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* I neglected many comments in the log+seg -> 64-bit segno patch. Fix.Heikki Linnakangas2012-06-27
| | | | Reported by Amit Kapila.
* Tighten up includes in sinvaladt.h, twophase.h, proc.hAlvaro Herrera2012-06-25
| | | | | Remove proc.h from sinvaladt.h and twophase.h; also replace xlog.h in proc.h with xlogdefs.h.
* Oops. Remove stray paren.Heikki Linnakangas2012-06-24
| | | | I didn't notice this on my laptop as I don't HAVE_FSYNC_WRITETHROUGH.
* Replace XLogRecPtr struct with a 64-bit integer.Heikki Linnakangas2012-06-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | This simplifies code that needs to do arithmetic on XLogRecPtrs. To avoid changing on-disk format of data pages, the LSN on data pages is still stored in the old format. That should keep pg_upgrade happy. However, we have XLogRecPtrs embedded in the control file, and in the structs that are sent over the replication protocol, so this changes breaks compatibility of pg_basebackup and server. I didn't do anything about this in this patch, per discussion on -hackers, the right thing to do would to be to change the replication protocol to be architecture-independent, so that you could use a newer version of pg_receivexlog, for example, against an older server version.
* Allow WAL record header to be split across pages.Heikki Linnakangas2012-06-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | This saves a few bytes of WAL space, but the real motivation is to make it predictable how much WAL space a record requires, as it no longer depends on whether we need to waste the last few bytes at end of WAL page because the header doesn't fit. The total length field of WAL record, xl_tot_len, is moved to the beginning of the WAL record header, so that it is still always found on the first page where a WAL record begins. Bump WAL version number again as this is an incompatible change.
* Move WAL continuation record information to WAL page header.Heikki Linnakangas2012-06-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The continuation record only contained one field, xl_rem_len, so it makes things simpler to just include it in the WAL page header. This wastes four bytes on pages that don't begin with a continuation from previos page, plus four bytes on every page, because of padding. The motivation of this is to make it easier to calculate how much space a WAL record needs. Before this patch, it depended on how many page boundaries the record crosses. The motivation of that, in turn, is to separate the allocation of space in the WAL from the copying of the record data to the allocated space. Keeping the calculation of space required simple helps to keep the critical section of allocating the space from WAL short. But that's not included in this patch yet. Bump WAL version number again, as this is an incompatible change.
* Don't waste the last segment of each 4GB logical log file.Heikki Linnakangas2012-06-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The comments claimed that wasting the last segment made it easier to do calculations with XLogRecPtrs, because you don't have problems representing last-byte-position-plus-1 that way. In my experience, however, it only made things more complicated, because the there was two ways to represent the boundary at the beginning of a logical log file: logid = n+1 and xrecoff = 0, or as xlogid = n and xrecoff = 4GB - XLOG_SEG_SIZE. Some functions were picky about which representation was used. Also, use a 64-bit segment number instead of the log/seg combination, to point to a certain WAL segment. We assume that all platforms have a working 64-bit integer type nowadays. This is an incompatible change in WAL format, so bumping WAL version number.
* Improve readability and error messages in pg_backup_start_time.Robert Haas2012-06-14
| | | | Gurjeet Singh, with corrections by me.
* New SQL functons pg_backup_in_progress() and pg_backup_start_time()Robert Haas2012-06-14
| | | | | Darold Gilles, reviewed by Gabriele Bartolini and others, rebased by Marco Nenciarini. Stylistic cleanup and OID fixes by me.
* During transaction cleanup, release locks before deleting files.Robert Haas2012-06-14
| | | | | | | | There's no need to hold onto the locks until the files are needed, and by doing it this way, we reduce the impact on other backends who may be awaiting locks we hold. Noah Misch
* Revert "Reduce checkpoints and WAL traffic on low activity database server"Tom Lane2012-06-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | This reverts commit 18fb9d8d21a28caddb72c7ffbdd7b96d52ff9724. Per discussion, it does not seem like a good idea to allow committed changes to go un-checkpointed indefinitely, as could happen in a low-traffic server; that makes us entirely reliant on the WAL stream with no redundancy that might aid data recovery in case of disk failure. This re-introduces the original problem of hot-standby setups generating a small continuing stream of WAL traffic even when idle, but there are other ways to address that without compromising crash recovery, so we'll revisit that issue in a future release cycle.
* Run pgindent on 9.2 source tree in preparation for first 9.3Bruce Momjian2012-06-10
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* Scan the buffer pool just once, not once per fork, during relation drop.Tom Lane2012-06-07
| | | | | | | | This provides a speedup of about 4X when NBuffers is large enough. There is also a useful reduction in sinval traffic, since we only do CacheInvalidateSmgr() once not once per fork. Simon Riggs, reviewed and somewhat revised by Tom Lane
* Wake WALSender to reduce data loss at failover for async commit.Simon Riggs2012-06-07
| | | | | | | | | WALSender now woken up after each background flush by WALwriter, avoiding multi-second replication delay for an all-async commit workload. Replication delay reduced from 7s with default settings to 200ms and often much less, allowing significantly reduced data loss at failover. Andres Freund and Simon Riggs
* Improve comment for GetStableLatestTransactionId().Tom Lane2012-05-31
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* Teach AbortOutOfAnyTransaction to clean up partially-started transactions.Tom Lane2012-05-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | AbortOutOfAnyTransaction failed to do anything if the state it saw on entry corresponded to failing partway through StartTransaction. I fixed AbortCurrentTransaction to cope with that case way back in commit 60b2444cc3ba037630c9b940c3c9ef01b954b87b, but evidently overlooked that AbortOutOfAnyTransaction should do likewise. Back-patch to all supported branches. It's not clear that this omission has any more-than-cosmetic consequences, but it's also not clear that it doesn't, so back-patching seems the least risky choice.
* Update comments that became out-of-date with the PGXACT struct.Heikki Linnakangas2012-05-14
| | | | | | | | | | | When the "hot" members of PGPROC were split off to separate PGXACT structs, many PGPROC fields referred to in comments were moved to PGXACT, but the comments were neglected in the commit. Mostly this is just a search/replace of PGPROC with PGXACT, but the way the dummy PGPROC entries are created for prepared transactions changed more, making some of the comments totally bogus. Noah Misch
* Ensure backwards compatibility for GetStableLatestTransactionId()Simon Riggs2012-05-12
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* Ensure age() returns a stable value rather than the latest valueSimon Riggs2012-05-11
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* Fix an issue in recent walwriter hibernation patch.Tom Lane2012-05-08
| | | | | | | | | Users of asynchronous-commit mode expect there to be a guaranteed maximum delay before an async commit's WAL records get flushed to disk. The original version of the walwriter hibernation patch broke that. Add an extra shared-memory flag to allow async commits to kick the walwriter out of hibernation mode, without adding any noticeable overhead in cases where no action is needed.
* Reduce idle power consumption of walwriter and checkpointer processes.Tom Lane2012-05-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch modifies the walwriter process so that, when it has not found anything useful to do for many consecutive wakeup cycles, it extends its sleep time to reduce the server's idle power consumption. It reverts to normal as soon as it's done any successful flushes. It's still true that during any async commit, backends check for completed, unflushed pages of WAL and signal the walwriter if there are any; so that in practice the walwriter can get awakened and returned to normal operation sooner than the sleep time might suggest. Also, improve the checkpointer so that it uses a latch and a computed delay time to not wake up at all except when it has something to do, replacing a previous hardcoded 0.5 sec wakeup cycle. This also is primarily useful for reducing the server's power consumption when idle. In passing, get rid of the dedicated latch for signaling the walwriter in favor of using its procLatch, since that comports better with possible generic signal handlers using that latch. Also, fix a pre-existing bug with failure to save/restore errno in walwriter's signal handlers. Peter Geoghegan, somewhat simplified by Tom
* Converge all SQL-level statistics timing values to float8 milliseconds.Tom Lane2012-04-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adjusts the core statistics views to match the decision already taken for pg_stat_statements, that values representing elapsed time should be represented as float8 and measured in milliseconds. By using float8, we are no longer tied to a specific maximum precision of timing data. (Internally, it's still microseconds, but we could now change that without needing changes at the SQL level.) The columns affected are pg_stat_bgwriter.checkpoint_write_time pg_stat_bgwriter.checkpoint_sync_time pg_stat_database.blk_read_time pg_stat_database.blk_write_time pg_stat_user_functions.total_time pg_stat_user_functions.self_time pg_stat_xact_user_functions.total_time pg_stat_xact_user_functions.self_time The first four of these are new in 9.2, so there is no compatibility issue from changing them. The others require a release note comment that they are now double precision (and can show a fractional part) rather than bigint as before; also their underlying statistics functions now match the column definitions, instead of returning bigint microseconds.
* Remove duplicate word in comment.Robert Haas2012-04-30
| | | | Noted by Peter Geoghegan.
* Lots of doc corrections.Robert Haas2012-04-23
| | | | Josh Kupershmidt
* Fix some typosPeter Eisentraut2012-04-22
| | | | Josh Kupershmidt
* Tighten up error recovery for fast-path locking.Robert Haas2012-04-18
| | | | | | | | | The previous code could cause a backend crash after BEGIN; SAVEPOINT a; LOCK TABLE foo (interrupted by ^C or statement timeout); ROLLBACK TO SAVEPOINT a; LOCK TABLE foo, and might have leaked strong-lock counts in other situations. Report by Zoltán Böszörményi; patch review by Jeff Davis.
* Don't wait for the commit record to be replicated if we wrote no WAL.Heikki Linnakangas2012-04-17
| | | | | | | | When using synchronous replication, we waited for the commit record to be replicated, but if we our transaction didn't write any other WAL records, that's not required because we don't even flush the WAL locally to disk in that case. This lead to long waits when committing a transaction that only modified a temporary table. Bug spotted by Thom Brown.
* Fix typoPeter Eisentraut2012-04-16
| | | | Kyotaro HORIGUCHI
* Teach SLRU code to avoid replacing I/O-busy pages.Robert Haas2012-04-08
| | | | Patch by me; review by Tom Lane and others.
* Publish checkpoint timing information to pg_stat_bgwriter.Robert Haas2012-04-05
| | | | Greg Smith, Peter Geoghegan, and Robert Haas
* Correct epoch of txid_current() when executed on a Hot Standby server.Simon Riggs2012-03-29
| | | | | | | | | Initialise ckptXidEpoch from starting checkpoint and maintain the correct value as we roll forwards. This allows GetNextXidAndEpoch() to return the correct epoch when executed during recovery. Backpatch to 9.0 when the problem is first observable by a user. Bug report from Daniel Farina
* Add additional safety check against invalid backup label filePeter Eisentraut2012-03-14
| | | | | | | It was already checking for invalid data after "BACKUP FROM", but would possibly crash if "BACKUP FROM" was missing altogether. found by Coverity
* Silence warning about unused variable, when building without assertions.Heikki Linnakangas2012-03-08
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* Typo fix.Robert Haas2012-03-06
| | | | Fujii Masao
* Make the comments more clear on the fact that UpdateFullPageWrites() is notHeikki Linnakangas2012-03-06
| | | | safe to call concurrently from multiple processes.
* Remove extra copies of LogwrtResult.Heikki Linnakangas2012-03-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This simplifies the code a little bit. The new rule is that to update XLogCtl->LogwrtResult, you must hold both WALWriteLock and info_lck, whereas before we had two copies, one that was protected by WALWriteLock and another protected by info_lck. The code that updates them was already holding both locks, so merging the two is trivial. The third copy, XLogCtl->Insert.LogwrtResult, was not totally redundant, it was used in AdvanceXLInsertBuffer to update the backend-local copy, before acquiring the info_lck to read the up-to-date value. But the value of that seems dubious; at best it's saving one spinlock acquisition per completed WAL page, which is not significant compared to all the other work involved. And in practice, it's probably not saving even that much.
* Simplify the way changes to full_page_writes are logged.Heikki Linnakangas2012-03-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It's harmless to do full page writes even when not strictly necessary, so when turning full_page_writes on, we can set the global flag first, and then call XLogInsert. Likewise, when turning it off, we can write the WAL record first, and then clear the flag. This way XLogInsert doesn't need any special handling of the XLOG_FPW_CHANGE record type. XLogInsert is complicated enough already, so anything we can keep away from there is a good thing. Actually I don't think the atomicity of the shared memory flag matters, anyway, because we only write the XLOG_FPW_CHANGE at the end of recovery, when there are no concurrent WAL insertions going on. But might as well make it safe, in case we allow changing full_page_writes on the fly in the future.
* More carefully validate xlog location string inputsMagnus Hagander2012-03-04
| | | | | | | Now that we have validate_xlog_location, call it from the previously existing functions taking xlog locatoins as a string input. Suggested by Fujii Masao
* Add function pg_xlog_location_diff to help comparisonsMagnus Hagander2012-03-04
| | | | | | | | Comparing two xlog locations are useful for example when calculating replication lag. Euler Taveira de Oliveira, reviewed by Fujii Masao, and some cleanups from me
* Rename LWLockWaitUntilFree to LWLockAcquireOrWait.Heikki Linnakangas2012-02-08
| | | | | LWLockAcquireOrWait makes it more clear that the lock is acquired if it's free.
* Add locking around WAL-replay modification of shared-memory variables.Tom Lane2012-02-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Originally, most of this code assumed that no Postgres backends could be running concurrently with it, and so no locking could be needed. That assumption fails in Hot Standby. While it's still true that Hot Standby backends should never change values like nextXid, they can examine them, and consistency is important in some cases such as when computing a snapshot. Therefore, prudence requires that WAL replay code obtain the relevant locks when modifying such variables, even though it can examine them without taking a lock. We were following that coding rule in some places but not all. This commit applies the coding rule uniformly to all updates of ShmemVariableCache and MultiXactState fields; a search of the replay routines did not find any other cases that seemed to be at risk. In addition, this commit fixes a longstanding thinko in replay of NEXTOID and checkpoint records: we tried to advance nextOid only if it was behind the value in the WAL record, but the comparison would draw the wrong conclusion if OID wraparound had occurred since the previous value. Better to just unconditionally assign the new value, since OID assignment shouldn't be happening during replay anyway. The additional locking seems to be more in the nature of future-proofing than fixing any live bug, so I am not going to back-patch it. The NEXTOID fix will be back-patched separately.
* Fix transient clobbering of shared buffers during WAL replay.Tom Lane2012-02-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | RestoreBkpBlocks was in the habit of zeroing and refilling the target buffer; which was perfectly safe when the code was written, but is unsafe during Hot Standby operation. The reason is that we have coding rules that allow backends to continue accessing a tuple in a heap relation while holding only a pin on its buffer. Such a backend could see transiently zeroed data, if WAL replay had occasion to change other data on the page. This has been shown to be the cause of bug #6425 from Duncan Rance (who deserves kudos for developing a sufficiently-reproducible test case) as well as Bridget Frey's re-report of bug #6200. It most likely explains the original report as well, though we don't yet have confirmation of that. To fix, change the code so that only bytes that are supposed to change will change, even transiently. This actually saves cycles in RestoreBkpBlocks, since it's not writing the same bytes twice. Also fix seq_redo, which has the same disease, though it has to work a bit harder to meet the requirement. So far as I can tell, no other WAL replay routines have this type of bug. In particular, the index-related replay routines, which would certainly be broken if they had to meet the same standard, are not at risk because we do not have coding rules that allow access to an index page when not holding a buffer lock on it. Back-patch to 9.0 where Hot Standby was added.
* Make group commit more effective.Heikki Linnakangas2012-01-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When a backend needs to flush the WAL, and someone else is already flushing the WAL, wait until it releases the WALInsertLock and check if we still need to do the flush or if the other backend already did the work for us, before acquiring WALInsertLock. This helps group commit, because when the WAL flush finishes, all the backends that were waiting for it can be woken up in one go, and the can all concurrently observe that they're done, rather than waking them up one by one in a cascading fashion. This is based on a new LWLock function, LWLockWaitUntilFree(), which has peculiar semantics. If the lock is immediately free, it grabs the lock and returns true. If it's not free, it waits until it is released, but then returns false without grabbing the lock. This is used in XLogFlush(), so that when the lock is acquired, the backend flushes the WAL, but if it's not, the backend first checks the current flush location before retrying. Original patch and benchmarking by Peter Geoghegan and Simon Riggs, although this patch as committed ended up being very different from that.
* Assorted comment fixes, mostly just typos, but some obsolete statements.Tom Lane2012-01-29
| | | | YAMAMOTO Takashi
* Allow pg_basebackup from standby node with safety checking.Simon Riggs2012-01-25
| | | | | | | Base backup follows recommended procedure, plus goes to great lengths to ensure that partial page writes are avoided. Jun Ishizuka and Fujii Masao, with minor modifications
* Correctly initialise shared recoveryLastRecPtr in recovery.Simon Riggs2012-01-13
| | | | | | | | Previously we used ReadRecPtr rather than EndRecPtr, which was not a serious error but caused pg_stat_replication to report incorrect replay_location until at least one WAL record is replayed. Fujii Masao
* Remove useless 'needlock' argument from GetXLogInsertRecPtr. It was alwaysHeikki Linnakangas2012-01-11
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* Refactor XLogInsert a bit. The rdata entries for backup blocks are nowHeikki Linnakangas2012-01-11
| | | | | | constructed before acquiring WALInsertLock, which slightly reduces the time the lock is held. Although I could not measure any benefit in benchmarks, the code is more readable this way.
* Make the number of CLOG buffers adaptive, based on shared_buffers.Robert Haas2012-01-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | Previously, this was hardcoded: we always had 8. Performance testing shows that isn't enough, especially on big SMP systems, so we allow it to scale up as high as 32 when there's adequate memory. On the flip side, when shared_buffers is very small, drop the number of CLOG buffers down to as little as 4, so that we can start the postmaster even when very little shared memory is available. Per extensive discussion with Simon Riggs, Tom Lane, and others on pgsql-hackers.
* Update copyright notices for year 2012.Bruce Momjian2012-01-01
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