Stamp 9.2.15.
commit : a0606058016b7d20406910b7a73e60ddb3e4c9ff
author : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
date : Mon, 8 Feb 2016 16:19:37 -0500
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
date : Mon, 8 Feb 2016 16:19:37 -0500
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
Translation updates
commit : 6a10dd08006e8f0ce9c1dc2f45379bb17f428e27
author : Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
date : Mon, 8 Feb 2016 14:42:59 -0500
committer: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
date : Mon, 8 Feb 2016 14:42:59 -0500
Source-Git-URL: git://git.postgresql.org/git/pgtranslation/messages.git
Source-Git-Hash: e640b67db0ef2d766eb6b5ec60dc3ba5ed4e2ede
M src/backend/po/de.po
M src/backend/po/pl.po
M src/backend/po/ru.po
M src/bin/pg_controldata/po/ru.po
M src/bin/pg_ctl/po/de.po
M src/bin/pg_ctl/po/ru.po
M src/bin/pg_dump/po/de.po
M src/bin/pg_dump/po/ru.po
M src/bin/pg_resetxlog/po/ru.po
M src/bin/psql/po/de.po
M src/bin/psql/po/ru.po
M src/interfaces/ecpg/preproc/po/pt_BR.po
M src/pl/plperl/po/ru.po
M src/pl/plpython/po/de.po
M src/pl/plpython/po/ru.po
Last-minute updates for release notes.
commit : 9dafc4130d948e9f0a1313e3708b79dee143c423
author : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
date : Mon, 8 Feb 2016 10:49:38 -0500
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
date : Mon, 8 Feb 2016 10:49:38 -0500
Security: CVE-2016-0773
M doc/src/sgml/release-9.1.sgml
M doc/src/sgml/release-9.2.sgml
Fix some regex issues with out-of-range characters and large char ranges.
commit : e93516cf7fa10ffaad1fa1f096d88fce21cc7c56
author : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
date : Mon, 8 Feb 2016 10:25:40 -0500
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
date : Mon, 8 Feb 2016 10:25:40 -0500
Previously, our regex code defined CHR_MAX as 0xfffffffe, which is a
bad choice because it is outside the range of type "celt" (int32).
Characters approaching that limit could lead to infinite loops in logic
such as "for (c = a; c <= b; c++)" where c is of type celt but the
range bounds are chr. Such loops will work safely only if CHR_MAX+1
is representable in celt, since c must advance to beyond b before the
loop will exit.
Fortunately, there seems no reason not to restrict CHR_MAX to 0x7ffffffe.
It's highly unlikely that Unicode will ever assign codes that high, and
none of our other backend encodings need characters beyond that either.
In addition to modifying the macro, we have to explicitly enforce character
range restrictions on the values of \u, \U, and \x escape sequences, else
the limit is trivially bypassed.
Also, the code for expanding case-independent character ranges in bracket
expressions had a potential integer overflow in its calculation of the
number of characters it could generate, which could lead to allocating too
small a character vector and then overwriting memory. An attacker with the
ability to supply arbitrary regex patterns could easily cause transient DOS
via server crashes, and the possibility for privilege escalation has not
been ruled out.
Quite aside from the integer-overflow problem, the range expansion code was
unnecessarily inefficient in that it always produced a result consisting of
individual characters, abandoning the knowledge that we had a range to
start with. If the input range is large, this requires excessive memory.
Change it so that the original range is reported as-is, and then we add on
any case-equivalent characters that are outside that range. With this
approach, we can bound the number of individual characters allowed without
sacrificing much. This patch allows at most 100000 individual characters,
which I believe to be more than the number of case pairs existing in
Unicode, so that the restriction will never be hit in practice.
It's still possible for range() to take awhile given a large character code
range, so also add statement-cancel detection to its loop. The downstream
function dovec() also lacked cancel detection, and could take a long time
given a large output from range().
Per fuzz testing by Greg Stark. Back-patch to all supported branches.
Security: CVE-2016-0773
M src/backend/regex/regc_lex.c
M src/backend/regex/regc_locale.c
M src/backend/regex/regcomp.c
M src/include/regex/regcustom.h
M src/test/regress/expected/regex.out
M src/test/regress/sql/regex.sql
Improve documentation about PRIMARY KEY constraints.
commit : ddcc256caf5523d5b856b2f461178f2711bcd345
author : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
date : Sun, 7 Feb 2016 16:02:44 -0500
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
date : Sun, 7 Feb 2016 16:02:44 -0500
Get rid of the false implication that PRIMARY KEY is exactly equivalent to
UNIQUE + NOT NULL. That was more-or-less true at one time in our
implementation, but the standard doesn't say that, and we've grown various
features (many of them required by spec) that treat a pkey differently from
less-formal constraints. Per recent discussion on pgsql-general.
I failed to resist the temptation to do some other wordsmithing in the
same area.
M doc/src/sgml/ddl.sgml
M doc/src/sgml/ref/create_table.sgml
Release notes for 9.5.1, 9.4.6, 9.3.11, 9.2.15, 9.1.20.
commit : 3d6c9888900a31553720b241f2beb7ca2cd826d2
author : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
date : Sun, 7 Feb 2016 14:16:32 -0500
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
date : Sun, 7 Feb 2016 14:16:32 -0500
M doc/src/sgml/release-9.1.sgml
M doc/src/sgml/release-9.2.sgml
Force certain "pljava" custom GUCs to be PGC_SUSET.
commit : de9766d39d91f0069fc95bfaac0caed8546f8ccc
author : Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
date : Fri, 5 Feb 2016 20:22:51 -0500
committer: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
date : Fri, 5 Feb 2016 20:22:51 -0500
Future PL/Java versions will close CVE-2016-0766 by making these GUCs
PGC_SUSET. This PostgreSQL change independently mitigates that PL/Java
vulnerability, helping sites that update PostgreSQL more frequently than
PL/Java. Back-patch to 9.1 (all supported versions).
M src/backend/utils/misc/guc.c
Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2016a.
commit : 32f17a2e7d16904b94dcbebb06f5001dd092c4dc
author : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
date : Fri, 5 Feb 2016 10:59:09 -0500
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
date : Fri, 5 Feb 2016 10:59:09 -0500
DST law changes in Cayman Islands, Metlakatla, Trans-Baikal Territory
(Zabaykalsky Krai). Historical corrections for Pakistan.
M src/timezone/data/asia
M src/timezone/data/backward
M src/timezone/data/backzone
M src/timezone/data/europe
M src/timezone/data/northamerica
M src/timezone/data/zone.tab
M src/timezone/data/zone1970.tab
In pg_dump, ensure that view triggers are processed after view rules.
commit : 4f58a70039f68ecf46635636ad4929c3019a245e
author : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
date : Thu, 4 Feb 2016 00:26:10 -0500
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
date : Thu, 4 Feb 2016 00:26:10 -0500
If a view is split into CREATE TABLE + CREATE RULE to break a circular
dependency, then any triggers on the view must be dumped/reloaded after
the CREATE RULE; else the backend may reject the CREATE TRIGGER because
it's the wrong type of trigger for a plain table. This works all right
in plain dump/restore because of pg_dump's sorting heuristic that places
triggers after rules. However, when using parallel restore, the ordering
must be enforced by a dependency --- and we didn't have one.
Fixing this is a mere matter of adding an addObjectDependency() call,
except that we need to be able to find all the triggers belonging to the
view relation, and there was no easy way to do that. Add fields to
pg_dump's TableInfo struct to remember where the associated TriggerInfo
struct(s) are.
Per bug report from Dennis Kögel. The failure can be exhibited at least
as far back as 9.1, so back-patch to all supported branches.
M src/bin/pg_dump/pg_dump.c
M src/bin/pg_dump/pg_dump.h
M src/bin/pg_dump/pg_dump_sort.c
pgbench: Install guard against overflow when dividing by -1.
commit : b63a4f418f5611272f28d0633932ffbf3bbd3015
author : Robert Haas <rhaas@postgresql.org>
date : Wed, 3 Feb 2016 09:15:29 -0500
committer: Robert Haas <rhaas@postgresql.org>
date : Wed, 3 Feb 2016 09:15:29 -0500
Commit 64f5edca2401f6c2f23564da9dd52e92d08b3a20 fixed the same hazard
on master; this is a backport, but the modulo operator does not exist
in older releases.
Michael Paquier
M contrib/pgbench/pgbench.c
Make sure ecpg header files do not have a comment lasting several lines, one of which is a preprocessor directive. This leads ecpg to incorrectly parse the comment as nested.
commit : d9ce5d201d17e360b8de2cd3d912c1fec49d85fd
author : Michael Meskes <meskes@postgresql.org>
date : Mon, 1 Feb 2016 13:10:40 +0100
committer: Michael Meskes <meskes@postgresql.org>
date : Mon, 1 Feb 2016 13:10:40 +0100
M src/interfaces/ecpg/include/datetime.h
M src/interfaces/ecpg/include/decimal.h
Fix error in documentated use of mingw-w64 compilers
commit : 555bc8b374f0883b51b937749e39ef8569bfd0d8
author : Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
date : Sat, 30 Jan 2016 19:28:44 -0500
committer: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
date : Sat, 30 Jan 2016 19:28:44 -0500
Error reported by Igal Sapir.
M doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml
Fix incorrect pattern-match processing in psql's \det command.
commit : a362cc2e3528c183de72863d2779912b0323ee4b
author : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
date : Fri, 29 Jan 2016 10:28:03 +0100
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
date : Fri, 29 Jan 2016 10:28:03 +0100
listForeignTables' invocation of processSQLNamePattern did not match up
with the other ones that handle potentially-schema-qualified names; it
failed to make use of pg_table_is_visible() and also passed the name
arguments in the wrong order. Bug seems to have been aboriginal in commit
0d692a0dc9f0e532. It accidentally sort of worked as long as you didn't
inquire too closely into the behavior, although the silliness was later
exposed by inconsistencies in the test queries added by 59efda3e50ca4de6
(which I probably should have questioned at the time, but didn't).
Per bug #13899 from Reece Hart. Patch by Reece Hart and Tom Lane.
Back-patch to all affected branches.
M src/bin/psql/describe.c
Fix startup so that log prefix %h works for the log_connections message.
commit : 3a7af9d73b8f48d49837633ae07cf8c15b48ddd9
author : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
date : Tue, 26 Jan 2016 15:38:33 -0500
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
date : Tue, 26 Jan 2016 15:38:33 -0500
We entirely randomly chose to initialize port->remote_host just after
printing the log_connections message, when we could perfectly well do it
just before, allowing %h and %r to work for that message. Per gripe from
Artem Tomyuk.
M src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c
Properly install dynloader.h on MSVC builds
commit : 49d65e857cad7ddc4d82f8276cc63ddce0be4ee1
author : Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
date : Tue, 19 Jan 2016 23:30:28 -0500
committer: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
date : Tue, 19 Jan 2016 23:30:28 -0500
This will enable PL/Java to be cleanly compiled, as dynloader.h is a
requirement.
Report by Chapman Flack
Patch by Michael Paquier
Backpatch through 9.1
M src/backend/utils/fmgr/dfmgr.c
M src/tools/msvc/Install.pm
M src/tools/msvc/Solution.pm
M src/tools/msvc/clean.bat
Fix spelling mistake.
commit : f744f395a5cab388b597ef9f80a349a6fbe8157f
author : Robert Haas <rhaas@postgresql.org>
date : Thu, 14 Jan 2016 23:12:05 -0500
committer: Robert Haas <rhaas@postgresql.org>
date : Thu, 14 Jan 2016 23:12:05 -0500
Same patch submitted independently by David Rowley and Peter Geoghegan.
M contrib/pg_upgrade/controldata.c
Properly close token in sspi authentication
commit : df0bd5a0f7e8893e1177f53b1ca126ffaf24160e
author : Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
date : Thu, 14 Jan 2016 13:06:03 +0100
committer: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
date : Thu, 14 Jan 2016 13:06:03 +0100
We can never leak more than one token, but we shouldn't do that. We
don't bother closing it in the error paths since the process will
exit shortly anyway.
Christian Ullrich
M src/backend/libpq/auth.c
Handle extension members when first setting object dump flags in pg_dump.
commit : be2b27651422a7d5426d29e5bf7d9a319afc1a77
author : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
date : Wed, 13 Jan 2016 18:55:27 -0500
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
date : Wed, 13 Jan 2016 18:55:27 -0500
pg_dump's original approach to handling extension member objects was to
run around and clear (or set) their dump flags rather late in its data
collection process. Unfortunately, quite a lot of code expects those flags
to be valid before that; which was an entirely reasonable expectation
before we added extensions. In particular, this explains Karsten Hilbert's
recent report of pg_upgrade failing on a database in which an extension
has been installed into the pg_catalog schema. Its objects are initially
marked as not-to-be-dumped on the strength of their schema, and later we
change them to must-dump because we're doing a binary upgrade of their
extension; but we've already skipped essential tasks like making associated
DO_SHELL_TYPE objects.
To fix, collect extension membership data first, and incorporate it in the
initial setting of the dump flags, so that those are once again correct
from the get-go. This has the undesirable side effect of slightly
lengthening the time taken before pg_dump acquires table locks, but testing
suggests that the increase in that window is not very much.
Along the way, get rid of ugly special-case logic for deciding whether
to dump procedural languages, FDWs, and foreign servers; dump decisions
for those are now correct up-front, too.
In 9.3 and up, this also fixes erroneous logic about when to dump event
triggers (basically, they were *always* dumped before). In 9.5 and up,
transform objects had that problem too.
Since this problem came in with extensions, back-patch to all supported
versions.
M src/bin/pg_dump/common.c
M src/bin/pg_dump/pg_dump.c
M src/bin/pg_dump/pg_dump.h
Avoid dump/reload problems when using both plpython2 and plpython3.
commit : 3843ba510bb1586ba8bc29ecf8df7d4fb60d02bb
author : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
date : Mon, 11 Jan 2016 19:55:40 -0500
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
date : Mon, 11 Jan 2016 19:55:40 -0500
Commit 803716013dc1350f installed a safeguard against loading plpython2
and plpython3 at the same time, but asserted that both could still be
used in the same database, just not in the same session. However, that's
not actually all that practical because dumping and reloading will fail
(since both libraries necessarily get loaded into the restoring session).
pg_upgrade is even worse, because it checks for missing libraries by
loading every .so library mentioned in the entire installation into one
session, so that you can have only one across the whole cluster.
We can improve matters by not throwing the error immediately in _PG_init,
but only when and if we're asked to do something that requires calling
into libpython. This ameliorates both of the above situations, since
while execution of CREATE LANGUAGE, CREATE FUNCTION, etc will result in
loading plpython, it isn't asked to do anything interesting (at least
not if check_function_bodies is off, as it will be during a restore).
It's possible that this opens some corner-case holes in which a crash
could be provoked with sufficient effort. However, since plpython
only exists as an untrusted language, any such crash would require
superuser privileges, making it "don't do that" not a security issue.
To reduce the hazards in this area, the error is still FATAL when it
does get thrown.
Per a report from Paul Jones. Back-patch to 9.2, which is as far back
as the patch applies without work. (It could be made to work in 9.1,
but given the lack of previous complaints, I'm disinclined to expend
effort so far back. We've been pretty desultory about support for
Python 3 in 9.1 anyway.)
M src/pl/plpython/plpy_main.c
Clean up some lack-of-STRICT issues in the core code, too.
commit : 0e7d084aedea99f8dbd153959f3e3b5e81c25c61
author : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
date : Sat, 9 Jan 2016 16:58:33 -0500
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
date : Sat, 9 Jan 2016 16:58:33 -0500
A scan for missed proisstrict markings in the core code turned up
these functions:
brin_summarize_new_values
pg_stat_reset_single_table_counters
pg_stat_reset_single_function_counters
pg_create_logical_replication_slot
pg_create_physical_replication_slot
pg_drop_replication_slot
The first three of these take OID, so a null argument will normally look
like a zero to them, resulting in "ERROR: could not open relation with OID
0" for brin_summarize_new_values, and no action for the pg_stat_reset_XXX
functions. The other three will dump core on a null argument, though this
is mitigated by the fact that they won't do so until after checking that
the caller is superuser or has rolreplication privilege.
In addition, the pg_logical_slot_get/peek[_binary]_changes family was
intentionally marked nonstrict, but failed to make nullness checks on all
the arguments; so again a null-pointer-dereference crash is possible but
only for superusers and rolreplication users.
Add the missing ARGISNULL checks to the latter functions, and mark the
former functions as strict in pg_proc. Make that change in the back
branches too, even though we can't force initdb there, just so that
installations initdb'd in future won't have the issue. Since none of these
bugs rise to the level of security issues (and indeed the pg_stat_reset_XXX
functions hardly misbehave at all), it seems sufficient to do this.
In addition, fix some order-of-operations oddities in the slot_get_changes
family, mostly cosmetic, but not the part that moves the function's last
few operations into the PG_TRY block. As it stood, there was significant
risk for an error to exit without clearing historical information from
the system caches.
The slot_get_changes bugs go back to 9.4 where that code was introduced.
Back-patch appropriate subsets of the pg_proc changes into all active
branches, as well.
M src/include/catalog/pg_proc.h
Clean up code for widget_in() and widget_out().
commit : 1eb2c4bfd17b368939371757aff294055078ef13
author : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
date : Sat, 9 Jan 2016 13:44:27 -0500
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
date : Sat, 9 Jan 2016 13:44:27 -0500
Given syntactically wrong input, widget_in() could call atof() with an
indeterminate pointer argument, typically leading to a crash; or if it
didn't do that, it might return a NULL pointer, which again would lead
to a crash since old-style C functions aren't supposed to do things
that way. Fix that by correcting the off-by-one syntax test and
throwing a proper error rather than just returning NULL.
Also, since widget_in and widget_out have been marked STRICT for a
long time, their tests for null inputs are just dead code; remove 'em.
In the oldest branches, also improve widget_out to use snprintf not
sprintf, just to be sure.
In passing, get rid of a long-since-useless sprintf into a local buffer
that nothing further is done with, and make some other minor coding
style cleanups.
In the intended regression-testing usage of these functions, none of
this is very significant; but if the regression test database were
left around in a production installation, these bugs could amount
to a minor security hazard.
Piotr Stefaniak, Michael Paquier, and Tom Lane
M src/test/regress/regress.c
Add STRICT to some C functions created by the regression tests.
commit : 55caeeee0f5b0310fc99f47b4abfdd6d987871e6
author : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
date : Sat, 9 Jan 2016 13:02:54 -0500
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
date : Sat, 9 Jan 2016 13:02:54 -0500
These functions readily crash when passed a NULL input value. The tests
themselves do not pass NULL values to them; but when the regression
database is used as a basis for fuzz testing, they cause a lot of noise.
Also, if someone were to leave a regression database lying about in a
production installation, these would create a minor security hazard.
Andreas Seltenreich
M src/test/regress/input/create_function_2.source
M src/test/regress/output/create_function_2.source
Fix unobvious interaction between -X switch and subdirectory creation.
commit : 957e1117da128c9615e81823db2ce0bc81f8cf81
author : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
date : Thu, 7 Jan 2016 18:20:58 -0500
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
date : Thu, 7 Jan 2016 18:20:58 -0500
Turns out the only reason initdb -X worked is that pg_mkdir_p won't
whine if you point it at something that's a symlink to a directory.
Otherwise, the attempt to create pg_xlog/ just like all the other
subdirectories would have failed. Let's be a little more explicit
about what's happening. Oversight in my patch for bug #13853
(mea culpa for not testing -X ...)
M src/bin/initdb/initdb.c
Use plain mkdir() not pg_mkdir_p() to create subdirectories of PGDATA.
commit : d6d6400cc0357c409262dc95d3001e70da8605c4
author : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
date : Thu, 7 Jan 2016 15:22:01 -0500
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
date : Thu, 7 Jan 2016 15:22:01 -0500
When we're creating subdirectories of PGDATA during initdb, we know darn
well that the parent directory exists (or should exist) and that the new
subdirectory doesn't (or shouldn't). There is therefore no need to use
anything more complicated than mkdir(). Using pg_mkdir_p() just opens us
up to unexpected failure modes, such as the one exhibited in bug #13853
from Nuri Boardman. It's not very clear why pg_mkdir_p() went wrong there,
but it is clear that we didn't need to be trying to create parent
directories in the first place. We're not even saving any code, as proven
by the fact that this patch nets out at minus five lines.
Since this is a response to a field bug report, back-patch to all branches.
M src/bin/initdb/initdb.c
Windows: Make pg_ctl reliably detect service status
commit : 5c4cbd5d103c681a8cad586bac3588029ae44590
author : Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
date : Thu, 7 Jan 2016 11:59:08 -0300
committer: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
date : Thu, 7 Jan 2016 11:59:08 -0300
pg_ctl is using isatty() to verify whether the process is running in a
terminal, and if not it sends its output to Windows' Event Log ... which
does the wrong thing when the output has been redirected to a pipe, as
reported in bug #13592.
To fix, make pg_ctl use the code we already have to detect service-ness:
in the master branch, move src/backend/port/win32/security.c to src/port
(with suitable tweaks so that it runs properly in backend and frontend
environments); pg_ctl already has access to pgport so it Just Works. In
older branches, that's likely to cause trouble, so instead duplicate the
required code in pg_ctl.c.
Author: Michael Paquier
Bug report and diagnosis: Egon Kocjan
Backpatch: all supported branches
M src/bin/pg_ctl/pg_ctl.c
Fix treatment of *lpNumberOfBytesRecvd == 0: that's a completion condition.
commit : 9b2eacba79916df5f3b436e226531e5891c633bc
author : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
date : Mon, 4 Jan 2016 17:41:33 -0500
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
date : Mon, 4 Jan 2016 17:41:33 -0500
pgwin32_recv() has treated a non-error return of zero bytes from WSARecv()
as being a reason to block ever since the current implementation was
introduced in commit a4c40f140d23cefb. However, so far as one can tell
from Microsoft's documentation, that is just wrong: what it means is
graceful connection closure (in stream protocols) or receipt of a
zero-length message (in message protocols), and neither case should result
in blocking here. The only reason the code worked at all was that control
then fell into the retry loop, which did *not* treat zero bytes specially,
so we'd get out after only wasting some cycles. But as of 9.5 we do not
normally reach the retry loop and so the bug is exposed, as reported by
Shay Rojansky and diagnosed by Andres Freund.
Remove the unnecessary test on the byte count, and rearrange the code
in the retry loop so that it looks identical to the initial sequence.
Back-patch of commit 90e61df8130dc7051a108ada1219fb0680cb3eb6. The
original plan was to apply this only to 9.5 and up, but after discussion
and buildfarm testing, it seems better to back-patch. The noblock code
path has been at risk of this problem since it was introduced (in 9.0);
if it did happen in pre-9.5 branches, the symptom would be that a walsender
would wait indefinitely rather than noticing a loss of connection. While
we lack proof that the case has been seen in the field, it seems possible
that it's happened without being reported.
M src/backend/port/win32/socket.c
Teach pg_dump to quote reloption values safely.
commit : 1eb515ad7c1295099b252a58d71183e53ce2f818
author : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
date : Sat, 2 Jan 2016 19:04:45 -0500
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
date : Sat, 2 Jan 2016 19:04:45 -0500
Commit c7e27becd2e6eb93 fixed this on the backend side, but we neglected
the fact that several code paths in pg_dump were printing reloptions
values that had not gotten massaged by ruleutils. Apply essentially the
same quoting logic in those places, too.
M src/bin/pg_dump/pg_dump.c
M src/bin/pg_dump/pg_dump.h
Fix overly-strict assertions in spgtextproc.c.
commit : 5c0d6230f54c97c3fa5cf9a7cc286c35ebaad766
author : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
date : Sat, 2 Jan 2016 16:24:50 -0500
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
date : Sat, 2 Jan 2016 16:24:50 -0500
spg_text_inner_consistent is capable of reconstructing an empty string
to pass down to the next index level; this happens if we have an empty
string coming in, no prefix, and a dummy node label. (In practice, what
is needed to trigger that is insertion of a whole bunch of empty-string
values.) Then, we will arrive at the next level with in->level == 0
and a non-NULL (but zero length) in->reconstructedValue, which is valid
but the Assert tests weren't expecting it.
Per report from Andreas Seltenreich. This has no impact in non-Assert
builds, so should not be a problem in production, but back-patch to
all affected branches anyway.
In passing, remove a couple of useless variable initializations and
shorten the code by not duplicating DatumGetPointer() calls.
M src/backend/access/spgist/spgtextproc.c
Adjust back-branch release note description of commits a2a718b22 et al.
commit : c6ab17829284abb68d29ab75400eef9957a4f36f
author : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
date : Sat, 2 Jan 2016 15:29:03 -0500
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
date : Sat, 2 Jan 2016 15:29:03 -0500
As pointed out by Michael Paquier, recovery_min_apply_delay didn't exist
in 9.0-9.3, making the release note text not very useful. Instead make it
talk about recovery_target_xid, which did exist then.
9.0 is already out of support, but we can fix the text in the newer
branches' copies of its release notes.
M doc/src/sgml/release-9.0.sgml
M doc/src/sgml/release-9.1.sgml
M doc/src/sgml/release-9.2.sgml
Update copyright for 2016
commit : 25b04756ea72260c744e87621f815aa5a3b11724
author : Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
date : Sat, 2 Jan 2016 13:33:39 -0500
committer: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
date : Sat, 2 Jan 2016 13:33:39 -0500
Backpatch certain files through 9.1
M COPYRIGHT
M doc/src/sgml/legal.sgml
Teach flatten_reloptions() to quote option values safely.
commit : 69cfe15b57f782b2aa108a1a7b893bd4803007b3
author : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
date : Fri, 1 Jan 2016 15:27:53 -0500
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
date : Fri, 1 Jan 2016 15:27:53 -0500
flatten_reloptions() supposed that it didn't really need to do anything
beyond inserting commas between reloption array elements. However, in
principle the value of a reloption could be nearly anything, since the
grammar allows a quoted string there. Any restrictions on it would come
from validity checking appropriate to the particular option, if any.
A reloption value that isn't a simple identifier or number could thus lead
to dump/reload failures due to syntax errors in CREATE statements issued
by pg_dump. We've gotten away with not worrying about this so far with
the core-supported reloptions, but extensions might allow reloption values
that cause trouble, as in bug #13840 from Kouhei Sutou.
To fix, split the reloption array elements explicitly, and then convert
any value that doesn't look like a safe identifier to a string literal.
(The details of the quoting rule could be debated, but this way is safe
and requires little code.) While we're at it, also quote reloption names
if they're not safe identifiers; that may not be a likely problem in the
field, but we might as well try to be bulletproof here.
It's been like this for a long time, so back-patch to all supported
branches.
Kouhei Sutou, adjusted some by me
M src/backend/utils/adt/ruleutils.c
Add some more defenses against silly estimates to gincostestimate().
commit : 8e79b24c5d3dc47919e5b0b0a08943f7ca420998
author : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
date : Fri, 1 Jan 2016 13:42:21 -0500
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
date : Fri, 1 Jan 2016 13:42:21 -0500
A report from Andy Colson showed that gincostestimate() was not being
nearly paranoid enough about whether to believe the statistics it finds in
the index metapage. The problem is that the metapage stats (other than the
pending-pages count) are only updated by VACUUM, and in the worst case
could still reflect the index's original empty state even when it has grown
to many entries. We attempted to deal with that by scaling up the stats to
match the current index size, but if nEntries is zero then scaling it up
still gives zero. Moreover, the proportion of pages that are entry pages
vs. data pages vs. pending pages is unlikely to be estimated very well by
scaling if the index is now orders of magnitude larger than before.
We can improve matters by expanding the use of the rule-of-thumb estimates
I introduced in commit 7fb008c5ee59b040: if the index has grown by more
than a cutoff amount (here set at 4X growth) since VACUUM, then use the
rule-of-thumb numbers instead of scaling. This might not be exactly right
but it seems much less likely to produce insane estimates.
I also improved both the scaling estimate and the rule-of-thumb estimate
to account for numPendingPages, since it's reasonable to expect that that
is accurate in any case, and certainly pages that are in the pending list
are not either entry or data pages.
As a somewhat separate issue, adjust the estimation equations that are
concerned with extra fetches for partial-match searches. These equations
suppose that a fraction partialEntries / numEntries of the entry and data
pages will be visited as a consequence of a partial-match search. Now,
it's physically impossible for that fraction to exceed one, but our
estimate of partialEntries is mostly bunk, and our estimate of numEntries
isn't exactly gospel either, so we could arrive at a silly value. In the
example presented by Andy we were coming out with a value of 100, leading
to insane cost estimates. Clamp the fraction to one to avoid that.
Like the previous patch, back-patch to all supported branches; this
problem can be demonstrated in one form or another in all of them.
M src/backend/utils/adt/selfuncs.c
Document the exponentiation operator as associating left to right.
commit : 7adbde26ab638e0ce1154338d9b6e7801261d0d8
author : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
date : Mon, 28 Dec 2015 12:09:00 -0500
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
date : Mon, 28 Dec 2015 12:09:00 -0500
Common mathematical convention is that exponentiation associates right to
left. We aren't going to change the parser for this, but we could note
it in the operator's description. (It's already noted in the operator
precedence/associativity table, but users might not look there.)
Per bug #13829 from Henrik Pauli.
M doc/src/sgml/func.sgml
Fix translation domain in pg_basebackup
commit : 4fb9e6109a40a084eef102f4b6a827a01d69dbb8
author : Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
date : Mon, 28 Dec 2015 10:50:35 -0300
committer: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
date : Mon, 28 Dec 2015 10:50:35 -0300
For some reason, we've been overlooking the fact that pg_receivexlog
and pg_recvlogical are using wrong translation domains all along,
so their output hasn't ever been translated. The right domain is
pg_basebackup, not their own executable names.
Noticed by Ioseph Kim, who's been working on the Korean translation.
Backpatch pg_receivexlog to 9.2 and pg_recvlogical to 9.4.
M src/bin/pg_basebackup/pg_receivexlog.c
Add forgotten CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPT calls in pgcrypto's crypt()
commit : 51dd54ba79cc4b42a77c5246853a5794f44e1818
author : Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
date : Sun, 27 Dec 2015 13:03:19 -0300
committer: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
date : Sun, 27 Dec 2015 13:03:19 -0300
Both Blowfish and DES implementations of crypt() can take arbitrarily
long time, depending on the number of rounds specified by the caller;
make sure they can be interrupted.
Author: Andreas Karlsson
Reviewer: Jeff Janes
Backpatch to 9.1.
M contrib/pgcrypto/crypt-blowfish.c
M contrib/pgcrypto/crypt-des.c
Rework internals of changing a type's ownership
commit : f9643d0d6dd303a6733f8b3015c7659680e7fe42
author : Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
date : Mon, 21 Dec 2015 19:49:15 -0300
committer: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
date : Mon, 21 Dec 2015 19:49:15 -0300
This is necessary so that REASSIGN OWNED does the right thing with
composite types, to wit, that it also alters ownership of the type's
pg_class entry -- previously, the pg_class entry remained owned by the
original user, which caused later other failures such as the new owner's
inability to use ALTER TYPE to rename an attribute of the affected
composite. Also, if the original owner is later dropped, the pg_class
entry becomes owned by a non-existant user which is bogus.
To fix, create a new routine AlterTypeOwner_oid which knows whether to
pass the request to ATExecChangeOwner or deal with it directly, and use
that in shdepReassignOwner rather than calling AlterTypeOwnerInternal
directly. AlterTypeOwnerInternal is now simpler in that it only
modifies the pg_type entry and recurses to handle a possible array type;
higher-level tasks are handled by either AlterTypeOwner directly or
AlterTypeOwner_oid.
I took the opportunity to add a few more objects to the test rig for
REASSIGN OWNED, so that more cases are exercised. Additional ones could
be added for superuser-only-ownable objects (such as FDWs and event
triggers) but I didn't want to push my luck by adding a new superuser to
the tests on a backpatchable bug fix.
Per bug #13666 reported by Chris Pacejo.
This is a backpatch of commit 756e7b4c9db1 to branches 9.1 -- 9.4.
M src/backend/catalog/pg_shdepend.c
M src/backend/commands/tablecmds.c
M src/backend/commands/typecmds.c
M src/include/commands/typecmds.h
M src/test/regress/expected/dependency.out
M src/test/regress/sql/dependency.sql
some bullshit
commit : 653530c8b1963bf91e19d03305dd0df5ad776bec
author : Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
date : Mon, 21 Dec 2015 19:31:04 -0300
committer: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
date : Mon, 21 Dec 2015 19:31:04 -0300
M src/backend/commands/typecmds.c
adjust ACL owners for REASSIGN and ALTER OWNER TO
commit : 7af3dd540e29d057ff11d5c3ed946b071885c66f
author : Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
date : Mon, 21 Dec 2015 19:16:15 -0300
committer: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
date : Mon, 21 Dec 2015 19:16:15 -0300
When REASSIGN and ALTER OWNER TO are used, both the object owner and ACL
list should be changed from the old owner to the new owner. This patch
fixes types, foreign data wrappers, and foreign servers to change their
ACL list properly; they already changed owners properly.
Report by Alexey Bashtanov
This is a backpatch of commit 59367fdf97c (for bug #9923) by Bruce
Momjian to branches 9.1 - 9.4; it wasn't backpatched originally out of
concerns that it would create a backwards compatibility problem, but per
discussion related to bug #13666 that turns out to have been misguided.
(Therefore, the entry in the 9.5 release notes should be removed.)
Note that 9.1 didn't have privileges on types (which were introduced by
commit 729205571e81), so this commit only changes foreign-data related
objects in that branch.
Discussion: http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20151216224004.GL2618@alvherre.pgsql
http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/10227.1450373793@sss.pgh.pa.us
M src/backend/commands/foreigncmds.c
M src/backend/commands/typecmds.c
M src/test/regress/expected/foreign_data.out
Remove silly completion for "DELETE FROM tabname ...".
commit : 6ecd7f501062eb5e38240b9eb02e86aed248bd34
author : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
date : Sun, 20 Dec 2015 18:29:51 -0500
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
date : Sun, 20 Dec 2015 18:29:51 -0500
psql offered USING, WHERE, and SET in this context, but SET is not a valid
possibility here. Seems to have been a thinko in commit f5ab0a14ea83eb6c
which added DELETE's USING option.
M src/bin/psql/tab-complete.c
Fix improper initialization order for readline.
commit : b417779886f2d63f17f2049ce7ee7b290c470e15
author : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
date : Thu, 17 Dec 2015 16:55:23 -0500
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
date : Thu, 17 Dec 2015 16:55:23 -0500
Turns out we must set rl_basic_word_break_characters *before* we call
rl_initialize() the first time, because it will quietly copy that value
elsewhere --- but only on the first call. (Love these undocumented
dependencies.) I broke this yesterday in commit 2ec477dc8108339d;
like that commit, back-patch to all active branches. Per report from
Pavel Stehule.
M src/bin/psql/input.c
Cope with Readline's failure to track SIGWINCH events outside of input.
commit : bcce4a5e3ae0c93886989fb8ad615e5e6aa53a9f
author : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
date : Wed, 16 Dec 2015 16:58:56 -0500
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
date : Wed, 16 Dec 2015 16:58:56 -0500
It emerges that libreadline doesn't notice terminal window size change
events unless they occur while collecting input. This is easy to stumble
over if you resize the window while using a pager to look at query output,
but it can be demonstrated without any pager involvement. The symptom is
that queries exceeding one line are misdisplayed during subsequent input
cycles, because libreadline has the wrong idea of the screen dimensions.
The safest, simplest way to fix this is to call rl_reset_screen_size()
just before calling readline(). That causes an extra ioctl(TIOCGWINSZ)
for every command; but since it only happens when reading from a tty, the
performance impact should be negligible. A more valid objection is that
this still leaves a tiny window during entry to readline() wherein delivery
of SIGWINCH will be missed; but the practical consequences of that are
probably negligible. In any case, there doesn't seem to be any good way to
avoid the race, since readline exposes no functions that seem safe to call
from a generic signal handler --- rl_reset_screen_size() certainly isn't.
It turns out that we also need an explicit rl_initialize() call, else
rl_reset_screen_size() dumps core when called before the first readline()
call.
rl_reset_screen_size() is not present in old versions of libreadline,
so we need a configure test for that. (rl_initialize() is present at
least back to readline 4.0, so we won't bother with a test for it.)
We would need a configure test anyway since libedit's emulation of
libreadline doesn't currently include such a function. Fortunately,
libedit seems not to have any corresponding bug.
Merlin Moncure, adjusted a bit by me
M configure
M configure.in
M src/bin/psql/input.c
M src/include/pg_config.h.in
Add missing CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS in lseg_inside_poly
commit : 48a7074a278656a786e082f13575ac223e1cdd56
author : Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
date : Mon, 14 Dec 2015 16:44:40 -0300
committer: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
date : Mon, 14 Dec 2015 16:44:40 -0300
Apparently, there are bugs in this code that cause it to loop endlessly.
That bug still needs more research, but in the meantime it's clear that
the loop is missing a check for interrupts so that it can be cancelled
timely.
Backpatch to 9.1 -- this has been missing since 49475aab8d0d.
M src/backend/utils/adt/geo_ops.c
Fix out-of-memory error handling in ParameterDescription message processing.
commit : 1e23caae30f5f7c841aa50eaa99b0145576e520b
author : Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>
date : Mon, 14 Dec 2015 18:19:10 +0200
committer: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>
date : Mon, 14 Dec 2015 18:19:10 +0200
If libpq ran out of memory while constructing the result set, it would hang,
waiting for more data from the server, which might never arrive. To fix,
distinguish between out-of-memory error and not-enough-data cases, and give
a proper error message back to the client on OOM.
There are still similar issues in handling COPY start messages, but let's
handle that as a separate patch.
Michael Paquier, Amit Kapila and me. Backpatch to all supported versions.
M src/interfaces/libpq/fe-protocol3.c
Correct statement to actually be the intended assert statement.
commit : ea3f30cf69f44ba7c37e0cccfb0aa74d82c98e54
author : Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
date : Mon, 14 Dec 2015 11:24:55 +0100
committer: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
date : Mon, 14 Dec 2015 11:24:55 +0100
e3f4cfc7 introduced a LWLockHeldByMe() call, without the corresponding
Assert() surrounding it.
Spotted by Coverity.
Backpatch: 9.1+, like the previous commit
M src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
Docs: document that psql's "\i -" means read from stdin.
commit : 6436445e9f311bc833d052c0fc39055fcbe09276
author : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
date : Sun, 13 Dec 2015 23:42:54 -0500
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
date : Sun, 13 Dec 2015 23:42:54 -0500
This has worked that way for a long time, maybe always, but you would
not have known it from the documentation. Also back-patch the notes
I added to HEAD earlier today about behavior of the "-f -" switch,
which likewise have been valid for many releases.
M doc/src/sgml/ref/psql-ref.sgml
Doc: update external URLs for PostGIS project.
commit : 83497deb7d424952511aa933a954f36b487dd0cf
author : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
date : Sat, 12 Dec 2015 20:02:09 -0500
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
date : Sat, 12 Dec 2015 20:02:09 -0500
Paul Ramsey
M doc/src/sgml/earthdistance.sgml
M doc/src/sgml/external-projects.sgml
M doc/src/sgml/release-8.4.sgml
Fix ALTER TABLE ... SET TABLESPACE for unlogged relations.
commit : a15ad67089feed2e3f27613f0ead5243ca7ebbed
author : Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
date : Sat, 12 Dec 2015 14:19:51 +0100
committer: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
date : Sat, 12 Dec 2015 14:19:51 +0100
Changing the tablespace of an unlogged relation did not WAL log the
creation and content of the init fork. Thus, after a standby is
promoted, unlogged relation cannot be accessed anymore, with errors
like:
ERROR: 58P01: could not open file "pg_tblspc/...": No such file or directory
Additionally the init fork was not synced to disk, independent of the
configured wal_level, a relatively small durability risk.
Investigation of that problem also brought to light that, even for
permanent relations, the creation of !main forks was not WAL logged,
i.e. no XLOG_SMGR_CREATE record were emitted. That mostly turns out not
to be a problem, because these files were created when the actual
relation data is copied; nonexistent files are not treated as an error
condition during replay. But that doesn't work for empty files, and
generally feels a bit haphazard. Luckily, outside init and main forks,
empty forks don't occur often or are not a problem.
Add the required WAL logging and syncing to disk.
Reported-By: Michael Paquier
Author: Michael Paquier and Andres Freund
Discussion: 20151210163230.GA11331@alap3.anarazel.de
Backpatch: 9.1, where unlogged relations were introduced
M src/backend/commands/tablecmds.c
Add an expected-file to match behavior of latest libxml2.
commit : f5eebea8d8bffaa3fedb810634b8c8100b241f7a
author : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
date : Fri, 11 Dec 2015 19:08:40 -0500
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
date : Fri, 11 Dec 2015 19:08:40 -0500
Recent releases of libxml2 do not provide error context reports for errors
detected at the very end of the input string. This appears to be a bug, or
at least an infelicity, introduced by the fix for libxml2's CVE-2015-7499.
We can hope that this behavioral change will get undone before too long;
but the security patch is likely to spread a lot faster/further than any
follow-on cleanup, which means this behavior is likely to be present in the
wild for some time to come. As a stopgap, add a variant regression test
expected-file that matches what you get with a libxml2 that acts this way.
A src/test/regress/expected/xml_2.out
For REASSIGN OWNED for foreign user mappings
commit : 629842a8eeab008f0a5487a267ddba26a66a6c29
author : Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
date : Fri, 11 Dec 2015 18:39:09 -0300
committer: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
date : Fri, 11 Dec 2015 18:39:09 -0300
As reported in bug #13809 by Alexander Ashurkov, the code for REASSIGN
OWNED hadn't gotten word about user mappings. Deal with them in the
same way default ACLs do, which is to ignore them altogether; they are
handled just fine by DROP OWNED. The other foreign object cases are
already handled correctly by both commands.
Also add a REASSIGN OWNED statement to foreign_data test to exercise the
foreign data objects. (The changes are just before the "cleanup" phase,
so it shouldn't remove any existing live test.)
Reported by Alexander Ashurkov, then independently by Jaime Casanova.
M src/backend/catalog/pg_shdepend.c
M src/test/regress/expected/foreign_data.out
M src/test/regress/sql/foreign_data.sql
Install our "missing" script where PGXS builds can find it.
commit : 98467b35dbe2917dfad075cc5ae33896d3fe2461
author : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
date : Fri, 11 Dec 2015 16:14:27 -0500
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
date : Fri, 11 Dec 2015 16:14:27 -0500
This allows sane behavior in a PGXS build done on a machine where build
tools such as bison are missing.
Jim Nasby
M config/Makefile
Fix bug leading to restoring unlogged relations from empty files.
commit : 2de281da212e16ea198f0c8e3165a4d67fe5e7a4
author : Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
date : Thu, 10 Dec 2015 16:25:12 +0100
committer: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
date : Thu, 10 Dec 2015 16:25:12 +0100
At the end of crash recovery, unlogged relations are reset to the empty
state, using their init fork as the template. The init fork is copied to
the main fork without going through shared buffers. Unfortunately WAL
replay so far has not necessarily flushed writes from shared buffers to
disk at that point. In normal crash recovery, and before the
introduction of 'fast promotions' in fd4ced523 / 9.3, the
END_OF_RECOVERY checkpoint flushes the buffers out in time. But with
fast promotions that's not the case anymore.
To fix, force WAL writes targeting the init fork to be flushed
immediately (using the new FlushOneBuffer() function). In 9.5+ that
flush can centrally be triggered from the code dealing with restoring
full page writes (XLogReadBufferForRedoExtended), in earlier releases
that responsibility is in the hands of XLOG_HEAP_NEWPAGE's replay
function.
Backpatch to 9.1, even if this currently is only known to trigger in
9.3+. Flushing earlier is more robust, and it is advantageous to keep
the branches similar.
Typical symptoms of this bug are errors like
'ERROR: index "..." contains unexpected zero page at block 0'
shortly after promoting a node.
Reported-By: Thom Brown
Author: Andres Freund and Michael Paquier
Discussion: 20150326175024.GJ451@alap3.anarazel.de
Backpatch: 9.1-
M src/backend/access/heap/heapam.c
M src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c
M src/include/storage/bufmgr.h
Accept flex > 2.5.x on Windows, too.
commit : 7f94a5c106f88d5abbcc84e545962208fac9c232
author : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
date : Thu, 10 Dec 2015 10:19:13 -0500
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
date : Thu, 10 Dec 2015 10:19:13 -0500
Commit 32f15d05c fixed this in configure, but missed the similar check
in the MSVC scripts.
Michael Paquier, per report from Victor Wagner
M src/tools/msvc/pgflex.pl
Further improve documentation of the role-dropping process.
commit : 255cc9b2dbe4e7400af5268369bfddb68f7af6cf
author : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
date : Fri, 4 Dec 2015 14:44:13 -0500
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
date : Fri, 4 Dec 2015 14:44:13 -0500
In commit 1ea0c73c2 I added a section to user-manag.sgml about how to drop
roles that own objects; but as pointed out by Stephen Frost, I neglected
that shared objects (databases or tablespaces) may need special treatment.
Fix that. Back-patch to supported versions, like the previous patch.
M doc/src/sgml/user-manag.sgml
Make gincostestimate() cope with hypothetical GIN indexes.
commit : 3d4bdd2f94a40a4fd5ea43d80d0bd262b280b033
author : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
date : Tue, 1 Dec 2015 16:24:35 -0500
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
date : Tue, 1 Dec 2015 16:24:35 -0500
We tried to fetch statistics data from the index metapage, which does not
work if the index isn't actually present. If the index is hypothetical,
instead extrapolate some plausible internal statistics based on the index
page count provided by the index-advisor plugin.
There was already some code in gincostestimate() to invent internal stats
in this way, but since it was only meant as a stopgap for pre-9.1 GIN
indexes that hadn't been vacuumed since upgrading, it was pretty crude.
If we want it to support index advisors, we should try a little harder.
A small amount of testing says that it's better to estimate the entry pages
as 90% of the index, not 100%. Also, estimating the number of entries
(keys) as equal to the heap tuple count could be wildly wrong in either
direction. Instead, let's estimate 100 entries per entry page.
Perhaps someday somebody will want the index advisor to be able to provide
these numbers more directly, but for the moment this should serve.
Problem report and initial patch by Julien Rouhaud; modified by me to
invent less-bogus internal statistics. Back-patch to all supported
branches, since we've supported index advisors since 9.0.
M src/backend/utils/adt/selfuncs.c
Use "g" not "f" format in ecpg's PGTYPESnumeric_from_double().
commit : 74cf6defa79c64ce8ac3548210686abc3e8695d1
author : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
date : Tue, 1 Dec 2015 11:42:25 -0500
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
date : Tue, 1 Dec 2015 11:42:25 -0500
The previous coding could overrun the provided buffer size for a very large
input, or lose precision for a very small input. Adopt the methodology
that's been in use in the equivalent backend code for a long time.
Per private report from Bas van Schaik. Back-patch to all supported
branches.
M src/interfaces/ecpg/pgtypeslib/numeric.c
Fix failure to consider failure cases in GetComboCommandId().
commit : 47e189b5a10fdc5b983d1917e6f641ee80fa500b
author : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
date : Thu, 26 Nov 2015 13:23:02 -0500
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
date : Thu, 26 Nov 2015 13:23:02 -0500
Failure to initially palloc the comboCids array, or to realloc it bigger
when needed, left combocid's data structures in an inconsistent state that
would cause trouble if the top transaction continues to execute. Noted
while examining a user complaint about the amount of memory used for this.
(There's not much we can do about that, but it does point up that repalloc
failure has a non-negligible chance of occurring here.)
In HEAD/9.5, also avoid possible invocation of memcpy() with a null pointer
in SerializeComboCIDState; cf commit 13bba0227.
M src/backend/utils/time/combocid.c
Be more paranoid about null return values from libpq status functions.
commit : d44b4deaad9f347c2e83ab50c7252f14fad1ef63
author : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
date : Wed, 25 Nov 2015 17:31:54 -0500
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
date : Wed, 25 Nov 2015 17:31:54 -0500
PQhost() can return NULL in non-error situations, namely when a Unix-socket
connection has been selected by default. That behavior is a tad debatable
perhaps, but for the moment we should make sure that psql copes with it.
Unfortunately, do_connect() failed to: it could pass a NULL pointer to
strcmp(), resulting in crashes on most platforms. This was reported as a
security issue by ChenQin of Topsec Security Team, but the consensus of
the security list is that it's just a garden-variety bug with no security
implications.
For paranoia's sake, I made the keep_password test not trust PQuser or
PQport either, even though I believe those will never return NULL given
a valid PGconn.
Back-patch to all supported branches.
M src/bin/psql/command.c
pg_upgrade: fix CopyFile() on Windows to fail on file existence
commit : 0ca3c51e5520b423b17f498f6390129659ef68e0
author : Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
date : Tue, 24 Nov 2015 17:18:27 -0500
committer: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
date : Tue, 24 Nov 2015 17:18:27 -0500
Also fix getErrorText() to return the right error string on failure.
This behavior now matches that of other operating systems.
Report by Noah Misch
Backpatch through 9.1
M contrib/pg_upgrade/file.c
M contrib/pg_upgrade/util.c
Fix Windows builds in back branches.
commit : 05c9bc0635e95119558820d4910a228934fc4bd5
author : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
date : Mon, 23 Nov 2015 00:32:01 -0500
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
date : Mon, 23 Nov 2015 00:32:01 -0500
I missed adding src/port/tar.c to the Windows build files when
back-patching the addition of that file to 9.2 and 9.1.
Per buildfarm.
M src/tools/msvc/Mkvcbuild.pm
Adopt the GNU convention for handling tar-archive members exceeding 8GB.
commit : b054ca03185abc074026eb5fa09692cd5139d477
author : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
date : Sat, 21 Nov 2015 20:21:32 -0500
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
date : Sat, 21 Nov 2015 20:21:32 -0500
The POSIX standard for tar headers requires archive member sizes to be
printed in octal with at most 11 digits, limiting the representable file
size to 8GB. However, GNU tar and apparently most other modern tars
support a convention in which oversized values can be stored in base-256,
allowing any practical file to be a tar member. Adopt this convention
to remove two limitations:
* pg_dump with -Ft output format failed if the contents of any one table
exceeded 8GB.
* pg_basebackup failed if the data directory contained any file exceeding
8GB. (This would be a fatal problem for installations configured with a
table segment size of 8GB or more, and it has also been seen to fail when
large core dump files exist in the data directory.)
File sizes under 8GB are still printed in octal, so that no compatibility
issues are created except in cases that would have failed entirely before.
In addition, this patch fixes several bugs in the same area:
* In 9.3 and later, we'd defined tarCreateHeader's file-size argument as
size_t, which meant that on 32-bit machines it would write a corrupt tar
header for file sizes between 4GB and 8GB, even though no error was raised.
This broke both "pg_dump -Ft" and pg_basebackup for such cases.
* pg_restore from a tar archive would fail on tables of size between 4GB
and 8GB, on machines where either "size_t" or "unsigned long" is 32 bits.
This happened even with an archive file not affected by the previous bug.
* pg_basebackup would fail if there were files of size between 4GB and 8GB,
even on 64-bit machines.
* In 9.3 and later, "pg_basebackup -Ft" failed entirely, for any file size,
on 64-bit big-endian machines.
In view of these potential data-loss bugs, back-patch to all supported
branches, even though removal of the documented 8GB limit might otherwise
be considered a new feature rather than a bug fix.
M doc/src/sgml/ref/pg_dump.sgml
M src/backend/replication/basebackup.c
M src/bin/pg_basebackup/pg_basebackup.c
M src/bin/pg_dump/pg_backup_tar.c
A src/include/pgtar.h
M src/port/Makefile
A src/port/tar.c
Fix handling of inherited check constraints in ALTER COLUMN TYPE (again).
commit : c49279dfd5275c9ede9e7faf7d183a76bab680b0
author : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
date : Fri, 20 Nov 2015 14:55:29 -0500
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
date : Fri, 20 Nov 2015 14:55:29 -0500
The previous way of reconstructing check constraints was to do a separate
"ALTER TABLE ONLY tab ADD CONSTRAINT" for each table in an inheritance
hierarchy. However, that way has no hope of reconstructing the check
constraints' own inheritance properties correctly, as pointed out in
bug #13779 from Jan Dirk Zijlstra. What we should do instead is to do
a regular "ALTER TABLE", allowing recursion, at the topmost table that
has a particular constraint, and then suppress the work queue entries
for inherited instances of the constraint.
Annoyingly, we'd tried to fix this behavior before, in commit 5ed6546cf,
but we failed to notice that it wasn't reconstructing the pg_constraint
field values correctly.
As long as I'm touching pg_get_constraintdef_worker anyway, tweak it to
always schema-qualify the target table name; this seems like useful backup
to the protections installed by commit 5f173040.
In HEAD/9.5, get rid of get_constraint_relation_oids, which is now unused.
(I could alternatively have modified it to also return conislocal, but that
seemed like a pretty single-purpose API, so let's not pretend it has some
other use.) It's unused in the back branches as well, but I left it in
place just in case some third-party code has decided to use it.
In HEAD/9.5, also rename pg_get_constraintdef_string to
pg_get_constraintdef_command, as the previous name did nothing to explain
what that entry point did differently from others (and its comment was
equally useless). Again, that change doesn't seem like material for
back-patching.
I did a bit of re-pgindenting in tablecmds.c in HEAD/9.5, as well.
Otherwise, back-patch to all supported branches.
M src/backend/commands/tablecmds.c
M src/backend/utils/adt/ruleutils.c
M src/test/regress/expected/alter_table.out
M src/test/regress/sql/alter_table.sql
Accept flex > 2.5.x in configure.
commit : 6e1d26f1f79a8ed9a8222d3f6b5ea5d4b667b23f
author : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
date : Wed, 18 Nov 2015 17:45:06 -0500
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
date : Wed, 18 Nov 2015 17:45:06 -0500
Per buildfarm member anchovy, 2.6.0 exists in the wild now.
Hopefully it works with Postgres; if not, we'll have to do something
about that, but in any case claiming it's "too old" is pretty silly.
M config/programs.m4
M configure
Fix possible internal overflow in numeric division.
commit : c47bdb3726ba020b6e187e9279014e9a5e4df0d3
author : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
date : Tue, 17 Nov 2015 15:46:47 -0500
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
date : Tue, 17 Nov 2015 15:46:47 -0500
div_var_fast() postpones propagating carries in the same way as mul_var(),
so it has the same corner-case overflow risk we fixed in 246693e5ae8a36f0,
namely that the size of the carries has to be accounted for when setting
the threshold for executing a carry propagation step. We've not devised
a test case illustrating the brokenness, but the required fix seems clear
enough. Like the previous fix, back-patch to all active branches.
Dean Rasheed
M src/backend/utils/adt/numeric.c
Fix ruleutils.c's dumping of whole-row Vars in ROW() and VALUES() contexts.
commit : ed824cf80d46ecd5bfd06d4cc65b075328b2db85
author : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
date : Sun, 15 Nov 2015 14:41:09 -0500
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
date : Sun, 15 Nov 2015 14:41:09 -0500
Normally ruleutils prints a whole-row Var as "foo.*". We already knew that
that doesn't work at top level of a SELECT list, because the parser would
treat the "*" as a directive to expand the reference into separate columns,
not a whole-row Var. However, Joshua Yanovski points out in bug #13776
that the same thing happens at top level of a ROW() construct; and some
nosing around in the parser shows that the same is true in VALUES().
Hence, apply the same workaround already devised for the SELECT-list case,
namely to add a forced cast to the appropriate rowtype in these cases.
(The alternative of just printing "foo" was rejected because it is
difficult to avoid ambiguity against plain columns named "foo".)
Back-patch to all supported branches.
M src/backend/utils/adt/ruleutils.c
M src/test/regress/expected/create_view.out
M src/test/regress/sql/create_view.sql
PL/Python: Make tests pass with Python 3.5
commit : 82076c1e40eb93717ede3c82f59e7711090b63a8
author : Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
date : Sat, 14 Nov 2015 12:44:38 -0500
committer: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
date : Sat, 14 Nov 2015 12:44:38 -0500
The error message wording for AttributeError has changed in Python 3.5.
For the plpython_error test, add a new expected file. In the
plpython_subtransaction test, we didn't really care what the exception
is, only that it is something coming from Python. So use a generic
exception instead, which has a message that doesn't vary across
versions.
M src/pl/plpython/expected/README
A src/pl/plpython/expected/plpython_error_5.out
M src/pl/plpython/expected/plpython_subtransaction.out
M src/pl/plpython/expected/plpython_subtransaction_0.out
M src/pl/plpython/expected/plpython_subtransaction_5.out
M src/pl/plpython/sql/plpython_subtransaction.sql
pg_upgrade: properly detect file copy failure on Windows
commit : b4c4220ede3048662c746123b8af2a9101a1b313
author : Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
date : Sat, 14 Nov 2015 11:47:11 -0500
committer: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
date : Sat, 14 Nov 2015 11:47:11 -0500
Previously, file copy failures were ignored on Windows due to an
incorrect return value check.
Report by Manu Joye
Backpatch through 9.1
M contrib/pg_upgrade/file.c
M contrib/pg_upgrade/pg_upgrade.h
Improve our workaround for 'TeX capacity exceeded' in building PDF files.
commit : e12a99c89e8106ee5700396836f423c03bb7816b
author : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
date : Tue, 10 Nov 2015 15:59:59 -0500
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
date : Tue, 10 Nov 2015 15:59:59 -0500
In commit a5ec86a7c787832d28d5e50400ec96a5190f2555 I wrote a quick hack
that reduced the number of TeX string pool entries created while converting
our documentation to PDF form. That held the fort for awhile, but as of
HEAD we're back up against the same limitation. It turns out that the
original coding of \FlowObjectSetup actually results in *three* string pool
entries being generated for every "flow object" (that is, potential
cross-reference target) in the documentation, and my previous hack only got
rid of one of them. With a little more care, we can reduce the string
count to one per flow object plus one per actually-cross-referenced flow
object (about 115000 + 5000 as of current HEAD); that should work until
the documentation volume roughly doubles from where it is today.
As a not-incidental side benefit, this change also causes pdfjadetex to
stop emitting unreferenced hyperlink anchors (bookmarks) into the PDF file.
It had been making one willy-nilly for every flow object; now it's just one
per actually-cross-referenced object. This results in close to a 2X
savings in PDF file size. We will still want to run the output through
"jpdftweak" to get it to be compressed; but we no longer need removal of
unreferenced bookmarks, so we might be able to find a quicker tool for
that step.
Although the failure only affects HEAD and US-format output at the moment,
9.5 cannot be more than a few pages short of failing likewise, so it
will inevitably fail after a few rounds of minor-version release notes.
I don't have a lot of faith that we'll never hit the limit in the older
branches; and anyway it would be nice to get rid of jpdftweak across the
board. Therefore, back-patch to all supported branches.
M doc/src/sgml/jadetex.cfg
Don't connect() to a wildcard address in test_postmaster_connection().
commit : 99027350e7030aa97644860f9c176683b05941b1
author : Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
date : Sun, 8 Nov 2015 17:28:53 -0500
committer: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
date : Sun, 8 Nov 2015 17:28:53 -0500
At least OpenBSD, NetBSD, and Windows don't support it. This repairs
pg_ctl for listen_addresses='0.0.0.0' and listen_addresses='::'. Since
pg_ctl prefers to test a Unix-domain socket, Windows users are most
likely to need this change. Back-patch to 9.1 (all supported versions).
This could change pg_ctl interaction with loopback-interface firewall
rules. Therefore, in 9.4 and earlier (released branches), activate the
change only on known-affected platforms.
Reported (bug #13611) and designed by Kondo Yuta.
M src/bin/pg_ctl/pg_ctl.c
Fix enforcement of restrictions inside regexp lookaround constraints.
commit : bfb10db81ec9f4d2cb8de20c6af03463f89154c9
author : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
date : Sat, 7 Nov 2015 12:43:24 -0500
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
date : Sat, 7 Nov 2015 12:43:24 -0500
Lookahead and lookbehind constraints aren't allowed to contain backrefs,
and parentheses within them are always considered non-capturing. Or so
says the manual. But the regexp parser forgot about these rules once
inside a parenthesized subexpression, so that constructs like (\w)(?=(\1))
were accepted (but then not correctly executed --- a case like this acted
like (\w)(?=\w), without any enforcement that the two \w's match the same
text). And in (?=((foo))) the innermost parentheses would be counted as
capturing parentheses, though no text would ever be captured for them.
To fix, properly pass down the "type" argument to the recursive invocation
of parse().
Back-patch to all supported branches; it was agreed that silent
misexecution of such patterns is worse than throwing an error, even though
new errors in minor releases are generally not desirable.
M src/backend/regex/regcomp.c
M src/test/regress/expected/regex.out
M src/test/regress/sql/regex.sql
Fix serialization anomalies due to race conditions on INSERT.
commit : caff7fc3fb1184d0fe39228cd8922e664006105b
author : Kevin Grittner <kgrittn@postgresql.org>
date : Sat, 31 Oct 2015 14:36:37 -0500
committer: Kevin Grittner <kgrittn@postgresql.org>
date : Sat, 31 Oct 2015 14:36:37 -0500
On insert the CheckForSerializableConflictIn() test was performed
before the page(s) which were going to be modified had been locked
(with an exclusive buffer content lock). If another process
acquired a relation SIReadLock on the heap and scanned to a page on
which an insert was going to occur before the page was so locked,
a rw-conflict would be missed, which could allow a serialization
anomaly to be missed. The window between the check and the page
lock was small, so the bug was generally not noticed unless there
was high concurrency with multiple processes inserting into the
same table.
This was reported by Peter Bailis as bug #11732, by Sean Chittenden
as bug #13667, and by others.
The race condition was eliminated in heap_insert() by moving the
check down below the acquisition of the buffer lock, which had been
the very next statement. Because of the loop locking and unlocking
multiple buffers in heap_multi_insert() a check was added after all
inserts were completed. The check before the start of the inserts
was left because it might avoid a large amount of work to detect a
serialization anomaly before performing the all of the inserts and
the related WAL logging.
While investigating this bug, other SSI bugs which were even harder
to hit in practice were noticed and fixed, an unnecessary check
(covered by another check, so redundant) was removed from
heap_update(), and comments were improved.
Back-patch to all supported branches.
Kevin Grittner and Thomas Munro
M src/backend/access/heap/heapam.c
M src/backend/storage/lmgr/predicate.c
Fix back-patch of commit 8e3b4d9d40244c037bbc6e182ea3fabb9347d482.
commit : 887d9142622beef8f323fcb89b2a8a7156a367c2
author : Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
date : Tue, 20 Oct 2015 00:57:25 -0400
committer: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
date : Tue, 20 Oct 2015 00:57:25 -0400
master emits an extra context message compared to 9.5 and earlier.
M src/test/regress/expected/plpgsql.out
Eschew "RESET statement_timeout" in tests.
commit : 934fdaaca80e981dac90cdd974f61e7d493a78bf
author : Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
date : Tue, 20 Oct 2015 00:37:22 -0400
committer: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
date : Tue, 20 Oct 2015 00:37:22 -0400
Instead, use transaction abort. Given an unlucky bout of latency, the
timeout would cancel the RESET itself. Buildfarm members gharial,
lapwing, mereswine, shearwater, and sungazer witness that. Back-patch
to 9.1 (all supported versions). The query_canceled test still could
timeout before entering its subtransaction; for whatever reason, that
has yet to happen on the buildfarm.
M src/test/regress/expected/plpgsql.out
M src/test/regress/expected/prepared_xacts.out
M src/test/regress/expected/prepared_xacts_1.out
M src/test/regress/sql/plpgsql.sql
M src/test/regress/sql/prepared_xacts.sql
Fix incorrect handling of lookahead constraints in pg_regprefix().
commit : 05e62ff59676af1583a0c61546669adbc1dc2f4c
author : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
date : Mon, 19 Oct 2015 13:54:54 -0700
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
date : Mon, 19 Oct 2015 13:54:54 -0700
pg_regprefix was doing nothing with lookahead constraints, which would
be fine if it were the right kind of nothing, but it isn't: we have to
terminate our search for a fixed prefix, not just pretend the LACON arc
isn't there. Otherwise, if the current state has both a LACON outarc and a
single plain-color outarc, we'd falsely conclude that the color represents
an addition to the fixed prefix, and generate an extracted index condition
that restricts the indexscan too much. (See added regression test case.)
Terminating the search is conservative: we could traverse the LACON arc
(thus assuming that the constraint can be satisfied at runtime) and then
examine the outarcs of the linked-to state. But that would be a lot more
work than it seems worth, because writing a LACON followed by a single
plain character is a pretty silly thing to do.
This makes a difference only in rather contrived cases, but it's a bug,
so back-patch to all supported branches.
M src/backend/regex/regprefix.c
M src/test/regress/expected/regex.out
M src/test/regress/sql/regex.sql
Fix order of arguments in ecpg generated typedef command.
commit : 8f67643be199c0a770de9de3464b2c49e105294d
author : Michael Meskes <meskes@postgresql.org>
date : Fri, 16 Oct 2015 17:29:05 +0200
committer: Michael Meskes <meskes@postgresql.org>
date : Fri, 16 Oct 2015 17:29:05 +0200
M src/interfaces/ecpg/preproc/ecpg.trailer
Miscellaneous cleanup of regular-expression compiler.
commit : 2419ab8aa99b46bdf3a401501b5488b28870ee39
author : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
date : Fri, 16 Oct 2015 15:52:12 -0400
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
date : Fri, 16 Oct 2015 15:52:12 -0400
Revert our previous addition of "all" flags to copyins() and copyouts();
they're no longer needed, and were never anything but an unsightly hack.
Improve a couple of infelicities in the REG_DEBUG code for dumping
the NFA data structure, including adding code to count the total
number of states and arcs.
Add a couple of missed error checks.
Add some more documentation in the README file, and some regression tests
illustrating cases that exceeded the state-count limit and/or took
unreasonable amounts of time before this set of patches.
Back-patch to all supported branches.
M src/backend/regex/README
M src/backend/regex/regc_nfa.c
M src/backend/regex/regcomp.c
M src/test/regress/expected/regex.out
M src/test/regress/sql/regex.sql
Improve memory-usage accounting in regular-expression compiler.
commit : 4e4610a8a13796d9969a7d6c28c34ec333b23ebb
author : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
date : Fri, 16 Oct 2015 15:36:17 -0400
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
date : Fri, 16 Oct 2015 15:36:17 -0400
This code previously counted the number of NFA states it created, and
complained if a limit was exceeded, so as to prevent bizarre regex patterns
from consuming unreasonable time or memory. That's fine as far as it went,
but the code paid no attention to how many arcs linked those states. Since
regexes can be contrived that have O(N) states but will need O(N^2) arcs
after fixempties() processing, it was still possible to blow out memory,
and take a long time doing it too. To fix, modify the bookkeeping to count
space used by both states and arcs.
I did not bother with including the "color map" in the accounting; it
can only grow to a few megabytes, which is not a lot in comparison to
what we're allowing for states+arcs (about 150MB on 64-bit machines
or half that on 32-bit machines).
Looking at some of the larger real-world regexes captured in the Tcl
regression test suite suggests that the most that is likely to be needed
for regexes found in the wild is under 10MB, so I believe that the current
limit has enough headroom to make it okay to keep it as a hard-wired limit.
In connection with this, redefine REG_ETOOBIG as meaning "regular
expression is too complex"; the previous wording of "nfa has too many
states" was already somewhat inapropos because of the error code's use
for stack depth overrun, and it was not very user-friendly either.
Back-patch to all supported branches.
M src/backend/regex/regc_nfa.c
M src/backend/regex/regcomp.c
M src/include/regex/regerrs.h
M src/include/regex/regex.h
M src/include/regex/regguts.h
Improve performance of pullback/pushfwd in regular-expression compiler.
commit : a257b808a507649432246b2bd9733e733f5b6332
author : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
date : Fri, 16 Oct 2015 15:11:49 -0400
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
date : Fri, 16 Oct 2015 15:11:49 -0400
The previous coding would create a new intermediate state every time it
wanted to interchange the ordering of two constraint arcs. Certain regex
features such as \Y can generate large numbers of parallel constraint arcs,
and if we needed to reorder the results of that, we created unreasonable
numbers of intermediate states. To improve matters, keep a list of
already-created intermediate states associated with the state currently
being considered by the outer loop; we can re-use such states to place all
the new arcs leading to the same destination or source.
I also took the trouble to redefine push() and pull() to have a less risky
API: they no longer delete any state or arc that the caller might possibly
have a pointer to, except for the specifically-passed constraint arc.
This reduces the risk of re-introducing the same type of error seen in
the failed patch for CVE-2007-4772.
Back-patch to all supported branches.
M src/backend/regex/regc_nfa.c
M src/backend/regex/regcomp.c
Improve performance of fixempties() pass in regular-expression compiler.
commit : 18b032f8ff156fc482202cddb46b4b457c55cf11
author : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
date : Fri, 16 Oct 2015 14:58:11 -0400
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
date : Fri, 16 Oct 2015 14:58:11 -0400
The previous coding took something like O(N^4) time to fully process a
chain of N EMPTY arcs. We can't really do much better than O(N^2) because
we have to insert about that many arcs, but we can do lots better than
what's there now. The win comes partly from using mergeins() to amortize
de-duplication of arcs across multiple source states, and partly from
exploiting knowledge of the ordering of arcs for each state to avoid
looking at arcs we don't need to consider during the scan. We do have
to be a bit careful of the possible reordering of arcs introduced by
the sort-merge coding of the previous commit, but that's not hard to
deal with.
Back-patch to all supported branches.
M src/backend/regex/regc_nfa.c
M src/backend/regex/regcomp.c
Fix O(N^2) performance problems in regular-expression compiler.
commit : a2ad467ae4a09c79488044c552edfa40724f41c6
author : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
date : Fri, 16 Oct 2015 14:43:18 -0400
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
date : Fri, 16 Oct 2015 14:43:18 -0400
Change the singly-linked in-arc and out-arc lists to be doubly-linked,
so that arc deletion is constant time rather than having worst-case time
proportional to the number of other arcs on the connected states.
Modify the bulk arc transfer operations copyins(), copyouts(), moveins(),
moveouts() so that they use a sort-and-merge algorithm whenever there's
more than a small number of arcs to be copied or moved. The previous
method is O(N^2) in the number of arcs involved, because it performs
duplicate checking independently for each copied arc. The new method may
change the ordering of existing arcs for the destination state, but nothing
really cares about that.
Provide another bulk arc copying method mergeins(), which is unused as
of this commit but is needed for the next one. It basically is like
copyins(), but the source arcs might not all come from the same state.
Replace the O(N^2) bubble-sort algorithm used in carcsort() with a qsort()
call.
These changes greatly improve the performance of regex compilation for
large or complex regexes, at the cost of extra space for arc storage during
compilation. The original tradeoff was probably fine when it was made, but
now we care more about speed and less about memory consumption.
Back-patch to all supported branches.
M src/backend/regex/regc_nfa.c
M src/backend/regex/regcomp.c
M src/include/regex/regguts.h
Fix regular-expression compiler to handle loops of constraint arcs.
commit : 83c34825e5b02880bdad2afdba7861590abe7fe7
author : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
date : Fri, 16 Oct 2015 14:14:41 -0400
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
date : Fri, 16 Oct 2015 14:14:41 -0400
It's possible to construct regular expressions that contain loops of
constraint arcs (that is, ^ $ AHEAD BEHIND or LACON arcs). There's no use
in fully traversing such a loop at execution, since you'd just end up in
the same NFA state without having consumed any input. Worse, such a loop
leads to infinite looping in the pullback/pushfwd stage of compilation,
because we keep pushing or pulling the same constraints around the loop
in a vain attempt to move them to the pre or post state. Such looping was
previously recognized in CVE-2007-4772; but the fix only handled the case
of trivial single-state loops (that is, a constraint arc leading back to
its source state) ... and not only that, it was incorrect even for that
case, because it broke the admittedly-not-very-clearly-stated API contract
of the pull() and push() subroutines. The first two regression test cases
added by this commit exhibit patterns that result in assertion failures
because of that (though there seem to be no ill effects in non-assert
builds). The other new test cases exhibit multi-state constraint loops;
in an unpatched build they will run until the NFA state-count limit is
exceeded.
To fix, remove the code added for CVE-2007-4772, and instead create a
general-purpose constraint-loop-breaking phase of regex compilation that
executes before we do pullback/pushfwd. Since we never need to traverse
a constraint loop fully, we can just break the loop at any chosen spot,
if we add clone states that can replicate any sequence of arc transitions
that would've traversed just part of the loop.
Also add some commentary clarifying why we have to have all these
machinations in the first place.
This class of problems has been known for some time --- we had a report
from Marc Mamin about two years ago, for example, and there are related
complaints in the Tcl bug tracker. I had discussed a fix of this kind
off-list with Henry Spencer, but didn't get around to doing something
about it until the issue was rediscovered by Greg Stark recently.
Back-patch to all supported branches.
M src/backend/regex/regc_nfa.c
M src/backend/regex/regcomp.c
M src/test/regress/expected/regex.out
M src/test/regress/sql/regex.sql
On Windows, ensure shared memory handle gets closed if not being used.
commit : 39cd1bdb8655fc897e8cb77613c21acb677709d7
author : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
date : Tue, 13 Oct 2015 11:21:33 -0400
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
date : Tue, 13 Oct 2015 11:21:33 -0400
Postmaster child processes that aren't supposed to be attached to shared
memory were not bothering to close the shared memory mapping handle they
inherit from the postmaster process. That's mostly harmless, since the
handle vanishes anyway when the child process exits -- but the syslogger
process, if used, doesn't get killed and restarted during recovery from a
backend crash. That meant that Windows doesn't see the shared memory
mapping as becoming free, so it doesn't delete it and the postmaster is
unable to create a new one, resulting in failure to recover from crashes
whenever logging_collector is turned on.
Per report from Dmitry Vasilyev. It's a bit astonishing that we'd not
figured this out long ago, since it's been broken from the very beginnings
of out native Windows support; probably some previously-unexplained trouble
reports trace to this.
A secondary problem is that on Cygwin (perhaps only in older versions?),
exec() may not detach from the shared memory segment after all, in which
case these child processes did remain attached to shared memory, posing
the risk of an unexpected shared memory clobber if they went off the rails
somehow. That may be a long-gone bug, but we can deal with it now if it's
still live, by detaching within the infrastructure introduced here to deal
with closing the handle.
Back-patch to all supported branches.
Tom Lane and Amit Kapila
M src/backend/port/sysv_shmem.c
M src/backend/port/win32_shmem.c
M src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c
M src/include/storage/pg_shmem.h
Fix "pg_ctl start -w" to test child process status directly.
commit : 250108b6f3993e74a83b93c14fc09933799b3e11
author : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
date : Mon, 12 Oct 2015 18:30:37 -0400
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
date : Mon, 12 Oct 2015 18:30:37 -0400
pg_ctl start with -w previously relied on a heuristic that the postmaster
would surely always manage to create postmaster.pid within five seconds.
Unfortunately, that fails much more often than we would like on some of the
slower, more heavily loaded buildfarm members.
We have known for quite some time that we could remove the need for that
heuristic on Unix by using fork/exec instead of system() to launch the
postmaster. This allows us to know the exact PID of the postmaster, which
allows near-certain verification that the postmaster.pid file is the one
we want and not a leftover, and it also lets us use waitpid() to detect
reliably whether the child postmaster has exited or not.
What was blocking this change was not wanting to rewrite the Windows
version of start_postmaster() to avoid use of CMD.EXE. That's doable
in theory but would require fooling about with stdout/stderr redirection,
and getting the handling of quote-containing postmaster switches to
stay the same might be rather ticklish. However, we realized that
we don't have to do that to fix the problem, because we can test
whether the shell process has exited as a proxy for whether the
postmaster is still alive. That doesn't allow an exact check of the
PID in postmaster.pid, but we're no worse off than before in that
respect; and we do get to get rid of the heuristic about how long the
postmaster might take to create postmaster.pid.
On Unix, this change means that a second "pg_ctl start -w" immediately
after another such command will now reliably fail, whereas previously
it would succeed if done within two seconds of the earlier command.
Since that's a saner behavior anyway, it's fine. On Windows, the case can
still succeed within the same time window, since pg_ctl can't tell that the
earlier postmaster's postmaster.pid isn't the pidfile it is looking for.
To ensure stable test results on Windows, we can insert a short sleep into
the test script for pg_ctl, ensuring that the existing pidfile looks stale.
This hack can be removed if we ever do rewrite start_postmaster(), but that
no longer seems like a high-priority thing to do.
Back-patch to all supported versions, both because the current behavior
is buggy and because we must do that if we want the buildfarm failures
to go away.
Tom Lane and Michael Paquier
M src/bin/pg_ctl/pg_ctl.c
Improve documentation of the role-dropping process.
commit : 539510582bc7bfd18c08fa5292e8061ddda68a33
author : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
date : Wed, 7 Oct 2015 16:12:06 -0400
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
date : Wed, 7 Oct 2015 16:12:06 -0400
In general one may have to run both REASSIGN OWNED and DROP OWNED to get
rid of all the dependencies of a role to be dropped. This was alluded to
in the REASSIGN OWNED man page, but not really spelled out in full; and in
any case the procedure ought to be documented in a more prominent place
than that. Add a section to the "Database Roles" chapter explaining this,
and do a bit of wordsmithing in the relevant commands' man pages.
M doc/src/sgml/ref/drop_owned.sgml
M doc/src/sgml/ref/drop_role.sgml
M doc/src/sgml/ref/drop_user.sgml
M doc/src/sgml/ref/reassign_owned.sgml
M doc/src/sgml/user-manag.sgml
Perform an immediate shutdown if the postmaster.pid file is removed.
commit : 3d10f39709941f5562adf3d0fc4d61f91fac5ff5
author : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
date : Tue, 6 Oct 2015 17:15:27 -0400
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
date : Tue, 6 Oct 2015 17:15:27 -0400
The postmaster now checks every minute or so (worst case, at most two
minutes) that postmaster.pid is still there and still contains its own PID.
If not, it performs an immediate shutdown, as though it had received
SIGQUIT.
The original goal behind this change was to ensure that failed buildfarm
runs would get fully cleaned up, even if the test scripts had left a
postmaster running, which is not an infrequent occurrence. When the
buildfarm script removes a test postmaster's $PGDATA directory, its next
check on postmaster.pid will fail and cause it to exit. Previously, manual
intervention was often needed to get rid of such orphaned postmasters,
since they'd block new test postmasters from obtaining the expected socket
address.
However, by checking postmaster.pid and not something else, we can provide
additional robustness: manual removal of postmaster.pid is a frequent DBA
mistake, and now we can at least limit the damage that will ensue if a new
postmaster is started while the old one is still alive.
Back-patch to all supported branches, since we won't get the desired
improvement in buildfarm reliability otherwise.
M src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c
M src/backend/utils/init/miscinit.c
M src/include/miscadmin.h