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Tom Lane 70353e463c Sync typedefs.list with buildfarm, for real this time.
In commit da256a4a7, I manually added some typedef names to the
buildfarm-generated list so as not to cause any formatting regressions
compared to the prior manually-updated list.

About half of the additions were injection-point-related names.
It turns out that those were missing because none of the buildfarm
animals contributing typedef lists were building with
--enable-injection-points.  I rectified that on my animal sifaka,
and now those are in the list available from the buildfarm.

The other half were typedefs that didn't show up in the generated list
because our method for collecting that doesn't catch names that are
not used to declare any C variables or fields.  Such a typedef name
doesn't really add a lot of value, so we decided to get rid of them,
and that's now been done in commits 110eb4aef and be5942aee.  (Note:
I'm pretty sure there are some remaining cases of that, but we've
already accepted the ensuing odd formatting of the typedef declaration
itself.  The present fixes only dealt with typedefs that had been
manually added to typedefs.list during the v17 development cycle.)

Hence, we can now install a verbatim copy of the buildfarm's list
and not have it affect anything.  The only change is to add
InjectionPointCallback, which I'd omitted from da256a4a7 because
it chanced not to affect any pgindent decisions.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1919000.1715815925@sss.pgh.pa.us
2024-05-17 11:41:24 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut be5942aee7 Remove unused typedefs
There were a few typedefs that were never used to define a variable or
field.  This had the effect that the buildfarm's typedefs.list would
not include them, and so they would need to be re-added manually to
keep the overall pgindent result perfectly clean.

We can easily get rid of these typedefs to avoid the issue.  In a few
cases, we just let the enum or struct stand on its own without a
typedef around it.  In one case, an enum was abused to define flag
bits; that's better done with macro definitions.

This fixes all the remaining issues with missing entries in the
buildfarm's typedefs.list.

Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/1919000.1715815925@sss.pgh.pa.us
2024-05-17 07:36:12 +02:00
Michael Paquier 110eb4aefb Remove enum WaitEventExtension
This enum was used to determine the first ID to use when assigning a
custom wait event for extensions, which is always 1.  It was kept so
as it would be possible to add new in-core wait events in the category
"Extension".  There is no such thing currently, so let's remove this
enum until a case justifying it pops up.  This makes the code simpler
and easier to understand.

This has as effect to switch back autoprewarm.c to use PG_WAIT_EXTENSION
rather than WAIT_EVENT_EXTENSION, on par with v16 and older stable
branches.

Thinko in c9af054653.

Reported-by: Peter Eisentraut
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/195c6c45-abce-4331-be6a-e87724e1d060@eisentraut.org
2024-05-17 12:29:57 +09:00
Tom Lane 3c03ee1a39 Doc: update src/tools/pgindent/README for current practice.
This README explains how to run pgindent, but it was written
for our former practice of running pgindent only infrequently.
Nowadays the plan is to keep the tree indent-clean all the time,
so the typical thing is to do an incremental pgindent run with
each commit.  Revise to explain that as the normal case, and
the infrequent full-on process as a separate thing.

For now, pgperltidy is still a run-it-infrequently item.
2024-05-15 19:02:14 -04:00
Tom Lane da256a4a7f Pre-beta mechanical code beautification.
Run pgindent, pgperltidy, and reformat-dat-files.

The pgindent part of this is pretty small, consisting mainly of
fixing up self-inflicted formatting damage from patches that
hadn't bothered to add their new typedefs to typedefs.list.
In order to keep it from making anything worse, I manually added
a dozen or so typedefs that appeared in the existing typedefs.list
but not in the buildfarm's list.  Perhaps we should formalize that,
or better find a way to get those typedefs into the automatic list.

pgperltidy is as opinionated as always, and reformat-dat-files too.
2024-05-14 16:34:50 -04:00
Michael Paquier 267d41dc4f injection_points: Store runtime conditions in private area
This commit fixes a race condition between injection point run and
detach, where a point detached by a backend and concurrently running in
a second backend could cause the second backend to do an incorrect
condition check.  This issue happens because the second backend
retrieves the callback information in a first step in the shmem hash
table for injection points, and the condition in a second step within
the callback.  If the point is detached between these two steps, the
condition would be removed, causing the point to run while it should
not.  Storing the condition in the new private_data area introduced in
33181b48fd ensures that the condition retrieved is consistent with its
callback.

This commit leads to a lot of simplifications in the module
injection_points, as there is no need to handle the runtime conditions
inside it anymore.  Runtime conditions have no more a maximum number.

Per discussion with Noah Misch.

Reviewed-by: Noah Misch
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20240509031553.47@rfd.leadboat.com
2024-05-12 19:42:26 +09:00
Alexander Korotkov d1d286d83c Revert: Remove useless self-joins
This commit reverts d3d55ce571 and subsequent fixes 2b26a69455, 93c85db3b5,
b44a1708ab, b7f315c9d7, 8a8ed916f7, b5fb6736ed, 0a93f803f4, e0477837ce,
a7928a57b9, 5ef34a8fc3, 30b4955a46, 8c441c0827, 028b15405b, fe093994db,
489072ab7a, and 466979ef03.

We are quite late in the release cycle and new bugs continue to appear.  Even
though we have fixes for all known bugs, there is a risk of throwing many
bugs to end users.

The plan for self-join elimination would be to do more review and testing,
then re-commit in the early v18 cycle.

Reported-by: Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2422119.1714691974%40sss.pgh.pa.us
2024-05-06 14:36:36 +03:00
David Rowley 7d2c7f08d9 Fix query pullup issue with WindowClause runCondition
94985c210 added code to detect when WindowFuncs were monotonic and
allowed additional quals to be "pushed down" into the subquery to be
used as WindowClause runConditions in order to short-circuit execution
in nodeWindowAgg.c.

The Node representation of runConditions wasn't well selected and
because we do qual pushdown before planning the subquery, the planning
of the subquery could perform subquery pull-up of nested subqueries.
For WindowFuncs with args, the arguments could be changed after pushing
the qual down to the subquery.

This was made more difficult by the fact that the code duplicated the
WindowFunc inside an OpExpr to include in the WindowClauses runCondition
field.  This could result in duplication of subqueries and a pull-up of
such a subquery could result in another initplan parameter being issued
for the 2nd version of the subplan.  This could result in errors such as:

ERROR:  WindowFunc not found in subplan target lists

To fix this, we change the node representation of these run conditions
and instead of storing an OpExpr containing the WindowFunc in a list
inside WindowClause, we now store a new node type named
WindowFuncRunCondition within a new field in the WindowFunc.  These get
transformed into OpExprs later in planning once subquery pull-up has been
performed.

This problem did exist in v15 and v16, but that was fixed by 9d36b883b
and e5d20bbd.

Cat version bump due to new node type and modifying WindowFunc struct.

Bug: #18305
Reported-by: Zuming Jiang
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18305-33c49b4c830b37b3%40postgresql.org
2024-05-05 12:54:46 +12:00
Andrew Dunstan e00b4f79e7 Remove redundant JSON parser typedefs
JsonNonTerminal and JsonParserSem were added in commit 3311ea86ed

These names of these two enums are not actually used, so there is no
need for typedefs. Instead use plain enums to declare the constants.

Noticed by Alvaro Herera.
2024-04-27 07:02:57 -04:00
Amit Kapila aa79bde725 Fix the missing table sync due to improper invalidation handling.
We missed performing table sync if the invalidation happened while the
non-ready tables list was being prepared. This occurs because the sync
state was set to valid at the end of non-ready table list preparation
irrespective of the invalidations processed while the list is being
prepared.

Fix it by changing the boolean variable to a tri-state enum and by setting
table state to valid only if no invalidations have occurred while the list
is being prepared.

Reprted-by: Alexander Lakhin
Diagnosed-by: Alexander Lakhin
Author: Vignesh C
Reviewed-by: Hou Zhijie, Alexander Lakhin, Ajin Cherian, Amit Kapila
Backpatch-through: 15
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/711a6afe-edb7-1211-cc27-1bef8239eec7@gmail.com
2024-04-25 10:40:52 +05:30
Peter Eisentraut e0d51e3bf4 Update src/tools/pginclude/README to match recent changes to cpluspluscheck
Commit 7b8e2ae2f has turned cpluspluscheck from separate script into a
--cplusplus option for headerscheck.  Update README correspondingly.

Author: Anton Voloshin <a.voloshin@postgrespro.ru>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/02e69fa9-885d-4f41-9057-15a1d212eaf8@postgrespro.ru
2024-04-18 11:37:01 +02:00
Tom Lane 984c0eccd0 Undo incorrect typedefs.list change.
6377e12a5 should not have removed AcquireSampleRowsFunc,
as that's still in use.  Per buildfarm member koel.
2024-04-16 11:38:04 -04:00
Alexander Korotkov 6377e12a5a revert: Generalize relation analyze in table AM interface
This commit reverts 27bc1772fc and dd1f6b0c17.  Per review by Andres Freund.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20240415201057.khoyxbwwxfgzomeo%40awork3.anarazel.de
2024-04-16 13:14:20 +03:00
Alexander Korotkov 772faafca1 Revert: Implement pg_wal_replay_wait() stored procedure
This commit reverts 06c418e163, e37662f221, bf1e650806, 25f42429e2,
ee79928441, and 74eaf66f98 per review by Heikki Linnakangas.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/b155606b-e744-4218-bda5-29379779da1a%40iki.fi
2024-04-11 17:28:15 +03:00
Alexander Korotkov bc1e2092eb Revert: Custom reloptions for table AM
This commit reverts 9bd99f4c26 and 422041542f per review by Andres Freund.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20240410165236.rwyrny7ihi4ddxw4%40awork3.anarazel.de
2024-04-11 15:46:35 +03:00
Masahiko Sawada 810f64a015 Revert indexed and enlargable binary heap implementation.
This reverts commit b840508644 and bcb14f4abc. These commits were made
for commit 5bec1d6bc5 (Improve eviction algorithm in ReorderBuffer
using max-heap for many subtransactions). However, per discussion,
commit efb8acc0d0 replaced binary heap + index with pairing heap, and
made these commits unnecessary.

Reported-by: Jeff Davis
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/12747c15811d94efcc5cda72d6b35c80d7bf3443.camel%40j-davis.com
2024-04-11 17:18:05 +09:00
Alexander Korotkov ff9f72c68f revert: Transform OR clauses to ANY expression
This commit reverts 72bd38cc99 due to implementation and design issues.

Reported-by: Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3604469.1712628736%40sss.pgh.pa.us
2024-04-10 02:28:09 +03:00
Alexander Korotkov dd1f6b0c17 Provide a way block-level table AMs could re-use acquire_sample_rows()
While keeping API the same, this commit provides a way for block-level table
AMs to re-use existing acquire_sample_rows() by providing custom callbacks
for getting the next block and the next tuple.

Reported-by: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20240407214001.jgpg5q3yv33ve6y3%40awork3.anarazel.de
Reviewed-by: Pavel Borisov
2024-04-08 14:39:48 +03:00
Alexander Korotkov 9bd99f4c26 Custom reloptions for table AM
Let table AM define custom reloptions for its tables. This allows specifying
AM-specific parameters by the WITH clause when creating a table.

The reloptions, which could be used outside of table AM, are now extracted
into the CommonRdOptions data structure.  These options could be by decision
of table AM directly specified by a user or calculated in some way.

The new test module test_tam_options evaluates the ability to set up custom
reloptions and calculate fields of CommonRdOptions on their base.

The code may use some parts from prior work by Hao Wu.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAPpHfdurb9ycV8udYqM%3Do0sPS66PJ4RCBM1g-bBpvzUfogY0EA%40mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/AMUA1wBBBxfc3tKRLLdU64rb.1.1683276279979.Hmail.wuhao%40hashdata.cn
Reviewed-by: Reviewed-by: Pavel Borisov, Matthias van de Meent, Jess Davis
2024-04-08 11:23:28 +03:00
Amit Langote bb766cde63 JSON_TABLE: Add support for NESTED paths and columns
A NESTED path allows to extract data from nested levels of JSON
objects given by the parent path expression, which are projected as
columns specified using a nested COLUMNS clause, just like the parent
COLUMNS clause.  Rows comprised from a NESTED columns are "joined"
to the row comprised from the parent columns.  If a particular NESTED
path evaluates to 0 rows, then the nested COLUMNS will emit NULLs,
making it an OUTER join.

NESTED columns themselves may include NESTED paths to allow
extracting data from arbitrary nesting levels, which are likewise
joined against the rows at the parent level.

Multiple NESTED paths at a given level are called "sibling" paths
and their rows are combined by UNIONing them, that is, after being
joined against the parent row as described above.

Author: Nikita Glukhov <n.gluhov@postgrespro.ru>
Author: Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru>
Author: Oleg Bartunov <obartunov@gmail.com>
Author: Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov@gmail.com>
Author: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
Author: Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com>
Author: Jian He <jian.universality@gmail.com>

Reviewers have included (in no particular order):

Andres Freund, Alexander Korotkov, Pavel Stehule, Andrew Alsup,
Erik Rijkers, Zihong Yu, Himanshu Upadhyaya, Daniel Gustafsson,
Justin Pryzby, Álvaro Herrera, Jian He

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/cd0bb935-0158-78a7-08b5-904886deac4b@postgrespro.ru
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220616233130.rparivafipt6doj3@alap3.anarazel.de
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/abd9b83b-aa66-f230-3d6d-734817f0995d%40postgresql.org
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+HiwqE4XTdfb1nW=Ojoy_tQSRhYt-q_kb6i5d4xcKyrLC1Nbg@mail.gmail.com
2024-04-08 16:14:13 +09:00
Michael Paquier f587338dec injection_points: Introduce runtime conditions
This adds a new SQL function injection_points_set_local() that can be
used to force injection points to be run only in the process where they
are attached.  This is handy for SQL tests to:
- Detach automatically injection points when the process exits.
- Allow tests with injection points to run concurrently with other test
suites, so as such modules do not have to be marked with
NO_INSTALLCHECK.

Currently, the only condition that can be registered is for a PID.
This could be extended to more kinds later, if required, like database
names/OIDs, roles, or more concepts I did not consider.

Using a single function for SQL scripts is an idea from Heikki
Linnakangas.

Reviewed-by: Andrey Borodin
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ZfP7IDs9TvrKe49x@paquier.xyz
2024-04-08 09:47:50 +09:00
Alexander Korotkov 72bd38cc99 Transform OR clauses to ANY expression
Replace (expr op C1) OR (expr op C2) ... with expr op ANY(ARRAY[C1, C2, ...])
on the preliminary stage of optimization when we are still working with the
expression tree.

Here Cn is a n-th constant expression, 'expr' is non-constant expression, 'op'
is an operator which returns boolean result and has a commuter (for the case
of reverse order of constant and non-constant parts of the expression,
like 'Cn op expr').

Sometimes it can lead to not optimal plan.  This is why there is a
or_to_any_transform_limit GUC.  It specifies a threshold value of length of
arguments in an OR expression that triggers the OR-to-ANY transformation.
Generally, more groupable OR arguments mean that transformation will be more
likely to win than to lose.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/567ED6CA.2040504%40sigaev.ru
Author: Alena Rybakina <lena.ribackina@yandex.ru>
Author: Andrey Lepikhov <a.lepikhov@postgrespro.ru>
Reviewed-by: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Reviewed-by: Ranier Vilela <ranier.vf@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jian He <jian.universality@gmail.com>
2024-04-08 01:27:52 +03:00
David Rowley 29f6a959cf Introduce a bump memory allocator
This introduces a bump MemoryContext type.  The bump context is best
suited for short-lived memory contexts which require only allocations
of memory and never a pfree or repalloc, which are unsupported.

Memory palloc'd into a bump context has no chunk header.  This makes
bump a useful context type when lots of small allocations need to be
done without any need to pfree those allocations.  Allocation sizes are
rounded up to the next MAXALIGN boundary, so with this and no chunk
header, allocations are very compact indeed.

Allocations are also very fast as bump does not check any freelists to
try and make use of previously free'd chunks.  It just checks if there
is enough room on the current block, and if so it bumps the freeptr
beyond this chunk and returns the value that the freeptr was previously
pointing to.  Simple and fast.  A new block is malloc'd when there's not
enough space in the current block.

Code using the bump allocator must take care never to call any functions
which could try to call realloc() (or variants), pfree(),
GetMemoryChunkContext() or GetMemoryChunkSpace() on a bump allocated
chunk.  Due to lack of chunk headers, these operations are unsupported.
To increase the chances of catching such issues, when compiled with
MEMORY_CONTEXT_CHECKING, bump allocated chunks are given a header and
any attempt to perform an unsupported operation will result in an ERROR.
Without MEMORY_CONTEXT_CHECKING, code attempting an unsupported
operation could result in a segfault.

A follow-on commit will implement the first user of bump.

Author: David Rowley
Reviewed-by: Nathan Bossart
Reviewed-by: Matthias van de Meent
Reviewed-by: Tomas Vondra
Reviewed-by: John Naylor
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvqGSpCU95TmM=Bp=6xjL_nLys4zdZOpfNyWBk97Xrdj2w@mail.gmail.com
2024-04-08 00:02:43 +12:00
Alexander Korotkov 87c21bb941 Implement ALTER TABLE ... SPLIT PARTITION ... command
This new DDL command splits a single partition into several parititions.
Just like ALTER TABLE ... MERGE PARTITIONS ... command, new patitions are
created using createPartitionTable() function with parent partition as the
template.

This commit comprises quite naive implementation which works in single process
and holds the ACCESS EXCLUSIVE LOCK on the parent table during all the
operations including the tuple routing.  This is why this new DDL command
can't be recommended for large partitioned tables under a high load.  However,
this implementation come in handy in certain cases even as is.
Also, it could be used as a foundation for future implementations with lesser
locking and possibly parallel.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/c73a1746-0cd0-6bdd-6b23-3ae0b7c0c582%40postgrespro.ru
Author: Dmitry Koval
Reviewed-by: Matthias van de Meent, Laurenz Albe, Zhihong Yu, Justin Pryzby
Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera, Robert Haas, Stephane Tachoires
2024-04-07 01:18:44 +03:00
Alexander Korotkov 1adf16b8fb Implement ALTER TABLE ... MERGE PARTITIONS ... command
This new DDL command merges several partitions into the one partition of the
target table.  The target partition is created using new
createPartitionTable() function with parent partition as the template.

This commit comprises quite naive implementation which works in single process
and holds the ACCESS EXCLUSIVE LOCK on the parent table during all the
operations including the tuple routing.  This is why this new DDL command
can't be recommended for large partitioned tables under a high load.  However,
this implementation come in handy in certain cases even as is.
Also, it could be used as a foundation for future implementations with lesser
locking and possibly parallel.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/c73a1746-0cd0-6bdd-6b23-3ae0b7c0c582%40postgrespro.ru
Author: Dmitry Koval
Reviewed-by: Matthias van de Meent, Laurenz Albe, Zhihong Yu, Justin Pryzby
Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera, Robert Haas, Stephane Tachoires
2024-04-07 01:18:43 +03:00
Peter Geoghegan 5bf748b86b Enhance nbtree ScalarArrayOp execution.
Commit 9e8da0f7 taught nbtree to handle ScalarArrayOpExpr quals
natively.  This works by pushing down the full context (the array keys)
to the nbtree index AM, enabling it to execute multiple primitive index
scans that the planner treats as one continuous index scan/index path.
This earlier enhancement enabled nbtree ScalarArrayOp index-only scans.
It also allowed scans with ScalarArrayOp quals to return ordered results
(with some notable restrictions, described further down).

Take this general approach a lot further: teach nbtree SAOP index scans
to decide how to execute ScalarArrayOp scans (when and where to start
the next primitive index scan) based on physical index characteristics.
This can be far more efficient.  All SAOP scans will now reliably avoid
duplicative leaf page accesses (just like any other nbtree index scan).
SAOP scans whose array keys are naturally clustered together now require
far fewer index descents, since we'll reliably avoid starting a new
primitive scan just to get to a later offset from the same leaf page.

The scan's arrays now advance using binary searches for the array
element that best matches the next tuple's attribute value.  Required
scan key arrays (i.e. arrays from scan keys that can terminate the scan)
ratchet forward in lockstep with the index scan.  Non-required arrays
(i.e. arrays from scan keys that can only exclude non-matching tuples)
"advance" without the process ever rolling over to a higher-order array.

Naturally, only required SAOP scan keys trigger skipping over leaf pages
(non-required arrays cannot safely end or start primitive index scans).
Consequently, even index scans of a composite index with a high-order
inequality scan key (which we'll mark required) and a low-order SAOP
scan key (which we won't mark required) now avoid repeating leaf page
accesses -- that benefit isn't limited to simpler equality-only cases.
In general, all nbtree index scans now output tuples as if they were one
continuous index scan -- even scans that mix a high-order inequality
with lower-order SAOP equalities reliably output tuples in index order.
This allows us to remove a couple of special cases that were applied
when building index paths with SAOP clauses during planning.

Bugfix commit 807a40c5 taught the planner to avoid generating unsafe
path keys: path keys on a multicolumn index path, with a SAOP clause on
any attribute beyond the first/most significant attribute.  These cases
are now all safe, so we go back to generating path keys without regard
for the presence of SAOP clauses (just like with any other clause type).
Affected queries can now exploit scan output order in all the usual ways
(e.g., certain "ORDER BY ... LIMIT n" queries can now terminate early).

Also undo changes from follow-up bugfix commit a4523c5a, which taught
the planner to produce alternative index paths, with path keys, but
without low-order SAOP index quals (filter quals were used instead).
We'll no longer generate these alternative paths, since they can no
longer offer any meaningful advantages over standard index qual paths.
Affected queries thereby avoid all of the disadvantages that come from
using filter quals within index scan nodes.  They can avoid extra heap
page accesses from using filter quals to exclude non-matching tuples
(index quals will never have that problem).  They can also skip over
irrelevant sections of the index in more cases (though only when nbtree
determines that starting another primitive scan actually makes sense).

There is a theoretical risk that removing restrictions on SAOP index
paths from the planner will break compatibility with amcanorder-based
index AMs maintained as extensions.  Such an index AM could have the
same limitations around ordered SAOP scans as nbtree had up until now.
Adding a pro forma incompatibility item about the issue to the Postgres
17 release notes seems like a good idea.

Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Author: Matthias van de Meent <boekewurm+postgres@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>
Reviewed-By: Matthias van de Meent <boekewurm+postgres@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@enterprisedb.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-Wz=ksvN_sjcnD1+Bt-WtifRA5ok48aDYnq3pkKhxgMQpcw@mail.gmail.com
2024-04-06 11:47:10 -04:00
Tomas Vondra f8ce4ed78c Allow copying files using clone/copy_file_range
Adds --clone/--copy-file-range options to pg_combinebackup, to allow
copying files using file cloning or copy_file_range(). These methods may
be faster than the standard block-by-block copy, but the main advantage
is that they enable various features provided by CoW filesystems.

This commit only uses these copy methods for files that did not change
and can be copied as a whole from a single backup.

These new copy methods may not be available on all platforms, in which
case the command throws an error (immediately, even if no files would be
copied as a whole). This early failure seems better than failing later
when trying to copy the first file, after performing a lot of work on
earlier files.

If the requested copy method is available, but a checksum needs to be
recalculated (e.g. because of a different checksum type), the file is
still copied using the requested method, but it is also read for the
checksum calculation. Depending on the filesystem this may be more
expensive than just performing the simple copy, but it does enable the
CoW benefits.

Initial patch by Jakub Wartak, various reworks and improvements by me.

Author: Tomas Vondra, Jakub Wartak
Reviewed-by: Thomas Munro, Jakub Wartak, Robert Haas
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3024283a-7491-4240-80d0-421575f6bb23%40enterprisedb.com
2024-04-05 18:01:32 +02:00
Amit Langote de3600452b Add basic JSON_TABLE() functionality
JSON_TABLE() allows JSON data to be converted into a relational view
and thus used, for example, in a FROM clause, like other tabular
data.  Data to show in the view is selected from a source JSON object
using a JSON path expression to get a sequence of JSON objects that's
called a "row pattern", which becomes the source to compute the
SQL/JSON values that populate the view's output columns.  Column
values themselves are computed using JSON path expressions applied to
each of the JSON objects comprising the "row pattern", for which the
SQL/JSON query functions added in 6185c9737c are used.

To implement JSON_TABLE() as a table function, this augments the
TableFunc and TableFuncScanState nodes that are currently used to
support XMLTABLE() with some JSON_TABLE()-specific fields.

Note that the JSON_TABLE() spec includes NESTED COLUMNS and PLAN
clauses, which are required to provide more flexibility to extract
data out of nested JSON objects, but they are not implemented here
to keep this commit of manageable size.

Author: Nikita Glukhov <n.gluhov@postgrespro.ru>
Author: Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru>
Author: Oleg Bartunov <obartunov@gmail.com>
Author: Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov@gmail.com>
Author: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
Author: Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com>
Author: Jian He <jian.universality@gmail.com>

Reviewers have included (in no particular order):

Andres Freund, Alexander Korotkov, Pavel Stehule, Andrew Alsup,
Erik Rijkers, Zihong Yu, Himanshu Upadhyaya, Daniel Gustafsson,
Justin Pryzby, Álvaro Herrera, Jian He

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/cd0bb935-0158-78a7-08b5-904886deac4b@postgrespro.ru
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220616233130.rparivafipt6doj3@alap3.anarazel.de
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/abd9b83b-aa66-f230-3d6d-734817f0995d%40postgresql.org
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+HiwqE4XTdfb1nW=Ojoy_tQSRhYt-q_kb6i5d4xcKyrLC1Nbg@mail.gmail.com
2024-04-04 20:20:15 +09:00
Andrew Dunstan 3311ea86ed Introduce a non-recursive JSON parser
This parser uses an explicit prediction stack, unlike the present
recursive descent parser where the parser state is represented on the
call stack. This difference makes the new parser suitable for use in
incremental parsing of huge JSON documents that cannot be conveniently
handled piece-wise by the recursive descent parser. One potential use
for this will be in parsing large backup manifests associated with
incremental backups.

Because this parser is somewhat slower than the recursive descent
parser, it  is not replacing that parser, but is an additional parser
available to callers.

For testing purposes, if the build is done with -DFORCE_JSON_PSTACK, all
JSON parsing is done with the non-recursive parser, in which case only
trivial regression differences in error messages should be observed.

Author: Andrew Dunstan
Reviewed-By: Jacob Champion

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/7b0a51d6-0d9d-7366-3a1a-f74397a02f55@dunslane.net
2024-04-04 06:46:40 -04:00
Tom Lane 06286709ee Invent SERIALIZE option for EXPLAIN.
EXPLAIN (ANALYZE, SERIALIZE) allows collection of statistics about
the volume of data emitted by a query, as well as the time taken
to convert the data to the on-the-wire format.  Previously there
was no way to investigate this without actually sending the data
to the client, in which case network transmission costs might
swamp what you wanted to see.  In particular this feature allows
investigating the costs of de-TOASTing compressed or out-of-line
data during formatting.

Stepan Rutz and Matthias van de Meent,
reviewed by Tomas Vondra and myself

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ca0adb0e-fa4e-c37e-1cd7-91170b18cae1@gmx.de
2024-04-03 17:41:57 -04:00
Heikki Linnakangas 6dbb490261 Combine freezing and pruning steps in VACUUM
Execute both freezing and pruning of tuples in the same
heap_page_prune() function, now called heap_page_prune_and_freeze(),
and emit a single WAL record containing all changes. That reduces the
overall amount of WAL generated.

This moves the freezing logic from vacuumlazy.c to the
heap_page_prune_and_freeze() function. The main difference in the
coding is that in vacuumlazy.c, we looked at the tuples after the
pruning had already happened, but in heap_page_prune_and_freeze() we
operate on the tuples before pruning. The heap_prepare_freeze_tuple()
function is now invoked after we have determined that a tuple is not
going to be pruned away.

VACUUM no longer needs to loop through the items on the page after
pruning. heap_page_prune_and_freeze() does all the work. It now
returns the list of dead offsets, including existing LP_DEAD items, to
the caller. Similarly it's now responsible for tracking 'all_visible',
'all_frozen', and 'hastup' on the caller's behalf.

Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20240330055710.kqg6ii2cdojsxgje@liskov
2024-04-03 19:32:28 +03:00
Masahiko Sawada b840508644 Add functions to binaryheap for efficient key removal and update.
Previously, binaryheap didn't support updating a key and removing a
node in an efficient way. For example, in order to remove a node from
the binaryheap, the caller had to pass the node's position within the
array that the binaryheap internally has. Removing a node from the
binaryheap is done in O(log n) but searching for the key's position is
done in O(n).

This commit adds a hash table to binaryheap in order to track the
position of each nodes in the binaryheap. That way, by using newly
added functions such as binaryheap_update_up() etc., both updating a
key and removing a node can be done in O(1) on an average and O(log n)
in worst case. This is known as the indexed binary heap. The caller
can specify to use the indexed binaryheap by passing indexed = true.

The current code does not use the new indexing logic, but it will be
used by an upcoming patch.

Reviewed-by: Vignesh C, Peter Smith, Hayato Kuroda, Ajin Cherian,
Tomas Vondra, Shubham Khanna
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAD21AoDffo37RC-eUuyHJKVEr017V2YYDLyn1xF_00ofptWbkg%40mail.gmail.com
2024-04-03 10:44:21 +09:00
Alexander Korotkov 06c418e163 Implement pg_wal_replay_wait() stored procedure
pg_wal_replay_wait() is to be used on standby and specifies waiting for
the specific WAL location to be replayed before starting the transaction.
This option is useful when the user makes some data changes on primary and
needs a guarantee to see these changes on standby.

The queue of waiters is stored in the shared memory array sorted by LSN.
During replay of WAL waiters whose LSNs are already replayed are deleted from
the shared memory array and woken up by setting of their latches.

pg_wal_replay_wait() needs to wait without any snapshot held.  Otherwise,
the snapshot could prevent the replay of WAL records implying a kind of
self-deadlock.  This is why it is only possible to implement
pg_wal_replay_wait() as a procedure working in a non-atomic context,
not a function.

Catversion is bumped.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/eb12f9b03851bb2583adab5df9579b4b%40postgrespro.ru
Author: Kartyshov Ivan, Alexander Korotkov
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier, Peter Eisentraut, Dilip Kumar, Amit Kapila
Reviewed-by: Alexander Lakhin, Bharath Rupireddy, Euler Taveira
2024-04-02 22:48:03 +03:00
Thomas Munro b5a9b18cd0 Provide API for streaming relation data.
Introduce an abstraction allowing relation data to be accessed as a
stream of buffers, with an implementation that is more efficient than
the equivalent sequence of ReadBuffer() calls.

Client code supplies a callback that can say which block number it wants
next, and then consumes individual buffers one at a time from the
stream.  This division puts read_stream.c in control of how far ahead it
can see and allows it to read clusters of neighboring blocks with
StartReadBuffers().  It also issues POSIX_FADV_WILLNEED advice ahead of
time when random access is detected.

Other variants of I/O stream will be proposed in future work (for
example to support recovery, whose LsnReadQueue device in
xlogprefetcher.c is a distant cousin of this code and should eventually
be replaced by this), but this basic API is sufficient for many common
executor usage patterns involving predictable access to a single fork of
a single relation.

Several patches using this API are proposed separately.

This stream concept is loosely based on ideas from Andres Freund on how
we should pave the way for later work on asynchronous I/O.

Author: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Author: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi> (contributions)
Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com> (contributions)
Suggested-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-by: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>
Reviewed-by: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Tested-by: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@enterprisedb.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+hUKGJkOiOCa+mag4BF+zHo7qo=o9CFheB8=g6uT5TUm2gkvA@mail.gmail.com
2024-04-03 00:49:46 +13:00
Thomas Munro 210622c60e Provide vectored variant of ReadBuffer().
Break ReadBuffer() up into two steps.  StartReadBuffers() and
WaitReadBuffers() give us two main advantages:

1.  Multiple consecutive blocks can be read with one system call.
2.  Advice (hints of future reads) can optionally be issued to the
kernel ahead of time.

The traditional ReadBuffer() function is now implemented in terms of
those functions, to avoid duplication.

A new GUC io_combine_limit is defined, and the functions for limiting
per-backend pin counts are made into public APIs.  Those are provided
for use by callers of StartReadBuffers(), when deciding how many buffers
to read at once.  The following commit will add a higher level mechanism
for doing that automatically with a practical interface.

With some more infrastructure in later work, StartReadBuffers() could
be extended to start real asynchronous I/O instead of just issuing
advice and leaving WaitReadBuffers() to do the work synchronously.

Author: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> (some optimization tweaks)
Reviewed-by: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>
Reviewed-by: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Tested-by: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@enterprisedb.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+hUKGJkOiOCa+mag4BF+zHo7qo=o9CFheB8=g6uT5TUm2gkvA@mail.gmail.com
2024-04-03 00:23:20 +13:00
Masahiko Sawada 667e65aac3 Use TidStore for dead tuple TIDs storage during lazy vacuum.
Previously, we used a simple array for storing dead tuple IDs during
lazy vacuum, which had a number of problems:

* The array used a single allocation and so was limited to 1GB.
* The allocation was pessimistically sized according to table size.
* Lookup with binary search was slow because of poor CPU cache and
  branch prediction behavior.

This commit replaces that array with the TID store from commit
30e144287a.

Since the backing radix tree makes small allocations as needed, the
1GB limit is now gone. Further, the total memory used is now often
smaller by an order of magnitude or more, depending on the
distribution of blocks and offsets. These two features should make
multiple rounds of heap scanning and index cleanup an extremely rare
event. TID lookup during index cleanup is also several times faster,
even more so when index order is correlated with heap tuple order.

Since there is no longer a predictable relationship between the number
of dead tuples vacuumed and the space taken up by their TIDs, the
number of tuples no longer provides any meaningful insights for users,
nor is the maximum number predictable. For that reason this commit
also changes to byte-based progress reporting, with the relevant
columns of pg_stat_progress_vacuum renamed accordingly to
max_dead_tuple_bytes and dead_tuple_bytes.

For parallel vacuum, both the TID store and supplemental information
specific to vacuum are shared among the parallel vacuum workers. As
with the previous array, we don't take any locks on TidStore during
parallel vacuum since writes are still only done by the leader
process.

Bump catalog version.

Reviewed-by: John Naylor, (in an earlier version) Dilip Kumar
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAD21AoAfOZvmfR0j8VmZorZjL7RhTiQdVttNuC4W-Shdc2a-AA%40mail.gmail.com
2024-04-02 10:15:37 +09:00
Masahiko Sawada f5a227895e Add new COPY option LOG_VERBOSITY.
This commit adds a new COPY option LOG_VERBOSITY, which controls the
amount of messages emitted during processing. Valid values are
'default' and 'verbose'.

This is currently used in COPY FROM when ON_ERROR option is set to
ignore. If 'verbose' is specified, a NOTICE message is emitted for
each discarded row, providing additional information such as line
number, column name, and the malformed value. This helps users to
identify problematic rows that failed to load.

Author: Bharath Rupireddy
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier, Atsushi Torikoshi, Masahiko Sawada
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CALj2ACUk700cYhx1ATRQyRw-fBM%2BaRo6auRAitKGff7XNmYfqQ%40mail.gmail.com
2024-04-01 15:25:25 +09:00
Dean Rasheed 0294df2f1f Add support for MERGE ... WHEN NOT MATCHED BY SOURCE.
This allows MERGE commands to include WHEN NOT MATCHED BY SOURCE
actions, which operate on rows that exist in the target relation, but
not in the data source. These actions can execute UPDATE, DELETE, or
DO NOTHING sub-commands.

This is in contrast to already-supported WHEN NOT MATCHED actions,
which operate on rows that exist in the data source, but not in the
target relation. To make this distinction clearer, such actions may
now be written as WHEN NOT MATCHED BY TARGET.

Writing WHEN NOT MATCHED without specifying BY SOURCE or BY TARGET is
equivalent to writing WHEN NOT MATCHED BY TARGET.

Dean Rasheed, reviewed by Alvaro Herrera, Ted Yu and Vik Fearing.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEZATCWqnKGc57Y_JanUBHQXNKcXd7r=0R4NEZUVwP+syRkWbA@mail.gmail.com
2024-03-30 10:00:26 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 89e5ef7e21 Remove ObjectClass type
ObjectClass is an enum whose values correspond to catalog OIDs.  But
the extra layer of redirection, which is used only in small parts of
the code, and the similarity to ObjectType, are confusing and
cumbersome.

One advantage has been that some switches processing the OCLASS enum
don't have "default:" cases.  This is so that the compiler tells us
when we fail to add support for some new object class.  But you can
also handle that with some assertions and proper test coverage.  It's
not even clear how strong this benefit is.  For example, in
AlterObjectNamespace_oid(), you could still put a new OCLASS into the
"ignore object types that don't have schema-qualified names" case, and
it might or might not be wrong.  Also, there are already various
OCLASS switches that do have a default case, so it's not even clear
what the preferred coding style should be.

Reviewed-by: jian he <jian.universality@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CAGECzQT3caUbcCcszNewCCmMbCuyP7XNAm60J3ybd6PN5kH2Dw%40mail.gmail.com
2024-03-26 10:08:56 +01:00
Heikki Linnakangas f83d709760 Merge prune, freeze and vacuum WAL record formats
The new combined WAL record is now used for pruning, freezing and 2nd
pass of vacuum. This is in preparation for changing VACUUM to write a
combined prune+freeze record per page, instead of separate two
records. The new WAL record format now supports that, but the code
still always writes separate records for pruning and freezing.

This reserves separate XLOG_HEAP2_* info codes for when the pruning
record is emitted for on-access pruning or VACUUM, per Peter
Geoghegan's suggestion. The record format is identical, but having
separate info codes makes it easier analyze pruning and vacuuming with
pg_waldump.

The function to emit the new WAL record, log_heap_prune_and_freeze(),
is in pruneheap.c. The existing heap_log_freeze_plan() and its
subroutines are moved to pruneheap.c without changes, to keep them
together with log_heap_prune_and_freeze().

Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAAKRu_azf-zH%3DDgVbquZ3tFWjMY1w5pO8m-TXJaMdri8z3933g@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAAKRu_b2oE4GL%3Dq4g9mcByS9yT7wTQvEH9OLpabj28e%2BWKFi2A@mail.gmail.com
2024-03-25 14:59:58 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut fc2d260c7e ci: freebsd repartition script didn't copy .git directory
We need a slightly different "cp" incantation to make sure top-level
"dot" files, such as ".git", are also copied.

This is relevant for example if a script wants to execute a git
command.  This currently does not happen, but it has come up while
testing other patches.

Reviewed-by: Tristan Partin <tristan@neon.tech>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/40e80f77-a294-4f29-a16f-e21bc7bc75fc%40eisentraut.org
2024-03-24 08:41:14 +01:00
Daniel Gustafsson 697f8d266c Revert "Add notBefore and notAfter to SSL cert info display"
This reverts commit 6acb0a628e since
LibreSSL didn't support ASN1_TIME_diff until OpenBSD 7.1, leaving
the older OpenBSD animals in the buildfarm complaining.

Per plover in the buildfarm.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/F0DF7102-192D-4C21-96AE-9A01AE153AD1@yesql.se
2024-03-22 22:58:41 +01:00
Daniel Gustafsson 6acb0a628e Add notBefore and notAfter to SSL cert info display
This adds the X509 attributes notBefore and notAfter to sslinfo
as well as pg_stat_ssl to allow verifying and identifying the
validity period of the current client certificate. OpenSSL has
APIs for extracting notAfter and notBefore, but they are only
supported in recent versions so we have to calculate the dates
by hand in order to make this work for the older versions of
OpenSSL that we still support.

Original patch by Cary Huang with additional hacking by Jacob
and myself.

Author: Cary Huang <cary.huang@highgo.ca>
Co-author: Jacob Champion <jacob.champion@enterprisedb.com>
Co-author: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/182b8565486.10af1a86f158715.2387262617218380588@highgo.ca
2024-03-22 21:25:25 +01:00
Daniel Gustafsson 24178e235e Refactor SASL exchange to return tri-state status
The SASL exchange callback returned state in to output variables:
done and success.  This refactors that logic by introducing a new
return variable of type SASLStatus which makes the code easier to
read and understand, and prepares for future SASL exchanges which
operate asynchronously.

This was extracted from a larger patchset to introduce OAuthBearer
authentication and authorization.

Author: Jacob Champion <jacob.champion@enterprisedb.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/d1b467a78e0e36ed85a09adf979d04cf124a9d4b.camel@vmware.com
2024-03-21 14:45:46 +01:00
Amit Langote 6185c9737c Add SQL/JSON query functions
This introduces the following SQL/JSON functions for querying JSON
data using jsonpath expressions:

JSON_EXISTS(), which can be used to apply a jsonpath expression to a
JSON value to check if it yields any values.

JSON_QUERY(), which can be used to to apply a jsonpath expression to
a JSON value to get a JSON object, an array, or a string.  There are
various options to control whether multi-value result uses array
wrappers and whether the singleton scalar strings are quoted or not.

JSON_VALUE(), which can be used to apply a jsonpath expression to a
JSON value to return a single scalar value, producing an error if it
multiple values are matched.

Both JSON_VALUE() and JSON_QUERY() functions have options for
handling EMPTY and ERROR conditions, which can be used to specify
the behavior when no values are matched and when an error occurs
during jsonpath evaluation, respectively.

Author: Nikita Glukhov <n.gluhov@postgrespro.ru>
Author: Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru>
Author: Oleg Bartunov <obartunov@gmail.com>
Author: Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov@gmail.com>
Author: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
Author: Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com>
Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
Author: Jian He <jian.universality@gmail.com>

Reviewers have included (in no particular order):

Andres Freund, Alexander Korotkov, Pavel Stehule, Andrew Alsup,
Erik Rijkers, Zihong Yu, Himanshu Upadhyaya, Daniel Gustafsson,
Justin Pryzby, Álvaro Herrera, Jian He, Anton A. Melnikov,
Nikita Malakhov, Peter Eisentraut, Tomas Vondra

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/cd0bb935-0158-78a7-08b5-904886deac4b@postgrespro.ru
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220616233130.rparivafipt6doj3@alap3.anarazel.de
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/abd9b83b-aa66-f230-3d6d-734817f0995d%40postgresql.org
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+HiwqHROpf9e644D8BRqYvaAPmgBZVup-xKMDPk-nd4EpgzHw@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+HiwqE4XTdfb1nW=Ojoy_tQSRhYt-q_kb6i5d4xcKyrLC1Nbg@mail.gmail.com
2024-03-21 17:07:03 +09:00
Masahiko Sawada 30e144287a Add TIDStore, to store sets of TIDs (ItemPointerData) efficiently.
TIDStore is a data structure designed to efficiently store large sets
of TIDs. For TID storage, it employs a radix tree, where the key is
a block number, and the value is a bitmap representing offset
numbers. The TIDStore can be created on a DSA area and used by
multiple backend processes simultaneously.

There are potential future users such as tidbitmap.c, though it's very
likely the interface will need to evolve as we come to understand the
needs of different kinds of users. For example, we can support
updating the offset bitmap of existing values.

Currently, the TIDStore is not used for anything yet, aside from the
test code. But an upcoming patch will use it.

This includes a unit test module, in src/test/modules/test_tidstore.

Co-authored-by: John Naylor
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAD21AoAfOZvmfR0j8VmZorZjL7RhTiQdVttNuC4W-Shdc2a-AA%40mail.gmail.com
2024-03-21 10:08:42 +09:00
Alvaro Herrera da952b415f
Rework lwlocknames.txt to become lwlocklist.h
This way, we can fold the list of lock names to occur in
BuiltinTrancheNames instead of having its own separate array.  This
saves two lines of code in GetLWTrancheName and some space in
BuiltinTrancheNames, as foreseen in commit 74a7306310, as well as
removing the need for a separate lwlocknames.c file.

We still have to build lwlocknames.h using Perl code, which initially I
wanted to avoid, but it gives us the chance to cross-check
wait_event_names.txt.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/202401231025.gbv4nnte5fmm@alvherre.pgsql
2024-03-20 11:55:20 +01:00
Peter Eisentraut 605721f819 gen_node_support.pl: Mark location fields as type alias ParseLoc
Instead of the rather ugly type=int + name ~= location$, we now have a
marker type for offset pointers or sizes that are only relevant when a
query text is included, which decreases the complexity required in
gen_node_support.pl for handling these values.

Author: Matthias van de Meent <boekewurm+postgres@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CAEze2WgrCiR3JZmWyB0YTc8HV7ewRdx13j0CqD6mVkYAW+SFGQ@mail.gmail.com
2024-03-19 16:56:44 +01:00
Peter Eisentraut d56cb42b54 Activate perlcritic InputOutput::RequireCheckedSyscalls and fix resulting warnings
This checks that certain I/O-related Perl functions properly check
their return value.  Some parts of the PostgreSQL code had been a bit
sloppy about that.  The new perlcritic warnings are fixed here.  I
didn't design any beautiful error messages, mostly just used "or die
$!", which mostly matches existing code, and also this is
developer-level code, so having the system error plus source code
reference should be ok.

Initially, we only activate this check for a subset of what the
perlcritic check would warn about.  The effective list is

    chmod flock open read rename seek symlink system

The initial set of functions is picked because most existing code
already checked the return value of those, so any omissions are
probably unintended, or because it seems important for test
correctness.

The actual perlcritic configuration is written as an exclude list.
That seems better so that we are clear on what we are currently not
checking.  Maybe future patches want to investigate checking some of
the other functions.  (In principle, we might eventually want to check
all of them, but since this is test and build support code, not
production code, there are probably some reasonable compromises to be
made.)

Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/88b7d4f2-46d9-4cc7-b1f7-613c90f9a76a%40eisentraut.org
2024-03-19 07:09:31 +01:00
Heikki Linnakangas aafc05de1b Refactor postmaster child process launching
Introduce new postmaster_child_launch() function that deals with the
differences in EXEC_BACKEND mode.

Refactor the mechanism of passing information from the parent to child
process. Instead of using different command-line arguments when
launching the child process in EXEC_BACKEND mode, pass a
variable-length blob of startup data along with all the global
variables. The contents of that blob depend on the kind of child
process being launched. In !EXEC_BACKEND mode, we use the same blob,
but it's simply inherited from the parent to child process.

Reviewed-by: Tristan Partin, Andres Freund
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/7a59b073-5b5b-151e-7ed3-8b01ff7ce9ef@iki.fi
2024-03-18 11:35:30 +02:00