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* Tag 8.4.7REL8_4_7Marc G. Fournier2011-01-27
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* Update release notes.Tom Lane2011-01-27
| | | | Security: CVE-2010-4015
* Prevent buffer overrun while parsing an integer in a "query_int" value.Tom Lane2011-01-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | contrib/intarray's gettoken() uses a fixed-size buffer to collect an integer's digits, and did not guard against overrunning the buffer. This is at least a backend crash risk, and in principle might allow arbitrary code execution. The code didn't check for overflow of the integer value either, which while not presenting a crash risk was still bad. Thanks to Apple Inc's security team for reporting this issue and supplying the fix. Security: CVE-2010-4015
* Don't include <asm/ia64regs.h> unnecessarily.Tom Lane2011-01-27
| | | | | | | We only need that header when compiling with icc, since the gcc variant of ia64_get_bsp() uses in-line assembly code. Per report from Frank Brendel, the header doesn't exist on all IA64 platforms; so don't include it unless we need it.
* Translation updates for release 8.4.7Peter Eisentraut2011-01-27
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* Update release notes for releases 9.0.3, 8.4.7, 8.3.14, and 8.2.20.Tom Lane2011-01-27
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* Fix pg_restore to do the right thing when escaping large objects.Tom Lane2011-01-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Specifically, this makes the workflow pg_dump -Fc -> pg_restore -> file produce correct output for BLOBs when the source database has standard_conforming_strings turned on. It was already okay when that was off, or if pg_restore was told to restore directly into a database. This is a back-port of commit b1732111f233bbb72788e92a627242ec28a85631 of 2009-08-04, with additional changes to emit old-style escaped bytea data instead of hex-style. At the time, we had not heard of anyone encountering the problem in the field, so I judged it not worth the risk of changing back branches. Now we do have a report, from Bosco Rama, so back-patch into 8.2 through 8.4. 9.0 and up are okay already.
* Document that WITH queries are also called Common Table Expressions.Robert Haas2011-01-19
| | | | Peter Geoghegan, reviewed by Stephen Frost
* Fix miscalculation of itemsafter in array_set_slice().Tom Lane2011-01-17
| | | | | | | | | | | If the slice to be assigned to was before the existing array lower bound (requiring at least one null element to spring into existence to fill the gap), the code miscalculated how many entries needed to be copied from the old array's null bitmap. This could result in trashing the array's data area (as seen in bug #5840 from Karsten Loesing), or worse. This has been broken since we first allowed the behavior of assigning to non-adjacent slices, in 8.2. Back-patch to all affected versions.
* Ensure the directory for gram.h is created on win32Magnus Hagander2011-01-09
| | | | Result of bad testing of my last commit.
* Properly install gram.h on MSVC buildsMagnus Hagander2011-01-09
| | | | | This file is now needed by pgAdmin builds, which started failing since it was missing in the installer builds.
* Allow older branches to be built with Visual Studio 2008. This is a backport ↵Andrew Dunstan2011-01-04
| | | | of commit df0cdd53 to the 8.2, 8.3 and 8.4 branches.
* Work around header misdefines in modern Windows SDK when _WIN32_WINNT is ↵Andrew Dunstan2011-01-04
| | | | less than 0x0501. Only required for versions 8.2, 8.3 and 8.4., as we defined _WIN32_WINNT as 0x0501 after that.
* Avoid unexpected conversion overflow in planner for distant date values.Tom Lane2010-12-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | The "date" type supports a wider range of dates than int64 timestamps do. However, there is pre-int64-timestamp code in the planner that assumes that all date values can be converted to timestamp with impunity. Fortunately, what we really need out of the conversion is always a double (float8) value; so even when the date is out of timestamp's range it's possible to produce a sane answer. All we need is a code path that doesn't try to force the result into int64. Per trouble report from David Rericha. Back-patch to all supported versions. Although this is surely a corner case, there's not much point in advertising a date range wider than timestamp's if we will choke on such values in unexpected places.
* Allow vpath builds and regression tests to succeed on Mingw. Backpatch to ↵Andrew Dunstan2010-12-24
| | | | release 8.4 - earlier releases would require more changes and it's not worth the trouble.
* Fix up handling of simple-form CASE with constant test expression.Tom Lane2010-12-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | eval_const_expressions() can replace CaseTestExprs with constants when the surrounding CASE's test expression is a constant. This confuses ruleutils.c's heuristic for deparsing simple-form CASEs, leading to Assert failures or "unexpected CASE WHEN clause" errors. I had put in a hack solution for that years ago (see commit 514ce7a331c5bea8e55b106d624e55732a002295 of 2006-10-01), but bug #5794 from Peter Speck shows that that solution failed to cover all cases. Fortunately, there's a much better way, which came to me upon reflecting that Peter's "CASE TRUE WHEN" seemed pretty redundant: we can "simplify" the simple-form CASE to the general form of CASE, by simply omitting the constant test expression from the rebuilt CASE construct. This is intuitively valid because there is no need for the executor to evaluate the test expression at runtime; it will never be referenced, because any CaseTestExprs that would have referenced it are now replaced by constants. This won't save a whole lot of cycles, since evaluating a Const is pretty cheap, but a cycle saved is a cycle earned. In any case it beats kluging ruleutils.c still further. So this patch improves const-simplification and reverts the previous change in ruleutils.c. Back-patch to all supported branches. The bug exists in 8.1 too, but it's out of warranty.
* Fix erroneous parsing of tsquery input "... & !(subexpression) | ..."Tom Lane2010-12-19
| | | | | | | | | | | After parsing a parenthesized subexpression, we must pop all pending ANDs and NOTs off the stack, just like the case for a simple operand. Per bug #5793. Also fix clones of this routine in contrib/intarray and contrib/ltree, where input of types query_int and ltxtquery had the same problem. Back-patch to all supported versions.
* Document unavailable parameters in some configurationsMagnus Hagander2010-12-18
| | | | | Add a note to user-facing parameters that can be removed completely (and not just empty) by #ifdef's depending on build configuration.
* Remove optreset from src/port/ implementations of getopt and getopt_long.Tom Lane2010-12-16
| | | | | | | | | | We don't actually need optreset, because we can easily fix the code to ensure that it's cleanly restartable after having completed a scan over the argv array; which is the only case we need to restart in. Getting rid of it avoids a class of interactions with the system libraries and allows reversion of my change of yesterday in postmaster.c and postgres.c. Back-patch to 8.4. Before that the getopt code was a bit different anyway.
* Fix up getopt() reset management so it works on recent mingw.Tom Lane2010-12-15
| | | | | | | | | The mingw people don't appear to care about compatibility with non-GNU versions of getopt, so force use of our own copy of getopt on Windows. Also, ensure that we make use of optreset when using our own copy. Per report from Andrew Dunstan. Back-patch to all versions supported on Windows.
* Fix contrib/seg's GiST picksplit method.Tom Lane2010-12-15
| | | | | | | | Fix the same size_alpha versus size_beta typo that was recently fixed in contrib/cube. Noted by Alexander Korotkov. Back-patch to all supported branches (there is a more invasive fix in HEAD).
* Tag 8.4.6.REL8_4_6Marc G. Fournier2010-12-13
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* Update release notes for releases 9.0.2, 8.4.6, 8.3.13, 8.2.19, and 8.1.23.Tom Lane2010-12-13
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* Translation updates for release 8.4.6Peter Eisentraut2010-12-13
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* Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2010o: DST law changes inTom Lane2010-12-13
| | | | Fiji and Samoa. Historical corrections for Hong Kong.
* Fix efficiency problems in tuplestore_trim().Tom Lane2010-12-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The original coding in tuplestore_trim() was only meant to work efficiently in cases where each trim call deleted most of the tuples in the store. Which, in fact, was the pattern of the original usage with a Material node supporting mark/restore operations underneath a MergeJoin. However, WindowAgg now uses tuplestores and it has considerably less friendly trimming behavior. In particular it can attempt to trim one tuple at a time off a large tuplestore. tuplestore_trim() had O(N^2) runtime in this situation because of repeatedly shifting its tuple pointer array. Fix by avoiding shifting the array until a reasonably large number of tuples have been deleted. This can waste some pointer space, but we do still reclaim the tuples themselves, so the percentage wastage should be pretty small. Per Jie Li's report of slow percent_rank() evaluation. cume_dist() and ntile() would certainly be affected as well, along with any other window function that has a moving frame start and requires reading substantially ahead of the current row. Back-patch to 8.4, where window functions were introduced. There's no need to tweak it before that.
* Force default wal_sync_method to be fdatasync on Linux.Tom Lane2010-12-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Recent versions of the Linux system header files cause xlogdefs.h to believe that open_datasync should be the default sync method, whereas formerly fdatasync was the default on Linux. open_datasync is a bad choice, first because it doesn't actually outperform fdatasync (in fact the reverse), and second because we try to use O_DIRECT with it, causing failures on certain filesystems (e.g., ext4 with data=journal option). This part of the patch is largely per a proposal from Marti Raudsepp. More extensive changes are likely to follow in HEAD, but this is as much change as we want to back-patch. Also clean up confusing code and incorrect documentation surrounding the fsync_writethrough option. Those changes shouldn't result in any actual behavioral change, but I chose to back-patch them anyway to keep the branches looking similar in this area. In 9.0 and HEAD, also do some copy-editing on the WAL Reliability documentation section. Back-patch to all supported branches, since any of them might get used on modern Linux versions.
* Add a stack overflow check to copyObject().Tom Lane2010-12-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There are some code paths, such as SPI_execute(), where we invoke copyObject() on raw parse trees before doing parse analysis on them. Since the bison grammar is capable of building heavily nested parsetrees while itself using only minimal stack depth, this means that copyObject() can be the front-line function that hits stack overflow before anything else does. Accordingly, it had better have a check_stack_depth() call. I did a bit of performance testing and found that this slows down copyObject() by only a few percent, so the hit ought to be negligible in the context of complete processing of a query. Per off-list report from Toshihide Katayama. Back-patch to all supported branches.
* Prevent inlining a SQL function with multiple OUT parameters.Tom Lane2010-12-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | There were corner cases in which the planner would attempt to inline such a function, which would result in a failure at runtime due to loss of information about exactly what the result record type is. Fix by disabling inlining when the function's recorded result type is RECORD. There might be some sub-cases where inlining could still be allowed, but this is a simple and backpatchable fix, so leave refinements for another day. Per bug #5777 from Nate Carson. Back-patch to all supported branches. 8.1 happens to avoid a core-dump here, but it still does the wrong thing.
* Fix significant memory leak in contrib/xml2 functions.Tom Lane2010-11-26
| | | | | | | | | Most of the functions that execute XPath queries leaked the data structures created by libxml2. This memory would not be recovered until end of session, so it mounts up pretty quickly in any serious use of the feature. Per report from Pavel Stehule, though this isn't his patch. Back-patch to all supported branches.
* Don't raise "identifier will be truncated" messages in dblinkItagaki Takahiro2010-11-25
| | | | except creating new connections.
* Fix leakage of cost_limit when multiple autovacuum workers are active.Tom Lane2010-11-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When using default autovacuum_vac_cost_limit, autovac_balance_cost relied on VacuumCostLimit to contain the correct global value ... but after the first time through in a particular worker process, it didn't, because we'd trashed it in previous iterations. Depending on the state of other autovac workers, this could result in a steady reduction of the effective cost_limit setting as a particular worker processed more and more tables, causing it to go slower and slower. Spotted by Simon Poole (bug #5759). Fix by saving and restoring the GUC variables in the loop in do_autovacuum. In passing, improve a few comments. Back-patch to 8.3 ... the cost rebalancing code has been buggy since it was put in.
* The GiST scan algorithm uses LSNs to detect concurrent pages splits, butHeikki Linnakangas2010-11-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | temporary indexes are not WAL-logged. We used a constant LSN for temporary indexes, on the assumption that we don't need to worry about concurrent page splits in temporary indexes because they're only visible to the current session. But that assumption is wrong, it's possible to insert rows and split pages in the same session, while a scan is in progress. For example, by opening a cursor and fetching some rows, and INSERTing new rows before fetching some more. Fix by generating fake increasing LSNs, used in place of real LSNs in temporary GiST indexes.
* Fix aboriginal mistake in plpython's set-returning-function support.Tom Lane2010-11-15
| | | | | | | | | | We must stay in the function's SPI context until done calling the iterator that returns the set result. Otherwise, any attempt to invoke SPI features in the python code called by the iterator will malfunction. Diagnosis and patch by Jan Urbanski, per bug report from Jean-Baptiste Quenot. Back-patch to 8.2; there was no support for SRFs in previous versions of plpython.
* Fix bug in cube picksplit algorithm.Robert Haas2010-11-14
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* Fix canAcceptConnections() bugs introduced by replication-related patches.Tom Lane2010-11-14
| | | | | | | | | | We must not return any "okay to proceed" result code without having checked for too many children, else we might fail later on when trying to add the new child to one of the per-child state arrays. It's not clear whether this oversight explains Stefan Kaltenbrunner's recent report, but it could certainly produce a similar symptom. Back-patch to 8.4; the logic was not broken before that.
* Add missing outfuncs.c support for struct InhRelation.Tom Lane2010-11-13
| | | | | | This is needed to support debug_print_parse, per report from Jon Nelson. Cursory testing via the regression tests suggests we aren't missing anything else.
* Fix old oversight in const-simplification of COALESCE() expressions.Tom Lane2010-11-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Once we have found a non-null constant argument, there is no need to examine additional arguments of the COALESCE. The previous coding got it right only if the constant was in the first argument position; otherwise it tried to simplify following arguments too, leading to unexpected behavior like this: regression=# select coalesce(f1, 42, 1/0) from int4_tbl; ERROR: division by zero It's a minor corner case, but a bug is a bug, so back-patch all the way.
* Fix bug introduced by the recent patch to check that the checkpoint redoHeikki Linnakangas2010-11-11
| | | | | | | location read from backup label file can be found: wasShutdown was set incorrectly when a backup label file was found. Jeff Davis, with a little tweaking by me.
* Fix line_construct_pm() for the case of "infinite" (DBL_MAX) slope.Tom Lane2010-11-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | This code was just plain wrong: what you got was not a line through the given point but a line almost indistinguishable from the Y-axis, although not truly vertical. The only caller that tries to use this function with m == DBL_MAX is dist_ps_internal for the case where the lseg is horizontal; it would end up producing the distance from the given point to the place where the lseg's line crosses the Y-axis. That function is used by other operators too, so there are several operators that could compute wrong distances from a line segment to something else. Per bug #5745 from jindiax. Back-patch to all supported branches.
* Repair memory leakage while ANALYZE-ing complex index expressions.Tom Lane2010-11-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The general design of memory management in Postgres is that intermediate results computed by an expression are not freed until the end of the tuple cycle. For expression indexes, ANALYZE has to re-evaluate each expression for each of its sample rows, and it wasn't bothering to free intermediate results until the end of processing of that index. This could lead to very substantial leakage if the intermediate results were large, as in a recent example from Jakub Ouhrabka. Fix by doing ResetExprContext for each sample row. This necessitates adding a datumCopy step to ensure that the final expression value isn't recycled too. Some quick testing suggests that this change adds at worst about 10% to the time needed to analyze a table with an expression index; which is annoying, but seems a tolerable price to pay to avoid unexpected out-of-memory problems. Back-patch to all supported branches.
* In rewriteheap.c (used by VACUUM FULL and CLUSTER), calculate the tupleHeikki Linnakangas2010-11-09
| | | | | | | | | | length stored in the line pointer the same way it's calculated in the normal heap_insert() codepath. As noted by Jeff Davis, the length stored by raw_heap_insert() included padding but the one stored by the normal codepath did not. While the mismatch seems to be harmless, inconsistency isn't good, and the normal codepath has received a lot more testing over the years. Backpatch to 8.3 where the heap rewrite code was introduced.
* Fix error handling in temp-file deletion with log_temp_files active.Tom Lane2010-11-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The original coding in FileClose() reset the file-is-temp flag before unlinking the file, so that if control came back through due to an error, it wouldn't try to unlink the file twice. This was correct when written, but when the log_temp_files feature was added, the logging action was put in between those two steps. An error occurring during the logging action --- such as a query cancel --- would result in the unlink not getting done at all, as in recent report from Michael Glaesemann. To fix this, make sure that we do both the stat and the unlink before doing anything that could conceivably CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS. There is a judgment call here, which is which log message to emit first: if you can see only one, which should it be? I chose to log unlink failure at the risk of losing the log_temp_files log message --- after all, if the unlink does fail, the temp file is still there for you to see. Back-patch to all versions that have log_temp_files. The code was OK before that.
* Add support for detecting register-stack overrun on IA64.Tom Lane2010-11-06
| | | | | | | | Per recent investigation, the register stack can grow faster than the regular stack depending on compiler and choice of options. To avoid crashes we must check both stacks in check_stack_depth(). Back-patch to all supported versions.
* Reduce recursion depth in recently-added regression test.Tom Lane2010-11-03
| | | | | | | | | | Some buildfarm members fail the test with the original depth of 10 levels, apparently because they are running at the minimum max_stack_depth setting of 100kB and using ~ 10k per recursion level. While it might be interesting to try to figure out why they're eating so much stack, it isn't likely that any fix for that would be back-patchable. So just change the test to recurse only 5 levels. The extra levels don't prove anything correctness-wise anyway.
* Fix adjust_semi_join to be more cautious about clauseless joins.Tom Lane2010-11-02
| | | | | | | It was reporting that these were fully indexed (hence cheap), when of course they're the exact opposite of that. I'm not certain if the case would arise in practice, since a clauseless semijoin is hard to produce in SQL, but if it did happen we'd make some dumb decisions.
* Ensure an index that uses a whole-row Var still depends on its table.Tom Lane2010-11-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We failed to record any dependency on the underlying table for an index declared like "create index i on t (foo(t.*))". This would create trouble if the table were dropped without previously dropping the index. To fix, simplify some overly-cute code in index_create(), accepting the possibility that sometimes the whole-table dependency will be redundant. Also document this hazard in dependency.c. Per report from Kevin Grittner. In passing, prevent a core dump in pg_get_indexdef() if the index's table can't be found. I came across this while experimenting with Kevin's example. Not sure it's a real issue when the catalogs aren't corrupt, but might as well be cautious. Back-patch to all supported versions.
* Fix plpgsql's handling of "simple" expression evaluation.Tom Lane2010-10-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In general, expression execution state trees aren't re-entrantly usable, since functions can store private state information in them. For efficiency reasons, plpgsql tries to cache and reuse state trees for "simple" expressions. It can get away with that most of the time, but it can fail if the state tree is dirty from a previous failed execution (as in an example from Alvaro) or is being used recursively (as noted by me). Fix by tracking whether a state tree is in use, and falling back to the "non-simple" code path if so. This results in a pretty considerable speed hit when the non-simple path is taken, but the available alternatives seem even more unpleasant because they add overhead in the simple path. Per idea from Heikki. Back-patch to all supported branches.
* Fix long-standing segfault when accept() or one of the calls made rightHeikki Linnakangas2010-10-27
| | | | | after accepting a connection fails, and the server is compiled with GSSAPI support. Report and patch by Alexander V. Chernikov, bug #5731.
* Before removing backup_label and irrevocably changing pg_control file, checkHeikki Linnakangas2010-10-26
| | | | | | | | that WAL file containing the checkpoint redo-location can be found. This avoids making the cluster irrecoverable if the redo location is in an earlie WAL file than the checkpoint record. Report, analysis and patch by Jeff Davis, with small changes by me.