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Author SHA1 Message Date
Michael Paquier df86e52cac Remove temporary WAL and history files at the end of archive recovery
cbc55da has reworked the order of some actions at the end of archive
recovery.  Unfortunately this overlooked the fact that the startup
process needs to remove RECOVERYXLOG (for temporary WAL segment newly
recovered from archives) and RECOVERYHISTORY (for temporary history
file) at this step, leaving the files around even after recovery ended.

Backpatch to 9.5, like the previous commit.

Author: Sawada Masahiko
Reviewed-by: Fujii Masao, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAD21AoBO_eDQub6zojFnWtnmutRBWvYf7=cW4Hsqj+U_R26w3Q@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 9.5
2019-10-02 15:53:07 +09:00
Fujii Masao 7acf8a876b Make crash recovery ignore recovery target settings.
In v11 or before, recovery target settings could not take effect in
crash recovery because they are specified in recovery.conf and
crash recovery always starts without recovery.conf. But commit
2dedf4d9a8 integrated recovery.conf into postgresql.conf and
which unexpectedly allowed recovery target settings to take effect
even in crash recovery. This is definitely not good behavior.

To fix the issue, this commit makes crash recovery always ignore
recovery target settings.

Back-patch to v12.

Author: Peter Eisentraut
Reviewed-by: Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/e445616d-023e-a268-8aa1-67b8b335340c@pgmasters.net
2019-09-30 10:18:15 +09:00
Alvaro Herrera 709d003fbd Rework WAL-reading supporting structs
The state-tracking of WAL reading in various places was pretty messy,
mostly because the ancient physical-replication WAL reading code wasn't
using the XLogReader abstraction.  This led to some untidy code.  Make
it prettier by creating two additional supporting structs,
WALSegmentContext and WALOpenSegment which keep track of WAL-reading
state.  This makes code cleaner, as well as supports more future
cleanup.

Author: Antonin Houska
Reviewed-by: Álvaro Herrera and (older versions) Robert Haas
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/14984.1554998742@spoje.net
2019-09-24 16:39:53 -03:00
Peter Eisentraut 887248e97e Message style fixes 2019-09-23 13:38:39 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut 48770492c3 Add some const decorations to array constants
Author: Mark G <markg735@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CAEeOP_YFVeFjq4zDZLDQbLSRFxBiTpwBQHxCNgGd%2Bp5VztTXyQ%40mail.gmail.com
2019-09-17 22:03:00 +02:00
Robert Haas 8b94dab066 Split tuptoaster.c into three separate files.
detoast.c/h contain functions required to detoast a datum, partially
or completely, plus a few other utility functions for examining the
size of toasted datums.

toast_internals.c/h contain functions that are used internally to the
TOAST subsystem but which (mostly) do not need to be accessed from
outside.

heaptoast.c/h contains code that is intrinsically specific to the
heap AM, either because it operates on HeapTuples or is based on the
layout of a heap page.

detoast.c and toast_internals.c are placed in
src/backend/access/common rather than src/backend/access/heap.  At
present, both files still have dependencies on the heap, but that will
be improved in a future commit.

Patch by me, reviewed and tested by Prabhat Sabu, Thomas Munro,
Andres Freund, and Álvaro Herrera.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoZv-=2iWM4jcw5ZhJeL18HF96+W1yJeYrnGMYdkFFnEpQ@mail.gmail.com
2019-09-05 13:15:10 -04:00
Michael Paquier c96581abe4 Fix inconsistencies and typos in the tree, take 11
This fixes various typos in docs and comments, and removes some orphaned
definitions.

Author: Alexander Lakhin
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/5da8e325-c665-da95-21e0-c8a99ea61fbf@gmail.com
2019-08-19 16:21:39 +09:00
Michael Paquier eb43f3d193 Fix inconsistencies and typos in the tree
This is numbered take 8, and addresses again a set of issues with code
comments, variable names and unreferenced variables.

Author: Alexander Lakhin
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/b137b5eb-9c95-9c2f-586e-38aba7d59788@gmail.com
2019-07-29 12:28:30 +09:00
Michael Paquier 23bccc823d Fix inconsistencies and typos in the tree
This is numbered take 7, and addresses a set of issues with code
comments, variable names and unreferenced variables.

Author: Alexander Lakhin
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/dff75442-2468-f74f-568c-6006e141062f@gmail.com
2019-07-22 10:01:50 +09:00
Peter Eisentraut 7e9a4c5c3d Use consistent style for checking return from system calls
Use

    if (something() != 0)
        error ...

instead of just

    if (something)
        error ...

The latter is not incorrect, but it's a bit confusing and not the
common style.

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/5de61b6b-8be9-7771-0048-860328efe027%402ndquadrant.com
2019-07-07 15:28:49 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut 21f428ebde Don't call data type input functions in GUC check hooks
Instead of calling pg_lsn_in() in check_recovery_target_lsn and
timestamptz_in() in check_recovery_target_time, reorganize the
respective code so that we don't raise any errors in the check hooks.
The previous code tried to use PG_TRY/PG_CATCH to handle errors in a
way that is not safe, so now the code contains no ereport() calls and
can operate safely within the GUC error handling system.

Moreover, since the interpretation of the recovery_target_time string
may depend on the time zone, we cannot do the final processing of that
string until all the GUC processing is done.  Instead,
check_recovery_target_time() now does some parsing for syntax
checking, but the actual conversion to a timestamptz value is done
later in the recovery code that uses it.

Reported-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/20190611061115.njjwkagvxp4qujhp%40alap3.anarazel.de
2019-06-30 10:27:43 +02:00
Amit Kapila 92c4abc736 Fix assorted inconsistencies.
There were a number of issues in the recent commits which include typos,
code and comments mismatch, leftover function declarations.  Fix them.

Reported-by: Alexander Lakhin
Author: Alexander Lakhin, Amit Kapila and Amit Langote
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ef0c0232-0c1d-3a35-63d4-0ebd06e31387@gmail.com
2019-06-08 08:16:38 +05:30
Tom Lane 8255c7a5ee Phase 2 pgindent run for v12.
Switch to 2.1 version of pg_bsd_indent.  This formats
multiline function declarations "correctly", that is with
additional lines of parameter declarations indented to match
where the first line's left parenthesis is.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=0P3FeTXRcU5B2W3jv3PgRVZ-kGUXLGfd42FFhUROO3ug@mail.gmail.com
2019-05-22 13:04:48 -04:00
Tom Lane be76af171c Initial pgindent run for v12.
This is still using the 2.0 version of pg_bsd_indent.
I thought it would be good to commit this separately,
so as to document the differences between 2.0 and 2.1 behavior.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16296.1558103386@sss.pgh.pa.us
2019-05-22 12:55:34 -04:00
Fujii Masao b8e2170e40 Fix comment for issue_xlog_fsync().
"segno" is the argument for the function, not "log" and "seg".

Author: Antonin Houska
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/11863.1558361020@spoje.net
2019-05-21 00:44:00 +09:00
Thomas Munro 3eb77eba5a Refactor the fsync queue for wider use.
Previously, md.c and checkpointer.c were tightly integrated so that
fsync calls could be handed off and processed in the background.
Introduce a system of callbacks and file tags, so that other modules
can hand off fsync work in the same way.

For now only md.c uses the new interface, but other users are being
proposed.  Since there may be use cases that are not strictly SMGR
implementations, use a new function table for sync handlers rather
than extending the traditional SMGR one.

Instead of using a bitmapset of segment numbers for each RelFileNode
in the checkpointer's hash table, make the segment number part of the
key.  This requires sending explicit "forget" requests for every
segment individually when relations are dropped, but suits the file
layout schemes of proposed future users better (ie sparse or high
segment numbers).

Author: Shawn Debnath and Thomas Munro
Reviewed-by: Thomas Munro, Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=2gTANm=e3ARnJT=n0h8hf88wqmaZxk0JYkxw+b21fNrw@mail.gmail.com
2019-04-04 23:38:38 +13:00
Heikki Linnakangas 9155580fd5 Generate less WAL during GiST, GIN and SP-GiST index build.
Instead of WAL-logging every modification during the build separately,
first build the index without any WAL-logging, and make a separate pass
through the index at the end, to write all pages to the WAL. This
significantly reduces the amount of WAL generated, and is usually also
faster, despite the extra I/O needed for the extra scan through the index.
WAL generated this way is also faster to replay.

For GiST, the LSN-NSN interlock makes this a little tricky. All pages must
be marked with a valid (i.e. non-zero) LSN, so that the parent-child
LSN-NSN interlock works correctly. We now use magic value 1 for that during
index build. Change the fake LSN counter to begin from 1000, so that 1 is
safely smaller than any real or fake LSN. 2 would've been enough for our
purposes, but let's reserve a bigger range, in case we need more special
values in the future.

Author: Anastasia Lubennikova, Andrey V. Lepikhov
Reviewed-by: Heikki Linnakangas, Dmitry Dolgov
2019-04-03 17:03:15 +03:00
Thomas Munro 475861b261 Add wal_recycle and wal_init_zero GUCs.
On at least ZFS, it can be beneficial to create new WAL files every
time and not to bother zero-filling them.  Since it's not clear which
other filesystems might benefit from one or both of those things,
add individual GUCs to control those two behaviors independently and
make only very general statements in the docs.

Author: Jerry Jelinek, with some adjustments by Thomas Munro
Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera, Andres Freund, Tomas Vondra, Robert Haas and others
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CACPQ5Fo00QR7LNAcd1ZjgoBi4y97%2BK760YABs0vQHH5dLdkkMA%40mail.gmail.com
2019-04-02 14:37:14 +13:00
Peter Eisentraut cc8d415117 Unified logging system for command-line programs
This unifies the various ad hoc logging (message printing, error
printing) systems used throughout the command-line programs.

Features:

- Program name is automatically prefixed.

- Message string does not end with newline.  This removes a common
  source of inconsistencies and omissions.

- Additionally, a final newline is automatically stripped, simplifying
  use of PQerrorMessage() etc., another common source of mistakes.

- I converted error message strings to use %m where possible.

- As a result of the above several points, more translatable message
  strings can be shared between different components and between
  frontends and backend, without gratuitous punctuation or whitespace
  differences.

- There is support for setting a "log level".  This is not meant to be
  user-facing, but can be used internally to implement debug or
  verbose modes.

- Lazy argument evaluation, so no significant overhead if logging at
  some level is disabled.

- Some color in the messages, similar to gcc and clang.  Set
  PG_COLOR=auto to try it out.  Some colors are predefined, but can be
  customized by setting PG_COLORS.

- Common files (common/, fe_utils/, etc.) can handle logging much more
  simply by just using one API without worrying too much about the
  context of the calling program, requiring callbacks, or having to
  pass "progname" around everywhere.

- Some programs called setvbuf() to make sure that stderr is
  unbuffered, even on Windows.  But not all programs did that.  This
  is now done centrally.

Soft goals:

- Reduces vertical space use and visual complexity of error reporting
  in the source code.

- Encourages more deliberate classification of messages.  For example,
  in some cases it wasn't clear without analyzing the surrounding code
  whether a message was meant as an error or just an info.

- Concepts and terms are vaguely aligned with popular logging
  frameworks such as log4j and Python logging.

This is all just about printing stuff out.  Nothing affects program
flow (e.g., fatal exits).  The uses are just too varied to do that.
Some existing code had wrappers that do some kind of print-and-exit,
and I adapted those.

I tried to keep the output mostly the same, but there is a lot of
historical baggage to unwind and special cases to consider, and I
might not always have succeeded.  One significant change is that
pg_rewind used to write all error messages to stdout.  That is now
changed to stderr.

Reviewed-by: Donald Dong <xdong@csumb.edu>
Reviewed-by: Arthur Zakirov <a.zakirov@postgrespro.ru>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/6a609b43-4f57-7348-6480-bd022f924310@2ndquadrant.com
2019-04-01 20:01:35 +02:00
Robert Haas c900c15269 Warn more strongly about the dangers of exclusive backup mode.
Especially, warn about the hazards of mishandling the backup_label
file.  Adjust a couple of server messages to be more clear about
the hazards associated with removing backup_label files, too.

David Steele and Robert Haas, reviewed by Laurenz Albe, Martín
Marqués, Peter Eisentraut, and Magnus Hagander.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/7d85c387-000e-16f0-e00b-50bf83c22127@pgmasters.net
2019-03-29 08:15:16 -04:00
Thomas Munro 2fc7af5e96 Add basic infrastructure for 64 bit transaction IDs.
Instead of inferring epoch progress from xids and checkpoints,
introduce a 64 bit FullTransactionId type and use it to track xid
generation.  This fixes an unlikely bug where the epoch is reported
incorrectly if the range of active xids wraps around more than once
between checkpoints.

The only user-visible effect of this commit is to correct the epoch
used by txid_current() and txid_status(), also visible with
pg_controldata, in those rare circumstances.  It also creates some
basic infrastructure so that later patches can use 64 bit
transaction IDs in more places.

The new type is a struct that we pass by value, as a form of strong
typedef.  This prevents the sort of accidental confusion between
TransactionId and FullTransactionId that would be possible if we
were to use a plain old uint64.

Author: Thomas Munro
Reported-by: Amit Kapila
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund, Tom Lane, Heikki Linnakangas
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAA4eK1%2BMv%2Bmb0HFfWM9Srtc6MVe160WFurXV68iAFMcagRZ0dQ%40mail.gmail.com
2019-03-28 18:12:20 +13:00
Michael Paquier 8b938d36f7 Refactor more code logic to update the control file
ce6afc6 has begun the refactoring work by plugging pg_rewind into a
central routine to update the control file, and left around two extra
copies, with one in xlog.c for the backend and one in pg_resetwal.c.  By
adding an extra option to the central routine in controldata_utils.c to
control if a flush of the control file needs to be done, it is proving
to be straight-forward to make xlog.c and pg_resetwal.c use the central
code path at the condition of moving the wait event tracking there.
Hence, this allows to have only one central code path to update the
control file, shaving the code from the duplicates.

This refactoring actually fixes a problem in pg_resetwal.  Previously,
the control file was first removed before being recreated.  So if a
crash happened between the moment the file was removed and the moment
the file was created, then it would have been possible to not have a
control file anymore in the database folder.

Author: Fabien Coelho
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/alpine.DEB.2.21.1903170935210.2506@lancre
2019-03-18 12:59:35 +09:00
Peter Eisentraut 893d6f8a1f Avoid casting away a const 2019-03-16 10:13:03 +01:00
Michael Paquier f2d84a4a6b Adjust error message for partial writes in WAL segments
93473c6 has removed openLogOff, changing on the way the error message
which is used to report partial writes to WAL segments.  The
newly-introduced error message used the offset up to which the write has
happened, keeping always the same total length to write.  This changes
the error message so as the number of bytes left to write are reported.

Reported-by: Michael Paquier
Author: Robert Haas
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190306235251.GA17293@paquier.xyz
2019-03-11 09:31:25 +09:00
Michael Paquier 82a5649fb9 Tighten use of OpenTransientFile and CloseTransientFile
This fixes two sets of issues related to the use of transient files in
the backend:
1) OpenTransientFile() has been used in some code paths with read-write
flags while read-only is sufficient, so switch those calls to be
read-only where necessary.  These have been reported by Joe Conway.
2) When opening transient files, it is up to the caller to close the
file descriptors opened.  In error code paths, CloseTransientFile() gets
called to clean up things before issuing an error.  However in normal
exit paths, a lot of callers of CloseTransientFile() never actually
reported errors, which could leave a file descriptor open without
knowing about it.  This is an issue I complained about a couple of
times, but never had the courage to write and submit a patch, so here we
go.

Note that one frontend code path is impacted by this commit so as an
error is issued when fetching control file data, making backend and
frontend to be treated consistently.

Reported-by: Joe Conway, Michael Paquier
Author: Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Álvaro Herrera, Georgios Kokolatos, Joe Conway
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190301023338.GD1348@paquier.xyz
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/c49b69ec-e2f7-ff33-4f17-0eaa4f2cef27@joeconway.com
2019-03-09 08:50:55 +09:00
Robert Haas 93473c6ac8 Removed unused variable, openLogOff.
Antonin Houska

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/30413.1551870730@localhost
2019-03-06 09:44:08 -05:00
Michael Paquier ea92368cd1 Move max_wal_senders out of max_connections for connection slot handling
Since its introduction, max_wal_senders is counted as part of
max_connections when it comes to define how many connection slots can be
used for replication connections with a WAL sender context.  This can
lead to confusion for some users, as it could be possible to block a
base backup or replication from happening because other backend sessions
are already taken for other purposes by an application, and
superuser-only connection slots are not a correct solution to handle
that case.

This commit makes max_wal_senders independent of max_connections for its
handling of PGPROC entries in ProcGlobal, meaning that connection slots
for WAL senders are handled using their own free queue, like autovacuum
workers and bgworkers.

One compatibility issue that this change creates is that a standby now
requires to have a value of max_wal_senders at least equal to its
primary.  So, if a standby created enforces the value of
max_wal_senders to be lower than that, then this could break failovers.
Normally this should not be an issue though, as any settings of a
standby are inherited from its primary as postgresql.conf gets normally
copied as part of a base backup, so parameters would be consistent.

Author: Alexander Kukushkin
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi, Petr Jelínek, Masahiko Sawada, Oleksii
Kliukin
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAFh8B=nBzHQeYAu0b8fjK-AF1X4+_p6GRtwG+cCgs6Vci2uRuQ@mail.gmail.com
2019-02-12 10:07:56 +09:00
Michael Paquier c93001b3f9 Adjust comment about timeout when waiting for WAL at recovery
A timeout of 5s is used when waiting for WAL to become available at
recovery so as the startup process is able to react promptly if a
trigger file shows up.  However this missed the fact that the startup
process also relies on the timeout to check periodically the status of
any active WAL receiver.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190131070956.GE13429@paquier.xyz
2019-02-01 10:46:45 +09:00
Peter Eisentraut 0acb3bc33a Change default of recovery_target_timeline to 'latest'
This is what one usually wants for recovery and almost always wants
for a standby.

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/6dd2c23a-4162-8469-410f-bfe146e28c0c@2ndquadrant.com/
Reviewed-by: David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
2019-01-13 10:01:05 +01:00
Bruce Momjian 97c39498e5 Update copyright for 2019
Backpatch-through: certain files through 9.4
2019-01-02 12:44:25 -05:00
Michael Paquier 1707a0d2aa Remove configure switch --disable-strong-random
This removes a portion of infrastructure introduced by fe0a0b5 to allow
compilation of Postgres in environments where no strong random source is
available, meaning that there is no linking to OpenSSL and no
/dev/urandom (Windows having its own CryptoAPI).  No systems shipped
this century lack /dev/urandom, and the buildfarm is actually not
testing this switch at all, so just remove it.  This simplifies
particularly some backend code which included a fallback implementation
using shared memory, and removes a set of alternate regression output
files from pgcrypto.

Author: Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20181230063219.GG608@paquier.xyz
2019-01-01 20:05:51 +09:00
Michael Paquier 8d3b389ec3 Improve comments and logs in do_pg_stop/start_backup
The function name pg_stop_backup() has been included for ages in some
log messages when stopping the backup, which is confusing for base
backups taken with the replication protocol because this function is
never called.  Some other comments and messages in this area are
improved while on it.

The new wording is based on input and suggestions from several people,
all listed below.

Author: Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut, Álvaro Herrera, Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20181221040510.GA12599@paquier.xyz
2019-01-01 08:53:02 +09:00
Peter Eisentraut 60d99797bf Change "checkpoint starting" message to use "wal"
This catches up with the recent renaming of all user-facing mentions
of "xlog" to "wal".

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/20181129084708.GA9562%40msg.credativ.de
2018-12-30 22:23:01 +01:00
Tom Lane 8528e3d849 Fix failure to check for open() or fsync() failures.
While it seems OK to not be concerned about fsync() failure for a
pre-existing signal file, it's not OK to not even check for open()
failure.  This at least causes complaints from static analyzers,
and I think on some platforms passing -1 to fsync() or close() might
trigger assertion-type failures.  Also add (void) casts to make clear
that we're ignoring fsync's result intentionally.

Oversights in commit 2dedf4d9a, noted by Coverity.
2018-12-26 16:08:17 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut 2dedf4d9a8 Integrate recovery.conf into postgresql.conf
recovery.conf settings are now set in postgresql.conf (or other GUC
sources).  Currently, all the affected settings are PGC_POSTMASTER;
this could be refined in the future case by case.

Recovery is now initiated by a file recovery.signal.  Standby mode is
initiated by a file standby.signal.  The standby_mode setting is
gone.  If a recovery.conf file is found, an error is issued.

The trigger_file setting has been renamed to promote_trigger_file as
part of the move.

The documentation chapter "Recovery Configuration" has been integrated
into "Server Configuration".

pg_basebackup -R now appends settings to postgresql.auto.conf and
creates a standby.signal file.

Author: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>
Author: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>
Author: Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams@2ndquadrant.com>
Author: Sergei Kornilov <sk@zsrv.org>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/607741529606767@web3g.yandex.ru/
2018-11-25 16:33:40 +01:00
Thomas Munro cfdf4dc4fc Add WL_EXIT_ON_PM_DEATH pseudo-event.
Users of the WaitEventSet and WaitLatch() APIs can now choose between
asking for WL_POSTMASTER_DEATH and then handling it explicitly, or asking
for WL_EXIT_ON_PM_DEATH to trigger immediate exit on postmaster death.
This reduces code duplication, since almost all callers want the latter.

Repair all code that was previously ignoring postmaster death completely,
or requesting the event but ignoring it, or requesting the event but then
doing an unconditional PostmasterIsAlive() call every time through its
event loop (which is an expensive syscall on platforms for which we don't
have USE_POSTMASTER_DEATH_SIGNAL support).

Assert that callers of WaitLatchXXX() under the postmaster remember to
ask for either WL_POSTMASTER_DEATH or WL_EXIT_ON_PM_DEATH, to prevent
future bugs.

The only process that doesn't handle postmaster death is syslogger.  It
waits until all backends holding the write end of the syslog pipe
(including the postmaster) have closed it by exiting, to be sure to
capture any parting messages.  By using the WaitEventSet API directly
it avoids the new assertion, and as a by-product it may be slightly
more efficient on platforms that have epoll().

Author: Thomas Munro
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi, Heikki Linnakangas, Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm%3D1TCviRykkUb69ppWLr_V697rzd1j3eZsRMmbXvETfqbQ%40mail.gmail.com,
            https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=2LqHzizbe7muD7-2yHUbTOoF7Q+qkSD5Q41kuhttRTwA@mail.gmail.com
2018-11-23 20:46:34 +13:00
Thomas Munro 9ccdd7f66e PANIC on fsync() failure.
On some operating systems, it doesn't make sense to retry fsync(),
because dirty data cached by the kernel may have been dropped on
write-back failure.  In that case the only remaining copy of the
data is in the WAL.  A subsequent fsync() could appear to succeed,
but not have flushed the data.  That means that a future checkpoint
could apparently complete successfully but have lost data.

Therefore, violently prevent any future checkpoint attempts by
panicking on the first fsync() failure.  Note that we already
did the same for WAL data; this change extends that behavior to
non-temporary data files.

Provide a GUC data_sync_retry to control this new behavior, for
users of operating systems that don't eject dirty data, and possibly
forensic/testing uses.  If it is set to on and the write-back error
was transient, a later checkpoint might genuinely succeed (on a
system that does not throw away buffers on failure); if the error is
permanent, later checkpoints will continue to fail.  The GUC defaults
to off, meaning that we panic.

Back-patch to all supported releases.

There is still a narrow window for error-loss on some operating
systems: if the file is closed and later reopened and a write-back
error occurs in the intervening time, but the inode has the bad
luck to be evicted due to memory pressure before we reopen, we could
miss the error.  A later patch will address that with a scheme
for keeping files with dirty data open at all times, but we judge
that to be too complicated to back-patch.

Author: Craig Ringer, with some adjustments by Thomas Munro
Reported-by: Craig Ringer
Reviewed-by: Robert Haas, Thomas Munro, Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180427222842.in2e4mibx45zdth5%40alap3.anarazel.de
2018-11-19 17:41:26 +13:00
Michael Paquier 285bd0ac4a Remove unnecessary memcpy when reading WAL record fitting on page
When reading a WAL record, its contents are copied into an intermediate
buffer.  However, doing so is not necessary if the record fits fully
into the current page, saving one memcpy for each such record.  The
allocation handling of the intermediate buffer is also now done only
when a record crosses a page boundary, shaving some extra cycles when
reading a WAL record.

Author: Andrey Lepikhov
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi, Heikki Linnakangas
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/c2ea54dd-a1d3-80eb-ddbf-7e6f258e615e@postgrespro.ru
2018-11-19 10:25:48 +09:00
Thomas Munro c24dcd0cfd Use pg_pread() and pg_pwrite() for data files and WAL.
Cut down on system calls by doing random I/O using offset-based OS
routines where available.  Remove the code for tracking the 'virtual'
seek position.  The only reason left to call FileSeek() was to get
the file's size, so provide a new function FileSize() instead.

Author: Oskari Saarenmaa, Thomas Munro
Reviewed-by: Thomas Munro, Jesper Pedersen, Tom Lane, Alvaro Herrera
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=02rapCpPR3ZGF2vW=SBHSdFYO_bz_f-wwWJonmA3APgw@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/b8748d39-0b19-0514-a1b9-4e5a28e6a208%40gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a86bd200-ebbe-d829-e3ca-0c4474b2fcb7%40ohmu.fi
2018-11-07 09:51:50 +13:00
Andres Freund c4ab62f9ac Fix typo in xlog.c.
Author: Daniel Gustafsson
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/A6817958-949E-4A5B-895D-FA421B6640C2@yesql.se
2018-10-31 07:50:32 -07:00
Michael Paquier 10074651e3 Add pg_promote function
This function is able to promote a standby with this new SQL-callable
function.  Execution access can be granted to non-superusers so that
failover tools can observe the principle of least privilege.

Catalog version is bumped.

Author: Laurenz Albe
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier, Masahiko Sawada
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/6e7c79b3ec916cf49742fb8849ed17cd87aed620.camel@cybertec.at
2018-10-25 09:46:00 +09:00
Amit Kapila a86bf6057e Fix assertion failure when updating full_page_writes for checkpointer.
When the checkpointer receives a SIGHUP signal to update its configuration,
it may need to update the shared memory for full_page_writes and need to
write a WAL record for it.  Now, it is quite possible that the XLOG
machinery has not been initialized by that time and it will lead to
assertion failure while doing that.  Fix is to allow the initialization of
the XLOG machinery outside critical section.

This bug has been introduced by the commit 2c03216d83 which added the XLOG
machinery initialization in RecoveryInProgress code path.

Reported-by: Dilip Kumar
Author: Dilip Kumar
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier and Amit Kapila
Backpatch-through: 9.5
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAFiTN-u4BA8KXcQUWDPNgaKAjDXC=C2whnzBM8TAcv=stckYUw@mail.gmail.com
2018-09-28 16:40:04 +05:30
Michael Paquier 8d28bf500f Rework activation of commit timestamps during recovery
The activation and deactivation of commit timestamp tracking has not
been handled consistently for a primary or standbys at recovery.  The
facility can be activated at three different moments of recovery:
- The beginning, where a primary would use the GUC value for the
decision-making, and where a standby relies on the contents of the
control file.
- When replaying a XLOG_PARAMETER_CHANGE record at redo.
- The end, where both primary and standby rely on the GUC value.

Using the GUC value for a primary at the beginning of recovery causes
problems with commit timestamp access when doing crash recovery.
Particularly, when replaying transaction commits, it could be possible
that an attempt to read commit timestamps is done for a transaction
which committed at a moment when track_commit_timestamp was disabled.

A test case is added to reproduce the failure.  The test works down to
v11 as it takes advantage of transaction commits within procedures.

Reported-by: Hailong Li
Author: Masahiko Sawasa, Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/11224478-a782-203b-1f17-e4797b39bdf0@qunar.com
Backpatch-through: 9.5, where commit timestamps have been introduced.
2018-09-26 10:25:54 +09:00
Tom Lane 0d38e4ebb7 Fix minor error message style guide violation.
No periods at the ends of primary error messages, please.

Daniel Gustafsson

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/43E004C0-18C6-42B4-A313-003B43EB0571@yesql.se
2018-09-19 17:06:40 -04:00
Amit Kapila bc153c941d Attach FPI to the first record after full_page_writes is turned on.
XLogInsert fails to attach a required FPI to the first record after
full_page_writes is turned on by the last checkpoint.  This bug got
introduced in 9.5 due to code rearrangement in commits 2c03216d83 and
2076db2aea.  Fix it by ensuring that XLogInsertRecord performs a
recomputation when the given record is generated with FPW as off but
found that the flag has been turned on while actually inserting the
record.

Reported-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi
Author: Kyotaro Horiguchi
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila
Backpatch-through: 9.5 where this problem was introduced
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180420.151043.74298611.horiguchi.kyotaro@lab.ntt.co.jp
2018-09-13 15:32:50 +05:30
Tom Lane 44cac93464 Avoid using potentially-under-aligned page buffers.
There's a project policy against using plain "char buf[BLCKSZ]" local
or static variables as page buffers; preferred style is to palloc or
malloc each buffer to ensure it is MAXALIGN'd.  However, that policy's
been ignored in an increasing number of places.  We've apparently got
away with it so far, probably because (a) relatively few people use
platforms on which misalignment causes core dumps and/or (b) the
variables chance to be sufficiently aligned anyway.  But this is not
something to rely on.  Moreover, even if we don't get a core dump,
we might be paying a lot of cycles for misaligned accesses.

To fix, invent new union types PGAlignedBlock and PGAlignedXLogBlock
that the compiler must allocate with sufficient alignment, and use
those in place of plain char arrays.

I used these types even for variables where there's no risk of a
misaligned access, since ensuring proper alignment should make
kernel data transfers faster.  I also changed some places where
we had been palloc'ing short-lived buffers, for coding style
uniformity and to save palloc/pfree overhead.

Since this seems to be a live portability hazard (despite the lack
of field reports), back-patch to all supported versions.

Patch by me; thanks to Michael Paquier for review.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1535618100.1286.3.camel@credativ.de
2018-09-01 15:27:17 -04:00
Michael Paquier c186ba135e Ensure correct minimum consistent point on standbys
Startup process has improved its calculation of incorrect minimum
consistent point in 8d68ee6, which ensures that all WAL available gets
replayed when doing crash recovery, and has introduced an incorrect
calculation of the minimum recovery point for non-startup processes,
which can cause incorrect page references on a standby when for example
the background writer flushed a couple of pages on-disk but was not
updating the control file to let a subsequent crash recovery replay to
where it should have.

The only case where this has been reported to be a problem is when a
standby needs to calculate the latest removed xid when replaying a btree
deletion record, so one would need connections on a standby that happen
just after recovery has thought it reached a consistent point.  Using a
background worker which is started after the consistent point is reached
would be the easiest way to get into problems if it connects to a
database.  Having clients which attempt to connect periodically could
also be a problem, but the odds of seeing this problem are much lower.

The fix used is pretty simple, as the idea is to give access to the
minimum recovery point written in the control file to non-startup
processes so as they use a reference, while the startup process still
initializes its own references of the minimum consistent point so as the
original problem with incorrect page references happening post-promotion
with a crash do not show up.

Reported-by: Alexander Kukushkin
Diagnosed-by: Alexander Kukushkin
Author: Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi, Alexander Kukushkin
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/153492341830.1368.3936905691758473953@wrigleys.postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 9.3
2018-08-31 11:03:40 -07:00
Michael Paquier d9fadbf131 Fix calculation for WAL segment recycling and removal
Commit 4b0d28de06 has removed the prior checkpoint and related
facilities but has left WAL recycling based on the LSN of the prior
checkpoint, which causes incorrect calculations for WAL removal and
recycling for max_wal_size and min_wal_size.  This commit changes things
so as the base calculation point is the last checkpoint generated.

Reported-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi
Author: Kyotaro Horiguchi
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180723.135748.42558387.horiguchi.kyotaro@lab.ntt.co.jp
Backpatch: 11-, where the prior checkpoint has been removed.
2018-07-24 10:32:56 +09:00
Michael Paquier e41d0a1090 Add proper errcodes to new error messages for read() failures
Those would use the default ERRCODE_INTERNAL_ERROR, but for foreseeable
failures an errcode ought to be set, ERRCODE_DATA_CORRUPTED making the
most sense here.

While on the way, fix one errcode_for_file_access missing in origin.c
since the code has been created, and remove one assignment of errno to 0
before calling read(), as this was around to fit with what was present
before 811b6e36 where errno would not be set when not enough bytes are
read.  I have noticed the first one, and Tom has pinged me about the
second one.

Author: Michael Paquier
Reported-by: Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/27265.1531925836@sss.pgh.pa.us
2018-07-23 09:37:36 +09:00
Michael Paquier 56df07bb9e Make more consistent some error messages for file-related operations
Some error messages which report something about a file operation use
as well context which is already provided within the path being worked
on, making things rather duplicated.  This creates more work for
translators, and does not actually bring clarity.

More could be done, however in a lot of cases the context used is
actually useful, still that patch gets down things with a good cut.

Author: Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi, Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180718044711.GA8565@paquier.xyz
2018-07-23 09:19:12 +09:00