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2018-11-09Fix missing role dependencies for some schema and type ACLs.Tom Lane
This patch fixes several related cases in which pg_shdepend entries were never made, or were lost, for references to roles appearing in the ACLs of schemas and/or types. While that did no immediate harm, if a referenced role were later dropped, the drop would be allowed and would leave a dangling reference in the object's ACL. That still wasn't a big problem for normal database usage, but it would cause obscure failures in subsequent dump/reload or pg_upgrade attempts, taking the form of attempts to grant privileges to all-numeric role names. (I think I've seen field reports matching that symptom, but can't find any right now.) Several cases are fixed here: 1. ALTER DOMAIN SET/DROP DEFAULT would lose the dependencies for any existing ACL entries for the domain. This case is ancient, dating back as far as we've had pg_shdepend tracking at all. 2. If a default type privilege applies, CREATE TYPE recorded the ACL properly but forgot to install dependency entries for it. This dates to the addition of default privileges for types in 9.2. 3. If a default schema privilege applies, CREATE SCHEMA recorded the ACL properly but forgot to install dependency entries for it. This dates to the addition of default privileges for schemas in v10 (commit ab89e465c). Another somewhat-related problem is that when creating a relation rowtype or implicit array type, TypeCreate would apply any available default type privileges to that type, which we don't really want since such an object isn't supposed to have privileges of its own. (You can't, for example, drop such privileges once they've been added to an array type.) ab89e465c is also to blame for a race condition in the regression tests: privileges.sql transiently installed globally-applicable default privileges on schemas, which sometimes got absorbed into the ACLs of schemas created by concurrent test scripts. This should have resulted in failures when privileges.sql tried to drop the role holding such privileges; but thanks to the bug fixed here, it instead led to dangling ACLs in the final state of the regression database. We'd managed not to notice that, but it became obvious in the wake of commit da906766c, which allowed the race condition to occur in pg_upgrade tests. To fix, add a function recordDependencyOnNewAcl to encapsulate what callers of get_user_default_acl need to do; while the original call sites got that right via ad-hoc code, none of the later-added ones have. Also change GenerateTypeDependencies to generate these dependencies, which requires adding the typacl to its parameter list. (That might be annoying if there are any extensions calling that function directly; but if there are, they're most likely buggy in the same way as the core callers were, so they need work anyway.) While I was at it, I changed GenerateTypeDependencies to accept most of its parameters in the form of a Form_pg_type pointer, making its parameter list a bit less unwieldy and mistake-prone. The test race condition is fixed just by wrapping the addition and removal of default privileges into a single transaction, so that that state is never visible externally. We might eventually prefer to separate out tests of default privileges into a script that runs by itself, but that would be a bigger change and would make the tests run slower overall. Back-patch relevant parts to all supported branches. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15719.1541725287@sss.pgh.pa.us
2018-10-12Back-patch addition of the ALLOCSET_FOO_SIZES macros.Tom Lane
These macros were originally added in commit ea268cdc9, and back-patched into 9.6 before 9.6.0. However, some extensions would like to use them in older branches, and there seems no harm in providing them. So add them to all supported branches. Per suggestions from Christoph Berg and Andres Freund. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20181012170355.bhxi273skjt6sag4@alap3.anarazel.de
2018-10-05Allow btree comparison functions to return INT_MIN.Tom Lane
Historically we forbade datatype-specific comparison functions from returning INT_MIN, so that it would be safe to invert the sort order just by negating the comparison result. However, this was never really safe for comparison functions that directly return the result of memcmp(), strcmp(), etc, as POSIX doesn't place any such restriction on those library functions. Buildfarm results show that at least on recent Linux on s390x, memcmp() actually does return INT_MIN sometimes, causing sort failures. The agreed-on answer is to remove this restriction and fix relevant call sites to not make such an assumption; code such as "res = -res" should be replaced by "INVERT_COMPARE_RESULT(res)". The same is needed in a few places that just directly negated the result of memcmp or strcmp. To help find places having this problem, I've also added a compile option to nbtcompare.c that causes some of the commonly used comparators to return INT_MIN/INT_MAX instead of their usual -1/+1. It'd likely be a good idea to have at least one buildfarm member running with "-DSTRESS_SORT_INT_MIN". That's far from a complete test of course, but it should help to prevent fresh introductions of such bugs. This is a longstanding portability hazard, so back-patch to all supported branches. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180928185215.ffoq2xrq5d3pafna@alap3.anarazel.de
2018-07-31Further fixes for quoted-list GUC values in pg_dump and ruleutils.c.Tom Lane
Commits 742869946 et al turn out to be a couple bricks shy of a load. We were dumping the stored values of GUC_LIST_QUOTE variables as they appear in proconfig or setconfig catalog columns. However, although that quoting rule looks a lot like SQL-identifier double quotes, there are two critical differences: empty strings ("") are legal, and depending on which variable you're considering, values longer than NAMEDATALEN might be valid too. So the current technique fails altogether on empty-string list entries (as reported by Steven Winfield in bug #15248) and it also risks truncating file pathnames during dump/reload of GUC values that are lists of pathnames. To fix, split the stored value without any downcasing or truncation, and then emit each element as a SQL string literal. This is a tad annoying, because we now have three copies of the comma-separated-string splitting logic in varlena.c as well as a fourth one in dumputils.c. (Not to mention the randomly-different-from-those splitting logic in libpq...) I looked at unifying these, but it would be rather a mess unless we're willing to tweak the API definitions of SplitIdentifierString, SplitDirectoriesString, or both. That might be worth doing in future; but it seems pretty unsafe for a back-patched bug fix, so for now accept the duplication. Back-patch to all supported branches, as the previous fix was. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/7585.1529435872@sss.pgh.pa.us
2018-03-21Fix mishandling of quoted-list GUC values in pg_dump and ruleutils.c.Tom Lane
Code that prints out the contents of setconfig or proconfig arrays in SQL format needs to handle GUC_LIST_QUOTE variables differently from other ones, because for those variables, flatten_set_variable_args() already applied a layer of quoting. The value can therefore safely be printed as-is, and indeed must be, or flatten_set_variable_args() will muck it up completely on reload. For all other GUC variables, it's necessary and sufficient to quote the value as a SQL literal. We'd recognized the need for this long ago, but mis-analyzed the need slightly, thinking that all GUC_LIST_INPUT variables needed the special treatment. That's actually wrong, since a valid value of a LIST variable might include characters that need quoting, although no existing variables accept such values. More to the point, we hadn't made any particular effort to keep the various places that deal with this up-to-date with the set of variables that actually need special treatment, meaning that we'd do the wrong thing with, for example, temp_tablespaces values. This affects dumping of SET clauses attached to functions, as well as ALTER DATABASE/ROLE SET commands. In ruleutils.c we can fix it reasonably honestly by exporting a guc.c function that allows discovering the flags for a given GUC variable. But pg_dump doesn't have easy access to that, so continue the old method of having a hard-wired list of affected variable names. At least we can fix it to have just one list not two, and update the list to match current reality. A remaining problem with this is that it only works for built-in GUC variables. pg_dump's list obvious knows nothing of third-party extensions, and even the "ask guc.c" method isn't bulletproof since the relevant extension might not be loaded. There's no obvious solution to that, so for now, we'll just have to discourage extension authors from inventing custom GUCs that need GUC_LIST_QUOTE. This has been busted for a long time, so back-patch to all supported branches. Michael Paquier and Tom Lane, reviewed by Kyotaro Horiguchi and Pavel Stehule Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180111064900.GA51030@paquier.xyz
2018-03-19Fix some corner-case issues in REFRESH MATERIALIZED VIEW CONCURRENTLY.Tom Lane
refresh_by_match_merge() has some issues in the way it builds a SQL query to construct the "diff" table: 1. It doesn't require the selected unique index(es) to be indimmediate. 2. It doesn't pay attention to the particular equality semantics enforced by a given index, but just assumes that they must be those of the column datatype's default btree opclass. 3. It doesn't check that the indexes are btrees. 4. It's insufficiently careful to ensure that the parser will pick the intended operator when parsing the query. (This would have been a security bug before CVE-2018-1058.) 5. It's not careful about indexes on system columns. The way to fix #4 is to make use of the existing code in ri_triggers.c for generating an arbitrary binary operator clause. I chose to move that to ruleutils.c, since that seems a more reasonable place to be exporting such functionality from than ri_triggers.c. While #1, #3, and #5 are just latent given existing feature restrictions, and #2 doesn't arise in the core system for lack of alternate opclasses with different equality behaviors, #4 seems like an issue worth back-patching. That's the bulk of the change anyway, so just back-patch the whole thing to 9.4 where this code was introduced. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/13836.1521413227@sss.pgh.pa.us
2018-03-03Fix assorted issues in convert_to_scalar().Tom Lane
If convert_to_scalar is passed a pair of datatypes it can't cope with, its former behavior was just to elog(ERROR). While this is OK so far as the core code is concerned, there's extension code that would like to use scalarltsel/scalargtsel/etc as selectivity estimators for operators that work on non-core datatypes, and this behavior is a show-stopper for that use-case. If we simply allow convert_to_scalar to return FALSE instead of outright failing, then the main logic of scalarltsel/scalargtsel will work fine for any operator that behaves like a scalar inequality comparison. The lack of conversion capability will mean that we can't estimate to better than histogram-bin-width precision, since the code will effectively assume that the comparison constant falls at the middle of its bin. But that's still a lot better than nothing. (Someday we should provide a way for extension code to supply a custom version of convert_to_scalar, but today is not that day.) While poking at this issue, we noted that the existing code for handling type bytea in convert_to_scalar is several bricks shy of a load. It assumes without checking that if the comparison value is type bytea, the bounds values are too; in the worst case this could lead to a crash. It also fails to detoast the input values, so that the comparison result is complete garbage if any input is toasted out-of-line, compressed, or even just short-header. I'm not sure how often such cases actually occur --- the bounds values, at least, are probably safe since they are elements of an array and hence can't be toasted. But that doesn't make this code OK. Back-patch to all supported branches, partly because author requested that, but mostly because of the bytea bugs. The change in API for the exposed routine convert_network_to_scalar() is theoretically a back-patch hazard, but it seems pretty unlikely that any third-party code is calling that function directly. Tomas Vondra, with some adjustments by me Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/b68441b6-d18f-13ab-b43b-9a72188a4e02@2ndquadrant.com
2017-12-05Mark assorted variables PGDLLIMPORT.Robert Haas
This makes life easier for extension authors who wish to support Windows. Brian Cloutier, slightly amended by me. Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAJCy68fscdNhmzFPS4kyO00CADkvXvEa-28H-OtENk-pa2OTWw@mail.gmail.com
2017-10-11Fix low-probability loss of NOTIFY messages due to XID wraparound.Tom Lane
Up to now async.c has used TransactionIdIsInProgress() to detect whether a notify message's source transaction is still running. However, that function has a quick-exit path that reports that XIDs before RecentXmin are no longer running. If a listening backend is doing nothing but listening, and not running any queries, there is nothing that will advance its value of RecentXmin. Once 2 billion transactions elapse, the RecentXmin check causes active transactions to be reported as not running. If they aren't committed yet according to CLOG, async.c decides they aborted and discards their messages. The timing for that is a bit tight but it can happen when multiple backends are sending notifies concurrently. The net symptom therefore is that a sufficiently-long-surviving listen-only backend starts to miss some fraction of NOTIFY traffic, but only under heavy load. The only function that updates RecentXmin is GetSnapshotData(). A brute-force fix would therefore be to take a snapshot before processing incoming notify messages. But that would add cycles, as well as contention for the ProcArrayLock. We can be smarter: having taken the snapshot, let's use that to check for running XIDs, and not call TransactionIdIsInProgress() at all. In this way we reduce the number of ProcArrayLock acquisitions from one per message to one per notify interrupt; that's the same under light load but should be a benefit under heavy load. Light testing says that this change is a wash performance-wise for normal loads. I looked around for other callers of TransactionIdIsInProgress() that might be at similar risk, and didn't find any; all of them are inside transactions that presumably have already taken a snapshot. Problem report and diagnosis by Marko Tiikkaja, patch by me. Back-patch to all supported branches, since it's been like this since 9.0. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170926182935.14128.65278@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2017-09-01Ensure SIZE_MAX can be used throughout our code.Tom Lane
Pre-C99 platforms may lack <stdint.h> and thereby SIZE_MAX. We have a couple of places using the hack "(size_t) -1" as a fallback, but it wasn't universally available; which means the code added in commit 2e70d6b5e fails to compile everywhere. Move that hack to c.h so that we can rely on having SIZE_MAX everywhere. Per discussion, it'd be a good idea to make the macro's value safe for use in #if-tests, but that will take a bit more work. This is just a quick expedient to get the buildfarm green again. Back-patch to all supported branches, like the previous commit. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15883.1504278595@sss.pgh.pa.us
2017-08-13Remove AtEOXact_CatCache().Tom Lane
The sole useful effect of this function, to check that no catcache entries have positive refcounts at transaction end, has really been obsolete since we introduced ResourceOwners in PG 8.1. We reduced the checks to assertions years ago, so that the function was a complete no-op in production builds. There have been previous discussions about removing it entirely, but consensus up to now was that it had some small value as a cross-check for bugs in the ResourceOwner logic. However, it now emerges that it's possible to trigger these assertions if you hit an assert-enabled backend with SIGTERM during a call to SearchCatCacheList, because that function temporarily increases the refcounts of entries it's intending to add to a catcache list construct. In a normal ERROR scenario, the extra refcounts are cleaned up by SearchCatCacheList's PG_CATCH block; but in a FATAL exit we do a transaction abort and exit without ever executing PG_CATCH handlers. There's a case to be made that this is a generic hazard and we should consider restructuring elog(FATAL) handling so that pending PG_CATCH handlers do get run. That's pretty scary though: it could easily create more problems than it solves. Preliminary stress testing by Andreas Seltenreich suggests that there are not many live problems of this ilk, so we rejected that idea. There are more-localized ways to fix the problem; the most principled one would be to use PG_ENSURE_ERROR_CLEANUP instead of plain PG_TRY. But adding cycles to SearchCatCacheList isn't very appealing. We could also weaken the assertions in AtEOXact_CatCache in some more or less ad-hoc way, but that just makes its raison d'etre even less compelling. In the end, the most reasonable solution seems to be to just remove AtEOXact_CatCache altogether, on the grounds that it's not worth trying to fix it. It hasn't found any bugs for us in many years. Per report from Jeevan Chalke. Back-patch to all supported branches. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAM2+6=VEE30YtRQCZX7_sCFsEpoUkFBV1gZazL70fqLn8rcvBA@mail.gmail.com
2017-05-12Avoid searching for callback functions in CallSyscacheCallbacks().Tom Lane
We have now grown enough registerable syscache-invalidation callback functions that the original assumption that there would be few of them is causing performance problems. In particular, let's fix things so that CallSyscacheCallbacks doesn't have to search the whole array to find which callback(s) to invoke for a given cache ID. Preserve the original behavior that callbacks are called in order of registration, just in case there's someplace that depends on that (which I doubt). In support of this, export the number of syscaches from syscache.h. People could have found that out anyway from the enum, but adding a #define makes that much safer. This provides a useful additional speedup in Mathieu Fenniak's logical-decoding test case, although we're reaching the point of diminishing returns there. I think any further improvement will have to come from reducing the number of cache invalidations that are triggered in the first place. Still, we can hope that this change gives some incremental benefit for all invalidation scenarios. Back-patch to 9.4 where logical decoding was introduced. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHoiPjzea6N0zuCi=+f9v_j94nfsy6y8SU7-=bp4=7qw6_i=Rg@mail.gmail.com
2017-05-12Avoid searching for the target catcache in CatalogCacheIdInvalidate.Tom Lane
A test case provided by Mathieu Fenniak shows that the initial search for the target catcache in CatalogCacheIdInvalidate consumes a very significant amount of overhead in cases where cache invalidation is triggered but has little useful work to do. There is no good reason for that search to exist at all, as the index array maintained by syscache.c allows direct lookup of the catcache from its ID. We just need a frontend function in syscache.c, matching the division of labor for most other cache-accessing operations. While there's more that can be done in this area, this patch alone reduces the runtime of Mathieu's example by 2X. We can hope that it offers some useful benefit in other cases too, although usually cache invalidation overhead is not such a striking fraction of the total runtime. Back-patch to 9.4 where logical decoding was introduced. It might be worth going further back, but presently the only case we know of where cache invalidation is really a significant burden is in logical decoding. Also, older branches have fewer catcaches, reducing the possible benefit. (Note: although this nominally changes catcache's API, we have always documented CatalogCacheIdInvalidate as a private function, so I would have little sympathy for an external module calling it directly. So backpatching should be fine.) Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHoiPjzea6N0zuCi=+f9v_j94nfsy6y8SU7-=bp4=7qw6_i=Rg@mail.gmail.com
2017-05-08Add security checks to selectivity estimation functionsPeter Eisentraut
Some selectivity estimation functions run user-supplied operators over data obtained from pg_statistic without security checks, which allows those operators to leak pg_statistic data without having privileges on the underlying tables. Fix by checking that one of the following is satisfied: (1) the user has table or column privileges on the table underlying the pg_statistic data, or (2) the function implementing the user-supplied operator is leak-proof. If neither is satisfied, planning will proceed as if there are no statistics available. At least one of these is satisfied in most cases in practice. The only situations that are negatively impacted are user-defined or not-leak-proof operators on a security-barrier view. Reported-by: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> Security: CVE-2017-7484
2016-12-22Fix handling of expanded objects in CoerceToDomain and CASE execution.Tom Lane
When the input value to a CoerceToDomain expression node is a read-write expanded datum, we should pass a read-only pointer to any domain CHECK expressions and then return the original read-write pointer as the expression result. Previously we were blindly passing the same pointer to all the consumers of the value, making it possible for a function in CHECK to modify or even delete the expanded value. (Since a plpgsql function will absorb a passed-in read-write expanded array as a local variable value, it will in fact delete the value on exit.) A similar hazard of passing the same read-write pointer to multiple consumers exists in domain_check() and in ExecEvalCase, so fix those too. The fix requires adding MakeExpandedObjectReadOnly calls at the appropriate places, which is simple enough except that we need to get the data type's typlen from somewhere. For the domain cases, solve this by redefining DomainConstraintRef.tcache as okay for callers to access; there wasn't any reason for the original convention against that, other than not wanting the API of typcache.c to be any wider than it had to be. For CASE, there's no good solution except to add a syscache lookup during executor start. Per bug #14472 from Marcos Castedo. Back-patch to 9.5 where expanded values were introduced. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15225.1482431619@sss.pgh.pa.us
2016-11-15Account for catalog snapshot in PGXACT->xmin updates.Tom Lane
The CatalogSnapshot was not plugged into SnapshotResetXmin()'s accounting for whether MyPgXact->xmin could be cleared or advanced. In normal transactions this was masked by the fact that the transaction snapshot would be older, but during backend startup and certain utility commands it was possible to re-use the CatalogSnapshot after MyPgXact->xmin had been cleared, meaning that recently-deleted rows could be pruned even though this snapshot could still see them, causing unexpected catalog lookup failures. This effect appears to be the explanation for a recent failure on buildfarm member piculet. To fix, add the CatalogSnapshot to the RegisteredSnapshots heap whenever it is valid. In the previous logic, it was possible for the CatalogSnapshot to remain valid across waits for client input, but with this change that would mean it delays advance of global xmin in cases where it did not before. To avoid possibly causing new table-bloat problems with clients that sit idle for long intervals, add code to invalidate the CatalogSnapshot before waiting for client input. (When the backend is busy, it's unlikely that the CatalogSnapshot would be the oldest snap for very long, so we don't worry about forcing early invalidation of it otherwise.) In passing, remove the CatalogSnapshotStale flag in favor of using "CatalogSnapshot != NULL" to represent validity, as we do for the other special snapshots in snapmgr.c. And improve some obsolete comments. No regression test because I don't know a deterministic way to cause this failure. But the stress test shown in the original discussion provokes "cache lookup failed for relation 1255" within a few dozen seconds for me. Back-patch to 9.4 where MVCC catalog scans were introduced. (Note: it's quite easy to produce similar failures with the same test case in branches before 9.4. But MVCC catalog scans were supposed to fix that.) Discussion: <16447.1478818294@sss.pgh.pa.us>
2016-11-10Re-allow user_catalog_table option for materialized views.Tom Lane
The reloptions stuff allows this option to be set on a matview. While it's questionable whether that is useful or was really intended, it does work, and we shouldn't change that in minor releases. Commit e3e66d8a9 disabled the option since I didn't realize that it was possible for it to be set on a matview. Tweak the test to re-allow it. Discussion: <19749.1478711862@sss.pgh.pa.us>
2016-11-07Band-aid fix for incorrect use of view options as StdRdOptions.Tom Lane
We really ought to make StdRdOptions and the other decoded forms of reloptions self-identifying, but for the moment, assume that only plain relations could possibly be user_catalog_tables. Fixes problem with bogus "ON CONFLICT is not supported on table ... used as a catalog table" error when target is a view with cascade option. Discussion: <26681.1477940227@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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>
2016-09-10Improve unreachability recognition in elog() macro.Tom Lane
Some experimentation with an older version of gcc showed that it is able to determine whether "if (elevel_ >= ERROR)" is compile-time constant if elevel_ is declared "const", but otherwise not so much. We had accounted for that in ereport() but were too miserly with braces to make it so in elog(). I don't know how many currently-interesting compilers have the same quirk, but in case it will save some code space, let's make sure that elog() is on the same footing as ereport() for this purpose. Back-patch to 9.3 where we introduced pg_unreachable() calls into elog/ereport.
2016-08-18In plpgsql, don't try to convert int2vector or oidvector to expanded array.Tom Lane
These types are storage-compatible with real arrays, but they don't support toasting, so of course they can't support expansion either. Per bug #14289 from Michael Overmeyer. Back-patch to 9.5 where expanded arrays were introduced. Report: <20160818174414.1529.37913@wrigleys.postgresql.org>
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>
2016-07-14Fix GiST index build for NaN values in geometric types.Tom Lane
GiST index build could go into an infinite loop when presented with boxes (or points, circles or polygons) containing NaN component values. This happened essentially because the code assumed that x == x is true for any "double" value x; but it's not true for NaNs. The looping behavior was not the only problem though: we also attempted to sort the items using simple double comparisons. Since NaNs violate the trichotomy law, qsort could (in principle at least) get arbitrarily confused and mess up the sorting of ordinary values as well as NaNs. And we based splitting choices on box size calculations that could produce NaNs, again resulting in undesirable behavior. To fix, replace all comparisons of doubles in this logic with float8_cmp_internal, which is NaN-aware and is careful to sort NaNs consistently, higher than any non-NaN. Also rearrange the box size calculation to not produce NaNs; instead it should produce an infinity for a box with NaN on one side and not-NaN on the other. I don't by any means claim that this solves all problems with NaNs in geometric values, but it should at least make GiST index insertion work reliably with such data. It's likely that the index search side of things still needs some work, and probably regular geometric operations too. But with this patch we're laying down a convention for how such cases ought to behave. Per bug #14238 from Guang-Dih Lei. Back-patch to 9.2; the code used before commit 7f3bd86843e5aad8 is quite different and doesn't lock up on my simple test case, nor on the submitter's dataset. Report: <20160708151747.1426.60150@wrigleys.postgresql.org> Discussion: <28685.1468246504@sss.pgh.pa.us>
2016-05-27Be more predictable about reporting "lock timeout" vs "statement timeout".Tom Lane
If both timeout indicators are set when we arrive at ProcessInterrupts, we've historically just reported "lock timeout". However, some buildfarm members have been observed to fail isolationtester's timeouts test by reporting "lock timeout" when the statement timeout was expected to fire first. The cause seems to be that the process is allowed to sleep longer than expected (probably due to heavy machine load) so that the lock timeout happens before we reach the point of reporting the error, and then this arbitrary tiebreak rule does the wrong thing. We can improve matters by comparing the scheduled timeout times to decide which error to report. I had originally proposed greatly reducing the 1-second window between the two timeouts in the test cases. On reflection that is a bad idea, at least for the case where the lock timeout is expected to fire first, because that would assume that it takes negligible time to get from statement start to the beginning of the lock wait. Thus, this patch doesn't completely remove the risk of test failures on slow machines. Empirically, however, the case this handles is the one we are seeing in the buildfarm. The explanation may be that the other case requires the scheduler to take the CPU away from a busy process, whereas the case fixed here only requires the scheduler to not give the CPU back right away to a process that has been woken from a multi-second sleep (and, perhaps, has been swapped out meanwhile). Back-patch to 9.3 where the isolationtester timeouts test was added. Discussion: <8693.1464314819@sss.pgh.pa.us>
2016-03-15Cope if platform declares mbstowcs_l(), but not locale_t, in <xlocale.h>.Tom Lane
Previously, we included <xlocale.h> only if necessary to get the definition of type locale_t. According to notes in PGAC_TYPE_LOCALE_T, this is important because on some versions of glibc that file supplies an incompatible declaration of locale_t. (This info may be obsolete, because on my RHEL6 box that seems to be the *only* definition of locale_t; but there may still be glibc's in the wild for which it's a live concern.) It turns out though that on FreeBSD and maybe other BSDen, you can get locale_t from stdlib.h or locale.h but mbstowcs_l() and friends only from <xlocale.h>. This was leaving us compiling calls to mbstowcs_l() and friends with no visible prototype, which causes a warning and could possibly cause actual trouble, since it's not declared to return int. Hence, adjust the configure checks so that we'll include <xlocale.h> either if it's necessary to get type locale_t or if it's necessary to get a declaration of mbstowcs_l(). Report and patch by Aleksander Alekseev, somewhat whacked around by me. Back-patch to all supported branches, since we have been using mbstowcs_l() since 9.1.
2016-01-22Remove new coupling between NAMEDATALEN and MAX_LEVENSHTEIN_STRLEN.Tom Lane
Commit e529cd4ffa605c6f introduced an Assert requiring NAMEDATALEN to be less than MAX_LEVENSHTEIN_STRLEN, which has been 255 for a long time. Since up to that instant we had always allowed NAMEDATALEN to be substantially more than that, this was ill-advised. It's debatable whether we need MAX_LEVENSHTEIN_STRLEN at all (versus putting a CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS into the loop), or whether it has to be so tight; but this patch takes the narrower approach of just not applying the MAX_LEVENSHTEIN_STRLEN limit to calls from the parser. Trusting the parser for this seems reasonable, first because the strings are limited to NAMEDATALEN which is unlikely to be hugely more than 256, and second because the maximum distance is tightly constrained by MAX_FUZZY_DISTANCE (though we'd forgotten to make use of that limit in one place). That means the cost is not really O(mn) but more like O(max(m,n)). Relaxing the limit for user-supplied calls is left for future research; given the lack of complaints to date, it doesn't seem very high priority. In passing, fix confusion between lengths-in-bytes and lengths-in-chars in comments and error messages. Per gripe from Kevin Day; solution suggested by Robert Haas. Back-patch to 9.5 where the unwanted restriction was introduced.
2015-12-22Comment improvements for abbreviated keys.Robert Haas
Peter Geoghegan and Robert Haas
2015-11-29Avoid caching expression state trees for domain constraints across queries.Tom Lane
In commit 8abb3cda0ddc00a0ab98977a1633a95b97068d4e I attempted to cache the expression state trees constructed for domain CHECK constraints for the life of the backend (assuming the domain's constraints don't get redefined). However, this turns out not to work very well, because execQual.c will run those state trees with ecxt_per_query_memory pointing to a query-lifespan context, and in some situations we'll end up with pointers into that context getting stored into the state trees. This happens in particular with SQL-language functions, as reported by Emre Hasegeli, but there are many other cases. To fix, keep only the expression plan trees for domain CHECK constraints in the typcache's data structure, and revert to performing ExecInitExpr (at least) once per query to set up expression state trees in the query's context. Eventually it'd be nice to undo this, but that will require some careful thought about memory management for expression state trees, and it seems far too late for any such redesign in 9.5. This way is still much more efficient than what happened before 8abb3cda0.
2015-11-20Fix handling of inherited check constraints in ALTER COLUMN TYPE (again).Tom Lane
The previous way of reconstructing check constraints was to do a separate "ALTER TABLE ONLY tab ADD CONSTRAINT" for each table in an inheritance hierarchy. However, that way has no hope of reconstructing the check constraints' own inheritance properties correctly, as pointed out in bug #13779 from Jan Dirk Zijlstra. What we should do instead is to do a regular "ALTER TABLE", allowing recursion, at the topmost table that has a particular constraint, and then suppress the work queue entries for inherited instances of the constraint. Annoyingly, we'd tried to fix this behavior before, in commit 5ed6546cf, but we failed to notice that it wasn't reconstructing the pg_constraint field values correctly. As long as I'm touching pg_get_constraintdef_worker anyway, tweak it to always schema-qualify the target table name; this seems like useful backup to the protections installed by commit 5f173040. In HEAD/9.5, get rid of get_constraint_relation_oids, which is now unused. (I could alternatively have modified it to also return conislocal, but that seemed like a pretty single-purpose API, so let's not pretend it has some other use.) It's unused in the back branches as well, but I left it in place just in case some third-party code has decided to use it. In HEAD/9.5, also rename pg_get_constraintdef_string to pg_get_constraintdef_command, as the previous name did nothing to explain what that entry point did differently from others (and its comment was equally useless). Again, that change doesn't seem like material for back-patching. I did a bit of re-pgindenting in tablecmds.c in HEAD/9.5, as well. Otherwise, back-patch to all supported branches.
2015-10-20Fix incorrect translation of minus-infinity datetimes for json/jsonb.Tom Lane
Commit bda76c1c8cfb1d11751ba6be88f0242850481733 caused both plus and minus infinity to be rendered as "infinity", which is not only wrong but inconsistent with the pre-9.4 behavior of to_json(). Fix that by duplicating the coding in date_out/timestamp_out/timestamptz_out more closely. Per bug #13687 from Stepan Perlov. Back-patch to 9.4, like the previous commit. In passing, also re-pgindent json.c, since it had gotten a bit messed up by recent patches (and I was already annoyed by indentation-related problems in back-patching this fix ...)
2015-10-04Group cluster_name and update_process_title settings togetherPeter Eisentraut
2015-09-24Allow planner to use expression-index stats for function calls in WHERE.Tom Lane
Previously, a function call appearing at the top level of WHERE had a hard-wired selectivity estimate of 0.3333333, a kludge conveniently dated in the source code itself to July 1992. The expectation at the time was that somebody would soon implement estimator support functions analogous to those for operators; but no such code has appeared, nor does it seem likely to in the near future. We do have an alternative solution though, at least for immutable functions on single relations: creating an expression index on the function call will allow ANALYZE to gather stats about the function's selectivity. But the code in clause_selectivity() failed to make use of such data even if it exists. Refactor so that that will happen. I chose to make it try this technique for any clause type for which clause_selectivity() doesn't have a special case, not just functions. To avoid adding unnecessary overhead in the common case where we don't learn anything new, make selfuncs.c provide an API that hooks directly to examine_variable() and then var_eq_const(), rather than the previous coding which laboriously constructed an OpExpr only so that it could be expensively deconstructed again. I preserved the behavior that the default estimate for a function call is 0.3333333. (For any other expression node type, it's 0.5, as before.) I had originally thought to make the default be 0.5 across the board, but changing a default estimate that's survived for twenty-three years seems like something not to do without a lot more testing than I care to put into it right now. Per a complaint from Jehan-Guillaume de Rorthais. Back-patch into 9.5, but not further, at least for the moment.
2015-09-20Remove the SECURITY_ROW_LEVEL_DISABLED security context bit.Noah Misch
This commit's parent made superfluous the bit's sole usage. Referential integrity checks have long run as the subject table's owner, and that now implies RLS bypass. Safe use of the bit was tricky, requiring strict control over the SQL expressions evaluating therein. Back-patch to 9.5, where the bit was introduced. Based on a patch by Stephen Frost.
2015-09-20Remove the row_security=force GUC value.Noah Misch
Every query of a single ENABLE ROW SECURITY table has two meanings, with the row_security GUC selecting between them. With row_security=force available, every function author would have been advised to either set the GUC locally or test both meanings. Non-compliance would have threatened reliability and, for SECURITY DEFINER functions, security. Authors already face an obligation to account for search_path, and we should not mimic that example. With this change, only BYPASSRLS roles need exercise the aforementioned care. Back-patch to 9.5, where the row_security GUC was introduced. Since this narrows the domain of pg_db_role_setting.setconfig and pg_proc.proconfig, one might bump catversion. A row_security=force setting in one of those columns will elicit a clear message, so don't.
2015-09-04Fix subtransaction cleanup after an outer-subtransaction portal fails.Tom Lane
Formerly, we treated only portals created in the current subtransaction as having failed during subtransaction abort. However, if the error occurred while running a portal created in an outer subtransaction (ie, a cursor declared before the last savepoint), that has to be considered broken too. To allow reliable detection of which ones those are, add a bookkeeping field to struct Portal that tracks the innermost subtransaction in which each portal has actually been executed. (Without this, we'd end up failing portals containing functions that had called the subtransaction, thereby breaking plpgsql exception blocks completely.) In addition, when we fail an outer-subtransaction Portal, transfer its resources into the subtransaction's resource owner, so that they're released early in cleanup of the subxact. This fixes a problem reported by Jim Nasby in which a function executed in an outer-subtransaction cursor could cause an Assert failure or crash by referencing a relation created within the inner subtransaction. The proximate cause of the Assert failure is that AtEOSubXact_RelationCache assumed it could blow away a relcache entry without first checking that the entry had zero refcount. That was a bad idea on its own terms, so add such a check there, and to the similar coding in AtEOXact_RelationCache. This provides an independent safety measure in case there are still ways to provoke the situation despite the Portal-level changes. This has been broken since subtransactions were invented, so back-patch to all supported branches. Tom Lane and Michael Paquier
2015-08-04Fix bogus "out of memory" reports in tuplestore.c.Tom Lane
The tuplesort/tuplestore memory management logic assumed that the chunk allocation overhead for its memtuples array could not increase when increasing the array size. This is and always was true for tuplesort, but we (I, I think) blindly copied that logic into tuplestore.c without noticing that the assumption failed to hold for the much smaller array elements used by tuplestore. Given rather small work_mem, this could result in an improper complaint about "unexpected out-of-memory situation", as reported by Brent DeSpain in bug #13530. The easiest way to fix this is just to increase tuplestore's initial array size so that the assumption holds. Rather than relying on magic constants, though, let's export a #define from aset.c that represents the safe allocation threshold, and make tuplestore's calculation depend on that. Do the same in tuplesort.c to keep the logic looking parallel, even though tuplesort.c isn't actually at risk at present. This will keep us from breaking it if we ever muck with the allocation parameters in aset.c. Back-patch to all supported versions. The error message doesn't occur pre-9.3, not so much because the problem can't happen as because the pre-9.3 tuplestore code neglected to check for it. (The chance of trouble is a great deal larger as of 9.3, though, due to changes in the array-size-increasing strategy.) However, allowing LACKMEM() to become true unexpectedly could still result in less-than-desirable behavior, so let's patch it all the way back.
2015-07-28Plug RLS related information leak in pg_stats view.Joe Conway
The pg_stats view is supposed to be restricted to only show rows about tables the user can read. However, it sometimes can leak information which could not otherwise be seen when row level security is enabled. Fix that by not showing pg_stats rows to users that would be subject to RLS on the table the row is related to. This is done by creating/using the newly introduced SQL visible function, row_security_active(). Along the way, clean up three call sites of check_enable_rls(). The second argument of that function should only be specified as other than InvalidOid when we are checking as a different user than the current one, as in when querying through a view. These sites were passing GetUserId() instead of InvalidOid, which can cause the function to return incorrect results if the current user has the BYPASSRLS privilege and row_security has been set to OFF. Additionally fix a bug causing RI Trigger error messages to unintentionally leak information when RLS is enabled, and other minor cleanup and improvements. Also add WITH (security_barrier) to the definition of pg_stats. Bumped CATVERSION due to new SQL functions and pg_stats view definition. Back-patch to 9.5 where RLS was introduced. Reported by Yaroslav. Patch by Joe Conway and Dean Rasheed with review and input by Michael Paquier and Stephen Frost.
2015-07-25Redesign tablesample method API, and do extensive code review.Tom Lane
The original implementation of TABLESAMPLE modeled the tablesample method API on index access methods, which wasn't a good choice because, without specialized DDL commands, there's no way to build an extension that can implement a TSM. (Raw inserts into system catalogs are not an acceptable thing to do, because we can't undo them during DROP EXTENSION, nor will pg_upgrade behave sanely.) Instead adopt an API more like procedural language handlers or foreign data wrappers, wherein the only SQL-level support object needed is a single handler function identified by having a special return type. This lets us get rid of the supporting catalog altogether, so that no custom DDL support is needed for the feature. Adjust the API so that it can support non-constant tablesample arguments (the original coding assumed we could evaluate the argument expressions at ExecInitSampleScan time, which is undesirable even if it weren't outright unsafe), and discourage sampling methods from looking at invisible tuples. Make sure that the BERNOULLI and SYSTEM methods are genuinely repeatable within and across queries, as required by the SQL standard, and deal more honestly with methods that can't support that requirement. Make a full code-review pass over the tablesample additions, and fix assorted bugs, omissions, infelicities, and cosmetic issues (such as failure to put the added code stanzas in a consistent ordering). Improve EXPLAIN's output of tablesample plans, too. Back-patch to 9.5 so that we don't have to support the original API in production.
2015-07-17Support JSON negative array subscripts everywhereAndrew Dunstan
Previously, there was an inconsistency across json/jsonb operators that operate on datums containing JSON arrays -- only some operators supported negative array count-from-the-end subscripting. Specifically, only a new-to-9.5 jsonb deletion operator had support (the new "jsonb - integer" operator). This inconsistency seemed likely to be counter-intuitive to users. To fix, allow all places where the user can supply an integer subscript to accept a negative subscript value, including path-orientated operators and functions, as well as other extraction operators. This will need to be called out as an incompatibility in the 9.5 release notes, since it's possible that users are relying on certain established extraction operators changed here yielding NULL in the event of a negative subscript. For the json type, this requires adding a way of cheaply getting the total JSON array element count ahead of time when parsing arrays with a negative subscript involved, necessitating an ad-hoc lex and parse. This is followed by a "conversion" from a negative subscript to its equivalent positive-wise value using the count. From there on, it's as if a positive-wise value was originally provided. Note that there is still a minor inconsistency here across jsonb deletion operators. Unlike the aforementioned new "-" deletion operator that accepts an integer on its right hand side, the new "#-" path orientated deletion variant does not throw an error when it appears like an array subscript (input that could be recognized by as an integer literal) is being used on an object, which is wrong-headed. The reason for not being stricter is that it could be the case that an object pair happens to have a key value that looks like an integer; in general, these two possibilities are impossible to differentiate with rhs path text[] argument elements. However, we still don't allow the "#-" path-orientated deletion operator to perform array-style subscripting. Rather, we just return the original left operand value in the event of a negative subscript (which seems analogous to how the established "jsonb/json #> text[]" path-orientated operator may yield NULL in the event of an invalid subscript). In passing, make SetArrayPath() stricter about not accepting cases where there is trailing non-numeric garbage bytes rather than a clean NUL byte. This means, for example, that strings like "10e10" are now not accepted as an array subscript of 10 by some new-to-9.5 path-orientated jsonb operators (e.g. the new #- operator). Finally, remove dead code for jsonb subscript deletion; arguably, this should have been done in commit b81c7b409. Peter Geoghegan and Andrew Dunstan
2015-07-08Revoke support for strxfrm() that write past the specified array length.Noah Misch
This formalizes a decision implicit in commit 4ea51cdfe85ceef8afabceb03c446574daa0ac23 and adds clean detection of affected systems. Vendor updates are available for each such known bug. Back-patch to 9.5, where the aforementioned commit first appeared.
2015-06-28Improve design and implementation of pg_file_settings view.Tom Lane
As first committed, this view reported on the file contents as they were at the last SIGHUP event. That's not as useful as reporting on the current contents, and what's more, it didn't work right on Windows unless the current session had serviced at least one SIGHUP. Therefore, arrange to re-read the files when pg_show_all_settings() is called. This requires only minor refactoring so that we can pass changeVal = false to set_config_option() so that it won't actually apply any changes locally. In addition, add error reporting so that errors that would prevent the configuration files from being loaded, or would prevent individual settings from being applied, are visible directly in the view. This makes the view usable for pre-testing whether edits made in the config files will have the desired effect, before one actually issues a SIGHUP. I also added an "applied" column so that it's easy to identify entries that are superseded by later entries; this was the main use-case for the original design, but it seemed unnecessarily hard to use for that. Also fix a 9.4.1 regression that allowed multiple entries for a PGC_POSTMASTER variable to cause bogus complaints in the postmaster log. (The issue here was that commit bf007a27acd7b2fb unintentionally reverted 3e3f65973a3c94a6, which suppressed any duplicate entries within ParseConfigFp. However, since the original coding of the pg_file_settings view depended on such suppression *not* happening, we couldn't have fixed this issue now without first doing something with pg_file_settings. Now we suppress duplicates by marking them "ignored" within ProcessConfigFileInternal, which doesn't hide them in the view.) Lesser changes include: Drive the view directly off the ConfigVariable list, instead of making a basically-equivalent second copy of the data. There's no longer any need to hang onto the data permanently, anyway. Convert show_all_file_settings() to do its work in one call and return a tuplestore; this avoids risks associated with assuming that the GUC state will hold still over the course of query execution. (I think there were probably latent bugs here, though you might need something like a cursor on the view to expose them.) Arrange to run SIGHUP processing in a short-lived memory context, to forestall process-lifespan memory leaks. (There is one known leak in this code, in ProcessConfigDirectory; it seems minor enough to not be worth back-patching a specific fix for.) Remove mistaken assignment to ConfigFileLineno that caused line counting after an include_dir directive to be completely wrong. Add missed failure check in AlterSystemSetConfigFile(). We don't really expect ParseConfigFp() to fail, but that's not an excuse for not checking.
2015-06-28Add missing_ok option to the SQL functions for reading files.Heikki Linnakangas
This makes it possible to use the functions without getting errors, if there is a chance that the file might be removed or renamed concurrently. pg_rewind needs to do just that, although this could be useful for other purposes too. (The changes to pg_rewind to use these functions will come in a separate commit.) The read_binary_file() function isn't very well-suited for extensions.c's purposes anymore, if it ever was. So bite the bullet and make a copy of it in extension.c, tailored for that use case. This seems better than the accidental code reuse, even if it's a some more lines of code. Michael Paquier, with plenty of kibitzing by me.
2015-06-27Add opaque declaration of HTAB to tqual.h.Kevin Grittner
Commit b89e151054a05f0f6d356ca52e3b725dd0505e53 added the ResolveCminCmaxDuringDecoding declaration to tqual.h, which uses an HTAB parameter, without declaring HTAB. It accidentally fails to fail to build with current sources because a declaration happens to be included, directly or indirectly, in all source files that currently use tqual.h before tqual.h is first included, but we shouldn't count on that. Since an opaque declaration is enough here, just use that, as was done in snapmgr.h. Backpatch to 9.4, where the HTAB reference was added to tqual.h.
2015-06-25Fix the logic for putting relations into the relcache init file.Tom Lane
Commit f3b5565dd4e59576be4c772da364704863e6a835 was a couple of bricks shy of a load; specifically, it missed putting pg_trigger_tgrelid_tgname_index into the relcache init file, because that index is not used by any syscache. However, we have historically nailed that index into cache for performance reasons. The upshot was that load_relcache_init_file always decided that the init file was busted and silently ignored it, resulting in a significant hit to backend startup speed. To fix, reinstantiate RelationIdIsInInitFile() as a wrapper around RelationSupportsSysCache(), which can know about additional relations that should be in the init file despite being unknown to syscache.c. Also install some guards against future mistakes of this type: make write_relcache_init_file Assert that all nailed relations get written to the init file, and make load_relcache_init_file emit a WARNING if it takes the "wrong number of nailed relations" exit path. Now that we remove the init files during postmaster startup, that case should never occur in the field, even if we are starting a minor-version update that added or removed rels from the nailed set. So the warning shouldn't ever be seen by end users, but it will show up in the regression tests if somebody breaks this logic. Back-patch to all supported branches, like the previous commit.
2015-06-10Fix typo in comment.Kevin Grittner
Backpatch to 9.4 to minimize possible conflicts.
2015-06-07Use a safer method for determining whether relcache init file is stale.Tom Lane
When we invalidate the relcache entry for a system catalog or index, we must also delete the relcache "init file" if the init file contains a copy of that rel's entry. The old way of doing this relied on a specially maintained list of the OIDs of relations present in the init file: we made the list either when reading the file in, or when writing the file out. The problem is that when writing the file out, we included only rels present in our local relcache, which might have already suffered some deletions due to relcache inval events. In such cases we correctly decided not to overwrite the real init file with incomplete data --- but we still used the incomplete initFileRelationIds list for the rest of the current session. This could result in wrong decisions about whether the session's own actions require deletion of the init file, potentially allowing an init file created by some other concurrent session to be left around even though it's been made stale. Since we don't support changing the schema of a system catalog at runtime, the only likely scenario in which this would cause a problem in the field involves a "vacuum full" on a catalog concurrently with other activity, and even then it's far from easy to provoke. Remarkably, this has been broken since 2002 (in commit 786340441706ac1957a031f11ad1c2e5b6e18314), but we had never seen a reproducible test case until recently. If it did happen in the field, the symptoms would probably involve unexpected "cache lookup failed" errors to begin with, then "could not open file" failures after the next checkpoint, as all accesses to the affected catalog stopped working. Recovery would require manually removing the stale "pg_internal.init" file. To fix, get rid of the initFileRelationIds list, and instead consult syscache.c's list of relations used in catalog caches to decide whether a relation is included in the init file. This should be a tad more efficient anyway, since we're replacing linear search of a list with ~100 entries with a binary search. It's a bit ugly that the init file contents are now so directly tied to the catalog caches, but in practice that won't make much difference. Back-patch to all supported branches.
2015-05-31Rename jsonb_replace to jsonb_set and allow it to add new valuesAndrew Dunstan
The function is given a fourth parameter, which defaults to true. When this parameter is true, if the last element of the path is missing in the original json, jsonb_set creates it in the result and assigns it the new value. If it is false then the function does nothing unless all elements of the path are present, including the last. Based on some original code from Dmitry Dolgov, heavily modified by me. Catalog version bumped.
2015-05-29Revert exporting of internal GUC variable "data_directory".Tom Lane
This undoes a poorly-thought-out choice in commit 970a18687f9b3058, namely to export guc.c's internal variable data_directory. The authoritative variable so far as C code is concerned is DataDir; there is no reason for anything except specific bits of GUC code to look at the GUC variable. After yesterday's commits fixing the fsync-on-restart patch, the only remaining misuse of data_directory was in AlterSystemSetConfigFile(), which would be much better off just using a relative path anyhow: it's less code and it doesn't break if the DBA moves the data directory of a running system, which is a case we've taken some pains over in the past. This is mostly cosmetic, so no need for a back-patch (and I'd be hesitant to remove a global variable in stable branches anyway).
2015-05-24Remove no-longer-required function declarations.Tom Lane
Remove a bunch of "extern Datum foo(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS);" declarations that are no longer needed now that PG_FUNCTION_INFO_V1(foo) provides that. Some of these were evidently missed in commit e7128e8dbb305059, but others were cargo-culted in in code added since then. Possibly that can be blamed in part on the fact that we'd not fixed relevant documentation examples, which I've now done.
2015-05-23pgindent run for 9.5Bruce Momjian