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2012-09-05Fix WAL file replacement during cascading replication on Windows.Heikki Linnakangas
When the startup process restores a WAL file from the archive, it deletes any old file with the same name and renames the new file in its place. On Windows, however, when a file is deleted, it still lingers as long as a process holds a file handle open on it. With cascading replication, a walsender process can hold the old file open, so the rename() in the startup process would fail. To fix that, rename the old file to a temporary name, to make the original file name available for reuse, before deleting the old file.
2012-09-05Fix inappropriate error messages for Hot Standby misconfiguration errors.Tom Lane
Give the correct name of the GUC parameter being complained of. Also, emit a more suitable SQLSTATE (INVALID_PARAMETER_VALUE, not the default INTERNAL_ERROR). Gurjeet Singh, errcode adjustment by me
2012-09-04Fix compiler warnings about unused variables, caused by my previous commit.Heikki Linnakangas
Reported by Peter Eisentraut.
2012-09-04Fix bugs in cascading replication with recovery_target_timeline='latest'Heikki Linnakangas
The cascading replication code assumed that the current RecoveryTargetTLI never changes, but that's not true with recovery_target_timeline='latest'. The obvious upshot of that is that RecoveryTargetTLI in shared memory needs to be protected by a lock. A less obvious consequence is that when a cascading standby is connected, and the standby switches to a new target timeline after scanning the archive, it will continue to stream WAL to the cascading standby, but from a wrong file, ie. the file of the previous timeline. For example, if the standby is currently streaming from the middle of file 000000010000000000000005, and the timeline changes, the standby will continue to stream from that file. However, the WAL on the new timeline is in file 000000020000000000000005, so the standby sends garbage from 000000010000000000000005 to the cascading standby, instead of the correct WAL from file 000000020000000000000005. This also fixes a related bug where a partial WAL segment is restored from the archive and streamed to a cascading standby. The code assumed that when a WAL segment is copied from the archive, it can immediately be fully streamed to a cascading standby. However, if the segment is only partially filled, ie. has the right size, but only N first bytes contain valid WAL, that's not safe. That can happen if a partial WAL segment is manually copied to the archive, or if a partial WAL segment is archived because a server is started up on a new timeline within that segment. The cascading standby will get confused if the WAL it received is not valid, and will get stuck until it's restarted. This patch fixes that problem by not allowing WAL restored from the archive to be streamed to a cascading standby until it's been replayed, and thus validated.
2012-09-03Replace memcpy() calls in xlog.c critical sections with struct assignments.Tom Lane
This gets rid of a dangerous-looking use of the not-volatile XLogCtl pointer in a couple of spinlock-protected sections, where the normal coding rule is that you should only access shared memory through a pointer-to-volatile. I think the risk is only hypothetical not actual, since for there to be a bug the compiler would have to move the spinlock acquire or release across the memcpy() call, which one sincerely hopes it will not. Still, it looks cleaner this way. Per comment from Daniel Farina and subsequent discussion.
2012-08-30Split tuple struct defs from htup.h to htup_details.hAlvaro Herrera
This reduces unnecessary exposure of other headers through htup.h, which is very widely included by many files. I have chosen to move the function prototypes to the new file as well, because that means htup.h no longer needs to include tupdesc.h. In itself this doesn't have much effect in indirect inclusion of tupdesc.h throughout the tree, because it's also required by execnodes.h; but it's something to explore in the future, and it seemed best to do the htup.h change now while I'm busy with it.
2012-08-28Split heapam_xlog.h from heapam.hAlvaro Herrera
The heapam XLog functions are used by other modules, not all of which are interested in the rest of the heapam API. With this, we let them get just the XLog stuff in which they are interested and not pollute them with unrelated includes. Also, since heapam.h no longer requires xlog.h, many files that do include heapam.h no longer get xlog.h automatically, including a few headers. This is useful because heapam.h is getting pulled in by execnodes.h, which is in turn included by a lot of files.
2012-08-28Split resowner.hAlvaro Herrera
This lets files that are mere users of ResourceOwner not automatically include the headers for stuff that is managed by the resowner mechanism.
2012-08-21Avoid somewhat-theoretical overflow risks in RecordIsValid().Tom Lane
This improves on commit 51fed14d73ed3acd2282b531fb1396877e44e86a by eliminating the assumption that we can form <some pointer value> + <some offset> without overflow. The entire point of those tests is that we don't trust the offset value, so coding them in a way that could wrap around if the buffer happens to be near the top of memory doesn't seem sound. Instead, track the remaining space as a size_t variable and compare offsets against that. Also, improve comment about why we need the extra early check on xl_tot_len.
2012-08-20Don't get confused if a WAL partial record header has xl_tot_len == 0.Heikki Linnakangas
If a WAL record header was split across pages, but xl_tot_len was 0, we would get confused and conclude that we had already read the whole record, and proceed to CRC check it. That can lead to a crash in RecordIsValid(), which isn't careful to not read beyond end-of-record, as defined by xl_tot_len. Add an explicit sanity check for xl_tot_len <= SizeOfXlogRecord. Also, make RecordIsValid() more robust by checking in each step that it doesn't try to access memory beyond end of record, even if a length field in the record's or a backup block's header is bogus. Per report and analysis by Tom Lane.
2012-08-15Update C comment to NOTICE to reflect previous commit changing the errorBruce Momjian
level, per report from Tom.
2012-08-08Fix minor bug in XLogFileRead() that accidentally worked.Simon Riggs
Cascading replication copied the incoming file into pg_xlog but didn't set path correctly, so the first attempt to open file failed causing it to loop around and look for file in pg_xlog. So the earlier coding worked, but accidentally rather than by design. Spotted by Fujii Masao, fix by Fujii Masao and Simon Riggs
2012-08-08Fix TwoPhaseGetDummyBackendId().Tom Lane
This was broken in commit ed0b409d22346b1b027a4c2099ca66984d94b6dd, which revised the GlobalTransactionData struct to not include the associated PGPROC as its first member, but overlooked one place where a cast was used in reliance on that equivalence. The most effective way of fixing this seems to be to create a new function that looks up the GlobalTransactionData struct given the XID, and make both TwoPhaseGetDummyBackendId and TwoPhaseGetDummyProc rely on that. Per report from Robert Ross.
2012-08-07fsync backup_label after pg_start_backup()Simon Riggs
Dave Kerr
2012-07-18Fix management of pendingOpsTable in auxiliary processes.Tom Lane
mdinit() was misusing IsBootstrapProcessingMode() to decide whether to create an fsync pending-operations table in the current process. This led to creating a table not only in the startup and checkpointer processes as intended, but also in the bgwriter process, not to mention other auxiliary processes such as walwriter and walreceiver. Creation of the table in the bgwriter is fatal, because it absorbs fsync requests that should have gone to the checkpointer; instead they just sit in bgwriter local memory and are never acted on. So writes performed by the bgwriter were not being fsync'd which could result in data loss after an OS crash. I think there is no live bug with respect to walwriter and walreceiver because those never perform any writes of shared buffers; but the potential is there for future breakage in those processes too. To fix, make AuxiliaryProcessMain() export the current process's AuxProcType as a global variable, and then make mdinit() test directly for the types of aux process that should have a pendingOpsTable. Having done that, we might as well also get rid of the random bool flags such as am_walreceiver that some of the aux processes had grown. (Note that we could not have fixed the bug by examining those variables in mdinit(), because it's called from BaseInit() which is run by AuxiliaryProcessMain() before entering any of the process-type-specific code.) Back-patch to 9.2, where the problem was introduced by the split-up of bgwriter and checkpointer processes. The bogus pendingOpsTable exists in walwriter and walreceiver processes in earlier branches, but absent any evidence that it causes actual problems there, I'll leave the older branches alone.
2012-07-02Fix a stupid bug I introduced into XLogFlush().Robert Haas
Commit f11e8be3e812cdbbc139c1b4e49141378b118dee broke this; it was right in Peter's original patch, but I messed it up before committing.
2012-07-02Fix position of WalSndWakeupRequest call.Robert Haas
This avoids discriminating against wal_sync_method = open_sync or open_datasync. Fujii Masao, reviewed by Andres Freund
2012-07-02Assorted message style improvementsPeter Eisentraut
2012-07-02Work a little harder on comments for walsender wakeup patch.Robert Haas
Per gripe from Tom Lane.
2012-07-02Make commit_delay much smarter.Robert Haas
Instead of letting every backend participating in a group commit wait independently, have the first one that becomes ready to flush WAL wait for the configured delay, and let all the others wait just long enough for that first process to complete its flush. This greatly increases the chances of being able to configure a commit_delay setting that actually improves performance. As a side consequence of this change, commit_delay now affects all WAL flushes, rather than just commits. There was some discussion on pgsql-hackers about whether to rename the GUC to, say, wal_flush_delay, but in the absence of consensus I am leaving it alone for now. Peter Geoghegan, with some changes, mostly to the documentation, by me.
2012-07-02Make walsender more responsive.Robert Haas
Per testing by Andres Freund, this improves replication performance and reduces replication latency and latency jitter. I was a bit concerned about moving more work into XLogInsert, but testing seems to show that it's not a problem in practice. Along the way, improve comments for WaitLatchOrSocket. Andres Freund. Review and stylistic cleanup by me.
2012-06-30Validate xlog record header before enlarging the work area to store it.Heikki Linnakangas
If the record header is garbled, we're now quite likely to notice it before we try to make a bogus memory allocation and run out of memory. That can still happen, if the xlog record is split across pages (we cannot verify the record header until reading the next page in that scenario), but this reduces the chances. An out-of-memory is treated as a corrupt record anyway, so this isn't a correctness issue, just a case of giving a better error message. Per Amit Kapila's suggestion.
2012-06-29Initialize shared memory copy of ckptXidEpoch correctly when not in recovery.Heikki Linnakangas
This bug was introduced by commit 20d98ab6e4110087d1816cd105a40fcc8ce0a307, so backpatch this to 9.0-9.2 like that one. This fixes bug #6710, reported by Tarvi Pillessaar
2012-06-28Update outdated commit; xlp_rem_len field is in page header now.Heikki Linnakangas
Spotted by Amit Kapila
2012-06-27Fix two more neglected comments, still referring to log/seg.Heikki Linnakangas
Fujii Masao
2012-06-27I neglected many comments in the log+seg -> 64-bit segno patch. Fix.Heikki Linnakangas
Reported by Amit Kapila.
2012-06-25Tighten up includes in sinvaladt.h, twophase.h, proc.hAlvaro Herrera
Remove proc.h from sinvaladt.h and twophase.h; also replace xlog.h in proc.h with xlogdefs.h.
2012-06-24Oops. Remove stray paren.Heikki Linnakangas
I didn't notice this on my laptop as I don't HAVE_FSYNC_WRITETHROUGH.
2012-06-24Replace XLogRecPtr struct with a 64-bit integer.Heikki Linnakangas
This simplifies code that needs to do arithmetic on XLogRecPtrs. To avoid changing on-disk format of data pages, the LSN on data pages is still stored in the old format. That should keep pg_upgrade happy. However, we have XLogRecPtrs embedded in the control file, and in the structs that are sent over the replication protocol, so this changes breaks compatibility of pg_basebackup and server. I didn't do anything about this in this patch, per discussion on -hackers, the right thing to do would to be to change the replication protocol to be architecture-independent, so that you could use a newer version of pg_receivexlog, for example, against an older server version.
2012-06-24Allow WAL record header to be split across pages.Heikki Linnakangas
This saves a few bytes of WAL space, but the real motivation is to make it predictable how much WAL space a record requires, as it no longer depends on whether we need to waste the last few bytes at end of WAL page because the header doesn't fit. The total length field of WAL record, xl_tot_len, is moved to the beginning of the WAL record header, so that it is still always found on the first page where a WAL record begins. Bump WAL version number again as this is an incompatible change.
2012-06-24Move WAL continuation record information to WAL page header.Heikki Linnakangas
The continuation record only contained one field, xl_rem_len, so it makes things simpler to just include it in the WAL page header. This wastes four bytes on pages that don't begin with a continuation from previos page, plus four bytes on every page, because of padding. The motivation of this is to make it easier to calculate how much space a WAL record needs. Before this patch, it depended on how many page boundaries the record crosses. The motivation of that, in turn, is to separate the allocation of space in the WAL from the copying of the record data to the allocated space. Keeping the calculation of space required simple helps to keep the critical section of allocating the space from WAL short. But that's not included in this patch yet. Bump WAL version number again, as this is an incompatible change.
2012-06-24Don't waste the last segment of each 4GB logical log file.Heikki Linnakangas
The comments claimed that wasting the last segment made it easier to do calculations with XLogRecPtrs, because you don't have problems representing last-byte-position-plus-1 that way. In my experience, however, it only made things more complicated, because the there was two ways to represent the boundary at the beginning of a logical log file: logid = n+1 and xrecoff = 0, or as xlogid = n and xrecoff = 4GB - XLOG_SEG_SIZE. Some functions were picky about which representation was used. Also, use a 64-bit segment number instead of the log/seg combination, to point to a certain WAL segment. We assume that all platforms have a working 64-bit integer type nowadays. This is an incompatible change in WAL format, so bumping WAL version number.
2012-06-14Improve readability and error messages in pg_backup_start_time.Robert Haas
Gurjeet Singh, with corrections by me.
2012-06-14New SQL functons pg_backup_in_progress() and pg_backup_start_time()Robert Haas
Darold Gilles, reviewed by Gabriele Bartolini and others, rebased by Marco Nenciarini. Stylistic cleanup and OID fixes by me.
2012-06-14During transaction cleanup, release locks before deleting files.Robert Haas
There's no need to hold onto the locks until the files are needed, and by doing it this way, we reduce the impact on other backends who may be awaiting locks we hold. Noah Misch
2012-06-13Revert "Reduce checkpoints and WAL traffic on low activity database server"Tom Lane
This reverts commit 18fb9d8d21a28caddb72c7ffbdd7b96d52ff9724. Per discussion, it does not seem like a good idea to allow committed changes to go un-checkpointed indefinitely, as could happen in a low-traffic server; that makes us entirely reliant on the WAL stream with no redundancy that might aid data recovery in case of disk failure. This re-introduces the original problem of hot-standby setups generating a small continuing stream of WAL traffic even when idle, but there are other ways to address that without compromising crash recovery, so we'll revisit that issue in a future release cycle.
2012-06-10Run pgindent on 9.2 source tree in preparation for first 9.3Bruce Momjian
commit-fest.
2012-06-07Scan the buffer pool just once, not once per fork, during relation drop.Tom Lane
This provides a speedup of about 4X when NBuffers is large enough. There is also a useful reduction in sinval traffic, since we only do CacheInvalidateSmgr() once not once per fork. Simon Riggs, reviewed and somewhat revised by Tom Lane
2012-06-07Wake WALSender to reduce data loss at failover for async commit.Simon Riggs
WALSender now woken up after each background flush by WALwriter, avoiding multi-second replication delay for an all-async commit workload. Replication delay reduced from 7s with default settings to 200ms and often much less, allowing significantly reduced data loss at failover. Andres Freund and Simon Riggs
2012-05-31Improve comment for GetStableLatestTransactionId().Tom Lane
2012-05-28Teach AbortOutOfAnyTransaction to clean up partially-started transactions.Tom Lane
AbortOutOfAnyTransaction failed to do anything if the state it saw on entry corresponded to failing partway through StartTransaction. I fixed AbortCurrentTransaction to cope with that case way back in commit 60b2444cc3ba037630c9b940c3c9ef01b954b87b, but evidently overlooked that AbortOutOfAnyTransaction should do likewise. Back-patch to all supported branches. It's not clear that this omission has any more-than-cosmetic consequences, but it's also not clear that it doesn't, so back-patching seems the least risky choice.
2012-05-14Update comments that became out-of-date with the PGXACT struct.Heikki Linnakangas
When the "hot" members of PGPROC were split off to separate PGXACT structs, many PGPROC fields referred to in comments were moved to PGXACT, but the comments were neglected in the commit. Mostly this is just a search/replace of PGPROC with PGXACT, but the way the dummy PGPROC entries are created for prepared transactions changed more, making some of the comments totally bogus. Noah Misch
2012-05-12Ensure backwards compatibility for GetStableLatestTransactionId()Simon Riggs
2012-05-11Ensure age() returns a stable value rather than the latest valueSimon Riggs
2012-05-08Fix an issue in recent walwriter hibernation patch.Tom Lane
Users of asynchronous-commit mode expect there to be a guaranteed maximum delay before an async commit's WAL records get flushed to disk. The original version of the walwriter hibernation patch broke that. Add an extra shared-memory flag to allow async commits to kick the walwriter out of hibernation mode, without adding any noticeable overhead in cases where no action is needed.
2012-05-08Reduce idle power consumption of walwriter and checkpointer processes.Tom Lane
This patch modifies the walwriter process so that, when it has not found anything useful to do for many consecutive wakeup cycles, it extends its sleep time to reduce the server's idle power consumption. It reverts to normal as soon as it's done any successful flushes. It's still true that during any async commit, backends check for completed, unflushed pages of WAL and signal the walwriter if there are any; so that in practice the walwriter can get awakened and returned to normal operation sooner than the sleep time might suggest. Also, improve the checkpointer so that it uses a latch and a computed delay time to not wake up at all except when it has something to do, replacing a previous hardcoded 0.5 sec wakeup cycle. This also is primarily useful for reducing the server's power consumption when idle. In passing, get rid of the dedicated latch for signaling the walwriter in favor of using its procLatch, since that comports better with possible generic signal handlers using that latch. Also, fix a pre-existing bug with failure to save/restore errno in walwriter's signal handlers. Peter Geoghegan, somewhat simplified by Tom
2012-04-30Converge all SQL-level statistics timing values to float8 milliseconds.Tom Lane
This patch adjusts the core statistics views to match the decision already taken for pg_stat_statements, that values representing elapsed time should be represented as float8 and measured in milliseconds. By using float8, we are no longer tied to a specific maximum precision of timing data. (Internally, it's still microseconds, but we could now change that without needing changes at the SQL level.) The columns affected are pg_stat_bgwriter.checkpoint_write_time pg_stat_bgwriter.checkpoint_sync_time pg_stat_database.blk_read_time pg_stat_database.blk_write_time pg_stat_user_functions.total_time pg_stat_user_functions.self_time pg_stat_xact_user_functions.total_time pg_stat_xact_user_functions.self_time The first four of these are new in 9.2, so there is no compatibility issue from changing them. The others require a release note comment that they are now double precision (and can show a fractional part) rather than bigint as before; also their underlying statistics functions now match the column definitions, instead of returning bigint microseconds.
2012-04-30Remove duplicate word in comment.Robert Haas
Noted by Peter Geoghegan.
2012-04-23Lots of doc corrections.Robert Haas
Josh Kupershmidt
2012-04-22Fix some typosPeter Eisentraut
Josh Kupershmidt