In combination, these changes make our version of snprintf as fast
or faster than most platforms' native snprintf, except for cases
involving floating-point conversion (which we still delegate to
the native sprintf). The speed penalty for a float conversion
is down to around 10% though, much better than before.
Notable changes:
* Rather than always parsing the format twice to see if it contains
instances of %n$, do the extra scan only if we actually find a $.
This obviously wins for non-localized formats, and even when there
is use of %n$, we can avoid scanning text before the first % twice.
* Use strchrnul() if available to find the next %, and emit the
literal text between % escapes as strings rather than char-by-char.
* Create a bespoke function (dopr_outchmulti) for the common case
of emitting N copies of the same character, in place of writing
loops around dopr_outch.
* Simplify construction of the format string for invocations of sprintf
for floats.
* Const-ify some internal functions, and avoid unnecessary use of
pass-by-reference arguments.
Patch by me, reviewed by Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/11787.1534530779@sss.pgh.pa.us
We've spent an awful lot of effort over the years in coping with
platform-specific vagaries of the *printf family of functions. Let's just
forget all that mess and standardize on always using src/port/snprintf.c.
This gets rid of a lot of configure logic, and it will allow a saner
approach to dealing with %m (though actually changing that is left for
a follow-on patch).
Preliminary performance testing suggests that as it stands, snprintf.c is
faster than the native printf functions for some tasks on some platforms,
and slower for other cases. A pending patch will improve that, though
cases with floating-point conversions will doubtless remain slower unless
we want to put a *lot* of effort into that. Still, we've not observed
that *printf is really a performance bottleneck for most workloads, so
I doubt this matters much.
Patch by me, reviewed by Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2975.1526862605@sss.pgh.pa.us
elog.c has long had a private strerror wrapper that handles assorted
possible failures or deficiencies of the platform's strerror. On Windows,
it also knows how to translate Winsock error codes, which the native
strerror does not. Move all this code into src/port/strerror.c and
define strerror() as a macro that invokes it, so that both our frontend
and backend code will have all of this behavior.
I believe this constitutes an actual bug fix on Windows, since AFAICS
our frontend code did not report Winsock error codes properly before this.
However, the main point is to lay the groundwork for implementing %m
in src/port/snprintf.c: the behavior we want %m to have is this one,
not the native strerror's.
Note that this throws away the prior use of src/port/strerror.c,
which was to implement strerror() on platforms lacking it. That's
been dead code for nigh twenty years now, since strerror() was
already required by C89.
We should likewise cause strerror_r to use this behavior, but
I'll tackle that separately.
Patch by me, reviewed by Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2975.1526862605@sss.pgh.pa.us
Apple's latest rearrangements of the system-supplied headers have broken
building of PL/Perl and PL/Tcl. The only practical way to fix PL/Tcl is to
start using the "-isysroot" compiler flag to point to SDK-supplied headers,
as Apple expects. We must also start distinguishing where to find Perl's
headers from where to find its shared library; but that seems like good
cleanup anyway.
Extensions that formerly did something like -I$(perl_archlibexp)/CORE
should now do -I$(perl_includedir)/CORE instead. perl_archlibexp
is still the place to look for libperl.so, though.
If for some reason you don't like the default -isysroot setting, you can
override that by setting PG_SYSROOT in configure's arguments. I don't
currently think people would need to do so, unless maybe for cross-version
build purposes.
In addition, teach configure where to find tclConfig.sh. Our traditional
method of searching $auto_path hasn't worked for the last couple of macOS
releases, and it now seems clear that Apple's not going to change that.
The workaround of manually specifying --with-tclconfig was annoying
already, but Mojave's made it a lot more so because the sysroot path now
has to be included as well. Let's just wire the knowledge into configure
instead. To avoid breaking builds against non-default Tcl installations
(e.g. MacPorts) wherein the $auto_path method probably still works,
arrange to try the additional case only after all else has failed.
Back-patch to all supported versions, since at least the buildfarm
cares about that. The changes are set up to not do anything on macOS
releases that are old enough to not have functional sysroot trees.
Previously, pgbench always used select(2) for this purpose, but that's
problematic for very high client counts, because select() can't deal
with file descriptor numbers larger than FD_SETSIZE. It's pretty common
for that to be only 1024 or so, whereas modern OSes can allow many more
open files than that. Using poll(2) would surmount that problem, but it
creates another one: poll()'s timeout resolution is only 1ms, which is
poor enough to cause problems with --rate specifications approaching or
exceeding 1K TPS.
On platforms that have ppoll(2), which includes Linux and recent
FreeBSD, we can use that to avoid the FD_SETSIZE problem without any
loss of timeout resolution. Hence, add configure logic to test for
ppoll(), and use it if available.
This patch introduces an abstraction layer into pgbench that could
be extended to support other kernel event-wait APIs such as kevents.
But actually adding such support is a matter for some future patch.
Doug Rady, reviewed by Robert Haas and Fabien Coelho, and whacked around
a good bit more by me
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/23D017C9-81B7-484D-8490-FD94DEC4DF59@amazon.com
As clang currently doesn't support -fexcess-precision=standard,
compiling x86-32 code with SSE2 disabled, can lead to problems with
floating point overflow checks and the like.
This issue was noticed because clang, on at least some BSDs, defaults
to i386 compatibility, whereas it defaults to pentium4 on Linux. Our
forced usage of __builtin_isinf() lead to some overflow checks not
triggering when compiling for i386, e.g. when the result of the
calculation didn't overflow in 80bit registers, but did so in 64bit.
While we could just fall back to a non-builtin isinf, it seems likely
that the use of 80bit registers leads to other problems (which is why
we force the flag for GCC already). Therefore error out when
detecting clang in that situation.
Reported-By: Victor Wagner
Analyzed-By: Andrew Gierth and Andres Freund
Author: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180905005130.ewk4xcs5dgyzcy45@alap3.anarazel.de
Backpatch: 9.3-, all supported versions are affected
In 86d78ef50e I enabled configure to check for C99 support, with the
goal of checking which platforms support C99. While there are a few
machines without C99 support among our buildfarm animals,
de-supporting them for v12 was deemed acceptable.
While not tested in aforementioned commit, the biggest increase in
minimum compiler version comes from MSVC, which gained C99 support
fairly late. The subset in MSVC 2013 is sufficient for our needs, at
this point. While that is a significant increase in minimum version,
the existing windows binaries are already built with a new enough
version.
Make configure error out if C99 support could not be detected. For
MSVC builds, increase the minimum version to 2013.
The increase to MSVC 2013 allows us to get rid of VCBuildProject.pm,
as that was only required for MSVC 2005/2008.
Author: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/97d4b165-192d-3605-749c-f614a0c4e783@2ndquadrant.com
Since our substitute snprintf now returns a C99-compliant result,
there's no need anymore to have complicated code to cope with pre-C99
behavior. We can just make configure substitute snprintf.c if it finds
that the system snprintf() is pre-C99. (Note: I do not believe that
there are any platforms where this test will trigger that weren't
already being rejected due to our other C99-ish feature requirements for
snprintf. But let's add the check for paranoia's sake.) Then, simplify
the call sites that had logic to cope with the pre-C99 definition.
I also dropped some stuff that was being paranoid about the possibility
of snprintf overrunning the given buffer. The only reports we've ever
heard of that being a problem were for Solaris 7, which is long dead,
and we've sure not heard any reports of these assertions triggering in
a long time. So let's drop that complexity too.
Likewise, drop some code that wasn't trusting snprintf to set errno
when it returns -1. That would be not-per-spec, and again there's
no real reason to believe it is a live issue, especially not for
snprintfs that pass all of configure's feature checks.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17245.1534289329@sss.pgh.pa.us
Based on recent discussion it seems possible that we might start to
rely on more of C99. A prerequisite for that is enabling support for
that on used compilers.
Let's see on which buildfarm members autoconf's AC_PROG_CC_C99() is
sufficient to do so. There's probably at least one member where the
compiler is too old, but that'd probably be OK.
If we go for this permanently we'd likely want to clean out / up a few
other configure tests.
Note this does not touch the msvc build infrastructure, which'd need
separate treatment.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180815222401.kxsupl5zie2jgi4x@alap3.anarazel.de
gcc 8 has started emitting some warnings that are largely useless for
our purposes, particularly since they complain about code following
the project-standard coding convention that path names are assumed
to be shorter than MAXPGPATH. Even if we make the effort to remove
that assumption in some future release, the changes wouldn't get
back-patched. Hence, just suppress these warnings, on compilers that
have these switches.
Backpatch to all supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1524563856.26306.9.camel@gunduz.org
We used to claim to support platforms using 'q' or 'I64' as the printf
length modifier for long long int, by dint of replacing snprintf with
our own code which uses the C99 standard 'll' modifier. But that is
only adequate if we use INT64_MODIFIER only in snprintf-based calls,
not directly with the platform's native printf or fprintf. Which
hasn't been the case for years. We had not noticed, partially because
of inadequate test coverage, and partially because the buildfarm is
almost completely bare of machines that won't take 'll'. The last
one seems to have been frogmouth, which was adjusted recently so that
it will take 'll'. We might as well just give up on the pretense
that anything else works, and save ourselves some configure cycles.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/13103.1526749980@sss.pgh.pa.us
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/24769.1526772680@sss.pgh.pa.us
Ancient HPUX, for one, does this. We hadn't noticed due to the lack
of regression tests that required a working strtoll.
(I was slightly tempted to remove the other historical spelling,
strto[u]q, since it seems we have no buildfarm members testing that case.
But I refrained.)
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/151935568942.1461.14623890240535309745@wrigleys.postgresql.org
Buildfarm member dromedary is still unhappy about the recently-added
ecpg "long long" tests. The reason turns out to be that it includes
"-ansi" in its CFLAGS, and in their infinite wisdom Apple have decided
to hide the declarations of strtoll/strtoull in C89-compliant builds.
(I find it pretty curious that they hide those function declarations
when you can nonetheless declare a "long long" variable, but anyway
that is their behavior, both on dromedary's obsolete macOS version and
the newest and shiniest.) As a result, gcc assumes these functions
return "int", leading naturally to wrong results.
(Looking at dromedary's past build results, it's evident that this
problem also breaks pg_strtouint64() on 32-bit platforms; but we
evidently have no regression tests that exercise that function with
values above 32 bits.)
To fix, supply declarations for these functions when the platform
provides the functions but not the declarations, using the same type
of mechanism as we use for some other similar cases.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/151935568942.1461.14623890240535309745@wrigleys.postgresql.org
ARMv8 introduced special CPU instructions for calculating CRC-32C. Use
them, when available, for speed.
Like with the similar Intel CRC instructions, several factors affect
whether the instructions can be used. The compiler intrinsics for them must
be supported by the compiler, and the instructions must be supported by the
target architecture. If the compilation target architecture does not
support the instructions, but adding "-march=armv8-a+crc" makes them
available, then we compile the code with a runtime check to determine if
the host we're running on supports them or not.
For the runtime check, use glibc getauxval() function. Unfortunately,
that's not very portable, but I couldn't find any more portable way to do
it. If getauxval() is not available, the CRC instructions will still be
used if the target architecture supports them without any additional
compiler flags, but the runtime check will not be available.
Original patch by Yuqi Gu, heavily modified by me. Reviewed by Andres
Freund, Thomas Munro.
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/HE1PR0801MB1323D171938EABC04FFE7FA9E3110%40HE1PR0801MB1323.eurprd08.prod.outlook.com
LLVM will be used for *optional* Just-in-time compilation
support. This commit just adds the configure infrastructure that
detects LLVM.
No documentation has been added for the --with-llvm flag, that'll be
added after the actual supporting code has been added.
Author: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170901064131.tazjxwus3k2w3ybh@alap3.anarazel.de
This is an optional dependency. It'll be used for the upcoming LLVM
based just in time compilation support, which needs to wrap a few LLVM
C++ APIs so they're accessible from C..
For now test for C++ compilers unconditionally, without failing if not
present, to ensure wide buildfarm coverage. If we're bothered by the
additional test times (which are quite short) or verbosity, we can
later make the tests conditional on --with-llvm.
Author: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170901064131.tazjxwus3k2w3ybh@alap3.anarazel.de
Since e3bdb2d926, libpq failed to build on
some platforms because they did not have SSL_clear_options(). Although
mainline OpenSSL introduced SSL_clear_options() after
SSL_OP_NO_COMPRESSION, so the code should have built fine, at least an
old NetBSD version (build farm "coypu" NetBSD 5.1 gcc 4.1.3 PR-20080704
powerpc) has SSL_OP_NO_COMPRESSION but no SSL_clear_options().
So add a configure check for SSL_clear_options(). If we don't find it,
skip the call. That means on such a platform one cannot *enable* SSL
compression if the built-in default is off, but that seems an unlikely
combination anyway and not very interesting in practice.
Red Hat's notion of a basic Perl installation doesn't include Test::More
or Time::HiRes, and reportedly some Debian installs also omit Time::HiRes.
Check for those during configure to spare the user the pain of digging
through check-world output to find out what went wrong. While we're at it,
we should also check the version of Test::More, since TestLib.pm requires
at least 0.87.
In principle this could be back-patched, but it's probably not necessary.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/516.1521475003@sss.pgh.pa.us
Like the LDAP and SSL tests, these are not run by default but can be
selected via PG_TEST_EXTRA.
Reviewed-by: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@enterprisedb.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
The SSL and LDAP test suites are not run by default, as they are not
secure for multi-user environments. This commit adds an extra make
variable to optionally enable them, for example:
make check-world PG_TEST_EXTRA='ldap ssl'
Author: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
It seems we can't easily work around the lack of
X509_get_signature_nid(), so revert the previous attempts and just
disable the tls-server-end-point feature if we don't have it.
While ldaptls=1 provides an RFC 4513 conforming way to do LDAP
authentication with TLS encryption, there was an earlier de facto
standard way to do LDAP over SSL called LDAPS. Even though it's not
enshrined in a standard, it's still widely used and sometimes required
by organizations' network policies. There seems to be no reason not to
support it when available in the client library. Therefore, add support
when using OpenLDAP 2.4+ or Windows. It can be configured with
ldapscheme=ldaps or ldapurl=ldaps://...
Add tests for both ways of requesting LDAPS and a test for the
pre-existing ldaptls=1. Modify the 001_auth.pl test for "diagnostic
messages", which was previously relying on the server rejecting
ldaptls=1.
Author: Thomas Munro
Reviewed-By: Peter Eisentraut
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=1s+pA-LZUjQ-9GQz0Z4rX_eK=DFXAF1nBQ+ROPimuOYQ@mail.gmail.com
It's not easy to get signed integer overflow checks correct and
fast. Therefore abstract the necessary infrastructure into a common
header providing addition, subtraction and multiplication for 16, 32,
64 bit signed integers.
The new macros aren't yet used, but a followup commit will convert
several open coded overflow checks.
Author: Andres Freund, with some code stolen from Greg Stark
Reviewed-By: Robert Haas
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20171024103954.ztmatprlglz3rwke@alap3.anarazel.de
Since some preparation work had already been done, the only source
changes left were changing empty-element tags like <xref linkend="foo">
to <xref linkend="foo"/>, and changing the DOCTYPE.
The source files are still named *.sgml, but they are actually XML files
now. Renaming could be considered later.
In the build system, the intermediate step to convert from SGML to XML
is removed. Everything is build straight from the source files again.
The OpenSP (or the old SP) package is no longer needed.
The documentation toolchain instructions are updated and are much
simpler now.
Peter Eisentraut, Alexander Lakhin, Jürgen Purtz
Our initial work with int128 neglected alignment considerations, an
oversight that came back to bite us in bug #14897 from Vincent Lachenal.
It is unsurprising that int128 might have a 16-byte alignment requirement;
what's slightly more surprising is that even notoriously lax Intel chips
sometimes enforce that.
Raising MAXALIGN seems out of the question: the costs in wasted disk and
memory space would be significant, and there would also be an on-disk
compatibility break. Nor does it seem very practical to try to allow some
data structures to have more-than-MAXALIGN alignment requirement, as we'd
have to push knowledge of that throughout various code that copies data
structures around.
The only way out of the box is to make type int128 conform to the system's
alignment assumptions. Fortunately, gcc supports that via its
__attribute__(aligned()) pragma; and since we don't currently support
int128 on non-gcc-workalike compilers, we shouldn't be losing any platform
support this way.
Although we could have just done pg_attribute_aligned(MAXIMUM_ALIGNOF) and
called it a day, I did a little bit of extra work to make the code more
portable than that: it will also support int128 on compilers without
__attribute__(aligned()), if the native alignment of their 128-bit-int
type is no more than that of int64.
Add a regression test case that exercises the one known instance of the
problem, in parallel aggregation over a bigint column.
This will need to be back-patched, along with the preparatory commit
91aec93e6. But let's see what the buildfarm makes of it first.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20171110185747.31519.28038@wrigleys.postgresql.org
Upon further review, our Bonjour code doesn't actually work with the
Avahi not-too-compatible compatibility library. While you can get it
to work on non-macOS platforms if you link to Apple's own mDNSResponder
code, there don't seem to be many people who care about that. Leaving in
the AC_SEARCH_LIBS call seems more likely to encourage people to build
broken configurations than to do anything very useful.
Hence, remove the AC_SEARCH_LIBS call and put in a warning comment instead.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2D8331C5-D64F-44C1-8717-63EDC6EAF7EB@brightforge.com
On macOS the relevant functions require no special library, but elsewhere
we need to pull in libdns_sd.
Back-patch to supported branches. No docs change since the docs do not
suggest that this is a Mac-only feature.
Luke Lonergan
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2D8331C5-D64F-44C1-8717-63EDC6EAF7EB@brightforge.com
configure computed PG_VERSION_NUM incorrectly. (Coulda sworn I tested
that logic back when, but it had an obvious thinko.)
pg_upgrade had not been taught about the new dispensation with just
one part in the major version number.
Both things accidentally failed to fail with 10.0, but with 10.1 we
got the wrong results.
Per buildfarm.
Per buildfarm animal Hornet and followup manual testing by Noah Misch,
it appears xlc miscompiles code using "restrict" in at least some
cases. Allow disabling restrict usage with FORCE_DISABLE_RESTRICT=yes
in template files, and do so for aix/xlc.
Author: Andres Freund and Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1820.1507918762@sss.pgh.pa.us
Unfortunately using 'restrict' plainly causes problems with MSVC,
which supports restrict only as '__restrict'. Defining 'restrict' to
'__restrict' unfortunately causes a conflict with MSVC's usage of
__declspec(restrict) in headers.
Therefore define pg_restrict to the appropriate keyword instead, and
replace existing usages.
This replaces the temporary workaround introduced in 36b4b91ba0.
Author: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2656.1507830907@sss.pgh.pa.us
Will be used in later commits improving performance for a few key
routines where information about aliasing allows for significantly
better code generation.
This allows to use the C99 'restrict' keyword without breaking C89, or
for that matter C++, compilers. If not supported it's defined to be
empty.
Author: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170914063418.sckdzgjfrsbekae4@alap3.anarazel.de
The previous placement of the fallback implementation in libpgcommon
was problematic, because libpqport functions need strnlen
functionality.
Move replacement into libpgport. Provide strnlen() under its posix
name, instead of pg_strnlen(). Fix stupid configure bug, executing the
test only when compiled with threading support.
Author: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1e1gR2-0005fB-SI@gemulon.postgresql.org
Upcoming patches are going to address performance issues that involve
slow system provided ntohs/htons etc. To address that expand
pg_bswap.h to provide pg_ntoh{16,32,64}, pg_hton{16,32,64} and
optimize their respective implementations by using compiler intrinsics
for gcc compatible compilers and msvc. Fall back to manual
implementations using shifts etc otherwise.
Additionally remove multiple evaluation hazards from the existing
BSWAP32/64 macros, by replacing them with inline functions when
necessary. In the course of that the naming scheme is changed to
pg_bswap16/32/64.
Author: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170927172019.gheidqy6xvlxb325@alap3.anarazel.de
