Robert Haas [Tue, 22 May 2012 15:19:33 +0000 (11:19 -0400)]
Fix error message for COMMENT/SECURITY LABEL ON COLUMN xxx IS 'yyy'
When the column name is an unqualified name, rather than table.column,
the error message complains about too many dotted names, which is
wrong. Report by Peter Eisentraut based on examination of the
sepgsql regression test output, but the problem also affects COMMENT.
New wording as suggested by Tom Lane.
Robert Haas [Tue, 22 May 2012 13:30:59 +0000 (09:30 -0400)]
Repair out-of-date information in src/backend/storage/buffer/README.
In commit d526575f893c1a4e05ebd307e80203536b213a6d, we changed things so
that buffer usage counts are incremented when the buffer is pinned, rather
than when it is unpinned, but the README file didn't get the memo.
Tom Lane [Tue, 22 May 2012 02:50:30 +0000 (22:50 -0400)]
Move postmaster's RemovePgTempFiles call to a less randomly chosen place.
There is no reason to do this as early as possible in postmaster startup,
and good reason not to do it until we have completely created the
postmaster's lock file, namely that it might contribute to pg_ctl thinking
that postmaster startup has timed out. (This would require a rather
unusual amount of time to be spent scanning temp file directories, but we
have at least one field report of it happening reproducibly.)
Back-patch to 9.1. Before that, pg_ctl didn't wait for additional info to
be added to the lock file, so it wasn't a problem.
Note that this is not a complete fix to the slow-start issue in 9.1,
because we still had identify_system_timezone being run during postmaster
start in 9.1. But that's at least a reasonably well-defined delay, with
an easy workaround if needed, whereas the temp-files scan is not so
predictable and cannot be avoided.
Tom Lane [Tue, 22 May 2012 02:10:40 +0000 (22:10 -0400)]
Update woefully-obsolete comment.
The accurate info about what's in a lock file has been in miscadmin.h
for some time, so let's just make this comment point there instead of
maintaining a duplicative copy.
Peter Eisentraut [Mon, 21 May 2012 17:08:50 +0000 (20:08 +0300)]
libpq: Add missing file to GETTEXT_FILES list
For the record, fe-print.c is also missing, but it's sort of
deprecated, and the string internationalization there has some issues,
and it doesn't seem worth fixing that. So let's leave that out.
Tom Lane [Mon, 21 May 2012 15:56:00 +0000 (11:56 -0400)]
Document that we deviate from ISO 8601 by not using 'T' on output.
Per discussion, we should explain that we follow RFC 3339 and not really
the letter of the ISO 8601 spec for timestamp output format. Mostly
Brendan Jurd's wording, though I tweaked it to clarify that we do take 'T'
on input. Minor additional copy-editing and markup-tweaking, too.
When we create a temporary copy of the old node buffer, in stack, we mustn't
leak that into any of the long-lived data structures. Before this patch,
when we called gistPopItupFromNodeBuffer(), it got added to the array of
"loaded buffers". After gistRelocateBuildBuffersOnSplit() exits, the
pointer added to the loaded buffers array points to garbage. Often that goes
unnotied, because when we go through the array of loaded buffers to unload
them, buffers with a NULL pageBuffer are ignored, which can often happen by
accident even if the pointer points to garbage.
This patch fixes that by marking the temporary copy in stack explicitly as
temporary, and refrain from adding buffers marked as temporary to the array
of loaded buffers.
While we're at it, initialize nodeBuffer->pageBlocknum to InvalidBlockNumber
and improve comments a bit. This isn't strictly necessary, but makes
debugging easier.
Tom Lane [Tue, 15 May 2012 16:12:40 +0000 (12:12 -0400)]
Improve error message for ALTER COLUMN TYPE coercion failure.
Per recent discussion, the error message for this was actually a trifle
inaccurate, since it said "cannot be cast" which might be incorrect.
Adjust that wording, and add a HINT suggesting that a USING clause might
be needed.
Tom Lane [Tue, 15 May 2012 03:51:34 +0000 (23:51 -0400)]
In pgstat.c, use a timeout in WaitLatchOrSocket only on Windows.
We have no need for a timeout here really, but some broken products from
Redmond seem to lose FD_READ events occasionally, and waking up and
retrying the recv() is the only known way to work around that. Perhaps
somebody will be motivated to figure out a better answer here; but not I.
Tom Lane [Tue, 15 May 2012 03:06:48 +0000 (23:06 -0400)]
Put back AC_REQUIRE([AC_STRUCT_TM]).
The BSD-ish members of the buildfarm all seem to think removing this
was a bad idea. It looks to me like it resulted in omitting the system
header inclusion necessary to detect the fields of struct tm correctly.
Tom Lane [Mon, 14 May 2012 20:11:59 +0000 (16:11 -0400)]
Assert that WaitLatchOrSocket callers cannot wait only for writability.
Since we have chosen to report socket EOF and error conditions via the
WL_SOCKET_READABLE flag bit, it's unsafe to wait only for
WL_SOCKET_WRITEABLE; the caller would never be notified of the socket
condition, and in some of these implementations WaitLatchOrSocket would
busy-wait until something else happens. Add this restriction to the API
specification, and add Asserts to check that callers don't try to do that.
At some point we might want to consider adjusting the API to relax this
restriction, but until we have an actual use case for waiting on a
write-only socket, it seems premature to design a solution.
Tom Lane [Mon, 14 May 2012 19:03:14 +0000 (15:03 -0400)]
For testing purposes, reinsert a timeout in pgstat.c's wait call.
Test results from buildfarm members mastodon/narwhal (Windows Server 2003)
make it look like that platform just plain loses FD_READ events
occasionally, and the only reason our previous coding seemed to work was
that it timed out every couple of seconds and retried the whole operation.
Try to verify this by reinserting a finite timeout into the pgstat loop.
This isn't meant to be a permanent patch either, just to confirm or
disprove a theory.
Tom Lane [Mon, 14 May 2012 14:57:07 +0000 (10:57 -0400)]
Force pgwin32_recv into nonblock mode when called from pgstat.c.
This should get rid of the usage of pgwin32_waitforsinglesocket entirely,
and perhaps thereby remove the race condition that's evidently still
present on some versions of Windows. The previous arrangement was a bit
unsafe anyway, since waiting at the recv() would not allow pgstat to notice
postmaster death.
Update comments that became out-of-date with the PGXACT struct.
When the "hot" members of PGPROC were split off to separate PGXACT structs,
many PGPROC fields referred to in comments were moved to PGXACT, but the
comments were neglected in the commit. Mostly this is just a search/replace
of PGPROC with PGXACT, but the way the dummy PGPROC entries are created for
prepared transactions changed more, making some of the comments totally
bogus.
Tom Lane [Mon, 14 May 2012 01:11:31 +0000 (21:11 -0400)]
Add some temporary instrumentation to pgstat.c.
Log main-loop blocking events and the results of inquiry messages.
This is to get some clarity as to what's happening on those Windows
buildfarm members that still don't like the latch-ified stats collector.
This bulks up the postmaster log a tad, so I won't leave it in place for
long.
Tom Lane [Sun, 13 May 2012 22:06:52 +0000 (18:06 -0400)]
Fix DROP TABLESPACE to unlink symlink when directory is not there.
If the tablespace directory is missing entirely, we allow DROP TABLESPACE
to go through, on the grounds that it should be possible to clean up the
catalog entry in such a situation. However, we forgot that the pg_tblspc
symlink might still be there. We should try to remove the symlink too
(but not fail if it's no longer there), since not doing so can lead to
weird behavior subsequently, as per report from Michael Nolan.
There was some discussion of adding dependency links to prevent DROP
TABLESPACE when the catalogs still contain references to the tablespace.
That might be worth doing too, but it's an orthogonal question, and in
any case wouldn't be back-patchable.
Back-patch to 9.0, which is as far back as the logic looks like this.
We could possibly do something similar in 8.x, but given the lack of
reports I'm not sure it's worth the trouble, and anyway the case could
not arise in the form the logic is meant to cover (namely, a post-DROP
transaction rollback having resurrected the pg_tablespace entry after
some or all of the filesystem infrastructure is gone).
Tom Lane [Sun, 13 May 2012 18:44:39 +0000 (14:44 -0400)]
Re-revert stats collector latch changes.
This reverts commit cb2f2873d6b81ad7f0a9733ba738bfac0746fb7b, restoring
the latch-ified stats collector logic. We'll soon see if this works any
better on the Windows buildfarm machines.
Tom Lane [Sun, 13 May 2012 18:35:40 +0000 (14:35 -0400)]
Attempt to fix some issues in our Windows socket code.
Make sure WaitLatchOrSocket regards FD_CLOSE as a read-ready condition.
We might want to tweak this further, but it was surely wrong as-is.
Make pgwin32_waitforsinglesocket detach its private event object from the
passed socket before returning. I suspect that failure to do so leads
to race conditions when other code (such as WaitLatchOrSocket) attaches
a different event object to the same socket. Moreover, the existing
coding meant that repeated calls to pgwin32_waitforsinglesocket would
perform ResetEvent on an event actively connected to a socket, which
is rumored to be an unsafe practice; the WSAEventSelect documentation
appears to recommend against this, though it does not say not to do it
in so many words.
Also, uniformly use the coding pattern "WSAEventSelect(s, NULL, 0)" to
detach events from sockets, rather than passing the event in the second
parameter. The WSAEventSelect documentation says that the second parameter
is ignored if the third is 0, so theoretically this should make no
difference. However, elsewhere on the same reference page the use of NULL
in this context is recommended, and I have found suggestions on the net
that some versions of Windows have bugs with a non-NULL second parameter
in this usage.
Some other mostly-cosmetic cleanup, such as using the right one of
WSAGetLastError and GetLastError for reporting errors from these functions.
Tom Lane [Sun, 13 May 2012 04:30:32 +0000 (00:30 -0400)]
Fix bogus declaration of local variable.
rc should be an int here, not a pgsocket. Fairly harmless as long as
pgsocket is an integer type, but nonetheless wrong. Error introduced
in commit 87091cb1f1ed914e2ddca424fa28f94fdf8461d2.
Tom Lane [Sat, 12 May 2012 23:21:54 +0000 (19:21 -0400)]
Avoid unnecessary process wakeups in the log collector.
syslogger was coded to wake up once per second whether there was anything
useful to do or not. As part of our campaign to reduce the server's idle
power consumption, change it to use a latch for waiting. Now, in the
absence of any data to log or any signals to service, it will only wake up
at the programmed logfile rotation times (if any).
Peter Eisentraut [Sat, 12 May 2012 20:29:07 +0000 (23:29 +0300)]
Remove unused AC_SUBST variables
These were apparently never used. The AC_SUBST was probably just
added in a copy-and-paste manner. (The shell variables continue to be
used inside configure. The change is just that we don't need them
outside of configure.)
Tom Lane [Sat, 12 May 2012 20:36:47 +0000 (16:36 -0400)]
Fix WaitLatchOrSocket to handle EOF on socket correctly.
When using poll(), EOF on a socket is reported with the POLLHUP not
POLLIN flag (at least on Linux). WaitLatchOrSocket failed to check
this bit, causing it to go into a busy-wait loop if EOF occurs.
We earlier fixed the same mistake in the test for the state of the
postmaster_alive socket, but missed it for the caller-supplied socket.
Fortunately, this error is new in 9.2, since 9.1 only had a select()
based code path not a poll() based one.
Tom Lane [Fri, 11 May 2012 22:33:39 +0000 (18:33 -0400)]
Update example of process titles shown by "ps".
This example was quite old: it lacked the WAL writer and autovac launcher
as well as the more recently added checkpointer. Linux "ps" seems to show
slightly different stuff now too.
Peter Eisentraut [Fri, 11 May 2012 20:01:15 +0000 (23:01 +0300)]
PL/Python: Adjust the regression tests for Python 3.3
The string representation of ImportError changed. Remove printing
that; it's not necessary for the test.
The order in which members of a dict are printed changed. But this
was always implementation-dependent, so we have just been lucky for a
long time. Do the printing the hard way to ensure sorted order.
Tom Lane [Fri, 11 May 2012 19:22:30 +0000 (15:22 -0400)]
Fix contrib/citext's upgrade script to handle array and domain cases.
We previously recognized that citext wouldn't get marked as collatable
during pg_upgrade from a pre-9.1 installation, and hacked its
create-from-unpackaged script to manually perform the necessary catalog
adjustments. However, we overlooked the fact that domains over citext,
as well as the citext[] array type, need the same adjustments. Extend
the script to handle those cases.
Also, the documentation suggested that this was only an issue in pg_upgrade
scenarios, which is quite wrong; loading any dump containing citext from a
pre-9.1 server will also result in the type being wrongly marked.
I approached the documentation problem by changing the 9.1.2 release note
paragraphs about this issue, which is historically inaccurate. But it
seems better than having the information scattered in multiple places, and
leaving incorrect info in the 9.1.2 notes would be bad anyway. We'll still
need to mention the issue again in the 9.1.4 notes, but perhaps they can
just reference 9.1.2 for fix instructions.
Per report from Evan Carroll. Back-patch into 9.1.
On GiST page split, release the locks on child pages before recursing up.
When inserting the downlinks for a split gist page, we used hold the locks
on the child pages until the insertion into the parent - and recursively its
parent if it had to be split too - were all completed. Change that so that
the locks on child pages are released after the insertion in the immediate
parent is done, before recursing further up the tree.
This reduces the number of lwlocks that are held simultaneously. Holding
many locks is bad for concurrency, and in extreme cases you can even hit
the limit of 100 simultaneously held lwlocks in a backend. If you're really
unlucky, you can hit the limit while in a critical section, which brings
down the whole system.
This fixes bug #6629 reported by Tom Forbes. Backpatch to 9.1. The page
splitting code was rewritten in 9.1, and the old code did not have this
problem.
Tom Lane [Fri, 11 May 2012 03:01:28 +0000 (23:01 -0400)]
Improve discussion of setting server parameters.
Rewrite description of "include_if_exists" for clarity. Add subsection
headings to make the structure of the page a little clearer. A couple
other minor improvements too.
Tom Lane [Thu, 10 May 2012 22:02:37 +0000 (18:02 -0400)]
Tweak documentation wording to avoid "pdfendlink" failure.
HEAD documentation was failing to build as US PDF for me, because a link
to "CREATE CAST" was getting split across pages. Adjust wording to
remove this rather gratuitous cross-reference.
Tom Lane [Thu, 10 May 2012 21:26:08 +0000 (17:26 -0400)]
Temporarily revert stats collector latch changes so we can ship beta1.
This patch reverts commit 49340037ee3ab46cb24144a86705e35f272c24d5 and some
follow-on tweaking in pgstat.c. While the basic scheme of latch-ifying the
stats collector seems sound enough, it's failing on most Windows buildfarm
members for unknown reasons, and there's no time left to debug that before
9.2beta1. Better to ship a beta version without this improvement. I hope
to re-revert this once beta1 is out, though.
Tom Lane [Thu, 10 May 2012 18:34:22 +0000 (14:34 -0400)]
Make WaitLatch's WL_POSTMASTER_DEATH result trustworthy; simplify callers.
Per a suggestion from Peter Geoghegan, make WaitLatch responsible for
verifying that the WL_POSTMASTER_DEATH bit it returns is truthful (by
testing PostmasterIsAlive). Then simplify its callers, who no longer
need to do that for themselves. Remove weasel wording about falsely-set
result bits from WaitLatch's API contract.
Peter Eisentraut [Thu, 10 May 2012 17:38:17 +0000 (20:38 +0300)]
PL/Python: Fix slicing support for result objects for Python 3
The old way of implementing slicing support by implementing
PySequenceMethods.sq_slice no longer works in Python 3. You now have
to implement PyMappingMethods.mp_subscript. Do this by simply
proxying the call to the wrapped list of result dictionaries.
Consolidate some of the subscripting regression tests.
Tom Lane [Thu, 10 May 2012 17:36:14 +0000 (13:36 -0400)]
Fix Windows implementation of PGSemaphoreLock.
The original coding failed to reset ImmediateInterruptOK before returning,
which would potentially allow a subsequent query-cancel interrupt to be
accepted at an unsafe point. This is a really nasty bug since it's so hard
to predict the consequences, but they could be unpleasant.
Also, ensure that signal handlers are serviced before this function
returns, even if the semaphore is already set. This should make the
behavior more like Unix.
Tom Lane [Thu, 10 May 2012 17:26:47 +0000 (13:26 -0400)]
Improve Windows implementation of WaitLatch/WaitLatchOrSocket.
Ensure that signal handlers are serviced before this function returns.
This should make the behavior more like Unix. Also, add some more
error checking, and make some other cosmetic improvements.
No back-patch since it's not clear whether this is fixing any live bug
that would affect 9.1. I'm more concerned about 9.2 anyway given our
considerable recent expansions in the usage of WaitLatch.
Peter Eisentraut [Thu, 10 May 2012 16:58:35 +0000 (19:58 +0300)]
Python 2.2 is no longer supported
It was already on its last legs, and it turns out that it was
accidentally broken in commit 89e850e6fda9e4e441712012abe971fe938d595a
and no one cared. So remove the rest the support for it and update
the documentation to indicate that Python 2.3 is now required.
Tom Lane [Thu, 10 May 2012 16:22:22 +0000 (12:22 -0400)]
Remove unportable use of SGML character-code entity.
It'd be nice to be able to spell Jan Urbanski's name with the correct
accent marks, but we haven't yet found a way that works in everybody's
docs toolchain. This way definitely doesn't.
Joe Conway [Thu, 10 May 2012 05:57:19 +0000 (22:57 -0700)]
PL/pgSQL RETURN NEXT was leaking converted tuples, causing
out of memory when looping through large numbers of rows.
Flag the converted tuples to be freed. Complaint and patch
by Joe.
Tom Lane [Thu, 10 May 2012 04:54:32 +0000 (00:54 -0400)]
Improve tests for postmaster death in auxiliary processes.
In checkpointer and walwriter, avoid calling PostmasterIsAlive unless
WaitLatch has reported WL_POSTMASTER_DEATH. This saves a kernel call per
iteration of the process's outer loop, which is not all that much, but a
cycle shaved is a cycle earned. I had already removed the unconditional
PostmasterIsAlive calls in bgwriter and pgstat in previous patches, but
forgot that WL_POSTMASTER_DEATH is supposed to be treated as untrustworthy
(per comment in unix_latch.c); so adjust those two cases to match.
There are a few other places where the same idea might be applied, but only
after substantial code rearrangement, so I didn't bother.
Tom Lane [Thu, 10 May 2012 04:01:10 +0000 (00:01 -0400)]
Further tweaking of nomenclature in checkpointer.c.
Get rid of some more naming choices that only make sense if you know that
this code used to be in the bgwriter, as well as some stray comments
referencing the bgwriter.
Tom Lane [Thu, 10 May 2012 03:36:01 +0000 (23:36 -0400)]
Improve control logic for bgwriter hibernation mode.
Commit 6d90eaaa89a007e0d365f49d6436f35d2392cfeb added a hibernation mode
to the bgwriter to reduce the server's idle-power consumption. However,
its interaction with the detailed behavior of BgBufferSync's feedback
control loop wasn't very well thought out. That control loop depends
primarily on the rate of buffer allocation, not the rate of buffer
dirtying, so the hibernation mode has to be designed to operate only when
no new buffer allocations are happening. Also, the check for whether the
system is effectively idle was not quite right and would fail to detect
a constant low level of activity, thus allowing the bgwriter to go into
hibernation mode in a way that would let the cycle time vary quite a bit,
possibly further confusing the feedback loop. To fix, move the wakeup
support from MarkBufferDirty and SetBufferCommitInfoNeedsSave into
StrategyGetBuffer, and prevent the bgwriter from entering hibernation mode
unless no buffer allocations have happened recently.
In addition, fix the delaying logic to remove the problem of possibly not
responding to signals promptly, which was basically caused by trying to use
the process latch's is_set flag for multiple purposes. I can't prove it
but I'm suspicious that that hack was responsible for the intermittent
"postmaster does not shut down" failures we've been seeing in the buildfarm
lately. In any case it did nothing to improve the readability or
robustness of the code.
In passing, express the hibernation sleep time as a multiplier on
BgWriterDelay, not a constant. I'm not sure whether there's any value in
exposing the longer sleep time as an independently configurable setting,
but we can at least make it act like this for little extra code.
Add make dependency so that postgres.bki is rebuilt in major version change
Every time since the current rule for postgres.bki was put in place
when we change the major version, people complain that their tests
fail in strange ways. This is because the version number in
postgres.bki is not updated, because it has no dependency for that.
And you can't even force the rebuild manually if you don't happen to
know which file has the problem. Fix that now before it will happen
again.
The only remaining problem with switching major versions, as far as
the regression tests are concerned, is that contrib needs to be
rebuilt. But that's easily invoked, and in any case the failure modes
are more friendly if you forget that.
Split contrib documentation into extensions and programs
Create separate appendixes for contrib extensions and other server
plugins on the one hand, and utility programs on the other. Recast
the documentation of the latter as refentries, so that man pages are
generated.