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2011-11-08Make DatumGetInetP() unpack inet datums with a 1-byte header, and addHeikki Linnakangas
a new macro, DatumGetInetPP(), that does not. This brings these macros in line with other DatumGet*P() macros. Backpatch to 8.3, where 1-byte header varlenas were introduced.
2011-11-02Derive oldestActiveXid at correct time for Hot Standby.Simon Riggs
There was a timing window between when oldestActiveXid was derived and when it should have been derived that only shows itself under heavy load. Move code around to ensure correct timing of derivation. No change to StartupSUBTRANS() code, which is where this failed. Bug report by Chris Redekop
2011-11-02Fix timing of Startup CLOG and MultiXact during Hot StandbySimon Riggs
Patch by me, bug report by Chris Redekop, analysis by Florian Pflug
2011-11-01Fix race condition with toast table access from a stale syscache entry.Tom Lane
If a tuple in a syscache contains an out-of-line toasted field, and we try to fetch that field shortly after some other transaction has committed an update or deletion of the tuple, there is a race condition: vacuum could come along and remove the toast tuples before we can fetch them. This leads to transient failures like "missing chunk number 0 for toast value NNNNN in pg_toast_2619", as seen in recent reports from Andrew Hammond and Tim Uckun. The design idea of syscache is that access to stale syscache entries should be prevented by relation-level locks, but that fails for at least two cases where toasted fields are possible: ANALYZE updates pg_statistic rows without locking out sessions that might want to plan queries on the same table, and CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION updates pg_proc rows without any meaningful lock at all. The least risky fix seems to be an idea that Heikki suggested when we were dealing with a related problem back in August: forcibly detoast any out-of-line fields before putting a tuple into syscache in the first place. This avoids the problem because at the time we fetch the parent tuple from the catalog, we should be holding an MVCC snapshot that will prevent removal of the toast tuples, even if the parent tuple is outdated immediately after we fetch it. (Note: I'm not convinced that this statement holds true at every instant where we could be fetching a syscache entry at all, but it does appear to hold true at the times where we could fetch an entry that could have a toasted field. We will need to be a bit wary of adding toast tables to low-level catalogs that don't have them already.) An additional benefit is that subsequent uses of the syscache entry should be faster, since they won't have to detoast the field. Back-patch to all supported versions. The problem is significantly harder to reproduce in pre-9.0 releases, because of their willingness to flush every entry in a syscache whenever the underlying catalog is vacuumed (cf CatalogCacheFlushRelation); but there is still a window for trouble.
2011-10-23Don't trust deferred-unique indexes for join removal.Tom Lane
The uniqueness condition might fail to hold intra-transaction, and assuming it does can give incorrect query results. Per report from Marti Raudsepp, though this is not his proposed patch. Back-patch to 9.0, where both these features were introduced. In the released branches, add the new IndexOptInfo field to the end of the struct, to try to minimize ABI breakage for third-party code that may be examining that struct.
2011-09-22Stamp 9.0.5.REL9_0_5Tom Lane
2011-09-11Fix permissions on pg_largeobject_metadata.h in 9.0 branch.Tom Lane
For some reason it was 0755 instead of 0644.
2011-09-01Move the line to undefine setlocale() macro on Win32 outside USE_REPL_SNPRINTFHeikki Linnakangas
ifdef block. It has nothing to do with whether the replacement snprintf function is used. It caused no live bug, because the replacement snprintf function is always used on Win32, but it was nevertheless misplaced.
2011-08-21Fix trigger WHEN conditions when both BEFORE and AFTER triggers exist.Tom Lane
Due to tuple-slot mismanagement, evaluation of WHEN conditions for AFTER ROW UPDATE triggers could crash if there had been a BEFORE ROW trigger fired for the same update. Fix by not trying to overload the use of estate->es_trig_tuple_slot. Per report from Yoran Heling. Back-patch to 9.0, when trigger WHEN conditions were introduced.
2011-08-16Fix race condition in relcache init file invalidation.Tom Lane
The previous code tried to synchronize by unlinking the init file twice, but that doesn't actually work: it leaves a window wherein a third process could read the already-stale init file but miss the SI messages that would tell it the data is stale. The result would be bizarre failures in catalog accesses, typically "could not read block 0 in file ..." later during startup. Instead, hold RelCacheInitLock across both the unlink and the sending of the SI messages. This is more straightforward, and might even be a bit faster since only one unlink call is needed. This has been wrong since it was put in (in 2002!), so back-patch to all supported releases.
2011-08-09Fix nested PlaceHolderVar expressions that appear only in targetlists.Tom Lane
A PlaceHolderVar's expression might contain another, lower-level PlaceHolderVar. If the outer PlaceHolderVar is used, the inner one certainly will be also, and so we have to make sure that both of them get into the placeholder_list with correct ph_may_need values during the initial pre-scan of the query (before deconstruct_jointree starts). We did this correctly for PlaceHolderVars appearing in the query quals, but overlooked the issue for those appearing in the top-level targetlist; with the result that nested placeholders referenced only in the targetlist did not work correctly, as illustrated in bug #6154. While at it, add some error checking to find_placeholder_info to ensure that we don't try to create new placeholders after it's too late to do so; they have to all be created before deconstruct_jointree starts. Back-patch to 8.4 where the PlaceHolderVar mechanism was introduced.
2011-08-02Move CheckRecoveryConflictDeadlock() call to a safer place.Tom Lane
This kluge was inserted in a spot apparently chosen at random: the lock manager's state is not yet fully set up for the wait, and in particular LockWaitCancel hasn't been armed by setting lockAwaited, so the ProcLock will not get cleaned up if the ereport is thrown. This seems to not cause any observable problem in trivial test cases, because LockReleaseAll will silently clean up the debris; but I was able to cause failures with tests involving subtransactions. Fixes breakage induced by commit c85c941470efc44494fd7a5f426ee85fc65c268c. Back-patch to all affected branches.
2011-08-02Fix incorrect initialization of ProcGlobal->startupBufferPinWaitBufId.Tom Lane
It was initialized in the wrong place and to the wrong value. With bad luck this could result in incorrect query-cancellation failures in hot standby sessions, should a HS backend be holding pin on buffer number 1 while trying to acquire a lock.
2011-07-08Fix another oversight in logging of changes in postgresql.conf settings.Tom Lane
We were using GetConfigOption to collect the old value of each setting, overlooking the possibility that it didn't exist yet. This does happen in the case of adding a new entry within a custom variable class, as exhibited in bug #6097 from Maxim Boguk. To fix, add a missing_ok parameter to GetConfigOption, but only in 9.1 and HEAD --- it seems possible that some third-party code is using that function, so changing its API in a minor release would cause problems. In 9.0, create a near-duplicate function instead.
2011-06-10Work around gcc 4.6.0 bug that breaks WAL replay.Tom Lane
ReadRecord's habit of using both direct references to tmpRecPtr and references to *RecPtr (which is pointing at tmpRecPtr) triggers an optimization bug in gcc 4.6.0, which apparently has forgotten about aliasing rules. Avoid the compiler bug, and make the code more readable to boot, by getting rid of the direct references. Improve the comments while at it. Back-patch to all supported versions, in case they get built with 4.6.0. Tom Lane, with some cosmetic suggestions from Alex Hunsaker
2011-05-30Fix VACUUM so that it always updates pg_class.reltuples/relpages.Tom Lane
When we added the ability for vacuum to skip heap pages by consulting the visibility map, we made it just not update the reltuples/relpages statistics if it skipped any pages. But this could leave us with extremely out-of-date stats for a table that contains any unchanging areas, especially for TOAST tables which never get processed by ANALYZE. In particular this could result in autovacuum making poor decisions about when to process the table, as in recent report from Florian Helmberger. And in general it's a bad idea to not update the stats at all. Instead, use the previous values of reltuples/relpages as an estimate of the tuple density in unvisited pages. This approach results in a "moving average" estimate of reltuples, which should converge to the correct value over multiple VACUUM and ANALYZE cycles even when individual measurements aren't very good. This new method for updating reltuples is used by both VACUUM and ANALYZE, with the result that we no longer need the grotty interconnections that caused ANALYZE to not update the stats depending on what had happened in the parent VACUUM command. Also, fix the logic for skipping all-visible pages during VACUUM so that it looks ahead rather than behind to decide what to do, as per a suggestion from Greg Stark. This eliminates useless scanning of all-visible pages at the start of the relation or just after a not-all-visible page. In particular, the first few pages of the relation will not be invariably included in the scanned pages, which seems to help in not overweighting them in the reltuples estimate. Back-patch to 8.4, where the visibility map was introduced.
2011-04-19Avoid changing an index's indcheckxmin horizon during REINDEX.Tom Lane
There can never be a need to push the indcheckxmin horizon forward, since any HOT chains that are actually broken with respect to the index must pre-date its original creation. So we can just avoid changing pg_index altogether during a REINDEX operation. This offers a cleaner solution than my previous patch for the problem found a few days ago that we mustn't try to update pg_index while we are reindexing it. System catalog indexes will always be created with indcheckxmin = false during initdb, and with this modified code we should never try to change their pg_index entries. This avoids special-casing system catalogs as the former patch did, and should provide a performance benefit for many cases where REINDEX formerly caused an index to be considered unusable for a short time. Back-patch to 8.3 to cover all versions containing HOT. Note that this patch changes the API for index_build(), but I believe it is unlikely that any add-on code is calling that directly.
2011-04-15Tag 9.0.4.REL9_0_4Marc G. Fournier
2011-04-09Backport changes to allow building with MinGW 64 bit compiler.Andrew Dunstan
These changes have been in HEAD for some time with no ill effect. They are only being backported to 9.0, as the required WINNT version was not high enough before that.
2011-03-28Prevent a rowtype from being included in itself.Tom Lane
Eventually we might be able to allow that, but it's not clear how many places need to be fixed to prevent infinite recursion when there's a direct or indirect inclusion of a rowtype in itself. One such place is CheckAttributeType(), which will recurse to stack overflow in cases such as those exhibited in bug #5950 from Alex Perepelica. If we were sure it was the only such place, we could easily modify the code added by this patch to stop the recursion without a complaint ... but it probably isn't the only such place. Hence, throw error until such time as someone is excited enough about this type of usage to put work into making it safe. Back-patch as far as 8.3. 8.2 doesn't have the recursive call in CheckAttributeType in the first place, so I see no need to add code there in the absence of clear evidence of a problem elsewhere.
2011-02-21Fix dangling-pointer problem in before-row update trigger processing.Tom Lane
ExecUpdate checked for whether ExecBRUpdateTriggers had returned a new tuple value by seeing if the returned tuple was pointer-equal to the old one. But the "old one" was in estate->es_junkFilter's result slot, which would be scribbled on if we had done an EvalPlanQual update in response to a concurrent update of the target tuple; therefore we were comparing a dangling pointer to a live one. Given the right set of circumstances we could get a false match, resulting in not forcing the tuple to be stored in the slot we thought it was stored in. In the case reported by Maxim Boguk in bug #5798, this led to "cannot extract system attribute from virtual tuple" failures when trying to do "RETURNING ctid". I believe there is a very-low-probability chance of more serious errors, such as generating incorrect index entries based on the original rather than the trigger-modified version of the row. In HEAD, change all of ExecBRInsertTriggers, ExecIRInsertTriggers, ExecBRUpdateTriggers, and ExecIRUpdateTriggers so that they continue to have similar APIs. In the back branches I just changed ExecBRUpdateTriggers, since there is no bug in the ExecBRInsertTriggers case.
2011-02-17Fix tsmatchsel() to account properly for null rows.Tom Lane
ts_typanalyze.c computes MCE statistics as fractions of the non-null rows, which seems fairly reasonable, and anyway changing it in released versions wouldn't be a good idea. But then ts_selfuncs.c has to account for that. Failure to do so results in overestimates in columns with a significant fraction of null documents. Back-patch to 8.4 where this stuff was introduced. Jesper Krogh
2011-02-16Fix bogus test for hypothetical indexes in get_actual_variable_range().Tom Lane
That function was supposing that indexoid == 0 for a hypothetical index, but that is not likely to be true in any non-toy implementation of an index adviser, since assigning a fake OID is the only way to know at EXPLAIN time which hypothetical index got selected. Fix by adding a flag to IndexOptInfo to mark hypothetical indexes. Back-patch to 9.0 where get_actual_variable_range() was added. Gurjeet Singh
2011-02-09Fix improper matching of resjunk column names for FOR UPDATE in subselect.Tom Lane
Flattening of subquery range tables during setrefs.c could lead to the rangetable indexes in PlanRowMark nodes not matching up with the column names previously assigned to the corresponding resjunk ctid (resp. tableoid or wholerow) columns. Typical symptom would be either a "cannot extract system attribute from virtual tuple" error or an Assert failure. This wasn't a problem before 9.0 because we didn't support FOR UPDATE below the top query level, and so the final flattening could never renumber an RTE that was relevant to FOR UPDATE. Fix by using a plan-tree-wide unique number for each PlanRowMark to label the associated resjunk columns, so that the number need not change during flattening. Per report from David Johnston (though I'm darned if I can see how this got past initial testing of the relevant code). Back-patch to 9.0.
2011-02-01Undefine setlocale() macro on Win32Magnus Hagander
New versions of libintl redefine setlocale() to a macro which causes problems when the backend and libintl are linked against different versions of the runtime, which is often the case in msvc builds. Hiroshi Inoue, slightly updated comment by me
2011-02-01Create new errcode for recovery conflict caused by db drop on master.Simon Riggs
Previously reported as ERRCODE_ADMIN_SHUTDOWN, this case is now reported as ERRCODE_DATABASE_DROPPED. No message text change. Unlikely to happen on most servers, so low impact change to allow session poolers to correctly handle this situation. Tatsuo Ishii and Simon Riggs
2011-01-27Tag 9.0.3REL9_0_3Marc G. Fournier
2011-01-20Make ALTER TABLE revalidate uniqueness and exclusion constraints.Robert Haas
Failure to do so can lead to constraint violations. This was broken by commit 1ddc2703a936d03953657f43345460b9242bbed1 on 2010-02-07, so back-patch to 9.0. Noah Misch. Regression test by me.
2011-01-12Fix PlanRowMark/ExecRowMark structures to handle inheritance correctly.Tom Lane
In an inherited UPDATE/DELETE, each target table has its own subplan, because it might have a column set different from other targets. This means that the resjunk columns we add to support EvalPlanQual might be at different physical column numbers in each subplan. The EvalPlanQual rewrite I did for 9.0 failed to account for this, resulting in possible misbehavior or even crashes during concurrent updates to the same row, as seen in a recent report from Gordon Shannon. Revise the data structure so that we track resjunk column numbers separately for each subplan. I also chose to move responsibility for identifying the physical column numbers back to executor startup, instead of assuming that numbers derived during preprocess_targetlist would stay valid throughout subsequent massaging of the plan. That's a bit slower, so we might want to consider undoing it someday; but it would complicate the patch considerably and didn't seem justifiable in a bug fix that has to be back-patched to 9.0.
2010-12-28Avoid unexpected conversion overflow in planner for distant date values.Tom Lane
The "date" type supports a wider range of dates than int64 timestamps do. However, there is pre-int64-timestamp code in the planner that assumes that all date values can be converted to timestamp with impunity. Fortunately, what we really need out of the conversion is always a double (float8) value; so even when the date is out of timestamp's range it's possible to produce a sane answer. All we need is a code path that doesn't try to force the result into int64. Per trouble report from David Rericha. Back-patch to all supported versions. Although this is surely a corner case, there's not much point in advertising a date range wider than timestamp's if we will choke on such values in unexpected places.
2010-12-16Remove optreset from src/port/ implementations of getopt and getopt_long.Tom Lane
We don't actually need optreset, because we can easily fix the code to ensure that it's cleanly restartable after having completed a scan over the argv array; which is the only case we need to restart in. Getting rid of it avoids a class of interactions with the system libraries and allows reversion of my change of yesterday in postmaster.c and postgres.c. Back-patch to 8.4. Before that the getopt code was a bit different anyway.
2010-12-13Tag 9.0.2.REL9_0_2Marc G. Fournier
2010-12-08Force default wal_sync_method to be fdatasync on Linux.Tom Lane
Recent versions of the Linux system header files cause xlogdefs.h to believe that open_datasync should be the default sync method, whereas formerly fdatasync was the default on Linux. open_datasync is a bad choice, first because it doesn't actually outperform fdatasync (in fact the reverse), and second because we try to use O_DIRECT with it, causing failures on certain filesystems (e.g., ext4 with data=journal option). This part of the patch is largely per a proposal from Marti Raudsepp. More extensive changes are likely to follow in HEAD, but this is as much change as we want to back-patch. Also clean up confusing code and incorrect documentation surrounding the fsync_writethrough option. Those changes shouldn't result in any actual behavioral change, but I chose to back-patch them anyway to keep the branches looking similar in this area. In 9.0 and HEAD, also do some copy-editing on the WAL Reliability documentation section. Back-patch to all supported branches, since any of them might get used on modern Linux versions.
2010-12-07Fix bugs in the hot standby known-assigned-xids tracking logic. If there'sHeikki Linnakangas
an old transaction running in the master, and a lot of transactions have started and finished since, and a WAL-record is written in the gap between the creating the running-xacts snapshot and WAL-logging it, recovery will fail with "too many KnownAssignedXids" error. This bug was reported by Joachim Wieland on Nov 19th. In the same scenario, when fewer transactions have started so that all the xids fit in KnownAssignedXids despite the first bug, a more serious bug arises. We incorrectly initialize the clog code with the oldest still running transaction, and when we see the WAL record belonging to a transaction with an XID larger than one that committed already before the checkpoint we're recovering from, we zero the clog page containing the already committed transaction, leading to data loss. In hindsight, trying to track xids in the known-assigned-xids array before seeing the running-xacts record was too complicated. To fix that, hold XidGenLock while the running-xacts snapshot is taken and WAL-logged. That ensures that no transaction can begin or end in that gap, so that in recvoery we know that the snapshot contains all transactions running at that point in WAL.
2010-11-29Move call to GetTopTransactionId() earlier in LockAcquire(),Simon Riggs
removing an infrequently occurring race condition in Hot Standby. An xid must be assigned before a lock appears in shared memory, rather than immediately after, else GetRunningTransactionLocks() may see InvalidTransactionId, causing assertion failures during lock processing on standby. Bug report and diagnosis by Fujii Masao, fix by me.
2010-11-16The GiST scan algorithm uses LSNs to detect concurrent pages splits, butHeikki Linnakangas
temporary indexes are not WAL-logged. We used a constant LSN for temporary indexes, on the assumption that we don't need to worry about concurrent page splits in temporary indexes because they're only visible to the current session. But that assumption is wrong, it's possible to insert rows and split pages in the same session, while a scan is in progress. For example, by opening a cursor and fetching some rows, and INSERTing new rows before fetching some more. Fix by generating fake increasing LSNs, used in place of real LSNs in temporary GiST indexes.
2010-11-10Don't use __declspec (dllimport) for PGDLLEXPORT to reduce warningsItagaki Takahiro
by gcc version 4 on mingw and cygwin. We don't use dllexport here because dllexport and dllwrap don't work well together.
2010-10-22Make OFF keyword unreserved. It's not hard to imagine wanting to use 'off'Heikki Linnakangas
as a variable or column name, and it's not reserved in recent versions of the SQL spec either. This became particularly annoying in 9.0, before that PL/pgSQL replaced variable names in queries with parameter markers, so it was possible to use OFF and many other backend parser keywords as variable names. Because of that, backpatch to 9.0.
2010-10-19Fix incorrect generation of whole-row variables in planner.Tom Lane
A couple of places in the planner need to generate whole-row Vars, and were cutting corners by setting vartype = RECORDOID in the Vars, even in cases where there's an identifiable named composite type for the RTE being referenced. While we mostly got away with this, it failed when there was also a parser-generated whole-row reference to the same RTE, because the two Vars weren't equal() due to the difference in vartype. Fix by providing a subroutine the planner can call to generate whole-row Vars the same way the parser does. Per bug #5716 from Andrew Tipton. Back-patch to 9.0 where one of the bogus calls was introduced (the other one is new in HEAD).
2010-10-01Tag 9.0.1Marc G. Fournier
2010-09-28Fix PlaceHolderVar mechanism's interaction with outer joins.Tom Lane
The point of a PlaceHolderVar is to allow a non-strict expression to be evaluated below an outer join, after which its value bubbles up like a Var and can be forced to NULL when the outer join's semantics require that. However, there was a serious design oversight in that, namely that we didn't ensure that there was actually a correct place in the plan tree to evaluate the placeholder :-(. It may be necessary to delay evaluation of an outer join to ensure that a placeholder that should be evaluated below the join can be evaluated there. Per recent bug report from Kirill Simonov. Back-patch to 8.4 where the PlaceHolderVar mechanism was introduced.
2010-09-22Convert cvsignore to gitignore, and add .gitignore for build targets.Magnus Hagander
2010-09-17tag v9.0.0 ... the big day approachesREL9_0_0Marc G. Fournier
2010-09-14Fix join-removal logic for pseudoconstant and outerjoin-delayed quals.Tom Lane
In these cases a qual can get marked with the removable rel in its required_relids, but this is just to schedule its evaluation correctly, not because it really depends on the rel. We were assuming that, in effect, we could throw away *all* quals so marked, which is nonsense. Tighten up the logic to be a little more paranoid about which quals belong to the outer join being considered for removal, and arrange for all quals that don't belong to be updated so they will still get evaluated correctly. Also fix another problem that happened to be exposed by this test case, which was that make_join_rel() was failing to notice some cases where a constant-false qual could be used to prove a join relation empty. If it's a pushed-down constant false, then the relation is empty even if it's an outer join, because the qual applies after the outer join expansion. Per report from Nathan Grange. Back-patch into 9.0.
2010-09-13Remove prototype for non-existent function from walreceiver.h. Tidy up byHeikki Linnakangas
separating prototypes for functions in walreceiver.c and walreceiverfuncs.c with comments.
2010-09-02Fix up flushing of composite-type typcache entries to be driven directly byTom Lane
SI invalidation events, rather than indirectly through the relcache. In the previous coding, we had to flush a composite-type typcache entry whenever we discarded the corresponding relcache entry. This caused problems at least when testing with RELCACHE_FORCE_RELEASE, as shown in recent report from Jeff Davis, and might result in real-world problems given the kind of unexpected relcache flush that that test mechanism is intended to model. The new coding decouples relcache and typcache management, which is a good thing anyway from a structural perspective. The cost is that we have to search the typcache linearly to find entries that need to be flushed. There are a couple of ways we could avoid that, but at the moment it's not clear it's worth any extra trouble, because the typcache contains very few entries in typical operation. Back-patch to 8.2, the same as some other recent fixes in this general area. The patch could be carried back to 8.0 with some additional work, but given that it's only hypothetical whether we're fixing any problem observable in the field, it doesn't seem worth the work now.
2010-08-27tag rc1 ... final stretch ...REL9_0_RC1Marc G. Fournier
2010-08-23Marginal code cleanup for streaming replication.Tom Lane
There is no reason that proc.c should have to get involved in this dirty hack for letting the postmaster know which children are walsenders. Revert that file to the way it was, and confine the kluge to pmsignal.c and postmaster.c.
2010-08-18Fix failure of "ALTER TABLE t ADD COLUMN c serial" when done by non-owner.Tom Lane
The implicitly created sequence was created as owned by the current user, who could be different from the table owner, eg if current user is a superuser or some member of the table's owning role. This caused sanity checks in the SEQUENCE OWNED BY code to spit up. Although possibly we don't need those sanity checks, the safest fix seems to be to make sure the implicit sequence is assigned the same owner role as the table has. (We still do all permissions checks as the current user, however.) Per report from Josh Berkus. Back-patch to 9.0. The bug goes back to the invention of SEQUENCE OWNED BY in 8.2, but the fix requires an API change for DefineRelation(), which seems to have potential for breaking third-party code if done in a minor release. Given the lack of prior complaints, it's probably not worth fixing in the stable branches.
2010-08-12Correct sundry errors in Hot Standby-related comments.Robert Haas
Fujii Masao