[HACKERS] Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Fix and simplify check for whether we'rerunning as Windows serv - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On 03/17/2017 07:57 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi> writes:
>> Fix and simplify check for whether we're running as Windows service.
>
> This seems to have broken narwhal:
>
> Creating library file: libpostgres.a
> ../../src/port/libpgport_srv.a(win32security_srv.o)(.text+0x109): In function `pgwin32_is_admin':
> C:/msys/1.0/local/pgbuildfarm/buildroot/HEAD/pgsql.build/src/port/win32security.c:77: undefined reference to
`CheckTokenMembership'
>
../../src/port/libpgport_srv.a(win32security_srv.o)(.text+0x127):C:/msys/1.0/local/pgbuildfarm/buildroot/HEAD/pgsql.build/src/port/win32security.c:77:
undefinedreference to `CheckTokenMembership'
 
> ../../src/port/libpgport_srv.a(win32security_srv.o)(.text+0x264): In function `pgwin32_is_service':
> C:/msys/1.0/local/pgbuildfarm/buildroot/HEAD/pgsql.build/src/port/win32security.c:138: undefined reference to
`CheckTokenMembership'
>
../../src/port/libpgport_srv.a(win32security_srv.o)(.text+0x302):C:/msys/1.0/local/pgbuildfarm/buildroot/HEAD/pgsql.build/src/port/win32security.c:163:
undefinedreference to `CheckTokenMembership'
 
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make[2]: *** [postgres] Error 1

Hmm. The other MinGW animals are not having that problem.

According to the MSDN docs [1], CheckTokenMembership() is defined in the 
Advapi32 library. In pg_ctl.c and in 
src/include/common/restricted_token.c, we currently do this, for another 
function that's in Advapi32:

> /*
>  * Mingw headers are incomplete, and so are the libraries. So we have to load
>  * a whole lot of API functions dynamically. Since we have to do this anyway,
>  * also load the couple of functions that *do* exist in minwg headers but not
>  * on NT4. That way, we don't break on NT4.
>  */
> typedef BOOL (WINAPI * __CreateRestrictedToken) (HANDLE, DWORD, DWORD, PSID_AND_ATTRIBUTES, DWORD,
PLUID_AND_ATTRIBUTES,DWORD, PSID_AND_ATTRIBUTES, PHANDLE);
 
> typedef BOOL (WINAPI * __IsProcessInJob) (HANDLE, HANDLE, PBOOL);
> typedef HANDLE (WINAPI * __CreateJobObject) (LPSECURITY_ATTRIBUTES, LPCTSTR);
> typedef BOOL (WINAPI * __SetInformationJobObject) (HANDLE, JOBOBJECTINFOCLASS, LPVOID, DWORD);
> typedef BOOL (WINAPI * __AssignProcessToJobObject) (HANDLE, HANDLE);
> typedef BOOL (WINAPI * __QueryInformationJobObject) (HANDLE, JOBOBJECTINFOCLASS, LPVOID, DWORD, LPDWORD);

CheckTokenMembership() is probably one of those missing functions, like 
CreateRestrictedToken.

I'd like to bump our minimum requirements,and stop supporting old MinGW 
versions that don't have those headers. I'm not sure what version they 
were added in, but frogmouth doesn't have this problem, and it uses gcc 
4.5.0. Once we do that, we can simplify pg_ctl.c and restricted_token.c 
to not open advapi32.dll dynamically, and call those functions the usual 
way.

It's not very nice to change the requirements in a minor version, but I 
don't think this would be a real problem for anyone. Not many people 
build PostgreSQL using MinGW, let alone with an ancient version of it. 
But if people don't agree, we could instead revert this patch and apply 
the smaller V2 patch [2] instead, in the back-branches.

Thoughts? Any objections to requiring a newer version of MinGW? Any 
objections to do so in the next minor release?

[1] 
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa376389%28v=vs.85%29.aspx

[2] 
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAB7nPqSvfu%3DKpJ%3DNX%2BYAHmgAmQdzA7N5h31BjzXeMgczhGCC%2BQ%40mail.gmail.com

- Heikki