The uuidv7_interval() function previously converted a shifted
microsecond-precision timestamp (64-bit integer) to another 64-bit
integer representing a timestamp with nanosecond precision. This
conversion caused overflow for dates beyond the year 2262. The
millisecond and sub-millisecond parts were then extracted from this
nanosecond-precision timestamp and stored in UUIDv7 values.
With this commit, the millisecond and sub-millisecond parts are stored
directly into the UUIDv7 value without being converted back to a
nanosecond precision timestamp. Following RFC 9562, the timestamp is
stored as an unsigned integer, enabling support for dates up to the
year 10889.
Reported and fixed by Andrey Borodin, with cosmetic changes and
regression tests by me.
Reported-by: Andrey Borodin <x4mmm@yandex-team.ru>
Author: Andrey Borodin <x4mmm@yandex-team.ru>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/96DEC2D9-659A-40E8-B7BA-AF5D162A9E21@yandex-team.ru
This removes some setlocale() calls and a lot of commentary about how
dangerous that is. strftime_l() is from POSIX 2008, and on Windows we
use _wcsftime_l().
While here, adjust error message for strftime_l() failure: it does not
in practice set errno (even though POSIX says it could), so no %m.
Author: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGJqVe0%2BPv9dvC9dSums_PXxGo9SWcxYAMBguWJUGbWz-A%40mail.gmail.com
check_createrole_self_grant and check_synchronized_standby_slots
were allocating memory on a LOG elevel without checking if the
allocation succeeded or not, which would have led to a segfault
on allocation failure.
On top of that, a number of callsites were using the ERROR level,
relying on erroring out rather than returning false to allow the
GUC machinery handle it gracefully. Other callsites used WARNING
instead of LOG. While neither being not wrong, this changes all
check_ functions do it consistently with LOG.
init_custom_variable gets a promoted elevel to FATAL to keep
the guc_malloc error handling in line with the rest of the
error handling in that function which already call FATAL. If
we encounter an OOM in this callsite there is no graceful
handling to be had, better to error out hard.
Backpatch the fix to check_createrole_self_grant down to v16
and the fix to check_synchronized_standby_slots down to v17
where they were introduced.
Author: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
Reported-by: Nikita <pm91.arapov@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Bug: #18845
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18845-582c6e10247377ec@postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 16
Commit 62d712ecfd introduced the capability to calculate the same
queryId for queries with different lengths of constants in a list for an
IN clause. This behavior was originally enabled with a GUC
query_id_squash_values. After a discussion about the value of such a
GUC, it was decided to back out of the use of a GUC and make the
squashing behavior the only available option.
Author: Sami Imseih <samimseih@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/Z-LZyygkkNyA8-kR@msg.df7cb.de
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+q6zcVTK-3C-8NWV1oY2NZrvtnMCDqnyYYyk1T7WMUG65MeOQ@mail.gmail.com
This involves four different implementation strategies:
1. For Windows, we now require _configthreadlocale() to be available
and work (commit f1da075d9a), and the documentation says that the
object returned by localeconv() is in thread-local memory.
2. For glibc, we translate to nl_langinfo_l() calls, because it
offers the same information that way as an extension, and that API is
thread-safe.
3. For macOS/*BSD, use localeconv_l(), which is thread-safe.
4. For everything else, use uselocale() to set the locale for the
thread, and use a big ugly lock to defend against the returned object
being concurrently clobbered. In practice this currently means only
Solaris.
The new call is used in pg_locale.c, replacing calls to setlocale() and
localeconv().
Author: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGJqVe0%2BPv9dvC9dSums_PXxGo9SWcxYAMBguWJUGbWz-A%40mail.gmail.com
Performing AIO using io_uring can be considerably faster than
io_method=worker, particularly when lots of small IOs are issued, as
a) the context-switch overhead for worker based AIO becomes more significant
b) the number of IO workers can become limiting
io_uring, however, is linux specific and requires an additional compile-time
dependency (liburing).
This implementation is fairly simple and there are substantial optimization
opportunities.
The description of the existing AIO_IO_COMPLETION wait event is updated to
make the difference between it and the new AIO_IO_URING_EXECUTION clearer.
Reviewed-by: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jakub Wartak <jakub.wartak@enterprisedb.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/uvrtrknj4kdytuboidbhwclo4gxhswwcpgadptsjvjqcluzmah%40brqs62irg4dt
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210223100344.llw5an2aklengrmn@alap3.anarazel.de
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/stj36ea6yyhoxtqkhpieia2z4krnam7qyetc57rfezgk4zgapf@gcnactj4z56m
It seems potentially useful to label our shared libraries with version
information, now that a facility exists for retrieving that. This
patch labels them with the PG_VERSION string. There was some
discussion about using semantic versioning conventions, but that
doesn't seem terribly helpful for modules with no SQL-level presence;
and for those that do have SQL objects, we typically expect them
to support multiple revisions of the SQL definitions, so it'd still
not be very helpful.
I did not label any of src/test/modules/. It seems unnecessary since
we don't install those, and besides there ought to be someplace that
still provides test coverage for the original PG_MODULE_MAGIC macro.
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/dd4d1b59-d0fe-49d5-b28f-1e463b68fa32@gmail.com
This macro allows dynamically loaded shared libraries (modules) to
provide a wired-in module name and version, and possibly other
compile-time-constant fields in future. This information can be
retrieved with the new pg_get_loaded_modules() function.
This feature is expected to be particularly useful for modules
that do not have any exposed SQL functionality and thus are
not associated with a SQL-level extension object. But even for
modules that do belong to extensions, being able to verify the
actual code version can be useful.
Author: Andrei Lepikhov <lepihov@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Yurii Rashkovskii <yrashk@omnigres.com>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/dd4d1b59-d0fe-49d5-b28f-1e463b68fa32@gmail.com
These are useful general-purpose math functions which are included in
POSIX and C99, and are commonly included in other math libraries, so
expose them as SQL-callable functions.
Author: Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Stepan Neretin <sncfmgg@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Reviewed-by: Dmitry Koval <d.koval@postgrespro.ru>
Reviewed-by: Alexandra Wang <alexandra.wang.oss@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEZATCXpGyfjXCirFk9au+FvM0y2Ah+2-0WSJx7MO368ysNUPA@mail.gmail.com
The network (inet) support functions currently only supported a
hardcoded btree operator family. With the generalized compare type
facility, we can generalize this to support any operator family from
any index type that supports the required operators.
Author: Mark Dilger <mark.dilger@enterprisedb.com>
Co-authored-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/E72EAA49-354D-4C2E-8EB9-255197F55330@enterprisedb.com
Allows an "extra" argument that allocates extra memory at the end of
the MinimalTuple. This is important for callers that need to store
additional data, but do not want to perform an additional allocation.
Suggested-by: David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvppeqw2pNM-+ahBOJwq2QmC0hOAGsmCpC89QVmEoOvsdg@mail.gmail.com
Until now max_files_per_process=N limited each backend to open N files in
total (minus a safety factor), even if there were already more files opened in
postmaster and inherited by backends. Change max_files_per_process to control
how many additional files each process is allowed to open.
The main motivation for this is the patch to add io_method=io_uring, which
needs to open one file for each backend. Without this patch, even if
RLIMIT_NOFILE is high enough, postmaster will fail in set_max_safe_fds() if
started with a high max_connections. The cause of the failure is that, until
now, set_max_safe_fds() subtracted the already open files from
max_files_per_process.
Reviewed-by: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/w6uiicyou7hzq47mbyejubtcyb2rngkkf45fk4q7inue5kfbeo@bbfad3qyubvs
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAGECzQQh6VSy3KG4pN1d=h9J=D1rStFCMR+t7yh_Kwj-g87aLQ@mail.gmail.com
Introduce a new conflict type, multiple_unique_conflicts, to handle cases
where an incoming row during logical replication violates multiple UNIQUE
constraints.
Previously, the apply worker detected and reported only the first
encountered key conflict (insert_exists/update_exists), causing repeated
failures as each constraint violation needs to be handled one by one
making the process slow and error-prone.
With this patch, the apply worker checks all unique constraints upfront
once the first key conflict is detected and reports
multiple_unique_conflicts if multiple violations exist. This allows users
to resolve all conflicts at once by deleting all conflicting tuples rather
than dealing with them individually or skipping the transaction.
In the future, this will also allow us to specify different resolution
handlers for such a conflict type.
Add the stats for this conflict type in pg_stat_subscription_stats.
Author: Nisha Moond <nisha.moond412@gmail.com>
Author: Zhijie Hou <houzj.fnst@fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Smith <smithpb2250@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CABdArM7FW-_dnthGkg2s0fy1HhUB8C3ELA0gZX1kkbs1ZZoV3Q@mail.gmail.com
This field can be optionally set in a PlannedStmt through the planner
hook, giving extensions the possibility to assign an identifier related
to a computed plan. The backend is changed to report it in the backend
entry of a process running (including the extended query protocol), with
semantics and APIs to set or get it similar to what is used for the
existing query ID (introduced in the backend via 4f0b0966c8). The plan
ID is reset at the same timing as the query ID. Currently, this
information is not added to the system view pg_stat_activity; extensions
can access it through PgBackendStatus.
Some patches have been proposed to provide some features in the planning
area, where a plan identifier is used as a key to know the plan involved
(for statistics, plan storage and manipulations, etc.), and the point of
this commit is to provide an anchor in the backend that extensions can
rely on for future work. The reset of the plan identifier is
controlled by core and follows the same pattern as the query identifier
added in 4f0b0966c8.
The contents of this commit are extracted from a larger set proposed
originally by Lukas Fittl, that Sami Imseih has proposed as an
independent change, with a few tweaks sprinkled by me.
Author: Lukas Fittl <lukas@fittl.com>
Author: Sami Imseih <samimseih@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAP53Pkyow59ajFMHGpmb1BK9WHDypaWtUsS_5DoYUEfsa_Hktg@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAA5RZ0vyWd4r35uUBUmhngv8XqeiJUkJDDKkLf5LCoWxv-t_pw@mail.gmail.com
This commit introduces a new GUC option max_active_replication_origins
to control the maximum number of active replication
origins. Previously, this was controlled by
'max_replication_slots'. Having a separate GUC option provides better
flexibility for setting up subscribers, as they may not require
replication slots (for cascading replication) but always require
replication origins.
Author: Euler Taveira <euler@eulerto.com>
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
Reviewed-by: vignesh C <vignesh21@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/b81db436-8262-4575-b7c4-bc0c1551000b@app.fastmail.com
This new parameter works just like the storage parameter of the
same name: if set to true (which is the default), autovacuum and
VACUUM attempt to truncate any empty pages at the end of the table.
It is primarily intended to help users avoid locking issues on hot
standbys. The setting can be overridden with the storage parameter
or VACUUM's TRUNCATE option.
Since there's presently no way to determine whether a Boolean
storage parameter is explicitly set or has just picked up the
default value, this commit also introduces an isset_offset member
to relopt_parse_elt.
Suggested-by: Will Storey <will@summercat.com>
Author: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Gurjeet Singh <gurjeet@singh.im>
Reviewed-by: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>
Reviewed-by: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@oss.nttdata.com>
Reviewed-by: Robert Treat <rob@xzilla.net>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/Z2DE4lDX4tHqNGZt%40dev.null
The new GUC extension_control_path specifies a path to look for
extension control files. The default value is $system, which looks in
the compiled-in location, as before.
The path search uses the same code and works in the same way as
dynamic_library_path.
Some use cases of this are: (1) testing extensions during package
builds, (2) installing extensions outside security-restricted
containers like Python.app (on macOS), (3) adding extensions to
PostgreSQL running in a Kubernetes environment using operators such as
CloudNativePG without having to rebuild the base image for each new
extension.
There is also a tweak in Makefile.global so that it is possible to
install extensions using PGXS into an different directory than the
default, using 'make install prefix=/else/where'. This previously
only worked when specifying the subdirectories, like 'make install
datadir=/else/where/share pkglibdir=/else/where/lib', for purely
implementation reasons. (Of course, without the path feature,
installing elsewhere was rarely useful.)
Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
Co-authored-by: Matheus Alcantara <matheusssilv97@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: David E. Wheeler <david@justatheory.com>
Reviewed-by: Gabriele Bartolini <gabriele.bartolini@enterprisedb.com>
Reviewed-by: Marco Nenciarini <marco.nenciarini@enterprisedb.com>
Reviewed-by: Niccolò Fei <niccolo.fei@enterprisedb.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/E7C7BFFB-8857-48D4-A71F-88B359FADCFD@justatheory.com
The default of 128kB is unchanged, but the upper limit is changed from
32 blocks to 128 blocks, unless the operating system's IOV_MAX is too
low. Some other RDBMSes seem to cap their multi-block buffer pool I/O
around this number, and it seems useful to allow experimentation.
The concrete change is to our definition of PG_IOV_MAX, which provides
the maximum for io_combine_limit and io_max_combine_limit. It also
affects a couple of other places that work with arrays of struct iovec
or smaller objects on the stack, so we still don't want to use the
system IOV_MAX directly without a clamp: it is not under our control and
likely to be 1024. 128 seems acceptable for our current usage.
For Windows, we can't use real scatter/gather yet, so we continue to
define our own IOV_MAX value of 16 and emulate preadv()/pwritev() with
loops. Someone would need to research the trade-offs of raising that
number.
NB if trying to see this working: you might temporarily need to hack
BAS_BULKREAD to be bigger, since otherwise the obvious way of "a very
big SELECT" is limited by that for now.
Suggested-by: Tomas Vondra <tomas@vondra.me>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKG%2B2T9p-%2BzM6Eeou-RAJjTML6eit1qn26f9twznX59qtCA%40mail.gmail.com
The existing io_combine_limit can be changed by users. The new
io_max_combine_limit is fixed at server startup time, and functions as a
silent clamp on the user setting. That in itself is probably quite
useful, but the primary motivation is:
aio_init.c allocates shared memory for all asynchronous IOs including
some per-block data, and we didn't want to waste memory you'd never used
by assuming they could be up to PG_IOV_MAX. This commit already halves
the size of 'AioHandleIov' and 'AioHandleData'. A follow-up commit can
now expand PG_IOV_MAX without affecting that.
Since our GUC system doesn't support dependencies or cross-checks
between GUCs, the user-settable one now assigns a "raw" value to
io_combine_limit_guc, and the lower of io_combine_limit_guc and
io_max_combine_limit is maintained in io_combine_limit.
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> (earlier version)
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKG%2B2T9p-%2BzM6Eeou-RAJjTML6eit1qn26f9twznX59qtCA%40mail.gmail.com
Autovacuum launchers perform no WAL IO reads, but pgstat_tracks_io_op()
was tracking them as an allowed combination for the "init" and "normal"
contexts.
This caused the "read", "read_bytes" and "read_time" attributes of
pg_stat_io to show zeros for the autovacuum launcher rather than NULL.
NULL means that a combination of IO object, IO context and IO operation
has no meaning for a backend type. Zero is the same as telling that a
combination is relevant, and that WAL reads are possible in an
autovacuum launcher, but it is not relevant.
Copy-pasto introduced in a051e71e28.
Author: Ranier Vilela <ranier.vf@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEudQAopEMAPiUqE7BvDV+x2fUPmKmb9RrsaoDR+hhQzLKg4PQ@mail.gmail.com
This commit changes the backend stats code so as we rely on a single
boolean rather than a repeated check based on pg_memory_is_all_zeros()
in the code, making it cheaper should PgStat_PendingIO get bigger in
size.
The frequency of backend stats reports is not a bottleneck, but there is
no reason to not make that cheaper, and the logic is simple as the only
entry points updating backend IO stats are pgstat_count_backend_io_op()
and pgstat_count_backend_io_op_time().
Author: Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Xuneng Zhou <xunengzhou@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/Z8WYf1jyy4MwOveQ@ip-10-97-1-34.eu-west-3.compute.internal
pg_stat_statements produces multiple entries for queries like
SELECT something FROM table WHERE col IN (1, 2, 3, ...)
depending on the number of parameters, because every element of
ArrayExpr is individually jumbled. Most of the time that's undesirable,
especially if the list becomes too large.
Fix this by introducing a new GUC query_id_squash_values which modifies
the node jumbling code to only consider the first and last element of a
list of constants, rather than each list element individually. This
affects both the query_id generated by query jumbling, as well as
pg_stat_statements query normalization so that it suppresses printing of
the individual elements of such a list.
The default value is off, meaning the previous behavior is maintained.
Author: Dmitry Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Sergey Dudoladov (mysterious, off-list)
Reviewed-by: David Geier <geidav.pg@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Reviewed-by: Sami Imseih <samimseih@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Sutou Kouhei <kou@clear-code.com>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Reviewed-by: Marcos Pegoraro <marcos@f10.com.br>
Reviewed-by: Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Zhihong Yu <zyu@yugabyte.com>
Tested-by: Yasuo Honda <yasuo.honda@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Sergei Kornilov <sk@zsrv.org>
Tested-by: Maciek Sakrejda <m.sakrejda@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Chengxi Sun <sunchengxi@highgo.com>
Tested-by: Jakub Wartak <jakub.wartak@enterprisedb.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+q6zcWtUbT_Sxj0V6HY6EZ89uv5wuG5aefpe_9n0Jr3VwntFg@mail.gmail.com
The previous commit introduced the infrastructure to start io_workers. This
commit actually makes the workers execute IOs.
IO workers consume IOs from a shared memory submission queue, run traditional
synchronous system calls, and perform the shared completion handling
immediately. Client code submits most requests by pushing IOs into the
submission queue, and waits (if necessary) using condition variables. Some
IOs cannot be performed in another process due to lack of infrastructure for
reopening the file, and must processed synchronously by the client code when
submitted.
For now the default io_method is changed to "worker". We should re-evaluate
that around beta1, we might want to be careful and set the default to "sync"
for 18.
Reviewed-by: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Co-authored-by: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/uvrtrknj4kdytuboidbhwclo4gxhswwcpgadptsjvjqcluzmah%40brqs62irg4dt
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210223100344.llw5an2aklengrmn@alap3.anarazel.de
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/stj36ea6yyhoxtqkhpieia2z4krnam7qyetc57rfezgk4zgapf@gcnactj4z56m
This commit contains the basic, system-wide, infrastructure for
io_method=worker. It does not yet actually execute IO, this commit just
provides the infrastructure for running IO workers, kept separate for easier
review.
The number of IO workers can be adjusted with a PGC_SIGHUP GUC. Eventually
we'd like to make the number of workers dynamically scale up/down based on the
current "IO load".
To allow the number of IO workers to be increased without a restart, we need
to reserve PGPROC entries for the workers unconditionally. This has been
judged to be worth the cost. If it turns out to be problematic, we can
introduce a PGC_POSTMASTER GUC to control the maximum number.
As io workers might be needed during shutdown, e.g. for AIO during the
shutdown checkpoint, a new PMState phase is added. IO workers are shut down
after the shutdown checkpoint has been performed and walsender/archiver have
shut down, but before the checkpointer itself shuts down. See also
87a6690cc6.
Updates PGSTAT_FILE_FORMAT_ID due to the addition of a new BackendType.
Reviewed-by: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Co-authored-by: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/uvrtrknj4kdytuboidbhwclo4gxhswwcpgadptsjvjqcluzmah%40brqs62irg4dt
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210223100344.llw5an2aklengrmn@alap3.anarazel.de
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/stj36ea6yyhoxtqkhpieia2z4krnam7qyetc57rfezgk4zgapf@gcnactj4z56m
Since many clients default to the X25519 curve in the TLS handshake,
the fact that the server by defualt doesn't support it cause an extra
roundtrip for each TLS connection. By adding multiple curves, which
is supported since 3d1ef3a15c, we can reduce the risk of extra
roundtrips.
Author: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
Co-authored-by: Jacob Champion <jacob.champion@enterprisedb.com>
Reported-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-by: Jacob Champion <jacob.champion@enterprisedb.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20240616234612.6cslu7nqexquvwj7@awork3.anarazel.de
Since its introduction in fc34b0d9de, the default
maintenance_io_concurrency has been larger than the default
effective_io_concurrency. maintenance_io_concurrency primarily
controlled prefetching done on behalf of the whole system, for
operations like recovery. Therefore it makes sense for it to have a
value equal to or greater than effective_io_concurrency, which controls
I/O concurrency for reading a relation in a bitmap heap scan.
ff79b5b2ab increased effective_io_concurrency to 16, so we'll increase
maintenance_io_concurrency as well. For now, though, we'll keep the
defaults of effective_io_concurrency and maintenance_io_concurrency
equal to one another (16).
On fast, high IOPs systems, significantly higher values of
maintenance_io_concurrency are observably beneficial [1]. However, such
values would flood low IOPs systems and increase overall system I/O
latency.
It is worth mentioning that since 9256822608 and c3e775e608,
maintenance_io_concurrency also controls the I/O concurrency of each
vacuum worker. Since many autovacuum workers may be simultaneously
issuing I/Os, we want to keep maintenance_io_concurrency appropriately
conservative.
[1] https://postgr.es/m/c5d52837-6256-0556-ac8c-d6d3d558820a%40enterprisedb.com
Suggested-by: Jakub Wartak <jakub.wartak@enterprisedb.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKZiRmxdHQaU%2B2Zpe6d%3Dx%3D0vigJ1sfWwwVYLJAf%3Dud_wQ_VcUw%40mail.gmail.com
Add get_opfamily_method() and get_opfamily_member_for_cmptype() in
lsyscache.c. No callers yet, but we'll add some soon. This is part
of generalizing some parts of the code away from having btree
hardcoded and use CompareType instead.
Author: Mark Dilger <mark.dilger@enterprisedb.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/E72EAA49-354D-4C2E-8EB9-255197F55330@enterprisedb.com
The main motivations to use AIO in PostgreSQL are:
a) Reduce the time spent waiting for IO by issuing IO sufficiently early.
In a few places we have approximated this using posix_fadvise() based
prefetching, but that is fairly limited (no completion feedback, double the
syscalls, only works with buffered IO, only works on some OSs).
b) Allow to use Direct-I/O (DIO).
DIO can offload most of the work for IO to hardware and thus increase
throughput / decrease CPU utilization, as well as reduce latency. While we
have gained the ability to configure DIO in d4e71df6, it is not yet usable
for real world workloads, as every IO is executed synchronously.
For portability, the new AIO infrastructure allows to implement AIO using
different methods. The choice of the AIO method is controlled by the new
io_method GUC. As of this commit, the only implemented method is "sync",
i.e. AIO is not actually executed asynchronously. The "sync" method exists to
allow to bypass most of the new code initially.
Subsequent commits will introduce additional IO methods, including a
cross-platform method implemented using worker processes and a linux specific
method using io_uring.
To allow different parts of postgres to use AIO, the core AIO infrastructure
does not need to know what kind of files it is operating on. The necessary
behavioral differences for different files are abstracted as "AIO
Targets". One example target would be smgr. For boring portability reasons,
all targets currently need to be added to an array in aio_target.c. This
commit does not implement any AIO targets, just the infrastructure for
them. The smgr target will be added in a later commit.
Completion (and other events) of IOs for one type of file (i.e. one AIO
target) need to be reacted to differently, based on the IO operation and the
callsite. This is made possible by callbacks that can be registered on
IOs. E.g. an smgr read into a local buffer does not need to update the
corresponding BufferDesc (as there is none), but a read into shared buffers
does. This commit does not contain any callbacks, they will be added in
subsequent commits.
For now the AIO infrastructure only understands READV and WRITEV operations,
but it is expected that more operations will be added. E.g. fsync/fdatasync,
flush_range and network operations like send/recv.
As of this commit, nothing uses the AIO infrastructure. Later commits will add
an smgr target, md.c and bufmgr.c callbacks and then finally use AIO for
read_stream.c IO, which, in one fell swoop, will convert all read stream users
to AIO.
The goal is to use AIO in many more places. There are patches to use AIO for
checkpointer and bgwriter that are reasonably close to being ready. There also
are prototypes to use it for WAL, relation extension, backend writes and many
more. Those prototypes were important to ensure the design of the AIO
subsystem is not too limiting (e.g. WAL writes need to happen in critical
sections, which influenced a lot of the design).
A future commit will add an AIO README explaining the AIO architecture and how
to use the AIO subsystem. The README is added later, as it references details
only added in later commits.
Many many more people than the folks named below have contributed with
feedback, work on semi-independent patches etc. E.g. various folks have
contributed patches to use the read stream infrastructure (added by Thomas in
b5a9b18cd0) in more places. Similarly, a *lot* of folks have contributed to
the CI infrastructure, which I had started to work on to make adding AIO
feasible.
Some of the work by contributors has gone into the "v1" prototype of AIO,
which heavily influenced the current design of the AIO subsystem. None of the
code from that directly survives, but without the prototype, the current
version of the AIO infrastructure would not exist.
Similarly, the reviewers below have not necessarily looked at the current
design or the whole infrastructure, but have provided very valuable input. I
am to blame for problems, not they.
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Co-authored-by: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>
Reviewed-by: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jakub Wartak <jakub.wartak@enterprisedb.com>
Reviewed-by: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Dmitry Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/uvrtrknj4kdytuboidbhwclo4gxhswwcpgadptsjvjqcluzmah%40brqs62irg4dt
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210223100344.llw5an2aklengrmn@alap3.anarazel.de
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/stj36ea6yyhoxtqkhpieia2z4krnam7qyetc57rfezgk4zgapf@gcnactj4z56m
This commit just does the minimal wiring up of the AIO subsystem, added in the
next commit, to the rest of the system. The next commit contains more details
about motivation and architecture.
This commit is kept separate to make it easier to review, separating the
changes across the tree, from the implementation of the new subsystem.
We discussed squashing this commit with the main commit before merging AIO,
but there has been a mild preference for keeping it separate.
Reviewed-by: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>
Reviewed-by: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/uvrtrknj4kdytuboidbhwclo4gxhswwcpgadptsjvjqcluzmah%40brqs62irg4dt
This reverts commit b860848232, that was added as a prerequisite for
the support of pgstats data flush across checkpoints, linking a pgstats
file to a specific checkpoint redo LSN.
As reported, this is proving to be currently problematic when going
through a pg_upgrade, that does direct manipulations of the control file
in the new cluster. The LSN stored in the pgstats file is not able to
cope with any changes done in the control file by pg_upgrade yet,
causing the pgstats file to be discarded when starting the new cluster
after overriding its redo LSN (one is a `pg_resetwal -l` where the new
cluster's start LSN is bumped by a hardcoded value of 8 segments, see
copy_xact_xlog_xid).
The least painful path going forward is likely going to be a refactor of
the pgstats code so as it is possible to read and write some of its data
with some routines in src/common/, so as pg_upgrade or pg_resetwal are
able to update its data. The main point is that we are going to need a
LSN in the stats file should we make it written at checkpoint time and
not only as part of a shutdown sequence. It is too late to dive into
these details for v18, so let's revert the change, and let's try to
figure out all the details in the next release cycle. The pgstats file
is currently only written as part of a shutdown sequence, and its
contents are still lost on crash, same as older releases.
Bump PGSTAT_FILE_FORMAT_ID.
Reported-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2563883.1741826489@sss.pgh.pa.us
This commit introduces a new GUC, log_lock_failure, which controls whether
a detailed log message is produced when a lock acquisition fails. Currently,
it only supports logging lock failures caused by SELECT ... NOWAIT.
The log message includes information about all processes holding or
waiting for the lock that couldn't be acquired, helping users analyze and
diagnose the causes of lock failures.
Currently, this option does not log failures from SELECT ... SKIP LOCKED,
as that could generate excessive log messages if many locks are skipped,
causing unnecessary noise.
This mechanism can be extended in the future to support for logging
lock failures from other commands, such as LOCK TABLE ... NOWAIT.
Author: Yuki Seino <seinoyu@oss.nttdata.com>
Co-authored-by: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres@jeltef.nl>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/411280a186cc26ef7034e0f2dfe54131@oss.nttdata.com
PrepareSortSupportFromIndexRel() was accepting btree strategy numbers
purely for the purpose of comparing it later against btree strategies
to determine if the sort direction was forward or reverse. Change
that. Instead, pass a bool directly, to indicate the same without an
unfortunate assumption that a strategy number refers specifically to a
btree strategy. (This is similar in spirit to commits 0d2aa4d493 and
c594f1ad2ba.)
(This could arguably be simplfied further by having the callers fill
in ssup_reverse directly. But this way, it preserves consistency by
having all PrepareSortSupport*() variants be responsible for filling
in ssup_reverse.)
Moreover, remove the hardcoded check against BTREE_AM_OID, and check
against amcanorder instead, which is the actual requirement.
Co-authored-by: Mark Dilger <mark.dilger@enterprisedb.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/E72EAA49-354D-4C2E-8EB9-255197F55330@enterprisedb.com
If the given input_type yields valid results from both
get_element_type and get_array_type, initArrayResultAny believed the
former and treated the input as an array type. However this is
inconsistent with what get_promoted_array_type does, leading to
situations where the output of an ARRAY() subquery is labeled with
the wrong type: it's labeled as oidvector[] but is really a 2-D
array of OID. That at least results in strange output, and can
result in crashes if further processing such as unnest() is applied.
AFAIK this is only possible with the int2vector and oidvector
types, which are special-cased to be treated mostly as true arrays
even though they aren't quite.
Fix by switching the logic to match get_promoted_array_type by
testing get_array_type not get_element_type, and remove an Assert
thereby made pointless. (We need not introduce a symmetrical
check for get_element_type in the other if-branch, because
initArrayResultArr will check it.) This restores the behavior
that existed before bac27394a introduced initArrayResultAny:
the output really is int2vector[] or oidvector[].
Comparable confusion exists when an input of an ARRAY[] construct
is int2vector or oidvector: transformArrayExpr decides it's dealing
with a multidimensional array constructor, and we end up with
something that's a multidimensional OID array but is alleged to be
of type oidvector. I have not found a crashing case here, but it's
easy to demonstrate totally-wrong results. Adjust that code so
that what you get is an oidvector[] instead, for consistency with
ARRAY() subqueries. (This change also makes these types work like
domains-over-arrays in this context, which seems correct.)
Bug: #18840
Reported-by: yang lei <ylshiyu@126.com>
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18840-fbc9505f066e50d6@postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 13
We want to support a "noreturn" decoration on more compilers besides
just GCC-compatible ones, but for that we need to move the decoration
in front of the function declaration instead of either behind it or
wherever, which is the current style afforded by GCC-style attributes.
Also rename the macro to "pg_noreturn" to be similar to the C11
standard "noreturn".
pg_noreturn is now supported on all compilers that support C11 (using
_Noreturn), as well as GCC-compatible ones (using __attribute__, as
before), as well as MSVC (using __declspec). (When PostgreSQL
requires C11, the latter two variants can be dropped.)
Now, all supported compilers effectively support pg_noreturn, so the
extra code for !HAVE_PG_ATTRIBUTE_NORETURN can be dropped.
This also fixes a possible problem if third-party code includes
stdnoreturn.h, because then the current definition of
#define pg_attribute_noreturn() __attribute__((noreturn))
would cause an error.
Note that the C standard does not support a noreturn attribute on
function pointer types. So we have to drop these here. There are
only two instances at this time, so it's not a big loss. In one case,
we can make up for it by adding the pg_noreturn to a wrapper function
and adding a pg_unreachable(), in the other case, the latter was
already done before.
Reviewed-by: Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <ilmari@ilmari.org>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/pxr5b3z7jmkpenssra5zroxi7qzzp6eswuggokw64axmdixpnk@zbwxuq7gbbcw
On Publication rename, we need to only invalidate the RelationSyncCache
entries corresponding to relations that are part of the publication being
renamed.
As part of this patch, we introduce a new invalidation message to
invalidate the cache maintained by the logical decoding output plugin. We
can't use existing relcache invalidation for this purpose, as that would
unnecessarily cause relcache invalidations in other backends.
This will improve performance by building fewer relation cache entries
during logical replication.
Author: Hayato Kuroda <kuroda.hayato@fujitsu.com>
Author: Shlok Kyal <shlok.kyal.oss@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Hou Zhijie <houzj.fnst@fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/OSCPR01MB14966C09AA201EFFA706576A7F5C92@OSCPR01MB14966.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com
Commit 3c152a27b0 mistakenly repeated JSONTYPE_JSON in a condition,
omitting JSONTYPE_CAST. As a result, datum_to_jsonb_internal() failed
to reject inputs that were casts (e.g., from an enum to json as in the
example below) when used as keys in JSON constructors.
This led to a crash in cases like:
SELECT JSON_OBJECT('happy'::mood: '123'::jsonb);
where 'happy'::mood is implicitly cast to json. The missing check
meant such casted values weren’t properly rejected as invalid
(non-scalar) JSON keys.
Reported-by: Maciek Sakrejda <maciek@pganalyze.com>
Reviewed-by: Tender Wang <tndrwang@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Reviewed-by: Maciek Sakrejda <maciek@pganalyze.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CADXhmgTJtJZK9A3Na_ry+Xrq-ghjcejBRhcRMzWZvbd__QdgJA@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 17
The only caller, select_best_grantor(), can instead use
pg_popcount64(). This isn't performance-critical code, but we
might as well use the centralized implementation. While at it, add
some test coverage for this part of select_best_grantor().
Reviewed-by: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/Z9GtL7Nm6hsYyJnF%40nathan
Add log_connections option 'setup_durations' which logs durations of
several key parts of connection establishment and backend setup.
For an incoming connection, starting from when the postmaster gets a
socket from accept() and ending when the forked child backend is first
ready for query, there are multiple steps that could each take longer
than expected due to external factors. This logging provides visibility
into authentication and fork duration as well as the end-to-end
connection establishment and backend initialization time.
To make this portable, the timings captured in the postmaster (socket
creation time, fork initiation time) are passed through the
BackendStartupData.
Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@oss.nttdata.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
Reviewed-by: Jacob Champion <jacob.champion@enterprisedb.com>
Reviewed-by: Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres@jeltef.nl>
Reviewed-by: Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume.lelarge@dalibo.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/flat/CAAKRu_b_smAHK0ZjrnL5GRxnAVWujEXQWpLXYzGbmpcZd3nLYw%40mail.gmail.com
Convert the boolean log_connections GUC into a list GUC comprised of the
connection aspects to log.
This gives users more control over the volume and kind of connection
logging.
The current log_connections options are 'receipt', 'authentication', and
'authorization'. The empty string disables all connection logging. 'all'
enables all available connection logging.
For backwards compatibility, the most common values for the
log_connections boolean are still supported (on, off, 1, 0, true, false,
yes, no). Note that previously supported substrings of on, off, true,
false, yes, and no are no longer supported.
Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@oss.nttdata.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/flat/CAAKRu_b_smAHK0ZjrnL5GRxnAVWujEXQWpLXYzGbmpcZd3nLYw%40mail.gmail.com
9a8dd2c5a6 has added an initialization to PendingBackendStats, which
has been causing compilation warnings in the buildfarm. This code does
not strictly require it as PendingBackendStats is always initialized
with memset(0), so let's remove it.
Per report from multiple buildfarm members, like ayu and batfish, via
Tom Lane.
Author: Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1870853.1741749264@sss.pgh.pa.us
The comment in GetTransactionSnapshot() said that you "should call
RegisterSnapshot or PushActiveSnapshot on the returned snap if it is
to be used very long". That felt too unclear to me. Make the comment
more strongly worded.
To enforce that rule and to catch potential bugs where a snapshot
might get invalidated while it's still in use, add an assertion to
HeapTupleSatisfiesMVCC() to check that the snapshot is registered or
pushed to active stack. No new bugs were found by this, but it seems
like good future-proofing. It's not a great place for the check;
HeapTupleSatisfiesMVCC() is in fact safe to call with an unregistered
snapshot, and the assertion won't catch other unsafe uses. But it goes
a long way in practice.
Fix a few cases that were playing fast and loose with that and just
assumed that the snapshot cannot be invalidated during a scan. Those
assumptions were not wrong, but they're not performance critical, so
let's drop the excuses and just register the snapshot. These were
false positives found by the new assertion.
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/7c56f180-b9e1-481e-8c1d-efa63de3ecbb@iki.fi
Up to now we just punted on showing the window definitions used
in a plan, with window function calls represented as "OVER (?)".
To improve that, show the window definition implemented by each
WindowAgg plan node, and reference their window names in OVER.
For nameless window clauses generated by "OVER (...)", assign
unique names w1, w2, etc.
In passing, re-order the properties shown for a WindowAgg node
so that the Run Condition (if any) appears after the Window
property and before the Filter (if any). This seems more
sensible since the Run Condition is associated with the Window
and acts before the Filter.
Thanks to David G. Johnston and Álvaro Herrera for design
suggestions.
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Reviewed-by: David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/144530.1741469955@sss.pgh.pa.us
Expose the count of index searches/index descents in EXPLAIN ANALYZE's
output for index scan/index-only scan/bitmap index scan nodes. This
information is particularly useful with scans that use ScalarArrayOp
quals, where the number of index searches can be unpredictable due to
implementation details that interact with physical index characteristics
(at least with nbtree SAOP scans, since Postgres 17 commit 5bf748b8).
The information shown also provides useful context when EXPLAIN ANALYZE
runs a plan with an index scan node that successfully applied the skip
scan optimization (set to be added to nbtree by an upcoming patch).
The instrumentation works by teaching all index AMs to increment a new
nsearches counter whenever a new index search begins. The counter is
incremented at exactly the same point that index AMs already increment
the pg_stat_*_indexes.idx_scan counter (we're counting the same event,
but at the scan level rather than the relation level). Parallel queries
have workers copy their local counter struct into shared memory when an
index scan node ends -- even when it isn't a parallel aware scan node.
An earlier version of this patch that only worked with parallel aware
scans became commit 5ead85fb (though that was quickly reverted by commit
d00107cd following "debug_parallel_query=regress" buildfarm failures).
Our approach doesn't match the approach used when tracking other index
scan related costs (e.g., "Rows Removed by Filter:"). It is comparable
to the approach used in similar cases involving costs that are only
readily accessible inside an access method, not from the executor proper
(e.g., "Heap Blocks:" output for a Bitmap Heap Scan, which was recently
enhanced to show per-worker costs by commit 5a1e6df3, using essentially
the same scheme as the one used here). It is necessary for index AMs to
have direct responsibility for maintaining the new counter, since the
counter might need to be incremented multiple times per amgettuple call
(or per amgetbitmap call). But it is also necessary for the executor
proper to manage the shared memory now used to transfer each worker's
counter struct to the leader.
Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Reviewed-By: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Tomas Vondra <tomas@vondra.me>
Reviewed-By: Masahiro Ikeda <ikedamsh@oss.nttdata.com>
Reviewed-By: Matthias van de Meent <boekewurm+postgres@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-WzkRqvaqR2CTNqTZP0z6FuL4-3ED6eQB0yx38XBNj1v-4Q@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-Wz=PKR6rB7qbx+Vnd7eqeB5VTcrW=iJvAsTsKbdG+kW_UA@mail.gmail.com
This commit adds per-backend WAL statistics, providing the same
information as pg_stat_wal, except that it is now possible to know how
much WAL activity is happening in each backend rather than an overall
aggregate of all the activity. Like pg_stat_wal, the implementation
relies on pgWalUsage, tracking the difference of activity between two
reports to pgstats.
This data can be retrieved with a new system function called
pg_stat_get_backend_wal(), that returns one tuple based on the PID
provided in input. Like pg_stat_get_backend_io(), this is useful when
joined with pg_stat_activity to get a live picture of the WAL generated
for each running backend, showing how the activity is [un]balanced.
pgstat_flush_backend() gains a new flag value, able to control the flush
of the WAL stats.
This commit relies mostly on the infrastructure provided by
9aea73fc61, that has introduced backend statistics.
Bump catalog version. A bump of PGSTAT_FILE_FORMAT_ID is not required,
as backend stats do not persist on disk.
Author: Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Reviewed-by: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Xuneng Zhou <xunengzhou@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/Z3zqc4o09dM/Ezyz@ip-10-97-1-34.eu-west-3.compute.internal
Recognizing the real-life complexity where columns in the table often have
functional dependencies, PostgreSQL's estimation of the number of distinct
values over a set of columns can be underestimated (or much rarely,
overestimated) when dealing with multi-clause JOIN. In the case of hash
join, it can end up with a small number of predicted hash buckets and, as
a result, picking non-optimal merge join.
To improve the situation, we introduce one additional stage of bucket size
estimation - having two or more join clauses estimator lookup for extended
statistics and use it for multicolumn estimation. Clauses are grouped into
lists, each containing expressions referencing the same relation. The result
of the multicolumn estimation made over such a list is combined with others
according to the caller's logic. Clauses that are not estimated are returned
to the caller for further estimation.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/52257607-57f6-850d-399a-ec33a654457b%40postgrespro.ru
Author: Andrei Lepikhov <lepihov@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andy Fan <zhihui.fan1213@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@enterprisedb.com>
Reviewed-by: Alena Rybakina <lena.ribackina@yandex.ru>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov@gmail.com>
Teach parallel nbtree index scans to use an LWLock (not a spinlock) to
protect the scan's shared descriptor state.
Preparation for an upcoming patch that will add skip scan optimizations
to nbtree. That patch will create the need to occasionally allocate
memory while the scan descriptor is locked, while copying datums that
were serialized by another backend.
Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Reviewed-By: Matthias van de Meent <boekewurm+postgres@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-Wz=PKR6rB7qbx+Vnd7eqeB5VTcrW=iJvAsTsKbdG+kW_UA@mail.gmail.com
