Commit 0da33c762 introduced an unfortunate regression in pg_ctl on
Windows: if the log file specified with -l doesn't exist yet, and
pg_ctl is running with Administrator privileges, then the log file
might get created with permissions that prevent the postmaster from
writing on it. (It seems that whether this happens depends on whether
the log file is inside the user's home directory or not, and perhaps
on other phase-of-the-moon conditions, which may explain why we failed
to notice it sooner.)
To fix, just don't create the log file if it doesn't exist yet. The
case where we need to wait obviously only occurs with a pre-existing
log file.
In passing, switch from using fopen() to plain open(), saving a few
cycles.
Per bug #16259 from Jonathan Katz and Heath Lord. Back-patch to v12,
as the faulty commit was.
Alexander Lakhin
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16259-c5ebed32a262a8b1@postgresql.org
On Windows, we use CMD.EXE to redirect the postmaster's stdout/stderr
into a log file. CMD.EXE will open that file with non-sharing-friendly
parameters, and the file will remain open for a short time after the
postmaster has removed postmaster.pid. This can result in an
ERROR_SHARING_VIOLATION failure if we attempt to start a new postmaster
immediately with the same log file (e.g. during "pg_ctl restart").
This seems to explain intermittent buildfarm failures we've been seeing
on Windows machines.
To fix, just open and close the log file using our own pgwin32_open(),
which will wait if necessary to avoid the failure. (Perhaps someday
we should stop using CMD.EXE, but that would be a far more complex
patch, and it doesn't seem worth the trouble ... yet.)
Back-patch to v12. This only solves the problem when frontend fopen()
is redirected to pgwin32_fopen(), which has only been true since commit
0ba06e0bf. Hence, no point in back-patching further, unless we care
to back-patch that change too.
Diagnosis and patch by Alexander Lakhin (bug #16154).
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16154-1ccf0b537b24d5e0@postgresql.org
On Windows, all the hosts spawned by the TAP tests bind to 127.0.0.1.
Hence, if there is a port conflict, starting a cluster would immediately
fail. One of the test scripts of pg_ctl initializes a node without
PostgresNode.pm, using the default port 5432. This could cause
unexpected startup failures in the tests if an independent server was up
and running on the same host (the reverse is also possible, though more
unlikely). Fix this issue by assigning properly a free port to the node
configured, in the same range used as for the other nodes part of the
tests.
Author: Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Andrew Dunstan
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20191202031444.GC1696@paquier.xyz
Backpatch-through: 11
When maintaining or merging patches, one of the most common sources
for conflicts are the list of objects in makefiles. Especially when
the split across lines has been changed on both sides, which is
somewhat common due to attempting to stay below 80 columns, those
conflicts are unnecessarily laborious to resolve.
By splitting, and alphabetically sorting, OBJS style lines into one
object per line, conflicts should be less frequent, and easier to
resolve when they still occur.
Author: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20191029200901.vww4idgcxv74cwes@alap3.anarazel.de
Historically, psql consulted COMSPEC to spawn a shell in its \! command,
but we just invoked "cmd" when spawning shells in pg_ctl and pg_regress.
It seems better to rely on the environment variable, if it's set,
in all cases.
It's debatable whether this is a bug fix or just a behavioral change,
so no back-patch.
Juan José Santamaría Flecha
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16080-5d7f03222469f717@postgresql.org
As of d9dd406fe2, we require MSVC 2013,
which means _MSC_VER >= 1800. This means that conditionals about
older versions of _MSC_VER can be removed or simplified.
Previous code was also in some cases handling MinGW, where _MSC_VER is
not defined at all, incorrectly, such as in pg_ctl.c and win32_port.h,
leading to some compiler warnings. This should now be handled better.
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Temporarily change pg_ctl so that the postmaster's exit status will
be printed (to the postmaster's stdout). This is to help identify
the cause of intermittent "postmaster exited during a parallel
transaction" failures seen on a couple of buildfarm members. This
change degrades pg_ctl's functionality in a couple of minor ways,
so we'll revert it once we've obtained the desired info.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18537.1570421268@sss.pgh.pa.us
b654714 has reworked the way trailing CR/LF characters are removed from
strings. This commit introduces a new routine in common/string.c and
refactors the code so as the logic is in a single place, mostly.
Author: Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Bruce Momjian
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190801031820.GF29334@paquier.xyz
libpq failed to ignore Windows-style newlines in connection service files.
This normally wasn't a problem on Windows itself, because fgets() would
convert \r\n to just \n. But if libpq were running inside a program that
changes the default fopen mode to binary, it would see the \r's and think
they were data. In any case, it's project policy to ignore \r in text
files unconditionally, because people sometimes try to use files with
DOS-style newlines on Unix machines, where the C library won't hide that
from us.
Hence, adjust parseServiceFile() to ignore \r as well as \n at the end of
the line. In HEAD, go a little further and make it ignore all trailing
whitespace, to match what it's always done with leading whitespace.
In HEAD, also run around and fix up everyplace where we have
newline-chomping code to make all those places look consistent and
uniformly drop \r. It is not clear whether any of those changes are
fixing live bugs. Most of the non-cosmetic changes are in places that
are reading popen output, and the jury is still out as to whether popen
on Windows can return \r\n. (The Windows-specific code in pipe_read_line
seems to think so, but our lack of support for this elsewhere suggests
maybe it's not a problem in practice.) Hence, I desisted from applying
those changes to back branches, except in run_ssl_passphrase_command()
which is new enough and little-tested enough that we'd probably not have
heard about any problems there.
Tom Lane and Michael Paquier, per bug #15827 from Jorge Gustavo Rocha.
Back-patch the parseServiceFile() change to all supported branches,
and the run_ssl_passphrase_command() change to v11 where that was added.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15827-e6ba53a3a7ed543c@postgresql.org
This changes various places where appendPQExpBuffer was used in places
where it was possible to use appendPQExpBufferStr, and likewise for
appendStringInfo and appendStringInfoString. This is really just a
stylistic improvement, but there are also small performance gains to be
had from doing this.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAKJS1f9P=M-3ULmPvr8iCno8yvfDViHibJjpriHU8+SXUgeZ=w@mail.gmail.com
Discussion of bug #15804 reveals that this test didn't really prove
that the syslogger child process ever launched successfully, much
less did anything. It was only checking that the expected log file
gets created, and that's done in the postmaster. Moreover, the
test assumed it could rename the log file, which is likely to fail
on Windows (cf. commit d611175e5).
Instead, use the default log file name pattern, which should result
in a new file name being chosen after 1 second, and verify that
rotation has occurred by checking for a new file name. Also add code
to test that messages actually do propagate through the syslogger.
In theory this version of the test should work on Windows, so
revert d611175e5.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15804-3721117bf40fb654@postgresql.org
The original placement of this module in src/fe_utils/ is ill-considered,
because several src/common/ modules have dependencies on it, meaning that
libpgcommon and libpgfeutils now have mutual dependencies. That makes it
pointless to have distinct libraries at all. The intended design is that
libpgcommon is lower-level than libpgfeutils, so only dependencies from
the latter to the former are acceptable.
We already have the precedent that fe_memutils and a couple of other
modules in src/common/ are frontend-only, so it's not stretching anything
out of whack to treat logging.c as a frontend-only module in src/common/.
To the extent that such modules help provide a common frontend/backend
environment for the rest of common/ to use, it's a reasonable design.
(logging.c does not yet provide an ereport() emulation, but one can
dream.)
Hence, move these files over, and revert basically all of the build-system
changes made by commit cc8d41511. There are no places that need to grow
new dependencies on libpgcommon, further reinforcing the idea that this
is the right solution.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a912ffff-f6e4-778a-c86a-cf5c47a12933@2ndquadrant.com
The buildfarm client uses TEMP_CONFIG to implement its extra_config
setting. Except for stats_temp_directory, extra_config now applies to
TAP suites; extra_config values seen in the past month are compatible
with this. Back-patch to 9.6, where PostgresNode was introduced, so the
buildfarm can rely on it sooner.
Reviewed by Andrew Dunstan and Tom Lane.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20181229021950.GA3302966@rfd.leadboat.com
Like the backend, the frontend has wrappers on top of malloc() and such
whose use is recommended. Particularly, it is possible to do memory
allocation without issuing an error. Some binaries missed the use of
those wrappers, so let's fix the gap for consistency.
This also fixes two latent bugs:
- In pg_dump/pg_dumpall when parsing an ACL item, on an out-of-memory
error for strdup(), the code considered the failure as a ACL parsing
problem instead of an actual OOM.
- In pg_waldump, an OOM when building the target directory string would
cause a crash.
Author: Daniel Gustafsson
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/gY0y9xenfoBPc-Tufsr2Zg-MmkrJslm0Tw_CMg4p_j58-k_PXNC0klMdkKQkg61BkXC9_uWo-DcUzfxnHqpkpoR5jjVZrPHqKYikcHIiONhg=@yesql.se
This unifies the various ad hoc logging (message printing, error
printing) systems used throughout the command-line programs.
Features:
- Program name is automatically prefixed.
- Message string does not end with newline. This removes a common
source of inconsistencies and omissions.
- Additionally, a final newline is automatically stripped, simplifying
use of PQerrorMessage() etc., another common source of mistakes.
- I converted error message strings to use %m where possible.
- As a result of the above several points, more translatable message
strings can be shared between different components and between
frontends and backend, without gratuitous punctuation or whitespace
differences.
- There is support for setting a "log level". This is not meant to be
user-facing, but can be used internally to implement debug or
verbose modes.
- Lazy argument evaluation, so no significant overhead if logging at
some level is disabled.
- Some color in the messages, similar to gcc and clang. Set
PG_COLOR=auto to try it out. Some colors are predefined, but can be
customized by setting PG_COLORS.
- Common files (common/, fe_utils/, etc.) can handle logging much more
simply by just using one API without worrying too much about the
context of the calling program, requiring callbacks, or having to
pass "progname" around everywhere.
- Some programs called setvbuf() to make sure that stderr is
unbuffered, even on Windows. But not all programs did that. This
is now done centrally.
Soft goals:
- Reduces vertical space use and visual complexity of error reporting
in the source code.
- Encourages more deliberate classification of messages. For example,
in some cases it wasn't clear without analyzing the surrounding code
whether a message was meant as an error or just an info.
- Concepts and terms are vaguely aligned with popular logging
frameworks such as log4j and Python logging.
This is all just about printing stuff out. Nothing affects program
flow (e.g., fatal exits). The uses are just too varied to do that.
Some existing code had wrappers that do some kind of print-and-exit,
and I adapted those.
I tried to keep the output mostly the same, but there is a lot of
historical baggage to unwind and special cases to consider, and I
might not always have succeeded. One significant change is that
pg_rewind used to write all error messages to stdout. That is now
changed to stderr.
Reviewed-by: Donald Dong <xdong@csumb.edu>
Reviewed-by: Arthur Zakirov <a.zakirov@postgrespro.ru>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/6a609b43-4f57-7348-6480-bd022f924310@2ndquadrant.com
The test crashes and burns quite badly, for some reason, but even if it
didn't it wouldn't work, since Windows doesn't let you rename a file
held by a running process.
Commit c0d0e54084 replaced the ones in the documentation, but missed out
on the ones in the code. Replace those as well, but unlike c0d0e54084,
don't backpatch the code changes to avoid breaking translations.
pg_ctl is supposed to daemonize the postmaster process, so that it's not
affected by signals to the launching process group. Before this patch, if
you had a shell script that used "pg_ctl start", and you interrupted the
shell script after postmaster had been launched, postmaster was also
killed. To fix, call setsid() after forking the postmaster process.
Long time ago, we had a 'silent_mode' option, which daemonized the
postmaster process by calling setsid(), but that was removed back in 2011
(commit f7ea6beaf4). We discussed bringing that back in some form, but
pg_ctl is the documented way of launching postmaster to the background, so
putting the setsid() call in pg_ctl itself seems appropriate.
Just putting postmaster in a separate session would change the behavior
when you interrupt "pg_ctl -w start", e.g. with CTRL-C, while it's waiting
for postmaster to start. The historical behavior has been that
interrupting pg_ctl aborts the server launch, which is handy if the server
is stuck in recovery, for example, and won't fully start up. To keep that
behavior, install a signal handler in pg_ctl, to explicitly kill
postmaster, if pg_ctl is interrupted while it's waiting for the server to
start up. This isn't 100% watertight, there is a small window after
forking the postmaster process, where the signal handler doesn't know the
postmaster's PID yet, but seems good enough.
Arguably this is a long-standing bug, but I refrained from back-batching,
out of fear of breaking someone's scripts that depended on the old
behavior.
Reviewed by Tom Lane. Report and original patch by Paul Guo, with
feedback from Michael Paquier.
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAEET0ZH5Bf7dhZB3mYy8zZQttJrdZg_0Wwaj0o1PuuBny1JkEw%40mail.gmail.com
Currently there are two ways to trigger log rotation in logging collector
process: call pg_rotate_logfile() SQL-function or send SIGUSR1 signal directly
to logging collector process. However, it's nice to have more suitable way
for external tools to do that, which wouldn't require SQL connection or
knowledge of logging collector pid. This commit implements triggering log
rotation by "pg_ctl logrotate" command.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180416.115435.28153375.horiguchi.kyotaro%40lab.ntt.co.jp
Author: Kyotaro Horiguchi, Alexander Kuzmenkov, Alexander Korotkov
The vertical tightness settings collapse vertical whitespace between
opening and closing brackets (parentheses, square brakets and braces).
This can make data structures in particular harder to read, and is not
very consistent with our style in non-Perl code. This patch restricts
that setting to parentheses only, and reformats all the perl code
accordingly. Not applying this to parentheses has some unfortunate
effects, so the consensus is to keep the setting for parentheses and not
for the others.
The diff for this patch does highlight some places where structures
should have trailing commas. They can be added manually, as there is no
automatic tool to do so.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2f2b87c-56be-c070-bfc0-36288b4b41c1@2ndQuadrant.com
Allow the cluster to be optionally init'd with read access for the
group.
This means a relatively non-privileged user can perform a backup of the
cluster without requiring write privileges, which enhances security.
The mode of PGDATA is used to determine whether group permissions are
enabled for directory and file creates. This method was chosen as it's
simple and works well for the various utilities that write into PGDATA.
Changing the mode of PGDATA manually will not automatically change the
mode of all the files contained therein. If the user would like to
enable group access on an existing cluster then changing the mode of all
the existing files will be required. Note that pg_upgrade will
automatically change the mode of all migrated files if the new cluster
is init'd with the -g option.
Tests are included for the backend and all the utilities which operate
on the PG data directory to ensure that the correct mode is set based on
the data directory permissions.
Author: David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>
Reviewed-By: Michael Paquier, with discussion amongst many others.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ad346fe6-b23e-59f1-ecb7-0e08390ad629%40pgmasters.net
Consolidate directory and file create permissions for tools which work
with the PG data directory by adding a new module (common/file_perm.c)
that contains variables (pg_file_create_mode, pg_dir_create_mode) and
constants to initialize them (0600 for files and 0700 for directories).
Convert mkdir() calls in the backend to MakePGDirectory() if the
original call used default permissions (always the case for regular PG
directories).
Add tests to make sure permissions in PGDATA are set correctly by the
tools which modify the PG data directory.
Authors: David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>,
Adam Brightwell <adam.brightwell@crunchydata.com>
Reviewed-By: Michael Paquier, with discussion amongst many others.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ad346fe6-b23e-59f1-ecb7-0e08390ad629%40pgmasters.net
We were being careless in some places about the order of -L switches in
link command lines, such that -L switches referring to external directories
could come before those referring to directories within the build tree.
This made it possible to accidentally link a system-supplied library, for
example /usr/lib/libpq.so, in place of the one built in the build tree.
Hilarity ensued, the more so the older the system-supplied library is.
To fix, break LDFLAGS into two parts, a sub-variable LDFLAGS_INTERNAL
and the main LDFLAGS variable, both of which are "recursively expanded"
so that they can be incrementally adjusted by different makefiles.
Establish a policy that -L switches for directories in the build tree
must always be added to LDFLAGS_INTERNAL, while -L switches for external
directories must always be added to LDFLAGS. This is sufficient to
ensure a safe search order. For simplicity, we typically also put -l
switches for the respective libraries into those same variables.
(Traditional make usage would have us put -l switches into LIBS, but
cleaning that up is a project for another day, as there's no clear
need for it.)
This turns out to also require separating SHLIB_LINK into two variables,
SHLIB_LINK and SHLIB_LINK_INTERNAL, with a similar rule about which
switches go into which variable. And likewise for PG_LIBS.
Although this change might appear to affect external users of pgxs.mk,
I think it doesn't; they shouldn't have any need to touch the _INTERNAL
variables.
In passing, tweak src/common/Makefile so that the value of CPPFLAGS
recorded in pg_config lacks "-DFRONTEND" and the recorded value of
LDFLAGS lacks "-L../../../src/common". Both of those things are
mistakes, apparently introduced during prior code rearrangements,
as old versions of pg_config don't print them. In general we don't
want anything that's specific to the src/common subdirectory to
appear in those outputs.
This is certainly a bug fix, but in view of the lack of field
complaints, I'm unsure whether it's worth the risk of back-patching.
In any case it seems wise to see what the buildfarm makes of it first.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/25214.1522604295@sss.pgh.pa.us
Add support for huge pages (called large pages on Windows) to the
Windows build.
This (probably) breaks compatibility with Windows versions prior to
Windows 2003 or Windows Vista.
Authors: Takayuki Tsunakawa and Thomas Munro
Reviewed by: Magnus Hagander, Amit Kapila
This continues the work of commit 91aec93e6 by getting rid of a lot of
Windows-specific funny business in "section 0". Instead of including
pg_config_os.h in different places depending on platform, let's
standardize on putting it before the system headers, and in consequence
reduce win32.h to just what has to appear before the system headers or
the body of c.h (the latter category seems to include only PGDLLIMPORT
and PGDLLEXPORT). The rest of what was in win32.h is moved to a new
sub-include of port.h, win32_port.h. Some of what was in port.h seems
to better belong there too.
It's possible that I missed some declaration ordering dependency that
needs to be preserved, but hopefully the buildfarm will find that
out in short order.
Unlike the previous commit, no back-patch, since this is just cleanup
not a prerequisite for a bug fix.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/29650.1510761080@sss.pgh.pa.us
Change message for restarting a server from a directory without a PID
file. This accounts for the case where a restart happens after an
initdb. The new message indicates that the start has not completed yet
and might fail.
Author: Jesper Pedersen <jesper.pedersen@redhat.com>
Previously that was disallowed out of an abundance of
caution. Providing KILL support however is helpful to make the
013_crash_restart.pl test portable, and there's no actual issue with
allowing it. SIGABRT, which has similar consequences except it also
dumps core, was already allowed.
Author: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/45d42d41-6145-9be1-7261-84acf6d9e344@2ndQuadrant.com
When output of IPC::Run::run () is redirected to scalar references, in
certain circumstances the Msys perl does not correctly detect that the
end of file has been seen, making the test hang indefinitely. One such
circumstance is when the command is 'pg_ctl start', and such a change
was made in commit f13ea95f9e. The workaround, which only applies on
MSys, is to redirect the output to temporary files and then read them in
when the process has finished.
Patch by me, reviewed and tweaked by Tom Lane.
In the frontend Makefiles that pull in libpgfeutils, we'd generally
done it like this:
LDFLAGS += -L$(top_builddir)/src/fe_utils -lpgfeutils $(libpq_pgport)
That method is badly broken, as seen in bug #14742 from Chris Ruprecht.
The -L flag for src/fe_utils ends up being placed after whatever random
-L flags are in LDFLAGS already. That puts us at risk of pulling in
libpgfeutils.a from some previous installation rather than the freshly
built one in src/fe_utils. Also, the lack of an "override" is hazardous
if someone tries to specify some LDFLAGS on the make command line.
The correct way to do it is like this:
override LDFLAGS := -L$(top_builddir)/src/fe_utils -lpgfeutils $(libpq_pgport) $(LDFLAGS)
so that libpgfeutils, along with libpq, libpgport, and libpgcommon, are
guaranteed to be pulled in from the build tree and not from any referenced
system directory, because their -L flags will appear first.
In some places we'd been even lazier and done it like this:
LDFLAGS += -L$(top_builddir)/src/fe_utils -lpgfeutils -lpq
which is subtly wrong in an additional way: on platforms where we can't
restrict the symbols exported by libpq.so, it allows libpgfeutils to
latch onto libpgport and libpgcommon symbols from libpq.so, rather than
directly from those static libraries as intended. This carries hazards
like those explained in the comments for the libpq_pgport macro.
In addition to fixing the broken libpgfeutils usages, I tried to
standardize on using $(libpq_pgport) like so:
override LDFLAGS := $(libpq_pgport) $(LDFLAGS)
even where libpgfeutils is not in the picture. This makes no difference
right now but will hopefully discourage future mistakes of the same ilk.
And it's more like the way we handle CPPFLAGS in libpq-using Makefiles.
In passing, just for consistency, make pgbench include PTHREAD_LIBS the
same way everyplace else does, ie just after LIBS rather than in some
random place in the command line. This might have practical effect if
there are -L switches in that macro on some platform.
It looks to me like the MSVC build scripts are not affected by this
error, but someone more familiar with them than I might want to double
check.
Back-patch to 9.6 where libpgfeutils was introduced. In 9.6, the hazard
this error creates is that a reinstallation might link to the prior
installation's copy of libpgfeutils.a and thereby fail to absorb a
minor-version bug fix.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170714125106.9231.13772@wrigleys.postgresql.org
If an operation being waited for does not complete within the timeout,
then exit with a nonzero exit status. This was previously handled
inconsistently.
Peter Eisentraut