Tom Lane [Thu, 11 Mar 2021 19:43:45 +0000 (14:43 -0500)]
Re-simplify management of inStart in pqParseInput3's subroutines.
Commit
92785dac2 copied some logic related to advancement of inStart
from pqParseInput3 into getRowDescriptions and getAnotherTuple,
because it wanted to allow user-defined row processor callbacks to
potentially longjmp out of the library, and inStart would have to be
updated before that happened to avoid an infinite loop. We later
decided that that API was impossibly fragile and reverted it, but
we didn't undo all of the related code changes, and this bit of
messiness survived. Undo it now so that there's just one place in
pqParseInput3's processing where inStart is advanced; this will
simplify addition of better tracing support.
getParamDescriptions had grown similar processing somewhere along
the way (not in
92785dac2; I didn't track down just when), but it's
actually buggy because its handling of corrupt-message cases seems to
have been copied from the v2 logic where we lacked a known message
length. The cases where we "goto not_enough_data" should not simply
return EOF, because then we won't consume the message, potentially
creating an infinite loop. That situation now represents a
definitively corrupt message, and we should report it as such.
Although no field reports of getParamDescriptions getting stuck in
a loop have been seen, it seems appropriate to back-patch that fix.
I chose to back-patch all of this to keep the logic looking more alike
in supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/
2217283.
1615411989@sss.pgh.pa.us
Bruce Momjian [Thu, 11 Mar 2021 01:25:18 +0000 (20:25 -0500)]
tutorial: land height is "elevation", not "altitude"
This is a follow-on patch to
92c12e46d5. In that patch, we renamed
"altitude" to "elevation" in the docs, based on these details:
https://mapscaping.com/blogs/geo-candy/what-is-the-difference-between-elevation-relief-and-altitude
This renames the tutorial SQL files to match the documentation.
Reported-by: [email protected]
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/
161512392887.1046.
3137472627109459518@wrigleys.postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 9.6
Tom Lane [Mon, 8 Mar 2021 23:21:51 +0000 (18:21 -0500)]
Validate the OID argument of pg_import_system_collations().
"SELECT pg_import_system_collations(0)" caused an assertion failure.
With a random nonzero argument --- or indeed with zero, in non-assert
builds --- it would happily make pg_collation entries with garbage
values of collnamespace. These are harmless as far as I can tell
(unless maybe the OID happens to become used for a schema, later on?).
In any case this isn't a security issue, since the function is
superuser-only. But it seems like a gotcha for unwary DBAs, so let's
add a check that the given OID belongs to some schema.
Back-patch to v10 where this function was introduced.
Amit Kapila [Wed, 3 Mar 2021 06:19:12 +0000 (11:49 +0530)]
Clarify the usage of max_replication_slots on the subscriber side.
It was not clear in the docs that the max_replication_slots is also used
to track replication origins on the subscriber side.
Author: Paul Martinez
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila
Backpatch-through: 10 where logical replication was introduced
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CACqFVBZgwCN_pHnW6dMNCrOS7tiHCw6Retf_=U2Vvj3aUSeATw@mail.gmail.com
Alvaro Herrera [Tue, 2 Mar 2021 18:39:34 +0000 (15:39 -0300)]
Use native path separators to pg_ctl in initdb
On Windows, CMD.EXE allegedly does not run a command that uses forward slashes,
so let's convert the path to use backslashes instead.
Backpatch to 10.
Author: Nitin Jadhav <
[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Juan José Santamaría Flecha <[email protected]>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMm1aWaNDuaPYFYMAqDeJrZmPtNvLcJRS++CcZWY8LT6KcoBZw@mail.gmail.com
Tom Lane [Fri, 26 Feb 2021 20:24:01 +0000 (15:24 -0500)]
Doc: further clarify libpq's description of connection string URIs.
Break the synopsis into named parts to make it less confusing.
Make more than zero effort at applying SGML markup. Do a bit
of copy-editing of nearby text.
The synopsis revision is by Alvaro Herrera and Paul Förster,
the rest is my fault. Back-patch to v10 where multi-host
connection strings appeared.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/
6E752D6B-487C-463E-B6E2-
C32E7FB007EA@gmail.com
Michael Paquier [Wed, 24 Feb 2021 07:14:08 +0000 (16:14 +0900)]
Fix some typos, grammar and style in docs and comments
The portions fixing the documentation are backpatched where needed.
Author: Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/
20210210235557[email protected]
backpatch-through: 9.6
Alvaro Herrera [Tue, 23 Feb 2021 20:30:21 +0000 (17:30 -0300)]
Reinstate HEAP_XMAX_LOCK_ONLY|HEAP_KEYS_UPDATED as allowed
Commit
866e24d47db1 added an assert that HEAP_XMAX_LOCK_ONLY and
HEAP_KEYS_UPDATED cannot appear together, on the faulty assumption that
the latter necessarily referred to an update and not a tuple lock; but
that's wrong, because SELECT FOR UPDATE can use precisely that
combination, as evidenced by the amcheck test case added here.
Remove the Assert(), and also patch amcheck's verify_heapam.c to not
complain if the combination is found. Also, out of overabundance of
caution, update (across all branches) README.tuplock to be more explicit
about this.
Author: Julien Rouhaud <
[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Mahendra Singh Thalor <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Dilip Kumar <[email protected]>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/
20210124061758.GA11756@nol
Tom Lane [Fri, 19 Feb 2021 03:38:55 +0000 (22:38 -0500)]
Fix another ancient bug in parsing of BRE-mode regular expressions.
While poking at the regex code, I happened to notice that the bug
squashed in commit
afcc8772e had a sibling: next() failed to return
a specific value associated with the '}' token for a "\{m,n\}"
quantifier when parsing in basic RE mode. Again, this could result
in treating the quantifier as non-greedy, which it never should be in
basic mode. For that to happen, the last character before "\}" that
sets "nextvalue" would have to set it to zero, or it'd have to have
accidentally been zero from the start. The failure can be provoked
repeatably with, for example, a bound ending in digit "0".
Like the previous patch, back-patch all the way.
Thomas Munro [Tue, 16 Feb 2021 00:10:37 +0000 (13:10 +1300)]
Fix compiler warning in back branches (9.6, 10).
Back-patch a tiny bit of commit
fbb2e9a0 into 9.6 and 10, to silence an
uninitialized variable warning from GCC 10.2. Seen on buildfarm member
handfish, and my own development workflow where I like to use -Werror.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGJRcwvK86Uf5t-FrTekZjqHtpv3u%3D3MuBg8Zw8R933Mqg%40mail.gmail.com
Thomas Munro [Mon, 15 Feb 2021 02:43:39 +0000 (15:43 +1300)]
Default to wal_sync_method=fdatasync on FreeBSD.
FreeBSD 13 gained O_DSYNC, which would normally cause wal_sync_method to
choose open_datasync as its default value. That may not be a good
choice for all systems, and performs worse than fdatasync in some
scenarios. Let's preserve the existing default behavior for now.
Like commit
576477e73c4, which did the same for Linux, back-patch to all
supported releases.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGLsAMXBQrCxCXoW-JsUYmdOL8ALYvaX%3DCrHqWxm-nWbGA%40mail.gmail.com
Thomas Munro [Mon, 15 Feb 2021 00:32:58 +0000 (13:32 +1300)]
Hold interrupts while running dsm_detach() callbacks.
While cleaning up after a parallel query or parallel index creation that
created temporary files, we could be interrupted by a statement timeout.
The error handling path would then fail to clean up the files when it
ran dsm_detach() again, because the callback was already popped off the
list. Prevent this hazard by holding interrupts while the cleanup code
runs.
Thanks to Heikki Linnakangas for this suggestion, and also to Kyotaro
Horiguchi, Masahiko Sawada, Justin Pryzby and Tom Lane for discussion of
this and earlier ideas on how to fix the problem.
Back-patch to all supported releases.
Reported-by: Justin Pryzby <[email protected]>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/
20191212180506[email protected]
Tom Lane [Sat, 13 Feb 2021 22:49:08 +0000 (17:49 -0500)]
pg_attribute_no_sanitize_alignment() macro
Modern gcc and clang compilers offer alignment sanitizers, which help to detect
pointer misalignment. However, our codebase already contains x86-specific
crc32 computation code, which uses unalignment access. Thankfully, those
compilers also support the attribute, which disables alignment sanitizers at
the function level. This commit adds pg_attribute_no_sanitize_alignment(),
which wraps this attribute, and applies it to pg_comp_crc32c_sse42() function.
Back-patch of commits
993bdb9f9 and
ad2ad698a, to enable doing
alignment testing in all supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAPpHfdsne3%3DT%3DfMNU45PtxdhSL_J2PjLTeS8rwKnJzUR4YNd4w%40mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/475514.
1612745257%40sss.pgh.pa.us
Author: Alexander Korotkov, revised by Tom Lane
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane
Tom Lane [Fri, 12 Feb 2021 21:26:47 +0000 (16:26 -0500)]
Avoid divide-by-zero in regex_selectivity() with long fixed prefix.
Given a regex pattern with a very long fixed prefix (approaching 500
characters), the result of pow(FIXED_CHAR_SEL, fixed_prefix_len) can
underflow to zero. Typically the preceding selectivity calculation
would have underflowed as well, so that we compute 0/0 and get NaN.
In released branches this leads to an assertion failure later on.
That doesn't happen in HEAD, for reasons I've not explored yet,
but it's surely still a bug.
To fix, just skip the division when the pow() result is zero, so
that we'll (most likely) return a zero selectivity estimate. In
the edge cases where "sel" didn't yet underflow, perhaps this
isn't desirable, but I'm not sure that the case is worth spending
a lot of effort on. The results of regex_selectivity_sub() are
barely worth the electrons they're written on anyway :-(
Per report from Alexander Lakhin. Back-patch to all supported versions.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/
6de0a0c3-ada9-cd0c-3e4e-
2fa9964b41e3@gmail.com
Tom Lane [Mon, 8 Feb 2021 21:59:29 +0000 (16:59 -0500)]
Stamp 10.16.
Peter Eisentraut [Mon, 8 Feb 2021 17:07:32 +0000 (18:07 +0100)]
Translation updates
Source-Git-URL: https://git.postgresql.org/git/pgtranslation/messages.git
Source-Git-Hash:
dde3cdf8d0aa350a829bda50a0fb498b25ea19d1
Tom Lane [Sun, 7 Feb 2021 20:46:38 +0000 (15:46 -0500)]
Release notes for 13.2, 12.6, 11.11, 10.16, 9.6.21, 9.5.25.
Tom Lane [Sun, 7 Feb 2021 17:54:08 +0000 (12:54 -0500)]
Revert "Propagate CTE property flags when copying a CTE list into a rule."
This reverts commit
ed290896335414c6c069b9ccae1f3dcdd2fac6ba and
equivalent back-branch commits. The issue is subtler than I thought,
and it's far from new, so just before a release deadline is no time
to be fooling with it. We'll consider what to do at a bit more
leisure.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJcOf-fAdj=nDKMsRhQzndm-O13NY4dL6xGcEvdX5Xvbbi0V7g@mail.gmail.com
Tom Lane [Sun, 7 Feb 2021 00:28:39 +0000 (19:28 -0500)]
Propagate CTE property flags when copying a CTE list into a rule.
rewriteRuleAction() neglected this step, although it was careful to
propagate other similar flags such as hasSubLinks or hasRowSecurity.
Omitting to transfer hasRecursive is just cosmetic at the moment,
but omitting hasModifyingCTE is a live bug, since the executor
certainly looks at that.
The proposed test case only fails back to v10, but since the executor
examines hasModifyingCTE in 9.x as well, I suspect that a test case
could be devised that fails in older branches. Given the nearness
of the release deadline, though, I'm not going to spend time looking
for a better test.
Report and patch by Greg Nancarrow, cosmetic changes by me
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJcOf-fAdj=nDKMsRhQzndm-O13NY4dL6xGcEvdX5Xvbbi0V7g@mail.gmail.com
Tom Lane [Sat, 6 Feb 2021 20:17:02 +0000 (15:17 -0500)]
Disallow converting an inheritance child table to a view.
Generally, members of inheritance trees must be plain tables (or,
in more recent versions, foreign tables). ALTER TABLE INHERIT
rejects creating an inheritance relationship that has a view at
either end. When DefineQueryRewrite attempts to convert a relation
to a view, it already had checks prohibiting doing so for partitioning
parents or children as well as traditional-inheritance parents ...
but it neglected to check that a traditional-inheritance child wasn't
being converted. Since the planner assumes that any inheritance
child is a table, this led to making plans that tried to do a physical
scan on a view, causing failures (or even crashes, in recent versions).
One could imagine trying to support such a case by expanding the view
normally, but since the rewriter runs before the planner does
inheritance expansion, it would take some very fundamental refactoring
to make that possible. There are probably a lot of other parts of the
system that don't cope well with such a situation, too. For now,
just forbid it.
Per bug #16856 from Yang Lin. Back-patch to all supported branches.
(In versions before v10, this includes back-patching the portion of
commit
501ed02cf that added has_superclass(). Perhaps the lack of
that infrastructure partially explains the missing check.)
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16856-
0363e05c6e1612fd@postgresql.org
Heikki Linnakangas [Fri, 5 Feb 2021 09:14:56 +0000 (11:14 +0200)]
Fix backslash-escaping multibyte chars in COPY FROM.
If a multi-byte character is escaped with a backslash in TEXT mode input,
and the encoding is one of the client-only encodings where the bytes after
the first one can have an ASCII byte "embedded" in the char, we didn't
skip the character correctly. After a backslash, we only skipped the first
byte of the next character, so if it was a multi-byte character, we would
try to process its second byte as if it was a separate character. If it
was one of the characters with special meaning, like '\n', '\r', or
another '\\', that would cause trouble.
One such exmple is the byte sequence '\x5ca45c2e666f6f' in Big5 encoding.
That's supposed to be [backslash][two-byte character][.][f][o][o], but
because the second byte of the two-byte character is 0x5c, we incorrectly
treat it as another backslash. And because the next character is a dot, we
parse it as end-of-copy marker, and throw an "end-of-copy marker corrupt"
error.
Backpatch to all supported versions.
Reviewed-by: John Naylor, Kyotaro Horiguchi
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/
a897f84f-8dca-8798-3139-
07da5bb38728%40iki.fi
Tom Lane [Tue, 2 Feb 2021 18:49:08 +0000 (13:49 -0500)]
Fix ancient memory leak in contrib/auto_explain.
The ExecutorEnd hook is invoked in a context that could be quite
long-lived, not the executor's own per-query context as I think
we were sort of assuming. Thus, any cruft generated while producing
the EXPLAIN output could accumulate over multiple queries. This can
result in spectacular leakage if log_nested_statements is on, and
even without that I'm surprised nobody complained before.
To fix, just switch into the executor's context so that anything we
allocate will be released when standard_ExecutorEnd frees the executor
state. We might as well nuke the code's retail pfree of the explain
output string, too; that's laughably inadequate to the need.
Japin Li, per report from Jeff Janes. This bug is old, so
back-patch to all supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMkU=1wCVtbeRn0s9gt12KwQ7PLXovbpM8eg25SYocKW3BT4hg@mail.gmail.com
Noah Misch [Sat, 30 Jan 2021 08:00:27 +0000 (00:00 -0800)]
Fix CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY for simultaneous prepared transactions.
In a cluster having used CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY while having enabled
prepared transactions, queries that use the resulting index can silently
fail to find rows. Fix this for future CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY by
making it wait for prepared transactions like it waits for ordinary
transactions. This expands the VirtualTransactionId structure domain to
admit prepared transactions. It may be necessary to reindex to recover
from past occurrences. Back-patch to 9.5 (all supported versions).
Andrey Borodin, reviewed (in earlier versions) by Tom Lane and Michael
Paquier.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/
2E712143-97F7-4890-B470-
4A35142ABC82@yandex-team.ru
Tom Lane [Thu, 28 Jan 2021 22:18:23 +0000 (17:18 -0500)]
Silence another gcc 11 warning.
Per buildfarm and local experimentation, bleeding-edge gcc isn't
convinced that the MemSet in reorder_function_arguments() is safe.
Shut it up by adding an explicit check that pronargs isn't negative,
and by changing MemSet to memset. (It appears that either change is
enough to quiet the warning at -O2, but let's do both to be sure.)
Tom Lane [Thu, 28 Jan 2021 16:17:13 +0000 (11:17 -0500)]
Make ecpg's rjulmdy() and rmdyjul() agree with their declarations.
We had "short *mdy" in the extern declarations, but "short mdy[3]"
in the actual function definitions. Per C99 these are equivalent,
but recent versions of gcc have started to issue warnings about
the inconsistency. Clean it up before the warnings get any more
widespread.
Back-patch, in case anyone wants to build older PG versions with
bleeding-edge compilers.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/
2401575.
1611764534@sss.pgh.pa.us
Alvaro Herrera [Thu, 28 Jan 2021 15:50:40 +0000 (12:50 -0300)]
pgbench: Remove dead code
doConnect() never returns connections in state CONNECTION_BAD, so
checking for that is pointless. Remove the code that does.
This code has been dead since
ba708ea3dc84, 20 years ago.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/
20210126195224[email protected]
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Alvaro Herrera [Tue, 26 Jan 2021 19:42:13 +0000 (16:42 -0300)]
Report the true database name on connection errors
When reporting connection errors, we might show a database name in the
message that's not the one we actually tried to connect to, if the
database was taken from libpq defaults instead of from user parameters.
Fix such error messages to use PQdb(), which reports the correct name.
(But, per commit
2930c05634bc, make sure not to try to print NULL.)
Apply to branches 9.5 through 13. Branch master has already been
changed differently by commit
58cd8dca3de0.
Reported-by: Robert Haas <[email protected]>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmobssJ6rS22dspWnu-oDxXevGmhMD8VcRBjmj-b9UDqRjw@mail.gmail.com
Tom Lane [Tue, 26 Jan 2021 18:04:52 +0000 (13:04 -0500)]
Code review for psql's helpSQL() function.
The loops to identify word boundaries could access past the end of
the input string. Likely that would never result in an actual
crash, but it makes valgrind unhappy.
The logic to try different numbers of words didn't work when the
input has two words but we only have a match to the first, eg
"\h with select". (We must "continue" the pass loop, not "break".)
The logic to compute nl_count was bizarrely managed, and in at
least two code paths could end up calling PageOutput with
nl_count = 0, resulting in failing to paginate output that should
have been fed to the pager. Also, in v12 and up, the nl_count
calculation hadn't been updated to account for the addition of a URL.
The PQExpBuffer holding the command syntax details wasn't freed,
resulting in a session-lifespan memory leak.
While here, improve some comments, choose a more descriptive name
for a variable, fix inconsistent datatype choice for another variable.
Per bug #16837 from Alexander Lakhin. This code is very old,
so back-patch to all supported branches.
Kyotaro Horiguchi and Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16837-
479bcd56040c71b3@postgresql.org
Tom Lane [Mon, 25 Jan 2021 18:03:11 +0000 (13:03 -0500)]
Fix broken ruleutils support for function TRANSFORM clauses.
I chanced to notice that this dumped core due to a faulty Assert.
To add insult to injury, the output has been misformatted since v11.
Obviously we need some regression testing here.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/
d1cc628c-3953-4209-957b-
29427acc38c8@www.fastmail.com
David Rowley [Mon, 25 Jan 2021 07:00:16 +0000 (20:00 +1300)]
Fix hypothetical bug in heap backward scans
Both heapgettup() and heapgettup_pagemode() incorrectly set the first page
to scan in a backward scan in which the number of pages to scan was
specified by heap_setscanlimits(). The code incorrectly started the scan
at the end of the relation when startBlk was 0, or otherwise at
startBlk - 1, neither of which is correct when only scanning a subset of
pages.
The fix here checks if heap_setscanlimits() has changed the number of
pages to scan and if so we set the first page to scan as the final page in
the specified range during backward scans.
Proper adjustment of this code was forgotten when heap_setscanlimits() was
added in
7516f5259 back in 9.5. However, practice, nowhere in core code
performs backward scans after having used heap_setscanlimits(), yet, it is
possible an extension uses the heap functions in this way, hence
backpatch.
An upcoming patch does use heap_setscanlimits() with backward scans, so
this must be fixed before that can go in.
Author: David Rowley
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvpGc9h0_oVD2CtgBcxCS1N-qDYZSeBRnUh+0CWJA9cMaA@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 9.5, all supported versions
Tom Lane [Sun, 24 Jan 2021 21:29:48 +0000 (16:29 -0500)]
Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2021a.
DST law changes in Russia (Volgograd zone) and South Sudan.
Historical corrections for Australia, Bahamas, Belize, Bermuda,
Ghana, Israel, Kenya, Nigeria, Palestine, Seychelles, and Vanuatu.
Notably, the Australia/Currie zone has been corrected to the point
where it is identical to Australia/Hobart.
Tom Lane [Fri, 22 Jan 2021 23:58:25 +0000 (18:58 -0500)]
Doc: improve directions for building on macOS.
In light of recent discussions, we should instruct people to
install Apple's command line tools; installing Xcode is secondary.
Also, fix sample command for finding out the default sysroot,
as we now know that the command originally recommended can give
a result that doesn't match your OS version.
Also document the workaround to use if you really don't want
configure to select a sysroot at all.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/
20210119111625[email protected]
Tom Lane [Fri, 22 Jan 2021 16:29:43 +0000 (11:29 -0500)]
Doc: remove misleading claim in documentation of PQreset().
This text claimed that the reconnection would occur "to the same
server", but there is no such guarantee in the code, nor would
insisting on that be an improvement.
Back-patch to v10 where multi-host connection strings were added.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/
1095901.
1611268376@sss.pgh.pa.us
Tom Lane [Wed, 20 Jan 2021 17:07:23 +0000 (12:07 -0500)]
Further tweaking of PG_SYSROOT heuristics for macOS.
It emerges that in some phases of the moon (perhaps to do with
directory entry order?), xcrun will report that the SDK path is
/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk
which is normally a symlink to a version-numbered sibling directory.
Our heuristic to skip non-version-numbered pathnames was rejecting
that, which is the wrong thing to do. We'd still like to end up
with a version-numbered PG_SYSROOT value, but we can have that by
dereferencing the symlink.
Like the previous fix, back-patch to all supported versions.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/522433.
1611089678@sss.pgh.pa.us
Tom Lane [Wed, 20 Jan 2021 16:49:29 +0000 (11:49 -0500)]
Disable vacuum page skipping in selected test cases.
By default VACUUM will skip pages that it can't immediately get
exclusive access to, which means that even activities as harmless
and unpredictable as checkpoint buffer writes might prevent a page
from being processed. Ordinarily this is no big deal, but we have
a small number of test cases that examine the results of VACUUM's
processing and therefore will fail if the page of interest is skipped.
This seems to be the explanation for some rare buildfarm failures.
To fix, add the DISABLE_PAGE_SKIPPING option to the VACUUM commands
in tests where this could be an issue.
In passing, remove a duplicated query in pageinspect/sql/page.sql.
Back-patch as necessary (some of these cases are as old as v10).
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/413923.
1611006484@sss.pgh.pa.us
Michael Paquier [Wed, 20 Jan 2021 02:39:24 +0000 (11:39 +0900)]
Fix ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES with duplicated objects
Specifying duplicated objects in this command would lead to unique
constraint violations in pg_default_acl or "tuple already updated by
self" errors. Similarly to GRANT/REVOKE, increment the command ID after
each subcommand processing to allow this case to work transparently.
A regression test is added by tweaking one of the existing queries of
privileges.sql to stress this case.
Reported-by: Andrus
Author: Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Álvaro Herrera
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/
ae2a7dc1-9d71-8cba-3bb9-
e4cb7eb1f44e@hot.ee
Backpatch-through: 9.5
Tom Lane [Tue, 19 Jan 2021 18:25:33 +0000 (13:25 -0500)]
Remove faulty support for MergeAppend plan with WHERE CURRENT OF.
Somebody extended search_plan_tree() to treat MergeAppend exactly
like Append, which is 100% wrong, because unlike Append we can't
assume that only one input node is actively returning tuples.
Hence a cursor using a MergeAppend across a UNION ALL or inheritance
tree could falsely match a WHERE CURRENT OF query at a row that
isn't actually the cursor's current output row, but coincidentally
has the same TID (in a different table) as the current output row.
Delete the faulty code; this means that such a case will now return
an error like 'cursor "foo" is not a simply updatable scan of table
"bar"', instead of silently misbehaving. Users should not find that
surprising though, as the same cursor query could have failed that way
already depending on the chosen plan. (It would fail like that if the
sort were done with an explicit Sort node instead of MergeAppend.)
Expand the clearly-inadequate commentary to be more explicit about
what this code is doing, in hopes of forestalling future mistakes.
It's been like this for awhile, so back-patch to all supported
branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/482865.
1611075182@sss.pgh.pa.us
Bruce Momjian [Mon, 18 Jan 2021 23:48:25 +0000 (18:48 -0500)]
doc: adjust alignment of doc file list for "pg_waldump.sgml"
Backpatch-through: 10
Tom Lane [Mon, 18 Jan 2021 23:32:30 +0000 (18:32 -0500)]
Avoid crash with WHERE CURRENT OF and a custom scan plan.
execCurrent.c's search_plan_tree() assumed that ForeignScanStates
and CustomScanStates necessarily have a valid ss_currentRelation.
This is demonstrably untrue for postgres_fdw's remote join and
remote aggregation plans, and non-leaf custom scans might not have
an identifiable scan relation either. Avoid crashing by ignoring
such nodes when the field is null.
This solution will lead to errors like 'cursor "foo" is not a
simply updatable scan of table "bar"' in cases where maybe we
could have allowed WHERE CURRENT OF to work. That's not an issue
for postgres_fdw's usages, since joins or aggregations would render
WHERE CURRENT OF invalid anyway. But an otherwise-transparent
upper level custom scan node might find this annoying. When and if
someone cares to expend work on such a scenario, we could invent a
custom-scan-provider callback to determine what's safe.
Report and patch by David Geier, commentary by me. It's been like
this for awhile, so back-patch to all supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/
0253344d-9bdd-11c4-7f0d-
d88c02cd7991@swarm64.com
Noah Misch [Sat, 16 Jan 2021 20:21:35 +0000 (12:21 -0800)]
Fix pg_dump for GRANT OPTION among initial privileges.
The context is an object that no longer bears some aclitem that it bore
initially. (A user issued REVOKE or GRANT statements upon the object.)
pg_dump is forming SQL to reproduce the object ACL. Since initdb
creates no ACL bearing GRANT OPTION, reaching this bug requires an
extension where the creation script establishes such an ACL. No PGXN
extension does that. If an installation did reach the bug, pg_dump
would have omitted a semicolon, causing a REVOKE and the next SQL
statement to fail. Separately, since the affected code exists to
eliminate an entire aclitem, it wants plain REVOKE, not REVOKE GRANT
OPTION FOR. Back-patch to 9.6, where commit
23f34fa4ba358671adab16773e79c17c92cbc870 first appeared.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/
20210109102423[email protected]
Noah Misch [Sat, 16 Jan 2021 20:21:35 +0000 (12:21 -0800)]
Prevent excess SimpleLruTruncate() deletion.
Every core SLRU wraps around. With the exception of pg_notify, the wrap
point can fall in the middle of a page. Account for this in the
PagePrecedes callback specification and in SimpleLruTruncate()'s use of
said callback. Update each callback implementation to fit the new
specification. This changes SerialPagePrecedesLogically() from the
style of asyncQueuePagePrecedes() to the style of CLOGPagePrecedes().
(Whereas pg_clog and pg_serial share a key space, pg_serial is nothing
like pg_notify.) The bug fixed here has the same symptoms and user
followup steps as
592a589a04bd456410b853d86bd05faa9432cbbb. Back-patch
to 9.5 (all supported versions).
Reviewed by Andrey Borodin and (in earlier versions) by Tom Lane.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/
20190202083822[email protected]
Tomas Vondra [Fri, 15 Jan 2021 22:24:19 +0000 (23:24 +0100)]
Disallow CREATE STATISTICS on system catalogs
Add a check that CREATE STATISTICS does not add extended statistics on
system catalogs, similarly to indexes etc. It can be overriden using
the allow_system_table_mods GUC.
This bug exists since
7b504eb282c, adding the extended statistics, so
backpatch all the way back to PostgreSQL 10.
Author: Tomas Vondra
Reported-by: Dean Rasheed
Backpatch-through: 10
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEZATCXAPrrOKwEsyZKQ4uzzJQWBCt6QAvOcgqRGdWwT1zb%2BrQ%40mail.gmail.com
Tom Lane [Fri, 15 Jan 2021 16:28:51 +0000 (11:28 -0500)]
Improve our heuristic for selecting PG_SYSROOT on macOS.
In cases where Xcode is newer than the underlying macOS version,
asking xcodebuild for the SDK path will produce a pointer to the
SDK shipped with Xcode, which may end up building code that does
not work on the underlying macOS version. It appears that in
such cases, xcodebuild's answer also fails to match the default
behavior of Apple's compiler: assuming one has installed Xcode's
"command line tools", there will be an SDK for the OS's own version
in /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools, and the compiler will
default to using that. This is all pretty poorly documented,
but experimentation suggests that "xcrun --show-sdk-path" gives
the sysroot path that the compiler is actually using, at least
in some cases. Hence, try that first, but revert to xcodebuild
if xcrun fails (in very old Xcode, it is missing or lacks the
--show-sdk-path switch).
Also, "xcrun --show-sdk-path" may give a path that is valid but lacks
any OS version identifier. We don't really want that, since most
of the motivation for wiring -isysroot into the build flags at all
is to ensure that all parts of a PG installation are built against
the same SDK, even when considering extensions built later and/or on
a different machine. Insist on finding "N.N" in the directory name
before accepting the result. (Adding "--sdk macosx" to the xcrun
call seems to produce the same answer as xcodebuild, but usually
more quickly because it's cached, so we also try that as a fallback.)
The core reason why we don't want to use Xcode's default SDK in cases
like this is that Apple's technology for introducing new syscalls
does not play nice with Autoconf: for example, configure will think
that preadv/pwritev exist when using a Big Sur SDK, even when building
on an older macOS version where they don't exist. It'd be nice to
have a better solution to that problem, but this patch doesn't attempt
to fix that.
Per report from Sergey Shinderuk. Back-patch to all supported versions.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/
ed3b8e5d-0da8-6ebd-fd1c-
e0ac80a4b204@postgrespro.ru
Tom Lane [Thu, 14 Jan 2021 21:19:38 +0000 (16:19 -0500)]
pg_dump: label PUBLICATION TABLE ArchiveEntries with an owner.
This is the same fix as commit
9eabfe300 applied to INDEX ATTACH
entries, but for table-to-publication attachments. As in that
case, even though the backend doesn't record "ownership" of the
attachment, we still ought to label it in the dump archive with
the role name that should run the ALTER PUBLICATION command.
The existing behavior causes the ALTER to be done by the original
role that started the restore; that will usually work fine, but
there may be corner cases where it fails.
The bulk of the patch is concerned with changing struct
PublicationRelInfo to include a pointer to the associated
PublicationInfo object, so that we can get the owner's name
out of that when the time comes. While at it, I rewrote
getPublicationTables() to do just one query of pg_publication_rel,
not one per table.
Back-patch to v10 where this code was introduced.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/
1165710.
1610473242@sss.pgh.pa.us
Tom Lane [Wed, 13 Jan 2021 18:30:04 +0000 (13:30 -0500)]
Doc: clarify behavior of back-half options in pg_dump.
Options that change how the archive data is converted to SQL text
are ignored when dumping to archive formats. The documentation
previously said "not meaningful", which is not helpful.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/
161052021249.12228.
9598689907884726185@wrigleys.postgresql.org
Amit Kapila [Wed, 13 Jan 2021 03:01:45 +0000 (08:31 +0530)]
Fix memory leak in SnapBuildSerialize.
The memory for the snapshot was leaked while serializing it to disk during
logical decoding. This memory will be freed only once walsender stops
streaming the changes. This can lead to a huge memory increase when master
logs Standby Snapshot too frequently say when the user is trying to create
many replication slots.
Reported-by: [email protected]
Diagnosed-by: [email protected]
Author: Amit Kapila
Backpatch-through: 9.5
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/
033ab54c-6393-42ee-8ec9-
2b399b5d8cde[email protected]
Tom Lane [Tue, 12 Jan 2021 17:52:14 +0000 (12:52 -0500)]
Doc: fix description of privileges needed for ALTER PUBLICATION.
Adding a table to a publication requires ownership of the table
(in addition to ownership of the publication). This was mentioned
nowhere.
Alvaro Herrera [Tue, 12 Jan 2021 14:48:45 +0000 (11:48 -0300)]
Fix thinko in comment
This comment has been wrong since its introduction in commit
2c03216d8311.
Author: Masahiko Sawada <
[email protected]>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAD21AoAzz6qipFJBbGEaHmyWxvvNDp8httbwLR9tUQWaTjUs2Q@mail.gmail.com
Bruce Momjian [Sat, 9 Jan 2021 17:11:15 +0000 (12:11 -0500)]
doc: expand description of how non-SELECT queries are processed
The previous description of how the executor processes non-SELECT
queries was very dense, causing lack of clarity. This expanded text
spells it out more simply.
Reported-by: [email protected]
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/
160912275508.676.
17469511338925622905@wrigleys.postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 9.5
Tom Lane [Fri, 8 Jan 2021 17:16:00 +0000 (12:16 -0500)]
Fix ancient bug in parsing of BRE-mode regular expressions.
brenext(), when parsing a '*' quantifier, forgot to return any "value"
for the token; per the equivalent case in next(), it should return
value 1 to indicate that greedy rather than non-greedy behavior is
wanted. The result is that the compiled regexp could behave like 'x*?'
rather than the intended 'x*', if we were unlucky enough to have
a zero in v->nextvalue at this point. That seems to happen with some
reliability if we have '.*' at the beginning of a BRE-mode regexp,
although that depends on the initial contents of a stack-allocated
struct, so it's not guaranteed to fail.
Found by Alexander Lakhin using valgrind testing. This bug seems
to be aboriginal in Spencer's code, so back-patch all the way.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16814-
6c5e3edd2bdf0d50@postgresql.org
Tom Lane [Thu, 7 Jan 2021 16:45:09 +0000 (11:45 -0500)]
Further second thoughts about idle_session_timeout patch.
On reflection, the order of operations in PostgresMain() is wrong.
These timeouts ought to be shut down before, not after, we do the
post-command-read CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS, to guarantee that any
timeout error will be detected there rather than at some ill-defined
later point (possibly after having wasted a lot of work).
This is really an error in the original idle_in_transaction_timeout
patch, so back-patch to 9.6 where that was introduced.
Michael Paquier [Thu, 7 Jan 2021 11:50:49 +0000 (20:50 +0900)]
doc: Remove reference to recovery params for divergence lookup in pg_rewind
The documentation of pg_rewind mentioned the use of restore_command and
primary_conninfo as options available at startup to fetch missing WAL
segments that could be used to find the point of divergence for the
rewind. This is confusing because when finding the point of divergence
the target cluster is offline, so this option is not available.
Issue introduced by
878bd9a, so backpatch down to 9.6. The
documentation of 13 and HEAD was already right as this sentence has been
changed by
a7e8ece when introducing -c/--restore-target-wal.
Reported-by: Amine Tengilimoglu
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CADTdw-w_0MP=iQrfizeU4QU5fcZb+w8P_oPeLL+WznWf0kbn3w@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 9.6
Fujii Masao [Wed, 6 Jan 2021 03:31:55 +0000 (12:31 +0900)]
Detect the deadlocks between backends and the startup process.
The deadlocks that the recovery conflict on lock is involved in can
happen between hot-standby backends and the startup process.
If a backend takes an access exclusive lock on the table and which
finally triggers the deadlock, that deadlock can be detected
as expected. On the other hand, previously, if the startup process
took an access exclusive lock and which finally triggered the deadlock,
that deadlock could not be detected and could remain even after
deadlock_timeout passed. This is a bug.
The cause of this bug was that the code for handling the recovery
conflict on lock didn't take care of deadlock case at all. It assumed
that deadlocks involving the startup process and backends were able
to be detected by the deadlock detector invoked within backends.
But this assumption was incorrect. The startup process also should
have invoked the deadlock detector if necessary.
To fix this bug, this commit makes the startup process invoke
the deadlock detector if deadlock_timeout is reached while handling
the recovery conflict on lock. Specifically, in that case, the startup
process requests all the backends holding the conflicting locks to
check themselves for deadlocks.
Back-patch to v9.6. v9.5 has also this bug, but per discussion we decided
not to back-patch the fix to v9.5. Because v9.5 doesn't have some
infrastructure codes (e.g.,
37c54863cf) that this bug fix patch depends on.
We can apply those codes for the back-patch, but since the next minor
version release is the final one for v9.5, it's risky to do that. If we
unexpectedly introduce new bug to v9.5 by the back-patch, there is no
chance to fix that. We determined that the back-patch to v9.5 would give
more risk than gain.
Author: Fujii Masao
Reviewed-by: Bertrand Drouvot, Masahiko Sawada, Kyotaro Horiguchi
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/
4041d6b6-cf24-a120-36fa-
1294220f8243@oss.nttdata.com
Bruce Momjian [Tue, 5 Jan 2021 19:26:37 +0000 (14:26 -0500)]
doc: improve NLS instruction wording
Reported-by: "Tang, Haiying"
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/
bbbccf7a3c2d436e85d45869d612fd6b@G08CNEXMBPEKD05.g08.fujitsu.local
Author: "Tang, Haiying"
Backpatch-through: 9.5
Dean Rasheed [Tue, 5 Jan 2021 11:46:44 +0000 (11:46 +0000)]
Add an explicit cast to double when using fabs().
Commit
bc43b7c2c0 used fabs() directly on an int variable, which
apparently requires an explicit cast on some platforms.
Per buildfarm.
Dean Rasheed [Tue, 5 Jan 2021 11:04:41 +0000 (11:04 +0000)]
Fix numeric_power() when the exponent is INT_MIN.
In power_var_int(), the computation of the number of significant
digits to use in the computation used log(Abs(exp)), which isn't safe
because Abs(exp) returns INT_MIN when exp is INT_MIN. Use fabs()
instead of Abs(), so that the exponent is cast to a double before the
absolute value is taken.
Back-patch to 9.6, where this was introduced (by
7d9a4737c2).
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEZATCVd6pMkz=BrZEgBKyqqJrt2xghr=fNc8+Z=5xC6cgWrWA@mail.gmail.com
Bruce Momjian [Sat, 2 Jan 2021 18:06:24 +0000 (13:06 -0500)]
Update copyright for 2021
Backpatch-through: 9.5
Tom Lane [Fri, 1 Jan 2021 20:51:09 +0000 (15:51 -0500)]
Doc: improve explanation of EXTRACT(EPOCH) for timestamp without tz.
Try to be clearer about what computation is actually happening here.
Per bug #16797 from Dana Burd.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16797-
f264b0b980b53b8b@postgresql.org
Tom Lane [Wed, 30 Dec 2020 22:48:43 +0000 (17:48 -0500)]
Doc: spell out comparison behaviors for the date/time types.
The behavior of cross-type comparisons among date/time data types was
not really explained anywhere. You could probably infer it if you
recognized the applicability of comments elsewhere about datatype
conversions, but it seems worthy of explicit documentation.
Per bug #16797 from Dana Burd.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16797-
f264b0b980b53b8b@postgresql.org
Noah Misch [Wed, 30 Dec 2020 09:43:43 +0000 (01:43 -0800)]
In pg_upgrade cross-version test, handle lack of oldstyle_length().
This suffices for testing v12 -> v13; some other version pairs need more
changes. Back-patch to v10, which removed the function.
Michael Paquier [Tue, 29 Dec 2020 09:19:20 +0000 (18:19 +0900)]
doc: Improve some grammar and sentences
90fbf7c has taken care of that for HEAD. This includes the portion of
the fixes that applies to the documentation, where needed depending on
the branch.
Author: Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/
20201227202604[email protected]
Backpatch-through: 9.5
Michael Paquier [Mon, 28 Dec 2020 13:17:11 +0000 (22:17 +0900)]
Fix inconsistent code with shared invalidations of snapshots
The code in charge of processing a single invalidation message has been
using since
568d413 the structure for relation mapping messages. This
had fortunately no consequence as both locate the database ID at the
same location, but it could become a problem in the future if this area
of the code changes.
Author: Konstantin Knizhnik
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/
8044c223-4d3a-2cdb-42bf-
29940840ce94@postgrespro.ru
Backpatch-through: 9.5
Fujii Masao [Mon, 28 Dec 2020 11:00:15 +0000 (20:00 +0900)]
postgres_fdw: Fix connection leak.
In postgres_fdw, the cached connections to foreign servers will not be
closed until the local session exits if the user mappings or foreign servers
that those connections depend on are dropped. Those connections can be
leaked.
To fix that connection leak issue, after a change to a pg_foreign_server
or pg_user_mapping catalog entry, this commit makes postgres_fdw close
the connections depending on that entry immediately if current
transaction has not used those connections yet. Otherwise, mark those
connections as invalid and then close them at the end of current transaction,
since they cannot be closed in the midst of the transaction using them.
Closed connections will be remade at the next opportunity if necessary.
Back-patch to all supported branches.
Author: Bharath Rupireddy
Reviewed-by: Zhihong Yu, Zhijie Hou, Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALj2ACVNcGH_6qLY-4_tXz8JLvA+4yeBThRfxMz7Oxbk1aHcpQ@mail.gmail.com
Noah Misch [Fri, 25 Dec 2020 19:02:56 +0000 (11:02 -0800)]
Fix back-patch of "Invalidate acl.c caches when pg_authid changes."
Test script role names and error messages differed in v10, 9.6 and 9.5.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/
20201221095028[email protected]
Noah Misch [Fri, 25 Dec 2020 18:41:59 +0000 (10:41 -0800)]
Invalidate acl.c caches when pg_authid changes.
This makes existing sessions reflect "ALTER ROLE ... [NO]INHERIT" as
quickly as they have been reflecting "GRANT role_name". Back-patch to
9.5 (all supported versions).
Reviewed by Nathan Bossart.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/
20201221095028[email protected]
Tom Lane [Thu, 24 Dec 2020 22:00:43 +0000 (17:00 -0500)]
Fix race condition between shutdown and unstarted background workers.
If a database shutdown (smart or fast) is commanded between the time
some process decides to request a new background worker and the time
that the postmaster can launch that worker, then nothing happens
because the postmaster won't launch any bgworkers once it's exited
PM_RUN state. This is fine ... unless the requesting process is
waiting for that worker to finish (or even for it to start); in that
case the requestor is stuck, and only manual intervention will get us
to the point of being able to shut down.
To fix, cancel pending requests for workers when the postmaster sends
shutdown (SIGTERM) signals, and similarly cancel any new requests that
arrive after that point. (We can optimize things slightly by only
doing the cancellation for workers that have waiters.) To fit within
the existing bgworker APIs, the "cancel" is made to look like the
worker was started and immediately stopped, causing deregistration of
the bgworker entry. Waiting processes would have to deal with
premature worker exit anyway, so this should introduce no bugs that
weren't there before. We do have a side effect that registration
records for restartable bgworkers might disappear when theoretically
they should have remained in place; but since we're shutting down,
that shouldn't matter.
Back-patch to v10. There might be value in putting this into 9.6
as well, but the management of bgworkers is a bit different there
(notably see
8ff518699) and I'm not convinced it's worth the effort
to validate the patch for that branch.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/661570.
1608673226@sss.pgh.pa.us
Michael Paquier [Wed, 23 Dec 2020 03:51:46 +0000 (12:51 +0900)]
Fix portability issues with parsing of recovery_target_xid
The parsing of this parameter has been using strtoul(), which is not
portable across platforms. On most Unix platforms, unsigned long has a
size of 64 bits, while on Windows it is 32 bits. It is common in
recovery scenarios to rely on the output of txid_current() or even the
newer pg_current_xact_id() to get a transaction ID for setting up
recovery_target_xid. The value returned by those functions includes the
epoch in the computed result, which would cause strtoul() to fail where
unsigned long has a size of 32 bits once the epoch is incremented.
WAL records and 2PC data include only information about 32-bit XIDs and
it is not possible to have XIDs across more than one epoch, so
discarding the high bits from the transaction ID set has no impact on
recovery. On the contrary, the use of strtoul() prevents a consistent
behavior across platforms depending on the size of unsigned long.
This commit changes the parsing of recovery_target_xid to use
pg_strtouint64() instead, available down to 9.6. There is one TAP test
stressing recovery with recovery_target_xid, where a tweak based on
pg_reset{xlog,wal} is added to bump the XID epoch so as this change gets
tested, as per an idea from Alexander Lakhin.
Reported-by: Alexander Lakhin
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16780-
107fd0c0385b1035@postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 9.6
Tom Lane [Mon, 21 Dec 2020 18:11:30 +0000 (13:11 -0500)]
Remove "invalid concatenation of jsonb objects" error case.
The jsonb || jsonb operator arbitrarily rejected certain combinations
of scalar and non-scalar inputs, while being willing to concatenate
other combinations. This was of course quite undocumented. Rather
than trying to document it, let's just remove the restriction,
creating a uniform rule that unless we are handling an object-to-object
concatenation, non-array inputs are converted to one-element arrays,
resulting in an array-to-array concatenation. (This does not change
the behavior for any case that didn't throw an error before.)
Per complaint from Joel Jacobson. Back-patch to all supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/163099.
1608312033@sss.pgh.pa.us
Tom Lane [Sun, 20 Dec 2020 20:28:22 +0000 (15:28 -0500)]
Doc: fix description of how to use src/tutorial files.
The separate "cd" command before invoking psql made sense (or at least
I thought so) when it was added in commit
ed1939332. But
4e3a61635
removed the supporting text that explained when to use it, making it
just confusing. So drop it.
Also switch from four-dot to three-dot filler for the unsupplied
part of the path, since at least one person has read the four-dot
filler as a typo for "../..". And fix these/those inconsistency.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/
160837647714.673.
5195186835607800484@wrigleys.postgresql.org
Tom Lane [Sun, 20 Dec 2020 18:37:25 +0000 (13:37 -0500)]
Doc: improve description of pgbench script weights.
Point out the workaround to be used if you want to write a script
file name that includes "@". Clean up the text a little.
Fabien Coelho, additional wordsmithing by me
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/
1c4e81550d214741827a03292222db8d@G08CNEXMBPEKD06.g08.fujitsu.local
Tom Lane [Fri, 18 Dec 2020 20:46:44 +0000 (15:46 -0500)]
Avoid memcpy() with same source and destination during relmapper init.
A narrow reading of the C standard says that memcpy(x,x,n) is undefined,
although it's hard to envision an implementation that would really
misbehave. However, analysis tools such as valgrind might whine about
this; accordingly, let's band-aid relmapper.c to not do it.
See also
5b630501e,
d3f4e8a8a,
ad7b48ea0, and other similar fixes.
Apparently, none of those folk tried valgrinding initdb? This has been
like this for long enough that I'm surprised it hasn't been reported
before.
Back-patch, just in case anybody wants to use a back branch on a platform
that complains about this; we back-patched those earlier fixes too.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/161790.
1608310142@sss.pgh.pa.us
Bruce Momjian [Wed, 16 Dec 2020 00:20:14 +0000 (19:20 -0500)]
doc: clarify COPY TO for partitioning/inheritance
It was not clear how COPY TO behaved with partitioning/inheritance
because the paragraphs were so far apart. Also reword to simplify.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/
20201203211723[email protected]
Author: Justin Pryzby
Backpatch-through: 10
Andrew Dunstan [Tue, 15 Dec 2020 15:00:18 +0000 (10:00 -0500)]
Use native methods to open input in TestLib::slurp_file on Windows.
This is a backport of commits
114541d58e and
6f59826f0 to the remaining
live branches.
Jeff Davis [Tue, 15 Dec 2020 07:49:29 +0000 (23:49 -0800)]
Revert "Cannot use WL_SOCKET_WRITEABLE without WL_SOCKET_READABLE."
This reverts commit
3a9e64aa0d96c8ffb6c682b082d0f72b1d373327.
Commit
4bad60e3 fixed the root of the problem that
3a9e64aa worked
around.
This enables proper pipelining of commands after terminating
replication, eliminating an undocumented limitation.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/
3d57bc29-4459-578b-79cb-
7641baf53c57%40iki.fi
Backpatch-through: 9.5
Bruce Momjian [Sat, 12 Dec 2020 17:51:16 +0000 (12:51 -0500)]
initdb: properly alphabetize getopt_long options in C string
Backpatch-through: 9.5
Tom Lane [Tue, 8 Dec 2020 22:50:54 +0000 (17:50 -0500)]
Teach contain_leaked_vars that assignment SubscriptingRefs are leaky.
array_get_element and array_get_slice qualify as leakproof, since
they will silently return NULL for bogus subscripts. But
array_set_element and array_set_slice throw errors for such cases,
making them clearly not leakproof. contain_leaked_vars was evidently
written with only the former case in mind, as it gave the wrong answer
for assignment SubscriptingRefs (nee ArrayRefs).
This would be a live security bug, were it not that assignment
SubscriptingRefs can only occur in INSERT and UPDATE target lists,
while we only care about leakproofness for qual expressions; so the
wrong answer can't occur in practice. Still, that's a rather shaky
answer for a security-related question; and maybe in future somebody
will want to ask about leakproofness of a tlist. So it seems wise to
fix and even back-patch this correction.
(We would need some change here anyway for the upcoming
generic-subscripting patch, since extensions might make different
tradeoffs about whether to throw errors. Commit
558d77f20 attempted
to lay groundwork for that by asking check_functions_in_node whether a
SubscriptingRef contains leaky functions; but that idea fails now that
the implementation methods of a SubscriptingRef are not SQL-visible
functions that could be marked leakproof or not.)
Back-patch to 9.6. While 9.5 has the same issue, the code's a bit
different. It seems quite unlikely that we'd introduce any actual bug
in the short time 9.5 has left to live, so the work/risk/reward balance
isn't attractive for changing 9.5.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/
3143742.
1607368115@sss.pgh.pa.us
Tom Lane [Tue, 8 Dec 2020 18:09:48 +0000 (13:09 -0500)]
Doc: clarify that CREATE TABLE discards redundant unique constraints.
The SQL standard says that redundant unique constraints are disallowed,
but we long ago decided that throwing an error would be too
user-unfriendly, so we just drop redundant ones. The docs weren't very
clear about that though, as this behavior was only explained for PRIMARY
KEY vs UNIQUE, not UNIQUE vs UNIQUE.
While here, I couldn't resist doing some copy-editing and markup-fixing
on the adjacent text about INCLUDE options.
Per bug #16767 from Matthias vd Meent.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16767-
1714a2056ca516d0@postgresql.org
Tom Lane [Tue, 8 Dec 2020 17:06:19 +0000 (12:06 -0500)]
Doc: explain that the string types can't store \0 (ASCII NUL).
This restriction was mentioned in connection with string literals,
but it wasn't made clear that it's a general restriction not just
a syntactic limitation in query strings.
Per unsigned documentation comment.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/
160720552914.710.
16625261471128631268@wrigleys.postgresql.org
Michael Paquier [Tue, 8 Dec 2020 06:22:53 +0000 (15:22 +0900)]
pgcrypto: Detect errors with EVP calls from OpenSSL
The following routines are called within pgcrypto when handling digests
but there were no checks for failures:
- EVP_MD_CTX_size (can fail with -1 as of 3.0.0)
- EVP_MD_CTX_block_size (can fail with -1 as of 3.0.0)
- EVP_DigestInit_ex
- EVP_DigestUpdate
- EVP_DigestFinal_ex
A set of elog(ERROR) is added by this commit to detect such failures,
that should never happen except in the event of a processing failure
internal to OpenSSL.
Note that it would be possible to use ERR_reason_error_string() to get
more context about such errors, but these refer mainly to the internals
of OpenSSL, so it is not really obvious how useful that would be. This
is left out for simplicity.
Per report from Coverity. Thanks to Tom Lane for the discussion.
Backpatch-through: 9.5
Heikki Linnakangas [Mon, 7 Dec 2020 12:44:34 +0000 (14:44 +0200)]
Fix more race conditions in the newly-added pg_rewind test.
pg_rewind looks at the control file to check what timeline a server is on.
But promotion doesn't immediately write a checkpoint, it merely writes
an end-of-recovery WAL record. If pg_rewind runs immediately after
promotion, before the checkpoint has completed, it will think think that
the server is still on the earlier timeline. We ran into this issue a long
time ago already, see commit
484a848a73f.
It's a bit bogus that pg_rewind doesn't determine the timeline correctly
until the end-of-recovery checkpoint has completed. We probably should
fix that. But for now work around it by waiting for the checkpoint
to complete before running pg_rewind, like we did in commit
484a848a73f.
In the passing, tidy up the new test a little bit. Rerder the INSERTs so
that the comments make more sense, remove a spurious CHECKPOINT call after
pg_rewind has already run, and add --debug option, so that if this fails
again, we'll have more data.
Per buildfarm failure at https://buildfarm.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/show_stage_log.pl?nm=rorqual&dt=2020-12-06%2018%3A32%3A19&stg=pg_rewind-check.
Backpatch to all supported versions.
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/
1713707e-e318-761c-d287-
5b6a4aa807e8@iki.fi
Heikki Linnakangas [Fri, 4 Dec 2020 16:20:18 +0000 (18:20 +0200)]
Fix race conditions in newly-added test.
Buildfarm has been failing sporadically on the new test. I was able to
reproduce this by adding a random 0-10 s delay in the walreceiver, just
before it connects to the primary. There's a race condition where node_3
is promoted before it has fully caught up with node_1, leading to diverged
timelines. When node_1 is later reconfigured as standby following node_3,
it fails to catch up:
LOG: primary server contains no more WAL on requested timeline 1
LOG: new timeline 2 forked off current database system timeline 1 before current recovery point 0/
30000A0
That's the situation where you'd need to use pg_rewind, but in this case
it happens already when we are just setting up the actual pg_rewind
scenario we want to test, so change the test so that it waits until
node_3 is connected and fully caught up before promoting it, so that you
get a clean, controlled failover.
Also rewrite some of the comments, for clarity. The existing comments
detailed what each step in the test did, but didn't give a good overview
of the situation the steps were trying to create.
For reasons I don't understand, the test setup had to be written slightly
differently in 9.6 and 9.5 than in later versions. The 9.5/9.6 version
needed node 1 to be reinitialized from backup, whereas in later versions
it could be shut down and reconfigured to be a standby. But even 9.5 should
support "clean switchover", where primary makes sure that pending WAL is
replicated to standby on shutdown. It would be nice to figure out what's
going on there, but that's independent of pg_rewind and the scenario that
this test tests.
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/
b0a3b95b-82d2-6089-6892-
40570f8c5e60%40iki.fi
Bruce Momjian [Thu, 3 Dec 2020 15:28:58 +0000 (10:28 -0500)]
docs: list single-letter options first in command-line summary
In a few places, the long-version options were listed before the
single-letter ones in the command summary of a few commands. This
didn't match other commands, and didn't match the option ordering later
in the same reference page.
Backpatch-through: 9.5
Heikki Linnakangas [Thu, 3 Dec 2020 13:57:48 +0000 (15:57 +0200)]
Fix pg_rewind bugs when rewinding a standby server.
If the target is a standby server, its WAL doesn't end at the last
checkpoint record, but at minRecoveryPoint. We must scan all the
WAL from the last common checkpoint all the way up to minRecoveryPoint
for modified pages, and also consider that portion when determining
whether the server needs rewinding.
Backpatch to all supported versions.
Author: Ian Barwick and me
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CABvVfJU-LDWvoz4-Yow3Ay5LZYTuPD7eSjjE4kGyNZpXC6FrVQ%40mail.gmail.com
Tom Lane [Tue, 1 Dec 2020 19:02:28 +0000 (14:02 -0500)]
Ensure that expandTableLikeClause() re-examines the same table.
As it stood, expandTableLikeClause() re-did the same relation_openrv
call that transformTableLikeClause() had done. However there are
scenarios where this would not find the same table as expected.
We hold lock on the LIKE source table, so it can't be renamed or
dropped, but another table could appear before it in the search path.
This explains the odd behavior reported in bug #16758 when cloning a
table as a temp table of the same name. This case worked as expected
before commit
502898192 introduced the need to open the source table
twice, so we should fix it.
To make really sure we get the same table, let's re-open it by OID not
name. That requires adding an OID field to struct TableLikeClause,
which is a little nervous-making from an ABI standpoint, but as long
as it's at the end I don't think there's any serious risk.
Per bug #16758 from Marc Boeren. Like the previous patch,
back-patch to all supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16758-
840e84a6cfab276d@postgresql.org
Thomas Munro [Tue, 1 Dec 2020 00:46:27 +0000 (13:46 +1300)]
Free disk space for dropped relations on commit.
When committing a transaction that dropped a relation, we previously
truncated only the first segment file to free up disk space (the one
that won't be unlinked until the next checkpoint).
Truncate higher numbered segments too, even though we unlink them on
commit. This frees the disk space immediately, even if other backends
have open file descriptors and might take a long time to get around to
handling shared invalidation events and closing them. Also extend the
same behavior to the first segment, in recovery.
Back-patch to all supported releases.
Bug: #16663
Reported-by: Denis Patron <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Pavel Borisov <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Neil Chen <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: David Zhang <[email protected]>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16663-
fe97ccf9932fc800%40postgresql.org
Alvaro Herrera [Mon, 30 Nov 2020 21:24:55 +0000 (18:24 -0300)]
Document concurrent indexes waiting on each other
Because regular CREATE INDEX commands are independent, and there's no
logical data dependency, it's not immediately obvious that transactions
held by concurrent index builds on one table will block the second phase
of concurrent index creation on an unrelated table, so document this
caveat.
Backpatch this all the way back. In branch master, mention that only
some indexes are involved.
Author: James Coleman <
[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: David Johnston <[email protected]>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAaqYe994=PUrn8CJZ4UEo_S-FfRr_3ogERyhtdgHAb2WG_Ufg@mail.gmail.com
Tom Lane [Mon, 30 Nov 2020 17:22:43 +0000 (12:22 -0500)]
Fix miscomputation of direct_lateral_relids for join relations.
If a PlaceHolderVar is to be evaluated at a join relation, but
its value is only needed there and not at higher levels, we neglected
to update the joinrel's direct_lateral_relids to include the PHV's
source rel. This causes problems because join_is_legal() then won't
allow joining the joinrel to the PHV's source rel at all, leading
to "failed to build any N-way joins" planner failures.
Per report from Andreas Seltenreich. Back-patch to 9.5
where the problem originated.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/
[email protected]
Tom Lane [Sun, 29 Nov 2020 20:22:04 +0000 (15:22 -0500)]
Fix recently-introduced breakage in psql's \connect command.
Through my misreading of what the existing code actually did,
commits
85c54287a et al. broke psql's behavior for the case where
"\c connstring" provides a password in the connstring. We should
use that password in such a case, but as of
85c54287a we ignored it
(and instead, prompted for a password).
Commit
94929f1cf fixed that in HEAD, but since I thought it was
cleaning up a longstanding misbehavior and not one I'd just created,
I didn't back-patch it.
Hence, back-patch the portions of
94929f1cf having to do with
password management. In addition to fixing the introduced bug,
this means that "\c -reuse-previous=on connstring" will allow
re-use of an existing connection's password if the connstring
doesn't change user/host/port. That didn't happen before, but
it seems like a bug fix, and anyway I'm loath to have significant
differences in this code across versions.
Also fix an error with the same root cause about whether or not to
override a connstring's setting of client_encoding. As of
85c54287a
we always did so; restore the previous behavior of overriding only
when stdin/stdout are a terminal and there's no environment setting
of PGCLIENTENCODING. (I find that definition a bit surprising, but
right now doesn't seem like the time to revisit it.)
Per bug #16746 from Krzysztof Gradek. As with the previous patch,
back-patch to all supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16746-
44b30e2edf4335d4@postgresql.org
Tom Lane [Sun, 29 Nov 2020 18:58:30 +0000 (13:58 -0500)]
Doc: clarify behavior of PQconnectdbParams().
The documentation omitted the critical tidbit that a keyword-array entry
is simply ignored if its corresponding value-array entry is NULL or an
empty string; it will *not* override any previously-obtained value for
the parameter. (See conninfo_array_parse().) I'd supposed that would
force the setting back to default, which is what led me into bug #16746;
but it doesn't.
While here, I couldn't resist the temptation to do some copy-editing,
both in the description of PQconnectdbParams() and in the section
about connection URI syntax.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/931505.
1606618746@sss.pgh.pa.us
Tom Lane [Sat, 28 Nov 2020 19:03:40 +0000 (14:03 -0500)]
Fix a recently-introduced race condition in LISTEN/NOTIFY handling.
Commit
566372b3d fixed some race conditions involving concurrent
SimpleLruTruncate calls, but it introduced new ones in async.c.
A newly-listening backend could attempt to read Notify SLRU pages that
were in process of being truncated, possibly causing an error. Also,
the QUEUE_TAIL pointer could become set to a value that's not equal to
the queue position of any backend. While that's fairly harmless in
v13 and up (thanks to commit
51004c717), in older branches it resulted
in near-permanent disabling of the queue truncation logic, so that
continued use of NOTIFY led to queue-fill warnings and eventual
inability to send any more notifies. (A server restart is enough to
make that go away, but it's still pretty unpleasant.)
The core of the problem is confusion about whether QUEUE_TAIL
represents the "logical" tail of the queue (i.e., the oldest
still-interesting data) or the "physical" tail (the oldest data we've
not yet truncated away). To fix, split that into two variables.
QUEUE_TAIL regains its definition as the logical tail, and we
introduce a new variable to track the oldest un-truncated page.
Per report from Mikael Gustavsson. Like the previous patch,
back-patch to all supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/
1b8561412e8a4f038d7a491c8b922788@smhi.se
Peter Eisentraut [Wed, 25 Nov 2020 08:49:00 +0000 (09:49 +0100)]
doc: Fix typos
Author: Justin Pryzby <
[email protected]>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/
20201121194105[email protected]
Andrew Gierth [Tue, 24 Nov 2020 20:58:32 +0000 (20:58 +0000)]
Properly check index mark/restore in ExecSupportsMarkRestore.
Previously this code assumed that all IndexScan nodes supported
mark/restore, which is not true since it depends on optional index AM
support functions. This could lead to errors about missing support
functions in rare edge cases of mergejoins with no sort keys, where an
unordered non-btree index scan was placed on the inner path without a
protecting Materialize node. (Normally, the fact that merge join
requires ordered input would avoid this error.)
Backpatch all the way since this bug is ancient.
Per report from Eugen Konkov on irc.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/
[email protected]
Heikki Linnakangas [Fri, 20 Nov 2020 12:41:14 +0000 (14:41 +0200)]
Skip allocating hash table in EXPLAIN-only mode.
This is a backpatch of commit
2cccb627f1, backpatched due to popular
demand. Backpatch to all supported versions.
Author: Alexey Bashtanov
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/
36823f65-050d-ae24-aa4d-
a37726998240%40imap.cc
Tom Lane [Fri, 20 Nov 2020 05:58:26 +0000 (00:58 -0500)]
On macOS, use -isysroot in link steps as well as compile steps.
We previously put the -isysroot switch only into CPPFLAGS, theorizing
that it was only needed to find the right copies of include files.
However, it seems that we also need to use it while linking programs,
to find the right stub ".tbd" files for libraries. We got away
without that up to now, but apparently that was mostly luck. It may
also be that failures are only observed when the Xcode version is
noticeably out of sync with the host macOS version; the case that's
prompting action right now is that builds fail when using latest Xcode
(12.2) on macOS Catalina, even though it's fine on Big Sur.
Hence, add -isysroot to LDFLAGS as well. (It seems that the more
common practice is to put it in CFLAGS, whence it'd be included at
both compile and link steps. However, we can't mess with CFLAGS in
the platform template file without confusing configure's logic for
choosing default CFLAGS.)
Back-patch of
49407dc32 into all supported branches.
Report and patch by James Hilliard (some cosmetic mods by me)
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/
20201120003314[email protected]
Thomas Munro [Thu, 19 Nov 2020 21:44:09 +0000 (10:44 +1300)]
Adjust DSM and DSA slot usage constants (back-patch).
1. Previously, a DSA area would create up to four segments at each size
before doubling the size. After this commit, it will create only two at
each size, so it ramps up faster and therefore needs fewer slots.
2. Previously, the total limit on DSM slots allowed for 2 per connection.
Switch to 5 per connection.
This back-patches commit
d061ea21 from release 13 into 10-12 based on a
field complaint.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAO03teA%2BjE1qt5iWDWzHqaufqBsF6EoOgZphnazps_tr_jDPZA%40mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGL6H2BpGbiF7Lj6QiTjTGyTLW_vLR%3DSn2tEBeTcYXiMKw%40mail.gmail.com
Tom Lane [Thu, 19 Nov 2020 20:03:17 +0000 (15:03 -0500)]
Further fixes for CREATE TABLE LIKE: cope with self-referential FKs.
Commit
502898192 was too careless about the order of execution of the
additional ALTER TABLE operations generated by expandTableLikeClause.
It just stuck them all at the end, which seems okay for most purposes.
But it falls down in the case where LIKE is importing a primary key
or unique index and the outer CREATE TABLE includes a FOREIGN KEY
constraint that needs to depend on that index. Weird as that is,
it used to work, so we ought to keep it working.
To fix, make parse_utilcmd.c insert LIKE clauses between index-creation
and FK-creation commands in the transformed list of commands, and change
utility.c so that the commands generated by expandTableLikeClause are
executed immediately not at the end. One could imagine scenarios where
this wouldn't work either; but currently expandTableLikeClause only
makes column default expressions, CHECK constraints, and indexes, and
this ordering seems fine for those.
Per bug #16730 from Sofoklis Papasofokli. Like the previous patch,
back-patch to all supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16730-
b902f7e6e0276b30@postgresql.org
Tom Lane [Tue, 17 Nov 2020 01:32:35 +0000 (20:32 -0500)]
Don't Insert() a VFD entry until it's fully built.
Otherwise, if FDDEBUG is enabled, the debugging output fails because
it tries to read the fileName, which isn't set up yet (and should in
fact always be NULL).
AFAICT, this has been wrong since Berkeley. Before
96bf88d52,
it would accidentally fail to crash on platforms where snprintf()
is forgiving about being passed a NULL pointer for %s; but the
file name intended to be included in the debug output wouldn't
ever have shown up.
Report and fix by Greg Nancarrow. Although this is only visibly
broken in custom-made builds, it still seems worth back-patching
to all supported branches, as the FDDEBUG code is pretty useless
as it stands.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJcOf-cUDgm9qYtC_B6XrC6MktMPNRby2p61EtSGZKnfotMArw@mail.gmail.com
Bruce Momjian [Mon, 16 Nov 2020 18:13:43 +0000 (13:13 -0500)]
doc: update bgwriter description
This clarifies exactly what the bgwriter does, which should help with
tuning.
Reported-by: Chris Wilson
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/
160399562040.7809.
7335281028960123489@wrigleys.postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 9.5
Bruce Momjian [Mon, 16 Nov 2020 17:36:16 +0000 (12:36 -0500)]
doc: clarify how to find pg_type_d.h in the install tree
Followup to patch
152ed04799.
Reported-by: Alvaro Herrera
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/
20201112202900[email protected]
Backpatch-through: 9.5
Bruce Momjian [Mon, 16 Nov 2020 16:14:54 +0000 (11:14 -0500)]
doc: adjust expression index analyze working some more
This applies the fix
bcbd771332 to skipped branches.
Reported-by: Erik Rijkers
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/
e92b3fba98a0c0f7afc0a2a37e765954@xs4all.nl
Backpatch-through: 9.5-11