A PostgreSQL release tarball contains a number of prebuilt files, in
particular files produced by bison, flex, perl, and well as html and
man documentation. We have done this consistent with established
practice at the time to not require these tools for building from a
tarball. Some of these tools were hard to get, or get the right
version of, from time to time, and shipping the prebuilt output was a
convenience to users.
Now this has at least two problems:
One, we have to make the build system(s) work in two modes: Building
from a git checkout and building from a tarball. This is pretty
complicated, but it works so far for autoconf/make. It does not
currently work for meson; you can currently only build with meson from
a git checkout. Making meson builds work from a tarball seems very
difficult or impossible. One particular problem is that since meson
requires a separate build directory, we cannot make the build update
files like gram.h in the source tree. So if you were to build from a
tarball and update gram.y, you will have a gram.h in the source tree
and one in the build tree, but the way things work is that the
compiler will always use the one in the source tree. So you cannot,
for example, make any gram.y changes when building from a tarball.
This seems impossible to fix in a non-horrible way.
Second, there is increased interest nowadays in precisely tracking the
origin of software. We can reasonably track contributions into the
git tree, and users can reasonably track the path from a tarball to
packages and downloads and installs. But what happens between the git
tree and the tarball is obscure and in some cases non-reproducible.
The solution for both of these issues is to get rid of the step that
adds prebuilt files to the tarball. The tarball now only contains
what is in the git tree (*). Getting the additional build
dependencies is no longer a problem nowadays, and the complications to
keep these dual build modes working are significant. And of course we
want to get the meson build system working universally.
This commit removes the make distprep target altogether. The make
dist target continues to do its job, it just doesn't call distprep
anymore.
(*) - The tarball also contains the INSTALL file that is built at make
dist time, but not by distprep. This is unchanged for now.
The make maintainer-clean target, whose job it is to remove the
prebuilt files in addition to what make distclean does, is now just an
alias to make distprep. (In practice, it is probably obsolete given
that git clean is available.)
The following programs are now hard build requirements in configure
(they were already required by meson.build):
- bison
- flex
- perl
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/e07408d9-e5f2-d9fd-5672-f53354e9305e@eisentraut.org
Add the 'checkunique' argument to bt_index_check() and bt_index_parent_check().
When the flag is specified the procedures will check the unique constraint
violation for unique indexes. Only one heap entry for all equal keys in
the index should be visible (including posting list entries). Report an error
otherwise.
pg_amcheck called with the --checkunique option will do the same check for all
the indexes it checks.
Author: Anastasia Lubennikova <lubennikovaav@gmail.com>
Author: Pavel Borisov <pashkin.elfe@gmail.com>
Author: Maxim Orlov <orlovmg@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Mark Dilger <mark.dilger@enterprisedb.com>
Reviewed-by: Zhihong Yu <zyu@yugabyte.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Reviewed-by: Aleksander Alekseev <aleksander@timescale.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALT9ZEHRn5xAM5boga0qnrCmPV52bScEK2QnQ1HmUZDD301JEg%40mail.gmail.com
There was a mismatch between the const qualifiers for
excludeDirContents in src/backend/backup/basebackup.c and
src/bin/pg_rewind/filemap.c, which led to a quick search for similar
cases. We should make excludeDirContents match, but the rest of the
changes seem like a good idea as well.
Author: David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/669a035c-d23d-2f38-7ff0-0cb93e01d610@pgmasters.net
Until now, when DROP DATABASE got interrupted in the wrong moment, the removal
of the pg_database row would also roll back, even though some irreversible
steps have already been taken. E.g. DropDatabaseBuffers() might have thrown
out dirty buffers, or files could have been unlinked. But we continued to
allow connections to such a corrupted database.
To fix this, mark databases invalid with an in-place update, just before
starting to perform irreversible steps. As we can't add a new column in the
back branches, we use pg_database.datconnlimit = -2 for this purpose.
An invalid database cannot be connected to anymore, but can still be
dropped.
Unfortunately we can't easily add output to psql's \l to indicate that some
database is invalid, it doesn't fit in any of the existing columns.
Add tests verifying that a interrupted DROP DATABASE is handled correctly in
the backend and in various tools.
Reported-by: Evgeny Morozov <postgresql3@realityexists.net>
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230509004637.cgvmfwrbht7xm7p6@awork3.anarazel.de
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230314174521.74jl6ffqsee5mtug@awork3.anarazel.de
Backpatch: 11-, bug present in all supported versions
Run pgindent, pgperltidy, and reformat-dat-files.
This set of diffs is a bit larger than typical. We've updated to
pg_bsd_indent 2.1.2, which properly indents variable declarations that
have multi-line initialization expressions (the continuation lines are
now indented one tab stop). We've also updated to perltidy version
20230309 and changed some of its settings, which reduces its desire to
add whitespace to lines to make assignments etc. line up. Going
forward, that should make for fewer random-seeming changes to existing
code.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230428092545.qfb3y5wcu4cm75ur@alvherre.pgsql
Using a test function before a possible skip_all is incorrect. If the
skip_all is called, the test output will become incorrect and the test
file will fail.
a4f23f9b3c introduced a new test before skip_all. After discussion,
this doesn't really need to be a test. Instead, we just bail out if
the condition is not satisfied.
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/af5567a1-aea6-fbdb-7e4b-d1e23a43c43b@enterprisedb.com
Commit bbc1376b39 checked that if
a redirected line pointer pointed to a tuple, the tuple should be
marked both HEAP_ONLY_TUPLE and HEAP_UPDATED. But Andres Freund
pointed out that *any* tuple that is marked HEAP_ONLY_TUPLE should
be marked HEAP_UPDATED, not just one that is the target of a
redirected line pointer. Do that instead.
To see why this is better, consider a redirect line pointer A
which points to a heap-only tuple B which points (via CTID)
to another heap-only tuple C. With the old code, we'd complain
if B was not marked HEAP_UPDATED, but with this change, we'll
complain if either B or C is not marked HEAP_UPDATED.
(Note that, with or without this commit, if either B or C were
not marked HEAP_ONLY_TUPLE, we would also complain about that.)
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA%2BTgmobLypZx%3DcOH%2ByY1GZmCruaoucHm77A6y_-Bo%3Dh-_3H28g%40mail.gmail.com
Use of pack("L") gets around the basic endian problem, but it doesn't
deal with the fact that the order of the bitfields within the struct
may differ. This patch fixes it to work with gcc on NetBSD/macppc,
but I wonder whether that will be enough --- in principle, there
could be four different combinations of bitpatterns needed here.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1650745.1679513221@sss.pgh.pa.us
Prior to this commit, we only consider each tuple or line pointer
on the page in isolation, but now we can do some validation of a line
pointer against its successor. For example, a redirect line pointer
shouldn't point to another redirect line pointer, and if a tuple
is HOT-updated, the result should be a heap-only tuple.
Himanshu Upadhyaya and Robert Haas, reviewed by Aleksander Alekseev,
Andres Freund, and Peter Geoghegan.
Freezing the relation N times and fetching the tuples one-by-one isn't that
cheap. On my machine this reduces test times by a bit less than one second, on
windows CI it's a few seconds.
Reviewed-by: Mark Dilger <mark.dilger@enterprisedb.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230309001558.b7shzvio645ebdta@awork3.anarazel.de
64bit xids can't represent xids before epoch 0 (see also be504a3e97). When
FullTransactionIdFromXidAndCtx() was passed such an xid, it'd create a 64bit
xid far into the future. Noticed while adding assertions in the course of
investigating be504a3e97, as amcheck's test create such xids.
To fix the issue, just return FirstNormalFullTransactionId in this case. A
freshly initdb'd cluster already has a newer horizon. The most minimal version
of this would make the messages for some detected corruptions differently
inaccurate. To make those cases accurate, switch
FullTransactionIdFromXidAndCtx() to use the 32bit modulo difference between
xid and nextxid to compute the 64bit xid, yielding sensible "in the future" /
"in the past" answers.
Reviewed-by: Mark Dilger <mark.dilger@enterprisedb.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230108002923.cyoser3ttmt63bfn@awork3.anarazel.de
Backpatch: 14-, where heapam verification was introduced
The generated resource files aren't exactly the same ones as the old
buildsystems generate. Previously "InternalName" and "OriginalFileName" were
mostly wrong / not set (despite being required), but that was hard to fix in
at least the make build. Additionally, the meson build falls back to a
"auto-generated" description when not set, and doesn't set it in a few cases -
unlikely that anybody looks at these descriptions in detail.
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Author: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
Autoconf is showing its age, fewer and fewer contributors know how to wrangle
it. Recursive make has a lot of hard to resolve dependency issues and slow
incremental rebuilds. Our home-grown MSVC build system is hard to maintain for
developers not using Windows and runs tests serially. While these and other
issues could individually be addressed with incremental improvements, together
they seem best addressed by moving to a more modern build system.
After evaluating different build system choices, we chose to use meson, to a
good degree based on the adoption by other open source projects.
We decided that it's more realistic to commit a relatively early version of
the new build system and mature it in tree.
This commit adds an initial version of a meson based build system. It supports
building postgres on at least AIX, FreeBSD, Linux, macOS, NetBSD, OpenBSD,
Solaris and Windows (however only gcc is supported on aix, solaris). For
Windows/MSVC postgres can now be built with ninja (faster, particularly for
incremental builds) and msbuild (supporting the visual studio GUI, but
building slower).
Several aspects (e.g. Windows rc file generation, PGXS compatibility, LLVM
bitcode generation, documentation adjustments) are done in subsequent commits
requiring further review. Other aspects (e.g. not installing test-only
extensions) are not yet addressed.
When building on Windows with msbuild, builds are slower when using a visual
studio version older than 2019, because those versions do not support
MultiToolTask, required by meson for intra-target parallelism.
The plan is to remove the MSVC specific build system in src/tools/msvc soon
after reaching feature parity. However, we're not planning to remove the
autoconf/make build system in the near future. Likely we're going to keep at
least the parts required for PGXS to keep working around until all supported
versions build with meson.
Some initial help for postgres developers is at
https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Meson
With contributions from Thomas Munro, John Naylor, Stone Tickle and others.
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Author: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>
Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
Reviewed-By: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20211012083721.hvixq4pnh2pixr3j@alap3.anarazel.de
Make sure that function declarations use names that exactly match the
corresponding names from function definitions in optimizer, parser,
utility, libpq, and "commands" code, as well as in remaining library
code. Do the same for all code related to frontend programs (with the
exception of pg_dump/pg_dumpall related code).
Like other recent commits that cleaned up function parameter names, this
commit was written with help from clang-tidy. Later commits will handle
ecpg and pg_dump/pg_dumpall.
Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Reviewed-By: David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-WznJt9CMM9KJTMjJh_zbL5hD9oX44qdJ4aqZtjFi-zA3Tg@mail.gmail.com
In a similar effort to f736e188c and 110d81728, fixup various usages of
string functions where a more appropriate function is available and more
fit for purpose.
These changes include:
1. Use cstring_to_text_with_len() instead of cstring_to_text() when
working with a StringInfoData and the length can easily be obtained.
2. Use appendStringInfoString() instead of appendStringInfo() when no
formatting is required.
3. Use pstrdup(...) instead of psprintf("%s", ...)
4. Use pstrdup(...) instead of psprintf(...) (with no formatting)
5. Use appendPQExpBufferChar() instead of appendPQExpBufferStr() when the
length of the string being appended is 1.
6. appendStringInfoChar() instead of appendStringInfo() when no formatting
is required and string is 1 char long.
7. Use appendPQExpBufferStr(b, .) instead of appendPQExpBuffer(b, "%s", .)
8. Don't use pstrdup when it's fine to just point to the string constant.
I (David) did find other cases of #8 but opted to use #4 instead as I
wasn't certain enough that applying #8 was ok (e.g in hba.c)
Author: Ranier Vilela, David Rowley
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvo2j2+RJBGhNtUz6BxabWWh2Jx16wMUMWKUjv70Ver1vg@mail.gmail.com
This reverts commit 617d691412.
While I still think the basic idea is attractive, we need to sort
out what happens with built .c files, and there also seem to be
VPATH issues.
The backend already used a mechanically-generated list of *.c files,
but everywhere else we had a manually-written-out list of files in
which to seek translatable messages. Commit b0a55e432 contains the
latest in a long line of failures to update those lists. Rather than
manually fix its oversight, let's change to using "$(wildcard *.c)"
in all these nls.mk files.
Many of these files also have manual references to some *.c files
in other directories, most often src/common/. Perhaps we should try
to improve that situation too; but it's a bit less clear how, so for
now just fix the local file references.
Kyotaro Horiguchi and Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220713.160853.453362706160476128.horikyota.ntt@gmail.com
This moves the list of available languages from nls.mk into a separate
file called po/LINGUAS. Advantages:
- It keeps the parts notionally managed by programmers (nls.mk)
separate from the parts notionally managed by translators (LINGUAS).
- It's the standard practice recommended by the Gettext manual
nowadays.
- The Meson build system also supports this layout (and of course
doesn't know anything about our custom nls.mk), so this would enable
sharing the list of languages between the two build systems.
(The MSVC build system currently finds all po files by globbing, so it
is not affected by this change.)
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/557a9f5c-e871-edc7-2f58-a4140fb65b7b@enterprisedb.com
An error PGresult generated by libpq itself, such as a report of
connection loss, won't have broken-down error fields.
should_processing_continue() blithely assumed that
PG_DIAG_SEVERITY_NONLOCALIZED would always be present, and would
dump core if it wasn't.
Per grepping to see if 6d157e7cb's mistake was repeated elsewhere.
psql, pg_dump, and pg_amcheck share code to process object name
patterns like 'foo*.bar*' to match all tables with names starting in
'bar' that are in schemas starting with 'foo'. Before v14, any number
of extra name parts were silently ignored, so a command line '\d
foo.bar.baz.bletch.quux' was interpreted as '\d bletch.quux'. In v14,
as a result of commit 2c8726c4b0, we
instead treated this as a request for table quux in a schema named
'foo.bar.baz.bletch'. That caused problems for people like Justin
Pryzby who were accustomed to copying strings of the form
db.schema.table from messages generated by PostgreSQL itself and using
them as arguments to \d.
Accordingly, revise things so that if an object name pattern contains
more parts than we're expecting, we throw an error, unless there's
exactly one extra part and it matches the current database name.
That way, thisdb.myschema.mytable is accepted as meaning just
myschema.mytable, but otherdb.myschema.mytable is an error, and so
is some.random.garbage.myschema.mytable.
Mark Dilger, per report from Justin Pryzby and discussion among
various people.
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20211013165426.GD27491%40telsasoft.com
Get rid of the separate "FATAL" log level, as it was applied
so inconsistently as to be meaningless. This mostly involves
s/pg_log_fatal/pg_log_error/g.
Create a macro pg_fatal() to handle the common use-case of
pg_log_error() immediately followed by exit(1). Various
modules had already invented either this or equivalent macros;
standardize on pg_fatal() and apply it where possible.
Invent the ability to add "detail" and "hint" messages to a
frontend message, much as we have long had in the backend.
Except where rewording was needed to convert existing coding
to detail/hint style, I have (mostly) resisted the temptation
to change existing message wording.
Patch by me. Design and patch reviewed at various stages by
Robert Haas, Kyotaro Horiguchi, Peter Eisentraut and
Daniel Gustafsson.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1363732.1636496441@sss.pgh.pa.us
The previous method for doing that was to write zeroes into a
predetermined set of page locations. However, there's a roughly
1-in-64K chance that the existing checksum will match by chance,
and yesterday several buildfarm animals started to reproducibly
see that, resulting in test failures because no checksum mismatch
was reported.
Since the checksum includes the page LSN, test success depends on
the length of the installation's WAL history, which is affected by
(at least) the initial catalog contents, the set of locales installed
on the system, and the length of the pathname of the test directory.
Sooner or later we were going to hit a chance match, and today is
that day.
Harden these tests by specifically inverting the checksum field and
leaving all else alone, thereby guaranteeing that the checksum is
incorrect.
In passing, fix places that were using seek() to set up for syswrite(),
a combination that the Perl docs very explicitly warn against. We've
probably escaped problems because no regular buffered I/O is done on
these filehandles; but if it ever breaks, we wouldn't deserve or get
much sympathy.
Although we've only seen problems in HEAD, now that we recognize the
environmental dependencies it seems like it might be just a matter
of time until someone manages to hit this in back-branch testing.
Hence, back-patch to v11 where we started doing this kind of test.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3192026.1648185780@sss.pgh.pa.us
Rather than doing manual book keeping to plan the number of tests to run
in each TAP suite, conclude each run with done_testing() summing up the
the number of tests that ran. This removes the need for maintaning and
updating the plan count at the expense of an accurate count of remaining
during the test suite runtime.
This patch has been discussed a number of times, often in the context of
other patches which updates tests, so a larger number of discussions can
be found in the archives.
Reviewed-by: Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <ilmari@ilmari.org>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/DD399313-3D56-4666-8079-88949DAC870F@yesql.se
Expand the checks of toasted attributes to complain if the rawsize is
overlarge. For compressed attributes, also complain if compression
appears to have expanded the attribute or if the compression method is
invalid.
Mark Dilger, reviewed by Justin Pryzby, Alexander Alekseev, Heikki
Linnakangas, Greg Stark, and me.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/8E42250D-586A-4A27-B317-8B062C3816A8@enterprisedb.com
Rearrange src/test/perl/README so that the first section is more
clearly "how to run these tests", and the rest "how to write new
tests". Add some basic info there about debugging test failures.
Then, add cross-refs to that READNE from other READMEs that
describe how to run TAP tests.
Per suggestion from Kevin Burke, though this is not his original
patch.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKcy5eiSbwiQnmCfnOnDCVC7B8fYyev3E=6pvvECP9pLE-Fcuw@mail.gmail.com
The five modules in our TAP test framework all had names in the top
level namespace. This is unwise because, even though we're not
exporting them to CPAN, the names can leak, for example if they are
exported by the RPM build process. We therefore move the modules to the
PostgreSQL::Test namespace. In the process PostgresNode is renamed to
Cluster, and TestLib is renamed to Utils. PostgresVersion becomes simply
PostgreSQL::Version, to avoid possible confusion about what it's the
version of.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/aede93a4-7d92-ef26-398f-5094944c2504@dunslane.net
Reviewed by Erik Rijkers and Michael Paquier
Avoid calling contrib/amcheck functions with relations that are
unsuitable for checking. Specifically, don't attempt verification of
temporary relations, or indexes whose pg_index entry indicates that the
index is invalid, or not ready.
These relations are not supported by any of the contrib/amcheck
functions, for reasons that are pretty fundamental. For example, the
implementation of REINDEX CONCURRENTLY can add its own "transient"
pg_index entries, which has rather unclear implications for the B-Tree
verification functions, at least in the general case -- so they just
treat it as an error. It falls to the amcheck caller (in this case
pg_amcheck) to deal with the situation at a higher level.
pg_amcheck now simply treats these conditions as additional "visibility
concerns" when it queries system catalogs. This is a little arbitrary.
It seems to have the least problems among any of the available
alternatives.
Author: Mark Dilger <mark.dilger@enterprisedb.com>
Reported-By: Alexander Lakhin <exclusion@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Reviewed-By: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Bug: #17212
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17212-34dd4a1d6bba98bf@postgresql.org
Backpatch: 14-, where pg_amcheck was introduced.
Sequences were left out of the list of relation kinds that
verify_heapam knew how to check, though it is fairly trivial to allow
them. Doing that, and while at it, updating pg_amcheck to include
sequences in relations matched by table and relation patterns.
Author: Mark Dilger <mark.dilger@enterprisedb.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/81ad4757-92c1-4aa3-7bee-f609544837e3%40enterprisedb.com
Also remove obsolete comments about why the 64-bit integers need to be
printed in a separate buffer. The reason used to be portability, but
now the remaining reason is that we need the string lengths for the
progress displays. That is evident by looking at the code right
below, so a new comment doesn't seem necessary.
Using --quiet in combination with --no-strict-names didn't work as
documented, a warning message was still emitted. Since the --quiet
flag was working in an unconventional way to other utilities, fix
by removing the functionality instead.
Backpatch through 14 where pg_amcheck was introduced.
Bug: 17148
Reported-by: Chen Jiaoqian <chenjq.jy@fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17148-b5087318e2b04fc6@postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 14
The skip options set for all-visible and all-frozen were incorrect
as they used space rather than hyphen, causing a syntax error when
invoked. Also, the option for not skipping any pages at all, none,
was documented but not implemented.
Backpatch through 14 where pg_amcheck was introduced.
Bug: #17149
Reported-by: Chen Jiaoqian <chenjq.jy@fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17149-5918ea748da36b15@postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 14
There is only one constructor now for PostgresNode, with the idiomatic
name 'new'. The method is not exported by the class, and must be called
as "PostgresNode->new('name',[args])". All the TAP tests that use
PostgresNode are modified accordingly. Third party scripts will need
adjusting, which is a fairly mechanical process (I just used a sed
script).
Peter Eisentraut
Bruce Momjian
Alexander Korotkov
Andres Freund
Tom Lane
David Rowley
Robert Haas
Andrew Dunstan
Peter Geoghegan
Daniel Gustafsson