Repositories will be searched in order for the requested archive file.
Errors will be reported as warnings as long as a valid copy of the archive file is found.
At one time Minio had stability problems with latest but that appears to be resolved for the last year or so.
Use latest so we'll know if something breaks since Minio is frequently used in production.
Multi-repository implementations for the archive-push, check, info, stanza-create, stanza-upgrade, and stanza-delete commands.
Multi-repo configuration is disabled so there should be no behavioral changes between these commands and their current single-repo implementations.
Multi-repo documentation and integration tests are still in the multi-repo development branch. All unit tests work as multi-repo since they are able to bypass the configuration restrictions.
These options specify the number of local worker job retries and the retry interval after one immediate retry.
There is some value in allowing retries to be specified by the user but for the most part these options are for suppressing retries during testing, which can save a lot of time. The bug introduced in d1d25c7 and fixed in 8b86d5e also suggests it is better not to use retries in tests.
Remove the default delayed retries for archive-get/archive-push, leaving only the immediate retry. These commands are retried by PostgreSQL so it doesn't make sense to do too many retries internally.
These options are currently internal.
CentOS6 EOL'd and the mirrors were swiftly deleted, leading to failures in tests and documentation.
Remove CentOS 6 for now to get builds going again with the intention to replace it in the near future with CentOS 8.
These values are not used by the Perl integration tests so maybe it would be better to remove them, but for now just update since they should not be changing again for PG13.
Azure and Azure-compatible object stores can now be used for repository storage.
Currently only shared key authentication is supported but SAS will be added soon.
There is no need to have parallelism enabled in a backup control session. In particular, 9.6 marks pg_stop_backup() as parallel-safe but an error will be thrown if pg_stop_backup() is run in a worker.
The unsupported version error is showing up on older versions of PostgreSQL (e.g. 9.1, 9.2) on RHEL6 when setting up a standby with streaming replication. The error occurs when a client does not properly send a version number and it's not clear why it is happening here, but it does not appear to have anything to do with pgBackRest and only affects RHEL6, i.e. 9.1 and 9.2 do not show this error on other distros.
For now ignore the error since RHEL6 is nearly EOL.
This aligns better with general PostgreSQL usage and our own documentation (updated in 4bcef702).
Usage in the backup.manifest tests has not been updated since it might break the file format.
There don't appear to be any behavioral changes since PostgreSQL 12 and all the tests pass.
Changes to the control/catalog/WAL versions in subsequent betas may break compatibility but pgBackRest will be updated with each release to keep pace.
Rather than bS3 use strStorage which can indicate more than two storage types.
For the moment there are still only two storage types but this change is required before more can be added.
bzip2 is a widely available, high-quality data compressor. It typically compresses files to within 10% to 15% of the best available techniques (the PPM family of statistical compressors), while being around twice as fast at compression and six times faster at decompression.
bzip2 is currently available on all supported platforms.
Zstandard is a fast lossless compression algorithm targeting real-time compression scenarios at zlib-level and better compression ratios. It's backed by a very fast entropy stage, provided by Huff0 and FSE library.
Zstandard version >= 1.0 is required, which is generally only available on newer distributions.
The specified backup set (i.e. the backup label provided and all of its dependent backups, if any) will be expired regardless of backup retention rules except that at least one full backup must remain in the repository.
In the ExpireEnvTest.pm backupCreate() function, backup-prior was incorrectly set for diff backups to the previous backup regardless of what backup type the previous backup was. This did not cause any issues in the Mock Expire tests before because it was not being checked. However, in order to reduce churn in the expect logs for a new feature where the backup-prior is utilized, this is being fixed so that the full backup is always used as backup-prior.
It makes more sense to build in the test path since many developers won't have a vagrant path. Anyway, it's better not to modify the vagrant path since it belongs to vagrant.
Instead of installing the binary just mount it into the container from where it was built. This saves a bit of time and space.
The primary source for project info is now src/version.h.
The pgBackRestDoc::ProjectInfo module loads the project info from src/version.h at runtime so there is no need to update it.
This is consistent with the way BackRest and BackRest test were renamed way back in 18fd2523.
More modules will be moving to pgBackRestDoc soon so renaming now reduces churn later.
This directory was once the home of the production Perl code but since f0ef73db this is no longer true.
Move the modules to test in most cases, except where the module is expected to be useful for the doc engine beyond the expected lifetime of the Perl test code (about a year if all goes well).
The exception is pgBackRest::Version which requires more work to migrate since it is used to track pgBackRest versions.
LZ4 compresses data faster than gzip but at a lower ratio. This can be a good tradeoff in certain scenarios.
Note that setting compress-type=lz4 will make new backups and archive incompatible (unrestorable) with prior versions of pgBackRest.
This was the interface between Perl and C introduced in 36a5349b but since f0ef73db has only been used by the Perl integration tests. This is expensive code to maintain just for testing.
The main dependency was the interface to storage, no matter where it was located, e.g. S3. Replace this with the new-introduced repo commands (d3c83453) that allow access to repo storage via the command line.
The other dependency was on various cfgOption* functions and CFGOPT_ constants that were convenient but not necessary. Replace these with hard-coded strings in most places and create new constants for commonly used values.
Remove all auto-generated Perl code. This means that the error list will no longer be maintained automatically so copy used errors to Common::Exception.pm. This file will need to be maintained manually going forward but there is not likely to be much churn as the Perl integration tests are being retired.
Update test.pl and related code to remove LibC builds.
Ding, dong, LibC is dead.
Add compress-type option and deprecate compress option. Since the compress option is boolean it won't work with multiple compression types. Add logic to cfgLoadUpdateOption() to update compress-type if it is not set directly. The compress option should no longer be referenced outside the cfgLoadUpdateOption() function.
Add common/compress/helper module to contain interface functions that work with multiple compression types. Code outside this module should no longer call specific compression drivers, though it may be OK to reference a specific compression type using the new interface (e.g., saving backup history files in gz format).
Unit tests only test compression using the gz format because other formats may not be available in all builds. It is the job of integration tests to exercise all compression types.
Additional compression types will be added in future commits.
All the methods in this module will need to be implemented via the command-line in order to get rid of LibC, so the first step is to reduce the code in the module as much as possible.
First remove storageDb() and use storageTest() instead. Then create storageTest() using pgBackRestTest::Common::Storage which has no dependencies on LibC. Now the only storage using the LibC interface is storageRepo().
Remove all link functions since those operations cannot be performed on a repo unless it is Posix, in which case the LibC interface is not needed. Same for owner().
Remove pathSync() because syncs are not required in the tests. No test data is reused after a crash.
Path create/exists functions should never be explicitly performed on a repo so remove those. File exists can be implemented by calling info() instead.
Remove encryption detection functions which were only used by Backup/Archive::Info reconstruct() which are now obsolete.
Remove all filters except pgBackRest::Storage::Filter::CipherBlock since they are not being used. That also means there are no filters returning results so remove all the result code.
Move hashSize() and pathAbsolute() into pgBackRest::Storage::Base where they can be shared between pgBackRest::Storage::Storage and pgBackRestTest::Common::Storage.
This was mostly dead code except the DB_BACKUP_ADVISORY_LOCK constant, moved to the real/all test module, and the function that pulls info from pg_control, moved to ExpireEnvTest.pm.
The restore test function was passing strBackup to the restoreCompare function but when the restore is expected to pick a backup based on a timestamp, then strBackup may not be the one chosen.
Modified the code so that strBackupExpected is set based on the parameters passed to the function and this is then passed to restoreCompare.
Auto-selection is performed only when --set is not specified. If a backup set for the given target time cannot not be found, the latest (default) backup set will be used.
Currently a limited number of date formats are recognized and timezone names are not allowed, only timezone offsets.
Set log-level-file=off when more that one test will run. In this case is it impossible to see the logs anyway since they will be automatically cleaned up after the test. This improves performance pretty dramatically since trace-level logging is expensive. If a singe integration test is run then log-level-file is trace by default but can be changed with the --log-level-test-file option.
Reduce buffer-size to 64k to save memory during testing and allow more processes to run in parallel.
Update log replacement rules so that these options can change without affecting expect logs.
82df7e6f and 9856fef5 updated tests that used test points in preparation for the feature not being available in the C code.
Since tests points are no longer used remove the infrastructure.
Also remove one stray --test option in mock/all that was essentially a noop but no longer works now that the option has been removed.
We had some problems with newer versions so had held off on updating. Those problems appear to have been resolved.
In addition, the --compat flag is no longer required. Prior versions of MinIO required all parts of a multi-part upload (except the last) to be of equal size. The --compat flag was introduced to restore the default S3 behavior. Now --compat is only required when ETag is being used for MD5 verification, which we don't do.
This user was created before we tested in containers to ensure isolation between the pg and repo hosts which were then just directories. The downside is that this resulted in a lot of sudos to set the pgbackrest user and to remove files which did not belong to the main test user.
Containers provide isolation without needing separate users so we can now safely remove the pgbackrest user. This allows us to remove most sudos, except where they are explicitly needed in tests.
While we're at it, remove the code that installed the Perl C library (which also required sudo) and simply add the build path to @INC instead.
This tool was only being used it a few places but was a pretty large dependency.
Rework the forceStorageMove() code using our storage layer and replace one aws cli cp with a storage put.
Also, remove the Dockerfile that was once used to build the Scality S3 test container.
Recovery settings are now written into postgresql.auto.conf instead of recovery.conf. Existing recovery_target* settings will be commented out to help avoid conflicts.
A comment is added before recovery settings to identify them as written by pgBackRest since it is unclear how, in general, old settings will be removed.
recovery.signal and standby.signal are automatically created based on the recovery settings.
"null" is not allowed in the manifest format (null values should be missing instead) but Perl was treating the invalid values written by this test as if they were missing.
Update the test code to remove the values rather than setting them to "null".
No new Perl code is being developed, so these tools are just taking up time and making migrations to newer platforms harder. There are only a few Perl tests remaining with full coverage so the coverage tool does not warn of loss of coverage in most cases.
Remove both tools and associated libraries.
ScalityS3 has not received any maintenance in years and is slow to start which is bad for testing. Replace it with minio which starts quickly and ships as a single executable or a tiny container.
Minio has stricter limits on allowable characters but should still provide enough coverage to show that our encoding is working correctly.
This commit also includes the upgrade to openssl 1.1.1 in the Ubuntu 18.04 container.
Maintaining the storage layer/drivers in two languages is burdensome. Since the integration tests require the Perl storage layer/drivers we'll need them even after the core code is migrated to C. Create an interface layer so the Perl code can be removed and new storage drivers/features introduced without adding Perl equivalents.
The goal is to move the integration tests to C so this interface will eventually be removed. That being the case, the interface was designed for maximum compatibility to ease the transition. The result looks a bit hacky but we'll improve it as needed until it can be retired.
The prior method of tailing the docker log no longer seems reliable. Instead, keep retrying the make bucket command until it works and show the error if it times out.
