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Per reports from Andres Freund and Luke Campbell, a server failure during
set_pglocale_pgservice results in a segfault rather than a useful error
message, because the infrastructure needed to use ereport hasn't been
initialized; specifically, MemoryContextInit hasn't been called.
One known cause of this is starting the server in a directory it
doesn't have permission to read.
We could try to prevent set_pglocale_pgservice from using anything that
depends on palloc or elog, but that would be messy, and the odds of future
breakage seem high.  Moreover there are other things being called in main.c
that look likely to use palloc or elog too --- perhaps those things
shouldn't be there, but they are there today.  The best solution seems to
be to move the call of MemoryContextInit to very early in the backend's
real main() function.  I've verified that an elog or ereport occurring
immediately after that is now capable of sending something useful to
stderr.
I also added code to elog.c to print something intelligible rather than
just crashing if MemoryContextInit hasn't created the ErrorContext.
This could happen if MemoryContextInit itself fails (due to malloc
failure), and provides some future-proofing against someone trying to
sneak in new code even earlier in server startup.
Back-patch to all supported branches.  Since we've only heard reports of
this type of failure recently, it may be that some recent change has made
it more likely to see a crash of this kind; but it sure looks like it's
broken all the way back.
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Once the administrator has called for an immediate shutdown or a backend
crash has triggered a reinitialization, no mere SIGINT or SIGTERM should
change that course.  Such derailment remains possible when the signal
arrives before quickdie() blocks signals.  That being a narrow race
affecting most PostgreSQL signal handlers in some way, leave it for
another patch.  Back-patch this to all supported versions.
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This was a thinko in previous commit. Now that stack base pointer is now set
in PostmasterMain and SubPostmasterMain, it doesn't need to be set in
PostgresMain anymore.
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We used to only initialize the stack base pointer when starting up a regular
backend, not in other processes. In particular, autovacuum workers can run
arbitrary user code, and without stack-depth checking, infinite recursion
in e.g an index expression will bring down the whole cluster.
The comment about PL/Java using set_stack_base() is not yet true. As the
code stands, PL/java still modifies the stack_base_ptr variable directly.
However, it's been discussed in the PL/Java mailing list that it should be
changed to use the function, because PL/Java is currently oblivious to the
register stack used on Itanium. There's another issues with PL/Java, namely
that the stack base pointer it sets is not really the base of the stack, it
could be something close to the bottom of the stack. That's a separate issue
that might need some further changes to this code, but that's a different
story.
Backpatch to all supported releases.
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to the regular stack. The code to do that is platform and compiler specific,
add support for the HP-UX native compiler.
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We only need that header when compiling with icc, since the gcc variant of
ia64_get_bsp() uses in-line assembly code.  Per report from Frank Brendel,
the header doesn't exist on all IA64 platforms; so don't include it unless
we need it.
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Per recent investigation, the register stack can grow faster than the
regular stack depending on compiler and choice of options.  To avoid
crashes we must check both stacks in check_stack_depth().
Back-patch to all supported versions.
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visibilitymap.c by me.
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provided by Andrew.
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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.
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is available during datatype input in Bind message processing.  I put the
PopActiveSnapshot() or equivalent just before PortalDefineQuery, which is
an unsafe spot for it (in 8.3 and later) because we are carrying a plancache
refcount that hasn't yet been assigned to the portal.  Any error thrown there
would result in leaking the refcount.  It's not exactly likely that
PopActiveSnapshot would throw an elog, perhaps, but it could happen.
Reorder the code and add another comment warning not to do that.
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in 8.3, too, but I'm not back-patching this change since it would break any
extension modules that might be calling that function.
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when they are invoked by the parser.  We had been setting up a snapshot at
plan time but really it needs to be done earlier, before parse analysis.
Per report from Dmitry Koterov.
Also fix two related problems discovered while poking at this one:
exec_bind_message called datatype input functions without establishing a
snapshot, and SET CONSTRAINTS IMMEDIATE could call trigger functions without
establishing a snapshot.
Backpatch to 8.2.  The underlying problem goes much further back, but it is
masked in 8.1 and before because we didn't attempt to invoke domain check
constraints within datatype input.  It would only be exposed if a C-language
datatype input function used the snapshot; which evidently none do, or we'd
have heard complaints sooner.  Since this code has changed a lot over time,
a back-patch is hardly risk-free, and so I'm disinclined to patch further
than absolutely necessary.
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replication patch needs a signal, but we've already used SIGUSR1 and
SIGUSR2 in normal backends. This patch allows reusing SIGUSR1 for that,
and for other purposes too if the need arises.
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that a Portal is a useful and sufficient additional argument for
CreateDestReceiver --- it just isn't, in most cases.  Instead formalize
the approach of passing any needed parameters to the receiver separately.
One unexpected benefit of this change is that we can declare typedef Portal
in a less surprising location.
This patch is just code rearrangement and doesn't change any functionality.
I'll tackle the HOLD-cursor-vs-toast problem in a follow-on patch.
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free space information is stored in a dedicated FSM relation fork, with each
relation (except for hash indexes; they don't use FSM).
This eliminates the max_fsm_relations and max_fsm_pages GUC options; remove any
trace of them from the backend, initdb, and documentation.
Rewrite contrib/pg_freespacemap to match the new FSM implementation. Also
introduce a new variant of the get_raw_page(regclass, int4, int4) function in
contrib/pageinspect that let's you to return pages from any relation fork, and
a new fsm_page_contents() function to inspect the new FSM pages.
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debug_print_plan to appear at LOG message level, not DEBUG1 as historically.
Make debug_pretty_print default to on.  Also, cause plans generated via
EXPLAIN to be subject to debug_print_plan.  This is all to make
debug_print_plan a reasonably comfortable substitute for the former behavior
of EXPLAIN VERBOSE.
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Robert Lor
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a portal are never NULL, but reliably provide the source text of the query.
It turns out that there was only one place that was really taking a short-cut,
which was the 'EXECUTE' utility statement.  That doesn't seem like a
sufficiently critical performance hotspot to justify not offering a guarantee
of validity of the portal source text.  Fix it to copy the source text over
from the cached plan.  Add Asserts in the places that set up cached plans and
portals to reject null source strings, and simplify a bunch of places that
formerly needed to guard against nulls.
There may be a few places that cons up statements for execution without
having any source text at all; I found one such in ConvertTriggerToFK().
It seems sufficient to inject a phony source string in such a case,
for instance
        ProcessUtility((Node *) atstmt,
                       "(generated ALTER TABLE ADD FOREIGN KEY command)",
                       NULL, false, None_Receiver, NULL);
We should take a second look at the usage of debug_query_string,
particularly the recently added current_query() SQL function.
ITAGAKI Takahiro and Tom Lane
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functions.
Note that because this patch changes FmgrInfo, any external C functions
you might be testing with 8.4 will need to be recompiled.
Patch by Martin Pihlak, some editorialization by me (principally, removing
tracking of getrusage() numbers)
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There are two ways to track a snapshot: there's the "registered" list, which
is used for arbitrary long-lived snapshots; and there's the "active stack",
which is used for the snapshot that is considered "active" at any time.
This also allows users of snapshots to stop worrying about snapshot memory
allocation and freeing, and about using PG_TRY blocks around ActiveSnapshot
assignment.  This is all done automatically now.
As a consequence, this allows us to reset MyProc->xmin when there are no
more snapshots registered in the current backend, reducing the impact that
long-running transactions have on VACUUM.
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unnecessary #include lines in it.  Also, move some tuple routine prototypes and
macros to htup.h, which allows removal of heapam.h inclusion from some .c
files.
For this to work, a new header file access/sysattr.h needed to be created,
initially containing attribute numbers of system columns, for pg_dump usage.
While at it, make contrib ltree, intarray and hstore header files more
consistent with our header style.
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responsible for copying the query string into the new Portal.  Such copying
is unnecessary in the common code path through exec_simple_query, and in
this case it can be enormously expensive because the string might contain
a large number of individual commands; we were copying the entire, long
string for each command, resulting in O(N^2) behavior for N commands.
(This is the cause of bug #4079.)  A second problem with it is that
PortalDefineQuery really can't risk error, because if it elog's before
having set up the Portal, we will leak the plancache refcount that the
caller is trying to hand off to the portal.  So go back to the design in
which the caller is responsible for making sure everything is copied into
the portal if necessary.
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Per complaint from Tom Lane.
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snapmgmt.c file for the former.  The header files have also been reorganized
in three parts: the most basic snapshot definitions are now in a new file
snapshot.h, and the also new snapmgmt.h keeps the definitions for snapmgmt.c.
tqual.h has been reduced to the bare minimum.
This patch is just a first step towards managing live snapshots within a
transaction; there is no functionality change.
Per my proposal to pgsql-patches on 20080318191940.GB27458@alvh.no-ip.org and
subsequent discussion.
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(probably NULL) before exiting.  Up to now it's just left the variable as it
set it, which means that after we're done processing the current client
message, ActiveSnapshot is probably pointing at garbage (because this function
is typically run in MessageContext which will get reset).  There doesn't seem
to have been any code path in which that mattered before 8.3, but now the
plancache module might try to use the stale value if the next client message
is a Bind for a prepared statement that is in need of replanning.  Per report
from Alex Hunsaker.
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variables to it. More need to be converted, but I wanted to get this in
before it conflicts with too much...
Other than just centralising the text-to-int conversion for parameters,
this allows the pg_settings view to contain a list of available options
and allows an error hint to show what values are allowed.
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on Linux.
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whether to execute an immediate interrupt, rather than testing whether
LockWaitCancel() cancelled a lock wait.  The old way misclassified the case
where we were blocked in ProcWaitForSignal(), and arguably would misclassify
any other future additions of new ImmediateInterruptOK states too.  This
allows reverting the old kluge that gave LockWaitCancel() a return value,
since no callers care anymore.  Improve comments in the various
implementations of PGSemaphoreLock() to explain that on some platforms, the
assumption that semop() exits after a signal is wrong, and so we must ensure
that the signal handler itself throws elog if we want cancel or die interrupts
to be effective.  Per testing related to bug #3883, though this patch doesn't
solve those problems fully.
Perhaps this change should be back-patched, but since pre-8.3 branches aren't
really relying on autovacuum to respond to SIGINT, it doesn't seem critical
for them.
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were reporting ERROR for interactive assignments and LOG for other cases,
some were saying nothing for non-interactive cases, and a few did yet other
things.  Make them use a new function GUC_complaint_elevel() to establish
a reasonably uniform policy about how to report.  There are still a few
edge cases such as assign_search_path(), but it's much better than before.
Per gripe from Devrim Gunduz and subsequent discussion.
As noted by Alvaro, it'd be better to fold these custom messages into the
standard "invalid parameter value" complaint from guc.c, perhaps as the DETAIL
field.  However that will require more redesign than seems prudent for 8.3.
This is a relatively safe, low-impact change that we can afford to risk now.
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american speling (unlike this commit message).  Per complaint from Mike C. on
bug #3790 and subsequent discussion.
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MyStartTime,
so that we will be able to create a cookie for all processes for CSVlogs.
It is set wherever MyProcPid is set. Take the opportunity to remove the now
unnecessary session-only restriction on the %s and %c escapes in log_line_prefix.
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SIGQUIT) will be recognized and processed while waiting for input,
rather than only after something has been typed.  Also make SIGQUIT
do the same thing as SIGTERM in single-user mode, ie, do a normal
shutdown and exit.  Since it's relatively easy to provoke SIGQUIT
from the keyboard, people may try that instead of control-D, and we'd
rather this leads to orderly shutdown.  Per report from Leon Mergen
and subsequent discussion.
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continue with the schedule.  Change current uses of SIGINT to abort a worker
into SIGTERM, which keeps the old behaviour of terminating the process.
Patch from ITAGAKI Takahiro, with some editorializing of my own.
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(which now deals only in optimizable statements), and put that code
into a new file parser/parse_utilcmd.c.  This helps clarify and enforce
the design rule that utility statements shouldn't be processed during
the regular parse analysis phase; all interpretation of their meaning
should happen after they are given to ProcessUtility to execute.
(We need this because we don't retain any locks for a utility statement
that's in a plan cache, nor have any way to detect that it's stale.)
We are also able to simplify the API for parse_analyze() and related
routines, because they will now always return exactly one Query structure.
In passing, fix bug #3403 concerning trying to add a serial column to
an existing temp table (this is largely Heikki's work, but we needed
all that restructuring to make it safe).
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still be forced out at backend exit.
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a replan.  I had originally thought this was not necessary, but the new
SPI facilities create a path whereby queries planned with non-default
options can get into the cache, so it is necessary.
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access to the planner's cursor-related planning options, and provide new
FETCH/MOVE routines that allow access to the full power of those commands.
Small refactoring of planner(), pg_plan_query(), and pg_plan_queries()
APIs to make it convenient to pass the planning options down from SPI.
This is the core-code portion of Pavel Stehule's patch for scrollable
cursor support in plpgsql; I'll review and apply the plpgsql changes
separately.
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required memory context when handling client-specified parameter types
for an unnamed statement.  Per report from Kris Jurka.
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of a multi-statement simple-Query message.  This bug goes all the way
back, but unfortunately is not nearly so easy to fix in existing releases;
it is only the recent ProcessUtility API change that makes it fixable in
HEAD.  Per report from William Garrison.
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module and teach PREPARE and protocol-level prepared statements to use it.
In service of this, rearrange utility-statement processing so that parse
analysis does not assume table schemas can't change before execution for
utility statements (necessary because we don't attempt to re-acquire locks
for utility statements when reusing a stored plan).  This requires some
refactoring of the ProcessUtility API, but it ends up cleaner anyway,
for instance we can get rid of the QueryContext global.
Still to do: fix up SPI and related code to use the plan cache; I'm tempted to
try to make SQL functions use it too.  Also, there are at least some aspects
of system state that we want to ensure remain the same during a replan as in
the original processing; search_path certainly ought to behave that way for
instance, and perhaps there are others.
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fixup various places in the tree that were clearing a StringInfo by hand.
Making this function a part of the API simplifies client code slightly,
and avoids needlessly peeking inside the StringInfo interface.
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log_min_messages does; and arrange to suppress the duplicative output
that would otherwise result from log_statement and log_duration messages.
Bruce Momjian and Tom Lane.
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