On ELF-based platforms (and maybe others?) it's possible for a shared
library, when dynamically loaded into the backend, to call the backend
versions of src/port and src/common functions rather than the frontend
versions that are actually linked into the shlib. This is definitely
not what we want, because the frontend versions often behave slightly
differently. Up to now it's been "slight" enough that nobody noticed;
but with the addition of SCRAM support functions in src/common, we're
observing crashes due to the difference between palloc and malloc
memory allocation rules, as reported in bug #15367 from Jeremy Evans.
The purpose of this patch is to create a direct test for this type of
mis-linking, so that we know whether any given platform requires extra
measures to prevent using the wrong functions. If the test fails, it
will lead to connection failures in the contrib/postgres_fdw regression
test. At the moment, *BSD platforms using ELF format are known to have
the problem and can be expected to fail; but we need to know whether
anything else does, and we need a reliable ongoing check for future
platforms.
Actually fixing the problem will be the subject of later commit(s).
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/153626613985.23143.4743626885618266803@wrigleys.postgresql.org
In 86d78ef50e I enabled configure to check for C99 support, with the
goal of checking which platforms support C99. While there are a few
machines without C99 support among our buildfarm animals,
de-supporting them for v12 was deemed acceptable.
While not tested in aforementioned commit, the biggest increase in
minimum compiler version comes from MSVC, which gained C99 support
fairly late. The subset in MSVC 2013 is sufficient for our needs, at
this point. While that is a significant increase in minimum version,
the existing windows binaries are already built with a new enough
version.
Make configure error out if C99 support could not be detected. For
MSVC builds, increase the minimum version to 2013.
The increase to MSVC 2013 allows us to get rid of VCBuildProject.pm,
as that was only required for MSVC 2005/2008.
Author: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/97d4b165-192d-3605-749c-f614a0c4e783@2ndquadrant.com
Back-patch to v11, where commit 90627cf98a
made the GNU make build system do likewise. Without this, when a
typical PostgresNode-using test failed, subsequent runs bailed out with
a "File exists" error.
This allows out-of-tree PLs and similar code to get access to
definitions needed to work with extension data types.
The following existing modules now install headers: contrib/cube,
contrib/hstore, contrib/isn, contrib/ltree, contrib/seg.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/87y3euomjh.fsf%40news-spur.riddles.org.uk
This extends cluster_rel() in such a way that more options can be added
in the future, which will reduce the amount of chunk code for an
upcoming SKIP_LOCKED aimed for VACUUM. As VACUUM FULL is a different
flavor of CLUSTER, we want to make that extensible to ease integration.
This only reworks the API and its callers, without providing anything
user-facing. Two options are present now: verbose mode and relation
recheck when doing the cluster command work across multiple
transactions. This could be used as well as a base to extend the
grammar of CLUSTER later on.
Author: Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Nathan Bossart
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180723031058.GE2854@paquier.xyz
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
Now that the documentation sources are in XML rather than SGML, some of
the documentation about the editor, or more specifically Emacs, setup
needs updating. The updated instructions recommend using nxml-mode,
which works mostly out of the box, with some small tweaks in
emacs.samples and .dir-locals.el.
Also remove some obsolete stuff in .dir-locals.el. I did, however,
leave the sgml-mode settings in there so that someone using Emacs
without emacs.samples gets those settings when editing a *.sgml file.
The .git directory might contain perl files, as hooks, for example.
Since we have no control over these they should be excluded from things
like our perlcritic checks.
Per offline report from Mike Blackwell.
Also add a function that centralizes the logic for locating all our perl
files and use it in pgperlcritic and pgperltidy as well as the new
pgperlcheck.
This patch does two things. First, it silences a number of compile-time
warnings in the msvc tools files, mainly those due to the fact that in
some cases we have more than one package per file. Second it supplies a
dummy Perl library with just enough of the Windows API referred to in
our code to let it run these checks cleanly, even on Unix machines where
the code is never supposed to run. The dummy library should only be used
for that purpose, as its README notes.
Commit 3a7cc727c was a little over eager about adding an explicit return
to this function, whose value is checked in most call sites. This change
reverses that and returns the expected value explicitly. It also adds a
check to the one call site lacking one.
This complies with the perlcritic policy
Subroutines::RequireFinalReturn, which is a severity 4 policy. Since we
only currently check at severity level 5, the policy is raised to that
level until we move to level 4 or lower, so that any new infringements
will be caught.
A small cosmetic piece of tidying of the pgperlcritic script is
included.
Mike Blackwell
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAESHdJpfFm_9wQnQ3koY3c91FoRQsO-fh02za9R3OEMndOn84A@mail.gmail.com
Now that the Working with git wiki page no longer suggests producing
context diffs, we should preserve the information on how to use
git-external-diff for those people who want to view context format
diffs. The most obvious place is in the script itself, so that's what's
done here.
Commit bad51a49a tried to use a shortcut with just one stamp file
recording the actions of generating the pg_*_d.h headers and copying
them to the src/include/catalog/ directory. That doesn't work in all
scenarios though, so we must use two stamp files like the Makefiles do.
John Naylor
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CANFyU944GdHr=puPbA78STnqr=8kgMrGF-VDHck6aO_-qNDALg@mail.gmail.com
The vertical tightness settings collapse vertical whitespace between
opening and closing brackets (parentheses, square brakets and braces).
This can make data structures in particular harder to read, and is not
very consistent with our style in non-Perl code. This patch restricts
that setting to parentheses only, and reformats all the perl code
accordingly. Not applying this to parentheses has some unfortunate
effects, so the consensus is to keep the setting for parentheses and not
for the others.
The diff for this patch does highlight some places where structures
should have trailing commas. They can be added manually, as there is no
automatic tool to do so.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2f2b87c-56be-c070-bfc0-36288b4b41c1@2ndQuadrant.com
Commit 86f575948 already manually updated the oidjoins test for the
new pg_constraint.conparentid => pg_constraint.oid relationship, but
failed to update findoidjoins/README, thus the apparent inconsistency
here.
Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180507001811.GA27389@paquier.xyz
This should have been done some years ago as promised in commit
c4dcdd0c2. However, better late than never.
Along the way do a little housekeeping, including using a simpler test
for the python version being tested, and removing a redundant subroutine
parameter. These changes only apply back to release 9.5.
Backpatch to all live releases.
We need to use a stamp file to record the runs of these scripts, as
is done on the Unix side. I think I got it right, but can't test.
While at it, extend this handmade dependency logic to also check the
generating script files, as the makefiles do.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16925.1525376229@sss.pgh.pa.us
This code is evidently allocating memory and thus confusing matters
even more. Let's see whether we can learn anything with
just VirtualQuery.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/25495.1524517820@sss.pgh.pa.us
This morning's results from buildfarm member dory make it pretty
clear that something is getting mapped into the just-freed space,
but not what that something is. Replace my minimalistic probes
with a full dump of the process address space and module space,
based on Noah's work at
<20170403065106.GA2624300%40tornado.leadboat.com>
This is all (probably) to get reverted once we have fixed the
problem, but for now we need information.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/25495.1524517820@sss.pgh.pa.us
Update typedefs.list from current buildfarm results. Adjust pgindent's
typedef blacklist to block some more unfortunate typedef names that have
snuck in since last time. Manually tweak a few places where I didn't
like the initial results of pgindent'ing.
Set Emacs's perl-continued-statement-offset to match perltidy's
--continuation-indentation, which is 2 (not overridden in PostgreSQL's
profile) rather than the 4 that Emacs uses by default.
This reverts commits d204ef6377,
83454e3c2b and a few more commits thereafter
(complete list at the end) related to MERGE feature.
While the feature was fully functional, with sufficient test coverage and
necessary documentation, it was felt that some parts of the executor and
parse-analyzer can use a different design and it wasn't possible to do that in
the available time. So it was decided to revert the patch for PG11 and retry
again in the future.
Thanks again to all reviewers and bug reporters.
List of commits reverted, in reverse chronological order:
f1464c5380 Improve parse representation for MERGE
ddb4158579 MERGE syntax diagram correction
530e69e59b Allow cpluspluscheck to pass by renaming variable
01b88b4df5 MERGE minor errata
3af7b2b0d4 MERGE fix variable warning in non-assert builds
a5d86181ec MERGE INSERT allows only one VALUES clause
4b2d44031f MERGE post-commit review
4923550c20 Tab completion for MERGE
aa3faa3c7a WITH support in MERGE
83454e3c2b New files for MERGE
d204ef6377 MERGE SQL Command following SQL:2016
Author: Pavan Deolasee
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier
Make these scripts emit just one log message when they run, not one
per output file. The latter is way too verbose in the wake of
commit 372728b0d. The specific wording used is what already existed
in the MSVC scripts.
John Naylor
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/11103.1523208822@sss.pgh.pa.us
Everything of use to frontend code should now appear in the _d.h files,
and making this change frees us from needing to worry about whether the
catalog header files proper are frontend-safe.
Remove src/interfaces/ecpg/ecpglib/pg_type.h entirely, as the previous
commit reduced it to a confusingly-named wrapper around pg_type_d.h.
In passing, make test_rls_hooks.c follow project convention of including
our own files with #include "" not <>.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/23690.1523031777@sss.pgh.pa.us
Historically, the initial catalog data to be installed during bootstrap
has been written in DATA() lines in the catalog header files. This had
lots of disadvantages: the format was badly underdocumented, it was
very difficult to edit the data in any mechanized way, and due to the
lack of any abstraction the data was verbose, hard to read/understand,
and easy to get wrong.
Hence, move this data into separate ".dat" files and represent it in a way
that can easily be read and rewritten by Perl scripts. The new format is
essentially "key => value" for each column; while it's a bit repetitive,
explicit labeling of each value makes the data far more readable and less
error-prone. Provide a way to abbreviate entries by omitting field values
that match a specified default value for their column. This allows removal
of a large amount of repetitive boilerplate and also lowers the barrier to
adding new columns.
Also teach genbki.pl how to translate symbolic OID references into
numeric OIDs for more cases than just "regproc"-like pg_proc references.
It can now do that for regprocedure-like references (thus solving the
problem that regproc is ambiguous for overloaded functions), operators,
types, opfamilies, opclasses, and access methods. Use this to turn
nearly all OID cross-references in the initial data into symbolic form.
This represents a very large step forward in readability and error
resistance of the initial catalog data. It should also reduce the
difficulty of renumbering OID assignments in uncommitted patches.
Also, solve the longstanding problem that frontend code that would like to
use OID macros and other information from the catalog headers often had
difficulty with backend-only code in the headers. To do this, arrange for
all generated macros, plus such other declarations as we deem fit, to be
placed in "derived" header files that are safe for frontend inclusion.
(Once clients migrate to using these pg_*_d.h headers, it will be possible
to get rid of the pg_*_fn.h headers, which only exist to quarantine code
away from clients. That is left for follow-on patches, however.)
The now-automatically-generated macros include the Anum_xxx and Natts_xxx
constants that we used to have to update by hand when adding or removing
catalog columns.
Replace the former manual method of generating OID macros for pg_type
entries with an automatic method, ensuring that all built-in types have
OID macros. (But note that this patch does not change the way that
OID macros for pg_proc entries are built and used. It's not clear that
making that match the other catalogs would be worth extra code churn.)
Add SGML documentation explaining what the new data format is and how to
work with it.
Despite being a very large change in the catalog headers, there is no
catversion bump here, because postgres.bki and related output files
haven't changed at all.
John Naylor, based on ideas from various people; review and minor
additional coding by me; previous review by Alvaro Herrera
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJVSVGWO48JbbwXkJz_yBFyGYW-M9YWxnPdxJBUosDC9ou_F0Q@mail.gmail.com
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
Maintainers of out-of-tree PLs typically need access to the set of
error codes. To avoid the need to duplicate that information in some
form in PL source trees, provide errcodes.txt as part of a server
installation.
Thomas Munro, based on a suggestion from Andrew Gierth
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/87woykk7mu.fsf%40news-spur.riddles.org.uk