Fujii Masao [Tue, 2 Jun 2020 10:18:13 +0000 (19:18 +0900)]
Don't call elog() while holding spinlock.
Previously UpdateSpillStats() called elog(DEBUG2) while holding
the spinlock even though the local variables that the elog() accesses
don't need to be protected by the lock. Since spinlocks are intended
for very short-term locks, they should not be used when calling
elog(DEBUG2). So this commit moves that elog() out of spinlock period.
Andrew Dunstan [Mon, 1 Jun 2020 21:32:32 +0000 (17:32 -0400)]
Make ssl certificate for ssl_passphrase_callback test via Makefile
The recipe was previously given in comments in the module's test
script, but now we have an explicit recipe in the Makefile. The now
redundant comments in the script are removed.
This recipe shouldn't be needed in normal use, as the certificate and
key are in git and don't need to be regenerated.
Michael Paquier [Mon, 1 Jun 2020 05:41:18 +0000 (14:41 +0900)]
Fix use-after-release mistake in currtid() and currtid2() for views
This issue has been present since the introduction of this code as of a3519a2 from 2002, and has been found by buildfarm member prion that
uses RELCACHE_FORCE_RELEASE via the tests introduced recently in e786be5.
Michael Paquier [Mon, 1 Jun 2020 01:32:06 +0000 (10:32 +0900)]
Fix crashes with currtid() and currtid2()
A relation that has no storage initializes rd_tableam to NULL, which
caused those two functions to crash because of a pointer dereference.
Note that in 11 and older versions, this has always failed with a
confusing error "could not open file".
These two functions are used by the Postgres ODBC driver, which requires
them only when connecting to a backend strictly older than 8.1. When
connected to 8.2 or a newer version, the driver uses a RETURNING clause
instead whose support has been added in 8.2, so it should be possible to
just remove both functions in the future. This is left as an issue to
address later.
While on it, add more regression tests for those functions as we never
really had coverage for them, and for aggregates of TIDs.
Reported-by: Jaime Casanova, via sqlsmith
Author: Michael Paquier Reviewed-by: Álvaro Herrera
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJGNTeO93u-5APMga6WH41eTZ3Uee9f3s8dCpA-GSSqNs1b=Ug@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 12
Tomas Vondra [Sun, 31 May 2020 12:43:13 +0000 (14:43 +0200)]
Use CP_SMALL_TLIST for hash aggregate
Commit 1f39bce021 added disk-based hash aggregation, which may spill
incoming tuples to disk. It however did not request projection to make
the tuples as narrow as possible, which may mean having to spill much
more data than necessary (increasing I/O, pushing other stuff from page
cache, etc.).
This adds CP_SMALL_TLIST in places that may use hash aggregation - we do
that only for AGG_HASHED. It's unnecessary for AGG_SORTED, because that
either uses explicit Sort (which already does projection) or pre-sorted
input (which does not need spilling to disk).
Author: Tomas Vondra Reviewed-by: Jeff Davis
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200519151202.u2p2gpiawoaznsv2%40development
Michael Paquier [Sun, 31 May 2020 01:48:21 +0000 (10:48 +0900)]
Doc: Mention about caveats of --concurrently on reindexdb page
The documentation of REINDEX includes a complete description of
CONCURRENTLY and its advantages as well as its disadvantages, but
reindexdb was not really clear about all that.
From discussion with Tom Lane, based on a report from Andrey Klychkov.
Fujii Masao [Fri, 29 May 2020 08:14:33 +0000 (17:14 +0900)]
doc: Update the layout of "Viewing Statistics" section.
This commit updates the "Viewing Statistics" section more like
the existing catalogs chapter.
- Change its layout so that an introductory paragrap is put above
the table for each statistics view. Previously the explanations
were below the tables.
- Separate each view to different section and add index terms for them.
Author: Fujii Masao Reviewed-by: Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/6f8a482c-b3fa-4ed9-21c3-6d222a2cb87d@oss.nttdata.com
Andres Freund [Thu, 28 May 2020 22:08:12 +0000 (15:08 -0700)]
llvmjit: Fix building against LLVM 11 by removing unnecessary include.
LLVM has removed this header, in the branch that will become llvm
11. But as it turns out we didn't actually need it, so just remove it.
Author: Jesse Zhang
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAGf+fX7bvtP0YXMu7pOsu_NwhxW6dArTkxb=jt7M2-UJkyJ_3g@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch: 11, where JIT support using llvm was introduced.
Joe Conway [Thu, 28 May 2020 17:44:54 +0000 (13:44 -0400)]
Initialize dblink remoteConn struct in all cases
Two of the members of rconn were left uninitialized. When
dblink_open() is called without an outer transaction it
handles the initialization for us, but with an outer
transaction it does not. Arrange for initialization
in all cases. Backpatch to all supported versions.
Joe Conway [Thu, 28 May 2020 17:16:47 +0000 (13:16 -0400)]
Add CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS() to the repeat() function
The repeat() function loops for potentially a long time without
ever checking for interrupts. This prevents, for example, a query
cancel from interrupting until the work is all done. Fix by
inserting a CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS() into the loop.
Add missing error code to "cannot attach index ..." error.
ERRCODE_OBJECT_NOT_IN_PREREQUISITE_STATE was used in an ereport with the
same message but different errdetail a few lines earlier, so use that
here as well.
Jeff Davis [Tue, 26 May 2020 23:06:30 +0000 (16:06 -0700)]
Avoid fragmentation of logical tapes when writing concurrently.
Disk-based HashAgg relies on writing to multiple tapes
concurrently. Avoid fragmentation of the tapes' blocks by
preallocating many blocks for a tape at once. No file operations are
performed during preallocation; only the block numbers are reserved.
Reviewed-by: Tomas Vondra
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200519151202.u2p2gpiawoaznsv2%40development
Noah Misch [Mon, 25 May 2020 23:21:04 +0000 (16:21 -0700)]
Add a temp-install prerequisite to top-level "check-tests".
The target failed, tested $PATH binaries, or tested a stale temporary
installation. Commit c66b438db62748000700c9b90b585e756dd54141 missed
this. Back-patch to 9.5 (all supported versions).
Michael Paquier [Sat, 23 May 2020 05:03:04 +0000 (14:03 +0900)]
Add missing invocations to object access hooks
The following commands have been missing calls to object access hooks
InvokeObjectPost{Create|Alter}Hook normally applied to all commands:
- ALTER RULE RENAME TO
- ALTER USER MAPPING
- CREATE ACCESS METHOD
- CREATE STATISTICS
Thanks also to Robert Haas for the discussion.
Author: Mark Dilger Reviewed-by: Álvaro Herrera, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/435CD295-F409-44E0-91EC-DF32C7AFCD76@enterprisedb.com
Etsuro Fujita [Fri, 22 May 2020 06:45:00 +0000 (15:45 +0900)]
Adjust indentation in src/backend/optimizer/README.
The previous indentation of optimizer functions was unclear; adjust the
indentation dashes so that a deeper level of indentation indicates that
the outer optimizer function calls the inner one.
Author: Richard Guo, with additional change by me Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMbWs4-U-ogzpchGsP2BBMufCss1hktm%2B%2BeTJK_dUC196pw0cQ%40mail.gmail.com
Peter Geoghegan [Thu, 21 May 2020 20:36:45 +0000 (13:36 -0700)]
Doc: Describe CREATE INDEX deduplication strategy.
The B-Tree index deduplication strategy used during CREATE INDEX and
REINDEX differs from the lazy strategy used by retail inserts. Make
that clear by adding a new paragraph to the B-Tree implementation
section of the documentation.
In passing, do some copy-editing of nearby deduplication documentation.
Michael Paquier [Thu, 21 May 2020 05:41:15 +0000 (14:41 +0900)]
Fix MSVC installations with multiple "configure" files detected
When installing binaries and libraries using the MSVC installation
routines, the operation gets done after moving to the root folder, whose
location is detected by checking if "configure" exists two times in a
row. So, calling the installation script from src/tools/msvc/ with an
extra "configure" file four levels up the root path of the code tree
causes the execution to go further up, leading to a failure in finding
the builds. This commit fixes the issue by moving to the root folder of
the code tree only once, when necessary.
Author: Arnold Müller Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16343-f638f67e7e52b86c@postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 9.5
Tom Lane [Wed, 20 May 2020 00:09:59 +0000 (20:09 -0400)]
part_strategy does not need its very own keyword classification.
This should be plain old ColId. Making it so makes the grammar less
complicated, and makes the compiled tables a kilobyte or so smaller
(likely because they don't have to deal with a keyword classification
that's not used anyplace else).
Peter Geoghegan [Tue, 19 May 2020 22:04:34 +0000 (15:04 -0700)]
Reconsider nbtree page deletion assertion.
Commit 624686abcf8 added an assertion that verified that _bt_search
successfully relocated the leaf page undergoing deletion. Page deletion
cannot deal with the case where the descent stack is to the right of the
page, so this seemed critical (deletion can only handle the case where
the descent stack is to the left of the leaf/target page). However, the
assertion went a bit too far.
Since only a buffer pin is held on the leaf page throughout the call to
_bt_search, nothing guarantees that it can't have split during this
small window. And if does actually split, _bt_search may end up
"relocating" a page to the right of the original target leaf page. This
scenario seems extremely unlikely, but it must still be considered.
Remove the assertion, and document how we cope in this scenario.
Fix translate_columns[] arrays in opfamily-related psql functions
Make number of translate_columns elements match the number of output columns.
The only "true" value, which was previously specified, seems to be intended
for opfamily operator "purpose" column. But that column has already translated
values substituted. So, all elements in translate_columns[] should be "false".
This commit changes ORDER BY clause for \dAo and \dAp psql commands in
the following way.
* Operators for the same types are grouped together.
* Same-class operators and procedures are listed before cross-class operators
and procedures.
Modification of ORDER BY clause for \dAp required removing DISTINCT clause,
which doesn't seem to affect anything.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200511210856.GA18368%40alvherre.pgsql
Author: Alvaro Herrera revised by me Reviewed-by: Alexander Korotkov, Nikita Glukhov
Tom Lane [Sun, 17 May 2020 01:00:05 +0000 (21:00 -0400)]
Mop-up for wait event naming issues.
Synchronize the event names for parallel hash join waits with other
event names, by getting rid of the slashes and dropping "-ing"
suffixes. Rename ClogGroupUpdate to XactGroupUpdate, to match the
new SLRU name. Move the ProcSignalBarrier event to the IPC category;
it doesn't belong under IO.
Also a bit more wordsmithing in the wait event documentation tables.
Michael Paquier [Sun, 17 May 2020 00:22:07 +0000 (09:22 +0900)]
Make pg_stat_wal_receiver consistent with the WAL receiver's shmem info
d140f2f3 has renamed receivedUpto to flushedUpto, and has added
writtenUpto to the WAL receiver's shared memory information, but
pg_stat_wal_receiver was not consistent with that. This commit renames
received_lsn to flushed_lsn, and adds a new column called written_lsn.
Tom Lane [Sat, 16 May 2020 23:44:49 +0000 (19:44 -0400)]
Fix bugs in OpenSSL hook renaming.
libpq's exports.txt was overlooked in commit 36d108761, which the
buildfarm is quite unhappy about.
Also, I'd gathered that the plan included renaming PQgetSSLKeyPassHook
to PQgetSSLKeyPassHook_OpenSSL, but that didn't happen in the patch
as committed. I'm taking it on my own authority to do so now, since
the window before beta1 is closing fast.
Andrew Dunstan [Sat, 16 May 2020 20:20:43 +0000 (16:20 -0400)]
Rename PQsetSSLKeyPassHook and friends
4dc6355210 provided a way for libraries and clients to modify how libpq
handles client certificate passphrases, by installing a hook. However,
these routines are quite specific to how OpenSSL works, so it's
misleading and not future-proof to have these names not refer to OpenSSL.
Change all the names to add "_OpenSSL" after "Hook", and fix the docs
accordingly.
Tom Lane [Sat, 16 May 2020 15:54:51 +0000 (11:54 -0400)]
Run pgindent with new pg_bsd_indent version 2.1.1.
Thomas Munro fixed a longstanding annoyance in pg_bsd_indent, that
it would misformat lines containing IsA() macros on the assumption
that the IsA() call should be treated like a cast. This improves
some other cases involving field/variable names that match typedefs,
too. The only places that get worse are a couple of uses of the
OpenSSL macro STACK_OF(); we'll gladly take that trade-off.
Michael Paquier [Sat, 16 May 2020 09:15:18 +0000 (18:15 +0900)]
Fix assertion with relation using REPLICA IDENTITY FULL in subscriber
In a logical replication subscriber, a table using REPLICA IDENTITY FULL
which has a primary key would try to use the primary key's index
available to scan for a tuple, but an assertion only assumed as correct
the case of an index associated to REPLICA IDENTITY USING INDEX. This
commit corrects the assertion so as the use of a primary key index is a
valid case.
Tom Lane [Sat, 16 May 2020 01:47:21 +0000 (21:47 -0400)]
Change locktype "speculative token" to "spectoken".
It's just weird that this name wasn't chosen to look like an
identifier. The suspicion that it wasn't thought about too
hard is reinforced by the fact that it wasn't documented in
the pg_locks view (until I did so, a day or two back).
Update, and add a comment reminding future adjusters of this
array to fix the docs too.
Do some desultory wordsmithing on various entries in the wait
events tables.
Alvaro Herrera [Fri, 15 May 2020 23:59:29 +0000 (19:59 -0400)]
Fix walsender error cleanup code
In commit 850196b610d2 I (Álvaro) failed to handle the case of walsender
shutting down on an error before setting up its 'xlogreader' pointer;
the error handling code dereferences the pointer, causing a crash.
Fix by testing the pointer before trying to dereference it.
Kyotaro authored the code fix; I adopted Nathan's test case to be used
by the TAP tests and added the necessary PostgresNode change.
Tom Lane [Fri, 15 May 2020 23:55:56 +0000 (19:55 -0400)]
Drop the redundant "Lock" suffix from LWLock wait event names.
This was mostly confusing, especially since some wait events in
this class had the suffix and some did not.
While at it, stop exposing MainLWLockNames[] as a globally visible
name; any code using that directly is almost certainly wrong, as
its name has been misleading for some time.
(GetLWLockIdentifier() is what to use instead.)
Tom Lane [Fri, 15 May 2020 23:05:39 +0000 (19:05 -0400)]
Fix bogus initialization of replication origin shared memory state.
The previous coding zeroed out offsetof(ReplicationStateCtl, states)
more bytes than it was entitled to, as a consequence of starting the
zeroing from the wrong pointer (or, if you prefer, using the wrong
calculation of how much to zero).
It's unsurprising that this has not caused any reported problems,
since it can be expected that the newly-allocated block is at the end
of what we've used in shared memory, and we always make the shmem
block substantially bigger than minimally necessary. Nonetheless,
this is wrong and it could bite us someday; plus it's a dangerous
model for somebody to copy.
This dates back to the introduction of this code (commit 5aa235042),
so back-patch to all supported branches.
Tom Lane [Fri, 15 May 2020 22:11:03 +0000 (18:11 -0400)]
Rename assorted LWLock tranches.
Choose names that fit into the conventions for wait event names
(particularly, that multi-word names are in the style MultiWordName)
and hopefully convey more information to non-hacker users than the
previous names did.
Also rename SerializablePredicateLockListLock to
SerializablePredicateListLock; the old name was long enough to cause
table formatting problems, plus the double occurrence of "Lock" seems
confusing/error-prone.
Also change a couple of particularly opaque LWLock field names.
Alvaro Herrera [Fri, 15 May 2020 20:50:34 +0000 (16:50 -0400)]
Avoid killing btree items that are already dead
_bt_killitems marks btree items dead when a scan leaves the page where
they live, but it does so with only share lock (to improve concurrency).
This was historicall okay, since killing a dead item has no
consequences. However, with the advent of data checksums and
wal_log_hints, this action incurs a WAL full-page-image record of the
page. Multiple concurrent processes would write the same page several
times, leading to WAL bloat. The probability of this happening can be
reduced by only killing items if they're not already dead, so change the
code to do that.
The problem could eliminated completely by having _bt_killitems upgrade
to exclusive lock upon seeing a killable item, but that would reduce
concurrency so it's considered a cure worse than the disease.
Backpatch all the way back to 9.5, since wal_log_hints was introduced in
9.4.
Tom Lane [Fri, 15 May 2020 18:28:19 +0000 (14:28 -0400)]
Rename SLRU structures and associated LWLocks.
Originally, the names assigned to SLRUs had no purpose other than
being shmem lookup keys, so not a lot of thought went into them.
As of v13, though, we're exposing them in the pg_stat_slru view and
the pg_stat_reset_slru function, so it seems advisable to take a bit
more care. Rename them to names based on the associated on-disk
storage directories (which fortunately we *did* think about, to some
extent; since those are also visible to DBAs, consistency seems like
a good thing). Also rename the associated LWLocks, since those names
are likewise user-exposed now as wait event names.
For the most part I only touched symbols used in the respective modules'
SimpleLruInit() calls, not the names of other related objects. This
renaming could have been taken further, and maybe someday we will do so.
But for now it seems undesirable to change the names of any globally
visible functions or structs, so some inconsistency is unavoidable.
(But I *did* terminate "oldserxid" with prejudice, as I found that
name both unreadable and not descriptive of the SLRU's contents.)
Table 27.12 needs re-alphabetization now, but I'll leave that till
after the other LWLock renamings I have in mind.
Amit Kapila [Fri, 15 May 2020 02:40:00 +0000 (08:10 +0530)]
Make COPY TO keep locks until the transaction end.
COPY TO released the ACCESS SHARE lock immediately when it was done rather
than holding on to it until the end of the transaction.
This breaks the case where a REPEATABLE READ transaction could see an
empty table if it repeats a COPY statement and somebody truncated the
table in the meantime.
Before 4dded12faad the lock was also released after COPY FROM, but the
commit failed to notice the irregularity in COPY TO.
This is old behavior but doesn't seem important enough to backpatch.
Michael Paquier [Thu, 14 May 2020 23:19:30 +0000 (08:19 +0900)]
Remove duplicated comment block in event_trigger.c
The reasons why event triggers are disabled in standalone mode are
documented in the code path of ddl_command_start, and other places
checking if standalone mode is enabled or not mention to refer to the
comment for ddl_command_start, except for table_rewrite that duplicated
the same explanation.
Reported-by: David G. Johnston
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKFQuwYqHtXpvr2mBJRwH9f+Y5y1GXw3rhbaAu0Dk2MoNevsmA@mail.gmail.com
Tom Lane [Thu, 14 May 2020 22:44:18 +0000 (18:44 -0400)]
Doc: hack on table 26.1 till it fits in PDF format.
I abbreviated the heck out of the column headings, and made a few
small wording changes, to get it to build warning-free. I can't
say that the result is pretty, but it's probably better than
removing this table entirely.
As of this commit, we have zero "exceed the available area" warnings
in a US-letter PDF build, and one such warning (about an 863-millipoint
overrun) in an A4 build. I expect to get rid of that one by renaming
wait events, so I'm not doing anything about it at the formatting
level.
Tom Lane [Thu, 14 May 2020 22:13:08 +0000 (18:13 -0400)]
Doc: tweak examples to silence line-too-long PDF build warnings.
In one or two places it seemed reasonable to modify the example so as
to shorten its output slightly; but for the most part I just added a
&zwsp; after 67 characters, which is the most we can fit on a line
of monospace text in A4 format.
Tom Lane [Thu, 14 May 2020 17:06:38 +0000 (13:06 -0400)]
Initial pgindent and pgperltidy run for v13.
Includes some manual cleanup of places that pgindent messed up,
most of which weren't per project style anyway.
Notably, it seems some people didn't absorb the style rules of
commit c9d297751, because there were a bunch of new occurrences
of function calls with a newline just after the left paren, all
with faulty expectations about how the rest of the call would get
indented.
Tom Lane [Thu, 14 May 2020 15:10:31 +0000 (11:10 -0400)]
Collect built-in LWLock tranche names statically, not dynamically.
There is little point in using the LWLockRegisterTranche mechanism for
built-in tranche names. It wastes cycles, it creates opportunities for
bugs (since failing to register a tranche name is a very hard-to-detect
problem), and the lack of any centralized list of names encourages
sloppy nonconformity in name choices. Moreover, since we have a
centralized list of the tranches anyway in enum BuiltinTrancheIds, we're
certainly not buying any flexibility in return for these disadvantages.
Hence, nuke all the backend-internal LWLockRegisterTranche calls,
and instead provide a const array of the builtin tranche names.
(I have in mind to change a bunch of these names shortly, but this
patch is just about getting them into one place.)
Fix amcheck for page checks concurrent to replay of btree page deletion
amcheck expects at least hikey to always exist on leaf page even if it is
deleted page. But replica reinitializes page during replay of page deletion,
causing deleted page to have no items. Thus, replay of page deletion can
cause an error in concurrent amcheck run.
This commit relaxes amcheck expectation making it tolerate deleted page with
no items.
Reported-by: Konstantin Knizhnik
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAPpHfdt_OTyQpXaPJcWzV2N-LNeNJseNB-K_A66qG%3DL518VTFw%40mail.gmail.com
Author: Alexander Korotkov Reviewed-by: Peter Geoghegan
Backpatch-through: 11
Move check for fsync=off so that pendingOps still gets cleared.
Commit 3eb77eba5a moved the loop and refactored it, and inadvertently
changed the effect of fsync=off so that it also skipped removing entries
from the pendingOps table. That was not intentional, and leads to an
assertion failure if you turn fsync on while the server is running and
reload the config.
Backpatch-through: 12- Reviewed-By: Thomas Munro
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/3cbc7f4b-a5fa-56e9-9591-c886deb07513%40iki.fi
Amit Kapila [Thu, 14 May 2020 03:53:56 +0000 (09:23 +0530)]
Fix the MSVC build for versions 2015 and later.
Visual Studio 2015 and later versions should still be able to do the same
as Visual Studio 2012, but the declaration of locale_name is missing in
_locale_t, causing the code compilation to fail, hence this falls back
instead on to enumerating all system locales by using EnumSystemLocalesEx
to find the required locale name. If the input argument is in Unix-style
then we can get ISO Locale name directly by using GetLocaleInfoEx() with
LCType as LOCALE_SNAME.
In passing, change the documentation references of the now obsolete links.
Note that this problem occurs only with NLS enabled builds.
Author: Juan José Santamaría Flecha, Davinder Singh and Amit Kapila Reviewed-by: Ranier Vilela and Amit Kapila
Backpatch-through: 9.5
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHzhFSFoJEWezR96um4-rg5W6m2Rj9Ud2CNZvV4NWc9tXV7aXQ@mail.gmail.com
Noah Misch [Thu, 14 May 2020 03:42:09 +0000 (20:42 -0700)]
Fix pg_recvlogical avoidance of superfluous Standby Status Update.
The defect suppressed a Standby Status Update message when bytes flushed
to disk had changed but bytes received had not changed. If
pg_recvlogical then exited with no intervening Standby Status Update,
the next pg_recvlogical repeated already-flushed records. The defect
could also cause superfluous messages, which are functionally harmless.
Back-patch to 9.5 (all supported versions).
Noah Misch [Thu, 14 May 2020 03:42:09 +0000 (20:42 -0700)]
In successful pg_recvlogical, end PGRES_COPY_OUT cleanly.
pg_recvlogical merely called PQfinish(), so the backend sent messages
after the disconnect. When that caused EPIPE in internal_flush(),
before a LogicalConfirmReceivedLocation(), the next pg_recvlogical would
repeat already-acknowledged records. Whether or not the defect causes
EPIPE, post-disconnect messages could contain an ErrorResponse that the
user should see. One properly ends PGRES_COPY_OUT by repeating
PQgetCopyData() until it returns a negative value. Augment one of the
tests to cover the case of WAL past --endpos. Back-patch to v10, where
commit 7c030783a5bd07cadffc2a1018bc33119a4c7505 first appeared. Before
that commit, pg_recvlogical never reached PGRES_COPY_OUT.
Tom Lane [Thu, 14 May 2020 03:36:58 +0000 (23:36 -0400)]
Doc: split up wait_event table.
The previous design for this table didn't really work in narrow views,
such as PDF output; besides which its reliance on large morerows
values made it a pain to maintain (cf ab3e4fbd5, for example).
I experimented with a couple of ways to fix it, but the best and
simplest is to split it up into a separate table for each event
type category.
I also rearranged the event ordering to be strictly alphabetical,
as nobody would ever be able to find entries otherwise.
There is work afoot to revise the set of event names described
in this table, but this commit just changes the layout, not the
contents.
In passing, add a missing entry to pg_locks.locktype,
and cross-reference that to the related wait event list.
Tom Lane [Thu, 14 May 2020 03:03:39 +0000 (23:03 -0400)]
Doc: reformat catalog/view description tables.
This changes our catalog and view descriptions to use a style inspired
by the new format for function/operator tables: each table entry is
formatted roughly like a , with the column name and type
on the first line and then an indented description. This provides much
more room for expansive descriptions than we had before, and thereby
eliminates a passel of PDF build warnings.
Tom Lane [Thu, 14 May 2020 02:48:09 +0000 (22:48 -0400)]
Fix async.c to not register any SLRU stats counts in the post
Previously, AsyncShmemInit forcibly initialized the first page of the
async SLRU, to save dealing with that case in asyncQueueAddEntries.
But this is a poor tradeoff, since many installations do not ever use
NOTIFY; for them, expending those cycles in AsyncShmemInit is a
complete waste. Besides, this only saves a couple of instructions
in asyncQueueAddEntries, which hardly seems likely to be measurable.
The real reason to change this now, though, is that now that we track
SLRU access stats, the existing code is causing the postmaster to
accumulate some access counts, which then get inherited into child
processes by fork(), messing up the statistics. Delaying the
initialization into the first child that does a NOTIFY fixes that.
Hence, we can revert f3d23d83e, which was an incorrect attempt at
fixing that issue. Also, add an Assert to pgstat.c that should
catch any future errors of the same sort.