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2018-05-21Stamp 11beta1.REL_11_BETA1Tom Lane
2018-05-19Support platforms where strtoll/strtoull are spelled __strtoll/__strtoull.Tom Lane
Ancient HPUX, for one, does this. We hadn't noticed due to the lack of regression tests that required a working strtoll. (I was slightly tempted to remove the other historical spelling, strto[u]q, since it seems we have no buildfarm members testing that case. But I refrained.) Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/151935568942.1461.14623890240535309745@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2018-05-19Arrange to supply declarations for strtoll/strtoull if needed.Tom Lane
Buildfarm member dromedary is still unhappy about the recently-added ecpg "long long" tests. The reason turns out to be that it includes "-ansi" in its CFLAGS, and in their infinite wisdom Apple have decided to hide the declarations of strtoll/strtoull in C89-compliant builds. (I find it pretty curious that they hide those function declarations when you can nonetheless declare a "long long" variable, but anyway that is their behavior, both on dromedary's obsolete macOS version and the newest and shiniest.) As a result, gcc assumes these functions return "int", leading naturally to wrong results. (Looking at dromedary's past build results, it's evident that this problem also breaks pg_strtouint64() on 32-bit platforms; but we evidently have no regression tests that exercise that function with values above 32 bits.) To fix, supply declarations for these functions when the platform provides the functions but not the declarations, using the same type of mechanism as we use for some other similar cases. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/151935568942.1461.14623890240535309745@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2018-05-02Improve our method for probing the availability of ARM CRC instructions.Tom Lane
Instead of depending on glibc's getauxval() function, just try to execute the CRC code, and trap SIGILL if that happens. Thomas Munro Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/HE1PR0801MB1323D171938EABC04FFE7FA9E3110@HE1PR0801MB1323.eurprd08.prod.outlook.com
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
2018-04-04Fix incorrect description of USE_SLICING_BY_8_CRC32C.Heikki Linnakangas
And a typo in the description of USE_SSE42_CRC32C_WITH_RUNTIME_CHECK, spotted by Daniel Gustafsson.
2018-03-22Fix typo in BITCODE_CXXFLAGS assignment.Andres Freund
Typoed-In: 5b2526c83832e Reported-By: Catalin Iacob
2018-03-22Empty CXXFLAGS inherited from autoconf.Andres Freund
We do the same for CFLAGS. This was an omission in 6869b4f25. Reported-By: Catalin Iacob
2018-03-21Add configure tests for stdbool.h and sizeof boolPeter Eisentraut
This will allow us to assess how many platforms have bool with a size other than 1, which will help us decide how to go forward with using stdbool.h. Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/3a0fe7e1-5ed1-414b-9230-53bbc0ed1f49@2ndquadrant.com
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
2018-03-20Attempt to fix build with unusual OpenSSL versionsPeter Eisentraut
Since e3bdb2d92600ed45bd46aaf48309a436a9628218, libpq failed to build on some platforms because they did not have SSL_clear_options(). Although mainline OpenSSL introduced SSL_clear_options() after SSL_OP_NO_COMPRESSION, so the code should have built fine, at least an old NetBSD version (build farm "coypu" NetBSD 5.1 gcc 4.1.3 PR-20080704 powerpc) has SSL_OP_NO_COMPRESSION but no SSL_clear_options(). So add a configure check for SSL_clear_options(). If we don't find it, skip the call. That means on such a platform one cannot *enable* SSL compression if the built-in default is off, but that seems an unlikely combination anyway and not very interesting in practice.
2018-03-20Make configure check for a couple more Perl modules for --enable-tap-tests.Tom Lane
Red Hat's notion of a basic Perl installation doesn't include Test::More or Time::HiRes, and reportedly some Debian installs also omit Time::HiRes. Check for those during configure to spare the user the pain of digging through check-world output to find out what went wrong. While we're at it, we should also check the version of Test::More, since TestLib.pm requires at least 0.87. In principle this could be back-patched, but it's probably not necessary. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/516.1521475003@sss.pgh.pa.us
2018-03-06Tests for Kerberos/GSSAPI authenticationPeter Eisentraut
Like the LDAP and SSL tests, these are not run by default but can be selected via PG_TEST_EXTRA. Reviewed-by: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@enterprisedb.com> Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
2018-03-03Add PG_TEST_EXTRA to control optional test suitesPeter Eisentraut
The SSL and LDAP test suites are not run by default, as they are not secure for multi-user environments. This commit adds an extra make variable to optionally enable them, for example: make check-world PG_TEST_EXTRA='ldap ssl' Author: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
2018-01-05Another attempt at fixing build with various OpenSSL versionsPeter Eisentraut
It seems we can't easily work around the lack of X509_get_signature_nid(), so revert the previous attempts and just disable the tls-server-end-point feature if we don't have it.
2018-01-03Allow ldaps when using ldap authenticationPeter Eisentraut
While ldaptls=1 provides an RFC 4513 conforming way to do LDAP authentication with TLS encryption, there was an earlier de facto standard way to do LDAP over SSL called LDAPS. Even though it's not enshrined in a standard, it's still widely used and sometimes required by organizations' network policies. There seems to be no reason not to support it when available in the client library. Therefore, add support when using OpenLDAP 2.4+ or Windows. It can be configured with ldapscheme=ldaps or ldapurl=ldaps://... Add tests for both ways of requesting LDAPS and a test for the pre-existing ldaptls=1. Modify the 001_auth.pl test for "diagnostic messages", which was previously relying on the server rejecting ldaptls=1. Author: Thomas Munro Reviewed-By: Peter Eisentraut Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=1s+pA-LZUjQ-9GQz0Z4rX_eK=DFXAF1nBQ+ROPimuOYQ@mail.gmail.com
2018-01-03Update copyright for 2018Bruce Momjian
Backpatch-through: certain files through 9.3
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
2017-11-23Convert 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
2017-11-09Revert "Allow --with-bonjour to work with non-macOS implementations of Bonjour."Tom Lane
Upon further review, our Bonjour code doesn't actually work with the Avahi not-too-compatible compatibility library. While you can get it to work on non-macOS platforms if you link to Apple's own mDNSResponder code, there don't seem to be many people who care about that. Leaving in the AC_SEARCH_LIBS call seems more likely to encourage people to build broken configurations than to do anything very useful. Hence, remove the AC_SEARCH_LIBS call and put in a warning comment instead. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2D8331C5-D64F-44C1-8717-63EDC6EAF7EB@brightforge.com
2017-11-08Allow --with-bonjour to work with non-macOS implementations of Bonjour.Tom Lane
On macOS the relevant functions require no special library, but elsewhere we need to pull in libdns_sd. Back-patch to supported branches. No docs change since the docs do not suggest that this is a Mac-only feature. Luke Lonergan Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2D8331C5-D64F-44C1-8717-63EDC6EAF7EB@brightforge.com
2017-11-07Fix version numbering foulups exposed by 10.1.Tom Lane
configure computed PG_VERSION_NUM incorrectly. (Coulda sworn I tested that logic back when, but it had an obvious thinko.) pg_upgrade had not been taught about the new dispensation with just one part in the major version number. Both things accidentally failed to fail with 10.0, but with 10.1 we got the wrong results. Per buildfarm.
2017-10-13Force "restrict" not to be used when compiling with xlc.Andres Freund
Per buildfarm animal Hornet and followup manual testing by Noah Misch, it appears xlc miscompiles code using "restrict" in at least some cases. Allow disabling restrict usage with FORCE_DISABLE_RESTRICT=yes in template files, and do so for aix/xlc. Author: Andres Freund and Tom Lane Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1820.1507918762@sss.pgh.pa.us
2017-10-12Use C99 restrict via pg_restrict, rather than restrict directly.Andres Freund
Unfortunately using 'restrict' plainly causes problems with MSVC, which supports restrict only as '__restrict'. Defining 'restrict' to '__restrict' unfortunately causes a conflict with MSVC's usage of __declspec(restrict) in headers. Therefore define pg_restrict to the appropriate keyword instead, and replace existing usages. This replaces the temporary workaround introduced in 36b4b91ba078. Author: Andres Freund Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2656.1507830907@sss.pgh.pa.us
2017-10-11Add configure infrastructure to detect support for C99's restrict.Andres Freund
Will be used in later commits improving performance for a few key routines where information about aliasing allows for significantly better code generation. This allows to use the C99 'restrict' keyword without breaking C89, or for that matter C++, compilers. If not supported it's defined to be empty. Author: Andres Freund Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170914063418.sckdzgjfrsbekae4@alap3.anarazel.de
2017-10-10Rewrite strnlen replacement implementation from 8a241792f96.Andres Freund
The previous placement of the fallback implementation in libpgcommon was problematic, because libpqport functions need strnlen functionality. Move replacement into libpgport. Provide strnlen() under its posix name, instead of pg_strnlen(). Fix stupid configure bug, executing the test only when compiled with threading support. Author: Andres Freund Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1e1gR2-0005fB-SI@gemulon.postgresql.org
2017-10-09Add pg_strnlen() a portable implementation of strlen.Andres Freund
As the OS version is likely going to be more optimized, fall back to it if available, as detected by configure.
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
2017-09-25Avoid SIGBUS on Linux when a DSM memory request overruns tmpfs.Tom Lane
On Linux, shared memory segments created with shm_open() are backed by swap files created in tmpfs. If the swap file needs to be extended, but there's no tmpfs space left, you get a very unfriendly SIGBUS trap. To avoid this, force allocation of the full request size when we create the segment. This adds a few cycles, but none that we wouldn't expend later anyway, assuming the request isn't hugely bigger than the actual need. Make this code #ifdef __linux__, because (a) there's not currently a reason to think the same problem exists on other platforms, and (b) applying posix_fallocate() to an FD created by shm_open() isn't very portable anyway. Back-patch to 9.4 where the DSM code came in. Thomas Munro, per a bug report from Amul Sul Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1002664500.12301802.1471008223422.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com
2017-09-22Assume wcstombs(), towlower(), and sibling functions are always present.Tom Lane
These functions are required by SUS v2, which is our minimum baseline for Unix platforms, and are present on all interesting Windows versions as well. Even our oldest buildfarm members have them. Thus, we were not testing the "!USE_WIDE_UPPER_LOWER" code paths, which explains why the bug fixed in commit e6023ee7f escaped detection. Per discussion, there seems to be no more real-world value in maintaining this option. Hence, remove the configure-time tests for wcstombs() and towlower(), remove the USE_WIDE_UPPER_LOWER symbol, and remove all the !USE_WIDE_UPPER_LOWER code. There's not actually all that much of the latter, but simplifying the #if nests is a win in itself. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170921052928.GA188913@rfd.leadboat.com
2017-09-20Make WAL segment size configurable at initdb time.Andres Freund
For performance reasons a larger segment size than the default 16MB can be useful. A larger segment size has two main benefits: Firstly, in setups using archiving, it makes it easier to write scripts that can keep up with higher amounts of WAL, secondly, the WAL has to be written and synced to disk less frequently. But at the same time large segment size are disadvantageous for smaller databases. So far the segment size had to be configured at compile time, often making it unrealistic to choose one fitting to a particularly load. Therefore change it to a initdb time setting. This includes a breaking changes to the xlogreader.h API, which now requires the current segment size to be configured. For that and similar reasons a number of binaries had to be taught how to recognize the current segment size. Author: Beena Emerson, editorialized by Andres Freund Reviewed-By: Andres Freund, David Steele, Kuntal Ghosh, Michael Paquier, Peter Eisentraut, Robert Hass, Tushar Ahuja Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAOG9ApEAcQ--1ieKbhFzXSQPw_YLmepaa4hNdnY5+ZULpt81Mw@mail.gmail.com
2017-09-01Make [U]INT64CONST safe for use in #if conditions.Tom Lane
Instead of using a cast to force the constant to be the right width, assume we can plaster on an L, UL, LL, or ULL suffix as appropriate. The old approach to this is very hoary, dating from before we were willing to require compilers to have working int64 types. This fix makes the PG_INT64_MIN, PG_INT64_MAX, and PG_UINT64_MAX constants safe to use in preprocessor conditions, where a cast doesn't work. Other symbolic constants that might be defined using [U]INT64CONST are likewise safer than before. Also fix the SIZE_MAX macro to be similarly safe, if we are forced to provide a definition for that. The test added in commit 2e70d6b5e happens to do what we want even with the hack "(size_t) -1" definition, but we could easily get burnt on other tests in future. Back-patch to all supported branches, like the previous commits. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15883.1504278595@sss.pgh.pa.us
2017-08-14Stamp HEAD as 11devel.Tom Lane
Note that we no longer require any manual adjustments to shared-library minor version numbers, cf commit a3bce17ef. So this should be everything.
2017-08-11Reject use of ucol_strcollUTF8() before ICU 53Peter Eisentraut
Various bugs can cause crashes, so don't use that function before ICU 53. It will fall back to the code path used for other encodings. Since we now tie the function availability to an ICU version, we don't need the configure test anymore. That also resolves the issue that the test result was previously hardcoded for Windows. researched by Daniel Verite <daniel@manitou-mail.org>, Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/f1438ec6-22aa-4029-9a3b-26f79d330e72%40manitou-mail.org
2017-08-07Stamp 10beta3.REL_10_BETA3Tom Lane
2017-08-07Skip test for IPC::Run if user is overriding our search for PROVE.Tom Lane
The check for IPC::Run we added in commit c254970ad is useful in simple cases, but there are real use-cases where "prove" is coming from a different Perl installation than the "perl" we want to use to build. In such cases asking whether "perl" knows about IPC::Run is irrelevant and can cause an unnecessary configure failure. Hence, if user has specified a value for PROVE, skip the IPC::Run check. Per discussion with Andrew Dunstan. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1dcE5n-0005Sk-UE@gemulon.postgresql.org
2017-08-05Improve configure's check for ICU presence.Tom Lane
Without ICU's header files, "configure --with-icu" would succeed anyway, at least when using the non-pkgconfig-based setup. Then you got a bunch of ugly failures at build. Add an explicit header check to tighten that up.
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
2017-07-10Stamp 10beta2.REL_10_BETA2Tom Lane
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
2017-05-15Stamp 10beta1.REL_10_BETA1Tom Lane
2017-04-24Revert "Use pselect(2) not select(2), if available, to wait in postmaster's ↵Tom Lane
loop." This reverts commit 81069a9efc5a374dd39874a161f456f0fb3afba4. Buildfarm results suggest that some platforms have versions of pselect(2) that are not merely non-atomic, but flat out non-functional. Revert the use-pselect patch to confirm this diagnosis (and exclude the no-SA_RESTART patch as the source of trouble). If it's so, we should probably look into blacklisting specific platforms that have broken pselect. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/9696.1493072081@sss.pgh.pa.us
2017-04-24Use pselect(2) not select(2), if available, to wait in postmaster's loop.Tom Lane
Traditionally we've unblocked signals, called select(2), and then blocked signals again. The code expects that the select() will be cancelled with EINTR if an interrupt occurs; but there's a race condition, which is that an already-pending signal will be delivered as soon as we unblock, and then when we reach select() there will be nothing preventing it from waiting. This can result in a long delay before we perform any action that ServerLoop was supposed to have taken in response to the signal. As with the somewhat-similar symptoms fixed by commit 893902085, the main practical problem is slow launching of parallel workers. The window for trouble is usually pretty short, corresponding to one iteration of ServerLoop; but it's not negligible. To fix, use pselect(2) in place of select(2) where available, as that's designed to solve exactly this problem. Where not available, we continue to use the old way, and are no worse off than before. pselect(2) has been required by POSIX since about 2001, so most modern platforms should have it. A bigger portability issue is that some implementations are said to be non-atomic, ie pselect() isn't really any different from unblock/select/reblock. Still, we're no worse off than before on such a platform. There is talk of rewriting the postmaster to use a WaitEventSet and not do signal response work in signal handlers, at which point this could be reverted, since we'd be using a self-pipe to solve the race condition. But that's not happening before v11 at the earliest. Back-patch to 9.6. The problem exists much further back, but the worst symptom arises only in connection with parallel query, so it does not seem worth taking any portability risks in older branches. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/9205.1492833041@sss.pgh.pa.us
2017-04-23Don't include sys/poll.h anymore.Andres Freund
poll.h is mandated by Single Unix Spec v2, the usual baseline for postgres on unix. None of the unixoid buildfarms animals has sys/poll.h but not poll.h. Therefore there's not much point to test for sys/poll.h's existence and include it optionally. Author: Andres Freund, per suggestion from Tom Lane Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20505.1492723662@sss.pgh.pa.us
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.
2017-04-05Allow --with-wal-segsize=n up to n=1024MBSimon Riggs
Other part of Beena Emerson's patch to allow testing