logical replication upgrades.

Backpatch to 9.2.

improve performance when restoring the schema from the old cluster.

Backpatch to 9.2.

This case got broken in 8.4 by the addition of an error check that
complains if ALTER TABLE ONLY is used on a table that has children.
We do use ONLY for this situation, but it's okay because the necessary
recursion occurs at a higher level.  So we need to have a separate
flag to suppress recursion without making the error check.

Reported and patched by Pavan Deolasee, with some editorial adjustments by
me.  Back-patch to 8.4, since this is a regression of functionality that
worked in earlier branches.

I'm not sure why commit 1eb1dde0 seems
to have made this start to fail on Cygwin when it never did before ---
but nonetheless, the coding was pretty bogus, and unlike the way we
handle $(X) anywhere else.  Per buildfarm.

In bug #7626, Brian Dunavant exposes a performance problem created by
commit 3b8968f2: that commit attempted to
consider *all* possible combinations of indexable join clauses, but if said
clauses join to enough different relations, there's an exponential increase
in the number of outer-relation sets considered.

In Brian's example, all the clauses come from the same equivalence class,
which means it's redundant to use more than one of them in an indexscan
anyway.  So we can prevent the problem in this class of cases (which is
probably the majority of real examples) by rejecting combinations that
would only serve to add a known-redundant clause.

But that still leaves us exposed to exponential growth of planning time
when the query has a lot of non-equivalence join clauses that are usable
with the same index.  I chose to prevent such cases by setting an upper
limit on the number of relation sets considered, equal to ten times the
number of index clauses considered so far.  (This sliding limit still
allows new relsets to be added on as we move to additional index columns,
which is probably more important than considering even more combinations of
clauses for the previous column.)  This should keep the amount of work done
roughly linear rather than exponential in the apparent query complexity.
This part of the fix is pretty ad-hoc; but without a clearer idea of
real-world cases for which this would result in markedly inferior plans,
it's hard to see how to do better.

Per bug #7631 from Rob Johnson.  The code is operating as designed, but the
docs didn't explain it.

In its original conception, it was leaving some objects into the old
schema, but without their proper pg_depend entries; this meant that the
old schema could be dropped, causing future pg_dump calls to fail on the
affected database.  This was originally reported by Jeff Frost as #6704;
there have been other complaints elsewhere that can probably be traced
to this bug.

To fix, be more consistent about altering a table's subsidiary objects
along the table itself; this requires some restructuring in how tables
are relocated when altering an extension -- hence the new
AlterTableNamespaceInternal routine which encapsulates it for both the
ALTER TABLE and the ALTER EXTENSION cases.

There was another bug lurking here, which was unmasked after fixing the
previous one: certain objects would be reached twice via the dependency
graph, and the second attempt to move them would cause the entire
operation to fail.  Per discussion, it seems the best fix for this is to
do more careful tracking of objects already moved: we now maintain a
list of moved objects, to avoid attempting to do it twice for the same
object.

Authors: Alvaro Herrera, Dimitri Fontaine
Reviewed by Tom Lane

generate_base_implied_equalities_const() should prefer plain Consts over
other em_is_const eclass members when choosing the "pivot" value that
all the other members will be equated to.  This makes it more likely that
the generated equalities will be useful in constraint-exclusion proofs.
Per report from Rushabh Lathia.

Represent a sequence's current value as a separate TableDataInfo dumpable
object, so that it can be dumped within the data section of the archive
rather than in pre-data.  This fixes an undesirable inconsistency between
the meanings of "--data-only" and "--section=data", and also fixes dumping
of sequences that are marked as extension configuration tables, as per a
report from Marko Kreen back in July.  The main cost is that we do one more
SQL query per sequence, but that's probably not very meaningful in most
databases.

Back-patch to 9.1, since it has the extension configuration issue even
though not the --section switch.

Views should not have any pg_attribute entries for system columns.
However, we forgot to remove such entries when converting a table to a
view.  This could lead to crashes later on, if someone attempted to
reference such a column, as reported by Kohei KaiGai.

This problem is corrected properly in HEAD (by removing the pg_attribute
entries during conversion), but in the back branches we need to defend
against existing mis-converted views.  This fix costs us an extra syscache
lookup per system column reference, which is annoying but probably not
really measurable in the big scheme of things.

For the non-concurrent case there is an AccessExclusiveLock lock
on both the index and the heap at a time during which no other
process is using either, before which the index is maintained and
used for scans, and after which the index is no longer used or
maintained.  Predicate locks can safely be moved from the index to
the related heap relation under the protection of these locks.
This was done prior to the introductin of DROP INDEX CONCURRENTLY
and continues to be done for non-concurrent index drops.

For concurrent index drops, the predicate locks must be moved when
there are no index scans in progress on that index and no more can
subsequently start, and before heap inserts stop maintaining the
index.  As long as these conditions are guaranteed when the
TransferPredicateLocksToHeapRelation() function is called,
stronger locks are not needed for correctness.

Kevin Grittner based on questions by Tom Lane in reviewing the
DROP INDEX CONCURRENTLY patch and in cooperation with Andres
Freund and Simon Riggs.

Back-patch of commit 4c9d0901

In commit 4317e024, I accidentally broke
this behavior while rearranging code to ensure that --create wouldn't
affect whether a DATABASE entry gets put into archive-format output.
Thus, 9.2 would issue a DROP DATABASE command in --clean mode, which is
either useless or dangerous depending on the usage scenario.
It should not do that, and no longer does.

A bright spot is that this refactoring makes it easy to allow the
combination of --clean and --create to work sensibly, ie, emit DROP
DATABASE then CREATE DATABASE before reconnecting.  Ordinarily we'd
consider that a feature addition and not back-patch it, but it seems
silly to not include the extra couple of lines required in the 9.2
version of the code.

Per report from Guillaume Lelarge, though this is slightly more extensive
than his proposed patch.

The code seems to have been written to handle the pre-parse-analysis
representation, where an ExecuteStmt would appear directly under
CreateTableAsStmt.  But in reality the function is only run on
already-parse-analyzed statements, so there will be a Query node in
between.  We'd not noticed the bug because the function is generally
not used at all except in extended query protocol.

Per report from Robert Haas and Rushabh Lathia.

An out-of-memory error during expand_table() on a palloc-based hash table
would leave a partially-initialized entry in the table.  This would not be
harmful for transient hash tables, since they'd get thrown away anyway at
transaction abort.  But for long-lived hash tables, such as the relcache
hash, this would effectively corrupt the table, leading to crash or other
misbehavior later.

To fix, rearrange the order of operations so that table enlargement is
attempted before we insert a new entry, rather than after adding it
to the hash table.

Problem discovered by Hitoshi Harada, though this is a bit different
from his proposed patch.

Per bug #7615 from Marko Tiikkaja.  Apparently nobody ever tried this
case before ...

Canceling DROP INDEX CONCURRENTLY during
wait could allow an orphaned index to be
left behind which could not be dropped.

Backpatch to 9.2

Andres Freund, tested by Abhijit Menon-Sen

Don't leak a file descriptor if the file is empty or we can't read its size.

Expect there to be a newline at the end of the last line, too. If there
isn't, ignore anything after the last newline. This makes it a tiny bit
more robust in case the file is appended to concurrently, so that we don't
return the last line if it hasn't been fully written yet. And this makes
the code a bit less obscure, anyway. Per Tom Lane's suggestion.

Backpatch to all supported branches.

for recent concurrent changes.

Abhijit Menon-Sen

Concurrent behaviour was flawed when using
a two-step process, so add an additional
phase of processing to ensure concurrency
for both SELECTs and INSERT/UPDATE/DELETEs.

Backpatch to 9.2

Andres Freund, tweaked by me

If a potential equivalence clause references a variable from the nullable
side of an outer join, the planner needs to take care that derived clauses
are not pushed to below the outer join; else they may use the wrong value
for the variable.  (The problem arises only with non-strict clauses, since
if an upper clause can be proven strict then the outer join will get
simplified to a plain join.)  The planner attempted to prevent this type
of error by checking that potential equivalence clauses aren't
outerjoin-delayed as a whole, but actually we have to check each side
separately, since the two sides of the clause will get moved around
separately if it's treated as an equivalence.  Bugs of this type can be
demonstrated as far back as 7.4, even though releases before 8.3 had only
a very ad-hoc notion of equivalence clauses.

In addition, we neglected to account for the possibility that such clauses
might have nonempty nullable_relids even when not outerjoin-delayed; so the
equivalence-class machinery lacked logic to compute correct nullable_relids
values for clauses it constructs.  This oversight was harmless before 9.2
because we were only using RestrictInfo.nullable_relids for OR clauses;
but as of 9.2 it could result in pushing constructed equivalence clauses
to incorrect places.  (This accounts for bug #7604 from Bill MacArthur.)

Fix the first problem by adding a new test check_equivalence_delay() in
distribute_qual_to_rels, and fix the second one by adding code in
equivclass.c and called functions to set correct nullable_relids for
generated clauses.  Although I believe the second part of this is not
currently necessary before 9.2, I chose to back-patch it anyway, partly to
keep the logic similar across branches and partly because it seems possible
we might find other reasons why we need valid values of nullable_relids in
the older branches.

Add regression tests illustrating these problems.  In 9.0 and up, also
add test cases checking that we can push constants through outer joins,
since we've broken that optimization before and I nearly broke it again
with an overly simplistic patch for this problem.

Backpatch to 9.2 to ensure bugs are fixed.

Abhijit Menon-Sen

If an SMgrRelation is not "owned" by a relcache entry, don't allow it to
live past transaction end.  This design allows the same SMgrRelation to be
used for blind writes of multiple blocks during a transaction, but ensures
that we don't hold onto such an SMgrRelation indefinitely.  Because an
SMgrRelation typically corresponds to open file descriptors at the fd.c
level, leaving it open when there's no corresponding relcache entry can
mean that we prevent the kernel from reclaiming deleted disk space.
(While CacheInvalidateSmgr messages usually fix that, there are cases
where they're not issued, such as DROP DATABASE.  We might want to add
some more sinval messaging for that, but I'd be inclined to keep this
type of logic anyway, since allowing VFDs to accumulate indefinitely
for blind-written relations doesn't seem like a good idea.)

This code replaces a previous attempt towards the same goal that proved
to be unreliable.  Back-patch to 9.1 where the previous patch was added.

This reverts commit fba105b1.
That approach had problems with the smgr-level state not tracking what
we really want to happen, and with the VFD-level state not tracking the
smgr-level state very well either.  In consequence, it was still possible
to hold kernel file descriptors open for long-gone tables (as in recent
report from Tore Halset), and yet there were also cases of FDs being closed
undesirably soon.  A replacement implementation will follow.

If postmaster changed postmaster.pid while pg_ctl was reading it, pg_ctl
could overrun the buffer it allocated for the file. Fix by reading the
whole file to memory with one read() call.

initdb contains an identical copy of the readfile() function, but the files
that initdb reads are static, not modified concurrently. Nevertheless, add
a simple bounds-check there, if only to silence static analysis tools.

Per report from Dave Vitek. Backpatch to all supported branches.

In the previous coding, new backend processes would attempt to create their
self-pipe during the OwnLatch call in InitProcess.  However, pipe creation
could fail if the kernel is short of resources; and the system does not
recover gracefully from a FATAL error right there, since we have armed the
dead-man switch for this process and not yet set up the on_shmem_exit
callback that would disarm it.  The postmaster then forces an unnecessary
database-wide crash and restart, as reported by Sean Chittenden.

There are various ways we could rearrange the code to fix this, but the
simplest and sanest seems to be to split out creation of the self-pipe into
a new function InitializeLatchSupport, which must be called from a place
where failure is allowed.  For most processes that gets called in
InitProcess or InitAuxiliaryProcess, but processes that don't call either
but still use latches need their own calls.

Back-patch to 9.1, which has only a part of the latch logic that 9.2 and
HEAD have, but nonetheless includes this bug.

This change ensures that the planner will see implicit and explicit casts
as equivalent for all purposes, except in the minority of cases where
there's actually a semantic difference (as reflected by having a 3-argument
cast function).  In particular, this fixes cases where the EquivalenceClass
machinery failed to consider two references to a varchar column as
equivalent if one was implicitly cast to text but the other was explicitly
cast to text, as seen in bug #7598 from Vaclav Juza.  We have had similar
bugs before in other parts of the planner, so I think it's time to fix this
problem at the core instead of continuing to band-aid around it.

Remove set_coercionform_dontcare(), which represents the band-aid
previously in use for allowing matching of index and constraint expressions
with inconsistent cast labeling.  (We can probably get rid of
COERCE_DONTCARE altogether, but I don't think removing that enum value in
back branches would be wise; it's possible there's third party code
referring to it.)

Back-patch to 9.2.  We could go back further, and might want to once this
has been tested more; but for the moment I won't risk destabilizing plan
choices in long-since-stable branches.

When hashing a subplan like "WHERE (a, b) NOT IN (SELECT x, y FROM ...)",
findPartialMatch() attempted to match rows using the hashtable's internal
equality operators, which of course are for x and y's datatypes.  What we
need to use are the potentially cross-type operators for a=x, b=y, etc.
Failure to do that leads to wrong answers or even crashes.  The scope for
problems is limited to cases where we have different types with compatible
hash functions (else we'd not be using a hashed subplan), but for example
int4 vs int8 can cause the problem.

Per bug #7597 from Bo Jensen.  This has been wrong since the hashed-subplan
code was written, so patch all the way back.

Etsuro Fujita, with some wording adjustment by me.

Backpatch to 9.2.

Building a shlib on AIX requires use of the mkldexport.sh script, but we
failed to install that, preventing its use from non-source-tree contexts.
Also, Makefile.aix had the wrong idea about where to find the installed
copy of the postgres.imp symbol file used by AIX.

Per report from John Pierce.  Patch all the way back, since this has been
broken since the beginning of PGXS.

I found that these functions tend to return -1 while leaving an empty error
message string in the PGconn, if they suffer some kind of I/O error on the
file.  The reason is that lo_close, which thinks it's executed a perfectly
fine SQL command, clears the errorMessage.  The minimum-change workaround
is to reorder operations here so that we don't fill the errorMessage until
after lo_close.

lo_export returns -1, not zero, on failure.

Tomonaru Katsumata

because it is not correct.

Instead of continuing if the next character is not an array boundary get_data()
used to continue only on finding a boundary so it was not able to read any
element after the first.

These reference pages still claimed that you have to be superuser to create
a database or schema owned by a different role.  That was true before 8.1,
but it was changed in commits aa111062 and
f91370cd to allow assignment of ownership
to any role you are a member of.  However, at the time we were thinking of
that primarily as a change to the ALTER OWNER rules, so the need to touch
these two CREATE ref pages got missed.