PostgreSQL 9.2.11 commit log

Last-minute updates for release notes.

commit   : baf379bf22a9b4fd9caa4cf95de397cac480cceb    
  
author   : Tom Lane <[email protected]>    
date     : Tue, 19 May 2015 18:33:58 -0400    
  
committer: Tom Lane <[email protected]>    
date     : Tue, 19 May 2015 18:33:58 -0400    

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Revise description of CVE-2015-3166, in line with scaled-back patch.  
Change release date.  
  
Security: CVE-2015-3166  

M doc/src/sgml/release-9.0.sgml
M doc/src/sgml/release-9.1.sgml
M doc/src/sgml/release-9.2.sgml

Revert error-throwing wrappers for the printf family of functions.

commit   : 221f7a9494d28b938de8a72ead5f6dae39da03da    
  
author   : Tom Lane <[email protected]>    
date     : Tue, 19 May 2015 18:17:42 -0400    
  
committer: Tom Lane <[email protected]>    
date     : Tue, 19 May 2015 18:17:42 -0400    

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This reverts commit 16304a013432931e61e623c8d85e9fe24709d9ba, except  
for its changes in src/port/snprintf.c; as well as commit  
cac18a76bb6b08f1ecc2a85e46c9d2ab82dd9d23 which is no longer needed.  
  
Fujii Masao reported that the previous commit caused failures in psql on  
OS X, since if one exits the pager program early while viewing a query  
result, psql sees an EPIPE error from fprintf --- and the wrapper function  
thought that was reason to panic.  (It's a bit surprising that the same  
does not happen on Linux.)  Further discussion among the security list  
concluded that the risk of other such failures was far too great, and  
that the one-size-fits-all approach to error handling embodied in the  
previous patch is unlikely to be workable.  
  
This leaves us again exposed to the possibility of the type of failure  
envisioned in CVE-2015-3166.  However, that failure mode is strictly  
hypothetical at this point: there is no concrete reason to believe that  
an attacker could trigger information disclosure through the supposed  
mechanism.  In the first place, the attack surface is fairly limited,  
since so much of what the backend does with format strings goes through  
stringinfo.c or psprintf(), and those already had adequate defenses.  
In the second place, even granting that an unprivileged attacker could  
control the occurrence of ENOMEM with some precision, it's a stretch to  
believe that he could induce it just where the target buffer contains some  
valuable information.  So we concluded that the risk of non-hypothetical  
problems induced by the patch greatly outweighs the security risks.  
We will therefore revert, and instead undertake closer analysis to  
identify specific calls that may need hardening, rather than attempt a  
universal solution.  
  
We have kept the portion of the previous patch that improved snprintf.c's  
handling of errors when it calls the platform's sprintf().  That seems to  
be an unalloyed improvement.  
  
Security: CVE-2015-3166  

M src/include/port.h
M src/interfaces/ecpg/compatlib/Makefile
M src/interfaces/ecpg/ecpglib/.gitignore
M src/interfaces/ecpg/ecpglib/Makefile
M src/interfaces/ecpg/pgtypeslib/.gitignore
M src/interfaces/ecpg/pgtypeslib/Makefile
M src/interfaces/libpq/.gitignore
M src/interfaces/libpq/Makefile
M src/interfaces/libpq/bcc32.mak
M src/interfaces/libpq/win32.mak
M src/pl/plperl/plperl.h
M src/pl/plpython/plpython.h
M src/port/Makefile
M src/port/snprintf.c
D src/port/syswrap.c
M src/tools/msvc/Mkvcbuild.pm

Fix off-by-one error in Assertion.

commit   : 58b2cf033daa164cba0e16738273aea46e6a7d12    
  
author   : Heikki Linnakangas <[email protected]>    
date     : Tue, 19 May 2015 19:21:46 +0300    
  
committer: Heikki Linnakangas <[email protected]>    
date     : Tue, 19 May 2015 19:21:46 +0300    

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The point of the assertion is to ensure that the arrays allocated in stack  
are large enough, but the check was one item short.  
  
This won't matter in practice because MaxIndexTuplesPerPage is an  
overestimate, so you can't have that many items on a page in reality.  
But let's be tidy.  
  
Spotted by Anastasia Lubennikova. Backpatch to all supported versions, like  
the patch that added the assertion.  

M src/backend/storage/page/bufpage.c

Don't MultiXactIdIsRunning when in recovery

commit   : 97ff2a5645227d73c222373832ffb3bf9470ca73    
  
author   : Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]>    
date     : Mon, 18 May 2015 17:44:21 -0300    
  
committer: Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]>    
date     : Mon, 18 May 2015 17:44:21 -0300    

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In 9.1 and earlier, it is possible for index_getnext() to try to examine  
a heap buffer for possible HOT-prune when in recovery; this causes a  
problem when a multixact is found in a tuple's Xmax, because  
GetMultiXactIdMembers refuses to run when in recovery, raising an error:  
	ERROR:  cannot GetMultiXactIdMembers() during recovery  
  
This can be solved easily by having MultiXactIdIsRunning always return  
false when in recovery, which is reasonable because a HOT standby cannot  
acquire further tuple locks nor update/delete tuples.  
  
(Note: it doesn't look like this specific code path has a problem in  
9.2, because instead of doing HeapTupleSatisfiesUpdate directly,  
heap_hot_search_buffer uses HeapTupleIsSurelyDead instead.  Still, there  
may be other paths affected by the same bug, for instance in pgrowlocks,  
and the multixact code hasn't changed; so apply the same fix  
throughout.)  
  
Apply this fix to 9.0 through 9.2.  In 9.3 the multixact code has been  
changed completely and is no longer subject to this problem.  
  
Per report from Marko Tiikkaja,  
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/[email protected]  
Analysis by Andres Freund  

M src/backend/access/transam/multixact.c

Stamp 9.2.11.

commit   : 520fecfae5681bf6974156d7c50bd9fe3cd9f3f1    
  
author   : Tom Lane <[email protected]>    
date     : Mon, 18 May 2015 14:34:28 -0400    
  
committer: Tom Lane <[email protected]>    
date     : Mon, 18 May 2015 14:34:28 -0400    

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M configure
M configure.in
M doc/bug.template
M src/include/pg_config.h.win32
M src/interfaces/libpq/libpq.rc.in
M src/port/win32ver.rc

Fix error message in pre_sync_fname.

commit   : b9215bc5d05a31ce056e7abb2c73cd864e6d0811    
  
author   : Robert Haas <[email protected]>    
date     : Mon, 18 May 2015 12:53:09 -0400    
  
committer: Robert Haas <[email protected]>    
date     : Mon, 18 May 2015 12:53:09 -0400    

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The old one didn't include %m anywhere, and required extra  
translation.  
  
Report by Peter Eisentraut. Fix by me. Review by Tom Lane.  

M src/backend/storage/file/fd.c

Last-minute updates for release notes.

commit   : f1946b134bcf953c021ac0efbd92692dbfb9ebc0    
  
author   : Tom Lane <[email protected]>    
date     : Mon, 18 May 2015 12:09:03 -0400    
  
committer: Tom Lane <[email protected]>    
date     : Mon, 18 May 2015 12:09:03 -0400    

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Add entries for security issues.  
  
Security: CVE-2015-3165 through CVE-2015-3167  

M doc/src/sgml/release-9.0.sgml
M doc/src/sgml/release-9.1.sgml
M doc/src/sgml/release-9.2.sgml

pgcrypto: Report errant decryption as "Wrong key or corrupt data".

commit   : 0ba20043129280c6d076c80cc60e3f73880b9ea4    
  
author   : Noah Misch <[email protected]>    
date     : Mon, 18 May 2015 10:02:31 -0400    
  
committer: Noah Misch <[email protected]>    
date     : Mon, 18 May 2015 10:02:31 -0400    

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This has been the predominant outcome.  When the output of decrypting  
with a wrong key coincidentally resembled an OpenPGP packet header,  
pgcrypto could instead report "Corrupt data", "Not text data" or  
"Unsupported compression algorithm".  The distinct "Corrupt data"  
message added no value.  The latter two error messages misled when the  
decrypted payload also exhibited fundamental integrity problems.  Worse,  
error message variance in other systems has enabled cryptologic attacks;  
see RFC 4880 section "14. Security Considerations".  Whether these  
pgcrypto behaviors are likewise exploitable is unknown.  
  
In passing, document that pgcrypto does not resist side-channel attacks.  
Back-patch to 9.0 (all supported versions).  
  
Security: CVE-2015-3167  

M contrib/pgcrypto/expected/pgp-decrypt.out
M contrib/pgcrypto/expected/pgp-pubkey-decrypt.out
M contrib/pgcrypto/mbuf.c
M contrib/pgcrypto/pgp-decrypt.c
M contrib/pgcrypto/pgp.h
M contrib/pgcrypto/px.c
M contrib/pgcrypto/px.h
M contrib/pgcrypto/sql/pgp-decrypt.sql
M doc/src/sgml/pgcrypto.sgml

Check return values of sensitive system library calls.

commit   : 01272d95a979efb913819fb2823d3eaf3f8ad29e    
  
author   : Noah Misch <[email protected]>    
date     : Mon, 18 May 2015 10:02:31 -0400    
  
committer: Noah Misch <[email protected]>    
date     : Mon, 18 May 2015 10:02:31 -0400    

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PostgreSQL already checked the vast majority of these, missing this  
handful that nearly cannot fail.  If putenv() failed with ENOMEM in  
pg_GSS_recvauth(), authentication would proceed with the wrong keytab  
file.  If strftime() returned zero in cache_locale_time(), using the  
unspecified buffer contents could lead to information exposure or a  
crash.  Back-patch to 9.0 (all supported versions).  
  
Other unchecked calls to these functions, especially those in frontend  
code, pose negligible security concern.  This patch does not address  
them.  Nonetheless, it is always better to check return values whose  
specification provides for indicating an error.  
  
In passing, fix an off-by-one error in strftime_win32()'s invocation of  
WideCharToMultiByte().  Upon retrieving a value of exactly MAX_L10N_DATA  
bytes, strftime_win32() would overrun the caller's buffer by one byte.  
MAX_L10N_DATA is chosen to exceed the length of every possible value, so  
the vulnerable scenario probably does not arise.  
  
Security: CVE-2015-3166  

M src/backend/libpq/auth.c
M src/backend/utils/adt/pg_locale.c

Add error-throwing wrappers for the printf family of functions.

commit   : 82b7393eb46482fbfc901a18aaf2d388c2d16d2e    
  
author   : Noah Misch <[email protected]>    
date     : Mon, 18 May 2015 10:02:31 -0400    
  
committer: Noah Misch <[email protected]>    
date     : Mon, 18 May 2015 10:02:31 -0400    

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All known standard library implementations of these functions can fail  
with ENOMEM.  A caller neglecting to check for failure would experience  
missing output, information exposure, or a crash.  Check return values  
within wrappers and code, currently just snprintf.c, that bypasses the  
wrappers.  The wrappers do not return after an error, so their callers  
need not check.  Back-patch to 9.0 (all supported versions).  
  
Popular free software standard library implementations do take pains to  
bypass malloc() in simple cases, but they risk ENOMEM for floating point  
numbers, positional arguments, large field widths, and large precisions.  
No specification demands such caution, so this commit regards every call  
to a printf family function as a potential threat.  
  
Injecting the wrappers implicitly is a compromise between patch scope  
and design goals.  I would prefer to edit each call site to name a  
wrapper explicitly.  libpq and the ECPG libraries would, ideally, convey  
errors to the caller rather than abort().  All that would be painfully  
invasive for a back-patched security fix, hence this compromise.  
  
Security: CVE-2015-3166  

M src/include/port.h
M src/interfaces/ecpg/compatlib/Makefile
M src/interfaces/ecpg/ecpglib/.gitignore
M src/interfaces/ecpg/ecpglib/Makefile
M src/interfaces/ecpg/pgtypeslib/.gitignore
M src/interfaces/ecpg/pgtypeslib/Makefile
M src/interfaces/libpq/.gitignore
M src/interfaces/libpq/Makefile
M src/interfaces/libpq/bcc32.mak
M src/interfaces/libpq/win32.mak
M src/pl/plperl/plperl.h
M src/pl/plpython/plpython.h
M src/port/Makefile
M src/port/snprintf.c
A src/port/syswrap.c
M src/tools/msvc/Mkvcbuild.pm

Permit use of vsprintf() in PostgreSQL code.

commit   : 1e6652aea503b16ea99662832d07241bf47f21f3    
  
author   : Noah Misch <[email protected]>    
date     : Mon, 18 May 2015 10:02:31 -0400    
  
committer: Noah Misch <[email protected]>    
date     : Mon, 18 May 2015 10:02:31 -0400    

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The next commit needs it.  Back-patch to 9.0 (all supported versions).  

M src/include/port.h
M src/port/snprintf.c

Prevent a double free by not reentering be_tls_close().

commit   : 439ff9b6b9de435e1c92d05221cfbcb7ff80e150    
  
author   : Noah Misch <[email protected]>    
date     : Mon, 18 May 2015 10:02:31 -0400    
  
committer: Noah Misch <[email protected]>    
date     : Mon, 18 May 2015 10:02:31 -0400    

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Reentering this function with the right timing caused a double free,  
typically crashing the backend.  By synchronizing a disconnection with  
the authentication timeout, an unauthenticated attacker could achieve  
this somewhat consistently.  Call be_tls_close() solely from within  
proc_exit_prepare().  Back-patch to 9.0 (all supported versions).  
  
Benkocs Norbert Attila  
  
Security: CVE-2015-3165  

M src/backend/libpq/be-secure.c
M src/backend/libpq/pqcomm.c
M src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c

Translation updates

commit   : 6f8b6abd97711ea4f5f4f7bf92d93d32156e15d4    
  
author   : Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>    
date     : Mon, 18 May 2015 08:45:56 -0400    
  
committer: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>    
date     : Mon, 18 May 2015 08:45:56 -0400    

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Source-Git-URL: git://git.postgresql.org/git/pgtranslation/messages.git  
Source-Git-Hash: 7da40afeb612deb39a77da4071ea1d5800706863  

M src/backend/po/de.po
M src/backend/po/fr.po
M src/backend/po/pt_BR.po
M src/backend/po/ru.po
M src/bin/initdb/po/fr.po
M src/bin/initdb/po/pt_BR.po
M src/bin/pg_basebackup/po/fr.po
M src/bin/pg_basebackup/po/pt_BR.po
M src/bin/pg_basebackup/po/zh_CN.po
M src/bin/pg_config/po/fr.po
M src/bin/pg_controldata/po/fr.po
M src/bin/pg_ctl/po/fr.po
M src/bin/pg_dump/po/fr.po
M src/bin/pg_resetxlog/po/de.po
M src/bin/pg_resetxlog/po/fr.po
M src/bin/pg_resetxlog/po/pt_BR.po
M src/bin/pg_resetxlog/po/ru.po
M src/bin/psql/po/de.po
M src/bin/psql/po/fr.po
M src/bin/psql/po/pt_BR.po
M src/bin/psql/po/ru.po
M src/bin/scripts/po/fr.po
M src/interfaces/ecpg/ecpglib/po/fr.po
M src/interfaces/ecpg/preproc/po/fr.po
M src/interfaces/libpq/po/fr.po
M src/pl/plperl/po/fr.po
M src/pl/plpgsql/src/po/fr.po
M src/pl/plpython/po/fr.po
M src/pl/plpython/po/pt_BR.po
M src/pl/tcl/po/fr.po

Fix typos

commit   : a05b8cffb622499b5be7f50f96892c2f5f4fc088    
  
author   : Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>    
date     : Sun, 17 May 2015 22:21:36 -0400    
  
committer: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>    
date     : Sun, 17 May 2015 22:21:36 -0400    

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M contrib/pg_upgrade/pg_upgrade.c
M src/bin/pg_resetxlog/pg_resetxlog.c

Release notes for 9.4.2, 9.3.7, 9.2.11, 9.1.16, 9.0.20.

commit   : 9b06451d08be33c26d1bcfdc6d822995a4847f70    
  
author   : Tom Lane <[email protected]>    
date     : Sun, 17 May 2015 15:54:20 -0400    
  
committer: Tom Lane <[email protected]>    
date     : Sun, 17 May 2015 15:54:20 -0400    

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M doc/src/sgml/release-9.0.sgml
M doc/src/sgml/release-9.1.sgml
M doc/src/sgml/release-9.2.sgml

Fix docs typo

commit   : 639bf57caf3d94292047d4268b72964358e195c5    
  
author   : Tom Lane <[email protected]>    
date     : Sat, 16 May 2015 13:28:27 -0400    
  
committer: Tom Lane <[email protected]>    
date     : Sat, 16 May 2015 13:28:27 -0400    

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I don't think "respectfully" is what was meant here ...  

M doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml

pg_upgrade: force timeline 1 in the new cluster

commit   : affc04d1656010cff7b20573c53a4d31dfabaa5f    
  
author   : Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>    
date     : Sat, 16 May 2015 00:40:18 -0400    
  
committer: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>    
date     : Sat, 16 May 2015 00:40:18 -0400    

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Previously, this prevented promoted standby servers from being upgraded  
because of a missing WAL history file.  (Timeline 1 doesn't need a  
history file, and we don't copy WAL files anyway.)  
  
Report by Christian Echerer(?), Alexey Klyukin  
  
Backpatch through 9.0  

M contrib/pg_upgrade/pg_upgrade.c

pg_upgrade: only allow template0 to be non-connectable

commit   : 2a55e713431abf688e656144a4babc6ee5563ffb    
  
author   : Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>    
date     : Sat, 16 May 2015 00:10:03 -0400    
  
committer: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>    
date     : Sat, 16 May 2015 00:10:03 -0400    

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This patch causes pg_upgrade to error out during its check phase if:  
  
(1) template0 is marked connectable  
or  
(2) any other database is marked non-connectable  
  
This is done because, in the first case, pg_upgrade would fail because  
the pg_dumpall --globals restore would fail, and in the second case, the  
database would not be restored, leading to data loss.  
  
Report by Matt Landry (1), Stephen Frost (2)  
  
Backpatch through 9.0  

M contrib/pg_upgrade/check.c

Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2015d.

commit   : 2a63434f07804fd7ba07799e1edecddc34807e71    
  
author   : Tom Lane <[email protected]>    
date     : Fri, 15 May 2015 19:35:29 -0400    
  
committer: Tom Lane <[email protected]>    
date     : Fri, 15 May 2015 19:35:29 -0400    

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DST law changes in Egypt, Mongolia, Palestine.  
Historical corrections for Canada and Chile.  
Revised zone abbreviation for America/Adak (HST/HDT not HAST/HADT).  

M src/timezone/data/africa
M src/timezone/data/antarctica
M src/timezone/data/asia
M src/timezone/data/australasia
M src/timezone/data/backward
M src/timezone/data/backzone
M src/timezone/data/europe
M src/timezone/data/northamerica
M src/timezone/data/southamerica
M src/timezone/known_abbrevs.txt
M src/timezone/tznames/America.txt
M src/timezone/tznames/Asia.txt
M src/timezone/tznames/Default
M src/timezone/tznames/Pacific.txt

Docs: fix erroneous claim about max byte length of GB18030.

commit   : cde3e743cdc6317711913c0cee8a8c56f49ea87c    
  
author   : Tom Lane <[email protected]>    
date     : Thu, 14 May 2015 14:59:00 -0400    
  
committer: Tom Lane <[email protected]>    
date     : Thu, 14 May 2015 14:59:00 -0400    

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This encoding has characters up to 4 bytes long, not 2.  

M doc/src/sgml/charset.sgml

Fix RBM_ZERO_AND_LOCK mode to not acquire lock on local buffers.

commit   : 1a99d392c13e457dd02385bdf4da7687eb2be237    
  
author   : Heikki Linnakangas <[email protected]>    
date     : Wed, 13 May 2015 09:44:43 +0300    
  
committer: Heikki Linnakangas <[email protected]>    
date     : Wed, 13 May 2015 09:44:43 +0300    

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Commit 81c45081 introduced a new RBM_ZERO_AND_LOCK mode to ReadBuffer, which  
takes a lock on the buffer before zeroing it. However, you cannot take a  
lock on a local buffer, and you got a segfault instead. The version of that  
patch committed to master included a check for !isLocalBuf, and therefore  
didn't crash, but oddly I missed that in the back-patched versions. This  
patch adds that check to the back-branches too.  
  
RBM_ZERO_AND_LOCK mode is only used during WAL replay, and in hash indexes.  
WAL replay only deals with shared buffers, so the only way to trigger the  
bug is with a temporary hash index.  
  
Reported by Artem Ignatyev, analysis by Tom Lane.  

M src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c

Fix incorrect checking of deferred exclusion constraint after a HOT update.

commit   : 46f9acd3ef90f744e94f11e3de29255ce65ce610    
  
author   : Tom Lane <[email protected]>    
date     : Mon, 11 May 2015 12:25:28 -0400    
  
committer: Tom Lane <[email protected]>    
date     : Mon, 11 May 2015 12:25:28 -0400    

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If a row that potentially violates a deferred exclusion constraint is  
HOT-updated later in the same transaction, the exclusion constraint would  
be reported as violated when the check finally occurs, even if the row(s)  
the new row originally conflicted with have since been removed.  This  
happened because the wrong TID was passed to check_exclusion_constraint(),  
causing the live HOT-updated row to be seen as a conflicting row rather  
than recognized as the row-under-test.  
  
Per bug #13148 from Evan Martin.  It's been broken since exclusion  
constraints were invented, so back-patch to all supported branches.  

M src/backend/commands/constraint.c
M src/test/regress/input/constraints.source
M src/test/regress/output/constraints.source

Recommend include_realm=1 in docs

commit   : 21cb21de2e848f0ba9b388a548562b151d6c7664    
  
author   : Stephen Frost <[email protected]>    
date     : Fri, 8 May 2015 19:39:52 -0400    
  
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date     : Fri, 8 May 2015 19:39:52 -0400    

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As discussed, the default setting of include_realm=0 can be dangerous in  
multi-realm environments because it is then impossible to differentiate  
users with the same username but who are from two different realms.  
  
Recommend include_realm=1 and note that the default setting may change  
in a future version of PostgreSQL and therefore users may wish to  
explicitly set include_realm to avoid issues while upgrading.  

M doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml

Properly send SCM status updates when shutting down service on Windows

commit   : 447e16581779e2a74a1e46753f25577646db7d3b    
  
author   : Magnus Hagander <[email protected]>    
date     : Thu, 7 May 2015 15:04:13 +0200    
  
committer: Magnus Hagander <[email protected]>    
date     : Thu, 7 May 2015 15:04:13 +0200    

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The Service Control Manager should be notified regularly during a shutdown  
that takes a long time. Previously we would increaes the counter, but forgot  
to actually send the notification to the system. The loop counter was also  
incorrectly initalized in the event that the startup of the system took long  
enough for it to increase, which could cause the shutdown process not to wait  
as long as expected.  
  
Krystian Bigaj, reviewed by Michael Paquier  

M src/bin/pg_ctl/pg_ctl.c

citext's regexp_matches() functions weren't documented, either.

commit   : bf85ba2a9c3d1a9ab67e877bdaf7f1e7aa97eda1    
  
author   : Tom Lane <[email protected]>    
date     : Tue, 5 May 2015 16:11:01 -0400    
  
committer: Tom Lane <[email protected]>    
date     : Tue, 5 May 2015 16:11:01 -0400    

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M doc/src/sgml/citext.sgml

Fix incorrect declaration of citext's regexp_matches() functions.

commit   : d4070d10c21917d9bcfdb570cf96aeaeaac7206f    
  
author   : Tom Lane <[email protected]>    
date     : Tue, 5 May 2015 15:50:53 -0400    
  
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These functions should return SETOF TEXT[], like the core functions they  
are wrappers for; but they were incorrectly declared as returning just  
TEXT[].  This mistake had two results: first, if there was no match you got  
a scalar null result, whereas what you should get is an empty set (zero  
rows).  Second, the 'g' flag was effectively ignored, since you would get  
only one result array even if there were multiple matches, as reported by  
Jeff Certain.  
  
While ignoring 'g' is a clear bug, the behavior for no matches might well  
have been thought to be the intended behavior by people who hadn't compared  
it carefully to the core regexp_matches() functions.  So we should tread  
carefully about introducing this change in the back branches.  Still, it  
clearly is a bug and so providing some fix is desirable.  
  
After discussion, the conclusion was to introduce the change in a 1.1  
version of the citext extension (as we would need to do anyway); 1.0 still  
contains the incorrect behavior.  1.1 is the default and only available  
version in HEAD, but it is optional in the back branches, where 1.0 remains  
the default version.  People wishing to adopt the fix in back branches will  
need to explicitly do ALTER EXTENSION citext UPDATE TO '1.1'.  (I also  
provided a downgrade script in the back branches, so people could go back  
to 1.0 if necessary.)  
  
This should be called out as an incompatible change in the 9.5 release  
notes, although we'll also document it in the next set of back-branch  
release notes.  The notes should mention that any views or rules that use  
citext's regexp_matches() functions will need to be dropped before  
upgrading to 1.1, and then recreated again afterwards.  
  
Back-patch to 9.1.  The bug goes all the way back to citext's introduction  
in 8.4, but pre-9.1 there is no extension mechanism with which to manage  
the change.  Given the lack of previous complaints it seems unnecessary to  
change this behavior in 9.0, anyway.  

M contrib/citext/Makefile
A contrib/citext/citext–1.0–1.1.sql
A contrib/citext/citext–1.1–1.0.sql
A contrib/citext/citext–1.1.sql

Fix some problems with patch to fsync the data directory.

commit   : 53e1498c658d46f6fa99c63beabb350dae3c03ed    
  
author   : Robert Haas <[email protected]>    
date     : Tue, 5 May 2015 08:30:28 -0400    
  
committer: Robert Haas <[email protected]>    
date     : Tue, 5 May 2015 08:30:28 -0400    

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pg_win32_is_junction() was a typo for pgwin32_is_junction().  open()  
was used not only in a two-argument form, which breaks on Windows,  
but also where BasicOpenFile() should have been used.  
  
Per reports from Andrew Dunstan and David Rowley.  

M src/backend/storage/file/fd.c

Recursively fsync() the data directory after a crash.

commit   : 2bc3397168580a28a1f072bec46d395f4eb54c08    
  
author   : Robert Haas <[email protected]>    
date     : Mon, 4 May 2015 12:06:53 -0400    
  
committer: Robert Haas <[email protected]>    
date     : Mon, 4 May 2015 12:06:53 -0400    

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Otherwise, if there's another crash, some writes from after the first  
crash might make it to disk while writes from before the crash fail  
to make it to disk.  This could lead to data corruption.  
  
Back-patch to all supported versions.  
  
Abhijit Menon-Sen, reviewed by Andres Freund and slightly revised  
by me.  

M src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c
M src/backend/storage/file/fd.c
M src/include/storage/fd.h

Build libecpg with -DFRONTEND in all supported versions.

commit   : 7c2ccb494c06aca6f09356a68411261458da00ae    
  
author   : Noah Misch <[email protected]>    
date     : Sun, 26 Apr 2015 17:20:10 -0400    
  
committer: Noah Misch <[email protected]>    
date     : Sun, 26 Apr 2015 17:20:10 -0400    

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Fix an oversight in commit 151e74719b0cc5c040bd3191b51b95f925773dd1 by  
back-patching commit 44c5d387eafb4ba1a032f8d7b13d85c553d69181 to 9.0.  

M src/interfaces/ecpg/ecpglib/Makefile

Prevent improper reordering of antijoins vs. outer joins.

commit   : 950f80dd54a49f052919b45ffddbcea3deefe6a2    
  
author   : Tom Lane <[email protected]>    
date     : Sat, 25 Apr 2015 16:44:27 -0400    
  
committer: Tom Lane <[email protected]>    
date     : Sat, 25 Apr 2015 16:44:27 -0400    

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An outer join appearing within the RHS of an antijoin can't commute with  
the antijoin, but somehow I missed teaching make_outerjoininfo() about  
that.  In Teodor Sigaev's recent trouble report, this manifests as a  
"could not find RelOptInfo for given relids" error within eqjoinsel();  
but I think silently wrong query results are possible too, if the planner  
misorders the joins and doesn't happen to trigger any internal consistency  
checks.  It's broken as far back as we had antijoins, so back-patch to all  
supported branches.  

M src/backend/optimizer/plan/initsplan.c
M src/test/regress/expected/join.out
M src/test/regress/sql/join.sql

Build every ECPG library with -DFRONTEND.

commit   : 5eab0f1383f0864fe038c2ab13282c9c356f291d    
  
author   : Noah Misch <[email protected]>    
date     : Fri, 24 Apr 2015 19:29:02 -0400    
  
committer: Noah Misch <[email protected]>    
date     : Fri, 24 Apr 2015 19:29:02 -0400    

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Each of the libraries incorporates src/port files, which often check  
FRONTEND.  Build systems disagreed on whether to build libpgtypes this  
way.  Only libecpg incorporates files that rely on it today.  Back-patch  
to 9.0 (all supported versions) to forestall surprises.  

M src/interfaces/ecpg/compatlib/Makefile
M src/interfaces/ecpg/pgtypeslib/Makefile
M src/tools/msvc/Mkvcbuild.pm

Fix obsolete comment in set_rel_size().

commit   : b743a8b313d4ab8c216a22d9898bf9b377ae0167    
  
author   : Tom Lane <[email protected]>    
date     : Fri, 24 Apr 2015 15:18:07 -0400    
  
committer: Tom Lane <[email protected]>    
date     : Fri, 24 Apr 2015 15:18:07 -0400    

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The cross-reference to set_append_rel_pathlist() was obsoleted by  
commit e2fa76d80ba571d4de8992de6386536867250474, which split what  
had been set_rel_pathlist() and child routines into two sets of  
functions.  But I (tgl) evidently missed updating this comment.  
  
Back-patch to 9.2 to avoid unnecessary divergence among branches.  
  
Amit Langote  

M src/backend/optimizer/path/allpaths.c

Fix deadlock at startup, if max_prepared_transactions is too small.

commit   : d3f5d2892bc7f48adce4116d7f99f75214544934    
  
author   : Heikki Linnakangas <[email protected]>    
date     : Thu, 23 Apr 2015 21:25:44 +0300    
  
committer: Heikki Linnakangas <[email protected]>    
date     : Thu, 23 Apr 2015 21:25:44 +0300    

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When the startup process recovers transactions by scanning pg_twophase  
directory, it should clear MyLockedGxact after it's done processing each  
transaction. Like we do during normal operation, at PREPARE TRANSACTION.  
Otherwise, if the startup process exits due to an error, it will try to  
clear the locking_backend field of the last recovered transaction. That's  
usually harmless, but if the error happens in MarkAsPreparing, while  
holding TwoPhaseStateLock, the shmem-exit hook will try to acquire  
TwoPhaseStateLock again, and deadlock with itself.  
  
This fixes bug #13128 reported by Grant McAlister. The bug was introduced  
by commit bb38fb0d, so backpatch to all supported versions like that  
commit.  

M src/backend/access/transam/twophase.c

Fix typo in comment

commit   : 3d73a67ffc742e5d49e9ba3fe78a2fe9b1d9ee05    
  
author   : Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]>    
date     : Tue, 14 Apr 2015 12:12:18 -0300    
  
committer: Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]>    
date     : Tue, 14 Apr 2015 12:12:18 -0300    

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SLRU_SEGMENTS_PER_PAGE -> SLRU_PAGES_PER_SEGMENT  
  
I introduced this ancient typo in subtrans.c and later propagated it to  
multixact.c.  I fixed the latter in f741300c, but only back to 9.3;  
backpatch to all supported branches for consistency.  

M src/backend/access/transam/multixact.c
M src/backend/access/transam/subtrans.c

Don't archive bogus recycled or preallocated files after timeline switch.

commit   : cc2939f44253b31ca16c98d1c846fcee04517cc9    
  
author   : Heikki Linnakangas <[email protected]>    
date     : Mon, 13 Apr 2015 16:53:49 +0300    
  
committer: Heikki Linnakangas <[email protected]>    
date     : Mon, 13 Apr 2015 16:53:49 +0300    

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After a timeline switch, we would leave behind recycled WAL segments that  
are in the future, but on the old timeline. After promotion, and after they  
become old enough to be recycled again, we would notice that they don't have  
a .ready or .done file, create a .ready file for them, and archive them.  
That's bogus, because the files contain garbage, recycled from an older  
timeline (or prealloced as zeros). We shouldn't archive such files.  
  
This could happen when we're following a timeline switch during replay, or  
when we switch to new timeline at end-of-recovery.  
  
To fix, whenever we switch to a new timeline, scan the data directory for  
WAL segments on the old timeline, but with a higher segment number, and  
remove them. Those don't belong to our timeline history, and are most  
likely bogus recycled or preallocated files. They could also be valid files  
that we streamed from the primary ahead of time, but in any case, they're  
not needed to recover to the new timeline.  

M src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c

Remove duplicated words in comments.

commit   : 3a9951d62e37d0660505d9e6fe6647f6b4743008    
  
author   : Heikki Linnakangas <[email protected]>    
date     : Sun, 12 Apr 2015 10:46:17 +0300    
  
committer: Heikki Linnakangas <[email protected]>    
date     : Sun, 12 Apr 2015 10:46:17 +0300    

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David Rowley  

M src/bin/pg_basebackup/pg_basebackup.c

Fix incorrect punctuation

commit   : 9abf89828e8db73a4a28afd5e477be964b970073    
  
author   : Magnus Hagander <[email protected]>    
date     : Thu, 9 Apr 2015 13:35:30 +0200    
  
committer: Magnus Hagander <[email protected]>    
date     : Thu, 9 Apr 2015 13:35:30 +0200    

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Amit Langote  

M doc/src/sgml/mvcc.sgml

Fix autovacuum launcher shutdown sequence

commit   : 37dc228e8d3de65895ef8b41c0c4a40b2983e32b    
  
author   : Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]>    
date     : Wed, 8 Apr 2015 13:19:49 -0300    
  
committer: Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]>    
date     : Wed, 8 Apr 2015 13:19:49 -0300    

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It was previously possible to have the launcher re-execute its main loop  
before shutting down if some other signal was received or an error  
occurred after getting SIGTERM, as reported by Qingqing Zhou.  
  
While investigating, Tom Lane further noticed that if autovacuum had  
been disabled in the config file, it would misbehave by trying to start  
a new worker instead of bailing out immediately -- it would consider  
itself as invoked in emergency mode.  
  
Fix both problems by checking the shutdown flag in a few more places.  
These problems have existed since autovacuum was introduced, so  
backpatch all the way back.  

M src/backend/postmaster/autovacuum.c

Fix assorted inconsistent function declarations.

commit   : 6a560f5b5ff889ae252b9d8ee1f45b616fd6adbc    
  
author   : Tom Lane <[email protected]>    
date     : Tue, 7 Apr 2015 16:56:21 -0400    
  
committer: Tom Lane <[email protected]>    
date     : Tue, 7 Apr 2015 16:56:21 -0400    

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While gcc doesn't complain if you declare a function "static" and then  
define it not-static, other compilers do; and in any case the code is  
highly misleading this way.  Add the missing "static" keywords to a  
couple of recent patches.  Per buildfarm member pademelon.  

M contrib/pg_upgrade/pg_upgrade.c
M src/bin/pg_resetxlog/pg_resetxlog.c

Fix typo in libpq.sgml.

commit   : daee80f1aec7bcd98a6ce3cb5f087d38828dbc38    
  
author   : Fujii Masao <[email protected]>    
date     : Mon, 6 Apr 2015 12:15:20 +0900    
  
committer: Fujii Masao <[email protected]>    
date     : Mon, 6 Apr 2015 12:15:20 +0900    

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Back-patch to all supported versions.  
  
Michael Paquier  

M doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml

Fix incorrect matching of subexpressions in outer-join plan nodes.

commit   : b7d493bf78328fbb450e9db56a60e536a6fb6bbf    
  
author   : Tom Lane <[email protected]>    
date     : Sat, 4 Apr 2015 19:55:15 -0400    
  
committer: Tom Lane <[email protected]>    
date     : Sat, 4 Apr 2015 19:55:15 -0400    

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Previously we would re-use input subexpressions in all expression trees  
attached to a Join plan node.  However, if it's an outer join and the  
subexpression appears in the nullable-side input, this is potentially  
incorrect for apparently-matching subexpressions that came from above  
the outer join (ie, targetlist and qpqual expressions), because the  
executor will treat the subexpression value as NULL when maybe it should  
not be.  
  
The case is fairly hard to hit because (a) you need a non-strict  
subexpression (else NULL is correct), and (b) we don't usually compute  
expressions in the outputs of non-toplevel plan nodes.  But we might do  
so if the expressions are sort keys for a mergejoin, for example.  
  
Probably in the long run we should make a more explicit distinction between  
Vars appearing above and below an outer join, but that will be a major  
planner redesign and not at all back-patchable.  For the moment, just hack  
set_join_references so that it will not match any non-Var expressions  
coming from nullable inputs to expressions that came from above the join.  
(This is somewhat overkill, in that a strict expression could still be  
matched, but it doesn't seem worth the effort to check that.)  
  
Per report from Qingqing Zhou.  The added regression test case is based  
on his example.  
  
This has been broken for a very long time, so back-patch to all active  
branches.  

M src/backend/optimizer/plan/setrefs.c
M src/test/regress/expected/join.out
M src/test/regress/sql/join.sql

Remove unnecessary variables in _hash_splitbucket().

commit   : 0aff9d8338d6fa6b9ef2439c7c0b4aa3ad4a4651    
  
author   : Tom Lane <[email protected]>    
date     : Fri, 3 Apr 2015 16:49:11 -0400    
  
committer: Tom Lane <[email protected]>    
date     : Fri, 3 Apr 2015 16:49:11 -0400    

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Commit ed9cc2b5df59fdbc50cce37399e26b03ab2c1686 made it unnecessary to pass  
start_nblkno to _hash_splitbucket(), and for that matter unnecessary to  
have the internal nblkno variable either.  My compiler didn't complain  
about that, but some did.  I also rearranged the use of oblkno a bit to  
make that case more parallel.  
  
Report and initial patch by Petr Jelinek, rearranged a bit by me.  
Back-patch to all branches, like the previous patch.  

M src/backend/access/hash/hashpage.c

psql: fix \connect with URIs and conninfo strings

commit   : d4bacdcb97928d20d61fcbc8d1305b504fea38f8    
  
author   : Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]>    
date     : Wed, 1 Apr 2015 20:00:07 -0300    
  
committer: Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]>    
date     : Wed, 1 Apr 2015 20:00:07 -0300    

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psql was already accepting conninfo strings as the first parameter in  
\connect, but the way it worked wasn't sane; some of the other  
parameters would get the previous connection's values, causing it to  
connect to a completely unexpected server or, more likely, not finding  
any server at all because of completely wrong combinations of  
parameters.  
  
Fix by explicitely checking for a conninfo-looking parameter in the  
dbname position; if one is found, use its complete specification rather  
than mix with the other arguments.  Also, change tab-completion to not  
try to complete conninfo/URI-looking "dbnames" and document that  
conninfos are accepted as first argument.  
  
There was a weak consensus to backpatch this, because while the behavior  
of using the dbname as a conninfo is nowhere documented for \connect, it  
is reasonable to expect that it works because it does work in many other  
contexts.  Therefore this is backpatched all the way back to 9.0.  
  
To implement this, routines previously private to libpq have been  
duplicated so that psql can decide what looks like a conninfo/URI  
string.  In back branches, just duplicate the same code all the way back  
to 9.2, where URIs where introduced; 9.0 and 9.1 have a simpler version.  
In master, the routines are moved to src/common and renamed.  
  
Author: David Fetter, Andrew Dunstan.  Some editorialization by me  
(probably earning a Gierth's "Sloppy" badge in the process.)  
Reviewers: Andrew Gierth, Erik Rijkers, Pavel Stěhule, Stephen Frost,  
Robert Haas, Andrew Dunstan.  

M doc/src/sgml/ref/psql-ref.sgml
M src/bin/psql/command.c
M src/bin/psql/common.c
M src/bin/psql/common.h
M src/bin/psql/help.c
M src/bin/psql/tab-complete.c

Fix incorrect markup in documentation of window frame clauses.

commit   : 993674e80e511ac0c22a55c3261ce9760431cedc    
  
author   : Tom Lane <[email protected]>    
date     : Tue, 31 Mar 2015 20:02:40 -0400    
  
committer: Tom Lane <[email protected]>    
date     : Tue, 31 Mar 2015 20:02:40 -0400    

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You're required to write either RANGE or ROWS to start a frame clause,  
but the documentation incorrectly implied this is optional.  Noted by  
David Johnston.  

M doc/src/sgml/ref/select.sgml
M doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml

Remove spurious semicolons.

commit   : 71b368962f21eb3c0ab773dd501c381649f9f268    
  
author   : Heikki Linnakangas <[email protected]>    
date     : Tue, 31 Mar 2015 15:12:27 +0300    
  
committer: Heikki Linnakangas <[email protected]>    
date     : Tue, 31 Mar 2015 15:12:27 +0300    

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Petr Jelinek  

M src/backend/parser/gram.y
M src/backend/utils/adt/oracle_compat.c

Run pg_upgrade and pg_resetxlog with restricted token on Windows

commit   : 9485663134c1c3d131bcdef8745d69871b193baf    
  
author   : Andrew Dunstan <[email protected]>    
date     : Mon, 30 Mar 2015 17:17:39 -0400    
  
committer: Andrew Dunstan <[email protected]>    
date     : Mon, 30 Mar 2015 17:17:39 -0400    

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As with initdb these programs need to run with a restricted token, and  
if they don't pg_upgrade will fail when run as a user with Adminstrator  
privileges.  
  
Backpatch to all live branches. On the development branch the code is  
reorganized so that the restricted token code is now in a single  
location. On the stable bramches a less invasive change is made by  
simply copying the relevant code to pg_upgrade.c and pg_resetxlog.c.  
  
Patches and bug report from Muhammad Asif Naeem, reviewed by Michael  
Paquier, slightly edited by me.  

M contrib/pg_upgrade/pg_upgrade.c
M src/bin/pg_resetxlog/pg_resetxlog.c

Fix bogus concurrent use of _hash_getnewbuf() in bucket split code.

commit   : f155466fe97d0a9b69228ed4be7d01f096fe4cce    
  
author   : Tom Lane <[email protected]>    
date     : Mon, 30 Mar 2015 16:40:05 -0400    
  
committer: Tom Lane <[email protected]>    
date     : Mon, 30 Mar 2015 16:40:05 -0400    

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_hash_splitbucket() obtained the base page of the new bucket by calling  
_hash_getnewbuf(), but it held no exclusive lock that would prevent some  
other process from calling _hash_getnewbuf() at the same time.  This is  
contrary to _hash_getnewbuf()'s API spec and could in fact cause failures.  
In practice, we must only call that function while holding write lock on  
the hash index's metapage.  
  
An additional problem was that we'd already modified the metapage's bucket  
mapping data, meaning that failure to extend the index would leave us with  
a corrupt index.  
  
Fix both issues by moving the _hash_getnewbuf() call to just before we  
modify the metapage in _hash_expandtable().  
  
Unfortunately there's still a large problem here, which is that we could  
also incur ENOSPC while trying to get an overflow page for the new bucket.  
That would leave the index corrupt in a more subtle way, namely that some  
index tuples that should be in the new bucket might still be in the old  
one.  Fixing that seems substantially more difficult; even preallocating as  
many pages as we could possibly need wouldn't entirely guarantee that the  
bucket split would complete successfully.  So for today let's just deal  
with the base case.  
  
Per report from Antonin Houska.  Back-patch to all active branches.  

M src/backend/access/hash/hashpage.c

Add vacuum_delay_point call in compute_index_stats's per-sample-row loop.

commit   : d12afe114403aee962ddca900842e4460bd17f68    
  
author   : Tom Lane <[email protected]>    
date     : Sun, 29 Mar 2015 15:04:09 -0400    
  
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Slow functions in index expressions might cause this loop to take long  
enough to make it worth being cancellable.  Probably it would be enough  
to call CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS here, but for consistency with other  
per-sample-row loops in this file, let's use vacuum_delay_point.  
  
Report and patch by Jeff Janes.  Back-patch to all supported branches.  

M src/backend/commands/analyze.c

Make SyncRepWakeQueue to a static function

commit   : e37c1090df88ca6d7e88f3753fac2f980f6a9dcd    
  
author   : Tatsuo Ishii <[email protected]>    
date     : Thu, 26 Mar 2015 10:38:11 +0900    
  
committer: Tatsuo Ishii <[email protected]>    
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It is only used in src/backend/replication/syncrep.c.  
  
Back-patch to all supported branches except 9.1 which declares the  
function as static.  

M src/backend/replication/syncrep.c
M src/include/replication/syncrep.h

Fix ExecOpenScanRelation to take a lock on a ROW_MARK_COPY relation.

commit   : 3fbfd5dbeca7931b40d9ec919fb64c3f08893848    
  
author   : Tom Lane <[email protected]>    
date     : Tue, 24 Mar 2015 15:53:06 -0400    
  
committer: Tom Lane <[email protected]>    
date     : Tue, 24 Mar 2015 15:53:06 -0400    

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ExecOpenScanRelation assumed that any relation listed in the ExecRowMark  
list has been locked by InitPlan; but this is not true if the rel's  
markType is ROW_MARK_COPY, which is possible if it's a foreign table.  
  
In most (possibly all) cases, failure to acquire a lock here isn't really  
problematic because the parser, planner, or plancache would have taken the  
appropriate lock already.  In principle though it might leave us vulnerable  
to working with a relation that we hold no lock on, and in any case if the  
executor isn't depending on previously-taken locks otherwise then it should  
not do so for ROW_MARK_COPY relations.  
  
Noted by Etsuro Fujita.  Back-patch to all active versions, since the  
inconsistency has been there a long time.  (It's almost certainly  
irrelevant in 9.0, since that predates foreign tables, but the code's  
still wrong on its own terms.)  

M src/backend/executor/execMain.c
M src/backend/executor/execUtils.c

Replace insertion sort in contrib/intarray with qsort().

commit   : 8582ae7aabbefa1b99c2d42266de1b026fa06cc7    
  
author   : Tom Lane <[email protected]>    
date     : Sun, 15 Mar 2015 23:22:03 -0400    
  
committer: Tom Lane <[email protected]>    
date     : Sun, 15 Mar 2015 23:22:03 -0400    

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It's all very well to claim that a simplistic sort is fast in easy  
cases, but O(N^2) in the worst case is not good ... especially if the  
worst case is as easy to hit as "descending order input".  Replace that  
bit with our standard qsort.  
  
Per bug #12866 from Maksym Boguk.  Back-patch to all active branches.  

M contrib/intarray/_int_tool.c

Remove workaround for ancient incompatibility between readline and libedit.

commit   : 309ff2ad0459bbd9de695df81cdac2264ddeceec    
  
author   : Tom Lane <[email protected]>    
date     : Sat, 14 Mar 2015 13:43:00 -0400    
  
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date     : Sat, 14 Mar 2015 13:43:00 -0400    

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GNU readline defines the return value of write_history() as "zero if OK,  
else an errno code".  libedit's version of that function used to have a  
different definition (to wit, "-1 if error, else the number of lines  
written to the file").  We tried to work around that by checking whether  
errno had become nonzero, but this method has never been kosher according  
to the published API of either library.  It's reportedly completely broken  
in recent Ubuntu releases: psql bleats about "No such file or directory"  
when saving ~/.psql_history, even though the write worked fine.  
  
However, libedit has been following the readline definition since somewhere  
around 2006, so it seems all right to finally break compatibility with  
ancient libedit releases and trust that the return value is what readline  
specifies.  (I'm not sure when the various Linux distributions incorporated  
this fix, but I did find that OS X has been shipping fixed versions since  
10.5/Leopard.)  
  
If anyone is still using such an ancient libedit, they will find that psql  
complains it can't write ~/.psql_history at exit, even when the file was  
written correctly.  This is no worse than the behavior we're fixing for  
current releases.  
  
Back-patch to all supported branches.  

M src/bin/psql/input.c

Fix integer overflow in debug message of walreceiver

commit   : 4909cb59df40a011b041ce97a68e4d73a54da6ee    
  
author   : Tatsuo Ishii <[email protected]>    
date     : Sat, 14 Mar 2015 08:16:50 +0900    
  
committer: Tatsuo Ishii <[email protected]>    
date     : Sat, 14 Mar 2015 08:16:50 +0900    

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The message tries to tell the replication apply delay which fails if  
the first WAL record is not applied yet. Fix is, instead of telling  
overflowed minus numeric, showing "N/A" which indicates that the delay  
data is not yet available. Problem reported by me and patch by  
Fabrízio de Royes Mello.  
  
Back patched to 9.4, 9.3 and 9.2 stable branches (9.1 and 9.0 do not  
have the debug message).  

M src/backend/replication/walreceiver.c
M src/backend/replication/walreceiverfuncs.c

Ensure tableoid reads correctly in EvalPlanQual-manufactured tuples.

commit   : 590fc5d96f8b880fd41c4992dab73ec47f90eca4    
  
author   : Tom Lane <[email protected]>    
date     : Thu, 12 Mar 2015 13:38:49 -0400    
  
committer: Tom Lane <[email protected]>    
date     : Thu, 12 Mar 2015 13:38:49 -0400    

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The ROW_MARK_COPY path in EvalPlanQualFetchRowMarks() was just setting  
tableoid to InvalidOid, I think on the assumption that the referenced  
RTE must be a subquery or other case without a meaningful OID.  However,  
foreign tables also use this code path, and they do have meaningful  
table OIDs; so failure to set the tuple field can lead to user-visible  
misbehavior.  Fix that by fetching the appropriate OID from the range  
table.  
  
There's still an issue about whether CTID can ever have a meaningful  
value in this case; at least with postgres_fdw foreign tables, it does.  
But that is a different problem that seems to require a significantly  
different patch --- it's debatable whether postgres_fdw really wants to  
use this code path at all.  
  
Simplified version of a patch by Etsuro Fujita, who also noted the  
problem to begin with.  The issue can be demonstrated in all versions  
having FDWs, so back-patch to 9.1.  

M src/backend/executor/execMain.c

Fix documentation for libpq's PQfn().

commit   : ae67e81edb684165b8d9661d4455908b9db618d8    
  
author   : Tom Lane <[email protected]>    
date     : Sun, 8 Mar 2015 13:35:28 -0400    
  
committer: Tom Lane <[email protected]>    
date     : Sun, 8 Mar 2015 13:35:28 -0400    

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The SGML docs claimed that 1-byte integers could be sent or received with  
the "isint" options, but no such behavior has ever been implemented in  
pqGetInt() or pqPutInt().  The in-code documentation header for PQfn() was  
even less in tune with reality, and the code itself used parameter names  
matching neither the SGML docs nor its libpq-fe.h declaration.  Do a bit  
of additional wordsmithing on the SGML docs while at it.  
  
Since the business about 1-byte integers is a clear documentation bug,  
back-patch to all supported branches.  

M doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml
M src/interfaces/libpq/fe-exec.c

Fix contrib/file_fdw's expected file

commit   : ce37bf2edf3f80480549d0c049b323b869a7276d    
  
author   : Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]>    
date     : Fri, 6 Mar 2015 11:47:09 -0300    
  
committer: Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]>    
date     : Fri, 6 Mar 2015 11:47:09 -0300    

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I forgot to update it on yesterday's cf34e373fcf.  

M contrib/file_fdw/output/file_fdw.source

Fix user mapping object description

commit   : e166e6441f14f612489706ca793cfd19f15d5951    
  
author   : Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]>    
date     : Thu, 5 Mar 2015 18:03:16 -0300    
  
committer: Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]>    
date     : Thu, 5 Mar 2015 18:03:16 -0300    

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We were using "user mapping for user XYZ" as description for user mappings, but  
that's ambiguous because users can have mappings on multiple foreign  
servers; therefore change it to "for user XYZ on server UVW" instead.  
Object identities for user mappings are also updated in the same way, in  
branches 9.3 and above.  
  
The incomplete description string was introduced together with the whole  
SQL/MED infrastructure by commit cae565e503 of 8.4 era, so backpatch all  
the way back.  

M src/backend/catalog/dependency.c
M src/test/regress/expected/foreign_data.out

Fix pg_dump handling of extension config tables

commit   : d13bbfabb4d8402e898bdd8650f6ec9b3bb41451    
  
author   : Stephen Frost <[email protected]>    
date     : Mon, 2 Mar 2015 14:12:38 -0500    
  
committer: Stephen Frost <[email protected]>    
date     : Mon, 2 Mar 2015 14:12:38 -0500    

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Since 9.1, we've provided extensions with a way to denote  
"configuration" tables- tables created by an extension which the user  
may modify.  By marking these as "configuration" tables, the extension  
is asking for the data in these tables to be pg_dump'd (tables which  
are not marked in this way are assumed to be entirely handled during  
CREATE EXTENSION and are not included at all in a pg_dump).  
  
Unfortunately, pg_dump neglected to consider foreign key relationships  
between extension configuration tables and therefore could end up  
trying to reload the data in an order which would cause FK violations.  
  
This patch teaches pg_dump about these dependencies, so that the data  
dumped out is done so in the best order possible.  Note that there's no  
way to handle circular dependencies, but those have yet to be seen in  
the wild.  
  
The release notes for this should include a caution to users that  
existing pg_dump-based backups may be invalid due to this issue.  The  
data is all there, but restoring from it will require extracting the  
data for the configuration tables and then loading them in the correct  
order by hand.  
  
Discussed initially back in bug #6738, more recently brought up by  
Gilles Darold, who provided an initial patch which was further reworked  
by Michael Paquier.  Further modifications and documentation updates  
by me.  
  
Back-patch to 9.1 where we added the concept of extension configuration  
tables.  

M doc/src/sgml/extend.sgml
M src/bin/pg_dump/pg_dump.c

commit   : c3b0baf910f3428df8b30144c1e4034c04ebe495    
  
author   : Noah Misch <[email protected]>    
date     : Sun, 1 Mar 2015 13:05:23 -0500    
  
committer: Noah Misch <[email protected]>    
date     : Sun, 1 Mar 2015 13:05:23 -0500    

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When the library already exists in the build directory, "ar" preserves  
members not named on its command line.  This mattered when, for example,  
a "configure" rerun dropped a file from $(LIBOBJS).  libpgport carried  
the obsolete member until "make clean".  Back-patch to 9.0 (all  
supported versions).  

M src/Makefile.shlib
M src/port/Makefile

Fix planning of star-schema-style queries.

commit   : 6f419958a61119c2f17e0a84a30e920050c843db    
  
author   : Tom Lane <[email protected]>    
date     : Sat, 28 Feb 2015 12:43:04 -0500    
  
committer: Tom Lane <[email protected]>    
date     : Sat, 28 Feb 2015 12:43:04 -0500    

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Part of the intent of the parameterized-path mechanism was to handle  
star-schema queries efficiently, but some overly-restrictive search  
limiting logic added in commit e2fa76d80ba571d4de8992de6386536867250474  
prevented such cases from working as desired.  Fix that and add a  
regression test about it.  Per gripe from Marc Cousin.  
  
This is arguably a bug rather than a new feature, so back-patch to 9.2  
where parameterized paths were introduced.  

M src/backend/optimizer/README
M src/backend/optimizer/path/joinpath.c
M src/test/regress/expected/join.out
M src/test/regress/sql/join.sql

Reconsider when to wait for WAL flushes/syncrep during commit.

commit   : d670765298ced11e5f147c319171306918b0285c    
  
author   : Andres Freund <[email protected]>    
date     : Thu, 26 Feb 2015 12:50:07 +0100    
  
committer: Andres Freund <[email protected]>    
date     : Thu, 26 Feb 2015 12:50:07 +0100    

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Up to now RecordTransactionCommit() waited for WAL to be flushed (if  
synchronous_commit != off) and to be synchronously replicated (if  
enabled), even if a transaction did not have a xid assigned. The primary  
reason for that is that sequence's nextval() did not assign a xid, but  
are worthwhile to wait for on commit.  
  
This can be problematic because sometimes read only transactions do  
write WAL, e.g. HOT page prune records. That then could lead to read only  
transactions having to wait during commit. Not something people expect  
in a read only transaction.  
  
This lead to such strange symptoms as backends being seemingly stuck  
during connection establishment when all synchronous replicas are  
down. Especially annoying when said stuck connection is the standby  
trying to reconnect to allow syncrep again...  
  
This behavior also is involved in a rather complicated <= 9.4 bug where  
the transaction started by catchup interrupt processing waited for  
syncrep using latches, but didn't get the wakeup because it was already  
running inside the same overloaded signal handler. Fix the issue here  
doesn't properly solve that issue, merely papers over the problems. In  
9.5 catchup interrupts aren't processed out of signal handlers anymore.  
  
To fix all this, make nextval() acquire a top level xid, and only wait for  
transaction commit if a transaction both acquired a xid and emitted WAL  
records.  If only a xid has been assigned we don't uselessly want to  
wait just because of writes to temporary/unlogged tables; if only WAL  
has been written we don't want to wait just because of HOT prunes.  
  
The xid assignment in nextval() is unlikely to cause overhead in  
real-world workloads. For one it only happens SEQ_LOG_VALS/32 values  
anyway, for another only usage of nextval() without using the result in  
an insert or similar is affected.  
  
Discussion: [email protected],  
    369698E947874884A77849D8FE3680C2@maumau,  
    5CF4ABBA67674088B3941894E22A0D25@maumau  
  
Per complaint from maumau and Thom Brown  
  
Backpatch all the way back; 9.0 doesn't have syncrep, but it seems  
better to be consistent behavior across all maintained branches.  

M src/backend/access/transam/xact.c
M src/backend/commands/sequence.c

Free SQLSTATE and SQLERRM no earlier than other PL/pgSQL variables.

commit   : d7083cc546bba50fe1adea5a05772f857cbff96b    
  
author   : Noah Misch <[email protected]>    
date     : Wed, 25 Feb 2015 23:48:28 -0500    
  
committer: Noah Misch <[email protected]>    
date     : Wed, 25 Feb 2015 23:48:28 -0500    

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"RETURN SQLERRM" prompted plpgsql_exec_function() to read from freed  
memory.  Back-patch to 9.0 (all supported versions).  Little code ran  
between the premature free and the read, so non-assert builds are  
unlikely to witness user-visible consequences.  

M src/pl/plpgsql/src/pl_exec.c
M src/test/regress/expected/plpgsql.out
M src/test/regress/sql/plpgsql.sql

Fix dumping of views that are just VALUES(...) but have column aliases.

commit   : be8801e9c5f86122dacc8b037f0fab960dc0b196    
  
author   : Tom Lane <[email protected]>    
date     : Wed, 25 Feb 2015 12:01:12 -0500    
  
committer: Tom Lane <[email protected]>    
date     : Wed, 25 Feb 2015 12:01:12 -0500    

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The "simple" path for printing VALUES clauses doesn't work if we need  
to attach nondefault column aliases, because there's noplace to do that  
in the minimal VALUES() syntax.  So modify get_simple_values_rte() to  
detect nondefault aliases and treat that as a non-simple case.  This  
further exposes that the "non-simple" path never actually worked;  
it didn't produce valid syntax.  Fix that too.  Per bug #12789 from  
Curtis McEnroe, and analysis by Andrew Gierth.  
  
Back-patch to all supported branches.  Before 9.3, this also requires  
back-patching the part of commit 092d7ded29f36b0539046b23b81b9f0bf2d637f1  
that created get_simple_values_rte() to begin with; inserting the extra  
test into the old factorization of that logic would've been too messy.  

M src/backend/utils/adt/ruleutils.c
M src/test/regress/expected/rules.out
M src/test/regress/sql/rules.sql

Guard against spurious signals in LockBufferForCleanup.

commit   : c76e6dd7a47934d4718b143ef70b255376266d08    
  
author   : Andres Freund <[email protected]>    
date     : Mon, 23 Feb 2015 16:11:11 +0100    
  
committer: Andres Freund <[email protected]>    
date     : Mon, 23 Feb 2015 16:11:11 +0100    

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When LockBufferForCleanup() has to wait for getting a cleanup lock on a  
buffer it does so by setting a flag in the buffer header and then wait  
for other backends to signal it using ProcWaitForSignal().  
Unfortunately LockBufferForCleanup() missed that ProcWaitForSignal() can  
return for other reasons than the signal it is hoping for. If such a  
spurious signal arrives the wait flags on the buffer header will still  
be set. That then triggers "ERROR: multiple backends attempting to wait  
for pincount 1".  
  
The fix is simple, unset the flag if still set when retrying. That  
implies an additional spinlock acquisition/release, but that's unlikely  
to matter given the cost of waiting for a cleanup lock.  Alternatively  
it'd have been possible to move responsibility for maintaining the  
relevant flag to the waiter all together, but that might have had  
negative consequences due to possible floods of signals. Besides being  
more invasive.  
  
This looks to be a very longstanding bug. The relevant code in  
LockBufferForCleanup() hasn't changed materially since its introduction  
and ProcWaitForSignal() was documented to return for unrelated reasons  
since 8.2.  The master only patch series removing ImmediateInterruptOK  
made it much easier to hit though, as ProcSendSignal/ProcWaitForSignal  
now uses a latch shared with other tasks.  
  
Per discussion with Kevin Grittner, Tom Lane and me.  
  
Backpatch to all supported branches.  
  
Discussion: [email protected]  

M src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c

Fix potential deadlock with libpq non-blocking mode.

commit   : 22c9c8a7e422d268027710e0e413783b19db792c    
  
author   : Heikki Linnakangas <[email protected]>    
date     : Mon, 23 Feb 2015 13:32:34 +0200    
  
committer: Heikki Linnakangas <[email protected]>    
date     : Mon, 23 Feb 2015 13:32:34 +0200    

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If libpq output buffer is full, pqSendSome() function tries to drain any  
incoming data. This avoids deadlock, if the server e.g. sends a lot of  
NOTICE messages, and blocks until we read them. However, pqSendSome() only  
did that in blocking mode. In non-blocking mode, the deadlock could still  
happen.  
  
To fix, take a two-pronged approach:  
  
1. Change the documentation to instruct that when PQflush() returns 1, you  
should wait for both read- and write-ready, and call PQconsumeInput() if it  
becomes read-ready. That fixes the deadlock, but applications are not going  
to change overnight.  
  
2. In pqSendSome(), drain the input buffer before returning 1. This  
alleviates the problem for applications that only wait for write-ready. In  
particular, a slow but steady stream of NOTICE messages during COPY FROM  
STDIN will no longer cause a deadlock. The risk remains that the server  
attempts to send a large burst of data and fills its output buffer, and at  
the same time the client also sends enough data to fill its output buffer.  
The application will deadlock if it goes to sleep, waiting for the socket  
to become write-ready, before the server's data arrives. In practice,  
NOTICE messages and such that the server might be sending are usually  
short, so it's highly unlikely that the server would fill its output buffer  
so quickly.  
  
Backpatch to all supported versions.  

M doc/src/sgml/libpq.sgml
M src/interfaces/libpq/fe-misc.c

Fix misparsing of empty value in conninfo_uri_parse_params().

commit   : 83c3115dd0dda495d8cbe47c5eea33df13f2881e    
  
author   : Tom Lane <[email protected]>    
date     : Sat, 21 Feb 2015 12:59:25 -0500    
  
committer: Tom Lane <[email protected]>    
date     : Sat, 21 Feb 2015 12:59:25 -0500    

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After finding an "=" character, the pointer was advanced twice when it  
should only advance once.  This is harmless as long as the value after "="  
has at least one character; but if it doesn't, we'd miss the terminator  
character and include too much in the value.  
  
In principle this could lead to reading off the end of memory.  It does not  
seem worth treating as a security issue though, because it would happen on  
client side, and besides client logic that's taking conninfo strings from  
untrusted sources has much worse security problems than this.  
  
Report and patch received off-list from Thomas Fanghaenel.  
Back-patch to 9.2 where the faulty code was introduced.  

M src/interfaces/libpq/fe-connect.c

Fix failure to honor -Z compression level option in pg_dump -Fd.

commit   : c86f8f3615c43aba45a031028500988d1e694aaf    
  
author   : Tom Lane <[email protected]>    
date     : Wed, 18 Feb 2015 11:43:00 -0500    
  
committer: Tom Lane <[email protected]>    
date     : Wed, 18 Feb 2015 11:43:00 -0500    

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cfopen() and cfopen_write() failed to pass the compression level through  
to zlib, so that you always got the default compression level if you got  
any at all.  
  
In passing, also fix these and related functions so that the correct errno  
is reliably returned on failure; the original coding supposes that free()  
cannot change errno, which is untrue on at least some platforms.  
  
Per bug #12779 from Christoph Berg.  Back-patch to 9.1 where the faulty  
code was introduced.  
  
Michael Paquier  

M src/bin/pg_dump/compress_io.c

Remove code to match IPv4 pg_hba.conf entries to IPv4-in-IPv6 addresses.

commit   : d068609b955c330094fe68a2e0566894b5f59884    
  
author   : Tom Lane <[email protected]>    
date     : Tue, 17 Feb 2015 12:49:18 -0500    
  
committer: Tom Lane <[email protected]>    
date     : Tue, 17 Feb 2015 12:49:18 -0500    

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In investigating yesterday's crash report from Hugo Osvaldo Barrera, I only  
looked back as far as commit f3aec2c7f51904e7 where the breakage occurred  
(which is why I thought the IPv4-in-IPv6 business was undocumented).  But  
actually the logic dates back to commit 3c9bb8886df7d56a and was simply  
broken by erroneous refactoring in the later commit.  A bit of archives  
excavation shows that we added the whole business in response to a report  
that some 2003-era Linux kernels would report IPv4 connections as having  
IPv4-in-IPv6 addresses.  The fact that we've had no complaints since 9.0  
seems to be sufficient confirmation that no modern kernels do that, so  
let's just rip it all out rather than trying to fix it.  
  
Do this in the back branches too, thus essentially deciding that our  
effective behavior since 9.0 is correct.  If there are any platforms on  
which the kernel reports IPv4-in-IPv6 addresses as such, yesterday's fix  
would have made for a subtle and potentially security-sensitive change in  
the effective meaning of IPv4 pg_hba.conf entries, which does not seem like  
a good thing to do in minor releases.  So let's let the post-9.0 behavior  
stand, and change the documentation to match it.  
  
In passing, I failed to resist the temptation to wordsmith the description  
of pg_hba.conf IPv4 and IPv6 address entries a bit.  A lot of this text  
hasn't been touched since we were IPv4-only.  

M doc/src/sgml/client-auth.sgml
M src/backend/libpq/hba.c
M src/backend/libpq/ip.c
M src/include/libpq/ip.h

Improve pg_check_dir's handling of closedir() failures.

commit   : 319406c2ac6b6534d82ff76c6f5c544c8483f9af    
  
author   : Robert Haas <[email protected]>    
date     : Tue, 17 Feb 2015 10:19:30 -0500    
  
committer: Robert Haas <[email protected]>    
date     : Tue, 17 Feb 2015 10:19:30 -0500    

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Avoid losing errno if readdir() fails and closedir() works.  This also  
avoids leaking the directory handle when readdir() fails.  Commit  
6f03927fce038096f53ca67eeab9adb24938f8a6 introduced logic to better  
handle readdir() and closedir() failures, bu it missed these cases.  
  
Extracted from a larger patch by Marco Nenciarini.  

M src/port/pgcheckdir.c

Fix wrong merge resolution making pg_receivexlog fail in 9.2.

commit   : 6b700301c36e380eb4972ab72c0e914cae60f9fd    
  
author   : Andres Freund <[email protected]>    
date     : Tue, 17 Feb 2015 16:03:00 +0100    
  
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date     : Tue, 17 Feb 2015 16:03:00 +0100    

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I bungled resolving a conflict while backpatching 2c0a48589 to 9.2, by  
passing mark_done = true to ReceiveXlogStream in pg_receivexlog.c (all  
the other branches are ok). Since pg_receivexlog doesn't use a archive  
directory that causes 'could not create archive status file "...": No  
such file or directory' errors.  
  
Until 9.2.11 is released this can be worked around by creating  
'archive_directory' in pg_receivexlog's target directory.  
  
Found by Sergey Konoplev.  

M src/bin/pg_basebackup/pg_receivexlog.c

Fix misuse of memcpy() in check_ip().

commit   : 3913b897d61975e2b2b7e0ac32b3b6f657eb2c5f    
  
author   : Tom Lane <[email protected]>    
date     : Mon, 16 Feb 2015 16:17:48 -0500    
  
committer: Tom Lane <[email protected]>    
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The previous coding copied garbage into a local variable, pretty much  
ensuring that the intended test of an IPv6 connection address against a  
promoted IPv4 address from pg_hba.conf would never match.  The lack of  
field complaints likely indicates that nobody realized this was supposed  
to work, which is unsurprising considering that no user-facing docs suggest  
it should work.  
  
In principle this could have led to a SIGSEGV due to reading off the end of  
memory, but since the source address would have pointed to somewhere in the  
function's stack frame, that's quite unlikely.  What led to discovery of  
the bug is Hugo Osvaldo Barrera's report of a crash after an OS upgrade,  
which is probably because he is now running a system in which memcpy raises  
abort() upon detecting overlapping source and destination areas.  (You'd  
have to additionally suppose some things about the stack frame layout to  
arrive at this conclusion, but it seems plausible.)  
  
This has been broken since the code was added, in commit f3aec2c7f51904e7,  
so back-patch to all supported branches.  

M src/backend/libpq/hba.c

Fix null-pointer-deref crash while doing COPY IN with check constraints.

commit   : effcaa4c286da355e7ee59a6e774c4cd7a0ea4f5    
  
author   : Tom Lane <[email protected]>    
date     : Sun, 15 Feb 2015 23:26:46 -0500    
  
committer: Tom Lane <[email protected]>    
date     : Sun, 15 Feb 2015 23:26:46 -0500    

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In commit bf7ca15875988a88e97302e012d7c4808bef3ea9 I introduced an  
assumption that an RTE referenced by a whole-row Var must have a valid eref  
field.  This is false for RTEs constructed by DoCopy, and there are other  
places taking similar shortcuts.  Perhaps we should make all those places  
go through addRangeTableEntryForRelation or its siblings instead of having  
ad-hoc logic, but the most reliable fix seems to be to make the new code in  
ExecEvalWholeRowVar cope if there's no eref.  We can reasonably assume that  
there's no need to insert column aliases if no aliases were provided.  
  
Add a regression test case covering this, and also verifying that a sane  
column name is in fact available in this situation.  
  
Although the known case only crashes in 9.4 and HEAD, it seems prudent to  
back-patch the code change to 9.2, since all the ingredients for a similar  
failure exist in the variant patch applied to 9.3 and 9.2.  
  
Per report from Jean-Pierre Pelletier.  

M src/backend/executor/execQual.c
M src/test/regress/expected/copy2.out
M src/test/regress/sql/copy2.sql

pg_regress: Write processed input/*.source into output dir

commit   : 52029445b943f1d2fa1280001afe3392dd16738c    
  
author   : Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>    
date     : Sat, 14 Feb 2015 21:33:41 -0500    
  
committer: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>    
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Before, it was writing the processed files into the input directory,  
which is incorrect in a vpath build.  

M src/test/regress/pg_regress.c

Fix broken #ifdef for __sparcv8

commit   : a0d84da1d4b58b1220b86d46b6094911f8288902    
  
author   : Heikki Linnakangas <[email protected]>    
date     : Fri, 13 Feb 2015 23:51:23 +0200    
  
committer: Heikki Linnakangas <[email protected]>    
date     : Fri, 13 Feb 2015 23:51:23 +0200    

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Rob Rowan. Backpatch to all supported versions, like the patch that added  
the broken #ifdef.  

M src/include/storage/s_lock.h

pg_upgrade: quote directory names in delete_old_cluster script

commit   : 66f5217f52aa131fc812bb40a99a772a1ab6c575    
  
author   : Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>    
date     : Wed, 11 Feb 2015 22:06:04 -0500    
  
committer: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>    
date     : Wed, 11 Feb 2015 22:06:04 -0500    

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This allows the delete script to properly function when special  
characters appear in directory paths, e.g. spaces.  
  
Backpatch through 9.0  

M contrib/pg_upgrade/check.c

pg_upgrade: preserve freeze info for postgres/template1 dbs

commit   : d99cf27b7fc333b58205d309d823f861c9487fad    
  
author   : Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>    
date     : Wed, 11 Feb 2015 21:02:07 -0500    
  
committer: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>    
date     : Wed, 11 Feb 2015 21:02:07 -0500    

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pg_database.datfrozenxid and pg_database.datminmxid were not preserved  
for the 'postgres' and 'template1' databases.  This could cause missing  
clog file errors on access to user tables and indexes after upgrades in  
these databases.  
  
Backpatch through 9.0  

M src/bin/pg_dump/pg_dumpall.c

Fix minor memory leak in ident_inet().

commit   : 0168fb07dad578433c5819bcaa3fc71a5a9dc0eb    
  
author   : Tom Lane <[email protected]>    
date     : Wed, 11 Feb 2015 19:09:54 -0500    
  
committer: Tom Lane <[email protected]>    
date     : Wed, 11 Feb 2015 19:09:54 -0500    

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We'd leak the ident_serv data structure if the second pg_getaddrinfo_all  
(the one for the local address) failed.  This is not of great consequence  
because a failure return here just leads directly to backend exit(), but  
if this function is going to try to clean up after itself at all, it should  
not have such holes in the logic.  Try to fix it in a future-proof way by  
having all the failure exits go through the same cleanup path, rather than  
"optimizing" some of them.  
  
Per Coverity.  Back-patch to 9.2, which is as far back as this patch  
applies cleanly.  

M src/backend/libpq/auth.c

Fix more memory leaks in failure path in buildACLCommands.

commit   : 8b63f89498f2e3ff0e1d420b023ccb76c34c2cda    
  
author   : Tom Lane <[email protected]>    
date     : Wed, 11 Feb 2015 18:35:23 -0500    
  
committer: Tom Lane <[email protected]>    
date     : Wed, 11 Feb 2015 18:35:23 -0500    

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We already had one go at this issue in commit d73b7f973db5ec7e, but we  
failed to notice that buildACLCommands also leaked several PQExpBuffers  
along with a simply malloc'd string.  This time let's try to make the  
fix a bit more future-proof by eliminating the separate exit path.  
  
It's still not exactly critical because pg_dump will curl up and die on  
failure; but since the amount of the potential leak is now several KB,  
it seems worth back-patching as far as 9.2 where the previous fix landed.  
  
Per Coverity, which evidently is smarter than clang's static analyzer.  

M src/bin/pg_dump/dumputils.c

Fixed array handling in ecpg.

commit   : 9be9ac4254cf32e98980ad89320e4e8b0ca515a7    
  
author   : Michael Meskes <[email protected]>    
date     : Wed, 11 Feb 2015 11:13:11 +0100    
  
committer: Michael Meskes <[email protected]>    
date     : Wed, 11 Feb 2015 11:13:11 +0100    

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When ecpg was rewritten to the new protocol version not all variable types  
were corrected. This patch rewrites the code for these types to fix that. It  
also fixes the documentation to correctly tell the status of array handling.  

M doc/src/sgml/ecpg.sgml
M src/interfaces/ecpg/ecpglib/data.c
M src/interfaces/ecpg/ecpglib/execute.c

Fix pg_dump's heuristic for deciding which casts to dump.

commit   : 2593c703955613771dfde29700634ca9349cd972    
  
author   : Tom Lane <[email protected]>    
date     : Tue, 10 Feb 2015 22:38:22 -0500    
  
committer: Tom Lane <[email protected]>    
date     : Tue, 10 Feb 2015 22:38:22 -0500    

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Back in 2003 we had a discussion about how to decide which casts to dump.  
At the time pg_dump really only considered an object's containing schema  
to decide what to dump (ie, dump whatever's not in pg_catalog), and so  
we chose a complicated idea involving whether the underlying types were to  
be dumped (cf commit a6790ce85752b67ad994f55fdf1a450262ccc32e).  But users  
are allowed to create casts between built-in types, and we failed to dump  
such casts.  Let's get rid of that heuristic, which has accreted even more  
ugliness since then, in favor of just looking at the cast's OID to decide  
if it's a built-in cast or not.  
  
In passing, also fix some really ancient code that supposed that it had to  
manufacture a dependency for the cast on its cast function; that's only  
true when dumping from a pre-7.3 server.  This just resulted in some wasted  
cycles and duplicate dependency-list entries with newer servers, but we  
might as well improve it.  
  
Per gripes from a number of people, most recently Greg Sabino Mullane.  
Back-patch to all supported branches.  

M src/bin/pg_dump/pg_dump.c

Fix GEQO to not assume its join order heuristic always works.

commit   : 0d083103fc0f14c8ae535d4f7b73c689a22c836d    
  
author   : Tom Lane <[email protected]>    
date     : Tue, 10 Feb 2015 20:37:26 -0500    
  
committer: Tom Lane <[email protected]>    
date     : Tue, 10 Feb 2015 20:37:26 -0500    

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Back in commit 400e2c934457bef4bc3cc9a3e49b6289bd761bc0 I rewrote GEQO's  
gimme_tree function to improve its heuristic for modifying the given tour  
into a legal join order.  In what can only be called a fit of hubris,  
I supposed that this new heuristic would *always* find a legal join order,  
and ripped out the old logic that allowed gimme_tree to sometimes fail.  
  
The folly of this is exposed by bug #12760, in which the "greedy" clumping  
behavior of merge_clump() can lead it into a dead end which could only be  
recovered from by un-clumping.  We have no code for that and wouldn't know  
exactly what to do with it if we did.  Rather than try to improve the  
heuristic rules still further, let's just recognize that it *is* a  
heuristic and probably must always have failure cases.  So, put back the  
code removed in the previous commit to allow for failure (but comment it  
a bit better this time).  
  
It's possible that this code was actually fully correct at the time and  
has only been broken by the introduction of LATERAL.  But having seen this  
example I no longer have much faith in that proposition, so back-patch to  
all supported branches.  

M src/backend/optimizer/geqo/geqo_eval.c
M src/backend/optimizer/geqo/geqo_main.c
M src/backend/optimizer/geqo/geqo_pool.c

Report WAL flush, not insert, position in replication IDENTIFY_SYSTEM

commit   : 2af568c6b50293bedb10d4ebb8dca9fe13f435c5    
  
author   : Heikki Linnakangas <[email protected]>    
date     : Fri, 6 Feb 2015 11:18:14 +0200    
  
committer: Heikki Linnakangas <[email protected]>    
date     : Fri, 6 Feb 2015 11:18:14 +0200    

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When beginning streaming replication, the client usually issues the  
IDENTIFY_SYSTEM command, which used to return the current WAL insert  
position. That's not suitable for the intended purpose of that field,  
however. pg_receivexlog uses it to start replication from the reported  
point, but if it hasn't been flushed to disk yet, it will fail. Change  
IDENTIFY_SYSTEM to report the flush position instead.  
  
Backpatch to 9.1 and above. 9.0 doesn't report any WAL position.  

M doc/src/sgml/protocol.sgml
M src/backend/replication/walsender.c

Add missing float.h include to snprintf.c.

commit   : eae798ae1d98f8f62cc0b93a2c6972985f070446    
  
author   : Andres Freund <[email protected]>    
date     : Wed, 4 Feb 2015 13:27:31 +0100    
  
committer: Andres Freund <[email protected]>    
date     : Wed, 4 Feb 2015 13:27:31 +0100    

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On windows _isnan() (which isnan() is redirected to in port/win32.h)  
is declared in float.h, not math.h.  
  
Per buildfarm animal currawong.  
  
Backpatch to all supported branches.  

M src/port/snprintf.c