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2020-10-10Recognize network-failure errnos as indicating hard connection loss.Tom Lane
Up to now, only ECONNRESET (and EPIPE, in most but not quite all places) received special treatment in our error handling logic. This patch changes things so that related error codes such as ECONNABORTED are also recognized as indicating that the connection's dead and unlikely to come back. We continue to think, however, that only ECONNRESET and EPIPE should be reported as probable server crashes; the other cases indicate network connectivity problems but prove little about the server's state. Thus, there's no change in the error message texts that are output for such cases. The key practical effect is that errcode_for_socket_access() will report ERRCODE_CONNECTION_FAILURE rather than ERRCODE_INTERNAL_ERROR for a network failure. It's expected that this will fix buildfarm member lorikeet's failures since commit 32a9c0bdf, as that seems to be due to not treating ECONNABORTED equivalently to ECONNRESET. The set of errnos treated this way now includes ECONNABORTED, EHOSTDOWN, EHOSTUNREACH, ENETDOWN, ENETRESET, and ENETUNREACH. Several of these were second-class citizens in terms of their handling in places like get_errno_symbol(), so upgrade the infrastructure where necessary. As committed, this patch assumes that all these symbols are defined everywhere. POSIX specifies all of them except EHOSTDOWN, but that seems to exist on all platforms of interest; we'll see what the buildfarm says about that. Probably this should be back-patched, but let's see what the buildfarm thinks of it first. Fujii Masao and Tom Lane Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2621622.1602184554@sss.pgh.pa.us
2020-06-29Mop up some no-longer-necessary hacks around printf %.*s format.Tom Lane
Commit 54cd4f045 added some kluges to work around an old glibc bug, namely that %.*s could misbehave if glibc thought any characters in the supplied string were incorrectly encoded. Now that we use our own snprintf.c implementation, we need not worry about that bug (even if it still exists in the wild). Revert a couple of particularly ugly hacks, and remove or improve assorted comments. Note that there can still be encoding-related hazards here: blindly clipping at a fixed length risks producing wrongly-encoded output if the clip splits a multibyte character. However, code that's doing correct multibyte-aware clipping doesn't really need a comment about that, while code that isn't needs an explanation why not, rather than a red-herring comment about an obsolete bug. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/279428.1593373684@sss.pgh.pa.us
2020-06-07Try to read data from the socket in pqSendSome's write_failed paths.Tom Lane
Even when we've concluded that we have a hard write failure on the socket, we should continue to try to read data. This gives us an opportunity to collect any final error message that the backend might have sent before closing the connection; moreover it is the job of pqReadData not pqSendSome to close the socket once EOF is detected. Due to an oversight in 1f39a1c06, pqSendSome failed to try to collect data in the case where we'd already set write_failed. The problem was masked for ordinary query operations (which really only make one write attempt anyway), but COPY to the server would continue to send data indefinitely after a mid-COPY connection loss. Hence, add pqReadData calls into the paths where pqSendSome drops data because of write_failed. If we've lost the connection, this will eventually result in closing the socket and setting CONNECTION_BAD, which will cause PQputline and siblings to report failure, allowing the application to terminate the COPY sooner. (Basically this restores what happened before 1f39a1c06.) There are related issues that this does not solve; for example, if the backend sends an error but doesn't drop the connection, we did and still will keep pumping COPY data as long as the application sends it. Fixing that will require application-visible behavior changes though, and anyway it's an ancient behavior that we've had few complaints about. For now I'm just trying to fix the regression from 1f39a1c06. Per a complaint from Andres Freund. Back-patch into v12 where 1f39a1c06 came in. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200603201242.ofvm4jztpqytwfye@alap3.anarazel.de
2020-05-21Clear some style deviations.Noah Misch
2020-01-30Clean up newlines following left parenthesesAlvaro Herrera
We used to strategically place newlines after some function call left parentheses to make pgindent move the argument list a few chars to the left, so that the whole line would fit under 80 chars. However, pgindent no longer does that, so the newlines just made the code vertically longer for no reason. Remove those newlines, and reflow some of those lines for some extra naturality. Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier, Tom Lane Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200129200401.GA6303@alvherre.pgsql
2020-01-01Update copyrights for 2020Bruce Momjian
Backpatch-through: update all files in master, backpatch legal files through 9.4
2019-10-25Make the order of the header file includes consistent in non-backend modules.Amit Kapila
Similar to commit 7e735035f2, this commit makes the order of header file inclusion consistent for non-backend modules. In passing, fix the case where we were using angle brackets (<>) for the local module includes instead of quotes (""). Author: Vignesh C Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALDaNm2Sznv8RR6Ex-iJO6xAdsxgWhCoETkaYX=+9DW3q0QCfA@mail.gmail.com
2019-08-05Fix inconsistencies and typos in the tree, take 9Michael Paquier
This addresses more issues with code comments, variable names and unreferenced variables. Author: Alexander Lakhin Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/7ab243e0-116d-3e44-d120-76b3df7abefd@gmail.com
2019-05-22Phase 2 pgindent run for v12.Tom Lane
Switch to 2.1 version of pg_bsd_indent. This formats multiline function declarations "correctly", that is with additional lines of parameter declarations indented to match where the first line's left parenthesis is. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=0P3FeTXRcU5B2W3jv3PgRVZ-kGUXLGfd42FFhUROO3ug@mail.gmail.com
2019-05-13Fix misuse of an integer as a bool.Tom Lane
pgtls_read_pending is declared to return bool, but what the underlying SSL_pending function returns is a count of available bytes. This is actually somewhat harmless if we're using C99 bools, but in the back branches it's a live bug: if the available-bytes count happened to be a multiple of 256, it would get converted to a zero char value. On machines where char is signed, counts of 128 and up could misbehave as well. The net effect is that when using SSL, libpq might block waiting for data even though some has already been received. Broken by careless refactoring in commit 4e86f1b16, so back-patch to 9.5 where that came in. Per bug #15802 from David Binderman. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15802-f0911a97f0346526@postgresql.org
2019-03-19Restructure libpq's handling of send failures.Tom Lane
Originally, if libpq got a failure (e.g., ECONNRESET) while trying to send data to the server, it would just report that and wash its hands of the matter. It was soon found that that wasn't a very pleasant way of coping with server-initiated disconnections, so we introduced a hack (pqHandleSendFailure) in the code that sends queries to make it peek ahead for server error reports before reporting the send failure. It now emerges that related cases can occur during connection setup; in particular, as of TLS 1.3 it's unsafe to assume that SSL connection failures will be reported by SSL_connect rather than during our first send attempt. We could have fixed that in a hacky way by applying pqHandleSendFailure after a startup packet send failure, but (a) pqHandleSendFailure explicitly disclaims suitability for use in any state except query startup, and (b) the problem still potentially exists for other send attempts in libpq. Instead, let's fix this in a more general fashion by eliminating pqHandleSendFailure altogether, and instead arranging to postpone all reports of send failures in libpq until after we've made an attempt to read and process server messages. The send failure won't be reported at all if we find a server message or detect input EOF. (Note: this removes one of the reasons why libpq typically overwrites, rather than appending to, conn->errorMessage: pqHandleSendFailure needed that behavior so that the send failure report would be replaced if we got a server message or read failure report. Eventually I'd like to get rid of that overwrite behavior altogether, but today is not that day. For the moment, pqSendSome is assuming that its callees will overwrite not append to conn->errorMessage.) Possibly this change should get back-patched someday; but it needs testing first, so let's not consider that till after v12 beta. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=2n6Nv+5tFfe8YnkUm1fXgvxR0Mm1FoD+QKG-vLNGLyKg@mail.gmail.com
2019-01-02Update copyright for 2019Bruce Momjian
Backpatch-through: certain files through 9.4
2018-09-26Incorporate strerror_r() into src/port/snprintf.c, too.Tom Lane
This provides the features that used to exist in useful_strerror() for users of strerror_r(), too. Also, standardize on the GNU convention that strerror_r returns a char pointer that may not be NULL. I notice that libpq's win32.c contains a variant version of strerror_r that probably ought to be folded into strerror.c. But lacking a Windows environment, I should leave that to somebody else. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2975.1526862605@sss.pgh.pa.us
2018-01-02Update copyright for 2018Bruce Momjian
Backpatch-through: certain files through 9.3
2017-11-08Change TRUE/FALSE to true/falsePeter Eisentraut
The lower case spellings are C and C++ standard and are used in most parts of the PostgreSQL sources. The upper case spellings are only used in some files/modules. So standardize on the standard spellings. The APIs for ICU, Perl, and Windows define their own TRUE and FALSE, so those are left as is when using those APIs. In code comments, we use the lower-case spelling for the C concepts and keep the upper-case spelling for the SQL concepts. Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
2017-10-01Replace most usages of ntoh[ls] and hton[sl] with pg_bswap.h.Andres Freund
All postgres internal usages are replaced, it's just libpq example usages that haven't been converted. External users of libpq can't generally rely on including postgres internal headers. Note that this includes replacing open-coded byte swapping of 64bit integers (using two 32 bit swaps) with a single 64bit swap. Where it looked applicable, I have removed netinet/in.h and arpa/inet.h usage, which previously provided the relevant functionality. It's perfectly possible that I missed other reasons for including those, the buildfarm will tell. Author: Andres Freund Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170927172019.gheidqy6xvlxb325@alap3.anarazel.de
2017-06-21Phase 3 of pgindent updates.Tom Lane
Don't move parenthesized lines to the left, even if that means they flow past the right margin. By default, BSD indent lines up statement continuation lines that are within parentheses so that they start just to the right of the preceding left parenthesis. However, traditionally, if that resulted in the continuation line extending to the right of the desired right margin, then indent would push it left just far enough to not overrun the margin, if it could do so without making the continuation line start to the left of the current statement indent. That makes for a weird mix of indentations unless one has been completely rigid about never violating the 80-column limit. This behavior has been pretty universally panned by Postgres developers. Hence, disable it with indent's new -lpl switch, so that parenthesized lines are always lined up with the preceding left paren. This patch is much less interesting than the first round of indent changes, but also bulkier, so I thought it best to separate the effects. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1dAmxK-0006EE-1r@gemulon.postgresql.org Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/30527.1495162840@sss.pgh.pa.us
2017-06-21Phase 2 of pgindent updates.Tom Lane
Change pg_bsd_indent to follow upstream rules for placement of comments to the right of code, and remove pgindent hack that caused comments following #endif to not obey the general rule. Commit e3860ffa4dd0dad0dd9eea4be9cc1412373a8c89 wasn't actually using the published version of pg_bsd_indent, but a hacked-up version that tried to minimize the amount of movement of comments to the right of code. The situation of interest is where such a comment has to be moved to the right of its default placement at column 33 because there's code there. BSD indent has always moved right in units of tab stops in such cases --- but in the previous incarnation, indent was working in 8-space tab stops, while now it knows we use 4-space tabs. So the net result is that in about half the cases, such comments are placed one tab stop left of before. This is better all around: it leaves more room on the line for comment text, and it means that in such cases the comment uniformly starts at the next 4-space tab stop after the code, rather than sometimes one and sometimes two tabs after. Also, ensure that comments following #endif are indented the same as comments following other preprocessor commands such as #else. That inconsistency turns out to have been self-inflicted damage from a poorly-thought-through post-indent "fixup" in pgindent. This patch is much less interesting than the first round of indent changes, but also bulkier, so I thought it best to separate the effects. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1dAmxK-0006EE-1r@gemulon.postgresql.org Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/30527.1495162840@sss.pgh.pa.us
2017-05-19libpq: Try next host if one of them times out.Robert Haas
If one host in a multi-host connection string times out, move on to the next specified host instead of giving up entirely. Takayuki Tsunakawa, reviewed by Michael Paquier. I added a minor adjustment to the documentation. Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/0A3221C70F24FB45833433255569204D1F6F42F5@G01JPEXMBYT05
2017-04-23Don't include sys/poll.h anymore.Andres Freund
poll.h is mandated by Single Unix Spec v2, the usual baseline for postgres on unix. None of the unixoid buildfarms animals has sys/poll.h but not poll.h. Therefore there's not much point to test for sys/poll.h's existence and include it optionally. Author: Andres Freund, per suggestion from Tom Lane Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20505.1492723662@sss.pgh.pa.us
2017-01-03Update copyright via script for 2017Bruce Momjian
2016-03-08Handle invalid libpq sockets in more placesPeter Eisentraut
Also, make error messages consistent. From: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
2016-03-01Fix incorrect comment.Robert Haas
PQmblen and PQdsplen return information about characters, not words. Kyotaro Horiguchi
2016-01-02Update copyright for 2016Bruce Momjian
Backpatch certain files through 9.1
2015-11-12Fix unwanted flushing of libpq's input buffer when socket EOF is seen.Tom Lane
In commit 210eb9b743c0645d I centralized libpq's logic for closing down the backend communication socket, and made the new pqDropConnection routine always reset the I/O buffers to empty. Many of the call sites previously had not had such code, and while that amounted to an oversight in some cases, there was one place where it was intentional and necessary *not* to flush the input buffer: pqReadData should never cause that to happen, since we probably still want to process whatever data we read. This is the true cause of the problem Robert was attempting to fix in c3e7c24a1d60dc6a, namely that libpq no longer reported the backend's final ERROR message before reporting "server closed the connection unexpectedly". But that only accidentally fixed it, by invoking parseInput before the input buffer got flushed; and very likely there are timing scenarios where we'd still lose the message before processing it. To fix, pass a flag to pqDropConnection to tell it whether to flush the input buffer or not. On review I think flushing is actually correct for every other call site. Back-patch to 9.3 where the problem was introduced. In HEAD, also improve the comments added by c3e7c24a1d60dc6a.
2015-05-23pgindent run for 9.5Bruce Momjian
2015-02-23Fix potential deadlock with libpq non-blocking mode.Heikki Linnakangas
If libpq output buffer is full, pqSendSome() function tries to drain any incoming data. This avoids deadlock, if the server e.g. sends a lot of NOTICE messages, and blocks until we read them. However, pqSendSome() only did that in blocking mode. In non-blocking mode, the deadlock could still happen. To fix, take a two-pronged approach: 1. Change the documentation to instruct that when PQflush() returns 1, you should wait for both read- and write-ready, and call PQconsumeInput() if it becomes read-ready. That fixes the deadlock, but applications are not going to change overnight. 2. In pqSendSome(), drain the input buffer before returning 1. This alleviates the problem for applications that only wait for write-ready. In particular, a slow but steady stream of NOTICE messages during COPY FROM STDIN will no longer cause a deadlock. The risk remains that the server attempts to send a large burst of data and fills its output buffer, and at the same time the client also sends enough data to fill its output buffer. The application will deadlock if it goes to sleep, waiting for the socket to become write-ready, before the server's data arrives. In practice, NOTICE messages and such that the server might be sending are usually short, so it's highly unlikely that the server would fill its output buffer so quickly. Backpatch to all supported versions.
2015-01-06Update copyright for 2015Bruce Momjian
Backpatch certain files through 9.0
2014-12-01Put SSL_pending() call behind the new internal SSL API.Heikki Linnakangas
It seems likely that any SSL implementation will need a similar call, not just OpenSSL.
2014-10-22Ensure libpq reports a suitable error message on unexpected socket EOF.Tom Lane
The EOF-detection logic in pqReadData was a bit confused about who should set up the error message in case the kernel gives us read-ready-but-no-data rather than ECONNRESET or some other explicit error condition. Since the whole point of this situation is that the lower-level functions don't know there's anything wrong, pqReadData itself must set up the message. But keep the assumption that if an errno was reported, a message was set up at lower levels. Per bug #11712 from Marko Tiikkaja. It's been like this for a very long time, so back-patch to all supported branches.
2014-09-12Support Subject Alternative Names in SSL server certificates.Heikki Linnakangas
This patch makes libpq check the server's hostname against DNS names listed in the X509 subjectAltName extension field in the server certificate. This allows the same certificate to be used for multiple domain names. If there are no SANs in the certificate, the Common Name field is used, like before this patch. If both are given, the Common Name is ignored. That is a bit surprising, but that's the behavior mandated by the relevant RFCs, and it's also what the common web browsers do. This also adds a libpq_ngettext helper macro to allow plural messages to be translated in libpq. Apparently this happened to be the first plural message in libpq, so it was not needed before. Alexey Klyukin, with some kibitzing by me.
2014-08-11Break out OpenSSL-specific code to separate files.Heikki Linnakangas
This refactoring is in preparation for adding support for other SSL implementations, with no user-visible effects. There are now two #defines, USE_OPENSSL which is defined when building with OpenSSL, and USE_SSL which is defined when building with any SSL implementation. Currently, OpenSSL is the only implementation so the two #defines go together, but USE_SSL is supposed to be used for implementation-independent code. The libpq SSL code is changed to use a custom BIO, which does all the raw I/O, like we've been doing in the backend for a long time. That makes it possible to use MSG_NOSIGNAL to block SIGPIPE when using SSL, which avoids a couple of syscall for each send(). Probably doesn't make much performance difference in practice - the SSL encryption is expensive enough to mask the effect - but it was a natural result of this refactoring. Based on a patch by Martijn van Oosterhout from 2006. Briefly reviewed by Alvaro Herrera, Andreas Karlsson, Jeff Janes.
2014-08-07Improve comment.Heikki Linnakangas
Based on the old comment, it took me a while to figure out what the problem was. The importnat detail is that SSL_read() can return WANT_READ even though some raw data was received from the socket.
2014-05-07Avoid buffer bloat in libpq when server is consistently faster than client.Tom Lane
If the server sends a long stream of data, and the server + network are consistently fast enough to force the recv() loop in pqReadData() to iterate until libpq's input buffer is full, then upon processing the last incomplete message in each bufferload we'd usually double the buffer size, due to supposing that we didn't have enough room in the buffer to finish collecting that message. After filling the newly-enlarged buffer, the cycle repeats, eventually resulting in an out-of-memory situation (which would be reported misleadingly as "lost synchronization with server"). Of course, we should not enlarge the buffer unless we still need room after discarding already-processed messages. This bug dates back quite a long time: pqParseInput3 has had the behavior since perhaps 2003, getCopyDataMessage at least since commit 70066eb1a1ad in 2008. Probably the reason it's not been isolated before is that in common environments the recv() loop would always be faster than the server (if on the same machine) or faster than the network (if not); or at least it wouldn't be slower consistently enough to let the buffer ramp up to a problematic size. The reported cases involve Windows, which perhaps has different timing behavior than other platforms. Per bug #7914 from Shin-ichi Morita, though this is different from his proposed solution. Back-patch to all supported branches.
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.
2014-04-16libpq: use pgsocket for socket values, for portabilityBruce Momjian
Previously, 'int' was used for socket values in libpq, but socket values are unsigned on Windows. This is a style correction. Initial patch and previous PGINVALID_SOCKET initial patch by Joel Jacobson, modified by me Report from PVS-Studio
2014-02-12Improve libpq's error recovery for connection loss during COPY.Tom Lane
In pqSendSome, if the connection is already closed at entry, discard any queued output data before returning. There is no possibility of ever sending the data, and anyway this corresponds to what we'd do if we'd detected a hard error while trying to send(). This avoids possible indefinite bloat of the output buffer if the application keeps trying to send data (or even just keeps trying to do PQputCopyEnd, as psql indeed will). Because PQputCopyEnd won't transition out of PGASYNC_COPY_IN state until it's successfully queued the COPY END message, and pqPutMsgEnd doesn't distinguish a queuing failure from a pqSendSome failure, this omission allowed an infinite loop in psql if the connection closure occurred when we had at least 8K queued to send. It might be worth refactoring so that we can make that distinction, but for the moment the other changes made here seem to offer adequate defenses. To guard against other variants of this scenario, do not allow PQgetResult to return a PGRES_COPY_XXX result if the connection is already known dead. Make sure it returns PGRES_FATAL_ERROR instead. Per report from Stephen Frost. Back-patch to all active branches.
2014-01-07Update copyright for 2014Bruce Momjian
Update all files in head, and files COPYRIGHT and legal.sgml in all back branches.
2013-03-17Move pqsignal() to libpgport.Tom Lane
We had two copies of this function in the backend and libpq, which was already pretty bogus, but it turns out that we need it in some other programs that don't use libpq (such as pg_test_fsync). So put it where it probably should have been all along. The signal-mask-initialization support in src/backend/libpq/pqsignal.c stays where it is, though, since we only need that in the backend.
2013-01-01Update copyrights for 2013Bruce Momjian
Fully update git head, and update back branches in ./COPYRIGHT and legal.sgml files.
2012-09-07Centralize libpq's low-level code for dropping a connection.Tom Lane
Create an internal function pqDropConnection that does the physical socket close and cleans up closely-associated state. This removes a bunch of ad hoc, not always consistent closure code. The ulterior motive is to have a single place to wait for a spawned child backend to exit, but this seems like good cleanup even if that never happens. I went back and forth on whether to include "conn->status = CONNECTION_BAD" in pqDropConnection's actions, but for the moment decided not to. Only a minority of the call sites actually want that, and in any case it's arguable that conn->status is slightly higher-level state, and thus not part of this function's purview.
2012-04-04Add a "row processor" API to libpq for better handling of large results.Tom Lane
Traditionally libpq has collected an entire query result before passing it back to the application. That provides a simple and transactional API, but it's pretty inefficient for large result sets. This patch allows the application to process each row on-the-fly instead of accumulating the rows into the PGresult. Error recovery becomes a bit more complex, but often that tradeoff is well worth making. Kyotaro Horiguchi, reviewed by Marko Kreen and Tom Lane
2012-01-01Update copyright notices for year 2012.Bruce Momjian
2011-07-24Fix previous patch so it also works if not USE_SSL (mea culpa).Tom Lane
On balance, the need to cover this case changes my mind in favor of pushing all error-message generation duties into the two fe-secure.c routines. So do it that way.
2011-07-24Improve libpq's error reporting for SSL failures.Tom Lane
In many cases, pqsecure_read/pqsecure_write set up useful error messages, which were then overwritten with useless ones by their callers. Fix this by defining the responsibility to set an error message to be entirely that of the lower-level function when using SSL. Back-patch to 8.3; the code is too different in 8.2 to be worth the trouble.
2011-01-01Stamp copyrights for year 2011.Bruce Momjian
2010-12-22Add PQlibVersion() function to libpqMagnus Hagander
This function is like the PQserverVersion() function except it returns the version of libpq, making it possible for a client program or driver to determine which version of libpq is in use at runtime, and not just at link time. Suggested by Harald Armin Massa and several others.
2010-09-20Remove cvs keywords from all files.Magnus Hagander
2010-07-06pgindent run for 9.0, second runBruce Momjian
2010-05-09Adjust comments about avoiding use of printf's %.*s.Tom Lane
My initial impression that glibc was measuring the precision in characters (which is what the Linux man page says it does) was incorrect. It does take the precision to be in bytes, but it also tries to truncate the string at a character boundary. The bottom line remains the same: it will mess up if the string is not in the encoding it expects, so we need to avoid %.*s anytime there's a significant risk of that. Previous code changes are still good, but adjust the comments to reflect this knowledge. Per research by Hernan Gonzalez.