postgresql/contrib
Alvaro Herrera 8d1c1ca70b Reduce cost of test_decoding's new oldest_xmin test
Change a whole-database VACUUM into doing just pg_attribute, which is
the portion that verifies what we want it to do.  The original
formulation wastes a lot of CPU time, which leads the test to fail when
runtime exceeds isolationtester timeout when it's super-slow, such as
under CLOBBER_CACHE_ALWAYS.  Per buildfarm member friarbird.

It turns out that the previous shape of the test doesn't always detect
the condition it is supposed to detect (on unpatched reorderbuffer
code): the reason is that there is a good chance of encountering a
xl_running_xacts record (logged every 15 seconds) before the checkpoint
-- and because we advance the xmin when we receive that WAL record, and
we *don't* advance the xmin twice consecutively without receiving a
client message in between, that means the xmin is not advanced enough
for the tuple to be pruned from pg_attribute by VACUUM.  So the test
would spuriously pass.

The reason this test deficiency wasn't detected earlier is that HOT
pruning removes the tuple anyway, even if vacuum leaves it in place, so
the test correctly fails (detecting the coding mistake), but for the
wrong reason.

To fix this mess, run the s0_get_changes step twice before vacuum
instead of once: this seems to cause the xmin to be advanced reliably,
wreaking havoc with more certainty.

Author: Arseny Sher
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/87h8lkuxoa.fsf@ars-thinkpad
2018-07-05 16:37:32 -04:00
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adminpack adminpack: Revoke EXECUTE on pg_logfile_rotate() 2018-05-07 10:10:33 -04:00
amcheck Post-feature-freeze pgindent run. 2018-04-26 14:47:16 -04:00
auth_delay
auto_explain Allow auto_explain.log_min_duration to go up to INT_MAX. 2018-02-23 14:39:17 -05:00
bloom Don't fall off the end of perl functions 2018-05-27 09:08:42 -04:00
btree_gin Clean up warnings from -Wimplicit-fallthrough. 2018-05-01 19:35:08 -04:00
btree_gist Fix assorted issues in convert_to_scalar(). 2018-03-03 20:31:35 -05:00
citext
cube Post-feature-freeze pgindent run. 2018-04-26 14:47:16 -04:00
dblink Indexes with INCLUDE columns and their support in B-tree 2018-04-07 23:00:39 +03:00
dict_int
dict_xsyn
earthdistance Improve English wording of some other getObjectDescription() messages. 2018-05-24 14:01:10 -04:00
file_fdw Allow insert and update tuple routing and COPY for foreign tables. 2018-04-06 19:22:03 -04:00
fuzzystrmatch Replace search.cpan.org with metacpan.org 2018-06-29 22:02:20 +09:00
hstore Fix assorted compiler warnings seen in the buildfarm. 2018-05-02 15:52:54 -04:00
hstore_plperl Fix contrib/hstore_plperl to look through scalar refs. 2018-06-18 15:55:06 -04:00
hstore_plpython Prevent accidental linking of system-supplied copies of libpq.so etc. 2018-04-03 16:26:05 -04:00
intagg
intarray Don't fall off the end of perl functions 2018-05-27 09:08:42 -04:00
isn
jsonb_plperl Fix jsonb_plperl to convert Perl UV values correctly. 2018-06-18 17:39:57 -04:00
jsonb_plpython Fix memory leak in PLySequence_ToJsonbValue() 2018-06-15 15:01:46 +03:00
lo
ltree
ltree_plpython Prevent accidental linking of system-supplied copies of libpq.so etc. 2018-04-03 16:26:05 -04:00
oid2name Switch client-side code to include catalog/pg_foo_d.h not pg_foo.h. 2018-04-08 13:59:52 -04:00
pageinspect printf("%lf") is not portable, so omit the "l". 2018-05-20 11:40:54 -04:00
passwordcheck
pg_buffercache
pg_freespacemap
pg_prewarm Avoid portability issues in autoprewarm.c. 2018-05-03 12:50:34 -04:00
pg_standby pg_standby: Remove code for .backup files 2018-07-01 15:10:08 +02:00
pg_stat_statements Reorganize partitioning code 2018-04-14 21:12:14 -03:00
pg_trgm Post-feature-freeze pgindent run. 2018-04-26 14:47:16 -04:00
pg_visibility
pgcrypto Make capitalization of term "OpenSSL" more consistent 2018-06-29 09:45:44 +09:00
pgrowlocks
pgstattuple pgstatindex, pageinspect: handle partitioned indexes 2018-05-09 14:22:59 -03:00
postgres_fdw Use optimized bitmap set function for membership test in postgres_fdw 2018-07-01 15:10:10 +09:00
seg
sepgsql Update sepgsql regression test output for getObjectDescription() changes. 2018-05-24 16:11:25 -04:00
spi Prevent accidental linking of system-supplied copies of libpq.so etc. 2018-04-03 16:26:05 -04:00
sslinfo
start-scripts
tablefunc
tcn Post-feature-freeze pgindent run. 2018-04-26 14:47:16 -04:00
test_decoding Reduce cost of test_decoding's new oldest_xmin test 2018-07-05 16:37:32 -04:00
tsm_system_rows
tsm_system_time
unaccent
uuid-ossp
vacuumlo Switch client-side code to include catalog/pg_foo_d.h not pg_foo.h. 2018-04-08 13:59:52 -04:00
xml2
contrib-global.mk
Makefile Transforms for jsonb to PL/Perl 2018-04-03 09:47:18 -04:00
README

The PostgreSQL contrib tree
---------------------------

This subtree contains porting tools, analysis utilities, and plug-in
features that are not part of the core PostgreSQL system, mainly
because they address a limited audience or are too experimental to be
part of the main source tree.  This does not preclude their
usefulness.

User documentation for each module appears in the main SGML
documentation.

When building from the source distribution, these modules are not
built automatically, unless you build the "world" target.  You can
also build and install them all by running "make all" and "make
install" in this directory; or to build and install just one selected
module, do the same in that module's subdirectory.

Some directories supply new user-defined functions, operators, or
types.  To make use of one of these modules, after you have installed
the code you need to register the new SQL objects in the database
system by executing a CREATE EXTENSION command.  In a fresh database,
you can simply do

    CREATE EXTENSION module_name;

See the PostgreSQL documentation for more information about this
procedure.