The copy_file_range() system call is available on at least Linux and
FreeBSD, and asks the kernel to use efficient ways to copy ranges of a
file. Options available to the kernel include sharing block ranges
(similar to --clone mode), and pushing down block copies to the storage
layer.
For automated testing, see PG_TEST_PG_UPGRADE_MODE. (Perhaps in a later
commit we could consider setting this mode for one of the CI targets.)
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGKe7Hb0-UNih8VD5UNZy5-ojxFb3Pr3xSBBL8qj2M2%3DdQ%40mail.gmail.com
There isn't a lot of user demand for AIX support, we have a bunch of
hacks to work around AIX-specific compiler bugs and idiosyncrasies,
and no one has stepped up to the plate to properly maintain it.
Remove support for AIX to get rid of that maintenance overhead. It's
still supported for stable versions.
The acute issue that triggered this decision was that after commit
8af2565248, the AIX buildfarm members have been hitting this
assertion:
TRAP: failed Assert("(uintptr_t) buffer == TYPEALIGN(PG_IO_ALIGN_SIZE, buffer)"), File: "md.c", Line: 472, PID: 2949728
Apperently the "pg_attribute_aligned(a)" attribute doesn't work on AIX
for values larger than PG_IO_ALIGN_SIZE, for a static const variable.
That could be worked around, but we decided to just drop the AIX support
instead.
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20240224172345.32@rfd.leadboat.com
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund, Noah Misch, Thomas Munro
Commit 5579388d removed code that supplied a fallback implementation of
getaddrinfo(), which was dead code on modern systems. One tiny piece of
the removed code was still doing something useful on Windows, though:
that OS's own gai_strerror()/gai_strerrorA() function returns a pointer
to a static buffer that it overwrites each time, so it's not
thread-safe. In rare circumstances, a multi-threaded client program
could get an incorrect or corrupted error message.
Restore the replacement gai_strerror() function, though now that it's
only for Windows we can put it into a win32-specific file and cut it
down to the errors that Windows documents. The error messages here are
taken from FreeBSD, because Windows' own messages seemed too verbose.
Back-patch to 16.
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGKz%2BF9d2PTiXwfYV7qJw%2BWg2jzACgSDgPizUw7UG%3Di58A%40mail.gmail.com
Injection points are a new facility that makes possible for developers
to run custom code in pre-defined code paths. Its goal is to provide
ways to design and run advanced tests, for cases like:
- Race conditions, where processes need to do actions in a controlled
ordered manner.
- Forcing a state, like an ERROR, FATAL or even PANIC for OOM, to force
recovery, etc.
- Arbitrary sleeps.
This implements some basics, and there are plans to extend it more in
the future depending on what's required. Hence, this commit adds a set
of routines in the backend that allows developers to attach, detach and
run injection points:
- A code path calling an injection point can be declared with the macro
INJECTION_POINT(name).
- InjectionPointAttach() and InjectionPointDetach() to respectively
attach and detach a callback to/from an injection point. An injection
point name is registered in a shmem hash table with a library name and a
function name, which will be used to load the callback attached to an
injection point when its code path is run.
Injection point names are just strings, so as an injection point can be
declared and run by out-of-core extensions and modules, with callbacks
defined in external libraries.
This facility is hidden behind a dedicated switch for ./configure and
meson, disabled by default.
Note that backends use a local cache to store callbacks already loaded,
cleaning up their cache if a callback has found to be removed on a
best-effort basis. This could be refined further but any tests but what
we have here was fine with the tests I've written while implementing
these backend APIs.
Author: Michael Paquier, with doc suggestions from Ashutosh Bapat.
Reviewed-by: Ashutosh Bapat, Nathan Bossart, Álvaro Herrera, Dilip
Kumar, Amul Sul, Nazir Bilal Yavuz
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ZTiV8tn_MIb_H2rE@paquier.xyz
For the trivial case of iovcnt == 1, kernels are measurably slower at
dealing with the more complex arguments of preadv/pwritev than the
equivalent plain old pread/pwrite. The overheads are worth it for
iovcnt > 1, but for 1 let's just redirect to the cheaper calls. While
we could leave it to callers to worry about that, we already have to
have our own pg_ wrappers for portability reasons so it seems
reasonable to centralize this knowledge there (thanks to Heikki for this
suggestion). Try to avoid function call overheads by making them
inlinable, which might also allow the compiler to avoid the branch in
some cases. For systems that don't have preadv and pwritev (currently:
Windows and [closed] Solaris), we might as well pull the replacement
functions up into the static inline functions too.
Reviewed-by: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+hUKGJkOiOCa+mag4BF+zHo7qo=o9CFheB8=g6uT5TUm2gkvA@mail.gmail.com
We should have done it this way all along, but we accidentally got
away with using the wrong BIO field up until OpenSSL 3.2. There,
the library's BIO routines that we rely on use the "data" field
for their own purposes, and our conflicting use causes assorted
weird behaviors up to and including core dumps when SSL connections
are attempted. Switch to using the approved field for the purpose,
i.e. app_data.
While at it, remove our configure probes for BIO_get_data as well
as the fallback implementation. BIO_{get,set}_app_data have been
there since long before any OpenSSL version that we still support,
even in the back branches.
Also, update src/test/ssl/t/001_ssltests.pl to allow for a minor
change in an error message spelling that evidently came in with 3.2.
Tristan Partin and Bo Andreson. Back-patch to all supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAN55FZ1eDDYsYaL7mv+oSLUij2h_u6hvD4Qmv-7PK7jkji0uyQ@mail.gmail.com
A PostgreSQL release tarball contains a number of prebuilt files, in
particular files produced by bison, flex, perl, and well as html and
man documentation. We have done this consistent with established
practice at the time to not require these tools for building from a
tarball. Some of these tools were hard to get, or get the right
version of, from time to time, and shipping the prebuilt output was a
convenience to users.
Now this has at least two problems:
One, we have to make the build system(s) work in two modes: Building
from a git checkout and building from a tarball. This is pretty
complicated, but it works so far for autoconf/make. It does not
currently work for meson; you can currently only build with meson from
a git checkout. Making meson builds work from a tarball seems very
difficult or impossible. One particular problem is that since meson
requires a separate build directory, we cannot make the build update
files like gram.h in the source tree. So if you were to build from a
tarball and update gram.y, you will have a gram.h in the source tree
and one in the build tree, but the way things work is that the
compiler will always use the one in the source tree. So you cannot,
for example, make any gram.y changes when building from a tarball.
This seems impossible to fix in a non-horrible way.
Second, there is increased interest nowadays in precisely tracking the
origin of software. We can reasonably track contributions into the
git tree, and users can reasonably track the path from a tarball to
packages and downloads and installs. But what happens between the git
tree and the tarball is obscure and in some cases non-reproducible.
The solution for both of these issues is to get rid of the step that
adds prebuilt files to the tarball. The tarball now only contains
what is in the git tree (*). Getting the additional build
dependencies is no longer a problem nowadays, and the complications to
keep these dual build modes working are significant. And of course we
want to get the meson build system working universally.
This commit removes the make distprep target altogether. The make
dist target continues to do its job, it just doesn't call distprep
anymore.
(*) - The tarball also contains the INSTALL file that is built at make
dist time, but not by distprep. This is unchanged for now.
The make maintainer-clean target, whose job it is to remove the
prebuilt files in addition to what make distclean does, is now just an
alias to make distprep. (In practice, it is probably obsolete given
that git clean is available.)
The following programs are now hard build requirements in configure
(they were already required by meson.build):
- bison
- flex
- perl
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/e07408d9-e5f2-d9fd-5672-f53354e9305e@eisentraut.org
This information is useful to know when scanning buildfarm results, and
it is already displayed in Meson. The output of `openssl version` is
logged, with the command retrieved from PATH.
This depends on c8e4030d1b, so backpatch down to 16.
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut, Daniel Gustafsson, Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ZTW9yOlZaSVoFhTz@paquier.xyz
Backpatch-through: 16
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
Commit d2e15083 got rid of the main configure probe and HAVE_FDATASYNC
macro, but we still searched -lrt and -lposix4 for old Solaris systems.
It's in the C library on modern Solaris, as on other supported systems.
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
Reviewed-by: Tristan Partin <tristan@neon.tech>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGLLVx4drdvXats9PxH3eeB%2BE2NkJReJ%2BRGmaOpU%3D9rgEA%40mail.gmail.com
As with the Intel and Arm CRC instructions, compiler intrinsics for
them must be supported by the compiler. In contrast, no runtime check
is needed. Aligned memory access is faster, so use the Arm coding as
a model.
YANG Xudong
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/b522a0c5-e3b2-99cc-6387-58134fb88cbe%40ymatrix.cn
All supported computers have either POSIX or Windows threads, and we no
longer have any automated testing of --disable-thread-safety. We define
a vestigial ENABLE_THREAD_SAFETY macro to 1 in ecpg_config.h in case it
is useful, but we no longer test it anywhere in PostgreSQL code, and
associated dead code paths are removed.
The Meson and perl-based Windows build scripts never had an equivalent
build option.
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
Reviewed-by: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGLtmexrpMtxBRLCVePqV_dtWG-ZsEbyPrYc%2BNBB2TkNsw%40mail.gmail.com
Historically this module dealt with thread-safety of system interfaces,
but now all that's left is wrapper code for user name and home directory
lookup. Arguably the Windows variants of this logic could be moved in
here too, to justify its presence under port. For now, just tidy up
some obsolete references to multi-threading, and give the file a
meaningful name.
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
Reviewed-by: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGLtmexrpMtxBRLCVePqV_dtWG-ZsEbyPrYc%2BNBB2TkNsw%40mail.gmail.com
locale_t is defined by POSIX.1-2008 and SUSv4, and available on all
targeted systems. For Windows, win32_port.h redirects to a partial
implementation called _locale_t. We can now remove a lot of
compile-time tests for HAVE_LOCALE_T, and associated comments and dead
code branches that were needed for older computers.
Since configure + MinGW builds didn't detect locale_t but now we assume
that all systems have it, further inconsistencies among the 3 Windows build
systems were revealed. With this commit, we no longer define
HAVE_WCSTOMBS_L and HAVE_MBSTOWCS_L on any Windows build system, but
we have logic to deal with that so that replacements are available where
appropriate.
Reviewed-by: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Reviewed-by: Tristan Partin <tristan@neon.tech>
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGLg7_T2GKwZFAkEf0V7vbnur-NfCjZPKZb%3DZfAXSV1ORw%40mail.gmail.com
The comments referring to SSL_CTX_set_cert_cb() in ./configure and
./configure.ac were inconsistent, as `autoreconf -i` would show. While
on it, fix a typo on a comment related to the same check in
meson.build.
Issue introduced in 8e278b6, that removed support for OpenSSL 1.0.1.
Per offlist report from Thomas Munro.
Here are some notes about this change:
- As X509_get_signature_nid() should always exist (OpenSSL and
LibreSSL), hence HAVE_X509_GET_SIGNATURE_NID is now gone.
- OPENSSL_API_COMPAT is bumped to 0x10002000L.
- One comment related to 1.0.1e introduced by 74242c2 is removed.
Upstream OpenSSL still provides long-term support for 1.0.2 in a closed
fashion, so removing it is out of scope for a few years, at least.
Reviewed-by: Jacob Champion, Daniel Gustafsson
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ZG3JNursG69dz1lr@paquier.xyz
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
WHen building with GSSAPI support, explicitly require MIT Kerberos and
check for gssapi_ext.h in configure.ac and meson.build. Also add
documentation explicitly stating that we now require MIT Kerberos when
building with GSSAPI support.
Reveiwed by: Johnathan Katz
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/abcc73d0-acf7-6896-e0dc-f5bc12a61bb1@postgresql.org
Calling fseek() or ftello() on a handle to a non-seeking device such as
a pipe or a communications device is not supported. Unfortunately,
MSVC's flavor of these routines, _fseeki64() and _ftelli64(), do not
return an error when given a pipe as handle. Some of the logic of
pg_dump and restore relies on these routines to check if a handle is
seekable, causing failures when passing the contents of pg_dump to
pg_restore through a pipe, for example.
This commit introduces wrappers for fseeko() and ftello() on MSVC so as
any callers are able to properly detect the cases of non-seekable
handles. This relies mainly on GetFileType(), sharing a bit of code
with the MSVC port for fstat(). The code in charge of getting a file
type is refactored into a new file called win32common.c, shared by
win32stat.c and the new win32fseek.c. It includes the MSVC ports for
fseeko() and ftello().
Like 765f5df, this is backpatched down to 14, where the fstat()
implementation for MSVC is able to understand about files larger than
4GB in size. Using a TAP test for that is proving to be tricky as
IPC::Run handles the pipes by itself, still I have been able to check
the fix manually.
Reported-by: Daniel Watzinger
Author: Juan José Santamaría Flecha, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAC+AXB26a4EmxM2suXxPpJaGrqAdxracd7hskLg-zxtPB50h7A@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 14
The sslcertmode option controls whether the server is allowed and/or
required to request a certificate from the client. There are three
modes:
- "allow" is the default and follows the current behavior, where a
configured client certificate is sent if the server requests one
(via one of its default locations or sslcert). With the current
implementation, will happen whenever TLS is negotiated.
- "disable" causes the client to refuse to send a client certificate
even if sslcert is configured or if a client certificate is available in
one of its default locations.
- "require" causes the client to fail if a client certificate is never
sent and the server opens a connection anyway. This doesn't add any
additional security, since there is no guarantee that the server is
validating the certificate correctly, but it may helpful to troubleshoot
more complicated TLS setups.
sslcertmode=require requires SSL_CTX_set_cert_cb(), available since
OpenSSL 1.0.2. Note that LibreSSL does not include it.
Using a connection parameter different than require_auth has come up as
the simplest design because certificate authentication does not rely
directly on any of the AUTH_REQ_* codes, and one may want to require a
certificate to be sent in combination of a given authentication method,
like SCRAM-SHA-256.
TAP tests are added in src/test/ssl/, some of them relying on sslinfo to
check if a certificate has been set. These are compatible across all
the versions of OpenSSL supported on HEAD (currently down to 1.0.1).
Author: Jacob Champion
Reviewed-by: Aleksander Alekseev, Peter Eisentraut, David G. Johnston,
Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/9e5a8ccddb8355ea9fa4b75a1e3a9edc88a70cd3.camel@vmware.com
Support for SCM credential authentication has been removed in the
backend in 9.1, and libpq has kept some code to handle it for
compatibility.
Commit be4585b, that did the cleanup of the backend code, has done
so because the code was not really portable originally. And, as there
are likely little chances that this is used these days, this removes the
remaining code from libpq. An error will now be raised by libpq if
attempting to connect to a server that returns AUTH_REQ_SCM_CREDS,
instead.
References to SCM credential authentication are removed from the
protocol documentation. This removes some meson and configure checks.
Author: Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ZBLH8a4otfqgd6Kn@paquier.xyz
OpenSSL 1.1.1 and newer versions have added support for RSA-PSS
certificates, which requires the use of a specific routine in OpenSSL to
determine which hash function to use when compiling it when using
channel binding in SCRAM-SHA-256. X509_get_signature_nid(), that is the
original routine the channel binding code has relied on, is not able to
determine which hash algorithm to use for such certificates. However,
X509_get_signature_info(), new to OpenSSL 1.1.1, is able to do it. This
commit switches the channel binding logic to rely on
X509_get_signature_info() over X509_get_signature_nid(), which would be
the choice when building with 1.1.1 or newer.
The error could have been triggered on the client or the server, hence
libpq and the backend need to have their related code paths patched.
Note that attempting to load an RSA-PSS certificate with OpenSSL 1.1.0
or older leads to a failure due to an unsupported algorithm.
The discovery of relying on X509_get_signature_info() comes from Jacob,
the tests have been written by Heikki (with few tweaks from me), while I
have bundled the whole together while adding the bits needed for MSVC
and meson.
This issue exists since channel binding exists, so backpatch all the way
down. Some tests are added in 15~, triggered if compiling with OpenSSL
1.1.1 or newer, where the certificate and key files can easily be
generated for RSA-PSS.
Reported-by: Gunnar "Nick" Bluth
Author: Jacob Champion, Heikki Linnakangas
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17760-b6c61e752ec07060@postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 11
Clang 16 is still in development, but seawasp reveals that it has
started warning about many of our casts of function pointers (those
introduced by commit 1c27d16e, and some older ones). Disable the new
warning for now, since otherwise buildfarm animal seawasp fails, and we
have no current plans to change our strategy for these callback function
types.
May be back-patched with other Clang/LLVM 16 changes around release
time.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGJvX%2BL3aMN84ksT-cGy08VHErRNip3nV-WmTx7f6Pqhyw%40mail.gmail.com
The tests don't have much coverage of segment related code, as we don't create
large enough tables. To make it easier to test these paths, add a new option
specifying the segment size in blocks.
Set the new option to 6 blocks in one of the CI tasks. Smaller numbers
currently fail one of the tests, for understandable reasons.
While at it, fix some segment size related issues in the meson build.
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20221107171355.c23fzwanfzq2pmgt@awork3.anarazel.de
Previously export_dynamic was set in src/makefiles/Makefile.$port. For solaris
this required exporting with_gnu_ld. The determination of with_gnu_ld would be
nontrivial to copy for meson PGXS compatibility. It's also nice to delete
libtool.m4.
This uses -Wl,--export-dynamic on all platforms, previously all platforms but
FreeBSD used -Wl,-E. The likelihood of a name conflict seems lower with the
longer spelling.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20221005200710.luvw5evhwf6clig6@awork3.anarazel.de
The only use of $(LD) in Makefiles is for AIX, to generate the export file for
the backend. We only support the system linker on AIX and we already hardcode
the path to a number of other binaries. Removing LD substitution will simplify
the upcoming meson PGXS compatibility.
While at it, add a comment why -r is used.
A subsequent commit will remove the determination of LD from configure as
well.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20221005200710.luvw5evhwf6clig6@awork3.anarazel.de
Until now we emitted the cflags to build the CRC objects into architecture
specific variables. That doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me - we're never
going to target x86 and arm at the same time, so they don't need to be
separate variables.
It might be better to instead continue to have CFLAGS_SSE42 /
CFLAGS_ARMV8_CRC32C be computed by PGAC_ARMV8_CRC32C_INTRINSICS /
PGAC_SSE42_CRC32_INTRINSICS and then set CFLAGS_CRC based on those. But it
seems unlikely that we'd need other sets of CRC specific flags for those two
architectures at the same time.
This simplifies the upcoming meson PGXS compatibility.
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20221005200710.luvw5evhwf6clig6@awork3.anarazel.de
Various test suites use the "openssl" program as part of their setup.
There isn't a way to override which openssl program is to be used,
other than by fiddling with the path, perhaps. This has gotten
increasingly problematic because different versions of openssl have
different capabilities and do different things by default.
This patch checks for an openssl binary in configure and meson setup,
with appropriate ways to override it. This is similar to how "lz4"
and "zstd" are handled, for example. The meson build system actually
already did this, but the result was only used in some places. This
is now applied more uniformly.
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/dc638b75-a16a-007d-9e1c-d16ed6cf0ad2%40enterprisedb.com
This way we don't need RANLIB anymore, making it a bit simpler for the meson
build to generate Makefile.global for PGXS compatibility.
FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, the only platforms where we didn't use AROPT=crs,
all have supported the 's' option for a long time.
On macOS we ran ranlib after installing a static library. This was added a
long time ago, in 58ad65ec2d. I cannot reproduce an issue in more recent
macOS versions. This is removed now.
Based on discussion with Tom, I left the 'touch' at the end of static
libraries generation, added in 826eff57c4, in place. While it looks like
current versions of Apple's ar/ranlib don't need it, it was needed not too
long ago.
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20221005200710.luvw5evhwf6clig6@awork3.anarazel.de
Since cd4e8caaa, we've been able to build the source tree with
-Wshadow=compatible-local without any warnings. Lots of work was done by
Justin Pryzby and I (David) to get all our code to compile warning free
with that flag. In that process, 2 bugs (16d69ec29 and af7d270dd) were
discovered and fixed. Additionally, "git log --grep=shadow" shows that
there is no shortage of other bugs that have been fixed over the years
which were caused by variable shadowing.
In light of the above, it seems very much worthwhile to add at least
-Wshadow=compatible-local to our standard compilation flags. We *may*
want to go further and take this to -Wshadow=local in the future, but
we're not ready for that today, so let's add -Wshadow=compatible-local now
to help make sure we don't introduce further local variable shadowing.
Author: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20221006003920.6xlqaoccxwisza5k@awork3.anarazel.de
Autoconf is showing its age, fewer and fewer contributors know how to wrangle
it. Recursive make has a lot of hard to resolve dependency issues and slow
incremental rebuilds. Our home-grown MSVC build system is hard to maintain for
developers not using Windows and runs tests serially. While these and other
issues could individually be addressed with incremental improvements, together
they seem best addressed by moving to a more modern build system.
After evaluating different build system choices, we chose to use meson, to a
good degree based on the adoption by other open source projects.
We decided that it's more realistic to commit a relatively early version of
the new build system and mature it in tree.
This commit adds an initial version of a meson based build system. It supports
building postgres on at least AIX, FreeBSD, Linux, macOS, NetBSD, OpenBSD,
Solaris and Windows (however only gcc is supported on aix, solaris). For
Windows/MSVC postgres can now be built with ninja (faster, particularly for
incremental builds) and msbuild (supporting the visual studio GUI, but
building slower).
Several aspects (e.g. Windows rc file generation, PGXS compatibility, LLVM
bitcode generation, documentation adjustments) are done in subsequent commits
requiring further review. Other aspects (e.g. not installing test-only
extensions) are not yet addressed.
When building on Windows with msbuild, builds are slower when using a visual
studio version older than 2019, because those versions do not support
MultiToolTask, required by meson for intra-target parallelism.
The plan is to remove the MSVC specific build system in src/tools/msvc soon
after reaching feature parity. However, we're not planning to remove the
autoconf/make build system in the near future. Likely we're going to keep at
least the parts required for PGXS to keep working around until all supported
versions build with meson.
Some initial help for postgres developers is at
https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Meson
With contributions from Thomas Munro, John Naylor, Stone Tickle and others.
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Author: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>
Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
Reviewed-By: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20211012083721.hvixq4pnh2pixr3j@alap3.anarazel.de
Visual Studio 2015+ has support for a macro to control the alignement of
structures as of __declspec(align(#)), and this commit adds a definition
of pg_attribute_aligned() based on that. It happens that this was
already used in the implementation of atomics for MSVC. Note that there
is still no definition fo pg_attribute_packed(), so this does not impact
itemptr.h.
Author: James Coleman
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAaqYe-HbtZvR3msoMtk+hYW2S0e0OapzMW8icSMYTMA+mN8Aw@mail.gmail.com
Unfortunately xlc 12.1 and earlier don't support -qvisibility. Therefore
be7c15b194 doesn't suffice to make extension libraries work without the
explicit mkldexport step removed in fe6a64a58a. While 12.1 is EOL, there is
some desire to leave buildfarm animals using it run a bit longer. But instead
of adding back the complicated mkldexport step, we can use -Wl,-b,expfull to
force all symbols to be exported.
Reviewed-By: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2490844.1663123546@sss.pgh.pa.us
The oldest vendor-shipped Perl in the buildfarm is 5.14.2, which is
the last version that Debian Wheezy shipped. That OS is EOL, but we
keep it running because there is no other convenient way to test certain
non-mainstream 32-bit platforms. There is no bugfix in the 5.14.2 release
that is required, and yet it's also not the latest minor release --
that would be 5.14.4. To clarify the situation, we have thus arranged the
buildfarm to test 5.14.0. That allows configure scripts and documentation
to state 5.14 without fine print.
The MSVC build didn't check the version, since our previous minimum 5.8.3
was considered too old to check for on Windows. We will need a check for
Windows sometime during the v16 cycle, but that could be rendered moot
by the impending Meson conversion, so it seems safe to just document
the requirement for now.
Reviewed by Tom Lane
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20220902181553.ev4pgzhubhdkguuv@awork3.anarazel.de
It looks like icc and sunpro both support -fvisibility=hidden and xlc supports
-qvisibility=hidden. I tested this on AIX and solaris with their proprietary
compilers as well as gcc, and with gcc or clang on freebsd, linux, macos,
netbsd and openbsd.
Apparently my prior commit fe6a64a58a only works in combination with this
patch. While I tried to test them separately, an unknown caching issue
prevented me from noticing the problem.
Per discussion with Tom Lane and buildfarm member hoverfly.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220910052741.t7w7csyrggwus2ze%40awork3.anarazel.de
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220820174213.d574qde4ptwdzoqz@awork3.anarazel.de
