canonicalize_ec_expression() is supposed to agree with coerce_type() as to
whether a RelabelType should be inserted to make a subexpression be valid
input for the operators of a given opclass. However, it did the wrong
thing with named-composite-type inputs to record_eq(): it put in a
RelabelType to RECORDOID, which the parser doesn't. In some cases this was
harmless because all code paths involving a particular equivalence class
did the same thing, but in other cases this would result in failing to
recognize a composite-type expression as being a member of an equivalence
class that it actually is a member of. The most obvious bad effect was to
fail to recognize that an index on a composite column could provide the
sort order needed for a mergejoin on that column, as reported by Teodor
Sigaev. I think there might be other, subtler, cases that result in
misoptimization. It also seems possible that an unwanted RelabelType
would sometimes get into an emitted plan --- but because record_eq and
friends don't examine the declared type of their input expressions, that
would not create any visible problems.
To fix, just treat RECORDOID as if it were a polymorphic type, which in
some sense it is. We might want to consider formalizing that a bit more
someday, but for the moment this seems to be the only place where an
IsPolymorphicType() test ought to include RECORDOID as well.
This has been broken for a long time, so back-patch to all supported
branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a6b22369-e3bf-4d49-f59d-0c41d3551e81@sigaev.ru
Creating indexes on foreign tables is already forbidden, but local
partitioned indexes (commit 8b08f7d482) forgot to check for them. Add
a preliminary check to prevent wasting time.
Another school of thought says to allow the index to be created if it's
not a unique index; but it's possible to do better in the future (enable
indexing of foreign tables, somehow), so we avoid painting ourselves in
a corner by rejecting all cases, to avoid future grief (a.k.a. backward
incompatible changes).
Reported-by: Arseny Sher
Author: Amit Langote, Álvaro Herrera
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/87sh71cakz.fsf@ars-thinkpad
match_clause_to_partition_key failed to consider COERCION_PATH_ARRAYCOERCE
cases in scalar-op-array expressions, so it was possible to crash the
server easily. To handle this case properly (ie. prune partitions) we
would need to run a bit of executor code during planning. Maybe it can
be improved, but for now let's just not crash. Add a test case that
used to trigger the crash.
Author: Michaël Paquier
match_clause_to_partition_key failed to indicate that operators that
don't have a commutator in a btree opclass are unsupported. It is
possible for this to cause a crash later if such an operator is used in
a scalar-op-array expression. Add a test case that used to the crash.
Author: Amit Langote
One caller of gen_partprune_steps_internal in
match_clause_to_partition_key was too optimistic about the former never
returning an empty step list. Rid it of its innocence. (Having fixed
the bug above, I no longer know how to exploit this, so no test case for
it, but it remained a bug.) Revise code flow a little bit, for
succintness.
Author: Álvaro Herrera
Reported-by: Marina Polyakova
Reviewed-by: Michaël Paquier
Reviewed-by: Amit Langote
Reviewed-by: Álvaro Herrera
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ff8f9bfa485ff961d6bb43e54120485b@postgrespro.ru
The vertical tightness settings collapse vertical whitespace between
opening and closing brackets (parentheses, square brakets and braces).
This can make data structures in particular harder to read, and is not
very consistent with our style in non-Perl code. This patch restricts
that setting to parentheses only, and reformats all the perl code
accordingly. Not applying this to parentheses has some unfortunate
effects, so the consensus is to keep the setting for parentheses and not
for the others.
The diff for this patch does highlight some places where structures
should have trailing commas. They can be added manually, as there is no
automatic tool to do so.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a2f2b87c-56be-c070-bfc0-36288b4b41c1@2ndQuadrant.com
Commit 6271fceb8 changed PostgresNode.pm to force log_min_messages = debug1
in all TAP tests, without any discussion and without a concrete need for
it. This makes some of the TAP tests noticeably slower (although much of
that may be due to poorly-written regexes), and for certain it's bloating
the buildfarm logs. Revert the change.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/32459.1525657786@sss.pgh.pa.us
Commit 86f575948 already manually updated the oidjoins test for the
new pg_constraint.conparentid => pg_constraint.oid relationship, but
failed to update findoidjoins/README, thus the apparent inconsistency
here.
Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180507001811.GA27389@paquier.xyz
This reverts commit 55e0e45817.
It's served its purpose of demonstrating what was wrong on
buildfarm member opossum. We could consider putting some kind
of single-purpose hack into ftod() to make the test pass there;
but I don't think it's worth the trouble, since there are surely
many other places whether this platform bug could manifest.
The principle behind the locking was not very well thought-out, and not
documented. Add a section in the README to explain how it's supposed to
work, and change the code so that it actually works that way.
This fixes two bugs:
1. If fast update was turned on concurrently, subsequent inserts to the
pending list would not conflict with predicate locks that were acquired
earlier, on entry pages. The included 'predicate-gin-fastupdate' test
demonstrates that. To fix, make all scans acquire a predicate lock on
the metapage. That lock represents a scan of the pending list, whether
or not there is a pending list at the moment. Forget about the
optimization to skip locking/checking for locks, when fastupdate=off.
2. If a scan finds no match, it still needs to lock the entry page. The
point of predicate locks is to lock the gabs between values, whether
or not there is a match. The included 'predicate-gin-nomatch' test
tests that case.
In addition to those two bug fixes, this removes some unnecessary locking,
following the principle laid out in the README. Because all items in
a posting tree have the same key value, a lock on the posting tree root is
enough to cover all the items. (With a very large posting tree, it would
possibly be better to lock the posting tree leaf pages instead, so that a
"skip scan" with a query like "A & B", you could avoid unnecessary conflict
if a new tuple is inserted with A but !B. But let's keep this simple.)
Also, some spelling fixes.
Author: Heikki Linnakangas with some editorization by me
Review: Andrey Borodin, Alexander Korotkov
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/0b3ad2c2-2692-62a9-3a04-5724f2af9114@iki.fi
While looking at a recent buildfarm failure in the ecpg tests, I wondered
why the pg_regress output claimed the stderr part of the test failed, when
the regression diffs were clearly for the stdout part. Looking into it,
the reason is that pg_regress.c's logic for iterating over three parallel
lists is wrong, and has been wrong since it was written: it advances the
"tag" pointer at a different place in the loop than the other two pointers.
Fix that.
Buildfarm results show that the modern POSIX rule that 1 ^ NaN = 1 is not
honored on *BSD until relatively recently, and really old platforms don't
believe that NaN ^ 0 = 1 either. (This is unsurprising, perhaps, since
SUSv2 doesn't require either behavior.) In hopes of getting to platform
independent behavior, let's deal with all the NaN-input cases explicitly
in dpow().
Note that numeric_power() doesn't know either of these special cases.
But since that behavior is platform-independent, I think it should be
addressed separately, and probably not back-patched.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/75DB81BEEA95B445AE6D576A0A5C9E936A73E741@BPXM05GP.gisp.nec.co.jp
Per spec, the result of power() should be NaN if either input is NaN.
It appears that on some versions of Windows, the libc function does
return NaN, but it also sets errno = EDOM, confusing our code that
attempts to work around shortcomings of other platforms. Hence, add
guard tests to avoid substituting a wrong result for the right one.
It's been like this for a long time (and the odd behavior only appears
in older MSVC releases, too) so back-patch to all supported branches.
Dang Minh Huong, reviewed by David Rowley
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/75DB81BEEA95B445AE6D576A0A5C9E936A73E741@BPXM05GP.gisp.nec.co.jp
Commit 0927d2f46d didn't check that
consider_parallel was set for the target relation or account for
the possibility that required_outer might be non-empty.
To prevent future bugs of this ilk, add some assertions to
add_partial_path and do a bit of future-proofing of the code
recently added to recurse_set_operations.
Report by Andreas Seltenreich. Patch by Jeevan Chalke. Review
by Amit Kapila and by me.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAM2+6=U+9otsyF2fYB8x_2TBeHTR90itarqW=qAEjN-kHaC7kw@mail.gmail.com
This controls both plan-time and execution-time new-style partition
pruning. While finer-grain control is possible (maybe using an enum GUC
instead of boolean), there doesn't seem to be much need for that.
This new parameter controls partition pruning for all queries:
trivially, SELECT queries that affect partitioned tables are naturally
under its control since they are using the new technology. However,
while UPDATE/DELETE queries do not use the new code, we make the new GUC
control their behavior also (stealing control from
constraint_exclusion), because it is more natural, and it leads to a
more natural transition to the future in which those queries will also
use the new pruning code.
Constraint exclusion still controls pruning for regular inheritance
situations (those not involving partitioned tables).
Author: David Rowley
Review: Amit Langote, Ashutosh Bapat, Justin Pryzby, David G. Johnston
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKJS1f_0HwsxJG9m+nzU+CizxSdGtfe6iF_ykPYBiYft302DCw@mail.gmail.com
Previously, you could partition by a boolean column as long as you
spelled the bound values as string literals, for instance FOR VALUES
IN ('t'). The trouble with this is that ruleutils.c printed that as
FOR VALUES IN (TRUE), which is reasonable syntax but wasn't accepted by
the grammar. That results in dump-and-reload failures for such cases.
Apply a minimal fix that just causes TRUE and FALSE to be converted to
strings 'true' and 'false'. This is pretty grotty, but it's too late for
a more principled fix in v11 (to say nothing of v10). We should revisit
the whole issue of how partition bound values are parsed for v12.
Amit Langote
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/e05c5162-1103-7e37-d1ab-6de3e0afaf70@lab.ntt.co.jp
5c067521 erroneously had coded bms_prev_member assuming that a bitmapword
would always hold 32 bits and started it's search on what it thought was the
highest 8-bits of the word. This was not the case if bitmapwords were 64
bits.
In passing add a test to exercise this function a little. Previously there was
no coverage at all.
David Rowly
After introducing usage of t_tid of inner or page high key for storing
number of attributes of tuple, validation of tuple's ItemPointer with
ItemPointerIsValid becomes incorrect, it's need to validate only blocknumber of
ItemPointer. Missing this causes a incorrect page deletion, fix that. Test is
added.
BTW, current contrib/amcheck doesn't fail on index corrupted by this way.
Also introduce BTreeTupleGetTopParent/BTreeTupleSetTopParent macroses to improve
code readability and to avoid possible confusion with page high key: high key
is used to store top-parent link for branch to remove.
Bug found by Michael Paquier, but bug doesn't exist in previous versions because
t_tid was set to P_HIKEY.
Author: Teodor Sigaev
Reviewer: Peter Geoghegan
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/20180419052436.GA16000%40paquier.xyz
Results from buildfarm member opossum suggest that this doesn't work
quite right on that platform. We've seen issues with NaN support on
MIPS/NetBSD before ... allegedly they fixed this stuff back in 2010,
but maybe only for small values of "fixed".
If, in fact, opossum fails this test then I plan to revert it;
it's mainly for diagnostic purposes rather than something we'd
necessarily keep long-term. I think that the failures in window.sql
could be worked around with some code duplication, but I want to
verify my theory about the cause first.
Since it sets up an event trigger that would fire on DDL done by any
concurrent test script, the original scheduling is just an invitation
to irreproducible test failures. (The fact that we found a bug through
exactly such irreproducible test failures doesn't really change the
calculus here: this script is a hazard to anything that runs in parallel
with it today or might be added to that parallel group in future. No,
I don't believe that the trigger is protecting itself sufficiently to
avoid all possible trouble.)
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/5767.1523995174@sss.pgh.pa.us
In some cases a clause attached to an outer join can be pushed down into
the outer join's RHS even though the clause is not degenerate --- this
can happen if we choose to make a parameterized path for the RHS. If
the clause ends up attached to a lower outer join, we'd misclassify it
as being a "join filter" not a plain "filter" condition at that node,
leading to wrong query results.
To fix, teach extract_actual_join_clauses to examine each join clause's
required_relids, not just its is_pushed_down flag. (The latter now
seems vestigial, or at least in need of rethinking, but we won't do
anything so invasive as redefining it in a bug-fix patch.)
This has been wrong since we introduced parameterized paths in 9.2,
though it's evidently hard to hit given the lack of previous reports.
The test case used here involves a lateral function call, and I think
that a lateral reference may be required to get the planner to select
a broken plan; though I wouldn't swear to that. In any case, even if
LATERAL is needed to trigger the bug, it still affects all supported
branches, so back-patch to all.
Per report from Andreas Karlsson. Thanks to Andrew Gierth for
preliminary investigation.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/f8128b11-c5bf-3539-48cd-234178b2314d@proxel.se
Amit Langote reported that partition prune was unable to work with
arrays, enums, etc, which led him to research the appropriate way to
match query clauses to partition keys: instead of searching for an exact
match of the expression's type, it is better to rely on the fact that
the expression qual has already been resolved to a specific operator,
and that the partition key is linked to a specific operator family.
With that info, it's possible to figure out the strategy and comparison
function to use for the pruning clause in a manner that works reliably
for pseudo-types also.
Include new test cases that demonstrate pruning where pseudotypes are
involved.
Author: Amit Langote, Álvaro Herrera
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2b02f1e9-9812-9c41-972d-517bdc0f815d@lab.ntt.co.jp
Add several assertions that ensure that we're dealing with a pivot tuple
without non-key attributes where that's expected. Also, remove the
assertion within _bt_isequal(), restoring the v10 function signature. A
similar check will be performed for the page highkey within
_bt_moveright() in most cases. Also avoid dropping all objects within
regression tests, to increase pg_dump test coverage for INCLUDE indexes.
Rather than using infrastructure that's generally intended to be used
with reference counted heap tuple descriptors during truncation, use the
same function that was introduced to store flat TupleDescs in shared
memory (we use a temp palloc'd buffer). This isn't strictly necessary,
but seems more future-proof than the old approach. It also lets us
avoid including rel.h within indextuple.c, which was arguably a
modularity violation. Also, we now call index_deform_tuple() with the
truncated TupleDesc, not the source TupleDesc, since that's more robust,
and saves a few cycles.
In passing, fix a memory leak by pfree'ing truncated pivot tuple memory
during CREATE INDEX. Also pfree during a page split, just to be
consistent.
Refactor _bt_check_natts() to be more readable.
Author: Peter Geoghegan with some editorization by me
Reviewed by: Alexander Korotkov, Teodor Sigaev
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAH2-Wz%3DkCWuXeMrBCopC-tFs3FbiVxQNjjgNKdG2sHxZ5k2y3w%40mail.gmail.com
coverage report indicated that mark_invalid_subplans_as_finished() and
nearby code was not getting exercised by any tests. Add a new one which
has execution-time Params rather than only external Params to fix this.
In passing, David noticed that ab_q6 tests were not actually required to
have a generic plan. The tests were testing exec Params not external
Params, so there was no need for the PREPARE. Remove the PREPARE,
making these plain queries. (The new queries are called from
explain_parallel_append, which may be unnecessary since they don't
actually have a Parallel Append node, just an Append. But it doesn't
seem to hurt anything, either.)
Author: David Rowley
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKJS1f--hopb6JBSDY4wiXTS3ZcDp-wparXjTQ1nzNdBa04Fog@mail.gmail.com
This reverts commit 4d0f6d3f20 ("Attempt to stabilize partition_prune
test output (2)"), and attempts to stabilize the test by using string
replacement to hide any loop count difference in parallel nodes.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/4475.1523628300@sss.pgh.pa.us
We had an Assert() preventing whole-row expressions from being used in
the SET clause of INSERT ON CONFLICT, but it seems unnecessary, given
some tests, so remove it. Add a new test to exercise the case.
Still at ExecInitPartitionInfo, we used map_partition_varattnos (which
constructs an attribute map, then calls map_variable_attnos) using
the same two relations many times in different expressions and with
different parameters. Constructing the map over and over is a waste.
To avoid this repeated work, construct the map once, and use
map_variable_attnos() directly instead.
Author: Amit Langote, per comments by me (Álvaro)
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180326142016.m4st5e34chrzrknk@alvherre.pgsql
I was dissatisfied with the code coverage report for expand_tuple() in the
wake of commit 7c44c46de: while better than no coverage at all, it was
still not exercising the core function of inserting out-of-line default
values, nor was the HeapTuple-output path covered. So far as I can find,
the only code path that reaches the latter at present is EvalPlanQual
fetches for non-locked tables. Hence, extend eval-plan-qual.spec to
test cases where out-of-line defaults must be inserted into a tuple
fetched from a non-locked table.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/87woxi24uw.fsf@ansel.ydns.eu
SELECT FOR UPDATE on a view should require UPDATE (as well as SELECT)
permissions on the view, and then the view's owner needs those same
permissions against the relations it references, and so on all the way
down to base tables. But ApplyRetrieveRule did things in the wrong order,
resulting in failure to mark intermediate view levels as needing UPDATE
permission. Thus for example, if user A creates a table T and an updatable
view V1 on T, then grants only SELECT permissions on V1 to user B, B could
create a second view V2 on V1 and then would be allowed to perform SELECT
FOR UPDATE via V2 (since V1 wouldn't be checked for UPDATE permissions).
To fix, just switch the order of expanding sub-views and marking referenced
objects as needing UPDATE permission. I think additional simplifications
are now possible, but that's distinct from the bug fix proper.
This is certainly a security issue, but the consequences are pretty minor
(just the ability to lock rows that shouldn't be lockable). Against that
we have a small risk of breaking applications that are working as-desired,
since nested views have behaved this way since such cases worked at all.
On balance I'm inclined not to back-patch.
Per report from Alexander Lakhin.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/24db7b8f-3de5-e25f-7ab9-d8848351d42c@gmail.com
We need to call expand_function_arguments() to expand named and default
arguments.
In PL/pgSQL, we also need to deal with named and default INOUT arguments
when receiving the output values into variables.
Author: Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>
Commit 16828d5c forgot to check that it had a set of missing values
before trying to retrieve a value from it.
An additional query to add coverage for this code is added to the
regression test.
Per bug report from Andreas Seltenreich.
In passing, throw an error if the AF count is too small, rather than
just silently discarding extra affix entries.
Note that the new regression test cases require installing the
updated src/backend/tsearch/dicts files.
Arthur Zakirov
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180413113447.GA32474@zakirov.localdomain
This custom opclass was already in use in other tests -- defined
independently in every such file. Move the definition to the earliest
test that uses it, and keep it around so that later tests can reuse it.
Use it in the tests for pruning of hash partitioning, and since this
makes the second expected file unnecessary, put those tests back in
partition_prune.sql whence they sprang.
Author: Amit Langote
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BTgmoZ0D5kJbt8eKXtvVdvTcGGWn6ehWCRSZbWytD-uzH92mQ%40mail.gmail.com
We were using CurrentMemoryContext to put the partsupfunc fmgr_info
into, which isn't right, because we want the PartitionKey as a whole to
be in the isolated Relation->rd_partkeycxt context. This can cause a
crash with user-defined support functions in the operator classes used
by partitioning keys. (Maybe this can cause problems with core-supplied
opclasses too, not sure.)
This is demonstrably broken in Postgres 10, too, but the initial
proposed fix runs afoul of a problem discussed back when 8a0596cb65
("Get rid of copy_partition_key") reorganized that code: namely that it
is possible to jump out of RelationBuildPartitionKey because of some
error and leave a dangling memory context child of CacheMemoryContext.
Also, while reviewing this I noticed that the removed-in-pg11
copy_partition_key was doing something wrong, unfixed in pg10, namely
doing memcpy() on the FmgrInfo, which is bogus (should be doing
fmgr_info_copy). Therefore, in branch pg10, the sane fix seems to be to
backpatch both the aforementioned 8a0596cb65 and its followup
be2343221f ("Protect against hypothetical memory leaks in
RelationGetPartitionKey"), so do that, then apply the fmgr_info memcxt
bugfix on top.
Add a test case exercising btree-based custom operator classes, which
causes a crash prior to this fix. This is not a security problem,
because in order to create an operator class you need superuser
privileges anyway.
Authors: Álvaro Herrera and Amit Langote
Reported and diagnosed by: Amit Langote
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3041e853-b1dd-a0c6-ff21-7cc5633bffd0@lab.ntt.co.jp
This reverts commits d204ef6377,
83454e3c2b and a few more commits thereafter
(complete list at the end) related to MERGE feature.
While the feature was fully functional, with sufficient test coverage and
necessary documentation, it was felt that some parts of the executor and
parse-analyzer can use a different design and it wasn't possible to do that in
the available time. So it was decided to revert the patch for PG11 and retry
again in the future.
Thanks again to all reviewers and bug reporters.
List of commits reverted, in reverse chronological order:
f1464c5380 Improve parse representation for MERGE
ddb4158579 MERGE syntax diagram correction
530e69e59b Allow cpluspluscheck to pass by renaming variable
01b88b4df5 MERGE minor errata
3af7b2b0d4 MERGE fix variable warning in non-assert builds
a5d86181ec MERGE INSERT allows only one VALUES clause
4b2d44031f MERGE post-commit review
4923550c20 Tab completion for MERGE
aa3faa3c7a WITH support in MERGE
83454e3c2b New files for MERGE
d204ef6377 MERGE SQL Command following SQL:2016
Author: Pavan Deolasee
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier
If the table being attached contained values that contradict the default
partition's partition constraint, it would fail to complain, because
CommandCounterIncrement changes in 4dba331cb3 coupled with some bogus
coding in the existing ValidatePartitionConstraints prevented the
partition constraint from being validated after all -- or rather, it
caused to constraint to become an empty one, always succeeding.
Fix by not re-reading the OID of the default partition in
ATExecAttachPartition. To forestall similar problems, revise the
existing code:
* rename routine from ValidatePartitionConstraints() to
QueuePartitionConstraintValidation, to better represent what it
actually does.
* add an Assert() to make sure that when queueing a constraint for a
partition we're not overwriting a constraint previously queued.
* add an Assert() that we don't try to invoke the special-purpose
validation of the default partition when attaching the default
partition itself.
While at it, change some loops to obtain partition OIDs from
partdesc->oids rather than find_all_inheritors; reduce the lock level
of partitions being scanned from AccessExclusiveLock to ShareLock;
rewrite QueuePartitionConstraintValidation in a recursive fashion rather
than repetitive.
Author: Álvaro Herrera. Tests written by Amit Langote
Reported-by: Rushabh Lathia
Diagnosed-by: Kyotaro HORIGUCHI, who also provided the initial fix.
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro HORIGUCHI, Amit Langote, Jeevan Ladhe
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAGPqQf0W+v-Ci_qNV_5R3A=Z9LsK4+jO7LzgddRncpp_rrnJqQ@mail.gmail.com
The bug is caused due to the original IndexStmt that DefineIndex receives
being overwritten when processing the INCLUDE columns. Use separate list of
index params to propagate to child tables. Add tests covering this case.
Amit Langote and Alexander Korotkov.
I'd hoped that commit 3b8f6e75f was sufficient to ensure parallel safety
even when a build started in a subdirectory requires rebuilding of
generated headers. This isn't so, because making submake-generated-headers
a prerequisite of "all" isn't enough to ensure it's completed before
starting on "all"'s other prerequisites. The explicit dependencies we put
on the recursive make targets ensure safe ordering before we recurse into
child directories, but they don't protect targets to be made in the current
directory. Hence, put back some ordering dependencies in directories that
we've traditionally expected to be starting points for "standalone" builds,
to wit src/pl/plpython and src/test/regress. (The former needs this in
order to minimize the work involved in building for both python 2 and
python 3; the latter to support packagings that make the regression tests
available for out-of-build-tree execution.) Adjust some other dependencies
so that these two cases work correctly even at high -j settings.
I'm not terribly happy with this partial solution, but I don't see a
way to do better without massive makefile restructuring, which we surely
aren't doing at this point in the development cycle. In any case, it's
little if any worse than what we had in prior releases.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1523353963.8169.26.camel@gunduz.org
Commit 372728b0d created some problems for usages like building a
subdirectory without having first done "make all" at the top level,
or for proceeding directly to "make install" without "make all".
The only reasonably clean way to fix this seems to be to force the
submake-generated-headers rule to fire in *any* "make all" or "make
install" command anywhere in the tree. To avoid lots of redundant work,
as well as parallel make jobs possibly clobbering each others' output, we
still need to be sure that the rule fires only once in a recursive build.
For that, adopt the same MAKELEVEL hack previously used for "temp-install".
But try to document it a bit better.
The submake-errcodes mechanism previously used in src/port/ and src/common/
is subsumed by this, so we can get rid of those special cases. It was
inadequate for src/common/ anyway after the aforesaid commit, and it always
risked parallel attempts to build errcodes.h.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1f5FAB-0006LU-MB@gemulon.postgresql.org
