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* Initialize tableoid field correctly when dumping foreign data wrappers andHeikki Linnakangas2010-09-23
| | | | | | | | servers. AFAICT it's harmless at the moment because nothing can depend on either, but as soon as we introduce an object type with such dependencies, tableoid needs to be set or pg_dump will fail to interpret the dependencies correctly. In theory, I guess the uninitialized garbage in tableoid could cause the object to be mistaken for some other object with same OID as well.
* Re-allow input of Julian dates prior to 0001-01-01 AD.Tom Lane2010-09-22
| | | | | | This was unintentionally broken in 8.4 while tightening up checking of ordinary non-Julian date inputs to forbid references to "year zero". Per bug #5672 from Benjamin Gigot.
* More fixes for libpq's .gitignore file.Tom Lane2010-09-22
| | | | | | The previous patches failed to cover a lot of symlinks that are only added in platform-specific cases. Make the lists match what's in the Makefile for each branch.
* Some more gitignore cleanups: cover contrib and PL regression test outputs.Tom Lane2010-09-22
| | | | | Also do some further work in the back branches, where quite a bit wasn't covered by Magnus' original back-patch.
* Add gitignore files for ecpg regression tests.Magnus Hagander2010-09-22
| | | | Backpatch to 8.2 as that's how far the structure looks the same.
* Convert cvsignore to gitignore, and add .gitignore for build targets.Magnus Hagander2010-09-22
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* Treat exit code 128 (ERROR_WAIT_NO_CHILDREN) as non-fatal on Win32,Magnus Hagander2010-09-16
| | | | | | | | | | since it can happen when a process fails to start when the system is under high load. Per several bug reports and many peoples investigation. Back-patch to 8.4, which is as far back as the "deadman-switch" for shared memory access exists.
* Fix up flushing of composite-type typcache entries to be driven directly byTom Lane2010-09-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | SI invalidation events, rather than indirectly through the relcache. In the previous coding, we had to flush a composite-type typcache entry whenever we discarded the corresponding relcache entry. This caused problems at least when testing with RELCACHE_FORCE_RELEASE, as shown in recent report from Jeff Davis, and might result in real-world problems given the kind of unexpected relcache flush that that test mechanism is intended to model. The new coding decouples relcache and typcache management, which is a good thing anyway from a structural perspective. The cost is that we have to search the typcache linearly to find entries that need to be flushed. There are a couple of ways we could avoid that, but at the moment it's not clear it's worth any extra trouble, because the typcache contains very few entries in typical operation. Back-patch to 8.2, the same as some other recent fixes in this general area. The patch could be carried back to 8.0 with some additional work, but given that it's only hypothetical whether we're fixing any problem observable in the field, it doesn't seem worth the work now.
* Reduce PANIC to ERROR in some occasionally-reported btree failure cases.Tom Lane2010-08-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch changes _bt_split() and _bt_pagedel() to throw a plain ERROR, rather than PANIC, for several cases that are reported from the field from time to time: * right sibling's left-link doesn't match; * PageAddItem failure during _bt_split(); * parent page's next child isn't right sibling during _bt_pagedel(). In addition the error messages for these cases have been made a bit more verbose, with additional values included. The original motivation for PANIC here was to capture core dumps for subsequent analysis. But with so many users whose platforms don't capture core dumps by default, or who are unprepared to analyze them anyway, it's hard to justify a forced database restart when we can fairly easily detect the problems before we've reached the critical sections where PANIC would be necessary. It is not currently known whether the reports of these messages indicate well-hidden bugs in Postgres, or are a result of storage-level malfeasance; the latter possibility suggests that we ought to try to be more robust even if there is a bug here that's ultimately found. Backpatch to 8.2. The code before that is sufficiently different that it doesn't seem worth the trouble to back-port further.
* Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2010l: DST law changes inTom Lane2010-08-26
| | | | | | | Egypt and Palestine. Added new names for two Micronesian timezones: Pacific/Chuuk is now preferred over Pacific/Truk (and the preferred abbreviation is CHUT not TRUT) and Pacific/Pohnpei is preferred over Pacific/Ponape. Historical corrections for Finland.
* Fix ExecMakeTableFunctionResult to verify that all rows returned by a SRFTom Lane2010-08-26
| | | | | | | | | | | returning "record" actually do have the same rowtype. This is needed because the parser can't realistically enforce that they will all have the same typmod, as seen in a recent example from David Wheeler. Back-patch to 8.0, which is as far back as we have the notion of RECORD subtypes being distinguished by typmod. Wheeler's example depends on 8.4-and-up features, but I suspect there may be ways to provoke similar failures before 8.4.
* Catch null pointer returns from PyCObject_AsVoidPtr and PyCObject_FromVoidPtrPeter Eisentraut2010-08-25
| | | | | | | | This is reproducibly possible in Python 2.7 if the user turned PendingDeprecationWarning into an error, but it's theoretically also possible in earlier versions in case of exceptional conditions. backpatched to 8.0
* Improve parallel restore's ability to cope with selective restore (-L option).Tom Lane2010-08-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The original coding tended to break down in the face of modified restore orders, as shown in bug #5626 from Albert Ullrich, because it would flip over into parallel-restore operation too soon. That causes problems because we don't have sufficient dependency information in dump archives to allow safe parallel processing of SECTION_PRE_DATA items. Even if we did, it's probably undesirable to allow that to override the commanded restore order. To fix the problem of omitted items causing unexpected changes in restore order, tweak SortTocFromFile so that omitted items end up at the head of the list not the tail. This ensures that they'll be examined and their dependencies will be marked satisfied before we get to any interesting items. In HEAD and 9.0, we can easily change restore_toc_entries_parallel so that all SECTION_PRE_DATA items are guaranteed to be processed in the initial serial-restore loop, and hence in commanded order. Only DATA and POST_DATA items are candidates for parallel processing. For them there might be variations from the commanded order because of parallelism, but we should do it in a safe order thanks to dependencies. In 8.4 it's much harder to make such a guarantee. I settled for not letting the initial loop break out into parallel processing mode if it sees a DATA/POST_DATA item that's not to be restored; this at least prevents a non-restorable item from causing premature exit from the loop. This means that 8.4 will be more likely to fail given a badly-ordered -L list than 9.x, but we don't really promise any such thing will work anyway.
* Allow USING and INTO clauses of plpgsql's EXECUTE to appear in either order.Tom Lane2010-08-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | Aside from being more forgiving, this prevents a rather surprising misbehavior when the "wrong" order was used: the old code didn't throw a syntax error, but absorbed the INTO clause into the last USING expression, which then did strange things downstream. Intentionally not changing the documentation; we'll continue to advertise only the "standard" clause order. Backpatch to 8.4, where the USING clause was added to EXECUTE.
* Keep exec_simple_check_plan() from thinking "SELECT foo INTO bar" is simple.Tom Lane2010-08-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | It's not clear if this situation can occur in plpgsql other than via the EXECUTE USING case Heikki illustrated, which I will shortly close off. However, ignoring the intoClause if it's there is surely wrong, so let's patch it for safety. Backpatch to 8.3, which is as far back as this code has a PlannedStmt to deal with. There might be another way to make an equivalent test before that, but since this is just preventing hypothetical bugs, I'm not going to obsess about it.
* Be a bit less cavalier with both the code and the comment for UNKNOWN fix.Tom Lane2010-08-19
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* Revert patch to coerce 'unknown' type parameters in the backend. As TomHeikki Linnakangas2010-08-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | pointed out, it would need a 2nd pass after the whole query is processed to correctly check that an unknown Param is coerced to the same target type everywhere. Adding the 2nd pass would add a lot more code, which doesn't seem worth the risk given that there isn't much of a use case for passing unknown Params in the first place. The code would work without that check, but it might be confusing and the behavior would be different from the varparams case. Instead, just coerce all unknown params in a PL/pgSQL USING clause to text. That's simple, and is usually what users expect. Revert the patch in CVS HEAD and master, and backpatch the new solution to 8.4. Unlike the previous solution, this applies easily to 8.4 too.
* Fix possible corruption of AfterTriggerEventLists in subtransaction rollback.Tom Lane2010-08-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | afterTriggerInvokeEvents failed to adjust events->tailfree when truncating the last chunk of an event list. This could result in the data being "de-truncated" by afterTriggerRestoreEventList during a subsequent subtransaction abort. Even that wouldn't kill us, because the re-added data would just be events marked DONE --- unless the data had been partially overwritten by new events. Then we might crash, or in any case misbehave (perhaps fire triggers twice, or fire triggers with the wrong event data). Per bug #5622 from Thue Janus Kristensen. Back-patch to 8.4 where the current trigger list representation was introduced.
* Add missing handling of PlannedStmt.transientPlan in copyfuncs/outfuncs.Tom Lane2010-08-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | _outPlannedStmt is only debug support, so the omission there was not very serious, but the omission in _copyPlannedStmt is a real bug. The consequence would be that a copied plan tree would never be marked as a transient plan, so that we would forget we ought to replan it after some not-yet-ready index becomes ready for use. This might explain some past complaints about indexes created with CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY not being used right away. Problem spotted by Yeb Havinga. Back-patch to 8.3, where the field was added.
* Applied Zoltan's patch to fix a few memleaks in ecpg's pgtypeslib.Michael Meskes2010-08-17
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* Arrange to fsync the contents of lockfiles (both postmaster.pid and theTom Lane2010-08-16
| | | | | | | | | | socket lockfile) when writing them. The lack of an fsync here may well explain two different reports we've seen of corrupted lockfile contents, which doesn't particularly bother the running server but can prevent a new server from starting if the old one crashes. Per suggestion from Alvaro. Back-patch to all supported versions.
* Fix psql's copy of utf2ucs() to match the backend's copy exactly;Tom Lane2010-08-16
| | | | | | | | | | in particular, propagate a fix in the test to see whether a UTF8 character has length 4 bytes. This is likely of little real-world consequence because 5-or-more-byte UTF8 sequences are not supported by Postgres nor seen anywhere in the wild, but still we may as well get it right. Problem found by Joseph Adams. Bug is aboriginal, so back-patch all the way.
* Fix planner to make a reasonable assumption about the amount of memory spaceTom Lane2010-08-14
| | | | | | | | | | used by array_agg(), string_agg(), and similar aggregate functions that use "internal" as their transition datatype. The previous coding thought this took *no* extra space, since "internal" is pass-by-value; but actually these aggregates typically consume a great deal of space. Per bug #5608 from Itagaki Takahiro, and fix suggestion from Hitoshi Harada. Back-patch to 8.4, where array_agg was introduced.
* Fix Assert failure in PushOverrideSearchPath when trying to restore a searchTom Lane2010-08-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | path that specifies useTemp, but there is no active temp schema in the current session. (This can happen if the path was saved during a transaction that created a temp schema and was later rolled back.) For existing callers it's sufficient to ignore the useTemp flag in this case, though we might later want to offer an option to create a fresh temp schema. So far as I can tell this is just an Assert failure: in a non-assert build, the code would push a zero onto the new search path, which is useless but not very harmful. Per bug report from Heikki. Back-patch to 8.3; prior versions don't have this code.
* Fix incorrect logic in plpgsql for cleanup after evaluation of non-simpleTom Lane2010-08-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | expressions. We need to deal with this when handling subscripts in an array assignment, and also when catching an exception. In an Assert-enabled build these omissions led to Assert failures, but I think in a normal build the only consequence would be short-term memory leakage; which may explain why this wasn't reported from the field long ago. Back-patch to all supported versions. 7.4 doesn't have exceptions, but otherwise these bugs go all the way back. Heikki Linnakangas and Tom Lane
* Fix inheritance count tracking in ALTER TABLE .. ADD CONSTRAINT.Robert Haas2010-08-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Without this patch, constraints inherited by children of a parent table which itself has multiple inheritance parents can end up with the wrong coninhcount. After dropping the constraint, the children end up with a leftover copy of the constraint that is not dumped and cannot be dropped. There is a similar problem with ALTER TABLE .. ADD COLUMN, but that looks significantly more difficult to resolve, so I'm committing this fix separately. Back-patch to 8.4, which is the first release that has coninhcount. Report by Hank Enting.
* Fix core dump in QTNodeCompare when tsquery_cmp() is applied to two emptyTom Lane2010-08-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | tsqueries. CompareTSQ has to have a guard for the case rather than blindly applying QTNodeCompare to random data past the end of the datums. Also, change QTNodeCompare to be a little less trusting: use an actual test rather than just Assert'ing that the input is sane. Problem encountered while investigating another issue (I saw a core dump in autoanalyze on a table containing multiple empty tsquery values). Back-patch to all branches with tsquery support. In HEAD, also fix some bizarre (though not outright wrong) coding in tsq_mcontains().
* Fix an additional set of problems in GIN's handling of lossy page pointers.Tom Lane2010-08-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Although the key-combining code claimed to work correctly if its input contained both lossy and exact pointers for a single page in a single TID stream, in fact this did not work, and could not work without pretty fundamental redesign. Modify keyGetItem so that it will not return such a stream, by handling lossy-pointer cases a bit more explicitly than we did before. Per followup investigation of a gripe from Artur Dabrowski. An example of a query that failed given his data set is select count(*) from search_tab where (to_tsvector('german', keywords ) @@ to_tsquery('german', 'ee:* | dd:*')) and (to_tsvector('german', keywords ) @@ to_tsquery('german', 'aa:*')); Back-patch to 8.4 where the lossy pointer code was introduced.
* Tweak tsmatchsel() so that it examines the structure of the tsquery wheneverTom Lane2010-07-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | possible (ie, whenever the tsquery is a constant), even when no statistics are available for the tsvector. For example, foo @@ 'a & b'::tsquery can be expected to be more selective than foo @@ 'a'::tsquery, whether or not we know anything about foo. We use DEFAULT_TS_MATCH_SEL as the assumed selectivity of individual query terms when no stats are available, then combine the terms according to the query's AND/OR structure as usual. Per experimentation with Artur Dabrowski's example. (The fact that there are no stats available in that example is a problem in itself, but nonetheless tsmatchsel should be smarter about the case.) Back-patch to 8.4 to keep all versions of tsmatchsel() in sync.
* Rewrite the key-combination logic in GIN's keyGetItem() and scanGetItem()Tom Lane2010-07-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | routines to make them behave better in the presence of "lossy" index pointers. The previous coding was outright incorrect for some cases, as recently reported by Artur Dabrowski: scanGetItem would fail to return index entries in cases where one index key had multiple exact pointers on the same page as another key had a lossy pointer. Also, keyGetItem was extremely inefficient for cases where a single index key generates multiple "entry" streams, such as an @@ operator with a multiple-clause tsquery. The presence of a lossy page pointer in any one stream defeated its ability to use the opclass consistentFn, resulting in probing many heap pages that didn't really need to be visited. In Artur's example case, a query like WHERE tsvector @@ to_tsquery('a & b') was about 50X slower than the theoretically equivalent WHERE tsvector @@ to_tsquery('a') AND tsvector @@ to_tsquery('b') The way that I chose to fix this was to have GIN call the consistentFn twice with both TRUE and FALSE values for the in-doubt entry stream, returning a hit if either call produces TRUE, but not if they both return FALSE. The code handles this for the case of a single in-doubt entry stream, but punts (falling back to the stupid behavior) if there's more than one lossy reference to the same page. The idea could be scaled up to deal with multiple lossy references, but I think that would probably be wasted complexity. At least to judge by Artur's example, such cases don't occur often enough to be worth trying to optimize. Back-patch to 8.4. 8.3 did not have lossy GIN index pointers, so not subject to these problems.
* Improved version of patch to protect pg_get_expr() against misuse:Tom Lane2010-07-30
| | | | | | | | | | look through join alias Vars to avoid breaking join queries, and move the test to someplace where it will catch more possible ways of calling a function. We still ought to throw away the whole thing in favor of a data-type-based solution, but that's not feasible in the back branches. Completion of back-port of my patch of yesterday.
* Fix another longstanding problem in copy_relation_data: it was blithelyTom Lane2010-07-29
| | | | | | | | | | | assuming that a local char[] array would be aligned on at least a word boundary. There are architectures on which that is pretty much guaranteed to NOT be the case ... and those arches also don't like non-aligned memory accesses, meaning that log_newpage() would crash if it ever got invoked. Even on Intel-ish machines there's a potential for a large performance penalty from doing I/O to an inadequately aligned buffer. So palloc it instead. Backpatch to 8.0 --- 7.4 doesn't have this code.
* Fix possible page corruption by ALTER TABLE .. SET TABLESPACE.Robert Haas2010-07-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | If a zeroed page is present in the heap, ALTER TABLE .. SET TABLESPACE will set the LSN and TLI while copying it, which is wrong, and heap_xlog_newpage() will do the same thing during replay, so the corruption propagates to any standby. Note, however, that the bug can't be demonstrated unless archiving is enabled, since in that case we skip WAL logging altogether, and the LSN/TLI are not set. Back-patch to 8.0; prior releases do not have tablespaces. Analysis and patch by Jeff Davis. Adjustments for back-branches and minor wordsmithing by me.
* Fix potential failure when hashing the output of a subplan that producesTom Lane2010-07-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | a pass-by-reference datatype with a nontrivial projection step. We were using the same memory context for the projection operation as for the temporary context used by the hashtable routines in execGrouping.c. However, the hashtable routines feel free to reset their temp context at any time, which'd lead to destroying input data that was still needed. Report and diagnosis by Tao Ma. Back-patch to 8.1, where the problem was introduced by the changes that allowed us to work with "virtual" tuples instead of materializing intermediate tuple values everywhere. The earlier code looks quite similar, but it doesn't suffer the problem because the data gets copied into another context as a result of having to materialize ExecProject's output tuple.
* Avoid deep recursion when assigning XIDs to multiple levels of subxacts.Robert Haas2010-07-23
| | | | | | Backpatch to 8.0. Andres Freund, with cleanup and adjustment for older branches by me.
* Fix several problems in pg_dump's handling of SQL/MED objects, notably failureTom Lane2010-07-14
| | | | | | | | | to dump a PUBLIC user mapping correctly, as per bug #5560 from Shigeru Hanada. Use the pg_user_mappings view rather than trying to access pg_user_mapping directly, so that the code doesn't fail when run by a non-superuser. And clean up some minor carelessness such as unsafe usage of fmtId(). Back-patch to 8.4 where this code was added.
* Allow full SSL certificate verification (wherein libpq checks its host nameTom Lane2010-07-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | parameter against server cert's CN field) to succeed in the case where both host and hostaddr are specified. As with the existing precedents for Kerberos, GSSAPI, SSPI, it is the calling application's responsibility that host and hostaddr match up --- we just use the host name as given. Per bug #5559 from Christopher Head. In passing, make the error handling and messages for the no-host-name-given failure more consistent among these four cases, and correct a lie in the documentation: we don't attempt to reverse-lookup host from hostaddr if host is missing. Back-patch to 8.4 where SSL cert verification was introduced.
* Oops, in the previous fix to prevent a cursor that's being used in a FORHeikki Linnakangas2010-07-13
| | | | | | | | | loop from being dropped, I missed subtransaction cleanup. Pinned portals must be dropped at subtransaction cleanup just as they are at main transaction cleanup. Per bug #5556 by Robert Walker. Backpatch to 8.0, 7.4 didn't have subtransactions.
* Avoid an Assert failure in deconstruct_array() by making get_attstatsslot()Tom Lane2010-07-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | use the actual element type of the array it's disassembling, rather than trusting the type OID passed in by its caller. This is needed because sometimes the planner passes in a type OID that's only binary-compatible with the target column's type, rather than being an exact match. Per an example from Bernd Helmle. Possibly we should refactor get_attstatsslot/free_attstatsslot to not expect the caller to supply type ID data at all, but for now I'll just do the minimum-change fix. Back-patch to 7.4. Bernd's test case only crashes back to 8.0, but since these subroutines are the same in 7.4, I suspect there may be variant cases that would crash 7.4 as well.
* Fix "cannot handle unplanned sub-select" error that can occur when aTom Lane2010-07-08
| | | | | | | | | sub-select contains a join alias reference that expands into an expression containing another sub-select. Per yesterday's report from Merlin Moncure and subsequent off-list investigation. Back-patch to 7.4. Older versions didn't attempt to flatten sub-selects in ways that would trigger this problem.
* The previous fix in CVS HEAD and 8.4 for handling the case where a cursorHeikki Linnakangas2010-07-05
| | | | | | | | | | | being used in a PL/pgSQL FOR loop is closed was inadequate, as Tom Lane pointed out. The bug affects FOR statement variants too, because you can close an implicitly created cursor too by guessing the "<unnamed portal X>" name created for it. To fix that, "pin" the portal to prevent it from being dropped while it's being used in a PL/pgSQL FOR loop. Backpatch all the way to 7.4 which is the oldest supported version.
* Allow REASSIGNED OWNED to handle opclasses and opfamilies.Robert Haas2010-07-03
| | | | | | | | Backpatch to 8.3, which is as far back as we have opfamilies. The opclass portion could probably be backpatched to 8.2, when REASSIGN OWNED was added, but for now I have not done that. Asko Tiidumaa, with minor adjustments by me.
* Unbreak MSVC builds by removing copydir.c from list of libpgport filesAndrew Dunstan2010-07-03
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* Move copydir.c from src/port to src/backend/storage/fileRobert Haas2010-07-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | The previous commit to make copydir() interruptible prevented postgres.exe from linking on MinGW and Cygwin, because on those platforms libpgport_srv.a can't freely reference symbols defined by the backend. Since that code is already backend-specific anyway, just move the whole file into the backend rather than adding further kludges to deal with the symbols needed by CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS(). This probably needs some further cleanup, but this commit just moves the file as-is, which should hopefully be enough to turn the buildfarm green again.
* Allow copydir() to be interrupted.Robert Haas2010-07-01
| | | | | | | | | This makes ALTER DATABASE .. SET TABLESPACE and CREATE DATABASE more sensitive to interrupts. Backpatch to 8.4, where ALTER DATABASE .. SET TABLESPACE was introduced. We could go back further, but in the absence of complaints about the CREATE DATABASE case it doesn't seem worth it. Guillaume Lelarge, with a small correction by me.
* Allow ALTER TABLE .. SET TABLESPACE to be interrupted.Robert Haas2010-07-01
| | | | | | Backpatch to 8.0, where tablespaces were introduced. Guillaume Lelarge
* stringToNode() and deparse_expression_pretty() crash on invalid input,Heikki Linnakangas2010-06-30
| | | | | | | | | | but we have nevertheless exposed them to users via pg_get_expr(). It would be too much maintenance effort to rigorously check the input, so put a hack in place instead to restrict pg_get_expr() so that the argument must come from one of the system catalog columns known to contain valid expressions. Per report from Rushabh Lathia. Backpatch to 7.4 which is the oldest supported version at the moment.
* Improve pg_dump's checkSeek() function to verify the functioning of ftelloTom Lane2010-06-28
| | | | | | | | | | as well as fseeko, and to not assume that fseeko(fp, 0, SEEK_CUR) proves anything. Also improve some related comments. Per my observation that the SEEK_CUR test didn't actually work on some platforms, and subsequent discussion with Robert Haas. Back-patch to 8.4. In earlier releases it's not that important whether we get the hasSeek test right, but with parallel restore it matters.
* Fix pg_restore so parallel restore doesn't fail when the input file doesn'tTom Lane2010-06-27
| | | | | | | | | | contain data offsets (which it won't, if pg_dump thought its output wasn't seekable). To do that, remove an unnecessarily aggressive error check, and instead fail if we get to the end of the archive without finding the desired data item. Also improve the error message to be more specific about the cause of the problem. Per discussion of recent report from Igor Neyman. Back-patch to 8.4 where parallel restore was introduced.
* In a PL/pgSQL "FOR cursor" statement, the statements executed in the loopHeikki Linnakangas2010-06-21
| | | | | | | might close the cursor, rendering the Portal pointer to it invalid. Closing the cursor in the middle of the loop is not a very sensible thing to do, but we must handle it gracefully and throw an error instead of crashing.