Fixed parameter constructors made adding new interface functions a burden, so we switched to using structs to define interfaces in the storage module at c49eaec7.
While propagating this pattern to the IO interfaces it became obvious that the existing variable parameter function pattern (begun in the storage module) was more succinct and consistent with the existing code.
So, use variable parameter functions to define all interfaces. This assumes that the non-interface parameters will be fixed, which seems reasonable for low-level code.
C or Perl coverage tests can now be run on any VM provided a recent enough version of Devel::Cover or lcov is available.
For now, leave u18 as the only VM to run coverage tests due to some issues with older versions of lcov.
The external storage interfaces (Storage, StorageFileRead, etc.) have been stable for a while, but internally they were calling the posix driver functions directly.
Create driver interfaces for storage, fileRead, and fileWrite and remove all references to the posix driver outside storage/driver/posix (with the exception of a direct call to pathRemove() in Perl LibC).
Posix is still the only available driver so more adjustment may be needed, but this should represent the bulk of the changes.
The posix driver was developed over time and the naming is not very consistent.
Rename the files and functions to work well with other drivers and generally favor longer names since the driver functions are seldom (eventually never) used outside the driver itself.
The Storage object represents some some optional parameters as negated if the default is true. This allows sensible defaults without having to specify most optional parameters.
However, there's no need to propagate this down to functions that require all parameters to be passed -- it makes the code and logging more confusing. Rename the parameters and update logic to remove negations.
Previously, debug log functions had to handle NULLs and truncate output to the available buffer size. This was verbose for both coding and testing.
Instead, create a function/macro combination that allows log functions to return a simple String object. The wrapper function takes care of the memory context, handles NULLs, and truncates the log string based on the available buffer size.
The archive-get command will only be executed in C if the repository is local, unencrypted, and type posix or cifs. Admittedly a limited use case, but this is just the first step in migrating the archive-get command entirely into C.
This is a direct migration from the Perl code (including messages) to integrate as seamlessly with the remaining Perl code as possible. It should not be possible to determine if the C version is running unless debug-level logging is enabled.
The lock is now released before the fork and reacquired after the fork so the parent process no longer needs to worry about clearing the lock.
This is the same locking mechanism that will be used once archive-get-async is exec'd as a separate command, so introduce it now to simplify testing.
The info messages were spread around and logged differently based on the execution path and in some cases logged nothing at all.
Temporarily track the async server status with a flag so that info messages are not output in the async process. The async process will be refactored as a separate command to be exec'd in a future commit.
% characters caused issues in backup/restore due to filenames being appended directly into a format string.
Reserved XML characters (<>&') caused issues in the S3 driver due to improper escaping.
Add a file with all common special characters to regression testing.
File names with uncommon characters (e.g. @) caused authentication failures due to S3 encoding them correctly while the S3 driver did not.
Reported by Dan Farrell.
By default Valgrind does not exit with an error code when a non-fatal error is detected, e.g. unfreed memory. Use the --error-exitcode option to enabled this behavior.
Update some minor issues discovered in the tests as a result. Luckily, no issues were missed in the core code.
Basic functions to detect the presence of stanza or all stop files and error when they are present.
The functionality to detect stop files without error was not migrated. This functionality is only used by stanza-delete and will be migrated with that command.
Implement rules for generating paths within the archive part of the repository. Add a helper function, storageRepo(), to create the repository storage based on configuration settings.
The repository storage helper is located in the protocol module because it will support remote file systems in the future, just as the Perl version does.
Also, improve the existing helper functions a bit using string functions that were not available when they were written.
Use JSON code now that it is available and remove temporary hacks used to get things working initially.
Use passed storage objects rather than using storageLocal(). All storage objects in C are still local but this won't always be the case.
Also, move Postgres version conversion functions to postgres/info.c since they have no dependency on the info objects and will likely be useful elsewhere.
The new archive-get C code can't run (yet) when encryption is enabled. Therefore move the encryption tests so we can test the new C code. We'll move it back when encryption is enabled in C.
Also, push one WAL segment with compression to test decompression in the C code.
A return code of 1 from the archive-get was being logged as an error message at info level but otherwise worked correctly.
Also improve info messages when an archive segment is or is not found.
The Perl functions do so and the integration tests rely on checking for these errors. This has been exposed as more functionality is moved into C.
Passing the errors types is now a bit complicated so instead use a flag to determine which errors to throw.
Previously an error would be generated if other files were present and not owned by the PostgreSQL user. This hasn't been a big deal in practice but it could cause issues.
Also add tests to make sure the same logic applies with links to files, i.e. all other files in the directory should be ignored. This was actually working correctly, but there were no tests for it before.
Bug Fixes:
* Fix issue where relative links in $PGDATA could be stored in the backup with the wrong path. This issue did not affect absolute links and relative tablespace links were caught by other checks. (Reported by Cynthia Shang.)
* Remove incompletely implemented online option from the check command. Offline operation runs counter to the purpose of this command, which is to check if archiving and backups are working correctly. (Reported by Jason O'Donnell.)
* Fix issue where errors raised in C were not logged when called from Perl. pgBackRest properly terminated with the correct error code but lacked an error message to aid in debugging. (Reported by Douglas J Hunley.)
* Fix issue when a boolean option (e.g. delta) was specified more than once. (Reported by Yogesh Sharma.)
Features:
* Allow any option to be set in an environment variable. This includes options that previously could only be specified on the command line, e.g. stanza, and secret options that could not be specified on the command-line, e.g. repo1-s3-key-secret.
* Exclude temporary and unlogged relation (table/index) files from backup. Implemented using the same logic as the patches adding this feature to PostgreSQL, 8694cc96 and 920a5e50. Temporary relation exclusion is enabled in PostgreSQL ≥ 9.0. Unlogged relation exclusion is enabled in PostgreSQL ≥ 9.1, where the feature was introduced. (Contributed by Cynthia Shang.)
* Allow arbitrary directories and/or files to be excluded from a backup. Misuse of this feature can lead to inconsistent backups so read the --exclude documentation carefully before using. (Reviewed by Cynthia Shang.)
* Add log-subprocess option to allow file logging for local and remote subprocesses.
* PostgreSQL 11 Beta 3 support.
Improvements:
* Allow zero-size files in backup manifest to reference a prior manifest regardless of timestamp delta. (Contributed by Cynthia Shang.)
* Improve asynchronous archive-get/archive-push performance by directly checking status files. (Contributed by Stephen Frost.)
* Improve error message when a command is missing the stanza option. (Suggested by Sarah Conway.)
The log-subprocess feature added in 22765670 failed to take into account the naming for remote processes spawned by local processes. Not only was the local command used for the naming of log files but the process id was not pass through. This meant every remote log was named "[stanza]-local-remote-000" which is confusing and meant multiple processes were writing to the same log.
Instead, pass the real command and process id to the remote. This required a minor change in locking to ignore locks if process id is greater than 0 since remotes started by locals never lock.
When environment variables were added in d0b9f986 they were classified as cfgSourceParam, but one of the restrictions on this type is that they can't pass secrets because they might be exposed in the process list.
The solution is to reclassify environment variables as cfgSourceConfig. This allows them to handle secrets because they will not pass values to subprocesses as parameters. Instead, each subprocess is expected to check the environment directly during configuration parsing.
In passing, move the error about secrets being passed on the command-line up to command-line parsing and make the error more generic with respect to the configuration file now that multiple configuration files are allowed.
Relative link paths were being combined with the paths of previous links (relative or absolute) due to the $strPath variable being modified in the current iteration rather than simply being passed to the next level of recursion.
This issue did not affect absolute links and relative tablespace links were caught by other checks, though the error was confusing.
Reported by Cynthia Shang.
Prior to this commit, an expression was used to search the spool directory for ok/error files for a specific WAL segment. This involved setting up a regular expression and using opendir/readdir.
Instead, directly probe for the status files, checking directly if a '.ok' or '.error' file exists, avoiding the regular expression and eliminating the directory scan.
Only the two files now probed for could have ever matched the regular expression which had been provided and it's unlikely that many more additional files will be added, so this is a good improvement, and optimization, with little downside.
Contributed by Stephen Frost.
