When instantiating an existing partitioned index for a new child
partition, we use generateClonedIndexStmt to build a suitable
IndexStmt to pass to DefineIndex. However, when DefineIndex needs
to recurse to instantiate a newly created partitioned index on an
existing child partition, it was doing copyObject on the given
IndexStmt and then applying a bunch of ad-hoc fixups. This has
a number of problems, primarily that it implies fresh lookups of
referenced objects such as opclasses and collations. Since commit
2af07e2f7 caused DefineIndex to restrict search_path internally, those
lookups could fail or deliver different results than the original one.
We can avoid those problems and save a few dozen lines of code by
using generateClonedIndexStmt in this code path too.
Another thing this fixes is incorrect propagation of parent-index
comments to child indexes (because the copyObject approach copies
the idxcomment field while generateClonedIndexStmt doesn't). I had
noticed this in connection with commit c01eb619a, but not run the
problem to ground.
I'm tempted to back-patch this further than v17, but the only thing
it's known to fix in older branches is the comment issue, which is
pretty minor and doesn't seem worth the risk of introducing new
issues in stable branches. (If anyone does care about that,
clearing idxcomment in the copied IndexStmt would be a safer fix.)
Per bug #18637 from usamoi. Back-patch to v17 where the search_path
change came in.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18637-f51e314546e3ba2a@postgresql.org
The generated resource files aren't exactly the same ones as the old
buildsystems generate. Previously "InternalName" and "OriginalFileName" were
mostly wrong / not set (despite being required), but that was hard to fix in
at least the make build. Additionally, the meson build falls back to a
"auto-generated" description when not set, and doesn't set it in a few cases -
unlikely that anybody looks at these descriptions in detail.
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Author: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
Autoconf is showing its age, fewer and fewer contributors know how to wrangle
it. Recursive make has a lot of hard to resolve dependency issues and slow
incremental rebuilds. Our home-grown MSVC build system is hard to maintain for
developers not using Windows and runs tests serially. While these and other
issues could individually be addressed with incremental improvements, together
they seem best addressed by moving to a more modern build system.
After evaluating different build system choices, we chose to use meson, to a
good degree based on the adoption by other open source projects.
We decided that it's more realistic to commit a relatively early version of
the new build system and mature it in tree.
This commit adds an initial version of a meson based build system. It supports
building postgres on at least AIX, FreeBSD, Linux, macOS, NetBSD, OpenBSD,
Solaris and Windows (however only gcc is supported on aix, solaris). For
Windows/MSVC postgres can now be built with ninja (faster, particularly for
incremental builds) and msbuild (supporting the visual studio GUI, but
building slower).
Several aspects (e.g. Windows rc file generation, PGXS compatibility, LLVM
bitcode generation, documentation adjustments) are done in subsequent commits
requiring further review. Other aspects (e.g. not installing test-only
extensions) are not yet addressed.
When building on Windows with msbuild, builds are slower when using a visual
studio version older than 2019, because those versions do not support
MultiToolTask, required by meson for intra-target parallelism.
The plan is to remove the MSVC specific build system in src/tools/msvc soon
after reaching feature parity. However, we're not planning to remove the
autoconf/make build system in the near future. Likely we're going to keep at
least the parts required for PGXS to keep working around until all supported
versions build with meson.
Some initial help for postgres developers is at
https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Meson
With contributions from Thomas Munro, John Naylor, Stone Tickle and others.
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Author: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>
Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
Reviewed-By: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20211012083721.hvixq4pnh2pixr3j@alap3.anarazel.de
Tom Lane