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2018-10-09Select appropriate PG_PRINTF_ATTRIBUTE for recent NetBSD.Tom Lane
NetBSD-current generates a large number of warnings about "%m" not being appropriate to use with *printf functions. While that's true for their native printf, it's surely not true for snprintf.c, so I think they have misunderstood gcc's definition of the "gnu_printf" archetype. Nonetheless, choosing "__syslog__" instead silences the warnings; so teach configure about that. Since this is only a cosmetic warning issue (and anyway it depends on previous hacking to be self-consistent), no back-patch. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16785.1539046036@sss.pgh.pa.us
2018-09-26Try another way to detect the result type of strerror_r().Tom Lane
The method we've traditionally used, of redeclaring strerror_r() to see if the compiler complains of inconsistent declarations, turns out not to work reliably because some compilers only report a warning, not an error. Amazingly, this has gone undetected for years, even though it certainly breaks our detection of whether strerror_r succeeded. Let's instead test whether the compiler will take the result of strerror_r() as a switch() argument. It's possible this won't work universally either, but it's the best idea I could come up with on the spur of the moment. We should probably back-patch this once the dust settles, but first let's see what the buildfarm thinks of it. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/10877.1537993279@sss.pgh.pa.us
2018-09-26Always use our own versions of *printf().Tom Lane
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
2018-09-25Make some fixes to allow building Postgres on macOS 10.14 ("Mojave").Tom Lane
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.
2018-09-13Detect LLVM 7 without specifying binaries explicitly.Andres Freund
Before this commit LLVM 7 was supported, but only if one explicitly provided LLVM_CONFIG= and CLANG= paths. As LLVM 7 is the first version that includes our upstreamed debugging and profiling features, and as debian is planning to default to 7 due to wider architecture support, it seems good to support auto-detecting that version. Author: Christoph Berg Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180912124517.GD24584@msg.df7cb.de Backpatch: 11, where LLVM was introduced
2018-08-24Remove test for VA_ARGS, implied by C99.Andres Freund
This simplifies logic / reduces duplication in a few headers. Author: Andres Freund Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/97d4b165-192d-3605-749c-f614a0c4e783@2ndquadrant.com
2018-08-24LLVMJIT: LLVMGetHostCPUFeatures now is upstream, use LLMV version if available.Andres Freund
Noticed thanks to buildfarm animal seawasp. Author: Andres Freund Backpatch: v11-, where LLVM based JIT compliation was introduced.
2018-08-17Fix configure's snprintf test so it exposes HP-UX bug.Tom Lane
Since commit e1d19c902, buildfarm member gharial has been failing with symptoms indicating that snprintf sometimes returns -1 for buffer overrun, even though it passes the added configure check. Some google research suggests that this happens only in limited cases, such as when the overrun happens partway through a %d item. Adjust the configure check to exercise it that way. Since I'm now feeling more paranoid than I was before, also make the test explicitly verify that the buffer doesn't get physically overrun.
2018-08-16Require a C99-compliant snprintf(), and remove related workarounds.Tom Lane
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
2018-08-12Revert "Distinguish printf-like functions that support %m from those that ↵Tom Lane
don't." This reverts commit 3a60c8ff892a8242b907f44702bfd9f1ff877d45. Buildfarm results show that that caused a whole bunch of new warnings on platforms where gcc believes the local printf to be non-POSIX-compliant. This problem outweighs the hypothetical-anyway possibility of getting warnings for misuse of %m. We could use gnu_printf archetype when we've substituted src/port/snprintf.c, but that brings us right back to the problem of not getting warnings for %m. A possible answer is to attack it in the other direction by insisting that %m support be included in printf's feature set, but that will take more investigation. In the meantime, revert the previous change, and update the comment for PGAC_C_PRINTF_ARCHETYPE to more fully explain what's going on. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2975.1526862605@sss.pgh.pa.us
2018-08-11Distinguish printf-like functions that support %m from those that don't.Tom Lane
The elog/ereport family of functions certainly support the %m format spec, because they implement it "by hand". But elsewhere we have printf wrappers that might or might not allow it depending on whether the platform's printf does. (Most non-glibc versions don't, and notably, src/port/snprintf.c doesn't.) Hence, rather than using the gnu_printf format archetype interchangeably for all these functions, use it only for elog/ereport. This will allow us to get compiler warnings for mistakes like the ones fixed in commit a13b47a59, at least on platforms where printf doesn't take %m and gcc is correctly configured to know it. (Unfortunately, that won't happen on Linux, nor on macOS according to my testing. It remains to be seen what the buildfarm's gcc-on-Windows animals will think of this, but we may well have to rely on less-popular platforms to warn us about unportable code of this kind.) Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2975.1526862605@sss.pgh.pa.us
2018-07-23LLVMJIT: Adapt to API changes in gdb and perf support.Andres Freund
During the work of upstreaming my previous patches for gdb and perf support the API changed. Adapt. Normally this wouldn't necessarily be something to backpatch, but the previous API wasn't upstream, and at least the gdb support is quite useful for debugging. Author: Andres Freund Backpatch: 11, where LLVM based JIT support was added.
2018-07-10Fix typosPeter Eisentraut
2018-07-05Fix typoPeter Eisentraut
2018-06-11Update config.guess and config.subPeter Eisentraut
2018-05-23Remove configure's check for nonstandard "long long" printf modifiers.Tom Lane
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
2018-04-04Use ARMv8 CRC instructions where available.Heikki Linnakangas
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
2018-04-02Teach configure --with-python to report the Python version number.Tom Lane
We already do this for Perl and some other interesting tools, so it seems sensible to do it for Python as well, especially since the sub-release number is never determinable from other configure output and even the major/minor numbers may not be clear without excavation in config.log. While at it, get rid of the code's assumption that both the major and minor numbers contain exactly one digit. That will foreseeably be broken by Python 3.10 in perhaps four or five years. That's far enough out that we probably don't need to back-patch this. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2186.1522681145@sss.pgh.pa.us
2018-03-29C comments: "a" <--> "an" correctionsBruce Momjian
Reported-by: Michael Paquier, Abhijit Menon-Sen Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180305045854.GB2266@paquier.xyz Author: Michael Paquier, Abhijit Menon-Sen, me
2018-03-21Add configure infrastructure (--with-llvm) to enable LLVM support.Andres Freund
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
2018-03-20Add C++ support to configure.Andres Freund
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
2018-03-20Add PGAC_PROG_VARCC_VARFLAGS_OPT autoconf macro.Andres Freund
The new macro allows to test flags for different compilers and to store them in different CFLAG like variables. The existing PGAC_PROG_CC_CFLAGS_OPT and PGAC_PROG_CC_VAR_OPT are changed to be just wrappers around the new function. This'll be used by the upcoming LLVM support, to separately detect capabilities used by clang, when generating bitcode. Author: Andres Freund Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170901064131.tazjxwus3k2w3ybh@alap3.anarazel.de
2018-01-18Extend configure's __int128 test to check for a known gcc bug.Tom Lane
On Sparc64, use of __attribute__(aligned(8)) with __int128 causes faulty code generation in gcc versions at least through 5.5.0. We can work around that by disabling use of __int128, so teach configure to test for the bug. This solution doesn't fix things for the case of cross-compiling with a buggy compiler; to support that nicely, we'd need to add a manual disable switch. Unless more such cases turn up, it doesn't seem worth the work. Affected users could always edit pg_config.h manually. In passing, fix some typos in the existing configure test for __int128. They're harmless because we only compile that code not run it, but they're still confusing for anyone looking at it closely. This is needed in support of commit 751804998, so back-patch to 9.5 as that was. Marina Polyakova, Victor Wagner, Tom Lane Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/0d3a9fa264cebe1cb9966f37b7c06e86@postgrespro.ru
2017-12-17Try harder to detect unavailability of __builtin_mul_overflow(int64).Tom Lane
Commit c04d35f44 didn't quite do the job here, because it still allowed the compiler to deduce that the function call could be optimized away. Prevent that by putting the arguments and results in global variables. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20171213213754.pydkyjs6bt2hvsdb@alap3.anarazel.de
2017-12-16Try to detect runtime unavailability of __builtin_mul_overflow(int64).Andres Freund
On some systems the results of 64 bit __builtin_mul_overflow() operations can be computed at compile time, but not at runtime. The known cases are arm buildfar animals using clang where the runtime operation is implemented in a unavailable function. Try to avoid compile-time computation by using volatile arguments to __builtin_mul_overflow(). In that case we hopefully will get a link error when unavailable, similar to what buildfarm animals dangomushi and gull are reporting. Author: Andres Freund Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20171213213754.pydkyjs6bt2hvsdb@alap3.anarazel.de
2017-12-14Tighten configure's test for __builtin_constant_p().Tom Lane
Commit 9fa6f00b1 assumed that __builtin_constant_p("string literal") is TRUE, if the compiler has that function at all. Buildfarm results show that Sun Studio 12, at least, breaks that assumption. Removing that usage would leave us with no mechanical check for a very fragile coding requirement, so instead teach configure to ignore __builtin_constant_p() if it doesn't behave that way. We could complicate matters by distinguishing three cases (no such function, vs does, vs doesn't work for string literals); but for now, that seems unnecessary because our other existing uses of this function are just fairly minor optimizations of non-returning elog/ereport. We can live without that on the small population of compilers that act this way. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/22997.1513264066@sss.pgh.pa.us
2017-12-13Make PGAC_C_BUILTIN_OP_OVERFLOW link instead of just compiling.Andres Freund
Otherwise the detection can spuriously detect symbol as available, because the compiler may just emits reference to non-existant symbol.
2017-12-13Provide overflow safe integer math inline functions.Andres Freund
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
2017-12-09MSVC: Test whether 32-bit Perl needs -D_USE_32BIT_TIME_T.Noah Misch
Commits 5a5c2feca3fd858e70ea348822595547e6fa6c15 and b5178c5d08ca59e30f9d9428fa6fdb2741794e65 introduced support for modern MSVC-built, 32-bit Perl, but they broke use of MinGW-built, 32-bit Perl distributions like Strawberry Perl and modern ActivePerl. Perl has no robust means to report whether it expects a -D_USE_32BIT_TIME_T ABI, so test this. Back-patch to 9.3 (all supported versions). The chief alternative was a heuristic of adding -D_USE_32BIT_TIME_T when $Config{gccversion} is nonempty. That banks on every gcc-built Perl using the same ABI. gcc could change its default ABI the way MSVC once did, and one could build Perl with gcc and the non-default ABI. The GNU make build system could benefit from a similar test, without which it does not support MSVC-built Perl. For now, just add a comment. Most users taking the special step of building Perl with MSVC probably build PostgreSQL with MSVC. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20171130041441.GA3161526@rfd.leadboat.com
2017-11-24Support linking with MinGW-built Perl.Noah Misch
This is necessary for ActivePerl 5.18 onwards and for Strawberry Perl. It is not sufficient for 32-bit builds with newer Visual Studio; these fail with error LINK2026. Back-patch to 9.3 (all supported versions). Reported by Victor Wagner. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20160326154321.7754ab8f@wagner.wagner.home
2017-11-23Convert documentation to DocBook XMLPeter Eisentraut
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
2017-11-14Prevent int128 from requiring more than MAXALIGN alignment.Tom Lane
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
2017-09-30Extend & revamp pg_bswap.h infrastructure.Andres Freund
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
2017-08-14Absorb -D_USE_32BIT_TIME_T switch from Perl, if relevant.Tom Lane
Commit 3c163a7fc's original choice to ignore all #define symbols whose names begin with underscore turns out to be too simplistic. On Windows, some Perl installations are built with -D_USE_32BIT_TIME_T, and we must absorb that or we get the wrong result for sizeof(PerlInterpreter). This effectively re-reverts commit ef58b87df, which injected that symbol in a hacky way, making it apply to all of Postgres not just PL/Perl. More significantly, it did so on *all* 32-bit Windows builds, even when the Perl build to be used did not select this option; so that it fails to work properly with some newer Perl builds. By making this change, we would be introducing an ABI break in 32-bit Windows builds; but fortunately we have not used type time_t in any exported Postgres APIs in a long time. So it should be OK, both for PL/Perl itself and for third-party extensions, if an extension library is built with a different _USE_32BIT_TIME_T setting than the core code. Patch by me, based on research by Ashutosh Sharma and Robert Haas. Back-patch to all supported branches, as commit 3c163a7fc was. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CANFyU97OVQ3+Mzfmt3MhuUm5NwPU=-FtbNH5Eb7nZL9ua8=rcA@mail.gmail.com
2017-08-01Further improve consistency of configure's program searching.Tom Lane
Peter Eisentraut noted that commit 40b9f1921 had broken a configure behavior that some people might rely on: AC_CHECK_PROGS(FOO,...) will allow the search to be overridden by specifying a value for FOO on configure's command line or in its environment, but AC_PATH_PROGS(FOO,...) accepts such an override only if it's an absolute path. We had worked around that behavior for some, but not all, of the pre-existing uses of AC_PATH_PROGS by just skipping the macro altogether when FOO is already set. Let's standardize on that workaround for all uses of AC_PATH_PROGS, new and pre-existing, by wrapping AC_PATH_PROGS in a new macro PGAC_PATH_PROGS. While at it, fix a deficiency of the old workaround code by making sure we report the setting to configure's log. Eventually I'd like to improve PGAC_PATH_PROGS so that it converts non-absolute override inputs to absolute form, eg "PYTHON=python3" becomes, say, PYTHON = /usr/bin/python3. But that will take some nontrivial coding so it doesn't seem like a thing to do in late beta. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/90a92a7d-938e-507a-3bd7-ecd2b4004689@2ndquadrant.com
2017-07-31Record full paths of programs sought by "configure".Tom Lane
Previously we had a mix of uses of AC_CHECK_PROG[S] and AC_PATH_PROG[S]. The only difference between those macros is that the latter emits the full path to the program it finds, eg "/usr/bin/prove", whereas the former emits just "prove". Let's standardize on always emitting the full path; this is better for documentation of the build, and it might prevent some types of failures if later build steps are done with a different PATH setting. I did not touch the AC_CHECK_PROG[S] calls in ax_pthread.m4 and ax_prog_perl_modules.m4. There seems no need to make those diverge from upstream, since we do not record the programs sought by the former, while the latter's call to AC_CHECK_PROG(PERL,...) will never be reached. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/25937.1501433410@sss.pgh.pa.us
2017-07-28PL/Perl portability fix: absorb relevant -D switches from Perl.Tom Lane
The Perl documentation is very clear that stuff calling libperl should be built with the compiler switches shown by Perl's $Config{ccflags}. We'd been ignoring that up to now, and mostly getting away with it, but recent Perl versions contain ABI compatibility cross-checks that fail on some builds because of this omission. In particular the sizeof(PerlInterpreter) can come out different due to some fields being added or removed; which means we have a live ABI hazard that we'd better fix rather than continuing to sweep it under the rug. However, it still seems like a bad idea to just absorb $Config{ccflags} verbatim. In some environments Perl was built with a different compiler that doesn't even use the same switch syntax. -D switch syntax is pretty universal though, and absorbing Perl's -D switches really ought to be enough to fix the problem. Furthermore, Perl likes to inject stuff like -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE and -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 into $Config{ccflags}, which affect libc ABIs on platforms where they're relevant. Adopting those seems dangerous too. It's unclear whether a build wherein Perl and Postgres have different ideas of sizeof(off_t) etc would work, or whether anyone would care about making it work. But it's dead certain that having different stdio ABIs in core Postgres and PL/Perl will not work; we've seen that movie before. Therefore, let's also ignore -D switches for symbols beginning with underscore. The symbols that we actually need to import should be the ones mentioned in perl.h's PL_bincompat_options stanza, and none of those start with underscore, so this seems likely to work. (If it turns out not to work everywhere, we could consider intersecting the symbols mentioned in PL_bincompat_options with the -D switches. But that will be much more complicated, so let's try this way first.) This will need to be back-patched, but first let's see what the buildfarm makes of it. Ashutosh Sharma, some adjustments by me Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CANFyU97OVQ3+Mzfmt3MhuUm5NwPU=-FtbNH5Eb7nZL9ua8=rcA@mail.gmail.com
2017-06-15Make configure check for IPC::Run when --enable-tap-tests is specified.Tom Lane
The TAP tests mostly don't work without IPC::Run, and the reason for the failure is not immediately obvious from the error messages you get. So teach configure to reject --enable-tap-tests unless IPC::Run exists. Mostly this just involves adding ax_prog_perl_modules.m4 from the GNU autoconf archives. This was discussed last year, but we held off on the theory that we might be switching to CMake soon. That's evidently not happening for v10, so let's absorb this now. Eugene Kazakov and Michael Paquier Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/56BDDC20.9020506@postgrespro.ru Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAB7nPqRVKG_CR4Dy_AMfE6DXcr6F7ygy2goa2atJU4XkerDRUg@mail.gmail.com
2017-05-14Update config.guess and config.subPeter Eisentraut
2017-04-07Remove use of Jade and DSSSLPeter Eisentraut
All documentation is now built using XSLT. Remove all references to Jade, DSSSL, also JadeTex and some other outdated tooling. For chunked HTML builds, this changes nothing, but removes the transitional "oldhtml" target. The single-page HTML build is ported over to XSLT. For PDF builds, this removes the JadeTex builds and moves the FOP builds in their place.
2017-03-29Fix configure check for typeofPeter Eisentraut
2017-03-29Cast result of copyObject() to correct typePeter Eisentraut
copyObject() is declared to return void *, which allows easily assigning the result independent of the input, but it loses all type checking. If the compiler supports typeof or something similar, cast the result to the input type. This creates a greater amount of type safety. In some cases, where the result is assigned to a generic type such as Node * or Expr *, new casts are now necessary, but in general casts are now unnecessary in the normal case and indicate that something unusual is happening. Reviewed-by: Mark Dilger <hornschnorter@gmail.com>
2017-03-23ICU supportPeter Eisentraut
Add a column collprovider to pg_collation that determines which library provides the collation data. The existing choices are default and libc, and this adds an icu choice, which uses the ICU4C library. The pg_locale_t type is changed to a union that contains the provider-specific locale handles. Users of locale information are changed to look into that struct for the appropriate handle to use. Also add a collversion column that records the version of the collation when it is created, and check at run time whether it is still the same. This detects potentially incompatible library upgrades that can corrupt indexes and other structures. This is currently only supported by ICU-provided collations. initdb initializes the default collation set as before from the `locale -a` output but also adds all available ICU locales with a "-x-icu" appended. Currently, ICU-provided collations can only be explicitly named collations. The global database locales are still always libc-provided. ICU support is enabled by configure --with-icu. Reviewed-by: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@enterprisedb.com> Reviewed-by: Andreas Karlsson <andreas@proxel.se>
2017-03-20Add configure test to see if the C compiler has gcc-style computed gotos.Tom Lane
We'll need this for the upcoming patch to speed up expression evaluation. Might as well push it now to see if it behaves sanely in the buildfarm. Andres Freund Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170320062511.hp5qeurtxrwsvfxr@alap3.anarazel.de
2017-02-25Remove some configure header-file checks that we weren't really using.Tom Lane
We had some AC_CHECK_HEADER tests that were really wastes of cycles, because the code proceeded to #include those headers unconditionally anyway, in all or a large majority of cases. The lack of complaints shows that those headers are available on every platform of interest, so we might as well let configure run a bit faster by not probing those headers at all. I suspect that some of the tests I left alone are equally useless, but since all the existing #includes of the remaining headers are properly guarded, I didn't touch them.
2017-02-21Reject too-old Python versions a bit sooner.Tom Lane
Commit 04aad4018 added this check after the search for a Python shared library, which seems to me to be a pretty unfriendly ordering. The search might fail for what are basically version-related reasons, and in such a case it'd be better to say "your Python is too old" than "could not find shared library for Python".
2017-02-21Drop support for Python 2.3Peter Eisentraut
There is no specific reason for this right now, but keeping support for old Python versions around indefinitely increases the maintenance burden. The oldest supported Python version is now Python 2.4, which is still shipped in RHEL/CentOS 5 by default. In configure, add a check for the required Python version and give a friendly error message for an old version, instead of relying on an obscure build error later on.
2016-10-07Fix python shlib probe for Cygwin.Tom Lane
On buildfarm member cockatiel, that library is in /usr/bin. (Possibly we should look at $PATH on this platform?) Per off-list report from Andrew Dunstan.
2016-10-06Try to fix python shlib probe for MinGW.Tom Lane
Per discussion with Andrew Dunstan, it seems there are three peculiarities of the Python installation on MinGW (or at least, of the instance on buildfarm member frogmouth). First, the library name doesn't contain "2.7" but just "27". It looks like we can deal with that by consulting get_config_vars('VERSION') to see whether a dot should be used or not. Second, the library might be in c:/Windows/System32, analogously to it possibly being in /usr/lib on Unix-oid platforms. Third, it's apparently not standard to use the prefix "lib" on the file name. This patch will accept files with or without "lib", but the first part of that may well be dead code.
2016-10-05In python shlib probe, cater for OpenBSD, which omits the .so symlink.Tom Lane
Most Unix-oid platforms provide a symlink "libfoo.so" -> "libfoo.so.n.n" to allow the linker to resolve a reference "-lfoo" to a version-numbered shared library. OpenBSD has apparently hacked ld(1) to do this internally, because there are no such symlinks to be found in their library directories. Tweak the new code in PGAC_CHECK_PYTHON_EMBED_SETUP to cope. Per buildfarm member curculio.