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2012-12-10Update minimum recovery point on truncation.Heikki Linnakangas
If a file is truncated, we must update minRecoveryPoint. Once a file is truncated, there's no going back; it would not be safe to stop recovery at a point earlier than that anymore. Per report from Kyotaro HORIGUCHI. Backpatch to 8.4. Before that, minRecoveryPoint was not updated during recovery at all.
2012-08-08fsync backup_label after pg_start_backup()Simon Riggs
Dave Kerr, backpatched by Simon Riggs
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.
2012-02-06Avoid problems with OID wraparound during WAL replay.Tom Lane
Fix a longstanding thinko in replay of NEXTOID and checkpoint records: we tried to advance nextOid only if it was behind the value in the WAL record, but the comparison would draw the wrong conclusion if OID wraparound had occurred since the previous value. Better to just unconditionally assign the new value, since OID assignment shouldn't be happening during replay anyway. The consequences of a failure to update nextOid would be pretty minimal, since we have long had the code set up to obtain another OID and try again if the generated value is already in use. But in the worst case there could be significant performance glitches while such loops iterate through many already-used OIDs before finding a free one. The odds of a wraparound happening during WAL replay would be small in a crash-recovery scenario, and the length of any ensuing OID-assignment stall quite limited anyway. But neither of these statements hold true for a replication slave that follows a WAL stream for a long period; its behavior upon going live could be almost unboundedly bad. Hence it seems worth back-patching this fix into all supported branches. Already fixed in HEAD in commit c6d76d7c82ebebb7210029f7382c0ebe2c558bca.
2011-12-20Avoid crashing when we have problems unlinking files post-commit.Tom Lane
smgrdounlink takes care to not throw an ERROR if it fails to unlink something, but that caution was rendered useless by commit 3396000684b41e7e9467d1abc67152b39e697035, which put an smgrexists call in front of it; smgrexists *does* throw error if anything looks funny, such as getting a permissions error from trying to open the file. If that happens post-commit, you get a PANIC, and what's worse the same logic appears in the WAL replay code, so the database even fails to restart. Restore the intended behavior by removing the smgrexists call --- it isn't accomplishing anything that we can't do better by adjusting mdunlink's ideas of whether it ought to warn about ENOENT or not. Per report from Joseph Shraibman of unrecoverable crash after trying to drop a table whose FSM fork had somehow gotten chmod'd to 000 permissions. Backpatch to 8.4, where the bogus coding was introduced.
2011-09-08PublishStartupProcessInformation() to avoid rare hang in recovery.Simon Riggs
Bgwriter could cause hang in recovery during page concurrent cleaning. Bug report and testing by Bernd Helmle, fix by me
2011-06-10Work around gcc 4.6.0 bug that breaks WAL replay.Tom Lane
ReadRecord's habit of using both direct references to tmpRecPtr and references to *RecPtr (which is pointing at tmpRecPtr) triggers an optimization bug in gcc 4.6.0, which apparently has forgotten about aliasing rules. Avoid the compiler bug, and make the code more readable to boot, by getting rid of the direct references. Improve the comments while at it. Back-patch to all supported versions, in case they get built with 4.6.0. Tom Lane, with some cosmetic suggestions from Alex Hunsaker
2010-11-11Fix bug introduced by the recent patch to check that the checkpoint redoHeikki Linnakangas
location read from backup label file can be found: wasShutdown was set incorrectly when a backup label file was found. Jeff Davis, with a little tweaking by me.
2010-10-26Before removing backup_label and irrevocably changing pg_control file, checkHeikki Linnakangas
that WAL file containing the checkpoint redo-location can be found. This avoids making the cluster irrecoverable if the redo location is in an earlie WAL file than the checkpoint record. Report, analysis and patch by Jeff Davis, with small changes by me.
2010-07-23Avoid deep recursion when assigning XIDs to multiple levels of subxacts.Robert Haas
Backpatch to 8.0. Andres Freund, with cleanup and adjustment for older branches by me.
2010-06-09Make the walwriter close it's handle to an old xlog segment if it's no longerMagnus Hagander
the current one. Not doing this would leave the walwriter with a handle to a deleted file if there was nothing for it to do for a long period of time, preventing the file from being completely removed. Reported by Tollef Fog Heen, and thanks to Heikki for some hand-holding with the patch.
2010-03-18Fix bug in %r handling in recovery_end_command, it always came out as 0Heikki Linnakangas
because InRedo was cleared before recovery_end_command was executed. Also, always take ControlFileLock when reading checkpoint location for %r. That didn't matter before, but in 8.4 bgwriter is active during recovery and can modify the control file concurrently.
2010-02-19Fix STOP WAL LOCATION in backup history files no to return the nextItagaki Takahiro
segment of XLOG_BACKUP_END record even if the the record is placed at a segment boundary. Furthermore the previous implementation could return nonexistent segment file name when the boundary is in segments that has "FE" suffix; We never use segments with "FF" suffix. Backpatch to 8.0, where hot backup was introduced. Reported by Fujii Masao.
2010-01-24Fix assorted core dumps and Assert failures that could occur duringTom Lane
AbortTransaction or AbortSubTransaction, when trying to clean up after an error that prevented (sub)transaction start from completing: * access to TopTransactionResourceOwner that might not exist * assert failure in AtEOXact_GUC, if AtStart_GUC not called yet * assert failure or core dump in AfterTriggerEndSubXact, if AfterTriggerBeginSubXact not called yet Per testing by injecting elog(ERROR) at successive steps in StartTransaction and StartSubTransaction. It's not clear whether all of these cases could really occur in the field, but at least one of them is easily exposed by simple stress testing, as per my accidental discovery yesterday.
2009-12-30Reset minRecoveryPoint at checkpoints, so that we don't uselessly updateHeikki Linnakangas
it in the control file at crash recovery following an archive recovery. Per Fujii Masao and subsequent discussion.
2009-12-09Prevent indirect security attacks via changing session-local state withinTom Lane
an allegedly immutable index function. It was previously recognized that we had to prevent such a function from executing SET/RESET ROLE/SESSION AUTHORIZATION, or it could trivially obtain the privileges of the session user. However, since there is in general no privilege checking for changes of session-local state, it is also possible for such a function to change settings in a way that might subvert later operations in the same session. Examples include changing search_path to cause an unexpected function to be called, or replacing an existing prepared statement with another one that will execute a function of the attacker's choosing. The present patch secures VACUUM, ANALYZE, and CREATE INDEX/REINDEX against these threats, which are the same places previously deemed to need protection against the SET ROLE issue. GUC changes are still allowed, since there are many useful cases for that, but we prevent security problems by forcing a rollback of any GUC change after completing the operation. Other cases are handled by throwing an error if any change is attempted; these include temp table creation, closing a cursor, and creating or deleting a prepared statement. (In 7.4, the infrastructure to roll back GUC changes doesn't exist, so we settle for rejecting changes of "search_path" in these contexts.) Original report and patch by Gurjeet Singh, additional analysis by Tom Lane. Security: CVE-2009-4136
2009-11-23Fix an old bug in multixact and two-phase commit. Prepared transactions canHeikki Linnakangas
be part of multixacts, so allocate a slot for each prepared transaction in the "oldest member" array in multixact.c. On PREPARE TRANSACTION, transfer the oldest member value from the current backends slot to the prepared xact slot. Also save and recover the value from the 2pc state file. The symptom of the bug was that after a transaction prepared, a shared lock still held by the prepared transaction was sometimes ignored by other transactions. Fix back to 8.1, where both 2PC and multixact were introduced.
2009-09-13Don't error out if recycling or removing an old WAL segment fails at the endHeikki Linnakangas
of checkpoint. Although the checkpoint has been written to WAL at that point already, so that all data is safe, and we'll retry removing the WAL segment at the next checkpoint, if such a failure persists we won't be able to remove any other old WAL segments either and will eventually run out of disk space. It's better to treat the failure as non-fatal, and move on to clean any other WAL segment and continue with any other end-of-checkpoint cleanup. We don't normally expect any such failures, but on Windows it can happen with some anti-virus or backup software that lock files without FILE_SHARE_DELETE flag. Also, the loop in pgrename() to retry when the file is locked was broken. If a file is locked on Windows, you get ERROR_SHARE_VIOLATION, not ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED, at least on modern versions. Fix that, although I left the check for ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED in there as well (presumably it was correct in some environment), and added ERROR_LOCK_VIOLATION to be consistent with similar checks in pgwin32_open(). Reduce the timeout on the loop from 30s to 10s, on the grounds that since it's been broken, we've effectively had a timeout of 0s and no-one has complained, so a smaller timeout is actually closer to the old behavior. A longer timeout would mean that if recycling a WAL file fails because it's locked for some reason, InstallXLogFileSegment() will hold ControlFileLock for longer, potentially blocking other backends, so a long timeout isn't totally harmless. While we're at it, set errno correctly in pgrename(). Backpatch to 8.2, which is the oldest version supported on Windows. The xlog.c changes would make sense on other platforms and thus on older versions as well, but since there's no such locking issues on other platforms, it's not worth it.
2009-09-10On Windows, when a file is deleted and another process still has an openHeikki Linnakangas
file handle on it, the file goes into "pending deletion" state where it still shows up in directory listing, but isn't accessible otherwise. That confuses RemoveOldXLogFiles(), making it think that the file hasn't been archived yet, while it actually was, and it was deleted along with the .done file. Fix that by renaming the file with ".deleted" extension before deleting it. Also check the return value of rename() and unlink(), so that if the removal fails for any reason (e.g another process is holding the file locked), we don't delete the .done file until the WAL file is really gone. Backpatch to 8.2, which is the oldest version supported on Windows.
2009-08-27In the checkpoint written at the end of archive recovery, the WAL page headerHeikki Linnakangas
was incorrectly initialized with timeline ID 0. That rendered the WAL page unrecoverable, making a subsequent archive recovery stop at that point. ThisTimeLineID needs to be initialized before calling AdvanceXLInsertBuffer(). This fixes bug #5011 reported by James Bardin. Backpatch to 8.4, as the bug was introduced by the changes to use of bgwriter for writing the end-of-archive-recovery checkpoint. Patch by Tom Lane.
2009-08-08Document that LocalSetXLogInsertAllowed can be re-executed.Tom Lane
Per comment from Simon.
2009-08-07rm_cleanup functions need to be allowed to write WAL entries. This oversightTom Lane
appears to explain the recent reports of "PANIC: cannot make new WAL entries during recovery".
2009-06-26Cleanup and code review for the patch that made bgwriter active duringTom Lane
archive recovery. Invent a separate state variable and inquiry function for XLogInsertAllowed() to clarify some tests and make the management of writing the end-of-recovery checkpoint less klugy. Fix several places that were incorrectly testing InRecovery when they should be looking at RecoveryInProgress or XLogInsertAllowed (because they will now be executed in the bgwriter not startup process). Clarify handling of bad LSNs passed to XLogFlush during recovery. Use a spinlock for setting/testing SharedRecoveryInProgress. Improve quite a lot of comments. Heikki and Tom
2009-06-25Fix some serious bugs in archive recovery, now that bgwriter is activeHeikki Linnakangas
during it: When bgwriter is active, the startup process can't perform mdsync() correctly because it won't see the fsync requests accumulated in bgwriter's private pendingOpsTable. Therefore make bgwriter responsible for the end-of-recovery checkpoint as well, when it's active. When bgwriter is active (= archive recovery), the startup process must not accumulate fsync requests to its own pendingOpsTable, since bgwriter won't see them there when it performs restartpoints. Make startup process drop its pendingOpsTable when bgwriter is launched to avoid that. Update minimum recovery point one last time when leaving archive recovery. It won't be updated by the end-of-recovery checkpoint because XLogFlush() sees us as out of recovery already. This fixes bug #4879 reported by Fujii Masao.
2009-06-25The code to unlink dropped relations in FinishPreparedTransaction() wasHeikki Linnakangas
acting like runs inside WAL recovery, but it doesn't. I must've copy-pasted this from a redo-function in the relation forks patch. Noticed by Tom Lane while he was looking through callers of smgrdounlink().
2009-06-118.4 pgindent run, with new combined Linux/FreeBSD/MinGW typedef listBruce Momjian
provided by Andrew.
2009-06-02Only recycle normal files in pg_xlog as WAL segments. pg_standby createsHeikki Linnakangas
symbolic links with the -l option, and as Fujii Masao pointed out we ended up overwriting files in the archive directory before this patch. Patch by Aidan Van Dyk, Fujii Masao and me. Backpatch to 8.3, where pg_standby was introduced.
2009-05-28When archiving is enabled, rotate the last WAL segment at shutdown so thatHeikki Linnakangas
all transactions are archived. Original patch by Guillaume Smet.
2009-05-15Fix all the server-side SIGQUIT handlers (grumble ... why so many identicalTom Lane
copies?) to ensure they really don't run proc_exit/shmem_exit callbacks, as was intended. I broke this behavior recently by installing atexit callbacks without thinking about the one case where we truly don't want to run those callback functions. Noted in an example from Dave Page.
2009-05-14Include recovery_end_command in recovery.conf.sample.Tom Lane
Per suggestion of Jaime Casanova.
2009-05-14Improve a couple of comments.Tom Lane
2009-05-14Add recovery_end_command option to recovery.conf. recovery_end_commandHeikki Linnakangas
is run at the end of archive recovery, providing a chance to do external cleanup. Modify pg_standby so that it no longer removes the trigger file, that is to be done using the recovery_end_command now. Provide a "smart" failover mode in pg_standby, where we don't fail over immediately, but only after recovering all unapplied WAL from the archive. That gives you zero data loss assuming all WAL was archived before failover, which is what most users of pg_standby actually want. recovery_end_command by Simon Riggs, pg_standby changes by Fujii Masao and myself.
2009-05-13Rewrite xml.c's memory management (yet again). Give up on the idea ofTom Lane
redirecting libxml's allocations into a Postgres context. Instead, just let it use malloc directly, and add PG_TRY blocks as needed to be sure we release libxml data structures in error recovery code paths. This is ugly but seems much more likely to play nicely with third-party uses of libxml, as seen in recent trouble reports about using Perl XML facilities in pl/perl and bug #4774 about contrib/xml2. I left the code for allocation redirection in place, but it's only built/used if you #define USE_LIBXMLCONTEXT. This is because I found it useful to corral libxml's allocations in a palloc context when hunting for libxml memory leaks, and we're surely going to have more of those in the future with this type of approach. But we don't want it turned on in a normal build because it breaks exactly what we need to fix. I have not re-indented most of the code sections that are now wrapped by PG_TRY(); that's for ease of review. pg_indent will fix it. This is a pre-existing bug in 8.3, but I don't dare back-patch this change until it's gotten a reasonable amount of field testing.
2009-05-07Request XLOG switch before writing checkpoint in pg_start_backup(). OtherwiseHeikki Linnakangas
you can end up with an unrecoverable backup if you start a new base backup right after finishing archive recovery. In that scenario, the redo pointer of the checkpoint that pg_start_backup() writes points to the XLOG segment where the timeline-changing end-of-archive-recovery checkpoint is. The beginning of that segment contains pages with the old timeline ID, and we don't accept that in recovery unless we find a history file covering the old timeline ID. If you omit pg_xlog from the base backup and clear the archive directory before starting the backup, there will be no such history file available. The bug is present in all versions since PITR was introduced in 8.0, but I'm back-patching only back to 8.2. Earlier versions didn't have XLOG switch records, making this fix unfeasible. Given the lack of reports until now, it doesn't seem worthwhile to spend more effort to fix 8.0 and 8.1. Per report and suggestion by Mikael Krantz
2009-04-23Change the default value of max_prepared_transactions to zero, and addTom Lane
documentation warnings against setting it nonzero unless active use of prepared transactions is intended and a suitable transaction manager has been installed. This should help to prevent the type of scenario we've seen several times now where a prepared transaction is forgotten and eventually causes severe maintenance problems (or even anti-wraparound shutdown). The only real reason we had the default be nonzero in the first place was to support regression testing of the feature. To still be able to do that, tweak pg_regress to force a nonzero value during "make check". Since we cannot force a nonzero value in "make installcheck", add a variant regression test "expected" file that shows the results that will be obtained when max_prepared_transactions is zero. Also, extend the HINT messages for transaction wraparound warnings to mention the possibility that old prepared transactions are causing the problem. All per today's discussion.
2009-04-22After archive recovery, mark the last WAL segment from the parent timelineHeikki Linnakangas
ready for archival. It was marked at the next checkpoint anyway, but waiting for the next checkpoint is an unnecessary delay. Fujii Masao
2009-04-07Add an optional parameter to pg_start_backup() that specifies whether to doTom Lane
the checkpoint in immediate or lazy mode. This is to address complaints that pg_start_backup() takes a long time even when there's no need to minimize its I/O consumption.
2009-04-02Revert DTrace patch from Robert LorBruce Momjian
2009-04-02Add support for additional DTrace probes.Bruce Momjian
Robert Lor
2009-03-11Code review for dtrace probes added (so far) to 8.4. Adjust placement ofTom Lane
some bufmgr probes, take out redundant and memory-leak-inducing path arguments to smgr__md__read__done and smgr__md__write__done, fix bogus attempt to recalculate space used in sort__done, clean up formatting in places where I'm not sure pgindent will do a nice job by itself.
2009-03-04Reload config file in startup process on SIGHUP.Heikki Linnakangas
Fujii Masao
2009-02-23Change the signaling of end-of-recovery. Startup process now indicates endHeikki Linnakangas
of recovery by exiting with exit code 0, like in previous releases. Per Tom's suggestion.
2009-02-18Start background writer during archive recovery. Background writer now performsHeikki Linnakangas
its usual buffer cleaning duties during archive recovery, and it's responsible for performing restartpoints. This requires some changes in postmaster. When the startup process has done all the initialization and is ready to start WAL redo, it signals the postmaster to launch the background writer. The postmaster is signaled again when the point in recovery is reached where we know that the database is in consistent state. Postmaster isn't interested in that at the moment, but that's the point where we could let other backends in to perform read-only queries. The postmaster is signaled third time when the recovery has ended, so that postmaster knows that it's safe to start accepting connections. The startup process now traps SIGTERM, and performs a "clean" shutdown. If you do a fast shutdown during recovery, a shutdown restartpoint is performed, like a shutdown checkpoint, and postmaster kills the processes cleanly. You still have to continue the recovery at next startup, though. Currently, the background writer is only launched during archive recovery. We could launch it during crash recovery as well, but it seems better to keep that codepath as simple as possible, for the sake of robustness. And it couldn't do any restartpoints during crash recovery anyway, so it wouldn't be that useful. log_restartpoints is gone. Use log_checkpoints instead. This is yet to be documented. This whole operation is a pre-requisite for Hot Standby, but has some value of its own whether the hot standby patch makes 8.4 or not. Simon Riggs, with lots of modifications by me.
2009-02-07Fix obsolete comment. Zdenek KotalaHeikki Linnakangas
2009-01-23Put back fast-path for the case that there's no backup blocks inHeikki Linnakangas
RestoreBkpBlocks. Went missing in my recent refactoring patch, as pointed out by Simon's hot standby patch.
2009-01-20Add a new option to RestoreBkpBlocks() to indicate if a cleanup lock shouldHeikki Linnakangas
be used instead of the normal exclusive lock, and make WAL redo functions responsible for calling RestoreBkpBlocks(). They know better what kind of a lock they need. At the moment, this just moves things around with no functional change, but makes the hot standby patch that's under review cleaner.
2009-01-11Re-enable the old code in xlog.c that tried to use posix_fadvise(), so thatTom Lane
we can get some buildfarm feedback about whether that function is still problematic. (Note that the planned async-preread patch will not really prove anything one way or the other in buildfarm testing, since it will be inactive with default GUC settings.)
2009-01-01Update copyright for 2009.Bruce Momjian
2008-12-24Change the name of dtrace wal tracepoints:Bruce Momjian
TRACE_POSTGRESQL_WAL_BUFFER_WRITE_DIRTY Robert Lor
2008-12-17The attached patch contains a couple of fixes in the existing probes andBruce Momjian
includes a few new ones. - Fixed compilation errors on OS X for probes that use typedefs - Fixed a number of probes to pass ForkNumber per the relation forks patch - The new probes are those that were taken out from the previous submitted patch and required simple fixes. Will submit the other probes that may require more discussion in a separate patch. Robert Lor