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* Fix assertion failure when a SELECT DISTINCT ON expression is volatile.Tom Lane2009-09-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | In this case we generate two PathKey references to the expression (one for DISTINCT and one for ORDER BY) and they really need to refer to the same EquivalenceClass. However get_eclass_for_sort_expr was being overly paranoid and creating two different EC's. Correct behavior is to use the SortGroupRef index to decide whether two references to volatile expressions that are equal() (ie textually equivalent) should be considered the same. Backpatch to 8.4. Possibly this should be changed in 8.3 as well, but I'll refrain in the absence of evidence of a visible failure in that branch. Per bug #5049.
* Increase the maximum value of extra_float_digits to 3, and have pg_dumpTom Lane2009-09-11
| | | | | | | use that value when the backend is new enough to allow it. This responds to bug report from Keh-Cheng Chu pointing out that although 2 extra digits should be sufficient to dump and restore float8 exactly, it is possible to need 3 extra digits for float4 values.
* On Windows, when a file is deleted and another process still has an openHeikki Linnakangas2009-09-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | file handle on it, the file goes into "pending deletion" state where it still shows up in directory listing, but isn't accessible otherwise. That confuses RemoveOldXLogFiles(), making it think that the file hasn't been archived yet, while it actually was, and it was deleted along with the .done file. Fix that by renaming the file with ".deleted" extension before deleting it. Also check the return value of rename() and unlink(), so that if the removal fails for any reason (e.g another process is holding the file locked), we don't delete the .done file until the WAL file is really gone. Backpatch to 8.2, which is the oldest version supported on Windows.
* Fix/improve bytea and boolean support in PL/PythonPeter Eisentraut2009-09-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Before, PL/Python converted data between SQL and Python by going through a C string representation. This broke for bytea in two ways: - On input (function parameters), you would get a Python string that contains bytea's particular external representation with backslashes etc., instead of a sequence of bytes, which is what you would expect in a Python environment. This problem is exacerbated by the new bytea output format. - On output (function return value), null bytes in the Python string would cause truncation before the data gets stored into a bytea datum. This is now fixed by converting directly between the PostgreSQL datum and the Python representation. The required generalized infrastructure also allows for other improvements in passing: - When returning a boolean value, the SQL datum is now true if and only if Python considers the value that was passed out of the PL/Python function to be true. Previously, this determination was left to the boolean data type input function. So, now returning 'foo' results in true, because Python considers it true, rather than false because PostgreSQL considers it false. - On input, we can convert the integer and float types directly to their Python equivalents without having to go through an intermediate string representation. original patch by Caleb Welton, with updates by myself
* Fix bug with WITH RECURSIVE immediately inside WITH RECURSIVE. 99% of theTom Lane2009-09-09
| | | | | | | | | | | code was already okay with this, but the hack that obtained the output column types of a recursive union in advance of doing real parse analysis of the recursive union forgot to handle the case where there was an inner WITH clause available to the non-recursive term. Best fix seems to be to refactor so that we don't need the "throwaway" parse analysis step at all. Instead, teach the transformSetOperationStmt code to set up the CTE's output column information after it's processed the non-recursive term normally. Per report from David Fetter.
* Add a boolean GUC parameter "bonjour" to control whether a Bonjour-enabledTom Lane2009-09-08
| | | | | | | | build actually attempts to advertise itself via Bonjour. Formerly it always did so, which meant that packagers had to decide for their users whether this behavior was wanted or not. The default is "off" to be on the safe side, though this represents a change in the default behavior of a Bonjour-enabled build. Per discussion.
* Replace use of the long-deprecated Bonjour API DNSServiceRegistrationCreateTom Lane2009-09-08
| | | | | | | with the not-so-deprecated DNSServiceRegister. This patch shouldn't change any user-visible behavior, it just gets rid of a deprecation warning in --with-bonjour builds. The new code will fail on OS X releases before 10.3, but it seems unlikely that anyone will want to run Postgres 8.5 on 10.2.
* Put back "ifeq ($(PORTNAME), solaris)", this time with some documentationTom Lane2009-09-05
| | | | of why it's not as broken as it appears on first glance.
* Revert ill-considered restriction of dtrace support to Solaris only.Tom Lane2009-09-04
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* Remove pgstat's discrimination against MsgVacuum and MsgAnalyze messages.Tom Lane2009-09-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Formerly, these message types would be discarded unless there was already a stats hash table entry for the target table. However, the intent of saving hash table space for unused tables was subverted by the fact that the physical I/O done by the vacuum or analyze would result in an immediately following tabstat message, which would create the hash table entry anyway. All that we had left was surprising loss of statistical data, as in a recent complaint from Jaime Casanova. It seems unlikely that a real database would have many tables that go totally untouched over the long haul, so the consensus is that this "optimization" serves little purpose anyhow. Remove it, and just create the hash table entry on demand in all cases.
* Tigthen binary receive functions so that they reject values that the textHeikki Linnakangas2009-09-04
| | | | | | | | | input functions don't accept either. While the backend can handle such values fine, they can cause trouble in clients and in pg_dump/restore. This is followup to the original issue on time datatype reported by Andrew McNamara a while ago. Like that one, none of these seem worth back-patching.
* Fix encoding handling in xml binary input function. If the XML header didn'tHeikki Linnakangas2009-09-04
| | | | | | | specify an encoding explicitly, we used to treat it as being in database encoding when we parsed it, but then perform a UTF-8 -> database encoding conversion on it, which was completely bogus. It's now consistently treated as UTF-8.
* Make LOAD of an already-loaded library into a no-op, instead of attemptingTom Lane2009-09-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | to unload and re-load the library. The difficulty with unloading a library is that we haven't defined safe protocols for doing so. In particular, there's no safe mechanism for getting out of a "hook" function pointer unless libraries are unloaded in reverse order of loading. And there's no mechanism at all for undefining a custom GUC variable, so GUC would be left with a pointer to an old value that might or might not still be valid, and very possibly wouldn't be in the same place anymore. While the unload and reload behavior had some usefulness in easing development of new loadable libraries, it's of no use whatever to normal users, so just disabling it isn't giving up that much. Someday we might care to expend the effort to develop safe unload protocols; but even if we did, there'd be little certainty that every third-party loadable module was following them, so some security restrictions would still be needed. Back-patch to 8.2; before that, LOAD was superuser-only anyway. Security: unprivileged users could crash backend. CVE not assigned yet
* Disallow RESET ROLE and RESET SESSION AUTHORIZATION inside security-definerTom Lane2009-09-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | functions. This extends the previous patch that forbade SETting these variables inside security-definer functions. RESET is equally a security hole, since it would allow regaining privileges of the caller; furthermore it can trigger Assert failures and perhaps other internal errors, since the code is not expecting these variables to change in such contexts. The previous patch did not cover this case because assign hooks don't really have enough information, so move the responsibility for preventing this into guc.c. Problem discovered by Heikki Linnakangas. Security: no CVE assigned yet, extends CVE-2007-6600
* Install a workaround for a longstanding gcc bug that allows SIGFPE trapsTom Lane2009-09-03
| | | | | | | | | | | to occur for division by zero, even though the code is carefully avoiding that. All available evidence is that the only functions affected are int24div, int48div, and int28div, so patch just those three functions to include a "return" after the ereport() call. Backpatch to 8.4 so that the fix can be tested in production builds. For older branches our recommendation will continue to be to use -O1 on affected platforms (which are mostly non-mainstream anyway).
* Fix subquery pullup to wrap a PlaceHolderVar around the entire RowExprTom Lane2009-09-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | that's generated for a whole-row Var referencing the subquery, when the subquery is in the nullable side of an outer join. The previous coding instead put PlaceHolderVars around the elements of the RowExpr. The effect was that when the outer join made the subquery outputs go to null, the whole-row Var produced ROW(NULL,NULL,...) rather than just NULL. There are arguments afoot about whether those things ought to be semantically indistinguishable, but for the moment they are not entirely so, and the planner needs to take care that its machinations preserve the difference. Per bug #5025. Making this feasible required refactoring ResolveNew() to allow more caller control over what is substituted for a Var. I chose to make ResolveNew() a wrapper around a new general-purpose function replace_rte_variables(). I also fixed the ancient bogosity that ResolveNew might fail to set a query's hasSubLinks field after inserting a SubLink in it. Although all current callers make sure that happens anyway, we've had bugs of that sort before, and it seemed like a good time to install a proper solution. Back-patch to 8.4. The problem can be demonstrated clear back to 8.0, but the fix would be too invasive in earlier branches; not to mention that people may be depending on the subtly-incorrect behavior. The 8.4 series is new enough that fixing this probably won't cause complaints, but it might in older branches. Also, 8.4 shows the incorrect behavior in more cases than older branches do, because it is able to flatten subqueries in more cases.
* Force VACUUM to recalculate oldestXmin even when we haven't changed ourTom Lane2009-09-01
| | | | | | own database's datfrozenxid, if the current value is old enough to be forcing autovacuums or warning messages. This ensures that a bogus value is replaced as soon as possible. Per a comment from Heikki.
* Actually, we need to bump the format identifier on twophase filesTom Lane2009-09-01
| | | | because of readjustment of 2PC rmgr IDs for flatfile removal.
* Remove flatfiles.c, which is now obsolete.Alvaro Herrera2009-09-01
| | | | | | Recent commits have removed the various uses it was supporting. It was a performance bottleneck, according to bug report #4919 by Lauris Ulmanis; seems it slowed down user creation after a billion users.
* Move processing of startup-packet switches and GUC settings into InitPostgres,Tom Lane2009-09-01
| | | | | | | to fix the problem that SetClientEncoding needs to be done before InitializeClientEncoding, as reported by Zdenek Kotala. We get at least the small consolation of being able to remove the bizarre API detail that had InitPostgres returning whether user is a superuser.
* Change the autovacuum launcher to read pg_database directly, rather thanTom Lane2009-08-31
| | | | | | | | | | | via the "flat files" facility. This requires making it enough like a backend to be able to run transactions; it's no longer an "auxiliary process" but more like the autovacuum worker processes. Also, its signal handling has to be brought into line with backends/workers. In particular, since it now has to handle procsignal.c processing, the special autovac-launcher-only signal conditions are moved to SIGUSR2. Alvaro, with some cleanup from Tom
* Track the current XID wrap limit (or more accurately, the oldest unfrozenTom Lane2009-08-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | XID) in checkpoint records. This eliminates the need to recompute the value from scratch during database startup, which is one of the two remaining reasons for the flatfile code to exist. It should also simplify life for hot-standby operation. To avoid bloating the checkpoint records unreasonably, I switched from tracking the oldest database by name to tracking it by OID. This turns out to save cycles in general (everywhere but the warning-generating paths, which we hardly care about) and also helps us deal with the case that the oldest database got dropped instead of being vacuumed. The prior coding might go for a long time without updating the wrap limit in that case, which is bad because it might result in a lot of useless autovacuum activity.
* Remove some useless assignments of the result of fread(). Quiets warningsTom Lane2009-08-30
| | | | from clang static checker, and makes the code more readable anyway IMO.
* Remove duplicate variable initializations identified by clang static checker.Tom Lane2009-08-30
| | | | | | | One of these represents a nontrivial bug (a promptly-leaked palloc), so backpatch. Greg Stark
* Remove the use of the pg_auth flat file for client authentication.Tom Lane2009-08-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | (That flat file is now completely useless, but removal will come later.) To do this, postpone client authentication into the startup transaction that's run by InitPostgres. We still collect the startup packet and do SSL initialization (if needed) at the same time we did before. The AuthenticationTimeout is applied separately to startup packet collection and the actual authentication cycle. (This is a bit annoying, since it means a couple extra syscalls; but the signal handling requirements inside and outside a transaction are sufficiently different that it seems best to treat the timeouts as completely independent.) A small security disadvantage is that if the given database name is invalid, this will be reported to the client before any authentication happens. We could work around that by connecting to database "postgres" instead, but consensus seems to be that it's not worth introducing such surprising behavior. Processing of all command-line switches and GUC options received from the client is now postponed until after authentication. This means that PostAuthDelay is much less useful than it used to be --- if you need to investigate problems during InitPostgres you'll have to set PreAuthDelay instead. However, allowing an unauthenticated user to set any GUC options whatever seems a bit too risky, so we'll live with that.
* Derived files that are shipped in the distribution used to be built in thePeter Eisentraut2009-08-28
| | | | | | source directory even for out-of-tree builds. They are now alsl built in the build tree. This should be more convenient for certain developers' workflows, and shouldn't really break anything else.
* Remove useless code that propagated FrontendProtocol to a backend via aTom Lane2009-08-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | PostgresMain switch. In point of fact, FrontendProtocol is already set in a backend process, since ProcessStartupPacket() is executed inside the backend --- it hasn't been run by the postmaster for many years. And if it were, we'd still certainly want FrontendProtocol to be set before we get as far as PostgresMain, so that startup errors get reported in the right protocol. -v might have some future use in standalone backends, so I didn't go so far as to remove the switch outright. Also, initialize FrontendProtocol to 0 not PG_PROTOCOL_LATEST. The only likely result of presetting it like that is to mask failure-to-set-it mistakes.
* Non-Windows EXEC_BACKEND path was broken by recent write_inheritable_socketTom Lane2009-08-28
| | | | change ... it's got to return true.
* Modify the definition of window-function PARTITION BY and ORDER BY clausesTom Lane2009-08-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | so that their elements are always taken as simple expressions over the query's input columns. It originally seemed like a good idea to make them act exactly like GROUP BY and ORDER BY, right down to the SQL92-era behavior of accepting output column names or numbers. However, that was not such a great idea, for two reasons: 1. It permits circular references, as exhibited in bug #5018: the output column could be the one containing the window function itself. (We actually had a regression test case illustrating this, but nobody thought twice about how confusing that would be.) 2. It doesn't seem like a good idea for, eg, "lead(foo) OVER (ORDER BY foo)" to potentially use two completely different meanings for "foo". Accordingly, narrow down the behavior of window clauses to use only the SQL99-compliant interpretation that the expressions are simple expressions.
* Fix handling of autovacuum reloptions.Alvaro Herrera2009-08-27
| | | | | | | | In the original coding, setting a single reloption would cause default values to be used for all the other reloptions. This is a problem particularly for autovacuum reloptions. Itagaki Takahiro
* Make it reasonably safe to use pg_ctl to start the postmaster from a boot-timeTom Lane2009-08-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | script. To do this, have pg_ctl pass down its parent shell's PID in an environment variable PG_GRANDPARENT_PID, and teach CreateLockFile() to disregard that PID as a false match if it finds it in postmaster.pid. This allows us to cope with one level of postgres-owned shell process even with pg_ctl in the way, so it's just as safe as starting the postmaster directly. You still have to be careful about how you write the initscript though. Adjust the comments in contrib/start-scripts/ to not deprecate use of pg_ctl. Also, fix the ROTATELOGS option in the OSX script, which was indulging in exactly the sort of unsafe coding that renders this fix pointless :-(. A pipe inside the "sudo" will probably result in more than one postgres-owned process hanging around.
* Remove some unnecessary variable assignments, per results of "clang"Tom Lane2009-08-27
| | | | static checker. Paul Matthews
* In the checkpoint written at the end of archive recovery, the WAL page headerHeikki Linnakangas2009-08-27
| | | | | | | | | | was incorrectly initialized with timeline ID 0. That rendered the WAL page unrecoverable, making a subsequent archive recovery stop at that point. ThisTimeLineID needs to be initialized before calling AdvanceXLInsertBuffer(). This fixes bug #5011 reported by James Bardin. Backpatch to 8.4, as the bug was introduced by the changes to use of bgwriter for writing the end-of-archive-recovery checkpoint. Patch by Tom Lane.
* Update of install-sh, mkinstalldirs, and associated configuryPeter Eisentraut2009-08-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Update install-sh to that from Autoconf 2.63, plus our Darwin-specific changes (which I simplified a bit). install-sh is now able to install multiple files in one run, so we could simplify our makefiles sometime. install-sh also now has a -d option to create directories, so we don't need mkinstalldirs anymore. Use AC_PROG_MKDIR_P in configure.in, so we can use mkdir -p when available instead of install-sh -d. For consistency with the rest of the world, the corresponding make variable has been renamed from $(mkinstalldirs) to $(MKDIR_P).
* Add -Wno-error to CFLAGS from gram.o as long as it's broken.Peter Eisentraut2009-08-26
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* Try to make silent_mode behave somewhat reasonably.Tom Lane2009-08-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Instead of sending stdout/stderr to /dev/null after forking away from the terminal, send them to postmaster.log within the data directory. Since this opens the door to indefinite logfile bloat, recommend even more strongly that log output be redirected when using silent_mode. Move the postmaster's initial calls of load_hba() and load_ident() down to after we have started the log collector, if we are going to. This is so that errors reported by them will appear in the "usual" place. Reclassify silent_mode as a LOGGING_WHERE, not LOGGING_WHEN, parameter, since it's got absolutely nothing to do with the latter category. In passing, fix some obsolete references to -S ... this option hasn't had that switch letter for a long time. Back-patch to 8.4, since as of 8.4 load_hba() and load_ident() are more picky (and thus more likely to fail) than they used to be. This entire change was driven by a complaint about those errors disappearing into the bit bucket.
* Small correction to previous patch: we shouldn't ReleasePostmasterChildSlotTom Lane2009-08-24
| | | | for a dead_end child, because we didn't AssignPostmasterChildSlot.
* Avoid calling kill() in a postmaster signal handler.Alvaro Herrera2009-08-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This causes problems when the system load is high, per report from Zdenek Kotala in <1250860954.1239.114.camel@localhost>; instead of calling kill directly, have the signal handler set a flag which is checked in ServerLoop. This way, the handler can return before being called again by a subsequent signal sent from the autovacuum launcher. Also, increase the sleep in the launcher in this failure path to 1 second. Backpatch to 8.3, which is when the signalling between autovacuum launcher/postmaster was introduced. Also, add a couple of ReleasePostmasterChildSlot calls in error paths; this part backpatched to 8.4 which is when the child slot stuff was introduced.
* Fix a violation of WAL coding rules in the recent patch to include anTom Lane2009-08-24
| | | | | | | | | | | "all tuples visible" flag in heap page headers. The flag update *must* be applied before calling XLogInsert, but heap_update and the tuple moving routines in VACUUM FULL were ignoring this rule. A crash and replay could therefore leave the flag incorrectly set, causing rows to appear visible in seqscans when they should not be. This might explain recent reports of data corruption from Jeff Ross and others. In passing, do a bit of editorialization on comments in visibilitymap.c.
* Make TRUNCATE do truncate-in-place when processing a relation that was createdTom Lane2009-08-23
| | | | | | | | or previously truncated in the current (sub)transaction. This is safe since if the (sub)transaction later rolls back, we'd just discard the rel's current physical file anyway. This avoids unreasonable growth in the number of transient files when a relation is repeatedly truncated. Per a performance gripe a couple weeks ago from Todd Cook.
* Tweak ExecIndexEvalRuntimeKeys to forcibly detoast any toasted comparisonTom Lane2009-08-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | values before they get passed to the index access method. This avoids repeated detoastings that will otherwise ensue as the comparison value is examined by various index support functions. We have seen a couple of reports of cases where repeated detoastings result in an order-of-magnitude slowdown, so it seems worth adding a bit of extra logic to prevent this. I had previously proposed trying to avoid duplicate detoastings in general, but this fix takes care of what seems the most important case in practice with very little effort or risk. Back-patch to 8.4 so that the PostGIS folk won't have to wait a year to have this fix in a production release. (The issue exists further back, of course, but the code's diverged enough to make backpatching further a higher-risk action. Also it appears that the possible gains may be limited in prior releases because of different handling of lossy operators.)
* Include resjunk columns in EXPLAIN VERBOSE output lists. Per discussion.Tom Lane2009-08-22
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* Allow mixing of traditional and SQL:2008 LIMIT/OFFSET syntax. Being rigidTom Lane2009-08-18
| | | | | | about it doesn't simplify the grammar at all, and it does invite confusion among those who only read the SELECT syntax summary and not the full details. Per gripe from Jaime Casanova.
* Fix overflow for INTERVAL 'x ms' where x is more than a couple million,Tom Lane2009-08-18
| | | | | | | and integer datetimes are in use. Per bug report from Hubert Depesz Lubaczewski. Alex Hunsaker
* Introduce filtering dictionary support to tsearch. Propagate --nolocale optionTeodor Sigaev2009-08-18
| | | | | to CREATE DATABASE command in pg_regress to allow correct checking of locale-sensitive contrib modules.
* Department of marginal improvements: teach tupconvert.c to avoid doing aTom Lane2009-08-17
| | | | | | | physical conversion when there are dropped columns in the same places in the input and output tupdescs. This avoids possible performance loss from the recent patch to improve dropped-column handling, in some cases where the old code would have worked.
* Fix incorrect encoding-aware name truncation in makeArrayTypeName().Tom Lane2009-08-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | truncate_identifier won't do anything if the passed-in strlen is already less than NAMEDATALEN, which it always would be given the strlcpy usage. This has been broken since the arrays-of-composite-types code went in. Arguably truncate_identifier is suffering from excessive optimization and should always process the string, but for the moment I'll take the more localized patch. Per bug #4987.
* Add prefix support for synonym dictionaryTeodor Sigaev2009-08-14
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* Put back adjust_appendrel_attrs()'s code for dealing with RestrictInfo.Tom Lane2009-08-13
| | | | | | I mistakenly removed it last month, thinking it was no longer needed --- but it is still needed for dealing with joininfo lists. Fortunately this bit of brain fade hadn't made it into any released versions yet.
* Improve error message for the case where a requested foreign key constraintTom Lane2009-08-12
| | | | | | | | does match some unique index on the referenced table, but that index is only deferrably unique. We were doing this nicely for the default-to-primary-key case, but were being lazy for the other case. Dean Rasheed