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2024-02-29Fix integer underflow in shared memory debuggingDaniel Gustafsson
dsa_dump would print a large negative number instead of zero for segment bin 0. Fix by explicitly checking for underflow and add special case for bin 0. Backpatch to all supported versions. Author: Ian Ilyasov <ianilyasov@outlook.com> Reviewed-by: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/GV1P251MB1004E0D09D117D3CECF9256ECD502@GV1P251MB1004.EURP251.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM Backpatch-through: v12
2023-07-04Re-bin segment when memory pages are freed.Thomas Munro
It's OK to be lazy about re-binning memory segments when allocating, because that can only leave segments in a bin that's too high. We'll search higher bins if necessary while allocating next time, and also eventually re-bin, so no memory can become unreachable that way. However, when freeing memory, the largest contiguous range of free pages might go up, so we should re-bin eagerly to make sure we don't leave the segment in a bin that is too low for get_best_segment() to find. The re-binning code is moved into a function of its own, so it can be called whenever free pages are returned to the segment's free page map. Back-patch to all supported releases. Author: Dongming Liu <ldming101@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> (earlier version) Reviewed-by: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAL1p7e8LzB2LSeAXo2pXCW4%2BRya9s0sJ3G_ReKOU%3DAjSUWjHWQ%40mail.gmail.com
2023-02-21Fix erroneous Valgrind markings in AllocSetRealloc.Tom Lane
If asked to decrease the size of a large (>8K) palloc chunk, AllocSetRealloc could improperly change the Valgrind state of memory beyond the new end of the chunk: it would mark data UNDEFINED as far as the old end of the chunk after having done the realloc(3) call, thus tromping on the state of memory that no longer belongs to it. One would normally expect that memory to now be marked NOACCESS, so that this mislabeling might prevent detection of later errors. If realloc() had chosen to move the chunk someplace else (unlikely, but well within its rights) we could also mismark perfectly-valid DEFINED data as UNDEFINED, causing false-positive valgrind reports later. Also, any malloc bookkeeping data placed within this area might now be wrongly marked, causing additional problems. Fix by replacing relevant uses of "oldsize" with "Min(size, oldsize)". It's sufficient to mark as far as "size" when that's smaller, because whatever remains in the new chunk size will be marked NOACCESS below, and we expect realloc() to have taken care of marking the memory beyond the new official end of the chunk. While we're here, also rename the function's "oldsize" variable to "oldchksize" to more clearly explain what it actually holds, namely the distance to the end of the chunk (that is, requested size plus trailing padding). This is more consistent with the use of "size" and "chksize" to hold the new requested size and chunk size. Add a new variable "oldsize" in the one stanza where we're actually talking about the old requested size. Oversight in commit c477f3e44. Back-patch to all supported branches, as that was, just in case anybody wants to do valgrind testing on back branches. Karina Litskevich Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CACiT8iaAET-fmzjjZLjaJC4zwSJmrFyL7LAdHwaYyjjQOQ4hcg@mail.gmail.com
2022-09-01Fix some possibly latent bugs in slab.cDavid Rowley
Primarily, this fixes an incorrect calculation in SlabCheck which was looking in the wrong byte for the sentinel check. The reason that we've never noticed this before in the form of a failing sentinel check is because the pre-check to this always fails because all current core users of slab contexts have a chunk size which is already MAXALIGNed, therefore there's never any space for the sentinel byte. It is possible that an extension needs to use a slab context and if they do with a chunk size that's not MAXALIGNed, then they'll likely get errors about overwritten sentinel bytes. Additionally, this patch changes various calculations which are being done based on the sizeof(SlabBlock). Currently, sizeof(SlabBlock) is a multiple of 8, therefore sizeof(SlabBlock) is the same as MAXALIGN(sizeof(SlabBlock)), however, if we were to ever have to add any fields to that struct as part of a bug fix, then SlabAlloc could end up returning a non-MAXALIGNed pointer. To be safe, let's ensure we always MAXALIGN sizeof(SlabBlock) before using it in any calculations. This patch has already been applied to master in d5ee4db0e. Diagnosed-by: Tomas Vondra, Tom Lane Author: Tomas Vondra, David Rowley Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAA4eK1%2B1JyW5TiL%3DyV-3Uq1CrfnTyn0Xrk5uArt31Z%3D8rgPhXQ%40mail.gmail.com Backpatch-through: 10
2022-06-22Fix SPI's handling of errors during transaction commit.Tom Lane
SPI_commit previously left it up to the caller to recover from any error occurring during commit. Since that's complicated and requires use of low-level xact.c facilities, it's not too surprising that no caller got it right. Let's move the responsibility for cleanup into spi.c. Doing that requires redefining SPI_commit as starting a new transaction, so that it becomes equivalent to SPI_commit_and_chain except that you get default transaction characteristics instead of preserving the prior transaction's characteristics. We can make this pretty transparent API-wise by redefining SPI_start_transaction() as a no-op. Callers that expect to do something in between might be surprised, but available evidence is that no callers do so. Having made that API redefinition, we can fix this mess by having SPI_commit[_and_chain] trap errors and start a new, clean transaction before re-throwing the error. Likewise for SPI_rollback[_and_chain]. Some cleanup is also needed in AtEOXact_SPI, which was nowhere near smart enough to deal with SPI contexts nested inside a committing context. While plperl and pltcl need no changes beyond removing their now-useless SPI_start_transaction() calls, plpython needs some more work because it hadn't gotten the memo about catching commit/rollback errors in the first place. Such an error resulted in longjmp'ing out of the Python interpreter, which leaks Python stack entries at present and is reported to crash Python 3.11 altogether. Add the missing logic to catch such errors and convert them into Python exceptions. This is a back-patch of commit 2e517818f. That's now aged long enough to reduce the concerns about whether it will break something, and we do need to ensure that supported branches will work with Python 3.11. Peter Eisentraut and Tom Lane Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3375ffd8-d71c-2565-e348-a597d6e739e3@enterprisedb.com Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17416-ed8fe5d7213d6c25@postgresql.org
2021-10-01Fix Portal snapshot tracking to handle subtransactions properly.Tom Lane
Commit 84f5c2908 forgot to consider the possibility that EnsurePortalSnapshotExists could run inside a subtransaction with lifespan shorter than the Portal's. In that case, the new active snapshot would be popped at the end of the subtransaction, leaving a dangling pointer in the Portal, with mayhem ensuing. To fix, make sure the ActiveSnapshot stack entry is marked with the same subtransaction nesting level as the associated Portal. It's certainly safe to do so since we won't be here at all unless the stack is empty; hence we can't create an out-of-order stack. Let's also apply this logic in the case where PortalRunUtility sets portalSnapshot, just to be sure that path can't cause similar problems. It's slightly less clear that that path can't create an out-of-order stack, so add an assertion guarding it. Report and patch by Bertrand Drouvot (with kibitzing by me). Back-patch to v11, like the previous commit. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ff82b8c5-77f4-3fe7-6028-fcf3303e82dd@amazon.com
2021-05-21Restore the portal-level snapshot after procedure COMMIT/ROLLBACK.Tom Lane
COMMIT/ROLLBACK necessarily destroys all snapshots within the session. The original implementation of intra-procedure transactions just cavalierly did that, ignoring the fact that this left us executing in a rather different environment than normal. In particular, it turns out that handling of toasted datums depends rather critically on there being an outer ActiveSnapshot: otherwise, when SPI or the core executor pop whatever snapshot they used and return, it's unsafe to dereference any toasted datums that may appear in the query result. It's possible to demonstrate "no known snapshots" and "missing chunk number N for toast value" errors as a result of this oversight. Historically this outer snapshot has been held by the Portal code, and that seems like a good plan to preserve. So add infrastructure to pquery.c to allow re-establishing the Portal-owned snapshot if it's not there anymore, and add enough bookkeeping support that we can tell whether it is or not. We can't, however, just re-establish the Portal snapshot as part of COMMIT/ROLLBACK. As in normal transaction start, acquiring the first snapshot should wait until after SET and LOCK commands. Hence, teach spi.c about doing this at the right time. (Note that this patch doesn't fix the problem for any PLs that try to run intra-procedure transactions without using SPI to execute SQL commands.) This makes SPI's no_snapshots parameter rather a misnomer, so in HEAD, rename that to allow_nonatomic. replication/logical/worker.c also needs some fixes, because it wasn't careful to hold a snapshot open around AFTER trigger execution. That code doesn't use a Portal, which I suspect someday we're gonna have to fix. But for now, just rearrange the order of operations. This includes back-patching the recent addition of finish_estate() to centralize the cleanup logic there. This also back-patches commit 2ecfeda3e into v13, to improve the test coverage for worker.c (it was that test that exposed that worker.c's snapshot management is wrong). Per bug #15990 from Andreas Wicht. Back-patch to v11 where intra-procedure COMMIT was added. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15990-eee2ac466b11293d@postgresql.org
2020-11-20Adjust DSM and DSA slot usage constants (back-patch).Thomas Munro
1. Previously, a DSA area would create up to four segments at each size before doubling the size. After this commit, it will create only two at each size, so it ramps up faster and therefore needs fewer slots. 2. Previously, the total limit on DSM slots allowed for 2 per connection. Switch to 5 per connection. This back-patches commit d061ea21 from release 13 into 10-12 based on a field complaint. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAO03teA%2BjE1qt5iWDWzHqaufqBsF6EoOgZphnazps_tr_jDPZA%40mail.gmail.com Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGL6H2BpGbiF7Lj6QiTjTGyTLW_vLR%3DSn2tEBeTcYXiMKw%40mail.gmail.com
2020-01-17Allocate freechunks bitmap as part of SlabContextTomas Vondra
The bitmap used by SlabCheck to cross-check free chunks in a block used to be allocated for each SlabCheck call, and was never freed. The memory leak could be fixed by simply adding a pfree call, but it's actually a bad idea to do any allocations in SlabCheck at all as it assumes the state of the memory management as a whole is sane. So instead we allocate the bitmap as part of SlabContext, which means we don't need to do any allocations in SlabCheck and the bitmap goes away together with the SlabContext. Backpatch to 10, where the Slab context was introduced. Author: Tomas Vondra Reported-by: Andres Freund Reviewed-by: Tom Lane Backpatch-through: 10 Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20200116044119.g45f7pmgz4jmodxj%40alap3.anarazel.de
2019-10-03Allow repalloc() to give back space when a large chunk is downsized.Tom Lane
Up to now, if you resized a large (>8K) palloc chunk down to a smaller size, aset.c made no attempt to return any space to the malloc pool. That's unpleasant if a really large allocation is resized to a significantly smaller size. I think no such cases existed when this code was designed, and I'm not sure whether they're common even yet, but an upcoming fix to encoding conversion will certainly create such cases. Therefore, fix AllocSetRealloc so that it gives realloc() a chance to do something with the block. This doesn't noticeably increase complexity, we mostly just have to change the order in which the cases are considered. Back-patch to all supported branches. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190816181418.GA898@alvherre.pgsql Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3614.1569359690@sss.pgh.pa.us
2019-07-01Fix many typos and inconsistenciesMichael Paquier
Author: Alexander Lakhin Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/af27d1b3-a128-9d62-46e0-88f424397f44@gmail.com
2019-05-22Phase 2 pgindent run for v12.Tom Lane
Switch to 2.1 version of pg_bsd_indent. This formats multiline function declarations "correctly", that is with additional lines of parameter declarations indented to match where the first line's left parenthesis is. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=0P3FeTXRcU5B2W3jv3PgRVZ-kGUXLGfd42FFhUROO3ug@mail.gmail.com
2019-05-22Initial pgindent run for v12.Tom Lane
This is still using the 2.0 version of pg_bsd_indent. I thought it would be good to commit this separately, so as to document the differences between 2.0 and 2.1 behavior. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16296.1558103386@sss.pgh.pa.us
2019-04-19Fix problems with auto-held portals.Tom Lane
HoldPinnedPortals() did things in the wrong order: it must not mark a portal autoHeld until it's been successfully held. Otherwise, a failure while persisting the portal results in a server crash because we think the portal is in a good state when it's not. Also add a check that portal->status is READY before attempting to hold a pinned portal. We have such a check before the only other use of HoldPortal(), so it seems unwise not to check it here. Lastly, rethink the responsibility for where to call HoldPinnedPortals. The comment for it imagined that it was optional for any individual PL to call it or not, but that cannot be the case: if some outer level of procedure has a pinned portal, failing to persist it when an inner procedure commits is going to be trouble. Let's have SPI do it instead of the individual PLs. That's not a complete solution, since in theory a PL might not be using SPI to perform commit/rollback, but such a PL is going to have to be aware of lots of related requirements anyway. (This change doesn't cause an API break for any external PLs that might be calling HoldPinnedPortals per the old regime, because calling it twice during a commit or rollback sequence won't hurt.) Per bug #15703 from Julian Schauder. Back-patch to v11 where this code came in. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15703-c12c5bc0ea34ba26@postgresql.org
2019-02-25Fix inconsistent out-of-memory error reporting in dsa.c.Thomas Munro
Commit 16be2fd1 introduced the flag DSA_ALLOC_NO_OOM to control whether the DSA allocator would raise an error or return InvalidDsaPointer on failure to allocate. One edge case was not handled correctly: if we fail to allocate an internal "span" object for a large allocation, we would always return InvalidDsaPointer regardless of the flag; a caller not expecting that could then dereference a null pointer. This is a plausible explanation for a one-off report of a segfault. Remove a redundant pair of braces so that all three stanzas that handle DSA_ALLOC_NO_OOM match in style, for visual consistency. While fixing inconsistencies, if FreePageManagerGet() can't supply the pages that our book-keeping says it should be able to supply, then we should always report a FATAL error. Previously we treated that as a regular allocation failure in one code path, but as a FATAL condition in another. Back-patch to 10, where dsa.c landed. Author: Thomas Munro Reported-by: Jakub Glapa Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=2oPqXxyWQ-1o60tpOLrwkw=VpgNXqqF1VN2EyO9zKGQw@mail.gmail.com
2019-02-13Fix rare dsa_allocate() failures due to freepage.c corruption.Thomas Munro
In a corner case, a btree page was allocated during a clean-up operation that could cause the tracking of the largest contiguous span of free space to get out of whack. That was supposed to be prevented by the use of the "soft" flag to avoid allocating internal pages during incidental clean-up work, but the flag was ignored in the case where the FPM was promoted from singleton format to btree format. Repair. Remove an obsolete comment in passing. Back-patch to 10, where freepage.c arrived (as support for dsa.c). Author: Robert Haas Diagnosed-by: Thomas Munro and Robert Haas Reported-by: Justin Pryzby, Rick Otten, Sand Stone, Arne Roland and others Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMAYy4%2Bw3NTBM5JLWFi8twhWK4%3Dk_5L4nV5%2BbYDSPu8r4b97Zg%40mail.gmail.com
2019-01-02Update copyright for 2019Bruce Momjian
Backpatch-through: certain files through 9.4
2018-11-29Fix minor typo in dsa.c.Thomas Munro
Author: Takeshi Ideriha Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/4E72940DA2BF16479384A86D54D0988A6F3BF22D%40G01JPEXMBKW04
2018-11-20Remove WITH OIDS support, change oid catalog column visibility.Andres Freund
Previously tables declared WITH OIDS, including a significant fraction of the catalog tables, stored the oid column not as a normal column, but as part of the tuple header. This special column was not shown by default, which was somewhat odd, as it's often (consider e.g. pg_class.oid) one of the more important parts of a row. Neither pg_dump nor COPY included the contents of the oid column by default. The fact that the oid column was not an ordinary column necessitated a significant amount of special case code to support oid columns. That already was painful for the existing, but upcoming work aiming to make table storage pluggable, would have required expanding and duplicating that "specialness" significantly. WITH OIDS has been deprecated since 2005 (commit ff02d0a05280e0). Remove it. Removing includes: - CREATE TABLE and ALTER TABLE syntax for declaring the table to be WITH OIDS has been removed (WITH (oids[ = true]) will error out) - pg_dump does not support dumping tables declared WITH OIDS and will issue a warning when dumping one (and ignore the oid column). - restoring an pg_dump archive with pg_restore will warn when restoring a table with oid contents (and ignore the oid column) - COPY will refuse to load binary dump that includes oids. - pg_upgrade will error out when encountering tables declared WITH OIDS, they have to be altered to remove the oid column first. - Functionality to access the oid of the last inserted row (like plpgsql's RESULT_OID, spi's SPI_lastoid, ...) has been removed. The syntax for declaring a table WITHOUT OIDS (or WITH (oids = false) for CREATE TABLE) is still supported. While that requires a bit of support code, it seems unnecessary to break applications / dumps that do not use oids, and are explicit about not using them. The biggest user of WITH OID columns was postgres' catalog. This commit changes all 'magic' oid columns to be columns that are normally declared and stored. To reduce unnecessary query breakage all the newly added columns are still named 'oid', even if a table's column naming scheme would indicate 'reloid' or such. This obviously requires adapting a lot code, mostly replacing oid access via HeapTupleGetOid() with access to the underlying Form_pg_*->oid column. The bootstrap process now assigns oids for all oid columns in genbki.pl that do not have an explicit value (starting at the largest oid previously used), only oids assigned later by oids will be above FirstBootstrapObjectId. As the oid column now is a normal column the special bootstrap syntax for oids has been removed. Oids are not automatically assigned during insertion anymore, all backend code explicitly assigns oids with GetNewOidWithIndex(). For the rare case that insertions into the catalog via SQL are called for the new pg_nextoid() function can be used (which only works on catalog tables). The fact that oid columns on system tables are now normal columns means that they will be included in the set of columns expanded by * (i.e. SELECT * FROM pg_class will now include the table's oid, previously it did not). It'd not technically be hard to hide oid column by default, but that'd mean confusing behavior would either have to be carried forward forever, or it'd cause breakage down the line. While it's not unlikely that further adjustments are needed, the scope/invasiveness of the patch makes it worthwhile to get merge this now. It's painful to maintain externally, too complicated to commit after the code code freeze, and a dependency of a number of other patches. Catversion bump, for obvious reasons. Author: Andres Freund, with contributions by John Naylor Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180930034810.ywp2c7awz7opzcfr@alap3.anarazel.de
2018-10-12Simplify use of AllocSetContextCreate() wrapper macro.Tom Lane
We can allow this macro to accept either abbreviated or non-abbreviated allocation parameters by making use of __VA_ARGS__. As noted by Andres Freund, it's unlikely that any compiler would have __builtin_constant_p but not __VA_ARGS__, so this gives up little or no error checking, and it avoids a minor but annoying API break for extensions. With this change, there is no reason for anybody to call AllocSetContextCreateExtended directly, so in HEAD I renamed it to AllocSetContextCreateInternal. It's probably too late for an ABI break like that in 11, though. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20181012170355.bhxi273skjt6sag4@alap3.anarazel.de
2018-09-25Constify dsa_size_class_map and use a better type.Thomas Munro
Author: Mark G Reviewed-by: Tom Lane Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEeOP_Zy_FvVwcAU0UX9nkOhnoR5KN%3D0B6LWX_kv0ZuSc4wbGw%40mail.gmail.com
2018-09-22Use size_t consistently in dsa.{ch}.Thomas Munro
Takeshi Ideriha complained that there is a mixture of Size and size_t in dsa.c and corresponding header. Let's use size_t. Back-patch to 10 where dsa.c landed, to make future back-patching easy. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/4E72940DA2BF16479384A86D54D0988A6F19ABD9%40G01JPEXMBKW04
2018-09-20Fix segment_bins corruption in dsa.c.Thomas Munro
If a segment has been freed by dsa.c because it is entirely empty, other backends must make sure to unmap it before following links to new segments that might happen to have the same index number, or they could finish up looking at a defunct segment and then corrupt the segment_bins lists. The correct protocol requires checking freed_segment_counter after acquiring the area lock and before resolving any index number to a segment. Add the missing checks and an assertion. Back-patch to 10, where dsa.c first arrived. Author: Thomas Munro Reported-by: Tomas Vondra Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm%3D0thg%2Bja5zGVa7jBy-uqyHrTqTm8HGhEOtMmigGrAqTbw%40mail.gmail.com
2018-08-27Fix snapshot leak warning for some proceduresPeter Eisentraut
The problem arises with the combination of CALL with output parameters and doing a COMMIT inside the procedure. When a CALL has output parameters, the portal uses the strategy PORTAL_UTIL_SELECT instead of PORTAL_MULTI_QUERY. Using PORTAL_UTIL_SELECT causes the portal's snapshot to be registered with the current resource owner (portal->holdSnapshot); see 9ee1cf04ab6bcefe03a11837b53f29ca9dc24c7a for the reason. Normally, PortalDrop() unregisters the snapshot. If not, then ResourceOwnerRelease() will print a warning about a snapshot leak on transaction commit. A transaction commit normally drops all portals (PreCommit_Portals()), except the active portal. So in case of the active portal, we need to manually release the snapshot to avoid the warning. Reported-by: Prabhat Sahu <prabhat.sahu@enterprisedb.com> Reviewed-by: Jonathan S. Katz <jkatz@postgresql.org>
2018-08-21Fix typoAlvaro Herrera
2018-07-11Fix more wrong paths in header commentsAlexander Korotkov
It appears that there are more files, whose header comment paths are wrong. So, fix those paths. No backpatching per proposal of Tom Lane. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAPpHfdsJyYbOj59MOQL%2B4XxdcomLSLfLqBtAvwR%2BpsCqj3ELdQ%40mail.gmail.com
2018-04-28Assorted minor doc/comment fixes.Tom Lane
Identify pg_replication_origin as a shared catalog in catalogs.sgml, using the same boilerplate wording used for most other shared catalogs (and tweak another place where someone had randomly deviated from that boilerplate). Make an example in mmgr/README more consistent with surrounding text. Update an obsolete cross-reference in a comment in storage/block.h. Zhuo Ql Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/44296255.1819230.1524889719001@mail.yahoo.com
2018-04-26Post-feature-freeze pgindent run.Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15719.1523984266@sss.pgh.pa.us
2018-04-06Add memory context identifier to portal contextPeter Eisentraut
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/6421.1522194949@sss.pgh.pa.us
2018-04-01Fix a boatload of typos in C comments.Tom Lane
Justin Pryzby Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180331105640.GK28454@telsasoft.com
2018-03-30Improve out-of-memory error reports by including memory context name.Tom Lane
Add the target context's name to the errdetail field of "out of memory" errors in mcxt.c. Per discussion, this seems likely to be useful to help narrow down the cause of a reported failure, and it costs little. Also, now that context names are required to be compile-time constants in all cases, there's little reason to be concerned about security issues from exposing these names to users. (Because of such concerns, we are *not* including the context "ident" field.) In passing, add unlikely() markers to the allocation-failed tests, just to be sure the compiler is on the right page about that. Also, in palloc and friends, copy CurrentMemoryContext into a local variable, as that's almost surely cheaper to reference than a global. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1099.1522285628@sss.pgh.pa.us
2018-03-28Allow committing inside cursor loopPeter Eisentraut
Previously, committing or aborting inside a cursor loop was prohibited because that would close and remove the cursor. To allow that, automatically convert such cursors to holdable cursors so they survive commits or rollbacks. Portals now have a new state "auto-held", which means they have been converted automatically from pinned. An auto-held portal is kept on transaction commit or rollback, but is still removed when returning to the main loop on error. This supports all languages that have cursor loop constructs: PL/pgSQL, PL/Python, PL/Perl. Reviewed-by: Ildus Kurbangaliev <i.kurbangaliev@postgrespro.ru>
2018-03-27Allow memory contexts to have both fixed and variable ident strings.Tom Lane
Originally, we treated memory context names as potentially variable in all cases, and therefore always copied them into the context header. Commit 9fa6f00b1 rethought this a little bit and invented a distinction between fixed and variable names, skipping the copy step for the former. But we can make things both simpler and more useful by instead allowing there to be two parts to a context's identification, a fixed "name" and an optional, variable "ident". The name supplied in the context create call is now required to be a compile-time-constant string in all cases, as it is never copied but just pointed to. The "ident" string, if wanted, is supplied later. This is needed because typically we want the ident to be stored inside the context so that it's cleaned up automatically on context deletion; that means it has to be copied into the context before we can set the pointer. The cost of this approach is basically just an additional pointer field in struct MemoryContextData, which isn't much overhead, and is bought back entirely in the AllocSet case by not needing a headerSize field anymore, since we no longer have to cope with variable header length. In addition, we can simplify the internal interfaces for memory context creation still further, saving a few cycles there. And it's no longer true that a custom identifier disqualifies a context from participating in aset.c's freelist scheme, so possibly there's some win on that end. All the places that were using non-compile-time-constant context names are adjusted to put the variable info into the "ident" instead. This allows more effective identification of those contexts in many cases; for example, subsidary contexts of relcache entries are now identified by both type (e.g. "index info") and relname, where before you got only one or the other. Contexts associated with PL function cache entries are now identified more fully and uniformly, too. I also arranged for plancache contexts to use the query source string as their identifier. This is basically free for CachedPlanSources, as they contained a copy of that string already. We pay an extra pstrdup to do it for CachedPlans. That could perhaps be avoided, but it would make things more fragile (since the CachedPlanSource is sometimes destroyed first). I suspect future improvements in error reporting will require CachedPlans to have a copy of that string anyway, so it's not clear that it's worth moving mountains to avoid it now. This also changes the APIs for context statistics routines so that the context-specific routines no longer assume that output goes straight to stderr, nor do they know all details of the output format. This is useful immediately to reduce code duplication, and it also allows for external code to do something with stats output that's different from printing to stderr. The reason for pushing this now rather than waiting for v12 is that it rethinks some of the API changes made by commit 9fa6f00b1. Seems better for extension authors to endure just one round of API changes not two. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAB=Je-FdtmFZ9y9REHD7VsSrnCkiBhsA4mdsLKSPauwXtQBeNA@mail.gmail.com
2018-02-16Fix crash when canceling parallel queryPeter Eisentraut
elog(FATAL) would end up calling PortalCleanup(), which would call executor shutdown code, which could fail and crash, especially under parallel query. This was introduced by 8561e4840c81f7e345be2df170839846814fa004, which did not want to mark an active portal as failed by a normal transaction abort anymore. But we do need to do that for an elog(FATAL) exit. Introduce a variable shmem_exit_inprogress similar to the existing proc_exit_inprogress, so we can tell whether we are in the FATAL exit scenario. Reported-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
2018-01-22Transaction control in PL proceduresPeter Eisentraut
In each of the supplied procedural languages (PL/pgSQL, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Tcl), add language-specific commit and rollback functions/commands to control transactions in procedures in that language. Add similar underlying functions to SPI. Some additional cleanup so that transaction commit or abort doesn't blow away data structures still used by the procedure call. Add execution context tracking to CALL and DO statements so that transaction control commands can only be issued in top-level procedure and block calls, not function calls or other procedure or block calls. - SPI Add a new function SPI_connect_ext() that is like SPI_connect() but allows passing option flags. The only option flag right now is SPI_OPT_NONATOMIC. A nonatomic SPI connection can execute transaction control commands, otherwise it's not allowed. This is meant to be passed down from CALL and DO statements which themselves know in which context they are called. A nonatomic SPI connection uses different memory management. A normal SPI connection allocates its memory in TopTransactionContext. For nonatomic connections we use PortalContext instead. As the comment in SPI_connect_ext() (previously SPI_connect()) indicates, one could potentially use PortalContext in all cases, but it seems safest to leave the existing uses alone, because this stuff is complicated enough already. SPI also gets new functions SPI_start_transaction(), SPI_commit(), and SPI_rollback(), which can be used by PLs to implement their transaction control logic. - portalmem.c Some adjustments were made in the code that cleans up portals at transaction abort. The portal code could already handle a command *committing* a transaction and continuing (e.g., VACUUM), but it was not quite prepared for a command *aborting* a transaction and continuing. In AtAbort_Portals(), remove the code that marks an active portal as failed. As the comment there already predicted, this doesn't work if the running command wants to keep running after transaction abort. And it's actually not necessary, because pquery.c is careful to run all portal code in a PG_TRY block and explicitly runs MarkPortalFailed() if there is an exception. So the code in AtAbort_Portals() is never used anyway. In AtAbort_Portals() and AtCleanup_Portals(), we need to be careful not to clean up active portals too much. This mirrors similar code in PreCommit_Portals(). - PL/Perl Gets new functions spi_commit() and spi_rollback() - PL/pgSQL Gets new commands COMMIT and ROLLBACK. Update the PL/SQL porting example in the documentation to reflect that transactions are now possible in procedures. - PL/Python Gets new functions plpy.commit and plpy.rollback. - PL/Tcl Gets new commands commit and rollback. Reviewed-by: Andrew Dunstan <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com>
2018-01-10Give more accurate error message for dropping pinned portalPeter Eisentraut
The previous code gave the same error message for attempting to drop pinned and active portals, but those are separate states, so give separate error messages.
2018-01-09Update portal-related memory context names and APIPeter Eisentraut
Rename PortalMemory to TopPortalContext, to avoid confusion with PortalContext and align naming with similar top-level memory contexts. Rename PortalData's "heap" field to portalContext. The "heap" naming seems quite antiquated and confusing. Also get rid of the PortalGetHeapMemory() macro and access the field directly, which we do for other portal fields, so this abstraction doesn't buy anything. Reviewed-by: Andrew Dunstan <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com> Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
2018-01-02Update copyright for 2018Bruce Momjian
Backpatch-through: certain files through 9.3
2017-12-13Rethink MemoryContext creation to improve performance.Tom Lane
This patch makes a number of interrelated changes to reduce the overhead involved in creating/deleting memory contexts. The key ideas are: * Include the AllocSetContext header of an aset.c context in its first malloc request, rather than allocating it separately in TopMemoryContext. This means that we now always create an initial or "keeper" block in an aset, even if it never receives any allocation requests. * Create freelists in which we can save and recycle recently-destroyed asets (this idea is due to Robert Haas). * In the common case where the name of a context is a constant string, just store a pointer to it in the context header, rather than copying the string. The first change eliminates a palloc/pfree cycle per context, and also avoids bloat in TopMemoryContext, at the price that creating a context now involves a malloc/free cycle even if the context never receives any allocations. That would be a loser for some common usage patterns, but recycling short-lived contexts via the freelist eliminates that pain. Avoiding copying constant strings not only saves strlen() and strcpy() overhead, but is an essential part of the freelist optimization because it makes the context header size constant. Currently we make no attempt to use the freelist for contexts with non-constant names. (Perhaps someday we'll need to think harder about that, but in current usage, most contexts with custom names are long-lived anyway.) The freelist management in this initial commit is pretty simplistic, and we might want to refine it later --- but in common workloads that will never matter because the freelists will never get full anyway. To create a context with a non-constant name, one is now required to call AllocSetContextCreateExtended and specify the MEMCONTEXT_COPY_NAME option. AllocSetContextCreate becomes a wrapper macro, and it includes a test that will complain about non-string-literal context name parameters on gcc and similar compilers. An unfortunate side effect of making AllocSetContextCreate a macro is that one is now *required* to use the size parameter abstraction macros (ALLOCSET_DEFAULT_SIZES and friends) with it; the pre-9.6 habit of writing out individual size parameters no longer works unless you switch to AllocSetContextCreateExtended. Internally to the memory-context-related modules, the context creation APIs are simplified, removing the rather baroque original design whereby a context-type module called mcxt.c which then called back into the context-type module. That saved a bit of code duplication, but not much, and it prevented context-type modules from exercising control over the allocation of context headers. In passing, I converted the test-and-elog validation of aset size parameters into Asserts to save a few more cycles. The original thought was that callers might compute size parameters on the fly, but in practice nobody does that, so it's useless to expend cycles on checking those numbers in production builds. Also, mark the memory context method-pointer structs "const", just for cleanliness. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2264.1512870796@sss.pgh.pa.us
2017-11-29Update typedefs.list and re-run pgindentRobert Haas
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoaA9=1RWKtBWpDaj+sF3Stgc8sHgf5z=KGtbjwPLQVDMA@mail.gmail.com
2017-11-24Improve valgrind logic in aset.c, and fix multiple issues in generation.c.Tom Lane
Revise aset.c so that all the "private" fields of chunk headers are marked NOACCESS when outside the module, improving on the previous coding which protected only requested_size. Fix a couple of corner case bugs, such as failing to re-protect the header during a failure exit from AllocSetRealloc, and wrong padding-size calculation for an oversize allocation request. Apply the same design to generation.c, and also fix several bugs therein that I found by dint of hacking the code to use generation.c as the standard allocator and then running the core regression tests with it. Notably, we have to track the actual size of each block, else the wipe_mem call in GenerationReset clears the wrong amount of memory for an oversize-chunk block; and GenerationCheck needs a way of identifying freed chunks that isn't fooled by palloc(0). I chose to fix the latter by resetting the context pointer to NULL in a freed chunk, roughly like what happens in a freed aset.c chunk. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1eHa4J-0006hI-Q8@gemulon.postgresql.org
2017-11-24Mostly-cosmetic improvements in memory chunk header alignment coding.Tom Lane
Add commentary about what we're doing and why. Apply the method used for padding in GenerationChunk to AllocChunkData, replacing the rather ad-hoc solution used in commit 7e3aa03b4. Reorder fields in GenerationChunk so that the padding calculation will work even if sizeof(size_t) is different from sizeof(void *) --- likely that will never happen, but we don't need the assumption if we do it like this. Improve static assertions about alignment. In passing, fix a couple of oversights in the "large chunk" path in GenerationAlloc(). Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1eHa4J-0006hI-Q8@gemulon.postgresql.org
2017-11-24Fix bug in generation.c's valgrind support.Tom Lane
This doesn't look like the last such bug, but it's one that the test_decoding regression test is tripping over. Per buildfarm. Tomas Vondra Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/c903f275-2150-fa52-64bf-dca7b53ebf8d@fuzzy.cz
2017-11-23Ensure sizeof(GenerationChunk) is maxaligned.Tom Lane
Per buildfarm. Also improve some comments.
2017-11-23Tweak code for older compilersSimon Riggs
Attempt to quiesce build farm Author: Tomas Vondra
2017-11-23Generational memory allocatorSimon Riggs
Add new style of memory allocator, known as Generational appropriate for use in cases where memory is allocated and then freed in roughly oldest first order (FIFO). Use new allocator for logical decoding’s reorderbuffer to significantly reduce memory usage and improve performance. Author: Tomas Vondra Reviewed-by: Simon Riggs
2017-11-08Change TRUE/FALSE to true/falsePeter Eisentraut
The lower case spellings are C and C++ standard and are used in most parts of the PostgreSQL sources. The upper case spellings are only used in some files/modules. So standardize on the standard spellings. The APIs for ICU, Perl, and Windows define their own TRUE and FALSE, so those are left as is when using those APIs. In code comments, we use the lower-case spelling for the C concepts and keep the upper-case spelling for the SQL concepts. Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
2017-10-10Rewrite strnlen replacement implementation from 8a241792f96.Andres Freund
The previous placement of the fallback implementation in libpgcommon was problematic, because libpqport functions need strnlen functionality. Move replacement into libpgport. Provide strnlen() under its posix name, instead of pg_strnlen(). Fix stupid configure bug, executing the test only when compiled with threading support. Author: Andres Freund Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1e1gR2-0005fB-SI@gemulon.postgresql.org
2017-10-09Fix pnstrdup() to not memcpy() the maximum allowed length.Andres Freund
The previous behaviour was dangerous if the length passed wasn't the size of the underlying buffer, but the maximum size of the underlying buffer. Author: Andres Freund Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20161003215524.mwz5p45pcverrkyk@alap3.anarazel.de
2017-09-07Reduce excessive dereferencing of function pointersPeter Eisentraut
It is equivalent in ANSI C to write (*funcptr) () and funcptr(). These two styles have been applied inconsistently. After discussion, we'll use the more verbose style for plain function pointer variables, to make it clear that it's a variable, and the shorter style when the function pointer is in a struct (s.func() or s->func()), because then it's clear that it's not a plain function name, and otherwise the excessive punctuation makes some of those invocations hard to read. Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/f52c16db-14ed-757d-4b48-7ef360b1631d@2ndquadrant.com