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2018-11-24Avoid crashes in contrib/intarray gist__int_ops (bug #15518)Andrew Gierth
1. Integer overflow in internal_size could result in memory corruption in decompression since a zero-length array would be allocated and then written to. This leads to crashes or corruption when traversing an index which has been populated with sufficiently sparse values. Fix by using int64 for computations and checking for overflow. 2. Integer overflow in g_int_compress could cause pessimal merge choices, resulting in unnecessarily large ranges (which would in turn trigger issue 1 above). Fix by using int64 again. 3. Even without overflow, array sizes could become large enough to cause unexplained memory allocation errors. Fix by capping the sizes to a safe limit and report actual errors pointing at gist__intbig_ops as needed. 4. Large inputs to the compression function always consist of large runs of consecutive integers, and the compression loop was processing these one at a time in an O(N^2) manner with a lot of overhead. The expected runtime of this function could easily exceed 6 months for a single call as a result. Fix by performing a linear-time first pass, which reduces the worst case to something on the order of seconds. Backpatch all the way, since this has been wrong forever. Per bug #15518 from report from irc user "dymk", analysis and patch by me. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15518-799e426c3b4f8358@postgresql.org
2018-11-21doc: adjust time zone names text, v2Bruce Momjian
Removed one too many words. Fix for 7906de847f229f391b9e6b5892b4b4a89f29edb4. Reported-by: Thomas Munro Backpatch-through: 9.4
2018-11-21doc: adjust time zone names textBruce Momjian
Reported-by: Kevin <kcolagio@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/154082462281.30897.14043119084654378035@wrigleys.postgresql.org Backpatch-through: 9.4
2018-11-20doc: Clarify CREATE TYPE ENUM documentationPeter Eisentraut
The documentation claimed that an enum type requires "one or more" labels, but since 1fd9883ff49, zero labels are also allowed. Reported-by: Lukas Eder <lukas.eder@gmail.com> Bug: #15356
2018-11-19Fix configure's AC_CHECK_DECLS tests to work correctly with clang.Tom Lane
The test case that Autoconf uses to discover whether a function has been declared doesn't work reliably with clang, because clang reports a warning not an error if the name is a known built-in function. On some platforms, this results in a lot of compile-time warnings about strlcpy and related functions not having been declared. There is a fix for this (by Noah Misch) in the upstream Autoconf sources, but since they've not made a release in years and show no indication of doing so anytime soon, let's just absorb their fix directly. We can revert this when and if we update to a newer Autoconf release. Back-patch to all supported branches. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/26819.1542515567@sss.pgh.pa.us
2018-11-19PANIC on fsync() failure.Thomas Munro
On some operating systems, it doesn't make sense to retry fsync(), because dirty data cached by the kernel may have been dropped on write-back failure. In that case the only remaining copy of the data is in the WAL. A subsequent fsync() could appear to succeed, but not have flushed the data. That means that a future checkpoint could apparently complete successfully but have lost data. Therefore, violently prevent any future checkpoint attempts by panicking on the first fsync() failure. Note that we already did the same for WAL data; this change extends that behavior to non-temporary data files. Provide a GUC data_sync_retry to control this new behavior, for users of operating systems that don't eject dirty data, and possibly forensic/testing uses. If it is set to on and the write-back error was transient, a later checkpoint might genuinely succeed (on a system that does not throw away buffers on failure); if the error is permanent, later checkpoints will continue to fail. The GUC defaults to off, meaning that we panic. Back-patch to all supported releases. There is still a narrow window for error-loss on some operating systems: if the file is closed and later reopened and a write-back error occurs in the intervening time, but the inode has the bad luck to be evicted due to memory pressure before we reopen, we could miss the error. A later patch will address that with a scheme for keeping files with dirty data open at all times, but we judge that to be too complicated to back-patch. Author: Craig Ringer, with some adjustments by Thomas Munro Reported-by: Craig Ringer Reviewed-by: Robert Haas, Thomas Munro, Andres Freund Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180427222842.in2e4mibx45zdth5%40alap3.anarazel.de
2018-11-19Don't forget about failed fsync() requests.Thomas Munro
If fsync() fails, md.c must keep the request in its bitmap, so that future attempts will try again. Back-patch to all supported releases. Author: Thomas Munro Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila Reported-by: Andrew Gierth Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/87y3i1ia4w.fsf%40news-spur.riddles.org.uk
2018-11-18Add valgrind suppressions for wcsrtombs optimizationsTomas Vondra
wcsrtombs (called through wchar2char from common functions like lower, upper, etc.) uses various optimizations that may look like access to uninitialized data, triggering valgrind reports. For example AVX2 instructions load data in 256-bit chunks, and gconv does something similar with 32-bit chunks. This is faster than accessing the bytes one by one, and the uninitialized part of the buffer is not actually used. So suppress the bogus reports. The exact stack depends on possible optimizations - it might be AVX, SSE (as in the report by Aleksander Alekseev) or something else. Hence the last frame is wildcarded, to deal with this. Backpatch all the way back to 9.4. Author: Tomas Vondra Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/90ac0452-e907-e7a4-b3c8-15bd33780e62%402ndquadrant.com Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20180220150838.GD18315@e733.localdomain
2018-11-14Doc: remove claim that all \pset format options are unique in 1 letter.Tom Lane
This hasn't been correct since 9.3 added "latex-longtable". I left the phraseology "Unique abbreviations are allowed" alone. It's correct as far as it goes, and we are studiously refraining from specifying exactly what happens if you give a non-unique abbreviation. (The answer in the back branches is "you get a backwards-compatible choice", and the answer in HEAD will shortly be "you get an error", but there seems no need to mention such details here.) Daniel Vérité Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/cb7e1caf-3ea6-450d-af28-f524903a030c@manitou-mail.org
2018-11-14Second try at fixing numeric data passed through an ECPG SQLDA.Tom Lane
In commit ecfd55795, I removed sqlda.c's checks for ndigits != 0 on the grounds that we should duplicate the state of the numeric value's digit buffer even when all the digits are zeroes. However, that still isn't quite right, because another possible state of the digit buffer is buf == digits == NULL (this occurs for a NaN). As the code now stands, it'll invoke memcpy with a NULL source address and zero bytecount, which we know a few platforms crash on. Hence, reinstate the no-copy short-circuit, but make it test specifically for buf != NULL rather than some other condition. In hindsight, the ndigits test (added by commit f2ae9f9c3) was almost certainly meant to fix the NaN case not the all-zeroes case as the associated thread alleged. As before, back-patch to all supported versions. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1803D792815FC24D871C00D17AE95905C71161@g01jpexmbkw24
2018-11-14Initialize TransactionState and user ID consistently at transaction startMichael Paquier
If a failure happens when a transaction is starting between the moment the transaction status is changed from TRANS_DEFAULT to TRANS_START and the moment the current user ID and security context flags are fetched via GetUserIdAndSecContext(), or before initializing its basic fields, then those may get reset to incorrect values when the transaction aborts, leaving the session in an inconsistent state. One problem reported is that failing a starting transaction at the first query of a session could cause several kinds of system crashes on the follow-up queries. In order to solve that, move the initialization of the transaction state fields and the call of GetUserIdAndSecContext() in charge of fetching the current user ID close to the point where the transaction status is switched to TRANS_START, where there cannot be any error triggered in-between, per an idea of Tom Lane. This properly ensures that the current user ID, the security context flags and that the basic fields of TransactionState remain consistent even if the transaction fails while starting. Reported-by: Richard Guo Diagnosed-By: Richard Guo Author: Michael Paquier Reviewed-by: Tom Lane Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAN_9JTxECSb=pEPcb0a8d+6J+bDcOZ4=DgRo_B7Y5gRHJUM=Rw@mail.gmail.com Backpatch-through: 9.4
2018-11-13Fix incorrect results for numeric data passed through an ECPG SQLDA.Tom Lane
Numeric values with leading zeroes were incorrectly copied into a SQLDA (SQL Descriptor Area), leading to wrong results in ECPG programs. Report and patch by Daisuke Higuchi. Back-patch to all supported versions. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1803D792815FC24D871C00D17AE95905C71161@g01jpexmbkw24
2018-11-13Fix the initialization of atomic variable introduced by theAmit Kapila
group clearing mechanism. Commit 0e141c0fbb introduced initialization of atomic variable in InitProcess which means that it's not safe to look at it for backends that aren't currently in use. Fix that by initializing the same during postmaster startup. Reported-by: Andres Freund Author: Amit Kapila Backpatch-through: 9.6 Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20181027104138.qmbbelopvy7cw2qv@alap3.anarazel.de
2018-11-12Limit the number of index clauses considered in choose_bitmap_and().Tom Lane
classify_index_clause_usage() is O(N^2) in the number of distinct index qual clauses it considers, because of its use of a simple search list to store them. For nearly all queries, that's fine because only a few clauses will be considered. But Alexander Kuzmenkov reported a machine-generated query with 80000 (!) index qual clauses, which caused this code to take forever. Somewhat remarkably, this is the only O(N^2) behavior we now have for such a query, so let's fix it. We can get rid of the O(N^2) runtime for cases like this without much damage to the functionality of choose_bitmap_and() by separating out paths with "too many" qual or pred clauses, and deeming them to always be nonredundant with other paths. Then their clauses needn't go into the search list, so it doesn't get too long, but we don't lose the ability to consider bitmap AND plans altogether. I set the threshold for "too many" to be 100 clauses per path, which should be plenty to ensure no change in planning behavior for normal queries. There are other things we could do to make this go faster, but it's not clear that it's worth any additional effort. 80000 qual clauses require a whole lot of work in many other places, too. The code's been like this for a long time, so back-patch to all supported branches. The troublesome query only works back to 9.5 (in 9.4 it fails with stack overflow in the parser); so I'm not sure that fixing this in 9.4 has any real-world benefit, but perhaps it does. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/90c5bdfa-d633-dabe-9889-3cf3e1acd443@postgrespro.ru
2018-11-12Fix incorrect author name in release notesMichael Paquier
Author: Alexander Lakhin Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2f55f6d2-3fb0-d4f6-5c47-18da3a1117e0@gmail.com
2018-11-09Fix missing role dependencies for some schema and type ACLs.Tom Lane
This patch fixes several related cases in which pg_shdepend entries were never made, or were lost, for references to roles appearing in the ACLs of schemas and/or types. While that did no immediate harm, if a referenced role were later dropped, the drop would be allowed and would leave a dangling reference in the object's ACL. That still wasn't a big problem for normal database usage, but it would cause obscure failures in subsequent dump/reload or pg_upgrade attempts, taking the form of attempts to grant privileges to all-numeric role names. (I think I've seen field reports matching that symptom, but can't find any right now.) Several cases are fixed here: 1. ALTER DOMAIN SET/DROP DEFAULT would lose the dependencies for any existing ACL entries for the domain. This case is ancient, dating back as far as we've had pg_shdepend tracking at all. 2. If a default type privilege applies, CREATE TYPE recorded the ACL properly but forgot to install dependency entries for it. This dates to the addition of default privileges for types in 9.2. 3. If a default schema privilege applies, CREATE SCHEMA recorded the ACL properly but forgot to install dependency entries for it. This dates to the addition of default privileges for schemas in v10 (commit ab89e465c). Another somewhat-related problem is that when creating a relation rowtype or implicit array type, TypeCreate would apply any available default type privileges to that type, which we don't really want since such an object isn't supposed to have privileges of its own. (You can't, for example, drop such privileges once they've been added to an array type.) ab89e465c is also to blame for a race condition in the regression tests: privileges.sql transiently installed globally-applicable default privileges on schemas, which sometimes got absorbed into the ACLs of schemas created by concurrent test scripts. This should have resulted in failures when privileges.sql tried to drop the role holding such privileges; but thanks to the bug fixed here, it instead led to dangling ACLs in the final state of the regression database. We'd managed not to notice that, but it became obvious in the wake of commit da906766c, which allowed the race condition to occur in pg_upgrade tests. To fix, add a function recordDependencyOnNewAcl to encapsulate what callers of get_user_default_acl need to do; while the original call sites got that right via ad-hoc code, none of the later-added ones have. Also change GenerateTypeDependencies to generate these dependencies, which requires adding the typacl to its parameter list. (That might be annoying if there are any extensions calling that function directly; but if there are, they're most likely buggy in the same way as the core callers were, so they need work anyway.) While I was at it, I changed GenerateTypeDependencies to accept most of its parameters in the form of a Form_pg_type pointer, making its parameter list a bit less unwieldy and mistake-prone. The test race condition is fixed just by wrapping the addition and removal of default privileges into a single transaction, so that that state is never visible externally. We might eventually prefer to separate out tests of default privileges into a script that runs by itself, but that would be a bigger change and would make the tests run slower overall. Back-patch relevant parts to all supported branches. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15719.1541725287@sss.pgh.pa.us
2018-11-08Disallow setting client_min_messages higher than ERROR.Tom Lane
Previously it was possible to set client_min_messages to FATAL or PANIC, which had the effect of suppressing transmission of regular ERROR messages to the client. Perhaps that seemed like a useful option in the past, but the trouble with it is that it breaks guarantees that are explicitly made in our FE/BE protocol spec about how a query cycle can end. While libpq and psql manage to cope with the omission, that's mostly because they are not very bright; client libraries that have more semantic knowledge are likely to get confused. Notably, pgODBC doesn't behave very sanely. Let's fix this by getting rid of the ability to set client_min_messages above ERROR. In HEAD, just remove the FATAL and PANIC options from the set of allowed enum values for client_min_messages. (This change also affects trace_recovery_messages, but that's OK since these aren't useful values for that variable either.) In the back branches, there was concern that rejecting these values might break applications that are explicitly setting things that way. I'm pretty skeptical of that argument, but accommodate it by accepting these values and then internally setting the variable to ERROR anyway. In all branches, this allows a couple of tiny simplifications in the logic in elog.c, so do that. Also respond to the point that was made that client_min_messages has exactly nothing to do with the server's logging behavior, and therefore does not belong in the "When To Log" subsection of the documentation. The "Statement Behavior" subsection is a better match, so move it there. Jonah Harris and Tom Lane Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/7809.1541521180@sss.pgh.pa.us Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15479-ef0f4cc2fd995ca2@postgresql.org
2018-11-06GUC: adjust effective_cache_size SQL descriptionsBruce Momjian
Follow on patch for commit 3e0f1a4741f564c1a2fa6e944729d6967355d8c7. Reported-by: Peter Eisentraut Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/369ec766-b947-51bd-4dad-6fb9e026439f@2ndquadrant.com Backpatch-through: 9.4
2018-11-05Stamp 9.6.11.REL9_6_11Tom Lane
2018-11-05Fix copy-paste error in errhint() introduced in 691d79a07933.Andres Freund
Reported-By: Petr Jelinek Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/c95a620b-34f0-7930-aeb5-f7ab804f26cb@2ndquadrant.com Backpatch: 9.4-, like the previous commit
2018-11-05Translation updatesPeter Eisentraut
Source-Git-URL: https://git.postgresql.org/git/pgtranslation/messages.git Source-Git-Hash: 0c3afa7194c2708cf0b1f6f3de858ed69b60abba
2018-11-04Release notes for 11.1, 10.6, 9.6.11, 9.5.15, 9.4.20, 9.3.25.Tom Lane
2018-11-03Make ts_locale.c's character-type functions cope with UTF-16.Tom Lane
On Windows, in UTF8 database encoding, what char2wchar() produces is UTF16 not UTF32, ie, characters above U+FFFF will be represented by surrogate pairs. t_isdigit() and siblings did not account for this and failed to provide a large enough result buffer. That in turn led to bogus "invalid multibyte character for locale" errors, because contrary to what you might think from char2wchar()'s documentation, its Windows code path doesn't cope sanely with buffer overflow. The solution for t_isdigit() and siblings is pretty clear: provide a 3-wchar_t result buffer not 2. char2wchar() also needs some work to provide more consistent, and more accurately documented, buffer overrun behavior. But that's a bigger job and it doesn't actually have any immediate payoff, so leave it for later. Per bug #15476 from Kenji Uno, who deserves credit for identifying the cause of the problem. Back-patch to all active branches. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15476-4314f480acf0f114@postgresql.org
2018-11-02Yet further rethinking of build changes for macOS Mojave.Tom Lane
The solution arrived at in commit e74dd00f5 presumes that the compiler has a suitable default -isysroot setting ... but further experience shows that in many combinations of macOS version, XCode version, Xcode command line tools version, and phase of the moon, Apple's compiler will *not* supply a default -isysroot value. We could potentially go back to the approach used in commit 68fc227dd, but I don't have a lot of faith in the reliability or life expectancy of that either. Let's just revert to the approach already shipped in 11.0, namely specifying an -isysroot switch globally. As a partial response to the concerns raised by Jakob Egger, adjust the contents of Makefile.global to look like CPPFLAGS = -isysroot $(PG_SYSROOT) ... PG_SYSROOT = /path/to/sysroot This allows overriding the sysroot path at build time in a relatively painless way. Add documentation to installation.sgml about how to use the PG_SYSROOT option. I also took the opportunity to document how to work around macOS's "System Integrity Protection" feature. As before, back-patch to all supported versions. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20840.1537850987@sss.pgh.pa.us
2018-11-02docs: adjust simpler language for NULL return from ANY/ALLBruce Momjian
Adjustment to commit 8610c973ddf1cbf0befc1369d2cf0d56c0efcd0a. Reported-by: Tom Lane Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17406.1541168421@sss.pgh.pa.us Backpatch-through: 9.3
2018-11-02GUC: adjust effective_cache_size docs and SQL descriptionBruce Momjian
Clarify that effective_cache_size is both kernel buffers and shared buffers. Reported-by: nat@makarevitch.org Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/153685164808.22334.15432535018443165207@wrigleys.postgresql.org Backpatch-through: 9.3
2018-11-02Fix some spelling errors in the documentationMagnus Hagander
Author: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
2018-11-02doc: use simpler language for NULL return from ANY/ALLBruce Momjian
Previously the combination of "does not return" and "any row" caused ambiguity. Reported-by: KES <kes-kes@yandex.ru> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/153701242703.22334.1476830122267077397@wrigleys.postgresql.org Reviewed-by: David G. Johnston Backpatch-through: 9.3
2018-11-01Fix error message typo introduced 691d79a07933.Andres Freund
Reported-By: Michael Paquier Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20181101003405.GB1727@paquier.xyz Backpatch: 9.4-, like the previous commit
2018-10-31Disallow starting server with insufficient wal_level for existing slot.Andres Freund
Previously it was possible to create a slot, change wal_level, and restart, even if the new wal_level was insufficient for the slot. That's a problem for both logical and physical slots, because the necessary WAL records are not generated. This removes a few tests in newer versions that, somewhat inexplicably, whether restarting with a too low wal_level worked (a buggy behaviour!). Reported-By: Joshua D. Drake Author: Andres Freund Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20181029191304.lbsmhshkyymhw22w@alap3.anarazel.de Backpatch: 9.4-, where replication slots where introduced
2018-10-31Fix memory leak in repeated SPGIST index scans.Tom Lane
spgendscan neglected to pfree all the memory allocated by spgbeginscan. It's possible to get away with that in most normal queries, since the memory is allocated in the executor's per-query context which is about to get deleted anyway; but it causes severe memory leakage during creation or filling of large exclusion-constraint indexes. Also, document that amendscan is supposed to free what ambeginscan allocates. The docs' lack of clarity on that point probably caused this bug to begin with. (There is discussion of changing that API spec going forward, but I don't think it'd be appropriate for the back branches.) Per report from Bruno Wolff. It's been like this since the beginning, so back-patch to all active branches. In HEAD, also fix an independent leak caused by commit 2a6368343 (allocating memory during spgrescan instead of spgbeginscan, which might be all right if it got cleaned up, but it didn't). And do a bit of code beautification on that commit, too. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20181024012314.GA27428@wolff.to
2018-10-31Sync our copy of the timezone library with IANA release tzcode2018g.Tom Lane
This patch absorbs an upstream fix to "zic" for a recently-introduced bug that made it output data that some 32-bit clients couldn't read. Given the current source data, the bug only manifests in zones with leap seconds, which we don't generate, so that there's no actual change in our installed timezone data files from this. Still, in case somebody uses our copy of "zic" to do something else, it seems best to apply the fix promptly. Also, update the README's notes about converting upstream code to our conventions.
2018-10-31Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2018g.Tom Lane
DST law changes in Morocco (with, effectively, zero notice). Historical corrections for Hawaii.
2018-10-29Fix missing whitespace in pg_dump ref pageMagnus Hagander
Author: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
2018-10-28Fix perl searchpath for modern perl for MSVC toolsAndrew Dunstan
Modern versions of perl no longer include the current directory in the perl searchpath, as it's insecure. Instead of adding the current directory, we get around the problem by adding the directory where the script lives. Problem noted by Victor Wagner. Solution adapted from buildfarm client code. Backpatch to all live versions.
2018-10-22Fix some grammar errors in bloom.sgmlAlexander Korotkov
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm%3D3sijpGr8tXdyz-7EJJZfhQHABPKEQ29gpnb7-XSy%2B%3D5A%40mail.gmail.com Reported-by: Thomas Munro Backpatch-through: 9.6
2018-10-20Lower privilege level of programs calling regression_mainAndrew Dunstan
On Windows this mean that the regression tests can now safely and successfully run as Administrator, which is useful in situations like Appveyor. Elsewhere it's a no-op. Backpatch to 9.5 - this is harder in earlier branches and not worth the trouble. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/650b0c29-9578-8571-b1d2-550d7f89f307@2ndQuadrant.com
2018-10-19Client-side fixes for delayed NOTIFY receipt.Tom Lane
PQnotifies() is defined to just process already-read data, not try to read any more from the socket. (This is a debatable decision, perhaps, but I'm hesitant to change longstanding library behavior.) The documentation has long recommended calling PQconsumeInput() before PQnotifies() to ensure that any already-arrived message would get absorbed and processed. However, psql did not get that memo, which explains why it's not very reliable about reporting notifications promptly. Also, most (not quite all) callers called PQconsumeInput() just once before a PQnotifies() loop. Taking this recommendation seriously implies that we should do PQconsumeInput() before each call. This is more important now that we have "payload" strings in notification messages than it was before; that increases the probability of having more than one packet's worth of notify messages. Hence, adjust code as well as documentation examples to do it like that. Back-patch to 9.5 to match related server fixes. In principle we could probably go back further with these changes, but given lack of field complaints I doubt it's worthwhile. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAOYf6ec-TmRYjKBXLLaGaB-jrd=mjG1Hzn1a1wufUAR39PQYhw@mail.gmail.com
2018-10-19Server-side fix for delayed NOTIFY and SIGTERM processing.Tom Lane
Commit 4f85fde8e introduced some code that was meant to ensure that we'd process cancel, die, sinval catchup, and notify interrupts while waiting for client input. But there was a flaw: it supposed that the process latch would be set upon arrival at secure_read() if any such interrupt was pending. In reality, we might well have cleared the process latch at some earlier point while those flags remained set -- particularly notifyInterruptPending, which can't be handled as long as we're within a transaction. To fix the NOTIFY case, also attempt to process signals (except ProcDiePending) before trying to read. Also, if we see that ProcDiePending is set before we read, forcibly set the process latch to ensure that we will handle that signal promptly if no data is available. I also made it set the process latch on the way out, in case there is similar logic elsewhere. (It remains true that we won't service ProcDiePending here unless we need to wait for input.) The code for handling ProcDiePending during a write needs those changes, too. Also be a little more careful about when to reset whereToSendOutput, and improve related comments. Back-patch to 9.5 where this code was added. I'm not entirely convinced that older branches don't have similar issues, but the complaint at hand is just about the >= 9.5 code. Jeff Janes and Tom Lane Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAOYf6ec-TmRYjKBXLLaGaB-jrd=mjG1Hzn1a1wufUAR39PQYhw@mail.gmail.com
2018-10-19Sync our copy of the timezone library with IANA release tzcode2018f.Tom Lane
About half of this is purely cosmetic changes to reduce the diff between our code and theirs, like inserting "const" markers where they have them. The other half is tracking actual code changes in zic.c and localtime.c. I don't think any of these represent near-term compatibility hazards, but it seems best to stay up to date. I also fixed longstanding bugs in our code for producing the known_abbrevs.txt list, which by chance hadn't been exposed before, but which resulted in some garbage output after applying the upstream changes in zic.c. Notably, because upstream removed their old phony transitions at the Big Bang, it's now necessary to cope with TZif files containing no DST transition times at all.
2018-10-19Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2018f.Tom Lane
DST law changes in Chile, Fiji, and Russia (Volgograd). Historical corrections for China, Japan, Macau, and North Korea. Note: like the previous tzdata update, this involves a depressingly large amount of semantically-meaningless churn in tzdata.zi. That is a consequence of upstream's data compression method assigning unstable abbreviations to DST rulesets. I complained about that to them last time, and this version now uses an assignment method that pays some heed to not changing abbreviations unnecessarily. So hopefully, that'll be better going forward.
2018-10-18Still further rethinking of build changes for macOS Mojave.Tom Lane
To avoid the sorts of problems complained of by Jakob Egger, it'd be best if configure didn't emit any references to the sysroot path at all. In the case of PL/Tcl, we can do that just by keeping our hands off the TCL_INCLUDE_SPEC string altogether. In the case of PL/Perl, we need to substitute -iwithsysroot for -I in the compile commands, which is easily handled if we change to using a configure output variable that includes the switch not only the directory name. Since PL/Tcl and PL/Python already do it like that, this seems like good consistency cleanup anyway. Hence, this replaces the advice given to Perl-related extensions in commit 5e2217131; instead of writing "-I$(perl_archlibexp)/CORE", they should just write "$(perl_includespec)". (The old way continues to work, but not on recent macOS.) It's still the case that configure needs to be aware of the sysroot path internally, but that's cleaner than what we had before. As before, back-patch to all supported versions. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20840.1537850987@sss.pgh.pa.us
2018-10-17Fix minor bug in isolationtester.Tom Lane
If the lock wait query failed, isolationtester would report the PQerrorMessage from some other connection, meaning there would be no message or an unrelated one. This seems like a pretty unlikely occurrence, but if it did happen, this bug could make it really difficult/confusing to figure out what happened. That seems to justify patching all the way back. In passing, clean up another place where the "wrong" conn was used for an error report. That one's not actually buggy because it's a different alias for the same connection, but it's still confusing to the reader.
2018-10-17Improve tzparse's handling of TZDEFRULES ("posixrules") zone data.Tom Lane
In the IANA timezone code, tzparse() always tries to load the zone file named by TZDEFRULES ("posixrules"). Previously, we'd hacked that logic to skip the load in the "lastditch" code path, which we use only to initialize the default "GMT" zone during GUC initialization. That's critical for a couple of reasons: since we do not support leap seconds, we *must not* allow "GMT" to have leap seconds, and since this case runs before the GUC subsystem is fully alive, we'd really rather not take the risk of pg_open_tzfile throwing any errors. However, that still left the code reading TZDEFRULES on every other call, something we'd noticed to the extent of having added code to cache the result so it was only done once per process not a lot of times. Andres Freund complained about the static data space used up for the cache; but as long as the logic was like this, there was no point in trying to get rid of that space. We can improve matters by looking a bit more closely at what the IANA code actually needs the TZDEFRULES data for. One thing it does is that if "posixrules" is a leap-second-aware zone, the leap-second behavior will be absorbed into every POSIX-style zone specification. However, that's a behavior we'd really prefer to do without, since for our purposes the end effect is to render every POSIX-style zone name unsupported. Otherwise, the TZDEFRULES data is used only if the POSIX zone name specifies DST but doesn't include a transition date rule (e.g., "EST5EDT" rather than "EST5EDT,M3.2.0,M11.1.0"). That is a minority case for our purposes --- in particular, it never happens when tzload() invokes tzparse() to interpret a transition date rule string found in a tzdata zone file. Hence, if we legislate that we're going to ignore leap-second data from "posixrules", we can postpone the TZDEFRULES load into the path where we actually need to substitute for a missing date rule string. That means it will never happen at all in common scenarios, making it reasonable to dynamically allocate the cache space when it does happen. Even when the data is already loaded, this saves some cycles in the common code path since we avoid a memcpy of 23KB or so. And, IMO at least, this is a less ugly hack on the IANA logic than what we had before, since it's not messing with the lastditch-vs-regular code paths. Back-patch to all supported branches, not so much because this is a critical change as that I want to keep all our copies of the IANA timezone code in sync. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20181015200754.7y7zfuzsoux2c4ya@alap3.anarazel.de
2018-10-16Back off using -isysroot on Darwin.Tom Lane
Rethink the solution applied in commit 5e2217131 to get PL/Tcl to build on macOS Mojave. I feared that adding -isysroot globally might have undesirable consequences, and sure enough Jakob Egger reported one: it complicates building extensions with a different Xcode version than was used for the core server. (I find that a risky proposition in general, but apparently it works most of the time, so we shouldn't break it if we don't have to.) We'd already adopted the solution for PL/Perl of inserting the sysroot path directly into the -I switches used to find Perl's headers, and we can do the same thing for PL/Tcl by changing the -iwithsysroot switch that Apple's tclConfig.sh reports. This restricts the risks to PL/Perl and PL/Tcl themselves and directly-dependent extensions, which is a lot more pleasing in general than a global -isysroot switch. Along the way, tighten the test to see if we need to inject the sysroot path into $perl_includedir, as I'd speculated about upthread but not gotten round to doing. As before, back-patch to all supported versions. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20840.1537850987@sss.pgh.pa.us
2018-10-16Avoid rare race condition in privileges.sql regression test.Tom Lane
We created a temp table, then switched to a new session, leaving the old session to clean up its temp objects in background. If that took long enough, the eventual attempt to drop the user that owns the temp table could fail, as exhibited today by sidewinder. Fix by dropping the temp table explicitly when we're done with it. It's been like this for quite some time, so back-patch to all supported branches. Report: https://buildfarm.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=sidewinder&dt=2018-10-16%2014%3A45%3A00
2018-10-16Fix mis-backpatch of c015ccb306ec81bca3023818c9cf0113cae25be1.Tom Lane
Per buildfarm.
2018-10-16Make PostgresNode.pm's poll_query_until() more chatty about failures.Tom Lane
Reporting only the stderr is unhelpful when the problem is that the server output we're getting doesn't match what was expected. So we should report the query output too; and just for good measure, let's print the query we used and the output we expected. Back-patch to 9.5 where poll_query_until was introduced. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17913.1539634756@sss.pgh.pa.us
2018-10-16Improve stability of recently-added regression test case.Tom Lane
Commit b5febc1d1 added a contrib/btree_gist test case that has been observed to fail in the buildfarm as a result of background auto-analyze updating stats and changing the selected plan. Forestall that by forcibly analyzing in foreground, instead. The new plan choice is just as good for our purposes, since we really only care that an index-only plan does not get selected. Back-patch to 9.5, like the previous patch. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/14643.1539629304@sss.pgh.pa.us
2018-10-16Avoid statically allocating gmtsub()'s timezone workspace.Tom Lane
localtime.c's "struct state" is a rather large object, ~23KB. We were statically allocating one for gmtsub() to use to represent the GMT timezone, even though that function is not at all heavily used and is never reached in most backends. Let's malloc it on-demand, instead. This does pose the question of how to handle a malloc failure, but there's already a well-defined error report convention here, ie set errno and return NULL. We have but one caller of pg_gmtime in HEAD, and two in back branches, neither of which were troubling to check for error. Make them do so. The possible errors are sufficiently unlikely (out-of-range timestamp, and now malloc failure) that I think elog() is adequate. Back-patch to all supported branches to keep our copies of the IANA timezone code in sync. This particular change is in a stanza that already differs from upstream, so it's a wash for maintenance purposes --- but only as long as we keep the branches the same. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20181015200754.7y7zfuzsoux2c4ya@alap3.anarazel.de