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* doc: mention that INSERT can block because of unique indexesBruce Momjian2022-07-14
| | | | | | | | | | Initial patch by David G. Johnston. Reported-by: David G. Johnston Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKFQuwZpbdzceO41VE-xt1Xh8rWRRfgopTAK1wL9EhCo0Am-Sw@mail.gmail.com Backpatch-through: 10
* doc: mention the pg_locks lock names in parenthesesBruce Momjian2022-07-14
| | | | | | | | Reported-by: Troy Frericks Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/165653551130.665.8240515669521441325@wrigleys.postgresql.org Backpatch-through: 10
* Don't clobber postmaster sigmask in dsm_impl_resize.Thomas Munro2022-07-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | Commit 4518c798 intended to block signals in regular backends that allocate DSM segments, but dsm_impl_resize() is also reached by dsm_postmaster_startup(). It's not OK to clobber the postmaster's signal mask, so only manipulate the signal mask when under the postmaster. Back-patch to all releases, like 4518c798. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGKNpK%3D2OMeea_AZwpLg7Bm4%3DgYWk7eDjZ5F6YbozfOf8w%40mail.gmail.com
* Block signals while allocating DSM memory.Thomas Munro2022-07-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | On Linux, we call posix_fallocate() on shm_open()'d memory to avoid later potential SIGBUS (see commit 899bd785). Based on field reports of systems stuck in an EINTR retry loop there, there, we made it possible to break out of that loop via slightly odd coding where the CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS() call was somewhat removed from the loop (see commit 422952ee). On further reflection, that was not a great choice for at least two reasons: 1. If interrupts were held, the CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS() would do nothing and the EINTR error would be surfaced to the user. 2. If EINTR was reported but neither QueryCancelPending nor ProcDiePending was set, then we'd dutifully retry, but with a bit more understanding of how posix_fallocate() works, it's now clear that you can get into a loop that never terminates. posix_fallocate() is not a function that can do some of the job and tell you about progress if it's interrupted, it has to undo what it's done so far and report EINTR, and if signals keep arriving faster than it can complete (cf recovery conflict signals), you're stuck. Therefore, for now, we'll simply block most signals to guarantee progress. SIGQUIT is not blocked (see InitPostmasterChild()), because its expected handler doesn't return, and unblockable signals like SIGCONT are not expected to arrive at a high rate. For good measure, we'll include the ftruncate() call in the blocked region, and add a retry loop. Back-patch to all supported releases. Reported-by: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> Reported-by: Nicola Contu <nicola.contu@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220701154105.jjfutmngoedgiad3%40alvherre.pgsql
* Fix lock assertions in dshash.c.Thomas Munro2022-07-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | dshash.c previously maintained flags to be able to assert that you didn't hold any partition lock. These flags could get out of sync with reality in error scenarios. Get rid of all that, and make assertions about the locks themselves instead. Since LWLockHeldByMe() loops internally, we don't want to put that inside another loop over all partition locks. Introduce a new debugging-only interface LWLockAnyHeldByMe() to avoid that. This problem was noted by Tom and Andres while reviewing changes to support the new shared memory stats system, and later showed up in reality while working on commit 389869af. Back-patch to 11, where dshash.c arrived. Reported-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> Reported-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> Reviewed-by: Kyotaro HORIGUCHI <horiguchi.kyotaro@lab.ntt.co.jp> Reviewed-by: Zhihong Yu <zyu@yugabyte.com> Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220311012712.botrpsikaufzteyt@alap3.anarazel.de Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGJ31Wce6HJ7xnVTKWjFUWQZPBngxfJVx4q0E98pDr3kAw%40mail.gmail.com
* Fix \watch's interaction with libedit on ^C.Thomas Munro2022-07-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | When you hit ^C, the terminal driver in Unix-like systems echoes "^C" as well as sending an interrupt signal (depending on stty settings). At least libedit (but maybe also libreadline) is then confused about the current cursor location, and corrupts the display if you try to scroll back. Fix, by moving to a new line before the next prompt is displayed. Back-patch to all supported released. Author: Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> Reported-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3278793.1626198638%40sss.pgh.pa.us
* doc: add pg_prewarm exampleBruce Momjian2022-07-08
| | | | | | | | Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220618085541.ezxdaljlpo6x7msc@home-desktop Author: Dong Wook Lee Backpatch-through: 11
* Fix alias matching in transformLockingClause().Dean Rasheed2022-07-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When locking a specific named relation for a FOR [KEY] UPDATE/SHARE clause, transformLockingClause() finds the relation to lock by scanning the rangetable for an RTE with a matching eref->aliasname. However, it failed to account for the visibility rules of a join RTE. If a join RTE doesn't have a user-supplied alias, it will have a generated eref->aliasname of "unnamed_join" that is not visible as a relation name in the parse namespace. Such an RTE needs to be skipped, otherwise it might be found in preference to a regular base relation with a user-supplied alias of "unnamed_join", preventing it from being locked. In addition, if a join RTE doesn't have a user-supplied alias, but does have a join_using_alias, then the RTE needs to be matched using that alias rather than the generated eref->aliasname, otherwise a misleading "relation not found" error will be reported rather than a "join cannot be locked" error. Backpatch all the way, except for the second part which only goes back to 14, where JOIN USING aliases were added. Dean Rasheed, reviewed by Tom Lane. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEZATCUY_KOBnqxbTSPf=7fz9HWPnZ5Xgb9SwYzZ8rFXe7nb=w@mail.gmail.com
* BRIN: improve documentation on summarizationAlvaro Herrera2022-07-05
| | | | | | | | | | The existing wording wasn't clear enough and some details weren't anywhere, such as the fact that autosummarization is off by default. Improve. Authors: Roberto Mello, Jaime Casanova, Justin Pryzby, Álvaro Herrera Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKz==bK_NoJytRyQfX8K-erCW3Ff7--oGYpiB8+ePVS7dRVW_A@mail.gmail.com Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220224193520.GY9008@telsasoft.com
* Remove %error-verbose directive from jsonpath parserAndrew Dunstan2022-07-03
| | | | | | | | | | | None of the other bison parsers contains this directive, and it gives rise to some unfortunate and impenetrable messages, so just remove it. Backpatch to release 12, where it was introduced. Per gripe from Erik Rijkers Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ba069ce2-a98f-dc70-dc17-2ccf2a9bf7c7@xs4all.nl
* Fix previous commit's ecpg_clocale for ppc Darwin.Noah Misch2022-07-02
| | | | | | | | | | Per buildfarm member prairiedog, this platform rejects uninitialized global variables in shared libraries. Back-patch to v10, like the addition of the variable. Reviewed by Tom Lane. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220703030619.GB2378460@rfd.leadboat.com
* ecpglib: call newlocale() once per process.Noah Misch2022-07-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ecpglib has been calling it once per SQL query and once per EXEC SQL GET DESCRIPTOR. Instead, if newlocale() has not succeeded before, call it while establishing a connection. This mitigates three problems: - If newlocale() failed in EXEC SQL GET DESCRIPTOR, the command silently proceeded without the intended locale change. - On AIX, each newlocale()+freelocale() cycle leaked memory. - newlocale() CPU usage may have been nontrivial. Fail the connection attempt if newlocale() fails. Rearrange ecpg_do_prologue() to validate the connection before its uselocale(). The sort of program that may regress is one running in an environment where newlocale() fails. If that program establishes connections without running SQL statements, it will stop working in response to this change. I'm betting against the importance of such an ECPG use case. Most SQL execution (any using ECPGdo()) has long required newlocale() success, so there's little a connection could do without newlocale(). Back-patch to v10 (all supported versions). Reviewed by Tom Lane. Reported by Guillaume Lelarge. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220101074055.GA54621@rfd.leadboat.com
* Harden dsm_impl.c against unexpected EEXIST.Thomas Munro2022-07-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Previously, we trusted the OS not to report EEXIST unless we'd passed in IPC_CREAT | IPC_EXCL or O_CREAT | O_EXCL, as appropriate. Solaris's shm_open() can in fact do that, causing us to crash because we didn't ereport and then we blithely assumed the mapping was successful. Let's treat EEXIST just like any other error, unless we're actually trying to create a new segment. This applies to shm_open(), where this behavior has been seen, and also to the equivalent operations for our sysv and mmap modes just on principle. Based on the underlying reason for the error, namely contention on a lock file managed by Solaris librt for each distinct name, this problem is only likely to happen on 15 and later, because the new shared memory stats system produces shm_open() calls for the same path from potentially large numbers of backends concurrently during authentication. Earlier releases only shared memory segments between a small number of parallel workers under one Gather node. You could probably hit it if you tried hard enough though, and we should have been more defensive in the first place. Therefore, back-patch to all supported releases. Per build farm animal margay. This isn't the end of the story, though, it just changes random crashes into random "File exists" errors; more work needed for a green build farm. Reviewed-by: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGKqKrCV5xKWfh9rnm%3Do%3DDwZLTLtnsj_XpUi9g5%3DV%2B9oyg%40mail.gmail.com
* Fix visibility check when XID is committed in CLOG but not in procarray.Heikki Linnakangas2022-06-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | TransactionIdIsInProgress had a fast path to return 'false' if the single-item CLOG cache said that the transaction was known to be committed. However, that was wrong, because a transaction is first marked as committed in the CLOG but doesn't become visible to others until it has removed its XID from the proc array. That could lead to an error: ERROR: t_xmin is uncommitted in tuple to be updated or for an UPDATE to go ahead without blocking, before the previous UPDATE on the same row was made visible. The window is usually very short, but synchronous replication makes it much wider, because the wait for synchronous replica happens in that window. Another thing that makes it hard to hit is that it's hard to get such a commit-in-progress transaction into the single item CLOG cache. Normally, if you call TransactionIdIsInProgress on such a transaction, it determines that the XID is in progress without checking the CLOG and without populating the cache. One way to prime the cache is to explicitly call pg_xact_status() on the XID. Another way is to use a lot of subtransactions, so that the subxid cache in the proc array is overflown, making TransactionIdIsInProgress rely on pg_subtrans and CLOG checks. This has been broken ever since it was introduced in 2008, but the race condition is very hard to hit, especially without synchronous replication. There were a couple of reports of the error starting from summer 2021, but no one was able to find the root cause then. TransactionIdIsKnownCompleted() is now unused. In 'master', remove it, but I left it in place in backbranches in case it's used by extensions. Also change pg_xact_status() to check TransactionIdIsInProgress(). Previously, it only checked the CLOG, and returned "committed" before the transaction was actually made visible to other queries. Note that this also means that you cannot use pg_xact_status() to reproduce the bug anymore, even if the code wasn't fixed. Report and analysis by Konstantin Knizhnik. Patch by Simon Riggs, with the pg_xact_status() change added by me. Author: Simon Riggs Reviewed-by: Andres Freund Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/4da7913d-398c-e2ad-d777-f752cf7f0bbb%40garret.ru
* Fix PostgreSQL::Test aliasing for Perl v5.10.1.Noah Misch2022-06-25
| | | | | | | | | This Perl segfaults if a declaration of the to-be-aliased package precedes the aliasing itself. Per buildfarm members lapwing and wrasse. Like commit 20911775de4ab7ac3ecc68bd714cb3ed0fd68b6a, back-patch to v10 (all supported versions). Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220625171533.GA2012493@rfd.leadboat.com
* CREATE INDEX: use the original userid for more ACL checks.Noah Misch2022-06-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Commit a117cebd638dd02e5c2e791c25e43745f233111b used the original userid for ACL checks located directly in DefineIndex(), but it still adopted the table owner userid for more ACL checks than intended. That broke dump/reload of indexes that refer to an operator class, collation, or exclusion operator in a schema other than "public" or "pg_catalog". Back-patch to v10 (all supported versions), like the earlier commit. Nathan Bossart and Noah Misch Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/f8a4105f076544c180a87ef0c4822352@stmuk.bayern.de
* For PostgreSQL::Test compatibility, alias entire package symbol tables.Noah Misch2022-06-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | Remove the need to edit back-branch-specific code sites when back-patching the addition of a PostgreSQL::Test::Utils symbol. Replace per-symbol, incomplete alias lists. Give old and new package names the same EXPORT and EXPORT_OK semantics. Back-patch to v10 (all supported versions). Reviewed by Andrew Dunstan. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220622072144.GD4167527@rfd.leadboat.com
* Fix memory leak due to LogicalRepRelMapEntry.attrmap.Amit Kapila2022-06-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | When rebuilding the relation mapping on subscribers, we were not releasing the attribute mapping's memory which was no longer required. The attribute mapping used in logical tuple conversion was refactored in PG13 (by commit e1551f96e6) but we forgot to update the related code that frees the attribute map. Author: Hou Zhijie Reviewed-by: Amit Langote, Amit Kapila, Shi yu Backpatch-through: 10, where it was introduced Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/OSZPR01MB6310F46CD425A967E4AEF736FDA49@OSZPR01MB6310.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com
* doc: improve wording of plpgsql RAISE format textBruce Momjian2022-06-22
| | | | | | | | Reported-by: pg@kirasoft.com Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/165455351426.573551.7050474465030525109@wrigleys.postgresql.org Backpatch-through: 10
* doc: clarify wording about phantom readsBruce Momjian2022-06-22
| | | | | | | | Reported-by: akhilhello@gmail.com Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/165222922369.669.10475917322916060899@wrigleys.postgresql.org Backpatch-through: 10
* Fix SPI's handling of errors during transaction commit.Tom Lane2022-06-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | SPI_commit previously left it up to the caller to recover from any error occurring during commit. Since that's complicated and requires use of low-level xact.c facilities, it's not too surprising that no caller got it right. Let's move the responsibility for cleanup into spi.c. Doing that requires redefining SPI_commit as starting a new transaction, so that it becomes equivalent to SPI_commit_and_chain except that you get default transaction characteristics instead of preserving the prior transaction's characteristics. We can make this pretty transparent API-wise by redefining SPI_start_transaction() as a no-op. Callers that expect to do something in between might be surprised, but available evidence is that no callers do so. Having made that API redefinition, we can fix this mess by having SPI_commit[_and_chain] trap errors and start a new, clean transaction before re-throwing the error. Likewise for SPI_rollback[_and_chain]. Some cleanup is also needed in AtEOXact_SPI, which was nowhere near smart enough to deal with SPI contexts nested inside a committing context. While plperl and pltcl need no changes beyond removing their now-useless SPI_start_transaction() calls, plpython needs some more work because it hadn't gotten the memo about catching commit/rollback errors in the first place. Such an error resulted in longjmp'ing out of the Python interpreter, which leaks Python stack entries at present and is reported to crash Python 3.11 altogether. Add the missing logic to catch such errors and convert them into Python exceptions. This is a back-patch of commit 2e517818f. That's now aged long enough to reduce the concerns about whether it will break something, and we do need to ensure that supported branches will work with Python 3.11. Peter Eisentraut and Tom Lane Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3375ffd8-d71c-2565-e348-a597d6e739e3@enterprisedb.com Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17416-ed8fe5d7213d6c25@postgresql.org
* Avoid ecpglib core dump with out-of-order operations.Tom Lane2022-06-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If an application executed operations like EXEC SQL PREPARE without having first established a database connection, it could get a core dump instead of the expected clean failure. This occurred because we did "pthread_getspecific(actual_connection_key)" without ever having initialized the TSD key actual_connection_key. The results of that are probably platform-specific, but at least on Linux it often leads to a crash. To fix, add calls to ecpg_pthreads_init() in the code paths that might use actual_connection_key uninitialized. It's harmless (and hopefully inexpensive) to do that more than once. Per bug #17514 from Okano Naoki. The problem's ancient, so back-patch to all supported branches. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17514-edd4fad547c5692c@postgresql.org
* Doc: clarify the default collation behavior of domains.Tom Lane2022-06-14
| | | | | | | | | | | The previous wording was "the underlying data type's default collation is used", which is wrong or at least misleading. The domain inherits the base type's collation behavior, which if "default" actually can mean that we use some non-default collation obtained from elsewhere. Per complaint from Jian He. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CACJufxHMR8_4WooDPjjvEdaxB2hQ5a49qthci8fpKP0MKemVRQ@mail.gmail.com
* Revert "Fix psql's single transaction mode on client-side errors with -c/-f ↵Tom Lane2022-06-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | switches". This reverts commits a04ccf6df et al. in the back branches only. There was some disagreement already over whether to back-patch 157f8739a, on the grounds that it is the sort of behavioral change that we don't like to back-patch. Furthermore, it now looks like the logic needs some more work, which we don't have time for before the upcoming 14.4 release. Revert for now, and perhaps reconsider later. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17504-76b68018e130415e@postgresql.org
* Un-break whole-row Vars referencing domain-over-composite types.Tom Lane2022-06-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In commit ec62cb0aa, I foolishly replaced ExecEvalWholeRowVar's lookup_rowtype_tupdesc_domain call with just lookup_rowtype_tupdesc, because I didn't see how a domain could be involved there, and there were no regression test cases to jog my memory. But the existing code was correct, so revert that change and add a test case showing why it's necessary. (Note: per comment in struct DatumTupleFields, it is correct to produce an output tuple that's labeled with the base composite type, not the domain; hence just blindly looking through the domain is correct here.) Per bug #17515 from Dan Kubb. Back-patch to v11 where domains over composites became a thing. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17515-a24737438363aca0@postgresql.org
* Doc: copy-edit "jsonb Indexing" section.Tom Lane2022-06-08
| | | | | | The patch introducing jsonpath dropped a para about that between two related examples, and didn't bother updating the introductory sentences that it falsified. The grammar was pretty shaky as well.
* Fix whitespacePeter Eisentraut2022-06-08
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* Fix off-by-one loop termination condition in pg_stat_get_subscription().Tom Lane2022-06-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | pg_stat_get_subscription scanned one more LogicalRepWorker array entry than is really allocated. In the worst case this could lead to SIGSEGV, if the LogicalRepCtx data structure is near the end of shared memory. That seems quite unlikely though (thanks to the ordering of calls in CreateSharedMemoryAndSemaphores) and we've heard no field reports of it. A more likely misbehavior is one row of garbage data in the function's result, but even that is not real likely because of the check that the pid field matches some live backend. Report and fix by Kuntal Ghosh. This bug is old, so back-patch to all supported branches. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAGz5QCJykEDzW6jQK6Yz7Qh_PMtD=95de_7QoocbVR2Qy8hWZA@mail.gmail.com
* Don't fail on libpq-generated error reports in ecpg_raise_backend().Tom Lane2022-06-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | An error PGresult generated by libpq itself, such as a report of connection loss, won't have broken-down error fields. ecpg_raise_backend() blithely assumed that PG_DIAG_MESSAGE_PRIMARY would always be present, and would end up passing a NULL string pointer to snprintf when it isn't. That would typically crash before 3779ac62d, and it would fail to provide a useful error report in any case. Best practice is to substitute PQerrorMessage(conn) in such cases, so do that. Per bug #17421 from Masayuki Hirose. Back-patch to all supported branches. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17421-790ff887e3188874@postgresql.org
* Fix psql's single transaction mode on client-side errors with -c/-f switchesMichael Paquier2022-06-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | psql --single-transaction is able to handle multiple -c and -f switches in a single transaction since d5563d7d, but this had the surprising behavior of forcing a transaction COMMIT even if psql failed with an error in the client (for example incorrect path given to \copy), which would generate an error, but still commit any changes that were already applied in the backend. This commit makes the behavior more consistent, by enforcing a transaction ROLLBACK if any commands fail, both client-side and backend-side, so as no changes are applied if one error happens in any of them. Some tests are added on HEAD to provide some coverage about all that. Backend-side errors are unreliable as IPC::Run can complain on SIGPIPE if psql quits before reading a query result, but that should work properly in the case where any errors come from psql itself, which is what the original report is about. Reported-by: Christoph Berg Author: Kyotaro Horiguchi, Michael Paquier Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17504-76b68018e130415e@postgresql.org Backpatch-through: 10
* Doc: fix incorrect bit-reversal in example of macaddr formatting.Tom Lane2022-06-03
| | | | | | Will Mortensen (minor additional copy-editing by me) Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMpnoC5Y6jiZHSA82FG+e_AqkwMg-i94EYqs1C_9kXXFc3_3Yw@mail.gmail.com
* Doc: Further fix CREATE FOREIGN TABLE synopsis.Etsuro Fujita2022-06-02
| | | | | | | | | | | This patch fixes the partitioning synopsis in the Parameters section in the CREATE FOREIGN TABLE documentation. Follow-up for commit ce21a36cf. Back-patch to v11 where default partition was introduced. Reviewed by Amit Langote and Robert Haas. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAPmGK17U5jEqVZuo3r38wB0VFWomEtJCBGn_h92HQzQ2sP-49Q%40mail.gmail.com
* Silence compiler warnings from some older compilers.Tom Lane2022-06-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | Since a117cebd6, some older gcc versions issue "variable may be used uninitialized in this function" complaints for brin_summarize_range. Silence that using the same coding pattern as in bt_index_check_internal; arguably, a117cebd6 had too narrow a view of which compilers might give trouble. Nathan Bossart and Tom Lane. Back-patch as the previous commit was. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220601163537.GA2331988@nathanxps13
* Fix pl/perl test case so it will still work under Perl 5.36.Tom Lane2022-06-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Perl 5.36 has reclassified the warning condition that this test case used, so that the expected error fails to appear. Tweak the test so it instead exercises a case that's handled the same way in all Perl versions of interest. This appears to meet our standards for back-patching into out-of-support branches: it changes no user-visible behavior but enables testing of old branches with newer tools. Hence, back-patch as far as 9.2. Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker, per report from Jitka Plesníková. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/564579.1654093326@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Doc: mention limitation of the number of resultset columnsDavid Rowley2022-06-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The PostgreSQL limitations section of the documents mentioned the limit on the number of columns that can exist in a table. Users might be surprised to find that there's also a limit on the number of columns that can exist in a targetlist. Users may experience restrictions which surprise them if they happened to select a large number of columns from several tables with many columns. Here we document that there is a limitation on this and mention what that limit actually is. Wording proposal by Alvaro Herrera Reported-by: Vladimir Sitnikov Author: Dave Crammer Reviewed-by: Tom Lane Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAB=Je-E18aTYpNqje4mT0iEADpeGLSzwUvo3H9kRRuDdsNo4aQ@mail.gmail.com Backpatch-through: 12, where the limitations section was added
* Ensure ParseTzFile() closes the input file after failing.Tom Lane2022-05-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We hadn't noticed this because (a) few people feed invalid timezone abbreviation files to the server, and (b) in typical scenarios guc.c would throw ereport(ERROR) and then transaction abort handling would silently clean up the leaked file reference. However, it was possible to observe file leakage warnings if one breaks an already-active abbreviation file, because guc.c does not throw ERROR when loading supposedly-validated settings during session start or SIGHUP processing. Report and fix by Kyotaro Horiguchi (cosmetic adjustments by me) Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220530.173740.748502979257582392.horikyota.ntt@gmail.com
* Doc: fix mention of pg_dump's minimum supported server version.Tom Lane2022-05-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | runtime.sgml contains a passing reference to the minimum server version that pg_dump[all] can dump from. That was 7.0 for many years, but when 64f3524e2 raised it to 8.0, we missed updating this bit. Then when 30e7c175b raised it to 9.2, we missed it again. Given that track record, I'm not too hopeful that we'll remember to fix this in future changes ... but for now, make the docs match reality in each branch. Noted by Daniel Westermann. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/GV0P278MB041917EB3E2FE8704B5AE2C6D2DC9@GV0P278MB0419.CHEP278.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM
* doc: Reword description of roles able to view track_activities's infoMichael Paquier2022-05-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | The information generated when track_activities is accessible to superusers, roles with the privileges of pg_read_all_stats, as well as roles one has the privileges of. The original text did not outline the last point, while the change done in ac1ae47 was unclear about the second point. Per discussion with Nathan Bossart. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220521185743.GA886636@nathanxps13 Backpatch-through: 10
* Handle NULL for short descriptions of custom GUC variablesMichael Paquier2022-05-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If a short description is specified as NULL in one of the various DefineCustomXXXVariable() functions available to external modules to define a custom parameter, SHOW ALL would crash. This change teaches SHOW ALL to properly handle NULL short descriptions, as well as any code paths that manipulate it, to gain in flexibility. Note that help_config.c was already able to do that, when describing a set of GUCs for postgres --describe-config. Author: Steve Chavez Reviewed by: Nathan Bossart, Andres Freund, Michael Paquier, Tom Lane Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAGRrpzY6hO-Kmykna_XvsTv8P2DshGiU6G3j8yGao4mk0CqjHA%40mail.gmail.com Backpatch-through: 10
* Remove misguided SSL key file ownership check in libpq.Tom Lane2022-05-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Commits a59c79564 et al. tried to sync libpq's SSL key file permissions checks with what we've used for years in the backend. We did not intend to create any new failure cases, but it turns out we did: restricting the key file's ownership breaks cases where the client is allowed to read a key file despite not having the identical UID. In particular a client running as root used to be able to read someone else's key file; and having seen that I suspect that there are other, less-dubious use cases that this restriction breaks on some platforms. We don't really need an ownership check, since if we can read the key file despite its having restricted permissions, it must have the right ownership --- under normal conditions anyway, and the point of this patch is that any additional corner cases where that works should be deemed allowable, as they have been historically. Hence, just drop the ownership check, and rearrange the permissions check to get rid of its faulty assumption that geteuid() can't be zero. (Note that the comparable backend-side code doesn't have to cater for geteuid() == 0, since the server rejects that very early on.) This does have the end result that the permissions safety check used for a root user's private key file is weaker than that used for anyone else's. While odd, root really ought to know what she's doing with file permissions, so I think this is acceptable. Per report from Yogendra Suralkar. Like the previous patch, back-patch to all supported branches. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/MW3PR15MB3931DF96896DC36D21AFD47CA3D39@MW3PR15MB3931.namprd15.prod.outlook.com
* In CREATE FOREIGN TABLE syntax synopsis, fix partitioning stuff.Robert Haas2022-05-26
| | | | | | | | | Foreign tables can be partitioned, but previous documentation commits left the syntax synopsis both incomplete and incorrect. Justin Pryzby and Amit Langote Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/20220521130922.GX19626@telsasoft.com
* Show 'AS "?column?"' explicitly when it's important.Tom Lane2022-05-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ruleutils.c was coded to suppress the AS label for a SELECT output expression if the column name is "?column?", which is the parser's fallback if it can't think of something better. This is fine, and avoids ugly clutter, so long as (1) nothing further up in the parse tree relies on that column name or (2) the same fallback would be assigned when the rule or view definition is reloaded. Unfortunately (2) is far from certain, both because ruleutils.c might print the expression in a different form from how it was originally written and because FigureColname's rules might change in future releases. So we shouldn't rely on that. Detecting exactly whether there is any outer-level use of a SELECT column name would be rather expensive. This patch takes the simpler approach of just passing down a flag indicating whether there *could* be any outer use; for example, the output column names of a SubLink are not referenceable, and we also do not care about the names exposed by the right-hand side of a setop. This is sufficient to suppress unwanted clutter in all but one case in the regression tests. That seems like reasonable evidence that it won't be too much in users' faces, while still fixing the cases we need to fix. Per bug #17486 from Nicolas Lutic. This issue is ancient, so back-patch to all supported branches. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17486-1ad6fd786728b8af@postgresql.org
* doc: Mention pg_read_all_stats in description of track_activitiesMichael Paquier2022-05-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | The description of track_activities mentioned that it is visible to superusers and that the information related to the current session can be seen, without telling about pg_read_all_stats. Roles that are granted the privileges of pg_read_all_stats can also see this information, so mention it in the docs. Author: Ian Barwick Reviewed-by: Nathan Bossart Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAB8KJ=jhPyYFu-A5r-ZGP+Ax715mUKsMxAGcEQ9Cx_mBAmrPow@mail.gmail.com Backpatch-through: 10
* Fix DDL deparse of CREATE OPERATOR CLASSAlvaro Herrera2022-05-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | When an implicit operator family is created, it wasn't getting reported. Make it do so. This has always been missing. Backpatch to 10. Author: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com> Reported-by: Leslie LEMAIRE <leslie.lemaire@developpement-durable.gouv.fr> Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Michael Paquiër <michael@paquier.xyz> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/f74d69e151b22171e8829551b1159e77@developpement-durable.gouv.fr
* Backpatch regression tests added by 2d689babe3cbAlvaro Herrera2022-05-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | A new plpgsql test function was added in 14 and up to cover for a bugfix that was not backpatchable. We can add it to older versions as a way to cover other bits of DDL event triggers, with an exception clause to avoid the problematic corner case. Originally authored by Michaël Paquier. Backpatch: 10 through 13. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/202205201523.7m5jbfvyanmj@alvherre.pgsql
* Doc: clarify location of libpq's default service file on Windows.Tom Lane2022-05-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The documentation didn't specify the name of the per-user service file on Windows, and extrapolating from the pattern used for other config files gave the wrong answer. The fact that it isn't consistent with the others sure seems like a bug, but it's far too late to change that now; we'd just penalize people who worked it out in the past. So, simply document the true state of affairs. In passing, fix some gratuitous differences between the discussions of the service file and the password file. Julien Rouhaud, per question from Dominique Devienne. Backpatch to all supported branches. I (tgl) also chose to back-patch the part of commit ba356a397 that touched libpq.sgml's description of the service file --- in hindsight, I'm not sure why I didn't do so at the time, as it includes some fairly essential information. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAFCRh-_mdLrh8eYVzhRzu4c8bAFEBn=rwoHOmFJcQOTsCy5nig@mail.gmail.com
* Update xml_1.out and xml_2.outAlvaro Herrera2022-05-18
| | | | Commit 0fbf01120023 should have updated them but didn't.
* Check column list length in XMLTABLE/JSON_TABLE aliasAlvaro Herrera2022-05-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We weren't checking the length of the column list in the alias clause of an XMLTABLE or JSON_TABLE function (a "tablefunc" RTE), and it was possible to make the server crash by passing an overly long one. Fix it by throwing an error in that case, like the other places that deal with alias lists. In passing, modify the equivalent test used for join RTEs to look like the other ones, which was different for no apparent reason. This bug came in when XMLTABLE was born in version 10; backpatch to all stable versions. Reported-by: Wang Ke <krking@zju.edu.cn> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17480-1c9d73565bb28e90@postgresql.org
* Fix control file update done in restartpoints still running after promotionMichael Paquier2022-05-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If a cluster is promoted (aka the control file shows a state different than DB_IN_ARCHIVE_RECOVERY) while CreateRestartPoint() is still processing, this function could miss an update of the control file for "checkPoint" and "checkPointCopy" but still do the recycling and/or removal of the past WAL segments, assuming that the to-be-updated LSN values should be used as reference points for the cleanup. This causes a follow-up restart attempting crash recovery to fail with a PANIC on a missing checkpoint record if the end-of-recovery checkpoint triggered by the promotion did not complete while the cluster abruptly stopped or crashed before the completion of this checkpoint. The PANIC would be caused by the redo LSN referred in the control file as located in a segment already gone, recycled by the previous restartpoint with "checkPoint" out-of-sync in the control file. This commit fixes the update of the control file during restartpoints so as "checkPoint" and "checkPointCopy" are updated even if the cluster has been promoted while a restartpoint is running, to be on par with the set of WAL segments actually recycled in the end of CreateRestartPoint(). 7863ee4 has fixed this problem already on master, but the release timing of the latest point versions did not let me enough time to study and fix that on all the stable branches. Reported-by: Fujii Masao, Rui Zhao Author: Kyotaro Horiguchi Reviewed-by: Nathan Bossart, Michael Paquier Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220316.102444.2193181487576617583.horikyota.ntt@gmail.com Backpatch-through: 10
* Make pull_var_clause() handle GroupingFuncs exactly like Aggrefs.Tom Lane2022-05-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This follows in the footsteps of commit 2591ee8ec by removing one more ill-advised shortcut from planning of GroupingFuncs. It's true that we don't intend to execute the argument expression(s) at runtime, but we still have to process any Vars appearing within them, or we risk failure at setrefs.c time (or more fundamentally, in EXPLAIN trying to print such an expression). Vars in upper plan nodes have to have referents in the next plan level, whether we ever execute 'em or not. Per bug #17479 from Michael J. Sullivan. Back-patch to all supported branches. Richard Guo Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17479-6260deceaf0ad304@postgresql.org
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