lcov does not seem to be very well maintained and is often not compatible with the version of gcc it ships with until a few months after a new distro is released. In any case, lcov is that not useful for us because it generates reports on all coverage while we are mainly interested in missing coverage during development.
Instead use the JSON output generated by gcov to generate our minimal coverage report and metrics for the documentation.
There are some slight differences in the metrics. The difference in the common module was due to a bug in the old code -- build/common was being added into common as well as being reported separately. The source of the two additional branches in the backup module is unknown but almost certainly down to how exclusions are processed with regular expressions. Since there is additional coverage rather than coverage missing this seems fine.
Since this was pretty much a rewrite it was also a good time to migrate to C.
NOTE TO PACKAGERS: The build system for pgBackRest is now meson. The autoconf/make build will not receive any new features and will be removed after a few releases.
Features:
* Add GCS batch delete support. (Reviewed by Reid Thompson.)
* S3 SSE-C encryption support. (Reviewed by Tim Jones. Suggested by Tim Jones.)
* PostgreSQL 17 support. (Reviewed by Stefan Fercot.)
Improvements:
* Allow explicit disabling of optional dependencies in meson builds. (Contributed by Michael Schout. Reviewed by David Steele.)
* Dynamically find python in meson build. (Contributed by Michael Schout. Reviewed by David Steele.)
* Tag pgbackrest build target in meson as installable. (Contributed by Bradford Boyle. Reviewed by David Steele.)
Documentation Improvements:
* Update start/stop documentation to reflect actual functionality. (Reviewed by Stefan Fercot.)
NOTE TO PACKAGERS: The build system for pgBackRest is now meson. The autoconf/make build will not receive any new features and will be removed after a few releases.
Bug Fixes:
* Skip zero-length files for block incremental delta restore. (Reviewed by Sebastian Krause, René Højbjerg Larsen. Reported by Sebastian Krause.)
* Fix performance regression in storage list. (Reviewed by Stephen Frost. Reported by Maksym Boguk.)
* Fix progress logging when file size changes during backup. (Reviewed by Stephen Frost. Reported by samkingno.)
Improvements:
* Improved support for dual stack connections. (Reviewed by Stephen Frost. Suggested by Timothée Peignier.)
* Make meson the primary build system. (Reviewed by Stephen Frost.)
* Detect files that have not changed during non-delta incremental backup. (Reviewed by Stephen Frost.)
* Prevent invalid recovery when backup_label removed. (Reviewed by Stephen Frost.)
* Improve archive-push WAL segment queue handling. (Reviewed by Stephen Frost.)
* Limit resume functionality to full backups. (Reviewed by Stephen Frost, Stefan Fercot.)
* Update resume functionality for block incremental. (Reviewed by Stephen Frost.)
* Allow --version and --help for version and help. (Reviewed by Greg Sabino Mullane. Suggested by Greg Sabino Mullane.)
* Add detailed backtrace to autoconf/make build. (Reviewed by Stephen Frost.)
Documentation Improvements:
* Update references to recovery.conf. (Reviewed by Stefan Fercot. Suggested by Stephen Frost.)
Bug Fixes:
* Fix short read in block incremental restore. (Reviewed by Stephen Frost, Brent Graveland. Reported by Adol Rodriguez, Brent Graveland.)
* Fix overflow suppressing backup progress in info output. (Fixed by Robert Donovan. Reviewed by Joe Wildish.)
Improvements:
* Preserve partial files during block incremental delta restore. (Reviewed by Stephen Frost.)
* Add support for alternate compile-time page sizes. (Contributed by Viktor Kurilko. Reviewed by David Steele.)
* Skip files truncated during backup when bundling. (Contributed by Georgy Shelkovy. Reviewed by David Steele.)
* Improve SFTP storage error messages. (Contributed by Reid Thompson. Reviewed by David Steele.)
Alternate pages sizes can be selected at compile-time, .e.g. 4096. While compile-time settings are generally not well tested by core, some established forks such as Greenplum use them.
Bug Fixes:
* Fix regression in retries. (Reviewed by Stephen Frost. Reported by Norman Adkins, Tanel Suurhans, Jordan English, Timothée Peignier.)
* Fix recursive path remove in SFTP storage driver. (Fixed by Reid Thompson. Reviewed by Stephen Frost. Reported by Luc.)
Improvements:
* Remove support for PostgreSQL 9.3. (Reviewed by Stephen Frost.)
Documentation Features:
* Document maintainer options. (Reviewed by Stefan Fercot.)
* Update point-in-time recovery documentation for PostgreSQL >= 13.
Test Suite Improvements:
* Allow config/load unit test to run without libssh2 installed. (Contributed by Reid Thompson. Reviewed by David Steele. Suggested by Wu Ning.)
Per our policy to support five EOL versions of PostgreSQL, 9.3 is no longer supported by pgBackRest.
Remove all logic associated with 9.3 and update the tests.
Bug Fixes:
* Fix issue restoring block incremental without a block list. (Reviewed by Stephen Frost, Burak Yurdakul. Reported by Burak Yurdakul.)
Features:
* Add --repo-storage-tag option to create object tags. (Reviewed by Stephen Frost, Stefan Fercot, Timothée Peignier.)
* Add known hosts checking for SFTP storage driver. (Contributed by Reid Thompson. Reviewed by Stephen Frost, David Steele.)
* Support for dual stack connections. (Reviewed by Stephen Frost.)
* Add backup size completed/total to info command JSON output. (Contributed by Stefan Fercot. Reviewed by David Steele.)
Improvements:
* Multi-stanza check command. (Reviewed by Stephen Frost.)
* Retry reads of pg_control until checksum is valid. (Reviewed by Stefan Fercot, Stephen Frost.)
* Optimize WAL segment check after successful backup. (Reviewed by Stephen Frost.)
* Improve GCS multi-part performance. (Reviewed by Reid Thompson.)
* Allow archive-get command to run when stanza is stopped. (Reviewed by Tom Swartz, David Christensen, Reid Thompson.)
* Accept leading tilde in paths for SFTP public/private keys. (Contributed by Reid Thompson. Reviewed by David Steele.)
* Reload GCS credentials before renewing authentication token. (Reviewed by Stephen Frost. Suggested by Daniel Farina.)
Documentation Bug Fixes:
* Fix configuration reference example for the tls-server-address option. (Fixed by Hartmut Goebel. Reviewed by David Steele.)
* Fix command reference example for the filter option.
Test Suite Improvements:
* Allow storage/sftp unit test to run without libssh2 installed. (Contributed by Reid Thompson. Reviewed by David Steele. Suggested by Wu Ning.)
Check command now checks multiple stanzas when the stanza option is omitted.
The stanza list is extracted from the current configuration rather than scanning the repository like the info command. Scanning the repository is a problem because configuration for each stanza may not be present in the current configuration. Since this functionality is new for check there is no regression.
Add a new section to the user guide to cover multi-stanza configuration and provide additional coverage for this feature.
Also fix a small issue in the parser when an indexed option has a dependency on a non-indexed option. There were no examples of this case in the previous configuration.
Bug Fixes:
* Preserve block incremental info in manifest during delta backup. (Reviewed by Stephen Frost. Reported by Francisco Miguel Biete Banon.)
* Fix block incremental file names in verify command. (Reviewed by Reid Thompson. Reported by Francisco Miguel Biete Banon.)
* Fix spurious automatic delta backup on backup from standby. (Reviewed by Stephen Frost. Reported by krmozejko, Don Seiler.)
* Skip recovery.signal for PostgreSQL >= 12 when recovery type=none. (Reviewed by Stefan Fercot. Reported by T.Anastacio.)
* Fix unique label generation for diff/incr backup. (Fixed by Andrey Sokolov. Reviewed by David Steele.)
* Fix time-based archive expiration when no backups are expired. (Reviewed by Stefan Fercot.)
Improvements:
* Improve performance of SFTP storage driver. (Contributed by Stephen Frost, Reid Thompson. Reviewed by David Steele.)
* Add timezone offset to info command date/time output. (Reviewed by Stefan Fercot, Philip Hurst. Suggested by Philip Hurst.)
* Centralize error handling for unsupported features. (Reviewed by Stefan Fercot.)
Documentation Improvements:
* Clarify preference to install from packages in the user guide. (Reviewed by Stefan Fercot. Suggested by dr-kd.)
Features:
* Block incremental backup. (Reviewed by John Morris, Stephen Frost, Stefan Fercot.)
* SFTP support for repository storage. (Contributed by Reid Thompson. Reviewed by Stephen Frost, David Steele.)
* PostgreSQL 16 support. (Reviewed by Stefan Fercot.)
Improvements:
* Allow page header checks to be skipped. (Reviewed by David Christensen. Suggested by David Christensen.)
* Avoid chown() on recovery files during restore. (Reviewed by Stefan Fercot, Marcelo Henrique Neppel. Suggested by Marcelo Henrique Neppel.)
* Add error retry detail for HTTP retries.
Documentation Improvements:
* Add warning about using recovery type=none. (Reviewed by Stefan Fercot.)
* Add note about running stanza-create on already-created repositories.
These were intended to allow the block list to be scanned without reading the map but were never utilized. They were left in "just in case" and because they did not seem to be doing any harm.
In fact, it is better not to have the block numbers because this allows us set the block size at a future time as long as it is a factor of the super block size. One way this could be useful is to store older files without super blocks or a map in the full backup and then build a map for them if the file gets modified in a diff/incr backup. This would require reading the file from the full backup to build the map but it would be more space efficient and we could make more intelligent decisions about block size. It would also be possible to change the block size even if one had already been selected in a prior backup.
Omitting the block numbers makes the chunking unnecessary since there is now no way to make sense of the block list without the map. Also, we might want to build maps for unchunked block lists, i.e. files that were copied normally.
Bug Fixes:
* Skip writing recovery.signal by default for restores of offline backups. (Reviewed by Stefan Fercot. Reported by Marcel Borger.)
Features:
* Block incremental backup (BETA). (Reviewed by John Morris, Stephen Frost, Stefan Fercot.)
Improvements:
* Keep only one all-default group index. (Reviewed by Stefan Fercot.)
Documentation Improvements:
* Add explicit instructions for upgrading between 2.x versions. (Contributed by Christophe Courtois. Reviewed by David Steele.)
* Remove references to SSH made obsolete when TLS was introduced.
Improvements:
* Remove support for PostgreSQL 9.0/9.1/9.2. (Reviewed by Stefan Fercot.)
* Restore errors when no backup matches the current version of PostgreSQL. (Contributed by Stefan Fercot. Reviewed by David Steele. Suggested by Soulou.)
* Add compress-level range checking for each compress-type. (Reviewed by Stefan Fercot. Suggested by gkleen, ViperRu.)
Documentation Improvements:
* Add warning about enabling "hierarchical namespace" on Azure storage. (Reviewed by Stefan Fercot. Suggested by Vojtech Galda, Pluggi, asjonos.)
* Add replacement for linefeeds in monitoring example. (Reviewed by Stefan Fercot. Suggested by rudonx, gmustdie, Ivan Shelestov.)
* Clarify target-action behavior on various PostgreSQL versions. (Contributed by Chris Bandy. Reviewed by David Steele, Anton Kurochkin, Stefan Fercot. Suggested by Anton Kurochkin, Chris Bandy.)
* Updates and clarifications to index page. (Reviewed by Stefan Fercot.)
* Add dark mode to the website. (Suggested by Stephen Frost.)
Our new policy is to support ten versions of PostgreSQL, the five supported releases and the last five EOL releases. As of PostgreSQL 15, that means 9.0/9.1/9.2 are no longer supported by pgBackRest.
Remove all logic associated with 9.0/9.1/9.2 and update the tests.
Document the new support policy.
Update InfoPg to read/write control versions for the history in backup.info, since we can no longer rely on the mappings being available. In theory this could have been an issue after removing 8.3/8.4 if anybody was using a version that old.
Bug Fixes:
* Fix incorrect time expiration being used for non-default repositories. (Reviewed by Stefan Fercot. Reported by Adam Brusselback.)
* Fix issue when listing directories recursively with a filter. (Reviewed by Stephen Frost. Reported by Efremov Egor.)
Features:
* Backup key/value annotations. (Contributed by Stefan Fercot. Reviewed by David Steele. Suggested by Adam Berlin.)
Improvements:
* Support --set in JSON output for info command. (Contributed by Stefan Fercot. Reviewed by David Steele. Suggested by Anton Kurochkin.)
* Update archive.info timestamps after a successful backup. (Reviewed by Stefan Fercot. Suggested by Alex Richman.)
* Move standby timeline check after checkpoint. (Reviewed by Stefan Fercot, Keith Fiske. Suggested by Keith Fiske.)
* Improve warning message on backup resume. (Suggested by Cynthia Shang.)
Documentation Improvements:
* Add absolute path for kill in pgbackrest.service. (Suggested by Don Seiler.)
NOTE TO PACKAGERS: An experimental meson build has been added but packagers should continue to use the autoconf/make build for the foreseeable future.
Improvements:
* OpenSSL 3 support. (Reviewed by Stephen Frost.)
* Create snapshot when listing contents of a path. (Reviewed by John Morris, Stephen Frost.)
* Force target-timeline=current when restore type=immediate. (Reviewed by Stephen Frost.)
* Truncate files during delta restore when they are larger than expected. (Reviewed by Stephen Frost.)
* Disable incremental manifest save when resume=n. (Contributed by Reid Thompson. Reviewed by David Steele.)
* Set backup percent complete to zero before copy start. (Contributed by Reid Thompson. Reviewed by David Steele.)
* Use S3 IsTruncated flag to determine list continuation. (Reviewed by John Morris, Soulou. Suggested by Christian Montagne.)
Documentation Bug Fixes:
* Skip internal options in the configuration reference. (Reported by Francisco Miguel Biete.)
Documentation Improvements:
* Add link to PostgreSQL configuration in repository host section. (Reviewed by Stefan Fercot. Suggested by Julien Cigar.)
Test Suite Improvements:
* Add experimental Meson build. (Reviewed by Eli Schwartz, Sam Bassaly.)
* Allow any path to be passed to the --test-path option. (Contributed by Andrey Sokolov. Reviewed by David Steele.)
* Fix compile error when DEBUG_EXEC_TIME is defined without DEBUG. (Contributed by Andrey Sokolov. Reviewed by David Steele.)
This module has dependencies on command/command so it does not make sense for it to be in the common module. Also move protocolFree() to main() since this is a very large dependency.
Adjust the tests so command/exit can be tested later. This is a bit messy but will get adjusted as we improve the test harness.
Maintaining the version interfaces was complicated by the fact that each interface needed to be in separate compilation unit to avoid type conflicts. This also meant that various build/test files needed to be updated to add the new interfaces.
Solve these problems by auto-generating all the interfaces into a single file. This is made possible by parsing defines and types out of the header files and creating macros to rename the types. At the end of the version interface everything is undef'd. Another benefit is that the auto-generated interfaces can be static and included directly into postgres/interface.c.
Since some code generation is now always required for tests, change --no-gen to --min-gen in test.pl.
It would also make sense to auto-generate the version defines in postgres/version.h, but that will be left for a future commit.
Meson is a new build system that offers simpler syntax and superior performance to autoconf/make. In addition, Windows is supported natively.
The Meson build appears complete, but currently is used only for auto-generation of code and the host build of pgbackrest. Some container upgrades will be required before Meson can be used for container builds.
Also patch the Debian package to force autoconf/make rather than Meson.
These files were never intended to be compiled on their own so the .c extension was a bit misleading. In particular Meson does not like .c files that are not intended to be compiled independently.
Leave header files as is since they are already protected against being included more than once and are never expected to be compiled.
Bug Fixes:
* Fix error thrown from FINALLY() causing an infinite loop. (Reviewed by Stephen Frost.)
* Error on all lock failures except another process holding the lock. (Reviewed by Reid Thompson, Geir Råness. Reported by Geir Råness.)
Features:
* Backup file bundling for improved small file support. (Reviewed by Reid Thompson, Stefan Fercot, Chris Bandy.)
* Verify command to validate the contents of a repository. (Contributed by Cynthia Shang, Reid Thompson. Reviewed by David Steele, Stefan Fercot.)
* PostgreSQL 15 support. (Reviewed by Stefan Fercot.)
* Show backup percent complete in info output. (Contributed by Reid Thompson. Reviewed by David Steele.)
* Auto-select backup for restore command --type=lsn. (Contributed by Reid Thompson. Reviewed by Stefan Fercot, David Steele.)
* Suppress existing WAL warning when archive-mode-check is disabled. (Contributed by Reid Thompson. Reviewed by David Steele.)
* Add AWS IMDSv2 support. (Contributed by Nuno Pires. Reviewed by David Steele.)
Improvements:
* Allow repo-hardlink option to be changed after full backup. (Reviewed by Reid Thompson.)
* Increase precision of percent complete logging for backup and restore. (Contributed by Reid Thompson. Reviewed by David Steele.)
* Improve path validation for repo-* commands. (Contributed by Reid Thompson. Reviewed by David Steele.)
* Improve stop command to honor stanza option. (Contributed by Reid Thompson. Reviewed by David Steele. Suggested by ragaoua.)
* Improve error message for invalid repo-azure-key. (Contributed by Reid Thompson. Reviewed by David Steele. Suggested by Seth Daniel.)
* Add hint to check the log on archive-get/archive-push async error. (Reviewed by Reid Thompson.)
* Add ClockError for unexpected clock skew and timezone changes. (Reviewed by Greg Sabino Mullane, Stefan Fercot. Suggested by Greg Sabino Mullane.)
* Strip extensions from history manifest before showing in error message. (Reviewed by Stefan Fercot.)
* Add user:group to lock permission error. (Reviewed by Reid Thompson.)
Documentation Bug Fixes:
* Fix incorrect reference to stanza-update in the user guide. (Fixed by Abubakar Mohammed. Reviewed by David Steele.)
* Fix example for repo-gcs-key-type option in configuration reference. (Reviewed by Reid Thompson.)
* Fix tls-server-auth example and add clarifications. (Reviewed by Reid Thompson.)
Documentation Improvements:
* Simplify messaging around supported versions in the documentation. (Reviewed by Stefan Fercot, Reid Thompson, Greg Sabino Mullane.)
* Add option type descriptions. (Contributed by Reid Thompson. Reviewed by David Steele.)
* Add FAQ about backup types and restore speed. (Contributed by David Christensen. Reviewed by Reid Thompson.)
* Document required base branch for pull requests. (Contributed by David Christensen. Reviewed by Reid Thompson.)
Integration expect log testing was originally used as a rough-and-ready way to make sure that certain code paths were being executed before the unit tests existed. Now that we have 100% unit test coverage (with expect log testing) the value of the integration expect tests seems minimal at best.
But they do cause numerous issues:
- Maintenance of the expect code and replacements that are required to keep logs reproducible.
- Even a trivial change can cause massive churn in the expect logs, e.g. d9088b2. These changes should be minutely audited but since the expect logs have little value now it is seldom worth the effort.
- The OS version used to do expect testing (RHEL7) can only be used to test one version of PostgreSQL. This makes it hard to balance the PostgreSQL version testing between OS versions.
- When a commit affects expect logs it is not clear (especially for new developers) how to regenerate them and our contributing guide is silent on the issue.
The goal is to migrate the integration tests to C and expect testing is not part of that plan. It seems best to get rid of them now.
Check for invalid path in repo-* commands. Perform path validation and throw an error when appropriate. Path may not contain '//'. Strip trailing '/' from path. Absolute path must fall under repo path.
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.)
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.
There is no evidence that users need 8.3/8.4 anymore but it does cost us in terms of development and testing, especially now that we have a number of new backup/restore features planned.
It seems to make sense to remove this support now. If there are users who need to use/migrate from these versions they can use an older version of pgBackRest.
Bug Fixes:
* Fix restore delta link mapping when path/file already exists. (Reviewed by Reid Thompson. Reported by Younes Alhroub.)
* Fix socket leak on connection retries. (Reviewed by Reid Thompson. Reported by James Coleman.)
Features:
* Add TLS server. (Reviewed by Stephen Frost, Reid Thompson, Andrew L'Ecuyer.)
* Add --cmd option. (Contributed by Reid Thompson. Reviewed by Stefan Fercot, David Steele. Suggested by Virgile CREVON.)
Improvements:
* Check archive immediately after backup start. (Reviewed by Reid Thompson, David Christensen.)
* Add timeline and checkpoint checks to backup. (Reviewed by Stefan Fercot, Reid Thompson.)
* Check that clusters are alive and correctly configured during a backup. (Reviewed by Stefan Fercot.)
* Error when restore is unable to find a backup to match the time target. (Reviewed by Reid Thompson, Douglas J Hunley. Suggested by Douglas J Hunley.)
* Parse protocol/port in S3/Azure endpoints. (Contributed by Reid Thompson. Reviewed by David Steele.)
* Add warning when checkpoint_timeout exceeds db-timeout. (Contributed by Stefan Fercot. Reviewed by David Steele.)
* Add verb to HTTP error output. (Contributed by Christoph Berg. Reviewed by David Steele.)
* Allow y/n arguments for boolean command-line options. (Contributed by Reid Thompson. Reviewed by David Steele.)
* Make backup size logging exactly match info command output. (Contributed by Reid Thompson. Reviewed by David Steele. Suggested by Mahomed Hussein.)
Documentation Improvements:
* Display size option default and allowed values with appropriate units. (Reviewed by Reid Thompson.)
* Fix typos and improve documentation for the tablespace-map-all option. (Reviewed by Reid Thompson. Suggested by Reid Thompson.)
* Remove obsolete statement about future multi-repository support. (Suggested by David Christensen.)
Bug Fixes:
* Allow "global" as a stanza prefix. (Reviewed by Stefan Fercot. Reported by Younes Alhroub.)
* Fix segfault on invalid GCS key file. (Reviewed by Stephen Frost. Reported by Henrik Feldt.)
Improvements:
* Allow link-map option to create new links. (Reviewed by Don Seiler, Stefan Fercot, Chris Bandy. Suggested by Don Seiler.)
* Increase max index allowed for pg/repo options to 256. (Reviewed by Cynthia Shang.)
* Add WebIdentity authentication for AWS S3. (Reviewed by James Callahan, Reid Thompson, Benjamin Blattberg, Andrew L'Ecuyer.)
* Report backup file validation errors in backup.info. (Contributed by Stefan Fercot. Reviewed by David Steele.)
* Add recovery start time to online backup restore log. (Reviewed by Tom Swartz, Stefan Fercot. Suggested by Tom Swartz.)
* Report original error and retries on local job failure. (Reviewed by Stefan Fercot.)
* Rename page checksum error to error list in info text output. (Reviewed by Stefan Fercot.)
* Add hints to standby replay timeout message. (Reviewed by Cynthia Shang, Stefan Fercot. Suggested by Leigh Downs.)
Command-line help is now generated at build time so it does not need to be committed. This reduces churn on commits that add configuration and/or update the help.
Since churn is no longer an issue, help.auto.c is bzip2 compressed to save space in the binary.
The Perl config parser (Data.pm) has been moved to doc/lib since the Perl build path is no longer required.
Likewise doc/xml/reference.xml has been moved to src/build/help/help.xml since it is required at build time.
IMPORTANT NOTE: The log level for copied files in the backup/restore commands has been changed to detail. This makes the info log level less noisy but if these messages are required then set the log level for the backup/restore commands to detail.
Bug Fixes:
* Detect errors in S3 multi-part upload finalize. (Reviewed by Cynthia Shang, Marco Montagna. Reported by Marco Montagna, Lev Kokotov, Anderson A. Mallmann.)
* Fix detection of circular symlinks. (Reviewed by Stefan Fercot. Reported by Rohit Raveendran.)
* Only pass selected repo options to the remote. (Reviewed by David Christensen, Cynthia Shang. Reported by Greg Sabino Mullane, David Christensen.)
Improvements:
* Binary protocol. (Reviewed by Cynthia Shang.)
* Automatically create data directory on restore. (Contributed by Stefan Fercot. Reviewed by David Steele. Suggested by Chris Bandy.)
* Allow restore --type=lsn. (Contributed by Stefan Fercot. Reviewed by Cynthia Shang. Suggested by James Coleman.)
* Change level of backup/restore copied file logging to detail. (Reviewed by Stefan Fercot. Suggested by Jens Wilke.)
* Loop while waiting for checkpoint LSN to reach replay LSN. (Contributed by Stefan Fercot. Reviewed by David Steele. Suggested by Fatih Mencutekin.)
* Log backup file total and restore size/file total. (Reviewed by Cynthia Shang.)
Documentation Bug Fixes:
* Fix incorrect host names in user guide. (Reviewed by Stefan Fercot. Reported by Greg Sabino Mullane.)
Documentation Improvements:
* Update contributing documentation and add pull request template. (Contributed by Cynthia Shang. Reviewed by David Steele.)
* Rearrange backup documentation in user guide. (Reviewed by Cynthia Shang.)
* Clarify restore --type behavior in command reference. (Contributed by Cynthia Shang. Reviewed by David Steele.)
* Fix documentation and comment typos. (Contributed by Eric Radman. Reviewed by David Steele.)
Test Suite Improvements:
* Add check for test path inside repo path. (Reviewed by Greg Sabino Mullane. Suggested by Greg Sabino Mullane.)
* Add CodeQL static code analysis. (Reviewed by Cynthia Shang.)
* Update tests to use standard patterns. (Contributed by Cynthia Shang. Reviewed by David Steele.)
This file duplicated the command list that already exists in parse.auto.c.
Combine the data from config.auto.c into parse.auto.c and adjust the interface functions as needed. Quite a few were able to be moved to parse.c as static.
This was started in c5ae047e but did not include generation of parse.auto.c.
The parser has also been improved with better errors and multiple passes to reduce dependency on ordering and produce and cleaner output.
Option order resolution now includes cycle detection.
Bug Fixes:
* Fix issues with leftover spool files from a prior restore. (Reviewed by Cynthia Shang, Stefan Fercot, Floris van Nee. Reported by Floris van Nee.)
* Fix issue when checking links for large numbers of tablespaces. (Reviewed by Cynthia Shang, Avinash Vallarapu. Reported by Avinash Vallarapu.)
* Free no longer needed remotes so they do not timeout during restore. (Reviewed by Cynthia Shang. Reported by Francisco Miguel Biete.)
* Fix help when a valid option is invalid for the specified command. (Reviewed by Stefan Fercot. Reported by Cynthia Shang.)
Features:
* Add PostgreSQL 14 support. (Reviewed by Cynthia Shang.)
* Add automatic GCS authentication for GCE instances. (Reviewed by Jan Wieck, Daniel Farina.)
* Add repo-retention-history option to expire backup history. (Contributed by Stefan Fercot. Reviewed by Cynthia Shang, David Steele.)
* Add db-exclude option. (Contributed by Stefan Fercot. Reviewed by Cynthia Shang.)
Improvements:
* Change archive expiration logging from detail to info level. (Contributed by Cynthia Shang. Reviewed by David Steele.)
* Remove stanza archive spool path on restore. (Reviewed by Cynthia Shang, Stefan Fercot.)
* Do not write files atomically or sync paths during backup copy. (Reviewed by Stephen Frost, Stefan Fercot, Cynthia Shang.)
Documentation Improvements:
* Update contributing documentation. (Contributed by Cynthia Shang. Reviewed by David Steele, Stefan Fercot.)
* Consolidate RHEL/CentOS user guide into a single document. (Reviewed by Cynthia Shang.)
* Clarify that repo-s3-role is not an ARN. (Contributed by Isaac Yuen. Reviewed by David Steele.)
Bug Fixes:
* Fix option warnings breaking async archive-get/archive-push. (Reviewed by Cynthia Shang. Reported by Lev Kokotov.)
* Fix memory leak in backup during archive copy. (Reviewed by Cynthia Shang. Reported by Christian ROUX, Efremov Egor.)
* Fix stack overflow in cipher passphrase generation. (Reviewed by Cynthia Shang. Reported by bsiara.)
* Fix repo-ls / on S3 repositories. (Reviewed by Cynthia Shang. Reported by Lesovsky Alexey.)
Features:
* Multiple repository support. (Contributed by Cynthia Shang, David Steele. Reviewed by Stefan Fercot, Stephen Frost.)
* GCS support for repository storage. (Reviewed by Cynthia Shang.)
* Add archive-header-check option. (Reviewed by Stephen Frost, Cynthia Shang. Suggested by Hans-Jürgen Schönig.)
Improvements:
* Include recreated system databases during selective restore. (Contributed by Stefan Fercot. Reviewed by Cynthia Shang.)
* Exclude content-length from S3 signed headers. (Reviewed by Cynthia Shang. Suggested by Brian P Bockelman.)
* Consolidate less commonly used repository storage options. (Reviewed by Cynthia Shang.)
* Allow custom config-path default with ./configure --with-configdir. (Contributed by Michael Schout. Reviewed by David Steele.)
* Log archive copy during backup. (Reviewed by Cynthia Shang, Stefan Fercot.)
Documentation Improvements:
* Update reference to include links to user guide examples. (Contributed by Cynthia Shang. Reviewed by David Steele.)
* Update selective restore documentation with caveats. (Reviewed by Cynthia Shang, Stefan Fercot.)
* Add compress-type clarification to archive-copy documentation. (Reviewed by Cynthia Shang, Stefan Fercot.)
* Add compress-level defaults per compress-type value. (Contributed by Cynthia Shang. Reviewed by David Steele.)
* Add note about required NFS settings being the same as PostgreSQL. (Contributed by Cynthia Shang. Reviewed by David Steele.)
Bug Fixes:
* Fix resume after partial delete of backup by prior resume. (Reviewed by Cynthia Shang. Reported by Tom Swartz.)
Features:
* Add repo-ls command. (Reviewed by Cynthia Shang, Stefan Fercot.)
* Add repo-get command. (Contributed by Stefan Fercot, David Steele. Reviewed by Cynthia Shang.)
* Add archive-mode-check option. (Contributed by Stefan Fercot. Reviewed by David Steele, Michael Banck.)
Improvements:
* Improve archive-get performance. (Reviewed by Cynthia Shang.)
Data required for parsing was spread between the config and defined modules, mostly for historical reasons because the same data was used by Perl.
Requiring all the parse rules to be accessed with function interfaces makes the code more complicated and new rules harder to implement.
Instead, move the data to the parse module so in the most complex cases no interface functions are needed. This reduces the total amount of code and paves the way for more complex parse rules.
The help data can be represented more compactly in a pack and this separates data needed for help from data needed for parsing, freeing each to have a more appropriate representation.
Bug Fixes:
* Allow [, #, and space as the first character in database names. (Reviewed by Stefan Fercot, Cynthia Shang. Reported by Jefferson Alexandre.)
* Create standby.signal only on PostgreSQL 12 when restore type is standby. (Fixed by Stefan Fercot. Reviewed by David Steele. Reported by Keith Fiske.)
Features:
* Expire history files. (Contributed by Stefan Fercot. Reviewed by David Steele.)
* Report page checksum errors in info command text output. (Contributed by Stefan Fercot. Reviewed by Cynthia Shang.)
* Add repo-azure-endpoint option. (Reviewed by Cynthia Shang, Brian Peterson. Suggested by Brian Peterson.)
* Add pg-database option. (Reviewed by Cynthia Shang.)
Improvements:
* Improve info command output when a stanza is specified but missing. (Contributed by Stefan Fercot. Reviewed by Cynthia Shang, David Steele. Suggested by uspen.)
* Improve performance of large file lists in backup/restore commands. (Reviewed by Cynthia Shang, Oscar.)
* Add retries to PostgreSQL sleep when starting a backup. (Reviewed by Cynthia Shang. Suggested by Vitaliy Kukharik.)
Documentation Improvements:
* Replace RHEL/CentOS 6 documentation with RHEL/CentOS 8.
Bug Fixes:
* Error with hints when backup user cannot read pg_settings. (Reviewed by Stefan Fercot, Cynthia Shang. Reported by Mohamed Insaf K.)
Features:
* PostgreSQL 13 support. (Reviewed by Cynthia Shang.)
Improvements:
* Improve PostgreSQL version identification. (Reviewed by Cynthia Shang, Stephen Frost.)
* Improve working directory error message. (Reviewed by Stefan Fercot.)
* Add hint about starting the stanza when WAL segment not found. (Contributed by David Christensen. Reviewed by David Steele.)
* Add hint for protocol version mismatch. (Reviewed by Cynthia Shang. Suggested by loop-evgeny.)
Documentation Improvements:
* Add note that pgBackRest versions must match when running remotely. (Reviewed by Cynthia Shang. Suggested by loop-evgeny.)
* Move info command text to the reference and link to user guide. (Reviewed by Cynthia Shang. Suggested by Christophe Courtois.)
* Update yum repository path for CentOS/RHEL user guide. (Contributed by Heath Lord. Reviewed by David Steele.)
Bug Fixes:
* Suppress errors when closing local/remote processes. Since the command has completed it is counterproductive to throw an error but still warn to indicate that something unusual happened. (Reviewed by Cynthia Shang. Reported by argdenis.)
* Fix issue with = character in file or database names. (Reviewed by Bastian Wegge, Cynthia Shang. Reported by Brad Nicholson, Bastian Wegge.)
Features:
* Automatically retrieve temporary S3 credentials on AWS instances. (Contributed by David Steele, Stephen Frost. Reviewed by Cynthia Shang, David Youatt, Aleš Zelený, Jeanette Bromage.)
* Add archive-mode option to disable archiving on restore. (Reviewed by Stephen Frost. Suggested by Stephen Frost.)
Improvements:
* PostgreSQL 13 beta3 support. Changes to the control/catalog/WAL versions in subsequent betas may break compatibility but pgBackRest will be updated with each release to keep pace.
* Asynchronous list/remove for S3/Azure storage. (Reviewed by Cynthia Shang, Stephen Frost.)
* Improve memory usage of unlogged relation detection in manifest build. (Reviewed by Cynthia Shang, Stephen Frost, Brad Nicholson, Oscar. Suggested by Oscar, Brad Nicholson.)
* Proactively close file descriptors after forking async process. (Reviewed by Stephen Frost, Cynthia Shang.)
* Delay backup remote connection close until after archive check. (Contributed by Floris van Nee. Reviewed by David Steele.)
* Improve detailed error output. (Reviewed by Cynthia Shang.)
* Improve TLS error reporting. (Reviewed by Cynthia Shang, Stephen Frost.)
Documentation Bug Fixes:
* Add none to compress-type option reference and fix example. (Reported by Ugo Bellavance, Don Seiler.)
* Add missing azure type in repo-type option reference. (Fixed by Don Seiler. Reviewed by David Steele.)
* Fix typo in repo-cipher-type option reference. (Fixed by Don Seiler. Reviewed by David Steele.)
Documentation Improvements:
* Clarify that expire must be run regularly when expire-auto is disabled. (Reviewed by Douglas J Hunley. Suggested by Douglas J Hunley.)
The prior implementation only supported a single connection on TLS. This is not flexible enough for complex testing scenarios which might require multiple simultaneous connections on different protocols.
Allow multiple simultaneous connections and add plain sockets as a protocol option. Rename the functions used for server scripting to hrnServerScript*() to make it clear they are related. Improve error messages when less input is received by the server than expected.
Also, do a bit of cleanup and add more comments.
