Building packages is not a normal part of development so don't build packages by default. Instead build them in CI as needed.
Do the builds in test/result instead of .vagrant to be friendlier with hosts that are not running vagrant. Anyway, it's probably not a good idea to be creating files in the .vagrant path.
Building the configure.ac script can take multiple seconds depending on the state of the autoconf cache. Use a checksum to only rebuild when configure.ac has changed no matter how the timestamps have changed.
Configure:
* Use standard make variables, e.g. CFLAGS, rather than our own, e.g. CINCLUDE
* Add PG_CONFIG var for configuring custom pg_config location
* Don't error if xml_config or pg_config is missing (but error if libs/headers not found)
* Check for zlib.h header
* Check for lz4frame.h header when liblz4 is present
Make:
* Use gcc-style auto dependencies
* Put src list at the top since it is most frequently modified
* Add clean-all target to also remove auto-generated config files
This file is used to generate src/configure and is not required to make pgbackrest since src/configure is updated before distribution.
Move to src/build so it is out of the way.
Changes to reference.xml can affect the command-line documentation built into the binary so changes must trigger an auto-generated code build during smart builds.
The prior method was to build a special container to hold these files which meant they would get stale on development systems. On CI the container was always rebuilt so failures would be seen there even when dev seemed to be working.
Instead get the package source when the package is built to ensure it is as up-to-date as possible.
This change was prompted by failures on the Ubuntu 12.04 container while getting the package source, probably due to an ancient version of git. Package builds are no longer supported on that platform with the addition of lz4 compression so it didn't seem worth fixing.
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.
These commands are generally useful but more importantly they allow removing LibC by providing the Perl integration tests an alternate way to work with repository storage.
All the commands are currently internal only and should not be used on production repositories.
If the command was passed a file it would return no results since it was originally intended to list files when passed a path.
However, as a general purpose command working directly with files makes sense.
This command only makes sense for the repository storage since other storage (e.g. pg and spool) must be located on a local Posix filesystem and can be listed using standard unix commands. Since the repo storage can be located lots of places having a common way to list it makes sense.
Prefix with repo- to make the scope of this command clear.
Update documentation to reflect this change.
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 postgres/pageChecksum module was designed as an interface to the C structs for the Perl code. The new C code can do this directly so no need for an interface.
Move the remaining test for pgPageChecksum() into the postgres/interface test module.
We were using a customized version which worked fine but was hard to merge with upstream changes. Now this code is maintained much like the types in static.auto.h that we copy and check with each release.
The goal is to eventually build directly against PostgreSQL (either source or libcommon) and this brings us one step closer.
All zero pages should not have checksums. Not only is this test invalid but it will not work with the stock page checksum implementation in PostgreSQL, which checks for zero pages. Since we will be using that code verbatim soon this test needs to go.
Using static values serves as a better cross-check against the page checksum code. The downside is that these checksums may not work with some big endian systems but in that case neither will the unit tests.
We can also remove the page checksum interface from LibC which brings us one step closer to eliminating it.
Page size is passed around a lot but in fact it can only have one value, PG_PAGE_SIZE_DEFAULT, which is checked when pg_control is loaded. There may be an argument for supporting multiple page sizes in the future but for now just use the constant to simplify the code.
There is also a significant performance benefit. Because pageSize was being used in pageChecksumBlock() the main loop was neither unrolled nor vectorized (-funroll-loops -ftree-vectorize) as it is now with a constant loop boundary.
This function made validation faster in Perl because fewer calls (and buffer transformations) were required when all checksums were valid.
In C calling pageChecksumTest() directly is just as efficient so there is no longer a need for pageChecksumBufferTest().
These data structures were copied a few places (but only once in the core code) so put them in a place where everyone can use them.
To do this create a new file, static.auto.h, to contain data types and macros that have stayed the same through all the versions of PostgreSQL that we support. This allows us to have single, non-versioned set of headers and code for stable data structures like page headers.
Migrate a few types from version.auto.h that are required for page header structures and pull the remaining types from PostgreSQL directly.
We had previously renamed xlog to wal so update those where required since we won't be modifying the PostgreSQL names anymore.
The S3 driver depends on being able to generate a common prefix to limit the number of results from list commands, which saves on bandwidth.
The prior implementation could be tricked by an expression like ^ABC|^DEF where there is more than one possible prefix. To fix this disallow any prefix when another ^ anchor is found in the expression. [^ and \^ are OK since they are not anchors.
Note that this was not an active bug because there are currently no expressions with multiple ^ anchors.
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.
This option was used for boolean testing but it will soon be deprecated and the semantics changed. To reduce churn it seems easiest to just use other options for testing. This will also be helpful when the option is eventually removed.
These commands (e.g. restore, archive-get) never used the compress options but allowed them to be passed on the command line. Now they will error when these options are passed on the command line. If these errors occur then remove the unused options.
This was a minor optimization used in protocol layer compression. Even though it was slightly faster, it omitted the crc-32 that is generated during normal compression which could lead to corrupt data after a bad network transmission. This would be caught on restore by our checksum but it seems better to catch an issue like this early.
The raw option also made the function signature different than future compression formats which may not support raw, or require different code to support raw.
In general, it doesn't seem worth the extra testing to support a format that has minimal benefit and is seldom used, since protocol compression is only enabled when the transmitted data is uncompressed.
"gz" was used as the extension but "gzip" was generally used for function and type naming.
With a new compression format on the way, it makes sense to standardize on a single abbreviation to represent a compression format in the code. Since the extension is standard and we must use it, also use the extension for all naming.
The prior code used TRY...CATCH blocks to cleanup mem contexts when an error occurred. This included freeing new mem contexts that were still being initialized when the error occurred and ensuring that the prior memory context was restored.
This worked fine in production but it involved a lot of setjmp()/longjmp() calls that resulted in longer compilation times and sluggish performance under valgrind, profiling, and coverage testing.
Instead maintain a stack of new contexts and context switches that can be used to do cleanup after an error. Normally, the stack is not used for this purpose and pushing/popping is a cheap operation. In the prior implementation most of the TRY...CATCH logic needed to be run even on success.
One bonus is that the binary is about 8% smaller after this change. Another benefit is that new contexts *must* be explicitly freed/discarded or an error will occur. See info/manifest.c for an example of where this is useful outside the standard macros.
If PostgreSQL crashes it can leave behind a pg_internal.init temp file with the pid as the extension, as discussed in https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/20200131045352.GB2631%40paquier.xyz#7700b9481ef5b0dd5f09cc410b4750f6. On restart this file is not cleaned up so it can persist for the lifetime of the cluster or until another process with the same id happens to write pg_internal.init.
This is arguably a bug in PostgreSQL, but in any case it makes sense not to backup this file.
This error was lost during the migration to C. The error that occurred instead (generally an SSH auth error) was hard to debug.
Restore the original behavior by throwing an error immediately if pg1-host is configured for any of these commands. reset-pg1-host can be used to suppress the error when required.
The main improvement is a double-fork to prevent zombie processes if the parent process exits after the (child) async process. This is a real possibility since the parent process sticks around to monitor the results of the async process.
In the first fork, ignore SIGCHLD in the very unlikely case that the async process exits before the first fork. This is probably only possible if the async process exits immediately, perhaps due to a chdir() failure. Set SIGCHLD back to default in the async process so waitpid() will work as expected.
Also update the comment on chdir() to more accurately reflect what is happening.
Finally, add a test in certain debug builds to ensure the first fork exits very quickly. This only works when valgrind is not in use because valgrind makes forking so slow that it is hard to tell if the async process performed work or not (in the case that the second fork goes missing and the async process is a direct child).
In this case the resumable backup should be ignored, but the C code was not able to load the partial manifest written by Perl since the format differs slightly. Add validations to catch this case and continue gracefully.
2a06df93 removed the error file so an old error would not be reported before the async process had a chance to try again. However, if the async process was already running this might lead to a timeout error before reporting the correct error.
Instead, remove the error files once we know that the async process will start, i.e. after the archive lock has been acquired.
This effectively reverts 2a06df93.
Generally, the content-size or content-encoding headers will be used to specify how much content should be expected.
There is a special case where the server sends 'Connection:close' without the content headers and the content may be read up until eof.
This appears to be an atypical usage but it is required by the specification.
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.
Add tzPartsValid() and tzOffsetSecond() to calculate timezone offsets from user provided values.
Update epochFromParts() to accept a timezone offset in seconds.
The test that checks for no output from the server was leaving a connection open which valgrind was complaining about.
Wait on the server long enough to cause the error on the client then close the connection to free the memory.
Validate that checksums exist for zero size files. This means that the checksums for zero size files are explicitly set by backup even though they'll always be the same. Also validate that zero length files have the correct checksum.
Validate that repo size is > 0 if size is > 0. No matter what compression type is used a non-zero amount of data cannot be stored in zero bytes.
This is a modest start but it addresses the specific issue that was caused by the bug fixed in 45ec694a. This validation will produce an immediate error rather than erroring out partway through the restore.
More validations are planned but this is the most important one and seems safest for this release.
If a file was removed by PostgreSQL during the backup (or was missing from the standby) then the next file might not be copied and updated in the manifest. If this happened then the backup would error when restored.
The issue was that removing files from the manifest invalidated the pointers stored in the processing queues. When a file was removed, all the pointers shifted to the next file in the list, causing a file to be unprocessed. Since the unprocessed file was still in the manifest it would be saved with no checksum, causing a failure on restore.
When process-max was > 1 then the bug would often not express since the file had already been pulled from the queue and updates to the manifest are done by name rather than by pointer.
pkg-config is a generic way to get build options rather than relying on a package-specific utility.
XML2_CONFIG can be used to override this utility for systems that do not ship pkg-config.
Previously memNew() used memset() to initialize all struct members to 0, NULL, false, etc. While this appears to work in practice, it is a violation of the C specification. For instance, NULL == 0 must be true but neither NULL nor 0 must be represented with all zero bits.
Instead use designated initializers to initialize structs. These guarantee that struct members will be properly initialized even if they are not specified in the initializer. Note that due to a quirk in the C99 specification at least one member must be explicitly initialized even if it needs to be the default value.
Since pre-zeroed memory is no longer required, adjust memAllocInternal()/memReallocInternal() to return raw memory and update dependent functions accordingly. All instances of memset() have been removed except in debug/test code where needed.
Add memMewPtrArray() to allocate an array of pointers and automatically set all pointers to NULL.
Rename memGrowRaw() to the more logical memResize().
The timeline is required to verify WAL segments in the archive after a backup. The conversion was performed base 10 instead of 16, which led to errors when the timeline was ≥ 0xA.
This macro block encapsulates the common pattern of switching to the prior (formerly called old) mem context to return results from a function.
Also rename MEM_CONTEXT_OLD() to memContextPrior(). This violates our convention of macros being in all caps but memContextPrior() will become a function very soon so this will reduce churn.
A few places were using just memContextNew(), probably because they did not immediately need to create anything in the new context, but it's better if we use the same pattern everywhere, even if it results in a few extra mem context switches.
Bug Fixes:
* Fix options being ignored by asynchronous commands. The asynchronous archive-get/archive-push processes were not loading options configured in command configuration sections, e.g. [global:archive-get]. (Reviewed by Cynthia Shang. Reported by Urs Kramer.)
* Fix handling of \ in filenames. \ was not being properly escaped when calculating the manifest checksum which prevented the manifest from loading. Since instances of \ in cluster filenames should be rare to nonexistent this does not seem likely to be a serious problem in the field.
Features:
* pgBackRest is now pure C.
* Add pg-user option. Specifies the database user name when connecting to PostgreSQL. If not specified pgBackRest will connect with the local OS user or PGUSER, which was the previous behavior. (Contributed by Mike Palmiotto.)
* Allow path-style URIs in S3 driver.
Improvements:
* The backup command is implemented entirely in C. (Reviewed by Cynthia Shang.)
The local, remote, archive-get-async, and archive-push-async commands were used to run functionality that was not directly available to the user. Unfortunately that meant they would not pick up options from the command that the user expected, e.g. backup, archive-get, etc.
Remove the internal commands and add roles which allow pgBackRest to determine what functionality is required without implementing special commands. This way the options are loaded from the expected command section.
Since remote is no longer a specific command with its own options, more manipulation is required when calling remote. This might be something we can improve in the config system but it may be worth leaving as is because it is a one-off, for now at least.
Although path-style URIs have been deprecated by AWS, they may still be used with products like Minio because no additional DNS configuration is required.
Path-style URIs must be explicitly enabled since it is not clear how they can be auto-detected reliably. More importantly, faulty detection could cause regressions in current installations.
Time is supported in all drivers with the update to S3 at 61538f93, so it is now possible to add time to the ls command and have it work on all repo types.
Parameter lists that are passed directly to exec*() do not need quoting when spaces are present. Worse, the quotes will not be stripped and the option value will be garbled.
Unfortunately this still does not fix all issues with quoting since we don't know how it might need to be escaped to work with SSH command configuration. The answer seems to be to pass the options in the protocol layer but that's beyond the scope of this commit.
This option was overloaded on the general type option but it makes sense to split this out since the meaning is pretty different.
Rename the values to conform to current standards, i.e. pg and repo, now that the Perl code won't care anymore.
Previously dates were not being filled by these functions which was fine since dates were not used.
We plan to use dates for the ls command plus it makes sense for the driver to be complete since it will be used as an example.
These are similar to what mktime() and strptime() do but they ignore the local system timezone which saves having to munge the TZ env variable to do time conversions.
This macro was created before the String object existed so subsequent usage with String always included a lot of strPtr() wrapping.
TEST_RESULT_STR_Z() had already been introduced but a wholesale replacement of TEST_RESULT_STR() was not done since the priority was on the C migration.
Update all calls to (old) TEST_RESULT_STR() with one of the following variants: (new) TEST_RESULT_STR(), TEST_RESULT_STR_Z(), TEST_RESULT_Z(), TEST_RESULT_Z_STR().
Specifies the database user name when connecting to PostgreSQL.
If not specified pgBackRest will connect with the local OS user or PGUSER, which was the previous behavior.
Most of these tests are just checking that errors are thrown when required. These are well covered in various unit tests.
The "cannot resume" tests are also well covered in the backup unit tests.
Finally, config warnings are well covered in the config unit tests.
There is more to be done here, but this accounts for the low-hanging fruit.
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.
The co6 tests were occasionally running out of space so bump up the size of the ramdisk a bit to hopefully prevent this.
A longer term solution would be to disable the trace-level file logs when running on Travis CI since they seem to be using most of the space.
PostgreSQL >= 9.6 uses non-exclusive backup which has implicit stop-auto since the backup will stop when the connection is terminated.
The warning was made more verbose in 1f2ce45e but this now seems like a bad idea since there are likely users with mixed version environments where stop-auto is enabled globally. There's no reason to fill their logs with warnings over a harmless option. If anything we should warn when stop-auto is explicitly set to false but this doesn't seem very important either.
Revert to the prior behavior, which is to warn and reset when stop-auto is enabled on PostgreSQL < 9.3.
\ was not being properly escaped when calculating the manifest checksum which prevented the manifest from loading.
Use jsonFromStr() to properly quote and escape \.
Since instances of \ in cluster filenames should be rare to nonexistent this does not seem likely to be a serious problem in the field.
Remove embedded Perl from the distributed binary. This includes code, configure, Makefile, and packages. The distributed binary is now pure C.
Remove storagePathEnforceSet() from the C Storage object which allowed Perl to write outside of the storage base directory. Update mock/all and real/all integration tests to use storageLocal() where they were violating this rule.
Remove "c" option that allowed the remote to tell if it was being called from C or Perl.
Code to convert options to JSON for passing to Perl (perl/config.c) has been moved to LibC since it is still required for Perl integration tests.
Update build and installation instructions in the user guide.
Remove all Perl unit tests.
Remove obsolete Perl code. In particular this included all the Perl protocol code which required modifications to the Perl storage, manifest, and db objects that are still required for integration testing but only run locally. Any remaining Perl code is required for testing, documentation, or code generation.
Rename perlReq to binReq in define.yaml to indicate that the binary is required for a test. This had been the actual meaning for quite some time but the key was never renamed.
For the most part this is a direct migration of the Perl code into C except as noted below.
A backup can now be initiated from a linked directory. The link will not be stored in the manifest or recreated on restore. If a link or directory does not already exist in the restore location then a directory will be created.
The logic for creating backup labels has been improved and it should no longer be possible to get a backup label earlier than the latest backup even with timezone changes or clock skew. This has never been an issue in the field that we know of, but we found it in testing.
For online backups all times are fetched from the PostgreSQL primary host (before only copy start was). This doesn't affect backup integrity but it does prevent clock skew between hosts affecting backup duration reporting.
Archive copy now works as expected when the archive and backup have different compression settings, i.e. when one is compressed and the other is not. This was a long-standing bug in the Perl code.
Resume will now work even if hardlink settings have been changed.
Reviewed by Cynthia Shang.
/ takes precedence over & but the appropriate parens were not provided.
By some bad luck the tests worked either way, so add a new test that only works the correct way to prevent a regression.
Bug Fixes:
* Fix archive-push/archive-get when PGDATA is symlinked. These commands tried to use cwd() as PGDATA but this would disagree with the path configured in pgBackRest if PGDATA was symlinked. If cwd() does not match the pgBackRest path then chdir() to the path and make sure the next cwd() matches the result from the first call. (Reported by Stephen Frost, Milosz Suchy.)
* Fix reference list when backup.info is reconstructed in expire command. Since the backup command is still using the Perl version of reconstruct this issue will not express unless 1) there is a backup missing from backup.info and 2) the expire command is run directly instead of running after backup as usual. This unlikely combination of events means this is probably not a problem in the field.
* Fix segfault on unexpected EOF in gzip decompression. (Reported by Stephen Frost.)
The TZ environment variable was not reliably pushed down to the test processes.
Instead pass TZ via a command line parameter and set explicitly in the test process.
