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* Update copyrights for 2013Bruce Momjian2013-01-01
| | | | | Fully update git head, and update back branches in ./COPYRIGHT and legal.sgml files.
* Make xlog_internal.h includable in frontend context.Heikki Linnakangas2012-12-13
| | | | | | | This makes unnecessary the ugly hack used to #include postgres.h in pg_basebackup. Based on Alvaro Herrera's patch
* Split up process latch initialization for more-fail-soft behavior.Tom Lane2012-10-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In the previous coding, new backend processes would attempt to create their self-pipe during the OwnLatch call in InitProcess. However, pipe creation could fail if the kernel is short of resources; and the system does not recover gracefully from a FATAL error right there, since we have armed the dead-man switch for this process and not yet set up the on_shmem_exit callback that would disarm it. The postmaster then forces an unnecessary database-wide crash and restart, as reported by Sean Chittenden. There are various ways we could rearrange the code to fix this, but the simplest and sanest seems to be to split out creation of the self-pipe into a new function InitializeLatchSupport, which must be called from a place where failure is allowed. For most processes that gets called in InitProcess or InitAuxiliaryProcess, but processes that don't call either but still use latches need their own calls. Back-patch to 9.1, which has only a part of the latch logic that 9.2 and HEAD have, but nonetheless includes this bug.
* Unify calling conventions for postgres/postmaster sub-main functionsPeter Eisentraut2012-06-25
| | | | | | | | | | | There was a wild mix of calling conventions: Some were declared to return void and didn't return, some returned an int exit code, some claimed to return an exit code, which the callers checked, but actually never returned, and so on. Now all of these functions are declared to return void and decorated with attribute noreturn and don't return. That's easiest, and most code already worked that way.
* Run pgindent on 9.2 source tree in preparation for first 9.3Bruce Momjian2012-06-10
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* Update copyright notices for year 2012.Bruce Momjian2012-01-01
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* Change the autovacuum launcher to use WaitLatch instead of a poll loop.Tom Lane2011-08-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In pursuit of this (and with the expectation that WaitLatch will be needed in more places), convert the latch field that was already added to PGPROC for sync rep into a generic latch that is activated for all PGPROC-owning processes, and change many of the standard backend signal handlers to set that latch when a signal happens. This will allow WaitLatch callers to be wakened properly by these signals. In passing, fix a whole bunch of signal handlers that had been hacked to do things that might change errno, without adding the necessary save/restore logic for errno. Also make some minor fixes in unix_latch.c, and clean up bizarre and unsafe scheme for disowning the process's latch. Much of this has to be back-patched into 9.1. Peter Geoghegan, with additional work by Tom
* Measure WaitLatch's timeout parameter in milliseconds, not microseconds.Tom Lane2011-08-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | The original definition had the problem that timeouts exceeding about 2100 seconds couldn't be specified on 32-bit machines. Milliseconds seem like sufficient resolution, and finer grain than that would be fantasy anyway on many platforms. Back-patch to 9.1 so that this aspect of the latch API won't change between 9.1 and later releases. Peter Geoghegan
* Introduce a pipe between postmaster and each backend, which can be used toHeikki Linnakangas2011-07-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | detect postmaster death. Postmaster keeps the write-end of the pipe open, so when it dies, children get EOF in the read-end. That can conveniently be waited for in select(), which allows eliminating some of the polling loops that check for postmaster death. This patch doesn't yet change all the loops to use the new mechanism, expect a follow-on patch to do that. This changes the interface to WaitLatch, so that it takes as argument a bitmask of events that it waits for. Possible events are latch set, timeout, postmaster death, and socket becoming readable or writeable. The pipe method behaves slightly differently from the kill() method previously used in PostmasterIsAlive() in the case that postmaster has died, but its parent has not yet read its exit code with waitpid(). The pipe returns EOF as soon as the process dies, but kill() continues to return true until waitpid() has been called (IOW while the process is a zombie). Because of that, change PostmasterIsAlive() to use the pipe too, otherwise WaitLatch() would return immediately with WL_POSTMASTER_DEATH, while PostmasterIsAlive() would claim it's still alive. That could easily lead to busy-waiting while postmaster is in zombie state. Peter Geoghegan with further changes by me, reviewed by Fujii Masao and Florian Pflug.
* Stamp copyrights for year 2011.Bruce Momjian2011-01-01
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* Remove cvs keywords from all files.Magnus Hagander2010-09-20
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* Cause the archiver process to adopt new postgresql.conf settings (particularlyTom Lane2010-05-11
| | | | | | | | | | archive_command) as soon as possible, namely just before issuing a new call of archive_command, even when there is a backlog of files to be archived. The original coding would only absorb new settings after clearing the backlog and returning to the outer loop. Per discussion. Back-patch to 8.3. The logic in prior versions is a bit different and it doesn't seem worth taking any risks of breaking it.
* Update copyright for the year 2010.Bruce Momjian2010-01-02
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* 8.4 pgindent run, with new combined Linux/FreeBSD/MinGW typedef listBruce Momjian2009-06-11
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* Update copyright for 2009.Bruce Momjian2009-01-01
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* Restructure the shutdown procedure for the archiver process to allow it toTom Lane2008-01-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | finish archiving everything (when there's no error), and to eliminate various hazards as best we can. This fixes a previous 8.3 patch that caused the postmaster to kill and then restart the archiver during shutdown (!?). The new behavior is that the archiver is allowed to run unmolested until the bgwriter has exited; then it is sent SIGUSR2 to tell it to do a final archiving cycle and quit. We only SIGQUIT the archiver if we want a panic stop; this is important since SIGQUIT will also be sent to any active archive_command. The postmaster also now doesn't SIGQUIT the stats collector until the bgwriter is done, since the bgwriter can send stats messages in 8.3. The postmaster will not exit until both the archiver and stats collector are gone; this provides some defense (not too bulletproof) against conflicting archiver or stats collector processes being started by a new postmaster instance. We continue the prior practice that the archiver will check for postmaster death immediately before issuing any archive_command; that gives some additional protection against conflicting archivers. Also, modify the archiver process to notice SIGTERM and refuse to issue any more archive commands if it gets it. The postmaster doesn't ever send it SIGTERM; we assume that any such signal came from init and is a notice of impending whole-system shutdown. In this situation it seems imprudent to try to start new archive commands --- if they aren't extremely quick they're likely to get SIGKILL'd by init. All per discussion.
* Update copyrights in source tree to 2008.Bruce Momjian2008-01-01
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* Make archiver process report its progress in PS display. PerTom Lane2007-12-18
| | | | proposal by Simon Riggs, though not exactly his patch.
* Clean up unportable attempt to use #if inside a macro call, alsoTom Lane2007-12-12
| | | | faulty code in third arm of #if. Per buildfarm reports.
* Provide a more accurate, detailed log message when the archive command fails.Peter Eisentraut2007-12-12
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* Reduce routine successful-archiving message from LOG to DEBUG1 grade,Tom Lane2007-11-24
| | | | | to reduce chattiness of logs. Per discussion. Simon Riggs
* pgindent run for 8.3.Bruce Momjian2007-11-15
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* Minor improvements in backup and recovery:Tom Lane2007-09-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | - create a separate archive_mode GUC, on which archive_command is dependent - %r option in recovery.conf sends last restartpoint to recovery command - %r used in pg_standby, updated README - minor other code cleanup in pg_standby - doc on Warm Standby now mentions pg_standby and %r - log_restartpoints recovery option emits LOG message at each restartpoint - end of recovery now displays last transaction end time, as requested by Warren Little; also shown at each restartpoint - restart archiver if needed to carry away WAL files at shutdown Simon Riggs
* Move session_start out of MyProcPort stucture and make it a global called ↵Andrew Dunstan2007-08-02
| | | | | | | | MyStartTime, so that we will be able to create a cookie for all processes for CSVlogs. It is set wherever MyProcPid is set. Take the opportunity to remove the now unnecessary session-only restriction on the %s and %c escapes in log_line_prefix.
* StrNCpy -> strlcpy (not complete)Peter Eisentraut2007-02-10
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* Update CVS HEAD for 2007 copyright. Back branches are typically notBruce Momjian2007-01-05
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* On systems that have setsid(2) (which should be just about everything exceptTom Lane2006-11-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Windows), arrange for each postmaster child process to be its own process group leader, and deliver signals SIGINT, SIGTERM, SIGQUIT to the whole process group not only the direct child process. This provides saner behavior for archive and recovery scripts; in particular, it's possible to shut down a warm-standby recovery server using "pg_ctl stop -m immediate", since delivery of SIGQUIT to the startup subprocess will result in killing the waiting recovery_command. Also, this makes Query Cancel and statement_timeout apply to scripts being run from backends via system(). (There is no support in the core backend for that, but it's widely done using untrusted PLs.) Per gripe from Stephen Harris and subsequent discussion.
* Clean up some misleading references to %p being a full path, per Simon.Tom Lane2006-11-10
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* On some platforms, pg_usleep isn't interruptible by signals; fixTom Lane2006-08-07
| | | | | archiver to behave per original coder's expectation on these machines. We already know this everywhere else AFAICT.
* Add GUC update_process_title to control whether 'ps' display is updatedBruce Momjian2006-06-27
| | | | for every command, default to on.
* Merge postmaster and postgres command into just postgres. postmasterPeter Eisentraut2006-06-18
| | | | | symlink is kept for now for compatibility. To call single-user mode, use postgres --single.
* PostmasterIsAlive test really ought to be in the inner loop for safety.Tom Lane2006-05-30
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* Prevent multiple archivers from starting. Backpatch to 8.1.X.Bruce Momjian2006-05-30
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* Update copyright for 2006. Update scripts.Bruce Momjian2006-03-05
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* Rearrange backend startup sequence so that ShmemIndexLock can becomeTom Lane2006-01-04
| | | | | | an LWLock instead of a spinlock. This hardly matters on Unix machines but should improve startup performance on Windows (or any port using EXEC_BACKEND). Per previous discussion.
* Standard pgindent run for 8.1.Bruce Momjian2005-10-15
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* Arrange for the postmaster (and standalone backends, initdb, etc) toTom Lane2005-07-04
| | | | | | | | chdir into PGDATA and subsequently use relative paths instead of absolute paths to access all files under PGDATA. This seems to give a small performance improvement, and it should make the system more robust against naive DBAs doing things like moving a database directory that has a live postmaster in it. Per recent discussion.
* Simplify uses of readdir() by creating a function ReadDir() thatTom Lane2005-06-19
| | | | | | | includes error checking and an appropriate ereport(ERROR) message. This gets rid of rather tedious and error-prone manipulation of errno, as well as a Windows-specific bug workaround, at more than a dozen call sites. After an idea in a recent patch by Heikki Linnakangas.
* Refactor fork()-related code. We need to do various housekeeping tasksNeil Conway2005-03-10
| | | | | | | | | | before we can invoke fork() -- flush stdio buffers, save and restore the profiling timer on Linux with LINUX_PROFILE, and handle BeOS stuff. This patch moves that code into a single function, fork_process(), instead of duplicating it at the various callsites of fork(). This patch doesn't address the EXEC_BACKEND case; there is room for further cleanup there.
* Tag appropriate files for rc3PostgreSQL Daemon2004-12-31
| | | | | | | | Also performed an initial run through of upgrading our Copyright date to extend to 2005 ... first run here was very simple ... change everything where: grep 1996-2004 && the word 'Copyright' ... scanned through the generated list with 'less' first, and after, to make sure that I only picked up the right entries ...
* > I enclose a short patch to reduce the PGARCH_RESTART_INTERVAL from 60Bruce Momjian2004-12-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | > seconds to 10 seconds. The original number was plucked from thin air > some months ago, and I'd like to review that now based upon further > thought, observation and experience. > > This change has little or no effect on performance, since the interval > is there mainly to avoid repeated respawn attempts if archiver fails at > startup. Archiver start-up time is very quick, so there is little danger > of exceeding 10 seconds. > > On a busy system, if the archiver does die, then many files can build up > in the 60 seconds before respawning. That xlog file backlog could take > some time to clear. This then leaves a larger than normal window of data > loss for a possibly long period. > > It's a minor change only, with no other effect on function. Simon Riggs
* Whoops, missed converting the other sleep() call to pg_usleep().Tom Lane2004-11-18
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* Use pg_usleep() not sleep(), per Andrew Dunstan.Tom Lane2004-11-17
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* Clarify some error messagesPeter Eisentraut2004-11-09
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* Pgindent run for 8.0.Bruce Momjian2004-08-29
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* Update copyright to 2004.Bruce Momjian2004-08-29
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* Cleanup Win32 COPY handling, and move archive examples to SGML.Bruce Momjian2004-08-12
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* When expanding %p in archive_command or restore_command, translateTom Lane2004-08-09
| | | | | | slashes to backslashes #ifdef WIN32. This is to cope with the fact that Windows seems exceedingly unfriendly to slashes in shell commands, as per recent discussion.
* Create a built-in log rotation program, so that we no longer have toTom Lane2004-08-05
| | | | | | | | | recommend that people go get Apache's rotatelogs program. Additional benefits are that configuration is done through GUC, rather than externally, and that the postmaster can monitor the log rotator and restart it after failure (though we certainly hope that won't happen often). Andreas Pflug, some rework by Tom Lane.
* Add functions pg_start_backup, pg_stop_backup to create backup labelTom Lane2004-08-03
| | | | | | | | | and history files as per recent discussion. While at it, remove pg_terminate_backend, since we have decided we do not have time during this release cycle to address the reliability concerns it creates. Split the 'Miscellaneous Functions' documentation section into 'System Information Functions' and 'System Administration Functions', which hopefully will draw the eyes of those looking for such things.