When enabled (default off), this logs a backtrace anytime elog() or an
equivalent ereport() for internal errors is called.
This is not well covered by the existing backtrace_functions, because
there are many equally-worded low-level errors in many functions. And
if you find out where the error is, then you need to manually rewrite
the elog() to ereport() to attach the errbacktrace(), which is
annoying. Having a backtrace automatically on every elog() call could
be very helpful during development for various kinds of common errors
from palloc, syscache, node support, etc.
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/ba76c6bc-f03f-4285-bf16-47759cfcab9e@eisentraut.org
This GUC was intended as a debugging help in the 9.0 area when hot
standby and streaming replication were being developped, able to offer
more information at LOG level rather than DEBUGn. There are more tools
available these days that are able to offer rather equivalent
information, like pg_waldump introduced in 9.3. It is not obvious how
this facility is useful these days, so let's remove it.
Author: Bharath Rupireddy
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ZXEXEAUVFrvpquSd@paquier.xyz
As of commit eaa5808e8e, MemoryContextResetAndDeleteChildren() is
just a backwards compatibility macro for MemoryContextReset(). Now
that some time has passed, this macro seems more likely to create
confusion.
This commit removes the macro and replaces all remaining uses with
calls to MemoryContextReset(). Any third-party code that use this
macro will need to be adjusted to call MemoryContextReset()
instead. Since the two have behaved the same way since v9.5, such
adjustments won't produce any behavior changes for all
currently-supported versions of PostgreSQL.
Reviewed-by: Amul Sul, Tom Lane, Alvaro Herrera, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20231113185950.GA1668018%40nathanxps13
The SIGTERM handler for the startup process immediately calls
proc_exit() for the duration of the restore_command, i.e., a call
to system(). This system() call forks a new process to execute the
shell command, and this child process inherits the parent's signal
handlers. If both the parent and child processes receive SIGTERM,
both will attempt to call proc_exit(). This can end badly. For
example, both processes will try to remove themselves from the
PGPROC shared array.
To fix this problem, this commit adds a check in
StartupProcShutdownHandler() to see whether MyProcPid == getpid().
If they match, this is the parent process, and we can proc_exit()
like before. If they do not match, this is a child process, and we
just emit a message to STDERR (in a signal safe manner) and
_exit(), thereby skipping any problematic exit callbacks.
This commit also adds checks in proc_exit(), ProcKill(), and
AuxiliaryProcKill() that verify they are not being called within
such child processes.
Suggested-by: Andres Freund
Reviewed-by: Thomas Munro, Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/Y9nGDSgIm83FHcad%40paquier.xyz
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230223231503.GA743455%40nathanxps13
Backpatch-through: 11
This commit introduces descriptively-named macros for the
identifiers used in wire protocol messages. These new macros are
placed in a new header file so that they can be easily used by
third-party code.
Author: Dave Cramer
Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera, Tatsuo Ishii, Peter Smith, Robert Haas, Tom Lane, Peter Eisentraut, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CADK3HHKbBmK-PKf1bPNFoMC%2BoBt%2BpD9PH8h5nvmBQskEHm-Ehw%40mail.gmail.com
Postgres' standard mechanism for reporting errors (ereport() or elog())
is used for all sorts of error conditions. This means that throwing
an exception via ereport(ERROR) requires an expensive transaction or
subtransaction abort and cleanup, since the exception catcher dare not
make many assumptions about what has gone wrong. There are situations
where we would rather have a lighter-weight mechanism for dealing
with errors that are known to be safe to recover from without a full
transaction cleanup. This commit creates infrastructure to let us
adapt existing error-reporting code for that purpose. See the
included documentation changes for details. Follow-on commits will
provide test code and usage examples.
The near-term plan is to convert most if not all datatype input
functions to report invalid input "softly". This will enable
implementing some SQL/JSON features cleanly and without the cost
of subtransactions, and it will also allow creating COPY options
to deal with bad input without cancelling the whole COPY.
This patch is mostly by me, but it owes very substantial debt to
earlier work by Nikita Glukhov, Andrew Dunstan, and Amul Sul.
Thanks also to Andres Freund for review.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3bbbb0df-7382-bf87-9737-340ba096e034@postgrespro.ru
Combine some duplicated code stanzas by creating small functions.
Most of these duplications arose at a time when I wouldn't have
trusted C compilers to auto-inline small functions intelligently,
but they're probably poor practice now. Similarly split out some
bits that aren't actually duplicative as the code stands, but would
become so after an upcoming patch to add another error-handling
code path.
Take the opportunity to add some lengthier comments about what
we're doing here, too. Re-order one function that seemed not
very well-placed.
Patch by me, per suggestions from Andres Freund.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3bbbb0df-7382-bf87-9737-340ba096e034@postgrespro.ru
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
Remove the Trap and TrapMacro macros, which were nearly unused
and confusingly had the opposite condition polarity from the
otherwise-functionally-equivalent Assert macros.
Having done that, it's very hard to justify carrying the errorType
argument of ExceptionalCondition, so drop that too, and just
let it assume everything's an Assert. This saves about 64K
of code space as of current HEAD.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3928703.1665345117@sss.pgh.pa.us
Make sure that function declarations use names that exactly match the
corresponding names from function definitions in optimizer, parser,
utility, libpq, and "commands" code, as well as in remaining library
code. Do the same for all code related to frontend programs (with the
exception of pg_dump/pg_dumpall related code).
Like other recent commits that cleaned up function parameter names, this
commit was written with help from clang-tidy. Later commits will handle
ecpg and pg_dump/pg_dumpall.
Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Reviewed-By: David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-WznJt9CMM9KJTMjJh_zbL5hD9oX44qdJ4aqZtjFi-zA3Tg@mail.gmail.com
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
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
Refactor so that log_line_prefix() is a thin wrapper over a new
function log_status_format(), and move the implementation to the
latter. Export log_status_format() so that it can be used by an
emit_log_hook.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/39c8197652f4d3050aedafae79fa5af31096505f.camel%40j-davis.com
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier, Alvaro Herrera
Soon the stats collector will be no more, with statistics instead getting
stored in shared memory. There are a lot of references to the stats collector
in comments. This commit replaces most of these references with "cumulative
statistics system", with the remaining ones getting replaced as part of
subsequent commits.
This is done separately from the - quite large - shared memory statistics
patch to make review easier.
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-By: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Reviewed-By: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220303021600.hs34ghqcw6zcokdh@alap3.anarazel.de
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220308205351.2xcn6k4x5yivcxyd@alap3.anarazel.de
"jsonlog" is a new value that can be added to log_destination to provide
logs in the JSON format, with its output written to a file, making it
the third type of destination of this kind, after "stderr" and
"csvlog". The format is convenient to feed logs to other applications.
There is also a plugin external to core that provided this feature using
the hook in elog.c, but this had to overwrite the output of "stderr" to
work, so being able to do both at the same time was not possible. The
files generated by this log format are suffixed with ".json", and use
the same rotation policies as the other two formats depending on the
backend configuration.
This takes advantage of the refactoring work done previously in ac7c807,
bed6ed3, 8b76f89 and 2d77d83 for the backend parts, and 72b76f7 for the
TAP tests, making the addition of any new file-based format rather
straight-forward.
The documentation is updated to list all the keys and the values that
can exist in this new format. pg_current_logfile() also required a
refresh for the new option.
Author: Sehrope Sarkuni, Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Nathan Bossart, Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH7T-aqswBM6JWe4pDehi1uOiufqe06DJWaU5=X7dDLyqUExHg@mail.gmail.com
The recent refactoring done in ac7c807 makes this move possible and
simple, as this just moves some code around. This reduces the size of
elog.c by 7%.
Author: Michael Paquier, Sehrope Sarkuni
Reviewed-by: Nathan Bossart
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH7T-aqswBM6JWe4pDehi1uOiufqe06DJWaU5=X7dDLyqUExHg@mail.gmail.com
simply moves the routines related to csvlog into their own file
This refactors the following routines and facilities coming from
elog.c, to ease their use across multiple log destinations:
- Start timestamp, including its reset, to store when a process has been
started.
- The log timestamp, associated to an entry (the same timestamp is used
when logging across multiple destinations).
- Routine deciding if a query can be logged or not.
- The backend type names, depending on the process that logs any
information (postmaster, bgworker name or just GetBackendTypeDesc() with
a regular backend).
- Write of logs using the logging piped protocol, with the log collector
enabled.
- Error severity converted to a string.
These refactored routines will be used for some follow-up changes
to move all the csvlog logic into its own file and to potentially add
JSON as log destination, reducing the overall size of elog.c as the end
result.
Author: Michael Paquier, Sehrope Sarkuni
Reviewed-by: Nathan Bossart
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH7T-aqswBM6JWe4pDehi1uOiufqe06DJWaU5=X7dDLyqUExHg@mail.gmail.com
send_message_to_server_log() would force a redirection of a log entry to
stderr in some cases for csvlog, like the syslogger not being available
yet. If this happens, csvlog would fall back to stderr to log
some information rather than nothing. The code was organized so as
stderr is done before csvlog, with csvlog checking that stderr did not
happen yet with a reversed condition. With this code organization, it
could be possible to lose some messages if running Postgres as a service
on WIN32, as there is no usable stderr, and the handling of the
StringInfoData holding the message for stderr was rather confusing
because of that.
This commit moves the csvlog handling to be before stderr, as as we are
able to track down if it is necessary to log something to stderr. The
reduces the handling of stderr to be in a single code path, adding a
fallback to event logs for a WIN32 service. This also simplifies the
way we handle the StringInfoData for stderr, making easier the
integration of new file-based log destinations. I got to play with
services and event logs on Windows while checking this change.
Reviewed-by: Chris Bandy
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/YV0vwBovEKf1WXkl@paquier.xyz
The previous protocol expected a set of matching characters to check if
a message sent was the last one or not, that changed depending on the
destination wanted:
- 't' and 'f' tracked the last message of a log sent to stderr.
- 'T' and 'F' tracked the last message of a log sent to csvlog.
This could be extended with more characters when introducing new
destinations, but using a bitmask is much more elegant. This commit
changes the protocol so as a bitmask is used in the header of a log
chunk message sent to the syslogger, with the following options
available for now:
- log_destination as stderr.
- log_destination as csvlog.
- if a message is the last chunk of a message.
Sehrope found this issue in a patch set to introduce JSON as an option
for log_destination, but his patch made the size of the protocol header
larger. This commit keeps the same size as the original, and adapts the
protocol as wanted.
Thanks also to Andrew Dunstan and Greg Stark for the discussion.
Author: Michael Paquier, Sehrope Sarkuni
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH7T-aqswBM6JWe4pDehi1uOiufqe06DJWaU5=X7dDLyqUExHg@mail.gmail.com
unpack_sql_state() has been introduced in d46bc44 to refactor the
unpacking of a SQLSTATE into a string, but it forgot one code path when
sending error reports to clients that could make use of it. This
changes the code to also use unpack_sql_state() there, simplifying a bit
the code.
Author: Peter Smith
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHut+PuYituuD1-VVZUNcmCQuc3ZzZMPoO57POgm8tnXOkwJAA@mail.gmail.com
Also "make reformat-dat-files".
The only change worthy of note is that pgindent messed up the formatting
of launcher.c's struct LogicalRepWorkerId, which led me to notice that
that struct wasn't used at all anymore, so I just took it out.
Previously, it was pg_stat_activity.queryid to match the
pg_stat_statements queryid column. This is an adjustment to patch
4f0b0966c8. This also adjusts some of the internal function calls to
match. Catversion bumped.
Reported-by: Álvaro Herrera, Julien Rouhaud
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210408032704.GA7498@alvherre.pgsql
Use the in-core query id computation for pg_stat_activity,
log_line_prefix, and EXPLAIN VERBOSE.
Similar to other fields in pg_stat_activity, only the queryid from the
top level statements are exposed, and if the backends status isn't
active then the queryid from the last executed statements is displayed.
Add a %Q placeholder to include the queryid in log_line_prefix, which
will also only expose top level statements.
For EXPLAIN VERBOSE, if a query identifier has been computed, either by
enabling compute_query_id or using a third-party module, display it.
Bump catalog version.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210407125726.tkvjdbw76hxnpwfi@nol
Author: Julien Rouhaud
Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera, Nitin Jadhav, Zhihong Yu
Commit dd136052b established a policy that error message FILE items
should include only the base name of the reporting source file, for
uniformity and succinctness. We now observe that some Windows compilers
use backslashes in __FILE__ strings, so truncate at backslashes as well.
This is expected to fix some platform variation in the results of the
new libpq_pipeline test module.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3650140.1617372290@sss.pgh.pa.us
With the 'noError' argument, you can try to convert a buffer without
knowing the character boundaries beforehand. The functions now need to
return the number of input bytes successfully converted.
This is is a backwards-incompatible change, if you have created a custom
encoding conversion with CREATE CONVERSION. This adds a check to
pg_upgrade for that, refusing the upgrade if there are any user-defined
encoding conversions. Custom conversions are very rare, there are no
commonly used extensions that I know of that uses that feature. No other
objects can depend on conversions, so if you do have one, you can fairly
easily drop it before upgrading, and recreate it after the upgrade with
an updated version.
Add regression tests for built-in encoding conversions. This doesn't cover
every conversion, but it covers all the internal functions in conv.c that
are used to implement the conversions.
Reviewed-by: John Naylor
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/e7861509-3960-538a-9025-b75a61188e01%40iki.fi
Protocol version 3 was introduced in PostgreSQL 7.4. There shouldn't be
many clients or servers left out there without version 3 support. But as
a courtesy, I kept just enough of the old protocol support that we can
still send the "unsupported protocol version" error in v2 format, so that
old clients can display the message properly. Likewise, libpq still
understands v2 ErrorResponse messages when establishing a connection.
The impetus to do this now is that I'm working on a patch to COPY
FROM, to always prefetch some data. We cannot do that safely with the
old protocol, because it requires parsing the input one byte at a time
to detect the end-of-copy marker.
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane, Alvaro Herrera, John Naylor
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/9ec25819-0a8a-d51a-17dc-4150bb3cca3b%40iki.fi
This add counters for number of sessions, the different kind of session
termination types, and timers for how much time is spent in active vs
idle in a database to pg_stat_database.
Internally this also renames the parameter "force" to disconnect. This
was the only use-case for the parameter before, so repurposing it to
this mroe narrow usecase makes things cleaner than inventing something
new.
Author: Laurenz Albe
Reviewed-By: Magnus Hagander, Soumyadeep Chakraborty, Masahiro Ikeda
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/b07e1f9953701b90c66ed368656f2aef40cac4fb.camel@cybertec.at
When the postmaster sends SIGQUIT to its children, there's no real
need for all the children to log that fact; the postmaster already
made a log entry about it, so adding perhaps dozens or hundreds of
child-process log entries adds nothing of value. So, let's introduce
a new ereport level to specify "WARNING, but never send to log" and
use that for these messages.
Such a change wouldn't have been desirable before commit 7e784d1dc,
because if someone manually SIGQUIT's a backend, we *do* want to log
that. But now we can tell the difference between a signal that was
issued by the postmaster and one that was not with reasonable
certainty.
While we're here, also clear error_context_stack before ereport'ing,
to prevent error callbacks from being invoked in the signal-handler
context. This should reduce the odds of getting hung up while trying
to notify the client.
Per a suggestion from Andres Freund.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20201225230331.hru3u6obyy6j53tk@alap3.anarazel.de
While ereport() and elog() themselves are quite cheap when the
error message level is too low to be printed, some places need to do
substantial work before they can call those macros at all. To allow
optimizing away such setup work when nothing is to be printed, make
elog.c export a new function message_level_is_interesting(elevel)
that reports whether ereport/elog will do anything. Make use of that
in various places that had ad-hoc direct tests of log_min_messages etc.
Also teach ProcSleep to use it to avoid some work. (There may well
be other places that could usefully use this; I didn't search hard.)
Within elog.c, refactor a little bit to avoid having duplicate copies
of the policy-setting logic. When that code was written, we weren't
relying on the availability of inline functions; so it had some
duplications in the name of efficiency, which I got rid of.
Alvaro Herrera and Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/129515.1606166429@sss.pgh.pa.us
Here we use a bit of preprocessor trickery to coax supporting compilers
into laying out their generated code so that the code that's in the same
branch as elog(ERROR)/ereport(ERROR) calls is moved away from the hot
path. Effectively, this reduces the size of the hot code meaning that it
can sit on fewer cache lines.
Performance improvements of between 10-15% have been seen on highly CPU
bound workloads using pgbench's TPC-b benchmark.
What's achieved here is very similar to putting the error condition inside
an unlikely() macro. For example;
if (unlikely(x < 0))
elog(ERROR, "invalid x value");
now there's no need to make use of unlikely() here as the common macro
used by elog and ereport will now see that elevel is >= ERROR and make use
of a pg_attribute_cold marked version of errstart().
When elevel < ERROR or if it cannot be determined to be constant, the
original behavior is maintained.
Author: David Rowley
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund, Peter Eisentraut
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvrVpasrEzLL2er7p9iwZFZ%3DJj6WisePcFeunwfrV0js_A%40mail.gmail.com
Up to now, only ECONNRESET (and EPIPE, in most but not quite all places)
received special treatment in our error handling logic. This patch
changes things so that related error codes such as ECONNABORTED are
also recognized as indicating that the connection's dead and unlikely
to come back.
We continue to think, however, that only ECONNRESET and EPIPE should be
reported as probable server crashes; the other cases indicate network
connectivity problems but prove little about the server's state. Thus,
there's no change in the error message texts that are output for such
cases. The key practical effect is that errcode_for_socket_access()
will report ERRCODE_CONNECTION_FAILURE rather than
ERRCODE_INTERNAL_ERROR for a network failure. It's expected that this
will fix buildfarm member lorikeet's failures since commit 32a9c0bdf,
as that seems to be due to not treating ECONNABORTED equivalently to
ECONNRESET.
The set of errnos treated this way now includes ECONNABORTED, EHOSTDOWN,
EHOSTUNREACH, ENETDOWN, ENETRESET, and ENETUNREACH. Several of these
were second-class citizens in terms of their handling in places like
get_errno_symbol(), so upgrade the infrastructure where necessary.
As committed, this patch assumes that all these symbols are defined
everywhere. POSIX specifies all of them except EHOSTDOWN, but that
seems to exist on all platforms of interest; we'll see what the
buildfarm says about that.
Probably this should be back-patched, but let's see what the buildfarm
thinks of it first.
Fujii Masao and Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2621622.1602184554@sss.pgh.pa.us
This is useful for monitoring purposes with log parsing. Similarly to
pg_stat_activity, the leader's PID is shown only for active parallel
workers, minimizing the log footprint for the leaders as the equivalent
shared memory field is set as long as a backend is alive.
Author: Justin Pryzby
Reviewed-by: Álvaro Herrera, Michael Paquier, Julien Rouhaud, Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200315111831.GA21492@telsasoft.com
Includes some manual cleanup of places that pgindent messed up,
most of which weren't per project style anyway.
Notably, it seems some people didn't absorb the style rules of
commit c9d297751, because there were a bunch of new occurrences
of function calls with a newline just after the left paren, all
with faulty expectations about how the rest of the call would get
indented.
This reverts the parts of commit 17a28b0364
that changed ereport's auxiliary functions from returning dummy integer
values to returning void. It turns out that a minority of compilers
complain (not entirely unreasonably) about constructs such as
(condition) ? errdetail(...) : 0
if errdetail() returns void rather than int. We could update those
call sites to say "(void) 0" perhaps, but the expectation for this
patch set was that ereport callers would not have to change anything.
And this aspect of the patch set was already the most invasive and
least compelling part of it, so let's just drop it.
Per buildfarm.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+fd4k6N8EjNvZpM8nme+y+05mz-SM8Z_BgkixzkA34R+ej0Kw@mail.gmail.com
Change all the auxiliary error-reporting routines to return void,
now that we no longer need to pretend they are passing something
useful to errfinish(). While this probably doesn't save anything
significant at the machine-code level, it allows detection of some
additional types of mistakes.
Pass the error location details (__FILE__, __LINE__, PG_FUNCNAME_MACRO)
to errfinish not errstart. This shaves a few cycles off the case where
errstart decides we're not going to emit anything.
Re-implement elog() as a trivial wrapper around ereport(), removing
the separate support infrastructure it used to have. Aside from
getting rid of some now-surplus code, this means that elog() now
really does have exactly the same semantics as ereport(), in particular
that it can skip evaluation work if the message is not to be emitted.
Andres Freund and Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+fd4k6N8EjNvZpM8nme+y+05mz-SM8Z_BgkixzkA34R+ej0Kw@mail.gmail.com
Now that we require C99, we can depend on __VA_ARGS__ to work, and
revising ereport() to use it has several significant benefits:
* The extra parentheses around the auxiliary function calls are now
optional. Aside from being a bit less ugly, this removes a common
gotcha for new contributors, because in some cases the compiler errors
you got from forgetting them were unintelligible.
* The auxiliary function calls are now evaluated as a comma expression
list rather than as extra arguments to errfinish(). This means that
compilers can be expected to warn about no-op expressions in the list,
allowing detection of several other common mistakes such as forgetting
to add errmsg(...) when converting an elog() call to ereport().
* Unlike the situation with extra function arguments, comma expressions
are guaranteed to be evaluated left-to-right, so this removes platform
dependency in the order of the auxiliary function calls. While that
dependency hasn't caused us big problems in the past, this change does
allow dropping some rather shaky assumptions around errcontext() domain
handling.
There's no intention to make wholesale changes of existing ereport
calls, but as proof-of-concept this patch removes the extra parens
from a couple of calls in postgres.c.
While new code can be written either way, code intended to be
back-patched will need to use extra parens for awhile yet. It seems
worth back-patching this change into v12, so as to reduce the window
where we have to be careful about that by one year. Hence, this patch
is careful to preserve ABI compatibility; a followup HEAD-only patch
will make some additional simplifications.
Andres Freund and Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+fd4k6N8EjNvZpM8nme+y+05mz-SM8Z_BgkixzkA34R+ej0Kw@mail.gmail.com
The backend type, which corresponds to what
pg_stat_activity.backend_type shows, is added as a column to the
csvlog and can optionally be added to log_line_prefix using the new %b
placeholder.
Reviewed-by: Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Kuntal Ghosh <kuntalghosh.2007@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
Reviewed-by: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/c65e5196-4f04-4ead-9353-6088c19615a3@2ndquadrant.com
Use the new MyBackendType instead. More similar changes for other "am
something" variables are possible. This one was just particularly
simple.
Reviewed-by: Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Kuntal Ghosh <kuntalghosh.2007@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/c65e5196-4f04-4ead-9353-6088c19615a3@2ndquadrant.com
Peter Eisentraut
Bruce Momjian
Michael Paquier
Nathan Bossart
Tom Lane
Peter Geoghegan
Jeff Davis
Alvaro Herrera
David Rowley
Andres Freund
Heikki Linnakangas
Magnus Hagander