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* Remove test for COMMENT ON DATABASEAlvaro Herrera2017-01-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | Our current DDL only allows a database name to be specified in COMMENT ON DATABASE, which Andrew Dunstan reports to make this test fail on the buildfarm. Remove the line until we gain a DDL command that allows the current database to be operated on without having the specify it by name. Backpatch to 9.5, where these tests appeared. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/e6084b89-07a7-7e57-51ee-d7b8fc9ec864@2ndQuadrant.com
* Reset hot standby xmin after restartSimon Riggs2017-01-26
| | | | | | | | | | Hot_standby_feedback could be reset by reload and worked correctly, but if the server was restarted rather than reloaded the xmin was not reset. Force reset always if hot_standby_feedback is enabled at startup. Ants Aasma, Craig Ringer Reported-by: Ants Aasma
* Ensure that a tsquery like '!foo' matches empty tsvectors.Tom Lane2017-01-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | !foo means "the tsvector does not contain foo", and therefore it should match an empty tsvector. ts_match_vq() overenthusiastically supposed that an empty tsvector could never match any query, so it forcibly returned FALSE, the wrong answer. Remove the premature optimization. Our behavior on this point was inconsistent, because while seqscans and GIST index searches both failed to match empty tsvectors, GIN index searches would find them, since GIN scans don't rely on ts_match_vq(). That makes this certainly a bug, not a debatable definition disagreement, so back-patch to all supported branches. Report and diagnosis by Tom Dunstan (bug #14515); added test cases by me. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170126025524.1434.97828@wrigleys.postgresql.org
* Fix comments in StrategyNotifyBgWriter().Tatsuo Ishii2017-01-24
| | | | | | | | The interface for the function was changed in d72731a70450b5e7084991b9caa15cb58a2820df but the comments of the function was not updated. Patch by Yugo Nagata.
* doc: Update URL for Microsoft download sitePeter Eisentraut2017-01-23
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* Avoid useless respawining the autovacuum launcher at high speed.Robert Haas2017-01-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When (1) autovacuum = off and (2) there's at least one database with an XID age greater than autovacuum_freeze_max_age and (3) all tables in that database that need vacuuming are already being processed by a worker and (4) the autovacuum launcher is started, a kind of infinite loop occurs. The launcher starts a worker and immediately exits. The worker, finding no worker to do, immediately starts the launcher, supposedly so that the next database can be processed. But because datfrozenxid for that database hasn't been advanced yet, the new worker gets put right back into the same database as the old one, where it once again starts the launcher and exits. High-speed ping pong ensues. There are several possible ways to break the cycle; this seems like the safest one. Amit Khandekar (code) and Robert Haas (comments), reviewed by Álvaro Herrera. Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAJ3gD9eWejf72HKquKSzax0r+epS=nAbQKNnykkMA0E8c+rMDg@mail.gmail.com
* Reset the proper GUC in create_index test.Tom Lane2017-01-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | Thinko in commit a4523c5aa. It doesn't really affect anything at present, but it would be a problem if any tests added later in this file ought to get index-only-scan plans. Back-patch, like the previous commit, just to avoid surprises in case we add such a test and then back-patch it. Nikita Glukhov Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/8b70135d-ad38-bdd8-ac92-71e2b3c273cf@postgrespro.ru
* Change some test macros to return true booleansAlvaro Herrera2017-01-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | These macros work fine when they are used directly in an "if" test or similar, but as soon as the return values are assigned to boolean variables (or passed as boolean arguments to some function), they become bugs, hopefully caught by compiler warnings. To avoid future problems, fix the definitions so that they return actual booleans. To further minimize the risk that somebody uses them in back-patched fixes that only work correctly in branches starting from the current master and not in old ones, back-patch the change to supported branches as appropriate. See also commit af4472bcb88ab36b9abbe7fd5858e570a65a2d1a, and the long discussion (and larger patch) in the thread mentioned in its commit message. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18672.1483022414@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Disable transforms that replaced AT TIME ZONE with RelabelType.Tom Lane2017-01-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | These resulted in wrong answers if the relabeled argument could be matched to an index column, as shown in bug #14504 from Evgeniy Kozlov. We might be able to resurrect these optimizations by adjusting the planner's treatment of RelabelType, or by adjusting btree's rules for selecting comparison functions, but either solution will take careful analysis and does not sound like a fit candidate for backpatching. I left the catalog infrastructure in place and just reduced the transform functions to always-return-NULL. This would be necessary anyway in the back branches, and it doesn't seem important to be more invasive in HEAD. Bug introduced by commit b8a18ad48. Back-patch to 9.5 where that came in. Report: https://postgr.es/m/20170118144828.1432.52823@wrigleys.postgresql.org Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18771.1484759439@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Fix an assertion failure related to an exclusive backup.Fujii Masao2017-01-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Previously multiple sessions could execute pg_start_backup() and pg_stop_backup() to start and stop an exclusive backup at the same time. This could trigger the assertion failure of "FailedAssertion("!(XLogCtl->Insert.exclusiveBackup)". This happend because, even while pg_start_backup() was starting an exclusive backup, other session could run pg_stop_backup() concurrently and mark the backup as not-in-progress unconditionally. This patch introduces ExclusiveBackupState indicating the state of an exclusive backup. This state is used to ensure that there is only one session running pg_start_backup() or pg_stop_backup() at the same time, to avoid the assertion failure. Back-patch to all supported versions. Author: Michael Paquier Reviewed-By: Kyotaro Horiguchi and me Reported-By: Andreas Seltenreich Discussion: <87mvktojme.fsf@credativ.de>
* Throw suitable error for COPY TO STDOUT/FROM STDIN in a SQL function.Tom Lane2017-01-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A client copy can't work inside a function because the FE/BE wire protocol doesn't support nesting of a COPY operation within query results. (Maybe it could, but the protocol spec doesn't suggest that clients should support this, and libpq for one certainly doesn't.) In most PLs, this prohibition is enforced by spi.c, but SQL functions don't use SPI. A comparison of _SPI_execute_plan() and init_execution_state() shows that rejecting client COPY is the only discrepancy in what they allow, so there's no other similar bugs. This is an astonishingly ancient oversight, so back-patch to all supported branches. Report: https://postgr.es/m/BY2PR05MB2309EABA3DEFA0143F50F0D593780@BY2PR05MB2309.namprd05.prod.outlook.com
* pg_upgrade: Fix for changed pg_ctl default stop modePeter Eisentraut2017-01-13
| | | | | | | | In 9.5, the default pg_ctl stop mode was changed from "smart" to "fast". pg_upgrade still thought the default mode was "smart" and only specified the mode when "fast" was asked for. This results in using "fast" all the time. It's not clear what the effect in practice is, but fix it nonetheless to restore the previous behavior.
* pg_restore: Don't allow non-positive number of jobsStephen Frost2017-01-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | pg_restore will currently accept invalid values for the number of parallel jobs to run (eg: -1), unlike pg_dump which does check that the value provided is reasonable. Worse, '-1' is actually a valid, independent, parameter (as an alias for --single-transaction), leading to potentially completely unexpected results from a command line such as: -> pg_restore -j -1 Where a user would get neither parallel jobs nor a single-transaction. Add in validity checking of the parallel jobs option, as we already have in pg_dump, before we try to open up the archive. Also move the check that we haven't been asked to run more parallel jobs than possible on Windows to the same place, so we do all the option validity checking before opening the archive. Back-patch all the way, though for 9.2 we're adding the Windows-specific check against MAXIMUM_WAIT_OBJECTS as that check wasn't back-patched originally. Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20170110044815.GC18360%40tamriel.snowman.net
* Fix invalid-parallel-jobs error messageStephen Frost2017-01-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Including the program name twice is not helpful: -> pg_dump -j -1 pg_dump: pg_dump: invalid number of parallel jobs Correct by removing the progname from the exit_horribly() call used when validating the number of parallel jobs. Noticed while testing various pg_dump error cases. Back-patch to 9.3 where parallel pg_dump was added.
* Fix ALTER TABLE / SET TYPE for irregular inheritanceAlvaro Herrera2017-01-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If inherited tables don't have exactly the same schema, the USING clause in an ALTER TABLE / SET DATA TYPE misbehaves when applied to the children tables since commit 9550e8348b79. Starting with that commit, the attribute numbers in the USING expression are fixed during parse analysis. This can lead to bogus errors being reported during execution, such as: ERROR: attribute 2 has wrong type DETAIL: Table has type smallint, but query expects integer. Since it wouldn't do to revert to the original coding, we now apply a transformation to map the attribute numbers to the correct ones for each child. Reported by Justin Pryzby Analysis by Tom Lane; patch by me. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170102225618.GA10071@telsasoft.com
* BRIN revmap pages are not standard pages ...Alvaro Herrera2017-01-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ... and therefore we ought not to tell XLogRegisterBuffer the opposite, when writing XLog for a brin update that moves the index tuple to a different page. Otherwise, xlog insertion would try to "compress the hole" when producing a full-page image for it; but since we don't update pd_lower/upper, the hole covers the whole page. On WAL replay, the revmap page becomes empty and so the entire portion of the index is useless and needs to be recomputed. This is low-probability: a BRIN update only moves an index tuple to a different page when the summary tuple is larger than the existing one, which doesn't happen with fixed-width datatypes. Also, the revmap page must be first after a checkpoint. Report and patch: Kuntal Ghosh Bug is alleged to have detected by a WAL-consistency-checking tool. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAGz5QCJ=00UQjScSEFbV=0qO5ShTZB9WWz_Fm7+Wd83zPs9Geg@mail.gmail.com I posted a test case demonstrating the problem, but I'm refraining from adding it to the test suite; if the WAL consistency tool makes it in, that will be a better way to catch this from regressing. (We should definitely have someting that causes not-same-page updates, though.)
* Invalidate cached plans on FDW option changes.Tom Lane2017-01-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This fixes problems where a plan must change but fails to do so, as seen in a bug report from Rajkumar Raghuwanshi. For ALTER FOREIGN TABLE OPTIONS, do this through the standard method of forcing a relcache flush on the table. For ALTER FOREIGN DATA WRAPPER and ALTER SERVER, just flush the whole plan cache on any change in pg_foreign_data_wrapper or pg_foreign_server. That matches the way we handle some other low-probability cases such as opclass changes, and it's unclear that the case arises often enough to be worth working harder. Besides, that gives a patch that is simple enough to back-patch with confidence. Back-patch to 9.3. In principle we could apply the code change to 9.2 as well, but (a) we lack postgres_fdw to test it with, (b) it's doubtful that anyone is doing anything exciting enough with FDWs that far back to need this desperately, and (c) the patch doesn't apply cleanly. Patch originally by Amit Langote, reviewed by Etsuro Fujita and Ashutosh Bapat, who each contributed substantial changes as well. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKcux6m5cA6rRPTKkqVdJ-R=KKDfe35Q_ZuUqxDSV_4hwga=og@mail.gmail.com
* Fix handling of empty arrays in array_fill().Tom Lane2017-01-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | array_fill(..., array[0]) produced an empty array, which is probably what users expect, but it was a one-dimensional zero-length array which is not our standard representation of empty arrays. Also, for no very good reason, it rejected empty input arrays; that case should be allowed and produce an empty output array. In passing, remove the restriction that the input array(s) have lower bound 1. That seems rather pointless, and it would have needed extra complexity to make the check deal with empty input arrays. Per bug #14487 from Andrew Gierth. It's been broken all along, so back-patch to all supported branches. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170105152156.10135.64195@wrigleys.postgresql.org
* Handle OID column inheritance correctly in ALTER TABLE ... INHERIT.Tom Lane2017-01-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Inheritance operations must treat the OID column, if any, much like regular user columns. But MergeAttributesIntoExisting() neglected to do that, leading to weird results after a table with OIDs is associated to a parent with OIDs via ALTER TABLE ... INHERIT. Report and patch by Amit Langote, reviewed by Ashutosh Bapat, some adjustments by me. It's been broken all along, so back-patch to all supported branches. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/cb13cfe7-a48c-5720-c383-bb843ab28298@lab.ntt.co.jp
* Prefer int-wide pg_atomic_flag over char-wide when using gcc intrinsics.Tom Lane2017-01-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | configure can only probe the existence of gcc intrinsics, not how well they're implemented, and unfortunately the answer is sometimes "badly". In particular we've found that multiple compilers fail to implement char-width __sync_lock_test_and_set() correctly on PPC; and even a correct implementation would necessarily be pretty inefficient, since that hardware has only a word-wide primitive to work with. Given the knowledge we've accumulated in s_lock.h, it appears that it's best to rely on int-width TAS operations on most non-Intel architectures. Hence, pick int not char when both are nominally available to us in generic-gcc.h (note that that code is not used for x86[_64]). Back-patch to fix regression test failures on FreeBSD/PPC. Ordinarily back-patching a change like this would be verboten because of ABI breakage. But since pg_atomic_flag is not yet used in any Postgres data structure, there's no ABI to break. It seems safer to back-patch to avoid possible gotchas, if someday we do back-patch something that uses pg_atomic_flag. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/25414.1483076673@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Update copyright for 2017Bruce Momjian2017-01-03
| | | | Backpatch-through: certain files through 9.2
* Remove bogus notice that older clients might not work with MD5 passwords.Heikki Linnakangas2017-01-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | That was written when we still had "crypt" authentication, and it was referring to the fact that an older client might support "crypt" authentication but not "md5". But we haven't supported "crypt" for years. (As soon as we add a new authentication mechanism that doesn't work with MD5 hashes, we'll need a similar notice again. But this text as it's worded now is just wrong.) Backpatch to all supported versions. Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/9a7263eb-0980-2072-4424-440bb2513dc7@iki.fi
* Silence compiler warningsJoe Conway2017-01-02
| | | | | | | | | | | Rearrange a bit of code to ensure that 'mode' in LWLockRelease is obviously always set, which seems a bit cleaner and avoids a compiler warning (thanks to Robert for the suggestion!). Back-patch back to 9.5 where the warning is first seen. Author: Stephen Frost Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20161129152102.GR13284%40tamriel.snowman.net
* Silence compiler warningsJoe Conway2017-01-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | In GetCachedPlan(), initialize 'plan' to silence a compiler warning, but also add an Assert() to make sure we don't ever actually fall through with 'plan' still being set to NULL, since we are about to dereference it. Back-patch back to 9.2. Author: Stephen Frost Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20161129152102.GR13284%40tamriel.snowman.net
* Fix incorrect example of to_timestamp() usage.Tom Lane2016-12-29
| | | | | | | | | Must use HH24 not HH to read a hour value exceeding 12. This was already fixed in HEAD in commit d3cd36a13, but I didn't think of backpatching it. Report: https://postgr.es/m/20161229170043.10139.21416@wrigleys.postgresql.org
* Fix interval_transform so it doesn't throw away non-no-op casts.Tom Lane2016-12-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | interval_transform() contained two separate bugs that caused it to sometimes mistakenly decide that a cast from interval to restricted interval is a no-op and throw it away. First, it was wrong to rely on dt.h's field type macros to have an ordering consistent with the field's significance; in one case they do not. This led to mistakenly treating YEAR as less significant than MONTH, so that a cast from INTERVAL MONTH to INTERVAL YEAR was incorrectly discarded. Second, fls(1<<k) produces k+1 not k, so comparing its output directly to SECOND was wrong. This led to supposing that a cast to INTERVAL MINUTE was really a cast to INTERVAL SECOND and so could be discarded. To fix, get rid of the use of fls(), and make a function based on intervaltypmodout to produce a field ID code adapted to the need here. Per bug #14479 from Piotr Stefaniak. Back-patch to 9.2 where transform functions were introduced, because this code was born broken. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20161227172307.10135.7747@wrigleys.postgresql.org
* Explain unaccounted for space in pgstattuple.Andrew Dunstan2016-12-27
| | | | | | | | In addition to space accounted for by tuple_len, dead_tuple_len and free_space, the table_len includes page overhead, the item pointers table and padding bytes. Backpatch to live branches.
* Remove triggerable Assert in hashname().Tom Lane2016-12-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | hashname() asserted that the key string it is given is shorter than NAMEDATALEN. That should surely always be true if the input is in fact a regular value of type "name". However, for reasons of coding convenience, we allow plain old C strings to be treated as "name" values in many places. Some SQL functions accept arbitrary "text" inputs, convert them to C strings, and pass them otherwise-untransformed to syscache lookups for name columns, allowing an overlength input value to trigger hashname's Assert. This would be a DOS problem, except that it only happens in assert-enabled builds which aren't recommended for production. In a production build, you'll just get a name lookup error, since regardless of the hash value computed by hashname, the later equality comparison checks can't match. Likewise, if the catalog lookup is done by seqscan or indexscan searches, there will just be a lookup error, since the name comparison functions don't contain any similar length checks, and will see an overlength input as unequal to any stored entry. After discussion we concluded that we should simply remove this Assert. It's inessential to hashname's own functionality, and having such an assertion in only some paths for name lookup is more of a foot-gun than a useful check. There may or may not be a case for the affected callers to do something other than let the name lookup fail, but we'll consider that separately; in any case we probably don't want to change such behavior in the back branches. Per report from Tushar Ahuja. Back-patch to all supported branches. Report: https://postgr.es/m/7d0809ee-6f25-c9d6-8e74-5b2967830d49@enterprisedb.com Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17691.1482523168@sss.pgh.pa.us
* pg_dumpall: Include --verbose option in --help outputStephen Frost2016-12-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | The -v/--verbose option was not included in the output from --help for pg_dumpall even though it's in the pg_dumpall documentation and has apparently been around since pg_dumpall was reimplemented in C in 2002. Fix that by adding it. Pointed out by Daniel Westermann. Back-patch to all supported branches. Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/2020970042.4589542.1482482101585.JavaMail.zimbra%40dbi-services.com
* Fix tab completion in psql for ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGESStephen Frost2016-12-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When providing tab completion for ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES, we are including the list of roles as possible options for completion after the GRANT or REVOKE. Further, we accept FOR ROLE/IN SCHEMA at the same time and in either order, but the tab completion was only working for one or the other. Lastly, we weren't using the actual list of allowed kinds of objects for default privileges for completion after the 'GRANT X ON' but instead were completeing to what 'GRANT X ON' supports, which isn't the ssame at all. Address these issues by improving the forward tab-completion for ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES and then constrain and correct how the tail completion is done when it is for ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES. Back-patch the forward/tail tab-completion to 9.6, where we made it easy to handle such cases. For 9.5 and earlier, correct the initial tab-completion to at least be correct as far as it goes and then add a check for GRANT/REVOKE to only tab-complete when the GRANT/REVOKE is the start of the command, so we don't try to do tab-completion after we get to the GRANT/REVOKE part of the ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES command, which is better than providing incorrect completions. Initial patch for master and 9.6 by Gilles Darold, though I cleaned it up and added a few comments. All bugs in the 9.5 and earlier patch are mine. Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/1614593c-e356-5b27-6dba-66320a9bc68b@dalibo.com
* Doc: improve index entry for "median".Tom Lane2016-12-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We had an index entry for "median" attached to the percentile_cont function entry, which was pretty useless because a person following the link would never realize that that function was the one they were being hinted to use. Instead, make the index entry point at the example in syntax-aggregates, and add a <seealso> link to "percentile". Also, since that example explicitly claims to be calculating the median, make it use percentile_cont not percentile_disc. This makes no difference in terms of the larger goals of that section, but so far as I can find, nearly everyone thinks that "median" means the continuous not discrete calculation. Per gripe from Steven Winfield. Back-patch to 9.4 where we introduced percentile_cont. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20161223102056.25614.1166@wrigleys.postgresql.org
* Improve RLS documentation with respect to COPYJoe Conway2016-12-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Documentation for pg_restore said COPY TO does not support row security when in fact it should say COPY FROM. Fix that. While at it, make it clear that "COPY FROM" does not allow RLS to be enabled and INSERT should be used instead. Also that SELECT policies will apply to COPY TO statements. Back-patch to 9.5 where RLS first appeared. Author: Joe Conway Reviewed-By: Dean Rasheed and Robert Haas Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/5744FA24.3030008%40joeconway.com
* Use TSConfigRelationId in AlterTSConfiguration()Stephen Frost2016-12-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When we are altering a text search configuration, we are getting the tuple from pg_ts_config and using its OID, so use TSConfigRelationId when invoking any post-alter hooks and setting the object address. Further, in the functions called from AlterTSConfiguration(), we're saving information about the command via EventTriggerCollectAlterTSConfig(), so we should be setting commandCollected to true. Also add a regression test to test_ddl_deparse for ALTER TEXT SEARCH CONFIGURATION. Author: Artur Zakirov, a few additional comments by me Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/57a71eba-f2c7-e7fd-6fc0-2126ec0b39bd%40postgrespro.ru Back-patch the fix for the InvokeObjectPostAlterHook() call to 9.3 where it was introduced, and the fix for the ObjectAddressSet() call and setting commandCollected to true to 9.5 where those changes to ProcessUtilitySlow() were introduced.
* Fix handling of expanded objects in CoerceToDomain and CASE execution.Tom Lane2016-12-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When the input value to a CoerceToDomain expression node is a read-write expanded datum, we should pass a read-only pointer to any domain CHECK expressions and then return the original read-write pointer as the expression result. Previously we were blindly passing the same pointer to all the consumers of the value, making it possible for a function in CHECK to modify or even delete the expanded value. (Since a plpgsql function will absorb a passed-in read-write expanded array as a local variable value, it will in fact delete the value on exit.) A similar hazard of passing the same read-write pointer to multiple consumers exists in domain_check() and in ExecEvalCase, so fix those too. The fix requires adding MakeExpandedObjectReadOnly calls at the appropriate places, which is simple enough except that we need to get the data type's typlen from somewhere. For the domain cases, solve this by redefining DomainConstraintRef.tcache as okay for callers to access; there wasn't any reason for the original convention against that, other than not wanting the API of typcache.c to be any wider than it had to be. For CASE, there's no good solution except to add a syscache lookup during executor start. Per bug #14472 from Marcos Castedo. Back-patch to 9.5 where expanded values were introduced. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15225.1482431619@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Fix broken error check in _hash_doinsert.Robert Haas2016-12-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | You can't just cast a HashMetaPage to a Page, because the meta page data is stored after the page header, not at offset 0. Fortunately, this didn't break anything because it happens to find hashm_bsize at the offset at which it expects to find pd_pagesize_version, and the values are close enough to the same that this works out. Still, it's a bug, so back-patch to all supported versions. Mithun Cy, revised a bit by me.
* Make dblink try harder to form useful error messagesJoe Conway2016-12-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When libpq encounters a connection-level error, e.g. runs out of memory while forming a result, there will be no error associated with PGresult, but a message will be placed into PGconn's error buffer. postgres_fdw takes care to use the PGconn error message when PGresult does not have one, but dblink has been negligent in that regard. Modify dblink to mirror what postgres_fdw has been doing. Back-patch to all supported branches. Author: Joe Conway Reviewed-By: Tom Lane Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/02fa2d90-2efd-00bc-fefc-c23c00eb671e%40joeconway.com
* Protect dblink from invalid options when using postgres_fdw serverJoe Conway2016-12-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When dblink uses a postgres_fdw server name for its connection, it is possible for the connection to have options that are invalid with dblink (e.g. "updatable"). The recommended way to avoid this problem is to use dblink_fdw servers instead. However there are use cases for using postgres_fdw, and possibly other FDWs, for dblink connection options, therefore protect against trying to use any options that do not apply by using is_valid_dblink_option() when building the connection string from the options. Back-patch to 9.3. Although 9.2 supports FDWs for connection info, is_valid_dblink_option() did not yet exist, and neither did postgres_fdw, at least in the postgres source tree. Given the lack of previous complaints, fixing that seems too invasive/not worth it. Author: Corey Huinker Reviewed-By: Joe Conway Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CADkLM%3DfWyXVEyYcqbcRnxcHutkP45UHU9WD7XpdZaMfe7S%3DRwA%40mail.gmail.com
* Give a useful error message if uuid-ossp is built without preconfiguration.Tom Lane2016-12-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Before commit b8cc8f947, it was possible to build contrib/uuid-ossp without having told configure you meant to; you could just cd into that directory and "make". That no longer works because the code depends on configure to have done header and library probes, but the ensuing error messages are not so easy to interpret if you're not an old C hand. We've gotten a couple of complaints recently from people trying to do this the low-tech way, so add an explicit #error directing the user to use --with-uuid. (In principle we might want to do something similar in the other optionally-built contrib modules; but I don't think any of the others have ever worked without preconfiguration, so there are no bad habits to break people of.) Back-patch to 9.4 where the previous commit came in. Report: https://postgr.es/m/CAHeEsBf42AWTnk=1qJvFv+mYgRFm07Knsfuc86Ono8nRjf3tvQ@mail.gmail.com Report: https://postgr.es/m/CAKYdkBrUaZX+F6KpmzoHqMtiUqCtAW_w6Dgvr6F0WTiopuGxow@mail.gmail.com
* Fix buffer overflow on particularly named files and clarify documentation aboutMichael Meskes2016-12-22
| | | | | | output file naming. Patch by Tsunakawa, Takayuki <tsunakawa.takay@jp.fujitsu.com>
* Improve dblink error message when remote does not provide itJoe Conway2016-12-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | When dblink or postgres_fdw detects an error on the remote side of the connection, it will try to construct a local error message as best it can using libpq's PQresultErrorField(). When no primary message is available, it was bailing out with an unhelpful "unknown error". Make that message better and more style guide compliant. Per discussion on hackers. Backpatch to 9.2 except postgres_fdw which didn't exist before 9.3. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/19872.1482338965%40sss.pgh.pa.us
* Fix detection of unfinished Unicode surrogate pair at end of string.Tom Lane2016-12-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | The U&'...' and U&"..." syntaxes silently discarded a surrogate pair start (that is, a code between U+D800 and U+DBFF) if it occurred at the very end of the string. This seems like an obvious oversight, since we throw an error for every other invalid combination of surrogate characters, including the very same situation in E'...' syntax. This has been wrong since the pair processing was added (in 9.0), so back-patch to all supported branches. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/19113.1482337898@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Improve ALTER TABLE documentationStephen Frost2016-12-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The ALTER TABLE documentation wasn't terribly clear when it came to which commands could be combined together and what it meant when they were. In particular, SET TABLESPACE *can* be combined with other commands, when it's operating against a single table, but not when multiple tables are being moved with ALL IN TABLESPACE. Further, the actions are applied together but not really in 'parallel', at least today. Pointed out by: Amit Langote Improved wording from Tom. Back-patch to 9.4, where the ALL IN TABLESPACE option was added. Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/14c535b4-13ef-0590-1b98-76af355a0763%40lab.ntt.co.jp
* Fix dumping of casts and transforms using built-in functionsStephen Frost2016-12-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In pg_dump.c dumpCast() and dumpTransform(), we would happily ignore the cast or transform if it happened to use a built-in function because we weren't including the information about built-in functions when querying pg_proc from getFuncs(). Modify the query in getFuncs() to also gather information about functions which are used by user-defined casts and transforms (where "user-defined" means "has an OID >= FirstNormalObjectId"). This also adds to the TAP regression tests for 9.6 and master to cover these types of objects. Back-patch all the way for casts, back to 9.5 for transforms. Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/20160504183952.GE10850%40tamriel.snowman.net
* For 8.0 servers, get last built-in oid from pg_databaseStephen Frost2016-12-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | We didn't start ensuring that all built-in objects had OIDs less than 16384 until 8.1, so for 8.0 servers we still need to query the value out of pg_database. We need this, in particular, to distinguish which casts were built-in and which were user-defined. For HEAD, we only worry about going back to 8.0, for the back-branches, we also ensure that 7.0-7.4 work. Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/20160504183952.GE10850%40tamriel.snowman.net
* Fix order of operations in CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW.Dean Rasheed2016-12-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW acts on an existing view, don't update the view options until after the view query has been updated. This is necessary in the case where CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW is used on an existing view that is not updatable, and the new view is updatable and specifies the WITH CHECK OPTION. In this case, attempting to apply the new options to the view before updating its query fails, because the options are applied using the ALTER TABLE infrastructure which checks that WITH CHECK OPTION is only applied to an updatable view. If new columns are being added to the view, that is also done using the ALTER TABLE infrastructure, but it is important that that still be done before updating the view query, because the rules system checks that the query columns match those on the view relation. Added a comment to explain that, in case someone is tempted to move that to where the view options are now being set. Back-patch to 9.4 where WITH CHECK OPTION was added. Report: https://postgr.es/m/CAEZATCUp%3Dz%3Ds4SzZjr14bfct_bdJNwMPi-gFi3Xc5k1ntbsAgQ%40mail.gmail.com
* Fix base backup rate limiting in presence of slow i/oMagnus Hagander2016-12-19
| | | | | | | | | | | When source i/o on disk was too slow compared to the rate limiting specified, the system could end up with a negative value for sleep that it never got out of, which caused rate limiting to effectively be turned off. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CABUevEy_-e0YvL4ayoX8bH_Ja9w%2BBHoP6jUgdxZuG2nEj3uAfQ%40mail.gmail.com Analysis by me, patch by Antonin Houska
* In contrib/uuid-ossp, #include headers needed for ntohl() and ntohs().Tom Lane2016-12-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | Oversight in commit b8cc8f947. I just noticed this causes compiler warnings on FreeBSD, and it really ought to cause warnings elsewhere too: all references I can find say that <arpa/inet.h> is required for these. We have a lot of code elsewhere that thinks that both <netinet/in.h> and <arpa/inet.h> should be included for these functions, so do it that way here too, even though <arpa/inet.h> ought to be sufficient according to the references I consulted. Back-patch to 9.4 where the previous commit landed.
* Fix off-by-one in memory allocation for quote_literal_cstr().Heikki Linnakangas2016-12-16
| | | | | | | | | | The calculation didn't take into account the NULL terminator. That lead to overwriting the palloc'd buffer by one byte, if the input consists entirely of backslashes. For example "format('%L', E'\\')". Fixes bug #14468. Backpatch to all supported versions. Report: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20161216105001.13334.42819%40wrigleys.postgresql.org
* Sync our copy of the timezone library with IANA release tzcode2016j.Tom Lane2016-12-15
| | | | | | | This is a trivial update (consisting in fact only in the addition of a comment). The point is just to get back to being synced with an official release of tzcode, rather than some ad-hoc point in their commit history, which is where commit 1f87181e1 left it.
* Back-patch fcff8a575198478023ada8a48e13b50f70054766 as a bug fix.Kevin Grittner2016-12-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When there is both a serialization failure and a unique violation, throw the former rather than the latter. When initially pushed, this was viewed as a feature to assist application framework developers, so that they could more accurately determine when to retry a failed transaction, but a test case presented by Ian Jackson has shown that this patch can prevent serialization anomalies in some cases where a unique violation is caught within a subtransaction, the work of that subtransaction is discarded, and no error is thrown. That makes this a bug fix, so it is being back-patched to all supported branches where it is not already present (i.e., 9.2 to 9.5). Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1481307991-16971-1-git-send-email-ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/22607.56276.807567.924144@mariner.uk.xensource.com