Previously it was impossible to terminate these programs via control-C
while they were prompting for a password. We can fix that trivially
for their initial password prompts, by moving setup of the SIGINT
handler from just before to just after their initial GetConnection()
calls.
This fix doesn't permit escaping out of later re-prompts, but those
should be exceedingly rare, since the user's password or the server's
authentication setup would have to have changed meanwhile. We
considered applying a fix similar to commit 46d665bc2, but that
seemed more complicated than it'd be worth. Moreover, this way is
back-patchable, which that wasn't.
The misbehavior exists in all supported versions, so back-patch to all.
Tom Lane and Nathan Bossart
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/747443.1635536754@sss.pgh.pa.us
The error handling here was a mess, as a result of a fundamentally
bad design (relying on errno to keep its value much longer than is
safe to assume) as well as a lot of just plain sloppiness, both as
to noticing errors at all and as to reporting the correct errno.
Moreover, the recent addition of LZ4 compression broke things
completely, because liblz4 doesn't use errno to report errors.
To improve matters, keep the error state in the DirectoryMethodData or
TarMethodData struct, and add a string field so we can handle cases
that don't set errno. (The tar methods already had a version of this,
but it can be done more efficiently since all these cases use a
constant error string.) Make the dir and tar methods handle errors
in basically identical ways, which they didn't before.
This requires copying errno into the state struct in a lot of places,
which is a bit tedious, but it has the virtue that we can get rid of
ad-hoc code to save and restore errno in a number of places ... not
to mention that it fixes other places that should've saved/restored
errno but neglected to.
In passing, fix some pointlessly static buffers to be ordinary
local variables.
There remains an issue about exactly how to handle errors from
fsync(), but that seems like material for its own patch.
While the LZ4 problems are new, all the rest of this is fixes for
old bugs, so backpatch to v10 where walmethods.c was introduced.
Patch by me; thanks to Michael Paquier for review.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1343113.1636489231@sss.pgh.pa.us
Coverity complained that applying get_gz_error after a failed gzclose,
as we did in one place in pg_basebackup, is unsafe. I think it's
right: it's entirely likely that the call is touching freed memory.
Change that to inspect errno, as we do for other gzclose calls.
Also, be careful to initialize errno to zero immediately before any
gzclose() call where we care about the error status. (There are
some calls where we don't, because we already failed at some previous
step.) This ensures that we don't get a misleadingly irrelevant
error code if gzclose() fails in a way that doesn't set errno.
We could work harder at that, but it looks to me like all such cases
are basically can't-happen if we're not misusing zlib, so it's
not worth the extra notational cruft that would be required.
Also, fix several places that simply failed to check for close-time
errors at all, mostly at some remove from the close or gzclose itself;
and one place that did check but didn't bother to report the errno.
Back-patch to v12. These mistakes are older than that, but between
the frontend logging API changes that happened in v12 and the fact
that frontend code can't rely on %m before that, the patch would need
substantial revision to work in older branches. It doesn't quite
seem worth the trouble given the lack of related field complaints.
Patch by me; thanks to Michael Paquier for review.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1343113.1636489231@sss.pgh.pa.us
Earlier versions of PostgreSQL featured a version of pg_basebackup
that wanted to edit tar archives but was too dumb to parse them
properly. The server made things easier for the client by failing
to add the two blocks of zero bytes that ought to end a tar file,
leaving it up to the client to do that.
But since commit 23a1c6578c, we
don't need this hack any more, because pg_basebackup is now smarter
and can parse tar files even if they are properly terminated! So
change the server to always properly terminate the tar files. Older
versions of pg_basebackup can't talk to new servers anyway, so
there's no compatibility break.
On the pg_basebackup side, we see still need to add the terminating
zero bytes if we're talking to an older server, but not when the
server is v15+. Hopefully at some point we'll be able to remove
some of this compatibility cruft, but it seems best to hang on to
it for now.
In passing, add a file header comment to bbstreamer_tar.c, to make
it clearer what's going on here.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoZbNzsWwM4BE5Jb_qHncY817DYZwGf+2-7hkMQ27ZwsMQ@mail.gmail.com
Commit 23a1c6578c improved
pg_basebackup's ability to parse tar archives, but also arranged
to parse them only when we need to make some modification to the
contents of the archive. That's a problem, because the server
doesn't actually terminate tar archives. When the new parsing
logic was engaged, pg_basebackup would properly terminate the
tar file, but when it was skipped, pg_basebackup would just write
whatever it got from the server, meaning that the terminator
was missing.
Most versions of tar are willing to overlook the missing terminator, but
the AIX buildfarm animals were not. Fix by inventing a new kind of
bbstreamer that just blindly adds a terminator, and using it whenever we
don't parse the tar archive.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoZbNzsWwM4BE5Jb_qHncY817DYZwGf+2-7hkMQ27ZwsMQ@mail.gmail.com
pg_basebackup knows how to do quite a few things with a backup that it
gets from the server, like just write out the files, or compress them
first, or even parse the tar format and inject a modified
postgresql.auto.conf file into the archive generated by the server.
Unforatunely, this makes pg_basebackup.c a very large source file, and
also somewhat difficult to enhance, because for example the knowledge
that the server is sending us a 'tar' file rather than some other sort
of archive is spread all over the place rather than centralized.
In an effort to improve this situation, this commit invents a new
'bbstreamer' abstraction. Each archive received from the server is
fed to a bbstreamer which may choose to dispose of it or pass it
along to some other bbstreamer. Chunks may also be "labelled"
according to whether they are part of the payload data of a file
in the archive or part of the archive metadata.
So, for example, if we want to take a tar file, modify the
postgresql.auto.conf file it contains, and the gzip the result
and write it out, we can use a bbstreamer_tar_parser to parse the
tar file received from the server, a bbstreamer_recovery_injector
to modify the contents of postgresql.auto.conf, a
bbstreamer_tar_archiver to replace the tar headers for the file
modified in the previous step with newly-built ones that are
correct for the modified file, and a bbstreamer_gzip_writer to
gzip and write the resulting data. Only the objects with "tar"
in the name know anything about the tar archive format, and in
theory we could re-archive using some other format rather than
"tar" if somebody wanted to write the code.
These chances do add a substantial amount of code, but I think the
result is a lot more maintainable and extensible. pg_basebackup.c
itself shrinks by roughly a third, with a lot of the complexity
previously contained there moving into the newly-added files.
Patch by me. The larger patch series of which this is a part has been
reviewed and tested at various times by Andres Freund, Sumanta
Mukherjee, Dilip Kumar, Suraj Kharage, Dipesh Pandit, Tushar Ahuja,
Mark Dilger, Sergei Kornilov, and Jeevan Ladhe.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoZGwR=ZVWFeecncubEyPdwghnvfkkdBe9BLccLSiqdf9Q@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoZvqk7UuzxsX1xjJRmMGkqoUGYTZLDCH8SmU1xTPr1Xig@mail.gmail.com
pg_receivewal gains a new option, --compression-method=lz4, available
when the code is compiled with --with-lz4. Similarly to gzip, this
gives the possibility to compress archived WAL segments with LZ4. This
option is not compatible with --compress.
The implementation uses LZ4 frames, and is compatible with simple lz4
commands. Like gzip, using --synchronous ensures that any data will be
flushed to disk within the current .partial segment, so as it is
possible to retrieve as much WAL data as possible even from a
non-completed segment (this requires completing the partial file with
zeros up to the WAL segment size supported by the backend after
decompression, but this is the same as gzip).
The calculation of the streaming start LSN is able to transparently find
and check LZ4-compressed segments. Contrary to gzip where the
uncompressed size is directly stored in the object read, the LZ4 chunk
protocol does not store the uncompressed data by default. There is
contentSize that can be used with LZ4 frames by that would not help if
using an archive that includes segments compressed with the defaults of
a "lz4" command, where this is not stored. So, this commit has taken
the most extensible approach by decompressing the already-archived
segment to check its uncompressed size, through a blank output buffer in
chunks of 64kB (no actual performance difference noticed with 8kB, 16kB
or 32kB, and the operation in itself is actually fast).
Tests have been added to verify the creation and correctness of the
generated LZ4 files. The latter is achieved by the use of command
"lz4", if found in the environment.
The tar-based WAL method in walmethods.c, used now only by
pg_basebackup, does not know yet about LZ4. Its code could be extended
for this purpose.
Author: Georgios Kokolatos
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier, Jian Guo, Magnus Hagander, Dilip Kumar
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ZCm1J5vfyQ2E6dYvXz8si39HQ2gwxSZ3IpYaVgYa3lUwY88SLapx9EEnOf5uEwrddhx2twG7zYKjVeuP5MwZXCNPybtsGouDsAD1o2L_I5E=@pm.me
The option name was incorrect in one of the error messages, and the
short option 'I' was used in the code but we did not intend things to be
this way. While on it, fix the documentation to refer to a "method",
and not a "level.
Oversights in commit d62bcc8, that I have detected after more review of
the LZ4 patch for pg_receivewal.
pg_receivewal includes since cada1af the option --compress, to allow the
compression of WAL segments using gzip, with a value of 0 (the default)
meaning that no compression can be used.
This commit introduces a new option, called --compression-method, able
to use as values "none", the default, and "gzip", to make things more
extensible. The case of --compress=0 becomes fuzzy with this option
layer, so we have made the choice to make pg_receivewal return an error
when using "none" and a non-zero compression level, meaning that the
authorized values of --compress are now [1,9] instead of [0,9]. Not
specifying --compress with "gzip" as compression method makes
pg_receivewal use the default of zlib instead (Z_DEFAULT_COMPRESSION).
The code in charge of finding the streaming start LSN when scanning the
existing archives is refactored and made more extensible. While on it,
rename "compression" to "compression_level" in walmethods.c, to reduce
the confusion with the introduction of the compression method, even if
the tar method used by pg_basebackup does not rely on the compression
method (yet, at least), but just on the compression level (this area
could be improved more, actually).
This is in preparation for an upcoming patch that adds LZ4 support to
pg_receivewal.
Author: Georgios Kokolatos
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier, Jian Guo, Magnus Hagander, Dilip Kumar,
Robert Haas
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ZCm1J5vfyQ2E6dYvXz8si39HQ2gwxSZ3IpYaVgYa3lUwY88SLapx9EEnOf5uEwrddhx2twG7zYKjVeuP5MwZXCNPybtsGouDsAD1o2L_I5E=@pm.me
pg_receivewal is able to follow a timeline switch, but this was not
tested. This test uses an empty archive location with a restart done
from a slot, making its implementation a tad simpler than if we would
reuse an existing archive directory.
Author: Ronan Dunklau
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18708360.4lzOvYHigE@aivenronan
This commit improves the speed of those tests by 25~30%, using some
simple ideas to reduce the amount of data written by pg_receivewal:
- Use a segment size of 1MB. While reducing the amount of data zeroed
by pg_receivewal for the new segments, this improves the code coverage
with a non-default segment size.
- In the last test involving a slot's restart_lsn, generate a checkpoint
to advance the redo LSN and the WAL retained by the slot created,
reducing the number of segments that need to be archived. This counts
for most of the gain.
- Minimize the amount of data inserted into the dummy table.
Reviewed-by: Ronan Dunklau
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/YXqYKAdVEqmyTltK@paquier.xyz
Prior to this patch, when running pg_receivewal, the streaming start
point would be the current location of the archives if anything is
found in the local directory where WAL segments are written, and
pg_receivewal would fall back to the current WAL flush location if there
are no archives, as of the result of an IDENTIFY_SYSTEM command.
If for some reason the WAL files from pg_receivewal were moved, it is
better to try a restart where we left at, which is the replication
slot's restart_lsn instead of skipping right to the current flush
location, to avoid holes in the WAL backed up. This commit changes
pg_receivewal to use the following sequence of methods to determine the
starting streaming LSN:
- Scan the local archives.
- Use the slot's restart_lsn, if supported by the backend and if a slot
is defined.
- Fallback to the current flush LSN as reported by IDENTIFY_SYSTEM.
To keep compatibility with older server versions, we only attempt to use
READ_REPLICATION_SLOT if the backend version is at least 15, and
fallback to the older behavior of streaming from the current flush
LSN if the command is not supported.
Some TAP tests are added to cover this feature.
Author: Ronan Dunklau
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi, Michael Paquier, Bharath Rupireddy
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18708360.4lzOvYHigE@aivenronan
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
Make sure that the string parsing is limited by the size of the
destination buffer.
In pg_basebackup the available values sent from the server
is limited to two characters so there was no risk of overflow.
In pg_dump the buffer is bounded by MAXPGPATH, and thus the limit
must be inserted via preprocessor expansion and the buffer increased
by one to account for the terminator. There is no risk of overflow
here, since in this case, the buffer scanned is smaller than the
destination buffer.
Backpatch the pg_basebackup fix to 11 where it was introduced, and
the pg_dump fix all the way down to 9.6.
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/B14D3D7B-F98C-4E20-9459-C122C67647FB@yesql.se
Backpatch-through: 11 and 9.6
Like BASE_BACKUP, CREATE_REPLICATION_SLOT has historically used a
hard-coded syntax. To improve future extensibility, adopt a flexible
options syntax here, too.
In the new syntax, instead of three mutually exclusive options
EXPORT_SNAPSHOT, USE_SNAPSHOT, and NOEXPORT_SNAPSHOT, there is now a single
SNAPSHOT option with three possible values: 'export', 'use', and 'nothing'.
This commit does not remove support for the old syntax. It just adds
the new one as an additional option, makes pg_receivewal,
pg_recvlogical, and walreceiver processes use it.
Patch by me, reviewed by Fabien Coelho, Sergei Kornilov, and
Fujii Masao.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmobAczXDRO_Gr2euo_TxgzaH1JxbNxvFx=HYvBinefNH8Q@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoZGwR=ZVWFeecncubEyPdwghnvfkkdBe9BLccLSiqdf9Q@mail.gmail.com
Previously, BASE_BACKUP used an entirely hard-coded syntax, but that's
hard to extend. Instead, adopt the same kind of syntax we've used for
SQL commands such as VACUUM, ANALYZE, COPY, and EXPLAIN, where it's
not necessary for all of the option names to be parser keywords.
In the new syntax, most of the options now take an optional Boolean
argument. To match our practice in other in places, the options which
the old syntax called NOWAIT and NOVERIFY_CHECKSUMS options are in the
new syntax called WAIT and VERIFY_CHECKUMS, and the default value is
false. In the new syntax, the FAST option has been replaced by a
CHECKSUM option whose value may be 'fast' or 'spread'.
This commit does not remove support for the old syntax. It just adds
the new one as an additional option, and makes pg_basebackup prefer
the new syntax when the server is new enough to support it.
Patch by me, reviewed and tested by Fabien Coelho, Sergei Kornilov,
Fujii Masao, and Tushar Ahuja.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmobAczXDRO_Gr2euo_TxgzaH1JxbNxvFx=HYvBinefNH8Q@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoZGwR=ZVWFeecncubEyPdwghnvfkkdBe9BLccLSiqdf9Q@mail.gmail.com
The following things are improved:
- Fetch the system identifier from the source server before any
WAL streaming loop. This triggers extra checks to make sure that
pg_receivewal is still connected to a server with the same system ID
with a correct timeline.
- Switch umask() (for file creation mode mask) and RetrieveWalSegSize()
(to fetch the size of WAL segments) a bit later before the initial
stream attempt. If the connection was done with a database,
pg_receivewal would fail but those commands were still executed, which
was a waste. The slot creation and drop are now done before retrieving
the segment size.
Author: Bharath Rupireddy
Reviewed-by: Ronan Dunklau, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALj2ACX00YYeyBfoi55Cy=NrP-FcfMgiYYx1qRUEib3yjCVoaA@mail.gmail.com
A WAL segment closed during a WAL stream for pg_receivewal would
generate incorrect error messages depending on the context, as the file
name used when referring to a WAL segment ignored partial files or the
compression method used. In such cases, the error message generated
(failure on close, seek or rename) would not match a physical file
name. The same code paths are used by pg_basebackup, but it uses no
partial suffix so it is not impacted.
7fbe0c8 has introduced in walmethods.c a callback to get the exact
physical file name used for a given context, this commit makes use of it
to improve those error messages. This could be extended to more code
paths of pg_basebackup/ in the future, if necessary.
Extracted from a larger patch by the same author.
Author: Georgios Kokolatos
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ZCm1J5vfyQ2E6dYvXz8si39HQ2gwxSZ3IpYaVgYa3lUwY88SLapx9EEnOf5uEwrddhx2twG7zYKjVeuP5MwZXCNPybtsGouDsAD1o2L_I5E=@pm.me
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.
0c013e0 has done a large refactoring to unify all the code paths using
replication commands, but forgot one code path doing WAL streaming that
checks the validity of a cluster connecting to with IDENTIFY_SYSTEM.
There is a generic routine able to handle that, so make use of it in
this code path. This impacts pg_receivewal and pg_basebackup.
Author: Bharath Rupireddy
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALj2ACVKKYUMC8GE72Y7BP9g1batrrq3sEwUh+1_i2krWZC_2Q@mail.gmail.com
This reverts commit 6a2c532. fairywren and bowerbird failed those tests
because of incorrect versions of ZLIB linked to, causing errors like
SIGBREAKs that stopped buildfarm runs or EACCES failures when writing
compressed WAL segments.
Andrew Dunstan has done all the investigation here, so he deserves all
the credit for being able to enable those tests on Windows.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/9040d5ed-6462-66a4-07ac-2923785ae563@dunslane.net
Those tests are not designed to fail, but if they do, like on some cases
for Windows because of ZLIB (?), they could remain stuck. Using
--no-loop makes the test fail immediately. The oldest test with
--endpos already did that.
Those tests have been added in ffc9dda.
Reviewed-by: Andrew Dunstan
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ec093ff1-a53c-0091-46a2-4537354b0dd4@dunslane.net
Certain versions of msys2/Windows have been observed to resolve symlinks
in perl2host rather than just follow them. This defeats using a
symlinked shorter path to a longer path, and makes certain tests fail.
We therefore call perl2host on the parent directory of the symlink and
thereafter just use that result.
Apply to release 14 where the problem has been observed.
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).
The following changes are done:
- In pg_archivecleanup, the cleanup of older WAL segments would never
fail immediately.
- In pgbench, the initialization of a thread barrier would not fail
hard.
- In pg_recvlogical, a stat() failure never got the call.
- In pg_basebackup, two chmod() reported a failure without exit()'ing
when unpacking some tar data freshly received. It may be possible to
continue writing some data even after this failure, but that could be
confusing to the user at the end.
These are arguably bugs, but they would happen for code paths where a
failure is unlikely going to happen, so no backpatch is done.
Reviewed-by: Robert Haas, Fabien Coelho
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/YQDMdB+B68yePFeT@paquier.xyz
A check in the ZLIB portion of the test to match the name of a
non-compressed partial segment with a completed compressed segment was
using m//, while a simple equality check is enough. This makes the test
a bit stricter without impacting its coverage.
Author: Kyotaro Horiguchi
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210726.174622.826565852378770261.horikyota.ntt@gmail.com
strtoint(), via strtol(), would skip leading whitespaces but the same
rule was not applied for trailing whitespaces, leading to an
inconsistent behavior. Some tests are changed to cover more this area.
Author: Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/YP5Pv0d13Ct+03ve@paquier.xyz
These have been introduced by 7fbe0c8, and could happen for
pg_basebackup and pg_receivewal.
Per report from Coverity for the ones in walmethods.c, I have spotted
the ones in receivelog.c after more review.
Backpatch-through: 10
This fixes two compilation failures caused by 6f164e6. Interesting to
see that missing <limits.h> dies not fail in Linux or even Windows. On
MacOS, it fails, though.
Per various buildfarm members.
Most of the integer options for command-line binaries now make use of a
single routine able to do the job, fixing issues with the detection of
sloppy values caused for example by the use of atoi(), that fails on
strings beginning with numerical characters with junk trailing
characters.
This commit cuts down the number of strings requiring translation by 26
per my count, switching the code to have two error types for invalid and
out-of-range values instead.
Much more could be done here, with float or even int64 options, but
int32 was the most appealing case as it is possible to rely on strtol()
to do the job reliably. Note that there are some exceptions for now,
like pg_ctl or pg_upgrade that use their own logging logic. A couple of
negative TAP tests required some adjustments for the new errors
generated.
pg_dump and pg_restore tracked the maximum number of parallel jobs
within the option parsing. The code is refactored a bit to track that
in the code dedicated to parallelism instead.
Author: Kyotaro Horiguchi, Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: David Rowley, Álvaro Herrera
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALj2ACXqdG9WhqVoJ9zYf-iZt7sgK7Szv5USs=he6NnWQ2ofTA@mail.gmail.com
This reverts commit 91d395f, to avoid running those tests on Windows.
The tests are globally stable across all buildfarm members, except
fairywren (crash of pg_receivewal) and bowerdird (SIGBREAK preventing
the buildfarm run to complete). Those errors are rather strange, as
other hosts with very similar characteristics are able to run those
tests without breaking a sweat.
For now, disable those tests on Windows to turn back the buildfarm to
green.
Per discussion with Andrew Dunstan.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/9040d5ed-6462-66a4-07ac-2923785ae563@dunslane.net
This is a revert of 6cea447, that disabled those tests temporarily on
Windows due to failures with bowerbird where gzflush() would fail when
executed on a freshly-opened compressed and partial segment. This
problem should be taken care of now thanks to 7fbe0c8, so let's see what
the buildfarm has to say on Windows for those tests.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/YPDLz2x3o1aX2wRh@paquier.xyz
The logic handling the opening of new WAL segments was fuzzy when using
--compress if a partial, non-compressed, segment with the same base name
existed in the repository storing those files. In this case, using
--compress would cause the code to first check for the existence and the
size of a non-compressed segment, followed by the opening of a new
compressed, partial, segment. The code was accidentally working
correctly on most platforms as the buildfarm has proved, except
bowerbird where gzflush() could fail in this code path. It is wrong
anyway to take the code path used pre-padding when creating a new
partial, non-compressed, segment, so let's fix it.
Note that this issue exists when users mix successive runs of
pg_receivewal with or without compression, as discovered with the tests
introduced by ffc9dda.
While on it, this refactors the code so as code paths that need to know
about the ".gz" suffix are down from four to one in walmethods.c, easing
a bit the introduction of new compression methods. This addresses a
second issue where log messages generated for an unexpected failure
would not show the compressed segment name involved, which was
confusing, printing instead the name of the non-compressed equivalent.
Reported-by: Georgios Kokolatos
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/YPDLz2x3o1aX2wRh@paquier.xyz
Backpatch-through: 10
As reported by buildfarm member bowerbird, those tests are unstable on
Windows. The failure produced there points to a problem with gzflush(),
that fails to sync a file freshly-opened, with a gzFile properly
opened. While testing this myself with MSVC, I bumped into a different
error where a file could simply not be opened, so this makes me rather
doubtful that testing this area on Windows is a good idea if this
finishes with random concurrency failures. This requires more
investigation, and keeping this buildfarm member red is not a good thing
in the long-term, so for now this just disables this set of tests on
Windows.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/YPDLz2x3o1aX2wRh@paquier.xyz
The OpenBSD implementation of gzip considers only files suffixed by "Z",
"gz", "z", "tgz" or "taz" as valid targets, discarding anything else and
making a command using --test exit with an error code of 512 if anything
invalid is found. The test introduced in ffc9dda tested a WAL segment
suffixed as .gz.partial, enough to make the test fail.
Testing only a full segment is fine enough in terms of coverage, so
simplify the code by discarding the .gz.partial segment in this check.
This should be enough to make the test pass with OpenBSD environments.
Per report from curculio.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/YPAdf9r5aJbDoHoq@paquier.xyz
There is a non-trivial amount of code that handles ZLIB compression in
pg_receivewal, from basics like the format name, the calculation of the
start streaming position and of course the compression itself, but there
was no automated coverage for it.
This commit introduces a set of conditional tests (if the build supports
ZLIB) to cover the creation of ZLIB-compressed WAL segments, the
handling of the partial, compressed, WAL segments and the compression
operation in itself. Note that there is an extra phase checking the
validity of the generated files by using directly a gzip command, passed
down by the Makefile of pg_receivewal. This part is skipped if the
command cannot be found, something likely going to happen on Windows
with MSVC except if one sets the variable GZIP_PROGRAM in the
environment of the test.
This set of tests will become handy for upcoming patches that add more
options for the compression methods used by pg_receivewal, like LZ4, to
make sure that no existing facilities are broken.
Author: Georgios Kokolatos
Reviewed-by: Gilles Darold, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/07BK3Mk5aEOsTwGaY77qBVyf9GjoEzn8TMgHLyPGfEFPIpTEmoQuP2P4c7teesjSg-LPeUafsp1flnPeQYINMSMB_UpggJDoduB5EDYBqaQ=@protonmail.com
Extend the replication command CREATE_REPLICATION_SLOT to support the
TWO_PHASE option. This will allow decoding commands like PREPARE
TRANSACTION, COMMIT PREPARED and ROLLBACK PREPARED for slots created with
this option. The decoding of the transaction happens at prepare command.
This patch also adds support of two-phase in pg_recvlogical via a new
option --two-phase.
This option will also be used by future patches that allow streaming of
transactions at prepare time for built-in logical replication. With this,
the out-of-core logical replication solutions can enable replication of
two-phase transactions via replication protocol.
Author: Ajin Cherian
Reviewed-By: Jeff Davis, Vignesh C, Amit Kapila
Discussion:
https://postgr.es/m/02DA5F5E-CECE-4D9C-8B4B-418077E2C010@postgrespro.ruhttps://postgr.es/m/64b9f783c6e125f18f88fbc0c0234e34e71d8639.camel@j-davis.com
Also "make reformat-dat-files".
The only change worthy of note is that pgindent messed up the formatting
of launcher.c's struct LogicalRepWorkerId, which led me to notice that
that struct wasn't used at all anymore, so I just took it out.
Instead, put them in via a format placeholder. This reduces the
number of distinct translatable messages and also reduces the chances
of typos during translation. We already did this for the system call
arguments in a number of cases, so this is just the same thing taken a
bit further.
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/92d6f545-5102-65d8-3c87-489f71ea0a37%40enterprisedb.com
A couple of tests have been using 0 as magic constant while SEEK_SET can
be used instead. This makes the code easier to understand, and more
consistent with the changes done in 3c5b068.
Per discussion with Andrew Dunstan.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/YHrc24AgJQ6tQ1q0@paquier.xyz
Buildfarm member fairywren doesn't like the test case I added
in commit 081876d75. I'm guessing the reason is that I shouldn't
be using a perl2host-ified path in the tar command line.
The existing test script does run pg_basebackup with the -Ft option,
but it makes no real attempt to verify the sanity of the results.
We wouldn't know if the output is incompatible with standard "tar"
programs, nor if the server fails to start from the restored output.
Notably, this means that xlog.c's read_tablespace_map() is not being
meaningfully tested, since that code is used only in the tar-format
case. (We do have reasonable coverage of restoring from plain-format
output, though it's over in src/test/recovery not here.)
Hence, attempt to untar the output and start a server from it,
rather just hoping it's OK.
This test assumes that the local "tar" has the "-C directory"
switch. Although that's not promised by POSIX, my research
suggests that all non-extinct tar implementations have it.
Should the buildfarm's opinion differ, we can complicate the
test a bit to avoid requiring that.
Possibly this should be back-patched, but I'm unsure about
whether it could work on Windows before d66b23b03.
CREATE TABLE AS has been preferred over SELECT INTO (outside of ecpg
and PL/pgSQL) for a long time. There were still a few uses of SELECT
INTO in tests and documentation, some old, some more recent. This
changes them to CREATE TABLE AS. Some occurrences in the tests remain
where they are specifically testing SELECT INTO parsing or similar.
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/96dc0df3-e13a-a85d-d045-d6e2c85218da%40enterprisedb.com
Existing code used various inconsistent ways to printf struct stat's
st_size member. The type of that is off_t, which is in most cases a
signed 64-bit integer, so use the long long int format for it.
This patch started out with the goal of harmonizing various arbitrary
limits on password length, but after awhile a better idea emerged:
let's just get rid of those fixed limits.
recv_password_packet() has an arbitrary limit on the packet size,
which we don't really need, so just drop it. (Note that this doesn't
really affect anything for MD5 or SCRAM password verification, since
those will hash the user's password to something shorter anyway.
It does matter for auth methods that require a cleartext password.)
Likewise remove the arbitrary error condition in pg_saslprep().
The remaining limits are mostly in client-side code that prompts
for passwords. To improve those, refactor simple_prompt() so that
it allocates its own result buffer that can be made as big as
necessary. Actually, it proves best to make a separate routine
pg_get_line() that has essentially the semantics of fgets(), except
that it allocates a suitable result buffer and hence will never
return a truncated line. (pg_get_line has a lot of potential
applications to replace randomly-sized fgets buffers elsewhere,
but I'll leave that for another patch.)
I built pg_get_line() atop stringinfo.c, which requires moving
that code to src/common/; but that seems fine since it was a poor
fit for src/port/ anyway.
This patch is mostly mine, but it owes a good deal to Nathan Bossart
who pressed for a solution to the password length problem and
created a predecessor patch. Also thanks to Peter Eisentraut and
Stephen Frost for ideas and discussion.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/09512C4F-8CB9-4021-B455-EF4C4F0D55A0@amazon.com
A number of client programs have a "--progress" option that when printing
to a TTY, updates the current line by printing a '\r' and overwriting it.
After the last line, '\n' needs to be printed to move the cursor to the
next line. pg_basebackup and pgbench got this right, but pg_rewind and
pg_checksums were slightly wrong. pg_rewind printed the newline to stdout
instead of stderr, and pg_checksums printed the newline even when not
printing to a TTY. Fix them, and also add a 'finished' argument to
pg_basebackup's progress_report() function, to keep it consistent with
the other programs.
Backpatch to v12. pg_rewind's newline was broken with the logging changes
in commit cc8d415117 in v12, and pg_checksums was introduced in v12.
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/82b539e5-ae33-34b0-1aee-22b3379fd3eb@iki.fi
Any libpq client can use the header. Clients include backend components
postgres_fdw, dblink, and logical replication apply worker. Back-patch
to v10, because another fix needs this. In released branches, just copy
the header and keep the original.
Windows has junction points which function as symbolic links for
directories. This patch introduces a new function TestLib::dir_symlink()
which creates a junction point on Windows and a standard Unix type
symbolic link elsewhere.
The function TestLib::perl2host is also modified, first to use cygpath
where it's available (e.g. msys2) and second to allow it to succeed if
the gandparent directory exists but the parent does not.
Given these changes the only symlink tests that need to be skipped on
Windows are those related to permissions or to use of readlink. The
relevant tests for pg_basebackup and pg_rewind are therefore adjusted
accordingly.
Andrew Dunstan, reviewed by Peter Eisentraut and Michael Paquier.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/c50a646c-d9bb-7c62-a4bf-8256ff6ff338@2ndquadrant.com
A few places calling fwrite and gzwrite were not setting errno to ENOSPC
when reporting errors, as is customary; this led to some failures being
reported as
"could not write file: Success"
which makes us look silly. Make a few of these places in pg_dump and
pg_basebackup use our customary pattern.
Backpatch-to: 9.5
Author: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Author: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200611153753.GU14879@telsasoft.com
Introduce TAR_BLOCK_SIZE and replace many instances of 512 with
the new constant. Introduce function tarPaddingBytesRequired
and use it to replace numerous repetitions of (x + 511) & ~511.
Add preprocessor guards against multiple inclusion to pgtar.h.
Reformat the prototype for tarCreateHeader so it doesn't extend
beyond 80 characters.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmobWbfReO9-XFk8urR1K4wTNwqoHx_v56t7=T8KaiEoKNw@mail.gmail.com
Includes some manual cleanup of places that pgindent messed up,
most of which weren't per project style anyway.
Notably, it seems some people didn't absorb the style rules of
commit c9d297751, because there were a bunch of new occurrences
of function calls with a newline just after the left paren, all
with faulty expectations about how the rest of the call would get
indented.
The defect suppressed a Standby Status Update message when bytes flushed
to disk had changed but bytes received had not changed. If
pg_recvlogical then exited with no intervening Standby Status Update,
the next pg_recvlogical repeated already-flushed records. The defect
could also cause superfluous messages, which are functionally harmless.
Back-patch to 9.5 (all supported versions).
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200502221647.GA3941274@rfd.leadboat.com
pg_recvlogical merely called PQfinish(), so the backend sent messages
after the disconnect. When that caused EPIPE in internal_flush(),
before a LogicalConfirmReceivedLocation(), the next pg_recvlogical would
repeat already-acknowledged records. Whether or not the defect causes
EPIPE, post-disconnect messages could contain an ErrorResponse that the
user should see. One properly ends PGRES_COPY_OUT by repeating
PQgetCopyData() until it returns a negative value. Augment one of the
tests to cover the case of WAL past --endpos. Back-patch to v10, where
commit 7c030783a5 first appeared. Before
that commit, pg_recvlogical never reached PGRES_COPY_OUT.
Reported by Thomas Munro.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=1MzM2Z_xNe4foGwZ1a+MO_2S9oYDq3M5D11=JDU_+0Nw@mail.gmail.com
When pg_basebackup -R is used, we inject standby.signal into the
tar file for the main tablespace. The proper thing to do is to pad
each file injected into the tar file out to a 512-byte boundary
by appending nulls, but here the file is of length 0 and we add
511 zero bytes. Since 0 is already a multiple of 512, we should
not add any zero bytes. Do that instead.
Patch by me, reviewed by Tom Lane.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmobWbfReO9-XFk8urR1K4wTNwqoHx_v56t7=T8KaiEoKNw@mail.gmail.com
The result of the query used to retrieve the WAL segment size from the
backend was not getting freed in two code paths. Both pg_basebackup and
pg_receivewal exit immediately if a failure happened on this query, so
this was not an actual problem, but it could be an issue if this code
gets used for other tools in different ways, be they future tools in
this code tree or external, existing, ones.
Oversight in commit fc49e24, so backpatch down to 11.
Author: Jie Zhang
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/970ad9508461469b9450b64027842331@G08CNEXMBPEKD06.g08.fujitsu.local
Backpatch-through: 11
Since 0d8c9c1, pg_basebackup would generate an error if connected to a
backend version older than 12 where backup manifests are not supported.
Avoiding this error is possible by using the --no-manifest option.
This error handling could be confusing for some users, where patching a
backup script that interacts with multiple backend versions would cause
the addition of --no-manifest to potentially not generate a backup
manifest even for Postgres 13 and newer versions. As we want to
encourage the use of backup manifests as much as possible, this commit
silently disables manifests where not supported, instead of generating
an error.
While on it, rework a bit the code to make it more consistent with the
surroundings when generating the BASE_BACKUP command.
Per discussion with Andres Freund, Stephen Frost, Robert Haas, Álvaro
Herrera, Kyotaro Horiguchi, Tom Lane, David Steele, and me.
Author: Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200410080910.GZ1606@paquier.xyz
This commit prevents pg_basebackup from receiving backup_manifest file
when --no-manifest is specified. Previously, when pg_basebackup was
writing a tarfile to stdout, it tried to receive backup_manifest file even
when --no-manifest was specified, and reported an error.
Also remove unused -m option from pg_basebackup.
Also fix typo in BASE_BACKUP command documentation.
Author: Fujii Masao
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier, Robert Haas
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/01e3ed3a-8729-5aaa-ca84-e60e3ca59db8@oss.nttdata.com
A manifest is a JSON document which includes (1) the file name, size,
last modification time, and an optional checksum for each file backed
up, (2) timelines and LSNs for whatever WAL will need to be replayed
to make the backup consistent, and (3) a checksum for the manifest
itself. By default, we use CRC-32C when checksumming data files,
because we are trying to detect corruption and user error, not foil an
adversary. However, pg_basebackup and the server-side BASE_BACKUP
command now have options to select a different algorithm, so users
wanting a cryptographic hash function can select SHA-224, SHA-256,
SHA-384, or SHA-512. Users not wanting file checksums at all can
disable them, or disable generating of the backup manifest altogether.
Using a cryptographic hash function in place of CRC-32C consumes
significantly more CPU cycles, which may slow down backups in some
cases.
A new tool called pg_validatebackup can validate a backup against the
manifest. If no checksums are present, it can still check that the
right files exist and that they have the expected sizes. If checksums
are present, it can also verify that each file has the expected
checksum. Additionally, it calls pg_waldump to verify that the
expected WAL files are present and parseable. Only plain format
backups can be validated directly, but tar format backups can be
validated after extracting them.
Robert Haas, with help, ideas, review, and testing from David Steele,
Stephen Frost, Andrew Dunstan, Rushabh Lathia, Suraj Kharage, Tushar
Ahuja, Rajkumar Raghuwanshi, Mark Dilger, Davinder Singh, Jeevan
Chalke, Amit Kapila, Andres Freund, and Noah Misch.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoZV8dw1H2bzZ9xkKwdrk8+XYa+DC9H=F7heO2zna5T6qg@mail.gmail.com
This commit changes pg_basebackup so that it specifies PROGRESS option in
BASE_BACKUP replication command whether --progress is specified or not.
This causes the server to estimate the total backup size and report it in
pg_stat_progress_basebackup.backup_total, by default. This is reasonable
default because the time required for the estimation would not be so large
in most cases.
Also this commit adds new option --no-estimate-size to pg_basebackup.
This option prevents the server from the estimation, and so is useful to
avoid such estimation time if it's too long.
Author: Fujii Masao
Reviewed-by: Magnus Hagander, Amit Langote
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CABUevEyDPPSjP7KRvfTXPdqOdY5aWNkqsB5aAXs3bco5ZwtGHg@mail.gmail.com
An instance of PostgreSQL crashing with a bad timing could leave behind
temporary pg_internal.init files, potentially causing failures when
verifying checksums. As the same exclusion lists are used between
pg_rewind, pg_checksums and basebackup.c, all those tools are extended
with prefix checks to keep everything in sync, with dedicated checks
added for pg_internal.init.
Backpatch down to 11, where pg_checksums (pg_verify_checksums in 11) and
checksum verification for base backups have been introduced.
Reported-by: Michael Banck
Author: Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi, David Steele
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/62031974fd8e941dd8351fbc8c7eff60d59c5338.camel@credativ.de
Backpatch-through: 11
This reverts commit 7bae0ad, as this is not ideal with the tar format,
and we may want to explore more options like what is done by tar with
some equivalents of --owner and --group, but for pg_basebackup.
Per complaints from Magnus Hagander and Stephen Frost.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200205172259.GW3195@tamriel.snowman.net
First, this code did not bother checking for a failure when calling
dup(). Then, per zlib, gzerror() returns NULL for a NULL input, which
can happen if passing down to gzdopen() an invalid file descriptor or if
there was an allocation failure.
No back-patch is done as this would unlikely be a problem in the field.
Per Coverity.
Reported-by: Tom Lane
Similarly to pg_upgrade, pg_ctl and initdb, a root user is able to use
--version and --help, but cannot execute the actual operation to avoid
the creation of files with permissions incompatible with the
postmaster.
This is a behavior change, so not back-patching is done.
Author: Ian Barwick
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CABvVfJVqOdD2neLkYdygdOHvbWz_5K_iWiqY+psMfA=FeAa3qQ@mail.gmail.com
Add a new function ReceiveCopyData that does just that, taking a
callback as an argument to specify what should be done with each chunk
as it is received. This allows a single copy of the logic to be shared
between ReceiveTarFile and ReceiveAndUnpackTarFile, and eliminates
a few #ifdef conditions based on HAVE_LIBZ.
While this is slightly more code, it's arguably clearer, and
there is a pending patch that introduces additional calls to
ReceiveCopyData.
This commit is not intended to result in any functional change.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoYZDTHbSpwZtW=JDgAhwVAYvmdSrRUjOd+AYdfNNXVBDg@mail.gmail.com
When maintaining or merging patches, one of the most common sources
for conflicts are the list of objects in makefiles. Especially when
the split across lines has been changed on both sides, which is
somewhat common due to attempting to stay below 80 columns, those
conflicts are unnecessarily laborious to resolve.
By splitting, and alphabetically sorting, OBJS style lines into one
object per line, conflicts should be less frequent, and easier to
resolve when they still occur.
Author: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20191029200901.vww4idgcxv74cwes@alap3.anarazel.de
Since the addition of fsync requests in bc34223 to make base backup data
consistent on disk once pg_basebackup finishes, each tablespace tar file
is individually flushed once completed, with an additional flush of the
parent directory when the base backup finishes. While holding a
connection to the server, a fsync request taking a long time may cause a
failure of the base backup, which is annoying for any integration. A
recent example of breakage can involve tcp_user_timeout, but
wal_sender_timeout can cause similar problems.
While reviewing the code, there was a second issue causing too many
fsync requests to be done for the same WAL data. As recursive fsyncs
are done at the end of the backup for both the plain and tar formats
from the base target directory where everything is written, it is fine
to disable fsyncs when fetching or streaming WAL.
Reported-by: Ryohei Takahashi
Author: Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Ryohei Takahashi
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/OSBPR01MB4550DAE2F8C9502894A45AAB82BE0@OSBPR01MB4550.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com
Backpatch-through: 10
Document that the tablespace sizes are in units of kilobytes. Make
the pg_basebackup source code a bit clearer about this, too.
Reviewed-by: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
Several buildfarm members have been complaining about that with gcc,
like jacana. Weirdly enough, Visual Studio's compilers do not find this
issue.
Author: Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Andrew Dunstan
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190719050830.GK1859@paquier.xyz
This changes various places where appendPQExpBuffer was used in places
where it was possible to use appendPQExpBufferStr, and likewise for
appendStringInfo and appendStringInfoString. This is really just a
stylistic improvement, but there are also small performance gains to be
had from doing this.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAKJS1f9P=M-3ULmPvr8iCno8yvfDViHibJjpriHU8+SXUgeZ=w@mail.gmail.com
This is still using the 2.0 version of pg_bsd_indent.
I thought it would be good to commit this separately,
so as to document the differences between 2.0 and 2.1 behavior.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16296.1558103386@sss.pgh.pa.us
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
When 2dedf4d9 has integrated recovery.conf into postgresql.conf, it also
changed pg_basebackup -R in the way recovery configuration is
generated. However this implementation forgot the fact that
pg_basebackup needs to keep compatibility with older server versions as
well.
Reported-by: Devrim Gündüz
Author: Sergei Kornilov, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3458f7cd12d74acd90180a671c8d5a081d60e162.camel@gunduz.org
ee9e145 has fixed the tests of pg_basebackup for checksums a first time,
still one seek() call missed the shot. Also, the data written in files
to emulate corruptions was not actually writing zeros as the quoting
style was incorrect.
Backpatch the portion for pg_basebackup to v11 where these tests have
been introduced. The tests of pg_verify_checksums are new as of v12.
Author: Michael Banck
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1550153276.796.35.camel@credativ.de
Backpatch-through: 11
Commit c0d0e54084 replaced the ones in the documentation, but missed out
on the ones in the code. Replace those as well, but unlike c0d0e54084,
don't backpatch the code changes to avoid breaking translations.
At least as far back as the 2008 spec, POSIX has defined strsignal(3)
for looking up descriptive strings for signal numbers. We hadn't gotten
the word though, and were still using the crufty old sys_siglist array,
which is in no standard even though most Unixen provide it.
Aside from not being formally standards-compliant, this was just plain
ugly because it involved #ifdef's at every place using the code.
To eliminate the #ifdef's, create a portability function pg_strsignal,
which wraps strsignal(3) if available and otherwise falls back to
sys_siglist[] if available. The set of Unixen with neither API is
probably empty these days, but on any platform with neither, you'll
just get "unrecognized signal". All extant callers print the numeric
signal number too, so no need to work harder than that.
Along the way, upgrade pg_basebackup's child-error-exit reporting
to match the rest of the system.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/25758.1544983503@sss.pgh.pa.us
recovery.conf settings are now set in postgresql.conf (or other GUC
sources). Currently, all the affected settings are PGC_POSTMASTER;
this could be refined in the future case by case.
Recovery is now initiated by a file recovery.signal. Standby mode is
initiated by a file standby.signal. The standby_mode setting is
gone. If a recovery.conf file is found, an error is issued.
The trigger_file setting has been renamed to promote_trigger_file as
part of the move.
The documentation chapter "Recovery Configuration" has been integrated
into "Server Configuration".
pg_basebackup -R now appends settings to postgresql.auto.conf and
creates a standby.signal file.
Author: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>
Author: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>
Author: Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams@2ndquadrant.com>
Author: Sergei Kornilov <sk@zsrv.org>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/607741529606767@web3g.yandex.ru/
PostgreSQL uses a custom wrapper for open() and fopen() which is
concurrent-safe, allowing multiple processes to open and work on the
same file. This has a couple of advantages:
- pg_test_fsync does not handle O_DSYNC correctly otherwise, leading to
false claims that disks are unsafe.
- TAP tests can run into race conditions when a postmaster and pg_ctl
open postmaster.pid, fixing some random failures in the buildfam.
pg_upgrade is one frontend tool using workarounds to bypass file locking
issues with the log files it generates, however the interactions with
pg_ctl are proving to be tedious to get rid of, so this is left for
later.
Author: Laurenz Albe
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier, Kuntal Ghosh
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1527846213.2475.31.camel@cybertec.at
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16922.1520722108@sss.pgh.pa.us
There's a project policy against using plain "char buf[BLCKSZ]" local
or static variables as page buffers; preferred style is to palloc or
malloc each buffer to ensure it is MAXALIGN'd. However, that policy's
been ignored in an increasing number of places. We've apparently got
away with it so far, probably because (a) relatively few people use
platforms on which misalignment causes core dumps and/or (b) the
variables chance to be sufficiently aligned anyway. But this is not
something to rely on. Moreover, even if we don't get a core dump,
we might be paying a lot of cycles for misaligned accesses.
To fix, invent new union types PGAlignedBlock and PGAlignedXLogBlock
that the compiler must allocate with sufficient alignment, and use
those in place of plain char arrays.
I used these types even for variables where there's no risk of a
misaligned access, since ensuring proper alignment should make
kernel data transfers faster. I also changed some places where
we had been palloc'ing short-lived buffers, for coding style
uniformity and to save palloc/pfree overhead.
Since this seems to be a live portability hazard (despite the lack
of field reports), back-patch to all supported versions.
Patch by me; thanks to Michael Paquier for review.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1535618100.1286.3.camel@credativ.de
6cb3372 enforces errno to ENOSPC when less bytes than what is expected
have been written when it is unset, though it forgot to properly reset
errno before doing a system call to write(), causing errno to
potentially come from a previous system call.
Reported-by: Tom Lane
Author: Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/31797.1533326676@sss.pgh.pa.us
This is useful to know when the data copy has been finished. The
current situation can be confusing for users as the last message is
"waiting for background process to finish streaming", so it looks like
this is taking time but the final sync is instead.
Author: Jeff Janes
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMkU=1ypeoMJ=tFBG8vP13sxEtXd4Pm_x1SqsJdW_RvzpcvN=A@mail.gmail.com
Some error messages which report something about a file operation use
as well context which is already provided within the path being worked
on, making things rather duplicated. This creates more work for
translators, and does not actually bring clarity.
More could be done, however in a lot of cases the context used is
actually useful, still that patch gets down things with a good cut.
Author: Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi, Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180718044711.GA8565@paquier.xyz
Some error messages related to file handling are using the code path
context to define their state. For example, 2PC-related errors are
referring to "two-phase status files", or "relation mapping file" is
used for catalog-to-filenode mapping, however those prove to be
difficult to translate, and are not more helpful than just referring to
the path of the file being worked on. So simplify all those error
messages by just referring to files with their path used. In some
cases, like the manipulation of WAL segments, the context is actually
helpful so those are kept.
Calls to the system function read() have also been rather inconsistent
with their error handling sometimes not reporting the number of bytes
read, and some other code paths trying to use an errno which has not
been set. The in-core functions are using a more consistent pattern
with this patch, which checks for both errno if set or if an
inconsistent read is happening.
So as to care about pluralization when reading an unexpected number of
byte(s), "could not read: read %d of %zu" is used as error message, with
%d field being the output result of read() and %zu the expected size.
This simplifies the work of translators with less variations of the same
message.
Author: Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Álvaro Herrera
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180520000522.GB1603@paquier.xyz
This file has been missing the fact that it needs to report back to
callers a proper failure on fsync calls. I have spotted the one in
tar_finish() while Kuntal has spotted the one in tar_close().
Backpatch down to 10 where this code has been introduced.
Reported by: Michael Paquier, Kuntal Ghosh
Author: Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Kuntal Ghosh, Magnus Hagander
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180625024356.GD1146@paquier.xyz
System calls mixed up in error code paths are causing two issues which
several code paths have not correctly handled:
1) For write() calls, sometimes the system may return less bytes than
what has been written without errno being set. Some paths were careful
enough to consider that case, and assumed that errno should be set to
ENOSPC, other calls missed that.
2) errno generated by a system call is overwritten by other system calls
which may succeed once an error code path is taken, causing what is
reported to the user to be incorrect.
This patch uses the brute-force approach of correcting all those code
paths. Some refactoring could happen in the future, but this is let as
future work, which is not targeted for back-branches anyway.
Author: Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Ashutosh Sharma
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180622061535.GD5215@paquier.xyz
The vertical tightness settings collapse vertical whitespace between
opening and closing brackets (parentheses, square brakets and braces).
This can make data structures in particular harder to read, and is not
very consistent with our style in non-Perl code. This patch restricts
that setting to parentheses only, and reformats all the perl code
accordingly. Not applying this to parentheses has some unfortunate
effects, so the consensus is to keep the setting for parentheses and not
for the others.
The diff for this patch does highlight some places where structures
should have trailing commas. They can be added manually, as there is no
automatic tool to do so.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2f2b87c-56be-c070-bfc0-36288b4b41c1@2ndQuadrant.com
The predecessor test boiled down to "PQserverVersion(NULL) >= 100000",
which is always false. No release includes that, so it could not have
reintroduced CVE-2018-1058. Back-patch to 9.4, like the addition of the
predecessor in commit 8d2814f274.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180422215551.GB2676194@rfd.leadboat.com
Allow the cluster to be optionally init'd with read access for the
group.
This means a relatively non-privileged user can perform a backup of the
cluster without requiring write privileges, which enhances security.
The mode of PGDATA is used to determine whether group permissions are
enabled for directory and file creates. This method was chosen as it's
simple and works well for the various utilities that write into PGDATA.
Changing the mode of PGDATA manually will not automatically change the
mode of all the files contained therein. If the user would like to
enable group access on an existing cluster then changing the mode of all
the existing files will be required. Note that pg_upgrade will
automatically change the mode of all migrated files if the new cluster
is init'd with the -g option.
Tests are included for the backend and all the utilities which operate
on the PG data directory to ensure that the correct mode is set based on
the data directory permissions.
Author: David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>
Reviewed-By: Michael Paquier, with discussion amongst many others.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ad346fe6-b23e-59f1-ecb7-0e08390ad629%40pgmasters.net
Consolidate directory and file create permissions for tools which work
with the PG data directory by adding a new module (common/file_perm.c)
that contains variables (pg_file_create_mode, pg_dir_create_mode) and
constants to initialize them (0600 for files and 0700 for directories).
Convert mkdir() calls in the backend to MakePGDirectory() if the
original call used default permissions (always the case for regular PG
directories).
Add tests to make sure permissions in PGDATA are set correctly by the
tools which modify the PG data directory.
Authors: David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>,
Adam Brightwell <adam.brightwell@crunchydata.com>
Reviewed-By: Michael Paquier, with discussion amongst many others.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ad346fe6-b23e-59f1-ecb7-0e08390ad629%40pgmasters.net
These tests accummulated almost a gigabyte of data during the test which
was then removed at the end. Instead, remove output that's no longer
needed between the individual tests, to keep the total disk usage down
lower.
Author: Michael Banck
Hopefully fix the fact that these checks are unstable, by introducing
the corruption in a separate table from pg_class, and also explicitly
disable autovacuum on those tables. Also make sure PostgreSQL is
stopped while the corruption is introduced to avoid possible caching
effects.
Author: Michael Banck
We were being careless in some places about the order of -L switches in
link command lines, such that -L switches referring to external directories
could come before those referring to directories within the build tree.
This made it possible to accidentally link a system-supplied library, for
example /usr/lib/libpq.so, in place of the one built in the build tree.
Hilarity ensued, the more so the older the system-supplied library is.
To fix, break LDFLAGS into two parts, a sub-variable LDFLAGS_INTERNAL
and the main LDFLAGS variable, both of which are "recursively expanded"
so that they can be incrementally adjusted by different makefiles.
Establish a policy that -L switches for directories in the build tree
must always be added to LDFLAGS_INTERNAL, while -L switches for external
directories must always be added to LDFLAGS. This is sufficient to
ensure a safe search order. For simplicity, we typically also put -l
switches for the respective libraries into those same variables.
(Traditional make usage would have us put -l switches into LIBS, but
cleaning that up is a project for another day, as there's no clear
need for it.)
This turns out to also require separating SHLIB_LINK into two variables,
SHLIB_LINK and SHLIB_LINK_INTERNAL, with a similar rule about which
switches go into which variable. And likewise for PG_LIBS.
Although this change might appear to affect external users of pgxs.mk,
I think it doesn't; they shouldn't have any need to touch the _INTERNAL
variables.
In passing, tweak src/common/Makefile so that the value of CPPFLAGS
recorded in pg_config lacks "-DFRONTEND" and the recorded value of
LDFLAGS lacks "-L../../../src/common". Both of those things are
mistakes, apparently introduced during prior code rearrangements,
as old versions of pg_config don't print them. In general we don't
want anything that's specific to the src/common subdirectory to
appear in those outputs.
This is certainly a bug fix, but in view of the lack of field
complaints, I'm unsure whether it's worth the risk of back-patching.
In any case it seems wise to see what the buildfarm makes of it first.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/25214.1522604295@sss.pgh.pa.us
When base backups are run over the replication protocol (for example
using pg_basebackup), verify the checksums of all data blocks if
checksums are enabled. If checksum failures are encountered, log them
as warnings but don't abort the backup.
This becomes the default behaviour in pg_basebackup (provided checksums
are enabled on the server), so add a switch (-k) to disable the checks
if necessary.
Author: Michael Banck
Reviewed-By: Magnus Hagander, David Steele
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180228180856.GE13784@nighthawk.caipicrew.dd-dns.de
In e170b8c8, protection against modified search_path was added. However,
PostgreSQL versions prior to 10 does not accept SQL commands over a
replication connection, so the protection would generate a syntax error.
Since we cannot run SQL commands on it, we are also not vulnerable to
the issue that e170b8c8 fixes, so we can just skip this command for
older versions.
Author: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
This makes the client programs behave as documented regardless of the
connect-time search_path and regardless of user-created objects. Today,
a malicious user with CREATE permission on a search_path schema can take
control of certain of these clients' queries and invoke arbitrary SQL
functions under the client identity, often a superuser. This is
exploitable in the default configuration, where all users have CREATE
privilege on schema "public".
This changes behavior of user-defined code stored in the database, like
pg_index.indexprs and pg_extension_config_dump(). If they reach code
bearing unqualified names, "does not exist" or "no schema has been
selected to create in" errors might appear. Users may fix such errors
by schema-qualifying affected names. After upgrading, consider watching
server logs for these errors.
The --table arguments of src/bin/scripts clients have been lax; for
example, "vacuumdb -Zt pg_am\;CHECKPOINT" performed a checkpoint. That
now fails, but for now, "vacuumdb -Zt 'pg_am(amname);CHECKPOINT'" still
performs a checkpoint.
Back-patch to 9.3 (all supported versions).
Reviewed by Tom Lane, though this fix strategy was not his first choice.
Reported by Arseniy Sharoglazov.
Security: CVE-2018-1058
The progress messages print out \r to keep overwriting the same line on
the screen. But this does not yield useful results when writing the
output to a file. So in that case, print out \n instead.
Author: Martín Marqués <martin@2ndquadrant.com>
Reviewed-by: Arthur Zakirov <a.zakirov@postgrespro.ru>
Doing this suppresses Coverity warnings and might allow improved
code in some cases. The prospects of that are not so bright as
to warrant back-patching, though.
Michael Paquier, per Coverity
Add docs to explain this for other backup mechanisms
Author: David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>
Reviewed-by: Petr Jelinek <petr.jelinek@2ndQuadrant.com> et al
A candidate path needs to be canonicalized before being checked against
the mappings, because the mappings are also canonicalized. This is
especially relevant on Windows
Reported-by: nb <nbedxp@gmail.com>
Author: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Ashutosh Sharma <ashu.coek88@gmail.com>
All postgres internal usages are replaced, it's just libpq example
usages that haven't been converted. External users of libpq can't
generally rely on including postgres internal headers.
Note that this includes replacing open-coded byte swapping of 64bit
integers (using two 32 bit swaps) with a single 64bit swap.
Where it looked applicable, I have removed netinet/in.h and
arpa/inet.h usage, which previously provided the relevant
functionality. It's perfectly possible that I missed other reasons for
including those, the buildfarm will tell.
Author: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170927172019.gheidqy6xvlxb325@alap3.anarazel.de
When requesting a particular replication slot, the new pg_basebackup
option -C/--create-slot creates it before starting to replicate from it.
Further refactor the slot creation logic to include the temporary slot
creation logic into the same function. Add new arguments is_temporary
and preserve_wal to CreateReplicationSlot(). Print in --verbose mode
that a slot has been created.
Author: Michael Banck <michael.banck@credativ.de>
Add some more tests for the --create-slot and --drop-slot options,
verifying that the right kind of slot was created and that the slot was
dropped. While working on an unrelated patch for pg_basebackup, some of
this was temporarily broken without any tests noticing.
The --slot option somehow ended up under options controlling the output,
and some other options were in a nonsensical place or were not moved
after recent renamings, so tidy all that up a bit.
One test case was meant to check that pg_basebackup does not succeed
when a slot is specified with -S but WAL streaming is not selected,
which used to require specifying -X stream. Since -X stream is the
default in PostgreSQL 10, this test case no longer covers that meaning,
but the pg_basebackup invocation happened to fail anyway for the
unrelated reason that the specified replication slot does not exist. To
fix, move the test case to later in the file where the slot does exist,
and add -X none to the invocation so that it covers the originally meant
behavior.
extracted from a patch by Michael Banck <michael.banck@credativ.de>
For performance reasons a larger segment size than the default 16MB
can be useful. A larger segment size has two main benefits: Firstly,
in setups using archiving, it makes it easier to write scripts that
can keep up with higher amounts of WAL, secondly, the WAL has to be
written and synced to disk less frequently.
But at the same time large segment size are disadvantageous for
smaller databases. So far the segment size had to be configured at
compile time, often making it unrealistic to choose one fitting to a
particularly load. Therefore change it to a initdb time setting.
This includes a breaking changes to the xlogreader.h API, which now
requires the current segment size to be configured. For that and
similar reasons a number of binaries had to be taught how to recognize
the current segment size.
Author: Beena Emerson, editorialized by Andres Freund
Reviewed-By: Andres Freund, David Steele, Kuntal Ghosh, Michael
Paquier, Peter Eisentraut, Robert Hass, Tushar Ahuja
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAOG9ApEAcQ--1ieKbhFzXSQPw_YLmepaa4hNdnY5+ZULpt81Mw@mail.gmail.com
This is primarily useful for making tests of this utility more
deterministic, to avoid the complexity of starting pg_receivewal as a
deamon in TAP tests.
While this is less useful than the equivalent pg_recvlogical option,
users can as well use it for example to enforce WAL streaming up to a
end-of-backup position, to save only a minimal amount of WAL.
Use this new option to stream WAL data in a deterministic way within a
new set of TAP tests.
Author: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
Some informational messages showed up even if verbose mode was not
used. Move them to verbose mode.
Author: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
In the frontend Makefiles that pull in libpgfeutils, we'd generally
done it like this:
LDFLAGS += -L$(top_builddir)/src/fe_utils -lpgfeutils $(libpq_pgport)
That method is badly broken, as seen in bug #14742 from Chris Ruprecht.
The -L flag for src/fe_utils ends up being placed after whatever random
-L flags are in LDFLAGS already. That puts us at risk of pulling in
libpgfeutils.a from some previous installation rather than the freshly
built one in src/fe_utils. Also, the lack of an "override" is hazardous
if someone tries to specify some LDFLAGS on the make command line.
The correct way to do it is like this:
override LDFLAGS := -L$(top_builddir)/src/fe_utils -lpgfeutils $(libpq_pgport) $(LDFLAGS)
so that libpgfeutils, along with libpq, libpgport, and libpgcommon, are
guaranteed to be pulled in from the build tree and not from any referenced
system directory, because their -L flags will appear first.
In some places we'd been even lazier and done it like this:
LDFLAGS += -L$(top_builddir)/src/fe_utils -lpgfeutils -lpq
which is subtly wrong in an additional way: on platforms where we can't
restrict the symbols exported by libpq.so, it allows libpgfeutils to
latch onto libpgport and libpgcommon symbols from libpq.so, rather than
directly from those static libraries as intended. This carries hazards
like those explained in the comments for the libpq_pgport macro.
In addition to fixing the broken libpgfeutils usages, I tried to
standardize on using $(libpq_pgport) like so:
override LDFLAGS := $(libpq_pgport) $(LDFLAGS)
even where libpgfeutils is not in the picture. This makes no difference
right now but will hopefully discourage future mistakes of the same ilk.
And it's more like the way we handle CPPFLAGS in libpq-using Makefiles.
In passing, just for consistency, make pgbench include PTHREAD_LIBS the
same way everyplace else does, ie just after LIBS rather than in some
random place in the command line. This might have practical effect if
there are -L switches in that macro on some platform.
It looks to me like the MSVC build scripts are not affected by this
error, but someone more familiar with them than I might want to double
check.
Back-patch to 9.6 where libpgfeutils was introduced. In 9.6, the hazard
this error creates is that a reinstallation might link to the prior
installation's copy of libpgfeutils.a and thereby fail to absorb a
minor-version bug fix.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170714125106.9231.13772@wrigleys.postgresql.org
When writing a backup to stdout with pg_basebackup on Windows, put stdout
to binary mode. Any CR bytes in the output will otherwise be output
incorrectly as CR+LF.
In the passing, standardize on using "_setmode" instead of "setmode", for
the sake of consistency. They both do the same thing, but according to
MSDN documentation, setmode is deprecated.
Fixes bug #14634, reported by Henry Boehlert. Patch by Haribabu Kommi.
Backpatch to all supported versions.
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20170428082818.24366.13134@wrigleys.postgresql.org
Don't move parenthesized lines to the left, even if that means they
flow past the right margin.
By default, BSD indent lines up statement continuation lines that are
within parentheses so that they start just to the right of the preceding
left parenthesis. However, traditionally, if that resulted in the
continuation line extending to the right of the desired right margin,
then indent would push it left just far enough to not overrun the margin,
if it could do so without making the continuation line start to the left of
the current statement indent. That makes for a weird mix of indentations
unless one has been completely rigid about never violating the 80-column
limit.
This behavior has been pretty universally panned by Postgres developers.
Hence, disable it with indent's new -lpl switch, so that parenthesized
lines are always lined up with the preceding left paren.
This patch is much less interesting than the first round of indent
changes, but also bulkier, so I thought it best to separate the effects.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1dAmxK-0006EE-1r@gemulon.postgresql.org
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/30527.1495162840@sss.pgh.pa.us
Change pg_bsd_indent to follow upstream rules for placement of comments
to the right of code, and remove pgindent hack that caused comments
following #endif to not obey the general rule.
Commit e3860ffa4d wasn't actually using
the published version of pg_bsd_indent, but a hacked-up version that
tried to minimize the amount of movement of comments to the right of
code. The situation of interest is where such a comment has to be
moved to the right of its default placement at column 33 because there's
code there. BSD indent has always moved right in units of tab stops
in such cases --- but in the previous incarnation, indent was working
in 8-space tab stops, while now it knows we use 4-space tabs. So the
net result is that in about half the cases, such comments are placed
one tab stop left of before. This is better all around: it leaves
more room on the line for comment text, and it means that in such
cases the comment uniformly starts at the next 4-space tab stop after
the code, rather than sometimes one and sometimes two tabs after.
Also, ensure that comments following #endif are indented the same
as comments following other preprocessor commands such as #else.
That inconsistency turns out to have been self-inflicted damage
from a poorly-thought-through post-indent "fixup" in pgindent.
This patch is much less interesting than the first round of indent
changes, but also bulkier, so I thought it best to separate the effects.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1dAmxK-0006EE-1r@gemulon.postgresql.org
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/30527.1495162840@sss.pgh.pa.us
Using the client pid can easily be non-unique when used on different
hosts. Using the backend pid should be guaranteed unique, since the
temporary slot gets removed when the client disconnects so it will be
gone even if the pid is renewed.
Reported by Ludovic Vaugeois-Pepin
Partially revert commit c079673dcb.
There were complaints that splitting switch descriptions would
complicate translation efforts. There are probably ways to resolve
the formatting problem without doing that, but undo it while we're
discussing.
Reformat various places in which pgindent will make a mess, and
fix a few small violations of coding style that I happened to notice
while perusing the diffs from a pgindent dry run.
There is one actual bug fix here: the need-to-enlarge-the-buffer code
path in icu_convert_case was obviously broken. Perhaps it's unreachable
in our usage? Or maybe this is just sadly undertested.
Per discussion, "location" is a rather vague term that could refer to
multiple concepts. "LSN" is an unambiguous term for WAL locations and
should be preferred. Some function names, view column names, and function
output argument names used "lsn" already, but others used "location",
as well as yet other terms such as "wal_position". Since we've already
renamed a lot of things in this area from "xlog" to "wal" for v10,
we may as well incur a bit more compatibility pain and make these names
all consistent.
David Rowley, minor additional docs hacking by me
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKJS1f8O0njDKe8ePFQ-LK5-EjwThsDws6ohJ-+c6nWK+oUxtg@mail.gmail.com
pg_basebackup's child process did not pay any attention to the pipe
from its parent while waiting for input from the source server.
If no server data was arriving, it would only wake up and check the
pipe every standby_message_timeout or so. This creates a problem
since the parent process might determine and send the desired stop
position only after the server has reached end-of-WAL and stopped
sending data. In the src/test/recovery regression tests, the timing
is repeatably such that it takes nearly 10 seconds for the child
process to realize that it should shut down. It's not clear how
often that would happen in real-world cases, but it sure seems like
a bug --- and if the user turns off standby_message_timeout or sets
it very large, the delay could be a lot worse.
To fix, expand the StreamCtl API to allow the pipe input FD to be
passed down to the low-level wait routine, and watch both sockets
when sleeping.
(Note: AFAICS this issue doesn't affect the Windows port, since
it doesn't rely on a pipe to transfer the stop position to the
child thread.)
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/6456.1493263884@sss.pgh.pa.us
While at it also update the comments in walmethods.h to make it less
likely for mistakes like this to appear in the future (thanks to Tom for
improvements to the comments).
And finally, in passing change the return type of walmethod.getlasterror
to being const, also per suggestion from Tom.
When reporting progress, make the "waiting for checkpoint" test be
overwritten by the file-based progress once it's completed. This is more
consistent with how we report the rest of the progress.
Suggested by Jeff Janes
Tom Lane
Peter Eisentraut
Robert Haas
Tomas Vondra
Michael Paquier
Andrew Dunstan
Daniel Gustafsson
Amit Kapila
Bruce Momjian
Heikki Linnakangas
Noah Misch
Andres Freund
Alvaro Herrera
Fujii Masao
David Rowley
Magnus Hagander
Peter Eisentraut
Stephen Frost
Teodor Sigaev
Simon Riggs