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2011-07-05Fix typo in sslmode documentationMagnus Hagander
Per bug #6089, noted by Sidney Cadot
2011-07-04Clarify that you need ActiveState perl 5.8 *or later* to build on Windows.Heikki Linnakangas
2011-07-04Back-patch Fix bat file quoting of %ENV from commit 19b7fac8.Andrew Dunstan
2011-07-03Fix omissions in documentation of the pg_roles view.Tom Lane
Somehow, column rolconfig got removed from the documentation of the pg_roles view in the 9.0 cycle, although the column is actually still there. In 9.1, we'd also forgotten to document the rolreplication column. Spotted by Sakamoto Masahiko.
2011-07-03Fix EXPLAIN to handle gating Result nodes within inner-indexscan subplans.Tom Lane
It is possible for a NestLoop plan node to pass an OUTER Var into an "inner indexscan" that is an Append construct (derived from an inheritance tree or UNION ALL subquery). The OUTER tuple is then passed down at runtime to the leaf indexscan node(s) where it will actually be used. EXPLAIN has to likewise pass the information about the nestloop's outer subplan down through the Append node, else it will fail to print the outer-reference Vars (with complaints like "bogus varno: 65001"). However, there was a case missed in all this: we could also have gating Result nodes that were inserted into the appendrel plan tree to deal with pseudoconstant qual conditions. So EXPLAIN has to pass down the outer plan node to a Result's subplan, too. Per example from Jon Nelson. The problem is gone in 9.1 because we replaced the nestloop outer-tuple kluge with a Param-based data transfer mechanism. Also, so far as I can tell, the case can't happen before 8.4 because of restrictions on what sorts of appendrel members could be pulled up into the parent query. So this patch is only needed for 8.4 and 9.0.
2011-07-01In pg_upgrade 9.0 and 9.1, document suggestion of using a non-defaultBruce Momjian
port number to avoid unintended client connections.
2011-06-29Restore correct btree preprocessing of "indexedcol IS NULL" conditions.Tom Lane
Such a condition is unsatisfiable in combination with any other type of btree-indexable condition (since we assume btree operators are always strict). 8.3 and 8.4 had an explicit test for this, which I removed in commit 29c4ad98293e3c5cb3fcdd413a3f4904efff8762, mistakenly thinking that the case would be subsumed by the more general handling of IS (NOT) NULL added in that patch. Put it back, and improve the comments about it, and add a regression test case. Per bug #6079 from Renat Nasyrov, and analysis by Dean Rasheed.
2011-06-29Protect pg_stat_reset_shared() against NULL inputMagnus Hagander
Per bug #6082, reported by Steve Haslam
2011-06-27Reduce impact of btree page reuse on Hot Standby by fixing off-by-1 error.Simon Riggs
WAL records of type XLOG_BTREE_REUSE_PAGE were generated using a latestRemovedXid one higher than actually needed because xid used was page opaque->btpo.xact rather than an actually removed xid. Noticed on an otherwise quiet system by Noah Misch. Noah Misch and Simon Riggs
2011-06-23In pg_upgrade docs, clarify that link mode uses "hard" links.Bruce Momjian
Backpatch to 9.1 and 9.0.
2011-06-22Fix pg_upgrade status message capitalization mistake.Bruce Momjian
Backpatch to 9.1 and 9.0. Dan McGee
2011-06-21Apply upstream fix for blowfish signed-character bug (CVE-2011-2483).Tom Lane
A password containing a character with the high bit set was misprocessed on machines where char is signed (which is most). This could cause the preceding one to three characters to fail to affect the hashed result, thus weakening the password. The result was also unportable, and failed to match some other blowfish implementations such as OpenBSD's. Since the fix changes the output for such passwords, upstream chose to provide a compatibility hack: password salts beginning with $2x$ (instead of the usual $2a$ for blowfish) are intentionally processed "wrong" to give the same hash as before. Stored password hashes can thus be modified if necessary to still match, though it'd be better to change any affected passwords. In passing, sync a couple other upstream changes that marginally improve performance and/or tighten error checking. Back-patch to all supported branches. Since this issue is already public, no reason not to commit the fix ASAP.
2011-06-20Fix missed use of "cp -i" in an example, per Fujii Masao.Tom Lane
Also be more careful about markup: use & not just &.
2011-06-20Fix thinko in previous patch for optimizing EXISTS-within-EXISTS.Tom Lane
When recursing after an optimization in pull_up_sublinks_qual_recurse, the available_rels value passed down must include only the relations that are in the righthand side of the new SEMI or ANTI join; it's incorrect to pull up a sub-select that refers to other relations, as seen in the added test case. Per report from BangarRaju Vadapalli. While at it, rethink the idea of recursing below a NOT EXISTS. That is essentially the same situation as pulling up ANY/EXISTS sub-selects that are in the ON clause of an outer join, and it has the same disadvantage: we'd force the two joins to be evaluated according to the syntactic nesting order, because the lower join will most likely not be able to commute with the ANTI join. That could result in having to form a rather large join product, whereas the handling of a correlated subselect is not quite that dumb. So until we can handle those cases better, #ifdef NOT_USED that case. (I think it's okay to pull up in the EXISTS/ANY cases, because SEMI joins aren't so inflexible about ordering.) Back-patch to 8.4, same as for previous patch in this area. Fortunately that patch hadn't made it into any shipped releases yet.
2011-06-20Fixed string in German translation that causes segfault.Michael Meskes
Applied patch by Christoph Berg <cb@df7cb.de> to replace placeholder "%s" by correct string.
2011-06-19Fix thinko in previous patch to always update pg_class.reltuples/relpages.Tom Lane
I mis-simplified the test where ANALYZE decided if it could get away without doing anything: under the new regime, that's never allowed. Per bug #6068 from Jeff Janes. Back-patch to 8.4, just like previous patch.
2011-06-17Don't use "cp -i" in the example WAL archive_command.Tom Lane
This is a dangerous example to provide because on machines with GNU cp, it will silently do the wrong thing and risk archive corruption. Worse, during the 9.0 cycle somebody "improved" the discussion by removing the warning that used to be there about that, and instead leaving the impression that the command would work as desired on most Unixen. It doesn't. Try to rectify the damage by providing an example that is safe most everywhere, and then noting that you can try cp -i if you want but you'd better test that. In back-patching this to all supported branches, I also added an example command for Windows, which wasn't provided before 9.0.
2011-06-17Obtain table locks as soon as practical during pg_dump.Tom Lane
For some reason, when we (I) added table lock acquisition to pg_dump, we didn't think about making it happen as soon as possible after the start of the transaction. What with subsequent additions, there was actually quite a lot going on before we got around to that; which sort of defeats the purpose. Rearrange the order of calls in dumpSchema() to close the risk window as much as we easily can. Back-patch to all supported branches.
2011-06-17Add overflow checks to int4 and int8 versions of generate_series().Robert Haas
The previous code went into an infinite loop after overflow. In fact, an overflow is not really an error; it just means that the current value is the last one we need to return. So, just arrange to stop immediately when overflow is detected. Back-patch all the way.
2011-06-16Respect Hot Standby controls while recycling btree index pages.Simon Riggs
Btree pages were recycled after VACUUM deletes all records on a page and then a subsequent VACUUM occurs after the RecentXmin horizon is reached. Using RecentXmin meant that we did not respond correctly to the user controls provide to avoid Hot Standby conflicts and so spurious conflicts could be generated in some workload combinations. We now reuse pages only when we reach RecentGlobalXmin, which can be much later in the presence of long running queries and is also controlled by vacuum_defer_cleanup_age. Noah Misch and Simon Riggs
2011-06-15Fix failure to account for memory used by tuplestore_putvalues().Tom Lane
This oversight could result in a tuplestore using much more than the intended amount of memory. It would only happen in a code path that loaded a tuplestore via tuplestore_putvalues(), and many of those won't emit huge amounts of data; but cases such as holdable cursors and plpgsql's RETURN NEXT command could have the problem. The fix ensures that the tuplestore will switch to write-to-disk mode when it overruns work_mem. The potential overrun was finite, because we would still count the space used by the tuple pointer array, so the tuplestore code would eventually flip into write-to-disk mode anyway. When storing wide tuples we would go far past the expected work_mem usage before that happened; but this may account for the lack of prior reports. Back-patch to 8.4, where tuplestore_putvalues was introduced. Per bug #6061 from Yann Delorme.
2011-06-14In pg_upgrade, document that link mode has to have data directories onBruce Momjian
the same file system, and that authentication should lock out normal users. Per suggestsion from #postgresql irc channel. Backpatch to 9.0.
2011-06-14Fix assorted issues with build and install paths containing spaces.Tom Lane
Apparently there is no buildfarm critter exercising this case after all, because it fails in several places. With this patch, build, install, check-world, and installcheck-world pass for me on OS X.
2011-06-14Fix grammatical mistake introduced by previous commitAlvaro Herrera
Per note from Tom
2011-06-14Mention DROP TABLE as well as ALTER TABLE NO INHERITAlvaro Herrera
... when talking about how good they are in replacement of bulk DELETE in partitioned setups. The original wording was a bit confusing. Per an observation from David Wheeler.
2011-06-13Fix aboriginal copy-paste mistake in error messageAlvaro Herrera
Spotted by Jaime Casanova
2011-06-13Expand warnings on locks acquired by CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLYAlvaro Herrera
The previous wording wasn't explicit enough, which could misled readers into thinking that the locks acquired are more restricted in nature than they really are. The resulting optimism can be damaging to morale when confronted with reality, as has been observed in the field. Greg Smith
2011-06-13Remove parentheses from mention of current_schemas function.Robert Haas
This is more consistent with what we do elsewhere, and hopefully avoids creating the perception that current_schemas takes no arguments. As suggested by Brendan Jurd
2011-06-13Add doc cross-reference to search_path discussion of current_schemas().Robert Haas
Brendan Jurd
2011-06-10Work around gcc 4.6.0 bug that breaks WAL replay.Tom Lane
ReadRecord's habit of using both direct references to tmpRecPtr and references to *RecPtr (which is pointing at tmpRecPtr) triggers an optimization bug in gcc 4.6.0, which apparently has forgotten about aliasing rules. Avoid the compiler bug, and make the code more readable to boot, by getting rid of the direct references. Improve the comments while at it. Back-patch to all supported versions, in case they get built with 4.6.0. Tom Lane, with some cosmetic suggestions from Alex Hunsaker
2011-06-09Use the correct eventlog severity for errorMagnus Hagander
2011-06-09Support silent mode for service registrations on win32Magnus Hagander
Using -s when registering a service will now suppress the application eventlog entries stating that the service is starting and started. MauMau
2011-06-09Fix documentation of information_schema.element_typesPeter Eisentraut
The documentation of the columns collection_type_identifier and dtd_identifier was wrong. This effectively reverts commits 8e1ccad51901e83916dae297cd9afa450957a36c and 57352df66d3a0885899d39c04c067e63c7c0ba30 and updates the name array_type_identifier (the name in SQL:1999) to collection_type_identifier. closes bug #5926
2011-06-04Allow building with perl 5.14.Andrew Dunstan
Patch from Alex Hunsaker.
2011-06-04Fix documentation reference to "above" examplePeter Eisentraut
found by Thom Brown
2011-06-04More ECPG documentation fixesPeter Eisentraut
Marc Cousin
2011-06-04ECPG documentation fixPeter Eisentraut
Marc Cousin, Satoshi Nagayasu
2011-06-04Expose the "*VALUES*" alias that we generate for a stand-alone VALUES list.Tom Lane
We were trying to make that strictly an internal implementation detail, but it turns out that it's exposed anyway when dumping a view defined like CREATE VIEW test_view AS VALUES (1), (2), (3) ORDER BY 1; This comes out as CREATE VIEW ... ORDER BY "*VALUES*".column1; which fails to parse when reloading the dump. Hacking ruleutils.c to suppress the column qualification looks like it'd be a risky business, so instead promote the RTE alias to full-fledged usability. Per bug #6049 from Dylan Adams. Back-patch to all supported branches.
2011-06-02Clean up after erroneous SELECT FOR UPDATE/SHARE on a sequence.Tom Lane
My previous commit disallowed this operation, but did nothing about cleaning up the damage if one had already been done. With the operation disallowed, it's okay to just forcibly clear xmax in a sequence's tuple, since any value seen there could not represent a live transaction's lock. So, any sequence-specific operation will repair the problem automatically, whether or not the user has already seen "could not access status of transaction" failures.
2011-06-02Disallow SELECT FOR UPDATE/SHARE on sequences.Tom Lane
We can't allow this because such an operation stores its transaction XID into the sequence tuple's xmax. Because VACUUM doesn't process sequences (and we don't want it to start doing so), such an xmax value won't get frozen, meaning it will eventually refer to nonexistent pg_clog storage, and even wrap around completely. Since the row lock is ignored by nextval and setval, the usefulness of the operation is highly debatable anyway. Per reports of trouble with pgpool 3.0, which had ill-advisedly started using such commands as a form of locking. In HEAD, also disallow SELECT FOR UPDATE/SHARE on toast tables. Although this does work safely given the current implementation, there seems no good reason to allow it. I refrained from changing that behavior in back branches, however.
2011-05-31Protect GIST logic that assumes penalty values can't be negative.Tom Lane
Apparently sane-looking penalty code might return small negative values, for example because of roundoff error. This will confuse places like gistchoose(). Prevent problems by clamping negative penalty values to zero. (Just to be really sure, I also made it force NaNs to zero.) Back-patch to all supported branches. Alexander Korotkov
2011-05-30Fix portability bugs in use of credentials control messages for peer auth.Tom Lane
Even though our existing code for handling credentials control messages has been basically unchanged since 2001, it was fundamentally wrong: it did not ensure proper alignment of the supplied buffer, and it was calculating buffer sizes and message sizes incorrectly. This led to failures on platforms where alignment padding is relevant, for instance FreeBSD on 64-bit platforms, as seen in a recent Debian bug report passed on by Martin Pitt (http://bugs.debian.org//cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=612888). Rewrite to do the message-whacking using the macros specified in RFC 2292, following a suggestion from Theo de Raadt in that thread. Tested by me on Debian/kFreeBSD-amd64; since OpenBSD and NetBSD document the identical CMSG API, it should work there too. Back-patch to all supported branches.
2011-05-30Fix VACUUM so that it always updates pg_class.reltuples/relpages.Tom Lane
When we added the ability for vacuum to skip heap pages by consulting the visibility map, we made it just not update the reltuples/relpages statistics if it skipped any pages. But this could leave us with extremely out-of-date stats for a table that contains any unchanging areas, especially for TOAST tables which never get processed by ANALYZE. In particular this could result in autovacuum making poor decisions about when to process the table, as in recent report from Florian Helmberger. And in general it's a bad idea to not update the stats at all. Instead, use the previous values of reltuples/relpages as an estimate of the tuple density in unvisited pages. This approach results in a "moving average" estimate of reltuples, which should converge to the correct value over multiple VACUUM and ANALYZE cycles even when individual measurements aren't very good. This new method for updating reltuples is used by both VACUUM and ANALYZE, with the result that we no longer need the grotty interconnections that caused ANALYZE to not update the stats depending on what had happened in the parent VACUUM command. Also, fix the logic for skipping all-visible pages during VACUUM so that it looks ahead rather than behind to decide what to do, as per a suggestion from Greg Stark. This eliminates useless scanning of all-visible pages at the start of the relation or just after a not-all-visible page. In particular, the first few pages of the relation will not be invariably included in the scanned pages, which seems to help in not overweighting them in the reltuples estimate. Back-patch to 8.4, where the visibility map was introduced.
2011-05-28Fix null-dereference crash in parse_xml_decl().Tom Lane
parse_xml_decl's header comment says you can pass NULL for any unwanted output parameter, but it failed to honor this contract for the "standalone" flag. The only currently-affected caller is xml_recv, so the net effect is that sending a binary XML value containing a standalone parameter in its xml declaration would crash the backend. Per bug #6044 from Christopher Dillard. In passing, remove useless initializations of parse_xml_decl's output parameters in xml_parse. Back-patch to 8.3, where this code was introduced.
2011-05-27Preserve caller's memory context in ProcessCompletedNotifies().Tom Lane
This is necessary to avoid long-term memory leakage, because the main loop in PostgresMain expects to be executing in MessageContext, and hence is a bit sloppy about freeing stuff that is only needed for the duration of processing the current client message. The known case of an actual leak is when encoding conversion has to be done on the incoming command string, but there might be others. Per report from Per-Olov Esgard. Back-patch to 9.0, where the bug was introduced by the LISTEN/NOTIFY rewrite.
2011-05-26Make decompilation of optimized CASE constructs more robust.Tom Lane
We had some hacks in ruleutils.c to cope with various odd transformations that the optimizer could do on a CASE foo WHEN "CaseTestExpr = RHS" clause. However, the fundamental impossibility of covering all cases was exposed by Heikki, who pointed out that the "=" operator could get replaced by an inlined SQL function, which could contain nearly anything at all. So give up on the hacks and just print the expression as-is if we fail to recognize it as "CaseTestExpr = RHS". (We must cover that case so that decompiled rules print correctly; but we are not under any obligation to make EXPLAIN output be 100% valid SQL in all cases, and already could not do so in some other cases.) This approach requires that we have some printable representation of the CaseTestExpr node type; I used "CASE_TEST_EXPR". Back-patch to all supported branches, since the problem case fails in all.
2011-05-24Avoid uninitialized bits in the result of QTN2QT().Tom Lane
Found with additional valgrind testing. Noah Misch
2011-05-23Lobotomize typmod check in convert_tuples_by_position, back branches only.Tom Lane
convert_tuples_by_position was rejecting attempts to coerce a record field with -1 typmod to the same type with a non-default typmod. This is in fact the "correct" thing to do (since we're just going to do a type relabeling, not invoke any length-conversion cast function); but it results in rejecting valid cases like bug #6020, because the source record's tupdesc is built from Params that don't have typmod assigned. Since that's a regression from previous versions, which accepted this code, we have to do something about it. In HEAD, I've fixed the problem properly by causing the Params to receive the correct typmods; but the potential for incidental behavioral changes seems high enough to make it unattractive to make the same change in released branches. (And it couldn't be fixed that way in 8.4 anyway...) Hence this patch just modifies convert_tuples_by_position to not complain if either the input or the output tupdesc has typmod -1. This is still a shade tighter checking than we did before 9.0, since before that plpgsql failed to consider typmods at all when checking record compatibility. (convert_tuples_by_position is currently used only by plpgsql, so we're not affecting other behavior.) Back-patch to 8.4, since we recently back-ported convert_tuples_by_position into that branch.
2011-05-23Replace strdup() with pstrdup(), to avoid leaking memory.Heikki Linnakangas
It's been like this since the seg module was introduced, so backpatch to 8.2 which is the oldest supported version.
2011-05-23Install defenses against overflow in BuildTupleHashTable().Tom Lane
The planner can sometimes compute very large values for numGroups, and in cases where we have no alternative to building a hashtable, such a value will get fed directly to BuildTupleHashTable as its nbuckets parameter. There were two ways in which that could go bad. First, BuildTupleHashTable declared the parameter as "int" but most callers were passing "long"s, so on 64-bit machines undetected overflow could occur leading to a bogus negative value. The obvious fix for that is to change the parameter to "long", which is what I've done in HEAD. In the back branches that seems a bit risky, though, since third-party code might be calling this function. So for them, just put in a kluge to treat negative inputs as INT_MAX. Second, hash_create can go nuts with extremely large requested table sizes (notably, my_log2 becomes an infinite loop for inputs larger than LONG_MAX/2). What seems most appropriate to avoid that is to bound the initial table size request to work_mem. This fixes bug #6035 reported by Daniel Schreiber. Although the reported case only occurs back to 8.4 since it involves WITH RECURSIVE, I think it's a good idea to install the defenses in all supported branches.