Noah Misch [Sat, 20 Feb 2016 03:47:50 +0000 (22:47 -0500)]
Call xlc __isync() after, not before, associated compare-and-swap.
Architecture reference material specifies this order, and s_lock.h
inline assembly agrees. The former order failed to provide mutual
exclusion to lwlock.c and perhaps to other clients. The two xlc
buildfarm members, hornet and mandrill, have failed sixteen times with
duplicate key errors involving pg_class_oid_index or pg_type_oid_index.
Back-patch to 9.5, where commit
b64d92f1a5602c55ee8b27a7ac474f03b7aee340
introduced atomics.
Reviewed by Andres Freund and Tom Lane.
Simon Riggs [Fri, 19 Feb 2016 08:31:39 +0000 (08:31 +0000)]
Correct StartupSUBTRANS for page wraparound
StartupSUBTRANS() incorrectly handled cases near the max pageid in the subtrans
data structure, which in some cases could lead to errors in startup for Hot
Standby.
This patch wraps the pageids correctly, avoiding any such errors.
Identified by exhaustive crash testing by Jeff Janes.
Jeff Janes
Bruce Momjian [Thu, 18 Feb 2016 23:32:26 +0000 (18:32 -0500)]
pg_upgrade: suppress creation of delete script
Suppress creation of the pg_upgrade delete script when the new data
directory is inside the old data directory.
Reported-by: IRC
Backpatch-through: 9.3, where delete script tests were added
Tom Lane [Thu, 18 Feb 2016 20:40:35 +0000 (15:40 -0500)]
Fix multiple bugs in contrib/pgstattuple's pgstatindex() function.
Dead or half-dead index leaf pages were incorrectly reported as live, as a
consequence of a code rearrangement I made (during a moment of severe brain
fade, evidently) in commit
d287818eb514d431.
The index metapage was not counted in index_size, causing that result to
not agree with the actual index size on-disk.
Index root pages were not counted in internal_pages, which is inconsistent
compared to the case of a root that's also a leaf (one-page index), where
the root would be counted in leaf_pages. Aside from that inconsistency,
this could lead to additional transient discrepancies between the reported
page counts and index_size, since it's possible for pgstatindex's scan to
see zero or multiple pages marked as BTP_ROOT, if the root moves due to
a split during the scan. With these fixes, index_size will always be
exactly one page more than the sum of the displayed page counts.
Also, the index_size result was incorrectly documented as being measured in
pages; it's always been measured in bytes. (While fixing that, I couldn't
resist doing some small additional wordsmithing on the pgstattuple docs.)
Including the metapage causes the reported index_size to not be zero for
an empty index. To preserve the desired property that the pgstattuple
regression test results are platform-independent (ie, BLCKSZ configuration
independent), scale the index_size result in the regression tests.
The documentation issue was reported by Otsuka Kenji, and the inconsistent
root page counting by Peter Geoghegan; the other problems noted by me.
Back-patch to all supported branches, because this has been broken for
a long time.
Tom Lane [Wed, 17 Feb 2016 02:08:15 +0000 (21:08 -0500)]
Make plpython cope with funny characters in function names.
A function name that's double-quoted in SQL can contain almost any
characters, but we were using that name directly as part of the name
generated for the Python-level function, and Python doesn't like
anything that isn't pretty much a standard identifier. To fix,
replace anything that isn't an ASCII letter or digit with an underscore
in the generated name. This doesn't create any risk of duplicate Python
function names because we were already appending the function OID to
the generated name to ensure uniqueness. Per bug #13960 from Jim Nasby.
Patch by Jim Nasby, modified a bit by me. Back-patch to all
supported branches.
Tom Lane [Tue, 16 Feb 2016 18:43:03 +0000 (13:43 -0500)]
Improve documentation about CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY.
Clarify the description of which transactions will block a CREATE INDEX
CONCURRENTLY command from proceeding, and mention that the index might
still not be usable after CREATE INDEX completes. (This happens if the
index build detected broken HOT chains, so that pg_index.indcheckxmin gets
set, and there are open old transactions preventing the xmin horizon from
advancing past the index's initial creation. I didn't want to explain what
broken HOT chains are, though, so I omitted an explanation of exactly when
old transactions prevent the index from being used.)
Per discussion with Chris Travers. Back-patch to all supported branches,
since the same text appears in all of them.
Bruce Momjian [Tue, 16 Feb 2016 17:42:35 +0000 (12:42 -0500)]
release notes: fix 9.5 SGML comment about commit
Reported-by: Tatsuo Ishii
Backpatch-through: 9.5
Tatsuo Ishii [Tue, 16 Feb 2016 06:36:52 +0000 (15:36 +0900)]
Improve wording in the planner doc
Change "In this case" to "In the example above" to clarify what it
actually refers to.
Fujii Masao [Tue, 16 Feb 2016 05:49:47 +0000 (14:49 +0900)]
Correct the formulas for System V IPC parameters SEMMNI and SEMMNS in docs.
In runtime.sgml, the old formulas for calculating the reasonable
values of SEMMNI and SEMMNS were incorrect. They have forgotten to
count the number of semaphores which both the checkpointer process
(introduced in 9.2) and the background worker processes (introduced
in 9.3) need.
This commit fixes those formulas so that they count the number of
semaphores which the checkpointer process and the background worker
processes need.
Report and patch by Kyotaro Horiguchi. Only the patch for 9.3 was
modified by me. Back-patch to 9.2 where the checkpointer process was
added and the number of needed semaphores was increased.
Author: Kyotaro Horiguchi
Reviewed-by: Fujii Masao
Backpatch: 9.2
Discussion: http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/
20160203.125119.
66820697[email protected]
Joe Conway [Tue, 16 Feb 2016 00:37:16 +0000 (16:37 -0800)]
Move DATA entry to correct position
In commit
7b4bfc87 the DATA and DESCR entries for the new
row_security_active() function were inadvertantly put after
the PROVOLATILE defines, rather than before as they should
have been placed. Move them up where they belong.
Backpatch to 9.5 where the new entries were introduced.
Alvaro Herrera [Mon, 15 Feb 2016 23:33:43 +0000 (20:33 -0300)]
pgbench: avoid FD_ISSET on an invalid file descriptor
The original code wasn't careful to test the file descriptor returned by
PQsocket() for an invalid socket. If an invalid socket did turn up,
that would amount to calling FD_ISSET with fd = -1, whereby undefined
behavior can be invoked.
To fix, test file descriptor for validity and stop further processing if
that fails.
Problem noticed by Coverity.
There is an existing FD_ISSET callsite that does check for invalid
sockets beforehand, but the error message reported by it was
strerror(errno); in testing the aforementioned change, that turns out to
result in "bad socket: Success" which isn't terribly helpful. Instead
use PQerrorMessage() in both places which is more likely to contain an
useful error message.
Backpatch-through: 9.1.
Tom Lane [Mon, 15 Feb 2016 22:11:52 +0000 (17:11 -0500)]
Suppress compiler warnings about useless comparison of unsigned to zero.
Reportedly, some compilers warn about tests like "c < 0" if c is unsigned,
and hence complain about the character range checks I added in commit
3bb3f42f3749d40b8d4de65871e8d828b18d4a45. This is a bit of a pain since
the regex library doesn't really want to assume that chr is unsigned.
However, since any such reconfiguration would involve manual edits of
regcustom.h anyway, we can put it on the shoulders of whoever wants to
do that to adjust this new range-checking macro correctly.
Per gripes from Coverity and Andres.
Noah Misch [Thu, 11 Feb 2016 01:34:57 +0000 (20:34 -0500)]
In pg_rewind test suite, triple promote timeout to 90s.
Thirty seconds was not consistently enough for promotion to complete on
buildfarm members sungazer and tern. Experiments suggest 43s would have
been enough. Back-patch to 9.5, where pg_rewind was introduced.
Noah Misch [Thu, 11 Feb 2016 01:34:02 +0000 (20:34 -0500)]
Accept pg_ctl timeout from the PGCTLTIMEOUT environment variable.
Many automated test suites call pg_ctl. Buildfarm members axolotl,
hornet, mandrill, shearwater, sungazer and tern have failed when server
shutdown took longer than the pg_ctl default 60s timeout. This addition
permits slow hosts to easily raise the timeout without us editing a
--timeout argument into every test suite pg_ctl call. Back-patch to 9.1
(all supported versions) for the sake of automated testing.
Reviewed by Tom Lane.
Tom Lane [Thu, 11 Feb 2016 00:30:11 +0000 (19:30 -0500)]
Avoid use of sscanf() to parse ispell dictionary files.
It turns out that on FreeBSD-derived platforms (including OS X), the
*scanf() family of functions is pretty much brain-dead about multibyte
characters. In particular it will apply isspace() to individual bytes
of input even when those bytes are part of a multibyte character, thus
allowing false recognition of a field-terminating space.
We appear to have little alternative other than instituting a coding
rule that *scanf() is not to be used if the input string might contain
multibyte characters. (There was some discussion of relying on "%ls",
but that probably just moves the portability problem somewhere else,
and besides it doesn't fully prevent BSD *scanf() from using isspace().)
This patch is a down payment on that: it gets rid of use of sscanf()
to parse ispell dictionary files, which are certainly at great risk
of having a problem. The code is cleaner this way anyway, though
a bit longer.
In passing, improve a few comments.
Report and patch by Artur Zakirov, reviewed and somewhat tweaked by me.
Back-patch to all supported branches.
Tom Lane [Mon, 8 Feb 2016 21:12:28 +0000 (16:12 -0500)]
Stamp 9.5.1.
Peter Eisentraut [Mon, 8 Feb 2016 19:21:00 +0000 (14:21 -0500)]
Translation updates
Source-Git-URL: git://git.postgresql.org/git/pgtranslation/messages.git
Source-Git-Hash:
f323fead9293175a0c3320116c97e4be56b9be61
Tom Lane [Mon, 8 Feb 2016 15:49:37 +0000 (10:49 -0500)]
Last-minute updates for release notes.
Security: CVE-2016-0773
Tom Lane [Mon, 8 Feb 2016 15:25:40 +0000 (10:25 -0500)]
Fix some regex issues with out-of-range characters and large char ranges.
Previously, our regex code defined CHR_MAX as 0xfffffffe, which is a
bad choice because it is outside the range of type "celt" (int32).
Characters approaching that limit could lead to infinite loops in logic
such as "for (c = a; c <= b; c++)" where c is of type celt but the
range bounds are chr. Such loops will work safely only if CHR_MAX+1
is representable in celt, since c must advance to beyond b before the
loop will exit.
Fortunately, there seems no reason not to restrict CHR_MAX to 0x7ffffffe.
It's highly unlikely that Unicode will ever assign codes that high, and
none of our other backend encodings need characters beyond that either.
In addition to modifying the macro, we have to explicitly enforce character
range restrictions on the values of \u, \U, and \x escape sequences, else
the limit is trivially bypassed.
Also, the code for expanding case-independent character ranges in bracket
expressions had a potential integer overflow in its calculation of the
number of characters it could generate, which could lead to allocating too
small a character vector and then overwriting memory. An attacker with the
ability to supply arbitrary regex patterns could easily cause transient DOS
via server crashes, and the possibility for privilege escalation has not
been ruled out.
Quite aside from the integer-overflow problem, the range expansion code was
unnecessarily inefficient in that it always produced a result consisting of
individual characters, abandoning the knowledge that we had a range to
start with. If the input range is large, this requires excessive memory.
Change it so that the original range is reported as-is, and then we add on
any case-equivalent characters that are outside that range. With this
approach, we can bound the number of individual characters allowed without
sacrificing much. This patch allows at most 100000 individual characters,
which I believe to be more than the number of case pairs existing in
Unicode, so that the restriction will never be hit in practice.
It's still possible for range() to take awhile given a large character code
range, so also add statement-cancel detection to its loop. The downstream
function dovec() also lacked cancel detection, and could take a long time
given a large output from range().
Per fuzz testing by Greg Stark. Back-patch to all supported branches.
Security: CVE-2016-0773
Andres Freund [Mon, 8 Feb 2016 10:03:31 +0000 (11:03 +0100)]
Fix overeager pushdown of HAVING clauses when grouping sets are used.
In
61444bfb we started to allow HAVING clauses to be fully pushed down
into WHERE, even when grouping sets are in use. That turns out not to
work correctly, because grouping sets can "produce" NULLs, meaning that
filtering in WHERE and HAVING can have different results, even when no
aggregates or volatile functions are involved.
Instead only allow pushdown of empty grouping sets.
It'd be nice to do better, but the exact mechanics of deciding which
cases are safe are still being debated. It's important to give correct
results till we find a good solution, and such a solution might not be
appropriate for backpatching anyway.
Bug: #13863
Reported-By: 'wrb'
Diagnosed-By: Dean Rasheed
Author: Andrew Gierth
Reviewed-By: Dean Rasheed and Andres Freund
Discussion:
20160113183558[email protected]
Backpatch: 9.5, where grouping sets were introduced
Tom Lane [Sun, 7 Feb 2016 21:02:44 +0000 (16:02 -0500)]
Improve documentation about PRIMARY KEY constraints.
Get rid of the false implication that PRIMARY KEY is exactly equivalent to
UNIQUE + NOT NULL. That was more-or-less true at one time in our
implementation, but the standard doesn't say that, and we've grown various
features (many of them required by spec) that treat a pkey differently from
less-formal constraints. Per recent discussion on pgsql-general.
I failed to resist the temptation to do some other wordsmithing in the
same area.
Tom Lane [Sun, 7 Feb 2016 19:57:24 +0000 (14:57 -0500)]
Fix deparsing of ON CONFLICT arbiter WHERE clauses.
The parser doesn't allow qualification of column names appearing in
these clauses, but ruleutils.c would sometimes qualify them, leading
to dump/reload failures. Per bug #13891 from Onder Kalaci.
(In passing, make stanzas in ruleutils.c that save/restore varprefix
more consistent.)
Peter Geoghegan
Tom Lane [Sun, 7 Feb 2016 19:16:31 +0000 (14:16 -0500)]
Release notes for 9.5.1, 9.4.6, 9.3.11, 9.2.15, 9.1.20.
Tom Lane [Sun, 7 Feb 2016 17:29:17 +0000 (12:29 -0500)]
ExecHashRemoveNextSkewBucket must physically copy tuples to main hashtable.
Commit
45f6240a8fa9d355 added an assumption in ExecHashIncreaseNumBatches
and ExecHashIncreaseNumBuckets that they could find all tuples in the main
hash table by iterating over the "dense storage" introduced by that patch.
However, ExecHashRemoveNextSkewBucket continued its old practice of simply
re-linking deleted skew tuples into the main table's hashchains. Hence,
such tuples got lost during any subsequent increase in nbatch or nbuckets,
and would never get joined, as reported in bug #13908 from Seth P.
I (tgl) think that the aforesaid commit has got multiple design issues
and should be reworked rather completely; but there is no time for that
right now, so band-aid the problem by making ExecHashRemoveNextSkewBucket
physically copy deleted skew tuples into the "dense storage" arena.
The added test case is able to exhibit the problem by means of fooling the
planner with a WHERE condition that it will underestimate the selectivity
of, causing the initial nbatch estimate to be too small.
Tomas Vondra and Tom Lane. Thanks to David Johnston for initial
investigation into the bug report.
Tom Lane [Sat, 6 Feb 2016 20:05:23 +0000 (15:05 -0500)]
Improve HJDEBUG code a bit.
Commit
30d7ae3c76d2de144232ae6ab328ca86b70e72c3 introduced an HJDEBUG
stanza that probably didn't compile at the time, and definitely doesn't
compile now, because it refers to a nonexistent variable. It doesn't seem
terribly useful anyway, so just get rid of it.
While I'm fooling with it, use %z modifier instead of the obsolete hack of
casting size_t to unsigned long, and include the HashJoinTable's address in
each printout so that it's possible to distinguish the activities of
multiple hashjoins occurring in one query.
Noted while trying to use HJDEBUG to investigate bug #13908. Back-patch
to 9.5, because code that doesn't compile is certainly not very helpful.
Noah Misch [Sat, 6 Feb 2016 01:22:51 +0000 (20:22 -0500)]
Force certain "pljava" custom GUCs to be PGC_SUSET.
Future PL/Java versions will close CVE-2016-0766 by making these GUCs
PGC_SUSET. This PostgreSQL change independently mitigates that PL/Java
vulnerability, helping sites that update PostgreSQL more frequently than
PL/Java. Back-patch to 9.1 (all supported versions).
Tom Lane [Fri, 5 Feb 2016 15:59:09 +0000 (10:59 -0500)]
Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2016a.
DST law changes in Cayman Islands, Metlakatla, Trans-Baikal Territory
(Zabaykalsky Krai). Historical corrections for Pakistan.
Robert Haas [Fri, 5 Feb 2016 03:15:50 +0000 (22:15 -0500)]
postgres_fdw: Avoid possible misbehavior when RETURNING tableoid column only.
deparseReturningList ended up adding up RETURNING NULL to the code, but
code elsewhere saw an empty list of attributes and concluded that it
should not expect tuples from the remote side.
Etsuro Fujita and Robert Haas, reviewed by Thom Brown
Robert Haas [Fri, 5 Feb 2016 02:15:57 +0000 (21:15 -0500)]
When modifying a foreign table, initialize tableoid field properly.
Failure to do this can cause AFTER ROW triggers or RETURNING expressions
that reference this field to misbehave.
Etsuro Fujita, reviewed by Thom Brown
Tom Lane [Thu, 4 Feb 2016 18:58:40 +0000 (13:58 -0500)]
Simplify syntax diagram for REINDEX.
Since there currently is only one possible parenthesized option, namely
VERBOSE, it's a bit pointless to show it with "{ } [, ... ]". The curly
braces are useless and therefore confusing, as seen in a recent question
from Karsten Hilbert. Remove the extra decoration for the time being;
we can put it back when and if REINDEX grows some more options.
Tom Lane [Thu, 4 Feb 2016 05:26:10 +0000 (00:26 -0500)]
In pg_dump, ensure that view triggers are processed after view rules.
If a view is split into CREATE TABLE + CREATE RULE to break a circular
dependency, then any triggers on the view must be dumped/reloaded after
the CREATE RULE; else the backend may reject the CREATE TRIGGER because
it's the wrong type of trigger for a plain table. This works all right
in plain dump/restore because of pg_dump's sorting heuristic that places
triggers after rules. However, when using parallel restore, the ordering
must be enforced by a dependency --- and we didn't have one.
Fixing this is a mere matter of adding an addObjectDependency() call,
except that we need to be able to find all the triggers belonging to the
view relation, and there was no easy way to do that. Add fields to
pg_dump's TableInfo struct to remember where the associated TriggerInfo
struct(s) are.
Per bug report from Dennis Kögel. The failure can be exhibited at least
as far back as 9.1, so back-patch to all supported branches.
Tom Lane [Wed, 3 Feb 2016 17:56:40 +0000 (12:56 -0500)]
Add hstore_to_jsonb() and hstore_to_jsonb_loose() to hstore documentation.
These were never documented anywhere user-visible. Tut tut.
Tom Lane [Wed, 3 Feb 2016 06:39:08 +0000 (01:39 -0500)]
Fix IsValidJsonNumber() to notice trailing non-alphanumeric garbage.
Commit
e09996ff8dee3f70 was one brick shy of a load: it didn't insist
that the detected JSON number be the whole of the supplied string.
This allowed inputs such as "2016-01-01" to be misdetected as valid JSON
numbers. Per bug #13906 from Dmitry Ryabov.
In passing, be more wary of zero-length input (I'm not sure this can
happen given current callers, but better safe than sorry), and do some
minor cosmetic cleanup.
Tom Lane [Tue, 2 Feb 2016 16:39:50 +0000 (11:39 -0500)]
Fix pg_description entries for jsonb_to_record() and jsonb_to_recordset().
All the other jsonb function descriptions refer to the arguments as being
"jsonb", but these two said "json". Make it consistent. Per bug #13905
from Petru Florin Mihancea.
No catversion bump --- we can't force one in the back branches, and this
isn't very critical anyway.
Magnus Hagander [Tue, 2 Feb 2016 12:49:02 +0000 (13:49 +0100)]
Fix typo in comment
Teodor Sigaev [Tue, 2 Feb 2016 12:21:03 +0000 (15:21 +0300)]
Fix lossy KNN GiST when ordering operator returns non-float8 value.
KNN GiST with recheck flag should return to executor the same type as ordering
operator, GiST detects this type by looking to return type of function which
implements ordering operator. But occasionally detecting code works after
replacing ordering operator function to distance support function.
Distance support function always returns float8, so, detecting code get float8
instead of actual return type of ordering operator.
Built-in opclasses don't have ordering operator which doesn't return
non-float8 value, so, tests are impossible here, at least now.
Backpatch to 9.5 where lozzy KNN was introduced.
Author: Alexander Korotkov
Report by: Artur Zakirov
Robert Haas [Mon, 1 Feb 2016 13:23:41 +0000 (08:23 -0500)]
pgbench: Install guards against obscure overflow conditions.
Dividing INT_MIN by -1 or taking INT_MIN modulo -1 can sometimes
cause floating-point exceptions or otherwise misbehave.
Fabien Coelho and Michael Paquier
Michael Meskes [Mon, 1 Feb 2016 12:10:40 +0000 (13:10 +0100)]
Make sure ecpg header files do not have a comment lasting several lines, one of
which is a preprocessor directive. This leads ecpg to incorrectly parse the comment as nested.
Heikki Linnakangas [Mon, 1 Feb 2016 08:10:24 +0000 (10:10 +0200)]
Fix misspelled function name in comment.
Andrew Dunstan [Sun, 31 Jan 2016 00:28:44 +0000 (19:28 -0500)]
Fix error in documentated use of mingw-w64 compilers
Error reported by Igal Sapir.
Tom Lane [Fri, 29 Jan 2016 09:28:02 +0000 (10:28 +0100)]
Fix incorrect pattern-match processing in psql's \det command.
listForeignTables' invocation of processSQLNamePattern did not match up
with the other ones that handle potentially-schema-qualified names; it
failed to make use of pg_table_is_visible() and also passed the name
arguments in the wrong order. Bug seems to have been aboriginal in commit
0d692a0dc9f0e532. It accidentally sort of worked as long as you didn't
inquire too closely into the behavior, although the silliness was later
exposed by inconsistencies in the test queries added by
59efda3e50ca4de6
(which I probably should have questioned at the time, but didn't).
Per bug #13899 from Reece Hart. Patch by Reece Hart and Tom Lane.
Back-patch to all affected branches.
Fujii Masao [Fri, 29 Jan 2016 03:14:56 +0000 (12:14 +0900)]
Fix syntax descriptions for replication commands in logicaldecoding.sgml
Patch-by: Oleksandr Shulgin
Reviewed-by: Craig Ringer and Fujii Masao
Backpatch-through: 9.4 where logical decoding was introduced
Robert Haas [Thu, 28 Jan 2016 14:29:04 +0000 (09:29 -0500)]
Add [NO]BYPASSRLS options to CREATE USER and ALTER USER docs.
Patch-by: Filip Rembiałkowski
Reviewed-by: Robert Haas
Backpatch-through: 9.5
Alvaro Herrera [Thu, 28 Jan 2016 13:08:21 +0000 (14:08 +0100)]
Fix spi_worker mention in bgworker documentation
The documentation mentioned contrib/ but the module was moved to
src/test/modules/ by commit
22dfd116a127a of 9.5 era.
Problem pointed out by Dickson Guedes in bug #13896
Backpatch-to: 9.5.
Tom Lane [Tue, 26 Jan 2016 20:38:33 +0000 (15:38 -0500)]
Fix startup so that log prefix %h works for the log_connections message.
We entirely randomly chose to initialize port->remote_host just after
printing the log_connections message, when we could perfectly well do it
just before, allowing %h and %r to work for that message. Per gripe from
Artem Tomyuk.
Tatsuo Ishii [Tue, 26 Jan 2016 00:00:33 +0000 (09:00 +0900)]
Revert "Fix broken multibyte regression tests."
This reverts commit
479cb1e420c40d78b49535c0ceeaa5f65c7d6797.
The commit was plain wrong as pointed out in:
http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/27771.
1448736909@sss.pgh.pa.us
Alvaro Herrera [Fri, 22 Jan 2016 23:04:35 +0000 (20:04 -0300)]
pg_dump: Fix quoting of domain constraint names
The original code was adding double quotes to an already-quoted
identifier, leading to nonsensical results. Remove the quoting call.
I introduced the broken code in
7eca575d1c of 9.5 era, so backpatch to
9.5.
Report and patch by Elvis Pranskevichus
Reviewed by Michael Paquier
Tom Lane [Fri, 22 Jan 2016 17:29:07 +0000 (12:29 -0500)]
Improve levenshtein() docs.
Fix chars-vs-bytes confusion here too. Improve poor grammar and
markup.
Tom Lane [Fri, 22 Jan 2016 16:53:06 +0000 (11:53 -0500)]
Remove new coupling between NAMEDATALEN and MAX_LEVENSHTEIN_STRLEN.
Commit
e529cd4ffa605c6f introduced an Assert requiring NAMEDATALEN to be
less than MAX_LEVENSHTEIN_STRLEN, which has been 255 for a long time.
Since up to that instant we had always allowed NAMEDATALEN to be
substantially more than that, this was ill-advised.
It's debatable whether we need MAX_LEVENSHTEIN_STRLEN at all (versus
putting a CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS into the loop), or whether it has to be
so tight; but this patch takes the narrower approach of just not applying
the MAX_LEVENSHTEIN_STRLEN limit to calls from the parser.
Trusting the parser for this seems reasonable, first because the strings
are limited to NAMEDATALEN which is unlikely to be hugely more than 256,
and second because the maximum distance is tightly constrained by
MAX_FUZZY_DISTANCE (though we'd forgotten to make use of that limit in one
place). That means the cost is not really O(mn) but more like O(max(m,n)).
Relaxing the limit for user-supplied calls is left for future research;
given the lack of complaints to date, it doesn't seem very high priority.
In passing, fix confusion between lengths-in-bytes and lengths-in-chars
in comments and error messages.
Per gripe from Kevin Day; solution suggested by Robert Haas. Back-patch
to 9.5 where the unwanted restriction was introduced.
Tom Lane [Thu, 21 Jan 2016 17:55:59 +0000 (12:55 -0500)]
Add defenses against putting expanded objects into Const nodes.
Putting a reference to an expanded-format value into a Const node would be
a bad idea for a couple of reasons. It'd be possible for the supposedly
immutable Const to change value, if something modified the referenced
variable ... in fact, if the Const's reference were R/W, any function that
has the Const as argument might itself change it at runtime. Also, because
datumIsEqual() is pretty simplistic, the Const might fail to compare equal
to other Consts that it should compare equal to, notably including copies
of itself. This could lead to unexpected planner behavior, such as "could
not find pathkey item to sort" errors or inferior plans.
I have not been able to find any way to get an expanded value into a Const
within the existing core code; but Paul Ramsey was able to trigger the
problem by writing a datatype input function that returns an expanded
value.
The best fix seems to be to establish a rule that varlena values being
placed into Const nodes should be passed through pg_detoast_datum().
That will do nothing (and cost little) in normal cases, but it will flatten
expanded values and thereby avoid the above problems. Also, it will
convert short-header or compressed values into canonical format, which will
avoid possible unexpected lack-of-equality issues for those cases too.
And it provides a last-ditch defense against putting a toasted value into
a Const, which we already knew was dangerous, cf commit
2b0c86b66563cf2f.
(In the light of this discussion, I'm no longer sure that that commit
provided 100% protection against such cases, but this fix should do it.)
The test added in commit
65c3d05e18e7c530 to catch datatype input functions
with unstable results would fail for functions that returned expanded
values; but it seems a bit uncharitable to deem a result unstable just
because it's expressed in expanded form, so revise the coding so that we
check for bitwise equality only after applying pg_detoast_datum(). That's
a sufficient condition anyway given the new rule about detoasting when
forming a Const.
Back-patch to 9.5 where the expanded-object facility was added. It's
possible that this should go back further; but in the absence of clear
evidence that there's any live bug in older branches, I'll refrain for now.
Bruce Momjian [Wed, 20 Jan 2016 04:30:29 +0000 (23:30 -0500)]
Properly install dynloader.h on MSVC builds
This will enable PL/Java to be cleanly compiled, as dynloader.h is a
requirement.
Report by Chapman Flack
Patch by Michael Paquier
Backpatch through 9.1
Tatsuo Ishii [Mon, 18 Jan 2016 12:26:30 +0000 (21:26 +0900)]
Fix typo.
Reported by KOIZUMI Satoru.
Tom Lane [Sun, 17 Jan 2016 16:38:40 +0000 (11:38 -0500)]
Remove dead code in pg_dump.
Coverity quite reasonably complained that this check for fout==NULL
occurred after we'd already dereferenced fout. However, the check
is just dead code since there is no code path by which CreateArchive
can return a null pointer. Errors such as can't-open-that-file are
reported down inside CreateArchive, and control doesn't return.
So let's silence the warning by removing the dead code, rather than
continuing to pretend it does something.
Coverity didn't complain about this before
5b5fea2a1, so back-patch
to 9.5 like that patch.
Robert Haas [Fri, 15 Jan 2016 04:12:05 +0000 (23:12 -0500)]
Fix spelling mistake.
Same patch submitted independently by David Rowley and Peter Geoghegan.
Magnus Hagander [Thu, 14 Jan 2016 12:06:03 +0000 (13:06 +0100)]
Properly close token in sspi authentication
We can never leak more than one token, but we shouldn't do that. We
don't bother closing it in the error paths since the process will
exit shortly anyway.
Christian Ullrich
Tom Lane [Wed, 13 Jan 2016 23:55:27 +0000 (18:55 -0500)]
Handle extension members when first setting object dump flags in pg_dump.
pg_dump's original approach to handling extension member objects was to
run around and clear (or set) their dump flags rather late in its data
collection process. Unfortunately, quite a lot of code expects those flags
to be valid before that; which was an entirely reasonable expectation
before we added extensions. In particular, this explains Karsten Hilbert's
recent report of pg_upgrade failing on a database in which an extension
has been installed into the pg_catalog schema. Its objects are initially
marked as not-to-be-dumped on the strength of their schema, and later we
change them to must-dump because we're doing a binary upgrade of their
extension; but we've already skipped essential tasks like making associated
DO_SHELL_TYPE objects.
To fix, collect extension membership data first, and incorporate it in the
initial setting of the dump flags, so that those are once again correct
from the get-go. This has the undesirable side effect of slightly
lengthening the time taken before pg_dump acquires table locks, but testing
suggests that the increase in that window is not very much.
Along the way, get rid of ugly special-case logic for deciding whether
to dump procedural languages, FDWs, and foreign servers; dump decisions
for those are now correct up-front, too.
In 9.3 and up, this also fixes erroneous logic about when to dump event
triggers (basically, they were *always* dumped before). In 9.5 and up,
transform objects had that problem too.
Since this problem came in with extensions, back-patch to all supported
versions.
Tom Lane [Wed, 13 Jan 2016 22:48:33 +0000 (17:48 -0500)]
Access pg_dump's options structs through Archive struct, not directly.
Rather than passing around DumpOptions and RestoreOptions as separate
arguments, add fields to struct Archive to carry pointers to these objects,
and access them through those fields when needed. There already was a
RestoreOptions pointer in Archive, though for no obvious reason it was part
of the "private" struct rather than out where pg_dump.c could see it.
Doing this allows reversion of quite a lot of parameter-addition changes
made in commit
0eea8047bf, which is a good thing IMO because this will
reduce the code delta between 9.4 and 9.5, probably easing a few future
back-patch efforts. Moreover, the previous commit only added a DumpOptions
argument to functions that had to have it at the time, which means we could
anticipate still more code churn (and more back-patch hazard) as the
requirement spread further. I'd hit exactly that problem in my upcoming
patch to fix extension membership marking, which is what motivated me to
do this.
Tom Lane [Tue, 12 Jan 2016 01:06:36 +0000 (20:06 -0500)]
Use LOAD not actual code execution to pull in plpython library.
Commit
866566a690bb9916 is insufficient to prevent dump/reload failures
when using transform modules in a database with both plpython2 and
plpython3 installed. The reason is that the transform extension scripts
use DO blocks as a mechanism to pull in the libpython library before
creating the transform function. It's necessary to preload the library
because the dynamic loader won't do it for us on every platform, leading
to "unresolved symbol" failures when the transform library is loaded.
But it's *not* necessary to execute Python code, and doing so will
provoke a multiple-Pythons-are-loaded error even after the preceding
commit.
To fix, use LOAD instead of a DO block. That requires superuser privilege,
but creation of a C function does anyway. It also embeds knowledge of
the underlying library name for each PL language; but that's wired into
the initdb-time contents of pg_pltemplate too, so that doesn't seem like
a large problem either. Note that CREATE TRANSFORM as such doesn't call
the language module at all.
Per a report from Paul Jones. Back-patch to 9.5 where transform modules
were introduced.
Tom Lane [Tue, 12 Jan 2016 00:55:39 +0000 (19:55 -0500)]
Avoid dump/reload problems when using both plpython2 and plpython3.
Commit
803716013dc1350f installed a safeguard against loading plpython2
and plpython3 at the same time, but asserted that both could still be
used in the same database, just not in the same session. However, that's
not actually all that practical because dumping and reloading will fail
(since both libraries necessarily get loaded into the restoring session).
pg_upgrade is even worse, because it checks for missing libraries by
loading every .so library mentioned in the entire installation into one
session, so that you can have only one across the whole cluster.
We can improve matters by not throwing the error immediately in _PG_init,
but only when and if we're asked to do something that requires calling
into libpython. This ameliorates both of the above situations, since
while execution of CREATE LANGUAGE, CREATE FUNCTION, etc will result in
loading plpython, it isn't asked to do anything interesting (at least
not if check_function_bodies is off, as it will be during a restore).
It's possible that this opens some corner-case holes in which a crash
could be provoked with sufficient effort. However, since plpython
only exists as an untrusted language, any such crash would require
superuser privileges, making it "don't do that" not a security issue.
To reduce the hazards in this area, the error is still FATAL when it
does get thrown.
Per a report from Paul Jones. Back-patch to 9.2, which is as far back
as the patch applies without work. (It could be made to work in 9.1,
but given the lack of previous complaints, I'm disinclined to expend
effort so far back. We've been pretty desultory about support for
Python 3 in 9.1 anyway.)
Peter Eisentraut [Mon, 11 Jan 2016 01:12:27 +0000 (20:12 -0500)]
doc: Fix typo in logical decoding documentation
From: Petr Jelinek <
[email protected]>
Tom Lane [Sat, 9 Jan 2016 22:39:45 +0000 (17:39 -0500)]
Remove a useless PG_GETARG_DATUM() call from jsonb_build_array.
This loop uselessly fetched the argument after the one it's currently
looking at. No real harm is done since we couldn't possibly fetch off
the end of memory, but it's confusing to the reader.
Also remove a duplicate (and therefore confusing) PG_ARGISNULL check in
jsonb_build_object.
I happened to notice these things while trolling for missed null-arg
checks earlier today. Back-patch to 9.5, not because there is any
real bug, but just because 9.5 and HEAD are still in sync in this
file and we might as well keep them so.
In passing, re-pgindent.
Tom Lane [Sat, 9 Jan 2016 21:58:32 +0000 (16:58 -0500)]
Clean up some lack-of-STRICT issues in the core code, too.
A scan for missed proisstrict markings in the core code turned up
these functions:
brin_summarize_new_values
pg_stat_reset_single_table_counters
pg_stat_reset_single_function_counters
pg_create_logical_replication_slot
pg_create_physical_replication_slot
pg_drop_replication_slot
The first three of these take OID, so a null argument will normally look
like a zero to them, resulting in "ERROR: could not open relation with OID
0" for brin_summarize_new_values, and no action for the pg_stat_reset_XXX
functions. The other three will dump core on a null argument, though this
is mitigated by the fact that they won't do so until after checking that
the caller is superuser or has rolreplication privilege.
In addition, the pg_logical_slot_get/peek[_binary]_changes family was
intentionally marked nonstrict, but failed to make nullness checks on all
the arguments; so again a null-pointer-dereference crash is possible but
only for superusers and rolreplication users.
Add the missing ARGISNULL checks to the latter functions, and mark the
former functions as strict in pg_proc. Make that change in the back
branches too, even though we can't force initdb there, just so that
installations initdb'd in future won't have the issue. Since none of these
bugs rise to the level of security issues (and indeed the pg_stat_reset_XXX
functions hardly misbehave at all), it seems sufficient to do this.
In addition, fix some order-of-operations oddities in the slot_get_changes
family, mostly cosmetic, but not the part that moves the function's last
few operations into the PG_TRY block. As it stood, there was significant
risk for an error to exit without clearing historical information from
the system caches.
The slot_get_changes bugs go back to 9.4 where that code was introduced.
Back-patch appropriate subsets of the pg_proc changes into all active
branches, as well.
Tom Lane [Sat, 9 Jan 2016 18:44:27 +0000 (13:44 -0500)]
Clean up code for widget_in() and widget_out().
Given syntactically wrong input, widget_in() could call atof() with an
indeterminate pointer argument, typically leading to a crash; or if it
didn't do that, it might return a NULL pointer, which again would lead
to a crash since old-style C functions aren't supposed to do things
that way. Fix that by correcting the off-by-one syntax test and
throwing a proper error rather than just returning NULL.
Also, since widget_in and widget_out have been marked STRICT for a
long time, their tests for null inputs are just dead code; remove 'em.
In the oldest branches, also improve widget_out to use snprintf not
sprintf, just to be sure.
In passing, get rid of a long-since-useless sprintf into a local buffer
that nothing further is done with, and make some other minor coding
style cleanups.
In the intended regression-testing usage of these functions, none of
this is very significant; but if the regression test database were
left around in a production installation, these bugs could amount
to a minor security hazard.
Piotr Stefaniak, Michael Paquier, and Tom Lane
Tom Lane [Sat, 9 Jan 2016 18:02:54 +0000 (13:02 -0500)]
Add STRICT to some C functions created by the regression tests.
These functions readily crash when passed a NULL input value. The tests
themselves do not pass NULL values to them; but when the regression
database is used as a basis for fuzz testing, they cause a lot of noise.
Also, if someone were to leave a regression database lying about in a
production installation, these would create a minor security hazard.
Andreas Seltenreich
Tom Lane [Fri, 8 Jan 2016 16:39:28 +0000 (11:39 -0500)]
PL/Python: Make tests pass with Python 3.5
The error message wording for AttributeError has changed in Python 3.5.
For the plpython_error test, add a new expected file. In the
plpython_subtransaction test, we didn't really care what the exception
is, only that it is something coming from Python. So use a generic
exception instead, which has a message that doesn't vary across
versions.
Back-patch of commit
f16d52269a196f7f303abe3b978d95ade265f05f, which
was previously back-patched into 9.2-9.4, but missed 9.5.
Magnus Hagander [Fri, 8 Jan 2016 07:56:03 +0000 (08:56 +0100)]
Fix typo in comment
Tatsuro Yamada
Tom Lane [Thu, 7 Jan 2016 23:20:57 +0000 (18:20 -0500)]
Fix unobvious interaction between -X switch and subdirectory creation.
Turns out the only reason initdb -X worked is that pg_mkdir_p won't
whine if you point it at something that's a symlink to a directory.
Otherwise, the attempt to create pg_xlog/ just like all the other
subdirectories would have failed. Let's be a little more explicit
about what's happening. Oversight in my patch for bug #13853
(mea culpa for not testing -X ...)
Tom Lane [Thu, 7 Jan 2016 20:22:01 +0000 (15:22 -0500)]
Use plain mkdir() not pg_mkdir_p() to create subdirectories of PGDATA.
When we're creating subdirectories of PGDATA during initdb, we know darn
well that the parent directory exists (or should exist) and that the new
subdirectory doesn't (or shouldn't). There is therefore no need to use
anything more complicated than mkdir(). Using pg_mkdir_p() just opens us
up to unexpected failure modes, such as the one exhibited in bug #13853
from Nuri Boardman. It's not very clear why pg_mkdir_p() went wrong there,
but it is clear that we didn't need to be trying to create parent
directories in the first place. We're not even saving any code, as proven
by the fact that this patch nets out at minus five lines.
Since this is a response to a field bug report, back-patch to all branches.
Alvaro Herrera [Thu, 7 Jan 2016 14:59:08 +0000 (11:59 -0300)]
Windows: Make pg_ctl reliably detect service status
pg_ctl is using isatty() to verify whether the process is running in a
terminal, and if not it sends its output to Windows' Event Log ... which
does the wrong thing when the output has been redirected to a pipe, as
reported in bug #13592.
To fix, make pg_ctl use the code we already have to detect service-ness:
in the master branch, move src/backend/port/win32/security.c to src/port
(with suitable tweaks so that it runs properly in backend and frontend
environments); pg_ctl already has access to pgport so it Just Works. In
older branches, that's likely to cause trouble, so instead duplicate the
required code in pg_ctl.c.
Author: Michael Paquier
Bug report and diagnosis: Egon Kocjan
Backpatch: all supported branches
Tatsuo Ishii [Tue, 5 Jan 2016 23:01:40 +0000 (08:01 +0900)]
Fix typo in create_transform.sgml.
Tom Lane [Tue, 5 Jan 2016 20:47:05 +0000 (15:47 -0500)]
Sort $(wildcard) output where needed for reproducible build output.
The order of inclusion of .o files makes a difference in linker output;
not a functional difference, but still a bitwise difference, which annoys
some packagers who would like reproducible builds.
Report and patch by Christoph Berg
Alvaro Herrera [Tue, 5 Jan 2016 20:25:12 +0000 (17:25 -0300)]
Make pg_receivexlog silent with 9.3 and older servers
A pointless and confusing error message is shown to the user when
attempting to identify a 9.3 or older remote server with a 9.5/9.6
pg_receivexlog, because the return signature of IDENTIFY_SYSTEM was
changed in 9.4. There's no good reason for the warning message, so
shuffle code around to keep it quiet.
(pg_recvlogical is also affected by this commit, but since it obviously
cannot work with 9.3 that doesn't actually matter much.)
Backpatch to 9.5.
Reported by Marco Nenciarini, who also wrote the initial patch. Further
tweaked by Robert Haas and Fujii Masao; reviewed by Michael Paquier and
Craig Ringer.
Tom Lane [Tue, 5 Jan 2016 17:35:18 +0000 (12:35 -0500)]
Add to_regnamespace() and to_regrole() to the documentation.
Commits
cb9fa802b32b222b and
0c90f6769de6a60f added these functions,
but did not bother with documentation.
Tom Lane [Mon, 4 Jan 2016 21:29:34 +0000 (16:29 -0500)]
Stamp 9.5.0.
Tom Lane [Mon, 4 Jan 2016 20:11:44 +0000 (15:11 -0500)]
Docs: provide a concrete discussion and example for RLS race conditions.
Commit
43cd468cf01007f3 added some wording to create_policy.sgml purporting
to warn users against a race condition of the sort that had been noted some
time ago by Peter Geoghegan. However, that warning was far too vague to be
useful (or at least, I completely failed to grasp what it was on about).
Since the problem case occurs with a security design pattern that lots of
people are likely to try to use, we need to be as clear as possible about
it. Provide a concrete example in the main-line docs in place of the
original warning.
Tom Lane [Mon, 4 Jan 2016 17:21:31 +0000 (12:21 -0500)]
Adjust behavior of row_security GUC to match the docs.
Some time back we agreed that row_security=off should not be a way to
bypass RLS entirely, but only a way to get an error if it was being
applied. However, the code failed to act that way for table owners.
Per discussion, this is a must-fix bug for 9.5.0.
Adjust the logic in rls.c to behave as expected; also, modify the
error message to be more consistent with the new interpretation.
The regression tests need minor corrections as well. Also update
the comments about row_security in ddl.sgml to be correct. (The
official description of the GUC in config.sgml is already correct.)
I failed to resist the temptation to do some other very minor
cleanup as well, such as getting rid of a duplicate extern declaration.
Robert Haas [Mon, 4 Jan 2016 15:12:37 +0000 (10:12 -0500)]
Fix typo in comment.
Masahiko Sawada
Peter Eisentraut [Mon, 4 Jan 2016 13:18:48 +0000 (08:18 -0500)]
Translation updates
Source-Git-URL: git://git.postgresql.org/git/pgtranslation/messages.git
Source-Git-Hash:
3b0ccc27cf917446ea0a6c680b70534cfcaba81e
Tom Lane [Mon, 4 Jan 2016 06:53:24 +0000 (01:53 -0500)]
Fix regrole and regnamespace output functions to do quoting, too.
We discussed this but somehow failed to implement it...
Tom Lane [Mon, 4 Jan 2016 06:03:53 +0000 (01:03 -0500)]
Fix regrole and regnamespace types to honor quoting like other reg* types.
Aside from any consistency arguments, this is logically necessary because
the I/O functions for these types also handle numeric OID values. Without
a quoting rule it is impossible to distinguish numeric OIDs from role or
namespace names that happen to contain only digits.
Also change the to_regrole and to_regnamespace functions to dequote their
arguments. While not logically essential, this seems like a good idea
since the other to_reg* functions do it. Anyone who really wants raw
lookup of an uninterpreted name can fall back on the time-honored solution
of (SELECT oid FROM pg_namespace WHERE nspname = whatever).
Report and patch by Jim Nasby, reviewed by Michael Paquier
Tom Lane [Mon, 4 Jan 2016 01:53:35 +0000 (20:53 -0500)]
Fix bogus lock release in RemovePolicyById and RemoveRoleFromObjectPolicy.
Can't release the AccessExclusiveLock on the target table until commit.
Otherwise there is a race condition whereby other backends might service
our cache invalidation signals before they can actually see the updated
catalog rows.
Just to add insult to injury, RemovePolicyById was closing the rel (with
incorrect lock drop) and then passing the now-dangling rel pointer to
CacheInvalidateRelcache. Probably the reason this doesn't fall over on
CLOBBER_CACHE buildfarm members is that some outer level of the DROP logic
is still holding the rel open ... but it'd have bit us on the arse
eventually, no doubt.
Tom Lane [Mon, 4 Jan 2016 01:04:11 +0000 (20:04 -0500)]
Do some copy-editing on the docs for row-level security.
Clarifications, markup improvements, corrections of misleading or
outright wrong statements.
Tom Lane [Sun, 3 Jan 2016 21:26:38 +0000 (16:26 -0500)]
Guard against null arguments in binary_upgrade_create_empty_extension().
The CHECK_IS_BINARY_UPGRADE macro is not sufficient security protection
if we're going to dereference pass-by-reference arguments before it.
But in any case we really need to explicitly check PG_ARGISNULL for all
the arguments of a non-strict function, not only the ones we expect null
values for.
Oversight in commits
30982be4e5019684e1772dd9170aaa53f5a8e894 and
f92fc4c95ddcc25978354a8248d3df22269201bc. Found by Andreas Seltenreich.
(The other usages in pg_upgrade_support.c seem safe.)
Tom Lane [Sun, 3 Jan 2016 21:03:42 +0000 (16:03 -0500)]
Do some copy-editing on the docs for replication origins.
Minor grammar and markup improvements.
Tom Lane [Sun, 3 Jan 2016 20:33:12 +0000 (15:33 -0500)]
Do a final round of copy-editing on the 9.5 release notes.
Tom Lane [Sun, 3 Jan 2016 18:56:29 +0000 (13:56 -0500)]
Fix treatment of *lpNumberOfBytesRecvd == 0: that's a completion condition.
pgwin32_recv() has treated a non-error return of zero bytes from WSARecv()
as being a reason to block ever since the current implementation was
introduced in commit
a4c40f140d23cefb. However, so far as one can tell
from Microsoft's documentation, that is just wrong: what it means is
graceful connection closure (in stream protocols) or receipt of a
zero-length message (in message protocols), and neither case should result
in blocking here. The only reason the code worked at all was that control
then fell into the retry loop, which did *not* treat zero bytes specially,
so we'd get out after only wasting some cycles. But as of 9.5 we do not
normally reach the retry loop and so the bug is exposed, as reported by
Shay Rojansky and diagnosed by Andres Freund.
Remove the unnecessary test on the byte count, and rearrange the code
in the retry loop so that it looks identical to the initial sequence.
Back-patch to 9.5. The code is wrong all the way back, AFAICS, but
since it's relatively harmless in earlier branches we'll leave it alone.
Tom Lane [Sun, 3 Jan 2016 00:04:45 +0000 (19:04 -0500)]
Teach pg_dump to quote reloption values safely.
Commit
c7e27becd2e6eb93 fixed this on the backend side, but we neglected
the fact that several code paths in pg_dump were printing reloptions
values that had not gotten massaged by ruleutils. Apply essentially the
same quoting logic in those places, too.
Tom Lane [Sat, 2 Jan 2016 21:24:50 +0000 (16:24 -0500)]
Fix overly-strict assertions in spgtextproc.c.
spg_text_inner_consistent is capable of reconstructing an empty string
to pass down to the next index level; this happens if we have an empty
string coming in, no prefix, and a dummy node label. (In practice, what
is needed to trigger that is insertion of a whole bunch of empty-string
values.) Then, we will arrive at the next level with in->level == 0
and a non-NULL (but zero length) in->reconstructedValue, which is valid
but the Assert tests weren't expecting it.
Per report from Andreas Seltenreich. This has no impact in non-Assert
builds, so should not be a problem in production, but back-patch to
all affected branches anyway.
In passing, remove a couple of useless variable initializations and
shorten the code by not duplicating DatumGetPointer() calls.
Tom Lane [Sat, 2 Jan 2016 20:29:03 +0000 (15:29 -0500)]
Adjust back-branch release note description of commits
a2a718b22 et al.
As pointed out by Michael Paquier, recovery_min_apply_delay didn't exist
in 9.0-9.3, making the release note text not very useful. Instead make it
talk about recovery_target_xid, which did exist then.
9.0 is already out of support, but we can fix the text in the newer
branches' copies of its release notes.
Bruce Momjian [Sat, 2 Jan 2016 18:33:39 +0000 (13:33 -0500)]
Update copyright for 2016
Backpatch certain files through 9.1
Tom Lane [Fri, 1 Jan 2016 20:27:53 +0000 (15:27 -0500)]
Teach flatten_reloptions() to quote option values safely.
flatten_reloptions() supposed that it didn't really need to do anything
beyond inserting commas between reloption array elements. However, in
principle the value of a reloption could be nearly anything, since the
grammar allows a quoted string there. Any restrictions on it would come
from validity checking appropriate to the particular option, if any.
A reloption value that isn't a simple identifier or number could thus lead
to dump/reload failures due to syntax errors in CREATE statements issued
by pg_dump. We've gotten away with not worrying about this so far with
the core-supported reloptions, but extensions might allow reloption values
that cause trouble, as in bug #13840 from Kouhei Sutou.
To fix, split the reloption array elements explicitly, and then convert
any value that doesn't look like a safe identifier to a string literal.
(The details of the quoting rule could be debated, but this way is safe
and requires little code.) While we're at it, also quote reloption names
if they're not safe identifiers; that may not be a likely problem in the
field, but we might as well try to be bulletproof here.
It's been like this for a long time, so back-patch to all supported
branches.
Kouhei Sutou, adjusted some by me
Tom Lane [Fri, 1 Jan 2016 18:42:21 +0000 (13:42 -0500)]
Add some more defenses against silly estimates to gincostestimate().
A report from Andy Colson showed that gincostestimate() was not being
nearly paranoid enough about whether to believe the statistics it finds in
the index metapage. The problem is that the metapage stats (other than the
pending-pages count) are only updated by VACUUM, and in the worst case
could still reflect the index's original empty state even when it has grown
to many entries. We attempted to deal with that by scaling up the stats to
match the current index size, but if nEntries is zero then scaling it up
still gives zero. Moreover, the proportion of pages that are entry pages
vs. data pages vs. pending pages is unlikely to be estimated very well by
scaling if the index is now orders of magnitude larger than before.
We can improve matters by expanding the use of the rule-of-thumb estimates
I introduced in commit
7fb008c5ee59b040: if the index has grown by more
than a cutoff amount (here set at 4X growth) since VACUUM, then use the
rule-of-thumb numbers instead of scaling. This might not be exactly right
but it seems much less likely to produce insane estimates.
I also improved both the scaling estimate and the rule-of-thumb estimate
to account for numPendingPages, since it's reasonable to expect that that
is accurate in any case, and certainly pages that are in the pending list
are not either entry or data pages.
As a somewhat separate issue, adjust the estimation equations that are
concerned with extra fetches for partial-match searches. These equations
suppose that a fraction partialEntries / numEntries of the entry and data
pages will be visited as a consequence of a partial-match search. Now,
it's physically impossible for that fraction to exceed one, but our
estimate of partialEntries is mostly bunk, and our estimate of numEntries
isn't exactly gospel either, so we could arrive at a silly value. In the
example presented by Andy we were coming out with a value of 100, leading
to insane cost estimates. Clamp the fraction to one to avoid that.
Like the previous patch, back-patch to all supported branches; this
problem can be demonstrated in one form or another in all of them.
Tom Lane [Fri, 1 Jan 2016 18:00:13 +0000 (13:00 -0500)]
Split out pg_operator.h function declarations to new file pg_operator_fn.h.
Commit
a2e35b53c39b2a27 added an #include of catalog/objectaddress.h to
pg_operator.h, making it impossible for client-side code to #include
pg_operator.h. It's not entirely clear whether any client-side code needs
to include pg_operator.h, but it seems prudent to assume that there is some
such code somewhere. Therefore, split off the function definitions into a
new file pg_operator_fn.h, similarly to what we've done for some other
catalog header files.
Back-patch of part of commit
0dab5ef39b3d9d86.
Tom Lane [Thu, 31 Dec 2015 22:59:10 +0000 (17:59 -0500)]
Add a comment noting that FDWs don't have to implement EXCEPT or LIMIT TO.
postgresImportForeignSchema pays attention to IMPORT's EXCEPT and LIMIT TO
options, but only as an efficiency hack, not for correctness' sake. The
FDW documentation does explain that, but someone using postgres_fdw.c
as a coding guide might not remember it, so let's add a comment here.
Per question from Regina Obe.
Tom Lane [Tue, 29 Dec 2015 21:45:47 +0000 (16:45 -0500)]
Put back one copyObject() in rewriteTargetView().
Commit
6f8cb1e23485bd6d tried to centralize rewriteTargetView's copying
of a target view's Query struct. However, it ignored the fact that the
jointree->quals field was used twice. This only accidentally failed to
fail immediately because the same ChangeVarNodes mutation is applied in
both cases, so that we end up with logically identical expression trees
for both uses (and, as the code stands, the second ChangeVarNodes call
actually does nothing). However, we end up linking *physically*
identical expression trees into both an RTE's securityQuals list and
the WithCheckOption list. That's pretty dangerous, mainly because
prepsecurity.c is utterly cavalier about further munging such structures
without copying them first.
There may be no live bug in HEAD as a consequence of the fact that we apply
preprocess_expression in between here and prepsecurity.c, and that will
make a copy of the tree anyway. Or it may just be that the regression
tests happen to not trip over it. (I noticed this only because things
fell over pretty badly when I tried to relocate the planner's call of
expand_security_quals to before expression preprocessing.) In any case
it's very fragile because if anyone tried to make the securityQuals and
WithCheckOption trees diverge before we reach preprocess_expression, it
would not work. The fact that the current code will preprocess
securityQuals and WithCheckOptions lists at completely different times in
different query levels does nothing to increase my trust that that can't
happen.
In view of the fact that 9.5.0 is almost upon us and the aforesaid commit
has seen exactly zero field testing, the prudent course is to make an extra
copy of the quals so that the behavior is not different from what has been
in the field during beta.
Joe Conway [Mon, 28 Dec 2015 20:35:16 +0000 (12:35 -0800)]
Rename (new|old)estCommitTs to (new|old)estCommitTsXid
The variables newestCommitTs and oldestCommitTs sound as if they are
timestamps, but in fact they are the transaction Ids that correspond
to the newest and oldest timestamps rather than the actual timestamps.
Rename these variables to reflect that they are actually xids: to wit
newestCommitTsXid and oldestCommitTsXid respectively. Also modify
related code in a similar fashion, particularly the user facing output
emitted by pg_controldata and pg_resetxlog.
Complaint and patch by me, review by Tom Lane and Alvaro Herrera.
Backpatch to 9.5 where these variables were first introduced.
Alvaro Herrera [Mon, 28 Dec 2015 18:28:19 +0000 (15:28 -0300)]
Document brin_summarize_new_pages
Pointer out by Jeff Janes
Tom Lane [Mon, 28 Dec 2015 17:09:00 +0000 (12:09 -0500)]
Document the exponentiation operator as associating left to right.
Common mathematical convention is that exponentiation associates right to
left. We aren't going to change the parser for this, but we could note
it in the operator's description. (It's already noted in the operator
precedence/associativity table, but users might not look there.)
Per bug #13829 from Henrik Pauli.
Alvaro Herrera [Mon, 28 Dec 2015 16:45:03 +0000 (13:45 -0300)]
doc: pg_committs -> pg_commit_ts
Reported by: Alain Laporte (#13836)
Tom Lane [Mon, 28 Dec 2015 16:04:42 +0000 (11:04 -0500)]
Update documentation about pseudo-types.
Tone down an overly strong statement about which pseudo-types PLs are
likely to allow. Add "event_trigger" to the list, as well as
"pg_ddl_command" in 9.5/HEAD. Back-patch to 9.3 where event_trigger
was added.