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2013-10-07Stamp 8.4.18.REL8_4_18Peter Eisentraut
2013-10-07docs: update release notes for 8.4.18, 9.0.14, 9.1.10, 9.2.5, 9.3.1Bruce Momjian
2013-10-07Translation updatesPeter Eisentraut
2013-10-02doc: Correct psycopg URLPeter Eisentraut
2013-09-30Fix snapshot leak if lo_open called on non-existent object.Heikki Linnakangas
lo_open registers the currently active snapshot, and checks if the large object exists after that. Normally, snapshots registered by lo_open are unregistered at end of transaction when the lo descriptor is closed, but if we error out before the lo descriptor is added to the list of open descriptors, it is leaked. Fix by moving the snapshot registration to after checking if the large object exists. Reported by Pavel Stehule. Backpatch to 8.4. The snapshot registration system was introduced in 8.4, so prior versions are not affected (and not supported, anyway).
2013-09-26Fix spurious warning after vacuuming a page on a table with no indexes.Heikki Linnakangas
There is a rare race condition, when a transaction that inserted a tuple aborts while vacuum is processing the page containing the inserted tuple. Vacuum prunes the page first, which normally removes any dead tuples, but if the inserting transaction aborts right after that, the loop after pruning will see a dead tuple and remove it instead. That's OK, but if the page is on a table with no indexes, and the page becomes completely empty after removing the dead tuple (or tuples) on it, it will be immediately marked as all-visible. That's OK, but the sanity check in vacuum would throw a warning because it thinks that the page contains dead tuples and was nevertheless marked as all-visible, even though it just vacuumed away the dead tuples and so it doesn't actually contain any. Spotted this while reading the code. It's difficult to hit the race condition otherwise, but can be done by putting a breakpoint after the heap_page_prune() call. Backpatch all the way to 8.4, where this code first appeared.
2013-09-24Fix pgindent comment breakageAlvaro Herrera
2013-09-23Fix SSL deadlock risk in libpqStephen Frost
In libpq, we set up and pass to OpenSSL callback routines to handle locking. When we run out of SSL connections, we try to clean things up by de-registering the hooks. Unfortunately, we had a few calls into the OpenSSL library after these hooks were de-registered during SSL cleanup which lead to deadlocking. This moves the thread callback cleanup to be after all SSL-cleanup related OpenSSL library calls. I've been unable to reproduce the deadlock with this fix. In passing, also move the close_SSL call to be after unlocking our ssl_config mutex when in a failure state. While it looks pretty unlikely to be an issue, it could have resulted in deadlocks if we ended up in this code path due to something other than SSL_new failing. Thanks to Heikki for pointing this out. Back-patch to all supported versions; note that the close_SSL issue only goes back to 9.0, so that hunk isn't included in the 8.4 patch. Initially found and reported by Vesa-Matti J Kari; many thanks to both Heikki and Andres for their help running down the specific issue and reviewing the patch.
2013-09-11Ignore interrupts during quickdie().Noah Misch
Once the administrator has called for an immediate shutdown or a backend crash has triggered a reinitialization, no mere SIGINT or SIGTERM should change that course. Such derailment remains possible when the signal arrives before quickdie() blocks signals. That being a narrow race affecting most PostgreSQL signal handlers in some way, leave it for another patch. Back-patch this to all supported versions.
2013-09-08Return error if allocation of new element was not possible.Michael Meskes
Found by Coverity.
2013-09-03Don't fail for bad GUCs in CREATE FUNCTION with check_function_bodies off.Tom Lane
The previous coding attempted to activate all the GUC settings specified in SET clauses, so that the function validator could operate in the GUC environment expected by the function body. However, this is problematic when restoring a dump, since the SET clauses might refer to database objects that don't exist yet. We already have the parameter check_function_bodies that's meant to prevent forward references in function definitions from breaking dumps, so let's change CREATE FUNCTION to not install the SET values if check_function_bodies is off. Authors of function validators were already advised not to make any "context sensitive" checks when check_function_bodies is off, if indeed they're checking anything at all in that mode. But extend the documentation to point out the GUC issue in particular. (Note that we still check the SET clauses to some extent; the behavior with !check_function_bodies is now approximately equivalent to what ALTER DATABASE/ROLE have been doing for awhile with context-dependent GUCs.) This problem can be demonstrated in all active branches, so back-patch all the way.
2013-09-02Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2013d.Tom Lane
DST law changes in Israel, Morocco, Palestine, Paraguay. Historical corrections for Macquarie Island.
2013-09-02Fix relfrozenxid query in docs to include TOAST tables.Andrew Dunstan
The original query ignored TOAST tables which could result in tables needing a vacuum not being reported. Backpatch to all live branches.
2013-08-23In locate_grouping_columns(), don't expect an exact match of Var typmods.Tom Lane
It's possible that inlining of SQL functions (or perhaps other changes?) has exposed typmod information not known at parse time. In such cases, Vars generated by query_planner might have valid typmod values while the original grouping columns only have typmod -1. This isn't a semantic problem since the behavior of grouping only depends on type not typmod, but it breaks locate_grouping_columns' use of tlist_member to locate the matching entry in query_planner's result tlist. We can fix this without an excessive amount of new code or complexity by relying on the fact that locate_grouping_columns only gets called when make_subplanTargetList has set need_tlist_eval == false, and that can only happen if all the grouping columns are simple Vars. Therefore we only need to search the sub_tlist for a matching Var, and we can reasonably define a "match" as being a match of the Var identity fields varno/varattno/varlevelsup. The code still Asserts that vartype matches, but ignores vartypmod. Per bug #8393 from Evan Martin. The added regression test case is basically the same as his example. This has been broken for a very long time, so back-patch to all supported branches.
2013-08-21Disable -faggressive-loop-optimizations in gcc 4.8+ for pre-9.2 branches.Tom Lane
With this optimization flag enabled, recent versions of gcc can generate incorrect code that assumes variable-length arrays (such as oidvector) are actually fixed-length because they're embedded in some larger struct. The known instance of this problem was fixed in 9.2 and up by commit 8137f2c32322c624e0431fac1621e8e9315202f9 and followon work, which hides actually-variable-length catalog fields from the compiler altogether. And we plan to gradually convert variable-length fields to official "flexible array member" notation over time, which should prevent this type of bug from reappearing as gcc gets smarter. We're not going to try to back-port those changes into older branches, though, so apply this band-aid instead. Andres Freund
2013-08-03Make sure float4in/float8in accept all standard spellings of "infinity".Tom Lane
The C99 and POSIX standards require strtod() to accept all these spellings (case-insensitively): "inf", "+inf", "-inf", "infinity", "+infinity", "-infinity". However, pre-C99 systems might accept only some or none of these, and apparently Windows still doesn't accept "inf". To avoid surprising cross-platform behavioral differences, manually check for each of these spellings if strtod() fails. We were previously handling just "infinity" and "-infinity" that way, but since C99 is most of the world now, it seems likely that applications are expecting all these spellings to work. Per bug #8355 from Basil Peace. It turns out this fix won't actually resolve his problem, because Python isn't being this careful; but that doesn't mean we shouldn't be.
2013-08-02Fix old visibility bug in HeapTupleSatisfiesDirtyAlvaro Herrera
If a tuple is locked but not updated by a concurrent transaction, HeapTupleSatisfiesDirty would return that transaction's Xid in xmax, causing callers to wait on it, when it is not necessary (in fact, if the other transaction had used a multixact instead of a plain Xid to mark the tuple, HeapTupleSatisfiesDirty would have behave differently and *not* returned the Xmax). This bug was introduced in commit 3f7fbf85dc5b42, dated December 1998, so it's almost 15 years old now. However, it's hard to see this misbehave, because before we had NOWAIT the only consequence of this is that transactions would wait for slightly more time than necessary; so it's not surprising that this hasn't been reported yet. Craig Ringer and Andres Freund
2013-07-31Fix regexp_matches() handling of zero-length matches.Tom Lane
We'd find the same match twice if it was of zero length and not immediately adjacent to the previous match. replace_text_regexp() got similar cases right, so adjust this search logic to match that. Note that even though the regexp_split_to_xxx() functions share this code, they did not display equivalent misbehavior, because the second match would be considered degenerate and ignored. Jeevan Chalke, with some cosmetic changes by me.
2013-07-29Fix contrib/cube and contrib/seg to build with bison 3.0.Tom Lane
These modules used the YYPARSE_PARAM macro, which has been deprecated by the bison folk since 1.875, and which they finally removed in 3.0. Adjust the code to use the replacement facility, %parse-param, which is a much better solution anyway since it allows specification of the type of the extra parser parameter. We can thus get rid of a lot of unsightly casting. Back-patch to all active branches, since somebody might try to build a back branch with up-to-date tools.
2013-07-24Fix booltestsel() for case where we have NULL stats but not MCV stats.Tom Lane
In a boolean column that contains mostly nulls, ANALYZE might not find enough non-null values to populate the most-common-values stats, but it would still create a pg_statistic entry with stanullfrac set. The logic in booltestsel() for this situation did the wrong thing for "col IS NOT TRUE" and "col IS NOT FALSE" tests, forgetting that null values would satisfy these tests (so that the true selectivity would be close to one, not close to zero). Per bug #8274. Fix by Andrew Gierth, some comment-smithing by me.
2013-07-23Check for NULL result from strdupAlvaro Herrera
Per Coverity Scan
2013-07-23Change post-rewriter representation of dropped columns in joinaliasvars.Tom Lane
It's possible to drop a column from an input table of a JOIN clause in a view, if that column is nowhere actually referenced in the view. But it will still be there in the JOIN clause's joinaliasvars list. We used to replace such entries with NULL Const nodes, which is handy for generation of RowExpr expansion of a whole-row reference to the view. The trouble with that is that it can't be distinguished from the situation after subquery pull-up of a constant subquery output expression below the JOIN. Instead, replace such joinaliasvars with null pointers (empty expression trees), which can't be confused with pulled-up expressions. expandRTE() still emits the old convention, though, for convenience of RowExpr generation and to reduce the risk of breaking extension code. In HEAD and 9.3, this patch also fixes a problem with some new code in ruleutils.c that was failing to cope with implicitly-casted joinaliasvars entries, as per recent report from Feike Steenbergen. That oversight was because of an inadequate description of the data structure in parsenodes.h, which I've now corrected. There were some pre-existing oversights of the same ilk elsewhere, which I believe are now all fixed.
2013-07-19doc: Fix typos in conversion names.Robert Haas
David Christensen
2013-07-19Initialize day of year value.Michael Meskes
There are cases where the day of year value in struct tm is used, but it never got calculated. Problem found by Coverity scan.
2013-07-18Fix regex match failures for backrefs combined with non-greedy quantifiers.Tom Lane
An ancient logic error in cfindloop() could cause the regex engine to fail to find matches that begin later than the start of the string. This function is only used when the regex pattern contains a back reference, and so far as we can tell the error is only reachable if the pattern is non-greedy (i.e. its first quantifier uses the ? modifier). Furthermore, the actual match must begin after some potential match that satisfies the DFA but then fails the back-reference's match test. Reported and fixed by Jeevan Chalke, with cosmetic adjustments by me.
2013-07-14Ensure 64bit arithmetic when calculating tapeSpaceStephen Frost
In tuplesort.c:inittapes(), we calculate tapeSpace by first figuring out how many 'tapes' we can use (maxTapes) and then multiplying the result by the tape buffer overhead for each. Unfortunately, when we are on a system with an 8-byte long, we allow work_mem to be larger than 2GB and that allows maxTapes to be large enough that the 32bit arithmetic can overflow when multiplied against the buffer overhead. When this overflow happens, we end up adding the overflow to the amount of space available, causing the amount of memory allocated to be larger than work_mem. Note that to reach this point, you have to set work mem to at least 24GB and be sorting a set which is at least that size. Given that a user who can set work_mem to 24GB could also set it even higher, if they were looking to run the system out of memory, this isn't considered a security issue. This overflow risk was found by the Coverity scanner. Back-patch to all supported branches, as this issue has existed since before 8.4.
2013-07-06Also escape double quotes for ECPG's #line statement.Michael Meskes
2013-07-05Applied patch by MauMau <maumau307@gmail.com> to escape filenames in #line ↵Michael Meskes
statements.
2013-07-02Mention extra_float_digits in floating point docsAlvaro Herrera
Make it easier for readers of the FP docs to find out about possibly truncated values. Per complaint from Tom Duffey in message F0E0F874-C86F-48D1-AA2A-0C5365BF5118@trillitech.com Author: Albe Laurenz Reviewed by: Abhijit Menon-Sen
2013-06-27Mark index-constraint comments with correct dependency in pg_dump.Tom Lane
When there's a comment on an index that was created with UNIQUE or PRIMARY KEY constraint syntax, we need to label the comment as depending on the constraint not the index, since only the constraint object actually appears in the dump. This incorrect dependency can lead to parallel pg_restore trying to restore the comment before the index has been created, per bug #8257 from Lloyd Albin. This patch fixes pg_dump to produce the right dependency in dumps made in the future. Usually we also try to hack pg_restore to work around bogus dependencies, so that existing (wrong) dumps can still be restored in parallel mode; but that doesn't seem practical here since there's no easy way to relate the constraint dump entry to the comment after the fact. Andres Freund
2013-06-27Expect EWOULDBLOCK from a non-blocking connect() call only on Windows.Tom Lane
On Unix-ish platforms, EWOULDBLOCK may be the same as EAGAIN, which is *not* a success return, at least not on Linux. We need to treat it as a failure to avoid giving a misleading error message. Per the Single Unix Spec, only EINPROGRESS and EINTR returns indicate that the connection attempt is in progress. On Windows, on the other hand, EWOULDBLOCK (WSAEWOULDBLOCK) is the expected case. We must accept EINPROGRESS as well because Cygwin will return that, and it doesn't seem worth distinguishing Cygwin from native Windows here. It's not very clear whether EINTR can occur on Windows, but let's leave that part of the logic alone in the absence of concrete trouble reports. Also, remove the test for errno == 0, effectively reverting commit da9501bddb42222dc33c031b1db6ce2133bcee7b, which AFAICS was just a thinko; or at best it might have been a workaround for a platform-specific bug, which we can hope is gone now thirteen years later. In any case, since libpq makes no effort to reset errno to zero before calling connect(), it seems unlikely that that test has ever reliably done anything useful. Andres Freund and Tom Lane
2013-06-27Tweak wording in sequence-function docs to avoid PDF build failures.Tom Lane
Adjust the wording in the first para of "Sequence Manipulation Functions" so that neither of the link phrases in it break across line boundaries, in either A4- or US-page-size PDF output. This fixes a reported build failure for the 9.3beta2 A4 PDF docs, and future-proofs this particular para against causing similar problems in future. (Perhaps somebody will fix this issue in the SGML/TeX documentation tool chain someday, but I'm not holding my breath.) Back-patch to all supported branches, since the same problem could rise up to bite us in future updates if anyone changes anything earlier than this in func.sgml.
2013-06-26Document effect of constant folding on CASE.Noah Misch
Back-patch to all supported versions. Laurenz Albe
2013-06-19Update CREATE FUNCTION documentation about argument namesPeter Eisentraut
More languages than PL/pgSQL actually support parameter names.
2013-06-13Only install a portal's ResourceOwner if it actually has one.Tom Lane
In most scenarios a portal without a ResourceOwner is dead and not subject to any further execution, but a portal for a cursor WITH HOLD remains in existence with no ResourceOwner after the creating transaction is over. In this situation, if we attempt to "execute" the portal directly to fetch data from it, we were setting CurrentResourceOwner to NULL, leading to a segfault if the datatype output code did anything that required a resource owner (such as trying to fetch system catalog entries that weren't already cached). The case appears to be impossible to provoke with stock libpq, but psqlODBC at least is able to cause it when working with held cursors. Simplest fix is to just skip the assignment to CurrentResourceOwner, so that any resources used by the data output operations will be managed by the transaction-level resource owner instead. For consistency I changed all the places that install a portal's resowner as current, even though some of them are probably not reachable with a held cursor's portal. Per report from Joshua Berry (with thanks to Hiroshi Inoue for developing a self-contained test case). Back-patch to all supported versions.
2013-06-12Improve description of loread/lowrite.Robert Haas
Patch by me, reviewed by Tatsuo Ishii.
2013-06-11Add description that loread()/lowrite() are corresponding toTatsuo Ishii
lo_read()/lo_write() in libpq to avoid confusion.
2013-06-09Remove unnecessary restrictions about RowExprs in transformAExprIn().Tom Lane
When the existing code here was written, it made sense to special-case RowExprs because that was the only way that we could handle row comparisons at all. Now that we have record_eq() and arrays of composites, the generic logic for "scalar" types will in fact work on RowExprs too, so there's no reason to throw error for combinations of RowExprs and other ways of forming composite values, nor to ignore the possibility of using a ScalarArrayOpExpr. But keep using the old logic when comparing two RowExprs, for consistency with the main transformAExprOp() logic. (This allows some cases with not-quite-identical rowtypes to succeed, so we might get push-back if we removed it.) Per bug #8198 from Rafal Rzepecki. Back-patch to all supported branches, since this works fine as far back as 8.4. Rafal Rzepecki and Tom Lane
2013-06-08Don't downcase non-ascii identifier chars in multi-byte encodings.Andrew Dunstan
Long-standing code has called tolower() on identifier character bytes with the high bit set. This is clearly an error and produces junk output when the encoding is multi-byte. This patch therefore restricts this activity to cases where there is a character with the high bit set AND the encoding is single-byte. There have been numerous gripes about this, most recently from Martin Schäfer. Backpatch to all live releases.
2013-06-07Correct the documentation of pg_rewrite.ev_attr.Kevin Grittner
It claimed the value was always zero; it is really always -1. Per report from Hari Babu backpatch 734fbbd1d2d1babfbd195414e2445024ad549ae3 to 8.4
2013-06-07Minor docs wordsmithing.Tom Lane
Swap the order of a couple of phrases to clarify what the adjective "subsequent" applies to. Joshua Tolley
2013-06-05Prevent pushing down WHERE clauses into unsafe UNION/INTERSECT nests.Tom Lane
The planner is aware that it mustn't push down upper-level quals into subqueries if the quals reference subquery output columns that contain set-returning functions or volatile functions, or are non-DISTINCT outputs of a DISTINCT ON subquery. However, it missed making this check when there were one or more levels of UNION or INTERSECT above the dangerous expression. This could lead to "set-valued function called in context that cannot accept a set" errors, as seen in bug #8213 from Eric Soroos, or to silently wrong answers in the other cases. To fix, refactor the checks so that we make the column-is-unsafe checks during subquery_is_pushdown_safe(), which already has to recursively inspect all arms of a set-operation tree. This makes qual_is_pushdown_safe() considerably simpler, at the cost that we will spend some cycles checking output columns that possibly aren't referenced in any upper qual. But the cases where this code gets executed at all are already nontrivial queries, so it's unlikely anybody will notice any slowdown of planning. This has been broken since commit 05f916e6add9726bf4ee046e4060c1b03c9961f2, which makes the bug over ten years old. A bit surprising nobody noticed it before now.
2013-05-16Fix fd.c to preserve errno where needed.Tom Lane
PathNameOpenFile failed to ensure that the correct value of errno was returned to its caller after a failure (because it incorrectly supposed that free() can never change errno). In some cases this would result in a user-visible failure because an expected ENOENT errno was replaced with something else. Bogus EINVAL failures have been observed on OS X, for example. There were also a couple of places that could mangle an important value of errno if FDDEBUG was defined. While the usefulness of that debug support is highly debatable, we might as well make it safe to use, so add errno save/restore logic to the DO_DB macro. Per bug #8167 from Nelson Minar, diagnosed by RhodiumToad. Back-patch to all supported branches.
2013-05-13Fix handling of OID wraparound while in standalone mode.Tom Lane
If OID wraparound should occur while in standalone mode (unlikely but possible), we want to advance the counter to FirstNormalObjectId not FirstBootstrapObjectId. Otherwise, user objects might be created with OIDs in the system-reserved range. That isn't immediately harmful but it poses a risk of conflicts during future pg_upgrade operations. Noted by Andres Freund. Back-patch to all supported branches, since all of them are supported sources for pg_upgrade operations.
2013-05-10Guard against input_rows == 0 in estimate_num_groups().Tom Lane
This case doesn't normally happen, because the planner usually clamps all row estimates to at least one row; but I found that it can arise when dealing with relations excluded by constraints. Without a defense, estimate_num_groups() can return zero, which leads to divisions by zero inside the planner as well as assertion failures in the executor. An alternative fix would be to change set_dummy_rel_pathlist() to make the size estimate for a dummy relation 1 row instead of 0, but that seemed pretty ugly; and probably someday we'll want to drop the convention that the minimum rowcount estimate is 1 row. Back-patch to 8.4, as the problem can be demonstrated that far back.
2013-05-10Fix pgp_pub_decrypt() so it works for secret keys with passwords.Tom Lane
Per report from Keith Fiske. Marko Kreen
2013-05-04docs: log_line_prefix session id fixBruce Momjian
Restore 4-byte designation for docs. Fix 9.3 doc query to properly pad to four digits. Backpatch to all active branches Per suggestions from Ian Lawrence Barwick
2013-05-04doc: fix log_line_prefix session_id %c itemBruce Momjian
Backpatch to 9.1 and earlier Report from Ian Lawrence Barwick
2013-04-25Avoid deadlock between concurrent CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY commands.Tom Lane
There was a high probability of two or more concurrent C.I.C. commands deadlocking just before completion, because each would wait for the others to release their reference snapshots. Fix by releasing the snapshot before waiting for other snapshots to go away. Per report from Paul Hinze. Back-patch to all active branches.
2013-04-20Fix longstanding race condition in plancache.c.Tom Lane
When creating or manipulating a cached plan for a transaction control command (particularly ROLLBACK), we must not perform any catalog accesses, since we might be in an aborted transaction. However, plancache.c busily saved or examined the search_path for every cached plan. If we were unlucky enough to do this at a moment where the path's expansion into schema OIDs wasn't already cached, we'd do some catalog accesses; and with some more bad luck such as an ill-timed signal arrival, that could lead to crashes or Assert failures, as exhibited in bug #8095 from Nachiket Vaidya. Fortunately, there's no real need to consider the search path for such commands, so we can just skip the relevant steps when the subject statement is a TransactionStmt. This is somewhat related to bug #5269, though the failure happens during initial cached-plan creation rather than revalidation. This bug has been there since the plan cache was invented, so back-patch to all supported branches.