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* Make plperl safe against functions that are redefined while running.Tom Lane2012-09-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | validate_plperl_function() supposed that it could free an old plperl_proc_desc struct immediately upon detecting that it was stale. However, if a plperl function is called recursively, this could result in deleting the struct out from under an outer invocation, leading to misbehavior or crashes. Add a simple reference-count mechanism to ensure that such structs are freed only when the last reference goes away. Per investigation of bug #7516 from Marko Tiikkaja. I am not certain that this error explains his report, because he says he didn't have any recursive calls --- but it's hard to see how else it could have crashed right there. In any case, this definitely fixes some problems in the area. Back-patch to all active branches.
* Use .NOTPARALLEL in ecpg/Makefile to avoid a gmake parallelism bug.Tom Lane2012-09-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Investigation shows that some intermittent build failures in ecpg are the result of a gmake bug that was reported quite some time ago: http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?30653 Preventing parallel builds of the ecpg subdirectories seems to dodge the bug. Per yesterday's pgsql-hackers discussion, there are some other things in the subdirectory makefiles that seem rather unsafe for parallel builds too, but there's little point in fixing them as long as we have to work around a make bug. Back-patch to 9.1; parallel builds weren't very well supported before that anyway.
* Adjust PL/Python regression tests some more for Python 3.3.Tom Lane2012-09-08
| | | | | | | | | | | Commit 2cfb1c6f77734db81b6e74bcae630f93b94f69be fixed some issues caused by Python 3.3 choosing to iterate through dict entries in a different order than before. But here's another one: the test cases adjusted here made two bad entries in a dict and expected the one complained of would always be the same. Possibly this should be back-patched further than 9.2, but there seems little point unless the earlier fix is too.
* Fix PARAM_EXEC assignment mechanism to be safe in the presence of WITH.Tom Lane2012-09-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The planner previously assumed that parameter Vars having the same absolute query level, varno, and varattno could safely be assigned the same runtime PARAM_EXEC slot, even though they might be different Vars appearing in different subqueries. This was (probably) safe before the introduction of CTEs, but the lazy-evalution mechanism used for CTEs means that a CTE can be executed during execution of some other subquery, causing the lifespan of Params at the same syntactic nesting level as the CTE to overlap with use of the same slots inside the CTE. In 9.1 we created additional hazards by using the same parameter-assignment technology for nestloop inner scan parameters, but it was broken before that, as illustrated by the added regression test. To fix, restructure the planner's management of PlannerParamItems so that items having different semantic lifespans are kept rigorously separated. This will probably result in complex queries using more runtime PARAM_EXEC slots than before, but the slots are cheap enough that this hardly matters. Also, stop generating PlannerParamItems containing Params for subquery outputs: all we really need to do is reserve the PARAM_EXEC slot number, and that now only takes incrementing a counter. The planning code is simpler and probably faster than before, as well as being more correct. Per report from Vik Reykja. Back-patch of commit 46c508fbcf98ac334f1e831d21021d731c882fbb into all branches that support WITH.
* Stamp 9.2.0.REL9_2_0Tom Lane2012-09-06
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* Fix "too many arguments" messages not to index off the end of argv[].Robert Haas2012-09-06
| | | | | This affects initdb, clusterdb, reindexdb, and vacuumdb in master and 9.2; in earlier branches, only initdb is affected.
* Translation updatesPeter Eisentraut2012-09-06
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* Fix typo in information_schema documentation.Tom Lane2012-09-05
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* In pg_upgrade, try a few times to open a log file.Andrew Dunstan2012-09-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | If we call pg_ctl stop, the server might continue and thus hold a log file for a short time after it has deleted its pid file, (which is when pg_ctl will exit), and so a subsequent attempt to open the log file might fail. We therefore try to open it a few times, sleeping one second between tries, to give the server time to exit. This corrects an error that was observed on the buildfarm. Backpatched to 9.2,
* Fix WAL file replacement during cascading replication on Windows.Heikki Linnakangas2012-09-05
| | | | | | | | | | | When the startup process restores a WAL file from the archive, it deletes any old file with the same name and renames the new file in its place. On Windows, however, when a file is deleted, it still lingers as long as a process holds a file handle open on it. With cascading replication, a walsender process can hold the old file open, so the rename() in the startup process would fail. To fix that, rename the old file to a temporary name, to make the original file name available for reuse, before deleting the old file.
* Fix inappropriate error messages for Hot Standby misconfiguration errors.Tom Lane2012-09-05
| | | | | | | | Give the correct name of the GUC parameter being complained of. Also, emit a more suitable SQLSTATE (INVALID_PARAMETER_VALUE, not the default INTERNAL_ERROR). Gurjeet Singh, errcode adjustment by me
* Make one last copy-editing pass over the 9.2 release notes.Tom Lane2012-09-05
| | | | | Also, set the release date to 2012-09-10, since we're pretty well committed to that now.
* Fix pg_upgrade test script's line end handling on Windows.Andrew Dunstan2012-09-05
| | | | | | | | | Call pg_dumpall using -f switch instead of redirection, to avoid writing the output in text mode and generating spurious carriage returns. Remove to carriage return ignoring hack introduced by commit e442b0f0c6fd26738bafdeb5222511b586dfe4b9. Backpatch to 9.2.
* Fix line end mishandling in pg_upgrade on Windows.Andrew Dunstan2012-09-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | pg_upgrade opened the output from pg_dumpall in text mode and wrote the split files in text mode. This caused unwanted eating of intended carriage returns on input and production of spurious carriage returns on output. To avoid this, open all these files in binary mode. On non-Windows platforms, this change has no effect. Backpatch to 9.0. On 9.0 and 9.1, we also switch from redirecting pg_dumpall's output to using pg_dumpall's -f switch, for the same reason.
* Restore SIGFPE handler after initializing PL/Perl.Tom Lane2012-09-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | Perl, for some unaccountable reason, believes it's a good idea to reset SIGFPE handling to SIG_IGN. Which wouldn't be a good idea even if it worked; but on some platforms (Linux at least) it doesn't work at all, instead resulting in forced process termination if the signal occurs. Given the lack of other complaints, it seems safe to assume that Perl never actually provokes SIGFPE and so there is no value in the setting anyway. Hence, reset it to our normal handler after initializing Perl. Report, analysis and patch by Andres Freund.
* Silence -Wunused-result warning in contrib/pg_upgrade.Tom Lane2012-09-05
| | | | | This is just neatnik-ism, but since we do it for comparable code in elog.c, we may as well do it here.
* Fix compiler warnings about unused variables, caused by my previous commit.Heikki Linnakangas2012-09-04
| | | | Reported by Peter Eisentraut.
* In pg_upgrade, document why we can't issue \n\n in the command logfileBruce Momjian2012-09-05
| | | | | | | on Windows. Slightly cleanup log output on Windows given this restriction. Backpatch to 9.2.
* Fix bugs in cascading replication with recovery_target_timeline='latest'Heikki Linnakangas2012-09-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The cascading replication code assumed that the current RecoveryTargetTLI never changes, but that's not true with recovery_target_timeline='latest'. The obvious upshot of that is that RecoveryTargetTLI in shared memory needs to be protected by a lock. A less obvious consequence is that when a cascading standby is connected, and the standby switches to a new target timeline after scanning the archive, it will continue to stream WAL to the cascading standby, but from a wrong file, ie. the file of the previous timeline. For example, if the standby is currently streaming from the middle of file 000000010000000000000005, and the timeline changes, the standby will continue to stream from that file. However, the WAL on the new timeline is in file 000000020000000000000005, so the standby sends garbage from 000000010000000000000005 to the cascading standby, instead of the correct WAL from file 000000020000000000000005. This also fixes a related bug where a partial WAL segment is restored from the archive and streamed to a cascading standby. The code assumed that when a WAL segment is copied from the archive, it can immediately be fully streamed to a cascading standby. However, if the segment is only partially filled, ie. has the right size, but only N first bytes contain valid WAL, that's not safe. That can happen if a partial WAL segment is manually copied to the archive, or if a partial WAL segment is archived because a server is started up on a new timeline within that segment. The cascading standby will get confused if the WAL it received is not valid, and will get stuck until it's restarted. This patch fixes that problem by not allowing WAL restored from the archive to be streamed to a cascading standby until it's been replayed, and thus validated.
* Fix serializable mode with index-only scans.Kevin Grittner2012-09-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Serializable Snapshot Isolation used for serializable transactions depends on acquiring SIRead locks on all heap relation tuples which are used to generate the query result, so that a later delete or update of any of the tuples can flag a read-write conflict between transactions. This is normally handled in heapam.c, with tuple level locking. Since an index-only scan avoids heap access in many cases, building the result from the index tuple, the necessary predicate locks were not being acquired for all tuples in an index-only scan. To prevent problems with tuple IDs which are vacuumed and re-used while the transaction still matters, the xmin of the tuple is part of the tag for the tuple lock. Since xmin is not available to the index-only scan for result rows generated from the index tuples, it is not possible to acquire a tuple-level predicate lock in such cases, in spite of having the tid. If we went to the heap to get the xmin value, it would no longer be an index-only scan. Rather than prohibit index-only scans under serializable transaction isolation, we acquire an SIRead lock on the page containing the tuple, when it was not necessary to visit the heap for other reasons. Backpatch to 9.2. Kevin Grittner and Tom Lane
* Allow isolation tests to specify multiple setup blocks.Kevin Grittner2012-09-04
| | | | | | | | | | Each setup block is run as a single PQexec submission, and some statements such as VACUUM cannot be combined with others in such a block. Backpatch to 9.2. Kevin Grittner and Tom Lane
* Fix transcription error.Andrew Dunstan2012-09-04
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* Document that pg_upgrade requires PGHOST be set for any pre-9.1 serversBruce Momjian2012-09-04
| | | | | | with a socket directory mismatch with the new server. Backpatch to 9.2.
* Mention basebackup-from-slave next to cascading replicationMagnus Hagander2012-09-04
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* Fix command echoing in pg_upgade's analyze script for Windows.Andrew Dunstan2012-09-04
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* Indent fix_path_separator() header properly.Andrew Dunstan2012-09-03
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* Allow pg_upgrade "make check" to run on Windows/MSys.Andrew Dunstan2012-09-03
| | | | Backpatch to 9.2.
* In pg_upgrade, pull the port number from postmaster.pid, like we do forBruce Momjian2012-09-03
| | | | | | | | socket location. Also, prevent putting the socket in the current directory for pre-9.1 servers in live check and non-live check mode, because pre-9.1 pg_ctl -w can't handle it. Backpatch to 9.2.
* Use correct path separator for Windows builtin commands.Andrew Dunstan2012-09-03
| | | | | | | | | pg_upgrade produces a platform-specific script to remove the old directory, but on Windows it has not been making sure that the paths it writes as arguments for rmdir and del use the backslash path separator, which will cause these scripts to fail. The fix is backpatched to Release 9.0.
* Fix bugs in exec.c that prevented pg_upgrade working in Windows.Andrew Dunstan2012-09-03
| | | | | Backpatch to 9.2 - code before that is quite different and should not have these defects.
* Back-patch recent pg_upgrade fixes into 9.2.Tom Lane2012-09-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This syncs contrib/pg_upgrade in the 9.2 branch with HEAD, except for the HEAD changes related to converting XLogRecPtr to 64-bit int. It includes back-patching these commits: 666d494d19dbd5dc7a177709a2f7069913f8ab89 pg_upgrade: abstract out copying of files from old cluster to new 7afa8bed65ea925208f128048f3a528a64e1319a pg_upgrade: Run the created scripts in the test suite ab577e63faf792593ca728625a8ef0b1dfaf7500 Remove analyze_new_cluster.sh on make clean, too 34c02044ed7e7defde5a853b26dcd806c872d974 Fix thinko in comment 088c065ce8e405fafbfa966937184ece9defcf20 pg_upgrade: Fix exec_prog API to be less flaky f763b77193b04eba03a1f4ce46df34dc0348419e Fix pg_upgrade to cope with non-default unix_socket_directory scenarios.
* Make psql's \d+ show reloptions for all relkinds.Tom Lane2012-09-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | Formerly it would only show them for relkinds 'r' and 'f' (plain tables and foreign tables). However, as of 9.2, views can also have reloptions, namely security_barrier. The relkind restriction seems pointless and not at all future-proof, so just print reloptions whenever there are any. In passing, make some cosmetic improvements to the code that pulls the "tableinfo" fields out of the PGresult. Noted and patched by Dean Rasheed, with adjustment for all relkinds by me.
* Restore setting of _USE_32BIT_TIME_T to 32 bit MSVC builds.Andrew Dunstan2012-08-31
| | | | | | | | | | | This was removed in commit cd004067742ee16ee63e55abfb4acbd5f09fbaab, we're not quite sure why, but there have been reports of crashes due to AS Perl being built with it when we are not, and it certainly seems like the right thing to do. There is still some uncertainty as to why it sometimes fails and sometimes doesn't. Original patch from Owais Khani, substantially reworked and extended by Andrew Dunstan.
* Make configure probe for mbstowcs_l as well as wcstombs_l.Tom Lane2012-08-31
| | | | | | | | | | | We previously supposed that any given platform would supply both or neither of these functions, so that one configure test would be sufficient. It now appears that at least on AIX this is not the case ... which is likely an AIX bug, but nonetheless we need to cope with it. So use separate tests. Per bug #6758; thanks to Andrew Hastie for doing the followup testing needed to confirm what was happening. Backpatch to 9.1, where we began using these functions.
* Back-patch recent fixes for gistchoose and gistRelocateBuildBuffersOnSplit.Tom Lane2012-08-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This back-ports commits c8ba697a4bdb934f0c51424c654e8db6133ea255 and e5db11c5582b469c04a11f217a0f32c827da5dd7, which fix one definite and one speculative bug in gistchoose, and make the code a lot more intelligible as well. In 9.2 only, this also affects the largely-copied-and-pasted logic in gistRelocateBuildBuffersOnSplit. The impact of the bugs was that the functions might make poor decisions as to which index tree branch to push a new entry down into, resulting in GiST index bloat and poor performance. The fixes rectify these decisions for future insertions, but a REINDEX would be needed to clean up any existing index bloat. Alexander Korotkov, Robert Haas, Tom Lane
* Fix checkpoint_timeout documentation to reflect current behavior.Robert Haas2012-08-30
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* Document how to prevent PostgreSQL itself from exhausting memory.Robert Haas2012-08-30
| | | | | | | | The existing documentation in Linux Memory Overcommit seemed to assume that PostgreSQL itself could never be the problem, or at least it didn't tell you what to do about it. Per discussion with Craig Ringer and Kevin Grittner.
* Add missing period to detail message.Robert Haas2012-08-30
| | | | Per note from Peter Eisentraut.
* add #includes to plpy_subxactobject.h to make it compile standaloneAlvaro Herrera2012-08-28
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* syncrep.h must include xlogdefs.hAlvaro Herrera2012-08-28
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* Small punctuation fixesPeter Eisentraut2012-08-28
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* Improve a couple of 9.2 release note entries.Tom Lane2012-08-27
| | | | | Clarify the compatibility notes about EXTRACT() and about statistics timing columns.
* Add section IDs to subsections of syntax.sgml that lacked them.Tom Lane2012-08-27
| | | | | | | This is so that these sections will have stable HTML tags that one can link to, rather than things like "AEN1902". Perhaps we should mount a campaign to do this everywhere, but I've found myself pointing at syntax.sgml subsections often enough to be sure it's useful here.
* Fix DROP INDEX CONCURRENTLY IF EXISTS.Tom Lane2012-08-27
| | | | | | | | This threw ERROR, not the expected NOTICE, if the index didn't exist. The bug was actually visible in not-as-expected regression test output, so somebody wasn't paying too close attention in commit 8cb53654dbdb4c386369eb988062d0bbb6de725e. Per report from Brendan Byrd.
* pg_basebackup: Correct error messagePeter Eisentraut2012-08-27
| | | | | It still thought that the --xlog-method option argument could be empty, as in a previous version of this feature.
* Some spelling adjustments in release notesPeter Eisentraut2012-08-24
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* Normalize some British spellingsPeter Eisentraut2012-08-24
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* Fix issues with checks for unsupported transaction states in Hot Standby.Tom Lane2012-08-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The GUC check hooks for transaction_read_only and transaction_isolation tried to check RecoveryInProgress(), so as to disallow setting read/write mode or serializable isolation level (respectively) in hot standby sessions. However, GUC check hooks can be called in many situations where we're not connected to shared memory at all, resulting in a crash in RecoveryInProgress(). Among other cases, this results in EXEC_BACKEND builds crashing during child process start if default_transaction_isolation is serializable, as reported by Heikki Linnakangas. Protect those calls by silently allowing any setting when not inside a transaction; which is okay anyway since these GUCs are always reset at start of transaction. Also, add a check to GetSerializableTransactionSnapshot() to complain if we are in hot standby. We need that check despite the one in check_XactIsoLevel() because default_transaction_isolation could be serializable. We don't want to complain any sooner than this in such cases, since that would prevent running transactions at all in such a state; but a transaction can be run, if SET TRANSACTION ISOLATION is done before setting a snapshot. Per report some months ago from Robert Haas. Back-patch to 9.1, since these problems were introduced by the SSI patch. Kevin Grittner and Tom Lane, with ideas from Heikki Linnakangas
* Put options on man page and in help output in slightly better orderPeter Eisentraut2012-08-24
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* libpq: Fix memory leak in URI parserPeter Eisentraut2012-08-23
| | | | | | When an invalid query parameter is reported, some memory leaks. found by Coverity