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2007-09-29Disallow CLUSTER using an invalid index (that is, one left over from a failedTom Lane
CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY). Such an index might not have entries for every heap row and thus clustering with it would result in silent data loss. The scenario requires a pretty foolish DBA, but still ...
2007-09-24Reduce the size of memory allocations by lazy vacuum when processing a smallAlvaro Herrera
table, by allocating just enough for a hardcoded number of dead tuples per page. The current estimate is 200 dead tuples per page. Per reports from Jeff Amiel, Erik Jones and Marko Kreen, and subsequent discussion. CVS: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CVS: Enter Log. Lines beginning with `CVS:' are removed automatically CVS: CVS: Committing in . CVS: CVS: Modified Files: CVS: commands/vacuumlazy.c CVS: ----------------------------------------------------------------------
2007-09-16Fix aboriginal mistake in lazy VACUUM's code for truncating awayTom Lane
no-longer-needed pages at the end of a table. We thought we could throw away pages containing HEAPTUPLE_DEAD tuples; but this is not so, because such tuples very likely have index entries pointing at them, and we wouldn't have removed the index entries. The problem only emerges in a somewhat unlikely race condition: the dead tuples have to have been inserted by a transaction that later aborted, and this has to have happened between VACUUM's initial scan of the page and then rechecking it for empty in count_nondeletable_pages. But that timespan will include an index-cleaning pass, so it's not all that hard to hit. This seems to explain a couple of previously unsolved bug reports.
2007-09-12Add a CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS call in the site where the vacuum delay pointAlvaro Herrera
was removed.
2007-09-10Make CLUSTER and REINDEX silently skip remote temp tables in theirAlvaro Herrera
database-wide editions. Per report from bitsandbytes88 <at> hotmail.com and subsequent discussion.
2007-09-10Remove the vacuum_delay_point call in count_nondeletable_pages, because we holdAlvaro Herrera
an exclusive lock on the table at this point, which we want to release as soon as possible. This is called in the phase of lazy vacuum where we truncate the empty pages at the end of the table. An alternative solution would be to lower the vacuum delay settings before starting the truncating phase, but this doesn't work very well in autovacuum due to the autobalancing code (which can cause other processes to change our cost delay settings). This case could be considered in the balancing code, but it is simpler this way.
2007-08-25Fix brain fade in DefineIndex(): it was continuing to access the table'sTom Lane
relcache entry after having heap_close'd it. This could lead to misbehavior if a relcache flush wiped out the cache entry meanwhile. In 8.2 there is a very real risk of CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY using the wrong relid for locking and waiting purposes. I think the bug is only cosmetic in 8.0 and 8.1, because their transgression is limited to using RelationGetRelationName(rel) in an ereport message immediately after heap_close, and there's no way (except with special debugging options) for a cache flush to occur in that interval. Not quite sure that it's cosmetic in 7.4, but seems best to patch anyway. Found by trying to run the regression tests with CLOBBER_CACHE_ALWAYS enabled. Maybe we should try to do that on a regular basis --- it's awfully slow, but perhaps some fast buildfarm machine could do it once in awhile.
2007-08-15Repair problems occurring when multiple RI updates have to be done to the sameTom Lane
row within one query: we were firing check triggers before all the updates were done, leading to bogus failures. Fix by making the triggers queued by an RI update go at the end of the outer query's trigger event list, thereby effectively making the processing "breadth-first". This was indeed how it worked pre-8.0, so the bug does not occur in the 7.x branches. Per report from Pavel Stehule.
2007-07-17Fix incorrect optimization of foreign-key checks. When an UPDATE on theTom Lane
referencing table does not change the tuple's FK column(s), we don't bother to check the PK table since the constraint was presumably already valid. However, the check is still necessary if the tuple was inserted by our own transaction, since in that case the INSERT trigger will conclude it need not make the check (since its version of the tuple has been deleted). We got this right for simple cases, but not when the insert and update are in different subtransactions of the current top-level transaction; in such cases the FK check would never be made at all. (Hence, problem dates back to 8.0 when subtransactions were added --- it's actually the subtransaction version of a bug fixed in 7.3.5.) Fix, and add regression test cases. Report and fix by Affan Salman.
2007-07-01Avoid memory leakage when a series of subtransactions invoke AFTER triggersTom Lane
that are fired at end-of-statement (as is the normal case for foreign keys, for example). In this situation the per-subxact deferred trigger context is always empty when subtransaction exit is reached; so we could free it, but were not doing so, leading to an intratransaction leak of 8K or more per subtransaction. Per off-list example from Viatcheslav Kalinin subsequent to bug #3418 (his original bug report omitted a foreign key constraint needed to cause this leak). Back-patch to 8.2; prior versions were not using per-subxact contexts for deferred triggers, so did not have this leak.
2007-06-20CREATE DOMAIN ... DEFAULT NULL failed because gram.y special-cases DEFAULTTom Lane
NULL and DefineDomain didn't. Bug goes all the way back to original coding of domains. Per bug #3396 from Sergey Burladyan.
2007-06-14Avoid having autovacuum run multiple ANALYZE commands in a single transaction,Alvaro Herrera
to prevent possible deadlock problems. Per request from Tom Lane.
2007-05-11Fix my oversight in enabling domains-of-domains: ALTER DOMAIN ADD CONSTRAINTTom Lane
needs to check the new constraint against columns of derived domains too. Also, make it error out if the domain to be modified is used within any composite-type columns. Eventually we should support that case, but it seems a bit painful, and not suitable for a back-patch. For the moment just let the user know we can't do it. Backpatch to 8.2, which is the only released version that allows nested domains. Possibly the other part should be back-patched further.
2007-04-26Fix dynahash.c to suppress hash bucket splits while a hash_seq_search() scanTom Lane
is in progress on the same hashtable. This seems the least invasive way to fix the recently-recognized problem that a split could cause the scan to visit entries twice or (with much lower probability) miss them entirely. The only field-reported problem caused by this is the "failed to re-find shared lock object" PANIC in COMMIT PREPARED reported by Michel Dorochevsky, which was caused by multiply visited entries. However, it seems certain that mdsync() is vulnerable to missing required fsync's due to missed entries, and I am fearful that RelationCacheInitializePhase2() might be at risk as well. Because of that and the generalized hazard presented by this bug, back-patch all the supported branches. Along the way, fix pg_prepared_statement() and pg_cursor() to not assume that the hashtables they are examining will stay static between calls. This is risky regardless of the newly noted dynahash problem, because hash_seq_search() has never promised to cope with deletion of table entries other than the just-returned one. There may be no bug here because the only supported way to call these functions is via ExecMakeTableFunctionResult() which will cycle them to completion before doing anything very interesting, but it seems best to get rid of the assumption. This affects 8.2 and HEAD only, since those functions weren't there earlier.
2007-04-12Cancel pending fsync requests during WAL replay of DROP DATABASE, per bugTom Lane
report from David Darville. Back-patch as far as 8.1, which may or may not have the problem but it seems a safe change anyway.
2007-03-14Fix a longstanding bug in VACUUM FULL's handling of update chains. The codeTom Lane
did not expect that a DEAD tuple could follow a RECENTLY_DEAD tuple in an update chain, but because the OldestXmin rule for determining deadness is a simplification of reality, it is possible for this situation to occur (implying that the RECENTLY_DEAD tuple is in fact dead to all observers, but this patch does not attempt to exploit that). The code would follow a chain forward all the way, but then stop before a DEAD tuple when backing up, meaning that not all of the chain got moved. This could lead to copying the chain multiple times (resulting in duplicate copies of the live tuple at its end), or leaving dangling index entries behind (which, aside from generating warnings from later vacuums, creates a risk of wrong query results or bogus duplicate-key errors once the heap slot the index entry points to is repopulated). The fix is to recheck HeapTupleSatisfiesVacuum while following a chain forward, and to stop if a DEAD tuple is reached. Each contiguous group of RECENTLY_DEAD tuples will therefore be copied as a separate chain. The patch also adds a couple of extra sanity checks to verify correct behavior. Per report and test case from Pavan Deolasee.
2007-03-08Fix vac_update_relstats to ensure it always sends a relcache inval message,Tom Lane
even if none of the fields in the pg_class row change. This behavior is necessary to ensure other backends flush rd_targblock values that might point to truncated-away pages. We got this right pre-8.2 but it was broken by overoptimistic change to not write out the pg_class row if unchanged. Per report from Pavan Deolasee.
2007-02-06Fix an error in the original coding of holdable cursors: PersistHoldablePortalTom Lane
thought that it didn't have to reposition the underlying tuplestore if the portal is atEnd. But this is not so, because tuplestores have separate read and write cursors ... and the read cursor hasn't moved from the start. This mistake explains bug #2970 from William Zhang. Note: the coding here is pretty inefficient, but given that no one has noticed this bug until now, I'd say hardly anyone uses the case where the cursor has been advanced before being persisted. So maybe it's not worth worrying about.
2007-02-02Repair failure to check that a table is still compatible with a previouslyTom Lane
made query plan. Use of ALTER COLUMN TYPE creates a hazard for cached query plans: they could contain Vars that claim a column has a different type than it now has. Fix this by checking during plan startup that Vars at relation scan level match the current relation tuple descriptor. Since at that point we already have at least AccessShareLock, we can be sure the column type will not change underneath us later in the query. However, since a backend's locks do not conflict against itself, there is still a hole for an attacker to exploit: he could try to execute ALTER COLUMN TYPE while a query is in progress in the current backend. Seal that hole by rejecting ALTER TABLE whenever the target relation is already open in the current backend. This is a significant security hole: not only can one trivially crash the backend, but with appropriate misuse of pass-by-reference datatypes it is possible to read out arbitrary locations in the server process's memory, which could allow retrieving database content the user should not be able to see. Our thanks to Jeff Trout for the initial report. Security: CVE-2007-0556
2007-01-27Back-port changes of Jan 16 and 17 to "revoke" pending fsync requests duringTom Lane
DROP TABLE and DROP DATABASE. Should prevent unexpected "permission denied" failures on Windows, and is cleaner on other platforms too since we no longer have to take it on faith that ENOENT is okay during an fsync attempt. Patched as far back as 8.1; per recent discussion I think we are not going to worry about Windows-specific issues in 8.0 anymore.
2007-01-25Properly detoast access to bytea field pg_trigger.tgargs. Old codeBruce Momjian
might cause server crash. Backpatch to 8.2.X.
2006-11-23Several changes to reduce the probability of running out of memory duringTom Lane
AbortTransaction, which would lead to recursion and eventual PANIC exit as illustrated in recent report from Jeff Davis. First, in xact.c create a special dedicated memory context for AbortTransaction to run in. This solves the problem as long as AbortTransaction doesn't need more than 32K (or whatever other size we create the context with). But in corner cases it might. Second, in trigger.c arrange to keep pending after-trigger event records in separate contexts that can be freed near the beginning of AbortTransaction, rather than having them persist until CleanupTransaction as before. Third, in portalmem.c arrange to free executor state data earlier as well. These two changes should result in backing off the out-of-memory condition before AbortTransaction needs any significant amount of memory, at least in typical cases such as memory overrun due to too many trigger events or too big an executor hash table. And all the same for subtransaction abort too, of course.
2006-11-12Fix some typos in comments.Neil Conway
2006-11-05Fix recently-understood problems with handling of XID freezing, particularlyTom Lane
in PITR scenarios. We now WAL-log the replacement of old XIDs with FrozenTransactionId, so that such replacement is guaranteed to propagate to PITR slave databases. Also, rather than relying on hint-bit updates to be preserved, pg_clog is not truncated until all instances of an XID are known to have been replaced by FrozenTransactionId. Add new GUC variables and pg_autovacuum columns to allow management of the freezing policy, so that users can trade off the size of pg_clog against the amount of freezing work done. Revise the already-existing code that forces autovacuum of tables approaching the wraparound point to make it more bulletproof; also, revise the autovacuum logic so that anti-wraparound vacuuming is done per-table rather than per-database. initdb forced because of changes in pg_class, pg_database, and pg_autovacuum catalogs. Heikki Linnakangas, Simon Riggs, and Tom Lane.
2006-10-19Fix a couple of places that were assuming debug_query_string couldn'tTom Lane
be NULL ... seems an unsafe assumption.
2006-10-18Add some code to CREATE DATABASE to check for pre-existing subdirectoriesTom Lane
that conflict with the OID that we want to use for the new database. This avoids the risk of trying to remove files that maybe we shouldn't remove. Per gripe from Jon Lapham and subsequent discussion of 27-Sep.
2006-10-13Code and docs review for ALTER TABLE INHERIT/NO INHERIT patch.Tom Lane
2006-10-11Code review for LIKE INCLUDING CONSTRAINTS patch --- improve comments,Tom Lane
don't cheat on the raw-vs-cooked status of a constraint.
2006-10-06Message style improvementsPeter Eisentraut
2006-10-05Make use of qsort_arg in several places that were formerly using klugyTom Lane
static variables. This avoids any risk of potential non-reentrancy, and in particular offers a much cleaner workaround for the Intel compiler bug that was affecting ginutil.c.
2006-10-04pgindent run for 8.2.Bruce Momjian
2006-10-03Make some sentences consistent with similar ones.Bruce Momjian
Euler Taveira de Oliveira
2006-09-27Replace strncpy with strlcpy in selected places that seem possibly relevantTom Lane
to performance. (A wholesale effort to get rid of strncpy should be undertaken sometime, but not during beta.) This commit also fixes dynahash.c to correctly truncate overlength string keys for hashtables, so that its callers don't have to anymore.
2006-09-25Fix notice message from DROP FUNCTION IF EXISTS, and improve messageTom Lane
for DROP AGGREGATE IF EXISTS. Per report from Teodor.
2006-09-21Fix free space map to correctly track the total amount of FSM space neededTom Lane
even when a single relation requires more than max_fsm_pages pages. Also, make VACUUM emit a warning in this case, since it likely means that VACUUM FULL or other drastic corrective measure is needed. Per reports from Jeff Frost and others of unexpected changes in the claimed max_fsm_pages need.
2006-09-17Change ANALYZE to take ShareUpdateExclusiveLock not AccessShareLock onTom Lane
the table being analyzed. This prevents two ANALYZEs from running concurrently on the same table and possibly suffering concurrent-update failures while trying to store their results into pg_statistic. The downside is that a database-wide ANALYZE executed within a transaction block will hold ShareUpdateExclusiveLock on many tables simultaneously, which could lead to concurrency issues or even deadlock against another such ANALYZE. However, this seems a corner case of less importance than getting unexpected errors from a foreground ANALYZE when autovacuum elects to analyze the same table concurrently. Per discussion.
2006-09-17Marginal cleanup in arrangements for ensuring StrategyHintVacuum is clearedTom Lane
after an error during VACUUM. We have a PG_TRY block anyway around the only call sites, so just reset it in the CATCH clause instead of having AtEOXact_Buffers blindly do it during xact end. I think the old code was actively wrong for the case of a failure during ANALYZE inside a subtransaction --- the flag wouldn't get cleared until main transaction end. Probably not worth back-patching though.
2006-09-13Code review for patch to avoid second scan when vacuuming index-lessTom Lane
table: avoid invoking LockBufferForCleanup without need, put out the same log message we would have before, minor code beautification.
2006-09-07Clean up logging for extended-query-protocol operations, as per my recentTom Lane
proposal. Parameter logging works even for binary-format parameters, and logging overhead is avoided when disabled. log_statement = all output for the src/test/examples/testlibpq3.c example now looks like LOG: statement: execute <unnamed>: SELECT * FROM test1 WHERE t = $1 DETAIL: parameters: $1 = 'joe''s place' LOG: statement: execute <unnamed>: SELECT * FROM test1 WHERE i = $1::int4 DETAIL: parameters: $1 = '2' and log_min_duration_statement = 0 results in LOG: duration: 2.431 ms parse <unnamed>: SELECT * FROM test1 WHERE t = $1 LOG: duration: 2.335 ms bind <unnamed> to <unnamed>: SELECT * FROM test1 WHERE t = $1 DETAIL: parameters: $1 = 'joe''s place' LOG: duration: 0.394 ms execute <unnamed>: SELECT * FROM test1 WHERE t = $1 DETAIL: parameters: $1 = 'joe''s place' LOG: duration: 1.251 ms parse <unnamed>: SELECT * FROM test1 WHERE i = $1::int4 LOG: duration: 0.566 ms bind <unnamed> to <unnamed>: SELECT * FROM test1 WHERE i = $1::int4 DETAIL: parameters: $1 = '2' LOG: duration: 0.173 ms execute <unnamed>: SELECT * FROM test1 WHERE i = $1::int4 DETAIL: parameters: $1 = '2' (This example demonstrates the folly of ignoring parse/bind steps for duration logging purposes, BTW.) Along the way, create a less ad-hoc mechanism for determining which commands are logged by log_statement = mod and log_statement = ddl. The former coding was actually missing quite a few things that look like ddl to me, and it did not handle EXECUTE or extended query protocol correctly at all. This commit does not do anything about the question of whether log_duration should be removed or made less redundant with log_min_duration_statement.
2006-09-06Change processing of extended-Query mode so that an unnamed statementTom Lane
that has parameters is always planned afresh for each Bind command, treating the parameter values as constants in the planner. This removes the performance penalty formerly often paid for using out-of-line parameters --- with this definition, the planner can do constant folding, LIKE optimization, etc. After a suggestion by Andrew@supernews.
2006-09-05Get rid of the separate RULE privilege for tables: now only a table's ownerTom Lane
can create or modify rules for the table. Do setRuleCheckAsUser() while loading rules into the relcache, rather than when defining a rule. This ensures that permission checks for tables referenced in a rule are done with respect to the current owner of the rule's table, whereas formerly ALTER TABLE OWNER would fail to update the permission checking for associated rules. Removal of separate RULE privilege is needed to prevent various scenarios in which a grantee of RULE privilege could effectively have any privilege of the table owner. For backwards compatibility, GRANT/REVOKE RULE is still accepted, but it doesn't do anything. Per discussion here: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-04/msg01138.php
2006-09-04Trivial patch to double vacuum speed on tables with no indexes (preventBruce Momjian
second scan of table). Gregory Stark
2006-09-04Disallow TRUNCATE when there are any pending after-trigger events forTom Lane
the target relation(s). There might be some cases where we could discard the pending event instead, but for the moment a conservative approach seems sufficient. Per report from Markus Schiltknecht and subsequent discussion.
2006-09-03Revert FETCH/MOVE int64 patch. Was using incorrect checks forBruce Momjian
fetch/move in scan.l.
2006-09-02Change FETCH/MOVE to use int8.Bruce Momjian
Dhanaraj M
2006-08-31Attibution addition: Add Karel Zak also for COPY SELECT.Bruce Momjian
2006-08-31Correct attibution:Bruce Momjian
COPY SELECT work done by Zoltan Boszormenyi
2006-08-30Extend COPY to support COPY (SELECT ...) TO ...Tom Lane
Bernd Helmle
2006-08-29Now bind displays prepare as detail, and execute displays prepare andBruce Momjian
optionally bind. I re-added the "statement:" label so people will understand why the line is being printed (it is log_*statement behavior). Use single quotes for bind values, instead of double quotes, and double literal single quotes in bind values (and document that). I also made use of the DETAIL line to have much cleaner output.
2006-08-27Add a function GetLockConflicts() to lock.c to report xacts holdingTom Lane
locks that would conflict with a specified lock request, without actually trying to get that lock. Use this instead of the former ad hoc method of doing the first wait step in CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY. Fixes problem with undetected deadlock and in many cases will allow the index creation to proceed sooner than it otherwise could've. Per discussion with Greg Stark.