The need for this was missed in commit 93db6cbda, with the result
being that if we launch a slotsync worker it would consume one of
the PGPROCs in the max_connections pool. That could lead to inability
to launch the worker, or to subsequent failures of connection requests
that should have succeeded according to the configured settings.
Rather than create some one-off infrastructure to support this,
let's group the slotsync worker with the existing autovac launcher
in a new category of "special worker" processes. These are kind of
like auxiliary processes, but they cannot use that infrastructure
because they need to be able to run transactions.
For the moment, make these processes share the PGPROC freelist
used for autovac workers (which previously supplied the autovac
launcher too). This is partly to avoid an ABI change in v17,
and partly because it seems silly to have a freelist with
at most two members. This might be worth revisiting if we grow
enough workers in this category.
Tom Lane and Hou Zhijie. Back-patch to v17.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1808397.1735156190@sss.pgh.pa.us
Previously, if an infinite value was passed to date_trunc(), then the
same infinite value would always be returned regardless of the field
unit given by the caller. This commit updates the function so that an
error is returned when an invalid unit is passed to date_trunc() with an
infinite value.
This matches the behavior of date_trunc() with a finite value and
date_part() with an infinite value, making the handling of interval,
timestamp and timestamptz more consistent across the board for these two
functions.
Some tests are added to cover all these new failure cases, with an
unsupported unit and infinite values for the three data types. There
were no test cases in core that checked all these patterns up to now.
Author: Joseph Koshakow
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAvxfHc4084dGzEJR0_pBZkDuqbPGc5wn7gK_M0XR_kRiCdUJQ@mail.gmail.com
Trying to clean up the code a bit while we're working on these files
for the reentrant scanner/pure parser patches. This cleanup only
touches the code sections after the second '%%' in each file, via a
manually-supervised and locally hacked up pgindent.
Use the flex %option reentrant to make the generated scanner
reentrant and thread-safe. Note: The parser was already pure.
Simplify flex scan buffer management: Instead of constructing the
buffer from pieces and then using yy_scan_buffer(), we can just use
yy_scan_string(), which does the same thing internally. (Actually, we
use yy_scan_bytes() here because we already have the length.)
Use flex yyextra to handle context information, instead of global
variables. This complements the other changes to make the scanner
reentrant.
Reviewed-by: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Karlsson <andreas@proxel.se>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/eb6faeac-2a8a-4b69-9189-c33c520e5b7b@eisentraut.org
Per git log, the last time someone tried to do something with
pgrminclude was around 2011. Many (not all) of the "pgrminclude
ignore" annotations are of a newer date but seem to have just been
copied around during refactorings and file moves and don't seem to
reflect an actual need anymore.
There have been some parallel experiments with include-what-you-use
(IWYU) annotations, but these don't seem to correspond very strongly
to pgrminclude annotations, so there is no value in keeping the
existing ones even for that kind of thing.
So, wipe them all away. We can always add new ones in the future
based on actual needs.
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/2d4dc7b2-cb2e-49b1-b8ca-ba5f7024f05b%40eisentraut.org
A historic snapshot should only be used for catalog access, not
general queries. We never call GetTransactionSnapshot() during logical
decoding, which is good because it wouldn't be very sensible, so the
code to deal with that was unreachable and untested. Turn it into an
error, to avoid doing that in the future either.
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/a868fe78-ddb4-4b0a-9b96-873d91d93cfd@iki.fi
In get_database_list() and get_subscription_list(), the
GetTransactionSnapshot() call is not required because the catalog
table scans use the catalog snapshot, which is held until the end of
the scan. See table_beginscan_catalog(), which calls
RegisterSnapshot(GetCatalogSnapshot(relid)).
In InitPostgres, it's a little less obvious that it's not required,
but still true I believe. All the catalog lookups in InitPostgres()
also use the catalog snapshot, and the looked up values are copied
while still holding the snapshot.
Furthermore, as the removed FIXME comments said, calling
GetTransactionSnapshot() didn't really prevent MyProc->xmin from being
reset anyway.
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/7c56f180-b9e1-481e-8c1d-efa63de3ecbb@iki.fi
Jian He reported the src/include/utility/tcop.h one and the remainder
were found by using a script to look for src/* and check that we have a
filename or directory of that name.
In passing, fix some out-date comments.
Reported-by: Jian He <jian.universality@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CACJufxGoE3H-7VgO02=PrR4SNuVWDVbfTyUnwO0HvS-Lxurnog@mail.gmail.com
Library unloading has never been supported with its code removed in
ab02d702ef, and there were some comments still mentioning that it was
a possible operation.
ChangAo has noticed the incorrect references in dfmgr.c, while I have
noticed the other ones while scanning the rest of the tree for similar
mistakes.
Author: ChangAo Chen, Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/tencent_1D09840A1632D406A610C8C4E2491D74DB0A@qq.com
GetSnapshotData() set TransactionXmin = MyProc->xmin, but when
SnapshotResetXmin() advanced MyProc->xmin, it did not advance
TransactionXmin correspondingly. That meant that TransactionXmin could
be older than MyProc->xmin, and XIDs between than TransactionXmin and
the real MyProc->xmin could be vacuumed away. One known consequence is
in pg_subtrans lookups: we might try to look up the status of an XID
that was already truncated away.
Back-patch to all supported versions.
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/d27a046d-a1e4-47d1-a95c-fbabe41debb4@iki.fi
The new compact_attrs array stores a few select fields from
FormData_pg_attribute in a more compact way, using only 16 bytes per
column instead of the 104 bytes that FormData_pg_attribute uses. Using
CompactAttribute allows performance-critical operations such as tuple
deformation to be performed without looking at the FormData_pg_attribute
element in TupleDesc which means fewer cacheline accesses.
For some workloads, tuple deformation can be the most CPU intensive part
of processing the query. Some testing with 16 columns on a table
where the first column is variable length showed around a 10% increase in
transactions per second for an OLAP type query performing aggregation on
the 16th column. However, in certain cases, the increases were much
higher, up to ~25% on one AMD Zen4 machine.
This also makes pg_attribute.attcacheoff redundant. A follow-on commit
will remove it, thus shrinking the FormData_pg_attribute struct by 4
bytes.
Author: David Rowley
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund, Victor Yegorov
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvrBztXP3yx=NKNmo3xwFAFhEdyPnvrDg3=M0RhDs+4vYw@mail.gmail.com
This adds a new variable-numbered statistics kind in pgstats, where the
object ID key of the stats entries is based on the proc number of the
backends. This acts as an upper-bound for the number of stats entries
that can exist at once. The entries are created when a backend starts
after authentication succeeds, and are removed when the backend exits,
making the stats entry exist for as long as their backend is up and
running. These are not written to the pgstats file at shutdown (note
that write_to_file is disabled, as a safety measure).
Currently, these stats include only information about the I/O generated
by a backend, using the same layer as pg_stat_io, except that it is now
possible to know how much activity is happening in each backend rather
than an overall aggregate of all the activity. A function called
pg_stat_get_backend_io() is added to access this data depending on the
PID of a backend. The existing structure could be expanded in the
future to add more information about other statistics related to
backends, depending on requirements or ideas.
Auxiliary processes are not included in this set of statistics. These
are less interesting to have than normal backends as they have dedicated
entries in pg_stat_io, and stats kinds of their own.
This commit includes also pg_stat_reset_backend_stats(), function able
to reset all the stats associated to a single backend.
Bump catalog version and PGSTAT_FILE_FORMAT_ID.
Author: Bertrand Drouvot
Reviewed-by: Álvaro Herrera, Kyotaro Horiguchi, Michael Paquier, Nazir
Bilal Yavuz
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ZtXR+CtkEVVE/LHF@ip-10-97-1-34.eu-west-3.compute.internal
This commit adds pg_stat_io_build_tuples(), a helper routine for
pg_stat_get_io(), that fills its result tuplestore based on the contents
of PgStat_BktypeIO. This will be used in a follow-up commit that uses
the same structures as pg_stat_io for reporting, including the same
object types and contexts, but for a different statistics kind.
Author: Bertrand Drouvot, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ZtXR+CtkEVVE/LHF@ip-10-97-1-34.eu-west-3.compute.internal
There's no need for set_simple_column_names() to compute unique
column names for join RTEs, because a finished plan tree will
not contain any join alias Vars that we could need names for.
Its other, internal callers will not pass it any join RTEs
anyway, so the upshot is we can just skip join RTEs here.
Aside from getting rid of a klugy against-its-documentation use of
set_relation_column_names, this can speed up EXPLAIN substantially
when considering many-join queries, because the upper join RTEs
tend to have a lot of columns.
Sami Imseih, with cosmetic changes by me
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAA5RZ0th3q-0p1pri58z9grG8r8azmEBa8o1rtkwhLmJg_cH+g@mail.gmail.com
Previously we did this in PostmasterMain() and InitPostmasterChild(),
which meant that stack depth checking was disabled in non-postmaster
server processes, for instance in single-user mode. That seems like
a fairly bad idea, since there's no a-priori restriction on the
complexity of queries we will run in single-user mode. Moreover, this
led to not having quite the same stack depth limit in all processes,
which likely has no real-world effect but it offends my inner neatnik.
Setting the depth in main() guarantees that check_stack_depth() is
armed and has a consistent interpretation of stack depth in all forms
of server processes.
While at it, move the code associated with checking the stack depth
out of tcop/postgres.c (which was never a great home for it) into
a new file src/backend/utils/misc/stack_depth.c.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2081982.1734393311@sss.pgh.pa.us
These do the same thing as the standard isdigit(), isspace(), and
isprint() but with multibyte and encoding support. But all the
callers are only interested in analyzing single-byte ASCII characters.
So this extra layer is overkill and we can replace the uses with the
standard functions.
All the t_is*() functions in ts_locale.c are under scrutiny because
they don't use the common locale provider framework but instead use
the global libc locale settings. For the functions being touched by
this patch, we don't need all that anyway, as mentioned above, so the
simplest solution is to just remove them. The few remaining t_is*()
functions will need a different treatment in a separate patch.
pg_trgm has some compile-time options with macros such as
KEEPONLYALNUM. These are not documented, and the non-default variant
is not supported by any test cases. As part of this undertaking, I'm
removing the non-default variant, as it is in the way of cleanup. So
in this case, the not-KEEPONLYALNUM code path is gone.
Reviewed-by: Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/653f3b84-fc87-45a7-9a0c-bfb4fcab3e7d%40eisentraut.org
Create API entry points pg_strlower(), etc., that work with any
provider and give the caller control over the destination
buffer. Then, move provider-specific logic into pg_locale_builtin.c,
pg_locale_icu.c, and pg_locale_libc.c as appropriate.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/7aa46d77b377428058403723440862d12a8a129a.camel@j-davis.com
I went through the buildfarm's reports of "warning: variable 'foo'
might be clobbered by 'longjmp' or 'vfork' [-Wclobbered]". As usual,
none of them are live problems according to my understanding of the
effects of setjmp/longjmp, to wit that local variables might revert
to their values as of PG_TRY entry, due to being kept in registers.
But I did happen to notice that XmlTableGetValue's "cstr" variable
doesn't need to be declared outside the PG_TRY block at all (thus
giving further proof that the -Wclobbered warning has little
connection to real problems). We might as well move it inside,
and "cur" too, in hopes of eliminating one of the bogus warnings.
POSIX says that the global variable environ shouldn't be declared in a
header, and that you have to declare it yourself. MinGW declares it in
<stdlib.h> with some macrology that messes up our declarations. Visual
Studio doesn't warn (there are clues that it may also declare it, but if
so, apparently compatibly). Suppress our declarations, on MinGW only.
This clears the last warnings on CI's optional MinGW task, and hopefully
on build farm animal fairywren too.
Like 1319997d, no back-patch for now as it's not known to be breaking
anything, and my humble goal is just to keep the MinGW build clean going
forward.
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> (earlier version)
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGJLMh%2B6W5E4M_jSFb43gnrA_-Q6-%2BBf3HkBXyGfRFcBsQ%40mail.gmail.com
This commit introduces the uuidv7() SQL function, which generates UUID
version 7 as specified in RFC 9652. UUIDv7 combines a Unix timestamp
in milliseconds and random bits, offering both uniqueness and
sortability.
In our implementation, the 12-bit sub-millisecond timestamp fraction
is stored immediately after the timestamp, in the space referred to as
"rand_a" in the RFC. This ensures additional monotonicity within a
millisecond. The rand_a bits also function as a counter. We select a
sub-millisecond timestamp so that it monotonically increases for
generated UUIDs within the same backend, even when the system clock
goes backward or when generating UUIDs at very high
frequency. Therefore, the monotonicity of generated UUIDs is ensured
within the same backend.
This commit also expands the uuid_extract_timestamp() function to
support UUID version 7.
Additionally, an alias uuidv4() is added for the existing
gen_random_uuid() SQL function to maintain consistency.
Bump catalog version.
Author: Andrey Borodin
Reviewed-by: Sergey Prokhorenko, Przemysław Sztoch, Nikolay Samokhvalov
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut, Jelte Fennema-Nio, Aleksander Alekseev
Reviewed-by: Masahiko Sawada, Lukas Fittl, Michael Paquier, Japin Li
Reviewed-by: Marcos Pegoraro, Junwang Zhao, Stepan Neretin
Reviewed-by: Daniel Vérité
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAhFRxitJv%3DyoGnXUgeLB_O%2BM7J2BJAmb5jqAT9gZ3bij3uLDA%40mail.gmail.com
There are a few places in this file that use memset() and memcmp()
to determine whether a section of memory is all zeros. This commit
modifies them to use pg_memory_is_all_zeros() instead. These
aren't expected to be hot code paths, but this may optimize them a
bit. Plus, this allows us to remove some variables that were only
needed for the memset() and memcmp().
Author: Bertrand Drouvot
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/Z1hNubHfvMxlW6eu%40ip-10-97-1-34.eu-west-3.compute.internal
This commit makes use of the overflow-aware routines in int.h to
fix a variety of reported overflow bugs in the date and timestamp
code. It seems unlikely that this fixes all such bugs in this
area, but since the problems seem limited to cases that are far
beyond any realistic usage, I'm not going to worry too much. Note
that for one bug, I've chosen to simply add a comment about the
overflow hazard because fixing it would require quite a bit of code
restructuring that doesn't seem worth the risk.
Since this is a bug fix, it could be back-patched, but given the
risk of conflicts with the new routines in int.h and the overall
risk/reward ratio of this patch, I've opted not to do so for now.
Fixes bug #18585 (except for the one case that's just commented).
Reported-by: Alexander Lakhin
Author: Matthew Kim, Nathan Bossart
Reviewed-by: Joseph Koshakow, Jian He
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/31ad2cd1-db94-bdb3-f91a-65ffdb4bef95%40gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18585-db646741dd649abd%40postgresql.org
Remove the 'whenTaken' and 'lsn' fields from SnapshotData. After the
removal of the "snapshot too old" feature, they were never set to a
non-zero value.
This largely reverts commit 3e2f3c2e42, which added the
OldestActiveSnapshot tracking, and the init_toast_snapshot()
function. That was only required for setting the 'whenTaken' and 'lsn'
fields. SnapshotToast is now a constant again, like SnapshotSelf and
SnapshotAny. I kept a thin get_toast_snapshot() wrapper around
SnapshotToast though, to check that you have a registered or active
snapshot. That's still a useful sanity check.
Reviewed-by: Nathan Bossart, Andres Freund, Tom Lane
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/cd4b4f8c-e63a-41c0-95f6-6e6cd9b83f6d@iki.fi
pgstat_write_statsfile() discards any entries marked as dropped from
being written to the stats file at shutdown, and also included an
assertion based on the same condition.
The intention of the assertion is to track that no pgstats entries
should be left around as terminating backends should drop any entries
they still hold references on before the stats file is written by the
checkpointer, and it not worth taking down the server in this case if
there is a bug making that possible.
Let's improve the comment of this area to document clearly what's
intended.
Based on a discussion with Bertrand Drouvot and Anton A. Melnikov.
Author: Bertrand Drouvot
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a13e8cdf-b97a-4ecb-8f42-aaa367974e29@postgrespro.ru
Backpatch-through: 15
818119afcc has introduced the "generation" concept in pgstats entries,
incremented a counter when a pgstats entry is reinitialized, but it did
not count on the fact that backends still holding local references to
such entries need to be refreshed if the cache age is outdated. The
previous logic only updated local references when an entry was dropped,
but it needs also to consider entries that are reinitialized.
This matters for replication slot stats (as well as custom pgstats kinds
in 18~), where concurrent drops and creates of a slot could cause
incorrect stats to be locally referenced. This would lead to an
assertion failure at shutdown when writing out the stats file, as the
backend holding an outdated local reference would not be able to drop
during its shutdown sequence the stats entry that should be dropped, as
the last process holding a reference to the stats entry. The
checkpointer was then complaining about such an entry late in the
shutdown sequence, after the shutdown checkpoint is finished with the
control file updated, causing the stats file to not be generated. In
non-assert builds, the entry would just be skipped with the stats file
written.
Note that only logical replication slots use statistics.
A test case based on TAP is added to test_decoding, where a persistent
connection peeking at a slot's data is kept with concurrent drops and
creates of the same slot. This is based on the isolation test case that
Anton has sent. As it requires a node shutdown with a check to make
sure that the stats file is written with this specific sequence of
events, TAP is used instead.
Reported-by: Anton A. Melnikov
Reviewed-by: Bertrand Drouvot
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/56bf8ff9-dd8c-47b2-872a-748ede82af99@postgrespro.ru
Backpatch-through: 15
These format codes produce or consume strings of digits, so they
should be labeled with is_digit = true, but they were not.
This has effect in only one place, where is_next_separator()
is checked to see if the preceding format code should slurp up
all the available digits. Thus, with a format such as '...SSFF3'
with remaining input '12345', the 'SS' code would consume all
five digits (and then complain about seconds being out of range)
when it should eat only two digits.
Per report from Nick Davies. This bug goes back to d589f9446
where the FFn codes were introduced, so back-patch to v13.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/AM8PR08MB6356AC979252CFEA78B56678B6312@AM8PR08MB6356.eurprd08.prod.outlook.com
Ensure stored generated columns that are part of REPLICA IDENTITY must be
published explicitly for UPDATE and DELETE operations to be published. We
can publish generated columns by listing them in the column list or by
enabling the publish_generated_columns option.
This commit changes the behavior of the test added in commit adedf54e65 by
giving an ERROR for the UPDATE operation in such cases. There is no way to
trigger the bug reported in commit adedf54e65 but we didn't remove the
corresponding code change because it is still relevant when replicating
changes from a publisher with version less than 18.
We decided not to backpatch this behavior change to avoid the risk of
breaking existing output plugins that may be sending generated columns by
default although we are not aware of any such plugin. Also, we didn't see
any reports related to this on STABLE branches which is another reason not
to backpatch this change.
Author: Shlok Kyal, Hou Zhijie
Reviewed-by: Vignesh C, Amit Kapila
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CANhcyEVw4V2Awe2AB6i0E5AJLNdASShGfdBLbUd1XtWDboymCA@mail.gmail.com
The new compact_attrs array stores a few select fields from
FormData_pg_attribute in a more compact way, using only 16 bytes per
column instead of the 104 bytes that FormData_pg_attribute uses. Using
CompactAttribute allows performance-critical operations such as tuple
deformation to be performed without looking at the FormData_pg_attribute
element in TupleDesc which means fewer cacheline accesses. With this
change, NAMEDATALEN could be increased with a much smaller negative impact
on performance.
For some workloads, tuple deformation can be the most CPU intensive part
of processing the query. Some testing with 16 columns on a table
where the first column is variable length showed around a 10% increase in
transactions per second for an OLAP type query performing aggregation on
the 16th column. However, in certain cases, the increases were much
higher, up to ~25% on one AMD Zen4 machine.
This also makes pg_attribute.attcacheoff redundant. A follow-on commit
will remove it, thus shrinking the FormData_pg_attribute struct by 4
bytes.
Author: David Rowley
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvrBztXP3yx=NKNmo3xwFAFhEdyPnvrDg3=M0RhDs+4vYw@mail.gmail.com
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund, Victor Yegorov
MD5 has been considered to be unsuitable for use as a cryptographic
hash algorithm for some time. Furthermore, MD5 password hashes in
PostgreSQL are vulnerable to pass-the-hash attacks, i.e., knowing
the username and hashed password is sufficient to authenticate.
The SCRAM-SHA-256 method added in v10 is not subject to these
problems and is considered to be superior to MD5.
This commit marks MD5 password support in PostgreSQL as deprecated
and to be removed in a future release. The documentation now
contains several deprecation notices, and CREATE ROLE and ALTER
ROLE now emit deprecation warnings when setting MD5 passwords. The
warnings can be disabled by setting the md5_password_warnings
parameter to "off".
Reviewed-by: Greg Sabino Mullane, Jim Nasby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ZwbfpJJol7lDWajL%40nathan
According to the SQL standard, if the referential action RESTRICT is
triggered, it has its own error code. We previously didn't use that,
we just used the error code for foreign key violation. But RESTRICT
is not necessarily an actual foreign key violation. The foreign key
might still be satisfied in theory afterwards, but the RESTRICT
setting prevents the action even then. So it's a separate kind of
error condition.
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/ea5b2777-266a-46fa-852f-6fca6ec480ad@eisentraut.org
Some lines were indented by an inconsistent number of spaces. While
we're here, also fix some code that used the newline after left
parenthesis style, which is obsolete.
The C standard says that sizeof(bool) is implementation-defined, but we
know of no current systems where it is not 1. The last known systems
seem to have been Apple macOS/PowerPC 10.5 and Microsoft Visual C++ 4,
both long defunct.
PostgreSQL has always required sizeof(bool) == 1 for the definition of
bool that it used, but previously it would define its own type if the
system-provided bool had a different size. That was liable to cause
memory layout problems when interacting with system and third-party
libraries on (by now hypothetical) computers with wider _Bool, and now
C23 has introduced a new problem by making bool a built-in datatype
(like C++), so the fallback code doesn't even compile. We could
probably work around that, but then we'd be writing new untested code
for a computer that doesn't exist.
Instead, delete the unreachable and C23-uncompilable fallback code, and
let existing static assertions fail if the system-provided bool is too
wide. If we ever get a problem report from a real system, then it will
be time to figure out what to do about it in a way that also works on
modern compilers.
Note on C++: Previously we avoided including <stdbool.h> or trying to
define a new bool type in headers that might be included by C++ code.
These days we might as well just include <stdbool.h> unconditionally:
it should be visible to C++11 but do nothing, just as in C23. We
already include <stdint.h> without C++ guards in c.h, and that falls
under the same C99-compatibility section of the C++11 standard as
<stdbool.h>, so let's remove the guards here too.
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3198438.1731895163%40sss.pgh.pa.us
They were all missing punctuation, one was missing initial capital.
Per our message style guidelines.
No backpatch, to avoid breaking existing translations.
Commit ccd38024bc, which introduced the pg_signal_autovacuum_worker
role, added a call to pgstat_get_beentry_by_proc_number() for the
purpose of determining whether the process is an autovacuum worker.
This function calls pgstat_read_current_status(), which can be
fairly expensive and may return cached, out-of-date information.
Since we just need to look up the target backend's BackendType, and
we already know its ProcNumber, we can instead inspect the
BackendStatusArray directly, which is much less expensive and
possibly more up-to-date. There are some caveats with this
approach (which are documented in the code), but it's still
substantially better than before.
Reported-by: Andres Freund
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ujenaa2uabzfkwxwmfifawzdozh3ljr7geozlhftsuosgm7n7q%40g3utqqyyosb6
Historically we tolerated the absence of various C runtime library
features for the benefit of the MinGW tool chain, because it used
ancient msvcrt.dll for a long period of time. It now uses ucrt by
default (like Windows 10+, Visual Studio 2015+), and that's the only
configuration we're testing.
In practice, we effectively required ucrt already in PostgreSQL 17, when
commit 8d9a9f03 required _create_locale etc, first available in
msvcr120.dll (Visual Studio 2013, the last of the pre-ucrt series of
runtimes), and for MinGW users that practically meant ucrt because it
was difficult or impossible to use msvcr120.dll. That may even not have
been the first such case, but old MinGW configurations had already
dropped off our testing radar so we weren't paying much attention.
This commit formalizes the requirement. It also removes a couple of
obsolete comments that discussed msvcrt.dll limitations, and some tests
of !defined(_MSC_VER) to imply msvcrt.dll. There are many more
anachronisms, but it'll take some time to figure out how to remove them
all. APIs affected relate to locales, UTF-8, threads, large files and
more.
Thanks to Peter Eisentraut for the documentation change. It's not
really necessary to talk about ucrt explicitly in such a short section,
since it's the default for MinGW-w64 and MSYS2. It's enough to prune
references and broken links to much older tools.
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/d9e7731c-ca1b-477c-9298-fa51e135574a%40eisentraut.org
This allows for example using LIKE with case-insensitive collations.
There was previously no internal implementation of this, so it was met
with a not-supported error. This adds the internal implementation and
removes the error. The implementation follows the specification of
the SQL standard for this.
Unlike with deterministic collations, the LIKE matching cannot go
character by character but has to go substring by substring. For
example, if we are matching against LIKE 'foo%bar', we can't start by
looking for an 'f', then an 'o', but instead with have to find
something that matches 'foo'. This is because the collation could
consider substrings of different lengths to be equal. This is all
internal to MatchText() in like_match.c.
The changes in GenericMatchText() in like.c just pass through the
locale information to MatchText(), which was previously not needed.
This matches exactly Generic_Text_IC_like() below.
ILIKE is not affected. (It's unclear whether ILIKE makes sense under
nondeterministic collations.)
This also updates match_pattern_prefix() in like_support.c to support
optimizing the case of an exact pattern with nondeterministic
collations. This was already alluded to in the previous code.
(includes documentation examples from Daniel Vérité and test cases
from Paul A Jungwirth)
Reviewed-by: Jian He <jian.universality@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/700d2e86-bf75-4607-9cf2-f5b7802f6e88@eisentraut.org
Tom Lane