pg_basebackup knows how to do quite a few things with a backup that it
gets from the server, like just write out the files, or compress them
first, or even parse the tar format and inject a modified
postgresql.auto.conf file into the archive generated by the server.
Unforatunely, this makes pg_basebackup.c a very large source file, and
also somewhat difficult to enhance, because for example the knowledge
that the server is sending us a 'tar' file rather than some other sort
of archive is spread all over the place rather than centralized.
In an effort to improve this situation, this commit invents a new
'bbstreamer' abstraction. Each archive received from the server is
fed to a bbstreamer which may choose to dispose of it or pass it
along to some other bbstreamer. Chunks may also be "labelled"
according to whether they are part of the payload data of a file
in the archive or part of the archive metadata.
So, for example, if we want to take a tar file, modify the
postgresql.auto.conf file it contains, and the gzip the result
and write it out, we can use a bbstreamer_tar_parser to parse the
tar file received from the server, a bbstreamer_recovery_injector
to modify the contents of postgresql.auto.conf, a
bbstreamer_tar_archiver to replace the tar headers for the file
modified in the previous step with newly-built ones that are
correct for the modified file, and a bbstreamer_gzip_writer to
gzip and write the resulting data. Only the objects with "tar"
in the name know anything about the tar archive format, and in
theory we could re-archive using some other format rather than
"tar" if somebody wanted to write the code.
These chances do add a substantial amount of code, but I think the
result is a lot more maintainable and extensible. pg_basebackup.c
itself shrinks by roughly a third, with a lot of the complexity
previously contained there moving into the newly-added files.
Patch by me. The larger patch series of which this is a part has been
reviewed and tested at various times by Andres Freund, Sumanta
Mukherjee, Dilip Kumar, Suraj Kharage, Dipesh Pandit, Tushar Ahuja,
Mark Dilger, Sergei Kornilov, and Jeevan Ladhe.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoZGwR=ZVWFeecncubEyPdwghnvfkkdBe9BLccLSiqdf9Q@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoZvqk7UuzxsX1xjJRmMGkqoUGYTZLDCH8SmU1xTPr1Xig@mail.gmail.com
The base backup code has accumulated a healthy number of new
features over the years, but it's becoming increasingly difficult
to maintain and further enhance that code because there's no
real separation of concerns. For example, the code that
understands knows the details of how we send data to the client
using the libpq protocol is scattered throughout basebackup.c,
rather than being centralized in one place.
To try to improve this situation, introduce a new 'bbsink' object
which acts as a recipient for archives generated during the base
backup progress and also for the backup manifest. This commit
introduces three types of bbsink: a 'copytblspc' bbsink forwards the
backup to the client using one COPY OUT operation per tablespace and
another for the manifest, a 'progress' bbsink performs command
progress reporting, and a 'throttle' bbsink performs rate-limiting.
The 'progress' and 'throttle' bbsink types also forward the data to a
successor bbsink; at present, the last bbsink in the chain will
always be of type 'copytblspc'. There are plans to add more types
of 'bbsink' in future commits.
This abstraction is a bit leaky in the case of progress reporting,
but this still seems cleaner than what we had before.
Patch by me, reviewed and tested by Andres Freund, Sumanta Mukherjee,
Dilip Kumar, Suraj Kharage, Dipesh Pandit, Tushar Ahuja, Mark Dilger,
and Jeevan Ladhe.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoZGwR=ZVWFeecncubEyPdwghnvfkkdBe9BLccLSiqdf9Q@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoZvqk7UuzxsX1xjJRmMGkqoUGYTZLDCH8SmU1xTPr1Xig@mail.gmail.com
Expand the checks of toasted attributes to complain if the rawsize is
overlarge. For compressed attributes, also complain if compression
appears to have expanded the attribute or if the compression method is
invalid.
Mark Dilger, reviewed by Justin Pryzby, Alexander Alekseev, Heikki
Linnakangas, Greg Stark, and me.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/8E42250D-586A-4A27-B317-8B062C3816A8@enterprisedb.com
pgcrypto had internal implementations of some encryption algorithms,
as an alternative to calling out to OpenSSL. These were rarely used,
since most production installations are built with OpenSSL. Moreover,
maintaining parallel code paths makes the code more complex and
difficult to maintain.
This patch removes these internal implementations. Now, pgcrypto is
only built if OpenSSL support is configured.
Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/0b42f1df-8cba-6a30-77d7-acc241cc88c1%40enterprisedb.com
Completion is added for more object types, like domain constraints, text
search-ish objects or policies. Moreover, the area is reorganized,
changing the list of objects supported by COMMENT to be in the same
order as the documentation to ease future additions.
Author: Ken Kato
Reviewed-by: Fujii Masao, Shinya Kato, Suraj Khamkar, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/6e0c2f3f657b229bea32d098d118f307@oss.nttdata.com
Add hardening to the heapam index tuple deletion path to catch TIDs in
index pages that point to a heap item that index tuples should never
point to. The corruption we're trying to catch here is particularly
tricky to detect, since it typically involves "extra" (corrupt) index
tuples, as opposed to the absence of required index tuples in the index.
For example, a heap TID from an index page that turns out to point to an
LP_UNUSED item in the heap page has a good chance of being caught by one
of the new checks. There is a decent chance that the recently fixed
parallel VACUUM bug (see commit 9bacec15) would have been caught had
that particular check been in place for Postgres 14. No backpatch of
this extra hardening for now, though.
Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Reviewed-By: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-Wzk-4_raTzawWGaiqNvkpwDXxv3y1AQhQyUeHfkU=tFCeA@mail.gmail.com
pg_receivewal gains a new option, --compression-method=lz4, available
when the code is compiled with --with-lz4. Similarly to gzip, this
gives the possibility to compress archived WAL segments with LZ4. This
option is not compatible with --compress.
The implementation uses LZ4 frames, and is compatible with simple lz4
commands. Like gzip, using --synchronous ensures that any data will be
flushed to disk within the current .partial segment, so as it is
possible to retrieve as much WAL data as possible even from a
non-completed segment (this requires completing the partial file with
zeros up to the WAL segment size supported by the backend after
decompression, but this is the same as gzip).
The calculation of the streaming start LSN is able to transparently find
and check LZ4-compressed segments. Contrary to gzip where the
uncompressed size is directly stored in the object read, the LZ4 chunk
protocol does not store the uncompressed data by default. There is
contentSize that can be used with LZ4 frames by that would not help if
using an archive that includes segments compressed with the defaults of
a "lz4" command, where this is not stored. So, this commit has taken
the most extensible approach by decompressing the already-archived
segment to check its uncompressed size, through a blank output buffer in
chunks of 64kB (no actual performance difference noticed with 8kB, 16kB
or 32kB, and the operation in itself is actually fast).
Tests have been added to verify the creation and correctness of the
generated LZ4 files. The latter is achieved by the use of command
"lz4", if found in the environment.
The tar-based WAL method in walmethods.c, used now only by
pg_basebackup, does not know yet about LZ4. Its code could be extended
for this purpose.
Author: Georgios Kokolatos
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier, Jian Guo, Magnus Hagander, Dilip Kumar
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ZCm1J5vfyQ2E6dYvXz8si39HQ2gwxSZ3IpYaVgYa3lUwY88SLapx9EEnOf5uEwrddhx2twG7zYKjVeuP5MwZXCNPybtsGouDsAD1o2L_I5E=@pm.me
These assertions document (and verify) our high level assumptions about
how pruning can and cannot affect existing items from target heap pages.
For example, one of the new assertions verifies that pruning does not
set a heap-only tuple to LP_DEAD.
Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Reviewed-By: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-Wz=vhvBx1GjF+oueHh8YQcHoQYrMi0F0zFMHEr8yc4sCoA@mail.gmail.com
The option name was incorrect in one of the error messages, and the
short option 'I' was used in the code but we did not intend things to be
this way. While on it, fix the documentation to refer to a "method",
and not a "level.
Oversights in commit d62bcc8, that I have detected after more review of
the LZ4 patch for pg_receivewal.
pg_receivewal includes since cada1af the option --compress, to allow the
compression of WAL segments using gzip, with a value of 0 (the default)
meaning that no compression can be used.
This commit introduces a new option, called --compression-method, able
to use as values "none", the default, and "gzip", to make things more
extensible. The case of --compress=0 becomes fuzzy with this option
layer, so we have made the choice to make pg_receivewal return an error
when using "none" and a non-zero compression level, meaning that the
authorized values of --compress are now [1,9] instead of [0,9]. Not
specifying --compress with "gzip" as compression method makes
pg_receivewal use the default of zlib instead (Z_DEFAULT_COMPRESSION).
The code in charge of finding the streaming start LSN when scanning the
existing archives is refactored and made more extensible. While on it,
rename "compression" to "compression_level" in walmethods.c, to reduce
the confusion with the introduction of the compression method, even if
the tar method used by pg_basebackup does not rely on the compression
method (yet, at least), but just on the compression level (this area
could be improved more, actually).
This is in preparation for an upcoming patch that adds LZ4 support to
pg_receivewal.
Author: Georgios Kokolatos
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier, Jian Guo, Magnus Hagander, Dilip Kumar,
Robert Haas
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ZCm1J5vfyQ2E6dYvXz8si39HQ2gwxSZ3IpYaVgYa3lUwY88SLapx9EEnOf5uEwrddhx2twG7zYKjVeuP5MwZXCNPybtsGouDsAD1o2L_I5E=@pm.me
If lo_export() fails to open the target file or to write to it, it leaks
the created LargeObjectDesc and its snapshot in the top-transaction
context and resource owner. That's pretty harmless, it's a small leak
after all, but it gives the user a "Snapshot reference leak" warning.
Fix by using a short-lived memory context and no resource owner for
transient LargeObjectDescs that are opened and closed within one function
call. The leak is easiest to reproduce with lo_export() on a directory
that doesn't exist, but in principle the other lo_* functions could also
fail.
Backpatch to all supported versions.
Reported-by: Andrew B
Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/32bf767a-2d65-71c4-f170-122f416bab7e@iki.fi
Commit b4af70cb inverted the return value of the function
parallel_processing_is_safe(), but missed the amvacuumcleanup test.
Index AMs that don't support parallel cleanup at all were affected.
The practical consequences of this bug were not very serious. Hash
indexes are affected, but since they just return the number of blocks
during hashvacuumcleanup anyway, it can't have had much impact.
Author: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAD21AoA-Em+aeVPmBbL_s1V-ghsJQSxYL-i3JP8nTfPiD1wjKw@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch: 14-, where commit b4af70cb appears.
Buildfarm member hamerkop has been failing for the last few days
with errors that look like OpenSSL's X509-related symbols have
not been imported into be-secure-openssl.c. It's unclear why
this should be, but let's try adding an explicit #include of
<openssl/x509v3.h>, as there has long been in fe-secure-openssl.c.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1051867.1635720347@sss.pgh.pa.us
Commit b4af70cb, which simplified state managed by VACUUM, performed
refactoring of parallel VACUUM in passing. Confusion about the exact
details of the tasks that the leader process is responsible for led to
code that made it possible for parallel VACUUM to miss a subset of the
table's indexes entirely. Specifically, indexes that fell under the
min_parallel_index_scan_size size cutoff were missed. These indexes are
supposed to be vacuumed by the leader (alongside any parallel unsafe
indexes), but weren't vacuumed at all. Affected indexes could easily
end up with duplicate heap TIDs, once heap TIDs were recycled for new
heap tuples. This had generic symptoms that might be seen with almost
any index corruption involving structural inconsistencies between an
index and its table.
To fix, make sure that the parallel VACUUM leader process performs any
required index vacuuming for indexes that happen to be below the size
cutoff. Also document the design of parallel VACUUM with these
below-size-cutoff indexes.
It's unclear how many users might be affected by this bug. There had to
be at least three indexes on the table to hit the bug: a smaller index,
plus at least two additional indexes that themselves exceed the size
cutoff. Cases with just one additional index would not run into
trouble, since the parallel VACUUM cost model requires two
larger-than-cutoff indexes on the table to apply any parallel
processing. Note also that autovacuum was not affected, since it never
uses parallel processing.
Test case based on tests from a larger patch to test parallel VACUUM by
Masahiko Sawada.
Many thanks to Kamigishi Rei for her invaluable help with tracking this
problem down.
Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Author: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>
Reported-By: Kamigishi Rei <iijima.yun@koumakan.jp>
Reported-By: Andrew Gierth <andrew@tao11.riddles.org.uk>
Diagnosed-By: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Bug: #17245
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17245-ddf06aaf85735f36@postgresql.org
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20211030023740.qbnsl2xaoh2grq3d@alap3.anarazel.de
Backpatch: 14-, where the refactoring commit appears.
In walreceiver, set the publisher's relevant GUCs (datestyle,
intervalstyle, extra_float_digits) to the same values that pg_dump uses,
and for the same reason: we need the output to be read the same way
regardless of the receiver's settings. Without this, it's possible
for subscribers to misinterpret transmitted values.
Although this is clearly a bug fix, it's not without downsides:
subscribers that are storing values into some other datatype, such as
text, could get different results than before, and perhaps be unhappy
about that. Given the lack of previous complaints, it seems best
to change this only in HEAD, and to call it out as an incompatible
change in v15.
Japin Li, per report from Sadhuprasad Patro
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAFF0-CF=D7pc6st-3A9f1JnOt0qmc+BcBPVzD6fLYisKyAjkGA@mail.gmail.com
This undoes a mistake in 1ec7679f1: domainval and domainnull were
meant to live across loop iterations, but they were incorrectly
moved inside the loop. The effect was only to emit useless extra
EEOP_MAKE_READONLY steps, so it's not a big deal; nonetheless,
back-patch to v13 where the mistake was introduced.
Ranier Vilela
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEudQAqXuhbkaAp-sGH6dR6Nsq7v28_0TPexHOm6FiDYqwQD-w@mail.gmail.com
Use verbiage like "The name of the table must be distinct from the name
of any other relation (table, sequence, index, view, materialized view,
or foreign table) in the same schema." in the reference pages for all
those object types. The main change here is to mention materialized
views explicitly; although a couple of these pages failed to say
anything at all about name conflicts.
Per suggestion from Daniel Westermann.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ZR0P278MB0920D0946509233459AF0DEFD2889@ZR0P278MB0920.CHEP278.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM
As in commits 6301c3ada and e9d9ba2a4, avoid doing repetitive
list_delete_first() operations, since that would be expensive when
there are many files waiting to be unlinked. This is a slightly
larger change than in those cases. We have to keep the list state
valid for calls to AbsorbSyncRequests(), so it's necessary to invent a
"canceled" field instead of immediately deleting PendingUnlinkEntry
entries. Also, because we might not be able to process all the
entries, we need a new list primitive list_delete_first_n().
list_delete_first_n() is almost list_copy_tail(), but it modifies the
input List instead of making a new copy. I found a couple of existing
uses of the latter that could profitably use the new function. (There
might be more, but the other callers look like they probably shouldn't
overwrite the input List.)
As before, back-patch to v13.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CD2F0E7F-9822-45EC-A411-AE56F14DEA9F@amazon.com
Previously failures of initial connection and logfile open caused pgbench
to proceed the benchmarking, report the incomplete results and exit with
status 2. It didn't make sense to proceed the benchmarking even when
pgbench could not start as prescribed.
This commit improves pgbench so that early errors that occur when
starting benchmark such as those failures should make pgbench exit
immediately with status 1.
Author: Yugo Nagata
Reviewed-by: Fabien COELHO, Kyotaro Horiguchi, Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/TYCPR01MB5870057375ACA8A73099C649F5349@TYCPR01MB5870.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com
We don't modify any shared state in this function which could cause
problems for any concurrent session. This will make it look similar to the
other updates for the same structure (TransactionState) which avoids
confusion for future readers of code.
Author: Dilip Kumar
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1mSoYz-0007Fh-D9@gemulon.postgresql.org
Commit 0bead9af48 introduced XLOG_INCLUDE_XID flag to indicate that the
WAL record contains subXID-to-topXID association. It uses that flag later
to mark in CurrentTransactionState that top-xid is logged so that we
should not try to log it again with the next WAL record in the current
subtransaction. However, we can use a localized variable to pass that
information.
In passing, change the related function and variable names to make them
consistent with what the code is actually doing.
Author: Dilip Kumar
Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera, Amit Kapila
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1mSoYz-0007Fh-D9@gemulon.postgresql.org
The unicode characters, while in comments and not code, caused MSVC
to emit compiler warning C4819:
The file contains a character that cannot be represented in the
current code page (number). Save the file in Unicode format to
prevent data loss.
Fix by replacing the characters in print.c with descriptive comments
containing the codepoints and symbol names, and remove the character
in brin_bloom.c which was a footnote reference copied from the paper
citation.
Per report from hamerkop in the buildfarm.
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/340E4118-0D0C-4E85-8141-8C40EB22DA3A@yesql.se
In the same spirit as 6301c3ada, fix some more places where we were
using list_delete_first() in a loop and thereby risking O(N^2)
behavior. It's not clear that the lists manipulated in these spots
can get long enough to be really problematic ... but it's not clear
that they can't, either, and the fixes are simple enough.
As before, back-patch to v13.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CD2F0E7F-9822-45EC-A411-AE56F14DEA9F@amazon.com
Failing to do so results in inability of logical decoding to process the
WAL stream. Handle it by doing nothing.
Backpatch all the way back.
Reported-by: Petr Jelínek <petr.jelinek@enterprisedb.com>
pg_receivewal is able to follow a timeline switch, but this was not
tested. This test uses an empty archive location with a restart done
from a slot, making its implementation a tad simpler than if we would
reuse an existing archive directory.
Author: Ronan Dunklau
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18708360.4lzOvYHigE@aivenronan
The opclass parameter Datums from the old index are fetched in the same
way as for predicates and expressions, by grabbing them directly from
the system catalogs. They are then copied into the new IndexInfo that
will be used for the creation of the new copy.
This caused the new index to be rebuilt with default parameters rather
than the ones pre-defined by a user. The only way to get back a new
index with correct opclass parameters would be to recreate a new index
from scratch.
The issue has been introduced by 911e702.
Author: Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Zhihong Yu
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/YX0CG/QpLXcPr8HJ@paquier.xyz
Backpatch-through: 13
Windows fails on a request to read() more than INT_MAX bytes,
and perhaps other platforms could have similar issues. Let's
adjust this code to read at most 1GB per call.
(One would not have thought the file could get that big, but now
we have a field report of trouble, so it can. We likely ought to
add some mechanism to limit the size of the query-texts file
separately from the size of the hash table. That is not this
patch, though.)
Per bug #17254 from Yusuke Egashira. It's been like this for
awhile, so back-patch to all supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17254-a926c89dc03375c2@postgresql.org
Rearrange src/test/perl/README so that the first section is more
clearly "how to run these tests", and the rest "how to write new
tests". Add some basic info there about debugging test failures.
Then, add cross-refs to that READNE from other READMEs that
describe how to run TAP tests.
Per suggestion from Kevin Burke, though this is not his original
patch.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKcy5eiSbwiQnmCfnOnDCVC7B8fYyev3E=6pvvECP9pLE-Fcuw@mail.gmail.com
When replaying a transaction that held many exclusive locks on the
primary, a standby server's startup process would expend O(N^2)
effort on manipulating the list of locks. This code was fine when
written, but commit 1cff1b95a made repetitive list_delete_first()
calls inefficient, as explained in its commit message. Fix by just
iterating the list normally, and releasing storage only when done.
(This'd be inadequate if we needed to recover from an error occurring
partway through; but we don't.)
Back-patch to v13 where 1cff1b95a came in.
Nathan Bossart
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CD2F0E7F-9822-45EC-A411-AE56F14DEA9F@amazon.com
Previously, we pointed at the surrounding block's BEGIN keyword.
If there are multiple variables being initialized in a DECLARE section,
this isn't good enough: it can be quite confusing and unhelpful.
We do know where the variable's declaration started, so it just takes
a tiny bit more error-reporting infrastructure to use that.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/713975.1635530414@sss.pgh.pa.us
The pgcrypto documentation contained acknowledgments of used external
code, but some of this code has been moved to src/common/, so
mentioning it with pgcrypto no longer makes sense, so remove it.
Commit 9ce346eabf added startup
progress reporting, but begin_startup_progress_phase has a race
condition: the timeout for the previous phase might fire just
before we reschedule the interrupt for the next phase.
To avoid the race, disable the timeout, clear the flag, and then
re-enable the timeout.
Patch by me, reviewed by Nitin Jadhav.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoYq38i6iAzfRLVxA6Cm+wMCf4WM8wC3o_a+X_JvWC8bJg@mail.gmail.com
The previous code used ThisTimeLineID, which need not even be
initialized here, although it usually was in practice, because
pg_basebackup issues IDENTIFY_SYSTEM before calling BASE_BACKUP,
and that initializes ThisTimeLineID as a side effect. That's not
really good enough, though, not only because we shoudn't be counting
on side effects like that, but also because the TLI could change
meanwhile. Fortunately, we have convenient access to more meaningful
TLI values, so use those instead.
Because of the way this logic is coded, the consequences of using
a possibly-incorrect TLI here are no worse than a slightly confusing
error message, I don't want to take any risk here, so no back-patch
at least for now.
Patch by me, reviewed by Kyotaro Horiguchi and Michael Paquier
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoZRNWGWYDX9RgTXMG6_nwSdB=PB-PPRUbvMUTGfmL2sHQ@mail.gmail.com
Commit d168b66682, which overhauled index deletion, added a
pg_unreachable() to the end of a sort comparator used when sorting heap
TIDs from an index page. This allows the compiler to apply
optimizations that assume that the heap TIDs from the index AM must
always be unique.
That doesn't seem like a good idea now, given recent reports of
corruption involving duplicate TIDs in indexes on Postgres 14. Demote
to an assertion, just in case.
Backpatch: 14-, where index deletion was overhauled.
We had a test showing that a variable isn't referenceable in its
own initialization expression, nor in prior ones in the same block.
It *is* referenceable in later expressions in the same block, but
AFAICS there is no test case exercising that. Add one, and also
add some error cases.
Also, document that this is possible, since the docs failed to
cover the point.
Per question from tomás at tuxteam. I don't feel any need to
back-patch this, but we should ensure we don't break it in future.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20211029121435.GA5414@tuxteam.de
DST law changes in Fiji, Jordan, Palestine, and Samoa. Historical
corrections for Barbados, Cook Islands, Guyana, Niue, Portugal, and
Tonga.
Also, the Pacific/Enderbury zone has been renamed to Pacific/Kanton.
The following zones have been merged into nearby, more-populous zones
whose clocks have agreed since 1970: Africa/Accra, America/Atikokan,
America/Blanc-Sablon, America/Creston, America/Curacao,
America/Nassau, America/Port_of_Spain, Antarctica/DumontDUrville,
and Antarctica/Syowa.
This commit improves the speed of those tests by 25~30%, using some
simple ideas to reduce the amount of data written by pg_receivewal:
- Use a segment size of 1MB. While reducing the amount of data zeroed
by pg_receivewal for the new segments, this improves the code coverage
with a non-default segment size.
- In the last test involving a slot's restart_lsn, generate a checkpoint
to advance the redo LSN and the WAL retained by the slot created,
reducing the number of segments that need to be archived. This counts
for most of the gain.
- Minimize the amount of data inserted into the dummy table.
Reviewed-by: Ronan Dunklau
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/YXqYKAdVEqmyTltK@paquier.xyz
Since the only possible divisors are 8, 10, and 16, it doesn't cost
much code space to replace the division loop with three copies using
constant divisors. On most machines, division by a constant can be
done a lot more cheaply than division by an arbitrary value.
A microbenchmark testing just snprintf("foo %d") with a 9-digit value
showed about a 2X speedup for me (tgl). Most of Postgres isn't too
dependent on the speed of snprintf, so that the effect in real-world
cases is barely measurable. Still, a cycle saved is a cycle earned.
Arjan van de Ven
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/40a4b32a-b841-4667-11b2-a0baedb12714@linux.intel.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/6e51c644-1b6d-956e-ac24-2d1b0541d532@linux.intel.com
Commits fdd965d07 and 3cd9c3b92 tested CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY by
launching two separate pgbench runs concurrently. This was needed so
that only a single client thread would run CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY,
avoiding deadlock between two CICs. However, there's a better way,
which is to use an advisory lock to prevent concurrent CICs. That's
better in part because the test code is shorter and more readable, but
mostly because it automatically scales things to launch an appropriate
number of CICs relative to the number of INSERT transactions.
As committed, typically half to three-quarters of the CIC transactions
were pointless because the INSERT transactions had already stopped.
In passing, remove background_pgbench, which was added to support
these tests and isn't needed anymore. We can always put it back
if we find a use for it later.
Back-patch to v12; older pgbench versions lack the
conditional-execution features needed for this method.
Tom Lane and Andrey Borodin
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/139687.1635277318@sss.pgh.pa.us
This adds tests checking for the execution of both commands. The
recovery test 002_archiving.pl is nicely adapted to that, as promotion
is triggered already twice there, and even if any of those commands fail
they don't affect recovery or promotion.
A command success is checked using a file generated by an "echo"
command, that should be able to work in all the buildfarm environments,
even Msys (but we'll know soon about that). Command failure is tested
with an "echo" command that points to a path that does not exist,
scanning the backend logs to make sure that the failure happens. Both
rely on the backend triggering the commands from the root of the data
folder, making its logic more robust.
Thanks to Neha Sharma for the extra tests on Windows.
Author: Amul Sul, Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund, Euler Taveira
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAJ_b95R_c4T5moq30qsybSU=eDzDHm=4SPiAWaiMWc2OW7=1Q@mail.gmail.com
