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Author SHA1 Message Date
Andres Freund
450c7defa6 Remove volatiles from {procarray,volatile}.c and fix memory ordering issue.
The use of volatiles in procarray.c largely originated from the time
when postgres did not have reliable compiler and memory
barriers. That's not the case anymore, so we can do better.

Several of the functions in procarray.c can be bottlenecks, and
removal of volatile yields mildly better code.

The new state, with explicit memory barriers, is also more
correct. The previous use of volatile did not actually deliver
sufficient guarantees on weakly ordered machines, in particular the
logic in GetNewTransactionId() does not look safe.  It seems unlikely
to be a problem in practice, but worth fixing.

Thomas and I independently wrote a patch for this.

Reported-By: Andres Freund and Thomas Munro
Author: Andres Freund, with cherrypicked changes from a patch by Thomas Munro
Discussion:
    https://postgr.es/m/20181005172955.wyjb4fzcdzqtaxjq@alap3.anarazel.de
    https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=1nff0x=7i3YQO16jLA2qw-F9O39YmUew4oq-xcBQBs0g@mail.gmail.com
2018-11-10 16:11:57 -08:00
Thomas Munro
c24dcd0cfd Use pg_pread() and pg_pwrite() for data files and WAL.
Cut down on system calls by doing random I/O using offset-based OS
routines where available.  Remove the code for tracking the 'virtual'
seek position.  The only reason left to call FileSeek() was to get
the file's size, so provide a new function FileSize() instead.

Author: Oskari Saarenmaa, Thomas Munro
Reviewed-by: Thomas Munro, Jesper Pedersen, Tom Lane, Alvaro Herrera
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=02rapCpPR3ZGF2vW=SBHSdFYO_bz_f-wwWJonmA3APgw@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/b8748d39-0b19-0514-a1b9-4e5a28e6a208%40gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a86bd200-ebbe-d829-e3ca-0c4474b2fcb7%40ohmu.fi
2018-11-07 09:51:50 +13:00
Magnus Hagander
fbec7459aa Fix spelling errors and typos in comments
Author: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
2018-11-02 13:56:52 +01:00
Andres Freund
c4ab62f9ac Fix typo in xlog.c.
Author: Daniel Gustafsson
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/A6817958-949E-4A5B-895D-FA421B6640C2@yesql.se
2018-10-31 07:50:32 -07:00
Michael Paquier
10074651e3 Add pg_promote function
This function is able to promote a standby with this new SQL-callable
function.  Execution access can be granted to non-superusers so that
failover tools can observe the principle of least privilege.

Catalog version is bumped.

Author: Laurenz Albe
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier, Masahiko Sawada
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/6e7c79b3ec916cf49742fb8849ed17cd87aed620.camel@cybertec.at
2018-10-25 09:46:00 +09:00
Tom Lane
13cd7209f7 Simplify use of AllocSetContextCreate() wrapper macro.
We can allow this macro to accept either abbreviated or non-abbreviated
allocation parameters by making use of __VA_ARGS__.  As noted by Andres
Freund, it's unlikely that any compiler would have __builtin_constant_p
but not __VA_ARGS__, so this gives up little or no error checking, and
it avoids a minor but annoying API break for extensions.

With this change, there is no reason for anybody to call
AllocSetContextCreateExtended directly, so in HEAD I renamed it to
AllocSetContextCreateInternal.  It's probably too late for an ABI
break like that in 11, though.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20181012170355.bhxi273skjt6sag4@alap3.anarazel.de
2018-10-12 14:26:56 -04:00
Thomas Munro
212fab9926 Relax transactional restrictions on ALTER TYPE ... ADD VALUE (redux).
Originally committed as 15bc038f (plus some follow-ups), this was
reverted in 28e07270 due to a problem discovered in parallel
workers.  This new version corrects that problem by sending the
list of uncommitted enum values to parallel workers.

Here follows the original commit message describing the change:

To prevent possibly breaking indexes on enum columns, we must keep
uncommitted enum values from getting stored in tables, unless we
can be sure that any such column is new in the current transaction.

Formerly, we enforced this by disallowing ALTER TYPE ... ADD VALUE
from being executed at all in a transaction block, unless the target
enum type had been created in the current transaction.  This patch
removes that restriction, and instead insists that an uncommitted enum
value can't be referenced unless it belongs to an enum type created
in the same transaction as the value.  Per discussion, this should be
a bit less onerous.  It does require each function that could possibly
return a new enum value to SQL operations to check this restriction,
but there aren't so many of those that this seems unmaintainable.

Author: Andrew Dunstan and Tom Lane, with parallel query fix by Thomas Munro
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm%3D0Ei7g6PaNTbcmAh9tCRahQrk%3Dr5ZWLD-jr7hXweYX3yg%40mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/4075.1459088427%40sss.pgh.pa.us
2018-10-09 12:51:01 +13:00
Tom Lane
82ff0cc91d Advance transaction timestamp for intra-procedure transactions.
Per discussion, this behavior seems less astonishing than not doing so.

Peter Eisentraut and Tom Lane

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180920234040.GC29981@momjian.us
2018-10-08 16:16:36 -04:00
Tom Lane
07ee62ce9e Propagate xactStartTimestamp and stmtStartTimestamp to parallel workers.
Previously, a worker process would establish values for these based on
its own start time.  In v10 and up, this can trivially be shown to cause
misbehavior of transaction_timestamp(), timestamp_in(), and related
functions which are (perhaps unwisely?) marked parallel-safe.  It seems
likely that other behaviors might diverge from what happens in the parent
as well.

It's not as trivial to demonstrate problems in 9.6 or 9.5, but I'm sure
it's still possible, so back-patch to all branches containing parallel
worker infrastructure.

In HEAD only, mark now() and statement_timestamp() as parallel-safe
(other affected functions already were).  While in theory we could
still squeeze that change into v11, it doesn't seem important enough
to force a last-minute catversion bump.

Konstantin Knizhnik, whacked around a bit by me

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/6406dbd2-5d37-4cb6-6eb2-9c44172c7e7c@postgrespro.ru
2018-10-06 12:00:09 -04:00
Amit Kapila
a86bf6057e Fix assertion failure when updating full_page_writes for checkpointer.
When the checkpointer receives a SIGHUP signal to update its configuration,
it may need to update the shared memory for full_page_writes and need to
write a WAL record for it.  Now, it is quite possible that the XLOG
machinery has not been initialized by that time and it will lead to
assertion failure while doing that.  Fix is to allow the initialization of
the XLOG machinery outside critical section.

This bug has been introduced by the commit 2c03216d83 which added the XLOG
machinery initialization in RecoveryInProgress code path.

Reported-by: Dilip Kumar
Author: Dilip Kumar
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier and Amit Kapila
Backpatch-through: 9.5
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAFiTN-u4BA8KXcQUWDPNgaKAjDXC=C2whnzBM8TAcv=stckYUw@mail.gmail.com
2018-09-28 16:40:04 +05:30
Michael Paquier
78ea8b5daa Fix WAL recycling on standbys depending on archive_mode
A restart point or a checkpoint recycling WAL segments treats segments
marked with neither ".done" (archiving is done) or ".ready" (segment is
ready to be archived) in archive_status the same way for archive_mode
being "on" or "always".  While for a primary this is fine, a standby
running a restart point with archive_mode = on would try to mark such a
segment as ready for archiving, which is something that will never
happen except after the standby is promoted.

Note that this problem applies only to WAL segments coming from the
local pg_wal the first time archive recovery is run.  Segments part of a
self-contained base backup are the most common case where this could
happen, however even in this case normally the .done markers would be
most likely part of the backup.  Segments recovered from an archive are
marked as .ready or .done by the startup process, and segments finished
streaming are marked as such by the WAL receiver, so they are handled
already.

Reported-by: Haruka Takatsuka
Author: Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15402-a453c90ed4cf88b2@postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 9.5, where archive_mode = always has been added.
2018-09-28 11:54:38 +09:00
Michael Paquier
8d28bf500f Rework activation of commit timestamps during recovery
The activation and deactivation of commit timestamp tracking has not
been handled consistently for a primary or standbys at recovery.  The
facility can be activated at three different moments of recovery:
- The beginning, where a primary would use the GUC value for the
decision-making, and where a standby relies on the contents of the
control file.
- When replaying a XLOG_PARAMETER_CHANGE record at redo.
- The end, where both primary and standby rely on the GUC value.

Using the GUC value for a primary at the beginning of recovery causes
problems with commit timestamp access when doing crash recovery.
Particularly, when replaying transaction commits, it could be possible
that an attempt to read commit timestamps is done for a transaction
which committed at a moment when track_commit_timestamp was disabled.

A test case is added to reproduce the failure.  The test works down to
v11 as it takes advantage of transaction commits within procedures.

Reported-by: Hailong Li
Author: Masahiko Sawasa, Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/11224478-a782-203b-1f17-e4797b39bdf0@qunar.com
Backpatch-through: 9.5, where commit timestamps have been introduced.
2018-09-26 10:25:54 +09:00
Thomas Munro
6c3c9d4189 Defer restoration of libraries in parallel workers.
Several users of extensions complained of crashes in parallel workers
that turned out to be due to syscache access from their _PG_init()
functions.  Reorder the initialization of parallel workers so that
libraries are restored after the caches are initialized, and inside a
transaction.

This was reported in bug #15350 and elsewhere.  We don't consider it
to be a bug: extensions shouldn't do that, because then they can't be
used in shared_preload_libraries.  However, it's a fairly obscure
hazard and these extensions worked in practice before parallel query
came along.  So let's make it work.  Later commits might add a warning
message and eventually an error.

Back-patch to 9.6, where parallel query landed.

Author: Thomas Munro
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila
Reported-by: Kieran McCusker, Jimmy
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/153512195228.1489.8545997741965926448%40wrigleys.postgresql.org
2018-09-20 14:21:18 +12:00
Tom Lane
0d38e4ebb7 Fix minor error message style guide violation.
No periods at the ends of primary error messages, please.

Daniel Gustafsson

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/43E004C0-18C6-42B4-A313-003B43EB0571@yesql.se
2018-09-19 17:06:40 -04:00
Amit Kapila
bc153c941d Attach FPI to the first record after full_page_writes is turned on.
XLogInsert fails to attach a required FPI to the first record after
full_page_writes is turned on by the last checkpoint.  This bug got
introduced in 9.5 due to code rearrangement in commits 2c03216d83 and
2076db2aea.  Fix it by ensuring that XLogInsertRecord performs a
recomputation when the given record is generated with FPW as off but
found that the flag has been turned on while actually inserting the
record.

Reported-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi
Author: Kyotaro Horiguchi
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila
Backpatch-through: 9.5 where this problem was introduced
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180420.151043.74298611.horiguchi.kyotaro@lab.ntt.co.jp
2018-09-13 15:32:50 +05:30
Michael Paquier
9226a3b89b Remove duplicated words split across lines in comments
This has been detected using some interesting tricks with sed, and the
method used is mentioned in details in the discussion below.

Author: Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180908013109.GB15350@telsasoft.com
2018-09-08 12:24:19 -07:00
Michael Paquier
8582b4d044 Improve handling of corrupted two-phase state files at recovery
When a corrupted two-phase state file is found by WAL replay, be it for
crash recovery or archive recovery, then the file is simply skipped and
a WARNING is logged to the user, causing the transaction to be silently
lost.  Facing an on-disk WAL file which is corrupted is as likely to
happen as what is stored in WAL records, but WAL records are already
able to fail hard if there is a CRC mismatch.  On-disk two-phase state
files, on the contrary, are simply ignored if corrupted.  Note that when
restoring the initial two-phase data state at recovery, files newer than
the horizon XID are discarded hence no files present in pg_twophase/
should be torned and have been made durable by a previous checkpoint, so
recovery should never see any corrupted two-phase state file by design.

The situation got better since 978b2f6 which has added two-phase state
information directly in WAL instead of using on-disk files, so the risk
is limited to two-phase transactions which live across at least one
checkpoint for long periods.  Backups having legit two-phase state files
on-disk could also lose silently transactions when restored if things
get corrupted.

This behavior exists since two-phase commit has been introduced, no
back-patch is done for now per the lack of complaints about this
problem.

Author: Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180709050309.GM1467@paquier.xyz
2018-09-07 11:00:16 -07:00
Peter Eisentraut
98afa68d93 Use C99 designated initializers for some structs
These are just a few particularly egregious cases that were hard to read
and write, and error prone because of many similar adjacent types.

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/4c9f01be-9245-2148-b569-61a8562ef190%402ndquadrant.com
2018-09-07 11:40:03 +02:00
Tom Lane
44cac93464 Avoid using potentially-under-aligned page buffers.
There's a project policy against using plain "char buf[BLCKSZ]" local
or static variables as page buffers; preferred style is to palloc or
malloc each buffer to ensure it is MAXALIGN'd.  However, that policy's
been ignored in an increasing number of places.  We've apparently got
away with it so far, probably because (a) relatively few people use
platforms on which misalignment causes core dumps and/or (b) the
variables chance to be sufficiently aligned anyway.  But this is not
something to rely on.  Moreover, even if we don't get a core dump,
we might be paying a lot of cycles for misaligned accesses.

To fix, invent new union types PGAlignedBlock and PGAlignedXLogBlock
that the compiler must allocate with sufficient alignment, and use
those in place of plain char arrays.

I used these types even for variables where there's no risk of a
misaligned access, since ensuring proper alignment should make
kernel data transfers faster.  I also changed some places where
we had been palloc'ing short-lived buffers, for coding style
uniformity and to save palloc/pfree overhead.

Since this seems to be a live portability hazard (despite the lack
of field reports), back-patch to all supported versions.

Patch by me; thanks to Michael Paquier for review.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1535618100.1286.3.camel@credativ.de
2018-09-01 15:27:17 -04:00
Michael Paquier
c186ba135e Ensure correct minimum consistent point on standbys
Startup process has improved its calculation of incorrect minimum
consistent point in 8d68ee6, which ensures that all WAL available gets
replayed when doing crash recovery, and has introduced an incorrect
calculation of the minimum recovery point for non-startup processes,
which can cause incorrect page references on a standby when for example
the background writer flushed a couple of pages on-disk but was not
updating the control file to let a subsequent crash recovery replay to
where it should have.

The only case where this has been reported to be a problem is when a
standby needs to calculate the latest removed xid when replaying a btree
deletion record, so one would need connections on a standby that happen
just after recovery has thought it reached a consistent point.  Using a
background worker which is started after the consistent point is reached
would be the easiest way to get into problems if it connects to a
database.  Having clients which attempt to connect periodically could
also be a problem, but the odds of seeing this problem are much lower.

The fix used is pretty simple, as the idea is to give access to the
minimum recovery point written in the control file to non-startup
processes so as they use a reference, while the startup process still
initializes its own references of the minimum consistent point so as the
original problem with incorrect page references happening post-promotion
with a crash do not show up.

Reported-by: Alexander Kukushkin
Diagnosed-by: Alexander Kukushkin
Author: Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi, Alexander Kukushkin
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/153492341830.1368.3936905691758473953@wrigleys.postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 9.3
2018-08-31 11:03:40 -07:00
Thomas Munro
ca1e64feba Improve comment in GetNewObjectId().
The previous comment gave the impression that skipping OIDs before
FirstNormalObjectId was merely an optimization to avoid likely collisions.
In fact other parts of the system have been relying on this threshold to
detect system-created objects since commit 8e18d04d4d, so adjust the
wording.

Author: Thomas Munro
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm%3D33JASACeOayr_W3%3DCSjy2jiPxM-k89axu0akFbHdjnjA%40mail.gmail.com
2018-08-16 17:17:30 +12:00
Michael Paquier
246a6c8f7b Make autovacuum more aggressive to remove orphaned temp tables
Commit dafa084, added in 10, made the removal of temporary orphaned
tables more aggressive.  This commit makes an extra step into the
aggressiveness by adding a flag in each backend's MyProc which tracks
down any temporary namespace currently in use.  The flag is set when the
namespace gets created and can be reset if the temporary namespace has
been created in a transaction or sub-transaction which is aborted.  The
flag value assignment is assumed to be atomic, so this can be done in a
lock-less fashion like other flags already present in PGPROC like
databaseId or backendId, still the fact that the temporary namespace and
table created are still locked until the transaction creating those
commits acts as a barrier for other backends.

This new flag gets used by autovacuum to discard more aggressively
orphaned tables by additionally checking for the database a backend is
connected to as well as its temporary namespace in-use, removing
orphaned temporary relations even if a backend reuses the same slot as
one which created temporary relations in a past session.

The base idea of this patch comes from Robert Haas, has been written in
its first version by Tsunakawa Takayuki, then heavily reviewed by me.

Author: Tsunakawa Takayuki
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier, Kyotaro Horiguchi, Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/0A3221C70F24FB45833433255569204D1F8A4DC6@G01JPEXMBYT05
Backpatch: 11-, as PGPROC gains a new flag and we don't want silent ABI
breakages on already released versions.
2018-08-13 11:49:04 +02:00
Peter Geoghegan
4974d7f87e Handle parallel index builds on mapped relations.
Commit 9da0cc3528, which introduced parallel CREATE INDEX, failed to
propagate relmapper.c backend local cache state to parallel worker
processes.  This could result in parallel index builds against mapped
catalog relations where the leader process (participating as a worker)
scans the new, pristine relfilenode, while worker processes scan the
obsolescent relfilenode.  When this happened, the final index structure
was typically not consistent with the owning table's structure.  The
final index structure could contain entries formed from both heap
relfilenodes.  Only rebuilds on mapped catalog relations that occur as
part of a VACUUM FULL or CLUSTER could become corrupt in practice, since
their mapped relation relfilenode swap is what allows the inconsistency
to arise.

On master, fix the problem by propagating the required relmapper.c
backend state as part of standard parallel initialization (Cf. commit
29d58fd3).  On v11, simply disallow builds against mapped catalog
relations by deeming them parallel unsafe.

Author: Peter Geoghegan
Reported-By: "death lock"
Reviewed-By: Tom Lane, Amit Kapila
Bug: #15309
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/153329671686.1405.18298309097348420351@wrigleys.postgresql.org
Backpatch: 11-, where parallel CREATE INDEX was introduced.
2018-08-10 13:01:34 -07:00
Michael Paquier
5a23c74b63 Reset properly errno before calling write()
6cb3372 enforces errno to ENOSPC when less bytes than what is expected
have been written when it is unset, though it forgot to properly reset
errno before doing a system call to write(), causing errno to
potentially come from a previous system call.

Reported-by: Tom Lane
Author: Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/31797.1533326676@sss.pgh.pa.us
2018-08-05 05:31:18 +09:00
Michael Paquier
d9fadbf131 Fix calculation for WAL segment recycling and removal
Commit 4b0d28de06 has removed the prior checkpoint and related
facilities but has left WAL recycling based on the LSN of the prior
checkpoint, which causes incorrect calculations for WAL removal and
recycling for max_wal_size and min_wal_size.  This commit changes things
so as the base calculation point is the last checkpoint generated.

Reported-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi
Author: Kyotaro Horiguchi
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180723.135748.42558387.horiguchi.kyotaro@lab.ntt.co.jp
Backpatch: 11-, where the prior checkpoint has been removed.
2018-07-24 10:32:56 +09:00
Michael Paquier
e41d0a1090 Add proper errcodes to new error messages for read() failures
Those would use the default ERRCODE_INTERNAL_ERROR, but for foreseeable
failures an errcode ought to be set, ERRCODE_DATA_CORRUPTED making the
most sense here.

While on the way, fix one errcode_for_file_access missing in origin.c
since the code has been created, and remove one assignment of errno to 0
before calling read(), as this was around to fit with what was present
before 811b6e36 where errno would not be set when not enough bytes are
read.  I have noticed the first one, and Tom has pinged me about the
second one.

Author: Michael Paquier
Reported-by: Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/27265.1531925836@sss.pgh.pa.us
2018-07-23 09:37:36 +09:00
Michael Paquier
56df07bb9e Make more consistent some error messages for file-related operations
Some error messages which report something about a file operation use
as well context which is already provided within the path being worked
on, making things rather duplicated.  This creates more work for
translators, and does not actually bring clarity.

More could be done, however in a lot of cases the context used is
actually useful, still that patch gets down things with a good cut.

Author: Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi, Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180718044711.GA8565@paquier.xyz
2018-07-23 09:19:12 +09:00
Tom Lane
3cb646264e Use a ResourceOwner to track buffer pins in all cases.
Historically, we've allowed auxiliary processes to take buffer pins without
tracking them in a ResourceOwner.  However, that creates problems for error
recovery.  In particular, we've seen multiple reports of assertion crashes
in the startup process when it gets an error while holding a buffer pin,
as for example if it gets ENOSPC during a write.  In a non-assert build,
the process would simply exit without releasing the pin at all.  We've
gotten away with that so far just because a failure exit of the startup
process translates to a database crash anyhow; but any similar behavior
in other aux processes could result in stuck pins and subsequent problems
in vacuum.

To improve this, institute a policy that we must *always* have a resowner
backing any attempt to pin a buffer, which we can enforce just by removing
the previous special-case code in resowner.c.  Add infrastructure to make
it easy to create a process-lifespan AuxProcessResourceOwner and clear
out its contents at appropriate times.  Replace existing ad-hoc resowner
management in bgwriter.c and other aux processes with that.  (Thus, while
the startup process gains a resowner where it had none at all before, some
other aux process types are replacing an ad-hoc resowner with this code.)
Also use the AuxProcessResourceOwner to manage buffer pins taken during
StartupXLOG and ShutdownXLOG, even when those are being run in a bootstrap
process or a standalone backend rather than a true auxiliary process.

In passing, remove some other ad-hoc resource owner creations that had
gotten cargo-culted into various other places.  As far as I can tell
that was all unnecessary, and if it had been necessary it was incomplete,
due to lacking any provision for clearing those resowners later.
(Also worth noting in this connection is that a process that hasn't called
InitBufferPoolBackend has no business accessing buffers; so there's more
to do than just add the resowner if we want to touch buffers in processes
not covered by this patch.)

Although this fixes a very old bug, no back-patch, because there's no
evidence of any significant problem in non-assert builds.

Patch by me, pursuant to a report from Justin Pryzby.  Thanks to
Robert Haas and Kyotaro Horiguchi for reviews.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180627233939.GA10276@telsasoft.com
2018-07-18 12:15:16 -04:00
Heikki Linnakangas
6b387179ba Fix misc typos, mostly in comments.
A collection of typos I happened to spot while reading code, as well as
grepping for common mistakes.

Backpatch to all supported versions, as applicable, to avoid conflicts
when backporting other commits in the future.
2018-07-18 16:17:32 +03:00
Michael Paquier
8bd064f0c7 Fix casting in error message for two-phase file
This error from from 811b6e3, which causes compilation warnings with OSX
10.3 and clang.

Reported by Tom Lane, via buildfarm member longfin.
2018-07-18 09:11:34 +09:00
Michael Paquier
811b6e36a9 Rework error messages around file handling
Some error messages related to file handling are using the code path
context to define their state.  For example, 2PC-related errors are
referring to "two-phase status files", or "relation mapping file" is
used for catalog-to-filenode mapping, however those prove to be
difficult to translate, and are not more helpful than just referring to
the path of the file being worked on.  So simplify all those error
messages by just referring to files with their path used.  In some
cases, like the manipulation of WAL segments, the context is actually
helpful so those are kept.

Calls to the system function read() have also been rather inconsistent
with their error handling sometimes not reporting the number of bytes
read, and some other code paths trying to use an errno which has not
been set.  The in-core functions are using a more consistent pattern
with this patch, which checks for both errno if set or if an
inconsistent read is happening.

So as to care about pluralization when reading an unexpected number of
byte(s), "could not read: read %d of %zu" is used as error message, with
%d field being the output result of read() and %zu the expected size.
This simplifies the work of translators with less variations of the same
message.

Author: Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Álvaro Herrera
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180520000522.GB1603@paquier.xyz
2018-07-18 08:01:23 +09:00
Robert Haas
32df1c9afa Add subtransaction handling for table synchronization workers.
Since the old logic was completely unaware of subtransactions, a
change made in a subsequently-aborted subtransaction would still cause
workers to be stopped at toplevel transaction commit.  Fix that by
managing a stack of worker lists rather than just one.

Amit Khandekar and Robert Haas

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAJ3gD9eaG_mWqiOTA2LfAug-VRNn1hrhf50Xi1YroxL37QkZNg@mail.gmail.com
2018-07-16 17:33:22 -04:00
Michael Paquier
5fc1008e8a Clean up temporary WAL segments after an instance crash
Temporary WAL segments are created in pg_wal and named as xlogtemp.pid
before being renamed to the real deal when creating a new segment.  If
an instance crashes after the temporary segment is created and before
the rename is done, then the server would finish with unremovable data.

After an instance crash, scan pg_wal and remove any such segments.  With
repetitive unlucky crashes this would contribute to disk bloat and
presents risks of ENOSPC especially with max_wal_size close to the
maximum allowed.

Author: Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Yugo Nagata, Heikki Linnakangas
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180514054955.GF1528@paquier.xyz
2018-07-13 06:43:20 +09:00
Peter Eisentraut
bcbd940806 Remove dynamic_shared_memory_type=none
PostgreSQL nowadays offers some kind of dynamic shared memory feature on
all supported platforms.  Having the choice of "none" prevents us from
relying on DSM in core features.  So this patch removes the choice of
"none".

Author: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horiguchi.kyotaro@lab.ntt.co.jp>
2018-07-10 18:35:24 +02:00
Alvaro Herrera
a22445ff0b Flip argument order in XLogSegNoOffsetToRecPtr
Commit fc49e24fa6 added an input argument after the existing output
argument.  Flip those.

Author: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180708182345.imdgovmkffgtihhk@alvherre.pgsql
2018-07-09 14:33:38 -04:00
Michael Paquier
cbc55da556 Rework order of end-of-recovery actions to delay timeline history write
A critical failure in some of the end-of-recovery actions before the
end-of-recovery record is written can cause PostgreSQL to react
inconsistently with the rest of the cluster in the event of a crash
before the final record is written.  Two such failures are for example
an error while processing a two-phase state files or when operating on
recovery.conf.  With this commit, the failures are still considered
FATAL, but the write of the timeline history file is delayed as much as
possible so as the window between the moment the file is written and the
end-of-recovery record is generated gets minimized. This way, in the
event of a crash or a failure, the new timeline decided at promotion
will not seem taken by other nodes in the cluster.  It is not really
possible to reduce to zero this window, hence one could still see
failures if a crash happens between the history file write and the
end-of-recovery record, so any future code should be careful when
adding new end-of-recovery actions.  The original report from Magnus
Hagander mentioned a renamed recovery.conf as original end-of-recovery
failure which caused a timeline to be seen as taken but the subsequent
processing on the now-missing recovery.conf cause the startup process to
issue stop on FATAL, which at follow-up startup made the system
inconsistent because of on-disk changes which already happened.

Processing of two-phase state files still needs some work as corrupted
entries are simply ignored now.  This is left as a future item and this
commit fixes the original complain.

Reported-by: Magnus Hagander
Author: Heikki Linnakangas
Reviewed-by: Alexander Korotkov, Michael Paquier, David Steele
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CABUevEz09XY2EevA2dLjPCY-C5UO4Hq=XxmXLmF6ipNFecbShQ@mail.gmail.com
2018-07-09 10:22:34 +09:00
Michael Paquier
3c64dcb1e3 Prevent references to invalid relation pages after fresh promotion
If a standby crashes after promotion before having completed its first
post-recovery checkpoint, then the minimal recovery point which marks
the LSN position where the cluster is able to reach consistency may be
set to a position older than the first end-of-recovery checkpoint while
all the WAL available should be replayed.  This leads to the instance
thinking that it contains inconsistent pages, causing a PANIC and a hard
instance crash even if all the WAL available has not been replayed for
certain sets of records replayed.  When in crash recovery,
minRecoveryPoint is expected to always be set to InvalidXLogRecPtr,
which forces the recovery to replay all the WAL available, so this
commit makes sure that the local copy of minRecoveryPoint from the
control file is initialized properly and stays as it is while crash
recovery is performed.  Once switching to archive recovery or if crash
recovery finishes, then the local copy minRecoveryPoint can be safely
updated.

Pavan Deolasee has reported and diagnosed the failure in the first
place, and the base fix idea to rely on the local copy of
minRecoveryPoint comes from Kyotaro Horiguchi, which has been expanded
into a full-fledged patch by me.  The test included in this commit has
been written by Álvaro Herrera and Pavan Deolasee, which I have modified
to make it faster and more reliable with sleep phases.

Backpatch down to all supported versions where the bug appears, aka 9.3
which is where the end-of-recovery checkpoint is not run by the startup
process anymore.  The test gets easily supported down to 10, still it
has been tested on all branches.

Reported-by: Pavan Deolasee
Diagnosed-by: Pavan Deolasee
Reviewed-by: Pavan Deolasee, Kyotaro Horiguchi
Author: Michael Paquier, Kyotaro Horiguchi, Pavan Deolasee, Álvaro
Herrera
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CABOikdPOewjNL=05K5CbNMxnNtXnQjhTx2F--4p4ruorCjukbA@mail.gmail.com
2018-07-05 10:46:18 +09:00
Fujii Masao
b41669118c Improve the performance of relation deletes during recovery.
When multiple relations are deleted at the same transaction,
the files of those relations are deleted by one call to smgrdounlinkall(),
which leads to scan whole shared_buffers only one time. OTOH,
previously, during recovery, smgrdounlink() (not smgrdounlinkall()) was
called for each file to delete, which led to scan shared_buffers
multiple times. Obviously this could cause to increase the WAL replay
time very much especially when shared_buffers was huge.

To alleviate this situation, this commit changes the recovery so that
it also calls smgrdounlinkall() only one time to delete multiple
relation files.

This is just fix for oversight of commit 279628a0a7, not new feature.
So, per discussion on pgsql-hackers, we concluded to backpatch this
to all supported versions.

Author: Fujii Masao
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier, Andres Freund, Thomas Munro, Kyotaro Horiguchi, Takayuki Tsunakawa
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHGQGwHVQkdfDqtvGVkty+19cQakAydXn1etGND3X0PHbZ3+6w@mail.gmail.com
2018-07-05 02:23:46 +09:00
Michael Paquier
c55de5e512 Add wait event for fsync of WAL segments
This has been visibly a forgotten spot in the first implementation of
wait events for I/O added by 249cf07, and what has been missing is a
fsync call for WAL segments which is a wrapper reacting on the value of
GUC wal_sync_method.

Reported-by: Konstantin Knizhnik
Author: Konstantin Knizhnik
Reviewed-by: Craig Ringer, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/4a243897-0ad8-f471-aa40-242591f2476e@postgrespro.ru
2018-07-02 22:19:46 +09:00
Andrew Dunstan
1e9c858090 pgindent run prior to branching 2018-06-30 12:25:49 -04:00
Michael Paquier
6cb3372411 Address set of issues with errno handling
System calls mixed up in error code paths are causing two issues which
several code paths have not correctly handled:
1) For write() calls, sometimes the system may return less bytes than
what has been written without errno being set.  Some paths were careful
enough to consider that case, and assumed that errno should be set to
ENOSPC, other calls missed that.
2) errno generated by a system call is overwritten by other system calls
which may succeed once an error code path is taken, causing what is
reported to the user to be incorrect.

This patch uses the brute-force approach of correcting all those code
paths.  Some refactoring could happen in the future, but this is let as
future work, which is not targeted for back-branches anyway.

Author: Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Ashutosh Sharma
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180622061535.GD5215@paquier.xyz
2018-06-25 11:19:05 +09:00
Michael Paquier
0aa5e65ab4 Fix typo in comment of commit_ts.c for incorrect reference to CLOG
Author: Shao Bret
2018-06-22 13:30:26 +09:00
Michael Paquier
70b4f82a4b Prevent hard failures of standbys caused by recycled WAL segments
When a standby's WAL receiver stops reading WAL from a WAL stream, it
writes data to the current WAL segment without having priorily zero'ed
the page currently written to, which can cause the WAL reader to read
junk data from a past recycled segment and then it would try to get a
record from it.  While sanity checks in place provide most of the
protection needed, in some rare circumstances, with chances increasing
when a record header crosses a page boundary, then the startup process
could fail violently on an allocation failure, as follows:
FATAL:  invalid memory alloc request size XXX

This is confusing for the user and also unhelpful as this requires in
the worst case a manual restart of the instance, impacting potentially
the availability of the cluster, and this also makes WAL data look like
it is in a corrupted state.

The chances of seeing failures are higher if the connection between the
standby and its root node is unstable, causing WAL pages to be written
in the middle.  A couple of approaches have been discussed, like
zero-ing  new WAL pages within the WAL receiver itself but this has the
disadvantage of impacting performance of any existing instances as this
breaks the sequential writes done by the WAL receiver.  This commit
deals with the problem with a more simple approach, which has no
performance impact without reducing the detection of the problem: if a
record is found with a length higher than 1GB for backends, then do not
try any allocation and report a soft failure which will force the
standby to retry reading WAL.  It could be possible that the allocation
call passes and that an unnecessary amount of memory is allocated,
however follow-up checks on records would just fail, making this
allocation short-lived anyway.

This patch owes a great deal to Tsunakawa Takayuki for reporting the
failure first, and then discussing a couple of potential approaches to
the problem.

Backpatch down to 9.5, which is where palloc_extended has been
introduced.

Reported-by: Tsunakawa Takayuki
Reviewed-by: Tsunakawa Takayuki
Author: Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/0A3221C70F24FB45833433255569204D1F8B57AD@G01JPEXMBYT05
2018-06-18 10:43:27 +09:00
Simon Riggs
15378c1a15 Remove AELs from subxids correctly on standby
Issues relate only to subtransactions that hold AccessExclusiveLocks
when replayed on standby.

Prior to PG10, aborting subtransactions that held an
AccessExclusiveLock failed to release the lock until top level commit or
abort. 49bff5300d fixed that.

However, 49bff5300d also introduced a similar bug where subtransaction
commit would fail to release an AccessExclusiveLock, leaving the lock to
be removed sometimes early and sometimes late. This commit fixes
that bug also. Backpatch to PG10 needed.

Tested by observation. Note need for multi-node isolationtester to improve
test coverage for this and other HS cases.

Reported-by: Simon Riggs
Author: Simon Riggs
2018-06-16 14:03:29 +01:00
Alvaro Herrera
ff03112bdc Fix off-by-one bug in XactLogCommitRecord
Commit 1eb6d6527a introduced zeroed alignment bytes in the GID field
of commit/abort WAL records.  Fixup commit cf5a189059 later changed
that representation into a regular cstring with a single terminating
zero byte, but it also introduced an off-by-one mistake.  Fix that.

Author: Nikhil Sontakke
Reported-by: Nikhil Sontakke
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMGcDxey6dG1DP34_tJMoWPcp5sPJUAL4K5CayUUXLQSx2GQpA@mail.gmail.com
2018-06-15 15:00:41 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera
eee381ef5e Fix function code in error report
This bug causes a lseek() failure to be reported as a "could not open"
failure in the error message, muddling bug reports.  I introduced this
copy-and-pasteo in commit 78e1220104.

Noticed while reviewing code for bug report #15221, from lily liang.  In
version 10 the affected function is only used by multixact.c and
commit_ts, and only in corner-case circumstances, neither of which are
involved in the reported bug (a pg_subtrans failure.)

Author: Álvaro Herrera
2018-06-06 14:48:08 -04:00
Magnus Hagander
cfb758b6d9 Fix error message on short read of pg_control
Instead of saying "error: success", indicate that we got a working read
but it was too short.
2018-05-18 17:54:18 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut
9effb63e0d Message wording and pluralization improvements 2018-05-17 23:05:27 -04:00
Heikki Linnakangas
0668719801 Fix scenario where streaming standby gets stuck at a continuation record.
If a continuation record is split so that its first half has already been
removed from the master, and is only present in pg_wal, and there is a
recycled WAL segment in the standby server that looks like it would
contain the second half, recovery would get stuck. The code in
XLogPageRead() incorrectly started streaming at the beginning of the
WAL record, even if we had already read the first page.

Backpatch to 9.4. In principle, older versions have the same problem, but
without replication slots, there was no straightforward mechanism to
prevent the master from recycling old WAL that was still needed by standby.
Without such a mechanism, I think it's reasonable to assume that there's
enough slack in how many old segments are kept around to not run into this,
or you have a WAL archive.

Reported by Jonathon Nelson. Analysis and patch by Kyotaro HORIGUCHI, with
some extra comments by me.

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CACJqAM3xVz0JY1XFDKPP%2BJoJAjoGx%3DGNuOAshEDWCext7BFvCQ%40mail.gmail.com
2018-05-05 01:34:53 +03:00
Teodor Sigaev
8f9be261f4 Add HOLD_INTERRUPTS section into FinishPreparedTransaction.
If an interrupt arrives in the middle of FinishPreparedTransaction
and any callback decide to call CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS (e.g.
RemoveTwoPhaseFile can write a warning with ereport, which checks for
interrupts) then it's possible to leave current GXact undeleted.

Backpatch to all supported branches

Stas Kelvich

Discussion: ihttps://www.postgresql.org/message-id/3AD85097-A3F3-4EBA-99BD-C38EDF8D2949@postgrespro.ru
2018-05-03 20:08:29 +03:00
Tom Lane
9cb7db3f0c In AtEOXact_Files, complain if any files remain unclosed at commit.
This change makes this module act more like most of our other low-level
resource management modules.  It's a caller error if something is not
explicitly closed by the end of a successful transaction, so issue
a WARNING about it.  This would not actually have caught the file leak
bug fixed in commit 231bcd080, because that was in a transaction-abort
path; but it still seems like a good, and pretty cheap, cross-check.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/152056616579.4966.583293218357089052@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2018-04-28 17:45:02 -04:00
Tom Lane
bdf46af748 Post-feature-freeze pgindent run.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15719.1523984266@sss.pgh.pa.us
2018-04-26 14:47:16 -04:00
Heikki Linnakangas
cf5a189059 Fix confusion on the padding of GIDs in on commit and abort records.
Review of commit 1eb6d652: It's pointless to add padding to the GID fields,
when the code that follows assumes that there is no alignment, and uses
memcpy(). Remove the pointless padding.

Update comments to note the new fields in the WAL records.

Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/33b787bf-dc20-1161-54e9-3f3b607bf59d%40iki.fi
2018-04-17 16:10:42 -04:00
Tom Lane
d1e9079295 Ignore nextOid when replaying an ONLINE checkpoint.
The nextOid value is from the start of the checkpoint and may well be stale
compared to values from more recent XLOG_NEXTOID records.  Previously, we
adopted it anyway, allowing the OID counter to go backwards during a crash.
While this should be harmless, it contributed to the severity of the bug
fixed in commit 0408e1ed5, by allowing duplicate TOAST OIDs to be assigned
immediately following a crash.  Without this error, that issue would only
have arisen when TOAST objects just younger than a multiple of 2^32 OIDs
were deleted and then not vacuumed in time to avoid a conflict.

Pavan Deolasee

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CABOikdOgWT2hHkYG3Wwo2cyZJq2zfs1FH0FgX-=h4OLosXHf9w@mail.gmail.com
2018-04-11 18:11:29 -04:00
Tom Lane
af1a949109 Further cleanup of client dependencies on src/include/catalog headers.
In commit 9c0a0de4c, I'd failed to notice that catalog/catalog.h
should also be considered a frontend-unsafe header, because it includes
(and needs) the full form of pg_class.h, not to mention relcache.h.
However, various frontend code was depending on it to get
TABLESPACE_VERSION_DIRECTORY, so refactoring of some sort is called for.

The cleanest answer seems to be to move TABLESPACE_VERSION_DIRECTORY,
as well as the OIDCHARS symbol, to common/relpath.h.  Do that, and mop up
inclusions as necessary.  (I found that quite a few current users of
catalog/catalog.h don't seem to need it at all anymore, apparently as a
result of the refactorings that created common/relpath.[hc].  And
initdb.c needed it only as a route to pg_class_d.h.)

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/6629.1523294509@sss.pgh.pa.us
2018-04-09 14:39:58 -04:00
Magnus Hagander
a228cc13ae Revert "Allow on-line enabling and disabling of data checksums"
This reverts the backend sides of commit 1fde38beaa.
I have, at least for now, left the pg_verify_checksums tool in place, as
this tool can be very valuable without the rest of the patch as well,
and since it's a read-only tool that only runs when the cluster is down
it should be a lot safer.
2018-04-09 19:03:42 +02:00
Stephen Frost
da9b580d89 Refactor dir/file permissions
Consolidate directory and file create permissions for tools which work
with the PG data directory by adding a new module (common/file_perm.c)
that contains variables (pg_file_create_mode, pg_dir_create_mode) and
constants to initialize them (0600 for files and 0700 for directories).

Convert mkdir() calls in the backend to MakePGDirectory() if the
original call used default permissions (always the case for regular PG
directories).

Add tests to make sure permissions in PGDATA are set correctly by the
tools which modify the PG data directory.

Authors: David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>,
         Adam Brightwell <adam.brightwell@crunchydata.com>
Reviewed-By: Michael Paquier, with discussion amongst many others.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ad346fe6-b23e-59f1-ecb7-0e08390ad629%40pgmasters.net
2018-04-07 17:45:39 -04:00
Magnus Hagander
1fde38beaa Allow on-line enabling and disabling of data checksums
This makes it possible to turn checksums on in a live cluster, without
the previous need for dump/reload or logical replication (and to turn it
off).

Enabling checkusm starts a background process in the form of a
launcher/worker combination that goes through the entire database and
recalculates checksums on each and every page. Only when all pages have
been checksummed are they fully enabled in the cluster. Any failure of
the process will revert to checksums off and the process has to be
started.

This adds a new WAL record that indicates the state of checksums, so
the process works across replicated clusters.

Authors: Magnus Hagander and Daniel Gustafsson
Review: Tomas Vondra, Michael Banck, Heikki Linnakangas, Andrey Borodin
2018-04-05 22:04:48 +02:00
Magnus Hagander
eed1ce72e1 Allow background workers to bypass datallowconn
THis adds a "flags" field to the BackgroundWorkerInitializeConnection()
and BackgroundWorkerInitializeConnectionByOid(). For now only one flag,
BGWORKER_BYPASS_ALLOWCONN, is defined, which allows the worker to ignore
datallowconn.
2018-04-05 19:02:45 +02:00
Tom Lane
4a33bb59df Ensure that WAL pages skipped by a forced WAL switch are zero-filled.
In the previous coding, skipped pages were mostly zeroes, but they still
had valid WAL page headers.  That makes them very much less compressible
than an unbroken string of zeroes would be --- about 10X worse for bzip2
compression, for instance.  We don't need those headers, so tweak the logic
so that we zero them out.

Chapman Flack, reviewed by Daniel Gustafsson

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/579297F8.7020107@anastigmatix.net
2018-03-30 16:18:18 -04:00
Magnus Hagander
019fa576ca Fix typo in comment
Author: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
2018-03-30 12:35:13 +02:00
Simon Riggs
1eb6d6527a Store 2PC GID in commit/abort WAL recs for logical decoding
Store GID of 2PC in commit/abort WAL records when wal_level = logical.
This allows logical decoding to send the SAME gid to subscribers
across restarts of logical replication.

Track relica origin replay progress for 2PC.

(Edited from patch 0003 in the logical decoding 2PC series.)

Authors: Nikhil Sontakke, Stas Kelvich
Reviewed-by: Simon Riggs, Andres Freund
2018-03-28 17:42:50 +01:00
Tom Lane
442accc3fe Allow memory contexts to have both fixed and variable ident strings.
Originally, we treated memory context names as potentially variable in
all cases, and therefore always copied them into the context header.
Commit 9fa6f00b1 rethought this a little bit and invented a distinction
between fixed and variable names, skipping the copy step for the former.
But we can make things both simpler and more useful by instead allowing
there to be two parts to a context's identification, a fixed "name" and
an optional, variable "ident".  The name supplied in the context create
call is now required to be a compile-time-constant string in all cases,
as it is never copied but just pointed to.  The "ident" string, if
wanted, is supplied later.  This is needed because typically we want
the ident to be stored inside the context so that it's cleaned up
automatically on context deletion; that means it has to be copied into
the context before we can set the pointer.

The cost of this approach is basically just an additional pointer field
in struct MemoryContextData, which isn't much overhead, and is bought
back entirely in the AllocSet case by not needing a headerSize field
anymore, since we no longer have to cope with variable header length.
In addition, we can simplify the internal interfaces for memory context
creation still further, saving a few cycles there.  And it's no longer
true that a custom identifier disqualifies a context from participating
in aset.c's freelist scheme, so possibly there's some win on that end.

All the places that were using non-compile-time-constant context names
are adjusted to put the variable info into the "ident" instead.  This
allows more effective identification of those contexts in many cases;
for example, subsidary contexts of relcache entries are now identified
by both type (e.g. "index info") and relname, where before you got only
one or the other.  Contexts associated with PL function cache entries
are now identified more fully and uniformly, too.

I also arranged for plancache contexts to use the query source string
as their identifier.  This is basically free for CachedPlanSources, as
they contained a copy of that string already.  We pay an extra pstrdup
to do it for CachedPlans.  That could perhaps be avoided, but it would
make things more fragile (since the CachedPlanSource is sometimes
destroyed first).  I suspect future improvements in error reporting will
require CachedPlans to have a copy of that string anyway, so it's not
clear that it's worth moving mountains to avoid it now.

This also changes the APIs for context statistics routines so that the
context-specific routines no longer assume that output goes straight
to stderr, nor do they know all details of the output format.  This
is useful immediately to reduce code duplication, and it also allows
for external code to do something with stats output that's different
from printing to stderr.

The reason for pushing this now rather than waiting for v12 is that
it rethinks some of the API changes made by commit 9fa6f00b1.  Seems
better for extension authors to endure just one round of API changes
not two.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAB=Je-FdtmFZ9y9REHD7VsSrnCkiBhsA4mdsLKSPauwXtQBeNA@mail.gmail.com
2018-03-27 16:46:51 -04:00
Tom Lane
feb8254518 Improve style guideline compliance of assorted error-report messages.
Per the project style guide, details and hints should have leading
capitalization and end with a period.  On the other hand, errcontext should
not be capitalized and should not end with a period.  To support well
formatted error contexts in dblink, extend dblink_res_error() to take a
format+arguments rather than a hardcoded string.

Daniel Gustafsson

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/B3C002C8-21A0-4F53-A06E-8CAB29FCF295@yesql.se
2018-03-22 17:33:10 -04:00
Robert Haas
8a8c4f3b32 Fix typo in comment.
Michael Paquier

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/20180205071404.GB17337@paquier.xyz
2018-03-22 13:36:14 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut
4120864b9e Change transaction state debug strings to match enum symbols
In some cases, these were different for no apparent reason, making
debugging unnecessarily mysterious.

Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
2018-03-16 13:18:06 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut
81148856b0 Improve savepoint error messages
Include the savepoint name in the error message and rephrase it a bit to
match common style.

Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
2018-03-16 13:18:06 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut
ec87efde8d Simplify parse representation of savepoint commands
Instead of embedding the savepoint name in a list and then requiring
complex code to unpack it, just add another struct field to store it
directly.

Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
2018-03-16 13:18:06 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut
04700b685f Rename TransactionChain functions
We call this thing a "transaction block" everywhere except in a few
functions, where it is mysteriously called a "transaction chain".  In
the SQL standard, a transaction chain is something different.  So rename
these functions to match the common terminology.

Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
2018-03-16 13:18:06 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut
8d47a90862 Update function comments
After a6542a4b68, some function comments
were misplaced.  Fix that.

Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
2018-03-16 13:18:05 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut
7923118c16 Minor comment fix 2018-02-17 20:45:02 -05:00
Magnus Hagander
f8437c819a Fix typo in comment 2018-02-16 12:46:41 +01:00
Tom Lane
9a725f7b5c Silence assorted "variable may be used uninitialized" warnings.
All of these are false positives, but in each case a fair amount of
analysis is needed to see that, and it's not too surprising that not all
compilers are smart enough.  (In particular, in the logtape.c case, a
compiler lacking the knowledge provided by the Assert would almost surely
complain, so that this warning will be seen in any non-assert build.)

Some of these are of long standing while others are pretty recent,
but it only seems worth fixing them in HEAD.

Jaime Casanova, tweaked a bit by me

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJGNTeMcYAMJdPAom52dppLMtF-UnEZi0dooj==75OEv1EoBZA@mail.gmail.com
2018-02-14 16:06:49 -05:00
Robert Haas
b98a7cd58f Update out-of-date comment in StartupXLOG.
Commit 4b0d28de06 should have updated
this comment, but did not.

Thomas Munro

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=0iJ8aqQcF9ij2KerAkuHF3SwrVTzjMdm1H4w++nfBf9A@mail.gmail.com
2018-02-07 08:48:04 -05:00
Tom Lane
957ff087c8 Be more wary about shm_toc_lookup failure.
Commit 445dbd82a basically missed the point of commit d46633506,
which was that we shouldn't allow shm_toc_lookup() failure to lead
to a core dump or assertion crash, because the odds of such a
failure should never be considered negligible.  It's correct that
we can't expect the PARALLEL_KEY_ERROR_QUEUE TOC entry to be there
if we have no workers.  But if we have no workers, we're not going
to do anything in this function with the lookup result anyway,
so let's just skip it.  That lets the code use the easy-to-prove-safe
noError=false case, rather than anything requiring effort to review.

Back-patch to v10, like the previous commit.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3647.1517601675@sss.pgh.pa.us
2018-02-02 18:26:07 -05:00
Robert Haas
9da0cc3528 Support parallel btree index builds.
To make this work, tuplesort.c and logtape.c must also support
parallelism, so this patch adds that infrastructure and then applies
it to the particular case of parallel btree index builds.  Testing
to date shows that this can often be 2-3x faster than a serial
index build.

The model for deciding how many workers to use is fairly primitive
at present, but it's better than not having the feature.  We can
refine it as we get more experience.

Peter Geoghegan with some help from Rushabh Lathia.  While Heikki
Linnakangas is not an author of this patch, he wrote other patches
without which this feature would not have been possible, and
therefore the release notes should possibly credit him as an author
of this feature.  Reviewed by Claudio Freire, Heikki Linnakangas,
Thomas Munro, Tels, Amit Kapila, me.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAM3SWZQKM=Pzc=CAHzRixKjp2eO5Q0Jg1SoFQqeXFQ647JiwqQ@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAH2-Wz=AxWqDoVvGU7dq856S4r6sJAj6DBn7VMtigkB33N5eyg@mail.gmail.com
2018-02-02 13:32:44 -05:00
Robert Haas
9222c0d9ed Add new function WaitForParallelWorkersToAttach.
Once this function has been called, we know that all workers have
started and attached to their error queues -- so if any of them
subsequently exit uncleanly, we'll be sure to throw an ERROR promptly.
Otherwise, users of the ParallelContext machinery must be careful not
to wait forever for a worker that has failed to start.  Parallel query
manages to work without needing this for reasons explained in new
comments added by this patch, but it's a useful primitive for other
parallel operations, such as the pending patch to make creating a
btree index run in parallel.

Amit Kapila, revised by me.  Additional review by Peter Geoghegan.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAA4eK1+e2MzyouF5bg=OtyhDSX+=Ao=3htN=T-r_6s3gCtKFiw@mail.gmail.com
2018-02-02 09:00:59 -05:00
Robert Haas
28e04155f1 Update obsolete sentence in README.parallel.
Since 9.6, heavyweight locking is not an abstract and unhandled
concern of the parallel machinery, but rather something to which
we have a specific approach.
2018-01-23 11:22:47 -05:00
Robert Haas
2badb5afb8 Report an ERROR if a parallel worker fails to start properly.
Commit 28724fd90d fixed things so that
if a background worker fails to start due to fork() failure or because
it is terminated before startup succeeds, BGWH_STOPPED will be
reported.  However, that only helps if the code that uses the
background worker machinery notices the change in status, and the code
in parallel.c did not.

To fix that, do two things.  First, make sure that when a worker
exits, it triggers the leader to read from error queues.  That way, if
a worker which has attached to an error queue exits uncleanly, the
leader is sure to throw some error, either the contents of the
ErrorResponse sent by the worker, or "lost connection to parallel
worker" if it exited without sending one.  To cover the case where
the worker never starts up in the first place or exits before
attaching to the error queue, the ParallelContext now keeps track
of which workers have sent at least one message via the error
queue.  A worker which sends no messages by the time the parallel
operation finishes will be checked to see whether it exited before
attaching to the error queue; if so, a new error message, "parallel
worker failed to initialize", will be reported.  If not, we'll
continue to wait until it either starts up and exits cleanly, starts
up and exits uncleanly, or fails to start, and then take the
appropriate action.

Patch by me, reviewed by Amit Kapila.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoYnBgXgdTu6wk5YPdWhmgabYc9nY_pFLq=tB=FSLYkD8Q@mail.gmail.com
2018-01-23 11:03:03 -05:00
Robert Haas
29d58fd3ad Transfer state pertaining to pending REINDEX operations to workers.
This will allow the pending patch for parallel CREATE INDEX to work
on system catalogs, and to provide the same level of protection
against use of user indexes while they are being rebuilt that we
have for non-parallel CREATE INDEX.

Patch by me, reviewed by Peter Geoghegan.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoYN-YQU9JsGQcqFLovZ-C+Xgp1_xhJQad=cunGG-_p5gg@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAH2-Wzkv4UNkXYhqQRqk-u9rS7h5c-4cCW+EqQ8K_WSeS43aZg@mail.gmail.com
2018-01-19 07:48:54 -05:00
Simon Riggs
6271fceb8a Add TIMELINE to backup_label file
Allows new test to confirm timelines match

Author: Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: David Steele
2018-01-06 12:24:19 +00:00
Bruce Momjian
9d4649ca49 Update copyright for 2018
Backpatch-through: certain files through 9.3
2018-01-02 23:30:12 -05:00
Simon Riggs
2958a672b1 Extend near-wraparound hints to include replication slots
Author: Feike Steenbergen
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier
2017-12-29 14:01:25 +00:00
Robert Haas
cce1ecfc77 Adjust assertion in GetCurrentCommandId.
currentCommandIdUsed is only used to skip redundant increments of the
command counter, and CommandCounterIncrement() is categorically denied
under parallelism anyway.  Therefore, it's OK for
GetCurrentCommandId() to mark the counter value used, as long as it
happens in the leader, not a worker.

Prior to commit e9baa5e9fa, the slightly
incorrect check didn't matter, but now it does.  A test case added by
commit 1804284042 uncovered the problem
by accident; it caused failures with force_parallel_mode=on/regress.

Report and review by Andres Freund.  Patch by me.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/20171221143106.5lhtygohvmazli3x@alap3.anarazel.de
2017-12-21 13:19:59 -05:00
Robert Haas
59d1e2b95a Cancel CV sleep during subtransaction abort.
Generally, error recovery paths that need to do things like
LWLockReleaseAll and pgstat_report_wait_end also need to call
ConditionVariableCancelSleep, but AbortSubTransaction was missed.

Since subtransaction abort might destroy up the DSM segment that
contains the ConditionVariable stored in cv_sleep_target, this
can result in a crash for anything using condition variables.

Reported and diagnosed by Andres Freund.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/20171221110048.rxk6464azzl5t2fi@alap3.anarazel.de
2017-12-21 09:24:30 -05:00
Fujii Masao
56a95ee511 Fix bug in cancellation of non-exclusive backup to avoid assertion failure.
Previously an assertion failure occurred when pg_stop_backup() for
non-exclusive backup was aborted while it's waiting for WAL files to
be archived. This assertion failure happened in do_pg_abort_backup()
which was called when a non-exclusive backup was canceled.
do_pg_abort_backup() assumes that there is at least one non-exclusive
backup running when it's called. But pg_stop_backup() can be canceled
even after it marks the end of non-exclusive backup (e.g.,
during waiting for WAL archiving). This broke the assumption that
do_pg_abort_backup() relies on, and which caused an assertion failure.

This commit changes do_pg_abort_backup() so that it does nothing
when non-exclusive backup has been already marked as completed.
That is, the asssumption is also changed, and do_pg_abort_backup()
now can handle even the case where it's called when there is
no running backup.

Backpatch to 9.6 where SQL-callable non-exclusive backup was added.

Author: Masahiko Sawada and Michael Paquier
Reviewed-By: Robert Haas and Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAD21AoD2L1Fu2c==gnVASMyFAAaq3y-AQ2uEVj-zTCGFFjvmDg@mail.gmail.com
2017-12-19 03:46:14 +09:00
Tom Lane
9fa6f00b13 Rethink MemoryContext creation to improve performance.
This patch makes a number of interrelated changes to reduce the overhead
involved in creating/deleting memory contexts.  The key ideas are:

* Include the AllocSetContext header of an aset.c context in its first
malloc request, rather than allocating it separately in TopMemoryContext.
This means that we now always create an initial or "keeper" block in an
aset, even if it never receives any allocation requests.

* Create freelists in which we can save and recycle recently-destroyed
asets (this idea is due to Robert Haas).

* In the common case where the name of a context is a constant string,
just store a pointer to it in the context header, rather than copying
the string.

The first change eliminates a palloc/pfree cycle per context, and
also avoids bloat in TopMemoryContext, at the price that creating
a context now involves a malloc/free cycle even if the context never
receives any allocations.  That would be a loser for some common
usage patterns, but recycling short-lived contexts via the freelist
eliminates that pain.

Avoiding copying constant strings not only saves strlen() and strcpy()
overhead, but is an essential part of the freelist optimization because
it makes the context header size constant.  Currently we make no
attempt to use the freelist for contexts with non-constant names.
(Perhaps someday we'll need to think harder about that, but in current
usage, most contexts with custom names are long-lived anyway.)

The freelist management in this initial commit is pretty simplistic,
and we might want to refine it later --- but in common workloads that
will never matter because the freelists will never get full anyway.

To create a context with a non-constant name, one is now required to
call AllocSetContextCreateExtended and specify the MEMCONTEXT_COPY_NAME
option.  AllocSetContextCreate becomes a wrapper macro, and it includes
a test that will complain about non-string-literal context name
parameters on gcc and similar compilers.

An unfortunate side effect of making AllocSetContextCreate a macro is
that one is now *required* to use the size parameter abstraction macros
(ALLOCSET_DEFAULT_SIZES and friends) with it; the pre-9.6 habit of
writing out individual size parameters no longer works unless you
switch to AllocSetContextCreateExtended.

Internally to the memory-context-related modules, the context creation
APIs are simplified, removing the rather baroque original design whereby
a context-type module called mcxt.c which then called back into the
context-type module.  That saved a bit of code duplication, but not much,
and it prevented context-type modules from exercising control over the
allocation of context headers.

In passing, I converted the test-and-elog validation of aset size
parameters into Asserts to save a few more cycles.  The original thought
was that callers might compute size parameters on the fly, but in practice
nobody does that, so it's useless to expend cycles on checking those
numbers in production builds.

Also, mark the memory context method-pointer structs "const",
just for cleanliness.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2264.1512870796@sss.pgh.pa.us
2017-12-13 13:55:16 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut
af9f8b7ca3 Fix mistake in comment
Reported-by: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>
2017-12-08 11:23:36 -05:00
Tom Lane
066bc21c0e Simplify do_pg_start_backup's API by opening pg_tblspc internally.
do_pg_start_backup() expects its callers to pass in an open DIR pointer
for the pg_tblspc directory, but there's no apparent advantage in that.
It complicates the callers without adding any flexibility, and there's no
robustness advantage, since we surely have to be prepared for errors during
the scan of pg_tblspc anyway.  In fact, by holding an extra kernel resource
during operations like the preliminary checkpoint, we might be making
things a fraction more failure-prone not less.  Hence, remove that argument
and open the directory just for the duration of the actual scan.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/28752.1512413887@sss.pgh.pa.us
2017-12-04 18:37:54 -05:00
Tom Lane
2069e6faa0 Clean up assorted messiness around AllocateDir() usage.
This patch fixes a couple of low-probability bugs that could lead to
reporting an irrelevant errno value (and hence possibly a wrong SQLSTATE)
concerning directory-open or file-open failures.  It also fixes places
where we took shortcuts in reporting such errors, either by using elog
instead of ereport or by using ereport but forgetting to specify an
errcode.  And it eliminates a lot of just plain redundant error-handling
code.

In service of all this, export fd.c's formerly-static function
ReadDirExtended, so that external callers can make use of the coding
pattern

	dir = AllocateDir(path);
	while ((de = ReadDirExtended(dir, path, LOG)) != NULL)

if they'd like to treat directory-open failures as mere LOG conditions
rather than errors.  Also fix FreeDir to be a no-op if we reach it
with dir == NULL, as such a coding pattern would cause.

Then, remove code at many call sites that was throwing an error or log
message for AllocateDir failure, as ReadDir or ReadDirExtended can handle
that job just fine.  Aside from being a net code savings, this gets rid of
a lot of not-quite-up-to-snuff reports, as mentioned above.  (In some
places these changes result in replacing a custom error message such as
"could not open tablespace directory" with more generic wording "could not
open directory", but it was agreed that the custom wording buys little as
long as we report the directory name.)  In some other call sites where we
can't just remove code, change the error reports to be fully
project-style-compliant.

Also reorder code in restoreTwoPhaseData that was acquiring a lock
between AllocateDir and ReadDir; in the unlikely but surely not
impossible case that LWLockAcquire changes errno, AllocateDir failures
would be misreported.  There is no great value in opening the directory
before acquiring TwoPhaseStateLock, so just do it in the other order.

Also fix CheckXLogRemoved to guarantee that it preserves errno,
as quite a number of call sites are implicitly assuming.  (Again,
it's unlikely but I think not impossible that errno could change
during a SpinLockAcquire.  If so, this function was broken for its
own purposes as well as breaking callers.)

And change a few places that were using not-per-project-style messages,
such as "could not read directory" when "could not open directory" is
more correct.

Back-patch the exporting of ReadDirExtended, in case we have occasion
to back-patch some fix that makes use of it; it's not needed right now
but surely making it global is pretty harmless.  Also back-patch the
restoreTwoPhaseData and CheckXLogRemoved fixes.  The rest of this is
essentially cosmetic and need not get back-patched.

Michael Paquier, with a bit of additional work by me

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAB7nPqRpOCxjiirHmebEFhXVTK7V5Jvw4bz82p7Oimtsm3TyZA@mail.gmail.com
2017-12-04 17:02:56 -05:00
Robert Haas
eaedf0df71 Update typedefs.list and re-run pgindent
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoaA9=1RWKtBWpDaj+sF3Stgc8sHgf5z=KGtbjwPLQVDMA@mail.gmail.com
2017-11-29 09:24:24 -05:00
Robert Haas
445dbd82a3 Fix ReinitializeParallelDSM to tolerate finding no error queues.
Commit d466335064 changed things so
that shm_toc_lookup would fail with an error rather than silently
returning NULL in the hope that such failures would be reported
in a useful way rather than via a system crash.  However, it
overlooked the fact that the lookup of PARALLEL_KEY_ERROR_QUEUE
in ReinitializeParallelDSM is expected to fail when no DSM segment
was created in the first place; in that case, we end up with a
backend-private memory segment that still contains an entry for
PARALLEL_KEY_FIXED but no others.  Consequently a benign failure
to initialize parallelism can escalate into an elog(ERROR);
repair.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+Tgmob8LFw55DzH1QEREpBEA9RJ_W_amhBFCVZ6WMwUhVpOqg@mail.gmail.com
2017-11-28 12:15:38 -05:00
Robert Haas
487a0c1518 Fix typo.
Masahiko Sawada

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAD21AoCq_QG6UEo6yb-purmhLQjDLsCA2_B+8Wh3ah9P2-XmrQ@mail.gmail.com
2017-11-28 08:19:01 -05:00
Simon Riggs
59af8d4384 Pad XLogReaderState's per-buffer data_bufsz more aggressively.
Originally, we palloc'd this buffer just barely big enough to hold the
largest xlog backup block seen so far. We now MAXALIGN the palloc size.

The original coding could result in many repeated palloc cycles, in the
worst case where we see a series ofgradually larger xlog records.  We
ameliorate that similarly to 8735978e7a
by imposing a minimum buffer size of BLCKSZ.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1eHa4J-0006hI-Q8@gemulon.postgresql.org
2017-11-27 09:34:05 +00:00
Tom Lane
8735978e7a Pad XLogReaderState's main_data buffer more aggressively.
Originally, we palloc'd this buffer just barely big enough to hold the
largest xlog record seen so far.  It turns out that that can result in
valgrind complaints, because some compilers will emit code that assumes
it can safely fetch padding bytes at the end of a struct, and those
padding bytes were unallocated so far as aset.c was concerned.  We can
fix that by MAXALIGN'ing the palloc request size, ensuring that it is big
enough to include any possible padding that might've been omitted from
the on-disk record.

An additional objection to the original coding is that it could result in
many repeated palloc cycles, in the worst case where we see a series of
gradually larger xlog records.  We can ameliorate that cheaply by
imposing a minimum buffer size that's large enough for most xlog records.
BLCKSZ/2 was chosen after a bit of discussion.

In passing, remove an obsolete comment in struct xl_heap_new_cid that the
combocid field is free due to alignment considerations.  Perhaps that was
true at some point, but it's not now.

Back-patch to 9.5 where this code came in.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1eHa4J-0006hI-Q8@gemulon.postgresql.org
2017-11-26 15:17:24 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut
0e1539ba0d Add some const decorations to prototypes
Reviewed-by: Fabien COELHO <coelho@cri.ensmp.fr>
2017-11-10 13:38:57 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut
2eb4a831e5 Change TRUE/FALSE to true/false
The lower case spellings are C and C++ standard and are used in most
parts of the PostgreSQL sources.  The upper case spellings are only used
in some files/modules.  So standardize on the standard spellings.

The APIs for ICU, Perl, and Windows define their own TRUE and FALSE, so
those are left as is when using those APIs.

In code comments, we use the lower-case spelling for the C concepts and
keep the upper-case spelling for the SQL concepts.

Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
2017-11-08 11:37:28 -05:00
Simon Riggs
4b0d28de06 Remove secondary checkpoint
Previously server reserved WAL for last two checkpoints,
which used too much disk space for small servers.

Bumps PG_CONTROL_VERSION

Author: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
2017-11-07 12:56:30 -05:00
Robert Haas
846fcc8516 Fix problems with the "role" GUC and parallel query.
Without this fix, dropping a role can sometimes result in parallel
query failures in sessions that have used "SET ROLE" to assume the
dropped role, even if that setting isn't active any more.

Report by Pavan Deolasee.  Patch by Amit Kapila, reviewed by me.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CABOikdOomRcZsLsLK+Z+qENM1zxyaWnAvFh3MJZzZnnKiF+REg@mail.gmail.com
2017-10-29 12:58:40 +05:30
Andres Freund
31079a4a8e Replace remaining uses of pq_sendint with pq_sendint{8,16,32}.
pq_sendint() remains, so extension code doesn't unnecessarily break.

Author: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170914063418.sckdzgjfrsbekae4@alap3.anarazel.de
2017-10-11 21:00:46 -07:00
Tom Lane
5fa6b0d102 Remove unnecessary PG_TRY overhead for CurrentResourceOwner changes.
resowner/README contained advice to use a PG_TRY block to restore the
old CurrentResourceOwner value anywhere that that variable is transiently
changed.  That advice was only inconsistently followed, however, and
on reflection it seems like unnecessary overhead.  We don't bother
with such a convention for transient CurrentMemoryContext changes,
on the grounds that any (sub)transaction abort will start out by
resetting CurrentMemoryContext to what it wants.  But the same is
true of CurrentResourceOwner, so there seems no need to treat it
differently.

Hence, remove PG_TRY blocks that exist only to restore CurrentResourceOwner
before re-throwing the error.  There are a couple of places that restore
it along with some other actions, and I left those alone; the restore is
probably unnecessary but no noticeable gain will result from removing it.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/5236.1507583529@sss.pgh.pa.us
2017-10-11 17:44:09 -04:00
Tom Lane
6b87416c9a Fix access-off-end-of-array in clog.c.
Sloppy loop coding in set_status_by_pages() resulted in fetching one array
element more than it should from the subxids[] array.  The odds of this
resulting in SIGSEGV are pretty small, but we've certainly seen that happen
with similar mistakes elsewhere.  While at it, we can get rid of an extra
TransactionIdToPage() calculation per loop.

Per report from David Binderman.  Back-patch to all supported branches,
since this code is quite old.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/HE1PR0802MB2331CBA919CBFFF0C465EB429C710@HE1PR0802MB2331.eurprd08.prod.outlook.com
2017-10-06 12:20:23 -04:00
Tom Lane
fe9ba28ee8 Fix typo in README.
s/BeginInternalSubtransaction/BeginInternalSubTransaction/
2017-10-05 15:06:01 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut
5373bc2a08 Add background worker type
Add bgw_type field to background worker structure.  It is intended to be
set to the same value for all workers of the same type, so they can be
grouped in pg_stat_activity, for example.

The backend_type column in pg_stat_activity now shows bgw_type for a
background worker.  The ps listing also no longer calls out that a
process is a background worker but just show the bgw_type.  That way,
being a background worker is more of an implementation detail now that
is not shown to the user.  However, most log messages still refer to
'background worker "%s"'; otherwise constructing sensible and
translatable log messages would become tricky.

Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
2017-09-29 11:08:24 -04:00
Tom Lane
28e0727076 Revert to 9.6 treatment of ALTER TYPE enumtype ADD VALUE.
This reverts commit 15bc038f9, along with the followon commits 1635e80d3
and 984c92074 that tried to clean up the problems exposed by bug #14825.
The result was incomplete because it failed to address parallel-query
requirements.  With 10.0 release so close upon us, now does not seem like
the time to be adding more code to fix that.  I hope we can un-revert this
code and add the missing parallel query support during the v11 cycle.

Back-patch to v10.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170922185904.1448.16585@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2017-09-27 16:14:43 -04:00
Tom Lane
1635e80d30 Use a blacklist to distinguish original from add-on enum values.
Commit 15bc038f9 allowed ALTER TYPE ADD VALUE to be executed inside
transaction blocks, by disallowing the use of the added value later
in the same transaction, except under limited circumstances.  However,
the test for "limited circumstances" was heuristic and could reject
references to enum values that were created during CREATE TYPE AS ENUM,
not just later.  This breaks the use-case of restoring pg_dump scripts
in a single transaction, as reported in bug #14825 from Balazs Szilfai.

We can improve this by keeping a "blacklist" table of enum value OIDs
created by ALTER TYPE ADD VALUE during the current transaction.  Any
visible-but-uncommitted value whose OID is not in the blacklist must
have been created by CREATE TYPE AS ENUM, and can be used safely
because it could not have a lifespan shorter than its parent enum type.

This change also removes the restriction that a renamed enum value
can't be used before being committed (unless it was on the blacklist).

Andrew Dunstan, with cosmetic improvements by me.
Back-patch to v10.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170922185904.1448.16585@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2017-09-26 13:14:46 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut
0c5803b450 Refactor new file permission handling
The file handling functions from fd.c were called with a diverse mix of
notations for the file permissions when they were opening new files.
Almost all files created by the server should have the same permissions
set.  So change the API so that e.g. OpenTransientFile() automatically
uses the standard permissions set, and OpenTransientFilePerm() is a new
function that takes an explicit permissions set for the few cases where
it is needed.  This also saves an unnecessary argument for call sites
that are just opening an existing file.

While we're reviewing these APIs, get rid of the FileName typedef and
use the standard const char * for the file name and mode_t for the file
mode.  This makes these functions match other file handling functions
and removes an unnecessary layer of mysteriousness.  We can also get rid
of a few casts that way.

Author: David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>
2017-09-23 10:16:18 -04:00
Robert Haas
6a2fa09c0c For wal_consistency_checking, mask page checksum as well as page LSN.
If the LSN is different, the checksum will be different, too.

Ashwin Agrawal, reviewed by Michael Paquier and Kuntal Ghosh

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CALfoeis5iqrAU-+JAN+ZzXkpPr7+-0OAGv7QUHwFn=-wDy4o4Q@mail.gmail.com
2017-09-22 14:28:22 -04:00
Andres Freund
fc49e24fa6 Make WAL segment size configurable at initdb time.
For performance reasons a larger segment size than the default 16MB
can be useful. A larger segment size has two main benefits: Firstly,
in setups using archiving, it makes it easier to write scripts that
can keep up with higher amounts of WAL, secondly, the WAL has to be
written and synced to disk less frequently.

But at the same time large segment size are disadvantageous for
smaller databases. So far the segment size had to be configured at
compile time, often making it unrealistic to choose one fitting to a
particularly load. Therefore change it to a initdb time setting.

This includes a breaking changes to the xlogreader.h API, which now
requires the current segment size to be configured.  For that and
similar reasons a number of binaries had to be taught how to recognize
the current segment size.

Author: Beena Emerson, editorialized by Andres Freund
Reviewed-By: Andres Freund, David Steele, Kuntal Ghosh, Michael
    Paquier, Peter Eisentraut, Robert Hass, Tushar Ahuja
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAOG9ApEAcQ--1ieKbhFzXSQPw_YLmepaa4hNdnY5+ZULpt81Mw@mail.gmail.com
2017-09-19 22:03:48 -07:00
Andres Freund
ec9e05b3c3 Fix crash restart bug introduced in 8356753c21.
The bug was caused by not re-reading the control file during crash
recovery restarts, which lead to an attempt to pfree() shared memory
contents. The fix is to re-read the control file, which seems good
anyway.

It's unclear as of this moment, whether we want to keep the
refactoring introduced in the commit referenced above, or come up with
an alternative approach. But fixing the bug in the mean time seems
like a good idea regardless.

A followup commit will introduce regression test coverage for crash
restarts.

Reported-By: Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/14134.1505572349@sss.pgh.pa.us
2017-09-18 17:25:49 -07:00
Andres Freund
cc5f81366c Add support for coordinating record typmods among parallel workers.
Tuples can have type RECORDOID and a typmod number that identifies a blessed
TupleDesc in a backend-private cache.  To support the sharing of such tuples
through shared memory and temporary files, provide a typmod registry in
shared memory.

To achieve that, introduce per-session DSM segments, created on demand when a
backend first runs a parallel query.  The per-session DSM segment has a
table-of-contents just like the per-query DSM segment, and initially the
contents are a shared record typmod registry and a DSA area to provide the
space it needs to grow.

State relating to the current session is accessed via a Session object
reached through global variable CurrentSession that may require significant
redesign further down the road as we figure out what else needs to be shared
or remodelled.

Author: Thomas Munro
Reviewed-By: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=0ZtQ-SpsgCyzzYpsXS6e=kZWqk3g5Ygn3MDV7A8dabUA@mail.gmail.com
2017-09-14 19:59:21 -07:00
Andres Freund
8356753c21 Perform only one ReadControlFile() during startup.
Previously we read the control file in multiple places. But soon the
segment size will be configurable and stored in the control file, and
that needs to be available earlier than it currently is needed.

Instead of adding yet another place where it's read, refactor things
so there's a single processing of the control file during startup (in
EXEC_BACKEND that's every individual backend's startup).

Author: Andres Freund
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/20170913092828.aozd3gvvmw67gmyc@alap3.anarazel.de
2017-09-14 14:14:34 -07:00
Peter Eisentraut
821fb8cdbf Message style fixes 2017-09-11 11:21:27 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut
1356f78ea9 Reduce excessive dereferencing of function pointers
It is equivalent in ANSI C to write (*funcptr) () and funcptr().  These
two styles have been applied inconsistently.  After discussion, we'll
use the more verbose style for plain function pointer variables, to make
it clear that it's a variable, and the shorter style when the function
pointer is in a struct (s.func() or s->func()), because then it's clear
that it's not a plain function name, and otherwise the excessive
punctuation makes some of those invocations hard to read.

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/f52c16db-14ed-757d-4b48-7ef360b1631d@2ndquadrant.com
2017-09-07 13:56:09 -04:00
Tom Lane
6eb52da394 Fix handling of savepoint commands within multi-statement Query strings.
Issuing a savepoint-related command in a Query message that contains
multiple SQL statements led to a FATAL exit with a complaint about
"unexpected state STARTED".  This is a shortcoming of commit 4f896dac1,
which attempted to prevent such misbehaviors in multi-statement strings;
its quick hack of marking the individual statements as "not top-level"
does the wrong thing in this case, and isn't a very accurate description
of the situation anyway.

To fix, let's introduce into xact.c an explicit model of what happens for
multi-statement Query strings.  This is an "implicit transaction block
in progress" state, which for many purposes works like the normal
TBLOCK_INPROGRESS state --- in particular, IsTransactionBlock returns true,
causing the desired result that PreventTransactionChain will throw error.
But in case of error abort it works like TBLOCK_STARTED, allowing the
transaction to be cancelled without need for an explicit ROLLBACK command.

Commit 4f896dac1 is reverted in toto, so that we go back to treating the
individual statements as "top level".  We could have left it as-is, but
this allows sharpening the error message for PreventTransactionChain
calls inside functions.

Except for getting a normal error instead of a FATAL exit for savepoint
commands, this patch should result in no user-visible behavioral change
(other than that one error message rewording).  There are some things
we might want to do in the line of changing the appearance or wording of
error and warning messages around this behavior, which would be much
simpler to do now that it's an explicitly modeled state.  But I haven't
done them here.

Although this fixes a long-standing bug, no backpatch.  The consequences
of the bug don't seem severe enough to justify the risk that this commit
itself creates some new issue.

Patch by me, but it owes something to previous investigation by
Takayuki Tsunakawa, who also reported the bug in the first place.
Also thanks to Michael Paquier for reviewing.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/0A3221C70F24FB45833433255569204D1F6BE40D@G01JPEXMBYT05
2017-09-07 09:49:55 -04:00
Simon Riggs
f06588a8e6 Exclude special values in recovery_target_time
recovery_target_time accepts timestamp input, though
does not allow use of special values, e.g. “today”.
Report a useful error message for these cases.

Reported-by: Piotr Stefaniak
Author: Simon Riggs
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CANP8+jJdKA+BkkYLWz9zAm16Y0s2ExBv0WfpAwXdTpPfWnA9Bg@mail.gmail.com
2017-09-07 04:56:34 -07:00
Robert Haas
baaf272ac9 Use group updates when setting transaction status in clog.
Commit 0e141c0fbb introduced a mechanism
to reduce contention on ProcArrayLock by having a single process clear
XIDs in the procArray on behalf of multiple processes, reducing the
need to hand the lock around.  A previous attempt to introduce a similar
mechanism for CLogControlLock in ccce90b398
crashed and burned, but the design problem which resulted in those
failures is believed to have been corrected in this version.

Amit Kapila, with some cosmetic changes by me.  See the previous commit
message for additional credits.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAA4eK1KudxzgWhuywY_X=yeSAhJMT4DwCjroV5Ay60xaeB2Eew@mail.gmail.com
2017-09-01 11:45:40 -04:00
Tom Lane
6708e447ef Clean up shm_mq cleanup.
The logic around shm_mq_detach was a few bricks shy of a load, because
(contrary to the comments for shm_mq_attach) all it did was update the
shared shm_mq state.  That left us leaking a bit of process-local
memory, but much worse, the on_dsm_detach callback for shm_mq_detach
was still armed.  That means that whenever we ultimately detach from
the DSM segment, we'd run shm_mq_detach again for already-detached,
possibly long-dead queues.  This accidentally fails to fail today,
because we only ever re-use a shm_mq's memory for another shm_mq, and
multiple detach attempts on the last such shm_mq are fairly harmless.
But it's gonna bite us someday, so let's clean it up.

To do that, change shm_mq_detach's API so it takes a shm_mq_handle
not the underlying shm_mq.  This makes the callers simpler in most
cases anyway.  Also fix a few places in parallel.c that were just
pfree'ing the handle structs rather than doing proper cleanup.

Back-patch to v10 because of the risk that the revenant shm_mq_detach
callbacks would cause a live bug sometime.  Since this is an API
change, it's too late to do it in 9.6.  (We could make a variant
patch that preserves API, but I'm not excited enough to do that.)

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/8670.1504192177@sss.pgh.pa.us
2017-08-31 15:10:24 -04:00
Tom Lane
21d304dfed Final pgindent + perltidy run for v10. 2017-08-14 17:29:33 -04:00
Tom Lane
5b6289c1e0 Handle elog(FATAL) during ROLLBACK more robustly.
Stress testing by Andreas Seltenreich disclosed longstanding problems that
occur if a FATAL exit (e.g. due to receipt of SIGTERM) occurs while we are
trying to execute a ROLLBACK of an already-failed transaction.  In such a
case, xact.c is in TBLOCK_ABORT state, so that AbortOutOfAnyTransaction
would skip AbortTransaction and go straight to CleanupTransaction.  This
led to an assert failure in an assert-enabled build (due to the ROLLBACK's
portal still having a cleanup hook) or without assertions, to a FATAL exit
complaining about "cannot drop active portal".  The latter's not
disastrous, perhaps, but it's messy enough to want to improve it.

We don't really want to run all of AbortTransaction in this code path.
The minimum required to clean up the open portal safely is to do
AtAbort_Memory and AtAbort_Portals.  It seems like a good idea to
do AtAbort_Memory unconditionally, to be entirely sure that we are
starting with a safe CurrentMemoryContext.  That means that if the
main loop in AbortOutOfAnyTransaction does nothing, we need an extra
step at the bottom to restore CurrentMemoryContext = TopMemoryContext,
which I chose to do by invoking AtCleanup_Memory.  This'll result in
calling AtCleanup_Memory twice in many of the paths through this function,
but that seems harmless and reasonably inexpensive.

The original motivation for the assertion in AtCleanup_Portals was that
we wanted to be sure that any user-defined code executed as a consequence
of the cleanup hook runs during AbortTransaction not CleanupTransaction.
That still seems like a valid concern, and now that we've seen one case
of the assertion firing --- which means that exactly that would have
happened in a production build --- let's replace the Assert with a runtime
check.  If we see the cleanup hook still set, we'll emit a WARNING and
just drop the hook unexecuted.

This has been like this a long time, so back-patch to all supported
branches.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/877ey7bmun.fsf@ansel.ydns.eu
2017-08-14 15:43:20 -04:00
Tom Lane
004a9702e0 Remove AtEOXact_CatCache().
The sole useful effect of this function, to check that no catcache
entries have positive refcounts at transaction end, has really been
obsolete since we introduced ResourceOwners in PG 8.1.  We reduced the
checks to assertions years ago, so that the function was a complete
no-op in production builds.  There have been previous discussions about
removing it entirely, but consensus up to now was that it had some small
value as a cross-check for bugs in the ResourceOwner logic.

However, it now emerges that it's possible to trigger these assertions
if you hit an assert-enabled backend with SIGTERM during a call to
SearchCatCacheList, because that function temporarily increases the
refcounts of entries it's intending to add to a catcache list construct.
In a normal ERROR scenario, the extra refcounts are cleaned up by
SearchCatCacheList's PG_CATCH block; but in a FATAL exit we do a
transaction abort and exit without ever executing PG_CATCH handlers.

There's a case to be made that this is a generic hazard and we should
consider restructuring elog(FATAL) handling so that pending PG_CATCH
handlers do get run.  That's pretty scary though: it could easily create
more problems than it solves.  Preliminary stress testing by Andreas
Seltenreich suggests that there are not many live problems of this ilk,
so we rejected that idea.

There are more-localized ways to fix the problem; the most principled
one would be to use PG_ENSURE_ERROR_CLEANUP instead of plain PG_TRY.
But adding cycles to SearchCatCacheList isn't very appealing.  We could
also weaken the assertions in AtEOXact_CatCache in some more or less
ad-hoc way, but that just makes its raison d'etre even less compelling.
In the end, the most reasonable solution seems to be to just remove
AtEOXact_CatCache altogether, on the grounds that it's not worth trying
to fix it.  It hasn't found any bugs for us in many years.

Per report from Jeevan Chalke.  Back-patch to all supported branches.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAM2+6=VEE30YtRQCZX7_sCFsEpoUkFBV1gZazL70fqLn8rcvBA@mail.gmail.com
2017-08-13 16:15:14 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut
a1ef920e27 Remove uses of "slave" in replication contexts
This affects mostly code comments, some documentation, and tests.
Official APIs already used "standby".
2017-08-10 22:55:41 -04:00
Robert Haas
ec99dd5aee Remove incorrect assertion in clog.c
We must advance the oldest XID that can be safely looked up in clog
*before* truncating CLOG, and the oldest XID that can't be reused
*after* truncating CLOG.  This assertion, and the accompanying
comment, are confused; remove them.

Reported by Neha Sharma.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CANiYTQumC3T=UMBMd1Hor=5XWZYuCEQBioL3ug0YtNQCMMT5wQ@mail.gmail.com
2017-08-10 11:20:57 -04:00
Robert Haas
52f8a59dd9 Make pg_stop_backup's wait_for_archive flag work on standbys.
Previously, it had no effect.  Now, if archive_mode=always, it will
work, and if not, you'll get a warning.

Masahiko Sawada, Michael Paquier, and Robert Haas.  The patch as
submitted also changed the behavior so that we would write and remove
history files on standbys, but that seems like material for a separate
patch to me.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAD21AoC2Xw6M=ZJyejq_9d_iDkReC_=rpvQRw5QsyzKQdfYpkw@mail.gmail.com
2017-08-05 10:49:26 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut
7e174fa793 Only kill sync workers at commit time in subscription DDL
This allows a transaction abort to avoid killing those workers.

Author: Petr Jelinek <petr.jelinek@2ndquadrant.com>
2017-08-04 21:17:47 -04:00
Teodor Sigaev
7e1fb4c59e Fix double shared memory allocation.
SLRU buffer lwlocks are allocated twice by oversight in commit
fe702a7b3f where that locks were moved to
separate tranche. The bug doesn't have user-visible effects except small
overspending of shared memory.

Backpatch to 9.6 where it was introduced.

Alexander Korotkov with small editorization by me.
2017-07-21 13:31:20 +03:00
Tom Lane
3cb29c42f9 Add static assertions about pg_control fitting into one disk sector.
When pg_control was first designed, sizeof(ControlFileData) was small
enough that a comment seemed like plenty to document the assumption that
it'd fit into one disk sector.  Now it's nearly 300 bytes, raising the
possibility that somebody would carelessly add enough stuff to create
a problem.  Let's add a StaticAssertStmt() to ensure that the situation
doesn't pass unnoticed if it ever occurs.

While at it, rename PG_CONTROL_SIZE to PG_CONTROL_FILE_SIZE to make it
clearer what that symbol means, and convert the existing runtime
comparisons of sizeof(ControlFileData) vs. PG_CONTROL_FILE_SIZE to be
static asserts --- we didn't have that technology when this code was
first written.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/9192.1500490591@sss.pgh.pa.us
2017-07-19 16:16:57 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut
da8f26ec4e Fix typo in comment
Author: Amit Langote <Langote_Amit_f8@lab.ntt.co.jp>
2017-06-30 14:48:43 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera
82c1507e30 Fix typo in comment
Once upon a time, WAL pointers could be NULL, but no longer.  We talk about
"valid" now.

Reported-by: Amit Langote
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/33e9617d-27f1-eee8-3311-e27af98eaf2b@lab.ntt.co.jp
2017-06-22 16:42:38 -04:00
Andres Freund
fb886c153b Fix possibility of creating a "phantom" segment after promotion.
When promoting a standby just after a XLOG_SWITCH record was replayed,
and next segment(s) are already are locally available (via walsender,
restore_command + trigger/recovery target), that segment could
accidentally be recycled onto the past of the new timeline.  Later
checkpointer would create a .ready file for it, assuming there was an
error during creation, and it would get archived.  That causes trouble
if another standby is later brought up from a basebackup from before
the timeline creation, because it would try to read the
segment, because XLogFileReadAnyTLI just tries all possible timelines,
which doesn't have valid contents.  Thus replay would fail.

The problem, if already occurred, can be fixed by removing the segment
and/or having restore_command filter it out.

The reason for the creation of such "phantom" segments was, that after
an XLOG_SWITCH record the EndOfLog variable points to the beginning of
the next segment, and RemoveXlogFile() used XLByteToPrevSeg().
Normally RemoveXlogFile() doing so is harmless, because the last
segment will still exist preventing InstallXLogFileSegment() from
causing harm, but just after promotion there's no previous segment on
the new timeline.

Fix that by using XLByteToSeg() instead of XLByteToPrevSeg().

Author: Andres Freund
Reported-By: Greg Burek
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170619073026.zcwpe6mydsaz5ygd@alap3.anarazel.de
Backpatch: 9.2-, bug older than all supported versions
2017-06-21 14:14:45 -07:00
Tom Lane
382ceffdf7 Phase 3 of pgindent updates.
Don't move parenthesized lines to the left, even if that means they
flow past the right margin.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1dAmxK-0006EE-1r@gemulon.postgresql.org
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/30527.1495162840@sss.pgh.pa.us
2017-06-21 15:19:25 -04:00
Tom Lane
e3860ffa4d Initial pgindent run with pg_bsd_indent version 2.0.
The new indent version includes numerous fixes thanks to Piotr Stefaniak.
The main changes visible in this commit are:

* Nicer formatting of function-pointer declarations.
* No longer unexpectedly removes spaces in expressions using casts,
  sizeof, or offsetof.
* No longer wants to add a space in "struct structname *varname", as
  well as some similar cases for const- or volatile-qualified pointers.
* Declarations using PG_USED_FOR_ASSERTS_ONLY are formatted more nicely.
* Fixes bug where comments following declarations were sometimes placed
  with no space separating them from the code.
* Fixes some odd decisions for comments following case labels.
* Fixes some cases where comments following code were indented to less
  than the expected column 33.

On the less good side, it now tends to put more whitespace around typedef
names that are not listed in typedefs.list.  This might encourage us to
put more effort into typedef name collection; it's not really a bug in
indent itself.

There are more changes coming after this round, having to do with comment
indentation and alignment of lines appearing within parentheses.  I wanted
to limit the size of the diffs to something that could be reviewed without
one's eyes completely glazing over, so it seemed better to split up the
changes as much as practical.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1dAmxK-0006EE-1r@gemulon.postgresql.org
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/30527.1495162840@sss.pgh.pa.us
2017-06-21 14:39:04 -04:00
Magnus Hagander
bb1f8f9e5b Fix typos in comments
Author: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
2017-06-17 10:17:28 +02:00
Alvaro Herrera
e90ceeaa49 Avoid bogus TwoPhaseState locking sequences
The optimized code in 728bd991c3 contains a few invalid locking
sequences.  To wit, the original code would try to acquire an lwlock
that it already holds.  Avoid this by moving lock acquisitions to
higher-level code, and install appropriate assertions in low-level that
the correct mode is held.

Authors: Michael Paquier, Álvaro Herrera
Reported-By: chuanting wang
Bug: #14680
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170531033228.1487.10124@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2017-06-14 11:29:05 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut
e11e24b1ed Formatting improvements in config file samples 2017-06-09 14:38:33 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut
8c9387c55e Update code comments
Author: Neha Khatri <nehakhatri5@gmail.com>
2017-06-09 14:04:22 -04:00
Andres Freund
9206ced1dc Clean up latch related code.
The larger part of this patch replaces usages of MyProc->procLatch
with MyLatch.  The latter works even early during backend startup,
where MyProc->procLatch doesn't yet.  While the affected code
shouldn't run in cases where it's not initialized, it might get copied
into places where it might.  Using MyLatch is simpler and a bit faster
to boot, so there's little point to stick with the previous coding.

While doing so I noticed some weaknesses around newly introduced uses
of latches that could lead to missed events, and an omitted
CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS() call in worker_spi.

As all the actual bugs are in v10 code, there doesn't seem to be
sufficient reason to backpatch this.

Author: Andres Freund
Discussion:
    https://postgr.es/m/20170606195321.sjmenrfgl2nu6j63@alap3.anarazel.de
    https://postgr.es/m/20170606210405.sim3yl6vpudhmufo@alap3.anarazel.de
Backpatch: -
2017-06-06 16:13:00 -07:00
Andres Freund
c6c3334364 Prevent possibility of panics during shutdown checkpoint.
When the checkpointer writes the shutdown checkpoint, it checks
afterwards whether any WAL has been written since it started and
throws a PANIC if so.  At that point, only walsenders are still
active, so one might think this could not happen, but walsenders can
also generate WAL, for instance in BASE_BACKUP and logical decoding
related commands (e.g. via hint bits).  So they can trigger this panic
if such a command is run while the shutdown checkpoint is being
written.

To fix this, divide the walsender shutdown into two phases.  First,
checkpointer, itself triggered by postmaster, sends a
PROCSIG_WALSND_INIT_STOPPING signal to all walsenders.  If the backend
is idle or runs an SQL query this causes the backend to shutdown, if
logical replication is in progress all existing WAL records are
processed followed by a shutdown.  Otherwise this causes the walsender
to switch to the "stopping" state. In this state, the walsender will
reject any further replication commands. The checkpointer begins the
shutdown checkpoint once all walsenders are confirmed as
stopping. When the shutdown checkpoint finishes, the postmaster sends
us SIGUSR2. This instructs walsender to send any outstanding WAL,
including the shutdown checkpoint record, wait for it to be replicated
to the standby, and then exit.

Author: Andres Freund, based on an earlier patch by Michael Paquier
Reported-By: Fujii Masao, Andres Freund
Reviewed-By: Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170602002912.tqlwn4gymzlxpvs2@alap3.anarazel.de
Backpatch: 9.4, where logical decoding was introduced
2017-06-05 19:18:15 -07:00
Andres Freund
703f148e98 Revert "Prevent panic during shutdown checkpoint"
This reverts commit 086221cf6b, which
was made to master only.

The approach implemented in the above commit has some issues.  While
those could easily be fixed incrementally, doing so would make
backpatching considerably harder, so instead first revert this patch.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170602002912.tqlwn4gymzlxpvs2@alap3.anarazel.de
2017-06-05 19:18:15 -07:00
Tom Lane
d466335064 Don't be so trusting that shm_toc_lookup() will always succeed.
Given the possibility of race conditions and so on, it seems entirely
unsafe to just assume that shm_toc_lookup() always finds the key it's
looking for --- but that was exactly what all but one call site were
doing.  To fix, add a "bool noError" argument, similarly to what we
have in many other functions, and throw an error on an unexpected
lookup failure.  Remove now-redundant Asserts that a rather random
subset of call sites had.

I doubt this will throw any light on buildfarm member lorikeet's
recent failures, because if an unnoticed lookup failure were involved,
you'd kind of expect a null-pointer-dereference crash rather than the
observed symptom.  But you never know ... and this is better coding
practice even if it never catches anything.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/9697.1496675981@sss.pgh.pa.us
2017-06-05 12:05:42 -04:00
Robert Haas
814573e6c4 Restore accidentally-removed line.
Commit 88e66d193f is to blame.

Masahiko Sawada

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAD21AoAXeb7O4hgg+efs8JT_SxpR4doAH5c5s-Z5WoRLstBZJA@mail.gmail.com
2017-05-31 14:24:22 -04:00
Bruce Momjian
a6fd7b7a5f Post-PG 10 beta1 pgindent run
perltidy run not included.
2017-05-17 16:31:56 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut
d496a65790 Standardize "WAL location" terminology
Other previously used terms were "WAL position" or "log position".
2017-05-12 13:51:27 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut
c1a7f64b4a Replace "transaction log" with "write-ahead log"
This makes documentation and error messages match the renaming of "xlog"
to "wal" in APIs and file naming.
2017-05-12 11:52:43 -04:00
Tom Lane
d10c626de4 Rename WAL-related functions and views to use "lsn" not "location".
Per discussion, "location" is a rather vague term that could refer to
multiple concepts.  "LSN" is an unambiguous term for WAL locations and
should be preferred.  Some function names, view column names, and function
output argument names used "lsn" already, but others used "location",
as well as yet other terms such as "wal_position".  Since we've already
renamed a lot of things in this area from "xlog" to "wal" for v10,
we may as well incur a bit more compatibility pain and make these names
all consistent.

David Rowley, minor additional docs hacking by me

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKJS1f8O0njDKe8ePFQ-LK5-EjwThsDws6ohJ-+c6nWK+oUxtg@mail.gmail.com
2017-05-11 11:49:59 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut
086221cf6b Prevent panic during shutdown checkpoint
When the checkpointer writes the shutdown checkpoint, it checks
afterwards whether any WAL has been written since it started and throws
a PANIC if so.  At that point, only walsenders are still active, so one
might think this could not happen, but walsenders can also generate WAL,
for instance in BASE_BACKUP and certain variants of
CREATE_REPLICATION_SLOT.  So they can trigger this panic if such a
command is run while the shutdown checkpoint is being written.

To fix this, divide the walsender shutdown into two phases.  First, the
postmaster sends a SIGUSR2 signal to all walsenders.  The walsenders
then put themselves into the "stopping" state.  In this state, they
reject any new commands.  (For simplicity, we reject all new commands,
so that in the future we do not have to track meticulously which
commands might generate WAL.)  The checkpointer waits for all walsenders
to reach this state before proceeding with the shutdown checkpoint.
After the shutdown checkpoint is done, the postmaster sends
SIGINT (previously unused) to the walsenders.  This triggers the
existing shutdown behavior of sending out the shutdown checkpoint record
and then terminating.

Author: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>
2017-05-05 10:31:42 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut
9414e41ea7 Fix logical replication launcher wake up and reset
After the logical replication launcher was told to wake up at
commit (for example, by a CREATE SUBSCRIPTION command), the flag to wake
up was not reset, so it would be woken up at every following commit as
well.  So fix that by resetting the flag.

Also, we don't need to wake up anything if the transaction was rolled
back.  Just reset the flag in that case.

Author: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>
2017-05-01 10:18:09 -04:00
Simon Riggs
49e9281549 Rework handling of subtransactions in 2PC recovery
The bug fixed by 0874d4f3e1
caused us to question and rework the handling of
subtransactions in 2PC during and at end of recovery.
Patch adds checks and tests to ensure no further bugs.

This effectively removes the temporary measure put in place
by 546c13e11b.

Author: Simon Riggs
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane, Michael Paquier
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CANP8+j+vvXmruL_i2buvdhMeVv5TQu0Hm2+C5N+kdVwHJuor8w@mail.gmail.com
2017-04-27 14:41:22 +02:00
Simon Riggs
546c13e11b Workaround for RecoverPreparedTransactions()
Force overwriteOK = true while we investigate deeper fix

Proposed by Tom Lane as temporary measure, accepted by me
2017-04-23 22:12:01 +01:00