/*------------------------------------------------------------------------- * * database.c * miscellaneous initialization support stuff * * Portions Copyright (c) 1996-2004, PostgreSQL Global Development Group * Portions Copyright (c) 1994, Regents of the University of California * * * IDENTIFICATION * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/backend/utils/misc/database.c,v 1.62 2004/08/29 04:13:00 momjian Exp $ * *------------------------------------------------------------------------- */ #include "postgres.h" #include #include #include "access/xact.h" #include "catalog/catname.h" #include "catalog/catalog.h" #include "catalog/pg_database.h" #include "catalog/pg_tablespace.h" #include "miscadmin.h" #include "utils/syscache.h" static bool PhonyHeapTupleSatisfiesNow(HeapTupleHeader tuple); /* -------------------------------- * GetRawDatabaseInfo() -- Find the OID and tablespace of the database. * * We need both the OID and the default tablespace in order to find * the database's system catalogs. Moreover the database's OID forms * half of the unique key for the system caches and lock tables, so * we must have it before we can use any of the cache mechanisms. * To get around these problems, this code opens and scans the * pg_database relation by hand. * * This code knows way more than it should about the layout of * tuples on disk, but there seems to be no help for that. * We're pulling ourselves up by the bootstraps here... * -------------------------------- */ void GetRawDatabaseInfo(const char *name, Oid *db_id, Oid *db_tablespace) { int dbfd; int nbytes; HeapTupleData tup; Form_pg_database tup_db; Page pg; char *dbfname; RelFileNode rnode; /* hard-wired path to pg_database */ rnode.spcNode = GLOBALTABLESPACE_OID; rnode.dbNode = 0; rnode.relNode = RelOid_pg_database; dbfname = relpath(rnode); if ((dbfd = open(dbfname, O_RDONLY | PG_BINARY, 0)) < 0) ereport(FATAL, (errcode_for_file_access(), errmsg("could not open file \"%s\": %m", dbfname))); pfree(dbfname); /* * read and examine every page in pg_database * * Raw I/O! Read those tuples the hard way! Yow! * * Why don't we use the access methods or move this code someplace else? * This is really pg_database schema dependent code. Perhaps it * should go in lib/catalog/pg_database? -cim 10/3/90 * * mao replies 4 apr 91: yeah, maybe this should be moved to * lib/catalog. however, we CANNOT use the access methods since those * use the buffer cache, which uses the relation cache, which requires * that the dbid be set, which is what we're trying to do here. * */ pg = (Page) palloc(BLCKSZ); while ((nbytes = read(dbfd, pg, BLCKSZ)) == BLCKSZ) { OffsetNumber max = PageGetMaxOffsetNumber(pg); OffsetNumber lineoff; /* look at each tuple on the page */ for (lineoff = FirstOffsetNumber; lineoff <= max; lineoff++) { ItemId lpp = PageGetItemId(pg, lineoff); /* if it's a freed tuple, ignore it */ if (!ItemIdIsUsed(lpp)) continue; /* get a pointer to the tuple itself */ tup.t_datamcxt = NULL; tup.t_data = (HeapTupleHeader) PageGetItem(pg, lpp); /* * Check to see if tuple is valid (committed). * * XXX warning, will robinson: violation of transaction semantics * happens right here. We cannot really determine if the * tuple is valid without checking transaction commit status, * and the only way to do that at init time is to paw over * pg_clog by hand, too. Instead of checking, we assume that * the inserting transaction committed, and that any deleting * transaction did also, unless shown otherwise by on-row * commit status bits. * * All in all, this code is pretty shaky. We will cross-check * our result in ReverifyMyDatabase() in postinit.c. * * NOTE: if a bogus tuple in pg_database prevents connection to a * valid database, a fix is to connect to another database and * do "select * from pg_database". That should cause * committed and dead tuples to be marked with correct states. * * XXX wouldn't it be better to let new backends read the * database info from a flat file, handled the same way we * handle the password relation? */ if (!PhonyHeapTupleSatisfiesNow(tup.t_data)) continue; /* * Okay, see if this is the one we want. */ tup_db = (Form_pg_database) GETSTRUCT(&tup); if (strcmp(name, NameStr(tup_db->datname)) == 0) { /* Found it; extract the db's OID and tablespace. */ *db_id = HeapTupleGetOid(&tup); *db_tablespace = tup_db->dattablespace; goto done; } } } /* failed to find it... */ *db_id = InvalidOid; *db_tablespace = InvalidOid; done: close(dbfd); pfree(pg); } /* * PhonyHeapTupleSatisfiesNow --- cut-down tuple time qual test * * This is a simplified version of HeapTupleSatisfiesNow() that does not * depend on having transaction commit info available. Any transaction * that touched the tuple is assumed committed unless later marked invalid. * (While we could think about more complex rules, this seems appropriate * for examining pg_database, since both CREATE DATABASE and DROP DATABASE * are non-roll-back-able.) */ static bool PhonyHeapTupleSatisfiesNow(HeapTupleHeader tuple) { if (!(tuple->t_infomask & HEAP_XMIN_COMMITTED)) { if (tuple->t_infomask & HEAP_XMIN_INVALID) return false; if (tuple->t_infomask & HEAP_MOVED_OFF) return false; /* else assume committed */ } if (tuple->t_infomask & HEAP_XMAX_INVALID) /* xid invalid or aborted */ return true; /* assume xmax transaction committed */ if (tuple->t_infomask & HEAP_MARKED_FOR_UPDATE) return true; return false; }