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* Fix Hot-Standby initialization of clog and subtrans.Heikki Linnakangas2013-11-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | These bugs can cause data loss on standbys started with hot_standby=on at the moment they start to accept read only queries, by marking committed transactions as uncommited. The likelihood of such corruptions is small unless the primary has a high transaction rate. 5a031a5556ff83b8a9646892715d7fef415b83c3 fixed bugs in HS's startup logic by maintaining less state until at least STANDBY_SNAPSHOT_PENDING state was reached, missing the fact that both clog and subtrans are written to before that. This only failed to fail in common cases because the usage of ExtendCLOG in procarray.c was superflous since clog extensions are actually WAL logged. f44eedc3f0f347a856eea8590730769125964597/I then tried to fix the missing extensions of pg_subtrans due to the former commit's changes - which are not WAL logged - by performing the extensions when switching to a state > STANDBY_INITIALIZED and not performing xid assignments before that - again missing the fact that ExtendCLOG is unneccessary - but screwed up twice: Once because latestObservedXid wasn't updated anymore in that state due to the earlier commit and once by having an off-by-one error in the loop performing extensions. This means that whenever a CLOG_XACTS_PER_PAGE (32768 with default settings) boundary was crossed between the start of the checkpoint recovery started from and the first xl_running_xact record old transactions commit bits in pg_clog could be overwritten if they started and committed in that window. Fix this mess by not performing ExtendCLOG() in HS at all anymore since it's unneeded and evidently dangerous and by performing subtrans extensions even before reaching STANDBY_SNAPSHOT_PENDING. Analysis and patch by Andres Freund. Reported by Christophe Pettus. Backpatch down to 9.0, like the previous commit that caused this.
* Fix incorrect loop counts in tidbitmap.c.Tom Lane2013-11-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | A couple of places that should have been iterating over WORDS_PER_CHUNK words were iterating over WORDS_PER_PAGE words instead. This thinko accidentally failed to fail, because (at least on common architectures with default BLCKSZ) WORDS_PER_CHUNK is a bit less than WORDS_PER_PAGE, and the extra words being looked at were always zero so nothing happened. Still, it's a bug waiting to happen if anybody ever fools with the parameters affecting TIDBitmap sizes, and it's a small waste of cycles too. So back-patch to all active branches. Etsuro Fujita
* Clarify CREATE FUNCTION documentation about handling of typmods.Tom Lane2013-11-13
| | | | | The previous text was a bit misleading, as well as unnecessarily vague about what information would be discarded. Per gripe from Craig Skinner.
* Fix doc links in README file to work with new website layoutMagnus Hagander2013-11-12
| | | | Per report from Colin 't Hart
* Fix race condition in GIN posting tree page deletion.Heikki Linnakangas2013-11-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If a page is deleted, and reused for something else, just as a search is following a rightlink to it from its left sibling, the search would continue scanning whatever the new contents of the page are. That could lead to incorrect query results, or even something more curious if the page is reused for a different kind of a page. To fix, modify the search algorithm to lock the next page before releasing the previous one, and refrain from deleting pages from the leftmost branch of the tree. Add a new Concurrency section to the README, explaining why this works. There is a lot more one could say about concurrency in GIN, but that's for another patch. Backpatch to all supported versions.
* Make contain_volatile_functions/contain_mutable_functions look into SubLinks.Tom Lane2013-11-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This change prevents us from doing inappropriate subquery flattening in cases such as dangerous functions hidden inside a sub-SELECT in the targetlist of another sub-SELECT. That could result in unexpected behavior due to multiple evaluations of a volatile function, as in a recent complaint from Etienne Dube. It's been questionable from the very beginning whether these functions should look into subqueries (as noted in their comments), and this case seems to provide proof that they should. Because the new code only descends into SubLinks, not SubPlans or InitPlans, the change only affects the planner's behavior during prepjointree processing and not later on --- for example, you can still get it to use a volatile function in an indexqual if you wrap the function in (SELECT ...). That's a historical behavior, for sure, but it's reasonable given that the executor's evaluation rules for subplans don't depend on whether there are volatile functions inside them. In any case, we need to constrain the behavioral change as narrowly as we can to make this reasonable to back-patch.
* Be more robust when strerror() doesn't give a useful result.Tom Lane2013-11-07
| | | | | | | Back-patch commits 8e68816cc2567642c6fcca4eaac66c25e0ae5ced and 8dace66e0735ca39b779922d02c24ea2686e6521 into the stable branches. Buildfarm testing revealed no great portability surprises, and it seems useful to have this robustness improvement in all branches.
* Fix generation of MergeAppend plans for optimized min/max on expressions.Tom Lane2013-11-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Before jamming a desired targetlist into a plan node, one really ought to make sure the plan node can handle projections, and insert a buffering Result plan node if not. planagg.c forgot to do this, which is a hangover from the days when it only dealt with IndexScan plan types. MergeAppend doesn't project though, not to mention that it gets unhappy if you remove its possibly-resjunk sort columns. The code accidentally failed to fail for cases in which the min/max argument was a simple Var, because the new targetlist would be equivalent to the original "flat" tlist anyway. For any more complex case, it's been broken since 9.1 where we introduced the ability to optimize min/max using MergeAppend, as reported by Raphael Bauduin. Fix by duplicating the logic from grouping_planner that decides whether we need a Result node. In 9.2 and 9.1, this requires back-porting the tlist_same_exprs() function introduced in commit 4387cf956b9eb13aad569634e0c4df081d76e2e3, else we'd uselessly add a Result node in cases that worked before. It's rather tempting to back-patch that whole commit so that we can avoid extra Result nodes in mainline cases too; but I'll refrain, since that code hasn't really seen all that much field testing yet.
* Prevent creating window functions with default arguments.Tom Lane2013-11-06
| | | | | | | Insertion of default arguments doesn't work for window functions, which is likely to cause a crash at runtime if the implementation code doesn't check the number of actual arguments carefully. It doesn't seem worth working harder than this for pre-9.2 branches.
* Improve the error message given for modifying a window with frame clause.Tom Lane2013-11-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | For rather inscrutable reasons, SQL:2008 disallows copying-and-modifying a window definition that has any explicit framing clause. The error message we gave for this only made sense if the referencing window definition itself contains an explicit framing clause, which it might well not. Moreover, in the context of an OVER clause it's not exactly obvious that "OVER (windowname)" implies copy-and-modify while "OVER windowname" does not. This has led to multiple complaints, eg bug #5199 from Iliya Krapchatov. Change to a hopefully more intelligible error message, and in the case where we have just "OVER (windowname)", add a HINT suggesting that omitting the parentheses will fix it. Also improve the related documentation. Back-patch to all supported branches.
* Changed test case slightly so it doesn't have an unused typedef.Michael Meskes2013-11-03
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* Ensure all files created for a single BufFile have the same resource owner.Tom Lane2013-11-01
| | | | | | | | | | | Callers expect that they only have to set the right resource owner when creating a BufFile, not during subsequent operations on it. While we could insist this be fixed at the caller level, it seems more sensible for the BufFile to take care of it. Without this, some temp files belonging to a BufFile can go away too soon, eg at the end of a subtransaction, leading to errors or crashes. Reported and fixed by Andres Freund. Back-patch to all active branches.
* Fix some odd behaviors when using a SQL-style simple GMT offset timezone.Tom Lane2013-11-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Formerly, when using a SQL-spec timezone setting with a fixed GMT offset (called a "brute force" timezone in the code), the session_timezone variable was not updated to match the nominal timezone; rather, all code was expected to ignore session_timezone if HasCTZSet was true. This is of course obviously fragile, though a search of the code finds only timeofday() failing to honor the rule. A bigger problem was that DetermineTimeZoneOffset() supposed that if its pg_tz parameter was pointer-equal to session_timezone, then HasCTZSet should override the parameter. This would cause datetime input containing an explicit zone name to be treated as referencing the brute-force zone instead, if the zone name happened to match the session timezone that had prevailed before installing the brute-force zone setting (as reported in bug #8572). The same malady could affect AT TIME ZONE operators. To fix, set up session_timezone so that it matches the brute-force zone specification, which we can do using the POSIX timezone definition syntax "<abbrev>offset", and get rid of the bogus lookaside check in DetermineTimeZoneOffset(). Aside from fixing the erroneous behavior in datetime parsing and AT TIME ZONE, this will cause the timeofday() function to print its result in the user-requested time zone rather than some previously-set zone. It might also affect results in third-party extensions, if there are any that make use of session_timezone without considering HasCTZSet, but in all cases the new behavior should be saner than before. Back-patch to all supported branches.
* Prevent using strncpy with src == dest in TupleDescInitEntry.Tom Lane2013-10-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The C and POSIX standards state that strncpy's behavior is undefined when source and destination areas overlap. While it remains dubious whether any implementations really misbehave when the pointers are exactly equal, some platforms are now starting to force the issue by complaining when an undefined call occurs. (In particular OS X 10.9 has been seen to dump core here, though the exact set of circumstances needed to trigger that remain elusive. Similar behavior can be expected to be optional on Linux and other platforms in the near future.) So tweak the code to explicitly do nothing when nothing need be done. Back-patch to all active branches. In HEAD, this also lets us get rid of an exception in valgrind.supp. Per discussion of a report from Matthias Schmitt.
* doc: Remove i18ngurus.com linkPeter Eisentraut2013-10-21
| | | | | The web site is dead, and the Wayback Machine shows that it didn't have much useful content before.
* docs: correct 9.1 and 9.2 release note mention of timeline switch fixBruce Momjian2013-10-15
| | | | | | Backpatch through 9.1. KONDO Mitsumasa
* doc: fix typo in release notesBruce Momjian2013-10-09
| | | | | | Backpatch through 8.4 Per suggestion by Amit Langote
* Stamp 9.1.10.REL9_1_10Peter Eisentraut2013-10-07
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* Revert "Document support for VPATH builds of extensions."Peter Eisentraut2013-10-07
| | | | This reverts commit 6ed3c5f7b2846be9e176ea1c99b2d45bba0d6972.
* Revert "Backpatch pgxs vpath build and installation fixes (v2)"Peter Eisentraut2013-10-07
| | | | | | | This reverts commit 176c70b9f2ce382a5590e42afd7ba4edb87efecb. pending resolution of http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/1381193255.25702.4.camel@vanquo.pezone.net
* docs: update release notes for 8.4.18, 9.0.14, 9.1.10, 9.2.5, 9.3.1Bruce Momjian2013-10-07
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* Oops. Unbreak the 9.1 build.Heikki Linnakangas2013-10-08
| | | | | I forgot to "git add" latest changes after backpatching the changes for previous commit.
* Fix bugs in SSI tuple locking.Heikki Linnakangas2013-10-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | 1. In heap_hot_search_buffer(), the PredicateLockTuple() call is passed wrong offset number. heapTuple->t_self is set to the tid of the first tuple in the chain that's visited, not the one actually being read. 2. CheckForSerializableConflictIn() uses the tuple's t_ctid field instead of t_self to check for exiting predicate locks on the tuple. If the tuple was updated, but the updater rolled back, t_ctid points to the aborted dead tuple. Reported by Hannu Krosing. Backpatch to 9.1.
* Translation updatesPeter Eisentraut2013-10-07
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* Eliminate xmin from hash tag for predicate locks on heap tuples.Kevin Grittner2013-10-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If a tuple was frozen while its predicate locks mattered, read-write dependencies could be missed, resulting in failure to detect conflicts which could lead to anomalies in committed serializable transactions. This field was added to the tag when we still thought that it was necessary to carry locks forward to a new version of an updated row. That was later proven to be unnecessary, which allowed simplification of the code, but elimination of xmin from the tag was missed at the time. Per report and analysis by Heikki Linnakangas. Backpatch to 9.1.
* Document support for VPATH builds of extensions.Andrew Dunstan2013-10-06
| | | | Cédric Villemain and me.
* doc: Correct psycopg URLPeter Eisentraut2013-10-02
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* pg_basebackup: Add missing newline to error messagePeter Eisentraut2013-10-02
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* Backpatch pgxs vpath build and installation fixes (v2)Andrew Dunstan2013-09-30
| | | | | This time with the better installation fix, which I hope won't break the buildfarm.
* Fix snapshot leak if lo_open called on non-existent object.Heikki Linnakangas2013-09-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | lo_open registers the currently active snapshot, and checks if the large object exists after that. Normally, snapshots registered by lo_open are unregistered at end of transaction when the lo descriptor is closed, but if we error out before the lo descriptor is added to the list of open descriptors, it is leaked. Fix by moving the snapshot registration to after checking if the large object exists. Reported by Pavel Stehule. Backpatch to 8.4. The snapshot registration system was introduced in 8.4, so prior versions are not affected (and not supported, anyway).
* Revert "Backpatch pgxs vpath build and installation fixes."Andrew Dunstan2013-09-30
| | | | This reverts commit 15892461042f4e00322f4116236697dde022a2f8.
* Backpatch pgxs vpath build and installation fixes.Andrew Dunstan2013-09-29
| | | | | | This is a backpatch of commits d942f9d9, 82b01026, and 6697aa2bc, back to release 9.1 where we introduced extensions which make heavy use of the PGXS infrastructure.
* Fix spurious warning after vacuuming a page on a table with no indexes.Heikki Linnakangas2013-09-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There is a rare race condition, when a transaction that inserted a tuple aborts while vacuum is processing the page containing the inserted tuple. Vacuum prunes the page first, which normally removes any dead tuples, but if the inserting transaction aborts right after that, the loop after pruning will see a dead tuple and remove it instead. That's OK, but if the page is on a table with no indexes, and the page becomes completely empty after removing the dead tuple (or tuples) on it, it will be immediately marked as all-visible. That's OK, but the sanity check in vacuum would throw a warning because it thinks that the page contains dead tuples and was nevertheless marked as all-visible, even though it just vacuumed away the dead tuples and so it doesn't actually contain any. Spotted this while reading the code. It's difficult to hit the race condition otherwise, but can be done by putting a breakpoint after the heap_page_prune() call. Backpatch all the way to 8.4, where this code first appeared.
* Fix pgindent comment breakageAlvaro Herrera2013-09-24
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* Use @libdir@ in both of regress/{input,output}/security_label.sourceNoah Misch2013-09-23
| | | | | | | | Though @libdir@ almost always matches @abs_builddir@ in this context, the test could only fail if they differed. Back-patch to 9.1, where the test was introduced. Hamid Quddus Akhtar
* Fix SSL deadlock risk in libpqStephen Frost2013-09-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In libpq, we set up and pass to OpenSSL callback routines to handle locking. When we run out of SSL connections, we try to clean things up by de-registering the hooks. Unfortunately, we had a few calls into the OpenSSL library after these hooks were de-registered during SSL cleanup which lead to deadlocking. This moves the thread callback cleanup to be after all SSL-cleanup related OpenSSL library calls. I've been unable to reproduce the deadlock with this fix. In passing, also move the close_SSL call to be after unlocking our ssl_config mutex when in a failure state. While it looks pretty unlikely to be an issue, it could have resulted in deadlocks if we ended up in this code path due to something other than SSL_new failing. Thanks to Heikki for pointing this out. Back-patch to all supported versions; note that the close_SSL issue only goes back to 9.0, so that hunk isn't included in the 8.4 patch. Initially found and reported by Vesa-Matti J Kari; many thanks to both Heikki and Andres for their help running down the specific issue and reviewing the patch.
* Ignore interrupts during quickdie().Noah Misch2013-09-11
| | | | | | | | | Once the administrator has called for an immediate shutdown or a backend crash has triggered a reinitialization, no mere SIGINT or SIGTERM should change that course. Such derailment remains possible when the signal arrives before quickdie() blocks signals. That being a narrow race affecting most PostgreSQL signal handlers in some way, leave it for another patch. Back-patch this to all supported versions.
* Return error if allocation of new element was not possible.Michael Meskes2013-09-08
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* Close file to no leak file descriptor memory. Found by Coverity.Michael Meskes2013-09-08
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* Don't fail for bad GUCs in CREATE FUNCTION with check_function_bodies off.Tom Lane2013-09-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The previous coding attempted to activate all the GUC settings specified in SET clauses, so that the function validator could operate in the GUC environment expected by the function body. However, this is problematic when restoring a dump, since the SET clauses might refer to database objects that don't exist yet. We already have the parameter check_function_bodies that's meant to prevent forward references in function definitions from breaking dumps, so let's change CREATE FUNCTION to not install the SET values if check_function_bodies is off. Authors of function validators were already advised not to make any "context sensitive" checks when check_function_bodies is off, if indeed they're checking anything at all in that mode. But extend the documentation to point out the GUC issue in particular. (Note that we still check the SET clauses to some extent; the behavior with !check_function_bodies is now approximately equivalent to what ALTER DATABASE/ROLE have been doing for awhile with context-dependent GUCs.) This problem can be demonstrated in all active branches, so back-patch all the way.
* Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2013d.Tom Lane2013-09-02
| | | | | DST law changes in Israel, Morocco, Palestine, Paraguay. Historical corrections for Macquarie Island.
* Fix relfrozenxid query in docs to include TOAST tables.Andrew Dunstan2013-09-02
| | | | | | | The original query ignored TOAST tables which could result in tables needing a vacuum not being reported. Backpatch to all live branches.
* Unconditionally use the WSA equivalents of Socket error constants.Andrew Dunstan2013-08-26
| | | | | | | | | | This change will only apply to mingw compilers, and has been found necessary by late versions of the mingw-w64 compiler. It's the same as what is done elsewhere for the Microsoft compilers. Backpatch of commit 73838b5251e. Problem reported by Michael Cronenworth, although not his patch.
* In locate_grouping_columns(), don't expect an exact match of Var typmods.Tom Lane2013-08-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It's possible that inlining of SQL functions (or perhaps other changes?) has exposed typmod information not known at parse time. In such cases, Vars generated by query_planner might have valid typmod values while the original grouping columns only have typmod -1. This isn't a semantic problem since the behavior of grouping only depends on type not typmod, but it breaks locate_grouping_columns' use of tlist_member to locate the matching entry in query_planner's result tlist. We can fix this without an excessive amount of new code or complexity by relying on the fact that locate_grouping_columns only gets called when make_subplanTargetList has set need_tlist_eval == false, and that can only happen if all the grouping columns are simple Vars. Therefore we only need to search the sub_tlist for a matching Var, and we can reasonably define a "match" as being a match of the Var identity fields varno/varattno/varlevelsup. The code still Asserts that vartype matches, but ignores vartypmod. Per bug #8393 from Evan Martin. The added regression test case is basically the same as his example. This has been broken for a very long time, so back-patch to all supported branches.
* Disable -faggressive-loop-optimizations in gcc 4.8+ for pre-9.2 branches.Tom Lane2013-08-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | With this optimization flag enabled, recent versions of gcc can generate incorrect code that assumes variable-length arrays (such as oidvector) are actually fixed-length because they're embedded in some larger struct. The known instance of this problem was fixed in 9.2 and up by commit 8137f2c32322c624e0431fac1621e8e9315202f9 and followon work, which hides actually-variable-length catalog fields from the compiler altogether. And we plan to gradually convert variable-length fields to official "flexible array member" notation over time, which should prevent this type of bug from reappearing as gcc gets smarter. We're not going to try to back-port those changes into older branches, though, so apply this band-aid instead. Andres Freund
* libpq: Report strerror on pthread_mutex_lock() failurePeter Eisentraut2013-08-17
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* Make sure float4in/float8in accept all standard spellings of "infinity".Tom Lane2013-08-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The C99 and POSIX standards require strtod() to accept all these spellings (case-insensitively): "inf", "+inf", "-inf", "infinity", "+infinity", "-infinity". However, pre-C99 systems might accept only some or none of these, and apparently Windows still doesn't accept "inf". To avoid surprising cross-platform behavioral differences, manually check for each of these spellings if strtod() fails. We were previously handling just "infinity" and "-infinity" that way, but since C99 is most of the world now, it seems likely that applications are expecting all these spellings to work. Per bug #8355 from Basil Peace. It turns out this fix won't actually resolve his problem, because Python isn't being this careful; but that doesn't mean we shouldn't be.
* Fix old visibility bug in HeapTupleSatisfiesDirtyAlvaro Herrera2013-08-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If a tuple is locked but not updated by a concurrent transaction, HeapTupleSatisfiesDirty would return that transaction's Xid in xmax, causing callers to wait on it, when it is not necessary (in fact, if the other transaction had used a multixact instead of a plain Xid to mark the tuple, HeapTupleSatisfiesDirty would have behave differently and *not* returned the Xmax). This bug was introduced in commit 3f7fbf85dc5b42, dated December 1998, so it's almost 15 years old now. However, it's hard to see this misbehave, because before we had NOWAIT the only consequence of this is that transactions would wait for slightly more time than necessary; so it's not surprising that this hasn't been reported yet. Craig Ringer and Andres Freund
* Improve handling of pthread_mutex_lock error caseStephen Frost2013-08-01
| | | | | | | | We should really be reporting a useful error along with returning a valid return code if pthread_mutex_lock() throws an error for some reason. Add that and back-patch to 9.0 as the prior patch. Pointed out by Alvaro Herrera
* Add locking around SSL_context usage in libpqStephen Frost2013-08-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I've been working with Nick Phillips on an issue he ran into when trying to use threads with SSL client certificates. As it turns out, the call in initialize_SSL() to SSL_CTX_use_certificate_chain_file() will modify our SSL_context without any protection from other threads also calling that function or being at some other point and trying to read from SSL_context. To protect against this, I've written up the attached (based on an initial patch from Nick and much subsequent discussion) which puts locks around SSL_CTX_use_certificate_chain_file() and all of the other users of SSL_context which weren't already protected. Nick Phillips, much reworked by Stephen Frost Back-patch to 9.0 where we started loading the cert directly instead of using a callback.