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* Preserve required !catalog tuples while computing initial decoding snapshot.Andres Freund2017-04-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The logical decoding machinery already preserved all the required catalog tuples, which is sufficient in the course of normal logical decoding, but did not guarantee that non-catalog tuples were preserved during computation of the initial snapshot when creating a slot over the replication protocol. This could cause a corrupted initial snapshot being exported. The time window for issues is usually not terribly large, but on a busy server it's perfectly possible to it hit it. Ongoing decoding is not affected by this bug. To avoid increased overhead for the SQL API, only retain additional tuples when a logical slot is being created over the replication protocol. To do so this commit changes the signature of CreateInitDecodingContext(), but it seems unlikely that it's being used in an extension, so that's probably ok. In a drive-by fix, fix handling of ReplicationSlotsComputeRequiredXmin's already_locked argument, which should only apply to ProcArrayLock, not ReplicationSlotControlLock. Reported-By: Erik Rijkers Analyzed-By: Petr Jelinek Author: Petr Jelinek, heavily editorialized by Andres Freund Reviewed-By: Andres Freund Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/9a897b86-46e1-9915-ee4c-da02e4ff6a95@2ndquadrant.com Backport: 9.4, where logical decoding was introduced.
* Make latch.c more paranoid about child-process cases.Tom Lane2017-04-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Although the postmaster doesn't currently create a self-pipe or any latches, there's discussion of it doing so in future. It's also conceivable that a shared_preload_libraries extension would try to create such a thing in the postmaster process today. In that case the self-pipe FDs would be inherited by forked child processes. latch.c was entirely unprepared for such a case and could suffer an assertion failure, or worse try to use the inherited pipe if somebody called WaitLatch without having called InitializeLatchSupport in that process. Make it keep track of whether InitializeLatchSupport has been called in the *current* process, and do the right thing if state has been inherited from a parent. Apply FD_CLOEXEC to file descriptors created in latch.c (the self-pipe, as well as epoll event sets). This ensures that child processes spawned in backends, the archiver, etc cannot accidentally or intentionally mess with these FDs. It also ensures that we end up with the right state for the self-pipe in EXEC_BACKEND processes, which otherwise wouldn't know to close the postmaster's self-pipe FDs. Back-patch to 9.6, mainly to keep latch.c looking similar in all branches it exists in. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/8322.1493240739@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Allow multiple bgworkers to be launched per postmaster iteration.Tom Lane2017-04-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Previously, maybe_start_bgworker() would launch at most one bgworker process per call, on the grounds that the postmaster might otherwise neglect its other duties for too long. However, that seems overly conservative, especially since bad effects only become obvious when many hundreds of bgworkers need to be launched at once. On the other side of the coin is that the existing logic could result in substantial delay of bgworker launches, because ServerLoop isn't guaranteed to iterate immediately after a signal arrives. (My attempt to fix that by using pselect(2) encountered too many portability question marks, and in any case could not help on platforms without pselect().) One could also question the wisdom of using an O(N^2) processing method if the system is intended to support so many bgworkers. As a compromise, allow that function to launch up to 100 bgworkers per call (and in consequence, rename it to maybe_start_bgworkers). This will allow any normal parallel-query request for workers to be satisfied immediately during sigusr1_handler, avoiding the question of whether ServerLoop will be able to launch more promptly. There is talk of rewriting the postmaster to use a WaitEventSet to avoid the signal-response-delay problem, but I'd argue that this change should be kept even after that happens (if it ever does). Backpatch to 9.6 where parallel query was added. The issue exists before that, but previous uses of bgworkers typically aren't as sensitive to how quickly they get launched. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/4707.1493221358@sss.pgh.pa.us
* postgres_fdw: Fix join push down with extensionsPeter Eisentraut2017-04-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Objects in an extension are shippable to a foreign server if the extension is part of the foreign server definition's shippable extensions list. But this was not properly considered in some cases when checking whether a join condition can be pushed to a foreign server and the join condition uses an object from a shippable extension. So the join would never be pushed down in those cases. So, the list of extensions needs to be made available in fpinfo of the relation being considered to be pushed down before any expressions are assessed for being shippable. Fix foreign_join_ok() to do that for a join relation. David Rowley and Ashutosh Bapat, per report from David Rowley reduced version of patch 332bec1e6096679b04ec9717beb44a858495260f for backpatch to 9.6, first release with join push down
* Revert "Use pselect(2) not select(2), if available, to wait in postmaster's ↵Tom Lane2017-04-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | loop." This reverts commit b9515b62879722e3497236f6e0d6783c3fc059a2. Buildfarm results suggest that some platforms have versions of pselect(2) that are not merely non-atomic, but flat out non-functional. Revert the use-pselect patch to confirm this diagnosis (and exclude the no-SA_RESTART patch as the source of trouble). If it's so, we should probably look into blacklisting specific platforms that have broken pselect. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/9696.1493072081@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Use pselect(2) not select(2), if available, to wait in postmaster's loop.Tom Lane2017-04-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Traditionally we've unblocked signals, called select(2), and then blocked signals again. The code expects that the select() will be cancelled with EINTR if an interrupt occurs; but there's a race condition, which is that an already-pending signal will be delivered as soon as we unblock, and then when we reach select() there will be nothing preventing it from waiting. This can result in a long delay before we perform any action that ServerLoop was supposed to have taken in response to the signal. As with the somewhat-similar symptoms fixed by commit 893902085, the main practical problem is slow launching of parallel workers. The window for trouble is usually pretty short, corresponding to one iteration of ServerLoop; but it's not negligible. To fix, use pselect(2) in place of select(2) where available, as that's designed to solve exactly this problem. Where not available, we continue to use the old way, and are no worse off than before. pselect(2) has been required by POSIX since about 2001, so most modern platforms should have it. A bigger portability issue is that some implementations are said to be non-atomic, ie pselect() isn't really any different from unblock/select/reblock. Still, we're no worse off than before on such a platform. There is talk of rewriting the postmaster to use a WaitEventSet and not do signal response work in signal handlers, at which point this could be reverted, since we'd be using a self-pipe to solve the race condition. But that's not happening before v11 at the earliest. Back-patch to 9.6. The problem exists much further back, but the worst symptom arises only in connection with parallel query, so it does not seem worth taking any portability risks in older branches. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/9205.1492833041@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Run the postmaster's signal handlers without SA_RESTART.Tom Lane2017-04-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The postmaster keeps signals blocked everywhere except while waiting for something to happen in ServerLoop(). The code expects that the select(2) will be cancelled with EINTR if an interrupt occurs; without that, followup actions that should be performed by ServerLoop() itself will be delayed. However, some platforms interpret the SA_RESTART signal flag as meaning that they should restart rather than cancel the select(2). Worse yet, some of them restart it with the original timeout delay, meaning that a steady stream of signal interrupts can prevent ServerLoop() from iterating at all if there are no incoming connection requests. Observable symptoms of this, on an affected platform such as HPUX 10, include extremely slow parallel query startup (possibly as much as 30 seconds) and failure to update timestamps on the postmaster's sockets and lockfiles when no new connections arrive for a long time. We can fix this by running the postmaster's signal handlers without SA_RESTART. That would be quite a scary change if the range of code where signals are accepted weren't so tiny, but as it is, it seems safe enough. (Note that postmaster children do, and must, reset all the handlers before unblocking signals; so this change should not affect any child process.) There is talk of rewriting the postmaster to use a WaitEventSet and not do signal response work in signal handlers, at which point it might be appropriate to revert this patch. But that's not happening before v11 at the earliest. Back-patch to 9.6. The problem exists much further back, but the worst symptom arises only in connection with parallel query, so it does not seem worth taking any portability risks in older branches. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/9205.1492833041@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Fix postmaster's handling of fork failure for a bgworker process.Tom Lane2017-04-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This corner case didn't behave nicely at all: the postmaster would (partially) update its state as though the process had started successfully, and be quite confused thereafter. Fix it to act like the worker had crashed, instead. In passing, refactor so that do_start_bgworker contains all the state-change logic for bgworker launch, rather than just some of it. Back-patch as far as 9.4. 9.3 contains similar logic, but it's just enough different that I don't feel comfortable applying the patch without more study; and the use of bgworkers in 9.3 was so small that it doesn't seem worth the extra work. transam/parallel.c is still entirely unprepared for the possibility of bgworker startup failure, but that seems like material for a separate patch. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/4905.1492813727@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Zero padding in replication origin's checkpointed on disk-state.Andres Freund2017-04-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This seems to be largely cosmetic, avoiding valgrind bleats and the like. The uninitialized padding influences the CRC of the on-disk entry, but because it's also used when verifying the CRC, that doesn't cause spurious failures. Backpatch nonetheless. It's a bit unfortunate that contrib/test_decoding/sql/replorigin.sql doesn't exercise the checkpoint path, but checkpoints are fairly expensive on weaker machines, and we'd have to stop/start for that to be meaningful. Author: Andres Freund Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170422183123.w2jgiuxtts7qrqaq@alap3.anarazel.de Backpatch: 9.5, where replication origins were introduced
* Fix order of arguments to SubTransSetParent().Tom Lane2017-04-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | ProcessTwoPhaseBuffer (formerly StandbyRecoverPreparedTransactions) mixed up the parent and child XIDs when calling SubTransSetParent to record the transactions' relationship in pg_subtrans. Remarkably, analysis by Simon Riggs suggests that this doesn't lead to visible problems (at least, not in non-Assert builds). That might explain why we'd not noticed it before. Nonetheless, it's surely wrong. This code was born broken, so back-patch to all supported branches. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20110.1492905318@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Fix TAP infrastructure to support Mingw betterAndrew Dunstan2017-04-23
| | | | | | | archive_command and restore_command need to refer to Windows paths, not Msys virtual file system paths, as postgres is completely unaware of the latter, so prefix them with the Windows path to the virtual file system root. Clean psql output of carriage returns.
* Make PostgresNode.pm check server status more carefully.Tom Lane2017-04-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | PostgresNode blithely ignored the exit status of pg_ctl, and in general made no effort to be sure that the server was running when it should be. This caused it to miss server crashes, which is a serious shortcoming in a test scaffold. Make it complain if pg_ctl fails, and modify the start and stop logic to complain if the server doesn't start, or doesn't stop, when expected. Also, have it turn off the "restart_after_crash" configuration parameter in created clusters, as bitter experience has shown that leaving that on can mask crashes too. We might at some point need variant functions that allow for, eg, server start failure to be expected. But no existing test case appears to want that, and it surely shouldn't be the default behavior. Note that this *will* break the buildfarm, as it will expose known bugs that the previous testing failed to. I'm committing it despite that, to verify that we get the expected failures in the buildfarm not just in manual testing. Back-patch into 9.6 where PostgresNode was introduced. (The 9.6 branch is not expected to show any failures.) Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/21432.1492886428@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Make PostgresNode::append_conf append a newline automatically.Tom Lane2017-04-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Although the documentation for append_conf said clearly that it didn't add a newline, many test authors seem to have forgotten that ... or maybe they just consulted the example at the top of the POD documentation, which clearly shows adding a config entry without bothering to add a trailing newline. The worst part of that is that it works, as long as you don't do it more than once, since the backend isn't picky about whether config files end with newlines. So there's not a strong forcing function reminding test authors not to do it like that. Upshot is that this is a terribly fragile way to go about things, and there's at least one existing test case that is demonstrably broken and not testing what it thinks it is. Let's just make append_conf append a newline, instead; that is clearly way safer than the old definition. I also cleaned up a few call sites that were unnecessarily ugly. (I left things alone in places where it's plausible that additional config lines would need to be added someday.) Back-patch the change in append_conf itself to 9.6 where it was added, as having a definitional inconsistency between branches would obviously be pretty hazardous for back-patching TAP tests. The other changes are just cosmetic and don't need to be back-patched. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/19751.1492892376@sss.pgh.pa.us
* doc: Update linkPeter Eisentraut2017-04-21
| | | | | | | | The reference "That is the topic of the next section." has been incorrect since the materialized views documentation got inserted between the section "rules-views" and "rules-update". Author: Zertrin <postgres_wiki@zertrin.org>
* Avoid depending on non-POSIX behavior of fcntl(2).Tom Lane2017-04-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The POSIX standard does not say that the success return value for fcntl(F_SETFD) and fcntl(F_SETFL) is zero; it says only that it's not -1. We had several calls that were making the stronger assumption. Adjust them to test specifically for -1 for strict spec compliance. The standard further leaves open the possibility that the O_NONBLOCK flag bit is not the only active one in F_SETFL's argument. Formally, therefore, one ought to get the current flags with F_GETFL and store them back with only the O_NONBLOCK bit changed when trying to change the nonblock state. In port/noblock.c, we were doing the full pushup in pg_set_block but not in pg_set_noblock, which is just weird. Make both of them do it properly, since they have little business making any assumptions about the socket they're handed. The other places where we're issuing F_SETFL are working with FDs we just got from pipe(2), so it's reasonable to assume the FDs' properties are all default, so I didn't bother adding F_GETFL steps there. Also, while pg_set_block deserves some points for trying to do things right, somebody had decided that it'd be even better to cast fcntl's third argument to "long". Which is completely loony, because POSIX clearly says the third argument for an F_SETFL call is "int". Given the lack of field complaints, these missteps apparently are not of significance on any common platforms. But they're still wrong, so back-patch to all supported branches. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/30882.1492800880@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Always build a custom plan node's targetlist from the path's pathtarget.Tom Lane2017-04-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We were applying the use_physical_tlist optimization to all relation scan plans, even those implemented by custom scan providers. However, that's a bad idea for a couple of reasons. The custom provider might be unable to provide columns that it hadn't expected to be asked for (for example, the custom scan might depend on an index-only scan). Even more to the point, there's no good reason to suppose that this "optimization" is a win for a custom scan; whatever the custom provider is doing is likely not based on simply returning physical heap tuples. (As a counterexample, if the custom scan is an interface to a column store, demanding all columns would be a huge loss.) If it is a win, the custom provider could make that decision for itself and insert a suitable pathtarget into the path, anyway. Per discussion with Dmitry Ivanov. Back-patch to 9.5 where custom scan support was introduced. The argument that the custom provider can adjust the behavior by changing the pathtarget only applies to 9.6+, but on balance it seems more likely that use_physical_tlist will hurt custom scans than help them. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/e29ddd30-8ef9-4da5-a50b-2bb7b8c7198d@postgrespro.ru
* Fix compiler warningPeter Eisentraut2017-04-16
| | | | | Introduced by 41306a511c01dd299115cf447858a00e34aebbf6, happens with gcc 4.7.2.
* Provide a way to control SysV shmem attach address in EXEC_BACKEND builds.Tom Lane2017-04-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In standard non-Windows builds, there's no particular reason to care what address the kernel chooses to map the shared memory segment at. However, when building with EXEC_BACKEND, there's a risk that the chosen address won't be available in all child processes. Linux with ASLR enabled (which it is by default) seems particularly at risk because it puts shmem segments into the same area where it maps shared libraries. We can work around that by specifying a mapping address that's outside the range where shared libraries could get mapped. On x86_64 Linux, 0x7e0000000000 seems to work well. This is only meant for testing/debugging purposes, so it doesn't seem necessary to go as far as providing a GUC (or any user-visible documentation, though we might change that later). Instead, it's just controlled by setting an environment variable PG_SHMEM_ADDR to the desired attach address. Back-patch to all supported branches, since the point here is to remove intermittent buildfarm failures on EXEC_BACKEND animals. Owners of affected animals will need to add a suitable setting of PG_SHMEM_ADDR to their build_env configuration. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/7036.1492231361@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Avoid passing function pointers across process boundaries.Tom Lane2017-04-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | This back-patches commit 32470825d36d99a81347ee36c181d609c952c061 into 9.6, primarily to make buildfarm member culicidae happy. Unlike the HEAD patch, avoid changing the existing API of CreateParallelContext; instead we just switch to using CreateParallelContextForExternalFunction, even for core functions. Petr Jelinek, with a bunch of basically-cosmetic adjustments by me Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/548f9c1d-eafa-e3fa-9da8-f0cc2f654e60@2ndquadrant.com
* Further fix pg_trgm's extraction of trigrams from regular expressions.Tom Lane2017-04-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Commit 9e43e8714 turns out to have been insufficient: not only is it necessary to track tentative parent links while considering a set of arc removals, but it's necessary to track tentative flag additions as well. This is because we always merge arc target states into arc source states; therefore, when considering a merge of the final state with some other, it is the other state that will acquire a new TSTATE_FIN bit. If there's another arc for the same color trigram that would cause merging of that state with the initial state, we failed to recognize the problem. The test cases for the prior commit evidently only exercised situations where a tentative merge with the initial state occurs before one with the final state. If it goes the other way around, we'll happily merge the initial and final states, either producing a broken final graph that would never match anything, or triggering the Assert added by the prior commit. It's tempting to consider switching the merge direction when the merge involves the final state, but I lack the time to analyze that idea in detail. Instead just keep track of the flag changes that would result from proposed merges, in the same way that the prior commit tracked proposed parent links. Along the way, add some more debugging support, because I'm not entirely confident that this is the last bug here. And tweak matters so that the transformed.dot file uses small integers rather than pointer values to identify states; that makes it more readable if you're just eyeballing it rather than fooling with Graphviz. And rename a couple of identically named struct fields to reduce confusion. Per report from Corey Csuhta. Add a test case based on his example. (Note: this case does not trigger the bug under 9.3, apparently because its different measurement of costs causes it to stop merging states before it hits the failure. I spent some time trying to find a variant that would fail in 9.3, without success; but I'm sure such cases exist.) Like the previous patch, back-patch to 9.3 where this code was added. Report: https://postgr.es/m/E2B01A4B-4530-406B-8D17-2F67CF9A16BA@csuhta.com
* Fix regexport.c to behave sanely with lookaround constraints.Tom Lane2017-04-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | regexport.c thought it could just ignore LACON arcs, but the correct behavior is to treat them as satisfiable while consuming zero input (rather reminiscently of commit 9f1e642d5). Otherwise, the emitted simplified-NFA representation may contain no paths leading from initial to final state, which unsurprisingly confuses pg_trgm, as seen in bug #14623 from Jeff Janes. Since regexport's output representation has no concept of an arc that consumes zero input, recurse internally to find the next normal arc(s) after any LACON transitions. We'd be forced into changing that representation if a LACON could be the last arc reaching the final state, but fortunately the regex library never builds NFAs with such a configuration, so there always is a next normal arc. Back-patch to 9.3 where this logic was introduced. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170413180503.25948.94871@wrigleys.postgresql.org
* Move pg_stat_progress_vacuum to the table of Dynamic Statistics Views in doc.Fujii Masao2017-04-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | Previously the description about pg_stat_progress_vacuum was in the table of "Collected Statistics Views" in the doc. But since it repors dynamic information, i.e., the current progress of VACUUM, its description should be in the table of "Dynamic Statistics Views". Back-patch to 9.6 where pg_stat_progress_vacuum was added. Author: Amit Langote Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/7ab51b59-8d4d-6193-c60a-b75f222efb12@lab.ntt.co.jp
* Improve castNode notation by introducing list-extraction-specific variants.Tom Lane2017-04-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This extends the castNode() notation introduced by commit 5bcab1114 to provide, in one step, extraction of a list cell's pointer and coercion to a concrete node type. For example, "lfirst_node(Foo, lc)" is the same as "castNode(Foo, lfirst(lc))". Almost half of the uses of castNode that have appeared so far include a list extraction call, so this is pretty widely useful, and it saves a few more keystrokes compared to the old way. As with the previous patch, back-patch the addition of these macros to pg_list.h, so that the notation will be available when back-patching. Patch by me, after an idea of Andrew Gierth's. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/14197.1491841216@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Fix planner error (or assert trap) with nested set operations.Tom Lane2017-04-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | As reported by Sean Johnston in bug #14614, since 9.6 the planner can fail due to trying to look up the referent of a Var with varno 0. This happens because we generate such Vars in generate_append_tlist, for lack of any better way to describe the output of a SetOp node. In typical situations nothing really cares about that, but given nested set-operation queries we will call estimate_num_groups on the output of the subquery, and that wants to know what a Var actually refers to. That logic used to look at subquery->targetList, but in commit 3fc6e2d7f I'd switched it to look at subroot->processed_tlist, ie the actual output of the subquery plan not the parser's idea of the result. It seemed like a good idea at the time :-(. As a band-aid fix, change it back. Really we ought to have an honest way of naming the outputs of SetOp steps, which suggests that it'd be a good idea for the parser to emit an RTE corresponding to each one. But that's a task for another day, and it certainly wouldn't yield a back-patchable fix. Report: https://postgr.es/m/20170407115808.25934.51866@wrigleys.postgresql.org
* Silence compiler warning in sepgsqlJoe Conway2017-04-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | <selinux/label.h> includes <stdbool.h>, which creates an incompatible We don't care if <stdbool.h> redefines "true"/"false"; those are close enough. Complaint and initial patch by Mike Palmiotto. Final approach per Tom Lane's suggestion, as discussed on hackers. Backpatching to all supported branches. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/flat/623bcaae-112e-ced0-8c22-a84f75ae0c53%40joeconway.com
* Remove dead code and fix comments in fast-path function handling.Heikki Linnakangas2017-04-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | HandleFunctionRequest() is no longer responsible for reading the protocol message from the client, since commit 2b3a8b20c2. Fix the outdated comments. HandleFunctionRequest() now always returns 0, because the code that used to return EOF was moved in 2b3a8b20c2. Therefore, the caller no longer needs to check the return value. Reported by Andres Freund. Backpatch to all supported versions, even though this doesn't have any user-visible effect, to make backporting future patches in this area easier. Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20170405010525.rt5azbya5fkbhvrx@alap3.anarazel.de
* Fix integer-overflow problems in interval comparison.Tom Lane2017-04-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When using integer timestamps, the interval-comparison functions tried to compute the overall magnitude of an interval as an int64 number of microseconds. As reported by Frazer McLean, this overflows for intervals exceeding about 296000 years, which is bad since we nominally allow intervals many times larger than that. That results in wrong comparison results, and possibly in corrupted btree indexes for columns containing such large interval values. To fix, compute the magnitude as int128 instead. Although some compilers have native support for int128 calculations, many don't, so create our own support functions that can do 128-bit addition and multiplication if the compiler support isn't there. These support functions are designed with an eye to allowing the int128 code paths in numeric.c to be rewritten for use on all platforms, although this patch doesn't do that, or even provide all the int128 primitives that will be needed for it. Back-patch as far as 9.4. Earlier releases did not guard against overflow of interval values at all (commit 146604ec4 fixed that), so it seems not very exciting to worry about overly-large intervals for them. Before 9.6, we did not assume that unreferenced "static inline" functions would not draw compiler warnings, so omit functions not directly referenced by timestamp.c, the only present consumer of int128.h. (We could have omitted these functions in HEAD too, but since they were written and debugged on the way to the present patch, and they look likely to be needed by numeric.c, let's keep them in HEAD.) I did not bother to try to prevent such warnings in a --disable-integer-datetimes build, though. Before 9.5, configure will never define HAVE_INT128, so the part of int128.h that exploits a native int128 implementation is dead code in the 9.4 branch. I didn't bother to remove it, thinking that keeping the file looking similar in different branches is more useful. In HEAD only, add a simple test harness for int128.h in src/tools/. In back branches, this does not change the float-timestamps code path. That's not subject to the same kind of overflow risk, since it computes the interval magnitude as float8. (No doubt, when this code was originally written, overflow was disregarded for exactly that reason.) There is a precision hazard instead :-(, but we'll avert our eyes from that question, since no complaints have been reported and that code's deprecated anyway. Kyotaro Horiguchi and Tom Lane Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1490104629.422698.918452336.26FA96B7@webmail.messagingengine.com
* Back-patch checkpoint clarification docs and pg_basebackup updatesMagnus Hagander2017-04-01
| | | | | | | | | This backpatches 51e26c9 and 7220c7b, including both documentation updates clarifying the checkpoints at the beginning of base backups and the messages in verbose and progress mdoe of pg_basebackup. Author: Michael Banck Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/21444.1488142764%40sss.pgh.pa.us
* Fix parallel query so it doesn't spoil row estimates above Gather.Robert Haas2017-03-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Commit 45be99f8cd5d606086e0a458c9c72910ba8a613d removed GatherPath's num_workers field, but this is entirely bogus. Normally, a path's parallel_workers flag is supposed to indicate the number of workers that it wants, and should be 0 for a non-partial path. In that commit, I mistakenly thought that GatherPath could also use that field to indicate the number of workers that it would try to start, but that's disastrous, because then it can propagate up to higher nodes in the plan tree, which will then get incorrect rowcounts because the parallel_workers flag is involved in computing those values. Repair by putting the separate field back. Report by Tomas Vondra. Patch by me, reviewed by Amit Kapila. Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/f91b4a44-f739-04bd-c4b6-f135bd643669@2ndquadrant.com
* Don't use bgw_main even to specify in-core bgworker entrypoints.Robert Haas2017-03-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | On EXEC_BACKEND builds, this can fail if ASLR is in use. Backpatch to 9.5. On master, completely remove the bgw_main field completely, since there is no situation in which it is safe for an EXEC_BACKEND build. On 9.6 and 9.5, leave the field intact to avoid breaking things for third-party code that doesn't care about working under EXEC_BACKEND. Prior to 9.5, there are no in-core bgworker entrypoints. Petr Jelinek, reviewed by me. Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/09d8ad33-4287-a09b-a77f-77f8761adb5e@2ndquadrant.com
* Simplify the example of VACUUM in documentation.Fujii Masao2017-03-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Previously a detailed activity report by VACUUM VERBOSE ANALYZE was described as an example of VACUUM in docs. But it had been obsolete for a long time. For example, commit feb4f44d296b88b7f0723f4a4f3945a371276e0b updated the content of that activity report in 2003, but we had forgotten to update the example. So basically we need to update the example. But since no one cared about the details of VACUUM output and complained about that mistake for such long time, per discussion on hackers, we decided to get rid of the detailed activity report from the example and simplify it. Back-patch to all supported versions. Reported by Masahiko Sawada, patch by me. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAD21AoAGA2pB3p-CWmTkxBsbkZS1bcDGBLcYVcvcDxspG_XAfA@mail.gmail.com
* Suppress implicit-conversion warnings seen with newer clang versions.Tom Lane2017-03-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We were assigning values near 255 through "char *" pointers. On machines where char is signed, that's not entirely kosher, and it's reasonable for compilers to warn about it. A better solution would be to change the pointer type to "unsigned char *", but that would be vastly more invasive. For the moment, let's just apply this simple backpatchable solution. Aleksander Alekseev Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170220141239.GD12278@e733.localdomain Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2839.1490714708@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Fix unportable disregard of alignment requirements in RADIUS code.Tom Lane2017-03-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The compiler is entitled to store a char[] local variable with no particular alignment requirement. Our RADIUS code cavalierly took such a local variable and cast its address to a struct type that does have alignment requirements. On an alignment-picky machine this would lead to bus errors. To fix, declare the local variable honestly, and then cast its address to char * for use in the I/O calls. Given the lack of field complaints, there must be very few if any people affected; but nonetheless this is a clear portability issue, so back-patch to all supported branches. Noted while looking at a Coverity complaint in the same code.
* plpgsql: Don't generate parallel plans for RETURN QUERY.Robert Haas2017-03-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Commit 7aea8e4f2daa4b39ca9d1309a0c4aadb0f7ed81b allowed a parallel plan to be generated when for a RETURN QUERY or RETURN QUERY EXECUTE statement in a PL/pgsql block, but that's a bad idea because plplgsql asks the executor for 50 rows at a time. That means that we'll always be running serially a plan that was intended for parallel execution, which is not a good idea. Fix by not requesting a parallel plan from the outset. Per discussion, back-patch to 9.6. There is a slight risk that, due to optimizer error, somebody could have a case where the parallel plan executed serially is actually faster than the supposedly-best serial plan, but the consensus seems to be that that's not sufficient justification for leaving 9.6 unpatched. Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoZ_ZuH+auEeeWnmtorPsgc_SmP+XWbDsJ+cWvWBSjNwDQ@mail.gmail.com Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmobXEhvHbJtWDuPZM9bVSLiTj-kShxQJ2uM5GPDze9fRYA@mail.gmail.com
* Fix pgbench options -C and -R togetherTeodor Sigaev2017-03-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The bug is that prior to --rate doCustom was always disconnect/reconnect without exiting, but with rate it returns if it has to wait. However threadRun test whether there is a connection before recalling doCustom, so it was never called. Bug is not existed in head branch because of refactoring at 12788ae49e1933f463bc59a6efe46c4a01701b76, patch only 9.6 Author: Fabien Coelho Reviewed-by: me https://commitfest.postgresql.org/13/970/
* Fix backup cancelingTeodor Sigaev2017-03-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Assert-enabled build crashes but without asserts it works by wrong way: it may not reset forcing full page write and preventing from starting exclusive backup with the same name as cancelled. Patch replaces pair of booleans nonexclusive_backup_running/exclusive_backup_running to single enum to correctly describe backup state. Backpatch to 9.6 where bug was introduced Reported-by: David Steele Authors: Michael Paquier, David Steele Reviewed-by: Anastasia Lubennikova https://commitfest.postgresql.org/13/1068/
* Revert Windows service check refactoring, and replace with a different fix.Heikki Linnakangas2017-03-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This reverts commit 38bdba54a64bacec78e3266f0848b0b4a824132a, "Fix and simplify check for whether we're running as Windows service". It turns out that older versions of MinGW - like that on buildfarm member narwhal - do not support the CheckTokenMembership() function. This replaces the refactoring with a much smaller fix, to add a check for SE_GROUP_ENABLED to pgwin32_is_service(). Only apply to back-branches, and keep the refactoring in HEAD. It's unlikely that anyone is still really using such an old version of MinGW - aside from narwhal - but let's not change the minimum requirements in minor releases. Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/16609.1489773427@sss.pgh.pa.us Patch: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAB7nPqSvfu%3DKpJ%3DNX%2BYAHmgAmQdzA7N5h31BjzXeMgczhGCC%2BQ%40mail.gmail.com
* Fix support for some operators (&<, &>, $<|, |&>) in box operator classTeodor Sigaev2017-03-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | of SP-GiST. Bug exists since initial commit of box opclass for SP-GiST, so backpath to 9.6 Author: Nikita Glukhov with minor editorization of tests by me Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi, Anastasia Lubennikova https://commitfest.postgresql.org/13/981/
* Revert unintentional change in increasing usage count during pin of buffers,Teodor Sigaev2017-03-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | this makes buffer access strategy have no effect. Change was a part of commit 48354581a49c30f5757c203415aa8412d85b0f70 during 9.6 release cycle, so backpath to 9.6 Reported-by: Jim Nasby Author: Alexander Korotkov Reviewed-by: Jim Nasby, Andres Freund https://commitfest.postgresql.org/13/1029/
* doc: Fix a few typos and awkward linksPeter Eisentraut2017-03-18
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* Fix WaitEventSetWait() to handle write-ready waits properly on Windows.Tom Lane2017-03-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Windows apparently will not detect socket write-ready events unless a preceding send attempt returned WSAEWOULDBLOCK. In many usage patterns that's satisfied by the caller of WaitEvenSetWait(), but not always. Apply the same solution that we already had in pgwin32_select(), namely to perform a dummy WSASend() call with len=0. This will return WSAEWOULDBLOCK if there's no buffer space (even though it could legitimately do nothing and report success, which makes me a bit nervous about this solution; but since it's been working fine in libpq, let's roll with it). In passing, improve the comments about this in pgwin32_select(), and remove duplicated code there. Back-patch to 9.6 where WaitEventSetWait() was introduced. We might need to back-patch something similar into predecessor code. But given the lack of complaints so far, it's not clear that the case ever gets exercised in the back branches, so I'm not going to expend effort on it right now. This should resolve recurring failures on buildfarm member bowerbird, which has been failing since 1e8a85009 went in. Diagnosis and patch by Petr Jelinek, cosmetic adjustments by me. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/5b6a6d6d-fb45-0afb-2e95-5600063c3dbd@2ndquadrant.com
* Repair test for vacuum reltuples fix.Andrew Gierth2017-03-17
| | | | | | | | | Concurrent auto-analyze could be holding a snapshot, affecting the removal of deleted row versions. Remove the deletion to avoid this happening. Per buildfarm. In passing, make the test independent of assumptions of physical row order, just out of sheer paranoia.
* Remove dead link.Robert Haas2017-03-17
| | | | | | David Christensen Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/82299377-1480-4439-9ABA-5828D71AA22E@endpoint.com
* Fix and simplify check for whether we're running as Windows service.Heikki Linnakangas2017-03-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If the process token contains SECURITY_SERVICE_RID, but it has been disabled by the SE_GROUP_USE_FOR_DENY_ONLY attribute, win32_is_service() would incorrectly report that we're running as a service. That situation arises, e.g. if postmaster is launched with a restricted security token, with the "Log in as Service" privilege explicitly removed. Replace the broken code with CheckProcessTokenMembership(), which does this correctly. Also replace similar code in win32_is_admin(), even though it got this right, for simplicity and consistency. Per bug #13755, reported by Breen Hagan. Back-patch to all supported versions. Patch by Takayuki Tsunakawa, reviewed by Michael Paquier. Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20151104062315.2745.67143%40wrigleys.postgresql.org
* Avoid having vacuum set reltuples to 0 on non-empty relations in theAndrew Gierth2017-03-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | presence of page pins, which leads to serious estimation errors in the planner. This particularly affects small heavily-accessed tables, especially where locking (e.g. from FK constraints) forces frequent vacuums for mxid cleanup. Fix by keeping separate track of pages whose live tuples were actually counted vs. pages that were only scanned for freezing purposes. Thus, reltuples can only be set to 0 if all pages of the relation were actually counted. Backpatch to all supported versions. Per bug #14057 from Nicolas Baccelli, analyzed by me. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20160331103739.8956.94469@wrigleys.postgresql.org
* Fix ancient get_object_address_opf_member bugAlvaro Herrera2017-03-16
| | | | | | | | | | | The original coding was trying to use a TypeName as a string Value, which doesn't work; an oversight in my commit a61fd533. Repair. Also, make sure we cover the broken case in the relevant test script. Backpatch to 9.5. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170315151829.bhxsvrp75xdxhm3n@alvherre.pgsql
* Fix failure to use clamp_row_est() for parallel joins.Robert Haas2017-03-15
| | | | | | | | | Commit 0c2070cefa0e5d097b715c9a3b9b5499470019aa neglected to use clamp_row_est() where it should have done so. Patch by me. Report by Amit Kapila. Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAA4eK1KPm8RYa1Kun3ZmQj9pb723b-EFN70j47Pid1vn3ByquA@mail.gmail.com
* Spelling fixesPeter Eisentraut2017-03-14
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* Fix failure to mark init buffers as BM_PERMANENT.Robert Haas2017-03-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | This could result in corruption of the init fork of an unlogged index if the ambuildempty routine for that index used shared buffers to create the init fork, which was true for brin, gin, gist, and hash indexes. Patch by me, based on an earlier patch by Michael Paquier, who also reviewed this one. This also incorporates an idea from Artur Zakirov. Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CACYUyc8yccE4xfxhqxfh_Mh38j7dRFuxfaK1p6dSNAEUakxUyQ@mail.gmail.com
* Remove unnecessary dependency on statement_timeout in prepared_xacts test.Tom Lane2017-03-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Rather than waiting around for statement_timeout to expire, we can just try to take the table's lock in nowait mode. This saves some fraction under 4 seconds when running this test with prepared xacts available, and it guards against timeout-expired-anyway failures on very slow machines when prepared xacts are not available, as seen in a recent failure on axolotl for instance. This approach could fail if autovacuum were to take an exclusive lock on the test table concurrently, but there's no reason for it to do so. Since the main point here is to improve stability in the buildfarm, back-patch to all supported branches.