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[ { "msg_contents": "I propose the attached patch to shake up the wording in the connection \ntype section of pg_hba.conf.sample a bit. After the hostgssenc part was \nadded on, the whole thing became a bit wordy, and it's also a bit \ninaccurate for example in that the current wording for \"host\" appears to \n...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello.\n\n0001: I found some typos in a error message and a comment.\n\nmultirangetypes.c: 1420\n> errmsg(\"range_intersect_agg must be called with a multirange\")));\n\nThis \"range_intersect_agg\" looks like a typo of \"multirange_..\".\n\noperatorcmds.c:303\n> * Look up a join estimator fu...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nOne of my customers has an issue with logical replication. As $SUBJECT\nsays, multiple table synchronization happens serially. To be honest, it\ndoesn't do this every time. It happens when the tables are big enough.\n\nThis issue was already described on this thread (from 2017):\nhttps...
[ { "msg_contents": "These look strange to me - the inner parens don't do anything.\nI wouldn't write it with 2x parens for the same reason I wouldn't write it with\n8x parens.\n\ndiff --git a/contrib/amcheck/verify_heapam.c b/contrib/amcheck/verify_heapam.c\nindex 9f159eb3db..3bbc13c443 100644\n--- a/contrib/amc...
[ { "msg_contents": "\n\nHello,\n\ngcc 11.1.0 produces quite a litany of second thoughts when compiling llvmjit_expr.c; is there something in it?\n\n(all 'warning' or 'note')\n\n\nllvmjit_expr.c: In function ‘llvm_compile_expr’:\nllvmjit_expr.c:69:9: warning: ‘build_EvalXFuncInt’ accessing 8 bytes in a region of ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello Hackers,\n\nI recently had to work on a case where some catalog files were\ncorrupt and/or missing. One of the things we sought to inspect was\npg_filenode.map, but there was no tooling available to do so.\n\nWith the help of Álvaro H.. I've put together a patch to allow pg_filedump\nt...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi\n\nI met an assertion failure at the publisher in lazy_scan_heap() when synchronous running logical replication. Could someone please take a look at it?\n\nHere's what I did to produce the problem.\n\nFirst, use './configure --enable-cassert' to build the PG.\nThen, I created multiple publ...
[ { "msg_contents": "For testing unusual situations I'd like to be able to cause a backend to\nterminate due to something like a segfault. Do we currently have this in\ntesting ?\n\nDave Cramer\n\nFor testing unusual situations I'd like to be able to cause a backend to terminate due to something like a segfault. ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nThe function quote_identifier has extra post-increment operation as\nhighlighted below,\n\nchar *\nquote_identifier(const char *s)\n{\n char *result = pg_malloc(strlen(s) * 2 + 3);\n char *r = result;\n\n *r++ = '\"';\n while (*s)\n {\n if (*s == '\"')\n *r++ = ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nWhile debugging one of the logical decoding issues, I found that xid was\nnot included in restoring reorder buffer changes from disk log messages.\nAttached a patch for it. I felt including the XID will be helpful in\ndebugging. Thoughts?\n\nRegards,\nVignesh", "msg_date": "Thu, 29...
[ { "msg_contents": "\nThe notion of TID is based on pages and line pointers, which makes\nsense for heapam, but that's not likely to make sense for a custom\ntable AM.\n\nThe obvious answer is to make a simple mapping between a TID and\nwhatever makes sense to the AM (for the sake of discussion, let's say a\npla...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\n\nour setup:\n Postgres server is running on CentOS release 6.10 (Final) instance.\n Server Version is PostgreSQL 9.5.9 on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by\ngcc (GCC) 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-18), 64-bit\n\nWith the following parameters set:\n\nwal_level = 'logical' # replica <...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI need to reproduce the CVE-2020-25695 on PostgreSQL 9.2.24. I know this is\nnot a supported version, however, it is important for us to have a\nreproducer for this version as well.\n\nThe reproducer for supported versions[1] is based on REFRESH MATERIALIZED\nVIEW which is not implemen...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hackers,\n\nPostgreSQL defines a number of GUCs that can only be set by superusers. I would like to support granting privileges on subsets of these to non-superuser roles, inspired by Stephen Frost's recent work on pg_read_all_data and pg_write_all_data roles.\n\nThe specific use case motiva...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi hackers,\n\nI was wondering if we can improve the error messages for acl permission\nfailures.\nCurrent implementation to report errors is in \"backend/catalog/aclchk.c\"\n void aclcheck_error(AclResult aclerr, ObjectType objtype, const char\n*objectname);\n\nbased on the AclResult typ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nTRAP: FailedAssertion(\"!all_visible_according_to_vm ||\nprunestate.all_visible\", File:\n\"/home/pgsql/build-farm/buildroot/HEAD/pgsql.build/../pgsql/src/backend/access/heap/vacuumlazy.c\",\nLine: 1347, PID: 16926)\n\n2021-04-30 04:15:50.317 PDT [10349:18] DETAIL: Failed process was\...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nBeing able to extend core parser has been requested multiple times, and AFAICT\nall previous attempts were rejected not because this isn't wanted but because\nthe proposed implementations required plugins to reimplement all of the core\ngrammar with their own changes, as bison generate...
[ { "msg_contents": "I found a nasty performance problem in commit 824bf7190: given the\nright sort of regex, checkmatchall() takes an unreasonable amount\nof time. For example,\n\nregression=# SELECT regexp_matches('', '(.|){20}','');\n regexp_matches \n----------------\n {\"\"}\n(1 row)\n\nTime: 129.213 ms\nre...
[ { "msg_contents": "On Sat, May 1, 2021 at 12:55 AM Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> wrote:\n>\n> Greetings,\n>\n> We are proposing a patchset to the Linux kernel, which brings very\n> promising performance improvements under memory pressure. I'm\n> wondering if anybody would be interested in benchmarking it on top o...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi hackers,\n\nI recently did a pg_upgrade to 13 at $work, and noticed it did not\npreserve the comments I had added locally on the pg_* predefined roles.\n\nWe have a bgworker that runs periodically and makes a report of existing\nroles, memberships, and grants, showing the comments on the r...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nIn apply_handle_truncate, the following comment before ExecuteTruncateGuts\nsays that it defaults to RESTRICT even if the CASCADE option has been\nspecified in publisher's TRUNCATE command.\n /*\n * Even if we used CASCADE on the upstream primary we explicitly default\n * to...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi\n\nI am testing a new subscripting interface for jsonb, and I found one issue.\n\nDO $$\nDECLARE v jsonb;\nBEGIN\n v['a'] = '\"Ahoj\"';\n RAISE NOTICE '%', v['a'];\nEND;\n$$;\nNOTICE: \"Ahoj\"\nDO\n\nWhen I use this interface for reading, the jsonb type is returned. What is\nthe correct...
[ { "msg_contents": "We have already pushed the configurable lz4 toast compression code[1].\nIn the custom compression thread, we were already having the patch to\nsupport the compression method options[2]. But the design for the\nbase patches was heavily modified before commit but I never rebased\nthis patch ba...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nThere's a well known limitation in the amount of memory that any\nVACUUM process can use, capped at 1GB now. This is not reflected in\nthe documentation\n\nhttps://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/runtime-config-resource.html\n\nWe should add a line that indicates that there is a limita...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nA colleague debugged an issue where their postgres was occasionally\ncrash-restarting under load.\n\nThe cause turned out to be that a relatively complex archive_command was\nused, which could in some rare circumstances have a bash subshell\npipeline not succeed. It wasn't at all obvi...
[ { "msg_contents": "I and various colleagues of mine have from time to time encountered\nsystems that got a bit behind on WAL archiving, because the\narchive_command started failing and nobody noticed right away.\nIdeally, people should have monitoring for this and put it to rights\nimmediately, but some people ...
[ { "msg_contents": "While reviewing some logical replication code I stumbled across a\nvariable usage that looks suspicious to me.\n\nNote that the AlterSubscription_refresh function (unlike other\nfunctions in the subscriptioncmds.c) is using the global variable\n\"wrconn\" instead of a local stack variable of ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi\n\nI am doing some test and I have few ideas:\n\n1. print server version to the output of pgbench. Now only client side\nversion is printed\n\n2. can ve generate some output in structured format - XML, JSON ?\n\nRegards\n\nPavel\n\nHiI am doing some test and I have few ideas:1. print serve...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nThis new thread is a follow-up of [1].\n\n\n Problem description:\n\nWe have occasionally observed objects having an orphaned dependency, the \nmost common case we have seen (if not the only one) is functions not \nlinked to any namespaces.\nA patch has been initially proposed t...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hackers,\n\nDuring the version 14 development period, a few checks of toasted attributes were written but never committed. For the version 15 development cycle, I'd like to consider extending the checks of toasted attributes. First, no toasted attribute should ever have a rawsize larger tha...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all\n\nThe attached patch adds support for running any temp-install based tests\n(check, isolationcheck, src/test/recovery, etc) under the control of\nvalgrind with a simple\n\n make USE_VALGRIND=1 check\n\nIt's based on a script I've been using for some time to run faster, simpler\nVa...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi all\n\nI'm thinking of piggy-backing on the approach used in the \"Get memory\ncontexts of an arbitrary backend process\" patch in order to provide access\nto detailed reorder buffer content statistics from walsenders on request.\n\nRight now the reorder buffer is mostly a black-box. I mos...
[ { "msg_contents": "You might want to use pg_receivewal to save all of your WAL segments\nsomewhere instead of relying on archive_command. It has, at the least,\nthe advantage of working on the byte level rather than the segment\nlevel. But it seems to me that it is not entirely suitable as a\nsubstitute for arc...
[ { "msg_contents": "Problem: I have to set IntervalStyle in separate statement to convert\ninterval type to ISO8601 string.\n\nThis isn't well supported by ORMs or similar tools, requiring us to\nset it globally (per role or per database).\n\nProblem #2 (exotic): you can't mix two output styles in a single query...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\n From time to time, I need to deal with bizarrely delimited text files,\nhaving to use tools such as awk/sed/perl to reformat the files\nso that they can be copied into PostgreSQL.\n\nIf such files could be imported to a table with a single text column,\nwe could then use PostgreSQL's ...
[ { "msg_contents": "It's getting to be time to think about these steps for v14:\n\n* Renumber any manually-assigned OIDs between 8000 and 9999\n to lower numbers, using renumber_oids.pl (see notes in bki.sgml)\n\n* pgindent, perltidy, reformat-dat-files\n\n* Update config.guess and config.sub\n (from https://s...
[ { "msg_contents": "I noticed this recent crash on lorikeet:\n\nhttps://buildfarm.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=lorikeet&dt=2021-05-05%2009%3A19%3A29\n\nThe relevant bits of the log seem to be\n\n2021-05-05 05:36:22.011 EDT [60926716.bb24:1] ERROR: could not map dynamic shared memory segment\n...\n2021-...
[ { "msg_contents": "Per sqlsmith.\n\npostgres=# SELECT pg_get_statisticsobjdef_expressions(123);\nERROR: cache lookup failed for statistics object 123\npostgres=# \\errverbose \nERROR: XX000: cache lookup failed for statistics object 123\nLOCATION: pg_get_statisticsobjdef_expressions, ruleutils.c:1762\n\nThe ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Folks,\n\nI was writing up a query on pg_constraint, and the columns whose\ndescriptions I've changed here were pretty hard to puzzle out, as they\nwere only distinct up to the difference between F and P, which isn't\nalways easy to see. Please find attached a patch to disambiguate\nthem.\n\...
[ { "msg_contents": "The attached patch implements ALTER TABLE ... SET ACCESS METHOD.\n\nFor simplicity, I used the normal alter table path, ATRewriteTable(),\nwhich does not follow the stricter isolation semantics that VACUUM FULL\nfollows. If someone thinks that's unacceptable, please let me know.\n\nRegards,\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI wanted to apply https://postgr.es/m/CAGRY4nwaiPJc8wO0G7WZCgBmATC3GJVgvBoADZHDbCzhj8zTPw@mail.gmail.com\nand noticed that there's not just Gen_dummy_probes.sed but also a\nGen_dummy_probes.pl.\n\nI understand why we don't want to rely on sed because of windows - but\nit's far from obv...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi hackers,\n With PG 13.2(3fb4c75e857adee3da4386e947ba58a75f3e74b7), I tested\nsubtransaction with parallel scan, I got a subtransaction coredump as below:\n\n(gdb) bt\n#0 0x00001517ce61f7ff in raise () from /lib64/libc.so.6\n#1 0x00001517ce609c35 in abort () from /lib64/libc.so.6\n#2 0...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nWhile looking for something else, I noticed thorntail has failed twice\nlike this, on REL_12_STABLE:\n\nTRAP: FailedAssertion(\"!(CritSectionCount == 0 ||\n(context)->allowInCritSection)\", File:\n\"/home/nm/farm/sparc64_deb10_gcc_64_ubsan/REL_12_STABLE/pgsql.build/../pgsql/src/backend...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nWhile reviewing one of the 'Table partitioning' related patches, I found\nthat Postgres does not support multiple column based LIST partitioning.\nBased on this understanding, I have started working on this feature. I also\nfeel that 'Multi-Column List Partitioning' can be benefited to...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\r\n\r\nSince we have introduced `pgxactoff` in [941697c3c1ae5d6ee153065adb96e1e63ee11224](https://github.com/postgres/postgres/commit/941697c3c1ae5d6ee153065adb96e1e63ee11224), and `pgxactoff` is always the index of `proc->pgprocno` in `procArray->pgprocnos`. So it seems that we could dir...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi Hackers,\n\nLast email, format error, missing some information, so I resend this email. \n\n With PG 13.2(3fb4c75e857adee3da4386e947ba58a75f3e74b7), I tested subtransaction with parallel scan, I got a subtransaction coredump as below:\n\n \n\n```\n\n(gdb) bt\n\n#0 0x00001517ce61f7ff in r...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi\n\nI searched operators for multirange type, and the current doc is little bit\nmessy, because chapter \"Range Functions and Operators\" contains operators\nand functions for multirange type too.\n\nI think so this chapter should be renamed to Range, Multirange Functions\nand Operators\"\n...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi\n\nI am testing new features in Postgres 14, and I found bug\n\nEXPLAIN ANALYZE VERBOSE for insert to FDW table with batch_size 1000\nreturns\n\n-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n Insert on publ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI am not convinced with the following behaviour of RANGE Partitioning.\nKindly let me know if this is expected behaviour or it should be changed.\n\n*Case-1*:\npostgres@68941=#create table r(a int, b int) partition by range(a,b);\nCREATE TABLE\npostgres@68941=#create table r1 partition...
[ { "msg_contents": "I noticed this while working on the\nEXPLAIN-ANALYZE-for-async-capable-nodes issue:\n\nEXPLAIN (VERBOSE, COSTS OFF)\nDELETE FROM async_pt;\n QUERY PLAN\n----------------------------------------------------------------\n Delete on public.async_pt\n Foreign Delete on...
[ { "msg_contents": "See\nhttps://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=7f4bab7f4a0e42ee9fa14707f726017b7869386b\n\nAs usual, please send comments/corrections by Sunday.\n\n\t\t\tregards, tom lane\n\n\n", "msg_date": "Fri, 07 May 2021 12:22:51 -0400", "msg_from": "Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pg...
[ { "msg_contents": "In a bug report back in November [1] a subthread explored why parallel\nquery is excluded any time we have \"Plan nodes which reference a\ncorrelated SubPlan\". Amit's understanding was that the reasoning had\nto do with inability to easily pass (potentially variable length)\nParam values bet...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nEnabling optional ./configure features/packages using --enable-* / --with-*\nwill and should cause fatal errors aborting the configure process\nif some dependencies are missing, letting the user install such packages,\nbefore proceeding and resuming ./configure.\n\nHowever, ./configure...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi\n\nI am testing new features of Postgres 14, and now I am trying to check the\nresult cache. Unfortunately on my test data, the result is not too good.\nthe behaviour is very non linear. Is it expected?\n\ncreate table t1(a int, t2_id int);\ninsert into t1 select random() * 100000, random(...
[ { "msg_contents": "The JSON doc has this example (to show the need for double backslash):\n\n$ ? (@ like_regex \"^\\\\d+$\")\n\n\nThe example is not wrong exactly, and can be cast to jsonpath, but as-is \ncan never match anything.\n\nI think it'd be helpful to provide that example so that it more probably \nmat...
[ { "msg_contents": "Dear Postgresql community:\nWe are very new users of the Postgresql databases!\nWe have noticed that there is a separate Postgres installation files for different version of the same O/S such as Redhat Linux (one Postgres install file for RHEL 6, one Postgres intall file for RHEL 7, one Postg...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nWhen testing the fdw batch insert, I found a possible issue.\n\nIf I set the batch_size to 0 , it will throw an error:\n\n---------------------\nCREATE FOREIGN TABLE test(a int, b varchar)\n SERVER testserver\n OPTIONS (table_name 'testlocal', batch_size '0');\nERROR: fetch_size req...
[ { "msg_contents": "In a nearby thread I bemoaned the fact that the core regression tests\nseem to have gotten significantly slower in the last couple of months,\nat least with CCA enabled: hyrax reports completing them in 12:52:44\non 18 March, while its most recent run on 1 May took 14:08:18.\n\nTrying to diag...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI have attached the draft for the 2021-05-13 cumulative update release\nannouncement.\n\nPlease review for inaccuracies, typos, or issues that you think should\nbe highlighted in the announcement that were not included in the list.\n\nPlease provide feedback no later than Wednesday, Ma...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nSince seawasp's bleeding-edge clang moved to \"20210226\", it failed\nevery run except 4, and a couple of days ago it moved to \"20210508\"\nand it's still broken. It's always like this:\n\n2021-05-09 03:31:37.602 CEST [1678796:171] pg_regress/_int LOG:\nstatement: RESET enable_seqsca...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nFor some of the logical replication messages the data type documented\nwas not correct, especially for lsn and xid. For lsn actual datatype\nused is uint64 but is documented as int64, similarly for xid, datatype\nused is uint32 but documented as int32.\nAttached is a patch which has th...
[ { "msg_contents": "I happened to be trying to run the core regression tests under\nvalgrind, and I got the complaints attached below, from the\nprocess that had been running the insert_conflict test script.\n\nI could not reproduce the failure in a second run, which is not\nhugely surprising because it appears ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hello hackers,\n\nI've just noticed this in pg_database.dat:\n\n { oid => '1', oid_symbol => 'TemplateDbOid',\n descr => 'default template for new databases',\n datname => 'template1', ...\n\nbut in the most recent cluster that I pg_upgraded, template1 has oid 16400.\n\nNothing is acti...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi\n\nWhen using psql help with SQL commands, I found an inconsistency tab-completion for command \"DELETE\" as follows.\n\n=# \\h de[TAB]\ndeallocate declare delete from\n\n=# \\help[TAB]\nABORT CLUSTER DELETE FROM\n\n=# \\help[ENTER]\nAvailable...
[ { "msg_contents": "I have committed the first draft of the PG 14 release notes. You can\nsee the most current build of them here:\n\n\thttps://momjian.us/pgsql_docs/release-14.html\n\nI need clarification on many items, and the document still needs its\nitems properly ordered, and markup added. I also expect...
[ { "msg_contents": "I noted that, while privileges.sql doesn't stand out in terms of\nruntime normally (it's only the fourth slowest test in its\nparallel group), it looks absolutely horrid in CLOBBER_CACHE_ALWAYS\ntesting. On hyrax's latest run, it takes nearly 9000 seconds longer\nthan the next-slowest member...
[ { "msg_contents": "The function GetSubscriptionRelations was declaring ScanKeyData\nskey[2]; but actually\nonly uses 1 scan key. It seems like the code was cut/paste from other\nnearby functions\nwhich really are using 2 keys.\n\nPSA a trivial patch to declare the correct number of keys for this function.\n\n--...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nDuring debugging I noticed some code in ExecResult() where a WHILE\nloop is being used with an unconditional RETURN at the end of the\nblock (which is intentional, looking at the history of changes), but\nnow there's no actual use of the loop in any way. The code should\nprobably be ch...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nThe file path mentioned in the file comments of\n'src/backend/utils/activity/backend_status.c'\nwas incorrect. Modified it to the correct path. Please find the patch\nattached.\n\nThanks & Regards,\nNitin Jadhav", "msg_date": "Mon, 10 May 2021 15:15:31 +0530", "msg_from": "Niti...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nWhile working on [1], I got to know that there is a new GUC\ndebug_invalidate_system_caches_always that has been introduced in v14.\nIt can be used to switch off cache invalidation in\nCLOBBER_CACHE_ALWAYS builds which makes cache sensitive tests stable.\nUsing this GUC, it is quite po...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi\n\nmy customer reported an issue related to unsupported TABLESPACE pg_default\nfor partitioned table:\n\npostgres=# CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS foo2\n (\n data bytea,\n guid character varying(255) COLLATE pg_catalog.\"default\" NOT NULL,\n part date NOT NULL,\n ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi\n\nI tested features of Postgres 14. The extension pg_stat_statements didn't\nwork to me until I enabled compute_query_id. Is it expected behaviour?\n\nI expected just an empty column query_id and workable extension. This\ndoesn't look well.\n\nMore, it increases the (little bit) complexit...
[ { "msg_contents": "The test program libpq_pipeline produced by the test suite in \nsrc/test/modules/libpq_pipeline/ is installed into tmp_install as part \nof make check. This isn't a real problem by itself, but I think it \ncreates a bit of an asymmetric situation that might be worth cleaning up.\n\nBefore, t...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nAfter hearing from a couple of directions about systems spending too\nmuch time scanning the local lock hash table, I wrote the trivial\npatch to put them in a linked list, before learning that people have\nconsidered that before, so I should probably go and read some history\non that ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nIn https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20210505010835.umylslxgq4a6rbwg%40alap3.anarazel.de\nI commented that we have a number of hacky workarounds to deal with the fact\nthat walreceiver writes partial WAL pages into reycled segments.\n\nThe problem with that practice is that within ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nThere are no interrupt checks in the WalReceiverMain() sub-loop for\nreceiving WAL. There's one above\n\n\t\t\t\t/* See if we can read data immediately */\n\t\t\t\tlen = walrcv_receive(wrconn, &buf, &wait_fd);\n\nbut none in the loop below:\n\t\t\t\t\t/*\n\t\t\t\t\t * Process the recei...
[ { "msg_contents": "We apparently forgot in 86dc90056df to remove a note in 5.11.4.\nPartition Pruning saying this:\n\n <note>\n <para>\n Execution-time partition pruning currently only occurs for the\n <literal>Append</literal> and <literal>MergeAppend</literal> node types.\n It is not yet impl...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI was going through the parallel vacuum docs and code. I found below\nthings, please someone clarify:\n\n1) I see that a term \"parallel degree\" is used in the docs, code\ncomments, error messages \"parallel vacuum degree must be a\nnon-negative integer\", \"parallel vacuum degree mu...
[ { "msg_contents": "In some recent threads I complained about how CLOBBER_CACHE_ALWAYS\ntest runs have gotten markedly slower over the past couple of release\ncycles [1][2][3]. It'd be impossibly time-consuming to investigate the\ncauses by repeating the whole test corpus, but I've had some success in\nbisectin...
[ { "msg_contents": "$SUBJECT was discovered in Fedora 35 prerelease testing of Python 3.10:\n\nhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1959080\n\nWe have time to think about what to do about this, but some fix\nwill be needed before long.\n\n\t\t\tregards, tom lane\n\n\n", "msg_date": "Tue, 11 May 2021 1...
[ { "msg_contents": "We've several times discussed doing $SUBJECT by replacing the\nmakefile's use of serial_schedule with calling parallel_schedule\nwith --max-connections=1. This'd remove the need to maintain\ntwo lists of regression test scripts.\n\nI got annoyed again just now about how people seem unable to...
[ { "msg_contents": "Originally reported as https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1959080\nduring early integration testing of Python 3.10 done in Fedora.\n\nThe test failed because Python 3.10 reports the traceback a bit differently:\n\ncat postgresql-13.2/src/pl/plpython/regression.diffs\ndiff -U3\npostgr...
[ { "msg_contents": "While testing something on spgist I found that at certain point while\ninserting in spgist it is going for doPickSplit, but even after split\nis is not able to find a place to insert a tuple and it keeping going\nin that loop infinitely it seems and finally error out with OOM\nbecause in this...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi!\nI am trying to understand the behaviour of the query planner regarding the\npush-down of the conditions \"through\" the join.\n\nLets say that I have tables a(adate date, aval text) and b(bdate date, bval\ntext), and I create a view:\n\ncreate view v as\n select a.adate, a.aval, b.bval...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nDuring the discussion about memory contexts dumping[1], there\nwas a comment that exposing not only memory contexts but also\nquery plans and untruncated query string would be useful.\n\nI also feel that it would be nice when thinking about situations\nsuch as troubleshooting a long-ru...
[ { "msg_contents": "Right now Tom is doing a bit of work to try and improve the\nperformance of regression test runs with CLOBBER _CACHE_ALWAYS. I'm\non board with making this go faster too.\n\nI did a CLOBBER_CACHE_ALWAYS_RUN today and it took my machine almost 7\nhours to complete. I occasionally checked top...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nWhile I was reviewing one of the logical decoding features, I found a\nfew issues in alter subscription drop publication.\n\nAlter subscription drop publication does not support copy_data option,\nthat needs to be removed from tab completion.\n\nDropping all the publications present in...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi, Etsuro-san:\nI was looking at\n Fix EXPLAIN ANALYZE for async-capable nodes.\n\nwhich adds the following parameter / field:\n\n+ bool async_mode; /* true if node is in async mode */\n\nasync_mode implies an enum: {sync, async}\nSince there are only two values, the data type ...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hackers,\n\nI would like to propose bumping PG_CONTROL_VERSION with each release \neven if there are no changes to the ControlFileData struct. Historically \nPG_CONTROL_VERSION has only been bumped when there were changes to \nControlFileData.\n\npgBackRest uses PG_CONTROL_VERSION to identify...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nWhen working on the shared memory stats patch I needed to manufacture\nhaving a lot of stats entries. It seemed cheaper to create functions\nthan relations, for fairly obvious reasons. That required calling the\nfunctions too get those entries.\n\nMy first attempt ran into the followin...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nI think it will be useful to allow foreign tables to be VACUUMed if\nthe underlying FDW supports, currently VACUUM doesn't support foreign\ntables, see [1]. In case of postgres_fdw, if foreign tables are\nspecified in the local VACUUM command, a per-server remote VACUUM\ncommand can be...
[ { "msg_contents": "I noticed $SUBJECT in curculio.\nhttps://buildfarm.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=curculio&dt=2021-05-11%2018%3A30%3A23\n\nThe failure test report:\nt/020_messages.pl (Wstat: 7424 Tests: 1 Failed: 0)\n Non-zero exit status: 29\n Parse errors: Bad plan. You planned 5 t...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nPer Coverity.\nCID 1453114 (#1 of 1): Explicit null dereferenced (FORWARD_NULL)\n53. var_deref_model: Passing null pointer child_expr to strcmp, which\ndereferences it.\n\nIt is agreed that asserts should be used for error conditions that can\nnever occur in the release.\nBut with erro...
[ { "msg_contents": "Per sqlsmith.\n\npostgres=# select amvalidate(123);\nERROR: cache lookup failed for operator class 123\npostgres=# \\errverbose \nERROR: XX000: cache lookup failed for operator class 123\nLOCATION: amvalidate, amapi.c:125\n\nThe usual expectation is that sql callable functions should retur...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi hackers,\r\n\r\nI've attached a small patch that allows specifying only direct members\r\nof a group in pg_hba.conf. The \"+\" prefix offered today matches both\r\ndirect and indirect role members, which may complicate some role\r\nsetups. For example, if you have one set of roles that a...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi hackers,\n\nRecently I was involved with some patches [1][2] to fix code which was\nmistakenly using a global \"wrconn\" variable instead of a local one.\n\nThat bug led me to wonder if similar problems might be going\nundetected elsewhere in the code. There is a gcc compiler option [3]\n-...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nWhile I was reviewing one of the logical decoding features, I found\nStreaming and binary options were missing in tab completion for the\nalter subscription set option, the attached patch has the changes for\nthe same.\nThoughts?\n\nRegards,\nVignesh", "msg_date": "Fri, 14 May 2021...
[ { "msg_contents": "I found the following code in multirangetypes.c\n\n>\tif (*ptr == '{')\n>\t\tptr++;\n>\telse\n>\t\tereport(ERROR,\n>\t\t\t\t(errcode(ERRCODE_INVALID_TEXT_REPRESENTATION),\n>\t\t\t\t errmsg(\"malformed multirange literal: \\\"%s\\\"\",\n>\t\t\t\t\t\tinput_str),\n>\t\t\t\t errdetail(\"Missing l...
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n\nPer Coverity.\nCID 1412632 (#1 of 1): Out-of-bounds access (OVERRUN)1.\noverrun-buffer-val: Overrunning buffer pointed to by &c of 1 bytes by\npassing it to a function which accesses it at byte offset 4.\n\nFor some people, Coverity opinions count zero.\nWho knows for others, it helps....
[ { "msg_contents": "Hi,\n(Adding Andrew in CC for the buildfarm and PostgresNode parts.)\n\n$subject has been around for a couple of years now, with the following\nthreads:\nhttps://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20180126080026.GI17847@paquier.xyz\nhttps://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAB7nPqRdaN1A1YNjxNL9T1jUEW...