postgresql/contrib
Tom Lane a1417e4378 Use annotations to reduce instability of isolation-test results.
We've long contended with isolation test results that aren't entirely
stable.  Some test scripts insert long delays to try to force stable
results, which is not terribly desirable; but other erratic failure
modes remain, causing unrepeatable buildfarm failures.  I've spent a
fair amount of time trying to solve this by improving the server-side
support code, without much success: that way is fundamentally unable
to cope with diffs that stem from chance ordering of arrival of
messages from different server processes.

We can improve matters on the client side, however, by annotating
the test scripts themselves to show the desired reporting order
of events that might occur in different orders.  This patch adds
three types of annotations to deal with (a) test steps that might or
might not complete their waits before the isolationtester can see them
waiting; (b) test steps in different sessions that can legitimately
complete in either order; and (c) NOTIFY messages that might arrive
before or after the completion of a step in another session.  We might
need more annotation types later, but this seems to be enough to deal
with the instabilities we've seen in the buildfarm.  It also lets us
get rid of all the long delays that were previously used, cutting more
than a minute off the runtime of the isolation tests.

Back-patch to all supported branches, because the buildfarm
instabilities affect all the branches, and because it seems desirable
to keep isolationtester's capabilities the same across all branches
to simplify possible future back-patching of tests.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/327948.1623725828@sss.pgh.pa.us
2021-06-22 21:43:12 -04:00
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adminpack Read until EOF vice stat-reported size in read_binary_file 2020-07-04 06:29:03 -04:00
amcheck Restore lost amcheck TOAST test coverage. 2020-07-31 15:34:23 -07:00
auth_delay Update copyright for 2018 2018-01-02 23:30:12 -05:00
auto_explain Fix ancient memory leak in contrib/auto_explain. 2021-02-02 13:49:08 -05:00
bloom Fix failure with lock mode used for custom relation options 2019-09-25 10:08:30 +09:00
btree_gin Clean up warnings from -Wimplicit-fallthrough. 2018-05-01 19:35:08 -04:00
btree_gist Make contrib modules' installation scripts more secure. 2020-08-10 10:44:43 -04:00
citext Make contrib modules' installation scripts more secure. 2020-08-10 10:44:43 -04:00
cube Make contrib modules' installation scripts more secure. 2020-08-10 10:44:43 -04:00
dblink Initialize dblink remoteConn struct in all cases 2020-05-28 13:45:02 -04:00
dict_int Ensure maxlen is at leat 1 in dict_int 2019-12-03 18:41:29 +01:00
dict_xsyn Avoid unnecessary use of pg_strcasecmp for already-downcased identifiers. 2018-01-26 18:25:14 -05:00
earthdistance Make contrib modules' installation scripts more secure. 2020-08-10 10:44:43 -04:00
file_fdw Ensure that foreign scans with lateral refs are planned correctly. 2019-02-07 13:11:13 -05:00
fuzzystrmatch Replace search.cpan.org with metacpan.org 2018-06-29 22:02:20 +09:00
hstore Make contrib modules' installation scripts more secure. 2020-08-10 10:44:43 -04:00
hstore_plperl Still further rethinking of build changes for macOS Mojave. 2018-10-18 14:55:23 -04:00
hstore_plpython Fix broken ruleutils support for function TRANSFORM clauses. 2021-01-25 13:03:11 -05:00
intagg Make contrib modules' installation scripts more secure. 2020-08-10 10:44:43 -04:00
intarray Make contrib modules' installation scripts more secure. 2020-08-10 10:44:43 -04:00
isn Provide for contrib and pgxs modules to install include files. 2018-07-31 19:58:39 +01:00
jsonb_plperl Fix handling of "undef" in contrib/jsonb_plperl. 2019-08-04 14:05:35 -04:00
jsonb_plpython In jsonb_plpython.c, suppress warning message from gcc 10. 2020-01-30 18:26:15 -05:00
lo Fix bogus CALLED_AS_TRIGGER() defenses. 2020-04-03 11:24:56 -04:00
ltree Make contrib modules' installation scripts more secure. 2020-08-10 10:44:43 -04:00
ltree_plpython Fix out-of-tree build for transform modules. 2018-09-16 19:13:59 +01:00
oid2name Report the true database name on connection errors 2021-01-26 16:42:13 -03:00
pageinspect Disable vacuum page skipping in selected test cases. 2021-01-20 11:49:29 -05:00
passwordcheck Fix handling of previous password hooks in passwordcheck 2019-08-01 09:38:02 +09:00
pg_buffercache Phase 2 of pgindent updates. 2017-06-21 15:19:25 -04:00
pg_freespacemap Default monitoring roles 2017-03-30 14:18:53 -04:00
pg_prewarm Fix race condition between shutdown and unstarted background workers. 2020-12-24 17:00:43 -05:00
pg_standby Avoid using potentially-under-aligned page buffers. 2018-09-01 15:27:13 -04:00
pg_stat_statements Revoke pg_stat_statements_reset() permissions 2018-09-25 09:56:41 +09:00
pg_trgm pg_trgm: fix crash in 2-item picksplit 2020-11-12 14:57:04 +00:00
pg_visibility Disable vacuum page skipping in selected test cases. 2021-01-20 11:49:29 -05:00
pgcrypto pgcrypto: Detect errors with EVP calls from OpenSSL 2020-12-08 15:22:48 +09:00
pgrowlocks Avoid holding a directory FD open across assorted SRF calls. 2020-03-16 21:05:54 -04:00
pgstattuple pgstatindex, pageinspect: handle partitioned indexes 2018-05-09 14:22:59 -03:00
postgres_fdw Update obsolete comment. 2021-03-30 13:00:05 +09:00
seg Fix contrib/seg regression test in v11. 2021-06-08 10:57:39 -04:00
sepgsql Fix cache reference leak in contrib/sepgsql. 2020-04-16 14:45:54 -04:00
spi Prevent accidental linking of system-supplied copies of libpq.so etc. 2018-04-03 16:26:05 -04:00
sslinfo Phase 3 of pgindent updates. 2017-06-21 15:35:54 -04:00
start-scripts Remove contrib/start-scripts/osx/. 2017-11-17 12:53:20 -05:00
tablefunc Disallow null category in crosstab_hash 2019-12-23 13:33:42 -05:00
tcn Post-feature-freeze pgindent run. 2018-04-26 14:47:16 -04:00
test_decoding Use annotations to reduce instability of isolation-test results. 2021-06-22 21:43:12 -04:00
tsm_system_rows Update copyright for 2018 2018-01-02 23:30:12 -05:00
tsm_system_time Update copyright for 2018 2018-01-02 23:30:12 -05:00
unaccent Make contrib/unaccent's unaccent() function work when not in search path. 2018-09-06 10:49:45 -04:00
uuid-ossp Update copyright for 2018 2018-01-02 23:30:12 -05:00
vacuumlo Report the true database name on connection errors 2021-01-26 16:42:13 -03:00
xml2 Phase 3 of pgindent updates. 2017-06-21 15:35:54 -04:00
contrib-global.mk Respect TEMP_CONFIG when pg_regress_check and friends are called 2016-02-27 12:28:21 -05:00
Makefile Transforms for jsonb to PL/Perl 2018-04-03 09:47:18 -04:00
README Rename 'gmake' to 'make' in docs and recommended commands 2014-02-12 17:29:19 -05:00

The PostgreSQL contrib tree
---------------------------

This subtree contains porting tools, analysis utilities, and plug-in
features that are not part of the core PostgreSQL system, mainly
because they address a limited audience or are too experimental to be
part of the main source tree.  This does not preclude their
usefulness.

User documentation for each module appears in the main SGML
documentation.

When building from the source distribution, these modules are not
built automatically, unless you build the "world" target.  You can
also build and install them all by running "make all" and "make
install" in this directory; or to build and install just one selected
module, do the same in that module's subdirectory.

Some directories supply new user-defined functions, operators, or
types.  To make use of one of these modules, after you have installed
the code you need to register the new SQL objects in the database
system by executing a CREATE EXTENSION command.  In a fresh database,
you can simply do

    CREATE EXTENSION module_name;

See the PostgreSQL documentation for more information about this
procedure.