1. 28 Jun, 2017 4 commits
  2. 27 Jun, 2017 2 commits
    • Tom Lane's avatar
      Support tcp_keepalives_idle option on Solaris. · f0256c77
      Tom Lane authored
      Turns out that the socket option for this is named TCP_KEEPALIVE_THRESHOLD,
      at least according to the tcp(7P) man page for Solaris 11.  (But since that
      text refers to "SunOS", it's likely pretty ancient.)  It appears that the
      symbol TCP_KEEPALIVE does get defined on that platform, but it doesn't
      seem to represent a valid protocol-level socket option.  This leads to
      bleats in the postmaster log, and no tcp_keepalives_idle functionality.
      
      Per bug #14720 from Andrey Lizenko, as well as an earlier report from
      Dhiraj Chawla that nobody had followed up on.  The issue's been there
      since we added the TCP_KEEPALIVE code path in commit 5acd417c, so
      back-patch to all supported branches.
      
      Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170627163757.25161.528@wrigleys.postgresql.org
      f0256c77
    • Tom Lane's avatar
      Re-allow SRFs and window functions within sub-selects within aggregates. · 9c7dc892
      Tom Lane authored
      check_agg_arguments_walker threw an error upon seeing a SRF or window
      function, but that is too aggressive: if the function is within a
      sub-select then it's perfectly fine.  I broke the SRF case in commit
      0436f6bd by copying the logic for window functions ... but that was
      broken too, and had been since commit eaccfded.
      
      Repair both cases in HEAD, and the window function case back to 9.3.
      9.2 gets this right.
      9c7dc892
  3. 26 Jun, 2017 8 commits
    • Tom Lane's avatar
      Reduce wal_retrieve_retry_interval in applicable TAP tests. · 2710ccd7
      Tom Lane authored
      By default, wal_retrieve_retry_interval is five seconds, which is far
      more than is needed in any of our TAP tests, leaving the test cases
      just twiddling their thumbs for significant stretches.  Moreover,
      because it's so large, we get basically no testing of the retry-before-
      master-is-ready code path.  Hence, make PostgresNode::init set up
      wal_retrieve_retry_interval = '500ms' as part of its customization of
      test clusters' postgresql.conf.  This shaves quite a few seconds off
      the runtime of the recovery TAP tests.
      
      Back-patch into 9.6.  We have wal_retrieve_retry_interval in 9.5,
      but the test infrastructure isn't there.
      
      Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/31624.1498500416@sss.pgh.pa.us
      2710ccd7
    • Tom Lane's avatar
      Don't lose walreceiver start requests due to race condition in postmaster. · e5d494d7
      Tom Lane authored
      When a walreceiver dies, the startup process will notice that and send
      a PMSIGNAL_START_WALRECEIVER signal to the postmaster, asking for a new
      walreceiver to be launched.  There's a race condition, which at least
      in HEAD is very easy to hit, whereby the postmaster might see that
      signal before it processes the SIGCHLD from the walreceiver process.
      In that situation, sigusr1_handler() just dropped the start request
      on the floor, reasoning that it must be redundant.  Eventually, after
      10 seconds (WALRCV_STARTUP_TIMEOUT), the startup process would make a
      fresh request --- but that's a long time if the connection could have
      been re-established almost immediately.
      
      Fix it by setting a state flag inside the postmaster that we won't
      clear until we do launch a walreceiver.  In cases where that results
      in an extra walreceiver launch, it's up to the walreceiver to realize
      it's unwanted and go away --- but we have, and need, that logic anyway
      for the opposite race case.
      
      I came across this through investigating unexpected delays in the
      src/test/recovery TAP tests: it manifests there in test cases where
      a master server is stopped and restarted while leaving streaming
      slaves active.
      
      This logic has been broken all along, so back-patch to all supported
      branches.
      
      Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/21344.1498494720@sss.pgh.pa.us
      e5d494d7
    • Tom Lane's avatar
      Ignore old stats file timestamps when starting the stats collector. · ad1b5c84
      Tom Lane authored
      The stats collector disregards inquiry messages that bear a cutoff_time
      before when it last wrote the relevant stats file.  That's fine, but at
      startup when it reads the "permanent" stats files, it absorbed their
      timestamps as if they were the times at which the corresponding temporary
      stats files had been written.  In reality, of course, there's no data
      out there at all.  This led to disregarding inquiry messages soon after
      startup if the postmaster had been shut down and restarted within less
      than PGSTAT_STAT_INTERVAL; which is a pretty common scenario, both for
      testing and in the field.  Requesting backends would hang for 10 seconds
      and then report failure to read statistics, unless they got bailed out
      by some other backend coming along and making a newer request within
      that interval.
      
      I came across this through investigating unexpected delays in the
      src/test/recovery TAP tests: it manifests there because the autovacuum
      launcher hangs for 10 seconds when it can't get statistics at startup,
      thus preventing a second shutdown from occurring promptly.  We might
      want to do some things in the autovac code to make it less prone to
      getting stuck that way, but this change is a good bug fix regardless.
      
      In passing, also fix pgstat_read_statsfiles() to ensure that it
      re-zeroes its global stats variables if they are corrupted by a
      short read from the stats file.  (Other reads in that function
      go into temp variables, so that the issue doesn't arise.)
      
      This has been broken since we created the separation between permanent
      and temporary stats files in 8.4, so back-patch to all supported branches.
      
      Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16860.1498442626@sss.pgh.pa.us
      ad1b5c84
    • Tom Lane's avatar
      Reduce pg_ctl's reaction time when waiting for postmaster start/stop. · c61559ec
      Tom Lane authored
      pg_ctl has traditionally waited one second between probes for whether
      the start or stop request has completed.  That behavior was embodied
      in the original shell script written in 1999 (commit 5b912b08) and
      I doubt anyone's questioned it since.  Nowadays, machines are a lot
      faster, and the shell script is long since replaced by C code, so it's
      fair to reconsider how long we ought to wait.
      
      This patch adjusts the coding so that the wait time can be any even
      divisor of 1 second, and sets the actual probe rate to 10 per second.
      That's based on experimentation with the src/test/recovery TAP tests,
      which include a lot of postmaster starts and stops.  This patch alone
      reduces the (non-parallelized) runtime of those tests from ~4m30s to
      ~3m5s on my machine.  Increasing the probe rate further doesn't help
      much, so this seems like a good number.
      
      In the real world this probably won't have much impact, since people
      don't start/stop production postmasters often, and the shutdown checkpoint
      usually takes nontrivial time too.  But it makes development work and
      testing noticeably snappier, and that's good enough reason for me.
      
      Also, by reducing the dead time in postmaster restart sequences, this
      change has made it easier to reproduce some bugs that have been lurking
      for awhile.  Patches for those will follow.
      
      Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18444.1498428798@sss.pgh.pa.us
      c61559ec
    • Tom Lane's avatar
      Improve wait logic in TAP tests for streaming replication. · 5c77690f
      Tom Lane authored
      Remove hard-wired sleep(2) delays in 001_stream_rep.pl in favor of using
      poll_query_until to check for the desired state to appear.  In addition,
      add such a wait before the last test in the script, as it's possible
      to demonstrate failures there after upcoming improvements in pg_ctl.
      
      (We might end up adding polling before each of the get_slot_xmins calls in
      this script, but I feel no great need to do that until shown necessary.)
      
      In passing, clarify the description strings for some of the test cases.
      
      Michael Paquier and Craig Ringer, pursuant to a complaint from me
      
      Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/8962.1498425057@sss.pgh.pa.us
      5c77690f
    • Tom Lane's avatar
      Avoid useless "x = ANY(ARRAY[])" test for empty partition list. · 5efccc1c
      Tom Lane authored
      This arises in practice if the partition only admits NULL values.
      
      Jeevan Ladhe
      
      Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAOgcT0OChrN--uuqH6wG6Z8+nxnCWJ+2Q-uhnK4KOANdRRxuAw@mail.gmail.com
      5efccc1c
    • Tom Lane's avatar
      Minor code review for parse_phrase_operator(). · 00c5e511
      Tom Lane authored
      Fix its header comment, which described the old behavior of the <N>
      phrase distance operator; we missed updating that in commit 028350f6.
      Also, reset errno before strtol() call, to defend against the possibility
      that it was already ERANGE at entry.  (The lack of complaints says that
      it generally isn't, but this is at least a latent bug.)  Very minor
      stylistic improvements as well.
      
      Victor Drobny noted the obsolete comment, I noted the errno issue.
      Back-patch to 9.6 where this code was added, just in case the errno
      issue is a live bug in some cases.
      
      Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2b5382fdff9b1f79d5eb2c99c4d2cbe2@postgrespro.ru
      00c5e511
    • Magnus Hagander's avatar
  4. 25 Jun, 2017 1 commit
  5. 24 Jun, 2017 3 commits
    • Tom Lane's avatar
      Further hacking on ICU collation creation and usage. · ddb5fdc0
      Tom Lane authored
      pg_import_system_collations() refused to create any ICU collations if
      the current database's encoding didn't support ICU.  This is wrongheaded:
      initdb must initialize pg_collation in an encoding-independent way
      since it might be used in other databases with different encodings.
      The reason for the restriction seems to be that get_icu_locale_comment()
      used icu_from_uchar() to convert the UChar-format display name, and that
      unsurprisingly doesn't know what to do in unsupported encodings.
      But by the same token that the initial catalog contents must be
      encoding-independent, we can't allow non-ASCII characters in the comment
      strings.  So we don't really need icu_from_uchar() here: just check for
      Unicode codes outside the ASCII range, and if there are none, the format
      conversion is trivial.  If there are some, we can simply not install the
      comment.  (In my testing, this affects only Norwegian Bokmål, which has
      given us trouble before.)
      
      For paranoia's sake, also check for non-ASCII characters in ICU locale
      names, and skip such locales, as we do for libc locales.  I don't
      currently have a reason to believe that this will ever reject anything,
      but then again the libc maintainers should have known better too.
      
      With just the import changes, ICU collations can be found in pg_collation
      in databases with unsupported encodings.  This resulted in more or less
      clean failures at runtime, but that's not how things act for unsupported
      encodings with libc collations.  Make it work the same as our traditional
      behavior for libc collations by having collation lookup take into account
      whether is_encoding_supported_by_icu().
      
      Adjust documentation to match.  Also, expand Table 23.1 to show which
      encodings are supported by ICU.
      
      catversion bump because of likely change in pg_collation/pg_description
      initial contents in ICU-enabled builds.
      
      Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20c74bc3-d6ca-243d-1bbc-12f17fa4fe9a@gmail.com
      ddb5fdc0
    • Simon Riggs's avatar
      Fix typo in comment in SerializeSnapshot · a15b47df
      Simon Riggs authored
      Author: Masahiko Sawada
      a15b47df
    • Simon Riggs's avatar
      Revert 1f30295e · 829f12e2
      Simon Riggs authored
      Reported-by: Tom Lane
      829f12e2
  6. 23 Jun, 2017 7 commits
    • Tom Lane's avatar
      Fix incorrect buffer-length argument to uloc_getDisplayName(). · d1fcc622
      Tom Lane authored
      The maxResultSize argument of uloc_getDisplayName is the number of
      UChars in the output buffer, not the number of bytes.  In principle
      this could result in a stack smash, although at least in my Fedora 25
      install there are no ICU locales with display names long enough to
      overrun the buffer.  But it's easily proven to be wrong by reducing
      the length of displayname to around 20, whereupon a stack smash
      does happen.
      
      (This is a rather scary bug, because the same mistake could easily
      have been made in other places; but in a quick code search looking
      at uses of UChar I could not find any other instances.)
      d1fcc622
    • Peter Eisentraut's avatar
      Fix replication with replica identity full · 08859bb5
      Peter Eisentraut authored
      The comparison with the target rows on the subscriber side was done with
      datumIsEqual(), which can have false negatives.  For instance, it didn't
      work reliably for text columns.  So use the equality operator provided
      by the type cache instead.
      
      Also add more user documentation about replica identity requirements.
      Reported-by: default avatarTatsuo Ishii <ishii@sraoss.co.jp>
      08859bb5
    • Tom Lane's avatar
      Rethink behavior of pg_import_system_collations(). · 0b13b2a7
      Tom Lane authored
      Marco Atzeri reported that initdb would fail if "locale -a" reported
      the same locale name more than once.  All previous versions of Postgres
      implicitly de-duplicated the results of "locale -a", but the rewrite
      to move the collation import logic into C had lost that property.
      It had also lost the property that locale names matching built-in
      collation names were silently ignored.
      
      The simplest way to fix this is to make initdb run the function in
      if-not-exists mode, which means that there's no real use-case for
      non if-not-exists mode; we might as well just drop the boolean argument
      and simplify the function's definition to be "add any collations not
      already known".  This change also gets rid of some odd corner cases
      caused by the fact that aliases were added in if-not-exists mode even
      if the function argument said otherwise.
      
      While at it, adjust the behavior so that pg_import_system_collations()
      doesn't spew "collation foo already exists, skipping" messages during a
      re-run; that's completely unhelpful, especially since there are often
      hundreds of them.  And make it return a count of the number of collations
      it did add, which seems like it might be helpful.
      
      Also, re-integrate the previous coding's property that it would make a
      deterministic selection of which alias to use if there were conflicting
      possibilities.  This would only come into play if "locale -a" reports
      multiple equivalent locale names, say "de_DE.utf8" and "de_DE.UTF-8",
      but that hardly seems out of the question.
      
      In passing, fix incorrect behavior in pg_import_system_collations()'s
      ICU code path: it neglected CommandCounterIncrement, which would result
      in failures if ICU returns duplicate names, and it would try to create
      comments even if a new collation hadn't been created.
      
      Also, reorder operations in initdb so that the 'ucs_basic' collation
      is created before calling pg_import_system_collations() not after.
      This prevents a failure if "locale -a" were to report a locale named
      that.  There's no reason to think that that ever happens in the wild,
      but the old coding would have survived it, so let's be equally robust.
      
      Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20c74bc3-d6ca-243d-1bbc-12f17fa4fe9a@gmail.com
      0b13b2a7
    • Simon Riggs's avatar
      Improve replication lag interpolation after idle period · 9ea3c641
      Simon Riggs authored
      After sitting idle and fully replayed for a while and then encountering
      a new burst of WAL activity, we interpolate between an ancient sample and the
      not-yet-reached one for the new traffic. That produced a corner case report
      of lag after receiving first new reply from standby, which might sometimes
      be a large spike.
      
      Correct this by resetting last_read time and handle that new case.
      
      Author: Thomas Munro
      9ea3c641
    • Simon Riggs's avatar
      Minor corrections to high availability docs · a79122b0
      Simon Riggs authored
      Startup process is displayed in pg_stat_activity, noted by Yugo Nagata.
      Transactions can be resolved at end of recovery.
      
      Author: Yugo Nagata, with addition by me
      a79122b0
    • Tom Lane's avatar
      Fix memory leakage in ICU encoding conversion, and other code review. · b6159202
      Tom Lane authored
      Callers of icu_to_uchar() neglected to pfree the result string when done
      with it.  This results in catastrophic memory leaks in varstr_cmp(),
      because of our prevailing assumption that btree comparison functions don't
      leak memory.  For safety, make all the call sites clean up leaks, though
      I suspect that we could get away without it in formatting.c.  I audited
      callers of icu_from_uchar() as well, but found no places that seemed to
      have a comparable issue.
      
      Add function API specifications for icu_to_uchar() and icu_from_uchar();
      the lack of any thought-through specification is perhaps not unrelated
      to the existence of this bug in the first place.  Fix icu_to_uchar()
      to guarantee a nul-terminated result; although no existing caller appears
      to care, the fact that it would have been nul-terminated except in
      extreme corner cases seems ideally designed to bite someone on the rear
      someday.  Fix ucnv_fromUChars() destCapacity argument --- in the worst
      case, that could perhaps have led to a non-nul-terminated result, too.
      Fix icu_from_uchar() to have a more reasonable definition of the function
      result --- no callers are actually paying attention, so this isn't a live
      bug, but it's certainly sloppily designed.  Const-ify icu_from_uchar()'s
      input string for consistency.
      
      That is not the end of what needs to be done to these functions, but
      it's as much as I have the patience for right now.
      
      Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1955.1498181798@sss.pgh.pa.us
      b6159202
    • Tom Lane's avatar
      Add testing to detect errors of omission in "pin" dependency creation. · 8be8510c
      Tom Lane authored
      It's essential that initdb.c's setup_depend() scan each system catalog
      that could contain objects that need to have "p" (pin) entries in pg_depend
      or pg_shdepend.  Forgetting to add that, either when a catalog is first
      invented or when it first acquires DATA() entries, is an obvious bug
      hazard.  We can detect such omissions at reasonable cost by probing every
      OID-containing system catalog to see whether the lowest-numbered OID in it
      is pinned.  If so, the catalog must have been properly accounted for in
      setup_depend().  If the lowest OID is above FirstNormalObjectId then the
      catalog must have been empty at the end of initdb, so it doesn't matter.
      There are a small number of catalogs whose first entry is made later in
      initdb than setup_depend(), resulting in nonempty expected output of the
      test, but these can be manually inspected to see that they are OK.  Any
      future mistake of this ilk will manifest as a new entry in the test's
      output.
      
      Since pg_conversion is already in the test's output, add it to the set of
      catalogs scanned by setup_depend().  That has no effect today (hence, no
      catversion bump here) but it will protect us if we ever do add pin-worthy
      conversions.
      
      This test is very much like the catalog sanity checks embodied in
      opr_sanity.sql and type_sanity.sql, but testing pg_depend doesn't seem to
      fit naturally into either of those scripts' charters.  Hence, invent a new
      test script misc_sanity.sql, which can be a home for this as well as tests
      on any other catalogs we might want in future.
      
      Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/8068.1498155068@sss.pgh.pa.us
      8be8510c
  7. 22 Jun, 2017 11 commits
  8. 21 Jun, 2017 4 commits