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2015-06-21Truncate strings in tarCreateHeader() with strlcpy(), not sprintf().Noah Misch
This supplements the GNU libc bug #6530 workarounds introduced in commit 54cd4f04576833abc394e131288bf3dd7dcf4806. On affected systems, a tar-format pg_basebackup failed when some filename beneath the data directory was not valid character data in the postmaster/walsender locale. Back-patch to 9.1, where pg_basebackup was introduced. Extant, bug-prone conversion specifications receive only ASCII bytes or involve low-importance messages.
2015-06-20Fix thinko in comment (launcher -> worker)Alvaro Herrera
2015-06-19Clamp autovacuum launcher sleep time to 5 minutesAlvaro Herrera
This avoids the problem that it might go to sleep for an unreasonable amount of time in unusual conditions like the server clock moving backwards an unreasonable amount of time. (Simply moving the server clock forward again doesn't solve the problem unless you wake up the autovacuum launcher manually, say by sending it SIGHUP). Per trouble report from Prakash Itnal in https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAHC5u79-UqbapAABH2t4Rh2eYdyge0Zid-X=Xz-ZWZCBK42S0Q@mail.gmail.com Analyzed independently by Haribabu Kommi and Tom Lane.
2015-06-15Check for out of memory when allocating sqlca.Michael Meskes
Patch by Michael Paquier
2015-06-15Fix memory leak in ecpglib's connect function.Michael Meskes
Patch by Michael Paquier
2015-06-13Fixed some memory leaks in ECPG.Michael Meskes
Patch by Michael Paquier Conflicts: src/interfaces/ecpg/preproc/variable.c
2015-06-13Fix intoasc() in Informix compat lib. This function used to be a noop.Michael Meskes
Patch by Michael Paquier
2015-06-12Improve error message and hint for ALTER COLUMN TYPE can't-cast failure.Tom Lane
We already tried to improve this once, but the "improved" text was rather off-target if you had provided a USING clause. Also, it seems helpful to provide the exact text of a suggested USING clause, so users can just copy-and-paste it when needed. Per complaint from Keith Rarick and a suggestion from Merlin Moncure. Back-patch to 9.2 where the current wording was adopted.
2015-06-09Stamp 9.2.13.REL9_2_13Tom Lane
2015-06-09Release notes for 9.4.4, 9.3.9, 9.2.13, 9.1.18, 9.0.22.Tom Lane
2015-06-09Report more information if pg_perm_setlocale() fails at startup.Tom Lane
We don't know why a few Windows users have seen this fail, but the taciturnity of the error message certainly isn't helping debug it. Let's at least find out which LC category isn't working.
2015-06-08Allow HotStandbyActiveInReplay() to be called in single user mode.Andres Freund
HotStandbyActiveInReplay, introduced in 061b079f, only allowed WAL replay to happen in the startup process, missing the single user case. This buglet is fairly harmless as it only causes problems when single user mode in an assertion enabled build is used to replay a btree vacuum record. Backpatch to 9.2. 061b079f was backpatched further, but the assertion was not.
2015-06-07Use a safer method for determining whether relcache init file is stale.Tom Lane
When we invalidate the relcache entry for a system catalog or index, we must also delete the relcache "init file" if the init file contains a copy of that rel's entry. The old way of doing this relied on a specially maintained list of the OIDs of relations present in the init file: we made the list either when reading the file in, or when writing the file out. The problem is that when writing the file out, we included only rels present in our local relcache, which might have already suffered some deletions due to relcache inval events. In such cases we correctly decided not to overwrite the real init file with incomplete data --- but we still used the incomplete initFileRelationIds list for the rest of the current session. This could result in wrong decisions about whether the session's own actions require deletion of the init file, potentially allowing an init file created by some other concurrent session to be left around even though it's been made stale. Since we don't support changing the schema of a system catalog at runtime, the only likely scenario in which this would cause a problem in the field involves a "vacuum full" on a catalog concurrently with other activity, and even then it's far from easy to provoke. Remarkably, this has been broken since 2002 (in commit 786340441706ac1957a031f11ad1c2e5b6e18314), but we had never seen a reproducible test case until recently. If it did happen in the field, the symptoms would probably involve unexpected "cache lookup failed" errors to begin with, then "could not open file" failures after the next checkpoint, as all accesses to the affected catalog stopped working. Recovery would require manually removing the stale "pg_internal.init" file. To fix, get rid of the initFileRelationIds list, and instead consult syscache.c's list of relations used in catalog caches to decide whether a relation is included in the init file. This should be a tad more efficient anyway, since we're replacing linear search of a list with ~100 entries with a binary search. It's a bit ugly that the init file contents are now so directly tied to the catalog caches, but in practice that won't make much difference. Back-patch to all supported branches.
2015-06-05Fix incorrect order of database-locking operations in InitPostgres().Tom Lane
We should set MyProc->databaseId after acquiring the per-database lock, not beforehand. The old way risked deadlock against processes trying to copy or delete the target database, since they would first acquire the lock and then wait for processes with matching databaseId to exit; that left a window wherein an incoming process could set its databaseId and then block on the lock, while the other process had the lock and waited in vain for the incoming process to exit. CountOtherDBBackends() would time out and fail after 5 seconds, so this just resulted in an unexpected failure not a permanent lockup, but it's still annoying when it happens. A real-world example of a use-case is that short-duration connections to a template database should not cause CREATE DATABASE to fail. Doing it in the other order should be fine since the contract has always been that processes searching the ProcArray for a database ID must hold the relevant per-database lock while searching. Thus, this actually removes the former race condition that required an assumption that storing to MyProc->databaseId is atomic. It's been like this for a long time, so back-patch to all active branches.
2015-06-01Stamp 9.2.12.REL9_2_12Tom Lane
2015-06-01Release notes for 9.4.3, 9.3.8, 9.2.12, 9.1.17, 9.0.21.Tom Lane
Also sneak entries for commits 97ff2a564 et al into the sections for the previous releases in the relevant branches. Those fixes did go out in the previous releases, but missed getting documented.
2015-05-29Remove special cases for ETXTBSY from new fsync'ing logic.Tom Lane
The argument that this is a sufficiently-expected case to be silently ignored seems pretty thin. Andres had brought it up back when we were still considering that most fsync failures should be hard errors, and it probably would be legit not to fail hard for ETXTBSY --- but the same is true for EROFS and other cases, which is why we gave up on hard failures. ETXTBSY is surely not a normal case, so logging the failure seems fine from here.
2015-05-28Fix fsync-at-startup code to not treat errors as fatal.Tom Lane
Commit 2ce439f3379aed857517c8ce207485655000fc8e introduced a rather serious regression, namely that if its scan of the data directory came across any un-fsync-able files, it would fail and thereby prevent database startup. Worse yet, symlinks to such files also caused the problem, which meant that crash restart was guaranteed to fail on certain common installations such as older Debian. After discussion, we agreed that (1) failure to start is worse than any consequence of not fsync'ing is likely to be, therefore treat all errors in this code as nonfatal; (2) we should not chase symlinks other than those that are expected to exist, namely pg_xlog/ and tablespace links under pg_tblspc/. The latter restriction avoids possibly fsync'ing a much larger part of the filesystem than intended, if the user has left random symlinks hanging about in the data directory. This commit takes care of that and also does some code beautification, mainly moving the relevant code into fd.c, which seems a much better place for it than xlog.c, and making sure that the conditional compilation for the pre_sync_fname pass has something to do with whether pg_flush_data works. I also relocated the call site in xlog.c down a few lines; it seems a bit silly to be doing this before ValidateXLOGDirectoryStructure(). The similar logic in initdb.c ought to be made to match this, but that change is noncritical and will be dealt with separately. Back-patch to all active branches, like the prior commit. Abhijit Menon-Sen and Tom Lane
2015-05-28Fix pg_get_functiondef() to print a function's LEAKPROOF property.Tom Lane
Seems to have been an oversight in the original leakproofness patch. Per report and patch from Jeevan Chalke. In passing, prettify some awkward leakproof-related code in AlterFunction.
2015-05-27Fix portability issue in isolationtester grammar.Tom Lane
specparse.y and specscanner.l used "string" as a token name. Now, bison likes to define each token name as a macro for the token code it assigns, which means those names are basically off-limits for any other use within the grammar file or included headers. So names as generic as "string" are dangerous. This is what was causing the recent failures on protosciurus: some versions of Solaris' sys/kstat.h use "string" as a field name. With late-model bison we don't see this problem because the token macros aren't defined till later (that is why castoroides didn't show the problem even though it's on the same machine). But protosciurus uses bison 1.875 which defines the token macros up front. This land mine has been there from day one; we'd have found it sooner except that protosciurus wasn't trying to run the isolation tests till recently. To fix, rename the token to "string_literal" which is hopefully less likely to collide with names used by system headers. Back-patch to all branches containing the isolation tests.
2015-05-26Remove configure check prohibiting threaded libpython on OpenBSD.Tom Lane
According to recent tests, this case now works fine, so there's no reason to reject it anymore. (Even if there are still some OpenBSD platforms in the wild where it doesn't work, removing the check won't break any case that worked before.) We can actually remove the entire test that discovers whether libpython is threaded, since without the OpenBSD case there's no need to know that at all. Per report from Davin Potts. Back-patch to all active branches.
2015-05-24Rename pg_shdepend.c's typedef "objectType" to SharedDependencyObjectType.Tom Lane
The name objectType is widely used as a field name, and it's pure luck that this conflict has not caused pgindent to go crazy before. It messed up pg_audit.c pretty good though. Since pg_shdepend.c doesn't export this typedef and only uses it in three places, changing that seems saner than changing the field usages. Back-patch because we're contemplating using the union of all branch typedefs for future pgindent runs, so this won't fix anything if it stays the same in back branches.
2015-05-21Back-patch libpq support for TLS versions beyond v1.Tom Lane
Since 7.3.2, libpq has been coded in such a way that the only SSL protocol it would allow was TLS v1. That approach is looking increasingly obsolete. In commit 820f08cabdcbb899 we fixed it to allow TLS >= v1, but did not back-patch the change at the time, partly out of caution and partly because the question was confused by a contemporary server-side change to reject the now-obsolete SSL protocol v3. 9.4 has now been out long enough that it seems safe to assume the change is OK; hence, back-patch into 9.0-9.3. (I also chose to back-patch some relevant comments added by commit 326e1d73c476a0b5, but did *not* change the server behavior; hence, pre-9.4 servers will continue to allow SSL v3, even though no remotely modern client will request it.) Per gripe from Jan Bilek.
2015-05-19Last-minute updates for release notes.REL9_2_11Tom Lane
Revise description of CVE-2015-3166, in line with scaled-back patch. Change release date. Security: CVE-2015-3166
2015-05-19Revert error-throwing wrappers for the printf family of functions.Tom Lane
This reverts commit 16304a013432931e61e623c8d85e9fe24709d9ba, except for its changes in src/port/snprintf.c; as well as commit cac18a76bb6b08f1ecc2a85e46c9d2ab82dd9d23 which is no longer needed. Fujii Masao reported that the previous commit caused failures in psql on OS X, since if one exits the pager program early while viewing a query result, psql sees an EPIPE error from fprintf --- and the wrapper function thought that was reason to panic. (It's a bit surprising that the same does not happen on Linux.) Further discussion among the security list concluded that the risk of other such failures was far too great, and that the one-size-fits-all approach to error handling embodied in the previous patch is unlikely to be workable. This leaves us again exposed to the possibility of the type of failure envisioned in CVE-2015-3166. However, that failure mode is strictly hypothetical at this point: there is no concrete reason to believe that an attacker could trigger information disclosure through the supposed mechanism. In the first place, the attack surface is fairly limited, since so much of what the backend does with format strings goes through stringinfo.c or psprintf(), and those already had adequate defenses. In the second place, even granting that an unprivileged attacker could control the occurrence of ENOMEM with some precision, it's a stretch to believe that he could induce it just where the target buffer contains some valuable information. So we concluded that the risk of non-hypothetical problems induced by the patch greatly outweighs the security risks. We will therefore revert, and instead undertake closer analysis to identify specific calls that may need hardening, rather than attempt a universal solution. We have kept the portion of the previous patch that improved snprintf.c's handling of errors when it calls the platform's sprintf(). That seems to be an unalloyed improvement. Security: CVE-2015-3166
2015-05-19Fix off-by-one error in Assertion.Heikki Linnakangas
The point of the assertion is to ensure that the arrays allocated in stack are large enough, but the check was one item short. This won't matter in practice because MaxIndexTuplesPerPage is an overestimate, so you can't have that many items on a page in reality. But let's be tidy. Spotted by Anastasia Lubennikova. Backpatch to all supported versions, like the patch that added the assertion.
2015-05-18Don't MultiXactIdIsRunning when in recoveryAlvaro Herrera
In 9.1 and earlier, it is possible for index_getnext() to try to examine a heap buffer for possible HOT-prune when in recovery; this causes a problem when a multixact is found in a tuple's Xmax, because GetMultiXactIdMembers refuses to run when in recovery, raising an error: ERROR: cannot GetMultiXactIdMembers() during recovery This can be solved easily by having MultiXactIdIsRunning always return false when in recovery, which is reasonable because a HOT standby cannot acquire further tuple locks nor update/delete tuples. (Note: it doesn't look like this specific code path has a problem in 9.2, because instead of doing HeapTupleSatisfiesUpdate directly, heap_hot_search_buffer uses HeapTupleIsSurelyDead instead. Still, there may be other paths affected by the same bug, for instance in pgrowlocks, and the multixact code hasn't changed; so apply the same fix throughout.) Apply this fix to 9.0 through 9.2. In 9.3 the multixact code has been changed completely and is no longer subject to this problem. Per report from Marko Tiikkaja, https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/54EB3283.2080305@joh.to Analysis by Andres Freund
2015-05-18Stamp 9.2.11.Tom Lane
2015-05-18Fix error message in pre_sync_fname.Robert Haas
The old one didn't include %m anywhere, and required extra translation. Report by Peter Eisentraut. Fix by me. Review by Tom Lane.
2015-05-18Last-minute updates for release notes.Tom Lane
Add entries for security issues. Security: CVE-2015-3165 through CVE-2015-3167
2015-05-18pgcrypto: Report errant decryption as "Wrong key or corrupt data".Noah Misch
This has been the predominant outcome. When the output of decrypting with a wrong key coincidentally resembled an OpenPGP packet header, pgcrypto could instead report "Corrupt data", "Not text data" or "Unsupported compression algorithm". The distinct "Corrupt data" message added no value. The latter two error messages misled when the decrypted payload also exhibited fundamental integrity problems. Worse, error message variance in other systems has enabled cryptologic attacks; see RFC 4880 section "14. Security Considerations". Whether these pgcrypto behaviors are likewise exploitable is unknown. In passing, document that pgcrypto does not resist side-channel attacks. Back-patch to 9.0 (all supported versions). Security: CVE-2015-3167
2015-05-18Check return values of sensitive system library calls.Noah Misch
PostgreSQL already checked the vast majority of these, missing this handful that nearly cannot fail. If putenv() failed with ENOMEM in pg_GSS_recvauth(), authentication would proceed with the wrong keytab file. If strftime() returned zero in cache_locale_time(), using the unspecified buffer contents could lead to information exposure or a crash. Back-patch to 9.0 (all supported versions). Other unchecked calls to these functions, especially those in frontend code, pose negligible security concern. This patch does not address them. Nonetheless, it is always better to check return values whose specification provides for indicating an error. In passing, fix an off-by-one error in strftime_win32()'s invocation of WideCharToMultiByte(). Upon retrieving a value of exactly MAX_L10N_DATA bytes, strftime_win32() would overrun the caller's buffer by one byte. MAX_L10N_DATA is chosen to exceed the length of every possible value, so the vulnerable scenario probably does not arise. Security: CVE-2015-3166
2015-05-18Add error-throwing wrappers for the printf family of functions.Noah Misch
All known standard library implementations of these functions can fail with ENOMEM. A caller neglecting to check for failure would experience missing output, information exposure, or a crash. Check return values within wrappers and code, currently just snprintf.c, that bypasses the wrappers. The wrappers do not return after an error, so their callers need not check. Back-patch to 9.0 (all supported versions). Popular free software standard library implementations do take pains to bypass malloc() in simple cases, but they risk ENOMEM for floating point numbers, positional arguments, large field widths, and large precisions. No specification demands such caution, so this commit regards every call to a printf family function as a potential threat. Injecting the wrappers implicitly is a compromise between patch scope and design goals. I would prefer to edit each call site to name a wrapper explicitly. libpq and the ECPG libraries would, ideally, convey errors to the caller rather than abort(). All that would be painfully invasive for a back-patched security fix, hence this compromise. Security: CVE-2015-3166
2015-05-18Permit use of vsprintf() in PostgreSQL code.Noah Misch
The next commit needs it. Back-patch to 9.0 (all supported versions).
2015-05-18Prevent a double free by not reentering be_tls_close().Noah Misch
Reentering this function with the right timing caused a double free, typically crashing the backend. By synchronizing a disconnection with the authentication timeout, an unauthenticated attacker could achieve this somewhat consistently. Call be_tls_close() solely from within proc_exit_prepare(). Back-patch to 9.0 (all supported versions). Benkocs Norbert Attila Security: CVE-2015-3165
2015-05-18Translation updatesPeter Eisentraut
Source-Git-URL: git://git.postgresql.org/git/pgtranslation/messages.git Source-Git-Hash: 7da40afeb612deb39a77da4071ea1d5800706863
2015-05-17Fix typosPeter Eisentraut
2015-05-17Release notes for 9.4.2, 9.3.7, 9.2.11, 9.1.16, 9.0.20.Tom Lane
2015-05-16Fix docs typoTom Lane
I don't think "respectfully" is what was meant here ...
2015-05-16pg_upgrade: force timeline 1 in the new clusterBruce Momjian
Previously, this prevented promoted standby servers from being upgraded because of a missing WAL history file. (Timeline 1 doesn't need a history file, and we don't copy WAL files anyway.) Report by Christian Echerer(?), Alexey Klyukin Backpatch through 9.0
2015-05-16pg_upgrade: only allow template0 to be non-connectableBruce Momjian
This patch causes pg_upgrade to error out during its check phase if: (1) template0 is marked connectable or (2) any other database is marked non-connectable This is done because, in the first case, pg_upgrade would fail because the pg_dumpall --globals restore would fail, and in the second case, the database would not be restored, leading to data loss. Report by Matt Landry (1), Stephen Frost (2) Backpatch through 9.0
2015-05-15Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2015d.Tom Lane
DST law changes in Egypt, Mongolia, Palestine. Historical corrections for Canada and Chile. Revised zone abbreviation for America/Adak (HST/HDT not HAST/HADT).
2015-05-14Docs: fix erroneous claim about max byte length of GB18030.Tom Lane
This encoding has characters up to 4 bytes long, not 2.
2015-05-13Fix RBM_ZERO_AND_LOCK mode to not acquire lock on local buffers.Heikki Linnakangas
Commit 81c45081 introduced a new RBM_ZERO_AND_LOCK mode to ReadBuffer, which takes a lock on the buffer before zeroing it. However, you cannot take a lock on a local buffer, and you got a segfault instead. The version of that patch committed to master included a check for !isLocalBuf, and therefore didn't crash, but oddly I missed that in the back-patched versions. This patch adds that check to the back-branches too. RBM_ZERO_AND_LOCK mode is only used during WAL replay, and in hash indexes. WAL replay only deals with shared buffers, so the only way to trigger the bug is with a temporary hash index. Reported by Artem Ignatyev, analysis by Tom Lane.
2015-05-11Fix incorrect checking of deferred exclusion constraint after a HOT update.Tom Lane
If a row that potentially violates a deferred exclusion constraint is HOT-updated later in the same transaction, the exclusion constraint would be reported as violated when the check finally occurs, even if the row(s) the new row originally conflicted with have since been removed. This happened because the wrong TID was passed to check_exclusion_constraint(), causing the live HOT-updated row to be seen as a conflicting row rather than recognized as the row-under-test. Per bug #13148 from Evan Martin. It's been broken since exclusion constraints were invented, so back-patch to all supported branches.
2015-05-08Recommend include_realm=1 in docsStephen Frost
As discussed, the default setting of include_realm=0 can be dangerous in multi-realm environments because it is then impossible to differentiate users with the same username but who are from two different realms. Recommend include_realm=1 and note that the default setting may change in a future version of PostgreSQL and therefore users may wish to explicitly set include_realm to avoid issues while upgrading.
2015-05-07Properly send SCM status updates when shutting down service on WindowsMagnus Hagander
The Service Control Manager should be notified regularly during a shutdown that takes a long time. Previously we would increaes the counter, but forgot to actually send the notification to the system. The loop counter was also incorrectly initalized in the event that the startup of the system took long enough for it to increase, which could cause the shutdown process not to wait as long as expected. Krystian Bigaj, reviewed by Michael Paquier
2015-05-05citext's regexp_matches() functions weren't documented, either.Tom Lane
2015-05-05Fix incorrect declaration of citext's regexp_matches() functions.Tom Lane
These functions should return SETOF TEXT[], like the core functions they are wrappers for; but they were incorrectly declared as returning just TEXT[]. This mistake had two results: first, if there was no match you got a scalar null result, whereas what you should get is an empty set (zero rows). Second, the 'g' flag was effectively ignored, since you would get only one result array even if there were multiple matches, as reported by Jeff Certain. While ignoring 'g' is a clear bug, the behavior for no matches might well have been thought to be the intended behavior by people who hadn't compared it carefully to the core regexp_matches() functions. So we should tread carefully about introducing this change in the back branches. Still, it clearly is a bug and so providing some fix is desirable. After discussion, the conclusion was to introduce the change in a 1.1 version of the citext extension (as we would need to do anyway); 1.0 still contains the incorrect behavior. 1.1 is the default and only available version in HEAD, but it is optional in the back branches, where 1.0 remains the default version. People wishing to adopt the fix in back branches will need to explicitly do ALTER EXTENSION citext UPDATE TO '1.1'. (I also provided a downgrade script in the back branches, so people could go back to 1.0 if necessary.) This should be called out as an incompatible change in the 9.5 release notes, although we'll also document it in the next set of back-branch release notes. The notes should mention that any views or rules that use citext's regexp_matches() functions will need to be dropped before upgrading to 1.1, and then recreated again afterwards. Back-patch to 9.1. The bug goes all the way back to citext's introduction in 8.4, but pre-9.1 there is no extension mechanism with which to manage the change. Given the lack of previous complaints it seems unnecessary to change this behavior in 9.0, anyway.
2015-05-05Fix some problems with patch to fsync the data directory.Robert Haas
pg_win32_is_junction() was a typo for pgwin32_is_junction(). open() was used not only in a two-argument form, which breaks on Windows, but also where BasicOpenFile() should have been used. Per reports from Andrew Dunstan and David Rowley.