There isn't a lot of user demand for AIX support, we have a bunch of
hacks to work around AIX-specific compiler bugs and idiosyncrasies,
and no one has stepped up to the plate to properly maintain it.
Remove support for AIX to get rid of that maintenance overhead. It's
still supported for stable versions.
The acute issue that triggered this decision was that after commit
8af2565248, the AIX buildfarm members have been hitting this
assertion:
TRAP: failed Assert("(uintptr_t) buffer == TYPEALIGN(PG_IO_ALIGN_SIZE, buffer)"), File: "md.c", Line: 472, PID: 2949728
Apperently the "pg_attribute_aligned(a)" attribute doesn't work on AIX
for values larger than PG_IO_ALIGN_SIZE, for a static const variable.
That could be worked around, but we decided to just drop the AIX support
instead.
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20240224172345.32@rfd.leadboat.com
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund, Noah Misch, Thomas Munro
We started to use this linker switch in commit 9df308697 of
2004-07-13, which was in the OS X 10.3 era. Apparently it's been a
no-op since around OS X 10.9. Apple's most recent toolchain version
actively complains about it, so it's time to get rid of it.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/467042.1695766998@sss.pgh.pa.us
This way we don't need RANLIB anymore, making it a bit simpler for the meson
build to generate Makefile.global for PGXS compatibility.
FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, the only platforms where we didn't use AROPT=crs,
all have supported the 's' option for a long time.
On macOS we ran ranlib after installing a static library. This was added a
long time ago, in 58ad65ec2d. I cannot reproduce an issue in more recent
macOS versions. This is removed now.
Based on discussion with Tom, I left the 'touch' at the end of static
libraries generation, added in 826eff57c4, in place. While it looks like
current versions of Apple's ar/ranlib don't need it, it was needed not too
long ago.
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20221005200710.luvw5evhwf6clig6@awork3.anarazel.de
When building a shared library with exports.txt there's no need to build an
intermediary static library, we can just pass -Wl,-bE:... when generating the
.so.
When building a shared library without exports.txt, there's no need to call
mkldexport.sh to export all symbols, because all symbols are exported anyway,
and we don't need the export file on the import side (like we do for
postgres.imp).
This makes building .so's on aix a lot more similar to building on other
platforms. In particular, we don't create and remove a .a of the same name but
different contents anymore.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220820174213.d574qde4ptwdzoqz@awork3.anarazel.de
The dependencies here aren't quite right independent of vpath builds or not,
but this at least makes vpath builds succeed. And it's pretty rare to change
the exports.txt file anyway... The referenced thread has a patch that will
clean that up further.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220820174213.d574qde4ptwdzoqz@awork3.anarazel.de
It is not customary to install a shared library with a minor version
number (libpq.5.16.dylib) on macOS. We just need the file with the
major version number (libpq.5.dylib) and the one without version
number (libpq.dylib). This also matches the installation layout used
by Meson.
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/e0c44fb2-8b66-a4b9-b274-7ed3a1a0ab74@enterprisedb.com
Until now postgres built extension libraries with global visibility, i.e.
exporting all symbols. On the one platform where that behavior is not
natively available, namely windows, we emulate it by analyzing the input files
to the shared library and exporting all the symbols therein.
Not exporting all symbols is actually desirable, as it can improve loading
speed, reduces the likelihood of symbol conflicts and can improve intra
extension library function call performance. It also makes the non-windows
builds more similar to windows builds.
Additionally, with meson implementing the export-all-symbols behavior for
windows, turns out to be more verbose than desirable.
This patch adds support for hiding symbols by default and, to counteract that,
explicit symbol visibility annotation for compilers that support
__attribute__((visibility("default"))) and -fvisibility=hidden. That is
expected to be most, if not all, compilers except msvc (for which we already
support explicit symbol export annotations).
Now that extension library symbols are explicitly exported, we don't need to
export all symbols on windows anymore, hence remove that behavior from
src/tools/msvc. The supporting code can't be removed, as we still need to
export all symbols from the main postgres binary.
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20211101020311.av6hphdl6xbjbuif@alap3.anarazel.de
HP-UX hardware is no longer produced, build farm coverage recently
ended, and there are no known active maintainers targeting this OS.
Since there is a major rewrite of the build system in the pipeline for
PostgreSQL 16, and that requires development, testing and maintainance
for each OS and tool chain, it seems like a good time to drop support
for:
* HP-UX, the operating system.
* HP aCC, the HP-UX native compiler.
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1415825.1656893299%40sss.pgh.pa.us
macOS has traditionally used extension .dylib for shared libraries
(used at build time) and .so for dynamically loaded modules (used by
dlopen()). This complicates the build system a bit. Also, Meson uses
.dylib for both, so it would be worth unifying this in order to be
able to get equal build output.
There doesn't appear to be any reason to use any particular extension
for dlopened modules, since dlopen() will accept anything and
PostgreSQL is well-factored to be able to deal with any extension.
Other software packages that I have handy appear to be about 50/50
split on which extension they use for their plugins. So it seems
possible to change this safely.
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/bcc45f78-e3c3-8fb3-7c42-5371b48b5266%40enterprisedb.com
We make each AIX shared library export all globals found in .o files
that originate in the library. That doesn't include symbols acquired by
-lpgcommon_shlib. That is good on average, but it became a problem for
libpq when commit e6afa8918c moved five
official libpq API symbols into src/common. Fix this by implementing
the SHLIB_EXPORTS mechanism for AIX, so affected libraries export the
same symbols that they export on Linux. This reintroduces symbols
pg_encoding_to_char, pg_utf_mblen, pg_char_to_encoding,
pg_valid_server_encoding, and pg_valid_server_encoding_id. Back-patch
to v13, where the aforementioned commit first appeared. While a minor
release is usually the wrong time to add or remove symbol exports in
libpq or libecpg, we should expect users to want each documented symbol.
Tony Reix
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/PR3PR02MB6396742E2FC3E77D37A920BC86C79@PR3PR02MB6396.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com
Currently the pc files use hard coded paths for "includedir" and
"libdir."
Example:
Cflags: -I/usr/include
Libs: -L/usr/lib -lpq
This is not very fortunate when cross compiling inside a buildroot,
where the includes and libs are inside a staging directory, because
this introduces host paths into the build:
checking for pkg-config... /builder/shared-workdir/build/sdk/staging_dir/host/bin/pkg-config
checking for PostgreSQL libraries via pkg_config... -L/usr/lib <----
This commit addresses this by doing the following two things:
1. Instead of hard coding the paths in "Cflags" and "Libs"
"${includedir}" and "${libdir}" are used. Note: these variables
can be overriden on the pkg-config command line
("--define-variable=libdir=/some/path").
2. Add the variables "prefix" and "exec_prefix". If "includedir"
and/or "libdir" are using these then construct them accordingly.
This is done because buildroots (for instance OpenWrt) tend to
rename the real pkg-config and call it indirectly from a script
that sets "prefix", "exec_prefix" and "bindir", like so:
pkg-config.real --define-variable=prefix=${STAGING_PREFIX} \
--define-variable=exec_prefix=${STAGING_PREFIX} \
--define-variable=bindir=${STAGING_PREFIX}/bin $@
Example #1: user calls ./configure with "--libdir=/some/lib" and
"--includedir=/some/include":
prefix=/usr/local/pgsql
exec_prefix=${prefix}
libdir=/some/lib
includedir=/some/include
Name: libpq
Description: PostgreSQL libpq library
Url: http://www.postgresql.org/
Version: 12.1
Requires:
Requires.private:
Cflags: -I${includedir}
Libs: -L${libdir} -lpq
Libs.private: -lcrypt -lm
Example #2: user calls ./configure with no arguments:
prefix=/usr/local/pgsql
exec_prefix=${prefix}
libdir=${exec_prefix}/lib
includedir=${prefix}/include
Name: libpq
Description: PostgreSQL libpq library
Url: http://www.postgresql.org/
Version: 12.1
Requires:
Requires.private:
Cflags: -I${includedir}
Libs: -L${libdir} -lpq
Libs.private: -lcrypt -lm
Like this the paths can be forced into the staging directory when
using a buildroot setup:
checking for pkg-config... /home/sk/tmp/openwrt/staging_dir/host/bin/pkg-config
checking for PostgreSQL libraries via pkg_config... -L/home/sk/tmp/openwrt/staging_dir/target-mips_24kc_musl/usr/lib
Author: Sebastian Kemper <sebastian_ml@gmx.net>
Co-authored-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/20200305213827.GA25135%40darth.lan
There were some leftovers from ancient ad-hoc ways to build on
Windows, prior to the standardization on MSVC and MinGW. We don't
need to build a lib$(NAME)ddll.def (debug build, as opposed to
lib$(NAME)dll.def) for MinGW, since nothing uses that. We also don't
need to build the regular .def file during distprep, since the MinGW
build environment is perfectly capable of creating that normally at
build time.
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/0f9db9f8-47b8-a48b-6ccc-15b22b412316%402ndquadrant.com
In at least Apple's version of ranlib, the output file is updated to have
a mod time equal to the max of the timestamps of its components, and that
data only has seconds precision. On a filesystem with sub-second file
timestamp precision --- say, APFS --- this can result in the finished
static library appearing older than its input files, which causes useless
rebuilds and possible outright failures in parallel makes.
We've only seen this reported in the field from people using Apple's
ranlib with a non-Apple make, because Apple's make doesn't know about
sub-second timestamps either so it doesn't decide rebuilds are needed.
But Apple's ranlib presumably shares code with at least some BSDen,
so it's not that unlikely that the same problem could arise elsewhere.
To fix, just "touch" the output file after ranlib finishes.
We seem to need this in only one place. There are other calls of
ranlib in our makefiles, but they are working on intermediate files
whose timestamps are not actually important, or else on an installed
static library for which sub-second timestamp precision is unlikely
to matter either. (Also, so far as I can tell, Apple's ranlib doesn't
mess up the file timestamp in the latter usage anyhow.)
In passing, change "ranlib" to "$(RANLIB)" in one place that was
bypassing the make macro for no good reason.
Per bug #15525 from Jack Kelly (via Alyssa Ross).
Back-patch to all supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15525-a30da084f17a1faa@postgresql.org
Cygwin has been building and linking against static libraries. Although
a bug this has been relatively harmless until now, when this has caused
errors due to changes in the way we build certain libraries. So this
patch makes things work the way we always intended, namely that we would
link against the dynamic libraries (cygpq.dll etc.) and just not build
the static libraries. The downstream packagers have been doing this for
some time, so this just aligns with their practice.
Extracted from a patch by Marco Atzeri, with a suggestion from Tom Lane.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1056.1538235347@sss.pgh.pa.us
These platforms are also subject to the mis-linking problem addressed
in commit e3d77ea6b. It's not clear whether we could solve it with
a solution equivalent to GNU ld's version scripts, but -Bsymbolic
appears to fix it, so let's use that.
Like the previous commit, back-patch as far as v10.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/153626613985.23143.4743626885618266803@wrigleys.postgresql.org
On ELF-based platforms (and maybe others?) it's possible for a shared
library, when dynamically loaded into the backend, to call the backend
versions of src/port and src/common functions rather than the frontend
versions that are actually linked into the shlib. This is the cause
of bug #15367 from Jeremy Evans, and is likely to lead to more problems
in future; it's accidental that we've failed to notice any bad effects
up to now.
The recommended way to fix this on ELF-based platforms is to use a
linker "version script" that makes the shlib's versions of the functions
local. (Apparently, -Bsymbolic would fix it as well, but with other
side effects that we don't want.) Doing so has the additional benefit
that we can make sure the shlib only exposes the symbols that are meant
to be part of its API, and not ones that are just for cross-file
references within the shlib. So we'd already been using a version
script for libpq on popular platforms, but it's now apparent that it's
necessary for correctness on every ELF-based platform.
Hence, add appropriate logic to the openbsd, freebsd, and netbsd stanzas
of Makefile.shlib; this is just a copy-and-paste from the linux stanza.
There may be additional work to do if commit ed0cdf0e0 reveals that the
problem exists elsewhere, but this is all that is known to be needed
right now.
Back-patch to v10 where SCRAM support came in. The problem is ancient,
but analysis suggests that there were no really severe consequences
in older branches. Hence, I won't take the risk of such a large change
in the build process for older branches.
In passing, remove a rather opaque comment about -Bsymbolic; I don't
think it's very on-point about why we don't use that, if indeed that's
what it's talking about at all.
Patch by me; thanks to Andrew Gierth for helping to diagnose the problem,
and for additional testing.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/153626613985.23143.4743626885618266803@wrigleys.postgresql.org
We were being careless in some places about the order of -L switches in
link command lines, such that -L switches referring to external directories
could come before those referring to directories within the build tree.
This made it possible to accidentally link a system-supplied library, for
example /usr/lib/libpq.so, in place of the one built in the build tree.
Hilarity ensued, the more so the older the system-supplied library is.
To fix, break LDFLAGS into two parts, a sub-variable LDFLAGS_INTERNAL
and the main LDFLAGS variable, both of which are "recursively expanded"
so that they can be incrementally adjusted by different makefiles.
Establish a policy that -L switches for directories in the build tree
must always be added to LDFLAGS_INTERNAL, while -L switches for external
directories must always be added to LDFLAGS. This is sufficient to
ensure a safe search order. For simplicity, we typically also put -l
switches for the respective libraries into those same variables.
(Traditional make usage would have us put -l switches into LIBS, but
cleaning that up is a project for another day, as there's no clear
need for it.)
This turns out to also require separating SHLIB_LINK into two variables,
SHLIB_LINK and SHLIB_LINK_INTERNAL, with a similar rule about which
switches go into which variable. And likewise for PG_LIBS.
Although this change might appear to affect external users of pgxs.mk,
I think it doesn't; they shouldn't have any need to touch the _INTERNAL
variables.
In passing, tweak src/common/Makefile so that the value of CPPFLAGS
recorded in pg_config lacks "-DFRONTEND" and the recorded value of
LDFLAGS lacks "-L../../../src/common". Both of those things are
mistakes, apparently introduced during prior code rearrangements,
as old versions of pg_config don't print them. In general we don't
want anything that's specific to the src/common subdirectory to
appear in those outputs.
This is certainly a bug fix, but in view of the lack of field
complaints, I'm unsure whether it's worth the risk of back-patching.
In any case it seems wise to see what the buildfarm makes of it first.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/25214.1522604295@sss.pgh.pa.us
For years, our makefiles have correctly observed that "there is no correct
way to write a rule that generates two files". However, what we did is to
provide empty rules that "generate" the secondary output files from the
primary one, and that's not right either. Depending on the details of
the creating process, the primary file might end up timestamped later than
one or more secondary files, causing subsequent make runs to consider the
secondary file(s) out of date. That's harmless in a plain build, since
make will just re-execute the empty rule and nothing happens. But it's
fatal in a VPATH build, since make will expect the secondary file to be
rebuilt in the build directory. This would manifest as "file not found"
failures during VPATH builds from tarballs, if we were ever unlucky enough
to ship a tarball with apparently out-of-date secondary files. (It's not
clear whether that has ever actually happened, but it definitely could.)
To ensure that secondary output files have timestamps >= their primary's,
change our makefile convention to be that we provide a "touch $@" action
not an empty rule. Also, make sure that this rule actually gets invoked
during a distprep run, else the hazard remains.
It's been like this a long time, so back-patch to all supported branches.
In HEAD, I skipped the changes in src/backend/catalog/Makefile, because
those rules are due to get replaced soon in the bootstrap data format
patch, and there seems no need to create a merge issue for that patch.
If for some reason we fail to land that patch in v11, we'll need to
back-fill the changes in that one makefile from v10.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18556.1521668179@sss.pgh.pa.us
This is an optional dependency. It'll be used for the upcoming LLVM
based just in time compilation support, which needs to wrap a few LLVM
C++ APIs so they're accessible from C..
For now test for C++ compilers unconditionally, without failing if not
present, to ensure wide buildfarm coverage. If we're bothered by the
additional test times (which are quite short) or verbosity, we can
later make the tests conditional on --with-llvm.
Author: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170901064131.tazjxwus3k2w3ybh@alap3.anarazel.de
This removes the support for building just libpq using Borland C++ or
Visual C++. This has not worked properly for years, and given the number
of complaints it's clearly not worth the maintenance burden.
Building libpq using the standard MSVC build system is of course still
supported, along with mingw.
Turns out this has been broken for years and we'd not noticed. The one
case that was getting exercised in the buildfarm, or probably anywhere
else, was postgres_fdw.sl's reference to libpq.sl; and it turns out that
that was always going to libpq.sl in the actual installation directory
not the temporary install. We'd not noticed because the buildfarm script
does "make install" before it tests contrib. However, the recent addition
of a logical-replication test to the core regression scripts resulted in
trying to use libpqwalreceiver.sl before "make install" happens, and that
failed for lack of finding libpq.sl, as shown by failures on buildfarm
members gaur and pademelon.
There are two changes needed to fix it: the magic environment variable to
specify shlib search path at runtime is SHLIB_PATH not LD_LIBRARY_PATH,
and the shlib link command needs to specify the +s switch else the library
will not honor SHLIB_PATH.
I'm not quite sure why buildfarm members anole and gharial (HPUX 11) didn't
show the same failure. Consulting man pages on the web says that HPUX 11
honors both LD_LIBRARY_PATH and SHLIB_PATH, which would explain half of it,
and the rather confusing wording I've been able to find suggests that +s
might effectively be the default in HPUX 11. But it seems at least as
likely that there's just a libpq.so installed in /usr/lib on that machine;
as long as it's not too ancient, that would satisfy the test. In any case
I do not think this patch will break HPUX 11.
At the moment I don't see a need to back-patch this, since it only matters
for testing purposes, not to mention that HPUX 10 is probably dead in the
real world anyway.
SCO OpenServer and SCO UnixWare are more or less dead platforms.
We have never had a buildfarm member testing the "sco" port, and
the last "unixware" member was last heard from in 2012, so it's
fair to doubt that the code even compiles anymore on either one.
Remove both ports. We can always undo this if someone shows up
with an interest in maintaining and testing these platforms.
Discussion: <17177.1476136994@sss.pgh.pa.us>
We don't need this anymore, and it prevents build-time error checking
that's usually good to have, so remove it. Undoes one change of commit
cac765820.
Unfortunately, it's much harder to get a similar effect on other common
platforms, because we don't want the linker to throw errors for symbols
that will be resolved in the core backend. Only macOS and AIX expect the
core backend executable to be available while linking loadable modules,
so only these platforms can usefully throw errors for unresolved symbols
at link time.
Discussion: <2652.1475512158@sss.pgh.pa.us>
There is no need for "all: all-lib" to be placed before inclusion of
Makefile.shlib. Makefile.global is what ensures that "all" is the
default target, and we already document that that has to be included
first. Per comment from Pavel Raiskup.
Discussion: <1925924.izSMJEZO3x@unused-4-107.brq.redhat.com>
We weren't terribly consistent about whether to call Apple's OS "OS X"
or "Mac OS X", and the former is probably confusing to people who aren't
Apple users. Now that Apple has rebranded it "macOS", follow their lead
to establish a consistent naming pattern. Also, avoid the use of the
ancient project name "Darwin", except as the port code name which does not
seem desirable to change. (In short, this patch touches documentation and
comments, but no actual code.)
I didn't touch contrib/start-scripts/osx/, either. I suspect those are
obsolete and due for a rewrite, anyway.
I dithered about whether to apply this edit to old release notes, but
those were responsible for quite a lot of the inconsistencies, so I ended
up changing them too. Anyway, Apple's being ahistorical about this,
so why shouldn't we be?
The result closely resembles linking of these modules for the "win32"
port. Augment the $(exports_file) header so the file is also usable as
an import file. Unfortunately, relocating an AIX installation will now
require adding $(pkglibdir) to LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Back-patch to 9.5,
where the modules were introduced.
This provides a mechanism for specifying conversions between SQL data
types and procedural languages. As examples, there are transforms
for hstore and ltree for PL/Perl and PL/Python.
reviews by Pavel Stěhule and Andres Freund
When the library already exists in the build directory, "ar" preserves
members not named on its command line. This mattered when, for example,
a "configure" rerun dropped a file from $(LIBOBJS). libpgport carried
the obsolete member until "make clean". Back-patch to 9.0 (all
supported versions).
Newer toolchains append the extension implicitly if missing, but
buildfarm member narwhal (gcc 3.4.2, ld 2.15.91 20040904) does not.
This affects most core libraries having an exports.txt file, namely
libpq and the ECPG support libraries. On Windows Server 2003, Windows
API functions that load and unload DLLs internally will mistakenly
unload a libpq whose DLL header reports "LIBPQ" instead of "LIBPQ.dll".
When, subsequently, control would return to libpq, the backend crashes.
Back-patch to 9.4, like commit 846e91e022.
Before that commit, we used a different linking technique that yielded
"libpq.dll" in the DLL header.
Commit 53566fc094 worked around this by
eliminating a call to a function that loads and unloads DLLs internally.
That commit is no longer necessary for correctness, but its improving
consistency with the MSVC build remains valid.
When commit 846e91e022 switched the linker
driver from dlltool/dllwrap to gcc, it became possible for linking to
choose shared libgcc. Backends having loaded a module dynamically
linked to libgcc can exit abnormally, which the postmaster treats like a
crash. Resume use of static libgcc exclusively, like 9.3 and earlier.
Back-patch to 9.4.
Support for running postgres on Alpha hasn't been tested for a long
while. Due to Alpha's uniquely lax cache coherency model it's a hard
to develop for platform (especially blindly!) and thought to be
unlikely to currently work correctly.
As Alpha is the only supported architecture for Tru64 drop support for
it as well. Tru64's support has ended 2012 and it has been in
maintenance-only mode for much longer.
Also remove stray references to __ksr__ and ultrix defines.
The preferred method is to use "cc -shared", and this allows binaries
to be rebased if required, unlike dllwrap.
Backpatch to 9.0 where we have buildfarm coverage.
There are still some issues with Cygwin, especially modern Cygwin, but
this helps us get closer to good support.
Marco Atzeri.
Development of IRIX has been discontinued, and support is scheduled
to end in December of 2013. Therefore, there will be no supported
versions of this operating system by the time PostgreSQL 9.4 is
released. Furthermore, we have no maintainer for this platform.
This will hopefully be easier to use than pg_config for users who are
already used to the pkg-config interface. It also works better for
multi-arch installations.
reviewed by Tom Lane
Heikki Linnakangas