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2014-12-22Change local_preload_libraries to PGC_USERSETPeter Eisentraut
This allows it to be used with ALTER ROLE SET. Although the old setting of PGC_BACKEND prevented changes after session start, after discussion it was more useful to allow ALTER ROLE SET instead and just document that changes during a session have no effect. This is similar to how session_preload_libraries works already. An alternative would be to change things to allow PGC_BACKEND and PGC_SU_BACKEND settings to be changed by ALTER ROLE SET. But that might need further research (e.g., log_connections would probably not work). based on patch by Kyotaro Horiguchi
2014-12-22Further tidy up on json aggregate documentationAndrew Dunstan
2014-12-22Fix documentation of argument type of json_agg and jsonb_aggAndrew Dunstan
json_agg was originally designed to aggregate records. However, it soon became clear that it is useful for aggregating all kinds of values and that's what we have on 9.3 and 9.4, and in head for it and jsonb_agg. The documentation suggested otherwise, so this fixes it.
2014-12-22Move rbtree.c from src/backend/utils/misc to src/backend/lib.Heikki Linnakangas
We have other general-purpose data structures in src/backend/lib, so it seems like a better home for the red-black tree as well.
2014-12-22Turn much of the btree_gin macros into real functions.Heikki Linnakangas
This makes the functions much nicer to read and edit, and also makes debugging easier.
2014-12-22Use a pairing heap for the priority queue in kNN-GiST searches.Heikki Linnakangas
This performs slightly better, uses less memory, and needs slightly less code in GiST, than the Red-Black tree previously used. Reviewed by Peter Geoghegan
2014-12-21Docs: clarify treatment of variadic functions with zero variadic arguments.Tom Lane
Explain that you have to use "VARIADIC ARRAY[]" to pass an empty array to a variadic parameter position. This was already implicit in the text but it seems better to spell it out. Per a suggestion from David Johnston, though I didn't use his proposed wording. Back-patch to all supported branches.
2014-12-21Fix file descriptor leak at end of recovery.Heikki Linnakangas
XLogFileInit() returns a file descriptor, which needs to be closed. The leak was short-lived, since the startup process exits shortly afterwards, but it was clearly a bug, nevertheless. Per Coverity report.
2014-12-19doc: Adjust wording of ALTER TABLESPACE restrictionBruce Momjian
Report by Noah Misch
2014-12-19pg_event_trigger_dropped_objects: add behavior flagsAlvaro Herrera
Add "normal" and "original" flags as output columns to the pg_event_trigger_dropped_objects() function. With this it's possible to distinguish which objects, among those listed, need to be explicitely referenced when trying to replicate a deletion. This is necessary so that the list of objects can be pruned to the minimum necessary to replicate the DROP command in a remote server that might have slightly different schema (for instance, TOAST tables and constraints with different names and such.) Catalog version bumped due to change of function definition. Reviewed by: Abhijit Menon-Sen, Stephen Frost, Heikki Linnakangas, Robert Haas.
2014-12-19Fix timestamp in end-of-recovery WAL records.Heikki Linnakangas
We used time(null) to set a TimestampTz field, which gave bogus results. Noticed while looking at pg_xlogdump output. Backpatch to 9.3 and above, where the fast promotion was introduced.
2014-12-19Prevent potentially hazardous compiler/cpu reordering during lwlock release.Andres Freund
In LWLockRelease() (and in 9.4+ LWLockUpdateVar()) we release enqueued waiters using PGSemaphoreUnlock(). As there are other sources of such unlocks backends only wake up if MyProc->lwWaiting is set to false; which is only done in the aforementioned functions. Before this commit there were dangers because the store to lwWaitLink could become visible before the store to lwWaitLink. This could both happen due to compiler reordering (on most compilers) and on some platforms due to the CPU reordering stores. The possible consequence of this is that a backend stops waiting before lwWaitLink is set to NULL. If that backend then tries to acquire another lock and has to wait there the list could become corrupted once the lwWaitLink store is finally performed. Add a write memory barrier to prevent that issue. Unfortunately the barrier support has been only added in 9.2. Given that the issue has not knowingly been observed in praxis it seems sufficient to prohibit compiler reordering using volatile for 9.0 and 9.1. Actual problems due to compiler reordering are more likely anyway. Discussion: 20140210134625.GA15246@awork2.anarazel.de
2014-12-19Define Assert() et al to ((void)0) to avoid pedantic warnings.Andres Freund
gcc's -Wempty-body warns about the current usage when compiling postgres without --enable-cassert.
2014-12-18Improve documentation about CASE and constant subexpressions.Tom Lane
The possibility that constant subexpressions of a CASE might be evaluated at planning time was touched on in 9.17.1 (CASE expressions), but it really ought to be explained in 4.2.14 (Expression Evaluation Rules) which is the primary discussion of such topics. Add text and an example there, and revise the <note> under CASE to link there. Back-patch to all supported branches, since it's acted like this for a long time (though 9.2+ is probably worse because of its more aggressive use of constant-folding via replanning of nominally-prepared statements). Pre-9.4, also back-patch text added in commit 0ce627d4 about CASE versus aggregate functions. Tom Lane and David Johnston, per discussion of bug #12273.
2014-12-18Use %u to print out BlockNumber variablesAlvaro Herrera
Per Tom Lane
2014-12-18Have VACUUM log number of skipped pages due to pinsAlvaro Herrera
Author: Jim Nasby, some kibitzing by Heikki Linnankangas. Discussion leading to current behavior and precise wording fueled by thoughts from Robert Haas and Andres Freund.
2014-12-18Improve hash_create's API for selecting simple-binary-key hash functions.Tom Lane
Previously, if you wanted anything besides C-string hash keys, you had to specify a custom hashing function to hash_create(). Nearly all such callers were specifying tag_hash or oid_hash; which is tedious, and rather error-prone, since a caller could easily miss the opportunity to optimize by using hash_uint32 when appropriate. Replace this with a design whereby callers using simple binary-data keys just specify HASH_BLOBS and don't need to mess with specific support functions. hash_create() itself will take care of optimizing when the key size is four bytes. This nets out saving a few hundred bytes of code space, and offers a measurable performance improvement in tidbitmap.c (which was not exploiting the opportunity to use hash_uint32 for its 4-byte keys). There might be some wins elsewhere too, I didn't analyze closely. In future we could look into offering a similar optimized hashing function for 8-byte keys. Under this design that could be done in a centralized and machine-independent fashion, whereas getting it right for keys of platform-dependent sizes would've been notationally painful before. For the moment, the old way still works fine, so as not to break source code compatibility for loadable modules. Eventually we might want to remove tag_hash and friends from the exported API altogether, since there's no real need for them to be explicitly referenced from outside dynahash.c. Teodor Sigaev and Tom Lane
2014-12-18Change how first WAL segment on new timeline after promotion is created.Heikki Linnakangas
Two changes: 1. When copying a WAL segment from old timeline to create the first segment on the new timeline, only copy up to the point where the timeline switch happens, and zero-fill the rest. This avoids corner cases where we might think that the copied WAL from the previous timeline belong to the new timeline. 2. If the timeline switch happens at a segment boundary, don't copy the whole old segment to the new timeline. It's pointless, because it's 100% identical to the old segment.
2014-12-18Add memory barriers for PgBackendStatus.st_changecount protocol.Fujii Masao
st_changecount protocol needs the memory barriers to ensure that the apparent order of execution is as it desires. Otherwise, for example, the CPU might rearrange the code so that st_changecount is incremented twice before the modification on a machine with weak memory ordering. This surprising result can lead to bugs. This commit introduces the macros to load and store st_changecount with the memory barriers. These are called before and after PgBackendStatus entries are modified or copied into private memory, in order to prevent CPU from reordering PgBackendStatus access. Per discussion on pgsql-hackers, we decided not to back-patch this to 9.4 or before until we get an actual bug report about this. Patch by me. Review by Robert Haas.
2014-12-18Ensure variables live across calls in generate_series(numeric, numeric).Fujii Masao
In generate_series_step_numeric(), the variables "start_num" and "stop_num" may be potentially freed until the next call. So they should be put in the location which can survive across calls. But previously they were not, and which could cause incorrect behavior of generate_series(numeric, numeric). This commit fixes this problem by copying them on multi_call_memory_ctx. Andrew Gierth
2014-12-18Update .gitignore for config.cache.Fujii Masao
Also add a comment about why regreesion.* aren't listed in .gitignore. Jim Nasby
2014-12-18Adjust valgrind suppression to the changes in 2c03216d8311.Andres Freund
CRC computation is now done in XLogRecordAssemble.
2014-12-18Recognize Makefile line continuations in fetchRegressOpts().Noah Misch
Back-patch to 9.0 (all supported versions). This is mere future-proofing in the context of the master branch, but commit f6dc6dd5ba54d52c0733aaafc50da2fbaeabb8b0 requires it of older branches.
2014-12-18Remove odd blank line in comment.Fujii Masao
Etsuro Fujita
2014-12-18Fix (re-)starting from a basebackup taken off a standby after a failure.Andres Freund
When starting up from a basebackup taken off a standby extra logic has to be applied to compute the point where the data directory is consistent. Normal base backups use a WAL record for that purpose, but that isn't possible on a standby. That logic had a error check ensuring that the cluster's control file indicates being in recovery. Unfortunately that check was too strict, disregarding the fact that the control file could also indicate that the cluster was shut down while in recovery. That's possible when the a cluster starting from a basebackup is shut down before the backup label has been removed. When everything goes well that's a short window, but when either restore_command or primary_conninfo isn't configured correctly the window can get much wider. That's because inbetween reading and unlinking the label we restore the last checkpoint from WAL which can need additional WAL. To fix simply also allow starting when the control file indicates "shutdown in recovery". There's nicer fixes imaginable, but they'd be more invasive. Backpatch to 9.2 where support for taking basebackups from standbys was added.
2014-12-18Fix previous commit for TAP test suites in VPATH builds.Noah Misch
Per buildfarm member crake. Back-patch to 9.4, where the TAP suites were introduced.
2014-12-17Lock down regression testing temporary clusters on Windows.Noah Misch
Use SSPI authentication to allow connections exclusively from the OS user that launched the test suite. This closes on Windows the vulnerability that commit be76a6d39e2832d4b88c0e1cc381aa44a7f86881 closed on other platforms. Users of "make installcheck" or custom test harnesses can run "pg_regress --config-auth=DATADIR" to activate the same authentication configuration that "make check" would use. Back-patch to 9.0 (all supported versions). Security: CVE-2014-0067
2014-12-17Allow CHECK constraints to be placed on foreign tables.Tom Lane
As with NOT NULL constraints, we consider that such constraints are merely reports of constraints that are being enforced by the remote server (or other underlying storage mechanism). Their only real use is to allow planner optimizations, for example in constraint-exclusion checks. Thus, the code changes here amount to little more than removal of the error that was formerly thrown for applying CHECK to a foreign table. (In passing, do a bit of cleanup of the ALTER FOREIGN TABLE reference page, which had accumulated some weird decisions about ordering etc.) Shigeru Hanada and Etsuro Fujita, reviewed by Kyotaro Horiguchi and Ashutosh Bapat.
2014-12-17Clarify the regexp used to detect source files in MSVC builds.Heikki Linnakangas
The old pattern would match files with strange extensions like *.ry or *.lpp. Refactor it to only include files with known extensions, and to make it more readable. Per Andrew Dunstan's suggestion.
2014-12-17Fix another poorly worded error message.Tom Lane
Spotted by Álvaro Herrera.
2014-12-17Fix poorly worded error message.Tom Lane
Adam Brightwell, per report from Martín Marqués.
2014-12-17Update .gitignore for pg_upgradeMagnus Hagander
Add Windows versions of generated scripts, and make sure we only ignore the scripts int he root directory. Michael Paquier
2014-12-17Add missing documentation for some vcregress modesMagnus Hagander
Michael Paquier
2014-12-17Remove redundant sentenceMagnus Hagander
Spotted by David Johnston
2014-12-16Fix off-by-one loop count in MapArrayTypeName, and get rid of static array.Tom Lane
MapArrayTypeName would copy up to NAMEDATALEN-1 bytes of the base type name, which of course is wrong: after prepending '_' there is only room for NAMEDATALEN-2 bytes. Aside from being the wrong result, this case would lead to overrunning the statically allocated work buffer. This would be a security bug if the function were ever used outside bootstrap mode, but it isn't, at least not in any currently supported branches. Aside from fixing the off-by-one loop logic, this patch gets rid of the static work buffer by having MapArrayTypeName pstrdup its result; the sole caller was already doing that, so this just requires moving the pstrdup call. This saves a few bytes but mainly it makes the API a lot cleaner. Back-patch on the off chance that there is some third-party code using MapArrayTypeName with less-secure input. Pushing pstrdup into the function should not cause any serious problems for such hypothetical code; at worst there might be a short term memory leak. Per Coverity scanning.
2014-12-16Suppress bogus statistics when pgbench failed to complete any transactions.Tom Lane
Code added in 9.4 would attempt to divide by zero in such cases. Noted while testing fix for missing-pclose problem.
2014-12-16Fix file descriptor leak after failure of a \setshell command in pgbench.Tom Lane
If the called command fails to return data, runShellCommand forgot to pclose() the pipe before returning. This is fairly harmless in the current code, because pgbench would then abandon further processing of that client thread; so no more than nclients descriptors could be leaked this way. But it's not hard to imagine future improvements whereby that wouldn't be true. In any case, it's sloppy coding, so patch all branches. Found by Coverity.
2014-12-16Fix some jsonb issues found by Coverity in recent commits.Andrew Dunstan
Mostly these issues concern the non-use of function results. These have been changed to use (void) pushJsonbValue(...) instead of assigning the result to a variable that gets overwritten before it is used. There is a larger issue that we should possibly examine the API for pushJsonbValue(), so that instead of returning a value it modifies a state argument. The current idiom is rather clumsy. However, changing that requires quite a bit more work, so this change should do for the moment.
2014-12-16Misc comment typo fixes.Heikki Linnakangas
Backpatch the applicable parts, just to make backpatching future patches easier.
2014-12-16Fix incorrect comment about XLogRecordBlockHeader.data_length field.Heikki Linnakangas
It does not include the possible full-page image. While at it, reformat the comment slightly to make it more readable. Reported by Rahila Syed
2014-12-15Fix commit_ts test suite for systems with coarse timestamp granularity.Noah Misch
Noticed on a couple of Windows configurations. Petr Jelinek, reviewed by Michael Paquier.
2014-12-15Translation updatesPeter Eisentraut
2014-12-15add missing newlineAlvaro Herrera
2014-12-15Fix point <-> polygon code for zero-distance case.Tom Lane
"PG_RETURN_FLOAT8(x)" is not "return x", except perhaps by accident on some platforms.
2014-12-15Add point <-> polygon distance operator.Heikki Linnakangas
Alexander Korotkov, reviewed by Emre Hasegeli.
2014-12-15Translation updatesPeter Eisentraut
2014-12-14doc: Add link to how to specify time zone names to initdb man pagePeter Eisentraut
2014-12-14Improve documentation around parameter-setting and ALTER SYSTEM.Tom Lane
The ALTER SYSTEM ref page hadn't been held to a very high standard, nor was the feature well integrated into section 18.1 (parameter setting). Also, though commit 4c4654afe had improved the structure of 18.1, it also introduced a lot of poor wording, imprecision, and outright falsehoods. Try to clean that up.
2014-12-14Update 9.4 release notes.Tom Lane
Set release date, do a final pass of wordsmithing, improve some other new-in-9.4 documentation.
2014-12-13doc: Fix markupPeter Eisentraut