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2015-03-01Unlink static libraries before rebuilding them.Noah Misch
When the library already exists in the build directory, "ar" preserves members not named on its command line. This mattered when, for example, a "configure" rerun dropped a file from $(LIBOBJS). libpgport carried the obsolete member until "make clean". Back-patch to 9.0 (all supported versions).
2015-01-11Fix libpq's behavior when /etc/passwd isn't readable.Tom Lane
Some users run their applications in chroot environments that lack an /etc/passwd file. This means that the current UID's user name and home directory are not obtainable. libpq used to be all right with that, so long as the database role name to use was specified explicitly. But commit a4c8f14364c27508233f8a31ac4b10a4c90235a9 broke such cases by causing any failure of pg_fe_getauthname() to be treated as a hard error. In any case it did little to advance its nominal goal of causing errors in pg_fe_getauthname() to be reported better. So revert that and instead put some real error-reporting code in place. This requires changes to the APIs of pg_fe_getauthname() and pqGetpwuid(), since the latter had departed from the POSIX-specified API of getpwuid_r() in a way that made it impossible to distinguish actual lookup errors from "no such user". To allow such failures to be reported, while not failing if the caller supplies a role name, add a second call of pg_fe_getauthname() in connectOptions2(). This is a tad ugly, and could perhaps be avoided with some refactoring of PQsetdbLogin(), but I'll leave that idea for later. (Note that the complained-of misbehavior only occurs in PQsetdbLogin, not when using the PQconnect functions, because in the latter we will never bother to call pg_fe_getauthname() if the user gives a role name.) In passing also clean up the Windows-side usage of GetUserName(): the recommended buffer size is 257 bytes, the passed buffer length should be the buffer size not buffer size less 1, and any error is reported by GetLastError() not errno. Per report from Christoph Berg. Back-patch to 9.4 where the chroot failure case was introduced. The generally poor reporting of errors here is of very long standing, of course, but given the lack of field complaints about it we won't risk changing these APIs further back (even though they're theoretically internal to libpq).
2015-01-07On Darwin, detect and report a multithreaded postmaster.Noah Misch
Darwin --enable-nls builds use a substitute setlocale() that may start a thread. Buildfarm member orangutan experienced BackendList corruption on account of different postmaster threads executing signal handlers simultaneously. Furthermore, a multithreaded postmaster risks undefined behavior from sigprocmask() and fork(). Emit LOG messages about the problem and its workaround. Back-patch to 9.0 (all supported versions).
2015-01-03Add pg_string_endswith as the start of a string helper library in src/common.Andres Freund
Backpatch to 9.3 where src/common was introduce, because a bugfix that needs to be backpatched, requires the function. Earlier branches will have to duplicate the code.
2014-08-09Small message fixesPeter Eisentraut
2014-05-06pgindent run for 9.4Bruce Momjian
This includes removing tabs after periods in C comments, which was applied to back branches, so this change should not effect backpatching.
2014-04-30Rationalize common/relpath.[hc].Tom Lane
Commit a73018392636ce832b09b5c31f6ad1f18a4643ea created rather a mess by putting dependencies on backend-only include files into include/common. We really shouldn't do that. To clean it up: * Move TABLESPACE_VERSION_DIRECTORY back to its longtime home in catalog/catalog.h. We won't consider this symbol part of the FE/BE API. * Push enum ForkNumber from relfilenode.h into relpath.h. We'll consider relpath.h as the source of truth for fork numbers, since relpath.c was already partially serving that function, and anyway relfilenode.h was kind of a random place for that enum. * So, relfilenode.h now includes relpath.h rather than vice-versa. This direction of dependency is fine. (That allows most, but not quite all, of the existing explicit #includes of relpath.h to go away again.) * Push forkname_to_number from catalog.c to relpath.c, just to centralize fork number stuff a bit better. * Push GetDatabasePath from catalog.c to relpath.c; it was rather odd that the previous commit didn't keep this together with relpath(). * To avoid needing relfilenode.h in common/, redefine the underlying function (now called GetRelationPath) as taking separate OID arguments, and make the APIs using RelFileNode or RelFileNodeBackend into macro wrappers. (The macros have a potential multiple-eval risk, but none of the existing call sites have an issue with that; one of them had such a risk already anyway.) * Fix failure to follow the directions when "init" fork type was added; specifically, the errhint in forkname_to_number wasn't updated, and neither was the SGML documentation for pg_relation_size(). * Fix tablespace-path-too-long check in CreateTableSpace() to account for fork-name component of maximum-length pathnames. This requires putting FORKNAMECHARS into a header file, but it was rather useless (and actually unreferenced) where it was. The last couple of items are potentially back-patchable bug fixes, if anyone is sufficiently excited about them; but personally I'm not. Per a gripe from Christoph Berg about how include/common wasn't self-contained.
2014-04-26Don't #include utils/palloc.h in common/fe_memutils.h.Tom Lane
This breaks the principle that common/ ought not depend on anything in the server, not only code-wise but in the headers. The only arguable advantage is avoidance of duplication of half a dozen extern declarations, and even that is rather dubious, considering that the previous coding was wrong about which declarations to duplicate: it exposed pnstrdup() to frontend code even though no such function is provided in fe_memutils.c. On the same principle, don't #include utils/memutils.h in the frontend build of psprintf.c. This requires duplicating the definition of MaxAllocSize, but that seems fine to me: there's no a-priori reason why frontend code should use the same size limit as the backend anyway. In passing, clean up some rather odd layout and ordering choices that were imposed on palloc.h to reduce the number of #ifdefs required by the previous approach. Per gripe from Christoph Berg. There's still more work to do to make include/common/ clean, but this part seems reasonably noncontroversial.
2014-03-28Un-break peer authentication.Tom Lane
Commit 613c6d26bd42dd8c2dd0664315be9551475b8864 sloppily replaced a lookup of the UID obtained from getpeereid() with a lookup of the server's own user name, thus totally destroying peer authentication. Revert. Per report from Christoph Berg. In passing, make sure get_user_name() zeroes *errstr on success on Windows as well as non-Windows. I don't think any callers actually depend on this ATM, but we should be consistent across platforms.
2014-03-21Remove MinGW readdir/errno bug workaround fixed on 2003-10-10Bruce Momjian
2014-03-21Properly check for readdir/closedir() failuresBruce Momjian
Clear errno before calling readdir() and handle old MinGW errno bug while adding full test coverage for readdir/closedir failures. Backpatch through 8.4.
2014-03-13C comments: remove odd blank lines after #ifdef WIN32 linesBruce Momjian
A few more
2014-02-17Prevent potential overruns of fixed-size buffers.Tom Lane
Coverity identified a number of places in which it couldn't prove that a string being copied into a fixed-size buffer would fit. We believe that most, perhaps all of these are in fact safe, or are copying data that is coming from a trusted source so that any overrun is not really a security issue. Nonetheless it seems prudent to forestall any risk by using strlcpy() and similar functions. Fixes by Peter Eisentraut and Jozef Mlich based on Coverity reports. In addition, fix a potential null-pointer-dereference crash in contrib/chkpass. The crypt(3) function is defined to return NULL on failure, but chkpass.c didn't check for that before using the result. The main practical case in which this could be an issue is if libc is configured to refuse to execute unapproved hashing algorithms (e.g., "FIPS mode"). This ideally should've been a separate commit, but since it touches code adjacent to one of the buffer overrun changes, I included it in this commit to avoid last-minute merge issues. This issue was reported by Honza Horak. Security: CVE-2014-0065 for buffer overruns, CVE-2014-0066 for crypt()
2014-01-29Fix unsafe references to errno within error messaging logic.Tom Lane
Various places were supposing that errno could be expected to hold still within an ereport() nest or similar contexts. This isn't true necessarily, though in some cases it accidentally failed to fail depending on how the compiler chanced to order the subexpressions. This class of thinko explains recent reports of odd failures on clang-built versions, typically missing or inappropriate HINT fields in messages. Problem identified by Christian Kruse, who also submitted the patch this commit is based on. (I fixed a few issues in his patch and found a couple of additional places with the same disease.) Back-patch as appropriate to all supported branches.
2014-01-18Make various variables const (read-only).Tom Lane
These changes should generally improve correctness/maintainability. A nice side benefit is that several kilobytes move from initialized data to text segment, allowing them to be shared across processes and probably reducing copy-on-write overhead while forking a new backend. Unfortunately this doesn't seem to help libpq in the same way (at least not when it's compiled with -fpic on x86_64), but we can hope the linker at least collects all nominally-const data together even if it's not actually part of the text segment. Also, make pg_encname_tbl[] static in encnames.c, since there seems no very good reason for any other code to use it; per a suggestion from Wim Lewis, who independently submitted a patch that was mostly a subset of this one. Oskari Saarenmaa, with some editorialization by me
2014-01-10Move username lookup functions from /port to /commonBruce Momjian
Per suggestion from Peter E and Alvaro
2014-01-07Update copyright for 2014Bruce Momjian
Update all files in head, and files COPYRIGHT and legal.sgml in all back branches.
2013-10-24Use improved vsnprintf calling logic in more places.Tom Lane
When we are using a C99-compliant vsnprintf implementation (which should be most places, these days) it is worth the trouble to make use of its report of how large the buffer needs to be to succeed. This patch adjusts stringinfo.c and some miscellaneous usages in pg_dump to do that, relying on the logic recently added in libpgcommon's psprintf.c. Since these places want to know the number of bytes written once we succeed, modify the API of pvsnprintf() to report that. There remains near-duplicate logic in pqexpbuffer.c, but since that code is in libpq, psprintf.c's approach of exit()-on-error isn't appropriate for use there. Also note that I didn't bother touching the multitude of places that call (v)snprintf without any attempt to provide a resizable buffer. Release-note-worthy incompatibility: the API of appendStringInfoVA() changed. If there's any third-party code that's calling that directly, it will need tweaking along the same lines as in this patch. David Rowley and Tom Lane
2013-10-22Replace pg_asprintf() with psprintf().Tom Lane
This eliminates an awkward coding pattern that's also unnecessarily inconsistent with backend coding. psprintf() is now the thing to use everywhere.
2013-10-22Get rid of use of asprintf() in favor of a more portable implementation.Tom Lane
asprintf(), aside from not being particularly portable, has a fundamentally badly-designed API; the psprintf() function that was added in passing in the previous patch has a much better API choice. Moreover, the NetBSD implementation that was borrowed for the previous patch doesn't work with non-C99-compliant vsnprintf, which is something we still have to cope with on some platforms; and it depends on va_copy which isn't all that portable either. Get rid of that code in favor of an implementation similar to what we've used for many years in stringinfo.c. Also, move it into libpgcommon since it's not really libpgport material. I think this patch will be enough to turn the buildfarm green again, but there's still cosmetic work left to do, namely get rid of pg_asprintf() in favor of using psprintf(). That will come in a followon patch.
2013-10-19Move rmtree() from libpgport to libpgcommonPeter Eisentraut
It requires pgfnames() from libpgcommon.
2013-10-18Move pgfnames() from libpgport to libpgcommonPeter Eisentraut
It requires pstrdup() from libpgcommon.
2013-10-17Switch dependency order of libpgcommon and libpgportPeter Eisentraut
Continuing 63f32f3416a8b4f8e057dc184e8e8eae734ccc8a, libpgcommon should depend on libpgport, but not vice versa. But wait_result_to_str() in wait_error.c depends on pstrdup() in libpgcommon. So move exec.c and wait_error.c from libpgport to libpgcommon. Also switch the link order in the place that's actually used by the failing ecpg builds. The function declarations have been left in port.h for now. That should perhaps be separated sometime.
2013-10-13Add use of asprintf()Peter Eisentraut
Add asprintf(), pg_asprintf(), and psprintf() to simplify string allocation and composition. Replacement implementations taken from NetBSD. Reviewed-by: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> Reviewed-by: Asif Naeem <anaeem.it@gmail.com>
2013-05-29pgindent run for release 9.3Bruce Momjian
This is the first run of the Perl-based pgindent script. Also update pgindent instructions.
2013-02-21Move relpath() to libpgcommonAlvaro Herrera
This enables non-backend code, such as pg_xlogdump, to use it easily. The previous location, in src/backend/catalog/catalog.c, made that essentially impossible because that file depends on many backend-only facilities; so this needs to live separately.
2013-02-12Rename "string" pstrdup argument to "in"Alvaro Herrera
The former name collides with a symbol also used in the isolation test's parser, causing assorted failures in certain platforms.
2013-02-12Don't build libpgcommon_srv.a just yetAlvaro Herrera
It's empty, and some archivers do not support that case.
2013-02-12Create libpgcommon, and move pg_malloc et al to itAlvaro Herrera
libpgcommon is a new static library to allow sharing code among the various frontend programs and backend; this lets us eliminate duplicate implementations of common routines. We avoid libpgport, because that's intended as a place for porting issues; per discussion, it seems better to keep them separate. The first use case, and the only implemented by this patch, is pg_malloc and friends, which many frontend programs were already using. At the same time, we can use this to provide palloc emulation functions for the frontend; this way, some palloc-using files in the backend can also be used by the frontend cleanly. To do this, we change palloc() in the backend to be a function instead of a macro on top of MemoryContextAlloc(). This was previously believed to cause loss of performance, but this implementation has been tweaked by Tom and Andres so that on modern compilers it provides a slight improvement over the previous one. This lets us clean up some places that were already with localized hacks. Most of the pg_malloc/palloc changes in this patch were authored by Andres Freund. Zoltán Böszörményi also independently provided a form of that. libpgcommon infrastructure was authored by Álvaro.