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2010-10-14Fix bug in comment of timeline history file.Simon Riggs
Fujii Masao
2010-10-11Fix assorted bugs in GIN's WAL replay logic.Tom Lane
The original coding was quite sloppy about handling the case where XLogReadBuffer fails (because the page has since been deleted). This would result in either "bad buffer id: 0" or an Assert failure during replay, if indeed the page were no longer there. In a couple of places it also neglected to check whether the change had already been applied, which would probably result in corrupted index contents. I believe that bug #5703 is an instance of the first problem. These issues could show up without replication, but only if you were unfortunate enough to crash between modification of a GIN index and the next checkpoint. Back-patch to 8.2, which is as far back as GIN has WAL support.
2010-10-02Behave correctly if INSERT ... VALUES is decorated with additional clauses.Tom Lane
In versions 8.2 and up, the grammar allows attaching ORDER BY, LIMIT, FOR UPDATE, or WITH to VALUES, and hence to INSERT ... VALUES. But the special-case code for VALUES in transformInsertStmt() wasn't expecting any of those, and just ignored them, leading to unexpected results. Rather than complicate the special-case path, just ensure that the presence of any of those clauses makes us treat the query as if it had a general SELECT. Per report from Hitoshi Harada.
2010-10-02Throw an appropriate error if ALTER COLUMN TYPE finds a dependent trigger.Tom Lane
Actually making this case work, if the column is used in the trigger's WHEN condition, will take some new code that probably isn't appropriate to back-patch. For now, just throw a FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED error rather than allowing control to reach the "unexpected object" case. Per bug #5688 from Daniel Grace. Back-patch to 9.0 where the possibility of such a dependency was introduced.
2010-09-30Translation updates for 9.0.1Peter Eisentraut
2010-09-28Fix PlaceHolderVar mechanism's interaction with outer joins.Tom Lane
The point of a PlaceHolderVar is to allow a non-strict expression to be evaluated below an outer join, after which its value bubbles up like a Var and can be forced to NULL when the outer join's semantics require that. However, there was a serious design oversight in that, namely that we didn't ensure that there was actually a correct place in the plan tree to evaluate the placeholder :-(. It may be necessary to delay evaluation of an outer join to ensure that a placeholder that should be evaluated below the join can be evaluated there. Per recent bug report from Kirill Simonov. Back-patch to 8.4 where the PlaceHolderVar mechanism was introduced.
2010-09-27Add "(change requires restart)" note to some postgresql.conf parameters.Robert Haas
Devrim GÜNDÜZ
2010-09-25Fix another join removal bug: the check on PlaceHolderVars was wrong.Tom Lane
The previous coding would decide that join removal was unsafe upon finding a PlaceHolderVar that needed to be evaluated at the inner rel and then used above the join. However, this fails to cover the case of PlaceHolderVars that refer to both the inner rel and some other rels. Per bug report from Andrus.
2010-09-25Further fixes to the pg_get_expr() security fix in back branches.Tom Lane
It now emerges that the JDBC driver expects to be able to use pg_get_expr() on an output of a sub-SELECT. So extend the check logic to be able to recurse into a sub-SELECT to see if the argument is ultimately coming from an appropriate column. Per report from Thomas Kellerer.
2010-09-23ProcessIncomingNotify *must* reset notifyInterruptOccurred when called.Tom Lane
This was broken in 9.0 by careless addition of an early-exit path. Bug report and diagnosis by Jeff Davis.
2010-09-23Prevent show_session_authorization from crashing when session_authorizationTom Lane
hasn't been set. The only known case where this can happen is when show_session_authorization is invoked in an autovacuum process, which is possible if an index function calls it, as for example in bug #5669 from Andrew Geery. We could perhaps try to return a sensible value, such as the name of the cluster-owning superuser; but that seems like much more trouble than the case is worth, and in any case it could create new possible failure modes. Simply returning an empty string seems like the most appropriate fix. Back-patch to all supported versions, even those before autovacuum, just in case there's another way to provoke this crash.
2010-09-23Avoid sharing subpath list structure when flattening nested AppendRels.Tom Lane
In some situations the original coding led to corrupting the child AppendRel's subpaths list, effectively adding other members of the parent's list to it. This was usually masked because we never made any further use of the child's list, but given the right combination of circumstances, we could do so. The visible symptom would be a relation getting scanned twice, as in bug #5673 from David Schmitt. Backpatch to 8.2, which is as far back as the risky coding appears. The example submitted by David only fails in 8.4 and later, but I'm not convinced that there aren't any even-more-obscure cases where 8.2 and 8.3 would fail.
2010-09-22Re-allow input of Julian dates prior to 0001-01-01 AD.Tom Lane
This was unintentionally broken in 8.4 while tightening up checking of ordinary non-Julian date inputs to forbid references to "year zero". Per bug #5672 from Benjamin Gigot.
2010-09-22Fix remaining stray references to CVS.Tom Lane
These are just cosmetic and don't seem worth back-patching far. I put them into 9.0 just because it was trivial to do so.
2010-09-22Convert cvsignore to gitignore, and add .gitignore for build targets.Magnus Hagander
2010-09-16Treat exit code 128 (ERROR_WAIT_NO_CHILDREN) as non-fatal on Win32,Magnus Hagander
since it can happen when a process fails to start when the system is under high load. Per several bug reports and many peoples investigation. Back-patch to 8.4, which is as far back as the "deadman-switch" for shared memory access exists.
2010-09-16Translation updates for 9.0.0Peter Eisentraut
2010-09-14Fix join-removal logic for pseudoconstant and outerjoin-delayed quals.Tom Lane
In these cases a qual can get marked with the removable rel in its required_relids, but this is just to schedule its evaluation correctly, not because it really depends on the rel. We were assuming that, in effect, we could throw away *all* quals so marked, which is nonsense. Tighten up the logic to be a little more paranoid about which quals belong to the outer join being considered for removal, and arrange for all quals that don't belong to be updated so they will still get evaluated correctly. Also fix another problem that happened to be exposed by this test case, which was that make_join_rel() was failing to notice some cases where a constant-false qual could be used to prove a join relation empty. If it's a pushed-down constant false, then the relation is empty even if it's an outer join, because the qual applies after the outer join expansion. Per report from Nathan Grange. Back-patch into 9.0.
2010-09-13Process options from the startup packed in walsender. Only few optionsHeikki Linnakangas
make sense for walsender, but for example application_name and client_encoding do. We still don't apply per-role settings from pg_db_role_setting, because that would require connecting to a database to read the table. Fujii Masao
2010-09-04Pad the ps_status display with nulls, not blanks, on Darwin.Tom Lane
A long time ago, this didn't work nicely, but it seems to work on all recent versions of OS X. The blank-pad method is less desirable since it results in lots of extra space in ps' output. Per Alexey Klyukin.
2010-09-02Fix up flushing of composite-type typcache entries to be driven directly byTom Lane
SI invalidation events, rather than indirectly through the relcache. In the previous coding, we had to flush a composite-type typcache entry whenever we discarded the corresponding relcache entry. This caused problems at least when testing with RELCACHE_FORCE_RELEASE, as shown in recent report from Jeff Davis, and might result in real-world problems given the kind of unexpected relcache flush that that test mechanism is intended to model. The new coding decouples relcache and typcache management, which is a good thing anyway from a structural perspective. The cost is that we have to search the typcache linearly to find entries that need to be flushed. There are a couple of ways we could avoid that, but at the moment it's not clear it's worth any extra trouble, because the typcache contains very few entries in typical operation. Back-patch to 8.2, the same as some other recent fixes in this general area. The patch could be carried back to 8.0 with some additional work, but given that it's only hypothetical whether we're fixing any problem observable in the field, it doesn't seem worth the work now.
2010-08-30Cosmetic fixes for KnownAssignedXidsGetOldestXmin, per Fujii Masao.Tom Lane
2010-08-30Fix misleading DEBUG2 issued during RemoveOldXlogFiles()Simon Riggs
2010-08-30Truncate subtrans after each restartpoint.Simon Riggs
Issue reported by Harald Kolb, patch by Fujii Masao, review by me.
2010-08-30Teach GetOldestXmin() about KnownAssignedXids during recovery.Simon Riggs
Very minor issue, though this is required for a later patch. Reported by Heikki Linnakangas.
2010-08-30Fix typo in comment.Heikki Linnakangas
2010-08-29Reduce PANIC to ERROR in some occasionally-reported btree failure cases.Tom Lane
This patch changes _bt_split() and _bt_pagedel() to throw a plain ERROR, rather than PANIC, for several cases that are reported from the field from time to time: * right sibling's left-link doesn't match; * PageAddItem failure during _bt_split(); * parent page's next child isn't right sibling during _bt_pagedel(). In addition the error messages for these cases have been made a bit more verbose, with additional values included. The original motivation for PANIC here was to capture core dumps for subsequent analysis. But with so many users whose platforms don't capture core dumps by default, or who are unprepared to analyze them anyway, it's hard to justify a forced database restart when we can fairly easily detect the problems before we've reached the critical sections where PANIC would be necessary. It is not currently known whether the reports of these messages indicate well-hidden bugs in Postgres, or are a result of storage-level malfeasance; the latter possibility suggests that we ought to try to be more robust even if there is a bug here that's ultimately found. Backpatch to 8.2. The code before that is sufficiently different that it doesn't seem worth the trouble to back-port further.
2010-08-26Document the existence of the socket lock file under unix_socket_directory,Tom Lane
which is perhaps not a terribly good spot for it but there doesn't seem to be a better place. Also add a source-code comment pointing out a couple reasons for having a separate lock file. Per suggestion from Greg Smith.
2010-08-26Improve wording for privilege description on certain failure messages; theAlvaro Herrera
original misleadingly suggests that only access is meant, causing confusion. Per recent trouble report by Robert McGehee on pgsql-admin.
2010-08-26Remove duplicate translatable phraseAlvaro Herrera
2010-08-26Translation updates for 9.0rc1Peter Eisentraut
2010-08-26Fix ExecMakeTableFunctionResult to verify that all rows returned by a SRFTom Lane
returning "record" actually do have the same rowtype. This is needed because the parser can't realistically enforce that they will all have the same typmod, as seen in a recent example from David Wheeler. Back-patch to 8.0, which is as far back as we have the notion of RECORD subtypes being distinguished by typmod. Wheeler's example depends on 8.4-and-up features, but I suspect there may be ways to provoke similar failures before 8.4.
2010-08-25Improve hint message for ENOMEM failure from shmget().Tom Lane
It turns out that some platforms return ENOMEM for a request that violates SHMALL, whereas we were assuming that ENOSPC would always be used for that. Apparently the latter is a Linuxism while ENOMEM is the BSD tradition. Extend the ENOMEM hint to suggest that raising SHMALL might be needed. Per gripe from A.M. Backpatch to 9.0, but not further, because this doesn't seem important enough to warrant creating extra translation work in the stable branches. (If it were, we'd have figured this out years ago.)
2010-08-23Marginal code cleanup for streaming replication.Tom Lane
There is no reason that proc.c should have to get involved in this dirty hack for letting the postmaster know which children are walsenders. Revert that file to the way it was, and confine the kluge to pmsignal.c and postmaster.c.
2010-08-21Use a non-locale-dependent definition of isspace() in array_in/array_out.Tom Lane
array_in discards unquoted leading and trailing whitespace in array values, while array_out is careful to quote array elements that contain whitespace. This is problematic when the definition of "whitespace" varies between locales: array_in could drop characters that were meant to be part of the value. To avoid that, lock down "whitespace" to mean only the traditional six ASCII space characters. This change also works around a bug in OS X and some older BSD systems, in which isspace() could return true for character fragments in UTF8 locales. (There may be other places in PG where that bug could cause problems, but this is the only one complained of so far; see recent report from Steven Schlansker.) Back-patch to 9.0, but not further. Given the lack of previous reports of trouble, changing this behavior in stable branches seems to offer more risk of breaking applications than reward of avoiding problems.
2010-08-19Bring some sanity to the trace_recovery_messages code and docs.Tom Lane
Per gripe from Fujii Masao, though this is not exactly his proposed patch. Categorize as DEVELOPER_OPTIONS and set context PGC_SIGHUP, as per Fujii, but set the default to LOG because higher values aren't really sensible (see the code for trace_recovery()). Fix the documentation to agree with the code and to try to explain what the variable actually does. Get rid of no-op calls trace_recovery(LOG), which accomplish nothing except to demonstrate that this option confuses even its author.
2010-08-19Revert patch to coerce 'unknown' type parameters in the backend. As TomHeikki Linnakangas
pointed out, it would need a 2nd pass after the whole query is processed to correctly check that an unknown Param is coerced to the same target type everywhere. Adding the 2nd pass would add a lot more code, which doesn't seem worth the risk given that there isn't much of a use case for passing unknown Params in the first place. The code would work without that check, but it might be confusing and the behavior would be different from the varparams case. Instead, just coerce all unknown params in a PL/pgSQL USING clause to text. That's simple, and is usually what users expect. Revert the patch in CVS HEAD and master, and backpatch the new solution to 8.4. Unlike the previous solution, this applies easily to 8.4 too.
2010-08-19Allocate local buffers in a context of their own, rather than dumping themTom Lane
into TopMemoryContext. This makes no functional difference, but makes it easier to see what the space is being used for in MemoryContextStats dumps. Per a recent example in which I was surprised by the size of TopMemoryContext.
2010-08-19Fix possible corruption of AfterTriggerEventLists in subtransaction rollback.Tom Lane
afterTriggerInvokeEvents failed to adjust events->tailfree when truncating the last chunk of an event list. This could result in the data being "de-truncated" by afterTriggerRestoreEventList during a subsequent subtransaction abort. Even that wouldn't kill us, because the re-added data would just be events marked DONE --- unless the data had been partially overwritten by new events. Then we might crash, or in any case misbehave (perhaps fire triggers twice, or fire triggers with the wrong event data). Per bug #5622 from Thue Janus Kristensen. Back-patch to 8.4 where the current trigger list representation was introduced.
2010-08-18Reset the per-output-tuple exprcontext each time through the main loop inTom Lane
ExecModifyTable(). This avoids memory leakage when trigger functions leave junk behind in that context (as they more or less must). Problem and solution identified by Dean Rasheed. I'm a bit concerned about the longevity of this solution --- once a plan can have multiple ModifyTable nodes, we are very possibly going to have to do something different. But it should hold up for 9.0.
2010-08-18Fix failure of "ALTER TABLE t ADD COLUMN c serial" when done by non-owner.Tom Lane
The implicitly created sequence was created as owned by the current user, who could be different from the table owner, eg if current user is a superuser or some member of the table's owning role. This caused sanity checks in the SEQUENCE OWNED BY code to spit up. Although possibly we don't need those sanity checks, the safest fix seems to be to make sure the implicit sequence is assigned the same owner role as the table has. (We still do all permissions checks as the current user, however.) Per report from Josh Berkus. Back-patch to 9.0. The bug goes back to the invention of SEQUENCE OWNED BY in 8.2, but the fix requires an API change for DefineRelation(), which seems to have potential for breaking third-party code if done in a minor release. Given the lack of prior complaints, it's probably not worth fixing in the stable branches.
2010-08-18Add missing handling of PlannedStmt.transientPlan in copyfuncs/outfuncs.Tom Lane
_outPlannedStmt is only debug support, so the omission there was not very serious, but the omission in _copyPlannedStmt is a real bug. The consequence would be that a copied plan tree would never be marked as a transient plan, so that we would forget we ought to replan it after some not-yet-ready index becomes ready for use. This might explain some past complaints about indexes created with CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY not being used right away. Problem spotted by Yeb Havinga. Back-patch to 8.3, where the field was added.
2010-08-18Coerce 'unknown' type parameters to the right type in the fixed-paramsHeikki Linnakangas
parse_analyze() function. That case occurs e.g with PL/pgSQL EXECUTE ... USING 'stringconstant'. The coercion with a CoerceViaIO node. The result is similar to the coercion via input function performed for unknown constants in coerce_type(), except that this happens at runtime. Backpatch to 9.0. The issue is present in 8.4 as well, but the coerce param hook infrastructure this patch relies on was introduced in 9.0. Given the lack of user reports and harmlessness of the bug, it's not worth attempting a different fix just for 8.4.
2010-08-16Arrange to fsync the contents of lockfiles (both postmaster.pid and theTom Lane
socket lockfile) when writing them. The lack of an fsync here may well explain two different reports we've seen of corrupted lockfile contents, which doesn't particularly bother the running server but can prevent a new server from starting if the old one crashes. Per suggestion from Alvaro. Back-patch to all supported versions.
2010-08-14Fix planner to make a reasonable assumption about the amount of memory spaceTom Lane
used by array_agg(), string_agg(), and similar aggregate functions that use "internal" as their transition datatype. The previous coding thought this took *no* extra space, since "internal" is pass-by-value; but actually these aggregates typically consume a great deal of space. Per bug #5608 from Itagaki Takahiro, and fix suggestion from Hitoshi Harada. Back-patch to 8.4, where array_agg was introduced.
2010-08-13Fix Assert failure in PushOverrideSearchPath when trying to restore a searchTom Lane
path that specifies useTemp, but there is no active temp schema in the current session. (This can happen if the path was saved during a transaction that created a temp schema and was later rolled back.) For existing callers it's sufficient to ignore the useTemp flag in this case, though we might later want to offer an option to create a fresh temp schema. So far as I can tell this is just an Assert failure: in a non-assert build, the code would push a zero onto the new search path, which is useless but not very harmful. Per bug report from Heikki. Back-patch to 8.3; prior versions don't have this code.
2010-08-13Make RecordTransactionCommit() respect wal_level.Robert Haas
Since the only purpose of WAL-loggin SharedInvalidationMessages is to support Hot Standby operation, they needn't be included when wal_level < hot_standby. Back-patch to 9.0. Review by Heikki Linnakanagas and Fujii Masao.
2010-08-12Correct sundry errors in Hot Standby-related comments.Robert Haas
Fujii Masao
2010-08-11The sanity check added to array_recv() wa a bit too tight; we mustHeikki Linnakangas
continue to accept an empty array with dimension information. array_send() can output such arrays. Per report from Vladimir Shakhov.
2010-08-05Add a very specific hint for the case that we're unable to locate a functionTom Lane
matching a call like f(x, ORDER BY y,z). It could be that what the user really wants is f(x,z ORDER BY y). We now have pretty conclusive evidence that many people won't understand this problem without concrete guidance, so give it to them. Per further discussion of the string_agg() problem.