Le 14/01/2026 à 08:31, Steven Niu a écrit :
From: Andreas Karlsson <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2026 15:27
To: Steven Niu <[email protected]>; Pierre <[email protected]>; 
[email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] check kernel version for io_method


On 1/14/26 8:22 AM, Steven Niu wrote:
I agree that you are correct for now. But in future, the IoMethod may have new 
member. Then we have to process it.

How about change to like this:
    + #else
    +     if (*newval == IOMETHOD_IO_URING)
    +     {
    +             GUC_check_errdetail("io_uring not enabled.");
    +             return false;
    +     }
No, that would be incorrect. It would not even compile.
IOMETHOD_IO_URING is not even defined if we do not compile with liburing
enabled. You can try it out yourself by compiling PostgreSQL without
io_uring support and then try to enable it. You will get an error and
that code will never be reached.

Andreas




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Yes, you are definitely correct.
I'd like to withdwar my proposal.

Hello,

I have modified message in case io_uring is not enabled when building PG. But currently I cannot test it, GUC parameter is rejected in earlier steps:

pg_ctl start
waiting for server to start....2026-01-14 09:35:37.046 GMT [16336] LOG:  invalid value for parameter "io_method": "io_uring"
2026-01-14 09:35:37.046 GMT [16336] HINT:  Available values: sync, worker.
2026-01-14 10:35:37.047 CET [16336] FATAL:  configuration file "/home/pierre/pgdata/postgresql.conf" contains errors
 stopped waiting
pg_ctl: could not start server

I don't know how to test io_uring features in code because if io_uring is not enabled at compilation time, I don't think it is possible to compile code calling  io_uring_get_probe_ring() or io_uring_opcode_supported() ?


Thanks.

diff --git a/src/backend/storage/aio/aio.c b/src/backend/storage/aio/aio.c
index d2c9cd6f20a..707f79352c7 100644
--- a/src/backend/storage/aio/aio.c
+++ b/src/backend/storage/aio/aio.c
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@
 #include "utils/resowner.h"
 #include "utils/wait_event_types.h"
 
+#include <sys/utsname.h>
 
 static inline void pgaio_io_update_state(PgAioHandle *ioh, PgAioHandleState new_state);
 static void pgaio_io_reclaim(PgAioHandle *ioh);
@@ -1346,3 +1347,49 @@ check_io_max_concurrency(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source)
 
 	return true;
 }
+
+
+bool
+check_io_method(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source) 
+{
+#ifdef IOMETHOD_IO_URING_ENABLED
+	if (*newval == IOMETHOD_IO_URING)
+	{
+		struct utsname uname_buf;
+		int major;
+		int minor;
+		int rc;
+
+		uname(&uname_buf);
+	 	rc = sscanf(uname_buf.release, "%d.%d", &major, &minor);
+
+		if (rc == 2 && ((major >= 5 && minor >= 6) || major >= 6))             
+		{
+			/*
+			 * OK
+			 */
+		}
+		else 
+        	{
+			GUC_check_errdetail("io_uring requires Linux kernel 5.6 or later.");
+			return false;
+        	}
+	}	
+
+	return true;
+#else
+	if (*newval == IOMETHOD_WORKER || *newval == IOMETHOD_SYNC)
+	{
+		/*
+		 * OK
+		 */
+	} 
+	else 
+	{
+		GUC_check_errdetail("io_uring is not enabled.");
+		return false;
+	}
+
+	return true;
+#endif
+}
diff --git a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_parameters.dat b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_parameters.dat
index 7c60b125564..2246af79808 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_parameters.dat
+++ b/src/backend/utils/misc/guc_parameters.dat
@@ -1339,6 +1339,7 @@
   boot_val => 'DEFAULT_IO_METHOD',
   options => 'io_method_options',
   assign_hook => 'assign_io_method',
+  check_hook => 'check_io_method',
 },
 
 { name => 'io_workers', type => 'int', context => 'PGC_SIGHUP', group => 'RESOURCES_IO',
diff --git a/src/include/utils/guc_hooks.h b/src/include/utils/guc_hooks.h
index f723668da9e..1c33dff4b55 100644
--- a/src/include/utils/guc_hooks.h
+++ b/src/include/utils/guc_hooks.h
@@ -176,4 +176,6 @@ extern bool check_synchronized_standby_slots(char **newval, void **extra,
 											 GucSource source);
 extern void assign_synchronized_standby_slots(const char *newval, void *extra);
 
+extern bool check_io_method(int *newval, void **extra, GucSource source);
+
 #endif							/* GUC_HOOKS_H */

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