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2007-02-02Repair insufficiently careful type checking for SQL-language functions:Tom Lane
we should check that the function code returns the claimed result datatype every time we parse the function for execution. Formerly, for simple scalar result types we assumed the creation-time check was sufficient, but this fails if the function selects from a table that's been redefined since then, and even more obviously fails if check_function_bodies had been OFF. This is a significant security hole: not only can one trivially crash the backend, but with appropriate misuse of pass-by-reference datatypes it is possible to read out arbitrary locations in the server process's memory, which could allow retrieving database content the user should not be able to see. Our thanks to Jeff Trout for the initial report. Security: CVE-2007-0555
2007-01-31Translation updatesPeter Eisentraut
2007-01-30Repair oversights in the mechanism used to store compiled plpgsql functions.Tom Lane
The original coding failed (tried to access deallocated memory) if there were two active call sites (fn_extra pointers) for the same function and the function definition was updated. Also, if an update of a recursive function was detected upon nested entry to the function, the existing compiled version was summarily deallocated, resulting in crash upon return to the outer instance. Problem observed while studying a bug report from Sergiy Vyshnevetskiy. Bug does not exist before 8.1 since older versions just leaked the memory of obsoleted compiled functions, rather than trying to reclaim it.
2007-01-30Add SPI_push/SPI_pop calls so that datatype input and output functions calledTom Lane
by plpgsql can themselves use SPI --- possibly indirectly, as in the case of domain_in() invoking plpgsql functions in a domain check constraint. Per bug #2945 from Sergiy Vyshnevetskiy. Somewhat arbitrarily, I've chosen to back-patch this as far as 8.0. Given the lack of prior complaints, it doesn't seem critical for 7.x.
2007-01-27Correct an old logic error in btree page splitting: when considering a splitTom Lane
exactly at the point where we need to insert a new item, the calculation used the wrong size for the "high key" of the new left page. This could lead to choosing an unworkable split, resulting in "PANIC: failed to add item to the left sibling" (or "right sibling") failure. Although this bug has been there a long time, it's very difficult to trigger a failure before 8.2, since there was generally a lot of free space on both sides of a chosen split. In 8.2, where the user-selected fill factor determines how much free space the code tries to leave, an unworkable split is much more likely. Report by Joe Conway, diagnosis and fix by Heikki Linnakangas.
2007-01-27Back-port changes of Jan 16 and 17 to "revoke" pending fsync requests duringTom Lane
DROP TABLE and DROP DATABASE. Should prevent unexpected "permission denied" failures on Windows, and is cleaner on other platforms too since we no longer have to take it on faith that ENOENT is okay during an fsync attempt. Patched as far back as 8.1; per recent discussion I think we are not going to worry about Windows-specific issues in 8.0 anymore.
2007-01-24Get pg_utf_mblen(), pg_utf2wchar_with_len(), and utf2ucs() all on the sameTom Lane
page about the maximum UTF8 sequence length we support (4 bytes since 8.1, 3 before that). pg_utf2wchar_with_len never got updated to support 4-byte characters at all, and in any case had a buffer-overrun risk in that it could produce multiple pg_wchars from what mblen claims to be just one UTF8 character. The only reason we don't have a major security hole is that most callers allocate worst-case output buffers; the sole exception in released versions appears to be pre-8.2 iwchareq() (ie, ILIKE), which can be crashed due to zeroing out its return address --- but AFAICS that can't be exploited for anything more than a crash, due to inability to control what gets written there. Per report from James Russell and Michael Fuhr. Pre-8.1 the risk is much less, but I still think pg_utf2wchar_with_len's behavior given an incomplete final character risks buffer overrun, so back-patch that logic change anyway. This patch also makes sure that UTF8 sequences exceeding the supported length (whichever it is) are consistently treated as error cases, rather than being treated like a valid shorter sequence in some places.
2007-01-24Relax an Assert() that has been found to be too strict in some situationsTom Lane
involving unions of types having typmods. Variants of the failure are known to occur in 8.1 and up; not sure if it's possible in 8.0 and 7.4, but since the code exists that far back, I'll just patch 'em all. Per report from Brian Hurt.
2007-01-14Fix autovacuum to avoid leaving non-permanent Xids in non-connectableAlvaro Herrera
databases. Apply to the 8.1 branch only, as the new 8.2 (and HEAD) coding does not have this problem.
2007-01-11Fix a performance problem in databases with large numbers of tablesTom Lane
(or other types of pg_class entry): the function pgstat_vacuum_tabstat, invoked during VACUUM startup, had runtime proportional to the number of stats table entries times the number of pg_class rows; in other words O(N^2) if the stats collector's information is reasonably complete. Replace list searching with a hash table to bring it back to O(N) behavior. Per report from kim at myemma.com. Back-patch as far as 8.1; 8.0 and before use different coding here.
2007-01-05Stamp release 8.1.6.Bruce Momjian
2007-01-03Fix regex_fixed_prefix() to cope reasonably well with regex patterns of theTom Lane
form '^(foo)$'. Before, these could never be optimized into indexscans. The recent changes to make psql and pg_dump generate such patterns (for \d commands and -t and related switches, respectively) therefore represented a big performance hit for people with large pg_class catalogs, as seen in recent gripe from Erik Jones. While at it, be more paranoid about case-sensitivity checking in multibyte encodings, and fix some other corner cases in which a regex might be interpreted too liberally.
2006-12-27Modify local buffer management to request memory for local buffers in blocksTom Lane
of increasing size, instead of one at a time. This reduces the memory management overhead when num_temp_buffers is large: in the previous coding we would actually waste 50% of the space used for temp buffers, because aset.c would round the individual requests up to 16K. Problem noted while studying a performance issue reported by Steven Flatt. Back-patch as far as 8.1 --- older versions used few enough local buffers that the issue isn't significant for them.
2006-12-26Repair bug #2839: the various ExecReScan functions need to resetTom Lane
ps_TupFromTlist in plan nodes that make use of it. This was being done correctly in join nodes and Result nodes but not in any relation-scan nodes. Bug would lead to bogus results if a set-returning function appeared in the targetlist of a subquery that could be rescanned after partial execution, for example a subquery within EXISTS(). Bug has been around forever :-( ... surprising it wasn't reported before.
2006-11-28Update timezone data to tzdata2006p zic distribution. It seems WesternTom Lane
Australia decided to institute DST with one month's notice ... way to go, politicians.
2006-11-28Mark to_number() and the numeric-type variants of to_char() as stable, notTom Lane
immutable, because their results depend on lc_numeric; this is a longstanding oversight. We cannot force initdb for this in the back branches, but we can at least provide correct catalog entries for future installations.
2006-11-28Back-patch HEAD's fixes to recognize __ppc64__ as equivalent to __powerpc64__.Tom Lane
Per confirmation from Brian Wipf that this is correct and necessary for Darwin 64-bit.
2006-11-28Add $(CFLAGS) to the simplified build rule for .so libraries on Darwin.Tom Lane
Arguably we should do this on *all* platforms, but for the moment I'll be conservative and just do it where it's demonstrably needed. Per report from Brian Wipf.
2006-11-24Fix psql's \copy command to ensure that it cycles libpq back to the idle stateTom Lane
(in particular, causing the ReadyForQuery message to be eaten) before returning from do_copy. The only known consequence of failing to do so is that get_prompt might show a wrong result for the %x transaction status escape, as reported by Bernd Helmle; but it's possible there are other issues. Back-patch as far as 7.4, the oldest version supporting %x.
2006-11-22Fix 1-byte buffer overrun when OID exceeds 1 billion. This probably can'tTom Lane
cause any serious harm in normal cases, but if you have gcc buffer overrun checking turned on, that will notice. Found by Jack Orenstein. Problem was already fixed in CVS HEAD.
2006-11-20When truncating a relation in-place (eg during VACUUM), do not try to unlinkTom Lane
any no-longer-needed segments; just truncate them to zero bytes and leave the files in place for possible future re-use. This avoids problems when the segments are re-used due to relation growth shortly after truncation. Before, the bgwriter, and possibly other backends, could still be holding open file references to the old segment files, and would write dirty blocks into those files where they'd disappear from the view of other processes. Back-patch as far as 8.0. I believe the 7.x branches are not vulnerable, because they had no bgwriter, and "blind" writes by other backends would always be done via freshly-opened file references.
2006-11-19Repair problems with hash indexes that span multiple segments: the hash code'sTom Lane
preference for filling pages out-of-order tends to confuse the sanity checks in md.c, as per report from Balazs Nagy in bug #2737. The fix is to ensure that the smgr-level code always has the same idea of the logical EOF as the hash index code does, by using ReadBuffer(P_NEW) where we are adding a single page to the end of the index, and using smgrextend() to reserve a large batch of pages when creating a new splitpoint. The patch is a bit ugly because it avoids making any changes in md.c, which seems the most prudent approach for a backpatchable beta-period fix. After 8.3 development opens, I'll take a look at a cleaner but more invasive patch, in particular getting rid of the now unnecessary hack to allow reading beyond EOF in mdread(). Backpatch as far as 7.4. The bug likely exists in 7.3 as well, but because of the magnitude of the 7.3-to-7.4 changes in hash, the later-version patch doesn't even begin to apply. Given the other known bugs in the 7.3-era hash code, it does not seem worth trying to develop a separate patch for 7.3.
2006-11-17Repair two related errors in heap_lock_tuple: it was failing to recognizeTom Lane
cases where we already hold the desired lock "indirectly", either via membership in a MultiXact or because the lock was originally taken by a different subtransaction of the current transaction. These cases must be accounted for to avoid needless deadlocks and/or inappropriate replacement of an exclusive lock with a shared lock. Per report from Clarence Gardner and subsequent investigation.
2006-11-08Applied patch by Peter Harris to free auto_mem struct in ECPGconnect.Michael Meskes
2006-11-06Repair bug #2694 concerning an ARRAY[] construct whose inputs are emptyTom Lane
sub-arrays. Per discussion, if all inputs are empty arrays then result must be an empty array too, whereas a mix of empty and nonempty arrays should (and already did) draw an error. In the back branches, the construct was strict: any NULL input immediately yielded a NULL output; so I left that behavior alone. HEAD was simply ignoring NULL sub-arrays, which doesn't seem very sensible. For lack of a better idea it now treats NULL sub-arrays the same as empty ones.
2006-11-05Fix recently-identified PITR recovery hazard: the base backup could containTom Lane
stale relcache init files (pg_internal.init), and there is no mechanism for updating them during WAL replay. Easiest solution is just to delete the init files at conclusion of startup, and let the first backend started in each database take care of rebuilding the init file. Simon Riggs and Tom Lane. Back-patched to 8.1. Arguably this should be fixed in 8.0 too, but it would require significantly more code since 8.0 has no handy startup-time scan of pg_database to piggyback on. Manual solution of the problem is possible in 8.0 (just delete the pg_internal.init files before starting WAL replay), so that may be a sufficient answer.
2006-11-01Fix "failed to re-find parent key" btree VACUUM failure by tweakingTom Lane
_bt_pagedel to recover from the failure: just search the whole parent level if searching to the right fails. This does nothing for the underlying problem that index keys became out-of-order in the grandparent level. However, we believe that there is no other consequence worse than slightly inefficient searching, so this narrow patch seems like the safest solution for the back branches.
2006-11-01pg_restore failed on tar-format archives if they contained large objectsTom Lane
(blobs) with comments, per bug #2727 from Konstantin Pelepelin. Mea culpa for not having tested this case. Back-patch to 8.1; prior branches don't dump blob comments at all.
2006-10-20Back-patch second version of AIX getaddrinfo fix.Tom Lane
2006-10-19Work around reported problem that AIX's getaddrinfo() doesn't seem to zeroTom Lane
sin_port in the returned IP address struct when servname is NULL. This has been observed to cause failure to bind the stats collection socket, and could perhaps cause other issues too. Per reports from Brad Nicholson and Chris Browne.
2006-10-13Fix infinite sleep and failes of send in Win32.Teodor Sigaev
1) pgwin32_waitforsinglesocket(): WaitForMultipleObjectsEx now called with finite timeout (100ms) in case of FP_WRITE and UDP socket. If timeout occurs then pgwin32_waitforsinglesocket() tries to write empty packet goes to WaitForMultipleObjectsEx again. 2) pgwin32_send(): add loop around WSASend and pgwin32_waitforsinglesocket(). The reason is: for overlapped socket, 'ok' result from pgwin32_waitforsinglesocket() isn't guarantee that socket is still free, it can become busy again and following WSASend call will fail with WSAEWOULDBLOCK error. See http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-10/msg00561.php
2006-10-12Sync 8.1 pg_config.h.in with expected autoheader output (looks likeTom Lane
someone did this manually last time ...)
2006-10-12Fix mishandling of after-trigger state when a SQL function returns multipleTom Lane
rows --- if the surrounding query queued any trigger events between the rows, the events would be fired at the wrong time, leading to bizarre behavior. Per report from Merlin Moncure. This is a simple patch that should solve the problem fully in the back branches, but in HEAD we also need to consider the possibility of queries with RETURNING clauses. Will look into a fix for that separately.
2006-10-11Repair incorrect check for coercion of unknown literal to ANYARRAY, a bugTom Lane
I introduced in 7.4.1 :-(. It's correct to allow unknown to be coerced to ANY or ANYELEMENT, since it's a real-enough data type, but it most certainly isn't an array datatype. This can cause a backend crash but AFAICT is not exploitable as a security hole. Per report from Michael Fuhr. Note: as fixed in HEAD, this changes a constant in the pg_stats view, resulting in a change in the expected regression outputs. The back-branch patches have been hacked to avoid that, so that pre-existing installations won't start failing their regression tests.
2006-10-11CREATE TABLE ... LIKE ... should mark the columns it creates withTom Lane
attislocal = true, since they are not really inherited but merely copied from the original table. I'm not sure if there are any cases where it makes a real difference given the existing uses of the flag, but wrong is wrong. This was fixed in passing in HEAD by the LIKE INCLUDING CONSTRAINTS patch, but never back-patched.
2006-10-10Fix psql \d commands to behave properly when a pattern using regex | is given.Tom Lane
Formerly they'd emit '^foo|bar$' which is wrong because the anchors are parsed as part of the alternatives; must emit '^(foo|bar)$' to get expected behavior. Same as bug found previously in similar_escape(). Already fixed in HEAD, this is just back-porting the part of that patch that was a bug fix.
2006-10-09Stamp releases 7.3.16, 7.4.14, 8.0.9, and 8.1.5.Bruce Momjian
2006-10-09Fix back-branch pg_regress scripts to try the "canonical" expected file if weTom Lane
tried a variant file from resultmap and it didn't match. This is already done in HEAD's C-code version, and is needed because OpenBSD has recently migrated to a more standard handling of float underflow --- see buildfarm results from emu.
2006-10-07Fix ancient oversight in psql's \d pattern processing code: when seeing twoTom Lane
quote chars inside quote marks, should emit one quote *and stay in inquotes mode*. No doubt the lack of reports of this have something to do with the poor documentation of the feature ...
2006-10-07Fix string_to_array() to correctly handle the case where there areTom Lane
overlapping possible matches for the separator string, such as string_to_array('123xx456xxx789', 'xx'). Also, revise the logic of replace(), split_part(), and string_to_array() to avoid O(N^2) work from redundant searches and conversions to pg_wchar format when there are N matches to the separator string. Backpatched the full patch as far as 8.0. 7.4 also has the bug, but the code has diverged a lot, so I just went for a quick-and-dirty fix of the bug itself in that branch.
2006-10-06Fix SysCacheGetAttr() to handle the case where the specified syscache has notTom Lane
been initialized yet. This can happen because there are code paths that call SysCacheGetAttr() on a tuple originally fetched from a different syscache (hopefully on the same catalog) than the one specified in the call. It doesn't seem useful or robust to try to prevent that from happening, so just improve the function to cope instead. Per bug#2678 from Jeff Trout. The specific example shown by Jeff is new in 8.1, but to be on the safe side I'm backpatching 8.0 as well. We could patch 7.x similarly but I think that's probably overkill, given the lack of evidence of old bugs of this ilk.
2006-10-01Fix overly enthusiastic Assert introduced in 8.1: it's expecting aTom Lane
CaseTestExpr, but forgot that the optimizer is sometimes able to replace CaseTestExpr by Const.
2006-09-04Backpatch to 8.1.X fix for to_timestamp() where "PM/AM" specificationBruce Momjian
was eating too much user input, producing incorrect results.
2006-08-31Clean up rather sloppy fix in HEAD for the ancient bug that CREATE CONVERSIONTom Lane
didn't create a dependency from the new conversion to its schema. Back-patch to all supported releases.
2006-08-29Fix mistypingTeodor Sigaev
2006-08-22In new "invalid byte sequence" error hint, call it "error", notBruce Momjian
"failure".
2006-08-22Add hint for "invalid byte sequence for encoding" error message,Bruce Momjian
suggesting review of client_encoding.
2006-08-18Backported buffer overrun from HEADMichael Meskes
2006-08-18Applied the connect patch from HEAD.Michael Meskes
2006-08-14Get rid of "lookahead" functionality in plpgsql's yylex() function,Tom Lane
and instead make the grammar production for the RETURN statement do the heavy lifting. The lookahead idea was copied from the main parser, but it does not work in plpgsql's parser because here gram.y looks explicitly at the scanner's yytext variable, which will be out of sync after a failed lookahead step. A minimal example is create or replace function foo() returns void language plpgsql as ' begin perform return foo bar; end'; which can be seen by testing to deliver "foo foo bar" to the main parser instead of the expected "return foo bar". This isn't a huge bug since RETURN is not found in the main grammar, but it could bite someone who tried to use "return" as an identifier. Back-patch to 8.1. Bug exists further back, but HEAD patch doesn't apply cleanly, and given the lack of field complaints it doesn't seem worth the effort to develop adjusted patches.