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/*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
 *
 * varsup.c
 *    postgres OID & XID variables support routines
 *
 * Copyright (c) 2000-2013, PostgreSQL Global Development Group
 *
 * IDENTIFICATION
 *    src/backend/access/transam/varsup.c
 *
 *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
 */

#include "postgres.h"

#include "access/clog.h"
#include "access/subtrans.h"
#include "access/transam.h"
#include "access/xact.h"
#include "commands/dbcommands.h"
#include "miscadmin.h"
#include "postmaster/autovacuum.h"
#include "storage/pmsignal.h"
#include "storage/proc.h"
#include "utils/syscache.h"


/* Number of OIDs to prefetch (preallocate) per XLOG write */
#define VAR_OID_PREFETCH        8192

/* pointer to "variable cache" in shared memory (set up by shmem.c) */
VariableCache ShmemVariableCache = NULL;


/*
 * Allocate the next XID for a new transaction or subtransaction.
 *
 * The new XID is also stored into MyPgXact before returning.
 *
 * Note: when this is called, we are actually already inside a valid
 * transaction, since XIDs are now not allocated until the transaction
 * does something.  So it is safe to do a database lookup if we want to
 * issue a warning about XID wrap.
 */
TransactionId
GetNewTransactionId(bool isSubXact)
{
    TransactionId xid;

    /*
     * During bootstrap initialization, we return the special bootstrap
     * transaction id.
     */
    if (IsBootstrapProcessingMode())
    {
        Assert(!isSubXact);
        MyPgXact->xid = BootstrapTransactionId;
        return BootstrapTransactionId;
    }

    /* safety check, we should never get this far in a HS slave */
    if (RecoveryInProgress())
        elog(ERROR, "cannot assign TransactionIds during recovery");

    LWLockAcquire(XidGenLock, LW_EXCLUSIVE);

    xid = ShmemVariableCache->nextXid;

    /*----------
     * Check to see if it's safe to assign another XID.  This protects against
     * catastrophic data loss due to XID wraparound.  The basic rules are:
     *
     * If we're past xidVacLimit, start trying to force autovacuum cycles.
     * If we're past xidWarnLimit, start issuing warnings.
     * If we're past xidStopLimit, refuse to execute transactions, unless
     * we are running in a standalone backend (which gives an escape hatch
     * to the DBA who somehow got past the earlier defenses).
     *
     * Note that this coding also appears in GetNewMultiXactId.
     *----------
     */
    if (TransactionIdFollowsOrEquals(xid, ShmemVariableCache->xidVacLimit))
    {
        /*
         * For safety's sake, we release XidGenLock while sending signals,
         * warnings, etc.  This is not so much because we care about
         * preserving concurrency in this situation, as to avoid any
         * possibility of deadlock while doing get_database_name(). First,
         * copy all the shared values we'll need in this path.
         */
        TransactionId xidWarnLimit = ShmemVariableCache->xidWarnLimit;
        TransactionId xidStopLimit = ShmemVariableCache->xidStopLimit;
        TransactionId xidWrapLimit = ShmemVariableCache->xidWrapLimit;
        Oid         oldest_datoid = ShmemVariableCache->oldestXidDB;

        LWLockRelease(XidGenLock);

        /*
         * To avoid swamping the postmaster with signals, we issue the autovac
         * request only once per 64K transaction starts.  This still gives
         * plenty of chances before we get into real trouble.
         */
        if (IsUnderPostmaster && (xid % 65536) == 0)
            SendPostmasterSignal(PMSIGNAL_START_AUTOVAC_LAUNCHER);

        if (IsUnderPostmaster &&
            TransactionIdFollowsOrEquals(xid, xidStopLimit))
        {
            char       *oldest_datname = get_database_name(oldest_datoid);

            /* complain even if that DB has disappeared */
            if (oldest_datname)
                ereport(ERROR,
                        (errcode(ERRCODE_PROGRAM_LIMIT_EXCEEDED),
                         errmsg("database is not accepting commands to avoid wraparound data loss in database \"%s\"",
                                oldest_datname),
                         errhint("Stop the postmaster and use a standalone backend to vacuum that database.\n"
                                 "You might also need to commit or roll back old prepared transactions.")));
            else
                ereport(ERROR,
                        (errcode(ERRCODE_PROGRAM_LIMIT_EXCEEDED),
                         errmsg("database is not accepting commands to avoid wraparound data loss in database with OID %u",
                                oldest_datoid),
                         errhint("Stop the postmaster and use a standalone backend to vacuum that database.\n"
                                 "You might also need to commit or roll back old prepared transactions.")));
        }
        else if (TransactionIdFollowsOrEquals(xid, xidWarnLimit))
        {
            char       *oldest_datname = get_database_name(oldest_datoid);

            /* complain even if that DB has disappeared */
            if (oldest_datname)
                ereport(WARNING,
                        (errmsg("database \"%s\" must be vacuumed within %u transactions",
                                oldest_datname,
                                xidWrapLimit - xid),
                         errhint("To avoid a database shutdown, execute a database-wide VACUUM in that database.\n"
                                 "You might also need to commit or roll back old prepared transactions.")));
            else
                ereport(WARNING,
                        (errmsg("database with OID %u must be vacuumed within %u transactions",
                                oldest_datoid,
                                xidWrapLimit - xid),
                         errhint("To avoid a database shutdown, execute a database-wide VACUUM in that database.\n"
                                 "You might also need to commit or roll back old prepared transactions.")));
        }

        /* Re-acquire lock and start over */
        LWLockAcquire(XidGenLock, LW_EXCLUSIVE);
        xid = ShmemVariableCache->nextXid;
    }

    /*
     * If we are allocating the first XID of a new page of the commit log,
     * zero out that commit-log page before returning. We must do this while
     * holding XidGenLock, else another xact could acquire and commit a later
     * XID before we zero the page.  Fortunately, a page of the commit log
     * holds 32K or more transactions, so we don't have to do this very often.
     *
     * Extend pg_subtrans too.
     */
    ExtendCLOG(xid);
    ExtendSUBTRANS(xid);

    /*
     * Now advance the nextXid counter.  This must not happen until after we
     * have successfully completed ExtendCLOG() --- if that routine fails, we
     * want the next incoming transaction to try it again.  We cannot assign
     * more XIDs until there is CLOG space for them.
     */
    TransactionIdAdvance(ShmemVariableCache->nextXid);

    /*
     * We must store the new XID into the shared ProcArray before releasing
     * XidGenLock.  This ensures that every active XID older than
     * latestCompletedXid is present in the ProcArray, which is essential for
     * correct OldestXmin tracking; see src/backend/access/transam/README.
     *
     * XXX by storing xid into MyPgXact without acquiring ProcArrayLock, we
     * are relying on fetch/store of an xid to be atomic, else other backends
     * might see a partially-set xid here.  But holding both locks at once
     * would be a nasty concurrency hit.  So for now, assume atomicity.
     *
     * Note that readers of PGXACT xid fields should be careful to fetch the
     * value only once, rather than assume they can read a value multiple
     * times and get the same answer each time.
     *
     * The same comments apply to the subxact xid count and overflow fields.
     *
     * A solution to the atomic-store problem would be to give each PGXACT its
     * own spinlock used only for fetching/storing that PGXACT's xid and
     * related fields.
     *
     * If there's no room to fit a subtransaction XID into PGPROC, set the
     * cache-overflowed flag instead.  This forces readers to look in
     * pg_subtrans to map subtransaction XIDs up to top-level XIDs. There is a
     * race-condition window, in that the new XID will not appear as running
     * until its parent link has been placed into pg_subtrans. However, that
     * will happen before anyone could possibly have a reason to inquire about
     * the status of the XID, so it seems OK.  (Snapshots taken during this
     * window *will* include the parent XID, so they will deliver the correct
     * answer later on when someone does have a reason to inquire.)
     */
    {
        /*
         * Use volatile pointer to prevent code rearrangement; other backends
         * could be examining my subxids info concurrently, and we don't want
         * them to see an invalid intermediate state, such as incrementing
         * nxids before filling the array entry.  Note we are assuming that
         * TransactionId and int fetch/store are atomic.
         */
        volatile PGPROC *myproc = MyProc;
        volatile PGXACT *mypgxact = MyPgXact;

        if (!isSubXact)
            mypgxact->xid = xid;
        else
        {
            int         nxids = mypgxact->nxids;

            if (nxids < PGPROC_MAX_CACHED_SUBXIDS)
            {
                myproc->subxids.xids[nxids] = xid;
                mypgxact->nxids = nxids + 1;
            }
            else
                mypgxact->overflowed = true;
        }
    }

    LWLockRelease(XidGenLock);

    return xid;
}

/*
 * Read nextXid but don't allocate it.
 */
TransactionId
ReadNewTransactionId(void)
{
    TransactionId xid;

    LWLockAcquire(XidGenLock, LW_SHARED);
    xid = ShmemVariableCache->nextXid;
    LWLockRelease(XidGenLock);

    return xid;
}

/*
 * Determine the last safe XID to allocate given the currently oldest
 * datfrozenxid (ie, the oldest XID that might exist in any database
 * of our cluster), and the OID of the (or a) database with that value.
 */
void
SetTransactionIdLimit(TransactionId oldest_datfrozenxid, Oid oldest_datoid)
{
    TransactionId xidVacLimit;
    TransactionId xidWarnLimit;
    TransactionId xidStopLimit;
    TransactionId xidWrapLimit;
    TransactionId curXid;

    Assert(TransactionIdIsNormal(oldest_datfrozenxid));

    /*
     * The place where we actually get into deep trouble is halfway around
     * from the oldest potentially-existing XID.  (This calculation is
     * probably off by one or two counts, because the special XIDs reduce the
     * size of the loop a little bit.  But we throw in plenty of slop below,
     * so it doesn't matter.)
     */
    xidWrapLimit = oldest_datfrozenxid + (MaxTransactionId >> 1);
    if (xidWrapLimit < FirstNormalTransactionId)
        xidWrapLimit += FirstNormalTransactionId;

    /*
     * We'll refuse to continue assigning XIDs in interactive mode once we get
     * within 1M transactions of data loss.  This leaves lots of room for the
     * DBA to fool around fixing things in a standalone backend, while not
     * being significant compared to total XID space. (Note that since
     * vacuuming requires one transaction per table cleaned, we had better be
     * sure there's lots of XIDs left...)
     */
    xidStopLimit = xidWrapLimit - 1000000;
    if (xidStopLimit < FirstNormalTransactionId)
        xidStopLimit -= FirstNormalTransactionId;

    /*
     * We'll start complaining loudly when we get within 10M transactions of
     * the stop point.  This is kind of arbitrary, but if you let your gas
     * gauge get down to 1% of full, would you be looking for the next gas
     * station?  We need to be fairly liberal about this number because there
     * are lots of scenarios where most transactions are done by automatic
     * clients that won't pay attention to warnings. (No, we're not gonna make
     * this configurable.  If you know enough to configure it, you know enough
     * to not get in this kind of trouble in the first place.)
     */
    xidWarnLimit = xidStopLimit - 10000000;
    if (xidWarnLimit < FirstNormalTransactionId)
        xidWarnLimit -= FirstNormalTransactionId;

    /*
     * We'll start trying to force autovacuums when oldest_datfrozenxid gets
     * to be more than autovacuum_freeze_max_age transactions old.
     *
     * Note: guc.c ensures that autovacuum_freeze_max_age is in a sane range,
     * so that xidVacLimit will be well before xidWarnLimit.
     *
     * Note: autovacuum_freeze_max_age is a PGC_POSTMASTER parameter so that
     * we don't have to worry about dealing with on-the-fly changes in its
     * value.  It doesn't look practical to update shared state from a GUC
     * assign hook (too many processes would try to execute the hook,
     * resulting in race conditions as well as crashes of those not connected
     * to shared memory).  Perhaps this can be improved someday.
     */
    xidVacLimit = oldest_datfrozenxid + autovacuum_freeze_max_age;
    if (xidVacLimit < FirstNormalTransactionId)
        xidVacLimit += FirstNormalTransactionId;

    /* Grab lock for just long enough to set the new limit values */
    LWLockAcquire(XidGenLock, LW_EXCLUSIVE);
    ShmemVariableCache->oldestXid = oldest_datfrozenxid;
    ShmemVariableCache->xidVacLimit = xidVacLimit;
    ShmemVariableCache->xidWarnLimit = xidWarnLimit;
    ShmemVariableCache->xidStopLimit = xidStopLimit;
    ShmemVariableCache->xidWrapLimit = xidWrapLimit;
    ShmemVariableCache->oldestXidDB = oldest_datoid;
    curXid = ShmemVariableCache->nextXid;
    LWLockRelease(XidGenLock);

    /* Log the info */
    ereport(DEBUG1,
            (errmsg("transaction ID wrap limit is %u, limited by database with OID %u",
                    xidWrapLimit, oldest_datoid)));

    /*
     * If past the autovacuum force point, immediately signal an autovac
     * request.  The reason for this is that autovac only processes one
     * database per invocation.  Once it's finished cleaning up the oldest
     * database, it'll call here, and we'll signal the postmaster to start
     * another iteration immediately if there are still any old databases.
     */
    if (TransactionIdFollowsOrEquals(curXid, xidVacLimit) &&
        IsUnderPostmaster && !InRecovery)
        SendPostmasterSignal(PMSIGNAL_START_AUTOVAC_LAUNCHER);

    /* Give an immediate warning if past the wrap warn point */
    if (TransactionIdFollowsOrEquals(curXid, xidWarnLimit) && !InRecovery)
    {
        char       *oldest_datname;

        /*
         * We can be called when not inside a transaction, for example during
         * StartupXLOG().  In such a case we cannot do database access, so we
         * must just report the oldest DB's OID.
         *
         * Note: it's also possible that get_database_name fails and returns
         * NULL, for example because the database just got dropped.  We'll
         * still warn, even though the warning might now be unnecessary.
         */
        if (IsTransactionState())
            oldest_datname = get_database_name(oldest_datoid);
        else
            oldest_datname = NULL;

        if (oldest_datname)
            ereport(WARNING,
            (errmsg("database \"%s\" must be vacuumed within %u transactions",
                    oldest_datname,
                    xidWrapLimit - curXid),
             errhint("To avoid a database shutdown, execute a database-wide VACUUM in that database.\n"
                     "You might also need to commit or roll back old prepared transactions.")));
        else
            ereport(WARNING,
                    (errmsg("database with OID %u must be vacuumed within %u transactions",
                            oldest_datoid,
                            xidWrapLimit - curXid),
                     errhint("To avoid a database shutdown, execute a database-wide VACUUM in that database.\n"
                             "You might also need to commit or roll back old prepared transactions.")));
    }
}


/*
 * ForceTransactionIdLimitUpdate -- does the XID wrap-limit data need updating?
 *
 * We primarily check whether oldestXidDB is valid.  The cases we have in
 * mind are that that database was dropped, or the field was reset to zero
 * by pg_resetxlog.  In either case we should force recalculation of the
 * wrap limit.  Also do it if oldestXid is old enough to be forcing
 * autovacuums or other actions; this ensures we update our state as soon
 * as possible once extra overhead is being incurred.
 */
bool
ForceTransactionIdLimitUpdate(void)
{
    TransactionId nextXid;
    TransactionId xidVacLimit;
    TransactionId oldestXid;
    Oid         oldestXidDB;

    /* Locking is probably not really necessary, but let's be careful */
    LWLockAcquire(XidGenLock, LW_SHARED);
    nextXid = ShmemVariableCache->nextXid;
    xidVacLimit = ShmemVariableCache->xidVacLimit;
    oldestXid = ShmemVariableCache->oldestXid;
    oldestXidDB = ShmemVariableCache->oldestXidDB;
    LWLockRelease(XidGenLock);

    if (!TransactionIdIsNormal(oldestXid))
        return true;            /* shouldn't happen, but just in case */
    if (!TransactionIdIsValid(xidVacLimit))
        return true;            /* this shouldn't happen anymore either */
    if (TransactionIdFollowsOrEquals(nextXid, xidVacLimit))
        return true;            /* past VacLimit, don't delay updating */
    if (!SearchSysCacheExists1(DATABASEOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(oldestXidDB)))
        return true;            /* could happen, per comments above */
    return false;
}


/*
 * GetNewObjectId -- allocate a new OID
 *
 * OIDs are generated by a cluster-wide counter.  Since they are only 32 bits
 * wide, counter wraparound will occur eventually, and therefore it is unwise
 * to assume they are unique unless precautions are taken to make them so.
 * Hence, this routine should generally not be used directly.  The only
 * direct callers should be GetNewOid() and GetNewRelFileNode() in
 * catalog/catalog.c.
 */
Oid
GetNewObjectId(void)
{
    Oid         result;

    /* safety check, we should never get this far in a HS slave */
    if (RecoveryInProgress())
        elog(ERROR, "cannot assign OIDs during recovery");

    LWLockAcquire(OidGenLock, LW_EXCLUSIVE);

    /*
     * Check for wraparound of the OID counter.  We *must* not return 0
     * (InvalidOid); and as long as we have to check that, it seems a good
     * idea to skip over everything below FirstNormalObjectId too. (This
     * basically just avoids lots of collisions with bootstrap-assigned OIDs
     * right after a wrap occurs, so as to avoid a possibly large number of
     * iterations in GetNewOid.)  Note we are relying on unsigned comparison.
     *
     * During initdb, we start the OID generator at FirstBootstrapObjectId, so
     * we only enforce wrapping to that point when in bootstrap or standalone
     * mode.  The first time through this routine after normal postmaster
     * start, the counter will be forced up to FirstNormalObjectId. This
     * mechanism leaves the OIDs between FirstBootstrapObjectId and
     * FirstNormalObjectId available for automatic assignment during initdb,
     * while ensuring they will never conflict with user-assigned OIDs.
     */
    if (ShmemVariableCache->nextOid < ((Oid) FirstNormalObjectId))
    {
        if (IsPostmasterEnvironment)
        {
            /* wraparound in normal environment */
            ShmemVariableCache->nextOid = FirstNormalObjectId;
            ShmemVariableCache->oidCount = 0;
        }
        else
        {
            /* we may be bootstrapping, so don't enforce the full range */
            if (ShmemVariableCache->nextOid < ((Oid) FirstBootstrapObjectId))
            {
                /* wraparound in standalone environment? */
                ShmemVariableCache->nextOid = FirstBootstrapObjectId;
                ShmemVariableCache->oidCount = 0;
            }
        }
    }

    /* If we run out of logged for use oids then we must log more */
    if (ShmemVariableCache->oidCount == 0)
    {
        XLogPutNextOid(ShmemVariableCache->nextOid + VAR_OID_PREFETCH);
        ShmemVariableCache->oidCount = VAR_OID_PREFETCH;
    }

    result = ShmemVariableCache->nextOid;

    (ShmemVariableCache->nextOid)++;
    (ShmemVariableCache->oidCount)--;

    LWLockRelease(OidGenLock);

    return result;
}