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michaelpq and others added 16 commits April 23, 2026 09:51
Try to disable ASLR when building in EXEC_BACKEND mode, to avoid random
memory mapping failures while testing.  For developer use only, no
effect on regular builds.

This has been originally applied as of f3e7806 for v15~, but
recently-added buildfarm member gokiburi tests this configuration on
older branches as well, causing it to fail randomly as ASLR would be
enabled.

Suggested-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Tested-by: Bossart, Nathan <bossartn@amazon.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210806032944.m4tz7j2w47mant26%40alap3.anarazel.de
Backpatch-through: 12
It appears no longer possible to build the SGML docs without a local
installation of the DocBook DTD, because sourceforge.net now only
permits HTTPS access, and no common version of xsltproc supports that.
Hence, remove the bits of our documentation suggesting that that's
possible or useful.

In fact, we might as well add the --nonet option to the build recipes
automatically, for a bit of extra security.

Also fix our documentation-tool-installation recipes for macOS to
ensure that xmllint and xsltproc are pulled in from MacPorts or
Homebrew.  The previous recipes assumed you could use the
Apple-supplied versions of these tools; which still works, except that
you'd need to set an environment variable to ensure that they would
find DTD files provided by those package managers.  Simpler and easier
to just recommend pulling in the additional packages.

In HEAD, also document how to build docs using Meson, and adjust
"ninja docs" to just build the HTML docs, for consistency with the
default behavior of doc/src/sgml/Makefile.

In a fit of neatnik-ism, I also made the ordering of the package
lists match the order in which the tools are described at the head
of the appendix.

Aleksander Alekseev, Peter Eisentraut, Tom Lane

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJ7c6TO8Aro2nxg=EQsVGiSDe-TstP4EsSvDHd7DSRsP40PgGA@mail.gmail.com
When an aggregate function is used as a WindowFunc and a tuple transitions
out of the window frame, we ordinarily try to make use of the aggregate
function's inverse transition function to "unaggregate" the exiting tuple.

This optimization is disabled for various cases, including when the
aggregate contains a volatile function.  In such a case we'd be unable to
ensure that the transition value was calculated to the same value during
transitions and inverse transitions.  Unfortunately, we did this check by
calling contain_volatile_functions() which does not recursively search
SubPlans for volatile functions.  If the aggregate function's arguments or
its FILTER clause contained a subplan with volatile functions then we'd
fail to notice this.

Here we fix this by just disabling the optimization when the WindowFunc
contains any subplans.  Volatile functions are not the only reason that a
subplan may have nonrepeatable results.

Bug: #17777
Reported-by: Anban Company
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17777-860b739b6efde977%40postgresql.org
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane
Backpatch-through: 11
…ates

OpenSSL 1.1.1 and newer versions have added support for RSA-PSS
certificates, which requires the use of a specific routine in OpenSSL to
determine which hash function to use when compiling it when using
channel binding in SCRAM-SHA-256.  X509_get_signature_nid(), that is the
original routine the channel binding code has relied on, is not able to
determine which hash algorithm to use for such certificates.  However,
X509_get_signature_info(), new to OpenSSL 1.1.1, is able to do it.  This
commit switches the channel binding logic to rely on
X509_get_signature_info() over X509_get_signature_nid(), which would be
the choice when building with 1.1.1 or newer.

The error could have been triggered on the client or the server, hence
libpq and the backend need to have their related code paths patched.
Note that attempting to load an RSA-PSS certificate with OpenSSL 1.1.0
or older leads to a failure due to an unsupported algorithm.

The discovery of relying on X509_get_signature_info() comes from Jacob,
the tests have been written by Heikki (with few tweaks from me), while I
have bundled the whole together while adding the bits needed for MSVC
and meson.

This issue exists since channel binding exists, so backpatch all the way
down.  Some tests are added in 15~, triggered if compiling with OpenSSL
1.1.1 or newer, where the certificate and key files can easily be
generated for RSA-PSS.

Reported-by: Gunnar "Nick" Bluth
Author: Jacob Champion, Heikki Linnakangas
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17760-b6c61e752ec07060@postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 11
ruleutils.c blindly printed the user-given alias (or nothing if there
hadn't been one) for the target table of INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE queries.
That works a large percentage of the time, but not always: for queries
appearing in WITH, it's possible that we chose a different alias to
avoid conflict with outer-scope names.  Since the chosen alias would
be used in any Var references to the target table, this'd lead to an
inconsistent printout with consequences such as dump/restore failures.

The correct logic for printing (or not) a relation alias was embedded
in get_from_clause_item.  Factor it out to a separate function so that
we don't need a jointree node to use it.  (Only a limited part of that
function can be reached from these new call sites, but this seems like
the cleanest non-duplicative factorization.)

In passing, I got rid of a redundant "\d+ rules_src" step in rules.sql.

Initial report from Jonathan Katz; thanks to Vignesh C for analysis.
This has been broken for a long time, so back-patch to all supported
branches.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/e947fa21-24b2-f922-375a-d4f763ef3e4b@postgresql.org
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALDaNm1MMntjmT_NJGp-Z=xbF02qHGAyuSHfYHias3TqQbPF2w@mail.gmail.com
When evaluating clauses on multiple scan keys of a multi-column BRIN
index, we can stop processing as soon as we find a scan key eliminating
the range, and the range should not be added to tbe bitmap.

That's how it worked before 14, but since a681e3c the code treated
the range as matching if it matched at least the last scan key.

Backpatch to 14, where this code was introduced.

Backpatch-through: 14
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ebc18613-125e-60df-7520-fcbe0f9274fc%40enterprisedb.com
Failing to do so results in an error when a pgbench script tries to
start a serializable transaction inside a pipeline, because by the time
BEGIN ISOLATION LEVEL SERIALIZABLE is executed, we're already in a
transaction that has acquired a snapshot, so the server rightfully
complains.

We can work around that by preparing all commands in the pipeline before
actually starting the pipeline.  This changes the existing code in two
aspects: first, we now prepare each command individually at the point
where that command is about to be executed; previously, we would prepare
all commands in a script as soon as the first command of that script
would be executed.  It's hard to see that this would make much of a
difference (particularly since it only affects the first time to execute
each script in a client), but I didn't actually try to measure it.

Secondly, we no longer use PQsendPrepare() in pipeline mode, but only
PQprepare.  There's no specific reason for this change other than no
longer needing to do differently in pipeline mode.  (Previously we had
no choice, because in pipeline mode PQprepare could not be used.)

Backpatch to 14, where pgbench got support for pipeline mode.

Reported-by: Yugo NAGATA <nagata@sraoss.co.jp>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210716153013.fc53b1c780b06fccc07a7f0d@sraoss.co.jp
SPI_result_code_string() was missing support for SPI_OK_TD_REGISTER,
and in v15 and later, it was missing support for SPI_OK_MERGE, as was
pltcl_process_SPI_result().

The last of those would trigger an error if a MERGE was executed from
PL/Tcl. The others seem fairly innocuous, but worth fixing.

Back-patch to all supported branches. Before v15, this is just adding
SPI_OK_TD_REGISTER to SPI_result_code_string(), which is unlikely to
be seen by anyone, but seems worth doing for completeness.

Reviewed by Tom Lane.

Discussion:
  https://postgr.es/m/CAEZATCUg8V%2BK%2BGcafOPqymxk84Y_prXgfe64PDoopjLFH6Z0Aw%40mail.gmail.com
  https://postgr.es/m/CAEZATCUMe%2B_KedPMM9AxKqm%3DSZogSxjUcrMe%2BsakusZh3BFcQw%40mail.gmail.com
Whe decoding a transactional logical message, logicalmsg_decode called
SnapBuildGetOrBuildSnapshot. But we may not have a consistent snapshot
yet at that point. We don't actually need the snapshot in this case
(during replay we'll have the snapshot from the transaction), so in
practice this is harmless. But in assert-enabled build this crashes.

Fixed by requesting the snapshot only in non-transactional case, where
we are guaranteed to have SNAPBUILD_CONSISTENT.

Backpatch to 11. The issue exists since 9.6.

Backpatch-through: 11
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/84d60912-6eab-9b84-5de3-41765a5449e8@enterprisedb.com
Multiple cycles of starting up and shutting down the plugin within a
single session would eventually lead to "out of relcache_callback_list
slots", because pgoutput_startup blindly re-registered its cache
callbacks each time.  Fix it to register them only once, as all other
users of cache callbacks already take care to do.

This has been broken all along, so back-patch to all supported branches.

Shi Yu

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/OSZPR01MB631004A78D743D68921FFAD3FDA79@OSZPR01MB6310.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com
If a rule action contains a subquery that refers to columns from OLD
or NEW, then those are really lateral references, and the planner will
complain if it sees such things in a subquery that isn't marked as
lateral. However, at rule-definition time, the user isn't required to
mark the subquery with LATERAL, and so it can fail when the rule is
used.

Fix this by marking such subqueries as lateral in the rewriter, at the
point where they're used.

Dean Rasheed and Tom Lane, per report from Alexander Lakhin.
Back-patch to all supported branches.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/5e09da43-aaba-7ea7-0a51-a2eb981b058b%40gmail.com
It's been this way for a very long time, but it appears to have been
masking an issue that only manifests with different settings. Therefore,
run the tests in the installation's default encoding/locale.

Backpatch to all live branches.
postgres_fdw will close its remote session if an sinval cache reset
occurs, since it's possible that that means some FDW parameters
changed.  We had two tests that were trying to ensure that the
session remains alive by setting debug_discard_caches = 0; but
that's not sufficient.  Even though the tests seem stable enough
in the buildfarm, they flap a lot under CI.

In the first test, which is checking the ability to recover from
a lost connection, we can stabilize the results by just not
caring whether pg_terminate_backend() finds a victim backend.
If a reset did happen, there won't be a session to terminate
anymore, but the test can proceed anyway.  (Arguably, we are
then not testing the unintentional-disconnect case, but as long
as that scenario is exercised in most runs I think it's fine;
testing the reset-driven case is of value too.)

In the second test, which is trying to verify the application_name
displayed in pg_stat_activity by a remote session, we had a race
condition in that the remote session might go away before we can
fetch its pg_stat_activity entry.  We can close that race and make
the test more certainly test what it intends to by arranging things
so that the remote session itself fetches its pg_stat_activity entry
(based on PID rather than a somewhat-circular assumption about the
application name).

Both tests now demonstrably pass under debug_discard_caches = 1,
so we can remove that hack.

Back-patch into relevant back branches.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230226194340.u44bkfgyz64c67i6@awork3.anarazel.de
This is usually harmless, but if you were very unlucky it could
provoke a segfault due to the "to" string being right up against
the end of memory.  Found via valgrind testing (so we might've
found it earlier, except that our regression tests lacked any
exercise of translate()'s deletion feature).

Fix by switching the order of the test-for-end-of-string and
advance-pointer steps.  While here, compute "to_ptr + tolen"
just once.  (Smarter compilers might figure that out for
themselves, but let's just make sure.)

Report and fix by Daniil Anisimov, in bug #17816.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17816-70f3d2764e88a108@postgresql.org
Attempting to use this function with a raw page not coming from a GiST
index would cause a crash, as it was missing the same sanity checks as
gist_page_items_bytea().  This slightly refactors the code so as all the
basic validation checks for GiST pages are done in a single routine,
in the same fashion as the pageinspect functions for hash and BRIN.

This fixes an issue similar to 076f4d9.  A test is added to stress for
this case.  While on it, I have added a similar test for
brin_page_items() with a combination make of a valid GiST index and a
raw btree page.  This one was already protected, but it was not tested.

Reported-by: Egor Chindyaskin
Author: Dmitry Koval
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17815-fc4a2d3b74705703@postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 14
1.  Make sure that we don't decrement SxactGlobalXminCount twice when
the SXACT_FLAG_RO_SAFE optimization is reached in a parallel query.
This could trigger a sanity check failure in assert builds.  Non-assert
builds recompute the count in SetNewSxactGlobalXmin(), so the problem
was hidden, explaining the lack of field reports.  Add a new isolation
test to exercise that case.

2.  Remove an assertion that the DOOMED flag can't be set on a partially
released SERIALIZABLEXACT.  Instead, ignore the flag (our transaction
was already determined to be read-only safe, and DOOMED is in fact set
during partial release, and there was already an assertion that it
wasn't set sooner).  Improve an existing isolation test so that it
reaches that case (previously it wasn't quite testing what it was
supposed to be testing; see discussion).

Back-patch to 12.  Bug #17116.  Defects in commit 47a338c.

Reported-by: Alexander Lakhin <exclusion@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17116-d6ca217acc180e30%40postgresql.org
@reshke reshke changed the title 14 7 - 14 8 Backport 14 7 - 14 8 changes range in REL_2_STABLE Apr 27, 2026
If a view is defined atop another view, and then CREATE OR REPLACE
VIEW is used to add columns to the lower view, then when the upper
view's referencing RTE is expanded by ApplyRetrieveRule we will have
a subquery RTE with fewer eref->colnames than output columns.  This
confuses various code that assumes those lists are always in sync,
as they are in plain parser output.

We have seen such problems before (cf commit d5b760e), and now
I think the time has come to do what was speculated about in that
commit: let's make ApplyRetrieveRule synthesize some column names to
preserve the invariant that holds in parser output.  Otherwise we'll
be chasing this class of bugs indefinitely.  Moreover, it appears from
testing that this actually gives us better results in the test case
d5b760e added, and likely in other corner cases that we lack
coverage for.

In HEAD, I replaced d5b760e's hack to make expandRTE exit early with
an elog(ERROR) call, since the case is now presumably unreachable.
But it seems like changing that in back branches would bring more risk
than benefit, so there I just updated the comment.

Per bug #17811 from Alexander Lakhin.  Back-patch to all supported
branches.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17811-d31686b78f0dffc9@postgresql.org

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anarazel and others added 11 commits April 29, 2026 12:05
When vacuum_defer_cleanup_age is bigger than the current xid, including the
epoch, the subtraction of vacuum_defer_cleanup_age would lead to a wrapped
around xid. While that normally is not a problem, the subsequent conversion to
a 64bit xid results in a 64bit-xid very far into the future. As that xid is
used as a horizon to detect whether rows versions are old enough to be
removed, that allows removal of rows that are still visible (i.e. corruption).

If vacuum_defer_cleanup_age was never changed from the default, there is no
chance of this bug occurring.

This bug was introduced in dc7420c.  A lesser version of it exists in
12-13, introduced by fb5344c969a, affecting only GiST.

The 12-13 version of the issue can, in rare cases, lead to pages in a gist
index getting recycled too early, potentially causing index entries to be
found multiple times.

The fix is fairly simple - don't allow vacuum_defer_cleanup_age to retreat
further than FirstNormalTransactionId.

Patches to make similar bugs easier to find, by adding asserts to the 64bit
xid infrastructure, have been proposed, but are not suitable for backpatching.

Currently there are no tests for vacuum_defer_cleanup_age. A patch introducing
infrastructure to make writing a test easier has been posted to the list.

Reported-by: Michail Nikolaev <michail.nikolaev@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthias van de Meent <boekewurm+postgres@gmail.com>
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230108002923.cyoser3ttmt63bfn@awork3.anarazel.de
Backpatch: 12-, but impact/fix is smaller for 12-13
Commit bdaabb9 started skipping doomed transactions when building the
list of possible conflicts for SERIALIZABLE READ ONLY.  That makes
sense, because doomed transactions won't commit, but a couple of subtle
things broke:

1.  If all uncommitted r/w transactions are doomed, a READ ONLY
transaction would arbitrarily not benefit from the safe snapshot
optimization.  It would not be taken immediately, and yet no other
transaction would set SXACT_FLAG_RO_SAFE later.

2.  In the same circumstances but with DEFERRABLE, GetSafeSnapshot()
would correctly exit its wait loop without sleeping and then take the
optimization in non-assert builds, but assert builds would fail a sanity
check that SXACT_FLAG_RO_SAFE had been set by another transaction.

This is similar to the case for PredXact->WritableSxactCount == 0.  We
should opt out immediately if our possibleUnsafeConflicts list is empty
after filtering.

The code to maintain the serializable global xmin is moved down below
the new opt out site, because otherwise we'd have to reverse its effects
before returning.

Back-patch to all supported releases.  Bug #17368.

Reported-by: Alexander Lakhin <exclusion@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17116-d6ca217acc180e30%40postgresql.org
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20110707212159.GF76634%40csail.mit.edu
If the regex compiler can see that a regex is unsatisfiable
(for example, '$foo') then it may emit an NFA having no arcs.
pg_trgm's packGraph function did the wrong thing in this case;
it would access off the end of a work array, and with bad luck
could produce a corrupted output data structure causing more
problems later.  This could end with wrong answers or crashes
in queries using a pg_trgm GIN or GiST index with such a regex.

Fix by not trying to de-duplicate if there aren't at least 2 arcs.

Per bug #17830 from Alexander Lakhin.  Back-patch to all supported
branches.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17830-57ff5f89bdb02b09@postgresql.org
The initialization order in update_cached_xid_range() was wrong, calling
FullTransactionIdFromXidAndCtx() before setting
->next_xid. FullTransactionIdFromXidAndCtx() uses ->next_xid.

In most situations this will not cause visible issues, because the next call
to update_cached_xid_range() will use a less wrong ->next_xid. It's rare that
xids advance fast enough for this to be a problem.

Found while adding more asserts to the 64bit xid infrastructure.

Reviewed-by: Mark Dilger <mark.dilger@enterprisedb.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230108002923.cyoser3ttmt63bfn@awork3.anarazel.de
Backpatch: 14-, where heapam verification was introduced
64bit xids can't represent xids before epoch 0 (see also be504a3). When
FullTransactionIdFromXidAndCtx() was passed such an xid, it'd create a 64bit
xid far into the future. Noticed while adding assertions in the course of
investigating be504a3, as amcheck's test create such xids.

To fix the issue, just return FirstNormalFullTransactionId in this case. A
freshly initdb'd cluster already has a newer horizon. The most minimal version
of this would make the messages for some detected corruptions differently
inaccurate. To make those cases accurate, switch
FullTransactionIdFromXidAndCtx() to use the 32bit modulo difference between
xid and nextxid to compute the 64bit xid, yielding sensible "in the future" /
"in the past" answers.

Reviewed-by: Mark Dilger <mark.dilger@enterprisedb.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230108002923.cyoser3ttmt63bfn@awork3.anarazel.de
Backpatch: 14-, where heapam verification was introduced
This was an omission in the original creation of the module.

Also slightly adjust some wording to avoid a double "is".

Backpatch the non-meson piece of this to release 12, where the module
was introduced.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/be869e1c-8e3f-4cde-8609-212c899cccf9@dunslane.net
The error cases for TLS and GSS encryption were inconsistent.  After TLS
fails, the connection is marked as dead and follow-up calls of
PQconnectPoll() would return immediately, but GSS encryption was not
doing that, so the connection would still have been allowed to enter the
GSS handling code.  This was handled incorrectly when gssencmode was set
to "require".  "prefer" was working correctly, and this could not happen
under "disable" as GSS encryption would not be attempted.

This commit makes the error handling of GSS encryption on par with TLS
portion, fixing the case of gssencmode=require.

Reported-by: Jacob Champion
Author: Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Jacob Champion, Stephen Frost
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/23787477-5fe1-a161-6d2a-e459f74c4713@timescale.com
Backpatch-through: 12
The majority of error exit cases in json_lex_string() failed to
set lex->token_terminator, causing problems for the error context
reporting code: it would see token_terminator less than token_start
and do something more or less nuts.  In v14 and up the end result
could be as bad as a crash in report_json_context().  Older
versions accidentally avoided that fate; but all versions produce
error context lines that are far less useful than intended,
because they'd stop at the end of the prior token instead of
continuing to where the actually-bad input is.

To fix, invent some macros that make it less notationally painful
to do the right thing.  Also add documentation about what the
function is actually required to do; and in >= v14, add an assertion
in report_json_context about token_terminator being sufficiently
far advanced.

Per report from Nikolay Shaplov.  Back-patch to all supported
versions.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/7332649.x5DLKWyVIX@thinkpad-pgpro
Scanning the expression for compatible Vars isn't really necessary,
because the subsequent match against StatisticExtInfo entries will
eliminate expressions containing other Vars just fine.  Moreover,
this code hadn't stopped to think about what to do with
PlaceHolderVars or Aggrefs in the clause; and at least for the PHV
case, that demonstrably leads to failures.  Rather than work out
whether it's reasonable to ignore those, let's just remove the
whole stanza.

Per report from Richard Guo.  Back-patch to v14 where this code
was added.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMbWs48Mmvm-acGevXuwpB=g5JMqVSL6i9z5UaJyLGJqa-XPAA@mail.gmail.com
The band-aid applied in commit f0bedf3 turns out to still need
some work: it made sure we didn't set Np->last_relevant too small
(to the left of the decimal point), but it didn't prevent setting
it too large (off the end of the partially-converted string).
This could result in fetching data beyond the end of the allocated
space, which with very bad luck could cause a SIGSEGV, though
I don't see any hazard of interesting memory disclosure.

Per bug #17839 from Thiago Nunes.  The bug's pretty ancient,
so back-patch to all supported versions.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17839-aada50db24d7b0da@postgresql.org
Our waitpid() emulation didn't prevent a PID from being recycled by the
OS before the call to waitpid().  The postmaster could finish up
tracking more than one child process with the same PID, and confuse
them.

Fix, by moving the guts of pgwin32_deadchild_callback() into waitpid(),
so that resources are released synchronously.  The process and PID
continue to exist until we close the process handle, which only happens
once we're ready to adjust our book-keeping of running children.

This seems to explain a couple of failures on CI.  It had never been
reported before, despite the code being as old as the Windows port.
Perhaps Windows started recycling PIDs more rapidly, or perhaps timing
changes due to commit 7389aad made it more likely to break.

Thanks to Alexander Lakhin for analysis and Andres Freund for tracking
down the root cause.

Back-patch to all supported branches.

Reported-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230208012852.bvkn2am4h4iqjogq%40awork3.anarazel.de
macdice and others added 9 commits May 3, 2026 20:03
Commit 4753ef3 changed vacuum_delay_point() to use the WaitLatch() API,
to fix the problem that vacuum could keep running for a very long time
after the postmaster died.

Unfortunately, that broke commit caf626b's support for fractional
vacuum_cost_delay, which shipped in PostgreSQL 12.  WaitLatch() works in
whole milliseconds.

For now, revert the change from commit 4753ef3, but add an explicit
check for postmaster death.  That's an extra system call on systems
other than Linux and FreeBSD, but that overhead doesn't matter much
considering that we willingly went to sleep and woke up again.  (In
later work, we might add higher resolution timeouts to the latch API so
that we could do this with our standard programming pattern, but that
wouldn't be back-patched.)

Back-patch to 14, where commit 4753ef3 arrived.

Reported-by: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAKRu_b-q0hXCBUCAATh0Z4Zi6UkiC0k2DFgoD3nC-r3SkR3tg%40mail.gmail.com
The current implementation of _pgfstat64() is ineffective in detecting a
terminal handle or an anonymous named pipe.  This commit improves our
port of fstat() to detect more efficiently such cases by relying on
GetFileType(), and returning more correct data when the type found is
either a FILE_TYPE_PIPE (_S_IFIFO) or a FILE_TYPE_CHAR (_S_IFCHR).

This is part of a more global fix to address failures when feeding the
output generated by pg_dump to pg_restore through a pipe, for example,
but not all of it.   We are also going to need to do something about
fseek() and ftello() which are not reliable on WIN32 for the same cases
where fstat() was incorrect.  Fixing fstat() is independent of the rest,
though, which is why both fixes are handled separately, and this is the
first part of it.

Reported-by: Daniel Watzinger
Author: Daniel Watzinger, Juan José Santamaría Flecha
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/b1448cd7-871e-20e3-8398-895e2d1d3bf9@gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 14
Clarify that ATTACH/DETACH PARTITION can be used to perform partition
maintenance with less locking than straight CREATE TABLE/DROP TABLE.
This was already stated in some places, but not emphasized.

Back-patch to v14 where DETACH PARTITION CONCURRENTLY was added.
(We had lower lock levels for ATTACH PARTITION before that, but
this wording wouldn't apply.)

Justin Pryzby, reviewed by Robert Treat and Jakub Wartak;
a little further wordsmithing by me

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220718143304.GC18011@telsasoft.com
A comment was left behind claiming that we needed to use malloc() rather
than palloc() because the corresponding free would run in another
thread, but that's not true anymore.  Remove that comment.  And, with
the reason being gone, we might as well actually use palloc().

Back-patch to supported releases, like d41a178.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKG%2BpdM9v3Jv4tc2BFx2jh_daY3uzUyAGBhtDkotEQDNPYw%40mail.gmail.com
Further to commit 6a9229d, checking for NULL is now redundant.  An "out
of memory" error would have been thrown already by palloc() and treated
as FATAL, so we can delete a few more lines.

Back-patch to all releases, like those other commits.

Reported-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/4040668.1679013388%40sss.pgh.pa.us
Until now the tests using slapd spammed syslog for every connection /
query. Use logfile-only to prevent syslog activity. Unfortunately that only
takes effect after logging the first message, but that's still much better
than the prior situation.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230311233708.3yjdbjkly2q4gq2j@awork3.anarazel.de
Backpatch: 11-
Unfortunately it turns out that the logfile-only option added in b9f8d1c
is only available in openldap starting in 2.6.

Luckily the option to control the log level (loglevel/-s) have been around for
much longer. As it turns out loglevel/-s only control what goes into syslog,
not what ends up in the file specified with 'logfile' and stderr.

While we currently are specifying 'logfile', nothing ends up in it, as the
option only controls debug messages, and we didn't set a debug level. The
debug level can only be configured on the commandline and also prevents
forking. That'd require larger changes, so this commit doesn't tackle that
issue.

Specify the syslog level when starting slapd using -s, as that allows to
prevent all syslog messages if one uses '0' instead of 'none', while loglevel
doesn't prevent the first message.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230311233708.3yjdbjkly2q4gq2j@awork3.anarazel.de
Backpatch: 11-
Hash partitioning on an enum is problematic because the hash codes are
derived from the OIDs assigned to the enum values, which will almost
certainly be different after a dump-and-reload than they were before.
This means that some rows probably end up in different partitions than
before, causing restore to fail because of partition constraint
violations.  (pg_upgrade dodges this problem by using hacks to force
the enum values to keep the same OIDs, but that's not possible nor
desirable for pg_dump.)

Users can work around that by specifying --load-via-partition-root,
but since that's a dump-time not restore-time decision, one might
find out the need for it far too late.  Instead, teach pg_dump to
apply that option automatically when dealing with a partitioned
table that has hash-on-enum partitioning.

Also deal with a pre-existing issue for --load-via-partition-root
mode: in a parallel restore, we try to TRUNCATE target tables just
before loading them, in order to enable some backend optimizations.
This is bad when using --load-via-partition-root because (a) we're
likely to suffer deadlocks from restore jobs trying to restore rows
into other partitions than they came from, and (b) if we miss getting
a deadlock we might still lose data due to a TRUNCATE removing rows
from some already-completed restore job.

The fix for this is conceptually simple: just don't TRUNCATE if we're
dealing with a --load-via-partition-root case.  The tricky bit is for
pg_restore to identify those cases.  In dumps using COPY commands we
can inspect each COPY command to see if it targets the nominal target
table or some ancestor.  However, in dumps using INSERT commands it's
pretty impractical to examine the INSERTs in advance.  To provide a
solution for that going forward, modify pg_dump to mark TABLE DATA
items that are using --load-via-partition-root with a comment.
(This change also responds to a complaint from Robert Haas that
the dump output for --load-via-partition-root is pretty confusing.)
pg_restore checks for the special comment as well as checking the
COPY command if present.  This will fail to identify the combination
of --load-via-partition-root and --inserts in pre-existing dump files,
but that should be a pretty rare case in the field.  If it does
happen you will probably get a deadlock failure that you can work
around by not using parallel restore, which is the same as before
this bug fix.

Having done this, there seems no remaining reason for the alarmism
in the pg_dump man page about combining --load-via-partition-root
with parallel restore, so remove that warning.

Patch by me; thanks to Julien Rouhaud for review.  Back-patch to
v11 where hash partitioning was introduced.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1376149.1675268279@sss.pgh.pa.us
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