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2025-03-27Remove the query_id_squash_values GUCÁlvaro Herrera
Commit 62d712ecfd94 introduced the capability to calculate the same queryId for queries with different lengths of constants in a list for an IN clause. This behavior was originally enabled with a GUC query_id_squash_values. After a discussion about the value of such a GUC, it was decided to back out of the use of a GUC and make the squashing behavior the only available option. Author: Sami Imseih <samimseih@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/Z-LZyygkkNyA8-kR@msg.df7cb.de Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+q6zcVTK-3C-8NWV1oY2NZrvtnMCDqnyYYyk1T7WMUG65MeOQ@mail.gmail.com
2025-03-18Introduce squashing of constant lists in query jumblingÁlvaro Herrera
pg_stat_statements produces multiple entries for queries like SELECT something FROM table WHERE col IN (1, 2, 3, ...) depending on the number of parameters, because every element of ArrayExpr is individually jumbled. Most of the time that's undesirable, especially if the list becomes too large. Fix this by introducing a new GUC query_id_squash_values which modifies the node jumbling code to only consider the first and last element of a list of constants, rather than each list element individually. This affects both the query_id generated by query jumbling, as well as pg_stat_statements query normalization so that it suppresses printing of the individual elements of such a list. The default value is off, meaning the previous behavior is maintained. Author: Dmitry Dolgov <9erthalion6@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Sergey Dudoladov (mysterious, off-list) Reviewed-by: David Geier <geidav.pg@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> Reviewed-by: Sami Imseih <samimseih@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Sutou Kouhei <kou@clear-code.com> Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> Reviewed-by: Marcos Pegoraro <marcos@f10.com.br> Reviewed-by: Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Zhihong Yu <zyu@yugabyte.com> Tested-by: Yasuo Honda <yasuo.honda@gmail.com> Tested-by: Sergei Kornilov <sk@zsrv.org> Tested-by: Maciek Sakrejda <m.sakrejda@gmail.com> Tested-by: Chengxi Sun <sunchengxi@highgo.com> Tested-by: Jakub Wartak <jakub.wartak@enterprisedb.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+q6zcWtUbT_Sxj0V6HY6EZ89uv5wuG5aefpe_9n0Jr3VwntFg@mail.gmail.com
2025-03-18aio: Infrastructure for io_method=workerAndres Freund
This commit contains the basic, system-wide, infrastructure for io_method=worker. It does not yet actually execute IO, this commit just provides the infrastructure for running IO workers, kept separate for easier review. The number of IO workers can be adjusted with a PGC_SIGHUP GUC. Eventually we'd like to make the number of workers dynamically scale up/down based on the current "IO load". To allow the number of IO workers to be increased without a restart, we need to reserve PGPROC entries for the workers unconditionally. This has been judged to be worth the cost. If it turns out to be problematic, we can introduce a PGC_POSTMASTER GUC to control the maximum number. As io workers might be needed during shutdown, e.g. for AIO during the shutdown checkpoint, a new PMState phase is added. IO workers are shut down after the shutdown checkpoint has been performed and walsender/archiver have shut down, but before the checkpointer itself shuts down. See also 87a6690cc69. Updates PGSTAT_FILE_FORMAT_ID due to the addition of a new BackendType. Reviewed-by: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com> Co-authored-by: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/uvrtrknj4kdytuboidbhwclo4gxhswwcpgadptsjvjqcluzmah%40brqs62irg4dt Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210223100344.llw5an2aklengrmn@alap3.anarazel.de Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/stj36ea6yyhoxtqkhpieia2z4krnam7qyetc57rfezgk4zgapf@gcnactj4z56m
2025-03-13pg_noreturn to replace pg_attribute_noreturn()Peter Eisentraut
We want to support a "noreturn" decoration on more compilers besides just GCC-compatible ones, but for that we need to move the decoration in front of the function declaration instead of either behind it or wherever, which is the current style afforded by GCC-style attributes. Also rename the macro to "pg_noreturn" to be similar to the C11 standard "noreturn". pg_noreturn is now supported on all compilers that support C11 (using _Noreturn), as well as GCC-compatible ones (using __attribute__, as before), as well as MSVC (using __declspec). (When PostgreSQL requires C11, the latter two variants can be dropped.) Now, all supported compilers effectively support pg_noreturn, so the extra code for !HAVE_PG_ATTRIBUTE_NORETURN can be dropped. This also fixes a possible problem if third-party code includes stdnoreturn.h, because then the current definition of #define pg_attribute_noreturn() __attribute__((noreturn)) would cause an error. Note that the C standard does not support a noreturn attribute on function pointer types. So we have to drop these here. There are only two instances at this time, so it's not a big loss. In one case, we can make up for it by adding the pg_noreturn to a wrapper function and adding a pg_unreachable(), in the other case, the latter was already done before. Reviewed-by: Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <ilmari@ilmari.org> Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/pxr5b3z7jmkpenssra5zroxi7qzzp6eswuggokw64axmdixpnk@zbwxuq7gbbcw
2025-03-12Add connection establishment duration loggingMelanie Plageman
Add log_connections option 'setup_durations' which logs durations of several key parts of connection establishment and backend setup. For an incoming connection, starting from when the postmaster gets a socket from accept() and ending when the forked child backend is first ready for query, there are multiple steps that could each take longer than expected due to external factors. This logging provides visibility into authentication and fork duration as well as the end-to-end connection establishment and backend initialization time. To make this portable, the timings captured in the postmaster (socket creation time, fork initiation time) are passed through the BackendStartupData. Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@oss.nttdata.com> Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se> Reviewed-by: Jacob Champion <jacob.champion@enterprisedb.com> Reviewed-by: Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres@jeltef.nl> Reviewed-by: Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume.lelarge@dalibo.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/flat/CAAKRu_b_smAHK0ZjrnL5GRxnAVWujEXQWpLXYzGbmpcZd3nLYw%40mail.gmail.com
2025-02-21backend launchers void * arguments for binary dataPeter Eisentraut
Change backend launcher functions to take void * for binary data instead of char *. This removes the need for numerous casts. Reviewed-by: Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <ilmari@ilmari.org> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/fd1fcedb-3492-4fc8-9e3e-74b97f2db6c7%40eisentraut.org
2025-01-01Update copyright for 2025Bruce Momjian
Backpatch-through: 13
2024-11-14Pass MyPMChildSlot as an explicit argument to child processHeikki Linnakangas
All the other global variables passed from postmaster to child have the same value in all the processes, while MyPMChildSlot is more like a parameter to each child process. Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/a102f15f-eac4-4ff2-af02-f9ff209ec66f@iki.fi
2024-11-14Assign a child slot to every postmaster child processHeikki Linnakangas
Previously, only backends, autovacuum workers, and background workers had an entry in the PMChildFlags array. With this commit, all postmaster child processes, including all the aux processes, have an entry. Dead-end backends still don't get an entry, though, and other processes that don't touch shared memory will never mark their PMChildFlags entry as active. We now maintain separate freelists for different kinds of child processes. That ensures that there are always slots available for autovacuum and background workers. Previously, pre-authentication backends could prevent autovacuum or background workers from starting up, by using up all the slots. The code to manage the slots in the postmaster process is in a new pmchild.c source file. Because postmaster.c is just so large. Assigning pmsignal slot numbers is now pmchild.c's responsibility. This replaces the PMChildInUse array in pmsignal.c. Some of the comments in postmaster.c still talked about the "stats process", but that was removed in commit 5891c7a8ed. Fix those while we're at it. Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/a102f15f-eac4-4ff2-af02-f9ff209ec66f@iki.fi
2024-11-14Replace postmaster.c's own backend type codes with BackendTypeHeikki Linnakangas
Introduce a separate BackendType for dead-end children, so that we don't need a separate dead_end flag. Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/a102f15f-eac4-4ff2-af02-f9ff209ec66f@iki.fi
2024-10-27Remove unused #include's from backend .c filesPeter Eisentraut
as determined by IWYU These are mostly issues that are new since commit dbbca2cf299. Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/0df1d5b1-8ca8-4f84-93be-121081bde049%40eisentraut.org
2024-07-30Remove useless member of BackendParameters.Thomas Munro
Oversight in e2562667, which stopped using SpinlockSemaArray but forgot to remove it from the array. Reported-by: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/310f4005-91d7-42b2-ac70-92624260dd28%40iki.fi
2024-07-30Remove --disable-spinlocks.Thomas Munro
A later change will require atomic support, so it wouldn't make sense for a hypothetical new system not to be able to implement spinlocks. Reviewed-by: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi> Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> (concept, not the patch) Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> (concept, not the patch) Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3351991.1697728588%40sss.pgh.pa.us
2024-07-29Detach syslogger from shared memoryHeikki Linnakangas
Commit aafc05de1b removed the calls to detach from shared memory from syslogger startup. That was not intentional, so put them back. Author: Rui Zhao Reviewed-by: Aleksander Alekseev Backpatch-through: 17 Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/11505016-8cf3-4691-b996-7faed99b7877.xiyuan.zr@alibaba-inc.com
2024-07-29Move cancel key generation to after forking the backendHeikki Linnakangas
Move responsibility of generating the cancel key to the backend process. The cancel key is now generated after forking, and the backend advertises it in the ProcSignal array. When a cancel request arrives, the backend handling it scans the ProcSignal array to find the target pid and cancel key. This is similar to how this previously worked in the EXEC_BACKEND case with the ShmemBackendArray, just reusing the ProcSignal array. One notable change is that we no longer generate cancellation keys for non-backend processes. We generated them before just to prevent a malicious user from canceling them; the keys for non-backend processes were never actually given to anyone. There is now an explicit flag indicating whether a process has a valid key or not. I wrote this originally in preparation for supporting longer cancel keys, but it's a nice cleanup on its own. Reviewed-by: Jelte Fennema-Nio Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/508d0505-8b7a-4864-a681-e7e5edfe32aa@iki.fi
2024-07-26Fix using injection points at backend startup in EXEC_BACKEND modeHeikki Linnakangas
Commit 86db52a506 changed the locking of injection points to use only atomic ops and spinlocks, to make it possible to define injection points in processes that don't have a PGPROC entry (yet). However, it didn't work in EXEC_BACKEND mode, because the pointer to shared memory area was not initialized until the process "attaches" to all the shared memory structs. To fix, pass the pointer to the child process along with other global variables that need to be set up early. Backpatch-through: 17
2024-07-23Move extern declarations for EXEC_BACKEND to header filesPeter Eisentraut
This fixes warnings from -Wmissing-variable-declarations (not yet part of the standard warning options) under EXEC_BACKEND. The NON_EXEC_STATIC variables need a suitable declaration in a header file under EXEC_BACKEND. Also fix the inconsistent application of the volatile qualifier for PMSignalState, which was revealed by this change. Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/e0a62134-83da-4ba4-8cdb-ceb0111c95ce@eisentraut.org
2024-07-03Avoid 0-length memcpy to NULL with EXEC_BACKENDHeikki Linnakangas
memcpy(NULL, src, 0) is forbidden by POSIX, even though every production version of libc allows it. Let's be tidy. Per report from Thomas Munro, running UBSan with EXEC_BACKEND. Backpatch to v17, where this code was added. Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CA%2BhUKG%2Be-dV7YWBzfBZXsgovgRuX5VmvmOT%2Bv0aXiZJ-EKbXcw@mail.gmail.com
2024-07-02Improve some global variable declarationsPeter Eisentraut
We have in launch_backend.c: /* * The following need to be available to the save/restore_backend_variables * functions. They are marked NON_EXEC_STATIC in their home modules. */ extern slock_t *ShmemLock; extern slock_t *ProcStructLock; extern PGPROC *AuxiliaryProcs; extern PMSignalData *PMSignalState; extern pg_time_t first_syslogger_file_time; extern struct bkend *ShmemBackendArray; extern bool redirection_done; That comment is not completely true: ShmemLock, ShmemBackendArray, and redirection_done are not in fact NON_EXEC_STATIC. ShmemLock once was, but was then needed elsewhere. ShmemBackendArray was static inside postmaster.c before launch_backend.c was created. redirection_done was never static. This patch moves the declaration of ShmemLock and redirection_done to a header file. ShmemBackendArray gets a NON_EXEC_STATIC. This doesn't make a difference, since it only exists if EXEC_BACKEND anyway, but it makes it consistent. After that, the comment is now correct. Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/e0a62134-83da-4ba4-8cdb-ceb0111c95ce@eisentraut.org
2024-07-02Convert some extern variables to staticPeter Eisentraut
These probably should have been static all along, it was only forgotten out of sloppiness. Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/e0a62134-83da-4ba4-8cdb-ceb0111c95ce@eisentraut.org
2024-05-15Fix incorrect year in some copyright notices added this yearDavid Rowley
A few patches that were written <= 2023 and committed in 2024 still contained 2023 copyright year. Fix that. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvr5egyW3FmHbAg-Uq2p_Aizwco1Zjs6Vbq18KqN64-hRA@mail.gmail.com
2024-04-18Fix typos and duplicate wordsDaniel Gustafsson
This fixes various typos, duplicated words, and tiny bits of whitespace mainly in code comments but also in docs. Author: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se> Author: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi> Author: Alexander Lakhin <exclusion@gmail.com> Author: David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com> Author: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3F577953-A29E-4722-98AD-2DA9EFF2CBB8@yesql.se
2024-03-20Remove assertions that some compiler say are tautologicalHeikki Linnakangas
To avoid the compiler warnings: launch_backend.c:211:39: warning: comparison of constant 16 with expression of type 'BackendType' (aka 'enum BackendType') is always true [-Wtautological-constant-out-of-range-compare] launch_backend.c:233:39: warning: comparison of constant 16 with expression of type 'BackendType' (aka 'enum BackendType') is always true [-Wtautological-constant-out-of-range-compare] The point of the assertions was to fail more explicitly if someone adds a new BackendType to the end of the enum, but forgets to add it to the child_process_kinds array. It was a pretty weak assertion to begin with, because it wouldn't catch if you added a new BackendType in the middle of the enum. So let's just remove it. Per buildfarm member ayu and a few others, spotted by Tom Lane. Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/4119680.1710913067@sss.pgh.pa.us
2024-03-18Move code for backend startup to separate fileHeikki Linnakangas
This is code that runs in the backend process after forking, rather than postmaster. Move it out of postmaster.c for clarity. Reviewed-by: Tristan Partin, Andres Freund Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/7a59b073-5b5b-151e-7ed3-8b01ff7ce9ef@iki.fi
2024-03-18Refactor postmaster child process launchingHeikki Linnakangas
Introduce new postmaster_child_launch() function that deals with the differences in EXEC_BACKEND mode. Refactor the mechanism of passing information from the parent to child process. Instead of using different command-line arguments when launching the child process in EXEC_BACKEND mode, pass a variable-length blob of startup data along with all the global variables. The contents of that blob depend on the kind of child process being launched. In !EXEC_BACKEND mode, we use the same blob, but it's simply inherited from the parent to child process. Reviewed-by: Tristan Partin, Andres Freund Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/7a59b073-5b5b-151e-7ed3-8b01ff7ce9ef@iki.fi
2024-03-18Move some functions from postmaster.c to a new source fileHeikki Linnakangas
This just moves the functions, with no other changes, to make the next commits smaller and easier to review. The moved functions are related to launching postmaster child processes in EXEC_BACKEND mode. Reviewed-by: Tristan Partin, Andres Freund Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/7a59b073-5b5b-151e-7ed3-8b01ff7ce9ef@iki.fi