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* Remove unnecessary (char *) casts [mem]Peter Eisentraut2025-02-12
| | | | | | | | | | Remove (char *) casts around memory functions such as memcmp(), memcpy(), or memset() where the cast is useless. Since these functions don't take char * arguments anyway, these casts are at best complicated casts to (void *), about which see commit 7f798aca1d5. Reviewed-by: Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <ilmari@ilmari.org> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/fd1fcedb-3492-4fc8-9e3e-74b97f2db6c7%40eisentraut.org
* Update copyright for 2025Bruce Momjian2025-01-01
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* Remove pg_attribute.attcacheoff columnDavid Rowley2024-12-20
| | | | | | | | | The column is no longer needed as the offset is now cached in the CompactAttribute struct per commit 5983a4cff. Author: David Rowley Reviewed-by: Andres Freund, Victor Yegorov Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvrBztXP3yx=NKNmo3xwFAFhEdyPnvrDg3=M0RhDs+4vYw@mail.gmail.com
* bootstrap: pure parser and reentrant scannerPeter Eisentraut2024-12-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Use the flex %option reentrant and the bison option %pure-parser to make the generated scanner and parser pure, reentrant, and thread-safe. Make the generated scanner use palloc() etc. instead of malloc() etc. For the bootstrap scanner and parser, reentrancy and memory management aren't that important, but we make this change here anyway so that all the scanners and parsers in the backend use a similar set of options and APIs. Reviewed-by: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi> Reviewed-by: Andreas Karlsson <andreas@proxel.se> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/eb6faeac-2a8a-4b69-9189-c33c520e5b7b@eisentraut.org
* Set max_safe_fds whenever we create shared memory and semaphores.Tom Lane2024-12-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Formerly we skipped this in bootstrap/check mode and in single-user mode. That's bad in check mode because it may allow accepting a value of max_connections that doesn't actually work: on platforms where semaphores consume file descriptors, there may not be enough free FDs left over to satisfy fd.c, causing postmaster start to fail. It's also not great in single-user mode, because fd.c will operate with just the minimum allowable value of max_safe_fds, resulting in excess file open/close overhead if anything moderately complicated is done in single-user mode. (There may be some penalty for bootstrap mode too, though probably not much.) Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2081982.1734393311@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Provide a better error message for misplaced dispatch options.Nathan Bossart2024-12-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Before this patch, misplacing a special must-be-first option for dispatching to a subprogram (e.g., postgres -D . --single) would fail with an error like FATAL: --single requires a value This patch adjusts this error to more accurately complain that the special option wasn't listed first. The aforementioned error message now looks like FATAL: --single must be first argument The dispatch option parsing code has been refactored for use wherever ParseLongOption() is called. Beyond the obvious advantage of avoiding code duplication, this should prevent similar problems when new dispatch options are added. Note that we assume that none of the dispatch option names match another valid command-line argument, such as the name of a configuration parameter. Ideally, we'd remove this must-be-first requirement for these options, but after some investigation, we decided that wasn't worth the added complexity and behavior changes. Author: Nathan Bossart, Greg Sabino Mullane Reviewed-by: Greg Sabino Mullane, Peter Eisentraut, Álvaro Herrera, Tom Lane Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKAnmmJkZtZAiSryho%3DgYpbvC7H-HNjEDAh16F3SoC9LPu8rqQ%40mail.gmail.com
* Assign a child slot to every postmaster child processHeikki Linnakangas2024-11-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Previously, only backends, autovacuum workers, and background workers had an entry in the PMChildFlags array. With this commit, all postmaster child processes, including all the aux processes, have an entry. Dead-end backends still don't get an entry, though, and other processes that don't touch shared memory will never mark their PMChildFlags entry as active. We now maintain separate freelists for different kinds of child processes. That ensures that there are always slots available for autovacuum and background workers. Previously, pre-authentication backends could prevent autovacuum or background workers from starting up, by using up all the slots. The code to manage the slots in the postmaster process is in a new pmchild.c source file. Because postmaster.c is just so large. Assigning pmsignal slot numbers is now pmchild.c's responsibility. This replaces the PMChildInUse array in pmsignal.c. Some of the comments in postmaster.c still talked about the "stats process", but that was removed in commit 5891c7a8ed. Fix those while we're at it. Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/a102f15f-eac4-4ff2-af02-f9ff209ec66f@iki.fi
* Increase the number of fast-path lock slotsTomas Vondra2024-09-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Replace the fixed-size array of fast-path locks with arrays, sized on startup based on max_locks_per_transaction. This allows using fast-path locking for workloads that need more locks. The fast-path locking introduced in 9.2 allowed each backend to acquire a small number (16) of weak relation locks cheaply. If a backend needs to hold more locks, it has to insert them into the shared lock table. This is considerably more expensive, and may be subject to contention (especially on many-core systems). The limit of 16 fast-path locks was always rather low, because we have to lock all relations - not just tables, but also indexes, views, etc. For planning we need to lock all relations that might be used in the plan, not just those that actually get used in the final plan. So even with rather simple queries and schemas, we often need significantly more than 16 locks. As partitioning gets used more widely, and the number of partitions increases, this limit is trivial to hit. Complex queries may easily use hundreds or even thousands of locks. For workloads doing a lot of I/O this is not noticeable, but for workloads accessing only data in RAM, the access to the shared lock table may be a serious issue. This commit removes the hard-coded limit of the number of fast-path locks. Instead, the size of the fast-path arrays is calculated at startup, and can be set much higher than the original 16-lock limit. The overall fast-path locking protocol remains unchanged. The variable-sized fast-path arrays can no longer be part of PGPROC, but are allocated as a separate chunk of shared memory and then references from the PGPROC entries. The fast-path slots are organized as a 16-way set associative cache. You can imagine it as a hash table of 16-slot "groups". Each relation is mapped to exactly one group using hash(relid), and the group is then processed using linear search, just like the original fast-path cache. With only 16 entries this is cheap, with good locality. Treating this as a simple hash table with open addressing would not be efficient, especially once the hash table gets almost full. The usual remedy is to grow the table, but we can't do that here easily. The access would also be more random, with worse locality. The fast-path arrays are sized using the max_locks_per_transaction GUC. We try to have enough capacity for the number of locks specified in the GUC, using the traditional 2^n formula, with an upper limit of 1024 lock groups (i.e. 16k locks). The default value of max_locks_per_transaction is 64, which means those instances will have 64 fast-path slots. The main purpose of the max_locks_per_transaction GUC is to size the shared lock table. It is often set to the "average" number of locks needed by backends, with some backends using significantly more locks. This should not be a major issue, however. Some backens may have to insert locks into the shared lock table, but there can't be too many of them, limiting the contention. The only solution is to increase the GUC, even if the shared lock table already has sufficient capacity. That is not free, especially in terms of memory usage (the shared lock table entries are fairly large). It should only happen on machines with plenty of memory, though. In the future we may consider a separate GUC for the number of fast-path slots, but let's try without one first. Reviewed-by: Robert Haas, Jakub Wartak Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/510b887e-c0ce-4a0c-a17a-2c6abb8d9a5c@enterprisedb.com
* Get rid of a global variablePeter Eisentraut2024-07-23
| | | | | | | | bootstrap_data_checksum_version can just as easily be passed to where it is used via function arguments. Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/e0a62134-83da-4ba4-8cdb-ceb0111c95ce@eisentraut.org
* Remove unused #include's from backend .c filesPeter Eisentraut2024-03-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | as determined by include-what-you-use (IWYU) While IWYU also suggests to *add* a bunch of #include's (which is its main purpose), this patch does not do that. In some cases, a more specific #include replaces another less specific one. Some manual adjustments of the automatic result: - IWYU currently doesn't know about includes that provide global variable declarations (like -Wmissing-variable-declarations), so those includes are being kept manually. - All includes for port(ability) headers are being kept for now, to play it safe. - No changes of catalog/pg_foo.h to catalog/pg_foo_d.h, to keep the patch from exploding in size. Note that this patch touches just *.c files, so nothing declared in header files changes in hidden ways. As a small example, in src/backend/access/transam/rmgr.c, some IWYU pragma annotations are added to handle a special case there. Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/af837490-6b2f-46df-ba05-37ea6a6653fc%40eisentraut.org
* Make attstattarget nullablePeter Eisentraut2024-01-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This changes the pg_attribute field attstattarget into a nullable field in the variable-length part of the row. If no value is set by the user for attstattarget, it is now null instead of previously -1. This saves space in pg_attribute and tuple descriptors for most practical scenarios. (ATTRIBUTE_FIXED_PART_SIZE is reduced from 108 to 104.) Also, null is the semantically more correct value. The ANALYZE code internally continues to represent the default statistics target by -1, so that that code can avoid having to deal with null values. But that is now contained to the ANALYZE code. Only the DDL code deals with attstattarget possibly null. For system columns, the field is now always null. The ANALYZE code skips system columns anyway. To set a column's statistics target to the default value, the new command form ALTER TABLE ... SET STATISTICS DEFAULT can be used. (SET STATISTICS -1 still works.) Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/4da8d211-d54d-44b9-9847-f2a9f1184c76@eisentraut.org
* Update copyright for 2024Bruce Momjian2024-01-03
| | | | | | | | Reported-by: Michael Paquier Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ZZKTDPxBBMt3C0J9@paquier.xyz Backpatch-through: 12
* Refactor InitPostgres() to use bitwise option flagsMichael Paquier2023-10-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | InitPostgres() has been using a set of boolean arguments to control its behavior, and a patch under discussion was aiming at expanding it with a third one. In preparation for expanding this area, this commit switches all the current boolean arguments of this routine to a single bits32 argument instead. Two values are currently supported for the flags: - INIT_PG_LOAD_SESSION_LIBS to load [session|local]_preload_libraries at startup. - INIT_PG_OVERRIDE_ALLOW_CONNS to allow connection to a database even if it has !datallowconn. This is used by bgworkers. Reviewed-by: Bertrand Drouvot Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ZSTn66_BXRZCeaqS@paquier.xyz
* Make error messages about WAL segment size more consistentPeter Eisentraut2023-08-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Make the primary messages more compact and make the detail messages uniform. In initdb.c and pg_resetwal.c, use the newish option_parse_int() to simplify some of the option parsing. For the backend GUC wal_segment_size, add a GUC check hook to do the verification instead of coding it in bootstrap.c. This might be overkill, but that way the check is in the right place and it becomes more self-documenting. In passing, make pg_controldata use the logging API for warning messages. Reviewed-by: Aleksander Alekseev <aleksander@timescale.com> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/9939aa8a-d7be-da2c-7715-0a0b5535a1f7@eisentraut.org
* Add const decorationsPeter Eisentraut2023-08-23
| | | | | | | | in index.c and indexcmds.c and some adjacent places. This especially makes it easier to understand for some complicated function signatures which are the input and the output arguments. Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/5ed89c69-f4e6-5dab-4003-63bde7460e5e%40eisentraut.org
* Update copyright for 2023Bruce Momjian2023-01-02
| | | | Backpatch-through: 11
* Order getopt argumentsPeter Eisentraut2022-12-12
| | | | | | | | | | Order the letters in the arguments of getopt() and getopt_long(), as well as in the subsequent switch statements. In most cases, I used alphabetical with lower case first. In a few cases, existing different orders (e.g., upper case first) was kept to reduce the diff size. Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/3efd0fe8-351b-f836-9122-886002602357%40enterprisedb.com
* Remove AssertArg and AssertStatePeter Eisentraut2022-10-28
| | | | | | | | | These don't offer anything over plain Assert, and their usage had already been declared obsolescent. Author: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20221009210148.GA900071@nathanxps13
* Store GUC data in a memory context, instead of using malloc().Tom Lane2022-10-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The only real argument for using malloc directly was that we needed the ability to not throw error on OOM; but mcxt.c grew that feature awhile ago. Keeping the data in a memory context improves accountability and debuggability --- for example, without this it's almost impossible to detect memory leaks in the GUC code with anything less costly than valgrind. Moreover, the next patch in this series will add a hash table for GUC lookup, and it'd be pretty silly to be using palloc-dependent hash facilities alongside malloc'd storage of the underlying data. This is a bit invasive though, in particular causing an API break for GUC check hooks that want to modify the GUC's value or use an "extra" data structure. They must now use guc_malloc() and guc_free() instead of malloc() and free(). Failure to change affected code will result in assertion failures or worse; but thanks to recent effort in the mcxt infrastructure, it shouldn't be too hard to diagnose such oversights (at least in assert-enabled builds). One note is that this changes ParseLongOption() to return short-lived palloc'd not malloc'd data. There wasn't any caller for which the previous definition was better. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2982579.1662416866@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Harmonize more parameter names in bulk.Peter Geoghegan2022-09-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Make sure that function declarations use names that exactly match the corresponding names from function definitions in optimizer, parser, utility, libpq, and "commands" code, as well as in remaining library code. Do the same for all code related to frontend programs (with the exception of pg_dump/pg_dumpall related code). Like other recent commits that cleaned up function parameter names, this commit was written with help from clang-tidy. Later commits will handle ecpg and pg_dump/pg_dumpall. Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie> Reviewed-By: David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-WznJt9CMM9KJTMjJh_zbL5hD9oX44qdJ4aqZtjFi-zA3Tg@mail.gmail.com
* Process session_preload_libraries within InitPostgres's transaction.Tom Lane2022-07-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Previously we did this after InitPostgres, at a somewhat randomly chosen place within PostgresMain. However, since commit a0ffa885e doing this outside a transaction can cause a crash, if we need to check permissions while replacing a placeholder GUC. (Besides which, a preloaded library could itself want to do database access within _PG_init.) To avoid needing an additional transaction start/end in every session, move the process_session_preload_libraries call to within InitPostgres's transaction. That requires teaching the code not to call it when InitPostgres is called from somewhere other than PostgresMain, since we don't want session_preload_libraries to affect background workers. The most future-proof solution here seems to be to add an additional flag parameter to InitPostgres; fortunately, we're not yet very worried about API stability for v15. Doing this also exposed the fact that we're currently honoring session_preload_libraries in walsenders, even those not connected to any database. This seems, at minimum, a POLA violation: walsenders are not interactive sessions. Let's stop doing that. (All these comments also apply to local_preload_libraries, of course.) Per report from Gurjeet Singh (thanks also to Nathan Bossart and Kyotaro Horiguchi for review). Backpatch to v15 where a0ffa885e came in. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CABwTF4VEpwTHhRQ+q5MiC5ucngN-whN-PdcKeufX7eLSoAfbZA@mail.gmail.com
* Remove redundant null pointer checks before free()Peter Eisentraut2022-07-03
| | | | | | | | | | Per applicable standards, free() with a null pointer is a no-op. Systems that don't observe that are ancient and no longer relevant. Some PostgreSQL code already required this behavior, so this change does not introduce any new requirements, just makes the code more consistent. Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/dac5d2d0-98f5-94d9-8e69-46da2413593d%40enterprisedb.com
* Be more careful about GucSource for internally-driven GUC settings.Tom Lane2022-06-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The original advice for hard-wired SetConfigOption calls was to use PGC_S_OVERRIDE, particularly for PGC_INTERNAL GUCs. However, that's really overkill for PGC_INTERNAL GUCs, since there is no possibility that we need to override a user-provided setting. Instead use PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT in most places, so that the value will appear with source = 'default' in pg_settings and thereby not be shown by psql's new \dconfig command. The one exception is that when changing in_hot_standby in a hot-standby session, we still use PGC_S_OVERRIDE, because people felt that seeing that in \dconfig would be a good thing. Similarly use PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT for the auto-tune value of wal_buffers (if possible, that is if wal_buffers wasn't explicitly set to -1), and for the typical 2MB value of max_stack_depth. In combination these changes remove four not-very-interesting entries from the typical output of \dconfig, all of which people fingered as "why is that showing up?" in the discussion thread. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3118455.1649267333@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Update copyright for 2022Bruce Momjian2022-01-07
| | | | Backpatch-through: 10
* Fix bogus assertion in BootstrapModeMain().Andres Freund2021-08-09
| | | | | | | The assertion was always true, as written, thanks to me "simplifying" it before commit. Per coverity and Tom Lane.
* process startup: Always call Init[Auxiliary]Process() before BaseInit().Andres Freund2021-08-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | For EXEC_BACKEND InitProcess()/InitAuxiliaryProcess() needs to have been called well before we call BaseInit(), as SubPostmasterMain() needs LWLocks to work. Having the order of initialization differ between platforms makes it unnecessarily hard to understand the system and to add initialization points for new subsystems without a lot of duplication. To be able to change the order, BaseInit() cannot trigger CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores() anymore - obviously that needs to have happened before we can call InitProcess(). It seems cleaner to create shared memory explicitly in single user/bootstrap mode anyway. After this change the separation of bufmgr initialization into InitBufferPoolAccess() / InitBufferPoolBackend() is not meaningful anymore so the latter is removed. Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> Reviewed-By: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210802164124.ufo5buo4apl6yuvs@alap3.anarazel.de
* process startup: Remove bootstrap / checker modes from AuxProcType.Andres Freund2021-08-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Neither is actually initialized as an auxiliary process, so it does not really make sense to reserve a PGPROC etc for them. This keeps checker mode implemented by exiting partway through bootstrap mode. That might be worth changing at some point, perhaps if we ever extend checker mode to be a more general tool. Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> Reviewed-By: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com> Reviewed-By: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210802164124.ufo5buo4apl6yuvs@alap3.anarazel.de
* process startup: Move AuxiliaryProcessMain into its own file.Andres Freund2021-08-05
| | | | | | | | | | After the preceding commits the auxprocess code is independent from bootstrap.c - so a dedicated file seems less confusing. Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> Reviewed-By: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com> Reviewed-By: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210802164124.ufo5buo4apl6yuvs@alap3.anarazel.de
* process startup: auxprocess: reindent blockAndres Freund2021-08-05
| | | | | | | | | | Kept separate for ease of review, particularly because pgindent insists on reflowing a few comments. Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> Reviewed-By: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com> Reviewed-By: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210802164124.ufo5buo4apl6yuvs@alap3.anarazel.de
* process startup: Separate out BootstrapModeMain from AuxiliaryProcessMain.Andres Freund2021-08-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | There practically was no shared code between the two, once all the ifs are removed. And it was quite confusing that aux processes weren't actually started by the call to AuxiliaryProcessMain() in main(). There's more to do, AuxiliaryProcessMain() should move out of bootstrap.c, and BootstrapModeMain() shouldn't use/be part of AuxProcType. Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> Reviewed-By: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com> Reviewed-By: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210802164124.ufo5buo4apl6yuvs@alap3.anarazel.de
* Remove misplaced comment from AuxiliaryProcessMain().Andres Freund2021-08-01
| | | | | | | The comment didn't make sense anymore since at least 626eb021988. As it didn't actually explain anything anyway, just remove it. Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
* Rethink definition of pg_attribute.attcompression.Tom Lane2021-05-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Redefine '\0' (InvalidCompressionMethod) as meaning "if we need to compress, use the current setting of default_toast_compression". This allows '\0' to be a suitable default choice regardless of datatype, greatly simplifying code paths that initialize tupledescs and the like. It seems like a more user-friendly approach as well, because now the default compression choice doesn't migrate into table definitions, meaning that changing default_toast_compression is usually sufficient to flip an installation's behavior; one needn't tediously issue per-column ALTER SET COMPRESSION commands. Along the way, fix a few minor bugs and documentation issues with the per-column-compression feature. Adopt more robust APIs for SetIndexStorageProperties and GetAttributeCompression. Bump catversion because typical contents of attcompression will now be different. We could get away without doing that, but it seems better to ensure v14 installations all agree on this. (We already forced initdb for beta2, anyway.) Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/626613.1621787110@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Re-order pg_attribute columns to eliminate some padding space.Tom Lane2021-05-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Now that attcompression is just a char, there's a lot of wasted padding space after it. Move it into the group of char-wide columns to save a net of 4 bytes per pg_attribute entry. While we're at it, swap the order of attstorage and attalign to make for a more logical grouping of these columns. Also re-order actions in related code to match the new field ordering. This patch also fixes one outright bug: equalTupleDescs() failed to compare attcompression. That could, for example, cause relcache reload to fail to adopt a new value following a change. Michael Paquier and Tom Lane, per a gripe from Andres Freund. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210517204803.iyk5wwvwgtjcmc5w@alap3.anarazel.de
* Initial pgindent and pgperltidy run for v14.Tom Lane2021-05-12
| | | | | | | | Also "make reformat-dat-files". The only change worthy of note is that pgindent messed up the formatting of launcher.c's struct LogicalRepWorkerId, which led me to notice that that struct wasn't used at all anymore, so I just took it out.
* Split backend status and progress related functionality out of pgstat.c.Andres Freund2021-04-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Backend status (supporting pg_stat_activity) and command progress (supporting pg_stat_progress*) related code is largely independent from the rest of pgstat.[ch] (supporting views like pg_stat_all_tables that accumulate data over time). See also a333476b925. This commit doesn't rename the function names to make the distinction from the rest of pgstat_ clearer - that'd be more invasive and not clearly beneficial. If we were to decide to do such a rename at some point, it's better done separately from moving the code as well. Robert's review was of an earlier version. Reviewed-By: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210316195440.twxmlov24rr2nxrg@alap3.anarazel.de
* Allow composite types in catalog bootstrapTomas Vondra2021-03-24
| | | | | | | | | | When resolving types during catalog bootstrap, try to reload the pg_type contents if a type is not found. That allows catalogs to contain composite types, e.g. row types for other catalogs. Author: Justin Pryzby Reviewed-by: Dean Rasheed, Tomas Vondra Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ad7891d2-e90c-b446-9fe2-7419143847d7%40enterprisedb.com
* Convert Typ from array to list in bootstrapTomas Vondra2021-03-24
| | | | | | | | | | It's a bit easier and more convenient to free and reload a List, compared to a plain array. This will be helpful when allowing catalogs to contain composite types. Author: Justin Pryzby Reviewed-by: Dean Rasheed, Tomas Vondra Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ad7891d2-e90c-b446-9fe2-7419143847d7%40enterprisedb.com
* Allow configurable LZ4 TOAST compression.Robert Haas2021-03-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There is now a per-column COMPRESSION option which can be set to pglz (the default, and the only option in up until now) or lz4. Or, if you like, you can set the new default_toast_compression GUC to lz4, and then that will be the default for new table columns for which no value is specified. We don't have lz4 support in the PostgreSQL code, so to use lz4 compression, PostgreSQL must be built --with-lz4. In general, TOAST compression means compression of individual column values, not the whole tuple, and those values can either be compressed inline within the tuple or compressed and then stored externally in the TOAST table, so those properties also apply to this feature. Prior to this commit, a TOAST pointer has two unused bits as part of the va_extsize field, and a compessed datum has two unused bits as part of the va_rawsize field. These bits are unused because the length of a varlena is limited to 1GB; we now use them to indicate the compression type that was used. This means we only have bit space for 2 more built-in compresison types, but we could work around that problem, if necessary, by introducing a new vartag_external value for any further types we end up wanting to add. Hopefully, it won't be too important to offer a wide selection of algorithms here, since each one we add not only takes more coding but also adds a build dependency for every packager. Nevertheless, it seems worth doing at least this much, because LZ4 gets better compression than PGLZ with less CPU usage. It's possible for LZ4-compressed datums to leak into composite type values stored on disk, just as it is for PGLZ. It's also possible for LZ4-compressed attributes to be copied into a different table via SQL commands such as CREATE TABLE AS or INSERT .. SELECT. It would be expensive to force such values to be decompressed, so PostgreSQL has never done so. For the same reasons, we also don't force recompression of already-compressed values even if the target table prefers a different compression method than was used for the source data. These architectural decisions are perhaps arguable but revisiting them is well beyond the scope of what seemed possible to do as part of this project. However, it's relatively cheap to recompress as part of VACUUM FULL or CLUSTER, so this commit adjusts those commands to do so, if the configured compression method of the table happens not to match what was used for some column value stored therein. Dilip Kumar. The original patches on which this work was based were written by Ildus Kurbangaliev, and those were patches were based on even earlier work by Nikita Glukhov, but the design has since changed very substantially, since allow a potentially large number of compression methods that could be added and dropped on a running system proved too problematic given some of the architectural issues mentioned above; the choice of which specific compression method to add first is now different; and a lot of the code has been heavily refactored. More recently, Justin Przyby helped quite a bit with testing and reviewing and this version also includes some code contributions from him. Other design input and review from Tomas Vondra, Álvaro Herrera, Andres Freund, Oleg Bartunov, Alexander Korotkov, and me. Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/20170907194236.4cefce96%40wp.localdomain Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAFiTN-uUpX3ck%3DK0mLEk-G_kUQY%3DSNOTeqdaNRR9FMdQrHKebw%40mail.gmail.com
* Make archiver process an auxiliary process.Fujii Masao2021-03-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This commit changes WAL archiver process so that it's treated as an auxiliary process and can use shared memory. This is an infrastructure patch required for upcoming shared-memory based stats collector patch series. These patch series basically need any processes including archiver that can report the statistics to access to shared memory. Since this patch itself is useful to simplify the code and when users monitor the status of archiver, it's committed separately in advance. This commit simplifies the code for WAL archiving. For example, previously backends need to signal to archiver via postmaster when they notify archiver that there are some WAL files to archive. On the other hand, this commit removes that signal to postmaster and enables backends to notify archier directly using shared latch. Also, as the side of this change, the information about archiver process becomes viewable at pg_stat_activity view. Author: Kyotaro Horiguchi Reviewed-by: Andres Freund, Álvaro Herrera, Julien Rouhaud, Tomas Vondra, Arthur Zakirov, Fujii Masao Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180629.173418.190173462.horiguchi.kyotaro@lab.ntt.co.jp
* Update copyright for 2021Bruce Momjian2021-01-02
| | | | Backpatch-through: 9.5
* Revert "Add key management system" (978f869b99) & later commitsBruce Momjian2020-12-27
| | | | | | | | | | The patch needs test cases, reorganization, and cfbot testing. Technically reverts commits 5c31afc49d..e35b2bad1a (exclusive/inclusive) and 08db7c63f3..ccbe34139b. Reported-by: Tom Lane, Michael Paquier Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1ktAAG-0002V2-VB@gemulon.postgresql.org
* Add key management systemBruce Momjian2020-12-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This adds a key management system that stores (currently) two data encryption keys of length 128, 192, or 256 bits. The data keys are AES256 encrypted using a key encryption key, and validated via GCM cipher mode. A command to obtain the key encryption key must be specified at initdb time, and will be run at every database server start. New parameters allow a file descriptor open to the terminal to be passed. pg_upgrade support has also been added. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+fd4k7q5o6Nc_AaX6BcYM9yqTbC6_pnH-6nSD=54Zp6NBQTCQ@mail.gmail.com Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20201202213814.GG20285@momjian.us Author: Masahiko Sawada, me, Stephen Frost
* Don't use custom OID symbols in pg_type.dat, either.Tom Lane2020-10-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | On the same reasoning as in commit 36b931214, forbid using custom oid_symbol macros in pg_type as well as pg_proc, so that we always rely on the predictable macro names generated by genbki.pl. We do continue to grant grandfather status to the names CASHOID and LSNOID, although those are now considered deprecated aliases for the preferred names MONEYOID and PG_LSNOID. This is because there's likely to be client-side code using the old names, and this bout of neatnik-ism doesn't quite seem worth breaking client code. There might be a case for grandfathering EVTTRIGGEROID, too, since externally-maintained PLs may reference that symbol. But renaming such references to EVENT_TRIGGEROID doesn't seem like a particularly heavy lift --- we make far more significant backend API changes in every major release. For now I didn't add that, but we could reconsider if there's pushback. The other names changed here seem pretty unlikely to have any outside uses. Again, we could add alias macros if there are complaints, but for now I didn't. As before, no need for a catversion bump. John Naylor Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAFBsxsHpCbjfoddNGpnnnY5pHwckWfiYkMYSF74PmP1su0+ZOw@mail.gmail.com
* Improve some ancient, crufty code in bootstrap + initdb.Tom Lane2020-09-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | At some point back in the last century, somebody felt that reading all of pg_type twice was cheaper, or at least easier, than using repalloc() to resize the Typ[] array dynamically. That seems like an entirely wacko proposition, so rewrite the code to do it the other way. (To add insult to injury, there were two not-quite-identical copies of said code.) initdb.c's readfile() function had the same disease of preferring to do double the I/O to avoid resizing its output array. Here, we can make things easier by using the just-invented pg_get_line() function to handle reading individual lines without a predetermined notion of how long they are. On my machine, it's difficult to detect any net change in the overall runtime of initdb from these changes; but they should help on slower buildfarm machines (especially since a buildfarm cycle involves a lot of initdb's these days). My attention was drawn to these places by scan-build complaints, but on inspection they needed a lot more work than just suppressing dead stores :-(
* Be more careful about marking catalog columns NOT NULL by default.Tom Lane2020-07-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The bug fixed in commit 72eab84a5 would not have occurred if initdb had a less surprising rule about which columns should be marked NOT NULL by default. Let's make that rule be strictly that the column must be fixed-width and its predecessors must be fixed-width and NOT NULL, removing the hacky and unsafe exceptions for oidvector and int2vector. Since we do still want all existing oidvector and int2vector columns to be marked NOT NULL, we have to put BKI_FORCE_NOT_NULL labels on them. But making this less magic and more documented seems like a good idea, even if it's a shade more verbose. I didn't bump catversion since the initial catalog contents are not actually changed by this patch. Note however that the contents of postgres.bki do change, and feeding an old copy of that to a new backend will produce wrong results. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/204760.1595181800@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Unify several ways to tracking backend typePeter Eisentraut2020-03-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add a new global variable MyBackendType that uses the same BackendType enum that was previously only used by the stats collector. That way several duplicate ways of checking what type a particular process is can be simplified. Since it's no longer just for stats, move to miscinit.c and rename existing functions to match the expanded purpose. Reviewed-by: Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Kuntal Ghosh <kuntalghosh.2007@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/c65e5196-4f04-4ead-9353-6088c19615a3@2ndquadrant.com
* Refactor ps_status.c APIPeter Eisentraut2020-03-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The init_ps_display() arguments were mostly lies by now, so to match typical usage, just use one argument and let the caller assemble it from multiple sources if necessary. The only user of the additional arguments is BackendInitialize(), which was already doing string assembly on the caller side anyway. Remove the second argument of set_ps_display() ("force") and just handle that in init_ps_display() internally. BackendInitialize() also used to set the initial status as "authentication", but that was very far from where authentication actually happened. So now it's set to "initializing" and then "authentication" just before the actual call to ClientAuthentication(). Reviewed-by: Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Kuntal Ghosh <kuntalghosh.2007@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/c65e5196-4f04-4ead-9353-6088c19615a3@2ndquadrant.com
* Introduce macros for typalign and typstorage constants.Tom Lane2020-03-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Our usual practice for "poor man's enum" catalog columns is to define macros for the possible values and use those, not literal constants, in C code. But for some reason lost in the mists of time, this was never done for typalign/attalign or typstorage/attstorage. It's never too late to make it better though, so let's do that. The reason I got interested in this right now is the need to duplicate some uses of the TYPSTORAGE constants in an upcoming ALTER TYPE patch. But in general, this sort of change aids greppability and readability, so it's a good idea even without any specific motivation. I may have missed a few places that could be converted, and it's even more likely that pending patches will re-introduce some hard-coded references. But that's not fatal --- there's no expectation that we'd actually change any of these values. We can clean up stragglers over time. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16457.1583189537@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Update copyrights for 2020Bruce Momjian2020-01-01
| | | | Backpatch-through: update all files in master, backpatch legal files through 9.4
* Revert "Rename files and headers related to index AM"Michael Paquier2019-12-27
| | | | | | | | This follows multiple complains from Peter Geoghegan, Andres Freund and Alvaro Herrera that this issue ought to be dug more before actually happening, if it happens. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20191226144606.GA5659@alvherre.pgsql