in GetNewTransactionId(). Since the limit value has to be computed
before we run any real transactions, this requires adding code to database
startup to scan pg_database and determine the oldest datfrozenxid.
This can conveniently be combined with the first stage of an attack on
the problem that the 'flat file' copies of pg_shadow and pg_group are
not properly updated during WAL recovery. The code I've added to
startup resides in a new file src/backend/utils/init/flatfiles.c, and
it is responsible for rewriting the flat files as well as initializing
the XID wraparound limit value. This will eventually allow us to get
rid of GetRawDatabaseInfo too, but we'll need an initdb so we can add
a trigger to pg_database.
is the minimum required fix. I want to look next at taking advantage of
it by simplifying the message semantics in the shared inval message queue,
but that part can be held over for 8.1 if it turns out too ugly.
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 ...
to shared memory as soon as possible, ie, right after read_backend_variables.
The effective difference from the original code is that this happens
before instead of after read_nondefault_variables(), which loads GUC
information and is apparently capable of expanding the backend's memory
allocation more than you'd think it should. This should fix the
failure-to-attach-to-shared-memory reports we've been seeing on Windows.
Also clean up a few bits of unnecessarily grotty EXEC_BACKEND code.
> seconds to 10 seconds. The original number was plucked from thin air
> some months ago, and I'd like to review that now based upon further
> thought, observation and experience.
>
> This change has little or no effect on performance, since the interval
> is there mainly to avoid repeated respawn attempts if archiver fails at
> startup. Archiver start-up time is very quick, so there is little danger
> of exceeding 10 seconds.
>
> On a busy system, if the archiver does die, then many files can build up
> in the 60 seconds before respawning. That xlog file backlog could take
> some time to clear. This then leaves a larger than normal window of data
> loss for a possibly long period.
>
> It's a minor change only, with no other effect on function.
Simon Riggs
even uglier than it was already :-(. Also, on Windows only, use temporary
shared memory segments instead of ordinary files to pass over critical
variable values from postmaster to child processes. Magnus Hagander
plain SUSET instead. Also delay processing of options received in
client connection request until after we know if the user is a superuser,
so that SUSET values can be set that way by legitimate superusers.
Per recent discussion.
files and directories. This ensures that the bgwriter will close any open
file references it is holding for files therein, which is needed for the
rmdir() to succeed. Andrew Dunstan and Tom Lane.
returning a NULL pointer (some callers remembered to check the return
value, but some did not -- it is safer to just bail out).
Also, cleanup pgstat.c to use elog(ERROR) rather than elog(LOG) followed
by exit().
C:\msys\1.0\home\y-asaba>pg_ctl -D data restart
waiting for postmaster to shut down...LOG: received smart shutdown
request.
LOG: shutting down
LOG: database system is shut down
done
postmaster stopped
postmaster starting
C:\msys\1.0\home\y-asaba>postmaster.exe: invalid argument: "'-D'"
Try "postmaster.exe --help" for more information.
Yoshiyuki Asaba
The vars are renamed to data_directory, config_file, hba_file, and
ident_file, and are guaranteed to be set to accurate absolute paths
during postmaster startup.
This commit does not yet do anything about hiding path values from
non-superusers.
Refactor code into something reasonably understandable, cause
use of the feature to not fail in standalone backends or in
EXEC_BACKEND case, fix sloppy guc.c table entries, make the
documentation minimally usable.
* We are not sure how much precision is in tv_usec, so we
* swap the high and low 16 bits of 'later' and XOR them with
* 'earlier'. On the off chance that the result is 0, we
* loop until it isn't.
Greg Stark
different backends get a reasonably wide set of initial seeds even if
gettimeofday returns tv_usec values with only a few bits of precision.
Per recent discussion.
* Links with -leay32 and -lssleay32 instead of crypto and ssl. On win32,
"crypto and ssl" is only used for static linking.
* Initializes SSL in the backend and not just in the postmaster. We
cannot pass the SSL context from the postmaster through the parameter
file, because it contains function pointers.
* Split one error check in be-secure.c. Previously we could not tell
which of three calls actually failed. The previous code also returned
incorrect error messages if SSL_accept() failed - that function needs to
use SSL_get_error() on the return value, can't just use the error queue.
* Since the win32 implementation uses non-blocking sockets "behind the
scenes" in order to deliver signals correctly, implements a version of
SSL_accept() that can handle this. Also, add a wait function in case
SSL_read or SSL_write() needs more data.
Magnus Hagander
to allow DBA to choose the form in which log filenames reflect the
current time. Also allow for truncating instead of appending to
pre-existing files --- this is convenient when the log filename pattern
rewrites the same names cyclically. Per Ed L.
Win32 WaitForMultipleObjects:
ret = WaitForMultipleObjects(win32_numChildren, win32_childHNDArray,
FALSE, 0);
Problem is 'win32_numChildren' could be more then 64 ( function supports
), problem basically arise ( kills postgres ) when you create more then
64 connections and terminate some of them sill leaving more then 64.
Claudio Natoli
>>GetLastError will
>>> give much more details than errno.
>>
>>How much more, really? That mapping table gave me the impression that
>>the win32 error codes aren't all that much more detailed than errno...
>
>The mapping table is not complete. My winerror.h from the SDK
>lists 2209
>error codes, whereas errno.h lists 42...
>
>I still don't think we'll get that much more stuff. Right now,
>the Win32
>code paths that actually use the more advanced functions already write
>out the error number in case something happens. We can keep doing that
>for the other paths (ereport the error *number* when the mapping does
>not have a match). The map to errno will catch almost all cases, I
>think. And in the corner cases we can do with just the number, and use
>"net helpmsg" to get the actual message when checking...
Here's an attempt on this. new file goes in backend/port/win32.
Magnus Hagander
slashes to backslashes #ifdef WIN32. This is to cope with the fact
that Windows seems exceedingly unfriendly to slashes in shell commands,
as per recent discussion.
recommend that people go get Apache's rotatelogs program. Additional
benefits are that configuration is done through GUC, rather than
externally, and that the postmaster can monitor the log rotator and
restart it after failure (though we certainly hope that won't happen
often).
Andreas Pflug, some rework by Tom Lane.
