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* Fix deletion of speculatively inserted TOAST on conflictAndres Freund2016-08-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | INSERT .. ON CONFLICT runs a pre-check of the possible conflicting constraints before performing the actual speculative insertion. In case the inserted tuple included TOASTed columns the ON CONFLICT condition would be handled correctly in case the conflict was caught by the pre-check, but if two transactions entered the speculative insertion phase at the same time, one would have to re-try, and the code for aborting a speculative insertion did not handle deleting the speculatively inserted TOAST datums correctly. TOAST deletion would fail with "ERROR: attempted to delete invisible tuple" as we attempted to remove the TOAST tuples using simple_heap_delete which reasoned that the given tuples should not be visible to the command that wrote them. This commit updates the heap_abort_speculative() function which aborts the conflicting tuple to use itself, via toast_delete, for deleting associated TOAST datums. Like before, the inserted toast rows are not marked as being speculative. This commit also adds a isolationtester spec test, exercising the relevant code path. Unfortunately 9.5 cannot handle two waiting sessions, and thus cannot execute this test. Reported-By: Viren Negi, Oskari Saarenmaa Author: Oskari Saarenmaa, edited a bit by me Bug: #14150 Discussion: <20160519123338.12513.20271@wrigleys.postgresql.org> Backpatch: 9.5, where ON CONFLICT was introduced
* Properly re-initialize replication slot shared memory upon creation.Andres Freund2016-08-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Slot creation did not clear all fields upon creation. After start the memory is zeroed, but when a physical replication slot was created in the shared memory of a previously existing logical slot, catalog_xmin would not be cleared. That in turn would prevent vacuum from doing its duties. To fix initialize all the fields. To make similar future bugs less likely, zero all of ReplicationSlotPersistentData, and re-order the rest of the initialization to be in struct member order. Analysis: Andrew Gierth Reported-By: md@chewy.com Author: Michael Paquier Discussion: <20160705173502.1398.70934@wrigleys.postgresql.org> Backpatch: 9.4, where replication slots were introduced
* Fix assorted places in psql to print version numbers >= 10 in new style.Tom Lane2016-08-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This is somewhat cosmetic, since as long as you know what you are looking at, "10.0" is a serviceable substitute for "10". But there is a potential for confusion between version numbers with minor numbers and those without --- we don't want people asking "why is psql saying 10.0 when my server is 10.2". Therefore, back-patch as far as practical, which turns out to be 9.3. I could have redone the patch to use fprintf(stderr) in place of psql_error(), but it seems more work than is warranted for branches that will be EOL or nearly so by the time v10 comes out. Although only psql seems to contain any code that needs this, I chose to put the support function into fe_utils, since it seems likely we'll need it in other client programs in future. (In 9.3-9.5, use dumputils.c, the predecessor of fe_utils/string_utils.c.) In HEAD, also fix the backend code that whines about loadable-library version mismatch. I don't see much need to back-patch that.
* Remove bogus dependencies on NUMERIC_MAX_PRECISION.Tom Lane2016-08-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | NUMERIC_MAX_PRECISION is a purely arbitrary constraint on the precision and scale you can write in a numeric typmod. It might once have had something to do with the allowed range of a typmod-less numeric value, but at least since 9.1 we've allowed, and documented that we allowed, any value that would physically fit in the numeric storage format; which is something over 100000 decimal digits, not 1000. Hence, get rid of numeric_in()'s use of NUMERIC_MAX_PRECISION as a limit on the allowed range of the exponent in scientific-format input. That was especially silly in view of the fact that you can enter larger numbers as long as you don't use 'e' to do it. Just constrain the value enough to avoid localized overflow, and let make_result be the final arbiter of what is too large. Likewise adjust ecpg's equivalent of this code. Also get rid of numeric_recv()'s use of NUMERIC_MAX_PRECISION to limit the number of base-NBASE digits it would accept. That created a dump/restore hazard for binary COPY without doing anything useful; the wire-format limit on number of digits (65535) is about as tight as we would want. In HEAD, also get rid of pg_size_bytes()'s unnecessary intimacy with what the numeric range limit is. That code doesn't exist in the back branches. Per gripe from Aravind Kumar. Back-patch to all supported branches, since they all contain the documentation claim about allowed range of NUMERIC (cf commit cabf5d84b). Discussion: <2895.1471195721@sss.pgh.pa.us>
* Fix inappropriate printing of never-measured times in EXPLAIN.Tom Lane2016-08-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | EXPLAIN (ANALYZE, TIMING OFF) would print an elapsed time of zero for a trigger function, because no measurement has been taken but it printed the field anyway. This isn't what EXPLAIN does elsewhere, so suppress it. In the same vein, EXPLAIN (ANALYZE, BUFFERS) with non-text output format would print buffer I/O timing numbers even when no measurement has been taken because track_io_timing is off. That seems not per policy, either, so change it. Back-patch to 9.2 where these features were introduced. Maksim Milyutin Discussion: <081c0540-ecaa-bd29-3fd2-6358f3b359a9@postgrespro.ru>
* Code cleanup in SyncRepWaitForLSN()Simon Riggs2016-08-12
| | | | | | | | | | Commit 14e8803f1 removed LWLocks when accessing MyProc->syncRepState but didn't clean up the surrounding code and comments. Cleanup and backpatch to 9.5, to keep code similar. Julien Rouhaud, improved by suggestion from Michael Paquier, implemented trivially by myself.
* Fix busted Assert for CREATE MATVIEW ... WITH NO DATA.Tom Lane2016-08-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Commit 874fe3aea changed the command tag returned for CREATE MATVIEW/CREATE TABLE AS ... WITH NO DATA, but missed that there was code in spi.c that expected the command tag to always be "SELECT". Fortunately, the consequence was only an Assert failure, so this oversight should have no impact in production builds. Since this code path was evidently un-exercised, add a regression test. Per report from Shivam Saxena. Back-patch to 9.3, like the previous commit. Michael Paquier Report: <97218716-480B-4527-B5CD-D08D798A0C7B@dresources.com>
* Stamp 9.5.4.REL9_5_4Tom Lane2016-08-08
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* Fix several one-byte buffer over-reads in to_numberPeter Eisentraut2016-08-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Several places in NUM_numpart_from_char(), which is called from the SQL function to_number(text, text), could accidentally read one byte past the end of the input buffer (which comes from the input text datum and is not null-terminated). 1. One leading space character would be skipped, but there was no check that the input was at least one byte long. This does not happen in practice, but for defensiveness, add a check anyway. 2. Commit 4a3a1e2cf apparently accidentally doubled that code that skips one space character (so that two spaces might be skipped), but there was no overflow check before skipping the second byte. Fix by removing that duplicate code. 3. A logic error would allow a one-byte over-read when looking for a trailing sign (S) placeholder. In each case, the extra byte cannot be read out directly, but looking at it might cause a crash. The third item was discovered by Piotr Stefaniak, the first two were found and analyzed by Tom Lane and Peter Eisentraut.
* Translation updatesPeter Eisentraut2016-08-08
| | | | | Source-Git-URL: git://git.postgresql.org/git/pgtranslation/messages.git Source-Git-Hash: f1a1631efd7a51f9b1122f22cf688a3124bf1342
* Fix two errors with nested CASE/WHEN constructs.Tom Lane2016-08-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ExecEvalCase() tried to save a cycle or two by passing &econtext->caseValue_isNull as the isNull argument to its sub-evaluation of the CASE value expression. If that subexpression itself contained a CASE, then *isNull was an alias for econtext->caseValue_isNull within the recursive call of ExecEvalCase(), leading to confusion about whether the inner call's caseValue was null or not. In the worst case this could lead to a core dump due to dereferencing a null pointer. Fix by not assigning to the global variable until control comes back from the subexpression. Also, avoid using the passed-in isNull pointer transiently for evaluation of WHEN expressions. (Either one of these changes would have been sufficient to fix the known misbehavior, but it's clear now that each of these choices was in itself dangerous coding practice and best avoided. There do not seem to be any similar hazards elsewhere in execQual.c.) Also, it was possible for inlining of a SQL function that implements the equality operator used for a CASE comparison to result in one CASE expression's CaseTestExpr node being inserted inside another CASE expression. This would certainly result in wrong answers since the improperly nested CaseTestExpr would be caused to return the inner CASE's comparison value not the outer's. If the CASE values were of different data types, a crash might result; moreover such situations could be abused to allow disclosure of portions of server memory. To fix, teach inline_function to check for "bare" CaseTestExpr nodes in the arguments of a function to be inlined, and avoid inlining if there are any. Heikki Linnakangas, Michael Paquier, Tom Lane Report: https://github.com/greenplum-db/gpdb/pull/327 Report: <4DDCEEB8.50602@enterprisedb.com> Security: CVE-2016-5423
* Obstruct shell, SQL, and conninfo injection via database and role names.Noah Misch2016-08-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Due to simplistic quoting and confusion of database names with conninfo strings, roles with the CREATEDB or CREATEROLE option could escalate to superuser privileges when a superuser next ran certain maintenance commands. The new coding rule for PQconnectdbParams() calls, documented at conninfo_array_parse(), is to pass expand_dbname=true and wrap literal database names in a trivial connection string. Escape zero-length values in appendConnStrVal(). Back-patch to 9.1 (all supported versions). Nathan Bossart, Michael Paquier, and Noah Misch. Reviewed by Peter Eisentraut. Reported by Nathan Bossart. Security: CVE-2016-5424
* Promote pg_dumpall shell/connstr quoting functions to src/fe_utils.Noah Misch2016-08-08
| | | | | | | | | | Rename these newly-extern functions with terms more typical of their new neighbors. No functional changes; a subsequent commit will use them in more places. Back-patch to 9.1 (all supported versions). Back branches lack src/fe_utils, so instead rename the functions in place; the subsequent commit will copy them into the other programs using them. Security: CVE-2016-5424
* Fix Windows shell argument quoting.Noah Misch2016-08-08
| | | | | | | | | The incorrect quoting may have permitted arbitrary command execution. At a minimum, it gave broader control over the command line to actors supposed to have control over a single argument. Back-patch to 9.1 (all supported versions). Security: CVE-2016-5424
* Reject, in pg_dumpall, names containing CR or LF.Noah Misch2016-08-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | These characters prematurely terminate Windows shell command processing, causing the shell to execute a prefix of the intended command. The chief alternative to rejecting these characters was to bypass the Windows shell with CreateProcess(), but the ability to use such names has little value. Back-patch to 9.1 (all supported versions). This change formally revokes support for these characters in database names and roles names. Don't document this; the error message is self-explanatory, and too few users would benefit. A future major release may forbid creation of databases and roles so named. For now, check only at known weak points in pg_dumpall. Future commits will, without notice, reject affected names from other frontend programs. Also extend the restriction to pg_dumpall --dbname=CONNSTR arguments and --file arguments. Unlike the effects on role name arguments and database names, this does not reflect a broad policy change. A migration to CreateProcess() could lift these two restrictions. Reviewed by Peter Eisentraut. Security: CVE-2016-5424
* Field conninfo strings throughout src/bin/scripts.Noah Misch2016-08-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | These programs nominally accepted conninfo strings, but they would proceed to use the original dbname parameter as though it were an unadorned database name. This caused "reindexdb dbname=foo" to issue an SQL command that always failed, and other programs printed a conninfo string in error messages that purported to print a database name. Fix both problems by using PQdb() to retrieve actual database names. Continue to print the full conninfo string when reporting a connection failure. It is informative there, and if the database name is the sole problem, the server-side error message will include the name. Beyond those user-visible fixes, this allows a subsequent commit to synthesize and use conninfo strings without that implementation detail leaking into messages. As a side effect, the "vacuuming database" message now appears after, not before, the connection attempt. Back-patch to 9.1 (all supported versions). Reviewed by Michael Paquier and Peter Eisentraut. Security: CVE-2016-5424
* Introduce a psql "\connect -reuse-previous=on|off" option.Noah Misch2016-08-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | The decision to reuse values of parameters from a previous connection has been based on whether the new target is a conninfo string. Add this means of overriding that default. This feature arose as one component of a fix for security vulnerabilities in pg_dump, pg_dumpall, and pg_upgrade, so back-patch to 9.1 (all supported versions). In 9.3 and later, comment paragraphs that required update had already-incorrect claims about behavior when no connection is open; fix those problems. Security: CVE-2016-5424
* Sort out paired double quotes in \connect, \password and \crosstabview.Noah Misch2016-08-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | In arguments, these meta-commands wrongly treated each pair as closing the double quoted string. Make the behavior match the documentation. This is a compatibility break, but I more expect to find software with untested reliance on the documented behavior than software reliant on today's behavior. Back-patch to 9.1 (all supported versions). Reviewed by Tom Lane and Peter Eisentraut. Security: CVE-2016-5424
* Fix misestimation of n_distinct for a nearly-unique column with many nulls.Tom Lane2016-08-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If ANALYZE found no repeated non-null entries in its sample, it set the column's stadistinct value to -1.0, intending to indicate that the entries are all distinct. But what this value actually means is that the number of distinct values is 100% of the table's rowcount, and thus it was overestimating the number of distinct values by however many nulls there are. This could lead to very poor selectivity estimates, as for example in a recent report from Andreas Joseph Krogh. We should discount the stadistinct value by whatever we've estimated the nulls fraction to be. (That is what will happen if we choose to use a negative stadistinct for a column that does have repeated entries, so this code path was just inconsistent.) In addition to fixing the stadistinct entries stored by several different ANALYZE code paths, adjust the logic where get_variable_numdistinct() forces an "all distinct" estimate on the basis of finding a relevant unique index. Unique indexes don't reject nulls, so there's no reason to assume that the null fraction doesn't apply. Back-patch to all supported branches. Back-patching is a bit of a judgment call, but this problem seems to affect only a few users (else we'd have identified it long ago), and it's bad enough when it does happen that destabilizing plan choices in a worse direction seems unlikely. Patch by me, with documentation wording suggested by Dean Rasheed Report: <VisenaEmail.26.df42f82acae38a58.156463942b8@tc7-visena> Discussion: <16143.1470350371@sss.pgh.pa.us>
* Don't propagate a null subtransaction snapshot up to parent transaction.Tom Lane2016-08-07
| | | | | | | | | This oversight could cause logical decoding to fail to decode an outer transaction containing changes, if a subtransaction had an XID but no actual changes. Per bug #14279 from Marko Tiikkaja. Patch by Marko based on analysis by Andrew Gierth. Discussion: <20160804191757.1430.39011@wrigleys.postgresql.org>
* In B-tree page deletion, clean up properly after page deletion failure.Tom Lane2016-08-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In _bt_unlink_halfdead_page(), we might fail to find an immediate left sibling of the target page, perhaps because of corruption of the page sibling links. The code intends to cope with this by just abandoning the deletion attempt; but what actually happens is that it fails outright due to releasing the same buffer lock twice. (And error recovery masks a second problem, which is possible leakage of a pin on another page.) Seems to have been introduced by careless refactoring in commit efada2b8e. Since there are multiple cases to consider, let's make releasing the buffer lock in the failure case the responsibility of _bt_unlink_halfdead_page() not its caller. Also, avoid fetching the leaf page's left-link again after we've dropped lock on the page. This is probably harmless, but it's not exactly good coding practice. Per report from Kyotaro Horiguchi. Back-patch to 9.4 where the faulty code was introduced. Discussion: <20160803.173116.111915228.horiguchi.kyotaro@lab.ntt.co.jp>
* Teach libpq to decode server version correctly from future servers.Tom Lane2016-08-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Beginning with the next development cycle, PG servers will report two-part not three-part version numbers. Fix libpq so that it will compute the correct numeric representation of such server versions for reporting by PQserverVersion(). It's desirable to get this into the field and back-patched ASAP, so that older clients are more likely to understand the new server version numbering by the time any such servers are in the wild. (The results with an old client would probably not be catastrophic anyway for a released server; for example "10.1" would be interpreted as 100100 which would be wrong in detail but would not likely cause an old client to misbehave badly. But "10devel" or "10beta1" would result in sversion==0 which at best would result in disabling all use of modern features.) Extracted from a patch by Peter Eisentraut; comments added by me Patch: <802ec140-635d-ad86-5fdf-d3af0e260c22@2ndquadrant.com>
* Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2016f.Tom Lane2016-08-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | DST law changes in Kemerovo and Novosibirsk. Historical corrections for Azerbaijan, Belarus, and Morocco. Asia/Novokuznetsk and Asia/Novosibirsk now use numeric time zone abbreviations instead of invented ones. Zones for Antarctic bases and other locations that have been uninhabited for portions of the time span known to the tzdata database now report "-00" rather than "zzz" as the zone abbreviation for those time spans. Also, I decided to remove some of the timezone/data/ files that we don't use. At one time that subdirectory was a complete copy of what IANA distributes in the tzdata tarballs, but that hasn't been true for a long time. There seems no good reason to keep shipping those specific files but not others; they're just bloating our tarballs.
* Fix bogus coding in WaitForBackgroundWorkerShutdown().Tom Lane2016-08-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Some conditions resulted in "return" directly out of a PG_TRY block, which left the exception stack dangling, and to add insult to injury failed to restore the state of set_latch_on_sigusr1. This is a bug only in 9.5; in HEAD it was accidentally fixed by commit db0f6cad4, which removed the surrounding PG_TRY block. However, I (tgl) chose to apply the patch to HEAD as well, because the old coding was gratuitously different from WaitForBackgroundWorkerStartup(), and there would indeed have been no bug if it were done like that to start with. Dmitry Ivanov Discussion: <1637882.WfYN5gPf1A@abook>
* Remove duplicate InitPostmasterChild() call while starting a bgworker.Tom Lane2016-08-02
| | | | | | | | | | | This is apparently harmless on Windows, but on Unix it results in an assertion failure. We'd not noticed because this code doesn't get used on Unix unless you build with -DEXEC_BACKEND. Bug was evidently introduced by sloppy refactoring in commit 31c453165. Thomas Munro Discussion: <CAEepm=1VOnbVx4wsgQFvj94hu9jVt2nVabCr7QiooUSvPJXkgQ@mail.gmail.com>
* Block interrupts during HandleParallelMessages().Tom Lane2016-08-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | As noted by Alvaro, there are CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS() calls in the shm_mq.c functions called by HandleParallelMessages(). I believe they're all unreachable since we always pass nowait = true, but it doesn't seem like a great idea to assume that no such call will ever be reachable from HandleParallelMessages(). If that did happen, there would be a risk of a recursive call to HandleParallelMessages(), which it does not appear to be designed for --- for example, there's nothing that would prevent out-of-order processing of received messages. And certainly such cases cannot easily be tested. So let's prevent it by holding off interrupts for the duration of the function. Back-patch to 9.5 which contains identical code. Discussion: <14869.1470083848@sss.pgh.pa.us>
* Sync 9.5 version of access/transam/parallel.c with HEAD.Tom Lane2016-08-02
| | | | | | | | | This back-patches commit a5fe473ad (notably, marking ParallelMessagePending as volatile, which is not particularly optional). I also back-patched some previous cosmetic changes to remove unnecessary diffs between the two branches. I'm unsure how much of this code is actually reachable in 9.5, but to the extent that it is reachable, it needs to be maintained, and minimizing cross-branch diffs will make that easier.
* Fix pg_dump's handling of public schema with both -c and -C options.Tom Lane2016-08-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Since -c plus -C requests dropping and recreating the target database as a whole, not dropping individual objects in it, we should assume that the public schema already exists and need not be created. The previous coding considered only the state of the -c option, so it would emit "CREATE SCHEMA public" anyway, leading to an unexpected error in restore. Back-patch to 9.2. Older versions did not accept -c with -C so the issue doesn't arise there. (The logic being patched here dates to 8.0, cf commit 2193121fa, so it's not really wrong that it didn't consider the case at the time.) Note that versions before 9.6 will still attempt to emit REVOKE/GRANT on the public schema; but that happens without -c/-C too, and doesn't seem to be the focus of this complaint. I considered extending this stanza to also skip the public schema's ACL, but that would be a misfeature, as it'd break cases where users intentionally changed that ACL. The real fix for this aspect is Stephen Frost's work to not dump built-in ACLs, and that's not going to get back-ported. Per bugs #13804 and #14271. Solution found by David Johnston and later rediscovered by me. Report: <20151207163520.2628.95990@wrigleys.postgresql.org> Report: <20160801021955.1430.47434@wrigleys.postgresql.org>
* Don't CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS between WaitLatch and ResetLatch.Tom Lane2016-08-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This coding pattern creates a race condition, because if an interesting interrupt happens after we've checked InterruptPending but before we reset our latch, the latch-setting done by the signal handler would get lost, and then we might block at WaitLatch in the next iteration without ever noticing the interrupt condition. You can put the CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS before WaitLatch or after ResetLatch, but not between them. Aside from fixing the bugs, add some explanatory comments to latch.h to perhaps forestall the next person from making the same mistake. In HEAD, also replace gather_readnext's direct call of HandleParallelMessages with CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS. It does not seem clean or useful for this one caller to bypass ProcessInterrupts and go straight to HandleParallelMessages; not least because that fails to consider the InterruptPending flag, resulting in useless work both here (if InterruptPending isn't set) and in the next CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS call (if it is). This thinko seems to have been introduced in the initial coding of storage/ipc/shm_mq.c (commit ec9037df2), and then blindly copied into all the subsequent parallel-query support logic. Back-patch relevant hunks to 9.4 to extirpate the error everywhere. Discussion: <1661.1469996911@sss.pgh.pa.us>
* Fixed array checking code for "unsigned long long" datatypes in libecpg.Michael Meskes2016-08-01
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* Fix pg_basebackup so that it accepts 0 as a valid compression level.Fujii Masao2016-08-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The help message for pg_basebackup specifies that the numbers 0 through 9 are accepted as valid values of -Z option. But, previously -Z 0 was rejected as an invalid compression level. Per discussion, it's better to make pg_basebackup treat 0 as valid compression level meaning no compression, like pg_dump. Back-patch to all supported versions. Reported-By: Jeff Janes Reviewed-By: Amit Kapila Discussion: CAMkU=1x+GwjSayc57v6w87ij6iRGFWt=hVfM0B64b1_bPVKRqg@mail.gmail.com
* Fix pq_putmessage_noblock() to not block.Tom Lane2016-07-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | An evident copy-and-pasteo in commit 2bd9e412f broke the non-blocking aspect of pq_putmessage_noblock(), causing it to behave identically to pq_putmessage(). That function is nowadays used only in walsender.c, so that the net effect was to cause walsenders to hang up waiting for the receiver in situations where they should not. Kyotaro Horiguchi Patch: <20160728.185228.58375982.horiguchi.kyotaro@lab.ntt.co.jp>
* Guard against empty buffer in gets_fromFile()'s check for a newline.Tom Lane2016-07-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Per the fgets() specification, it cannot return without reading some data unless it reports EOF or error. So the code here assumed that the data buffer would necessarily be nonempty when we go to check for a newline having been read. However, Agostino Sarubbo noticed that this could fail to be true if the first byte of the data is a NUL (\0). The fgets() API doesn't really work for embedded NULs, which is something I don't feel any great need for us to worry about since we generally don't allow NULs in SQL strings anyway. But we should not access off the end of our own buffer if the case occurs. Normally this would just be a harmless read, but if you were unlucky the byte before the buffer would contain '\n' and we'd overwrite it with '\0', and if you were really unlucky that might be valuable data and psql would crash. Agostino reported this to pgsql-security, but after discussion we concluded that it isn't worth treating as a security bug; if you can control the input to psql you can do far more interesting things than just maybe-crash it. Nonetheless, it is a bug, so back-patch to all supported versions.
* Fix assorted fallout from IS [NOT] NULL patch.Tom Lane2016-07-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Commits 4452000f3 et al established semantics for NullTest.argisrow that are a bit different from its initial conception: rather than being merely a cache of whether we've determined the input to have composite type, the flag now has the further meaning that we should apply field-by-field testing as per the standard's definition of IS [NOT] NULL. If argisrow is false and yet the input has composite type, the construct instead has the semantics of IS [NOT] DISTINCT FROM NULL. Update the comments in primnodes.h to clarify this, and fix ruleutils.c and deparse.c to print such cases correctly. In the case of ruleutils.c, this merely results in cosmetic changes in EXPLAIN output, since the case can't currently arise in stored rules. However, it represents a live bug for deparse.c, which would formerly have sent a remote query that had semantics different from the local behavior. (From the user's standpoint, this means that testing a remote nested-composite column for null-ness could have had unexpected recursive behavior much like that fixed in 4452000f3.) In a related but somewhat independent fix, make plancat.c set argisrow to false in all NullTest expressions constructed to represent "attnotnull" constructs. Since attnotnull is actually enforced as a simple null-value check, this is a more accurate representation of the semantics; we were previously overpromising what it meant for composite columns, which might possibly lead to incorrect planner optimizations. (It seems that what the SQL spec expects a NOT NULL constraint to mean is an IS NOT NULL test, so arguably we are violating the spec and should fix attnotnull to do the other thing. If we ever do, this part should get reverted.) Back-patch, same as the previous commit. Discussion: <10682.1469566308@sss.pgh.pa.us>
* Improve documentation about CREATE TABLE ... LIKE.Tom Lane2016-07-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | The docs failed to explain that LIKE INCLUDING INDEXES would not preserve the names of indexes and associated constraints. Also, it wasn't mentioned that EXCLUDE constraints would be copied by this option. The latter oversight seems enough of a documentation bug to justify back-patching. In passing, do some minor copy-editing in the same area, and add an entry for LIKE under "Compatibility", since it's not exactly a faithful implementation of the standard's feature. Discussion: <20160728151154.AABE64016B@smtp.hushmail.com>
* Register atexit hook only once in pg_upgrade.Tom Lane2016-07-28
| | | | | | | | | | | start_postmaster() registered stop_postmaster_atexit as an atexit(3) callback each time through, although the obvious intention was to do so only once per program run. The extra registrations were harmless, so long as we didn't exceed ATEXIT_MAX, but still it's a bug. Artur Zakirov, with bikeshedding by Kyotaro Horiguchi and me Discussion: <d279e817-02b5-caa6-215f-cfb05dce109a@postgrespro.ru>
* Fix constant-folding of ROW(...) IS [NOT] NULL with composite fields.Tom Lane2016-07-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The SQL standard appears to specify that IS [NOT] NULL's tests of field nullness are non-recursive, ie, we shouldn't consider that a composite field with value ROW(NULL,NULL) is null for this purpose. ExecEvalNullTest got this right, but eval_const_expressions did not, leading to weird inconsistencies depending on whether the expression was such that the planner could apply constant folding. Also, adjust the docs to mention that IS [NOT] DISTINCT FROM NULL can be used as a substitute test if a simple null check is wanted for a rowtype argument. That motivated reordering things so that IS [NOT] DISTINCT FROM is described before IS [NOT] NULL. In HEAD, I went a bit further and added a table showing all the comparison-related predicates. Per bug #14235. Back-patch to all supported branches, since it's certainly undesirable that constant-folding should change the semantics. Report and patch by Andrew Gierth; assorted wordsmithing and revised regression test cases by me. Report: <20160708024746.1410.57282@wrigleys.postgresql.org>
* Make the AIX case of Makefile.shlib safe for parallel make.Noah Misch2016-07-23
| | | | | Use our typical approach, from src/backend/parser. Back-patch to 9.1 (all supported versions).
* Fix regression tests to work in Welsh locale.Tom Lane2016-07-22
| | | | | | | | | | Welsh (cy_GB) apparently sorts 'dd' after 'f', creating problems analogous to the odd sorting of 'aa' in Danish. Adjust regression test case to not use data that provokes that. Jeff Janes Patch: <CAMkU=1zx-pqcfSApL2pYDQurPOCfcYU0wJorsmY1OrYPiXRbLw@mail.gmail.com>
* Make pltcl regression tests safe for Danish locale.Tom Lane2016-07-21
| | | | | | | | Another peculiarity of Danish locale is that it has an unusual idea of how to sort upper vs. lower case. One of the pltcl test cases has an issue with that. Now that COLLATE works in all supported branches, we can just change the test to be locale-independent, and get rid of the variant expected file that used to support non-C locales.
* Make core regression tests safe for Danish locale.Tom Lane2016-07-21
| | | | | | | | | | Some tests added in 9.5 depended on 'aa' sorting before 'bb', which doesn't hold true in Danish. Use slightly different test data to avoid the problem. Jeff Janes Report: <CAMkU=1w-cEDbA+XHdNb=YS_4wvZbs66Ni9KeSJKAJGNJyOsgQw@mail.gmail.com>
* Remove very-obsolete estimates of shmem usage from postgresql.conf.sample.Tom Lane2016-07-19
| | | | | | | | | | runtime.sgml used to contain a table of estimated shared memory consumption rates for max_connections and some other GUCs. Commit 390bfc643 removed that on the well-founded grounds that (a) we weren't maintaining the entries well and (b) it no longer mattered so much once we got out from under SysV shmem limits. But it missed that there were even-more-obsolete versions of some of those numbers in comments in postgresql.conf.sample. Remove those too. Back-patch to 9.3 where the aforesaid commit went in.
* Fix MSVC build for changes in zic.Tom Lane2016-07-19
| | | | Ooops, I missed back-patching commit f5f15ea6a along with the other stuff.
* Sync back-branch copies of the timezone code with IANA release tzcode2016c.Tom Lane2016-07-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Back-patch commit 1c1a7cbd6a1600c9, along with subsequent portability fixes, into all active branches. Also, back-patch commits 696027727 and 596857043 (addition of zic -P option) into 9.1 and 9.2, just to reduce differences between the branches. src/timezone/ is now largely identical in all active branches, except that in 9.1, pgtz.c retains the initial-timezone-selection code that was moved over to initdb in 9.2. Ordinarily we wouldn't risk this much code churn in back branches, but it seems necessary in this case, because among the changes are two feature additions in the "zic" zone data file compiler (a larger limit on the number of allowed DST transitions, and addition of a "%z" escape in zone abbreviations). IANA have not yet started to use those features in their tzdata files, but presumably they will before too long. If we don't update then we'll be unable to adopt new timezone data. Also, installations built with --with-system-tzdata (which includes most distro-supplied builds, I believe) might fail even if we don't update our copies of the data files. There are assorted bug fixes too, mostly affecting obscure timezones or post-2037 dates. Discussion: <13601.1468868947@sss.pgh.pa.us>
* Fix crash in close_ps() for NaN input coordinates.Tom Lane2016-07-16
| | | | | | | | | | The Assert() here seems unreasonably optimistic. Andreas Seltenreich found that it could fail with NaNs in the input geometries, and it seems likely to me that it might fail in corner cases due to roundoff error, even for ordinary input values. As a band-aid, make the function return SQL NULL instead of crashing. Report: <87d1md1xji.fsf@credativ.de>
* Fix torn-page, unlogged xid and further risks from heap_update().Andres Freund2016-07-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When heap_update needs to look for a page for the new tuple version, because the current one doesn't have sufficient free space, or when columns have to be processed by the tuple toaster, it has to release the lock on the old page during that. Otherwise there'd be lock ordering and lock nesting issues. To avoid concurrent sessions from trying to update / delete / lock the tuple while the page's content lock is released, the tuple's xmax is set to the current session's xid. That unfortunately was done without any WAL logging, thereby violating the rule that no XIDs may appear on disk, without an according WAL record. If the database were to crash / fail over when the page level lock is released, and some activity lead to the page being written out to disk, the xid could end up being reused; potentially leading to the row becoming invisible. There might be additional risks by not having t_ctid point at the tuple itself, without having set the appropriate lock infomask fields. To fix, compute the appropriate xmax/infomask combination for locking the tuple, and perform WAL logging using the existing XLOG_HEAP_LOCK record. That allows the fix to be backpatched. This issue has existed for a long time. There appears to have been partial attempts at preventing dangers, but these never have fully been implemented, and were removed a long time ago, in 11919160 (cf. HEAP_XMAX_UNLOGGED). In master / 9.6, there's an additional issue, namely that the visibilitymap's freeze bit isn't reset at that point yet. Since that's a new issue, introduced only in a892234f830, that'll be fixed in a separate commit. Author: Masahiko Sawada and Andres Freund Reported-By: Different aspects by Thomas Munro, Noah Misch, and others Discussion: CAEepm=3fWAbWryVW9swHyLTY4sXVf0xbLvXqOwUoDiNCx9mBjQ@mail.gmail.com Backpatch: 9.1/all supported versions
* Make HEAP_LOCK/HEAP2_LOCK_UPDATED replay reset HEAP_XMAX_INVALID.Andres Freund2016-07-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 0ac5ad5 started to compress infomask bits in WAL records. Unfortunately the replay routines for XLOG_HEAP_LOCK/XLOG_HEAP2_LOCK_UPDATED forgot to reset the HEAP_XMAX_INVALID (and some other) hint bits. Luckily that's not problematic in the majority of cases, because after a crash/on a standby row locks aren't meaningful. Unfortunately that does not hold true in the presence of prepared transactions. This means that after a crash, or after promotion, row level locks held by a prepared, but not yet committed, prepared transaction might not be enforced. Discussion: 20160715192319.ubfuzim4zv3rqnxv@alap3.anarazel.de Backpatch: 9.3, the oldest branch on which 0ac5ad5 is present.
* Avoid serializability errors when locking a tuple with a committed updateAlvaro Herrera2016-07-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When key-share locking a tuple that has been not-key-updated, and the update is a committed transaction, in some cases we raised serializability errors: ERROR: could not serialize access due to concurrent update Because the key-share doesn't conflict with the update, the error is unnecessary and inconsistent with the case that the update hasn't committed yet. This causes problems for some usage patterns, even if it can be claimed that it's sufficient to retry the aborted transaction: given a steady stream of updating transactions and a long locking transaction, the long transaction can be starved indefinitely despite multiple retries. To fix, we recognize that HeapTupleSatisfiesUpdate can return HeapTupleUpdated when an updating transaction has committed, and that we need to deal with that case exactly as if it were a non-committed update: verify whether the two operations conflict, and if not, carry on normally. If they do conflict, however, there is a difference: in the HeapTupleBeingUpdated case we can just sleep until the concurrent transaction is gone, while in the HeapTupleUpdated case this is not possible and we must raise an error instead. Per trouble report from Olivier Dony. In addition to a couple of test cases that verify the changed behavior, I added a test case to verify the behavior that remains unchanged, namely that errors are raised when a update that modifies the key is used. That must still generate serializability errors. One pre-existing test case changes behavior; per discussion, the new behavior is actually the desired one. Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/560AA479.4080807@odoo.com https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20151014164844.3019.25750@wrigleys.postgresql.org Backpatch to 9.3, where the problem appeared.
* Fix GiST index build for NaN values in geometric types.Tom Lane2016-07-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | GiST index build could go into an infinite loop when presented with boxes (or points, circles or polygons) containing NaN component values. This happened essentially because the code assumed that x == x is true for any "double" value x; but it's not true for NaNs. The looping behavior was not the only problem though: we also attempted to sort the items using simple double comparisons. Since NaNs violate the trichotomy law, qsort could (in principle at least) get arbitrarily confused and mess up the sorting of ordinary values as well as NaNs. And we based splitting choices on box size calculations that could produce NaNs, again resulting in undesirable behavior. To fix, replace all comparisons of doubles in this logic with float8_cmp_internal, which is NaN-aware and is careful to sort NaNs consistently, higher than any non-NaN. Also rearrange the box size calculation to not produce NaNs; instead it should produce an infinity for a box with NaN on one side and not-NaN on the other. I don't by any means claim that this solves all problems with NaNs in geometric values, but it should at least make GiST index insertion work reliably with such data. It's likely that the index search side of things still needs some work, and probably regular geometric operations too. But with this patch we're laying down a convention for how such cases ought to behave. Per bug #14238 from Guang-Dih Lei. Back-patch to 9.2; the code used before commit 7f3bd86843e5aad8 is quite different and doesn't lock up on my simple test case, nor on the submitter's dataset. Report: <20160708151747.1426.60150@wrigleys.postgresql.org> Discussion: <28685.1468246504@sss.pgh.pa.us>
* Allow IMPORT FOREIGN SCHEMA within pl/pgsql.Tom Lane2016-07-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Since IMPORT FOREIGN SCHEMA has an INTO clause, pl/pgsql needs to be aware of that and avoid capturing the INTO as an INTO-variables clause. This isn't hard, though it's annoying to have to make IMPORT a plpgsql keyword just for this. (Fortunately, we have the infrastructure now to make it an unreserved keyword, so at least this shouldn't break any existing pl/pgsql code.) Per report from Merlin Moncure. Back-patch to 9.5 where IMPORT FOREIGN SCHEMA was introduced. Report: <CAHyXU0wpHf2bbtKGL1gtUEFATCY86r=VKxfcACVcTMQ70mCyig@mail.gmail.com>