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2017-08-14Final pgindent + perltidy run for v10.Tom Lane
2017-08-14Handle elog(FATAL) during ROLLBACK more robustly.Tom Lane
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
2017-08-13Remove AtEOXact_CatCache().Tom Lane
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
2017-08-10Remove uses of "slave" in replication contextsPeter Eisentraut
This affects mostly code comments, some documentation, and tests. Official APIs already used "standby".
2017-08-10Remove incorrect assertion in clog.cRobert Haas
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
2017-08-05Make pg_stop_backup's wait_for_archive flag work on standbys.Robert Haas
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
2017-08-04Only kill sync workers at commit time in subscription DDLPeter Eisentraut
This allows a transaction abort to avoid killing those workers. Author: Petr Jelinek <petr.jelinek@2ndquadrant.com>
2017-07-21Fix double shared memory allocation.Teodor Sigaev
SLRU buffer lwlocks are allocated twice by oversight in commit fe702a7b3f9f2bc5bf6d173166d7d55226af82c8 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.
2017-07-19Add static assertions about pg_control fitting into one disk sector.Tom Lane
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
2017-06-30Fix typo in commentPeter Eisentraut
Author: Amit Langote <Langote_Amit_f8@lab.ntt.co.jp>
2017-06-22Fix typo in commentAlvaro Herrera
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
2017-06-21Fix possibility of creating a "phantom" segment after promotion.Andres Freund
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
2017-06-21Phase 3 of pgindent updates.Tom Lane
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
2017-06-21Phase 2 of pgindent updates.Tom Lane
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 e3860ffa4dd0dad0dd9eea4be9cc1412373a8c89 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
2017-06-21Initial pgindent run with pg_bsd_indent version 2.0.Tom Lane
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
2017-06-17Fix typos in commentsMagnus Hagander
Author: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
2017-06-14Avoid bogus TwoPhaseState locking sequencesAlvaro Herrera
The optimized code in 728bd991c3c4 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
2017-06-09Formatting improvements in config file samplesPeter Eisentraut
2017-06-09Update code commentsPeter Eisentraut
Author: Neha Khatri <nehakhatri5@gmail.com>
2017-06-06Clean up latch related code.Andres Freund
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: -
2017-06-05Prevent possibility of panics during shutdown checkpoint.Andres Freund
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
2017-06-05Revert "Prevent panic during shutdown checkpoint"Andres Freund
This reverts commit 086221cf6b1727c2baed4703c582f657b7c5350e, 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
2017-06-05Don't be so trusting that shm_toc_lookup() will always succeed.Tom Lane
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
2017-05-31Restore accidentally-removed line.Robert Haas
Commit 88e66d193fbaf756b3cc9bf94cad116aacbb355b is to blame. Masahiko Sawada Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAD21AoAXeb7O4hgg+efs8JT_SxpR4doAH5c5s-Z5WoRLstBZJA@mail.gmail.com
2017-05-17Post-PG 10 beta1 pgindent runBruce Momjian
perltidy run not included.
2017-05-12Standardize "WAL location" terminologyPeter Eisentraut
Other previously used terms were "WAL position" or "log position".
2017-05-12Replace "transaction log" with "write-ahead log"Peter Eisentraut
This makes documentation and error messages match the renaming of "xlog" to "wal" in APIs and file naming.
2017-05-11Rename WAL-related functions and views to use "lsn" not "location".Tom Lane
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
2017-05-05Prevent panic during shutdown checkpointPeter Eisentraut
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>
2017-05-01Fix logical replication launcher wake up and resetPeter Eisentraut
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>
2017-04-27Rework handling of subtransactions in 2PC recoverySimon Riggs
The bug fixed by 0874d4f3e183757ba15a4b3f3bf563e0393dd9c2 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 546c13e11b29a5408b9d6a6e3cca301380b47f7f. Author: Simon Riggs Reviewed-by: Tom Lane, Michael Paquier Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CANP8+j+vvXmruL_i2buvdhMeVv5TQu0Hm2+C5N+kdVwHJuor8w@mail.gmail.com
2017-04-23Workaround for RecoverPreparedTransactions()Simon Riggs
Force overwriteOK = true while we investigate deeper fix Proposed by Tom Lane as temporary measure, accepted by me
2017-04-23Fix order of arguments to SubTransSetParent().Tom Lane
ProcessTwoPhaseBuffer (formerly StandbyRecoverPreparedTransactions) mixed up the parent and child XIDs when calling SubTransSetParent to record the transactions' relationship in pg_subtrans. Remarkably, analysis by Simon Riggs suggests that this doesn't lead to visible problems (at least, not in non-Assert builds). That might explain why we'd not noticed it before. Nonetheless, it's surely wrong. This code was born broken, so back-patch to all supported branches. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20110.1492905318@sss.pgh.pa.us
2017-04-18Exit correctly from PrepareRedoRemove() when not foundSimon Riggs
Complex crash bug all started with this failure. Diagnosed and fixed by Nikhil Sontakke, reviewed by me. Reported-by: Jeff Janes Author: Nikhil Sontakke Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMkU=1xBP8cqdS5eK8APHL=X6RHMMM2vG5g+QamduuTsyCwv9g@mail.gmail.com
2017-04-18Don’t push nextid too far forwards in recoverySimon Riggs
Doing so allows various crash possibilities. Fix by avoiding having PrescanPreparedTransactions() increment ShmemVariableCache->nextXid when it has no 2PC files Bug found by Jeff Janes, diagnosis and patch by Pavan Deolasee, then patch re-designed for clarity and full accuracy by Michael Paquier. Reported-by: Jeff Janes Author: Pavan Deolasee, Michael Paquier Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMkU=1zMLnH_i1-PVQ-biZzvNx7VcuatriquEnh7HNk6K8Ss3Q@mail.gmail.com
2017-04-17Fix new warnings from GCC 7Peter Eisentraut
This addresses the new warning types -Wformat-truncation -Wformat-overflow that are part of -Wall, via -Wformat, in GCC 7.
2017-04-16Ensure BackgroundWorker struct contents are well-defined.Tom Lane
Coverity complained because bgw.bgw_extra wasn't being filled in by ApplyLauncherRegister(). The most future-proof fix is to memset the whole BackgroundWorker struct to zeroes. While at it, let's apply the same coding rule to other places that set up BackgroundWorker structs; four out of five had the same or related issues.
2017-04-16Fix typo in commentPeter Eisentraut
Author: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>
2017-04-14Avoid passing function pointers across process boundaries.Tom Lane
We'd already recognized that we can't pass function pointers across process boundaries for functions in loadable modules, since a shared library could get loaded at different addresses in different processes. But actually the practice doesn't work for functions in the core backend either, if we're using EXEC_BACKEND. This is the cause of recent failures on buildfarm member culicidae. Switch to passing a string function name in all cases. Something like this needs to be back-patched into 9.6, but let's see if the buildfarm likes it first. Petr Jelinek, with a bunch of basically-cosmetic adjustments by me Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/548f9c1d-eafa-e3fa-9da8-f0cc2f654e60@2ndquadrant.com
2017-04-06Always SnapshotResetXmin() during ClearTransaction()Simon Riggs
Avoid corner cases during 2PC with 6bad580d9e678a0b604883e14d8401d469b06566
2017-04-06Avoid SnapshotResetXmin() during AtEOXact_Snapshot()Simon Riggs
For normal commits and aborts we already reset PgXact->xmin, so we can simply avoid running SnapshotResetXmin() twice. During performance tests by Alexander Korotkov, diagnosis by Andres Freund showed PgXact array as a bottleneck. After manual analysis by me of the code paths that touch those memory locations, I was able to identify extraneous code in the main transaction commit path. Avoiding touching highly contented shmem improves concurrent performance slightly on all workloads, confirmed by tests run by Ashutosh Sharma and Alexander Korotkov. Simon Riggs Discussion: CANP8+jJdXE9b+b9F8CQT-LuxxO0PBCB-SZFfMVAdp+akqo4zfg@mail.gmail.com
2017-04-05Capitalize names of PLs consistentlyPeter Eisentraut
Author: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
2017-04-04Make min_wal_size/max_wal_size use MB internallySimon Riggs
Previously they were defined using multiples of XLogSegSize. Remove GUC_UNIT_XSEGS. Introduce GUC_UNIT_MB Extracted from patch series on XLogSegSize infrastructure. Beena Emerson
2017-04-04Fix uninitialized variables in twophase.cSimon Riggs
2017-04-04Speedup 2PC recovery by skipping two phase state files in normal pathSimon Riggs
2PC state info held in shmem at PREPARE, then cleaned at COMMIT PREPARED/ABORT PREPARED, avoiding writing/fsyncing any state information to disk in the normal path, greatly enhancing replay speed. Prepared transactions that live past one checkpoint redo horizon will be written to disk as now. Similar conceptually to 978b2f65aa1262eb4ecbf8b3785cb1b9cf4db78e and building upon the infrastructure created by that commit. Authors, in equal measure: Stas Kelvich, Nikhil Sontakke and Michael Paquier Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMGcDxf8Bn9ZPBBJZba9wiyQq-Qk5uqq=VjoMnRnW5s+fKST3w@mail.gmail.com
2017-03-31Don't use bgw_main even to specify in-core bgworker entrypoints.Robert Haas
On EXEC_BACKEND builds, this can fail if ASLR is in use. Backpatch to 9.5. On master, completely remove the bgw_main field completely, since there is no situation in which it is safe for an EXEC_BACKEND build. On 9.6 and 9.5, leave the field intact to avoid breaking things for third-party code that doesn't care about working under EXEC_BACKEND. Prior to 9.5, there are no in-core bgworker entrypoints. Petr Jelinek, reviewed by me. Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/09d8ad33-4287-a09b-a77f-77f8761adb5e@2ndquadrant.com
2017-03-28Correct grammar in error messageSimon Riggs
"could not generate" rather than "could not generation" from commit 818fd4a67d610991757b610755e3065fb99d80a5
2017-03-28Suppress implicit-conversion warnings seen with newer clang versions.Tom Lane
We were assigning values near 255 through "char *" pointers. On machines where char is signed, that's not entirely kosher, and it's reasonable for compilers to warn about it. A better solution would be to change the pointer type to "unsigned char *", but that would be vastly more invasive. For the moment, let's just apply this simple backpatchable solution. Aleksander Alekseev Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170220141239.GD12278@e733.localdomain Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2839.1490714708@sss.pgh.pa.us
2017-03-27Fsync directory after creating or unlinking file.Teodor Sigaev
If file was created/deleted just before powerloss it's possible that file system will miss that. To prevent it, call fsync() where creating/ unlinkg file is critical. Author: Michael Paquier Reviewed-by: Ashutosh Bapat, Takayuki Tsunakawa, me
2017-03-24Reverting 42b4b0b2413b9b472aaf2112a3bbfd80a6ab4dc5Simon Riggs
Buildfarm issues and other reported issues