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2010-11-08Fix error handling in temp-file deletion with log_temp_files active.Tom Lane
The original coding in FileClose() reset the file-is-temp flag before unlinking the file, so that if control came back through due to an error, it wouldn't try to unlink the file twice. This was correct when written, but when the log_temp_files feature was added, the logging action was put in between those two steps. An error occurring during the logging action --- such as a query cancel --- would result in the unlink not getting done at all, as in recent report from Michael Glaesemann. To fix this, make sure that we do both the stat and the unlink before doing anything that could conceivably CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS. There is a judgment call here, which is which log message to emit first: if you can see only one, which should it be? I chose to log unlink failure at the risk of losing the log_temp_files log message --- after all, if the unlink does fail, the temp file is still there for you to see. Back-patch to all versions that have log_temp_files. The code was OK before that.
2010-11-08Fix permanent memory leak in autovacuum launcherAlvaro Herrera
get_database_list was uselessly allocating its output data, along some created along the way, in a permanent memory context. This didn't matter when autovacuum was a single, short-lived process, but now that the launcher is permanent, it shows up as a permanent leak. To fix, make get_database list allocate its output data in the caller's context, which is in charge of freeing it when appropriate; and the memory leaked by heap_beginscan et al is allocated in a throwaway transaction context.
2010-11-06Add support for detecting register-stack overrun on IA64.Tom Lane
Per recent investigation, the register stack can grow faster than the regular stack depending on compiler and choice of options. To avoid crashes we must check both stacks in check_stack_depth(). Back-patch to all supported versions.
2010-11-03Reduce recursion depth in recently-added regression test.Tom Lane
Some buildfarm members fail the test with the original depth of 10 levels, apparently because they are running at the minimum max_stack_depth setting of 100kB and using ~ 10k per recursion level. While it might be interesting to try to figure out why they're eating so much stack, it isn't likely that any fix for that would be back-patchable. So just change the test to recurse only 5 levels. The extra levels don't prove anything correctness-wise anyway.
2010-11-02Fix adjust_semi_join to be more cautious about clauseless joins.Tom Lane
It was reporting that these were fully indexed (hence cheap), when of course they're the exact opposite of that. I'm not certain if the case would arise in practice, since a clauseless semijoin is hard to produce in SQL, but if it did happen we'd make some dumb decisions.
2010-11-02Fix buffer overrun in pg_upgrade.Tom Lane
Problem reported, and cause identified, by Hernan Gonzalez.
2010-11-02Ensure an index that uses a whole-row Var still depends on its table.Tom Lane
We failed to record any dependency on the underlying table for an index declared like "create index i on t (foo(t.*))". This would create trouble if the table were dropped without previously dropping the index. To fix, simplify some overly-cute code in index_create(), accepting the possibility that sometimes the whole-table dependency will be redundant. Also document this hazard in dependency.c. Per report from Kevin Grittner. In passing, prevent a core dump in pg_get_indexdef() if the index's table can't be found. I came across this while experimenting with Kevin's example. Not sure it's a real issue when the catalogs aren't corrupt, but might as well be cautious. Back-patch to all supported versions.
2010-11-02Bootstrap WAL to begin at segment logid=0 logseg=1 (000000010000000000000001)Heikki Linnakangas
rather than 0/0, so that we can safely use 0/0 as an invalid value. This is a more future-proof fix for the corner-case bug in streaming replication that was fixed yesterday. We had a similar corner-case bug with log/seg 0/0 back in February as well. Avoiding 0/0 as a valid value should prevent bugs like that in the future. Per Tom Lane's idea. Back-patch to 9.0. Since this only affects bootstrapping, it makes no difference to existing installations. We don't need to worry about the bug in existing installations, because if you've managed to get past the initial base backup already, you won't hit the bug in the future either.
2010-11-01Fix corner-case bug in tracking of latest removed WAL segment duringHeikki Linnakangas
streaming replication. We used log/seg 0/0 to indicate that no WAL segments have been removed since startup, but 0/0 is a valid value for the very first WAL segment after initdb. To make that disambiguous, store (latest removed WAL segment + 1) in the global variable. Per report from Matt Chesler, also reproduced by Greg Smith.
2010-10-28Fix plpgsql's handling of "simple" expression evaluation.Tom Lane
In general, expression execution state trees aren't re-entrantly usable, since functions can store private state information in them. For efficiency reasons, plpgsql tries to cache and reuse state trees for "simple" expressions. It can get away with that most of the time, but it can fail if the state tree is dirty from a previous failed execution (as in an example from Alvaro) or is being used recursively (as noted by me). Fix by tracking whether a state tree is in use, and falling back to the "non-simple" code path if so. This results in a pretty considerable speed hit when the non-simple path is taken, but the available alternatives seem even more unpleasant because they add overhead in the simple path. Per idea from Heikki. Back-patch to all supported branches.
2010-10-27Fix long-standing segfault when accept() or one of the calls made rightHeikki Linnakangas
after accepting a connection fails, and the server is compiled with GSSAPI support. Report and patch by Alexander V. Chernikov, bug #5731.
2010-10-26Fix up some oversights in psql's Unicode-escape support.Tom Lane
Original patch failed to include new exclusive states in a switch that needed to include them; and also was guilty of very fuzzy thinking about how to handle error cases. Per bug #5729 from Alan Choi.
2010-10-26Note explicitly that hash indexes are also not replicated because they're notHeikki Linnakangas
WAL-logged. Make the notice about the lack of WAL-logging more visible by making it a <caution>. Also remove the false statement from hot standby caveats section that hash indexes are not used during hot standby.
2010-10-26Before removing backup_label and irrevocably changing pg_control file, checkHeikki Linnakangas
that WAL file containing the checkpoint redo-location can be found. This avoids making the cluster irrecoverable if the redo location is in an earlie WAL file than the checkpoint record. Report, analysis and patch by Jeff Davis, with small changes by me.
2010-10-25Fix inline_set_returning_function() to preserve the invalItems list properly.Tom Lane
This avoids a possible crash when inlining a SRF whose argument list contains a reference to an inline-able user function. The crash is quite reproducible with CLOBBER_FREED_MEMORY enabled, but would be less certain in a production build. Problem introduced in 9.0 by the named-arguments patch, which requires invoking eval_const_expressions() before we can try to inline a SRF. Per report from Brendan Jurd.
2010-10-22Add semicolon, missed in previous patch. And update the keyword list inHeikki Linnakangas
the docs to reflect that OFF is now unreserved. Spotted by Tom Lane.
2010-10-22Make OFF keyword unreserved. It's not hard to imagine wanting to use 'off'Heikki Linnakangas
as a variable or column name, and it's not reserved in recent versions of the SQL spec either. This became particularly annoying in 9.0, before that PL/pgSQL replaced variable names in queries with parameter markers, so it was possible to use OFF and many other backend parser keywords as variable names. Because of that, backpatch to 9.0.
2010-10-20Remove obsolete comment, per Josh Kupershmidt.Tom Lane
2010-10-20If pk is NULL, the backend would segfault when accessing ->algo and theHeikki Linnakangas
following NULL check was never reached. This problem was found by Coccinelle (null_ref.cocci from coccicheck). Marti Raudsepp
2010-10-20Don't try to fetch database name when SetTransactionIdLimit() is executedTom Lane
outside a transaction. This repairs brain fade in my patch of 2009-08-30: the reason we had been storing oldest-database name, not OID, in ShmemVariableCache was of course to avoid having to do a catalog lookup at times when it might be unsafe. This error explains why Aleksandr Dushein is having trouble getting out of an XID wraparound state in bug #5718, though not how he got into that state in the first place. I suspect pg_upgrade is at fault there.
2010-10-20Fix ecpg test building process to not generate *.dSYM junk on Macs.Tom Lane
The trick is to not try to build executables directly from .c files, but to always build the intermediate .o files. For obscure reasons, Darwin's version of gcc will leave debug cruft behind in the first case but not the second. Per complaint from Robert Haas.
2010-10-19Update storage.sgml to describe the 9.0 tablespace directory layout.Tom Lane
2010-10-19Fix incorrect generation of whole-row variables in planner.Tom Lane
A couple of places in the planner need to generate whole-row Vars, and were cutting corners by setting vartype = RECORDOID in the Vars, even in cases where there's an identifiable named composite type for the RTE being referenced. While we mostly got away with this, it failed when there was also a parser-generated whole-row reference to the same RTE, because the two Vars weren't equal() due to the difference in vartype. Fix by providing a subroutine the planner can call to generate whole-row Vars the same way the parser does. Per bug #5716 from Andrew Tipton. Back-patch to 9.0 where one of the bogus calls was introduced (the other one is new in HEAD).
2010-10-19Add removal of PG_VERSION to optional old cluster deletion script.Bruce Momjian
Backpatch to 9.0.X.
2010-10-19Add mention of using tools/fsync to test fsync methods. RestructureBruce Momjian
recent wal_sync_method doc paragraph to be clearer.
2010-10-19In pg_upgrade, rename macro EXEC_EXT to SHELL_EXT for clarity.Bruce Momjian
Backpatch to 9.0.X.
2010-10-18Remove tab from SGML.Bruce Momjian
2010-10-18Document the tablespace directory "should" be empty, rather than "must"Bruce Momjian
be empty. Because of binary migration usage, it might not be empty.
2010-10-17Fix msvc build for localized versions of Visual C++Magnus Hagander
Look only at the non-localized part of the output from "vcbuild /?", which is used to determine the version of Visual Studio in use. Different languages seem to localize different amounts of the string, but we assume the part "Microsoft Visual C++" won't be modified.
2010-10-15Fix low-risk potential denial of service against RADIUS login.Magnus Hagander
Corrupt RADIUS responses were treated as errors and not ignored (which the RFC2865 states they should be). This meant that a user with unfiltered access to the network of the PostgreSQL or RADIUS server could send a spoofed RADIUS response to the PostgreSQL server causing it to reject a valid login, provided the attacker could also guess (or brute-force) the correct port number. Fix is to simply retry the receive in a loop until the timeout has expired or a valid (signed by the correct RADIUS server) packet arrives. Reported by Alan DeKok in bug #5687.
2010-10-15Correct WAL space calculation formula in docs.Simon Riggs
Error pointed out by Fujii Masao, though not his patch.
2010-10-14Add pg_user_mappings to the table of system views.Robert Haas
2010-10-14Improvements to docs about pg_archive_cleanup and use of archivesSimon Riggs
Brendan Jurd
2010-10-14Complete the documentation of the USAGE privilege for foreign serversPeter Eisentraut
The GRANT reference page failed to mention that the USAGE privilege allows modifying associated user mappings, although this was already documented on the CREATE/ALTER/DROP USER MAPPING pages.
2010-10-14Fix bug in comment of timeline history file.Simon Riggs
Fujii Masao
2010-10-14Applied patch by Itagaki Takahiro to fix incorrect status calculation inMichael Meskes
ecpglib. Instead of parsing the statement just as ask the database server.
2010-10-13Make title capitalization consistent with surroundingsPeter Eisentraut
2010-10-11Fix plpython so that it again honors typmod while assigning to tuple fields.Tom Lane
This was broken in 9.0 while improving plpython's conversion behavior for bytea and boolean. Per bug report from maizi.
2010-10-11Fix assorted bugs in GIN's WAL replay logic.Tom Lane
The original coding was quite sloppy about handling the case where XLogReadBuffer fails (because the page has since been deleted). This would result in either "bad buffer id: 0" or an Assert failure during replay, if indeed the page were no longer there. In a couple of places it also neglected to check whether the change had already been applied, which would probably result in corrupted index contents. I believe that bug #5703 is an instance of the first problem. These issues could show up without replication, but only if you were unfortunate enough to crash between modification of a GIN index and the next checkpoint. Back-patch to 8.2, which is as far back as GIN has WAL support.
2010-10-08Adjust EXPLAIN documentation, so that it's not unreasonably wide.Robert Haas
The new formatting matches what we do for COPY. Per a complaint from Bruce Momjian.
2010-10-08Warn that views can be safely used to hide columns, but not rows.Robert Haas
2010-10-07Improve WAL reliability documentation, and add more cross-references to it.Robert Haas
In particular, we are now more explicit about the fact that you may need wal_sync_method=fsync_writethrough for crash-safety on some platforms, including MaxOS X. There's also now an explicit caution against assuming that the default setting of wal_sync_method is either crash-safe or best for performance.
2010-10-06Correct docs for behaviour of ALTER DATABASE .. RENAME during Hot Standby.Simon Riggs
Actual behaviour did not match documented behaviour and we have agreed that it should be the docs that change. Spotted by Bernd Helmle
2010-10-05Undo some poorly-thought-out "proofreading improvements".Tom Lane
Per Tatsuhito Kasahara.
2010-10-02Behave correctly if INSERT ... VALUES is decorated with additional clauses.Tom Lane
In versions 8.2 and up, the grammar allows attaching ORDER BY, LIMIT, FOR UPDATE, or WITH to VALUES, and hence to INSERT ... VALUES. But the special-case code for VALUES in transformInsertStmt() wasn't expecting any of those, and just ignored them, leading to unexpected results. Rather than complicate the special-case path, just ensure that the presence of any of those clauses makes us treat the query as if it had a general SELECT. Per report from Hitoshi Harada.
2010-10-02Remove excess argument to open(2).Tom Lane
Many compilers don't complain about this, but some do, and it's certainly wrong. Back-patch to 8.4 where the error was introduced. Mark Kirkwood
2010-10-02Throw an appropriate error if ALTER COLUMN TYPE finds a dependent trigger.Tom Lane
Actually making this case work, if the column is used in the trigger's WHEN condition, will take some new code that probably isn't appropriate to back-patch. For now, just throw a FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED error rather than allowing control to reach the "unexpected object" case. Per bug #5688 from Daniel Grace. Back-patch to 9.0 where the possibility of such a dependency was introduced.
2010-10-01Fix back-branch breakage from ill-advised last-minute commit.REL9_0_1Tom Lane
2010-10-01Tag 9.0.1Marc G. Fournier
2010-09-30Use a separate interpreter for each calling SQL userid in plperl and pltcl.Tom Lane
There are numerous methods by which a Perl or Tcl function can subvert the behavior of another such function executed later; for example, by redefining standard functions or operators called by the target function. If the target function is SECURITY DEFINER, or is called by such a function, this means that any ordinary SQL user with Perl or Tcl language usage rights can do essentially anything with the privileges of the target function's owner. To close this security hole, create a separate Perl or Tcl interpreter for each SQL userid under which plperl or pltcl functions are executed within a session. However, all plperlu or pltclu functions run within a session still share a single interpreter, since they all execute at the trust level of a database superuser anyway. Note: this change results in a functionality loss when libperl has been built without the "multiplicity" option: it's no longer possible to call plperl functions under different userids in one session, since such a libperl can't support multiple interpreters in one process. However, such a libperl already failed to support concurrent use of plperl and plperlu, so it's likely that few people use such versions with Postgres. Security: CVE-2010-3433