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2011-06-16Respect Hot Standby controls while recycling btree index pages.Simon Riggs
Btree pages were recycled after VACUUM deletes all records on a page and then a subsequent VACUUM occurs after the RecentXmin horizon is reached. Using RecentXmin meant that we did not respond correctly to the user controls provide to avoid Hot Standby conflicts and so spurious conflicts could be generated in some workload combinations. We now reuse pages only when we reach RecentGlobalXmin, which can be much later in the presence of long running queries and is also controlled by vacuum_defer_cleanup_age. Noah Misch and Simon Riggs
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
2011-05-31Protect GIST logic that assumes penalty values can't be negative.Tom Lane
Apparently sane-looking penalty code might return small negative values, for example because of roundoff error. This will confuse places like gistchoose(). Prevent problems by clamping negative penalty values to zero. (Just to be really sure, I also made it force NaNs to zero.) Back-patch to all supported branches. Alexander Korotkov
2011-05-23Lobotomize typmod check in convert_tuples_by_position, back branches only.Tom Lane
convert_tuples_by_position was rejecting attempts to coerce a record field with -1 typmod to the same type with a non-default typmod. This is in fact the "correct" thing to do (since we're just going to do a type relabeling, not invoke any length-conversion cast function); but it results in rejecting valid cases like bug #6020, because the source record's tupdesc is built from Params that don't have typmod assigned. Since that's a regression from previous versions, which accepted this code, we have to do something about it. In HEAD, I've fixed the problem properly by causing the Params to receive the correct typmods; but the potential for incidental behavioral changes seems high enough to make it unattractive to make the same change in released branches. (And it couldn't be fixed that way in 8.4 anyway...) Hence this patch just modifies convert_tuples_by_position to not complain if either the input or the output tupdesc has typmod -1. This is still a shade tighter checking than we did before 9.0, since before that plpgsql failed to consider typmods at all when checking record compatibility. (convert_tuples_by_position is currently used only by plpgsql, so we're not affecting other behavior.) Back-patch to 8.4, since we recently back-ported convert_tuples_by_position into that branch.
2011-05-11Shut down WAL receiver if it's still running at end of recovery. We used toHeikki Linnakangas
just check that it's not running and PANIC if it was, but that can rightfully happen if recovery stops at recovery target.
2011-04-13Revert the patch to check if we've reached end-of-backup also when doingHeikki Linnakangas
crash recovery, and throw an error if not. hubert depesz lubaczewski pointed out that that situation also happens in the crash recovery following a system crash that happens during an online backup. We might want to do something smarter in 9.1, like put the check back for backups taken with pg_basebackup, but that's for another patch.
2011-03-30Check that we've reached end-of-backup also when we're not performingHeikki Linnakangas
archive recovery. It's possible to restore an online backup without recovery.conf, by simply copying all the necessary WAL files to pg_xlog. "pg_basebackup -x" does that too. That's the use case where this cross-check is useful. Backpatch to 9.0. We used to do this in earlier versins, but in 9.0 the code was inadvertently changed so that the check is only performed after archive recovery. Fujii Masao.
2011-03-23Prevent intermittent hang in recovery from bgwriter interaction.Simon Riggs
Startup process waited for cleanup lock but when hot_standby = off the pid was not registered, so that the bgwriter would not wake the waiting process as intended.
2010-12-10Reduce spurious Hot Standby conflicts from never-visible records.Simon Riggs
Hot Standby conflicts only with tuples that were visible at some point. So ignore tuples from aborted transactions or for tuples updated/deleted during the inserting transaction when generating the conflict transaction ids. Following detailed analysis and test case by Noah Misch. Original report covered btree delete records, correctly observed by Heikki Linnakangas that this applies to other cases also. Fix covers all sources of cleanup records via common code. Includes additional fix compared to commit on HEAD
2010-12-07Fix bugs in the hot standby known-assigned-xids tracking logic. If there'sHeikki Linnakangas
an old transaction running in the master, and a lot of transactions have started and finished since, and a WAL-record is written in the gap between the creating the running-xacts snapshot and WAL-logging it, recovery will fail with "too many KnownAssignedXids" error. This bug was reported by Joachim Wieland on Nov 19th. In the same scenario, when fewer transactions have started so that all the xids fit in KnownAssignedXids despite the first bug, a more serious bug arises. We incorrectly initialize the clog code with the oldest still running transaction, and when we see the WAL record belonging to a transaction with an XID larger than one that committed already before the checkpoint we're recovering from, we zero the clog page containing the already committed transaction, leading to data loss. In hindsight, trying to track xids in the known-assigned-xids array before seeing the running-xacts record was too complicated. To fix that, hold XidGenLock while the running-xacts snapshot is taken and WAL-logged. That ensures that no transaction can begin or end in that gap, so that in recvoery we know that the snapshot contains all transactions running at that point in WAL.
2010-12-06Fix two typos, by Fujii Masao.Heikki Linnakangas
2010-11-16The GiST scan algorithm uses LSNs to detect concurrent pages splits, butHeikki Linnakangas
temporary indexes are not WAL-logged. We used a constant LSN for temporary indexes, on the assumption that we don't need to worry about concurrent page splits in temporary indexes because they're only visible to the current session. But that assumption is wrong, it's possible to insert rows and split pages in the same session, while a scan is in progress. For example, by opening a cursor and fetching some rows, and INSERTing new rows before fetching some more. Fix by generating fake increasing LSNs, used in place of real LSNs in temporary GiST indexes.
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.
2010-11-09In rewriteheap.c (used by VACUUM FULL and CLUSTER), calculate the tupleHeikki Linnakangas
length stored in the line pointer the same way it's calculated in the normal heap_insert() codepath. As noted by Jeff Davis, the length stored by raw_heap_insert() included padding but the one stored by the normal codepath did not. While the mismatch seems to be harmless, inconsistency isn't good, and the normal codepath has received a lot more testing over the years. Backpatch to 8.3 where the heap rewrite code was introduced.
2010-11-02Bootstrap WAL to begin at segment logid=0 logseg=1 (000000010000000000000001)Heikki Linnakangas
rather than 0/0, so that we can safely use 0/0 as an invalid value. This is a more future-proof fix for the corner-case bug in streaming replication that was fixed yesterday. We had a similar corner-case bug with log/seg 0/0 back in February as well. Avoiding 0/0 as a valid value should prevent bugs like that in the future. Per Tom Lane's idea. Back-patch to 9.0. Since this only affects bootstrapping, it makes no difference to existing installations. We don't need to worry about the bug in existing installations, because if you've managed to get past the initial base backup already, you won't hit the bug in the future either.
2010-11-01Fix corner-case bug in tracking of latest removed WAL segment duringHeikki Linnakangas
streaming replication. We used log/seg 0/0 to indicate that no WAL segments have been removed since startup, but 0/0 is a valid value for the very first WAL segment after initdb. To make that disambiguous, store (latest removed WAL segment + 1) in the global variable. Per report from Matt Chesler, also reproduced by Greg Smith.
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.
2010-10-20Don't try to fetch database name when SetTransactionIdLimit() is executedTom Lane
outside a transaction. This repairs brain fade in my patch of 2009-08-30: the reason we had been storing oldest-database name, not OID, in ShmemVariableCache was of course to avoid having to do a catalog lookup at times when it might be unsafe. This error explains why Aleksandr Dushein is having trouble getting out of an XID wraparound state in bug #5718, though not how he got into that state in the first place. I suspect pg_upgrade is at fault there.
2010-10-14Fix bug in comment of timeline history file.Simon Riggs
Fujii Masao
2010-10-11Fix assorted bugs in GIN's WAL replay logic.Tom Lane
The original coding was quite sloppy about handling the case where XLogReadBuffer fails (because the page has since been deleted). This would result in either "bad buffer id: 0" or an Assert failure during replay, if indeed the page were no longer there. In a couple of places it also neglected to check whether the change had already been applied, which would probably result in corrupted index contents. I believe that bug #5703 is an instance of the first problem. These issues could show up without replication, but only if you were unfortunate enough to crash between modification of a GIN index and the next checkpoint. Back-patch to 8.2, which is as far back as GIN has WAL support.
2010-08-30Fix misleading DEBUG2 issued during RemoveOldXlogFiles()Simon Riggs
2010-08-30Truncate subtrans after each restartpoint.Simon Riggs
Issue reported by Harald Kolb, patch by Fujii Masao, review by me.
2010-08-29Reduce PANIC to ERROR in some occasionally-reported btree failure cases.Tom Lane
This patch changes _bt_split() and _bt_pagedel() to throw a plain ERROR, rather than PANIC, for several cases that are reported from the field from time to time: * right sibling's left-link doesn't match; * PageAddItem failure during _bt_split(); * parent page's next child isn't right sibling during _bt_pagedel(). In addition the error messages for these cases have been made a bit more verbose, with additional values included. The original motivation for PANIC here was to capture core dumps for subsequent analysis. But with so many users whose platforms don't capture core dumps by default, or who are unprepared to analyze them anyway, it's hard to justify a forced database restart when we can fairly easily detect the problems before we've reached the critical sections where PANIC would be necessary. It is not currently known whether the reports of these messages indicate well-hidden bugs in Postgres, or are a result of storage-level malfeasance; the latter possibility suggests that we ought to try to be more robust even if there is a bug here that's ultimately found. Backpatch to 8.2. The code before that is sufficiently different that it doesn't seem worth the trouble to back-port further.
2010-08-26Remove duplicate translatable phraseAlvaro Herrera
2010-08-13Make RecordTransactionCommit() respect wal_level.Robert Haas
Since the only purpose of WAL-loggin SharedInvalidationMessages is to support Hot Standby operation, they needn't be included when wal_level < hot_standby. Back-patch to 9.0. Review by Heikki Linnakanagas and Fujii Masao.
2010-08-12Correct sundry errors in Hot Standby-related comments.Robert Haas
Fujii Masao
2010-08-01Back-patch fix for renaming asyncCommitLSN to asyncXactLSN.Tom Lane
AIUI this was supposed to go into 9.0 as well as HEAD.
2010-08-01Fix an additional set of problems in GIN's handling of lossy page pointers.Tom Lane
Although the key-combining code claimed to work correctly if its input contained both lossy and exact pointers for a single page in a single TID stream, in fact this did not work, and could not work without pretty fundamental redesign. Modify keyGetItem so that it will not return such a stream, by handling lossy-pointer cases a bit more explicitly than we did before. Per followup investigation of a gripe from Artur Dabrowski. An example of a query that failed given his data set is select count(*) from search_tab where (to_tsvector('german', keywords ) @@ to_tsquery('german', 'ee:* | dd:*')) and (to_tsvector('german', keywords ) @@ to_tsquery('german', 'aa:*')); Back-patch to 8.4 where the lossy pointer code was introduced.
2010-08-01Rewrite the rbtree routines so that an RBNode is the first field of theTom Lane
struct representing a tree entry, rather than being a separately allocated piece of storage. This API is at least as clean as the old one (if not more so --- there were some bizarre choices in there) and it permits a very substantial memory savings, on the order of 2X in ginbulk.c's usage. Also, fix minor memory leaks in code called by ginEntryInsert, in particular in ginInsertValue and entryFillRoot, as well as ginEntryInsert itself. These leaks resulted in the GIN index build context continuing to bloat even after we'd filled it to maintenance_work_mem and started to dump data out to the index. In combination these fixes restore the GIN index build code to honoring the maintenance_work_mem limit about as well as it did in 8.4. Speed seems on par with 8.4 too, maybe even a bit faster, for a non-pathological case in which HEAD was formerly slower. Back-patch to 9.0 so we don't have a performance regression from 8.4.
2010-07-31Rewrite the key-combination logic in GIN's keyGetItem() and scanGetItem()Tom Lane
routines to make them behave better in the presence of "lossy" index pointers. The previous coding was outright incorrect for some cases, as recently reported by Artur Dabrowski: scanGetItem would fail to return index entries in cases where one index key had multiple exact pointers on the same page as another key had a lossy pointer. Also, keyGetItem was extremely inefficient for cases where a single index key generates multiple "entry" streams, such as an @@ operator with a multiple-clause tsquery. The presence of a lossy page pointer in any one stream defeated its ability to use the opclass consistentFn, resulting in probing many heap pages that didn't really need to be visited. In Artur's example case, a query like WHERE tsvector @@ to_tsquery('a & b') was about 50X slower than the theoretically equivalent WHERE tsvector @@ to_tsquery('a') AND tsvector @@ to_tsquery('b') The way that I chose to fix this was to have GIN call the consistentFn twice with both TRUE and FALSE values for the in-doubt entry stream, returning a hit if either call produces TRUE, but not if they both return FALSE. The code handles this for the case of a single in-doubt entry stream, but punts (falling back to the stupid behavior) if there's more than one lossy reference to the same page. The idea could be scaled up to deal with multiple lossy references, but I think that would probably be wasted complexity. At least to judge by Artur's example, such cases don't occur often enough to be worth trying to optimize. Back-patch to 8.4. 8.3 did not have lossy GIN index pointers, so not subject to these problems.
2010-07-29Fix possible page corruption by ALTER TABLE .. SET TABLESPACE.Robert Haas
If a zeroed page is present in the heap, ALTER TABLE .. SET TABLESPACE will set the LSN and TLI while copying it, which is wrong, and heap_xlog_newpage() will do the same thing during replay, so the corruption propagates to any standby. Note, however, that the bug can't be demonstrated unless archiving is enabled, since in that case we skip WAL logging altogether, and the LSN/TLI are not set. Back-patch to 8.0; prior releases do not have tablespaces. Analysis and patch by Jeff Davis. Adjustments for back-branches and minor wordsmithing 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.
2010-07-08Update obsolete comment. Noted by Josh Tolley.Tom Lane
2010-07-06pgindent run for 9.0, second runBruce Momjian
2010-07-03Don't set recoveryLastXTime when replaying a checkpoint --- that was a bogusTom Lane
idea from the start since the variable is only meant to track commit/abort events. This patch reverts the logic around the variable to what it was in 8.4, except that the value is now kept in shared memory rather than a static variable, so that it can be reported correctly by CreateRestartPoint (which is executed in the bgwriter).
2010-07-03Replace max_standby_delay with two parameters, max_standby_archive_delay andTom Lane
max_standby_streaming_delay, and revise the implementation to avoid assuming that timestamps found in WAL records can meaningfully be compared to clock time on the standby server. Instead, the delay limits are compared to the elapsed time since we last obtained a new WAL segment from archive or since we were last "caught up" to WAL data arriving via streaming replication. This avoids problems with clock skew between primary and standby, as well as other corner cases that the original coding would misbehave in, such as the primary server having significant idle time between transactions. Per my complaint some time ago and considerable ensuing discussion. Do some desultory editing on the hot standby documentation, too.
2010-06-29Add C comment about why synchronous_commit=off behavior can loseBruce Momjian
committed transactions in a postmaster crash.
2010-06-28emode_for_corrupt_record shouldn't reduce LOG messages to WARNING.Robert Haas
In non-interactive sessions, WARNING sorts below LOG.
2010-06-17Make RemoveOldXlogFiles's debug printout match style used elsewhere:Tom Lane
log and seg aren't an XLogRecPtr and shouldn't be printed like one. Fujii Masao
2010-06-17Don't allow walsender to send WAL data until it's been safely fsync'd on theTom Lane
master. Otherwise a subsequent crash could cause the master to lose WAL that has already been applied on the slave, resulting in the slave being out of sync and soon corrupt. Per recent discussion and an example from Robert Haas. Fujii Masao
2010-06-14If a corrupt WAL record is received by streaming replication, disconnectHeikki Linnakangas
and retry. If the record is genuinely corrupt in the master database, there's little hope of recovering, but it's better than simply retrying to apply the corrupt WAL record in a tight loop without even trying to retransmit it, which is what we used to do.
2010-06-12Fix typo/bug, found by Clang compilerPeter Eisentraut
2010-06-10Rename restartpoint_command to archive_cleanup_command.Itagaki Takahiro
2010-06-10Make TriggerFile variable static. It's not used outside xlog.c.Heikki Linnakangas
Fujii Masao
2010-06-10Return NULL instead of 0/0 in pg_last_xlog_receive_location() andHeikki Linnakangas
pg_last_xlog_replay_location(). Per Robert Haas's suggestion, after Itagaki Takahiro pointed out an issue in the docs. Also, some wording changes in the docs by me.
2010-06-09In standby mode, respect checkpoint_segments in addition toHeikki Linnakangas
checkpoint_timeout to trigger restartpoints. We used to deliberately only do time-based restartpoints, because if checkpoint_segments is small we would spend time doing restartpoints more often than really necessary. But now that restartpoints are done in bgwriter, they're not as disruptive as they used to be. Secondly, because streaming replication stores the streamed WAL files in pg_xlog, we want to clean it up more often to avoid running out of disk space when checkpoint_timeout is large and checkpoint_segments small. Patch by Fujii Masao, with some minor changes 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.
2010-06-07Ensure default-only storage parameters for TOAST relationsItagaki Takahiro
to be initialized with proper values. Affected parameters are fillfactor, analyze_threshold, and analyze_scale_factor. Especially uninitialized fillfactor caused inefficient page usage because we built a StdRdOptions struct in which fillfactor is zero if any reloption is set for the toast table. In addition, we disallow toast.autovacuum_analyze_threshold and toast.autovacuum_analyze_scale_factor because we didn't actually support them; they are always ignored. Report by Rumko on pgsql-bugs on 12 May 2010. Analysis by Tom Lane and Alvaro Herrera. Patch by me. Backpatch to 8.4.
2010-06-03Fix some inconsistent quoting of wal_level values in messagesPeter Eisentraut
When referring to postgresql.conf syntax, then it's without quotes (wal_level=archive); in narrative it's with double quotes. But never single quotes.
2010-06-03On clean shutdown during recovery, don't warn about possible corruption.Robert Haas
Fujii Masao. Review by Heikki Linnakangas and myself.