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* Adjust comment in .history file to match recovery target specified. CommentSimon Riggs2010-03-19
| | | | | | | | present since 8.0 was never fully meaningful, since two recovery targets cannot be specified. Refactor recovery target type to make this change and associated code easier to understand. No change in function. Bug report arising from internal support question.
* Add restartpoint_command option to recovery.conf. Fix bug in %r handlingHeikki Linnakangas2010-03-18
| | | | | | | | | in recovery_end_command, it always came out as 0 because InRedo was cleared before recovery_end_command was executed. Also, always take ControlFileLock when reading checkpoint location for %r. The recovery_end_command bug and the missing locking was present in 8.4 as well, that part of this patch will be backported separately.
* Remove incorrect comment from GetWriteRecPtr(): the return value is alwaysSimon Riggs2010-03-15
| | | | correct, as described in comments at start of xlog.c
* pg_start_backup() can use a share lock to lock ControlFileLockItagaki Takahiro2010-03-10
| | | | | | | | | instead of an exclusive lock. The change is almost for code cleanup. Since there seems to be no performance benefits from it, backports should not be needed. Fujii Masao
* pgindent run for 9.0Bruce Momjian2010-02-26
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* Make pg_stop_backup's reporting a bit more verbose in hopes of makingTom Lane2010-02-25
| | | | | | error cases less intimidating for novices. Per discussion. Greg Smith
* Don't use O_DIRECT when writing WAL files if archiving or streaming isHeikki Linnakangas2010-02-19
| | | | | | | | | | enabled. Bypassing the kernel cache is counter-productive in that case, because the archiver/walsender process will read from the WAL file soon after it's written, and if it's not cached the read will cause a physical read, eating I/O bandwidth available on the WAL drive. Also, walreceiver process does unaligned writes, so disable O_DIRECT in walreceiver process for that reason too.
* Fix STOP WAL LOCATION in backup history files no to return the nextItagaki Takahiro2010-02-19
| | | | | | | | | | | segment of XLOG_BACKUP_END record even if the the record is placed at a segment boundary. Furthermore the previous implementation could return nonexistent segment file name when the boundary is in segments that has "FE" suffix; We never use segments with "FF" suffix. Backpatch to 8.0, where hot backup was introduced. Reported by Fujii Masao.
* Stamp HEAD as 9.0devel, and update various places that were referring to 8.5Tom Lane2010-02-17
| | | | (hope I got 'em all). Per discussion, this release will be 9.0 not 8.5.
* When updating ShmemVariableCache from a checkpoint record, be sure to setTom Lane2010-02-17
| | | | | | | | | | all the values derived from oldestXid, not just that field. Brain fade in one of my patches associated with flat file removal, exposed by a report from Fujii Masao. With this change, xidVacLimit should always be valid, so remove a couple of bits of complexity associated with the previous assumption that sometimes it wouldn't get set right away.
* Reduce the chatter to the log when starting a standby server. Don'tHeikki Linnakangas2010-02-12
| | | | | | | | | echo all the recovery.conf options. Don't emit the "initializing recovery connections" message, which doesn't mean anything to a user. Remove the "starting archive recovery" message and replace the "automatic recovery in progress" message with a more informative message saying whether the server is doing PITR, normal archive recovery, or standby mode.
* If primary_conninfo is not set, don't try to establish streamingHeikki Linnakangas2010-02-12
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* Check for partial WAL files in standby mode. If restore_command restoresHeikki Linnakangas2010-02-12
| | | | | | | a partial WAL file, assume it's because the file is just being copied to the archive and treat it the same as "file not found" in standby mode. pg_standby has a similar check, so it seems reasonable to have the same level of protection in the built-in standby mode.
* Now that streaming replication switches between streaming mode andHeikki Linnakangas2010-02-10
| | | | | | | restoring from archive, the last WAL segment is not necessarily open at the end of recovery. Fix assertion that assumed that. Fujii Masao, fixing the assertion failure reported by Martin Pihlak.
* Remove piece of code to zero out minRecoveryPoint when starting crashHeikki Linnakangas2010-02-08
| | | | | | | | | recovery. It's zeroed out whenever a checkpoint is written, so the only scenario where the removed code did anything is when you kill archive recovery, remove recovery.conf, and start up the server, so that it goes into crash recovery instead. That's a "don't do that" scenario, but it seems better to not clear minRecoveryPoint but instead update it like we do in archive recovery, which is what will now happen.
* Remove old-style VACUUM FULL (which was known for a little while asTom Lane2010-02-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | VACUUM FULL INPLACE), along with a boatload of subsidiary code and complexity. Per discussion, the use case for this method of vacuuming is no longer large enough to justify maintaining it; not to mention that we don't wish to invest the work that would be needed to make it play nicely with Hot Standby. Aside from the code directly related to old-style VACUUM FULL, this commit removes support for certain WAL record types that could only be generated within VACUUM FULL, redirect-pointer removal in heap_page_prune, and nontransactional generation of cache invalidation sinval messages (the last being the sticking point for Hot Standby). We still have to retain all code that copes with finding HEAP_MOVED_OFF and HEAP_MOVED_IN flag bits on existing tuples. This can't be removed as long as we want to support in-place update from pre-9.0 databases.
* Create a "relation mapping" infrastructure to support changing the relfilenodesTom Lane2010-02-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | of shared or nailed system catalogs. This has two key benefits: * The new CLUSTER-based VACUUM FULL can be applied safely to all catalogs. * We no longer have to use an unsafe reindex-in-place approach for reindexing shared catalogs. CLUSTER on nailed catalogs now works too, although I left it disabled on shared catalogs because the resulting pg_index.indisclustered update would only be visible in one database. Since reindexing shared system catalogs is now fully transactional and crash-safe, the former special cases in REINDEX behavior have been removed; shared catalogs are treated the same as non-shared. This commit does not do anything about the recently-discussed problem of deadlocks between VACUUM FULL/CLUSTER on a system catalog and other concurrent queries; will address that in a separate patch. As a stopgap, parallel_schedule has been tweaked to run vacuum.sql by itself, to avoid such failures during the regression tests.
* Revoke augmentation of WAL records for btree delete, per discussion.Simon Riggs2010-02-01
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* Augment WAL records for btree delete with GetOldestXmin() to reduceSimon Riggs2010-01-29
| | | | | | | | false positives during Hot Standby conflict processing. Simple patch to enhance conflict processing, following previous discussions. Controlled by parameter minimize_standby_conflicts = on | off, with default off allows measurement of performance impact to see whether it should be set on all the time.
* Fix crashing bug at the end of recovery in Streaming Replication, whenHeikki Linnakangas2010-01-28
| | | | restore_command is not given. Fujii Masao.
* Fix bug in wasender's xlogid boundary handling, reported by Erik Rijkers.Heikki Linnakangas2010-01-27
| | | | | | | | LogwrtRqst.Write can be set to non-existent FF log segment, we mustn't try to send that in XLogSend(). Also fix similar bug in ReadRecord(), which I just introduced in the ReadRecord() refactoring patch.
* Make standby server continuously retry restoring the next WAL segment withHeikki Linnakangas2010-01-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | restore_command, if the connection to the primary server is lost. This ensures that the standby can recover automatically, if the connection is lost for a long time and standby falls behind so much that the required WAL segments have been archived and deleted in the master. This also makes standby_mode useful without streaming replication; the server will keep retrying restore_command every few seconds until the trigger file is found. That's the same basic functionality pg_standby offers, but without the bells and whistles. To implement that, refactor the ReadRecord/FetchRecord functions. The FetchRecord() function introduced in the original streaming replication patch is removed, and all the retry logic is now in a new function called XLogReadPage(). XLogReadPage() is now responsible for executing restore_command, launching walreceiver, and waiting for new WAL to arrive from primary, as required. This also changes the life cycle of walreceiver. When launched, it now only tries to connect to the master once, and exits if the connection fails, or is lost during streaming for any reason. The startup process detects the death, and re-launches walreceiver if necessary.
* Fix longstanding gripe that we check for 0000000001.history at start ofSimon Riggs2010-01-26
| | | | archive recovery, even when we know it is never present.
* In HS, Startup process sets SIGALRM when waiting for buffer pin. IfSimon Riggs2010-01-23
| | | | | | | woken by alarm we send SIGUSR1 to all backends requesting that they check to see if they are blocking Startup process. If so, they throw ERROR/FATAL as for other conflict resolutions. Deadlock stop gap removed. max_standby_delay = -1 option removed to prevent deadlock.
* Write a WAL record whenever we perform an operation without WAL-loggingHeikki Linnakangas2010-01-20
| | | | | | | | that would've been WAL-logged if archiving was enabled. If we encounter such records in archive recovery anyway, we know that some data is missing from the log. A WARNING is emitted in that case. Original patch by Fujii Masao, with changes by me.
* Introduce Streaming Replication.Heikki Linnakangas2010-01-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This includes two new kinds of postmaster processes, walsenders and walreceiver. Walreceiver is responsible for connecting to the primary server and streaming WAL to disk, while walsender runs in the primary server and streams WAL from disk to the client. Documentation still needs work, but the basics are there. We will probably pull the replication section to a new chapter later on, as well as the sections describing file-based replication. But let's do that as a separate patch, so that it's easier to see what has been added/changed. This patch also adds a new section to the chapter about FE/BE protocol, documenting the protocol used by walsender/walreceivxer. Bump catalog version because of two new functions, pg_last_xlog_receive_location() and pg_last_xlog_replay_location(), for monitoring the progress of replication. Fujii Masao, with additional hacking by me
* Write an end-of-backup WAL record at pg_stop_backup(), and wait for it atHeikki Linnakangas2010-01-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | recovery instead of reading the backup history file. This is more robust, as it stops you from prematurely starting up an inconsisten cluster if the backup history file is lost for some reason, or if the base backup was never finished with pg_stop_backup(). This also paves the way for a simpler streaming replication patch, which doesn't need to care about backup history files anymore. The backup history file is still created and archived as before, but it's not used by the system anymore. It's just for informational purposes now. Bump PG_CONTROL_VERSION as the location of the backup startpoint is now written to a new field in pg_control, and catversion because initdb is required Original patch by Fujii Masao per Simon's idea, with further fixes by me.
* Update copyright for the year 2010.Bruce Momjian2010-01-02
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* Reset minRecoveryPoint at checkpoints, so that we don't uselessly updateHeikki Linnakangas2009-12-30
| | | | | | it in the control file at crash recovery following an archive recovery. Per Fujii Masao and subsequent discussion.
* Allow read only connections during recovery, known as Hot Standby.Simon Riggs2009-12-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | Enabled by recovery_connections = on (default) and forcing archive recovery using a recovery.conf. Recovery processing now emulates the original transactions as they are replayed, providing full locking and MVCC behaviour for read only queries. Recovery must enter consistent state before connections are allowed, so there is a delay, typically short, before connections succeed. Replay of recovering transactions can conflict and in some cases deadlock with queries during recovery; these result in query cancellation after max_standby_delay seconds have expired. Infrastructure changes have minor effects on normal running, though introduce four new types of WAL record. New test mode "make standbycheck" allows regression tests of static command behaviour on a standby server while in recovery. Typical and extreme dynamic behaviours have been checked via code inspection and manual testing. Few port specific behaviours have been utilised, though primary testing has been on Linux only so far. This commit is the basic patch. Additional changes will follow in this release to enhance some aspects of behaviour, notably improved handling of conflicts, deadlock detection and query cancellation. Changes to VACUUM FULL are also required. Simon Riggs, with significant and lengthy review by Heikki Linnakangas, including streamlined redesign of snapshot creation and two-phase commit. Important contributions from Florian Pflug, Mark Kirkwood, Merlin Moncure, Greg Stark, Gianni Ciolli, Gabriele Bartolini, Hannu Krosing, Robert Haas, Tatsuo Ishii, Hiroyuki Yamada plus support and feedback from many other community members.
* Don't error out if recycling or removing an old WAL segment fails at the endHeikki Linnakangas2009-09-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | of checkpoint. Although the checkpoint has been written to WAL at that point already, so that all data is safe, and we'll retry removing the WAL segment at the next checkpoint, if such a failure persists we won't be able to remove any other old WAL segments either and will eventually run out of disk space. It's better to treat the failure as non-fatal, and move on to clean any other WAL segment and continue with any other end-of-checkpoint cleanup. We don't normally expect any such failures, but on Windows it can happen with some anti-virus or backup software that lock files without FILE_SHARE_DELETE flag. Also, the loop in pgrename() to retry when the file is locked was broken. If a file is locked on Windows, you get ERROR_SHARE_VIOLATION, not ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED, at least on modern versions. Fix that, although I left the check for ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED in there as well (presumably it was correct in some environment), and added ERROR_LOCK_VIOLATION to be consistent with similar checks in pgwin32_open(). Reduce the timeout on the loop from 30s to 10s, on the grounds that since it's been broken, we've effectively had a timeout of 0s and no-one has complained, so a smaller timeout is actually closer to the old behavior. A longer timeout would mean that if recycling a WAL file fails because it's locked for some reason, InstallXLogFileSegment() will hold ControlFileLock for longer, potentially blocking other backends, so a long timeout isn't totally harmless. While we're at it, set errno correctly in pgrename(). Backpatch to 8.2, which is the oldest version supported on Windows. The xlog.c changes would make sense on other platforms and thus on older versions as well, but since there's no such locking issues on other platforms, it's not worth it.
* On Windows, when a file is deleted and another process still has an openHeikki Linnakangas2009-09-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | file handle on it, the file goes into "pending deletion" state where it still shows up in directory listing, but isn't accessible otherwise. That confuses RemoveOldXLogFiles(), making it think that the file hasn't been archived yet, while it actually was, and it was deleted along with the .done file. Fix that by renaming the file with ".deleted" extension before deleting it. Also check the return value of rename() and unlink(), so that if the removal fails for any reason (e.g another process is holding the file locked), we don't delete the .done file until the WAL file is really gone. Backpatch to 8.2, which is the oldest version supported on Windows.
* Remove flatfiles.c, which is now obsolete.Alvaro Herrera2009-09-01
| | | | | | Recent commits have removed the various uses it was supporting. It was a performance bottleneck, according to bug report #4919 by Lauris Ulmanis; seems it slowed down user creation after a billion users.
* Track the current XID wrap limit (or more accurately, the oldest unfrozenTom Lane2009-08-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | XID) in checkpoint records. This eliminates the need to recompute the value from scratch during database startup, which is one of the two remaining reasons for the flatfile code to exist. It should also simplify life for hot-standby operation. To avoid bloating the checkpoint records unreasonably, I switched from tracking the oldest database by name to tracking it by OID. This turns out to save cycles in general (everywhere but the warning-generating paths, which we hardly care about) and also helps us deal with the case that the oldest database got dropped instead of being vacuumed. The prior coding might go for a long time without updating the wrap limit in that case, which is bad because it might result in a lot of useless autovacuum activity.
* In the checkpoint written at the end of archive recovery, the WAL page headerHeikki Linnakangas2009-08-27
| | | | | | | | | | was incorrectly initialized with timeline ID 0. That rendered the WAL page unrecoverable, making a subsequent archive recovery stop at that point. ThisTimeLineID needs to be initialized before calling AdvanceXLInsertBuffer(). This fixes bug #5011 reported by James Bardin. Backpatch to 8.4, as the bug was introduced by the changes to use of bgwriter for writing the end-of-archive-recovery checkpoint. Patch by Tom Lane.
* Allow backends to start up without use of the flat-file copy of pg_database.Tom Lane2009-08-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | To make this work in the base case, pg_database now has a nailed-in-cache relation descriptor that is initialized using hardwired knowledge in relcache.c. This means pg_database is added to the set of relations that need to have a Schema_pg_xxx macro maintained in pg_attribute.h. When this path is taken, we'll have to do a seqscan of pg_database to find the row we need. In the normal case, we are able to do an indexscan to find the database's row by name. This is made possible by storing a global relcache init file that describes only the shared catalogs and their indexes (and therefore is usable by all backends in any database). A new backend loads this cache file, finds its database OID after an indexscan on pg_database, and then loads the local relcache init file for that database. This change should effectively eliminate number of databases as a factor in backend startup time, even with large numbers of databases. However, the real reason for doing it is as a first step towards getting rid of the flat files altogether. There are still several other sub-projects to be tackled before that can happen.
* Document that LocalSetXLogInsertAllowed can be re-executed.Tom Lane2009-08-08
| | | | Per comment from Simon.
* rm_cleanup functions need to be allowed to write WAL entries. This oversightTom Lane2009-08-07
| | | | | appears to explain the recent reports of "PANIC: cannot make new WAL entries during recovery".
* Cleanup and code review for the patch that made bgwriter active duringTom Lane2009-06-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | archive recovery. Invent a separate state variable and inquiry function for XLogInsertAllowed() to clarify some tests and make the management of writing the end-of-recovery checkpoint less klugy. Fix several places that were incorrectly testing InRecovery when they should be looking at RecoveryInProgress or XLogInsertAllowed (because they will now be executed in the bgwriter not startup process). Clarify handling of bad LSNs passed to XLogFlush during recovery. Use a spinlock for setting/testing SharedRecoveryInProgress. Improve quite a lot of comments. Heikki and Tom
* Fix some serious bugs in archive recovery, now that bgwriter is activeHeikki Linnakangas2009-06-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | during it: When bgwriter is active, the startup process can't perform mdsync() correctly because it won't see the fsync requests accumulated in bgwriter's private pendingOpsTable. Therefore make bgwriter responsible for the end-of-recovery checkpoint as well, when it's active. When bgwriter is active (= archive recovery), the startup process must not accumulate fsync requests to its own pendingOpsTable, since bgwriter won't see them there when it performs restartpoints. Make startup process drop its pendingOpsTable when bgwriter is launched to avoid that. Update minimum recovery point one last time when leaving archive recovery. It won't be updated by the end-of-recovery checkpoint because XLogFlush() sees us as out of recovery already. This fixes bug #4879 reported by Fujii Masao.
* 8.4 pgindent run, with new combined Linux/FreeBSD/MinGW typedef listBruce Momjian2009-06-11
| | | | provided by Andrew.
* Only recycle normal files in pg_xlog as WAL segments. pg_standby createsHeikki Linnakangas2009-06-02
| | | | | | | | symbolic links with the -l option, and as Fujii Masao pointed out we ended up overwriting files in the archive directory before this patch. Patch by Aidan Van Dyk, Fujii Masao and me. Backpatch to 8.3, where pg_standby was introduced.
* When archiving is enabled, rotate the last WAL segment at shutdown so thatHeikki Linnakangas2009-05-28
| | | | | | all transactions are archived. Original patch by Guillaume Smet.
* Fix all the server-side SIGQUIT handlers (grumble ... why so many identicalTom Lane2009-05-15
| | | | | | | copies?) to ensure they really don't run proc_exit/shmem_exit callbacks, as was intended. I broke this behavior recently by installing atexit callbacks without thinking about the one case where we truly don't want to run those callback functions. Noted in an example from Dave Page.
* Improve a couple of comments.Tom Lane2009-05-14
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* Add recovery_end_command option to recovery.conf. recovery_end_commandHeikki Linnakangas2009-05-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | is run at the end of archive recovery, providing a chance to do external cleanup. Modify pg_standby so that it no longer removes the trigger file, that is to be done using the recovery_end_command now. Provide a "smart" failover mode in pg_standby, where we don't fail over immediately, but only after recovering all unapplied WAL from the archive. That gives you zero data loss assuming all WAL was archived before failover, which is what most users of pg_standby actually want. recovery_end_command by Simon Riggs, pg_standby changes by Fujii Masao and myself.
* Request XLOG switch before writing checkpoint in pg_start_backup(). OtherwiseHeikki Linnakangas2009-05-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | you can end up with an unrecoverable backup if you start a new base backup right after finishing archive recovery. In that scenario, the redo pointer of the checkpoint that pg_start_backup() writes points to the XLOG segment where the timeline-changing end-of-archive-recovery checkpoint is. The beginning of that segment contains pages with the old timeline ID, and we don't accept that in recovery unless we find a history file covering the old timeline ID. If you omit pg_xlog from the base backup and clear the archive directory before starting the backup, there will be no such history file available. The bug is present in all versions since PITR was introduced in 8.0, but I'm back-patching only back to 8.2. Earlier versions didn't have XLOG switch records, making this fix unfeasible. Given the lack of reports until now, it doesn't seem worthwhile to spend more effort to fix 8.0 and 8.1. Per report and suggestion by Mikael Krantz
* After archive recovery, mark the last WAL segment from the parent timelineHeikki Linnakangas2009-04-22
| | | | | | | ready for archival. It was marked at the next checkpoint anyway, but waiting for the next checkpoint is an unnecessary delay. Fujii Masao
* Add an optional parameter to pg_start_backup() that specifies whether to doTom Lane2009-04-07
| | | | | | the checkpoint in immediate or lazy mode. This is to address complaints that pg_start_backup() takes a long time even when there's no need to minimize its I/O consumption.
* Code review for dtrace probes added (so far) to 8.4. Adjust placement ofTom Lane2009-03-11
| | | | | | | some bufmgr probes, take out redundant and memory-leak-inducing path arguments to smgr__md__read__done and smgr__md__write__done, fix bogus attempt to recalculate space used in sort__done, clean up formatting in places where I'm not sure pgindent will do a nice job by itself.