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* Fix overly tense optimization of PLpgSQL_func_hashkey: we must representTom Lane2008-10-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | the isTrigger state explicitly, not rely on nonzero-ness of trigrelOid to indicate trigger-hood, because trigrelOid will be left zero when compiling for validation. The (useless) function hash entry built by the validator was able to match an ordinary non-trigger call later in the same session, thereby bypassing the check that is supposed to prevent such a call. Per report from Alvaro. It might be worth suppressing the useless hash entry altogether, but that's a bigger change than I want to consider back-patching. Back-patch to 8.0. 7.4 doesn't have the problem because it doesn't have validation mode.
* When a relation is moved to another tablespace, we can't assume that we canHeikki Linnakangas2008-10-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | use the old relfilenode in the new tablespace. There might be another relation in the new tablespace with the same relfilenode, so we must generate a fresh relfilenode in the new tablespace. The 8.3 patch to let deleted relation files linger as zero-length files until the next checkpoint made this more obvious: moving a relation from one table space another, and then back again, caused a collision with the lingering file. Back-patch to 8.1. The issue is present in 8.0 as well, but it doesn't seem worth fixing there, because we didn't have protection from OID collisions after OID wraparound before 8.1. Report by Guillaume Lelarge.
* Fix improper display of fractional seconds in interval valuesTom Lane2008-10-02
| | | | | | when using --enable-integer-datetimes and a non-ISO datestyle. Ron Mayer
* Recent patches to pg_ctl broke "pg_ctl restart" for the case where noTom Lane2008-09-30
| | | | | command-line options had been given to the postmaster; and just plain broke it altogether in 8.1 and 8.0. Per report from KaiGai Kohei.
* Fix more problems with rewriter failing to set Query.hasSubLinks when insertingTom Lane2008-09-24
| | | | | | | | | | a SubLink expression into a rule query. We missed cases where the original query contained a sub-SELECT in a function in FROM, a multi-row VALUES list, or a RETURNING list. Per bug #4434 from Dean Rasheed and subsequent investigation. Back-patch to 8.1; older releases don't have the issue because they didn't try to be smart about setting hasSubLinks only when needed.
* Make sure pg_control is opened in binary mode, to dealMagnus Hagander2008-09-24
| | | | | | | with situtations when the file contains an EOF maker (0x1A) on Windows. ITAGAKI Takahiro
* tag for 8.2.10REL8_2_10Marc G. Fournier2008-09-19
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* Update back-branch release notes.Tom Lane2008-09-19
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* Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2008f (DST law changes inTom Lane2008-09-17
| | | | Argentina, Bahamas, Brazil, Mauritius, Morocco, Pakistan, Palestine, Paraguay).
* Widen the nLocks counts in local lock tables from int to int64. ThisTom Lane2008-09-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | forestalls potential overflow when the same table (or other object, but usually tables) is accessed by very many successive queries within a single transaction. Per report from Michael Milligan. Back-patch to 8.0, which is as far back as the patch conveniently applies. There have been no reports of overflow in pre-8.3 releases, but clearly the risk existed all along. (Michael's report suggests that 8.3 may consume lock counts faster than prior releases, but with no test case to look at it's hard to be sure about that. Widening the counts seems a good future-proofing measure in any event.)
* Initialize the minimum frozen Xid in vac_update_datfrozenxid usingAlvaro Herrera2008-09-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | GetOldestXmin() instead of RecentGlobalXmin; this is safer because we do not depend on the latter being correctly set elsewhere, and while it is more expensive, this code path is not performance-critical. This is a real risk for autovacuum, because it can execute whole cycles without doing a single vacuum, which would mean that RecentGlobalXmin would stay at its initialization value, FirstNormalTransactionId, causing a bogus value to be inserted in pg_database. This bug could explain some recent reports of failure to truncate pg_clog. At the same time, change the initialization of RecentGlobalXmin to InvalidTransactionId, and ensure that it's set to something else whenever it's going to be used. Using it as FirstNormalTransactionId in HOT page pruning could incur in data loss. InitPostgres takes care of setting it to a valid value, but the extra checks are there to prevent "special" backends from behaving in unusual ways. Per Tom Lane's detailed problem dissection in 29544.1221061979@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Fix plpgsql's exec_move_row() to supply valid type OIDs to exec_assign_value()Tom Lane2008-09-01
| | | | | | | | | | whenever possible, as per bug report from Oleg Serov. While at it, reorder the operations in the RECORD case to avoid possible palloc failure while the variable update is only partly complete. Back-patch as far as 8.1. Although the code of the particular function is similar in 8.0, 8.0's support for composite fields in rows is sufficiently broken elsewhere that it doesn't seem worth fixing this.
* Fix pg_dump docs to acknowledge that you can use -Z with plain text output. ↵Tom Lane2008-08-26
| | | | Pointed out by Daniel Migowski.
* Fix possible duplicate tuples while GiST scan. Now page is processedTeodor Sigaev2008-08-23
| | | | | | | | | at once and ItemPointers are collected in memory. Remove tuple's killing by killtuple() if tuple was moved to another page - it could produce unaceptable overhead. Backpatch up to 8.1 because the bug was introduced by GiST's concurrency support.
* Make libpq on windows not try to send chunks larger than 64Kb.Magnus Hagander2008-08-20
| | | | | | | | | Per Microsoft knowledge base article Q201213, early versions of Windows fail when we do this. Later versions of Windows appear to have a higher limit than 64Kb, but do still fail on large sends, so we unconditionally limit it for all versions. Patch from Tom Lane.
* Fix pg_dump/pg_restore's ExecuteSqlCommand() to behave suitably if PQexecTom Lane2008-08-16
| | | | | | | returns NULL instead of a PGresult. The former coding would fail, which is OK, but it neglected to give you the PQerrorMessage that might tell you why. In the oldest branches, there was another problem: it'd sometimes report PQerrorMessage from the wrong connection.
* Fix pull_up_simple_union_all to copy all rtable entries from child subquery toHeikki Linnakangas2008-08-14
| | | | | | | parent, not only those with RangeTblRefs. We need them in ExecCheckRTPerms. Report by Brendan O'Shea. Back-patch to 8.2, where pull_up_simple_union_all was introduced.
* Install checks in executor startup to ensure that the tuples produced by anTom Lane2008-08-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | INSERT or UPDATE will match the target table's current rowtype. In pre-8.3 releases inconsistency can arise with stale cached plans, as reported by Merlin Moncure. (We patched the equivalent hazard on the SELECT side in Feb 2007; I'm not sure why we thought there was no risk on the insertion side.) In 8.3 and HEAD this problem should be impossible due to plan cache invalidation management, but it seems prudent to make the check anyway. Back-patch as far as 8.0. 7.x versions lack ALTER COLUMN TYPE, so there seems no way to abuse a stale plan comparably.
* Do not allow Unique nodes to be scanned backwards. The code claimed that itTom Lane2008-08-05
| | | | | | | would work, but in fact it didn't return the same rows when moving backwards as when moving forwards. This would have no visible effect in a DISTINCT query (at least assuming the column datatypes use a strong definition of equality), but it gave entirely wrong answers for DISTINCT ON queries.
* Fix parsing of LDAP URLs so it doesn't reject spaces in the "suffix" part.Tom Lane2008-07-24
| | | | Per report from César Miguel Oliveira Alves.
* Update link to Oleg and Teodor's GIN page.Tom Lane2008-07-22
| | | | (Extracted from fast-insert patch, since it ought to be back-patched)
* Fix an oversight in the original implementation of performMultipleDeletions():Tom Lane2008-07-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | the alreadyDeleted list has to be passed down through deleteDependentObjects(), else objects that are deleted via auto/internal dependencies don't get reported back up to performMultipleDeletions(). Depending on the visitation order, this could cause the code to try to delete an already-deleted object, leading to strange errors in DROP OWNED (typically "cache lookup failed for relation NNNNN" or similar). Per bug #4289. Patch for back branches only. This code has recently been rewritten in HEAD, and doesn't have this particular bug anymore.
* Fix mis-calculation of extParam/allParam sets for plan nodes, as seen inTom Lane2008-07-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | bug #4290. The fundamental bug is that masking extParam by outer_params, as finalize_plan had been doing, caused us to lose the information that an initPlan depended on the output of a sibling initPlan. On reflection the best thing to do seemed to be not to try to adjust outer_params for this case but get rid of it entirely. The only thing it was really doing for us was to filter out param IDs associated with SubPlan nodes, and that can be done (with greater accuracy) while processing individual SubPlan nodes in finalize_primnode. This approach was vindicated by the discovery that the masking method was hiding a second bug: SS_finalize_plan failed to remove extParam bits for initPlan output params that were referenced in the main plan tree (it only got rid of those referenced by other initPlans). It's not clear that this caused any real problems, given the limited use of extParam by the executor, but it's certainly not what was intended. I originally thought that there was also a problem with needing to include indirect dependencies on external params in initPlans' param sets, but it turns out that the executor handles this correctly so long as the depended-on initPlan is earlier in the initPlans list than the one using its output. That seems a bit of a fragile assumption, but it is true at the moment, so I just documented it in some code comments rather than making what would be rather invasive changes to remove the assumption. Back-patch to 8.1. Previous versions don't have the case of initPlans referring to other initPlans' outputs, so while the existing logic is still questionable for them, there are not any known bugs to be fixed. So I'll refrain from changing them for now.
* Fix performance bug in write_syslog(): the code to preferentially break theTom Lane2008-07-08
| | | | | | | | | | log message at newlines cost O(N^2) for very long messages with few or no newlines. For messages in the megabyte range this became the dominant cost. Per gripe from Achilleas Mantzios. Patch all the way back, since this is a safe change with no portability risks. I am also thinking of increasing PG_SYSLOG_LIMIT, but that should be done separately.
* Fix estimate_num_groups() to assume that GROUP BY expressions yielding booleanTom Lane2008-07-07
| | | | | | | | | results always contribute two groups, regardless of the expression contents. This is very substantially more accurate than the regular heuristic for certain boolean tests like "col IS NULL". Per gripe from Sam Mason. Back-patch to all supported releases, since the behavior of estimate_num_groups() hasn't changed all that much since 7.4.
* Fix AT TIME ZONE (in all three variants) so that we first try to interpretTom Lane2008-07-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | the timezone argument as a timezone abbreviation, and only try it as a full timezone name if that fails. The zic database has four zones (CET, EET, MET, WET) that are full daylight-savings zones and yet have names that are the same as their abbreviations for standard time, resulting in ambiguity. In the timestamp input functions we resolve the ambiguity by preferring the abbreviation, and AT TIME ZONE should work the same way. (No functionality is lost because the zic database also has other names for these zones, eg Europe/Zurich.) Per gripe from Jaromir Talir. Backpatch to 8.1. Older releases did not have the issue because AT TIME ZONE only accepted abbreviations not zone names. (Thus, this patch also arguably fixes a compatibility botch introduced at 8.1: in ambiguous cases we now behave the same as 8.0 did.)
* Prevent integer overflows during units conversion when displaying a GUCTom Lane2008-07-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | variable that has units. Per report from Stefan Kaltenbrunner. Backport to 8.2. I also backported my patch of 2007-06-21 that prevented comparable overflows on the input side, since that now seems to have enough field track record to be back-patched safely. That patch included addition of hints listing the available unit names, which I did not bother to strip out of it --- this will make a little more work for the translators, but they can copy the translation from 8.3, and anyway an untranslated hint is better than no hint.
* Fix identify_system_timezone() so that it tests the behavior of the systemTom Lane2008-07-01
| | | | | | | | | | | timezone setting in the current year and for 100 years back, rather than always examining years 1904-2004. The original coding would have problems distinguishing zones whose behavior diverged only after 2004; which is a situation we will surely face sometime, if it's not out there already. In passing, also prevent selection of the dummy "Factory" timezone, even if that's exactly what the system is using. Reporting time as GMT seems better than that.
* Fix 'pg_ctl reload' to properly preserve postmaster commend-lineBruce Momjian2008-06-27
| | | | arguments on restart. Patch to releases 8.0 - 8.3.X.
* Clean up a number of bogosities around pltcl's handling of the Tcl "result":Tom Lane2008-06-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 1. Directly reading interp->result is deprecated in Tcl 8.0 and later; you're supposed to use Tcl_GetStringResult. This code finally broke with Tcl 8.5, because Tcl_GetVar can now have side-effects on interp->result even though it preserves the logical state of the result. (There's arguably a Tcl issue here, because Tcl_GetVar could invalidate the pointer result of a just-preceding Tcl_GetStringResult, but I doubt the Tcl guys will see it as a bug.) 2. We were being sloppy about the encoding of the result: some places would push database-encoding data into the Tcl result, which should not happen, and we were assuming that any error result coming back from Tcl was in the database encoding, which is not a good assumption. 3. There were a lot of calls of Tcl_SetResult that uselessly specified TCL_VOLATILE for constant strings. This is only a minor performance issue, but I fixed it in passing since I had to look at all the calls anyway. #2 is a live bug regardless of which Tcl version you are interested in, so back-patch even to branches that are unlikely to be used with Tcl 8.5. I went back as far as 8.0, which is as far as the patch applied easily; 7.4 was using a different error processing scheme that has got its own problems :-(
* Fix bug in the WAL recovery code to finish an incomplete split.Heikki Linnakangas2008-06-11
| | | | | | | CacheInvalidateRelcache() crashes if called in WAL recovery, because the invalidation infrastructure hasn't been initialized yet. Back-patch to 8.2, where the bug was introduced.
* Create a script to handle stamping release version numbers into files,Tom Lane2008-06-10
| | | | replacing the tedious and error-prone manual process we've been using.
* Fix datetime input functions to correctly detect integer overflow whenTom Lane2008-06-09
| | | | | running on a 64-bit platform ... strtol() will happily return 64-bit output in that case. Per bug #4231 from Geoff Tolley.
* tag 8.2.9REL8_2_9Marc G. Fournier2008-06-09
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* Stamp 8.2.9 (except for configure.in/configure)Tom Lane2008-06-08
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* Update release notes for ALTER AGGREGATE fix.Tom Lane2008-06-08
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* ALTER AGGREGATE OWNER seems to have been missed by the last couple ofTom Lane2008-06-08
| | | | | | | patches that dealt with object ownership. It wasn't updating pg_shdepend nor adjusting the aggregate's ACL. In 8.2 and up, fix this permanently by making it use AlterFunctionOwner_oid. In 8.1, the function code wasn't factored that way, so just copy and paste.
* Update release notes for 8.3.3 et al.Tom Lane2008-06-07
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* Fix pg_get_ruledef() so that negative numeric constants are parenthesized.Tom Lane2008-06-06
| | | | | | | | | | This is needed because :: casting binds more tightly than minus, so for example -1::integer is not the same as (-1)::integer, and there are cases where the difference is important. In particular this caused a failure in SELECT DISTINCT ... ORDER BY ... where expressions that should have matched were seen as different by the parser; but I suspect that there could be other cases where failure to parenthesize leads to subtler semantic differences in reloaded rules. Per report from Alexandr Popov.
* tag 8.2.8REL8_2_8Marc G. Fournier2008-06-06
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* Stamp 8.2.8 (except for configure.in/configure)Tom Lane2008-06-05
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* Translation updates.Tom Lane2008-06-05
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* Added SQL to list of allowed variable names.Michael Meskes2008-06-04
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* Draft release notes for upcoming back-branch updates.Tom Lane2008-06-04
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* Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2008c (DST law changes inTom Lane2008-06-01
| | | | Morocco, Iraq, Choibalsan, Pakistan, Syria, Cuba, Argentina/San_Luis).
* Fix some bugs introduced by the 8.2-era conversion of cube functions to V1Tom Lane2008-05-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | calling convention. cube_inter and cube_distance could attempt to pfree their input arguments, and cube_dim returned a value from a struct it might have just pfree'd (which would only really cause a problem in a debug build, but it's still wrong). Per bug #4208 and additional code reading. In HEAD and 8.3, I also made a batch of cosmetic changes to bring these functions into line with the preferred coding style for V1 functions, ie declare and fetch all the arguments at the top so readers can easily see what they are.
* Update odbc URL.Bruce Momjian2008-05-29
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* Backpatch Zdenek Kotala's fix to prevent pglz_decompress from stomping onTom Lane2008-05-28
| | | | | | | | memory if the compressed data is corrupt. Backpatch as far as 8.2. The issue exists in older branches too, but given the lack of field reports, it's not clear it's worth any additional effort to adapt the patch to the slightly different code in older branches.
* Improve GRANT documentation to point out that UPDATE and DELETE typicallyTom Lane2008-05-28
| | | | | | require SELECT privilege as well, since you normally need to read existing column values within such commands. This behavior is according to spec, but we'd never documented it before. Per gripe from Volkan Yazici.
* Require bind_textdomain_codeset() not just gettext() to enable NLS support.Tom Lane2008-05-27
| | | | | GNU gettext before 0.10.36 does not have that function, and is generally too incomplete to be usable.