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* Add macros to make AllocSetContextCreate() calls simpler and safer.Tom Lane2016-08-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I found that half a dozen (nearly 5%) of our AllocSetContextCreate calls had typos in the context-sizing parameters. While none of these led to especially significant problems, they did create minor inefficiencies, and it's now clear that expecting people to copy-and-paste those calls accurately is not a great idea. Let's reduce the risk of future errors by introducing single macros that encapsulate the common use-cases. Three such macros are enough to cover all but two special-purpose contexts; those two calls can be left as-is, I think. While this patch doesn't in itself improve matters for third-party extensions, it doesn't break anything for them either, and they can gradually adopt the simplified notation over time. In passing, change TopMemoryContext to use the default allocation parameters. Formerly it could only be extended 8K at a time. That was probably reasonable when this code was written; but nowadays we create many more contexts than we did then, so that it's not unusual to have a couple hundred K in TopMemoryContext, even without considering various dubious code that sticks other things there. There seems no good reason not to let it use growing blocks like most other contexts. Back-patch to 9.6, mostly because that's still close enough to HEAD that it's easy to do so, and keeping the branches in sync can be expected to avoid some future back-patching pain. The bugs fixed by these changes don't seem to be significant enough to justify fixing them further back. Discussion: <21072.1472321324@sss.pgh.pa.us>
* Remove no-longer-needed old-style check for incompatible plpythons.Tom Lane2016-01-11
| | | | | | | | | | Commit 866566a690bb9916 introduced a new mechanism for incompatible plpythons to detect each other. I left the old mechanism in place, because it seems possible that a plpython predating that commit might be used with one postdating it. (This would require updating plpython3 but not plpython2 or vice versa, but that seems well within the realm of possibility.) However, surely it will not be able to happen in 9.6 or later, so we can delete the old mechanism in HEAD.
* Avoid dump/reload problems when using both plpython2 and plpython3.Tom Lane2016-01-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Commit 803716013dc1350f installed a safeguard against loading plpython2 and plpython3 at the same time, but asserted that both could still be used in the same database, just not in the same session. However, that's not actually all that practical because dumping and reloading will fail (since both libraries necessarily get loaded into the restoring session). pg_upgrade is even worse, because it checks for missing libraries by loading every .so library mentioned in the entire installation into one session, so that you can have only one across the whole cluster. We can improve matters by not throwing the error immediately in _PG_init, but only when and if we're asked to do something that requires calling into libpython. This ameliorates both of the above situations, since while execution of CREATE LANGUAGE, CREATE FUNCTION, etc will result in loading plpython, it isn't asked to do anything interesting (at least not if check_function_bodies is off, as it will be during a restore). It's possible that this opens some corner-case holes in which a crash could be provoked with sufficient effort. However, since plpython only exists as an untrusted language, any such crash would require superuser privileges, making it "don't do that" not a security issue. To reduce the hazards in this area, the error is still FATAL when it does get thrown. Per a report from Paul Jones. Back-patch to 9.2, which is as far back as the patch applies without work. (It could be made to work in 9.1, but given the lack of previous complaints, I'm disinclined to expend effort so far back. We've been pretty desultory about support for Python 3 in 9.1 anyway.)
* Fix memory leaks in PL/Python.Tom Lane2015-11-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Previously, plpython was in the habit of allocating a lot of stuff in TopMemoryContext, and it was very slipshod about making sure that stuff got cleaned up; in particular, use of TopMemoryContext as fn_mcxt for function calls represents an unfixable leak, since we generally don't know what the called function might have allocated in fn_mcxt. This results in session-lifespan leakage in certain usage scenarios, as for example in a case reported by Ed Behn back in July. To fix, get rid of all the retail allocations in TopMemoryContext. All long-lived allocations are now made in sub-contexts that are associated with specific objects (either pl/python procedures, or Python-visible objects such as cursors and plans). We can clean these up when the associated object is deleted. I went so far as to get rid of PLy_malloc completely. There were a couple of places where it could still have been used safely, but on the whole it was just an invitation to bad coding. Haribabu Kommi, based on a draft patch by Heikki Linnakangas; some further work by me
* Add transforms featurePeter Eisentraut2015-04-26
| | | | | | | | This provides a mechanism for specifying conversions between SQL data types and procedural languages. As examples, there are transforms for hstore and ltree for PL/Perl and PL/Python. reviews by Pavel Stěhule and Andres Freund
* Fix some functions that were declared static then defined not-static.Tom Lane2015-01-12
| | | | Per testing with a compiler that whines about this.
* Create function prototype as part of PG_FUNCTION_INFO_V1 macroPeter Eisentraut2014-04-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Because of gcc -Wmissing-prototypes, all functions in dynamically loadable modules must have a separate prototype declaration. This is meant to detect global functions that are not declared in header files, but in cases where the function is called via dfmgr, this is redundant. Besides filling up space with boilerplate, this is a frequent source of compiler warnings in extension modules. We can fix that by creating the function prototype as part of the PG_FUNCTION_INFO_V1 macro, which such modules have to use anyway. That makes the code of modules cleaner, because there is one less place where the entry points have to be listed, and creates an additional check that functions have the right prototype. Remove now redundant prototypes from contrib and other modules.
* Prevent privilege escalation in explicit calls to PL validators.Noah Misch2014-02-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | The primary role of PL validators is to be called implicitly during CREATE FUNCTION, but they are also normal functions that a user can call explicitly. Add a permissions check to each validator to ensure that a user cannot use explicit validator calls to achieve things he could not otherwise achieve. Back-patch to 8.4 (all supported versions). Non-core procedural language extensions ought to make the same two-line change to their own validators. Andres Freund, reviewed by Tom Lane and Noah Misch. Security: CVE-2014-0061
* Fix plpython's handling of functions used as triggers on multiple tables.Tom Lane2013-01-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | plpython tried to use a single cache entry for a trigger function, but it needs a separate cache entry for each table the trigger is applied to, because there is table-dependent data in there. This was done correctly before 9.1, but commit 46211da1b84bc3537e799ee1126098e71c2428e8 broke it by simplifying the lookup key from "function OID and triggered table OID" to "function OID and is-trigger boolean". Go back to using both OIDs as the lookup key. Per bug report from Sandro Santilli. Andres Freund
* Split tuple struct defs from htup.h to htup_details.hAlvaro Herrera2012-08-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | This reduces unnecessary exposure of other headers through htup.h, which is very widely included by many files. I have chosen to move the function prototypes to the new file as well, because that means htup.h no longer needs to include tupdesc.h. In itself this doesn't have much effect in indirect inclusion of tupdesc.h throughout the tree, because it's also required by execnodes.h; but it's something to explore in the future, and it seemed best to do the htup.h change now while I'm busy with it.
* Run pgindent on 9.2 source tree in preparation for first 9.3Bruce Momjian2012-06-10
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* Patch some corner-case bugs in pl/python.Tom Lane2012-03-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | Dave Malcolm of Red Hat is working on a static code analysis tool for Python-related C code. It reported a number of problems in plpython, most of which were failures to check for NULL results from object-creation functions, so would only be an issue in very-low-memory situations. Patch in HEAD and 9.1. We could go further back but it's not clear that these issues are important enough to justify the work. Jan Urbański
* Create a stack of pl/python "execution contexts".Tom Lane2012-03-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This replaces the former global variable PLy_curr_procedure, and provides a place to stash per-call-level information. In particular we create a per-call-level scratch memory context. For the moment, the scratch context is just used to avoid leaking memory from datatype output function calls in PLyDict_FromTuple. There probably will be more use-cases in future. Although this is a fix for a pre-existing memory leakage bug, it seems sufficiently invasive to not want to back-patch; it feels better as part of the major rearrangement of plpython code that we've already done as part of 9.2. Jan Urbański
* PL/Python: Add argument names to function declarationsPeter Eisentraut2011-12-29
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* Split plpython.c into smaller piecesPeter Eisentraut2011-12-18
This moves the code around from one huge file into hopefully logical and more manageable modules. For the most part, the code itself was not touched, except: PLy_function_handler and PLy_trigger_handler were renamed to PLy_exec_function and PLy_exec_trigger, because they were not actually handlers in the PL handler sense, and it makes the naming more similar to the way PL/pgSQL is organized. The initialization of the procedure caches was separated into a new function init_procedure_caches to keep the hash tables private to plpy_procedures.c. Jan Urbański and Peter Eisentraut