Without the added "relation" it's not immediately clear that the option
relates to the relation segment size and not e.g. the WAL segment size.
The option was added in d3b111e32.
Reported-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/837536.1695348498@sss.pgh.pa.us
Backpatch: 16-
The previous wording had a faint archaic whiff to it, and more
importantly used "catalogs" as a verb, which while cutely
self-referential seems likely to provoke confusion in this
particular context. Also consistently use "kind" not "type" to
refer to the different kinds of relations distinguished by relkind.
Per gripe from Martin Nash. Back-patch to supported versions.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/169518739902.3727338.4793815593763320945@wrigleys.postgresql.org
cursor_to_xmlschema() assumed that any Portal must have a tupDesc,
which is not so. Add a defensive check.
It's plausible that this mistake occurred because of the rather
poorly chosen name of the lookup function SPI_cursor_find(),
which in such cases is returning something that isn't very much
like a cursor. Add some documentation to try to forestall future
errors of the same ilk.
Report and patch by Boyu Yang (docs changes by me). Back-patch
to all supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/dd343010-c637-434c-a8cb-418f53bda3b8.yangboyu.yby@alibaba-inc.com
Extend the PG_TEST_EXTRA documentation to mention resource intensive
tests as well. The previous wording only mentioned special software
and security in the main paragraph, with resource usage listed on one
of the tests in the list.
Backpatch to v15 where f47ed79cc8 added wal_consistenct_checking as
a PG_TEST_EXTRA target.
Author: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAN55FZ0OthTuBdiNkaX2BvxuHdK4Y1MVEb8_uEuD1yHMPmT9Og@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 15
The logical_replication_mode GUC is intended for testing and debugging
purposes, but its current name may be misleading and encourage users to make
unnecessary changes.
To avoid confusion, renaming the GUC to a less misleading name
debug_logical_replication_streaming that casual users are less likely to mistakenly
assume needs to be modified in a regular logical replication setup.
Author: Hou Zhijie <houzj.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Smith <smithpb2250@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/d672d774-c44b-6fec-f993-793e744f169a%40eisentraut.org
The list of external language drivers and procedural languages was
never complete or exhaustive, and rather than attempting to manage
it the content has migrated to the wiki. This replaces the tables
altogether with links to the wiki as we regularly get requests for
adding various projects, which we reject without any clear policy
for why or how the content should be managed.
The threads linked to below are the most recent discussions about
this, the archives contain many more.
Backpatch to all supported branches since the list on the wiki
applies to all branches.
Author: Jonathan Katz <jkatz@postgresql.org>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/169165415312.635.10247434927885764880@wrigleys.postgresql.org
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/169177958824.635.11087800083040275266@wrigleys.postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: v11
With the addition of INHERIT and SET options for role grants,
the historical display of role memberships in \du/\dg is woefully
inadequate. Besides those options, there are pre-existing
shortcomings that you can't see the ADMIN option nor the grantor.
To fix this, remove the "Member of" column from \du/\dg altogether
(making that output usefully narrower), and invent a new meta-command
"\drg" that is specifically for displaying role memberships. It
shows one row for each role granted to the selected role(s), with
the grant options and grantor.
We would not normally back-patch such a feature addition post
feature freeze, but in this case the change is mainly driven by
v16 changes in the server, so it seems appropriate to include it
in v16.
Pavel Luzanov, with bikeshedding and review from a lot of people,
but particularly David Johnston
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/b9be2d0e-a9bc-0a30-492f-a4f68e4f7740@postgrespro.ru
IN and NOT IN work fine on records and arrays, so just say that
they accept "expressions" not "scalar expressions". I think that
that phrasing was meant to say that they don't work on set-returning
expressions, but that's not the common meaning of "scalar".
Revise the description of row-constructor comparisons to make it
perhaps a bit less confusing. (This partially reverts some
dubious wording changes made by commit f56651519.)
Per gripe from Ilya Nenashev. Back-patch to supported branches.
In HEAD and v16, also drop a NOTE about pre-8.2 behavior, which
is hopefully no longer of interest to anybody.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/168968062460.632.14303906825812821399@wrigleys.postgresql.org
The "count" argument of SPI_exec() only limits execution when
the query is actually returning rows. This was not the case
before PG 9.0, so this example was correct when written; but
we missed updating it in commit 2ddc600f8. Extend the example
to show the behavior both with and without RETURNING.
While here, improve the commentary and markup for the rest
of the example.
David G. Johnston and Tom Lane, per report from Curt Kolovson.
Back-patch to all supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CANhYJV6HWtgz_qjx_APfK0PAgLUzY-2vjLuj7i_o=TZF1LAQew@mail.gmail.com
Until now, when DROP DATABASE got interrupted in the wrong moment, the removal
of the pg_database row would also roll back, even though some irreversible
steps have already been taken. E.g. DropDatabaseBuffers() might have thrown
out dirty buffers, or files could have been unlinked. But we continued to
allow connections to such a corrupted database.
To fix this, mark databases invalid with an in-place update, just before
starting to perform irreversible steps. As we can't add a new column in the
back branches, we use pg_database.datconnlimit = -2 for this purpose.
An invalid database cannot be connected to anymore, but can still be
dropped.
Unfortunately we can't easily add output to psql's \l to indicate that some
database is invalid, it doesn't fit in any of the existing columns.
Add tests verifying that a interrupted DROP DATABASE is handled correctly in
the backend and in various tools.
Reported-by: Evgeny Morozov <postgresql3@realityexists.net>
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230509004637.cgvmfwrbht7xm7p6@awork3.anarazel.de
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230314174521.74jl6ffqsee5mtug@awork3.anarazel.de
Backpatch: 11-, bug present in all supported versions
Commit 89e46da5e allowed REPLICA IDENTITY FULL tables to use an index
on the subscriber during apply of update/delete. This commit clarifies
in the documentation that the leftmost field of candidate indexes must
be a column (not an expression) that references the published relation
column.
The source code comments are also updated accordingly.
Reviewed-by: Peter Smith, Amit Kapila
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAD21AoDJjffEvUFKXT27Q5U8-UU9JHv4rrJ9Ke8Zkc5UPWHLvA@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 16
The DEFAULT parameter seems most similar to the NULL parameter, so
move it next to it, instead of having it at the end of the parameter
list because it was the last one added.
When set, this environment variable was only effective for data
directories but not for all the other temporary files created by
PostgreSQL::Test::Utils. Keeping the temporary files after a successful
run can be useful for debugging purposes.
The documentation is updated to reflect the new behavior, with contents
available in doc/ since v16 and in src/test/perl/README since v15.
Author: Jacob Champion
Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAWbhmgHtDH1SGZ+Fw05CsXtE0mzTmjbuUxLB9mY9iPKgM6cUw@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/YyPd9unV14SX2bLF@paquier.xyz
Backpatch-through: 11
Not including the timeline IDs to the file names generated by pg_waldump
for the individual blocks saved could cause some of these files to be
overwritten when scanning segments across multiple timelines. Having
this information is also as much useful as the LSNs, to be able to know
from exactly which WAL segment a block is comes from.
While on it, this fixes a few comments in the tests, where the format of
the file was not described as matching with the reality.
Reported-by: Fujii Masao
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi, David Christensen
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ZJp921+nITFnvBVS@paquier.xyz
The documentation of the required privileges for maintenance
commands (i.e., VACUUM, ANALYZE, CLUSTER, LOCK TABLE, REFRESH
MATERIALIZED VIEW, and REINDEX) is redundant, inaccurate, and
difficult to read. This commit fixes and simplifies this
documentation by removing references to ownership, superuser, and
the pg_maintain role. In addition, this removes notes about
database-wide VACUUM and ANALYZE, clarifies matters for REINDEX on
partitioned indexes and tables, and strengthens the description of
the pg_maintain role.
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier, Jeff Davis
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230615041044.GA736001%40nathanxps13
ff9618e82a introduced has_partition_ancestor_privs(), which is used
to check whether a user has MAINTAIN on any partition ancestors.
This involves syscache lookups, and presently this function does
not take any relation locks, so it is likely subject to the same
kind of cache lookup failures that were fixed by 19de0ab23c.
To fix this problem, this commit partially reverts ff9618e82a.
Specifically, it removes the partition-related changes, including
the has_partition_ancestor_privs() function mentioned above. This
means that MAINTAIN on a partitioned table is no longer sufficient
to perform maintenance commands on its partitions. This is more
like how privileges for maintenance commands work on supported
versions. Privileges are checked for each partition, so a command
that flows down to all partitions might refuse to process them
(e.g., if the current user doesn't have MAINTAIN on the partition).
In passing, adjust a few related comments and error messages, and
add a test for the privilege checks for CLUSTER on a partitioned
table.
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier, Jeff Davis
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230613211246.GA219055%40nathanxps13
By default, triggers and rules do not fire on a logical replication
subscriber based on the "session_replication_role" GUC being set to
"replica". However, the docs in the logical replication section assumed
that the reader understood how this GUC worked. This modifies the docs to
be more explicit and links back to the GUC itself.
Author: Jonathan Katz, Peter Smith
Reviewed-by: Vignesh C, Euler Taveira
Backpatch-through: 11
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/5bb2c9a2-499f-e1a2-6e33-5ce96b35cc4a@postgresql.org
Statistics defined by the CREATE STATISTICS command are only used to
assist with the selectivity estimations of base relations, never for
joins. Here we mention this fact in the notes section of the CREATE
STATISTICS command.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvrMuVgDOrmg_EtFDZ=AOovq6EsJNnHH1ddyZ8EqL4yzMw@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 11
The existing errhint message and docs were missing the fact that we can't
disassociate from the slot unless the subscription is disabled.
Author: Robert Sjöblom, Peter Smith
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut, Amit Kapila
Backpatch-through: 11
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/807bdf85-61ea-88e2-5712-6d9fcd4eabff@fortnox.se
For CREATE DATABASE, make LOCALE parameter apply regardless of the
provider used. Also affects initdb and createdb --locale arguments.
Previously, LOCALE (and --locale) only affected the database default
collation when using the libc provider.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1a63084d-221e-4075-619e-6b3e590f673e@enterprisedb.com
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut
In the documentation, previously the example command for
ALTER FOREIGN TABLE ... OPTIONS incorrectly included both
the option name and value with the DROP operation.
The correct syntax for the DROP operation requires only
the name of the option to be specified. This commit fixes
the example by removing the option value from the DROP operation.
Back-patch to all supported versions.
Author: Mehmet Emin KARAKAS <emin100@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CANQrdXAHzbcEYhjGoe5A42OmfvdQhHFJzyKj9gJvHuDKyOF5Ng@mail.gmail.com
The GUC settings lc_collate and lc_ctype are from a time when those
locale settings were cluster-global. When those locale settings were
made per-database (PG 8.4), the settings were kept as read-only. As
of PG 15, you can use ICU as the per-database locale provider, so
examining these settings is already less meaningful and possibly
confusing, since you need to look into pg_database to find out what is
really happening, and they would likely become fully obsolete in the
future anyway.
Reviewed-by: Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/696054d1-bc88-b6ab-129a-18b8bce6a6f0@enterprisedb.com
2dcd1578c4 left the --role option undocumented, which is
inconsistent with other deprecated options such as pg_dump's
--blobs and --no-blobs. This change adds --role back to
createuser's documentation and usage output and marks it as
deprecated.
Suggested-by: Peter Eisentraut
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/0e85c9e7-4804-1cdb-5a4a-c72c328f9ad8%40enterprisedb.com
That's how other boolean options are handled, so do likewise.
The previous coding with "enable" and "disable" was seemingly
modeled on gssencmode, but that's a three-way flag.
While at it, add PGGSSDELEGATION to the set of environment
variables cleared by pg_regress and Utils.pm.
Abhijit Menon-Sen, per gripe from Alvaro Herrera
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230522091609.nlyuu4nolhycqs2p@alvherre.pgsql
