PG_COMPRESSION_OPTION_LEVEL is removed from the compression
specification logic, and instead the compression level is always
assigned with each library's default if nothing is directly given. This
centralizes the checks on the compression methods supported by a given
build, and always assigns a default compression level when parsing a
compression specification. This results in complaining at an earlier
stage than previously if a build supports a compression method or not,
aka when parsing a specification in the backend or the frontend, and not
when processing it. zstd, lz4 and zlib are able to handle in their
respective routines setting up the compression level the case of a
default value, hence the backend or frontend code (pg_receivewal or
pg_basebackup) has now no need to know what the default compression
level should be if nothing is specified: the logic is now done so as the
specification parsing assigns it. It can also be enforced by passing
down a "level" set to the default value, that the backend will accept
(the replication protocol is for example able to handle a command like
BASE_BACKUP (COMPRESSION_DETAIL 'gzip:level=-1')).
This code simplification fixes an issue with pg_basebackup --gzip
introduced by ffd5365, where the tarball of the streamed WAL segments
would be created as of pg_wal.tar.gz with uncompressed contents, while
the intention is to compress the segments with gzip at a default level.
The origin of the confusion comes from the handling of the default
compression level of gzip (-1 or Z_DEFAULT_COMPRESSION) and the value of
0 was getting assigned, which is what walmethods.c would consider
as equivalent to no compression when streaming WAL segments with its tar
methods. Assigning always the compression level removes the confusion
of some code paths considering a value of 0 set in a specification as
either no compression or a default compression level.
Note that 010_pg_basebackup.pl has to be adjusted to skip a few tests
where the shape of the compression detail string for client and
server-side compression was checked using gzip. This is a result of the
code simplification, as gzip specifications cannot be used if a build
does not support it.
Reported-by: Tom Lane
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1400032.1662217889@sss.pgh.pa.us
Backpatch-through: 15
Commit d8594d123 updated the list of non-spacing codepoints used
for calculating display width, but in doing so inadvertently removed
some, since the script used for that commit only considered combining
characters.
For complete coverage for zero-width characters, include codepoints in
the category Cf (Format). To reflect the wider purpose, also rename files
and update comments that referred specifically to combining characters.
Some of these ranges have been missing since v12, but due to lack of
field complaints it was determined not important enough to justify adding
special-case logic the backbranches.
Kyotaro Horiguchi
Report by Pavel Stehule
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CAFj8pRBE8yvpQ0FSkPCoe0Ny1jAAsAQ6j3qMgVwWvkqAoaaNmQ%40mail.gmail.com
This commit changes the following code paths to do direct system calls
to some WIN32 functions rather than loading them from an external
library, shaving some code in the process:
- Creation of restricted tokens in pg_ctl.c, introduced by a25cd81.
- QuerySecurityContextToken() in auth.c for SSPI authentication in the
backend, introduced in d602592.
- CreateRestrictedToken() in src/common/. This change is similar to the
case of pg_ctl.c.
Most of these functions were loaded rather than directly called because,
as mentioned in the code comments, MinGW headers were not declaring
them. I have double-checked the recent MinGW code, and all the
functions changed here are declared in its headers, so this change
should be safe. Note that I do not have a MinGW environment at hand so
I have not tested it directly, but that MSVC was fine with the change.
The buildfarm will tell soon enough if this change is appropriate or not
for a much broader set of environments.
A few code paths still use GetProcAddress() to load some functions:
- LDAP authentication for ldap_start_tls_sA(), where I am not confident
that this change would work.
- win32env.c and win32ntdll.c where we have a per-MSVC version
dependency for the name of the library loaded.
- crashdump.c for MiniDumpWriteDump() and EnumDirTree(), where direct
calls were not able to work after testing.
Reported-by: Thomas Munro
Reviewed-by: Justin Prysby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+hUKG+BMdcaCe=P-EjMoLTCr3zrrzqbcVE=8h5LyNsSVHKXZA@mail.gmail.com
More than twenty years ago (79fcde48b), we hacked the postmaster
to avoid a core-dump on systems that didn't support fflush(NULL).
We've mostly, though not completely, hewed to that rule ever since.
But such systems are surely gone in the wild, so in the spirit of
cleaning out no-longer-needed portability hacks let's get rid of
multiple per-file fflush() calls in favor of using fflush(NULL).
Also, we were fairly inconsistent about whether to fflush() before
popen() and system() calls. While we've received no bug reports
about that, it seems likely that at least some of these call sites
are at risk of odd behavior, such as error messages appearing in
an unexpected order. Rather than expend a lot of brain cells
figuring out which places are at hazard, let's just establish a
uniform coding rule that we should fflush(NULL) before these calls.
A no-op fflush() is surely of trivial cost compared to launching
a sub-process via a shell; while if it's not a no-op then we likely
need it.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2923412.1661722825@sss.pgh.pa.us
Per flame graph from Jelte Fennema, COPY FROM ... USING BINARY shows
input validation taking at least 5% of the profile, so it's worth trying
to be more efficient here. With this change, validation of pure ASCII is
nearly 40% faster on contemporary Intel hardware. To make this change
legible and easier to adopt to additional architectures, use helper
functions to abstract the platform details away.
Reviewed by Nathan Bossart
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAFBsxsG%3Dk8t%3DC457FXnoBXb%3D8iA4OaZkbFogFMachWif7mNnww%40mail.gmail.com
Remove four probes for members of sockaddr_storage. Keep only the probe
for sockaddr's sa_len, which is enough for our two remaining places that
know about _len fields:
1. ifaddr.c needs to know if sockaddr has sa_len to understand the
result of ioctl(SIOCGIFCONF). Only AIX is still using the relevant code
today, but it seems like a good idea to keep it compilable on Linux.
2. ip.c was testing for presence of ss_len to decide whether to fill in
sun_len in our getaddrinfo_unix() function. It's just as good to test
for sa_len. If you have one, you have them all.
(The code in #2 isn't actually needed at all on several OSes I checked
since modern versions ignore sa_len on input to system calls. Proving
that's the case for all relevant OSes is left for another day, but
wouldn't get rid of that last probe anyway if we still want it for #1.)
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGJJjF2AqdU_Aug5n2MAc1gr%3DGykNjVBZq%2Bd6Jrcp3Dyvg%40mail.gmail.com
Since HAVE_UNIX_SOCKETS is now defined unconditionally, remove the macro
and drop a small amount of dead code.
The last known systems not to have them (as far as I know at least) were
QNX, which we de-supported years ago, and Windows, which now has them.
If a new OS ever shows up with the POSIX sockets API but without working
AF_UNIX, it'll presumably still be able to compile the code, and fail at
runtime with an unsupported address family error. We might want to
consider adding a HINT that you should turn off the option to use it if
your network stack doesn't support it at that point, but it doesn't seem
worth making the relevant code conditional at compile time.
Also adjust a couple of places in the docs and comments that referred to
builds without Unix-domain sockets, since there aren't any. Windows
still gets a special mention in those places, though, because we don't
try to use them by default there yet.
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKG%2BL_3brvh%3D8e0BW_VfX9h7MtwgN%3DnFHP5o7X2oZucY9dg%40mail.gmail.com
Now that lstat() reports junction points with S_IFLNK/S_ISLINK(), and
unlink() can unlink them, there is no need for conditional code for
Windows in a few places. That was expressed by testing for WIN32 or
S_ISLNK, which we can now constant-fold.
The coding around pgwin32_is_junction() was a bit suspect anyway, as we
never checked for errors, and we also know that errors can be spuriously
reported because of transient sharing violations on this OS. The
lstat()-based code has handling for that.
This also reverts 4fc6b6ee on master only. That was done because
lstat() didn't previously work for symlinks (junction points), but now
it does.
Tested-by: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGLfOOeyZpm5ByVcAt7x5Pn-%3DxGRNCvgiUPVVzjFLtnY0w%40mail.gmail.com
symlink() and readlink() are in SUSv2 and all targeted Unix systems have
them. We have partial emulation on Windows. Code that raised runtime
errors on systems without it has been dead for years, so we can remove
that and also references to such systems in the documentation.
Define HAVE_READLINK and HAVE_SYMLINK macros on Unix. Our Windows
replacement functions based on junction points can't be used for
relative paths or for non-directories, so the macros can be used to
check for full symlink support. The places that deal with tablespaces
can just use symlink functions without checking the macros. (If they
did check the macros, they'd need to provide an #else branch with a
runtime or compile time error, and it'd be dead code.)
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+hUKGJ3LHeP9w5Fgzdr4G8AnEtJ=z=p6hGDEm4qYGEUX5B6fQ@mail.gmail.com
On Windows with MSVC, get_dirent_type() was recently made to return
DT_LNK for junction points by commit 9d3444dc, which fixed some
defective dirent.c code.
On Windows with Cygwin, get_dirent_type() already worked for symlinks,
as it does on POSIX systems, because Cygwin has its own fake symlinks
that behave like POSIX (on closer inspection, Cygwin's dirent has the
BSD d_type extension but it's probably always DT_UNKNOWN, so we fall
back to lstat(), which understands Cygwin symlinks with S_ISLNK()).
On Windows with MinGW/MSYS, we need extra code, because the MinGW
runtime has its own readdir() without d_type, and the lstat()-based
fallback has no knowledge of our convention for treating junctions as
symlinks.
Back-patch to 14, where get_dirent_type() landed.
Reported-by: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/b9ddf605-6b36-f90d-7c30-7b3e95c46276%40dunslane.net
This is in preparation for building postgres with meson / ninja.
When building with meson, commands are run at the root of the build tree. Add
an option to put build output into the appropriate place.
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
Author: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/5e216522-ba3c-f0e6-7f97-5276d0270029@enterprisedb.com
This replaces all MemSet() calls with struct initialization where that
is easily and obviously possible. (For example, some cases have to
worry about padding bits, so I left those.)
(The same could be done with appropriate memset() calls, but this
patch is part of an effort to phase out MemSet(), so it doesn't touch
memset() calls.)
Reviewed-by: Ranier Vilela <ranier.vf@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/9847b13c-b785-f4e2-75c3-12ec77a3b05c@enterprisedb.com
validate_exec() didn't guarantee to set errno to something appropriate
after a failure, leading to callers not being able to print an on-point
message. Improve that.
Noted by Kyotaro Horiguchi, though this isn't exactly his proposal.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220615.131403.1791191615590453058.horikyota.ntt@gmail.com
Commit 3838fa269 added a lookahead loop to allow building strings multiple
bytes at a time. This loop could exit because it reached the end of input,
yet did not check for that before checking if we reached the end of a
valid string. To fix, put the end of string check back in the outer loop.
Per Valgrind animal skink
We have been using the term RelFileNode to refer to either (1) the
integer that is used to name the sequence of files for a certain relation
within the directory set aside for that tablespace/database combination;
or (2) that value plus the OIDs of the tablespace and database; or
occasionally (3) the whole series of files created for a relation
based on those values. Using the same name for more than one thing is
confusing.
Replace RelFileNode with RelFileNumber when we're talking about just the
single number, i.e. (1) from above, and with RelFileLocator when we're
talking about all the things that are needed to locate a relation's files
on disk, i.e. (2) from above. In the places where we refer to (3) as
a relfilenode, instead refer to "relation storage".
Since there is a ton of SQL code in the world that knows about
pg_class.relfilenode, don't change the name of that column, or of other
SQL-facing things that derive their name from it.
On the other hand, do adjust closely-related internal terminology. For
example, the structure member names dbNode and spcNode appear to be
derived from the fact that the structure itself was called RelFileNode,
so change those to dbOid and spcOid. Likewise, various variables with
names like rnode and relnode get renamed appropriately, according to
how they're being used in context.
Hopefully, this is clearer than before. It is also preparation for
future patches that intend to widen the relfilenumber fields from its
current width of 32 bits. Variables that store a relfilenumber are now
declared as type RelFileNumber rather than type Oid; right now, these
are the same, but that can now more easily be changed.
Dilip Kumar, per an idea from me. Reviewed also by Andres Freund.
I fixed some whitespace issues, changed a couple of words in a
comment, and made one other minor correction.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoamOtXbVAQf9hWFzonUo6bhhjS6toZQd7HZ-pmojtAmag@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+Tgmobp7+7kmi4gkq7Y+4AM9fTvL+O1oQ4-5gFTT+6Ng-dQ=g@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAFiTN-vTe79M8uDH1yprOU64MNFE+R3ODRuA+JWf27JbhY4hJw@mail.gmail.com
Setting up an EVP context for ciphers banned under FIPS generate
two OpenSSL errors in the queue, and as we only consume one from
the queue the other is at the head for the next invocation:
postgres=# select md5('foo');
ERROR: could not compute MD5 hash: unsupported
postgres=# select md5('foo');
ERROR: could not compute MD5 hash: initialization error
Clearing the error queue when creating the context ensures that
we don't pull in an error from an earlier operation.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/C89D932C-501E-4473-9750-638CFCD9095E@yesql.se
For some reason by default the mingw C Runtime takes it upon itself to
expand program arguments that look like shell globbing characters. That
has caused much scratching of heads and mis-attribution of the causes of
some TAP test failures, so stop doing that.
This removes an inconsistency with Windows binaries built with MSVC,
which have no such behaviour.
Per suggestion from Noah Misch.
Backpatch to all live branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220423025927.GA1274057@rfd.leadboat.com
It failed to provide an error string as expected for the
admittedly-unlikely case of OOM in pg_cryptohash_create().
Also, make it initialize *errstr to NULL for success,
as pg_md5_binary() does.
Also add missing comments. Readers should not have to
reverse-engineer the API spec for a publicly visible routine.
Enforce __pg_log_level message filtering centrally in logging.c,
instead of relying on the calling macros to do it. This is more
reliable (e.g. it works correctly for direct calls to pg_log_generic)
and it saves a percent or so of total code size because we get rid of
so many duplicate checks of __pg_log_level.
This does mean that argument expressions in a logging macro will be
evaluated even if we end up not printing anything. That seems of
little concern for INFO and higher levels as those messages are printed
by default, and most of our frontend programs don't even offer a way to
turn them off. I left the unlikely() checks in place for DEBUG
messages, though.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3993549.1649449609@sss.pgh.pa.us
Compression option handling (level, algorithm or even workers) can be
used across several parts of the system and not only base backups.
Structures, objects and routines are renamed in consequence, to remove
the concept of base backups from this part of the code making this
change straight-forward.
pg_receivewal, that has gained support for LZ4 since babbbb5, will make
use of this infrastructure for its set of compression options, bringing
more consistency with pg_basebackup. This cleanup needs to be done
before releasing a beta of 15. pg_dump is a potential future target, as
well, and adding more compression options to it may happen in 16~.
Author: Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Robert Haas, Georgios Kokolatos
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/YlPQGNAAa04raObK@paquier.xyz
Get rid of the separate "FATAL" log level, as it was applied
so inconsistently as to be meaningless. This mostly involves
s/pg_log_fatal/pg_log_error/g.
Create a macro pg_fatal() to handle the common use-case of
pg_log_error() immediately followed by exit(1). Various
modules had already invented either this or equivalent macros;
standardize on pg_fatal() and apply it where possible.
Invent the ability to add "detail" and "hint" messages to a
frontend message, much as we have long had in the backend.
Except where rewording was needed to convert existing coding
to detail/hint style, I have (mostly) resisted the temptation
to change existing message wording.
Patch by me. Design and patch reviewed at various stages by
Robert Haas, Kyotaro Horiguchi, Peter Eisentraut and
Daniel Gustafsson.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1363732.1636496441@sss.pgh.pa.us
libzstd allows transparent parallel compression just by setting
an option when creating the compression context, so permit that
for both client and server-side backup compression. To use this,
use something like pg_basebackup --compress WHERE-zstd:workers=N
where WHERE is "client" or "server" and N is an integer.
When compression is performed on the server side, this will spawn
threads inside the PostgreSQL backend. While there is almost no
PostgreSQL server code which is thread-safe, the threads here are used
internally by libzstd and touch only data structures controlled by
libzstd.
Patch by me, based in part on earlier work by Dipesh Pandit
and Jeevan Ladhe. Reviewed by Justin Pryzby.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+Tgmobj6u-nWF-j=FemygUhobhryLxf9h-wJN7W-2rSsseHNA@mail.gmail.com
There are more compression parameters that can be specified than just
an integer compression level, so rename the new COMPRESSION_LEVEL
option to COMPRESSION_DETAIL before it gets released. Introduce a
flexible syntax for that option to allow arbitrary options to be
specified without needing to adjust the main replication grammar,
and common code to parse it that is shared between the client and
the server.
This commit doesn't actually add any new compression parameters,
so the only user-visible change is that you can now type something
like pg_basebackup --compress gzip:level=5 instead of writing just
pg_basebackup --compress gzip:5. However, it should make it easy to
add new options. If for example gzip starts offering fries, we can
support pg_basebackup --compress gzip:level=5,fries=true for the
benefit of users who want fries with that.
Along the way, this fixes a few things in pg_basebackup so that the
pg_basebackup can be used with a server-side compression algorithm
that pg_basebackup itself does not understand. For example,
pg_basebackup --compress server-lz4 could still succeed even if
only the server and not the client has LZ4 support, provided that
the other options to pg_basebackup don't require the client to
decompress the archive.
Patch by me. Reviewed by Justin Pryzby and Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoYvpetyRAbbg1M8b3-iHsaN4nsgmWPjOENu5-doHuJ7fA@mail.gmail.com
There were a number of places in the code that used bespoke bit-twiddling
expressions to do bitwise rotation. While we've had pg_rotate_right32()
for a while now, we hadn't gotten around to standardizing on that. Do so
now. Since many potential call sites look more natural with the "left"
equivalent, add that function too.
Reviewed by Tom Lane and Yugo Nagata
Discussion:
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAFBsxsH7c1LC0CGZ0ADCBXLHU5-%3DKNXx-r7tHYPAW51b2HK4Qw%40mail.gmail.com
On AIX 7.1, struct sockaddr_un is declared to be 1025 bytes long,
but the sun_len field that should hold the length is only a byte.
Clamp the value we try to store to ensure it will fit in the field.
(This coding might need adjustment if there are any machines out
there where sun_len is as wide as size_t; but a preliminary survey
suggests there's not, so let's keep it simple.)
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2781112.1644819528@sss.pgh.pa.us
The previous coding was correct, but the style and commentary were a bit
vague about which operations had to happen, in what circumstances, and
in what order. Rearrange so that the epilogue does nothing in the DFA END
state. That allows turning some conditional statements in the backtracking
logic into asserts. With that, we can be more explicit about needing
to backtrack at least one byte in non-END states to ensure checking the
current byte sequence in the slow path. No change to the regression tests,
since they should be able catch deficiencies here already.
In passing, improve the comments around DFA states where the first
continuation byte has a restricted range.
This is similar to b69aba7, except that this completes the work for
HMAC with a new routine called pg_hmac_error() that would provide more
context about the type of error that happened during a HMAC computation:
- The fallback HMAC implementation in hmac.c relies on cryptohashes, so
in some code paths it is necessary to return back the error generated by
cryptohashes.
- For the OpenSSL implementation (hmac_openssl.c), the logic is very
similar to cryptohash_openssl.c, where the error context comes from
OpenSSL if one of its internal routines failed, with different error
codes if something internal to hmac_openssl.c failed or was incorrect.
Any in-core code paths that use the centralized HMAC interface are
related to SCRAM, for errors that are unlikely going to happen, with
only SHA-256. It would be possible to see errors when computing some
HMACs with MD5 for example and OpenSSL FIPS enabled, and this commit
would help in reporting the correct errors but nothing in core uses
that. So, at the end, no backpatch to v14 is done, at least for now.
Errors in SCRAM related to the computation of the server key, stored
key, etc. need to pass down the potential error context string across
more layers of their respective call stacks for the frontend and the
backend, so each surrounding routine is adapted for this purpose.
Reviewed-by: Sergey Shinderuk
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/Yd0N9tSAIIkFd+qi@paquier.xyz
The existing cryptohash facility was causing problems in some code paths
related to MD5 (frontend and backend) that relied on the fact that the
only type of error that could happen would be an OOM, as the MD5
implementation used in PostgreSQL ~13 (the in-core implementation is
used when compiling with or without OpenSSL in those older versions),
could fail only under this circumstance.
The new cryptohash facilities can fail for reasons other than OOMs, like
attempting MD5 when FIPS is enabled (upstream OpenSSL allows that up to
1.0.2, Fedora and Photon patch OpenSSL 1.1.1 to allow that), so this
would cause incorrect reports to show up.
This commit extends the cryptohash APIs so as callers of those routines
can fetch more context when an error happens, by using a new routine
called pg_cryptohash_error(). The error states are stored within each
implementation's internal context data, so as it is possible to extend
the logic depending on what's suited for an implementation. The default
implementation requires few error states, but OpenSSL could report
various issues depending on its internal state so more is needed in
cryptohash_openssl.c, and the code is shaped so as we are always able to
grab the necessary information.
The core code is changed to adapt to the new error routine, painting
more "const" across the call stack where the static errors are stored,
particularly in authentication code paths on variables that provide
log details. This way, any future changes would warn if attempting to
free these strings. The MD5 authentication code was also a bit blurry
about the handling of "logdetail" (LOG sent to the postmaster), so
improve the comments related that, while on it.
The origin of the problem is 87ae969, that introduced the centralized
cryptohash facility. Extra changes are done for pgcrypto in v14 for the
non-OpenSSL code path to cope with the improvements done by this
commit.
Reported-by: Michael Mühlbeyer
Author: Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/89B7F072-5BBE-4C92-903E-D83E865D9367@trivadis.com
Backpatch-through: 14
Try to disable ASLR when building in EXEC_BACKEND mode, to avoid random
memory mapping failures while testing. For developer use only, no
effect on regular builds.
Suggested-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Tested-by: Bossart, Nathan <bossartn@amazon.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210806032944.m4tz7j2w47mant26%40alap3.anarazel.de
Our previous validator used a traditional algorithm that performed
comparison and branching one byte at a time. It's useful in that
we always know exactly how many bytes we have validated, but that
precision comes at a cost. Input validation can show up prominently
in profiles of COPY FROM, and future improvements to COPY FROM such
as parallelism or faster line parsing will put more pressure on input
validation. Hence, add fast paths for both ASCII and multibyte UTF-8:
Use bitwise operations to check 16 bytes at a time for ASCII. If
that fails, use a "shift-based" DFA on those bytes to handle the
general case, including multibyte. These paths are relatively free
of branches and thus robust against all kinds of byte patterns. With
these algorithms, UTF-8 validation is several times faster, depending
on platform and the input byte distribution.
The previous coding in pg_utf8_verifystr() is retained for short
strings and for when the fast path returns an error.
Review, performance testing, and additional hacking by: Heikki
Linakangas, Vladimir Sitnikov, Amit Khandekar, Thomas Munro, and
Greg Stark
Discussion:
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAFBsxsEV_SzH%2BOLyCiyon%3DiwggSyMh_eF6A3LU2tiWf3Cy2ZQg%40mail.gmail.com
This commit moves the timestamp computation of the control file within
the routine of src/common/ in charge of updating the backend's control
file, which is shared by multiple frontend tools (pg_rewind,
pg_checksums and pg_resetwal) and the backend itself.
This change has as direct effect to update the control file's timestamp
when writing the control file in pg_rewind and pg_checksums, something
that is helpful to keep track of control file updates for those
operations, something also tracked by the backend at startup within its
logs. This part is arguably a bug, as ControlFileData->time should be
updated each time a new version of the control file is written, but this
is a behavior change so no backpatch is done.
Author: Amul Sul
Reviewed-by: Nathan Bossart, Michael Paquier, Bharath Rupireddy
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAJ_b97nd_ghRpyFV9Djf9RLXkoTbOUqnocq11WGq9TisX09Fw@mail.gmail.com
Standardize on xoroshiro128** as our basic PRNG algorithm, eliminating
a bunch of platform dependencies as well as fundamentally-obsolete PRNG
code. In addition, this API replacement will ease replacing the
algorithm again in future, should that become necessary.
xoroshiro128** is a few percent slower than the drand48 family,
but it can produce full-width 64-bit random values not only 48-bit,
and it should be much more trustworthy. It's likely to be noticeably
faster than the platform's random(), depending on which platform you
are thinking about; and we can have non-global state vectors easily,
unlike with random(). It is not cryptographically strong, but neither
are the functions it replaces.
Fabien Coelho, reviewed by Dean Rasheed, Aleksander Alekseev, and myself
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/alpine.DEB.2.22.394.2105241211230.165418@pseudo
Michael Paquier
Peter Eisentraut
John Naylor
Tom Lane
Thomas Munro
Andres Freund
Robert Haas
Daniel Gustafsson
Andrew Dunstan
Alvaro Herrera
Bruce Momjian