This commit introduces a new subscription parameter,
max_retention_duration, aimed at mitigating excessive accumulation of dead
tuples when retain_dead_tuples is enabled and the apply worker lags behind
the publisher.
When the time spent advancing a non-removable transaction ID exceeds the
max_retention_duration threshold, the apply worker will stop retaining
conflict detection information. In such cases, the conflict slot's xmin
will be set to InvalidTransactionId, provided that all apply workers
associated with the subscription (with retain_dead_tuples enabled) confirm
the retention duration has been exceeded.
To ensure retention status persists across server restarts, a new column
subretentionactive has been added to the pg_subscription catalog. This
prevents unnecessary reactivation of retention logic after a restart.
The conflict detection slot will not be automatically re-initialized
unless a new subscription is created with retain_dead_tuples = true, or
the user manually re-enables retain_dead_tuples.
A future patch will introduce support for automatic slot re-initialization
once at least one apply worker confirms that the retention duration is
within the configured max_retention_duration.
Author: Zhijie Hou <houzj.fnst@fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: shveta malik <shveta.malik@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Nisha Moond <nisha.moond412@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/OS0PR01MB5716BE80DAEB0EE2A6A5D1F5949D2@OS0PR01MB5716.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com
When vacuumdb's --missing-stats-only option is used, the catalog
query for retrieving the list of relations to process must read
pg_statistic and pg_statistic_ext_data. However, those catalogs
can only be read by superusers by default, so --missing-stats-only
is effectively superuser-only. This is unfortunate, but since the
option is primarily intended for use by administrators after
running pg_upgrade, let's just live with it for v18. This commit
adds a note about the aforementioned privilege requirements to the
documentation for --missing-stats-only.
We first tried to improve matters by modifying the query to read
the pg_stats and pg_stats_ext system views instead. While that is
indeed more lenient from a privilege standpoint, it is also
borderline incomprehensible. pg_stats shows rows for which the
user has the SELECT privilege on the corresponding column, and
pg_stats_ext shows rows for tables the user owns. Meanwhile,
ANALYZE requires either MAINTAIN on the table or, for non-shared
relations, ownership of the database. But even if the privilege
discrepancies were tolerable, the performance impact was not.
Ultimately, the modified query was substantially more expensive, so
we abandoned the idea.
For v19, perhaps we could introduce a simple, inexpensive way to
discover which relations are missing statistics, such as a system
function or view with similar privilege requirements to ANALYZE.
Unfortunately, it is far too late for anything like that in v18.
Reviewed-by: Yugo Nagata <nagata@sraoss.co.jp>
Reviewed-by: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHGQGwHh43suEfss1wvBsk7vqiou%3DUY0zcy8HGyE5hBp%2BHZ7SQ%40mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 18
This is a follow-up for commit c2c2c7e225. It further clarifies the
following in the initcap function documentation:
* Document that title case is used for digraphs in specific locales,
* Reference particular ICU function used,
* Add note about the purpose of the function.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/804cc10ef95d4d3b298e76b181fd9437%40postgrespro.ru
Author: Oleg Tselebrovskiy <o.tselebrovskiy@postgrespro.ru>
Co-authored-by: Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
This changes configure and meson.build to require at least C11,
instead of the previous C99. The installation documentation is
updated accordingly.
configure.ac previously used AC_PROG_CC_C99 to activate C99. But
there is no AC_PROG_CC_C11 in Autoconf 2.69, because it's too
old. (Also, post-2.69, the AC_PROG_CC_Cnn macros were deprecated and
AC_PROG_CC activates the last supported C mode.) We could update the
required Autoconf version, but that might be a separate project that
no one wants to undertake at the moment. Instead, we open-code the
test for C11 using some inspiration from later Autoconf versions. But
instead of writing an elaborate test program, we keep it simple and
just check __STDC_VERSION__, which should be good enough in practice.
In meson.build, we update the existing C99 test to C11, but again we
just check for __STDC_VERSION__.
This also removes the separate option for the conforming preprocessor
on MSVC, added by commit 8fd9bb1d96, since that is activated
automatically in C11 mode.
Note, we don't use the "official" way to set the C standard in Meson
using the c_std project option, because that is impossible to use
correctly (see <https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/issues/14717>).
Reviewed-by: David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/01a69441-af54-4822-891b-ca28e05b215a@eisentraut.org
The protocol documentation states that the maximum length of a cancel
key is 256 bytes. This starts checking for that limit in libpq.
Otherwise third party backend implementations will probably start
using more bytes anyway. We also start requiring that a protocol 3.0
connection does not send a longer cancel key, to make sure that
servers don't start breaking old 3.0-only clients by accident. Finally
this also restricts the minimum key length to 4 bytes (both in the
protocol spec and in the libpq implementation).
Author: Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres@jeltef.nl>
Reviewed-by: Jacob Champion <jchampion@postgresql.org>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/df892f9f-5923-4046-9d6f-8c48d8980b50@iki.fi
Backpatch-through: 18
Temporary relations may share the same RelFileNumber with a permanent
relation, or other temporary relations associated with other sessions.
Being able to uniquely identify a temporary relation would require
RelidByRelfilenumber() to know about the proc number of the temporary
relation it wants to identify, something it is not designed for since
its introduction in f01d1ae3a1.
There are currently three callers of RelidByRelfilenumber():
- autoprewarm.
- Logical decoding, reorder buffer.
- pg_filenode_relation(), that attempts to find a relation OID based on
a tablespace OID and a RelFileNumber.
This makes the situation problematic particularly for the first two
cases, leading to the possibility of random ERRORs due to
inconsistencies that temporary relations can create in the cache
maintained by RelidByRelfilenumber(). The third case should be less of
an issue, as I suspect that there are few direct callers of
pg_filenode_relation().
The window where the ERRORs are happen is very narrow, requiring an OID
wraparound to create a lookup conflict in RelidByRelfilenumber() with a
temporary table reusing the same OID as another relation already cached.
The problem is easier to reach in workloads with a high OID consumption
rate, especially with a higher number of temporary relations created.
We could get pg_filenode_relation() and RelidByRelfilenumber() to work
with temporary relations if provided the means to identify them with an
optional proc number given in input, but the years have also shown that
we do not have a use case for it, yet. Note that this could not be
backpatched if pg_filenode_relation() needs changes. It is simpler to
ignore temporary relations.
Reported-by: Shenhao Wang <wangsh.fnst@fujitsu.com>
Author: Vignesh C <vignesh21@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh.bapat.oss@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Takamichi Osumi <osumi.takamichi@fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-By: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Reviewed-By: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>
Reported-By: Shenhao Wang <wangsh.fnst@fujitsu.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/bbaaf9f9-ebb2-645f-54bb-34d6efc7ac42@fujitsu.com
Backpatch-through: 13
The description of this GUC provides a list of the situations where
full-page writes are generated. However, it is not completely exact,
mentioning only the cases where full_page_writes=on or base backups. It
is possible to generate full-page writes in more situations than these
two, making the description confusing as it implies that no other cases
exist.
The description is slightly reworded to take into account that other
cases are possible, without mentioning them directly to minimize the
maintenance burden should FPWs be generated in more contexts in the
future.
Author: Jingtang Zhang <mrdrivingduck@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrey Borodin <x4mmm@yandex-team.ru>
Reviewed-by: Xuneng Zhou <xunengzhou@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAPsk3_CtAYa_fy4p6=x7qtoutrdKvg1kGk46D5fsE=sMt2546g@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 13
vacuumdb should follow the behavior of the underlying VACUUM and ANALYZE
commands. When --analyze-only is used, it ought to analyze regular tables,
materialized views, and partitioned tables, just as ANALYZE (with no explicit
target tables) does. Otherwise, it should only process regular tables and
materialized views, since VACUUM skips partitioned tables when no targets
are given.
Previously, vacuumdb --analyze-only skipped partitioned tables. This was
inconsistent, and also inconvenient after pg_upgrade, where --analyze-only
is typically used to gather missing statistics.
This commit fixes the behavior so that vacuumdb --analyze-only also processes
partitioned tables. As a result, both vacuumdb --analyze-only and
ANALYZE (with no explicit targets) now analyze regular tables,
partitioned tables, and materialized views, but not foreign tables.
Because this is a nontrivial behavior change, it is applied only to master.
Reported-by: Zechman, Derek S <Derek.S.Zechman@snapon.com>
Author: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>
Co-authored-by: Mircea Cadariu <cadariu.mircea@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CO1PR04MB8281387B9AD9DE30976966BBC045A%40CO1PR04MB8281.namprd04.prod.outlook.com
This commit updates the pgoutput documentation with the following changes:
- Specify the data type for each pgoutput option.
- Clarify the relationship between proto_version and options such as
streaming and two_phase.
- Add a note on the use of pg_logical_slot_peek_changes and
pg_logical_slot_get_changes with pgoutput.
Author: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Hayato Kuroda <kuroda.hayato@fujitsu.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHGQGwFJTbygdhhjR_iP4Oem=Lo1xsptWWOq825uoW+hG_Lfnw@mail.gmail.com
Previously, the documentation for pgoutput was located in the section on
the logical streaming replication protocol, and there was no index entry
for it. As a result, users had difficulty finding information about pgoutput.
This commit moves the pgoutput documentation under the logical decoding
section and adds an index entry, making it easier for users to locate and
access this information.
Author: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Hayato Kuroda <kuroda.hayato@fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Euler Taveira <euler@eulerto.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHGQGwFJTbygdhhjR_iP4Oem=Lo1xsptWWOq825uoW+hG_Lfnw@mail.gmail.com
Remove conditionally-compiled code for smaller Datum widths,
and simplify comments that describe cases no longer of interest.
I also fixed up a few more places that were not using
DatumGetIntXX where they should, and made some cosmetic
adjustments such as using sizeof(int64) not sizeof(Datum)
in places where that fit better with the surrounding code.
One thing I remembered while preparing this part is that SP-GiST
stores pass-by-value prefix keys as Datums, so that the on-disk
representation depends on sizeof(Datum). That's even more
unfortunate than the existing commentary makes it out to be,
because now there is a hazard that the change of sizeof(Datum)
will break SP-GiST indexes on 32-bit machines. It appears that
there are no existing SP-GiST opclasses that are actually
affected; and if there are some that I didn't find, the number
of installations that are using them on 32-bit machines is
doubtless tiny. So I'm proceeding on the assumption that we
can get away with this, but it's something to worry about.
(gininsert.c looks like it has a similar problem, but it's okay
because the "tuples" it's constructing are just transient data
within the tuplesort step. That's pretty poorly documented
though, so I added some comments.)
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1749799.1752797397@sss.pgh.pa.us
Set body indent to 0 to make use of the horizontal space better (and
some reviewers thought it was also more readable).
Add some left and right margin to the warning boxes, otherwise they
drift too far off the page in combination with the above change.
Author: Noboru Saito <noborusai@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Hayato Kuroda (Fujitsu) <kuroda.hayato@fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Florents Tselai <florents.tselai@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@postgresql.org>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CAAM3qnLyMUD79XF+SqAVwWCwURCF3hyuFY9Ki9Csbqs-zMwwnw@mail.gmail.com
A malicious server could inject psql meta-commands into plain-text
dump output (i.e., scripts created with pg_dump --format=plain,
pg_dumpall, or pg_restore --file) that are run at restore time on
the machine running psql. To fix, introduce a new "restricted"
mode in psql that blocks all meta-commands (except for \unrestrict
to exit the mode), and teach pg_dump, pg_dumpall, and pg_restore to
use this mode in plain-text dumps.
While at it, encourage users to only restore dumps generated from
trusted servers or to inspect it beforehand, since restoring causes
the destination to execute arbitrary code of the source superusers'
choice. However, the client running the dump and restore needn't
trust the source or destination superusers.
Reported-by: Martin Rakhmanov
Reported-by: Matthieu Denais <litezeraw@gmail.com>
Reported-by: RyotaK <ryotak.mail@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Reviewed-by: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
Security: CVE-2025-8714
Backpatch-through: 13
Although the "Floating-Point Types" section says that "float" data
type is taken to mean "double precision", this information was not
reflected in the data type table that lists all data type aliases.
Reported-by: alexander.kjall@hafslund.no
Author: Euler Taveira <euler@eulerto.com>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/175456294638.800.12038559679827947313@wrigleys.postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 13
Small touch-up on commits 25505082f0e and 50fd428b2b. Fix the
formatting of the example messages in the documentation and adjust the
wording to match the code.
ALTER TABLE ... SET EXPRESSION AS removes statistics for the target column,
so running ANALYZE afterward is recommended. But this was previously not
documented, even though a similar recommendation exists for
ALTER TABLE ... SET DATA TYPE, which also clears the column's statistics.
This commit updates the documentation to include the ANALYZE recommendation
for SET EXPRESSION AS.
Since v18, virtual generated columns are supported, and these columns never
have statistics. Therefore, ANALYZE is not needed after SET DATA TYPE or
SET EXPRESSION AS when used on virtual generated columns. This commit also
updates the documentation to clarify that ANALYZE is unnecessary in such cases.
Back-patch the ANALYZE recommendation for SET EXPRESSION AS to v17
where the feature was introduced, and the note about virtual generated
columns to v18 where those columns were added.
Author: Yugo Nagata <nagata@sraoss.co.jp>
Reviewed-by: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20250804151418.0cf365bd2855d606763443fe@sraoss.co.jp
Backpatch-through: 17
This commit introduces a new column backup_type that indicates the
type of backup being performed: either 'full' or 'incremental'.
Bump catalog version.
Author: Shinya Kato <shinya11.kato@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Yugo Nagata <nagata@sraoss.co.jp>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAOzEurQuzbHwTj1ehk1a+eeQDidJPyrE5s6mYumkjwjZnurhkQ@mail.gmail.com
We've only bothered converting the external interfaces, not the
endian-dependent internal macros (which should not be used by any
callers other than the interface functions in this header, anyway).
The VARTAG_1B_E() changes are required for C++ compatibility.
Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/928ea48f-77c6-417b-897c-621ef16685a6@eisentraut.org
func.sgml has grown over the years to the point where it is very
difficult to manage. This commit splits out each sect1 piece into its
own file, which is then included in the main file, so that the built
documentation should be identical to the pre-split documentation. All
these new files are placed in a new "func" subdirectory, and the
previous func.sgml is removed.
Done using scripts developed by:
Author: jian he <jian.universality@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CACJufxFgAh1--EMwOjMuANe=VTmjkNaZjH+AzSe04-8ZCGiESA@mail.gmail.com
This name is only used as documentation, and using this name is
consistent with its byte being a 'w'. Renaming it would also make the
use of a symbolic name based on the word "WAL" rather than the obsolete
"XLog" term more consistent, per future commits along the lines of
37c7a7eeb6, 4a68d50088, f4b54e1ed9.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/aIECfYfevCUpenBT@nathan
It's possible to use a CHECK (col IS NOT NULL) constraint to skip
scanning a table for nulls when adding a NOT NULL constraint on the same
column. However, if the CHECK constraint is dropped on the same command
that the NOT NULL is added, this fails, i.e., makes the NOT NULL addition
slow. The best we can do about it at this stage is to document this so
that users aren't taken by surprise.
(In Postgres 18 you can directly add the NOT NULL constraint as NOT
VALID instead, so there's no longer much use for the CHECK constraint,
therefore no point in building mechanism to support the case better.)
Reported-by: Andrew <psy2000usa@yahoo.com>
Reviewed-by: David G. Johnston <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/175385113607.786.16774570234342968908@wrigleys.postgresql.org
This enhancement builds upon the infrastructure introduced in commit
228c370868, which enables the preservation of deleted tuples and their
origin information on the subscriber. This capability is crucial for
handling concurrent transactions replicated from remote nodes.
The update introduces support for detecting update_deleted conflicts
during the application of update operations on the subscriber. When an
update operation fails to locate the target row-typically because it has
been concurrently deleted-we perform an additional table scan. This scan
uses the SnapshotAny mechanism and we do this additional scan only when
the retain_dead_tuples option is enabled for the relevant subscription.
The goal of this scan is to locate the most recently deleted tuple-matching
the old column values from the remote update-that has not yet been removed
by VACUUM and is still visible according to our slot (i.e., its deletion
is not older than conflict-detection-slot's xmin). If such a tuple is
found, the system reports an update_deleted conflict, including the origin
and transaction details responsible for the deletion.
This provides a groundwork for more robust and accurate conflict
resolution process, preventing unexpected behavior by correctly
identifying cases where a remote update clashes with a deletion from
another origin.
Author: Zhijie Hou <houzj.fnst@fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: shveta malik <shveta.malik@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Nisha Moond <nisha.moond412@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Hayato Kuroda <kuroda.hayato@fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/OS0PR01MB5716BE80DAEB0EE2A6A5D1F5949D2@OS0PR01MB5716.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com
It was not very clear that the triggers are only allowed on plain tables
(not foreign tables). Also, rephrase the documentation for better
readability.
Follow up to commit 9e6104c66.
Reported-by: Etsuro Fujita <etsuro.fujita@gmail.com>
Author: Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh.bapat.oss@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Etsuro Fujita <etsuro.fujita@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAPmGK16XBs9ptNr8Lk4f-tJZogf6y-Prz%3D8yhvJbb_4dpsc3mQ%40mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 13
PostgreSQL always sends the BackendKeyData message at connection
startup, but there are some third party backend implementations out
there that don't support cancellation, and don't send the message
[1]. While the protocol docs left it up for interpretation if that is
valid behavior, libpq in PostgreSQL 17 and below accepted it. It does
not seem like the libpq behavior was intentional though, since it did
so by sending CancelRequest messages with all zeros to such servers
(instead of returning an error or making the cancel a no-op).
In version 18 the behavior was changed to return an error when trying
to create the cancel object with PGgetCancel() or PGcancelCreate().
This was done without any discussion, as part of supporting different
lengths of cancel packets for the new 3.2 version of the protocol.
This commit changes the behavior of PGgetCancel() / PGcancel() once
more to only return an error when the cancel object is actually used
to send a cancellation, instead of when merely creating the object.
The reason to do so is that some clients [2] create a cancel object as
part of their connection creation logic (thus having the cancel object
ready for later when they need it), so if creating the cancel object
returns an error, the whole connection attempt fails. By delaying the
error, such clients will still be able to connect to the third party
backend implementations in question, but when actually trying to
cancel a query, the user will be notified that that is not possible
for the server that they are connected to.
This commit only changes the behavior of the older PGgetCancel() /
PQcancel() functions, not the more modern PQcancelCreate() family of
functions. I.e. PQcancelCreate() returns a failed connection object
(CONNECTION_BAD) if the server didn't send a cancellation key. Unlike
the old PQgetCancel() function, we're not aware of any clients in the
field that use PQcancelCreate() during connection startup in a way
that would prevent connecting to such servers.
[1] AWS RDS Proxy is definitely one of them, and CockroachDB might be
another.
[2] psycopg2 (but not psycopg3).
Author: Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres@jeltef.nl>
Reviewed-by: Jacob Champion <jacob.champion@enterprisedb.com>
Backpatch-through: 18
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20250617.101056.1437027795118961504.ishii%40postgresql.org
This patch adds two new counters to pg_stat_statements:
- generic_plan_calls
- custom_plan_calls
These counters track how many times a prepared statement was executed
using a generic or custom plan, respectively, providing a global
equivalent at query level, for top and non-top levels, of
pg_prepared_statements whose data is restricted to a single session.
This commit builds upon e125e36002. The module is bumped to version
1.13. PGSS_FILE_HEADER is bumped as well, something that the latest
patches touching the on-disk format of the PGSS file did not actually
bother with since 2022..
Author: Sami Imseih <samimseih@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Ilia Evdokimov <ilya.evdokimov@tantorlabs.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrei Lepikhov <lepihov@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Reviewed-by: Nikolay Samokhvalov <nik@postgres.ai>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAA5RZ0uFw8Y9GCFvafhC=OA8NnMqVZyzXPfv_EePOt+iv1T-qQ@mail.gmail.com
The sentence in question gave readers the impression that vacuumdb
removes statistics for a period of time while analyzing, but it's
actually meant to convey that --analyze-in-stages temporarily
replaces existing statistics with ones generated with lower
statistics targets.
Reported-by: Frédéric Yhuel <frederic.yhuel@dalibo.com>
Reviewed-by: Frédéric Yhuel <frederic.yhuel@dalibo.com>
Reviewed-by: "David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Corey Huinker <corey.huinker@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/4b94ca16-7a6d-4581-b2aa-4ea79dbc082a%40dalibo.com
Backpatch-through: 18
Recent discussions of the mechanisms used to manage global data have
raised concerns about their robustness and security. Rather than try
to deal with those concerns at a very late stage of the release cycle,
the conclusion is to revert these features and work on them for the
next release.
This reverts parts or all of the following commits:
1495eff7bd Non text modes for pg_dumpall, correspondingly change pg_restore
5db3bf7391 Clean up from commit 1495eff7bd289f74d0cb Add more TAP tests for pg_dumpall
2ef5790806 Fix a couple of error messages and tests for them
b52a4a5f28 Clean up error messages from 1495eff7bd4170298b6e Further cleanup for directory creation on pg_dump/pg_dumpall
22cb6d2895 Fix memory leak in pg_restore.c
928394b664 Improve various new-to-v18 appendStringInfo calls
39729ec01d Fix fat fingering in 22cb6d28955822bf21d5 Add missing space in pg_restore documentation.
f09088a01d Free memory properly in pg_restore.c
40b9c27014 pg_restore cleanups
4aad2cb770 Portability fix: isdigit() must be passed an unsigned char.
88e947136b Fix typos and grammar in the code
f60420cff6 doc: Alphabetize long options for pg_dump[all].
bc35adee8d doc: Put new options in consistent order on man pages
a876464abc Message style improvements
dec6643487 Improve pg_dump/pg_dumpall help synopses and terminology
0ebd242555 Run pgperltidy
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20250708212819.09.nmisch@google.com
Backpatch-to: 18
Reviewed-by: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
This commit documents differences in the definition of word separators for
the initcap function between libc and ICU locale providers.
Backpatch to all supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/804cc10ef95d4d3b298e76b181fd9437%40postgrespro.ru
Author: Oleg Tselebrovskiy <o.tselebrovskiy@postgrespro.ru>
Backpatch-through: 13
This commit adds missing index entries for the functions pg_buffercache_numa()
and pg_buffercache_usage_counts() in the pg_buffercache documentation.
It also makes the function titles consistent by adding parentheses after
function names where they were previously missing.
Author: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/7d19af4b-7da3-4862-9f52-ff958960bd8d@oss.nttdata.com
Backpatch-through: 18
Logical replication requires reliable conflict detection to maintain data
consistency across nodes. To achieve this, we must prevent premature
removal of tuples deleted by other origins and their associated commit_ts
data by VACUUM, which could otherwise lead to incorrect conflict reporting
and resolution.
This patch introduces a mechanism to retain deleted tuples on the
subscriber during the application of concurrent transactions from remote
nodes. Retaining these tuples allows us to correctly ignore concurrent
updates to the same tuple. Without this, an UPDATE might be misinterpreted
as an INSERT during resolutions due to the absence of the original tuple.
Additionally, we ensure that origin metadata is not prematurely removed by
vacuum freeze, which is essential for detecting update_origin_differs and
delete_origin_differs conflicts.
To support this, a new replication slot named pg_conflict_detection is
created and maintained by the launcher on the subscriber. Each apply
worker tracks its own non-removable transaction ID, which the launcher
aggregates to determine the appropriate xmin for the slot, thereby
retaining necessary tuples.
Conflict information retention (deleted tuples and commit_ts) can be
enabled per subscription via the retain_conflict_info option. This is
disabled by default to avoid unnecessary overhead for configurations that
do not require conflict resolution or logging.
During upgrades, if any subscription on the old cluster has
retain_conflict_info enabled, a conflict detection slot will be created to
protect relevant tuples from deletion when the new cluster starts.
This is a foundational work to correctly detect update_deleted conflict
which will be done in a follow-up patch.
Author: Zhijie Hou <houzj.fnst@fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: shveta malik <shveta.malik@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Nisha Moond <nisha.moond412@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/OS0PR01MB5716BE80DAEB0EE2A6A5D1F5949D2@OS0PR01MB5716.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com
The definition of \dRp+ was modified in commit 7054186c4e. This patch
updates the column list and row filter examples to align with the revised
definition.
Author: Shlok Kyal <shlok.kyal.oss@gmail.com>
Reviewed by: Peter Smith <smithpb2250@gmail.com>
Backpatch-through: 18, where it was introduced
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CANhcyEUvqkSO6b9zi_fs_BBPEge5acj4mf8QKmq2TX-7axa7EQ@mail.gmail.com
This index AM callback has been introduced in c1ec02be1d and it is
optional, currently only being used by BRIN. Optional callbacks are
documented with NULL as possible value in amapi.h and indexam.sgml, but
this callback has missed this part of the description.
Reported-by: Peter Smith <smithpb2250@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Japin Li <japinli@hotmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHut+PvgYcPmPDi1YdHMJY5upnyGRpc0N8pk1xNB11xDSBwNog@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 17
When pg_recvlogical receives a SIGHUP signal, it closes the current
output file and reopens a new one. This is useful since it allows us to
rotate the output file by renaming the current file and sending a SIGHUP.
This behavior was previously undocumented. This commit adds
the missing documentation.
Back-patch to all supported versions.
Author: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Shinya Kato <shinya11.kato@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/0977fc4f-1523-4ecd-8a0e-391af4976367@oss.nttdata.com
Backpatch-through: 13
This commit adds a note to the pg_overexplain page that describes
how to use it (LOAD, session_preload_libraries, or
shared_preload_libraries). The new text is mostly lifted from the
auto_explain page. We should probably consider centralizing this
information in the future.
While at it, add a missing "module" to the opening sentence.
Reviewed-by: "David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Robert Treat <rob@xzilla.net>
Reviewed-by: Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/aHVWKM8l8kLlZzgv%40nathan
Backpatch-through: 18
The paragraph for introducing INSERT and COPY discussed how a file
could be used for bulk loading with COPY, without actually showing
what the file would look like. This adds a programlisting for the
file contents.
Backpatch to all supported branches since this example has lacked
the file contents since PostgreSQL 7.2.
Author: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
Reviewed-by: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@oss.nttdata.com>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/158017814191.19852.15019251381150731439@wrigleys.postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 13
Avoid dependence on setlocale().
strcoll(), etc., are not called directly; all collation-sensitive
calls should go through pg_locale.c and use the appropriate
provider. By setting LC_COLLATE to C, we avoid accidentally depending
on libc behavior when using a different provider.
No behavior change in the backend, but it's possible that some
extensions will be affected. Such extensions should be updated to use
the pg_locale_t APIs.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/9875f7f9-50f1-4b5d-86fc-ee8b03e8c162@eisentraut.org
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
The pgoutput plugin options are described in the logical streaming
replication protocol documentation, but their default values were
previously not mentioned. This made it less convenient for users,
for example, when specifying those options to use pg_recvlogical
with pgoutput plugin.
This commit adds the explanations of the default values for pgoutput
options to improve clarity and usability.
Author: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Euler Taveira <euler@eulerto.com>
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/d2790f10-238d-4cb5-a743-d9d2a9dd900f@oss.nttdata.com
Previously, the documentation described the streaming option as a boolean,
which is outdated since it's no longer a boolean as of protocol version 4.
This could confuse users.
This commit updates the description to remove the "boolean" reference and
clearly list the valid values for the streaming option.
Back-patch to v16, where the streaming option changed to a non-boolean.
Author: Euler Taveira <euler@eulerto.com>
Reviewed-by: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/8d21fb98-5c25-4dee-8387-e5a62b01ea7d@app.fastmail.com
Backpatch-through: 16
The last_vacuum and vacuum_count fields in pg_stat_all_tables already
state that they do not include VACUUM FULL. However, total_vacuum_time,
which also excludes VACUUM FULL, did not mention this. This could
mislead users into thinking VACUUM FULL time is included.
To address this, this commit updates the documentation for
pg_stat_all_tables to explicitly state that total_vacuum_time does not
count VACUUM FULL.
Back-patched to v18, where total_vacuum_time was introduced.
Additionally, this commit clarifies that n_ins_since_vacuum also
excludes VACUUM FULL. Although n_ins_since_vacuum was added in v13,
we are not back-patching this change to stable branches, as it is
a documentation improvement, not a bug fix.
Author: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Robert Treat <rob@xzilla.net>
Reviewed-by: David G. Johnston <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2ac375d1-591b-4f1b-a2af-f24335567866@oss.nttdata.com
Backpatch-through: 18
The grammar was a little shaky and confusing here, so word-smith it
a bit. Also, adjust the comments in pg_ident.conf.sample to use the
same terminology as the SGML docs, in particular "DATABASE-USERNAME"
not "PG-USERNAME".
Back-patch appropriate subsets. I did not risk changing
pg_ident.conf.sample in released branches, but it still seems OK
to change it in v18.
Reported-by: Alexey Shishkin <alexey.shishkin@enterprisedb.com>
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Reviewed-by: David G. Johnston <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/175206279327.3157504.12519088928605422253@wrigleys.postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 13
Minor wordsmithing of the func.sgml paragraph describing
statement_timestamp() and allied functions: don't switch between
"statement" and "command" when those are being used to mean about
the same thing.
Also, add some text to protocol.sgml describing the perhaps-surprising
behavior these functions have in a multi-statement Query message.
Reported-by: P M <petermittere@gmail.com>
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Reviewed-by: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>
Reviewed-by: David G. Johnston <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/175223006802.3157505.14764328206246105568@wrigleys.postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 13
This new psql variable can be used to check which service file has been
used for a connection. Like other variables, this can be set in a
PROMPT or reported by an \echo, like these commands:
\echo :SERVICEFILE
\set PROMPT1 '=(%:SERVICEFILE:)%# '
This relies on commits 092f3c63ef and fef6da9e9c to retrieve this
information from the connection's PQconninfoOption.
Author: Ryo Kanbayashi <kanbayashi.dev@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKkG4_nCjx3a_F3gyXHSPWxD8Sd8URaM89wey7fG_9g7KBkOCQ@mail.gmail.com
This commit adds the possibility to specify a service file in a
connection string, using a new option called "servicefile". The parsing
of the service file happens so as things are done in this order of
priority:
- The servicefile connection option.
- Environment variable PGSERVICEFILE.
- Default path, depending on the HOME environment.
Note that in the last default case, we need to fill in "servicefile" for
the connection's PQconninfoOption to let clients know which service file
has been used for the connection. Some TAP tests are added, with a few
tweaks required for Windows when using URIs or connection option values,
for the location paths.
Author: Torsten Förtsch <tfoertsch123@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Ryo Kanbayashi <kanbayashi.dev@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKkG4_nCjx3a_F3gyXHSPWxD8Sd8URaM89wey7fG_9g7KBkOCQ@mail.gmail.com
This option, which is disabled by default, can be used to request
the checkpoint also flush dirty buffers of unlogged relations. As
with the MODE option, the server may consolidate the options for
concurrently requested checkpoints. For example, if one session
uses (FLUSH_UNLOGGED FALSE) and another uses (FLUSH_UNLOGGED TRUE),
the server may perform one checkpoint with FLUSH_UNLOGGED enabled.
Author: Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org>
Reviewed-by: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>
Reviewed-by: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@oss.nttdata.com>
Reviewed-by: Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/aDnaKTEf-0dLiEfz%40msg.df7cb.de
This option may be set to FAST (the default) to request the
checkpoint be completed as fast as possible, or SPREAD to request
the checkpoint be spread over a longer interval (based on the
checkpoint-related configuration parameters). Note that the server
may consolidate the options for concurrently requested checkpoints.
For example, if one session requests a "fast" checkpoint and
another requests a "spread" checkpoint, the server may perform one
"fast" checkpoint.
Author: Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-by: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@oss.nttdata.com>
Reviewed-by: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>
Reviewed-by: Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/aDnaKTEf-0dLiEfz%40msg.df7cb.de
This commit adds the boilerplate code for supporting a list of
options in CHECKPOINT commands. No actual options are supported
yet, but follow-up commits will add support for MODE and
FLUSH_UNLOGGED. While at it, this commit refactors the code for
executing CHECKPOINT commands to its own function since it's about
to become significantly larger.
Author: Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org>
Reviewed-by: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@oss.nttdata.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/aDnaKTEf-0dLiEfz%40msg.df7cb.de
The new name more accurately reflects the effects of this flag on a
requested checkpoint. Checkpoint-related log messages (i.e., those
controlled by the log_checkpoints configuration parameter) will now
say "fast" instead of "immediate", too. Likewise, references to
"immediate" checkpoints in the documentation have been updated to
say "fast". This is preparatory work for a follow-up commit that
will add a MODE option to the CHECKPOINT command.
Author: Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/aDnaKTEf-0dLiEfz%40msg.df7cb.de
In the description of StartupMessage, the protocol version was left
3.0. Instead of just updating it, this commit removes the hard coded
protocol version and shows the numbers as an example. This makes that
the part of the doc does not need to be updated when the version is
changed in the future.
Author: Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres@jeltef.nl>
Reviewed-by: Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@postgresql.org>
Reviewed-by: Aleksander Alekseev <aleksander@timescale.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20250626.155608.568829483879866256.ishii%40postgresql.org
This commit updates the documentation to clarify that "idle" in
idle_replication_slot_timeout means the replication slot is inactive,
that is, not currently used by any replication connection.
Without this clarification, "idle" could be misinterpreted to mean
that the slot is not advancing or that no data is being streamed,
even if a connection exists.
Back-patch to v18 where idle_replication_slot_timeout was added.
Author: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>
Reviewed-by: David G. Johnston <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Gunnar Morling <gunnar.morling@googlemail.com>
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CADGJaX_0+FTguWpNSpgVWYQP_7MhoO0D8=cp4XozSQgaZ40Odw@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 18
Previously, the idle_replication_slot_timeout parameter used minutes
as its unit, based on the assumption that values would typically exceed
one minute in production environments. However, this caused unexpected
behavior: specifying a value below 30 seconds would round down to 0,
effectively disabling the timeout. This could be surprising to users.
To allow finer-grained control and avoid such confusion, this commit changes
the unit of idle_replication_slot_timeout to seconds. Larger values can
still be specified easily using standard time suffixes, for example,
'24h' for 24 hours.
Back-patch to v18 where idle_replication_slot_timeout was added.
Reported-by: Gunnar Morling <gunnar.morling@googlemail.com>
Author: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>
Reviewed-by: David G. Johnston <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Hayato Kuroda <kuroda.hayato@fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CADGJaX_0+FTguWpNSpgVWYQP_7MhoO0D8=cp4XozSQgaZ40Odw@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 18
Increase the size of the "direct" histogram to 10K elements,
so that we can precisely track loop times up to 10 microseconds.
(Going further than that seems pretty uninteresting, even for
very old and slow machines.)
Relabel "Per loop time" as "Average loop time" for clarity.
Pre-zero the histogram arrays to make sure that they are loaded
into processor cache and any copy-on-write overhead has happened
before we enter the timing loop. Also use unlikely() to keep
the compiler from thinking that the clock-went-backwards case
is part of the hot loop. Neither of these hacks made a lot of
difference on my own machine, but they seem like they might help
on some platforms.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/be0339cc-1ae1-4892-9445-8e6d8995a44d@eisentraut.org
This commit adds a new system view that provides information about
entries in the dynamic shared memory (DSM) registry. Specifically,
it returns the name, type, and size of each entry. Note that since
we cannot discover the size of dynamic shared memory areas (DSAs)
and hash tables backed by DSAs (dshashes) without first attaching
to them, the size column is left as NULL for those.
Bumps catversion.
Author: Florents Tselai <florents.tselai@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Sungwoo Chang <swchangdev@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/4D445D3E-81C5-4135-95BB-D414204A0AB4%40gmail.com
Clarified that the failover steps apply to a specific PostgreSQL subscriber
and added guidance for verifying replication slot synchronization during
planned failover. Additionally, corrected the standby query to avoid false
positives by checking invalidation_reason IS NULL instead of conflicting.
Author: Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh.bapat.oss@gmail.com>
Author: Shveta Malik <shveta.malik@gmail.com>
Backpatch-through: 17, where it was introduced
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAExHW5uiZ-fF159=jwBwPMbjZeZDtmcTbN+hd4mrURLCg2uzJg@mail.gmail.com
This routine has been introduced as a shortcut to be able to retrieve a
service name from an active connection, for psql. Per discussion, and
as it is only used by psql, let's remove it to not clutter the libpq API
more than necessary.
The logic in psql is replaced by lookups of PQconninfoOption for the
active connection, instead, updated each time the variables are synced
by psql, the prompt shortcut relying on the variable synced.
Reported-by: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20250706161319.c1.nmisch@google.com
Backpatch-through: 18
Most of our platforms have better-than-microsecond timing resolution,
so the original definition of this program is getting less and less
useful. Make it report nanoseconds not microseconds. Also, add a
second output table that reports the exact observed timing durations,
up to a limit of 1024 ns; and be sure to report the largest observed
duration.
The documentation for this program included a lot of system-specific
details that now seem largely obsolete. Move all that text to the
PG wiki, where perhaps it will be easier to maintain and update.
Also, improve the TAP test so that it actually runs a short standard
run, allowing most of the code to be exercised; its coverage before
was abysmal.
Author: Hannu Krosing <hannuk@google.com>
Co-authored-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/be0339cc-1ae1-4892-9445-8e6d8995a44d@eisentraut.org
This commit standardizes the output format for LSNs to ensure consistent
representation across various tools and messages. Previously, LSNs were
inconsistently printed as `%X/%X` in some contexts, while others used
zero-padding. This often led to confusion when comparing.
To address this, the LSN format is now uniformly set to `%X/%08X`,
ensuring the lower 32-bit part is always zero-padded to eight
hexadecimal digits.
Author: Japin Li <japinli@hotmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@kurilemu.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ME0P300MB0445CA53CA0E4B8C1879AF84B641A@ME0P300MB0445.AUSP300.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM
Extend the infrastructure in btree_gin.c to permit cross-type
operators, and add the code to support them for the int2, int4,
and int8 opclasses. (To keep this patch digestible, I left
the other datatypes for a separate patch.) This improves the
usability of btree_gin indexes by allowing them to support the
same set of queries that a regular btree index does.
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Reviewed-by: Arseniy Mukhin <arseniy.mukhin.dev@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/262624.1738460652@sss.pgh.pa.us
The documentation for pg_replication_slots previously mentioned only
max_slot_wal_keep_size as a condition under which the wal_status column
could show unreserved or lost. However, since commit be87200,
replication slots can also be invalidated due to horizon or wal_level,
and since commit ac0e33136a, idle_replication_slot_timeout can also
trigger this state.
This commit updates the description of the wal_status column to
reflect that max_slot_wal_keep_size is not the only cause of the lost state.
Back-patched to v16, where the additional invalidation cases were introduced.
Author: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Hayato Kuroda <kuroda.hayato@fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Nisha Moond <nisha.moond412@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/78b34e84-2195-4f28-a151-5d204a382fdd@oss.nttdata.com
Backpatch-through: 16
If certain constraint characteristic clauses (NO INHERIT, NOT VALID, NOT
ENFORCED) are given to CREATE CONSTRAINT TRIGGER, the resulting error
message is
ERROR: TRIGGER constraints cannot be marked NO INHERIT
which is a bit silly, because these aren't "constraints of type
TRIGGER". Hardcode a better error message to prevent it. This is a
cosmetic fix for quite a fringe problem with no known complaints from
users, so no backpatch.
While at it, silently accept ENFORCED if given.
Author: Amul Sul <sulamul@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: jian he <jian.universality@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@oss.nttdata.com>
Reviewed-by: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@kurilemu.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAJ_b97hd-jMTS7AjgU6TDBCzDx_KyuKxG+K-DtYmOieg+giyQ@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CACJufxHSp2puxP=q8ZtUGL1F+heapnzqFBZy5ZNGUjUgwjBqTQ@mail.gmail.com
The documentation previously stated that the wal_status column is NULL
if restart_lsn is NULL in the pg_replication_slots view. This is incorrect,
and wal_status can be "lost" even when restart_lsn is NULL.
This commit removes the incorrect description.
Back-patched to all supported versions.
Author: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Nisha Moond <nisha.moond412@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/c9d23cdc-b5dd-455a-8ee9-f1f24d701d89@oss.nttdata.com
Backpatch-through: 13
The COPY FROM command now accepts a non-negative integer for the HEADER option,
allowing multiple header lines to be skipped. This is useful when the input
contains multi-line headers that should be ignored during data import.
Author: Shinya Kato <shinya11.kato@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Yugo Nagata <nagata@sraoss.co.jp>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAOzEurRPxfzbxqeOPF_AGnAUOYf=Wk0we+1LQomPNUNtyZGBZw@mail.gmail.com
The previous minimum was to maintain support for Python 3.5, but we
now require Python 3.6 anyway (commit 45363fca63), so that reason is
obsolete. A small raise to Meson 0.57 allows getting rid of a fair
amount of version conditionals and silences some future-deprecated
warnings.
With the version bump, the following deprecation warnings appeared and
are fixed:
WARNING: Project targets '>=0.57' but uses feature deprecated since '0.55.0': ExternalProgram.path. use ExternalProgram.full_path() instead
WARNING: Project targets '>=0.57' but uses feature deprecated since '0.56.0': meson.build_root. use meson.project_build_root() or meson.global_build_root() instead.
It turns out that meson 0.57.0 and 0.57.1 are buggy for our use, so
the minimum is actually set to 0.57.2. This is specific to this
version series; in the future we won't necessarily need to be this
precise.
Reviewed-by: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/42e13eb0-862a-441e-8d84-4f0fd5f6def0%40eisentraut.org
Switch MSVC to use the conforming preprocessor, using the
/Zc:preprocessor option.
This allows us to drop the alternative implementation of
VA_ARGS_NARGS() for the previous "traditional" preprocessor.
This also prepares the way for enabling C11 mode in the future, which
enables the conforming preprocessor by default.
This now requires Visual Studio 2019. The installation documentation
is adjusted accordingly.
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/01a69441-af54-4822-891b-ca28e05b215a%40eisentraut.org
This provides a convenient way to look up a database's OID. For
example, the query
SELECT * FROM pg_shdepend
WHERE dbid = (SELECT oid FROM pg_database
WHERE datname = current_database());
can now be simplified to
SELECT * FROM pg_shdepend
WHERE dbid = current_database()::regdatabase;
Like the regrole type, regdatabase has cluster-wide scope, so we
disallow regdatabase constants from appearing in stored
expressions.
Bumps catversion.
Author: Ian Lawrence Barwick <barwick@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Greg Sabino Mullane <htamfids@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jian He <jian.universality@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Fabrízio de Royes Mello <fabriziomello@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/aBpjJhyHpM2LYcG0%40nathan
When postfix operators where dropped in 1ed6b8956, the CREATE OPERATOR
docs were not updated to make the RIGHTARG argument mandatory in the
grammar.
While at it, make the RIGHTARG docs more concise. Also, the operator
docs were mentioning "infix" in the introduction, while using "binary"
everywhere else.
Author: Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/aAtpbnQphv4LWAye@msg.df7cb.de
Commit 1546e17f9d accidentally misspelled additionally as
additionaly. Backpatch to v17 to match where the original
commit was backpatched.
Author: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
Backpatch-through: 17
This commit renames the pg_recvlogical options --two-phase and
--failover to --enable-two-phase and --enable-failover, respectively.
The new names distinguish these enabling options from action options
like --start and --create-slot, while clearly indicating their purpose
to enable specific logical slot features.
The option --failover is new in PostgreSQL 18 (commit cf2655a902), so
no compatibility break there. The option --two-phase has existed
since PostgreSQL 15 (commit cda03cfed6), so for compatibility we keep
the old option name --two-phase around as deprecated.
Also note that pg_createsubscriber has acquired an --enable-two-phase
option, so this increases consistency across tools.
Co-authored-by: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a28f66df-1354-4709-8d63-932ded4cac35@eisentraut.org
We were missing collecting comments for not-null constraints that are
dumped inline with the table definition (i.e., valid ones), because they
aren't represented by a separately dumpable object. Fix by creating
separate TocEntries for the comments.
Co-Authored-By: Jian He <jian.universality@gmail.com>
Co-Authored-By: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@kurilemu.de>
Reported-By: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@oss.nttdata.com>
Reviewed-By: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@oss.nttdata.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/d50ff977-c728-4e9e-8488-fc2688e08754@oss.nttdata.com
The convention in the documentation for other SQL commands is to
indent continuation lines and sub-clauses in the "Synopsis" section by
4 spaces, so do the same for MERGE.
Author: Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEZATCV+9tR9+WM-SCcdBEZ3x7WVxUpADD5jX9WeGX97z4LCGA@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 15
Just like selecting from a view is exploitable (CVE-2024-7348),
selecting from a table with virtual generated columns is exploitable.
Users who are concerned about this can avoid selecting from views, but
telling them to avoid selecting from tables is less practical.
To address this, this changes it so that generation expressions for
virtual generated columns are restricted to using built-in functions
and types, and the columns are restricted to having a built-in type.
We assume that built-in functions and types cannot be exploited for
this purpose.
In the future, this could be expanded by some new mechanism to declare
other functions and types as safe or trusted for this purpose, but
that is to be designed.
(An alternative approach might have been to expand the
restrict_nonsystem_relation_kind GUC to handle this, like the fix for
CVE-2024-7348. But that is kind of an ugly approach. That fix had to
fit in the constraints of fixing an ancient vulnerability in all
branches. Since virtual generated columns are new, we're free from
the constraints of the past, and we can and should use cleaner
options.)
Reported-by: Feike Steenbergen <feikesteenbergen@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: jian he <jian.universality@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CAK_s-G2Q7de8Q0qOYUR%3D_CTB5FzzVBm5iZjOp%2BmeVWpMpmfO0w%40mail.gmail.com
Protocol v4 introduces parallel streaming, which allows Stream Abort
messages to include additional abort information such as LSN and
timestamp. However, the current documentation only states, "This field is
available since protocol version 4," which may misleadingly suggest that
the fields are always present when using protocol v4.
This patch clarifies that the abort LSN and timestamp are included only
when parallel streaming is enabled, even under protocol v4.
Author: Anthonin Bonnefoy <anthonin.bonnefoy@datadoghq.com>
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>
Backpatch-through: 16, where it was introduced
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAO6_XqoKteQR1AnaR8iPcegbBE+HkAc2-g12rxN04yOt4-2ORg@mail.gmail.com
The documentation previously described the type of the io_workers GUC
parameter as "int". However, the documentation consistently uses "integer"
for parameters of this type.
This commit updates the type description of io_workers to "integer"
for consistency with other GUC parameter descriptions.
Author: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/e95c899a-2aeb-45b7-8fd3-7a27dcdb475b@oss.nttdata.com
The documentation for track_cost_delay_timing describes where cost-based
vacuum delay timing information is displayed when the setting is enabled.
While this information is also shown in the output of ANALYZE VERBOSE,
that was previously omitted from the list.
This commit updates the documentation to include ANALYZE VERBOSE in the list,
clarifying that it also reports cost-based delay timing information.
Author: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/e95c899a-2aeb-45b7-8fd3-7a27dcdb475b@oss.nttdata.com
For parameters that exist as both configuration and storage options,
the documentation typically includes secondary index entries to
help users distinguish and locate the relevant references easily.
However, such index entries were missing for vacuum_truncate and
vacuum_max_eager_freeze_failure_rate, both introduced in v18.
This commit adds appropriate secondary index terms for these parameters
to ensure consistency with other parameters and improve usability of
the documentation index.
Author: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/e95c899a-2aeb-45b7-8fd3-7a27dcdb475b@oss.nttdata.com
The link returns 404 and no replacement is available in the project
on Sourceforge where the content once was. Since we already link to
resources for both beginner and experienced docs hackers, remove the
the dead link.
Backpatch to all supported versions as the link was added in 8.1.
Author: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
Reviewed-by: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Reported-by: jian he <jian.universality@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CACJufxH=YzQPDOe+2WuYZ7seD-BOyjCBmP6JiErpoSiVZWDRnw@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 13
Previously, the UUID functions documentation defined the "UUID" index entry
to link to the UUID data type page, even though that entry already exists there.
Instead, the UUID functions page should define its own index entry linking
to itself.
This commit updates the UUID index entry in the UUID functions documentation
to point to the correct section, improving navigation and avoiding duplication.
Back-patch to all supported versions.
Author: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/f33e0493-5773-4296-87c5-7ce459054cfe@oss.nttdata.com
Backpatch-through: 13
\close has been introduced in d55322b0da to be able to close a
prepared statement using the extended protocol in psql. Per discussion,
the name "close" is ambiguous. At the SQL level, CLOSE is used to close
a cursor. At protocol level, the close message can be used to either
close a statement or a portal.
This patch renames \close to \close_prepared to avoid any ambiguity and
make it clear that this is used to close a prepared statement. This new
name has been chosen based on the feedback from the author and the
reviewers.
Author: Anthonin Bonnefoy <anthonin.bonnefoy@datadoghq.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
Reviewed-by: Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres@jeltef.nl>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3e694442-0df5-4f92-a08f-c5d4c4346b85@eisentraut.org
Specify whether the bucket bounds are inclusive or exclusive,
and improve some other vague language. Explain the behavior that
occurs when the "low" bound is greater than the "high" bound.
Make width_bucket_numeric's comment more like that for
width_bucket_float8, in particular noting that infinite
bounds are rejected (since they became possible in v14).
Reported-by: Ben Peachey Higdon <bpeacheyhigdon@gmail.com>
Author: Robert Treat <rob@xzilla.net>
Co-authored-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Reviewed-by: Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2BD74F86-5B89-4AC1-8F13-23CED3546AC1@gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 13
