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* Adjust comments about avoiding use of printf's %.*s.Tom Lane2010-05-09
| | | | | | | | | | | My initial impression that glibc was measuring the precision in characters (which is what the Linux man page says it does) was incorrect. It does take the precision to be in bytes, but it also tries to truncate the string at a character boundary. The bottom line remains the same: it will mess up if the string is not in the encoding it expects, so we need to avoid %.*s anytime there's a significant risk of that. Previous code changes are still good, but adjust the comments to reflect this knowledge. Per research by Hernan Gonzalez.
* Work around a subtle portability problem in use of printf %s format.Tom Lane2010-05-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Depending on which spec you read, field widths and precisions in %s may be counted either in bytes or characters. Our code was assuming bytes, which is wrong at least for glibc's implementation, and in any case libc might have a different idea of the prevailing encoding than we do. Hence, for portable results we must avoid using anything more complex than just "%s" unless the string to be printed is known to be all-ASCII. This patch fixes the cases I could find, including the psql formatting failure reported by Hernan Gonzalez. In HEAD only, I also added comments to some places where it appears safe to continue using "%.*s".
* Clean up some awkward, inaccurate, and inefficient processing aroundTom Lane2010-05-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | MaxStandbyDelay. Use the GUC units mechanism for the value, and choose more appropriate timestamp functions for performing tests with it. Make the ps_activity manipulation in ResolveRecoveryConflictWithVirtualXIDs have behavior similar to ps_activity code elsewhere, notably not updating the display when update_process_title is off and not truncating the display contents at an arbitrarily-chosen length. Improve the docs to be explicit about what MaxStandbyDelay actually measures, viz the difference between primary and standby servers' clocks, and the possible hazards if their clocks aren't in sync.
* Rename the parameter recovery_connections to hot_standby, to reduce possibleTom Lane2010-04-29
| | | | | | | | confusion with streaming-replication settings. Also, change its default value to "off", because of concern about executing new and poorly-tested code during ordinary non-replicating operation. Per discussion. In passing do some minor editing of related documentation.
* Introduce wal_level GUC to explicitly control if information needed forHeikki Linnakangas2010-04-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | archival or hot standby should be WAL-logged, instead of deducing that from other options like archive_mode. This replaces recovery_connections GUC in the primary, where it now has no effect, but it's still used in the standby to enable/disable hot standby. Remove the WAL-logging of "unlogged operations", like creating an index without WAL-logging and fsyncing it at the end. Instead, we keep a copy of the wal_mode setting and the settings that affect how much shared memory a hot standby server needs to track master transactions (max_connections, max_prepared_xacts, max_locks_per_xact) in pg_control. Whenever the settings change, at server restart, write a WAL record noting the new settings and update pg_control. This allows us to notice the change in those settings in the standby at the right moment, they used to be included in checkpoint records, but that meant that a changed value was not reflected in the standby until the first checkpoint after the change. Bump PG_CONTROL_VERSION and XLOG_PAGE_MAGIC. Whack XLOG_PAGE_MAGIC back to the sequence it used to follow, before hot standby and subsequent patches changed it to 0x9003.
* Add comments about why we set LC_CTYPE in WIN32 for time when we don'tBruce Momjian2010-04-26
| | | | actually access it, per information from Hiroshi.
* When we're restricting who can connect, don't allow new walsenders.Robert Haas2010-04-26
| | | | | | | | Normal superuser processes are allowed to connect even when the database system is shutting down, or when fewer than superuser_reserved_connection slots remain. This is intended to make sure an administrator can log in and troubleshoot, so don't extend these same courtesies to users connecting for replication.
* Add C comments for recent to_char('L') fix for Win32.Bruce Momjian2010-04-24
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* Patch revoked because of objections.Simon Riggs2010-04-24
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* Add missing optimizer hooks for function cost and number of rows.Simon Riggs2010-04-23
| | | | | Closely follow design of other optimizer hooks: if hook exists retrieve value from plugin; if still not set then get from cache.
* Fix message punctuationPeter Eisentraut2010-04-22
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* Fix encoding issue when lc_monetary or lc_numeric are different encodingItagaki Takahiro2010-04-22
| | | | | | | | | from lc_ctype, that could happen on Windows. We need to change lc_ctype together with lc_monetary or lc_numeric, and convert strings in lconv from lc_ctype encoding to the database encoding. The bug reported by Mikko, original patch by Hiroshi Inoue, with changes by Bruce and me.
* Enforce superuser permissions checks during ALTER ROLE/DATABASE SET, ratherTom Lane2010-04-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | than during define_custom_variable(). This entails rejecting an ALTER command if the target variable doesn't have a known (non-placeholder) definition, unless the calling user is superuser. When the variable *is* known, we can correctly apply the rule that only superusers can issue ALTER for SUSET parameters. This allows define_custom_variable to apply ALTER's values for SUSET parameters at module load time, secure in the knowledge that only a superuser could have set the ALTER value. This change fixes a longstanding gotcha in the usage of SUSET-level custom parameters; which is a good thing to fix now that plpgsql defines such a parameter.
* Move the check for whether walreceiver has authenticated as a superuserTom Lane2010-04-21
| | | | | from walsender.c, where it didn't really belong, to postinit.c where it does belong (and is essentially free, too).
* Arrange for client authentication to occur before we select a specificTom Lane2010-04-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | database to connect to. This is necessary for the walsender code to work properly (it was previously using an untenable assumption that template1 would always be available to connect to). This also gets rid of a small security shortcoming that was introduced in the original patch to eliminate the flat authentication files: before, you could find out whether or not the requested database existed even if you couldn't pass the authentication checks. The changes needed to support this are mainly just to treat pg_authid and pg_auth_members as nailed relations, so that we can read them without having to be able to locate real pg_class entries for them. This mechanism was already debugged for pg_database, but we hadn't recognized the value of applying it to those catalogs too. Since the current code doesn't have support for accessing toast tables before we've brought up all of the relcache, remove pg_authid's toast table to ensure that no one can store an out-of-line toasted value of rolpassword. The case seems quite unlikely to occur in practice, and was effectively unsupported anyway in the old "flatfiles" implementation. Update genbki.pl to actually implement the same rules as bootstrap.c does for not-nullability of catalog columns. The previous coding was a bit cheesy but worked all right for the previous set of bootstrap catalogs. It does not work for pg_authid, where rolvaliduntil needs to be nullable. Initdb forced due to minor catalog changes (mainly the toast table removal).
* Rename standby_keep_segments to wal_keep_segments.Robert Haas2010-04-20
| | | | | | Also, make the name of the GUC and the name of the backing variable match. Alnong the way, clean up a couple of slight typographical errors in the related docs.
* Move the responsibility for calling StartupXLOG into InitPostgres, forTom Lane2010-04-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | those process types that go through InitPostgres; in particular, bootstrap and standalone-backend cases. This ensures that we have set up a PGPROC and done some other basic initialization steps (corresponding to the if (IsUnderPostmaster) block in AuxiliaryProcessMain) before we attempt to run WAL recovery in a standalone backend. As was discovered last September, this is necessary for some corner-case code paths during WAL recovery, particularly end-of-WAL cleanup. Moving the bootstrap case here too is not necessary for correctness, but it seems like a good idea since it reduces the number of distinct code paths.
* Add an 'enable_material' GUC.Robert Haas2010-04-19
| | | | | | | | | | | The logic for determining whether to materialize has been significantly overhauled for 9.0. In case there should be any doubt about whether materialization is a win in any particular case, this should provide a convenient way of seeing what happens without it; but even with enable_material turned off, we still materialize in cases where it is required for correctness. Thanks to Tom Lane for the review.
* Fix a problem introduced by my patch of 2010-01-12 that revised the wayTom Lane2010-04-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | relcache reload works. In the patched code, a relcache entry in process of being rebuilt doesn't get unhooked from the relcache hash table; which means that if a cache flush occurs due to sinval queue overrun while we're rebuilding it, the entry could get blown away by RelationCacheInvalidate, resulting in crash or misbehavior. Fix by ensuring that an entry being rebuilt has positive refcount, so it won't be seen as a target for removal if a cache flush occurs. (This will mean that the entry gets rebuilt twice in such a scenario, but that's okay.) It appears that the problem can only arise within a transaction that has previously reassigned the relfilenode of a pre-existing table, via TRUNCATE or a similar operation. Per bug #5412 from Rusty Conover. Back-patch to 8.2, same as the patch that introduced the problem. I think that the failure can't actually occur in 8.2, since it lacks the rd_newRelfilenodeSubid optimization, but let's make it work like the later branches anyway. Patch by Heikki, slightly editorialized on by me.
* Change the logic to decide when to delete old WAL segments, so that itHeikki Linnakangas2010-04-12
| | | | | | | | | | doesn't take into account how far the WAL senders are. This way a hung WAL sender doesn't prevent old WAL segments from being recycled/removed in the primary, ultimately causing the disk to fill up. Instead add standby_keep_segments setting to control how many old WAL segments are kept in the primary. This also makes it more reliable to use streaming replication without WAL archiving, assuming that you set standby_keep_segments high enough.
* Fix to_char YYY, YY, Y format codes so that FM zero-suppression really works,Tom Lane2010-04-07
| | | | | | | rather than only sort-of working as the previous attempt had left it. Clean up some unnecessary differences between the way these were coded and the way the YYYY case was coded. Update the regression test cases that proved that it wasn't working.
* Refer to max_wal_senders in a more consistent fashion.Robert Haas2010-04-01
| | | | | | | The error message now makes explicit reference to the GUC that must be changed to fix the problem, using wording suggested by Tom Lane. Along the way, rename the GUC from MaxWalSenders to max_wal_senders for consistency and grep-ability.
* Add comma missing from postgresql.conf comment.Bruce Momjian2010-03-30
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* Modify some new and pre-existing messages for translatability.Simon Riggs2010-03-25
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* Prevent ALTER USER f RESET ALL from removing the settings that were put thereAlvaro Herrera2010-03-25
| | | | | | | | by a superuser -- "ALTER USER f RESET setting" already disallows removing such a setting. Apply the same treatment to ALTER DATABASE d RESET ALL when run by a database owner that's not superuser.
* Change replication connection log format to allow for a databaseSimon Riggs2010-03-24
| | | | | called replication. Add host and port details, following format of messages in BackendInitialize().
* Document in postgresql.conf that the max_standby_delay default is 30Bruce Momjian2010-03-24
| | | | 'seconds'.
* Message tuningPeter Eisentraut2010-03-21
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* Add connection messages for streaming replication. log_connectionsSimon Riggs2010-03-19
| | | | | | | was broken for a replication connection and no messages were displayed on either standby or primary, at any debug level. Connection messages needed to diagnose session drop/reconnect events. Use LOG mode for now, discuss lowering in later releases.
* Add vacuum_defer_cleanup_age to postgresql.conf.sample.Simon Riggs2010-03-18
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* Document that "Q" is ignored by to_date and to_timestamp. Add C commentBruce Momjian2010-03-03
| | | | | | | about the behavior. Document that quotes in to_date, to_timestamp, to_number skip input characters.
* Export xml.c's libxml-error-handling support so that contrib/xml2 can use itTom Lane2010-03-03
| | | | | | | | | too, instead of duplicating the functionality (badly). I renamed xml_init to pg_xml_init, because the former seemed just a bit too generic to be safe as a global symbol. I considered likewise renaming xml_ereport to pg_xml_ereport, but felt that the reference to ereport probably made it sufficiently PG-centric already.
* Insert a hack into get_float8_nan (both core and ecpg copies) to deal withTom Lane2010-02-27
| | | | | | | | | | the fact that NetBSD/mips is currently broken, as per buildfarm member pika. Also add regression tests to ensure that get_float8_nan and get_float4_nan are exercised even on platforms where they are not needed by float8in/float4in. Zoltán Böszörményi and Tom Lane
* Back out unintended change to pg_locale.c.Bruce Momjian2010-02-27
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* Document ATAPI FLUSH CACHE EXT.Bruce Momjian2010-02-27
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* Undo some more pgindent breakage. Per buildfarm.Tom Lane2010-02-27
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* pgindent run for 9.0Bruce Momjian2010-02-26
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* Add C comment that do_to_timestamp() lacks error checking.Bruce Momjian2010-02-25
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* Add configuration parameter ssl_renegotiation_limit to controlMagnus Hagander2010-02-25
| | | | | | | | how often we do SSL session key renegotiation. Can be set to 0 to disable renegotiation completely, which is required if a broken SSL library is used (broken patches to CVE-2009-3555 a known cause) or when using a client library that can't do renegotiation.
* Revert recent change of to_char('HH12') handling for intervals; insteadBruce Momjian2010-02-23
| | | | improve documentation, and add C comment.
* Secondary patch to fix interval to_char() for "HH" where hours >= 12.Bruce Momjian2010-02-23
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* Supress convertion of zero hours to '12' for intervals when usingBruce Momjian2010-02-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | to_char with HH, e.g. to_char(interval '0d 0h 12m 44s', 'DD HH24 MI SS'); now returns: 00 00 12 44 not: 00 12 12 44
* Clean up handling of XactReadOnly and RecoveryInProgress checks.Tom Lane2010-02-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add some checks that seem logically necessary, in particular let's make real sure that HS slave sessions cannot create temp tables. (If they did they would think that temp tables belonging to the master's session with the same BackendId were theirs. We *must* not allow myTempNamespace to become set in a slave session.) Change setval() and nextval() so that they are only allowed on temp sequences in a read-only transaction. This seems consistent with what we allow for table modifications in read-only transactions. Since an HS slave can't have a temp sequence, this also provides a nicer cure for the setval PANIC reported by Erik Rijkers. Make the error messages more uniform, and have them mention the specific command being complained of. This seems worth the trifling amount of extra code, since people are likely to see such messages a lot more than before.
* Provide some rather hokey ways for EXPLAIN to print FieldStore and assignmentTom Lane2010-02-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ArrayRef expressions that are not in the immediate context of an INSERT or UPDATE targetlist. Such cases never arise in stored rules, so ruleutils.c hadn't tried to handle them. However, they do occur in the targetlists of plans derived from such statements, and now that EXPLAIN VERBOSE tries to print targetlists, we need some way to deal with the case. I chose to represent an assignment ArrayRef as "array[subscripts] := source", which is fairly reasonable and doesn't omit any information. However, FieldStore is problematic because the planner will fold multiple assignments to fields of the same composite column into one FieldStore, resulting in a structure that is hard to understand at all, let alone display comprehensibly. So in that case I punted and just made it print the source expression(s). Backpatch to 8.4 --- the lack of functionality exists in older releases, but doesn't seem to be important for lack of anything that would call it.
* date_recv should accept infinities.Itagaki Takahiro2010-02-18
| | | | Reported by James William Pye.
* Force READY portals into FAILED state when a transaction or subtransactionTom Lane2010-02-18
| | | | | | | | | | | is aborted, if they were created within the failed xact. This prevents ExecutorEnd from being run on them, which is a good idea because they may contain references to tables or other objects that no longer exist. In particular this is hazardous when auto_explain is active, but it's really rather surprising that nobody has seen an issue with this before. I'm back-patching this to 8.4, since that's the first version that contains auto_explain or an ExecutorEnd hook, but I wonder whether we shouldn't back-patch further.
* Stamp HEAD as 9.0devel, and update various places that were referring to 8.5Tom Lane2010-02-17
| | | | (hope I got 'em all). Per discussion, this release will be 9.0 not 8.5.
* log_error_verbosity is now LOGGING_WHAT category.Tom Lane2010-02-17
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* Replace the pg_listener-based LISTEN/NOTIFY mechanism with an in-memory queue.Tom Lane2010-02-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | In addition, add support for a "payload" string to be passed along with each notify event. This implementation should be significantly more efficient than the old one, and is also more compatible with Hot Standby usage. There is not yet any facility for HS slaves to receive notifications generated on the master, although such a thing is possible in future. Joachim Wieland, reviewed by Jeff Davis; also hacked on by me.
* Move log_error_verbosity GUC setting to "What to log" section, andBruce Momjian2010-02-16
| | | | document the behavior of terse and verbose output options.