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2016-03-28Document errhidecontext() where it ought to be documented.Tom Lane
Seems to have been missed when this function was added. Noted while looking at David Steele's proposal to add another similar function.
2016-03-28Reset plan->row_security_env and planUserIdStephen Frost
In the plancache, we check if the environment we planned the query under has changed in a way which requires us to re-plan, such as when the user for whom the plan was prepared changes and RLS is being used (and, therefore, there may be different policies to apply). Unfortunately, while those values were set and checked, they were not being reset when the query was re-planned and therefore, in cases where we change role, re-plan, and then change role again, we weren't re-planning again. This leads to potentially incorrect policies being applied in cases where role-specific policies are used and a given query is planned under one role and then executed under other roles, which could happen under security definer functions or when a common user and query is planned initially and then re-used across multiple SET ROLEs. Further, extensions which made use of CopyCachedPlan() may suffer from similar issues as the RLS-related fields were not properly copied as part of the plan and therefore RevalidateCachedQuery() would copy in the current settings without invalidating the query. Fix by using the same approach used for 'search_path', where we set the correct values in CompleteCachedPlan(), check them early on in RevalidateCachedQuery() and then properly reset them if re-planning. Also, copy through the values during CopyCachedPlan(). Pointed out by Ashutosh Bapat. Reviewed by Michael Paquier. Back-patch to 9.5 where RLS was introduced. Security: CVE-2016-2193
2016-03-28Code and docs review for commit 3187d6de0e5a9e805b27c48437897e8c39071d45.Tom Lane
Fix up check for high-bit-set characters, which provoked "comparison is always true due to limited range of data type" warnings on some compilers, and was unlike the way we do it elsewhere anyway. Fix omission of "$" from the set of valid identifier continuation characters. Get rid of sanitize_text(), which was utterly inconsistent with any other error report anywhere in the system, and wasn't even well designed on its own terms (double-quoting the result string without escaping contained double quotes doesn't seem very well thought out). Fix up error messages, which didn't follow the message style guidelines very well, and were overly specific in situations where the actual mistake might not be what they said. Improve documentation. (I started out just intending to fix the compiler warning, but the more I looked at the patch the less I liked it.)
2016-03-27Guard against zero vardata.rel->tuples in estimate_hash_bucketsize().Tom Lane
If the referenced rel was proven empty, we'd compute 0/0 here, which results in the function returning NaN. That's a bit more serious than the other zero-divide case. Still, it only seems to be possible in HEAD, so no back-patch. Per report from Piotr Stefaniak. I looked through the rest of selfuncs.c and found no other likely trouble spots.
2016-03-27Clamp adjusted ndistinct to positive integer in estimate_hash_bucketsize().Tom Lane
This avoids a possible divide-by-zero in the following calculation, and rounding the number to an integer seems like saner behavior anyway. Assuming IEEE math, the division would yield +Infinity which would get replaced by 1.0 at the bottom of the function, so nothing really interesting would ensue; but avoiding divide-by-zero seems like a good idea on general principles. Per report from Piotr Stefaniak. No back-patch since this seems mostly cosmetic.
2016-03-25Improve PL/Tcl errorCode facility by providing decoded name for SQLSTATE.Tom Lane
We don't really want to encourage people to write numeric SQLSTATEs in programs; that's unreadable and error-prone. Copy plpgsql's infrastructure for converting between SQLSTATEs and exception names shown in Appendix A, and modify examples in tests and documentation to do it that way.
2016-03-24Use correct GetDatum function.Robert Haas
Oops.
2016-03-23Support CREATE ACCESS METHODAlvaro Herrera
This enables external code to create access methods. This is useful so that extensions can add their own access methods which can be formally tracked for dependencies, so that DROP operates correctly. Also, having explicit support makes pg_dump work correctly. Currently only index AMs are supported, but we expect different types to be added in the future. Authors: Alexander Korotkov, Petr Jelínek Reviewed-By: Teodor Sigaev, Petr Jelínek, Jim Nasby Commitfest-URL: https://commitfest.postgresql.org/9/353/ Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAPpHfdsXwZmojm6Dx+TJnpYk27kT4o7Ri6X_4OSWcByu1Rm+VA@mail.gmail.com
2016-03-23Move keywords.c/kwlookup.c into src/common/.Tom Lane
Now that we have src/common/ for code shared between frontend and backend, we can get rid of (most of) the klugy ways that the keyword table and keyword lookup code were formerly shared between different uses. This is a first step towards a more general plan of getting rid of special-purpose kluges for sharing code in src/bin/. I chose to merge kwlookup.c back into keywords.c, as it once was, and always has been so far as keywords.h is concerned. We could have kept them separate, but there is noplace that uses ScanKeywordLookup without also wanting access to the backend's keyword list, so there seems little point. ecpg is still a bit weird, but at least now the trickiness is documented. I think that the MSVC build script should require no adjustments beyond what's done here ... but we'll soon find out.
2016-03-23Disable abbreviated keys for string-sorting in non-C locales.Robert Haas
Unfortunately, every version of glibc thus far tested has bugs whereby strcoll() ordering does not match strxfrm() ordering as required by the standard. This can result in, for example, corrupted indexes. Disabling abbreviated keys in these cases slows down non-C-collation string sorting considerably, but there seems to be no practical alternative. Users who are confident that their libc implementations are solid in this regard can re-enable the optimization by compiling with TRUST_STRXFRM. Users who have built indexes using PostgreSQL 9.5 or PostgreSQL 9.5.1 should REINDEX if there is a possibility that they may have been affected by this problem. Report by Marc-Olaf Jaschke. Investigation mostly by Tom Lane, with help from Peter Geoghegan, Noah Misch, Stephen Frost, and me. Patch by me, reviewed by Peter Geoghegan and Tom Lane.
2016-03-23Partition the freelist for shared dynahash tables.Robert Haas
Without this, contention on the freelist can become a pretty serious problem on large servers. Aleksander Alekseev, reviewed by Anastasia Lubennikova, Dilip Kumar, and me.
2016-03-23Code review for error reports in jsonb_set().Tom Lane
User-facing (even tested by regression tests) error conditions were thrown with elog(), hence had wrong SQLSTATE and were untranslatable. And the error message texts weren't up to project style, either.
2016-03-23Fix unsafe use of strtol() on a non-null-terminated Text datum.Tom Lane
jsonb_set() could produce wrong answers or incorrect error reports, or in the worst case even crash, when trying to convert a path-array element into an integer for use as an array subscript. Per report from Vitaly Burovoy. Back-patch to 9.5 where the faulty code was introduced (in commit c6947010ceb42143). Michael Paquier
2016-03-21Make max_parallel_degree PGC_USERSET.Robert Haas
It was intended to be this way all along, just like other planner GUCs such as work_mem. But I goofed.
2016-03-21Introduce WaitEventSet API.Andres Freund
Commit ac1d794 ("Make idle backends exit if the postmaster dies.") introduced a regression on, at least, large linux systems. Constantly adding the same postmaster_alive_fds to the OSs internal datastructures for implementing poll/select can cause significant contention; leading to a performance regression of nearly 3x in one example. This can be avoided by using e.g. linux' epoll, which avoids having to add/remove file descriptors to the wait datastructures at a high rate. Unfortunately the current latch interface makes it hard to allocate any persistent per-backend resources. Replace, with a backward compatibility layer, WaitLatchOrSocket with a new WaitEventSet API. Users can allocate such a Set across multiple calls, and add more than one file-descriptor to wait on. The latter has been added because there's upcoming postgres features where that will be helpful. In addition to the previously existing poll(2), select(2), WaitForMultipleObjects() implementations also provide an epoll_wait(2) based implementation to address the aforementioned performance problem. Epoll is only available on linux, but that is the most likely OS for machines large enough (four sockets) to reproduce the problem. To actually address the aforementioned regression, create and use a long-lived WaitEventSet for FE/BE communication. There are additional places that would benefit from a long-lived set, but that's a task for another day. Thanks to Amit Kapila, who helped make the windows code I blindly wrote actually work. Reported-By: Dmitry Vasilyev Discussion: CAB-SwXZh44_2ybvS5Z67p_CDz=XFn4hNAD=CnMEF+QqkXwFrGg@mail.gmail.com 20160114143931.GG10941@awork2.anarazel.de
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.
2016-03-18Merge wal_level "archive" and "hot_standby" into new name "replica"Peter Eisentraut
The distinction between "archive" and "hot_standby" existed only because at the time "hot_standby" was added, there was some uncertainty about stability. This is now a long time ago. We would like to move forward with simplifying the replication configuration, but this distinction is in the way, because a primary server cannot tell (without asking a standby or predicting the future) which one of these would be the appropriate level. Pick a new name for the combined setting to make it clearer that it covers all (non-logical) backup and replication uses. The old values are still accepted but are converted internally. Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>
2016-03-18Use INT64_FORMAT instead of %ld for int64.Robert Haas
Commit 0011c0091e886b874e485a46ff2c94222ffbf550 introduced this mistake. Patch by me. Reported by Andres Freund, who also reviewed the patch.
2016-03-18Introduce parse_ident()Teodor Sigaev
SQL-layer function to split qualified identifier into array parts. Author: Pavel Stehule with minor editorization by me and Jim Nasby
2016-03-18Various minor corrections of and improvements to comments.Robert Haas
Aleksander Alekseev
2016-03-17Update tuplesort.c comments for memory mangement improvements.Robert Haas
I'm committing these changes separately so that it's clear what is Peter's original work versus what I changed. This is a followup to commit 0011c0091e886b874e485a46ff2c94222ffbf550, and these changes are all by me.
2016-03-17Improve memory management for external sorts.Robert Haas
Introduce a new memory context which stores tuple data, and reset it at the end of each merge pass; this helps avoid memory fragmentation and, consequently, overallocation. Also, for the final merge patch, eliminate memory context chunk header overhead entirely by allocating all of the memory used for buffering tuples during the merge in a single chunk. Since this modestly increases the number of tuples we can store, grow the memtuples array a bit so that we're less likely to run short of slots there. Peter Geoghegan. Review and testing of patches in this series by Jeff Janes, Greg Stark, Mithun Cy, 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
2016-03-16Add syslog_split_messages parameterPeter Eisentraut
Reviewed-by: Andreas Karlsson <andreas@proxel.se>
2016-03-16Add syslog_sequence_numbers parameterPeter Eisentraut
Reviewed-by: Andreas Karlsson <andreas@proxel.se>
2016-03-16Fix j2day() to behave sanely for negative Julian dates.Tom Lane
Somebody had apparently once figured that casting to unsigned int would produce the right output for negative inputs, but that would only be true if 2^32 were a multiple of 7, which of course it ain't. We need to use a signed division and then correct the sign of the remainder. AFAICT, the only case where this would arise currently is when doing ISO-week calculations for dates in 4714BC, where we'd compute a negative Julian date representing 4714-01-04BC and then do some arithmetic with it. Since we don't even really document support for such dates, this is not of much consequence. But we may as well get it right. Per report from Vitaly Burovoy.
2016-03-16Be more careful about out-of-range dates and timestamps.Tom Lane
Tighten the semantics of boundary-case timestamptz so that we allow timestamps >= '4714-11-24 00:00+00 BC' and < 'ENDYEAR-01-01 00:00+00 AD' exactly, no more and no less, but it is allowed to enter timestamps within that range using non-GMT timezone offsets (which could make the nominal date 4714-11-23 BC or ENDYEAR-01-01 AD). This eliminates dump/reload failure conditions for timestamps near the endpoints. To do this, separate checking of the inputs for date2j() from the final range check, and allow the Julian date code to handle a range slightly wider than the nominal range of the datatypes. Also add a bunch of checks to detect out-of-range dates and timestamps that formerly could be returned by operations such as date-plus-integer. All C-level functions that return date, timestamp, or timestamptz should now be proof against returning a value that doesn't pass IS_VALID_DATE() or IS_VALID_TIMESTAMP(). Vitaly Burovoy, reviewed by Anastasia Lubennikova, and substantially whacked around by me
2016-03-16Add idle_in_transaction_session_timeout.Robert Haas
Vik Fearing, reviewed by Stéphane Schildknecht and me, and revised slightly by me.
2016-03-16UCS_to_EUC_JIS_2004.pl: Turn off "test" mode by defaultPeter Eisentraut
It produces debugging output files that are of no further use, so we don't need that by default.
2016-03-16Make spacing and punctuation consistentPeter Eisentraut
2016-03-15Fix typos.Robert Haas
Oskari Saarenmaa
2016-03-13Report memory context stats upon out-of-memory in repalloc[_huge].Tom Lane
This longstanding functionality evidently got lost in commit 3d6d1b585524aab6. Noted while studying an OOM report from Jaime Casanova. Backpatch to 9.5 where the bug was introduced.
2016-03-12Fix Windows portability issue in 23a27b039d94ba35.Tom Lane
_strtoui64() is available in MSVC builds, but apparently not with other Windows toolchains. Thanks to Petr Jelinek for the diagnosis.
2016-03-12Widen query numbers-of-tuples-processed counters to uint64.Tom Lane
This patch widens SPI_processed, EState's es_processed field, PortalData's portalPos field, FuncCallContext's call_cntr and max_calls fields, ExecutorRun's count argument, PortalRunFetch's result, and the max number of rows in a SPITupleTable to uint64, and deals with (I hope) all the ensuing fallout. Some of these values were declared uint32 before, and others "long". I also removed PortalData's posOverflow field, since that logic seems pretty useless given that portalPos is now always 64 bits. The user-visible results are that command tags for SELECT etc will correctly report tuple counts larger than 4G, as will plpgsql's GET GET DIAGNOSTICS ... ROW_COUNT command. Queries processing more tuples than that are still not exactly the norm, but they're becoming more common. Most values associated with FETCH/MOVE distances, such as PortalRun's count argument and the count argument of most SPI functions that have one, remain declared as "long". It's not clear whether it would be worth promoting those to int64; but it would definitely be a large dollop of additional API churn on top of this, and it would only help 32-bit platforms which seem relatively less likely to see any benefit. Andreas Scherbaum, reviewed by Christian Ullrich, additional hacking by me
2016-03-11Fix Windows build broken in 6943a946c7e5eb72d53c0ce71f08a81a133503bdTeodor Sigaev
Also it fixes dynamic array allocation disallowed by ANSI-C. Author: Stas Kelvich
2016-03-11Tsvector editing functionsTeodor Sigaev
Adds several tsvector editting function: convert tsvector to/from text array, set weight for given lexemes, delete lexeme(s), unnest, filter lexemes with given weights Author: Stas Kelvich with some editorization by me Reviewers: Tomas Vondram, Teodor Sigaev
2016-03-11Allow emit_log_hook to see original message textSimon Riggs
emit_log_hook could only see the translated text, making it harder to identify which message was being sent. Pass original text to allow the exact message to be identified, whichever language is used for logging. Discussion: 20160216.184755.59721141.horiguchi.kyotaro@lab.ntt.co.jp Author: Kyotaro Horiguchi
2016-03-10Allow to trigger kernel writeback after a configurable number of writes.Andres Freund
Currently writes to the main data files of postgres all go through the OS page cache. This means that some operating systems can end up collecting a large number of dirty buffers in their respective page caches. When these dirty buffers are flushed to storage rapidly, be it because of fsync(), timeouts, or dirty ratios, latency for other reads and writes can increase massively. This is the primary reason for regular massive stalls observed in real world scenarios and artificial benchmarks; on rotating disks stalls on the order of hundreds of seconds have been observed. On linux it is possible to control this by reducing the global dirty limits significantly, reducing the above problem. But global configuration is rather problematic because it'll affect other applications; also PostgreSQL itself doesn't always generally want this behavior, e.g. for temporary files it's undesirable. Several operating systems allow some control over the kernel page cache. Linux has sync_file_range(2), several posix systems have msync(2) and posix_fadvise(2). sync_file_range(2) is preferable because it requires no special setup, whereas msync() requires the to-be-flushed range to be mmap'ed. For the purpose of flushing dirty data posix_fadvise(2) is the worst alternative, as flushing dirty data is just a side-effect of POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED, which also removes the pages from the page cache. Thus the feature is enabled by default only on linux, but can be enabled on all systems that have any of the above APIs. While desirable and likely possible this patch does not contain an implementation for windows. With the infrastructure added, writes made via checkpointer, bgwriter and normal user backends can be flushed after a configurable number of writes. Each of these sources of writes controlled by a separate GUC, checkpointer_flush_after, bgwriter_flush_after and backend_flush_after respectively; they're separate because the number of flushes that are good are separate, and because the performance considerations of controlled flushing for each of these are different. A later patch will add checkpoint sorting - after that flushes from the ckeckpoint will almost always be desirable. Bgwriter flushes are most of the time going to be random, which are slow on lots of storage hardware. Flushing in backends works well if the storage and bgwriter can keep up, but if not it can have negative consequences. This patch is likely to have negative performance consequences without checkpoint sorting, but unfortunately so has sorting without flush control. Discussion: alpine.DEB.2.10.1506011320000.28433@sto Author: Fabien Coelho and Andres Freund
2016-03-10Give pull_var_clause() reject/recurse/return behavior for WindowFuncs too.Tom Lane
All along, this function should have treated WindowFuncs in a manner similar to Aggrefs, ie with an option whether or not to recurse into them. By not considering the case, it was always recursing, which is OK for most callers (although I suspect that the case in prepare_sort_from_pathkeys might represent a bug). But now we need return-without-recursing behavior as well. There are also more than a few callers that should never see a WindowFunc, and now we'll get some error checking on that.
2016-03-10Refactor pull_var_clause's API to make it less tedious to extend.Tom Lane
In commit 1d97c19a0f748e94 and later c1d9579dd8bf3c92, we extended pull_var_clause's API by adding enum-type arguments. That's sort of a pain to maintain, though, because it means every time we add a new behavior we must touch every last one of the call sites, even if there's a reasonable default behavior that most of them could use. Let's switch over to using a bitmask of flags, instead; that seems more maintainable and might save a nanosecond or two as well. This commit changes no behavior in itself, though I'm going to follow it up with one that does add a new behavior. In passing, remove flatten_tlist(), which has not been used since 9.1 and would otherwise need the same API changes. Removing these enums means that optimizer/tlist.h no longer needs to depend on optimizer/var.h. Changing that caused a number of C files to need addition of #include "optimizer/var.h" (probably we can thank old runs of pgrminclude for that); but on balance it seems like a good change anyway.
2016-03-10Provide much better wait information in pg_stat_activity.Robert Haas
When a process is waiting for a heavyweight lock, we will now indicate the type of heavyweight lock for which it is waiting. Also, you can now see when a process is waiting for a lightweight lock - in which case we will indicate the individual lock name or the tranche, as appropriate - or for a buffer pin. Amit Kapila, Ildus Kurbangaliev, reviewed by me. Lots of helpful discussion and suggestions by many others, including Alexander Korotkov, Vladimir Borodin, and many others.
2016-03-10Code review for b6fb6471f6afaf649e52f38269fd8c5c60647669.Robert Haas
Reports by Tomas Vondra, Vinayak Pokale, and Aleksander Alekseev. Patch by Amit Langote.
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
2016-03-09Add a generic command progress reporting facility.Robert Haas
Using this facility, any utility command can report the target relation upon which it is operating, if there is one, and up to 10 64-bit counters; the intent of this is that users should be able to figure out what a utility command is doing without having to resort to ugly hacks like attaching strace to a backend. As a demonstration, this adds very crude reporting to lazy vacuum; we just report the target relation and nothing else. A forthcoming patch will make VACUUM report a bunch of additional data that will make this much more interesting. But this gets the basic framework in place. Vinayak Pokale, Rahila Syed, Amit Langote, Robert Haas, reviewed by Kyotaro Horiguchi, Jim Nasby, Thom Brown, Masahiko Sawada, Fujii Masao, and Masanori Oyama.
2016-03-05Expose control file data via SQL accessible functions.Joe Conway
Add four new SQL accessible functions: pg_control_system(), pg_control_checkpoint(), pg_control_recovery(), and pg_control_init() which expose a subset of the control file data. Along the way move the code to read and validate the control file to src/common, where it can be shared by the new backend functions and the original pg_controldata frontend program. Patch by me, significant input, testing, and review by Michael Paquier.
2016-03-04Fix typo in comment.Robert Haas
Thomas Munro
2016-03-04Fix SerializeSnapshot not to overrun the allocated space.Robert Haas
Rushabh Lathia
2016-03-04Fix InitializeSessionUserId not to deference NULL rolename pointer.Robert Haas
Dmitriy Sarafannikov, reviewed by Michael Paquier and Haribabu Kommi, with a minor fix by me.
2016-03-03Add prerequisite for KOI8-U.TXTPeter Eisentraut
This was missed when the encoding was added.
2016-03-03Make some adjustments in variable assignmentsPeter Eisentraut
These variables aren't really used for anything interesting, but it seems the existing grouping was somewhat nonsensical.