When scanning build farm results, it's useful to be able to see which
version is in use. For the Meson build system, this information was
already displayed.
Back-patch to all supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/4022690.1697852728%40sss.pgh.pa.us
We've long used "--strip-unneeded" for shared libraries but plain
"-x" for static libraries when stripping symbols with GNU strip.
There doesn't seem to be any really good reason for that though,
since --strip-unneeded produces smaller output (as "-x" alone
does not remove debug symbols). Moreover it seems that
llvm-strip, although it identifies as GNU strip, misbehaves when
given "-x" for this purpose. It's unclear whether that's
intentional or a bug in llvm-strip, but in any case it seems like
changing to use --strip-unneeded in all cases should be a win.
Note that this doesn't change our behavior when dealing with
non-GNU strip.
Per gripes from Ed Maste and Palle Girgensohn. Back-patch,
in case anyone wants to use llvm-strip with stable branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17898-5308d09543463266@postgresql.org
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230420153338.bbj2g5jiyy3afhjz@awork3.anarazel.de
Move DLSUFFIX from makefiles into header files for all platforms.
Move the DLSUFFIX assignment from src/makefiles/ to src/templates/,
have configure read it, and then substitute it into Makefile.global
and pg_config.h. This avoids the need for all makefile rules that
need it to locally set CPPFLAGS. It also resolves an inconsistent
setup between the two Windows build systems.
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/2f9861fb-8969-9005-7518-b8e60f2bead9@enterprisedb.com
In particular, perl with $Config{osname} = msys should only be used if
the build target is msys (which is currently buildable but not usable).
For builds targeted at native Windows, perl from the ucrt64 toolchain is
suitable.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220216210141.5glt5isg5qtwty4c@alap3.anarazel.de
GCC 12 complains that set_stack_base is storing the address of
a local variable in a long-lived pointer. This is an entirely
reasonable warning (indeed, it just helped us find a bug);
but that behavior is intentional here. We can work around it
by using __builtin_frame_address(0) instead of a specific local
variable; that produces an address a dozen or so bytes different,
in my testing, but we don't care about such a small difference.
Maybe someday a compiler lacking that function will start to issue
a similar warning, but we'll worry about that when it happens.
Patch by me, per a suggestion from Andres Freund. Back-patch to
v12, which is as far back as the patch will go without some pain.
(Recently-established project policy would permit a back-patch as
far as 9.2, but I'm disinclined to expend the work until GCC 12
is much more widespread.)
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3773792.1645141467@sss.pgh.pa.us
Python 2.7 went EOL 2020-01-01 and the support for Python 2 requires a fair
bit of infrastructure. Therefore we are removing Python 2 support in plpython.
This patch just rejects Python 2 during configure / mkvcbuild.pl. Future
commits will remove the code and infrastructure for Python 2 support and
adjust more of the documentation. This way we can see the buildfarm state
after the removal sooner and we can be sure that failures are due to
desupporting Python 2, rather than caused by infrastructure cleanup.
Reviewed-By: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20211031184548.g4sxfe47n2kyi55r@alap3.anarazel.de
The comment for PGAC_READLINE_VARIABLES says "Readline versions < 2.1
don't have rl_completion_append_character". It seems certain that such
versions are extinct in the wild, though; for sure there are none in the
buildfarm. Libedit has had this variable for at least twenty years too.
Also, tab-complete.c's behavior without it is quite unfriendly, since
we'll emit a space even when completion fails; but we've had no
complaints about that.
Therefore, let's assume this variable is always there, and drop the
configure check to save a few build cycles.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/147685.1643858911@sss.pgh.pa.us
With Python 3.10, configure spits out warnings about the module
distutils.sysconfig being deprecated and scheduled for removal in
Python 3.12. Change the uses in configure to use the module sysconfig
instead. The logic stays largely the same, although we have to
rely on INCLUDEPY instead of the deprecated get_python_inc function.
Note that sysconfig exists since Python 2.7, so this moves the minimum
required version up from Python 2.6. Also, sysconfig didn't exist in
Python 3.1, so the minimum 3.x version is now 3.2.
We should consider back-patching this if it gives no further trouble,
as the no-longer-supported versions are old enough to probably not
be interesting to anyone.
Peter Eisentraut, Tom Lane, Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/c74add3c-09c4-a9dd-1a03-a846e5b2fc52@enterprisedb.com
We're still (see e0e567a106, e0e567a106) working on replacing use of the
deprecated distutils. This commit just makes configure print out the results
of different ways of determining the include path. Hopefully this will help us
to find a way to transition away from distutils without turning the buildfarm
red for prolonged amounts of time.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220124025301.qu36x44w6m67cnap@alap3.anarazel.de
This avoids possibly selecting Python 2.x on systems that have
both Python 2 and Python 3. We used to feel that what "python"
links to is a user choice that we should honor. However, we're
about to cease support for Python 2, so users will no longer have
any choice of that sort. This small change is being made ahead
of the big Python-2-ectomy so that we can see how much of the
buildfarm is not yet prepared for that. Systems with only
Python 2 will continue to build that way, for now.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2872c9a0-4b0a-1354-d5f6-94d6f85ba354@enterprisedb.com
This reverts commit e0e567a106.
On various platforms, the new approach using the sysconfig module
reported incorrect values for the include directory, and so any
Python-related compilations failed. Revert for now and revisit later.
With Python 3.10, configure spits out warnings about the module
distutils.sysconfig being deprecated and scheduled for removal in
Python 3.12. Change the uses in configure to use the module sysconfig
instead. The logic stays the same.
Note that sysconfig exists since Python 2.7, so this moves the minimum
required version up from Python 2.6.
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/c74add3c-09c4-a9dd-1a03-a846e5b2fc52%40enterprisedb.com
Normally "prove" and "perl" come from the same Perl installation,
but we support the case where they don't (mainly because the MSys
buildfarm animals need this). In that case, AX_PROG_PERL_MODULES
is completely the wrong thing to use, because it's checking what
"perl" has. Instead, make a little TAP test script including the
required modules, and run that under "prove".
We don't need ax_prog_perl_modules.m4 at all after this change,
so remove it.
Back-patch to all supported branches, for the buildfarm's benefit.
(In v10, this also back-patches the effects of commit 264eb03aa.)
Andrew Dunstan and Tom Lane, per an observation by Noah Misch
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1moZHS-0002Cu-Ei@gemulon.postgresql.org
Configure tests for the presence of perl modules required for TAP tests,
and that they meet specified minimum version requirements. This patch
makes it report the version of the module that's actually found rather
than just an 'ok' message. This will help in deciding if we can upgrade
minimum requirements for these modules.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/f5e1d308-4e33-37a7-bdf1-f6e0c75119de@dunslane.net
This check was used to accommodate a staggering variety in particular
in the type of the third argument of accept(). This is no longer of
concern on currently supported systems. We can just use socklen_t in
the code and put in a simple check that substitutes int for socklen_t
if it's missing, to cover the few stragglers.
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/3538f4c4-1886-64f2-dcff-aaad8267fb82@enterprisedb.com
Previously it only checked for version >= 5.8.0, although the
documentation has said that the minimum version is 5.8.3 since
commit dea6ba939. Per the discussion leading up to that commit,
I (tgl) left it that way intentionally because you could, at the
time, do some bare-bones stuff with 5.8.0. But we aren't actually
testing against anything older than 5.8.3, so who knows if that's
still true. It's pretty unlikely that anyone would care anyway,
so let's just make configure's version check match the docs.
Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/87y278s6iq.fsf@wibble.ilmari.org
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16894.1501392088@sss.pgh.pa.us
This testing was useful when it was written, nigh twenty years ago,
but it seems fairly pointless for any platform built in the last
dozen or more years. (Compare also the comments at 8a2121185.)
Also we now have reports that the test program itself fails under
ThreadSanitizer. Rather than invest effort in fixing it, let's
just drop it, and assume that the few people who still care
already know they need to use --disable-thread-safety.
Back-patch into v14, for consistency with 8a2121185.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CADhDkKzPSiNvA3Hyq+wSR_icuPmazG0cFe=YnC3U-CFcYLc8Xw@mail.gmail.com
Build farm animals running ancient HPUX and Solaris have a non-standard
sigwait() from draft versions of POSIX, so they didn't like commit
7c09d279. To avoid the problem in general, only try to use sigwait() if
it's declared by <signal.h> and matches the expected declaration. To
select the modern declaration on Solaris (even in non-threaded
programs), move -D_POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS into the right place to
affect all translation units.
Also fix the error checking. Modern sigwait() doesn't set errno.
Thanks to Tom Lane for help with this.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3187588.1626136248%40sss.pgh.pa.us
Until recently 'native' was implicitly included via 'orcjit', but a change
included in LLVM 11 (not yet released) removed a number of such indirect
component references.
Reported-By: Fabien COELHO <coelho@cri.ensmp.fr>
Reported-By: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reported-By: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20201201064949.mex6kvi2kygby3ni@alap3.anarazel.de
Backpatch: 11-, where jit support was added
Checking for DocBook being installed was valuable when we were on the
OpenSP docs toolchain, because that was rather hard to get installed
fully. Nowadays, as long as you have xmllint and xsltproc installed,
you're good, because those programs will fetch the DocBook files off
the net at need. Moreover, testing this at configure time means that
a network access may well occur whether or not you have any interest
in building the docs later. That can be slow (typically 2 or 3
seconds, though much higher delays have been reported), and it seems
not very nice to be doing an off-machine access without warning, too.
Hence, drop the PGAC_CHECK_DOCBOOK probe, and adjust related
documentation. Without that macro, there's not much left of
config/docbook.m4 at all, so I just removed it.
Back-patch to v11, where we started to use xmllint in the
PGAC_CHECK_DOCBOOK probe.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E2EE6B76-2D96-408A-B961-CAE47D1A86F0@yesql.se
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/A55A7FC9-FA60-47FE-98B5-139CDC57CE6E@gmail.com
Theoretically one could go into src/test/thread and build/run this
program there. In practice, that hasn't worked since 96bf88d52,
and probably much longer on some platforms (likely including just
the sort of hoary leftovers where this test might be of interest).
While it wouldn't be too hard to repair the breakage, the fact that
nobody has noticed for two years shows that there is zero usefulness
in maintaining this build pathway. Let's get rid of it and decree
that thread_test.c is *only* meant to be built/used in configure.
Given that decision, it makes sense to put thread_test.c under config/
and get rid of src/test/thread altogether, so that's what I did.
In passing, update src/test/README, which had been ignored by some
not-so-recent additions of subdirectories.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/227659.1603041612@sss.pgh.pa.us
Make header/trailer comments agree with the actual names of some macros.
These seem like legit names in earlier iterations of respective patches
(commit b779168ff "Detect PG_PRINTF_ATTRIBUTE automatically." and
commit 6869b4f25 "Add C++ support to configure.") but the macro had
been renamed out of sync with the header / trailer comment in the final
committed patch.
Even more nitpickily, make the dashed underlines agree with the lengths
of the macro names everyplace. There doesn't seem to have been any
meeting of the minds previously on whether those should match or not,
but at least some people have been trying to make 'em match.
Jesse Zhang, Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAGf+fX7DDyq6WfCy6X_KtD28MkbNBE6NkRi26fSf25dfUwX0zw@mail.gmail.com
As of Windows 10 version 1803, Unix-domain sockets are supported on
Windows. But it's not automatically detected by configure because it
looks for struct sockaddr_un and Windows doesn't define that. So we
just make our own definition on Windows and override the configure
result.
Set DEFAULT_PGSOCKET_DIR to empty on Windows so by default no
Unix-domain socket is used, because there is no good standard
location.
In pg_upgrade, we have to do some extra tweaking to preserve the
existing behavior of not using Unix-domain sockets on Windows. Adding
support would be desirable, but it needs further work, in particular a
way to select whether to use Unix-domain sockets from the command-line
or with a run-time test.
The pg_upgrade test script needs a fix. The previous code passed
"localhost" to postgres -k, which only happened to work because
Windows used to ignore the -k argument value altogether. We instead
need to pass an empty string to get the desired effect.
The test suites will continue to not use Unix-domain sockets on
Windows. This requires a small tweak in pg_regress.c. The TAP tests
don't need to be changed because they decide by the operating system
rather than HAVE_UNIX_SOCKETS.
Reviewed-by: Andrew Dunstan <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/54bde68c-d134-4eb8-5bd3-8af33b72a010@2ndquadrant.com
These compiler features are required by C99, so remove the configure
probes for them.
This is part of a series of commits to get rid of no-longer-relevant
configure checks and dead src/port/ code. I'm committing them separately
to make it easier to back out individual changes if they prove less
portable than I expect.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15379.1582221614@sss.pgh.pa.us
I had supposed that all versions of Readline that have filename
quoting hooks also have the rl_completion_suppress_quote variable.
But it seems OpenBSD managed to find a version someplace that does
not, so we'll have to expend a separate configure probe for that.
(Light testing suggests that this version also lacks the bugs that
make it necessary to frob that variable. Hooray!)
Per buildfarm.
The Readline library contains a fair amount of knowledge about how to
tab-complete filenames, but it turns out that that doesn't work too well
unless we follow its expectation that we use its filename quoting hooks
to quote and de-quote filenames. We were trying to do such quote handling
within complete_from_files(), and that's still what we have to do if we're
using libedit, which lacks those hooks. But for Readline, it works a lot
better if we tell Readline that single-quote is a quoting character and
then provide hooks that know the details of the quoting rules for SQL
and psql meta-commands.
Hence, resurrect the quoting hook functions that existed in the original
version of tab-complete.c (and were disabled by commit f6689a328 because
they "didn't work so well yet"), and whack on them until they do seem to
work well.
Notably, this fixes bug #16059 from Steven Winfield, who pointed out
that the previous coding would strip quote marks from filenames in SQL
COPY commands, even though they're syntactically necessary there.
Now, we not only don't do that, but we'll add a quote mark when you
tab-complete, even if you didn't type one.
Getting this to work across a range of libedit versions (and, to a
lesser extent, libreadline versions) was depressingly difficult.
It will be interesting to see whether the new regression test cases
pass everywhere in the buildfarm.
Some future patch might try to handle quoted SQL identifiers with
similar explicit quoting/dequoting logic, but that's for another day.
Patch by me, reviewed by Peter Eisentraut.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16059-8836946734c02b84@postgresql.org
Supporting very old Python versions is a maintenance burden,
especially with the several variant test files to maintain for Python
<2.6.
Since we have dropped support for older OpenSSL versions in
7b283d0e1d, RHEL 5 is now effectively
desupported, and that was also the only mainstream operating system
still using Python versions before 2.6, so it's a good time to drop
those as well.
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/98b69261-298c-13d2-f34d-836fd9c29b21%402ndquadrant.com
Currently only frogmouth in the buildfarm uses the 32bit params, and
it's not able to build past release 10, so put those last, saving
substantial configure time on more modern systems. Even if we get a
modern 32 bit Windows system at some stage we should probably prefer the
64 bit interface here these days.
Test for the compiler builtins __builtin_clz, __builtin_ctz, and
__builtin_popcount, and make use of these in preference to
handwritten C code if they're available. Create src/port
infrastructure for "leftmost one", "rightmost one", and "popcount"
so as to centralize these decisions.
On x86_64, __builtin_popcount generally won't make use of the POPCNT
opcode because that's not universally supported yet. Provide code
that checks CPUID and then calls POPCNT via asm() if available.
This requires indirecting through a function pointer, which is
an annoying amount of overhead for a one-instruction operation,
but it's probably not worth working harder than this for our
current use-cases.
I'm not sure we've found all the existing places that could profit
from this new infrastructure; but we at least touched all the
ones that used copied-and-pasted versions of the bitmapset.c code,
and got rid of multiple copies of the associated constant arrays.
While at it, replace c-compiler.m4's one-per-builtin-function
macros with a single one that can handle all the cases we need
to worry about so far. Also, because I'm paranoid, make those
checks into AC_LINK checks rather than just AC_COMPILE; the
former coding failed to verify that libgcc has support for the
builtin, in cases where it's not inline code.
David Rowley, Thomas Munro, Alvaro Herrera, Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKJS1f9WTAGG1tPeJnD18hiQW5gAk59fQ6WK-vfdAKEHyRg2RA@mail.gmail.com
This reverts commits fc6c72747a, 109de05cbb, d0b4663c23 and
711bab1e4d.
Somebody will have to try harder before submitting this patch again.
I've spent entirely too much time on it already, and the #ifdef maze yet
to be written in order for it to build at all got on my nerves. The
amount of work needed to get a platform-specific performance improvement
that's barely above the noise level is not worth it.
Split out these new functions in three parts: one in a new file that
uses the compiler builtin and gets compiled with the -mpopcnt compiler
option if it exists; another one that uses the compiler builtin but not
the compiler option; and finally the fallback with open-coded
algorithms.
Split out the configure logic: in the original commit, it was selecting
to use the -mpopcnt compiler switch together with deciding whether to
use the compiler builtin, but those two things are really separate.
Split them out. Also, expose whether the builtin exists to
Makefile.global, so that src/port's Makefile can decide whether to
compile the hw-optimized file.
Remove CPUID test for CTZ/CLZ. Make pg_{right,left}most_ones use either
the compiler intrinsic or open-coded algo; trying to use the
HW-optimized version is a waste of time. Make them static inline
functions.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190213221719.GA15976@alvherre.pgsql
We were using uint64 function arguments as "long int" arguments to
compiler builtins, which fails on machines where long ints are 32 bits:
the upper half of the uint64 was being ignored. Fix by using the "ll"
builtin variants instead, which on those machines take 64 bit arguments.
Also, remove configure tests for __builtin_popcountl() (as well as
"long" variants for ctz and clz): the theory here is that any compiler
version will provide all widths or none, so one test suffices. Were
this theory to be wrong, we'd have to add tests for
__builtin_popcountll() and friends, which would be tedious.
Per failures in buildfarm member lapwing and ensuing discussion.
These opcodes have been around in the AMD world since 2007, and 2008 in
the case of intel. They're supported in GCC and Clang via some __builtin
macros. The opcodes may be unavailable during runtime, in which case we
fall back on a C-based implementation of the code. In order to get the
POPCNT instruction we must pass the -mpopcnt option to the compiler. We
do this only for the pg_bitutils.c file.
David Rowley (with fragments taken from a patch by Thomas Munro)
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKJS1f9WTAGG1tPeJnD18hiQW5gAk59fQ6WK-vfdAKEHyRg2RA@mail.gmail.com
The comment marker "#" is copied to the output, so it's only
appropriate for comments that make sense in the shell output. For
comments about the Autoconf language, "dnl" should be used.
AC_ARG_VAR is necessary if an environment variable influences a
configure result that is then used by other tests that are cached.
With AC_ARG_VAR, a change in the variable is detected on subsequent
configure runs and the user is then advised to remove the cache.
This adds AC_ARG_VAR calls for: MSGFMT, PERL, PYTHON, TCLSH, XML2_CONFIG
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/30672.1546816567@sss.pgh.pa.us
