Re: Add non-blocking version of PQcancel

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
To: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Cc: Jelte Fennema <Jelte.Fennema@microsoft.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2022-06-27T12:29:07Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 2022-Jun-27, Justin Pryzby wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 24, 2022 at 07:36:16PM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote:

> > Apparently there's still an occasional issue.
> > https://cirrus-ci.com/task/6613309985128448
> 
> I think that failure is actually not related to this patch.

Yeah, it's not -- Kyotaro diagnosed it as a problem in libpq's pipeline
mode.  I hope to push his fix soon, but there are nearby problems that I
haven't been able to track down a good fix for.  I'm looking into the
whole.

-- 
Álvaro Herrera               48°01'N 7°57'E  —  https://www.EnterpriseDB.com/



Commits

  1. postgres_fdw: re-issue cancel requests a few times if necessary.

  2. Make postgres_fdw's query_cancel test less flaky.

  3. postgres_fdw: Split out the query_cancel test to its own file

  4. Fix copy-paste mistake in PQcancelCreate

  5. Make libpqsrv_cancel's return const char *, not char *

  6. Stabilize postgres_fdw test

  7. libpq-be-fe-helpers.h: wrap new cancel APIs

  8. dblink/isolationtester/fe_utils: Use new cancel API

  9. Put libpq_pipeline cancel test back

  10. Hopefully make libpq_pipeline's new cancel test more reliable

  11. libpq: Add encrypted and non-blocking query cancellation routines

  12. libpq: Move pg_cancel to fe-cancel.c

  13. Add tests for libpq query cancellation APIs

  14. Add missing connection statuses to docs

  15. libpq: Change some static functions to extern

  16. libpq: Add pqReleaseConnHosts function

  17. libpq: Move cancellation related functions to fe-cancel.c

  18. Make spelling of cancelled/cancellation consistent

  19. Be more wary about OpenSSL not setting errno on error.

  20. libpq: Use modern socket flags, if available.

  21. Drop test view when done with it.

  22. Doc: add some doco about using the libpq_pipeline test module.

  23. postgres_fdw: Allow cancellation of transaction control commands.