Macs don't understand O_DIRECT, but they can disable caching with a
separate fcntl() call. Extend the file opening functions in fd.c to
handle this for us if the caller passes in PG_O_DIRECT.
For now, this affects only WAL data and even then only if you set:
max_wal_senders=0
wal_level=minimal
This is not expected to be very useful on its own, but later proposed
patches will make greater use of direct I/O, and it'll be useful for
testing if developers on Macs can see the effects.
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKG%2BADiyyHe0cun2wfT%2BSVnFVqNYPxoO6J9zcZkVO7%2BNGig%40mail.gmail.com
As of v14, pg_depend contains almost 7000 "pin" entries recording
the OIDs of built-in objects. This is a fair amount of bloat for
every database, and it adds time to pg_depend lookups as well as
initdb. We can get rid of all of those entries in favor of an OID
range check, i.e. "OIDs below FirstUnpinnedObjectId are pinned".
(template1 and the public schema are exceptions. Those exceptions
are now wired into IsPinnedObject() instead of initdb's code for
filling pg_depend, but it's the same amount of cruft either way.)
The contents of pg_shdepend are modified likewise.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3737988.1618451008@sss.pgh.pa.us
The idea behind this patch is to design out bugs like the one fixed
by commit 9d523119f. Previously, once one did RelationOpenSmgr(rel),
it was considered okay to access rel->rd_smgr directly for some
not-very-clear interval. But since that pointer will be cleared by
relcache flushes, we had bugs arising from overreliance on a previous
RelationOpenSmgr call still being effective.
Now, very little code except that in rel.h and relcache.c should ever
touch the rd_smgr field directly. The normal coding rule is to use
RelationGetSmgr(rel) and not expect the result to be valid for longer
than one smgr function call. There are a couple of places where using
the function every single time seemed like overkill, but they are now
annotated with large warning comments.
Amul Sul, after an idea of mine.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CANiYTQsU7yMFpQYnv=BrcRVqK_3U3mtAzAsJCaqtzsDHfsUbdQ@mail.gmail.com
Several places were performing a tight loop to determine the first power
of 2 number that's > or >= the required memory. Instead of using a loop
for that, we can use pg_nextpower2_32 or pg_nextpower2_64. When we need a
power of 2 number equal to or greater than a given amount, we just pass
the amount to the nextpower2 function. When we need a power of 2 greater
than the amount, we just pass the amount + 1.
Additionally, in tsearch there were a couple of locations that were
performing a while loop when a simple "if" would have done. In both of
these locations only 1 item is being added, so the loop could only have
ever iterated once. Changing the loop into an if statement makes the code
very slightly more optimal as the condition is checked once rather than
twice.
There are quite a few remaining locations that increase the size of the
buffer in the following form:
while (reqsize >= buflen)
{
buflen *= 2;
buf = repalloc(buf, buflen);
}
These are not touched in this commit. repalloc will error out for sizes
larger than MaxAllocSize. Changing these to use pg_nextpower2_32 would
remove the chance of that error being raised. It's unclear from the code
if the sizes could ever become that large, so err on the side of caution.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvp=tns7RL4PH0ZR0M+M-YFLquK7218x=0B_zO+DbOma+w@mail.gmail.com
Reviewed-by: Zhihong Yu
In dc7420c2c9 I (Andres) accidentally used
RelationIsAccessibleInLogicalDecoding() as the sole condition to use the
non-shared catalog horizon in GetOldestNonRemovableTransactionId(). That is
incorrect, as RelationIsAccessibleInLogicalDecoding() checks whether wal_level
is logical.
The correct check, as done e.g. in GlobalVisTestFor(), is to check
IsCatalogRelation() and RelationIsAccessibleInLogicalDecoding().
The observed misbehavior of this bug was that there could be an endless loop
in lazy_scan_prune(), because the horizons used in heap_page_prune() and the
individual tuple liveliness checks did not match. Likely there are other
potential consequences as well.
A later commit will unify the determination which horizon has to be used, and
add additional assertions to make it easier to catch a bug like this.
Reported-By: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Diagnosed-By: Matthias van de Meent <boekewurm+postgres@gmail.com>
Author: Matthias van de Meent <boekewurm+postgres@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEze2Wg32Y9+WJfw=aofkRx1ZRFt_Ev6bNPc4PSaz7PjSFtZgQ@mail.gmail.com
It was unable to wait on a backend that had already left the procarray.
Users tolerant of that limitation can poll pg_stat_activity. Other
users can employ the "timeout" argument of pg_terminate_backend().
Reviewed by Bharath Rupireddy.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210605013236.GA208701@rfd.leadboat.com
Revert the pg_description entry to its v13 form, since those messages
usually remain shorter and don't discuss individual parameters. No
catversion bump, since pg_description content does not impair backend
compatibility or application compatibility.
Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210612182743.GY16435@telsasoft.com
941697c3c1 changed ProcArrayAdd()/Remove() substantially. As reported by
zhanyi, I missed that due to the introduction of the PGPROC->pgxactoff
ProcArrayRemove() does not need to search for the position in
procArray->pgprocnos anymore - that's pgxactoff. Remove the search loop.
The removal of the search loop reduces assertion coverage a bit - but we can
easily do better than before by adding assertions to other loops over
pgprocnos elements.
Also do a bit of cleanup, mostly by reducing line lengths by introducing local
helper variables and adding newlines.
Author: zhanyi <w@hidva.com>
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/tencent_5624AA3B116B3D1C31CA9744@qq.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.
This set of commits has some bugs with known fixes, but at this late
stage in the release cycle it seems best to revert and resubmit next
time, along with some new automated test coverage for this whole area.
Commits reverted:
dc88460c: Doc: Review for "Optionally prefetch referenced data in recovery."
1d257577: Optionally prefetch referenced data in recovery.
f003d9f8: Add circular WAL decoding buffer.
323cbe7c: Remove read_page callback from XLogReader.
Remove the new GUC group WAL_RECOVERY recently added by a55a9847, as the
corresponding section of config.sgml is now reverted.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAOuzzgrn7iKnFRsB4MHp3UisEQAGgZMbk_ViTN4HV4-Ksq8zCg%40mail.gmail.com
If dtrace is compiled in but disabled, the lwlock dtrace probes still
evaluate their arguments. Since PostgreSQL 13, T_NAME(lock) does
nontrivial work, so it should be avoided if not needed. To fix, make
these calls conditional on the *_ENABLED() macro corresponding to each
probe.
Reviewed-by: Craig Ringer <craig.ringer@enterprisedb.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAGRY4nwxKUS_RvXFW-ugrZBYxPFFM5kjwKT5O+0+Stuga5b4+Q@mail.gmail.com
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
Introduce a new GUC recovery_prefetch, disabled by default. When
enabled, look ahead in the WAL and try to initiate asynchronous reading
of referenced data blocks that are not yet cached in our buffer pool.
For now, this is done with posix_fadvise(), which has several caveats.
Better mechanisms will follow in later work on the I/O subsystem.
The GUC maintenance_io_concurrency is used to limit the number of
concurrent I/Os we allow ourselves to initiate, based on pessimistic
heuristics used to infer that I/Os have begun and completed.
The GUC wal_decode_buffer_size is used to limit the maximum distance we
are prepared to read ahead in the WAL to find uncached blocks.
Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> (parts)
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> (parts)
Reviewed-by: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com> (parts)
Tested-by: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com>
Tested-by: Jakub Wartak <Jakub.Wartak@tomtom.com>
Tested-by: Dmitry Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Sait Talha Nisanci <Sait.Nisanci@microsoft.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGJ4VJN8ttxScUFM8dOKX0BrBiboo5uz1cq%3DAovOddfHpA%40mail.gmail.com
This adds a function, pg_wait_for_backend_termination(), and a new
timeout argument to pg_terminate_backend(), which will wait for the
backend to actually terminate (with or without signaling it to do so
depending on which function is called). The default behaviour of
pg_terminate_backend() remains being timeout=0 which does not waiting.
For pg_wait_for_backend_termination() the default wait is 5 seconds.
Author: Bharath Rupireddy
Reviewed-By: Fujii Masao, David Johnston, Muhammad Usama,
Hou Zhijie, Magnus Hagander
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALj2ACUBpunmyhYZw-kXCYs5NM+h6oG_7Df_Tn4mLmmUQifkqA@mail.gmail.com
If you know the ID of a buffer that recently held a block that you would
like to pin, this function can be used check if it's still there. It
can be used to avoid a second lookup in the buffer mapping table after
PrefetchBuffer() reports a cache hit.
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+hUKGJ4VJN8ttxScUFM8dOKX0BrBiboo5uz1cq=AovOddfHpA@mail.gmail.com
Teach VACUUM to truncate the line pointer array of each heap page when a
contiguous group of LP_UNUSED line pointers appear at the end of the
array -- these unused and unreferenced items are excluded. This process
occurs during VACUUM's second pass over the heap, right after LP_DEAD
line pointers on the page (those encountered/pruned during the first
pass) are marked LP_UNUSED.
Truncation avoids line pointer bloat with certain workloads,
particularly those involving continual range DELETEs and bulk INSERTs
against the same table.
Also harden heapam code to check for an out-of-range page offset number
in places where we weren't already doing so.
Author: Matthias van de Meent <boekewurm+postgres@gmail.com>
Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Reviewed-By: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEze2WjgaQc55Y5f5CQd3L=eS5CZcff2Obxp=O6pto8-f0hC4w@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-Wzn6a64PJM1Ggzm=uvx2otsopJMhFQj_g1rAj4GWr3ZSzw@mail.gmail.com
Snapshot caching, introduced in 623a9ba79b, did not increment
xactCompletionCount during subtransaction abort. That could lead to an older
snapshot being reused. That is, at least as far as I can see, not a
correctness issue (for MVCC snapshots there's no difference between "in
progress" and "aborted"). The only difference between the old and new
snapshots would be a newer ->xmax.
While HeapTupleSatisfiesMVCC makes the same visibility determination, reusing
the old snapshot leads HeapTupleSatisfiesMVCC to not set
HEAP_XMIN_INVALID. Which subsequently causes the kill_prior_tuple optimization
to not kick in (via HeapTupleIsSurelyDead() returning false). The performance
effects of doing the same index-lookups over and over again is how the issue
was discovered...
Fix the issue by incrementing xactCompletionCount in
XidCacheRemoveRunningXids. It already acquires ProcArrayLock exclusively,
making that an easy proposition.
Add a test to ensure that kill_prior_tuple prevents index growth when it
involves aborted subtransaction of the current transaction.
Author: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210406043521.lopeo7bbigad3n6t@alap3.anarazel.de
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210317055718.v6qs3ltzrformqoa%40alap3.anarazel.de
Commit 3e98c0bafb added pg_backend_memory_contexts view to display
the memory contexts of the backend process. However its target process
is limited to the backend that is accessing to the view. So this is
not so convenient when investigating the local memory bloat of other
backend process. To improve this situation, this commit adds
pg_log_backend_memory_contexts() function that requests to log
the memory contexts of the specified backend process.
This information can be also collected by calling
MemoryContextStats(TopMemoryContext) via a debugger. But
this technique cannot be used in some environments because no debugger
is available there. So, pg_log_backend_memory_contexts() allows us to
see the memory contexts of specified backend more easily.
Only superusers are allowed to request to log the memory contexts
because allowing any users to issue this request at an unbounded rate
would cause lots of log messages and which can lead to denial of service.
On receipt of the request, at the next CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS(),
the target backend logs its memory contexts at LOG_SERVER_ONLY level,
so that these memory contexts will appear in the server log but not
be sent to the client. It logs one message per memory context.
Because if it buffers all memory contexts into StringInfo to log them
as one message, which may require the buffer to be enlarged very much
and lead to OOM error since there can be a large number of memory
contexts in a backend.
When a backend process is consuming huge memory, logging all its
memory contexts might overrun available disk space. To prevent this,
now this patch limits the number of child contexts to log per parent
to 100. As with MemoryContextStats(), it supposes that practical cases
where the log gets long will typically be huge numbers of siblings
under the same parent context; while the additional debugging value
from seeing details about individual siblings beyond 100 will not be large.
There was another proposed patch to add the function to return
the memory contexts of specified backend as the result sets,
instead of logging them, in the discussion. However that patch is
not included in this commit because it had several issues to address.
Thanks to Tatsuhito Kasahara, Andres Freund, Tom Lane, Tomas Vondra,
Michael Paquier, Kyotaro Horiguchi and Zhihong Yu for the discussion.
Bump catalog version.
Author: Atsushi Torikoshi
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi, Zhihong Yu, Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/0271f440ac77f2a4180e0e56ebd944d1@oss.nttdata.com
Maxim Orlov reported that the shutdown of standby server could result in
the following assertion failure. The cause of this issue was that,
when the shutdown caused the startup process to exit, recovery-time
transaction tracking was not shut down even if it's already initialized,
and some locks the tracked transactions were holding could not be released.
At this situation, if other process was invoked and the PGPROC entry that
the startup process used was assigned to it, it found such unreleased locks
and caused the assertion failure, during the initialization of it.
TRAP: FailedAssertion("SHMQueueEmpty(&(MyProc->myProcLocks[i]))"
This commit fixes this issue by making the startup process shut down
transaction tracking and release all locks, at the exit of it.
Back-patch to all supported branches.
Reported-by: Maxim Orlov
Author: Fujii Masao
Reviewed-by: Maxim Orlov
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ad4ce692cc1d89a093b471ab1d969b0b@postgrespro.ru
pgstat_report_wait_start() and pgstat_report_wait_end() required two
conditional branches so far. One to check if MyProc is NULL, the other to
check if pgstat_track_activities is set. As wait events are used around
comparatively lightweight operations, and are inlined (reducing branch
predictor effectiveness), that's not great.
The dependency on MyProc has a second disadvantage: Low-level subsystems, like
storage/file/fd.c, report wait events, but architecturally it is preferable
for them to not depend on inter-process subsystems like proc.h (defining
PGPROC). After this change including pgstat.h (nor obviously its
sub-components like backend_status.h, wait_event.h, ...) does not pull in IPC
related headers anymore.
These goals, efficiency and abstraction, are achieved by having
pgstat_report_wait_start/end() not interact with MyProc, but instead a new
my_wait_event_info variable. At backend startup it points to a local variable,
removing the need to check for MyProc being NULL. During process
initialization my_wait_event_info is redirected to MyProc->wait_event_info. At
shutdown this is reversed. Because wait event reporting now does not need to
know about where the wait event is stored, it does not need to know about
PGPROC anymore.
The removal of the branch for checking pgstat_track_activities is simpler:
Don't check anymore. The cost due to the branch are often higher than the
store - and even if not, pgstat_track_activities is rarely disabled.
The main motivator to commit this work now is that removing the (indirect)
pgproc.h include from pgstat.h simplifies a patch to move statistics reporting
to shared memory (which still has a chance to get into 14).
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210402194458.2vu324hkk2djq6ce@alap3.anarazel.de
This implements asynchronous execution, which runs multiple parts of a
non-parallel-aware Append concurrently rather than serially to improve
performance when possible. Currently, the only node type that can be
run concurrently is a ForeignScan that is an immediate child of such an
Append. In the case where such ForeignScans access data on different
remote servers, this would run those ForeignScans concurrently, and
overlap the remote operations to be performed simultaneously, so it'll
improve the performance especially when the operations involve
time-consuming ones such as remote join and remote aggregation.
We may extend this to other node types such as joins or aggregates over
ForeignScans in the future.
This also adds the support for postgres_fdw, which is enabled by the
table-level/server-level option "async_capable". The default is false.
Robert Haas, Kyotaro Horiguchi, Thomas Munro, and myself. This commit
is mostly based on the patch proposed by Robert Haas, but also uses
stuff from the patch proposed by Kyotaro Horiguchi and from the patch
proposed by Thomas Munro. Reviewed by Kyotaro Horiguchi, Konstantin
Knizhnik, Andrey Lepikhov, Movead Li, Thomas Munro, Justin Pryzby, and
others.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BTgmoaXQEt4tZ03FtQhnzeDEMzBck%2BLrni0UWHVVgOTnA6C1w%40mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGLBRyu0rHrDCMC4%3DRn3252gogyp1SjOgG8SEKKZv%3DFwfQ%40mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200228.170650.667613673625155850.horikyota.ntt%40gmail.com
This commit is mostly a revert of aaa3aed, that switched the routine
doing the internal renaming of recycled WAL segments to use on Windows a
combination of CreateHardLinkA() plus unlink() instead of rename(). As
reported by several users of Postgres 13, this is causing concurrency
issues when manipulating WAL segments, mostly in the shape of the
following error:
LOG: could not rename file "pg_wal/000000XX000000YY000000ZZ":
Permission denied
This moves back to a logic where a single rename() (well, pgrename() for
Windows) is used. This issue has proved to be hard to hit when I tested
it, facing it only once with an archive_command that was not able to do
its work, so it is environment-sensitive. The reporters of this issue
have been able to confirm that the situation improved once we switched
back to a single rename(). In order to check things, I have provided to
the reporters a patched build based on 13.2 with aaa3aed reverted, to
test if the error goes away, and an unpatched build of 13.2 to test if
the error still showed up (just to make sure that I did not mess up my
build process).
Extra thanks to Fujii Masao for pointing out what looked like the
culprit commit, and to all the reporters for taking the time to test
what I have sent them.
Reported-by: Andrus, Guy Burgess, Yaroslav Pashinsky, Thomas Trenz
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane, Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3861ff1e-0923-7838-e826-094cc9bef737@hot.ee
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16874-c3eecd319e36a2bf@postgresql.org
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/095ccf8d-7f58-d928-427c-b17ace23cae6@burgess.co.nz
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16927-67c570d968c99567%40postgresql.org
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/YFBcRbnBiPdGZvfW@paquier.xyz
Backpatch-through: 13
Since commit 2ce439f3 we have opened every file in the data directory
and called fsync() at the start of crash recovery. This can be very
slow if there are many files, leading to field complaints of systems
taking minutes or even hours to begin crash recovery.
Provide an alternative method, for Linux only, where we call syncfs() on
every possibly different filesystem under the data directory. This is
equivalent, but avoids faulting in potentially many inodes from
potentially slow storage.
The new mode comes with some caveats, described in the documentation, so
the default value for the new setting is "fsync", preserving the older
behavior.
Reported-by: Michael Brown <michael.brown@discourse.org>
Reviewed-by: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@oss.nttdata.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Guo <guopa@vmware.com>
Reviewed-by: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Reviewed-by: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Reviewed-by: David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/11bc2bb7-ecb5-3ad0-b39f-df632734cd81%40discourse.org
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEET0ZHGnbXmi8yF3ywsDZvb3m9CbdsGZgfTXscQ6agcbzcZAw%40mail.gmail.com
After a crash of a backend using temporary files, the files used to be
left behind, on the basis that it might be useful for debugging. But we
don't have any reports of anyone actually doing that, and it means the
disk usage may grow over time due to repeated backend failures (possibly
even hitting ENOSPC). So this behavior is a bit unfortunate, and fixing
it required either manual cleanup (deleting files, which is error-prone)
or restart of the instance (i.e. service disruption).
This implements automatic cleanup of temporary files, controled by a new
GUC remove_temp_files_after_crash. By default the files are removed, but
it can be disabled to restore the old behavior if needed.
Author: Euler Taveira
Reviewed-by: Tomas Vondra, Michael Paquier, Anastasia Lubennikova, Thomas Munro
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH503wDKdYzyq7U-QJqGn%3DGm6XmoK%2B6_6xTJ-Yn5WSvoHLY1Ww%40mail.gmail.com
This commit changes WAL archiver process so that it's treated as
an auxiliary process and can use shared memory. This is an infrastructure
patch required for upcoming shared-memory based stats collector patch
series. These patch series basically need any processes including archiver
that can report the statistics to access to shared memory. Since this patch
itself is useful to simplify the code and when users monitor the status of
archiver, it's committed separately in advance.
This commit simplifies the code for WAL archiving. For example, previously
backends need to signal to archiver via postmaster when they notify
archiver that there are some WAL files to archive. On the other hand,
this commit removes that signal to postmaster and enables backends to
notify archier directly using shared latch.
Also, as the side of this change, the information about archiver process
becomes viewable at pg_stat_activity view.
Author: Kyotaro Horiguchi
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund, Álvaro Herrera, Julien Rouhaud, Tomas Vondra, Arthur Zakirov, Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180629.173418.190173462.horiguchi.kyotaro@lab.ntt.co.jp
1. Backends waiting for buffer I/O are now interruptible.
2. If something goes wrong in a backend that is currently performing
I/O, waiting backends no longer wake up until that backend reaches
AbortBufferIO() and broadcasts on the CV. Previously, any waiters would
wake up (because the I/O lock was automatically released) and then
busy-loop until AbortBufferIO() cleared BM_IO_IN_PROGRESS.
3. LWLockMinimallyPadded is removed, as it would now be unused.
Author: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> (earlier version, 2016)
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGJ8nBFrjLuCTuqKN0pd2PQOwj9b_jnsiGFFMDvUxahj_A%40mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+Tgmoaj2aPti0yho7FeEf2qt-JgQPRWb0gci_o1Hfr=C56Xng@mail.gmail.com
Cut down on system calls and other overheads by waiting for SIGURG
explicitly with kqueue instead of using a signal handler and self-pipe.
Affects *BSD and macOS systems.
This leaves only the poll implementation with a signal handler and the
traditional self-pipe trick.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+hUKGJjxPDpzBE0a3hyUywBvaZuC89yx3jK9RFZgfv_KHU7gg@mail.gmail.com
Cut down on system calls and other overheads by reading from a signalfd
instead of using a signal handler and self-pipe. Affects Linux sytems,
and possibly others including illumos that implement the Linux epoll and
signalfd interfaces.
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+hUKGJjxPDpzBE0a3hyUywBvaZuC89yx3jK9RFZgfv_KHU7gg@mail.gmail.com
Traditionally, SIGUSR1 has been overloaded for ad-hoc signals,
procsignal.c signals and latch.c wakeups. Move that last use over to a
new dedicated signal. SIGURG is normally used to report out-of-band
socket data, but PostgreSQL doesn't use that facility.
The signal handler is now installed in all postmaster children by
InitializeLatchSupport(). Those wishing to disconnect from it should
call ShutdownLatchSupport().
Future patches will use this separation of signals to avoid the need for
a signal handler on some operating systems.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+hUKGJjxPDpzBE0a3hyUywBvaZuC89yx3jK9RFZgfv_KHU7gg@mail.gmail.com
Commit 82ebbeb0 added a workaround for systems with no epoll_create1()
and EPOLL_CLOEXEC. Linux < 2.6.27 and glibc < 2.9 are long gone. Now
seems like a good time to drop the extra code, because otherwise we'd
have to add similar already-dead workaround code to new patches using
XXX_CLOEXEC flags that arrived in the same kernel release.
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGKL_%3DaO%3Dr30N%3Ds9VoDgTqHpRSzePRbA9dkYO7snc7HsxA%40mail.gmail.com
This adds a new executor node named TID Range Scan. The query planner
will generate paths for TID Range scans when quals are discovered on base
relations which search for ranges on the table's ctid column. These
ranges may be open at either end. For example, WHERE ctid >= '(10,0)';
will return all tuples on page 10 and over.
To support this, two new optional callback functions have been added to
table AM. scan_set_tidrange is used to set the scan range to just the
given range of TIDs. scan_getnextslot_tidrange fetches the next tuple
in the given range.
For AMs were scanning ranges of TIDs would not make sense, these functions
can be set to NULL in the TableAmRoutine. The query planner won't
generate TID Range Scan Paths in that case.
Author: Edmund Horner, David Rowley
Reviewed-by: David Rowley, Tomas Vondra, Tom Lane, Andres Freund, Zhihong Yu
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMyN-kB-nFTkF=VA_JPwFNo08S0d-Yk0F741S2B7LDmYAi8eyA@mail.gmail.com
Otherwise we risk "leaking" deleted pages by making them non-recyclable
indefinitely. Commit 6655a729 did the same thing for deleted pages in
GiST indexes. That work was used as a starting point here.
Stop storing an XID indicating the oldest bpto.xact across all deleted
though unrecycled pages in nbtree metapages. There is no longer any
reason to care about that condition/the oldest XID. It only ever made
sense when wraparound was something _bt_vacuum_needs_cleanup() had to
consider.
The btm_oldest_btpo_xact metapage field has been repurposed and renamed.
It is now btm_last_cleanup_num_delpages, which is used to remember how
many non-recycled deleted pages remain from the last VACUUM (in practice
its value is usually the precise number of pages that were _newly
deleted_ during the specific VACUUM operation that last set the field).
The general idea behind storing btm_last_cleanup_num_delpages is to use
it to give _some_ consideration to non-recycled deleted pages inside
_bt_vacuum_needs_cleanup() -- though never too much. We only really
need to avoid leaving a truly excessive number of deleted pages in an
unrecycled state forever. We only do this to cover certain narrow cases
where no other factor makes VACUUM do a full scan, and yet the index
continues to grow (and so actually misses out on recycling existing
deleted pages).
These metapage changes result in a clear user-visible benefit: We no
longer trigger full index scans during VACUUM operations solely due to
the presence of only 1 or 2 known deleted (though unrecycled) blocks
from a very large index. All that matters now is keeping the costs and
benefits in balance over time.
Fix an issue that has been around since commit 857f9c36, which added the
"skip full scan of index" mechanism (i.e. the _bt_vacuum_needs_cleanup()
logic). The accuracy of btm_last_cleanup_num_heap_tuples accidentally
hinged upon _when_ the source value gets stored. We now always store
btm_last_cleanup_num_heap_tuples in btvacuumcleanup(). This fixes the
issue because IndexVacuumInfo.num_heap_tuples (the source field) is
expected to accurately indicate the state of the table _after_ the
VACUUM completes inside btvacuumcleanup().
A backpatchable fix cannot easily be extracted from this commit. A
targeted fix for the issue will follow in a later commit, though that
won't happen today.
I (pgeoghegan) have chosen to remove any mention of deleted pages in the
documentation of the vacuum_cleanup_index_scale_factor GUC/param, since
the presence of deleted (though unrecycled) pages is no longer of much
concern to users. The vacuum_cleanup_index_scale_factor description in
the docs now seems rather unclear in any case, and it should probably be
rewritten in the near future. Perhaps some passing mention of page
deletion will be added back at the same time.
Bump XLOG_PAGE_MAGIC due to nbtree WAL records using full XIDs now.
Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Reviewed-By: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-WznpdHvujGUwYZ8sihX=d5u-tRYhi-F4wnV2uN2zHpMUXw@mail.gmail.com
As envisioned in commit c98763bf51, it is possible for VACUUM to
ignore certain transactions that are executing CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY
and REINDEX CONCURRENTLY for the purposes of computing Xmin; that's
because we know those transactions are not going to examine any other
tables, and are not going to execute anything else in the same
transaction. (Only operations on "safe" indexes can be ignored: those
on indexes that are neither partial nor expressional).
This is extremely useful in cases where CIC/RC can run for a very long
time, because that used to be a significant headache for concurrent
vacuuming of other tables.
Reviewed-by: Matthias van de Meent <boekewurm+postgres@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210115133858.GA18931@alvherre.pgsql
Commit 46d6e5f567 added the atomic variable "waitStart" into PGPROC struct,
to store the time at which wait for lock acquisition started. Previously
this variable was initialized every time each backend started. Instead,
this commit makes postmaster initialize it at the startup, to ensure that
the variable should be initialized before any use of it.
This commit also moves the code to initialize "waitStart" variable for
prepare transaction, from TwoPhaseGetDummyProc() to MarkAsPreparingGuts().
Because MarkAsPreparingGuts() is more proper place to do that since
it initializes other PGPROC variables.
Author: Fujii Masao
Reviewed-by: Atsushi Torikoshi
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1df88660-6f08-cc6e-b7e2-f85296a2bdab@oss.nttdata.com
This commit adds new column "waitstart" into pg_locks view. This column
reports the time when the server process started waiting for the lock
if the lock is not held. This information is useful, for example, when
examining the amount of time to wait on a lock by subtracting
"waitstart" in pg_locks from the current time, and identify the lock
that the processes are waiting for very long.
This feature uses the current time obtained for the deadlock timeout
timer as "waitstart" (i.e., the time when this process started waiting
for the lock). Since getting the current time newly can cause overhead,
we reuse the already-obtained time to avoid that overhead.
Note that "waitstart" is updated without holding the lock table's
partition lock, to avoid the overhead by additional lock acquisition.
This can cause "waitstart" in pg_locks to become NULL for a very short
period of time after the wait started even though "granted" is false.
This is OK in practice because we can assume that users are likely to
look at "waitstart" when waiting for the lock for a long time.
The first attempt of this patch (commit 3b733fcd04) caused the buildfarm
member "rorqual" (built with --disable-atomics --disable-spinlocks) to report
the failure of the regression test. It was reverted by commit 890d2182a2.
The cause of this failure was that the atomic variable for "waitstart"
in the dummy process entry created at the end of prepare transaction was
not initialized. This second attempt fixes that issue.
Bump catalog version.
Author: Atsushi Torikoshi
Reviewed-by: Ian Lawrence Barwick, Robert Haas, Justin Pryzby, Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a96013dc51cdc56b2a2b84fa8a16a993@oss.nttdata.com
While cleaning up after a parallel query or parallel index creation that
created temporary files, we could be interrupted by a statement timeout.
The error handling path would then fail to clean up the files when it
ran dsm_detach() again, because the callback was already popped off the
list. Prevent this hazard by holding interrupts while the cleanup code
runs.
Thanks to Heikki Linnakangas for this suggestion, and also to Kyotaro
Horiguchi, Masahiko Sawada, Justin Pryzby and Tom Lane for discussion of
this and earlier ideas on how to fix the problem.
Back-patch to all supported releases.
Reported-by: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20191212180506.GR2082@telsasoft.com
This commit adds new column "waitstart" into pg_locks view. This column
reports the time when the server process started waiting for the lock
if the lock is not held. This information is useful, for example, when
examining the amount of time to wait on a lock by subtracting
"waitstart" in pg_locks from the current time, and identify the lock
that the processes are waiting for very long.
This feature uses the current time obtained for the deadlock timeout
timer as "waitstart" (i.e., the time when this process started waiting
for the lock). Since getting the current time newly can cause overhead,
we reuse the already-obtained time to avoid that overhead.
Note that "waitstart" is updated without holding the lock table's
partition lock, to avoid the overhead by additional lock acquisition.
This can cause "waitstart" in pg_locks to become NULL for a very short
period of time after the wait started even though "granted" is false.
This is OK in practice because we can assume that users are likely to
look at "waitstart" when waiting for the lock for a long time.
Bump catalog version.
Author: Atsushi Torikoshi
Reviewed-by: Ian Lawrence Barwick, Robert Haas, Justin Pryzby, Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a96013dc51cdc56b2a2b84fa8a16a993@oss.nttdata.com
GlobalVisIsRemovableFullXid() is now GlobalVisCheckRemovableFullXid().
This is consistent with the general convention for FullTransactionId
equivalents of functions that deal with TransactionId values. It now
matches the nearby GlobalVisCheckRemovableXid() function, which performs
the same check for callers that use TransactionId values.
Oversight in commit dc7420c2c9.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-Wzmes12jFNDcVgpU89Vp=r6uLFrE-MT0fjSWGsE70UiNaA@mail.gmail.com
In a cluster having used CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY while having enabled
prepared transactions, queries that use the resulting index can silently
fail to find rows. Fix this for future CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY by
making it wait for prepared transactions like it waits for ordinary
transactions. This expands the VirtualTransactionId structure domain to
admit prepared transactions. It may be necessary to reindex to recover
from past occurrences. Back-patch to 9.5 (all supported versions).
Andrey Borodin, reviewed (in earlier versions) by Tom Lane and Michael
Paquier.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2E712143-97F7-4890-B470-4A35142ABC82@yandex-team.ru
Up until now, we've held this lock when performing a checkpoint or
restartpoint, but commit 076a055acf back
in 2004 and commit 7e48b77b1c from 2009,
taken together, have removed all need for this. In the present code,
there's only ever one process entitled to attempt a checkpoint: either
the checkpointer, during normal operation, or the postmaster, during
single-user operation. So, we don't need the lock.
One possible concern in making this change is that it means that
a substantial amount of code where HOLD_INTERRUPTS() was previously
in effect due to the preceding LWLockAcquire() will now be
running without that. This could mean that ProcessInterrupts()
gets called in places from which it didn't before. However, this
seems unlikely to do very much, because the checkpointer doesn't
have any signal mapped to die(), so it's not clear how,
for example, ProcDiePending = true could happen in the first
place. Similarly with ClientConnectionLost and recovery conflicts.
Also, if there are any such problems, we might want to fix them
rather than reverting this, since running lots of code with
interrupt handling suspended is generally bad.
Patch by me, per an inquiry by Amul Sul. Review by Tom Lane
and Michael Paquier.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAAJ_b97XnBBfYeSREDJorFsyoD1sHgqnNuCi=02mNQBUMnA=FA@mail.gmail.com
Previously, the per-barrier-type functions tasked with absorbing
them were expected to always succeed and never throw an error.
However, that's a bit inconvenient. Further study has revealed that
there are realistic cases where it might not be possible to absorb
a ProcSignalBarrier without terminating the transaction, or even
the whole backend. Similarly, for some barrier types, there might
be other reasons where it's not reasonably possible to absorb the
barrier at certain points in the code, so provide a way for a
per-barrier-type function to reject absorbing the barrier.
Unfortunately, there's still no committed code making use of this
infrastructure; hopefully, we'll get there. :-(
Patch by me, reviewed by Andres Freund and Amul Sul.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/20200908182005.xya7wetdh3pndzim@alap3.anarazel.de
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+Tgmob56Pk1-5aTJdVPCWFHon7me4M96ENpGe9n_R4JUjjhZA@mail.gmail.com
Every core SLRU wraps around. With the exception of pg_notify, the wrap
point can fall in the middle of a page. Account for this in the
PagePrecedes callback specification and in SimpleLruTruncate()'s use of
said callback. Update each callback implementation to fit the new
specification. This changes SerialPagePrecedesLogically() from the
style of asyncQueuePagePrecedes() to the style of CLOGPagePrecedes().
(Whereas pg_clog and pg_serial share a key space, pg_serial is nothing
like pg_notify.) The bug fixed here has the same symptoms and user
followup steps as 592a589a04. Back-patch
to 9.5 (all supported versions).
Reviewed by Andrey Borodin and (in earlier versions) by Tom Lane.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190202083822.GC32531@gust.leadboat.com
macOS's ranlib issued a warning about an empty pread.o file with the
previous arrangement, on systems new enough to require no replacement
functions. Let's go back to using configure's AC_REPLACE_FUNCS system
to build and include each .o in the library only if it's needed, which
requires moving the *v() functions to their own files.
Also move the _with_retry() wrapper to a more permanent home.
Reported-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1283127.1610554395%40sss.pgh.pa.us
This is a follow-up of the work done in commit 0650ff2303. This commit
extends log_recovery_conflict_waits so that a log message is produced
also when recovery conflict has already been resolved after deadlock_timeout
passes, i.e., when the startup process finishes waiting for recovery
conflict after deadlock_timeout. This is useful in investigating how long
recovery conflicts prevented the recovery from applying WAL.
Author: Fujii Masao
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi, Bertrand Drouvot
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/9a60178c-a853-1440-2cdc-c3af916cff59@amazon.com
Similar to commit d6ad34f341, this patch optimizes
DropRelFileNodesAllBuffers() by avoiding the complete buffer pool scan and
instead find the buffers to be invalidated by doing lookups in the
BufMapping table.
This optimization helps operations where the relation files need to be
removed like Truncate, Drop, Abort of Create Table, etc.
Author: Kirk Jamison
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi, Takayuki Tsunakawa, and Amit Kapila
Tested-By: Haiying Tang
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/OSBPR01MB3207DCA7EC725FDD661B3EDAEF660@OSBPR01MB3207.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com
The recovery path of DropRelFileNodeBuffers() is optimized so that
scanning of the whole buffer pool can be avoided when the number of
blocks to be truncated in a relation is below a certain threshold. For
such cases, we find the buffers by doing lookups in BufMapping table.
This improves the performance by more than 100 times in many cases
when several small tables (tested with 1000 relations) are truncated
and where the server is configured with a large value of shared
buffers (greater than equal to 100GB).
This optimization helps cases (a) when vacuum or autovacuum truncated off
any of the empty pages at the end of a relation, or (b) when the relation is
truncated in the same transaction in which it was created.
This commit introduces a new API smgrnblocks_cached which returns a cached
value for the number of blocks in a relation fork. This helps us to determine
the exact size of relation which is required to apply this optimization. The
exact size is required to ensure that we don't leave any buffer for the
relation being dropped as otherwise the background writer or checkpointer
can lead to a PANIC error while flushing buffers corresponding to files that
don't exist.
Author: Kirk Jamison based on ideas by Amit Kapila
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi, Takayuki Tsunakawa, and Amit Kapila
Tested-By: Haiying Tang
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/OSBPR01MB3207DCA7EC725FDD661B3EDAEF660@OSBPR01MB3207.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com
This commit adds GUC log_recovery_conflict_waits that controls whether
a log message is produced when the startup process is waiting longer than
deadlock_timeout for recovery conflicts. This is useful in determining
if recovery conflicts prevent the recovery from applying WAL.
Note that currently a log message is produced only when recovery conflict
has not been resolved yet even after deadlock_timeout passes, i.e.,
only when the startup process is still waiting for recovery conflict
even after deadlock_timeout.
Author: Bertrand Drouvot, Masahiko Sawada
Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera, Kyotaro Horiguchi, Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/9a60178c-a853-1440-2cdc-c3af916cff59@amazon.com
This GUC variable works much like idle_in_transaction_session_timeout,
in that it kills sessions that have waited too long for a new client
query. But it applies when we're not in a transaction, rather than
when we are.
Li Japin, reviewed by David Johnston and Hayato Kuroda, some
fixes by me
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/763A0689-F189-459E-946F-F0EC4458980B@hotmail.com
The deadlocks that the recovery conflict on lock is involved in can
happen between hot-standby backends and the startup process.
If a backend takes an access exclusive lock on the table and which
finally triggers the deadlock, that deadlock can be detected
as expected. On the other hand, previously, if the startup process
took an access exclusive lock and which finally triggered the deadlock,
that deadlock could not be detected and could remain even after
deadlock_timeout passed. This is a bug.
The cause of this bug was that the code for handling the recovery
conflict on lock didn't take care of deadlock case at all. It assumed
that deadlocks involving the startup process and backends were able
to be detected by the deadlock detector invoked within backends.
But this assumption was incorrect. The startup process also should
have invoked the deadlock detector if necessary.
To fix this bug, this commit makes the startup process invoke
the deadlock detector if deadlock_timeout is reached while handling
the recovery conflict on lock. Specifically, in that case, the startup
process requests all the backends holding the conflicting locks to
check themselves for deadlocks.
Back-patch to v9.6. v9.5 has also this bug, but per discussion we decided
not to back-patch the fix to v9.5. Because v9.5 doesn't have some
infrastructure codes (e.g., 37c54863cf) that this bug fix patch depends on.
We can apply those codes for the back-patch, but since the next minor
version release is the final one for v9.5, it's risky to do that. If we
unexpectedly introduce new bug to v9.5 by the back-patch, there is no
chance to fix that. We determined that the back-patch to v9.5 would give
more risk than gain.
Author: Fujii Masao
Reviewed-by: Bertrand Drouvot, Masahiko Sawada, Kyotaro Horiguchi
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/4041d6b6-cf24-a120-36fa-1294220f8243@oss.nttdata.com
The logic for determining the latest removed XID for the purposes of
generating recovery conflicts in REDO routines was subtly broken. It
failed to follow links from HOT chains, and so failed to consider all
relevant heap tuple headers in some cases.
To fix, expand the loop that deals with LP_REDIRECT line pointers to
also deal with HOT chains. The new version of the loop is loosely based
on a similar loop from heap_prune_chain().
The impact of this bug is probably quite limited, since the horizon code
necessarily deals with heap tuples that are pointed to by LP_DEAD-set
index tuples. The process of setting LP_DEAD index tuples (e.g. within
the kill_prior_tuple mechanism) is highly correlated with opportunistic
pruning of pointed-to heap tuples. Plus the question of generating a
recovery conflict usually comes up some time after index tuple LP_DEAD
bits were initially set, unlike heap pruning, where a latestRemovedXid
is generated at the point of the pruning operation (heap pruning has no
deferred "would-be page split" style processing that produces conflicts
lazily).
Only backpatch to Postgres 12, the first version where this logic runs
during original execution (following commit 558a9165e0). The index
latestRemovedXid mechanism has had the same bug since it first appeared
over 10 years ago (in commit a760893d), but backpatching to all
supported versions now seems like a bad idea on balance. Running the
new improved code during recovery seems risky, especially given the lack
of complaints from the field.
Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-Wz=Eib393+HHcERK_9MtgNS7Ew1HY=RDC_g6GL46zM5C6Q@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch: 12-
The patch needs test cases, reorganization, and cfbot testing.
Technically reverts commits 5c31afc49d..e35b2bad1a (exclusive/inclusive)
and 08db7c63f3..ccbe34139b.
Reported-by: Tom Lane, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1ktAAG-0002V2-VB@gemulon.postgresql.org
This adds a key management system that stores (currently) two data
encryption keys of length 128, 192, or 256 bits. The data keys are
AES256 encrypted using a key encryption key, and validated via GCM
cipher mode. A command to obtain the key encryption key must be
specified at initdb time, and will be run at every database server
start. New parameters allow a file descriptor open to the terminal to
be passed. pg_upgrade support has also been added.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+fd4k7q5o6Nc_AaX6BcYM9yqTbC6_pnH-6nSD=54Zp6NBQTCQ@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20201202213814.GG20285@momjian.us
Author: Masahiko Sawada, me, Stephen Frost
Up to now, if the DBA issued "pg_ctl stop -m immediate", the message
sent to clients was the same as for a crash-and-restart situation.
This is confusing, not least because the message claims that the
database will soon be up again, something we have no business
predicting.
Improve things so that we can generate distinct messages for the two
cases (and also recognize an ad-hoc SIGQUIT, should somebody try that).
To do that, add a field to pmsignal.c's shared memory data structure
that the postmaster sets just before broadcasting SIGQUIT to its
children. No interlocking seems to be necessary; the intervening
signal-sending and signal-receipt should sufficiently serialize accesses
to the field. Hence, this isn't any riskier than the existing usages
of pmsignal.c.
We might in future extend this idea to improve other
postmaster-to-children signal scenarios, although none of them
currently seem to be as badly overloaded as SIGQUIT.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/559291.1608587013@sss.pgh.pa.us
Revert ac22929a26, as well as the followup fix 113d3591b8. Because it broke
the assumption that the startup process waiting for the recovery conflict
on buffer pin should be waken up only by buffer unpin or the timeout enabled
in ResolveRecoveryConflictWithBufferPin(). It caused, for example,
SIGHUP signal handler or walreceiver process to wake that startup process
up unnecessarily frequently.
Additionally, add the comments about why that dedicated latch that
the reverted patch tried to get rid of should not be removed.
Thanks to Kyotaro Horiguchi for the discussion.
Author: Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/d8c0c608-021b-3c73-fffd-3240829ee986@oss.nttdata.com
Invent a new flag bit HASH_STRINGS to specify C-string hashing, which
was formerly the default; and add assertions insisting that exactly
one of the bits HASH_STRINGS, HASH_BLOBS, and HASH_FUNCTION be set.
This is in hopes of preventing recurrences of the type of oversight
fixed in commit a1b8aa1e4 (i.e., mistakenly omitting HASH_BLOBS).
Also, when HASH_STRINGS is specified, insist that the keysize be
more than 8 bytes. This is a heuristic, but it should catch
accidental use of HASH_STRINGS for integer or pointer keys.
(Nearly all existing use-cases set the keysize to NAMEDATALEN or
more, so there's little reason to think this restriction should
be problematic.)
Tweak hash_create() to insist that the HASH_ELEM flag be set, and
remove the defaults it had for keysize and entrysize. Since those
defaults were undocumented and basically useless, no callers
omitted HASH_ELEM anyway.
Also, remove memset's zeroing the HASHCTL parameter struct from
those callers that had one. This has never been really necessary,
and while it wasn't a bad coding convention it was confusing that
some callers did it and some did not. We might as well save a few
cycles by standardizing on "not".
Also improve the documentation for hash_create().
In passing, improve reinit.c's usage of a hash table by storing
the key as a binary Oid rather than a string; and, since that's
a temporary hash table, allocate it in CurrentMemoryContext for
neatness.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/590625.1607878171@sss.pgh.pa.us
User-visible log messages should go through ereport(), so they are
subject to translation. Many remaining elog(LOG) calls are really
debugging calls.
Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Reviewed-by: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/92d6f545-5102-65d8-3c87-489f71ea0a37%40enterprisedb.com
When committing a transaction that dropped a relation, we previously
truncated only the first segment file to free up disk space (the one
that won't be unlinked until the next checkpoint).
Truncate higher numbered segments too, even though we unlink them on
commit. This frees the disk space immediately, even if other backends
have open file descriptors and might take a long time to get around to
handling shared invalidation events and closing them. Also extend the
same behavior to the first segment, in recovery.
Back-patch to all supported releases.
Bug: #16663
Reported-by: Denis Patron <denis.patron@previnet.it>
Reviewed-by: Pavel Borisov <pashkin.elfe@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Neil Chen <carpenter.nail.cz@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: David Zhang <david.zhang@highgo.ca>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16663-fe97ccf9932fc800%40postgresql.org
Reverts 27838981be (some comments are kept). Per discussion, it does
not seem safe to relax the lock level used for this; in order for it to
be safe, there would have to be memory barriers between the point we set
the flag and the point we set the trasaction Xid, which perhaps would
not be so bad; but there would also have to be barriers at the readers'
side, which from a performance perspective might be bad.
Now maybe this analysis is wrong and it *is* safe for some reason, but
proof of that is not trivial.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20201118190928.vnztes7c2sldu43a@alap3.anarazel.de
While ereport() and elog() themselves are quite cheap when the
error message level is too low to be printed, some places need to do
substantial work before they can call those macros at all. To allow
optimizing away such setup work when nothing is to be printed, make
elog.c export a new function message_level_is_interesting(elevel)
that reports whether ereport/elog will do anything. Make use of that
in various places that had ad-hoc direct tests of log_min_messages etc.
Also teach ProcSleep to use it to avoid some work. (There may well
be other places that could usefully use this; I didn't search hard.)
Within elog.c, refactor a little bit to avoid having duplicate copies
of the policy-setting logic. When that code was written, we weren't
relying on the availability of inline functions; so it had some
duplications in the name of efficiency, which I got rid of.
Alvaro Herrera and Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/129515.1606166429@sss.pgh.pa.us
While cancelling an autovacuum worker, we hold ProcArrayLock while
formatting a debugging log string. We can make this shorter by saving
the data we need to produce the message and doing the formatting outside
the locked region.
This isn't terribly critical, as it only occurs pretty rarely: when a
backend runs deadlock detection and it happens to be blocked by a
autovacuum running autovacuum. Still, there's no need to cause a hiccup
in ProcArrayLock processing, which can be very high-traffic in some
cases.
While at it, rework code so that we only print the string when it is
really going to be used, as suggested by Michael Paquier.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20201118214127.GA3179@alvherre.pgsql
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
We don't actually need a lock to set PGPROC->statusFlags itself; what we
do need is a shared lock on either XidGenLock or ProcArrayLock in order to
ensure MyProc->pgxactoff keeps still while we modify the mirror array in
ProcGlobal->statusFlags. Some places were using an exclusive lock for
that, which is excessive. Relax those to use shared lock only.
procarray.c has a couple of places with somewhat brittle assumptions
about PGPROC changes: ProcArrayEndTransaction uses only shared lock, so
it's permissible to change MyProc only. On the other hand,
ProcArrayEndTransactionInternal also changes other procs, so it must
hold exclusive lock. Add asserts to ensure those assumptions continue
to hold.
Author: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20201117155501.GA13805@alvherre.pgsql
Otherwise, if FDDEBUG is enabled, the debugging output fails because
it tries to read the fileName, which isn't set up yet (and should in
fact always be NULL).
AFAICT, this has been wrong since Berkeley. Before 96bf88d52,
it would accidentally fail to crash on platforms where snprintf()
is forgiving about being passed a NULL pointer for %s; but the
file name intended to be included in the debug output wouldn't
ever have shown up.
Report and fix by Greg Nancarrow. Although this is only visibly
broken in custom-made builds, it still seems worth back-patching
to all supported branches, as the FDDEBUG code is pretty useless
as it stands.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJcOf-cUDgm9qYtC_B6XrC6MktMPNRby2p61EtSGZKnfotMArw@mail.gmail.com
When ComputeXidHorizons() was called before MyDatabaseOid is set,
e.g. because a dead row in a shared relation is encountered during
InitPostgres(), the horizon for normal tables was computed too
aggressively, ignoring all backends connected to a database.
During subsequent pruning in a data table the too aggressive horizon
could end up still being used, possibly leading to still needed tuples
being removed. Not good.
This is a bug in dc7420c2c9, which the test added in 94bc27b576 made
visible, if run with force_parallel_mode set to regress. In that case
the bug is reliably triggered, because "pruning_query" is run in a
parallel worker and the start of that parallel worker is likely to
encounter a dead row in pg_database.
The fix is trivial: Compute a more pessimistic data table horizon if
MyDatabaseId is not yet known.
Author: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20201029040030.p4osrmaywhqaesd4@alap3.anarazel.de
This fixes a bug in the edge case where, for a temp table, heap_page_prune()
can end up with a different horizon than heap_vacuum_rel(). Which can trigger
errors like "ERROR: cannot freeze committed xmax ...".
The bug was introduced due to interaction of a7212be8b9 "Set cutoff xmin more
aggressively when vacuuming a temporary table." with dc7420c2c9 "snapshot
scalability: Don't compute global horizons while building snapshots.".
The problem is caused by lazy_scan_heap() assuming that the only reason its
HeapTupleSatisfiesVacuum() call would return HEAPTUPLE_DEAD is if the tuple is
a HOT tuple, or if the tuple's inserting transaction has aborted since the
heap_page_prune() call. But after a7212be8b9 that was also possible in other
cases for temp tables, because heap_page_prune() uses a different visibility
test after dc7420c2c9.
The fix is fairly simple: Move the special case logic for temp tables from
vacuum_set_xid_limits() to the infrastructure introduced in dc7420c2c9. That
ensures that the horizon used for pruning is at least as aggressive as the one
used by lazy_scan_heap(). The concrete horizon used for temp tables is
slightly different than the logic in dc7420c2c9, but should always be as
aggressive as before (see comments).
A significant benefit to centralizing the logic procarray.c is that now the
more aggressive horizons for temp tables does not just apply to VACUUM but
also to e.g. HOT pruning and the nbtree killtuples logic.
Because isTopLevel is not needed by vacuum_set_xid_limits() anymore, I
undid the the related changes from a7212be8b9.
This commit also adds an isolation test ensuring that the more aggressive
vacuuming and pruning of temp tables keeps working.
Debugged-By: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>
Debugged-By: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Debugged-By: Ashutosh Sharma <ashu.coek88@gmail.com>
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20201014203103.72oke6hqywcyhx7s@alap3.anarazel.de
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20201015083735.derdzysdtqdvxshp@alap3.anarazel.de
CheckBuffer() is designed to be a concurrent-safe function able to run
sanity checks on a relation page without loading it into the shared
buffers. The operation is done using a lock on the partition involved
in the shared buffer mapping hashtable and an I/O lock for the buffer
itself, preventing the risk of false positives due to any concurrent
activity.
The primary use of this function is the detection of on-disk corruptions
for relation pages. If a page is found in shared buffers, the on-disk
page is checked if not dirty (a follow-up checkpoint would flush a valid
version of the page if dirty anyway), as it could be possible that a
page was present for a long time in shared buffers with its on-disk
version corrupted. Such a scenario could lead to a corrupted cluster if
a host is plugged off for example. If the page is not found in shared
buffers, its on-disk state is checked. PageIsVerifiedExtended() is used
to apply the same sanity checks as when a page gets loaded into shared
buffers.
This function will be used by an upcoming patch able to check the state
of on-disk relation pages using a SQL function.
Author: Julien Rouhaud, Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Masahiko Sawada
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAOBaU_aVvMjQn=ge5qPiJOPMmOj5=ii3st5Q0Y+WuLML5sR17w@mail.gmail.com
This is useful for checks of relation pages without having to load the
pages into the shared buffers, and two cases can make use of that: page
verification in base backups and the online, lock-safe, flavor.
Compatibility is kept with past versions using a macro that calls the
new extended routine with the set of options compatible with the
original version.
Extracted from a larger patch by the same author.
Author: Anastasia Lubennikova
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier, Julien Rouhaud
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/608f3476-0598-2514-2c03-e05c7d2b0cbd@postgrespro.ru
In shm_mq_receive(), a huge payload could trigger an unjustified
"invalid memory alloc request size" error due to the way the buffer
size is increased.
Add error checks (documenting the upper limit) and avoid the error by
limiting the allocation size to MaxAllocSize.
Author: Markus Wanner <markus.wanner@2ndquadrant.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/3bb363e7-ac04-0ac4-9fe8-db1148755bfa%402ndquadrant.com
While registering for postmaster exit events, we have to handle a couple
of edge cases where the postmaster is already gone. Commit 815c2f09
missed one: EACCES must surely imply that PostmasterPid no longer
belongs to our postmaster process (or alternatively an unexpected
permissions model has been imposed on us). Like ESRCH, this should be
treated as a WL_POSTMASTER_DEATH event, rather than being raised with
ereport().
No known problems reported in the wild. Per code review from Tom Lane.
Back-patch to 13.
Reported-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3624029.1602701929%40sss.pgh.pa.us
If WaitEventSetWait() reports that the postmaster has gone away, later
calls to WaitEventSetWait() should continue to report that. Otherwise
further waits that occur in the proc_exit() path after we already
noticed the postmaster's demise could block forever.
Back-patch to 13, where the kqueue support landed.
Reported-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3624029.1602701929%40sss.pgh.pa.us
I (Andres) broke this in 623a9CA79bx, because I didn't think about the
way snapshots are built on standbys sufficiently. Unfortunately our
existing tests did not catch this, as they are all just querying with
psql (therefore ending up with fresh snapshots).
The fix is trivial, we just need to increment the transaction
completion counter in ExpireTreeKnownAssignedTransactionIds(), which
is the equivalent of ProcArrayEndTransaction() during recovery.
This commit also adds a new test doing some basic testing of the
correctness of snapshots built on standbys. To avoid the
aforementioned issue of one-shot psql's not exercising the snapshot
caching, the test uses a long lived psqls, similar to
013_crash_restart.pl. It'd be good to extend the test further.
Reported-By: Ian Barwick <ian.barwick@2ndquadrant.com>
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Author: Ian Barwick <ian.barwick@2ndquadrant.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/61291ffe-d611-f889-68b5-c298da9fb18f@2ndquadrant.com
Previously, we called fsync() after writing out individual pg_xact,
pg_multixact and pg_commit_ts pages due to cache pressure, leading to
regular I/O stalls in user backends and recovery. Collapse requests for
the same file into a single system call as part of the next checkpoint,
as we already did for relation files, using the infrastructure developed
by commit 3eb77eba. This can cause a significant improvement to
recovery performance, especially when it's otherwise CPU-bound.
Hoist ProcessSyncRequests() up into CheckPointGuts() to make it clearer
that it applies to all the SLRU mini-buffer-pools as well as the main
buffer pool. Rearrange things so that data collected in CheckpointStats
includes SLRU activity.
Also remove the Shutdown{CLOG,CommitTS,SUBTRANS,MultiXact}() functions,
because they were redundant after the shutdown checkpoint that
immediately precedes them. (I'm not sure if they were ever needed, but
they aren't now.)
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> (parts)
Tested-by: Jakub Wartak <Jakub.Wartak@tomtom.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+hUKGLJ=84YT+NvhkEEDAuUtVHMfQ9i-N7k_o50JmQ6Rpj_OQ@mail.gmail.com
This function could often be seen in profiles of vacuum and could often
be a significant bottleneck during recovery. The problem was that a qsort
was performed in order to sort an array of item pointers in reverse offset
order so that we could use that to safely move tuples up to the end of the
page without overwriting the memory of yet-to-be-moved tuples. i.e. we
used to compact the page starting at the back of the page and move towards
the front. The qsort that this required could be expensive for pages with
a large number of tuples.
In this commit, we take another approach to tuple compactification.
Now, instead of sorting the remaining item pointers array we first check
if the array is presorted and only memmove() the tuples that need to be
moved. This presorted check can be done very cheaply in the calling
functions when the array is being populated. This presorted case is very
fast.
When the item pointer array is not presorted we must copy tuples that need
to be moved into a temp buffer before copying them back into the page
again. This differs from what we used to do here as we're now copying the
tuples back into the page in reverse line pointer order. Previously we
left the existing order alone. Reordering the tuples results in an
increased likelihood of hitting the pre-sorted case the next time around.
Any newly added tuple which consumes a new line pointer will also maintain
the correct sort order of tuples in the page which will also result in the
presorted case being hit the next time. Only consuming an unused line
pointer can cause the order of tuples to go out again, but that will be
corrected next time the function is called for the page.
Benchmarks have shown that the non-presorted case is at least equally as
fast as the original qsort method even when the page just has a few
tuples. As the number of tuples becomes larger the new method maintains
its performance whereas the original qsort method became much slower when
the number of tuples on the page became large.
Author: David Rowley
Reviewed-by: Thomas Munro
Tested-by: Jakub Wartak
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+hUKGKMQFVpjr106gRhwk6R-nXv0qOcTreZuQzxgpHESAL6dw@mail.gmail.com
Although 58c6feccf fixed the case for SIGQUIT, we were still calling
proc_exit() from signal handlers for SIGTERM and timeout failures in
ProcessStartupPacket. Fortunately, at the point where that code runs,
we haven't yet connected to shared memory in any meaningful way, so
there is nothing we need to undo in shared memory. This means it
should be safe to use _exit(1) here, ie, not run any atexit handlers
but also inform the postmaster that it's not a crash exit.
To make sure nobody breaks the "nothing to undo" expectation, add
a cross-check that no on-shmem-exit or before-shmem-exit handlers
have been registered yet when we finish using these signal handlers.
This change is simple enough that maybe it could be back-patched,
but I won't risk that right now.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1850884.1599601164@sss.pgh.pa.us
Historically, cancel_before_shmem_exit() just silently did nothing
if the specified callback wasn't the top-of-stack. The folly of
ignoring this case was exposed by the bugs fixed in 303640199 and
bab150045, so let's make it throw elog(ERROR) instead.
There is a decent argument to be made that PG_ENSURE_ERROR_CLEANUP
should use some separate infrastructure, so it wouldn't break if
something inside the guarded code decides to register a new
before_shmem_exit callback. However, a survey of the surviving
uses of before_shmem_exit() and PG_ENSURE_ERROR_CLEANUP doesn't
show any plausible conflicts of that sort today, so for now we'll
forgo the extra complexity. (It will almost certainly become
necessary if anyone ever wants to wrap PG_ENSURE_ERROR_CLEANUP
around arbitrary user-defined actions, though.)
No backpatch, since this is developer support not a production issue.
Bharath Rupireddy, per advice from Andres Freund, Robert Haas, and myself
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALj2ACWk7j4F2v2fxxYfrroOF=AdFNPr1WsV+AGtHAFQOqm_pw@mail.gmail.com
The problem is caused by me (Andres) having ProcSleep() look at the
wrong PGPROC entry in 5788e258bb.
Unfortunately it seems hard to write a reliable test for autovacuum
cancellations. Perhaps somebody will come up with a good approach, but
it seems worth fixing the issue even without a test.
Reported-By: Jeff Janes <jeff.janes@gmail.com>
Author: Jeff Janes <jeff.janes@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMkU=1wH2aUy+wDRDz+5RZALdcUnEofV1t9PzXS_gBJO9vZZ0Q@mail.gmail.com
Some kernels can tell us the type of a "dirent", so we can avoid a call
to stat() or lstat() in many cases. Define a new function
get_dirent_type() to contain that logic, for use by the backend and
frontend versions of walkdir(), and perhaps other callers in future.
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Reviewed-by: Juan José Santamaría Flecha <juanjo.santamaria@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKG%2BFzxupGGN4GpUdbzZN%2Btn6FQPHo8w0Q%2BAPH5Wz8RG%2Bww%40mail.gmail.com
Replace CFLAGS_VECTOR with CFLAGS_UNROLL_LOOPS and CFLAGS_VECTORIZE,
allowing us to distinguish whether we want to apply -funroll-loops,
-ftree-vectorize, or both to a particular source file. Up to now
the only consumer of the symbol has been checksum.c which wants
both, so that there was no need to distinguish; but that's about
to change.
Amit Khandekar, reviewed and edited a little by me
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJ3gD9evtA_vBo+WMYMyT-u=keHX7-r8p2w7OSRfXf42LTwCZQ@mail.gmail.com
Commit 808e13b282 introduced a few APIs to extend the existing Buffile
interface. In SharedFileSetDeleteOnProcExit, it tries to delete the list
element while traversing the list with 'foreach' construct which makes the
behavior of list traversal unpredictable.
Author: Amit Kapila
Reviewed-by: Dilip Kumar
Tested-by: Dilip Kumar and Neha Sharma
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAA4eK1JhLatVcQ2OvwA_3s0ih6Hx9+kZbq107cXVsSWWukH7vA@mail.gmail.com
Allow BufFile to support temporary files that can be used by the single
backend when the corresponding files need to be survived across the
transaction and need to be opened and closed multiple times. Such files
need to be created as a member of a SharedFileSet.
Additionally, this commit implements the interface for BufFileTruncate to
allow files to be truncated up to a particular offset and extends the
BufFileSeek API to support the SEEK_END case. This also adds an option to
provide a mode while opening the shared BufFiles instead of always opening
in read-only mode.
These enhancements in BufFile interface are required for the upcoming
patch to allow the replication apply worker, to handle streamed
in-progress transactions.
Author: Dilip Kumar, Amit Kapila
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila
Tested-by: Neha Sharma
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/688b0b7f-2f6c-d827-c27b-216a8e3ea700@2ndquadrant.com
This corrects an oversight by me in 2072932407, which made
ProcArrayClearTransaction() increment xactCompletionCount. That requires an
exclusive lock, obviously.
There's other approaches that avoid the exclusive acquisition, but given that a
2PC commit is fairly heavyweight, it doesn't seem worth doing so. I've not been
able to measure a performance difference, unsurprisingly. I did add a
comment documenting that we could do so, should it ever become a bottleneck.
Reported-By: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1355915.1597794204@sss.pgh.pa.us
When preparing a transaction xactCompletionCount needs to be
incremented, even though the transaction has not committed
yet. Otherwise the snapshot used within the transaction otherwise can
get reused outside of the prepared transaction. As GetSnapshotData()
does not include the current xid when building a snapshot, reuse would
not be correct.
Somewhat surprisingly the regression tests only rarely show incorrect
results without the fix. The reason for that is that often the
snapshot's xmax will be >= the backend xid, yielding a snapshot that
is correct, despite the bug.
I'm working on a reliable test for the bug, but it seems worth seeing
whether this fixes all the BF failures while I do.
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1k7tGP-0005V0-5k@gemulon.postgresql.org
Previous commits made it faster/more scalable to compute snapshots. But not
building a snapshot is still faster. Now that GetSnapshotData() does not
maintain RecentGlobal* anymore, that is actually not too hard:
This commit introduces xactCompletionCount, which tracks the number of
top-level transactions with xids (i.e. which may have modified the database)
that completed in some form since the start of the server.
We can avoid rebuilding the snapshot's contents whenever the current
xactCompletionCount is the same as it was when the snapshot was
originally built. Currently this check happens while holding
ProcArrayLock. While it's likely possible to perform the check without
acquiring ProcArrayLock, it seems better to do that separately /
later, some careful analysis is required. Even with the lock this is a
significant win on its own.
On a smaller two socket machine this gains another ~1.03x, on a larger
machine the effect is roughly double (earlier patch version tested
though). If we were able to safely avoid the lock there'd be another
significant gain on top of that.
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-By: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200301083601.ews6hz5dduc3w2se@alap3.anarazel.de
This bug, recently introduced in 941697c3c1, at least lead to vacuum
failing because it found tuples inserted by a running transaction, but
below the freeze limit. The freeze limit in turn is directly affected
by the aforementioned bug.
Thanks to Tom Lane figuring how to make the bug reproducible.
We should add a few more assertions to make sure this type of bug
isn't as hard to notice, but it's not yet clear how to best do so.
Co-Diagnosed-By: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1013484.1597609043@sss.pgh.pa.us
Reuse cautionary language from src/test/ssl/README in
src/test/kerberos/README. SLRUs have had access to six-character
segments names since commit 73c986adde,
and recovery stopped calling HeapTupleHeaderAdvanceLatestRemovedXid() in
commit 558a9165e0. The other corrections
are more self-evident.
The SimpleLruTruncate() header comment states the new coding rule. To
achieve this, add locktype "frozenid" and two LWLocks. This closes a
rare opportunity for data loss, which manifested as "apparent
wraparound" or "could not access status of transaction" errors. Data
loss is more likely in pg_multixact, due to released branches' thin
margin between multiStopLimit and multiWrapLimit. If a user's physical
replication primary logged ": apparent wraparound" messages, the user
should rebuild standbys of that primary regardless of symptoms. At less
risk is a cluster having emitted "not accepting commands" errors or
"must be vacuumed" warnings at some point. One can test a cluster for
this data loss by running VACUUM FREEZE in every database. Back-patch
to 9.5 (all supported versions).
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190218073103.GA1434723@rfd.leadboat.com
Similar to the previous changes this increases the chance that data
frequently needed by GetSnapshotData() stays in l2 cache. In many
workloads subtransactions are very rare, and this makes the check for
that considerably cheaper.
As this removes the last member of PGXACT, there is no need to keep it
around anymore.
On a larger 2 socket machine this and the two preceding commits result
in a ~1.07x performance increase in read-only pgbench. For read-heavy
mixed r/w workloads without row level contention, I see about 1.1x.
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-By: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200301083601.ews6hz5dduc3w2se@alap3.anarazel.de
Similar to the previous commit this increases the chance that data
frequently needed by GetSnapshotData() stays in l2 cache. As we now
take care to not unnecessarily write to ProcGlobal->vacuumFlags, there
should be very few modifications to the ProcGlobal->vacuumFlags array.
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-By: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200301083601.ews6hz5dduc3w2se@alap3.anarazel.de
The new array contains the xids for all connected backends / in-use
PGPROC entries in a dense manner (in contrast to the PGPROC/PGXACT
arrays which can have unused entries interspersed).
This improves performance because GetSnapshotData() always needs to
scan the xids of all live procarray entries and now there's no need to
go through the procArray->pgprocnos indirection anymore.
As the set of running top-level xids changes rarely, compared to the
number of snapshots taken, this substantially increases the likelihood
of most data required for a snapshot being in l2 cache. In
read-mostly workloads scanning the xids[] array will sufficient to
build a snapshot, as most backends will not have an xid assigned.
To keep the xid array dense ProcArrayRemove() needs to move entries
behind the to-be-removed proc's one further up in the array. Obviously
moving array entries cannot happen while a backend sets it
xid. I.e. locking needs to prevent that array entries are moved while
a backend modifies its xid.
To avoid locking ProcArrayLock in GetNewTransactionId() - a fairly hot
spot already - ProcArrayAdd() / ProcArrayRemove() now needs to hold
XidGenLock in addition to ProcArrayLock. Adding / Removing a procarray
entry is not a very frequent operation, even taking 2PC into account.
Due to the above, the dense array entries can only be read or modified
while holding ProcArrayLock and/or XidGenLock. This prevents a
concurrent ProcArrayRemove() from shifting the dense array while it is
accessed concurrently.
While the new dense array is very good when needing to look at all
xids it is less suitable when accessing a single backend's xid. In
particular it would be problematic to have to acquire a lock to access
a backend's own xid. Therefore a backend's xid is not just stored in
the dense array, but also in PGPROC. This also allows a backend to
only access the shared xid value when the backend had acquired an
xid.
The infrastructure added in this commit will be used for the remaining
PGXACT fields in subsequent commits. They are kept separate to make
review easier.
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-By: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200301083601.ews6hz5dduc3w2se@alap3.anarazel.de
Now that xmin isn't needed for GetSnapshotData() anymore, it leads to
unnecessary cacheline ping-pong to have it in PGXACT, as it is updated
considerably more frequently than the other PGXACT members.
After the changes in dc7420c2c9, this is a very straight-forward change.
For highly concurrent, snapshot acquisition heavy, workloads this change alone
can significantly increase scalability. E.g. plain pgbench on a smaller 2
socket machine gains 1.07x for read-only pgbench, 1.22x for read-only pgbench
when submitting queries in batches of 100, and 2.85x for batches of 100
'SELECT';. The latter numbers are obviously not to be expected in the
real-world, but micro-benchmark the snapshot computation
scalability (previously spending ~80% of the time in GetSnapshotData()).
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-By: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200301083601.ews6hz5dduc3w2se@alap3.anarazel.de
To make GetSnapshotData() more scalable, it cannot not look at at each proc's
xmin: While snapshot contents do not need to change whenever a read-only
transaction commits or a snapshot is released, a proc's xmin is modified in
those cases. The frequency of xmin modifications leads to, particularly on
higher core count systems, many cache misses inside GetSnapshotData(), despite
the data underlying a snapshot not changing. That is the most
significant source of GetSnapshotData() scaling poorly on larger systems.
Without accessing xmins, GetSnapshotData() cannot calculate accurate horizons /
thresholds as it has so far. But we don't really have to: The horizons don't
actually change that much between GetSnapshotData() calls. Nor are the horizons
actually used every time a snapshot is built.
The trick this commit introduces is to delay computation of accurate horizons
until there use and using horizon boundaries to determine whether accurate
horizons need to be computed.
The use of RecentGlobal[Data]Xmin to decide whether a row version could be
removed has been replaces with new GlobalVisTest* functions. These use two
thresholds to determine whether a row can be pruned:
1) definitely_needed, indicating that rows deleted by XIDs >= definitely_needed
are definitely still visible.
2) maybe_needed, indicating that rows deleted by XIDs < maybe_needed can
definitely be removed
GetSnapshotData() updates definitely_needed to be the xmin of the computed
snapshot.
When testing whether a row can be removed (with GlobalVisTestIsRemovableXid())
and the tested XID falls in between the two (i.e. XID >= maybe_needed && XID <
definitely_needed) the boundaries can be recomputed to be more accurate. As it
is not cheap to compute accurate boundaries, we limit the number of times that
happens in short succession. As the boundaries used by
GlobalVisTestIsRemovableXid() are never reset (with maybe_needed updated by
GetSnapshotData()), it is likely that further test can benefit from an earlier
computation of accurate horizons.
To avoid regressing performance when old_snapshot_threshold is set (as that
requires an accurate horizon to be computed), heap_page_prune_opt() doesn't
unconditionally call TransactionIdLimitedForOldSnapshots() anymore. Both the
computation of the limited horizon, and the triggering of errors (with
SetOldSnapshotThresholdTimestamp()) is now only done when necessary to remove
tuples.
This commit just removes the accesses to PGXACT->xmin from
GetSnapshotData(), but other members of PGXACT residing in the same
cache line are accessed. Therefore this in itself does not result in a
significant improvement. Subsequent commits will take advantage of the
fact that GetSnapshotData() now does not need to access xmins anymore.
Note: This contains a workaround in heap_page_prune_opt() to keep the
snapshot_too_old tests working. While that workaround is ugly, the tests
currently are not meaningful, and it seems best to address them separately.
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-By: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200301083601.ews6hz5dduc3w2se@alap3.anarazel.de
The reason for doing so is that a subsequent commit will need that to
avoid wraparound issues. As the subsequent change is large this was
split out for easier review.
The reason this is not a perfect straight-forward change is that we do
not want track 64bit xids in the procarray or the WAL. Therefore we
need to advance lastestCompletedXid in relation to 32 bit xids. The
code for that is now centralized in MaintainLatestCompletedXid*.
Author: Andres Freund
Reviewed-By: Thomas Munro, Robert Haas, David Rowley
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200301083601.ews6hz5dduc3w2se@alap3.anarazel.de
Including Full in variable names duplicates the type information and
leads to overly long names. As FullTransactionId cannot accidentally
be casted to TransactionId that does not seem necessary.
Author: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200724011143.jccsyvsvymuiqfxu@alap3.anarazel.de
Create an optional region in the main shared memory segment that can be
used to acquire and release "fast" DSM segments, and can benefit from
huge pages allocated at cluster startup time, if configured. Fall back
to the existing mechanisms when that space is full. The size is
controlled by a new GUC min_dynamic_shared_memory, defaulting to 0.
Main region DSM segments initially contain whatever garbage the memory
held last time they were used, rather than zeroes. That change revealed
that DSA areas failed to initialize themselves correctly in memory that
wasn't zeroed first, so fix that problem.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGLAE2QBv-WgGp%2BD9P_J-%3Dyne3zof9nfMaqq1h3EGHFXYQ%40mail.gmail.com
Avoid repeatedly calling lseek(SEEK_END) during recovery by caching
the size of each fork. For now, we can't use the same technique in
other processes, because we lack a shared invalidation mechanism.
Do this by generalizing the pre-existing caching used by FSM and VM
to support all forks.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm%3D3SSw-Ty1DFcK%3D1rU-K6GSzYzfdD4d%2BZwapdN7dTa6%3DnQ%40mail.gmail.com
Create LatchWaitSet at backend startup time, and use it to implement
WaitLatch(). This avoids repeated epoll/kqueue setup and teardown
system calls.
Reorder SubPostmasterMain() slightly so that we restore the postmaster
pipe and Windows signal emulation before we reach InitPostmasterChild(),
to make this work in EXEC_BACKEND builds.
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGJAC4Oqao%3DqforhNey20J8CiG2R%3DoBPqvfR0vOJrFysGw%40mail.gmail.com
Holding just a buffer pin (with no buffer lock) on an nbtree buffer/page
provides very weak guarantees, especially compared to heapam, where it's
often safe to read a page while only holding a buffer pin. This commit
has Valgrind enforce the following rule: it is never okay to access an
nbtree buffer without holding both a pin and a lock on the buffer.
A draft version of this patch detected questionable code that was
cleaned up by commits fa7ff642 and 7154aa16. The code in question used
to access an nbtree buffer page's special/opaque area with no buffer
lock (only a buffer pin). This practice (which isn't obviously unsafe)
is hereby formally disallowed in nbtree. There doesn't seem to be any
reason to allow it, and banning it keeps things simple for Valgrind.
The new checks are implemented by adding custom nbtree client requests
(located in LockBuffer() wrapper functions); these requests are
"superimposed" on top of the generic bufmgr.c Valgrind client requests
added by commit 1e0dfd16. No custom resource management cleanup code is
needed to undo the effects of marking buffers as non-accessible under
this scheme.
Author: Peter Geoghegan
Reviewed-By: Anastasia Lubennikova, Georgios Kokolatos
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-WzkLgyN3zBvRZ1pkNJThC=xi_0gpWRUb_45eexLH1+k2_Q@mail.gmail.com
Strengthen the LockBuffer() assertion that verifies BufferIsValid() by
making it verify BufferIsPinned() instead. Do the same in nearby
related functions.
There is probably not much chance that anybody will try to lock a buffer
that is not already pinned, but we might as well make sure of that.
Make PinBuffer() mark buffers as defined to Valgrind unconditionally,
including when the buffer header spinlock must be acquired. Failure to
handle that case could lead to false positive reports from Valgrind.
This theoretically creates a risk that we'll mark buffers defined even
when external callers don't end up with a buffer pin. That seems
perfectly acceptable, though, since in general we make no guarantees
about buffers that are unsafe to access being reliably marked as unsafe.
Oversight in commit 1e0dfd16, which added valgrind buffer access
instrumentation.
Teach Valgrind memcheck to maintain the "defined-ness" of each shared
buffer based on whether the backend holds at least one pin at the point
it is accessed by access method code. Bugs like the one fixed by commit
b0229f26 can be detected using this new instrumentation.
Note that backends running with Valgrind naturally have their own
independent ideas about whether any given byte in shared memory is safe
or unsafe to access. There is no risk that concurrent access by
multiple backends to the same shared memory will confuse Valgrind's
instrumentation, because everything already works at the process level
(or at the memory mapping level, if you prefer).
Author: Álvaro Herrera, Peter Geoghegan
Reviewed-By: Anastasia Lubennikova
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20150723195349.GW5596@postgresql.org
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-WzkLgyN3zBvRZ1pkNJThC=xi_0gpWRUb_45eexLH1+k2_Q@mail.gmail.com
Commit ecd9e9f0b fixed the problem in the wrong place, causing unwanted
side-effects on the behavior of GetNextTempTableSpace(). Instead,
let's make SharedFileSetInit() responsible for subbing in the value
of MyDatabaseTableSpace when the default tablespace is called for.
The convention about what is in the tempTableSpaces[] array is
evidently insufficiently documented, so try to improve that.
It also looks like SharedFileSetInit() is doing the wrong thing in the
case where temp_tablespaces is empty. It was hard-wiring use of the
pg_default tablespace, but it seems like using MyDatabaseTableSpace
is more consistent with what happens for other temp files.
Back-patch the reversion of PrepareTempTablespaces()'s behavior to
9.5, as ecd9e9f0b was. The changes in SharedFileSetInit() go back
to v11 where that was introduced. (Note there is net zero code change
before v11 from these two patch sets, so nothing to release-note.)
Magnus Hagander and Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CABUevExg5YEsOvqMxrjoNvb3ApVyH+9jggWGKwTDFyFCVWczGQ@mail.gmail.com
This was a danger only for --disable-spinlocks in combination with
atomic operations unsupported by the current platform.
While atomics.c was careful to signal that a separate semaphore ought
to be used when spinlock emulation is active, spin.c didn't actually
implement that mechanism. That's my (Andres') fault, it seems to have
gotten lost during the development of the atomic operations support.
Fix that issue and add test for nesting atomic operations inside a
spinlock.
Author: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200605023302.g6v3ydozy5txifji@alap3.anarazel.de
Backpatch: 9.5-
On platforms without support for 64bit atomic operations where we also
cannot rely on 64bit reads to have single copy atomicity, such atomics
are implemented using a spinlock based fallback. That means it's not
safe to even read such atomics from within a signal handler (since the
signal handler might run when the spinlock already is held).
To avoid this issue defer global barrier processing out of the signal
handler. Instead of checking local / shared barrier generation to
determine whether to set ProcSignalBarrierPending, introduce
PROCSIGNAL_BARRIER and always set ProcSignalBarrierPending when
receiving such a signal. Additionally avoid redundant work in
ProcessProcSignalBarrier if ProcSignalBarrierPending is unnecessarily.
Also do a small amount of other polishing.
Author: Andres Freund
Reviewed-By: Robert Haas
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200609193723.eu5ilsjxwdpyxhgz@alap3.anarazel.de
Backpatch: 13-, where the code was introduced.
Convert buffile.c error handling to use ereport. This fixes cases where
I/O errors were indistinguishable from EOF or not reported. Also remove
"%m" from error messages where errno would be bogus. While we're
modifying those strings, add block numbers and short read byte counts
where appropriate.
Back-patch to all supported releases.
Reported-by: Amit Khandekar <amitdkhan.pg@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
Reviewed-by: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Ibrar Ahmed <ibrar.ahmad@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGJE04G%3D8TLK0DLypT_27D9dR8F1RQgNp0jK6qR0tZGWOw%40mail.gmail.com
Rewrite the documentation of these functions, in light of recent bug fix
commit 5940ffb2.
Back-patch to 13 where the check-for-conflict-out code was split up into
AM-specific and generic parts, and new documentation was added that now
looked wrong.
Reviewed-by: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/db7b729d-0226-d162-a126-8a8ab2dc4443%40jepsen.io
This was mostly confusing, especially since some wait events in
this class had the suffix and some did not.
While at it, stop exposing MainLWLockNames[] as a globally visible
name; any code using that directly is almost certainly wrong, as
its name has been misleading for some time.
(GetLWLockIdentifier() is what to use instead.)
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/28683.1589405363@sss.pgh.pa.us
Choose names that fit into the conventions for wait event names
(particularly, that multi-word names are in the style MultiWordName)
and hopefully convey more information to non-hacker users than the
previous names did.
Also rename SerializablePredicateLockListLock to
SerializablePredicateListLock; the old name was long enough to cause
table formatting problems, plus the double occurrence of "Lock" seems
confusing/error-prone.
Also change a couple of particularly opaque LWLock field names.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/28683.1589405363@sss.pgh.pa.us
Originally, the names assigned to SLRUs had no purpose other than
being shmem lookup keys, so not a lot of thought went into them.
As of v13, though, we're exposing them in the pg_stat_slru view and
the pg_stat_reset_slru function, so it seems advisable to take a bit
more care. Rename them to names based on the associated on-disk
storage directories (which fortunately we *did* think about, to some
extent; since those are also visible to DBAs, consistency seems like
a good thing). Also rename the associated LWLocks, since those names
are likewise user-exposed now as wait event names.
For the most part I only touched symbols used in the respective modules'
SimpleLruInit() calls, not the names of other related objects. This
renaming could have been taken further, and maybe someday we will do so.
But for now it seems undesirable to change the names of any globally
visible functions or structs, so some inconsistency is unavoidable.
(But I *did* terminate "oldserxid" with prejudice, as I found that
name both unreadable and not descriptive of the SLRU's contents.)
Table 27.12 needs re-alphabetization now, but I'll leave that till
after the other LWLock renamings I have in mind.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/28683.1589405363@sss.pgh.pa.us
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.
There is little point in using the LWLockRegisterTranche mechanism for
built-in tranche names. It wastes cycles, it creates opportunities for
bugs (since failing to register a tranche name is a very hard-to-detect
problem), and the lack of any centralized list of names encourages
sloppy nonconformity in name choices. Moreover, since we have a
centralized list of the tranches anyway in enum BuiltinTrancheIds, we're
certainly not buying any flexibility in return for these disadvantages.
Hence, nuke all the backend-internal LWLockRegisterTranche calls,
and instead provide a const array of the builtin tranche names.
(I have in mind to change a bunch of these names shortly, but this
patch is just about getting them into one place.)
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/9056.1589419765@sss.pgh.pa.us
Commit 3eb77eba5a moved the loop and refactored it, and inadvertently
changed the effect of fsync=off so that it also skipped removing entries
from the pendingOps table. That was not intentional, and leads to an
assertion failure if you turn fsync on while the server is running and
reload the config.
Backpatch-through: 12-
Reviewed-By: Thomas Munro
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/3cbc7f4b-a5fa-56e9-9591-c886deb07513%40iki.fi
0f5ca02f53 introduces 3 new keywords. It appears to be too much for relatively
small feature. Given now we past feature freeze, it's already late for
discussion of the new syntax. So, revert.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/28209.1586294824%40sss.pgh.pa.us
Provide PrefetchSharedBuffer(), a variant that takes SMgrRelation, for
use in recovery. Rename LocalPrefetchBuffer() to PrefetchLocalBuffer()
for consistency.
Add a return value to all of these. In recovery, tolerate and report
missing files, so we can handle relations unlinked before crash recovery
began. Also report cache hits and misses, so that callers can do faster
buffer lookups and better I/O accounting.
Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGJ4VJN8ttxScUFM8dOKX0BrBiboo5uz1cq%3DAovOddfHpA%40mail.gmail.com
The goal of separating hotly accessed per-backend data from PGPROC
into PGXACT is to make accesses fast (GetSnapshotData() in
particular). But delayChkpt is not actually accessed frequently; only
when starting a checkpoint. As it is frequently modified (multiple
times in the course of a single transaction), storing it in the same
cacheline as hotly accessed data unnecessarily dirties a contended
cacheline.
Therefore move delayChkpt to PGPROC.
This is part of a larger series of patches intending to improve
GetSnapshotData() scalability. It is committed and pushed separately,
as it is independently beneficial (small but measurable win, limited
by the other frequent modifications of PGXACT).
Author: Andres Freund
Reviewed-By: Robert Haas, Thomas Munro, David Rowley
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200301083601.ews6hz5dduc3w2se@alap3.anarazel.de
This commit adds following optional clause to BEGIN and START TRANSACTION
commands.
WAIT FOR LSN lsn [ TIMEOUT timeout ]
New clause pospones transaction start till given lsn is applied on standby.
This clause allows user be sure, that changes previously made on primary would
be visible on standby.
New shared memory struct is used to track awaited lsn per backend. Recovery
process wakes up backend once required lsn is applied.
Author: Ivan Kartyshov, Anna Akenteva
Reviewed-by: Craig Ringer, Thomas Munro, Robert Haas, Kyotaro Horiguchi
Reviewed-by: Masahiko Sawada, Ants Aasma, Dmitry Ivanov, Simon Riggs
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila, Alexander Korotkov
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/0240c26c-9f84-30ea-fca9-93ab2df5f305%40postgrespro.ru
Until now, only selected bulk operations (e.g. COPY) did this. If a
given relfilenode received both a WAL-skipping COPY and a WAL-logged
operation (e.g. INSERT), recovery could lose tuples from the COPY. See
src/backend/access/transam/README section "Skipping WAL for New
RelFileNode" for the new coding rules. Maintainers of table access
methods should examine that section.
To maintain data durability, just before commit, we choose between an
fsync of the relfilenode and copying its contents to WAL. A new GUC,
wal_skip_threshold, guides that choice. If this change slows a workload
that creates small, permanent relfilenodes under wal_level=minimal, try
adjusting wal_skip_threshold. Users setting a timeout on COMMIT may
need to adjust that timeout, and log_min_duration_statement analysis
will reflect time consumption moving to COMMIT from commands like COPY.
Internally, this requires a reliable determination of whether
RollbackAndReleaseCurrentSubTransaction() would unlink a relation's
current relfilenode. Introduce rd_firstRelfilenodeSubid. Amend the
specification of rd_createSubid such that the field is zero when a new
rel has an old rd_node. Make relcache.c retain entries for certain
dropped relations until end of transaction.
Bump XLOG_PAGE_MAGIC, since this introduces XLOG_GIST_ASSIGN_LSN.
Future servers accept older WAL, so this bump is discretionary.
Kyotaro Horiguchi, reviewed (in earlier, similar versions) by Robert
Haas. Heikki Linnakangas and Michael Paquier implemented earlier
designs that materially clarified the problem. Reviewed, in earlier
designs, by Andrew Dunstan, Andres Freund, Alvaro Herrera, Tom Lane,
Fujii Masao, and Simon Riggs. Reported by Martijn van Oosterhout.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20150702220524.GA9392@svana.org
This commit introduces new wait events RecoveryConflictSnapshot and
RecoveryConflictTablespace. The former is reported while waiting for
recovery conflict resolution on a vacuum cleanup. The latter is reported
while waiting for recovery conflict resolution on dropping tablespace.
Also this commit changes the code so that the wait event Lock is reported
while waiting in ResolveRecoveryConflictWithVirtualXIDs() for recovery
conflict resolution on a lock. Basically the wait event Lock is reported
during that wait, but previously was not reported only when that wait
happened in ResolveRecoveryConflictWithVirtualXIDs().
Author: Masahiko Sawada
Reviewed-by: Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+fd4k4mXWTwfQLS3RPwGr4xnfAEs1ysFfgYHvmmoUgv6Zxvmg@mail.gmail.com
Previously while the startup process was waiting for the recovery conflict
with snapshot, tablespace or lock to be resolved, waiting was reported in
PS display, but not in the case of recovery conflict with buffer pin.
This commit makes the startup process in hot standby report waiting via PS
while waiting for the conflicts with other backends holding buffer pins to
be resolved.
Author: Masahiko Sawada
Reviewed-by: Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+fd4k4mXWTwfQLS3RPwGr4xnfAEs1ysFfgYHvmmoUgv6Zxvmg@mail.gmail.com
When certain parameters are changed on a physical replication primary,
this is communicated to standbys using the XLOG_PARAMETER_CHANGE WAL
record. The standby then checks whether its own settings are at least
as big as the ones on the primary. If not, the standby shuts down
with a fatal error.
The correspondence of settings between primary and standby is required
because those settings influence certain shared memory sizings that
are required for processing WAL records that the primary might send.
For example, if the primary sends a prepared transaction, the standby
must have had max_prepared_transaction set appropriately or it won't
be able to process those WAL records.
However, fatally shutting down the standby immediately upon receipt of
the parameter change record might be a bit of an overreaction. The
resources related to those settings are not required immediately at
that point, and might never be required if the activity on the primary
does not exhaust all those resources. If we just let the standby roll
on with recovery, it will eventually produce an appropriate error when
those resources are used.
So this patch relaxes this a bit. Upon receipt of
XLOG_PARAMETER_CHANGE, we still check the settings but only issue a
warning and set a global flag if there is a problem. Then when we
actually hit the resource issue and the flag was set, we issue another
warning message with relevant information. At that point we pause
recovery, so a hot standby remains usable. We also repeat the last
warning message once a minute so it is harder to miss or ignore.
Reviewed-by: Sergei Kornilov <sk@zsrv.org>
Reviewed-by: Masahiko Sawada <masahiko.sawada@2ndquadrant.com>
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/4ad69a4c-cc9b-0dfe-0352-8b1b0cd36c7b@2ndquadrant.com
This reverts the parts of commit 17a28b0364
that changed ereport's auxiliary functions from returning dummy integer
values to returning void. It turns out that a minority of compilers
complain (not entirely unreasonably) about constructs such as
(condition) ? errdetail(...) : 0
if errdetail() returns void rather than int. We could update those
call sites to say "(void) 0" perhaps, but the expectation for this
patch set was that ereport callers would not have to change anything.
And this aspect of the patch set was already the most invasive and
least compelling part of it, so let's just drop it.
Per buildfarm.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+fd4k6N8EjNvZpM8nme+y+05mz-SM8Z_BgkixzkA34R+ej0Kw@mail.gmail.com
Change all the auxiliary error-reporting routines to return void,
now that we no longer need to pretend they are passing something
useful to errfinish(). While this probably doesn't save anything
significant at the machine-code level, it allows detection of some
additional types of mistakes.
Pass the error location details (__FILE__, __LINE__, PG_FUNCNAME_MACRO)
to errfinish not errstart. This shaves a few cycles off the case where
errstart decides we're not going to emit anything.
Re-implement elog() as a trivial wrapper around ereport(), removing
the separate support infrastructure it used to have. Aside from
getting rid of some now-surplus code, this means that elog() now
really does have exactly the same semantics as ereport(), in particular
that it can skip evaluation work if the message is not to be emitted.
Andres Freund and Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+fd4k6N8EjNvZpM8nme+y+05mz-SM8Z_BgkixzkA34R+ej0Kw@mail.gmail.com
Until now, only selected bulk operations (e.g. COPY) did this. If a
given relfilenode received both a WAL-skipping COPY and a WAL-logged
operation (e.g. INSERT), recovery could lose tuples from the COPY. See
src/backend/access/transam/README section "Skipping WAL for New
RelFileNode" for the new coding rules. Maintainers of table access
methods should examine that section.
To maintain data durability, just before commit, we choose between an
fsync of the relfilenode and copying its contents to WAL. A new GUC,
wal_skip_threshold, guides that choice. If this change slows a workload
that creates small, permanent relfilenodes under wal_level=minimal, try
adjusting wal_skip_threshold. Users setting a timeout on COMMIT may
need to adjust that timeout, and log_min_duration_statement analysis
will reflect time consumption moving to COMMIT from commands like COPY.
Internally, this requires a reliable determination of whether
RollbackAndReleaseCurrentSubTransaction() would unlink a relation's
current relfilenode. Introduce rd_firstRelfilenodeSubid. Amend the
specification of rd_createSubid such that the field is zero when a new
rel has an old rd_node. Make relcache.c retain entries for certain
dropped relations until end of transaction.
Back-patch to 9.5 (all supported versions). This introduces a new WAL
record type, XLOG_GIST_ASSIGN_LSN, without bumping XLOG_PAGE_MAGIC. As
always, update standby systems before master systems. This changes
sizeof(RelationData) and sizeof(IndexStmt), breaking binary
compatibility for affected extensions. (The most recent commit to
affect the same class of extensions was
089e4d405d0f3b94c74a2c6a54357a84a681754b.)
Kyotaro Horiguchi, reviewed (in earlier, similar versions) by Robert
Haas. Heikki Linnakangas and Michael Paquier implemented earlier
designs that materially clarified the problem. Reviewed, in earlier
designs, by Andrew Dunstan, Andres Freund, Alvaro Herrera, Tom Lane,
Fujii Masao, and Simon Riggs. Reported by Martijn van Oosterhout.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20150702220524.GA9392@svana.org
This is required as it is no safer for two related processes to perform
clean up in gin indexes at a time than for unrelated processes to do the
same. After acquiring page locks, we can acquire relation extension lock
but reverse never happens which means these will also not participate in
deadlock. So, avoid checking wait edges from this lock.
Currently, the parallel mode is strictly read-only, but after this patch
we have the infrastructure to allow parallel inserts and parallel copy.
Author: Dilip Kumar, Amit Kapila
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila, Kuntal Ghosh and Sawada Masahiko
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAD21AoCmT3cFQUN4aVvzy5chw7DuzXrJCbrjTU05B+Ss=Gn1LA@mail.gmail.com
This is required as it is no safer for two related processes to extend the
same relation at a time than for unrelated processes to do the same. We
don't acquire a heavyweight lock on any other object after relation
extension lock which means such a lock can never participate in the
deadlock cycle. So, avoid checking wait edges from this lock.
This provides an infrastructure to allow parallel operations like insert,
copy, etc. which were earlier not possible as parallel group members won't
conflict for relation extension lock.
Author: Dilip Kumar, Amit Kapila
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila, Kuntal Ghosh and Sawada Masahiko
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAD21AoCmT3cFQUN4aVvzy5chw7DuzXrJCbrjTU05B+Ss=Gn1LA@mail.gmail.com
Assert that we don't acquire any other heavyweight lock while holding the
page lock except for relation extension. However, these locks are never
taken in reverse order which implies that page locks will never
participate in the deadlock cycle.
Similar to relation extension, page locks are also held for a short
duration, so imposing such a restriction won't hurt.
Author: Dilip Kumar, with few changes by Amit Kapila
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila, Kuntal Ghosh and Sawada Masahiko
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAD21AoCmT3cFQUN4aVvzy5chw7DuzXrJCbrjTU05B+Ss=Gn1LA@mail.gmail.com
relation extension lock.
The only exception to the rule is that we can try to acquire the same
relation extension lock more than once. This is allowed as we are not
creating any new lock for this case. This restriction implies that the
relation extension lock won't ever participate in the deadlock cycle
because we can never wait for any other heavyweight lock after acquiring
this lock.
Such a restriction is okay for relation extension locks as unlike other
heavyweight locks these are not held till the transaction end. These are
taken for a short duration to extend a particular relation and then
released.
Author: Dilip Kumar, with few changes by Amit Kapila
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila, Kuntal Ghosh and Sawada Masahiko
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAD21AoCmT3cFQUN4aVvzy5chw7DuzXrJCbrjTU05B+Ss=Gn1LA@mail.gmail.com
For the semantics to match the epoll implementation, we need a socket to
continue to appear readable/writable if you wait multiple times without
doing I/O in between (in Linux terminology: level-triggered rather than
edge-triggered). This distinction will be important for later commits.
Similar to commit 3b790d256f for Windows.
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGJAC4Oqao%3DqforhNey20J8CiG2R%3DoBPqvfR0vOJrFysGw%40mail.gmail.com
While running under a debugger, macOS's getppid() can return the
debugger's PID. That could cause a backend to exit because it falsely
believed that the postmaster had died, since commit 815c2f09.
Continue to use getppid() as a fast postmaster check after adding the
postmaster's PID to a kqueue, to close a PID-reuse race, but double
check that it actually exited by trying to read the pipe. The new check
isn't reached in the common case.
Reported-by: Alexander Korotkov <a.korotkov@postgrespro.ru>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGKhAxJ8V8RVwCo6zJaeVrdOG1kFBHGZOOjf6DzW_omeMA%40mail.gmail.com
Introduce a GUC and a tablespace option to control I/O prefetching, much
like effective_io_concurrency, but for work that is done on behalf of
many client sessions.
Use the new setting in heapam.c instead of the hard-coded formula
effective_io_concurrency + 10 introduced by commit 558a9165e0. Go with
a default value of 10 for now, because it's a round number pretty close
to the value used for that existing case.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGJUw08dPs_3EUcdO6M90GnjofPYrWp4YSLaBkgYwS-AqA%40mail.gmail.com
The effective_io_concurrency GUC and equivalent tablespace option were
previously passed through a formula based on a theory about RAID
spindles and probabilities, to arrive at the number of pages to prefetch
in bitmap heap scans. Tomas Vondra, Andres Freund and others argued
that it was anachronistic and hard to justify, and commit 558a9165e0
already started down the path of bypassing it in new code. We agreed to
drop that logic and use the value directly.
For the default setting of 1, there is no change in effect. Higher
settings can be converted from the old meaning to the new with:
select round(sum(OLD / n::float)) from generate_series(1, OLD) s(n);
We might want to consider renaming the GUC before the next release given
the change in meaning, but it's not clear that many users had set it
very carefully anyway. That decision is deferred for now.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGJUw08dPs_3EUcdO6M90GnjofPYrWp4YSLaBkgYwS-AqA%40mail.gmail.com
The init_ps_display() arguments were mostly lies by now, so to match
typical usage, just use one argument and let the caller assemble it
from multiple sources if necessary. The only user of the additional
arguments is BackendInitialize(), which was already doing string
assembly on the caller side anyway.
Remove the second argument of set_ps_display() ("force") and just
handle that in init_ps_display() internally.
BackendInitialize() also used to set the initial status as
"authentication", but that was very far from where authentication
actually happened. So now it's set to "initializing" and then
"authentication" just before the actual call to
ClientAuthentication().
Reviewed-by: Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Kuntal Ghosh <kuntalghosh.2007@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/c65e5196-4f04-4ead-9353-6088c19615a3@2ndquadrant.com
Previously, hard links were not used on Windows and Cygwin, but they
support them just fine in currently supported OS versions, so we can
use them there as well.
Since all supported platforms now support hard links, we can remove
the alternative code paths.
Rename durable_link_or_rename() to durable_rename_excl() to make the
purpose more clear without referencing the implementation details.
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/72fff73f-dc9c-4ef4-83e8-d2e60c98df48%402ndquadrant.com
The need for this was removed by
8b9e9644dc.
A number of files now need to include utils/acl.h or
parser/parse_node.h explicitly where they previously got it indirectly
somehow.
Since parser/parse_node.h already includes nodes/parsenodes.h, the
latter is then removed where the former was added. Also, remove
nodes/pg_list.h from objectaddress.h, since that's included via
nodes/parsenodes.h.
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/7601e258-26b2-8481-36d0-dc9dca6f28f1%402ndquadrant.com
Previously "waiting" could appear twice via PS in case of lock conflict
in hot standby mode. Specifically this issue happend when the delay
in WAL application determined by max_standby_archive_delay and
max_standby_streaming_delay had passed but it took more than 500 msec
to cancel all the conflicting transactions. Especially we can observe this
easily by setting those delay parameters to -1.
The cause of this issue was that WaitOnLock() and
ResolveRecoveryConflictWithVirtualXIDs() added "waiting" to
the process title in that case. This commit prevents
ResolveRecoveryConflictWithVirtualXIDs() from reporting waiting
in case of lock conflict, to fix the bug.
Back-patch to all back branches.
Author: Masahiko Sawada
Reviewed-by: Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+fd4k4mXWTwfQLS3RPwGr4xnfAEs1ysFfgYHvmmoUgv6Zxvmg@mail.gmail.com
This also involves renaming src/include/utils/hashutils.h, which
becomes src/include/common/hashfn.h. Perhaps an argument can be
made for keeping the hashutils.h name, but it seemed more
consistent to make it match the name of the file, and also more
descriptive of what is actually going on here.
Patch by me, reviewed by Suraj Kharage and Mark Dilger. Off-list
advice on how not to break the Windows build from Davinder Singh
and Amit Kapila.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoaRiG4TXND8QuM6JXFRkM_1wL2ZNhzaUKsuec9-4yrkgw@mail.gmail.com
Deduplication reduces the storage overhead of duplicates in indexes that
use the standard nbtree index access method. The deduplication process
is applied lazily, after the point where opportunistic deletion of
LP_DEAD-marked index tuples occurs. Deduplication is only applied at
the point where a leaf page split would otherwise be required. New
posting list tuples are formed by merging together existing duplicate
tuples. The physical representation of the items on an nbtree leaf page
is made more space efficient by deduplication, but the logical contents
of the page are not changed. Even unique indexes make use of
deduplication as a way of controlling bloat from duplicates whose TIDs
point to different versions of the same logical table row.
The lazy approach taken by nbtree has significant advantages over a GIN
style eager approach. Most individual inserts of index tuples have
exactly the same overhead as before. The extra overhead of
deduplication is amortized across insertions, just like the overhead of
page splits. The key space of indexes works in the same way as it has
since commit dd299df8 (the commit that made heap TID a tiebreaker
column).
Testing has shown that nbtree deduplication can generally make indexes
with about 10 or 15 tuples for each distinct key value about 2.5X - 4X
smaller, even with single column integer indexes (e.g., an index on a
referencing column that accompanies a foreign key). The final size of
single column nbtree indexes comes close to the final size of a similar
contrib/btree_gin index, at least in cases where GIN's posting list
compression isn't very effective. This can significantly improve
transaction throughput, and significantly reduce the cost of vacuuming
indexes.
A new index storage parameter (deduplicate_items) controls the use of
deduplication. The default setting is 'on', so all new B-Tree indexes
automatically use deduplication where possible. This decision will be
reviewed at the end of the Postgres 13 beta period.
There is a regression of approximately 2% of transaction throughput with
synthetic workloads that consist of append-only inserts into a table
with several non-unique indexes, where all indexes have few or no
repeated values. The underlying issue is that cycles are wasted on
unsuccessful attempts at deduplicating items in non-unique indexes.
There doesn't seem to be a way around it short of disabling
deduplication entirely. Note that deduplication of items in unique
indexes is fairly well targeted in general, which avoids the problem
there (we can use a special heuristic to trigger deduplication passes in
unique indexes, since we're specifically targeting "version bloat").
Bump XLOG_PAGE_MAGIC because xl_btree_vacuum changed.
No bump in BTREE_VERSION, since the representation of posting list
tuples works in a way that's backwards compatible with version 4 indexes
(i.e. indexes built on PostgreSQL 12). However, users must still
REINDEX a pg_upgrade'd index to use deduplication, regardless of the
Postgres version they've upgraded from. This is the only way to set the
new nbtree metapage flag indicating that deduplication is generally
safe.
Author: Anastasia Lubennikova, Peter Geoghegan
Reviewed-By: Peter Geoghegan, Heikki Linnakangas
Discussion:
https://postgr.es/m/55E4051B.7020209@postgrespro.ruhttps://postgr.es/m/4ab6e2db-bcee-f4cf-0916-3a06e6ccbb55@postgrespro.ru
The comments in fd.c have long claimed that all file allocations should
go through that module, but in reality that's not always practical.
fd.c doesn't supply APIs for invoking some FD-producing syscalls like
pipe() or epoll_create(); and the APIs it does supply for non-virtual
FDs are mostly insistent on releasing those FDs at transaction end;
and in some cases the actual open() call is in code that can't be made
to use fd.c, such as libpq.
This has led to a situation where, in a modern server, there are likely
to be seven or so long-lived FDs per backend process that are not known
to fd.c. Since NUM_RESERVED_FDS is only 10, that meant we had *very*
few spare FDs if max_files_per_process is >= the system ulimit and
fd.c had opened all the files it thought it safely could. The
contrib/postgres_fdw regression test, in particular, could easily be
made to fall over by running it under a restrictive ulimit.
To improve matters, invent functions Acquire/Reserve/ReleaseExternalFD
that allow outside callers to tell fd.c that they have or want to allocate
a FD that's not directly managed by fd.c. Add calls to track all the
fixed FDs in a standard backend session, so that we are honestly
guaranteeing that NUM_RESERVED_FDS FDs remain unused below the EMFILE
limit in a backend's idle state. The coding rules for these functions say
that there's no need to call them in code that just allocates one FD over
a fairly short interval; we can dip into NUM_RESERVED_FDS for such cases.
That means that there aren't all that many places where we need to worry.
But postgres_fdw and dblink must use this facility to account for
long-lived FDs consumed by libpq connections. There may be other places
where it's worth doing such accounting, too, but this seems like enough
to solve the immediate problem.
Internally to fd.c, "external" FDs are limited to max_safe_fds/3 FDs.
(Callers can choose to ignore this limit, but of course it's unwise
to do so except for fixed file allocations.) I also reduced the limit
on "allocated" files to max_safe_fds/3 FDs (it had been max_safe_fds/2).
Conceivably a smarter rule could be used here --- but in practice,
on reasonable systems, max_safe_fds should be large enough that this
isn't much of an issue, so KISS for now. To avoid possible regression
in the number of external or allocated files that can be opened,
increase FD_MINFREE and the lower limit on max_files_per_process a
little bit; we now insist that the effective "ulimit -n" be at least 64.
This seems like pretty clearly a bug fix, but in view of the lack of
field complaints, I'll refrain from risking a back-patch.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1izCmM-0005pV-Co@gemulon.postgresql.org
Previously PostgreSQL built with -DLWLOCK_STATS could report
more than one LWLock statistics entries for the same backend
process and the same LWLock. This is strange and only one
statistics should be output in that case, instead.
The cause of this issue is that the key variable used for
LWLock stats hash table was not fully initialized. The key
consists of two fields and they were initialized. But
the following 4 bytes allocated in the key variable for
the alignment was not initialized. So even if the same key
was specified, hash_search(HASH_ENTER) could not find
the existing entry for that key and created new one.
This commit fixes this issue by initializing the key
variable with zero. As the side effect of this commit,
the volume of LWLock statistics output would be reduced
very much.
Back-patch to v10, where commit 3761fe3c20 introduced the issue.
Author: Fujii Masao
Reviewed-by: Julien Rouhaud, Kyotaro Horiguchi
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/26359edb-798a-568f-d93a-6aafac49752d@oss.nttdata.com
Use kevent(2) to wait for events on the BSD family of operating
systems and macOS. This is similar to the epoll(2) support added
for Linux by commit 98a64d0bd.
Author: Thomas Munro
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund, Marko Tiikkaja, Tom Lane
Tested-by: Mateusz Guzik, Matteo Beccati, Keith Fiske, Heikki Linnakangas, Michael Paquier, Peter Eisentraut, Rui DeSousa, Tom Lane, Mark Wong
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm%3D37oF84-iXDTQ9MrGjENwVGds%2B5zTr38ca73kWR7ez_tA%40mail.gmail.com
Those new assertions can be used at file scope, outside of any function
for compilation checks. This commit provides implementations for C and
C++, and fallback implementations.
Author: Peter Smith
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund, Kyotaro Horiguchi, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker,
Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/201DD0641B056142AC8C6645EC1B5F62014B8E8030@SYD1217
If we attempt to create a DSM segment when no slots are available,
we should return the memory to the operating system. Previously
we did that if the DSM_CREATE_NULL_IF_MAXSEGMENTS flag was
passed in, but we didn't do it if an error was raised. Repair.
Back-patch to 9.4, where DSM segments arrived.
Author: Thomas Munro
Reviewed-by: Robert Haas
Reported-by: Julian Backes
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGKAAoEw-R4om0d2YM4eqT1eGEi6%3DQot-3ceDR-SLiWVDw%40mail.gmail.com
When running a lot of large parallel queries concurrently, or a plan with
a lot of separate Gather nodes, it is possible to run out of DSM slots.
There are better solutions to these problems requiring architectural
redesign work, but for now, let's adjust the constants so that it's more
difficult to hit the limit.
1. Previously, a DSA area would create up to four segments at each size
before doubling the size. After this commit, it will create only two at
each size, so it ramps up faster and therefore needs fewer slots.
2. Previously, the total limit on DSM slots allowed for 2 per connection.
Switch to 5 per connection.
Also remove an obsolete nearby comment.
Author: Thomas Munro
Reviewed-by: Robert Haas, Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postre.es/m/CA%2BhUKGL6H2BpGbiF7Lj6QiTjTGyTLW_vLR%3DSn2tEBeTcYXiMKw%40mail.gmail.com
It's not OK to do that without calling CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS().
Let the next wait loop deal with it, following the usual pattern.
One consequence of this bug was that a SIGTERM delivered in a very
narrow timing window could leave a parallel worker process waiting
forever for a condition variable that will never be signaled, after
an error was raised in other process.
The code is a bit different in the stable branches due to commit
1321509f, making problems less likely there. No back-patch for now,
but we may finish up deciding to make a similar change after more
discussion.
Author: Thomas Munro
Reviewed-by: Shawn Debnath
Reported-by: Tomas Vondra
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGJOm8zZHjVA8svoNT3tHY0XdqmaC_kHitmgXDQM49m1dA%40mail.gmail.com
The following changes make the predicate locking functions more
generic and suitable for use by future access methods:
- PredicateLockTuple() is renamed to PredicateLockTID(). It takes
ItemPointer and inserting transaction ID instead of HeapTuple.
- CheckForSerializableConflictIn() takes blocknum instead of buffer.
- CheckForSerializableConflictOut() no longer takes HeapTuple or buffer.
Author: Ashwin Agrawal
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund, Kuntal Ghosh, Thomas Munro
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALfoeiv0k3hkEb3Oqk%3DziWqtyk2Jys1UOK5hwRBNeANT_yX%2Bng%40mail.gmail.com
This function allows us to fsync the specified file or directory.
It's useful, for example, when we want to sync the file that
pg_file_write() writes out or that COPY TO exports the data into,
for durability.
Author: Fujii Masao
Reviewed-By: Julien Rouhaud, Arthur Zakirov, Michael Paquier, Atsushi Torikoshi
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAHGQGwGY8uzZ_k8dHRoW1zDcy1Z7=5GQ+So4ZkVy2u=nLsk=hA@mail.gmail.com
FileClose() failure ordinarily causes a PANIC. Suppose the user
disables that PANIC via data_sync_retry=on. After mdclose() issued a
FileClose() that failed, calls into md.c raised SIGSEGV. This fix adds
repalloc() calls during mdclose(); update a comment about ignoring
repalloc() cost. The rate of relation segment count change is a minor
factor; more relevant to overall performance is the rate of mdclose()
and subsequent re-opening of segments. Back-patch to v10, where commit
45e191e3aa introduced the bug.
Reviewed by Kyotaro Horiguchi.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20191222091930.GA1280238@rfd.leadboat.com
This tells you about allocations that have been made from the main
shared memory segment. The original patch also tried to show information
about dynamic shared memory allocation as well, but I decided to
leave that problem for another time.
Andres Freund and Robert Haas, reviewed by Michael Paquier, Marti
Raudsepp, Tom Lane, Álvaro Herrera, and Kyotaro Horiguchi.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/20140504114417.GM12715@awork2.anarazel.de
This follows multiple complains from Peter Geoghegan, Andres Freund and
Alvaro Herrera that this issue ought to be dug more before actually
happening, if it happens.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20191226144606.GA5659@alvherre.pgsql
The following renaming is done so as source files related to index
access methods are more consistent with table access methods (the
original names used for index AMs ware too generic, and could be
confused as including features related to table AMs):
- amapi.h -> indexam.h.
- amapi.c -> indexamapi.c. Here we have an equivalent with
backend/access/table/tableamapi.c.
- amvalidate.c -> indexamvalidate.c.
- amvalidate.h -> indexamvalidate.h.
- genam.c -> indexgenam.c.
- genam.h -> indexgenam.h.
This has been discussed during the development of v12 when table AM was
worked on, but the renaming never happened.
Author: Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Fabien Coelho, Julien Rouhaud
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20191223053434.GF34339@paquier.xyz
A new function EmitProcSignalBarrier() can be used to emit a global
barrier which all backends that participate in the ProcSignal
mechanism must absorb, and a new function WaitForProcSignalBarrier()
can be used to wait until all relevant backends have in fact
absorbed the barrier.
This can be used to coordinate global state changes, such as turning
checksums on while the system is running.
There's no real client of this mechanism yet, although two are
proposed, but an enum has to have at least one element, so this
includes a placeholder type (PROCSIGNAL_BARRIER_PLACEHOLDER) which
should be replaced by the first real client of this mechanism to
get committed.
Andres Freund and Robert Haas, reviewed by Daniel Gustafsson and,
in earlier versions, by Magnus Hagander.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoZwDk=BguVDVa+qdA6SBKef=PKbaKDQALTC_9qoz1mJqg@mail.gmail.com
The previous commit failed to consider that FileGetRawDesc() might
not return a valid fd, as discovered on the build farm. Switch to
using the File interface only.
Back-patch to 12, like the previous commit.
_mdfd_getseg() opens all segments up to the requested one. That
causes problems for mdsyncfiletag(), if mdunlinkfork() has
already unlinked other segment files. Open the file we want
directly by name instead, if it's not already open.
The consequence of this bug was a rare panic in the checkpointer,
made more likely if you saturated the sync request queue so that
the SYNC_FORGET_REQUEST messages for a given relation were more
likely to be absorbed in separate cycles by the checkpointer.
Back-patch to 12. Defect in commit 3eb77eba.
Author: Thomas Munro
Reported-by: Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20191119115759.GI30362%40telsasoft.com
On some platforms, fsync() returns EBADFD when opening a file descriptor
with O_RDONLY (read-only), leading ultimately now to a PANIC to prevent
data corruption.
This commit adds a new sanity check in pg_fsync() based on fcntl() to
make sure that we don't repeat again mistakes with incorrectly-set file
descriptors so as problems are detected at an early stage. Without
that, such errors could only be detected after running Postgres on a
specific supported platform for the culprit code path, which could take
some time before being found. b8e19b93 was a fix for such a problem,
which got undetected for more than 5 years, and a586cc4b fixed another
similar issue.
Note that the new check added works as well when fsync=off is
configured, so as all regression tests would detect problems as long as
assertions are enabled. fcntl() being not available on Windows, the
new checks do not happen there.
Author: Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Mark Dilger
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20191009062640.GB21379@paquier.xyz
This new option terminates the other sessions connected to the target
database and then drop it. To terminate other sessions, the current user
must have desired permissions (same as pg_terminate_backend()). We don't
allow to terminate the sessions if prepared transactions, active logical
replication slots or subscriptions are present in the target database.
Author: Pavel Stehule with changes by me
Reviewed-by: Dilip Kumar, Vignesh C, Ibrar Ahmed, Anthony Nowocien,
Ryan Lambert and Amit Kapila
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAP_rwwmLJJbn70vLOZFpxGw3XD7nLB_7+NKz46H5EOO2k5H7OQ@mail.gmail.com
PredicateLockTuple() has a fast exit if tuple was written by the current
transaction, as in that case it already has a lock. This check can be
performed using TransactionIdIsCurrentTransactionId() instead of
SubTransGetTopmostTransaction(), to avoid any chance of having to hit the
disk.
Author: Ashwin Agrawal, based on a suggestion from Andres Freund
Reviewed-by: Thomas Munro
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALfoeiv0k3hkEb3Oqk%3DziWqtyk2Jys1UOK5hwRBNeANT_yX%2Bng%40mail.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
A race condition can make us try to dereference a NULL pointer to the
PGPROC struct of a process that's already finished. That results in
crashes during REINDEX CONCURRENTLY and CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY.
This was introduced in ab0dfc961b, so backpatch to pg12.
Reported by: Justin Pryzby
Reviewed-by: Michaël Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20191012004446.GT10470@telsasoft.com
The old names for the attribute-detoasting functions names included
the word "heap," which seems outdated now that the heap is only one of
potentially many table access methods.
On the other hand, toast_insert_or_update and toast_delete are
heap-specific, so rename them by adding "heap_" as a prefix.
Not all of the work of making the TOAST system fully accessible to AMs
other than the heap is done yet, but there seems to be little harm in
getting this renaming out of the way now. Commit
8b94dab066 already divided up the
functions among various files partially according to whether it was
intended that they should be heap-specific or AM-agnostic, so this is
just clarifying the division contemplated by that commit.
Patch by me, reviewed and tested by Prabhat Sabu, Thomas Munro,
Andres Freund, and Álvaro Herrera.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoZv-=2iWM4jcw5ZhJeL18HF96+W1yJeYrnGMYdkFFnEpQ@mail.gmail.com
When a relation is truncated, shared_buffers needs to be scanned
so that any buffers for the relation forks are invalidated in it.
Previously, shared_buffers was scanned for each relation forks, i.e.,
MAIN, FSM and VM, when VACUUM truncated off any empty pages
at the end of relation or TRUNCATE truncated the relation in place.
Since shared_buffers needed to be scanned multiple times,
it could take a long time to finish those commands especially
when shared_buffers was large.
This commit changes the logic so that shared_buffers is scanned only
one time for those three relation forks.
Author: Kirk Jamison
Reviewed-by: Masahiko Sawada, Thomas Munro, Alvaro Herrera, Takayuki Tsunakawa and Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/D09B13F772D2274BB348A310EE3027C64E2067@g01jpexmbkw24
This is a second try at what commit 57431a911 tried to do, namely,
launch the syslogger before we open postmaster sockets so that our
messages about the sockets end up in the syslogger files. That
commit fell foul of a bunch of subtle issues caused by trying to
launch a postmaster child process before creating shared memory.
Rather than messing with that interaction, let's postpone opening
the sockets till after we launch the syslogger.
This would not have been terribly safe before commit 7de19fbc0,
because we relied on socket opening to detect whether any competing
postmasters were using the same port number. But now that we choose
IPC keys without regard to the port number, there's no interaction
to worry about.
Also delay creation of the external PID file (if requested) till after
the sockets are open, since external code could plausibly be relying
on that ordering of events. And postpone most of the work of
RemovePgTempFiles() so that that potentially-slow processing still
happens after we make the external PID file. We have to be a bit
careful about that last though: as noted in the discussion subsequent to
bug #15804, EXEC_BACKEND builds still have to clear the parameter-file
temp dir before launching the syslogger.
Patch by me; thanks to Michael Paquier for review/testing.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15804-3721117bf40fb654@postgresql.org
This approach provides a much tighter binding between a data directory
and the associated SysV shared memory block (and SysV or named-POSIX
semaphores, if we're using those). Key collisions are still possible,
but only between data directories stored on different filesystems,
so the situation should be negligible in practice. More importantly,
restarting the postmaster with a different port number no longer
risks failing to identify a relevant shared memory block, even when
postmaster.pid has been removed. A standalone backend is likewise
much more certain to detect conflicting leftover backends.
(In the longer term, we might now think about deprecating the port as
a cluster-wide value, so that one postmaster could support sockets
with varying port numbers. But that's for another day.)
The hazards fixed here apply only on Unix systems; our Windows code
paths already use identifiers derived from the data directory path
name rather than the port.
src/test/recovery/t/017_shm.pl, which intends to test key-collision
cases, has been substantially rewritten since it can no longer use
two postmasters with identical port numbers to trigger the case.
Instead, use Perl's IPC::SharedMem module to create a conflicting
shmem segment directly. The test script will be skipped if that
module is not available. (This means that some older buildfarm
members won't run it, but I don't think that that results in any
meaningful coverage loss.)
Patch by me; thanks to Noah Misch and Peter Eisentraut for discussion
and review.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16908.1557521200@sss.pgh.pa.us
detoast.c/h contain functions required to detoast a datum, partially
or completely, plus a few other utility functions for examining the
size of toasted datums.
toast_internals.c/h contain functions that are used internally to the
TOAST subsystem but which (mostly) do not need to be accessed from
outside.
heaptoast.c/h contains code that is intrinsically specific to the
heap AM, either because it operates on HeapTuples or is based on the
layout of a heap page.
detoast.c and toast_internals.c are placed in
src/backend/access/common rather than src/backend/access/heap. At
present, both files still have dependencies on the heap, but that will
be improved in a future commit.
Patch by me, reviewed and tested by Prabhat Sabu, Thomas Munro,
Andres Freund, and Álvaro Herrera.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoZv-=2iWM4jcw5ZhJeL18HF96+W1yJeYrnGMYdkFFnEpQ@mail.gmail.com
These were introduced by pgindent due to fixe to broken
indentation (c.f. 8255c7a5ee). Previously the mis-indentation of
function prototypes was creatively used to reduce indentation in a few
places.
As that formatting only exists in master and REL_12_STABLE, it seems
better to fix it in both, rather than having some odd indentation in
v12 that somebody might copy for future patches or such.
Author: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190728013754.jwcbe5nfyt3533vx@alap3.anarazel.de
Backpatch: 12-
A "break" statement erroneously left behind by commit a1c1af2a1
caused TopoSort to do the wrong thing if a lock's wait list
contained multiple members of the same locking group.
Because parallel workers don't normally need any locks not already
taken by their leader, this is very hard --- maybe impossible ---
to hit in production. Still, if it did happen, the queries involved
in an otherwise-resolvable deadlock would block until canceled.
In addition to removing the bogus "break", add an Assert showing
that the conflicting uses of the beforeConstraints[] array (for both
counts and flags) don't overlap, and add some commentary explaining
why not; because it's not obvious without explanation, IMHO.
Original report and patch from Rui Hai Jiang; additional assert
and commentary by me. Back-patch to 9.6 where the bug came in.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEri+mLd3bpHLyW+a9pSe1y=aEkeuJpwBSwvo-+m4n7-ceRmXw@mail.gmail.com
When we already know the length that we're going to append, then it
makes sense to use appendBinaryStringInfo instead of
appendStringInfoString so that the append can be performed with a simple
memcpy() using a known length rather than having to first perform a
strlen() call to obtain the length.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKJS1f8+FRAM1s5+mAa3isajeEoAaicJ=4e0WzrH3tAusbbiMQ@mail.gmail.com
Potential future SMGR implementations may not want to create
tablespace directories when creating an SMGR relation. Move that
logic to mdcreate(). Move the initialization of md-specific
data structures from smgropen() to a new callback mdopen().
Author: Thomas Munro
Reviewed-by: Shawn Debnath (as part of an earlier patch set)
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKG%2BOZqOiOuDm5tC5DyQZtJ3FH4%2BFSVMqtdC4P1atpJ%2Bqhg%40mail.gmail.com
This is numbered take 7, and addresses a set of issues around:
- Fixes for typos and incorrect reference names.
- Removal of unneeded comments.
- Removal of unreferenced functions and structures.
- Fixes regarding variable name consistency.
Author: Alexander Lakhin
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/10bfd4ac-3e7c-40ab-2b2e-355ed15495e8@gmail.com
Originally, Postgres Lists were a more or less exact reimplementation of
Lisp lists, which consist of chains of separately-allocated cons cells,
each having a value and a next-cell link. We'd hacked that once before
(commit d0b4399d8) to add a separate List header, but the data was still
in cons cells. That makes some operations -- notably list_nth() -- O(N),
and it's bulky because of the next-cell pointers and per-cell palloc
overhead, and it's very cache-unfriendly if the cons cells end up
scattered around rather than being adjacent.
In this rewrite, we still have List headers, but the data is in a
resizable array of values, with no next-cell links. Now we need at
most two palloc's per List, and often only one, since we can allocate
some values in the same palloc call as the List header. (Of course,
extending an existing List may require repalloc's to enlarge the array.
But this involves just O(log N) allocations not O(N).)
Of course this is not without downsides. The key difficulty is that
addition or deletion of a list entry may now cause other entries to
move, which it did not before.
For example, that breaks foreach() and sister macros, which historically
used a pointer to the current cons-cell as loop state. We can repair
those macros transparently by making their actual loop state be an
integer list index; the exposed "ListCell *" pointer is no longer state
carried across loop iterations, but is just a derived value. (In
practice, modern compilers can optimize things back to having just one
loop state value, at least for simple cases with inline loop bodies.)
In principle, this is a semantics change for cases where the loop body
inserts or deletes list entries ahead of the current loop index; but
I found no such cases in the Postgres code.
The change is not at all transparent for code that doesn't use foreach()
but chases lists "by hand" using lnext(). The largest share of such
code in the backend is in loops that were maintaining "prev" and "next"
variables in addition to the current-cell pointer, in order to delete
list cells efficiently using list_delete_cell(). However, we no longer
need a previous-cell pointer to delete a list cell efficiently. Keeping
a next-cell pointer doesn't work, as explained above, but we can improve
matters by changing such code to use a regular foreach() loop and then
using the new macro foreach_delete_current() to delete the current cell.
(This macro knows how to update the associated foreach loop's state so
that no cells will be missed in the traversal.)
There remains a nontrivial risk of code assuming that a ListCell *
pointer will remain good over an operation that could now move the list
contents. To help catch such errors, list.c can be compiled with a new
define symbol DEBUG_LIST_MEMORY_USAGE that forcibly moves list contents
whenever that could possibly happen. This makes list operations
significantly more expensive so it's not normally turned on (though it
is on by default if USE_VALGRIND is on).
There are two notable API differences from the previous code:
* lnext() now requires the List's header pointer in addition to the
current cell's address.
* list_delete_cell() no longer requires a previous-cell argument.
These changes are somewhat unfortunate, but on the other hand code using
either function needs inspection to see if it is assuming anything
it shouldn't, so it's not all bad.
Programmers should be aware of these significant performance changes:
* list_nth() and related functions are now O(1); so there's no
major access-speed difference between a list and an array.
* Inserting or deleting a list element now takes time proportional to
the distance to the end of the list, due to moving the array elements.
(However, it typically *doesn't* require palloc or pfree, so except in
long lists it's probably still faster than before.) Notably, lcons()
used to be about the same cost as lappend(), but that's no longer true
if the list is long. Code that uses lcons() and list_delete_first()
to maintain a stack might usefully be rewritten to push and pop at the
end of the list rather than the beginning.
* There are now list_insert_nth...() and list_delete_nth...() functions
that add or remove a list cell identified by index. These have the
data-movement penalty explained above, but there's no search penalty.
* list_concat() and variants now copy the second list's data into
storage belonging to the first list, so there is no longer any
sharing of cells between the input lists. The second argument is
now declared "const List *" to reflect that it isn't changed.
This patch just does the minimum needed to get the new implementation
in place and fix bugs exposed by the regression tests. As suggested
by the foregoing, there's a fair amount of followup work remaining to
do.
Also, the ENABLE_LIST_COMPAT macros are finally removed in this
commit. Code using those should have been gone a dozen years ago.
Patch by me; thanks to David Rowley, Jesper Pedersen, and others
for review.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/11587.1550975080@sss.pgh.pa.us
After a process decides not to wait for a condition variable, it can
still consume a signal before it reaches ConditionVariableCancelSleep().
In that case, pass the signal on to another waiter if possible, so that
a signal doesn't go missing when there is another process ready to
receive it.
Author: Thomas Munro
Reviewed-by: Shawn Debnath
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGLQ_RW%2BXs8znDn36e-%2Bmq2--zrPemBqTQ8eKT-VO1OF4Q%40mail.gmail.com
This addresses a couple of issues in the code:
- Typos and inconsistencies in comments and function declarations.
- Removal of unreferenced function declarations.
- Removal of unnecessary compile flags.
- A cleanup error in regressplans.sh.
Author: Alexander Lakhin
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/0c991fdf-2670-1997-c027-772a420c4604@gmail.com
There were a number of issues in the recent commits which include typos,
code and comments mismatch, leftover function declarations. Fix them.
Reported-by: Alexander Lakhin
Author: Alexander Lakhin, Amit Kapila and Amit Langote
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ef0c0232-0c1d-3a35-63d4-0ebd06e31387@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
If PrepareTempTablespaces() has never been called in the current
transaction, OpenTemporaryFile() will fall back to using the default
tablespace, which is a bug if the user wanted temp files placed elsewhere.
gistInitBuildBuffers() appears to have this disease already, and it
seems like an easy trap for future coders to fall into.
We discussed other ways to close this gap, but none of them are prettier
or more reliable than just having BufFileCreateTemp do it. In particular,
having fd.c do this creates layering issues that we could do without.
Per suggestion from Melanie Plageman. Arguably this is a bug fix, but
nobody seems very excited about back-patching, so change in HEAD only.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAKRu_YwzjuGAmmaw4-8XO=OVFGR1QhY_Pq-t3wjb9ribBJb_Q@mail.gmail.com
Previously various parts of the code routed size requests through
RelationGetNumberOfBlocks[InFork]. That works if md.c is used by the
AM, but not otherwise.
Add a tableam callback to return the size of the table. As not every
AM will use postgres' BLCKSZ, have it return bytes, and have
RelationGetNumberOfBlocksInFork() round the byte size up into blocks.
To allow code outside of the AM to determine the actual relation size
map InvalidForkNumber the total size of a relation, as not every AM
might just need the postgres defined forks.
A few users of RelationGetNumberOfBlocks() ought to be converted away
from that. One case, the use of it to determine whether a tid is
valid, will be fixed in a follow up commit. Others will have to wait
for v13.
Author: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190423225201.3bbv6tbqzkb5w7cw@alap3.anarazel.de
The term "item pointer" should not be used to refer to ItemIdData
variables, since that is needlessly ambiguous. Only
ItemPointerData/ItemPointer variables should be called item pointers.
To fix, establish the convention that ItemIdData variables should always
be referred to either as "item identifiers" or "line pointers". The
term "item identifier" already predominates in docs and translatable
messages, and so should be the preferred alternative there.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-Wz=c=MZQjUzde3o9+2PLAPuHTpVZPPdYxN=E4ndQ2--8ew@mail.gmail.com
Commit bb16aba50 broke the code that maintains SxactGlobalXmin. It
could get stuck when a well-timed READ ONLY transaction runs. If
SxactGlobalXmin stops advancing, transactions on the
FinishedSerializableTransactions queue are never cleaned up, so
resources are effectively leaked. Revert that hunk of the commit.
Also revert another similar hunk that was probably harmless, but
unnecessary and unjustified, relating to the DOOMED flag in case of
RO_SAFE early release.
Author: Thomas Munro
Reported-by: Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16170.1557251214%40sss.pgh.pa.us
This feature was using a process local map to track the first few blocks
in the relation. The map was reset each time we get the block with enough
freespace. It was discussed that it would be better to track this map on
a per-relation basis in relcache and then invalidate the same whenever
vacuum frees up some space in the page or when FSM is created. The new
design would be better both in terms of API design and performance.
List of commits reverted, in reverse chronological order:
06c8a5090e Improve code comments in b0eaa4c51b.
13e8643bfc During pg_upgrade, conditionally skip transfer of FSMs.
6f918159a9 Add more tests for FSM.
9c32e4c350 Clear the local map when not used.
29d108cdec Update the documentation for FSM behavior..
08ecdfe7e5 Make FSM test portable.
b0eaa4c51b Avoid creation of the free space map for small heap relations.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190416180452.3pm6uegx54iitbt5@alap3.anarazel.de
Commit 3eb77eba5a renamed some functions, but forgot to
update some comments referencing to those functions.
This commit fixes those function names in the comments.
Kyotaro Horiguchi
Transient files and wait events get normally cleaned up when seeing an
exception (be it in the context of a transaction for a backend or
another process like the checkpointer), hence there is little point in
complicating error code paths to do this work. This shaves a bit of
code, and removes some extra handling with errno which needed to be
preserved during the cleanup steps done.
Reported-by: Masahiko Sawada
Author: Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane, Masahiko Sawada
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAD21AoDhHYVq5KkXfkaHhmjA-zJYj-e4teiRAJefvXuKJz1tKQ@mail.gmail.com
postmaster startup scrutinizes any shared memory segment recorded in
postmaster.pid, exiting if that segment matches the current data
directory and has an attached process. When the postmaster.pid file was
missing, a starting postmaster used weaker checks. Change to use the
same checks in both scenarios. This increases the chance of a startup
failure, in lieu of data corruption, if the DBA does "kill -9 `head -n1
postmaster.pid` && rm postmaster.pid && pg_ctl -w start". A postmaster
will no longer stop if shmat() of an old segment fails with EACCES. A
postmaster will no longer recycle segments pertaining to other data
directories. That's good for production, but it's bad for integration
tests that crash a postmaster and immediately delete its data directory.
Such a test now leaks a segment indefinitely. No "make check-world"
test does that. win32_shmem.c already avoided all these problems. In
9.6 and later, enhance PostgresNode to facilitate testing. Back-patch
to 9.4 (all supported versions).
Reviewed (in earlier versions) by Daniel Gustafsson and Kyotaro HORIGUCHI.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190408064141.GA2016666@rfd.leadboat.com
Commit 3eb77eba moved a _mdfd_getseg() call from mdsync() into a new
callback function mdsyncfiletag(), but didn't get the arguments quite
right. Without the EXTENSION_DONT_CHECK_SIZE flag we fail to open a
segment if lower-numbered segments have been truncated, and it wants
a block number rather than a segment number.
While comparing with the older coding, also remove an unnecessary
clobbering of errno, and adjust the code in mdunlinkfiletag() to
ressemble the original code from mdpostckpt() more closely instead
of using an unnecessary call to smgropen().
Author: Thomas Munro
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGL%2BYLUOA0eYiBXBfwW%2BbH5kFgh94%3DgQH0jHEJ-t5Y91wQ%40mail.gmail.com
Previously, md.c and checkpointer.c were tightly integrated so that
fsync calls could be handed off and processed in the background.
Introduce a system of callbacks and file tags, so that other modules
can hand off fsync work in the same way.
For now only md.c uses the new interface, but other users are being
proposed. Since there may be use cases that are not strictly SMGR
implementations, use a new function table for sync handlers rather
than extending the traditional SMGR one.
Instead of using a bitmapset of segment numbers for each RelFileNode
in the checkpointer's hash table, make the segment number part of the
key. This requires sending explicit "forget" requests for every
segment individually when relations are dropped, but suits the file
layout schemes of proposed future users better (ie sparse or high
segment numbers).
Author: Shawn Debnath and Thomas Munro
Reviewed-by: Thomas Munro, Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=2gTANm=e3ARnJT=n0h8hf88wqmaZxk0JYkxw+b21fNrw@mail.gmail.com
postmaster startup scrutinizes any shared memory segment recorded in
postmaster.pid, exiting if that segment matches the current data
directory and has an attached process. When the postmaster.pid file was
missing, a starting postmaster used weaker checks. Change to use the
same checks in both scenarios. This increases the chance of a startup
failure, in lieu of data corruption, if the DBA does "kill -9 `head -n1
postmaster.pid` && rm postmaster.pid && pg_ctl -w start". A postmaster
will no longer recycle segments pertaining to other data directories.
That's good for production, but it's bad for integration tests that
crash a postmaster and immediately delete its data directory. Such a
test now leaks a segment indefinitely. No "make check-world" test does
that. win32_shmem.c already avoided all these problems. In 9.6 and
later, enhance PostgresNode to facilitate testing. Back-patch to 9.4
(all supported versions).
Reviewed by Daniel Gustafsson and Kyotaro HORIGUCHI.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20130911033341.GD225735@tornado.leadboat.com
This uses the progress reporting infrastructure added by c16dc1aca5,
adding support for CREATE INDEX and CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY.
There are two pieces to this: one is index-AM-agnostic, and the other is
AM-specific. The latter is fairly elaborate for btrees, including
reportage for parallel index builds and the separate phases that btree
index creation uses; other index AMs, which are much simpler in their
building procedures, have simplistic reporting only, but that seems
sufficient, at least for non-concurrent builds.
The index-AM-agnostic part is fairly complete, providing insight into
the CONCURRENTLY wait phases as well as block-based progress during the
index validation table scan. (The index validation index scan requires
patching each AM, which has not been included here.)
Reviewers: Rahila Syed, Pavan Deolasee, Tatsuro Yamada
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20181220220022.mg63bhk26zdpvmcj@alvherre.pgsql
Instead of inferring epoch progress from xids and checkpoints,
introduce a 64 bit FullTransactionId type and use it to track xid
generation. This fixes an unlikely bug where the epoch is reported
incorrectly if the range of active xids wraps around more than once
between checkpoints.
The only user-visible effect of this commit is to correct the epoch
used by txid_current() and txid_status(), also visible with
pg_controldata, in those rare circumstances. It also creates some
basic infrastructure so that later patches can use 64 bit
transaction IDs in more places.
The new type is a struct that we pass by value, as a form of strong
typedef. This prevents the sort of accidental confusion between
TransactionId and FullTransactionId that would be possible if we
were to use a plain old uint64.
Author: Thomas Munro
Reported-by: Amit Kapila
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund, Tom Lane, Heikki Linnakangas
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAA4eK1%2BMv%2Bmb0HFfWM9Srtc6MVe160WFurXV68iAFMcagRZ0dQ%40mail.gmail.com
Relations dropped in a single transaction are tracked in a list of
unowned relations. With large number of dropped relations this resulted
in poor performance at the end of a transaction, when the relations are
removed from the singly linked list one by one.
Commit b4166911 attempted to address this issue (particularly when it
happens during recovery) by removing the relations in a reverse order,
resulting in O(1) lookups in the list of unowned relations. This did
not work reliably, though, and it was possible to trigger the O(N^2)
behavior in various ways.
Instead of trying to remove the relations in a specific order with
respect to the linked list, which seems rather fragile, switch to a
regular doubly linked. That allows us to remove relations cheaply no
matter where in the list they are.
As b4166911 was a bugfix, backpatched to all supported versions, do the
same thing here.
Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/80c27103-99e4-1d0c-642c-d9f3b94aaa0a%402ndquadrant.com
Backpatch-through: 9.4
Previously, the SERIALIZABLE isolation level prevented parallel query
from being used. Allow the two features to be used together by
sharing the leader's SERIALIZABLEXACT with parallel workers.
An extra per-SERIALIZABLEXACT LWLock is introduced to make it safe to
share, and new logic is introduced to coordinate the early release
of the SERIALIZABLEXACT required for the SXACT_FLAG_RO_SAFE
optimization, as follows:
The first backend to observe the SXACT_FLAG_RO_SAFE flag (set by
some other transaction) will 'partially release' the SERIALIZABLEXACT,
meaning that the conflicts and locks it holds are released, but the
SERIALIZABLEXACT itself will remain active because other backends
might still have a pointer to it.
Whenever any backend notices the SXACT_FLAG_RO_SAFE flag, it clears
its own MySerializableXact variable and frees local resources so that
it can skip SSI checks for the rest of the transaction. In the
special case of the leader process, it transfers the SERIALIZABLEXACT
to a new variable SavedSerializableXact, so that it can be completely
released at the end of the transaction after all workers have exited.
Remove the serializable_okay flag added to CreateParallelContext() by
commit 9da0cc35, because it's now redundant.
Author: Thomas Munro
Reviewed-by: Haribabu Kommi, Robert Haas, Masahiko Sawada, Kevin Grittner
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=0gXGYhtrVDWOTHS8SQQy_=S9xo+8oCxGLWZAOoeJ=yzQ@mail.gmail.com
... as well as its implementation from backend/access/hash/hashfunc.c to
backend/utils/hash/hashfn.c.
access/hash is the place for the hash index AM, not really appropriate
for generic facilities, which is what hash_any is; having things the old
way meant that anything using hash_any had to include the AM's include
file, pointlessly polluting its namespace with unrelated, unnecessary
cruft.
Also move the HTEqual strategy number to access/stratnum.h from
access/hash.h.
To avoid breaking third-party extension code, add an #include
"utils/hashutils.h" to access/hash.h. (An easily removed line by
committers who enjoy their asbestos suits to protect them from angry
extension authors.)
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/201901251935.ser5e4h6djt2@alvherre.pgsql
This adds a column that counts how many checksum failures have occurred
on files belonging to a specific database. Both checksum failures
during normal backend processing and those created when a base backup
detects a checksum failure are counted.
Author: Magnus Hagander
Reviewed by: Julien Rouhaud
This fixes two sets of issues related to the use of transient files in
the backend:
1) OpenTransientFile() has been used in some code paths with read-write
flags while read-only is sufficient, so switch those calls to be
read-only where necessary. These have been reported by Joe Conway.
2) When opening transient files, it is up to the caller to close the
file descriptors opened. In error code paths, CloseTransientFile() gets
called to clean up things before issuing an error. However in normal
exit paths, a lot of callers of CloseTransientFile() never actually
reported errors, which could leave a file descriptor open without
knowing about it. This is an issue I complained about a couple of
times, but never had the courage to write and submit a patch, so here we
go.
Note that one frontend code path is impacted by this commit so as an
error is issued when fetching control file data, making backend and
frontend to be treated consistently.
Reported-by: Joe Conway, Michael Paquier
Author: Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Álvaro Herrera, Georgios Kokolatos, Joe Conway
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190301023338.GD1348@paquier.xyz
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/c49b69ec-e2f7-ff33-4f17-0eaa4f2cef27@joeconway.com
Before commit 3fa2bb31 this type appeared in the catalogs to
select which of several block storage mechanisms each relation
used.
New features under development propose to revive the concept of
different block storage managers for new kinds of data accessed
via bufmgr.c, but don't need to put references to them in the
catalogs. So, avoid useless maintenance work on this type by
dropping it. Update some regression tests that were referencing
it where any type would do.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKG%2BDE0mmiBZMtZyvwWtgv1sZCniSVhXYsXkvJ_Wo%2B83vvw%40mail.gmail.com
After commit b0eaa4c51b, we use a local map of pages to find the required
space for small relations. We do clear this map when we have found a block
with enough free space, when we extend the relation, or on transaction
abort so that it can be used next time. However, we miss to clear it when
we didn't find any pages to try from the map which leads to an assertion
failure when we later tried to use it after relation extension.
In the passing, I have improved some comments in this area.
Reported-by: Tom Lane based on buildfarm results
Author: Amit Kapila
Reviewed-by: John Naylor
Tested-by: Kuntal Ghosh
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/32368.1551114120@sss.pgh.pa.us
When preparing a transaction in two-phase commit, a dummy PGPROC entry
holding the GID used for the transaction is registered, which gets
released once COMMIT PREPARED is run. Prior releasing its shared memory
state, all the locks taken in the prepared transaction are released
using a dedicated set of callbacks (pgstat and multixact having similar
callbacks), which may cause the locks to be released before the GID is
set free.
Hence, there is a small window where lock conflicts could happen, for
example:
- Transaction A releases its locks, still holding its GID in shared
memory.
- Transaction B held a lock which conflicted with locks of transaction
A.
- Transaction B continues its processing, reusing the same GID as
transaction A.
- Transaction B fails because of a conflicting GID, already in use by
transaction A.
This commit changes the shared memory state release so as post-commit
callbacks and predicate lock cleanup happen consistently with the shared
memory state cleanup for the dummy PGPROC entry. The race window is
small and 2PC had this issue from the start, so no backpatch is done.
On top if that fixes discussed involved ABI breakages, which are not
welcome in stable branches.
Reported-by: Oleksii Kliukin, Ildar Musin
Diagnosed-by: Oleksii Kliukin, Ildar Musin
Author: Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Masahiko Sawada, Oleksii Kliukin
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/BF9B38A4-2BFF-46E8-BA87-A2D00A8047A6@hintbits.com
Previously, we tolerated EBADF as a way for the operating system to
indicate that it doesn't support fsync() on a directory. Tolerate
EINVAL too, for older versions of Linux CIFS.
Bug #15636. Back-patch all the way.
Reported-by: John Klann
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15636-d380890dafd78fc6@postgresql.org
One unintended consequence of commit 9ccdd7f6 was that Windows WSL
users started getting a panic whenever we tried to initiate data
flushing with sync_file_range(), because WSL does not implement that
system call. Previously, they got a stream of periodic warnings,
which was also undesirable but at least ignorable.
Prevent the panic by handling ENOSYS specially and skipping the panic
promotion with data_sync_elevel(). Also suppress future attempts
after the first such failure so that the pre-existing problem of
noisy warnings is improved.
Back-patch to 9.6 (older branches were not affected in this way by
9ccdd7f6).
Author: Thomas Munro and James Sewell
Tested-by: James Sewell
Reported-by: Bruce Klein
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+mCpegfOUph2U4ZADtQT16dfbkjjYNJL1bSTWErsazaFjQW9A@mail.gmail.com
Teach dsm_unpin_segment() to skip segments that are in the process
of being destroyed by another backend, when searching for a handle.
Such a segment cannot possibly be the one we are looking for, even
if its handle matches. Another slot might hold a recently created
segment that has the same handle value by coincidence, and we need
to keep searching for that one.
The bug caused rare "cannot unpin a segment that is not pinned"
errors on 10 and 11. Similar to commit 6c0fb941 for dsm_attach().
Back-patch to 10, where dsm_unpin_segment() landed.
Author: Thomas Munro
Reported-by: Justin Pryzby
Tested-by: Justin Pryzby (along with other recent DSA/DSM fixes)
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190216023854.GF30291@telsasoft.com
DSM handle values can be reused as soon as the underlying shared memory
object has been destroyed. That means that for a brief moment we
might have two DSM slots with the same handle. While trying to attach,
if we encounter a slot with refcnt == 1, meaning that it is currently
being destroyed, we should continue our search in case the same handle
exists in another slot.
The race manifested as a rare "dsa_area could not attach to segment"
error, and was more likely in 10 and 11 due to the lack of distinct
seed for random() in parallel workers. It was made very unlikely in
in master by commit 197e4af9, and older releases don't usually create
new DSM segments in background workers so it was also unlikely there.
This fixes the root cause of bug report #15585, in which the error
could also sometimes result in a self-deadlock in the error path.
It's not yet clear if further changes are needed to avoid that failure
mode.
Back-patch to 9.4, where dsm.c arrived.
Author: Thomas Munro
Reported-by: Justin Pryzby, Sergei Kornilov
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190207014719.GJ29720@telsasoft.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15585-324ff6a93a18da46@postgresql.org
Since its introduction, max_wal_senders is counted as part of
max_connections when it comes to define how many connection slots can be
used for replication connections with a WAL sender context. This can
lead to confusion for some users, as it could be possible to block a
base backup or replication from happening because other backend sessions
are already taken for other purposes by an application, and
superuser-only connection slots are not a correct solution to handle
that case.
This commit makes max_wal_senders independent of max_connections for its
handling of PGPROC entries in ProcGlobal, meaning that connection slots
for WAL senders are handled using their own free queue, like autovacuum
workers and bgworkers.
One compatibility issue that this change creates is that a standby now
requires to have a value of max_wal_senders at least equal to its
primary. So, if a standby created enforces the value of
max_wal_senders to be lower than that, then this could break failovers.
Normally this should not be an issue though, as any settings of a
standby are inherited from its primary as postgresql.conf gets normally
copied as part of a base backup, so parameters would be consistent.
Author: Alexander Kukushkin
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi, Petr Jelínek, Masahiko Sawada, Oleksii
Kliukin
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAFh8B=nBzHQeYAu0b8fjK-AF1X4+_p6GRtwG+cCgs6Vci2uRuQ@mail.gmail.com
Previously, all heaps had FSMs. For very small tables, this means that the
FSM took up more space than the heap did. This is wasteful, so now we
refrain from creating the FSM for heaps with 4 pages or fewer. If the last
known target block has insufficient space, we still try to insert into some
other page before giving up and extending the relation, since doing
otherwise leads to table bloat. Testing showed that trying every page
penalized performance slightly, so we compromise and try every other page.
This way, we visit at most two pages. Any pages with wasted free space
become visible at next relation extension, so we still control table bloat.
As a bonus, directly attempting one or two pages can even be faster than
consulting the FSM would have been.
Once the FSM is created for a heap we don't remove it even if somebody
deletes all the rows from the corresponding relation. We don't think it is
a useful optimization as it is quite likely that relation will again grow
to the same size.
Author: John Naylor, Amit Kapila
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila
Tested-by: Mithun C Y
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAJVSVGWvB13PzpbLEecFuGFc5V2fsO736BsdTakPiPAcdMM5tQ@mail.gmail.com
Previously, all heaps had FSMs. For very small tables, this means that the
FSM took up more space than the heap did. This is wasteful, so now we
refrain from creating the FSM for heaps with 4 pages or fewer. If the last
known target block has insufficient space, we still try to insert into some
other page before giving up and extending the relation, since doing
otherwise leads to table bloat. Testing showed that trying every page
penalized performance slightly, so we compromise and try every other page.
This way, we visit at most two pages. Any pages with wasted free space
become visible at next relation extension, so we still control table bloat.
As a bonus, directly attempting one or two pages can even be faster than
consulting the FSM would have been.
Once the FSM is created for a heap we don't remove it even if somebody
deletes all the rows from the corresponding relation. We don't think it is
a useful optimization as it is quite likely that relation will again grow
to the same size.
Author: John Naylor with design inputs and some code contribution by Amit Kapila
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila
Tested-by: Mithun C Y
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAJVSVGWvB13PzpbLEecFuGFc5V2fsO736BsdTakPiPAcdMM5tQ@mail.gmail.com
Given these routines are heap specific, and that there will be more
generic visibility support in via table AM, it makes sense to move the
prototypes to heapam.h (routines like HeapTupleSatisfiesVacuum will
not be exposed in a generic fashion, because they are too storage
specific).
Similarly, the code in tqual.c is specific to heap, so moving it into
access/heap/ makes sense.
Author: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180703070645.wchpu5muyto5n647@alap3.anarazel.de
Most of these had been obsoleted by 568d4138c / the SnapshotNow
removal.
This is is preparation for moving most of tqual.[ch] into either
snapmgr.h or heapam.h, which in turn is in preparation for pluggable
table AMs.
Author: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180703070645.wchpu5muyto5n647@alap3.anarazel.de
This removes a portion of infrastructure introduced by fe0a0b5 to allow
compilation of Postgres in environments where no strong random source is
available, meaning that there is no linking to OpenSSL and no
/dev/urandom (Windows having its own CryptoAPI). No systems shipped
this century lack /dev/urandom, and the buildfarm is actually not
testing this switch at all, so just remove it. This simplifies
particularly some backend code which included a fallback implementation
using shared memory, and removes a set of alternate regression output
files from pgcrypto.
Author: Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20181230063219.GG608@paquier.xyz
Move the responsibility for checking for and reporting a failure from
the only current BufFileSize() caller, logtape.c, to BufFileSize()
itself. Code within buffile.c is generally responsible for interfacing
with fd.c to report irrecoverable failures. This seems like a
convention that's worth sticking to.
Reorganizing things this way makes it easy to make the error message
raised in the event of BufFileSize() failure descriptive of the
underlying problem. We're now clear on the distinction between
temporary file name and BufFile name, and can show errno, confident that
its value actually relates to the error being reported. In passing, an
existing, similar buffile.c ereport() + errcode_for_file_access() site
is changed to follow the same conventions.
The API of the function BufFileSize() is changed by this commit, despite
already being in a stable release (Postgres 11). This seems acceptable,
since the BufFileSize() ABI was changed by commit aa55183042, which
hasn't made it into a point release yet. Besides, it's difficult to
imagine a third party BufFileSize() caller not just raising an error
anyway, since BufFile state should be considered corrupt when
BufFileSize() fails.
Per complaint from Tom Lane.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/26974.1540826748@sss.pgh.pa.us
Backpatch: 11-, where shared BufFiles were introduced.
If you extend a relation, it should count as a block written, not
read (we write a zero-filled block). If you ask for a zero-filled
buffer, it shouldn't be counted as read or written.
Later we might consider counting zero-filled buffers with a separate
counter, if they become more common due to future work.
Author: Thomas Munro
Reviewed-by: Haribabu Kommi, Kyotaro Horiguchi, David Rowley
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm%3D3JytB3KPpvSwXzkY%2Bdwc5zC8P8Lk7Nedkoci81_0E9rA%40mail.gmail.com
Users of the WaitEventSet and WaitLatch() APIs can now choose between
asking for WL_POSTMASTER_DEATH and then handling it explicitly, or asking
for WL_EXIT_ON_PM_DEATH to trigger immediate exit on postmaster death.
This reduces code duplication, since almost all callers want the latter.
Repair all code that was previously ignoring postmaster death completely,
or requesting the event but ignoring it, or requesting the event but then
doing an unconditional PostmasterIsAlive() call every time through its
event loop (which is an expensive syscall on platforms for which we don't
have USE_POSTMASTER_DEATH_SIGNAL support).
Assert that callers of WaitLatchXXX() under the postmaster remember to
ask for either WL_POSTMASTER_DEATH or WL_EXIT_ON_PM_DEATH, to prevent
future bugs.
The only process that doesn't handle postmaster death is syslogger. It
waits until all backends holding the write end of the syslog pipe
(including the postmaster) have closed it by exiting, to be sure to
capture any parting messages. By using the WaitEventSet API directly
it avoids the new assertion, and as a by-product it may be slightly
more efficient on platforms that have epoll().
Author: Thomas Munro
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi, Heikki Linnakangas, Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm%3D1TCviRykkUb69ppWLr_V697rzd1j3eZsRMmbXvETfqbQ%40mail.gmail.com,
https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=2LqHzizbe7muD7-2yHUbTOoF7Q+qkSD5Q41kuhttRTwA@mail.gmail.com
Previously tables declared WITH OIDS, including a significant fraction
of the catalog tables, stored the oid column not as a normal column,
but as part of the tuple header.
This special column was not shown by default, which was somewhat odd,
as it's often (consider e.g. pg_class.oid) one of the more important
parts of a row. Neither pg_dump nor COPY included the contents of the
oid column by default.
The fact that the oid column was not an ordinary column necessitated a
significant amount of special case code to support oid columns. That
already was painful for the existing, but upcoming work aiming to make
table storage pluggable, would have required expanding and duplicating
that "specialness" significantly.
WITH OIDS has been deprecated since 2005 (commit ff02d0a05280e0).
Remove it.
Removing includes:
- CREATE TABLE and ALTER TABLE syntax for declaring the table to be
WITH OIDS has been removed (WITH (oids[ = true]) will error out)
- pg_dump does not support dumping tables declared WITH OIDS and will
issue a warning when dumping one (and ignore the oid column).
- restoring an pg_dump archive with pg_restore will warn when
restoring a table with oid contents (and ignore the oid column)
- COPY will refuse to load binary dump that includes oids.
- pg_upgrade will error out when encountering tables declared WITH
OIDS, they have to be altered to remove the oid column first.
- Functionality to access the oid of the last inserted row (like
plpgsql's RESULT_OID, spi's SPI_lastoid, ...) has been removed.
The syntax for declaring a table WITHOUT OIDS (or WITH (oids = false)
for CREATE TABLE) is still supported. While that requires a bit of
support code, it seems unnecessary to break applications / dumps that
do not use oids, and are explicit about not using them.
The biggest user of WITH OID columns was postgres' catalog. This
commit changes all 'magic' oid columns to be columns that are normally
declared and stored. To reduce unnecessary query breakage all the
newly added columns are still named 'oid', even if a table's column
naming scheme would indicate 'reloid' or such. This obviously
requires adapting a lot code, mostly replacing oid access via
HeapTupleGetOid() with access to the underlying Form_pg_*->oid column.
The bootstrap process now assigns oids for all oid columns in
genbki.pl that do not have an explicit value (starting at the largest
oid previously used), only oids assigned later by oids will be above
FirstBootstrapObjectId. As the oid column now is a normal column the
special bootstrap syntax for oids has been removed.
Oids are not automatically assigned during insertion anymore, all
backend code explicitly assigns oids with GetNewOidWithIndex(). For
the rare case that insertions into the catalog via SQL are called for
the new pg_nextoid() function can be used (which only works on catalog
tables).
The fact that oid columns on system tables are now normal columns
means that they will be included in the set of columns expanded
by * (i.e. SELECT * FROM pg_class will now include the table's oid,
previously it did not). It'd not technically be hard to hide oid
column by default, but that'd mean confusing behavior would either
have to be carried forward forever, or it'd cause breakage down the
line.
While it's not unlikely that further adjustments are needed, the
scope/invasiveness of the patch makes it worthwhile to get merge this
now. It's painful to maintain externally, too complicated to commit
after the code code freeze, and a dependency of a number of other
patches.
Catversion bump, for obvious reasons.
Author: Andres Freund, with contributions by John Naylor
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180930034810.ywp2c7awz7opzcfr@alap3.anarazel.de
Previously, any program launched by COPY TO/FROM PROGRAM inherited the
server's setting of SIGPIPE handling, i.e. SIG_IGN. Hence, if we were
doing COPY FROM PROGRAM and closed the pipe early, the child process
would see EPIPE on its output file and typically would treat that as
a fatal error, in turn causing the COPY to report error. Similarly,
one could get a failure report from a query that didn't read all of
the output from a contrib/file_fdw foreign table that uses file_fdw's
PROGRAM option.
To fix, ensure that child programs inherit SIG_DFL not SIG_IGN processing
of SIGPIPE. This seems like an all-around better situation since if
the called program wants some non-default treatment of SIGPIPE, it would
expect to have to set that up for itself. Then in COPY, if it's COPY
FROM PROGRAM and we stop reading short of detecting EOF, treat a SIGPIPE
exit from the called program as a non-error condition. This still allows
us to report an error for any case where the called program gets SIGPIPE
on some other file descriptor.
As coded, we won't report a SIGPIPE if we stop reading as a result of
seeing an in-band EOF marker (e.g. COPY BINARY EOF marker). It's
somewhat debatable whether we should complain if the called program
continues to transmit data after an EOF marker. However, it seems like
we should avoid throwing error in any questionable cases, especially in a
back-patched fix, and anyway it would take additional code to make such
an error get reported consistently.
Back-patch to v10. We could go further back, since COPY FROM PROGRAM
has been around awhile, but AFAICS the only way to reach this situation
using core or contrib is via file_fdw, which has only supported PROGRAM
sources since v10. The COPY statement per se has no feature whereby
it'd stop reading without having hit EOF or an error already. Therefore,
I don't see any upside to back-patching further that'd outweigh the
risk of complaints about behavioral change.
Per bug #15449 from Eric Cyr.
Patch by me, review by Etsuro Fujita and Kyotaro Horiguchi
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15449-1cf737dd5929450e@postgresql.org
On some operating systems, it doesn't make sense to retry fsync(),
because dirty data cached by the kernel may have been dropped on
write-back failure. In that case the only remaining copy of the
data is in the WAL. A subsequent fsync() could appear to succeed,
but not have flushed the data. That means that a future checkpoint
could apparently complete successfully but have lost data.
Therefore, violently prevent any future checkpoint attempts by
panicking on the first fsync() failure. Note that we already
did the same for WAL data; this change extends that behavior to
non-temporary data files.
Provide a GUC data_sync_retry to control this new behavior, for
users of operating systems that don't eject dirty data, and possibly
forensic/testing uses. If it is set to on and the write-back error
was transient, a later checkpoint might genuinely succeed (on a
system that does not throw away buffers on failure); if the error is
permanent, later checkpoints will continue to fail. The GUC defaults
to off, meaning that we panic.
Back-patch to all supported releases.
There is still a narrow window for error-loss on some operating
systems: if the file is closed and later reopened and a write-back
error occurs in the intervening time, but the inode has the bad
luck to be evicted due to memory pressure before we reopen, we could
miss the error. A later patch will address that with a scheme
for keeping files with dirty data open at all times, but we judge
that to be too complicated to back-patch.
Author: Craig Ringer, with some adjustments by Thomas Munro
Reported-by: Craig Ringer
Reviewed-by: Robert Haas, Thomas Munro, Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180427222842.in2e4mibx45zdth5%40alap3.anarazel.de
If fsync() fails, md.c must keep the request in its bitmap, so that
future attempts will try again.
Back-patch to all supported releases.
Author: Thomas Munro
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila
Reported-by: Andrew Gierth
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/87y3i1ia4w.fsf%40news-spur.riddles.org.uk
BufFileSize() can't use off_t, because it's only 32 bits wide on
some systems. BufFile objects can have many 1GB segments so the
total size can exceed 2^31. The only known client of the function
is parallel CREATE INDEX, which was reported to fail when building
large indexes on Windows.
Though this is technically an ABI break on platforms with a 32 bit
off_t and we might normally avoid back-patching it, the function is
brand new and thus unlikely to have been discovered by extension
authors yet, and it's fairly thoroughly broken on those platforms
anyway, so just fix it.
Defect in 9da0cc35. Bug #15460. Back-patch to 11, where this
function landed.
Author: Thomas Munro
Reported-by: Paul van der Linden, Pavel Oskin
Reviewed-by: Peter Geoghegan
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15460-b6db80de822fa0ad%40postgresql.org
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHDGBJP_GsESbTt4P3FZA8kMUKuYxjg57XHF7NRBoKnR%3DCAR-g%40mail.gmail.com
group clearing mechanism.
Commits 0e141c0fbb and baaf272ac9 introduced initialization of atomic
variables in InitProcess which means that it's not safe to look at those
for backends that aren't currently in use. Fix that by initializing them
during postmaster startup.
Reported-by: Andres Freund
Author: Amit Kapila
Backpatch-through: 9.6
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20181027104138.qmbbelopvy7cw2qv@alap3.anarazel.de
The use of volatiles in procarray.c largely originated from the time
when postgres did not have reliable compiler and memory
barriers. That's not the case anymore, so we can do better.
Several of the functions in procarray.c can be bottlenecks, and
removal of volatile yields mildly better code.
The new state, with explicit memory barriers, is also more
correct. The previous use of volatile did not actually deliver
sufficient guarantees on weakly ordered machines, in particular the
logic in GetNewTransactionId() does not look safe. It seems unlikely
to be a problem in practice, but worth fixing.
Thomas and I independently wrote a patch for this.
Reported-By: Andres Freund and Thomas Munro
Author: Andres Freund, with cherrypicked changes from a patch by Thomas Munro
Discussion:
https://postgr.es/m/20181005172955.wyjb4fzcdzqtaxjq@alap3.anarazel.dehttps://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=1nff0x=7i3YQO16jLA2qw-F9O39YmUew4oq-xcBQBs0g@mail.gmail.com
Previously the code checked PROC_IN_LOGICAL_DECODING and
PROC_IN_VACUUM separately. As the relevant variable is marked as
volatile, the compiler cannot combine the two tests. As
GetSnapshotData() is pretty hot in a number of workloads, it's
worthwhile to fix that.
It'd also be a good idea to get rid of the volatiles altogether. But
for one that's a larger patch, and for another, the code after this
change still seems at least as easy to read as before.
Author: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20181005172955.wyjb4fzcdzqtaxjq@alap3.anarazel.de
This allows the compiler / linker to mark affected pages as read-only.
There's other cases, but they're a bit more invasive, and should go
through some review. These are easy.
They were found with
objdump -j .data -t src/backend/postgres|awk '{print $4, $5, $6}'|sort -r|less
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20181015200754.7y7zfuzsoux2c4ya@alap3.anarazel.de
On a primary, sets of XLOG_RUNNING_XACTS records are generated on a
periodic basis to allow recovery to build the initial state of
transactions for a hot standby. The set of transaction IDs is created
by scanning all the entries in ProcArray. However it happens that its
logic never counted on the fact that two-phase transactions finishing to
prepare can put ProcArray in a state where there are two entries with
the same transaction ID, one for the initial transaction which gets
cleared when prepare finishes, and a second, dummy, entry to track that
the transaction is still running after prepare finishes. This way
ensures a continuous presence of the transaction so as callers of for
example TransactionIdIsInProgress() are always able to see it as alive.
So, if a XLOG_RUNNING_XACTS takes a standby snapshot while a two-phase
transaction finishes to prepare, the record can finish with duplicated
XIDs, which is a state expected by design. If this record gets applied
on a standby to initial its recovery state, then it would simply fail,
so the odds of facing this failure are very low in practice. It would
be tempting to change the generation of XLOG_RUNNING_XACTS so as
duplicates are removed on the source, but this requires to hold on
ProcArrayLock for longer and this would impact all workloads,
particularly those using heavily two-phase transactions.
XLOG_RUNNING_XACTS is also actually used only to initialize the standby
state at recovery, so instead the solution is taken to discard
duplicates when applying the initial snapshot.
Diagnosed-by: Konstantin Knizhnik
Author: Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/0c96b653-4696-d4b4-6b5d-78143175d113@postgrespro.ru
Backpatch-through: 9.3
This moves the system administration functions for signalling backends
from backend/utils/adt/misc.c into a separate file dedicated to backend
signalling. No new functionality is introduced in this commit.
Author: Daniel Gustafsson
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier, Álvaro Herrera
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/C2C7C3EC-CC5F-44B6-9C78-637C88BD7D14@yesql.se
Opening a relation with no lock at all is unsafe; there's no guarantee
that we'll see a consistent state of the relevant catalog entries.
While use of MVCC scans to read the catalogs partially addresses that
complaint, it's still possible to switch to a new catalog snapshot
partway through loading the relcache entry. Moreover, whether or not
you trust the reasoning behind sometimes using less than
AccessExclusiveLock for ALTER TABLE, that reasoning is certainly not
valid if concurrent users of the table don't hold a lock corresponding
to the operation they want to perform.
Hence, add some assertion-build-only checks that require any caller
of relation_open(x, NoLock) to hold at least AccessShareLock. This
isn't a full solution, since we can't verify that the lock level is
semantically appropriate for the action --- but it's definitely of
some use, because it's already caught two bugs.
We can also assert that callers of addRangeTableEntryForRelation()
hold at least the lock level specified for the new RTE.
Amit Langote and Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16565.1538327894@sss.pgh.pa.us
Commit 37c54863c removed the code in StandbyAcquireAccessExclusiveLock
that checked the return value of LockAcquireExtended. That created a
bug, because it's still passing reportMemoryError = false to
LockAcquireExtended, meaning that LOCKACQUIRE_NOT_AVAIL will be returned
if we're out of shared memory for the lock table.
In such a situation, the startup process would believe it had acquired an
exclusive lock even though it hadn't, with potentially dire consequences.
To fix, just drop the use of reportMemoryError = false, which allows us
to simplify the call into a plain LockAcquire(). It's unclear that the
locktable-full situation arises often enough that it's worth having a
better recovery method than crash-and-restart. (I strongly suspect that
the only reason the code path existed at all was that it was relatively
simple to do in the pre-37c54863c implementation. But now it's not.)
LockAcquireExtended's reportMemoryError parameter is now dead code and
could be removed. I refrained from doing so, however, because there
was some interest in resurrecting the behavior if we do get reports of
locktable-full failures in the field. Also, it seems unwise to remove
the parameter concurrently with shipping commit f868a8143, which added a
parameter; if there are any third-party callers of LockAcquireExtended,
we want them to get a wrong-number-of-parameters compile error rather
than a possibly-silent misinterpretation of its last parameter.
Back-patch to 9.6 where the bug was introduced.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/6202.1536359835@sss.pgh.pa.us
Chris Travers reported that the startup process can repeatedly try to
cancel a backend that is in a posix_fallocate()/EINTR loop and cause it
to loop forever. Teach the retry loop to give up if an interrupt is
pending. Don't actually check for interrupts in that loop though,
because a non-local exit would skip some clean-up code in the caller.
Back-patch to 9.4 where DSM was added (and posix_fallocate() was later
back-patched).
Author: Chris Travers
Reviewed-by: Ildar Musin, Murat Kabilov, Oleksii Kliukin
Tested-by: Oleksii Kliukin
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAN-RpxB-oeZve_J3SM_6%3DHXPmvEG%3DHX%2B9V9pi8g2YR7YW0rBBg%40mail.gmail.com
LockRelationOid and sibling routines supposed that, if our session already
holds the lock they were asked to acquire, they could skip calling
AcceptInvalidationMessages on the grounds that we must have already read
any remote sinval messages issued against the relation being locked.
This is normally true, but there's a critical special case where it's not:
processing inside AcceptInvalidationMessages might attempt to access system
relations, resulting in a recursive call to acquire a relation lock.
Hence, if the outer call had acquired that same system catalog lock, we'd
fall through, despite the possibility that there's an as-yet-unread sinval
message for that system catalog. This could, for example, result in
failure to access a system catalog or index that had just been processed
by VACUUM FULL. This is the explanation for buildfarm failures we've been
seeing intermittently for the past three months. The bug is far older
than that, but commits a54e1f158 et al added a new recursion case within
AcceptInvalidationMessages that is apparently easier to hit than any
previous case.
To fix this, we must not skip calling AcceptInvalidationMessages until
we have *finished* a call to it since acquiring a relation lock, not
merely acquired the lock. (There's already adequate logic inside
AcceptInvalidationMessages to deal with being called recursively.)
Fortunately, we can implement that at trivial cost, by adding a flag
to LOCALLOCK hashtable entries that tracks whether we know we have
completed such a call.
There is an API hazard added by this patch for external callers of
LockAcquire: if anything is testing for LOCKACQUIRE_ALREADY_HELD,
it might be fooled by the new return code LOCKACQUIRE_ALREADY_CLEAR
into thinking the lock wasn't already held. This should be a fail-soft
condition, though, unless something very bizarre is being done in
response to the test.
Also, I added an additional output argument to LockAcquireExtended,
assuming that that probably isn't called by any outside code given
the very limited usefulness of its additional functionality.
Back-patch to all supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/12259.1532117714@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
Commit dafa084, added in 10, made the removal of temporary orphaned
tables more aggressive. This commit makes an extra step into the
aggressiveness by adding a flag in each backend's MyProc which tracks
down any temporary namespace currently in use. The flag is set when the
namespace gets created and can be reset if the temporary namespace has
been created in a transaction or sub-transaction which is aborted. The
flag value assignment is assumed to be atomic, so this can be done in a
lock-less fashion like other flags already present in PGPROC like
databaseId or backendId, still the fact that the temporary namespace and
table created are still locked until the transaction creating those
commits acts as a barrier for other backends.
This new flag gets used by autovacuum to discard more aggressively
orphaned tables by additionally checking for the database a backend is
connected to as well as its temporary namespace in-use, removing
orphaned temporary relations even if a backend reuses the same slot as
one which created temporary relations in a past session.
The base idea of this patch comes from Robert Haas, has been written in
its first version by Tsunakawa Takayuki, then heavily reviewed by me.
Author: Tsunakawa Takayuki
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier, Kyotaro Horiguchi, Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/0A3221C70F24FB45833433255569204D1F8A4DC6@G01JPEXMBYT05
Backpatch: 11-, as PGPROC gains a new flag and we don't want silent ABI
breakages on already released versions.
When reading an existing FSM or VM page that was found to be corrupt by the
buffer manager, the code applied PageInit() to reinitialize the page, but
did so without any locking. There is thus a hazard that two backends might
concurrently do PageInit, which in itself would still be OK, but the slower
one might then zero over subsequent data changes applied by the faster one.
Even that is unlikely to be fatal; but it's not desirable, so add locking
to prevent it.
This does not add any locking overhead in the normal code path where the
page is OK. It's not immediately obvious that that's safe, but I believe
it is, for reasons explained in the added comments.
Problem noted by R P Asim. It's been like this for a long time, so
back-patch to all supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CANXE4Te4G0TGq6cr0-TvwP0H4BNiK_-hB5gHe8mF+nz0mcYfMQ@mail.gmail.com
In ad9a274778, shmem_exit_inprogress was
introduced. But we need to reset it after shmem_exit(), because unlike
the similar proc_exit(), shmem_exit() can also be called for cleanup
when the process will not exit.
Reported-by: Andrew Gierth <andrew@tao11.riddles.org.uk>
Header comment of shm_mq.c was mistakenly specifying path to shm_mq.h.
It was introduced in ec9037df. So, theoretically it could be
backpatched to 9.4, but it doesn't seem to worth it.
PostgreSQL nowadays offers some kind of dynamic shared memory feature on
all supported platforms. Having the choice of "none" prevents us from
relying on DSM in core features. So this patch removes the choice of
"none".
Author: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horiguchi.kyotaro@lab.ntt.co.jp>
When multiple relations are deleted at the same transaction,
the files of those relations are deleted by one call to smgrdounlinkall(),
which leads to scan whole shared_buffers only one time. OTOH,
previously, during recovery, smgrdounlink() (not smgrdounlinkall()) was
called for each file to delete, which led to scan shared_buffers
multiple times. Obviously this could cause to increase the WAL replay
time very much especially when shared_buffers was huge.
To alleviate this situation, this commit changes the recovery so that
it also calls smgrdounlinkall() only one time to delete multiple
relation files.
This is just fix for oversight of commit 279628a0a7, not new feature.
So, per discussion on pgsql-hackers, we concluded to backpatch this
to all supported versions.
Author: Fujii Masao
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier, Andres Freund, Thomas Munro, Kyotaro Horiguchi, Takayuki Tsunakawa
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHGQGwHVQkdfDqtvGVkty+19cQakAydXn1etGND3X0PHbZ3+6w@mail.gmail.com
Issues relate only to subtransactions that hold AccessExclusiveLocks
when replayed on standby.
Prior to PG10, aborting subtransactions that held an
AccessExclusiveLock failed to release the lock until top level commit or
abort. 49bff5300d fixed that.
However, 49bff5300d also introduced a similar bug where subtransaction
commit would fail to release an AccessExclusiveLock, leaving the lock to
be removed sometimes early and sometimes late. This commit fixes
that bug also. Backpatch to PG10 needed.
Tested by observation. Note need for multi-node isolationtester to improve
test coverage for this and other HS cases.
Reported-by: Simon Riggs
Author: Simon Riggs
Also this commit unifies some duplicated code in makeBufFile() and
BufFileOpenShared() into new function makeBufFileCommon().
Author: Antonin Houska
Reviewed-By: Thomas Munro, Tatsuo Ishii
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16139.1529049566%40localhost
GetRunningTransactionData() suggested that subxids were not worth
optimizing away if overflowed, yet they have already been removed
for that case.
Changes to LogAccessExclusiveLock() API forgot to remove the
prior comment when it was copied to LockAcquire().
32ac7a118f tried to fix a Hot Standby issue
reported by Greg Stark, but in doing so caused
a different bug to appear, noted by Andres Freund.
Revoke the core changes from 32ac7a118f,
leaving in its place a minor change in code
ordering and comments to explain for the future.
Thomas Munro
Tom Lane
Peter Eisentraut
David Rowley
Andrew Dunstan
Andres Freund
Noah Misch
Michael Paquier
Magnus Hagander
Peter Geoghegan
Fujii Masao
Stephen Frost
Etsuro Fujita
Tomas Vondra
Amit Kapila
Alvaro Herrera
Robert Haas
Bruce Momjian
Heikki Linnakangas
Alexander Korotkov
Peter Eisentraut
Simon Riggs
Tatsuo Ishii