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2025-03-05Split WaitEventSet functions to separate source fileHeikki Linnakangas
latch.c now only contains the Latch related functions, which build on the WaitEventSet abstraction. Most of the platform-dependent stuff is now in waiteventset.c. Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <[email protected]> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/[email protected]
2025-01-01Update copyright for 2025Bruce Momjian
Backpatch-through: 13
2024-01-04Update copyright for 2024Bruce Momjian
Reported-by: Michael Paquier Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/[email protected] Backpatch-through: 12
2023-01-12Use WaitEventSet API for postmaster's event loop.Thomas Munro
Switch to a design similar to regular backends, instead of the previous arrangement where signal handlers did non-trivial state management and called fork(). The main changes are: * The postmaster now has its own local latch to wait on. (For now, we don't want other backends setting its latch directly, but that could probably be made to work with more research on robustness.) * The existing signal handlers are cut in two: a handle_pm_XXX() part that just sets pending_pm_XXX flags and the latch, and a process_pm_XXX() part that runs later when the latch is seen. * Signal handlers are now installed with the regular pqsignal() function rather than the special pqsignal_pm() function; historical portability concerns about the effect of SA_RESTART on select() are no longer relevant, and we don't need to block signals anymore. Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <[email protected]> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKG%2BZ-HpOj1JsO9eWUP%2Bar7npSVinsC_npxSy%2BjdOMsx%3DGg%40mail.gmail.com
2023-01-02Update copyright for 2023Bruce Momjian
Backpatch-through: 11
2022-11-09Provide sigaction() for Windows.Thomas Munro
Commit 9abb2bfc left behind code to block signals inside signal handlers on Windows, because our signal porting layer didn't have sigaction(). Provide a minimal implementation that is capable of blocking signals, to get rid of platform differences. See also related commit c94ae9d8. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGKKKfcgx6jzok9AYenp2TNti_tfs8FMoJpL8%2B0Gsy%3D%3D_A%40mail.gmail.com
2022-01-08Update copyright for 2022Bruce Momjian
Backpatch-through: 10
2021-03-01Use signalfd(2) for epoll latches.Thomas Munro
Cut down on system calls and other overheads by reading from a signalfd instead of using a signal handler and self-pipe. Affects Linux sytems, and possibly others including illumos that implement the Linux epoll and signalfd interfaces. Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <[email protected]> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+hUKGJjxPDpzBE0a3hyUywBvaZuC89yx3jK9RFZgfv_KHU7gg@mail.gmail.com
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
2019-10-13In the postmaster, rely on the signal infrastructure to block signals.Tom Lane
POSIX sigaction(2) can be told to block a set of signals while a signal handler executes. Make use of that instead of manually blocking and unblocking signals in the postmaster's signal handlers. This should save a few cycles, and it also prevents recursive invocation of signal handlers when many signals arrive in close succession. We have seen buildfarm failures that seem to be due to postmaster stack overflow caused by such recursion (exacerbated by a Linux PPC64 kernel bug). This doesn't change anything about the way that it works on Windows. Somebody might consider adjusting port/win32/signal.c to let it work similarly, but I'm not in a position to do that. For the moment, just apply to HEAD. Possibly we should consider back-patching this, but it'd be good to let it age awhile first. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/[email protected]
2019-01-02Update copyright for 2019Bruce Momjian
Backpatch-through: certain files through 9.4
2018-01-03Update copyright for 2018Bruce Momjian
Backpatch-through: certain files through 9.3
2017-01-03Update copyright via script for 2017Bruce Momjian
2016-01-02Update copyright for 2016Bruce Momjian
Backpatch certain files through 9.1
2015-08-31Actually, it's not that hard to merge the Windows pqsignal code ...Tom Lane
... just need to typedef sigset_t and provide sigemptyset/sigfillset, which are easy enough.
2015-08-31Remove support for Unix systems without the POSIX signal APIs.Tom Lane
Remove configure's checks for HAVE_POSIX_SIGNALS, HAVE_SIGPROCMASK, and HAVE_SIGSETJMP. These APIs are required by the Single Unix Spec v2 (POSIX 1997), which we generally consider to define our minimum required set of Unix APIs. Moreover, no buildfarm member has reported not having them since 2012 or before, which means that even if the code is still live somewhere, it's untested --- and we've made plenty of signal-handling changes of late. So just take these APIs as given and save the cycles for configure probes for them. However, we can't remove as much C code as I'd hoped, because the Windows port evidently still uses the non-POSIX code paths for signal masking. Since we're largely emulating these BSD-style APIs for Windows anyway, it might be a good thing to switch over to POSIX-like notation and thereby remove a few more #ifdefs. But I'm not in a position to code or test that. In the meantime, we can at least make things a bit more transparent by testing for WIN32 explicitly in these places.
2015-01-06Update copyright for 2015Bruce Momjian
Backpatch certain files through 9.0
2014-01-07Update copyright for 2014Bruce Momjian
Update all files in head, and files COPYRIGHT and legal.sgml in all back branches.
2013-03-17Move pqsignal() to libpgport.Tom Lane
We had two copies of this function in the backend and libpq, which was already pretty bogus, but it turns out that we need it in some other programs that don't use libpq (such as pg_test_fsync). So put it where it probably should have been all along. The signal-mask-initialization support in src/backend/libpq/pqsignal.c stays where it is, though, since we only need that in the backend.
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
2011-03-12Use "backend process" rather than "backend server", where appropriate.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
2009-08-29Remove the use of the pg_auth flat file for client authentication.Tom Lane
(That flat file is now completely useless, but removal will come later.) To do this, postpone client authentication into the startup transaction that's run by InitPostgres. We still collect the startup packet and do SSL initialization (if needed) at the same time we did before. The AuthenticationTimeout is applied separately to startup packet collection and the actual authentication cycle. (This is a bit annoying, since it means a couple extra syscalls; but the signal handling requirements inside and outside a transaction are sufficiently different that it seems best to treat the timeouts as completely independent.) A small security disadvantage is that if the given database name is invalid, this will be reported to the client before any authentication happens. We could work around that by connecting to database "postgres" instead, but consensus seems to be that it's not worth introducing such surprising behavior. Processing of all command-line switches and GUC options received from the client is now postponed until after authentication. This means that PostAuthDelay is much less useful than it used to be --- if you need to investigate problems during InitPostgres you'll have to set PreAuthDelay instead. However, allowing an unauthenticated user to set any GUC options whatever seems a bit too risky, so we'll live with that.
2009-01-01Update copyright for 2009.Bruce Momjian
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.
2006-03-05Update copyright for 2006. Update scripts.Bruce Momjian
2005-10-15Standard pgindent run for 8.1.Bruce Momjian
2005-02-14Improve documentation of signal usage for HAVE_SIGPROCMASK andBruce Momjian
non-HAVE_SIGPROCMASK cases in pqinitmask().
2005-02-14Improve documentation of signal usage for HAVE_SIGPROCMASK andBruce Momjian
non-HAVE_SIGPROCMASK cases in pqinitmask().
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 ...
2004-08-29Pgindent run for 8.0.Bruce Momjian
2004-08-29Update copyright to 2004.Bruce Momjian
2004-08-15Specify SA_NOCLDSTOP when enabling SIGCHLD, per suggestion fromTom Lane
Oliver Jowett.
2004-05-29Separate out bgwriter code into a logically separate module, ratherTom Lane
than being random pieces of other files. Give bgwriter responsibility for all checkpoint activity (other than a post-recovery checkpoint); so this child process absorbs the functionality of the former transient checkpoint and shutdown subprocesses. While at it, create an actual include file for postmaster.c, which for some reason never had its own file before.
2004-04-12Here's an attempt at new socket and signal code for win32.Bruce Momjian
It works on the principle of turning sockets into non-blocking, and then emulate blocking behaviour on top of that, while allowing signals to run. Signals are now implemented using an event instead of APCs, thus getting rid of the issue of APCs not being compatible with "old style" sockets functions. It also moves the win32 specific code away from pqsignal.h/c into port/win32, and also removes the "thread style workaround" of the APC issue previously in place. In order to make things work, a few things are also changed in pgstat.c: 1) There is now a separate pipe to the collector and the bufferer. This is required because the pipe will otherwise only be signalled in one of the processes when the postmaster goes down. The MS winsock code for select() must have some kind of workaround for this behaviour, but I have found no stable way of doing that. You really are not supposed to use the same socket from more than one process (unless you use WSADuplicateSocket(), in which case the docs specifically say that only one will be flagged). 2) The check for "postmaster death" is moved into a separate select() call after the main loop. The previous behaviour select():ed on the postmaster pipe, while later explicitly saying "we do NOT check for postmaster exit inside the loop". The issue was that the code relies on the same select() call seeing both the postmaster pipe *and* the pgstat pipe go away. This does not always happen, and it appears that useing WSAEventSelect() makes it even more common that it does not. Since it's only called when the process exits, I don't think using a separate select() call will have any significant impact on how the stats collector works. Magnus Hagander
2004-02-18Here is a patch that implements setitimer() on win32. With this patchBruce Momjian
applied, deadlock detection and statement_timeout now works. The file timer.c goes into src/backend/port/win32/. The patch also removes two lines of "printf debugging" accidentally left in pqsignal.h, in the console control handler. Magnus Hagander
2004-02-08Win32 signals cleanup. Patch by Magnus Hagander, with input from ClaudioNeil Conway
Natoli and Bruce Momjian (and some cosmetic fixes from Neil Conway). Changes: - remove duplicate signal definitions from pqsignal.h - replace pqkill() with kill() and redefine kill() in Win32 - use ereport() in place of fprintf() in some error handling in pqsignal.c - export pg_queue_signal() and make use of it where necessary - add a console control handler for Ctrl-C and similar handling on Win32 - do WaitForSingleObjectEx() in CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS() on Win32; query cancelling should now work on Win32 - various other fixes and cleanups
2004-01-27Pgindent win32 signal code.Bruce Momjian
2004-01-27Here's the latest win32 signals code, this time in the form of a patchBruce Momjian
against the latest shapshot. It also includes the replacement of kill() with pqkill() and sigsetmask() with pqsigsetmask(). Passes all tests fine on my linux machine once applied. Still doesn't link completely on Win32 - there are a few things still required. But much closer than before. At Bruce's request, I'm goint to write up a README file about the method of signals delivery chosen and why the others were rejected (basically a summary of the mailinglist discussions). I'll finish that up once/if the patch is accepted. Magnus Hagander
2003-11-29$Header: -> $PostgreSQL Changes ...PostgreSQL Daemon
2003-08-04Update copyrights to 2003.Bruce Momjian
2002-06-20Update copyright to 2002.Bruce Momjian
2001-11-05New pgindent run with fixes suggested by Tom. Patch manually reviewed,Bruce Momjian
initdb/regression tests pass.
2001-09-21Add an overall timeout on the client authentication cycle, so thatTom Lane
a hung client or lost connection can't indefinitely block a postmaster child (not to mention the possibility of deliberate DoS attacks). Timeout is controlled by new authentication_timeout GUC variable, which I set to 60 seconds by default ... does that seem reasonable?
2001-09-08Clean up some confusion about where and how to set whereToSendOutput.Tom Lane
We will no longer try to send elog messages to the client before we have initialized backend libpq (oops); however, reporting bogus commandline switches via elog does work now (not irrelevant, because of PGOPTIONS). Fix problem with inappropriate sending of checkpoint-process messages to stderr.