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
Instead of connecting to the server with psql to check if it is ready
for running tests, this changes pg_regress to use PQPing which avoids
performing system() calls which are expensive on some platforms, like
Windows. The frequency of tests is also increased in order to connect
to the server faster.
This patch is part of a larger effort to make testing consume fewer
resources in order to be able to fit more tests into the available
CI system constraints.
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230823192239.jxew5s3sjru63lio@awork3.anarazel.de
Move DLSUFFIX from makefiles into header files for all platforms.
Move the DLSUFFIX assignment from src/makefiles/ to src/templates/,
have configure read it, and then substitute it into Makefile.global
and pg_config.h. This avoids the need for all makefile rules that
need it to locally set CPPFLAGS. It also resolves an inconsistent
setup between the two Windows build systems.
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/2f9861fb-8969-9005-7518-b8e60f2bead9@enterprisedb.com
Since this test schedule is not run by default, it's next door to
unused. Moreover, its test coverage is very thin, and what there is
is just about entirely superseded by the src/test/recovery tests.
Let's drop it instead of carrying obsolete tests.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3911012.1641246643@sss.pgh.pa.us
Remove the machinery from pg_regress that manages the testtablespace
directory. Instead, use "in-place" tablespaces, because they work
correctly when there is a streaming replica running on the same host.
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGKpRWQ9SxdxxDmTBCJoR0YnFpMBe7kyzY8SUQk%2BHeskxg%40mail.gmail.com
"git mv" all the input/*.source and output/*.source files into
the corresponding sql/ and expected/ directories. Then remove
the pg_regress and Makefile infrastructure associated with
dynamic translation.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1655733.1639871614@sss.pgh.pa.us
Recently we refactored things so that pg_regress makes the
"testtablespace" subdirectory used by the core regression tests,
instead of doing that in the makefiles. That had the undesirable
side effect of making such a subdirectory in every directory that
has "input" or "output" test files. Since these subdirectories
remain empty, git doesn't complain about them, but nonetheless
they're clutter.
To fix, invent an explicit --make-testtablespace-dir switch,
so that pg_regress only makes the subdirectory when explicitly
told to.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2854388.1621284789@sss.pgh.pa.us
Having to maintain two lists of regression test scripts has proven
annoyingly error-prone. We can achieve the effect of the
serial_schedule by running the parallel_schedule with
"--max_connections=1"; so do that and remove serial_schedule.
This causes cosmetic differences in the progress output, but it
doesn't seem worth restructuring pg_regress to avoid that.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/899209.1620759506@sss.pgh.pa.us
Moving this logic into pg_regress fixes a potential failure with
parallel tests when pg_upgrade and the main regression test suite both
trigger the makefile rule that cleaned up testtablespace/ under
src/test/regress. Even if pg_upgrade was triggering this rule, it has
no need to do so as it uses a different tablespace path. So if
pg_upgrade triggered the makefile rule for the tablespace setup while
the main regression test suite ran the tablespace cases, it would fail.
61be85a was a similar attempt at achieving that, but that broke cases
where the regression tests require to run under an Administrator
account, like with Appveyor.
Reported-by: Andres Freund, Kyotaro Horiguchi
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20201209012911.uk4d6nxcnkp7ehrx@alap3.anarazel.de
The original placement of this module in src/fe_utils/ is ill-considered,
because several src/common/ modules have dependencies on it, meaning that
libpgcommon and libpgfeutils now have mutual dependencies. That makes it
pointless to have distinct libraries at all. The intended design is that
libpgcommon is lower-level than libpgfeutils, so only dependencies from
the latter to the former are acceptable.
We already have the precedent that fe_memutils and a couple of other
modules in src/common/ are frontend-only, so it's not stretching anything
out of whack to treat logging.c as a frontend-only module in src/common/.
To the extent that such modules help provide a common frontend/backend
environment for the rest of common/ to use, it's a reasonable design.
(logging.c does not yet provide an ereport() emulation, but one can
dream.)
Hence, move these files over, and revert basically all of the build-system
changes made by commit cc8d41511. There are no places that need to grow
new dependencies on libpgcommon, further reinforcing the idea that this
is the right solution.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a912ffff-f6e4-778a-c86a-cf5c47a12933@2ndquadrant.com
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
I'd hoped that commit 3b8f6e75f was sufficient to ensure parallel safety
even when a build started in a subdirectory requires rebuilding of
generated headers. This isn't so, because making submake-generated-headers
a prerequisite of "all" isn't enough to ensure it's completed before
starting on "all"'s other prerequisites. The explicit dependencies we put
on the recursive make targets ensure safe ordering before we recurse into
child directories, but they don't protect targets to be made in the current
directory. Hence, put back some ordering dependencies in directories that
we've traditionally expected to be starting points for "standalone" builds,
to wit src/pl/plpython and src/test/regress. (The former needs this in
order to minimize the work involved in building for both python 2 and
python 3; the latter to support packagings that make the regression tests
available for out-of-build-tree execution.) Adjust some other dependencies
so that these two cases work correctly even at high -j settings.
I'm not terribly happy with this partial solution, but I don't see a
way to do better without massive makefile restructuring, which we surely
aren't doing at this point in the development cycle. In any case, it's
little if any worse than what we had in prior releases.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1523353963.8169.26.camel@gunduz.org
Commit 372728b0d created some problems for usages like building a
subdirectory without having first done "make all" at the top level,
or for proceeding directly to "make install" without "make all".
The only reasonably clean way to fix this seems to be to force the
submake-generated-headers rule to fire in *any* "make all" or "make
install" command anywhere in the tree. To avoid lots of redundant work,
as well as parallel make jobs possibly clobbering each others' output, we
still need to be sure that the rule fires only once in a recursive build.
For that, adopt the same MAKELEVEL hack previously used for "temp-install".
But try to document it a bit better.
The submake-errcodes mechanism previously used in src/port/ and src/common/
is subsumed by this, so we can get rid of those special cases. It was
inadequate for src/common/ anyway after the aforesaid commit, and it always
risked parallel attempts to build errcodes.h.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1f5FAB-0006LU-MB@gemulon.postgresql.org
Makefile.global assigns this prerequisite to every target named "check",
but similar targets must mention it explicitly. Affected targets
failed, tested $PATH binaries, or tested a stale temporary installation.
The src/test/modules examples worked properly when called as "make -C
src/test/modules/$FOO check", but "make -j" allowed the test to start
before the temporary installation was in place. Back-patch to 9.5,
where commit dcae5facca introduced the
shared temp-install.
We have a very old rule that parallel_schedule should have no more
than twenty tests in any one parallel group, so as to provide a
bound on the number of concurrently running processes needed to
pass the tests. But people keep forgetting the rule, so let's add
a few lines of code to check it.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a37e9c57-22d4-1b82-1270-4501cd2e984e@2ndquadrant.com
These tests require the test database to be in UTF8 encoding. Until
there is a better solution, take them out of the default test set and
treat them like the existing collate.linux.utf8 test, meaning it has to
be selected manually.
Add a column collprovider to pg_collation that determines which library
provides the collation data. The existing choices are default and libc,
and this adds an icu choice, which uses the ICU4C library.
The pg_locale_t type is changed to a union that contains the
provider-specific locale handles. Users of locale information are
changed to look into that struct for the appropriate handle to use.
Also add a collversion column that records the version of the collation
when it is created, and check at run time whether it is still the same.
This detects potentially incompatible library upgrades that can corrupt
indexes and other structures. This is currently only supported by
ICU-provided collations.
initdb initializes the default collation set as before from the `locale
-a` output but also adds all available ICU locales with a "-x-icu"
appended.
Currently, ICU-provided collations can only be explicitly named
collations. The global database locales are still always libc-provided.
ICU support is enabled by configure --with-icu.
Reviewed-by: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@enterprisedb.com>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Karlsson <andreas@proxel.se>
The sequence "configure; cd src/pl/plpython; make -j" failed due to
trying to compile plpython's .o files before the generated headers
finished building. (This is an important real-world case, since it's
the typical second step when building both plpython2 and plpython3.)
This happens because the submake-generated-headers target is not
placed in a way to make it a prerequisite to compiling the .o files.
Fix that.
Checking other uses of submake-generated-headers, I noted that the one
attached to pg_regress was similarly misplaced; but it's actually not
needed at all for pg_regress.o, rather regress.o, so move it to be a
prerequisite of that.
Back-patch to 9.6 where submake-generated-headers was introduced
(by commit 548af97fc). It's not immediately clear to me why the
previous coding didn't have the same issue; but since we've not
had field reports of plpython make failing, leave it alone in the
older branches.
Pavel Raiskup and Tom Lane
Discussion: <1925924.izSMJEZO3x@unused-4-107.brq.redhat.com>
As of 9.6, pg_regress doesn't build unless storage/lwlocknames.h has been
created; but there was nothing forcing that to happen if you just went into
src/test/regress/ and built there. We previously had a similar complaint
about plpython.
To fix in a way that won't break next time we invent a generated header,
make src/backend/Makefile expose a phony target for updating all the
include files it builds, and invoke that before building pg_regress or
plpython. In principle, maybe we ought to invoke that everywhere; but
it would add a lot of usually-useless make cycles, so let's just do it
in the places where people have complained.
I made a couple of cosmetic adjustments in src/backend/Makefile as well,
to deal with the generated headers in consistent orders.
Michael Paquier and Tom Lane
Report: <31398.1467036827@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Report: <20150916200959.GB32090@msg.df7cb.de>
Before, make check-world would create a new temporary installation for
each test suite, which is slow and wasteful. Instead, we now create one
test installation that is used by all test suites that are part of a
make run.
The management of the temporary installation is removed from pg_regress
and handled in the makefiles. This allows for better control, and
unifies the code with that of test suites not run through pg_regress.
review and msvc support by Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
more review by Fabien Coelho <coelho@cri.ensmp.fr>
Rather than have the core security_label regression test depend on the
dummy_seclabel module, have that part of the test be executed by
dummy_seclabel itself directly. This simplifies the testing rig a bit;
in particular it should silence the problems from the MSVC buildfarm
phylum, which haven't yet gotten taught how to install src/test/modules.
This is advance preparation for introducing even more test modules; the
easy solution is to add them to contrib, but that's bloated enough that
it seems a good time to think of something different.
Moved modules are dummy_seclabel, test_shm_mq, test_parser and
worker_spi.
(test_decoding was also a candidate, but there was too much opposition
to moving that one. We can always reconsider later.)
In support of this, have the MSVC build follow GNU make in preferring
GNUmakefile over Makefile when a directory contains both.
Michael Paquier, reviewed by MauMau.
The dependencies on the spi and dummy_seclabel contrib modules were
incomplete, because they did not pick up automatically generated
dependencies on header files. This will manifest itself especially when
switching major versions, where the contrib modules would not be
recompiled to contain the new version number, leading to regression test
failures.
To fix this, use the submake approach already in use elsewhere, so that
the contrib modules are built using their full rules.
Use a target-specific variable to add to CPPFLAGS instead of writing a
custom .c -> .o rule. This will ensure that dependency tracking is
used when enabled.
It runs the regression tests, runs pg_upgrade on the populated
database, and compares the before and after dumps. While not actually
a cross-version upgrade, this does detect omissions and bugs in the
involved tools from time to time. It's also possible to do a
cross-version upgrade by manually supplying parameters.
This adds collation support for columns and domains, a COLLATE clause
to override it per expression, and B-tree index support.
Peter Eisentraut
reviewed by Pavel Stehule, Itagaki Takahiro, Robert Haas, Noah Misch
Instead, run them in the encoding that the locale selects, which is
more representative of real use.
Also document how locale and encoding for regression test runs can be
selected.
Replace for loops in makefiles with proper dependencies. Parallel
make can now span across directories. Also, make -k and make -q work
properly.
GNU make 3.80 or newer is now required.
This is intended as infrastructure to support integration with label-based
mandatory access control systems such as SE-Linux. Further changes (mostly
hooks) will be needed, but this is a big chunk of it.
KaiGai Kohei and Robert Haas
Peter Eisentraut
Daniel Gustafsson
Bruce Momjian
Tom Lane
Thomas Munro
Michael Paquier
Andrew Dunstan
Noah Misch
Peter Eisentraut
Alvaro Herrera
Robert Haas
Magnus Hagander