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2016-10-30Fix nasty performance problem in tsquery_rewrite().Tom Lane
tsquery_rewrite() tries to find matches to subsets of AND/OR conditions; for example, in the query 'a | b | c' the substitution subquery 'a | c' should match and lead to replacement of the first and third items. That's fine, but the matching algorithm apparently takes about O(2^N) for an N-clause query (I say "apparently" because the code is also both unintelligible and uncommented). We could probably do better than that even without any extra assumptions --- but actually, we know that the subclauses are sorted, indeed are depending on that elsewhere in this very same function. So we can just scan the two lists a single time to detect matches, as though we were doing a merge join. Also do a re-flattening call (QTNTernary()) in tsquery_rewrite_query, just to make sure that the tree fits the expectations of the next search cycle. I didn't try to devise a test case for this, but I'm pretty sure that the oversight could have led to failure to match in some cases where a match would be expected. Improve comments, and also stick a CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS into dofindsubquery, just in case it's still too slow for somebody. Per report from Andreas Seltenreich. Back-patch to all supported branches. Discussion: <8760oasf2y.fsf@credativ.de>
2016-10-30Fix bogus tree-flattening logic in QTNTernary().Tom Lane
QTNTernary() contains logic to flatten, eg, '(a & b) & c' into 'a & b & c', which is all well and good, but it tries to do that to NOT nodes as well, so that '!!a' gets changed to '!a'. Explicitly restrict the conversion to be done only on AND and OR nodes, and add a test case illustrating the bug. In passing, provide some comments for the sadly naked functions in tsquery_util.c, and simplify some baroque logic in QTNFree(), which I think may have been leaking some items it intended to free. Noted while investigating a complaint from Andreas Seltenreich. Back-patch to all supported versions.
2016-10-30Improve speed of aggregates that use array_append as transition function.Tom Lane
In the previous coding, if an aggregate's transition function returned an expanded array, nodeAgg.c and nodeWindowAgg.c would always copy it and thus force it into the flat representation. This led to ping-ponging between flat and expanded formats, which costs a lot. For an aggregate using array_append as transition function, I measured about a 15X slowdown compared to the pre-9.5 code, when working on simple int[] arrays. Of course, the old code was already O(N^2) in this usage due to copying flat arrays all the time, but it wasn't quite this inefficient. To fix, teach nodeAgg.c and nodeWindowAgg.c to allow expanded transition values without copying, so long as the transition function takes care to return the transition value already properly parented under the aggcontext. That puts a bit of extra responsibility on the transition function, but doing it this way allows us to not need any extra logic in the fast path of advance_transition_function (ie, with a pass-by-value transition value, or with a modified-in-place pass-by-reference value). We already know that that's a hot spot so I'm loath to add any cycles at all there. Also, while only array_append currently knows how to follow this convention, this solution allows other transition functions to opt-in without needing to have a whitelist in the core aggregation code. (The reason we would need a whitelist is that currently, if you pass a R/W expanded-object pointer to an arbitrary function, it's allowed to do anything with it including deleting it; that breaks the core agg code's assumption that it should free discarded values. Returning a value under aggcontext is the transition function's signal that it knows it is an aggregate transition function and will play nice. Possibly the API rules for expanded objects should be refined, but that would not be a back-patchable change.) With this fix, an aggregate using array_append is no longer O(N^2), so it's much faster than pre-9.5 code rather than much slower. It's still a bit slower than the bespoke infrastructure for array_agg, but the differential seems to be only about 10%-20% rather than orders of magnitude. Discussion: <6315.1477677885@sss.pgh.pa.us>
2016-10-23Avoid testing tuple visibility without buffer lock in RI_FKey_check().Tom Lane
Despite the argumentation I wrote in commit 7a2fe85b0, it's unsafe to do this, because in corner cases it's possible for HeapTupleSatisfiesSelf to try to set hint bits on the target tuple; and at least since 8.2 we have required the buffer content lock to be held while setting hint bits. The added regression test exercises one such corner case. Unpatched, it causes an assertion failure in assert-enabled builds, or otherwise would cause a hint bit change in a buffer we don't hold lock on, which given the right race condition could result in checksum failures or other data consistency problems. The odds of a problem in the field are probably pretty small, but nonetheless back-patch to all supported branches. Report: <19391.1477244876@sss.pgh.pa.us>
2016-10-19Suppress "Factory" zone in pg_timezone_names view for tzdata >= 2016g.Tom Lane
IANA got rid of the really silly "abbreviation" and replaced it with one that's only moderately silly. But it's still pointless, so keep on not showing it.
2016-10-18Fix cidin() to handle values above 2^31 platform-independently.Tom Lane
CommandId is declared as uint32, and values up to 4G are indeed legal. cidout() handles them properly by treating the value as unsigned int. But cidin() was just using atoi(), which has platform-dependent behavior for values outside the range of signed int, as reported by Bart Lengkeek in bug #14379. Use strtoul() instead, as xidin() does. In passing, make some purely cosmetic changes to make xidin/xidout look more like cidin/cidout; the former didn't have a monopoly on best practice IMO. Neither xidin nor cidin make any attempt to throw error for invalid input. I didn't change that here, and am not sure it's worth worrying about since neither is really a user-facing type. The point is just to ensure that indubitably-valid inputs work as expected. It's been like this for a long time, so back-patch to all supported branches. Report: <20161018152550.1413.6439@wrigleys.postgresql.org>
2016-10-17Fix use-after-free around DISTINCT transition function calls.Heikki Linnakangas
Have tuplesort_gettupleslot() copy the contents of its current table slot as needed. This is based on an approach taken by tuplestore_gettupleslot(). In the future, tuplesort_gettupleslot() may also be taught to avoid copying the tuple where caller can determine that that is safe (the tuplestore_gettupleslot() interface already offers this option to callers). Patch by Peter Geoghegan. Fixes bug #14344, reported by Regina Obe. Report: <20160929035538.20224.39628@wrigleys.postgresql.org> Backpatch-through: 9.6
2016-10-14Fix assorted integer-overflow hazards in varbit.c.Tom Lane
bitshiftright() and bitshiftleft() would recursively call each other infinitely if the user passed INT_MIN for the shift amount, due to integer overflow in negating the shift amount. To fix, clamp to -VARBITMAXLEN. That doesn't change the results since any shift distance larger than the input bit string's length produces an all-zeroes result. Also fix some places that seemed inadequately paranoid about input typmods exceeding VARBITMAXLEN. While a typmod accepted by anybit_typmodin() will certainly be much less than that, at least some of these spots are reachable with user-chosen integer values. Andreas Seltenreich and Tom Lane Discussion: <87d1j2zqtz.fsf@credativ.de>
2016-10-13Fix broken jsonb_set() logic for replacing array elements.Tom Lane
Commit 0b62fd036 did a fairly sloppy job of refactoring setPath() to support jsonb_insert() along with jsonb_set(). In its defense, though, there was no regression test case exercising the case of replacing an existing element in a jsonb array. Per bug #14366 from Peng Sun. Back-patch to 9.6 where bug was introduced. Report: <20161012065349.1412.47858@wrigleys.postgresql.org>
2016-10-03Show a sensible value in pg_settings.unit for GUC_UNIT_XSEGS variables.Tom Lane
Commit 88e982302 invented GUC_UNIT_XSEGS for min_wal_size and max_wal_size, but neglected to make it display sensibly in pg_settings.unit (by adding a case to the switch in GetConfigOptionByNum). Fix that, and adjust said switch to throw a run-time error the next time somebody forgets. In passing, avoid using a static buffer for the output string --- the rest of this function pstrdup's from a local buffer, and I see no very good reason why the units code should do it differently and less safely. Per report from Otar Shavadze. Back-patch to 9.5 where the new unit type was added. Report: <CAG-jOyA=iNFhN+yB4vfvqh688B7Tr5SArbYcFUAjZi=0Exp-Lg@mail.gmail.com>
2016-09-15Make min_parallel_relation_size's default value platform-independent.Tom Lane
The documentation states that the default value is 8MB, but this was only true at BLCKSZ = 8kB, because the default was hard-coded as 1024. Make the code match the docs by computing the default as 8MB/BLCKSZ. Oversight in commit 75be66464, noted pursuant to a gripe from Peter E. Discussion: <90634e20-097a-e4fd-67d5-fb2c42f0dd71@2ndquadrant.com>
2016-09-15Fix and clarify comments on replacement selection.Heikki Linnakangas
These were modified by the patch to only use replacement selection for the first run in an external sort.
2016-09-11Raise max setting of checkpoint_timeout to 1dSimon Riggs
Previously checkpoint_timeout was capped at 3600s New max setting is 86400s = 24h = 1d Discussion: 32558.1454471895@sss.pgh.pa.us
2016-09-10Fix miserable coding in pg_stat_get_activity().Tom Lane
Commit dd1a3bccc replaced a test on whether a subroutine returned a null pointer with a test on whether &pointer->backendStatus was null. This accidentally failed to fail, at least on common compilers, because backendStatus is the first field in the struct; but it was surely trouble waiting to happen. Commit f91feba87 then messed things up further, changing the logic to local_beentry = pgstat_fetch_stat_local_beentry(curr_backend); if (!local_beentry) continue; beentry = &local_beentry->backendStatus; if (!beentry) { where the second "if" is now dead code, so that the intended behavior of printing a row with "<backend information not available>" cannot occur. I suspect this is all moot because pgstat_fetch_stat_local_beentry will never actually return null in this function's usage, but it's still very poor coding. Repair back to 9.4 where the original problem was introduced.
2016-09-06Guard against possible memory allocation botch in batchmemtuples().Tom Lane
Negative availMemLessRefund would be problematic. It's not entirely clear whether the case can be hit in the code as it stands, but this seems like good future-proofing in any case. While we're at it, insist that the value be not merely positive but not tiny, so as to avoid doing a lot of repalloc work for little gain. Peter Geoghegan Discussion: <CAM3SWZRVkuUB68DbAkgw=532gW0f+fofKueAMsY7hVYi68MuYQ@mail.gmail.com>
2016-09-02Don't require dynamic timezone abbreviations to match underlying time zone.Tom Lane
Previously, we threw an error if a dynamic timezone abbreviation did not match any abbreviation recorded in the referenced IANA time zone entry. That seemed like a good consistency check at the time, but it turns out that a number of the abbreviations in the IANA database are things that Olson and crew made up out of whole cloth. Their current policy is to remove such names in favor of using simple numeric offsets. Perhaps unsurprisingly, a lot of these made-up abbreviations have varied in meaning over time, which meant that our commit b2cbced9e and later changes made them into dynamic abbreviations. So with newer IANA database versions that don't mention these abbreviations at all, we fail, as reported in bug #14307 from Neil Anderson. It's worse than just a few unused-in-the-wild abbreviations not working, because the pg_timezone_abbrevs view stops working altogether (since its underlying function tries to compute the whole view result in one call). We considered deleting these abbreviations from our abbreviations list, but the problem with that is that we can't stay ahead of possible future IANA changes. Instead, let's leave the abbreviations list alone, and treat any "orphaned" dynamic abbreviation as just meaning the referenced time zone. It will behave a bit differently than it used to, in that you can't any longer override the zone's standard vs. daylight rule by using the "wrong" abbreviation of a pair, but that's better than failing entirely. (Also, this solution can be interpreted as adding a small new feature, which is that any abbreviation a user wants can be defined as referencing a time zone name.) Back-patch to all supported branches, since this problem affects all of them when using tzdata 2016f or newer. Report: <20160902031551.15674.67337@wrigleys.postgresql.org> Discussion: <6189.1472820913@sss.pgh.pa.us>
2016-08-27Add macros to make AllocSetContextCreate() calls simpler and safer.Tom Lane
I found that half a dozen (nearly 5%) of our AllocSetContextCreate calls had typos in the context-sizing parameters. While none of these led to especially significant problems, they did create minor inefficiencies, and it's now clear that expecting people to copy-and-paste those calls accurately is not a great idea. Let's reduce the risk of future errors by introducing single macros that encapsulate the common use-cases. Three such macros are enough to cover all but two special-purpose contexts; those two calls can be left as-is, I think. While this patch doesn't in itself improve matters for third-party extensions, it doesn't break anything for them either, and they can gradually adopt the simplified notation over time. In passing, change TopMemoryContext to use the default allocation parameters. Formerly it could only be extended 8K at a time. That was probably reasonable when this code was written; but nowadays we create many more contexts than we did then, so that it's not unusual to have a couple hundred K in TopMemoryContext, even without considering various dubious code that sticks other things there. There seems no good reason not to let it use growing blocks like most other contexts. Back-patch to 9.6, mostly because that's still close enough to HEAD that it's easy to do so, and keeping the branches in sync can be expected to avoid some future back-patching pain. The bugs fixed by these changes don't seem to be significant enough to justify fixing them further back. Discussion: <21072.1472321324@sss.pgh.pa.us>
2016-08-26Add a nonlocalized version of the severity field to client error messages.Tom Lane
This has been requested a few times, but the use-case for it was never entirely clear. The reason for adding it now is that transmission of error reports from parallel workers fails when NLS is active, because pq_parse_errornotice() wrongly assumes that the existing severity field is nonlocalized. There are other ways we could have fixed that, but the other options were basically kluges, whereas this way provides something that's at least arguably a useful feature along with the bug fix. Per report from Jakob Egger. Back-patch into 9.6, because otherwise parallel query is essentially unusable in non-English locales. The problem exists in 9.5 as well, but we don't want to risk changing on-the-wire behavior in 9.5 (even though the possibility of new error fields is specifically called out in the protocol document). It may be sufficient to leave the issue unfixed in 9.5, given the very limited usefulness of pq_parse_errornotice in that version. Discussion: <A88E0006-13CB-49C6-95CC-1A77D717213C@eggerapps.at>
2016-08-26Put static forward declarations in elog.c back into same order as code.Tom Lane
The guiding principle for the last few patches in this area apparently involved throwing darts. Cosmetic only, but back-patch to 9.6 because there is no reason for 9.6 and HEAD to diverge yet in this file.
2016-08-26Fix assorted small bugs in ThrowErrorData().Tom Lane
Copy the palloc'd strings into the correct context, ie ErrorContext not wherever the source ErrorData is. This would be a large bug, except that it appears that all catchers of thrown errors do either EmitErrorReport or CopyErrorData before doing anything that would cause transient memory contexts to be cleaned up. Still, it's wrong and it will bite somebody someday. Fix failure to copy cursorpos and internalpos. Utter the appropriate incantations involving recursion_depth, so that we'll behave sanely if we get an error inside pstrdup. (In general, the body of this function ought to act like, eg, errdetail().) Per code reading induced by Jakob Egger's report.
2016-08-23Suppress compiler warnings in non-cassert builds.Tom Lane
With Asserts off, these variables are set but never used, resulting in warnings from pickier compilers. Fix that with our standard solution. Per report from Jeff Janes.
2016-08-22Fix possible sorting error when aborting use of abbreviated keys.Robert Haas
Due to an error in the abbreviated key abort logic, the most recently processed SortTuple could be incorrectly marked NULL, resulting in an incorrect final sort order. In the worst case, this could result in a corrupt btree index, which would need to be rebuild using REINDEX. However, abbrevation doesn't abort very often, not all data types use it, and only one tuple would end up in the wrong place, so the practical impact of this mistake may be somewhat limited. Report and patch by Peter Geoghegan.
2016-08-17Fix deletion of speculatively inserted TOAST on conflictAndres Freund
INSERT .. ON CONFLICT runs a pre-check of the possible conflicting constraints before performing the actual speculative insertion. In case the inserted tuple included TOASTed columns the ON CONFLICT condition would be handled correctly in case the conflict was caught by the pre-check, but if two transactions entered the speculative insertion phase at the same time, one would have to re-try, and the code for aborting a speculative insertion did not handle deleting the speculatively inserted TOAST datums correctly. TOAST deletion would fail with "ERROR: attempted to delete invisible tuple" as we attempted to remove the TOAST tuples using simple_heap_delete which reasoned that the given tuples should not be visible to the command that wrote them. This commit updates the heap_abort_speculative() function which aborts the conflicting tuple to use itself, via toast_delete, for deleting associated TOAST datums. Like before, the inserted toast rows are not marked as being speculative. This commit also adds a isolationtester spec test, exercising the relevant code path. Unfortunately 9.5 cannot handle two waiting sessions, and thus cannot execute this test. Reported-By: Viren Negi, Oskari Saarenmaa Author: Oskari Saarenmaa, edited a bit by me Bug: #14150 Discussion: <20160519123338.12513.20271@wrigleys.postgresql.org> Backpatch: 9.5, where ON CONFLICT was introduced
2016-08-17Disable update_process_title by default on WindowsMagnus Hagander
The performance overhead of this can be significant on Windows, and most people don't have the tools to view it anyway as Windows does not have native support for process titles. Discussion: <0A3221C70F24FB45833433255569204D1F5BE3E8@G01JPEXMBYT05> Takayuki Tsunakawa
2016-08-16Suppress -Wunused-result warning for strtol().Tom Lane
I'm not sure which bozo thought it's a problem to use strtol() only for its endptr result, but silence the warning using same method used elsewhere. Report: <f845d3a6-5328-3e2a-924f-f8e91aa2b6d2@2ndquadrant.com>
2016-08-16Fix typosPeter Eisentraut
From: Alexander Law <exclusion@gmail.com>
2016-08-16Disable parallel query by default.Robert Haas
Per discussion, set the default value of max_parallel_workers_per_gather to 0 in 9.6 only. We'll leave it enabled in master so that it gets more testing and in the hope that it can be enable by default in v10.
2016-08-15Final pgindent + perltidy run for 9.6.Tom Lane
2016-08-14Remove bogus dependencies on NUMERIC_MAX_PRECISION.Tom Lane
NUMERIC_MAX_PRECISION is a purely arbitrary constraint on the precision and scale you can write in a numeric typmod. It might once have had something to do with the allowed range of a typmod-less numeric value, but at least since 9.1 we've allowed, and documented that we allowed, any value that would physically fit in the numeric storage format; which is something over 100000 decimal digits, not 1000. Hence, get rid of numeric_in()'s use of NUMERIC_MAX_PRECISION as a limit on the allowed range of the exponent in scientific-format input. That was especially silly in view of the fact that you can enter larger numbers as long as you don't use 'e' to do it. Just constrain the value enough to avoid localized overflow, and let make_result be the final arbiter of what is too large. Likewise adjust ecpg's equivalent of this code. Also get rid of numeric_recv()'s use of NUMERIC_MAX_PRECISION to limit the number of base-NBASE digits it would accept. That created a dump/restore hazard for binary COPY without doing anything useful; the wire-format limit on number of digits (65535) is about as tight as we would want. In HEAD, also get rid of pg_size_bytes()'s unnecessary intimacy with what the numeric range limit is. That code doesn't exist in the back branches. Per gripe from Aravind Kumar. Back-patch to all supported branches, since they all contain the documentation claim about allowed range of NUMERIC (cf commit cabf5d84b). Discussion: <2895.1471195721@sss.pgh.pa.us>
2016-08-13Add SQL-accessible functions for inspecting index AM properties.Tom Lane
Per discussion, we should provide such functions to replace the lost ability to discover AM properties by inspecting pg_am (cf commit 65c5fcd35). The added functionality is also meant to displace any code that was looking directly at pg_index.indoption, since we'd rather not believe that the bit meanings in that field are part of any client API contract. As future-proofing, define the SQL API to not assume that properties that are currently AM-wide or index-wide will remain so unless they logically must be; instead, expose them only when inquiring about a specific index or even specific index column. Also provide the ability for an index AM to override the behavior. In passing, document pg_am.amtype, overlooked in commit 473b93287. Andrew Gierth, with kibitzing by me and others Discussion: <87mvl5on7n.fsf@news-spur.riddles.org.uk>
2016-08-08Fix several one-byte buffer over-reads in to_numberPeter Eisentraut
Several places in NUM_numpart_from_char(), which is called from the SQL function to_number(text, text), could accidentally read one byte past the end of the input buffer (which comes from the input text datum and is not null-terminated). 1. One leading space character would be skipped, but there was no check that the input was at least one byte long. This does not happen in practice, but for defensiveness, add a check anyway. 2. Commit 4a3a1e2cf apparently accidentally doubled that code that skips one space character (so that two spaces might be skipped), but there was no overflow check before skipping the second byte. Fix by removing that duplicate code. 3. A logic error would allow a one-byte over-read when looking for a trailing sign (S) placeholder. In each case, the extra byte cannot be read out directly, but looking at it might cause a crash. The third item was discovered by Piotr Stefaniak, the first two were found and analyzed by Tom Lane and Peter Eisentraut.
2016-08-08Make format() error messages consistent againPeter Eisentraut
07d25a964 changed only one occurrence. Change the other one as well.
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>
2016-08-07Fix crash when pg_get_viewdef_name_ext() is passed a non-view relation.Tom Lane
Oversight in commit 976b24fb4. Andreas Seltenreich Report: <87y448l3ag.fsf@credativ.de>
2016-08-07Fix TOAST access failure in RETURNING queries.Tom Lane
Discussion of commit 3e2f3c2e4 exposed a problem that is of longer standing: since we don't detoast data while sticking it into a portal's holdStore for PORTAL_ONE_RETURNING and PORTAL_UTIL_SELECT queries, and we release the query's snapshot as soon as we're done loading the holdStore, later readout of the holdStore can do TOAST fetches against data that can no longer be seen by any of the session's live snapshots. This means that a concurrent VACUUM could remove the TOAST data before we can fetch it. Commit 3e2f3c2e4 exposed the problem by showing that sometimes we had *no* live snapshots while fetching TOAST data, but we'd be at risk anyway. I believe this code was all right when written, because our management of a session's exposed xmin was such that the TOAST references were safe until end of transaction. But that's no longer true now that we can advance or clear our PGXACT.xmin intra-transaction. To fix, copy the query's snapshot during FillPortalStore() and save it in the Portal; release it only when the portal is dropped. This essentially implements a policy that we must hold a relevant snapshot whenever we access potentially-toasted data. We had already come to that conclusion in other places, cf commits 08e261cbc94ce9a7 and ec543db77b6b72f2. I'd have liked to add a regression test case for this, but I didn't see a way to make one that's not unreasonably bloated; it seems to require returning a toasted value to the client, and those will be big. In passing, improve PortalRunUtility() so that it positively verifies that its ending PopActiveSnapshot() call will pop the expected snapshot, removing a rather shaky assumption about which utility commands might do their own PopActiveSnapshot(). There's no known bug here, but now that we're actively referencing the snapshot it's almost free to make this code a bit more bulletproof. We might want to consider back-patching something like this into older branches, but it would be prudent to let it prove itself more in HEAD beforehand. Discussion: <87vazemeda.fsf@credativ.de>
2016-08-07Avoid crashing in GetOldestSnapshot() if there are no known snapshots.Tom Lane
The sole caller expects NULL to be returned in such a case, so make it so and document it. Per reports from Andreas Seltenreich and Regina Obe. This doesn't really fix their problem, as now their RETURNING queries will say "ERROR: no known snapshots", but in any case this function should not dump core in a reasonably-foreseeable situation. Report: <87vazemeda.fsf@credativ.de> Report: <20160807051854.1427.32414@wrigleys.postgresql.org>
2016-08-05Make array_to_tsvector() sort and de-duplicate the given strings.Tom Lane
This is required for the result to be a legal tsvector value. Noted while fooling with Andreas Seltenreich's ts_delete() crash. Discussion: <87invhoj6e.fsf@credativ.de>
2016-08-05Fix ts_delete(tsvector, text[]) to cope with duplicate array entries.Tom Lane
Such cases either failed an Assert, or produced a corrupt tsvector in non-Assert builds, as reported by Andreas Seltenreich. The reason is that tsvector_delete_by_indices() just assumed that its input array had no duplicates. Fix by explicitly de-duping. In passing, improve some comments, and fix a number of tests for null values to use ERRCODE_NULL_VALUE_NOT_ALLOWED not ERRCODE_INVALID_PARAMETER_VALUE. Discussion: <87invhoj6e.fsf@credativ.de>
2016-08-05Re-pgindent tsvector_op.c.Tom Lane
Messed up by recent commits --- this is annoying me while trying to fix some bugs here.
2016-08-03Prevent "snapshot too old" from trying to return pruned TOAST tuples.Robert Haas
Previously, we tested for MVCC snapshots to see whether they were too old, but not TOAST snapshots, which can lead to complaints about missing TOAST chunks if those chunks are subject to early pruning. Ideally, the threshold lsn and timestamp for a TOAST snapshot would be that of the corresponding MVCC snapshot, but since we have no way of deciding which MVCC snapshot was used to fetch the TOAST pointer, use the oldest active or registered snapshot instead. Reported by Andres Freund, who also sketched out what the fix should look like. Patch by me, reviewed by Amit Kapila.
2016-08-03Make INSERT-from-multiple-VALUES-rows handle targetlist indirection better.Tom Lane
Previously, if an INSERT with multiple rows of VALUES had indirection (array subscripting or field selection) in its target-columns list, the parser handled that by applying transformAssignedExpr() to each element of each VALUES row independently. This led to having ArrayRef assignment nodes or FieldStore nodes in each row of the VALUES RTE. That works for simple cases, but in bug #14265 Nuri Boardman points out that it fails if there are multiple assignments to elements/fields of the same target column. For such cases to work, rewriteTargetListIU() has to nest the ArrayRefs or FieldStores together to produce a single expression to be assigned to the column. But it failed to find them in the top-level targetlist and issued an error about "multiple assignments to same column". We could possibly fix this by teaching the rewriter to apply rewriteTargetListIU to each VALUES row separately, but that would be messy (it would change the output rowtype of the VALUES RTE, for example) and inefficient. Instead, let's fix the parser so that the VALUES RTE outputs are just the user-specified values, cast to the right type if necessary, and then the ArrayRefs or FieldStores are applied in the top-level targetlist to Vars representing the RTE's outputs. This is the same parsetree representation already used for similar cases with INSERT/SELECT syntax, so it allows simplifications in ruleutils.c, which no longer needs to treat INSERT-from-multiple-VALUES as its own special case. This implementation works by applying transformAssignedExpr to the VALUES entries as before, and then stripping off any ArrayRefs or FieldStores it adds. With lots of VALUES rows it would be noticeably more efficient to not add those nodes in the first place. But that's just an optimization not a bug fix, and there doesn't seem to be any good way to do it without significant refactoring. (A non-invasive answer would be to apply transformAssignedExpr + stripping to just the first VALUES row, and then just forcibly cast remaining rows to the same data types exposed in the first row. But this way would lead to different, not-INSERT-specific errors being reported in casting failure cases, so it doesn't seem very nice.) So leave that for later; this patch at least isn't making the per-row parsing work worse, and it does make the finished parsetree smaller, saving rewriter and planner work. Catversion bump because stored rules containing such INSERTs would need to change. Because of that, no back-patch, even though this is a very long-standing bug. Report: <20160727005725.7438.26021@wrigleys.postgresql.org> Discussion: <9578.1469645245@sss.pgh.pa.us>
2016-08-03Do not let PostmasterContext survive into background workers.Tom Lane
We don't want postmaster child processes to contain a copy of the postmaster's PostmasterContext. That would be a waste of memory at least, and at worst a security issue, since there are copies of the semi-sensitive pg_hba and pg_ident data in there. All other child process types delete the PostmasterContext after forking, but the original coding of the background worker patch (commit da07a1e85) did not do so. It appears that the only reason for that was to avoid copying the bgworker's MyBgworkerEntry out of that context; but the couple of additional statements needed to do so are hardly good justification for it. Hence, copy that data and then clear the context as other child processes do. Because this patch changes the memory context in which a bgworker function gains control, back-patching it would be a bit risky, so we won't fix this in back branches. The "security" complaint is pretty thin anyway for generic bgworkers; only with the introduction of parallel query is there any question of running untrusted code in a bgworker process. Discussion: <14111.1470082717@sss.pgh.pa.us>
2016-08-03C comment: fix typoBruce Momjian
Author: Amit Langote
2016-08-02Change minimum max_worker_processes from 1 to 0Peter Eisentraut
Setting it to 0 is probably not useful in practice, but it allows testing of situations without available background worker slots.
2016-07-29Eliminate a few more user-visible "cache lookup failed" errors.Robert Haas
Michael Paquier
2016-07-28Fix assorted fallout from IS [NOT] NULL patch.Tom Lane
Commits 4452000f3 et al established semantics for NullTest.argisrow that are a bit different from its initial conception: rather than being merely a cache of whether we've determined the input to have composite type, the flag now has the further meaning that we should apply field-by-field testing as per the standard's definition of IS [NOT] NULL. If argisrow is false and yet the input has composite type, the construct instead has the semantics of IS [NOT] DISTINCT FROM NULL. Update the comments in primnodes.h to clarify this, and fix ruleutils.c and deparse.c to print such cases correctly. In the case of ruleutils.c, this merely results in cosmetic changes in EXPLAIN output, since the case can't currently arise in stored rules. However, it represents a live bug for deparse.c, which would formerly have sent a remote query that had semantics different from the local behavior. (From the user's standpoint, this means that testing a remote nested-composite column for null-ness could have had unexpected recursive behavior much like that fixed in 4452000f3.) In a related but somewhat independent fix, make plancat.c set argisrow to false in all NullTest expressions constructed to represent "attnotnull" constructs. Since attnotnull is actually enforced as a simple null-value check, this is a more accurate representation of the semantics; we were previously overpromising what it meant for composite columns, which might possibly lead to incorrect planner optimizations. (It seems that what the SQL spec expects a NOT NULL constraint to mean is an IS NOT NULL test, so arguably we are violating the spec and should fix attnotnull to do the other thing. If we ever do, this part should get reverted.) Back-patch, same as the previous commit. Discussion: <10682.1469566308@sss.pgh.pa.us>
2016-07-26Change various deparsing functions to return NULL for invalid input.Robert Haas
Previously, some functions returned various fixed strings and others failed with a cache lookup error. Per discussion, standardize on returning NULL. Although user-exposed "cache lookup failed" error messages might normally qualify for bug-fix treatment, no back-patch; the risk of breaking user code which is accustomed to the current behavior seems too high. Michael Paquier
2016-07-25Fix typoPeter Eisentraut
2016-07-25Message style improvementsPeter Eisentraut
2016-07-19Remove very-obsolete estimates of shmem usage from postgresql.conf.sample.Tom Lane
runtime.sgml used to contain a table of estimated shared memory consumption rates for max_connections and some other GUCs. Commit 390bfc643 removed that on the well-founded grounds that (a) we weren't maintaining the entries well and (b) it no longer mattered so much once we got out from under SysV shmem limits. But it missed that there were even-more-obsolete versions of some of those numbers in comments in postgresql.conf.sample. Remove those too. Back-patch to 9.3 where the aforesaid commit went in.