Backward and forward scans share much of the same page acquisition code.
Here we consolidate that code to reduce some duplication.
Additionally, add a new rs_coffset field to HeapScanDescData to track the
offset of the current tuple. The new field fits nicely into the padding
between a bool and BlockNumber field and saves having to look at the last
returned tuple to figure out which offset we should be looking at for the
current tuple.
Author: Melanie Plageman
Reviewed-by: David Rowley
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAKRu_bvkhka0CZQun28KTqhuUh5ZqY=_T8QEqZqOL02rpi2bw@mail.gmail.com
Here remove some dead code from heapgettup() and heapgettup_pagemode()
which was trying to support NoMovementScanDirection scans. This code can
never be reached as standard_ExecutorRun() never calls ExecutePlan with
NoMovementScanDirection.
Additionally, plans which were scanning an unordered index would use
NoMovementScanDirection rather than ForwardScanDirection. There was no
real need for this, so here we adjust this so we use ForwardScanDirection
for unordered index scans. A comment in pathnodes.h claimed that
NoMovementScanDirection was used for PathKey reasons, but if that was
true, it no longer is, per code in build_index_paths().
This does change the non-text format of the EXPLAIN output so that
unordered index scans now have a "Forward" scan direction rather than
"NoMovement". The text format of EXPLAIN has not changed.
Author: Melanie Plageman
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane, David Rowley
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAKRu_bvkhka0CZQun28KTqhuUh5ZqY=_T8QEqZqOL02rpi2bw@mail.gmail.com
Eager freezing strategy avoids large build-ups of all-visible pages. It
makes VACUUM trigger page-level freezing whenever doing so will enable
the page to become all-frozen in the visibility map. This is useful for
tables that experience continual growth, particularly strict append-only
tables such as pgbench's history table. Eager freezing significantly
improves performance stability by spreading out the cost of freezing
over time, rather than doing most freezing during aggressive VACUUMs.
It complements the insert autovacuum mechanism added by commit b07642db.
VACUUM determines its freezing strategy based on the value of the new
vacuum_freeze_strategy_threshold GUC (or reloption) with logged tables.
Tables that exceed the size threshold use the eager freezing strategy.
Unlogged tables and temp tables always use eager freezing strategy,
since the added cost is negligible there. Non-permanent relations won't
incur any extra overhead in WAL written (for the obvious reason), nor in
pages dirtied (since any extra freezing will only take place on pages
whose PD_ALL_VISIBLE bit needed to be set either way).
VACUUM uses lazy freezing strategy for logged tables that fall under the
GUC size threshold. Page-level freezing triggers based on the criteria
established in commit 1de58df4, which added basic page-level freezing.
Eager freezing is strictly more aggressive than lazy freezing. Settings
like vacuum_freeze_min_age still get applied in just the same way in
every VACUUM, independent of the strategy in use. The only mechanical
difference between eager and lazy freezing strategies is that only the
former applies its own additional criteria to trigger freezing pages.
Note that even lazy freezing strategy will trigger freezing whenever a
page happens to have required that an FPI be written during pruning,
provided that the page will thereby become all-frozen in the visibility
map afterwards (due to the FPI optimization from commit 1de58df4).
The vacuum_freeze_strategy_threshold default setting is 4GB. This is a
relatively low setting that prioritizes performance stability. It will
be reviewed at the end of the Postgres 16 beta period.
Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Reviewed-By: Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>
Reviewed-By: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-By: Matthias van de Meent <boekewurm+postgres@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-WzkFok_6EAHuK39GaW4FjEFQsY=3J0AAd6FXk93u-Xq3Fg@mail.gmail.com
An upcoming patch by Melanie Plageman does some refactoring work in this
area. Run pgindent on that file now before making any changes so that
it's easier to maintain/evolve each of the individual patches doing the
refactor work. Additionally, add a few new required typedefs to the list
to make it easier to do future pgindent runs on this file during the
refactor work.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAKRu_YSOnhKsDyFcqJsKtBSrd32DP-jjXmv7hL0BPD-z0TGXQ@mail.gmail.com
Tighten up the way that visibilitymap_set() is called: request that both
the all-visible and all-frozen bits get set whenever the all-frozen bit
is set, regardless of what we think we know about the present state of
the all-visible bit. Also make sure that the page level PD_ALL_VISIBLE
flag is set in the same code path.
In practice there doesn't seem to be a concrete scenario in which the
previous approach could lead to inconsistencies. It was almost possible
in scenarios involving concurrent HOT updates from transactions that
abort, but (unlike pruning) freezing can never remove XIDs > VACUUM's
OldestXmin, even those from transactions that are known to have aborted.
That was protective here.
These issues have been around since commit a892234f83, which added the
all-frozen bit to the VM fork. There is no known live bug here, so no
backpatch.
In passing, add some defensive assertions to catch the issue, and stop
reading the existing state of the VM when setting the VM in VACUUM's
final heap pass. We already know that affected pages must have had at
least one LP_DEAD item before we set it LP_UNUSED, so there is no point
in reading the VM when it is set like this.
Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Reviewed-By: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-WznuNGSzF8v6OsgjaC5aYsb3cZ6HW6MLm30X0d65cmSH6A@mail.gmail.com
Rename the heapam.c freeze plan deduplication routines added by commit
9e540599 to names that follow conventions for functions in heapam.c.
Also relocate the functions so that they're next to their caller, which
runs during original execution, when FREEZE_PAGE WAL records are built.
The routines were initially placed next to (and followed the naming
conventions of) conceptually related REDO routine code, but that scheme
turned out to be kind of jarring when considered in a wider context.
Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Reported-By: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230109214308.icz26oqvt3k2274c@awork3.anarazel.de
Document that TransactionIdDidAbort() won't indicate that transactions
that were in-progress during a crash have aborted. Tie this to existing
discussion of the TransactionIdDidCommit() and TransactionIdDidCommit()
protocol that code in heapam_visibility.c (and a few other places) must
observe.
Follow-up to bugfix commit eb5ad4ff.
Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Reviewed-By: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-Wzn4bEEqgmaUQL3aJ73yM9gAeK-wE4ngi7kjRjLztb+P0w@mail.gmail.com
We cannot rely on TransactionIdDidAbort here, since in general it may
report transactions that were in-progress at the time of an earlier hard
crash as not aborted, effectively behaving as if they were still in
progress even after crash recovery completes. Go back to defensively
verifying that xmax didn't commit instead.
Oversight in commit 79d4bf4e.
Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Reported-By: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230104035636.hy5djyr2as4gbc4q@awork3.anarazel.de
pg_xact lookups are relatively expensive. Move the xmin/xmax commit
status checks from the point that freeze plans are prepared to the point
that they're actually executed. Otherwise we'll repeat many commit
status checks whenever multiple successive VACUUM operations scan the
same pages and decide against freezing each time, which is a waste of
cycles.
Oversight in commit 1de58df4, which added page-level freezing.
Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-WzkZpe4K6qMfEt8H4qYJCKc2R7TPvKsBva7jc9w7iGXQSw@mail.gmail.com
The term "truncation" has been ambiguous since commit 10a8d13823 added
line pointer array truncation during heap pruning. Clear things up by
specifying that we're talking about rel truncation here, to match nearby
comments that apply to tuples with storage.
Don't allow VACUUM to WAL-log the value FrozenTransactionId as the
snapshotConflictHorizon of freezing or visibility map related WAL
records.
The only special XID value that's an allowable snapshotConflictHorizon
is InvalidTransactionId, which is interpreted as "record definitely
doesn't require a recovery conflict".
Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-WznuNGSzF8v6OsgjaC5aYsb3cZ6HW6MLm30X0d65cmSH6A@mail.gmail.com
Teach VACUUM to decide on whether or not to trigger freezing at the
level of whole heap pages. Individual XIDs and MXIDs fields from tuple
headers now trigger freezing of whole pages, rather than independently
triggering freezing of each individual tuple header field.
Managing the cost of freezing over time now significantly influences
when and how VACUUM freezes. The overall amount of WAL written is the
single most important freezing related cost, in general. Freezing each
page's tuples together in batch allows VACUUM to take full advantage of
the freeze plan WAL deduplication optimization added by commit 9e540599.
Also teach VACUUM to trigger page-level freezing whenever it detects
that heap pruning generated an FPI. We'll have already written a large
amount of WAL just to do that much, so it's very likely a good idea to
get freezing out of the way for the page early. This only happens in
cases where it will directly lead to marking the page all-frozen in the
visibility map.
In most cases "freezing a page" removes all XIDs < OldestXmin, and all
MXIDs < OldestMxact. It doesn't quite work that way in certain rare
cases involving MultiXacts, though. It is convenient to define "freeze
the page" in a way that gives FreezeMultiXactId the leeway to put off
the work of processing an individual tuple's xmax whenever it happens to
be a MultiXactId that would require an expensive second pass to process
aggressively (allocating a new multi is especially worth avoiding here).
FreezeMultiXactId is eager when processing is cheap (as it usually is),
and lazy in the event of an individual multi that happens to require
expensive second pass processing. This avoids regressions related to
processing of multis that page-level freezing might otherwise cause.
Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Reviewed-By: Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>
Reviewed-By: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-WzkFok_6EAHuK39GaW4FjEFQsY=3J0AAd6FXk93u-Xq3Fg@mail.gmail.com
Perform a failsafe check every time VACUUM's first heap scan scans a
further FAILSAFE_EVERY_PAGES pages, rather than using an approach based
on the number of physical blocks that our current blkno is from the
blkno at the time of the previous failsafe check. That way VACUUM will
perform a failsafe check every time it has scanned a uniform number of
pages, without it mattering when or how VACUUM skipped pages using the
visibility map.
Sami Imseih, with changes to FAILSAFE_EVERY_PAGES comments added by me.
Author: Sami Imseih <simseih@amazon.com>
Reviewed-By: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/401CE010-4049-4B94-9961-0B610A5D254D%40amazon.com
Use a dedicated struct for the XID/MXID cutoffs used by VACUUM, such as
FreezeLimit and OldestXmin. This state is initialized in vacuum.c, and
then passed around by code from vacuumlazy.c to heapam.c freezing
related routines. The new convention is that everybody works off of the
same cutoff state, which is passed around via pointers to const.
Also simplify some of the logic for dealing with frozen xmin in
heap_prepare_freeze_tuple: add dedicated "xmin_already_frozen" state to
clearly distinguish xmin XIDs that we're going to freeze from those that
were already frozen from before. That way the routine's xmin handling
code is symmetrical with the existing xmax handling code. This is
preparation for an upcoming commit that will add page level freezing.
Also refactor the control flow within FreezeMultiXactId(), while adding
stricter sanity checks. We now test OldestXmin directly, instead of
using FreezeLimit as an inexact proxy for OldestXmin. This is further
preparation for the page level freezing work, which will make the
function's caller cede control of page level freezing to the function
where appropriate (where heap_prepare_freeze_tuple sees a tuple that
happens to contain a MultiXactId in its xmax).
Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Reviewed-By: Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-WznS9TxXmz2_=SY+SyJyDFbiOftKofM9=aDo68BbXNBUMA@mail.gmail.com
Because we added StaticAssertStmt() first before StaticAssertDecl(),
some uses as well as the instructions in c.h are now a bit backwards
from the "native" way static assertions are meant to be used in C.
This updates the guidance and moves some static assertions to better
places.
Specifically, since the addition of StaticAssertDecl(), we can put
static assertions at the file level. This moves a number of static
assertions out of function bodies, where they might have been stuck
out of necessity, to perhaps better places at the file level or in
header files.
Also, when the static assertion appears in a position where a
declaration is allowed, then using StaticAssertDecl() is more native
than StaticAssertStmt().
Reviewed-by: John Naylor <john.naylor@enterprisedb.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/941a04e7-dd6f-c0e4-8cdf-a33b3338cbda%40enterprisedb.com
The same code pattern is repeated 17 times for int64 counters (0 for
missing entry) and 5 times for timestamps (NULL for missing entry) on
table entries. This code is switched to use a macro for the basic code
instead, shaving a few hundred lines of originally-duplicated code. The
function names remain the same, but some fields of PgStat_StatTabEntry
have to be renamed to cope with the new style.
Author: Bertrand Drouvot
Reviewed-by: Nathan Bossart
Discussion: https:/postgr.es/m/20221204173207.GA2669116@nathanxps13
Pass VACUUM parameters (VacuumParams state) to vacuum_set_xid_limits()
directly, rather than passing most individual VacuumParams fields as
separate arguments.
Also make vacuum_set_xid_limits() output parameter symbol names match
those used by its vacuumlazy.c caller.
Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-Wz=TE7gW5DgSahDkf0UEZigFGAoHNNN6EvSrdzC=Kn+hrA@mail.gmail.com
We shouldn't ever need to rely on whether HEAP_XMAX_INVALID is set in
t_infomask when considering whether or not an xmax should be deemed
already frozen, since that status flag is just a hint. The only
acceptable representation for an "xmax_already_frozen" raw xmax field is
the transaction ID value zero (also known as InvalidTransactionId).
Adjust code that superficially appeared to rely on HEAP_XMAX_INVALID to
make the rule about xmax_already_frozen clear. Also avoid needlessly
rereading the tuple's raw xmax.
Oversight in bugfix commit d2599ecf. There is no evidence that this
ever led to incorrect behavior, so no backpatch. The worst consequence
of this bug was that VACUUM could hypothetically fail to notice and
report on certain kinds of corruption, which seems fairly benign.
Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-Wzkh3DMCDRPfhZxj9xCq9v3WmzvmbiCpf1dNKUBPadhCbQ@mail.gmail.com
Standardize on the name snapshotConflictHorizon for all XID fields from
WAL records that generate recovery conflicts when in hot standby mode.
This supersedes the previous latestRemovedXid naming convention.
The new naming convention places emphasis on how the values are actually
used by REDO routines. How the values are generated during original
execution (details of which vary by record type) is deemphasized. Users
of tools like pg_waldump can now grep for snapshotConflictHorizon to see
all potential sources of recovery conflicts in a standardized way,
without necessarily having to consider which specific record types might
be involved.
Also bring a couple of WAL record types that didn't follow any kind of
naming convention into line. These are heapam's VISIBLE record type and
SP-GiST's VACUUM_REDIRECT record type. Now every WAL record whose REDO
routine calls ResolveRecoveryConflictWithSnapshot() passes through the
snapshotConflictHorizon field from its WAL record. This is follow-up
work to the refactoring from commit 9e540599 that made FREEZE_PAGE WAL
records use a standard snapshotConflictHorizon style XID cutoff.
No bump in XLOG_PAGE_MAGIC, since the underlying format of affected WAL
records doesn't change.
Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Reviewed-By: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-Wzm2CQUmViUq7Opgk=McVREHSOorYaAjR1ZpLYkRN7_dPw@mail.gmail.com
Make heapam WAL records that describe freezing performed by VACUUM more
space efficient by storing each distinct "freeze plan" once, alongside
an array of associated page offset numbers (one per freeze plan). The
freeze plans required for most heap pages tend to naturally have a great
deal of redundancy, so this technique is very effective in practice. It
often leads to freeze WAL records that are less than 20% of the size of
equivalent WAL records generated using the previous approach.
The freeze plan concept was introduced by commit 3b97e6823b, which fixed
bugs in VACUUM's handling of MultiXacts. We retain the concept of
freeze plans, but go back to using page offset number arrays. There is
no loss of generality here because deduplication is an additive process
that gets applied mechanically when FREEZE_PAGE WAL records are built.
More than anything else, freeze plan deduplication is an optimization
that reduces the marginal cost of freezing additional tuples on pages
that will need to have at least one or two tuples frozen in any case.
Ongoing work that adds page-level freezing to VACUUM will take full
advantage of the improved cost profile through batching.
Also refactor some of the details surrounding recovery conflicts needed
to REDO freeze records in passing: make original execution responsible
for generating a standard latestRemovedXid cutoff, rather than working
backwards to get the same cutoff in the REDO routine. Bugfix commit
66fbcb0d2e did it the other way around, which is equivalent but obscures
what's going on.
Also rename the cutoff field from the WAL record/struct (rename the
field cutoff_xid to latestRemovedXid to match similar WAL records).
Processing of conflicts by REDO routines is already completely uniform,
so tools like pg_waldump should present the information driving the
process uniformly. There are two remaining WAL record types that still
don't quite follow this convention (heapam's VISIBLE record type and
SP-GiST's VACUUM_REDIRECT record type). They can be brought into line
by later work that totally standardizes how the cutoffs are presented.
Bump XLOG_PAGE_MAGIC.
Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Reviewed-By: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-Wz=XytErMnb8FAyFd+OQEbiipB0Q2FmFdXrggPL4VBnRYQ@mail.gmail.com
The original report was concerned with a possible inconsistency
between the heap and the visibility map, which I was unable to
confirm. The concern has been retracted.
However, there did seem to be a torn page hazard when using
checksums. By not setting the heap page LSN during redo, the
protections of minRecoveryPoint were bypassed. Fixed, along with a
misleading comment.
It may have been impossible to hit this problem in practice, because
it would require a page tear between the checksum and the flags, so I
am marking this as a theoretical risk. But, as discussed, it did
violate expectations about the page LSN, so it may have other
consequences.
Backpatch to all supported versions.
Reported-by: Konstantin Knizhnik
Reviewed-by: Konstantin Knizhnik
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/fed17dac-8cb8-4f5b-d462-1bb4908c029e@garret.ru
Backpatch-through: 11
We have various requirements when using a dlist_head to keep track of the
number of items in the list. This, traditionally, has been done by
maintaining a counter variable in the calling code. Here we tidy this up
by adding "dclist", which is very similar to dlist but also keeps track of
the number of items stored in the list.
Callers may use the new dclist_count() function when they need to know how
many items are stored. Obtaining the count is an O(1) operation.
For simplicity reasons, dclist and dlist both use dlist_node as their node
type and dlist_iter/dlist_mutable_iter as their iterator type. dclists
have all of the same functionality as dlists except there is no function
named dclist_delete(). To remove an item from a list dclist_delete_from()
must be used. This requires knowing which dclist the given item is stored
in.
Additionally, here we also convert some dlists where additional code
exists to keep track of the number of items stored and to make these use
dclists instead.
Author: David Rowley
Reviewed-by: Bharath Rupireddy, Aleksander Alekseev
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvrtVxr+FXEX0VbViCFKDGxA3tWDgw9oFewNXCJMmwLjLg@mail.gmail.com
Here we add a new 'copy' parameter to tuplesort_getdatum so that we can
instruct the function not to datumCopy() byref Datums before returning.
Similar to 91e9e89dc, this can provide significant performance
improvements in nodeSort when sorting by a single byref column and the
sort's targetlist contains only that column.
This allows us to re-enable Datum sorts for byref types which was disabled
in 3a5817695 due to a reported memory leak.
Additionally, here we slightly optimize DISTINCT aggregates so that we no
longer perform any datumCopy() when we find the current value not to be
distinct from the previous value. Previously the code would always take a
copy of the most recent Datum and pfree the previous value, even when the
values were the same. Testing shows a small but noticeable performance
increase when aggregate transitions are skipped due to the current
transition value being the same as the prior one.
Author: David Rowley
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvqS6wC5U==k9Hd26E4EQXH3QR67-T4=Q1rQ36NGvjfVSg@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvqHonfe9G1cVaKeHbDx70R_zCrM3qP2AGXpGrieSKGnhA@mail.gmail.com
In a similar effort to f01592f91, here we mostly rename shadowed local
variables to remove the warnings produced when compiling with
-Wshadow=compatible-local.
This fixes 63 warnings and leaves just 5.
Author: Justin Pryzby, David Rowley
Reviewed-by: Justin Pryzby
Discussion https://postgr.es/m/20220817145434.GC26426%40telsasoft.com
Commit 34f581c39 intended to ensure that RelationGetBufferForTuple
would acquire a visibility-map page pin in case the otherBuffer's
all-visible bit had become set since we last had lock on that page.
But I missed a case: when we're extending the relation, VM concerns
were dealt with only in the relatively-less-likely case that we
fail to conditionally lock the otherBuffer. I think I'd believed
that we couldn't need to worry about it if the conditional lock
succeeds, which is true for the target buffer; but the otherBuffer
was unlocked for awhile so its bit might be set anyway. So we need
to do the GetVisibilityMapPins dance, and then also recheck the
page's free space, in both cases.
Per report from Jaime Casanova. Back-patch to v12 as the previous
patch was (although there's still no evidence that the bug is
reachable pre-v14).
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1lWLjP-00006Y-Ml@gemulon.postgresql.org
Commits cf112c12 and a0dc8271 were a little too hasty in getting rid of
the pg_ prefixes where we use pread(), pwrite() and vectored variants.
We dropped support for ancient Unixes where we needed to use lseek() to
implement replacements for those, but it turns out that Windows also
changes the current position even when you pass in an offset to
ReadFile() and WriteFile() if the file handle is synchronous, despite
its documentation saying otherwise.
Switching to asynchronous file handles would fix that, but have other
complications. For now let's just put back the pg_ prefix and add some
comments to highlight the non-standard side-effect, which we can now
describe as Windows-only.
Reported-by: Bharath Rupireddy <bharath.rupireddyforpostgres@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Bharath Rupireddy <bharath.rupireddyforpostgres@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220923202439.GA1156054%40nathanxps13
Autoconf is showing its age, fewer and fewer contributors know how to wrangle
it. Recursive make has a lot of hard to resolve dependency issues and slow
incremental rebuilds. Our home-grown MSVC build system is hard to maintain for
developers not using Windows and runs tests serially. While these and other
issues could individually be addressed with incremental improvements, together
they seem best addressed by moving to a more modern build system.
After evaluating different build system choices, we chose to use meson, to a
good degree based on the adoption by other open source projects.
We decided that it's more realistic to commit a relatively early version of
the new build system and mature it in tree.
This commit adds an initial version of a meson based build system. It supports
building postgres on at least AIX, FreeBSD, Linux, macOS, NetBSD, OpenBSD,
Solaris and Windows (however only gcc is supported on aix, solaris). For
Windows/MSVC postgres can now be built with ninja (faster, particularly for
incremental builds) and msbuild (supporting the visual studio GUI, but
building slower).
Several aspects (e.g. Windows rc file generation, PGXS compatibility, LLVM
bitcode generation, documentation adjustments) are done in subsequent commits
requiring further review. Other aspects (e.g. not installing test-only
extensions) are not yet addressed.
When building on Windows with msbuild, builds are slower when using a visual
studio version older than 2019, because those versions do not support
MultiToolTask, required by meson for intra-target parallelism.
The plan is to remove the MSVC specific build system in src/tools/msvc soon
after reaching feature parity. However, we're not planning to remove the
autoconf/make build system in the near future. Likely we're going to keep at
least the parts required for PGXS to keep working around until all supported
versions build with meson.
Some initial help for postgres developers is at
https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Meson
With contributions from Thomas Munro, John Naylor, Stone Tickle and others.
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Author: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>
Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
Reviewed-By: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20211012083721.hvixq4pnh2pixr3j@alap3.anarazel.de
Make sure that function declarations use names that exactly match the
corresponding names from function definitions. Having parameter names
that are reliably consistent in this way will make it easier to reason
about groups of related C functions from the same translation unit as a
module. It will also make certain refactoring tasks easier.
Like other recent commits that cleaned up function parameter names, this
commit was written with help from clang-tidy. Later commits will do the
same for other parts of the codebase.
Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Reviewed-By: David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-WznJt9CMM9KJTMjJh_zbL5hD9oX44qdJ4aqZtjFi-zA3Tg@mail.gmail.com
