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<subtitle>git.postgresql.org: git/postgresql.git
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<entry>
<title>Fix CREATE INDEX progress reporting for multi-level partitioning.</title>
<updated>2023-03-25T19:34:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tom Lane</name>
<email>tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us</email>
</author>
<published>2023-03-25T19:33:56+00:00</published>
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The "partitions_total" and "partitions_done" fields were updated
as though the current level of partitioning was the only one.
In multi-level cases, not only could partitions_total change
over the course of the command, but partitions_done could go
backwards or exceed the currently-reported partitions_total.

Fix by setting partitions_total to the total number of direct
and indirect children once at command start, and then just
incrementing partitions_done at appropriate points.  Invent
a new progress monitoring function "pgstat_progress_incr_param"
to simplify doing the latter.  We can avoid adding cost for the
former when doing CREATE INDEX, because ProcessUtility already
enumerates the children and it's pretty easy to pass the count
down to DefineIndex.  In principle the same could be done in
ALTER TABLE, but that's structurally difficult; for now, just
eat the cost of an extra find_all_inheritors scan in that case.

Ilya Gladyshev and Justin Pryzby

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a15f904a70924ffa4ca25c3c744cff31e0e6e143.camel@gmail.com
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The "partitions_total" and "partitions_done" fields were updated
as though the current level of partitioning was the only one.
In multi-level cases, not only could partitions_total change
over the course of the command, but partitions_done could go
backwards or exceed the currently-reported partitions_total.

Fix by setting partitions_total to the total number of direct
and indirect children once at command start, and then just
incrementing partitions_done at appropriate points.  Invent
a new progress monitoring function "pgstat_progress_incr_param"
to simplify doing the latter.  We can avoid adding cost for the
former when doing CREATE INDEX, because ProcessUtility already
enumerates the children and it's pretty easy to pass the count
down to DefineIndex.  In principle the same could be done in
ALTER TABLE, but that's structurally difficult; for now, just
eat the cost of an extra find_all_inheritors scan in that case.

Ilya Gladyshev and Justin Pryzby

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a15f904a70924ffa4ca25c3c744cff31e0e6e143.camel@gmail.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>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Order getopt arguments</title>
<updated>2022-12-12T14:20:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Eisentraut</name>
<email>peter@eisentraut.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-12-12T13:33:41+00:00</published>
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Order the letters in the arguments of getopt() and getopt_long(), as
well as in the subsequent switch statements.  In most cases, I used
alphabetical with lower case first.  In a few cases, existing
different orders (e.g., upper case first) was kept to reduce the diff
size.

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/3efd0fe8-351b-f836-9122-886002602357%40enterprisedb.com
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Order the letters in the arguments of getopt() and getopt_long(), as
well as in the subsequent switch statements.  In most cases, I used
alphabetical with lower case first.  In a few cases, existing
different orders (e.g., upper case first) was kept to reduce the diff
size.

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/3efd0fe8-351b-f836-9122-886002602357%40enterprisedb.com
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Remove AssertArg and AssertState</title>
<updated>2022-10-28T07:19:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Eisentraut</name>
<email>peter@eisentraut.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-10-28T07:19:06+00:00</published>
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These don't offer anything over plain Assert, and their usage had
already been declared obsolescent.

Author: Nathan Bossart &lt;nathandbossart@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier &lt;michael@paquier.xyz&gt;
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20221009210148.GA900071@nathanxps13
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These don't offer anything over plain Assert, and their usage had
already been declared obsolescent.

Author: Nathan Bossart &lt;nathandbossart@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier &lt;michael@paquier.xyz&gt;
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20221009210148.GA900071@nathanxps13
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Store GUC data in a memory context, instead of using malloc().</title>
<updated>2022-10-14T16:10:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tom Lane</name>
<email>tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us</email>
</author>
<published>2022-10-14T16:10:48+00:00</published>
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The only real argument for using malloc directly was that we needed
the ability to not throw error on OOM; but mcxt.c grew that feature
awhile ago.

Keeping the data in a memory context improves accountability and
debuggability --- for example, without this it's almost impossible
to detect memory leaks in the GUC code with anything less costly
than valgrind.  Moreover, the next patch in this series will add a
hash table for GUC lookup, and it'd be pretty silly to be using
palloc-dependent hash facilities alongside malloc'd storage of the
underlying data.

This is a bit invasive though, in particular causing an API break
for GUC check hooks that want to modify the GUC's value or use an
"extra" data structure.  They must now use guc_malloc() and
guc_free() instead of malloc() and free().  Failure to change
affected code will result in assertion failures or worse; but
thanks to recent effort in the mcxt infrastructure, it shouldn't
be too hard to diagnose such oversights (at least in assert-enabled
builds).

One note is that this changes ParseLongOption() to return short-lived
palloc'd not malloc'd data.  There wasn't any caller for which the
previous definition was better.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2982579.1662416866@sss.pgh.pa.us
</content>
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<pre>
The only real argument for using malloc directly was that we needed
the ability to not throw error on OOM; but mcxt.c grew that feature
awhile ago.

Keeping the data in a memory context improves accountability and
debuggability --- for example, without this it's almost impossible
to detect memory leaks in the GUC code with anything less costly
than valgrind.  Moreover, the next patch in this series will add a
hash table for GUC lookup, and it'd be pretty silly to be using
palloc-dependent hash facilities alongside malloc'd storage of the
underlying data.

This is a bit invasive though, in particular causing an API break
for GUC check hooks that want to modify the GUC's value or use an
"extra" data structure.  They must now use guc_malloc() and
guc_free() instead of malloc() and free().  Failure to change
affected code will result in assertion failures or worse; but
thanks to recent effort in the mcxt infrastructure, it shouldn't
be too hard to diagnose such oversights (at least in assert-enabled
builds).

One note is that this changes ParseLongOption() to return short-lived
palloc'd not malloc'd data.  There wasn't any caller for which the
previous definition was better.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2982579.1662416866@sss.pgh.pa.us
</pre>
</div>
</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://91.123.203.49/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
</pre>
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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>
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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>Bump minimum version of Bison to 2.3</title>
<updated>2022-09-09T05:31:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>John Naylor</name>
<email>john.naylor@postgresql.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-09-06T04:41:58+00:00</published>
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Since the retirement of some older buildfarm members, the oldest Bison
that gets regular testing is 2.3. MacOS ships that version, and will
continue doing so for the forseeable future because of Apple's policy
regarding GPLv3. While Mac users could use a package manager to install
a newer version, there is no compelling reason to force them do so at
this time.

Reviewed by Andres Freund
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/1097762.1662145681@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Since the retirement of some older buildfarm members, the oldest Bison
that gets regular testing is 2.3. MacOS ships that version, and will
continue doing so for the forseeable future because of Apple's policy
regarding GPLv3. While Mac users could use a package manager to install
a newer version, there is no compelling reason to force them do so at
this time.

Reviewed by Andres Freund
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/1097762.1662145681@sss.pgh.pa.us
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Build all Flex files standalone</title>
<updated>2022-09-04T05:09:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>John Naylor</name>
<email>john.naylor@postgresql.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-09-04T04:33:31+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://91.123.203.49/cgit/delta/postgresql.git/commit/?id=dac048f71ebbcf2f980d280711f8ff8001331c5d'/>
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The proposed Meson build system will need a way to ignore certain
generated files in order to coexist with the autoconf build system,
and C files generated by Flex which are #include'd into .y files make
this more difficult. In similar vein to 72b1e3a21, arrange for all Flex
C files to compile to their own .o targets.

Reviewed by Andres Freund

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20220810171935.7k5zgnjwqzalzmtm%40awork3.anarazel.de
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAFBsxsF8Gc2StS3haXofshHCzqNMRXiSxvQEYGwnFsTmsdwNeg@mail.gmail.com
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The proposed Meson build system will need a way to ignore certain
generated files in order to coexist with the autoconf build system,
and C files generated by Flex which are #include'd into .y files make
this more difficult. In similar vein to 72b1e3a21, arrange for all Flex
C files to compile to their own .o targets.

Reviewed by Andres Freund

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20220810171935.7k5zgnjwqzalzmtm%40awork3.anarazel.de
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAFBsxsF8Gc2StS3haXofshHCzqNMRXiSxvQEYGwnFsTmsdwNeg@mail.gmail.com
</pre>
</div>
</content>
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