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Author	SHA1	Message	Date
Tom Lane	88103567cb	Disallow setting bogus GUCs within an extension's reserved namespace. Commit `75d22069e` tried to throw a warning for setting a custom GUC whose prefix belongs to a previously-loaded extension, if there is no such GUC defined by the extension. But that caused unstable behavior with parallel workers, because workers don't necessarily load extensions and GUCs in the same order their leader did. To make that work safely, we have to completely disallow the case. We now actually remove any such GUCs at the time of initial extension load, and then throw an error not just a warning if you try to add one later. While this might create a compatibility issue for a few people, the improvement in error-detection capability seems worth it; it's hard to believe that there's any good use-case for choosing such GUC names. This also un-reverts `5609cc01c` (Rename EmitWarningsOnPlaceholders() to MarkGUCPrefixReserved()), since that function's old name is now even more of a misnomer. Florin Irion and Tom Lane Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1902182.1640711215@sss.pgh.pa.us	4 years ago
Robert Haas	5ef1eefd76	Allow archiving via loadable modules. 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	4 years ago

Tom Lane

Disallow setting bogus GUCs within an extension's reserved namespace.

Commit 75d22069e tried to throw a warning for setting a custom GUC whose
prefix belongs to a previously-loaded extension, if there is no such GUC
defined by the extension.  But that caused unstable behavior with
parallel workers, because workers don't necessarily load extensions and
GUCs in the same order their leader did.  To make that work safely, we
have to completely disallow the case.  We now actually remove any such
GUCs at the time of initial extension load, and then throw an error not
just a warning if you try to add one later.  While this might create a
compatibility issue for a few people, the improvement in error-detection
capability seems worth it; it's hard to believe that there's any good
use-case for choosing such GUC names.

This also un-reverts 5609cc01c (Rename EmitWarningsOnPlaceholders() to
MarkGUCPrefixReserved()), since that function's old name is now even
more of a misnomer.

Florin Irion and Tom Lane

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1902182.1640711215@sss.pgh.pa.us

4 years ago

Robert Haas

5ef1eefd76

Allow archiving via loadable modules.

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

4 years ago

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