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* Disable run condition optimization for some WindowFuncsDavid Rowley2024-05-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 94985c210 added code to detect when WindowFuncs were monotonic and allowed additional quals to be "pushed down" into the subquery to be used as WindowClause runConditions in order to short-circuit execution in nodeWindowAgg.c. The Node representation of runConditions wasn't well selected and because we do qual pushdown before planning the subquery, the planning of the subquery could perform subquery pull-up of nested subqueries. For WindowFuncs with args, the arguments could be changed after pushing the qual down to the subquery. This was made more difficult by the fact that the code duplicated the WindowFunc inside an OpExpr to include in the WindowClauses runCondition field. This could result in duplication of subqueries and a pull-up of such a subquery could result in another initplan parameter being issued for the 2nd version of the subplan. This could result in errors such as: ERROR: WindowFunc not found in subplan target lists Here in the backbranches, we don't have the flexibility to improve the Node representation to resolve this, so instead we just disable the runCondition optimization for ntile() unless the argument is a Const, (v16 only) and likewise for count(expr) (both v15 and v16). count(*) is unaffected. All other window functions which support this optimization all take zero arguments and therefore are unaffected. Bug: #18170 Reported-by: Zuming Jiang Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18170-f1d17bf9a0d58b24@postgresql.org Backpatch-through 15 (master will be fixed independently)
* Detect more overflows in timestamp[tz]_pl_interval.Tom Lane2024-04-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In commit 25cd2d640 I (tgl) opined that "The additions of the months and microseconds fields could also overflow, of course. However, I believe we need no additional checks there; the existing range checks should catch such cases". This is demonstrably wrong however for the microseconds field, and given that discovery it seems prudent to be paranoid about the months addition as well. Report and patch by Joseph Koshakow. As before, back-patch to all supported branches. (However, the test case doesn't work before v15 because we didn't allow wider-than-int32 numbers in interval literals. A variant test could probably be built that fits within that restriction, but it didn't seem worth the trouble.) Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAvxfHf77sRHKoEzUw9_cMYSpbpNS2C+J_+8Dq4+0oi8iKopeA@mail.gmail.com
* Fix make headerscheckJohn Naylor2024-04-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | In the wake of commits dac048f71 and ecaf7c5df, `make headerscheck` no longer generated all headers that are included by other headers, causing headerscheck/cpluspluscheck to fail. To fix, backpatch enough makefile rules from 721856ff2 to generate all required headers. Reported by Marina Polyakova Backpatch to version 16 only, as the issue is not present on master Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/231ea1127719b2b3d6d1c05f75808981%40postgrespro.ru
* Fix type-checking of RECORD-returning functions in FROM, redux.Tom Lane2024-04-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Commit 2ed8f9a01 intended to institute a policy that if a RangeTblFunction has a coldeflist, then the function return type is certainly RECORD, and we should use the coldeflist as the source of truth about what the columns of the record type are. When the original function has been folded to a constant, inspection of the constant might give a different answer. This situation will lead to a tuple-type-mismatch error at execution, but up until that point we need to consistently believe the coldeflist, or we'll have problems from different bits of code reaching different conclusions. expandRTE didn't get that memo though, and would try to produce a tupdesc based on the constant in this situation, leading to an assertion failure. (Desultory testing suggests that non-assert builds often manage to give the expected error, although I also saw a "cache lookup failed for type 0" error, and it seems at least possible that a crash could happen.) Some other callers of get_expr_result_type and get_expr_result_tupdesc were also being incautious about this. While none of them seem to have actual bugs, they're working harder than necessary in this case, besides which it seems safest to have an explicit policy of not using those functions on an RTE with a coldeflist. Adjust the code accordingly, and add commentary to funcapi.c about this policy. Also fix an obsolete comment that claimed "get_expr_result_type() doesn't know how to extract type info from a RECORD constant". That hasn't been true since commit d57534740. Per bug #18422 from Alexander Lakhin. As with the previous commit, back-patch to all supported branches. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18422-89ca86c8eac5246d@postgresql.org
* Allow "make check"-style testing to work with musl C library.Tom Lane2024-03-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The musl dynamic linker saves a pointer to the process' environment value of LD_LIBRARY_PATH very early in startup. When we move/clobber the environment to make more room for ps status strings, we clobber that value and thereby prevent libraries from being found via LD_LIBRARY_PATH, which breaks the use of a temporary installation for testing purposes. To fix, stop collecting usable space for ps status if we notice that the variable we are about to clobber is LD_LIBRARY_PATH. This will result in some reduction in how long the ps status can be, but it's only likely to occur in temporary test contexts, so it doesn't seem like a big problem. In any case, we don't have to do it if we see we are on glibc, which surely is where the majority of our Linux testing is done. Thomas Munro, Bruce Momjian, and Tom Lane, per report from Wolfgang Walther. Back-patch to all supported branches, with the hope that we'll set up a buildfarm animal to test on this platform. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/fddd1cd6-dc16-40a2-9eb5-d7fef2101488@technowledgy.de
* Clarify comment for LogicalTapeSetBlocks().Jeff Davis2024-03-25
| | | | | Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1229327.1711160246@sss.pgh.pa.us Backpatch-through: 13
* Use a hash table for catcache.c's CatCList objects.Tom Lane2024-03-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Up to now, all of the "catcache list" objects within a catalog cache were just chained together on a single dlist, requiring O(N) time to search. Remarkably, we've not had serious performance problems with that so far; but we got a complaint of a bad performance regression from v15 in a case with a large number of roles in the system, which traced down to O(N^2) total time when we probed N catcache lists. Replace that data structure with a hashtable having an enlargeable number of dlists, in an exactly parallel way to the data structure we've used for years for the plain CatCTup cache members. The extra cost of maintaining a hash table seems negligible, since we were already computing a hash value for list searches. Normally this'd be HEAD-only material, but in view of the performance regression it seems advisable to back-patch into v16. In the v16 version of the patch, leave the dead cc_lists field where it is and add the new fields at the end of struct catcache, to avoid possible ABI breakage in case any external code is looking at these structs. (We assume no external code is actually allocating new catcache structs.) Per report from alex work. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAGvXd3OSMbJQwOSc-Tq-Ro1CAz=vggErdSG7pv2s6vmmTOLJSg@mail.gmail.com
* Fix EXPLAIN output for subplans in MERGE.Dean Rasheed2024-03-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Given a subplan in a MERGE query, EXPLAIN would sometimes fail to properly display expressions involving Params referencing variables in other parts of the plan tree. This would affect subplans outside the topmost join plan node, for which expansion of Params would go via the top-level ModifyTable plan node. The problem was that "inner_tlist" for the ModifyTable node's deparse_namespace was set to the join node's targetlist, but "inner_plan" was set to the ModifyTable node itself, rather than the join node, leading to incorrect results when descending to the referenced variable. Fix and backpatch to v15, where MERGE was introduced. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEZATCWAv-sZuH%2BwG5xJ-%2BGt7qGNGX8wUQd3XYydMFDKgRB9nw%40mail.gmail.com
* Backpatch missing check_stack_depth() to some recursive functionsAlexander Korotkov2024-03-11
| | | | | | | Backpatch changes from d57b7cc333, 75bcba6cbd to all supported branches per proposal of Egor Chindyaskin. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/DE5FD776-A8CD-4378-BCFA-3BF30F1F6D60%40mail.ru
* Revert "Fix parallel-safety check of expressions and predicate for index builds"Michael Paquier2024-03-07
| | | | | | | | | | | This reverts commit eae7be600be7, following a discussion with Tom Lane, due to concerns that this impacts the decisions made by the planner for the number of workers spawned based on the inlining and const-folding of index expressions and predicate for cases that would have worked until this commit. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/162802.1709746091@sss.pgh.pa.us Backpatch-through: 12
* Fix parallel-safety check of expressions and predicate for index buildsMichael Paquier2024-03-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | As coded, the planner logic that calculates the number of parallel workers to use for a parallel index build uses expressions and predicates from the relcache, which are flattened for the planner by eval_const_expressions(). As reported in the bug, an immutable parallel-unsafe function flattened in the relcache would become a Const, which would be considered as parallel-safe, even if the predicate or the expressions including the function are not safe in parallel workers. Depending on the expressions or predicate used, this could cause the parallel build to fail. Tests are included that check parallel index builds with parallel-unsafe predicate and expressions. Two routines are added to lsyscache.h to be able to retrieve expressions and predicate of an index from its pg_index data. Reported-by: Alexander Lakhin Author: Tender Wang Reviewed-by: Jian He, Michael Paquier Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHewXN=UaAaNn9ruHDH3Os8kxLVmtWqbssnf=dZN_s9=evHUFA@mail.gmail.com Backpatch-through: 12
* Fix integer underflow in shared memory debuggingDaniel Gustafsson2024-02-29
| | | | | | | | | | | dsa_dump would print a large negative number instead of zero for segment bin 0. Fix by explicitly checking for underflow and add special case for bin 0. Backpatch to all supported versions. Author: Ian Ilyasov <ianilyasov@outlook.com> Reviewed-by: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/GV1P251MB1004E0D09D117D3CECF9256ECD502@GV1P251MB1004.EURP251.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM Backpatch-through: v12
* Fix mis-rounding and overflow hazards in date_bin().Tom Lane2024-02-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In the case where the target timestamp is before the origin timestamp and their difference is already an exact multiple of the stride, the code incorrectly subtracted the stride anyway. Also detect several integer-overflow cases that previously produced bogus results. (The submitted patch tried to avoid overflow, but I'm not convinced it's right, and problematic cases are so far out of the plausibly-useful range that they don't seem worth sweating over. Let's just use overflow-detecting arithmetic and throw errors.) timestamp_bin() and timestamptz_bin() are basically identical and so had identical bugs. Fix both. Report and patch by Moaaz Assali, adjusted some by me. Back-patch to v14 where date_bin() was introduced. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALkF+nvtuas-2kydG-WfofbRSJpyODAJWun==W-yO5j2R4meqA@mail.gmail.com
* Doc: improve a couple of comments in postgresql.conf.sample.Tom Lane2024-02-15
| | | | | | | | | Clarify comments associated with max_parallel_workers and related settings. Per bug #18343 from Christopher Kline. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18343-3a5e903d1d3692ab@postgresql.org
* Remove race condition in pg_get_expr().Tom Lane2024-02-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Since its introduction, pg_get_expr() has intended to silently return NULL if called with an invalid relation OID, as can happen when scanning the catalogs concurrently with relation drops. However, there is a race condition: we check validity of the OID at the start, but it could get dropped just afterward, leading to failures. This is the cause of some intermittent instability we're seeing in a proposed new test case, and presumably it's a hazard in the field as well. We can fix this by AccessShareLock-ing the target relation for the duration of pg_get_expr(). Since we don't require any permissions on the target relation, this is semantically a bit undesirable. But it turns out that the set_relation_column_names() subroutine already takes a transient AccessShareLock on that relation, and has done since commit 2ffa740be in 2012. Given the lack of complaints about that, it seems like there should be no harm in holding the lock a bit longer. Back-patch to all supported branches. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/31ddcc01-a71b-4e8c-9948-01d1c47293ca@eisentraut.org
* Fix wrong logic in TransactionIdInRecentPast()Alexander Korotkov2024-02-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The TransactionIdInRecentPast() should return false for all the transactions older than TransamVariables->oldestClogXid. However, the function contains a bug in comparison FullTransactionId to TransactionID allowing full transactions between nextXid - 2^32 and oldestClogXid - 2^31. This commit fixes TransactionIdInRecentPast() by turning the oldestClogXid into FullTransactionId first, then performing the comparison. Backpatch to all supported versions. Reported-by: Egor Chindyaskin Bug: 18212 Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18212-547307f8adf57262%40postgresql.org Author: Karina Litskevich Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi Backpatch-through: 12
* Translate ENOMEM to ERRCODE_OUT_OF_MEMORY in errcode_for_file_access().Tom Lane2024-02-02
| | | | | | | | | | Previously you got ERRCODE_INTERNAL_ERROR, which seems inappropriate, especially given that we're trying to avoid emitting that in reachable cases. Alexander Kuzmenkov Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALzhyqzgQph0BY8-hFRRGdHhF8CoqmmDHW9S=hMZ-HMzLxRqDQ@mail.gmail.com
* Sync PG_VERSION file in CREATE DATABASE.Noah Misch2024-02-01
| | | | | | | | | | | An OS crash could leave PG_VERSION empty or missing. The same symptom appeared in a backup by block device snapshot, taken after the next checkpoint and before the OS flushes the PG_VERSION blocks. Device snapshots are not a documented backup method, however. Back-patch to v15, where commit 9c08aea6a3090a396be334cc58c511edab05776a introduced STRATEGY=WAL_LOG and made it the default. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20240130195003.0a.nmisch@google.com
* Handle interleavings between CREATE DATABASE steps and base backup.Noah Misch2024-02-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Restoring a base backup taken in the middle of CreateDirAndVersionFile() or write_relmap_file() would lose the function's effects. The symptom was absence of the database directory, PG_VERSION file, or pg_filenode.map. If missing the directory, recovery would fail. Either missing file would not fail recovery but would render the new database unusable. Fix CreateDirAndVersionFile() with the transam/README "action first and then write a WAL entry" strategy. That has a side benefit of moving filesystem mutations out of a critical section, reducing the ways to PANIC. Fix the write_relmap_file() call with a lock acquisition, so it interacts with checkpoints like non-CREATE DATABASE calls do. Back-patch to v15, where commit 9c08aea6a3090a396be334cc58c511edab05776a introduced STRATEGY=WAL_LOG and made it the default. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20240130195003.0a.nmisch@google.com
* Fix stats_fetch_consistency with stats for fixed-numbered objectsMichael Paquier2024-02-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This impacts the statistics retrieved in transactions for the following views when updating the value of stats_fetch_consistency, leading to behaviors contrary to what is documented since 605994651b6a as an update of this parameter should discard all statistics snapshot data: - pg_stat_archiver - pg_stat_bgwriter - pg_stat_checkpointer - pg_stat_io - pg_stat_slru - pg_stat_wal For example, updating stats_fetch_consistency from "snapshot" to "cache" in a transaction did not re-fetch any fresh data, using data cached from the time when "snapshot" was in use. Author: Shinya Kato Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/d77fc5190d4dbe1738d77231488e768b@oss.nttdata.com Backpatch-through: 15
* Fix incompatibilities with libxml2 >= 2.12.0.Tom Lane2024-01-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | libxml2 changed the required signature of error handler callbacks to make the passed xmlError struct "const". This is causing build failures on buildfarm member caiman, and no doubt will start showing up in the field quite soon. Add a version check to adjust the declaration of xml_errorHandler() according to LIBXML_VERSION. 2.12.x also produces deprecation warnings for contrib/xml2/xpath.c's assignment to xmlLoadExtDtdDefaultValue. I see no good reason for that to still be there, seeing that we disabled external DTDs (at a lower level) years ago for security reasons. Let's just remove it. Back-patch to all supported branches, since they might all get built with newer libxml2 once it gets a bit more popular. (The back branches produce another deprecation warning about xpath.c's use of xmlSubstituteEntitiesDefault(). We ought to consider whether to back-patch all or part of commit 65c5864d7 to silence that. It's less urgent though, since it won't break the buildfarm.) Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1389505.1706382262@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Detect Julian-date overflow in timestamp[tz]_pl_interval.Tom Lane2024-01-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We perform addition of the days field of an interval via arithmetic on the Julian-date representation of the timestamp's date. This step is subject to int32 overflow, and we also should not let the Julian date become very negative, for fear of weird results from j2date. (In the timestamptz case, allow a Julian date of -1 to pass, since it might convert back to zero after timezone rotation.) The additions of the months and microseconds fields could also overflow, of course. However, I believe we need no additional checks there; the existing range checks should catch such cases. The difficulty here is that j2date's magic modular arithmetic could produce something that looks like it's in-range. Per bug #18313 from Christian Maurer. This has been wrong for a long time, so back-patch to all supported branches. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18313-64d2c8952d81e84b@postgresql.org
* Fix incorrect comment on how BackendStatusArray is indexedHeikki Linnakangas2024-01-17
| | | | | | | | | | | The comment was copy-pasted from the call to ProcSignalInit() in AuxiliaryProcessMain(), which uses a similar scheme of having reserved slots for aux processes after MaxBackends slots for backends. However, ProcSignalInit() indexing starts from 1, whereas BackendStatusArray starts from 0. The code is correct, but the comment was wrong. Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/f3ecd4cb-85ee-4e54-8278-5fabfb3a4ed0@iki.fi Backpatch-through: v14
* Re-pgindent catcache.c after previous commit.Tom Lane2024-01-13
| | | | | Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1393953.1698353013@sss.pgh.pa.us Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAGjhLkOoBEC9mLsnB42d3CO1vcMx71MLSEuigeABbQ8oRdA6gw@mail.gmail.com
* Cope with catcache entries becoming stale during detoasting.Tom Lane2024-01-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We've long had a policy that any toasted fields in a catalog tuple should be pulled in-line before entering the tuple in a catalog cache. However, that requires access to the catalog's toast table, and we'll typically do AcceptInvalidationMessages while opening the toast table. So it's possible that the catalog tuple is outdated by the time we finish detoasting it. Since no cache entry exists yet, we can't mark the entry stale during AcceptInvalidationMessages, and instead we'll press forward and build an apparently-valid cache entry. The upshot is that we have a race condition whereby an out-of-date entry could be made in a backend's catalog cache, and persist there indefinitely causing indeterminate misbehavior. To fix, use the existing systable_recheck_tuple code to recheck whether the catalog tuple is still up-to-date after we finish detoasting it. If not, loop around and restart the process of searching the catalog and constructing cache entries from the top. The case is rare enough that this shouldn't create any meaningful performance penalty, even in the SearchCatCacheList case where we need to tear down and reconstruct the whole list. Indeed, the case is so rare that AFAICT it doesn't occur during our regression tests, and there doesn't seem to be any easy way to build a test that would exercise it reliably. To allow testing of the retry code paths, add logic (in USE_ASSERT_CHECKING builds only) that randomly pretends that the recheck failed about one time out of a thousand. This is enough to ensure that we'll pass through the retry paths during most regression test runs. By adding an extra level of looping, this commit creates a need to reindent most of SearchCatCacheMiss and SearchCatCacheList. I'll do that separately, to allow putting those changes in .git-blame-ignore-revs. Patch by me; thanks to Alexander Lakhin for having built a test case to prove the bug is real, and to Xiaoran Wang for review. Back-patch to all supported branches. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1393953.1698353013@sss.pgh.pa.us Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAGjhLkOoBEC9mLsnB42d3CO1vcMx71MLSEuigeABbQ8oRdA6gw@mail.gmail.com
* Restore initdb's old behavior of always setting the lc_xxx GUCs.Tom Lane2024-01-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In commit 3e51b278d I (tgl) caused initdb to leave lc_messages and other lc_xxx GUCs commented-out in the installed postgresql.conf file if they were going to be set to 'C'. This was a hack for cosmetic purposes, and it was buggy because lc_messages' wired-in default is not 'C' but '' (empty string). That led to --no-locale not having the expected effect, since the postmaster would then obtain lc_messages from its startup environment. Let's just revert to the prior behavior of always de-commenting the lc_xxx entries; the argument for changing that longstanding behavior was weak in the first place. Also, fix postgresql.conf.sample's erroneous claim that the default value of lc_messages is 'C'. I suspect that was what misled me into making this mistake in the first place. Report and patch by Kyotaro Horiguchi. Back-patch to v16 where the problem was introduced. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20231122.162700.1995154567625541112.horikyota.ntt@gmail.com
* Fix failure to verify PGC_[SU_]BACKEND GUCs in pg_file_settings view.Tom Lane2023-12-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | set_config_option() bails out early if it detects that the option to be set is PGC_BACKEND or PGC_SU_BACKEND class and we're reading the config file in a postmaster child; we don't want to apply any new value in such a case. That's fine as far as it goes, but it fails to consider the requirements of the pg_file_settings view: for that, we need to check validity of the value even though we have no intention to apply it. Because we didn't, even very silly values for affected GUCs would be reported as valid by the view. There are only half a dozen such GUCs, which perhaps explains why this got overlooked for so long. Fix by continuing when changeVal is false; this parallels the logic in some other early-exit paths. Also, the check added by commit 924bcf4f1 to prevent GUC changes in parallel workers seems a few bricks shy of a load: it's evidently assuming that ereport(elevel, ...) won't return. Make sure we bail out if it does. The lack of trouble reports suggests that this is only a latent bug, i.e. parallel workers don't actually reach here with elevel < ERROR. (Per the code coverage report, we never reach here at all in the regression suite.) But we clearly don't want to risk proceeding if that does happen. Per report from Rıdvan Korkmaz. These are ancient bugs, so back-patch to all supported branches. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2089235.1703617353@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Adjust obsolete comment explaining set_stack_base().Thomas Munro2023-12-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Commit 7389aad6 removed the notion of backends started from inside a signal handler. A stray comment still referred to them, while explaining the need for a call to set_stack_base(). That leads to the question of whether we still need the call in !EXEC_BACKEND builds. There doesn't seem to be much point in suppressing it now, as it doesn't hurt and probably helps to measure the stack base from the exact same place in EXEC_BACKEND and !EXEC_BACKEND builds. Back-patch to 16. Reported-by: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi> Reported-by: Tristan Partin <tristan@neon.tech> Reported-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKG%2BEJHcevNGNOxVWxTNFbuB%3Dvjf4U68%2B85rAC_Sxvy2zEQ%40mail.gmail.com
* Guard against overflow in interval_mul() and interval_div().Dean Rasheed2023-11-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Commits 146604ec43 and a898b409f6 added overflow checks to interval_mul(), but not to interval_div(), which contains almost identical code, and so is susceptible to the same kinds of overflows. In addition, those checks did not catch all possible overflow conditions. Add additional checks to the "cascade down" code in interval_mul(), and copy all the overflow checks over to the corresponding code in interval_div(), so that they both generate "interval out of range" errors, rather than returning bogus results. Given that these errors are relatively easy to hit, back-patch to all supported branches. Per bug #18200 from Alexander Lakhin, and subsequent investigation. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18200-5ea288c7b2d504b1%40postgresql.org
* Ensure we use the correct spelling of "ensure"David Rowley2023-11-10
| | | | | | | | | We seem to have accidentally used "insure" in a few places. Correct that. Author: Peter Smith Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHut+Pv0biqrhA3pMhu40aDsj343mTsD75khKnHsLqR8P04f=Q@mail.gmail.com Backpatch-through: 12, oldest supported version
* Detect integer overflow while computing new array dimensions.Tom Lane2023-11-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | array_set_element() and related functions allow an array to be enlarged by assigning to subscripts outside the current array bounds. While these places were careful to check that the new bounds are allowable, they neglected to consider the risk of integer overflow in computing the new bounds. In edge cases, we could compute new bounds that are invalid but get past the subsequent checks, allowing bad things to happen. Memory stomps that are potentially exploitable for arbitrary code execution are possible, and so is disclosure of server memory. To fix, perform the hazardous computations using overflow-detecting arithmetic routines, which fortunately exist in all still-supported branches. The test cases added for this generate (after patching) errors that mention the value of MaxArraySize, which is platform-dependent. Rather than introduce multiple expected-files, use psql's VERBOSITY parameter to suppress the printing of the message text. v11 psql lacks that parameter, so omit the tests in that branch. Our thanks to Pedro Gallegos for reporting this problem. Security: CVE-2023-5869
* Set GUC "is_superuser" in all processes that set AuthenticatedUserId.Noah Misch2023-11-06
| | | | | | | | | It was always false in single-user mode, in autovacuum workers, and in background workers. This had no specifically-identified security consequences, but non-core code or future work might make it security-relevant. Back-patch to v11 (all supported versions). Jelte Fennema-Nio. Reported by Jelte Fennema-Nio.
* Be more wary about NULL values for GUC string variables.Tom Lane2023-11-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | get_explain_guc_options() crashed if a string GUC marked GUC_EXPLAIN has a NULL boot_val. Nosing around found a couple of other places that seemed insufficiently cautious about NULL string values, although those are likely unreachable in practice. Add some commentary defining the expectations for NULL values of string variables, in hopes of forestalling future additions of more such bugs. Xing Guo, Aleksander Alekseev, Tom Lane Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CACpMh+AyDx5YUpPaAgzVwC1d8zfOL4JoD-uyFDnNSa1z0EsDQQ@mail.gmail.com
* Fix function name in commentDaniel Gustafsson2023-11-01
| | | | | | | | | | | The name of the function resulting from the macro expansion was incorrectly stated. Backpatch to 16 where it was introduced. Author: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20231101.172308.1740861597185391383.horikyota.ntt@gmail.com Backpatch-through: v16
* doc: 1-byte varlena headers can be used for user PLAIN storageBruce Momjian2023-10-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | This also updates some C comments. Reported-by: suchithjn22@gmail.com Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/167336599095.2667301.15497893107226841625@wrigleys.postgresql.org Author: Laurenz Albe (doc patch) Backpatch-through: 11
* Dodge a compiler bug affecting timetz_zone/timetz_izone.Tom Lane2023-10-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | This avoids a compiler bug occurring in AIX's xlc, even in pretty late-model revisions. Buildfarm testing has now confirmed that only 64-bit xlc is affected. Although we are contemplating dropping support for xlc in v17, it's still supported in the back branches, so we need this fix. Back-patch of code changes from HEAD commit 19fa97731. (The test cases were already back-patched, in 4a427b82c et al.) Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+hUKGK=DOC+hE-62FKfZy=Ybt5uLkrg3zCZD-jFykM-iPn8yw@mail.gmail.com
* Count write times when extending relation files for shared buffersMichael Paquier2023-10-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Relation files extended multiple blocks at a time have been counting the number of blocks written, but forgot that to increment the write time in this case, as write and relation extension are treated as two different I/O operations in the shared stats: IOOP_EXTEND vs IOOP_WRITE. In this case IOOP_EXTEND was forgotten for normal (non-temporary) relations. Write times are tracked when track_io_timing is enabled, which is not the case by default. Author: Nazir Bilal Yavuz Reviewed-by: Robert Haas, Melanie Plageman Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAN55FZ19Ss279mZuqGbuUNxka0iPbLgYuOQXqAKewrjNrp27VA@mail.gmail.com Backpatch-through: 16
* Avoid calling proc_exit() in processes forked by system().Nathan Bossart2023-10-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The SIGTERM handler for the startup process immediately calls proc_exit() for the duration of the restore_command, i.e., a call to system(). This system() call forks a new process to execute the shell command, and this child process inherits the parent's signal handlers. If both the parent and child processes receive SIGTERM, both will attempt to call proc_exit(). This can end badly. For example, both processes will try to remove themselves from the PGPROC shared array. To fix this problem, this commit adds a check in StartupProcShutdownHandler() to see whether MyProcPid == getpid(). If they match, this is the parent process, and we can proc_exit() like before. If they do not match, this is a child process, and we just emit a message to STDERR (in a signal safe manner) and _exit(), thereby skipping any problematic exit callbacks. This commit also adds checks in proc_exit(), ProcKill(), and AuxiliaryProcKill() that verify they are not being called within such child processes. Suggested-by: Andres Freund Reviewed-by: Thomas Munro, Andres Freund Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/Y9nGDSgIm83FHcad%40paquier.xyz Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230223231503.GA743455%40nathanxps13 Backpatch-through: 11
* Acquire ControlFileLock in relevant SQL functions.Thomas Munro2023-10-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Commit dc7d70ea added functions that read the control file, but didn't acquire ControlFileLock. With unlucky timing, file systems that have weak interlocking like ext4 and ntfs could expose partially overwritten contents, and the checksum would fail. Back-patch to all supported releases. Reviewed-by: David Steele <david@pgmasters.net> Reviewed-by: Anton A. Melnikov <aamelnikov@inbox.ru> Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20221123014224.xisi44byq3cf5psi%40awork3.anarazel.de
* Dissociate btequalimage() from interval_ops, ending its deduplication.Noah Misch2023-10-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Under interval_ops, some equal values are distinguishable. One such pair is '24:00:00' and '1 day'. With that being so, btequalimage() breaches the documented contract for the "equalimage" btree support function. This can cause incorrect results from index-only scans. Users should REINDEX any btree indexes having interval-type columns. After updating, pg_amcheck will report an error for almost all such indexes. This fix makes interval_ops simply omit the support function, like numeric_ops does. Back-pack to v13, where btequalimage() first appeared. In back branches, for the benefit of old catalog content, btequalimage() code will return false for type "interval". Going forward, back-branch initdb will include the catalog change. Reviewed by Peter Geoghegan. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20231011013317.22.nmisch@google.com
* Avoid memory size overflow when allocating backend activity bufferMichael Paquier2023-10-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The code in charge of copying the contents of PgBackendStatus to local memory could fail on memory allocation because of an overflow on the amount of memory to use. The overflow can happen when combining a high value track_activity_query_size (max at 1MB) with a large max_connections, when both multiplied get higher than INT32_MAX as both parameters treated as signed integers. This could for example trigger with the following functions, all calling pgstat_read_current_status(): - pg_stat_get_backend_subxact() - pg_stat_get_backend_idset() - pg_stat_get_progress_info() - pg_stat_get_activity() - pg_stat_get_db_numbackends() The change to use MemoryContextAllocHuge() has been introduced in 8d0ddccec636, so backpatch down to 12. Author: Jakub Wartak Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKZiRmw8QSNVw2qNK-dznsatQqz+9DkCquxP0GHbbv1jMkGHMA@mail.gmail.com Backpatch-through: 12
* Fix datalen calculation in tsvectorrecv().Tom Lane2023-10-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | After receiving position data for a lexeme, tsvectorrecv() advanced its "datalen" value by (npos+1)*sizeof(WordEntry) where the correct calculation is (npos+1)*sizeof(WordEntryPos). This accidentally failed to render the constructed tsvector invalid, but it did result in leaving some wasted space approximately equal to the space consumed by the position data. That could have several bad effects: * Disk space is wasted if the received tsvector is stored into a table as-is. * A legal tsvector could get rejected with "maximum total lexeme length exceeded" if the extra space pushes it over the MAXSTRPOS limit. * In edge cases, the finished tsvector could be assigned a length larger than the allocated size of its palloc chunk, conceivably leading to SIGSEGV when the tsvector gets copied somewhere else. The odds of a field failure of this sort seem low, though valgrind testing could probably have found this. While we're here, let's express the calculation as "sizeof(uint16) + npos * sizeof(WordEntryPos)" to avoid the type pun implicit in the "npos + 1" formulation. It's not wrong given that WordEntryPos had better be 2 bytes to avoid padding problems, but it seems clearer this way. Report and patch by Denis Erokhin. Back-patch to all supported versions. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/009801d9f2d9$f29730c0$d7c59240$@datagile.ru
* Fix behavior of "force" in pgstat_report_wal()Michael Paquier2023-09-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | As implemented in 5891c7a8ed8f, setting "force" to true in pgstat_report_wal() causes the routine to not wait for the pgstat shmem lock if it cannot be acquired, in which case the WAL and I/O statistics finish by not being flushed. The origin of the confusion comes from pgstat_flush_wal() and pgstat_flush_io(), that use "nowait" as sole argument. The I/O stats are new in v16. This is the opposite behavior of what has been used in pgstat_report_stat(), where "force" is the opposite of "nowait". In this case, when "force" is true, the routine sets "nowait" to false, which would cause the routine to wait for the pgstat shmem lock, ensuring that the stats are always flushed. When "force" is false, "nowait" is set to true, and the stats would only not be flushed if the pgstat shmem lock can be acquired, returning immediately without flushing the stats if the lock cannot be acquired. This commit changes pgstat_report_wal() so as "force" has the same behavior as in pgstat_report_stat(). There are currently three callers of pgstat_report_wal(): - Two in the checkpointer where force=true during a shutdown and the main checkpointer loop. Now the code behaves so as the stats are always flushed. - One in the main loop of the bgwriter, where force=false. Now the code behaves so as the stats would not be flushed if the pgstat shmem lock could not be acquired. Before this commit, some stats on WAL and I/O could have been lost after a shutdown, for example. Reported-by: Ryoga Yoshida Author: Ryoga Yoshida, Michael Paquier Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/f87a4d7be70530606b864fd1df91718c@oss.nttdata.com Backpatch-through: 15
* Don't crash if cursor_to_xmlschema is used on a non-data-returning Portal.Tom Lane2023-09-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | cursor_to_xmlschema() assumed that any Portal must have a tupDesc, which is not so. Add a defensive check. It's plausible that this mistake occurred because of the rather poorly chosen name of the lookup function SPI_cursor_find(), which in such cases is returning something that isn't very much like a cursor. Add some documentation to try to forestall future errors of the same ilk. Report and patch by Boyu Yang (docs changes by me). Back-patch to all supported branches. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/dd343010-c637-434c-a8cb-418f53bda3b8.yangboyu.yby@alibaba-inc.com
* Track nesting depth correctly when drilling down into RECORD Vars.Tom Lane2023-09-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | expandRecordVariable() failed to adjust the parse nesting structure correctly when recursing to inspect an outer-level Var. This could result in assertion failures or core dumps in corner cases. Likewise, get_name_for_var_field() failed to adjust the deparse namespace stack correctly when recursing to inspect an outer-level Var. In this case the likely result was a "bogus varno" error while deparsing a view. Per bug #18077 from Jingzhou Fu. Back-patch to all supported branches. Richard Guo, with some adjustments by me Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18077-b9db97c6e0ab45d8@postgresql.org
* Revert "Improve error message on snapshot import in snapmgr.c"Michael Paquier2023-09-14
| | | | | | | | | | This reverts commit a0d87bcd9b57, following a remark from Andres Frend that the new error can be triggered with an incorrect SET TRANSACTION SNAPSHOT command without being really helpful for the user as it uses the internal file name. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230914020724.hlks7vunitvtbbz4@awork3.anarazel.de Backpatch-through: 11
* Improve error message on snapshot import in snapmgr.cMichael Paquier2023-09-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When a snapshot file fails to be read in ImportSnapshot(), it would issue an ERROR as "invalid snapshot identifier" when opening a stream for it in read-only mode. This error message is reworded to be the same as all the other messages used in this case on failure, which is useful when debugging this area. Thinko introduced by bb446b689b66 where snapshot imports have been added. A backpatch down to 11 is done as this can improve any work related to snapshot imports in older branches. Author: Bharath Rupireddy Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALj2ACWmr=3KdxDkm8h7Zn1XxBoF6hdzq8WQyMn2y1OL5RYFrg@mail.gmail.com Backpatch-through: 11
* Refactor error messages for unsupported providers in pg_locale.cMichael Paquier2023-09-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | These code paths should not be reached normally, but if they are an error with "(null)" as information for the collation provider would show up if no locale is set, while we can assume that we are referring to libc. This refactors the code so as the provider is always reported even if no locale is set. The name of the function where the error happens is added, while on it, as it can be helpful for debugging. Issue introduced by d87d548cd030, so backpatch down to 16. Author: Michael Paquier, Ranier Vilela Reviewed-by: Jeff Davis, Kyotaro Horiguchi Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/7073610042fcf97e1bea2ce08b7e0214b5e11094.camel@j-davis.com Backpatch-through: 16
* Fix exception safety bug in typcache.c.Thomas Munro2023-09-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If an out-of-memory error was thrown at an unfortunate time, ensure_record_cache_typmod_slot_exists() could leak memory and leave behind a global state that produced an infinite loop on the next call. Fix by merging RecordCacheArray and RecordIdentifierArray into a single array. With only one allocation or re-allocation, there is no intermediate state. Back-patch to all supported releases. Reported-by: "James Pang (chaolpan)" <chaolpan@cisco.com> Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/PH0PR11MB519113E738814BDDA702EDADD6EFA%40PH0PR11MB5191.namprd11.prod.outlook.com
* Fix out-of-bound read in gtsvector_picksplit()Michael Paquier2023-09-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | This could lead to an imprecise choice when splitting an index page of a GiST index on a tsvector, deciding which entries should remain on the old page and which entries should move to a new page. This is wrong since tsearch2 has been moved into core with commit 140d4ebcb46e, so backpatch all the way down. This error has been spotted by valgrind. Author: Alexander Lakhin Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17950-6c80a8d2b94ec695@postgresql.org Backpatch-through: 11