Having the different types of logs in artifacts instruction makes it quicker
to navigate between them. Either that didn't use to be possible, or I just did
it wrong. I saw that / how it works in a patch by Justin Pryzby.
Also remove a few unnecessary uses of **, suggested by Justin Pryzby.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220203195718.smqo5xg4ygp5qktq@alap3.anarazel.de
Regression tests need to use skip-empty-xacts = false, because there
might be accidental concurrent activity (like autovacuum), particularly
on slow machines. The tests added by 80901b3291 failed to do that in a
couple places, triggering occasional failures on buildfarm.
Fixing the tests however uncovered a bug in the code, because sequence
callbacks did not handle skip-empty-xacts properly. For trasactional
increments we need to check/update the xact_wrote_changes flag, and emit
the BEGIN if it's the first change in the transaction.
Reported-by: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220212220413.b25amklo7t4xb7ni%40alap3.anarazel.de
Commit 1f39a1c06 implemented write-failure postponement in pqSendSome,
which is above SSL/GSS processing. However, we've now seen failures
indicating that (some versions of?) OpenSSL have a tendency to report
write failures prematurely too. Hence, move the primary responsibility
for postponing write failures down to pqsecure_raw_write(), below
SSL/GSS processing. pqSendSome now sets write_failed only in corner
cases where we'd lost the connection already.
A side-effect of this change is that errors detected in the SSL/GSS
layer itself will be reported immediately (as if they were read
errors) rather than being postponed like write errors. That's
reverting an effect of 1f39a1c06, and I think it's fine: if there's
not a socket-level error, it's hard to be sure whether an OpenSSL
error ought to be considered a read or write failure anyway.
Another important point is that write-failure postponement is now
effective during connection setup. OpenSSL's misbehavior of this
sort occurs during SSL_connect(), so that's a change we want.
Per bug #17391 from Nazir Bilal Yavuz. Possibly this should be
back-patched, but I think it prudent to let it age awhile in HEAD
first.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17391-304f81bcf724b58b@postgresql.org
In commit 1f39a1c06 I made PQisBusy consider conn->write_failed, but
that is now looking like complete brain fade. In the first place, the
logic is quite wrong: it ought to be like "and not" rather than "or".
This meant that once we'd gotten into a write_failed state, PQisBusy
would always return true, probably causing the calling application to
iterate its loop until PQconsumeInput returns a hard failure thanks
to connection loss. That's not what we want: the intended behavior
is to return an error PGresult, which the application probably has
much cleaner support for.
But in the second place, checking write_failed here seems like the
wrong thing anyway. The idea of the write_failed mechanism is to
postpone handling of a write failure until we've read all we can from
the server; so that flag should not interfere with input-processing
behavior. (Compare 7247e243a.) What we *should* check for is
status = CONNECTION_BAD, ie, socket already closed. (Most places that
close the socket don't touch asyncStatus, but they do reset status.)
This primarily ensures that if PQisBusy() returns true then there is
an open socket, which is assumed by several call sites in our own
code, and probably other applications too.
While at it, fix a nearby thinko in libpq's my_sock_write: we should
only consult errno for res < 0, not res == 0. This is harmless since
pqsecure_raw_write would force errno to zero in such a case, but it
still could confuse readers.
Noted by Andres Freund. Backpatch to v12 where 1f39a1c06 came in.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220211011025.ek7exh6owpzjyudn@alap3.anarazel.de
This reverts commit b0a55f4, to remove for now the TAP test that did the
equivalent of check_guc. The test has been using pg_config --sharedir
to find the location of postgresql.conf.sample. While the buildfarm and
normal build environments rather liked that, this proves to be an issue
for Debian where pg_config is patched to not be relocatable, causing the
test to fail.
Rather than relying on pg_config, we'd better find the sample file based
on its location from the source directory. However, this is also an
issue as a TAP test only offers the build directory as of TESTDIR in the
environment context, so this would fail with VPATH builds. Perhaps the
source path could be provided additionally when running the TAP tests.
Or perhaps we may be able to get away by just switching to a SQL
approach, by using PG_ABS_SRCDIR but this is going to require some extra
loops to get the sample file from the correct path in src/backend/. In
any case, this needs more thoughts, so just revert the test case until
something better is done about this relocation problem.
Reported-by: Christopher Berg
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/YgYw25OXV5men8Fj@msg.df7cb.de
Report on scanned pages within VACUUM VERBOSE and autovacuum logging.
These are pages that were physically examined during the VACUUM
operation. Note that this can include a small number of pages that were
marked all-visible in the visibility map by some earlier VACUUM
operation. VACUUM won't skip all-visible pages that aren't part of a
range of all-visible pages that's at least 32 blocks in length (partly
to avoid missing out on opportunities to advance relfrozenxid during
non-aggressive VACUUMs).
Commit 44fa8488 simplified the definition of scanned pages. It became
the complement of the pages (of those pages from rel_pages) that were
skipped using the visibility map. And so scanned pages precisely
indicates how effective the visibility map was at saving work. (Before
now we displayed the number of pages skipped via the visibility map when
happened to be frozen pages, but not when they were merely all-visible,
which was less useful to users.)
Rename the user-visible OldestXmin output field to "removal cutoff", and
show some supplementary information: how far behind the cutoff is
(number of XIDs behind) by the time the VACUUM operation finished. This
will help users to figure out what's _not_ working in extreme cases
where VACUUM is fundamentally unable to remove dead tuples or freeze
older tuples (e.g., due to a leaked replication slot). Also report when
relfrozenxid is advanced by VACUUM in output that immediately follows
"removal cutoff". This structure is intended to highlight the
relationship between the new relfrozenxid value for the table, and the
VACUUM operation's removal cutoff.
Finally, add instrumentation of "missed dead tuples", and the number of
pages that had at least one such tuple. These are fully DEAD (not just
RECENTLY_DEAD) tuples with storage that could not be pruned due to
failure to acquire a cleanup lock on a heap page. This is a replacement
for the "skipped due to pin" instrumentation removed by commit 44fa8488.
It shows more details than before for pages where failing to get a
cleanup lock actually resulted in VACUUM missing out on useful work, but
usually shows nothing at all instead (the mere fact that we couldn't get
a cleanup lock is usually of no consequence whatsoever now).
Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Reviewed-By: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-Wznp=c=Opj8Z7RMR3G=ec3_JfGYMN_YvmCEjoPCHzWbx0g@mail.gmail.com
Commit 0da92dc530 improved the logical decoding infrastructure to handle
sequences, and did various changes to related parts (WAL logging etc.).
But it did not include any implementation of the new callbacks added to
OutputPluginCallbacks.
This extends test_decoding with two callbacks to decode sequences. The
decoding of sequences may be disabled using 'include-sequences', a new
option of the output plugin.
Author: Tomas Vondra, Cary Huang
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut, Hannu Krosing, Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/d045f3c2-6cfb-06d3-5540-e63c320df8bc@enterprisedb.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1710ed7e13b.cd7177461430746.3372264562543607781@highgo.ca
Redefine a scanned page as any heap page that actually gets pinned by
VACUUM's first pass over the heap, regardless of whether or not the page
was cleanup locked. Although it's fundamentally impossible to prune a
heap page without a cleanup lock (since we cannot safely defragment the
page), we can do just about everything else. The only notable further
exception is freezing tuples, though even that is arguably a consequence
of not being able to prune (not a separate issue).
VACUUM now does as much of the same processing as possible for pages
that could not be cleanup locked. Any failure to do specific required
processing is treated as a special case exception, which will be rare in
practice. We now collect any preexisting LP_DEAD items (left behind by
earlier opportunistic pruning) in the dead_items array for these heap
pages, and count their tuples in the usual way. Steps used to decide if
we'll attempt relation truncation are performed in the usual way for
no-cleanup-lock scanned pages, too.
Although eliminating these special cases is intrinsically useful, it's
even more useful as an enabler of further simplifications. The only
essential difference between aggressive and non-aggressive is that only
aggressive is _guaranteed_ to be able to advance relfrozenxid up to
FreezeLimit. Advancing relfrozenxid is always useful, but before now
non-aggressive VACUUMs threw away the opportunity to do so whenever a
cleanup lock could not be acquired on any page, no matter what the
details were. This was very pessimistic.
It isn't actually necessary to "behave aggressively" to maintain the
ability to advance relfrozenxid when a cleanup lock isn't immediately
available (most of the time). The non-aggressive case will now make
sure that it isn't safe to advance relfrozenxid (without waiting) using
only a share lock. It will usually notice that there are no tuples that
need to be frozen anyway, just like in the aggressive case -- and so it
no longer wastes an opportunity to advance relfrozenxid over nothing.
(The non-aggressive case still won't wait for a cleanup lock when there
really are tuples on the page that need to be frozen, since that really
would amount to "behaving aggressively".)
VACUUM currently has a tendency to set heap pages to all-visible in the
visibility map before it freezes all of the tuples on the page. Only a
subsequent aggressive VACUUM will visit these pages to freeze their
tuples, usually only when the tuple XIDs are much older than the
vacuum_freeze_min_age GUC (FreezeLimit cutoff) is supposed to allow.
And so non-aggressive VACUUMs are still far less likely to be able to
advance relfrozenxid in practice, even with the enhancements from this
commit. This remaining issue will be addressed by future work that
overhauls the criteria for freezing tuples. Once that's in place,
almost every VACUUM operation will be able to advance relfrozenxid in
practice.
Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Reviewed-By: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-By: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-Wznp=c=Opj8Z7RMR3G=ec3_JfGYMN_YvmCEjoPCHzWbx0g@mail.gmail.com
Previously, it was possible for DROP DATABASE, DROP TABLESPACE and ALTER
DATABASE SET TABLESPACE to fail because other backends still had file
handles open for dropped tables. Windows won't allow a directory
containing unlinked-but-still-open files to be unlinked. Tackle this
problem by forcing all backends to close all smgr fds. No change for
Unix systems, which don't suffer from the problem, but the new code path
can be tested by Unix-based developers by defining
USE_BARRIER_SMGRRELEASE explicitly.
It's possible that PROCSIGNAL_BARRIER_SMGRRELEASE will have more
bug-fixing applications soon (under discussion). Note that this is the
first user of the ProcSignalBarrier mechanism from commit 16a4e4aec. It
could in principle be back-patched as far as 14, but since field
complaints are rare and ProcSignalBarrier hasn't been battle-tested,
that seems like a bad idea. Fix in master only, where these failures
have started to show up in automated testing due to new tests.
Suggested-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
Reviewed-by: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+hUKGLdemy2gBm80kz20GTe6hNVwoErE8KwcJk6-U56oStjtg@mail.gmail.com
createplan.c tries to save a runtime projection step by specifying
a scan plan node's output as being exactly the table's columns, or
index's columns in the case of an index-only scan, if there is not a
reason to do otherwise. This logic did not previously pay attention
to whether an index's columns are returnable. That worked, sort of
accidentally, until commit 9a3ddeb51 taught setrefs.c to reject plans
that try to read a non-returnable column. I have no desire to loosen
setrefs.c's new check, so instead adjust use_physical_tlist() to not
try to optimize this way when there are non-returnable column(s).
Per report from Ryan Kelly. Like the previous patch, back-patch
to all supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHUie24ddN+pDNw7fkhNrjrwAX=fXXfGZZEHhRuofV_N_ftaSg@mail.gmail.com
Rather than doing manual book keeping to plan the number of tests to run
in each TAP suite, conclude each run with done_testing() summing up the
the number of tests that ran. This removes the need for maintaning and
updating the plan count at the expense of an accurate count of remaining
during the test suite runtime.
This patch has been discussed a number of times, often in the context of
other patches which updates tests, so a larger number of discussions can
be found in the archives.
Reviewed-by: Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <ilmari@ilmari.org>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/DD399313-3D56-4666-8079-88949DAC870F@yesql.se
LZ4 compression can now be performed on the client using
pg_basebackup -Ft --compress client-lz4, and LZ4 decompression of
a backup compressed on the server can be performed on the client
using pg_basebackup -Fp --compress server-lz4.
Dipesh Pandit, reviewed and tested by Jeevan Ladhe and Tushar Ahuja,
with a few corrections - and some documentation - by me.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAN1g5_FeDmiA9D8wdG2W6Lkq5CpubxOAqTmd2et9hsinTJtsMQ@mail.gmail.com
LZ4 compression can be a lot faster than gzip compression, so users
may prefer it even if the compression ratio is not as good. We will
want pg_basebackup to support LZ4 compression and decompression on the
client side as well, and there is a pending patch for that, but it's
by a different author, so I am committing this part separately for
that reason.
Jeevan Ladhe, reviewed by Tushar Ahuja and by me.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CANm22Cg9cArXEaYgHVZhCnzPLfqXCZLAzjwTq7Fc0quXRPfbxA@mail.gmail.com
"pg_ctl stop/restart" checked that the postmaster PID is valid just
once, as a side-effect of sending the stop signal, and then would
wait-till-timeout for the postmaster.pid file to go away. This
neglects the case wherein the postmaster dies uncleanly after we
signal it. Similarly, once "pg_ctl promote" has sent the signal,
it'd wait for the corresponding on-disk state change to occur
even if the postmaster dies.
I'm not sure how we've managed not to notice this problem, but it
seems to explain slow execution of the 017_shm.pl test script on AIX
since commit 4fdbf9af5, which added a speculative "pg_ctl stop" with
the idea of making real sure that the postmaster isn't there. In the
test steps that kill-9 and then restart the postmaster, it's possible
to get past the initial signal attempt before kill() stops working
for the doomed postmaster. If that happens, pg_ctl waited till
PGCTLTIMEOUT before giving up ... and the buildfarm's AIX members
have that set very high.
To fix, include a "kill(pid, 0)" test (similar to what
postmaster_is_alive uses) in these wait loops, so that we'll
give up immediately if the postmaster PID disappears.
While here, I chose to refactor those loops out of where they were.
do_stop() and do_restart() can perfectly well share one copy of the
wait-for-stop loop, and it seems desirable to put a similar function
beside that for wait-for-promote.
Back-patch to all supported versions, since pg_ctl's wait logic
is substantially identical in all, and we're seeing the slow test
behavior in all branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220210023537.GA3222837@rfd.leadboat.com
This extends the logical decoding to also decode sequence increments.
We differentiate between sequences created in the current (in-progress)
transaction, and sequences created earlier. This mixed behavior is
necessary because while sequences are not transactional (increments are
not subject to ROLLBACK), relfilenode changes are. So we do this:
* Changes for sequences created in the same top-level transaction are
treated as transactional, i.e. just like any other change from that
transaction, and discarded in case of a rollback.
* Changes for sequences created earlier are applied immediately, as if
performed outside any transaction. This applies also after ALTER
SEQUENCE, which may create a new relfilenode.
Moreover, if we ever get support for DDL replication, the sequence
won't exist until the transaction gets applied.
Sequences created in the current transaction are tracked in a simple
hash table, identified by a relfilenode. That means a sequence may
already exist, but if a transaction does ALTER SEQUENCE then the
increments for the new relfilenode will be treated as transactional.
For each relfilenode we track the XID of (sub)transaction that created
it, which is needed for cleanup at transaction end. We don't need to
check the XID to decide if an increment is transactional - if we find a
match in the hash table, it has to be the same transaction.
This requires two minor changes to WAL-logging. Firstly, we need to
ensure the sequence record has a valid XID - until now the the increment
might have XID 0 if it was the first change in a subxact. But the
sequence might have been created in the same top-level transaction. So
we ensure the XID is assigned when WAL-logging increments.
The other change is addition of "created" flag, marking increments for
newly created relfilenodes. This makes it easier to maintain the hash
table of sequences that need transactional handling.
Note: This is needed because of subxacts. A XID 0 might still have the
sequence created in a different subxact of the same top-level xact.
This does not include any changes to test_decoding and/or the built-in
replication - those will be committed in separate patches.
A patch adding decoding of sequences was originally submitted by Cary
Huang. This commit reworks various important aspects (e.g. the WAL
logging and transactional/non-transactional handling). However, the
original patch and reviews were very useful.
Author: Tomas Vondra, Cary Huang
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut, Hannu Krosing, Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/d045f3c2-6cfb-06d3-5540-e63c320df8bc@enterprisedb.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1710ed7e13b.cd7177461430746.3372264562543607781@highgo.ca
Commit 09cf1d522 taught schedule_alarm() to not do anything if
the next requested event is after when we expect the next interrupt
to fire. However, if somehow an interrupt gets lost, we'll continue
to not do anything indefinitely, even after the "next interrupt" time
is obviously in the past. Thus, one missed interrupt can break
timeout scheduling for the life of the session. Michael Harris
reported a scenario where a bug in a user-defined function caused this
to happen, so you don't even need to assume kernel bugs exist to think
this is worth fixing. We can make things more robust at little cost
by detecting the case where signal_due_at is before "now" and forcing
a new setitimer call to occur. This isn't a completely bulletproof
fix of course; but in our typical usage pattern where we frequently set
timeouts and clear them before they are reached, the interrupt will
get re-enabled after at most one timeout interval, which with a little
luck will be before we really need it.
While here, let's mark signal_due_at as volatile, since the signal
handler can both examine and set it. I'm not sure there's any
actual risk given that signal_pending is already volatile, but
it's surely questionable.
Backpatch to v14 where this logic came in.
Michael Harris and Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CADofcAWbMrvgwSMqO4iG_iD3E2v8ZUrC-_crB41my=VMM02-CA@mail.gmail.com
Commit 0ba281cb4b added a new syntax
for the BASE_BACKUP command, with extensible options, but maintained
support for the legacy syntax. This isn't important for PostgreSQL,
where pg_basebackup works with older server versions but not newer
ones, but it could in theory matter for out-of-core users of the
replication protocol.
Discussion on pgsql-hackers, however, suggests that no one is aware
of any out-of-core use of the BASE_BACKUP command, and the consensus
is in favor of removing support for the old syntax to simplify the
code, so do that.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoazKcKUWtqVa0xZqSzbKgTH+X-aw4V7GyLD68EpDLMh8A@mail.gmail.com
The connection strings in the SSL client tests were using the host
set up from Cluster.pm which is a temporary pathname. When SNI is
enabled we pass the host to OpenSSL in order to set the server name
indication ClientHello extension via SSL_set_tlsext_host_name.
OpenSSL doesn't validate the hostname apart from checking the max
length, but LibreSSL checks for RFC 5890 conformance which results
in errors during testing as the pathname from Cluster.pm is not a
valid hostname.
Fix by setting the host explicitly to localhost, as that's closer
to the intent of the test.
Backpatch through 14 where SNI support came in.
Reported-by: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17391-304f81bcf724b58b@postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 14
Some pre-2017 Test::More versions need perfect $Test::Builder::Level
maintenance to find the variable. Buildfarm member snapper reported an
overall failure that the file intended to hide via the TODO construct.
That trouble was reachable in v11 and v10. For later branches, this
serves as defense in depth. Back-patch to v10 (all supported versions).
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220202055556.GB2745933@rfd.leadboat.com
Some of the code paths changed by aa64f23 can reduce the number of times
GetMaxBackends() is called. The performance gain is marginal, but most
of the code changed by this commit already did that. Hence, let's be
clean and apply the same rule everywhere, for consistency.
Some of the code paths, like in deadlock.c, involve only assertions.
These are left unchanged.
Reviewed-by: Nathan Bossart, Robert Haas
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/YgMpGZhPOjNfS7er@paquier.xyz
The behavior I proposed, of matching case only when only keywords
are available to complete, turns out to be too cute. It adds about
as many problems as it removes. Simplify down to ilmari's original
proposal of just always matching case when completing a keyword.
Also, I noticed while testing this that we've pessimized the behavior
for qualified GUC names: the code is insisting that they be
double-quoted, which was not the case before. Fix that by treating
GUC names as verbatim matches instead of possibly-schema-qualified
names. (While it's tempting to try to split qualified GUC names
so that we *could* treat them with the schema-qualified-name code
path, that really isn't going to work in light of guc.c's willingness
to allow more than two name components.)
Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker and Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/445692.1644018081@sss.pgh.pa.us
Commit 6a2a70a02 supposed that any platform having <sys/epoll.h>
would also have <sys/signalfd.h>. It turns out there are still a
few people using platforms where that's not so, so we'd better make
a separate configure probe for it. But since it took this long to
notice, I'm content with the decision to not have a separate code
path for epoll-only machines; we'll just fall back to using poll()
for these stragglers.
Per gripe from Gabriela Serventi. Back-patch to v14 where this
code came in.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHOHWE-JjJDfcYuLAAEO7Jk07atFAU47z8TzHzg71gbC0aMy=g@mail.gmail.com
ReadStr returns allocated memory which the caller is responsible for
freeing when done with the string. This commit ensures that memory is
freed in one case which used ReadStr in a conditional. While the leak
might not be too concerning, this makes the code consistent across all
ReadStr callsites in ReadToc. Due to the lack of complaints of issues
in production from this, no backpatch is performed at this point.
Author: Bharath Rupireddy, Georgios Kokolatos
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/oZwKiUxFsVaetG2xOJp7Hwao8F1AKIdfFDQLNJrnwoaxmjyB-45r_aYmhgXHKLcMI3GT24m9L6HafSi2ns7WFxXe0mw2_tIJpD-Z3vb_eyI=@pm.me
This script has existed for a long time, and attempting to run it today
causes a lot of false positives as an effect of GUCs added in the last
couple of years. An equivalent, automatically-run and cross-platform
solution is available in the TAP test introduced in b0a55f4. So, let it
go.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/Yf9YGSwPiMu0c7fP@paquier.xyz
src/backend/utils/misc/check_guc is a script that cross-checks the
consistency of the GUCs with postgresql.conf.sample, making sure that
its format is in line with what guc.c has. It has never been run
automatically, and has rotten over the years, creating a lot of false
positives as per a report from Justin Pryzby.
d10e41d has introduced a SQL function to publish the most relevant flags
associated to a GUC, with tests added in the main regression test suite
to make sure that we avoid most of the inconsistencies in the GUC
settings, based on recent reports, but there was nothing able to
cross-check postgresql.conf.sample with the contents of guc.c.
This commit adds a TAP test that covers the remaining gap. It emulates
the most relevant checks that check_guc does, so as any format mistakes
are detected in postgresql.conf.sample at development stage, with the
following checks:
- Check that parameters marked as NOT_IN_SAMPLE are not in the sample
file.
- Check that there are no dead entries in postgresql.conf.sample for
parameters not marked as NOT_IN_SAMPLE.
- Check that no parameters are missing from the sample file if listed in
guc.c without NOT_IN_SAMPLE.
The idea of building a list of the GUCs by parsing the sample file comes
from Justin, and he wrote the regex used in the patch to find all the
GUCs (this same formatting rule basically applies for the last 20~ years
or so). In order to test this patch, I have played with manual
modifications of postgresql.conf.sample and guc.c, making sure that we
detect problems with the GUC rules and the sample file format.
The test is located in src/test/modules/test_misc, which is the best
location I could think about for such sanity checks.
Reviewed-by: Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/Yf9YGSwPiMu0c7fP@paquier.xyz
Recent versions of Devel::PPPort try to redefine eval_pv() to
dodge a bug in pre-5.31 Perl versions. Unfortunately the redefinition
fails on compilers that don't support statements nested within
expressions. However, we aren't actually interested in this bug fix,
since we always call eval_pv() with croak_on_error = FALSE.
So, until there's an upstream fix for this breakage, just comment
out the macro to revert to the older behavior.
Per report from Wei Sun, as well as previous buildfarm failure
on pademelon (which I'd unfortunately not looked at carefully
enough to understand the cause). Back-patch to all supported
versions, since we're using the same ppport.h in all.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/tencent_2EFCC8BA0107B6EC0F97179E019A8A43C806@qq.com
Report: https://buildfarm.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=pademelon&dt=2022-02-02%2001%3A22%3A58
Previously, it was really easy to write code that accessed MaxBackends
before we'd actually initialized it, especially when coding up an
extension. To make this less error-prune, introduce a new function
GetMaxBackends() which should be used to obtain the correct value.
This will ERROR if called too early. Demote the global variable to
a file-level static, so that nobody can peak at it directly.
Nathan Bossart. Idea by Andres Freund. Review by Greg Sabino Mullane,
by Michael Paquier (who had doubts about the approach), and by me.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/20210802224204.bckcikl45uezv5e4@alap3.anarazel.de
Rename create_function_0 to create_function_c, and create_function_3
to create_function_sql, to establish their charters more clearly.
This should also reduce confusion versus our underscore-digit
convention for naming variant expected-files.
I separated this from the previous commit on the premise that keeping
the renaming distinct might make "git blame" tracking easier.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1114748.1640383217@sss.pgh.pa.us
The idea behind this patch is to make it possible to run individual
test scripts without running the entire core test suite. Making all
the scripts completely independent would involve a massive rewrite,
and would probably be worse for coverage of things like concurrent DDL.
So this patch just does what seems practical with limited changes.
The net effect is that any test script can be run after running
limited earlier dependencies:
* all scripts depend on test_setup
* many scripts depend on create_index
* other dependencies are few in number, and are documented in
the parallel_schedule file.
To accomplish this, I chose a small number of commonly-used tables
and moved their creation and filling into test_setup. Later scripts
are expected not to modify these tables' data contents, for fear of
affecting other scripts' results. Also, our former habit of declaring
all C functions in one place is now gone in favor of declaring them
where they're used, if that's just one script, or in test_setup if
necessary.
There's more that could be done to remove some of the remaining
inter-script dependencies, but significantly more-invasive changes
would be needed, and at least for now it doesn't seem worth it.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1114748.1640383217@sss.pgh.pa.us
The GiST sorted build currently chooses split points according to the only page
space utilization. That may lead to higher non-leaf keys overlap and, in turn,
slower search query answers.
This commit makes the sorted build use the opclass's picksplit method. Once
four pages at the level are accumulated, the picksplit method is applied until
each split partition fits the page. Some of our split algorithms could show
significant performance degradation while processing 4-times more data at once.
But those opclasses haven't received the sorted build support and shouldn't
receive it before their split algorithms are improved.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHqSB9jqtS94e9%3D0vxqQX5dxQA89N95UKyz-%3DA7Y%2B_YJt%2BVW5A%40mail.gmail.com
Author: Aliaksandr Kalenik, Sergei Shoulbakov, Andrey Borodin
Reviewed-by: Björn Harrtell, Darafei Praliaskouski, Andres Freund
Reviewed-by: Alexander Korotkov
Most calls of rmtree() report an error, and the code coming from 38bfae3
has introduced one caller where this is not done. The previous behavior
was to not fail hard if any log file generated is not properly unlinked
when cleaning up the contents generated once the upgrade has completed,
so add a cast to (void) to indicate the intention behind this new code.
Per gripe from Coverity.
Historically, the location of any files generated by pg_upgrade, as of
the per-database logs and internal dumps, has been the current working
directory, leaving all those files behind when using --retain or on a
failure.
Putting all those contents in a targeted subdirectory makes the whole
easier to debug, and simplifies the code in charge of cleaning up the
logs. Note that another reason is that this facilitates the move of
pg_upgrade to TAP with a fixed location for all the logs to grab if the
test fails repeatedly.
Initially, we thought about being able to specify the output directory
with a new option, but we have settled on using a subdirectory located
at the root of the new cluster's data folder, "pg_upgrade_output.d",
instead, as at the end the new data directory is the location of all the
data generated by pg_upgrade. There is a take with group permissions
here though: if the new data folder has been initialized with this
option, we need to create all the files and paths with the correct
permissions or a base backup taken after a pg_upgrade --retain would
fail, meaning that GetDataDirectoryCreatePerm() has to be called before
creating the log paths, before a couple of sanity checks on the clusters
and before getting the socket directory for the cluster's host settings.
The idea of the new location is based on a suggestion from Peter
Eisentraut.
Also thanks to Andrew Dunstan, Peter Eisentraut, Daniel Gustafsson, Tom
Lane and Bruce Momjian for the discussion (in alphabetical order).
Author: Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20211212025017.GN17618@telsasoft.com
A very well-informed user might deduce this from what we said already,
but I'd bet against it. Lay it out explicitly.
While here, rewrite the comment about tuple routing to be more
intelligible to an average SQL user.
Per bug #17395 from Alexander Lakhin. Back-patch to v11. (The text
in this area is different in v10 and I'm not sufficiently excited
about this point to adapt the patch.)
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17395-8c326292078d1a57@postgresql.org
There are two Asserts in nodeMergejoin.c that are reachable if
the input data is not in the expected order. This seems way too
fragile. Alexander Lakhin reported a case where the assertions
could be triggered with misconfigured foreign-table partitions,
and bitter experience with unstable operating system collation
definitions suggests another easy route to hitting them. Neither
Assert is in a place where we can't afford one more test-and-branch,
so replace 'em with plain test-and-elog logic.
Per bug #17395. While the reported symptom is relatively recent,
collation changes could happen anytime, so back-patch to all
supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17395-8c326292078d1a57@postgresql.org
This function converts a byte position to a character position after
a successful string match. Rather than calling pg_mblen() in a loop,
use pg_mbstrlen_with_len() since the latter can inline its own call to
pg_mblen(). When the string match is at the end of the haystack text, this
change results in 10-20% performance improvement, depending on platform and
typical character length in bytes. This also simplifies the code a little.
Specializing for UTF-8 could result in further improvement, but the
performance gain was not found to be reliable between platforms. The modest
gain in this commit is stable between platforms and usable by all server
encodings.
Discussion:
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAFBsxsH1Yutrmu+6LLHKK8iXY+vG--Do6zN+2900spHXQNNQKQ@mail.gmail.com
Tested with LLVM 11, LLVM 13 and LLVM's main branch at commit
8d8fce87bbd5. There are still some deprecation warnings that will need
to be sorted out, but this may be enough to turn "seawasp" green again.
Like commit e6a76002, done on master only for now.
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKG%2B3Ac3He9_SpJcxeiiVknbcES1tbZEkH9sRBdJFGj8K5Q%40mail.gmail.com
Fix the following issues in pgoutput.c:
* rel_sync_cache_relation_cb does the wrong thing when called for a cache
flush (i.e., relid == 0). Instead of invalidating all RelationSyncCache
entries as it should, it does nothing.
* When rel_sync_cache_relation_cb does invalidate an entry, it immediately
zaps the entry->map structure, even though that might still be in use. We
instead just mark the entry as invalid and rebuild it at a later safe
point.
* Similarly, rel_sync_cache_publication_cb is way too eager to reset the
pubactions flags, which would likely lead to failing to transmit changes
that we should transmit. In this case also, we just mark the entry as
invalid and rebuild it at a later safe point.
Author: Tom Lane
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/885288.1641420714@sss.pgh.pa.us
Running a shell command for each file to be archived has a lot of
overhead and may not offer as much error checking as you want, or the
exact semantics that you want. So, offer the option to call a loadable
module for each file to be archived, rather than running a shell command.
Also, add a 'basic_archive' contrib module as an example implementation
that archives to a local directory.
Nathan Bossart, with a little bit of kibitzing by me.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/20220202224433.GA1036711@nathanxps13
Andres Freund