E-Maj - Change log
4.3.0 (2023-Sept-18)
Enhancements:
- Support of PG16.
- Replace the emaj_snap_log_group() function by two new functions,
emaj_dump_changes_group() and emaj_gen_sql_dump_changes_group(),
providing much more flexibility in data changes analysis, thanks to
a rich set of options. Among them, the CONSOLIDATION option allows to
easily understand the net changes on tables and sequences on a given
marks frame.
- When launching an E-Maj rollback, allow to set a comment about the
operation.
- Add an emaj_comment_rollback() function to set/change/reset a comment on
an E-Maj rollback.
- Add a check of dblink connections to the emaj_verify_all() function.
- In the E-Maj rollback execution report, add a Notice message indicating
the rollback id.
- Record the E-Maj rollback start, initialization end and locking end
timestamps into the emaj_rlbk table and let the emaj_rollback_activity()
function report both rollback planning and locking phases duration.
- Allow rollback duration estimate functions to be executed while a rollback
operation is in progress for the same tables groups.
- In emaj_log_stat_group(), emaj_snap_log_group() and emaj_gen_sql_group()
functions families, remove the ability to set the p_firstMark parameter
to NULL to ask for the first known mark of the group.
- Minor code changes.
Bug fixes:
- Fix a bug in the emaj_snap_log_group() function. The first mark bound was
not taken in account when filtering the log records to export.
4.2.0 (2023-Apr-03)
Enhancements:
- Remove the support of postgres versions prior V11.
- Improve the sequences rollback processing: move it at the beginning of the
overall E-Maj rollback; rollback sequences in a dedicated elementary step
that can be monitored as other steps; report the number effectively
processed sequences.
- Minor code changes, in particular to take benefit from the features brought
by Postgres 9.6, 10 and 11.
- Improve the performance of log tables TRUNCATEs.
- Block any attempt to DROP the public.emajprotection_event_trigger_fnct()
function and simplify the management of event triggers that protect the
E-Maj environment.
- Enforce checks when tables are moved from an AUDIT_ONLY to a ROLLBACKABLE
group.
Bug fixes:
- Fix a bug in the rollback processing. When two tables of rolled back tables
group are linked by a foreign key, and one of these tables has been
assigned to the group after the other, an E-Maj rollback to a mark set
before the last table assignment may lead to an undetected referential
integrity violation.
- Fix a bug in both emaj_move_tables() and emaj_move_sequences() functions.
When several tables/sequences are moved at once to another tables group and
the destination group is the same as the source group for at least 2
tables/sequences, the called function returned a wrong number of effectively
moved tables/sequences.
4.1.0 (2022-Oct-01)
Enhancements:
- E-Maj is compatible with PostgreSQL V15.
Bug fixes:
- Fix a bug into the rollback duration estimates and the rollback processing.
With a rollback history having large durations and large number of processed
rows, an overflow in internal computations may happen. The problem can also
be seen with old E-Maj versions.
4.0.1 (2022-Apr-02)
Enhancements:
Bug fixes:
- Fix the rollback state cleanup processing for E-Maj rollback pending in
PLANNING or LOCKING state.
- Fix the E-Maj version upgrade procedure. It raised an exception in case
of warning detected in the E-Maj environment health check.
- Fix warnings reported by emaj_verify_all() or at set mark time when
foreign keys are created on parent tables whose partitions belong to
tables groups.
- Fix rollback operations when a foreing key references a partitionned table
(instead of separate foreign keys referencing each elementary partitions).
4.0.0 (2021-May-29)
Enhancements:
- E-Maj is compatible with PostgreSQL V14.
- Remove the emaj_alter_group(), emaj_alter_groups() and
emaj_sync_def_group() functions.
- The emaj_create_group() function does not use the emaj_group_def table
anymore and this table disappears. To populate the groups, use the
emaj_assign_table() and emaj_assign_sequence() functions families.
The optional third parameter of the emaj_create_group() function is
removed.
- The application triggers to ignore at rollback time can be defined using
the emaj_assign_table(), emaj_assign_tables(), emaj_modify_table() or
emaj_modify_tables()functions. This replaces the now dropped
emaj_ignore_app_trigger() function.
- In tables groups configuration import and export functions, symplify the
JSON formatting for the "ignored_triggers" property, by using a simple
strings array.
- Remove the old deprecated versions of E-Maj rollback functions that only
returned an integer.
- A fourth parameter in the emaj_import_groups_configuration() functions
allows to specify a non default mark name when in LOGGING state groups
are imported.
- All E-Maj log objects are now owned by the emaj_adm role (instead of a
superuser).
- Any attempt to drop the primary key of a table belonging to a rollbackable
tables group is now rejected.
- Use "p_" instead of "v_" as prefix for functions parameters names. This
may impact user's scripts.
- Performance improvement in the rollback processing for tables linked to
others by foreign keys when they belong to the same rolled back tables
groups.
- Coding style improvements.
- Minor code improvements.
Bug fixes:
- Set the E-Maj triggers as ALWAYS TRIGGER so that they can be fired by a
logical replication changes stream within a subscription.
- Transform the unique index on log tables into primary key. This allows
E-Maj log tables to be member of logical replication publication.
- Administrator were able to use tablespaces to store log tables and/or
indexes, without being granted any CREATE privilege on these tablespaces.
3.4.0 (2020-Jul-24)
Enhancements:
- E-Maj is compatible with PostgreSQL V13.
- For tables belonging to rollbackable tables groups, TRUNCATEs are not
blocked anymore. Just before truncating a table, its content is recorded
into its log table, so that E-Maj rollbacks and SQL script generation can
handle these TRUNCATE statements.
- A new emaj_purge_histories() function is callable by external scheduler
tool to purge various emaj history tables, based on a retention delay.
- Change the internal way to register log sequence states. This has no
impact for users.
- Minor coding changes.
Bug fixes:
- Fix some missing temporary table drops in several old extension upgrade
scripts.
- Fix a rare case of deadlock with the emaj_logged_rollback_group() function
when the "dblink_user_password" parameter is set.
3.3.0 (2020-Mar-14)
Enhancements:
- Two new emaj_export_groups_configuration() functions allow to export
tables groups configurations as a JSON structure, either directly or into
a file.
- Two new emaj_import_groups_configuration() functions allow to import
tables groups configurations as a JSON structure, either directly or from
a file.
- Two new emaj_export_parameters_configuration() functions allow to export
the E-Maj parameters as a JSON structure, either directly or into a file.
- Two new emaj_import_parameters_configuration() functions allow to import
E-Maj parameters as a JSON structure, either directly or from a file.
- The emaj_verify_all() function now warns about sequences linked to serial
columns which related tables are not in the same tables group.
- The emaj_verify_all() function now warns about tables linked by foreign
keys and that are not all in the same table group.
- Protect and trace the changes in the emaj_param table.
Bug fixes:
- For tables having columns defined as GENERATED ALWAYS AS IDENTITY (pg10+)
or GENERATED ALWAYS AS (expression (pg12+)), the SQL generation functions
produced a script that failed when executed.
- For tables having columns defined as GENERATED ALWAYS AS (expression),
the E-Maj rollback functions failed.
- When tables or sequences were removed from their group or moved to another
group, the internal emaj_sequence table was not properly cleanup at group
reset time or at delete oldest marks time.
- When a table structure has changed, the sql script generation on a time
range prior the structure change produced incorrect statements.
- It was not possible to generate a sql script for a subset of tables from
a tables group having some other tables without pkey.
- Let the emaj_uninstall.sql script work, even if a log schema has been
inadvertently dropped.
- Fix a bug in the asynchronous rollback procedure used by Emaj_web.
3.2.0 (2019-Oct-15)
Enhancements:
- In the emaj_gen_sql_group() and emaj_gen_sql_groups() functions, a NULL
value for the "output file" parameter prepares the SQL script in a
temporary table that can be then accessed via a emaj_sql_script view.
- In SQL scripts generated by the emaj_gen_sql_group() and
emaj_gen_sql_groups() functions, set an ISO DateStyle session parameter
and generate the ALTER SEQUENCE statements to only reproduce the sequence
characteristics changes.
- The new emaj_assign_table(), emaj_assign_tables(), emaj_remove_table(),
emaj_remove_tables(), emaj_assign_sequence(), emaj_assign_sequences(),
emaj_remove_sequence() and emaj_remove_sequences() functions allow to
dynamically assign or remove tables or sequences into a tables group,
without updating the emaj_group_def table. The group may be either in
idle or logging state.
- The new emaj_move_table(), emaj_move_tables(), emaj_move_sequence() and
emaj_move_sequences() funtions allow to dynamically move one or several
tables or sequences from one tables group to another, without updating
the emaj_group_def table. The groups may be either in idle or logging
state.
- The new emaj_modify_table() and emaj_modify_tables() funtions allow to
dynamically modify the priority level and/or the data or index log
tablepaces for one or several tables, without updating the emaj_group_def
table. The groups may be either in idle or logging state.
- The new emaj_sync_def_group() allows to synchronize the emaj_group_def
table with the current content of created groups whose content may have
been dynamically modified.
- The emaj_verify_all() function does not return a warning anymore
indicating whether some tables groups need to be altered to match their
emaj_group_def configuration.
- The part of mark names generated from the timestamp, now use the
clock_timestamp (instead of the transaction timestamp) and has one
additional digit.
- Only issue a warning when creating an empty group that is configured in
the emaj_group_def table.
- The priority column of the emaj_group_def configuration table must remain
NULL for sequences.
- Improve the emaj_verify_all() function to also detect missing log
sequences.
- Minor coding improvements.
Bug fixes:
- Fix a bug in the event trigger function that checks table rewrites. When
an application table has been removed from a logging tables group and an
ALTER TABLE leads then to a table rewrite, the event trigger erroneously
blocked the statement.
- Fix a bug. When a table was moved from one group to another and one of
the group then is dropped, trying to set a mark on or stop the other
group fails because some sequences information had been mistakenly deleted.
- Fix a bug that occured when a table has been moved from one tables group
to another and then removed from any group. The next tables group
consistency checks erroneously detected a missing log table.
- Fix 3 bugs that occured when a table has been moved from one tables group
to another and then this later group is either rolled back or reset or a
rollback is consolidated. The next attempt to get log statistics on the
former group failed.
3.1.0 (2019-Jun-20)
Enhancements:
- Let E-Maj work with PostgreSQL 12.
- The rollback functions now automatically disable the application triggers,
unless they are set in a list of triggers that should not be automatically
disabled during the operation. A new emaj_ignore_app_trigger() function
records the triggers that are not automatically disabled during rollback
operations. This may impact existing user rollback procedures.
- All log objects (tables, sequences, functions) are now located in a schema
named 'emaj_
- For tables having a very long name, the log object names are now
automatically generated. This replaces the use of the now dropped
grpdef_emaj_names_prefix column of the emaj_group_def table.
- Add a new emaj_get_current_log_table() function that retrieves the current
log table name of a given application table.
- Minor coding improvements.
Bug fixes:
- Fix a security vulnerability with functions declared as SECURITY DEFINER.
- When checking the emaj_group_def table content, duplicate emaj names
prefix were sometimes erroneously detected.
- Fix the emaj_delete_before_mark_group() function call. In some rare cases,
it failed on a missing log table.
- Fix a permission exception raised when a non superuser role attempt to
execute an emaj_delete_before_mark() function that needs to drop an old
log table.
3.0.0 (2019-Mar-19)
Enhancements:
- A psql script is supplied to install emaj on environments where it is not
possible to CREATE an EXTENSION (like PGaaS clouds).
- Unlogged tables and tables with OIDS can be members of audit_only groups.
- Remove the restriction on column name when a column is added to log
tables.
- In log tables, both emaj_client_ip and emaj_client_port columns are not
created anymore. If needed, they can be added using the 'alter_log_tables'
emaj_param parameter.
- The emaj_verify_all() function returns a warning indicating whether some
tables groups need to be altered to match their emaj_group_def
configuration.
- Enforce the checks on log tables structure.
- In the structure of the emaj_get_consolidable_rollbacks() return type,
both mark identifiers are replaced by timestamp identifiers. This may
impact clients calling this function.
- The PostgreSQL versions prior 9.5 are not supported anymore.
- Minor coding improvements.
Bug fixes:
- Fix error that may occur when a non emaj role tries to drop or alter an
object.
- Fix a rare condition that aborts the emaj_uninstall.sql script.
- Let the emajParallelRollback.php and emajRollbakMonitor clients issue a
non 0 return code when an error occurs.
- In emaj_gen_sql_group() and emaj_gen_sql_groups() functions, fix the
cases of non-printable characters in text columns content.
- In sql scripts generation functions, when a table is removed from its
group in the time range targeted by the user, do not process changes
later than the table removal from its group.
2.3.1 (2018-Sept-6)
Enhancements:
- Additional columns can be added to log tables by setting a new parameter
into the emaj_param table.
Bug fixes:
- Fix 2 issues when dumping a database with E-Maj using pg_dump. The
restore of the emaj_schema or emaj_hist tables may lead to wrong content.
2.3.0 (2018-Jul-8)
Enhancements:
- A table or a sequence can be added to a tables group in LOGGING state.
- A table or a sequence can be moved from one group to another, whatever
the state of these groups.
- New emaj_log_stat_groups() and emaj_detailed_log_stat_groups() functions
produce log statistics for several tables groups.
- Add checks on primary key structures to be sure they are not altered
since their related group creation time.
- For both emaj_snap_group() and emaj_snap_log_group() functions, avoid to
get output file names with unconvenient characters. Replace spaces, /, \,
$, >, <, and * characters by _.
- Rename the php sub-directory into client. (this may need some changes in
users scripts).
- Add perl clients similar to php clients to monitor E-Maj rollbacks and
run E-Maj parallel rollbacks.
- Minor coding improvements.
Bug fixes:
- The functions that estimate the rollbacks duration reported wrong results
when the 'EMAJ_LAST_MARK' keyword was used as rollback target mark.
- When a logging group was altered and changed either the log schema suffix
or the emaj names prefix for an application table, the log of the
subsequent updates on the table failed.
- In both emajParallelRollback.php and emajRollbackMonitor.php clients, fix
the connection string with the proper value for the password.
- Fix a bug in E-Maj rollbacks monitoring: the start timestamp and the
target mark timestamp of committed rollbacks were broken.
2.2.3 (2018-Mar-13)
Enhancements:
- Change the behaviour of the statistics functions. emaj_log_stat_group()
and emaj_detailed_log_stat_group() now return begin and end marks name
and timestamp. They also filter tables that belonged to the group during
the period framed by the supplied first and last marks (and not only
tables belonging to the group at the function execution time).
- Some internal code changes. This may change some error messages.
Bug fixes:
- Fix a serious bug that may corrupt the database under some rare
conditions. If a single transaction contains calls to emaj_stop_group(),
and then emaj_start_group() and if this transaction aborts, any further
attempt to rollback the group to a mark set before the aborted transaction
would probably miss some tables, leading to corrupted table contents.
Statistics and sql script generation on time ranges including the faulting
transaction would also miss some tables.
- Fix a minor bug in emaj_gen_sql_group() and emaj_gen_sql_groups()
function. If the primary key of a table has been dropped, the lack of
pkey was not properly detected.
2.2.2 (2018-Jan-24)
Enhancements:
- Adjust the behaviour of some functions that process past time frame,
when tables have been removed from their group. Now
emaj_delete_mark_group(), emaj_get_consolidable_rollbacks(),
emaj_consolidate_rollback_group(), emaj_snap_log_group(),
emaj_gen_sql_group() and emaj_gen_sql_groups() functions take
into account the real group content on the time frame they process.
- The emaj_snap_log_group() function now returns the number of generated
files, and the generated file names are directly derived from log table
names (so E-Maj names prefix defined into the emaj_group_def table are now
used to build the output file names).
- Various minor code changes.
Bug fixes:
- Fix a bug in the rlbkerror() function that processes errors in rollback
functions.
- When a tables group is dropped, some rows may remain in the internal
emaj_seq_hole table.
2.2.1 (2017-Dec-26)
Enhancements:
- When a table is removed from a tables group in LOGGING state, its log
table is renamed with a _1 suffix added to its name.
Bug fixes:
- When a table is removed from a tables group in LOGGING state, the
execution failed when the role was not a superuser or the table's owner.
2.2.0 (2017-Dec-18)
Enhancements:
- Improve the documentation about the installation.
- PostgreSQL versions prior 9.2 are not supported by E-Maj anymore.
- A sequence can be removed from a tables group in LOGGING state. A
subsequent rollback operation will let it unchanged.
- A table can be removed from a tables group in LOGGING state. Once
removed, the table will be excluded from all operations. Only logs remain
accessible until the group is reset or all marks before the alter time
are deleted.
- The btree_gist extension is now required.
- Improve the security of the emaj_visible_param view by declaring it as
'security_barrier'.
- Log into the emaj_hist table the final report of rollback operations.
- Some minor code improvements.
Bug fixes:
- Fix the format of this change log so that it is correctly displayed on the
pgxn.org site. Also add the release dates.
- Fix 2 bogus calls to the rlbkerror() internal function.
- Old versions of rollback functions now properly check that no previous
alter group operations would be crossed by a requested rollback.
2.1.0 (2017-Aug-02)
Enhancements:
- Let E-Maj work with PostgreSQL 10.
- Support elementary partitions of partitionned tables (PostgreSQL 10+).
- Support tables with GENERATED AS IDENTITY columns (PostgreSQL 10+)
- The emaj_alter_group() function can process any attribute change
registered in the emaj_group_def table, among priority level, log schema
suffix, emaj names prefix, log data or index tablespace, for relations
whose groups are in LOGGING state.
- Add a new emaj_alter_groups() function that can alter several groups at
once.
- Create a new set of rollback functions having an additional boolean
parameter that grants rollback operations to target a mark set before
alter group operations. These functions return a set of records
representing the execution report of the function.
- It is now possible to create and manage empty tables groups. That may be
useful when moving tables or sequences from one group to another.
- The tspemaj tablespace has no specific processing anymore. If it exists,
it will be used to hold E-Maj tables/indexes as any other tablespace,
either by being set as default tablespace at installation or group
creation time or being specified as log data tablespace or log index
tablespace into the emaj_group_def table.
- Improve the checks performed on tables groups: verify that application
tables have not been altered as UNLOGGED after their tables group creation.
- Forbid tables declared as WITH OIDS into tables groups.
- Forbid to protect a mark that is logicaly deleted.
- Optimize the execution of alter group operations.
- Improve the installation procedure when E-Maj is downloaded from pgxn.org.
The emaj.control file is now in the root directory.
- Improve some error messages.
Bug fixes:
2.0.1 (2017-Feb-23)
Enhancements:
- Rollback simulations using the emaj_estimate_rollback_group() function is
now able to process protected groups or marks.
- In internal checks and in the emaj_verify_all() function, verify that
tables of rollbackable groups have their primary key.
- Some minor code improvements.
Bug fixes:
- Fix the extension upgrade procedure. The extension upgrade scripts from
unpackaged to 1.3.1 and from 1.3.1 to 2.0.0 failed to register the emaj
technical tables as to be saved by pg_dump.
2.0.0 (2016-Nov-15)
Enhancements:
- E-Maj is now installed as a standard extension using the CREATE
EXTENSION SQL command.
- The uninstallation script is renamed emaj_uninstall.sql and includes the
DROP EXTENSION statement.
- PostgreSQL versions prior 9.1 are not supported by E-Maj anymore.
- Various changes in the functions code to take benefit from the features
brought by 8.4 to 9.1 postgres versions.
- A new emaj_consolidate_rollback_group() function consolidates a rollback
for a group. It means the function transforms a logged rollback already
executed as if it were an unlogged rollback, by deleting all the log
records and marks between the mark used as target for the already
executed logged rollback and the mark that has taged the end of this
rollback.
- A new emaj_get_consolidable_rollbacks() function returns the list of
logged rollback operations that may be consolidated. Two of the returned
columns can directly feed the emaj_consolidate_rollback_group() function.
It also gives information about the amount of log updates that may be
deleted and the number of marks what would be deleted by a consolidation.
- When postgres version allows it, add event triggers to protect
application or E-Maj components against drop or some table structure
changes. The new functions emaj_disable_protection_by_event_triggers()
and emaj_enable_protection_by_event_triggers() respectively disable and
re-enable these event triggers, if needed.
- In emaj_start_group() and emaj_start_groups() functions, allow to not
supply the mark name parameter. In this case, the default mark name is
built as START_hh.mm.ss.ms, using the current timestamp. A mark name set
to NULL or '' is now also transformed into START_hh.mm.ss.ms.
- In emaj_set_mark_group() and emaj_set_mark_groups() functions, allow to
not supply the mark name parameter. In this case, the default mark name
is built as MARK_hh.mm.ss.ms, using the current timestamp.
- In emaj_stop_group() and emaj_stop_groups() functions, if the supplied
mark name is NULL or '', it is now transformed into STOP_hh.mm.ss.ms.
- For emaj_gen_sql_group() and emaj_gen_sql_groups() functions, change the
type of the returned value representing the number of generated sql
statements to BIGINT.
- The purge of the history now keeps the events after the beginning of
possibly in progress rollbacks. It also doesn't purge the internal
emaj_rlbk table anymore.
- In rollback functions, trap all exceptions that may happen when the
rollback uses autonomous transactions with dblink and set the proper
aborted state of the rollback operation in the emaj_rlbk table.
- In error and warning messages, all groups, marks, schemas or tables names
are surrounded by double quotes to improve the readability.
- A new emaj_time_stamp table records the timestamps of main E-Maj events
like groups creation, marks setting and rollbacks, leading to significant
changes in some existing internal tables structure.
- Various minor coding enhancements.
- The demonstration script is renamed emaj_demo.sql and enhanced.
- The script supplied to prepare a parallel rollback test environment is
renamed emaj_prepare_parallel_rollback_test.sql and enhanced.
Bug fixes:
- The emaj_gen_sql_group() and emaj_gen_sql_groups() functions now properly
generate an error if the "list of tables/sequences to filter" parameter
is empty.
1.3.1 (2016-Sep-16)
Enhancements:
Bug fixes:
- Fix a performance issue with logged rollback operations in some rare
cases, involving tables with primary keys having more than 6 columns.
- Fix rollback operation aborts when the E-Maj installation has been
upgraded from 1.1.0 to 1.2.0 and then from 1.2.0 to 1.3.0.
1.3.0 (2016-Apr-10)
Enhancements:
- Two new functions, emaj_protect_group() and emaj_unprotect_group(),
respectively set and unset a specific lock on a group. When such a lock
is set on a group, any rollback attempt on this group returns an error.
Protecting a group is only meaningfull and thus possible if it is not an
audit_only group and if it is in logging state. Stopping a protected
group resets the protection.
- Two other new functions, emaj_protect_mark_group() and
emaj_unprotect_mark_group(), respectively set and unset a specific lock
on a mark for a group. When such a lock is set on a mark for a group,
any rollback attempt that would jump over the mark returns an error. This
concerns both logged and unlogged rollbacks. Protecting a mark is only
possible if its related group is not an audit_only group and if it is in
logging state. Stopping a group resets the protection set on its marks.
- Change the name of log and truncate triggers set by E-Maj on application
tables. The triggers now have the same name for all tables, respectively
emaj_log_trg and emaj_trunc_trg.
- Remove the execute rights granted to emaj_viewer role. It is useless,
even for the phppgadmin plugin.
- Minor improvements in the code and in comments.
Bug fixes:
1.2.0 (2015-Jan-02)
Enhancements:
- In table emaj_group_def, add a column named grpdef_emaj_names_prefix to
set a specific prefix for all objects created by E-Maj for tables. If
set by the E-Maj administrator, this prefix replaces the default
- Add 6 columns into the emaj_relation table to record the name of all
E-Maj objects related to each application table or sequence. These
columns are used rather than recomputing E-Maj object names. The
emaj.buildlog_seq_name() function is dropped.
- Improve locking for start, stop and rollback groups operations. For
start and stop groups operations, decrease the lock level to SHARE ROW
EXCLUSIVE when the postgres version is at least 9.5, to follow the
postgres improvement in setting lock for ALTER TABLE ENABLE/DISABLE
TRIGGER. For rollback operations, increase the lock level up to ACCESS
EXCLUSIVE when log triggers have to be disabled/enabled and when postgres
version is prior 9.5. This decreases the risk of deadlock during rollback
operation.
- Some minor coding improvements
Bug fixes:
- Replace all NOT IN (subquery) by the almost equivalent NOT EXISTS()
syntax. This fixes potential issues with NULL value processing mainly
in the functions that check the E-Maj environment.
- Add a CASCADE clause to the DROP FUNCTION statement in the droptbl()
function, to avoid the abort of the emaj_alter_group() function calls
when an application table has been renamed or has been moved into another
schema.
1.1.0 (2013-Oct-10)
Enhancements:
- The rollback processing has been largely redesigned and recoded so that
emaj administrators can monitor rollback operations progress. This
feature requires a dblink connection on the same database. Its connection
parameters are configured in a new 'dblink_user_password' entry into the
emaj_param table.
- The rollback processing has also been optimized. The per table rollback
functions are replaced by a more efficient generic table rollback
processing.
- For security reason, emaj_viewer roles cannot directly read the
emaj_param table's content any more. Instead, this role may access a new
emaj_visible_param view that provides the same visibility, except for the
value of the new 'dblink_user_password' parameter that is masked.
- The emaj_estimate_rollback_duration() function is replaced by two new
functions, namely emaj_estimate_rollback_group() and
emaj_estimate_rollback_groups(), the later estimating the duration of a
multi-groups rollback. They share some pieces of code with the rollback
functions. A third parameter specifies whether the rollback is logged or
not.
- A new emaj_rollback_activity() function provides information about
in progress rollback operations. It returns a set of rows of type
emaj_rollback_activity_type. They contain a description of each running
rollback operation, as well as a remaining duration estimate and a
percentage of the work already done. emaj_adm and emaj_viewer roles can
call it.
- A new client, emajRollbackMonitor.php, is provided to monitor E-Maj
rollback operations that are currently in progress.
- At create_group() or alter_group() time, a check is added to be sure no
temporary tables and no unlogged tables are recorded into tables groups.
Some other tests on tables groups content have been enforced too.
- The default value of the 'history_retention' parameter is now 1 year
(previously 1 month).
- The emaj_generate_sql() function is renamed emaj_gen_sql_group() for
consistency with other functions names.
- A new emaj_gen_sql_groups() function generates a sql script replaying
all updates recorded for a set of groups between two marks or between a
mark and the current situation.
- Both emaj_gen_sql_group() and emaj_gen_sql_groups() functions may have an
additional text array parameter specifying a set of table or sequence
names. This optional parameter represents a filter of tables and/or
sequences to process.
- A new emaj_user_port column is added into each log tables. It holds the
ip port of the remote user who performed the recorded update and
complements the already existing emaj_user_ip column.
- The primary index of each log table is declared as CLUSTER to help the
log tables reorganization.
- Various code improvements, in particular taking benefit from the end of
the postgres 8.2 support.
- E-Maj is qualified with postgres 9.3.
- Some minor coding improvements such as: the replacement of the mark_state
column in the emaj_mark table by a boolean column named mark_is_deleted ;
the replacement of the group_state column in the emaj_group table by a
boolean column named group_is_logging ; some error message improvements.
Bug fixes:
1.0.2 (2013-Mar-15)
Enhancements:
Bug fixes:
- At the beginning of a rollback operation, if a table known as 'not
needing rollback' at initialisation time is updated before the locking
step, this table will not be rolled back, generating a loss of
consistency between tables of the group. A check is now added, so that
the rollback safely fails if such a case happens.
1.0.1 (2013-Jan-04)
Enhancements:
Bug fixes:
- Fix an abort in rollback processing when a deferrable foreign key links
two tables, one not being covered by E-Maj, and the other having events
to rollback.
1.0.0 (2012-Nov-30)
Enhancements:
- To help managing databases having a large number of tables, it is now
possible to spread E-Maj objects on several schemas. E-Maj functions
and technical tables remain on emaj schema (the E-Maj primary schema).
But secondary schemas can hold the log table, sequence and functions
for any application table. All secondary schema names start with 'emaj'.
E-Maj administrator can define a secondary schema for any application
table though a new column in emaj_group_def table:
grpdef_log_schema_suffix. E-Maj functions manage the creation and the
deletion of these secondary schemas.
- Emaj administrators can define custom tablespaces to be used for log
tables or their indexes on a per table basis. Two new columns in the
emaj_group_def table support this feature: grpdef_log_dat_tsp and
grpdef_log_idx_tsp. If they contain NULL, tspemaj is used if it exists.
- An additional parameter for emaj_stop_group() and emaj_stop_groups()
functions allows to customize the name of the mark set by these functions.
- The emaj_verify_all() function now detects more unattended tables and
functions in E-Maj schemas (i.e. not only those which looks like emaj
components). It also detects views, sequences, composite types, domains,
foreign tables, conversions, operators and operator classes that should
not be present in E-Maj schemas. It now only returns one row when no
problem is detected. The function has been optimised to fit performance
needs with databases having a great number of relational objects.
- The sanity checks performed on groups at start_group, set_mark_group and
rollback_group times have been significantly speed up.
- A new emaj_alter_group() function allows to take into account any change
applied in the emaj_group_def table for a given tables group (like
adding to or suppressing from the group tables or sequences, or changing
priority levels or log schema names or tablespaces). It then replaces
the use of emaj_drop_group() followed by emaj_create_group() functions.
- A new emaj_force_stop_group() function can be used to stop a corrupted
tables group, in particular when an application table or a log trigger
has been dropped while the tables group was in LOGGING state.
- At tables group creation time, issue a warning when a sequence is linked
to a serial column whose table is not protected by E-Maj or do not belong
to the same tables group as the sequence.
- A new variation of the emaj_get_previous_mark_group() function returns
the name of the mark that immediately precedes a given mark for a group.
- The emaj_delete_before_mark_group() now tries to purge the emaj_hist
table, similarly to what start_group functions do. This simplifies the
management of the emaj_hist table when groups are never stopped and
restarted.
- emaj_log_stat_group() now returns a result (with all rows numbers set to
0) instead of an error when the supplied start mark is NULL and no mark
are yet recorded for the examined group.
- During rollback operations, use a less constraining EXCLUSIVE locking
mode on the application tables to process, allowing other transactions
to concurrently access these tables with SELECT statements.
- In rollback functions, add ONLY clause to UPDATE and DELETE statement so
that the rollback operations of mother tables are safer and more
efficient when table inheritance is used.
- When setting a mark on one or several tables groups, record the state of
all sequences as early as possible (before processing tables) ; as no
lock can be set on a sequence, this decreases the risk of another
concurrently running transaction modifying one of these sequences.
- Process more safely the EMAJ_LAST_MARK keyword when system time changes,
the mark search not being based on timestamp any more.
- Minor improvements in the code and in comments.
Bug fixes:
- Let emaj_force_drop_group() works when an application schema or relation
has been previously dropped.
- Allow an emaj_adm role to effectively execute the emaj_reset_group()
function without error on TRUNCATE statements when the group has been
created by someone else.
- Really rollback sequences in the desired priority order.
- In emaj_reset_group() function, fix a very rare case where some rows
from the internal emaj_sequence table could be abusively deleted (in
case an application sequence would be named as an emaj log sequence!).
- Fix a bug in emaj_rename_mark_group() function: when a unique mark has
been set for several tables groups, renaming this mark for one of these
groups led to a corrupted emaj_sequence table for rows concerning the
same mark and the other groups.
- Properly set to 0 the mark_log_rows_before_next column of the internal
emaj_mark table for the marks set at emaj_stop_group time.
0.11.1 (2012-Jul-28)
Enhancements:
- Largely improve the processing of foreing keys during rollback operations:
foreign keys are only dropped and recreated when this is really needed
and the rollback functions take benefit of foreign keys declared as
DEFERRABLE. The emaj_estimate_rollback_duration() function is adjusted
accordingly, using a new optional parameter, avg_fkey_check_duration,
used when no statistics from previous rollbacks is available.
- tspemaj tablespace is now optional. If it exists at emaj installation
time, technical tables are stored on it. If it exists at
emaj_create_group() time, log tables and index are stored on it. If
tspemaj doesn't exist, default_tablespace is used.
- Improve the error message returned by emaj_rename_mark_group() if the
supplied new mark name is NULL.
- Minor internal improvements in rollback functions, and in
emaj_delete_mark_group() and emaj_delete_before_mark_group() functions.
Bug fixes:
- Fix an incorrect state for marks generated at stop_group(s) time. Being
previously left as ACTIVE after the emaj_stop_group() or
emaj_stop_groups() functions calls, a rollback to this mark after a
restart of the group led to sequence values corruption.
- Indexes of technical emaj tables are now also located on tspemaj
tablespace (if exists)
- Fix a SQL injection hole in 2 functions by testing more carefuly supplied
parameters.
0.11.0 (2012-May-28)
Enhancements:
- Add an optional "resetLog" boolean parameter to the emaj_start_group()
and emaj_start_groups() functions, indicating if the old log records must
be physicaly deleted or not. By default, or when this third parameter is
set to true, old log records of a group are deleted (i.e. the group is
reset) at start group time. If the group is not reset at start time, all
old related marks and log tables rows cannot be used for any rollback
operation any more. Nevertheless, log rows remain visible, old marks can
be deleted, renamed or commented, and log statistics can be requested.
- Now that logs may survive to a group start, a mark is automatically set
at group stop time so that this operation is clearly visible in the marks
list; This mark is named STOP_xxx where this suffix represents the time
of the day.
- The emaj_rollback_and_stop_group() and emaj_rollback_and_stop_groups()
functions are suppressed. They were not really useful and they left
inconsistent data in log tables, which may lead to trouble now that
it is possible to start a tables group without deleting old log rows and
marks.
- Add a new emaj_generate_sql function that generates a sql script
corresponding to all updates performed on a tables group between two
marks or between a mark and the current situation, and stores it into a
given file (only available in postgres 8.3+).
- In emaj_snap_group() and emaj_snap_log_group() functions, improve the
format of the _INFO file: the timestamp is now reported with the date and
time format of the client.
- In emaj_snap_group() and emaj_snap_log_group() functions, add an input
parameter to specify the options to used in COPY TO statements, like CSV,
HEADER,...
- In emaj_snap_group() function, improve the format of the sequences files:
remove the useless log_cnt column and use the same columns list for all
postgres versions.
- In emaj_snap_log_group() function, allow a NULL or empty string as last
mark, indicating the current state. In such a case, the file containing
sequences characteristics at current state is named using the current
timestamp.
- A TRUNCATE sql verb is now allowed on audit_only tables group even in
logging state. The execution of a truncate statement on a table is
recorded in the associated log table, the emaj_verb column being set to
'TRU'.
- Add a column into the emaj_mark table to maintain statistics about the
total number of log rows recorded between the mark and the following one.
This is useful to speedup the retrieval of this data, for instance by the
phpPgAdmin plugin.
- Rework the internal emaj sequences mechanism. Using a unique global
sequence. It is now possible to sort log rows for all tables by their
creation order, so that emaj_generate_sql() function result remains safe
even in case of system time change. The sequence associated to each log
table remains to speed up the statistics delivery but its increment is now
- In log tables, the emaj_id column is renamed emaj_gid.
- In groups creation, start or rollback functions, improve the detection of
foreign keys referencing tables outside the groups or tables referenced
by foreign keys from tables outside the groups: tables from audit_only
groups are now ignored because the potential problem detected with
foreign keys only concerns rollback operations.
- Minor improvement in messages produced by emaj.emaj_verify_all() function.
- Minor improvements in the code and in comments.
Bug fixes:
- Fix a bad error message in emaj_create_group() function when the group
to create is not referenced in emaj_group_def table.
- Fix rollback function generation for cases when a table name includes
backslash characters.
- Fix emaj_snap_group for cases when any column from the pkey contains at
least one special character that obliged to quote the column name in
queries.
- In emaj_snap_group() and emaj_snap_log_group() functions, verify that the
supplied directory parameter is not null.
- Avoid potential problem with the generated rollback functions, by
explicitely fixing the columns list in the INSERT statement that reverts
recorded DELETE events.
0.10.1 (2011-Dec-30)
Enhancements:
- Enhance emaj_snap_group() function so that it can be used by emaj_adm
granted role. The use of the function is also recorded into the emaj_hist
table. The files are now created in CSV format.
- Create a new emaj_snap_log_group() function to snap all log tables
related to a group into a supplied directory. Only rows corresponding
to a mark interval are snapped. One CSV file is created for each table.
Sequences state at starting mark and ending mark are also stored into
2 specific files.
- The emaj_verify_all() function also performs various checks on all tables
groups to verify their consistency and ability to be safely managed by
E-Maj functions.
- Add a primary key (and its associated index) to log tables to speed up
the rollback operations or detailed statistics requests on large log
tables.
Bug fixes:
- Fix emaj_delete_mark_group() and emaj_delete_before_mark_group()
operations. When a mark set for several groups by an
emaj_set_mark_groups() function, is deleted for a single group, it was
not usable any more (in particular for rollback) for the other groups
for which the mark remained active.
- Fix errors when using schema, column, sequence or mark names including
unusual characters like apostrophs or commas.
- Fix a possible "division by zero" error in
emaj_estimate_rollback_duration() function.
- Fix a bug in emaj_snap_group() function in building the list of the
columns belonging to the table's pkey, after one of these columns has
been renamed.
0.10.0 (2011-Nov-12)
Enhancements:
- On PostgreSQL 9.1 and later, E-Maj can be installed with a SQL "CREATE
EXTENSION" statement. If this version is already installed using the
usual script, it can also be transformed into EXTENSION.
- Create a new type of rollback: logged rollback, i.e. rollback executed
without disabling the log triggers. As a result, the application table
updates performed by the logged rollback are also recorded in emaj log
tables, and a logged rollback can be ... rollbacked too! Two marks are
automatically set to represent both before and after rollback states of
the table group.
- A new emaj_delete_before_mark_group() function deletes all marks prior
(and not including) a given mark. With this functions, it is easy to let
groups in LOGGING state during a long period, without being limited by
the disk space for log tables. The drawback is the time needed to
delete large amount of logs, as log tables cannot be TRUNCATEd.
- A new emaj_get_previous_mark_group() function returns the name of the
mark that immediately precedes a given date and time for a group. This
may help in using the emaj_delete_before_mark_group() function.
- The emaj_delete_mark_group() function now returns 1 (i.e. the number of
deleted mark), to be consistent with the data returned by the new
emaj_delete_before_mark_group() function.
- The E-Maj administrator can set priority order between tables when he
describes a group content in emaj_grpdef table. This lets the emaj
administrator manage a processing order that minimize deadlock risks.
A new column, named grpdef_priority, and that can be left to NULL,
handles this concept. In emaj operations and in particular when locks
are set on tables, tables are processed in ascending order of priority,
NULLs being processed last, and in alphabetic order for schema name +
table name for tables described with same priority level.
- A new set of functions give the E-Maj administrator to start, stop,
set marks or rollback on a set of groups in a single operation and
transaction. emaj_start_groups, emaj_stop_groups, emaj_set_mark_groups,
emaj_rollback_groups, emaj_logged_rollback_groups and
emaj_rollback_and_stop_groups take as first argument an array of group
names.
- The emaj_param rows describing parameters default values are no longer
inserted at installation time. The default values are only set when
needed in functions. To change the default values, E-Maj administrator
needs to insert rows into emaj_param (instead of update them).
- A new emaj_comment_group function sets (or resets) a comment on an
existing group.
- A new emaj_comment_mark_group function sets (or resets) a comment on an
existing mark.
- The general log_only parameter is replaced by a parameter set at group
level. A new optional boolean parameter is added to the
emaj_create_group() function, indicating whether the new group supports
rollback operations or not. By creating 'audit_only' groups (i.e. "non
rollbackable"), it is possible to activate log on tables that do not have
any primary key.
- In each log table created by emaj_create_group() function, add an
emaj_inet_addr column, as a complement to the emaj_user column, to
register the ip address of the user who has generated the table update.
- In emaj_log_stat_group() and emaj_detailed_log_stat_group(), empty
strings can be supplied as mark names. In such a case, there are
processed as NULL values.
- Allow use of searching or deleting marks for groups in IDLE state.
- In parallel rollback processing, "subgroups" are now named "sessions"
to avoid confusion in multi-groups rollbacks.
- In emaj_estimate_rollback_duration(), check that the group is in LOGGING
state.
- In emaj_create_group(), explicitely check that no table or sequence
already belong to another created group.
- In emaj_hist table, add a column containing the id of the insertion
transaction.
- A comment has been added to all E-Maj tables, types and roles, as well
as to all functions callable by users.
- A check is performed at the beginning of the E-Maj installation to be
sure that the current postgres version is compatible with E-Maj, the user
performing the installation is a superuser and tspemaj tablespace exists.
- A check on the max_prepared_transaction is performed at installation
time and a warning is reported if the setting would block the use of the
parallel rollback feature.
- Add a check at group creation, set mark and rollback times to verify that
the group has been created with a compatible postgres version (for
instance, a group created in 8.3 should not be directly used in 8.4).
Bug fixes:
- In emaj_create_group(), check the supplied group name is not null, and
not empty.
- During emaj_start_group() avoid double lock of tables and reoder events
in the emaj_hist table.
- In emaj_verify_all() function, add a check on orphan truncate functions.
- A missing check has been added in internal verifygroup() function.
- To avoid potential data corruption at rollback time if the system date
and time changes during E-Maj activity period, use serial id instead of
timestamp for emaj_mark, emaj_sequence and emaj_seq_hole tables content
management.
- Change the primary key columns identification. Starting from pg 9.0,
column names must be read from pg_attribute with the table's definition,
using pg_index.indkey, as the column names with the index definition is
not safe any more in case of column renaming.
0.9.1 (2011-Jul-24)
Enhancements:
- emaj_snap_group(): avoid setting explicit locks on tables because it is
not necessary to get a coherent image of all tables of the group.
- the emaj_log_stat_group() function has been refactored. A new internal
logstat_table() function has been created.
- the group_creation_datetime column of the emaj_group table is now
initialized with the transaction timestamp instead of the clock timestamp.
- main functions set a lock on the emaj_group row representing the working
group to prevent simultaneous execution of these functions.
- in emaj_start_group() and emaj_set_mark_group() functions, a mark name may
contain '%' wild characters. They are automatically replaced by a sequence
of digits from the current time.
- while locking tables of a group, if a deadlock occurs, the locking
operation is cancelled and retried up to 5 times before the transaction
aborts. The comment in the history table reports the number of locked
tables and the number of deadlocks encountered.
Bug fixes:
- fix a case of infinite wait on parallel rollback at foreign key processing
when several tables affected to different sub-groups have a foreign key
referencing a table that has no row to rollback.
- in emaj_start_group() and emaj_set_mark_group() functions, avoid empty or
NULL mark names. If the supplied mark name is NULL or empty, a name is
automatically generated as "MARK_" followed by digits from the current
time.
- fix an invalid column name referenced in emaj_delete_mark_group() function.
- in emaj_delete_mark_group() function, fix an erroneous information
inserted into the emaj_hist table.
- during emaj_drop_group() operation, delete now all rows related to the
tables belonging to the dropped group from emaj_sequence and emaj_seq_hole
tables.
- fix a bug in the E-Maj history table purge. If a group is in logging state
for a longer period than the history retention delay ('history_retention'
parameter), the oldest events in the history were unintentionly purged.
- set appropriate grants to internal functions forbidtruncate_fnct().
- fix the postgres version detection for alpha or beta releases version
patterns.
- fix a minor bug in reporting list of existing triggers on application
table at emaj_create_group time.
- use a more robust lack of primary key detection.
0.9.0 (2011-Feb-06)
Enhancements:
- a new emaj_estimate_rollback_duration() function computes an approximate
value for the duration of a rollback operation. It uses statistics
recorded in the new emaj_rlbk_stat table, as well as 4 new parameters.
- the emaj_set_mark_group function now returns the number of processed
tables and sequences as other main emaj functions.
- add a check in emaj_log_stat_group and emaj_detailed_log_stat_group
functions if the supplied first mark is greater than the last_mark.
- in emaj_detailed_log_stat_group function, change the INS/UPD/DEL values
returned for emaj_verb column into more explicit terms (INSERT/UPDATE/
DELETE).
- emaj_detailed_log_stat_group, emaj_delete_mark and emaj_rename_mark
functions now accept EMAJ_LAST_MARK keyword as existing mark names.
- add a check at mark creation times to forbide EMAJ_LAST_MARK name.
- split column hist_type from emaj_hist table into 2 columns: hist_function
and hist_event
- during rollback operations, move the rollback of application sequences at
the very end of the operation, as these rollback (ALTER SEQUENCE) are not
transaction safe.
- log sequences are now reset at emaj_reset_group or emaj_start_group time.
This should avoid potential long term issue if the log sequence reaches
the upper limit of serial id.
- starting from postgres version 8.4, a trigger is created on all tables
belonging to a group in order to forbid TRUNCATE SQL verb during E-Maj
logging time. These triggers are named