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2025-01-01Update copyright for 2025Bruce Momjian
Backpatch-through: 13
2024-07-30Remove --disable-spinlocks.Thomas Munro
A later change will require atomic support, so it wouldn't make sense for a hypothetical new system not to be able to implement spinlocks. Reviewed-by: Heikki Linnakangas <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <[email protected]> (concept, not the patch) Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <[email protected]> (concept, not the patch) Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3351991.1697728588%40sss.pgh.pa.us
2024-01-04Update copyright for 2024Bruce Momjian
Reported-by: Michael Paquier Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/[email protected] Backpatch-through: 12
2023-01-02Update copyright for 2023Bruce Momjian
Backpatch-through: 11
2022-01-08Update copyright for 2022Bruce Momjian
Backpatch-through: 10
2021-01-02Update copyright for 2021Bruce Momjian
Backpatch-through: 9.5
2020-01-01Update copyrights for 2020Bruce Momjian
Backpatch-through: update all files in master, backpatch legal files through 9.4
2019-09-05Use data directory inode number, not port, to select SysV resource keys.Tom Lane
This approach provides a much tighter binding between a data directory and the associated SysV shared memory block (and SysV or named-POSIX semaphores, if we're using those). Key collisions are still possible, but only between data directories stored on different filesystems, so the situation should be negligible in practice. More importantly, restarting the postmaster with a different port number no longer risks failing to identify a relevant shared memory block, even when postmaster.pid has been removed. A standalone backend is likewise much more certain to detect conflicting leftover backends. (In the longer term, we might now think about deprecating the port as a cluster-wide value, so that one postmaster could support sockets with varying port numbers. But that's for another day.) The hazards fixed here apply only on Unix systems; our Windows code paths already use identifiers derived from the data directory path name rather than the port. src/test/recovery/t/017_shm.pl, which intends to test key-collision cases, has been substantially rewritten since it can no longer use two postmasters with identical port numbers to trigger the case. Instead, use Perl's IPC::SharedMem module to create a conflicting shmem segment directly. The test script will be skipped if that module is not available. (This means that some older buildfarm members won't run it, but I don't think that that results in any meaningful coverage loss.) Patch by me; thanks to Noah Misch and Peter Eisentraut for discussion and review. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/[email protected]
2019-08-13Fix inconsistencies and typos in the tree, take 10Michael Paquier
This addresses some issues with unnecessary code comments, fixes various typos in docs and comments, and removes some orphaned structures and definitions. Author: Alexander Lakhin Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/[email protected]
2019-01-02Update copyright for 2019Bruce Momjian
Backpatch-through: certain files through 9.4
2018-07-24Pad semaphores to avoid false sharing.Thomas Munro
In a USE_UNNAMED_SEMAPHORES build, the default on Linux and FreeBSD since commit ecb0d20a, we have an array of sem_t objects. This turned out to reduce performance compared to the previous default USE_SYSV_SEMAPHORES on an 8 socket system. Testing showed that the lost performance could be regained by padding the array elements so that they have their own cache lines. This matches what we do for similar hot arrays (see LWLockPadded, WALInsertLockPadded). Back-patch to 10, where unnamed semaphores were adopted as the default semaphore interface on those operating systems. Author: Thomas Munro Reviewed-by: Andres Freund Reported-by: Mithun Cy Tested-by: Mithun Cy, Tom Lane, Thomas Munro Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAD__OugYDM3O%2BdyZnnZSbJprSfsGFJcQ1R%3De59T3hcLmDug4_w%40mail.gmail.com
2018-01-03Update copyright for 2018Bruce Momjian
Backpatch-through: certain files through 9.3
2017-06-21Phase 2 of pgindent updates.Tom Lane
Change pg_bsd_indent to follow upstream rules for placement of comments to the right of code, and remove pgindent hack that caused comments following #endif to not obey the general rule. Commit e3860ffa4dd0dad0dd9eea4be9cc1412373a8c89 wasn't actually using the published version of pg_bsd_indent, but a hacked-up version that tried to minimize the amount of movement of comments to the right of code. The situation of interest is where such a comment has to be moved to the right of its default placement at column 33 because there's code there. BSD indent has always moved right in units of tab stops in such cases --- but in the previous incarnation, indent was working in 8-space tab stops, while now it knows we use 4-space tabs. So the net result is that in about half the cases, such comments are placed one tab stop left of before. This is better all around: it leaves more room on the line for comment text, and it means that in such cases the comment uniformly starts at the next 4-space tab stop after the code, rather than sometimes one and sometimes two tabs after. Also, ensure that comments following #endif are indented the same as comments following other preprocessor commands such as #else. That inconsistency turns out to have been self-inflicted damage from a poorly-thought-through post-indent "fixup" in pgindent. This patch is much less interesting than the first round of indent changes, but also bulkier, so I thought it best to separate the effects. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/[email protected] Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/[email protected]
2017-05-17Post-PG 10 beta1 pgindent runBruce Momjian
perltidy run not included.
2017-01-03Update copyright via script for 2017Bruce Momjian
2016-12-12Make the different Unix-y semaphore implementations ABI-compatible.Tom Lane
Previously, the "sem" field of PGPROC varied in size depending on which kernel semaphore API we were using. That was okay as long as there was only one likely choice per platform, but in the wake of commit ecb0d20a9, that assumption seems rather shaky. It doesn't seem out of the question anymore that an extension compiled against one API choice might be loaded into a postmaster built with another choice. Moreover, this prevents any possibility of selecting the semaphore API at postmaster startup, which might be something we want to do in future. Hence, change PGPROC.sem to be PGSemaphore (i.e. a pointer) for all Unix semaphore APIs, and turn the pointed-to data into an opaque struct whose contents are only known within the responsible modules. For the SysV and unnamed-POSIX APIs, the pointed-to data has to be allocated elsewhere in shared memory, which takes a little bit of rejiggering of the InitShmemAllocation code sequence. (I invented a ShmemAllocUnlocked() function to make that a little cleaner than it used to be. That function is not meant for any uses other than the ones it has now, but it beats having InitShmemAllocation() know explicitly about allocation of space for semaphores and spinlocks.) This change means an extra indirection to access the semaphore data, but since we only touch that when blocking or awakening a process, there shouldn't be any meaningful performance penalty. Moreover, at least for the unnamed-POSIX case on Linux, the sem_t type is quite a bit wider than a pointer, so this reduces sizeof(PGPROC) which seems like a good thing. For the named-POSIX API, there's effectively no change: the PGPROC.sem field was and still is a pointer to something returned by sem_open() in the postmaster's memory space. Document and check the pre-existing limitation that this case can't work in EXEC_BACKEND mode. It did not seem worth unifying the Windows semaphore ABI with the Unix cases, since there's no likelihood of needing ABI compatibility much less runtime switching across those cases. However, we can simplify the Windows code a bit if we define PGSemaphore as being directly a HANDLE, rather than pointer to HANDLE, so let's do that while we're here. (This also ends up being no change in what's physically stored in PGPROC.sem. We're just moving the HANDLE fetch from callees to callers.) It would take a bunch of additional code shuffling to get to the point of actually choosing a semaphore API at postmaster start, but the effects of that would now be localized in the port/XXX_sema.c files, so it seems like fit material for a separate patch. The need for it is unproven as yet, anyhow, whereas the ABI risk to extensions seems real enough. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/[email protected]
2016-01-02Update copyright for 2016Bruce Momjian
Backpatch certain files through 9.1
2015-02-03Remove the option to service interrupts during PGSemaphoreLock().Andres Freund
The remaining caller (lwlocks) doesn't need that facility, and we plan to remove ImmedidateInterruptOK entirely. That means that interrupts can't be serviced race-free and portably anyway, so there's little reason for keeping the feature. Reviewed-By: Heikki Linnakangas
2015-01-06Update copyright for 2015Bruce Momjian
Backpatch certain files through 9.0
2014-05-06pgindent run for 9.4Bruce Momjian
This includes removing tabs after periods in C comments, which was applied to back branches, so this change should not effect backpatching.
2014-01-07Update copyright for 2014Bruce Momjian
Update all files in head, and files COPYRIGHT and legal.sgml in all back branches.
2013-01-01Update copyrights for 2013Bruce Momjian
Fully update git head, and update back branches in ./COPYRIGHT and legal.sgml files.
2012-01-01Update copyright notices for year 2012.Bruce Momjian
2011-01-01Stamp copyrights for year 2011.Bruce Momjian
2010-09-20Remove cvs keywords from all files.Magnus Hagander
2010-01-02Update copyright for the year 2010.Bruce Momjian
2009-06-118.4 pgindent run, with new combined Linux/FreeBSD/MinGW typedef listBruce Momjian
provided by Andrew.
2009-01-01Update copyright for 2009.Bruce Momjian
2008-01-26Change StatementCancelHandler() to check the DoingCommandRead flag to decideTom Lane
whether to execute an immediate interrupt, rather than testing whether LockWaitCancel() cancelled a lock wait. The old way misclassified the case where we were blocked in ProcWaitForSignal(), and arguably would misclassify any other future additions of new ImmediateInterruptOK states too. This allows reverting the old kluge that gave LockWaitCancel() a return value, since no callers care anymore. Improve comments in the various implementations of PGSemaphoreLock() to explain that on some platforms, the assumption that semop() exits after a signal is wrong, and so we must ensure that the signal handler itself throws elog if we want cancel or die interrupts to be effective. Per testing related to bug #3883, though this patch doesn't solve those problems fully. Perhaps this change should be back-patched, but since pre-8.3 branches aren't really relying on autovacuum to respond to SIGINT, it doesn't seem critical for them.
2008-01-01Update copyrights in source tree to 2008.Bruce Momjian
2007-01-05Update CVS HEAD for 2007 copyright. Back branches are typically notBruce Momjian
back-stamped for this.
2006-07-14Fix a passel of recently-committed violations of the rule 'thou shaltTom Lane
have no other gods before c.h'. Also remove some demonstrably redundant #include lines, mostly of <errno.h> which was added to c.h years ago.
2006-03-05Update copyright for 2006. Update scripts.Bruce Momjian
2005-11-22Re-run pgindent, fixing a problem where comment lines after a blankBruce Momjian
comment line where output as too long, and update typedefs for /lib directory. Also fix case where identifiers were used as variable names in the backend, but as typedefs in ecpg (favor the backend for indenting). Backpatch to 8.1.X.
2005-10-15Standard pgindent run for 8.1.Bruce Momjian
2004-12-31Tag appropriate files for rc3PostgreSQL Daemon
Also performed an initial run through of upgrading our Copyright date to extend to 2005 ... first run here was very simple ... change everything where: grep 1996-2004 && the word 'Copyright' ... scanned through the generated list with 'less' first, and after, to make sure that I only picked up the right entries ...
2004-08-29Update copyright to 2004.Bruce Momjian
2003-11-29$Header: -> $PostgreSQL Changes ...PostgreSQL Daemon
2003-08-04Update copyrights to 2003.Bruce Momjian
2003-08-04pgindent run.Bruce Momjian
2003-07-27elog mop-up: bring some straggling fprintf(stderr)'s into the elog world.Tom Lane
2003-07-22Error message editing in backend/bootstrap, /lib, /nodes, /port.Tom Lane
2002-09-04pgindent run.Bruce Momjian
2002-06-20Update copyright to 2002.Bruce Momjian
2002-05-05Add missing includes.Tom Lane
2002-05-05Cope with case that SEM_FAILED is not defined (assume failure code is -1)Tom Lane
2002-05-05First test of Darwin port with POSIX semaphore code.Tom Lane
2002-05-05Create an internal semaphore API that is not tied to SysV semaphores.Tom Lane
As proof of concept, provide an alternate implementation based on POSIX semaphores. Also push the SysV shared-memory implementation into a separate file so that it can be replaced conveniently.