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2016-02-29Remove useless unary plus.Tom Lane
It's harmless, but might confuse readers. Seems to have been introduced in 6bc8ef0b7f1f1df3. Back-patch, just to avoid cosmetic cross-branch differences. Amit Langote
2016-02-29Fix incorrect varlevelsup in security_barrier_replace_vars().Dean Rasheed
When converting an RTE with securityQuals into a security barrier subquery RTE, ensure that the Vars in the new subquery's targetlist all have varlevelsup = 0 so that they correctly refer to the underlying base relation being wrapped. The original code was creating new Vars by copying them from existing Vars referencing the base relation found elsewhere in the query, but failed to account for the fact that such Vars could come from sublink subqueries, and hence have varlevelsup > 0. In practice it looks like this could only happen with nested security barrier views, where the outer view has a WHERE clause containing a correlated subquery, due to the order in which the Vars are processed. Bug: #13988 Reported-by: Adam Guthrie Backpatch-to: 9.4, where updatable SB views were introduced
2016-02-28Avoid multiple free_struct_lconv() calls on same data.Tom Lane
A failure partway through PGLC_localeconv() led to a situation where the next call would call free_struct_lconv() a second time, leading to free() on already-freed strings, typically leading to a core dump. Add a flag to remember whether we need to do that. Per report from Thom Brown. His example case only provokes the failure as far back as 9.4, but nonetheless this code is obviously broken, so back-patch to all supported branches.
2016-02-25Fix typosAlvaro Herrera
Backpatch to: 9.4
2016-02-24MSVC: Clean tmp_check directory of pg_controldata test suite.Noah Misch
Back-patch to 9.4, where the suite was introduced.
2016-02-21Fix wording in the Tutorial document.Tatsuo Ishii
With suggentions from Tom Lane.
2016-02-19Correct StartupSUBTRANS for page wraparoundSimon Riggs
StartupSUBTRANS() incorrectly handled cases near the max pageid in the subtrans data structure, which in some cases could lead to errors in startup for Hot Standby. This patch wraps the pageids correctly, avoiding any such errors. Identified by exhaustive crash testing by Jeff Janes. Jeff Janes
2016-02-18pg_upgrade: suppress creation of delete scriptBruce Momjian
Suppress creation of the pg_upgrade delete script when the new data directory is inside the old data directory. Reported-by: IRC Backpatch-through: 9.3, where delete script tests were added
2016-02-18Fix multiple bugs in contrib/pgstattuple's pgstatindex() function.Tom Lane
Dead or half-dead index leaf pages were incorrectly reported as live, as a consequence of a code rearrangement I made (during a moment of severe brain fade, evidently) in commit d287818eb514d431. The index metapage was not counted in index_size, causing that result to not agree with the actual index size on-disk. Index root pages were not counted in internal_pages, which is inconsistent compared to the case of a root that's also a leaf (one-page index), where the root would be counted in leaf_pages. Aside from that inconsistency, this could lead to additional transient discrepancies between the reported page counts and index_size, since it's possible for pgstatindex's scan to see zero or multiple pages marked as BTP_ROOT, if the root moves due to a split during the scan. With these fixes, index_size will always be exactly one page more than the sum of the displayed page counts. Also, the index_size result was incorrectly documented as being measured in pages; it's always been measured in bytes. (While fixing that, I couldn't resist doing some small additional wordsmithing on the pgstattuple docs.) Including the metapage causes the reported index_size to not be zero for an empty index. To preserve the desired property that the pgstattuple regression test results are platform-independent (ie, BLCKSZ configuration independent), scale the index_size result in the regression tests. The documentation issue was reported by Otsuka Kenji, and the inconsistent root page counting by Peter Geoghegan; the other problems noted by me. Back-patch to all supported branches, because this has been broken for a long time.
2016-02-16Make plpython cope with funny characters in function names.Tom Lane
A function name that's double-quoted in SQL can contain almost any characters, but we were using that name directly as part of the name generated for the Python-level function, and Python doesn't like anything that isn't pretty much a standard identifier. To fix, replace anything that isn't an ASCII letter or digit with an underscore in the generated name. This doesn't create any risk of duplicate Python function names because we were already appending the function OID to the generated name to ensure uniqueness. Per bug #13960 from Jim Nasby. Patch by Jim Nasby, modified a bit by me. Back-patch to all supported branches.
2016-02-16Improve documentation about CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY.Tom Lane
Clarify the description of which transactions will block a CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY command from proceeding, and mention that the index might still not be usable after CREATE INDEX completes. (This happens if the index build detected broken HOT chains, so that pg_index.indcheckxmin gets set, and there are open old transactions preventing the xmin horizon from advancing past the index's initial creation. I didn't want to explain what broken HOT chains are, though, so I omitted an explanation of exactly when old transactions prevent the index from being used.) Per discussion with Chris Travers. Back-patch to all supported branches, since the same text appears in all of them.
2016-02-16Improve wording in the planner docTatsuo Ishii
Change "In this case" to "In the example above" to clarify what it actually refers to.
2016-02-16Correct the formulas for System V IPC parameters SEMMNI and SEMMNS in docs.Fujii Masao
In runtime.sgml, the old formulas for calculating the reasonable values of SEMMNI and SEMMNS were incorrect. They have forgotten to count the number of semaphores which both the checkpointer process (introduced in 9.2) and the background worker processes (introduced in 9.3) need. This commit fixes those formulas so that they count the number of semaphores which the checkpointer process and the background worker processes need. Report and patch by Kyotaro Horiguchi. Only the patch for 9.3 was modified by me. Back-patch to 9.2 where the checkpointer process was added and the number of needed semaphores was increased. Author: Kyotaro Horiguchi Reviewed-by: Fujii Masao Backpatch: 9.2 Discussion: http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20160203.125119.66820697.horiguchi.kyotaro@lab.ntt.co.jp
2016-02-15pgbench: avoid FD_ISSET on an invalid file descriptorAlvaro Herrera
The original code wasn't careful to test the file descriptor returned by PQsocket() for an invalid socket. If an invalid socket did turn up, that would amount to calling FD_ISSET with fd = -1, whereby undefined behavior can be invoked. To fix, test file descriptor for validity and stop further processing if that fails. Problem noticed by Coverity. There is an existing FD_ISSET callsite that does check for invalid sockets beforehand, but the error message reported by it was strerror(errno); in testing the aforementioned change, that turns out to result in "bad socket: Success" which isn't terribly helpful. Instead use PQerrorMessage() in both places which is more likely to contain an useful error message. Backpatch-through: 9.1.
2016-02-15Suppress compiler warnings about useless comparison of unsigned to zero.Tom Lane
Reportedly, some compilers warn about tests like "c < 0" if c is unsigned, and hence complain about the character range checks I added in commit 3bb3f42f3749d40b8d4de65871e8d828b18d4a45. This is a bit of a pain since the regex library doesn't really want to assume that chr is unsigned. However, since any such reconfiguration would involve manual edits of regcustom.h anyway, we can put it on the shoulders of whoever wants to do that to adjust this new range-checking macro correctly. Per gripes from Coverity and Andres.
2016-02-10Accept pg_ctl timeout from the PGCTLTIMEOUT environment variable.Noah Misch
Many automated test suites call pg_ctl. Buildfarm members axolotl, hornet, mandrill, shearwater, sungazer and tern have failed when server shutdown took longer than the pg_ctl default 60s timeout. This addition permits slow hosts to easily raise the timeout without us editing a --timeout argument into every test suite pg_ctl call. Back-patch to 9.1 (all supported versions) for the sake of automated testing. Reviewed by Tom Lane.
2016-02-10Avoid use of sscanf() to parse ispell dictionary files.Tom Lane
It turns out that on FreeBSD-derived platforms (including OS X), the *scanf() family of functions is pretty much brain-dead about multibyte characters. In particular it will apply isspace() to individual bytes of input even when those bytes are part of a multibyte character, thus allowing false recognition of a field-terminating space. We appear to have little alternative other than instituting a coding rule that *scanf() is not to be used if the input string might contain multibyte characters. (There was some discussion of relying on "%ls", but that probably just moves the portability problem somewhere else, and besides it doesn't fully prevent BSD *scanf() from using isspace().) This patch is a down payment on that: it gets rid of use of sscanf() to parse ispell dictionary files, which are certainly at great risk of having a problem. The code is cleaner this way anyway, though a bit longer. In passing, improve a few comments. Report and patch by Artur Zakirov, reviewed and somewhat tweaked by me. Back-patch to all supported branches.
2016-02-08Stamp 9.4.6.REL9_4_6Tom Lane
2016-02-08Translation updatesPeter Eisentraut
Source-Git-URL: git://git.postgresql.org/git/pgtranslation/messages.git Source-Git-Hash: 97f0f075b2d3e9dac26db78dbd79c32d80eb8f33
2016-02-08Last-minute updates for release notes.Tom Lane
Security: CVE-2016-0773
2016-02-08Fix some regex issues with out-of-range characters and large char ranges.Tom Lane
Previously, our regex code defined CHR_MAX as 0xfffffffe, which is a bad choice because it is outside the range of type "celt" (int32). Characters approaching that limit could lead to infinite loops in logic such as "for (c = a; c <= b; c++)" where c is of type celt but the range bounds are chr. Such loops will work safely only if CHR_MAX+1 is representable in celt, since c must advance to beyond b before the loop will exit. Fortunately, there seems no reason not to restrict CHR_MAX to 0x7ffffffe. It's highly unlikely that Unicode will ever assign codes that high, and none of our other backend encodings need characters beyond that either. In addition to modifying the macro, we have to explicitly enforce character range restrictions on the values of \u, \U, and \x escape sequences, else the limit is trivially bypassed. Also, the code for expanding case-independent character ranges in bracket expressions had a potential integer overflow in its calculation of the number of characters it could generate, which could lead to allocating too small a character vector and then overwriting memory. An attacker with the ability to supply arbitrary regex patterns could easily cause transient DOS via server crashes, and the possibility for privilege escalation has not been ruled out. Quite aside from the integer-overflow problem, the range expansion code was unnecessarily inefficient in that it always produced a result consisting of individual characters, abandoning the knowledge that we had a range to start with. If the input range is large, this requires excessive memory. Change it so that the original range is reported as-is, and then we add on any case-equivalent characters that are outside that range. With this approach, we can bound the number of individual characters allowed without sacrificing much. This patch allows at most 100000 individual characters, which I believe to be more than the number of case pairs existing in Unicode, so that the restriction will never be hit in practice. It's still possible for range() to take awhile given a large character code range, so also add statement-cancel detection to its loop. The downstream function dovec() also lacked cancel detection, and could take a long time given a large output from range(). Per fuzz testing by Greg Stark. Back-patch to all supported branches. Security: CVE-2016-0773
2016-02-08Backpatch of 7a58d19b0 to 9.4, previously omitted.Andres Freund
Apparently by accident the above commit was backpatched to all supported branches, except 9.4. This appears to be an error, as the issue is just as present there. Given the short amount of time before the next minor release, and given the issue is documented to be fixed for 9.4, it seems like a good idea to push this now. Original-Author: Michael Meskes Discussion: 75DB81BEEA95B445AE6D576A0A5C9E9364CBC11F@BPXM05GP.gisp.nec.co.jp
2016-02-07Improve documentation about PRIMARY KEY constraints.Tom Lane
Get rid of the false implication that PRIMARY KEY is exactly equivalent to UNIQUE + NOT NULL. That was more-or-less true at one time in our implementation, but the standard doesn't say that, and we've grown various features (many of them required by spec) that treat a pkey differently from less-formal constraints. Per recent discussion on pgsql-general. I failed to resist the temptation to do some other wordsmithing in the same area.
2016-02-07Release notes for 9.5.1, 9.4.6, 9.3.11, 9.2.15, 9.1.20.Tom Lane
2016-02-05Force certain "pljava" custom GUCs to be PGC_SUSET.Noah Misch
Future PL/Java versions will close CVE-2016-0766 by making these GUCs PGC_SUSET. This PostgreSQL change independently mitigates that PL/Java vulnerability, helping sites that update PostgreSQL more frequently than PL/Java. Back-patch to 9.1 (all supported versions).
2016-02-05Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2016a.Tom Lane
DST law changes in Cayman Islands, Metlakatla, Trans-Baikal Territory (Zabaykalsky Krai). Historical corrections for Pakistan.
2016-02-04postgres_fdw: Avoid possible misbehavior when RETURNING tableoid column only.Robert Haas
deparseReturningList ended up adding up RETURNING NULL to the code, but code elsewhere saw an empty list of attributes and concluded that it should not expect tuples from the remote side. Etsuro Fujita and Robert Haas, reviewed by Thom Brown
2016-02-04When modifying a foreign table, initialize tableoid field properly.Robert Haas
Failure to do this can cause AFTER ROW triggers or RETURNING expressions that reference this field to misbehave. Etsuro Fujita, reviewed by Thom Brown
2016-02-04In pg_dump, ensure that view triggers are processed after view rules.Tom Lane
If a view is split into CREATE TABLE + CREATE RULE to break a circular dependency, then any triggers on the view must be dumped/reloaded after the CREATE RULE; else the backend may reject the CREATE TRIGGER because it's the wrong type of trigger for a plain table. This works all right in plain dump/restore because of pg_dump's sorting heuristic that places triggers after rules. However, when using parallel restore, the ordering must be enforced by a dependency --- and we didn't have one. Fixing this is a mere matter of adding an addObjectDependency() call, except that we need to be able to find all the triggers belonging to the view relation, and there was no easy way to do that. Add fields to pg_dump's TableInfo struct to remember where the associated TriggerInfo struct(s) are. Per bug report from Dennis Kögel. The failure can be exhibited at least as far back as 9.1, so back-patch to all supported branches.
2016-02-03Add hstore_to_jsonb() and hstore_to_jsonb_loose() to hstore documentation.Tom Lane
These were never documented anywhere user-visible. Tut tut.
2016-02-03pgbench: Install guard against overflow when dividing by -1.Robert Haas
Commit 64f5edca2401f6c2f23564da9dd52e92d08b3a20 fixed the same hazard on master; this is a backport, but the modulo operator does not exist in older releases. Michael Paquier
2016-02-03Fix IsValidJsonNumber() to notice trailing non-alphanumeric garbage.Tom Lane
Commit e09996ff8dee3f70 was one brick shy of a load: it didn't insist that the detected JSON number be the whole of the supplied string. This allowed inputs such as "2016-01-01" to be misdetected as valid JSON numbers. Per bug #13906 from Dmitry Ryabov. In passing, be more wary of zero-length input (I'm not sure this can happen given current callers, but better safe than sorry), and do some minor cosmetic cleanup.
2016-02-02Fix pg_description entries for jsonb_to_record() and jsonb_to_recordset().Tom Lane
All the other jsonb function descriptions refer to the arguments as being "jsonb", but these two said "json". Make it consistent. Per bug #13905 from Petru Florin Mihancea. No catversion bump --- we can't force one in the back branches, and this isn't very critical anyway.
2016-01-30Fix error in documentated use of mingw-w64 compilersAndrew Dunstan
Error reported by Igal Sapir.
2016-01-29Fix incorrect pattern-match processing in psql's \det command.Tom Lane
listForeignTables' invocation of processSQLNamePattern did not match up with the other ones that handle potentially-schema-qualified names; it failed to make use of pg_table_is_visible() and also passed the name arguments in the wrong order. Bug seems to have been aboriginal in commit 0d692a0dc9f0e532. It accidentally sort of worked as long as you didn't inquire too closely into the behavior, although the silliness was later exposed by inconsistencies in the test queries added by 59efda3e50ca4de6 (which I probably should have questioned at the time, but didn't). Per bug #13899 from Reece Hart. Patch by Reece Hart and Tom Lane. Back-patch to all affected branches.
2016-01-29Fix syntax descriptions for replication commands in logicaldecoding.sgmlFujii Masao
Patch-by: Oleksandr Shulgin Reviewed-by: Craig Ringer and Fujii Masao Backpatch-through: 9.4 where logical decoding was introduced
2016-01-26Fix startup so that log prefix %h works for the log_connections message.Tom Lane
We entirely randomly chose to initialize port->remote_host just after printing the log_connections message, when we could perfectly well do it just before, allowing %h and %r to work for that message. Per gripe from Artem Tomyuk.
2016-01-19Properly install dynloader.h on MSVC buildsBruce Momjian
This will enable PL/Java to be cleanly compiled, as dynloader.h is a requirement. Report by Chapman Flack Patch by Michael Paquier Backpatch through 9.1
2016-01-14Fix spelling mistake.Robert Haas
Same patch submitted independently by David Rowley and Peter Geoghegan.
2016-01-14Properly close token in sspi authenticationMagnus Hagander
We can never leak more than one token, but we shouldn't do that. We don't bother closing it in the error paths since the process will exit shortly anyway. Christian Ullrich
2016-01-13Handle extension members when first setting object dump flags in pg_dump.Tom Lane
pg_dump's original approach to handling extension member objects was to run around and clear (or set) their dump flags rather late in its data collection process. Unfortunately, quite a lot of code expects those flags to be valid before that; which was an entirely reasonable expectation before we added extensions. In particular, this explains Karsten Hilbert's recent report of pg_upgrade failing on a database in which an extension has been installed into the pg_catalog schema. Its objects are initially marked as not-to-be-dumped on the strength of their schema, and later we change them to must-dump because we're doing a binary upgrade of their extension; but we've already skipped essential tasks like making associated DO_SHELL_TYPE objects. To fix, collect extension membership data first, and incorporate it in the initial setting of the dump flags, so that those are once again correct from the get-go. This has the undesirable side effect of slightly lengthening the time taken before pg_dump acquires table locks, but testing suggests that the increase in that window is not very much. Along the way, get rid of ugly special-case logic for deciding whether to dump procedural languages, FDWs, and foreign servers; dump decisions for those are now correct up-front, too. In 9.3 and up, this also fixes erroneous logic about when to dump event triggers (basically, they were *always* dumped before). In 9.5 and up, transform objects had that problem too. Since this problem came in with extensions, back-patch to all supported versions.
2016-01-11Avoid dump/reload problems when using both plpython2 and plpython3.Tom Lane
Commit 803716013dc1350f installed a safeguard against loading plpython2 and plpython3 at the same time, but asserted that both could still be used in the same database, just not in the same session. However, that's not actually all that practical because dumping and reloading will fail (since both libraries necessarily get loaded into the restoring session). pg_upgrade is even worse, because it checks for missing libraries by loading every .so library mentioned in the entire installation into one session, so that you can have only one across the whole cluster. We can improve matters by not throwing the error immediately in _PG_init, but only when and if we're asked to do something that requires calling into libpython. This ameliorates both of the above situations, since while execution of CREATE LANGUAGE, CREATE FUNCTION, etc will result in loading plpython, it isn't asked to do anything interesting (at least not if check_function_bodies is off, as it will be during a restore). It's possible that this opens some corner-case holes in which a crash could be provoked with sufficient effort. However, since plpython only exists as an untrusted language, any such crash would require superuser privileges, making it "don't do that" not a security issue. To reduce the hazards in this area, the error is still FATAL when it does get thrown. Per a report from Paul Jones. Back-patch to 9.2, which is as far back as the patch applies without work. (It could be made to work in 9.1, but given the lack of previous complaints, I'm disinclined to expend effort so far back. We've been pretty desultory about support for Python 3 in 9.1 anyway.)
2016-01-09Clean up some lack-of-STRICT issues in the core code, too.Tom Lane
A scan for missed proisstrict markings in the core code turned up these functions: brin_summarize_new_values pg_stat_reset_single_table_counters pg_stat_reset_single_function_counters pg_create_logical_replication_slot pg_create_physical_replication_slot pg_drop_replication_slot The first three of these take OID, so a null argument will normally look like a zero to them, resulting in "ERROR: could not open relation with OID 0" for brin_summarize_new_values, and no action for the pg_stat_reset_XXX functions. The other three will dump core on a null argument, though this is mitigated by the fact that they won't do so until after checking that the caller is superuser or has rolreplication privilege. In addition, the pg_logical_slot_get/peek[_binary]_changes family was intentionally marked nonstrict, but failed to make nullness checks on all the arguments; so again a null-pointer-dereference crash is possible but only for superusers and rolreplication users. Add the missing ARGISNULL checks to the latter functions, and mark the former functions as strict in pg_proc. Make that change in the back branches too, even though we can't force initdb there, just so that installations initdb'd in future won't have the issue. Since none of these bugs rise to the level of security issues (and indeed the pg_stat_reset_XXX functions hardly misbehave at all), it seems sufficient to do this. In addition, fix some order-of-operations oddities in the slot_get_changes family, mostly cosmetic, but not the part that moves the function's last few operations into the PG_TRY block. As it stood, there was significant risk for an error to exit without clearing historical information from the system caches. The slot_get_changes bugs go back to 9.4 where that code was introduced. Back-patch appropriate subsets of the pg_proc changes into all active branches, as well.
2016-01-09Clean up code for widget_in() and widget_out().Tom Lane
Given syntactically wrong input, widget_in() could call atof() with an indeterminate pointer argument, typically leading to a crash; or if it didn't do that, it might return a NULL pointer, which again would lead to a crash since old-style C functions aren't supposed to do things that way. Fix that by correcting the off-by-one syntax test and throwing a proper error rather than just returning NULL. Also, since widget_in and widget_out have been marked STRICT for a long time, their tests for null inputs are just dead code; remove 'em. In the oldest branches, also improve widget_out to use snprintf not sprintf, just to be sure. In passing, get rid of a long-since-useless sprintf into a local buffer that nothing further is done with, and make some other minor coding style cleanups. In the intended regression-testing usage of these functions, none of this is very significant; but if the regression test database were left around in a production installation, these bugs could amount to a minor security hazard. Piotr Stefaniak, Michael Paquier, and Tom Lane
2016-01-09Add STRICT to some C functions created by the regression tests.Tom Lane
These functions readily crash when passed a NULL input value. The tests themselves do not pass NULL values to them; but when the regression database is used as a basis for fuzz testing, they cause a lot of noise. Also, if someone were to leave a regression database lying about in a production installation, these would create a minor security hazard. Andreas Seltenreich
2016-01-07Fix unobvious interaction between -X switch and subdirectory creation.Tom Lane
Turns out the only reason initdb -X worked is that pg_mkdir_p won't whine if you point it at something that's a symlink to a directory. Otherwise, the attempt to create pg_xlog/ just like all the other subdirectories would have failed. Let's be a little more explicit about what's happening. Oversight in my patch for bug #13853 (mea culpa for not testing -X ...)
2016-01-07Fix one more TAP test to use standard command-line argument ordering.Tom Lane
Commit 84c08a7649b8c6dd488dfe0e37ab017e8059cd33 should have been back-patched into 9.4, but was not, so this test continued to pass for the wrong reason there. Noted while investigating other failures.
2016-01-07Use plain mkdir() not pg_mkdir_p() to create subdirectories of PGDATA.Tom Lane
When we're creating subdirectories of PGDATA during initdb, we know darn well that the parent directory exists (or should exist) and that the new subdirectory doesn't (or shouldn't). There is therefore no need to use anything more complicated than mkdir(). Using pg_mkdir_p() just opens us up to unexpected failure modes, such as the one exhibited in bug #13853 from Nuri Boardman. It's not very clear why pg_mkdir_p() went wrong there, but it is clear that we didn't need to be trying to create parent directories in the first place. We're not even saving any code, as proven by the fact that this patch nets out at minus five lines. Since this is a response to a field bug report, back-patch to all branches.
2016-01-07Windows: Make pg_ctl reliably detect service statusAlvaro Herrera
pg_ctl is using isatty() to verify whether the process is running in a terminal, and if not it sends its output to Windows' Event Log ... which does the wrong thing when the output has been redirected to a pipe, as reported in bug #13592. To fix, make pg_ctl use the code we already have to detect service-ness: in the master branch, move src/backend/port/win32/security.c to src/port (with suitable tweaks so that it runs properly in backend and frontend environments); pg_ctl already has access to pgport so it Just Works. In older branches, that's likely to cause trouble, so instead duplicate the required code in pg_ctl.c. Author: Michael Paquier Bug report and diagnosis: Egon Kocjan Backpatch: all supported branches
2016-01-05Sort $(wildcard) output where needed for reproducible build output.Tom Lane
The order of inclusion of .o files makes a difference in linker output; not a functional difference, but still a bitwise difference, which annoys some packagers who would like reproducible builds. Report and patch by Christoph Berg