The previous method for doing that was to write zeroes into a
predetermined set of page locations. However, there's a roughly
1-in-64K chance that the existing checksum will match by chance,
and yesterday several buildfarm animals started to reproducibly
see that, resulting in test failures because no checksum mismatch
was reported.
Since the checksum includes the page LSN, test success depends on
the length of the installation's WAL history, which is affected by
(at least) the initial catalog contents, the set of locales installed
on the system, and the length of the pathname of the test directory.
Sooner or later we were going to hit a chance match, and today is
that day.
Harden these tests by specifically inverting the checksum field and
leaving all else alone, thereby guaranteeing that the checksum is
incorrect.
In passing, fix places that were using seek() to set up for syswrite(),
a combination that the Perl docs very explicitly warn against. We've
probably escaped problems because no regular buffered I/O is done on
these filehandles; but if it ever breaks, we wouldn't deserve or get
much sympathy.
Although we've only seen problems in HEAD, now that we recognize the
environmental dependencies it seems like it might be just a matter
of time until someone manages to hit this in back-branch testing.
Hence, back-patch to v11 where we started doing this kind of test.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3192026.1648185780@sss.pgh.pa.us
Slow hosts may avoid load-induced, spurious failures by setting
environment variable PG_TEST_TIMEOUT_DEFAULT to some number of seconds
greater than 180. Developers may see faster failures by setting that
environment variable to some lesser number of seconds. In tests, write
$PostgreSQL::Test::Utils::timeout_default wherever the convention has
been to write 180. This change raises the default for some briefer
timeouts. Back-patch to v10 (all supported versions).
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220218052842.GA3627003@rfd.leadboat.com
Following migration of Windows buildfarm members running TAP tests to
use of ucrt64 perl for those tests, special processing for msys perl is
no longer necessary and so is removed.
Backpatch to release 10
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/c65a8781-77ac-ea95-d185-6db291e1baeb@dunslane.net
Commits 6c4a8903b et al. had a couple of deficiencies:
* The logic I added to Cluster::start to see if a PID file is present
could be fooled by a stale PID file left over from a previous
postmaster. To fix, if we're not sure whether we expect to find a
running postmaster or not, validate the PID using "kill 0".
* 017_shm.pl has a loop in which it just issues repeated Cluster::start
calls; this will fail if some invocation fails but leaves self->_pid
set. Per buildfarm results, the above fix is not enough to make this
safe: we might have "validated" a PID for a postmaster that exits
immediately after we look. Hence, match each failed start call with
a stop call that will get us back to the self->_pid == undef state.
Add a fail_ok option to Cluster::stop to make this work.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+hUKGKV6fOHvfiPt8=dOKzvswjAyLoFoJF1iQXMNpi7+hD1JQ@mail.gmail.com
"pg_ctl start" might start a new postmaster and then return failure
anyway, for example if PGCTLTIMEOUT is exceeded. If there is a
postmaster there, it's still incumbent on us to shut it down at
script end, so check for the PID file even though we are about
to fail.
This has been broken all along, so back-patch to all supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/647439.1642622744@sss.pgh.pa.us
Commits fdd965d07 and 3cd9c3b92 tested CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY by
launching two separate pgbench runs concurrently. This was needed so
that only a single client thread would run CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY,
avoiding deadlock between two CICs. However, there's a better way,
which is to use an advisory lock to prevent concurrent CICs. That's
better in part because the test code is shorter and more readable, but
mostly because it automatically scales things to launch an appropriate
number of CICs relative to the number of INSERT transactions.
As committed, typically half to three-quarters of the CIC transactions
were pointless because the INSERT transactions had already stopped.
In passing, remove background_pgbench, which was added to support
these tests and isn't needed anymore. We can always put it back
if we find a use for it later.
Back-patch to v12; older pgbench versions lack the
conditional-execution features needed for this method.
Tom Lane and Andrey Borodin
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/139687.1635277318@sss.pgh.pa.us
CIC and REINDEX CONCURRENTLY assume backends see their catalog changes
no later than each backend's next transaction start. That failed to
hold when a backend absorbed a relevant invalidation in the middle of
running RelationBuildDesc() on the CIC index. Queries that use the
resulting index can silently fail to find rows. Fix this for future
index builds by making RelationBuildDesc() loop until it finishes
without accepting a relevant invalidation. It may be necessary to
reindex to recover from past occurrences; REINDEX CONCURRENTLY suffices.
Back-patch to 9.6 (all supported versions).
Noah Misch and Andrey Borodin, reviewed (in earlier versions) by Andres
Freund.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210730022548.GA1940096@gust.leadboat.com
Several TAP tests use poll_query_until() to wait for the postmaster
to restart. They were checking to see if a trivial query
(e.g. "SELECT 1") succeeds. However, that's problematic in the wake
of commit 11e9caff8, because now that we feed said query to psql
via stdin, we risk IPC::Run whining about a SIGPIPE failure if psql
quits before reading the query. Hence, we can't use a nonempty
query in cases where we need to wait for connection failures to
stop happening.
Per the precedent of commits c757a3da0 and 6d41dd045, we can pass
"undef" as the query in such cases to ensure that IPC::Run has
nothing to write. However, then we have to say that the expected
output is empty, and this exposes a deficiency in poll_query_until:
if psql fails altogether and returns empty stdout, poll_query_until
will treat that as a success! That's because, contrary to its
documentation, it makes no actual check for psql failure, looking
neither at the exit status nor at stderr.
To fix that, adjust poll_query_until to insist on empty stderr as
well as a stdout match. (I experimented with checking exit status
instead, but it seems that psql often does exit(1) in cases that we
need to consider successes. That might be something to fix someday,
but it would be a non-back-patchable behavior change.)
Back-patch to v10. The test cases needing this exist only as far
back as v11, but it seems wise to keep poll_query_until's behavior
the same in v10, in case we back-patch another such test case in
future. (9.6 does not currently need this change, because in that
branch poll_query_until can't be told to accept empty stdout as
a success case.)
Per assorted buildfarm failures, mostly on hoverfly.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAA4eK1+zM6L4QSA1XMvXY_qqWwdUmqkOS1+hWvL8QcYEBGA1Uw@mail.gmail.com
The Msys shell mangles certain patterns in its command line, so avoid
handing arbitrary SQL to psql on the command line and instead use
IPC::Run's redirection facility for stdin. This pattern is already
mostly whats used, but query_poll_until() was not doing the right thing.
Problem discovered on the buildfarm when a new TAP test failed on msys.
Older versions of perl on Windows don't like the list form of pipe open,
and perlcritic doesn't like the string form of open, so we avoid both
with a simpler formulation using qx{}.
Per complaint from Amit Kapila.
Also "make reformat-dat-files".
The only change worthy of note is that pgindent messed up the formatting
of launcher.c's struct LogicalRepWorkerId, which led me to notice that
that struct wasn't used at all anymore, so I just took it out.
A new PostgresVersion object type is created and this is used in
PostgresNode using the output of `pg_config --version` and the result
stored in the PostgresNode object. This object can be compared to other
PostgresVersion objects, or to a number or string.
PostgresNode is currently believed to be compatible with versions down
to release 12, so PostgresNode will issue a warning if used with a
version prior to that.
No attempt has been made to deal with incompatibilities in older
versions - that remains work to be undertaken in a subsequent
development cycle.
Based on code from Mark Dilger and Jehan-Guillaume de Rorthais.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a80421c0-3d7e-def1-bcfe-24777f15e344@dunslane.net
Commit b34ca595ab provided for installation-aware instances of
PostgresNode. However, it turns out that IPC::Run works against this by
caching the path to a binary and not consulting the path again, even if
it has changed. We work around this by calling Postgres binaries with
the installed path rather than just a bare name to be looked up in the
environment path, if there is an installed path. For the common case
where there is no installed path we continue to use the bare command
name.
Diagnosis and solution from Mark Dilger
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E8F512F8-B4D6-4514-BA8D-2E671439DA92@enterprisedb.com
In order to avoid getting old logfile contents certain functions in
PostgresNode were doing one of two things. On Windows it rotated the
logfile and restarted the server, while elsewhere it truncated the log
file. Both of these are unnecessary. We borrow from the buildfarm which
does this instead: note the size of the logfile before we start, and
then when fetching the logfile skip to that position before accumulating
contents. This is spelled differently on Windows but the effect is the
same. This is largely centralized in TestLib's slurp_file function,
which has a new optional parameter, the offset to skip to before
starting to reading the file. Code in the client becomes much neater.
Backpatch to all live branches.
Michael Paquier, slightly modified by me.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/YHajnhcMAI3++pJL@paquier.xyz
The truncation of the log file, that this set of tests relies on to make
sure that a connection attempt matches with its expected backend log
pattern, fails, as reported by buildfarm member fairywren. Instead of a
truncation, do a rotation of the log file and restart the node. This
will ensure that the connection attempt data is unique for each test.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/YG05nCI8x8B+Ad3G@paquier.xyz
The "authenticated identity" is the string used by an authentication
method to identify a particular user. In many common cases, this is the
same as the PostgreSQL username, but for some third-party authentication
methods, the identifier in use may be shortened or otherwise translated
(e.g. through pg_ident user mappings) before the server stores it.
To help administrators see who has actually interacted with the system,
this commit adds the capability to store the original identity when
authentication succeeds within the backend's Port, and generates a log
entry when log_connections is enabled. The log entries generated look
something like this (where a local user named "foouser" is connecting to
the database as the database user called "admin"):
LOG: connection received: host=[local]
LOG: connection authenticated: identity="foouser" method=peer (/data/pg_hba.conf:88)
LOG: connection authorized: user=admin database=postgres application_name=psql
Port->authn_id is set according to the authentication method:
bsd: the PostgreSQL username (aka the local username)
cert: the client's Subject DN
gss: the user principal
ident: the remote username
ldap: the final bind DN
pam: the PostgreSQL username (aka PAM username)
password (and all pw-challenge methods): the PostgreSQL username
peer: the peer's pw_name
radius: the PostgreSQL username (aka the RADIUS username)
sspi: either the down-level (SAM-compatible) logon name, if
compat_realm=1, or the User Principal Name if compat_realm=0
The trust auth method does not set an authenticated identity. Neither
does clientcert=verify-full.
Port->authn_id could be used for other purposes, like a superuser-only
extra column in pg_stat_activity, but this is left as future work.
PostgresNode::connect_{ok,fails}() have been modified to let tests check
the backend log files for required or prohibited patterns, using the
new log_like and log_unlike parameters. This uses a method based on a
truncation of the existing server log file, like issues_sql_like().
Tests are added to the ldap, kerberos, authentication and SSL test
suites.
Author: Jacob Champion
Reviewed-by: Stephen Frost, Magnus Hagander, Tom Lane, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/c55788dd1773c521c862e8e0dddb367df51222be.camel@vmware.com
This type of failure is similar to what has been fixed in c757a3da,
where an authentication failure combined with psql pushing a command
down its communication pipe causes a test failure. This routine is
designed to fail, so sending a query has little sense anyway.
Per buildfarm members gaur and hoverfly, based on an analysis and fix
from Tom Lane.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/513200.1617634642@sss.pgh.pa.us
This commit refactors more TAP tests to adapt with the recent
introduction of connect_ok() and connect_fails() in PostgresNode,
introduced by 0d1a3343. This changes the following test suites to use
the same code paths for connection checks:
- Kerberos
- LDAP
- SSL
- Authentication
Those routines are extended to be able to handle optional parameters
that are set depending on each suite's needs, as of:
- custom SQL query.
- expected stderr matching pattern.
- expected stdout matching pattern.
The new design is extensible with more parameters, and there are some
plans for those routines in the future with checks based on the contents
of the backend logs.
Author: Jacob Champion, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/d17b919e27474abfa55d97786cb9cfadfe2b59e9.camel@vmware.com
test_connect_ok() and test_connect_fails() have always been part of the
SSL tests, and check if a connection to the backend should work or not,
and there are sanity checks done on specific error patterns dropped by
libpq if the connection fails.
This was fundamentally wrong on two aspects. First, SSLServer.pm works
mostly on setting up and changing the SSL configuration of a
PostgresNode, and has really nothing to do with the client. Second,
the situation became worse in light of b34ca595, where the SSL tests
would finish by using a psql command that may not come from the same
installation as the node set up.
This commit moves those client routines into PostgresNode, making easier
the refactoring of SSLServer to become more SSL-implementation aware.
This can also be reused by the ldap, kerberos and authentication test
suites for connection checks, and a follow-up patch should extend those
interfaces to match with backend log patterns.
Author: Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Andrew Dunstan, Daniel Gustafsson, Álvaro Herrera
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/YGLKNBf9zyh6+WSt@paquier.xyz
Currently instances of PostgresNode find their Postgres executables in
the PATH of the caller. This modification allows for instances that know
the installation path they are supposed to use, and the module adjusts
the environment of methods that call Postgres executables appropriately.
This facility is activated by passing the installation path to the
constructor:
my $node = PostgresNode->get_new_node('mynode',
installation_path => '/path/to/installation');
This makes a number of things substantially easier, including
. testing third party modules
. testing different versions of postgres together
. testing different builds of postgres together
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a94c74f9-6b71-1957-7973-a734ea3cbef1@dunslane.net
Reviewed-By: Alvaro Herrera, Michael Paquier, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker
The existing test script does run pg_basebackup with the -Ft option,
but it makes no real attempt to verify the sanity of the results.
We wouldn't know if the output is incompatible with standard "tar"
programs, nor if the server fails to start from the restored output.
Notably, this means that xlog.c's read_tablespace_map() is not being
meaningfully tested, since that code is used only in the tar-format
case. (We do have reasonable coverage of restoring from plain-format
output, though it's over in src/test/recovery not here.)
Hence, attempt to untar the output and start a server from it,
rather just hoping it's OK.
This test assumes that the local "tar" has the "-C directory"
switch. Although that's not promised by POSIX, my research
suggests that all non-extinct tar implementations have it.
Should the buildfarm's opinion differ, we can complicate the
test a bit to avoid requiring that.
Possibly this should be back-patched, but I'm unsure about
whether it could work on Windows before d66b23b03.
Commit 151c0c5f7 neglected the possibility that a TEMP_CONFIG file
would explicitly set max_wal_senders=0; as indeed buildfarm member
thorntail does, so that it can test wal_level=minimal in other test
suites. Hence, rather than assuming that max_wal_senders=10 will
prevail if we say nothing, set it explicitly.
Set max_replication_slots=10 explicitly too, just to be safe.
Back-patch to v10, like the previous patch.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/723911.1601417626@sss.pgh.pa.us
PostgresNode.pm set "max_wal_senders = 5" for replication testing,
but this seems to be slightly too low for our current test suite.
Slower buildfarm members frequently report "number of requested standby
connections exceeds max_wal_senders" failures, due to old walsenders
not exiting instantaneously. Usually, the test does not fail overall
because of automatic walreceiver restart, but sometimes the failure
becomes visible; and in any case such retries slow down the test.
That value came in with commit 89ac7004d, but was soon obsoleted by
f6d6d2920, which raised the built-in default from zero to 10; so that
PostgresNode.pm is actually setting it to less than the conservative
built-in default. That seems pretty pointless, so let's remove the
special setting and let the default prevail, in hopes of making
the TAP tests more robust.
Likewise, the setting "max_replication_slots = 5" is obsolete and
can be removed.
While here, reverse-engineer a comment about why we're choosing
less-than-default values for some other settings.
(Note: before v12, max_wal_senders counted against max_connections
so that the latter setting also needs some fiddling with.)
Back-patch to v10 where the subscription tests were added.
It's likely that the older branches aren't pushing the boundaries
of max_wal_senders, but I'm disinclined to spend time trying to
figure out exactly when it started to be a problem.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/723911.1601417626@sss.pgh.pa.us
Reuse cautionary language from src/test/ssl/README in
src/test/kerberos/README. SLRUs have had access to six-character
segments names since commit 73c986adde,
and recovery stopped calling HeapTupleHeaderAdvanceLatestRemovedXid() in
commit 558a9165e0. The other corrections
are more self-evident.
Buildfarm results now imply that Perl's IPC::Run does CRLF conversion
for us if we're using native Perl, but not when using MSys Perl.
Restrict the conversions done by PostgresNode.pm to act only in the
latter case. (Similar conversions done in TestLib.pm and RewindTest.pm
were already handled this way.)
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/412ae8da-76bb-640f-039a-f3513499e53d@gmx.net
The previous approach was to search-and-destroy all \r occurrences
no matter what. That seems more likely to hide bugs than anything
else; indeed it seems to be hiding one now. Fix things so that
we only transform \r\n to \n.
Side effects: must do this before, not after, chomp'ing if we're
going to chomp, else we'd fail to clean up a trailing \r\n. Also,
remove safe_psql's redundant repetition of what psql already did;
else it might reduce \r\r\n to \n, which is exactly the scenario
I'm hoping to expose.
Perhaps this should be back-patched, but for now I'm content to
see what happens in HEAD.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/412ae8da-76bb-640f-039a-f3513499e53d@gmx.net
In commit 850196b610 I (Álvaro) failed to handle the case of walsender
shutting down on an error before setting up its 'xlogreader' pointer;
the error handling code dereferences the pointer, causing a crash.
Fix by testing the pointer before trying to dereference it.
Kyotaro authored the code fix; I adopted Nathan's test case to be used
by the TAP tests and added the necessary PostgresNode change.
Reported-by: Nathan Bossart <bossartn@amazon.com>
Author: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>
Author: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/C04FC24E-903D-4423-B312-6910E4D846E5@amazon.com
Includes some manual cleanup of places that pgindent messed up,
most of which weren't per project style anyway.
Notably, it seems some people didn't absorb the style rules of
commit c9d297751, because there were a bunch of new occurrences
of function calls with a newline just after the left paren, all
with faulty expectations about how the rest of the call would get
indented.
The test suites currently don't use Unix-domain sockets on Windows.
This optionally allows enabling that by setting the environment
variable PG_TEST_USE_UNIX_SOCKETS.
This should currently be considered experimental. In particular,
pg_regress.c contains some comments that the cleanup code for
Unix-domain sockets doesn't work correctly under Windows, which hasn't
been an problem until now. But it's good enough for locally
supervised testing of the functionality.
Reviewed-by: Andrew Dunstan <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/54bde68c-d134-4eb8-5bd3-8af33b72a010@2ndquadrant.com
PostgresNode already retained base directories in such cases. Stop
using $SIG{__DIE__}, which is redundant with the exit status check, in
lieu of proliferating it to TestLib. Back-patch to 9.6, where commit
88802e0680 introduced retention on
failure.
Reviewed by Daniel Gustafsson.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200202170155.GA3264196@rfd.leadboat.com
Before, if a recovery target is configured, but the archive ended
before the target was reached, recovery would end and the server would
promote without further notice. That was deemed to be pretty wrong.
With this change, if the recovery target is not reached, it is a fatal
error.
Based-on-patch-by: Leif Gunnar Erlandsen <leif@lako.no>
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/993736dd3f1713ec1f63fc3b653839f5@lako.no
Up to now, psql's tab-complete.c has had exactly no regression test
coverage. This patch is an experimental attempt to add some.
This needs Perl's IO::Pty module, which isn't installed everywhere,
so the test script just skips all tests if that's not present.
There may be other portability gotchas too, so I await buildfarm
results with interest.
So far this just covers a few very basic keyword-completion and
query-driven-completion scenarios, which should be enough to let us
get a feel for whether this is practical at all from a portability
standpoint. If it is, there's lots more that can be done.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/10967.1577562752@sss.pgh.pa.us
src/test/kerberos and src/test/ldap need to run a private authentication
server of the relevant type, for which they need a free TCP port.
They were just picking a random port number in 48K-64K, which works
except when something's already using the particular port. Notably,
the probability of failure rises dramatically if one simply runs those
tests in a tight loop, because each test cycle leaves behind a bunch of
high ports that are transiently in TIME_WAIT state.
To fix, split out the code that PostgresNode.pm already had for
identifying a free TCP port number, so that it can be invoked to choose
a port for the KDC or LDAP server. This isn't 100% bulletproof, since
conceivably something else on the machine could grab the port between
the time we check and the time we actually start the server. But that's
a pretty short window, so in practice this should be good enough.
Back-patch to v11 where these test suites were added.
Patch by me, reviewed by Andrew Dunstan.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3397.1564872168@sss.pgh.pa.us
This fixes some TAP suites when using msys Perl and a builddir located
in an msys mount point other than "/". For example, builddir=/c/pg
exhibited the problem, since /c/pg falls in mount point "/c".
Back-patch to 9.6, where tests first started to perform such
translations. In back branches, offer both new and old APIs.
Reviewed by Andrew Dunstan.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190610045838.GA238501@rfd.leadboat.com
The buildfarm client uses TEMP_CONFIG to implement its extra_config
setting. Except for stats_temp_directory, extra_config now applies to
TAP suites; extra_config values seen in the past month are compatible
with this. Back-patch to 9.6, where PostgresNode was introduced, so the
buildfarm can rely on it sooner.
Reviewed by Andrew Dunstan and Tom Lane.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20181229021950.GA3302966@rfd.leadboat.com
Commit c0985099, later adjusted by commit 4ab02e81, probed 0.0.0.0
in addition to 127.0.0.1, for the benefit of Windows build farm
animals. It isn't really useful on Unix systems, and turned out to
be a bit inconvenient to users of some corporate firewall software.
Switch back to probing just 127.0.0.1 on non-Windows systems.
Back-patch to 9.6, like the earlier changes.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKG%2B21EPwfgs4m%2BtqyRtbVqkOUvP8QQ8sWk9%2Bh55Aub1H3A%40mail.gmail.com
Commit c098509927 changed
PostgresNode::get_new_node() to probe 0.0.0.0 instead of 127.0.0.1, but
the new test was less effective for Windows native Perl. This increased
the failure rate of buildfarm members bowerbird and jacana. Instead,
test 0.0.0.0 and concrete addresses. This restores the old level of
defense, but the algorithm is still subject to its longstanding time of
check to time of use race condition. Back-patch to 9.6, like the
previous change.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/GrdLgAdUK9FdyZg8VIcTDKVOkys122ZINEb3CjjoySfGj2KyPiMKTh1zqtRp0TAD7FJ27G-OBB3eplxIB5GhcQH5o8zzGZfp0MuJaXJxVxk=@yesql.se
Up to now the tests of pg_rewind have been using a superuser for all its
tests (which is the default of many tests actually, and something that
ought to be reviewed) when involving an online source server, still it
is possible to use a non-superuser role to do that as long as this role
is granted permissions to execute all the source-side functions used for
the rewind. This is possible since v11, and was already documented as
of bfc8068.
PostgresNode::init is extended so as callers of this routine can add
extra options to configure the authentication of a new node, which gets
used by this commit, and allows the tests to work properly on Windows
where SSPI is used.
This will allow to catch up easily any change in pg_rewind if the tool
begins to use more backend-side functions, so as the properties
introduced by v11 are kept.
Per suggestion from Peter Eisentraut.
Author: Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Magnus Hagander
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190411041336.GM2728@paquier.xyz
Tom Lane