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Michael Paquier 6203583b72 Remove support for Visual Studio 2013
No members of the buildfarm are using this version of Visual Studio,
resulting in all the code cleaned up here as being mostly dead, and
VS2017 is the oldest version still supported.

More versions could be cut, but the gain would be minimal, while
removing only VS2013 has the advantage to remove from the core code all
the dependencies on the value defined by _MSC_VER, where compatibility
tweaks have accumulated across the years mostly around locales and
strtof(), so that's a nice isolated cleanup.

Note that this commit additionally allows a revert of 3154e16.  The
versions of Visual Studio now supported range from 2015 to 2022.

Author: Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Juan José Santamaría Flecha, Tom Lane, Thomas Munro, Justin
Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/YoH2IMtxcS3ncWn+@paquier.xyz
2022-07-14 11:22:49 +09:00
Michael Paquier 495ed0ef2d Make Windows 10 the minimal runtime requirement for WIN32
This commit bumps the runtime value of _WIN32_WINNT to be 0x0A00 for any
builds on Windows.  Hence, this makes Windows 10 the minimal requirement
when running PostgreSQL under WIN32, be it for builds of Cygwin, MinGW
or Visual Studio.

The previous minimal runtime version was either Windows Vista when
building with at least Visual Studio 2015 or Windows XP for the rest.

Windows 10 is the most modern version supported by Microsoft, and per
discussion, as we don't have buildfarm members that run older versions
anymore, this is the minimal supported version that suits better for our
needs.  This will actually make easier the development of some patches,
two being async I/O and large page handling by avoiding a lot of
compatibility gotchas, on platforms that have most likely few users
anyway.

It is possible to remove MIN_WINNT in win32.h and the macros
IsWindowsXXXOrGreater() that were used in the code at runtime to check
which version of Windows was getting used.  The change in pg_locale.c
comes from Juan.  Note that all my tests passed, and that the CI is
green.  The buildfarm will quickly tell if this needs more adjustments.

Author: Michael Paquier, Juan José Santamaría Flecha
Reviewed-by: Thomas Munro
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/Yo7tHKD8VCkeNi71@paquier.xyz
2022-07-07 13:25:45 +09:00
Michael Paquier 6bdf1a1400 Fix collection of typos in the code and the documentation
Some words were duplicated while other places were grammatically
incorrect, including one variable name in the code.

Author: Otto Kekalainen, Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/7DDBEFC5-09B6-4325-B942-B563D1A24BDC@amazon.com
2022-03-15 11:29:35 +09:00
Andres Freund f3feff8259 windows: Improve crash / assert / exception handling.
startup_hacks() called SetErrorMode() with the SEM_NOGPFAULTERRORBOX argument
to prevent GUI popups on error. While that likely was sufficient at some
point, there are other sources of error popups.

At the same time SEM_NOGPFAULTERRORBOX unfortunately also prevents
"just-in-time debuggers" from working reliably, i.e. the ability to attach to
a process on crash. This prevents collecting crash dumps as part of CI.

The error popups are particularly problematic when they occur during automated
testing, as they can cause the tests to hang, waiting for a button to be
clicked.

This commit improves the error handling setup in startup_hacks() to address
those problems. SEM_NOGPFAULTERRORBOX is not used anymore, instead various
other APIs are used to disable popups and to redirect output to stderr where
possible.

While this improves the situation for postgres.exe, it doesn't address similar
issues in all the other executables. There currently is no codepath that's
called early on for all frontend programs.

I've tested that this prevents GUI popups and allows JIT debugging in case of
crashes due to:
- abort()
- assert()
- C runtime errors
- unhandled exceptions
both in debug and non-debug mode, on Win10 with MSVC 2019 and with MinGW.

Now that crash reports are generated on windows, collect them in windows CI.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20211005193033.tg4pqswgvu3hcolm@alap3.anarazel.de
2022-02-02 18:33:25 -08:00
Bruce Momjian 27b77ecf9f Update copyright for 2022
Backpatch-through: 10
2022-01-07 19:04:57 -05:00
Andres Freund 7c83a3bf51 process startup: Split single user code out of PostgresMain().
It was harder than necessary to understand PostgresMain() because the code for
a normal backend was interspersed with single-user mode specific code. Split
most of the single-user mode code into its own function
PostgresSingleUserMain(), that does all the necessary setup for single-user
mode, and then hands off after that to PostgresMain().

There still is some single-user mode code in InitPostgres(), and it'd likely
be worth moving at least some of it out. But that's for later.

Reviewed-By: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210802164124.ufo5buo4apl6yuvs@alap3.anarazel.de
2021-09-17 19:56:47 -07:00
Andres Freund 07bf378509 process startup: Centralize pgwin32_signal_initialize() calls.
For one, the existing location lead to somewhat awkward code in main(). For
another, the new location is easier to understand anyway.

Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-By: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210802164124.ufo5buo4apl6yuvs@alap3.anarazel.de
2021-08-05 12:36:06 -07:00
Andres Freund f8dd4ecb0b process startup: Remove bootstrap / checker modes from AuxProcType.
Neither is actually initialized as an auxiliary process, so it does not really
make sense to reserve a PGPROC etc for them.

This keeps checker mode implemented by exiting partway through bootstrap
mode. That might be worth changing at some point, perhaps if we ever extend
checker mode to be a more general tool.

Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-By: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210802164124.ufo5buo4apl6yuvs@alap3.anarazel.de
2021-08-05 12:18:15 -07:00
Andres Freund 5aa4a9d207 process startup: Separate out BootstrapModeMain from AuxiliaryProcessMain.
There practically was no shared code between the two, once all the ifs are
removed. And it was quite confusing that aux processes weren't actually
started by the call to AuxiliaryProcessMain() in main().

There's more to do, AuxiliaryProcessMain() should move out of bootstrap.c, and
BootstrapModeMain() shouldn't use/be part of AuxProcType.

Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-By: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210802164124.ufo5buo4apl6yuvs@alap3.anarazel.de
2021-08-05 12:03:30 -07:00
Bruce Momjian ca3b37487b Update copyright for 2021
Backpatch-through: 9.5
2021-01-02 13:06:25 -05:00
Bruce Momjian 3187ef7c46 Revert "Add key management system" (978f869b99) & later commits
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
2020-12-27 21:37:42 -05:00
Bruce Momjian 978f869b99 Add key management system
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
2020-12-25 10:19:44 -05:00
Magnus Hagander d2e4bf688e Remove -o option to postmaster
This option was declared obsolete many years ago.

Reviewed-By: Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CABUevEyOE=9CQwZm2j=vwP5+6OLCSoxn9pBjK8gyRdkTzMfqtQ@mail.gmail.com
2020-11-10 13:15:01 +01:00
Andres Freund f219167910 Clean up includes of s_lock.h.
Users of spinlocks should use spin.h, not s_lock.h. And lwlock.h
hasn't utilized spinlocks for quite a while.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200618183041.upyrd25eosecyf3x@alap3.anarazel.de
2020-06-18 19:41:05 -07:00
Peter Eisentraut 1933ae629e Add PostgreSQL home page to --help output
Per emerging standard in GNU programs and elsewhere.  Autoconf already
has support for specifying a home page, so we can just that.

Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/8d389c5f-7fb5-8e48-9a4a-68cec44786fa%402ndquadrant.com
2020-02-28 13:12:21 +01:00
Peter Eisentraut 864934131e Refer to bug report address by symbol rather than hardcoding
Use the PACKAGE_BUGREPORT macro that is created by Autoconf for
referring to the bug reporting address rather than hardcoding it
everywhere.  This makes it easier to change the address and it reduces
translation work.

Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/8d389c5f-7fb5-8e48-9a4a-68cec44786fa%402ndquadrant.com
2020-02-28 13:12:21 +01:00
Bruce Momjian 7559d8ebfa Update copyrights for 2020
Backpatch-through: update all files in master, backpatch legal files through 9.4
2020-01-01 12:21:45 -05:00
Andres Freund 01368e5d9d Split all OBJS style lines in makefiles into one-line-per-entry style.
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
2019-11-05 14:41:07 -08:00
Peter Eisentraut fded4773eb initdb: Remove obsolete locale handling
The method of passing LC_COLLATE and LC_CTYPE to the backend during
initdb is obsolete as of 61d9674988.
This can all be removed.

Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/eeaf2f99-a1a6-8aca-3f43-9ab0b2fb112a%402ndquadrant.com
2019-08-14 06:51:13 +02:00
Magnus Hagander 0301db623d Replace @postgresql.org with @lists.postgresql.org for mailinglists
Commit c0d0e54084 replaced the ones in the documentation, but missed out
on the ones in the code. Replace those as well, but unlike c0d0e54084,
don't backpatch the code changes to avoid breaking translations.
2019-01-19 19:06:35 +01:00
Bruce Momjian 97c39498e5 Update copyright for 2019
Backpatch-through: certain files through 9.4
2019-01-02 12:44:25 -05:00
Bruce Momjian 9d4649ca49 Update copyright for 2018
Backpatch-through: certain files through 9.3
2018-01-02 23:30:12 -05:00
Noah Misch cbfffee41c Install Windows crash dump handler before all else.
Apart from calling write_stderr() on failure, the handler depends on no
PostgreSQL facilities.  We have experienced crashes before reaching the
former call site.  Given such an early crash, this change cannot hurt
and may produce a helpful dump.  Absent an early crash, this change has
no effect.  Back-patch to 9.3 (all supported versions).

Takayuki Tsunakawa

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/0A3221C70F24FB45833433255569204D1F80CD13@G01JPEXMBYT05
2017-11-12 14:31:00 -08:00
Tom Lane f13ea95f9e Change pg_ctl to detect server-ready by watching status in postmaster.pid.
Traditionally, "pg_ctl start -w" has waited for the server to become
ready to accept connections by attempting a connection once per second.
That has the major problem that connection issues (for instance, a
kernel packet filter blocking traffic) can't be reliably told apart
from server startup issues, and the minor problem that if server startup
isn't quick, we accumulate "the database system is starting up" spam
in the server log.  We've hacked around many of the possible connection
issues, but it resulted in ugly and complicated code in pg_ctl.c.

In commit c61559ec3, I changed the probe rate to every tenth of a second.
That prompted Jeff Janes to complain that the log-spam problem had become
much worse.  In the ensuing discussion, Andres Freund pointed out that
we could dispense with connection attempts altogether if the postmaster
were changed to report its status in postmaster.pid, which "pg_ctl start"
already relies on being able to read.  This patch implements that, teaching
postmaster.c to report a status string into the pidfile at the same
state-change points already identified as being of interest for systemd
status reporting (cf commit 7d17e683f).  pg_ctl no longer needs to link
with libpq at all; all its functions now depend on reading server files.

In support of this, teach AddToDataDirLockFile() to allow addition of
postmaster.pid lines in not-necessarily-sequential order.  This is needed
on Windows where the SHMEM_KEY line will never be written at all.  We still
have the restriction that we don't want to truncate the pidfile; document
the reasons for that a bit better.

Also, fix the pg_ctl TAP tests so they'll notice if "start -w" mode
is broken --- before, they'd just wait out the sixty seconds until
the loop gives up, and then report success anyway.  (Yes, I found that
out the hard way.)

While at it, arrange for pg_ctl to not need to #include miscadmin.h;
as a rather low-level backend header, requiring that to be compilable
client-side is pretty dubious.  This requires moving the #define's
associated with the pidfile into a new header file, and moving
PG_BACKEND_VERSIONSTR someplace else.  For lack of a clearly better
"someplace else", I put it into port.h, beside the declaration of
find_other_exec(), since most users of that macro are passing the value to
find_other_exec().  (initdb still depends on miscadmin.h, but at least
pg_ctl and pg_upgrade no longer do.)

In passing, fix main.c so that PG_BACKEND_VERSIONSTR actually defines the
output of "postgres -V", which remarkably it had never done before.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMkU=1xJW8e+CTotojOMBd-yzUvD0e_JZu2xHo=MnuZ4__m7Pg@mail.gmail.com
2017-06-28 17:31:32 -04:00
Tom Lane 382ceffdf7 Phase 3 of pgindent updates.
Don't move parenthesized lines to the left, even if that means they
flow past the right margin.

By default, BSD indent lines up statement continuation lines that are
within parentheses so that they start just to the right of the preceding
left parenthesis.  However, traditionally, if that resulted in the
continuation line extending to the right of the desired right margin,
then indent would push it left just far enough to not overrun the margin,
if it could do so without making the continuation line start to the left of
the current statement indent.  That makes for a weird mix of indentations
unless one has been completely rigid about never violating the 80-column
limit.

This behavior has been pretty universally panned by Postgres developers.
Hence, disable it with indent's new -lpl switch, so that parenthesized
lines are always lined up with the preceding left paren.

This patch is much less interesting than the first round of indent
changes, but also bulkier, so I thought it best to separate the effects.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1dAmxK-0006EE-1r@gemulon.postgresql.org
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/30527.1495162840@sss.pgh.pa.us
2017-06-21 15:35:54 -04:00
Tom Lane c7b8998ebb Phase 2 of pgindent updates.
Change pg_bsd_indent to follow upstream rules for placement of comments
to the right of code, and remove pgindent hack that caused comments
following #endif to not obey the general rule.

Commit e3860ffa4d wasn't actually using
the published version of pg_bsd_indent, but a hacked-up version that
tried to minimize the amount of movement of comments to the right of
code.  The situation of interest is where such a comment has to be
moved to the right of its default placement at column 33 because there's
code there.  BSD indent has always moved right in units of tab stops
in such cases --- but in the previous incarnation, indent was working
in 8-space tab stops, while now it knows we use 4-space tabs.  So the
net result is that in about half the cases, such comments are placed
one tab stop left of before.  This is better all around: it leaves
more room on the line for comment text, and it means that in such
cases the comment uniformly starts at the next 4-space tab stop after
the code, rather than sometimes one and sometimes two tabs after.

Also, ensure that comments following #endif are indented the same
as comments following other preprocessor commands such as #else.
That inconsistency turns out to have been self-inflicted damage
from a poorly-thought-through post-indent "fixup" in pgindent.

This patch is much less interesting than the first round of indent
changes, but also bulkier, so I thought it best to separate the effects.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1dAmxK-0006EE-1r@gemulon.postgresql.org
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/30527.1495162840@sss.pgh.pa.us
2017-06-21 15:19:25 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 1d25779284 Update copyright via script for 2017 2017-01-03 13:48:53 -05:00
Robert Haas e343dfa42b Remove barrier.h
A new thing also called a "barrier" is proposed, but whether we decide
to take that patch or not, this file seems to have outlived its
usefulness.

Thomas Munro
2016-11-22 20:28:24 -05:00
Robert Haas 2410a2543e Repair a bit of pgindent damage.
Inserting line-breaks into the middle of a URL is, to put it mildly, not
very helpful, so persuade pgindent to leave it alone.
2016-06-09 18:09:17 -04:00
Robert Haas 4bc424b968 pgindent run for 9.6 2016-06-09 18:02:36 -04:00
Greg Stark e1623c3959 Fix various common mispellings.
Mostly these are just comments but there are a few in documentation
and a handful in code and tests. Hopefully this doesn't cause too much
unnecessary pain for backpatching. I relented from some of the most
common like "thru" for that reason. The rest don't seem numerous
enough to cause problems.

Thanks to Kevin Lyda's tool https://pypi.python.org/pypi/misspellings
2016-06-03 16:08:45 +01:00
Magnus Hagander 9d90388247 Avoid crash on old Windows with AVX2-capable CPU for VS2013 builds
The Visual Studio 2013 CRT generates invalid code when it makes a 64-bit
build that is later used on a CPU that supports AVX2 instructions using a
version of Windows before 7SP1/2008R2SP1.

Detect this combination, and in those cases turn off the generation of
FMA3, per recommendation from the Visual Studio team.

The bug is actually in the CRT shipping with Visual Studio 2013, but
Microsoft have stated they're only fixing it in newer major versions.
The fix is therefor conditioned specifically on being built with this
version of Visual Studio, and not previous or later versions.

Author: Christian Ullrich
2016-03-10 14:10:18 +01:00
Bruce Momjian ee94300446 Update copyright for 2016
Backpatch certain files through 9.1
2016-01-02 13:33:40 -05:00
Noah Misch be8b06c364 Revoke support for strxfrm() that write past the specified array length.
This formalizes a decision implicit in commit
4ea51cdfe8 and adds clean detection of
affected systems.  Vendor updates are available for each such known bug.
Back-patch to 9.5, where the aforementioned commit first appeared.
2015-07-08 20:44:21 -04:00
Tom Lane f6e9cbfd91 Report more information if pg_perm_setlocale() fails at startup.
We don't know why a few Windows users have seen this fail, but the
taciturnity of the error message certainly isn't helping debug it.
Let's at least find out which LC category isn't working.
2015-06-09 13:37:08 -04:00
Robert Haas 64235fecc6 Don't require users of src/port/gettimeofday.c to initialize it.
Commit 8001fe67a3 introduced this
requirement, but per discussion, we want to avoid requirements of
this type to make things easier on the calling code.  An especially
important consideration is that this may be used in frontend code,
not just the backend.

Asif Naeem, reviewed by Michael Paquier
2015-02-21 12:17:04 -05:00
Noah Misch 6fdba8ceb0 Always set the six locale category environment variables in main().
Typical server invocations already achieved that.  Invalid locale
settings in the initial postmaster environment interfered, as could
malloc() failure.  Setting "LC_MESSAGES=pt_BR.utf8 LC_ALL=invalid" in
the postmaster environment will now choose C-locale messages, not
Brazilian Portuguese messages.  Most localized programs, including all
PostgreSQL frontend executables, do likewise.  Users are unlikely to
observe changes involving locale categories other than LC_MESSAGES.
CheckMyDatabase() ensures that we successfully set LC_COLLATE and
LC_CTYPE; main() sets the remaining three categories to locale "C",
which almost cannot fail.  Back-patch to 9.0 (all supported versions).
2015-01-07 22:34:57 -05:00
Bruce Momjian 4baaf863ec Update copyright for 2015
Backpatch certain files through 9.0
2015-01-06 11:43:47 -05:00
Simon Riggs 8001fe67a3 Windows: use GetSystemTimePreciseAsFileTime if available
PostgreSQL on Windows 8 or Windows Server 2012 will now
get high-resolution timestamps by dynamically loading the
GetSystemTimePreciseAsFileTime function. It'll fall back to
to GetSystemTimeAsFileTime if the higher precision variant
isn't found, so the same binaries without problems on older
Windows releases.

No attempt is made to detect the Windows version.  Only the
presence or absence of the desired function is considered.

Craig Ringer
2014-12-08 23:36:06 +09:00
Andres Freund b64d92f1a5 Add a basic atomic ops API abstracting away platform/architecture details.
Several upcoming performance/scalability improvements require atomic
operations. This new API avoids the need to splatter compiler and
architecture dependent code over all the locations employing atomic
ops.

For several of the potential usages it'd be problematic to maintain
both, a atomics using implementation and one using spinlocks or
similar. In all likelihood one of the implementations would not get
tested regularly under concurrency. To avoid that scenario the new API
provides a automatic fallback of atomic operations to spinlocks. All
properties of atomic operations are maintained. This fallback -
obviously - isn't as fast as just using atomic ops, but it's not bad
either. For one of the future users the atomics ontop spinlocks
implementation was actually slightly faster than the old purely
spinlock using implementation. That's important because it reduces the
fear of regressing older platforms when improving the scalability for
new ones.

The API, loosely modeled after the C11 atomics support, currently
provides 'atomic flags' and 32 bit unsigned integers. If the platform
efficiently supports atomic 64 bit unsigned integers those are also
provided.

To implement atomics support for a platform/architecture/compiler for
a type of atomics 32bit compare and exchange needs to be
implemented. If available and more efficient native support for flags,
32 bit atomic addition, and corresponding 64 bit operations may also
be provided. Additional useful atomic operations are implemented
generically ontop of these.

The implementation for various versions of gcc, msvc and sun studio have
been tested. Additional existing stub implementations for
* Intel icc
* HUPX acc
* IBM xlc
are included but have never been tested. These will likely require
fixes based on buildfarm and user feedback.

As atomic operations also require barriers for some operations the
existing barrier support has been moved into the atomics code.

Author: Andres Freund with contributions from Oskari Saarenmaa
Reviewed-By: Amit Kapila, Robert Haas, Heikki Linnakangas and Álvaro Herrera
Discussion: CA+TgmoYBW+ux5-8Ja=Mcyuy8=VXAnVRHp3Kess6Pn3DMXAPAEA@mail.gmail.com,
    20131015123303.GH5300@awork2.anarazel.de,
    20131028205522.GI20248@awork2.anarazel.de
2014-09-25 23:49:05 +02:00
Andres Freund 0926ef43c1 Remove postgres --help blurb about the removed -A option.
I missed this in 3bdcf6a5a7.

Noticed by Merlin Moncure
Discussion: CAHyXU0yC7uPeeVzQROwtnrOP9dxTEUPYjB0og4qUnbipMEV57w@mail.gmail.com
2014-09-22 17:54:34 +02:00
Andres Freund a6d488cb53 Remove Alpha and Tru64 support.
Support for running postgres on Alpha hasn't been tested for a long
while. Due to Alpha's uniquely lax cache coherency model it's a hard
to develop for platform (especially blindly!) and thought to be
unlikely to currently work correctly.

As Alpha is the only supported architecture for Tru64 drop support for
it as well. Tru64's support has ended 2012 and it has been in
maintenance-only mode for much longer.

Also remove stray references to __ksr__ and ultrix defines.
2014-06-28 21:46:15 +02:00
Tom Lane 44cd47c1d4 Make fallback implementation of pg_memory_barrier() work.
The fallback implementation involves acquiring and releasing a spinlock
variable that is otherwise unreferenced --- not even to the extent of
initializing it.  This accidentally fails to fail on platforms where
spinlocks should be initialized to zeroes, but elsewhere it results in
a "stuck spinlock" failure during startup.

I griped about this last July, and put in a hack that worked for gcc
on HPPA, but didn't get around to fixing the general case.  Per the
discussion back then, the best thing to do seems to be to initialize
dummy_spinlock in main.c.
2014-05-17 18:29:46 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 0a78320057 pgindent run for 9.4
This includes removing tabs after periods in C comments, which was
applied to back branches, so this change should not effect backpatching.
2014-05-06 12:12:18 -04:00
Tom Lane b203c57bb7 Allow "-C variable" and "--describe-config" even to root users.
There's no really compelling reason to refuse to do these read-only,
non-server-starting options as root, and there's at least one good
reason to allow -C: pg_ctl uses -C to find out the true data directory
location when pointed at a config-only directory.  On Windows, this is
done before dropping administrator privileges, which means that pg_ctl
fails for administrators if and only if a config-only layout is used.

Since the root-privilege check is done so early in startup, it's a bit
awkward to check for these switches.  Make the somewhat arbitrary
decision that we'll only skip the root check if -C is the first switch.
This is not just to make the code a bit simpler: it also guarantees that
we can't misinterpret a --boot mode switch.  (While AuxiliaryProcessMain
doesn't currently recognize any such switch, it might have one in the
future.)  This is no particular problem for pg_ctl, and since the whole
behavior is undocumented anyhow, it's not a documentation issue either.
(--describe-config only works as the first switch anyway, so this is
no restriction for that case either.)

Back-patch to 9.2 where pg_ctl first began to use -C.

MauMau, heavily edited by me
2014-04-04 22:03:35 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 886c0be3f6 C comments: remove odd blank lines after #ifdef WIN32 lines 2014-03-13 01:34:42 -04:00
Tom Lane 910bac5953 Fix possible crashes due to using elog/ereport too early in startup.
Per reports from Andres Freund and Luke Campbell, a server failure during
set_pglocale_pgservice results in a segfault rather than a useful error
message, because the infrastructure needed to use ereport hasn't been
initialized; specifically, MemoryContextInit hasn't been called.
One known cause of this is starting the server in a directory it
doesn't have permission to read.

We could try to prevent set_pglocale_pgservice from using anything that
depends on palloc or elog, but that would be messy, and the odds of future
breakage seem high.  Moreover there are other things being called in main.c
that look likely to use palloc or elog too --- perhaps those things
shouldn't be there, but they are there today.  The best solution seems to
be to move the call of MemoryContextInit to very early in the backend's
real main() function.  I've verified that an elog or ereport occurring
immediately after that is now capable of sending something useful to
stderr.

I also added code to elog.c to print something intelligible rather than
just crashing if MemoryContextInit hasn't created the ErrorContext.
This could happen if MemoryContextInit itself fails (due to malloc
failure), and provides some future-proofing against someone trying to
sneak in new code even earlier in server startup.

Back-patch to all supported branches.  Since we've only heard reports of
this type of failure recently, it may be that some recent change has made
it more likely to see a crash of this kind; but it sure looks like it's
broken all the way back.
2014-01-11 16:36:07 -05:00
Bruce Momjian 111022eac6 Move username lookup functions from /port to /common
Per suggestion from Peter E and Alvaro
2014-01-10 18:03:28 -05:00
Bruce Momjian 7e04792a1c Update copyright for 2014
Update all files in head, and files COPYRIGHT and legal.sgml in all back
branches.
2014-01-07 16:05:30 -05:00
Bruce Momjian 613c6d26bd Fix incorrect error message reported for non-existent users
Previously, lookups of non-existent user names could return "Success";
it will now return "User does not exist" by resetting errno.  This also
centralizes the user name lookup code in libpgport.

Report and analysis by Nicolas Marchildon;  patch by me
2013-12-18 12:16:21 -05:00