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2006-02-12Fix bug that allowed any logged-in user to SET ROLE to any other database userTom Lane
id (CVE-2006-0553). Also fix related bug in SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION that allows unprivileged users to crash the server, if it has been compiled with Asserts enabled. The escalation-of-privilege risk exists only in 8.1.0-8.1.2. However, the Assert-crash risk exists in all releases back to 7.3. Thanks to Akio Ishida for reporting this problem.
2006-02-10Change search for default operator classes so that it examines all opclassesTom Lane
regardless of the current schema search path. Since CREATE OPERATOR CLASS only allows one default opclass per datatype regardless of schemas, this should have minimal impact, and it fixes problems with failure to find a desired opclass while restoring dump files. Per discussion at http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-02/msg00284.php. Remove now-redundant-or-unused code in typcache.c and namespace.c, and backpatch as far as 8.0.
2006-01-30Fix ALTER COLUMN TYPE bug: it sometimes tried to drop UNIQUE or PRIMARY KEYTom Lane
constraints before FOREIGN KEY constraints that depended on them. Originally reported by Neil Conway on 29-Jun-2005. Patch by Nakano Yoshihisa.
2006-01-19It turns out that TablespaceCreateDbspace fails badly if a relcache flushTom Lane
occurs when it tries to heap_open pg_tablespace. When control returns to smgrcreate, that routine will be holding a dangling pointer to a closed SMgrRelation, resulting in mayhem. This is of course a consequence of the violation of proper module layering inherent in having smgr.c call a tablespace command routine, but the simplest fix seems to be to change the locking mechanism. There's no real need for TablespaceCreateDbspace to touch pg_tablespace at all --- it's only opening it as a way of locking against a parallel DROP TABLESPACE command. A much better answer is to create a special-purpose LWLock to interlock these two operations. This drops TablespaceCreateDbspace quite a few layers down the food chain and makes it something reasonably safe for smgr to call.
2006-01-18Modify pgstats code to reduce performance penalties from oversized stats dataTom Lane
files: avoid creating stats hashtable entries for tables that aren't being touched except by vacuum/analyze, ensure that entries for dropped tables are removed promptly, and tweak the data layout to avoid storing useless struct padding. Also improve the performance of pgstat_vacuum_tabstat(), and make sure that autovacuum invokes it exactly once per autovac cycle rather than multiple times or not at all. This should cure recent complaints about 8.1 showing much higher stats I/O volume than was seen in 8.0. It'd still be a good idea to revisit the design with an eye to not re-writing the entire stats dataset every half second ... but that would be too much to backpatch, I fear.
2006-01-12Repair "Halloween problem" in EvalPlanQual: a tuple that's been inserted byTom Lane
our own command (or more generally, xmin = our xact and cmin >= current command ID) should not be seen as good. Else we may try to update rows we already updated. This error was inserted last August while fixing the even bigger problem that the old coding wouldn't see *any* tuples inserted by our own transaction as good. Per report from Euler Taveira de Oliveira.
2006-01-04Fix another case in which autovacuum would fail while analyzingTom Lane
expressional indexes. Per report from Brian Hirt.
2005-12-28Add regression tests for CSV and \., and add automatic quoting of aBruce Momjian
single column dump that has a \. value, so the load works properly. I also added documentation describing this issue. Backpatch to 8.1.X.
2005-12-27Our code had:Bruce Momjian
if (c == '\\' && cstate->line_buf.len == 0) The problem with that is the because of the input and _output_ buffering, cstate->line_buf.len could be zero even if we are not on the first character of a line. In fact, for a typical line, it is zero for all characters on the line. The proper solution is to introduce a boolean, first_char_in_line, that we set as we enter the loop and clear once we process a character. I have restructured the line-reading code in copy.c by: o merging the CSV/non-CSV functions into a single function o used macros to centralize and clarify the buffering code o updated comments o renamed client_encoding_only to encoding_embeds_ascii o added a high-bit test to the encoding_embeds_ascii test for performance o in CSV mode, allow a backslash followed by a non-period to continue being processed as a data value There should be no performance impact from this patch because it is functionally equivalent. If you apply the patch you will see copy.c is much clearer in this area now and might suggest additional optimizations. I have also attached a 8.1-only patch to fix the CSV \. handling bug with no code restructuring.
2005-12-14Defend against crash while processing Describe Statement or Describe PortalTom Lane
messages, when client attempts to execute these outside a transaction (start one) or in a failed transaction (reject message, except for COMMIT/ROLLBACK statements which we can handle). Per report from Francisco Figueiredo Jr.
2005-11-22Re-run pgindent, fixing a problem where comment lines after a blankBruce Momjian
comment line where output as too long, and update typedefs for /lib directory. Also fix case where identifiers were used as variable names in the backend, but as typedefs in ecpg (favor the backend for indenting). Backpatch to 8.1.X.
2005-11-04Disregard superuserness when checking to see if a role GRANT wouldTom Lane
create circularity of role memberships. This is a minimum-impact fix for the problem reported by Florian Pflug. I thought about removing the superuser_arg test from is_member_of_role() altogether, as it seems redundant for many of the callers --- but not all, and it's way too late in the 8.1 cycle to be making large changes. Perhaps reconsider this later.
2005-11-03Rename the members of CommandDest enum so they don't collide with other uses ofAlvaro Herrera
those names. (Debug and None were pretty bad names anyway.) I hope I catched all uses of the names in comments too.
2005-10-29Message correctionsPeter Eisentraut
2005-10-21Fix EXPLAIN ANALYZE bug noted by Wiebe Cazemier: although we wereTom Lane
properly advancing the CommandCounter between multiple sub-queries generated by rules, we forgot to update the snapshot being used, so that the successive sub-queries didn't actually see each others' results. This is still not *exactly* like the semantics of normal execution of the same queries, in that we don't take new transaction snapshots and hence don't see changes from concurrently committed commands, but I think that's OK and probably even preferable for EXPLAIN ANALYZE.
2005-10-18A few trivial code cleanups motivated by reading warnings generatedTom Lane
by a recent HP C compiler. Mostly, get rid of useless local variables that are assigned to but never used.
2005-10-17Clean up libpq's pollution of application namespace by renaming theTom Lane
exported routines of ip.c, md5.c, and fe-auth.c to begin with 'pg_'. Also get rid of the vestigial fe_setauthsvc/fe_getauthsvc routines altogether.
2005-10-15Standard pgindent run for 8.1.Bruce Momjian
2005-10-10Use a safer order of operations in dropdb(): rollbackable operations,Tom Lane
ie removing shared-dependency entries, should happen before non-rollbackable ones. That way a failure during the rollbackable part doesn't leave us with inconsistent state.
2005-10-06Minor API cleanup for async notifications: we can only register theNeil Conway
current backend in pg_listener, so there is little point in making the PID to register part of async.c's public API. Other minor tweaks.
2005-10-03COPY's test for read-only transaction was backward; it prohibited COPY TOTom Lane
where it should prohibit COPY FROM. Found by Alon Goldshuv.
2005-10-03Separate out the VacRUsage stuff as an independent module, in preparationTom Lane
for using it for other things besides VACUUM.
2005-10-03Preserve tuple OIDs during ATRewriteTable. Per gripe from Duncan Crombie.Tom Lane
2005-10-02Change nextval and other sequence functions to specify their sequenceTom Lane
argument as a 'regclass' value instead of a text string. The frontend conversion of text string to pg_class OID is now encapsulated as an implicitly-invocable coercion from text to regclass. This provides backwards compatibility to the old behavior when the sequence argument is explicitly typed as 'text'. When the argument is just an unadorned literal string, it will be taken as 'regclass', which means that the stored representation will be an OID. This solves longstanding problems with renaming sequences that are referenced in default expressions, as well as new-in-8.1 problems with renaming such sequences' schemas or moving them to another schema. All per recent discussion. Along the way, fix some rather serious problems in dbmirror's support for mirroring sequence operations (int4 vs int8 confusion for instance).
2005-09-24Clean up possibly-uninitialized-variable warnings reported by gcc 4.x.Tom Lane
2005-09-24Suppress signed-vs-unsigned-char warnings.Tom Lane
2005-09-22Take exclusive buffer lock in scan_heap() to eliminate some corner casesTom Lane
in which invalid page data could be transiently written to disk by concurrent bgwriter activity. There doesn't seem any risk of loss of actual user data, but an empty page could possibly be left corrupt if a crash occurs before the correct data gets written out. Pointed out by Alvaro Herrera.
2005-09-08Create the pg_pltemplate system catalog to hold template informationTom Lane
for procedural languages. This replaces the hard-wired table I had originally proposed as a stopgap solution. For the moment, the initial contents only include languages shipped with the core distribution.
2005-09-05Implement a preliminary 'template' facility for procedural languages,Tom Lane
as per my recent proposal. For now the template data is hard-wired in proclang.c --- this should be replaced later by a new shared system catalog, but we don't want to force initdb during 8.1 beta. This change lets us cleanly load existing dump files even if they contain outright wrong information about a PL's support functions, such as a wrong path to the shared library or a missing validator function. Also, we can revert the recent kluges to make pg_dump dump PL support functions that are stored in pg_catalog. While at it, I removed the code in pg_regress that replaced $libdir with a hardcoded path for temporary installations. This is no longer needed given our support for relocatable installations.
2005-09-02Clean up a couple of ad-hoc computations of the maximum number of tuplesTom Lane
on a page, as suggested by ITAGAKI Takahiro. Also, change a few places that were using some other estimates of max-items-per-page to consistently use MaxOffsetNumber. This is conservatively large --- we could have used the new MaxHeapTuplesPerPage macro, or a similar one for index tuples --- but those places are simply declaring a fixed-size buffer and assuming it will work, rather than actively testing for overrun. It seems safer to size these buffers in a way that can't overflow even if the page is corrupt.
2005-09-01Fix unportable uses of <ctype.h> functions. Per Sergey Koposov.Tom Lane
2005-08-30DropTableSpace forgot to remove dependency on tablespace's owner.Tom Lane
Per report from Jaime Casanova.
2005-08-26Arrange for indexes and toast tables to inherit their ownership fromTom Lane
the parent table, even if the command that creates them is executed by someone else (such as a superuser or a member of the owning role). Per gripe from Michael Fuhr.
2005-08-24Fix ExecBRDeleteTriggers so that deletion is not suppressed when deleteTom Lane
triggers exist but are all disabled. Problem noted by Gavin Sherry in original discussion of enable/disable trigger patch, but was never addressed.
2005-08-23Add ALTER TABLE ENABLE/DISABLE TRIGGER commands. Change pg_dump toTom Lane
use these instead of its previous hack of changing pg_class.reltriggers. Documentation is lacking, will add that later. Patch by Satoshi Nagayasu, review and some extra work by Tom Lane.
2005-08-23Fix wrong dependency on owner created by ALTER OPCLASS OWNER.Tom Lane
Per Alvaro.
2005-08-22Cause ALTER INDEX OWNER to generate a warning and do nothing, rather thanTom Lane
erroring out as it has done for the last couple weeks. Document that this form is now ignored because indexes can't usefully have different owners from their parent tables. Fix pg_dump to not generate ALTER OWNER commands for indexes.
2005-08-22Fix unwanted denial of ALTER OWNER rights to superusers. There was someTom Lane
discussion of getting around this by relaxing the checks made for regular users, but I'm disinclined to toy with the security model right now, so just special-case it for superusers where needed.
2005-08-20Convert the arithmetic for shared memory size calculation from 'int'Tom Lane
to 'Size' (that is, size_t), and install overflow detection checks in it. This allows us to remove the former arbitrary restrictions on NBuffers etc. It won't make any difference in a 32-bit machine, but in a 64-bit machine you could theoretically have terabytes of shared buffers. (How efficiently we could manage 'em remains to be seen.) Similarly, num_temp_buffers, work_mem, and maintenance_work_mem can be set above 2Gb on a 64-bit machine. Original patch from Koichi Suzuki, additional work by moi.
2005-08-20Repair problems with VACUUM destroying t_ctid chains too soon, and withTom Lane
insufficient paranoia in code that follows t_ctid links. (We must do both because even with VACUUM doing it properly, the intermediate state with a dangling t_ctid link is visible concurrently during lazy VACUUM, and could be seen afterwards if either type of VACUUM crashes partway through.) Also try to improve documentation about what's going on. Patch is a bit bulky because passing the XMAX information around required changing the APIs of some low-level heapam.c routines, but it's not conceptually very complicated. Per trouble report from Teodor and subsequent analysis. This needs to be back-patched, but I'll do that after 8.1 beta is out.
2005-08-12Solve the problem of OID collisions by probing for duplicate OIDsTom Lane
whenever we generate a new OID. This prevents occasional duplicate-OID errors that can otherwise occur once the OID counter has wrapped around. Duplicate relfilenode values are also checked for when creating new physical files. Per my recent proposal.
2005-08-08Fix crash when reading 'timezone = unknown' from postgresql.conf duringTom Lane
SIGHUP; it's not OK for an assign_hook to return a non-malloc'd string. Problem was introduced during timezone library rewrite.
2005-08-06COPY performance improvements. Avoid calling CopyGetData for each inputTom Lane
character, tighten the inner loops of CopyReadLine and CopyReadAttribute, arrange to parse out all the attributes of a line in just one call instead of one CopyReadAttribute call per attribute, be smarter about which client encodings require slow pg_encoding_mblen() loops. Also, clean up the mishmash of static variables and overly-long parameter lists in favor of passing around a single CopyState struct containing all the state data. Original patch by Alon Goldshuv, reworked by Tom Lane.
2005-08-04ALTER TABLE OWNER must change the ownership of the table's rowtype too.Tom Lane
This was not especially critical before, but it is now that we track ownership dependencies --- the dependency for the rowtype *must* shift to the new owner. Spotted by Bernd Helmle. Also fix a problem introduced by recent change to allow non-superusers to do ALTER OWNER in some cases: if the table had a toast table, ALTER OWNER failed *even for superusers*, because the test being applied would conclude that the new would-be owner had no create rights on pg_toast. A side-effect of the fix is to disallow changing the ownership of indexes or toast tables separately from their parent table, which seems a good idea on the whole.
2005-08-02Clean up CREATE DATABASE processing to make it more robust and get ridTom Lane
of special case for Windows port. Put a PG_TRY around most of createdb() to ensure that we remove copied subdirectories on failure, even if the failure happens while creating the pg_database row. (I think this explains Oliver Siegmar's recent report.) Having done that, there's no need for the fragile assumption that copydir() mustn't ereport(ERROR), so simplify its API. Eliminate the old code that used system("cp ...") to copy subdirectories, in favor of using copydir() on all platforms. This not only should allow much better error reporting, but allows us to fsync the created files before trusting that the copy has succeeded.
2005-08-01Add NOWAIT option to SELECT FOR UPDATE/SHARE.Tom Lane
Original patch by Hans-Juergen Schoenig, revisions by Karel Zak and Tom Lane.
2005-08-01Add ALTER object SET SCHEMA capability for a limited but useful set ofTom Lane
object kinds (tables, functions, types). Documentation is not here yet. Original code by Bernd Helmle, extensive rework by Bruce Momjian and Tom Lane.
2005-07-31Add per-user and per-database connection limit options.Tom Lane
This patch also includes preliminary update of pg_dumpall for roles. Petr Jelinek, with review by Bruce Momjian and Tom Lane.
2005-07-29Clean up a number of autovacuum loose ends. Make the stats collectorTom Lane
track shared relations in a separate hashtable, so that operations done from different databases are counted correctly. Add proper support for anti-XID-wraparound vacuuming, even in databases that are never connected to and so have no stats entries. Miscellaneous other bug fixes. Alvaro Herrera, some additional fixes by Tom Lane.
2005-07-26Minor correction: cause ALTER ROLE role ROLE rolenames to behaveTom Lane
sensibly, even though we don't document it.