IMPORTANT NOTE: Repository size reported by the info command is now entirely based on what pgBackRest has written to storage. Previously, in certain cases, pgBackRest could detect if additional compression was being applied by the storage but this is no longer supported.
Bug Fixes:
* Retry errors in S3 batch file delete. (Reviewed by Reid Thompson. Reported by Alex Richman.)
* Allow case-insensitive matching of HTTP connection header values. (Reviewed by Reid Thompson. Reported by Rémi Vidier.)
Features:
* Add support for AWS S3 server-side encryption using KMS. (Contributed by Christoph Berg. Reviewed by David Steele, Tharindu Amila.)
* Add archive-missing-retry option. (Reviewed by Stefan Fercot.)
* Add backup type filter to info command. (Contributed by Stefan Fercot. Reviewed by David Steele.)
Improvements:
* Retry on page validation failure during backup. (Reviewed by Stephen Frost, David Christensen.)
* Handle TLS servers that do not close connections gracefully. (Reviewed by Rémi Vidier, David Christensen, Stephen Frost.)
* Add backup LSNs to info command output. (Contributed by Stefan Fercot. Reviewed by David Steele.)
* Automatically strip trailing slashes for repo-ls paths. (Contributed by David Christensen. Reviewed by David Steele.)
* Do not retry fatal errors. (Reviewed by Reid Thompson.)
* Remove support for PostgreSQL 8.3/8.4. (Reviewed by Reid Thompson, Stefan Fercot.)
* Remove logic that tried to determine additional file system compression. (Reviewed by Reid Thompson, Stefan Fercot.)
Documentation Bug Fixes:
* Move repo options in TLS documentation to the global section. (Reported by Anton Kurochkin.)
* Remove unused backup-standby option from stanza commands. (Reported by Stefan Fercot.)
* Fix typos in help and release notes. (Fixed by Daniel Gustafsson. Reviewed by David Steele.)
Documentation Improvements:
* Add aliveness check to systemd service configuration. (Suggested by Yogesh Sharma.)
* Add FAQ explaining WAL archive suffix. (Contributed by Stefan Fercot. Reviewed by David Steele.)
* Note that replications slots are not restored. (Contributed by Reid Thompson. Reviewed by David Steele, Stefan Fercot. Suggested by Christophe Courtois.)
Some TLS server implementations will simply close the socket rather than correctly closing the TLS connection. This causes problems when connection: close is specified with no content-length or chunked encoding and we are forced to read to EOF. It is hard to know if this is a real EOF or a network error.
In cases where we can parse the content and (hopefully) ensure it is correct, allow the closed socket to serve as EOF. This is not ideal, but the change in 8e1807c means that currently working servers with this issue will stop working after 2.35 is installed, which seems too risky.
da0f3a855 used a workaround to get the documentation building on aarch64 but recent changes to the PGDG yum repo have broken this workaround. Installing the regular way still doesn't work, either.
Reverting for now to get the CI pipeline working again.
This is a bit of legacy from the current Vagrant environment used to do the release, but since it is not as easy to change the user in Vagrant, just make the Docker environment conform.
This allows documentation to be built in a Vagrant environment (or any environment with the same user name) and to be deployed in a Docker environment.
Docker outputs build info to stderr even when the build is successful. This seems to be especially true on Mac M1.
ContainerTest.pm already does this suppression so add it the other places where containers are built.
Trailing slashes in at least some of the repository storage types were preventing repo-ls from displaying any content (presumably due to storage-specific behavior).
Since the path with the slash should be equivalent to the path without the slash, just remove it if provided by the user.
Checking that pd_upper == 0 is not enough since this field may be corrupted. Still use pd_upper as a quick check, but when it is zero proceed to check the rest of the page to ensure it is also all zeroes.
Rather than attempting to filter page checksum failures by LSN, just retry when there is a page checksum failure. If the page has not changed since the last read report it as an error. If the page has changed, then PostgreSQL must be modifying the page so we can ignore the error because a full page write (and possibly updates) will be in the WAL.
Also remove tests made redundant by the test merge in b4897077.
When there was an issue with the system library path during building, the build-help rule would fail during executing ./build-help with the effect that main.c wouldn't build.
Break out help.auto.c generation from the build-help stage to allow it to be re-executed when the library path has been corrected.
There have been cases where pgBackRest has failed on invalid XML but it is not possible to determine what was wrong with the XML.
This will only work for XML up to about 8KiB (which is the error message limit) but it should work in most cases.
Retry a WAL segment that was previously reported as missing by the archive-get command. This prevents notifications in the spool path from a prior restore from being used and possibly causing a recovery failure if consistency has not been reached.
Disabling this option allows PostgreSQL to more reliably recognize when the end of the WAL in the archive has been reached, which permits it to switch over to streaming from the primary. With retries enabled, a steady stream of WAL being archived will cause PostgreSQL to continue getting WAL from the archive rather than switch to streaming.
When disabling this option it is important to ensure that the spool path for the stanza is empty. The restore command does this automatically if the spool path is configured at restore time. Otherwise, it is up to the user to ensure the spool path is empty.
Coverity complained that this pass by value was inefficient:
CID 376402: Performance inefficiencies (PASS_BY_VALUE)
Passing parameter file of type "ManifestFile" (size 136 bytes) by value.
This was completely intentional since it gives us a copy of the struct that we can change without bothering the caller. However, updating fields is fine and may benefit the caller at some future data, and in any case does no harm now.
And as usual it is easier not to fight with Coverity.
As much as possible it is better to get coverage with more realistic tests. Merging these modules will allow the page checksum code to be covered with real backups.
Limit which files can be added to bundles, which allows resume to work reasonably well. On resume, the bundles are removed and any remaining file is eligible to be to be resumed.
Also reduce the bundle-size default to 20MiB. This is pretty arbitrary, but a smaller default seems better.
Bundle (combine) smaller files during backup to reduce the number of files written to the repository (enable with --bundle). Reducing the number of files is a benefit on all file systems, but especially so on object stores such as S3 that have a high file creation cost. Another benefit is that zero-length files are only stored as metadata in the manifest.
Files are batched up to bundle-size and then compressed/encrypted individually and stored sequentially in the bundle. The bundle id and offset of each file is stored in the manifest so files can be retrieved randomly without needing to read the entire bundle. Files are ordered by timestamp descending when being assigned to bundles to reduce the amount of random access that needs to be done. The idea is that bundles with older files can be read in their entirety on restore and only bundles with newer files will get fragmented.
Bundles are a custom format with metadata stored in the manifest. Tar was considered but it is too limited a format, the major issue being that the size of the file must be known in advance and that is very contrary to how pgBackRest works, especially once we introduce page-level incremental backups.
Bundles are stored numbered in the bundle directory. Some files may still end up in pg_data if they are added after the backup is complete. backup_label is an example.
Currently, only the backup command works in batches. The restore and verify commands use the offsets to pull individual files out of the bundle. It seems better to finalize how this is going to work before optimizing the other commands. Even as is, this is a major step forward, and all commands function with bundling.
One caveat: resume is currently not supported when bundle is enabled.
There is some evidence that retrying fatal errors, especially out of memory errors, may cause lockups. It makes sense to report fatal errors as quickly as possible and bypass retries. This may or not fix the lockup issue but it is worth doing either way.
For now, the only fatal errors will be AssertError and MemoryError.
If the entire batch failed it would be retried, but individual file errors were not retried. This could cause pgBackRest to terminate during expiration or when removing an unresumable backup.
Rather than retry the entire batch, delete the errored files individually to take advantage of the HTTP retry rather than adding a new retry loop. These errors seem rare enough that it should not be a performance issue.
In theory, the additional stat() call after a file has been copied to the repo can determine if additional compression has been applied by the file system. However, it has been a very long time since we tested this in practice. There are currently no unit tests that accurately test this feature since it requires a compressed file system like ZFS to work, which never seemed worth the extra cost.
It can also add a lot of time to backups if there are a large quantity of small files.
In addition, it stands as a blocker for combining files for small file support since it is no longer possible to get per-file sizes from the viewpoint of the file system. There are several ways this could be reworked but none of them are easy while at the same time maintaining current info functionality.
It doesn't seem worth keeping an untested feature that will only work in some special cases (if it still works) when it is blocking development.
Coverity pointed out that a negative number could be passed to close(), which means the lock file would not get closed until the process ended. Proper execution does not require the file to be closed, but it is better to correctly free resources that are no longer needed.
The most recent release of Minio has broken CI builds but there is no logging to indicate what is wrong.
For now, just use the prior release to get CI builds working again. This kind if breakage is not uncommon for Minio but they usually resolve it in the next release.
Update lock code to use standard common/io functions and module patterns. This module was developed before the common/io module existed and our patterns had stabilized.
The /etc/profile.d/lang.sh script was causing issues but it does not exist on amd64, so it seems the easiest thing was to remove it.
Fix how 32-bit VMs are determined now that another 64-bit architecture has been added.
And remove some obsolete VM hashes.
Previously manifest load required two passes through the file list, one to load the data and one to set the defaults. This required each file to be packed twice.
Instead simply note that the file value is default and then set the file defaults when they are loaded from the manifest. This is made possible by the different internal/external representations for files so the same method cannot be applied to paths and links.
This change seems to resolve the performance issues noted in 61ce586 but there is no obvious reason why.
Centralize these options so they are consistent across clusters.
Also, there were some options that the user doesn't really need to see, .e.g. log_line_prefix. These can be set in advance so they don't need to be part of the documentation.
This function (which creates lots of tables) is generally useful for testing (not just stress testing) so create it as soon as the cluster is created.
Also add the data parameter which will insert a single row into the table so the file on disk is not zero bytes.
Manifests with a very large number of files can use a considerable amount of memory. There are a lot of zeroes in the data so it can be stored more efficiently by using base-128 varint encoding for the integers and storing the strings in the same allocation.
The downside is that the data needs to be unpacked in order to be used, but in most cases this seems fast enough (about 10% slower than before) except for saving the manifest, which is 10% slower up to 10 million files and then gets about 5x slower by 100 million (two minutes on my M1 Mac). Profiling does not show this slowdown so I wonder if this is related to the change in memory layout. Curiously, the function that increased most was jsonFromStrInternal(), which was not modified. That gives more weight to the idea that there is some kind of memory issue going on here and one hopes that servers would be less affected. Either way, they largest use cases we have seen are for about 6 million files so if we can improve that case I believe we will be better off.
Further analysis showed that most of the time was taken up writing the size and timestamp fields, which makes almost no sense. The same amount of time was used if they were hard-coded to 0, which points to some odd memory issue on the M1 architecture.
This change has been planned for a while, but the particular impetus at this time is that small file support requires additional fields that would increase manifest memory usage by about 20%, even if the feature is not used.
Note that the Pack code has been updated to use the new varint encoder, but the decoder remains separate because it needs to fetch one byte at a time.
Manifest defaults for user, group, and mode were previously generated by scanning the data to find the most common values. This was very accurate but slow and complicated. It could also lead to surprising changes in the manifest when a default value suddenly changed.
Instead, use the $PGDATA path to generate defaults. In the vast majority of cases the same user/group should own all the path/files and the default file mode is easily derived from the path mode. There may be some edge cases where this generates larger manifests, but in general it reduces time and complexity when saving the manifest.
Remove the MCV code since it is longer longer used.
Change the mode back to 0700 earlier to reduce churn in the expect logs.
This will be especially important in a future commit that gets the defaults exclusively from the base path.
This flag was only being used by the backup command after manifestNewBuild() and had no other uses. There was a time when it was important for integration testing but the unit tests now fulfill this role.
Since backup is the only code concerned with the primary flag, move the code into the backup module.
We don't have any cross-version testing but this change was tested manually with the most recent version of pgBackRest to make sure it was tolerant of the missing primary info. When an older version of pgBackRest loads a newer manifest the primary flag will always be set to false, which is fine since it is not used.
BackupJobData has several members that backupProcessQueue() needs so it is more efficient to use them rather than passing them separately or getting them from the configuration.
