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  1. Jan 24, 2013
    • Bruce Momjian's avatar
      pg_upgrade: report failed cluster name · bd6aca8a
      Bruce Momjian authored
      When pg_upgrade can't find required pg_controldata information, report
      _which_ cluster is failing, with this message:
      
      	The %s cluster lacks some required control information:
      bd6aca8a
  2. Jan 23, 2013
    • Alvaro Herrera's avatar
      Improve concurrency of foreign key locking · 0ac5ad51
      Alvaro Herrera authored
      This patch introduces two additional lock modes for tuples: "SELECT FOR
      KEY SHARE" and "SELECT FOR NO KEY UPDATE".  These don't block each
      other, in contrast with already existing "SELECT FOR SHARE" and "SELECT
      FOR UPDATE".  UPDATE commands that do not modify the values stored in
      the columns that are part of the key of the tuple now grab a SELECT FOR
      NO KEY UPDATE lock on the tuple, allowing them to proceed concurrently
      with tuple locks of the FOR KEY SHARE variety.
      
      Foreign key triggers now use FOR KEY SHARE instead of FOR SHARE; this
      means the concurrency improvement applies to them, which is the whole
      point of this patch.
      
      The added tuple lock semantics require some rejiggering of the multixact
      module, so that the locking level that each transaction is holding can
      be stored alongside its Xid.  Also, multixacts now need to persist
      across server restarts and crashes, because they can now represent not
      only tuple locks, but also tuple updates.  This means we need more
      careful tracking of lifetime of pg_multixact SLRU files; since they now
      persist longer, we require more infrastructure to figure out when they
      can be removed.  pg_upgrade also needs to be careful to copy
      pg_multixact files over from the old server to the new, or at least part
      of multixact.c state, depending on the versions of the old and new
      servers.
      
      Tuple time qualification rules (HeapTupleSatisfies routines) need to be
      careful not to consider tuples with the "is multi" infomask bit set as
      being only locked; they might need to look up MultiXact values (i.e.
      possibly do pg_multixact I/O) to find out the Xid that updated a tuple,
      whereas they previously were assured to only use information readily
      available from the tuple header.  This is considered acceptable, because
      the extra I/O would involve cases that would previously cause some
      commands to block waiting for concurrent transactions to finish.
      
      Another important change is the fact that locking tuples that have
      previously been updated causes the future versions to be marked as
      locked, too; this is essential for correctness of foreign key checks.
      This causes additional WAL-logging, also (there was previously a single
      WAL record for a locked tuple; now there are as many as updated copies
      of the tuple there exist.)
      
      With all this in place, contention related to tuples being checked by
      foreign key rules should be much reduced.
      
      As a bonus, the old behavior that a subtransaction grabbing a stronger
      tuple lock than the parent (sub)transaction held on a given tuple and
      later aborting caused the weaker lock to be lost, has been fixed.
      
      Many new spec files were added for isolation tester framework, to ensure
      overall behavior is sane.  There's probably room for several more tests.
      
      There were several reviewers of this patch; in particular, Noah Misch
      and Andres Freund spent considerable time in it.  Original idea for the
      patch came from Simon Riggs, after a problem report by Joel Jacobson.
      Most code is from me, with contributions from Marti Raudsepp, Alexander
      Shulgin, Noah Misch and Andres Freund.
      
      This patch was discussed in several pgsql-hackers threads; the most
      important start at the following message-ids:
      	AANLkTimo9XVcEzfiBR-ut3KVNDkjm2Vxh+t8kAmWjPuv@mail.gmail.com
      	1290721684-sup-3951@alvh.no-ip.org
      	1294953201-sup-2099@alvh.no-ip.org
      	1320343602-sup-2290@alvh.no-ip.org
      	1339690386-sup-8927@alvh.no-ip.org
      	4FE5FF020200002500048A3D@gw.wicourts.gov
      	4FEAB90A0200002500048B7D@gw.wicourts.gov
      0ac5ad51
  3. Jan 18, 2013
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  6. Jun 26, 2012
    • Heikki Linnakangas's avatar
      Fix pg_upgrade, broken by the xlogid/segno -> 64-bit int refactoring. · 038f3a05
      Heikki Linnakangas authored
      The xlogid + segno representation of a particular WAL segment doesn't make
      much sense in pg_resetxlog anymore, now that we don't use that anywhere
      else. Use the WAL filename instead, since that's a convenient way to name a
      particular WAL segment.
      
      I did this partially for pg_resetxlog in the original xlogid/segno -> uint64
      patch, but I neglected pg_upgrade and the docs. This should now be more
      complete.
      038f3a05
  7. Jun 10, 2012
  8. Mar 13, 2012
    • Bruce Momjian's avatar
      In pg_upgrade, add various logging improvements: · 717f6d60
      Bruce Momjian authored
      	add ability to control permissions of created files
      	have psql echo its queries for easier debugging
      	output four separate log files, and delete them on success
      	add -r/--retain option to keep log files after success
      	make logs file append-only
      	remove -g/-G/-l logging options
      	sugggest tailing appropriate log file on failure
      	enhance -v/--verbose behavior
      717f6d60
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