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* Remove vestigial secondary-split support in gist_box_picksplit().Tom Lane2013-02-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Not only is this implementation of secondary-split not better than the default implementation in gistsplit.c, it's actually worse. The gistsplit.c code at least looks to see if switching the left and right sides would make a better merge with the previously-split tuples, while this doesn't. In any case it's rather useless to support secondary split only in an edge case. There used to be more complete support for it here (in chooseLR()), but that was removed in commit 7f3bd86843e5aad84585a57d3f6b80db3c609916. It appears to me though that the chooseLR() code was really isomorphic to the default implementation, since it was still based on choosing the cheaper way of adding two sub-split vectors that had been chosen without regard to the primary split initially. I think an implementation of secondary split that could beat the default implementation would have to be pretty fully integrated into the split algorithm, not plastered on at the end. Back-patch to 9.2, but not further; previous branches have the chooseLR() code which I don't feel a great need to mess with. This is mainly so we just have two behaviors and not three among the various branches (IOW, this patch is cleanup for commit 7f3bd86843e5aad84585a57d3f6b80db3c609916's incomplete removal of secondary-split support).
* Document and clean up gistsplit.c.Tom Lane2013-02-10
| | | | | | | | | | Improve comments, rename some variables and functions, slightly simplify a couple of APIs, in an attempt to make this code readable by people other than its original author. Even though this is essentially just cosmetic, back-patch to all active branches, because otherwise it's going to make back-patching future fixes in this file very painful.
* Fix gist_box_same and gist_point_consistent to handle fuzziness correctly.Tom Lane2013-02-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | While there's considerable doubt that we want fuzzy behavior in the geometric operators at all (let alone as currently implemented), nobody is stepping forward to redesign that stuff. In the meantime it behooves us to make sure that index searches agree with the behavior of the underlying operators. This patch fixes two problems in this area. First, gist_box_same was using fuzzy equality, but it really needs to use exact equality to prevent not-quite-identical upper index keys from being treated as identical, which for example would prevent an existing upper key from being extended by an amount less than epsilon. This would result in inconsistent indexes. (The next release notes will need to recommend that users reindex GiST indexes on boxes, polygons, circles, and points, since all four opclasses use gist_box_same.) Second, gist_point_consistent used exact comparisons for upper-page comparisons in ~= searches, when it needs to use fuzzy comparisons to ensure it finds all matches; and it used fuzzy comparisons for point <@ box searches, when it needs to use exact comparisons because that's what the <@ operator (rather inconsistently) does. The added regression test cases illustrate all three misbehaviors. Back-patch to all active branches. (8.4 did not have GiST point_ops, but it still seems prudent to apply the gist_box_same patch to it.) Alexander Korotkov, reviewed by Noah Misch
* Fix performance issue in EXPLAIN (ANALYZE, TIMING OFF).Tom Lane2013-02-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Commit af7914c6627bcf0b0ca614e9ce95d3f8056602bf, which added the TIMING option to EXPLAIN, had an oversight: if the TIMING option is disabled then control in InstrStartNode() goes through an elog(DEBUG2) call, which typically does nothing but takes a noticeable amount of time to do it. Tweak the logic to avoid that. In HEAD, also change the elog(DEBUG2)'s in instrument.c to elog(ERROR). It's not very clear why they weren't like that to begin with, but this episode shows that not complaining more vociferously about misuse is likely to do little except allow bugs to remain hidden. While at it, adjust some code that was making possibly-dangerous assumptions about flag bits being in the rightmost byte of the instrument_options word. Problem reported by Pavel Stehule (via Tomas Vondra).
* Make contrib/btree_gist's GiST penalty function a bit saner.Tom Lane2013-02-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The previous coding supposed that the first differing bytes in two varlena datums must have the same sign difference as their overall comparison result. This is obviously bogus for text strings in non-C locales, and probably wrong for numeric, and even for bytea I think it was wrong on machines where char is signed. When the assumption failed, the function could deliver a zero or negative penalty in situations where such a result is quite ridiculous, leading the core GiST code to make very bad page-split decisions. To fix, take the absolute values of the byte-level differences. Also, switch the code to using unsigned char not just char, so that the behavior will be consistent whether char is signed or not. Per investigation of a trouble report from Tomas Vondra. Back-patch to all supported branches.
* Fix erroneous range-union logic for varlena types in contrib/btree_gist.Tom Lane2013-02-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | gbt_var_bin_union() failed to do the right thing when the existing range needed to be widened at both ends rather than just one end. This could result in an invalid index in which keys that are present would not be found by searches, because the searches would not think they need to descend to the relevant leaf pages. This error affected all the varlena datatypes supported by btree_gist (text, bytea, bit, numeric). Per investigation of a trouble report from Tomas Vondra. (There is also an issue in gbt_var_penalty(), but that should only result in inefficiency not wrong answers. I'm committing this separately so that we have a git state in which it can be tested that bad penalty results don't produce invalid indexes.) Back-patch to all supported branches.
* Repair bugs in GiST page splitting code for multi-column indexes.Tom Lane2013-02-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When considering a non-last column in a multi-column GiST index, gistsplit.c tries to improve on the split chosen by the opclass-specific pickSplit function by considering penalties for the next column. However, there were two bugs in this code: it failed to recompute the union keys for the leftmost index columns, even though these might well change after reassigning tuples; and it included the old union keys in the recomputation for the columns it did recompute, so that those keys couldn't get smaller even if they should. The first problem could result in an invalid index in which searches wouldn't find index entries that are in fact present; the second would make the index less efficient to search. Both of these errors were caused by misuse of gistMakeUnionItVec, whose API was designed in a way that just begged such errors to be made. There is no situation in which it's safe or useful to compute the union keys for a subset of the index columns, and there is no caller that wants any previous union keys to be included in the computation; so the undocumented choice to treat the union keys as in/out rather than pure output parameters is a waste of code as well as being dangerous. Hence, rather than just making a minimal patch, I've changed the API of gistMakeUnionItVec to remove the "startkey" parameter (it now always processes all index columns) and treat the attr/isnull arrays as purely output parameters. In passing, also get rid of a couple of unnecessary and dangerous uses of static variables in gistutil.c. It's remarkable that the one in gistMakeUnionKey hasn't given us portability troubles before now, because in addition to posing a re-entrancy hazard, it was unsafely assuming that a static char[] array would have at least Datum alignment. Per investigation of a trouble report from Tomas Vondra. (There are also some bugs in contrib/btree_gist to be fixed, but that seems like material for a separate patch.) Back-patch to all supported branches.
* Fix possible failure to send final transaction counts to stats collector.Tom Lane2013-02-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Normally, we suppress sending a tabstats message to the collector unless there were some actual table stats to send. However, during backend exit we should force out the message if there are any transaction commit/abort counts to send, else the session's last few commit/abort counts will never get reported at all. We had logic for this, but the short-circuit test at the top of pgstat_report_stat() ignored the "force" flag, with the consequence that session-ending transactions that touched no database-local tables would not get counted. Seems to be an oversight in my commit 641912b4d17fd214a5e5bae4e7bb9ddbc28b144b, which added the "force" flag. That was back in 8.3, so back-patch to all supported versions.
* Enable building with Microsoft Visual Studio 2012.Andrew Dunstan2013-02-06
| | | | | | Backpatch to release 9.2 Brar Piening and Noah Misch, reviewed by Craig Ringer.
* Stamp 9.2.3.REL9_2_3Tom Lane2013-02-04
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* Prevent execution of enum_recv() from SQL.Tom Lane2013-02-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This function was misdeclared to take cstring when it should take internal. This at least allows crashing the server, and in principle an attacker might be able to use the function to examine the contents of server memory. The correct fix is to adjust the system catalog contents (and fix the regression tests that should have caught this but failed to). However, asking users to correct the catalog contents in existing installations is a pain, so as a band-aid fix for the back branches, install a check in enum_recv() to make it throw error if called with a cstring argument. We will later revert this in HEAD in favor of correcting the catalogs. Our thanks to Sumit Soni (via Secunia SVCRP) for reporting this issue. Security: CVE-2013-0255
* Update release notes for 9.2.3, 9.1.8, 9.0.12, 8.4.16, 8.3.23.Tom Lane2013-02-04
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* Reset vacuum_defer_cleanup_age to PGC_SIGHUP.Simon Riggs2013-02-04
| | | | Revert commit 84725aa5efe11688633b553e58113efce4181f2e
* Translation updatesPeter Eisentraut2013-02-04
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* Mark vacuum_defer_cleanup_age as PGC_POSTMASTER.Simon Riggs2013-02-02
| | | | Following bug analysis of #7819 by Tom Lane
* Fix typo in freeze_table_age implementationAlvaro Herrera2013-02-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | The original code used freeze_min_age instead of freeze_table_age. The main consequence of this mistake is that lowering freeze_min_age would cause full-table scans to occur much more frequently, which causes serious issues because the number of writes required is much larger. That feature (freeze_min_age) is supposed to affect only how soon tuples are frozen; some pages should still be skipped due to the visibility map. Backpatch to 8.4, where the freeze_table_age feature was introduced. Report and patch from Andres Freund
* pg_upgrade docs: mention modification of postgresql.conf in new clusterBruce Momjian2013-01-31
| | | | | | | | | Mention it might be necessary to modify postgresql.conf in the new cluster to match the old cluster. Backpatch to 9.2. Suggested by user.
* Properly zero-pad the day-of-year part of the win32 build numberMagnus Hagander2013-01-31
| | | | | | | | | This ensure the version number increases over time. The first three digits in the version number is still set to the actual PostgreSQL version number, but the last one is intended to be an ever increasing build number, which previosly failed when it changed between 1, 2 and 3 digits long values. Noted by Deepak
* Fix plpgsql's reporting of plan-time errors in possibly-simple expressions.Tom Lane2013-01-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | exec_simple_check_plan and exec_eval_simple_expr attempted to call GetCachedPlan directly. This meant that if an error was thrown during planning, the resulting context traceback would not include the line normally contributed by _SPI_error_callback. This is already inconsistent, but just to be really odd, a re-execution of the very same expression *would* show the additional context line, because we'd already have cached the plan and marked the expression as non-simple. The problem is easy to demonstrate in 9.2 and HEAD because planning of a cached plan doesn't occur at all until GetCachedPlan is done. In earlier versions, it could only be an issue if initial planning had succeeded, then a replan was forced (already somewhat improbable for a simple expression), and the replan attempt failed. Since the issue is mainly cosmetic in older branches anyway, it doesn't seem worth the risk of trying to fix it there. It is worth fixing in 9.2 since the instability of the context printout can affect the results of GET STACKED DIAGNOSTICS, as per a recent discussion on pgsql-novice. To fix, introduce a SPI function that wraps GetCachedPlan while installing the correct callback function. Use this instead of calling GetCachedPlan directly from plpgsql. Also introduce a wrapper function for extracting a SPI plan's CachedPlanSource list. This lets us stop including spi_priv.h in pl_exec.c, which was never a very good idea from a modularity standpoint. In passing, fix a similar inconsistency that could occur in SPI_cursor_open, which was also calling GetCachedPlan without setting up a context callback.
* Fix grammar for subscripting or field selection from a sub-SELECT result.Tom Lane2013-01-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Such cases should work, but the grammar failed to accept them because of our ancient precedence hacks to convince bison that extra parentheses around a sub-SELECT in an expression are unambiguous. (Formally, they *are* ambiguous, but we don't especially care whether they're treated as part of the sub-SELECT or part of the expression. Bison cares, though.) Fix by adding a redundant-looking production for this case. This is a fine example of why fixing shift/reduce conflicts via precedence declarations is more dangerous than it looks: you can easily cause the parser to reject cases that should work. This has been wrong since commit 3db4056e22b0c6b2adc92543baf8408d2894fe91 or maybe before, and apparently some people have been working around it by inserting no-op casts. That method introduces a dump/reload hazard, as illustrated in bug #7838 from Jan Mate. Hence, back-patch to all active branches.
* DROP OWNED: don't try to drop tablespaces/databasesAlvaro Herrera2013-01-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | My "fix" for bugs #7578 and #6116 on DROP OWNED at fe3b5eb08a1 not only misstated that it applied to REASSIGN OWNED (which it did not affect), but it also failed to fix the problems fully, because I didn't test the case of owned shared objects. Thus I created a new bug, reported by Thomas Kellerer as #7748, which would cause DROP OWNED to fail with a not-for-user-consumption error message. The code would attempt to drop the database, which not only fails to work because the underlying code does not support that, but is a pretty dangerous and undesirable thing to be doing as well. This patch fixes that bug by having DROP OWNED only attempt to process shared objects when grants on them are found, ignoring ownership. Backpatch to 8.3, which is as far as the previous bug was backpatched.
* Made ecpglib use translated messages.Michael Meskes2013-01-27
| | | | Bug reported and fixed by Chen Huajun <chenhj@cn.fujitsu.com>.
* Fix plpython's handling of functions used as triggers on multiple tables.Tom Lane2013-01-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | plpython tried to use a single cache entry for a trigger function, but it needs a separate cache entry for each table the trigger is applied to, because there is table-dependent data in there. This was done correctly before 9.1, but commit 46211da1b84bc3537e799ee1126098e71c2428e8 broke it by simplifying the lookup key from "function OID and triggered table OID" to "function OID and is-trigger boolean". Go back to using both OIDs as the lookup key. Per bug report from Sandro Santilli. Andres Freund
* doc: merge ecpg username/password example into C commentBruce Momjian2013-01-25
| | | | | | Backpatch to 9.2 per Tom Lane
* docs: In ecpg, clarify how username/password colon parameters are usedBruce Momjian2013-01-25
| | | | | | Backpatch to 9.2. Patch from Alan B
* doc: improve wording of "foreign data server" in file-fdw docsBruce Momjian2013-01-25
| | | | | | Backpatch to 9.2 Shigeru HANADA
* Make pg_dump exclude unlogged table data on hot standby slavesMagnus Hagander2013-01-25
| | | | Noted by Joe Van Dyk
* doc: correct sepgsql doc about permission checking of CASCADEBruce Momjian2013-01-24
| | | | | | Backpatch to 9.2. Patch from Kohei KaiGai
* Fix SPI documentation for new handling of ExecutorRun's count parameter.Tom Lane2013-01-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Since 9.0, the count parameter has only limited the number of tuples actually returned by the executor. It doesn't affect the behavior of INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE unless RETURNING is specified, because without RETURNING, the ModifyTable plan node doesn't return control to execMain.c for each tuple. And we only check the limit at the top level. While this behavioral change was unintentional at the time, discussion of bug #6572 led us to the conclusion that we prefer the new behavior anyway, and so we should just adjust the docs to match rather than change the code. Accordingly, do that. Back-patch as far as 9.0 so that the docs match the code in each branch.
* Use correct output device for Windows prompts.Andrew Dunstan2013-01-24
| | | | | | | | | | This ensures that mapping of non-ascii prompts to the correct code page occurs. Bug report and original patch from Alexander Law, reviewed and reworked by Noah Misch. Backpatch to all live branches.
* Fix rare missing cancellations in Hot Standby.Simon Riggs2013-01-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | The machinery around XLOG_HEAP2_CLEANUP_INFO failed to correctly pass through the necessary information on latestRemovedXid, avoiding cancellations in some infrequent concurrent update/cleanup scenarios. Backpatchable fix to 9.0 Detailed bug report and fix by Noah Misch, backpatchable version by me.
* Also fix rotation of csvlog on Windows.Heikki Linnakangas2013-01-24
| | | | Backpatch to 9.2, like the previous fix.
* Fix failure to rotate postmaster log file for size reasons on Windows.Tom Lane2013-01-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | When we eliminated "unnecessary" wakeups of the syslogger process, we broke size-based logfile rotation on Windows, because on that platform data transfer is done in a separate thread. While non-Windows platforms would recheck the output file size after every log message, Windows only did so when the control thread woke up for some other reason, which might be quite infrequent. Per bug #7814 from Tsunezumi. Back-patch to 9.2 where the problem was introduced. Jeff Janes
* Fix performance problems with autovacuum truncation in busy workloads.Kevin Grittner2013-01-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In situations where there are over 8MB of empty pages at the end of a table, the truncation work for trailing empty pages takes longer than deadlock_timeout, and there is frequent access to the table by processes other than autovacuum, there was a problem with the autovacuum worker process being canceled by the deadlock checking code. The truncation work done by autovacuum up that point was lost, and the attempt tried again by a later autovacuum worker. The attempts could continue indefinitely without making progress, consuming resources and blocking other processes for up to deadlock_timeout each time. This patch has the autovacuum worker checking whether it is blocking any other thread at 20ms intervals. If such a condition develops, the autovacuum worker will persist the work it has done so far, release its lock on the table, and sleep in 50ms intervals for up to 5 seconds, hoping to be able to re-acquire the lock and try again. If it is unable to get the lock in that time, it moves on and a worker will try to continue later from the point this one left off. While this patch doesn't change the rules about when and what to truncate, it does cause the truncation to occur sooner, with less blocking, and with the consumption of fewer resources when there is contention for the table's lock. The only user-visible change other than improved performance is that the table size during truncation may change incrementally instead of just once. Backpatched to 9.0 from initial master commit at b19e4250b45e91c9cbdd18d35ea6391ab5961c8d -- before that the differences are too large to be clearly safe. Jan Wieck
* Fix one-byte buffer overrun in PQprintTuples().Tom Lane2013-01-20
| | | | | | | | | | This bug goes back to the original Postgres95 sources. Its significance to modern PG versions is marginal, since we have not used PQprintTuples() internally in a very long time, and it doesn't seem to have ever been documented either. Still, it *is* exposed to client apps, so somebody out there might possibly be using it. Xi Wang
* Fix error-checking typo in check_TSCurrentConfig().Tom Lane2013-01-20
| | | | | | The code failed to detect an out-of-memory failure. Xi Wang
* doc: Fix syntax of a URLPeter Eisentraut2013-01-20
| | | | | Leading white space before the "http:" is apparently treated as a relative link at least by some browsers.
* Clarify that streaming replication can be both async and syncMagnus Hagander2013-01-20
| | | | Josh Kupershmidt
* Modernize string literal syntax in tutorial example.Tom Lane2013-01-19
| | | | | | | | | | Un-double the backslashes in the LIKE patterns, since standard_conforming_strings is now the default. Just to be sure, include a command to set standard_conforming_strings to ON in the example. Back-patch to 9.1, where standard_conforming_strings became the default. Josh Kupershmidt, reviewed by Jeff Janes
* Make pgxs build executables with the right suffix.Andrew Dunstan2013-01-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Complaint and patch from Zoltán Böszörményi. When cross-compiling, the native make doesn't know about the Windows .exe suffix, so it only builds with it when explicitly told to do so. The native make will not see the link between the target name and the built executable, and might this do unnecesary work, but that's a bigger problem than this one, if in fact we consider it a problem at all. Back-patch to all live branches.
* Protect against SnapshotNow race conditions in pg_tablespace scans.Tom Lane2013-01-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Use of SnapshotNow is known to expose us to race conditions if the tuple(s) being sought could be updated by concurrently-committing transactions. CREATE DATABASE and DROP DATABASE are particularly exposed because they do heavyweight filesystem operations during their scans of pg_tablespace, so that the scans run for a very long time compared to most. Furthermore, the potential consequences of a missed or twice-visited row are nastier than average: * createdb() could fail with a bogus "file already exists" error, or silently fail to copy one or more tablespace's worth of files into the new database. * remove_dbtablespaces() could miss one or more tablespaces, thus failing to free filesystem space for the dropped database. * check_db_file_conflict() could likewise miss a tablespace, leading to an OID conflict that could result in data loss either immediately or in future operations. (This seems of very low probability, though, since a duplicate database OID would be unlikely to start with.) Hence, it seems worth fixing these three places to use MVCC snapshots, even though this will someday be superseded by a generic solution to SnapshotNow race conditions. Back-patch to all active branches. Stephen Frost and Tom Lane
* Unbreak lock conflict detection for Hot Standby.Robert Haas2013-01-18
| | | | | | | | | | This got broken in the original fast-path locking patch, because I failed to account for the fact that Hot Standby startup process might take a strong relation lock on a relation in a database to which it is not bound, and confused MyDatabaseId with the database ID of the relation being locked. Report and diagnosis by Andres Freund. Final form of patch by me.
* On second thought, use an empty string instead of "none" when not connected.Heikki Linnakangas2013-01-15
| | | | | | | | | "none" could mislead to think that you're connected a database with that name. Also, it needs to be translated, which might be hard without some context. So in back-branches, use empty string, so that the message is (currently ""), which is at least unambiguous and doens't require translation. In master, it's no problem to add translatable strings, so use a different fix there.
* Don't pass NULL to fprintf, if not currently connected to a database.Heikki Linnakangas2013-01-15
| | | | | Backpatch all the way to 8.3. Fixes bug #7811, per report and diagnosis by Meng Qingzhong.
* Reject out-of-range dates in to_date().Tom Lane2013-01-14
| | | | | | | | | Dates outside the supported range could be entered, but would not print reasonably, and operations such as conversion to timestamp wouldn't behave sanely either. Since this has the potential to result in undumpable table data, it seems worth back-patching. Hitoshi Harada
* Add new timezone abbrevation "FET".Tom Lane2013-01-14
| | | | | | | This seems to have been invented in 2011 to represent GMT+3, non daylight savings rules, as now used in Europe/Kaliningrad and Europe/Minsk. There are no conflicts so might as well add it to the Default list. Per bug #7804 from Ruslan Izmaylov.
* Extend and improve use of EXTRA_REGRESS_OPTS.Andrew Dunstan2013-01-12
| | | | | | | | | | This is now used by ecpg tests, and not clobbered by pg_upgrade tests. This change won't affect anything that doesn't set this environment variable, but will enable the buildfarm to control exactly what port regression test installs will be running on, and thus to detect possible rogue postmasters more easily. Backpatch to release 9.2 where EXTRA_REGRESS_OPTS was first used.
* Revert ill-considered change of index-size fudge factor.Tom Lane2013-01-11
| | | | | | | | | This partially reverts commit 21a39de5809cd3050a37d2554323cc1d0cbeed9d, restoring the pre-9.2 cost estimates for index usage. That change introduced much too large a bias against larger indexes, as per reports from Jeff Janes and others. The whole thing needs a rewrite, which I've done in HEAD, but the safest thing to do in 9.2 is just to undo this multiplier change.
* Properly install ecpg_compat and pgtypes libraries on msvcMagnus Hagander2013-01-09
| | | | JiangGuiqing
* Fix potential corruption of lock table in CREATE/DROP INDEX CONCURRENTLY.Tom Lane2013-01-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If VirtualXactLock() has to wait for a transaction that holds its VXID lock as a fast-path lock, it must first convert the fast-path lock to a regular lock. It failed to take the required "partition" lock on the main shared-memory lock table while doing so. This is the direct cause of the assert failure in GetLockStatusData() recently observed in the buildfarm, but more worryingly it could result in arbitrary corruption of the shared lock table if some other process were concurrently engaged in modifying the same partition of the lock table. Fortunately, VirtualXactLock() is only used by CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY and DROP INDEX CONCURRENTLY, so the opportunities for failure are fewer than they might have been. In passing, improve some comments and be a bit more consistent about order of operations.