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2011-04-27Fix array- and path-creating functions to ensure padding bytes are zeroes.Tom Lane
Per recent discussion, it's important for all computed datums (not only the results of input functions) to not contain any ill-defined (uninitialized) bits. Failing to ensure that can result in equal() reporting that semantically indistinguishable Consts are not equal, which in turn leads to bizarre and undesirable planner behavior, such as in a recent example from David Johnston. We might eventually try to fix this in a general manner by allowing datatypes to define identity-testing functions, but for now the path of least resistance is to expect datatypes to force all unused bits into consistent states. Per some testing by Noah Misch, array and path functions seem to be the only ones presenting risks at the moment, so I looked through all the functions in adt/array*.c and geo_ops.c and fixed them as necessary. In the array functions, the easiest/safest fix is to allocate result arrays with palloc0 instead of palloc. Possibly in future someone will want to look into whether we can just zero the padding bytes, but that looks too complex for a back-patchable fix. In the path functions, we already had a precedent in path_in for just zeroing the one known pad field, so duplicate that code as needed. Back-patch to all supported branches.
2011-04-25Fix pg_size_pretty() to avoid overflow for inputs close to INT64_MAX.Tom Lane
The expression that tried to round the value to the nearest TB could overflow, leading to bogus output as reported in bug #5993 from Nicola Cossu. This isn't likely to ever happen in the intended usage of the function (if it could, we'd be needing to use a wider datatype instead); but it's not hard to give the expected output, so let's do so.
2011-04-20Fix bugs in indexing of in-doubt HOT-updated tuples.Tom Lane
If we find a DELETE_IN_PROGRESS HOT-updated tuple, it is impossible to know whether to index it or not except by waiting to see if the deleting transaction commits. If it doesn't, the tuple might again be LIVE, meaning we have to index it. So wait and recheck in that case. Also, we must not rely on ii_BrokenHotChain to decide that it's possible to omit tuples from the index. That could result in omitting tuples that we need, particularly in view of yesterday's fixes to not necessarily set indcheckxmin (but it's broken even without that, as per my analysis today). Since this is just an extremely marginal performance optimization, dropping the test shouldn't hurt. These cases are only expected to happen in system catalogs (they're possible there due to early release of RowExclusiveLock in most catalog-update code paths). Since reindexing of a system catalog isn't a particularly performance-critical operation anyway, there's no real need to be concerned about possible performance degradation from these changes. The worst aspects of this bug were introduced in 9.0 --- 8.x will always wait out a DELETE_IN_PROGRESS tuple. But I think dropping index entries on the strength of ii_BrokenHotChain is dangerous even without that, so back-patch removal of that optimization to 8.3 and 8.4.
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.
2011-04-19Revert "Prevent incorrect updates of pg_index while reindexing pg_index itself."Tom Lane
This reverts commit 2c69fc0596e0b785dcc990d2942be89f01c213fd of 2011-04-15. There's a better way to do it, which will follow shortly.
2011-04-15Prevent incorrect updates of pg_index while reindexing pg_index itself.Tom Lane
The places that attempt to change pg_index.indcheckxmin during a reindexing operation cannot be executed safely if pg_index itself is the subject of the operation. This is the explanation for a couple of recent reports of VACUUM FULL failing with ERROR: duplicate key value violates unique constraint "pg_index_indexrelid_index" DETAIL: Key (indexrelid)=(2678) already exists. However, there isn't any real need to update indcheckxmin in such a situation, if we assume that pg_index can never contain a truly broken HOT chain. This assumption holds if new indexes are never created on it during concurrent operations, which is something we don't consider safe for any system catalog, not just pg_index. Accordingly, modify the code to not manipulate indcheckxmin when reindexing any system catalog. Back-patch to 8.3, where HOT was introduced. The known failure scenarios involve 9.0-style VACUUM FULL, so there might not be any real risk before 9.0, but let's not assume that.
2011-04-15Tag 8.3.15.REL8_3_15Marc G. Fournier
2011-04-14Translation updatesPeter Eisentraut
2011-04-13Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2011f.Tom Lane
DST law changes in Chile, Cuba, Falkland Islands, Morocco, Samoa, Turkey. Historical corrections for South Australia, Alaska, Hawaii.
2011-04-13On IA64 architecture, we check the depth of the register stack in additionHeikki Linnakangas
to the regular stack. The code to do that is platform and compiler specific, add support for the HP-UX native compiler.
2011-04-07Avoid use of mixed slash style paths in arguments to xcopy in MSVC builds.Andrew Dunstan
Some versions of xcopy, notably on Windows 7 don't like it. Backpatch to 8.3, where we first used xcopy.
2011-04-07Modernize dlopen interface code for FreeBSD and OpenBSD.Tom Lane
Remove the hard-wired assumption that __mips__ (and only __mips__) lacks dlopen in FreeBSD and OpenBSD. This assumption is outdated at least for OpenBSD, as per report from an anonymous 9.1 tester. We can perfectly well use HAVE_DLOPEN instead to decide which code to use. Some other cosmetic adjustments to make freebsd.c, netbsd.c, and openbsd.c exactly alike.
2011-04-07Fix SortTocFromFile() to cope with lines that are too long for its buffer.Tom Lane
The original coding supposed that a dump TOC file could never contain lines longer than 1K. The folly of that was exposed by a recent report from Per-Olov Esgard. We only really need to see the first dozen or two bytes of each line, since we're just trying to read off the numeric ID at the start of the line; so there's no need for a particularly huge buffer. What there is a need for is logic to not process continuation bufferloads. Back-patch to all supported branches, since it's always been like this.
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.
2011-03-22Avoid potential deadlock in InitCatCachePhase2().Tom Lane
Opening a catcache's index could require reading from that cache's own catalog, which of course would acquire AccessShareLock on the catalog. So the original coding here risks locking index before heap, which could deadlock against another backend trying to get exclusive locks in the normal order. Because InitCatCachePhase2 is only called when a backend has to start up without a relcache init file, the deadlock was seldom seen in the field. (And by the same token, there's no need to worry about any performance disadvantage; so not much point in trying to distinguish exactly which catalogs have the risk.) Bug report, diagnosis, and patch by Nikhil Sontakke. Additional commentary by me. Back-patch to all supported branches.
2011-03-17Fix PL/Python memory leak involving array slicesAlvaro Herrera
Report and patch from Daniel Popowich, bug #5842 (with some debugging help from Alex Hunsaker)
2011-03-17Use correct PATH separator for Cygwin in pg_regress.c.Andrew Dunstan
This has been broken for years, and I'm not sure why it has not been noticed before, but now a very modern Cygwin breaks on it, and the fix is clearly correct. Backpatching to all live branches.
2011-03-11On further reflection, we'd better do the same in int.c.Tom Lane
We previously heard of the same problem in int24div(), so there's not a good reason to suppose the problem is confined to cases involving int8.
2011-03-11Put in some more safeguards against executing a division-by-zero.Tom Lane
Add dummy returns before every potential division-by-zero in int8.c, because apparently further "improvements" in gcc's optimizer have enabled it to break functions that weren't broken before. Aurelien Jarno, via Martin Pitt
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.
2011-02-15Add CheckTableNotInUse calls in DROP TABLE and DROP INDEX.Tom Lane
Recent releases had a check on rel->rd_refcnt in heap_drop_with_catalog, but failed to cover the possibility of pending trigger events at DROP time. (Before 8.4 we didn't even check the refcnt.) When the trigger events were eventually fired, you'd get "could not open relation with OID nnn" errors, as in recent report from strk. Better to throw a suitable error when the DROP is attempted. Also add a similar check in DROP INDEX. Back-patch to all supported branches.
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
2011-02-01Fix wrong error reports in 'number of array dimensions exceeds theItagaki Takahiro
maximum allowed' messages, that have reported one-less dimensions. Alexey Klyukin
2011-01-27Tag 8.3.14REL8_3_14Marc G. Fournier
2011-01-27Don't include <asm/ia64regs.h> unnecessarily.Tom Lane
We only need that header when compiling with icc, since the gcc variant of ia64_get_bsp() uses in-line assembly code. Per report from Frank Brendel, the header doesn't exist on all IA64 platforms; so don't include it unless we need it.
2011-01-27Translation updates for release 8.3.14Peter Eisentraut
2011-01-21Fix pg_restore to do the right thing when escaping large objects.Tom Lane
Specifically, this makes the workflow pg_dump -Fc -> pg_restore -> file produce correct output for BLOBs when the source database has standard_conforming_strings turned on. It was already okay when that was off, or if pg_restore was told to restore directly into a database. This is a back-port of commit b1732111f233bbb72788e92a627242ec28a85631 of 2009-08-04, with additional changes to emit old-style escaped bytea data instead of hex-style. At the time, we had not heard of anyone encountering the problem in the field, so I judged it not worth the risk of changing back branches. Now we do have a report, from Bosco Rama, so back-patch into 8.2 through 8.4. 9.0 and up are okay already.
2011-01-17Fix miscalculation of itemsafter in array_set_slice().Tom Lane
If the slice to be assigned to was before the existing array lower bound (requiring at least one null element to spring into existence to fill the gap), the code miscalculated how many entries needed to be copied from the old array's null bitmap. This could result in trashing the array's data area (as seen in bug #5840 from Karsten Loesing), or worse. This has been broken since we first allowed the behavior of assigning to non-adjacent slices, in 8.2. Back-patch to all affected versions.
2011-01-11Revert installation of gram.h in 8.3Magnus Hagander
To make the buildfarm green again, since there is no file to copy on msvc, and also given discussion about the necessity of the file at all...
2011-01-09Ensure the directory for gram.h is created on win32Magnus Hagander
Result of bad testing of my last commit.
2011-01-09Properly install gram.h on MSVC buildsMagnus Hagander
This file is now needed by pgAdmin builds, which started failing since it was missing in the installer builds.
2011-01-04Allow older branches to be built with Visual Studio 2008. This is a backport ↵Andrew Dunstan
of commit df0cdd53 to the 8.2, 8.3 and 8.4 branches.
2011-01-04Work around header misdefines in modern Windows SDK when _WIN32_WINNT is ↵Andrew Dunstan
less than 0x0501. Only required for versions 8.2, 8.3 and 8.4., as we defined _WIN32_WINNT as 0x0501 after that.
2010-12-28Ooops, no DATE_IS_NOBEGIN/DATE_IS_NOEND in 8.3 or 8.2 ...Tom Lane
I heard the siren call of git cherry-pick, but should have lashed myself to the mast.
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.
2010-12-19Fix up handling of simple-form CASE with constant test expression.Tom Lane
eval_const_expressions() can replace CaseTestExprs with constants when the surrounding CASE's test expression is a constant. This confuses ruleutils.c's heuristic for deparsing simple-form CASEs, leading to Assert failures or "unexpected CASE WHEN clause" errors. I had put in a hack solution for that years ago (see commit 514ce7a331c5bea8e55b106d624e55732a002295 of 2006-10-01), but bug #5794 from Peter Speck shows that that solution failed to cover all cases. Fortunately, there's a much better way, which came to me upon reflecting that Peter's "CASE TRUE WHEN" seemed pretty redundant: we can "simplify" the simple-form CASE to the general form of CASE, by simply omitting the constant test expression from the rebuilt CASE construct. This is intuitively valid because there is no need for the executor to evaluate the test expression at runtime; it will never be referenced, because any CaseTestExprs that would have referenced it are now replaced by constants. This won't save a whole lot of cycles, since evaluating a Const is pretty cheap, but a cycle saved is a cycle earned. In any case it beats kluging ruleutils.c still further. So this patch improves const-simplification and reverts the previous change in ruleutils.c. Back-patch to all supported branches. The bug exists in 8.1 too, but it's out of warranty.
2010-12-19Fix erroneous parsing of tsquery input "... & !(subexpression) | ..."Tom Lane
After parsing a parenthesized subexpression, we must pop all pending ANDs and NOTs off the stack, just like the case for a simple operand. Per bug #5793. Also fix clones of this routine in contrib/intarray and contrib/ltree, where input of types query_int and ltxtquery had the same problem. Back-patch to all supported versions.
2010-12-15Fix up getopt() reset management so it works on recent mingw.Tom Lane
The mingw people don't appear to care about compatibility with non-GNU versions of getopt, so force use of our own copy of getopt on Windows. Also, ensure that we make use of optreset when using our own copy. Per report from Andrew Dunstan. Back-patch to all versions supported on Windows.
2010-12-13Tag 8.3.13.Marc G. Fournier
2010-12-13Translation updates for release 8.3.13Peter Eisentraut
2010-12-13Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2010o: DST law changes inTom Lane
Fiji and Samoa. Historical corrections for Hong Kong.
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.
2010-12-06Add a stack overflow check to copyObject().Tom Lane
There are some code paths, such as SPI_execute(), where we invoke copyObject() on raw parse trees before doing parse analysis on them. Since the bison grammar is capable of building heavily nested parsetrees while itself using only minimal stack depth, this means that copyObject() can be the front-line function that hits stack overflow before anything else does. Accordingly, it had better have a check_stack_depth() call. I did a bit of performance testing and found that this slows down copyObject() by only a few percent, so the hit ought to be negligible in the context of complete processing of a query. Per off-list report from Toshihide Katayama. Back-patch to all supported branches.
2010-12-01Prevent inlining a SQL function with multiple OUT parameters.Tom Lane
There were corner cases in which the planner would attempt to inline such a function, which would result in a failure at runtime due to loss of information about exactly what the result record type is. Fix by disabling inlining when the function's recorded result type is RECORD. There might be some sub-cases where inlining could still be allowed, but this is a simple and backpatchable fix, so leave refinements for another day. Per bug #5777 from Nate Carson. Back-patch to all supported branches. 8.1 happens to avoid a core-dump here, but it still does the wrong thing.
2010-11-19Fix leakage of cost_limit when multiple autovacuum workers are active.Tom Lane
When using default autovacuum_vac_cost_limit, autovac_balance_cost relied on VacuumCostLimit to contain the correct global value ... but after the first time through in a particular worker process, it didn't, because we'd trashed it in previous iterations. Depending on the state of other autovac workers, this could result in a steady reduction of the effective cost_limit setting as a particular worker processed more and more tables, causing it to go slower and slower. Spotted by Simon Poole (bug #5759). Fix by saving and restoring the GUC variables in the loop in do_autovacuum. In passing, improve a few comments. Back-patch to 8.3 ... the cost rebalancing code has been buggy since it was put in.
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.
2010-11-15Fix aboriginal mistake in plpython's set-returning-function support.Tom Lane
We must stay in the function's SPI context until done calling the iterator that returns the set result. Otherwise, any attempt to invoke SPI features in the python code called by the iterator will malfunction. Diagnosis and patch by Jan Urbanski, per bug report from Jean-Baptiste Quenot. Back-patch to 8.2; there was no support for SRFs in previous versions of plpython.
2010-11-13Add missing outfuncs.c support for struct InhRelation.Tom Lane
This is needed to support debug_print_parse, per report from Jon Nelson. Cursory testing via the regression tests suggests we aren't missing anything else.
2010-11-12Fix old oversight in const-simplification of COALESCE() expressions.Tom Lane
Once we have found a non-null constant argument, there is no need to examine additional arguments of the COALESCE. The previous coding got it right only if the constant was in the first argument position; otherwise it tried to simplify following arguments too, leading to unexpected behavior like this: regression=# select coalesce(f1, 42, 1/0) from int4_tbl; ERROR: division by zero It's a minor corner case, but a bug is a bug, so back-patch all the way.
2010-11-11Fix bug introduced by the recent patch to check that the checkpoint redoHeikki Linnakangas
location read from backup label file can be found: wasShutdown was set incorrectly when a backup label file was found. Jeff Davis, with a little tweaking by me.