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2018-02-27Prevent dangling-pointer access when update trigger returns old tuple.Tom Lane
A before-update row trigger may choose to return the "new" or "old" tuple unmodified. ExecBRUpdateTriggers failed to consider the second possibility, and would proceed to free the "old" tuple even if it was the one returned, leading to subsequent access to already-deallocated memory. In debug builds this reliably leads to an "invalid memory alloc request size" failure; in production builds it might accidentally work, but data corruption is also possible. This is a very old bug. There are probably a couple of reasons it hasn't been noticed up to now. It would be more usual to return NULL if one wanted to suppress the update action; returning "old" is significantly less efficient since the update will occur anyway. Also, none of the standard PLs would ever cause this because they all returned freshly-manufactured tuples even if they were just copying "old". But commit 4b93f5799 changed that for plpgsql, making it possible to see the bug with a plpgsql trigger. Still, this is certainly legal behavior for a trigger function, so it's ExecBRUpdateTriggers's fault not plpgsql's. It seems worth creating a test case that exercises returning "old" directly with a C-language trigger; testing this through plpgsql seems unreliable because its behavior might change again. Report and fix by Rushabh Lathia; regression test case by me. Back-patch to all supported branches. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAGPqQf1P4pjiNPrMof=P_16E-DFjt457j+nH2ex3=nBTew7tXw@mail.gmail.com
2018-01-19Fix StoreCatalogInheritance1 to use 32bit inhseqnoAlvaro Herrera
For no apparent reason, this function was using a 16bit-wide inhseqno value, rather than the correct 32 bit width which is what is stored in the pg_inherits catalog. This becomes evident if you try to create a table with more than 65535 parents, because this error appears: ERROR: duplicate key value violates unique constraint «pg_inherits_relid_seqno_index» DETAIL: Key (inhrelid, inhseqno)=(329371, 0) already exists. Needless to say, having so many parents is an uncommon situations, which explains why this error has never been reported despite being having been introduced with the Postgres95 1.01 sources in commit d31084e9d111: https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=blob;f=src/backend/commands/creatinh.c;hb=d31084e9d111#l349 Backpatch all the way back. David Rowley noticed this while reviewing a patch of mine. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKJS1f8Dn7swSEhOWwzZzssW7747YB=2Hi+T7uGud40dur69-g@mail.gmail.com
2018-01-02Fix deadlock hazard in CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLYAlvaro Herrera
Multiple sessions doing CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY simultaneously are supposed to be able to work in parallel, as evidenced by fixes in commit c3d09b3bd23f specifically to support this case. In reality, one of the sessions would be aborted by a misterious "deadlock detected" error. Jeff Janes diagnosed that this is because of leftover snapshots used for system catalog scans -- this was broken by 8aa3e47510b9 keeping track of (registering) the catalog snapshot. To fix the deadlocks, it's enough to de-register that snapshot prior to waiting. Backpatch to 9.4, which introduced MVCC catalog scans. Include an isolationtester spec that 8 out of 10 times reproduces the deadlock with the unpatched code for me (Álvaro). Author: Jeff Janes Diagnosed-by: Jeff Janes Reported-by: Jeremy Finzel Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMa1XUhHjCv8Qkx0WOr1Mpm_R4qxN26EibwCrj0Oor2YBUFUTg%40mail.gmail.com
2017-12-14Perform a lot more sanity checks when freezing tuples.Andres Freund
The previous commit has shown that the sanity checks around freezing aren't strong enough. Strengthening them seems especially important because the existance of the bug has caused corruption that we don't want to make even worse during future vacuum cycles. The errors are emitted with ereport rather than elog, despite being "should never happen" messages, so a proper error code is emitted. To avoid superflous translations, mark messages as internal. Author: Andres Freund and Alvaro Herrera Reviewed-By: Alvaro Herrera, Michael Paquier Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20171102112019.33wb7g5wp4zpjelu@alap3.anarazel.de Backpatch: 9.3-
2017-11-05Ignore CatalogSnapshot when checking COPY FREEZE prerequisites.Noah Misch
This restores the ability, essentially lost in commit ffaa44cb559db332baeee7d25dedd74a61974203, to use COPY FREEZE under REPEATABLE READ isolation. Back-patch to 9.4, like that commit. Reviewed by Tom Lane. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoahWDm-7fperBxzU9uZ99LPMUmEpSXLTw9TmrOgzwnORw@mail.gmail.com
2017-11-02Revert bogus fixes of HOT-freezing bugAlvaro Herrera
It turns out we misdiagnosed what the real problem was. Revert the previous changes, because they may have worse consequences going forward. A better fix is forthcoming. The simplistic test case is kept, though disabled. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20171102112019.33wb7g5wp4zpjelu@alap3.anarazel.de
2017-10-11Fix low-probability loss of NOTIFY messages due to XID wraparound.Tom Lane
Up to now async.c has used TransactionIdIsInProgress() to detect whether a notify message's source transaction is still running. However, that function has a quick-exit path that reports that XIDs before RecentXmin are no longer running. If a listening backend is doing nothing but listening, and not running any queries, there is nothing that will advance its value of RecentXmin. Once 2 billion transactions elapse, the RecentXmin check causes active transactions to be reported as not running. If they aren't committed yet according to CLOG, async.c decides they aborted and discards their messages. The timing for that is a bit tight but it can happen when multiple backends are sending notifies concurrently. The net symptom therefore is that a sufficiently-long-surviving listen-only backend starts to miss some fraction of NOTIFY traffic, but only under heavy load. The only function that updates RecentXmin is GetSnapshotData(). A brute-force fix would therefore be to take a snapshot before processing incoming notify messages. But that would add cycles, as well as contention for the ProcArrayLock. We can be smarter: having taken the snapshot, let's use that to check for running XIDs, and not call TransactionIdIsInProgress() at all. In this way we reduce the number of ProcArrayLock acquisitions from one per message to one per notify interrupt; that's the same under light load but should be a benefit under heavy load. Light testing says that this change is a wash performance-wise for normal loads. I looked around for other callers of TransactionIdIsInProgress() that might be at similar risk, and didn't find any; all of them are inside transactions that presumably have already taken a snapshot. Problem report and diagnosis by Marko Tiikkaja, patch by me. Back-patch to all supported branches, since it's been like this since 9.0. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170926182935.14128.65278@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2017-09-28Fix freezing of a dead HOT-updated tupleAlvaro Herrera
Vacuum calls page-level HOT prune to remove dead HOT tuples before doing liveness checks (HeapTupleSatisfiesVacuum) on the remaining tuples. But concurrent transaction commit/abort may turn DEAD some of the HOT tuples that survived the prune, before HeapTupleSatisfiesVacuum tests them. This happens to activate the code that decides to freeze the tuple ... which resuscitates it, duplicating data. (This is especially bad if there's any unique constraints, because those are now internally violated due to the duplicate entries, though you won't know until you try to REINDEX or dump/restore the table.) One possible fix would be to simply skip doing anything to the tuple, and hope that the next HOT prune would remove it. But there is a problem: if the tuple is older than freeze horizon, this would leave an unfrozen XID behind, and if no HOT prune happens to clean it up before the containing pg_clog segment is truncated away, it'd later cause an error when the XID is looked up. Fix the problem by having the tuple freezing routines cope with the situation: don't freeze the tuple (and keep it dead). In the cases that the XID is older than the freeze age, set the HEAP_XMAX_COMMITTED flag so that there is no need to look up the XID in pg_clog later on. An isolation test is included, authored by Michael Paquier, loosely based on Daniel Wood's original reproducer. It only tests one particular scenario, though, not all the possible ways for this problem to surface; it be good to have a more reliable way to test this more fully, but it'd require more work. In message https://postgr.es/m/20170911140103.5akxptyrwgpc25bw@alvherre.pgsql I outlined another test case (more closely matching Dan Wood's) that exposed a few more ways for the problem to occur. Backpatch all the way back to 9.3, where this problem was introduced by multixact juggling. In branches 9.3 and 9.4, this includes a backpatch of commit e5ff9fefcd50 (of 9.5 era), since the original is not correctable without matching the coding pattern in 9.5 up. Reported-by: Daniel Wood Diagnosed-by: Daniel Wood Reviewed-by: Yi Wen Wong, Michaël Paquier Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E5711E62-8FDF-4DCA-A888-C200BF6B5742@amazon.com
2017-09-26Improve wording of error message added in commit 714805010.Tom Lane
Per suggestions from Peter Eisentraut and David Johnston. Back-patch, like the previous commit. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1dv9jI-0006oT-Fn@gemulon.postgresql.org
2017-09-23Fix saving and restoring umaskPeter Eisentraut
In two cases, we set a different umask for some piece of code and restore it afterwards. But if the contained code errors out, the umask is not restored. So add TRY/CATCH blocks to fix that.
2017-09-21Give a better error for duplicate entries in VACUUM/ANALYZE column list.Tom Lane
Previously, the code didn't think about this case and would just try to analyze such a column twice. That would fail at the point of inserting the second version of the pg_statistic row, with obscure error messsages like "duplicate key value violates unique constraint" or "tuple already updated by self", depending on context and PG version. We could allow the case by ignoring duplicate column specifications, but it seems better to reject it explicitly. The bogus error messages seem like arguably a bug, so back-patch to all supported versions. Nathan Bossart, per a report from Michael Paquier, and whacked around a bit by me. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E061A8E3-5E3D-494D-94F0-E8A9B312BBFC@amazon.com
2017-09-17Fix possible dangling pointer dereference in trigger.c.Tom Lane
AfterTriggerEndQuery correctly notes that the query_stack could get repalloc'd during a trigger firing, but it nonetheless passes the address of a query_stack entry to afterTriggerInvokeEvents, so that if such a repalloc occurs, afterTriggerInvokeEvents is already working with an obsolete dangling pointer while it scans the rest of the events. Oops. The only code at risk is its "delete_ok" cleanup code, so we can prevent unsafe behavior by passing delete_ok = false instead of true. However, that could have a significant performance penalty, because the point of passing delete_ok = true is to not have to re-scan possibly a large number of dead trigger events on the next time through the loop. There's more than one way to skin that cat, though. What we can do is delete all the "chunks" in the event list except the last one, since we know all events in them must be dead. Deleting the chunks is work we'd have had to do later in AfterTriggerEndQuery anyway, and it ends up saving rescanning of just about the same events we'd have gotten rid of with delete_ok = true. In v10 and HEAD, we also have to be careful to mop up any per-table after_trig_events pointers that would become dangling. This is slightly annoying, but I don't think that normal use-cases will traverse this code path often enough for it to be a performance problem. It's pretty hard to hit this in practice because of the unlikelihood of the query_stack getting resized at just the wrong time. Nonetheless, it's definitely a live bug of ancient standing, so back-patch to all supported branches. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2891.1505419542@sss.pgh.pa.us
2017-08-09Fix handling of container types in find_composite_type_dependencies.Tom Lane
find_composite_type_dependencies correctly found columns that are of the specified type, and columns that are of arrays of that type, but not columns that are domains or ranges over the given type, its array type, etc. The most general way to handle this seems to be to assume that any type that is directly dependent on the specified type can be treated as a container type, and processed recursively (allowing us to handle nested cases such as ranges over domains over arrays ...). Since a type's array type already has such a dependency, we can drop the existing special case for the array type. The very similar logic in get_rels_with_domain was likewise a few bricks shy of a load, as it supposed that a directly dependent type could *only* be a sub-domain. This is already wrong for ranges over domains, and it'll someday be wrong for arrays over domains. Add test cases illustrating the problems, and back-patch to all supported branches. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15268.1502309024@sss.pgh.pa.us
2017-06-16Fix dependency, when changing a function's argument/return type.Heikki Linnakangas
When a new base type is created using the old-style procedure of first creating the input/output functions with "opaque" in place of the base type, the "opaque" argument/return type is changed to the final base type, on CREATE TYPE. However, we did not create a pg_depend record when doing that, so the functions were left not depending on the type. Fixes bug #14706, reported by Karen Huddleston. Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20170614232259.1424.82774@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2017-05-02Ensure commands in extension scripts see the results of preceding DDL.Tom Lane
Due to a missing CommandCounterIncrement() call, parsing of a non-utility command in an extension script would not see the effects of the immediately preceding DDL command, unless that command's execution ends with CommandCounterIncrement() internally ... which some do but many don't. Report by Philippe Beaudoin, diagnosis by Julien Rouhaud. Rather remarkably, this bug has evaded detection since extensions were invented, so back-patch to all supported branches. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2cf7941e-4e41-7714-3de8-37b1a8f74dff@free.fr
2017-04-28Fix VALIDATE CONSTRAINT to consider NO INHERIT attribute.Robert Haas
Currently, trying to validate a NO INHERIT constraint on the parent will search for the constraint in child tables (where it is not supposed to exist), wrongly causing a "constraint does not exist" error. Amit Langote, per a report from Hans Buschmann. Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/20170421184012.24362.19@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2017-03-16Avoid having vacuum set reltuples to 0 on non-empty relations in theAndrew Gierth
presence of page pins, which leads to serious estimation errors in the planner. This particularly affects small heavily-accessed tables, especially where locking (e.g. from FK constraints) forces frequent vacuums for mxid cleanup. Fix by keeping separate track of pages whose live tuples were actually counted vs. pages that were only scanned for freezing purposes. Thus, reltuples can only be set to 0 if all pages of the relation were actually counted. Backpatch to all supported versions. Per bug #14057 from Nicolas Baccelli, analyzed by me. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20160331103739.8956.94469@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2017-02-12Ignore tablespace ACLs when ignoring schema ACLs.Noah Misch
The ALTER TABLE ALTER TYPE implementation can issue DROP INDEX and CREATE INDEX to refit existing indexes for the new column type. Since this CREATE INDEX is an implementation detail of an index alteration, the ensuing DefineIndex() should skip ACL checks specific to index creation. It already skips the namespace ACL check. Make it skip the tablespace ACL check, too. Back-patch to 9.2 (all supported versions). Reviewed by Tom Lane.
2017-02-06Fix typos in comments.Heikki Linnakangas
Backpatch to all supported versions, where applicable, to make backpatching of future fixes go more smoothly. Josh Soref Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CACZqfqCf+5qRztLPgmmosr-B0Ye4srWzzw_mo4c_8_B_mtjmJQ@mail.gmail.com
2017-01-06Invalidate cached plans on FDW option changes.Tom Lane
This fixes problems where a plan must change but fails to do so, as seen in a bug report from Rajkumar Raghuwanshi. For ALTER FOREIGN TABLE OPTIONS, do this through the standard method of forcing a relcache flush on the table. For ALTER FOREIGN DATA WRAPPER and ALTER SERVER, just flush the whole plan cache on any change in pg_foreign_data_wrapper or pg_foreign_server. That matches the way we handle some other low-probability cases such as opclass changes, and it's unclear that the case arises often enough to be worth working harder. Besides, that gives a patch that is simple enough to back-patch with confidence. Back-patch to 9.3. In principle we could apply the code change to 9.2 as well, but (a) we lack postgres_fdw to test it with, (b) it's doubtful that anyone is doing anything exciting enough with FDWs that far back to need this desperately, and (c) the patch doesn't apply cleanly. Patch originally by Amit Langote, reviewed by Etsuro Fujita and Ashutosh Bapat, who each contributed substantial changes as well. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKcux6m5cA6rRPTKkqVdJ-R=KKDfe35Q_ZuUqxDSV_4hwga=og@mail.gmail.com
2017-01-04Handle OID column inheritance correctly in ALTER TABLE ... INHERIT.Tom Lane
Inheritance operations must treat the OID column, if any, much like regular user columns. But MergeAttributesIntoExisting() neglected to do that, leading to weird results after a table with OIDs is associated to a parent with OIDs via ALTER TABLE ... INHERIT. Report and patch by Amit Langote, reviewed by Ashutosh Bapat, some adjustments by me. It's been broken all along, so back-patch to all supported branches. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/cb13cfe7-a48c-5720-c383-bb843ab28298@lab.ntt.co.jp
2016-12-22Use TSConfigRelationId in AlterTSConfiguration()Stephen Frost
When we are altering a text search configuration, we are getting the tuple from pg_ts_config and using its OID, so use TSConfigRelationId when invoking any post-alter hooks and setting the object address. Further, in the functions called from AlterTSConfiguration(), we're saving information about the command via EventTriggerCollectAlterTSConfig(), so we should be setting commandCollected to true. Also add a regression test to test_ddl_deparse for ALTER TEXT SEARCH CONFIGURATION. Author: Artur Zakirov, a few additional comments by me Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/57a71eba-f2c7-e7fd-6fc0-2126ec0b39bd%40postgrespro.ru Back-patch the fix for the InvokeObjectPostAlterHook() call to 9.3 where it was introduced, and the fix for the ObjectAddressSet() call and setting commandCollected to true to 9.5 where those changes to ProcessUtilitySlow() were introduced.
2016-12-21Fix order of operations in CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW.Dean Rasheed
When CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW acts on an existing view, don't update the view options until after the view query has been updated. This is necessary in the case where CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW is used on an existing view that is not updatable, and the new view is updatable and specifies the WITH CHECK OPTION. In this case, attempting to apply the new options to the view before updating its query fails, because the options are applied using the ALTER TABLE infrastructure which checks that WITH CHECK OPTION is only applied to an updatable view. If new columns are being added to the view, that is also done using the ALTER TABLE infrastructure, but it is important that that still be done before updating the view query, because the rules system checks that the query columns match those on the view relation. Added a comment to explain that, in case someone is tempted to move that to where the view options are now being set. Back-patch to 9.4 where WITH CHECK OPTION was added. Report: https://postgr.es/m/CAEZATCUp%3Dz%3Ds4SzZjr14bfct_bdJNwMPi-gFi3Xc5k1ntbsAgQ%40mail.gmail.com
2016-11-25Check for pending trigger events on far end when dropping an FK constraint.Tom Lane
When dropping a foreign key constraint with ALTER TABLE DROP CONSTRAINT, we refuse the drop if there are any pending trigger events on the named table; this ensures that we won't remove the pg_trigger row that will be consulted by those events. But we should make the same check for the referenced relation, else we might remove a due-to-be-referenced pg_trigger row for that relation too, resulting in "could not find trigger NNN" or "relation NNN has no triggers" errors at commit. Per bug #14431 from Benjie Gillam. Back-patch to all supported branches. Report: <20161124114911.6530.31200@wrigleys.postgresql.org>
2016-10-26Fix incorrect trigger-property updating in ALTER CONSTRAINT.Tom Lane
The code to change the deferrability properties of a foreign-key constraint updated all the associated triggers to match; but a moment's examination of the code that creates those triggers in the first place shows that only some of them should track the constraint's deferrability properties. This leads to odd failures in subsequent exercise of the foreign key, as the triggers are fired at the wrong times. Fix that, and add a regression test comparing the trigger properties produced by ALTER CONSTRAINT with those you get by creating the constraint as-intended to begin with. Per report from James Parks. Back-patch to 9.4 where this ALTER functionality was introduced. Report: <CAJ3Xv+jzJ8iNNUcp4RKW8b6Qp1xVAxHwSXVpjBNygjKxcVuE9w@mail.gmail.com>
2016-10-20Fix EXPLAIN so that it doesn't emit invalid XML in corner cases.Tom Lane
With track_io_timing = on, EXPLAIN (ANALYZE, BUFFERS) will emit fields named like "I/O Read Time". The slash makes that invalid as an XML element name, so that adding FORMAT XML would produce invalid XML. We already have code in there to translate spaces to dashes, so let's generalize that to convert anything that isn't a valid XML name character, viz letters, digits, hyphens, underscores, and periods. We could just reject slashes, which would run a bit faster. But the fact that this went unnoticed for so long doesn't give me a warm feeling that we'd notice the next creative violation, so let's make it a permanent fix. Reported by Markus Winand, though this isn't his initial patch proposal. Back-patch to 9.2 where track_io_timing was added. The problem is only latent in 9.1, so I don't feel a need to fix it there. Discussion: <E0BF6A45-68E8-45E6-918F-741FB332C6BB@winand.at>
2016-10-08Fix two bugs in merging of inherited CHECK constraints.Tom Lane
Historically, we've allowed users to add a CHECK constraint to a child table and then add an identical CHECK constraint to the parent. This results in "merging" the two constraints so that the pre-existing child constraint ends up with both conislocal = true and coninhcount > 0. However, if you tried to do it in the other order, you got a duplicate constraint error. This is problematic for pg_dump, which needs to issue separated ADD CONSTRAINT commands in some cases, but has no good way to ensure that the constraints will be added in the required order. And it's more than a bit arbitrary, too. The goal of complaining about duplicated ADD CONSTRAINT commands can be served if we reject the case of adding a constraint when the existing one already has conislocal = true; but if it has conislocal = false, let's just make the ADD CONSTRAINT set conislocal = true. In this way, either order of adding the constraints has the same end result. Another problem was that the code allowed creation of a parent constraint marked convalidated that is merged with a child constraint that is !convalidated. In this case, an inheritance scan of the parent table could emit some rows violating the constraint condition, which would be an unexpected result given the marking of the parent constraint as validated. Hence, forbid merging of constraints in this case. (Note: valid child and not-valid parent seems fine, so continue to allow that.) Per report from Benedikt Grundmann. Back-patch to 9.2 where we introduced possibly-not-valid check constraints. The second bug obviously doesn't apply before that, and I think the first doesn't either, because pg_dump only gets into this situation when dealing with not-valid constraints. Report: <CADbMkNPT-Jz5PRSQ4RbUASYAjocV_KHUWapR%2Bg8fNvhUAyRpxA%40mail.gmail.com> Discussion: <22108.1475874586@sss.pgh.pa.us>
2016-09-09Fix VACUUM_TRUNCATE_LOCK_WAIT_INTERVALSimon Riggs
lazy_truncate_heap() was waiting for VACUUM_TRUNCATE_LOCK_WAIT_INTERVAL, but in microseconds not milliseconds as originally intended. Found by code inspection. Simon Riggs
2016-08-12Fix inappropriate printing of never-measured times in EXPLAIN.Tom Lane
EXPLAIN (ANALYZE, TIMING OFF) would print an elapsed time of zero for a trigger function, because no measurement has been taken but it printed the field anyway. This isn't what EXPLAIN does elsewhere, so suppress it. In the same vein, EXPLAIN (ANALYZE, BUFFERS) with non-text output format would print buffer I/O timing numbers even when no measurement has been taken because track_io_timing is off. That seems not per policy, either, so change it. Back-patch to 9.2 where these features were introduced. Maksim Milyutin Discussion: <081c0540-ecaa-bd29-3fd2-6358f3b359a9@postgrespro.ru>
2016-08-07Fix misestimation of n_distinct for a nearly-unique column with many nulls.Tom Lane
If ANALYZE found no repeated non-null entries in its sample, it set the column's stadistinct value to -1.0, intending to indicate that the entries are all distinct. But what this value actually means is that the number of distinct values is 100% of the table's rowcount, and thus it was overestimating the number of distinct values by however many nulls there are. This could lead to very poor selectivity estimates, as for example in a recent report from Andreas Joseph Krogh. We should discount the stadistinct value by whatever we've estimated the nulls fraction to be. (That is what will happen if we choose to use a negative stadistinct for a column that does have repeated entries, so this code path was just inconsistent.) In addition to fixing the stadistinct entries stored by several different ANALYZE code paths, adjust the logic where get_variable_numdistinct() forces an "all distinct" estimate on the basis of finding a relevant unique index. Unique indexes don't reject nulls, so there's no reason to assume that the null fraction doesn't apply. Back-patch to all supported branches. Back-patching is a bit of a judgment call, but this problem seems to affect only a few users (else we'd have identified it long ago), and it's bad enough when it does happen that destabilizing plan choices in a worse direction seems unlikely. Patch by me, with documentation wording suggested by Dean Rasheed Report: <VisenaEmail.26.df42f82acae38a58.156463942b8@tc7-visena> Discussion: <16143.1470350371@sss.pgh.pa.us>
2016-06-27Fix CREATE MATVIEW/CREATE TABLE AS ... WITH NO DATA to not plan the query.Tom Lane
Previously, these commands always planned the given query and went through executor startup before deciding not to actually run the query if WITH NO DATA is specified. This behavior is problematic for pg_dump because it may cause errors to be raised that we would rather not see before a REFRESH MATERIALIZED VIEW command is issued. See for example bug #13907 from Marian Krucina. This change is not sufficient to fix that particular bug, because we also need to tweak pg_dump to issue the REFRESH later, but it's a necessary step on the way. A user-visible side effect of doing things this way is that the returned command tag for WITH NO DATA cases will now be "CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW" or "CREATE TABLE AS", not "SELECT 0". We could preserve the old behavior but it would take more code, and arguably that was just an implementation artifact not intended behavior anyhow. In 9.5 and HEAD, also get rid of the static variable CreateAsReladdr, which was trouble waiting to happen; there is not any prohibition on nested CREATE commands. Back-patch to 9.3 where CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW was introduced. Michael Paquier and Tom Lane Report: <20160202161407.2778.24659@wrigleys.postgresql.org>
2016-06-06Don't reset changes_since_analyze after a selective-columns ANALYZE.Tom Lane
If we ANALYZE only selected columns of a table, we should not postpone auto-analyze because of that; other columns may well still need stats updates. As committed, the counter is left alone if a column list is given, whether or not it includes all analyzable columns of the table. Per complaint from Tomasz Ostrowski. It's been like this a long time, so back-patch to all supported branches. Report: <ef99c1bd-ff60-5f32-2733-c7b504eb960c@ato.waw.pl>
2016-05-24Fetch XIDs atomically during vac_truncate_clog().Tom Lane
Because vac_update_datfrozenxid() updates datfrozenxid and datminmxid in-place, it's unsafe to assume that successive reads of those values will give consistent results. Fetch each one just once to ensure sane behavior in the minimum calculation. Noted while reviewing Alexander Korotkov's patch in the same area. Discussion: <8564.1464116473@sss.pgh.pa.us>
2016-05-24Avoid consuming an XID during vac_truncate_clog().Tom Lane
vac_truncate_clog() uses its own transaction ID as the comparison point in a sanity check that no database's datfrozenxid has already wrapped around "into the future". That was probably fine when written, but in a lazy vacuum we won't have assigned an XID, so calling GetCurrentTransactionId() causes an XID to be assigned when otherwise one would not be. Most of the time that's not a big problem ... but if we are hard up against the wraparound limit, consuming XIDs during antiwraparound vacuums is a very bad thing. Instead, use ReadNewTransactionId(), which not only avoids this problem but is in itself a better comparison point to test whether wraparound has already occurred. Report and patch by Alexander Korotkov. Back-patch to all versions. Report: <CAPpHfdspOkmiQsxh-UZw2chM6dRMwXAJGEmmbmqYR=yvM7-s6A@mail.gmail.com>
2016-04-15Fix possible crash in ALTER TABLE ... REPLICA IDENTITY USING INDEX.Tom Lane
Careless coding added by commit 07cacba983ef79be could result in a crash or a bizarre error message if someone tried to select an index on the OID column as the replica identity index for a table. Back-patch to 9.4 where the feature was introduced. Discussion: CAKJS1f8TQYgTRDyF1_u9PVCKWRWz+DkieH=U7954HeHVPJKaKg@mail.gmail.com David Rowley
2015-12-21Rework internals of changing a type's ownershipAlvaro Herrera
This is necessary so that REASSIGN OWNED does the right thing with composite types, to wit, that it also alters ownership of the type's pg_class entry -- previously, the pg_class entry remained owned by the original user, which caused later other failures such as the new owner's inability to use ALTER TYPE to rename an attribute of the affected composite. Also, if the original owner is later dropped, the pg_class entry becomes owned by a non-existant user which is bogus. To fix, create a new routine AlterTypeOwner_oid which knows whether to pass the request to ATExecChangeOwner or deal with it directly, and use that in shdepReassignOwner rather than calling AlterTypeOwnerInternal directly. AlterTypeOwnerInternal is now simpler in that it only modifies the pg_type entry and recurses to handle a possible array type; higher-level tasks are handled by either AlterTypeOwner directly or AlterTypeOwner_oid. I took the opportunity to add a few more objects to the test rig for REASSIGN OWNED, so that more cases are exercised. Additional ones could be added for superuser-only-ownable objects (such as FDWs and event triggers) but I didn't want to push my luck by adding a new superuser to the tests on a backpatchable bug fix. Per bug #13666 reported by Chris Pacejo. This is a backpatch of commit 756e7b4c9db1 to branches 9.1 -- 9.4.
2015-12-21adjust ACL owners for REASSIGN and ALTER OWNER TOAlvaro Herrera
When REASSIGN and ALTER OWNER TO are used, both the object owner and ACL list should be changed from the old owner to the new owner. This patch fixes types, foreign data wrappers, and foreign servers to change their ACL list properly; they already changed owners properly. Report by Alexey Bashtanov This is a backpatch of commit 59367fdf97c (for bug #9923) by Bruce Momjian to branches 9.1 - 9.4; it wasn't backpatched originally out of concerns that it would create a backwards compatibility problem, but per discussion related to bug #13666 that turns out to have been misguided. (Therefore, the entry in the 9.5 release notes should be removed.) Note that 9.1 didn't have privileges on types (which were introduced by commit 729205571e81), so this commit only changes foreign-data related objects in that branch. Discussion: http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20151216224004.GL2618@alvherre.pgsql http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/10227.1450373793@sss.pgh.pa.us
2015-12-12Fix ALTER TABLE ... SET TABLESPACE for unlogged relations.Andres Freund
Changing the tablespace of an unlogged relation did not WAL log the creation and content of the init fork. Thus, after a standby is promoted, unlogged relation cannot be accessed anymore, with errors like: ERROR: 58P01: could not open file "pg_tblspc/...": No such file or directory Additionally the init fork was not synced to disk, independent of the configured wal_level, a relatively small durability risk. Investigation of that problem also brought to light that, even for permanent relations, the creation of !main forks was not WAL logged, i.e. no XLOG_SMGR_CREATE record were emitted. That mostly turns out not to be a problem, because these files were created when the actual relation data is copied; nonexistent files are not treated as an error condition during replay. But that doesn't work for empty files, and generally feels a bit haphazard. Luckily, outside init and main forks, empty forks don't occur often or are not a problem. Add the required WAL logging and syncing to disk. Reported-By: Michael Paquier Author: Michael Paquier and Andres Freund Discussion: 20151210163230.GA11331@alap3.anarazel.de Backpatch: 9.1, where unlogged relations were introduced
2015-11-20Fix handling of inherited check constraints in ALTER COLUMN TYPE (again).Tom Lane
The previous way of reconstructing check constraints was to do a separate "ALTER TABLE ONLY tab ADD CONSTRAINT" for each table in an inheritance hierarchy. However, that way has no hope of reconstructing the check constraints' own inheritance properties correctly, as pointed out in bug #13779 from Jan Dirk Zijlstra. What we should do instead is to do a regular "ALTER TABLE", allowing recursion, at the topmost table that has a particular constraint, and then suppress the work queue entries for inherited instances of the constraint. Annoyingly, we'd tried to fix this behavior before, in commit 5ed6546cf, but we failed to notice that it wasn't reconstructing the pg_constraint field values correctly. As long as I'm touching pg_get_constraintdef_worker anyway, tweak it to always schema-qualify the target table name; this seems like useful backup to the protections installed by commit 5f173040. In HEAD/9.5, get rid of get_constraint_relation_oids, which is now unused. (I could alternatively have modified it to also return conislocal, but that seemed like a pretty single-purpose API, so let's not pretend it has some other use.) It's unused in the back branches as well, but I left it in place just in case some third-party code has decided to use it. In HEAD/9.5, also rename pg_get_constraintdef_string to pg_get_constraintdef_command, as the previous name did nothing to explain what that entry point did differently from others (and its comment was equally useless). Again, that change doesn't seem like material for back-patching. I did a bit of re-pgindenting in tablecmds.c in HEAD/9.5, as well. Otherwise, back-patch to all supported branches.
2015-10-28Fix incorrect message in ATWrongRelkindError.Robert Haas
Mistake introduced by commit 3bf3ab8c563699138be02f9dc305b7b77a724307. Etsuro Fujita
2015-09-30Improve LISTEN startup time when there are many unread notifications.Tom Lane
If some existing listener is far behind, incoming new listener sessions would start from that session's read pointer and then need to advance over many already-committed notification messages, which they have no interest in. This was expensive in itself and also thrashed the pg_notify SLRU buffers a lot more than necessary. We can improve matters considerably in typical scenarios, without much added cost, by starting from the furthest-ahead read pointer, not the furthest-behind one. We do have to consider only sessions in our own database when doing this, which requires an extra field in the data structure, but that's a pretty small cost. Back-patch to 9.0 where the current LISTEN/NOTIFY logic was introduced. Matt Newell, slightly adjusted by me
2015-09-05Fix CreateTableSpace() so it will compile without HAVE_SYMLINK.Tom Lane
This has been broken since 9.3 (commit 82b1b213cad3a69c to be exact), which suggests that nobody is any longer using a Windows build system that doesn't provide a symlink emulation. Still, it's wrong on its own terms, so repair. YUriy Zhuravlev
2015-09-04Fix subtransaction cleanup after an outer-subtransaction portal fails.Tom Lane
Formerly, we treated only portals created in the current subtransaction as having failed during subtransaction abort. However, if the error occurred while running a portal created in an outer subtransaction (ie, a cursor declared before the last savepoint), that has to be considered broken too. To allow reliable detection of which ones those are, add a bookkeeping field to struct Portal that tracks the innermost subtransaction in which each portal has actually been executed. (Without this, we'd end up failing portals containing functions that had called the subtransaction, thereby breaking plpgsql exception blocks completely.) In addition, when we fail an outer-subtransaction Portal, transfer its resources into the subtransaction's resource owner, so that they're released early in cleanup of the subxact. This fixes a problem reported by Jim Nasby in which a function executed in an outer-subtransaction cursor could cause an Assert failure or crash by referencing a relation created within the inner subtransaction. The proximate cause of the Assert failure is that AtEOSubXact_RelationCache assumed it could blow away a relcache entry without first checking that the entry had zero refcount. That was a bad idea on its own terms, so add such a check there, and to the similar coding in AtEOXact_RelationCache. This provides an independent safety measure in case there are still ways to provoke the situation despite the Portal-level changes. This has been broken since subtransactions were invented, so back-patch to all supported branches. Tom Lane and Michael Paquier
2015-06-12Improve error message and hint for ALTER COLUMN TYPE can't-cast failure.Tom Lane
We already tried to improve this once, but the "improved" text was rather off-target if you had provided a USING clause. Also, it seems helpful to provide the exact text of a suggested USING clause, so users can just copy-and-paste it when needed. Per complaint from Keith Rarick and a suggestion from Merlin Moncure. Back-patch to 9.2 where the current wording was adopted.
2015-05-28Fix pg_get_functiondef() to print a function's LEAKPROOF property.Tom Lane
Seems to have been an oversight in the original leakproofness patch. Per report and patch from Jeevan Chalke. In passing, prettify some awkward leakproof-related code in AlterFunction.
2015-05-11Fix incorrect checking of deferred exclusion constraint after a HOT update.Tom Lane
If a row that potentially violates a deferred exclusion constraint is HOT-updated later in the same transaction, the exclusion constraint would be reported as violated when the check finally occurs, even if the row(s) the new row originally conflicted with have since been removed. This happened because the wrong TID was passed to check_exclusion_constraint(), causing the live HOT-updated row to be seen as a conflicting row rather than recognized as the row-under-test. Per bug #13148 from Evan Martin. It's been broken since exclusion constraints were invented, so back-patch to all supported branches.
2015-05-08Teach autovacuum about multixact member wraparound.Robert Haas
The logic introduced in commit b69bf30b9bfacafc733a9ba77c9587cf54d06c0c and repaired in commits 669c7d20e6374850593cb430d332e11a3992bbcf and 7be47c56af3d3013955c91c2877c08f2a0e3e6a2 helps to ensure that we don't overwrite old multixact member information while it is still needed, but a user who creates many large multixacts can still exhaust the member space (and thus start getting errors) while autovacuum stands idly by. To fix this, progressively ramp down the effective value (but not the actual contents) of autovacuum_multixact_freeze_max_age as member space utilization increases. This makes autovacuum more aggressive and also reduces the threshold for a manual VACUUM to perform a full-table scan. This patch leaves unsolved the problem of ensuring that emergency autovacuums are triggered even when autovacuum=off. We'll need to fix that via a separate patch. Thomas Munro and Robert Haas
2015-05-03Fix overlooked relcache invalidation in ALTER TABLE ... ALTER CONSTRAINT.Tom Lane
When altering the deferredness state of a foreign key constraint, we correctly updated the catalogs and then invalidated the relcache state for the target relation ... but that's not the only relation with relevant triggers. Must invalidate the other table as well, or the state change fails to take effect promptly for operations triggered on the other table. Per bug #13224 from Christian Ullrich. In passing, reorganize regression test case for this feature so that it isn't randomly injected into the middle of an unrelated test sequence. Oversight in commit f177cbfe676dc2c7ca2b206c54d6bf819feeea8b. Back-patch to 9.4 where the faulty code was added.
2015-03-29Add vacuum_delay_point call in compute_index_stats's per-sample-row loop.Tom Lane
Slow functions in index expressions might cause this loop to take long enough to make it worth being cancellable. Probably it would be enough to call CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS here, but for consistency with other per-sample-row loops in this file, let's use vacuum_delay_point. Report and patch by Jeff Janes. Back-patch to all supported branches.
2015-02-26Reconsider when to wait for WAL flushes/syncrep during commit.Andres Freund
Up to now RecordTransactionCommit() waited for WAL to be flushed (if synchronous_commit != off) and to be synchronously replicated (if enabled), even if a transaction did not have a xid assigned. The primary reason for that is that sequence's nextval() did not assign a xid, but are worthwhile to wait for on commit. This can be problematic because sometimes read only transactions do write WAL, e.g. HOT page prune records. That then could lead to read only transactions having to wait during commit. Not something people expect in a read only transaction. This lead to such strange symptoms as backends being seemingly stuck during connection establishment when all synchronous replicas are down. Especially annoying when said stuck connection is the standby trying to reconnect to allow syncrep again... This behavior also is involved in a rather complicated <= 9.4 bug where the transaction started by catchup interrupt processing waited for syncrep using latches, but didn't get the wakeup because it was already running inside the same overloaded signal handler. Fix the issue here doesn't properly solve that issue, merely papers over the problems. In 9.5 catchup interrupts aren't processed out of signal handlers anymore. To fix all this, make nextval() acquire a top level xid, and only wait for transaction commit if a transaction both acquired a xid and emitted WAL records. If only a xid has been assigned we don't uselessly want to wait just because of writes to temporary/unlogged tables; if only WAL has been written we don't want to wait just because of HOT prunes. The xid assignment in nextval() is unlikely to cause overhead in real-world workloads. For one it only happens SEQ_LOG_VALS/32 values anyway, for another only usage of nextval() without using the result in an insert or similar is affected. Discussion: 20150223165359.GF30784@awork2.anarazel.de, 369698E947874884A77849D8FE3680C2@maumau, 5CF4ABBA67674088B3941894E22A0D25@maumau Per complaint from maumau and Thom Brown Backpatch all the way back; 9.0 doesn't have syncrep, but it seems better to be consistent behavior across all maintained branches.