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* IWYU widely useful pragmasPeter Eisentraut2025-01-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add various widely useful "IWYU pragma" annotations, such as - Common header files such as c.h, postgres.h should be "always_keep". - System headers included in c.h, postgres.h etc. should be considered "export". - Some portability headers such as getopt_long.h should be "always_keep", so they are not considered superfluous on some platforms. - Certain system headers included from portability headers should be considered "export" because the purpose of the portability header is to wrap them. - Superfluous includes marked as "for backward compatibility" get a formal IWYU annotation. - Generated header included in utils/syscache.h is marked exported. This is a very commonly used include and this avoids lots of complaints. Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/9395d484-eff4-47c2-b276-8e228526c8ae@eisentraut.org
* Update copyright for 2025Bruce Momjian2025-01-01
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* Update copyright for 2024Bruce Momjian2024-01-03
| | | | | | | | Reported-by: Michael Paquier Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ZZKTDPxBBMt3C0J9@paquier.xyz Backpatch-through: 12
* New header varatt.h split off from postgres.hPeter Eisentraut2023-01-10
| | | | | | | | | This new header contains all the variable-length data types support (TOAST support) from postgres.h, which isn't needed by large parts of the backend code. Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/ddcce239-0f29-6e62-4b47-1f8ca742addf%40enterprisedb.com
* Update copyright for 2023Bruce Momjian2023-01-02
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* Simplify our Assert infrastructure a little.Tom Lane2022-10-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Remove the Trap and TrapMacro macros, which were nearly unused and confusingly had the opposite condition polarity from the otherwise-functionally-equivalent Assert macros. Having done that, it's very hard to justify carrying the errorType argument of ExceptionalCondition, so drop that too, and just let it assume everything's an Assert. This saves about 64K of code space as of current HEAD. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3928703.1665345117@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Convert *GetDatum() and DatumGet*() macros to inline functionsPeter Eisentraut2022-09-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | The previous macro implementations just cast the argument to a target type but did not check whether the input type was appropriate. The function implementation can do better type checking of the input type. For the *GetDatumFast() macros, converting to an inline function doesn't work in the !USE_FLOAT8_BYVAL case, but we can use AssertVariableIsOfTypeMacro() to get a similar level of type checking. Reviewed-by: Aleksander Alekseev <aleksander@timescale.com> Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/8528fb7e-0aa2-6b54-85fb-0c0886dbd6ed%40enterprisedb.com
* Revert "Convert *GetDatum() and DatumGet*() macros to inline functions"Peter Eisentraut2022-09-12
| | | | | | This reverts commit 595836e99bf1ee6d43405b885fb69bb8c6d3ee23. It has problems when USE_FLOAT8_BYVAL is off.
* Convert *GetDatum() and DatumGet*() macros to inline functionsPeter Eisentraut2022-09-12
| | | | | | | | | The previous macro implementations just cast the argument to a target type but did not check whether the input type was appropriate. The function implementation can do better type checking of the input type. Reviewed-by: Aleksander Alekseev <aleksander@timescale.com> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/8528fb7e-0aa2-6b54-85fb-0c0886dbd6ed%40enterprisedb.com
* Move NON_EXEC_STATIC from c.h to postgres.hPeter Eisentraut2022-08-25
| | | | | | | It is not needed at the scope of c.h, only in backend code. Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/a6a6b48e-ca0a-b58d-18de-98e40d94b842%40enterprisedb.com
* Update copyright for 2022Bruce Momjian2022-01-07
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* Fix misleading comments about TOAST access macros.Tom Lane2021-09-08
| | | | | | | Seems to have been my error in commit aeb1631ed. Noted by Christoph Berg. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/YTeLipdnSOg4NNcI@msg.df7cb.de
* Mostly-cosmetic adjustments of TOAST-related macros.Tom Lane2021-03-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The authors of bbe0a81db hadn't quite got the idea that macros named like SOMETHING_4B_C were only meant for internal endianness-related details in postgres.h. Choose more legible names for macros that are intended to be used elsewhere. Rearrange postgres.h a bit to clarify the separation between those internal macros and ones intended for wider use. Also, avoid using the term "rawsize" for true decompressed size; we've used "extsize" for that, because "rawsize" generally denotes total Datum size including header. This choice seemed particularly unfortunate in tests that were comparing one of these meanings to the other. This patch includes a couple of not-purely-cosmetic changes: be sure that the shifts aligning compression methods are unsigned (not critical today, but will be when compression method 2 exists), and fix broken definition of VARATT_EXTERNAL_GET_COMPRESSION (now VARATT_EXTERNAL_GET_COMPRESS_METHOD), whose callers worked only accidentally. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/574197.1616428079@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Allow configurable LZ4 TOAST compression.Robert Haas2021-03-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There is now a per-column COMPRESSION option which can be set to pglz (the default, and the only option in up until now) or lz4. Or, if you like, you can set the new default_toast_compression GUC to lz4, and then that will be the default for new table columns for which no value is specified. We don't have lz4 support in the PostgreSQL code, so to use lz4 compression, PostgreSQL must be built --with-lz4. In general, TOAST compression means compression of individual column values, not the whole tuple, and those values can either be compressed inline within the tuple or compressed and then stored externally in the TOAST table, so those properties also apply to this feature. Prior to this commit, a TOAST pointer has two unused bits as part of the va_extsize field, and a compessed datum has two unused bits as part of the va_rawsize field. These bits are unused because the length of a varlena is limited to 1GB; we now use them to indicate the compression type that was used. This means we only have bit space for 2 more built-in compresison types, but we could work around that problem, if necessary, by introducing a new vartag_external value for any further types we end up wanting to add. Hopefully, it won't be too important to offer a wide selection of algorithms here, since each one we add not only takes more coding but also adds a build dependency for every packager. Nevertheless, it seems worth doing at least this much, because LZ4 gets better compression than PGLZ with less CPU usage. It's possible for LZ4-compressed datums to leak into composite type values stored on disk, just as it is for PGLZ. It's also possible for LZ4-compressed attributes to be copied into a different table via SQL commands such as CREATE TABLE AS or INSERT .. SELECT. It would be expensive to force such values to be decompressed, so PostgreSQL has never done so. For the same reasons, we also don't force recompression of already-compressed values even if the target table prefers a different compression method than was used for the source data. These architectural decisions are perhaps arguable but revisiting them is well beyond the scope of what seemed possible to do as part of this project. However, it's relatively cheap to recompress as part of VACUUM FULL or CLUSTER, so this commit adjusts those commands to do so, if the configured compression method of the table happens not to match what was used for some column value stored therein. Dilip Kumar. The original patches on which this work was based were written by Ildus Kurbangaliev, and those were patches were based on even earlier work by Nikita Glukhov, but the design has since changed very substantially, since allow a potentially large number of compression methods that could be added and dropped on a running system proved too problematic given some of the architectural issues mentioned above; the choice of which specific compression method to add first is now different; and a lot of the code has been heavily refactored. More recently, Justin Przyby helped quite a bit with testing and reviewing and this version also includes some code contributions from him. Other design input and review from Tomas Vondra, Álvaro Herrera, Andres Freund, Oleg Bartunov, Alexander Korotkov, and me. Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/20170907194236.4cefce96%40wp.localdomain Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAFiTN-uUpX3ck%3DK0mLEk-G_kUQY%3DSNOTeqdaNRR9FMdQrHKebw%40mail.gmail.com
* Update copyright for 2021Bruce Momjian2021-01-02
| | | | Backpatch-through: 9.5
* Update copyrights for 2020Bruce Momjian2020-01-01
| | | | Backpatch-through: update all files in master, backpatch legal files through 9.4
* Remove configure --disable-float4-byvalPeter Eisentraut2019-11-21
| | | | | | | | | | | This build option was only useful to maintain compatibility for version-0 functions, but those are no longer supported, so this option can be removed. float4 is now always pass-by-value; the pass-by-reference code path is completely removed. Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/f3e1e576-2749-bbd7-2d57-3f9dcf75255a@2ndquadrant.com
* Change function call information to be variable length.Andres Freund2019-01-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Before this change FunctionCallInfoData, the struct arguments etc for V1 function calls are stored in, always had space for FUNC_MAX_ARGS/100 arguments, storing datums and their nullness in two arrays. For nearly every function call 100 arguments is far more than needed, therefore wasting memory. Arg and argnull being two separate arrays also guarantees that to access a single argument, two cachelines have to be touched. Change the layout so there's a single variable-length array with pairs of value / isnull. That drastically reduces memory consumption for most function calls (on x86-64 a two argument function now uses 64bytes, previously 936 bytes), and makes it very likely that argument value and its nullness are on the same cacheline. Arguments are stored in a new NullableDatum struct, which, due to padding, needs more memory per argument than before. But as usually far fewer arguments are stored, and individual arguments are cheaper to access, that's still a clear win. It's likely that there's other places where conversion to NullableDatum arrays would make sense, e.g. TupleTableSlots, but that's for another commit. Because the function call information is now variable-length allocations have to take the number of arguments into account. For heap allocations that can be done with SizeForFunctionCallInfoData(), for on-stack allocations there's a new LOCAL_FCINFO(name, nargs) macro that helps to allocate an appropriately sized and aligned variable. Some places with stack allocation function call information don't know the number of arguments at compile time, and currently variably sized stack allocations aren't allowed in postgres. Therefore allow for FUNC_MAX_ARGS space in these cases. They're not that common, so for now that seems acceptable. Because of the need to allocate FunctionCallInfo of the appropriate size, older extensions may need to update their code. To avoid subtle breakages, the FunctionCallInfoData struct has been renamed to FunctionCallInfoBaseData. Most code only references FunctionCallInfo, so that shouldn't cause much collateral damage. This change is also a prerequisite for more efficient expression JIT compilation (by allocating the function call information on the stack, allowing LLVM to optimize it away); previously the size of the call information caused problems inside LLVM's optimizer. Author: Andres Freund Reviewed-By: Tom Lane Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180605172952.x34m5uz6ju6enaem@alap3.anarazel.de
* Update copyright for 2019Bruce Momjian2019-01-02
| | | | Backpatch-through: certain files through 9.4
* Detoast plpgsql variables if they might live across a transaction boundary.Tom Lane2018-05-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Up to now, it's been safe for plpgsql to store TOAST pointers in its variables because the ActiveSnapshot for whatever query called the plpgsql function will surely protect such TOAST values from being vacuumed away, even if the owning table rows are committed dead. With the introduction of procedures, that assumption is no longer good in "non atomic" executions of plpgsql code. We adopt the slightly brute-force solution of detoasting all TOAST pointers at the time they are stored into variables, if we're in a non-atomic context, just in case the owning row goes away. Some care is needed to avoid long-term memory leaks, since plpgsql tends to run with CurrentMemoryContext pointing to its call-lifespan context, but we shouldn't assume that no memory is leaked by heap_tuple_fetch_attr. In plpgsql proper, we can do the detoasting work in the "eval_mcontext". Most of the code thrashing here is due to the need to add this capability to expandedrecord.c as well as plpgsql proper. In expandedrecord.c, we can't assume that the caller's context is short-lived, so make use of the short-term sub-context that was already invented for checking domain constraints. In view of this repurposing, it seems good to rename that variable and associated code from "domain_check_cxt" to "short_term_cxt". Peter Eisentraut and Tom Lane Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/5AC06865.9050005@anastigmatix.net
* Move the extern declaration for ExceptionalCondition into c.h.Tom Lane2018-02-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This is the logical conclusion of our decision to support Assert() in both frontend and backend code: it should be possible to use that after including just c.h. But as things were arranged before, if you wanted to use Assert() in code that might be compiled for either environment, you had to include postgres.h for the backend case. Let's simplify that. Per buildfarm, some of whose members started throwing warnings after commit 0c62356cc added an Assert in src/port/snprintf.c. It's possible that some other src/port files that use the stanza #ifndef FRONTEND #include "postgres.h" #else #include "postgres_fe.h" #endif could now be simplified to just say '#include "c.h"'. I have not tested for that, though, and it'd be unlikely to apply for more than a small number of them.
* Remove byte-masking macros for Datum conversion macrosPeter Eisentraut2018-01-26
| | | | | | | | As the comment there stated, these were needed for old-style user-defined functions, but since we removed support for those, we don't need this anymore. Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
* Update copyright for 2018Bruce Momjian2018-01-02
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* Phase 3 of pgindent updates.Tom Lane2017-06-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Don't move parenthesized lines to the left, even if that means they flow past the right margin. By default, BSD indent lines up statement continuation lines that are within parentheses so that they start just to the right of the preceding left parenthesis. However, traditionally, if that resulted in the continuation line extending to the right of the desired right margin, then indent would push it left just far enough to not overrun the margin, if it could do so without making the continuation line start to the left of the current statement indent. That makes for a weird mix of indentations unless one has been completely rigid about never violating the 80-column limit. This behavior has been pretty universally panned by Postgres developers. Hence, disable it with indent's new -lpl switch, so that parenthesized lines are always lined up with the preceding left paren. This patch is much less interesting than the first round of indent changes, but also bulkier, so I thought it best to separate the effects. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1dAmxK-0006EE-1r@gemulon.postgresql.org Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/30527.1495162840@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Phase 2 of pgindent updates.Tom Lane2017-06-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Change pg_bsd_indent to follow upstream rules for placement of comments to the right of code, and remove pgindent hack that caused comments following #endif to not obey the general rule. Commit e3860ffa4dd0dad0dd9eea4be9cc1412373a8c89 wasn't actually using the published version of pg_bsd_indent, but a hacked-up version that tried to minimize the amount of movement of comments to the right of code. The situation of interest is where such a comment has to be moved to the right of its default placement at column 33 because there's code there. BSD indent has always moved right in units of tab stops in such cases --- but in the previous incarnation, indent was working in 8-space tab stops, while now it knows we use 4-space tabs. So the net result is that in about half the cases, such comments are placed one tab stop left of before. This is better all around: it leaves more room on the line for comment text, and it means that in such cases the comment uniformly starts at the next 4-space tab stop after the code, rather than sometimes one and sometimes two tabs after. Also, ensure that comments following #endif are indented the same as comments following other preprocessor commands such as #else. That inconsistency turns out to have been self-inflicted damage from a poorly-thought-through post-indent "fixup" in pgindent. This patch is much less interesting than the first round of indent changes, but also bulkier, so I thought it best to separate the effects. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1dAmxK-0006EE-1r@gemulon.postgresql.org Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/30527.1495162840@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Initial pgindent run with pg_bsd_indent version 2.0.Tom Lane2017-06-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The new indent version includes numerous fixes thanks to Piotr Stefaniak. The main changes visible in this commit are: * Nicer formatting of function-pointer declarations. * No longer unexpectedly removes spaces in expressions using casts, sizeof, or offsetof. * No longer wants to add a space in "struct structname *varname", as well as some similar cases for const- or volatile-qualified pointers. * Declarations using PG_USED_FOR_ASSERTS_ONLY are formatted more nicely. * Fixes bug where comments following declarations were sometimes placed with no space separating them from the code. * Fixes some odd decisions for comments following case labels. * Fixes some cases where comments following code were indented to less than the expected column 33. On the less good side, it now tends to put more whitespace around typedef names that are not listed in typedefs.list. This might encourage us to put more effort into typedef name collection; it's not really a bug in indent itself. There are more changes coming after this round, having to do with comment indentation and alignment of lines appearing within parentheses. I wanted to limit the size of the diffs to something that could be reviewed without one's eyes completely glazing over, so it seemed better to split up the changes as much as practical. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1dAmxK-0006EE-1r@gemulon.postgresql.org Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/30527.1495162840@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Avoid -Wconversion warnings from direct use of GET_n_BYTES macros.Tom Lane2017-05-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The GET/SET_n_BYTES macros are meant to be infrastructure for the DatumGetFoo/FooGetDatum macros, which include a cast to the intended target type. Using them directly without a cast, as DatumGetFloat4 and friends previously did, can yield warnings when -Wconversion is on. This is of little significance when building Postgres proper, because there are such a huge number of such warnings in the server that nobody would think -Wconversion is of any use. But some extensions build with -Wconversion due to outside constraints. Commit 14cca1bf8 did a disservice to those extensions by moving DatumGetFloat4 et al into postgres.h, where they can now cause warnings in extension builds. To fix, use DatumGetInt32 and friends in place of the low-level macros. This is arguably a bit cleaner anyway. Chapman Flack Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/592E4D04.1070609@anastigmatix.net
* Recommend wrappers of PG_DETOAST_DATUM_PACKED().Noah Misch2017-03-12
| | | | | | | | | | When commit 3e23b68dac006e8deb0afa327e855258df8de064 introduced single-byte varlena headers, its fmgr.h changes presented PG_GETARG_TEXT_PP() and PG_GETARG_TEXT_P() as equals. Its postgres.h changes presented PG_DETOAST_DATUM_PACKED() and VARDATA_ANY() as the exceptional case. Now, instead, firmly recommend PG_GETARG_TEXT_PP() over PG_GETARG_TEXT_P(); likewise for other ...PP() macros. This shaves cycles and invites consistency of style.
* Update copyright via script for 2017Bruce Momjian2017-01-03
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* Be pickier about converting between Name and Datum.Tom Lane2016-09-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | We were misapplying NameGetDatum() to plain C strings in some places. This worked, because it was just a pointer cast anyway, but it's a type cheat in some sense. Use CStringGetDatum instead, and modify the NameGetDatum macro so it won't compile if applied to something that's not a pointer to NameData. This should result in no changes to generated code, but it is logically cleaner. Mark Dilger, tweaked a bit by me Discussion: <EFD8AC94-4C1F-40C1-A5EA-304080089C1B@gmail.com>
* Use static inline functions for float <-> Datum conversions.Heikki Linnakangas2016-08-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Now that we are OK with using static inline functions, we can use them to avoid function call overhead of pass-by-val versions of Float4GetDatum, DatumGetFloat8, and Float8GetDatum. Those functions are only a few CPU instructions long, but they could not be written into macros previously, because we need a local union variable for the conversion. I kept the pass-by-ref versions as regular functions. They are very simple too, but they call palloc() anyway, so shaving a few instructions from the function call doesn't seem so important there. Discussion: <dbb82a4a-2c15-ba27-dd0a-009d2aa72b77@iki.fi>
* Adjust DatumGetBool macro, this time for sure.Tom Lane2016-04-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Commit 23a41573c attempted to fix the DatumGetBool macro to ignore bits in a Datum that are to the left of the actual bool value. But it did that by casting the Datum to bool; and on compilers that use C99 semantics for bool, that ends up being a whole-word test, not a 1-byte test. This seems to be the true explanation for contrib/seg failing in VS2015. To fix, use GET_1_BYTE() explicitly. I think in the previous patch, I'd had some idea of not having to commit to bool being exactly 1 byte wide, but regardless of what the compiler's bool is, boolean columns and Datums are certainly 1 byte wide. The previous fix was (eventually) back-patched into all active versions, so do likewise with this one.
* Widen query numbers-of-tuples-processed counters to uint64.Tom Lane2016-03-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch widens SPI_processed, EState's es_processed field, PortalData's portalPos field, FuncCallContext's call_cntr and max_calls fields, ExecutorRun's count argument, PortalRunFetch's result, and the max number of rows in a SPITupleTable to uint64, and deals with (I hope) all the ensuing fallout. Some of these values were declared uint32 before, and others "long". I also removed PortalData's posOverflow field, since that logic seems pretty useless given that portalPos is now always 64 bits. The user-visible results are that command tags for SELECT etc will correctly report tuple counts larger than 4G, as will plpgsql's GET GET DIAGNOSTICS ... ROW_COUNT command. Queries processing more tuples than that are still not exactly the norm, but they're becoming more common. Most values associated with FETCH/MOVE distances, such as PortalRun's count argument and the count argument of most SPI functions that have one, remain declared as "long". It's not clear whether it would be worth promoting those to int64; but it would definitely be a large dollop of additional API churn on top of this, and it would only help 32-bit platforms which seem relatively less likely to see any benefit. Andreas Scherbaum, reviewed by Christian Ullrich, additional hacking by me
* Update copyright for 2016Bruce Momjian2016-01-02
| | | | Backpatch certain files through 9.1
* Support "expanded" objects, particularly arrays, for better performance.Tom Lane2015-05-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch introduces the ability for complex datatypes to have an in-memory representation that is different from their on-disk format. On-disk formats are typically optimized for minimal size, and in any case they can't contain pointers, so they are often not well-suited for computation. Now a datatype can invent an "expanded" in-memory format that is better suited for its operations, and then pass that around among the C functions that operate on the datatype. There are also provisions (rudimentary as yet) to allow an expanded object to be modified in-place under suitable conditions, so that operations like assignment to an element of an array need not involve copying the entire array. The initial application for this feature is arrays, but it is not hard to foresee using it for other container types like JSON, XML and hstore. I have hopes that it will be useful to PostGIS as well. In this initial implementation, a few heuristics have been hard-wired into plpgsql to improve performance for arrays that are stored in plpgsql variables. We would like to generalize those hacks so that other datatypes can obtain similar improvements, but figuring out some appropriate APIs is left as a task for future work. (The heuristics themselves are probably not optimal yet, either, as they sometimes force expansion of arrays that would be better left alone.) Preliminary performance testing shows impressive speed gains for plpgsql functions that do element-by-element access or update of large arrays. There are other cases that get a little slower, as a result of added array format conversions; but we can hope to improve anything that's annoyingly bad. In any case most applications should see a net win. Tom Lane, reviewed by Andres Freund
* Tweak __attribute__-wrapping macros for better pgindent results.Tom Lane2015-03-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This improves on commit bbfd7edae5aa5ad5553d3c7e102f2e450d4380d4 by making two simple changes: * pg_attribute_noreturn now takes parentheses, ie pg_attribute_noreturn(). Likewise pg_attribute_unused(), pg_attribute_packed(). This reduces pgindent's tendency to misformat declarations involving them. * attributes are now always attached to function declarations, not definitions. Previously some places were taking creative shortcuts, which were not merely candidates for bad misformatting by pgindent but often were outright wrong anyway. (It does little good to put a noreturn annotation where callers can't see it.) In any case, if we would like to believe that these macros can be used with non-gcc compilers, we should avoid gratuitous variance in usage patterns. I also went through and manually improved the formatting of a lot of declarations, and got rid of excessively repetitive (and now obsolete anyway) comments informing the reader what pg_attribute_printf is for.
* Add macros wrapping all usage of gcc's __attribute__.Andres Freund2015-03-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Until now __attribute__() was defined to be empty for all compilers but gcc. That's problematic because it prevents using it in other compilers; which is necessary e.g. for atomics portability. It's also just generally dubious to do so in a header as widely included as c.h. Instead add pg_attribute_format_arg, pg_attribute_printf, pg_attribute_noreturn macros which are implemented in the compilers that understand them. Also add pg_attribute_noreturn and pg_attribute_packed, but don't provide fallbacks, since they can affect functionality. This means that external code that, possibly unwittingly, relied on __attribute__ defined to be empty on !gcc compilers may now run into warnings or errors on those compilers. But there shouldn't be many occurances of that and it's hard to work around... Discussion: 54B58BA3.8040302@ohmu.fi Author: Oskari Saarenmaa, with some minor changes by me.
* Use FLEXIBLE_ARRAY_MEMBER in a bunch more places.Tom Lane2015-02-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Replace some bogus "x[1]" declarations with "x[FLEXIBLE_ARRAY_MEMBER]". Aside from being more self-documenting, this should help prevent bogus warnings from static code analyzers and perhaps compiler misoptimizations. This patch is just a down payment on eliminating the whole problem, but it gets rid of a lot of easy-to-fix cases. Note that the main problem with doing this is that one must no longer rely on computing sizeof(the containing struct), since the result would be compiler-dependent. Instead use offsetof(struct, lastfield). Autoconf also warns against spelling that offsetof(struct, lastfield[0]). Michael Paquier, review and additional fixes by me.
* Minor cleanup/code review for "indirect toast" stuff.Tom Lane2015-02-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix some issues I noticed while fooling with an extension to allow an additional kind of toast pointer. Much of this is just comment improvement, but there are a couple of actual bugs, which might or might not be reachable today depending on what can happen during logical decoding. An example is that toast_flatten_tuple() failed to cover the possibility of an indirection pointer in its input. Back-patch to 9.4 just in case that is reachable now. In HEAD, also correct some really minor issues with recent compression reorganization, such as dangerously underparenthesized macros.
* Update copyright for 2015Bruce Momjian2015-01-06
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* Fix typos in comments.Fujii Masao2014-07-07
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* Don't allow to disable backend assertions via the debug_assertions GUC.Andres Freund2014-06-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The existance of the assert_enabled variable (backing the debug_assertions GUC) reduced the amount of knowledge some static code checkers (like coverity and various compilers) could infer from the existance of the assertion. That could have been solved by optionally removing the assertion_enabled variable from the Assert() et al macros at compile time when some special macro is defined, but the resulting complication doesn't seem to be worth the gain from having debug_assertions. Recompiling is fast enough. The debug_assertions GUC is still available, but readonly, as it's useful when diagnosing problems. The commandline/client startup option -A, which previously also allowed to enable/disable assertions, has been removed as it doesn't serve a purpose anymore. While at it, reduce code duplication in bufmgr.c and localbuf.c assertions checking for spurious buffer pins. That code had to be reindented anyway to cope with the assert_enabled removal.
* pgindent run for 9.4Bruce Momjian2014-05-06
| | | | | This includes removing tabs after periods in C comments, which was applied to back branches, so this change should not effect backpatching.
* Further code review for pg_lsn data type.Robert Haas2014-02-19
| | | | | | | | | Change input function error messages to be more consistent with what is done elsewhere. Remove a bunch of redundant type casts, so that the compiler will warn us if we screw up. Don't pass LSNs by value on platforms where a Datum is only 32 bytes, per buildfarm. Move macros for packing and unpacking LSNs to pg_lsn.h so that we can include access/xlogdefs.h, to avoid an unsatisfied dependency on XLogRecPtr.
* pg_lsn macro naming and type behavior revisions.Robert Haas2014-02-19
| | | | | Change pg_lsn_mi so that it can return negative values when subtracting LSNs, and clean up some perhaps ill-considered macro names.
* Add a pg_lsn data type, to represent an LSN.Robert Haas2014-02-19
| | | | Robert Haas and Michael Paquier
* Update copyright for 2014Bruce Momjian2014-01-07
| | | | | Update all files in head, and files COPYRIGHT and legal.sgml in all back branches.
* Add comment for VARSIZE_ANY_EXHDR macroBruce Momjian2013-09-10
| | | | Gurjeet Singh
* Add support for multiple kinds of external toast datums.Robert Haas2013-07-02
| | | | | | | | | | | To that end, support tags rather than lengths for external datums. As an example of how this can be used, add support or "indirect" tuples which point to some externally allocated memory containing a toast tuple. Similar infrastructure could be used for other purposes, including, perhaps, support for alternative compression algorithms. Andres Freund, reviewed by Hitoshi Harada and myself
* pgindent run for release 9.3Bruce Momjian2013-05-29
| | | | | This is the first run of the Perl-based pgindent script. Also update pgindent instructions.