postgresql/src/port
Heikki Linnakangas 7f2a10fecd Don't error out if recycling or removing an old WAL segment fails at the end
of checkpoint. Although the checkpoint has been written to WAL at that point
already, so that all data is safe, and we'll retry removing the WAL segment at
the next checkpoint, if such a failure persists we won't be able to remove any
other old WAL segments either and will eventually run out of disk space. It's
better to treat the failure as non-fatal, and move on to clean any other WAL
segment and continue with any other end-of-checkpoint cleanup.

We don't normally expect any such failures, but on Windows it can happen with
some anti-virus or backup software that lock files without FILE_SHARE_DELETE
flag.

Also, the loop in pgrename() to retry when the file is locked was broken. If a
file is locked on Windows, you get ERROR_SHARE_VIOLATION, not
ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED, at least on modern versions. Fix that, although I left
the check for ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED in there as well (presumably it was correct
in some environment), and added ERROR_LOCK_VIOLATION to be consistent with
similar checks in pgwin32_open(). Reduce the timeout on the loop from 30s to
10s, on the grounds that since it's been broken, we've effectively had a
timeout of 0s and no-one has complained, so a smaller timeout is actually
closer to the old behavior. A longer timeout would mean that if recycling a
WAL file fails because it's locked for some reason, InstallXLogFileSegment()
will hold ControlFileLock for longer, potentially blocking other backends, so
a long timeout isn't totally harmless.

While we're at it, set errno correctly in pgrename().

Backpatch to 8.2, which is the oldest version supported on Windows. The xlog.c
changes would make sense on other platforms and thus on older versions as
well, but since there's no such locking issues on other platforms, it's not
worth it.
2009-09-13 18:32:08 +00:00
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Makefile Update of install-sh, mkinstalldirs, and associated configury 2009-08-26 22:24:44 +00:00
README More README src cleanups. 2008-03-21 13:23:29 +00:00
chklocale.c Support for KOI8U encoding 2009-02-10 19:29:39 +00:00
copydir.c Update copyright for 2009. 2009-01-01 17:24:05 +00:00
crypt.c 8.4 pgindent run, with new combined Linux/FreeBSD/MinGW typedef list 2009-06-11 14:49:15 +00:00
dirent.c Update copyright for 2009. 2009-01-01 17:24:05 +00:00
dirmod.c Don't error out if recycling or removing an old WAL segment fails at the end 2009-09-13 18:32:08 +00:00
erand48.c Add erand48() to the set of functions supported by our src/port/ library, 2009-07-16 17:43:52 +00:00
exec.c Fix minor memory leak in Win32 SID handling functions. Not a big issue 2009-07-27 08:46:10 +00:00
fseeko.c Update copyright for 2009. 2009-01-01 17:24:05 +00:00
getaddrinfo.c Update copyright for 2009. 2009-01-01 17:24:05 +00:00
gethostname.c Update copyright for 2009. 2009-01-01 17:24:05 +00:00
getopt.c 8.4 pgindent run, with new combined Linux/FreeBSD/MinGW typedef list 2009-06-11 14:49:15 +00:00
getopt_long.c 8.4 pgindent run, with new combined Linux/FreeBSD/MinGW typedef list 2009-06-11 14:49:15 +00:00
getrusage.c 8.4 pgindent run, with new combined Linux/FreeBSD/MinGW typedef list 2009-06-11 14:49:15 +00:00
gettimeofday.c > gettimeofday.c:35: warning: integer constant is too large for "long" 2006-03-04 04:44:07 +00:00
inet_aton.c Remove advertising clause from Berkeley BSD-licensed files, per 2007-03-26 21:44:11 +00:00
isinf.c Update copyright for 2009. 2009-01-01 17:24:05 +00:00
kill.c Loop calling CallNamedPipe() several times in case it fails, 2009-02-15 13:58:18 +00:00
memcmp.c Update copyright for 2009. 2009-01-01 17:24:05 +00:00
noblock.c Update copyright for 2009. 2009-01-01 17:24:05 +00:00
open.c 8.4 pgindent run, with new combined Linux/FreeBSD/MinGW typedef list 2009-06-11 14:49:15 +00:00
path.c 8.4 pgindent run, with new combined Linux/FreeBSD/MinGW typedef list 2009-06-11 14:49:15 +00:00
pgsleep.c Update copyright for 2009. 2009-01-01 17:24:05 +00:00
pgstrcasecmp.c Update copyright for 2009. 2009-01-01 17:24:05 +00:00
pipe.c 8.4 pgindent run, with new combined Linux/FreeBSD/MinGW typedef list 2009-06-11 14:49:15 +00:00
pthread-win32.h 8.4 pgindent run, with new combined Linux/FreeBSD/MinGW typedef list 2009-06-11 14:49:15 +00:00
qsort.c Code cleanup for function prototypes: change two K&R-style prototypes 2007-03-18 05:36:50 +00:00
qsort_arg.c Code cleanup for function prototypes: change two K&R-style prototypes 2007-03-18 05:36:50 +00:00
random.c Update copyright for 2009. 2009-01-01 17:24:05 +00:00
rint.c $Header: -> $PostgreSQL Changes ... 2003-11-29 19:52:15 +00:00
snprintf.c Fix our printf implementation to follow spec: if a star parameter 2008-03-18 01:49:44 +00:00
sprompt.c Update copyright for 2009. 2009-01-01 17:24:05 +00:00
srandom.c Update copyright for 2009. 2009-01-01 17:24:05 +00:00
strdup.c Update copyright for 2009. 2009-01-01 17:24:05 +00:00
strerror.c Fix a whole bunch of #includes that were either wrong or redundant. 2005-07-28 04:03:14 +00:00
strlcat.c 8.4 pgindent run, with new combined Linux/FreeBSD/MinGW typedef list 2009-06-11 14:49:15 +00:00
strlcpy.c Update copyright for 2009. 2009-01-01 17:24:05 +00:00
strtol.c 8.4 pgindent run, with new combined Linux/FreeBSD/MinGW typedef list 2009-06-11 14:49:15 +00:00
strtoul.c 8.4 pgindent run, with new combined Linux/FreeBSD/MinGW typedef list 2009-06-11 14:49:15 +00:00
thread.c Remove empty #ifdef block. 2009-01-14 21:18:30 +00:00
unsetenv.c Update copyright for 2009. 2009-01-01 17:24:05 +00:00
win32.ico Add as binary mode 2004-10-07 13:59:45 +00:00
win32env.c 8.4 pgindent run, with new combined Linux/FreeBSD/MinGW typedef list 2009-06-11 14:49:15 +00:00
win32error.c Update copyright for 2009. 2009-01-01 17:24:05 +00:00
win32ver.rc Stamp HEAD as 8.5devel. 2009-07-01 23:15:55 +00:00

README

$PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/port/README,v 1.4 2008/03/21 13:23:29 momjian Exp $

libpgport
=========

libpgport must have special behavior.  It supplies functions to both
libraries and applications.  However, there are two complexities:

1)  Libraries need to use object files that are compiled with exactly
the same flags as the library.  libpgport might not use the same flags,
so it is necessary to recompile the object files for individual
libraries.  This is done by removing -lpgport from the link line:

        # Need to recompile any libpgport object files
        LIBS := $(filter-out -lpgport, $(LIBS))

and adding infrastructure to recompile the object files:

        OBJS= execute.o typename.o descriptor.o data.o error.o prepare.o memory.o \
                connect.o misc.o path.o exec.o \
                $(filter snprintf.o, $(LIBOBJS))

The problem is that there is no testing of which object files need to be
added, but missing functions usually show up when linking user
applications.

2) For applications, we use -lpgport before -lpq, so the static files
from libpgport are linked first.  This avoids having applications
dependent on symbols that are _used_ by libpq, but not intended to be
exported by libpq.  libpq's libpgport usage changes over time, so such a
dependency is a problem.  Win32, Linux, and Darwin use an export list to
control the symbols exported by libpq.