The semantics of signal(2) are more variable than one could wish; in
particular, on strict-POSIX platforms the signal handler will be reset
to SIG_DFL when the signal is delivered. This demonstrably breaks
pg_test_fsync's use of SIGALRM. The other changes I made are not
absolutely necessary today, because the called handlers all exit the
program anyway. But it seems like a good general practice to use
pqsignal() exclusively in Postgres code, now that we have it available
everywhere.
Clarify the docs explaining what commit_delay does, and add a
recommendation about a useful value for it, namely half of the single-page
fsync time reported by pg_test_fsync. This is informed by testing of
the new-in-9.3 implementation of commit_delay; in prior versions it
was far harder to arrive at a useful setting.
In passing, do some wordsmithing and markup-fixing in the same general
area.
Also, change pg_test_fsync's default time-per-test from 2 seconds to 5.
The old value was about the minimum at which the results could be taken
seriously at all, and so seems a tad optimistic as a default.
Peter Geoghegan, reviewed by Noah Misch; some additional editing by me
This isn't fully tested as yet, in particular I'm not sure that the
"foo--unpackaged--1.0.sql" scripts are OK. But it's time to get some
buildfarm cycles on it.
sepgsql is not converted to an extension, mainly because it seems to
require a very nonstandard installation process.
Dimitri Fontaine and Tom Lane
Reduce #includes to minimum actually needed; in particular include
postgres_fe.h not postgres.h, so as to stop build failures on some
platforms.
Use get_progname() instead of hardwired program name; improve error
checking for command line syntax; bring error messages into line with
style guidelines; include strerror result in die() cases.
Un-break Windows build (I hope) by making the HAVE_FSYNC_WRITETHROUGH
code match the backend. Fix incorrect program help message. static-ize
all functions.
Actually rename the program, rather than just claiming we did. Hook it
into the build system. Get rid of useless dependency on libpq. Clean up
#include list and messy whitespace.
Tom Lane
Bruce Momjian
Simon Riggs
Robert Haas
Peter Eisentraut