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<title>delta/postgresql.git/src/backend/utils/time, branch master</title>
<subtitle>git.postgresql.org: git/postgresql.git
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<entry>
<title>Fix various typos and incorrect/outdated name references</title>
<updated>2023-04-19T01:50:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Rowley</name>
<email>drowley@postgresql.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-04-19T01:50:33+00:00</published>
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Author: Alexander Lakhin
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/699beab4-a6ca-92c9-f152-f559caf6dc25@gmail.com
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Author: Alexander Lakhin
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/699beab4-a6ca-92c9-f152-f559caf6dc25@gmail.com
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Remove useless casts to (void *) in hash_search() calls</title>
<updated>2023-02-06T08:41:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Eisentraut</name>
<email>peter@eisentraut.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-02-06T08:05:20+00:00</published>
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Some of these appear to be leftovers from when hash_search() took a
char * argument (changed in 5999e78fc45dcb91784b64b6e9ae43f4e4f68ca2).

Since after this there is some more horizontal space available, do
some light reformatting where suitable.

Reviewed-by: Corey Huinker &lt;corey.huinker@gmail.com&gt;
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/fd9adf5d-b1aa-e82f-e4c7-263c30145807%40enterprisedb.com
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Some of these appear to be leftovers from when hash_search() took a
char * argument (changed in 5999e78fc45dcb91784b64b6e9ae43f4e4f68ca2).

Since after this there is some more horizontal space available, do
some light reformatting where suitable.

Reviewed-by: Corey Huinker &lt;corey.huinker@gmail.com&gt;
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/fd9adf5d-b1aa-e82f-e4c7-263c30145807%40enterprisedb.com
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Update copyright for 2023</title>
<updated>2023-01-02T20:00:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Bruce Momjian</name>
<email>bruce@momjian.us</email>
</author>
<published>2023-01-02T20:00:37+00:00</published>
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Backpatch-through: 11
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Backpatch-through: 11
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Add copyright notices to meson files</title>
<updated>2022-12-20T12:54:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrew Dunstan</name>
<email>andrew@dunslane.net</email>
</author>
<published>2022-12-20T12:54:39+00:00</published>
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Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/222b43a5-2fb3-2c1b-9cd0-375d376c8246@dunslane.net
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Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/222b43a5-2fb3-2c1b-9cd0-375d376c8246@dunslane.net
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Improve comments referring snapshot's subxip array.</title>
<updated>2022-11-15T04:07:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Amit Kapila</name>
<email>akapila@postgresql.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-11-15T04:07:19+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
It was referred to as subxact array in a few places and subxip array in
others. By changing it to subxip array, we make it consistent with similar
references to xip array.

Author: Japin Li
Reviewd by: Julien Rouhaud, Richard Guo
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/MEYP282MB1669DCE7AC193A947CED2A95B6009@MEYP282MB1669.AUSP282.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM
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It was referred to as subxact array in a few places and subxip array in
others. By changing it to subxip array, we make it consistent with similar
references to xip array.

Author: Japin Li
Reviewd by: Julien Rouhaud, Richard Guo
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/MEYP282MB1669DCE7AC193A947CED2A95B6009@MEYP282MB1669.AUSP282.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>meson: Add initial version of meson based build system</title>
<updated>2022-09-22T05:37:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andres Freund</name>
<email>andres@anarazel.de</email>
</author>
<published>2022-09-22T04:53:12+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trove.baserock.org/cgit/delta/postgresql.git/commit/?id=e6927270cd18d535b77cbe79c55c6584351524be'/>
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<content type='text'>
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 &lt;andres@anarazel.de&gt;
Author: Nazir Bilal Yavuz &lt;byavuz81@gmail.com&gt;
Author: Peter Eisentraut &lt;peter@eisentraut.org&gt;
Reviewed-By: Peter Eisentraut &lt;peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com&gt;
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20211012083721.hvixq4pnh2pixr3j@alap3.anarazel.de
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<pre>
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 &lt;andres@anarazel.de&gt;
Author: Nazir Bilal Yavuz &lt;byavuz81@gmail.com&gt;
Author: Peter Eisentraut &lt;peter@eisentraut.org&gt;
Reviewed-By: Peter Eisentraut &lt;peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com&gt;
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20211012083721.hvixq4pnh2pixr3j@alap3.anarazel.de
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Harmonize more parameter names in bulk.</title>
<updated>2022-09-20T20:09:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Geoghegan</name>
<email>pg@bowt.ie</email>
</author>
<published>2022-09-20T20:09:30+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trove.baserock.org/cgit/delta/postgresql.git/commit/?id=a601366a460f68472bf70c4d94c57baa0a3ed1b2'/>
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Make sure that function declarations use names that exactly match the
corresponding names from function definitions in optimizer, parser,
utility, libpq, and "commands" code, as well as in remaining library
code.  Do the same for all code related to frontend programs (with the
exception of pg_dump/pg_dumpall related code).

Like other recent commits that cleaned up function parameter names, this
commit was written with help from clang-tidy.  Later commits will handle
ecpg and pg_dump/pg_dumpall.

Author: Peter Geoghegan &lt;pg@bowt.ie&gt;
Reviewed-By: David Rowley &lt;dgrowleyml@gmail.com&gt;
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-WznJt9CMM9KJTMjJh_zbL5hD9oX44qdJ4aqZtjFi-zA3Tg@mail.gmail.com
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Make sure that function declarations use names that exactly match the
corresponding names from function definitions in optimizer, parser,
utility, libpq, and "commands" code, as well as in remaining library
code.  Do the same for all code related to frontend programs (with the
exception of pg_dump/pg_dumpall related code).

Like other recent commits that cleaned up function parameter names, this
commit was written with help from clang-tidy.  Later commits will handle
ecpg and pg_dump/pg_dumpall.

Author: Peter Geoghegan &lt;pg@bowt.ie&gt;
Reviewed-By: David Rowley &lt;dgrowleyml@gmail.com&gt;
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-WznJt9CMM9KJTMjJh_zbL5hD9oX44qdJ4aqZtjFi-zA3Tg@mail.gmail.com
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Optimize xid/subxid searches in XidInMVCCSnapshot().</title>
<updated>2022-08-11T02:17:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>John Naylor</name>
<email>john.naylor@postgresql.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-08-03T16:59:28+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trove.baserock.org/cgit/delta/postgresql.git/commit/?id=37a6e5df3713498a21942dae2ed3122bba5b9f50'/>
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As reported by Yura Sokolov, scanning the snapshot-&gt;xip array has
noticeable impact on scalability when there are a large number of
concurrent writers. Use the optimized (on x86-64) routine from b6ef16756
to speed up searches through the [sub]xip arrays. One benchmark showed
a 5% increase in transaction throughput with 128 concurrent writers,
and a 50% increase in a pathological case of 1024 writers. While a hash
table would have scaled even better, it was ultimately rejected because
of concerns around code complexity and memory allocation. Credit to Andres
Freund for the idea to optimize linear search using SIMD instructions.

Nathan Bossart

Reviewed by: Andres Freund, John Naylor, Bharath Rupireddy, Masahiko Sawada
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220713170950.GA3116318%40nathanxps13
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As reported by Yura Sokolov, scanning the snapshot-&gt;xip array has
noticeable impact on scalability when there are a large number of
concurrent writers. Use the optimized (on x86-64) routine from b6ef16756
to speed up searches through the [sub]xip arrays. One benchmark showed
a 5% increase in transaction throughput with 128 concurrent writers,
and a 50% increase in a pathological case of 1024 writers. While a hash
table would have scaled even better, it was ultimately rejected because
of concerns around code complexity and memory allocation. Credit to Andres
Freund for the idea to optimize linear search using SIMD instructions.

Nathan Bossart

Reviewed by: Andres Freund, John Naylor, Bharath Rupireddy, Masahiko Sawada
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220713170950.GA3116318%40nathanxps13
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Fix incorrect logic in HaveRegisteredOrActiveSnapshot().</title>
<updated>2022-04-16T20:04:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tom Lane</name>
<email>tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us</email>
</author>
<published>2022-04-16T20:04:50+00:00</published>
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This function gave the wrong answer when there's more than one
RegisteredSnapshots entry, whether or not any of them is the
CatalogSnapshot.  This leads to assertion failure in some scenarios
involving fetching toasted data using a cursor.  (As per discussion,
I'm dubious that this is the right contract to be enforcing at all;
but it surely doesn't help to be enforcing it incorrectly.)

Fetching toasted data using a cursor is evidently under-tested,
so add a test case too.

Per report from Erik Rijkers.  This is new code, so no need for
back-patch.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/dc9dd229-ed30-6c62-4c41-d733ffff776b@xs4all.nl
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This function gave the wrong answer when there's more than one
RegisteredSnapshots entry, whether or not any of them is the
CatalogSnapshot.  This leads to assertion failure in some scenarios
involving fetching toasted data using a cursor.  (As per discussion,
I'm dubious that this is the right contract to be enforcing at all;
but it surely doesn't help to be enforcing it incorrectly.)

Fetching toasted data using a cursor is evidently under-tested,
so add a test case too.

Per report from Erik Rijkers.  This is new code, so no need for
back-patch.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/dc9dd229-ed30-6c62-4c41-d733ffff776b@xs4all.nl
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Clean up assorted failures under clang's -fsanitize=undefined checks.</title>
<updated>2022-03-03T23:13:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tom Lane</name>
<email>tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us</email>
</author>
<published>2022-03-03T23:13:24+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://trove.baserock.org/cgit/delta/postgresql.git/commit/?id=46ab07ffda9d6c8e63360ded2d4568aa160a7700'/>
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Most of these are cases where we could call memcpy() or other libc
functions with a NULL pointer and a zero count, which is forbidden
by POSIX even though every production version of libc allows it.
We've fixed such things before in a piecemeal way, but apparently
never made an effort to try to get them all.  I don't claim that
this patch does so either, but it gets every failure I observe in
check-world, using clang 12.0.1 on current RHEL8.

numeric.c has a different issue that the sanitizer doesn't like:
"ln(-1.0)" will compute log10(0) and then try to assign the
resulting -Inf to an integer variable.  We don't actually use the
result in such a case, so there's no live bug.

Back-patch to all supported branches, with the idea that we might
start running a buildfarm member that tests this case.  This includes
back-patching c1132aae3 (Check the size in COPY_POINTER_FIELD),
which previously silenced some of these issues in copyfuncs.c.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALNJ-vT9r0DSsAOw9OXVJFxLENoVS_68kJ5x0p44atoYH+H4dg@mail.gmail.com
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Most of these are cases where we could call memcpy() or other libc
functions with a NULL pointer and a zero count, which is forbidden
by POSIX even though every production version of libc allows it.
We've fixed such things before in a piecemeal way, but apparently
never made an effort to try to get them all.  I don't claim that
this patch does so either, but it gets every failure I observe in
check-world, using clang 12.0.1 on current RHEL8.

numeric.c has a different issue that the sanitizer doesn't like:
"ln(-1.0)" will compute log10(0) and then try to assign the
resulting -Inf to an integer variable.  We don't actually use the
result in such a case, so there's no live bug.

Back-patch to all supported branches, with the idea that we might
start running a buildfarm member that tests this case.  This includes
back-patching c1132aae3 (Check the size in COPY_POINTER_FIELD),
which previously silenced some of these issues in copyfuncs.c.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALNJ-vT9r0DSsAOw9OXVJFxLENoVS_68kJ5x0p44atoYH+H4dg@mail.gmail.com
</pre>
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