will work whether or not the specified language is preinstalled. This
responds to some complaints about having to change test scripts because
plpgsql is preinstalled as of 9.0.
Enabled by recovery_connections = on (default) and forcing archive recovery using a recovery.conf. Recovery processing now emulates the original transactions as they are replayed, providing full locking and MVCC behaviour for read only queries. Recovery must enter consistent state before connections are allowed, so there is a delay, typically short, before connections succeed. Replay of recovering transactions can conflict and in some cases deadlock with queries during recovery; these result in query cancellation after max_standby_delay seconds have expired. Infrastructure changes have minor effects on normal running, though introduce four new types of WAL record.
New test mode "make standbycheck" allows regression tests of static command behaviour on a standby server while in recovery. Typical and extreme dynamic behaviours have been checked via code inspection and manual testing. Few port specific behaviours have been utilised, though primary testing has been on Linux only so far.
This commit is the basic patch. Additional changes will follow in this release to enhance some aspects of behaviour, notably improved handling of conflicts, deadlock detection and query cancellation. Changes to VACUUM FULL are also required.
Simon Riggs, with significant and lengthy review by Heikki Linnakangas, including streamlined redesign of snapshot creation and two-phase commit.
Important contributions from Florian Pflug, Mark Kirkwood, Merlin Moncure, Greg Stark, Gianni Ciolli, Gabriele Bartolini, Hannu Krosing, Robert Haas, Tatsuo Ishii, Hiroyuki Yamada plus support and feedback from many other community members.
We have used -w for a long time as a means of reducing the reported diff
volume when one element of a result table isn't of the expected width.
However, most of the time the results just pass anyway, so this isn't as
important as it once was. Meanwhile, the risk of missing potentially
significant deviations has gone up, particularly with psql's ability to
report error cursor positions. So, let's switch over to space-sensitive
comparisons. Per my proposal of yesterday.
(All the expected files that I can test here seem to be ready for this
already, but we'll see what the buildfarm thinks about others.)
documentation warnings against setting it nonzero unless active use of
prepared transactions is intended and a suitable transaction manager has been
installed. This should help to prevent the type of scenario we've seen
several times now where a prepared transaction is forgotten and eventually
causes severe maintenance problems (or even anti-wraparound shutdown).
The only real reason we had the default be nonzero in the first place was to
support regression testing of the feature. To still be able to do that,
tweak pg_regress to force a nonzero value during "make check". Since we
cannot force a nonzero value in "make installcheck", add a variant regression
test "expected" file that shows the results that will be obtained when
max_prepared_transactions is zero.
Also, extend the HINT messages for transaction wraparound warnings to mention
the possibility that old prepared transactions are causing the problem.
All per today's discussion.
presumably designed, but didn't act). This allows running the temp install
tests in a non-C locale, thus exercising users' real environments better.
Document how to change locales for test runs.
a mismatching installation. Pick a default port number calculated from the
version number, and try a few times with other numbers if that one doesn't
work. Check if we can connect to the port before starting our own postmaster,
to detect some other server already running there. To simplify the code,
drop --temp-port option and use --port for both temp-install and pre-installed
case.
libpq. As noted by Peter, adding this variable created a risk of unexpected
connection failures when talking to older server versions, and since it
doesn't do anything you can't do with PGOPTIONS, it doesn't seem really
necessary. Removing it does occasion a few extra lines in pg_regress.c,
but saving a getenv() call per libpq connection attempt is perhaps worth
that anyway.
from DateStyle, and create a new interval style that produces output matching
the SQL standard (at least for interval values that fall within the standard's
restrictions). IntervalStyle is also used to resolve the conflict between the
standard and traditional Postgres rules for interpreting negative interval
input.
Ron Mayer
read when the --temp-config argument is bad. Noted while wondering why
buildfarm member dungbeetle is failing ... this isn't why, but it is why
the error report isn't very helpful ...
The places that did, eg,
(statbuf.st_mode & S_IFMT) == S_IFDIR
were correct, but there is no good reason not to use S_ISDIR() instead,
especially when that's what the other 90% of our code does. The places
that did, eg,
(statbuf.st_mode & S_IFDIR)
were flat out *wrong* and would fail in various platform-specific ways,
eg a symlink could be mistaken for a regular file on most Unixen.
The actual impact of this is probably small, since the problem cases
seem to always involve symlinks or sockets, which are unlikely to be
found in the directories that PG code might be scanning. But it's
clearly trouble waiting to happen, so patch all the way back anyway.
(There seem to be no occurrences of the mistake in 7.4.)
On other platforms it's better to let the Makefile handle it, but we want
the regression tests to be invokable without make on Windows. A batch
file would be a better solution, but no time for that before 8.3.
Per my discovery that this breaks testing under SELinux, and subsequent
discussion.
regression driver into two parts and reusing half of it. Required to
run ECPG tests without a shell on MSVC builds.
Fix ECPG thread tests for MSVC build (incl output files).
Joachim Wieland and Magnus Hagander
For win32 in general, this makes it possible to run the regression tests
as an admin user by using the same restricted token method that's used
by pg_ctl and initdb.
For vc++, it adds building of pg_regress.exe, adds a resultmap, and
fixes how it runs the install.
Magnus Hagander
Standard English uses "may", "can", and "might" in different ways:
may - permission, "You may borrow my rake."
can - ability, "I can lift that log."
might - possibility, "It might rain today."
Unfortunately, in conversational English, their use is often mixed, as
in, "You may use this variable to do X", when in fact, "can" is a better
choice. Similarly, "It may crash" is better stated, "It might crash".
the generated files, to help Visual C++ to run these tests. The tests still
pass in VPATH and normal builds.
Patch from Magnus Hagander, editorialized by me.
Bruce Momjian
Peter Eisentraut
Magnus Hagander
Tom Lane
Simon Riggs
Teodor Sigaev
Andrew Dunstan
Alvaro Herrera