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2015-10-06Perform an immediate shutdown if the postmaster.pid file is removed.Tom Lane
The postmaster now checks every minute or so (worst case, at most two minutes) that postmaster.pid is still there and still contains its own PID. If not, it performs an immediate shutdown, as though it had received SIGQUIT. The original goal behind this change was to ensure that failed buildfarm runs would get fully cleaned up, even if the test scripts had left a postmaster running, which is not an infrequent occurrence. When the buildfarm script removes a test postmaster's $PGDATA directory, its next check on postmaster.pid will fail and cause it to exit. Previously, manual intervention was often needed to get rid of such orphaned postmasters, since they'd block new test postmasters from obtaining the expected socket address. However, by checking postmaster.pid and not something else, we can provide additional robustness: manual removal of postmaster.pid is a frequent DBA mistake, and now we can at least limit the damage that will ensue if a new postmaster is started while the old one is still alive. Back-patch to all supported branches, since we won't get the desired improvement in buildfarm reliability otherwise.
2015-10-06Remove more volatile qualifiers.Robert Haas
Prior to commit 0709b7ee72e4bc71ad07b7120acd117265ab51d0, access to variables within a spinlock-protected critical section had to be done through a volatile pointer, but that should no longer be necessary. This continues work begun in df4077cda2eae3eb4a5cf387da0c1e7616e73204 and 6ba4ecbf477e0b25dd7bde1b0c4e07fc2da19348. Thomas Munro and Michael Paquier
2015-10-05Have CREATE TABLE LIKE add OID column if any LIKEd table has oneBruce Momjian
Also, process constraints for LIKEd tables at the end so an OID column can be referenced in a constraint. Report by Tom Lane
2015-10-05to_number(): allow 'V' to divide by 10^(the number of digits)Bruce Momjian
to_char('V') already multiplied in a similar manner. Report by Jeremy Lowery
2015-10-05psql: allow \pset C in setting the title, matches \CBruce Momjian
Report by David G. Johnston
2015-10-05to_char(): Do not count negative sign as a digit for time valuesBruce Momjian
For time masks, like HH24, MI, SS, CC, MM, do not count the negative sign as part of the zero-padding length specified by the mask, e.g. have to_char('-4 years'::interval, 'YY') return '-04', not '-4'. Report by Craig Ringer
2015-10-05docs: update guidelines on when to use GIN and GiST indexesBruce Momjian
Report by Tomas Vondra Backpatch through 9.5
2015-10-05Docs: explain contrib/pg_stat_statements' handling of GC failure.Tom Lane
Failure to perform garbage collection now has a user-visible effect, so explain that and explain that reducing pgss_max is the way to prevent it. Per gripe from Andrew Dunstan.
2015-10-05Fix insufficiently-portable regression test case.Tom Lane
Some of the buildfarm members are evidently miserly enough of stack space to pass the originally-committed form of this test. Increase the requirement 10X to hopefully ensure that it fails as-expected everywhere. Security: CVE-2015-5289
2015-10-05Last-minute updates for release notes.Tom Lane
Add entries for security and not-quite-security issues. Security: CVE-2015-5288, CVE-2015-5289
2015-10-05Remove outdated comment about relation level autovacuum freeze limits.Andres Freund
The documentation for the autovacuum_multixact_freeze_max_age and autovacuum_freeze_max_age relation level parameters contained: "Note that while you can set autovacuum_multixact_freeze_max_age very small, or even zero, this is usually unwise since it will force frequent vacuuming." which hasn't been true since these options were made relation options, instead of residing in the pg_autovacuum table (834a6da4f7). Remove the outdated sentence. Even the lowered limits from 2596d70 are high enough that this doesn't warrant calling out the risk in the CREATE TABLE docs. Per discussion with Tom Lane and Alvaro Herrera Discussion: 26377.1443105453@sss.pgh.pa.us Backpatch: 9.0- (in parts)
2015-10-05Add regression tests for INSERT/UPDATE+RETURNINGStephen Frost
This adds regressions tests which are specific to INSERT+RETURNING and UPDATE+RETURNING to ensure that the SELECT policies are added as WithCheckOptions (and should therefore throw an error when the policy is violated). Per suggestion from Andres. Back-patch to 9.5 as the prior commit was.
2015-10-05Prevent stack overflow in query-type functions.Noah Misch
The tsquery, ltxtquery and query_int data types have a common ancestor. Having acquired check_stack_depth() calls independently, each was missing at least one call. Back-patch to 9.0 (all supported versions).
2015-10-05Prevent stack overflow in container-type functions.Noah Misch
A range type can name another range type as its subtype, and a record type can bear a column of another record type. Consequently, functions like range_cmp() and record_recv() are recursive. Functions at risk include operator family members and referents of pg_type regproc columns. Treat as recursive any such function that looks up and calls the same-purpose function for a record column type or the range subtype. Back-patch to 9.0 (all supported versions). An array type's element type is never itself an array type, so array functions are unaffected. Recursion depth proportional to array dimensionality, found in array_dim_to_jsonb(), is fine thanks to MAXDIM.
2015-10-05Prevent stack overflow in json-related functions.Noah Misch
Sufficiently-deep recursion heretofore elicited a SIGSEGV. If an application constructs PostgreSQL json or jsonb values from arbitrary user input, application users could have exploited this to terminate all active database connections. That applies to 9.3, where the json parser adopted recursive descent, and later versions. Only row_to_json() and array_to_json() were at risk in 9.2, both in a non-security capacity. Back-patch to 9.2, where the json type was introduced. Oskari Saarenmaa, reviewed by Michael Paquier. Security: CVE-2015-5289
2015-10-05pgcrypto: Detect and report too-short crypt() salts.Noah Misch
Certain short salts crashed the backend or disclosed a few bytes of backend memory. For existing salt-induced error conditions, emit a message saying as much. Back-patch to 9.0 (all supported versions). Josh Kupershmidt Security: CVE-2015-5288
2015-10-05Apply SELECT policies in INSERT/UPDATE+RETURNINGStephen Frost
Similar to 7d8db3e, given that INSERT+RETURNING requires SELECT rights on the table, apply the SELECT policies as WCOs to the tuples being inserted. Apply the same logic to UPDATE+RETURNING. Back-patch to 9.5 where RLS was added.
2015-10-05Do not write out WCOs in QueryStephen Frost
The WithCheckOptions list in Query are only populated during rewrite and do not need to be written out or read in as part of a Query structure. Further, move WithCheckOptions to the bottom and add comments to clarify that it is only populated during rewrite. Back-patch to 9.5 with a catversion bump, as we are still in alpha.
2015-10-05Re-Align *_freeze_max_age reloption limits with corresponding GUC limits.Andres Freund
In 020235a5754 I lowered the autovacuum_*freeze_max_age minimums to allow for easier testing of wraparounds. I did not touch the corresponding per-table limits. While those don't matter for the purpose of wraparound, it seems more consistent to lower them as well. It's noteworthy that the previous reloption lower limit for autovacuum_multixact_freeze_max_age was too high by one magnitude, even before 020235a5754. Discussion: 26377.1443105453@sss.pgh.pa.us Backpatch: back to 9.0 (in parts), like the prior patch
2015-10-04ALTER TABLE .. FORCE ROW LEVEL SECURITYStephen Frost
To allow users to force RLS to always be applied, even for table owners, add ALTER TABLE .. FORCE ROW LEVEL SECURITY. row_security=off overrides FORCE ROW LEVEL SECURITY, to ensure pg_dump output is complete (by default). Also add SECURITY_NOFORCE_RLS context to avoid data corruption when ALTER TABLE .. FORCE ROW SECURITY is being used. The SECURITY_NOFORCE_RLS security context is used only during referential integrity checks and is only considered in check_enable_rls() after we have already checked that the current user is the owner of the relation (which should always be the case during referential integrity checks). Back-patch to 9.5 where RLS was added.
2015-10-04Release notes for 9.5beta1, 9.4.5, 9.3.10, 9.2.14, 9.1.19, 9.0.23.Tom Lane
2015-10-04Improve contrib/pg_stat_statements' handling of garbage collection failure.Tom Lane
If we can't read the query texts file (whether because out-of-memory, or for some other reason), give up and reset the file to empty, discarding all stored query texts, though not the statistics per se. We used to leave things alone and hope for better luck next time, but the problem is that the file is only going to get bigger and even harder to slurp into memory. Better to do something that will get us out of trouble. Likewise reset the file to empty for any other failure within gc_qtexts(). The previous behavior after a write error was to discard query texts but not do anything to truncate the file, which is just weird. Also, increase the maximum supported file size from MaxAllocSize to MaxAllocHugeSize; this makes it more likely we'll be able to do a garbage collection successfully. Also, fix recalculation of mean_query_len within entry_dealloc() to match the calculation in gc_qtexts(). The previous coding overlooked the possibility of dropped texts (query_len == -1) and would underestimate the mean of the remaining entries in such cases, thus possibly causing excess garbage collection cycles. In passing, add some errdetail to the log entry that complains about insufficient memory to read the query texts file, which after all was Jim Nasby's original complaint. Back-patch to 9.4 where the current handling of query texts was introduced. Peter Geoghegan, rather editorialized upon by me
2015-10-04Fix hstore_plpython test when python3 is used.Andres Freund
Due to b67aaf21e8ef8 / CREATE EXTENSION ... CASCADE the test output contains the extension name in yet another place. Since that's variable depending on the python version... Add yet another name mangling stanza to regress-python3-mangle.mk. Author: Petr Jelinek
2015-10-04Further twiddling of nodeHash.c hashtable sizing calculation.Tom Lane
On reflection, the submitted patch didn't really work to prevent the request size from exceeding MaxAllocSize, because of the fact that we'd happily round nbuckets up to the next power of 2 after we'd limited it to max_pointers. The simplest way to enforce the limit correctly is to round max_pointers down to a power of 2 when it isn't one already. (Note that the constraint to INT_MAX / 2, if it were doing anything useful at all, is properly applied after that.)
2015-10-04Fix some issues in new hashtable size calculations in nodeHash.c.Tom Lane
Limit the size of the hashtable pointer array to not more than MaxAllocSize, per reports from Kouhei Kaigai and others of "invalid memory alloc request size" failures. There was discussion of allowing the array to get larger than that by using the "huge" palloc API, but so far no proof that that is actually a good idea, and at this point in the 9.5 cycle major changes from old behavior don't seem like the way to go. Fix a rather serious secondary bug in the new code, which was that it didn't ensure nbuckets remained a power of 2 when recomputing it for the multiple-batch case. Clean up sloppy division of labor between ExecHashIncreaseNumBuckets and its sole call site.
2015-10-04Disallow invalid path elements in jsonb_setAndrew Dunstan
Null path elements and, where the object is an array, invalid integer elements now cause an error. Incorrect behaviour noted by Thom Brown, patch from Dmitry Dolgov. Backpatch to 9.5 where jsonb_set was introduced
2015-10-04Group cluster_name and update_process_title settings togetherPeter Eisentraut
2015-10-03Update 9.5 release notes through today.Tom Lane
2015-10-03First-draft release notes for 9.4.5, 9.3.10, 9.2.14, 9.1.19, 9.0.23.Tom Lane
2015-10-03Document that row_security is a boolean GUC.Noah Misch
Oversight in commit 537bd178c73b1d25938347b17e9e3e62898fc231. Back-patch to 9.5, like that commit.
2015-10-03Make BYPASSRLS behave like superuser RLS bypass.Noah Misch
Specifically, make its effect independent from the row_security GUC, and make it affect permission checks pertinent to views the BYPASSRLS role owns. The row_security GUC thereby ceases to change successful-query behavior; it can only make a query fail with an error. Back-patch to 9.5, where BYPASSRLS was introduced.
2015-10-03Add missed CREATE EXTENSION ... CASCADE regression test adjustment.Andres Freund
2015-10-03Add CASCADE support for CREATE EXTENSION.Andres Freund
Without CASCADE, if an extension has an unfullfilled dependency on another extension, CREATE EXTENSION ERRORs out with "required extension ... is not installed". That is annoying, especially when that dependency is an implementation detail of the extension, rather than something the extension's user can make sense of. In addition to CASCADE this also includes a small set of regression tests around CREATE EXTENSION. Author: Petr Jelinek, editorialized by Michael Paquier, Andres Freund Reviewed-By: Michael Paquier, Andres Freund, Jeff Janes Discussion: 557E0520.3040800@2ndquadrant.com
2015-10-03Add missing "static" specifier.Tom Lane
Per buildfarm (pademelon, at least, doesn't like this).
2015-10-03Improve errhint() about replication slot naming restrictions.Andres Freund
The existing hint talked about "may only contain letters", but the actual requirement is more strict: only lower case letters are allowed. Reported-By: Rushabh Lathia Author: Rushabh Lathia Discussion: AGPqQf2x50qcwbYOBKzb4x75sO_V3g81ZsA8+Ji9iN5t_khFhQ@mail.gmail.com Backpatch: 9.4-, where replication slots were added
2015-10-03Fix several bugs related to ON CONFLICT's EXCLUDED pseudo relation.Andres Freund
Four related issues: 1) attnos/varnos/resnos for EXCLUDED were out of sync when a column after one dropped in the underlying relation was referenced. 2) References to whole-row variables (i.e. EXCLUDED.*) lead to errors. 3) It was possible to reference system columns in the EXCLUDED pseudo relations, even though they would not have valid contents. 4) References to EXCLUDED were rewritten by the RLS machinery, as EXCLUDED was treated as if it were the underlying relation. To fix the first two issues, generate the excluded targetlist with dropped columns in mind and add an entry for whole row variables. Instead of unconditionally adding a wholerow entry we could pull up the expression if needed, but doing it unconditionally seems simpler. The wholerow entry is only really needed for ruleutils/EXPLAIN support anyway. The remaining two issues are addressed by changing the EXCLUDED RTE to have relkind = composite. That fits with EXCLUDED not actually being a real relation, and allows to treat it differently in the relevant places. scanRTEForColumn now skips looking up system columns when the RTE has a composite relkind; fireRIRrules() already had a corresponding check, thereby preventing RLS expansion on EXCLUDED. Also add tests for these issues, and improve a few comments around excluded handling in setrefs.c. Reported-By: Peter Geoghegan, Geoff Winkless Author: Andres Freund, Amit Langote, Peter Geoghegan Discussion: CAEzk6fdzJ3xYQZGbcuYM2rBd2BuDkUksmK=mY9UYYDugg_GgZg@mail.gmail.com, CAM3SWZS+CauzbiCEcg-GdE6K6ycHE_Bz6Ksszy8AoixcMHOmsA@mail.gmail.com Backpatch: 9.5, where ON CONFLICT was introduced
2015-10-02doc: Update URLs of external projectsPeter Eisentraut
2015-10-02doc: Make some index terms and terminology more consistentPeter Eisentraut
2015-10-02Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2015g.Tom Lane
DST law changes in Cayman Islands, Fiji, Moldova, Morocco, Norfolk Island, North Korea, Turkey, Uruguay. New zone America/Fort_Nelson for Canadian Northern Rockies.
2015-10-02Clarify FDW documentation about ON CONFLICT.Robert Haas
Etsuro Fujita, reviewed by Peter Geoghegan
2015-10-02Add recursion depth protection to LIKE matching.Tom Lane
Since MatchText() recurses, it could in principle be driven to stack overflow, although quite a long pattern would be needed.
2015-10-02Add recursion depth protections to regular expression matching.Tom Lane
Some of the functions in regex compilation and execution recurse, and therefore could in principle be driven to stack overflow. The Tcl crew has seen this happen in practice in duptraverse(), though their fix was to put in a hard-wired limit on the number of recursive levels, which is not too appetizing --- fortunately, we have enough infrastructure to check the actually available stack. Greg Stark has also seen it in other places while fuzz testing on a machine with limited stack space. Let's put guards in to prevent crashes in all these places. Since the regex code would leak memory if we simply threw elog(ERROR), we have to introduce an API that checks for stack depth without throwing such an error. Fortunately that's not difficult.
2015-10-02Fix potential infinite loop in regular expression execution.Tom Lane
In cfindloop(), if the initial call to shortest() reports that a zero-length match is possible at the current search start point, but then it is unable to construct any actual match to that, it'll just loop around with the same start point, and thus make no progress. We need to force the start point to be advanced. This is safe because the loop over "begin" points has already tried and failed to match starting at "close", so there is surely no need to try that again. This bug was introduced in commit e2bd904955e2221eddf01110b1f25002de2aaa83, wherein we allowed continued searching after we'd run out of match possibilities, but evidently failed to think hard enough about exactly where we needed to search next. Because of the way this code works, such a match failure is only possible in the presence of backrefs --- otherwise, shortest()'s judgment that a match is possible should always be correct. That probably explains how come the bug has escaped detection for several years. The actual fix is a one-liner, but I took the trouble to add/improve some comments related to the loop logic. After fixing that, the submitted test case "()*\1" didn't loop anymore. But it reported failure, though it seems like it ought to match a zero-length string; both Tcl and Perl think it does. That seems to be from overenthusiastic optimization on my part when I rewrote the iteration match logic in commit 173e29aa5deefd9e71c183583ba37805c8102a72: we can't just "declare victory" for a zero-length match without bothering to set match data for capturing parens inside the iterator node. Per fuzz testing by Greg Stark. The first part of this is a bug in all supported branches, and the second part is a bug since 9.2 where the iteration rewrite happened.
2015-10-02Add some more query-cancel checks to regular expression matching.Tom Lane
Commit 9662143f0c35d64d7042fbeaf879df8f0b54be32 added infrastructure to allow regular-expression operations to be terminated early in the event of SIGINT etc. However, fuzz testing by Greg Stark disclosed that there are still cases where regex compilation could run for a long time without noticing a cancel request. Specifically, the fixempties() phase never adds new states, only new arcs, so it doesn't hit the cancel check I'd put in newstate(). Add one to newarc() as well to cover that. Some experimentation of my own found that regex execution could also run for a long time despite a pending cancel. We'd put a high-level cancel check into cdissect(), but there was none inside the core text-matching routines longest() and shortest(). Ordinarily those inner loops are very very fast ... but in the presence of lookahead constraints, not so much. As a compromise, stick a cancel check into the stateset cache-miss function, which is enough to guarantee a cancel check at least once per lookahead constraint test. Making this work required more attention to error handling throughout the regex executor. Henry Spencer had apparently originally intended longest() and shortest() to be incapable of incurring errors while running, so neither they nor their subroutines had well-defined error reporting behaviors. However, that was already broken by the lookahead constraint feature, since lacon() can surely suffer an out-of-memory failure --- which, in the code as it stood, might never be reported to the user at all, but just silently be treated as a non-match of the lookahead constraint. Normalize all that by inserting explicit error tests as needed. I took the opportunity to add some more comments to the code, too. Back-patch to all supported branches, like the previous patch.
2015-10-02Docs: add disclaimer about hazards of using regexps from untrusted sources.Tom Lane
It's not terribly hard to devise regular expressions that take large amounts of time and/or memory to process. Recent testing by Greg Stark has also shown that machines with small stack limits can be driven to stack overflow by suitably crafted regexps. While we intend to fix these things as much as possible, it's probably impossible to eliminate slow-execution cases altogether. In any case we don't want to treat such things as security issues. The history of that code should already discourage prudent DBAs from allowing execution of regexp patterns coming from possibly-hostile sources, but it seems like a good idea to warn about the hazard explicitly. Currently, similar_escape() allows access to enough of the underlying regexp behavior that the warning has to apply to SIMILAR TO as well. We might be able to make it safer if we tightened things up to allow only SQL-mandated capabilities in SIMILAR TO; but that would be a subtly non-backwards-compatible change, so it requires discussion and probably could not be back-patched. Per discussion among pgsql-security list.
2015-10-02Docs: add another example of creating a range type.Tom Lane
The "floatrange" example is a bit too simple because float8mi can be used without any additional type conversion. Add an example that does have to account for that, and do some minor other wordsmithing.
2015-10-02Don't disable commit_ts in standby if enabled locallyAlvaro Herrera
Bug noticed by Fujii Masao
2015-10-01pg_rewind: Improve some messagesPeter Eisentraut
The output of a typical pg_rewind run contained a mix of capitalized and not-capitalized and punctuated and not-punctuated phrases for no apparent reason. Make that consistent. Also fix some problems in other messages.
2015-10-01Fix message punctuation according to style guidePeter Eisentraut
2015-10-01Fix pg_dump to handle inherited NOT VALID check constraints correctly.Tom Lane
This case seems to have been overlooked when unvalidated check constraints were introduced, in 9.2. The code would attempt to dump such constraints over again for each child table, even though adding them to the parent table is sufficient. In 9.2 and 9.3, also fix contrib/pg_upgrade/Makefile so that the "make clean" target fully cleans up after a failed test. This evidently got dealt with at some point in 9.4, but it wasn't back-patched. I ran into it while testing this fix ... Per bug #13656 from Ingmar Brouns.