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2011-05-26Make decompilation of optimized CASE constructs more robust.Tom Lane
We had some hacks in ruleutils.c to cope with various odd transformations that the optimizer could do on a CASE foo WHEN "CaseTestExpr = RHS" clause. However, the fundamental impossibility of covering all cases was exposed by Heikki, who pointed out that the "=" operator could get replaced by an inlined SQL function, which could contain nearly anything at all. So give up on the hacks and just print the expression as-is if we fail to recognize it as "CaseTestExpr = RHS". (We must cover that case so that decompiled rules print correctly; but we are not under any obligation to make EXPLAIN output be 100% valid SQL in all cases, and already could not do so in some other cases.) This approach requires that we have some printable representation of the CaseTestExpr node type; I used "CASE_TEST_EXPR". Back-patch to all supported branches, since the problem case fails in all.
2011-05-24Avoid uninitialized bits in the result of QTN2QT().Tom Lane
Found with additional valgrind testing. Noah Misch
2011-05-23Lobotomize typmod check in convert_tuples_by_position, back branches only.Tom Lane
convert_tuples_by_position was rejecting attempts to coerce a record field with -1 typmod to the same type with a non-default typmod. This is in fact the "correct" thing to do (since we're just going to do a type relabeling, not invoke any length-conversion cast function); but it results in rejecting valid cases like bug #6020, because the source record's tupdesc is built from Params that don't have typmod assigned. Since that's a regression from previous versions, which accepted this code, we have to do something about it. In HEAD, I've fixed the problem properly by causing the Params to receive the correct typmods; but the potential for incidental behavioral changes seems high enough to make it unattractive to make the same change in released branches. (And it couldn't be fixed that way in 8.4 anyway...) Hence this patch just modifies convert_tuples_by_position to not complain if either the input or the output tupdesc has typmod -1. This is still a shade tighter checking than we did before 9.0, since before that plpgsql failed to consider typmods at all when checking record compatibility. (convert_tuples_by_position is currently used only by plpgsql, so we're not affecting other behavior.) Back-patch to 8.4, since we recently back-ported convert_tuples_by_position into that branch.
2011-05-23Install defenses against overflow in BuildTupleHashTable().Tom Lane
The planner can sometimes compute very large values for numGroups, and in cases where we have no alternative to building a hashtable, such a value will get fed directly to BuildTupleHashTable as its nbuckets parameter. There were two ways in which that could go bad. First, BuildTupleHashTable declared the parameter as "int" but most callers were passing "long"s, so on 64-bit machines undetected overflow could occur leading to a bogus negative value. The obvious fix for that is to change the parameter to "long", which is what I've done in HEAD. In the back branches that seems a bit risky, though, since third-party code might be calling this function. So for them, just put in a kluge to treat negative inputs as INT_MAX. Second, hash_create can go nuts with extremely large requested table sizes (notably, my_log2 becomes an infinite loop for inputs larger than LONG_MAX/2). What seems most appropriate to avoid that is to bound the initial table size request to work_mem. This fixes bug #6035 reported by Daniel Schreiber. Although the reported case only occurs back to 8.4 since it involves WITH RECURSIVE, I think it's a good idea to install the defenses in all supported branches.
2011-05-12Fix write-past-buffer-end in ldapServiceLookup().Tom Lane
The code to assemble ldap_get_values_len's output into a single string wrote the terminating null one byte past where it should. Fix that, and make some other cosmetic adjustments to make the code a trifle more readable and more in line with usual Postgres coding style. Also, free the "result" string when done with it, to avoid a permanent memory leak. Bug report and patch by Albe Laurenz, cosmetic adjustments by me.
2011-05-11Shut down WAL receiver if it's still running at end of recovery. We used toHeikki Linnakangas
just check that it's not running and PANIC if it was, but that can rightfully happen if recovery stops at recovery target.
2011-05-02Fix pull_up_sublinks' failure to handle nested pull-up opportunities.Tom Lane
After finding an EXISTS or ANY sub-select that can be converted to a semi-join or anti-join, we should recurse into the body of the sub-select. This allows cases such as EXISTS-within-EXISTS to be optimized properly. The original coding would leave the lower sub-select as a SubLink, which is no better and often worse than what we can do with a join. Per example from Wayne Conrad. Back-patch to 8.4. There is a related issue in older versions' handling of pull_up_IN_clauses, but they're lame enough anyway about the whole area that it seems not worth the extra work to try to fix.
2011-05-02Catch errors in for loop in makefilePeter Eisentraut
Add "|| exit" so that the rule aborts when a command fails. This is the minimal backpatch version. The fix in head is more elaborate.
2011-05-01Make CLUSTER lock the old table's toast table before copying data.Tom Lane
We must lock out autovacuuming of the old toast table before computing the OldestXmin horizon we will use. Otherwise, autovacuum could start on the toast table later, compute a later OldestXmin horizon, and remove as DEAD toast tuples that we still need (because we think their parent tuples are only RECENTLY_DEAD). Per further thought about bug #5998.
2011-04-29Remove special case for xmin == xmax in HeapTupleSatisfiesVacuum().Tom Lane
VACUUM was willing to remove a committed-dead tuple immediately if it was deleted by the same transaction that inserted it. The idea is that such a tuple could never have been visible to any other transaction, so we don't need to keep it around to satisfy MVCC snapshots. However, there was already an exception for tuples that are part of an update chain, and this exception created a problem: we might remove TOAST tuples (which are never part of an update chain) while their parent tuple stayed around (if it was part of an update chain). This didn't pose a problem for most things, since the parent tuple is indeed dead: no snapshot will ever consider it visible. But MVCC-safe CLUSTER had a problem, since it will try to copy RECENTLY_DEAD tuples to the new table. It then has to copy their TOAST data too, and would fail if VACUUM had already removed the toast tuples. Easiest fix is to get rid of the special case for xmin == xmax. This may delay reclaiming dead space for a little bit in some cases, but it's by far the most reliable way to fix the issue. Per bug #5998 from Mark Reid. Back-patch to 8.3, which is the oldest version with MVCC-safe CLUSTER.
2011-04-29Rewrite pg_size_pretty() to avoid compiler bug.Tom Lane
Convert it to use successive shifts right instead of increasing a divisor. This is probably a tad more efficient than the original coding, and it's nicer-looking than the previous patch because we don't need a special case to avoid overflow in the last branch. But the real reason to do it is to avoid a Solaris compiler bug, as per results from buildfarm member moa.
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.
2011-04-26Complain if pg_hba.conf contains "hostssl" but SSL is disabled.Tom Lane
Most commenters agreed that this is more friendly than silently failing to match the line during actual connection attempts. Also, this will prevent corner cases that might arise when trying to handle such a line when the SSL code isn't turned on. An example is that specifying clientcert=1 in such a line would formerly result in a completely misleading complaint that root.crt wasn't present, as seen in a recent report from Marc-Andre Laverdiere. While we could have instead fixed that specific behavior, it seems likely that we'd have a continuing stream of such bizarre behaviors if we keep on allowing hostssl lines when SSL is disabled. Back-patch to 8.4, where clientcert was introduced. Earlier versions don't have this specific issue, and the code is enough different to make this patch not applicable without more work than it seems worth.
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 use of incorrect constant RemoveRoleFromObjectACL.Robert Haas
This could cause failures when DROP OWNED BY attempt to remove default privileges on sequences. Back-patching to 9.0. Shigeru Hanada
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.
2011-04-20Set indcheckxmin true when REINDEX fixes an invalid or not-ready index.Tom Lane
Per comment from Greg Stark, it's less clear that HOT chains don't conflict with the index than it would be for a valid index. So, let's preserve the former behavior that indcheckxmin does get set when there are potentially-broken HOT chains in this case. This change does not cause any pg_index update that wouldn't have happened anyway, so we're not re-introducing the previous bug with pg_index updates, and surely the case is not significant from a performance standpoint; so let's be as conservative as possible.
2011-04-20Quotes in strings injected into bki file need to escaped. In particular,Heikki Linnakangas
"People's Republic of China" locale on Windows was causing initdb to fail. This fixes bug #5818 reported by yulei. On master, this makes the mapping of "People's Republic of China" to just "China" obsolete. In 9.0 and 8.4, just fix the escaping. Earlier versions didn't have locale names in bki file.
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 a03e3e1fd1d4ecfeb1096aeb7854b717061a75d9 of 2011-04-15. There's a better way to do it, which will follow shortly.
2011-04-19Silence compiler warning about unused variable on Windows.Heikki Linnakangas
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 9.0.4.REL9_0_4Marc G. Fournier
2011-04-14Translation updatesPeter Eisentraut
2011-04-13Ensure mark_dummy_rel doesn't create dangling pointers in RelOptInfos.Tom Lane
When we are doing GEQO join planning, the current memory context is a short-lived context that will be reset at the end of geqo_eval(). However, the RelOptInfos for base relations are set up before that and then re-used across many GEQO cycles. Hence, any code that modifies a baserel during join planning has to be careful not to put pointers to the short-lived context into the baserel struct. mark_dummy_rel got this wrong, leading to easy-to-reproduce-once-you-know-how crashes in 8.4, as reported off-list by Leo Carson of SDSC. Some improvements made in 9.0 make it difficult to demonstrate the crash in 9.0 or HEAD; but there's no doubt that there's still a risk factor here, so patch all branches that have the function. (Note: 8.3 has a similar function, but it's only applied to joinrels and thus is not a hazard.)
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 HP/UX, the structs used by ioctl(SIOCGLIFCONF) are named differentlyHeikki Linnakangas
than on other platforms, and only IPv6 addresses are returned. Because of those two issues, fall back to ioctl(SIOCGIFCONF) on HP/UX, so that it at least compiles and finds IPv4 addresses. This function is currently only used for interpreting samehost/samenet in pg_hba.conf, which isn't that critical.
2011-04-13Revert the patch to check if we've reached end-of-backup also when doingHeikki Linnakangas
crash recovery, and throw an error if not. hubert depesz lubaczewski pointed out that that situation also happens in the crash recovery following a system crash that happens during an online backup. We might want to do something smarter in 9.1, like put the check back for backups taken with pg_basebackup, but that's for another patch.
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.
2011-04-12Don't make "replication" magical as a user name, only as a database name, in ↵Andrew Dunstan
pg_hba.conf. Per gripe from Josh Berkus. Backported from commit ed557a373c406bbb2a1843544ebbd856ca4cac47.
2011-04-12Be more wary of missing statistics in eqjoinsel_semi().Tom Lane
In particular, if we don't have real ndistinct estimates for both sides, fall back to assuming that half of the left-hand rows have join partners. This is what was done in 8.2 and 8.3 (cf nulltestsel() in those versions). It's pretty stupid but it won't lead us to think that an antijoin produces no rows out, as seen in recent example from Uwe Schroeder.
2011-04-10Adjust regression tests on cube and ECPG for MinGW 64 bit compiler.Andrew Dunstan
Backport to 9.0, we're not supporting this compiler on earlier releases.
2011-04-09Backport changes to allow building with MinGW 64 bit compiler.Andrew Dunstan
These changes have been in HEAD for some time with no ill effect. They are only being backported to 9.0, as the required WINNT version was not high enough before that.
2011-04-08Have pg_upgrade properly preserve relfrozenxid in toast tables.Bruce Momjian
This fixes a pg_upgrade bug that could lead to query errors when clog files are improperly removed.
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.
2011-04-02Fix typo in PQconnectStartParams().Tom Lane
This would lead to leaking the PGconn structure after an error detected by conninfo_array_parse(), as well as failing to return a useful error message in such cases. Backpatch to 9.0 where the error was introduced. Joseph Adams
2011-04-01Avoid palloc before CurrentMemoryContext is set up on win32Magnus Hagander
Instead, write the unconverted output - it will be in the wrong encoding, but at least we don't crash. Rushabh Lathia
2011-03-30Check that we've reached end-of-backup also when we're not performingHeikki Linnakangas
archive recovery. It's possible to restore an online backup without recovery.conf, by simply copying all the necessary WAL files to pg_xlog. "pg_basebackup -x" does that too. That's the use case where this cross-check is useful. Backpatch to 9.0. We used to do this in earlier versins, but in 9.0 the code was inadvertently changed so that the check is only performed after archive recovery. Fujii Masao.
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.
2011-03-23Prevent intermittent hang in recovery from bgwriter interaction.Simon Riggs
Startup process waited for cleanup lock but when hot_standby = off the pid was not registered, so that the bgwriter would not wake the waiting process as intended.
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
2011-03-11In ecpg preprocessor, don't try to look up constants in the test forHeikki Linnakangas
variable hiding. A constant is not a variable. It worked in most cases by accident, because we add constants to the global list of variables (why?), but float constants like 1.23 were interpreted as struct field references, and not found. Backpatch to 9.0, where the test for variable hiding was added.
2011-03-08Don't throw a warning if vacuum sees PD_ALL_VISIBLE flag set on a page thatHeikki Linnakangas
contains newly-inserted tuples that according to our OldestXmin are not yet visible to everyone. The value returned by GetOldestXmin() is conservative, and it can move backwards on repeated calls, so if we see that contradiction between the PD_ALL_VISIBLE flag and status of tuples on the page, we have to assume it's because an earlier vacuum calculated a higher OldestXmin value, and all the tuples really are visible to everyone. We have received several reports of this bug, with the "PD_ALL_VISIBLE flag was incorrectly set in relation ..." warning appearing in logs. We were finally able to hunt it down with David Gould's help to run extra diagnostics in an environment where this happened frequently. Also reword the warning, per Robert Haas' suggestion, to not imply that the PD_ALL_VISIBLE flag is necessarily at fault, as it might also be a symptom of corruption on a tuple header. Backpatch to 8.4, where the PD_ALL_VISIBLE flag was introduced.
2011-03-04In initialize_SSL, don't fail unnecessarily when home dir is unavailable.Tom Lane
Instead, just act as though the certificate file(s) are not present. There is only one case where this need be a hard failure condition: when sslmode is verify-ca or verify-full, not having a root cert file is an error. Change the logic so that we complain only in that case, and otherwise fall through cleanly. This is how it used to behave pre-9.0, but my patch 4ed4b6c54e5fab24ab2624d80e26f7546edc88ad of 2010-05-26 broke the case. Per report from Christian Kastner.