Commit cca97ce6a6 allowed dbname in pg_basebackup connstring and in this
commit we allow it to be written in postgresql.auto.conf when -R option is
used. The database name in the connection string will be used by the
logical replication slot synchronization on standby.
The dbname will be recorded only if specified explicitly in the connection
string or environment variable.
Masahiko Sawada hasn't reviewed the code in detail but endorsed the idea.
Author: Vignesh C, Kuroda Hayato
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAB8KJ=hdKdg+UeXhReeHpHA6N6v3e0qFF+ZsPFHk9_ThWKf=2A@mail.gmail.com
Commit 5b2f4afffe refactored find_other_exec() and in the process
created pipe_read_line() into a static routine for reading a single
line of output, aimed at reading version numbers. Commit a7e8ece41
later exposed it externally in order to read a postgresql.conf GUC
using "postgres -C ..". Further, f06b1c598 also made use of it for
reading a version string much like find_other_exec(). The internal
variable remained "pgver", even when used for other purposes.
Since the function requires passing a buffer and its size, and at
most size - 1 bytes will be read via fgets(), there is a truncation
risk when using this for reading GUCs (like how pg_rewind does,
though the risk in this case is marginal).
To keep this as generic functionality for reading a line from a pipe,
this refactors pipe_read_line() into returning an allocated buffer
containing all of the line to remove the risk of silent truncation.
Reviewed-by: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>
Reviewed-by: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Reviewed-by: John Naylor <johncnaylorls@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/DEDF73CE-D528-49A3-9089-B3592FD671A9@yesql.se
This commit allows specifying a --sync-method in several frontend
utilities that must synchronize many files to disk (initdb,
pg_basebackup, pg_checksums, pg_dump, pg_rewind, and pg_upgrade).
On Linux, users can specify "syncfs" to synchronize the relevant
file systems instead of calling fsync() for every single file. In
many cases, using syncfs() is much faster.
As with recovery_init_sync_method, this new option comes with some
caveats. The descriptions of these caveats have been moved to a
new appendix section in the documentation.
Co-authored-by: Justin Pryzby
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier, Thomas Munro, Robert Haas, Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210930004340.GM831%40telsasoft.com
This commit adds support for using syncfs() in fsync_pgdata() and
fsync_dir_recurse() (which have been renamed to sync_pgdata() and
sync_dir_recurse()). Like recovery_init_sync_method,
sync_pgdata() calls syncfs() for the data directory, each
tablespace, and pg_wal (if it is a symlink). For now, all of the
frontend utilities that use these support functions are hard-coded
to use fsync(), but a follow-up commit will allow specifying
syncfs().
Co-authored-by: Justin Pryzby
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210930004340.GM831%40telsasoft.com
Make the primary messages more compact and make the detail messages
uniform. In initdb.c and pg_resetwal.c, use the newish
option_parse_int() to simplify some of the option parsing. For the
backend GUC wal_segment_size, add a GUC check hook to do the
verification instead of coding it in bootstrap.c. This might be
overkill, but that way the check is in the right place and it becomes
more self-documenting.
In passing, make pg_controldata use the logging API for warning
messages.
Reviewed-by: Aleksander Alekseev <aleksander@timescale.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/9939aa8a-d7be-da2c-7715-0a0b5535a1f7@eisentraut.org
If the source server was just promoted, and it hasn't written the
checkpoint record yet, pg_rewind considered the server to be still on
the old timeline. Because of that, it would claim incorrectly that no
rewind is required. Fix that by looking at minRecoveryPointTLI in the
control file in addition to the ThisTimeLineID on the checkpoint.
This has been a known issue since forever, and we had worked around it
in the regression tests by issuing a checkpoint after each promotion,
before running pg_rewind. But that was always quite hacky, so better
to fix this properly. This doesn't add any new tests for this, but
removes the previously-added workarounds from the existing tests, so
that they should occasionally hit this codepath again.
This is arguably a bug fix, but don't backpatch because we haven't
really treated it as a bug so far. Also, the patch didn't apply
cleanly to v13 and below. I'm sure sure it could be made to work on
v13, but doesn't seem worth the risk and effort.
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi, Ibrar Ahmed, Aleksander Alekseev
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/9f568c97-87fe-a716-bd39-65299b8a60f4%40iki.fi
More than twenty years ago (79fcde48b), we hacked the postmaster
to avoid a core-dump on systems that didn't support fflush(NULL).
We've mostly, though not completely, hewed to that rule ever since.
But such systems are surely gone in the wild, so in the spirit of
cleaning out no-longer-needed portability hacks let's get rid of
multiple per-file fflush() calls in favor of using fflush(NULL).
Also, we were fairly inconsistent about whether to fflush() before
popen() and system() calls. While we've received no bug reports
about that, it seems likely that at least some of these call sites
are at risk of odd behavior, such as error messages appearing in
an unexpected order. Rather than expend a lot of brain cells
figuring out which places are at hazard, let's just establish a
uniform coding rule that we should fflush(NULL) before these calls.
A no-op fflush() is surely of trivial cost compared to launching
a sub-process via a shell; while if it's not a no-op then we likely
need it.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2923412.1661722825@sss.pgh.pa.us
Get rid of the separate "FATAL" log level, as it was applied
so inconsistently as to be meaningless. This mostly involves
s/pg_log_fatal/pg_log_error/g.
Create a macro pg_fatal() to handle the common use-case of
pg_log_error() immediately followed by exit(1). Various
modules had already invented either this or equivalent macros;
standardize on pg_fatal() and apply it where possible.
Invent the ability to add "detail" and "hint" messages to a
frontend message, much as we have long had in the backend.
Except where rewording was needed to convert existing coding
to detail/hint style, I have (mostly) resisted the temptation
to change existing message wording.
Patch by me. Design and patch reviewed at various stages by
Robert Haas, Kyotaro Horiguchi, Peter Eisentraut and
Daniel Gustafsson.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1363732.1636496441@sss.pgh.pa.us
This option is useful to do a rewind with the server configuration file
(aka postgresql.conf) located outside the data directory, which is
something that some Linux distributions and some HA tools like to rely
on. As a result, this can simplify the logic around a rewind by
avoiding the copy of such files before running pg_rewind.
This option affects pg_rewind when it internally starts the target
cluster with some "postgres" commands, adding -c config_file=FILE to the
command strings generated, when:
- retrieving a restore_command using a "postgres -C" command for
-c/--restore-target-wal.
- forcing crash recovery once to get the cluster into a clean shutdown
state.
Author: Gunnar "Nick" Bluth
Reviewed-by: Michael Banck, Alexander Kukushkin, Michael Paquier,
Alexander Alekseev
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/7c59265d-ac50-b0aa-ca1e-65e8bd27642a@pro-open.de
There's a race condition if a file changes in the source system
after we have collected the file list. If the file becomes larger,
we only fetched up to its original size. That can easily result in
a truncated file. That's not a problem for relation files, files
in pg_xact, etc. because any actions on them will be replayed from
the WAL. However, configuration files are affected.
This commit mitigates the race condition by fetching small files in
whole, even if they have grown. A test is added in which an extra
file copied is concurrently grown with the output of pg_rewind thus
guaranteeing it to have changed in size during the operation. This
is not a full fix: we still believe the original file size for files
larger than 1 MB. That should be enough for configuration files,
and doing more than that would require big changes to the chunking
logic in libpq_source.c.
This mitigates the race condition if the file is modified between
the original scan of files and copying the file, but there's still
a race condition if a file is changed while it's being copied.
That's a much smaller window, though, and pg_basebackup has the
same issue.
This race can be seen with pg_auto_failover, which frequently uses
ALTER SYSTEM, which updates postgresql.auto.conf. Often, pg_rewind
will fail, because the postgresql.auto.conf file changed concurrently
and a partial version of it was copied to the target. The partial
file would fail to parse, preventing the server from starting up.
Author: Heikki Linnakangas
Reviewed-by: Cary Huang
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/f67feb24-5833-88cb-1020-19a4a2b83ac7%40iki.fi
pg_rewind generates and executes internally up to two commands to work
on the target cluster, depending on the options given by its caller:
- postgres -C to retrieve the value of restore_command, when using
-c/--restore-target-wal.
- postgres --single to enforce recovery once and get the target cluster
in a clean shutdown state.
Both commands have been applying incorrect quoting rules, which could
lead to failures when for example using a target data directory with
unexpected characters like CRLFs. Those commands are now generated with
PQExpBuffer, making use of string_utils.h to quote those commands as
they should. We may extend those commands in the future with more
options, so this makes any upcoming additions easier.
This is arguably a bug fix, but nobody has complained about the existing
code being a problem either, so no backpatch is done.
Extracted from a larger patch by the same author.
Author: Gunnar "Nick" Bluth
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/7c59265d-ac50-b0aa-ca1e-65e8bd27642a@pro-open.de
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.
If the target is a standby server, its WAL doesn't end at the last
checkpoint record, but at minRecoveryPoint. We must scan all the
WAL from the last common checkpoint all the way up to minRecoveryPoint
for modified pages, and also consider that portion when determining
whether the server needs rewinding.
Backpatch to all supported versions.
Author: Ian Barwick and me
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CABvVfJU-LDWvoz4-Yow3Ay5LZYTuPD7eSjjE4kGyNZpXC6FrVQ%40mail.gmail.com
Using a hot standby server as the source has not been possible, because
pg_rewind creates a temporary table in the source system, to hold the
list of file ranges that need to be fetched. Refactor it to queue up the
file fetch requests in pg_rewind's memory, so that the temporary table
is no longer needed.
Also update the logic to compute 'minRecoveryPoint' correctly, when the
source is a standby server.
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi, Soumyadeep Chakraborty
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/0c5b3783-af52-3ee5-f8fa-6e794061f70d%40iki.fi
This makes the abstraction of a "source" server more clear, by introducing
a common abstract class, borrowing the object-oriented programming term,
that represents all the operations that can be done on the source server.
There are two implementations of it, one for fetching via libpq, and
another to fetch from a local directory. This adds some code, but makes it
easier to understand what's going on.
The copy_executeFileMap() and libpq_executeFileMap() functions contained
basically the same logic, just calling different functions to fetch the
source files. Refactor so that the common logic is in one place, in a new
function called perform_rewind().
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi, Soumyadeep Chakraborty
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/0c5b3783-af52-3ee5-f8fa-6e794061f70d%40iki.fi
Deciding what to do with each file is now a separate step after all the
necessary information has been gathered. It is more clear that way.
Previously, the decision-making was divided between process_source_file()
and process_target_file(), and it was a bit hard to piece together what
the overall rules were.
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi, Soumyadeep Chakraborty
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/0c5b3783-af52-3ee5-f8fa-6e794061f70d%40iki.fi
Instead of hard-wiring specific verbosity levels into the option
processing of client applications, invent pg_logging_increase_verbosity()
and encourage clients to implement --verbose by calling that. Then,
the common convention that more -v's gets you more verbosity just works.
In particular, this allows resurrection of the debug-grade messages that
have long existed in pg_dump and its siblings. They were unreachable
before this commit due to lack of a way to select PG_LOG_DEBUG logging
level. (It appears that they may have been unreachable for some time
before common/logging.c was introduced, too, so I'm not specifically
blaming cc8d41511 for the oversight. One reason for thinking that is
that it's now apparent that _allocAH()'s message needs a null-pointer
guard. Testing might have failed to reveal that before 96bf88d52.)
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1173106.1600116625@sss.pgh.pa.us
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
There were a few different ways to line-wrap the error messages. Make
them all the same, and use placeholders for the actual program names,
to save translation work.
readOneRecord() is used now when looking for a checkpoint record to
check if the target server is an ancestor of the source across multiple
timelines, and using a restore_command if available improves the
stability of the operation. This part was missed in a7e8ece.
Reported-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200421.150830.1410714948345179794.horikyota.ntt@gmail.com
pg_rewind needs to copy from the source cluster to the target cluster a
set of relation blocks changed from the previous checkpoint where WAL
forked up to the end of WAL on the target. Building this list of
relation blocks requires a range of WAL segments that may not be present
anymore on the target's pg_wal, causing pg_rewind to fail. It is
possible to work around this issue by copying manually the WAL segments
needed but this may lead to some extra and actually useless work.
This commit introduces a new option allowing pg_rewind to use a
restore_command while doing the rewind by grabbing the parameter value
of restore_command from the target cluster configuration. This allows
the rewind operation to be more reliable, so as only the WAL segments
needed by the rewind are restored from the archives.
In order to be able to do that, a new routine is added to src/common/ to
allow frontend tools to restore files from archives using an
already-built restore command. This version is more simple than the
backend equivalent as there is no need to handle the non-recovery case.
Author: Alexey Kondratov
Reviewed-by: Andrey Borodin, Andres Freund, Alvaro Herrera, Alexander
Korotkov, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a3acff50-5a0d-9a2c-b3b2-ee36168955c1@postgrespro.ru
This includes a couple of changes around the new behavior of pg_rewind
which enforces recovery to happen once on a cluster not shut down
cleanly:
- Some comments and documentation improvements.
- Shutdown the cluster to rewind with immediate mode in all the tests,
this allows to check after the forced recovery behavior which is wanted
as new default.
- Use -F for the forced recovery step, so as postgres does not use
fsync. This was useless as a final sync is done once the tool is done.
Author: Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Alexey Kondratov
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20191004083721.GA1829@paquier.xyz
This fixes two issues with recent features added in pg_rewind:
- --dry-run should do nothing on the target directory, but 927474c
forgot to consider that for --write-recovery-conf.
- --no-ensure-shutdown was not actually working. There is no test
coverage for this option yet, but a subsequent patch will add that.
Author: Alexey Kondratov
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/7ca88204-3e0b-2f4c-c8af-acadc4b266e5@postgrespro.ru
Even if --dry-run mode was specified, the control file was getting
updated, preventing follow-up runs of pg_rewind to work properly on the
target data folder. The origin of the problem came from the refactoring
done by ce6afc6.
Author: Alexey Kondratov
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/7ca88204-3e0b-2f4c-c8af-acadc4b266e5@postgrespro.ru
Backpatch-through: 12
If we don't do this, the rewind fails if the server wasn't cleanly shut
down, which seems unhelpful serving no purpose.
Also provide a new option --no-ensure-shutdown to suppress this
behavior, for alleged advanced usage that prefers to avoid the crash
recovery.
Authors: Paul Guo, Jimmy Yih, Ashwin Agrawal
Reviewed-by: Álvaro Herrera
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEET0ZEffUkXc48pg2iqARQgGRYDiiVxDu+yYek_bTwJF+q=Uw@mail.gmail.com
Amit Kapila
Daniel Gustafsson
Bruce Momjian
Peter Eisentraut
Nathan Bossart
Heikki Linnakangas
Tom Lane
Michael Paquier
Alvaro Herrera