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* Update copyright for 2019Bruce Momjian2019-01-02
| | | | Backpatch-through: certain files through 9.4
* Refactor pid, random seed and start time initialization.Thomas Munro2018-10-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Background workers, including parallel workers, were generating the same sequence of numbers in random(). This showed up as DSM handle collisions when Parallel Hash created multiple segments, but any code that calls random() in background workers could be affected if it cares about different backends generating different numbers. Repair by making sure that all new processes initialize the seed at the same time as they set MyProcPid and MyStartTime in a new function InitProcessGlobals(), called by the postmaster, its children and also standalone processes. Also add a new high resolution MyStartTimestamp as a potentially useful by-product, and remove SessionStartTime from struct Port as it is now redundant. No back-patch for now, as the known consequences so far are just a bunch of harmless shm_open(O_EXCL) collisions. Author: Thomas Munro Reviewed-by: Tom Lane Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm%3D2eJj_6%3DB%2B2tEpGu2nf1BjthCf9nXXUouYvJJ4C5WSwhg%40mail.gmail.com
* Switch flags tracking pending interrupts to sig_atomic_tMichael Paquier2018-09-27
| | | | | | | | | | | Those previously used bool, which should be safe on any modern platforms, however the C standard is clear that it is better to use sig_atomic_t for variables manipulated in signal handlers. This commit adds at the same time PGDLLIMPORT to ClientConnectionLost. Author: Michael Paquier Reviewed-by: Tom Lane, Chris Travers, Andres Freund Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180925011311.GD1354@paquier.xyz
* Allow group access on PGDATAStephen Frost2018-04-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Allow the cluster to be optionally init'd with read access for the group. This means a relatively non-privileged user can perform a backup of the cluster without requiring write privileges, which enhances security. The mode of PGDATA is used to determine whether group permissions are enabled for directory and file creates. This method was chosen as it's simple and works well for the various utilities that write into PGDATA. Changing the mode of PGDATA manually will not automatically change the mode of all the files contained therein. If the user would like to enable group access on an existing cluster then changing the mode of all the existing files will be required. Note that pg_upgrade will automatically change the mode of all migrated files if the new cluster is init'd with the -g option. Tests are included for the backend and all the utilities which operate on the PG data directory to ensure that the correct mode is set based on the data directory permissions. Author: David Steele <david@pgmasters.net> Reviewed-By: Michael Paquier, with discussion amongst many others. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ad346fe6-b23e-59f1-ecb7-0e08390ad629%40pgmasters.net
* Allow background workers to bypass datallowconnMagnus Hagander2018-04-05
| | | | | | | THis adds a "flags" field to the BackgroundWorkerInitializeConnection() and BackgroundWorkerInitializeConnectionByOid(). For now only one flag, BGWORKER_BYPASS_ALLOWCONN, is defined, which allows the worker to ignore datallowconn.
* Skip full index scan during cleanup of B-tree indexes when possibleTeodor Sigaev2018-04-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Vacuum of index consists from two stages: multiple (zero of more) ambulkdelete calls and one amvacuumcleanup call. When workload on particular table is append-only, then autovacuum isn't intended to touch this table. However, user may run vacuum manually in order to fill visibility map and get benefits of index-only scans. Then ambulkdelete wouldn't be called for indexes of such table (because no heap tuples were deleted), only amvacuumcleanup would be called In this case, amvacuumcleanup would perform full index scan for two objectives: put recyclable pages into free space map and update index statistics. This patch allows btvacuumclanup to skip full index scan when two conditions are satisfied: no pages are going to be put into free space map and index statistics isn't stalled. In order to check first condition, we store oldest btpo_xact in the meta-page. When it's precedes RecentGlobalXmin, then there are some recyclable pages. In order to check second condition we store number of heap tuples observed during previous full index scan by cleanup. If fraction of newly inserted tuples is less than vacuum_cleanup_index_scale_factor, then statistics isn't considered to be stalled. vacuum_cleanup_index_scale_factor can be defined as both reloption and GUC (default). This patch bumps B-tree meta-page version. Upgrade of meta-page is performed "on the fly": during VACUUM meta-page is rewritten with new version. No special handling in pg_upgrade is required. Author: Masahiko Sawada, Alexander Korotkov Review by: Peter Geoghegan, Kyotaro Horiguchi, Alexander Korotkov, Yura Sokolov Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CAD21AoAX+d2oD_nrd9O2YkpzHaFr=uQeGr9s1rKC3O4ENc568g@mail.gmail.com
* Mark assorted GUC variables as PGDLLIMPORT.Robert Haas2018-02-09
| | | | | | | | This makes life easier for extension authors. Metin Doslu Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAL1dPcfa45o1dC-c4t-48v0OZE6oy4ChJhObrtkK8mzNfXqDTA@mail.gmail.com
* Support parallel btree index builds.Robert Haas2018-02-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | To make this work, tuplesort.c and logtape.c must also support parallelism, so this patch adds that infrastructure and then applies it to the particular case of parallel btree index builds. Testing to date shows that this can often be 2-3x faster than a serial index build. The model for deciding how many workers to use is fairly primitive at present, but it's better than not having the feature. We can refine it as we get more experience. Peter Geoghegan with some help from Rushabh Lathia. While Heikki Linnakangas is not an author of this patch, he wrote other patches without which this feature would not have been possible, and therefore the release notes should possibly credit him as an author of this feature. Reviewed by Claudio Freire, Heikki Linnakangas, Thomas Munro, Tels, Amit Kapila, me. Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAM3SWZQKM=Pzc=CAHzRixKjp2eO5Q0Jg1SoFQqeXFQ647JiwqQ@mail.gmail.com Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAH2-Wz=AxWqDoVvGU7dq856S4r6sJAj6DBn7VMtigkB33N5eyg@mail.gmail.com
* Update copyright for 2018Bruce Momjian2018-01-02
| | | | Backpatch-through: certain files through 9.3
* Mark assorted variables PGDLLIMPORT.Robert Haas2017-12-05
| | | | | | | | | This makes life easier for extension authors who wish to support Windows. Brian Cloutier, slightly amended by me. Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAJCy68fscdNhmzFPS4kyO00CADkvXvEa-28H-OtENk-pa2OTWw@mail.gmail.com
* Remove replacement selection sort.Robert Haas2017-09-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | At the time replacement_sort_tuples was introduced, there were still cases where replacement selection sort noticeably outperformed using quicksort even for the first run. However, those cases seem to have evaporated as a result of further improvements made since that time (and perhaps also advances in CPU technology). So remove replacement selection and the controlling GUC entirely. This makes tuplesort.c noticeably simpler and probably paves the way for further optimizations someone might want to do later. Peter Geoghegan, with review and testing by Tomas Vondra and me. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-WzmmNjG_K0R9nqYwMq3zjyJJK+hCbiZYNGhAy-Zyjs64GQ@mail.gmail.com
* Change pg_ctl to detect server-ready by watching status in postmaster.pid.Tom Lane2017-06-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Traditionally, "pg_ctl start -w" has waited for the server to become ready to accept connections by attempting a connection once per second. That has the major problem that connection issues (for instance, a kernel packet filter blocking traffic) can't be reliably told apart from server startup issues, and the minor problem that if server startup isn't quick, we accumulate "the database system is starting up" spam in the server log. We've hacked around many of the possible connection issues, but it resulted in ugly and complicated code in pg_ctl.c. In commit c61559ec3, I changed the probe rate to every tenth of a second. That prompted Jeff Janes to complain that the log-spam problem had become much worse. In the ensuing discussion, Andres Freund pointed out that we could dispense with connection attempts altogether if the postmaster were changed to report its status in postmaster.pid, which "pg_ctl start" already relies on being able to read. This patch implements that, teaching postmaster.c to report a status string into the pidfile at the same state-change points already identified as being of interest for systemd status reporting (cf commit 7d17e683f). pg_ctl no longer needs to link with libpq at all; all its functions now depend on reading server files. In support of this, teach AddToDataDirLockFile() to allow addition of postmaster.pid lines in not-necessarily-sequential order. This is needed on Windows where the SHMEM_KEY line will never be written at all. We still have the restriction that we don't want to truncate the pidfile; document the reasons for that a bit better. Also, fix the pg_ctl TAP tests so they'll notice if "start -w" mode is broken --- before, they'd just wait out the sixty seconds until the loop gives up, and then report success anyway. (Yes, I found that out the hard way.) While at it, arrange for pg_ctl to not need to #include miscadmin.h; as a rather low-level backend header, requiring that to be compilable client-side is pretty dubious. This requires moving the #define's associated with the pidfile into a new header file, and moving PG_BACKEND_VERSIONSTR someplace else. For lack of a clearly better "someplace else", I put it into port.h, beside the declaration of find_other_exec(), since most users of that macro are passing the value to find_other_exec(). (initdb still depends on miscadmin.h, but at least pg_ctl and pg_upgrade no longer do.) In passing, fix main.c so that PG_BACKEND_VERSIONSTR actually defines the output of "postgres -V", which remarkably it had never done before. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMkU=1xJW8e+CTotojOMBd-yzUvD0e_JZu2xHo=MnuZ4__m7Pg@mail.gmail.com
* Phase 2 of pgindent updates.Tom Lane2017-06-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Change pg_bsd_indent to follow upstream rules for placement of comments to the right of code, and remove pgindent hack that caused comments following #endif to not obey the general rule. Commit e3860ffa4dd0dad0dd9eea4be9cc1412373a8c89 wasn't actually using the published version of pg_bsd_indent, but a hacked-up version that tried to minimize the amount of movement of comments to the right of code. The situation of interest is where such a comment has to be moved to the right of its default placement at column 33 because there's code there. BSD indent has always moved right in units of tab stops in such cases --- but in the previous incarnation, indent was working in 8-space tab stops, while now it knows we use 4-space tabs. So the net result is that in about half the cases, such comments are placed one tab stop left of before. This is better all around: it leaves more room on the line for comment text, and it means that in such cases the comment uniformly starts at the next 4-space tab stop after the code, rather than sometimes one and sometimes two tabs after. Also, ensure that comments following #endif are indented the same as comments following other preprocessor commands such as #else. That inconsistency turns out to have been self-inflicted damage from a poorly-thought-through post-indent "fixup" in pgindent. This patch is much less interesting than the first round of indent changes, but also bulkier, so I thought it best to separate the effects. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1dAmxK-0006EE-1r@gemulon.postgresql.org Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/30527.1495162840@sss.pgh.pa.us
* Unify SIGHUP handling between normal and walsender backends.Andres Freund2017-06-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Because walsender and normal backends share the same main loop it's problematic to have two different flag variables, set in signal handlers, indicating a pending configuration reload. Only certain walsender commands reach code paths checking for the variable (START_[LOGICAL_]REPLICATION, CREATE_REPLICATION_SLOT ... LOGICAL, notably not base backups). This is a bug present since the introduction of walsender, but has gotten worse in releases since then which allow walsender to do more. A later patch, not slated for v10, will similarly unify SIGHUP handling in other types of processes as well. Author: Petr Jelinek, Andres Freund Reviewed-By: Michael Paquier Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170423235941.qosiuoyqprq4nu7v@alap3.anarazel.de Backpatch: 9.2-, bug is present since 9.0
* Update copyright via script for 2017Bruce Momjian2017-01-03
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* Replace PostmasterRandom() with a stronger source, second attempt.Heikki Linnakangas2016-12-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This adds a new routine, pg_strong_random() for generating random bytes, for use in both frontend and backend. At the moment, it's only used in the backend, but the upcoming SCRAM authentication patches need strong random numbers in libpq as well. pg_strong_random() is based on, and replaces, the existing implementation in pgcrypto. It can acquire strong random numbers from a number of sources, depending on what's available: - OpenSSL RAND_bytes(), if built with OpenSSL - On Windows, the native cryptographic functions are used - /dev/urandom Unlike the current pgcrypto function, the source is chosen by configure. That makes it easier to test different implementations, and ensures that we don't accidentally fall back to a less secure implementation, if the primary source fails. All of those methods are quite reliable, it would be pretty surprising for them to fail, so we'd rather find out by failing hard. If no strong random source is available, we fall back to using erand48(), seeded from current timestamp, like PostmasterRandom() was. That isn't cryptographically secure, but allows us to still work on platforms that don't have any of the above stronger sources. Because it's not very secure, the built-in implementation is only used if explicitly requested with --disable-strong-random. This replaces the more complicated Fortuna algorithm we used to have in pgcrypto, which is unfortunate, but all modern platforms have /dev/urandom, so it doesn't seem worth the maintenance effort to keep that. pgcrypto functions that require strong random numbers will be disabled with --disable-strong-random. Original patch by Magnus Hagander, tons of further work by Michael Paquier and me. Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAB7nPqRy3krN8quR9XujMVVHYtXJ0_60nqgVc6oUk8ygyVkZsA@mail.gmail.com Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAB7nPqRWkNYRRPJA7-cF+LfroYV10pvjdz6GNvxk-Eee9FypKA@mail.gmail.com
* Add max_parallel_workers GUC.Robert Haas2016-12-02
| | | | | | | | | | Increase the default value of the existing max_worker_processes GUC from 8 to 16, and add a new max_parallel_workers GUC with a maximum of 8. This way, even if the maximum amount of parallel query is happening, there is still room for background workers that do other things, as originally envisioned when max_worker_processes was added. Julien Rouhaud, reviewed by Amit Kapila and by revised by me.
* Mark IsPostmasterEnvironment and IsBackgroundWorker as PGDLLIMPORT.Robert Haas2016-11-26
| | | | Per request from Craig Ringer.
* Mark PostmasterPid as PGDLLIMPORT.Robert Haas2016-06-03
| | | | | | This is so that extensions can use it. Michael Paquier
* Use quicksort, not replacement selection, for external sorting.Robert Haas2016-04-08
| | | | | | | | | | | We still use replacement selection for the first run of the sort only and only when the number of tuples is relatively small. Otherwise, the first run, and subsequent runs in all cases, are produced using quicksort. This tends to be faster except perhaps for very small amounts of working memory. Peter Geoghegan, reviewed by Tomas Vondra, Jeff Janes, Mithun Cy, Greg Stark, and me.
* Add idle_in_transaction_session_timeout.Robert Haas2016-03-16
| | | | | Vik Fearing, reviewed by Stéphane Schildknecht and me, and revised slightly by me.
* Revert "Temporarily make pg_ctl and server shutdown a whole lot chattier."Tom Lane2016-02-10
| | | | | | This reverts commit 3971f64843b02e4a55d854156bd53e46a0588e45 and a couple of followon debugging commits; I think we've learned what we can from them.
* Temporarily make pg_ctl and server shutdown a whole lot chattier.Tom Lane2016-02-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | This is a quick hack, due to be reverted when its purpose has been served, to try to gather information about why some of the buildfarm critters regularly fail with "postmaster does not shut down" complaints. Maybe they are just really overloaded, but maybe something else is going on. Hence, instrument pg_ctl to print the current time when it starts waiting for postmaster shutdown and when it gives up, and add a lot of logging of the current time in the server's checkpoint and shutdown code paths. No attempt has been made to make this pretty. I'm not even totally sure if it will build on Windows, but we'll soon find out.
* Update copyright for 2016Bruce Momjian2016-01-02
| | | | Backpatch certain files through 9.1
* Perform an immediate shutdown if the postmaster.pid file is removed.Tom Lane2015-10-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The postmaster now checks every minute or so (worst case, at most two minutes) that postmaster.pid is still there and still contains its own PID. If not, it performs an immediate shutdown, as though it had received SIGQUIT. The original goal behind this change was to ensure that failed buildfarm runs would get fully cleaned up, even if the test scripts had left a postmaster running, which is not an infrequent occurrence. When the buildfarm script removes a test postmaster's $PGDATA directory, its next check on postmaster.pid will fail and cause it to exit. Previously, manual intervention was often needed to get rid of such orphaned postmasters, since they'd block new test postmasters from obtaining the expected socket address. However, by checking postmaster.pid and not something else, we can provide additional robustness: manual removal of postmaster.pid is a frequent DBA mistake, and now we can at least limit the damage that will ensue if a new postmaster is started while the old one is still alive. Back-patch to all supported branches, since we won't get the desired improvement in buildfarm reliability otherwise.
* ALTER TABLE .. FORCE ROW LEVEL SECURITYStephen Frost2015-10-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | To allow users to force RLS to always be applied, even for table owners, add ALTER TABLE .. FORCE ROW LEVEL SECURITY. row_security=off overrides FORCE ROW LEVEL SECURITY, to ensure pg_dump output is complete (by default). Also add SECURITY_NOFORCE_RLS context to avoid data corruption when ALTER TABLE .. FORCE ROW SECURITY is being used. The SECURITY_NOFORCE_RLS security context is used only during referential integrity checks and is only considered in check_enable_rls() after we have already checked that the current user is the owner of the relation (which should always be the case during referential integrity checks). Back-patch to 9.5 where RLS was added.
* Add recursion depth protections to regular expression matching.Tom Lane2015-10-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Some of the functions in regex compilation and execution recurse, and therefore could in principle be driven to stack overflow. The Tcl crew has seen this happen in practice in duptraverse(), though their fix was to put in a hard-wired limit on the number of recursive levels, which is not too appetizing --- fortunately, we have enough infrastructure to check the actually available stack. Greg Stark has also seen it in other places while fuzz testing on a machine with limited stack space. Let's put guards in to prevent crashes in all these places. Since the regex code would leak memory if we simply threw elog(ERROR), we have to introduce an API that checks for stack depth without throwing such an error. Fortunately that's not difficult.
* Remove the SECURITY_ROW_LEVEL_DISABLED security context bit.Noah Misch2015-09-20
| | | | | | | | | | This commit's parent made superfluous the bit's sole usage. Referential integrity checks have long run as the subject table's owner, and that now implies RLS bypass. Safe use of the bit was tricky, requiring strict control over the SQL expressions evaluating therein. Back-patch to 9.5, where the bit was introduced. Based on a patch by Stephen Frost.
* Plug RLS related information leak in pg_stats view.Joe Conway2015-07-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The pg_stats view is supposed to be restricted to only show rows about tables the user can read. However, it sometimes can leak information which could not otherwise be seen when row level security is enabled. Fix that by not showing pg_stats rows to users that would be subject to RLS on the table the row is related to. This is done by creating/using the newly introduced SQL visible function, row_security_active(). Along the way, clean up three call sites of check_enable_rls(). The second argument of that function should only be specified as other than InvalidOid when we are checking as a different user than the current one, as in when querying through a view. These sites were passing GetUserId() instead of InvalidOid, which can cause the function to return incorrect results if the current user has the BYPASSRLS privilege and row_security has been set to OFF. Additionally fix a bug causing RI Trigger error messages to unintentionally leak information when RLS is enabled, and other minor cleanup and improvements. Also add WITH (security_barrier) to the definition of pg_stats. Bumped CATVERSION due to new SQL functions and pg_stats view definition. Back-patch to 9.5 where RLS was introduced. Reported by Yaroslav. Patch by Joe Conway and Dean Rasheed with review and input by Michael Paquier and Stephen Frost.
* Code + docs review for escaping of option values (commit 11a020eb6).Tom Lane2015-06-29
| | | | | | | | | Avoid memory leak from incorrect choice of how to free a StringInfo (resetStringInfo doesn't do it). Now that pg_split_opts doesn't scribble on the optstr, mark that as "const" for clarity. Attach the commentary in protocol.sgml to the right place, and add documentation about the user-visible effects of this change on postgres' -o option and libpq's PGOPTIONS option.
* Add new OID alias type regroleAndrew Dunstan2015-05-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | The new type has the scope of whole the database cluster so it doesn't behave the same as the existing OID alias types which have database scope, concerning object dependency. To avoid confusion constants of the new type are prohibited from appearing where dependencies are made involving it. Also, add a note to the docs about possible MVCC violation and optimization issues, which are general over the all reg* types. Kyotaro Horiguchi
* Create an infrastructure for parallel computation in PostgreSQL.Robert Haas2015-04-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This does four basic things. First, it provides convenience routines to coordinate the startup and shutdown of parallel workers. Second, it synchronizes various pieces of state (e.g. GUCs, combo CID mappings, transaction snapshot) from the parallel group leader to the worker processes. Third, it prohibits various operations that would result in unsafe changes to that state while parallelism is active. Finally, it propagates events that would result in an ErrorResponse, NoticeResponse, or NotifyResponse message being sent to the client from the parallel workers back to the master, from which they can then be sent on to the client. Robert Haas, Amit Kapila, Noah Misch, Rushabh Lathia, Jeevan Chalke. Suggestions and review from Andres Freund, Heikki Linnakangas, Noah Misch, Simon Riggs, Euler Taveira, and Jim Nasby.
* Remove remnants of ImmediateInterruptOK handling.Andres Freund2015-02-03
| | | | | | | Now that nothing sets ImmediateInterruptOK to true anymore, we can remove all the supporting code. Reviewed-By: Heikki Linnakangas
* Add new function BackgroundWorkerInitializeConnectionByOid.Robert Haas2015-02-02
| | | | | | Sometimes it's useful for a background worker to be able to initialize its database connection by OID rather than by name, so provide a way to do that.
* Be more careful to not lose sync in the FE/BE protocol.Heikki Linnakangas2015-02-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If any error occurred while we were in the middle of reading a protocol message from the client, we could lose sync, and incorrectly try to interpret a part of another message as a new protocol message. That will usually lead to an "invalid frontend message" error that terminates the connection. However, this is a security issue because an attacker might be able to deliberately cause an error, inject a Query message in what's supposed to be just user data, and have the server execute it. We were quite careful to not have CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS() calls or other operations that could ereport(ERROR) in the middle of processing a message, but a query cancel interrupt or statement timeout could nevertheless cause it to happen. Also, the V2 fastpath and COPY handling were not so careful. It's very difficult to recover in the V2 COPY protocol, so we will just terminate the connection on error. In practice, that's what happened previously anyway, as we lost protocol sync. To fix, add a new variable in pqcomm.c, PqCommReadingMsg, that is set whenever we're in the middle of reading a message. When it's set, we cannot safely ERROR out and continue running, because we might've read only part of a message. PqCommReadingMsg acts somewhat similarly to critical sections in that if an error occurs while it's set, the error handler will force the connection to be terminated, as if the error was FATAL. It's not implemented by promoting ERROR to FATAL in elog.c, like ERROR is promoted to PANIC in critical sections, because we want to be able to use PG_TRY/CATCH to recover and regain protocol sync. pq_getmessage() takes advantage of that to prevent an OOM error from terminating the connection. To prevent unnecessary connection terminations, add a holdoff mechanism similar to HOLD/RESUME_INTERRUPTS() that can be used hold off query cancel interrupts, but still allow die interrupts. The rules on which interrupts are processed when are now a bit more complicated, so refactor ProcessInterrupts() and the calls to it in signal handlers so that the signal handlers always call it if ImmediateInterruptOK is set, and ProcessInterrupts() can decide to not do anything if the other conditions are not met. Reported by Emil Lenngren. Patch reviewed by Noah Misch and Andres Freund. Backpatch to all supported versions. Security: CVE-2015-0244
* Add a default local latch for use in signal handlers.Andres Freund2015-01-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | To do so, move InitializeLatchSupport() into the new common process initialization functions, and add a new global variable MyLatch. MyLatch is usable as soon InitPostmasterChild() has been called (i.e. very early during startup). Initially it points to a process local latch that exists in all processes. InitProcess/InitAuxiliaryProcess then replaces that local latch with PGPROC->procLatch. During shutdown the reverse happens. This is primarily advantageous for two reasons: For one it simplifies dealing with the shared process latch, especially in signal handlers, because instead of having to check for MyProc, MyLatch can be used unconditionally. For another, a later patch that makes FEs/BE communication use latches, now can rely on the existence of a latch, even before having gone through InitProcess. Discussion: 20140927191243.GD5423@alap3.anarazel.de
* Commonalize process startup code.Andres Freund2015-01-14
| | | | | | | | | Move common code, that was duplicated in every postmaster child/every standalone process, into two functions in miscinit.c. Not only does that already result in a fair amount of net code reduction but it also makes it much easier to remove more duplication in the future. The prime motivation wasn't code deduplication though, but easier addition of new common code.
* Update copyright for 2015Bruce Momjian2015-01-06
| | | | Backpatch certain files through 9.0
* Add a function to get the authenticated user ID.Robert Haas2014-10-23
| | | | | | | | Previously, this was not exposed outside of miscinit.c. It is needed for the pending pg_background patch, and will also be needed for parallelism. Without it, there's no way for a background worker to re-create the exact authentication environment that was present in the process that started it, which could lead to security exposures.
* Row-Level Security Policies (RLS)Stephen Frost2014-09-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Building on the updatable security-barrier views work, add the ability to define policies on tables to limit the set of rows which are returned from a query and which are allowed to be added to a table. Expressions defined by the policy for filtering are added to the security barrier quals of the query, while expressions defined to check records being added to a table are added to the with-check options of the query. New top-level commands are CREATE/ALTER/DROP POLICY and are controlled by the table owner. Row Security is able to be enabled and disabled by the owner on a per-table basis using ALTER TABLE .. ENABLE/DISABLE ROW SECURITY. Per discussion, ROW SECURITY is disabled on tables by default and must be enabled for policies on the table to be used. If no policies exist on a table with ROW SECURITY enabled, a default-deny policy is used and no records will be visible. By default, row security is applied at all times except for the table owner and the superuser. A new GUC, row_security, is added which can be set to ON, OFF, or FORCE. When set to FORCE, row security will be applied even for the table owner and superusers. When set to OFF, row security will be disabled when allowed and an error will be thrown if the user does not have rights to bypass row security. Per discussion, pg_dump sets row_security = OFF by default to ensure that exports and backups will have all data in the table or will error if there are insufficient privileges to bypass row security. A new option has been added to pg_dump, --enable-row-security, to ask pg_dump to export with row security enabled. A new role capability, BYPASSRLS, which can only be set by the superuser, is added to allow other users to be able to bypass row security using row_security = OFF. Many thanks to the various individuals who have helped with the design, particularly Robert Haas for his feedback. Authors include Craig Ringer, KaiGai Kohei, Adam Brightwell, Dean Rasheed, with additional changes and rework by me. Reviewers have included all of the above, Greg Smith, Jeff McCormick, and Robert Haas.
* Mark IsBinaryUpgrade as PGDLLIMPORT to fix windows builds after a7ae1dc.Andres Freund2014-08-26
| | | | Author: David Rowley
* pgindent run for 9.4Bruce Momjian2014-05-06
| | | | | This includes removing tabs after periods in C comments, which was applied to back branches, so this change should not effect backpatching.
* Make sure -D is an absolute path when starting server on Windows.Tom Lane2014-04-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | This is needed because Windows services may get started with a different current directory than where pg_ctl is executed. We want relative -D paths to be interpreted relative to pg_ctl's CWD, similarly to what happens on other platforms. In support of this, move the backend's make_absolute_path() function into src/port/path.c (where it probably should have been long since) and get rid of the rather inferior version in pg_regress. Kumar Rajeev Rastogi, reviewed by MauMau
* PGDLLIMPORT-ify MainLWLockArray, ProcDiePending, proc_exit_inprogress.Tom Lane2014-02-16
| | | | | | | | | | | These are needed in HEAD to make assorted contrib modules build on Windows. Now that all the MSVC and Mingw buildfarm members seem to be on the same page about the need for them, we can have some confidence that future problems of this ilk will be detected promptly; there seems nothing more to be learned by delaying this fix further. I chose to mark QueryCancelPending as well, since it's easy to imagine code that wants to touch ProcDiePending also caring about QueryCancelPending.
* PGDLLIMPORT'ify DateStyle and IntervalStyle.Tom Lane2014-02-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | This is needed on Windows to support contrib/postgres_fdw. Although it's been broken since last March, we didn't notice until recently because there were no active buildfarm members that complained about missing PGDLLIMPORT marking. Efforts are underway to improve that situation, in support of which we're delaying fixing some other cases of global variables that should be marked PGDLLIMPORT. However, this case affects 9.3, so we can't wait any longer to fix it. I chose to mark DateOrder as well, though it's not strictly necessary for postgres_fdw.
* Export a few more symbols required for test_shm_mq module.Andrew Dunstan2014-01-18
| | | | Patch from Amit Kapila.
* Update copyright for 2014Bruce Momjian2014-01-07
| | | | | Update all files in head, and files COPYRIGHT and legal.sgml in all back branches.
* Remove CTimeZone/HasCTZSet, root and branch.Tom Lane2013-11-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | These variables no longer have any useful purpose, since there's no reason to special-case brute force timezones now that we have a valid session_timezone setting for them. Remove the variables, and remove the SET/SHOW TIME ZONE code that deals with them. The user-visible impact of this is that SHOW TIME ZONE will now show a POSIX-style zone specification, in the form "<+-offset>-+offset", rather than an interval value when a brute-force zone has been set. While perhaps less intuitive, this is a better definition than before because it's actually possible to give that string back to SET TIME ZONE and get the same behavior, unlike what used to happen. We did not previously mention the angle-bracket syntax when describing POSIX timezone specifications; add some documentation so that people can figure out what these strings do. (There's still quite a lot of undocumented functionality there, but anybody who really cares can go read the POSIX spec to find out about it. In practice most people seem to prefer Olsen-style city names anyway.)
* Allow discovery of whether a dynamic background worker is running.Robert Haas2013-08-28
| | | | | | | | | | Using the infrastructure provided by this patch, it's possible either to wait for the startup of a dynamically-registered background worker, or to poll the status of such a worker without waiting. In either case, the current PID of the worker process can also be obtained. As usual, worker_spi is updated to demonstrate the new functionality. Patch by me. Review by Andres Freund.
* Add session_preload_libraries configuration parameterPeter Eisentraut2013-07-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This is like shared_preload_libraries except that it takes effect at backend start and can be changed without a full postmaster restart. It is like local_preload_libraries except that it is still only settable by a superuser. This can be a better way to load modules such as auto_explain. Since there are now three preload parameters, regroup the documentation a bit. Put all parameters into one section, explain common functionality only once, update the descriptions to reflect current and future realities. Reviewed-by: Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndQuadrant.fr>