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Bruce Momjian
1d25779284 Update copyright via script for 2017 2017-01-03 13:48:53 -05:00
Joe Conway
2f802d95b4 Make dblink try harder to form useful error messages
When libpq encounters a connection-level error, e.g. runs out of memory
while forming a result, there will be no error associated with PGresult,
but a message will be placed into PGconn's error buffer. postgres_fdw
takes care to use the PGconn error message when PGresult does not have
one, but dblink has been negligent in that regard. Modify dblink to mirror
what postgres_fdw has been doing.

Back-patch to all supported branches.

Author: Joe Conway
Reviewed-By: Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/02fa2d90-2efd-00bc-fefc-c23c00eb671e%40joeconway.com
2016-12-22 09:48:55 -08:00
Joe Conway
c444868389 Protect dblink from invalid options when using postgres_fdw server
When dblink uses a postgres_fdw server name for its connection, it
is possible for the connection to have options that are invalid
with dblink (e.g. "updatable"). The recommended way to avoid this
problem is to use dblink_fdw servers instead. However there are use
cases for using postgres_fdw, and possibly other FDWs, for dblink
connection options, therefore protect against trying to use any
options that do not apply by using is_valid_dblink_option() when
building the connection string from the options.

Back-patch to 9.3. Although 9.2 supports FDWs for connection info,
is_valid_dblink_option() did not yet exist, and neither did
postgres_fdw, at least in the postgres source tree. Given the lack
of previous complaints, fixing that seems too invasive/not worth it.

Author: Corey Huinker
Reviewed-By: Joe Conway
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CADkLM%3DfWyXVEyYcqbcRnxcHutkP45UHU9WD7XpdZaMfe7S%3DRwA%40mail.gmail.com
2016-12-22 09:20:35 -08:00
Tom Lane
b86515da1a Give a useful error message if uuid-ossp is built without preconfiguration.
Before commit b8cc8f947, it was possible to build contrib/uuid-ossp without
having told configure you meant to; you could just cd into that directory
and "make".  That no longer works because the code depends on configure to
have done header and library probes, but the ensuing error messages are
not so easy to interpret if you're not an old C hand.  We've gotten a
couple of complaints recently from people trying to do this the low-tech
way, so add an explicit #error directing the user to use --with-uuid.

(In principle we might want to do something similar in the other
optionally-built contrib modules; but I don't think any of the others have
ever worked without preconfiguration, so there are no bad habits to break
people of.)

Back-patch to 9.4 where the previous commit came in.

Report: https://postgr.es/m/CAHeEsBf42AWTnk=1qJvFv+mYgRFm07Knsfuc86Ono8nRjf3tvQ@mail.gmail.com
Report: https://postgr.es/m/CAKYdkBrUaZX+F6KpmzoHqMtiUqCtAW_w6Dgvr6F0WTiopuGxow@mail.gmail.com
2016-12-22 11:19:04 -05:00
Joe Conway
ea0aa9698c Improve dblink error message when remote does not provide it
When dblink or postgres_fdw detects an error on the remote side of the
connection, it will try to construct a local error message as best it
can using libpq's PQresultErrorField(). When no primary message is
available, it was bailing out with an unhelpful "unknown error". Make
that message better and more style guide compliant. Per discussion
on hackers.

Backpatch to 9.2 except postgres_fdw which didn't exist before 9.3.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/19872.1482338965%40sss.pgh.pa.us
2016-12-21 15:51:31 -08:00
Tom Lane
4a0a34b5b6 In contrib/uuid-ossp, #include headers needed for ntohl() and ntohs().
Oversight in commit b8cc8f947.  I just noticed this causes compiler
warnings on FreeBSD, and it really ought to cause warnings elsewhere too:
all references I can find say that <arpa/inet.h> is required for these.
We have a lot of code elsewhere that thinks that both <netinet/in.h>
and <arpa/inet.h> should be included for these functions, so do it that
way here too, even though <arpa/inet.h> ought to be sufficient according
to the references I consulted.

Back-patch to 9.4 where the previous commit landed.
2016-12-17 22:24:13 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut
fdf71389dd Various temporary slots test improvements
Fix the tests on slow machines (per buildfarm).

Add test for dropping on error.  And also try to consume real changes
from temporary slots.

From: Petr Jelinek <petr.jelinek@2ndquadrant.com>
2016-12-15 08:50:09 -05:00
Tom Lane
23f722ba8e Fix race condition in test_decoding "slot" test.
This test, just added in commit a924c327e, sometimes fails because
the old backend hasn't finished dropping the temporary replication slot
when the new backend looks.  Borrow the previously-invented methodology
for waiting for the old process to disappear from pg_stat_activity.

Petr Jelinek

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/62935e6f-4f1b-c433-e0fa-7f936a38b3e5@2ndquadrant.com
2016-12-12 14:32:13 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut
a924c327e2 Add support for temporary replication slots
This allows creating temporary replication slots that are removed
automatically at the end of the session or on error.

From: Petr Jelinek <petr.jelinek@2ndquadrant.com>
2016-12-12 08:38:17 -05:00
Heikki Linnakangas
58445c5c8d Further cleanup from the strong-random patch.
Also use the new facility for generating RADIUS authenticator requests,
and salt in chkpass extension.

Reword the error messages to be nicer. Fix bogus error code used in the
message in BackendStartup.
2016-12-12 11:55:32 +02:00
Heikki Linnakangas
9bbbf029dd Fix pgcrypto compilation with OpenSSL 1.1.0.
Was broken by the switch to using OpenSSL's EVP interface for ciphers, in
commit 5ff4a67f.

Reported by Andres Freund. Fix by Michael Paquier with some kibitzing by me.

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20161201014826.ic72tfkahmevpwz7@alap3.anarazel.de
2016-12-12 11:14:44 +02:00
Robert Haas
fa0f466d53 Log the creation of an init fork unconditionally.
Previously, it was thought that this only needed to be done for the
benefit of possible standbys, so wal_level = minimal skipped it.
But that's not safe, because during crash recovery we might replay
XLOG_DBASE_CREATE or XLOG_TBLSPC_CREATE record which recursively
removes the directory that contains the new init fork.  So log it
always.

The user-visible effect of this bug is that if you create a database
or tablespace, then create an unlogged table, then crash without
checkpointing, then restart, accessing the table will fail, because
the it won't have been properly reset.  This commit fixes that.

Michael Paquier, per a report from Konstantin Knizhnik.  Wording of
the comments per a suggestion from me.
2016-12-08 14:12:08 -05:00
Heikki Linnakangas
fe0a0b5993 Replace PostmasterRandom() with a stronger source, second attempt.
This adds a new routine, pg_strong_random() for generating random bytes,
for use in both frontend and backend. At the moment, it's only used in
the backend, but the upcoming SCRAM authentication patches need strong
random numbers in libpq as well.

pg_strong_random() is based on, and replaces, the existing implementation
in pgcrypto. It can acquire strong random numbers from a number of sources,
depending on what's available:

- OpenSSL RAND_bytes(), if built with OpenSSL
- On Windows, the native cryptographic functions are used
- /dev/urandom

Unlike the current pgcrypto function, the source is chosen by configure.
That makes it easier to test different implementations, and ensures that
we don't accidentally fall back to a less secure implementation, if the
primary source fails. All of those methods are quite reliable, it would be
pretty surprising for them to fail, so we'd rather find out by failing
hard.

If no strong random source is available, we fall back to using erand48(),
seeded from current timestamp, like PostmasterRandom() was. That isn't
cryptographically secure, but allows us to still work on platforms that
don't have any of the above stronger sources. Because it's not very secure,
the built-in implementation is only used if explicitly requested with
--disable-strong-random.

This replaces the more complicated Fortuna algorithm we used to have in
pgcrypto, which is unfortunate, but all modern platforms have /dev/urandom,
so it doesn't seem worth the maintenance effort to keep that. pgcrypto
functions that require strong random numbers will be disabled with
--disable-strong-random.

Original patch by Magnus Hagander, tons of further work by Michael Paquier
and me.

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAB7nPqRy3krN8quR9XujMVVHYtXJ0_60nqgVc6oUk8ygyVkZsA@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAB7nPqRWkNYRRPJA7-cF+LfroYV10pvjdz6GNvxk-Eee9FypKA@mail.gmail.com
2016-12-05 13:42:59 +02:00
Heikki Linnakangas
b2cc748b09 Remove dead stuff from pgcrypto.
pgp-pubkey-DISABLED test has been unused since 2006, when support for
built-in bignum math was added (commit 1abf76e8). pgp-encrypt-DISABLED has
been unused forever, AFAICS.

Also remove a couple of unused error codes.
2016-11-30 13:04:16 +02:00
Tom Lane
ade49c605f Test all contrib-created operator classes with amvalidate.
I'd supposed that people would do this manually when creating new operator
classes, but the folly of that was exposed today.  The tests seem fast
enough that we can just apply them during the normal regression tests.

contrib/isn fails the checks for lack of complete sets of cross-type
operators.  That's a nice-to-have policy rather than a functional
requirement, so leave it as-is, but insert ORDER BY in the query to
ensure consistent cross-platform output.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/7076.1480446837@sss.pgh.pa.us
2016-11-29 15:05:22 -05:00
Tom Lane
11da83a0e7 Add uuid to the set of types supported by contrib/btree_gist.
Paul Jungwirth, reviewed and hacked on by Teodor Sigaev, Ildus
Kurbangaliev, Adam Brusselback, Chris Bandy, and myself.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+renyUEE29=X01JXdz8_TQvo6n9=2XoEBBRnQ8rkLyr+kjPxQ@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/55F6EE82.8080209@sigaev.ru
2016-11-29 14:08:34 -05:00
Tom Lane
e2a0ee6900 Make contrib/test_decoding regression tests safe for CZ locale.
A little COLLATE "C" goes a long way.

Pavel Stehule, per suggestion from Craig Ringer

Discussion: <CAFj8pRA8nJZcozgxN=RMSqMmKuHVOkcGAAKPKdFeiMWGDSUDLA@mail.gmail.com>
2016-11-21 20:39:28 -05:00
Andres Freund
ffa8c3d852 Provide NO_INSTALLCHECK option for pgxs.
This allows us to avoid running the regression tests in contrib modules
like pg_stat_statement in a less ugly manner.

Discussion: <22432.1478968242@sss.pgh.pa.us>
2016-11-14 14:53:07 -08:00
Peter Eisentraut
b7292a8670 pg_stat_statements: Add .gitignore file for tests 2016-11-13 08:24:43 -05:00
Andres Freund
9be244dbe8 Add minimal set of regression tests for pg_stat_statements.
While the set of covered functionality is fairly small, the added tests
still are useful to get some basic buildfarm testing of
pg_stat_statements itself, but also to exercise the lwlock tranch code
on the buildfarm.

Author: Amit Kapila, slightly editorialized by me
Reviewed-By: Ashutosh Sharma, Andres Freund
Discussion: <CAA4eK1JOjkdXYtHxh=2aDK4VgDtN-LNGKY_YqX0N=YEvuzQVWg@mail.gmail.com>
2016-11-12 05:01:48 -08:00
Tom Lane
9257f07872 Replace uses of SPI_modifytuple that intend to allocate in current context.
Invent a new function heap_modify_tuple_by_cols() that is functionally
equivalent to SPI_modifytuple except that it always allocates its result
by simple palloc.  I chose however to make the API details a bit more
like heap_modify_tuple: pass a tupdesc rather than a Relation, and use
bool convention for the isnull array.

Use this function in place of SPI_modifytuple at all call sites where the
intended behavior is to allocate in current context.  (There actually are
only two call sites left that depend on the old behavior, which makes me
wonder if we should just drop this function rather than keep it.)

This new function is easier to use than heap_modify_tuple() for purposes
of replacing a single column (or, really, any fixed number of columns).
There are a number of places where it would simplify the code to change
over, but I resisted that temptation for the moment ... everywhere except
in plpgsql's exec_assign_value(); changing that might offer some small
performance benefit, so I did it.

This is on the way to removing SPI_push/SPI_pop, but it seems like
good code cleanup in its own right.

Discussion: <9633.1478552022@sss.pgh.pa.us>
2016-11-08 15:36:44 -05:00
Tom Lane
6d30fb1f75 Make SPI_fnumber() reject dropped columns.
There's basically no scenario where it's sensible for this to match
dropped columns, so put a test for dropped-ness into SPI_fnumber()
itself, and excise the test from the small number of callers that
were paying attention to the case.  (Most weren't :-(.)

In passing, normalize tests at call sites: always reject attnum <= 0
if we're disallowing system columns.  Previously there was a mixture
of "< 0" and "<= 0" tests.  This makes no practical difference since
SPI_fnumber() never returns 0, but I'm feeling pedantic today.

Also, in the places that are actually live user-facing code and not
legacy cruft, distinguish "column not found" from "can't handle
system column".

Per discussion with Jim Nasby; thi supersedes his original patch
that just changed the behavior at one call site.

Discussion: <b2de8258-c4c0-1cb8-7b97-e8538e5c975c@BlueTreble.com>
2016-11-08 13:11:26 -05:00
Tom Lane
c59f94e81e Revert "Delete contrib/xml2's legacy implementation of xml_is_well_formed()."
This partly reverts commit 20540710e8.
Since we've given up on adding PGDLLEXPORT markers to PG_FUNCTION_INFO_V1,
there's no need to remove the legacy compatibility function.  I kept the
documentation changes, though, as they seem appropriate anyway.
2016-11-07 10:27:52 -05:00
Tom Lane
33cb96ba1a Revert "Provide DLLEXPORT markers for C functions via PG_FUNCTION_INFO_V1 macro."
This reverts commit c8ead2a397.
Seems there is no way to do this that doesn't cause MSVC to give
warnings, so let's just go back to the way we've been doing it.

Discussion: <11843.1478358206@sss.pgh.pa.us>
2016-11-07 10:19:22 -05:00
Tom Lane
c8ead2a397 Provide DLLEXPORT markers for C functions via PG_FUNCTION_INFO_V1 macro.
Second try at the change originally made in commit 8518583cd;
this time with contrib updates so that manual extern declarations
are also marked with PGDLLEXPORT.  The release notes should point
this out as a significant source-code change for extension authors,
since they'll have to make similar additions to avoid trouble on Windows.

Laurenz Albe, doc change by me

Patch: <A737B7A37273E048B164557ADEF4A58B53962ED8@ntex2010a.host.magwien.gv.at>
2016-11-04 19:04:56 -04:00
Tom Lane
20540710e8 Delete contrib/xml2's legacy implementation of xml_is_well_formed().
This function is unreferenced in modern usage; it was superseded in 9.1
by a core function of the same name.  It has been left in place in the C
code only so that pre-9.1 SQL definitions of the contrib/xml2 functions
would continue to work.  Six years seems like enough time for people to
have updated to the extension-style version of the xml2 module, so let's
drop this.

The key reason for not keeping it any longer is that we want to stick
an explicit PGDLLEXPORT into PG_FUNCTION_INFO_V1(), and the similarity
of name to the core function creates a conflict that compilers will
complain about.

Extracted from a larger patch for that purpose.  I'm committing this
change separately to give it more visibility in the commit logs.

While at it, remove the documentation entry that claimed that
xml_is_well_formed() is a function provided by contrib/xml2, and
instead mention the even more ancient alias xml_valid().

Laurenz Albe, doc change by me

Patch: <A737B7A37273E048B164557ADEF4A58B53962ED8@ntex2010a.host.magwien.gv.at>
2016-11-04 18:29:53 -04:00
Tom Lane
367b99bbb1 Fix gin_leafpage_items().
On closer inspection, commit 84ad68d64 broke gin_leafpage_items(),
because the aligned copy of the page got palloc'd in a short-lived
context whereas it needs to be in the SRF's multi_call_memory_ctx.
This was not exposed by the regression test, because the regression
test doesn't actually exercise the function in a meaningful way.
Fix the code bug, and extend the test in what I hope is a portable
fashion.
2016-11-04 12:11:54 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut
84ad68d645 pageinspect: Fix unaligned struct access in GIN functions
The raw page data that is passed into the functions will not be aligned
at 8-byte boundaries.  Casting that to a struct and accessing int64
fields will result in unaligned access.  On most platforms, you get away
with it, but it will result on a crash on pickier platforms such as ia64
and sparc64.
2016-11-04 10:05:37 -04:00
Robert Haas
7016e4c4f5 postgres_fdw: Fix typo in comment.
Etsuro Fujita
2016-11-04 09:03:42 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut
a0f357e570 psql: Split up "Modifiers" column in \d and \dD
Make separate columns "Collation", "Nullable", "Default".

Reviewed-by: Kuntal Ghosh <kuntalghosh.2007@gmail.com>
2016-11-03 14:02:46 -04:00
Robert Haas
c6ff380e38 Use NIL instead of NULL for an empty List.
Tatsuro Yamada, reviewed by Ashutosh Bapat
2016-11-03 11:24:01 -04:00
Tom Lane
da8f3ebf30 Don't convert Consts into Vars during setrefs.c processing.
While converting expressions in an upper-level plan node so that they
reference Vars and expressions provided by the input plan node(s),
don't convert plain Const items, even if there happens to be a matching
Const in the input.  It's silly to do so because a Var is more expensive to
execute than a Const.  Moreover, converting can fool ExecCheckPlanOutput's
check that an insert or update query inserts nulls into dropped columns,
leading to "query provides a value for a dropped column" errors during
INSERT or UPDATE on a table with a dropped column.  We could solve this
by making that check more complicated, but I don't see the point; this fix
should save a marginal number of cycles, and it also makes for less messy
EXPLAIN output, as shown by the ensuing regression test result changes.

Per report from Pavel Hanák.  I have not incorporated a test case based
on that example, as there doesn't seem to be a simple way of checking
this in isolation without making a bunch of assumptions about other
planner and SQL-function behavior.

Back-patch to 9.6.  This setrefs.c behavior exists much further back,
but there is not currently reason to think that it causes problems
before 9.6.

Discussion: <83shraampf.fsf@is-it.eu>
2016-11-02 14:32:13 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut
00a86856c1 pageinspect: Make page test more portable
Choose test data that makes the output independent of endianness.
2016-11-02 08:45:17 -04:00
Tom Lane
14ee35799f Fix portability bug in gin_page_opaque_info().
Somebody apparently thought that "if Int32GetDatum is good,
Int64GetDatum must be better".  Per buildfarm failures now
that Peter has added some regression tests here.
2016-11-02 00:09:27 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut
f7c9a6e083 pageinspect: Make btree test more portable
Choose test data that makes the output independent of endianness and
alignment.
2016-11-01 22:02:39 -04:00
Robert Haas
9779f71c40 postgres_fdw: Fix typo in comment.
Etsuro Fujita
2016-11-01 16:21:29 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut
adfb81d9e1 pageinspect: Add tests 2016-11-01 14:02:16 -04:00
Robert Haas
d4b5d4cadd pgstattuple: Don't take heavyweight locks when examining a hash index.
It's currently necessary to take a heavyweight lock when scanning a
hash bucket, but pgstattuple only examines individual pages, so it
doesn't need to do this.  If, for some hypothetical reason, it did
need to do any heavyweight locking here, this logic would probably
still be incorrect, because most of the locks that it is taking are
meaningless.  Only a heavyweight lock on a primary bucket page has any
meaning, but this takes heavyweight locks on all pages regardless of
function - and in particular overflow pages, where you might imagine
that we'd want to lock the primary bucket page if we needed to lock
anything at all.

This is arguably a bug that has existed since this code was added in
commit dab42382f4, but I'm not going to
bother back-patching it because in most cases the only consequence is
that running pgstattuple() on a hash index is a little slower than it
otherwise might be, which is no big deal.

Extracted from a vastly larger patch by Amit Kapila which heavyweight
locking for hash indexes entirely; analysis of why this can be done
independently of the rest by me.
2016-10-28 12:21:15 -04:00
Tom Lane
8529686ccb Suppress unused-variable warning in non-assert builds.
Introduced in commit 7012b132d.

Kyotaro Horiguchi
2016-10-26 10:19:41 -04:00
Heikki Linnakangas
8a2f08fbea Fix typo in comment.
Daniel Gustafsson
2016-10-26 11:10:13 +03:00
Robert Haas
f5d6bce63c postgres_fdw: Try again to stabilize aggregate pushdown regression tests.
A query that only aggregates one row isn't a great argument for pushdown,
and buildfarm member brolga decides against it.  Adjust the query a bit
in the hopes of getting remote aggregation to win consistently.

Jeevan Chalke, per suggestion from Tom Lane
2016-10-24 22:36:24 -04:00
Robert Haas
ad13a09d76 postgres_fdw: Attempt to stabilize regression results.
Set enable_hashagg to false for tests involving least_agg(), so that
we get the same plan regardless of local costing variances.  Also,
remove a test involving sqrt(); it's there to test deparsing of
HAVING clauses containing expressions, but that's tested elsewhere
anyway, and sqrt(2) deparses with different amounts of precision on
different machines.

Per buildfarm.
2016-10-21 11:29:33 -04:00
Robert Haas
7012b132d0 postgres_fdw: Push down aggregates to remote servers.
Now that the upper planner uses paths, and now that we have proper hooks
to inject paths into the upper planning process, it's possible for
foreign data wrappers to arrange to push aggregates to the remote side
instead of fetching all of the rows and aggregating them locally.  This
figures to be a massive win for performance, so teach postgres_fdw to
do it.

Jeevan Chalke and Ashutosh Bapat.  Reviewed by Ashutosh Bapat with
additional testing by Prabhat Sahu.  Various mostly cosmetic changes
by me.
2016-10-21 09:54:29 -04:00
Heikki Linnakangas
faae1c918e Revert "Replace PostmasterRandom() with a stronger way of generating randomness."
This reverts commit 9e083fd468. That was a
few bricks shy of a load:

* Query cancel stopped working
* Buildfarm member pademelon stopped working, because the box doesn't have
  /dev/urandom nor /dev/random.

This clearly needs some more discussion, and a quite different patch, so
revert for now.
2016-10-18 16:28:23 +03:00
Heikki Linnakangas
5ff4a67f63 Use OpenSSL EVP API for symmetric encryption in pgcrypto.
The old "low-level" API is deprecated, and doesn't support hardware
acceleration. And this makes the code simpler, too.

Discussion: <561274F1.1030000@iki.fi>
2016-10-17 17:29:33 +03:00
Heikki Linnakangas
9e083fd468 Replace PostmasterRandom() with a stronger way of generating randomness.
This adds a new routine, pg_strong_random() for generating random bytes,
for use in both frontend and backend. At the moment, it's only used in
the backend, but the upcoming SCRAM authentication patches need strong
random numbers in libpq as well.

pg_strong_random() is based on, and replaces, the existing implementation
in pgcrypto. It can acquire strong random numbers from a number of sources,
depending on what's available:
- OpenSSL RAND_bytes(), if built with OpenSSL
- On Windows, the native cryptographic functions are used
- /dev/urandom
- /dev/random

Original patch by Magnus Hagander, with further work by Michael Paquier
and me.

Discussion: <CAB7nPqRy3krN8quR9XujMVVHYtXJ0_60nqgVc6oUk8ygyVkZsA@mail.gmail.com>
2016-10-17 11:52:50 +03:00
Andres Freund
ccbb852cd6 Fix further hash table order dependent tests.
Similar to 0137caf273, this makes contrib and pl tests less dependant on
hash-table order.  After this commit, at least some order affecting
changes to execGrouping.c don't result in regression test changes
anymore.
2016-10-12 18:31:45 -07:00
Robert Haas
d2ce38e204 Rename WAIT_* constants to PG_WAIT_*.
Windows apparently has a constant named WAIT_TIMEOUT, and some of these
other names are pretty generic, too.  Insert "PG_" at the front of each
name in order to disambiguate.

Michael Paquier
2016-10-05 08:04:52 -04:00
Tom Lane
eda04886c1 Avoid direct cross-module links in hstore_plperl and ltree_plpython, too.
Just turning the crank on the project started in commit d51924be8.
These cases turn out to be exact subsets of the boilerplate needed
for hstore_plpython.

Discussion: <2652.1475512158@sss.pgh.pa.us>
2016-10-04 17:49:07 -04:00
Robert Haas
6f3bd98ebf Extend framework from commit 53be0b1ad to report latch waits.
WaitLatch, WaitLatchOrSocket, and WaitEventSetWait now taken an
additional wait_event_info parameter; legal values are defined in
pgstat.h.  This makes it possible to uniquely identify every point in
the core code where we are waiting for a latch; extensions can pass
WAIT_EXTENSION.

Because latches were the major wait primitive not previously covered
by this patch, it is now possible to see information in
pg_stat_activity on a large number of important wait events not
previously addressed, such as ClientRead, ClientWrite, and SyncRep.

Unfortunately, many of the wait events added by this patch will fail
to appear in pg_stat_activity because they're only used in background
processes which don't currently appear in pg_stat_activity.  We should
fix this either by creating a separate view for such information, or
else by deciding to include them in pg_stat_activity after all.

Michael Paquier and Robert Haas, reviewed by Alexander Korotkov and
Thomas Munro.
2016-10-04 11:01:42 -04:00