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* Use -Wl for linker switches on freebsd --- back-port of an 8.0 change.Tom Lane2007-02-03
| | | | I think this will make buildfarm member herring go green in this branch.
* Stamp release 7.4.16.REL7_4_16Tom Lane2007-02-02
| | | | Security: CVE-2007-0555, CVE-2007-0556
* Update release notes for security-related releases in all active branches.Tom Lane2007-02-02
| | | | Security: CVE-2007-0555, CVE-2007-0556
* Repair insufficiently careful type checking for SQL-language functions:Tom Lane2007-02-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | we should check that the function code returns the claimed result datatype every time we parse the function for execution. Formerly, for simple scalar result types we assumed the creation-time check was sufficient, but this fails if the function selects from a table that's been redefined since then, and even more obviously fails if check_function_bodies had been OFF. This is a significant security hole: not only can one trivially crash the backend, but with appropriate misuse of pass-by-reference datatypes it is possible to read out arbitrary locations in the server process's memory, which could allow retrieving database content the user should not be able to see. Our thanks to Jeff Trout for the initial report. Security: CVE-2007-0555
* Translation updatesPeter Eisentraut2007-01-31
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* Correct an old logic error in btree page splitting: when considering a splitTom Lane2007-01-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | exactly at the point where we need to insert a new item, the calculation used the wrong size for the "high key" of the new left page. This could lead to choosing an unworkable split, resulting in "PANIC: failed to add item to the left sibling" (or "right sibling") failure. Although this bug has been there a long time, it's very difficult to trigger a failure before 8.2, since there was generally a lot of free space on both sides of a chosen split. In 8.2, where the user-selected fill factor determines how much free space the code tries to leave, an unworkable split is much more likely. Report by Joe Conway, diagnosis and fix by Heikki Linnakangas.
* Get pg_utf_mblen(), pg_utf2wchar_with_len(), and utf2ucs() all on the sameTom Lane2007-01-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | page about the maximum UTF8 sequence length we support (4 bytes since 8.1, 3 before that). pg_utf2wchar_with_len never got updated to support 4-byte characters at all, and in any case had a buffer-overrun risk in that it could produce multiple pg_wchars from what mblen claims to be just one UTF8 character. The only reason we don't have a major security hole is that most callers allocate worst-case output buffers; the sole exception in released versions appears to be pre-8.2 iwchareq() (ie, ILIKE), which can be crashed due to zeroing out its return address --- but AFAICS that can't be exploited for anything more than a crash, due to inability to control what gets written there. Per report from James Russell and Michael Fuhr. Pre-8.1 the risk is much less, but I still think pg_utf2wchar_with_len's behavior given an incomplete final character risks buffer overrun, so back-patch that logic change anyway. This patch also makes sure that UTF8 sequences exceeding the supported length (whichever it is) are consistently treated as error cases, rather than being treated like a valid shorter sequence in some places.
* Relax an Assert() that has been found to be too strict in some situationsTom Lane2007-01-24
| | | | | | | involving unions of types having typmods. Variants of the failure are known to occur in 8.1 and up; not sure if it's possible in 8.0 and 7.4, but since the code exists that far back, I'll just patch 'em all. Per report from Brian Hurt.
* Back port patch.Tatsuo Ishii2007-01-13
| | | | | | | | Call srandom() instead of srand(). pgbench calls random() later, so it should have called srandom(). On most platforms except Windows srandom() is actually identical to srand(), so the bug only bites Windows users. per bug report from Akio Ishida.
* commit before tag ...REL7_4_15PostgreSQL Daemon2007-01-06
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* Fix markup because older releases couldn't link to the reference section.Bruce Momjian2007-01-06
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* Remove extra character added to top.Bruce Momjian2007-01-06
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* Fix markup because lc_numeric didn't have an SGML tag in this release.Bruce Momjian2007-01-06
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* Minor copy-editing for release note updates.Tom Lane2007-01-05
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* Stamp release 7.4.15.Bruce Momjian2007-01-05
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* Create release notes for 7.4.15.Bruce Momjian2007-01-05
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* Fix regex_fixed_prefix() to cope reasonably well with regex patterns of theTom Lane2007-01-03
| | | | | | | | | | form '^(foo)$'. Before, these could never be optimized into indexscans. The recent changes to make psql and pg_dump generate such patterns (for \d commands and -t and related switches, respectively) therefore represented a big performance hit for people with large pg_class catalogs, as seen in recent gripe from Erik Jones. While at it, be more paranoid about case-sensitivity checking in multibyte encodings, and fix some other corner cases in which a regex might be interpreted too liberally.
* Repair bug #2839: the various ExecReScan functions need to resetTom Lane2006-12-26
| | | | | | | | | ps_TupFromTlist in plan nodes that make use of it. This was being done correctly in join nodes and Result nodes but not in any relation-scan nodes. Bug would lead to bogus results if a set-returning function appeared in the targetlist of a subquery that could be rescanned after partial execution, for example a subquery within EXISTS(). Bug has been around forever :-( ... surprising it wasn't reported before.
* Mark to_number() and the numeric-type variants of to_char() as stable, notTom Lane2006-11-28
| | | | | | immutable, because their results depend on lc_numeric; this is a longstanding oversight. We cannot force initdb for this in the back branches, but we can at least provide correct catalog entries for future installations.
* Fix psql's \copy command to ensure that it cycles libpq back to the idle stateTom Lane2006-11-24
| | | | | | | | | (in particular, causing the ReadyForQuery message to be eaten) before returning from do_copy. The only known consequence of failing to do so is that get_prompt might show a wrong result for the %x transaction status escape, as reported by Bernd Helmle; but it's possible there are other issues. Back-patch as far as 7.4, the oldest version supporting %x.
* Fix 1-byte buffer overrun when OID exceeds 1 billion. This probably can'tTom Lane2006-11-22
| | | | | | cause any serious harm in normal cases, but if you have gcc buffer overrun checking turned on, that will notice. Found by Jack Orenstein. Problem was already fixed in CVS HEAD.
* Repair problems with hash indexes that span multiple segments: the hash code'sTom Lane2006-11-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | preference for filling pages out-of-order tends to confuse the sanity checks in md.c, as per report from Balazs Nagy in bug #2737. The fix is to ensure that the smgr-level code always has the same idea of the logical EOF as the hash index code does, by using ReadBuffer(P_NEW) where we are adding a single page to the end of the index, and using smgrextend() to reserve a large batch of pages when creating a new splitpoint. The patch is a bit ugly because it avoids making any changes in md.c, which seems the most prudent approach for a backpatchable beta-period fix. After 8.3 development opens, I'll take a look at a cleaner but more invasive patch, in particular getting rid of the now unnecessary hack to allow reading beyond EOF in mdread(). Backpatch as far as 7.4. The bug likely exists in 7.3 as well, but because of the magnitude of the 7.3-to-7.4 changes in hash, the later-version patch doesn't even begin to apply. Given the other known bugs in the 7.3-era hash code, it does not seem worth trying to develop a separate patch for 7.3.
* Repair bug #2694 concerning an ARRAY[] construct whose inputs are emptyTom Lane2006-11-06
| | | | | | | | | | sub-arrays. Per discussion, if all inputs are empty arrays then result must be an empty array too, whereas a mix of empty and nonempty arrays should (and already did) draw an error. In the back branches, the construct was strict: any NULL input immediately yielded a NULL output; so I left that behavior alone. HEAD was simply ignoring NULL sub-arrays, which doesn't seem very sensible. For lack of a better idea it now treats NULL sub-arrays the same as empty ones.
* Fix "failed to re-find parent key" btree VACUUM failure by tweakingTom Lane2006-11-01
| | | | | | | | | _bt_pagedel to recover from the failure: just search the whole parent level if searching to the right fails. This does nothing for the underlying problem that index keys became out-of-order in the grandparent level. However, we believe that there is no other consequence worse than slightly inefficient searching, so this narrow patch seems like the safest solution for the back branches.
* Back-patch second version of AIX getaddrinfo fix.Tom Lane2006-10-20
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* Work around reported problem that AIX's getaddrinfo() doesn't seem to zeroTom Lane2006-10-19
| | | | | | | sin_port in the returned IP address struct when servname is NULL. This has been observed to cause failure to bind the stats collection socket, and could perhaps cause other issues too. Per reports from Brad Nicholson and Chris Browne.
* Stamp 7.4.14.REL7_4_14Tom Lane2006-10-12
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* A bit of copy-editing on back-branch release notes.Tom Lane2006-10-11
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* Repair incorrect check for coercion of unknown literal to ANYARRAY, a bugTom Lane2006-10-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | I introduced in 7.4.1 :-(. It's correct to allow unknown to be coerced to ANY or ANYELEMENT, since it's a real-enough data type, but it most certainly isn't an array datatype. This can cause a backend crash but AFAICT is not exploitable as a security hole. Per report from Michael Fuhr. Note: as fixed in HEAD, this changes a constant in the pg_stats view, resulting in a change in the expected regression outputs. The back-branch patches have been hacked to avoid that, so that pre-existing installations won't start failing their regression tests.
* CREATE TABLE ... LIKE ... should mark the columns it creates withTom Lane2006-10-11
| | | | | | | | attislocal = true, since they are not really inherited but merely copied from the original table. I'm not sure if there are any cases where it makes a real difference given the existing uses of the flag, but wrong is wrong. This was fixed in passing in HEAD by the LIKE INCLUDING CONSTRAINTS patch, but never back-patched.
* Fix psql \d commands to behave properly when a pattern using regex | is given.Tom Lane2006-10-10
| | | | | | | Formerly they'd emit '^foo|bar$' which is wrong because the anchors are parsed as part of the alternatives; must emit '^(foo|bar)$' to get expected behavior. Same as bug found previously in similar_escape(). Already fixed in HEAD, this is just back-porting the part of that patch that was a bug fix.
* Update libpq.rc for 7.3.16 and 7.4.14. Later releases use libpq.rc.in,Bruce Momjian2006-10-10
| | | | which was already updated.
* Stamp releases 7.3.16, 7.4.14, 8.0.9, and 8.1.5.Bruce Momjian2006-10-09
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* Update release notes for releases 7.3.16, 7.4.14, 8.0.9, and 8.1.5.Bruce Momjian2006-10-09
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* Fix back-branch pg_regress scripts to try the "canonical" expected file if weTom Lane2006-10-09
| | | | | | | tried a variant file from resultmap and it didn't match. This is already done in HEAD's C-code version, and is needed because OpenBSD has recently migrated to a more standard handling of float underflow --- see buildfarm results from emu.
* Fix ancient oversight in psql's \d pattern processing code: when seeing twoTom Lane2006-10-07
| | | | | | quote chars inside quote marks, should emit one quote *and stay in inquotes mode*. No doubt the lack of reports of this have something to do with the poor documentation of the feature ...
* Fix string_to_array() to correctly handle the case where there areTom Lane2006-10-07
| | | | | | | | | | | overlapping possible matches for the separator string, such as string_to_array('123xx456xxx789', 'xx'). Also, revise the logic of replace(), split_part(), and string_to_array() to avoid O(N^2) work from redundant searches and conversions to pg_wchar format when there are N matches to the separator string. Backpatched the full patch as far as 8.0. 7.4 also has the bug, but the code has diverged a lot, so I just went for a quick-and-dirty fix of the bug itself in that branch.
* date_trunc also accepts 'quarter'. Noted by Yoshihisa Nakano.Tom Lane2006-10-01
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* Clean up rather sloppy fix in HEAD for the ancient bug that CREATE CONVERSIONTom Lane2006-08-31
| | | | | didn't create a dependency from the new conversion to its schema. Back-patch to all supported releases.
* Fix mistypingTeodor Sigaev2006-08-29
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* Fix bug introduced by last patch, thanks again to Mario Weilguni ↵Teodor Sigaev2006-08-08
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* fix bug about modifying value in shared buffer,Teodor Sigaev2006-08-07
| | | | | | what was a reason to corrupt index. Thank to Mario Weilguni <mweilguni@sime.com> to discover a bug.
* Fix confusion between COPY FROM and COPY TO, per Gavin Sharry and Arul Shaji.Alvaro Herrera2006-07-31
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* Fix bug corrupting query in gist consistent function.Teodor Sigaev2006-07-11
| | | | Thank to Mario Weilguni <mweilguni@sime.com> to discover a bug.
* Fix dbmirror for new backslash escaping:Bruce Momjian2006-07-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Martin Pitt [2006-06-16 0:15 +0200]: > Upstream confirmed my reply in the last mail in [1]: the complete > escaping logic in DBMirror.pl is seriously screwew. > > [1] http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2006-06/msg00065.php I finally found some time to debug this, and I think I found a better patch than the one you proposed. Mine is still hackish and is still a workaround around a proper quoting solution, but at least it repairs the parsing without introducing the \' quoting again. I consider this a band-aid patch to fix the recent security update. PostgreSQL gurus, would you consider applying this until a better solution is found for DBMirror.pl? Martin Pitt http://www.piware.de
* Do not use already free'ed errmsg, bug found by Joachim WielandMichael Meskes2006-06-19
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* Fixed two memory leaks in ecpglib.Michael Meskes2006-06-06
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* Fix copy-and-pasteo in Russian translation: message complaining aboutTom Lane2006-06-03
| | | | | HAVE_INT64_TIMESTAMP was mentioning PG_CONTROL_VERSION instead. Victor Snezhko
* Pre-8.0 branches need to cope with possibility that the system libc knowsTom Lane2006-06-01
| | | | | about the recent changes in US DST law. Add a variant horology file, so that either the old or new rules will be considered valid test results.
* Costmetic fix for bug template version stamp.Bruce Momjian2006-05-22
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