PostgreSQL 9.0.23 commit log

commit   : 9a42e8514f7e42737992bb09bd93540dd9630a9a    
  
author   : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Mon, 5 Oct 2015 15:19:44 -0400    
  
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Mon, 5 Oct 2015 15:19:44 -0400    

commit   : bfbaeae48a9c927dca41c4ac73a8a7ca7ae7c6d5    
  
author   : Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>    
date     : Fri, 2 Oct 2015 21:50:59 -0400    
  
committer: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>    
date     : Fri, 2 Oct 2015 21:50:59 -0400    

commit   : f2bcd7a7ea57fba191b1f484b642481cc5cc824e    
  
author   : Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>    
date     : Mon, 5 Oct 2015 10:42:12 -0400    
  
committer: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>    
date     : Mon, 5 Oct 2015 10:42:12 -0400    

Source-Git-URL: git://git.postgresql.org/git/pgtranslation/messages.git  
Source-Git-Hash: e0981ce6d26309e48891d9192c69fcccd40fe7cd  

commit   : 47b06ecad45ee6f44045fe35c4cfc15dafedc0a0    
  
author   : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Mon, 5 Oct 2015 10:57:15 -0400    
  
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Mon, 5 Oct 2015 10:57:15 -0400    

Add entries for security and not-quite-security issues.  
  
Security: CVE-2015-5288, CVE-2015-5289  

commit   : c415a7c8982b37818b9db50e2cb3f349f76550a7    
  
author   : Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>    
date     : Mon, 5 Oct 2015 16:09:13 +0200    
  
committer: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>    
date     : Mon, 5 Oct 2015 16:09:13 +0200    

The documentation for the autovacuum_multixact_freeze_max_age and  
autovacuum_freeze_max_age relation level parameters contained:  
"Note that while you can set autovacuum_multixact_freeze_max_age very  
small, or even zero, this is usually unwise since it will force frequent  
vacuuming."  
which hasn't been true since these options were made relation options,  
instead of residing in the pg_autovacuum table (834a6da4f7).  
  
Remove the outdated sentence. Even the lowered limits from 2596d70 are  
high enough that this doesn't warrant calling out the risk in the CREATE  
TABLE docs.  
  
Per discussion with Tom Lane and Alvaro Herrera  
  
Discussion: 26377.1443105453@sss.pgh.pa.us  
Backpatch: 9.0- (in parts)  

commit   : 682a25d41c8a0e8425bf27453f49add24a047c09    
  
author   : Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>    
date     : Mon, 5 Oct 2015 10:06:30 -0400    
  
committer: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>    
date     : Mon, 5 Oct 2015 10:06:30 -0400    

The tsquery, ltxtquery and query_int data types have a common ancestor.  
Having acquired check_stack_depth() calls independently, each was  
missing at least one call.  Back-patch to 9.0 (all supported versions).  

commit   : 0398e071adf5437bafaab7701dc46df55dceca76    
  
author   : Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>    
date     : Mon, 5 Oct 2015 10:06:29 -0400    
  
committer: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>    
date     : Mon, 5 Oct 2015 10:06:29 -0400    

A range type can name another range type as its subtype, and a record  
type can bear a column of another record type.  Consequently, functions  
like range_cmp() and record_recv() are recursive.  Functions at risk  
include operator family members and referents of pg_type regproc  
columns.  Treat as recursive any such function that looks up and calls  
the same-purpose function for a record column type or the range subtype.  
Back-patch to 9.0 (all supported versions).  
  
An array type's element type is never itself an array type, so array  
functions are unaffected.  Recursion depth proportional to array  
dimensionality, found in array_dim_to_jsonb(), is fine thanks to MAXDIM.  

commit   : 188e081ef891d8590d2675b44331b8c450f616c4    
  
author   : Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>    
date     : Mon, 5 Oct 2015 10:06:29 -0400    
  
committer: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>    
date     : Mon, 5 Oct 2015 10:06:29 -0400    

Certain short salts crashed the backend or disclosed a few bytes of  
backend memory.  For existing salt-induced error conditions, emit a  
message saying as much.  Back-patch to 9.0 (all supported versions).  
  
Josh Kupershmidt  
  
Security: CVE-2015-5288  

commit   : eeb0b7830290a2f95a0ff934c0322a286e226476    
  
author   : Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>    
date     : Mon, 5 Oct 2015 11:53:43 +0200    
  
committer: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>    
date     : Mon, 5 Oct 2015 11:53:43 +0200    

In 020235a5754 I lowered the autovacuum_*freeze_max_age minimums to  
allow for easier testing of wraparounds. I did not touch the  
corresponding per-table limits. While those don't matter for the purpose  
of wraparound, it seems more consistent to lower them as well.  
  
It's noteworthy that the previous reloption lower limit for  
autovacuum_multixact_freeze_max_age was too high by one magnitude, even  
before 020235a5754.  
  
Discussion: 26377.1443105453@sss.pgh.pa.us  
Backpatch: back to 9.0 (in parts), like the prior patch  

commit   : 3d8987fc211b4a271da032d3351e87cd8d122912    
  
author   : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Sun, 4 Oct 2015 19:38:01 -0400    
  
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Sun, 4 Oct 2015 19:38:01 -0400    

commit   : d637a899ca2bfc966614dfa8498b9023f4088b31    
  
author   : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Sun, 4 Oct 2015 15:55:07 -0400    
  
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Sun, 4 Oct 2015 15:55:07 -0400    

On reflection, the submitted patch didn't really work to prevent the  
request size from exceeding MaxAllocSize, because of the fact that we'd  
happily round nbuckets up to the next power of 2 after we'd limited it to  
max_pointers.  The simplest way to enforce the limit correctly is to  
round max_pointers down to a power of 2 when it isn't one already.  
  
(Note that the constraint to INT_MAX / 2, if it were doing anything useful  
at all, is properly applied after that.)  

commit   : 2647b245d2360a5545f078a2943933eb50d57e66    
  
author   : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Sun, 4 Oct 2015 14:16:59 -0400    
  
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Sun, 4 Oct 2015 14:16:59 -0400    

Limit the size of the hashtable pointer array to not more than  
MaxAllocSize.  We've seen reports of failures due to this in HEAD/9.5,  
and it seems possible in older branches as well.  The change in  
NTUP_PER_BUCKET in 9.5 may have made the problem more likely, but  
surely it didn't introduce it.  
  
Tomas Vondra, slightly modified by me  

commit   : 47ac95f378773a492b26ef2efe0115ac9a166e5a    
  
author   : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Fri, 2 Oct 2015 19:15:39 -0400    
  
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Fri, 2 Oct 2015 19:15:39 -0400    

DST law changes in Cayman Islands, Fiji, Moldova, Morocco, Norfolk Island,  
North Korea, Turkey, Uruguay.  New zone America/Fort_Nelson for Canadian  
Northern Rockies.  

commit   : b875ca09f3626e4002b5e70e00f99e4bc29c4d32    
  
author   : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Fri, 2 Oct 2015 15:00:52 -0400    
  
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Fri, 2 Oct 2015 15:00:52 -0400    

Since MatchText() recurses, it could in principle be driven to stack  
overflow, although quite a long pattern would be needed.  

commit   : 54b116d83f828f5cff2e867d8a067c204d0978ab    
  
author   : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Fri, 2 Oct 2015 14:51:59 -0400    
  
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Fri, 2 Oct 2015 14:51:59 -0400    

Some of the functions in regex compilation and execution recurse, and  
therefore could in principle be driven to stack overflow.  The Tcl crew  
has seen this happen in practice in duptraverse(), though their fix was  
to put in a hard-wired limit on the number of recursive levels, which is  
not too appetizing --- fortunately, we have enough infrastructure to check  
the actually available stack.  Greg Stark has also seen it in other places  
while fuzz testing on a machine with limited stack space.  Let's put guards  
in to prevent crashes in all these places.  
  
Since the regex code would leak memory if we simply threw elog(ERROR),  
we have to introduce an API that checks for stack depth without throwing  
such an error.  Fortunately that's not difficult.  

commit   : 2a887828964e5347916ffb621574641648b9dd5b    
  
author   : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Fri, 2 Oct 2015 14:26:36 -0400    
  
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Fri, 2 Oct 2015 14:26:36 -0400    

In cfindloop(), if the initial call to shortest() reports that a  
zero-length match is possible at the current search start point, but then  
it is unable to construct any actual match to that, it'll just loop around  
with the same start point, and thus make no progress.  We need to force the  
start point to be advanced.  This is safe because the loop over "begin"  
points has already tried and failed to match starting at "close", so there  
is surely no need to try that again.  
  
This bug was introduced in commit e2bd904955e2221eddf01110b1f25002de2aaa83,  
wherein we allowed continued searching after we'd run out of match  
possibilities, but evidently failed to think hard enough about exactly  
where we needed to search next.  
  
Because of the way this code works, such a match failure is only possible  
in the presence of backrefs --- otherwise, shortest()'s judgment that a  
match is possible should always be correct.  That probably explains how  
come the bug has escaped detection for several years.  
  
The actual fix is a one-liner, but I took the trouble to add/improve some  
comments related to the loop logic.  
  
After fixing that, the submitted test case "()*\1" didn't loop anymore.  
But it reported failure, though it seems like it ought to match a  
zero-length string; both Tcl and Perl think it does.  That seems to be from  
overenthusiastic optimization on my part when I rewrote the iteration match  
logic in commit 173e29aa5deefd9e71c183583ba37805c8102a72: we can't just  
"declare victory" for a zero-length match without bothering to set match  
data for capturing parens inside the iterator node.  
  
Per fuzz testing by Greg Stark.  The first part of this is a bug in all  
supported branches, and the second part is a bug since 9.2 where the  
iteration rewrite happened.  

commit   : d4f6488ec0ea39dc8737dd14469dcaacef3800fa    
  
author   : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Fri, 2 Oct 2015 13:45:39 -0400    
  
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Fri, 2 Oct 2015 13:45:39 -0400    

Commit 9662143f0c35d64d7042fbeaf879df8f0b54be32 added infrastructure to  
allow regular-expression operations to be terminated early in the event  
of SIGINT etc.  However, fuzz testing by Greg Stark disclosed that there  
are still cases where regex compilation could run for a long time without  
noticing a cancel request.  Specifically, the fixempties() phase never  
adds new states, only new arcs, so it doesn't hit the cancel check I'd put  
in newstate().  Add one to newarc() as well to cover that.  
  
Some experimentation of my own found that regex execution could also run  
for a long time despite a pending cancel.  We'd put a high-level cancel  
check into cdissect(), but there was none inside the core text-matching  
routines longest() and shortest().  Ordinarily those inner loops are very  
very fast ... but in the presence of lookahead constraints, not so much.  
As a compromise, stick a cancel check into the stateset cache-miss  
function, which is enough to guarantee a cancel check at least once per  
lookahead constraint test.  
  
Making this work required more attention to error handling throughout the  
regex executor.  Henry Spencer had apparently originally intended longest()  
and shortest() to be incapable of incurring errors while running, so  
neither they nor their subroutines had well-defined error reporting  
behaviors.  However, that was already broken by the lookahead constraint  
feature, since lacon() can surely suffer an out-of-memory failure ---  
which, in the code as it stood, might never be reported to the user at all,  
but just silently be treated as a non-match of the lookahead constraint.  
Normalize all that by inserting explicit error tests as needed.  I took the  
opportunity to add some more comments to the code, too.  
  
Back-patch to all supported branches, like the previous patch.  

commit   : 3fe8a6c2d05affadce029af293e5e386cb055c22    
  
author   : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Fri, 2 Oct 2015 13:30:43 -0400    
  
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Fri, 2 Oct 2015 13:30:43 -0400    

It's not terribly hard to devise regular expressions that take large  
amounts of time and/or memory to process.  Recent testing by Greg Stark has  
also shown that machines with small stack limits can be driven to stack  
overflow by suitably crafted regexps.  While we intend to fix these things  
as much as possible, it's probably impossible to eliminate slow-execution  
cases altogether.  In any case we don't want to treat such things as  
security issues.  The history of that code should already discourage  
prudent DBAs from allowing execution of regexp patterns coming from  
possibly-hostile sources, but it seems like a good idea to warn about the  
hazard explicitly.  
  
Currently, similar_escape() allows access to enough of the underlying  
regexp behavior that the warning has to apply to SIMILAR TO as well.  
We might be able to make it safer if we tightened things up to allow only  
SQL-mandated capabilities in SIMILAR TO; but that would be a subtly  
non-backwards-compatible change, so it requires discussion and probably  
could not be back-patched.  
  
Per discussion among pgsql-security list.  

commit   : a1c4afaafbc8fac540357e6c193ab1a971d2129a    
  
author   : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Thu, 1 Oct 2015 10:31:22 -0400    
  
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Thu, 1 Oct 2015 10:31:22 -0400    

Etsuro Fujita spotted a thinko in the README commentary.  

commit   : 2d4336cf85c13354b3da7acef44444df06b74275    
  
author   : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Wed, 30 Sep 2015 23:32:23 -0400    
  
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Wed, 30 Sep 2015 23:32:23 -0400    

If some existing listener is far behind, incoming new listener sessions  
would start from that session's read pointer and then need to advance over  
many already-committed notification messages, which they have no interest  
in.  This was expensive in itself and also thrashed the pg_notify SLRU  
buffers a lot more than necessary.  We can improve matters considerably  
in typical scenarios, without much added cost, by starting from the  
furthest-ahead read pointer, not the furthest-behind one.  We do have to  
consider only sessions in our own database when doing this, which requires  
an extra field in the data structure, but that's a pretty small cost.  
  
Back-patch to 9.0 where the current LISTEN/NOTIFY logic was introduced.  
  
Matt Newell, slightly adjusted by me  

commit   : 47ae6bc5a9fead2c6b52ed861ad84f605b43a858    
  
author   : Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>    
date     : Mon, 28 Sep 2015 18:29:20 -0400    
  
committer: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>    
date     : Mon, 28 Sep 2015 18:29:20 -0400    

Backpatch to all live branches to keep the code in sync.  

commit   : 98d8c75f9f15a3718214c2fbfda9919f3dcfd274    
  
author   : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Fri, 25 Sep 2015 12:20:46 -0400    
  
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Fri, 25 Sep 2015 12:20:46 -0400    

(Third time's the charm, I hope.)  
  
Additional testing disclosed that this code could mangle already-localized  
output from the "money" datatype.  We can't very easily skip applying it  
to "money" values, because the logic is tied to column right-justification  
and people expect "money" output to be right-justified.  Short of  
decoupling that, we can fix it in what should be a safe enough way by  
testing to make sure the string doesn't contain any characters that would  
not be expected in plain numeric output.  

commit   : 71763ecff64cecc78384ef44c720f6e95db05f31    
  
author   : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Fri, 25 Sep 2015 00:00:33 -0400    
  
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Fri, 25 Sep 2015 00:00:33 -0400    

On closer inspection, those seemingly redundant atoi() calls were not so  
much inefficient as just plain wrong: the author of this code either had  
not read, or had not understood, the POSIX specification for localeconv().  
The grouping field is *not* a textual digit string but separate integers  
encoded as chars.  
  
We'll follow the existing code as well as the backend's cash.c in only  
honoring the first group width, but let's at least honor it correctly.  
  
This doesn't actually result in any behavioral change in any of the  
locales I have installed on my Linux box, which may explain why nobody's  
complained; grouping width 3 is close enough to universal that it's barely  
worth considering other cases.  Still, wrong is wrong, so back-patch.  

commit   : c2d6ef14eba72468458517249d8b0c0df5507918    
  
author   : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Thu, 24 Sep 2015 23:01:04 -0400    
  
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Thu, 24 Sep 2015 23:01:04 -0400    

This code did the wrong thing entirely for numbers with an exponent  
but no decimal point (e.g., '1e6'), as reported by Jeff Janes in  
bug #13636.  More generally, it made lots of unverified assumptions  
about what the input string could possibly look like.  Rearrange so  
that it only fools with leading digits that it's directly verified  
are there, and an immediately adjacent decimal point.  While at it,  
get rid of some useless inefficiencies, like converting the grouping  
count string to integer over and over (and over).  
  
This has been broken for a long time, so back-patch to all supported  
branches.  

commit   : 078d471a909a07bc7dc93def37b6811e236f8a84    
  
author   : Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>    
date     : Thu, 24 Sep 2015 14:53:33 +0200    
  
committer: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>    
date     : Thu, 24 Sep 2015 14:53:33 +0200    

The old minimum values are rather large, making it time consuming to  
test related behaviour. Additionally the current limits, especially for  
multixacts, can be problematic in space-constrained systems. 10000000  
multixacts can contain a lot of members.  
  
Since there's no good reason for the current limits, lower them a good  
bit. Setting them to 0 would be a bad idea, triggering endless vacuums,  
so still retain a limit.  
  
While at it fix autovacuum_multixact_freeze_max_age to refer to  
multixact.c instead of varsup.c.  
  
Reviewed-By: Robert Haas  
Discussion: CA+TgmoYmQPHcrc3GSs7vwvrbTkbcGD9Gik=OztbDGGrovkkEzQ@mail.gmail.com  
Backpatch: 9.0 (in parts)  

commit   : c69e7d5c78af946b22d46afc60823d20197ca3e3    
  
author   : Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>    
date     : Tue, 22 Sep 2015 23:37:26 -0400    
  
committer: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>    
date     : Tue, 22 Sep 2015 23:37:26 -0400    

Symbols S_IRWXG and S_IRWXO became available to Windows builds in commit  
1319002e2ee166c06b38cdbc5e8508c7205fa115, so PostgreSQL 9.0 cannot use  
them in platform-independent code.  Rewrite commit  
24aed2124a5273e4cb543b06d4b7bb2c2ad5bf3c to not change Windows builds.  
The new umask() call had no effect on Windows, anyway.  Per buildfarm.  

commit   : 68e83c12088aa2272ccdd632a37d647ea67548a0    
  
author   : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Tue, 22 Sep 2015 10:40:25 -0400    
  
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Tue, 22 Sep 2015 10:40:25 -0400    

Per bug #13631 from KOIZUMI Satoru.  

commit   : a89781e34725286b675d41f8dfdfa25ade2a277f    
  
author   : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Mon, 21 Sep 2015 12:11:32 -0400    
  
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Mon, 21 Sep 2015 12:11:32 -0400    

mul_var() postpones propagating carries until it risks overflow in its  
internal digit array.  However, the logic failed to account for the  
possibility of overflow in the carry propagation step, allowing wrong  
results to be generated in corner cases.  We must slightly reduce the  
when-to-propagate-carries threshold to avoid that.  
  
Discovered and fixed by Dean Rasheed, with small adjustments by me.  
  
This has been wrong since commit d72f6c75038d8d37e64a29a04b911f728044d83b,  
so back-patch to all supported branches.  

commit   : 24aed2124a5273e4cb543b06d4b7bb2c2ad5bf3c    
  
author   : Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>    
date     : Sun, 20 Sep 2015 20:42:27 -0400    
  
committer: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>    
date     : Sun, 20 Sep 2015 20:42:27 -0400    

Per Coverity.  Back-patch to 9.0 (all supported versions).  
  
Michael Paquier, reviewed (in earlier versions) by Heikki Linnakangas.  

commit   : eed5bbc48026976444dc020086559acc8e6f26ca    
  
author   : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Sun, 20 Sep 2015 16:48:44 -0400    
  
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Sun, 20 Sep 2015 16:48:44 -0400    

RemoveLocalLock() must consider the possibility that LockAcquireExtended()  
failed to palloc the initial space for a locallock's lockOwners array.  
I had evidently meant to cope with this hazard when the code was originally  
written (commit 1785acebf2ed14fd66955e2d9a55d77a025f418d), but missed that  
the pfree needed to be protected with an if-test.  Just to make sure things  
are left in a clean state, reset numLockOwners as well.  
  
Per low-memory testing by Andreas Seltenreich.  Back-patch to all supported  
branches.  

commit   : 44297a058ea05cd78b33612ce303f3caec11e3ab    
  
author   : Michael Meskes <meskes@postgresql.org>    
date     : Thu, 17 Sep 2015 15:41:04 +0200    
  
committer: Michael Meskes <meskes@postgresql.org>    
date     : Thu, 17 Sep 2015 15:41:04 +0200    

Back in the day this did not work, but modern compilers should handle it themselves.  

commit   : ba9eb293fa6466e5dd8dbcf1e51f8126d9d02bb0    
  
author   : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Fri, 18 Sep 2015 13:55:17 -0400    
  
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Fri, 18 Sep 2015 13:55:17 -0400    

After an internal failure in shortest() or longest() while pinning down the  
exact location of a match, find() forgot to free the DFA structure before  
returning.  This is pretty unlikely to occur, since we just successfully  
ran the "search" variant of the DFA; but it could happen, and it would  
result in a session-lifespan memory leak since this code uses malloc()  
directly.  Problem seems to have been aboriginal in Spencer's library,  
so back-patch all the way.  
  
In passing, correct a thinko in a comment I added awhile back about the  
meaning of the "ntree" field.  
  
I happened across these issues while comparing our code to Tcl's version  
of the library.  

commit   : f7eeb324e7b9fa948dfd55b55e9b20fa919e7f79    
  
author   : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Wed, 16 Sep 2015 14:50:12 -0400    
  
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Wed, 16 Sep 2015 14:50:12 -0400    

The docs claimed that \uhhhh would be interpreted as a Unicode value  
regardless of the database encoding, but it's never been implemented  
that way: \uhhhh and \xhhhh actually mean exactly the same thing, namely  
the character that pg_mb2wchar translates to 0xhhhh.  Moreover we were  
falsely dismissive of the usefulness of Unicode code points above FFFF.  
Fix that.  
  
It's been like this for ages, so back-patch to all supported branches.  

commit   : 698c7a3bc0d8b2d9677f47943cf20aaf864dabe5    
  
author   : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Sat, 12 Sep 2015 11:11:08 -0400    
  
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Sat, 12 Sep 2015 11:11:08 -0400    

In branches before 9.3, commit 8703059c6 caused join_is_legal()'s  
unique_ified variable to become unused, since its only remaining  
use is for LATERAL-related tests which don't exist pre-9.3.  
My compiler didn't complain about that, but Peter's does.  

commit   : 52b07779ddd07d5cbe4b833c91061bb8ca9379aa    
  
author   : Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>    
date     : Fri, 11 Sep 2015 15:51:10 -0400    
  
committer: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>    
date     : Fri, 11 Sep 2015 15:51:10 -0400    

Modify pg_dump to restore postgres/template1 databases to non-default  
tablespaces by switching out of the database to be moved, then switching  
back.  
  
Also, to fix potentially cases where the old/new tablespaces might not  
match, fix pg_upgrade to process new/old tablespaces separately in all  
cases.  
  
Report by Marti Raudsepp  
  
Patch by Marti Raudsepp, me  
  
Backpatch through 9.0  

commit   : 6d36d7b63f298a335f495c579cdcde903b4e0645    
  
author   : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Thu, 10 Sep 2015 10:26:58 -0400    
  
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Thu, 10 Sep 2015 10:26:58 -0400    

This reverts commit 0473e047877ab9e51d5130bc14276b2308ed77a8.  

commit   : 0473e047877ab9e51d5130bc14276b2308ed77a8    
  
author   : Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>    
date     : Thu, 10 Sep 2015 09:22:44 -0400    
  
committer: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>    
date     : Thu, 10 Sep 2015 09:22:44 -0400    

We're adding OIDs, not TIDs, to invalItems.  
  
Pointed out by Etsuro Fujita.  
  
Back-patch to all supported branches.  

commit   : 669856714222cc27d6ce08b80ed774e854830673    
  
author   : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Wed, 9 Sep 2015 20:14:58 -0400    
  
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Wed, 9 Sep 2015 20:14:58 -0400    

The list-wrangling here was done wrong, allowing the same state to get  
put into the list twice.  The following loop then would clone it twice.  
The second clone would wind up with no inarcs, so that there was no  
observable misbehavior AFAICT, but a useless state in the finished NFA  
isn't an especially good thing.  

commit   : cc28f77c27fb23a071f79272333622d293f33729    
  
author   : Fujii Masao <fujii@postgresql.org>    
date     : Wed, 9 Sep 2015 02:25:50 +0900    
  
committer: Fujii Masao <fujii@postgresql.org>    
date     : Wed, 9 Sep 2015 02:25:50 +0900    

This was forgotten in 8a3631f (commit that originally added the parameter)  
and 0ca9907 (commit that added the documentation later that year).  
  
Back-patch to all supported versions.  

commit   : 625f488711f85b35b54f56dce3f8923e29df7df2    
  
author   : Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>    
date     : Tue, 8 Sep 2015 11:10:20 -0300    
  
committer: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>    
date     : Tue, 8 Sep 2015 11:10:20 -0300    

commit   : 7febdf36adf254051773d5481a8d5e133ca82563    
  
author   : Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>    
date     : Mon, 7 Sep 2015 19:18:29 -0300    
  
committer: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>    
date     : Mon, 7 Sep 2015 19:18:29 -0300    

We were missing a few return checks on OpenSSL calls.  Should be pretty  
harmless, since we haven't seen any user reports about problems, and  
this is not a high-traffic module anyway; still, a bug is a bug, so  
backpatch this all the way back to 9.0.  
  
Author: Michael Paquier, while reviewing another sslinfo patch  

commit   : 92d956f51d5ef093652598aee0da63624d6eceec    
  
author   : Greg Stark <stark@mit.edu>    
date     : Mon, 7 Sep 2015 13:35:09 +0100    
  
committer: Greg Stark <stark@mit.edu>    
date     : Mon, 7 Sep 2015 13:35:09 +0100    

commit   : a7496aee617314d77b52ee22c8f1f677888902ae    
  
author   : Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru>    
date     : Mon, 7 Sep 2015 17:20:44 +0300    
  
committer: Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru>    
date     : Mon, 7 Sep 2015 17:20:44 +0300    

Cleanup process could be called by ordinary insert/update and could take a lot  
of time. Add vacuum_delay_point() to make this process interruptable. Under  
vacuum this call will also throttle a vacuum process to decrease system load,  
called from insert/update it will not throttle, and that reduces a latency.  
  
Backpatch for all supported branches.  
  
Jeff Janes <jeff.janes@gmail.com>  

commit   : fad42aae97bfce325770f433948c13e1c26ed0a3    
  
author   : Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru>    
date     : Mon, 7 Sep 2015 15:22:29 +0300    
  
committer: Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru>    
date     : Mon, 7 Sep 2015 15:22:29 +0300    

commit   : 530d0c504fe636b0ed4a3817b1e9806dd55a52b6    
  
author   : Greg Stark <stark@mit.edu>    
date     : Sun, 6 Sep 2015 04:02:57 +0100    
  
committer: Greg Stark <stark@mit.edu>    
date     : Sun, 6 Sep 2015 04:02:57 +0100    

    stark=# SELECT 'doy'::timestamptz;  
    ERROR:  unexpected dtype 33 while parsing timestamptz "doy"  
    LINE 1: SELECT 'doy'::timestamptz;  
                   ^  
    stark=# SELECT 'dow'::timestamptz;  
    ERROR:  unexpected dtype 32 while parsing timestamptz "dow"  
    LINE 1: SELECT 'dow'::timestamptz;  
                   ^  
  
    Found by LLVM's Libfuzzer  

commit   : 567acf259b25961e473d48e288ec3c98d7008763    
  
author   : Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>    
date     : Sat, 5 Sep 2015 11:35:49 +0300    
  
committer: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>    
date     : Sat, 5 Sep 2015 11:35:49 +0300    

Oskari Saarenmaa. Backpatch to stable branches where applicable.  

commit   : 81ee435c42a857dedafd80e043ae05fe3ba25039    
  
author   : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Fri, 4 Sep 2015 13:36:50 -0400    
  
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Fri, 4 Sep 2015 13:36:50 -0400    

Formerly, we treated only portals created in the current subtransaction as  
having failed during subtransaction abort.  However, if the error occurred  
while running a portal created in an outer subtransaction (ie, a cursor  
declared before the last savepoint), that has to be considered broken too.  
  
To allow reliable detection of which ones those are, add a bookkeeping  
field to struct Portal that tracks the innermost subtransaction in which  
each portal has actually been executed.  (Without this, we'd end up  
failing portals containing functions that had called the subtransaction,  
thereby breaking plpgsql exception blocks completely.)  
  
In addition, when we fail an outer-subtransaction Portal, transfer its  
resources into the subtransaction's resource owner, so that they're  
released early in cleanup of the subxact.  This fixes a problem reported by  
Jim Nasby in which a function executed in an outer-subtransaction cursor  
could cause an Assert failure or crash by referencing a relation created  
within the inner subtransaction.  
  
The proximate cause of the Assert failure is that AtEOSubXact_RelationCache  
assumed it could blow away a relcache entry without first checking that the  
entry had zero refcount.  That was a bad idea on its own terms, so add such  
a check there, and to the similar coding in AtEOXact_RelationCache.  This  
provides an independent safety measure in case there are still ways to  
provoke the situation despite the Portal-level changes.  
  
This has been broken since subtransactions were invented, so back-patch  
to all supported branches.  
  
Tom Lane and Michael Paquier  

commit   : b5a22d8bbda6f53740c8c1813ceb78f13d9da779    
  
author   : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Sat, 29 Aug 2015 16:09:25 -0400    
  
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Sat, 29 Aug 2015 16:09:25 -0400    

On recent AIX it's necessary to configure gcc to use the native assembler  
(because the GNU assembler hasn't been updated to handle AIX 6+).  This  
caused PG builds to fail with assembler syntax errors, because we'd try  
to compile s_lock.h's gcc asm fragment for PPC, and that assembly code  
relied on GNU-style local labels.  We can't substitute normal labels  
because it would fail in any file containing more than one inlined use of  
tas().  Fortunately, that code is stable enough, and the PPC ISA is simple  
enough, that it doesn't seem like too much of a maintenance burden to just  
hand-code the branch offsets, removing the need for any labels.  
  
Note that the AIX assembler only accepts "$" for the location counter  
pseudo-symbol.  The usual GNU convention is "."; but it appears that all  
versions of gas for PPC also accept "$", so in theory this patch will not  
break any other PPC platforms.  
  
This has been reported by a few people, but Steve Underwood gets the credit  
for being the first to pursue the problem far enough to understand why it  
was failing.  Thanks also to Noah Misch for additional testing.  

commit   : bbe6d231a0819915081e4693eaa02a31ac2fef6c    
  
author   : Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>    
date     : Thu, 27 Aug 2015 13:43:10 -0400    
  
committer: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>    
date     : Thu, 27 Aug 2015 13:43:10 -0400    

This makes the parameter names match the documented prototype names.  
  
Report by Erwin Brandstetter  
  
Backpatch through 9.0  

commit   : 23ddcd77b72bdbec4f8e5fb618febefa1fea4d2d    
  
author   : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Tue, 25 Aug 2015 19:12:57 -0400    
  
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Tue, 25 Aug 2015 19:12:57 -0400    

The default argument, if given, has to be of exactly the same datatype  
as the first argument; but this was not stated in so many words, and  
the error message you get about it might not lead your thought in the  
right direction.  Per bug #13587 from Robert McGehee.  
  
A quick scan says that these are the only two built-in functions with two  
anyelement arguments and no other polymorphic arguments.  There are plenty  
of cases of, eg, anyarray and anyelement, but those seem less likely to  
confuse.  For instance this doesn't seem terribly hard to figure out:  
"function array_remove(integer[], numeric) does not exist".  So I've  
contented myself with fixing these two cases.  

commit   : 7c57449fc5855361d3a69374192c58fb68ce3e67    
  
author   : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Fri, 21 Aug 2015 20:32:11 -0400    
  
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Fri, 21 Aug 2015 20:32:11 -0400    

For no obvious reason, spi_printtup() was coded to enlarge the tuple  
pointer table by just 256 slots at a time, rather than doubling the size at  
each reallocation, as is our usual habit.  For very large SPI results, this  
makes for O(N^2) time spent in repalloc(), which of course soon comes to  
dominate the runtime.  Use the standard doubling approach instead.  
  
This is a longstanding performance bug, so back-patch to all active  
branches.  
  
Neil Conway  

commit   : e41718fa1eb67210808c9b5a084fc1aaffde5b35    
  
author   : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Tue, 18 Aug 2015 19:22:38 -0400    
  
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Tue, 18 Aug 2015 19:22:38 -0400    

plpgsql's error location context messages ("PL/pgSQL function fn-name line  
line-no at stmt-type") would misreport a CONTINUE statement as being an  
EXIT, and misreport a MOVE statement as being a FETCH.  These are clear  
bugs that have been there a long time, so back-patch to all supported  
branches.  
  
In addition, in 9.5 and HEAD, change the description of EXECUTE from  
"EXECUTE statement" to just plain EXECUTE; there seems no good reason why  
this statement type should be described differently from others that have  
a well-defined head keyword.  And distinguish GET STACKED DIAGNOSTICS from  
plain GET DIAGNOSTICS.  These are a bit more of a judgment call, and also  
affect existing regression-test outputs, so I did not back-patch into  
stable branches.  
  
Pavel Stehule and Tom Lane  

commit   : ec2bc39e8910d05e27794e5095b7b8daed981406    
  
author   : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Sat, 15 Aug 2015 13:30:16 -0400    
  
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Sat, 15 Aug 2015 13:30:16 -0400    

The table-rewriting forms of ALTER TABLE are MVCC-unsafe, in much the same  
way as TRUNCATE, because they replace all rows of the table with newly-made  
rows with a new xmin.  (Ideally, concurrent transactions with old snapshots  
would continue to see the old table contents, but the data is not there  
anymore --- and if it were there, it would be inconsistent with the table's  
updated rowtype, so there would be serious implementation problems to fix.)  
This was nowhere documented though, and the problem was only documented for  
TRUNCATE in a note in the TRUNCATE reference page.  Create a new "Caveats"  
section in the MVCC chapter that can be home to this and other limitations  
on serializable consistency.  
  
In passing, fix a mistaken statement that VACUUM and CLUSTER would reclaim  
space occupied by a dropped column.  They don't reconstruct existing tuples  
so they couldn't do that.  
  
Back-patch to all supported branches.  

commit   : 9d6af7367e7b079c021c285f03128bad531b667e    
  
author   : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Sat, 15 Aug 2015 11:02:17 -0400    
  
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Sat, 15 Aug 2015 11:02:17 -0400    

We've been doing it that way since 9.2, cf commit 33e99153e93b9acc,  
but some recently-added regression test cases are making a few buildfarm  
members fail (ie choose the "wrong" plan) in 9.0 and 9.1 due to  
platform-specific roundoff differences in cost calculations.  To fix,  
back-port the patch that made add_path treat cost difference ratios of  
less than 1e-10 as equal.  

commit   : 24906bbc22650b5bfefd1594de557dc83a71cee5    
  
author   : Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>    
date     : Wed, 12 Aug 2015 16:02:20 +0200    
  
committer: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>    
date     : Wed, 12 Aug 2015 16:02:20 +0200    

Doing so doesn't work if bool is a macro rather than a typedef.  
  
Although c.h spends some effort to support configurations where bool is  
a preexisting macro, help_config.c has existed this way since  
2003 (b700a6), and there have not been any reports of  
problems. Backpatch anyway since this is as riskless as it gets.  
  
Discussion: 20150812084351.GD8470@awork2.anarazel.de  
Backpatch: 9.0-master  

commit   : 41a6633601cb1cb1ef6a2185415fb0057c744971    
  
author   : Michael Meskes <meskes@postgresql.org>    
date     : Thu, 13 Aug 2015 13:22:29 +0200    
  
committer: Michael Meskes <meskes@postgresql.org>    
date     : Thu, 13 Aug 2015 13:22:29 +0200    

Found and fixed by Andres Freund.  

commit   : 7b4b57fc484ab8edb4c921cd4b18f2b5b379ef44    
  
author   : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Wed, 12 Aug 2015 21:18:45 -0400    
  
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Wed, 12 Aug 2015 21:18:45 -0400    

One of the changes I made in commit 8703059c6b55c427 turns out not to have  
been such a good idea: we still need the exception in join_is_legal() that  
allows a join if both inputs already overlap the RHS of the special join  
we're checking.  Otherwise we can miss valid plans, and might indeed fail  
to find a plan at all, as in recent report from Andreas Seltenreich.  
  
That code was added way back in commit c17117649b9ae23d, but I failed to  
include a regression test case then; my bad.  Put it back with a better  
explanation, and a test this time.  The logic does end up a bit different  
than before though: I now believe it's appropriate to make this check  
first, thereby allowing such a case whether or not we'd consider the  
previous SJ(s) to commute with this one.  (Presumably, we already decided  
they did; but it was confusing to have this consideration in the middle  
of the code that was handling the other case.)  
  
Back-patch to all active branches, like the previous patch.  

commit   : d4215954747e5463ea5c161aa776040ec45c40e4    
  
author   : Michael Meskes <meskes@postgresql.org>    
date     : Thu, 5 Feb 2015 15:12:34 +0100    
  
committer: Michael Meskes <meskes@postgresql.org>    
date     : Thu, 5 Feb 2015 15:12:34 +0100    

Issue noted by Coverity, fixed by Michael Paquier <michael@otacoo.com>  

commit   : 7e23b63bd8e0776f90c915d72fced4215eefadb0    
  
author   : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Wed, 12 Aug 2015 00:48:11 -0400    
  
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Wed, 12 Aug 2015 00:48:11 -0400    

newnfa() failed to set the regex error state when malloc() fails.  
Several places in regcomp.c failed to check for an error after calling  
subre().  Each of these mistakes could lead to null-pointer-dereference  
crashes in memory-starved backends.  
  
Report and patch by Andreas Seltenreich.  Back-patch to all branches.  

commit   : 298d1f80805ee9aed728fc2240b70476370c8100    
  
author   : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Mon, 10 Aug 2015 20:10:16 -0400    
  
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Mon, 10 Aug 2015 20:10:16 -0400    

pg_dump produced fairly silly GRANT/REVOKE commands when dumping types from  
pre-9.2 servers, and when dumping functions or procedural languages from  
pre-7.3 servers.  Those server versions lack the typacl, proacl, and/or  
lanacl columns respectively, and pg_dump substituted default values that  
were in fact incorrect.  We ended up revoking all the owner's own  
privileges for the object while granting all privileges to PUBLIC.  
Of course the owner would then have those privileges again via PUBLIC, so  
long as she did not try to revoke PUBLIC's privileges; which may explain  
the lack of field reports.  Nonetheless this is pretty silly behavior.  
  
The stakes were raised by my recent patch to make pg_dump dump shell types,  
because 9.2 and up pg_dump would proceed to emit bogus GRANT/REVOKE  
commands for a shell type if dumping from a pre-9.2 server; and the server  
will not accept GRANT/REVOKE commands for a shell type.  (Perhaps it  
should, but that's a topic for another day.)  So the resulting dump script  
wouldn't load without errors.  
  
The right thing to do is to act as though these objects have default  
privileges (null ACL entries), which causes pg_dump to print no  
GRANT/REVOKE commands at all for them.  That fixes the silly results  
and also dodges the problem with shell types.  
  
In passing, modify getProcLangs() to be less creatively different about  
how to handle missing columns when dumping from older server versions.  
Every other data-acquisition function in pg_dump does that by substituting  
appropriate default values in the version-specific SQL commands, and I see  
no reason why this one should march to its own drummer.  Its use of  
"SELECT *" was likewise not conformant with anyplace else, not to mention  
it's not considered good SQL style for production queries.  
  
Back-patch to all supported versions.  Although 9.0 and 9.1 pg_dump don't  
have the issue with typacl, they are more likely than newer versions to be  
used to dump from ancient servers, so we ought to fix the proacl/lanacl  
issues all the way back.  

commit   : a6b279cb31f1a22f43cd65acf05dc24c5ba9eaf9    
  
author   : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Mon, 10 Aug 2015 17:34:51 -0400    
  
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Mon, 10 Aug 2015 17:34:51 -0400    

Apparently some versions of gcc prefer __sparc_v7__ and __sparc_v8__.  
Per report from Waldemar Brodkorb.  

commit   : d860ba43ffe08c53d9e096fd21eb500b69126d70    
  
author   : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Thu, 6 Aug 2015 15:35:28 -0400    
  
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Thu, 6 Aug 2015 15:35:28 -0400    

Further testing revealed that commit f69b4b9495269cc4 was still a few  
bricks shy of a load: minor tweaking of the previous test cases resulted  
in the same wrong-outer-join-order problem coming back.  After study  
I concluded that my previous changes in make_outerjoininfo() were just  
accidentally masking the problem, and should be reverted in favor of  
forcing syntactic join order whenever an upper outer join's predicate  
doesn't mention a lower outer join's LHS.  This still allows the  
chained-outer-joins style that is the normally optimizable case.  
  
I also tightened things up some more in join_is_legal().  It seems to me  
on review that what's really happening in the exception case where we  
ignore a mismatched special join is that we're allowing the proposed join  
to associate into the RHS of the outer join we're comparing it to.  As  
such, we should *always* insist that the proposed join be a left join,  
which eliminates a bunch of rather dubious argumentation.  The case where  
we weren't enforcing that was the one that was already known buggy anyway  
(it had a violatable Assert before the aforesaid commit) so it hardly  
deserves a lot of deference.  
  
Back-patch to all active branches, like the previous patch.  The added  
regression test case failed in all branches back to 9.1, and I think it's  
only an unrelated change in costing calculations that kept 9.0 from  
choosing a broken plan.  

commit   : c084f613e20165012974db44106e4c5174c2ba5f    
  
author   : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Wed, 5 Aug 2015 14:39:07 -0400    
  
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Wed, 5 Aug 2015 14:39:07 -0400    

Per the discussion in optimizer/README, it's unsafe to reassociate anything  
into or out of the RHS of a SEMI or ANTI join.  An example from Piotr  
Stefaniak showed that join_is_legal() wasn't sufficiently enforcing this  
rule, so lock it down a little harder.  
  
I couldn't find a reasonably simple example of the optimizer trying to  
do this, so no new regression test.  (Piotr's example involved the random  
search in GEQO accidentally trying an invalid case and triggering a sanity  
check way downstream in clause selectivity estimation, which did not seem  
like a sequence of events that would be useful to memorialize in a  
regression test as-is.)  
  
Back-patch to all active branches.  

commit   : f9ab07be9fbaa95735ae4c3a6592ad058e2c1819    
  
author   : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Tue, 4 Aug 2015 21:09:12 -0400    
  
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Tue, 4 Aug 2015 21:09:12 -0400    

Per discussion of bug #13538.  

commit   : 5d175be17b46374f7aaf15b2fc6b0ac5d75a3467    
  
author   : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Tue, 4 Aug 2015 19:34:12 -0400    
  
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Tue, 4 Aug 2015 19:34:12 -0400    

Per discussion, it really ought to do this.  The original choice to  
exclude shell types was probably made in the dark ages before we made  
it harder to accidentally create shell types; but that was in 7.3.  
  
Also, cause the standard regression tests to leave a shell type behind,  
for convenience in testing the case in pg_dump and pg_upgrade.  
  
Back-patch to all supported branches.  

commit   : bd327627f6c0a8acb2674aea8ccb2ecb776345f4    
  
author   : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Tue, 4 Aug 2015 18:18:47 -0400    
  
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Tue, 4 Aug 2015 18:18:47 -0400    

The tuplesort/tuplestore memory management logic assumed that the chunk  
allocation overhead for its memtuples array could not increase when  
increasing the array size.  This is and always was true for tuplesort,  
but we (I, I think) blindly copied that logic into tuplestore.c without  
noticing that the assumption failed to hold for the much smaller array  
elements used by tuplestore.  Given rather small work_mem, this could  
result in an improper complaint about "unexpected out-of-memory situation",  
as reported by Brent DeSpain in bug #13530.  
  
The easiest way to fix this is just to increase tuplestore's initial  
array size so that the assumption holds.  Rather than relying on magic  
constants, though, let's export a #define from aset.c that represents  
the safe allocation threshold, and make tuplestore's calculation depend  
on that.  
  
Do the same in tuplesort.c to keep the logic looking parallel, even though  
tuplesort.c isn't actually at risk at present.  This will keep us from  
breaking it if we ever muck with the allocation parameters in aset.c.  
  
Back-patch to all supported versions.  The error message doesn't occur  
pre-9.3, not so much because the problem can't happen as because the  
pre-9.3 tuplestore code neglected to check for it.  (The chance of  
trouble is a great deal larger as of 9.3, though, due to changes in the  
array-size-increasing strategy.)  However, allowing LACKMEM() to become  
true unexpectedly could still result in less-than-desirable behavior,  
so let's patch it all the way back.  

commit   : b09446ed7eecc7cee6f7cc1dcc954c75c6c7570b    
  
author   : Robert Haas <rhaas@postgresql.org>    
date     : Tue, 4 Aug 2015 12:58:54 -0400    
  
committer: Robert Haas <rhaas@postgresql.org>    
date     : Tue, 4 Aug 2015 12:58:54 -0400    

It must be possible to multiply wal_buffers by XLOG_BLCKSZ without  
overflowing int, or calculations in StartupXLOG will go badly wrong  
and crash the server.  Avoid that by imposing a maximum value on  
wal_buffers.  This will be just under 2GB, assuming the usual value  
for XLOG_BLCKSZ.  
  
Josh Berkus, per an analysis by Andrew Gierth.  

commit   : 8b53c087d2685e187b8a8e2ea8b924d597396f2b    
  
author   : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Sun, 2 Aug 2015 14:54:44 -0400    
  
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Sun, 2 Aug 2015 14:54:44 -0400    

Commit c9b0cbe98bd783e24a8c4d8d8ac472a494b81292 accidentally broke the  
order of operations during postmaster shutdown: it resulted in removing  
the per-socket lockfiles after, not before, postmaster.pid.  This creates  
a race-condition hazard for a new postmaster that's started immediately  
after observing that postmaster.pid has disappeared; if it sees the  
socket lockfile still present, it will quite properly refuse to start.  
This error appears to be the explanation for at least some of the  
intermittent buildfarm failures we've seen in the pg_upgrade test.  
  
Another problem, which has been there all along, is that the postmaster  
has never bothered to close() its listen sockets, but has just allowed them  
to close at process death.  This creates a different race condition for an  
incoming postmaster: it might be unable to bind to the desired listen  
address because the old postmaster is still incumbent.  This might explain  
some odd failures we've seen in the past, too.  (Note: this is not related  
to the fact that individual backends don't close their client communication  
sockets.  That behavior is intentional and is not changed by this patch.)  
  
Fix by adding an on_proc_exit function that closes the postmaster's ports  
explicitly, and (in 9.3 and up) reshuffling the responsibility for where  
to unlink the Unix socket files.  Lock file unlinking can stay where it  
is, but teach it to unlink the lock files in reverse order of creation.  

commit   : 44679965f0bdf42275a567751fdddfe759795ee4    
  
author   : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Sat, 1 Aug 2015 20:57:41 -0400    
  
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Sat, 1 Aug 2015 20:57:41 -0400    

An outer join clause that didn't actually reference the RHS (perhaps only  
after constant-folding) could confuse the join order enforcement logic,  
leading to wrong query results.  Also, nested occurrences of such things  
could trigger an Assertion that on reflection seems incorrect.  
  
Per fuzz testing by Andreas Seltenreich.  The practical use of such cases  
seems thin enough that it's not too surprising we've not heard field  
reports about it.  
  
This has been broken for a long time, so back-patch to all active branches.  

commit   : 54833c5e772ee0e8461269e1b40ab6b9fae4b1cd    
  
author   : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Thu, 30 Jul 2015 12:11:23 -0400    
  
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Thu, 30 Jul 2015 12:11:23 -0400    

Although I think on all modern machines floating division by zero  
results in Infinity not SIGFPE, we still don't want infinities  
running around in the planner's costing estimates; too much risk  
of that leading to insane behavior.  
  
grouping_planner() failed to consider the possibility that final_rel  
might be known dummy and hence have zero rowcount.  (I wonder if it  
would be better to set a rows estimate of 1 for dummy relations?  
But at least in the back branches, changing this convention seems  
like a bad idea, so I'll leave that for another day.)  
  
Make certain that get_variable_numdistinct() produces a nonzero result.  
The case that can be shown to be broken is with stadistinct < 0.0 and  
small ntuples; we did not prevent the result from rounding to zero.  
For good luck I applied clamp_row_est() to all the nonconstant return  
values.  
  
In ExecChooseHashTableSize(), Assert that we compute positive nbuckets  
and nbatch.  I know of no reason to think this isn't the case, but it  
seems like a good safety check.  
  
Per reports from Piotr Stefaniak.  Back-patch to all active branches.  

commit   : 2d8c136e745168cb8d20f3e2728a602f9ba02921    
  
author   : Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>    
date     : Wed, 29 Jul 2015 22:49:48 -0400    
  
committer: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>    
date     : Wed, 29 Jul 2015 22:49:48 -0400    

Per a suggestion from Tom Lane.  Back-patch to 9.0 (all supported  
versions).  While only 9.4 and up have code known to elicit this  
compiler bug, we were disabling inlining by accident until commit  
43d89a23d59c487bc9258fad7a6187864cb8c0c0.  

commit   : 208e41d9133b26f2de04619c66fc7b31a0777c9e    
  
author   : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Tue, 28 Jul 2015 18:42:59 -0400    
  
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Tue, 28 Jul 2015 18:42:59 -0400    

Although initdb has long discouraged use of a filesystem mount-point  
directory as a PG data directory, this point was covered nowhere in the  
user-facing documentation.  Also, with the popularity of pg_upgrade,  
we really need to recommend that the PG user own not only the data  
directory but its parent directory too.  (Without a writable parent  
directory, operations such as "mv data data.old" fail immediately.  
pg_upgrade itself doesn't do that, but wrapper scripts for it often do.)  
  
Hence, adjust the "Creating a Database Cluster" section to address  
these points.  I also took the liberty of wordsmithing the discussion  
of NFS a bit.  
  
These considerations aren't by any means new, so back-patch to all  
supported branches.  

commit   : f527c0a2a7c8507163bc22107c9d6a10b5f17174    
  
author   : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Tue, 28 Jul 2015 17:34:00 -0400    
  
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Tue, 28 Jul 2015 17:34:00 -0400    

Don't print a WARNING if we get ESRCH from a kill() that's attempting  
to cancel an autovacuum worker.  It's possible (and has been seen in the  
buildfarm) that the worker is already gone by the time we are able to  
execute the kill, in which case the failure is harmless.  About the only  
plausible reason for reporting such cases would be to help debug corrupted  
lock table contents, but this is hardly likely to be the most important  
symptom if that happens.  Moreover issuing a WARNING might scare users  
more than is warranted.  
  
Also, since sending a signal to an autovacuum worker is now entirely a  
routine thing, and the worker will log the query cancel on its end anyway,  
reduce the message saying we're doing that from LOG to DEBUG1 level.  
  
Very minor cosmetic cleanup as well.  
  
Since the main practical reason for doing this is to avoid unnecessary  
buildfarm failures, back-patch to all active branches.  

commit   : 444b2ebee97fdbabbb32ec7b4ebd1b6f40638ec5    
  
author   : Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>    
date     : Tue, 28 Jul 2015 21:39:40 +0200    
  
committer: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>    
date     : Tue, 28 Jul 2015 21:39:40 +0200    

While postgres' use of SSL renegotiation is a good idea in theory, it  
turned out to not work well in practice. The specification and openssl's  
implementation of it have lead to several security issues. Postgres' use  
of renegotiation also had its share of bugs.  
  
Additionally OpenSSL has a bunch of bugs around renegotiation, reported  
and open for years, that regularly lead to connections breaking with  
obscure error messages. We tried increasingly complex workarounds to get  
around these bugs, but we didn't find anything complete.  
  
Since these connection breakages often lead to hard to debug problems,  
e.g. spuriously failing base backups and significant latency spikes when  
synchronous replication is used, we have decided to change the default  
setting for ssl renegotiation to 0 (disabled) in the released  
backbranches and remove it entirely in 9.5 and master..  
  
Author: Michael Paquier, with changes by me  
Discussion: 20150624144148.GQ4797@alap3.anarazel.de  
Backpatch: 9.0-9.4; 9.5 and master get a different patch  

commit   : f87bf848067490fac09489b9be389539b340d1c5    
  
author   : Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>    
date     : Mon, 27 Jul 2015 12:30:26 +0300    
  
committer: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>    
date     : Mon, 27 Jul 2015 12:30:26 +0300    

In GIN, an all-zeros page would be leaked forever, and never reused. Just  
add them to the FSM in vacuum, and they will be reinitialized when grabbed  
from the FSM. On master and 9.5, attempting to access the page's opaque  
struct also caused an assertion failure, although that was otherwise  
harmless.  
  
Reported by Jeff Janes. Backpatch to all supported versions.  

commit   : 40ad7822019a2cf8b9e0d5bd770490af7b56e652    
  
author   : Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>    
date     : Thu, 23 Jul 2015 01:30:19 +0300    
  
committer: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>    
date     : Thu, 23 Jul 2015 01:30:19 +0300    

If there were no subtransactions (or multixacts) active, we would calculate  
the oldestxid == next xid. That's correct, but if next XID happens to be  
on the next pg_subtrans (pg_multixact) page, the page does not exist yet,  
and SimpleLruTruncate will produce an "apparent wraparound" warning. The  
warning is harmless in this case, but looks very alarming to users.  
  
Backpatch to all supported versions. Patch and analysis by Thomas Munro.  

commit   : 4c11967e7348b79a27738a6f714d61325c660c5b    
  
author   : Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>    
date     : Mon, 20 Jul 2015 14:18:08 +0200    
  
committer: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>    
date     : Mon, 20 Jul 2015 14:18:08 +0200    

As reported by Bill Parker, PL/Tcl did not validate some malloc() calls  
against NULL return.  Fix by using palloc() in a new long-lived memory  
context instead.  This allows us to simplify error handling too, by  
simply deleting the memory context instead of doing retail frees.  
  
There's still a lot that could be done to improve PL/Tcl's memory  
handling ...  
  
This is pretty ancient, so backpatch all the way back.  
  
Author: Michael Paquier and Álvaro Herrera  
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAFrbyQwyLDYXfBOhPfoBGqnvuZO_Y90YgqFM11T2jvnxjLFmqw@mail.gmail.com  

commit   : cdf596b1ceb6193ab6c1e24c57531423243fce4b    
  
author   : Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>    
date     : Fri, 17 Jul 2015 03:01:14 -0400    
  
committer: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>    
date     : Fri, 17 Jul 2015 03:01:14 -0400    

xlc provides "long long" unconditionally at C99-compatible language  
levels, and this option provokes a warning.  The warning interferes with  
"configure" tests that fail in response to any warning.  Notably, before  
commit 85a2a8903f7e9151793308d0638621003aded5ae, it interfered with the  
test for -qnoansialias.  Back-patch to 9.0 (all supported versions).  

commit   : 36522d6276bf6b073f5fdf83dcc226d547363083    
  
author   : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Thu, 16 Jul 2015 22:57:46 -0400    
  
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Thu, 16 Jul 2015 22:57:46 -0400    

It's standard for quicksort implementations, after having partitioned the  
input into two subgroups, to recurse to process the smaller partition and  
then handle the larger partition by iterating.  This method guarantees  
that no more than log2(N) levels of recursion can be needed.  However,  
Bentley and McIlroy argued that checking to see which partition is smaller  
isn't worth the cycles, and so their code doesn't do that but just always  
recurses on the left partition.  In most cases that's fine; but with  
worst-case input we might need O(N) levels of recursion, and that means  
that qsort could be driven to stack overflow.  Such an overflow seems to  
be the only explanation for today's report from Yiqing Jin of a SIGSEGV  
in med3_tuple while creating an index of a couple billion entries with a  
very large maintenance_work_mem setting.  Therefore, let's spend the few  
additional cycles and lines of code needed to choose the smaller partition  
for recursion.  
  
Also, fix up the qsort code so that it properly uses size_t not int for  
some intermediate values representing numbers of items.  This would only  
be a live risk when sorting more than INT_MAX bytes (in qsort/qsort_arg)  
or tuples (in qsort_tuple), which I believe would never happen with any  
caller in the current core code --- but perhaps it could happen with  
call sites in third-party modules?  In any case, this is trouble waiting  
to happen, and the corrected code is probably if anything shorter and  
faster than before, since it removes sign-extension steps that had to  
happen when converting between int and size_t.  
  
In passing, move a couple of CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS() calls so that it's  
not necessary to preserve the value of "r" across them, and prettify  
the output of gen_qsort_tuple.pl a little.  
  
Back-patch to all supported branches.  The odds of hitting this issue  
are probably higher in 9.4 and up than before, due to the new ability  
to allocate sort workspaces exceeding 1GB, but there's no good reason  
to believe that it's impossible to crash older branches this way.  

commit   : 7803d5720f9bceb2a12b5ec1fbbad03d4088203b    
  
author   : Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>    
date     : Wed, 15 Jul 2015 21:00:26 -0400    
  
committer: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>    
date     : Wed, 15 Jul 2015 21:00:26 -0400    

This allows PostgreSQL modules and their dependencies to have undefined  
symbols, resolved at runtime.  Perl module shared objects rely on that  
in Perl 5.8.0 and later.  This fixes the crash when PL/PerlU loads such  
modules, as the hstore_plperl test suite does.  Module authors can link  
using -Wl,-G to permit undefined symbols; by default, linking will fail  
as it has.  Back-patch to 9.0 (all supported versions).  

commit   : 6718f07a0b31219487f7e8094d35959d328c9b56    
  
author   : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Thu, 9 Jul 2015 13:22:23 -0400    
  
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Thu, 9 Jul 2015 13:22:23 -0400    

Ordinarily, a failure (unexpected exit status) of the startup subprocess  
should be considered fatal, so the postmaster should just close up shop  
and quit.  However, if we sent the startup process a SIGQUIT or SIGKILL  
signal, the failure is hardly "unexpected", and we should attempt restart;  
this is necessary for recovery from ordinary backend crashes in hot-standby  
scenarios.  I attempted to implement the latter rule with a two-line patch  
in commit 442231d7f71764b8c628044e7ce2225f9aa43b67, but it now emerges that  
that patch was a few bricks shy of a load: it failed to distinguish the  
case of a signaled startup process from the case where the new startup  
process crashes before reaching database consistency.  That resulted in  
infinitely respawning a new startup process only to have it crash again.  
  
To handle this properly, we really must track whether we have sent the  
*current* startup process a kill signal.  Rather than add yet another  
ad-hoc boolean to the postmaster's state, I chose to unify this with the  
existing RecoveryError flag into an enum tracking the startup process's  
state.  That seems more consistent with the postmaster's general state  
machine design.  
  
Back-patch to 9.0, like the previous patch.  

commit   : 338639902119db8014b9353c0715e7139f3e9a7a    
  
author   : Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>    
date     : Thu, 9 Jul 2015 16:00:14 +0300    
  
committer: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>    
date     : Thu, 9 Jul 2015 16:00:14 +0300    

Tom fixed another one of these in commit 7f32dbcd, but there was another  
almost identical one in libpq docs. Per his comment:  
  
HP's web server has apparently become case-sensitive sometime recently.  
Per bug #13479 from Daniel Abraham.  Corrected link identified by Alvaro.  

commit   : 6087bf1a198e42b811637101580af51a55fac505    
  
author   : Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>    
date     : Wed, 8 Jul 2015 20:44:21 -0400    
  
committer: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>    
date     : Wed, 8 Jul 2015 20:44:21 -0400    

The psql crash happened when no current connection existed.  (The second  
new check is optional given today's undocumented NULL argument handling  
in PQhost() etc.)  Back-patch to 9.0 (all supported versions).  

commit   : 7a858f7bf47d88faf9a7b52194c939bb1477049e    
  
author   : Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>    
date     : Tue, 7 Jul 2015 18:54:08 +0300    
  
committer: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>    
date     : Tue, 7 Jul 2015 18:54:08 +0300    

My previous back-patching went wrong.  

commit   : 2b189c7ec1ffd1e626484621c515285bf5d0d5e3    
  
author   : Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>    
date     : Tue, 7 Jul 2015 18:37:45 +0300    
  
committer: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>    
date     : Tue, 7 Jul 2015 18:37:45 +0300    

If an allocation fails in the main message handling loop, pqParseInput3  
or pqParseInput2, it should not be treated as "not enough data available  
yet". Otherwise libpq will wait indefinitely for more data to arrive from  
the server, and gets stuck forever.  
  
This isn't a complete fix - getParamDescriptions and getCopyStart still  
have the same issue, but it's a step in the right direction.  
  
Michael Paquier and me. Backpatch to all supported versions.  

commit   : 341b877d324b259fc1c81ef9c6dc2ea96d06d1e6    
  
author   : Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>    
date     : Tue, 7 Jul 2015 16:31:52 +0300    
  
committer: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>    
date     : Tue, 7 Jul 2015 16:31:52 +0300    

Build.bat and vcregress.bat got similar treatment years ago. I'm not sure  
why install.bat wasn't treated at the same time, but it seems like a good  
idea anyway.  
  
The immediate problem with the old install.bat was that it had quoting  
issues, and wouldn't work if the target directory's name contained spaces.  
This fixes that problem.  
  
I committed this to master yesterday, this is a backpatch of the same for  
all supported versions.  

commit   : 29ff43adfbfdd072b1d1aa3846ec01ff3108b666    
  
author   : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Sun, 5 Jul 2015 12:01:02 -0400    
  
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Sun, 5 Jul 2015 12:01:02 -0400    

Expose PG_VERSION_NUM (e.g., "90600") as a Make variable; but for  
consistency with the other Make variables holding similar info,  
call the variable just VERSION_NUM not PG_VERSION_NUM.  
  
There was some discussion of making this value available as a pg_config  
value as well.  However, that would entail substantially more work than  
this two-line patch.  Given that there was not exactly universal consensus  
that we need this at all, let's just do a minimal amount of work for now.  
  
Back-patch of commit a5d489ccb7e613c7ca3be6141092b8c1d2c13fa7, so that this  
variable is actually useful for its intended purpose sometime before 2020.  
  
Michael Paquier, reviewed by Pavel Stehule  

commit   : fdfe0b1cd9b1b604530640fd37f159590d8e237f    
  
author   : Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>    
date     : Fri, 3 Jul 2015 18:04:33 -0400    
  
committer: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>    
date     : Fri, 3 Jul 2015 18:04:33 -0400    

commit   : 33018d0730f307c274e7536ca744614cfa705ef5    
  
author   : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Tue, 30 Jun 2015 18:47:32 -0400    
  
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Tue, 30 Jun 2015 18:47:32 -0400    

HP's web server has apparently become case-sensitive sometime recently.  
Per bug #13479 from Daniel Abraham.  Corrected link identified by Alvaro.  

commit   : b185c42c16d84ed7cfd406d6822459bcfee766a8    
  
author   : Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>    
date     : Tue, 30 Jun 2015 14:20:37 -0300    
  
committer: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>    
date     : Tue, 30 Jun 2015 14:20:37 -0300    

Apparently, this is needed in some Solaris versions.  
  
Author: Oskari Saarenmaa  

commit   : 2cb58109560d21abd9d1fa5dca2649be54cbeec0    
  
author   : Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>    
date     : Sat, 27 Jun 2015 02:22:45 +0100    
  
committer: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>    
date     : Sat, 27 Jun 2015 02:22:45 +0100    

commit   : e1ca691f6b81bda44d2971e090804f0b94834711    
  
author   : Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>    
date     : Sat, 27 Jun 2015 00:48:27 +0100    
  
committer: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>    
date     : Sat, 27 Jun 2015 00:48:27 +0100    

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.  
  
Backpatch to all versions 9.0+  
  
Analysis and report by Marco Nenciarini  
  
Bug fix by Simon Riggs  

commit   : 45c69178b5ff5b5c7ff18fcb4e339d3524c0ec39    
  
author   : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Thu, 25 Jun 2015 14:39:06 -0400    
  
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Thu, 25 Jun 2015 14:39:06 -0400    

Commit f3b5565dd4e59576be4c772da364704863e6a835 was a couple of bricks shy  
of a load; specifically, it missed putting pg_trigger_tgrelid_tgname_index  
into the relcache init file, because that index is not used by any  
syscache.  However, we have historically nailed that index into cache for  
performance reasons.  The upshot was that load_relcache_init_file always  
decided that the init file was busted and silently ignored it, resulting  
in a significant hit to backend startup speed.  
  
To fix, reinstantiate RelationIdIsInInitFile() as a wrapper around  
RelationSupportsSysCache(), which can know about additional relations  
that should be in the init file despite being unknown to syscache.c.  
  
Also install some guards against future mistakes of this type: make  
write_relcache_init_file Assert that all nailed relations get written to  
the init file, and make load_relcache_init_file emit a WARNING if it takes  
the "wrong number of nailed relations" exit path.  Now that we remove the  
init files during postmaster startup, that case should never occur in the  
field, even if we are starting a minor-version update that added or removed  
rels from the nailed set.  So the warning shouldn't ever be seen by end  
users, but it will show up in the regression tests if somebody breaks this  
logic.  
  
Back-patch to all supported branches, like the previous commit.  

commit   : 2c652c3fa5346c2fad2bdbed31720327a1f713a3    
  
author   : Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>    
date     : Sat, 20 Jun 2015 11:45:58 -0300    
  
committer: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>    
date     : Sat, 20 Jun 2015 11:45:58 -0300    

commit   : d68df5e40d430d03141b531afaf4e5ef8833ef7e    
  
author   : Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>    
date     : Fri, 19 Jun 2015 12:44:33 -0300    
  
committer: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>    
date     : Fri, 19 Jun 2015 12:44:33 -0300    

This avoids the problem that it might go to sleep for an unreasonable  
amount of time in unusual conditions like the server clock moving  
backwards an unreasonable amount of time.  
  
(Simply moving the server clock forward again doesn't solve the problem  
unless you wake up the autovacuum launcher manually, say by sending it  
SIGHUP).  
  
Per trouble report from Prakash Itnal in  
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAHC5u79-UqbapAABH2t4Rh2eYdyge0Zid-X=Xz-ZWZCBK42S0Q@mail.gmail.com  
  
Analyzed independently by Haribabu Kommi and Tom Lane.  

commit   : d278ff3b26fb226a6b390e5c8a7dd66cbfc5c37e    
  
author   : Michael Meskes <meskes@postgresql.org>    
date     : Mon, 15 Jun 2015 14:21:03 +0200    
  
committer: Michael Meskes <meskes@postgresql.org>    
date     : Mon, 15 Jun 2015 14:21:03 +0200    

Patch by Michael Paquier  
  
Conflicts:  
	src/interfaces/ecpg/ecpglib/connect.c  

commit   : abf92840a113207ff78c17514c1d141850300586    
  
author   : Michael Meskes <meskes@postgresql.org>    
date     : Mon, 15 Jun 2015 14:20:09 +0200    
  
committer: Michael Meskes <meskes@postgresql.org>    
date     : Mon, 15 Jun 2015 14:20:09 +0200    

Patch by Michael Paquier  

commit   : 235bd4ccb6e8db319451c5c64b0748691f746589    
  
author   : Michael Meskes <meskes@postgresql.org>    
date     : Fri, 12 Jun 2015 14:52:55 +0200    
  
committer: Michael Meskes <meskes@postgresql.org>    
date     : Fri, 12 Jun 2015 14:52:55 +0200    

Patch by Michael Paquier  
  
Conflicts:  
	src/interfaces/ecpg/preproc/variable.c  
	src/interfaces/ecpg/preproc/pgc.l  
	src/interfaces/ecpg/preproc/descriptor.c  

commit   : 4678be6178059e2a15bd21f2e3b8781df5084796    
  
author   : Michael Meskes <meskes@postgresql.org>    
date     : Fri, 12 Jun 2015 14:50:47 +0200    
  
committer: Michael Meskes <meskes@postgresql.org>    
date     : Fri, 12 Jun 2015 14:50:47 +0200    

Patch by Michael Paquier