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Bruce Momjian 9af4159fce pgindent run for release 9.3
This is the first run of the Perl-based pgindent script.  Also update
pgindent instructions.
2013-05-29 16:58:43 -04:00
Tom Lane ce9ab88981 Make REPLICATION privilege checks test current user not authenticated user.
The pg_start_backup() and pg_stop_backup() functions checked the privileges
of the initially-authenticated user rather than the current user, which is
wrong.  For example, a user-defined index function could successfully call
these functions when executed by ANALYZE within autovacuum.  This could
allow an attacker with valid but low-privilege database access to interfere
with creation of routine backups.  Reported and fixed by Noah Misch.

Security: CVE-2013-1901
2013-04-01 13:09:24 -04:00
Simon Riggs 593c39d156 Revoke bc5334d867 2013-03-28 09:18:02 +00:00
Simon Riggs bc5334d867 Allow external recovery_config_directory
If required, recovery.conf can now be located outside of the data directory.
Server needs read/write permissions on this directory.
2013-03-27 11:45:42 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera dfbba2c86c Make sure MaxBackends is always set
Auxiliary and bootstrap processes weren't getting it, causing initdb to
fail completely.
2013-01-02 14:39:11 -03:00
Bruce Momjian bd61a623ac Update copyrights for 2013
Fully update git head, and update back branches in ./COPYRIGHT and
legal.sgml files.
2013-01-01 17:15:01 -05:00
Alvaro Herrera da07a1e856 Background worker processes
Background workers are postmaster subprocesses that run arbitrary
user-specified code.  They can request shared memory access as well as
backend database connections; or they can just use plain libpq frontend
database connections.

Modules listed in shared_preload_libraries can register background
workers in their _PG_init() function; this is early enough that it's not
necessary to provide an extra GUC option, because the necessary extra
resources can be allocated early on.  Modules can install more than one
bgworker, if necessary.

Care is taken that these extra processes do not interfere with other
postmaster tasks: only one such process is started on each ServerLoop
iteration.  This means a large number of them could be waiting to be
started up and postmaster is still able to quickly service external
connection requests.  Also, shutdown sequence should not be impacted by
a worker process that's reasonably well behaved (i.e. promptly responds
to termination signals.)

The current implementation lets worker processes specify their start
time, i.e. at what point in the server startup process they are to be
started: right after postmaster start (in which case they mustn't ask
for shared memory access), when consistent state has been reached
(useful during recovery in a HOT standby server), or when recovery has
terminated (i.e. when normal backends are allowed).

In case of a bgworker crash, actions to take depend on registration
data: if shared memory was requested, then all other connections are
taken down (as well as other bgworkers), just like it were a regular
backend crashing.  The bgworker itself is restarted, too, within a
configurable timeframe (which can be configured to be never).

More features to add to this framework can be imagined without much
effort, and have been discussed, but this seems good enough as a useful
unit already.

An elementary sample module is supplied.

Author: Álvaro Herrera

This patch is loosely based on prior patches submitted by KaiGai Kohei,
and unsubmitted code by Simon Riggs.

Reviewed by: KaiGai Kohei, Markus Wanner, Andres Freund,
Heikki Linnakangas, Simon Riggs, Amit Kapila
2012-12-06 17:47:30 -03:00
Heikki Linnakangas ff6c78c480 Remove comment that is no longer true.
AddToDataDirLockFile() supports out-of-order updates of the lockfile
nowadays.
2012-10-15 11:03:39 +03:00
Tom Lane c9b0cbe98b Support having multiple Unix-domain sockets per postmaster.
Replace unix_socket_directory with unix_socket_directories, which is a list
of socket directories, and adjust postmaster's code to allow zero or more
Unix-domain sockets to be created.

This is mostly a straightforward change, but since the Unix sockets ought
to be created after the TCP/IP sockets for safety reasons (better chance
of detecting a port number conflict), AddToDataDirLockFile needs to be
fixed to support out-of-order updates of data directory lockfile lines.
That's a change that had been foreseen to be necessary someday anyway.

Honza Horak, reviewed and revised by Tom Lane
2012-08-10 17:27:15 -04:00
Tom Lane 4a9c30a8a1 Fix management of pendingOpsTable in auxiliary processes.
mdinit() was misusing IsBootstrapProcessingMode() to decide whether to
create an fsync pending-operations table in the current process.  This led
to creating a table not only in the startup and checkpointer processes as
intended, but also in the bgwriter process, not to mention other auxiliary
processes such as walwriter and walreceiver.  Creation of the table in the
bgwriter is fatal, because it absorbs fsync requests that should have gone
to the checkpointer; instead they just sit in bgwriter local memory and are
never acted on.  So writes performed by the bgwriter were not being fsync'd
which could result in data loss after an OS crash.  I think there is no
live bug with respect to walwriter and walreceiver because those never
perform any writes of shared buffers; but the potential is there for
future breakage in those processes too.

To fix, make AuxiliaryProcessMain() export the current process's
AuxProcType as a global variable, and then make mdinit() test directly for
the types of aux process that should have a pendingOpsTable.  Having done
that, we might as well also get rid of the random bool flags such as
am_walreceiver that some of the aux processes had grown.  (Note that we
could not have fixed the bug by examining those variables in mdinit(),
because it's called from BaseInit() which is run by AuxiliaryProcessMain()
before entering any of the process-type-specific code.)

Back-patch to 9.2, where the problem was introduced by the split-up of
bgwriter and checkpointer processes.  The bogus pendingOpsTable exists
in walwriter and walreceiver processes in earlier branches, but absent
any evidence that it causes actual problems there, I'll leave the older
branches alone.
2012-07-18 15:28:10 -04:00
Heikki Linnakangas ef3883d130 Do stack-depth checking in all postmaster children.
We used to only initialize the stack base pointer when starting up a regular
backend, not in other processes. In particular, autovacuum workers can run
arbitrary user code, and without stack-depth checking, infinite recursion
in e.g an index expression will bring down the whole cluster.

The comment about PL/Java using set_stack_base() is not yet true. As the
code stands, PL/java still modifies the stack_base_ptr variable directly.
However, it's been discussed in the PL/Java mailing list that it should be
changed to use the function, because PL/Java is currently oblivious to the
register stack used on Itanium. There's another issues with PL/Java, namely
that the stack base pointer it sets is not really the base of the stack, it
could be something close to the bottom of the stack. That's a separate issue
that might need some further changes to this code, but that's a different
story.

Backpatch to all supported releases.
2012-04-08 19:07:55 +03:00
Bruce Momjian e126958c2e Update copyright notices for year 2012. 2012-01-01 18:01:58 -05:00
Heikki Linnakangas 5d8a894e30 Cancel running query if it is detected that the connection to the client is
lost. The only way we detect that at the moment is when write() fails when
we try to write to the socket.

Florian Pflug with small changes by me, reviewed by Greg Jaskiewicz.
2011-12-09 14:21:36 +02:00
Alvaro Herrera 9d3b502443 Improve logging of autovacuum I/O activity
This adds some I/O stats to the logging of autovacuum (when the
operation takes long enough that log_autovacuum_min_duration causes it
to be logged), so that it is easier to tune.  Notably, it adds buffer
I/O counts (hits, misses, dirtied) and read and write rate.

Authors: Greg Smith and Noah Misch
2011-11-25 16:34:32 -03:00
Bruce Momjian 76dd09bbec Add postmaster/postgres undocumented -b option for binary upgrades.
This option turns off autovacuum, prevents non-super-user connections,
and enables oid setting hooks in the backend.  The code continues to use
the old autoavacuum disable settings for servers with earlier catalog
versions.

This includes a catalog version bump to identify servers that support
the -b option.
2011-04-25 12:00:21 -04:00
Tom Lane 52948169bc Code review for postmaster.pid contents changes.
Fix broken test for pre-existing postmaster, caused by wrong code for
appending lines to the lockfile; don't write a failed listen_address
setting into the lockfile; don't arbitrarily change the location of the
data directory in the lockfile compared to previous releases; provide more
consistent and useful definitions of the socket path and listen_address
entries; avoid assuming that pg_ctl has the same DEFAULT_PGSOCKET_DIR as
the postmaster; assorted code style improvements.
2011-01-13 19:01:28 -05:00
Bruce Momjian 5d950e3b0c Stamp copyrights for year 2011. 2011-01-01 13:18:15 -05:00
Bruce Momjian 30aeda4394 Include the first valid listen address in pg_ctl to improve server start
"wait" detection and add postmaster start time to help determine if the
postmaster is actually using the specified data directory.
2010-12-31 17:25:02 -05:00
Magnus Hagander 9b8aff8c19 Add REPLICATION privilege for ROLEs
This privilege is required to do Streaming Replication, instead of
superuser, making it possible to set up a SR slave that doesn't
have write permissions on the master.

Superuser privileges do NOT override this check, so in order to
use the default superuser account for replication it must be
explicitly granted the REPLICATION permissions. This is backwards
incompatible change, in the interest of higher default security.
2010-12-29 11:05:03 +01:00
Magnus Hagander 9f2e211386 Remove cvs keywords from all files. 2010-09-20 22:08:53 +02:00
Tom Lane 78e8f0025e Clean up some randomness associated with trace_recovery_messages: don't
put the variable declaration in the middle of a bunch of externs,
and do use extern where it should be used.
2010-06-17 17:44:40 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 65e806cba1 pgindent run for 9.0 2010-02-26 02:01:40 +00:00
Tom Lane 05d8a561ff Clean up handling of XactReadOnly and RecoveryInProgress checks.
Add some checks that seem logically necessary, in particular let's make
real sure that HS slave sessions cannot create temp tables.  (If they did
they would think that temp tables belonging to the master's session with
the same BackendId were theirs.  We *must* not allow myTempNamespace to
become set in a slave session.)

Change setval() and nextval() so that they are only allowed on temp sequences
in a read-only transaction.  This seems consistent with what we allow for
table modifications in read-only transactions.  Since an HS slave can't have a
temp sequence, this also provides a nicer cure for the setval PANIC reported
by Erik Rijkers.

Make the error messages more uniform, and have them mention the specific
command being complained of.  This seems worth the trifling amount of extra
code, since people are likely to see such messages a lot more than before.
2010-02-20 21:24:02 +00:00
Tom Lane b9b8831ad6 Create a "relation mapping" infrastructure to support changing the relfilenodes
of shared or nailed system catalogs.  This has two key benefits:

* The new CLUSTER-based VACUUM FULL can be applied safely to all catalogs.

* We no longer have to use an unsafe reindex-in-place approach for reindexing
  shared catalogs.

CLUSTER on nailed catalogs now works too, although I left it disabled on
shared catalogs because the resulting pg_index.indisclustered update would
only be visible in one database.

Since reindexing shared system catalogs is now fully transactional and
crash-safe, the former special cases in REINDEX behavior have been removed;
shared catalogs are treated the same as non-shared.

This commit does not do anything about the recently-discussed problem of
deadlocks between VACUUM FULL/CLUSTER on a system catalog and other
concurrent queries; will address that in a separate patch.  As a stopgap,
parallel_schedule has been tweaked to run vacuum.sql by itself, to avoid
such failures during the regression tests.
2010-02-07 20:48:13 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 0239800893 Update copyright for the year 2010. 2010-01-02 16:58:17 +00:00
Simon Riggs efc16ea520 Allow read only connections during recovery, known as Hot Standby.
Enabled by recovery_connections = on (default) and forcing archive recovery using a recovery.conf. Recovery processing now emulates the original transactions as they are replayed, providing full locking and MVCC behaviour for read only queries. Recovery must enter consistent state before connections are allowed, so there is a delay, typically short, before connections succeed. Replay of recovering transactions can conflict and in some cases deadlock with queries during recovery; these result in query cancellation after max_standby_delay seconds have expired. Infrastructure changes have minor effects on normal running, though introduce four new types of WAL record.

New test mode "make standbycheck" allows regression tests of static command behaviour on a standby server while in recovery. Typical and extreme dynamic behaviours have been checked via code inspection and manual testing. Few port specific behaviours have been utilised, though primary testing has been on Linux only so far.

This commit is the basic patch. Additional changes will follow in this release to enhance some aspects of behaviour, notably improved handling of conflicts, deadlock detection and query cancellation. Changes to VACUUM FULL are also required.

Simon Riggs, with significant and lengthy review by Heikki Linnakangas, including streamlined redesign of snapshot creation and two-phase commit.

Important contributions from Florian Pflug, Mark Kirkwood, Merlin Moncure, Greg Stark, Gianni Ciolli, Gabriele Bartolini, Hannu Krosing, Robert Haas, Tatsuo Ishii, Hiroyuki Yamada plus support and feedback from many other community members.
2009-12-19 01:32:45 +00:00
Tom Lane 62aba76568 Prevent indirect security attacks via changing session-local state within
an allegedly immutable index function.  It was previously recognized that
we had to prevent such a function from executing SET/RESET ROLE/SESSION
AUTHORIZATION, or it could trivially obtain the privileges of the session
user.  However, since there is in general no privilege checking for changes
of session-local state, it is also possible for such a function to change
settings in a way that might subvert later operations in the same session.
Examples include changing search_path to cause an unexpected function to
be called, or replacing an existing prepared statement with another one
that will execute a function of the attacker's choosing.

The present patch secures VACUUM, ANALYZE, and CREATE INDEX/REINDEX against
these threats, which are the same places previously deemed to need protection
against the SET ROLE issue.  GUC changes are still allowed, since there are
many useful cases for that, but we prevent security problems by forcing a
rollback of any GUC change after completing the operation.  Other cases are
handled by throwing an error if any change is attempted; these include temp
table creation, closing a cursor, and creating or deleting a prepared
statement.  (In 7.4, the infrastructure to roll back GUC changes doesn't
exist, so we settle for rejecting changes of "search_path" in these contexts.)

Original report and patch by Gurjeet Singh, additional analysis by
Tom Lane.

Security: CVE-2009-4136
2009-12-09 21:57:51 +00:00
Tom Lane 0905e8aeeb Move processing of startup-packet switches and GUC settings into InitPostgres,
to fix the problem that SetClientEncoding needs to be done before
InitializeClientEncoding, as reported by Zdenek Kotala.  We get at least
the small consolation of being able to remove the bizarre API detail that
had InitPostgres returning whether user is a superuser.
2009-09-01 00:09:42 +00:00
Tom Lane e710b65c1c Remove the use of the pg_auth flat file for client authentication.
(That flat file is now completely useless, but removal will come later.)

To do this, postpone client authentication into the startup transaction
that's run by InitPostgres.  We still collect the startup packet and do
SSL initialization (if needed) at the same time we did before.  The
AuthenticationTimeout is applied separately to startup packet collection
and the actual authentication cycle.  (This is a bit annoying, since it
means a couple extra syscalls; but the signal handling requirements inside
and outside a transaction are sufficiently different that it seems best
to treat the timeouts as completely independent.)

A small security disadvantage is that if the given database name is invalid,
this will be reported to the client before any authentication happens.
We could work around that by connecting to database "postgres" instead,
but consensus seems to be that it's not worth introducing such surprising
behavior.

Processing of all command-line switches and GUC options received from the
client is now postponed until after authentication.  This means that
PostAuthDelay is much less useful than it used to be --- if you need to
investigate problems during InitPostgres you'll have to set PreAuthDelay
instead.  However, allowing an unauthenticated user to set any GUC options
whatever seems a bit too risky, so we'll live with that.
2009-08-29 19:26:52 +00:00
Tom Lane 04011cc970 Allow backends to start up without use of the flat-file copy of pg_database.
To make this work in the base case, pg_database now has a nailed-in-cache
relation descriptor that is initialized using hardwired knowledge in
relcache.c.  This means pg_database is added to the set of relations that
need to have a Schema_pg_xxx macro maintained in pg_attribute.h.  When this
path is taken, we'll have to do a seqscan of pg_database to find the row
we need.

In the normal case, we are able to do an indexscan to find the database's row
by name.  This is made possible by storing a global relcache init file that
describes only the shared catalogs and their indexes (and therefore is usable
by all backends in any database).  A new backend loads this cache file,
finds its database OID after an indexscan on pg_database, and then loads
the local relcache init file for that database.

This change should effectively eliminate number of databases as a factor
in backend startup time, even with large numbers of databases.  However,
the real reason for doing it is as a first step towards getting rid of
the flat files altogether.  There are still several other sub-projects
to be tackled before that can happen.
2009-08-12 20:53:31 +00:00
Bruce Momjian d747140279 8.4 pgindent run, with new combined Linux/FreeBSD/MinGW typedef list
provided by Andrew.
2009-06-11 14:49:15 +00:00
Tom Lane 969d7cd431 Install a "dead man switch" to allow the postmaster to detect cases where
a backend has done exit(0) or exit(1) without having disengaged itself
from shared memory.  We are at risk for this whenever third-party code is
loaded into a backend, since such code might not know it's supposed to go
through proc_exit() instead.  Also, it is reported that under Windows
there are ways to externally kill a process that cause the status code
returned to the postmaster to be indistinguishable from a voluntary exit
(thank you, Microsoft).  If this does happen then the system is probably
hosed --- for instance, the dead session might still be holding locks.
So the best recovery method is to treat this like a backend crash.

The dead man switch is armed for a particular child process when it
acquires a regular PGPROC, and disarmed when the PGPROC is released;
these should be the first and last touches of shared memory resources
in a backend, or close enough anyway.  This choice means there is no
coverage for auxiliary processes, but I doubt we need that, since they
shouldn't be executing any user-provided code anyway.

This patch also improves the management of the EXEC_BACKEND
ShmemBackendArray array a bit, by reducing search costs.

Although this problem is of long standing, the lack of field complaints
seems to mean it's not critical enough to risk back-patching; at least
not till we get some more testing of this mechanism.
2009-05-05 19:59:00 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera 901d419e31 Export IsUnderPostmaster on win32.
ITAGAKI Takahiro
2009-01-05 02:27:45 +00:00
Tom Lane 4605d1c98b Allow loadable modules to create PGC_POSTMASTER GUC variables, but only
when loaded via shared_preload_libraries.  Needed for support of
pg_stat_statements, or pretty much anything else that wants a GUC to
control size of a shared memory allocation.
2009-01-03 20:03:08 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 511db38ace Update copyright for 2009. 2009-01-01 17:24:05 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 218b4e8dd8 Append major version number and for libraries soname major version number
to the gettext domain name, to simplify parallel installations.

Also, rename set_text_domain() to pg_bindtextdomain(), because that is what
it does.
2008-12-11 07:34:09 +00:00
Tom Lane a4917bef0e Add support for input and output of interval values formatted per ISO 8601;
specifically, we can input either the "format with designators" or the
"alternative format", and we can output the former when IntervalStyle is set
to iso_8601.

Ron Mayer
2008-11-11 02:42:33 +00:00
Tom Lane df7641e25a Add a new GUC variable called "IntervalStyle" that decouples interval output
from DateStyle, and create a new interval style that produces output matching
the SQL standard (at least for interval values that fall within the standard's
restrictions).  IntervalStyle is also used to resolve the conflict between the
standard and traditional Postgres rules for interpreting negative interval
input.

Ron Mayer
2008-11-09 00:28:35 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera 2532c54d82 Improve translatability of error messages for external modules by tweaking
the ereport macro.  Included in this commit are enough files for starting
plpgsql, plpython, plperl and pltcl translations.
2008-10-09 17:24:05 +00:00
Magnus Hagander c979a1fefa Prevent shutdown in normal mode if online backup is running, and
have pg_ctl warn about this.

Cancel running online backups (by renaming the backup_label file,
thus rendering the backup useless) when shutting down in fast mode.

Laurenz Albe
2008-04-23 13:44:59 +00:00
Tom Lane 870993e871 Rename miscadmin.h's PG_VERSIONSTR macro to PG_BACKEND_VERSIONSTR to
make it a bit clearer what it is, and get rid of duplicate definitions
in initdb and pg_ctl.
2008-02-20 22:46:24 +00:00
Tom Lane cd00406774 Replace time_t with pg_time_t (same values, but always int64) in on-disk
data structures and backend internal APIs.  This solves problems we've seen
recently with inconsistent layout of pg_control between machines that have
32-bit time_t and those that have already migrated to 64-bit time_t.  Also,
we can get out from under the problem that Windows' Unix-API emulation is not
consistent about the width of time_t.

There are a few remaining places where local time_t variables are used to hold
the current or recent result of time(NULL).  I didn't bother changing these
since they do not affect any cross-module APIs and surely all platforms will
have 64-bit time_t before overflow becomes an actual risk.  time_t should
be avoided for anything visible to extension modules, however.
2008-02-17 02:09:32 +00:00
Tom Lane eedb068c0a Make standard maintenance operations (including VACUUM, ANALYZE, REINDEX,
and CLUSTER) execute as the table owner rather than the calling user, using
the same privilege-switching mechanism already used for SECURITY DEFINER
functions.  The purpose of this change is to ensure that user-defined
functions used in index definitions cannot acquire the privileges of a
superuser account that is performing routine maintenance.  While a function
used in an index is supposed to be IMMUTABLE and thus not able to do anything
very interesting, there are several easy ways around that restriction; and
even if we could plug them all, there would remain a risk of reading sensitive
information and broadcasting it through a covert channel such as CPU usage.

To prevent bypassing this security measure, execution of SET SESSION
AUTHORIZATION and SET ROLE is now forbidden within a SECURITY DEFINER context.

Thanks to Itagaki Takahiro for reporting this vulnerability.

Security: CVE-2007-6600
2008-01-03 21:23:15 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 9098ab9e32 Update copyrights in source tree to 2008. 2008-01-01 19:46:01 +00:00
Bruce Momjian fdf5a5efb7 pgindent run for 8.3. 2007-11-15 21:14:46 +00:00
Andrew Dunstan 63872601e8 Move session_start out of MyProcPort stucture and make it a global called MyStartTime,
so that we will be able to create a cookie for all processes for CSVlogs.
It is set wherever MyProcPid is set. Take the opportunity to remove the now
unnecessary session-only restriction on the %s and %c escapes in log_line_prefix.
2007-08-02 23:39:45 +00:00
Magnus Hagander 906b2e1b37 Rename DLLIMPORT macro to PGDLLIMPORT to avoid conflict with
third party includes (like tcl) that define DLLIMPORT.
2007-07-25 12:22:54 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera e2a186b03c Add a multi-worker capability to autovacuum. This allows multiple worker
processes to be running simultaneously.  Also, now autovacuum processes do not
count towards the max_connections limit; they are counted separately from
regular processes, and are limited by the new GUC variable
autovacuum_max_workers.

The launcher now has intelligence to launch workers on each database every
autovacuum_naptime seconds, limited only on the max amount of worker slots
available.

Also, the global worker I/O utilization is limited by the vacuum cost-based
delay feature.  Workers are "balanced" so that the total I/O consumption does
not exceed the established limit.  This part of the patch was contributed by
ITAGAKI Takahiro.

Per discussion.
2007-04-16 18:30:04 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 7b76bfbe18 Fix date/time formats for XML Schema output.
Pavel Stehule
2007-03-01 14:52:04 +00:00
Alvaro Herrera 1820650934 Restructure autovacuum in two processes: a dummy process, which runs
continuously, and requests vacuum runs of "autovacuum workers" to postmaster.
The workers do the actual vacuum work.  This allows for future improvements,
like allowing multiple autovacuum jobs running in parallel.

For now, the code keeps the original behavior of having a single autovac
process at any time by sleeping until the previous worker has finished.
2007-02-15 23:23:23 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 29dccf5fe0 Update CVS HEAD for 2007 copyright. Back branches are typically not
back-stamped for this.
2007-01-05 22:20:05 +00:00
Tom Lane def651f48f Clean up local redeclarations of variables with DLLIMPORT, per report
from Magnus that MSVC complains about this.
2006-10-19 18:32:48 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 6dc920de59 sslinfo contrib module - information about current SSL certificate
Author: Victor Wagner <vitus@cryptocom.ru>
2006-09-04 15:07:46 +00:00
Tom Lane abc3120e9b Add server support for "plugin" libraries that can be used for add-on tasks
such as debugging and performance measurement.  This consists of two features:
a table of "rendezvous variables" that allows separately-loaded shared
libraries to communicate, and a new GUC setting "local_preload_libraries"
that allows libraries to be loaded into specific sessions without explicit
cooperation from the client application.  To make local_preload_libraries
as flexible as possible, we do not restrict its use to superusers; instead,
it is restricted to load only libraries stored in $libdir/plugins/.  The
existing LOAD command has also been modified to allow non-superusers to
LOAD libraries stored in this directory.

This patch also renames the existing GUC variable preload_libraries to
shared_preload_libraries (after a suggestion by Simon Riggs) and does some
code refactoring in dfmgr.c to improve clarity.

Korry Douglas, with a little help from Tom Lane.
2006-08-15 18:26:59 +00:00
Tom Lane b09bfcaa57 Add a feature for automatic initialization and finalization of dynamically
loaded libraries: call functions _PG_init() and _PG_fini() if the library
defines such symbols.  Hence we no longer need to specify an initialization
function in preload_libraries: we can assume that the library used the
_PG_init() convention, instead.  This removes one source of pilot error
in use of preloaded libraries.  Original patch by Ralf Engelschall,
preload_libraries changes by me.
2006-08-08 19:15:09 +00:00
Bruce Momjian f2f5b05655 Update copyright for 2006. Update scripts. 2006-03-05 15:59:11 +00:00
Peter Eisentraut 86c23a6eb2 Make all command-line options of postmaster and postgres the same. See
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-01/msg00151.php for the
complete plan.
2006-01-05 10:07:46 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 436a2956d8 Re-run pgindent, fixing a problem where comment lines after a blank
comment line where output as too long, and update typedefs for /lib
directory.  Also fix case where identifiers were used as variable names
in the backend, but as typedefs in ecpg (favor the backend for
indenting).

Backpatch to 8.1.X.
2005-11-22 18:17:34 +00:00
Tom Lane 25777f6fd3 Fix Windows setitimer() emulation to not depend on delivering an APC
to the main thread.  This allows removal of WaitForSingleObjectEx() calls
from the main thread, thereby allowing us to re-enable Qingqing Zhou's
CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS performance improvement.  Qingqing, Magnus, et al.
2005-10-25 15:15:16 +00:00
Tom Lane 4d20df3c78 Temporarily disable Qingqing's Windows signal processing patch, so that
WaitForSingleObjectEx is always called by CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS.  This
should be reinstated but the setitimer() emulation will have to be
redesigned first.
2005-10-22 17:09:48 +00:00
Tom Lane 6aad07d270 Improve performance of CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS() macro on Windows by not doing
a kernel call unless there's some evidence of a pending signal.  This should
bring its performance on Windows into line with the Unix version.  Problem
diagnosis and patch by Qingqing Zhou.  Minor stylistic tweaks by moi ...
if it's broken, it's my fault.
2005-10-21 21:43:46 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 1dc3498251 Standard pgindent run for 8.1. 2005-10-15 02:49:52 +00:00
Tom Lane f8d0a82bf9 Avoid an Assert failure if OuterUserId hasn't been set yet during
AbortTransaction.  This can happen if a backend's InitPostgres transaction
fails (eg, because the given username is invalid).  Per Alvaro.
2005-08-17 22:14:34 +00:00
Tom Lane e5d6b91220 Add SET ROLE. This is a partial commit of Stephen Frost's recent patch;
I'm still working on the has_role function and information_schema changes.
2005-07-25 22:12:34 +00:00
Tom Lane eb5949d190 Arrange for the postmaster (and standalone backends, initdb, etc) to
chdir into PGDATA and subsequently use relative paths instead of absolute
paths to access all files under PGDATA.  This seems to give a small
performance improvement, and it should make the system more robust
against naive DBAs doing things like moving a database directory that
has a live postmaster in it.  Per recent discussion.
2005-07-04 04:51:52 +00:00
Tom Lane 7762619e95 Replace pg_shadow and pg_group by new role-capable catalogs pg_authid
and pg_auth_members.  There are still many loose ends to finish in this
patch (no documentation, no regression tests, no pg_dump support for
instance).  But I'm going to commit it now anyway so that Alvaro can
make some progress on shared dependencies.  The catalog changes should
be pretty much done.
2005-06-28 05:09:14 +00:00
Tom Lane 0fc4ecf935 Finish up the flat-files project: get rid of GetRawDatabaseInfo() hack
in favor of looking at the flat file copy of pg_database during backend
startup.  This should finally eliminate the various corner cases in which
backend startup fails unexpectedly because it isn't able to distinguish
live and dead tuples in pg_database.  Simplify locking on pg_database
to be similar to the rules used with pg_shadow and pg_group, and eliminate
FlushRelationBuffers operations that were used only to reduce the odds
of failure of GetRawDatabaseInfo.
initdb forced due to addition of a trigger to pg_database.
2005-02-26 18:43:34 +00:00
PostgreSQL Daemon 2ff501590b Tag appropriate files for rc3
Also performed an initial run through of upgrading our Copyright date to
extend to 2005 ... first run here was very simple ... change everything
where: grep 1996-2004 && the word 'Copyright' ... scanned through the
generated list with 'less' first, and after, to make sure that I only
picked up the right entries ...
2004-12-31 22:04:05 +00:00
Tom Lane ea23ec82c2 Remove GUC USERLIMIT variable category, making the affected variables
plain SUSET instead.  Also delay processing of options received in
client connection request until after we know if the user is a superuser,
so that SUSET values can be set that way by legitimate superusers.
Per recent discussion.
2004-11-14 19:35:35 +00:00
Tom Lane 6e3cc2029d Fix tsearch build problems.
Magnus Hagander
2004-10-22 22:33:58 +00:00
Bruce Momjian b3fe6bcafe Remove use of "miscadmin.h" in port C files and remove test for frontend
in miscadmin.h.
2004-10-18 19:08:58 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 0060b3c8eb The attached patch fixes psql's win32 frontend-only build, by using
pg_strcasecmp in variables.c, and #ifdef'ing out PostmasterPid in
miscadmin.h.

Dave Page
2004-10-18 16:24:40 +00:00
Tom Lane 337ffcddba Adjust configuration-files GUC behavior as per my recent proposal.
The vars are renamed to data_directory, config_file, hba_file, and
ident_file, and are guaranteed to be set to accurate absolute paths
during postmaster startup.
This commit does not yet do anything about hiding path values from
non-superusers.
2004-10-09 23:13:22 +00:00
Tom Lane a1f7fb0975 Fix error in Windows version of CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS macro.
This prevented statement_timeout from working.
Magnus Hagander
2004-09-06 23:55:34 +00:00
Bruce Momjian b6b71b85bc Pgindent run for 8.0. 2004-08-29 05:07:03 +00:00
Bruce Momjian da9a8649d8 Update copyright to 2004. 2004-08-29 04:13:13 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 0307c09cf5 Rename vacuum_cost_naptime to vacuum_cost_delay, with agreement from Jan. 2004-08-06 04:15:09 +00:00
Tom Lane efcaf1e868 Some mop-up work for savepoints (nested transactions). Store a small
number of active subtransaction XIDs in each backend's PGPROC entry,
and use this to avoid expensive probes into pg_subtrans during
TransactionIdIsInProgress.  Extend EOXactCallback API to allow add-on
modules to get control at subxact start/end.  (This is deliberately
not compatible with the former API, since any uses of that API probably
need manual review anyway.)  Add basic reference documentation for
SAVEPOINT and related commands.  Minor other cleanups to check off some
of the open issues for subtransactions.
Alvaro Herrera and Tom Lane.
2004-08-01 17:32:22 +00:00
Tom Lane 2467394ee1 Tablespaces. Alternate database locations are dead, long live tablespaces.
There are various things left to do: contrib dbsize and oid2name modules
need work, and so does the documentation.  Also someone should think about
COMMENT ON TABLESPACE and maybe RENAME TABLESPACE.  Also initlocation is
dead, it just doesn't know it yet.

Gavin Sherry and Tom Lane.
2004-06-18 06:14:31 +00:00
Tom Lane 076a055acf Separate out bgwriter code into a logically separate module, rather
than being random pieces of other files.  Give bgwriter responsibility
for all checkpoint activity (other than a post-recovery checkpoint);
so this child process absorbs the functionality of the former transient
checkpoint and shutdown subprocesses.  While at it, create an actual
include file for postmaster.c, which for some reason never had its own
file before.
2004-05-29 22:48:23 +00:00
Tom Lane 1a321f26d8 Code review for EXEC_BACKEND changes. Reduce the number of #ifdefs by
about a third, make it work on non-Windows platforms again.  (But perhaps
I broke the WIN32 code, since I have no way to test that.)  Fold all the
paths that fork postmaster child processes to go through the single
routine SubPostmasterMain, which takes care of resurrecting the state that
would normally be inherited from the postmaster (including GUC variables).
Clean up some places where there's no particularly good reason for the
EXEC and non-EXEC cases to work differently.  Take care of one or two
FIXMEs that remained in the code.
2004-05-28 05:13:32 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 3b382d1ae3 Clean up some relative path install issues with Claudio's help. 2004-05-18 03:36:45 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 3febb477e6 Reorganize code to allow path-relative installs.
Create new get_* functions to access compiled-in paths and adjust if
relative installs are to be used.

Clean up substitute_libpath_macro() code.
2004-05-17 14:35:34 +00:00
Bruce Momjian f69ecb4f8c Reorganize backend code to more cleanly manage executable names and
backend startup.
2004-05-13 22:45:04 +00:00
Bruce Momjian fda15b351a As part of the work for making relocatable installs, I have re-factored
all the code that looks for other binaries.  I move FindExec into
port/exec.c (and renamed it to find_my_binary()).  I also added
find_other_binary that looks for another binary in the same directory as
the calling program, and checks the version string.

The only behavior change was that initdb and pg_dump would look in the
hard-coded bindir directory if it can't find the requested binary in the
same directory as the caller.  The new code throws an error.  The old
behavior seemed too error prone for version mismatches.
2004-05-11 21:57:15 +00:00
Bruce Momjian a4c40f140d Here's an attempt at new socket and signal code for win32.
It works on the principle of turning sockets into non-blocking, and then
emulate blocking behaviour on top of that, while allowing signals to
run. Signals are now implemented using an event instead of APCs, thus
getting rid of the issue of APCs not being compatible with "old style"
sockets functions.

It also moves the win32 specific code away from pqsignal.h/c into
port/win32, and also removes the "thread style workaround" of the APC
issue previously in place.

In order to make things work, a few things are also changed in pgstat.c:

1) There is now a separate pipe to the collector and the bufferer. This
is required because the pipe will otherwise only be signalled in one of
the processes when the postmaster goes down. The MS winsock code for
select() must have some kind of workaround for this behaviour, but I
have found no stable way of doing that. You really are not supposed to
use the same socket from more than one process (unless you use
WSADuplicateSocket(), in which case the docs specifically say that only
one will be flagged).

2) The check for "postmaster death" is moved into a separate select()
call after the main loop. The previous behaviour select():ed on the
postmaster pipe, while later explicitly saying "we do NOT check for
postmaster exit inside the loop".
The issue was that the code relies on the same select() call seeing both
the postmaster pipe *and* the pgstat pipe go away. This does not always
happen, and it appears that useing WSAEventSelect() makes it even more
common that it does not.
Since it's only called when the process exits, I don't think using a
separate select() call will have any significant impact on how the stats
collector works.

Magnus Hagander
2004-04-12 16:19:18 +00:00
Tom Lane 8899a2aba9 Replace max_expr_depth parameter with a max_stack_depth parameter that
is measured in kilobytes and checked against actual physical execution
stack depth, as per my proposal of 30-Dec.  This gives us a fairly
bulletproof defense against crashing due to runaway recursive functions.
2004-03-24 22:40:29 +00:00
Tom Lane 2e45c143ef Replace the virtual_host and tcpip_socket parameters with a unified
listen_addresses parameter, as per recent discussion.  The default behavior
is now to listen on localhost, which eliminates the need for the -i
postmaster switch in many scenarios.

Andrew Dunstan
2004-03-23 01:23:48 +00:00
Tom Lane 58f337a343 Centralize implementation of delay code by creating a pg_usleep()
subroutine in src/port/pgsleep.c.  Remove platform dependencies from
miscadmin.h and put them in port.h where they belong.  Extend recent
vacuum cost-based-delay patch to apply to VACUUM FULL, ANALYZE, and
non-btree index vacuuming.

By the way, where is the documentation for the cost-based-delay patch?
2004-02-10 03:42:45 +00:00
Neil Conway f06e79525a Win32 signals cleanup. Patch by Magnus Hagander, with input from Claudio
Natoli and Bruce Momjian (and some cosmetic fixes from Neil Conway).
Changes:

    - remove duplicate signal definitions from pqsignal.h

    - replace pqkill() with kill() and redefine kill() in Win32

    - use ereport() in place of fprintf() in some error handling in
      pqsignal.c

    - export pg_queue_signal() and make use of it where necessary

    - add a console control handler for Ctrl-C and similar handling
      on Win32

    - do WaitForSingleObjectEx() in CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS() on Win32;
      query cancelling should now work on Win32

    - various other fixes and cleanups
2004-02-08 22:28:57 +00:00
Jan Wieck f425b605f4 Cost based vacuum delay feature.
Jan
2004-02-06 19:36:18 +00:00
Tom Lane 391c3811a2 Rename SortMem and VacuumMem to work_mem and maintenance_work_mem.
Make btree index creation and initial validation of foreign-key constraints
use maintenance_work_mem rather than work_mem as their memory limit.
Add some code to guc.c to allow these variables to be referenced by their
old names in SHOW and SET commands, for backwards compatibility.
2004-02-03 17:34:04 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 5ee2ae2049 Remove sleep() and use single PG_SLEEP call for Win32 signal handling
and consistency.

Change PG_USLEEP to use SleepEx() for signal interuptability.
2004-01-30 15:57:04 +00:00
Bruce Momjian eec08b95e7 [all] Removed call to getppid in SendPostmasterSignal, replacing with a
PostmasterPid variable, which gets set (early) in PostmasterMain
getppid would not be the postmaster?

[fork/exec] Implements processCancelRequest by keeping an array of

pid/cancel_key structs in shared mem

[fork/exec] Moves AttachSharedMemoryAndSemaphores call for backends into
SubPostmasterMain

[win32] Implements reaper/waitpid by keeping an arrays of children
pids,handles in postmaster local mem
      - this item is largely untested, for reasons which should be
obvious, but appears sound

[win32/all] Added extern for pgpipe in Win32 case, and changed the second
pipe call (which seems to have been missed earlier) to pgpipe

[win32] #define'd ftruncate to chsize in the Win32 case

[win32] PG_USLEEP for Win32 has a misplaced paren. Fixed.

[win32] DLLIMPORT handling for MingW case


Claudio Natoli
2004-01-26 22:59:54 +00:00
Bruce Momjian ede3b762a3 Back out win32 patch so we can apply it separately. 2004-01-26 22:54:58 +00:00
Bruce Momjian f4921e5ca3 Attached is a patch that fixes some trivial typos and alignment. Please
apply.

Alvaro Herrera
2004-01-26 22:51:56 +00:00
Tom Lane bfa5304262 Remove ExpandDatabasePath(), which is unused and must have been so since
7.1, because the path interpretation it embodies has been wrong since 7.1.
2004-01-22 20:57:39 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 6bd343329e Oops, can't do cpp tests inside macros; make two macros instead. 2004-01-09 23:29:31 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 38081fd000 Change PG_DELAY from msec to usec and use it consistenly rather than
select().   Add Win32 Sleep() for delay.
2004-01-09 21:08:50 +00:00
Bruce Momjian 488f2785d0 Final rearrangement of main postgresql child process (ie.
BackendFork/SSDataBase/pgstat) startup, to allow fork/exec calls to
closely mimic (the soon to be provided) Win32 CreateProcess equivalent
calls.

Claudio Natoli
2004-01-06 23:15:22 +00:00