RelFileNumbers are now assigned using a separate counter, instead of
being assigned from the OID counter. This counter never wraps around:
if all 2^56 possible RelFileNumbers are used, an internal error
occurs. As the cluster is limited to 2^64 total bytes of WAL, this
limitation should not cause a problem in practice.
If the counter were 64 bits wide rather than 56 bits wide, we would
need to increase the width of the BufferTag, which might adversely
impact buffer lookup performance. Also, this lets us use bigint for
pg_class.relfilenode and other places where these values are exposed
at the SQL level without worrying about overflow.
This should remove the need to keep "tombstone" files around until
the next checkpoint when relations are removed. We do that to keep
RelFileNumbers from being recycled, but now that won't happen
anyway. However, this patch doesn't actually change anything in
this area; it just makes it possible for a future patch to do so.
Dilip Kumar, based on an idea from Andres Freund, who also reviewed
some earlier versions of the patch. Further review and some
wordsmithing by me. Also reviewed at various points by Ashutosh
Sharma, Vignesh C, Amul Sul, Álvaro Herrera, and Tom Lane.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+Tgmobp7+7kmi4gkq7Y+4AM9fTvL+O1oQ4-5gFTT+6Ng-dQ=g@mail.gmail.com
Previously, the transaction-property GUCs such as transaction_isolation
could be reset after starting a transaction, because we marked them
as GUC_NO_RESET_ALL but still allowed a targeted RESET. That leads to
assertion failures or worse, because those properties aren't supposed
to change after we've acquired a transaction snapshot.
There are some NO_RESET_ALL variables for which RESET is okay, so
we can't just redefine the semantics of that flag. Instead introduce
a separate GUC_NO_RESET flag. Mark "seed", as well as the transaction
property GUCs, as GUC_NO_RESET.
We have to disallow GUC_ACTION_SAVE as well as straight RESET, because
otherwise a function having a "SET transaction_isolation" clause can
still break things: the end-of-function restore action is equivalent
to a RESET.
No back-patch, as it's conceivable that someone is doing something
this patch will forbid (like resetting one of these GUCs at transaction
start, or "CREATE FUNCTION ... SET transaction_read_only = 1") and not
running into problems with it today. Given how long we've had this
issue and not noticed, the side effects in non-assert builds can't be
too serious.
Per bug #17385 from Andrew Bille.
Masahiko Sawada
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17385-9ee529fb091f0ce5@postgresql.org
While at it, remove an unused queryString parameter from
CheckPubRelationColumnList() and make other minor stylistic changes.
Backpatch to 15.
Reported by Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Hou zj <houzj.fnst@fujitsu.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220926.160426.454497059203258582.horikyota.ntt@gmail.com
Commit 25936fd46 adjusted things so that the "storeslot" we use
for remapping trigger tuples would have adequate lifespan, but it
neglected to consider the lifespan of the tuple descriptor that
the slot depends on. It turns out that in at least some cases, the
tupdesc we are passing is a refcounted tupdesc, and the refcount for
the slot's reference can get assigned to a resource owner having
different lifespan than the slot does. That leads to an error like
"tupdesc reference 0x7fdef236a1b8 is not owned by resource owner
SubTransaction". Worse, because of a second oversight in the same
commit, we'd try to free the same tupdesc refcount again while
cleaning up after that error, leading to recursive errors and an
"ERRORDATA_STACK_SIZE exceeded" PANIC.
To fix the initial problem, let's just make a non-refcounted copy
of the tupdesc we're supposed to use. That seems likely to guard
against additional problems, since there's no strong reason for
this code to assume that what it's given is a refcounted tupdesc;
in which case there's an independent hazard of the tupdesc having
shorter lifespan than the slot does. (I didn't bother trying to
free said copy, since it should go away anyway when the (sub)
transaction context is cleaned up.)
The other issue can be fixed by making the code added to
AfterTriggerFreeQuery work like the rest of that function, ie be
sure that it doesn't try to free the same slot twice in the event
of recursive error cleanup.
While here, also clean up minor stylistic issues in the test case
added by 25936fd46: don't use "create or replace function", as any
name collision within the tests is likely to have ill effects
that that won't mask; and don't use function names as generic as
trigger_function1, especially if you're not going to drop them
at the end of the test stanza.
Per bug #17607 from Thomas Mc Kay. Back-patch to v12, as the
previous fix was.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17607-bd8ccc81226f7f80@postgresql.org
Commit 4fb5c794e intended to add coverage of some ambuildempty
methods that were not getting reached, without removing any
test coverage. However, by changing a temp table to unlogged
it managed to negate the intent of 4c51a2d1e, which means that
we didn't have reliable test coverage of ginvacuum.c anymore.
As things stand, much of that file might or might not get reached
depending on timing, which seems pretty undesirable.
Although this is only clearly broken for the GIN test, it seems
best to revert 4fb5c794e altogether and instead add bespoke test
cases covering unlogged indexes for these four AMs. We don't
need to do very much with them, so the extra tests are cheap.
(Note that btree, hash, and bloom already have similar test cases,
so they need no additional work.)
We can also undo dec8ad367. Since the testing deficiency that that
hacked around was later fixed by 2f2e24d90, let's intentionally leave
an unlogged table behind to improve test coverage in the modules that
use the regression database for other test purposes. (The case I used
also leaves an unlogged sequence behind.)
Per report from Alex Kozhemyakin. Back-patch to v15 where the
faulty test came in.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/b00c8ee096ee46cd25c183125562a1a7@postgrespro.ru
Because index creation does not go through heap_create_with_catalog() we
didn't call pgstat_create_relation(), leading to index stats of a newly
created realtion not getting dropped during rollback. To fix, move the
pgstat_create_relation() to heap_create(), which indexes do use.
Similarly, because dropping an index does not go through
heap_drop_with_catalog(), we didn't drop index stats when the transaction
dropping an index committed. Here there's no convenient common path for
indexes and relations, so index_drop() now calls pgstat_drop_relation().
Add tests for transactional index stats handling.
Author: "Drouvot, Bertrand" <bdrouvot@amazon.com>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/51bbf286-2b4a-8998-bd12-eaae4b765d99@amazon.com
Backpatch: 15-, like 8b1dccd37c, which introduced the bug
The extended query protocol implementation I added in commit
acb7e4eb6b has bugs when used in pipeline mode. Rather than spend
more time trying to fix it, remove that code and make the function rely
on simple query protocol only, meaning it can no longer be used in
pipeline mode.
Users can easily change their applications to use PQsendQueryParams
instead. We leave PQsendQuery in place for Postgres 14, just in case
somebody is using it and has not hit the mentioned bugs; but we should
recommend that it not be used.
Backpatch to 15.
Per bug report from Gabriele Varrazzo.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+mi_8ZGSQNmW6-mk_iSR4JZB_LJ4ww3suOF+1vGNs3MrLsv4g@mail.gmail.com
The "emulation" I wrote for PQsendQuery in pipeline mode to use extended
query protocol, in commit acb7e4eb6b, is problematic. Due to numerous
bugs we'll soon remove it. As a first step and for all branches back to
14, stop using PQsendQuery in libpq_pipeline. Also remove a few test
lines that will no longer be relevant.
Backpatch to 14.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+mi_8ZGSQNmW6-mk_iSR4JZB_LJ4ww3suOF+1vGNs3MrLsv4g@mail.gmail.com
We previously thought that allowing such cases can confuse users when they
specify DROP TABLES IN SCHEMA but that doesn't seem to be the case based
on discussion. This helps to uplift the restriction during
ALTER TABLE ... SET SCHEMA which used to ensure that we couldn't end up
with a publication having both a schema and the same schema's table.
To allow this, we need to forbid having any schema on a publication if
column lists on a table are specified (and vice versa). This is because
otherwise we still need a restriction during ALTER TABLE ... SET SCHEMA to
forbid cases where it could lead to a publication having both a schema and
the same schema's table with column list.
Based on suggestions by Peter Eisentraut.
Author: Hou Zhijie and Vignesh C
Reviewed-By: Peter Smith, Amit Kapila
Backpatch-through: 15, where it was introduced
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2729c9e2-9aac-8cda-f2f4-34f2bcc18f4e@enterprisedb.com
This may be a bit too subtle, but removing that word from there makes
this clause no longer a perfect parallel of the GRANT variant "ALL
TABLES IN SCHEMA": indeed, for publications what we record is the schema
itself, not the tables therein, which means that any tables added to the
schema in the future are also published. This is completely different
to what GRANT does, which is affect only the tables that exist when the
command is executed.
There isn't resounding support for this change, but there are a few
positive votes and no opposition. Because the time to 15 RC1 is very
short, let's get this out now.
Backpatch to 15.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2729c9e2-9aac-8cda-f2f4-34f2bcc18f4e
Autoconf is showing its age, fewer and fewer contributors know how to wrangle
it. Recursive make has a lot of hard to resolve dependency issues and slow
incremental rebuilds. Our home-grown MSVC build system is hard to maintain for
developers not using Windows and runs tests serially. While these and other
issues could individually be addressed with incremental improvements, together
they seem best addressed by moving to a more modern build system.
After evaluating different build system choices, we chose to use meson, to a
good degree based on the adoption by other open source projects.
We decided that it's more realistic to commit a relatively early version of
the new build system and mature it in tree.
This commit adds an initial version of a meson based build system. It supports
building postgres on at least AIX, FreeBSD, Linux, macOS, NetBSD, OpenBSD,
Solaris and Windows (however only gcc is supported on aix, solaris). For
Windows/MSVC postgres can now be built with ninja (faster, particularly for
incremental builds) and msbuild (supporting the visual studio GUI, but
building slower).
Several aspects (e.g. Windows rc file generation, PGXS compatibility, LLVM
bitcode generation, documentation adjustments) are done in subsequent commits
requiring further review. Other aspects (e.g. not installing test-only
extensions) are not yet addressed.
When building on Windows with msbuild, builds are slower when using a visual
studio version older than 2019, because those versions do not support
MultiToolTask, required by meson for intra-target parallelism.
The plan is to remove the MSVC specific build system in src/tools/msvc soon
after reaching feature parity. However, we're not planning to remove the
autoconf/make build system in the near future. Likely we're going to keep at
least the parts required for PGXS to keep working around until all supported
versions build with meson.
Some initial help for postgres developers is at
https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Meson
With contributions from Thomas Munro, John Naylor, Stone Tickle and others.
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Author: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>
Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
Reviewed-By: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20211012083721.hvixq4pnh2pixr3j@alap3.anarazel.de
For publication schemas (OBJECT_PUBLICATION_NAMESPACE) and user
mappings (OBJECT_USER_MAPPING), pg_get_object_address() checked the
array length of the second argument, but not of the first argument.
If the first argument was too long, it would just silently ignore
everything but the first argument. Fix that by checking the length of
the first argument as well.
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/caaef70b-a874-1088-92ef-5ac38269c33b%40enterprisedb.com
To avoid duplicating the PG_TEST_EXTRA logic in Makefiles into the upcoming
meson based build definition, move the checks into the the tests
themselves. That also has the advantage of making skipped tests visible.
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
Author: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/7dae5979-c6c0-cec5-7a36-76a85aa8053d@enterprisedb.com
The motivation for this is twofold. For one the meson patchset would like to
have more control over the logfiles. For another, the log file location for
tap tests (tmp_check/log) is not symmetric to the log location for
pg_regress/isolation tests (log/).
This commit does not change the default location for log files for tap tests,
as that'd break the buildfarm log collection, it just provides the
infrastructure for doing so.
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
Reviewed-by: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1131990.1660661896@sss.pgh.pa.us
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220828170806.GN2342@telsasoft.com
This is motivated by the meson patchset, which wants to put the log / data for
tests in a different place than the autoconf build. Right now log files for
tap tests have to be inside $TESTDIR/tmp_check, whereas log files for
pg_regress/isolationtester are outside of tmp_check. This change doesn't fix
the latter, but is a prerequisite.
The only test that needs adjustment is 010_tab_completion.pl, as it hardcoded
the tmp_check/ directory. Instead create a dedicated directory for the test
files. It's also a bit cleaner independently, because it doesn't intermingle
the test files with more important things like the log/ directory.
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1131990.1660661896@sss.pgh.pa.us
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/d861493c-ed20-c251-7a89-7924f5197341@enterprisedb.com
Make regex code consistently use named parameters in function
declarations. Also make sure that parameter names from each function's
declaration match corresponding definition parameter names.
This makes Henry Spencer's regex code follow Postgres coding standards.
Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Reviewed-By: David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-WznJt9CMM9KJTMjJh_zbL5hD9oX44qdJ4aqZtjFi-zA3Tg@mail.gmail.com
Very occasionally the stats test failed due to the number of sessions not
being updated yet. Likely this requires that there is contention on the
database's stats entry. Solve this by forcing pending stats to be flushed
before fetching the stats.
I verified that there are no other test failures after making
pgstat_report_stat() only flush stats when force = true.
Per message from Tom Lane and buildfarm member crake.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3428246.1663271992@sss.pgh.pa.us
Backpatch: 15-, where 5264add784 added the test
I happened to notice that libpq_pipeline's private implementation
of pg_fatal lacked any pg_attribute_printf decoration. Indeed,
adding that turned up a mistake! We'd likely never have noticed
because the error exits in this code are unlikely to get hit,
but still, it's a bug.
We're so used to having the compiler check this stuff for us that
a printf-like function without pg_attribute_printf is a land mine.
I wonder if there is a way to detect such omissions.
Back-patch to v14 where this code came in.
Various bits of code were declaring signal handlers manually,
using "int signum" or variants of that. We evidently have no
platforms where that's actually wrong, but let's use our
SIGNAL_ARGS macro everywhere anyway. If nothing else, it's
good for finding signal handlers easily.
No need for back-patch, since this is just cosmetic AFAICS.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2684964.1663167995@sss.pgh.pa.us
The oldest vendor-shipped Perl in the buildfarm is 5.14.2, which is
the last version that Debian Wheezy shipped. That OS is EOL, but we
keep it running because there is no other convenient way to test certain
non-mainstream 32-bit platforms. There is no bugfix in the 5.14.2 release
that is required, and yet it's also not the latest minor release --
that would be 5.14.4. To clarify the situation, we have thus arranged the
buildfarm to test 5.14.0. That allows configure scripts and documentation
to state 5.14 without fine print.
The MSVC build didn't check the version, since our previous minimum 5.8.3
was considered too old to check for on Windows. We will need a check for
Windows sometime during the v16 cycle, but that could be rendered moot
by the impending Meson conversion, so it seems safe to just document
the requirement for now.
Reviewed by Tom Lane
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20220902181553.ev4pgzhubhdkguuv@awork3.anarazel.de
guc.c has grown to be one of our largest .c files, making it
a bottleneck for compilation. It's also acquired a bunch of
knowledge that'd be better kept elsewhere, because of our not
very good habit of putting variable-specific check hooks here.
Hence, split it up along these lines:
* guc.c itself retains just the core GUC housekeeping mechanisms.
* New file guc_funcs.c contains the SET/SHOW interfaces and some
SQL-accessible functions for GUC manipulation.
* New file guc_tables.c contains the data arrays that define the
built-in GUC variables, along with some already-exported constant
tables.
* GUC check/assign/show hook functions are moved to the variable's
home module, whenever that's clearly identifiable. A few hard-
to-classify hooks ended up in commands/variable.c, which was
already a home for miscellaneous GUC hook functions.
To avoid cluttering a lot more header files with #include "guc.h",
I also invented a new header file utils/guc_hooks.h and put all
the GUC hook functions' declarations there, regardless of their
originating module. That allowed removal of #include "guc.h"
from some existing headers. The fallout from that (hopefully
all caught here) demonstrates clearly why such inclusions are
best minimized: there are a lot of files that, for example,
were getting array.h at two or more levels of remove, despite
not having any connection at all to GUCs in themselves.
There is some very minor code beautification here, such as
renaming a couple of inconsistently-named hook functions
and improving some comments. But mostly this just moves
code from point A to point B and deals with the ensuing
needs for #include adjustments and exporting a few functions
that previously weren't exported.
Patch by me, per a suggestion from Andres Freund; thanks also
to Michael Paquier for the idea to invent guc_funcs.c.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/587607.1662836699@sss.pgh.pa.us
Commit 3a0e385048 introduced a new path for unauthenticated bytes from
the client certificate to be printed unescaped to the logs. There are a
handful of these already, but it doesn't make sense to keep making the
problem worse. \x-escape any unprintable bytes.
The test case introduces a revoked UTF-8 certificate. This requires the
addition of the `-utf8` flag to `openssl req`. Since the existing
certificates all use an ASCII subset, this won't modify the existing
certificates' subjects if/when they get regenerated; this was verified
experimentally with
$ make sslfiles-clean
$ make sslfiles
Unfortunately the test can't be run in the CI yet due to a test timing
issue; see 55828a6b60.
Author: Jacob Champion <jchampion@timescale.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAAWbhmgsvHrH9wLU2kYc3pOi1KSenHSLAHBbCVmmddW6-mc_=w@mail.gmail.com
Commit c4c340088 changed geometric operators to use float4 and float8
functions, and handle NaN's in a better way. The circle sameness test
had a typo in the code which resulted in all comparisons with the left
circle having a NaN radius considered same.
postgres=# select '<(0,0),NaN>'::circle ~= '<(0,0),1>'::circle;
?column?
----------
t
(1 row)
This fixes the sameness test to consider the radius of both the left
and right circle.
Backpatch to v12 where this was introduced.
Author: Ranier Vilela <ranier.vf@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEudQAo8dK=yctg2ZzjJuzV4zgOPBxRU5+Kb+yatFiddtQk6Rw@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: v12
During ALTER TABLE ATTACH PARTITION, if the name of a parent's foreign
key constraint is already used on the partition, the code tries to
choose another one before the FK attributes list has been populated,
so the resulting constraint name was "<relname>__fkey" instead of
"<relname>_<attrs>_fkey". Repair, and add a test case.
Backpatch to 12. In 11, the code to attach a partition was not smart
enough to cope with conflicting constraint names, so the problem doesn't
exist there.
Author: Jehan-Guillaume de Rorthais <jgdr@dalibo.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220901184156.738ebee5@karst
This commit raises a warning message for a combination of options
('copy_data = true' and 'origin = none') during CREATE/ALTER subscription
operations if the publication tables were also replicated from other
publishers.
During replication, we can skip the data from other origins as we have that
information in WAL but that is not possible during initial sync so we raise
a warning if there is such a possibility.
Author: Vignesh C
Reviewed-By: Peter Smith, Amit Kapila, Jonathan Katz, Shi yu, Wang wei
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CALDaNm0gwjY_4HFxvvty01BOT01q_fJLKQ3pWP9=9orqubhjcQ@mail.gmail.com
The addition of published column names forgot to filter on attisdropped,
leading to cases where you could see "........pg.dropped.1........"
or the like as a reportedly-published column.
While we're here, rewrite the new subquery to get a more efficient plan
for it.
Hou Zhijie, per report from Jaime Casanova. Back-patch to v15 where
the bug was introduced. (Sadly, this means we need a post-beta4
catversion bump before beta4 has even hit the streets. I see no
good alternative though.)
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/Yxa1SU4nH2HfN3/i@ahch-to
Commit db0d67db2 tweaked sort costing, which however resulted in a
couple plan changes in our regression tests. Most of the new plans were
fine, but partition_aggregate were meant to test parallel plans and the
new plans were serial.
Fix that by lowering parallel_setup_cost to 0, which is enough to switch
to the parallel plan again.
Commit 1349d2790 already made the plans parallel again, but do this
anyway to keep the tests in sync with 15, to make backpatching simpler.
Report and patch by David Rowley.
Author: David Rowley
Reviewed-by: Tomas Vondra
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvpVFgWzXdtUQkjyOPhNrNvumRi_=ftgS79KeAZ92tnHKQ@mail.gmail.com
The reverts the following and makes some associated cleanups:
commit f79b803dc: Common SQL/JSON clauses
commit f4fb45d15: SQL/JSON constructors
commit 5f0adec25: Make STRING an unreserved_keyword.
commit 33a377608: IS JSON predicate
commit 1a36bc9db: SQL/JSON query functions
commit 606948b05: SQL JSON functions
commit 49082c2cc: RETURNING clause for JSON() and JSON_SCALAR()
commit 4e34747c8: JSON_TABLE
commit fadb48b00: PLAN clauses for JSON_TABLE
commit 2ef6f11b0: Reduce running time of jsonb_sqljson test
commit 14d3f24fa: Further improve jsonb_sqljson parallel test
commit a6baa4bad: Documentation for SQL/JSON features
commit b46bcf7a4: Improve readability of SQL/JSON documentation.
commit 112fdb352: Fix finalization for json_objectagg and friends
commit fcdb35c32: Fix transformJsonBehavior
commit 4cd8717af: Improve a couple of sql/json error messages
commit f7a605f63: Small cleanups in SQL/JSON code
commit 9c3d25e17: Fix JSON_OBJECTAGG uniquefying bug
commit a79153b7a: Claim SQL standard compliance for SQL/JSON features
commit a1e7616d6: Rework SQL/JSON documentation
commit 8d9f9634e: Fix errors in copyfuncs/equalfuncs support for JSON node types.
commit 3c633f32b: Only allow returning string types or bytea from json_serialize
commit 67b26703b: expression eval: Fix EEOP_JSON_CONSTRUCTOR and EEOP_JSONEXPR size.
The release notes are also adjusted.
Backpatch to release 15.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/40d2c882-bcac-19a9-754d-4299e1d87ac7@postgresql.org
Buildfarm member bowerbird is (inconsistently) showing different
results for this test case since we enabled ASLR for MSVC builds.
It's not very clear whether that's a bug in its version of libxml2
or the test case is relying on nominally-undefined behavior, ie the
ordering of results from XPath's node(). It seems quite unlikely
that it's *our* bug though, and what's more, using node() adds
nothing to the test coverage so far as our code is concerned.
So, tweak the test to not use node().
For the moment, only change HEAD because we've only seen the
problem there. Perhaps a case will emerge for back-patching.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2655387.1661695793@sss.pgh.pa.us
Commit e3ce2de09d rearranged this
function to be able to identify which inherited role had admin option
on the target role, but it got the order of operations wrong, causing
the function to return wrong answers in the presence of non-inherited
grants.
Fix that, and add a test case that verifies the correct behavior.
Patch by me, reviewed by Nathan Bossart
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoYamnu-xt-u7CqjYWnRiJ6BQaSpYOHXP=r4QGTfd1N_EA@mail.gmail.com
More than twenty years ago (79fcde48b), we hacked the postmaster
to avoid a core-dump on systems that didn't support fflush(NULL).
We've mostly, though not completely, hewed to that rule ever since.
But such systems are surely gone in the wild, so in the spirit of
cleaning out no-longer-needed portability hacks let's get rid of
multiple per-file fflush() calls in favor of using fflush(NULL).
Also, we were fairly inconsistent about whether to fflush() before
popen() and system() calls. While we've received no bug reports
about that, it seems likely that at least some of these call sites
are at risk of odd behavior, such as error messages appearing in
an unexpected order. Rather than expend a lot of brain cells
figuring out which places are at hazard, let's just establish a
uniform coding rule that we should fflush(NULL) before these calls.
A no-op fflush() is surely of trivial cost compared to launching
a sub-process via a shell; while if it's not a no-op then we likely
need it.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2923412.1661722825@sss.pgh.pa.us
The GRANT statement can now specify WITH INHERIT TRUE or WITH
INHERIT FALSE to control whether the member inherits the granted
role's permissions. For symmetry, you can now likewise write
WITH ADMIN TRUE or WITH ADMIN FALSE to turn ADMIN OPTION on or off.
If a GRANT does not specify WITH INHERIT, the behavior based on
whether the member role is marked INHERIT or NOINHERIT. This means
that if all roles are marked INHERIT or NOINHERIT before any role
grants are performed, the behavior is identical to what we had before;
otherwise, it's different, because ALTER ROLE [NO]INHERIT now only
changes the default behavior of future grants, and has no effect on
existing ones.
Patch by me. Reviewed and testing by Nathan Bossart and Tushar Ahuja,
with design-level comments from various others.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+Tgmoa5Sf4PiWrfxA=sGzDKg0Ojo3dADw=wAHOhR9dggV=RmQ@mail.gmail.com
