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* Don't abort pg_basebackup when receiving empty WAL blockMagnus Hagander2013-11-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | This can happen exactly at the switch of a logical WAL file (segment number ending in FE), when running pg_basebackup connected to a standby server, and would cause the backup to abort with the error message "streaming header too small". There is nothing wrong with an empty message, it's just unnecessary, and the rest of the code can handle the case of an empty message, so this patch just removes the error condition when the size is exactly zero.
* Fix race condition in GIN posting tree page deletion.Heikki Linnakangas2013-11-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If a page is deleted, and reused for something else, just as a search is following a rightlink to it from its left sibling, the search would continue scanning whatever the new contents of the page are. That could lead to incorrect query results, or even something more curious if the page is reused for a different kind of a page. To fix, modify the search algorithm to lock the next page before releasing the previous one, and refrain from deleting pages from the leftmost branch of the tree. Add a new Concurrency section to the README, explaining why this works. There is a lot more one could say about concurrency in GIN, but that's for another patch. Backpatch to all supported versions.
* Make contain_volatile_functions/contain_mutable_functions look into SubLinks.Tom Lane2013-11-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This change prevents us from doing inappropriate subquery flattening in cases such as dangerous functions hidden inside a sub-SELECT in the targetlist of another sub-SELECT. That could result in unexpected behavior due to multiple evaluations of a volatile function, as in a recent complaint from Etienne Dube. It's been questionable from the very beginning whether these functions should look into subqueries (as noted in their comments), and this case seems to provide proof that they should. Because the new code only descends into SubLinks, not SubPlans or InitPlans, the change only affects the planner's behavior during prepjointree processing and not later on --- for example, you can still get it to use a volatile function in an indexqual if you wrap the function in (SELECT ...). That's a historical behavior, for sure, but it's reasonable given that the executor's evaluation rules for subplans don't depend on whether there are volatile functions inside them. In any case, we need to constrain the behavioral change as narrowly as we can to make this reasonable to back-patch.
* Fix subtly-wrong volatility checking in BeginCopyFrom().Tom Lane2013-11-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | contain_volatile_functions() is best applied to the output of expression_planner(), not its input, so that insertion of function default arguments and constant-folding have been done. (See comments at CheckMutability, for instance.) It's perhaps unlikely that anyone will notice a difference in practice, but still we should do it properly. In passing, change variable type from Node* to Expr* to reduce the net number of casts needed. Noted while perusing uses of contain_volatile_functions().
* Be more robust when strerror() doesn't give a useful result.Tom Lane2013-11-07
| | | | | | | Back-patch commits 8e68816cc2567642c6fcca4eaac66c25e0ae5ced and 8dace66e0735ca39b779922d02c24ea2686e6521 into the stable branches. Buildfarm testing revealed no great portability surprises, and it seems useful to have this robustness improvement in all branches.
* Prevent display of dropped columns in row constraint violation messages.Tom Lane2013-11-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ExecBuildSlotValueDescription() printed "null" for each dropped column in a row being complained of by ExecConstraints(). This has some sanity in terms of the underlying implementation, but is of course pretty surprising to users. To fix, we must pass the target relation's descriptor to ExecBuildSlotValueDescription(), because the slot descriptor it had been using doesn't get labeled with attisdropped markers. Per bug #8408 from Maxim Boguk. Back-patch to 9.2 where the feature of printing row values in NOT NULL and CHECK constraint violation messages was introduced. Michael Paquier and Tom Lane
* Fix generation of MergeAppend plans for optimized min/max on expressions.Tom Lane2013-11-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Before jamming a desired targetlist into a plan node, one really ought to make sure the plan node can handle projections, and insert a buffering Result plan node if not. planagg.c forgot to do this, which is a hangover from the days when it only dealt with IndexScan plan types. MergeAppend doesn't project though, not to mention that it gets unhappy if you remove its possibly-resjunk sort columns. The code accidentally failed to fail for cases in which the min/max argument was a simple Var, because the new targetlist would be equivalent to the original "flat" tlist anyway. For any more complex case, it's been broken since 9.1 where we introduced the ability to optimize min/max using MergeAppend, as reported by Raphael Bauduin. Fix by duplicating the logic from grouping_planner that decides whether we need a Result node. In 9.2 and 9.1, this requires back-porting the tlist_same_exprs() function introduced in commit 4387cf956b9eb13aad569634e0c4df081d76e2e3, else we'd uselessly add a Result node in cases that worked before. It's rather tempting to back-patch that whole commit so that we can avoid extra Result nodes in mainline cases too; but I'll refrain, since that code hasn't really seen all that much field testing yet.
* Support default arguments and named-argument notation for window functions.Tom Lane2013-11-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | These things didn't work because the planner omitted to do the necessary preprocessing of a WindowFunc's argument list. Add the few dozen lines of code needed to handle that. Although this sounds like a feature addition, it's really a bug fix because the default-argument case was likely to crash previously, due to lack of checking of the number of supplied arguments in the built-in window functions. It's not a security issue because there's no way for a non-superuser to create a window function definition with defaults that refers to a built-in C function, but nonetheless people might be annoyed that it crashes rather than producing a useful error message. So back-patch as far as the patch applies easily, which turns out to be 9.2. I'll put a band-aid in earlier versions as a separate patch. (Note that these features still don't work for aggregates, and fixing that case will be harder since we represent aggregate arg lists as target lists not bare expression lists. There's no crash risk though because CREATE AGGREGATE doesn't accept defaults, and we reject named-argument notation when parsing an aggregate call.)
* Improve the error message given for modifying a window with frame clause.Tom Lane2013-11-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | For rather inscrutable reasons, SQL:2008 disallows copying-and-modifying a window definition that has any explicit framing clause. The error message we gave for this only made sense if the referencing window definition itself contains an explicit framing clause, which it might well not. Moreover, in the context of an OVER clause it's not exactly obvious that "OVER (windowname)" implies copy-and-modify while "OVER windowname" does not. This has led to multiple complaints, eg bug #5199 from Iliya Krapchatov. Change to a hopefully more intelligible error message, and in the case where we have just "OVER (windowname)", add a HINT suggesting that omitting the parentheses will fix it. Also improve the related documentation. Back-patch to all supported branches.
* Prevent memory leaks from accumulating across printtup() calls.Tom Lane2013-11-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Historically, printtup() has assumed that it could prevent memory leakage by pfree'ing the string result of each output function and manually managing detoasting of toasted values. This amounts to assuming that datatype output functions never leak any memory internally; an assumption we've already decided to be bogus elsewhere, for example in COPY OUT. range_out in particular is known to leak multiple kilobytes per call, as noted in bug #8573 from Godfried Vanluffelen. While we could go in and fix that leak, it wouldn't be very notationally convenient, and in any case there have been and undoubtedly will again be other leaks in other output functions. So what seems like the best solution is to run the output functions in a temporary memory context that can be reset after each row, as we're doing in COPY OUT. Some quick experimentation suggests this is actually a tad faster than the retail pfree's anyway. This patch fixes all the variants of printtup, except for debugtup() which is used in standalone mode. It doesn't seem worth worrying about query-lifespan leaks in standalone mode, and fixing that case would be a bit tedious since debugtup() doesn't currently have any startup or shutdown functions. While at it, remove manual detoast management from several other output-function call sites that had copied it from printtup(). This doesn't make a lot of difference right now, but in view of recent discussions about supporting "non-flattened" Datums, we're going to want that code gone eventually anyway. Back-patch to 9.2 where range_out was introduced. We might eventually decide to back-patch this further, but in the absence of known major leaks in older output functions, I'll refrain for now.
* Changed test case slightly so it doesn't have an unused typedef.Michael Meskes2013-11-03
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* Retry after buffer locking failure during SPGiST index creation.Tom Lane2013-11-02
| | | | | | | | | The original coding thought this case was impossible, but it can happen if the bgwriter or checkpointer processes decide to write out an index page while creation is still proceeding, leading to a bogus "unexpected spgdoinsert() failure" error. Problem reported by Jonathan S. Katz. Teodor Sigaev
* Ensure all files created for a single BufFile have the same resource owner.Tom Lane2013-11-01
| | | | | | | | | | | Callers expect that they only have to set the right resource owner when creating a BufFile, not during subsequent operations on it. While we could insist this be fixed at the caller level, it seems more sensible for the BufFile to take care of it. Without this, some temp files belonging to a BufFile can go away too soon, eg at the end of a subtransaction, leading to errors or crashes. Reported and fixed by Andres Freund. Back-patch to all active branches.
* Fix some odd behaviors when using a SQL-style simple GMT offset timezone.Tom Lane2013-11-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Formerly, when using a SQL-spec timezone setting with a fixed GMT offset (called a "brute force" timezone in the code), the session_timezone variable was not updated to match the nominal timezone; rather, all code was expected to ignore session_timezone if HasCTZSet was true. This is of course obviously fragile, though a search of the code finds only timeofday() failing to honor the rule. A bigger problem was that DetermineTimeZoneOffset() supposed that if its pg_tz parameter was pointer-equal to session_timezone, then HasCTZSet should override the parameter. This would cause datetime input containing an explicit zone name to be treated as referencing the brute-force zone instead, if the zone name happened to match the session timezone that had prevailed before installing the brute-force zone setting (as reported in bug #8572). The same malady could affect AT TIME ZONE operators. To fix, set up session_timezone so that it matches the brute-force zone specification, which we can do using the POSIX timezone definition syntax "<abbrev>offset", and get rid of the bogus lookaside check in DetermineTimeZoneOffset(). Aside from fixing the erroneous behavior in datetime parsing and AT TIME ZONE, this will cause the timeofday() function to print its result in the user-requested time zone rather than some previously-set zone. It might also affect results in third-party extensions, if there are any that make use of session_timezone without considering HasCTZSet, but in all cases the new behavior should be saner than before. Back-patch to all supported branches.
* Prevent using strncpy with src == dest in TupleDescInitEntry.Tom Lane2013-10-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The C and POSIX standards state that strncpy's behavior is undefined when source and destination areas overlap. While it remains dubious whether any implementations really misbehave when the pointers are exactly equal, some platforms are now starting to force the issue by complaining when an undefined call occurs. (In particular OS X 10.9 has been seen to dump core here, though the exact set of circumstances needed to trigger that remain elusive. Similar behavior can be expected to be optional on Linux and other platforms in the near future.) So tweak the code to explicitly do nothing when nothing need be done. Back-patch to all active branches. In HEAD, this also lets us get rid of an exception in valgrind.supp. Per discussion of a report from Matthias Schmitt.
* Work around NetBSD shell issue in pg_upgrade test script.Andrew Dunstan2013-10-28
| | | | | | | | | | The NetBSD shell apparently returns non-zero from an unset command if the variable is already unset. This matters when, as in pg_upgrade's test.sh, we are working under 'set -e'. To protect against this, we first set the PG variables to an empty string before unsetting them completely. Error found on buildfarm member coypu, solution from Rémi Zara.
* Fix two bugs in setting the vm bit of empty pages.Heikki Linnakangas2013-10-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Use a critical section when setting the all-visible flag on an empty page, and WAL-logging it. log_newpage_buffer() contains an assertion that it must be called inside a critical section, and it's the right thing to do when modifying a buffer anyway. Also, the page should be marked dirty before calling log_newpage_buffer(), per the comment in log_newpage_buffer() and src/backend/access/transam/README. Patch by Andres Freund, in response to my report. Backpatch to 9.2, like the patch that introduced these bugs (a6370fd9).
* doc: Remove i18ngurus.com linkPeter Eisentraut2013-10-21
| | | | | The web site is dead, and the Wayback Machine shows that it didn't have much useful content before.
* docs: correct 9.1 and 9.2 release note mention of timeline switch fixBruce Momjian2013-10-15
| | | | | | Backpatch through 9.1. KONDO Mitsumasa
* doc: fix typo in release notesBruce Momjian2013-10-09
| | | | | | Backpatch through 8.4 Per suggestion by Amit Langote
* Stamp 9.2.5.REL9_2_5Peter Eisentraut2013-10-07
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* Revert "Document support for VPATH builds of extensions."Peter Eisentraut2013-10-07
| | | | This reverts commit 565beb41bdd73611ddb26165b7f6bb8b6157e49d.
* Revert "Backpatch pgxs vpath build and installation fixes (v2)"Peter Eisentraut2013-10-07
| | | | | | | This reverts commit dd9abd3c995dbc4d32cfc97fde03fe3583e2717c. pending resolution of http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/1381193255.25702.4.camel@vanquo.pezone.net
* docs: update release notes for 8.4.18, 9.0.14, 9.1.10, 9.2.5, 9.3.1Bruce Momjian2013-10-07
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* Fix bugs in SSI tuple locking.Heikki Linnakangas2013-10-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | 1. In heap_hot_search_buffer(), the PredicateLockTuple() call is passed wrong offset number. heapTuple->t_self is set to the tid of the first tuple in the chain that's visited, not the one actually being read. 2. CheckForSerializableConflictIn() uses the tuple's t_ctid field instead of t_self to check for exiting predicate locks on the tuple. If the tuple was updated, but the updater rolled back, t_ctid points to the aborted dead tuple. Reported by Hannu Krosing. Backpatch to 9.1.
* Translation updatesPeter Eisentraut2013-10-07
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* Eliminate xmin from hash tag for predicate locks on heap tuples.Kevin Grittner2013-10-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If a tuple was frozen while its predicate locks mattered, read-write dependencies could be missed, resulting in failure to detect conflicts which could lead to anomalies in committed serializable transactions. This field was added to the tag when we still thought that it was necessary to carry locks forward to a new version of an updated row. That was later proven to be unnecessary, which allowed simplification of the code, but elimination of xmin from the tag was missed at the time. Per report and analysis by Heikki Linnakangas. Backpatch to 9.1.
* Document support for VPATH builds of extensions.Andrew Dunstan2013-10-06
| | | | Cédric Villemain and me.
* doc: Correct psycopg URLPeter Eisentraut2013-10-02
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* Backpatch pgxs vpath build and installation fixes (v2)Andrew Dunstan2013-09-30
| | | | | This time with the better installation fix, which I hope won't break the buildfarm.
* Fix snapshot leak if lo_open called on non-existent object.Heikki Linnakangas2013-09-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | lo_open registers the currently active snapshot, and checks if the large object exists after that. Normally, snapshots registered by lo_open are unregistered at end of transaction when the lo descriptor is closed, but if we error out before the lo descriptor is added to the list of open descriptors, it is leaked. Fix by moving the snapshot registration to after checking if the large object exists. Reported by Pavel Stehule. Backpatch to 8.4. The snapshot registration system was introduced in 8.4, so prior versions are not affected (and not supported, anyway).
* Revert "Backpatch pgxs vpath build and installation fixes."Andrew Dunstan2013-09-30
| | | | This reverts commit cd453fef0bcfdc3c79c884e971cb84b88cb9d28d.
* Backpatch pgxs vpath build and installation fixes.Andrew Dunstan2013-09-29
| | | | | | This is a backpatch of commits d942f9d9, 82b01026, and 6697aa2bc, back to release 9.1 where we introduced extensions which make heavy use of the PGXS infrastructure.
* Fix spurious warning after vacuuming a page on a table with no indexes.Heikki Linnakangas2013-09-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There is a rare race condition, when a transaction that inserted a tuple aborts while vacuum is processing the page containing the inserted tuple. Vacuum prunes the page first, which normally removes any dead tuples, but if the inserting transaction aborts right after that, the loop after pruning will see a dead tuple and remove it instead. That's OK, but if the page is on a table with no indexes, and the page becomes completely empty after removing the dead tuple (or tuples) on it, it will be immediately marked as all-visible. That's OK, but the sanity check in vacuum would throw a warning because it thinks that the page contains dead tuples and was nevertheless marked as all-visible, even though it just vacuumed away the dead tuples and so it doesn't actually contain any. Spotted this while reading the code. It's difficult to hit the race condition otherwise, but can be done by putting a breakpoint after the heap_page_prune() call. Backpatch all the way to 8.4, where this code first appeared.
* Plug memory leak in range_cmp function.Heikki Linnakangas2013-09-25
| | | | | | | | B-tree operators are not allowed to leak memory into the current memory context. Range_cmp leaked detoasted copies of the arguments. That caused a quick out-of-memory error when creating an index on a range column. Reported by Marian Krucina, bug #8468.
* Fix pgindent comment breakageAlvaro Herrera2013-09-24
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* Use @libdir@ in both of regress/{input,output}/security_label.sourceNoah Misch2013-09-23
| | | | | | | | Though @libdir@ almost always matches @abs_builddir@ in this context, the test could only fail if they differed. Back-patch to 9.1, where the test was introduced. Hamid Quddus Akhtar
* Fix SSL deadlock risk in libpqStephen Frost2013-09-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In libpq, we set up and pass to OpenSSL callback routines to handle locking. When we run out of SSL connections, we try to clean things up by de-registering the hooks. Unfortunately, we had a few calls into the OpenSSL library after these hooks were de-registered during SSL cleanup which lead to deadlocking. This moves the thread callback cleanup to be after all SSL-cleanup related OpenSSL library calls. I've been unable to reproduce the deadlock with this fix. In passing, also move the close_SSL call to be after unlocking our ssl_config mutex when in a failure state. While it looks pretty unlikely to be an issue, it could have resulted in deadlocks if we ended up in this code path due to something other than SSL_new failing. Thanks to Heikki for pointing this out. Back-patch to all supported versions; note that the close_SSL issue only goes back to 9.0, so that hunk isn't included in the 8.4 patch. Initially found and reported by Vesa-Matti J Kari; many thanks to both Heikki and Andres for their help running down the specific issue and reviewing the patch.
* Ignore interrupts during quickdie().Noah Misch2013-09-11
| | | | | | | | | Once the administrator has called for an immediate shutdown or a backend crash has triggered a reinitialization, no mere SIGINT or SIGTERM should change that course. Such derailment remains possible when the signal arrives before quickdie() blocks signals. That being a narrow race affecting most PostgreSQL signal handlers in some way, leave it for another patch. Back-patch this to all supported versions.
* Return error if allocation of new element was not possible.Michael Meskes2013-09-08
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* Close file to no leak file descriptor memory. Found by Coverity.Michael Meskes2013-09-08
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* Improve Range Types and Exclusion Constraints example.Jeff Davis2013-09-05
| | | | | Make the examples self-contained to avoid confusion. Per bug report 8367 from KOIZUMI Satoru.
* Don't fail for bad GUCs in CREATE FUNCTION with check_function_bodies off.Tom Lane2013-09-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The previous coding attempted to activate all the GUC settings specified in SET clauses, so that the function validator could operate in the GUC environment expected by the function body. However, this is problematic when restoring a dump, since the SET clauses might refer to database objects that don't exist yet. We already have the parameter check_function_bodies that's meant to prevent forward references in function definitions from breaking dumps, so let's change CREATE FUNCTION to not install the SET values if check_function_bodies is off. Authors of function validators were already advised not to make any "context sensitive" checks when check_function_bodies is off, if indeed they're checking anything at all in that mode. But extend the documentation to point out the GUC issue in particular. (Note that we still check the SET clauses to some extent; the behavior with !check_function_bodies is now approximately equivalent to what ALTER DATABASE/ROLE have been doing for awhile with context-dependent GUCs.) This problem can be demonstrated in all active branches, so back-patch all the way.
* Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2013d.Tom Lane2013-09-02
| | | | | DST law changes in Israel, Morocco, Palestine, Paraguay. Historical corrections for Macquarie Island.
* Fix relfrozenxid query in docs to include TOAST tables.Andrew Dunstan2013-09-02
| | | | | | | The original query ignored TOAST tables which could result in tables needing a vacuum not being reported. Backpatch to all live branches.
* Unconditionally use the WSA equivalents of Socket error constants.Andrew Dunstan2013-08-26
| | | | | | | | | | This change will only apply to mingw compilers, and has been found necessary by late versions of the mingw-w64 compiler. It's the same as what is done elsewhere for the Microsoft compilers. Backpatch of commit 73838b5251e. Problem reported by Michael Cronenworth, although not his patch.
* Account better for planning cost when choosing whether to use custom plans.Tom Lane2013-08-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The previous coding in plancache.c essentially used 10% of the estimated runtime as its cost estimate for planning. This can be pretty bogus, especially when the estimated runtime is very small, such as in a simple expression plan created by plpgsql, or a simple INSERT ... VALUES. While we don't have a really good handle on how planning time compares to runtime, it seems reasonable to use an estimate based on the number of relations referenced in the query, with a rather large multiplier. This patch uses 1000 * cpu_operator_cost * (nrelations + 1), so that even a trivial query will be charged 1000 * cpu_operator_cost for planning. This should address the problem reported by Marc Cousin and others that 9.2 and up prefer custom plans in cases where the planning time greatly exceeds what can be saved.
* Don't crash when pg_xlog is empty and pg_basebackup -x is usedMagnus Hagander2013-08-24
| | | | | | | | The backup will not work (without a logarchive, and that's the whole point of -x) in this case, this patch just changes it to throw an error instead of crashing when this happens. Noticed and diagnosed by TAKATSUKA Haruka
* In locate_grouping_columns(), don't expect an exact match of Var typmods.Tom Lane2013-08-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It's possible that inlining of SQL functions (or perhaps other changes?) has exposed typmod information not known at parse time. In such cases, Vars generated by query_planner might have valid typmod values while the original grouping columns only have typmod -1. This isn't a semantic problem since the behavior of grouping only depends on type not typmod, but it breaks locate_grouping_columns' use of tlist_member to locate the matching entry in query_planner's result tlist. We can fix this without an excessive amount of new code or complexity by relying on the fact that locate_grouping_columns only gets called when make_subplanTargetList has set need_tlist_eval == false, and that can only happen if all the grouping columns are simple Vars. Therefore we only need to search the sub_tlist for a matching Var, and we can reasonably define a "match" as being a match of the Var identity fields varno/varattno/varlevelsup. The code still Asserts that vartype matches, but ignores vartypmod. Per bug #8393 from Evan Martin. The added regression test case is basically the same as his example. This has been broken for a very long time, so back-patch to all supported branches.
* libpq: Report strerror on pthread_mutex_lock() failurePeter Eisentraut2013-08-17
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