postgresql/contrib
Alvaro Herrera eedbbff504 Reduce cost of test_decoding's new oldest_xmin test
Change a whole-database VACUUM into doing just pg_attribute, which is
the portion that verifies what we want it to do.  The original
formulation wastes a lot of CPU time, which leads the test to fail when
runtime exceeds isolationtester timeout when it's super-slow, such as
under CLOBBER_CACHE_ALWAYS.  Per buildfarm member friarbird.

It turns out that the previous shape of the test doesn't always detect
the condition it is supposed to detect (on unpatched reorderbuffer
code): the reason is that there is a good chance of encountering a
xl_running_xacts record (logged every 15 seconds) before the checkpoint
-- and because we advance the xmin when we receive that WAL record, and
we *don't* advance the xmin twice consecutively without receiving a
client message in between, that means the xmin is not advanced enough
for the tuple to be pruned from pg_attribute by VACUUM.  So the test
would spuriously pass.

The reason this test deficiency wasn't detected earlier is that HOT
pruning removes the tuple anyway, even if vacuum leaves it in place, so
the test correctly fails (detecting the coding mistake), but for the
wrong reason.

To fix this mess, run the s0_get_changes step twice before vacuum
instead of once: this seems to cause the xmin to be advanced reliably,
wreaking havoc with more certainty.

Author: Arseny Sher
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/87h8lkuxoa.fsf@ars-thinkpad
2018-07-05 16:54:14 -04:00
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adminpack Fix potentially-unportable code in contrib/adminpack. 2018-04-15 13:02:11 -04:00
auth_delay Add file version information to most installed Windows binaries. 2014-07-14 14:07:52 -04:00
auto_explain Allow auto_explain.log_min_duration to go up to INT_MAX. 2018-02-23 14:39:21 -05:00
btree_gin Make contrib regression tests safe for Danish locale. 2016-07-21 16:52:36 -04:00
btree_gist Fix assorted issues in convert_to_scalar(). 2018-03-03 20:31:35 -05:00
chkpass Avoid returning undefined bytes in chkpass_in(). 2015-02-14 12:20:56 -05:00
citext Make contrib regression tests safe for Danish locale. 2016-07-21 16:52:36 -04:00
cube Fix typos in comments. 2017-02-06 11:34:18 +02:00
dblink Fix ancient connection leak in dblink 2017-03-11 13:32:40 -08:00
dict_int Update copyright for 2015 2015-01-06 11:43:47 -05:00
dict_xsyn Update copyright for 2015 2015-01-06 11:43:47 -05:00
earthdistance Fix typos in comments. 2017-02-06 11:34:18 +02:00
file_fdw Allow foreign and custom joins to handle EvalPlanQual rechecks. 2015-12-08 12:54:33 -05:00
fuzzystrmatch Remove new coupling between NAMEDATALEN and MAX_LEVENSHTEIN_STRLEN. 2016-01-22 11:53:06 -05:00
hstore Avoid formally-undefined use of memcpy() in hstoreUniquePairs(). 2017-11-25 14:42:36 -05:00
hstore_plperl Fix contrib/hstore_plperl to look through scalar refs. 2018-06-18 15:55:06 -04:00
hstore_plpython Use LOAD not actual code execution to pull in plpython library. 2016-01-11 20:06:47 -05:00
intagg Fix typos in some error messages thrown by extension scripts when fed to psql. 2014-08-25 18:30:37 +02:00
intarray Fix -e option in contrib/intarray/bench/bench.pl. 2016-08-17 15:51:10 -04:00
isn Fix typos in comments. 2017-02-06 11:34:18 +02:00
lo Fix typos in some error messages thrown by extension scripts when fed to psql. 2014-08-25 18:30:37 +02:00
ltree Spelling fixes 2017-03-14 13:45:51 -04:00
ltree_plpython Use LOAD not actual code execution to pull in plpython library. 2016-01-11 20:06:47 -05:00
oid2name Empty search_path in Autovacuum and non-psql/pgbench clients. 2018-02-26 07:39:48 -08:00
pageinspect Back-patch portability fixes for contrib/pageinspect/ginfuncs.c. 2016-11-04 12:37:29 -04:00
passwordcheck Update copyright for 2015 2015-01-06 11:43:47 -05:00
pg_buffercache pg_buffercache: Allow huge allocations. 2016-09-15 09:30:36 -04:00
pg_freespacemap Fix typos in some error messages thrown by extension scripts when fed to psql. 2014-08-25 18:30:37 +02:00
pg_prewarm Update copyright for 2015 2015-01-06 11:43:47 -05:00
pg_standby Fix new warnings from GCC 7 2017-05-16 08:43:55 -04:00
pg_stat_statements Fix typos in comments. 2017-02-06 11:34:18 +02:00
pg_trgm Further fix pg_trgm's extraction of trigrams from regular expressions. 2017-04-14 14:52:03 -04:00
pgcrypto Rename base64 routines to avoid conflict with Solaris built-in functions. 2018-02-28 18:33:45 -05:00
pgrowlocks Fix handling of multixacts predating pg_upgrade 2016-06-24 18:29:28 -04:00
pgstattuple Remove unused macros. 2016-05-02 10:08:58 +03:00
postgres_fdw Fix creation of resjunk tlist entries for inherited mixed UPDATE/DELETE. 2017-11-27 17:54:11 -05:00
seg Fix typos in comments. 2017-02-06 11:34:18 +02:00
sepgsql Silence compiler warning in sepgsql 2017-04-06 14:24:44 -07:00
spi Fix typos in comments. 2017-02-06 11:34:18 +02:00
sslinfo Fix error message wording in previous sslinfo commit 2015-09-08 11:10:20 -03:00
start-scripts Provide modern examples of how to auto-start Postgres on macOS. 2017-11-17 12:47:29 -05:00
tablefunc Fix a number of places that produced XX000 errors in the regression tests. 2015-08-02 23:49:19 -04:00
tcn Update copyright for 2015 2015-01-06 11:43:47 -05:00
test_decoding Reduce cost of test_decoding's new oldest_xmin test 2018-07-05 16:54:14 -04:00
tsearch2 Fix typos in comments. 2017-02-06 11:34:18 +02:00
tsm_system_rows Redesign tablesample method API, and do extensive code review. 2015-07-25 14:39:00 -04:00
tsm_system_time Some platforms now need contrib/tsm_system_time to be linked with libm. 2015-07-25 16:37:22 -04:00
unaccent Update copyright for 2015 2015-01-06 11:43:47 -05:00
uuid-ossp Give a useful error message if uuid-ossp is built without preconfiguration. 2016-12-22 11:19:18 -05:00
vacuumlo Empty search_path in Autovacuum and non-psql/pgbench clients. 2018-02-26 07:39:48 -08:00
xml2 Fix typos in comments. 2017-02-06 11:34:18 +02:00
contrib-global.mk Remove cvs keywords from all files. 2010-09-20 22:08:53 +02:00
Makefile Finish removing pg_audit 2015-05-28 12:48:25 -04:00
README Rename 'gmake' to 'make' in docs and recommended commands 2014-02-12 17:29:19 -05:00

The PostgreSQL contrib tree
---------------------------

This subtree contains porting tools, analysis utilities, and plug-in
features that are not part of the core PostgreSQL system, mainly
because they address a limited audience or are too experimental to be
part of the main source tree.  This does not preclude their
usefulness.

User documentation for each module appears in the main SGML
documentation.

When building from the source distribution, these modules are not
built automatically, unless you build the "world" target.  You can
also build and install them all by running "make all" and "make
install" in this directory; or to build and install just one selected
module, do the same in that module's subdirectory.

Some directories supply new user-defined functions, operators, or
types.  To make use of one of these modules, after you have installed
the code you need to register the new SQL objects in the database
system by executing a CREATE EXTENSION command.  In a fresh database,
you can simply do

    CREATE EXTENSION module_name;

See the PostgreSQL documentation for more information about this
procedure.