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2016-05-27Be more predictable about reporting "lock timeout" vs "statement timeout".Tom Lane
If both timeout indicators are set when we arrive at ProcessInterrupts, we've historically just reported "lock timeout". However, some buildfarm members have been observed to fail isolationtester's timeouts test by reporting "lock timeout" when the statement timeout was expected to fire first. The cause seems to be that the process is allowed to sleep longer than expected (probably due to heavy machine load) so that the lock timeout happens before we reach the point of reporting the error, and then this arbitrary tiebreak rule does the wrong thing. We can improve matters by comparing the scheduled timeout times to decide which error to report. I had originally proposed greatly reducing the 1-second window between the two timeouts in the test cases. On reflection that is a bad idea, at least for the case where the lock timeout is expected to fire first, because that would assume that it takes negligible time to get from statement start to the beginning of the lock wait. Thus, this patch doesn't completely remove the risk of test failures on slow machines. Empirically, however, the case this handles is the one we are seeing in the buildfarm. The explanation may be that the other case requires the scheduler to take the CPU away from a busy process, whereas the case fixed here only requires the scheduler to not give the CPU back right away to a process that has been woken from a multi-second sleep (and, perhaps, has been swapped out meanwhile). Back-patch to 9.3 where the isolationtester timeouts test was added. Discussion: <8693.1464314819@sss.pgh.pa.us>
2016-05-06Fix possible read past end of string in to_timestamp().Tom Lane
to_timestamp() handles the TH/th format codes by advancing over two input characters, whatever those are. It failed to notice whether there were two characters available to be skipped, making it possible to advance the pointer past the end of the input string and keep on parsing. A similar risk existed in the handling of "Y,YYY" format: it would advance over three characters after the "," whether or not three characters were available. In principle this might be exploitable to disclose contents of server memory. But the security team concluded that it would be very hard to use that way, because the parsing loop would stop upon hitting any zero byte, and TH/th format codes can't be consecutive --- they have to follow some other format code, which would have to match whatever data is there. So it seems impractical to examine memory very much beyond the end of the input string via this bug; and the input string will always be in local memory not in disk buffers, making it unlikely that anything very interesting is close to it in a predictable way. So this doesn't quite rise to the level of needing a CVE. Thanks to Wolf Roediger for reporting this bug.
2016-04-23Rename strtoi() to strtoint().Tom Lane
NetBSD has seen fit to invent a libc function named strtoi(), which conflicts with the long-established static functions of the same name in datetime.c and ecpg's interval.c. While muttering darkly about intrusions on application namespace, we'll rename our functions to avoid the conflict. Back-patch to all supported branches, since this would affect attempts to build any of them on recent NetBSD. Thomas Munro
2016-04-21Fix ruleutils.c's dumping of ScalarArrayOpExpr containing an EXPR_SUBLINK.Tom Lane
When we shoehorned "x op ANY (array)" into the SQL syntax, we created a fundamental ambiguity as to the proper treatment of a sub-SELECT on the righthand side: perhaps what's meant is to compare x against each row of the sub-SELECT's result, or perhaps the sub-SELECT is meant as a scalar sub-SELECT that delivers a single array value whose members should be compared against x. The grammar resolves it as the former case whenever the RHS is a select_with_parens, making the latter case hard to reach --- but you can get at it, with tricks such as attaching a no-op cast to the sub-SELECT. Parse analysis would throw away the no-op cast, leaving a parsetree with an EXPR_SUBLINK SubLink directly under a ScalarArrayOpExpr. ruleutils.c was not clued in on this fine point, and would naively emit "x op ANY ((SELECT ...))", which would be parsed as the first alternative, typically leading to errors like "operator does not exist: text = text[]" during dump/reload of a view or rule containing such a construct. To fix, emit a no-op cast when dumping such a parsetree. This might well be exactly what the user wrote to get the construct accepted in the first place; and even if she got there with some other dodge, it is a valid representation of the parsetree. Per report from Karl Czajkowski. He mentioned only a case involving RLS policies, but actually the problem is very old, so back-patch to all supported branches. Report: <20160421001832.GB7976@moraine.isi.edu>
2016-04-04Disallow newlines in parameter values to be set in ALTER SYSTEM.Tom Lane
As noted by Julian Schauder in bug #14063, the configuration-file parser doesn't support embedded newlines in string literals. While there might someday be a good reason to remove that restriction, there doesn't seem to be one right now. However, ALTER SYSTEM SET could accept strings containing newlines, since many of the variable-specific value-checking routines would just see a newline as whitespace. This led to writing a postgresql.auto.conf file that was broken and had to be removed manually. Pending a reason to work harder, just throw an error if someone tries this. In passing, fix several places in the ALTER SYSTEM logic that failed to provide an errcode() for an ereport(), and thus would falsely log the failure as an internal XX000 error. Back-patch to 9.4 where ALTER SYSTEM was introduced.
2016-03-19Remove dependency on psed for MSVC builds.Andrew Dunstan
Modern Perl has removed psed from its core distribution, so it might not be readily available on some build platforms. We therefore replace its use with a Perl script generated by s2p, which is equivalent to the sed script. The latter is retained for non-MSVC builds to avoid creating a new hard dependency on Perl for non-Windows tarball builds. Backpatch to all live branches. Michael Paquier and me.
2016-03-17Fix assorted breakage in to_char()'s OF format option.Tom Lane
In HEAD, fix incorrect field width for hours part of OF when tm_gmtoff is negative. This was introduced by commit 2d87eedc1d4468d3 as a result of falsely applying a pattern that's correct when + signs are omitted, which is not the case for OF. In 9.4, fix missing abs() call that allowed a sign to be attached to the minutes part of OF. This was fixed in 9.5 by 9b43d73b3f9bef27, but for inscrutable reasons not back-patched. In all three versions, ensure that the sign of tm_gmtoff is correctly reported even when the GMT offset is less than 1 hour. Add regression tests, which evidently we desperately need here. Thomas Munro and Tom Lane, per report from David Fetter
2016-03-09Avoid unlikely data-loss scenarios due to rename() without fsync.Andres Freund
Renaming a file using rename(2) is not guaranteed to be durable in face of crashes. Use the previously added durable_rename()/durable_link_or_rename() in various places where we previously just renamed files. Most of the changed call sites are arguably not critical, but it seems better to err on the side of too much durability. The most prominent known case where the previously missing fsyncs could cause data loss is crashes at the end of a checkpoint. After the actual checkpoint has been performed, old WAL files are recycled. When they're filled, their contents are fdatasynced, but we did not fsync the containing directory. An OS/hardware crash in an unfortunate moment could then end up leaving that file with its old name, but new content; WAL replay would thus not replay it. Reported-By: Tomas Vondra Author: Michael Paquier, Tomas Vondra, Andres Freund Discussion: 56583BDD.9060302@2ndquadrant.com Backpatch: All supported branches
2016-03-02Fix json_to_record() bug with nested objects.Tom Lane
A thinko concerning nesting depth caused json_to_record() to produce bogus output if a field of its input object contained a sub-object with a field name matching one of the requested output column names. Per bug #13996 from Johann Visagie. I added a regression test case based on his example, plus parallel tests for json_to_recordset, jsonb_to_record, jsonb_to_recordset. The latter three do not exhibit the same bug (which suggests that we may be missing some opportunities to share code...) but testing seems like a good idea in any case. Back-patch to 9.4 where these functions were introduced.
2016-02-29Remove useless unary plus.Tom Lane
It's harmless, but might confuse readers. Seems to have been introduced in 6bc8ef0b7f1f1df3. Back-patch, just to avoid cosmetic cross-branch differences. Amit Langote
2016-02-28Avoid multiple free_struct_lconv() calls on same data.Tom Lane
A failure partway through PGLC_localeconv() led to a situation where the next call would call free_struct_lconv() a second time, leading to free() on already-freed strings, typically leading to a core dump. Add a flag to remember whether we need to do that. Per report from Thom Brown. His example case only provokes the failure as far back as 9.4, but nonetheless this code is obviously broken, so back-patch to all supported branches.
2016-02-05Force certain "pljava" custom GUCs to be PGC_SUSET.Noah Misch
Future PL/Java versions will close CVE-2016-0766 by making these GUCs PGC_SUSET. This PostgreSQL change independently mitigates that PL/Java vulnerability, helping sites that update PostgreSQL more frequently than PL/Java. Back-patch to 9.1 (all supported versions).
2016-02-03Fix IsValidJsonNumber() to notice trailing non-alphanumeric garbage.Tom Lane
Commit e09996ff8dee3f70 was one brick shy of a load: it didn't insist that the detected JSON number be the whole of the supplied string. This allowed inputs such as "2016-01-01" to be misdetected as valid JSON numbers. Per bug #13906 from Dmitry Ryabov. In passing, be more wary of zero-length input (I'm not sure this can happen given current callers, but better safe than sorry), and do some minor cosmetic cleanup.
2016-01-19Properly install dynloader.h on MSVC buildsBruce Momjian
This will enable PL/Java to be cleanly compiled, as dynloader.h is a requirement. Report by Chapman Flack Patch by Michael Paquier Backpatch through 9.1
2016-01-01Teach flatten_reloptions() to quote option values safely.Tom Lane
flatten_reloptions() supposed that it didn't really need to do anything beyond inserting commas between reloption array elements. However, in principle the value of a reloption could be nearly anything, since the grammar allows a quoted string there. Any restrictions on it would come from validity checking appropriate to the particular option, if any. A reloption value that isn't a simple identifier or number could thus lead to dump/reload failures due to syntax errors in CREATE statements issued by pg_dump. We've gotten away with not worrying about this so far with the core-supported reloptions, but extensions might allow reloption values that cause trouble, as in bug #13840 from Kouhei Sutou. To fix, split the reloption array elements explicitly, and then convert any value that doesn't look like a safe identifier to a string literal. (The details of the quoting rule could be debated, but this way is safe and requires little code.) While we're at it, also quote reloption names if they're not safe identifiers; that may not be a likely problem in the field, but we might as well try to be bulletproof here. It's been like this for a long time, so back-patch to all supported branches. Kouhei Sutou, adjusted some by me
2016-01-01Add some more defenses against silly estimates to gincostestimate().Tom Lane
A report from Andy Colson showed that gincostestimate() was not being nearly paranoid enough about whether to believe the statistics it finds in the index metapage. The problem is that the metapage stats (other than the pending-pages count) are only updated by VACUUM, and in the worst case could still reflect the index's original empty state even when it has grown to many entries. We attempted to deal with that by scaling up the stats to match the current index size, but if nEntries is zero then scaling it up still gives zero. Moreover, the proportion of pages that are entry pages vs. data pages vs. pending pages is unlikely to be estimated very well by scaling if the index is now orders of magnitude larger than before. We can improve matters by expanding the use of the rule-of-thumb estimates I introduced in commit 7fb008c5ee59b040: if the index has grown by more than a cutoff amount (here set at 4X growth) since VACUUM, then use the rule-of-thumb numbers instead of scaling. This might not be exactly right but it seems much less likely to produce insane estimates. I also improved both the scaling estimate and the rule-of-thumb estimate to account for numPendingPages, since it's reasonable to expect that that is accurate in any case, and certainly pages that are in the pending list are not either entry or data pages. As a somewhat separate issue, adjust the estimation equations that are concerned with extra fetches for partial-match searches. These equations suppose that a fraction partialEntries / numEntries of the entry and data pages will be visited as a consequence of a partial-match search. Now, it's physically impossible for that fraction to exceed one, but our estimate of partialEntries is mostly bunk, and our estimate of numEntries isn't exactly gospel either, so we could arrive at a silly value. In the example presented by Andy we were coming out with a value of 100, leading to insane cost estimates. Clamp the fraction to one to avoid that. Like the previous patch, back-patch to all supported branches; this problem can be demonstrated in one form or another in all of them.
2015-12-14Add missing CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS in lseg_inside_polyAlvaro Herrera
Apparently, there are bugs in this code that cause it to loop endlessly. That bug still needs more research, but in the meantime it's clear that the loop is missing a check for interrupts so that it can be cancelled timely. Backpatch to 9.1 -- this has been missing since 49475aab8d0d.
2015-12-01Make gincostestimate() cope with hypothetical GIN indexes.Tom Lane
We tried to fetch statistics data from the index metapage, which does not work if the index isn't actually present. If the index is hypothetical, instead extrapolate some plausible internal statistics based on the index page count provided by the index-advisor plugin. There was already some code in gincostestimate() to invent internal stats in this way, but since it was only meant as a stopgap for pre-9.1 GIN indexes that hadn't been vacuumed since upgrading, it was pretty crude. If we want it to support index advisors, we should try a little harder. A small amount of testing says that it's better to estimate the entry pages as 90% of the index, not 100%. Also, estimating the number of entries (keys) as equal to the heap tuple count could be wildly wrong in either direction. Instead, let's estimate 100 entries per entry page. Perhaps someday somebody will want the index advisor to be able to provide these numbers more directly, but for the moment this should serve. Problem report and initial patch by Julien Rouhaud; modified by me to invent less-bogus internal statistics. Back-patch to all supported branches, since we've supported index advisors since 9.0.
2015-11-26Fix failure to consider failure cases in GetComboCommandId().Tom Lane
Failure to initially palloc the comboCids array, or to realloc it bigger when needed, left combocid's data structures in an inconsistent state that would cause trouble if the top transaction continues to execute. Noted while examining a user complaint about the amount of memory used for this. (There's not much we can do about that, but it does point up that repalloc failure has a non-negligible chance of occurring here.) In HEAD/9.5, also avoid possible invocation of memcpy() with a null pointer in SerializeComboCIDState; cf commit 13bba0227.
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.
2015-11-17Fix possible internal overflow in numeric division.Tom Lane
div_var_fast() postpones propagating carries in the same way as mul_var(), so it has the same corner-case overflow risk we fixed in 246693e5ae8a36f0, namely that the size of the carries has to be accounted for when setting the threshold for executing a carry propagation step. We've not devised a test case illustrating the brokenness, but the required fix seems clear enough. Like the previous fix, back-patch to all active branches. Dean Rasheed
2015-11-16Speed up ruleutils' name de-duplication code, and fix overlength-name case.Tom Lane
Since commit 11e131854f8231a21613f834c40fe9d046926387, ruleutils.c has attempted to ensure that each RTE in a query or plan tree has a unique alias name. However, the code that was added for this could be quite slow, even as bad as O(N^3) if N identical RTE names must be replaced, as noted by Jeff Janes. Improve matters by building a transient hash table within set_rtable_names. The hash table in itself reduces the cost of detecting a duplicate from O(N) to O(1), and we can save another factor of N by storing the number of de-duplicated names already created for each entry, so that we don't have to re-try names already created. This way is probably a bit slower overall for small range tables, but almost by definition, such cases should not be a performance problem. In principle the same problem applies to the column-name-de-duplication code; but in practice that seems to be less of a problem, first because N is limited since we don't support extremely wide tables, and second because duplicate column names within an RTE are fairly rare, so that in practice the cost is more like O(N^2) not O(N^3). It would be very much messier to fix the column-name code, so for now I've left that alone. An independent problem in the same area was that the de-duplication code paid no attention to the identifier length limit, and would happily produce identifiers that were longer than NAMEDATALEN and wouldn't be unique after truncation to NAMEDATALEN. This could result in dump/reload failures, or perhaps even views that silently behaved differently than before. We can fix that by shortening the base name as needed. Fix it for both the relation and column name cases. In passing, check for interrupts in set_rtable_names, just in case it's still slow enough to be an issue. Back-patch to 9.3 where this code was introduced.
2015-11-15Fix ruleutils.c's dumping of whole-row Vars in ROW() and VALUES() contexts.Tom Lane
Normally ruleutils prints a whole-row Var as "foo.*". We already knew that that doesn't work at top level of a SELECT list, because the parser would treat the "*" as a directive to expand the reference into separate columns, not a whole-row Var. However, Joshua Yanovski points out in bug #13776 that the same thing happens at top level of a ROW() construct; and some nosing around in the parser shows that the same is true in VALUES(). Hence, apply the same workaround already devised for the SELECT-list case, namely to add a forced cast to the appropriate rowtype in these cases. (The alternative of just printing "foo" was rejected because it is difficult to avoid ambiguity against plain columns named "foo".) Back-patch to all supported branches.
2015-11-05Fix erroneous hash calculations in gin_extract_jsonb_path().Tom Lane
The jsonb_path_ops code calculated hash values inconsistently in some cases involving nested arrays and objects. This would result in queries possibly not finding entries that they should find, when using a jsonb_path_ops GIN index for the search. The problem cases involve JSONB values that contain both scalars and sub-objects at the same nesting level, for example an array containing both scalars and sub-arrays. To fix, reset the current stack->hash after processing each value or sub-object, not before; and don't try to be cute about the outermost level's initial hash. Correcting this means that existing jsonb_path_ops indexes may now be inconsistent with the new hash calculation code. The symptom is the same --- searches not finding entries they should find --- but the specific rows affected are likely to be different. Users will need to REINDEX jsonb_path_ops indexes to make sure that all searches work as expected. Per bug #13756 from Daniel Cheng. Back-patch to 9.4 where the faulty logic was introduced.
2015-10-20Fix incorrect translation of minus-infinity datetimes for json/jsonb.Tom Lane
Commit bda76c1c8cfb1d11751ba6be88f0242850481733 caused both plus and minus infinity to be rendered as "infinity", which is not only wrong but inconsistent with the pre-9.4 behavior of to_json(). Fix that by duplicating the coding in date_out/timestamp_out/timestamptz_out more closely. Per bug #13687 from Stepan Perlov. Back-patch to 9.4, like the previous commit. In passing, also re-pgindent json.c, since it had gotten a bit messed up by recent patches (and I was already annoyed by indentation-related problems in back-patching this fix ...)
2015-10-12Use JsonbIteratorToken consistently in automatic variable declarations.Noah Misch
Many functions stored JsonbIteratorToken values in variables of other integer types. Also, standardize order relative to other declarations. Expect compilers to generate the same code before and after this change.
2015-10-06Perform an immediate shutdown if the postmaster.pid file is removed.Tom Lane
The postmaster now checks every minute or so (worst case, at most two minutes) that postmaster.pid is still there and still contains its own PID. If not, it performs an immediate shutdown, as though it had received SIGQUIT. The original goal behind this change was to ensure that failed buildfarm runs would get fully cleaned up, even if the test scripts had left a postmaster running, which is not an infrequent occurrence. When the buildfarm script removes a test postmaster's $PGDATA directory, its next check on postmaster.pid will fail and cause it to exit. Previously, manual intervention was often needed to get rid of such orphaned postmasters, since they'd block new test postmasters from obtaining the expected socket address. However, by checking postmaster.pid and not something else, we can provide additional robustness: manual removal of postmaster.pid is a frequent DBA mistake, and now we can at least limit the damage that will ensue if a new postmaster is started while the old one is still alive. Back-patch to all supported branches, since we won't get the desired improvement in buildfarm reliability otherwise.
2015-10-05Prevent stack overflow in query-type functions.Noah Misch
The tsquery, ltxtquery and query_int data types have a common ancestor. Having acquired check_stack_depth() calls independently, each was missing at least one call. Back-patch to 9.0 (all supported versions).
2015-10-05Prevent stack overflow in container-type functions.Noah Misch
A range type can name another range type as its subtype, and a record type can bear a column of another record type. Consequently, functions like range_cmp() and record_recv() are recursive. Functions at risk include operator family members and referents of pg_type regproc columns. Treat as recursive any such function that looks up and calls the same-purpose function for a record column type or the range subtype. Back-patch to 9.0 (all supported versions). An array type's element type is never itself an array type, so array functions are unaffected. Recursion depth proportional to array dimensionality, found in array_dim_to_jsonb(), is fine thanks to MAXDIM.
2015-10-05Prevent stack overflow in json-related functions.Noah Misch
Sufficiently-deep recursion heretofore elicited a SIGSEGV. If an application constructs PostgreSQL json or jsonb values from arbitrary user input, application users could have exploited this to terminate all active database connections. That applies to 9.3, where the json parser adopted recursive descent, and later versions. Only row_to_json() and array_to_json() were at risk in 9.2, both in a non-security capacity. Back-patch to 9.2, where the json type was introduced. Oskari Saarenmaa, reviewed by Michael Paquier. Security: CVE-2015-5289
2015-10-02Add recursion depth protection to LIKE matching.Tom Lane
Since MatchText() recurses, it could in principle be driven to stack overflow, although quite a long pattern would be needed.
2015-09-25Second try at fixing O(N^2) problem in foreign key references.Tom Lane
This replaces ill-fated commit 5ddc72887a012f6a8b85707ef27d85c274faf53d, which was reverted because it broke active uses of FK cache entries. In this patch, we still do nothing more to invalidatable cache entries than mark them as needing revalidation, so we won't break active uses. To keep down the overhead of InvalidateConstraintCacheCallBack(), keep a list of just the currently-valid cache entries. (The entries are large enough that some added space for list links doesn't seem like a big problem.) This would still be O(N^2) when there are many valid entries, though, so when the list gets too long, just force the "sinval reset" behavior to remove everything from the list. I set the threshold at 1000 entries, somewhat arbitrarily. Possibly that could be fine-tuned later. Another item for future study is whether it's worth adding reference counting so that we could safely remove invalidated entries. As-is, problem cases are likely to end up with large and mostly invalid FK caches. Like the previous attempt, backpatch to 9.3. Jan Wieck and Tom Lane
2015-09-24Lower *_freeze_max_age minimum values.Andres Freund
The old minimum values are rather large, making it time consuming to test related behaviour. Additionally the current limits, especially for multixacts, can be problematic in space-constrained systems. 10000000 multixacts can contain a lot of members. Since there's no good reason for the current limits, lower them a good bit. Setting them to 0 would be a bad idea, triggering endless vacuums, so still retain a limit. While at it fix autovacuum_multixact_freeze_max_age to refer to multixact.c instead of varsup.c. Reviewed-By: Robert Haas Discussion: CA+TgmoYmQPHcrc3GSs7vwvrbTkbcGD9Gik=OztbDGGrovkkEzQ@mail.gmail.com Backpatch: back to 9.0 (in parts)
2015-09-21Fix possible internal overflow in numeric multiplication.Tom Lane
mul_var() postpones propagating carries until it risks overflow in its internal digit array. However, the logic failed to account for the possibility of overflow in the carry propagation step, allowing wrong results to be generated in corner cases. We must slightly reduce the when-to-propagate-carries threshold to avoid that. Discovered and fixed by Dean Rasheed, with small adjustments by me. This has been wrong since commit d72f6c75038d8d37e64a29a04b911f728044d83b, so back-patch to all supported branches.
2015-09-15Revert "Fix an O(N^2) problem in foreign key references".Tom Lane
Commit 5ddc72887a012f6a8b85707ef27d85c274faf53d does not actually work because it will happily blow away ri_constraint_cache entries that are in active use in outer call levels. In any case, it's a very ugly, brute-force solution to the problem of limiting the cache size. Revert until it can be redesigned.
2015-09-11Fix an O(N^2) problem in foreign key references.Kevin Grittner
Commit 45ba424f improved foreign key lookups during bulk updates when the FK value does not change. When restoring a schema dump from a database with many (say 100,000) foreign keys, this cache would grow very big and every ALTER TABLE command was causing an InvalidateConstraintCacheCallBack(), which uses a sequential hash table scan. This could cause a severe performance regression in restoring a schema dump (including during pg_upgrade). The patch uses a heuristic method of detecting when the hash table should be destroyed and recreated. InvalidateConstraintCacheCallBack() adds the current size of the hash table to a counter. When that sum reaches 1,000,000, the hash table is flushed. This fixes the regression without noticeable harm to the bulk update use case. Jan Wieck Backpatch to 9.3 where the performance regression was introduced.
2015-09-09Add gin_fuzzy_search_limit to postgresql.conf.sample.Fujii Masao
This was forgotten in 8a3631f (commit that originally added the parameter) and 0ca9907 (commit that added the documentation later that year). Back-patch to all supported versions.
2015-09-06Move DTK_ISODOW DTK_DOW and DTK_DOY to be type UNITS rather thanGreg Stark
RESERV. RESERV is meant for tokens like "now" and having them in that category throws errors like these when used as an input date: stark=# SELECT 'doy'::timestamptz; ERROR: unexpected dtype 33 while parsing timestamptz "doy" LINE 1: SELECT 'doy'::timestamptz; ^ stark=# SELECT 'dow'::timestamptz; ERROR: unexpected dtype 32 while parsing timestamptz "dow" LINE 1: SELECT 'dow'::timestamptz; ^ Found by LLVM's Libfuzzer
2015-09-05Fix misc typos.Heikki Linnakangas
Oskari Saarenmaa. Backpatch to stable branches where applicable.
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
2015-08-21Allow record_in() and record_recv() to work for transient record types.Tom Lane
If we have the typmod that identifies a registered record type, there's no reason that record_in() should refuse to perform input conversion for it. Now, in direct SQL usage, record_in() will always be passed typmod = -1 with type OID RECORDOID, because no typmodin exists for type RECORD, so the case can't arise. However, some InputFunctionCall users such as PLs may be able to supply the right typmod, so we should allow this to support them. Note: the previous coding and comment here predate commit 59c016aa9f490b53. There has been no case since 8.1 in which the passed type OID wouldn't be valid; and if it weren't, this error message wouldn't be apropos anyway. Better to let lookup_rowtype_tupdesc complain about it. Back-patch to 9.1, as this is necessary for my upcoming plpython fix. I'm committing it separately just to make it a bit more visible in the commit history.
2015-08-15Don't use 'bool' as a struct member name in help_config.c.Andres Freund
Doing so doesn't work if bool is a macro rather than a typedef. Although c.h spends some effort to support configurations where bool is a preexisting macro, help_config.c has existed this way since 2003 (b700a6), and there have not been any reports of problems. Backpatch anyway since this is as riskless as it gets. Discussion: 20150812084351.GD8470@awork2.anarazel.de Backpatch: 9.0-master
2015-08-14Encoding PG_UHC is code page 949.Noah Misch
This fixes presentation of non-ASCII messages to the Windows event log and console in rare cases involving Korean locale. Processes like the postmaster and checkpointer, but not processes attached to databases, were affected. Back-patch to 9.4, where MessageEncoding was introduced. The problem exists in all supported versions, but this change has no effect in the absence of the code recognizing PG_UHC MessageEncoding. Noticed while investigating bug #13427 from Dmitri Bourlatchkov.
2015-08-14Restore old pgwin32_message_to_UTF16() behavior outside transactions.Noah Misch
Commit 49c817eab78c6f0ce8c3bf46766b73d6cf3190b7 replaced with a hard error the dubious pg_do_encoding_conversion() behavior when outside a transaction. Reintroduce the historic soft failure locally within pgwin32_message_to_UTF16(). This fixes errors when writing messages in less-common encodings to the Windows event log or console. Back-patch to 9.4, where the aforementioned commit first appeared. Per bug #13427 from Dmitri Bourlatchkov.
2015-08-04Fix bogus "out of memory" reports in tuplestore.c.Tom Lane
The tuplesort/tuplestore memory management logic assumed that the chunk allocation overhead for its memtuples array could not increase when increasing the array size. This is and always was true for tuplesort, but we (I, I think) blindly copied that logic into tuplestore.c without noticing that the assumption failed to hold for the much smaller array elements used by tuplestore. Given rather small work_mem, this could result in an improper complaint about "unexpected out-of-memory situation", as reported by Brent DeSpain in bug #13530. The easiest way to fix this is just to increase tuplestore's initial array size so that the assumption holds. Rather than relying on magic constants, though, let's export a #define from aset.c that represents the safe allocation threshold, and make tuplestore's calculation depend on that. Do the same in tuplesort.c to keep the logic looking parallel, even though tuplesort.c isn't actually at risk at present. This will keep us from breaking it if we ever muck with the allocation parameters in aset.c. Back-patch to all supported versions. The error message doesn't occur pre-9.3, not so much because the problem can't happen as because the pre-9.3 tuplestore code neglected to check for it. (The chance of trouble is a great deal larger as of 9.3, though, due to changes in the array-size-increasing strategy.) However, allowing LACKMEM() to become true unexpectedly could still result in less-than-desirable behavior, so let's patch it all the way back.
2015-08-04Cap wal_buffers to avoid a server crash when it's set very large.Robert Haas
It must be possible to multiply wal_buffers by XLOG_BLCKSZ without overflowing int, or calculations in StartupXLOG will go badly wrong and crash the server. Avoid that by imposing a maximum value on wal_buffers. This will be just under 2GB, assuming the usual value for XLOG_BLCKSZ. Josh Berkus, per an analysis by Andrew Gierth.
2015-08-02Fix incorrect order of lock file removal and failure to close() sockets.Tom Lane
Commit c9b0cbe98bd783e24a8c4d8d8ac472a494b81292 accidentally broke the order of operations during postmaster shutdown: it resulted in removing the per-socket lockfiles after, not before, postmaster.pid. This creates a race-condition hazard for a new postmaster that's started immediately after observing that postmaster.pid has disappeared; if it sees the socket lockfile still present, it will quite properly refuse to start. This error appears to be the explanation for at least some of the intermittent buildfarm failures we've seen in the pg_upgrade test. Another problem, which has been there all along, is that the postmaster has never bothered to close() its listen sockets, but has just allowed them to close at process death. This creates a different race condition for an incoming postmaster: it might be unable to bind to the desired listen address because the old postmaster is still incumbent. This might explain some odd failures we've seen in the past, too. (Note: this is not related to the fact that individual backends don't close their client communication sockets. That behavior is intentional and is not changed by this patch.) Fix by adding an on_proc_exit function that closes the postmaster's ports explicitly, and (in 9.3 and up) reshuffling the responsibility for where to unlink the Unix socket files. Lock file unlinking can stay where it is, but teach it to unlink the lock files in reverse order of creation.
2015-07-30Avoid some zero-divide hazards in the planner.Tom Lane
Although I think on all modern machines floating division by zero results in Infinity not SIGFPE, we still don't want infinities running around in the planner's costing estimates; too much risk of that leading to insane behavior. grouping_planner() failed to consider the possibility that final_rel might be known dummy and hence have zero rowcount. (I wonder if it would be better to set a rows estimate of 1 for dummy relations? But at least in the back branches, changing this convention seems like a bad idea, so I'll leave that for another day.) Make certain that get_variable_numdistinct() produces a nonzero result. The case that can be shown to be broken is with stadistinct < 0.0 and small ntuples; we did not prevent the result from rounding to zero. For good luck I applied clamp_row_est() to all the nonconstant return values. In ExecChooseHashTableSize(), Assert that we compute positive nbuckets and nbatch. I know of no reason to think this isn't the case, but it seems like a good safety check. Per reports from Piotr Stefaniak. Back-patch to all active branches.
2015-07-28Disable ssl renegotiation by default.Andres Freund
While postgres' use of SSL renegotiation is a good idea in theory, it turned out to not work well in practice. The specification and openssl's implementation of it have lead to several security issues. Postgres' use of renegotiation also had its share of bugs. Additionally OpenSSL has a bunch of bugs around renegotiation, reported and open for years, that regularly lead to connections breaking with obscure error messages. We tried increasingly complex workarounds to get around these bugs, but we didn't find anything complete. Since these connection breakages often lead to hard to debug problems, e.g. spuriously failing base backups and significant latency spikes when synchronous replication is used, we have decided to change the default setting for ssl renegotiation to 0 (disabled) in the released backbranches and remove it entirely in 9.5 and master.. Author: Michael Paquier, with changes by me Discussion: 20150624144148.GQ4797@alap3.anarazel.de Backpatch: 9.0-9.4; 9.5 and master get a different patch
2015-07-16Fix a low-probability crash in our qsort implementation.Tom Lane
It's standard for quicksort implementations, after having partitioned the input into two subgroups, to recurse to process the smaller partition and then handle the larger partition by iterating. This method guarantees that no more than log2(N) levels of recursion can be needed. However, Bentley and McIlroy argued that checking to see which partition is smaller isn't worth the cycles, and so their code doesn't do that but just always recurses on the left partition. In most cases that's fine; but with worst-case input we might need O(N) levels of recursion, and that means that qsort could be driven to stack overflow. Such an overflow seems to be the only explanation for today's report from Yiqing Jin of a SIGSEGV in med3_tuple while creating an index of a couple billion entries with a very large maintenance_work_mem setting. Therefore, let's spend the few additional cycles and lines of code needed to choose the smaller partition for recursion. Also, fix up the qsort code so that it properly uses size_t not int for some intermediate values representing numbers of items. This would only be a live risk when sorting more than INT_MAX bytes (in qsort/qsort_arg) or tuples (in qsort_tuple), which I believe would never happen with any caller in the current core code --- but perhaps it could happen with call sites in third-party modules? In any case, this is trouble waiting to happen, and the corrected code is probably if anything shorter and faster than before, since it removes sign-extension steps that had to happen when converting between int and size_t. In passing, move a couple of CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS() calls so that it's not necessary to preserve the value of "r" across them, and prettify the output of gen_qsort_tuple.pl a little. Back-patch to all supported branches. The odds of hitting this issue are probably higher in 9.4 and up than before, due to the new ability to allocate sort workspaces exceeding 1GB, but there's no good reason to believe that it's impossible to crash older branches this way.