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
Coverage of the query jumbling code has always relied on the queries
included in the regression tests of pg_stat_statements. This has its
limitations, as a lot of query patterns have never really stressed the
query jumbling code. The situation got a bit worse since the query
jumbling has been added in the backend core code (5fd9dfa), hence new
nodes that should be included in the jumbling could easily be missed,
resulting in failures in pg_stat_statements or any modules that require
query ID computations. Forcing a load of pg_stat_statements in
027_stream_regress.pl ensures that nodes are never missed in the
computations, without having to rely on a buildfarm member for this
check.
Before this commit, the line coverage of queryjumblefuncs.funcs.c was
around 48.5%, now up to 94.6% just by running 027_stream_regress.pl.
A basic check is added to show that pg_stat_statements reports are
generated after the main regression test suite is finished.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/Y+nD9LN70w+8eaG9@paquier.xyz
Commits 4eb21763 and b74e94dc introduced a way to force every backend to
close all relation files, to fix an ancient Windows-only bug.
This commit extends that behavior to all operating systems and adds
a couple of extra barrier points, to fix a totally different class of
bug: the reuse of relfilenodes in scenarios that have no other kind of
cache invalidation to prevent file descriptor mix-ups.
In all releases, data corruption could occur when you moved a database
to another tablespace and then back again. Despite that, no back-patch
for now as the infrastructure required is too new and invasive. In
master only, since commit aa010514, it could also happen when using
CREATE DATABASE with a user-supplied OID or via pg_upgrade.
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-by: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220209220004.kb3dgtn2x2k2gtdm%40alap3.anarazel.de
Add a new TAP test under src/test/recovery to run the standard
regression tests while a streaming replica replays the WAL. This
provides a basic workout for WAL decoding and redo code, and compares
the replicated result.
Optionally, enable (expensive) wal_consistency_checking if listed in
the env variable PG_TEST_EXTRA.
Reviewed-by: 綱川 貴之 (Takayuki Tsunakawa) <tsunakawa.takay@fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Reviewed-by: Anastasia Lubennikova <lubennikovaav@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGKpRWQ9SxdxxDmTBCJoR0YnFpMBe7kyzY8SUQk%2BHeskxg%40mail.gmail.com
The prove_installcheck recipe in src/Makefile.global.in was emitting
bogus paths for a couple of elements when used with PGXS. Here we create
a separate recipe for the PGXS case that does it correctly. We also take
the opportunity to make the make the file more readable by breaking up
the prove_installcheck and prove_check recipes across several lines, and
to remove the setting for REGRESS_SHLIB to src/test/recovery/Makefile,
which is the only set of tests that actually need it.
Backpatch to all live branches
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/f2401388-936b-f4ef-a07c-a0bcc49b3300@dunslane.net
If contrib/pageinspect is not installed, this causes the test checking
the minimum recovery point to fail. The point is that the dependency
with pageinspect is not really necessary as the test does also all
checks with an offline cluster by scanning directly the on-disk pages,
which is enough for the purpose of the test.
Per complaint from Tom Lane.
Author: Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17806.1555566345@sss.pgh.pa.us
c186ba13 has fixed an issue related to the updates of the minimum
recovery LSN across multiple processes on standbys, but we never really
had a test case able to reliably check its logic.
This commit introduces a new test case to close the gap, and is designed
to check the consistency of data based on the minimum recovery point set
by either the startup process or the checkpointer for both an offline
cluster (by looking at the on-disk page headers) and an online cluster
(using pageinspect).
Note that with c186ba13 reverted, this test fails badly for both the
online and offline cases, as designed.
Author: Michael Paquier, Andrew Gierth
Reviewed-by: Andrew Gierth, Georgios Kokolatos, Arthur Zakirov
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20181108044525.GA17482@paquier.xyz
Uses page-based mechanism to ensure we’re using the correct timeline.
Tests are included to exercise the functionality using a cold disk-level copy
of the master that's started up as a replica with slots intact, but the
intended use of the functionality is with later features.
Craig Ringer, reviewed by Simon Riggs and Andres Freund
When pg_logical_slot_get_changes(...) sets confirmed_flush_lsn to the point at
which replay stopped, it doesn't dirty the replication slot. So if the replay
didn't cause restart_lsn or catalog_xmin to change as well, this change will
not get written out to disk. Even on a clean shutdown.
If Pg crashes or restarts, a subsequent pg_logical_slot_get_changes(...) call
will see the same changes already replayed since it uses the slot's
confirmed_flush_lsn as the start point for fetching changes. The caller can't
specify a start LSN when using the SQL interface.
Mark the slot as dirty after reading changes using the SQL interface so that
users won't see repeated changes after a clean shutdown. Repeated changes still
occur when using the walsender interface or after an unclean shutdown.
Craig Ringer
This reverts commits f07d18b6e9, 82c83b3372, 3a3b309041, and
24c5f1a103.
This feature has shown enough immaturity that it was deemed better to
rip it out before rushing some more fixes at the last minute. There are
discussions on larger changes in this area for the next release.
When decoding from a logical slot, it's necessary for xlog reading to be
able to read xlog from historical (i.e. not current) timelines;
otherwise, decoding fails after failover, because the archives are in
the historical timeline. This is required to make "failover logical
slots" possible; it currently has no other use, although theoretically
it could be used by an extension that creates a slot on a standby and
continues to replay from the slot when the standby is promoted.
This commit includes a module in src/test/modules with functions to
manipulate the slots (which is not otherwise possible in SQL code) in
order to enable testing, and a new test in src/test/recovery to ensure
that the behavior is as expected.
Author: Craig Ringer
Reviewed-By: Oleksii Kliukin, Andres Freund, Petr Jelínek
Peter Eisentraut
Michael Paquier
Bruce Momjian
Thomas Munro
Andrew Dunstan
Peter Eisentraut
Robert Haas
Simon Riggs
Alvaro Herrera