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* Fix incorrect close() call in dsm_impl_mmap().Tom Lane2018-04-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | One improbable error-exit path in this function used close() where it should have used CloseTransientFile(). This is unlikely to be hit in the field, and I think the consequences wouldn't be awful (just an elog(LOG) bleat later). But a bug is a bug, so back-patch to 9.4 where this code came in. Pan Bian Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/152056616579.4966.583293218357089052@wrigleys.postgresql.org
* Further cleanup of client dependencies on src/include/catalog headers.Tom Lane2018-04-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In commit 9c0a0de4c, I'd failed to notice that catalog/catalog.h should also be considered a frontend-unsafe header, because it includes (and needs) the full form of pg_class.h, not to mention relcache.h. However, various frontend code was depending on it to get TABLESPACE_VERSION_DIRECTORY, so refactoring of some sort is called for. The cleanest answer seems to be to move TABLESPACE_VERSION_DIRECTORY, as well as the OIDCHARS symbol, to common/relpath.h. Do that, and mop up inclusions as necessary. (I found that quite a few current users of catalog/catalog.h don't seem to need it at all anymore, apparently as a result of the refactorings that created common/relpath.[hc]. And initdb.c needed it only as a route to pg_class_d.h.) Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/6629.1523294509@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Revert "Allow on-line enabling and disabling of data checksums"Magnus Hagander2018-04-09
| | | | | | | | This reverts the backend sides of commit 1fde38beaa0c3e66c340efc7cc0dc272d6254bb0. I have, at least for now, left the pg_verify_checksums tool in place, as this tool can be very valuable without the rest of the patch as well, and since it's a read-only tool that only runs when the cluster is down it should be a lot safer.
* Refactor dir/file permissionsStephen Frost2018-04-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Consolidate directory and file create permissions for tools which work with the PG data directory by adding a new module (common/file_perm.c) that contains variables (pg_file_create_mode, pg_dir_create_mode) and constants to initialize them (0600 for files and 0700 for directories). Convert mkdir() calls in the backend to MakePGDirectory() if the original call used default permissions (always the case for regular PG directories). Add tests to make sure permissions in PGDATA are set correctly by the tools which modify the PG data directory. Authors: David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>, Adam Brightwell <adam.brightwell@crunchydata.com> Reviewed-By: Michael Paquier, with discussion amongst many others. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ad346fe6-b23e-59f1-ecb7-0e08390ad629%40pgmasters.net
* Predicate locking in hash indexes.Teodor Sigaev2018-04-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | Hash index searches acquire predicate locks on the primary page of a bucket. It acquires a lock on both the old and new buckets for scans that happen concurrently with page splits. During a bucket split, a predicate lock is copied from the primary page of an old bucket to the primary page of a new bucket. Author: Shubham Barai, Amit Kapila Reviewed by: Amit Kapila, Alexander Korotkov, Thomas Munro Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CALxAEPvNsM2GTiXdRgaaZ1Pjd1bs+sxfFsf7Ytr+iq+5JJoYXA@mail.gmail.com
* Allow on-line enabling and disabling of data checksumsMagnus Hagander2018-04-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This makes it possible to turn checksums on in a live cluster, without the previous need for dump/reload or logical replication (and to turn it off). Enabling checkusm starts a background process in the form of a launcher/worker combination that goes through the entire database and recalculates checksums on each and every page. Only when all pages have been checksummed are they fully enabled in the cluster. Any failure of the process will revert to checksums off and the process has to be started. This adds a new WAL record that indicates the state of checksums, so the process works across replicated clusters. Authors: Magnus Hagander and Daniel Gustafsson Review: Tomas Vondra, Michael Banck, Heikki Linnakangas, Andrey Borodin
* Fix a boatload of typos in C comments.Tom Lane2018-04-01
| | | | | | Justin Pryzby Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180331105640.GK28454@telsasoft.com
* Remove obsolete SLRU wrapping and warnings from predicate.c.Tom Lane2018-03-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When SSI was developed, slru.c was limited to segment files with names in the range 0000-FFFF. This didn't allow enough space for predicate.c to store every possible XID when spilling old transactions to disk, so it would wrap around sooner and print warnings. Since commits 638cf09e and 73c986ad increased the number of segment files slru.c could manage, that behavior is unnecessary. Therefore remove that code. Also remove the macro OldSerXidSegment, which has been unused since 4cd3fb6e. Thomas Munro, reviewed by Anastasia Lubennikova Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=3XfsTSxgEbEOmxu0QDiXy0o18NUg2nC89JZcCGE+XFPA@mail.gmail.com
* Predicate locking in GIN indexTeodor Sigaev2018-03-30
| | | | | | | | | | | Predicate locks are used on per page basis only if fastupdate = off, in opposite case predicate lock on pending list will effectively lock whole index, to reduce locking overhead, just lock a relation. Entry and posting trees are essentially B-tree, so locks are acquired on leaf pages only. Author: Shubham Barai with some editorization by me and Dmitry Ivanov Review by: Alexander Korotkov, Dmitry Ivanov, Fedor Sigaev Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CALxAEPt5sWW+EwTaKUGFL5_XFcZ0MuGBcyJ70oqbWqr42YKR8Q@mail.gmail.com
* Remove unnecessary BufferGetPage() calls in fsm_vacuum_page().Tom Lane2018-03-29
| | | | | | | | Just noticed that these were quite redundant, since we're holding the page address in a local variable anyway, and we have pin on the buffer throughout. Also improve a comment.
* Remove UpdateFreeSpaceMap(), use FreeSpaceMapVacuumRange() instead.Tom Lane2018-03-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | FreeSpaceMapVacuumRange has the same effect, is more efficient if many pages are involved, and makes fewer assumptions about how it's used. Notably, Claudio Freire pointed out that UpdateFreeSpaceMap could fail if the specified freespace value isn't the maximum possible. This isn't a problem for the single existing user, but the function represents an attractive nuisance IMO, because it's named as though it were a general-purpose update function and its limitations are undocumented. In any case we don't need multiple ways to get the same result. In passing, do some code review and cleanup in RelationAddExtraBlocks. In particular, I see no excuse for it to omit the PageIsNew safety check that's done in the mainline extension path in RelationGetBufferForTuple. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAGTBQpYR0uJCNTt3M5GOzBRHo+-GccNO1nCaQ8yEJmZKSW5q1A@mail.gmail.com
* C comment: fix wording about shared memory message queueBruce Momjian2018-03-29
| | | | | | Reported-by: Tels Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/e66e05bc55f5ce904e361ad17a3395ae.squirrel@sm.webmail.pair.com
* While vacuuming a large table, update upper-level FSM data every so often.Tom Lane2018-03-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | VACUUM updates leaf-level FSM entries immediately after cleaning the corresponding heap blocks. fsmpage.c updates the intra-page search trees on the leaf-level FSM pages when this happens, but it does not touch the upper-level FSM pages, so that the released space might not actually be findable by searchers. Previously, updating the upper-level pages happened only at the conclusion of the VACUUM run, in a single FreeSpaceMapVacuum() call. This is bad because the VACUUM might get canceled before ever reaching that point, so that from the point of view of searchers no space has been freed at all, leading to table bloat. We can improve matters by updating the upper pages immediately after each cycle of index-cleaning and heap-cleaning, processing just the FSM pages corresponding to the range of heap blocks we have now fully cleaned. This adds a small amount of extra work, since the FSM pages leading down to each range boundary will be touched twice, but it's pretty negligible compared to everything else going on in a large VACUUM. If there are no indexes, VACUUM doesn't work in cycles but just cleans each heap page on first visit. In that case we just arbitrarily update upper FSM pages after each 8GB of heap. That maintains the goal of not letting all this work slide until the very end, and it doesn't seem worth expending extra complexity on a case that so seldom occurs in practice. In either case, the FSM is fully up to date before any attempt is made to truncate the relation, so that the most likely scenario for VACUUM cancellation no longer results in out-of-date upper FSM pages. When we do successfully truncate, adjusting the FSM to reflect that is now fully handled within FreeSpaceMapTruncateRel. Claudio Freire, reviewed by Masahiko Sawada and Jing Wang, some additional tweaks by me Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAGTBQpYR0uJCNTt3M5GOzBRHo+-GccNO1nCaQ8yEJmZKSW5q1A@mail.gmail.com
* Skip temp tables from basebackup.Teodor Sigaev2018-03-27
| | | | | | | | | Do not store temp tables in basebackup, they will not be visible anyway, so, there are not reasons to store them. Author: David Steel Reviewed by: me Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/5ea4d26a-a453-c1b7-eff9-5a3ef8f8aceb@pgmasters.net
* Add predicate locking for GiSTTeodor Sigaev2018-03-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | Add page-level predicate locking, due to gist's code organization, patch seems close to trivial: add check before page changing, add predicate lock before page scanning. Although choosing right place to check is not simple: it should not be called during index build, it should support insertion of new downlink and so on. Author: Shubham Barai with editorization by me and Alexander Korotkov Reviewed by: Alexander Korotkov, Andrey Borodin, me Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CALxAEPtdcANpw5ePU3LvnTP8HCENFw6wygupQAyNBgD-sG3h0g@mail.gmail.com
* Fix make rules that generate multiple output files.Tom Lane2018-03-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | For years, our makefiles have correctly observed that "there is no correct way to write a rule that generates two files". However, what we did is to provide empty rules that "generate" the secondary output files from the primary one, and that's not right either. Depending on the details of the creating process, the primary file might end up timestamped later than one or more secondary files, causing subsequent make runs to consider the secondary file(s) out of date. That's harmless in a plain build, since make will just re-execute the empty rule and nothing happens. But it's fatal in a VPATH build, since make will expect the secondary file to be rebuilt in the build directory. This would manifest as "file not found" failures during VPATH builds from tarballs, if we were ever unlucky enough to ship a tarball with apparently out-of-date secondary files. (It's not clear whether that has ever actually happened, but it definitely could.) To ensure that secondary output files have timestamps >= their primary's, change our makefile convention to be that we provide a "touch $@" action not an empty rule. Also, make sure that this rule actually gets invoked during a distprep run, else the hazard remains. It's been like this a long time, so back-patch to all supported branches. In HEAD, I skipped the changes in src/backend/catalog/Makefile, because those rules are due to get replaced soon in the bootstrap data format patch, and there seems no need to create a merge issue for that patch. If for some reason we fail to land that patch in v11, we'll need to back-fill the changes in that one makefile from v10. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18556.1521668179@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Exclude unlogged tables from base backupsTeodor Sigaev2018-03-23
| | | | | | | | | | Exclude unlogged tables from base backup entirely except init fork which marks created unlogged table. The next question is do not backup temp table but it's a story for separate patch. Author: David Steele Review by: Adam Brightwell, Masahiko Sawada Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/04791bab-cb04-ba43-e9c0-664a4c1ffb2c@pgmasters.net
* shm_mq: Fix detach race condition.Robert Haas2018-03-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | Commit 34db06ef9a1d7f36391c64293bf1e0ce44a33915 adopted a lock-free design for shm_mq.c, but it introduced a race condition that could lose messages. When shm_mq_receive_bytes() detects that the other end has detached, it must make sure that it has seen the final version of mq_bytes_written, or it might miss a message sent before detaching. Thomas Munro Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm%3D2myZ4qxpt1a%3DC%2BwEv3o188K13K3UvD-44FK0SdAzHy%2Bw%40mail.gmail.com
* shm_mq: Have the receiver set the sender's less frequently.Robert Haas2018-03-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Instead of marking data from the ringer buffer consumed and setting the sender's latch for every message, do it only when the amount of data we can consume is at least 1/4 of the size of the ring buffer, or when no data remains in the ring buffer. This is dramatically faster in my testing; apparently, the savings from sending signals less frequently outweighs the benefit of letting the sender know about available buffer space sooner. Patch by me, reviewed by Andres Freund and tested by Rafia Sabih. Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoYK7RFj6r7KLEfSGtYZCi3zqTRhAz8mcsDbUAjEmLOZ3Q@mail.gmail.com
* shm_mq: Reduce spinlock usage.Robert Haas2018-03-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Previously, mq_bytes_read and mq_bytes_written were protected by the spinlock, but that turns out to cause pretty serious spinlock contention on queries which send many tuples through a Gather or Gather Merge node. This patches changes things so that we instead read and write those values using 8-byte atomics. Since mq_bytes_read can only be changed by the receiver and mq_bytes_written can only be changed by the sender, the only purpose of the spinlock is to prevent reads and writes of these values from being torn on platforms where 8-byte memory access is not atomic, making the conversion fairly straightforward. Testing shows that this produces some slowdown if we're using emulated 64-bit atomics, but since they should be available on any platform where performance is a primary concern, that seems OK. It's faster, sometimes a lot faster, on platforms where such atomics are available. Patch by me, reviewed by Andres Freund, who also suggested the design. Also tested by Rafia Sabih. Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoYuK0XXxmUNTFT9TSNiBtWnRwasBcHHRCOK9iYmDLQVPg@mail.gmail.com
* Remove volatile qualifiers from shm_mq.c.Andres Freund2018-03-01
| | | | | | | | | | Since commit 0709b7ee, spinlock primitives include a compiler barrier so it is no longer necessary to access either spinlocks or the memory they protect through pointer-to-volatile. Like earlier commits e93b6298, d53e3d5f, 430008b5, 8f6bb851, df4077cd. Author: Thomas Munro Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=204T37SxcHo4=xw5btho9jQ-=ZYYrVdcKyz82XYzMoqg@mail.gmail.com
* Document LWTRANCHE_PARALLEL_HASH_JOIN.Robert Haas2018-02-28
| | | | | | Thomas Munro Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=3g1hhbFzYkR_QT9RmBvsGX4UaeCtX-4Js8OOEMmFeaSQ@mail.gmail.com
* Remove extra words.Robert Haas2018-02-22
| | | | | | Thomas Munro Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=2x3NUSPed6=-wDYs39KtUU5Dw3mK_NAMWps+18FmkApQ@mail.gmail.com
* Fix typoMagnus Hagander2018-02-20
| | | | Author: Masahiko Sawada
* Remove bogus "extern" annotations on function definitions.Tom Lane2018-02-19
| | | | | | | | | While this is not illegal C, project style is to put "extern" only on declarations not definitions. David Rowley Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKJS1f9RKLWXcMBQhvDYhmsMEo+ALuNgA-NE+AX5Uoke9DJ2Xg@mail.gmail.com
* Fix crash when canceling parallel queryPeter Eisentraut2018-02-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | elog(FATAL) would end up calling PortalCleanup(), which would call executor shutdown code, which could fail and crash, especially under parallel query. This was introduced by 8561e4840c81f7e345be2df170839846814fa004, which did not want to mark an active portal as failed by a normal transaction abort anymore. But we do need to do that for an elog(FATAL) exit. Introduce a variable shmem_exit_inprogress similar to the existing proc_exit_inprogress, so we can tell whether we are in the FATAL exit scenario. Reported-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
* Cast to void in StaticAssertExpr, not its callers.Tom Lane2018-02-15
| | | | | | | | | | | Seems a bit silly that many (in fact all, as of today) uses of StaticAssertExpr would need to cast it to void to avoid warnings from pickier compilers. Let's just do the cast right in the macro, instead. In passing, change StaticAssertExpr to StaticAssertStmt in one place where that seems more apropos. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16161.1518715186@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Support parallel btree index builds.Robert Haas2018-02-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | To make this work, tuplesort.c and logtape.c must also support parallelism, so this patch adds that infrastructure and then applies it to the particular case of parallel btree index builds. Testing to date shows that this can often be 2-3x faster than a serial index build. The model for deciding how many workers to use is fairly primitive at present, but it's better than not having the feature. We can refine it as we get more experience. Peter Geoghegan with some help from Rushabh Lathia. While Heikki Linnakangas is not an author of this patch, he wrote other patches without which this feature would not have been possible, and therefore the release notes should possibly credit him as an author of this feature. Reviewed by Claudio Freire, Heikki Linnakangas, Thomas Munro, Tels, Amit Kapila, me. Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAM3SWZQKM=Pzc=CAHzRixKjp2eO5Q0Jg1SoFQqeXFQ647JiwqQ@mail.gmail.com Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAH2-Wz=AxWqDoVvGU7dq856S4r6sJAj6DBn7VMtigkB33N5eyg@mail.gmail.com
* Fix Latin spellingPeter Eisentraut2018-01-11
| | | | "c.f." should be "cf.".
* Remove dubious micro-optimization in ckpt_buforder_comparator().Tom Lane2018-01-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It seems incorrect to assume that the list of CkptSortItems can never contain duplicate page numbers: concurrent activity could result in some page getting dropped from a low-numbered buffer and later loaded into a high-numbered buffer while BufferSync is scanning the buffer pool. If that happened, the comparator would give self-inconsistent results, potentially confusing qsort(). Saving one comparison step is not worth possibly getting the sort wrong. So far as I can tell, nothing would actually go wrong given our current implementation of qsort(). It might get a bit slower than expected if there were a large number of duplicates of one value, but that's surely a probability-epsilon case. Still, the comment is wrong, and if we ever switched to another sort implementation it might be less forgiving. In passing, avoid casting away const-ness of the argument pointers; I've not seen any compiler complaints from that, but it seems likely that some compilers would not like it. Back-patch to 9.6 where this code came in, just in case I've underestimated the possible consequences. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18437.1515607610@sss.pgh.pa.us
* While waiting for a condition variable, detect postmaster death.Tom Lane2018-01-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | The general assumption for postmaster child processes is that they should just exit(1), reasonably promptly, if the postmaster disappears. condition_variable.c neglected this consideration and could be left waiting forever, if the counterpart process it is waiting for has done the right thing and exited. We had some discussion of adjusting the WaitEventSet API to make it harder to make this type of mistake in future; but for the moment, and for v10, let's make this narrow fix. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20412.1515456143@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Allow ConditionVariable[PrepareTo]Sleep to auto-switch between CVs.Tom Lane2018-01-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The original coding here insisted that callers manually cancel any prepared sleep for one condition variable before starting a sleep on another one. While that's not a huge burden today, it seems like a gotcha that will bite us in future if the use of condition variables increases; anything we can do to make the use of this API simpler and more robust is attractive. Hence, allow these functions to automatically switch their attention to a different CV when required. This is safe for the same reason it was OK for commit aced5a92b to let a broadcast operation cancel any prepared CV sleep: whenever we return to the other test-and-sleep loop, we will automatically re-prepare that CV, paying at most an extra test of that loop's exit condition. Back-patch to v10 where condition variables were introduced. Ordinarily we would probably not back-patch a change like this, but since it does not invalidate any coding pattern that was legal before, it seems safe enough. Furthermore, there's an open bug in replorigin_drop() for which the simplest fix requires this. Even if we chose to fix that in some more complicated way, the hazard would remain that we might back-patch some other bug fix that requires this behavior. Patch by me, reviewed by Thomas Munro. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2437.1515368316@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Cosmetic improvements in condition_variable.[hc].Tom Lane2018-01-08
| | | | | | Clarify a bunch of comments. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=0NWKehYw7NDoUSf8juuKOPRnCyY3vuaSvhrEWsOTAa3w@mail.gmail.com
* Improve error detection capability in proclists.Tom Lane2018-01-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Previously, although the initial state of a proclist_node is expected to be next == prev == 0, proclist_delete_offset would reset nodes to next == prev == INVALID_PGPROCNO when removing them from a list. This is the same state that a node in a singleton list has, so that it's impossible to distinguish not-in-a-list from in-a-list. Change proclist_delete_offset to reset removed nodes to next == prev == 0, making it possible to distinguish those cases, and then add Asserts to the list add and delete functions that the supplied node isn't or is in a list at entry. Also tighten assertions about the node being in the particular list (not some other one) where it is possible to check that in O(1) time. In ConditionVariablePrepareToSleep, since we don't expect the process's cvWaitLink to already be in a list, remove the more-or-less-useless proclist_contains check; we'd rather have proclist_push_tail's new assertion fire if that happens. Improve various comments related to proclists, too. Patch by me, reviewed by Thomas Munro. This isn't back-patchable, since there could theoretically be inlined copies of proclist_delete_offset in third-party modules. But it's only improving debuggability anyway. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=0NWKehYw7NDoUSf8juuKOPRnCyY3vuaSvhrEWsOTAa3w@mail.gmail.com
* Back off chattiness in RemovePgTempFiles().Tom Lane2018-01-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | In commit 561885db0, as part of normalizing RemovePgTempFiles's error handling, I removed its behavior of silently ignoring ENOENT failures during directory opens. Thomas Munro points out that this is a bad idea at the top level, because we don't create pgsql_tmp directories until needed. Thus this coding could produce LOG messages in perfectly normal situations, which isn't what I intended. Restore the suppression of ENOENT logging, but only at top level --- it would still be unexpected for a nested temp directory to disappear between seeing it in the parent directory and opening it. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=2y06SehAkTnd5sU_eVqdv5P-=Srt1y5vYNQk6yVDVaPw@mail.gmail.com
* Remove return values of ConditionVariableSignal/Broadcast.Tom Lane2018-01-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In the wake of commit aced5a92b, the semantics of these results are a bit squishy: we can tell whether we signaled some other process(es), but we do not know which ones were real waiters versus mere sentinels for ConditionVariableBroadcast operations. It does not help much that ConditionVariableBroadcast will attempt to pass on the signal to the next real waiter, because (a) there might not be one, and (b) that will only happen awhile later, anyway. So these results could overstate how much effect the calls really had. However, no existing caller of either function pays any attention to its result value, so it seems reasonable to just define that as a required property of a correct algorithm. To encourage correctness and save some tiny number of cycles, change both functions to return void. Patch by me, per an observation by Thomas Munro. No back-patch, since if any third parties happen to be using these functions, they might not appreciate an API break in a minor release. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=0NWKehYw7NDoUSf8juuKOPRnCyY3vuaSvhrEWsOTAa3w@mail.gmail.com
* Reorder steps in ConditionVariablePrepareToSleep for more safety.Tom Lane2018-01-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In the admittedly-very-unlikely case that AddWaitEventToSet fails, ConditionVariablePrepareToSleep would error out after already having set cv_sleep_target, which is probably bad, and after having already set cv_wait_event_set, which is very bad. Transaction abort might or might not clean up cv_sleep_target properly; but there is nothing that would be aware that the WaitEventSet wasn't fully constructed, so that all future condition variable sleeps would be broken. We can easily guard against these hazards with slight restructuring. Back-patch to v10 where condition_variable.c was introduced. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=0NWKehYw7NDoUSf8juuKOPRnCyY3vuaSvhrEWsOTAa3w@mail.gmail.com
* Rewrite ConditionVariableBroadcast() to avoid live-lock.Tom Lane2018-01-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The original implementation of ConditionVariableBroadcast was, per its self-description, "the dumbest way possible". Thomas Munro found out it was a bit too dumb. An awakened process may immediately re-queue itself, if the specific condition it's waiting for is not yet satisfied. If this happens before ConditionVariableBroadcast is able to see the wait queue as empty, then ConditionVariableBroadcast will re-awaken the same process, repeating the cycle. Given unlucky timing this back-and-forth can repeat indefinitely; loops lasting thousands of seconds have been seen in testing. To fix, add our own process to the end of the wait queue to serve as a sentinel, and exit the broadcast loop once our process is not there anymore. There are various special considerations described in the comments, the principal disadvantage being that wakers can no longer be sure whether they awakened a real waiter or just a sentinel. But in practice nobody pays attention to the result of ConditionVariableSignal or ConditionVariableBroadcast anyway, so that problem seems hypothetical. Back-patch to v10 where condition_variable.c was introduced. Tom Lane and Thomas Munro Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=0NWKehYw7NDoUSf8juuKOPRnCyY3vuaSvhrEWsOTAa3w@mail.gmail.com
* Make XactLockTableWait work for transactions that are not yet self-lockedAlvaro Herrera2018-01-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | XactLockTableWait assumed that its xid argument has already added itself to the lock table. That assumption led to another assumption that if locking the xid has succeeded but the xid is reported as still in progress, then the input xid must have been a subtransaction. These assumptions hold true for the original uses of this code in locking related to on-disk tuples, but they break down in logical replication slot snapshot building -- in particular, when a standby snapshot logged contains an xid that's already in ProcArray but not yet in the lock table. This leads to assertion failures that can be reproduced all the way back to 9.4, when logical decoding was introduced. To fix, change SubTransGetParent to SubTransGetTopmostTransaction which has a slightly different API: it returns the argument Xid if there is no parent, and it goes all the way to the top instead of moving up the levels one by one. Also, to avoid busy-waiting, add a 1ms sleep to give the other process time to register itself in the lock table. For consistency, change ConditionalXactLockTableWait the same way. Author: Petr Jelínek Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1B3E32D8-FCF4-40B4-AEF9-5C0E3AC57969@postgrespro.ru Reported-by: Konstantin Knizhnik Diagnosed-by: Stas Kelvich, Petr Jelínek Reviewed-by: Andres Freund, Robert Haas
* Update copyright for 2018Bruce Momjian2018-01-02
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* Fix race-under-concurrency in PathNameCreateTemporaryDir.Robert Haas2017-12-27
| | | | | | Thomas Munro Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=1Vp1e3KtftLtw4B60ZV9teNeKu6HxoaaBptQMsRWjJbQ@mail.gmail.com
* Fix typoAlvaro Herrera2017-12-21
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* Add shared tuplestores.Andres Freund2017-12-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | SharedTuplestore allows multiple participants to write into it and then read the tuples back from it in parallel. Each reader receives partial results. For now it always uses disk files, but other buffering policies and other kinds of scans (ie each reader receives complete results) may be useful in future. The upcoming parallel hash join feature will use this facility. Author: Thomas Munro Reviewed-By: Peter Geoghegan, Andres Freund, Robert Haas Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=2W=cOkiZxcg6qiFQP-dHUe09aqTrEMM7yJDrHMhDv_RA@mail.gmail.com
* Add defenses against pre-crash files to BufFileOpenShared().Andres Freund2017-12-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Crash restarts currently don't clean up temporary files, as a debugging aid. If a left-over file happens to have the same name as a segment file we're trying to create, we'll just truncate and reuse it, but there is a problem: BufFileOpenShared() determines how many segment files exist by trying to open .0, .1, .2, ... until it finds no more files. It might be confused by a junk file that has the next segment number. To defend against that, make sure we always create a gap after the end file by unlinking the following name if it exists. Also make it an error to try to open a BufFile that doesn't exist (has no segment 0), so as not to encourage the development of client code that depends on an interface that we can't reliably provide. Author: Thomas Munro Reviewed-By: Andres Freund Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm%3D2jhCbC_GFQJaaDhWxLB4EXtT3vVd5czuRNaqF5CWSTog%40mail.gmail.com
* Support Parallel Append plan nodes.Robert Haas2017-12-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When we create an Append node, we can spread out the workers over the subplans instead of piling on to each subplan one at a time, which should typically be a bit more efficient, both because the startup cost of any plan executed entirely by one worker is paid only once and also because of reduced contention. We can also construct Append plans using a mix of partial and non-partial subplans, which may allow for parallelism in places that otherwise couldn't support it. Unfortunately, this patch doesn't handle the important case of parallelizing UNION ALL by running each branch in a separate worker; the executor infrastructure is added here, but more planner work is needed. Amit Khandekar, Robert Haas, Amul Sul, reviewed and tested by Ashutosh Bapat, Amit Langote, Rafia Sabih, Amit Kapila, and Rajkumar Raghuwanshi. Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAJ3gD9dy0K_E8r727heqXoBmWZ83HwLFwdcaSSmBQ1+S+vRuUQ@mail.gmail.com
* Treat directory open failures as hard errors in ResetUnloggedRelations().Tom Lane2017-12-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Previously, this code just reported such problems at LOG level and kept going. The problem with this approach is that transient failures (e.g., ENFILE) could prevent us from resetting unlogged relations to empty, yet allow recovery to appear to complete successfully. That seems like a data corruption hazard large enough to treat such problems as reasons to fail startup. For the same reason, treat unlink failures for unlogged files as hard errors not just LOG messages. It's a little odd that we did it like that when file-level errors in other steps (copy_file, fsync_fname) are ERRORs. The sole case that I left alone is that ENOENT failure on a tablespace (not database) directory is not an error, though it will now be logged rather than just silently ignored. This is to cover the scenario where a previous DROP TABLESPACE removed the tablespace directory but failed before removing the pg_tblspc symlink. I'm not sure that that's very likely in practice, but that seems like the only real excuse for the old behavior here, so let's allow for it. (As coded, this will also allow ENOENT on $PGDATA/base/. But since we'll fail soon enough if that's gone, I don't think we need to complicate this code by distinguishing that from a true tablespace case.) Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/21040.1512418508@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Improve error handling in RemovePgTempFiles().Tom Lane2017-12-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Modify this function and its subsidiaries so that syscall failures are reported via ereport(LOG), rather than silently ignored as before. We don't want to throw a hard ERROR, as that would prevent database startup, and getting rid of leftover temporary files is not important enough for that. On the other hand, not reporting trouble at all seems like an odd choice not in line with current project norms, especially since any failure here is quite unexpected. On the same reasoning, adjust these functions' AllocateDir/ReadDir calls so that failure to scan a directory results in LOG not ERROR. I also removed the previous practice of silently ignoring ENOENT failures during directory opens --- there are some corner cases where that could happen given a previous database crash, but that seems like a bad excuse for ignoring a condition that isn't expected in most cases. A LOG message during postmaster start seems OK in such situations, and better than no output at all. In passing, make RemovePgTempRelationFiles' test for "is the file name all digits" look more like the way it's done elsewhere. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/19907.1512402254@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Clean up assorted messiness around AllocateDir() usage.Tom Lane2017-12-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch fixes a couple of low-probability bugs that could lead to reporting an irrelevant errno value (and hence possibly a wrong SQLSTATE) concerning directory-open or file-open failures. It also fixes places where we took shortcuts in reporting such errors, either by using elog instead of ereport or by using ereport but forgetting to specify an errcode. And it eliminates a lot of just plain redundant error-handling code. In service of all this, export fd.c's formerly-static function ReadDirExtended, so that external callers can make use of the coding pattern dir = AllocateDir(path); while ((de = ReadDirExtended(dir, path, LOG)) != NULL) if they'd like to treat directory-open failures as mere LOG conditions rather than errors. Also fix FreeDir to be a no-op if we reach it with dir == NULL, as such a coding pattern would cause. Then, remove code at many call sites that was throwing an error or log message for AllocateDir failure, as ReadDir or ReadDirExtended can handle that job just fine. Aside from being a net code savings, this gets rid of a lot of not-quite-up-to-snuff reports, as mentioned above. (In some places these changes result in replacing a custom error message such as "could not open tablespace directory" with more generic wording "could not open directory", but it was agreed that the custom wording buys little as long as we report the directory name.) In some other call sites where we can't just remove code, change the error reports to be fully project-style-compliant. Also reorder code in restoreTwoPhaseData that was acquiring a lock between AllocateDir and ReadDir; in the unlikely but surely not impossible case that LWLockAcquire changes errno, AllocateDir failures would be misreported. There is no great value in opening the directory before acquiring TwoPhaseStateLock, so just do it in the other order. Also fix CheckXLogRemoved to guarantee that it preserves errno, as quite a number of call sites are implicitly assuming. (Again, it's unlikely but I think not impossible that errno could change during a SpinLockAcquire. If so, this function was broken for its own purposes as well as breaking callers.) And change a few places that were using not-per-project-style messages, such as "could not read directory" when "could not open directory" is more correct. Back-patch the exporting of ReadDirExtended, in case we have occasion to back-patch some fix that makes use of it; it's not needed right now but surely making it global is pretty harmless. Also back-patch the restoreTwoPhaseData and CheckXLogRemoved fixes. The rest of this is essentially cosmetic and need not get back-patched. Michael Paquier, with a bit of additional work by me Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAB7nPqRpOCxjiirHmebEFhXVTK7V5Jvw4bz82p7Oimtsm3TyZA@mail.gmail.com
* Adjust #ifdef EXEC_BACKEND RemovePgTempFilesInDir() call.Andres Freund2017-12-01
| | | | | | | Other callers were adjusted in the course of dc6c4c9dc2a111519b76b22daaaac86c5608223b. Per buildfarm.
* Add infrastructure for sharing temporary files between backends.Andres Freund2017-12-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | SharedFileSet allows temporary files to be created by one backend and then exported for read-only access by other backends, with clean-up managed by reference counting associated with a DSM segment. This includes changes to fd.c and buffile.c to support the new kind of temporary file. This will be used by an upcoming patch adding support for parallel hash joins. Author: Thomas Munro Reviewed-By: Peter Geoghegan, Andres Freund, Robert Haas, Rushabh Lathia Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=2W=cOkiZxcg6qiFQP-dHUe09aqTrEMM7yJDrHMhDv_RA@mail.gmail.com https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-WznJ_UgLux=_jTgCQ4yFz0iBntudsNKa1we3kN1BAG=88w@mail.gmail.com