GSS information (if used) such as if the connection was authorized using
GSS or if it was encrypted using GSS, and perhaps most importantly, what
the GSS principal used for the authentication was, is extremely useful
but wasn't being included in the connection authorized log message.

Therefore, add to the connection authorized log message that
information, in a similar manner to how we log SSL information when SSL
is used for a connection.

Author: Vignesh C
Reviewed-by: Bharath Rupireddy
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CALDaNm2N1385_Ltoo%3DS7VGT-ESu_bRQa-sC1wg6ikrM2L2Z49w%40mail.gmail.com

Commit 6b466bf5 allowed pg_stat_statements to track the number of
WAL records, full page images and bytes that each statement generated.
Similarly this commit allows us to track the cluster-wide WAL statistics
counters.

New columns wal_records, wal_fpi and wal_bytes are added into the
pg_stat_wal view, and reports the total number of WAL records,
full page images and bytes generated in the , respectively.

Author: Masahiro Ikeda
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila, Movead Li, Kyotaro Horiguchi, Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/35ef960128b90bfae3b3fdf60a3a860f@oss.nttdata.com

These showed up with -O2.  Oversight in 87ae9691.

Author: Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/cee3df00-566a-400c-1252-67c3701f918a@oss.nttdata.com

This commit changes restore_command from PGC_POSTMASTER to PGC_SIGHUP.

As the side effect of this commit, restore_command can be reset to
empty during archive recovery. In this setting, archive recovery
tries to replay only WAL files available in pg_wal directory. This is
the same behavior as when the command that always fails is specified
in restore_command.

Note that restore_command still must be specified (not empty) when
starting archive recovery, even after applying this commit. This is
necessary as the safeguard to prevent users from forgetting to
specify restore_command and starting archive recovery.

Thanks to Peter Eisentraut, Michael Paquier, Andres Freund,
Robert Haas and Anastasia Lubennikova for discussion.

Author: Sergei Kornilov
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi, Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2317771549527294@sas2-985f744271ca.qloud-c.yandex.net

Two new routines to allocate a hash context and to free it are created,
as these become necessary for the goal behind this refactoring: switch
the all cryptohash implementations for OpenSSL to use EVP (for FIPS and
also because upstream does not recommend the use of low-level cryptohash
functions for 20 years).  Note that OpenSSL hides the internals of
cryptohash contexts since 1.1.0, so it is necessary to leave the
allocation to OpenSSL itself, explaining the need for those two new
routines.  This part is going to require more work to properly track
hash contexts with resource owners, but this not introduced here.
Still, this refactoring makes the move possible.

This reduces the number of routines for all SHA2 implementations from
twelve (SHA{224,256,386,512} with init, update and final calls) to five
(create, free, init, update and final calls) by incorporating the hash
type directly into the hash context data.

The new cryptohash routines are moved to a new file, called cryptohash.c
for the fallback implementations, with SHA2 specifics becoming a part
internal to src/common/.  OpenSSL specifics are part of
cryptohash_openssl.c.  This infrastructure is usable for more hash
types, like MD5 or HMAC.

Any code paths using the internal SHA2 routines are adapted to report
correctly errors, which are most of the changes of this commit.  The
zones mostly impacted are checksum manifests, libpq and SCRAM.

Note that e21cbb4b was a first attempt to switch SHA2 to EVP, but it
lacked the refactoring needed for libpq, as done here.

This patch has been tested on Linux and Windows, with and without
OpenSSL, and down to 1.0.1, the oldest version supported on HEAD.

Author: Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200924025314.GE7405@paquier.xyz

While the previous behavior didn't generate a warning, we might as well
use an accurate *printf specification.

Backpatch-through: 12

As it stood, expandTableLikeClause() re-did the same relation_openrv
call that transformTableLikeClause() had done.  However there are
scenarios where this would not find the same table as expected.
We hold lock on the LIKE source table, so it can't be renamed or
dropped, but another table could appear before it in the search path.
This explains the odd behavior reported in bug #16758 when cloning a
table as a temp table of the same name.  This case worked as expected
before commit 50289819 introduced the need to open the source table
twice, so we should fix it.

To make really sure we get the same table, let's re-open it by OID not
name.  That requires adding an OID field to struct TableLikeClause,
which is a little nervous-making from an ABI standpoint, but as long
as it's at the end I don't think there's any serious risk.

Per bug #16758 from Marc Boeren.  Like the previous patch,
back-patch to all supported branches.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16758-840e84a6cfab276d@postgresql.org

When memcpy() is called on a pointer, the compiler is entitled to assume
that the pointer is not null, which can lead to optimizing nearby code
in potentially undesirable ways.  We still want such optimizations
(gcc's -fdelete-null-pointer-checks) in cases where they're valid.

Related: commit 13bba022.

Backpatch to pg11, where this particular instance appeared.
Reported-by: Ranier Vilela <ranier.vf@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Zhihong Yu <zyu@yugabyte.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEudQApUndmQkr5fLrCKXQ7+ib44i7S+Kk93pyVThS85PnG3bQ@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALNJ-vSdhwSM5f4tnNn1cdLHvXMVe_S+V3nR5GwNrmCPNB2VtQ@mail.gmail.com

Make sure that the first mentions of RFC's are ulinked to their ietf.org
entry, and subsequent ones are marked as acronyms. This makes references
to RFC's consistent across the documentation.

Author: Daniel Gustafsson
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/2C697878-4D01-4F06-8312-2FEDE931E973%40yesql.se

In the docs, the index entries for progress reporting views link to
the "Viewing Statistics" section, but previously they did not link to
the dedicated section (e.g., "ANALYZE Progress Reporting") for
each view. This was inconvenient when finding the section describing
the detailed information about each view, from the index.
This commit adds additional index entries linking to those dedicated
sections.

Author: Fujii Masao
Reviewed-by: Shinya Kato
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/e49c2768-65d2-188a-5424-270fa29ccc84@oss.nttdata.com

This is a follow-up of the work done in fa42c2ec, that did not include
all the fixes previously agreed on.  The contents removed here can be
confusing to the reader as they refer to rather old server versions.

Author: Stephen Frost, Tom Lane, Heikki Linnakangas, Yaroslav Schekin
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAB8KJ=jYHgnxLLZSNJz7gBTck4TxomngCmGkw3nEMSNF0yL6wA@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1599765595731-0.post@n3.nabble.com

When truncating files by name, use truncate(2).  Windows hasn't got it,
so keep our previous coding based on ftruncate(2) as a fallback.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16663-fe97ccf9932fc800%40postgresql.org

When committing a transaction that dropped a relation, we previously
truncated only the first segment file to free up disk space (the one
that won't be unlinked until the next checkpoint).

Truncate higher numbered segments too, even though we unlink them on
commit.  This frees the disk space immediately, even if other backends
have open file descriptors and might take a long time to get around to
handling shared invalidation events and closing them.  Also extend the
same behavior to the first segment, in recovery.

Back-patch to all supported releases.

Bug: #16663
Reported-by: Denis Patron <denis.patron@previnet.it>
Reviewed-by: Pavel Borisov <pashkin.elfe@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Neil Chen <carpenter.nail.cz@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: David Zhang <david.zhang@highgo.ca>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16663-fe97ccf9932fc800%40postgresql.org

For debugging purposes, Path nodes are supposed to have outfuncs
support, but this was overlooked in the original incremental sort patch.

While at it, clean up a couple other minor oversights, as well as
bizarre choice of return type for create_incremental_sort_path().
(All the existing callers just cast it to "Path *" immediately, so
they don't care, but some future caller might care.)

outfuncs.c fix by Zhijie Hou, the rest by me

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/324c4d81d8134117972a5b1f6cdf9560@G08CNEXMBPEKD05.g08.fujitsu.local

Because regular CREATE INDEX commands are independent, and there's no
logical data dependency, it's not immediately obvious that transactions
held by concurrent index builds on one table will block the second phase
of concurrent index creation on an unrelated table, so document this
caveat.

Backpatch this all the way back.  In branch master, mention that only
some indexes are involved.

Author: James Coleman <jtc331@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: David Johnston <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAaqYe994=PUrn8CJZ4UEo_S-FfRr_3ogERyhtdgHAb2WG_Ufg@mail.gmail.com

Checking for DocBook being installed was valuable when we were on the
OpenSP docs toolchain, because that was rather hard to get installed
fully.  Nowadays, as long as you have xmllint and xsltproc installed,
you're good, because those programs will fetch the DocBook files off
the net at need.  Moreover, testing this at configure time means that
a network access may well occur whether or not you have any interest
in building the docs later.  That can be slow (typically 2 or 3
seconds, though much higher delays have been reported), and it seems
not very nice to be doing an off-machine access without warning, too.

Hence, drop the PGAC_CHECK_DOCBOOK probe, and adjust related
documentation.  Without that macro, there's not much left of
config/docbook.m4 at all, so I just removed it.

Back-patch to v11, where we started to use xmllint in the
PGAC_CHECK_DOCBOOK probe.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E2EE6B76-2D96-408A-B961-CAE47D1A86F0@yesql.se
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/A55A7FC9-FA60-47FE-98B5-139CDC57CE6E@gmail.com

This can't work if there's no postmaster, and indeed the code got an
assertion failure trying.  There should be a check on IsUnderPostmaster
gating the use of parallelism, as the planner has for ordinary
parallel queries.

Commit 40d964ec got this right, so follow its model of checking
IsUnderPostmaster at the same place where we check for
max_parallel_maintenance_workers == 0.  In general, new code
implementing parallel utility operations should do the same.

Report and patch by Yulin Pei, cosmetically adjusted by me.
Back-patch to v11 where this code came in.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/HK0PR01MB22747D839F77142D7E76A45DF4F50@HK0PR01MB2274.apcprd01.prod.exchangelabs.com

If a PlaceHolderVar is to be evaluated at a join relation, but
its value is only needed there and not at higher levels, we neglected
to update the joinrel's direct_lateral_relids to include the PHV's
source rel.  This causes problems because join_is_legal() then won't
allow joining the joinrel to the PHV's source rel at all, leading
to "failed to build any N-way joins" planner failures.

Per report from Andreas Seltenreich.  Back-patch to 9.5
where the problem originated.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/87blfgqa4t.fsf@aurora.ydns.eu

Those three commands have been using the same grammar rules to handle a
a list of parenthesized options.  This refactors the code so as they use
the same parsing rules, shaving some code.  A future commit will make
use of those option parsing rules for more utility commands, like
REINDEX and CLUSTER.

Author: Alexey Kondratov, Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/8a8f5f73-00d3-55f8-7583-1375ca8f6a91@postgrespro.ru

Author: Amit Langote
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CA%2BHiwqGaRoF3XrhPW-Y7P%2BG7bKo84Z_h%3DkQHvMh-80%3Dav3wmOw%40mail.gmail.com

Author: Haiying Tang <tanghy.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/48a0928ac94b497d9c40acf1de394c15@G08CNEXMBPEKD05.g08.fujitsu.local

Previously the shutdown of a background worker that uses die() as
SIGTERM signal handler produced the log message "terminating
connection due to administrator command". This log message was
confusing because a background worker is not a connection.
This commit improves that log message to "terminating background
worker XXX due to administrator command" (XXX is replaced with
the name of the background worker). This is the same log message
as another SIGTERM signal handler bgworker_die() for a background
worker reports.

Author: Bharath Rupireddy
Reviewed-by: Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3f292fbb-f155-9a01-7cb2-7ccc9007ab3f@oss.nttdata.com

Through my misreading of what the existing code actually did,
commits 85c54287 et al. broke psql's behavior for the case where
"\c connstring" provides a password in the connstring.  We should
use that password in such a case, but as of 85c54287 we ignored it
(and instead, prompted for a password).

Commit 94929f1c fixed that in HEAD, but since I thought it was
cleaning up a longstanding misbehavior and not one I'd just created,
I didn't back-patch it.

Hence, back-patch the portions of 94929f1c having to do with
password management.  In addition to fixing the introduced bug,
this means that "\c -reuse-previous=on connstring" will allow
re-use of an existing connection's password if the connstring
doesn't change user/host/port.  That didn't happen before, but
it seems like a bug fix, and anyway I'm loath to have significant
differences in this code across versions.

Also fix an error with the same root cause about whether or not to
override a connstring's setting of client_encoding.  As of 85c54287
we always did so; restore the previous behavior of overriding only
when stdin/stdout are a terminal and there's no environment setting
of PGCLIENTENCODING.  (I find that definition a bit surprising, but
right now doesn't seem like the time to revisit it.)

Per bug #16746 from Krzysztof Gradek.  As with the previous patch,
back-patch to all supported branches.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16746-44b30e2edf4335d4@postgresql.org

The documentation omitted the critical tidbit that a keyword-array entry
is simply ignored if its corresponding value-array entry is NULL or an
empty string; it will *not* override any previously-obtained value for
the parameter.  (See conninfo_array_parse().)  I'd supposed that would
force the setting back to default, which is what led me into bug #16746;
but it doesn't.

While here, I couldn't resist the temptation to do some copy-editing,
both in the description of PQconnectdbParams() and in the section
about connection URI syntax.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/931505.1606618746@sss.pgh.pa.us

Buildfarm member topminnow failed when the test script attempted this
before the syslogger would have created the file.  Back-patch to v12,
which introduced the test.

Oversight in 257836a7, which added these tests.

Commit 566372b3 fixed some race conditions involving concurrent
SimpleLruTruncate calls, but it introduced new ones in async.c.
A newly-listening backend could attempt to read Notify SLRU pages that
were in process of being truncated, possibly causing an error.  Also,
the QUEUE_TAIL pointer could become set to a value that's not equal to
the queue position of any backend.  While that's fairly harmless in
v13 and up (thanks to commit 51004c71), in older branches it resulted
in near-permanent disabling of the queue truncation logic, so that
continued use of NOTIFY led to queue-fill warnings and eventual
inability to send any more notifies.  (A server restart is enough to
make that go away, but it's still pretty unpleasant.)

The core of the problem is confusion about whether QUEUE_TAIL
represents the "logical" tail of the queue (i.e., the oldest
still-interesting data) or the "physical" tail (the oldest data we've
not yet truncated away).  To fix, split that into two variables.
QUEUE_TAIL regains its definition as the logical tail, and we
introduce a new variable to track the oldest un-truncated page.

Per report from Mikael Gustavsson.  Like the previous patch,
back-patch to all supported branches.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1b8561412e8a4f038d7a491c8b922788@smhi.se

Previously pg_stat_progress_cluster view reported the current block
number in heap scan as the number of heap blocks scanned (i.e.,
heap_blks_scanned). This reported number could be incorrect when
synchronize_seqscans is enabled, because it allowed the heap scan to
start at block in middle. This could result in wraparounds in the
heap_blks_scanned column when the heap scan wrapped around.
This commit fixes the bug by calculating the number of blocks from
the block that the heap scan starts at to the current block in scan,
and reporting that number in the heap_blks_scanned column.

Also, in pg_stat_progress_cluster view, previously heap_blks_scanned
could not reach heap_blks_total at the end of heap scan phase
if the last pages scanned were empty. This commit fixes the bug by
manually updating heap_blks_scanned to the same value as
heap_blks_total when the heap scan phase finishes.

Back-patch to v12 where pg_stat_progress_cluster view was introduced.

Reported-by: Matthias van de Meent
Author: Matthias van de Meent
Reviewed-by: Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEze2WjCBWSGkVfYag001Rc4+-nNLDpWM7QbyD6yPvuhKs-gYQ@mail.gmail.com

Previously test_shm_mq worker used the stripped-down version of die()
as the SIGTERM signal handler. This commit makes it use die(), instead,
to simplify the code.

In terms of the code, the difference between die() and the stripped-down
version previously used is whether the signal handler directly may call
ProcessInterrupts() or not. But this difference doesn't exist in
a background worker because, in bgworker, DoingCommandRead flag will
never be true and die() will never call ProcessInterrupts() directly.
Therefore test_shm_mq worker can safely use die(), like other bgworker
proceses (e.g., logical replication apply launcher or autoprewarm worker)
currently do.

Thanks to Craig Ringer for the report and investigation of the issue.

Author: Bharath Rupireddy
Reviewed-by: Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAGRY4nxsAe_1k_9g5b47orA0S011iBoHsXHFMH7cg7HV0O1bwQ@mail.gmail.com

Previously worker_spi used its custom signal handlers for SIGHUP and
SIGTERM. This commit makes worker_spi use the standard signal handlers,
to simplify the code.

Note that die() is used as the standard SIGTERM signal handler in
worker_spi instead of SignalHandlerForShutdownRequest() or bgworker_die().
Previously the exit handling was only able to exit from within the main loop,
and not from within the backend code it calls. This is why die() needs to
be used here, so worker_spi can respond to SIGTERM signal while it's
executing a query.

Maybe we can say that it's a bug that worker_spi could not respond to
SIGTERM during query execution. But since worker_spi is a just example
of the background worker code, we don't do the back-patch.

Thanks to Craig Ringer for the report and investigation of the issue.

Author: Bharath Rupireddy
Reviewed-by: Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALj2ACXDEZhAFOTDcqO9cFSRvrFLyYOnPKrcA1UG4uZn9hUAVg@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAGRY4nxsAe_1k_9g5b47orA0S011iBoHsXHFMH7cg7HV0O1bwQ@mail.gmail.com

Tablesync worker runs under a single transaction but in streaming mode, we
were committing the transaction on stream_stop, stream_abort, and
stream_commit. We need to avoid committing the transaction in a streaming
mode in tablesync worker.

In passing move the call to process_syncing_tables in
apply_handle_stream_commit after clean up of stream files. This will
allow clean up of files to happen before the exit of tablesync worker
which would otherwise be handled by one of the proc exit routines.

Author: Dilip Kumar
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila and Peter Smith
Tested-by: Peter Smith
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHut+Pt4PyKQCwqzQ=EFF=bpKKJD7XKt_S23F6L20ayQNxg77A@mail.gmail.com

Reverts 27838981 (some comments are kept).  Per discussion, it does
not seem safe to relax the lock level used for this; in order for it to
be safe, there would have to be memory barriers between the point we set
the flag and the point we set the trasaction Xid, which perhaps would
not be so bad; but there would also have to be barriers at the readers'
side, which from a performance perspective might be bad.

Now maybe this analysis is wrong and it *is* safe for some reason, but
proof of that is not trivial.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20201118190928.vnztes7c2sldu43a@alap3.anarazel.de

If more distinct statements than pg_stat_statements.max are observed,
pg_stat_statements entries about the least-executed statements are
deallocated. This commit enables us to track the total number of times
those entries were deallocated. That number can be viewed in the
pg_stat_statements_info view that this commit adds. It's useful when
tuning pg_stat_statements.max parameter. If it's high, i.e., the entries
are deallocated very frequently, which might cause the performance
regression and we can increase pg_stat_statements.max to avoid those
frequent deallocations.

The pg_stat_statements_info view is intended to display the statistics
of pg_stat_statements module itself. Currently it has only one column
"dealloc" indicating the number of times entries were deallocated.
But an upcoming patch will add other columns (for example, the time
at which pg_stat_statements statistics were last reset) into the view.

Author: Katsuragi Yuta, Yuki Seino
Reviewed-by: Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/0d9f1107772cf5c3f954e985464c7298@oss.nttdata.com

A prepared statement is re-analyzed and re-planned whenever database
objects used in the statement have undergone definitional changes or
the planner statistics of them have been updated. The former has been
documented from before, but the latter was not previously. This commit
adds the description about the latter case into the docs.

Author: Atsushi Torikoshi
Reviewed-by: Andy Fan, Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3ac82f4817c9fe274a905c8a38d87bd9@oss.nttdata.com

Commit 644f0d7c added logical replication message type enums to use
instead of character literals but some char substitutions were overlooked.

Author: Peter Smith
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHut+PsTG=Vrv8hgrvOnAvCNR21jhqMdPk2n0a1uJPoW0p+UfQ@mail.gmail.com

In the various waiting phases of CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY (CIC) and
REINDEX CONCURRENTLY (RC), we wait for other processes to release their
snapshots; this is necessary in general for correctness.  However,
processes doing CIC in other tables cannot possibly affect CIC or RC
done in "this" table, so we don't need to wait for those.  This commit
adds a flag in MyProc->statusFlags to indicate that the current process
is doing CIC, so that other processes doing CIC or RC can ignore it when
waiting.

Note that this logic is only valid if the index does not access other
tables.  For simplicity we avoid setting the flag if the index has a
column that's an expression, or has a WHERE predicate.  (It is possible
to have expressional or partial indexes that do not access other tables,
but figuring that out would require more work.)

This flag can potentially also be used by processes doing REINDEX
CONCURRENTLY to be skipped; and by VACUUM to ignore processes in CIC or
RC for the purposes of computing an Xmin.  That's left for future
commits.

Author: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Author: Dimitry Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200810233815.GA18970@alvherre.pgsql

Historically, psql has truncated the text of a column's default
expression at 128 characters.  This is unlike any other behavior
in describe.c, and it's become particularly confusing now that
the limit is only applied to the expression proper and not to
the "generated always as (...) stored" text that may get wrapped
around it.

Excavation in our git history suggests that the original motivation
for this limit was not really to limit the display width (as I'd long
supposed), but to make it safe to use a fixed-width output buffer to
store the result.  That implementation restriction is long gone of
course, but the limit remained.  Let's just get rid of it.

While here, rearrange the logic about when to free the output string
so that it's not so dependent on unstated assumptions about the
possible values of attidentity and attgenerated.

Per bug #16743 from David Turon.  Back-patch to v12 where GENERATED
came in.  (Arguably we could take it back further, but I'm hesitant
to change the behavior of long-stable branches for this.)

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16743-7b1bacc4af76e7ad@postgresql.org

Break the per-index-type discussions into <sect2>'s so as to make
them more visually separate and easier to find.  Improve the markup,
and make a couple of small wording adjustments.

This also fixes one stray reference to the now-deprecated point
operators <^ and >^.

Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker, reviewed by David Johnston and Jürgen Purtz

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/877dukhvzg.fsf@wibble.ilmari.org

Up to now, we sent a ParameterStatus message to the client immediately
upon any change in the active value of any GUC_REPORT variable.  This
was only barely okay when the feature was designed; now that we have
things like function SET clauses, there are very plausible use-cases
where a GUC_REPORT variable might change many times within a query
--- and even end up back at its original value, perhaps.  Fortunately
most of our GUC_REPORT variables are unlikely to be changed often;
but there are proposals in play to enlarge that set, or even make it
user-configurable.

Hence, let's fix things to not generate more than one ParameterStatus
message per variable per query, and to not send any message at all
unless the end-of-query value is different from what we last reported.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/5708.1601145259@sss.pgh.pa.us

The function converted the first argument i.e. the number of tuples to
return into an unsigned integer which turns out to be huge number when
a negative value is passed.  This causes the function to take much
longer time to execute.  Instead, reject a negative value.

(If someone really wants to generate many more result rows, they
should consider adding a bigint or numeric variant.)

While at it, improve SQL test to test the number of tuples returned by
this function.

Author: Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh.bapat@2ndquadrant.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAG-ACPW3PUUmSnM6cLa9Rw4BEC5cEMKjX8Gogc8gvQcT3cYA1A@mail.gmail.com