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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
* Translation updatesPeter Eisentraut2012-08-23
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* Stamp 9.2rc1.REL9_2_RC1Tom Lane2012-08-23
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* Fix cascading privilege revoke to notice when privileges are still held.Tom Lane2012-08-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | If we revoke a grant option from some role X, but X still holds the option via another grant, we should not recursively revoke the privilege from role(s) Y that X had granted it to. This was supposedly fixed as one aspect of commit 4b2dafcc0b1a579ef5daaa2728223006d1ff98e9, but I must not have tested it, because in fact that code never worked: it forgot to shift the grant-option bits back over when masking the bits being revoked. Per bug #6728 from Daniel German. Back-patch to all active branches, since this has been wrong since 8.0.
* Fix typo in example.Heikki Linnakangas2012-08-23
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* Remove overly-pessimistic statement about constraint exclusion.Tom Lane2012-08-22
| | | | | | | As of 9.2, constraint exclusion should work okay with prepared statements: the planner will try custom plans with actual values of the parameters, and observe that they are a lot cheaper than the generic plan, and thus never fall back to using the generic plan. Noted by Tatsuhito Kasahara.
* Make a cut at a major-features list for 9.2.Tom Lane2012-08-22
| | | | | This is open to debate of course, but it's past time we had *something* here.
* Make an editorial pass over the 9.2 release notes.Tom Lane2012-08-22
| | | | A very large number of small improvements ...
* Fix erroneous documentation of synchronous_commit = remote_write.Tom Lane2012-08-22
| | | | | | | The docs claimed that this mode only waits for the standby to receive WAL data, but actually it waits for the data to be written out to the standby's OS; which is a pretty significant difference because it removes the risk of crash of the walreceiver process.
* Update 9.2 release notes to reflect commits to date.Tom Lane2012-08-21
| | | | | I was unable to entirely resist the temptation to copy-edit related entries, but will save most of that for a separate pass.
* Fix dumping of security_barrier views with circular dependencies.Tom Lane2012-08-21
| | | | | | | | | If a view has circular dependencies, pg_dump splits it into a CREATE TABLE and a CREATE RULE command to break the dependency loop. However, if the view has reloptions, those options cannot be applied in the CREATE TABLE command, because views and tables have different allowed reloptions so CREATE TABLE would reject them. Instead apply the reloptions after the CREATE RULE, using ALTER VIEW SET.
* Fix bugs in contrib/pg_trgm's LIKE pattern analysis code.Tom Lane2012-08-20
| | | | | | | | Extraction of trigrams did not process LIKE escape sequences properly, leading to possible misidentification of trigrams near escapes, resulting in incorrect index search results. Fujii Masao
* Check LIBXML_VERSION instead of testing in configure script.Tom Lane2012-08-17
| | | | | | | | | | We had put a test for libxml2's xmlStructuredErrorContext variable in configure, but of course that doesn't work on Windows builds. The next best alternative seems to be to test the LIBXML_VERSION symbol provided by xmlversion.h. Per report from Talha Bin Rizwan, though this fixes it in a different way than his proposed patch.
* Allow create_index_paths() to consider multiple join bitmapscan paths.Tom Lane2012-08-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | In the initial cut at the "parameterized paths" feature, I'd simplified create_index_paths() to the point where it would only generate a single parameterized bitmap path per relation. Experimentation with an example supplied by Josh Berkus convinces me that that's not good enough: we really need to consider a bitmap path for each possible outer relation. Otherwise we have regressions relative to pre-9.2 versions, in which the planner picks a plain indexscan where it should have used a bitmap scan in queries involving three or more tables. Indeed, after fixing this, several queries in the regression tests show improved plans as a result of using bitmap not plain indexscans.
* Fix GiST buffering build bug, which caused "failed to re-find parent" errors.Heikki Linnakangas2012-08-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We use a hash table to track the parents of inner pages, but when inserting to a leaf page, the caller of gistbufferinginserttuples() must pass a correct block number of the leaf's parent page. Before gistProcessItup() descends to a child page, it checks if the downlink needs to be adjusted to accommodate the new tuple, and updates the downlink if necessary. However, updating the downlink might require splitting the page, which might move the downlink to a page to the right. gistProcessItup() doesn't realize that, so when it descends to the leaf page, it might pass an out-of-date parent block number as a result. Fix that by returning the block a tuple was inserted to from gistbufferinginserttuples(). This fixes the bug reported by Zdeněk Jílovec.
* Fix rescan logic in nodeCtescan.Tom Lane2012-08-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The previous coding essentially assumed that nodes would be rescanned in the same order they were initialized in; or at least that the "leader" of a group of CTEscans would be rescanned before any others were required to execute. Unfortunately, that isn't even a little bit true. It's possible to devise queries in which the leader isn't rescanned until other CTEscans on the same CTE have run to completion, or even in which the leader never gets a rescan call at all. The fix makes the leader specially responsible only for initial creation and final destruction of the tuplestore; rescan resets are now a symmetrically shared responsibility. This means that we might reset the tuplestore multiple times when restarting a plan subtree containing multiple CTEscans; but resetting an already-empty tuplestore is cheap enough that that doesn't seem like a problem. Per report from Adam Mackler; the new regression test cases are based on his example query. Back-patch to 8.4 where CTE scans were introduced.
* Disallow extensions from owning the schema they are assigned to.Tom Lane2012-08-15
| | | | | | | | | | | This situation creates a dependency loop that confuses pg_dump and probably other things. Moreover, since the mental model is that the extension "contains" schemas it owns, but "is contained in" its extschema (even though neither is strictly true), having both true at once is confusing for people too. So prevent the situation from being set up. Reported and patched by Thom Brown. Back-patch to 9.1 where extensions were added.
* Resurrect the "last ditch" code path in join_search_one_level().Tom Lane2012-08-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This essentially reverts commit e54b10a62db2991235fe800c629baef4531a6d67, in which I'd decided that the "last ditch" join logic was useless. The folly of that is now exposed by a report from Pavel Stehule: although the function should always find at least one join in a self-contained join problem, it can still fail to do so in a sub-problem created by artificial from_collapse_limit or join_collapse_limit constraints. Adjust the comments to describe this, and simplify the code a bit to match the new coding of the earlier loop in the function. I'm not terribly happy about this: I still subscribe to the opinion stated in the previous commit message that the "last ditch" code can obscure logic bugs elsewhere. But the alternative seems to be to complicate the earlier tests for does-this-relation-have-a-join-clause to the point where they can tell whether the join clauses link outside the current join sub-problem. And that looks messy, slow, and possibly a source of bugs in itself. In any case, now is not the time to be inserting experimental code into 9.2, so let's just go back to the time-tested solution.
* Stamp 9.2beta4.REL9_2_BETA4Tom Lane2012-08-14
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* Update release notes for 9.1.5, 9.0.9, 8.4.13, 8.3.20.Tom Lane2012-08-14
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* Prevent access to external files/URLs via contrib/xml2's xslt_process().Tom Lane2012-08-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | libxslt offers the ability to read and write both files and URLs through stylesheet commands, thus allowing unprivileged database users to both read and write data with the privileges of the database server. Disable that through proper use of libxslt's security options. Also, remove xslt_process()'s ability to fetch documents and stylesheets from external files/URLs. While this was a documented "feature", it was long regarded as a terrible idea. The fix for CVE-2012-3489 broke that capability, and rather than expend effort on trying to fix it, we're just going to summarily remove it. While the ability to write as well as read makes this security hole considerably worse than CVE-2012-3489, the problem is mitigated by the fact that xslt_process() is not available unless contrib/xml2 is installed, and the longstanding warnings about security risks from that should have discouraged prudent DBAs from installing it in security-exposed databases. Reported and fixed by Peter Eisentraut. Security: CVE-2012-3488
* Prevent access to external files/URLs via XML entity references.Tom Lane2012-08-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | xml_parse() would attempt to fetch external files or URLs as needed to resolve DTD and entity references in an XML value, thus allowing unprivileged database users to attempt to fetch data with the privileges of the database server. While the external data wouldn't get returned directly to the user, portions of it could be exposed in error messages if the data didn't parse as valid XML; and in any case the mere ability to check existence of a file might be useful to an attacker. The ideal solution to this would still allow fetching of references that are listed in the host system's XML catalogs, so that documents can be validated according to installed DTDs. However, doing that with the available libxml2 APIs appears complex and error-prone, so we're not going to risk it in a security patch that necessarily hasn't gotten wide review. So this patch merely shuts off all access, causing any external fetch to silently expand to an empty string. A future patch may improve this. In HEAD and 9.2, also suppress warnings about undefined entities, which would otherwise occur as a result of not loading referenced DTDs. Previous branches don't show such warnings anyway, due to different error handling arrangements. Credit to Noah Misch for first reporting the problem, and for much work towards a solution, though this simplistic approach was not his preference. Also thanks to Daniel Veillard for consultation. Security: CVE-2012-3489
* Translation updatesPeter Eisentraut2012-08-14
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* In documentation, change "recommendable" to "recommended", perBruce Momjian2012-08-14
| | | | | | consultation with word definitions. Backpatch to 9.2.
* Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2012e.Tom Lane2012-08-14
| | | | | | | | | | DST law changes in Morocco; Tokelau has relocated to the other side of the International Date Line; and apparently Olson had Tokelau's GMT offset wrong by an hour even before that. There are also a large number of non-significant changes in this update. Upstream took the opportunity to remove trailing whitespace, and the SCCS-style version numbers on the individual files are gone too.
* Add link from COPY ref page to psql \copy.Tom Lane2012-08-11
| | | | Jeff Janes
* Fix dependencies generated during ALTER TABLE ADD CONSTRAINT USING INDEX.Tom Lane2012-08-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This command generated new pg_depend entries linking the index to the constraint and the constraint to the table, which match the entries made when a unique or primary key constraint is built de novo. However, it did not bother to get rid of the entries linking the index directly to the table. We had considered the issue when the ADD CONSTRAINT USING INDEX patch was written, and concluded that we didn't need to get rid of the extra entries. But this is wrong: ALTER COLUMN TYPE wasn't expecting such redundant dependencies to exist, as reported by Hubert Depesz Lubaczewski. On reflection it seems rather likely to break other things as well, since there are many bits of code that crawl pg_depend for one purpose or another, and most of them are pretty naive about what relationships they're expecting to find. Fortunately it's not that hard to get rid of the extra dependency entries, so let's do that. Back-patch to 9.1, where ALTER TABLE ADD CONSTRAINT USING INDEX was added.
* Prevent pg_upgrade from crashing if it can't write to the currentBruce Momjian2012-08-10
| | | | | | directory. Backpatch to 9.2.
* Fix upper limit of superuser_reserved_connections, add limit for wal_sendersMagnus Hagander2012-08-10
| | | | | | | | Should be limited to the maximum number of connections excluding autovacuum workers, not including. Add similar check for max_wal_senders, which should never be higher than max_connections.
* Turn off WalSender keepalives by default, users can enable if desiredSimon Riggs2012-08-09
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* Ensure all replication message info is available and correct via WalRcvSimon Riggs2012-08-09
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* Force archive_status of .done for xlogs created by dearchival/replication.Simon Riggs2012-08-08
| | | | | | | This prevents spurious attempts to archive xlog files after promotion of standby, a bug introduced by cascading replication patch in 9.2. Fujii Masao, simplified and extended to cover streaming by Simon Riggs
* Fix typo in commentAlvaro Herrera2012-08-08
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* Doc correction to point out that 9.2+ can overwrite pg_xlog files.Simon Riggs2012-08-08
| | | | Noted by Noah Misch, patch by Fujii Masao
* Fix minor bug in XLogFileRead() that accidentally worked.Simon Riggs2012-08-08
| | | | | | | | | Cascading replication copied the incoming file into pg_xlog but didn't set path correctly, so the first attempt to open file failed causing it to loop around and look for file in pg_xlog. So the earlier coding worked, but accidentally rather than by design. Spotted by Fujii Masao, fix by Fujii Masao and Simon Riggs
* Update isolation tests' README file.Tom Lane2012-08-08
| | | | | The directions explaining about running the prepared-transactions test were not updated in commit ae55d9fbe3871a5e6309d9b91629f1b0ff2b8cba.
* Fix TwoPhaseGetDummyBackendId().Tom Lane2012-08-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | This was broken in commit ed0b409d22346b1b027a4c2099ca66984d94b6dd, which revised the GlobalTransactionData struct to not include the associated PGPROC as its first member, but overlooked one place where a cast was used in reliance on that equivalence. The most effective way of fixing this seems to be to create a new function that looks up the GlobalTransactionData struct given the XID, and make both TwoPhaseGetDummyBackendId and TwoPhaseGetDummyProc rely on that. Per report from Robert Ross.
* Fix pg_upgrade file share violation on Windows created by the commitBruce Momjian2012-08-07
| | | | | | | | 4741e9afb93f0d769655b2d18c2b73b86f281010. This was done by adding an optional second log file parameter to exec_prog(), and closing and reopening the log file between system() calls. Backpatch to 9.2.
* Fix redundant wordingAlvaro Herrera2012-08-07
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* fsync backup_label after pg_start_backup()Simon Riggs2012-08-07
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