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
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
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
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
This commit back-patches the equivalent of the 9.5-branch commits
e2838c580 and 48e5ba61e, so that we can work with OpenSSL 1.1.0 in 9.4.
(Going further back would be a good thing but will take more work;
meanwhile let's see what the buildfarm makes of this.)
Original patches by Andreas Karlsson and Heikki Linnakangas,
back-patching work by Andreas Karlsson.
Patch: https://postgr.es/m/0c817abb-3f7d-20fb-583a-58f7593a0bea@proxel.se
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/5129.1492293840@sss.pgh.pa.us
Previously, we included <xlocale.h> only if necessary to get the definition
of type locale_t. According to notes in PGAC_TYPE_LOCALE_T, this is
important because on some versions of glibc that file supplies an
incompatible declaration of locale_t. (This info may be obsolete, because
on my RHEL6 box that seems to be the *only* definition of locale_t; but
there may still be glibc's in the wild for which it's a live concern.)
It turns out though that on FreeBSD and maybe other BSDen, you can get
locale_t from stdlib.h or locale.h but mbstowcs_l() and friends only from
<xlocale.h>. This was leaving us compiling calls to mbstowcs_l() and
friends with no visible prototype, which causes a warning and could
possibly cause actual trouble, since it's not declared to return int.
Hence, adjust the configure checks so that we'll include <xlocale.h>
either if it's necessary to get type locale_t or if it's necessary to
get a declaration of mbstowcs_l().
Report and patch by Aleksander Alekseev, somewhat whacked around by me.
Back-patch to all supported branches, since we have been using
mbstowcs_l() since 9.1.
It emerges that libreadline doesn't notice terminal window size change
events unless they occur while collecting input. This is easy to stumble
over if you resize the window while using a pager to look at query output,
but it can be demonstrated without any pager involvement. The symptom is
that queries exceeding one line are misdisplayed during subsequent input
cycles, because libreadline has the wrong idea of the screen dimensions.
The safest, simplest way to fix this is to call rl_reset_screen_size()
just before calling readline(). That causes an extra ioctl(TIOCGWINSZ)
for every command; but since it only happens when reading from a tty, the
performance impact should be negligible. A more valid objection is that
this still leaves a tiny window during entry to readline() wherein delivery
of SIGWINCH will be missed; but the practical consequences of that are
probably negligible. In any case, there doesn't seem to be any good way to
avoid the race, since readline exposes no functions that seem safe to call
from a generic signal handler --- rl_reset_screen_size() certainly isn't.
It turns out that we also need an explicit rl_initialize() call, else
rl_reset_screen_size() dumps core when called before the first readline()
call.
rl_reset_screen_size() is not present in old versions of libreadline,
so we need a configure test for that. (rl_initialize() is present at
least back to readline 4.0, so we won't bother with a test for it.)
We would need a configure test anyway since libedit's emulation of
libreadline doesn't currently include such a function. Fortunately,
libedit seems not to have any corresponding bug.
Merlin Moncure, adjusted a bit by me
xlc provides "long long" unconditionally at C99-compatible language
levels, and this option provokes a warning. The warning interferes with
"configure" tests that fail in response to any warning. Notably, before
commit 85a2a8903f7e9151793308d0638621003aded5ae, it interfered with the
test for -qnoansialias. Back-patch to 9.0 (all supported versions).
Expose PG_VERSION_NUM (e.g., "90600") as a Make variable; but for
consistency with the other Make variables holding similar info,
call the variable just VERSION_NUM not PG_VERSION_NUM.
There was some discussion of making this value available as a pg_config
value as well. However, that would entail substantially more work than
this two-line patch. Given that there was not exactly universal consensus
that we need this at all, let's just do a minimal amount of work for now.
Back-patch of commit a5d489ccb7e613c7ca3be6141092b8c1d2c13fa7, so that this
variable is actually useful for its intended purpose sometime before 2020.
Michael Paquier, reviewed by Pavel Stehule
Considering the number of cases in which "unused" command line arguments
are silently ignored by compilers, it's fairly astonishing that anybody
thought this warning was useful; it's certainly nothing but an annoyance
when building Postgres. One such case is that neither gcc nor clang
complain about unrecognized -Wno-foo switches, making it more difficult
to figure out whether the switch does anything than one could wish.
Back-patch to 9.3, which is as far back as the patch applies conveniently
(we'd have to back-patch PGAC_PROG_CC_VAR_OPT to go further, and it doesn't
seem worth that).
Since commit ba7c5975adea74c6f17bdb0e0427ad85962092a2, port/dirmod.c
has contained only Windows-specific functions. Most platforms don't
seem to mind uselessly building an empty file, but OS X for one issues
warnings. Hence, treat dirmod.c as a Windows-specific file selected
by configure rather than one that's always built. We can revert this
change if dirmod.c ever gains any non-Windows functionality again.
Back-patch to 9.4 where the mentioned commit appeared.
Previously, configure would add any switches that it chose of its own
accord to the end of the user-specified CFLAGS string. Since most
compilers process these left-to-right, this meant that configure's choices
would override the user-specified flags in case of conflicts. We'd rather
that worked the other way around, so adjust the logic to put the user's
string at the end not the beginning.
There does not seem to be a need for a similar behavior change for CPPFLAGS
or LDFLAGS: in those, the earlier switches tend to win (think -I or -L
behavior) so putting the user's string at the front is fine.
Backpatch to 9.4 but not earlier. I'm not planning to run buildfarm member
guar on older branches, and it seems a bit risky to change this behavior
in long-stable branches.
Darwin --enable-nls builds use a substitute setlocale() that may start a
thread. Buildfarm member orangutan experienced BackendList corruption
on account of different postmaster threads executing signal handlers
simultaneously. Furthermore, a multithreaded postmaster risks undefined
behavior from sigprocmask() and fork(). Emit LOG messages about the
problem and its workaround. Back-patch to 9.0 (all supported versions).
With OpenLDAP versions 2.4.24 through 2.4.31, inclusive, PostgreSQL
backends can crash at exit. Raise a warning during "configure" based on
the compile-time OpenLDAP version number, and test the crash scenario in
the dblink test suite. Back-patch to 9.0 (all supported versions).
Apparently we still build against OpenSSL so old that it doesn't
have this function, so add an autoconf check for it to make the
buildfarm happy. If the function doesn't exist, always return
that compression is disabled, since presumably the actual
compression functionality is always missing.
For now, hardcode the function as present on MSVC, since we should
hopefully be well beyond those old versions on that platform.
This function is pervasive on free software operating systems; import
NetBSD's implementation. Back-patch to 8.4, like the commit that will
harness it.
Allow the contrib/uuid-ossp extension to be built atop any one of these
three popular UUID libraries. (The extension's name is now arguably a
misnomer, but we'll keep it the same so as not to cause unnecessary
compatibility issues for users.)
We would not normally consider a change like this post-beta1, but the issue
has been forced by our upgrade to autoconf 2.69, whose more rigorous header
checks are causing OSSP's header files to be rejected on some platforms.
It's been foreseen for some time that we'd have to move away from depending
on OSSP UUID due to lack of upstream maintenance, so this is a down payment
on that problem.
While at it, add some simple regression tests, in hopes of catching any
major incompatibilities between the three implementations.
Matteo Beccati, with some further hacking by me
It's easy to forget using SYSTEMQUOTEs when constructing command strings
for system() or popen(). Even if we fix all the places missing it now, it is
bound to be forgotten again in the future. Introduce wrapper functions that
do the the extra quoting for you, and get rid of SYSTEMQUOTEs in all the
callers.
We previosly used SYSTEMQUOTEs in all the hard-coded command strings, and
this doesn't change the behavior of those. But user-supplied commands, like
archive_command, restore_command, COPY TO/FROM PROGRAM calls, as well as
pgbench's \shell, will now gain an extra pair of quotes. That is desirable,
but if you have existing scripts or config files that include an extra
pair of quotes, those might need to be adjusted.
Reviewed by Amit Kapila and Tom Lane
The comment added by ed011d9754fd4b76eac0eaa8c057fcfc0c302a6a used #,
which means it gets copied into configure, but it doesn't make sense
there. So use dnl, which gets dropped when creating configure.
Since C99, it's been standard for printf and friends to accept a "z" size
modifier, meaning "whatever size size_t has". Up to now we've generally
dealt with printing size_t values by explicitly casting them to unsigned
long and using the "l" modifier; but this is really the wrong thing on
platforms where pointers are wider than longs (such as Win64). So let's
start using "z" instead. To ensure we can do that on all platforms, teach
src/port/snprintf.c to understand "z", and add a configure test to force
use of that implementation when the platform's version doesn't handle "z".
Having done that, modify a bunch of places that were using the
unsigned-long hack to use "z" instead. This patch doesn't pretend to have
gotten everyplace that could benefit, but it catches many of them. I made
an effort in particular to ensure that all uses of the same error message
text were updated together, so as not to increase the number of
translatable strings.
It's possible that this change will result in format-string warnings from
pre-C99 compilers. We might have to reconsider if there are any popular
compilers that will warn about this; but let's start by seeing what the
buildfarm thinks.
Andres Freund, with a little additional work by me
krb5 has been deprecated since 8.3, and the recommended way to do
Kerberos authentication is using the GSSAPI authentication method
(which is still fully supported).
libpq retains the ability to identify krb5 authentication, but only
gives an error message about it being unsupported. Since all authentication
is initiated from the backend, there is no need to keep it at all
in the backend.
Defining this symbol causes OS X 10.5 to use a buggy version of readdir(),
which can sometimes fail with EINVAL if the previously-fetched directory
entry has been deleted or renamed. In later OS X versions that bug has
been repaired, but we still don't need the #define because it's on by
default. So this is just an all-around bad idea, and we can do without it.