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Author SHA1 Message Date
Thomas Munro cdf6518ef0 Retire PG_SETMASK() macro.
In the 90s we needed to deal with computers that still had the
pre-standard signal masking APIs.  That hasn't been relevant for a very
long time on Unix systems, and c94ae9d8 got rid of a remaining
dependency in our Windows porting code.  PG_SETMASK didn't expose
save/restore functionality, so we'd already started using sigprocmask()
directly in places, creating the visual distraction of having two ways
to spell it.  It's not part of the API that extensions are expected to
be using (but if they are, the change will be trivial).  It seems like a
good time to drop the old macro and just call the standard POSIX
function.

Reviewed-by: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKG%2BKfQgrhHP2DLTohX1WwubaCBHmTzGnAEDPZ-Gug-Xskg%40mail.gmail.com
2023-02-03 11:29:46 +13:00
Robert Haas 6e2775e4d4 Add new GUC reserved_connections.
This provides a way to reserve connection slots for non-superusers.
The slots reserved via the new GUC are available only to users who
have the new predefined role pg_use_reserved_connections.
superuser_reserved_connections remains as a final reserve in case
reserved_connections has been exhausted.

Patch by Nathan Bossart. Reviewed by Tushar Ahuja and by me.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/20230119194601.GA4105788@nathanxps13
2023-01-20 15:39:13 -05:00
Robert Haas fe00fec1f5 Rename ReservedBackends variable to SuperuserReservedConnections.
This is in preparation for adding a new reserved_connections GUC,
but aligning the GUC name with the variable name is also a good
idea on general principle.

Patch by Nathan Bossart. Reviewed by Tushar Ahuja and by me.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/20230119194601.GA4105788@nathanxps13
2023-01-20 15:32:08 -05:00
Robert Haas 6c1d5ba486 Update docs and error message for superuser_reserved_connections.
Commit ea92368cd1 made max_wal_senders
a separate pool of backends from max_connections, but the documentation
and error message for superuser_reserved_connections weren't updated
at the time, and as a result are somewhat misleading. Update.

This is arguably a back-patchable bug fix, but because it seems quite
minor, no back-patch.

Patch by Nathan Bossart. Reviewed by Tushar Ahuja and by me.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/20230119194601.GA4105788@nathanxps13
2023-01-20 15:23:04 -05:00
Thomas Munro 7389aad636 Use WaitEventSet API for postmaster's event loop.
Switch to a design similar to regular backends, instead of the previous
arrangement where signal handlers did non-trivial state management and
called fork().  The main changes are:

* The postmaster now has its own local latch to wait on.  (For now, we
  don't want other backends setting its latch directly, but that could
  probably be made to work with more research on robustness.)

* The existing signal handlers are cut in two: a handle_pm_XXX() part
  that just sets pending_pm_XXX flags and the latch, and a
  process_pm_XXX() part that runs later when the latch is seen.

* Signal handlers are now installed with the regular pqsignal()
  function rather than the special pqsignal_pm() function; historical
  portability concerns about the effect of SA_RESTART on select() are no
  longer relevant, and we don't need to block signals anymore.

Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKG%2BZ-HpOj1JsO9eWUP%2Bar7npSVinsC_npxSy%2BjdOMsx%3DGg%40mail.gmail.com
2023-01-12 16:32:20 +13:00
Bruce Momjian c8e1ba736b Update copyright for 2023
Backpatch-through: 11
2023-01-02 15:00:37 -05:00
Andrew Dunstan 8284cf5f74 Add copyright notices to meson files
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/222b43a5-2fb3-2c1b-9cd0-375d376c8246@dunslane.net
2022-12-20 07:54:39 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut c727f511bd Refactor aclcheck functions
Instead of dozens of mostly-duplicate pg_foo_aclcheck() functions,
write one common function object_aclcheck() that can handle almost all
of them.  We already have all the information we need, such as which
system catalog corresponds to which catalog table and which column is
the ACL column.

There are a few pg_foo_aclcheck() that don't work via the generic
function and have special APIs, so those stay as is.

I also changed most pg_foo_aclmask() functions to static functions,
since they are not used outside of aclchk.c.

Reviewed-by: Corey Huinker <corey.huinker@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/95c30f96-4060-2f48-98b5-a4392d3b6066@enterprisedb.com
2022-11-13 09:02:41 +01:00
Michael Paquier d9d873bac6 Clean up some inconsistencies with GUC declarations
This is similar to 7d25958, and this commit takes care of all the
remaining inconsistencies between the initial value used in the C
variable associated to a GUC and its default value stored in the GUC
tables (as of pg_settings.boot_val).

Some of the initial values of the GUCs updated rely on a compile-time
default.  These are refactored so as the GUC table and its C declaration
use the same values.  This makes everything consistent with other
places, backend_flush_after, bgwriter_flush_after, port,
checkpoint_flush_after doing so already, for example.

Extracted from a larger patch by Peter Smith.  The spots updated in the
modules are from me.

Author: Peter Smith, Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Nathan Bossart, Tom Lane, Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHut+PtHE0XSfjjRQ6D4v7+dqzCw=d+1a64ujra4EX8aoc_Z+w@mail.gmail.com
2022-10-31 12:44:48 +09:00
Peter Eisentraut b1099eca8f Remove AssertArg and AssertState
These don't offer anything over plain Assert, and their usage had
already been declared obsolescent.

Author: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20221009210148.GA900071@nathanxps13
2022-10-28 09:19:06 +02:00
Michael Paquier 0823d061b0 Introduce SYSTEM_USER
SYSTEM_USER is a reserved keyword of the SQL specification that,
roughly described, is aimed at reporting some information about the
system user who has connected to the database server.  It may include
implementation-specific information about the means by the user
connected, like an authentication method.

This commit implements SYSTEM_USER as of auth_method:identity, where
"auth_method" is a keyword about the authentication method used to log
into the server (like peer, md5, scram-sha-256, gss, etc.) and
"identity" is the authentication identity as introduced by 9afffcb (peer
sets authn to the OS user name, gss to the user principal, etc.).  This
format has been suggested by Tom Lane.

Note that thanks to d951052, SYSTEM_USER is available to parallel
workers.

Bump catalog version.

Author: Bertrand Drouvot
Reviewed-by: Jacob Champion, Joe Conway, Álvaro Herrera, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/7e692b8c-0b11-45db-1cad-3afc5b57409f@amazon.com
2022-09-29 15:05:40 +09:00
Thomas Munro b6d8a60aba Restore pg_pread and friends.
Commits cf112c12 and a0dc8271 were a little too hasty in getting rid of
the pg_ prefixes where we use pread(), pwrite() and vectored variants.

We dropped support for ancient Unixes where we needed to use lseek() to
implement replacements for those, but it turns out that Windows also
changes the current position even when you pass in an offset to
ReadFile() and WriteFile() if the file handle is synchronous, despite
its documentation saying otherwise.

Switching to asynchronous file handles would fix that, but have other
complications.  For now let's just put back the pg_ prefix and add some
comments to highlight the non-standard side-effect, which we can now
describe as Windows-only.

Reported-by: Bharath Rupireddy <bharath.rupireddyforpostgres@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Bharath Rupireddy <bharath.rupireddyforpostgres@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220923202439.GA1156054%40nathanxps13
2022-09-29 13:12:11 +13:00
Andres Freund e6927270cd meson: Add initial version of meson based build system
Autoconf is showing its age, fewer and fewer contributors know how to wrangle
it. Recursive make has a lot of hard to resolve dependency issues and slow
incremental rebuilds. Our home-grown MSVC build system is hard to maintain for
developers not using Windows and runs tests serially. While these and other
issues could individually be addressed with incremental improvements, together
they seem best addressed by moving to a more modern build system.

After evaluating different build system choices, we chose to use meson, to a
good degree based on the adoption by other open source projects.

We decided that it's more realistic to commit a relatively early version of
the new build system and mature it in tree.

This commit adds an initial version of a meson based build system. It supports
building postgres on at least AIX, FreeBSD, Linux, macOS, NetBSD, OpenBSD,
Solaris and Windows (however only gcc is supported on aix, solaris). For
Windows/MSVC postgres can now be built with ninja (faster, particularly for
incremental builds) and msbuild (supporting the visual studio GUI, but
building slower).

Several aspects (e.g. Windows rc file generation, PGXS compatibility, LLVM
bitcode generation, documentation adjustments) are done in subsequent commits
requiring further review. Other aspects (e.g. not installing test-only
extensions) are not yet addressed.

When building on Windows with msbuild, builds are slower when using a visual
studio version older than 2019, because those versions do not support
MultiToolTask, required by meson for intra-target parallelism.

The plan is to remove the MSVC specific build system in src/tools/msvc soon
after reaching feature parity. However, we're not planning to remove the
autoconf/make build system in the near future. Likely we're going to keep at
least the parts required for PGXS to keep working around until all supported
versions build with meson.

Some initial help for postgres developers is at
https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Meson

With contributions from Thomas Munro, John Naylor, Stone Tickle and others.

Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Author: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>
Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
Reviewed-By: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20211012083721.hvixq4pnh2pixr3j@alap3.anarazel.de
2022-09-21 22:37:17 -07:00
Tom Lane 0a20ff54f5 Split up guc.c for better build speed and ease of maintenance.
guc.c has grown to be one of our largest .c files, making it
a bottleneck for compilation.  It's also acquired a bunch of
knowledge that'd be better kept elsewhere, because of our not
very good habit of putting variable-specific check hooks here.
Hence, split it up along these lines:

* guc.c itself retains just the core GUC housekeeping mechanisms.
* New file guc_funcs.c contains the SET/SHOW interfaces and some
  SQL-accessible functions for GUC manipulation.
* New file guc_tables.c contains the data arrays that define the
  built-in GUC variables, along with some already-exported constant
  tables.
* GUC check/assign/show hook functions are moved to the variable's
  home module, whenever that's clearly identifiable.  A few hard-
  to-classify hooks ended up in commands/variable.c, which was
  already a home for miscellaneous GUC hook functions.

To avoid cluttering a lot more header files with #include "guc.h",
I also invented a new header file utils/guc_hooks.h and put all
the GUC hook functions' declarations there, regardless of their
originating module.  That allowed removal of #include "guc.h"
from some existing headers.  The fallout from that (hopefully
all caught here) demonstrates clearly why such inclusions are
best minimized: there are a lot of files that, for example,
were getting array.h at two or more levels of remove, despite
not having any connection at all to GUCs in themselves.

There is some very minor code beautification here, such as
renaming a couple of inconsistently-named hook functions
and improving some comments.  But mostly this just moves
code from point A to point B and deals with the ensuing
needs for #include adjustments and exporting a few functions
that previously weren't exported.

Patch by me, per a suggestion from Andres Freund; thanks also
to Michael Paquier for the idea to invent guc_funcs.c.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/587607.1662836699@sss.pgh.pa.us
2022-09-13 11:11:45 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera 4b4663fb4a
Message style fixes 2022-09-07 17:33:49 +02:00
Michael Paquier d951052a9e Allow parallel workers to retrieve some data from Port
This commit moves authn_id into a new global structure called
ClientConnectionInfo (mapping to a MyClientConnectionInfo for each
backend) which is intended to hold all the client information that
should be shared between the backend and any of its parallel workers,
access for extensions and triggers being the primary use case.  There is
no need to push all the data of Port to the workers, and authn_id is
quite a generic concept so using a separate structure provides the best
balance (the name of the structure has been suggested by Robert Haas).

While on it, and per discussion as this would be useful for a potential
SYSTEM_USER that can be accessed through parallel workers, a second
field is added for the authentication method, copied directly from
Port.

ClientConnectionInfo is serialized and restored using a new parallel
key and a structure tracks the length of the authn_id, making the
addition of more fields straight-forward.

Author: Jacob Champion
Reviewed-by: Bertrand Drouvot, Stephen Frost, Robert Haas, Tom Lane,
Michael Paquier, Julien Rouhaud
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/793d990837ae5c06a558d58d62de9378ab525d83.camel@vmware.com
2022-08-24 12:57:13 +09:00
Andres Freund 0c679464a8 Add BackendType for standalone backends
All backends should have a BackendType to enable statistics reporting
per BackendType.

Add a new BackendType for standalone backends, B_STANDALONE_BACKEND (and
alphabetize the BackendTypes). Both the bootstrap backend and single
user mode backends will have BackendType B_STANDALONE_BACKEND.

Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAAKRu_aaq33UnG4TXq3S-OSXGWj1QGf0sU%2BECH4tNwGFNERkZA%40mail.gmail.com
2022-08-22 20:22:50 -07:00
Michael Paquier 47ab1ac822 Use hba_file/ident_file GUCs rather than pg_hba.conf/pg_ident.conf in logs
This is particularly useful when log_min_messages is set to FATAL, so as
one can know which file was not getting loaded whether hba_file or
ident_file are set to some non-default values.  If using the default
values of these GUC parameters, the same reports are generated.

This commit changes the load (startup) and reload (SIGHUP) messages.

Author: Julien Rouhaud
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220223045959.35ipdsvbxcstrhya@jrouhaud
2022-08-05 09:37:12 +09:00
Thomas Munro cf112c1220 Remove dead pread and pwrite replacement code.
pread() and pwrite() are in SUSv2, and all targeted Unix systems have
them.

Previously, we defined pg_pread and pg_pwrite to emulate these function
with lseek() on old Unixen.  The names with a pg_ prefix were a reminder
of a portability hazard: they might change the current file position.
That hazard is gone, so we can drop the prefixes.

Since the remaining replacement code is Windows-only, move it into
src/port/win32p{read,write}.c, and move the declarations into
src/include/port/win32_port.h.

No need for vestigial HAVE_PREAD, HAVE_PWRITE macros as they were only
used for declarations in port.h which have now moved into win32_port.h.

Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Reviewed-by: Greg Stark <stark@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+hUKGJ3LHeP9w5Fgzdr4G8AnEtJ=z=p6hGDEm4qYGEUX5B6fQ@mail.gmail.com
2022-08-05 09:49:21 +12:00
Tom Lane b35617de37 Process session_preload_libraries within InitPostgres's transaction.
Previously we did this after InitPostgres, at a somewhat randomly chosen
place within PostgresMain.  However, since commit a0ffa885e doing this
outside a transaction can cause a crash, if we need to check permissions
while replacing a placeholder GUC.  (Besides which, a preloaded library
could itself want to do database access within _PG_init.)

To avoid needing an additional transaction start/end in every session,
move the process_session_preload_libraries call to within InitPostgres's
transaction.  That requires teaching the code not to call it when
InitPostgres is called from somewhere other than PostgresMain, since
we don't want session_preload_libraries to affect background workers.
The most future-proof solution here seems to be to add an additional
flag parameter to InitPostgres; fortunately, we're not yet very worried
about API stability for v15.

Doing this also exposed the fact that we're currently honoring
session_preload_libraries in walsenders, even those not connected to
any database.  This seems, at minimum, a POLA violation: walsenders
are not interactive sessions.  Let's stop doing that.

(All these comments also apply to local_preload_libraries, of course.)

Per report from Gurjeet Singh (thanks also to Nathan Bossart and Kyotaro
Horiguchi for review).  Backpatch to v15 where a0ffa885e came in.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CABwTF4VEpwTHhRQ+q5MiC5ucngN-whN-PdcKeufX7eLSoAfbZA@mail.gmail.com
2022-07-25 10:27:43 -04:00
Andres Freund 3f8148c256 Revert 019_replslot_limit.pl related debugging aids.
This reverts most of 91c0570a79, f28bf667f6, fe0972ee5e, afdeff1052. The
only thing left is the retry loop in 019_replslot_limit.pl that avoids
spurious failures by retrying a couple times.

We haven't seen any hard evidence that this is caused by anything but slow
process shutdown. We did not find any cases where walsenders did not vanish
after waiting for longer. Therefore there's no reason for this debugging code
to remain.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220530190155.47wr3x2prdwyciah@alap3.anarazel.de
Backpatch: 15-
2022-07-05 11:01:10 -07:00
Peter Eisentraut 02c408e21a Remove redundant null pointer checks before free()
Per applicable standards, free() with a null pointer is a no-op.
Systems that don't observe that are ancient and no longer relevant.
Some PostgreSQL code already required this behavior, so this change
does not introduce any new requirements, just makes the code more
consistent.

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/dac5d2d0-98f5-94d9-8e69-46da2413593d%40enterprisedb.com
2022-07-03 11:47:15 +02:00
Tom Lane 7ab5b4eb48 Be more careful about GucSource for internally-driven GUC settings.
The original advice for hard-wired SetConfigOption calls was to use
PGC_S_OVERRIDE, particularly for PGC_INTERNAL GUCs.  However,
that's really overkill for PGC_INTERNAL GUCs, since there is no
possibility that we need to override a user-provided setting.
Instead use PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT in most places, so that the
value will appear with source = 'default' in pg_settings and thereby
not be shown by psql's new \dconfig command.  The one exception is
that when changing in_hot_standby in a hot-standby session, we still
use PGC_S_OVERRIDE, because people felt that seeing that in \dconfig
would be a good thing.

Similarly use PGC_S_DYNAMIC_DEFAULT for the auto-tune value of
wal_buffers (if possible, that is if wal_buffers wasn't explicitly
set to -1), and for the typical 2MB value of max_stack_depth.

In combination these changes remove four not-very-interesting
entries from the typical output of \dconfig, all of which people
fingered as "why is that showing up?" in the discussion thread.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3118455.1649267333@sss.pgh.pa.us
2022-06-08 13:26:18 -04:00
Robert Haas 4f2400cb3f Add a new shmem_request_hook hook.
Currently, preloaded libraries are expected to request additional
shared memory and LWLocks in _PG_init().  However, it is not unusal
for such requests to depend on MaxBackends, which won't be
initialized at that time.  Such requests could also depend on GUCs
that other modules might change.  This introduces a new hook where
modules can safely use MaxBackends and GUCs to request additional
shared memory and LWLocks.

Furthermore, this change restricts requests for shared memory and
LWLocks to this hook.  Previously, libraries could make requests
until the size of the main shared memory segment was calculated.
Unlike before, we no longer silently ignore requests received at
invalid times.  Instead, we FATAL if someone tries to request
additional shared memory or LWLocks outside of the hook.

Nathan Bossart and Julien Rouhaud

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220412210112.GA2065815%40nathanxps13
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/Yn2jE/lmDhKtkUdr@paquier.xyz
2022-05-13 09:31:06 -04:00
Tom Lane 23e7b38bfe Pre-beta mechanical code beautification.
Run pgindent, pgperltidy, and reformat-dat-files.
I manually fixed a couple of comments that pgindent uglified.
2022-05-12 15:17:30 -04:00
Noah Misch a117cebd63 Make relation-enumerating operations be security-restricted operations.
When a feature enumerates relations and runs functions associated with
all found relations, the feature's user shall not need to trust every
user having permission to create objects.  BRIN-specific functionality
in autovacuum neglected to account for this, as did pg_amcheck and
CLUSTER.  An attacker having permission to create non-temp objects in at
least one schema could execute arbitrary SQL functions under the
identity of the bootstrap superuser.  CREATE INDEX (not a
relation-enumerating operation) and REINDEX protected themselves too
late.  This change extends to the non-enumerating amcheck interface.
Back-patch to v10 (all supported versions).

Sergey Shinderuk, reviewed (in earlier versions) by Alexander Lakhin.
Reported by Alexander Lakhin.

Security: CVE-2022-1552
2022-05-09 08:35:08 -07:00
Robert Haas 701d918a42 Fix misleading comments about background worker registration.
Since 6bc8ef0b7f, the maximum number
of backends can't change as background workers are registered, but
these comments still reflect the way things worked prior to that.

Also, per recent discussion, some modules call SetConfigOption()
from _PG_init(). It's not entirely clear to me whether we want to
regard that as a fully supported operation, but since we know it's
a thing that happens, it at least deserves a mention in the comments,
so add that.

Nathan Bossart, reviewed by Anton A. Melnikov

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/20220419154658.GA2487941@nathanxps13
2022-05-06 09:24:06 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera 0bd56172b2
Always pfree strings returned by GetDatabasePath
Several places didn't do it, and in many cases it didn't matter because
it would be a small allocation in a short-lived context; but other
places may accumulate a few (for example, in CreateDatabaseUsingFileCopy,
one per tablespace).  In most databases this is highly unlikely to be
very serious either, but it seems better to make the code consistent in
case there's future copy-and-paste.

The only case of actual concern seems to be the aforementioned routine,
which is new with commit 9c08aea6a3, so there's no need to backpatch.

As pointed out by Coverity.
2022-04-25 10:32:13 +02:00
Tom Lane 2cb1272445 Rethink method for assigning OIDs to the template0 and postgres DBs.
Commit aa0105141 assigned fixed OIDs to template0 and postgres
in a very ad-hoc way.  Notably, instead of teaching Catalog.pm
about these OIDs, the unused_oids script was just hacked to
not show them as unused.  That's problematic since, for example,
duplicate_oids wouldn't report any future conflict.  Hence,
invent a macro DECLARE_OID_DEFINING_MACRO() that can be used to
define an OID that is known to Catalog.pm and will participate
in duplicate-detection as well as renumbering by renumber_oids.pl.
(We don't anticipate renumbering these particular OIDs, but we
might as well build out all the Catalog.pm infrastructure while
we're here.)

Another issue is that aa0105141 neglected to touch IsPinnedObject,
with the result that it now claimed template0 and postgres are
pinned.  The right thing to do there seems to be to teach it that
no database is pinned, since in fact DROP DATABASE doesn't check
for pinned-ness (and at least for these cases, that is an
intentional choice).  It's not clear whether this wrong answer
had any visible effect, but perhaps it could have resulted in
erroneous management of dependency entries.

In passing, rename the TemplateDbOid macro to Template1DbOid
to reduce confusion (likely we should have done that way back
when we invented template0, but we didn't), and rename the
OID macros for template0 and postgres to have a similar style.

There are no changes to postgres.bki here, so no need for a
catversion bump.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2935358.1650479692@sss.pgh.pa.us
2022-04-21 16:23:15 -04:00
Robert Haas 7fc0e7de9f Revert the addition of GetMaxBackends() and related stuff.
This reverts commits 0147fc7, 4567596, aa64f23, and 5ecd018.
There is no longer agreement that introducing this function
was the right way to address the problem. The consensus now
seems to favor trying to make a correct value for MaxBackends
available to mdules executing their _PG_init() functions.

Nathan Bossart

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/20220323045229.i23skfscdbvrsuxa@jrouhaud
2022-04-12 14:45:23 -04:00
Jeff Davis 5c279a6d35 Custom WAL Resource Managers.
Allow extensions to specify a new custom resource manager (rmgr),
which allows specialized WAL. This is meant to be used by a Table
Access Method or Index Access Method.

Prior to this commit, only Generic WAL was available, which offers
support for recovery and physical replication but not logical
replication.

Reviewed-by: Julien Rouhaud, Bharath Rupireddy, Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ed1fb2e22d15d3563ae0eb610f7b61bb15999c0a.camel%40j-davis.com
2022-04-06 23:06:46 -07:00
Andres Freund 5891c7a8ed pgstat: store statistics in shared memory.
Previously the statistics collector received statistics updates via UDP and
shared statistics data by writing them out to temporary files regularly. These
files can reach tens of megabytes and are written out up to twice a
second. This has repeatedly prevented us from adding additional useful
statistics.

Now statistics are stored in shared memory. Statistics for variable-numbered
objects are stored in a dshash hashtable (backed by dynamic shared
memory). Fixed-numbered stats are stored in plain shared memory.

The header for pgstat.c contains an overview of the architecture.

The stats collector is not needed anymore, remove it.

By utilizing the transactional statistics drop infrastructure introduced in a
prior commit statistics entries cannot "leak" anymore. Previously leaked
statistics were dropped by pgstat_vacuum_stat(), called from [auto-]vacuum. On
systems with many small relations pgstat_vacuum_stat() could be quite
expensive.

Now that replicas drop statistics entries for dropped objects, it is not
necessary anymore to reset stats when starting from a cleanly shut down
replica.

Subsequent commits will perform some further code cleanup, adapt docs and add
tests.

Bumps PGSTAT_FILE_FORMAT_ID.

Author: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-By: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Reviewed-By: "David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com> (in a much earlier version)
Reviewed-By: Arthur Zakirov <a.zakirov@postgrespro.ru> (in a much earlier version)
Reviewed-By: Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at> (in a much earlier version)
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220303021600.hs34ghqcw6zcokdh@alap3.anarazel.de
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220308205351.2xcn6k4x5yivcxyd@alap3.anarazel.de
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210319235115.y3wz7hpnnrshdyv6@alap3.anarazel.de
2022-04-06 21:29:46 -07:00
Stephen Frost 39969e2a1e Remove exclusive backup mode
Exclusive-mode backups have been deprecated since 9.6 (when
non-exclusive backups were introduced) due to the issues
they can cause should the system crash while one is running and
generally because non-exclusive provides a much better interface.
Further, exclusive backup mode wasn't really being tested (nor was most
of the related code- like being able to log in just to stop an exclusive
backup and the bits of the state machine related to that) and having to
possibly deal with an exclusive backup and the backup_label file
existing during pg_basebackup, pg_rewind, etc, added other complexities
that we are better off without.

This patch removes the exclusive backup mode, the various special cases
for dealing with it, and greatly simplifies the online backup code and
documentation.

Authors: David Steele, Nathan Bossart
Reviewed-by: Chapman Flack
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ac7339ca-3718-3c93-929f-99e725d1172c@pgmasters.net
https://postgr.es/m/CAHg+QDfiM+WU61tF6=nPZocMZvHDzCK47Kneyb0ZRULYzV5sKQ@mail.gmail.com
2022-04-06 14:41:03 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut f2553d4306 Add option to use ICU as global locale provider
This adds the option to use ICU as the default locale provider for
either the whole cluster or a database.  New options for initdb,
createdb, and CREATE DATABASE are used to select this.

Since some (legacy) code still uses the libc locale facilities
directly, we still need to set the libc global locale settings even if
ICU is otherwise selected.  So pg_database now has three
locale-related fields: the existing datcollate and datctype, which are
always set, and a new daticulocale, which is only set if ICU is
selected.  A similar change is made in pg_collation for consistency,
but in that case, only the libc-related fields or the ICU-related
field is set, never both.

Reviewed-by: Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/5e756dd6-0e91-d778-96fd-b1bcb06c161a%402ndquadrant.com
2022-03-17 11:13:16 +01:00
Andres Freund fe0972ee5e Add further debug info to help debug 019_replslot_limit.pl failures.
See also afdeff1052. Failures after that commit provided a few more hints,
but not yet enough to understand what's going on.

In 019_replslot_limit.pl shut down nodes with fast instead of immediate mode
if we observe the failure mode. That should tell us whether the failures we're
observing are just a timing issue under high load. PGCTLTIMEOUT should prevent
buildfarm animals from hanging endlessly.

Also adds a bit more logging to replication slot drop and ShutdownPostgres().

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220225192941.hqnvefgdzaro6gzg@alap3.anarazel.de
2022-02-25 17:04:39 -08:00
Peter Eisentraut 5c868c92ca Fix possible null pointer reference
Per Coverity.  Introduced in 37851a8b83.
2022-02-21 09:42:46 +01:00
Andres Freund fbabdf8f9a Fix meaning-changing typo introduced in fa0e03c15a. 2022-02-20 13:51:36 -08:00
Tom Lane de447bb8e6 Suppress warning about stack_base_ptr with late-model GCC.
GCC 12 complains that set_stack_base is storing the address of
a local variable in a long-lived pointer.  This is an entirely
reasonable warning (indeed, it just helped us find a bug);
but that behavior is intentional here.  We can work around it
by using __builtin_frame_address(0) instead of a specific local
variable; that produces an address a dozen or so bytes different,
in my testing, but we don't care about such a small difference.
Maybe someday a compiler lacking that function will start to issue
a similar warning, but we'll worry about that when it happens.

Patch by me, per a suggestion from Andres Freund.  Back-patch to
v12, which is as far back as the patch will go without some pain.
(Recently-established project policy would permit a back-patch as
far as 9.2, but I'm disinclined to expend the work until GCC 12
is much more widespread.)

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3773792.1645141467@sss.pgh.pa.us
2022-02-17 22:46:01 -05:00
Peter Geoghegan 8f388f6f55 Increase hash_mem_multiplier default to 2.0.
Double the default setting for hash_mem_multiplier, from 1.0 to 2.0.
This setting makes hash-based executor nodes use twice the usual
work_mem limit.

The PostgreSQL 15 release notes should have a compatibility note about
this change.

Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-Wzndc_ROk6CY-bC6p9O53q974Y0Ey4WX8jcPbuTZYM4Q3A@mail.gmail.com
2022-02-16 18:41:52 -08:00
Andres Freund 2f6501fa3c Move replication slot release to before_shmem_exit().
Previously, replication slots were released in ProcKill() on error, resulting
in reporting replication slot drop of ephemeral slots after the stats
subsystem was already shut down.

To fix this problem, move replication slot release to a before_shmem_exit()
hook that is called before the stats collector shuts down. There wasn't really
a good reason for the slot handling to be in ProcKill() anyway.

Patch by Masahiko Sawada, with very minor polishing by me.

I, Andres, wrote a test for dropping slots during process exit, but there may
be some OS dependent issues around the number of times FATAL error messages
are displayed due to a still debated libpq issue. So that test will be
committed separately / later.

Reviewed-By: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Author: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAD21AoDAeEpAbZEyYJsPZJUmSPaRicVSBObaL7sPaofnKz+9zg@mail.gmail.com
2022-02-14 17:08:17 -08:00
Peter Eisentraut 37851a8b83 Database-level collation version tracking
This adds to database objects the same version tracking that collation
objects have.  There is a new pg_database column datcollversion that
stores the version, a new function
pg_database_collation_actual_version() to get the version from the
operating system, and a new subcommand ALTER DATABASE ... REFRESH
COLLATION VERSION.

This was not originally added together with pg_collation.collversion,
since originally version tracking was only supported for ICU, and ICU
on a database-level is not currently supported.  But we now have
version tracking for glibc (since PG13), FreeBSD (since PG14), and
Windows (since PG13), so this is useful to have now.

Reviewed-by: Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/f0ff3190-29a3-5b39-a179-fa32eee57db6%40enterprisedb.com
2022-02-14 08:27:26 +01:00
Robert Haas aa64f23b02 Remove MaxBackends variable in favor of GetMaxBackends() function.
Previously, it was really easy to write code that accessed MaxBackends
before we'd actually initialized it, especially when coding up an
extension. To make this less error-prune, introduce a new function
GetMaxBackends() which should be used to obtain the correct value.
This will ERROR if called too early. Demote the global variable to
a file-level static, so that nobody can peak at it directly.

Nathan Bossart. Idea by Andres Freund. Review by Greg Sabino Mullane,
by Michael Paquier (who had doubts about the approach), and by me.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/20210802224204.bckcikl45uezv5e4@alap3.anarazel.de
2022-02-08 15:53:19 -05:00
Robert Haas 5ef1eefd76 Allow archiving via loadable modules.
Running a shell command for each file to be archived has a lot of
overhead and may not offer as much error checking as you want, or the
exact semantics that you want. So, offer the option to call a loadable
module for each file to be archived, rather than running a shell command.

Also, add a 'basic_archive' contrib module as an example implementation
that archives to a local directory.

Nathan Bossart, with a little bit of kibitzing by me.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/20220202224433.GA1036711@nathanxps13
2022-02-03 14:05:02 -05:00
Alvaro Herrera b3d7d6e462
Remove xloginsert.h from xlog.h
xlog.h is directly and indirectly #included in a lot of places.  With
this change, xloginsert.h is no longer unnecessarily included in the
large number of them that don't need it.

Author: Bharath Rupireddy <bharath.rupireddyforpostgres@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALj2ACVe-W+WM5P44N7eG9C2_FmaeM8Dq5aCnD3fHt0Ba=WR6w@mail.gmail.com
2022-01-30 12:25:24 -03:00
Michael Paquier 5ecd0183fb Fix comments about bgworker registration before MaxBackends initialization
Since 6bc8ef0b, InitializeMaxBackends() has used max_worker_processes
instead of adapting MaxBackends to the number of background workers
registered by modules loaded in shared_preload_libraries (at this time,
bgworkers were only static, but gained dynamic capabilities as a matter
of supporting parallel queries meaning that a control cap was
necessary).

Some comments referred to the past registration logic, making them
confusing and incorrect, so fix these.

Some of the out-of-core modules that could be loaded in this path
sometimes like to manipulate dynamically some of the resource-related
GUCs for their own needs, this commit adds a note about that.

Author: Nathan Bossart
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220127181815.GA551692@nathanxps13
2022-01-29 10:47:36 +09:00
Peter Eisentraut 54637508f8 Change collate and ctype fields to type text
This changes the data type of the catalog fields datcollate, datctype,
collcollate, and collctype from name to text.  There wasn't ever a
really good reason for them to be of type name; presumably this was
just carried over from when they were fixed-size fields in pg_control,
first into the corresponding pg_database fields, and then to
pg_collation.  The values are not identifiers or object names, and we
don't ever look them up that way.

Changing to type text saves space in the typical case, since locale
names are typically only a few bytes long.  But it is also possible
that an ICU locale name with several customization options appended
could be longer than 63 bytes, so this also enables that case, which
was previously probably broken.

Reviewed-by: Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/5e756dd6-0e91-d778-96fd-b1bcb06c161a@2ndquadrant.com
2022-01-27 08:54:25 +01:00
Bruce Momjian 27b77ecf9f Update copyright for 2022
Backpatch-through: 10
2022-01-07 19:04:57 -05:00
Robert Haas fa0e03c15a Remove InitXLOGAccess().
It's not great that RecoveryInProgress() calls InitXLOGAccess(),
because a status inquiry function typically shouldn't have the side
effect of performing initializations. We could fix that by calling
InitXLOGAccess() from some other place, but instead, let's remove it
altogether.

One thing InitXLogAccess() did is initialize wal_segment_size, but it
doesn't need to do that. In the postmaster, PostmasterMain() calls
LocalProcessControlFile(), and all child processes will inherit that
value -- except in EXEC_BACKEND bulds, but then each backend runs
SubPostmasterMain() which also calls LocalProcessControlFile().

The other thing InitXLOGAccess() did is update RedoRecPtr and
doPageWrites, but that's not critical, because all code that uses
them will just retry if it turns out that they've changed. The
only difference is that most code will now see an initial value that
is definitely invalid instead of one that might have just been way
out of date, but that will only happen once per backend lifetime,
so it shouldn't be a big deal.

Patch by me, reviewed by Nathan Bossart, Michael Paquier, Andres
Freund, Heikki Linnakangas, and Álvaro Herrera.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoY7b65qRjzHN_tWUk8B4sJqk1vj1d31uepVzmgPnZKeLg@mail.gmail.com
2021-12-13 09:58:36 -05:00
Andres Freund 3b34645678 Initialize backend status reporting during bootstrap.
This allows a later commit to reduce the number of branches in performance
sensitive functions during normal running, compared to a very minor saving
during bootstrapping.

Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAKRu_Yeg+vh6SHNEo1+=O7e-BPX35cU0XQM=YwQRnkFyv_y+w@mail.gmail.com
2021-11-19 08:43:12 -08:00
Robert Haas e51c46991f Move InitXLogInsert() call from InitXLOGAccess() to BaseInit().
At present, there is an undocumented coding rule that you must call
RecoveryInProgress(), or do something else that results in a call
to InitXLogInsert(), before trying to write WAL. Otherwise, the
WAL construction buffers won't be initialized, resulting in
failures.

Since it's not good to rely on a status inquiry function like
RecoveryInProgress() having the side effect of initializing
critical data structures, instead do the initialization eariler,
when the backend first starts up.

Patch by me. Reviewed by Nathan Bossart and Michael Paquier.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoY7b65qRjzHN_tWUk8B4sJqk1vj1d31uepVzmgPnZKeLg@mail.gmail.com
2021-11-16 09:43:17 -05:00