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* 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.
* Remove outside-the-scanner references to "yyleng".Tom Lane2009-09-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | It seems the flex developers have decided to change yyleng from int to size_t. This has already happened in the latest release of OS X, and will start happening elsewhere once the next release of flex appears. Rather than trying to divine how it's declared in any particular build, let's just remove the one existing not-very-necessary external usage. Back-patch to all supported branches; not so much because users in the field are likely to care about building old branches with cutting-edge flex, as to keep OSX-based buildfarm members from having problems with old branches.
* Change our WIN32 API version to be 5.01 (Windows XP), to bring in the properMagnus Hagander2009-09-07
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* Update the tznames reference files, and add IDT (Israel Daylight Time)Tom Lane2009-09-06
| | | | | | | | | to the Default timezone abbreviation set. Back-port the the current file set to all branches that contain tznames. This includes adding SGT to the Default set in pre-8.4 releases. Joachim Wieland
* 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).
* Fixed incorrect memory management.Michael Meskes2009-09-03
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* Removed some variables no longer needed.Michael Meskes2009-09-03
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* Do not set connection values if no connection is open.Michael Meskes2009-09-03
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* Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2009l: DST law changes inTom Lane2009-09-03
| | | | Egypt, Mauritius, Bangladesh.
* Remove initdb's rather gratuitous check to see if the backend created aTom Lane2009-09-03
| | | | | | | flat password file, because it never will anymore. We had managed to miss this during the recent flat-file-ectomy because it only happens if --pwfile or --pwprompt is specified to initdb. Apparently, few hackers use those. Reported by Erik Rijkers.
* Revert Makefile modification that broke the MSVC build.Magnus Hagander2009-09-02
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* 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.
* Fix pg_ctl's readfile() to not go into infinite loop on an empty fileTom Lane2009-09-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | (could happen if either postgresql.conf or postmaster.opts is empty). It's been broken since the C version was written for 8.0, so patch all the way back. initdb's copy of the function is broken in the same way, but it's less important there since the input files should never be empty. Patch that in HEAD only, and also fix some cosmetic differences that crept into that copy of the function. Per report from Corry Haines and Jeff Davis.
* 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.
* Bump catversion for flat-file-ectomy. Also remove a missed dead externTom Lane2009-09-01
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* 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.
* Remove handling of CVS entries for TODO/FAQ, because they are removedBruce Momjian2009-08-29
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* 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.
* Make the .DEF file generation rules safe against tabs in exports.txt.Tom Lane2009-08-27
| | | | Per bug #5016, although I think the MSVC build scripts may need a similar fix.
* 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.
* exports.txt needs to use spaces as separators, not tabs, to work properlyMagnus Hagander2009-08-27
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* 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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* Enhanced error context support in PL/PythonPeter Eisentraut2009-08-25
| | | | | | | Extract the "while creating return value" and "while modifying trigger row" parts of some error messages into another layer of error context. This will simplify the upcoming patch to improve data type support, but it can stand on its own.
* Use generic attribute management in PL/PythonPeter Eisentraut2009-08-25
| | | | | | | Switch the implementation of the plan and result types to generic attribute management, as described at <http://docs.python.org/extending/newtypes.html>. This modernizes and simplifies the code a bit and prepares for Python 3.1, where the old way doesn't work anymore.
* Make PL/Python tests more compatible with Python 3Peter Eisentraut2009-08-24
| | | | | | This changes a bunch of incidentially used constructs in the PL/Python regression tests to equivalent constructs in cases where Python 3 no longer supports the old syntax. Support for older Python versions is unchanged.
* 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.