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2025-04-29Give up on running with NetBSD/OpenBSD's default semaphore settings.Tom Lane
This reverts commit 38da053463bef32adf563ddee5277d16d2b6c5af, which attempted to preserve our ability to start with only 60 semaphores. Subsequent changes (particularly 55b454d0e) have put that idea pretty much permanently out of reach: people wishing to use Postgres v18 on OpenBSD or NetBSD will have no choice but to increase those platforms' default values of SEMMNI and SEMMNS. Hence, revert 38da05346's changes in SEMAS_PER_SET and the minimum tested value of max_connections. Adjust a comment from the subsequent patch 6d0154196, and tweak the wording in runtime.sgml to make it clear that changing SEMMNI/SEMMNS is no longer even a little bit optional on these platforms. Although 38da05346 was later back-patched into v17, leave that branch alone: it's still capable of starting with 60 semaphores, and there's no reason to break that. Author: Tom Lane <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Nathan Bossart <[email protected]> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/[email protected] Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/[email protected]
2025-01-01Update copyright for 2025Bruce Momjian
Backpatch-through: 13
2024-12-23Try to avoid semaphore-related test failures on NetBSD/OpenBSD.Tom Lane
These two platforms have a remarkably tight default limit on the number of SysV semaphores in the system: SEMMNS is only 60 out-of-the-box. Unless manual action is taken to raise that, we'll only be able to allocate 3 sets of 16 usable semaphores each, leading to initdb setting max_connections to just 20. That's problematic because the core regression tests expect to be able to launch 20 concurrent sessions, leaving us with no headroom. This seems to be the cause of intermittent buildfarm failures on some machines. While there's no getting around the fact that you'd better raise SEMMNS for production use on these platforms, it does seem desirable for "make check" to pass reliably without that. We can make that happen, at least for awhile longer, with two small changes: * Change sysv_sema.c's SEMAS_PER_SET to 19, so that we can eat up all of the available semas not just most of them. * Change initdb to make the smallest max_connections value it will consider be 25 not 20. As of HEAD this will leave us with four free semaphores (using the default values for other relevant parameters such as max_wal_senders). So we won't need to consider this again until we've invented five more background processes. Maybe by then we can switch both these platforms to some other semaphore API. For the moment, do this only in master; there've not been field complaints that might justify a back-patch. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/[email protected]
2024-11-28Remove useless casts to (void *)Peter Eisentraut
Many of them just seem to have been copied around for no real reason. Their presence causes (small) risks of hiding actual type mismatches or silently discarding qualifiers Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/[email protected]
2024-07-30Require memory barrier support.Thomas Munro
Previously we had a fallback implementation that made a harmless system call, based on the assumption that system calls must contain a memory barrier. That shouldn't be reached on any current system, and it seems highly likely that we can easily find out how to request explicit memory barriers, if we've already had to find out how to do atomics on a hypothetical new system. Removed comments and a function name referred to a spinlock used for fallback memory barriers, but that changed in 1b468a13, which left some misleading words behind in a few places. Reviewed-by: Heikki Linnakangas <[email protected]> Suggested-by: Andres Freund <[email protected]> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/721bf39a-ed8a-44b0-8b8e-be3bd81db748%40technowledgy.de Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3351991.1697728588%40sss.pgh.pa.us
2024-07-30Require compiler barrier support.Thomas Munro
Previously we had a fallback implementation of pg_compiler_barrier() that called an empty function across a translation unit boundary so the compiler couldn't see what it did. That shouldn't be needed on any current systems, and might not even work with a link time optimizer. Since we now require compiler-specific knowledge of how to implement atomics, we should also know how to implement compiler barriers on a hypothetical new system. Reviewed-by: Heikki Linnakangas <[email protected]> Suggested-by: Andres Freund <[email protected]> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/721bf39a-ed8a-44b0-8b8e-be3bd81db748%40technowledgy.de Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3351991.1697728588%40sss.pgh.pa.us
2024-07-30Remove --disable-atomics, require 32 bit atomics.Thomas Munro
Modern versions of all relevant architectures and tool chains have atomics support. Since edadeb07, there is no remaining reason to carry code that simulates atomic flags and uint32 imperfectly with spinlocks. 64 bit atomics are still emulated with spinlocks, if needed, for now. Any modern compiler capable of implementing C11 <stdatomic.h> must have the underlying operations we need, though we don't require C11 yet. We detect certain compilers and architectures, so hypothetical new systems might need adjustments here. Reviewed-by: Heikki Linnakangas <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <[email protected]> (concept, not the patch) Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <[email protected]> (concept, not the patch) Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3351991.1697728588%40sss.pgh.pa.us
2024-07-30Remove --disable-spinlocks.Thomas Munro
A later change will require atomic support, so it wouldn't make sense for a hypothetical new system not to be able to implement spinlocks. Reviewed-by: Heikki Linnakangas <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <[email protected]> (concept, not the patch) Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <[email protected]> (concept, not the patch) Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3351991.1697728588%40sss.pgh.pa.us
2024-05-17Revise GUC names quoting in messages againPeter Eisentraut
After further review, we want to move in the direction of always quoting GUC names in error messages, rather than the previous (PG16) wildly mixed practice or the intermittent (mid-PG17) idea of doing this depending on how possibly confusing the GUC name is. This commit applies appropriate quotes to (almost?) all mentions of GUC names in error messages. It partially supersedes a243569bf65 and 8d9978a7176, which had moved things a bit in the opposite direction but which then were abandoned in a partial state. Author: Peter Smith <[email protected]> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CAHut%2BPv-kSN8SkxSdoHano_wPubqcg5789ejhCDZAcLFceBR-w%40mail.gmail.com
2024-03-04Remove unused #include's from backend .c filesPeter Eisentraut
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
2024-02-28Remove AIX supportHeikki Linnakangas
There isn't a lot of user demand for AIX support, we have a bunch of hacks to work around AIX-specific compiler bugs and idiosyncrasies, and no one has stepped up to the plate to properly maintain it. Remove support for AIX to get rid of that maintenance overhead. It's still supported for stable versions. The acute issue that triggered this decision was that after commit 8af2565248, the AIX buildfarm members have been hitting this assertion: TRAP: failed Assert("(uintptr_t) buffer == TYPEALIGN(PG_IO_ALIGN_SIZE, buffer)"), File: "md.c", Line: 472, PID: 2949728 Apperently the "pg_attribute_aligned(a)" attribute doesn't work on AIX for values larger than PG_IO_ALIGN_SIZE, for a static const variable. That could be worked around, but we decided to just drop the AIX support instead. Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/[email protected] Reviewed-by: Andres Freund, Noah Misch, Thomas Munro
2024-01-17Close socket in case of errors in setting non-blockingDaniel Gustafsson
If configuring the newly created socket non-blocking fails we error out and return INVALID_SOCKET, but the socket that had been created wasn't closed. Fix by issuing closesocket in the errorpath. Backpatch to all supported branches. Author: Ranier Vilela <[email protected]> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEudQApmU5CrKefH85VbNYE2y8H=-qqEJbg6RAPU65+vCe+89A@mail.gmail.com Backpatch-through: v12
2024-01-04Update copyright for 2024Bruce Momjian
Reported-by: Michael Paquier Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/[email protected] Backpatch-through: 12
2023-11-06Remove distprepPeter Eisentraut
A PostgreSQL release tarball contains a number of prebuilt files, in particular files produced by bison, flex, perl, and well as html and man documentation. We have done this consistent with established practice at the time to not require these tools for building from a tarball. Some of these tools were hard to get, or get the right version of, from time to time, and shipping the prebuilt output was a convenience to users. Now this has at least two problems: One, we have to make the build system(s) work in two modes: Building from a git checkout and building from a tarball. This is pretty complicated, but it works so far for autoconf/make. It does not currently work for meson; you can currently only build with meson from a git checkout. Making meson builds work from a tarball seems very difficult or impossible. One particular problem is that since meson requires a separate build directory, we cannot make the build update files like gram.h in the source tree. So if you were to build from a tarball and update gram.y, you will have a gram.h in the source tree and one in the build tree, but the way things work is that the compiler will always use the one in the source tree. So you cannot, for example, make any gram.y changes when building from a tarball. This seems impossible to fix in a non-horrible way. Second, there is increased interest nowadays in precisely tracking the origin of software. We can reasonably track contributions into the git tree, and users can reasonably track the path from a tarball to packages and downloads and installs. But what happens between the git tree and the tarball is obscure and in some cases non-reproducible. The solution for both of these issues is to get rid of the step that adds prebuilt files to the tarball. The tarball now only contains what is in the git tree (*). Getting the additional build dependencies is no longer a problem nowadays, and the complications to keep these dual build modes working are significant. And of course we want to get the meson build system working universally. This commit removes the make distprep target altogether. The make dist target continues to do its job, it just doesn't call distprep anymore. (*) - The tarball also contains the INSTALL file that is built at make dist time, but not by distprep. This is unchanged for now. The make maintainer-clean target, whose job it is to remove the prebuilt files in addition to what make distclean does, is now just an alias to make distprep. (In practice, it is probably obsolete given that git clean is available.) The following programs are now hard build requirements in configure (they were already required by meson.build): - bison - flex - perl Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <[email protected]> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/[email protected]
2023-10-26Add trailing commas to enum definitionsPeter Eisentraut
Since C99, there can be a trailing comma after the last value in an enum definition. A lot of new code has been introducing this style on the fly. Some new patches are now taking an inconsistent approach to this. Some add the last comma on the fly if they add a new last value, some are trying to preserve the existing style in each place, some are even dropping the last comma if there was one. We could nudge this all in a consistent direction if we just add the trailing commas everywhere once. I omitted a few places where there was a fixed "last" value that will always stay last. I also skipped the header files of libpq and ecpg, in case people want to use those with older compilers. There were also a small number of cases where the enum type wasn't used anywhere (but the enum values were), which ended up confusing pgindent a bit, so I left those alone. Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/386f8c45-c8ac-4681-8add-e3b0852c1620%40eisentraut.org
2023-07-06Add GUC parameter "huge_pages_status"Michael Paquier
This is useful to show the allocation state of huge pages when setting up a server with "huge_pages = try", where allocating huge pages would be attempted but the server would continue its startup sequence even if the allocation fails. The effective status of huge pages is not easily visible without OS-level tools (or for instance, a lookup at /proc/N/smaps), and the environments where Postgres runs may not authorize that. Like the other GUCs related to huge pages, this works for Linux and Windows. This GUC can report as values: - "on", if huge pages were allocated. - "off", if huge pages were not allocated. - "unknown", a special state that could only be seen when using for example postgres -C because it is only possible to know if the shared memory allocation worked after we can check for the GUC values, even if checking a runtime-computed GUC. This value should never be seen when querying for the GUC on a running server. An assertion is added to check that. The discussion has also turned around having a new function to grab this status, but this would have required more tricks for -DEXEC_BACKEND, something that GUCs already handle. Noriyoshi Shinoda has initiated the thread that has led to the result of this commit. Author: Justin Pryzby Reviewed-by: Nathan Bossart, Kyotaro Horiguchi, Michael Paquier Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/TU4PR8401MB1152EBB0D271F827E2E37A01EECC9@TU4PR8401MB1152.NAMPRD84.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM
2023-01-02Update copyright for 2023Bruce Momjian
Backpatch-through: 11
2022-12-20Add copyright notices to meson filesAndrew Dunstan
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/[email protected]
2022-12-15Static assertions cleanupPeter Eisentraut
Because we added StaticAssertStmt() first before StaticAssertDecl(), some uses as well as the instructions in c.h are now a bit backwards from the "native" way static assertions are meant to be used in C. This updates the guidance and moves some static assertions to better places. Specifically, since the addition of StaticAssertDecl(), we can put static assertions at the file level. This moves a number of static assertions out of function bodies, where they might have been stuck out of necessity, to perhaps better places at the file level or in header files. Also, when the static assertion appears in a position where a declaration is allowed, then using StaticAssertDecl() is more native than StaticAssertStmt(). Reviewed-by: John Naylor <[email protected]> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/941a04e7-dd6f-c0e4-8cdf-a33b3338cbda%40enterprisedb.com
2022-11-09Provide sigaction() for Windows.Thomas Munro
Commit 9abb2bfc left behind code to block signals inside signal handlers on Windows, because our signal porting layer didn't have sigaction(). Provide a minimal implementation that is capable of blocking signals, to get rid of platform differences. See also related commit c94ae9d8. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGKKKfcgx6jzok9AYenp2TNti_tfs8FMoJpL8%2B0Gsy%3D%3D_A%40mail.gmail.com
2022-09-22meson: Add initial version of meson based build systemAndres Freund
Autoconf is showing its age, fewer and fewer contributors know how to wrangle it. Recursive make has a lot of hard to resolve dependency issues and slow incremental rebuilds. Our home-grown MSVC build system is hard to maintain for developers not using Windows and runs tests serially. While these and other issues could individually be addressed with incremental improvements, together they seem best addressed by moving to a more modern build system. After evaluating different build system choices, we chose to use meson, to a good degree based on the adoption by other open source projects. We decided that it's more realistic to commit a relatively early version of the new build system and mature it in tree. This commit adds an initial version of a meson based build system. It supports building postgres on at least AIX, FreeBSD, Linux, macOS, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris and Windows (however only gcc is supported on aix, solaris). For Windows/MSVC postgres can now be built with ninja (faster, particularly for incremental builds) and msbuild (supporting the visual studio GUI, but building slower). Several aspects (e.g. Windows rc file generation, PGXS compatibility, LLVM bitcode generation, documentation adjustments) are done in subsequent commits requiring further review. Other aspects (e.g. not installing test-only extensions) are not yet addressed. When building on Windows with msbuild, builds are slower when using a visual studio version older than 2019, because those versions do not support MultiToolTask, required by meson for intra-target parallelism. The plan is to remove the MSVC specific build system in src/tools/msvc soon after reaching feature parity. However, we're not planning to remove the autoconf/make build system in the near future. Likely we're going to keep at least the parts required for PGXS to keep working around until all supported versions build with meson. Some initial help for postgres developers is at https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Meson With contributions from Thomas Munro, John Naylor, Stone Tickle and others. Author: Andres Freund <[email protected]> Author: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <[email protected]> Author: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/[email protected]
2022-09-17Fix huge_pages on WindowsMichael Paquier
Since Windows 10 1703, it is additionally necessary to pass a flag called FILE_MAP_LARGE_PAGES to MapViewOfFile() to enable large pages at map time. This flag is ignored on older versions of Windows, where large pages should still be able to work properly without setting it. Note that the flag would be set only for binaries that knew about it at compile-time, which should be more or less all the Windows environments these days. Since 495ed0e, Windows 10 is the minimum version of Windows supported by Postgres, making this change easy to reason about on HEAD. Per discussion, no backpatch is done for the moment. Reported-by: Okano Naoki Author: Thomas Munro Reviewed-by: Tom Lane, Michael Paquier, Julien Rouhaud Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/[email protected]
2022-09-13Split up guc.c for better build speed and ease of maintenance.Tom Lane
guc.c has grown to be one of our largest .c files, making it a bottleneck for compilation. It's also acquired a bunch of knowledge that'd be better kept elsewhere, because of our not very good habit of putting variable-specific check hooks here. Hence, split it up along these lines: * guc.c itself retains just the core GUC housekeeping mechanisms. * New file guc_funcs.c contains the SET/SHOW interfaces and some SQL-accessible functions for GUC manipulation. * New file guc_tables.c contains the data arrays that define the built-in GUC variables, along with some already-exported constant tables. * GUC check/assign/show hook functions are moved to the variable's home module, whenever that's clearly identifiable. A few hard- to-classify hooks ended up in commands/variable.c, which was already a home for miscellaneous GUC hook functions. To avoid cluttering a lot more header files with #include "guc.h", I also invented a new header file utils/guc_hooks.h and put all the GUC hook functions' declarations there, regardless of their originating module. That allowed removal of #include "guc.h" from some existing headers. The fallout from that (hopefully all caught here) demonstrates clearly why such inclusions are best minimized: there are a lot of files that, for example, were getting array.h at two or more levels of remove, despite not having any connection at all to GUCs in themselves. There is some very minor code beautification here, such as renaming a couple of inconsistently-named hook functions and improving some comments. But mostly this just moves code from point A to point B and deals with the ensuing needs for #include adjustments and exporting a few functions that previously weren't exported. Patch by me, per a suggestion from Andres Freund; thanks also to Michael Paquier for the idea to invent guc_funcs.c. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/[email protected]
2022-08-30Cleanup more code and comments related to Windows NT4 (XP days)Michael Paquier
All the code and comments cleaned up here is irrelevant since 495ed0e. Note that this removes an assumption that CreateRestrictedToken() may not exist, something that could have happened when running under Windows NT as the code stated. Rather than assuming that it may not exist, this causes pg_ctl to fail hard if the function cannot be loaded. Reported-by: Justin Pryzby Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/[email protected]
2022-08-13Remove configure probes for sys/ipc.h, sys/sem.h, sys/shm.h.Thomas Munro
These are in SUSv2 and every targeted Unix system has them. It's not hard to avoid including them on Windows system because they're mostly used in platform-specific translation units. Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <[email protected]> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKG%2BL_3brvh%3D8e0BW_VfX9h7MtwgN%3DnFHP5o7X2oZucY9dg%40mail.gmail.com
2022-08-07windows: Remove HAVE_MINIDUMP_TYPE testAndres Freund
We've relied on it being present for msvc for ages... Reviewed-By: Thomas Munro <[email protected]> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/[email protected]
2022-07-16Emulate sigprocmask(), not sigsetmask(), on Windows.Thomas Munro
Since commit a65e0864, we've required Unix systems to have sigprocmask(). As noted in that commit's message, we were still emulating the historical pre-standard sigsetmask() function in our Windows support code. Emulate standard sigprocmask() instead, for consistency. The PG_SETMASK() abstraction is now redundant and all calls could in theory be replaced by plain sigprocmask() calls, but that isn't done by this commit. Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <[email protected]> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3153247.1657834482%40sss.pgh.pa.us
2022-07-08Remove HP-UX port.Thomas Munro
HP-UX hardware is no longer produced, build farm coverage recently ended, and there are no known active maintainers targeting this OS. Since there is a major rewrite of the build system in the pipeline for PostgreSQL 16, and that requires development, testing and maintainance for each OS and tool chain, it seems like a good time to drop support for: * HP-UX, the operating system. * HP aCC, the HP-UX native compiler. Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1415825.1656893299%40sss.pgh.pa.us
2022-02-15Ensure that the argument of shmdt(2) is declared "void *".Tom Lane
Our gcc-on-Solaris buildfarm members emit "incompatible pointer type" warnings in places where it's not. This is a bit odd, since AFAICT Solaris follows the POSIX spec in declaring shmdt's argument as "const void *", and you'd think any pointer argument would satisfy that. But whatever. Part of a general push to remove off-the-beaten-track warnings where we can easily do so.
2022-01-08Update copyright for 2022Bruce Momjian
Backpatch-through: 10
2021-12-10Check for STATUS_DELETE_PENDING on Windows.Thomas Munro
1. Update our open() wrapper to check for NT's STATUS_DELETE_PENDING and translate it to Unix-like errors. This is done with RtlGetLastNtStatus(), which is dynamically loaded from ntdll. A new file win32ntdll.c centralizes lookup of NT functions, in case we decide to add more in the future. 2. Remove non-working code that was trying to do something similar for stat(), and just reuse the open() wrapper code. As a side effect, stat() also gains resilience against "sharing violation" errors. 3. Since stat() is used very early in process startup, remove the requirement that the Win32 signal event has been created before pgwin32_open_handle() is reached. Instead, teach pg_usleep() to fall back to a non-interruptible sleep if reached before the signal event is available. This could be back-patched, but for now it's in master only. The problem has apparently been with us for a long time and generated only a few complaints. Proposed patches trigger it more often, which led to this investigation and fix. Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Alexander Lakhin <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Juan José Santamaría Flecha <[email protected]> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGJz_pZTF9mckn6XgSv69%2BjGwdgLkxZ6b3NWGLBCVjqUZA%40mail.gmail.com
2021-11-06windows: Remove use of WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN from crashdump.c.Andres Freund
Since 8162464a25e we do so in win32_port.h. But it likely didn't do much before that either, because at that point windows.h was already included via win32_port.h. Reported-By: Tom Lane Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/[email protected]
2021-10-25Reject huge_pages=on if shared_memory_type=sysv.Thomas Munro
It doesn't work (it could, but hasn't been implemented). Back-patch to 12, where shared_memory_type arrived. Reported-by: Alexander Lakhin <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Alexander Lakhin <[email protected]> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/[email protected]
2021-09-30Treat ETIMEDOUT as indicating a non-recoverable connection failure.Tom Lane
Add ETIMEDOUT to ALL_CONNECTION_FAILURE_ERRNOS' list of "errnos that identify hard failure of a previously-established network connection". While one could imagine that this is sometimes recoverable, the same could be said of other entries such as ENETDOWN. In support of this, handle ETIMEDOUT on par with other socket errors in relevant infrastructure, such as TranslateSocketError(). (I made a couple of cosmetic adjustments in TranslateSocketError(), too.) The code now assumes that ETIMEDOUT is defined everywhere, which it should be given that POSIX has required it since SUSv2. Perhaps this should be back-patched, but I'm hesitant to do so given the lack of previous complaints, and the hazard that there's a small ABI break on Windows from redefining the symbol. Even if we decide to do that, it'd be prudent to let this bake awhile in HEAD first. Jelte Fennema Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/AM5PR83MB01782BFF2978505F6D6C559AF7AA9@AM5PR83MB0178.EURPRD83.prod.outlook.com
2021-09-21Introduce GUC shared_memory_size_in_huge_pagesMichael Paquier
This runtime-computed GUC shows the number of huge pages required for the server's main shared memory area, taking advantage of the work done in 0c39c29 and 0bd305e. This is useful for users to estimate the amount of huge pages required for a server as it becomes possible to do an estimation without having to start the server and potentially allocate a large chunk of shared memory. The number of huge pages is calculated based on the existing GUC huge_page_size if set, or by using the system's default by looking at /proc/meminfo on Linux. There is nothing new here as this commit reuses the existing calculation methods, and just exposes this information directly to the user. The routine calculating the huge page size is refactored to limit the number of files with platform-specific flags. This new GUC's name was the most popular choice based on the discussion done. This is only supported on Linux. I have taken the time to test the change on Linux, Windows and MacOS, though for the last two ones large pages are not supported. The first one calculates correctly the number of pages depending on the existing GUC huge_page_size or the system's default. Thanks to Andres Freund, Robert Haas, Kyotaro Horiguchi, Tom Lane, Justin Pryzby (and anybody forgotten here) for the discussion. Author: Nathan Bossart Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/[email protected]
2021-08-12Make EXEC_BACKEND more convenient on macOS.Thomas Munro
It's hard to disable ASLR on current macOS releases, for testing with -DEXEC_BACKEND. You could already set the environment variable PG_SHMEM_ADDR to something not likely to collide with mappings created earlier in process startup. Let's also provide a default value that works on current releases and architectures, for developer convenience. As noted in the pre-existing comment, this is a horrible hack, but -DEXEC_BACKEND is only used by Unix-based PostgreSQL developers for testing some otherwise Windows-only code paths, so it seems excusable. Back-patch to all supported branches. Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <[email protected]> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210806032944.m4tz7j2w47mant26%40alap3.anarazel.de
2021-05-12Initial pgindent and pgperltidy run for v14.Tom Lane
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.
2021-04-23Use correct format placeholder for WSAGetLastError()Peter Eisentraut
Some code thought this was unsigned, but it's signed int.
2021-02-17Use errmsg_internal for debug messagesPeter Eisentraut
An inconsistent set of debug-level messages was not using errmsg_internal(), thus uselessly exposing the messages to translation work. Fix those.
2021-02-04Refactor Windows error message for easier translationPeter Eisentraut
In the error messages referring to the user right "Lock pages in memory", this is a term from the Windows OS, so it should be translated in accordance with the OS localization. Refactor the error messages so this is easier and clearer. Also fix the capitalization to match the existing capitalization in the OS.
2021-01-02Update copyright for 2021Bruce Momjian
Backpatch-through: 9.5
2020-10-21Fix -Wcast-function-type warnings on Windows/MinGWPeter Eisentraut
After de8feb1f3a23465b5737e8a8c160e8ca62f61339, some warnings remained that were only visible when using GCC on Windows. Fix those as well. Note that the ecpg test source files don't use the full pg_config.h, so we can't use pg_funcptr_t there but have to do it the long way.
2020-10-10Recognize network-failure errnos as indicating hard connection loss.Tom Lane
Up to now, only ECONNRESET (and EPIPE, in most but not quite all places) received special treatment in our error handling logic. This patch changes things so that related error codes such as ECONNABORTED are also recognized as indicating that the connection's dead and unlikely to come back. We continue to think, however, that only ECONNRESET and EPIPE should be reported as probable server crashes; the other cases indicate network connectivity problems but prove little about the server's state. Thus, there's no change in the error message texts that are output for such cases. The key practical effect is that errcode_for_socket_access() will report ERRCODE_CONNECTION_FAILURE rather than ERRCODE_INTERNAL_ERROR for a network failure. It's expected that this will fix buildfarm member lorikeet's failures since commit 32a9c0bdf, as that seems to be due to not treating ECONNABORTED equivalently to ECONNRESET. The set of errnos treated this way now includes ECONNABORTED, EHOSTDOWN, EHOSTUNREACH, ENETDOWN, ENETRESET, and ENETUNREACH. Several of these were second-class citizens in terms of their handling in places like get_errno_symbol(), so upgrade the infrastructure where necessary. As committed, this patch assumes that all these symbols are defined everywhere. POSIX specifies all of them except EHOSTDOWN, but that seems to exist on all platforms of interest; we'll see what the buildfarm says about that. Probably this should be back-patched, but let's see what the buildfarm thinks of it first. Fujii Masao and Tom Lane Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/[email protected]
2020-07-17Add huge_page_size setting for use on Linux.Thomas Munro
This allows the huge page size to be set explicitly. The default is 0, meaning it will use the system default, as before. Author: Odin Ugedal <[email protected]> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200608154639.20254-1-odin%40ugedal.com
2020-06-07Spelling adjustmentsPeter Eisentraut
2020-01-01Update copyrights for 2020Bruce Momjian
Backpatch-through: update all files in master, backpatch legal files through 9.4
2019-12-11Use only one thread to handle incoming signals on Windows.Tom Lane
Since its inception, our Windows signal emulation code has worked by running a main signal thread that just watches for incoming signal requests, and then spawns a new thread to handle each such request. That design is meant for servers in which requests can take substantial effort to process, and it's worth parallelizing the handling of requests. But those assumptions are just bogus for our signal code. It's not much more than pg_queue_signal(), which is cheap and can't parallelize at all, plus we don't really expect lots of signals to arrive at the same backend at once. More importantly, this approach creates failure modes that we could do without: either inability to spawn a new thread or inability to create a new pipe handle will risk loss of signals. Hence, dispense with the separate per-signal threads and just service each request in-line in the main signal thread. This should be a bit faster (for the normal case of one signal at a time) as well as more robust. Patch by me; thanks to Andrew Dunstan for testing and Amit Kapila for review. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/[email protected]
2019-12-09Fix race condition in our Windows signal emulation.Tom Lane
pg_signal_dispatch_thread() responded to the client (signal sender) and disconnected the pipe before actually setting the shared variables that make the signal visible to the backend process's main thread. In the worst case, it seems, effective delivery of the signal could be postponed for as long as the machine has any other work to do. To fix, just move the pg_queue_signal() call so that we do it before responding to the client. This essentially makes pgkill() synchronous, which is a stronger guarantee than we have on Unix. That may be overkill, but on the other hand we have not seen comparable timing bugs on any Unix platform. While at it, add some comments to this sadly underdocumented code. Problem diagnosis and fix by Amit Kapila; I just added the comments. Back-patch to all supported versions, as it appears that this can cause visible NOTIFY timing oddities on all of them, and there might be other misbehavior due to slow delivery of other signals. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/[email protected]
2019-11-05Split all OBJS style lines in makefiles into one-line-per-entry style.Andres Freund
When maintaining or merging patches, one of the most common sources for conflicts are the list of objects in makefiles. Especially when the split across lines has been changed on both sides, which is somewhat common due to attempting to stay below 80 columns, those conflicts are unnecessarily laborious to resolve. By splitting, and alphabetically sorting, OBJS style lines into one object per line, conflicts should be less frequent, and easier to resolve when they still occur. Author: Andres Freund Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/[email protected]
2019-09-17Remove mingwcompat.cPeter Eisentraut
We believe that the issues that this was working around have been fixed in MinGW more than 5 years ago, so this isn't necessary anymore. Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/20190719050830.GK1859%40paquier.xyz