On 25th of January 2020, Dean Rasheed committed patch:
Add functions gcd() and lcm() for integer and numeric types. These compute the greatest common divisor and least common multiple of a pair of numbers using the Euclidean algorithm. Vik Fearing, reviewed by Fabien Coelho. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/adbd3e0b-e3f1-5bbc-21db-03caf1cef0f7@2ndquadrant.com
On 20th of January 2020, Amit Kapila committed patch:
Allow vacuum command to process indexes in parallel. This feature allows the vacuum to leverage multiple CPUs in order to process indexes. This enables us to perform index vacuuming and index cleanup with background workers. This adds a PARALLEL option to VACUUM command where the user can specify the number of workers that can be used to perform the command which is limited by the number of indexes on a table. Specifying zero as a number of workers will disable parallelism. This option can't be used with the FULL option. Each index is processed by at most one vacuum process. Therefore parallel vacuum can be used when the table has at least two indexes. The parallel degree is either specified by the user or determined based on the number of indexes that the table has, and further limited by max_parallel_maintenance_workers. The index can participate in parallel vacuum iff it's size is greater than min_parallel_index_scan_size. Author: Masahiko Sawada and Amit Kapila Mahendra Singh and Sergei Kornilov Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAD21AoDTPMgzSkV4E3SFo1CH_x50bf5PqZFQf4jmqjk-C03BWg@mail.gmail.com https://postgr.es/m/CAA4eK1J-VoR9gzS5E75pcD-OH0mEyCdp8RihcwKrcuw7J-Q0+w@mail.gmail.com
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Title: Waiting for PostgreSQL 13 – ALTER TABLE … ALTER COLUMN … DROP EXPRESSION
On 14th of January 2020, Peter Eisentraut committed patch:
ALTER TABLE ... ALTER COLUMN ... DROP EXPRESSION Add an ALTER TABLE subcommand for dropping the generated property from a column, per SQL standard. Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/-946e-0453-d841-%402ndquadrant.com
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On 19th of November 2019, Thomas Munro committed patch:
Allow invisible PROMPT2 in psql. Keep track of the visible width of PROMPT1, and provide %w as a way for PROMPT2 to generate the same number of spaces. Author: Thomas Munro, with ideas from others Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKG%2BzGd7RigjWbxwhzGW59gUpf76ydQECeGdEdodH6nd__A%40mail.gmail.com
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On 13rd of November 2019, Amit Kapila committed patch:
Introduce the 'force' option for the Drop Database command. This new option terminates the other sessions connected to the target database and then drop it. To terminate other sessions, the current user must have desired permissions (same as pg_terminate_backend()). We don't allow to terminate the sessions if prepared transactions, active logical replication slots or subscriptions are present in the target database. Author: Pavel Stehule with changes by me Ryan Lambert and Amit Kapila Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAP_rwwmLJJbn70vLOZFpxGw3XD7nLB_7+NKz46H5EOO2k5H7OQ@mail.gmail.com
On 6th of November 2019, Tomas Vondra committed patch:
Allow sampling of statements depending on duration This allows logging a sample of statements, without incurring excessive log traffic (which may impact performance). This can be useful when analyzing workloads with lots of short queries. The sampling is configured using two new GUC parameters: * log_min_duration_sample - minimum required statement duration * log_statement_sample_rate - sample rate (0.0 - 1.0) Only statements with duration exceeding log_min_duration_sample are considered for sampling. To enable sampling, both those GUCs have to be set correctly. The existing log_min_duration_statement GUC has a higher priority, i.e. statements with duration exceeding log_min_duration_statement will be always logged, irrespectedly of how the sampling is configured. This means only configurations log_min_duration_sample < log_min_duration_statement do actually sample the statements, instead of logging everything. Author: Adrien Nayrat Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/-a8f7-3be2-155a-@anayrat.info
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On 3rd of October 2019, Amit Kapila committed patch:
pgbench: add --partitions and --partition-method options. These new options allow users to partition the pgbench_accounts table by specifying the number of partitions and partitioning method. The values allowed for partitioning method are range and hash. This feature allows users to measure the overhead of partitioning if any. Author: Fabien COELHO Alvaro Herrera Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/alpine.DEB.2.21..7008@lancre
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On 16th of September 2019, Alexander Korotkov committed two patches:
First patch:
Support for SSSSS datetime format pattern SQL Standard 2016 defines SSSSS format pattern for seconds past midnight in jsonpath .datetime() method and CAST (... FORMAT ...) SQL clause. In our datetime parsing engine we currently support it with SSSS name. This commit adds SSSSS as an alias for SSSS. Alias is added in favor of upcoming jsonpath .datetime() method. But it's also supported in to_date()/ to_timestamp() as positive side effect. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAPpHfdsZgYEra_PeCLGNoXOWYx6iU-S3wF8aX0ObQUcZU%2B4XTw%40mail.gmail.com Author: Nikita Glukhov, Alexander Korotkov
and second one:
Support for FF1-FF6 datetime format patterns SQL Standard 2016 defines FF1-FF9 format patters for fractions of seconds in jsonpath .datetime() method and CAST (... FORMAT ...) SQL clause. Parsing engine of upcoming .datetime() method will be shared with to_date()/ to_timestamp(). This patch implements FF1-FF6 format patterns for upcoming jsonpath .datetime() method. to_date()/to_timestamp() functions will also get support of this format patterns as positive side effect. FF7-FF9 are not supported due to lack of precision in our internal timestamp representation. Extracted from original patch by Nikita Glukhov, Teodor Sigaev, Oleg Bartunov. Heavily revised by me. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/-b497-f39a-923d-%402ndQuadrant.com Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAPpHfdsZgYEra_PeCLGNoXOWYx6iU-S3wF8aX0ObQUcZU%2B4XTw%40mail.gmail.com Author: Nikita Glukhov, Teodor Sigaev, Oleg Bartunov, Alexander Korotkov
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On 27th of July 2019, Michael Paquier committed patch:
Add support for --jobs in reindexdb When doing a schema-level or a database-level operation, a list of relations to build is created which gets processed in parallel using multiple connections, based on the recent refactoring for parallel slots in src/bin/scripts/. System catalogs are processed first in a serialized fashion to prevent deadlocks, followed by the rest done in parallel. This new option is not compatible with --system as reindexing system catalogs in parallel can lead to deadlocks, and with --index as there is no conflict handling for indexes rebuilt in parallel depending in the same relation. Author: Julien Rouhaud Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAOBaU_YrnH_Jqo46NhaJ7uRBiWWEcS40VNRQxgFbqYo9kApUsg@mail.gmail.com
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