First, as pointed out by Tom Lane and Michael Paquier, I failed to
realize that Windows' PostgresNode needs an extra pg_hba.conf line
(added by PostgresNode->set_replication_conf, called internally by
->init() when 'allows_streaming=>1' is given -- but I purposefully
omitted that).  I think a good fix should be to have nodes with only
'has_archiving=>1' set up for replication too, but that's a bigger
discussion.  Fix it by calling ->set_replication_conf, which is not
unprecedented, as pointed out by Andrew Dunstan.

I also forgot to uncomment a ->finish() call for a pumpable IPC::Run
file descriptor.  Apparently this is innocuous in almost all platforms.

Backpatch to 14.  The older branches were added this file too, but not
this particular part of the test.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3000074.1632947632@sss.pgh.pa.us
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/YVT7qwhR8JmC2kfz@paquier.xyz

Physical replication always ships WAL segment files to replicas once
they are complete.  This is a problem if one WAL record is split across
a segment boundary and the primary server crashes before writing down
the segment with the next portion of the WAL record: WAL writing after
crash recovery would happily resume at the point where the broken record
started, overwriting that record ... but any standby or backup may have
already received a copy of that segment, and they are not rewinding.
This causes standbys to stop following the primary after the latter
crashes:
  LOG:  invalid contrecord length 7262 at A8/D9FFFBC8
because the standby is still trying to read the continuation record
(contrecord) for the original long WAL record, but it is not there and
it will never be.  A workaround is to stop the replica, delete the WAL
file, and restart it -- at which point a fresh copy is brought over from
the primary.  But that's pretty labor intensive, and I bet many users
would just give up and re-clone the standby instead.

A fix for this problem was already attempted in commit 515e3d84a0b5, but
it only addressed the case for the scenario of WAL archiving, so
streaming replication would still be a problem (as well as other things
such as taking a filesystem-level backup while the server is down after
having crashed), and it had performance scalability problems too; so it
had to be reverted.

This commit fixes the problem using an approach suggested by Andres
Freund, whereby the initial portion(s) of the split-up WAL record are
kept, and a special type of WAL record is written where the contrecord
was lost, so that WAL replay in the replica knows to skip the broken
parts.  With this approach, we can continue to stream/archive segment
files as soon as they are complete, and replay of the broken records
will proceed across the crash point without a hitch.

Because a new type of WAL record is added, users should be careful to
upgrade standbys first, primaries later. Otherwise they risk the standby
being unable to start if the primary happens to write such a record.

A new TAP test that exercises this is added, but the portability of it
is yet to be seen.

This has been wrong since the introduction of physical replication, so
backpatch all the way back.  In stable branches, keep the new
XLogReaderState members at the end of the struct, to avoid an ABI
break.

Author: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Bossart <bossartn@amazon.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/202108232252.dh7uxf6oxwcy@alvherre.pgsql

Reported-by: Simon Riggs (privately)

Backpatch-through: 14 only

Previously socket errors such as invalid socket or socket wait method failures
during benchmark caused pgbench to exit with status 0. Instead, errors during
the run should result in exit status 2.

Back-patch to v12 where pgbench started reporting exit status.

Original complaint and patch by Hayato Kuroda.

Author: Yugo Nagata, Fabien COELHO
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi, Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/TYCPR01MB5870057375ACA8A73099C649F5349@TYCPR01MB5870.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com

The failure of socket wait method like "select()" doesn't terminate pgbench.
So the log level of error message when that failure happens should be ERROR.
But previously FATAL was used in that case.

Back-patch to v13 where pgbench started using common logging API.

Author: Yugo Nagata, Fabien COELHO
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi, Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210617005934.8bd37bf72efd5f1b38e6f482@sraoss.co.jp

The code inconsistently used "statistic object" or "statistics" where
the correct term, as discussed, is actually "statistics object".  This
improves the state of the code to be more consistent.

While on it, fix an incorrect error message introduced in a4d75c86.  This
error should never happen, as the code states, but it would be
misleading.

Author: Justin Pryzby
Reviewed-by: Álvaro Herrera, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210924215827.GS831@telsasoft.com
Backpatch-through: 14

Author: Ekaterina Kiryanova
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/8a14e78f-6991-7a6e-4711-fe376635f2ad@postgrespro.ru
Backpatch-through: 14

It turns out that the instability complained of in commit d3c09b9b
has an embarrassingly simple explanation.  The test script waits for
the standby to flush incoming WAL to disk, but it should wait for
the WAL to be replayed, since we are testing for the effects of that
to be visible.

While at it, use wait_for_catchup instead of reinventing that logic,
and adjust $Test::Builder::Level to improve future error reports.

Back-patch to v12 where the necessary infrastructure came in
(cf. aforesaid commit).  Also back-patch 7d1aa6bf1 so that the
test will actually get run.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2854602.1632852664@sss.pgh.pa.us

Backpatch-through: 14 only

Author: Tatsuro Yamada
Backpatch-through: 14
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/7ad8cd13-db5b-5cf6-8561-dccad1a934cb@nttcom.co.jp

Source-Git-URL: git://git.postgresql.org/git/pgtranslation/messages.git
Source-Git-Hash: 941ca560d0b36a8bace8432b06302ca003829f42

current through e8b39ceb

Author: Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210924215827.GS831@telsasoft.com
Backpatch-through: 9.6

Add the customary short list of major features.  Set release date.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1489855.1631986639@sss.pgh.pa.us

Be a little more vocal about the risks of remote collations not
matching local ones.  Actually fixing these risks seems hard,
and I've given up on the idea that it might be back-patchable.
So the best we can do for the back branches is add documentation.

Per discussion of bug #16583 from Jiří Fejfar.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2438715.1632510693@sss.pgh.pa.us

OpenSSL 3 introduced the concept of providers to support modularization,
and moved the outdated ciphers to the new legacy provider. In case it's
not loaded in the users openssl.cnf file there will be a lot of regress
test failures, so add alternative outputs covering those.

Also document the need to load the legacy provider in order to use older
ciphers with OpenSSL-enabled pgcrypto.

This will be backpatched to all supported version once there is sufficient
testing in the buildfarm of OpenSSL 3.

Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/FEF81714-D479-4512-839B-C769D2605F8A@yesql.se

The PX layer in pgcrypto is handling digest padding on its own uniformly
for all backend implementations. Starting with OpenSSL 3.0.0, DecryptUpdate
doesn't flush the last block in case padding is enabled so explicitly
disable it as we don't use it.

This will be backpatched to all supported version once there is sufficient
testing in the buildfarm of OpenSSL 3.

Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/FEF81714-D479-4512-839B-C769D2605F8A@yesql.se

Index vacuums may happen multiple times depending on the number of dead
tuples stored, as of maintenance_work_mem for a manual VACUUM.  For
autovacuum, this is controlled by autovacuum_work_mem instead, if set.
The documentation mentioned the former, but not the latter in the
context of autovacuum.

Reported-by: Nikolai Berkoff
Author: Laurenz Albe, Euler Taveira
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/161545365522.10134.12195402324485546870@wrigleys.postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 9.6

Reported-by: rir
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210924183658.3syyitp3yuxjv2fp@localhost
Backpatch-through: 9.6

One of these was accidentally removed by c50624cd.  The others are
added by analogy.

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/ae1143fb-455c-c80f-ed66-78d45bd93303@enterprisedb.com

That allows to include just visibilitymapdefs.h from file.c, and in turn,
remove include of postgres.h from relcache.h.

Reported-by: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210913232614.czafiubr435l6egi%40alap3.anarazel.de
Author: Alexander Korotkov
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund, Tom Lane, Alvaro Herrera
Backpatch-through: 13

Calculating degree of a functional dependency may allocate a lot of
memory - we have released mot of the explicitly allocated memory, but
e.g. detoasted varlena values were left behind. That may be an issue,
because we consider a lot of dependencies (all combinations), and the
detoasting may happen for each one again.

Fixed by calling dependency_degree() in a dedicated context, and
resetting it after each call. We only need the calculated dependency
degree, so we don't need to copy anything.

Backpatch to PostgreSQL 10, where extended statistics were introduced.

Backpatch-through: 10
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20210915200928.GP831%40telsasoft.com

Until now, all extended statistics on a given relation were built in the
same memory context, without resetting. Some of the memory was released
explicitly, but not all of it - for example memory allocated while
detoasting values is hard to free. This is how it worked since extended
statistics were introduced in PostgreSQL 10, but adding support for
extended stats on expressions made the issue somewhat worse as it
increases the number of statistics to build.

Fixed by adding a memory context which gets reset after building each
statistics object (all the statistics kinds included in it). Resetting
it after building each statistics kind would be even better, but it
would require more invasive changes and copying of results, making it
harder to backpatch.

Backpatch to PostgreSQL 10, where extended statistics were introduced.

Author: Justin Pryzby
Reported-by: Justin Pryzby
Reviewed-by: Tomas Vondra
Backpatch-through: 10
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20210915200928.GP831%40telsasoft.com

Updates/Deletes on a partition were allowed even without replica identity
after the parent table was added to a publication. This would later lead
to an error on subscribers. The reason was that we were not invalidating
the partition's relcache and the publication information for partitions
was not getting rebuilt. Similarly, we were not invalidating the
partitions' relcache after dropping a partitioned table from a publication
which will prohibit Updates/Deletes on its partition without replica
identity even without any publication.

Reported-by: Haiying Tang
Author: Hou Zhijie and Vignesh C
Reviewed-by: Vignesh C and Amit Kapila
Backpatch-through: 13
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/OS0PR01MB6113D77F583C922F1CEAA1C3FBD29@OS0PR01MB6113.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com

It is not appropriate for deduplication to apply single value strategy
when triggered by a bottom-up index deletion pass.  This wastes cycles
because later bottom-up deletion passes will overinterpret older
duplicate tuples that deduplication actually just skipped over "by
design".  It also makes bottom-up deletion much less effective for low
cardinality indexes that happen to cross a meaningless "index has single
key value per leaf page" threshold.

To fix, slightly narrow the conditions under which deduplication's
single value strategy is considered.  We already avoided the strategy
for a unique index, since our high level goal must just be to buy time
for VACUUM to run (not to buy space).  We'll now also avoid it when we
just had a bottom-up pass that reported failure.  The two cases share
the same high level goal, and already overlapped significantly, so this
approach is quite natural.

Oversight in commit d168b666, which added bottom-up index deletion.

Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-WznaOvM+Gyj-JQ0X=JxoMDxctDTYjiEuETdAGbF5EUc3MA@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch: 14-, where bottom-up deletion was introduced.

Contrary to the output of native perl, Msys perl generates outputs with
CRLFs characters.  There are already places in the TAP code where CRLFs
(\r\n) are automatically converted to LF (\n) on Msys, but we missed a
couple of places when running commands and using their output for
comparison, that would lead to failures.

This problem has been found thanks to the test added in 5adb067 using
TestLib::command_checks_all(), but after a closer look more code paths
were missing a filter.

This is backpatched all the way down to prevent any surprises if a new
test is introduced in stable branches.

Reviewed-by: Andrew Dunstan, Álvaro Herrera
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1252480.1631829409@sss.pgh.pa.us
Backpatch-through: 9.6

Before commit 84f5c290, a STABLE function in a plpgsql CALL
statement's argument list would see an up-to-date snapshot,
because exec_stmt_call would push a new snapshot.  I got rid of
that because the possibility of the snapshot disappearing within
COMMIT made it too hard to manage a snapshot across the CALL
statement.  That's fine so far as the procedure itself goes,
but I forgot to think about the possibility of STABLE functions
within the CALL argument list.  As things now stand, those'll
be executed with the Portal's snapshot as ActiveSnapshot,
keeping them from seeing updates more recent than Portal startup.

(VOLATILE functions don't have a problem because they take their
own snapshots; which indeed is also why the procedure itself
doesn't have a problem.  There are no STABLE procedures.)

We can fix this by pushing a new snapshot transiently within
ExecuteCallStmt itself.  Popping the snapshot before we get
into the procedure proper eliminates the management problem.
The possibly-useless extra snapshot-grab is slightly annoying,
but it's no worse than what happened before 84f5c290.

Per bug #17199 from Alexander Nawratil.  Back-patch to v11,
like the previous patch.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17199-1ab2561f0d94af92@postgresql.org

I noticed that commit 0bead9af left this flag undocumented in
XLogSetRecordFlags, which led me to discover that the flag doesn't
actually do what the one comment on it said it does.  Improve the
situation by adding some more comments.

Backpatch to 14, where the aforementioned commit appears.

Author: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/202109212119.c3nhfp64t2ql@alvherre.pgsql

A broken HOT chain is not an unexpected condition, even when the offset
number points past the end of the page's line pointer array.
heap_prune_chain() does not (and never has) treated this condition as
unexpected, so derivative code in heap_index_delete_tuples() shouldn't
do so either.

Oversight in commit 42288174.

The assertion can probably only fail on Postgres 14 and master.  Earlier
releases don't have commit 3c3b8a4b, which taught VACUUM to truncate the
line pointer array of heap pages.  Backpatch all the same, just to be
consistent.

Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Reported-By: Alexander Lakhin <exclusion@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17197-9438f31f46705182@postgresql.org
Backpatch: 12-, just like commit 42288174.

Source-Git-URL: git://git.postgresql.org/git/pgtranslation/messages.git
Source-Git-Hash: 10b675b81a3a04bac460cb049e0b7b6e17fb4795

A few characters in the acknowledgments list cannot be handled by the
PDF build, so replace with a similar ASCII character.

current through 66061077

Since introduction of extended statistics, we've disallowed references
to system columns. So for example

    CREATE STATISTICS s ON ctid FROM t;

would fail. But with extended statistics on expressions, it was possible
to work around this limitation quite easily

    CREATE STATISTICS s ON (ctid::text) FROM t;

This is an oversight in a4d75c86, fixed by adding a simple check.
Backpatch to PostgreSQL 14, where support for extended statistics on
expressions was introduced.

Backpatch-through: 14
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210816013255.GS10479%40telsasoft.com

A recent question reminded me that the notes' description of
commit 86dc9005 rather undersold its benefits.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/4a3115d4-0fb2-e214-93e3-9a9d0974b883@deepbluecap.com

"PGcon" should be "PGconn".  Noted by D. Frey.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/163191739352.4680.16994248583642672629@wrigleys.postgresql.org

Improve various item descriptions.  Rearrange some things into
(IMO) more logical order.  Fix missing markup and dubious
choices of link destinations.  Drop a couple of items that
were later back-patched or otherwise don't seem to need
to be documented here.

Account for recent commits, notably reversion of 0827e8af.
Strip trailing spaces.

An elog that reports the value of a transaction ID stored on a deleted
nbtree page was added by commit e5d8a999, which taught page deletion to
store full 64-bit XIDs.  It seems very chatty on further reflection, so
lower its elevel from NOTICE to DEBUG2.

Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Backpatch: 14-, just like the nbtree XID enhancement.