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2009-03-13tag 8.1.17REL8_1_17Marc G. Fournier
2009-03-12Fix core dump due to null-pointer dereference in to_char() when datetimeTom Lane
format codes are misapplied to a numeric argument. (The code still produces a pretty bogus error message in such cases, but I'll settle for stopping the crash for now.) Per bug #4700 from Sergey Burladyan. Problem exists in all supported branches, so patch all the way back. In HEAD, also clean up some ugly coding in the nearby cache management code.
2009-03-05Add MUST (Mauritius Island Summer Time) to the list of known abbreviations.Heikki Linnakangas
Mauritius began using DST in the summer 2008-2009; the Olson library has been updated already. Xavier Bugaud
2009-03-04Put back our old workaround for machines that declare cbrt() in math.h butTom Lane
fail to provide the function itself. Not sure how we escaped testing anything later than 7.3 on such cases, but they still exist, as per André Volpato's report about AIX 5.3.
2009-03-03Ooops ... fix some confusion between gettext() and _() in my previous patch.Tom Lane
This has moved around in past releases, so just copying-and-pasting from HEAD didn't work as intended.
2009-03-02When we are in error recursion trouble, arrange to suppress translation andTom Lane
encoding conversion of any elog/ereport message being sent to the frontend. This generalizes a patch that I put in last October, which suppressed translation of only specific messages known to be associated with recursive can't-translate-the-message behavior. As shown in bug #4680, we need a more general answer in order to have some hope of coping with broken encoding conversion setups. This approach seems a good deal less klugy anyway. Patch in all supported branches.
2009-02-28Fix buffer allocations in encoding conversion routines so that they won'tTom Lane
fail on zero-length inputs. This isn't an issue in normal use because the conversion infrastructure skips calling the converters for empty strings. However a problem was created by yesterday's patch to check whether the right conversion function is supplied in CREATE CONVERSION. The most future-proof fix seems to be to make the converters safe for this corner case.
2009-02-27In CREATE CONVERSION, test that the given function is a valid conversionHeikki Linnakangas
function for the specified source and destination encodings. We do that by calling the function with an empty string. If it can't perform the requested conversion, it will throw an error. Backport to 7.4 - 8.3. Per bug report #4680 by Denis Afonin.
2009-02-27Set isnull for errm and sqlstate local variables when they're free'd. BecauseHeikki Linnakangas
they are out of scope for any code after that anyway, leaving isnull true should be harmless. However, PL/pgSQL Debugger doesn't seem to care about the scoping and crashed, per report by Robert Walker (bug #4635). And it's good to be tidy for debugging purposes too. Fix in 8.3, 8.2 and 8.1 branches, CVS HEAD was fixed earlier already. Analysis and fix by Ashesh Vashi and Dave Page.
2009-02-25Fix an old problem in decompilation of CASE constructs: the ruleutils.c codeTom Lane
looks for a CaseTestExpr to figure out what the parser did, but it failed to consider the possibility that an implicit coercion might be inserted above the CaseTestExpr. This could result in an Assert failure in some cases (but correct results if Asserts weren't enabled), or an "unexpected CASE WHEN clause" error in other cases. Per report from Alan Li. Back-patch to 8.1; problem doesn't exist before that because CASE was implemented differently.
2009-02-24Repair a longstanding bug in CLUSTER and the rewriting variants of ALTERTom Lane
TABLE: if the command is executed by someone other than the table owner (eg, a superuser) and the table has a toast table, the toast table's pg_type row ends up with the wrong typowner, ie, the command issuer not the table owner. This is quite harmless for most purposes, since no interesting permissions checks consult the pg_type row. However, it could lead to unexpected failures if one later tries to drop the role that issued the command (in 8.1 or 8.2), or strange warnings from pg_dump afterwards (in 8.3 and up, which will allow the DROP ROLE because we don't create a "redundant" owner dependency for table rowtypes). Problem identified by Cott Lang. Back-patch to 8.1. The problem is actually far older --- the CLUSTER variant can be demonstrated in 7.0 --- but it's mostly cosmetic before 8.1 because we didn't track ownership dependencies before 8.1. Also, fixing it before 8.1 would require changing the call signature of heap_create_with_catalog(), which seems to carry a nontrivial risk of breaking add-on modules.
2009-01-30tagging 8.1.16REL8_1_16Marc G. Fournier
2009-01-29Translation updatesPeter Eisentraut
2009-01-29Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2009a: introduces Asia/KathmanduTom Lane
as the preferred spelling of that zone name, corrects historical DST information for Switzerland and Cuba.
2009-01-29Replace argument-checking Asserts with regular test-and-elog checks in allTom Lane
encoding conversion functions. These are not can't-happen cases because it's possible to create a conversion with the wrong conversion function for the specified encoding pair. That would lead to an Assert crash in an Assert-enabled build, or incorrect conversion otherwise, neither of which is desirable. This would be a DOS issue if production databases were customarily built with asserts enabled, but fortunately that's not so. Per an observation by Heikki. Back-patch to all supported branches.
2009-01-28Go over all OpenSSL return values and make sure we compare themMagnus Hagander
to the documented API value. The previous code got it right as it's implemented, but accepted too much/too little compared to the API documentation. Per comment from Zdenek Kotala.
2009-01-20Fix erroneous memory context switch in autovacuum, which was returning to aAlvaro Herrera
context long after it had been destroyed. Per problem report from Justin Pasher. Patch by Tom Lane and me. 8.3 and later do not have this bug, because this code has been restructured for unrelated reasons. In 8.2 it does not manifest as a crash, but it still seems safer fixing it nonetheless.
2009-01-06Fix logic in lazy vacuum to decide if it's worth trying to truncate the heap.Heikki Linnakangas
If the table was smaller than REL_TRUNCATE_FRACTION (= 16) pages, we always tried to acquire AccessExclusiveLock on it even if there was no empty pages at the end. Report by Simon Riggs. Back-patch all the way to 7.4.
2008-12-01Ensure that the contents of a holdable cursor don't depend on out-of-lineTom Lane
toasted values, since those could get dropped once the cursor's transaction is over. Per bug #4553 from Andrew Gierth. Back-patch as far as 8.1. The bug actually exists back to 7.4 when holdable cursors were introduced, but this patch won't work before 8.1 without significant adjustments. Given the lack of field complaints, it doesn't seem worth the work (and risk of introducing new bugs) to try to make a patch for the older branches.
2008-11-12In predtest.c, install a limit on the number of branches we will process inTom Lane
AND, OR, or equivalent clauses: if there are too many (more than 100) just exit without proving anything. This ensures that we don't spend O(N^2) time trying (and most likely failing) to prove anything about very long IN lists and similar cases. Also, install a couple of CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS calls to ensure that a long proof attempt can be interrupted. Per gripe from Sergey Konoplev. Back-patch the whole patch to 8.2 and just the CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS addition to 8.1. (The rest of the patch doesn't apply cleanly, and since 8.1 doesn't show the complained-of behavior anyway, it doesn't seem necessary to work hard on it.)
2008-10-31tag 8.1.15REL8_1_15Marc G. Fournier
2008-10-30Translation updatesPeter Eisentraut
2008-10-30Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2008i (DST law changes inTom Lane
Argentina, Brazil, Mauritius, Syria).
2008-10-27Install a more robust solution for the problem of infinite error-processingTom Lane
recursion when we are unable to convert a localized error message to the client's encoding. We've been over this ground before, but as reported by Ibrar Ahmed, it still didn't work in the case of conversion failures for the conversion-failure message itself :-(. Fix by installing a "circuit breaker" that disables attempts to localize this message once we get into recursion trouble. Patch all supported branches, because it is in fact broken in all of them; though I had to add some missing translations to the older branches in order to expose the failure in the particular test case I was using.
2008-10-25Fix an old bug in after-trigger handling: AfterTriggerEndQuery took theTom Lane
address of afterTriggers->query_stack[afterTriggers->query_depth] and hung onto it through all its firings of triggers. However, if a trigger causes sufficiently many nested query executions, query_stack will get repalloc'd bigger, leaving AfterTriggerEndQuery --- and hence afterTriggerInvokeEvents --- using a stale pointer. So far as I can find, the only consequence of this error is to stomp on a couple of words of already-freed memory; which would lead to a failure only if that chunk had already gotten re-allocated for something else. So it's hard to exhibit a simple failure case, but this is surely a bug. I noticed this while working on my recent patch to reduce pending-trigger space usage. The present patch is mighty ugly, because it requires making afterTriggerInvokeEvents know about all the possible event lists it might get called on. Fortunately, this is only needed in back branches because CVS HEAD avoids the problem in a different way: afterTriggerInvokeEvents only touches the passed AfterTriggerEventList pointer once at startup. Back branches are stable enough that wiring in knowledge of all possible call usages doesn't seem like a killer problem. Back-patch to 8.0. 7.4's trigger code is completely different and doesn't seem to have the problem (it doesn't even use repalloc).
2008-10-22Fix GiST's killing tuple: GISTScanOpaque->curpos wasn'tTeodor Sigaev
correctly set. As result, killtuple() marks as dead wrong tuple on page. Bug was introduced by me while fixing possible duplicates during GiST index scan.
2008-10-16Fix SPI_getvalue and SPI_getbinval to range-check the given attribute numberTom Lane
according to the TupleDesc's natts, not the number of physical columns in the tuple. The previous coding would do the wrong thing in cases where natts is different from the tuple's column count: either incorrectly report error when it should just treat the column as null, or actually crash due to indexing off the end of the TupleDesc's attribute array. (The second case is probably not possible in modern PG versions, due to more careful handling of inheritance cases than we once had. But it's still a clear lack of robustness here.) The incorrect error indication is ignored by all callers within the core PG distribution, so this bug has no symptoms visible within the core code, but it might well be an issue for add-on packages. So patch all the way back.
2008-10-10Optional arguments should be optional.Michael Meskes
2008-10-09Fix overly tense optimization of PLpgSQL_func_hashkey: we must representTom Lane
the isTrigger state explicitly, not rely on nonzero-ness of trigrelOid to indicate trigger-hood, because trigrelOid will be left zero when compiling for validation. The (useless) function hash entry built by the validator was able to match an ordinary non-trigger call later in the same session, thereby bypassing the check that is supposed to prevent such a call. Per report from Alvaro. It might be worth suppressing the useless hash entry altogether, but that's a bigger change than I want to consider back-patching. Back-patch to 8.0. 7.4 doesn't have the problem because it doesn't have validation mode.
2008-10-07When a relation is moved to another tablespace, we can't assume that we canHeikki Linnakangas
use the old relfilenode in the new tablespace. There might be another relation in the new tablespace with the same relfilenode, so we must generate a fresh relfilenode in the new tablespace. The 8.3 patch to let deleted relation files linger as zero-length files until the next checkpoint made this more obvious: moving a relation from one table space another, and then back again, caused a collision with the lingering file. Back-patch to 8.1. The issue is present in 8.0 as well, but it doesn't seem worth fixing there, because we didn't have protection from OID collisions after OID wraparound before 8.1. Report by Guillaume Lelarge.
2008-10-02Fix improper display of fractional seconds in interval valuesTom Lane
when using --enable-integer-datetimes and a non-ISO datestyle. Ron Mayer
2008-09-30Recent patches to pg_ctl broke "pg_ctl restart" for the case where noTom Lane
command-line options had been given to the postmaster; and just plain broke it altogether in 8.1 and 8.0. Per report from KaiGai Kohei.
2008-09-24Fix more problems with rewriter failing to set Query.hasSubLinks when insertingTom Lane
a SubLink expression into a rule query. We missed cases where the original query contained a sub-SELECT in a function in FROM, a multi-row VALUES list, or a RETURNING list. Per bug #4434 from Dean Rasheed and subsequent investigation. Back-patch to 8.1; older releases don't have the issue because they didn't try to be smart about setting hasSubLinks only when needed.
2008-09-19tag for 8.1.14REL8_1_14Marc G. Fournier
2008-09-17Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2008f (DST law changes inTom Lane
Argentina, Bahamas, Brazil, Mauritius, Morocco, Pakistan, Palestine, Paraguay).
2008-09-16Widen the nLocks counts in local lock tables from int to int64. ThisTom Lane
forestalls potential overflow when the same table (or other object, but usually tables) is accessed by very many successive queries within a single transaction. Per report from Michael Milligan. Back-patch to 8.0, which is as far back as the patch conveniently applies. There have been no reports of overflow in pre-8.3 releases, but clearly the risk existed all along. (Michael's report suggests that 8.3 may consume lock counts faster than prior releases, but with no test case to look at it's hard to be sure about that. Widening the counts seems a good future-proofing measure in any event.)
2008-09-01Fix plpgsql's exec_move_row() to supply valid type OIDs to exec_assign_value()Tom Lane
whenever possible, as per bug report from Oleg Serov. While at it, reorder the operations in the RECORD case to avoid possible palloc failure while the variable update is only partly complete. Back-patch as far as 8.1. Although the code of the particular function is similar in 8.0, 8.0's support for composite fields in rows is sufficiently broken elsewhere that it doesn't seem worth fixing this.
2008-08-23Fix possible duplicate tuples while GiST scan. Now page is processedTeodor Sigaev
at once and ItemPointers are collected in memory. Remove tuple's killing by killtuple() if tuple was moved to another page - it could produce unaceptable overhead. Backpatch up to 8.1 because the bug was introduced by GiST's concurrency support.
2008-08-16Fix pg_dump/pg_restore's ExecuteSqlCommand() to behave suitably if PQexecTom Lane
returns NULL instead of a PGresult. The former coding would fail, which is OK, but it neglected to give you the PQerrorMessage that might tell you why. In the oldest branches, there was another problem: it'd sometimes report PQerrorMessage from the wrong connection.
2008-08-08Install checks in executor startup to ensure that the tuples produced by anTom Lane
INSERT or UPDATE will match the target table's current rowtype. In pre-8.3 releases inconsistency can arise with stale cached plans, as reported by Merlin Moncure. (We patched the equivalent hazard on the SELECT side in Feb 2007; I'm not sure why we thought there was no risk on the insertion side.) In 8.3 and HEAD this problem should be impossible due to plan cache invalidation management, but it seems prudent to make the check anyway. Back-patch as far as 8.0. 7.x versions lack ALTER COLUMN TYPE, so there seems no way to abuse a stale plan comparably.
2008-08-05Do not allow Unique nodes to be scanned backwards. The code claimed that itTom Lane
would work, but in fact it didn't return the same rows when moving backwards as when moving forwards. This would have no visible effect in a DISTINCT query (at least assuming the column datatypes use a strong definition of equality), but it gave entirely wrong answers for DISTINCT ON queries.
2008-07-28Update 8.1 and 8.0 plpython to work with Python 2.5. This backports severalTom Lane
fixes made during the 8.2 development cycle, but not backported at the time for lack of confidence in the new coding. I didn't touch 7.4 because it has more problems than this: the configure probe for Python fails.
2008-07-10Fix mis-calculation of extParam/allParam sets for plan nodes, as seen inTom Lane
bug #4290. The fundamental bug is that masking extParam by outer_params, as finalize_plan had been doing, caused us to lose the information that an initPlan depended on the output of a sibling initPlan. On reflection the best thing to do seemed to be not to try to adjust outer_params for this case but get rid of it entirely. The only thing it was really doing for us was to filter out param IDs associated with SubPlan nodes, and that can be done (with greater accuracy) while processing individual SubPlan nodes in finalize_primnode. This approach was vindicated by the discovery that the masking method was hiding a second bug: SS_finalize_plan failed to remove extParam bits for initPlan output params that were referenced in the main plan tree (it only got rid of those referenced by other initPlans). It's not clear that this caused any real problems, given the limited use of extParam by the executor, but it's certainly not what was intended. I originally thought that there was also a problem with needing to include indirect dependencies on external params in initPlans' param sets, but it turns out that the executor handles this correctly so long as the depended-on initPlan is earlier in the initPlans list than the one using its output. That seems a bit of a fragile assumption, but it is true at the moment, so I just documented it in some code comments rather than making what would be rather invasive changes to remove the assumption. Back-patch to 8.1. Previous versions don't have the case of initPlans referring to other initPlans' outputs, so while the existing logic is still questionable for them, there are not any known bugs to be fixed. So I'll refrain from changing them for now.
2008-07-08Fix performance bug in write_syslog(): the code to preferentially break theTom Lane
log message at newlines cost O(N^2) for very long messages with few or no newlines. For messages in the megabyte range this became the dominant cost. Per gripe from Achilleas Mantzios. Patch all the way back, since this is a safe change with no portability risks. I am also thinking of increasing PG_SYSLOG_LIMIT, but that should be done separately.
2008-07-07Fix estimate_num_groups() to assume that GROUP BY expressions yielding booleanTom Lane
results always contribute two groups, regardless of the expression contents. This is very substantially more accurate than the regular heuristic for certain boolean tests like "col IS NULL". Per gripe from Sam Mason. Back-patch to all supported releases, since the behavior of estimate_num_groups() hasn't changed all that much since 7.4.
2008-07-07Fix AT TIME ZONE (in all three variants) so that we first try to interpretTom Lane
the timezone argument as a timezone abbreviation, and only try it as a full timezone name if that fails. The zic database has four zones (CET, EET, MET, WET) that are full daylight-savings zones and yet have names that are the same as their abbreviations for standard time, resulting in ambiguity. In the timestamp input functions we resolve the ambiguity by preferring the abbreviation, and AT TIME ZONE should work the same way. (No functionality is lost because the zic database also has other names for these zones, eg Europe/Zurich.) Per gripe from Jaromir Talir. Backpatch to 8.1. Older releases did not have the issue because AT TIME ZONE only accepted abbreviations not zone names. (Thus, this patch also arguably fixes a compatibility botch introduced at 8.1: in ambiguous cases we now behave the same as 8.0 did.)
2008-07-01Fix identify_system_timezone() so that it tests the behavior of the systemTom Lane
timezone setting in the current year and for 100 years back, rather than always examining years 1904-2004. The original coding would have problems distinguishing zones whose behavior diverged only after 2004; which is a situation we will surely face sometime, if it's not out there already. In passing, also prevent selection of the dummy "Factory" timezone, even if that's exactly what the system is using. Reporting time as GMT seems better than that.
2008-06-27Fix 'pg_ctl reload' to properly preserve postmaster commend-lineBruce Momjian
arguments on restart. Patch to releases 8.0 - 8.3.X.
2008-06-17Clean up a number of bogosities around pltcl's handling of the Tcl "result":Tom Lane
1. Directly reading interp->result is deprecated in Tcl 8.0 and later; you're supposed to use Tcl_GetStringResult. This code finally broke with Tcl 8.5, because Tcl_GetVar can now have side-effects on interp->result even though it preserves the logical state of the result. (There's arguably a Tcl issue here, because Tcl_GetVar could invalidate the pointer result of a just-preceding Tcl_GetStringResult, but I doubt the Tcl guys will see it as a bug.) 2. We were being sloppy about the encoding of the result: some places would push database-encoding data into the Tcl result, which should not happen, and we were assuming that any error result coming back from Tcl was in the database encoding, which is not a good assumption. 3. There were a lot of calls of Tcl_SetResult that uselessly specified TCL_VOLATILE for constant strings. This is only a minor performance issue, but I fixed it in passing since I had to look at all the calls anyway. #2 is a live bug regardless of which Tcl version you are interested in, so back-patch even to branches that are unlikely to be used with Tcl 8.5. I went back as far as 8.0, which is as far as the patch applied easily; 7.4 was using a different error processing scheme that has got its own problems :-(
2008-06-10Create a script to handle stamping release version numbers into files,Tom Lane
replacing the tedious and error-prone manual process we've been using.