In vpath builds, the __FILE__ macro that is used in verbose error
reports contains the full absolute file name, which makes the error
messages excessively verbose.  So keep only the base name, thus
matching the behavior of non-vpath builds.

This allows different instances to use the eventlog with different
identifiers, by setting the event_source GUC, similar to how
syslog_ident works.

Original patch by MauMau, heavily modified by Magnus Hagander

This is merely an exercise in satisfying pedants, not a bug fix, because
in every case we were checking for failure later with ferror(), or else
there was nothing useful to be done about a failure anyway.  Document
the latter cases.

We were doing some amazingly complicated things in order to avoid running
the very expensive identify_system_timezone() procedure during GUC
initialization.  But there is an obvious fix for that, which is to do it
once during initdb and have initdb install the system-specific default into
postgresql.conf, as it already does for most other GUC variables that need
system-environment-dependent defaults.  This means that the timezone (and
log_timezone) settings no longer have any magic behavior in the server.
Per discussion.

The previous limit of 1024 was set on the assumption that all modern syslog
implementations have line length limits of 2KB or so.  However, this is
false, as at least Solaris and sysklogd truncate at only 1KB.  900 seems
to leave enough room for the max likely length of the tacked-on prefixes,
so let's go with that.

As with the previous change, it doesn't seem wise to back-patch this into
already-released branches; but it should be OK to sneak it into 9.1.

Noah Misch

This function supports untranslated detail messages, in the same way that
errmsg_internal supports untranslated primary messages.  We've needed this
for some time IMO, but discussion of some cases in the SSI code provided
the impetus to actually add it.

Kevin Grittner, with minor adjustments by me

The previous functions of assign hooks are now split between check hooks
and assign hooks, where the former can fail but the latter shouldn't.
Aside from being conceptually clearer, this approach exposes the
"canonicalized" form of the variable value to guc.c without having to do
an actual assignment.  And that lets us fix the problem recently noted by
Bernd Helmle that the auto-tune patch for wal_buffers resulted in bogus
log messages about "parameter "wal_buffers" cannot be changed without
restarting the server".  There may be some speed advantage too, because
this design lets hook functions avoid re-parsing variable values when
restoring a previous state after a rollback (they can store a pre-parsed
representation of the value instead).  This patch also resolves a
longstanding annoyance about custom error messages from variable assign
hooks: they should modify, not appear separately from, guc.c's own message
about "invalid parameter value".

Instead, write the unconverted output - it will be in the wrong
encoding, but at least we don't crash.

Rushabh Lathia

Stephen Frost, somewhat rewritten by me

This reverts commit a8a88679, committed
by me earlier today (2011-01-12).  This isn't safe inside an aborted
transaction.

Noted by Tom Lane.

Stephen Frost, with some editorialization by me.

The nominally equivalent call appendStringInfo(buf, "%s", str) can be
significantly slower when str is large.  In particular, the former usage in
EVALUATE_MESSAGE led to O(N^2) behavior when collecting a large number of
context lines, as I found out while testing recursive functions.  The other
changes are just neatnik-ism and seem unlikely to save anything meaningful,
but a cycle shaved is a cycle earned.

Per gripe from Fujii Masao, though this is not exactly his proposed patch.
Categorize as DEVELOPER_OPTIONS and set context PGC_SIGHUP, as per Fujii,
but set the default to LOG because higher values aren't really sensible
(see the code for trace_recovery()).  Fix the documentation to agree with
the code and to try to explain what the variable actually does.  Get rid
of no-op calls trace_recovery(LOG), which accomplish nothing except to
demonstrate that this option confuses even its author.

path when CSV logging is configured but not yet operational.  It's sufficient
to send the message to stderr, as we were already doing, and the "Not safe"
gripe has already confused at least two core members ...

Backpatch to 9.0, but not further --- doesn't seem appropriate to change
this behavior in stable branches.

Depending on which spec you read, field widths and precisions in %s may be
counted either in bytes or characters.  Our code was assuming bytes, which
is wrong at least for glibc's implementation, and in any case libc might
have a different idea of the prevailing encoding than we do.  Hence, for
portable results we must avoid using anything more complex than just "%s"
unless the string to be printed is known to be all-ASCII.

This patch fixes the cases I could find, including the psql formatting
failure reported by Hernan Gonzalez.  In HEAD only, I also added comments
to some places where it appears safe to continue using "%.*s".

(hope I got 'em all).  Per discussion, this release will be 9.0 not 8.5.

Enabled by recovery_connections = on (default) and forcing archive recovery using a recovery.conf. Recovery processing now emulates the original transactions as they are replayed, providing full locking and MVCC behaviour for read only queries. Recovery must enter consistent state before connections are allowed, so there is a delay, typically short, before connections succeed. Replay of recovering transactions can conflict and in some cases deadlock with queries during recovery; these result in query cancellation after max_standby_delay seconds have expired. Infrastructure changes have minor effects on normal running, though introduce four new types of WAL record.

New test mode "make standbycheck" allows regression tests of static command behaviour on a standby server while in recovery. Typical and extreme dynamic behaviours have been checked via code inspection and manual testing. Few port specific behaviours have been utilised, though primary testing has been on Linux only so far.

This commit is the basic patch. Additional changes will follow in this release to enhance some aspects of behaviour, notably improved handling of conflicts, deadlock detection and query cancellation. Changes to VACUUM FULL are also required.

Simon Riggs, with significant and lengthy review by Heikki Linnakangas, including streamlined redesign of snapshot creation and two-phase commit.

Important contributions from Florian Pflug, Mark Kirkwood, Merlin Moncure, Greg Stark, Gianni Ciolli, Gabriele Bartolini, Hannu Krosing, Robert Haas, Tatsuo Ishii, Hiroyuki Yamada plus support and feedback from many other community members.

pg_stat_activity and recorded in log entries.

Dave Page, reviewed by Andres Freund

as necessary.

Itagaki Takahiro with some changes from me

Author: Guillaume Smet <guillaume.smet@gmail.com>

to restore gcc's ability to crosscheck format arguments within elog.c.
Noted in a test compilation with -Wformat-nonliteral enabled.

provided by Andrew.

by extending the ereport() API to cater for pluralization directly.  This
is better than the original method of calling ngettext outside the elog.c
code because (1) it avoids double translation, which wastes cycles and in
the worst case could give a wrong result; and (2) it avoids having to use
a different coding method in PL code than in the core backend.  The
client-side uses of ngettext are not touched since neither of these concerns
is very pressing in the client environment.  Per my proposal of yesterday.

encoding conversion of any elog/ereport message being sent to the frontend.
This generalizes a patch that I put in last October, which suppressed
translation of only specific messages known to be associated with recursive
can't-translate-the-message behavior.  As shown in bug #4680, we need a more
general answer in order to have some hope of coping with broken encoding
conversion setups.  This approach seems a good deal less klugy anyway.

Patch in all supported branches.

Hiroshi Inoue

consistent. Currently, in csvlog, vxid of an auxiliary process isn't
displayed. On the other hand, in stderr/syslog, invalid vxid (-1/0) of
that is displayed.

Fujii Masao

recursion when we are unable to convert a localized error message to the
client's encoding.  We've been over this ground before, but as reported by
Ibrar Ahmed, it still didn't work in the case of conversion failures for
the conversion-failure message itself :-(.  Fix by installing a "circuit
breaker" that disables attempts to localize this message once we get into
recursion trouble.

Patch all supported branches, because it is in fact broken in all of them;
though I had to add some missing translations to the older branches in
order to expose the failure in the particular test case I was using.

formatted_start_time.

the ereport macro.  Included in this commit are enough files for starting
plpgsql, plpython, plperl and pltcl translations.

There are still some weak spots around JOIN USING and relation alias lists,
but most errors reported within backend/parser/ now have locations.

1024 to improve performance when sending large elog messages.  Also add a
comment about why we use that number.

Since this represents an externally visible behavior change, and might
possibly result in portability issues, it seems best not to back-patch it.

log message at newlines cost O(N^2) for very long messages with few or no
newlines.  For messages in the megabyte range this became the dominant cost.
Per gripe from Achilleas Mantzios.

Patch all the way back, since this is a safe change with no portability
risks.  I am also thinking of increasing PG_SYSLOG_LIMIT, but that should
be done separately.

errdetail except the string goes only to the server log, replacing the normal
errdetail there.  This provides a reasonably clean way of dealing with error
details that are too security-sensitive or too bulky to send to the client.

This commit just adds the infrastructure --- actual uses to follow.

variables to it. More need to be converted, but I wanted to get this in
before it conflicts with too much...

Other than just centralising the text-to-int conversion for parameters,
this allows the pg_settings view to contain a list of available options
and allows an error hint to show what values are allowed.