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2015-01-12Skip dead backends in MinimumActiveBackendsStephen Frost
Back in ed0b409, PGPROC was split and moved to static variables in procarray.c, with procs in ProcArrayStruct replaced by an array of integers representing process numbers (pgprocnos), with -1 indicating a dead process which has yet to be removed. Access to procArray is generally done under ProcArrayLock and therefore most code does not have to concern itself with -1 entries. However, MinimumActiveBackends intentionally does not take ProcArrayLock, which means it has to be extra careful when accessing procArray. Prior to ed0b409, this was handled by checking for a NULL in the pointer array, but that check was no longer valid after the split. Coverity pointed out that the check could never happen and so it was removed in 5592eba. That didn't make anything worse, but it didn't fix the issue either. The correct fix is to check for pgprocno == -1 and skip over that entry if it is encountered. Back-patch to 9.2, since there can be attempts to access the arrays prior to their start otherwise. Note that the changes prior to 9.4 will look a bit different due to the change in 5592eba. Note that MinimumActiveBackends only returns a bool for heuristic purposes and any pre-array accesses are strictly read-only and so there is no security implication and the lack of fields complaints indicates it's very unlikely to run into issues due to this. Pointed out by Noah.
2015-01-11Fix libpq's behavior when /etc/passwd isn't readable.Tom Lane
Some users run their applications in chroot environments that lack an /etc/passwd file. This means that the current UID's user name and home directory are not obtainable. libpq used to be all right with that, so long as the database role name to use was specified explicitly. But commit a4c8f14364c27508233f8a31ac4b10a4c90235a9 broke such cases by causing any failure of pg_fe_getauthname() to be treated as a hard error. In any case it did little to advance its nominal goal of causing errors in pg_fe_getauthname() to be reported better. So revert that and instead put some real error-reporting code in place. This requires changes to the APIs of pg_fe_getauthname() and pqGetpwuid(), since the latter had departed from the POSIX-specified API of getpwuid_r() in a way that made it impossible to distinguish actual lookup errors from "no such user". To allow such failures to be reported, while not failing if the caller supplies a role name, add a second call of pg_fe_getauthname() in connectOptions2(). This is a tad ugly, and could perhaps be avoided with some refactoring of PQsetdbLogin(), but I'll leave that idea for later. (Note that the complained-of misbehavior only occurs in PQsetdbLogin, not when using the PQconnect functions, because in the latter we will never bother to call pg_fe_getauthname() if the user gives a role name.) In passing also clean up the Windows-side usage of GetUserName(): the recommended buffer size is 257 bytes, the passed buffer length should be the buffer size not buffer size less 1, and any error is reported by GetLastError() not errno. Per report from Christoph Berg. Back-patch to 9.4 where the chroot failure case was introduced. The generally poor reporting of errors here is of very long standing, of course, but given the lack of field complaints about it we won't risk changing these APIs further back (even though they're theoretically internal to libpq).
2015-01-09xlogreader.c: Fix report_invalid_record translatability flagAlvaro Herrera
For some reason I overlooked in GETTEXT_TRIGGERS that the right argument be read by gettext in 7fcbf6a405ffc12a4546a25b98592ee6733783fc. This will drop the translation percentages for the backend all the way back to 9.3 ... Problem reported by Heikki.
2015-01-08Protect against XLogReaderAllocate() failing to allocate memory.Andres Freund
logical.c's StartupDecodingContext() forgot to check whether XLogReaderAllocate() returns NULL indicating a memory allocation failure. This could lead, although quite unlikely, lead to a NULL pointer dereference. This only applies to 9.4 as earlier versions don't do logical decoding, and later versions don't return NULL after allocation failures in XLogReaderAllocate(). Michael Paquier, with minor changes by me.
2015-01-07On Darwin, detect and report a multithreaded postmaster.Noah Misch
Darwin --enable-nls builds use a substitute setlocale() that may start a thread. Buildfarm member orangutan experienced BackendList corruption on account of different postmaster threads executing signal handlers simultaneously. Furthermore, a multithreaded postmaster risks undefined behavior from sigprocmask() and fork(). Emit LOG messages about the problem and its workaround. Back-patch to 9.0 (all supported versions).
2015-01-07Always set the six locale category environment variables in main().Noah Misch
Typical server invocations already achieved that. Invalid locale settings in the initial postmaster environment interfered, as could malloc() failure. Setting "LC_MESSAGES=pt_BR.utf8 LC_ALL=invalid" in the postmaster environment will now choose C-locale messages, not Brazilian Portuguese messages. Most localized programs, including all PostgreSQL frontend executables, do likewise. Users are unlikely to observe changes involving locale categories other than LC_MESSAGES. CheckMyDatabase() ensures that we successfully set LC_COLLATE and LC_CTYPE; main() sets the remaining three categories to locale "C", which almost cannot fail. Back-patch to 9.0 (all supported versions).
2015-01-07Reject ANALYZE commands during VACUUM FULL or another ANALYZE.Noah Misch
vacuum()'s static variable handling makes it non-reentrant; an ensuing null pointer deference crashed the backend. Back-patch to 9.0 (all supported versions).
2015-01-07Correctly handle relcache invalidation corner case during logical decoding.Andres Freund
When using a historic snapshot for logical decoding it can validly happen that a relation that's in the relcache isn't visible to that historic snapshot. E.g. if a newly created relation is referenced in the query that uses the SQL interface for logical decoding and a sinval reset occurs. The earlier commit that fixed the error handling for that corner case already improves the situation as a ERROR is better than hitting an assertion... But it's obviously not good enough. So additionally allow that case without an error if a historic snapshot is set up - that won't allow an invalid entry to stay in the cache because it's a) already marked invalid and will thus be rebuilt during the next access b) the syscaches will be reset at the end of decoding. There might be prettier solutions to handle this case, but all that we could think of so far end up being much more complex than this quite simple fix. This fixes the assertion failures reported by the buildfarm (markhor, tick, leech) after the introduction of new regression tests in 89fd41b390a4. The failure there weren't actually directly caused by CLOBBER_CACHE_ALWAYS but the extraordinary long runtimes due to it lead to sinval resets triggering the behaviour. Discussion: 22459.1418656530@sss.pgh.pa.us Backpatch to 9.4 where logical decoding was introduced.
2015-01-07Improve relcache invalidation handling of currently invisible relations.Andres Freund
The corner case where a relcache invalidation tried to rebuild the entry for a referenced relation but couldn't find it in the catalog wasn't correct. The code tried to RelationCacheDelete/RelationDestroyRelation the entry. That didn't work when assertions are enabled because the latter contains an assertion ensuring the refcount is zero. It's also more generally a bad idea, because by virtue of being referenced somebody might actually look at the entry, which is possible if the error is trapped and handled via a subtransaction abort. Instead just error out, without deleting the entry. As the entry is marked invalid, the worst that can happen is that the invalid (and at some point unused) entry lingers in the relcache. Discussion: 22459.1418656530@sss.pgh.pa.us There should be no way to hit this case < 9.4 where logical decoding introduced a bug that can hit this. But since the code for handling the corner case is there it should do something halfway sane, so backpatch all the the way back. The logical decoding bug will be handled in a separate commit.
2015-01-06Fix thinko in plpython error messageAlvaro Herrera
2015-01-06Update copyright for 2015Bruce Momjian
Backpatch certain files through 9.0
2015-01-05Fix broken pg_dump code for dumping comments on event triggers.Tom Lane
This never worked, I think. Per report from Marc Munro. In passing, fix funny spacing in the COMMENT ON command as a result of excess space in the "label" string.
2015-01-04Fix thinko in lock mode enumAlvaro Herrera
Commit 0e5680f4737a9c6aa94aa9e77543e5de60411322 contained a thinko mixing LOCKMODE with LockTupleMode. This caused misbehavior in the case where a tuple is marked with a multixact with at most a FOR SHARE lock, and another transaction tries to acquire a FOR NO KEY EXCLUSIVE lock; this case should block but doesn't. Include a new isolation tester spec file to explicitely try all the tuple lock combinations; without the fix it shows the problem: starting permutation: s1_begin s1_lcksvpt s1_tuplock2 s2_tuplock3 s1_commit step s1_begin: BEGIN; step s1_lcksvpt: SELECT * FROM multixact_conflict FOR KEY SHARE; SAVEPOINT foo; a 1 step s1_tuplock2: SELECT * FROM multixact_conflict FOR SHARE; a 1 step s2_tuplock3: SELECT * FROM multixact_conflict FOR NO KEY UPDATE; a 1 step s1_commit: COMMIT; With the fixed code, step s2_tuplock3 blocks until session 1 commits, which is the correct behavior. All other cases behave correctly. Backpatch to 9.3, like the commit that introduced the problem.
2015-01-04Correctly handle test durations of more than 2147s in pg_test_timing.Andres Freund
Previously the computation of the total test duration, measured in microseconds, accidentally overflowed due to accidentally using signed 32bit arithmetic. As the only consequence is that pg_test_timing invocations with such, overly large, durations never finished the practical consequences of this bug are minor. Pointed out by Coverity. Backpatch to 9.2 where pg_test_timing was added.
2015-01-04Fix off-by-one in pg_xlogdump's fuzzy_open_file().Andres Freund
In the unlikely case of stdin (fd 0) being closed, the off-by-one would lead to pg_xlogdump failing to open files. Spotted by Coverity. Backpatch to 9.3 where pg_xlogdump was introduced.
2015-01-04Add missing va_end() call to a early exit in dmetaphone.c's StringAt().Andres Freund
Pointed out by Coverity. Backpatch to all supported branches, the code has been that way for a long while.
2015-01-04Fix inconsequential fd leak in the new mark_file_as_archived() function.Andres Freund
As every error in mark_file_as_archived() will lead to a failure of pg_basebackup the FD leak couldn't ever lead to a real problem. It seems better to fix the leak anyway though, rather than silence Coverity, as the usage of the function might get extended or copied at some point in the future. Pointed out by Coverity. Backpatch to 9.2, like the relevant part of the previous patch.
2015-01-03Prevent WAL files created by pg_basebackup -x/X from being archived again.Andres Freund
WAL (and timeline history) files created by pg_basebackup did not maintain the new base backup's archive status. That's currently not a problem if the new node is used as a standby - but if that node is promoted all still existing files can get archived again. With a high wal_keep_segment settings that can happen a significant time later - which is quite confusing. Change both the backend (for the -x/-X fetch case) and pg_basebackup (for -X stream) itself to always mark WAL/timeline files included in the base backup as .done. That's in line with walreceiver.c doing so. The verbosity of the pg_basebackup changes show pretty clearly that it needs some refactoring, but that'd result in not be backpatchable changes. Backpatch to 9.1 where pg_basebackup was introduced. Discussion: 20141205002854.GE21964@awork2.anarazel.de
2015-01-03Add pg_string_endswith as the start of a string helper library in src/common.Andres Freund
Backpatch to 9.3 where src/common was introduce, because a bugfix that needs to be backpatched, requires the function. Earlier branches will have to duplicate the code.
2015-01-03Treat negative values of recovery_min_apply_delay as having no effect.Tom Lane
At one point in the development of this feature, it was claimed that allowing negative values would be useful to compensate for timezone differences between master and slave servers. That was based on a mistaken assumption that commit timestamps are recorded in local time; but of course they're in UTC. Nor is a negative apply delay likely to be a sane way of coping with server clock skew. However, the committed patch still treated negative delays as doing something, and the timezone misapprehension survived in the user documentation as well. If recovery_min_apply_delay were a proper GUC we'd just set the minimum allowed value to be zero; but for the moment it seems better to treat negative settings as if they were zero. In passing do some extra wordsmithing on the parameter's documentation, including correcting a second misstatement that the parameter affects processing of Restore Point records. Issue noted by Michael Paquier, who also provided the code patch; doc changes by me. Back-patch to 9.4 where the feature was introduced.
2015-01-03Make path to pg_service.conf absolute in documentationMagnus Hagander
The system file is always in the absolute path /etc/, not relative. David Fetter
2014-12-31Docs: improve descriptions of ISO week-numbering date features.Tom Lane
Use the phraseology "ISO 8601 week-numbering year" in place of just "ISO year", and make related adjustments to other terminology. The point of this change is that it seems some people see "ISO year" and think "standard year", whereupon they're surprised when constructs like to_char(..., "IYYY-MM-DD") produce nonsensical results. Perhaps hanging a few more adjectives on it will discourage them from jumping to false conclusions. I put in an explicit warning against that specific usage, too, though the main point is to discourage people who haven't read this far down the page. In passing fix some nearby markup and terminology inconsistencies.
2014-12-31Fix trailing whitespace in PO filePeter Eisentraut
2014-12-31Improve consistency of parsing of psql's magic variables.Tom Lane
For simple boolean variables such as ON_ERROR_STOP, psql has for a long time recognized variant spellings of "on" and "off" (such as "1"/"0"), and it also made a point of warning you if you'd misspelled the setting. But these conveniences did not exist for other keyword-valued variables. In particular, though ECHO_HIDDEN and ON_ERROR_ROLLBACK include "on" and "off" as possible values, none of the alternative spellings for those were recognized; and to make matters worse the code would just silently assume "on" was meant for any unrecognized spelling. Several people have reported getting bitten by this, so let's fix it. In detail, this patch: * Allows all spellings recognized by ParseVariableBool() for ECHO_HIDDEN and ON_ERROR_ROLLBACK. * Reports a warning for unrecognized values for COMP_KEYWORD_CASE, ECHO, ECHO_HIDDEN, HISTCONTROL, ON_ERROR_ROLLBACK, and VERBOSITY. * Recognizes all values for all these variables case-insensitively; previously there was a mishmash of case-sensitive and case-insensitive behaviors. Back-patch to all supported branches. There is a small risk of breaking existing scripts that were accidentally failing to malfunction; but the consensus is that the chance of detecting real problems and preventing future mistakes outweighs this.
2014-12-30Revert the GinMaxItemSize calculation so that we fit 3 tuples per page.Heikki Linnakangas
Commit 36a35c55 changed the divisor from 3 to 6, for no apparent reason. Reducing GinMaxItemSize like that created a dump/reload hazard: loading a 9.3 database to 9.4 might fail with "index row size XXX exceeds maximum 1352 for index ..." error. Revert the change. While we're at it, make the calculation slightly more accurate. It used to divide the available space on page by three, then subtract sizeof(ItemIdData), and finally round down. That's not totally accurate; the item pointers for the three items are packed tight right after the page header, but there is alignment padding after the item pointers. Change the calculation to reflect that, like BTMaxItemSize does. I tested this with different block sizes on systems with 4- and 8-byte alignment, and the value after the final MAXALIGN_DOWN was the same with both methods on all configurations. So this does not make any difference currently, but let's be tidy. Also add a comment explaining what the macro does. This fixes bug #12292 reported by Robert Thaler. Backpatch to 9.4, where the bug was introduced.
2014-12-30Fix resource leak pointed out by Coverity.Tatsuo Ishii
2014-12-29Backpatch variable renaming in formatting.cBruce Momjian
Backpatch a9c22d1480aa8e6d97a000292d05ef2b31bbde4e to make future backpatching easier. Backpatch through 9.0
2014-12-29Assorted minor fixes for psql metacommand docs.Tom Lane
Document the long forms of \H \i \ir \o \p \r \w ... apparently, we have a long and dishonorable history of leaving out the unabbreviated names of psql backslash commands. Avoid saying "Unix shell"; we can just say "shell" with equal clarity, and not leave Windows users wondering whether the feature works for them. Improve consistency of documentation of \g \o \w metacommands. There's no reason to use slightly different wording or markup for each one.
2014-12-26Grab heavyweight tuple lock only before sleepingAlvaro Herrera
We were trying to acquire the lock even when we were subsequently not sleeping in some other transaction, which opens us up unnecessarily to deadlocks. In particular, this is troublesome if an update tries to lock an updated version of a tuple and finds itself doing EvalPlanQual update chain walking; more than two sessions doing this concurrently will find themselves sleeping on each other because the HW tuple lock acquisition in heap_lock_tuple called from EvalPlanQualFetch races with the same tuple lock being acquired in heap_update -- one of these sessions sleeps on the other one to finish while holding the tuple lock, and the other one sleeps on the tuple lock. Per trouble report from Andrew Sackville-West in http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20140731233051.GN17765@andrew-ThinkPad-X230 His scenario can be simplified down to a relatively simple isolationtester spec file which I don't include in this commit; the reason is that the current isolationtester is not able to deal with more than one blocked session concurrently and it blocks instead of raising the expected deadlock. In the future, if we improve isolationtester, it would be good to include the spec file in the isolation schedule. I posted it in http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20141212205254.GC1768@alvh.no-ip.org Hat tip to Mark Kirkwood, who helped diagnose the trouble.
2014-12-25Have config_sspi_auth() permit IPv6 localhost connections.Noah Misch
Windows versions later than Windows Server 2003 map "localhost" to ::1. Account for that in the generated pg_hba.conf, fixing another oversight in commit f6dc6dd5ba54d52c0733aaafc50da2fbaeabb8b0. Back-patch to 9.0, like that commit. David Rowley and Noah Misch
2014-12-25Remove duplicate include of slot.h.Fujii Masao
Back-patch to 9.4, where this problem was added.
2014-12-24Add CST (China Standard Time) to our lists of timezone abbreviations.Tom Lane
For some reason this seems to have been missed when the lists in src/timezone/tznames/ were first constructed. We can't put it in Default because of the conflict with US CST, but we should certainly list it among the alternative entries in Asia.txt. (I checked for other oversights, but all the other abbreviations that are in current use according to the IANA files seem to be accounted for.) Noted while responding to bug #12326.
2014-12-24Fix installcheck case for tap testsAndrew Dunstan
2014-12-22Further tidy up on json aggregate documentationAndrew Dunstan
2014-12-22Fix documentation of argument type of json_agg and jsonb_aggAndrew Dunstan
json_agg was originally designed to aggregate records. However, it soon became clear that it is useful for aggregating all kinds of values and that's what we have on 9.3 and 9.4, and in head for it and jsonb_agg. The documentation suggested otherwise, so this fixes it.
2014-12-21Docs: clarify treatment of variadic functions with zero variadic arguments.Tom Lane
Explain that you have to use "VARIADIC ARRAY[]" to pass an empty array to a variadic parameter position. This was already implicit in the text but it seems better to spell it out. Per a suggestion from David Johnston, though I didn't use his proposed wording. Back-patch to all supported branches.
2014-12-19Fix timestamp in end-of-recovery WAL records.Heikki Linnakangas
We used time(null) to set a TimestampTz field, which gave bogus results. Noticed while looking at pg_xlogdump output. Backpatch to 9.3 and above, where the fast promotion was introduced.
2014-12-19Prevent potentially hazardous compiler/cpu reordering during lwlock release.Andres Freund
In LWLockRelease() (and in 9.4+ LWLockUpdateVar()) we release enqueued waiters using PGSemaphoreUnlock(). As there are other sources of such unlocks backends only wake up if MyProc->lwWaiting is set to false; which is only done in the aforementioned functions. Before this commit there were dangers because the store to lwWaitLink could become visible before the store to lwWaitLink. This could both happen due to compiler reordering (on most compilers) and on some platforms due to the CPU reordering stores. The possible consequence of this is that a backend stops waiting before lwWaitLink is set to NULL. If that backend then tries to acquire another lock and has to wait there the list could become corrupted once the lwWaitLink store is finally performed. Add a write memory barrier to prevent that issue. Unfortunately the barrier support has been only added in 9.2. Given that the issue has not knowingly been observed in praxis it seems sufficient to prohibit compiler reordering using volatile for 9.0 and 9.1. Actual problems due to compiler reordering are more likely anyway. Discussion: 20140210134625.GA15246@awork2.anarazel.de
2014-12-18Improve documentation about CASE and constant subexpressions.Tom Lane
The possibility that constant subexpressions of a CASE might be evaluated at planning time was touched on in 9.17.1 (CASE expressions), but it really ought to be explained in 4.2.14 (Expression Evaluation Rules) which is the primary discussion of such topics. Add text and an example there, and revise the <note> under CASE to link there. Back-patch to all supported branches, since it's acted like this for a long time (though 9.2+ is probably worse because of its more aggressive use of constant-folding via replanning of nominally-prepared statements). Pre-9.4, also back-patch text added in commit 0ce627d4 about CASE versus aggregate functions. Tom Lane and David Johnston, per discussion of bug #12273.
2014-12-18Recognize Makefile line continuations in fetchRegressOpts().Noah Misch
Back-patch to 9.0 (all supported versions). This is mere future-proofing in the context of the master branch, but commit f6dc6dd5ba54d52c0733aaafc50da2fbaeabb8b0 requires it of older branches.
2014-12-18Fix (re-)starting from a basebackup taken off a standby after a failure.Andres Freund
When starting up from a basebackup taken off a standby extra logic has to be applied to compute the point where the data directory is consistent. Normal base backups use a WAL record for that purpose, but that isn't possible on a standby. That logic had a error check ensuring that the cluster's control file indicates being in recovery. Unfortunately that check was too strict, disregarding the fact that the control file could also indicate that the cluster was shut down while in recovery. That's possible when the a cluster starting from a basebackup is shut down before the backup label has been removed. When everything goes well that's a short window, but when either restore_command or primary_conninfo isn't configured correctly the window can get much wider. That's because inbetween reading and unlinking the label we restore the last checkpoint from WAL which can need additional WAL. To fix simply also allow starting when the control file indicates "shutdown in recovery". There's nicer fixes imaginable, but they'd be more invasive. Backpatch to 9.2 where support for taking basebackups from standbys was added.
2014-12-18Fix previous commit for TAP test suites in VPATH builds.Noah Misch
Per buildfarm member crake. Back-patch to 9.4, where the TAP suites were introduced.
2014-12-17Lock down regression testing temporary clusters on Windows.Noah Misch
Use SSPI authentication to allow connections exclusively from the OS user that launched the test suite. This closes on Windows the vulnerability that commit be76a6d39e2832d4b88c0e1cc381aa44a7f86881 closed on other platforms. Users of "make installcheck" or custom test harnesses can run "pg_regress --config-auth=DATADIR" to activate the same authentication configuration that "make check" would use. Back-patch to 9.0 (all supported versions). Security: CVE-2014-0067
2014-12-17Fix another poorly worded error message.Tom Lane
Spotted by Álvaro Herrera.
2014-12-17Fix poorly worded error message.Tom Lane
Adam Brightwell, per report from Martín Marqués.
2014-12-17Update .gitignore for pg_upgradeMagnus Hagander
Add Windows versions of generated scripts, and make sure we only ignore the scripts int he root directory. Michael Paquier
2014-12-17Add missing documentation for some vcregress modesMagnus Hagander
Michael Paquier
2014-12-17Remove redundant sentenceMagnus Hagander
Spotted by David Johnston
2014-12-16Fix off-by-one loop count in MapArrayTypeName, and get rid of static array.Tom Lane
MapArrayTypeName would copy up to NAMEDATALEN-1 bytes of the base type name, which of course is wrong: after prepending '_' there is only room for NAMEDATALEN-2 bytes. Aside from being the wrong result, this case would lead to overrunning the statically allocated work buffer. This would be a security bug if the function were ever used outside bootstrap mode, but it isn't, at least not in any currently supported branches. Aside from fixing the off-by-one loop logic, this patch gets rid of the static work buffer by having MapArrayTypeName pstrdup its result; the sole caller was already doing that, so this just requires moving the pstrdup call. This saves a few bytes but mainly it makes the API a lot cleaner. Back-patch on the off chance that there is some third-party code using MapArrayTypeName with less-secure input. Pushing pstrdup into the function should not cause any serious problems for such hypothetical code; at worst there might be a short term memory leak. Per Coverity scanning.
2014-12-16Suppress bogus statistics when pgbench failed to complete any transactions.Tom Lane
Code added in 9.4 would attempt to divide by zero in such cases. Noted while testing fix for missing-pclose problem.