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2013-06-17Add buffer_std flag to MarkBufferDirtyHint().Jeff Davis
MarkBufferDirtyHint() writes WAL, and should know if it's got a standard buffer or not. Currently, the only callers where buffer_std is false are related to the FSM. In passing, rename XLOG_HINT to XLOG_FPI, which is more descriptive. Back-patch to 9.3.
2013-06-15Use WaitLatch, not pg_usleep, for delaying in pg_sleep().Tom Lane
This avoids platform-dependent behavior wherein pg_sleep() might fail to be interrupted by statement timeout, query cancel, SIGTERM, etc. Also, since there's no reason to wake up once a second any more, we can reduce the power consumption of a sleeping backend a tad. Back-patch to 9.3, since use of SA_RESTART for SIGALRM makes this a bigger issue than it used to be.
2013-06-15Use SA_RESTART for all signals, including SIGALRM.Tom Lane
The exclusion of SIGALRM dates back to Berkeley days, when Postgres used SIGALRM in only one very short stretch of code. Nowadays, allowing it to interrupt kernel calls doesn't seem like a very good idea, since its use for statement_timeout means SIGALRM could occur anyplace in the code, and there are far too many call sites where we aren't prepared to deal with EINTR failures. When third-party code is taken into consideration, it seems impossible that we ever could be fully EINTR-proof, so better to use SA_RESTART always and deal with the implications of that. One such implication is that we should not assume pg_usleep() will be terminated early by a signal. Therefore, long sleeps should probably be replaced by WaitLatch operations where practical. Back-patch to 9.3 so we can get some beta testing on this change.
2013-06-14Avoid deadlocks during insertion into SP-GiST indexes.Tom Lane
SP-GiST's original scheme for avoiding deadlocks during concurrent index insertions doesn't work, as per report from Hailong Li, and there isn't any evident way to make it work completely. We could possibly lock individual inner tuples instead of their whole pages, but preliminary experimentation suggests that the performance penalty would be huge. Instead, if we fail to get a buffer lock while descending the tree, just restart the tree descent altogether. We keep the old tuple positioning rules, though, in hopes of reducing the number of cases where this can happen. Teodor Sigaev, somewhat edited by Tom Lane
2013-06-13Remove special-case treatment of LOG severity level in standalone mode.Tom Lane
elog.c has historically treated LOG messages as low-priority during bootstrap and standalone operation. This has led to confusion and even masked a bug, because the normal expectation of code authors is that elog(LOG) will put something into the postmaster log, and that wasn't happening during initdb. So get rid of the special-case rule and make the priority order the same as it is in normal operation. To keep from cluttering initdb's output and the behavior of a standalone backend, tweak the severity level of three messages routinely issued by xlog.c during startup and shutdown so that they won't appear in these cases. Per my proposal back in December.
2013-06-13Refactor checksumming code to make it easier to use externally.Tom Lane
pg_filedump and other external utility programs are likely to want to be able to check Postgres page checksums. To avoid messy duplication of code, move the checksumming functionality into an exported header file, much as we did awhile back for the CRC code. In passing, get rid of an unportable assumption that a static char[] array will be word-aligned, and do some other minor code beautification.
2013-06-13Only install a portal's ResourceOwner if it actually has one.Tom Lane
In most scenarios a portal without a ResourceOwner is dead and not subject to any further execution, but a portal for a cursor WITH HOLD remains in existence with no ResourceOwner after the creating transaction is over. In this situation, if we attempt to "execute" the portal directly to fetch data from it, we were setting CurrentResourceOwner to NULL, leading to a segfault if the datatype output code did anything that required a resource owner (such as trying to fetch system catalog entries that weren't already cached). The case appears to be impossible to provoke with stock libpq, but psqlODBC at least is able to cause it when working with held cursors. Simplest fix is to just skip the assignment to CurrentResourceOwner, so that any resources used by the data output operations will be managed by the transaction-level resource owner instead. For consistency I changed all the places that install a portal's resowner as current, even though some of them are probably not reachable with a held cursor's portal. Per report from Joshua Berry (with thanks to Hiroshi Inoue for developing a self-contained test case). Back-patch to all supported versions.
2013-06-12Avoid reading past datum end when parsing JSON.Noah Misch
Several loops in the JSON parser examined a byte in memory just before checking whether its address was in-bounds, so they could read one byte beyond the datum's allocation. A SIGSEGV is possible. New in 9.3, so no back-patch.
2013-06-12Avoid reading below the start of a stack variable in tokenize_file().Noah Misch
We would wrongly overwrite the prior stack byte if it happened to contain '\n' or '\r'. New in 9.3, so no back-patch.
2013-06-12Don't pass oidvector by value.Noah Misch
Since the structure ends with a flexible array, doing so truncates any vector having more than one element. New in 9.3, so no back-patch.
2013-06-12Observe array length in HaveVirtualXIDsDelayingChkpt().Noah Misch
Since commit f21bb9cfb5646e1793dcc9c0ea697bab99afa523, this function ignores the caller-provided length and loops until it finds a terminator, which GetVirtualXIDsDelayingChkpt() never adds. Restore the previous loop control logic. In passing, revert the addition of an unused variable by the same commit, presumably a debugging relic.
2013-06-12Don't use ordinary NULL-terminated strings as Name datums.Noah Misch
Consumers are entitled to read the full 64 bytes pertaining to a Name; using a shorter NULL-terminated string leads to reading beyond the end its allocation; a SIGSEGV is possible. Use the frequent idiom of copying to a NameData on the stack. New in 9.3, so no back-patch.
2013-06-12Improve updatability checking for views and foreign tables.Tom Lane
Extend the FDW API (which we already changed for 9.3) so that an FDW can report whether specific foreign tables are insertable/updatable/deletable. The default assumption continues to be that they're updatable if the relevant executor callback function is supplied by the FDW, but finer granularity is now possible. As a test case, add an "updatable" option to contrib/postgres_fdw. This patch also fixes the information_schema views, which previously did not think that foreign tables were ever updatable, and fixes view_is_auto_updatable() so that a view on a foreign table can be auto-updatable. initdb forced due to changes in information_schema views and the functions they rely on. This is a bit unfortunate to do post-beta1, but if we don't change this now then we'll have another API break for FDWs when we do change it. Dean Rasheed, somewhat editorialized on by Tom Lane
2013-06-12Fix unescaping of JSON Unicode escapes, especially for non-UTF8.Andrew Dunstan
Per discussion on -hackers. We treat Unicode escapes when unescaping them similarly to the way we treat them in PostgreSQL string literals. Escapes in the ASCII range are always accepted, no matter what the database encoding. Escapes for higher code points are only processed in UTF8 databases, and attempts to process them in other databases will result in an error. \u0000 is never unescaped, since it would result in an impermissible null byte.
2013-06-11Fix cache flush hazard in cache_record_field_properties().Tom Lane
We need to increment the refcount on the composite type's cached tuple descriptor while we do lookups of its column types. Otherwise a cache flush could occur and release the tuple descriptor before we're done with it. This fails reliably with -DCLOBBER_CACHE_ALWAYS, but the odds of a failure in a production build seem rather low (since the pfree'd descriptor typically wouldn't get scribbled on immediately). That may explain the lack of any previous reports. Buildfarm issue noted by Christian Ullrich. Back-patch to 9.1 where the bogus code was added.
2013-06-09Remove unnecessary restrictions about RowExprs in transformAExprIn().Tom Lane
When the existing code here was written, it made sense to special-case RowExprs because that was the only way that we could handle row comparisons at all. Now that we have record_eq() and arrays of composites, the generic logic for "scalar" types will in fact work on RowExprs too, so there's no reason to throw error for combinations of RowExprs and other ways of forming composite values, nor to ignore the possibility of using a ScalarArrayOpExpr. But keep using the old logic when comparing two RowExprs, for consistency with the main transformAExprOp() logic. (This allows some cases with not-quite-identical rowtypes to succeed, so we might get push-back if we removed it.) Per bug #8198 from Rafal Rzepecki. Back-patch to all supported branches, since this works fine as far back as 8.4. Rafal Rzepecki and Tom Lane
2013-06-09Remove ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES' requirement of schema CREATE permissions.Tom Lane
Per discussion, this restriction isn't needed for any real security reason, and it seems to confuse people more often than it helps them. It could also result in some database states being unrestorable. So just drop it. Back-patch to 9.0, where ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES was introduced.
2013-06-09Remove fixed limit on the number of concurrent AllocateFile() requests.Tom Lane
AllocateFile(), AllocateDir(), and some sister routines share a small array for remembering requests, so that the files can be closed on transaction failure. Previously that array had a fixed size, MAX_ALLOCATED_DESCS (32). While historically that had seemed sufficient, Steve Toutant pointed out that this meant you couldn't scan more than 32 file_fdw foreign tables in one query, because file_fdw depends on the COPY code which uses AllocateFile(). There are probably other cases, or will be in the future, where this nonconfigurable limit impedes users. We can't completely remove any such limit, at least not without a lot of work, since each such request requires a kernel file descriptor and most platforms limit the number we can have. (In principle we could "virtualize" these descriptors, as fd.c already does for the main VFD pool, but not without an additional layer of overhead and a lot of notational impact on the calling code.) But we can at least let the array size be configurable. Hence, change the code to allow up to max_safe_fds/2 allocated file requests. On modern platforms this should allow several hundred concurrent file_fdw scans, or more if one increases the value of max_files_per_process. To go much further than that, we'd need to do some more work on the data structure, since the current code for closing requests has potentially O(N^2) runtime; but it should still be all right for request counts in this range. Back-patch to 9.1 where contrib/file_fdw was introduced.
2013-06-08Don't downcase non-ascii identifier chars in multi-byte encodings.Andrew Dunstan
Long-standing code has called tolower() on identifier character bytes with the high bit set. This is clearly an error and produces junk output when the encoding is multi-byte. This patch therefore restricts this activity to cases where there is a character with the high bit set AND the encoding is single-byte. There have been numerous gripes about this, most recently from Martin Schäfer. Backpatch to all live releases.
2013-06-08Handle Unicode surrogate pairs correctly when processing JSON.Andrew Dunstan
In 9.2, Unicode escape sequences are not analysed at all other than to make sure that they are in the form \uXXXX. But in 9.3 many of the new operators and functions try to turn JSON text values into text in the server encoding, and this includes de-escaping Unicode escape sequences. This processing had not taken into account the possibility that this might contain a surrogate pair to designate a character outside the BMP. That is now handled correctly. This also enforces correct use of surrogate pairs, something that is not done by the type's input routines. This fact is noted in the docs.
2013-06-06Fix typo in comment.Heikki Linnakangas
2013-06-06Ensure that XLOG_HEAP2_VISIBLE always targets an initialized page.Robert Haas
Andres Freund
2013-06-05Prevent pushing down WHERE clauses into unsafe UNION/INTERSECT nests.Tom Lane
The planner is aware that it mustn't push down upper-level quals into subqueries if the quals reference subquery output columns that contain set-returning functions or volatile functions, or are non-DISTINCT outputs of a DISTINCT ON subquery. However, it missed making this check when there were one or more levels of UNION or INTERSECT above the dangerous expression. This could lead to "set-valued function called in context that cannot accept a set" errors, as seen in bug #8213 from Eric Soroos, or to silently wrong answers in the other cases. To fix, refactor the checks so that we make the column-is-unsafe checks during subquery_is_pushdown_safe(), which already has to recursively inspect all arms of a set-operation tree. This makes qual_is_pushdown_safe() considerably simpler, at the cost that we will spend some cycles checking output columns that possibly aren't referenced in any upper qual. But the cases where this code gets executed at all are already nontrivial queries, so it's unlikely anybody will notice any slowdown of planning. This has been broken since commit 05f916e6add9726bf4ee046e4060c1b03c9961f2, which makes the bug over ten years old. A bit surprising nobody noticed it before now.
2013-06-05Update SQL features listPeter Eisentraut
2013-06-05Put analyze_keyword back in explain_option_name production.Tom Lane
In commit 2c92edad48796119c83d7dbe6c33425d1924626d, I broke "EXPLAIN (ANALYZE)" syntax, because I mistakenly thought that ANALYZE/ANALYSE were only partially reserved and thus would be included in NonReservedWord; but actually they're fully reserved so they still need to be called out here. A nicer solution would be to demote these words to type_func_name_keyword status (they can't be less than that because of "VACUUM [ANALYZE] ColId"). While that works fine so far as the core grammar is concerned, it breaks ECPG's grammar for reasons I don't have time to isolate at the moment. So do this for the time being. Per report from Kevin Grittner. Back-patch to 9.0, like the previous commit.
2013-06-04Provide better message when CREATE EXTENSION can't find a target schema.Tom Lane
The new message (and SQLSTATE) matches the corresponding error cases in namespace.c. This was thought to be a "can't happen" case when extension.c was written, so we didn't think hard about how to report it. But it definitely can happen in 9.2 and later, since we no longer require search_path to contain any valid schema names. It's probably also possible in 9.1 if search_path came from a noninteractive source. So, back-patch to all releases containing this code. Per report from Sean Chittenden, though this isn't exactly his patch.
2013-06-04Fix memory leak in LogStandbySnapshot().Tom Lane
The array allocated by GetRunningTransactionLocks() needs to be pfree'd when we're done with it. Otherwise we leak some memory during each checkpoint, if wal_level = hot_standby. This manifests as memory bloat in the checkpointer process, or in bgwriter in versions before we made the checkpointer separate. Reported and fixed by Naoya Anzai. Back-patch to 9.0 where the issue was introduced. In passing, improve comments for GetRunningTransactionLocks(), and add an Assert that we didn't overrun the palloc'd array.
2013-06-03Put back allow_system_table_mods check in heap_create().Heikki Linnakangas
This reverts commit a475c6036752c26dca538632b68fd2cc592976b7. Erik Rijkers reported back in January 2013 that after the patch, if you do "pg_dump -t myschema.mytable" to dump a single table, and restore that in a database where myschema does not exist, the table is silently created in pg_catalog instead. That is because pg_dump uses "SET search_path=myschema, pg_catalog" to set schema the table is created in. While allow_system_table_mods is not a very elegant solution to this, we can't leave it as it is, so for now, revert it back to the way it was previously.
2013-06-03Additional spelling correctionsStephen Frost
A few more minor spelling corrections, no functional changes. Thom Brown
2013-06-03Code review of recycling WAL segments in a restartpoint.Heikki Linnakangas
Seems cleaner to get the currently-replayed TLI in the same call to GetXLogReplayRecPtr that we get the WAL position. Make it more clear in the comment what the code does when recovery has already ended (RecoveryInProgress() will set ThisTimeLineID in that case). Finally, make resetting ThisTimeLineID afterwards more explicit.
2013-06-02Allow type_func_name_keywords in some places where they weren't before.Tom Lane
This change makes type_func_name_keywords less reserved than they were before, by allowing them for role names, language names, EXPLAIN and COPY options, and SET values for GUCs; which are all places where few if any actual keywords could appear instead, so no new ambiguities are introduced. The main driver for this change is to allow "COPY ... (FORMAT BINARY)" to work without quoting the word "binary". That is an inconsistency that has been complained of repeatedly over the years (at least by Pavel Golub, Kurt Lidl, and Simon Riggs); but we hadn't thought of any non-ugly solution until now. Back-patch to 9.0 where the COPY (FORMAT BINARY) syntax was introduced.
2013-06-01Minor spelling fixesStephen Frost
Fix a few spelling mistakes. Per bug report #8193 from Lajos Veres.
2013-06-01Post-pgindent cleanupStephen Frost
Make slightly better decisions about indentation than what pgindent is capable of. Mostly breaking out long function calls into one line per argument, with a few other minor adjustments. No functional changes- all whitespace. pgindent ran cleanly (didn't change anything) after. Passes all regressions.
2013-05-31Don't emit non-canonical empty arrays in array_remove().Noah Misch
Dean Rasheed
2013-05-30Remove whitespace from end of linesPeter Eisentraut
2013-05-30Minor spell checkingPeter Eisentraut
2013-05-29postgresql.conf.sample: Improve whitespacePeter Eisentraut
2013-05-29pgindent run for release 9.3Bruce Momjian
This is the first run of the Perl-based pgindent script. Also update pgindent instructions.
2013-05-23Print line number correctly in COPY.Heikki Linnakangas
When COPY uses the multi-insert method to insert a batch of tuples into the heap at a time, incorrect line number was printed if something went wrong in inserting the index tuples (primary key failure, for exampl), or processing after row triggers. Fixes bug #8173 reported by Lloyd Albin. Backpatch to 9.2, where the multi- insert code was added.
2013-05-21After fast promotion use CHECKPOINT_FORCESimon Riggs
Not necessary for correctness, just to make log_checkpoints output look less singular. Requested by Fujii Masao
2013-05-21Maintain ThisTimeLineID correctly in checkpointerSimon Riggs
checkpointer needs to reset ThisTimeLineID after a restartpoint to allow installing/recycling new WAL files. If recovery has already ended this would leave ThisTimeLineID set incorrectly and so we must reset it otherwise later checkpoints do not have the correct timeline. Bug report by Heikki Linnakangas. Further investigation by Heikki and myself.
2013-05-19Clarify documentation of EXPLAIN (TIMING OFF) option.Tom Lane
Clarify that this option doesn't suppress measurement of the statement's total runtime. Greg Smith
2013-05-19Init crash recovery using the latest available TLISimon Riggs
This simplifies the handling of crashes after fast promotion and various minor cases that can exist in short timing windows around that case. Broad fix to bug reported by Michael Paquier on -hackers, approach prompted by Heikki Linnakangas
2013-05-19Emit msg correctly for timeline-crossing crashSimon Riggs
2013-05-19Remove single space on end of a line in xlog.cSimon Riggs
Michael Paquier
2013-05-16Fix crash when trying to display a NOTIFY rule action.Tom Lane
Fixes oversight in commit 2ffa740be9d96a3743ecb7e42391c53d0760c65a. Per report from Josh Kupershmidt. I think we've broken this case before, so let's add a regression test this time.
2013-05-16Fix fd.c to preserve errno where needed.Tom Lane
PathNameOpenFile failed to ensure that the correct value of errno was returned to its caller after a failure (because it incorrectly supposed that free() can never change errno). In some cases this would result in a user-visible failure because an expected ENOENT errno was replaced with something else. Bogus EINVAL failures have been observed on OS X, for example. There were also a couple of places that could mangle an important value of errno if FDDEBUG was defined. While the usefulness of that debug support is highly debatable, we might as well make it safe to use, so add errno save/restore logic to the DO_DB macro. Per bug #8167 from Nelson Minar, diagnosed by RhodiumToad. Back-patch to all supported branches.
2013-05-15Allow CREATE FOREIGN TABLE to include SERIAL columns.Tom Lane
The behavior is that the required sequence is created locally, which is appropriate because the default expression will be evaluated locally. Per gripe from Brad Nicholson that this case was refused with a confusing error message. We could have improved the error message but it seems better to just allow the case. Also, remove ALTER TABLE's arbitrary prohibition against being applied to foreign tables, which was pretty inconsistent considering we allow it for views, sequences, and other relation types that aren't even called tables. This is needed to avoid breaking pg_dump, which sometimes emits column defaults using separate ALTER TABLE commands. (I think this can happen even when the default is not associated with a sequence, so that was a pre-existing bug once we allowed column defaults for foreign tables.)
2013-05-13Fix handling of OID wraparound while in standalone mode.Tom Lane
If OID wraparound should occur while in standalone mode (unlikely but possible), we want to advance the counter to FirstNormalObjectId not FirstBootstrapObjectId. Otherwise, user objects might be created with OIDs in the system-reserved range. That isn't immediately harmful but it poses a risk of conflicts during future pg_upgrade operations. Noted by Andres Freund. Back-patch to all supported branches, since all of them are supported sources for pg_upgrade operations.
2013-05-12Fix handling of strict non-set functions with NULLs in set-valued inputs.Tom Lane
In a construct like "select plain_function(set_returning_function(...))", the plain function is applied to each output row of the SRF successively. If some of the SRF outputs are NULL, and the plain function is strict, you'd expect to get NULL results for such rows ... but what actually happened was that such rows were omitted entirely from the result set. This was due to confusion of this case with what should happen for nested set-returning functions; a strict SRF is indeed supposed to yield an empty set for null input. Per bug #8150 from Erwin Brandstetter. Although this has been broken forever, we're not back-patching because of the possibility that some apps out there expect the incorrect behavior. This change should be listed as a possible incompatibility in the 9.3 release notes.