This CPU architecture has been discontinued. We already removed HP-UX
support, we never supported Windows/Itanium, and the open source
operating systems that a vintage hardware owner might hope to run have
all either ended Itanium support or never fully released support (NetBSD
may eventually). The extra code we carry for this rare ISA is now
untested. It seems like a good time to remove it.
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1415825.1656893299%40sss.pgh.pa.us
HP-UX hardware is no longer produced, build farm coverage recently
ended, and there are no known active maintainers targeting this OS.
Since there is a major rewrite of the build system in the pipeline for
PostgreSQL 16, and that requires development, testing and maintainance
for each OS and tool chain, it seems like a good time to drop support
for:
* HP-UX, the operating system.
* HP aCC, the HP-UX native compiler.
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1415825.1656893299%40sss.pgh.pa.us
These are documented to be the allowed types for the RETURNING clause,
but the restriction was not being enforced, which caused a segfault if
another type was specified. Add some testing for this.
Per report from a.kozhemyakin
Backpatch to release 15.
The general convention in the executor is to refer to child plans
and planstates via the outerPlan[State] and innerPlan[State]
macros, but a few places didn't do it like that. For consistency
and readability, convert all the stragglers to use the macros.
(See also commit 40f42d2a3, which did some similar cleanup a few
years ago, but missed these cases.)
Richard Guo
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMbWs4-vYhh1xsa_veah4PUed2Xq=Ed_YH3=Mqt5A3Y=EgfCEg@mail.gmail.com
It is useful for debugging purposes to report the checkpoint LSN and
REDO LSN in log_checkpoints message. It can give more context while
analyzing checkpoint-related issues. pg_controldata reports the last
checkpoint LSN and REDO LSN, but having this information alongside
the log message helps analyze issues that happened previously,
connect the dots and identify the root cause.
Author: Bharath Rupireddy, Kyotaro Horiguchi
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier, Julien Rouhaud, Nathan Bossart, Fujii Masao, Greg Stark
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALj2ACWt6kqriAHrO+AJj+OmP=suwbktHT5JoYAn-nqZe2gd2g@mail.gmail.com
When locking a specific named relation for a FOR [KEY] UPDATE/SHARE
clause, transformLockingClause() finds the relation to lock by
scanning the rangetable for an RTE with a matching eref->aliasname.
However, it failed to account for the visibility rules of a join RTE.
If a join RTE doesn't have a user-supplied alias, it will have a
generated eref->aliasname of "unnamed_join" that is not visible as a
relation name in the parse namespace. Such an RTE needs to be skipped,
otherwise it might be found in preference to a regular base relation
with a user-supplied alias of "unnamed_join", preventing it from being
locked.
In addition, if a join RTE doesn't have a user-supplied alias, but
does have a join_using_alias, then the RTE needs to be matched using
that alias rather than the generated eref->aliasname, otherwise a
misleading "relation not found" error will be reported rather than a
"join cannot be locked" error.
Backpatch all the way, except for the second part which only goes back
to 14, where JOIN USING aliases were added.
Dean Rasheed, reviewed by Tom Lane.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEZATCUY_KOBnqxbTSPf=7fz9HWPnZ5Xgb9SwYzZ8rFXe7nb=w@mail.gmail.com
This commit bumps the runtime value of _WIN32_WINNT to be 0x0A00 for any
builds on Windows. Hence, this makes Windows 10 the minimal requirement
when running PostgreSQL under WIN32, be it for builds of Cygwin, MinGW
or Visual Studio.
The previous minimal runtime version was either Windows Vista when
building with at least Visual Studio 2015 or Windows XP for the rest.
Windows 10 is the most modern version supported by Microsoft, and per
discussion, as we don't have buildfarm members that run older versions
anymore, this is the minimal supported version that suits better for our
needs. This will actually make easier the development of some patches,
two being async I/O and large page handling by avoiding a lot of
compatibility gotchas, on platforms that have most likely few users
anyway.
It is possible to remove MIN_WINNT in win32.h and the macros
IsWindowsXXXOrGreater() that were used in the code at runtime to check
which version of Windows was getting used. The change in pg_locale.c
comes from Juan. Note that all my tests passed, and that the CI is
green. The buildfarm will quickly tell if this needs more adjustments.
Author: Michael Paquier, Juan José Santamaría Flecha
Reviewed-by: Thomas Munro
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/Yo7tHKD8VCkeNi71@paquier.xyz
That comment might have been true at some point during development, but
definitely isn't anymore.
Reported-By: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Backpatch: 15-
We hadn't noticed this because it's dead code: there is no
situation where we read raw parse trees from text format.
So maybe the right fix is to remove the function altogether,
but I'll forbear for now; it's not the only dead code in
readfuncs.c, I think.
Noted while comparing existing code to the results of
Peter's auto-generation script.
40af10b57 changed things so we make use of a generation memory context for
storing tuples to be sorted by tuplesort.c. That change does not play
nicely with the changes made in 9f03ca915 (back in 2014). That commit
changed things so that index_form_tuple() is called while switched into
the tuplestore's tuplecontext. In order to fetch the tuple from the index,
index_form_tuple() must do various memory allocations which are unrelated
to the storage of the final returned tuple. Although all of these
allocations are pfree'd, the fact that we now use a generation context
means that the memory for these pfree'd allocations won't be used again by
any other allocation due to generation.c's lack of freelists. This could
result in sorts used for building indexes exceeding maintenance_work_mem
by a very large amount.
Here we fix it so we no longer allocate anything apart from the tuple
itself into the generation context by adding a new version of
index_form_tuple named index_form_tuple_context, which can be called to
specify the MemoryContext to allocate the tuple into.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvrHQkiFRHiGiAS-LMOvJN-eK-s762=tVzBz8ZqUea-a_A@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 15, where 40af10b57 was added.
There's no reason anymore to only drop subscription stats if associated with a
slot, now that stats drops are transactional. And since there's now no other
cleanup of stats, this would lead to stats for slot-less subscriptions to get
leaked (however most slot-less subs won't have stats).
Additionally, the comment referring to autovacuum cleaning up stats was
clearly outdated.
Author: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAD21AoAwiby3HeJE7vJe16Gr75RFfJ640dyHqvsiUhyKJTXPtw@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch: 15-
We have been using the term RelFileNode to refer to either (1) the
integer that is used to name the sequence of files for a certain relation
within the directory set aside for that tablespace/database combination;
or (2) that value plus the OIDs of the tablespace and database; or
occasionally (3) the whole series of files created for a relation
based on those values. Using the same name for more than one thing is
confusing.
Replace RelFileNode with RelFileNumber when we're talking about just the
single number, i.e. (1) from above, and with RelFileLocator when we're
talking about all the things that are needed to locate a relation's files
on disk, i.e. (2) from above. In the places where we refer to (3) as
a relfilenode, instead refer to "relation storage".
Since there is a ton of SQL code in the world that knows about
pg_class.relfilenode, don't change the name of that column, or of other
SQL-facing things that derive their name from it.
On the other hand, do adjust closely-related internal terminology. For
example, the structure member names dbNode and spcNode appear to be
derived from the fact that the structure itself was called RelFileNode,
so change those to dbOid and spcOid. Likewise, various variables with
names like rnode and relnode get renamed appropriately, according to
how they're being used in context.
Hopefully, this is clearer than before. It is also preparation for
future patches that intend to widen the relfilenumber fields from its
current width of 32 bits. Variables that store a relfilenumber are now
declared as type RelFileNumber rather than type Oid; right now, these
are the same, but that can now more easily be changed.
Dilip Kumar, per an idea from me. Reviewed also by Andres Freund.
I fixed some whitespace issues, changed a couple of words in a
comment, and made one other minor correction.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoamOtXbVAQf9hWFzonUo6bhhjS6toZQd7HZ-pmojtAmag@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+Tgmobp7+7kmi4gkq7Y+4AM9fTvL+O1oQ4-5gFTT+6Ng-dQ=g@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAFiTN-vTe79M8uDH1yprOU64MNFE+R3ODRuA+JWf27JbhY4hJw@mail.gmail.com
50e17ad28 increased the size of ExprEvalStep from 64 bytes up to 88 bytes.
Lots of effort was spent during the development of the current expression
evaluation code to make an instance of this struct as small as possible.
Making this struct larger than needed reduces CPU cache efficiency during
expression evaluation which causes noticeable slowdowns during query
execution.
In order to reduce the size of the struct, here we remove the fn_addr
field. The values from this field can be obtained via fcinfo, just with
some extra pointer dereferencing. The extra indirection does not seem to
cause any noticeable slowdowns.
Various other fields have been moved into the ScalarArrayOpExprHashTable
struct. These fields are only used when the ScalarArrayOpExprHashTable
pointer has already been dereferenced, so no additional pointer
dereferences occur for these. Here we also make hash_fcinfo_data the last
field in ScalarArrayOpExprHashTable so that we can avoid a further pointer
dereference to get the FunctionCallInfoBaseData. This also saves a call to
palloc().
50e17ad28 was added in 14, but it's too late to adjust the size of the
ExprEvalStep in that version, so here we just backpatch to 15, which is
currently in beta.
Author: Andres Freund, David Rowley
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220616233130.rparivafipt6doj3@alap3.anarazel.de
Backpatch-through: 15
Some routines open-coded the construction of DataRow messages. Use
TupOutputState struct and associated functions instead, which was
already done in some places.
SendTimeLineHistory() is a bit more complicated and isn't converted by
this.
Reviewed-by: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/7e4fdbdc-699c-4cd0-115d-fb78a957fc22@enterprisedb.com
auto_explain.log_parameter_max_length is a new GUC part of the
extension, similar to the corresponding core setting, that controls the
inclusion of query parameters in the logged explain output.
More tests are added to check the behavior of this new parameter: when
parameters logged in full (the default of -1), when disabled (value of
0) and when partially truncated (value different than the two others).
Author: Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/87ee09mohb.fsf@wibble.ilmari.org
Previously the timer was enabled whenever there were any pending stats after
executing a statement, just to then be disabled again when not idle
anymore. That lead to an increase in GetCurrentTimestamp() calls from within
timeout.c compared to 14.
To avoid that increase, leave the timer enabled until stats are reported,
rather than until idle. The timer is only disabled once the pending stats have
been reported.
For me this fixes the increase in GetCurrentTimestamp() calls, there now are
fewer calls in 15 than in 14, in the previously slowed down workload.
While at it, also update assertion in pgstat_report_stat() to be more precise.
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220616233130.rparivafipt6doj3@alap3.anarazel.de
Backpatch: 15-
The new expression step types increased the size of ExprEvalStep by ~4 for all
types of expression steps, slowing down expression evaluation noticeably. Move
them out of line.
There's other issues with these expression steps, but addressing them is
largely independent of this aspect.
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-By: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220616233130.rparivafipt6doj3@alap3.anarazel.de
Backpatch: 15-
This reverts most of 91c0570a79, f28bf667f6, fe0972ee5e, afdeff1052. The
only thing left is the retry loop in 019_replslot_limit.pl that avoids
spurious failures by retrying a couple times.
We haven't seen any hard evidence that this is caused by anything but slow
process shutdown. We did not find any cases where walsenders did not vanish
after waiting for longer. Therefore there's no reason for this debugging code
to remain.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220530190155.47wr3x2prdwyciah@alap3.anarazel.de
Backpatch: 15-
Noted while comparing existing code to the output of the proposed
patch to automate creation of these functions. Some of the changes
are just cosmetic, but others represent real bugs. I've not
attempted to analyze the user-visible impact.
Back-patch to v15 where this code came in.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1794155.1656984188@sss.pgh.pa.us
Amendment to 84ad713cf8: Not all
prepared statements have a result descriptor. As currently coded,
this would crash when reading pg_prepared_statements. Make those
cases return null for result_types instead. Also add a test case for
it.
A previous commit replaced all the calls to this function with
durable_rename() as of dac1ff3, making it used nowhere in the tree.
Using it in extension code is also risky based on the issues described
in this previous commit, so let's remove it. This makes possible the
removal of HAVE_WORKING_LINK.
Author: Nathan Bossart
Reviewed-by: Robert Haas, Kyotaro Horiguchi, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220407182954.GA1231544@nathanxps13
durable_rename_excl() attempts to avoid overwriting any existing files
by using link() and unlink(), and it falls back to rename() on some
platforms (aka WIN32), which offers no such overwrite protection. Most
callers use durable_rename_excl() just in case there is an existing
file, but in practice there shouldn't be one (see below for more
details).
Furthermore, failures during durable_rename_excl() can result in
multiple hard links to the same file. As per Nathan's tests, it is
possible to end up with two links to the same file in pg_wal after a
crash just before unlink() during WAL recycling. Specifically, the test
produced links to the same file for the current WAL file and the next
one because the half-recycled WAL file was re-recycled upon restarting,
leading to WAL corruption.
This change replaces all the calls of durable_rename_excl() to
durable_rename(). This removes the protection against accidentally
overwriting an existing file, but some platforms are already living
without it and ordinarily there shouldn't be one. The function itself
is left around in case any extensions are using it. It will be removed
on HEAD via a follow-up commit.
Here is a summary of the existing callers of durable_rename_excl() (see
second discussion link at the bottom), replaced by this commit. First,
basic_archive used it to avoid overwriting an archive concurrently
created by another server, but as mentioned above, it will still
overwrite files on some platforms. Second, xlog.c uses it to recycle
past WAL segments, where an overwrite should not happen (origin of the
change at f0e37a8) because there are protections about the WAL segment
to select when recycling an entry. The third and last area is related
to the write of timeline history files. writeTimeLineHistory() will
write a new timeline history file at the end of recovery on promotion,
so there should be no such files for the same timeline.
What remains is writeTimeLineHistoryFile(), that can be used in parallel
by a WAL receiver and the startup process, and some digging of the
buildfarm shows that EEXIST from a WAL receiver can happen with an error
of "could not link file \"pg_wal/xlogtemp.NN\" to \"pg_wal/MM.history\",
which would cause an automatic restart of the WAL receiver as it is
promoted to FATAL, hence this should improve the stability of the WAL
receiver as rename() would overwrite an existing TLI history file
already fetched by the startup process at recovery.
This is a bug fix, but knowing the unlikeliness of the problem involving
one or more crashes at an exceptionally bad moment, no backpatch is
done. Also, I want to be careful with such changes (aaa3aed did the
opposite of this change by removing HAVE_WORKING_LINK so as Windows
would do a link() rather than a rename() but this was not
concurrent-safe). A backpatch could be revisited in the future. This
is the second time this change is attempted, ccfbd92 being the first
one, but this time no assertions are added for the case of a TLI history
file written concurrently by the WAL receiver or the startup process
because we can expect one to exist (some of the TAP tests are able to
trigger with a proper timing).
Author: Nathan Bossart
Reviewed-by: Robert Haas, Kyotaro Horiguchi, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220407182954.GA1231544@nathanxps13
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/Ym6GZbqQdlalSKSG@paquier.xyz
Use it for RelationSyncEntry->streamed_txns, which is currently using an
integer list.
The API support is not complete, not because it is hard to write but
because it's unclear that it's worth the code space, there being so
little use of XID lists.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/202205130830.g5ntonhztspb@alvherre.pgsql
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>
Attempting such an operation would already fail, but in various and
confusing ways. For example, while in recovery, some elog() messages
would be reported, but these should never be user-facing. This commit
restricts any write operations done on large objects in a read-only
context, so as the errors generated are more user-friendly. This is per
the discussion done with Tom Lane and Robert Haas.
Some regression tests are added to check the case of all the SQL
functions working on large objects (including an update of the test's
alternate output).
Author: Yugo Nagata
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220527153028.61a4608f66abcd026fd3806f@sraoss.co.jp
Amendment to ec40f34224: We also need to
change the way the datum is supplied to int8. Otherwise, the value is
still cut off as an int4, and it will crash on 32-bit platforms.
None of the other bison parsers contains this directive, and it gives
rise to some unfortunate and impenetrable messages, so just remove it.
Backpatch to release 12, where it was introduced.
Per gripe from Erik Rijkers
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ba069ce2-a98f-dc70-dc17-2ccf2a9bf7c7@xs4all.nl
Interpret its privileges argument as a comma-separated list of
privilege names, as in has_table_privilege and other functions.
This is actually net less code, since the support routine to
parse that already exists, and we can drop convert_priv_string()
which had no other use-case.
Robins Tharakan
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/e5a05dc54ba64408b3dd260171c1abaf@EX13D05UWC001.ant.amazon.com
POSIX shm_open() can sleep for a long time and fail spuriously because
of contention on an internal lock file on Solaris (and presumably
illumos). Commit 389869af fixed the main problem with this, namely that
we could crash, but it's now clear that "posix" is not a good default.
Therefore, choose "sysv" at initdb time on Solaris and illumos. Other
choices are still available by editing the postgresql.conf file.
Back-patch only to 15, because contention is much less likely further
back, and it doesn't seem like a good idea to change this in released
branches. This should clear up the failures on build farm animal
margay.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGKqKrCV5xKWfh9rnm%3Do%3DDwZLTLtnsj_XpUi9g5%3DV%2B9oyg%40mail.gmail.com
There were many calls to construct_array() and deconstruct_array() for
built-in types, for example, when dealing with system catalog columns.
These all hardcoded the type attributes necessary to pass to these
functions.
To simplify this a bit, add construct_array_builtin(),
deconstruct_array_builtin() as wrappers that centralize this hardcoded
knowledge. This simplifies many call sites and reduces the amount of
hardcoded stuff that is spread around.
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/2914356f-9e5f-8c59-2995-5997fc48bcba%40enterprisedb.com
Previously, we trusted the OS not to report EEXIST unless we'd passed in
IPC_CREAT | IPC_EXCL or O_CREAT | O_EXCL, as appropriate. Solaris's
shm_open() can in fact do that, causing us to crash because we didn't
ereport and then we blithely assumed the mapping was successful.
Let's treat EEXIST just like any other error, unless we're actually
trying to create a new segment. This applies to shm_open(), where this
behavior has been seen, and also to the equivalent operations for our
sysv and mmap modes just on principle.
Based on the underlying reason for the error, namely contention on a
lock file managed by Solaris librt for each distinct name, this problem
is only likely to happen on 15 and later, because the new shared memory
stats system produces shm_open() calls for the same path from
potentially large numbers of backends concurrently during
authentication. Earlier releases only shared memory segments between a
small number of parallel workers under one Gather node. You could
probably hit it if you tried hard enough though, and we should have been
more defensive in the first place. Therefore, back-patch to all
supported releases.
Per build farm animal margay. This isn't the end of the story, though,
it just changes random crashes into random "File exists" errors; more
work needed for a green build farm.
Reviewed-by: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGKqKrCV5xKWfh9rnm%3Do%3DDwZLTLtnsj_XpUi9g5%3DV%2B9oyg%40mail.gmail.com
pg_start_backup() and pg_stop_backup() have been respectively renamed to
pg_backup_start() and pg_backup_stop() as of 39969e2, but a few comments
did not get the call.
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi, David Steele
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/YrqGlj1+4DF3dbZ/@paquier.xyz
MemSet() with a value other than 0 just falls back to memset(), so the
indirection is unnecessary if the value is constant and not 0. Since
there is some interest in getting rid of MemSet(), this gets some easy
cases out of the way. (There are a few MemSet() calls that I didn't
change to maintain the consistency with their surrounding code.)
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CAEudQApCeq4JjW1BdnwU=m=-DvG5WyUik0Yfn3p6UNphiHjj+w@mail.gmail.com
TransactionIdIsInProgress had a fast path to return 'false' if the
single-item CLOG cache said that the transaction was known to be
committed. However, that was wrong, because a transaction is first
marked as committed in the CLOG but doesn't become visible to others
until it has removed its XID from the proc array. That could lead to an
error:
ERROR: t_xmin is uncommitted in tuple to be updated
or for an UPDATE to go ahead without blocking, before the previous
UPDATE on the same row was made visible.
The window is usually very short, but synchronous replication makes it
much wider, because the wait for synchronous replica happens in that
window.
Another thing that makes it hard to hit is that it's hard to get such
a commit-in-progress transaction into the single item CLOG cache.
Normally, if you call TransactionIdIsInProgress on such a transaction,
it determines that the XID is in progress without checking the CLOG
and without populating the cache. One way to prime the cache is to
explicitly call pg_xact_status() on the XID. Another way is to use a
lot of subtransactions, so that the subxid cache in the proc array is
overflown, making TransactionIdIsInProgress rely on pg_subtrans and
CLOG checks.
This has been broken ever since it was introduced in 2008, but the race
condition is very hard to hit, especially without synchronous
replication. There were a couple of reports of the error starting from
summer 2021, but no one was able to find the root cause then.
TransactionIdIsKnownCompleted() is now unused. In 'master', remove it,
but I left it in place in backbranches in case it's used by extensions.
Also change pg_xact_status() to check TransactionIdIsInProgress().
Previously, it only checked the CLOG, and returned "committed" before
the transaction was actually made visible to other queries. Note that
this also means that you cannot use pg_xact_status() to reproduce the
bug anymore, even if the code wasn't fixed.
Report and analysis by Konstantin Knizhnik. Patch by Simon Riggs, with
the pg_xact_status() change added by me.
Author: Simon Riggs
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/4da7913d-398c-e2ad-d777-f752cf7f0bbb%40garret.ru
Previously, we encoded both NULL and the first byte at the base address
as 0. That confusion led to the assertion in commit e07d4ddc, which
failed when min_dynamic_shared_memory was used. Give them distinct
encodings, by switching to 1-based offsets for non-NULL pointers. Also
improve macro hygiene in passing (missing/misplaced parentheses), and
remove open-coded access to the raw offset value from freepage.c/h.
Although e07d4ddc was back-patched to 10, the only code that actually
makes use of relptr at the base address arrived in 84b1c63a, so no need
to back-patch further than 14 for now.
Reported-by: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220519193839.GT19626%40telsasoft.com
Commit 64919aaab made pull_up_simple_subquery set rte->subquery = NULL
after doing the deed, so that we don't waste cycles copying a
now-useless subquery tree around. This turns out to create a core dump
hazard in range_table_mutator, which supposes that that field is never
NULL. Apparently none of our own code invokes query_tree_mutator or
range_table_mutator on the top Query after subquery pullup; but it
wouldn't be surprising if outside code does, and anyway I'm working
on a v16 patch that will need it.
We can fix this cleanly by just getting rid of the special-case
handling of this field and treating it more like all the rest.
I think the special case might be left over from a time when
QTW_DONT_COPY_QUERY was the default behavior, but that was eons ago.
Thanks to Dean Rasheed for review.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/545569.1656107045@sss.pgh.pa.us
Since commit 6a2a70a02, we've used signalfd() to receive latch wakeups
when building with WAIT_USE_EPOLL (default for Linux and illumos), and
our traditional self-pipe when falling back to WAIT_USE_POLL (default
for other Unixes with neither epoll() nor kqueue()).
Unexplained hangs and kernel panics have been reported on illumos
systems, apparently linked to this use of signalfd(), leading illumos
users and build farm members to have to define WAIT_USE_POLL explicitly
as a work-around. A bug report exists at
https://www.illumos.org/issues/13700 but no fix is available yet.
Let's provide a way for illumos users to go back to self-pipes with
epoll(), like releases before 14, and choose that by default. No change
for Linux users. To help with development/debugging, macros
WAIT_USE_{EPOLL,POLL} and WAIT_USE_{SIGNALFD,SELF_PIPE} can be defined
explicitly to override the defaults.
Back-patch to 14, where we started using signalfd().
Reported-by: Japin Li <japinli@hotmail.com>
Reported-by: Olaf Bohlen <olbohlen@eenfach.de> (off-list)
Reviewed-by: Japin Li <japinli@hotmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/MEYP282MB1669C8D88F0997354C2313C1B6CA9%40MEYP282MB1669.AUSP282.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM
