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* Cooperate with the Valgrind instrumentation framework.Noah Misch2013-06-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Valgrind "client requests" in aset.c and mcxt.c teach Valgrind and its Memcheck tool about the PostgreSQL allocator. This makes Valgrind roughly as sensitive to memory errors involving palloc chunks as it is to memory errors involving malloc chunks. Further client requests in PageAddItem() and printtup() verify that all bits being added to a buffer page or furnished to an output function are predictably-defined. Those tests catch failures of C-language functions to fully initialize the bits of a Datum, which in turn stymie optimizations that rely on _equalConst(). Define the USE_VALGRIND symbol in pg_config_manual.h to enable these additions. An included "suppression file" silences nominal errors we don't plan to fix. Reviewed in earlier versions by Peter Geoghegan and Korry Douglas.
* Refactor aset.c and mcxt.c in preparation for Valgrind cooperation.Noah Misch2013-06-26
| | | | | | | Move some repeated debugging code into functions and store intermediates in variables where not presently necessary. No code-generation changes in a production build, and no functional changes. This simplifies and focuses the main patch.
* Initialize pad bytes in GinFormTuple().Noah Misch2013-06-26
| | | | | | | Every other core buffer page consumer initializes the bytes it furnishes to PageAddItem(). For consistency, do the same here. No back-patch; regardless, we couldn't count on the fix so long as binary upgrade can carry forward affected index builds.
* Renovate display of non-ASCII messages on Windows.Noah Misch2013-06-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | GNU gettext selects a default encoding for the messages it emits in a platform-specific manner; it uses the Windows ANSI code page on Windows and follows LC_CTYPE on other platforms. This is inconvenient for PostgreSQL server processes, so realize consistent cross-platform behavior by calling bind_textdomain_codeset() on Windows each time we permanently change LC_CTYPE. This primarily affects SQL_ASCII databases and processes like the postmaster that do not attach to a database, making their behavior consistent with PostgreSQL on non-Windows platforms. Messages from SQL_ASCII databases use the encoding implied by the database LC_CTYPE, and messages from non-database processes use LC_CTYPE from the postmaster system environment. PlatformEncoding becomes unused, so remove it. Make write_console() prefer WriteConsoleW() to write() regardless of the encodings in use. In this situation, write() will invariably mishandle non-ASCII characters. elog.c has assumed that messages conform to the database encoding. While usually true, this does not hold for SQL_ASCII and MULE_INTERNAL. Introduce MessageEncoding to track the actual encoding of message text. The present consumers are Windows-specific code for converting messages to UTF16 for use in system interfaces. This fixes the appearance in Windows event logs and consoles of translated messages from SQL_ASCII processes like the postmaster. Note that SQL_ASCII inherently disclaims a strong notion of encoding, so non-ASCII byte sequences interpolated into messages by %s may yet yield a nonsensical message. MULE_INTERNAL has similar problems at present, albeit for a different reason: its lack of libiconv support or a conversion to UTF8. Consequently, one need no longer restart Windows with a different Windows ANSI code page to broadly test backend logging under a given language. Changing the user's locale ("Format") is enough. Several accounts can simultaneously run postmasters under different locales, all correctly logging localized messages to Windows event logs and consoles. Alexander Law and Noah Misch
* Avoid inconsistent type declarationAlvaro Herrera2013-06-25
| | | | | | | | | Clang 3.3 correctly complains that a variable of type enum MultiXactStatus cannot hold a value of -1, which makes sense. Change the declared type of the variable to int instead, and apply casting as necessary to avoid the warning. Per notice from Andres Freund
* Support clean switchover.Fujii Masao2013-06-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In replication, when we shutdown the master, walsender tries to send all the outstanding WAL records to the standby, and then to exit. This basically means that all the WAL records are fully synced between two servers after the clean shutdown of the master. So, after promoting the standby to new master, we can restart the stopped master as new standby without the need for a fresh backup from new master. But there was one problem so far: though walsender tries to send all the outstanding WAL records, it doesn't wait for them to be replicated to the standby. Then, before receiving all the WAL records, walreceiver can detect the closure of connection and exit. We cannot guarantee that there is no missing WAL in the standby after clean shutdown of the master. In this case, backup from new master is required when restarting the stopped master as new standby. This patch fixes this problem. It just changes walsender so that it waits for all the outstanding WAL records to be replicated to the standby before closing the replication connection. Per discussion, this is a fix that needs to get backpatched rather than new feature. So, back-patch to 9.1 where enough infrastructure for this exists. Patch by me, reviewed by Andres Freund.
* Reverting previous commit, pending investigationSimon Riggs2013-06-24
| | | | of sporadic seg faults from various build farm members.
* ALTER TABLE ... ALTER CONSTRAINT for FKsSimon Riggs2013-06-24
| | | | | | | | Allow constraint attributes to be altered, so the default setting of NOT DEFERRABLE can be altered to DEFERRABLE and back. Review by Abhijit Menon-Sen
* Translation updatesPeter Eisentraut2013-06-24
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* Ensure no xid gaps during Hot Standby startupSimon Riggs2013-06-23
| | | | | | | | | In some cases with higher numbers of subtransactions it was possible for us to incorrectly initialize subtrans leading to complaints of missing pages. Bug report by Sergey Konoplev Analysis and fix by Andres Freund
* Clarify terminology standalone backend vs. single-user modePeter Eisentraut2013-06-20
| | | | | | | | Most of the documentation uses "single-user mode", so use that in the code as well. Adjust the documentation to match the new error message wording. Also add a documentation index entry for "single-user mode". Based-on-patch-by: Jeff Janes <jeff.janes@gmail.com>
* Support TB (terabyte) memory unit in GUC variables.Fujii Masao2013-06-20
| | | | Patch by Simon Riggs, reviewed by Jeff Janes and me.
* Add buffer_std flag to MarkBufferDirtyHint().Jeff Davis2013-06-17
| | | | | | | | | | MarkBufferDirtyHint() writes WAL, and should know if it's got a standard buffer or not. Currently, the only callers where buffer_std is false are related to the FSM. In passing, rename XLOG_HINT to XLOG_FPI, which is more descriptive. Back-patch to 9.3.
* Use WaitLatch, not pg_usleep, for delaying in pg_sleep().Tom Lane2013-06-15
| | | | | | | | | | This avoids platform-dependent behavior wherein pg_sleep() might fail to be interrupted by statement timeout, query cancel, SIGTERM, etc. Also, since there's no reason to wake up once a second any more, we can reduce the power consumption of a sleeping backend a tad. Back-patch to 9.3, since use of SA_RESTART for SIGALRM makes this a bigger issue than it used to be.
* Use SA_RESTART for all signals, including SIGALRM.Tom Lane2013-06-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The exclusion of SIGALRM dates back to Berkeley days, when Postgres used SIGALRM in only one very short stretch of code. Nowadays, allowing it to interrupt kernel calls doesn't seem like a very good idea, since its use for statement_timeout means SIGALRM could occur anyplace in the code, and there are far too many call sites where we aren't prepared to deal with EINTR failures. When third-party code is taken into consideration, it seems impossible that we ever could be fully EINTR-proof, so better to use SA_RESTART always and deal with the implications of that. One such implication is that we should not assume pg_usleep() will be terminated early by a signal. Therefore, long sleeps should probably be replaced by WaitLatch operations where practical. Back-patch to 9.3 so we can get some beta testing on this change.
* Avoid deadlocks during insertion into SP-GiST indexes.Tom Lane2013-06-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | SP-GiST's original scheme for avoiding deadlocks during concurrent index insertions doesn't work, as per report from Hailong Li, and there isn't any evident way to make it work completely. We could possibly lock individual inner tuples instead of their whole pages, but preliminary experimentation suggests that the performance penalty would be huge. Instead, if we fail to get a buffer lock while descending the tree, just restart the tree descent altogether. We keep the old tuple positioning rules, though, in hopes of reducing the number of cases where this can happen. Teodor Sigaev, somewhat edited by Tom Lane
* Remove special-case treatment of LOG severity level in standalone mode.Tom Lane2013-06-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | elog.c has historically treated LOG messages as low-priority during bootstrap and standalone operation. This has led to confusion and even masked a bug, because the normal expectation of code authors is that elog(LOG) will put something into the postmaster log, and that wasn't happening during initdb. So get rid of the special-case rule and make the priority order the same as it is in normal operation. To keep from cluttering initdb's output and the behavior of a standalone backend, tweak the severity level of three messages routinely issued by xlog.c during startup and shutdown so that they won't appear in these cases. Per my proposal back in December.
* Refactor checksumming code to make it easier to use externally.Tom Lane2013-06-13
| | | | | | | | | | pg_filedump and other external utility programs are likely to want to be able to check Postgres page checksums. To avoid messy duplication of code, move the checksumming functionality into an exported header file, much as we did awhile back for the CRC code. In passing, get rid of an unportable assumption that a static char[] array will be word-aligned, and do some other minor code beautification.
* Only install a portal's ResourceOwner if it actually has one.Tom Lane2013-06-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In most scenarios a portal without a ResourceOwner is dead and not subject to any further execution, but a portal for a cursor WITH HOLD remains in existence with no ResourceOwner after the creating transaction is over. In this situation, if we attempt to "execute" the portal directly to fetch data from it, we were setting CurrentResourceOwner to NULL, leading to a segfault if the datatype output code did anything that required a resource owner (such as trying to fetch system catalog entries that weren't already cached). The case appears to be impossible to provoke with stock libpq, but psqlODBC at least is able to cause it when working with held cursors. Simplest fix is to just skip the assignment to CurrentResourceOwner, so that any resources used by the data output operations will be managed by the transaction-level resource owner instead. For consistency I changed all the places that install a portal's resowner as current, even though some of them are probably not reachable with a held cursor's portal. Per report from Joshua Berry (with thanks to Hiroshi Inoue for developing a self-contained test case). Back-patch to all supported versions.
* Avoid reading past datum end when parsing JSON.Noah Misch2013-06-12
| | | | | | | Several loops in the JSON parser examined a byte in memory just before checking whether its address was in-bounds, so they could read one byte beyond the datum's allocation. A SIGSEGV is possible. New in 9.3, so no back-patch.
* Avoid reading below the start of a stack variable in tokenize_file().Noah Misch2013-06-12
| | | | | We would wrongly overwrite the prior stack byte if it happened to contain '\n' or '\r'. New in 9.3, so no back-patch.
* Don't pass oidvector by value.Noah Misch2013-06-12
| | | | | Since the structure ends with a flexible array, doing so truncates any vector having more than one element. New in 9.3, so no back-patch.
* Observe array length in HaveVirtualXIDsDelayingChkpt().Noah Misch2013-06-12
| | | | | | | | Since commit f21bb9cfb5646e1793dcc9c0ea697bab99afa523, this function ignores the caller-provided length and loops until it finds a terminator, which GetVirtualXIDsDelayingChkpt() never adds. Restore the previous loop control logic. In passing, revert the addition of an unused variable by the same commit, presumably a debugging relic.
* Don't use ordinary NULL-terminated strings as Name datums.Noah Misch2013-06-12
| | | | | | | Consumers are entitled to read the full 64 bytes pertaining to a Name; using a shorter NULL-terminated string leads to reading beyond the end its allocation; a SIGSEGV is possible. Use the frequent idiom of copying to a NameData on the stack. New in 9.3, so no back-patch.
* Improve updatability checking for views and foreign tables.Tom Lane2013-06-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Extend the FDW API (which we already changed for 9.3) so that an FDW can report whether specific foreign tables are insertable/updatable/deletable. The default assumption continues to be that they're updatable if the relevant executor callback function is supplied by the FDW, but finer granularity is now possible. As a test case, add an "updatable" option to contrib/postgres_fdw. This patch also fixes the information_schema views, which previously did not think that foreign tables were ever updatable, and fixes view_is_auto_updatable() so that a view on a foreign table can be auto-updatable. initdb forced due to changes in information_schema views and the functions they rely on. This is a bit unfortunate to do post-beta1, but if we don't change this now then we'll have another API break for FDWs when we do change it. Dean Rasheed, somewhat editorialized on by Tom Lane
* Fix unescaping of JSON Unicode escapes, especially for non-UTF8.Andrew Dunstan2013-06-12
| | | | | | | | | | Per discussion on -hackers. We treat Unicode escapes when unescaping them similarly to the way we treat them in PostgreSQL string literals. Escapes in the ASCII range are always accepted, no matter what the database encoding. Escapes for higher code points are only processed in UTF8 databases, and attempts to process them in other databases will result in an error. \u0000 is never unescaped, since it would result in an impermissible null byte.
* Fix cache flush hazard in cache_record_field_properties().Tom Lane2013-06-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | We need to increment the refcount on the composite type's cached tuple descriptor while we do lookups of its column types. Otherwise a cache flush could occur and release the tuple descriptor before we're done with it. This fails reliably with -DCLOBBER_CACHE_ALWAYS, but the odds of a failure in a production build seem rather low (since the pfree'd descriptor typically wouldn't get scribbled on immediately). That may explain the lack of any previous reports. Buildfarm issue noted by Christian Ullrich. Back-patch to 9.1 where the bogus code was added.
* Remove unnecessary restrictions about RowExprs in transformAExprIn().Tom Lane2013-06-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When the existing code here was written, it made sense to special-case RowExprs because that was the only way that we could handle row comparisons at all. Now that we have record_eq() and arrays of composites, the generic logic for "scalar" types will in fact work on RowExprs too, so there's no reason to throw error for combinations of RowExprs and other ways of forming composite values, nor to ignore the possibility of using a ScalarArrayOpExpr. But keep using the old logic when comparing two RowExprs, for consistency with the main transformAExprOp() logic. (This allows some cases with not-quite-identical rowtypes to succeed, so we might get push-back if we removed it.) Per bug #8198 from Rafal Rzepecki. Back-patch to all supported branches, since this works fine as far back as 8.4. Rafal Rzepecki and Tom Lane
* Remove ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES' requirement of schema CREATE permissions.Tom Lane2013-06-09
| | | | | | | | Per discussion, this restriction isn't needed for any real security reason, and it seems to confuse people more often than it helps them. It could also result in some database states being unrestorable. So just drop it. Back-patch to 9.0, where ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES was introduced.
* Remove fixed limit on the number of concurrent AllocateFile() requests.Tom Lane2013-06-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | AllocateFile(), AllocateDir(), and some sister routines share a small array for remembering requests, so that the files can be closed on transaction failure. Previously that array had a fixed size, MAX_ALLOCATED_DESCS (32). While historically that had seemed sufficient, Steve Toutant pointed out that this meant you couldn't scan more than 32 file_fdw foreign tables in one query, because file_fdw depends on the COPY code which uses AllocateFile(). There are probably other cases, or will be in the future, where this nonconfigurable limit impedes users. We can't completely remove any such limit, at least not without a lot of work, since each such request requires a kernel file descriptor and most platforms limit the number we can have. (In principle we could "virtualize" these descriptors, as fd.c already does for the main VFD pool, but not without an additional layer of overhead and a lot of notational impact on the calling code.) But we can at least let the array size be configurable. Hence, change the code to allow up to max_safe_fds/2 allocated file requests. On modern platforms this should allow several hundred concurrent file_fdw scans, or more if one increases the value of max_files_per_process. To go much further than that, we'd need to do some more work on the data structure, since the current code for closing requests has potentially O(N^2) runtime; but it should still be all right for request counts in this range. Back-patch to 9.1 where contrib/file_fdw was introduced.
* Don't downcase non-ascii identifier chars in multi-byte encodings.Andrew Dunstan2013-06-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Long-standing code has called tolower() on identifier character bytes with the high bit set. This is clearly an error and produces junk output when the encoding is multi-byte. This patch therefore restricts this activity to cases where there is a character with the high bit set AND the encoding is single-byte. There have been numerous gripes about this, most recently from Martin Schäfer. Backpatch to all live releases.
* Handle Unicode surrogate pairs correctly when processing JSON.Andrew Dunstan2013-06-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | In 9.2, Unicode escape sequences are not analysed at all other than to make sure that they are in the form \uXXXX. But in 9.3 many of the new operators and functions try to turn JSON text values into text in the server encoding, and this includes de-escaping Unicode escape sequences. This processing had not taken into account the possibility that this might contain a surrogate pair to designate a character outside the BMP. That is now handled correctly. This also enforces correct use of surrogate pairs, something that is not done by the type's input routines. This fact is noted in the docs.
* Fix typo in comment.Heikki Linnakangas2013-06-06
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* Ensure that XLOG_HEAP2_VISIBLE always targets an initialized page.Robert Haas2013-06-06
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* Prevent pushing down WHERE clauses into unsafe UNION/INTERSECT nests.Tom Lane2013-06-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The planner is aware that it mustn't push down upper-level quals into subqueries if the quals reference subquery output columns that contain set-returning functions or volatile functions, or are non-DISTINCT outputs of a DISTINCT ON subquery. However, it missed making this check when there were one or more levels of UNION or INTERSECT above the dangerous expression. This could lead to "set-valued function called in context that cannot accept a set" errors, as seen in bug #8213 from Eric Soroos, or to silently wrong answers in the other cases. To fix, refactor the checks so that we make the column-is-unsafe checks during subquery_is_pushdown_safe(), which already has to recursively inspect all arms of a set-operation tree. This makes qual_is_pushdown_safe() considerably simpler, at the cost that we will spend some cycles checking output columns that possibly aren't referenced in any upper qual. But the cases where this code gets executed at all are already nontrivial queries, so it's unlikely anybody will notice any slowdown of planning. This has been broken since commit 05f916e6add9726bf4ee046e4060c1b03c9961f2, which makes the bug over ten years old. A bit surprising nobody noticed it before now.
* Update SQL features listPeter Eisentraut2013-06-05
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* Put analyze_keyword back in explain_option_name production.Tom Lane2013-06-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In commit 2c92edad48796119c83d7dbe6c33425d1924626d, I broke "EXPLAIN (ANALYZE)" syntax, because I mistakenly thought that ANALYZE/ANALYSE were only partially reserved and thus would be included in NonReservedWord; but actually they're fully reserved so they still need to be called out here. A nicer solution would be to demote these words to type_func_name_keyword status (they can't be less than that because of "VACUUM [ANALYZE] ColId"). While that works fine so far as the core grammar is concerned, it breaks ECPG's grammar for reasons I don't have time to isolate at the moment. So do this for the time being. Per report from Kevin Grittner. Back-patch to 9.0, like the previous commit.
* Provide better message when CREATE EXTENSION can't find a target schema.Tom Lane2013-06-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | The new message (and SQLSTATE) matches the corresponding error cases in namespace.c. This was thought to be a "can't happen" case when extension.c was written, so we didn't think hard about how to report it. But it definitely can happen in 9.2 and later, since we no longer require search_path to contain any valid schema names. It's probably also possible in 9.1 if search_path came from a noninteractive source. So, back-patch to all releases containing this code. Per report from Sean Chittenden, though this isn't exactly his patch.
* Fix memory leak in LogStandbySnapshot().Tom Lane2013-06-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | The array allocated by GetRunningTransactionLocks() needs to be pfree'd when we're done with it. Otherwise we leak some memory during each checkpoint, if wal_level = hot_standby. This manifests as memory bloat in the checkpointer process, or in bgwriter in versions before we made the checkpointer separate. Reported and fixed by Naoya Anzai. Back-patch to 9.0 where the issue was introduced. In passing, improve comments for GetRunningTransactionLocks(), and add an Assert that we didn't overrun the palloc'd array.
* Put back allow_system_table_mods check in heap_create().Heikki Linnakangas2013-06-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | This reverts commit a475c6036752c26dca538632b68fd2cc592976b7. Erik Rijkers reported back in January 2013 that after the patch, if you do "pg_dump -t myschema.mytable" to dump a single table, and restore that in a database where myschema does not exist, the table is silently created in pg_catalog instead. That is because pg_dump uses "SET search_path=myschema, pg_catalog" to set schema the table is created in. While allow_system_table_mods is not a very elegant solution to this, we can't leave it as it is, so for now, revert it back to the way it was previously.
* Additional spelling correctionsStephen Frost2013-06-03
| | | | | | A few more minor spelling corrections, no functional changes. Thom Brown
* Code review of recycling WAL segments in a restartpoint.Heikki Linnakangas2013-06-03
| | | | | | | | Seems cleaner to get the currently-replayed TLI in the same call to GetXLogReplayRecPtr that we get the WAL position. Make it more clear in the comment what the code does when recovery has already ended (RecoveryInProgress() will set ThisTimeLineID in that case). Finally, make resetting ThisTimeLineID afterwards more explicit.
* Allow type_func_name_keywords in some places where they weren't before.Tom Lane2013-06-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This change makes type_func_name_keywords less reserved than they were before, by allowing them for role names, language names, EXPLAIN and COPY options, and SET values for GUCs; which are all places where few if any actual keywords could appear instead, so no new ambiguities are introduced. The main driver for this change is to allow "COPY ... (FORMAT BINARY)" to work without quoting the word "binary". That is an inconsistency that has been complained of repeatedly over the years (at least by Pavel Golub, Kurt Lidl, and Simon Riggs); but we hadn't thought of any non-ugly solution until now. Back-patch to 9.0 where the COPY (FORMAT BINARY) syntax was introduced.
* Minor spelling fixesStephen Frost2013-06-01
| | | | | | Fix a few spelling mistakes. Per bug report #8193 from Lajos Veres.
* Post-pgindent cleanupStephen Frost2013-06-01
| | | | | | | | | | Make slightly better decisions about indentation than what pgindent is capable of. Mostly breaking out long function calls into one line per argument, with a few other minor adjustments. No functional changes- all whitespace. pgindent ran cleanly (didn't change anything) after. Passes all regressions.
* Don't emit non-canonical empty arrays in array_remove().Noah Misch2013-05-31
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* Remove whitespace from end of linesPeter Eisentraut2013-05-30
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* Minor spell checkingPeter Eisentraut2013-05-30
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* postgresql.conf.sample: Improve whitespacePeter Eisentraut2013-05-29
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* pgindent run for release 9.3Bruce Momjian2013-05-29
| | | | | This is the first run of the Perl-based pgindent script. Also update pgindent instructions.