation of Lisp lists, which consist of chains of separately-allocated cons cells, each having a value and a next-cell link. We'd hacked that once before (commit d0b4399d) to add a separate List header, but the data was still in cons cells. That makes some operations -- notably list_nth() -- O(N), and it's bulky because of the next-cell pointers and per-cell palloc overhead, and it's very cache-unfriendly if the cons cells end up scattered around rather than being adjacent. In this rewrite, we still have List headers, but the data is in a resizable array of values, with no next-cell links. Now we need at most two palloc's per List, and often only one, since we can allocate some values in the same palloc call as the List header. (Of course, extending an existing List may require repalloc's to enlarge the array. But this involves just O(log N) allocations not O(N).) Of course this is not without downsides. The key difficulty is that addition or deletion of a list entry may now cause other entries to move, which it did not before. For example, that breaks foreach() and sister macros, which historically used a pointer to the current cons-cell as loop state. We can repair those macros transparently by making their actual loop state be an integer list index; the exposed "ListCell *" pointer is no longer state carried across loop iterations, but is just a derived value. (In practice, modern compilers can optimize things back to having just one loop state value, at least for simple cases with inline loop bodies.) In principle, this is a semantics change for cases where the loop body inserts or deletes list entries ahead of the current loop index; but I found no such cases in the Postgres code. The change is not at all transparent for code that doesn't use foreach() but chases lists "by hand" using lnext(). The largest share of such code in the backend is in loops that were maintaining "prev" and "next" variables in addition to the current-cell pointer, in order to delete list cells efficiently using list_delete_cell(). However, we no longer need a previous-cell pointer to delete a list cell efficiently. Keeping a next-cell pointer doesn't work, as explained above, but we can improve matters by changing such code to use a regular foreach() loop and then using the new macro foreach_delete_current() to delete the current cell. (This macro knows how to update the associated foreach loop's state so that no cells will be missed in the traversal.) There remains a nontrivial risk of code assuming that a ListCell * pointer will remain good over an operation that could now move the list contents. To help catch such errors, list.c can be compiled with a new define symbol DEBUG_LIST_MEMORY_USAGE that forcibly moves list contents whenever that could possibly happen. This makes list operations significantly more expensive so it's not normally turned on (though it is on by default if USE_VALGRIND is on). There are two notable API differences from the previous code: * lnext() now requires the List's header pointer in addition to the current cell's address. * list_delete_cell() no longer requires a previous-cell argument. These changes are somewhat unfortunate, but on the other hand code using either function needs inspection to see if it is assuming anything it shouldn't, so it's not all bad. Programmers should be aware of these significant performance changes: * list_nth() and related functions are now O(1); so there's no major access-speed difference between a list and an array. * Inserting or deleting a list element now takes time proportional to the distance to the end of the list, due to moving the array elements. (However, it typically *doesn't* require palloc or pfree, so except in long lists it's probably still faster than before.) Notably, lcons() used to be about the same cost as lappend(), but that's no longer true if the list is long. Code that uses lcons() and list_delete_first() to maintain a stack might usefully be rewritten to push and pop at the end of the list rather than the beginning. * There are now list_insert_nth...() and list_delete_nth...() functions that add or remove a list cell identified by index. These have the data-movement penalty explained above, but there's no search penalty. * list_concat() and variants now copy the second list's data into storage belonging to the first list, so there is no longer any sharing of cells between the input lists. The second argument is now declared "const List *" to reflect that it isn't changed. This patch just does the minimum needed to get the new implementation in place and fix bugs exposed by the regression tests. As suggested by the foregoing, there's a fair amount of followup work remaining to do. Also, the ENABLE_LIST_COMPAT macros are finally removed in this commit. Code using those should have been gone a dozen years ago. Patch by me; thanks to David Rowley, Jesper Pedersen, and others for review. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/11587.1550975080@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Thomas Munro authored
In order to be able to work with FullTransactionId values during replay without increasing the size of the WAL, infer the epoch. In general we can't do that safely, but during replay we can because we know that nextFullXid can't advance concurrently. Prevent frontend code from seeing this new function, due to the above restriction. Perhaps in future it will be possible to extract the value entirely from independent WAL records, and then this restriction can be lifted. Author: Thomas Munro, based on earlier code from Andres Freund Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKG%2BmLmuDjMi6o1dxkKvGRL56Y2Rz%2BiXAcrZV03G9ZuFQ8Q%40mail.gmail.com
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- 14 Jul, 2019 7 commits
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Peter Eisentraut authored
This adds a built-in function to generate UUIDs. PostgreSQL hasn't had a built-in function to generate a UUID yet, relying on external modules such as uuid-ossp and pgcrypto to provide one. Now that we have a strong random number generator built-in, we can easily provide a version 4 (random) UUID generation function. This patch takes the existing function gen_random_uuid() from pgcrypto and makes it a built-in function. The pgcrypto implementation now internally redirects to the built-in one. Reviewed-by: Fabien COELHO <coelho@cri.ensmp.fr> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/6a65610c-46fc-2323-6b78-e8086340a325@2ndquadrant.com
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Alexander Korotkov authored
Opclass support functions already can handle this operator, just catalog adjustment appears to be required. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/f71ba19d-d989-63b6-f04a-abf02ad9345d%40postgrespro.ru Author: Nikita Glukhov Reviewed-by: Tom Lane, Alexander Korotkov
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Alexander Korotkov authored
Index-based calculation of this operator is exact. So, signature of gist_bbox_distance() function is changes so that caller is responsible for setting *recheck flag. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/f71ba19d-d989-63b6-f04a-abf02ad9345d%40postgrespro.ru Author: Nikita Glukhov Reviewed-by: Tom Lane, Alexander Korotkov
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Alexander Korotkov authored
Some of <-> operators between geometric types have their commutators missed. This commit adds them. The motivation is upcoming kNN support for some of those operators. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/f71ba19d-d989-63b6-f04a-abf02ad9345d%40postgrespro.ru Author: Nikita Glukhov Reviewed-by: Tom Lane, Alexander Korotkov
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Andrew Gierth authored
Performance of a SELECT FOR UPDATE may be quite distinct from the non-UPDATE version of the query, so treat all of the FOR UPDATE clause as being significant for distinguishing queries. Andrew Gierth and Vik Fearing, reviewed by Sergei Kornilov, Thomas Munro, Tom Lane Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/87h8e4hfwv.fsf@news-spur.riddles.org.uk
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Thomas Munro authored
We choose a random value for delta, not balance. Back-patch to 9.6 where the mistake arrived. Author: Fabien Coelho Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/alpine.DEB.2.21.1904081752210.5867@lancre
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- 13 Jul, 2019 5 commits
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Noah Misch authored
Commit 578b2297 replaced it with a concurrent "nextval" test. That version does not detect PostgreSQL's incompatibility with xlc 13.1.3, so bring back an OID-based test that does. Back-patch to v12, where that commit first appeared. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190707170035.GA1485546@rfd.leadboat.com
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Michael Paquier authored
In configure scripts, --with-ossp-uuid is obsolete is replaced by --with-uuid, and it needs to specify a path to its library builds when building with the MSVC scripts. --with-perl needs also to specify a path. Author: Kyotaro Horiguchi Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190712.121529.194600624.horikyota.ntt@gmail.com
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Michael Paquier authored
This adds some missing markups, fixes a couple of incorrect ones and clarifies some documentation in various places. Author: Liudmila Mantrova Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a068f947-7a51-5df1-b3fd-1a131ae5c044@postgrespro.ru Backpatch-through: 12
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Thomas Munro authored
Previously it suggested an extra "=" after "SET x=". Reported-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGLk%3D0yLDjfviONJLzcHEzygj%3Dx6VbGH43LnXbBUvQb52g%40mail.gmail.com
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Thomas Munro authored
Author: Thomas Munro Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGLk%3D0yLDjfviONJLzcHEzygj%3Dx6VbGH43LnXbBUvQb52g%40mail.gmail.com
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