AllocSetContextCreate changes breake extensions
Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Christoph Berg <cb@df7cb.de>
Date: 2018-10-12T17:03:55Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Hi,
Christoph Berg, on IRC, raised the issue that at least one extension
failed compiling in v11. The extension currently does:
https://github.com/pgq/pgq/blob/master/triggers/common.c#L225
tbl_cache_ctx = AllocSetContextCreate(TopMemoryContext,
"pgq_triggers table info",
ALLOCSET_SMALL_MINSIZE,
ALLOCSET_SMALL_INITSIZE,
ALLOCSET_SMALL_MAXSIZE);
which makes sense, because it has to support versions below 9.6, which
introduced ALLOCSET_SMALL_SIZES etc.
But 9fa6f00b1308dd10da4eca2f31ccbfc7b35bb461 / Rethink MemoryContext creation to improve performance
causes this to fail to compile because since then AllocSetContextCreate
is declared to have three parameters:
#ifdef HAVE__BUILTIN_CONSTANT_P
#define AllocSetContextCreate(parent, name, allocparams) \
(StaticAssertExpr(__builtin_constant_p(name), \
"memory context names must be constant strings"), \
AllocSetContextCreateExtended(parent, name, allocparams))
#else
#define AllocSetContextCreate(parent, name, allocparams) \
AllocSetContextCreateExtended(parent, name, allocparams)
#endif
which means it only compiles if ALLOCSET_*_SIZES is passed, rather than
individual parameters.
I think we should fix that. If the goal was to only allow passing the
*SIZES parameters, we should have called it out as that.
Based on a quick look, ISTM the easiest fix is to have the
AllocSetContextCreate accept five parameters, and move it below the
ALLOCSET_*_SIZES macros. That way they should be expanded before
AllocSetContextCreate(), and thus 5 params should be fine.
Greetings,
Andres Freund
Commits
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Back-patch addition of the ALLOCSET_FOO_SIZES macros.
- ec185747a46e 9.4.20 landed
- 1245561df490 9.5.15 landed
- 01187f32cd61 9.3.25 landed
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Simplify use of AllocSetContextCreate() wrapper macro.
- 3d059655be7d 11.0 landed
- 13cd7209f794 12.0 landed
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Rethink MemoryContext creation to improve performance.
- 9fa6f00b1308 11.0 cited