Thread: PostgreSQL X/Open Socket / BSD Socket Issue on HP-UX
Hi, I faced similar issue as discussed in "http://postgresql.1045698.n5.nabble.com/Fwd-DBD-Pg-on-HP-UX-11-31-64bit-td3305163.html". (man xopen_networking - http://docstore.mik.ua/manuals/hp-ux/en/B2355-60130/xopen_networking.7.html) ... Thereare two ways to obtain X/Open Sockets functionality: * Method A is in compliance with X/Open compilation specification. * Method B slightly deviates from X/Open compilation specification. However, Method B allows a programto include both objects compiled to X/Open Sockets specification and objects compiled to BSD Sockets specification. ... PostgreSQL support X/Open Sockets. Apache web server (2.2.15, /opt/hpws22/apache) and Perl (5.8.8, /opt/perl_64) are BSDSocket applications that are default with the OS. I tried Method B (It provides wrapper _xpg_ socket functions that allowsusing X/Open socket objects and BSD socket objects in the same binary) to build PostgreSQL 9.1 code, I LD_PRELOAD thegenerated libpq binary, without any other change both perl and apache work fine with postgresql now,and it is easy toimplement too. We just need to build the source code with "-D_XOPEN_SOURCE=600 -D_HPUX_ALT_XOPEN_SOCKET_API" and link binarywith libc. PFA patch. Thanks. Best Regards,Muhammad Asif Naeem
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MUHAMMAD ASIF <anaeem.it@hotmail.com> writes: > I faced similar issue as discussed in "http://postgresql.1045698.n5.nabble.com/Fwd-DBD-Pg-on-HP-UX-11-31-64bit-td3305163.html". > (man xopen_networking - http://docstore.mik.ua/manuals/hp-ux/en/B2355-60130/xopen_networking.7.html) ... Thereare two ways to obtain X/Open Sockets functionality: � � * Method A is in compliance with X/Open compilation specification.� � * Method B slightly deviates from X/Open compilation specification. However, Method B allows a programto include both objects compiled to X/Open Sockets specification and objects compiled to BSD Sockets specification. ... > PostgreSQL support X/Open Sockets. Apache web server (2.2.15, /opt/hpws22/apache) and Perl (5.8.8, /opt/perl_64) are BSDSocket applications that are default with the OS. I tried Method B (It provides wrapper _xpg_ socket functions that allowsusing X/Open socket objects and BSD socket objects in the same binary) to build PostgreSQL 9.1 code, I LD_PRELOAD thegenerated libpq binary, without any other change both perl and apache work fine with postgresql now,and it is easy toimplement too. We just need to build the source code with "-D_XOPEN_SOURCE=600 -D_HPUX_ALT_XOPEN_SOCKET_API" and link binarywith libc. PFA patch. Thanks. AFAICT, the proposed patch will break things on at least some versions of HPUX. You can't just arbitrarily remove the reference to -lxnet, at least not without explaining to us why the existing comment about it is wrong. Likewise, removing -D_XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED isn't acceptable without a whole more supporting evidence than you've provided. (I'm fairly certain that the latter will break the build on my old HPUX 10.20 box, for example.) regards, tom lane
Very sorry for late reply. You are right, _xpg_ socket functionality is not available in older systems, it is available in hp-ux 11.23 version throughpatch HCO_35744 . HPUX 10.20 is very old machine (1996). I am using latest HPUX B.11.31 machine, I don't have accessto older systems. -D_XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED make the postgres build X/Open Socket enabled including connector's i.elibpq. Now if system default 64bit perl (BSD Socket) try to use libpq (X/Open Socket) it will end up in unexpected resultsor errors . HP-UX don't allow mixing of X/Open Socket objects and BSD Socket objects in the same 64bit binary, HPtried to fix this issue through -D_HPUX_ALT_XOPEN_SOCKET_API on later version of OS. It seems nice that if postgres adoptthis fix at least for connectors (PFA patch, minor change in src/interfaces/libpq/Makefile) and so that users on laterhp-ux boxes don't trouble with these socket issues and connect their applications to database server with the helpof libpq without the fear of X/Open Socket or BSD Socket complexity. On older system defining _HPUX_ALT_XOPEN_SOCKET_APIshould do no effects or issues. Thanks. ( http://docstore.mik.ua/manuals/hp-ux/en/B2355-60130/xopen_networking.7.html ).................. HP-UX provides two styles of Sockets API: - default BSD Sockets -X/Open Sockets These two styles of Sockets API have the same function names but they have differences in semantics and argument types. Forexample, the optlen field in X/Open getsockopt() is size_t type, while BSD getsockopt() is int type. In 64 bit mode, size_tis 64 bit and int is still 32 bit. Linking objects compiled to X/Open Sockets specification and objects compiled to BSD Sockets specification in the same programusing the linkage method in method A would erroneously resolve BSD Sockets calls to X/Open Sockets functions in theXnet library. As a result, the program may result in application core dumps or unexpected Socket errors when it is run.These symptoms commonly occur when BSD Sockets accept(), getpeername(), getsockname(), getsockopt(), recvfrom(), sendmsg(),and recvmsg() are called. .................. Best Regards,Muhammad Asif Naeem ---------------------------------------- > To: anaeem.it@hotmail.com > CC: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org > Subject: Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL X/Open Socket / BSD Socket Issue on HP-UX > Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 18:06:55 -0400 > From: tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us > > MUHAMMAD ASIF <anaeem.it@hotmail.com> writes: > > I faced similar issue as discussed in "http://postgresql.1045698.n5.nabble.com/Fwd-DBD-Pg-on-HP-UX-11-31-64bit-td3305163.html". > > (man xopen_networking - http://docstore.mik.ua/manuals/hp-ux/en/B2355-60130/xopen_networking.7.html) ... There are twoways to obtain X/Open Sockets functionality: * Method A is in compliance with X/Open compilation specification. * Method B slightly deviates from X/Open compilation specification. However, Method B allows a program to include both objectscompiled to X/Open Sockets specification and objects compiled to BSD Sockets specification. ... > > PostgreSQL support X/Open Sockets. Apache web server (2.2.15, /opt/hpws22/apache) and Perl (5.8.8, /opt/perl_64) areBSD Socket applications that are default with the OS. I tried Method B (It provides wrapper _xpg_ socket functions thatallows using X/Open socket objects and BSD socket objects in the same binary) to build PostgreSQL 9.1 code, I LD_PRELOADthe generated libpq binary, without any other change both perl and apache work fine with postgresql now,and itis easy to implement too. We just need to build the source code with "-D_XOPEN_SOURCE=600 -D_HPUX_ALT_XOPEN_SOCKET_API"and link binary with libc. PFA patch. Thanks. > > AFAICT, the proposed patch will break things on at least some versions > of HPUX. You can't just arbitrarily remove the reference to -lxnet, > at least not without explaining to us why the existing comment about it > is wrong. Likewise, removing -D_XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED isn't > acceptable without a whole more supporting evidence than you've > provided. (I'm fairly certain that the latter will break the build on > my old HPUX 10.20 box, for example.) > > regards, tom lane
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On 22.09.2011 13:51, MUHAMMAD ASIF wrote: > You are right, _xpg_ socket functionality is not available in older systems, it is available in hp-ux 11.23 version throughpatch HCO_35744 . HPUX 10.20 is very old machine (1996). I am using latest HPUX B.11.31 machine, I don't have accessto older systems. -D_XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED make the postgres build X/Open Socket enabled including connector's i.elibpq. Now if system default 64bit perl (BSD Socket) try to use libpq (X/Open Socket) it will end up in unexpected resultsor errors . HP-UX don't allow mixing of X/Open Socket objects and BSD Socket objects in the same 64bit binary, HPtried to fix this issue through -D_HPUX_ALT_XOPEN_SOCKET_API on later version of OS. It seems nice that if postgres adoptthis fix at least for connectors (PFA patch, minor change in src/interfaces/libpq/Makefile) and so that users on laterhp-ux boxes don't trouble with these socket issues and connect their applications to database server with the helpof libpq without the fear of X/Open So cket or BSD Socket complexity. On older system defining _HPUX_ALT_XOPEN_SOCKET_API should do no effects or issues. You're right that defining _HPUX_ALT_XOPEN_SOCKET_API should have no effect on older systems that don't have that. But removing -lxnet and -D_XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED *is* clearly going to cause problems on older systems. According to http://docstore.mik.ua/manuals/hp-ux/en/B2355-60130/xopen_networking.7.html, -D_XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED should still be defined, even if you use -D_HPUX_ALT_XOPEN_SOCKET_API. So removing that was bogus. But -lxnet should indeed not be used with _HPUX_ALT_XOPEN_SOCKET_API, so I think we need a configure test to see whether that option is available, and use it only if it is. Looking at the headers, it seems pretty hard to detect whether _HPUX_ALT_XOPEN_SOCKET_API is available. The best I can think of is to check whether the _xpg_* functions exist. That's a bit ugly because a program is not supposed to call those functions directly, but it should work fine in practice, so attached is a patch to do that. I did some experiments on my HP-UX box ("HP-UX guest2 B.11.31 U ia64 HP-UX", according to uname -a). I built a small test program that uses libpq, and also calls socket() and getsockopt() on an unrelated socket. I also tested a little perl function in the database, that calls getsockopt(). Without this patch, the perl function fails, and the test program fails unless compiled with "-lxnet -D_XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED" (ie. unless it uses X/Open sockets). With the patch, the perl function works, and the test program works, whether it's compiled with X/Open or not. In the patch, I had to move the logic into configure.in, because the autoconf AC_* macros can't be used in the template, which is a plain shell script. Unforunately I don't have access to any older HP-UX boxes that don't have _HPUX_ALT_XOPEN_SOCKET_API. Tom, can you test this on that old HP-UX box of yours? -- Heikki Linnakangas EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com