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2025-10-15Add log_autoanalyze_min_durationPeter Eisentraut
The log output functionality of log_autovacuum_min_duration applies to both VACUUM and ANALYZE, so it is not possible to separate the VACUUM and ANALYZE log output thresholds. Logs are likely to be output only for VACUUM and not for ANALYZE. Therefore, we decided to separate the threshold for log output of VACUUM by autovacuum (log_autovacuum_min_duration) and the threshold for log output of ANALYZE by autovacuum (log_autoanalyze_min_duration). Author: Shinya Kato <shinya11.kato@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Kasahara Tatsuhito <kasaharatt@oss.nttdata.com> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CAOzEurQtfV4MxJiWT-XDnimEeZAY+rgzVSLe8YsyEKhZcajzSA@mail.gmail.com
2025-09-26Create a separate file listing backend typesÁlvaro Herrera
Use our established coding pattern to reduce maintenance pain when adding other per-process-type characteristics. Like PG_KEYWORD, PG_CMDTAG, PG_RMGR. To keep the strings translatable, the relevant makefile now also scans src/include for this specific file. I didn't want to have it scan all .h files, as then gettext would have to scan all header files. I didn't find any way to affect the meson behavior in this respect though. Author: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@kurilemu.de> Co-authored-by: Jonathan Gonzalez V. <jonathan.abdiel@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/202507151830.dwgz5nmmqtdy@alvherre.pgsql
2025-09-16Fix incorrect const qualifierPeter Eisentraut
Commit 7202d72787d added in passing some const qualifiers, but the one on the postmaster_child_launch() startup_data argument was incorrect, because the function itself modifies the pointed-to data. This is hidden from the compiler because of casts. The qualifiers on the functions called by postmaster_child_launch() are still correct.
2025-07-11Add option list to CHECKPOINT command.Nathan Bossart
This commit adds the boilerplate code for supporting a list of options in CHECKPOINT commands. No actual options are supported yet, but follow-up commits will add support for MODE and FLUSH_UNLOGGED. While at it, this commit refactors the code for executing CHECKPOINT commands to its own function since it's about to become significantly larger. Author: Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org> Reviewed-by: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@oss.nttdata.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/aDnaKTEf-0dLiEfz%40msg.df7cb.de
2025-04-11Add missing PGDLLIMPORT markingsPeter Eisentraut
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/25095db5-b595-4b85-9100-d358907c25b5%40eisentraut.org
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
2025-03-12Modularize log_connections outputMelanie Plageman
Convert the boolean log_connections GUC into a list GUC comprised of the connection aspects to log. This gives users more control over the volume and kind of connection logging. The current log_connections options are 'receipt', 'authentication', and 'authorization'. The empty string disables all connection logging. 'all' enables all available connection logging. For backwards compatibility, the most common values for the log_connections boolean are still supported (on, off, 1, 0, true, false, yes, no). Note that previously supported substrings of on, off, true, false, yes, and no are no longer supported. 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> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/flat/CAAKRu_b_smAHK0ZjrnL5GRxnAVWujEXQWpLXYzGbmpcZd3nLYw%40mail.gmail.com
2025-03-05Rename some signal and interrupt handling functions for consistencyHeikki Linnakangas
The usual pattern for handling a signal is that the signal handler sets a flag and calls SetLatch(MyLatch), and CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS() or other code that is part of a wait loop calls another function to deal with it. The naming of the functions involved was a bit inconsistent, however. CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS() calls ProcessInterrupts() to do the heavy-lifting, but the analogous functions in aux processes were called HandleMainLoopInterrupts(), HandleStartupProcInterrupts(), etc. Similarly, most subroutines of ProcessInterrupts() were called Process*(), but some were called Handle*(). To make things less confusing, rename all the functions that are part of the overall signal/interrupt handling system but are not executed in a signal handler to e.g. ProcessSomething(), rather than HandleSomething(). The "Process" prefix is now consistently used in the non-signal-handler functions, and the "Handle" prefix in functions that are part of signal handlers, except for some completely unrelated functions that clearly have nothing to do with signal or interrupt handling. Reviewed-by: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/8a384b26-1499-41f6-be33-64b801fb98b8@iki.fi
2025-02-24Move MAX_BACKENDS to procnumber.hAndres Freund
MAX_BACKENDS influences many things besides postmaster. I e.g. noticed that we don't have static assertions ensuring BUF_REFCOUNT_MASK is big enough for MAX_BACKENDS, adding them would require including postmaster.h in buf_internals.h which doesn't seem right. While at that, add MAX_BACKENDS_BITS, as that's useful in various places for static assertions (to be added in subsequent commits). Reviewed-by: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/wptizm4qt6yikgm2pt52xzyv6ycmqiutloyvypvmagn7xvqkce@d4xuv3mylpg4
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
2025-02-05Introduce autovacuum_vacuum_max_threshold.Nathan Bossart
One way autovacuum chooses tables to vacuum is by comparing the number of updated or deleted tuples with a value calculated using autovacuum_vacuum_threshold and autovacuum_vacuum_scale_factor. The threshold specifies the base value for comparison, and the scale factor specifies the fraction of the table size to add to it. This strategy ensures that smaller tables are vacuumed after fewer updates/deletes than larger tables, which is reasonable in many cases but can result in infrequent vacuums on very large tables. This is undesirable for a couple of reasons, such as very large tables incurring a huge amount of bloat between vacuums. This new parameter provides a way to set a limit on the value calculated with autovacuum_vacuum_threshold and autovacuum_vacuum_scale_factor so that very large tables are vacuumed more frequently. By default, it is set to 100,000,000 tuples, but it can be disabled by setting it to -1. It can also be adjusted for individual tables by changing storage parameters. Author: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Frédéric Yhuel <frederic.yhuel@dalibo.com> Reviewed-by: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at> Reviewed-by: Michael Banck <mbanck@gmx.net> Reviewed-by: Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com> Reviewed-by: Sami Imseih <samimseih@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: wenhui qiu <qiuwenhuifx@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Vinícius Abrahão <vinnix.bsd@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Robert Treat <rob@xzilla.net> Reviewed-by: Alena Rybakina <a.rybakina@postgrespro.ru> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/956435f8-3b2f-47a6-8756-8c54ded61802%40dalibo.com
2025-01-06Allow changing autovacuum_max_workers without restarting.Nathan Bossart
This commit introduces a new parameter named autovacuum_worker_slots that controls how many autovacuum worker slots to reserve during server startup. Modifying this new parameter's value does require a server restart, but it should typically be set to the upper bound of what you might realistically need to set autovacuum_max_workers. With that new parameter in place, autovacuum_max_workers can now be changed with a SIGHUP (e.g., pg_ctl reload). If autovacuum_max_workers is set higher than autovacuum_worker_slots, a WARNING is emitted, and the server will only start up to autovacuum_worker_slots workers at a given time. If autovacuum_max_workers is set to a value less than the number of currently-running autovacuum workers, the existing workers will continue running, but no new workers will be started until the number of running autovacuum workers drops below autovacuum_max_workers. Reviewed-by: Sami Imseih, Justin Pryzby, Robert Haas, Andres Freund, Yogesh Sharma Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20240410212344.GA1824549%40nathanxps13
2025-01-01Update copyright for 2025Bruce Momjian
Backpatch-through: 13
2024-12-04Provide a better error message for misplaced dispatch options.Nathan Bossart
Before this patch, misplacing a special must-be-first option for dispatching to a subprogram (e.g., postgres -D . --single) would fail with an error like FATAL: --single requires a value This patch adjusts this error to more accurately complain that the special option wasn't listed first. The aforementioned error message now looks like FATAL: --single must be first argument The dispatch option parsing code has been refactored for use wherever ParseLongOption() is called. Beyond the obvious advantage of avoiding code duplication, this should prevent similar problems when new dispatch options are added. Note that we assume that none of the dispatch option names match another valid command-line argument, such as the name of a configuration parameter. Ideally, we'd remove this must-be-first requirement for these options, but after some investigation, we decided that wasn't worth the added complexity and behavior changes. Author: Nathan Bossart, Greg Sabino Mullane Reviewed-by: Greg Sabino Mullane, Peter Eisentraut, Álvaro Herrera, Tom Lane Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKAnmmJkZtZAiSryho%3DgYpbvC7H-HNjEDAh16F3SoC9LPu8rqQ%40mail.gmail.com
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
2024-11-01Rename two functions that wake up other processesHeikki Linnakangas
Instead of talking about setting latches, which is a pretty low-level mechanism, emphasize that they wake up other processes. This is in preparation for replacing Latches with a new abstraction. That's still work in progress, but this seems a little tidier anyway, so let's get this refactoring out of the way already. Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/391abe21-413e-4d91-a650-b663af49500c%40iki.fi
2024-08-14Apply PGDLLIMPORT markings to some GUC variablesPeter Eisentraut
According to the commit message in 8ec569479, we must have all variables in header files marked with PGDLLIMPORT. In commit d3cc5ffe81f6 some variables were moved from launch_backend.c file to several header files. This adds PGDLLIMPORT to moved variables. Author: Sofia Kopikova <s.kopikova@postgrespro.ru> Reviewed-by: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/e0b17014-5319-4dd6-91cd-93d9c8fc9539%40postgrespro.ru
2024-08-10Refactor code to handle death of a backend or bgworker in postmasterHeikki Linnakangas
Currently, when a child process exits, the postmaster first scans through BackgroundWorkerList, to see if it the child process was a background worker. If not found, then it scans through BackendList to see if it was a regular backend. That leads to some duplication between the bgworker and regular backend cleanup code, as both have an entry in the BackendList that needs to be cleaned up in the same way. Refactor that so that we scan just the BackendList to find the child process, and if it was a background worker, do the additional bgworker-specific cleanup in addition to the normal Backend cleanup. Change HandleChildCrash so that it doesn't try to handle the cleanup of the process that already exited, only the signaling of all the other processes. When called for any of the aux processes, the caller had already cleared the *PID global variable, so the code in HandleChildCrash() to do that was unused. On Windows, if a child process exits with ERROR_WAIT_NO_CHILDREN, it's now logged with that exit code, instead of 0. Also, if a bgworker exits with ERROR_WAIT_NO_CHILDREN, it's now treated as crashed and is restarted. Previously it was treated as a normal exit. If a child process is not found in the BackendList, the log message now calls it "untracked child process" rather than "server process". Arguably that should be a PANIC, because we do track all the child processes in the list, so failing to find a child process is highly unexpected. But if we want to change that, let's discuss and do that as a separate commit. Reviewed-by: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/835232c0-a5f7-4f20-b95b-5b56ba57d741@iki.fi
2024-08-09Make BackgroundWorkerList doubly-linkedHeikki Linnakangas
This allows ForgetBackgroundWorker() and ReportBackgroundWorkerExit() to take a RegisteredBgWorker pointer as argument, rather than a list iterator. That feels a little more natural. But more importantly, this paves the way for more refactoring in the next commit. Reviewed-by: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/835232c0-a5f7-4f20-b95b-5b56ba57d741@iki.fi
2024-08-01Fix outdated comment; all running bgworkers are in BackendListHeikki Linnakangas
Before commit 8a02b3d732, only bgworkers that connected to a database had an entry in the Backendlist. Commit 8a02b3d732 changed that, but forgot to update this comment. Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/835232c0-a5f7-4f20-b95b-5b56ba57d741@iki.fi
2024-07-30Remove leftover function declarationHeikki Linnakangas
Commit 9d9b9d46f3 removed the function (or rather, moved it to a different source file and renamed it to SendCancelRequest), but forgot the declaration in the header file.
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
2024-07-26Wait for WAL summarization to catch up before creating .partial file.Robert Haas
When a standby is promoted, CleanupAfterArchiveRecovery() may decide to rename the final WAL file from the old timeline by adding ".partial" to the name. If WAL summarization is enabled and this file is renamed before its partial contents are summarized, WAL summarization breaks: the summarizer gets stuck at that point in the WAL stream and just errors out. To fix that, first make the startup process wait for WAL summarization to catch up before renaming the file. Generally, this should be quick, and if it's not, the user can shut off summarize_wal and try again. To make this fix work, also teach the WAL summarizer that after a promotion has occurred, no more WAL can appear on the previous timeline: previously, the WAL summarizer wouldn't switch to the new timeline until we actually started writing WAL there, but that meant that when the startup process was waiting for the WAL summarizer, it was waiting for an action that the summarizer wasn't yet prepared to take. In the process of fixing these bugs, I realized that the logic to wait for WAL summarization to catch up was spread out in a way that made it difficult to reuse properly, so this code refactors things to make it easier. Finally, add a test case that would have caught this bug and the previously-fixed bug that WAL summarization sometimes needs to back up when the timeline changes. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoZGEsZodXC4f=XZNkAeyuDmWTSkpkjCEOcF19Am0mt_OA@mail.gmail.com
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
2024-07-02Improve 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
2024-06-28Prevent summarizer hang when summarize_wal turned off and back on.Robert Haas
Before this commit, when the WAL summarizer started up or recovered from an error, it would resume summarization from wherever it left off. That was OK normally, but wrong if summarize_wal=off had been turned off temporary, allowing some WAL to be removed, and then turned back on again. In such cases, the WAL summarizer would simply hang forever. This commit changes the reinitialization sequence for WAL summarizer to rederive the starting position in the way we were already doing at initial startup, fixing the problem. Per report from Israel Barth Rubio. Reviewed by Tom Lane. Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoYN6x=YS+FoFOS6=nr6=qkXZFWhdiL7k0oatGwug2hcuA@mail.gmail.com
2024-06-12Harmonize function parameter names for Postgres 17.Peter Geoghegan
Make sure that function declarations use names that exactly match the corresponding names from function definitions in a few places. These inconsistencies were all introduced during Postgres 17 development. pg_bsd_indent still has a couple of similar inconsistencies, which I (pgeoghegan) have left untouched for now. This commit was written with help from clang-tidy, by mechanically applying the same rules as similar clean-up commits (the earliest such commit was commit 035ce1fe).
2024-04-16Add missing PGDLLIMPORT markingsMichael Paquier
All backend-side variables should be marked with PGDLLIMPORT, as per policy introduced in 8ec569479f. aafc05de1bf5 has forgotten MyClientSocket, and 05c3980e7f47 LoadedSSL. These can be spotted with a command like this one (be careful of not switching __pg_log_level): src/tools/mark_pgdllimport.pl $(git ls-files src/include/) Reported-by: Peter Eisentraut Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ZhzkRzrkKhbeQMRm@paquier.xyz
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
2024-03-04Use MyBackendType in more places to check what process this isHeikki Linnakangas
Remove IsBackgroundWorker, IsAutoVacuumLauncherProcess(), IsAutoVacuumWorkerProcess(), and IsLogicalSlotSyncWorker() in favor of new Am*Process() macros that use MyBackendType. For consistency with the existing Am*Process() macros. Reviewed-by: Andres Freund Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/f3ecd4cb-85ee-4e54-8278-5fabfb3a4ed0@iki.fi
2024-03-04Remove MyAuxProcType, use MyBackendType insteadHeikki Linnakangas
MyAuxProcType was redundant with MyBackendType. Reviewed-by: Reid Thompson, Andres Freund Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/f3ecd4cb-85ee-4e54-8278-5fabfb3a4ed0@iki.fi
2024-03-03Replace BackendIds with 0-based ProcNumbersHeikki Linnakangas
Now that BackendId was just another index into the proc array, it was redundant with the 0-based proc numbers used in other places. Replace all usage of backend IDs with proc numbers. The only place where the term "backend id" remains is in a few pgstat functions that expose backend IDs at the SQL level. Those IDs are now in fact 0-based ProcNumbers too, but the documentation still calls them "backend ids". That term still seems appropriate to describe what the numbers are, so I let it be. One user-visible effect is that pg_temp_0 is now a valid temp schema name, for backend with ProcNumber 0. Reviewed-by: Andres Freund Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/8171f1aa-496f-46a6-afc3-c46fe7a9b407@iki.fi
2024-01-16Add missing PGDLLIMPORT markingsHeikki Linnakangas
Since commit 8ec569479f, we have a policy of marking all backend variables with PGDLLIMPORT. Reported-by: Anton A. Melnikov Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/0b78546c-ffef-4cd9-9ba1-d1e6aab88cea@postgrespro.ru
2024-01-11Add new function pg_get_wal_summarizer_state().Robert Haas
This makes it possible to access information about the progress of WAL summarization from SQL. The previously-added functions pg_available_wal_summaries() and pg_wal_summary_contents() only examine on-disk state, but this function exposes information from the server's shared memory. Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+Tgmobvqqj-DW9F7uUzT-cQqs6wcVb-Xhs=w=hzJnXSE-kRGw@mail.gmail.com
2024-01-03Update copyright for 2024Bruce Momjian
Reported-by: Michael Paquier Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ZZKTDPxBBMt3C0J9@paquier.xyz Backpatch-through: 12
2023-12-20Add a new WAL summarizer process.Robert Haas
When active, this process writes WAL summary files to $PGDATA/pg_wal/summaries. Each summary file contains information for a certain range of LSNs on a certain TLI. For each relation, it stores a "limit block" which is 0 if a relation is created or destroyed within a certain range of WAL records, or otherwise the shortest length to which the relation was truncated during that range of WAL records, or otherwise InvalidBlockNumber. In addition, it stores a list of blocks which have been modified during that range of WAL records, but excluding blocks which were removed by truncation after they were modified and never subsequently modified again. In other words, it tells us which blocks need to copied in case of an incremental backup covering that range of WAL records. But this doesn't yet add the capability to actually perform an incremental backup; the next patch will do that. A new parameter summarize_wal enables or disables this new background process. The background process also automatically deletes summary files that are older than wal_summarize_keep_time, if that parameter has a non-zero value and the summarizer is configured to run. Patch by me, with some design help from Dilip Kumar and Andres Freund. Reviewed by Matthias van de Meent, Dilip Kumar, Jakub Wartak, Peter Eisentraut, and Álvaro Herrera. Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoYOYZfMCyOXFyC-P+-mdrZqm5pP2N7S-r0z3_402h9rsA@mail.gmail.com
2023-12-04Remove now-unnecessary Autovacuum[Launcher|Worker]IAm functionsHeikki Linnakangas
After commit fd5e8b440d, InitProcess() is called later in the EXEC_BACKEND startup sequence, so it's enough to set the am_autovacuum_[launcher|worker] variables at the same place as in the !EXEC_BACKEND case.
2023-12-03Pass BackgroundWorker entry in the parameter file in EXEC_BACKEND modeHeikki Linnakangas
The BackgroundWorker struct is now passed the same way as the Port struct. Seems more consistent. This makes it possible to move InitProcess later in SubPostmasterMain (in next commit), as we no longer need to access shared memory to read background worker entry. Reviewed-by: Tristan Partin, Andres Freund, Alexander Lakhin Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/7a59b073-5b5b-151e-7ed3-8b01ff7ce9ef@iki.fi
2023-10-26Add trailing commas to enum definitionsPeter Eisentraut
Since C99, there can be a trailing comma after the last value in an enum definition. A lot of new code has been introducing this style on the fly. Some new patches are now taking an inconsistent approach to this. Some add the last comma on the fly if they add a new last value, some are trying to preserve the existing style in each place, some are even dropping the last comma if there was one. We could nudge this all in a consistent direction if we just add the trailing commas everywhere once. I omitted a few places where there was a fixed "last" value that will always stay last. I also skipped the header files of libpq and ecpg, in case people want to use those with older compilers. There were also a small number of cases where the enum type wasn't used anywhere (but the enum values were), which ended up confusing pgindent a bit, so I left those alone. Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/386f8c45-c8ac-4681-8add-e3b0852c1620%40eisentraut.org
2023-10-12Add option to bgworkers to allow the bypass of role login checkMichael Paquier
This adds a new option called BGWORKER_BYPASS_ROLELOGINCHECK to the flags available to BackgroundWorkerInitializeConnection() and BackgroundWorkerInitializeConnectionByOid(). This gives the possibility to bgworkers to bypass the role login check, making possible the use of a role that has no login rights while not being a superuser. PostgresInit() gains a new flag called INIT_PG_OVERRIDE_ROLE_LOGIN, taking advantage of the refactoring done in 4800a5dfb4c4. Regression tests are added to worker_spi to check the behavior of this new option with bgworkers. Author: Bertrand Drouvot Reviewed-by: Nathan Bossart, Michael Paquier, Bharath Rupireddy Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/bcc36259-7850-4882-97ef-d6b905d2fc51@gmail.com
2023-10-09Rename StartBackgroundWorker() to BackgroundWorkerMain().Heikki Linnakangas
The comment claimed that it is "called from postmaster", but it is actually called in the child process, pretty early in the process initialization. I guess you could interpret "called from postmaster" to mean that, but it seems wrong to me. Rename the function to be consistent with other functions with similar role. Reviewed-by: Thomas Munro Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/4f95c1fc-ad3c-7974-3a8c-6faa3931804c@iki.fi
2023-07-03Increase size of bgw_library_name.Nathan Bossart
This commit increases the size of the bgw_library_name member of the BackgroundWorker struct from BGW_MAXLEN (96) bytes to MAXPGPATH (default of 1024) bytes so that it can store longer file names (e.g., absolute paths). Author: Yurii Rashkovskii Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson, Aleksander Alekseev Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BRLCQyjFV5Y8tG5QgUb6gjteL4S3p%2B1gcyqWTqigyM93WZ9Pg%40mail.gmail.com
2023-05-15Fix wal_writer_flush_after initializer value.Thomas Munro
Commit a73952b7956 (new in 16) required default values in guc_table.c and C variable initializers to match. This one only matched when XLOG_BLCKSZ == 8kB. Fix by using the same expression in both places with a new DEFAULT_XXX macro, as done for other GUCs. Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+hUKGLNmLV=VrT==5MqnbARgx2ifRSFtdd8ofdfrdSLL3yv5A@mail.gmail.com
2023-04-07Separate vacuum cost variables from GUCsDaniel Gustafsson
Vacuum code run both by autovacuum workers and a backend doing VACUUM/ANALYZE previously inspected VacuumCostLimit and VacuumCostDelay, which are the global variables backing the GUCs vacuum_cost_limit and vacuum_cost_delay. Autovacuum workers needed to override these variables with their own values, derived from autovacuum_vacuum_cost_limit and autovacuum_vacuum_cost_delay and worker cost limit balancing logic. This led to confusing code which, in some cases, both derived and set a new value of VacuumCostLimit from VacuumCostLimit. In preparation for refreshing these GUC values more often, introduce new, independent global variables and add a function to update them using the GUCs and existing logic. Per suggestion by Kyotaro Horiguchi Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se> Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CAAKRu_ZngzqnEODc7LmS1NH04Kt6Y9huSjz5pp7%2BDXhrjDA0gw%40mail.gmail.com
2023-02-17Redesign archive modulesMichael Paquier
A new callback named startup_cb, called shortly after a module is loaded, is added. This makes possible the initialization of any additional state data required by a module. This initial state data can be saved in a ArchiveModuleState, that is now passed down to all the callbacks that can be defined in a module. With this design, it is possible to have a per-module state, aimed at opening the door to the support of more than one archive module. The initialization of the callbacks is changed so as _PG_archive_module_init() does not anymore give in input a ArchiveModuleCallbacks that a module has to fill in with callback definitions. Instead, a module now needs to return a const ArchiveModuleCallbacks. All the structure and callback definitions of archive modules are moved into their own header, named archive_module.h, from pgarch.h. Command-based archiving follows the same line, with a new set of files named shell_archive.{c,h}. There are a few more items that are under discussion to improve the design of archive modules, like the fact that basic_archive calls sigsetjmp() by itself to define its own error handling flow. These will be adjusted later, the changes done here cover already a good portion of what has been discussed. Any modules created for v15 will need to be adjusted to this new design. Author: Nathan Bossart Reviewed-by: Andres Freund Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230130194810.6fztfgbn32e7qarj@awork3.anarazel.de
2023-02-06Disable STARTUP_PROGRESS_TIMEOUT in standby mode.Robert Haas
In standby mode, we don't actually report progress of recovery, but up until now, startup_progress_timeout_handler() nevertheless got called every log_startup_progress_interval seconds. That's an unnecessary expense, so avoid it. Report by Thomas Munro. Patch by Bharath Rupireddy, reviewed by Simon Riggs, Thomas Munro, and me. Back-patch to v15, where the problem was introduced. Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CA%2BhUKGKCHSffAj8zZJKJvNX7ygnQFxVD6wm1d-2j3fVw%2BMafPQ%40mail.gmail.com
2023-01-20Add new GUC reserved_connections.Robert Haas
This provides a way to reserve connection slots for non-superusers. The slots reserved via the new GUC are available only to users who have the new predefined role pg_use_reserved_connections. superuser_reserved_connections remains as a final reserve in case reserved_connections has been exhausted. Patch by Nathan Bossart. Reviewed by Tushar Ahuja and by me. Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/20230119194601.GA4105788@nathanxps13