"xlog" is not a particularly clear abbreviation for "write-ahead log",
and it sometimes confuses users into believe that the contents of the
"pg_xlog" directory are not critical data, leading to unpleasant
consequences. So, rename the directory to "pg_wal".
This patch modifies pg_upgrade and pg_basebackup to understand both
the old and new directory layouts; the former is necessary given the
purpose of the tool, while the latter merely avoids an unnecessary
backward-compatibility break.
We may wish to consider renaming other programs, switches, and
functions which still use the old "xlog" naming to also refer to
"wal". However, that's still under discussion, so let's do just this
much for now.
Discussion: CAB7nPqTeC-8+zux8_-4ZD46V7YPwooeFxgndfsq5Rg8ibLVm1A@mail.gmail.com
Michael Paquier
Switch TAP tests to use the new wait mode of pg_ctl promote. This
allows avoiding extra logic with poll_query_until() to be sure that a
promoted standby is ready for read-write queries.
From: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
They are supposed to be mutually exclusive, but there was no check for
that.
Michael Banck
Discussion: <20161007103414.GD12247@nighthawk.caipicrew.dd-dns.de>
If you point pg_rewind to a server that is using synchronous replication,
with "pg_rewind --source-server=...", and the replication is not working
for some reason, pg_rewind will get stuck because it creates a temporary
table, which needs to be replicated. You could call broken replication a
pilot error, but pg_rewind is often used in special circumstances, when
there are changes to the replication setup.
We don't do any "real" updates, and we don't care about fsyncing or
replicating the operations on the temporary tables, so fix that by
setting synchronous_commit off.
Michael Banck, Michael Paquier. Backpatch to 9.5, where pg_rewind was
introduced.
Discussion: <20161005143938.GA12247@nighthawk.caipicrew.dd-dns.de>
Add tests for consistent support of connection strings in frontend
programs as well as proper handling of unusual characters in database
and user names. These tests were developed for the issues of
CVE-2016-5424.
To allow testing of names with spaces, change the pg_regress
command-line options --create-role and --dbname to split their arguments
by comma only, not space or comma as before. Only commas were actually
used in existing uses.
Noah Misch, Michael Paquier, Peter Eisentraut
Previously pg_rewind did not fsync any files. That's problematic, given
that the target directory is modified. If the database was started
afterwards, 2ce439f33 luckily already caused the data directory to be
synced to disk at postmaster startup; reducing the scope of the problem.
To fix, use initdb -S, at the end of the pg_rewind run. It doesn't seem
worthwhile to duplicate the code into pg_rewind, and initdb -S is
already used that way by pg_upgrade.
Reported-By: Andres Freund
Author: Michael Paquier, somewhat edited by me
Discussion: 20160310034352.iuqgvpmg5qmnxtkz@alap3.anarazel.deCAB7nPqSytVG1o4S3S2pA1O=692ekurJ+fckW2PywEG3sNw54Ow@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch: 9.5, where pg_rewind was introduced
This was a relatively harmless leak, as createBackupLabel() is only
called once per pg_rewind invocation.
Author: Michael Paquier
Reported-By: Michael Paquier
Discussion: CAB7nPqRnOw30gOXe2_SPLjh37bgm4V+txbYAPwoXb97nGQ297w@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch: 9.5, where pg_rewind was introduced
Some code in the RewindTest test suite is more generally useful than
just for that suite, so put it where other test suites can reach it.
Some postgresql.conf parameters change their default values when a
cluster is initialized with 'allows_streaming' than the previous
behavior; most notably, autovacuum is no longer turned off.
(Also, we no longer call pg_ctl promote with -w, but that flag doesn't
actually do anything in promote so there's no behavior change.)
Author: Michael Paquier
t/002_databases.pl was expecting to see a specific physical order of the
rows in pg_database. I broke that in HEAD with commit 01e386a325,
but I'd say it's a pretty fragile test methodology in any case, so fix
it in 9.5 as well.
The original code was a bit clunky; make it more amenable for further
reuse by creating a new Perl package PostgresNode, which is an
object-oriented representation of a single server, with some support
routines such as init, start, stop, psql. This serves as a better basis
on which to build further test code, and enables writing tests that use
more than one server without too much complication.
This commit modifies a lot of the existing test files, mostly to remove
explicit calls to system commands (pg_ctl) replacing them with method
calls of a PostgresNode object. The result is quite a bit more
straightforward.
Also move some initialization code to BEGIN and INIT blocks instead of
having it straight in as top-level code.
This commit also introduces package RecursiveCopy so that we can copy
whole directories without having to depend on packages that may not be
present on vanilla Perl 5.8 installations.
I also ran perltidy on the modified files, which changes some code sites
that are not otherwise touched by this patch. I tried to avoid this,
but it ended up being more trouble than it's worth.
Authors: Michael Paquier, Álvaro Herrera
Review: Noah Misch
Allow pg_rewind to work when target timeline was switched. Now
user can return promoted standby to old master.
Target timeline history becomes a global variable. Index
in target timeline history is used in function interfaces instead of
specifying TLI directly. Thus, SimpleXLogPageRead() can easily start
reading XLOGs from next timeline when current timeline ends.
Author: Alexander Korotkov
Review: Michael Paquier
The output of a typical pg_rewind run contained a mix of capitalized and
not-capitalized and punctuated and not-punctuated phrases for no
apparent reason. Make that consistent. Also fix some problems in other
messages.
If a transaction never reaches the standby, later tests find unexpected
cluster state. A "tail-copy: query result matches" test failure has
been the usual symptom. Among the buildfarm members having run this
test suite, most have exhibited that symptom at least once. Back-patch
to 9.5, where pg_rewind was introduced.
Michael Paquier, reported by Christoph Berg.
Older versions have rmtree but not remove_tree. The one-argument forms
of these are equivalent, so replace remove_tree with rmtree. This allows
the tests to be run on oldish Msys systems.
pg_xlog is often a symlink, typically to a different filesystem. Don't
get confused and comlain about by that, and just always pretend that it's a
normal directory, even if it's really a symlink.
Also add a test case for this.
Backpatch to 9.5.
Since commit 01f6bb4b2, TestLib.pm has exported path to tmp_check directory,
so let's use that also for the pg_rewind test clusters etc.
Also, in master, the $tempdir_short variable has not been used since commit
13d856e17, which moved the initdb-running code to TestLib.pm.
Backpatch to 9.5.
On Windows, use listen_address=127.0.0.1 to allow TCP connections. We were
already using "pg_regress --config-auth" to set up HBA appropriately. The
standard_initdb helper function now sets up the server's
unix_socket_directories or listen_addresses in the config file, so that
they don't need to be specified in the pg_ctl command line anymore. That
way, the pg_ctl invocations in test programs don't need to differ between
Windows and Unix.
Add another helper function to configure the server's pg_hba.conf to allow
replication connections. The configuration is done similarly to "pg_regress
--config-auth": trust on domain sockets on Unix, and SSPI authentication on
Windows.
Replace calls to "cat" and "touch" programs with built-in perl code, as
those programs don't normally exist on Windows.
Add instructions in the docs on how to install IPC::Run on Windows. Adjust
vcregress.pl to not replace PERL5LIB completely in vcregress.pl, because
otherwise cannot install IPC::Run in a non-standard location easily.
Michael Paquier, reviewed by Noah Misch, some additional tweaking by me.
Per Coverity (not that any of these are so non-obvious that they should not
have been caught before commit). The extent of leakage is probably minor
to unnoticeable, but a leak is a leak. Back-patch as necessary.
Michael Paquier
Create a log file for each test run. Stdout and stderr of the test script,
as well as any subprocesses run as part of the test, are redirected to
the log file. This makes it a lot easier to debug test failures. Also print
the test output (ok 12 - ... messages) to the log file, and the command
line of any external programs executed with the system_or_bail and run_log
functions. This makes it a lot easier to debug failing tests.
Modify some of the pg_ctl and other command invocations to not use 'silent'
or 'quiet' options, and don't redirect output to /dev/null, so that you get
all the information in the log instead.
In the passing, construct some command lines in a way that works if $tempdir
contains quote-characters. I haven't systematically gone through all of
them or tested that, so I don't know if this is enough to make that work.
pg_rewind tests had a custom mechanism for creating a similar log file. Use
the new generic facility instead.
Michael Paquier and me.
If a file is removed from the source server, while pg_rewind is running, the
invocation of pg_read_binary_file() will fail. Use the just-added missing_ok
option to that function, to have it return NULL instead, and handle that
gracefully. And similarly for pg_ls_dir and pg_stat_file.
Reported by Fujii Masao, fix by Michael Paquier.
RMGRDESCSOURCES is defined and used only in pg_xlogdump Makefile,
but pg_rewind Makefile mentioned it as extra files to remove in "make clean".
This patch removes that useless mention from pg_rewind Makefile.
Michael Paquier
* Remove invalid option character "N" from the third argument (valid option
string) of getopt_long().
* Use pg_free() or pfree() to free the memory allocated by pg_malloc() or
palloc() instead of always using free().
* Assume problem is no disk space if write() fails but doesn't set errno.
* Fix several typos.
Patch by me. Review by Michael Paquier.
The previous coding suffered a null-pointer dereference if it found any
symlink at the top level of $PGDATA. Fix that, and teach it to recurse
into a symlink for pg_xlog, but not anything else.
Per note from Abhijit Menon-Sen.
Ensure that we null-terminate the result string (one place in pg_rewind).
Be paranoid about out-of-range results from readlink() (should not happen,
but there is no good reason for some call sites to be careful about it and
others not). Consistently use the whole buffer, not sometimes one byte
less. Ensure we emit an appropriate errcode() in all cases. Spell the
error messages the same way.
The only serious bug here is the missing null-termination in pg_rewind,
which is new code, so no need for a back-patch.
Abhijit Menon-Sen and Tom Lane
pg_rewind looks at the control file to determine the server's timeline. If
the standby performs a "fast promotion", the timeline ID in the control
file is not updated until the next checkpoint. The startup process requests
a checkpoint immediately after promotion, so this is unlikely to be an
issue in the real world, but the regression suite ran pg_rewind so quickly
after promotion that the checkpoint had not yet completed.
Reported by Stephen Frost