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* Fix mapping of PostgreSQL encodings to Python encodings.Heikki Linnakangas2012-07-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Windows encodings, "win1252" and so forth, are named differently in Python, like "cp1252". Also, if the PyUnicode_AsEncodedString() function call fails for some reason, use a plain ereport(), not a PLy_elog(), to report that error. That avoids recursion and crash, if PLy_elog() tries to call PLyUnicode_Bytes() again. This fixes bug reported by Asif Naeem. Backpatch down to 9.0, before that plpython didn't even try these conversions. Jan UrbaƄski, with minor comment improvements by me.
* Always treat a standby returning an an invalid flush location as asyncMagnus Hagander2012-07-04
| | | | | | | | This ensures that a standby such as pg_receivexlog will not be selected as sync standby - which would cause the master to block waiting for a location that could never happen. Fujii Masao
* Remove reference to default wal_buffers being 8Magnus Hagander2012-07-04
| | | | | | This hasn't been true since 9.1, when the default was changed to -1. Remove the reference completely, keeping the discussion of the parameter and it's shared memory effects on the config page.
* Fix typoMagnus Hagander2012-07-04
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* Remove references to PostgreSQL bundled on SolarisMagnus Hagander2012-07-04
| | | | | Also remove special references to downloads off pgfoundry since they are not correct - downloads are done through the main website.
* Remove references to pgfoundry as recommended hosting platformMagnus Hagander2012-07-04
| | | | | pgfoundry is deprectaed and no longer accepting new projects, so we really shouldn't be directing people there.
* Forgot an #include in the previous patch :-(Alvaro Herrera2012-07-03
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* Have REASSIGN OWNED work on extensions, tooAlvaro Herrera2012-07-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Per bug #6593, REASSIGN OWNED fails when the affected role has created an extension. Even though the user related to the extension is not nominally the owner, its OID appears on pg_shdepend and thus causes problems when the user is to be dropped. This commit adds code to change the "ownership" of the extension itself, not of the contained objects. This is fine because it's currently only called from REASSIGN OWNED, which would also modify the ownership of the contained objects. However, this is not sufficient for a working ALTER OWNER implementation extension. Back-patch to 9.1, where extensions were introduced. Bug #6593 reported by Emiliano Leporati.
* Fix race condition in enum value comparisons.Tom Lane2012-07-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When (re) loading the typcache comparison cache for an enum type's values, use an up-to-date MVCC snapshot, not the transaction's existing snapshot. This avoids problems if we encounter an enum OID that was created since our transaction started. Per report from Andres Freund and diagnosis by Robert Haas. To ensure this is safe even if enum comparison manages to get invoked before we've set a transaction snapshot, tweak GetLatestSnapshot to redirect to GetTransactionSnapshot instead of throwing error when FirstSnapshotSet is false. The existing uses of GetLatestSnapshot (in ri_triggers.c) don't care since they couldn't be invoked except in a transaction that's already done some work --- but it seems just conceivable that this might not be true of enums, especially if we ever choose to use enums in system catalogs. Note that the comparable coding in enum_endpoint and enum_range_internal remains GetTransactionSnapshot; this is perhaps debatable, but if we changed it those functions would have to be marked volatile, which doesn't seem attractive. Back-patch to 9.1 where ALTER TYPE ADD VALUE was added.
* Prevent CREATE TABLE LIKE/INHERITS from (mis) copying whole-row Vars.Tom Lane2012-06-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If a CHECK constraint or index definition contained a whole-row Var (that is, "table.*"), an attempt to copy that definition via CREATE TABLE LIKE or table inheritance produced incorrect results: the copied Var still claimed to have the rowtype of the source table, rather than the created table. For the LIKE case, it seems reasonable to just throw error for this situation, since the point of LIKE is that the new table is not permanently coupled to the old, so there's no reason to assume its rowtype will stay compatible. In the inheritance case, we should ideally allow such constraints, but doing so will require nontrivial refactoring of CREATE TABLE processing (because we'd need to know the OID of the new table's rowtype before we adjust inherited CHECK constraints). In view of the lack of previous complaints, that doesn't seem worth the risk in a back-patched bug fix, so just make it throw error for the inheritance case as well. Along the way, replace change_varattnos_of_a_node() with a more robust function map_variable_attnos(), which is capable of being extended to handle insertion of ConvertRowtypeExpr whenever we get around to fixing the inheritance case nicely, and in the meantime it returns a failure indication to the caller so that a helpful message with some context can be thrown. Also, this code will do the right thing with subselects (if we ever allow them in CHECK or indexes), and it range-checks varattnos before using them to index into the map array. Per report from Sergey Konoplev. Back-patch to all supported branches.
* Initialize shared memory copy of ckptXidEpoch correctly when not in recovery.Heikki Linnakangas2012-06-29
| | | | | | | This bug was introduced by commit 20d98ab6e4110087d1816cd105a40fcc8ce0a307, so backpatch this to 9.0-9.2 like that one. This fixes bug #6710, reported by Tarvi Pillessaar
* Fix NOTIFY to cope with I/O problems, such as out-of-disk-space.Tom Lane2012-06-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | The LISTEN/NOTIFY subsystem got confused if SimpleLruZeroPage failed, which would typically happen as a result of a write() failure while attempting to dump a dirty pg_notify page out of memory. Subsequently, all attempts to send more NOTIFY messages would fail with messages like "Could not read from file "pg_notify/nnnn" at offset nnnnn: Success". Only restarting the server would clear this condition. Per reports from Kevin Grittner and Christoph Berg. Back-patch to 9.0, where the problem was introduced during the LISTEN/NOTIFY rewrite.
* Improve pg_dump's dependency-sorting logic to enforce section dump order.Tom Lane2012-06-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | As of 9.2, with the --section option, it is very important that the concept of "pre data", "data", and "post data" sections of the output be honored strictly; else a dump divided into separate sectional files might be unrestorable. However, the dependency-sorting logic knew nothing of sections and would happily select output orderings that didn't fit that structure. Doing so was mostly harmless before 9.2, but now we need to be sure it doesn't do that. To fix, create dummy objects representing the section boundaries and add dependencies between them and all the normal objects. (This might sound expensive but it seems to only add a percent or two to pg_dump's runtime.) This also fixes a problem introduced in 9.1 by the feature that allows incomplete GROUP BY lists when a primary key is given in GROUP BY. That means that views can depend on primary key constraints. Previously, pg_dump would deal with that by simply emitting the primary key constraint before the view definition (and hence before the data section of the output). That's bad enough for simple serial restores, where creating an index before the data is loaded works, but is undesirable for speed reasons. But it could lead to outright failure of parallel restores, as seen in bug #6699 from Joe Van Dyk. That happened because pg_restore would switch into parallel mode as soon as it reached the constraint, and then very possibly would try to emit the view definition before the primary key was committed (as a consequence of another bug that causes the view not to be correctly marked as depending on the constraint). Adding the section boundary constraints forces the dependency-sorting code to break the view into separate table and rule declarations, allowing the rule, and hence the primary key constraint it depends on, to revert to their intended location in the post-data section. This also somewhat accidentally works around the bogus-dependency-marking problem, because the rule will be correctly shown as depending on the constraint, so parallel pg_restore will now do the right thing. (We will fix the bogus-dependency problem for real in a separate patch, but that patch is not easily back-portable to 9.1, so the fact that this patch is enough to dodge the only known symptom is fortunate.) Back-patch to 9.1, except for the hunk that adds verification that the finished archive TOC list is in correct section order; the place where it was convenient to add that doesn't exist in 9.1.
* Fix memory leak in ARRAY(SELECT ...) subqueries.Tom Lane2012-06-21
| | | | | | | | | | | Repeated execution of an uncorrelated ARRAY_SUBLINK sub-select (which I think can only happen if the sub-select is embedded in a larger, correlated subquery) would leak memory for the duration of the query, due to not reclaiming the array generated in the previous execution. Per bug #6698 from Armando Miraglia. Diagnosis and fix idea by Heikki, patch itself by me. This has been like this all along, so back-patch to all supported versions.
* pg_dump: Fix verbosity level in LO progress messagesAlvaro Herrera2012-06-19
| | | | | | | | In passing, reword another instance of the same message that was gratuitously different. Author: Josh Kupershmidt after a bug report by Bosco Rama
* Update copyright year in forgotten placesPeter Eisentraut2012-06-19
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* Add missing subtitle for compressed archive logsMagnus Hagander2012-06-17
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* In pg_upgrade, report pre-PG 8.1 plpython helper functions left in theBruce Momjian2012-06-13
| | | | | | | public schema that no longer point to valid shared object libraries, and suggest a solution. Backpatch to 9.1 (already in head)
* In pg_upgrade, verify that the install user has the same oid on bothBruce Momjian2012-06-13
| | | | | | clusters, and make sure the new cluster has no additional users. Backpatch to 9.1.
* Prevent non-streaming replication connections from being selected sync slaveMagnus Hagander2012-06-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | This prevents a pg_basebackup backup session that just does a base backup (no xlog involved at all) from becoming the synchronous slave and thus blocking all access while it runs. Also fixes the problem when a higher priority slave shows up it would become the sync standby before it has reached the STREAMING state, by making sure we can only switch to a walsender that's actually STREAMING. Fujii Masao
* Fix bug in early startup of Hot Standby with subtransactions.Simon Riggs2012-06-08
| | | | | | | | | | When HS startup is deferred because of overflowed subtransactions, ensure that we re-initialize KnownAssignedXids for when both existing and incoming snapshots have non-zero qualifying xids. Fixes bug #6661 reported by Valentine Gogichashvili. Analysis and fix by Andres Freund
* Wake WALSender to reduce data loss at failover for async commit.Simon Riggs2012-06-07
| | | | | | | | | WALSender now woken up after each background flush by WALwriter, avoiding multi-second replication delay for an all-async commit workload. Replication delay reduced from 7s with default settings to 200ms, allowing significantly reduced data loss at failover. Andres Freund and Simon Riggs
* Backpatch error message fix from 81f6bbe8ade8c90f23f9286ca9ca726d3e0e310fMagnus Hagander2012-06-05
| | | | | | Without this, pg_basebackup doesn't tell you why it failed when for example there is a file in the data directory that the backend doesn't have permissions to read.
* Fix some more bugs in contrib/xml2's xslt_process().Tom Lane2012-06-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It failed to check for error return from xsltApplyStylesheet(), as reported by Peter Gagarinov. (So far as I can tell, libxslt provides no convenient way to get a useful error message in failure cases. There might be some inconvenient way, but considering that this code is deprecated it's hard to get enthusiastic about putting lots of work into it. So I just made it say "failed to apply stylesheet", in line with the existing error checks.) While looking at the code I also noticed that the string returned by xsltSaveResultToString was never freed, resulting in a session-lifespan memory leak. Back-patch to all supported versions.
* Avoid early reuse of btree pages, causing incorrect query results.Simon Riggs2012-06-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | When we allowed read-only transactions to skip assigning XIDs we introduced the possibility that a fully deleted btree page could be reused. This broke the index link sequence which could then lead to indexscans silently returning fewer rows than would have been correct. The actual incidence of silent errors from this is thought to be very low because of the exact workload required and locking pre-conditions. Fix is to remove pages only if index page opaque->btpo.xact precedes RecentGlobalXmin. Noah Misch, reviewed by Simon Riggs
* Stamp 9.1.4.REL9_1_4Tom Lane2012-05-31
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* Update release notes for 9.1.4, 9.0.8, 8.4.12, 8.3.19.Tom Lane2012-05-31
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* Translation updatesPeter Eisentraut2012-05-31
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* Revert back-branch changes in behavior of age(xid).Tom Lane2012-05-31
| | | | | | | | Per discussion, it does not seem like a good idea to change the behavior of age(xid) in a minor release, even though the old definition causes the function to fail on hot standby slaves. Therefore, revert commit 5829387381d2e4edf84652bb5a712f6185860670 and follow-on commits in the back branches only.
* Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2012c.Tom Lane2012-05-31
| | | | | | DST law changes in Antarctica, Armenia, Chile, Cuba, Falkland Islands, Gaza, Haiti, Hebron, Morocco, Syria, Tokelau Islands. Historical corrections for Canada.
* Ignore SECURITY DEFINER and SET attributes for a PL's call handler.Tom Lane2012-05-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It's not very sensible to set such attributes on a handler function; but if one were to do so, fmgr.c went into infinite recursion because it would call fmgr_security_definer instead of the handler function proper. There is no way for fmgr_security_definer to know that it ought to call the handler and not the original function referenced by the FmgrInfo's fn_oid, so it tries to do the latter, causing the whole process to start over again. Ordinarily such misconfiguration of a procedural language's handler could be written off as superuser error. However, because we allow non-superuser database owners to create procedural languages and the handler for such a language becomes owned by the database owner, it is possible for a database owner to crash the backend, which ideally shouldn't be possible without superuser privileges. In 9.2 and up we will adjust things so that the handler functions are always owned by superusers, but in existing branches this is a minor security fix. Problem noted by Noah Misch (after several of us had failed to detect it :-(). This is CVE-2012-2655.
* Expand the allowed range of timezone offsets to +/-15:59:59 from Greenwich.Tom Lane2012-05-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We used to only allow offsets less than +/-13 hours, then it was +/14, then it was +/-15. That's still not good enough though, as per today's bug report from Patric Bechtel. This time I actually looked through the Olson timezone database to find the largest offsets used anywhere. The winners are Asia/Manila, at -15:56:00 until 1844, and America/Metlakatla, at +15:13:42 until 1867. So we'd better allow offsets less than +/-16 hours. Given the history, we are way overdue to have some greppable #define symbols controlling this, so make some ... and also remove an obsolete comment that didn't get fixed the last time. Back-patch to all supported branches.
* Fix incorrect password transformation in contrib/pgcrypto's DES crypt().Tom Lane2012-05-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Overly tight coding caused the password transformation loop to stop examining input once it had processed a byte equal to 0x80. Thus, if the given password string contained such a byte (which is possible though not highly likely in UTF8, and perhaps also in other non-ASCII encodings), all subsequent characters would not contribute to the hash, making the password much weaker than it appears on the surface. This would only affect cases where applications used DES crypt() to encode passwords before storing them in the database. If a weak password has been created in this fashion, the hash will stop matching after this update has been applied, so it will be easy to tell if any passwords were unexpectedly weak. Changing to a different password would be a good idea in such a case. (Since DES has been considered inadequately secure for some time, changing to a different encryption algorithm can also be recommended.) This code, and the bug, are shared with at least PHP, FreeBSD, and OpenBSD. Since the other projects have already published their fixes, there is no point in trying to keep this commit private. This bug has been assigned CVE-2012-2143, and credit for its discovery goes to Rubin Xu and Joseph Bonneau.
* Teach AbortOutOfAnyTransaction to clean up partially-started transactions.Tom Lane2012-05-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | AbortOutOfAnyTransaction failed to do anything if the state it saw on entry corresponded to failing partway through StartTransaction. I fixed AbortCurrentTransaction to cope with that case way back in commit 60b2444cc3ba037630c9b940c3c9ef01b954b87b, but evidently overlooked that AbortOutOfAnyTransaction should do likewise. Back-patch to all supported branches. It's not clear that this omission has any more-than-cosmetic consequences, but it's also not clear that it doesn't, so back-patching seems the least risky choice.
* Fix handling of pg_stat_statements.stat temporary fileMagnus Hagander2012-05-27
| | | | | | | | | Write the file to a temporary name and then rename() it into the permanent name, to ensure it can't end up half-written and corrupt in case of a crash during shutdown. Unlink the file after it has been read so it's removed from the data directory and not included in base backups going to replication slaves.
* Prevent synchronized scanning when systable_beginscan chooses a heapscan.Tom Lane2012-05-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The only interesting-for-performance case wherein we force heapscan here is when we're rebuilding the relcache init file, and the only such case that is likely to be examining a catalog big enough to be syncscanned is RelationBuildTupleDesc. But the early-exit optimization in that code gets broken if we start the scan at a random place within the catalog, so that allowing syncscan is actually a big deoptimization if pg_attribute is large (at least for the normal case where the rows for core system catalogs have never been changed since initdb). Hence, prevent syncscan here. Per my testing pursuant to complaints from Jeff Frost and Greg Sabino Mullane, though neither of them seem to have actually hit this specific problem. Back-patch to 8.3, where syncscan was introduced.
* Fix string truncation to be multibyte-aware in text_name and bpchar_name.Tom Lane2012-05-25
| | | | | | | | | | | Previously, casts to name could generate invalidly-encoded results. Also, make these functions match namein() more exactly, by consistently using palloc0() instead of ad-hoc zeroing code. Back-patch to all supported branches. Karl Schnaitter and Tom Lane
* Use binary search instead of brute-force scan in findNamespace().Tom Lane2012-05-25
| | | | | | | | | | | The previous coding presented a significant bottleneck when dumping databases containing many thousands of schemas, since the total time spent searching would increase roughly as O(N^2) in the number of objects. Noted by Jeff Janes, though I rewrote his proposed patch to use the existing findObjectByOid infrastructure. Since this is a longstanding performance bug, backpatch to all supported versions.
* pg_standby: Remove tabs from string literalsPeter Eisentraut2012-05-23
| | | | And align a bit better with the rest of the debug output.
* Ensure that seqscans check for interrupts at least once per page.Tom Lane2012-05-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | If a seqscan encounters many consecutive pages containing only dead tuples, it can remain in the loop in heapgettup for a long time, and there was no CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS anywhere in that loop. This meant there were real-world situations where a query would be effectively uncancelable for long stretches. Add a check placed to occur once per page, which should be enough to provide reasonable response time without adding any measurable overhead. Report and patch by Merlin Moncure (though I tweaked it a bit). Back-patch to all supported branches.
* Fix error message for COMMENT/SECURITY LABEL ON COLUMN xxx IS 'yyy'Robert Haas2012-05-22
| | | | | | | | When the column name is an unqualified name, rather than table.column, the error message complains about too many dotted names, which is wrong. Report by Peter Eisentraut based on examination of the sepgsql regression test output, but the problem also affects COMMENT. New wording as suggested by Tom Lane.
* Move postmaster's RemovePgTempFiles call to a less randomly chosen place.Tom Lane2012-05-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There is no reason to do this as early as possible in postmaster startup, and good reason not to do it until we have completely created the postmaster's lock file, namely that it might contribute to pg_ctl thinking that postmaster startup has timed out. (This would require a rather unusual amount of time to be spent scanning temp file directories, but we have at least one field report of it happening reproducibly.) Back-patch to 9.1. Before that, pg_ctl didn't wait for additional info to be added to the lock file, so it wasn't a problem. Note that this is not a complete fix to the slow-start issue in 9.1, because we still had identify_system_timezone being run during postmaster start in 9.1. But that's at least a reasonably well-defined delay, with an easy workaround if needed, whereas the temp-files scan is not so predictable and cannot be avoided.
* Fix bug in to_tsquery().Heikki Linnakangas2012-05-15
| | | | | We were using memcpy() to copy to a possibly overlapping memory region, which is a no-no. Use memmove() instead.
* Fix DROP TABLESPACE to unlink symlink when directory is not there.Tom Lane2012-05-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If the tablespace directory is missing entirely, we allow DROP TABLESPACE to go through, on the grounds that it should be possible to clean up the catalog entry in such a situation. However, we forgot that the pg_tblspc symlink might still be there. We should try to remove the symlink too (but not fail if it's no longer there), since not doing so can lead to weird behavior subsequently, as per report from Michael Nolan. There was some discussion of adding dependency links to prevent DROP TABLESPACE when the catalogs still contain references to the tablespace. That might be worth doing too, but it's an orthogonal question, and in any case wouldn't be back-patchable. Back-patch to 9.0, which is as far back as the logic looks like this. We could possibly do something similar in 8.x, but given the lack of reports I'm not sure it's worth the trouble, and anyway the case could not arise in the form the logic is meant to cover (namely, a post-DROP transaction rollback having resurrected the pg_tablespace entry after some or all of the filesystem infrastructure is gone).
* Ensure backwards compatibility for GetStableLatestTransactionId()Simon Riggs2012-05-12
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* Fix contrib/citext's upgrade script to handle array and domain cases.Tom Lane2012-05-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We previously recognized that citext wouldn't get marked as collatable during pg_upgrade from a pre-9.1 installation, and hacked its create-from-unpackaged script to manually perform the necessary catalog adjustments. However, we overlooked the fact that domains over citext, as well as the citext[] array type, need the same adjustments. Extend the script to handle those cases. Also, the documentation suggested that this was only an issue in pg_upgrade scenarios, which is quite wrong; loading any dump containing citext from a pre-9.1 server will also result in the type being wrongly marked. I approached the documentation problem by changing the 9.1.2 release note paragraphs about this issue, which is historically inaccurate. But it seems better than having the information scattered in multiple places, and leaving incorrect info in the 9.1.2 notes would be bad anyway. We'll still need to mention the issue again in the 9.1.4 notes, but perhaps they can just reference 9.1.2 for fix instructions. Per report from Evan Carroll. Back-patch into 9.1.
* Prevent loss of init fork when truncating an unlogged table.Robert Haas2012-05-11
| | | | Fixes bug #6635, reported by Akira Kurosawa.
* Remove extraneous #include "storage/proc.h"Simon Riggs2012-05-11
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* Ensure age() returns a stable value rather than the latest valueSimon Riggs2012-05-11
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* On GiST page split, release the locks on child pages before recursing up.Heikki Linnakangas2012-05-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When inserting the downlinks for a split gist page, we used hold the locks on the child pages until the insertion into the parent - and recursively its parent if it had to be split too - were all completed. Change that so that the locks on child pages are released after the insertion in the immediate parent is done, before recursing further up the tree. This reduces the number of lwlocks that are held simultaneously. Holding many locks is bad for concurrency, and in extreme cases you can even hit the limit of 100 simultaneously held lwlocks in a backend. If you're really unlucky, you can hit the limit while in a critical section, which brings down the whole system. This fixes bug #6629 reported by Tom Forbes. Backpatch to 9.1. The page splitting code was rewritten in 9.1, and the old code did not have this problem.