Noah Misch [Mon, 8 Aug 2016 14:07:46 +0000 (10:07 -0400)]
Field conninfo strings throughout src/bin/scripts.
These programs nominally accepted conninfo strings, but they would
proceed to use the original dbname parameter as though it were an
unadorned database name. This caused "reindexdb dbname=foo" to issue an
SQL command that always failed, and other programs printed a conninfo
string in error messages that purported to print a database name. Fix
both problems by using PQdb() to retrieve actual database names.
Continue to print the full conninfo string when reporting a connection
failure. It is informative there, and if the database name is the sole
problem, the server-side error message will include the name. Beyond
those user-visible fixes, this allows a subsequent commit to synthesize
and use conninfo strings without that implementation detail leaking into
messages. As a side effect, the "vacuuming database" message now
appears after, not before, the connection attempt. Back-patch to 9.1
(all supported versions).
Reviewed by Michael Paquier and Peter Eisentraut.
Security: CVE-2016-5424
Noah Misch [Mon, 8 Aug 2016 14:07:46 +0000 (10:07 -0400)]
Introduce a psql "\connect -reuse-previous=on|off" option.
The decision to reuse values of parameters from a previous connection
has been based on whether the new target is a conninfo string. Add this
means of overriding that default. This feature arose as one component
of a fix for security vulnerabilities in pg_dump, pg_dumpall, and
pg_upgrade, so back-patch to 9.1 (all supported versions). In 9.3 and
later, comment paragraphs that required update had already-incorrect
claims about behavior when no connection is open; fix those problems.
Security: CVE-2016-5424
Noah Misch [Mon, 8 Aug 2016 14:07:46 +0000 (10:07 -0400)]
Sort out paired double quotes in \connect, \password and \crosstabview.
In arguments, these meta-commands wrongly treated each pair as closing
the double quoted string. Make the behavior match the documentation.
This is a compatibility break, but I more expect to find software with
untested reliance on the documented behavior than software reliant on
today's behavior. Back-patch to 9.1 (all supported versions).
Reviewed by Tom Lane and Peter Eisentraut.
Security: CVE-2016-5424
Tom Lane [Mon, 8 Aug 2016 01:31:02 +0000 (21:31 -0400)]
Release notes for 9.5.4, 9.4.9, 9.3.14, 9.2.18, 9.1.23.
Tom Lane [Sun, 7 Aug 2016 22:52:02 +0000 (18:52 -0400)]
Fix misestimation of n_distinct for a nearly-unique column with many nulls.
If ANALYZE found no repeated non-null entries in its sample, it set the
column's stadistinct value to -1.0, intending to indicate that the entries
are all distinct. But what this value actually means is that the number
of distinct values is 100% of the table's rowcount, and thus it was
overestimating the number of distinct values by however many nulls there
are. This could lead to very poor selectivity estimates, as for example
in a recent report from Andreas Joseph Krogh. We should discount the
stadistinct value by whatever we've estimated the nulls fraction to be.
(That is what will happen if we choose to use a negative stadistinct for
a column that does have repeated entries, so this code path was just
inconsistent.)
In addition to fixing the stadistinct entries stored by several different
ANALYZE code paths, adjust the logic where get_variable_numdistinct()
forces an "all distinct" estimate on the basis of finding a relevant unique
index. Unique indexes don't reject nulls, so there's no reason to assume
that the null fraction doesn't apply.
Back-patch to all supported branches. Back-patching is a bit of a judgment
call, but this problem seems to affect only a few users (else we'd have
identified it long ago), and it's bad enough when it does happen that
destabilizing plan choices in a worse direction seems unlikely.
Patch by me, with documentation wording suggested by Dean Rasheed
Report: <VisenaEmail.26.
df42f82acae38a58.
156463942b8@tc7-visena>
Discussion: <16143.
1470350371@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Tom Lane [Fri, 5 Aug 2016 22:58:12 +0000 (18:58 -0400)]
Teach libpq to decode server version correctly from future servers.
Beginning with the next development cycle, PG servers will report two-part
not three-part version numbers. Fix libpq so that it will compute the
correct numeric representation of such server versions for reporting by
PQserverVersion(). It's desirable to get this into the field and
back-patched ASAP, so that older clients are more likely to understand the
new server version numbering by the time any such servers are in the wild.
(The results with an old client would probably not be catastrophic anyway
for a released server; for example "10.1" would be interpreted as 100100
which would be wrong in detail but would not likely cause an old client to
misbehave badly. But "10devel" or "10beta1" would result in sversion==0
which at best would result in disabling all use of modern features.)
Extracted from a patch by Peter Eisentraut; comments added by me
Patch: <
802ec140-635d-ad86-5fdf-
d3af0e260c22@2ndquadrant.com>
Tom Lane [Fri, 5 Aug 2016 16:58:17 +0000 (12:58 -0400)]
Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2016f.
DST law changes in Kemerovo and Novosibirsk. Historical corrections for
Azerbaijan, Belarus, and Morocco. Asia/Novokuznetsk and Asia/Novosibirsk
now use numeric time zone abbreviations instead of invented ones. Zones
for Antarctic bases and other locations that have been uninhabited for
portions of the time span known to the tzdata database now report "-00"
rather than "zzz" as the zone abbreviation for those time spans.
Also, I decided to remove some of the timezone/data/ files that we don't
use. At one time that subdirectory was a complete copy of what IANA
distributes in the tzdata tarballs, but that hasn't been true for a long
time. There seems no good reason to keep shipping those specific files
but not others; they're just bloating our tarballs.
Peter Eisentraut [Wed, 3 Aug 2016 17:45:55 +0000 (13:45 -0400)]
doc: Remove documentation of nonexistent information schema columns
These were probably copied in by accident.
From: Clément Prévost <
[email protected]>
Bruce Momjian [Tue, 2 Aug 2016 21:13:10 +0000 (17:13 -0400)]
doc: OS collation changes can break indexes
Discussion:
20160702155517[email protected]
Reviewed-by: Christoph Berg
Backpatch-through: 9.1
Tom Lane [Tue, 2 Aug 2016 16:48:51 +0000 (12:48 -0400)]
Fix pg_dump's handling of public schema with both -c and -C options.
Since -c plus -C requests dropping and recreating the target database
as a whole, not dropping individual objects in it, we should assume that
the public schema already exists and need not be created. The previous
coding considered only the state of the -c option, so it would emit
"CREATE SCHEMA public" anyway, leading to an unexpected error in restore.
Back-patch to 9.2. Older versions did not accept -c with -C so the
issue doesn't arise there. (The logic being patched here dates to 8.0,
cf commit
2193121fa, so it's not really wrong that it didn't consider
the case at the time.)
Note that versions before 9.6 will still attempt to emit REVOKE/GRANT
on the public schema; but that happens without -c/-C too, and doesn't
seem to be the focus of this complaint. I considered extending this
stanza to also skip the public schema's ACL, but that would be a
misfeature, as it'd break cases where users intentionally changed that
ACL. The real fix for this aspect is Stephen Frost's work to not dump
built-in ACLs, and that's not going to get back-ported.
Per bugs #13804 and #14271. Solution found by David Johnston and later
rediscovered by me.
Report: <
20151207163520[email protected]>
Report: <
20160801021955[email protected]>
Michael Meskes [Mon, 1 Aug 2016 04:36:27 +0000 (06:36 +0200)]
Fixed array checking code for "unsigned long long" datatypes in libecpg.
Fujii Masao [Mon, 1 Aug 2016 08:36:14 +0000 (17:36 +0900)]
Fix pg_basebackup so that it accepts 0 as a valid compression level.
The help message for pg_basebackup specifies that the numbers 0 through 9
are accepted as valid values of -Z option. But, previously -Z 0 was rejected
as an invalid compression level.
Per discussion, it's better to make pg_basebackup treat 0 as valid
compression level meaning no compression, like pg_dump.
Back-patch to all supported versions.
Reported-By: Jeff Janes
Reviewed-By: Amit Kapila
Discussion: CAMkU=1x+GwjSayc57v6w87ij6iRGFWt=hVfM0B64b1_bPVKRqg@mail.gmail.com
Tom Lane [Sun, 31 Jul 2016 22:32:34 +0000 (18:32 -0400)]
Doc: remove claim that hash index creation depends on effective_cache_size.
This text was added by commit
ff213239c, and not long thereafter obsoleted
by commit
4adc2f72a (which made the test depend on NBuffers instead); but
nobody noticed the need for an update. Commit
9563d5b5e adds some further
dependency on maintenance_work_mem, but the existing verbiage seems to
cover that with about as much precision as we really want here. Let's
just take it all out rather than leaving ourselves open to more errors of
omission in future. (That solution makes this change back-patchable, too.)
Noted by Peter Geoghegan.
Discussion: <CAM3SWZRVANbj9GA9j40fAwheQCZQtSwqTN1GBTVwRrRbmSf7cg@mail.gmail.com>
Bruce Momjian [Sat, 30 Jul 2016 18:52:17 +0000 (14:52 -0400)]
doc: apply hypen fix that was not backpatched
Head patch was
42ec6c2da699e8e0b1774988fa97297a2cdf716c.
Reported-by: Alexander Law
Discussion:
5785FBE7.
7060508@gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 9.1
Tom Lane [Thu, 28 Jul 2016 22:57:24 +0000 (18:57 -0400)]
Guard against empty buffer in gets_fromFile()'s check for a newline.
Per the fgets() specification, it cannot return without reading some data
unless it reports EOF or error. So the code here assumed that the data
buffer would necessarily be nonempty when we go to check for a newline
having been read. However, Agostino Sarubbo noticed that this could fail
to be true if the first byte of the data is a NUL (\0). The fgets() API
doesn't really work for embedded NULs, which is something I don't feel
any great need for us to worry about since we generally don't allow NULs
in SQL strings anyway. But we should not access off the end of our own
buffer if the case occurs. Normally this would just be a harmless read,
but if you were unlucky the byte before the buffer would contain '\n'
and we'd overwrite it with '\0', and if you were really unlucky that
might be valuable data and psql would crash.
Agostino reported this to pgsql-security, but after discussion we concluded
that it isn't worth treating as a security bug; if you can control the
input to psql you can do far more interesting things than just maybe-crash
it. Nonetheless, it is a bug, so back-patch to all supported versions.
Tom Lane [Thu, 28 Jul 2016 20:09:15 +0000 (16:09 -0400)]
Fix assorted fallout from IS [NOT] NULL patch.
Commits
4452000f3 et al established semantics for NullTest.argisrow that
are a bit different from its initial conception: rather than being merely
a cache of whether we've determined the input to have composite type,
the flag now has the further meaning that we should apply field-by-field
testing as per the standard's definition of IS [NOT] NULL. If argisrow
is false and yet the input has composite type, the construct instead has
the semantics of IS [NOT] DISTINCT FROM NULL. Update the comments in
primnodes.h to clarify this, and fix ruleutils.c and deparse.c to print
such cases correctly. In the case of ruleutils.c, this merely results in
cosmetic changes in EXPLAIN output, since the case can't currently arise
in stored rules. However, it represents a live bug for deparse.c, which
would formerly have sent a remote query that had semantics different
from the local behavior. (From the user's standpoint, this means that
testing a remote nested-composite column for null-ness could have had
unexpected recursive behavior much like that fixed in
4452000f3.)
In a related but somewhat independent fix, make plancat.c set argisrow
to false in all NullTest expressions constructed to represent "attnotnull"
constructs. Since attnotnull is actually enforced as a simple null-value
check, this is a more accurate representation of the semantics; we were
previously overpromising what it meant for composite columns, which might
possibly lead to incorrect planner optimizations. (It seems that what the
SQL spec expects a NOT NULL constraint to mean is an IS NOT NULL test, so
arguably we are violating the spec and should fix attnotnull to do the
other thing. If we ever do, this part should get reverted.)
Back-patch, same as the previous commit.
Discussion: <10682.
1469566308@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Tom Lane [Thu, 28 Jul 2016 17:26:59 +0000 (13:26 -0400)]
Improve documentation about CREATE TABLE ... LIKE.
The docs failed to explain that LIKE INCLUDING INDEXES would not preserve
the names of indexes and associated constraints. Also, it wasn't mentioned
that EXCLUDE constraints would be copied by this option. The latter
oversight seems enough of a documentation bug to justify back-patching.
In passing, do some minor copy-editing in the same area, and add an entry
for LIKE under "Compatibility", since it's not exactly a faithful
implementation of the standard's feature.
Discussion: <
20160728151154.
AABE64016B@smtp.hushmail.com>
Tom Lane [Thu, 28 Jul 2016 15:39:11 +0000 (11:39 -0400)]
Register atexit hook only once in pg_upgrade.
start_postmaster() registered stop_postmaster_atexit as an atexit(3)
callback each time through, although the obvious intention was to do
so only once per program run. The extra registrations were harmless,
so long as we didn't exceed ATEXIT_MAX, but still it's a bug.
Artur Zakirov, with bikeshedding by Kyotaro Horiguchi and me
Discussion: <
d279e817-02b5-caa6-215f-
cfb05dce109a@postgrespro.ru>
Fujii Masao [Thu, 28 Jul 2016 13:34:42 +0000 (22:34 +0900)]
Fix incorrect description of udt_privileges view in documentation.
The description of udt_privileges view contained an incorrect copy-pasted word.
Back-patch to 9.2 where udt_privileges view was added.
Author: Alexander Law
Tom Lane [Tue, 26 Jul 2016 19:25:02 +0000 (15:25 -0400)]
Fix constant-folding of ROW(...) IS [NOT] NULL with composite fields.
The SQL standard appears to specify that IS [NOT] NULL's tests of field
nullness are non-recursive, ie, we shouldn't consider that a composite
field with value ROW(NULL,NULL) is null for this purpose.
ExecEvalNullTest got this right, but eval_const_expressions did not,
leading to weird inconsistencies depending on whether the expression
was such that the planner could apply constant folding.
Also, adjust the docs to mention that IS [NOT] DISTINCT FROM NULL can be
used as a substitute test if a simple null check is wanted for a rowtype
argument. That motivated reordering things so that IS [NOT] DISTINCT FROM
is described before IS [NOT] NULL. In HEAD, I went a bit further and added
a table showing all the comparison-related predicates.
Per bug #14235. Back-patch to all supported branches, since it's certainly
undesirable that constant-folding should change the semantics.
Report and patch by Andrew Gierth; assorted wordsmithing and revised
regression test cases by me.
Report: <
20160708024746[email protected]>
Noah Misch [Sun, 24 Jul 2016 00:30:03 +0000 (20:30 -0400)]
Make the AIX case of Makefile.shlib safe for parallel make.
Use our typical approach, from src/backend/parser. Back-patch to 9.1
(all supported versions).
Tom Lane [Thu, 21 Jul 2016 20:52:36 +0000 (16:52 -0400)]
Make contrib regression tests safe for Danish locale.
In btree_gin and citext, avoid some not-particularly-interesting
dependencies on the sorting of 'aa'. In tsearch2, use COLLATE "C" to
remove an uninteresting dependency on locale sort order (and thereby
allow removal of a variant expected-file).
Also, in citext, avoid assuming that lower('I') = 'i'. This isn't relevant
to Danish but it does fail in Turkish.
Tom Lane [Thu, 21 Jul 2016 18:24:07 +0000 (14:24 -0400)]
Make pltcl regression tests safe for Danish locale.
Another peculiarity of Danish locale is that it has an unusual idea
of how to sort upper vs. lower case. One of the pltcl test cases has
an issue with that. Now that COLLATE works in all supported branches,
we can just change the test to be locale-independent, and get rid of
the variant expected file that used to support non-C locales.
Tom Lane [Tue, 19 Jul 2016 21:53:31 +0000 (17:53 -0400)]
Fix MSVC build for changes in zic.
Ooops, I missed back-patching commit
f5f15ea6a along with the other stuff.
Tom Lane [Tue, 19 Jul 2016 19:59:36 +0000 (15:59 -0400)]
Sync back-branch copies of the timezone code with IANA release tzcode2016c.
Back-patch commit
1c1a7cbd6a1600c9, along with subsequent portability
fixes, into all active branches. Also, back-patch commits
696027727 and
596857043 (addition of zic -P option) into 9.1 and 9.2, just to reduce
differences between the branches. src/timezone/ is now largely identical
in all active branches, except that in 9.1, pgtz.c retains the
initial-timezone-selection code that was moved over to initdb in 9.2.
Ordinarily we wouldn't risk this much code churn in back branches, but it
seems necessary in this case, because among the changes are two feature
additions in the "zic" zone data file compiler (a larger limit on the
number of allowed DST transitions, and addition of a "%z" escape in zone
abbreviations). IANA have not yet started to use those features in their
tzdata files, but presumably they will before too long. If we don't update
then we'll be unable to adopt new timezone data. Also, installations built
with --with-system-tzdata (which includes most distro-supplied builds, I
believe) might fail even if we don't update our copies of the data files.
There are assorted bug fixes too, mostly affecting obscure timezones or
post-2037 dates.
Discussion: <13601.
1468868947@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Peter Eisentraut [Sun, 17 Jul 2016 13:37:33 +0000 (09:37 -0400)]
Use correct symbol for minimum int64 value
The old code used SEQ_MINVALUE to get the smallest int64 value. This
was done as a convenience to avoid having to deal with INT64_IS_BUSTED,
but that is obsolete now. Also, it is incorrect because the smallest
int64 value is actually SEQ_MINVALUE-1. Fix by writing out the constant
the long way, as it is done elsewhere in the code.
Tom Lane [Sat, 16 Jul 2016 18:42:37 +0000 (14:42 -0400)]
Fix crash in close_ps() for NaN input coordinates.
The Assert() here seems unreasonably optimistic. Andreas Seltenreich
found that it could fail with NaNs in the input geometries, and it
seems likely to me that it might fail in corner cases due to roundoff
error, even for ordinary input values. As a band-aid, make the function
return SQL NULL instead of crashing.
Report: <
[email protected]>
Andres Freund [Sat, 16 Jul 2016 00:49:48 +0000 (17:49 -0700)]
Fix torn-page, unlogged xid and further risks from heap_update().
When heap_update needs to look for a page for the new tuple version,
because the current one doesn't have sufficient free space, or when
columns have to be processed by the tuple toaster, it has to release the
lock on the old page during that. Otherwise there'd be lock ordering and
lock nesting issues.
To avoid concurrent sessions from trying to update / delete / lock the
tuple while the page's content lock is released, the tuple's xmax is set
to the current session's xid.
That unfortunately was done without any WAL logging, thereby violating
the rule that no XIDs may appear on disk, without an according WAL
record. If the database were to crash / fail over when the page level
lock is released, and some activity lead to the page being written out
to disk, the xid could end up being reused; potentially leading to the
row becoming invisible.
There might be additional risks by not having t_ctid point at the tuple
itself, without having set the appropriate lock infomask fields.
To fix, compute the appropriate xmax/infomask combination for locking
the tuple, and perform WAL logging using the existing XLOG_HEAP_LOCK
record. That allows the fix to be backpatched.
This issue has existed for a long time. There appears to have been
partial attempts at preventing dangers, but these never have fully been
implemented, and were removed a long time ago, in
11919160 (cf. HEAP_XMAX_UNLOGGED).
In master / 9.6, there's an additional issue, namely that the
visibilitymap's freeze bit isn't reset at that point yet. Since that's a
new issue, introduced only in
a892234f830, that'll be fixed in a
separate commit.
Author: Masahiko Sawada and Andres Freund
Reported-By: Different aspects by Thomas Munro, Noah Misch, and others
Discussion: CAEepm=3fWAbWryVW9swHyLTY4sXVf0xbLvXqOwUoDiNCx9mBjQ@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch: 9.1/all supported versions
Peter Eisentraut [Fri, 15 Jul 2016 02:28:03 +0000 (22:28 -0400)]
doc: Fix typos
From: Alexander Law <
[email protected]>
Tom Lane [Thu, 14 Jul 2016 22:46:00 +0000 (18:46 -0400)]
Fix GiST index build for NaN values in geometric types.
GiST index build could go into an infinite loop when presented with boxes
(or points, circles or polygons) containing NaN component values. This
happened essentially because the code assumed that x == x is true for any
"double" value x; but it's not true for NaNs. The looping behavior was not
the only problem though: we also attempted to sort the items using simple
double comparisons. Since NaNs violate the trichotomy law, qsort could
(in principle at least) get arbitrarily confused and mess up the sorting of
ordinary values as well as NaNs. And we based splitting choices on box size
calculations that could produce NaNs, again resulting in undesirable
behavior.
To fix, replace all comparisons of doubles in this logic with
float8_cmp_internal, which is NaN-aware and is careful to sort NaNs
consistently, higher than any non-NaN. Also rearrange the box size
calculation to not produce NaNs; instead it should produce an infinity
for a box with NaN on one side and not-NaN on the other.
I don't by any means claim that this solves all problems with NaNs in
geometric values, but it should at least make GiST index insertion work
reliably with such data. It's likely that the index search side of things
still needs some work, and probably regular geometric operations too.
But with this patch we're laying down a convention for how such cases
ought to behave.
Per bug #14238 from Guang-Dih Lei. Back-patch to 9.2; the code used before
commit
7f3bd86843e5aad8 is quite different and doesn't lock up on my simple
test case, nor on the submitter's dataset.
Report: <
20160708151747[email protected]>
Discussion: <28685.
1468246504@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Peter Eisentraut [Mon, 11 Jul 2016 16:13:36 +0000 (12:13 -0400)]
doc: Update URL for PL/PHP
Tom Lane [Mon, 11 Jul 2016 15:24:04 +0000 (11:24 -0400)]
Fix TAP tests and MSVC scripts for pathnames with spaces.
Back-patch relevant parts of commit
30b2731bd into 9.1-9.3.
Michael Paquier, Kyotaro Horiguchi
Discussion: <
20160704.160213.
111134711[email protected]>
Bruce Momjian [Sat, 2 Jul 2016 15:22:35 +0000 (11:22 -0400)]
doc: mention dependency on collation libraries
Document that index storage is dependent on the operating system's
collation library ordering, and any change in that ordering can create
invalid indexes.
Discussion:
20160617154311[email protected]
Backpatch-through: 9.1
Tom Lane [Wed, 22 Jun 2016 15:55:18 +0000 (11:55 -0400)]
Make "postgres -C guc" print "" not "(null)" for null-valued GUCs.
Commit
0b0baf262 et al made this case print "(null)" on the grounds that
that's what happened on platforms that didn't crash. But neither behavior
was actually intentional. What we should print is just an empty string,
for compatibility with the behavior of SHOW and other ways of examining
string GUCs. Those code paths don't distinguish NULL from empty strings,
so we should not here either. Per gripe from Alain Radix.
Like the previous patch, back-patch to 9.2 where -C option was introduced.
Discussion: <CA+YdpwxPUADrmxSD7+Td=uOshMB1KkDN7G7cf+FGmNjjxMhjbw@mail.gmail.com>
Tom Lane [Wed, 22 Jun 2016 00:07:58 +0000 (20:07 -0400)]
Document that dependency tracking doesn't consider function bodies.
If there's anyplace in our SGML docs that explains this behavior, I can't
find it right at the moment. Add an explanation in "Dependency Tracking"
which seems like the authoritative place for such a discussion. Per
gripe from Michelle Schwan.
While at it, update this section's example of a dependency-related
error message: they last looked like that in 8.3. And remove the
explanation of dependency updates from pre-7.3 installations, which
is probably no longer worth anybody's brain cells to read.
The bogus error message example seems like an actual documentation bug,
so back-patch to all supported branches.
Discussion: <
20160620160047[email protected]>
Tom Lane [Sun, 19 Jun 2016 17:11:40 +0000 (13:11 -0400)]
Docs: improve description of psql's %R prompt escape sequence.
Dilian Palauzov pointed out in bug #14201 that the docs failed to mention
the possibility of %R producing '(' due to an unmatched parenthesis.
He proposed just adding that in the same style as the other options were
listed; but it seemed to me that the sentence was already nearly
unintelligible, so I rewrote it a bit more extensively.
Report: <
20160619121113[email protected]>
Tom Lane [Thu, 16 Jun 2016 21:16:32 +0000 (17:16 -0400)]
Fix validation of overly-long IPv6 addresses.
The inet/cidr types sometimes failed to reject IPv6 inputs with too many
colon-separated fields, instead translating them to '::/0'. This is the
result of a thinko in the original ISC code that seems to be as yet
unreported elsewhere. Per bug #14198 from Stefan Kaltenbrunner.
Report: <
20160616182222[email protected]>
Tom Lane [Thu, 16 Jun 2016 16:17:03 +0000 (12:17 -0400)]
Avoid crash in "postgres -C guc" for a GUC with a null string value.
Emit "(null)" instead, which was the behavior all along on platforms
that don't crash, eg OS X. Per report from Jehan-Guillaume de Rorthais.
Back-patch to 9.2 where -C option was introduced.
Michael Paquier
Report: <
20160615204036.
2d35d86a@firost>
Tom Lane [Mon, 13 Jun 2016 17:53:10 +0000 (13:53 -0400)]
Fix multiple minor infelicities in aclchk.c error reports.
pg_type_aclmask reported the wrong type's OID when complaining that
it could not find a type's typelem. It also failed to provide a
suitable errcode when the initially given OID doesn't exist (which
is a user-facing error, since that OID can be user-specified).
pg_foreign_data_wrapper_aclmask and pg_foreign_server_aclmask likewise
lacked errcode specifications. Trivial cosmetic adjustments too.
The wrong-type-OID problem was reported by Petru-Florin Mihancea in
bug #14186; the other issues noted by me while reading the code.
These errors all seem to be aboriginal in the respective routines, so
back-patch as necessary.
Report: <
20160613163159[email protected]>
Tom Lane [Thu, 9 Jun 2016 15:58:00 +0000 (11:58 -0400)]
Clarify documentation of ceil/ceiling/floor functions.
Document these as "nearest integer >= argument" and "nearest integer <=
argument", which will hopefully be less confusing than the old formulation.
New wording is from Matlab via Dean Rasheed.
I changed the pg_description entries as well as the SGML docs. In the
back branches, this will only affect installations initdb'd in the future,
but it should be harmless otherwise.
Discussion: <CAEZATCW3yzJo-NMSiQs5jXNFbTsCEftZS-Og8=FvFdiU+kYuSA@mail.gmail.com>
Alvaro Herrera [Tue, 7 Jun 2016 22:55:18 +0000 (18:55 -0400)]
nls-global.mk: search build dir for source files, too
In VPATH builds, the build directory was not being searched for files in
GETTEXT_FILES, leading to failure to construct the .pot files. This has
bit me all along, but never hard enough to get it fixed; I suppose not a
lot of people uses VPATH and NLS-enabled builds, and those that do,
don't do "make update-po" often.
This is a longstanding problem, so backpatch all the way back.
Tom Lane [Mon, 6 Jun 2016 21:44:18 +0000 (17:44 -0400)]
Don't reset changes_since_analyze after a selective-columns ANALYZE.
If we ANALYZE only selected columns of a table, we should not postpone
auto-analyze because of that; other columns may well still need stats
updates. As committed, the counter is left alone if a column list is
given, whether or not it includes all analyzable columns of the table.
Per complaint from Tomasz Ostrowski.
It's been like this a long time, so back-patch to all supported branches.
Report: <
ef99c1bd-ff60-5f32-2733-
c7b504eb960c@ato.waw.pl>
Alvaro Herrera [Wed, 25 May 2016 23:39:49 +0000 (19:39 -0400)]
Avoid hot standby cancels from VAC FREEZE
VACUUM FREEZE generated false cancelations of standby queries on an
otherwise idle master. Caused by an off-by-one error on cutoff_xid
which goes back to original commit.
Analysis and report by Marco Nenciarini
Bug fix by Simon Riggs
This is a correct backpatch of commit
66fbcb0d2e to branches 9.1 through
9.4. That commit was backpatched to 9.0 originally, but it was
immediately reverted in 9.0-9.4 because it didn't compile.
Tom Lane [Tue, 24 May 2016 19:47:51 +0000 (15:47 -0400)]
Fetch XIDs atomically during vac_truncate_clog().
Because vac_update_datfrozenxid() updates datfrozenxid and datminmxid
in-place, it's unsafe to assume that successive reads of those values will
give consistent results. Fetch each one just once to ensure sane behavior
in the minimum calculation. Noted while reviewing Alexander Korotkov's
patch in the same area.
Discussion: <8564.
1464116473@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Tom Lane [Tue, 24 May 2016 19:20:12 +0000 (15:20 -0400)]
Avoid consuming an XID during vac_truncate_clog().
vac_truncate_clog() uses its own transaction ID as the comparison point in
a sanity check that no database's datfrozenxid has already wrapped around
"into the future". That was probably fine when written, but in a lazy
vacuum we won't have assigned an XID, so calling GetCurrentTransactionId()
causes an XID to be assigned when otherwise one would not be. Most of the
time that's not a big problem ... but if we are hard up against the
wraparound limit, consuming XIDs during antiwraparound vacuums is a very
bad thing.
Instead, use ReadNewTransactionId(), which not only avoids this problem
but is in itself a better comparison point to test whether wraparound
has already occurred.
Report and patch by Alexander Korotkov. Back-patch to all versions.
Report: <CAPpHfdspOkmiQsxh-UZw2chM6dRMwXAJGEmmbmqYR=yvM7-s6A@mail.gmail.com>
Tom Lane [Mon, 23 May 2016 18:16:41 +0000 (14:16 -0400)]
Fix latent crash in do_text_output_multiline().
do_text_output_multiline() would fail (typically with a null pointer
dereference crash) if its input string did not end with a newline. Such
cases do not arise in our current sources; but it certainly could happen
in future, or in extension code's usage of the function, so we should fix
it. To fix, replace "eol += len" with "eol = text + len".
While at it, make two cosmetic improvements: mark the input string const,
and rename the argument from "text" to "txt" to dodge pgindent strangeness
(since "text" is a typedef name).
Even though this problem is only latent at present, it seems like a good
idea to back-patch the fix, since it's a very simple/safe patch and it's
not out of the realm of possibility that we might in future back-patch
something that expects sane behavior from do_text_output_multiline().
Per report from Hao Lee.
Report: <CAGoxFiFPAGyPAJLcFxTB5cGhTW2yOVBDYeqDugYwV4dEd1L_Ag@mail.gmail.com>
Tom Lane [Fri, 20 May 2016 19:51:57 +0000 (15:51 -0400)]
Further improve documentation about --quote-all-identifiers switch.
Mention it in the Notes section too, per suggestion from David Johnston.
Discussion: <
20160520165824[email protected]>
Tom Lane [Fri, 20 May 2016 18:59:48 +0000 (14:59 -0400)]
Improve documentation about pg_dump's --quote-all-identifiers switch.
Per bug #14152 from Alejandro Martínez. Back-patch to all supported
branches.
Discussion: <
20160520165824[email protected]>
Peter Eisentraut [Sat, 14 May 2016 01:24:13 +0000 (21:24 -0400)]
doc: Fix typo
From: Alexander Law <
[email protected]>
Tom Lane [Fri, 13 May 2016 00:04:12 +0000 (20:04 -0400)]
Ensure plan stability in contrib/btree_gist regression test.
Buildfarm member skink failed with symptoms suggesting that an
auto-analyze had happened and changed the plan displayed for a
test query. Although this is evidently of low probability,
regression tests that sometimes fail are no fun, so add commands
to force a bitmap scan to be chosen.
Alvaro Herrera [Tue, 10 May 2016 19:23:54 +0000 (16:23 -0300)]
Fix autovacuum for shared relations
The table-skipping logic in autovacuum would fail to consider that
multiple workers could be processing the same shared catalog in
different databases. This normally wouldn't be a problem: firstly
because autovacuum workers not for wraparound would simply ignore tables
in which they cannot acquire lock, and secondly because most of the time
these tables are small enough that even if multiple for-wraparound
workers are stuck in the same catalog, they would be over pretty
quickly. But in cases where the catalogs are severely bloated it could
become a problem.
Backpatch all the way back, because the problem has been there since the
beginning.
Reported by Ondřej Světlík
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/
572B63B1.
3030603%40flexibee.eu
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/
572A1072.
5080308%40flexibee.eu
Tom Lane [Mon, 9 May 2016 20:56:07 +0000 (16:56 -0400)]
Stamp 9.2.17.
Peter Eisentraut [Mon, 9 May 2016 14:09:45 +0000 (10:09 -0400)]
Translation updates
Source-Git-URL: git://git.postgresql.org/git/pgtranslation/messages.git
Source-Git-Hash:
32e77ddc0a1641ccc73056a7c2113264ba2942ff
Tom Lane [Sat, 7 May 2016 21:26:24 +0000 (17:26 -0400)]
Release notes for 9.5.3, 9.4.8, 9.3.13, 9.2.17, 9.1.22.
Peter Eisentraut [Fri, 8 Apr 2016 17:48:14 +0000 (13:48 -0400)]
Distrust external OpenSSL clients; clear err queue
OpenSSL has an unfortunate tendency to mix per-session state error
handling with per-thread error handling. This can cause problems when
programs that link to libpq with OpenSSL enabled have some other use of
OpenSSL; without care, one caller of OpenSSL may cause problems for the
other caller. Backend code might similarly be affected, for example
when a third party extension independently uses OpenSSL without taking
the appropriate precautions.
To fix, don't trust other users of OpenSSL to clear the per-thread error
queue. Instead, clear the entire per-thread queue ahead of certain I/O
operations when it appears that there might be trouble (these I/O
operations mostly need to call SSL_get_error() to check for success,
which relies on the queue being empty). This is slightly aggressive,
but it's pretty clear that the other callers have a very dubious claim
to ownership of the per-thread queue. Do this is both frontend and
backend code.
Finally, be more careful about clearing our own error queue, so as to
not cause these problems ourself. It's possibly that control previously
did not always reach SSLerrmessage(), where ERR_get_error() was supposed
to be called to clear the queue's earliest code. Make sure
ERR_get_error() is always called, so as to spare other users of OpenSSL
the possibility of similar problems caused by libpq (as opposed to
problems caused by a third party OpenSSL library like PHP's OpenSSL
extension). Again, do this is both frontend and backend code.
See bug #12799 and https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=68276
Based on patches by Dave Vitek and Peter Eisentraut.
From: Peter Geoghegan <
[email protected]>
Tom Lane [Fri, 6 May 2016 16:09:20 +0000 (12:09 -0400)]
Fix possible read past end of string in to_timestamp().
to_timestamp() handles the TH/th format codes by advancing over two input
characters, whatever those are. It failed to notice whether there were
two characters available to be skipped, making it possible to advance
the pointer past the end of the input string and keep on parsing.
A similar risk existed in the handling of "Y,YYY" format: it would advance
over three characters after the "," whether or not three characters were
available.
In principle this might be exploitable to disclose contents of server
memory. But the security team concluded that it would be very hard to use
that way, because the parsing loop would stop upon hitting any zero byte,
and TH/th format codes can't be consecutive --- they have to follow some
other format code, which would have to match whatever data is there.
So it seems impractical to examine memory very much beyond the end of the
input string via this bug; and the input string will always be in local
memory not in disk buffers, making it unlikely that anything very
interesting is close to it in a predictable way. So this doesn't quite
rise to the level of needing a CVE.
Thanks to Wolf Roediger for reporting this bug.
Tom Lane [Fri, 6 May 2016 00:08:58 +0000 (20:08 -0400)]
Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2016d.
DST law changes in Russia (Magadan, Tomsk regions) and Venezuela.
Historical corrections for Russia. There are new zone names Europe/Kirov
and Asia/Tomsk reflecting the fact that these regions now have different
time zone histories from adjacent regions.
Peter Eisentraut [Wed, 4 May 2016 18:07:00 +0000 (14:07 -0400)]
doc: Fix more typos
From: Alexander Law <
[email protected]>
Peter Eisentraut [Wed, 4 May 2016 01:06:25 +0000 (21:06 -0400)]
doc: Fix typos
From: Alexander Law <
[email protected]>
Tom Lane [Mon, 2 May 2016 15:18:11 +0000 (11:18 -0400)]
Fix configure's incorrect version tests for flex and perl.
awk's equality-comparison operator is "==" not "=". We got this right
in many places, but not in configure's checks for supported version
numbers of flex and perl. It hadn't been noticed because unsupported
versions are so old as to be basically extinct in the wild, and because
the only consequence is whether or not a WARNING flies by during
configure.
Daniel Gustafsson noted the problem with respect to the test for flex,
I found the other by reviewing other awk calls.
Heikki Linnakangas [Mon, 2 May 2016 07:07:49 +0000 (10:07 +0300)]
Remove unused macros.
CHECK_PAGE_OFFSET_RANGE() has been unused forever.
CHECK_RELATION_BLOCK_RANGE() has been unused in pgstatindex.c ever since
bt_page_stats() and bt_page_items() functions were moved from pgstattuple
to pageinspect module. It still exists in pageinspect/btreefuncs.c.
Daniel Gustafsson
Tom Lane [Sat, 30 Apr 2016 00:19:38 +0000 (20:19 -0400)]
Fix mishandling of equivalence-class tests in parameterized plans.
Given a three-or-more-way equivalence class, such as X.Y = Y.Y = Z.Z,
it was possible for the planner to omit one of the quals needed to
enforce that all members of the equivalence class are actually equal.
This only happened in the case of a parameterized join node for two
of the relations, that is a plan tree like
Nested Loop
-> Scan X
-> Nested Loop
-> Scan Y
-> Scan Z
Filter: Z.Z = X.X
The eclass machinery normally expects to apply X.X = Y.Y when those
two relations are joined, but in this shape of plan tree they aren't
joined until the top node --- and, if the lower nested loop is marked
as parameterized by X, the top node will assume that the relevant eclass
condition(s) got pushed down into the lower node. On the other hand,
the scan of Z assumes that it's only responsible for constraining Z.Z
to match any one of the other eclass members. So one or another of
the required quals sometimes fell between the cracks, depending on
whether consideration of the eclass in get_joinrel_parampathinfo()
for the lower nested loop chanced to generate X.X = Y.Y or X.X = Z.Z
as the appropriate constraint there. If it generated the latter,
it'd erroneously suppose that the Z scan would take care of matters.
To fix, force X.X = Y.Y to be generated and applied at that join node
when this case occurs.
This is *extremely* hard to hit in practice, because various planner
behaviors conspire to mask the problem; starting with the fact that the
planner doesn't really like to generate a parameterized plan of the
above shape. (It might have been impossible to hit it before we
tweaked things to allow this plan shape for star-schema cases.) Many
thanks to Alexander Kirkouski for submitting a reproducible test case.
The bug can be demonstrated in all branches back to 9.2 where parameterized
paths were introduced, so back-patch that far.
Tom Lane [Thu, 28 Apr 2016 15:50:58 +0000 (11:50 -0400)]
Adjust DatumGetBool macro, this time for sure.
Commit
23a41573c attempted to fix the DatumGetBool macro to ignore bits
in a Datum that are to the left of the actual bool value. But it did that
by casting the Datum to bool; and on compilers that use C99 semantics for
bool, that ends up being a whole-word test, not a 1-byte test. This seems
to be the true explanation for contrib/seg failing in VS2015. To fix, use
GET_1_BYTE() explicitly. I think in the previous patch, I'd had some idea
of not having to commit to bool being exactly 1 byte wide, but regardless
of what the compiler's bool is, boolean columns and Datums are certainly
1 byte wide.
The previous fix was (eventually) back-patched into all active versions,
so do likewise with this one.
Tom Lane [Sat, 23 Apr 2016 20:53:15 +0000 (16:53 -0400)]
Rename strtoi() to strtoint().
NetBSD has seen fit to invent a libc function named strtoi(), which
conflicts with the long-established static functions of the same name in
datetime.c and ecpg's interval.c. While muttering darkly about intrusions
on application namespace, we'll rename our functions to avoid the conflict.
Back-patch to all supported branches, since this would affect attempts
to build any of them on recent NetBSD.
Thomas Munro
Tom Lane [Fri, 22 Apr 2016 00:05:58 +0000 (20:05 -0400)]
Fix planner failure with full join in RHS of left join.
Given a left join containing a full join in its righthand side, with
the left join's joinclause referencing only one side of the full join
(in a non-strict fashion, so that the full join doesn't get simplified),
the planner could fail with "failed to build any N-way joins" or related
errors. This happened because the full join was seen as overlapping the
left join's RHS, and then recent changes within join_is_legal() caused
that function to conclude that the full join couldn't validly be formed.
Rather than try to rejigger join_is_legal() yet more to allow this,
I think it's better to fix initsplan.c so that the required join order
is explicit in the SpecialJoinInfo data structure. The previous coding
there essentially ignored full joins, relying on the fact that we don't
flatten them in the joinlist data structure to preserve their ordering.
That's sufficient to prevent a wrong plan from being formed, but as this
example shows, it's not sufficient to ensure that the right plan will
be formed. We need to work a bit harder to ensure that the right plan
looks sane according to the SpecialJoinInfos.
Per bug #14105 from Vojtech Rylko. This was apparently induced by
commit
8703059c6 (though now that I've seen it, I wonder whether there
are related cases that could have failed before that); so back-patch
to all active branches. Unfortunately, that patch also went into 9.0,
so this bug is a regression that won't be fixed in that branch.
Tom Lane [Thu, 21 Apr 2016 20:58:47 +0000 (16:58 -0400)]
Improve TranslateSocketError() to handle more Windows error codes.
The coverage was rather lean for cases that bind() or listen() might
return. Add entries for everything that there's a direct equivalent
for in the set of Unix errnos that elog.c has heard of.
Tom Lane [Thu, 21 Apr 2016 20:16:19 +0000 (16:16 -0400)]
Remove dead code in win32.h.
There's no longer a need for the MSVC-version-specific code stanza that
forcibly redefines errno code symbols, because since commit
73838b52 we're
unconditionally redefining them in the stanza before this one anyway.
Now it's merely confusing and ugly, so get rid of it; and improve the
comment that explains what's going on here.
Although this is just cosmetic, back-patch anyway since I'm intending
to back-patch some less-cosmetic changes in this same hunk of code.
Tom Lane [Thu, 21 Apr 2016 19:44:18 +0000 (15:44 -0400)]
Provide errno-translation wrappers around bind() and listen() on Windows.
Fix Windows builds to report something useful rather than "could not bind
IPv4 socket: No error" when bind() fails.
Back-patch of commits
d1b7d4877b9a71f4 and
22989a8e34168f57.
Discussion: <4065.
1452450340@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Tom Lane [Thu, 21 Apr 2016 18:20:18 +0000 (14:20 -0400)]
Fix ruleutils.c's dumping of ScalarArrayOpExpr containing an EXPR_SUBLINK.
When we shoehorned "x op ANY (array)" into the SQL syntax, we created a
fundamental ambiguity as to the proper treatment of a sub-SELECT on the
righthand side: perhaps what's meant is to compare x against each row of
the sub-SELECT's result, or perhaps the sub-SELECT is meant as a scalar
sub-SELECT that delivers a single array value whose members should be
compared against x. The grammar resolves it as the former case whenever
the RHS is a select_with_parens, making the latter case hard to reach ---
but you can get at it, with tricks such as attaching a no-op cast to the
sub-SELECT. Parse analysis would throw away the no-op cast, leaving a
parsetree with an EXPR_SUBLINK SubLink directly under a ScalarArrayOpExpr.
ruleutils.c was not clued in on this fine point, and would naively emit
"x op ANY ((SELECT ...))", which would be parsed as the first alternative,
typically leading to errors like "operator does not exist: text = text[]"
during dump/reload of a view or rule containing such a construct. To fix,
emit a no-op cast when dumping such a parsetree. This might well be
exactly what the user wrote to get the construct accepted in the first
place; and even if she got there with some other dodge, it is a valid
representation of the parsetree.
Per report from Karl Czajkowski. He mentioned only a case involving
RLS policies, but actually the problem is very old, so back-patch to
all supported branches.
Report: <
20160421001832[email protected]>
Tom Lane [Thu, 21 Apr 2016 03:48:13 +0000 (23:48 -0400)]
Honor PGCTLTIMEOUT environment variable for pg_regress' startup wait.
In commit
2ffa86962077c588 we made pg_ctl recognize an environment variable
PGCTLTIMEOUT to set the default timeout for starting and stopping the
postmaster. However, pg_regress uses pg_ctl only for the "stop" end of
that; it has bespoke code for starting the postmaster, and that code has
historically had a hard-wired 60-second timeout. Further buildfarm
experience says it'd be a good idea if that timeout were also controlled
by PGCTLTIMEOUT, so let's make it so. Like the previous patch, back-patch
to all active branches.
Discussion: <13969.
1461191936@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Tom Lane [Mon, 18 Apr 2016 17:33:07 +0000 (13:33 -0400)]
Further reduce the number of semaphores used under --disable-spinlocks.
Per discussion, there doesn't seem to be much value in having
NUM_SPINLOCK_SEMAPHORES set to 1024: under any scenario where you are
running more than a few backends concurrently, you really had better have a
real spinlock implementation if you want tolerable performance. And 1024
semaphores is a sizable fraction of the system-wide SysV semaphore limit
on many platforms. Therefore, reduce this setting's default value to 128
to make it less likely to cause out-of-semaphores problems.
Tom Lane [Mon, 18 Apr 2016 17:19:52 +0000 (13:19 -0400)]
Fix --disable-spinlocks in 9.2 and 9.3 branches.
My back-patch of the 9.4-era commit
44cd47c1d49655c5 into 9.2 and 9.3 fixed
HPPA builds as expected, but it broke --disable-spinlocks builds, because
the dummy spinlock is initialized before the underlying semaphore
infrastructure is alive. In 9.4 and up this works because of commit
daa7527afc227443, which decoupled initialization of an slock_t variable
from access to the actual system semaphore object. The best solution
seems to be to back-port that patch, which should be a net win anyway
because it improves the usability of --disable-spinlocks builds in the
older branches; and it's been out long enough now to not be worrisome
from a stability perspective.
Tom Lane [Sat, 16 Apr 2016 14:41:57 +0000 (10:41 -0400)]
Make fallback implementation of pg_memory_barrier() work in 9.2 and 9.3.
Back-patch 9.4-era commit
44cd47c1d49655c5 into 9.2 and 9.3. As with
my back-patches of yesterday, this was not seen as necessary at the time
because we didn't expect barrier.h to need to work before 9.4, but
commit
37de8de9e33606a0 invalidated that theory.
Per an attempt to run gaur and pademelon over old branches they've
not been run on since ~2013.
Peter Eisentraut [Sat, 16 Apr 2016 00:44:10 +0000 (20:44 -0400)]
doc: Add missing parentheses
From: Alexander Law <
[email protected]>
Tom Lane [Fri, 15 Apr 2016 20:49:48 +0000 (16:49 -0400)]
Sync 9.2 and 9.3 versions of barrier.h with 9.4's version.
We weren't particularly maintaining barrier.h before 9.4, because nothing
was using it in those branches. Well, nothing until commit
37de8de9e got
back-patched. That broke 9.2 and 9.3 for some non-mainstream platforms
that we haven't been testing in the buildfarm, including icc on ia64,
HPPA, and Alpha.
This commit effectively back-patches commits
e5592c61a,
89779bf2c,
and
747ca6697, though I did it just by copying the file (less copyright
date updates) rather than by cherry-picking those commits.
Per an attempt to run gaur and pademelon over old branches they've
not been run on since ~2013.
Andres Freund [Fri, 15 Apr 2016 01:54:06 +0000 (18:54 -0700)]
Remove trailing commas in enums.
These aren't valid C89. Found thanks to gcc's -Wc90-c99-compat. These
exist in differing places in most supported branches.
Tom Lane [Wed, 13 Apr 2016 22:57:52 +0000 (18:57 -0400)]
Fix pg_dump so pg_upgrade'ing an extension with simple opfamilies works.
As reported by Michael Feld, pg_upgrade'ing an installation having
extensions with operator families that contain just a single operator class
failed to reproduce the extension membership of those operator families.
This caused no immediate ill effects, but would create problems when later
trying to do a plain dump and restore, because the seemingly-not-part-of-
the-extension operator families would appear separately in the pg_dump
output, and then would conflict with the families created by loading the
extension. This has been broken ever since extensions were introduced,
and many of the standard contrib extensions are affected, so it's a bit
astonishing nobody complained before.
The cause of the problem is a perhaps-ill-considered decision to omit
such operator families from pg_dump's output on the grounds that the
CREATE OPERATOR CLASS commands could recreate them, and having explicit
CREATE OPERATOR FAMILY commands would impede loading the dump script into
pre-8.3 servers. Whatever the merits of that decision when 8.3 was being
written, it looks like a poor tradeoff now. We can fix the pg_upgrade
problem simply by removing that code, so that the operator families are
dumped explicitly (and then will be properly made to be part of their
extensions).
Although this fixes the behavior of future pg_upgrade runs, it does nothing
to clean up existing installations that may have improperly-linked operator
families. Given the small number of complaints to date, maybe we don't
need to worry about providing an automated solution for that; anyone who
needs to clean it up can do so with manual "ALTER EXTENSION ADD OPERATOR
FAMILY" commands, or even just ignore the duplicate-opfamily errors they
get during a pg_restore. In any case we need this fix.
Back-patch to all supported branches.
Discussion: <20228.
1460575691@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Tom Lane [Mon, 11 Apr 2016 22:17:03 +0000 (18:17 -0400)]
Fix freshly-introduced PL/Python portability bug.
It turns out that those PyErr_Clear() calls I removed from plpy_elog.c
in
7e3bb080387f4143 et al were not quite as random as they appeared: they
mask a Python 2.3.x bug. (Specifically, it turns out that PyType_Ready()
can fail if the error indicator is set on entry, and PLy_traceback's fetch
of frame.f_code may be the first operation in a session that requires the
"frame" type to be readied. Ick.) Put back the clear call, but in a more
centralized place closer to what it's protecting, and this time with a
comment warning what it's really for.
Per buildfarm member prairiedog. Although prairiedog was only failing
on HEAD, it seems clearly possible for this to occur in older branches
as well, so back-patch to 9.2 the same as the previous patch.
Tom Lane [Mon, 11 Apr 2016 03:15:55 +0000 (23:15 -0400)]
Fix access-to-already-freed-memory issue in plpython's error handling.
PLy_elog() could attempt to access strings that Python had already freed,
because the strings that PLy_get_spi_error_data() returns are simply
pointers into storage associated with the error "val" PyObject. That's
fine at the instant PLy_get_spi_error_data() returns them, but just after
that PLy_traceback() intentionally releases the only refcount on that
object, allowing it to be freed --- so that the strings we pass to
ereport() are dangling pointers.
In principle this could result in garbage output or a coredump. In
practice, I think the risk is pretty low, because there are no Python
operations between where we decrement that refcount and where we use the
strings (and copy them into PG storage), and thus no reason for Python
to recycle the storage. Still, it's clearly hazardous, and it leads to
Valgrind complaints when running under a Valgrind that hasn't been
lobotomized to ignore Python memory allocations.
The code was a mess anyway: we fetched the error data out of Python
(clearing Python's error indicator) with PyErr_Fetch, examined it, pushed
it back into Python with PyErr_Restore (re-setting the error indicator),
then immediately pulled it back out with another PyErr_Fetch. Just to
confuse matters even more, there were some gratuitous-and-yet-hazardous
PyErr_Clear calls in the "examine" step, and we didn't get around to doing
PyErr_NormalizeException until after the second PyErr_Fetch, making it even
less clear which object was being manipulated where and whether we still
had a refcount on it. (If PyErr_NormalizeException did substitute a
different "val" object, it's possible that the problem could manifest for
real, because then we'd be doing assorted Python stuff with no refcount
on the object we have string pointers into.)
So, rearrange all that into some semblance of sanity, and don't decrement
the refcount on the Python error objects until the end of PLy_elog().
In HEAD, I failed to resist the temptation to reformat some messy bits
from
5c3c3cd0a3046339 along the way.
Back-patch as far as 9.2, because the code is substantially the same
that far back. I believe that 9.1 has the bug as well; but the code
around it is rather different and I don't want to take a chance on
breaking something for what seems a low-probability problem.
Teodor Sigaev [Fri, 8 Apr 2016 18:26:12 +0000 (21:26 +0300)]
Fix possible use of uninitialised value in ts_headline()
Found during investigation of failure of skink buildfarm member and its
valgrind report.
Backpatch to all supported branches
Andrew Dunstan [Fri, 8 Apr 2016 16:25:10 +0000 (12:25 -0400)]
Turn down MSVC compiler verbosity
Most of what is produced by the detailed verbosity level is of no
interest at all, so switch to the normal level for more usable output.
Christian Ullrich
Backpatch to all live branches
Alvaro Herrera [Tue, 5 Apr 2016 22:03:42 +0000 (19:03 -0300)]
Fix broken ALTER INDEX documentation
Commit
b8a91d9d1c put the description of the new IF EXISTS clause in the
wrong place -- move it where it belongs.
Backpatch to 9.2.
Tom Lane [Mon, 4 Apr 2016 15:13:17 +0000 (11:13 -0400)]
Fix latent portability issue in pgwin32_dispatch_queued_signals().
The first iteration of the signal-checking loop would compute sigmask(0)
which expands to 1<<(-1) which is undefined behavior according to the
C standard. The lack of field reports of trouble suggest that it
evaluates to 0 on all existing Windows compilers, but that's hardly
something to rely on. Since signal 0 isn't a queueable signal anyway,
we can just make the loop iterate from 1 instead, and save a few cycles
as well as avoiding the undefined behavior.
In passing, avoid evaluating the volatile expression UNBLOCKED_SIGNAL_QUEUE
twice in a row; there's no reason to waste cycles like that.
Noted by Aleksander Alekseev, though this isn't his proposed fix.
Back-patch to all supported branches.
Tom Lane [Wed, 30 Mar 2016 01:38:15 +0000 (21:38 -0400)]
Remove TZ environment-variable entry from postgres reference page.
The server hasn't paid attention to the TZ environment variable since
commit
ca4af308c32d03db, but that commit missed removing this documentation
reference, as did commit
d883b916a947a3c6 which added the reference where
it now belongs (initdb).
Back-patch to 9.2 where the behavior changed. Also back-patch
d883b916a947a3c6 as needed.
Matthew Somerville
Tom Lane [Tue, 29 Mar 2016 15:54:58 +0000 (11:54 -0400)]
Avoid possibly-unsafe use of Windows' FormatMessage() function.
Whenever this function is used with the FORMAT_MESSAGE_FROM_SYSTEM flag,
it's good practice to include FORMAT_MESSAGE_IGNORE_INSERTS as well.
Otherwise, if the message contains any %n insertion markers, the function
will try to fetch argument strings to substitute --- which we are not
passing, possibly leading to a crash. This is exactly analogous to the
rule about not giving printf() a format string you're not in control of.
Noted and patched by Christian Ullrich.
Back-patch to all supported branches.
Tom Lane [Mon, 28 Mar 2016 20:14:18 +0000 (16:14 -0400)]
Stamp 9.2.16.
Peter Eisentraut [Mon, 28 Mar 2016 06:51:44 +0000 (08:51 +0200)]
Translation updates
Source-Git-URL: git://git.postgresql.org/git/pgtranslation/messages.git
Source-Git-Hash:
e6b48ec6c3b5131c5fbfa642b5e56814f088e8d6
Tom Lane [Sun, 27 Mar 2016 23:26:26 +0000 (19:26 -0400)]
Release notes for 9.5.2, 9.4.7, 9.3.12, 9.2.16, 9.1.21.
Andres Freund [Sun, 27 Mar 2016 15:47:48 +0000 (17:47 +0200)]
Change various Gin*Is* macros to return 0/1.
Returning the direct result of bit arithmetic, in a macro intended to be
used in a boolean manner, can be problematic if the return value is
stored in a variable of type 'bool'. If bool is implemented using C99's
_Bool, that can lead to comparison failures if the variable is then
compared again with the expression (see ginStepRight() for an example
that fails), as _Bool forces the result to be 0/1. That happens in some
configurations of newer MSVC compilers. It's also problematic when
storing the result of such an expression in a narrower type.
Several gin macros have been declared in that style since gin's initial
commit in
8a3631f8d86.
There's a lot more macros like this, but this is the only one causing
regression test failures; and I don't want to commit and backpatch a
larger patch with lots of conflicts just before the next set of minor
releases.
Discussion:
20150811154237[email protected]
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Tom Lane [Sat, 26 Mar 2016 19:58:44 +0000 (15:58 -0400)]
Modernize zic's test for valid timezone abbreviations.
We really need to sync all of our IANA-derived timezone code with upstream,
but that's going to be a large patch and I certainly don't care to shove
such a thing into stable branches immediately before a release. As a
stopgap, copy just the tzcode2016c logic that checks validity of timezone
abbreviations. This prevents getting multiple "time zone abbreviation
differs from POSIX standard" bleats with tzdata 2014b and later.
Tom Lane [Fri, 25 Mar 2016 23:03:08 +0000 (19:03 -0400)]
Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2016c.
DST law changes in Azerbaijan, Chile, Haiti, Palestine, and Russia (Altai,
Astrakhan, Kirov, Sakhalin, Ulyanovsk regions). Historical corrections
for Lithuania, Moldova, Russia (Kaliningrad, Samara, Volgograd).
As of 2015b, the keepers of the IANA timezone database started to use
numeric time zone abbreviations (e.g., "+04") instead of inventing
abbreviations not found in the wild like "ASTT". This causes our rather
old copy of zic to whine "warning: time zone abbreviation differs from
POSIX standard" several times during "make install". This warning is
harmless according to the IANA folk, and I don't see any problems with
these abbreviations in some simple tests; but it seems like now would be
a good time to update our copy of the tzcode stuff. I'll look into that
soon.
Andrew Dunstan [Sat, 19 Mar 2016 22:36:35 +0000 (18:36 -0400)]
Remove dependency on psed for MSVC builds.
Modern Perl has removed psed from its core distribution, so it might not
be readily available on some build platforms. We therefore replace its
use with a Perl script generated by s2p, which is equivalent to the sed
script. The latter is retained for non-MSVC builds to avoid creating a
new hard dependency on Perl for non-Windows tarball builds.
Backpatch to all live branches.
Michael Paquier and me.
Tom Lane [Thu, 17 Mar 2016 03:18:08 +0000 (23:18 -0400)]
Fix "pg_bench -C -M prepared".
This didn't work because when we dropped and re-established a database
connection, we did not bother to reset session-specific state such as
the statements-are-prepared flags.
The st->prepared[] array certainly needs to be flushed, and I cleared a
couple of other fields as well that couldn't possibly retain meaningful
state for a new connection.
In passing, fix some bogus comments and strange field order choices.
Per report from Robins Tharakan.
Tom Lane [Tue, 15 Mar 2016 17:19:58 +0000 (13:19 -0400)]
Cope if platform declares mbstowcs_l(), but not locale_t, in <xlocale.h>.
Previously, we included <xlocale.h> only if necessary to get the definition
of type locale_t. According to notes in PGAC_TYPE_LOCALE_T, this is
important because on some versions of glibc that file supplies an
incompatible declaration of locale_t. (This info may be obsolete, because
on my RHEL6 box that seems to be the *only* definition of locale_t; but
there may still be glibc's in the wild for which it's a live concern.)
It turns out though that on FreeBSD and maybe other BSDen, you can get
locale_t from stdlib.h or locale.h but mbstowcs_l() and friends only from
<xlocale.h>. This was leaving us compiling calls to mbstowcs_l() and
friends with no visible prototype, which causes a warning and could
possibly cause actual trouble, since it's not declared to return int.
Hence, adjust the configure checks so that we'll include <xlocale.h>
either if it's necessary to get type locale_t or if it's necessary to
get a declaration of mbstowcs_l().
Report and patch by Aleksander Alekseev, somewhat whacked around by me.
Back-patch to all supported branches, since we have been using
mbstowcs_l() since 9.1.
Tom Lane [Mon, 14 Mar 2016 15:31:22 +0000 (11:31 -0400)]
Add missing NULL terminator to list_SECURITY_LABEL_preposition[].
On the machines I tried this on, pressing TAB after SECURITY LABEL led to
being offered ON and FOR as intended, plus random other keywords (varying
across machines). But if you were a bit more unlucky you'd get a crash,
as reported by
[email protected] in bug #14019.
Seems to have been an aboriginal error in the SECURITY LABEL patch,
commit
4d355a8336e0f226. Hence, back-patch to all supported versions.
There's no bug in HEAD, though, thanks to our recent tab-completion
rewrite.
Magnus Hagander [Thu, 10 Mar 2016 12:48:58 +0000 (13:48 +0100)]
Avoid crash on old Windows with AVX2-capable CPU for VS2013 builds
The Visual Studio 2013 CRT generates invalid code when it makes a 64-bit
build that is later used on a CPU that supports AVX2 instructions using a
version of Windows before 7SP1/2008R2SP1.
Detect this combination, and in those cases turn off the generation of
FMA3, per recommendation from the Visual Studio team.
The bug is actually in the CRT shipping with Visual Studio 2013, but
Microsoft have stated they're only fixing it in newer major versions.
The fix is therefor conditioned specifically on being built with this
version of Visual Studio, and not previous or later versions.
Author: Christian Ullrich
Andres Freund [Thu, 10 Mar 2016 02:53:54 +0000 (18:53 -0800)]
Avoid unlikely data-loss scenarios due to rename() without fsync.
Renaming a file using rename(2) is not guaranteed to be durable in face
of crashes. Use the previously added durable_rename()/durable_link_or_rename()
in various places where we previously just renamed files.
Most of the changed call sites are arguably not critical, but it seems
better to err on the side of too much durability. The most prominent
known case where the previously missing fsyncs could cause data loss is
crashes at the end of a checkpoint. After the actual checkpoint has been
performed, old WAL files are recycled. When they're filled, their
contents are fdatasynced, but we did not fsync the containing
directory. An OS/hardware crash in an unfortunate moment could then end
up leaving that file with its old name, but new content; WAL replay
would thus not replay it.
Reported-By: Tomas Vondra
Author: Michael Paquier, Tomas Vondra, Andres Freund
Discussion:
56583BDD.
9060302@2ndquadrant.com
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Andres Freund [Thu, 10 Mar 2016 02:53:54 +0000 (18:53 -0800)]
Introduce durable_rename() and durable_link_or_rename().
Renaming a file using rename(2) is not guaranteed to be durable in face
of crashes; especially on filesystems like xfs and ext4 when mounted
with data=writeback. To be certain that a rename() atomically replaces
the previous file contents in the face of crashes and different
filesystems, one has to fsync the old filename, rename the file, fsync
the new filename, fsync the containing directory. This sequence is not
generally adhered to currently; which exposes us to data loss risks. To
avoid having to repeat this arduous sequence, introduce
durable_rename(), which wraps all that.
Also add durable_link_or_rename(). Several places use link() (with a
fallback to rename()) to rename a file, trying to avoid replacing the
target file out of paranoia. Some of those rename sequences need to be
durable as well. There seems little reason extend several copies of the
same logic, so centralize the link() callers.
This commit does not yet make use of the new functions; they're used in
a followup commit.
Author: Michael Paquier, Andres Freund
Discussion:
56583BDD.
9060302@2ndquadrant.com
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Tom Lane [Wed, 9 Mar 2016 19:51:01 +0000 (14:51 -0500)]
Fix incorrect handling of NULL index entries in indexed ROW() comparisons.
An index search using a row comparison such as ROW(a, b) > ROW('x', 'y')
would stop upon reaching a NULL entry in the "b" column, ignoring the
fact that there might be non-NULL "b" values associated with later values
of "a". This happens because _bt_mark_scankey_required() marks the
subsidiary scankey for "b" as required, which is just wrong: it's for
a column after the one with the first inequality key (namely "a"), and
thus can't be considered a required match.
This bit of brain fade dates back to the very beginnings of our support
for indexed ROW() comparisons, in 2006. Kind of astonishing that no one
came across it before Glen Takahashi, in bug #14010.
Back-patch to all supported versions.
Note: the given test case doesn't actually fail in unpatched 9.1, evidently
because the fix for bug #6278 (i.e., stopping at nulls in either scan
direction) is required to make it fail. I'm sure I could devise a case
that fails in 9.1 as well, perhaps with something involving making a cursor
back up; but it doesn't seem worth the trouble.
Andres Freund [Tue, 8 Mar 2016 22:59:29 +0000 (14:59 -0800)]
ltree: Zero padding bytes when allocating memory for externally visible data.
ltree/ltree_gist/ltxtquery's headers stores data at MAXALIGN alignment,
requiring some padding bytes. So far we left these uninitialized. Zero
those by using palloc0.
Author: Andres Freund
Reported-By: Andres Freund / valgrind / buildarm animal skink
Backpatch: 9.1-