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2025-06-02Disallow "=" in names of reloptions and foreign-data options.Tom Lane
We store values for these options as array elements with the syntax "name=value", hence a name containing "=" confuses matters when it's time to read the array back in. Since validation of the options is often done (long) after this conversion to array format, that leads to confusing and off-point error messages. We can improve matters by rejecting names containing "=" up-front. (Probably a better design would have involved pairs of array elements, but it's too late now --- and anyway, there's no evident use-case for option names like this. We already reject such names in some other contexts such as GUCs.) Reported-by: Chapman Flack <jcflack@acm.org> Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> Reviewed-by: Chapman Flack <jcflack@acm.org> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/6830EB30.8090904@acm.org Backpatch-through: 13
2025-06-01Run pgindent on the previous commit.Tom Lane
Clean up after rearranging PG_TRY blocks. Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2954090.1748723636@sss.pgh.pa.us Backpatch-through: 13
2025-06-01Fix edge-case resource leaks in PL/Python error reporting.Tom Lane
PLy_elog_impl and its subroutine PLy_traceback intended to avoid leaking any PyObject reference counts, but their coverage of the matter was sadly incomplete. In particular, out-of-memory errors in most of the string-construction subroutines could lead to reference count leaks, because those calls were outside the PG_TRY blocks responsible for dropping reference counts. Fix by (a) adjusting the scopes of the PG_TRY blocks, and (b) moving the responsibility for releasing the reference counts of the traceback-stack objects to PLy_elog_impl. This requires some additional "volatile" markers, but not too many. In passing, fix an ancient thinko: use of the "e_module_o" PyObject was guarded by "if (e_type_s)", where surely "if (e_module_o)" was meant. This would only have visible consequences if the "__name__" attribute were present but the "__module__" attribute wasn't, which apparently never happens; but someday it might. Rearranging the PG_TRY blocks requires indenting a fair amount of code one more tab stop, which I'll do separately for clarity. Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2954090.1748723636@sss.pgh.pa.us Backpatch-through: 13
2025-05-30Ensure we have a snapshot when updating various system catalogs.Nathan Bossart
A few places that access system catalogs don't set up an active snapshot before potentially accessing their TOAST tables. To fix, push an active snapshot just before each section of code that might require accessing one of these TOAST tables, and pop it shortly afterwards. While at it, this commit adds some rather strict assertions in an attempt to prevent such issues in the future. Commit 16bf24e0e4 recently removed pg_replication_origin's TOAST table in order to fix the same problem for that catalog. On the back-branches, those bugs are left in place. We cannot easily remove a catalog's TOAST table on released major versions, and only replication origins with extremely long names are affected. Given the low severity of the issue, fixing older versions doesn't seem worth the trouble of significantly modifying the patch. Also, on v13 and v14, the aforementioned strict assertions have been omitted because commit 2776922201, which added HaveRegisteredOrActiveSnapshot(), was not back-patched. While we could probably back-patch it now, I've opted against it because it seems unlikely that new TOAST snapshot issues will be introduced in the oldest supported versions. Reported-by: Alexander Lakhin <exclusion@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18127-fe54b6a667f29658%40postgresql.org Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18309-c0bf914950c46692%40postgresql.org Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ZvMSUPOqUU-VNADN%40nathan Backpatch-through: 13
2025-05-30Fix memory leakage in postgres_fdw's DirectModify code path.Tom Lane
postgres_fdw tries to use PG_TRY blocks to ensure that it will eventually free the PGresult created by the remote modify command. However, it's fundamentally impossible for this scheme to work reliably when there's RETURNING data, because the query could fail in between invocations of postgres_fdw's DirectModify methods. There is at least one instance of exactly this situation in the regression tests, and the ensuing session-lifespan leak is visible under Valgrind. We can improve matters by using a memory context reset callback attached to the ExecutorState context. That ensures that the PGresult will be freed when the ExecutorState context is torn down, even if control never reaches postgresEndDirectModify. I have little faith that there aren't other potential PGresult leakages in the backend modules that use libpq. So I think it'd be a good idea to apply this concept universally by creating infrastructure that attaches a reset callback to every PGresult generated in the backend. However, that seems too invasive for v18 at this point, let alone the back branches. So for the moment, apply this narrow fix that just makes DirectModify safe. I have a patch in the queue for the more general idea, but it will have to wait for v19. Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> Reviewed-by: Matheus Alcantara <matheusssilv97@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2976982.1748049023@sss.pgh.pa.us Backpatch-through: 13
2025-05-30Allow larger packets during GSSAPI authentication exchange.Tom Lane
Our GSSAPI code only allows packet sizes up to 16kB. However it emerges that during authentication, larger packets might be needed; various authorities suggest 48kB or 64kB as the maximum packet size. This limitation caused login failure for AD users who belong to many AD groups. To add insult to injury, we gave an unintelligible error message, typically "GSSAPI context establishment error: The routine must be called again to complete its function: Unknown error". As noted in code comments, the 16kB packet limit is effectively a protocol constant once we are doing normal data transmission: the GSSAPI code splits the data stream at those points, and if we change the limit then we will have cross-version compatibility problems due to the receiver's buffer being too small in some combinations. However, during the authentication exchange the packet sizes are not determined by us, but by the underlying GSSAPI library. So we might as well just try to send what the library tells us to. An unpatched recipient will fail on a packet larger than 16kB, but that's not worse than the sender failing without even trying. So this doesn't introduce any meaningful compatibility problem. We still need a buffer size limit, but we can easily make it be 64kB rather than 16kB until transport negotiation is complete. (Larger values were discussed, but don't seem likely to add anything.) Reported-by: Chris Gooch <cgooch@bamfunds.com> Fix-suggested-by: Jacob Champion <jacob.champion@enterprisedb.com> Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> Reviewed-by: Jacob Champion <jacob.champion@enterprisedb.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/DS0PR22MB5971A9C8A3F44BCC6293C4DABE99A@DS0PR22MB5971.namprd22.prod.outlook.com Backpatch-through: 13
2025-05-31Make XactLockTableWait() and ConditionalXactLockTableWait() interruptable more.Fujii Masao
Previously, XactLockTableWait() and ConditionalXactLockTableWait() could enter a non-interruptible loop when they successfully acquired a lock on a transaction but the transaction still appeared to be running. Since this loop continued until the transaction completed, it could result in long, uninterruptible waits. Although this scenario is generally unlikely since XactLockTableWait() and ConditionalXactLockTableWait() can basically acquire a transaction lock only when the transaction is not running, it can occur in a hot standby. In such cases, the transaction may still appear active due to the KnownAssignedXids list, even while no lock on the transaction exists. For example, this situation can happen when creating a logical replication slot on a standby. The cause of the non-interruptible loop was the absence of CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS() within it. This commit adds CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS() to the loop in both functions, ensuring they can be interrupted safely. Back-patch to all supported branches. Author: Kevin K Biju <kevinkbiju@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAM45KeELdjhS-rGuvN=ZLJ_asvZACucZ9LZWVzH7bGcD12DDwg@mail.gmail.com Backpatch-through: 13
2025-05-30Fix broken-FK-detection query in release notesÁlvaro Herrera
Commits 53af9491a043 and 2d5fe514052a fixed a number of problems with foreign keys that reference partitioned tables, and a query to detect already broken FKs was supplied with the release notes for 17.1, 16.5, 15.9, 14.14, 13.17. However, that query has a bug that causes it to wrongly report self-referential foreign keys even when they are correct, so if the user was to drop and rebuild the FKs as indicated, the query would continue to report them as needing to be repaired. Here we fix the query to not have that problem. Reported-by: Paul Foerster <paul.foerster@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/5456A1D0-CD47-4315-9C65-71B27E7A2906@gmail.com Backpatch-through: 13-17
2025-05-29Avoid resource leaks when a dblink connection fails.Tom Lane
If we hit out-of-memory between creating the PGconn and inserting it into dblink's hashtable, we'd lose track of the PGconn, which is quite bad since it represents a live connection to a remote DB. Fix by rearranging things so that we create the hashtable entry first. Also reduce the number of states we have to deal with by getting rid of the separately-allocated remoteConn object, instead allocating it in-line in the hashtable entries. (That incidentally removes a session-lifespan memory leak observed in the regression tests.) There is an apparently-irreducible remaining OOM hazard, which is that if the connection fails at the libpq level (ie it's CONNECTION_BAD) then we have to pstrdup the PGconn's error message before we can release it, and theoretically that could fail. However, in such cases we're only leaking memory not a live remote connection, so I'm not convinced that it's worth sweating over. This is a pretty low-probability failure mode of course, but losing a live connection seems bad enough to justify back-patching. Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> Reviewed-by: Matheus Alcantara <matheusssilv97@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1346940.1748381911@sss.pgh.pa.us Backpatch-through: 13
2025-05-29pg_stat_statements: Fix parameter number gaps in normalized queriesMichael Paquier
pg_stat_statements anticipates that certain constant locations may be recorded multiple times and attempts to avoid calculating a length for these locations in fill_in_constant_lengths(). However, during generate_normalized_query() where normalized query strings are generated, these locations are not excluded from consideration. This could increment the parameter number counter for every recorded occurrence at such a location, leading to an incorrect normalization in certain cases with gaps in the numbers reported. For example, take this query: SELECT WHERE '1' IN ('2'::int, '3'::int::text) Before this commit, it would be normalized like that, with gaps in the parameter numbers: SELECT WHERE $1 IN ($3::int, $4::int::text) However the correct, less confusing one should be like that: SELECT WHERE $1 IN ($2::int, $3::int::text) This commit fixes the computation of the parameter numbers to track the number of constants replaced with an $n by a separate counter instead of the iterator used to loop through the list of locations. The underlying query IDs are not changed, neither are the normalized strings for existing PGSS hash entries. New entries with fresh normalized queries would automatically get reshaped based on the new parameter numbering. Issue discovered while discussing a separate problem for HEAD, but this affects all the stable branches. Author: Sami Imseih <samimseih@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAA5RZ0tzxvWXsacGyxrixdhy3tTTDfJQqxyFBRFh31nNHBQ5qA@mail.gmail.com Backpatch-through: 13
2025-05-28Adjust regex for test with opening parenthesis in character classesMichael Paquier
As written, the test was throwing an error because of an unbalanced parenthesis. The regex used in the test is adjusted to not fail and to test the case of an opening parenthesis in a character class after some nested square brackets. Oversight in d46911e584d4. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16ab039d1af455652bdf4173402ddda145f2c73b.camel@cybertec.at
2025-05-28Fix conversion of SIMILAR TO regexes for character classesMichael Paquier
The code that translates SIMILAR TO pattern matching expressions to POSIX-style regular expressions did not consider that square brackets can be nested. For example, in an expression like [[:alpha:]%_], the logic replaced the placeholders '_' and '%' but it should not. This commit fixes the conversion logic by tracking the nesting level of square brackets marking character class areas, while considering that in expressions like []] or [^]] the first closing square bracket is a regular character. Multiple tests are added to show how the conversions should or should not apply applied while in a character class area, with specific cases added for all the characters converted outside character classes like an opening parenthesis '(', dollar sign '$', etc. Author: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at> Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16ab039d1af455652bdf4173402ddda145f2c73b.camel@cybertec.at Backpatch-through: 13
2025-05-26doc: Fix documenation for snapshot export in logical decoding.Fujii Masao
The documentation for exported snapshots in logical decoding previously stated that snapshot creation may fail on a hot standby. This is no longer accurate, as snapshot exporting on standbys has been supported since PostgreSQL 10. This commit removes the outdated description. Additionally, the docs referred to the NOEXPORT_SNAPSHOT option to suppress snapshot exporting in CREATE_REPLICATION_SLOT. However, since PostgreSQL 15, NOEXPORT_SNAPSHOT is considered legacy syntax and retained only for backward compatibility. This commit updates the documentation for v15 and later to use the modern equivalent: SNAPSHOT 'nothing'. The older syntax is preserved in documentation for v14 and earlier. Back-patched to all supported branches. Reported-by: Kevin K Biju <kevinkbiju@gmail.com> Author: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Kevin K Biju <kevinkbiju@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/174791480466.798.17122832105389395178@wrigleys.postgresql.org Backpatch-through: 13
2025-05-22Remove accidentally added meson.buildAndres Freund
Commit b4363fc66e6 added an empty meson.build to 13, presumably due to a conflict resolution while backpatching. Remove it. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/b7angm4wz2ln2wsqvsb3bwl4pqa4xxgcawn36o5kweu5pgpl6s@ofhhrgl5ouwb
2025-05-20doc: Clarify use of _ccnew and _ccold in REINDEX CONCURRENTLYMichael Paquier
Invalid indexes are suffixed with "_ccnew" or "_ccold". The documentation missed to mention the initial underscore. ChooseRelationName() may also append an extra number if indexes with a similar name already exist; let's add a note about that too. Author: Alec Cozens <acozens@pixelpower.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/174733277404.1455388.11471370288789479593@wrigleys.postgresql.org Backpatch-through: 13
2025-05-19Fix deparsing FETCH FIRST <expr> ROWS WITH TIESHeikki Linnakangas
In the grammar, <expr> is a c_expr, which accepts only a limited set of simple constants and expressions without parens. The deparsing logic didn't quite match the grammar rule, and failed to use parens e.g. for "5::bigint". To fix, always surround the expression with parens. Would be nice to omit the parens in simple cases, but unfortunately it's non-trivial to detect such simple cases. Even if the expression is a simple literal 123 in the original query, after parse analysis it becomes a FuncExpr with COERCE_IMPLICIT_CAST rather than a simple Const. Reported-by: yonghao lee Backpatch-through: 13 Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/18929-077d6b7093b176e2@postgresql.org
2025-05-19Don't retreat slot's confirmed_flush LSN.Amit Kapila
Prevent moving the confirmed_flush backwards, as this could lead to data duplication issues caused by replicating already replicated changes. This can happen when a client acknowledges an LSN it doesn't have to do anything for, and thus didn't store persistently. After a restart, the client can send the prior LSN that it stored persistently as an acknowledgement, but we need to ignore such an LSN to avoid retreating confirm_flush LSN. Diagnosed-by: Zhijie Hou <houzj.fnst@fujitsu.com> Author: shveta malik <shveta.malik@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut@gmail.com> Tested-by: Nisha Moond <nisha.moond412@gmail.com> Backpatch-through: 13 Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJpy0uDZ29P=BYB1JDWMCh-6wXaNqMwG1u1mB4=10Ly0x7HhwQ@mail.gmail.com Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/OS0PR01MB57164AB5716AF2E477D53F6F9489A@OS0PR01MB5716.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com
2025-05-18Make our usage of memset_s() conform strictly to the C11 standard.Tom Lane
Per the letter of the C11 standard, one must #define __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT1__ as 1 before including <string.h> in order to have access to memset_s(). It appears that many platforms are lenient about this, because we weren't doing it and yet the code appeared to work anyway. But we now find that with -std=c11, macOS is strict and doesn't declare memset_s, leading to compile failures since we try to use it anyway. (Given the lack of prior reports, perhaps this is new behavior in the latest SDK? No matter, we're clearly in the wrong.) In addition to the immediate problem, which could be fixed merely by adding the needed #define to explicit_bzero.c, it seems possible that our configure-time probe for memset_s() could fail in case a platform implements the function in some odd way due to this spec requirement. This concern can be fixed in largely the same way that we dealt with strchrnul() in 6da2ba1d8: switch to using a declaration-based configure probe instead of a does-it-link probe. Back-patch to v13 where we started using memset_s(). Reported-by: Lakshmi Narayana Velayudam <dev.narayana.v@gmail.com> Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAA4pTnLcKGG78xeOjiBr5yS7ZeE-Rh=FaFQQGOO=nPzA1L8yEA@mail.gmail.com Backpatch-through: 13
2025-05-16Align organization wording in copyright statementDaniel Gustafsson
This aligns the copyright and legal notice wordig with commit a233a603bab8 and pgweb commit 2d764dbc083ab8. Backpatch down to all supported versions. Author: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se> Reviewed-by: Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/744E414E-3F52-404C-97FB-ED9B3AA37DC8@yesql.se Backpatch-through: 13
2025-05-11Fix comment of tsquerysend()Álvaro Herrera
The comment describes the order in which fields are sent, and it had one of the fields in the wrong place. This has been wrong since e6dbcb72fafa (2008), so backpatch all the way back. Author: Emre Hasegeli <emre@hasegeli.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAE2gYzzf38bR_R=izhpMxAmqHXKeM5ajkmukh4mNs_oXfxcMCA@mail.gmail.com
2025-05-05Stamp 13.21.REL_13_21Tom Lane
2025-05-05Last-minute updates for release notes.Tom Lane
Security: CVE-2025-4207
2025-05-05With GB18030, prevent SIGSEGV from reading past end of allocation.Noah Misch
With GB18030 as source encoding, applications could crash the server via SQL functions convert() or convert_from(). Applications themselves could crash after passing unterminated GB18030 input to libpq functions PQescapeLiteral(), PQescapeIdentifier(), PQescapeStringConn(), or PQescapeString(). Extension code could crash by passing unterminated GB18030 input to jsonapi.h functions. All those functions have been intended to handle untrusted, unterminated input safely. A crash required allocating the input such that the last byte of the allocation was the last byte of a virtual memory page. Some malloc() implementations take measures against that, making the SIGSEGV hard to reach. Back-patch to v13 (all supported versions). Author: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com> Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> Reviewed-by: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com> Backpatch-through: 13 Security: CVE-2025-4207
2025-05-05Refactor test_escape.c for additional ways of testing.Noah Misch
Start the file with static functions not specific to pe_test_vectors tests. This way, new tests can use them without disrupting the file's layout. Change report_result() PQExpBuffer arguments to plain strings. Back-patch to v13 (all supported versions), for the next commit. Reviewed-by: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com> Backpatch-through: 13 Security: CVE-2025-4207
2025-05-05Translation updatesPeter Eisentraut
Source-Git-URL: https://git.postgresql.org/git/pgtranslation/messages.git Source-Git-Hash: 5385d44a7a0e6f93326380101d0605cf1ca78890
2025-05-04Release notes for 17.5, 16.9, 15.13, 14.18, 13.21.Tom Lane
2025-05-02Handle self-referencing FKs correctly in partitioned tablesÁlvaro Herrera
For self-referencing foreign keys in partitioned tables, we weren't handling creation of pg_constraint rows during CREATE TABLE PARTITION AS as well as ALTER TABLE ATTACH PARTITION. This is an old bug -- mostly, we broke this in 614a406b4ff1 while trying to fix it (so 12.13, 13.9, 14.6 and 15.0 and up all behave incorrectly). This commit reverts part of that with additional fixes for full correctness, and installs more tests to verify the parts we broke, not just the catalog contents but also the user-visible behavior. Backpatch to all live branches. In branches 13 and 14, commit 46a8c27a7226 changed the behavior during DETACH to drop a FK constraint rather than trying to repair it, because the complete fix of repairing catalog constraints was problematic due to lack of previous fixes. For this reason, the test behavior in those branches is a bit different. However, as best as I can tell, the fix works correctly there. In release notes we have to recommend that all self-referencing foreign keys on partitioned tables be recreated if partitions have been created or attached after the FK was created, keeping in mind that violating rows might already be present on the referencing side. Reported-by: Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume@lelarge.info> Reported-by: Matthew Gabeler-Lee <fastcat@gmail.com> Reported-by: Luca Vallisa <luca.vallisa@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAECtzeWHCA+6tTcm2Oh2+g7fURUJpLZb-=pRXgeWJ-Pi+VU=_w@mail.gmail.com Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18156-a44bc7096f0683e6@postgresql.org Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAT=myvsiF-Attja5DcWoUWh21R12R-sfXECY2-3ynt8kaOqjw@mail.gmail.com
2025-05-01Doc: stop implying recommendation of insecure search_path value.Noah Misch
SQL "SET search_path = 'pg_catalog, pg_temp'" is silently equivalent to "SET search_path = pg_temp, pg_catalog, "pg_catalog, pg_temp"" instead of the intended "SET search_path = pg_catalog, pg_temp". (The intent was a two-element search path. With the single quotes, it instead specifies one element with a comma and a space in the middle of the element.) In addition to the SET statement, this affects SET clauses of CREATE FUNCTION, ALTER ROLE, and ALTER DATABASE. It does not affect the set_config() SQL function. Though the documentation did not show an insecure command, remove single quotes that could entice a reader to write an insecure command. Back-patch to v13 (all supported versions). Reported-by: Sven Klemm <sven@timescale.com> Author: Sven Klemm <sven@timescale.com> Backpatch-through: 13
2025-05-01Add missing newlines to PQescapeInternal() messages pre-v16.Tom Lane
While back-patching 9f45e6a91, I neglected that the convention in pre-v16 libpq was to include a trailing newline in error message strings (since then, we add those separately). Add them now. Reported-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a9c837ad-d507-4607-94e4-c5743a8f49e0@eisentraut.org Backpatch-through: 13-15
2025-05-01doc: Warn that ts_headline() output is not HTML-safe.Dean Rasheed
Add a documentation warning to ts_headline() pointing out that, when working with untrusted input documents, the output is not guaranteed to be safe for direct inclusion in web pages. This is because, while it does remove some XML tags from the input, it doesn't remove all HTML markup, and so the result may be unsafe (e.g., it might permit XSS attacks). To guard against that, all HTML markup should be removed from the input, making it plain text, or the output should be passed through an HTML sanitizer. In addition, document precisely what the default text search parser recognises as valid XML tags, since that's what determines which XML tags ts_headline() will remove. Reported-by: Richard Neill <richard.neill@telos.digital> Author: Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com> Backpatch-through: 13
2025-04-30Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2025b.Tom Lane
DST law changes in Chile: there is a new time zone America/Coyhaique for Chile's Aysén Region, to account for it changing to UTC-03 year-round and thus diverging from America/Santiago. Historical corrections for Iran. Backpatch-through: 13
2025-04-28Fix xmin advancement during fast_forward decoding.Amit Kapila
During logical decoding, we advance catalog_xmin of logical too early in fast_forward mode, resulting in required catalog data being removed by vacuum. This mode is normally used to advance the slot without processing the changes, but we still can't let the slot's xmin to advance to an incorrect value. Commit f49a80c481 fixed a similar issue where the logical slot's catalog_xmin was getting advanced prematurely during non-fast-forward mode. During xl_running_xacts processing, instead of directly advancing the slot's xmin to the oldest running xid in the record, it allowed the xmin to be held back for snapshots that can be used for not-yet-replayed transactions, as those might consider older txns as running too. However, it missed the fact that the same problem can happen during fast_forward mode decoding, as we won't build a base snapshot in that mode, and the future call to get_changes from the same slot can miss seeing the required catalog changes leading to incorrect reslts. This commit allows building the base snapshot even in fast_forward mode to prevent the early advancement of xmin. Reported-by: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com> Author: Zhijie Hou <houzj.fnst@fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: shveta malik <shveta.malik@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com> Backpatch-through: 13 Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAA4eK1LqWncUOqKijiafe+Ypt1gQAQRjctKLMY953J79xDBgAg@mail.gmail.com Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/OS0PR01MB57163087F86621D44D9A72BF94BB2@OS0PR01MB5716.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com
2025-04-25Fix typo in test file name added in commit 4909b38af0.Amit Kapila
Author: Shlok Kyal <shlok.kyal.oss@gmail.com> Backpatch-through: 13 Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CANhcyEXsObdjkjxEnq10aJumDpa5J6aiPzgTh_w4KCWRYHLw6Q@mail.gmail.com
2025-04-24Fix data loss in logical replication.Amit Kapila
This commit is a backpatch of commit 4909b38af0 for 13. Data loss can happen when the DDLs like ALTER PUBLICATION ... ADD TABLE ... or ALTER TYPE ... that don't take a strong lock on table happens concurrently to DMLs on the tables involved in the DDL. This happens because logical decoding doesn't distribute invalidations to concurrent transactions and those transactions use stale cache data to decode the changes. The problem becomes bigger because we keep using the stale cache even after those in-progress transactions are finished and skip the changes required to be sent to the client. This commit fixes the issue by distributing invalidation messages from catalog-modifying transactions to all concurrent in-progress transactions. This allows the necessary rebuild of the catalog cache when decoding new changes after concurrent DDL. The fix for 13 is different from what we did in branches 14 and above, such that for 13, the concurrent DDL changes (from DDL types mentioned earlier) will be visible for any newly started transactions. To make them visible in concurrent transactions, we need to introduce a new change type REORDER_BUFFER_CHANGE_INVALIDATION, already present in branches 14 and greater. We decided not to take the risk of a bigger change and fix the issue partially in 13. Reported-by: hubert depesz lubaczewski <depesz@depesz.com> Reported-by: Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@enterprisedb.com> Author: Shlok Kyal <shlok.kyal.oss@gmail.com> Author: Hayato Kuroda <kuroda.hayato@fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Zhijie Hou <houzj.fnst@fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com> Tested-by: Benoit Lobréau <benoit.lobreau@dalibo.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/de52b282-1166-1180-45a2-8d8917ca74c6@enterprisedb.com Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAD21AoAenVqiMjpN-PvGHL1N9DWnHSq673bfgr6phmBUzx=kLQ@mail.gmail.com Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAD21AoAhU3kp8shYqP=ExiFDZ9sZxpFb5WzLa0p+vEe5j+7CWQ@mail.gmail.com
2025-04-22Doc: reword text explaining the --maintenance-db optionDavid Rowley
The previous text was a little clumsy. Here we improve that. Author: David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com> Reported-by: Noboru Saito <noborusai@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: David G. Johnston <david.g.johnston@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAM3qnJtv5YbjpwDfVOYN2gZ9zGSLFM1UGJgptSXmwfifOZJFQ@mail.gmail.com Backpatch-through: 13
2025-04-20Test restartpoints in archive recovery.Noah Misch
v14 commit 1f95181b44c843729caaa688f74babe9403b5850 and its v13 equivalent caused timing-dependent failures in archive recovery, at restartpoints. The symptom was "invalid magic number 0000 in log segment X, offset 0", "unexpected pageaddr X in log segment Y, offset 0" [X < Y], or an assertion failure. Commit 3635a0a35aafd3bfa80b7a809bc6e91ccd36606a and predecessors back-patched v15 changes to fix that. This test reproduces the problem probabilistically, typically in less than 1000 iterations of the test. Hence, buildfarm and CI runs would have surfaced enough failures to get attention within a day. Reported-by: Arun Thirupathi <arunth@google.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20250306193013.36.nmisch@google.com Backpatch-through: 13
2025-04-20Avoid ERROR at ON COMMIT DELETE ROWS after relhassubclass=f.Noah Misch
Commit 7102070329d8147246d2791321f9915c3b5abf31 fixed a similar bug, but it missed the case of database-wide ANALYZE ("use_own_xacts" mode). Commit a07e03fd8fa7daf4d1356f7cb501ffe784ea6257 changed consequences from silent discard of a pg_class stats (relpages et al.) update to ERROR "tuple to be updated was already modified". Losing a relpages update of an ON COMMIT DELETE ROWS table was negligible, but a COMMIT-time error isn't negligible. Back-patch to v13 (all supported versions). Reported-by: Richard Guo <guofenglinux@gmail.com Reported-by: Robins Tharakan <tharakan@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMbWs4-XwMKMKJ_GT=p3_-_=j9rQSEs1FbDFUnW9zHuKPsPNEQ@mail.gmail.com Backpatch-through: 13
2025-04-19Be more wary of corrupt data in pageinspect's heap_page_items().Tom Lane
The original intent in heap_page_items() was to return nulls, not throw an error or crash, if an item was sufficiently corrupt that we couldn't safely extract data from it. However, commit d6061f83a utterly missed that memo, and not only put in an un-length-checked copy of the tuple's data section, but also managed to break the check on sane nulls-bitmap length. Either mistake could possibly lead to a SIGSEGV crash if the tuple is corrupt. Bug: #18896 Reported-by: Dmitry Kovalenko <d.kovalenko@postgrespro.ru> Author: Dmitry Kovalenko <d.kovalenko@postgrespro.ru> Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18896-add267b8e06663e3@postgresql.org Backpatch-through: 13
2025-04-16Fix pg_dump --clean with partitioned indexes.Tom Lane
We'd try to drop the partitions of a partitioned index separately, which is disallowed by the backend, leading to an error during restore. While the error is harmless, it causes problems if you try to use --single-transaction mode. Fortunately, there seems no need to do a DROP at all, since the partition will go away silently when we drop either the parent index or the partition's table. So just make the DROP conditional on not being a partition. Reported-by: jian he <jian.universality@gmail.com> Author: jian he <jian.universality@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CACJufxF0QSdkjFKF4di-JGWN6CSdQYEAhGPmQJJCdkSZtd=oLg@mail.gmail.com Backpatch-through: 13
2025-04-12Fix GIN's shimTriConsistentFn to not corrupt its input.Tom Lane
Commit 0f21db36d made an assumption that GIN triConsistentFns would not modify their input entryRes[] arrays. But in fact, the "shim" triConsistentFn that we use for opclasses that don't supply their own did exactly that, potentially leading to wrong answers from a GIN index search. Through bad luck, none of the test cases that we have for such opclasses exposed the bug. One response to this could be that the assumption of consistency check functions not modifying entryRes[] arrays is a bad one, but it still seems reasonable to me. Notably, shimTriConsistentFn is itself assuming that with respect to the underlying boolean consistentFn, so it's sure being self-centered in supposing that it gets to do so. Fortunately, it's quite simple to fix shimTriConsistentFn to restore the entry-time state of entryRes[], so let's do that instead. This issue doesn't affect any core GIN opclasses, since they all supply their own triConsistentFns. It does affect contrib modules btree_gin, hstore, and intarray. Along the way, I (tgl) noticed that shimTriConsistentFn failed to pick up on a "recheck" flag returned by its first call to the boolean consistentFn. This may be only a latent problem, since it would be unlikely for a consistentFn to set recheck for the all-false case and not any other cases. (Indeed, none of our contrib modules do that.) Nonetheless, it's formally wrong. Reported-by: Vinod Sridharan <vsridh90@gmail.com> Author: Vinod Sridharan <vsridh90@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAFMdLD7XzsXfi1+DpTqTgrD8XU0i2C99KuF=5VHLWjx4C1pkcg@mail.gmail.com Backpatch-through: 13
2025-04-11Fix race with synchronous_standby_names at startupMichael Paquier
synchronous_standby_names cannot be reloaded safely by backends, and the checkpointer is in charge of updating a state in shared memory if the GUC is enabled in WalSndCtl, to let the backends know if they should wait or not for a given LSN. This provides a strict control on the timing of the waiting queues if the GUC is enabled or disabled, then reloaded. The checkpointer is also in charge of waking up the backends that could be waiting for a LSN when the GUC is disabled. This logic had a race condition at startup, where it would be possible for backends to not wait for a LSN even if synchronous_standby_names is enabled. This would cause visibility issues with transactions that we should be waiting for but they were not. The problem lasts until the checkpointer does its initial update of the shared memory state when it loads synchronous_standby_names. In order to take care of this problem, the shared memory state in WalSndCtl is extended to detect if it has been initialized by the checkpointer, and not only check if synchronous_standby_names is defined. In WalSndCtlData, sync_standbys_defined is renamed to sync_standbys_status, a bits8 able to know about two states: - If the shared memory state has been initialized. This flag is set by the checkpointer at startup once, and never removed. - If synchronous_standby_names is known as defined in the shared memory state. This is the same as the previous sync_standbys_defined in WalSndCtl. This method gives a way for backends to decide what they should do until the shared memory area is initialized, and they now ultimately fall back to a check on the GUC value in this case, which is the best thing that can be done. Fortunately, SyncRepUpdateSyncStandbysDefined() is called immediately by the checkpointer when this process starts, so the window is very narrow. It is possible to enlarge the problematic window by making the checkpointer wait at the beginning of SyncRepUpdateSyncStandbysDefined() with a hardcoded sleep for example, and doing so has showed that a 2PC visibility test is indeed failing. On machines slow enough, this bug would cause spurious failures. In 17~, we have looked at the possibility of adding an injection point to have a reproducible test, but as the problematic window happens at early startup, we would need to invent a way to make an injection point optionally persistent across restarts when attached, something that would be fine for this case as it would involve the checkpointer. This issue is quite old, and can be reproduced on all the stable branches. Author: Melnikov Maksim <m.melnikov@postgrespro.ru> Co-authored-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/163fcbec-900b-4b07-beaa-d2ead8634bec@postgrespro.ru Backpatch-through: 13
2025-04-10Doc: remove long-obsolete advice about generated constraint names.Tom Lane
It's been twenty years since we generated constraint names that look like "$N". So this advice about double-quoting such names is well past its sell-by date, and now it merely seems confusing. Reported-by: Yaroslav Saburov <y.saburov@gmail.com> Author: "David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/174393459040.678.17810152410419444783@wrigleys.postgresql.org Backpatch-through: 13
2025-04-07doc: Clarify project namingDaniel Gustafsson
Clarify the project naming in the history section of the docs to match the recent license preamble changes. Backpatch to all supported versions. Author: Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+OCxozLzK2+Jc14XZyWXSp6L9Ot+3efwXUE35FJG=fsbib2EA@mail.gmail.com Backpatch-through: 13
2025-04-06Reset InstallXLogFileSegmentActive after walreceiver self-initiated exit.Noah Misch
After commit cc2c7d65fc27e877c9f407587b0b92d46cd6dd16 added this flag, failure to reset it caused assertion failures. In non-assert builds, it made the system fail to achieve the objectives listed in that commit; chiefly, we might emit a spurious log message. Back-patch to v15, where that commit first appeared. Bharath Rupireddy and Kyotaro Horiguchi. Reviewed by Dilip Kumar, Nathan Bossart and Michael Paquier. Reported by Dilip Kumar. This commit has been applied as of b4f584f9d2a1 in v15 and newer versions. This is required on stable branches of v13 and v14 to fix a regression reported by Noah Misch, introduced by 1f95181b44c8, causing spurious failures in archive recovery (neither streaming nor archive recovery) with concurrent restartpoints. The backpatched versions of the patches have been aligned on these branches by me. Tests have been conducted by the both of us. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAFiTN-sE3ry=ycMPVtC+Djw4Fd7gbUGVv_qqw6qfzp=JLvqT3g@mail.gmail.com Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20250306193013.36.nmisch@google.com Backpatch-through: 13
2025-04-06Skip WAL recycling and preallocation during archive recovery.Noah Misch
The previous commit addressed the chief consequences of a race condition between InstallXLogFileSegment() and KeepFileRestoredFromArchive(). Fix three lesser consequences. A spurious durable_rename_excl() LOG message remained possible. KeepFileRestoredFromArchive() wasted the proceeds of WAL recycling and preallocation. Finally, XLogFileInitInternal() could return a descriptor for a file that KeepFileRestoredFromArchive() had already unlinked. That felt like a recipe for future bugs. This commit has been applied as of cc2c7d65fc27 in v15 and newer versions. This is required on stable branches of v13 and v14 to fix a regression reported by Noah Misch, introduced by 1f95181b44c8, causing spurious failures in archive recovery (neither streaming nor archive recovery) with concurrent restartpoints. The backpatched versions of the patches have been aligned on these branches by me, Noah Misch is the author. Tests have been conducted by the both of us. Note that this commit is known to have introduced a regression of its own. This is fixed by the commit following this one, and not grouped in a single commit to keep the commit history consistent across all branches. Reported-by: Arun Thirupathi Author: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210202151416.GB3304930@rfd.leadboat.com Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20250306193013.36.nmisch@google.com Backpatch-through: 13
2025-04-06Don't ERROR on PreallocXlogFiles() race condition.Noah Misch
Before a restartpoint finishes PreallocXlogFiles(), a startup process KeepFileRestoredFromArchive() call can unlink the preallocated segment. If a CHECKPOINT sql command had elicited the restartpoint experiencing the race condition, that sql command failed. Moreover, the restartpoint omitted its log_checkpoints message and some inessential resource reclamation. Prevent the ERROR by skipping open() of the segment. Since these consequences are so minor, no back-patch. This commit has been applied as of 2b3e4672f760 in v15 and newer versions. This is required on stable branches of v13 and v14 to fix a regression reported by Noah Misch, introduced by 1f95181b44c8, causing spurious failures in archive recovery (neither streaming nor archive recovery) with concurrent restartpoints. The backpatched versions of the patches have been aligned on these branches by me, Noah Misch is the author. Tests have been conducted by the both of us. Reported-by: Arun Thirupathi Author: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210202151416.GB3304930@rfd.leadboat.com Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20250306193013.36.nmisch@google.com Backpatch-through: 13
2025-04-06Revert "Add HINT for restartpoint race with KeepFileRestoredFromArchive()."Michael Paquier
This reverts commit 8ad6c5dbbe5a, which was a commit specific to v14 and older branches as the race condition between restartpoints and KeepFileRestoredFromArchive() still existed. 1f95181b44c8 has worsened the situation on these two branches, causing spurious failures in archive recovery (neither streaming nor archive recovery) with concurrent restartpoints. The same logic as v15 and newer versions will be applied in some follow-up commits to close this problem, making this HINT not necessary anymore. Reported-by: Arun Thirupathi Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20250306193013.36.nmisch@google.com Backpatch-through: 13
2025-04-06Remove XLogFileInit() ability to unlink a pre-existing file.Noah Misch
Only initdb used it. initdb refuses to operate on a non-empty directory and generally does not cope with pre-existing files of other kinds. Hence, use the opportunity to simplify. This commit has been applied as of 421484f79c0b in v15 and newer versions. This is required on stable branches of v13 and v14 to fix a regression reported by Noah Misch, introduced by 1f95181b44c8, causing spurious failures in archive recovery (neither streaming nor archive recovery) with concurrent restartpoints. The backpatched versions of the patches have been aligned on these branches by me, Noah Misch is the author. Tests have been conducted by the both of us. Reported-by: Arun Thirupathi Author: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210202151416.GB3304930@rfd.leadboat.com Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20250306193013.36.nmisch@google.com Backpatch-through: 13
2025-04-06In XLogFileInit(), fix *use_existent postcondition to suit callers.Noah Misch
Infrequently, the mismatch caused log_checkpoints messages and TRACE_POSTGRESQL_CHECKPOINT_DONE() to witness an "added" count too high by one. Since that consequence is so minor, no back-patch. This commit has been applied as of 85656bc3050f in v15 and newer versions. This is required on stable branches of v13 and v14 to fix a regression reported by Noah Misch, introduced by 1f95181b44c8, causing spurious failures in archive recovery (neither streaming nor archive recovery) with concurrent restartpoints. The backpatched versions of the patches have been aligned on these branches by me, Noah Misch is the author. Tests have been conducted by the both of us. Reported-by: Arun Thirupathi Author: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210202151416.GB3304930@rfd.leadboat.com Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20250306193013.36.nmisch@google.com Backpatch-through: 13
2025-04-06Remove XLogFileInit() ability to skip ControlFileLock.Noah Misch
Cold paths, initdb and end-of-recovery, used it. Don't optimize them. This commit has been applied as of c53c6b98d38a in v15 and newer versions. This is required on stable branches of v13 and v14 to fix a regression reported by Noah Misch, introduced by 1f95181b44c8, causing spurious failures in archive recovery (neither streaming nor archive recovery) with concurrent restartpoints. The backpatched versions of the patches have been aligned on these branches by me, Noah Misch is the author. Tests have been conducted by the both of us. Reported-by: Arun Thirupathi Author: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210202151416.GB3304930@rfd.leadboat.com Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20250306193013.36.nmisch@google.com Backpatch-through: 13