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2016-01-09Clean up some lack-of-STRICT issues in the core code, too.Tom Lane
A scan for missed proisstrict markings in the core code turned up these functions: brin_summarize_new_values pg_stat_reset_single_table_counters pg_stat_reset_single_function_counters pg_create_logical_replication_slot pg_create_physical_replication_slot pg_drop_replication_slot The first three of these take OID, so a null argument will normally look like a zero to them, resulting in "ERROR: could not open relation with OID 0" for brin_summarize_new_values, and no action for the pg_stat_reset_XXX functions. The other three will dump core on a null argument, though this is mitigated by the fact that they won't do so until after checking that the caller is superuser or has rolreplication privilege. In addition, the pg_logical_slot_get/peek[_binary]_changes family was intentionally marked nonstrict, but failed to make nullness checks on all the arguments; so again a null-pointer-dereference crash is possible but only for superusers and rolreplication users. Add the missing ARGISNULL checks to the latter functions, and mark the former functions as strict in pg_proc. Make that change in the back branches too, even though we can't force initdb there, just so that installations initdb'd in future won't have the issue. Since none of these bugs rise to the level of security issues (and indeed the pg_stat_reset_XXX functions hardly misbehave at all), it seems sufficient to do this. In addition, fix some order-of-operations oddities in the slot_get_changes family, mostly cosmetic, but not the part that moves the function's last few operations into the PG_TRY block. As it stood, there was significant risk for an error to exit without clearing historical information from the system caches. The slot_get_changes bugs go back to 9.4 where that code was introduced. Back-patch appropriate subsets of the pg_proc changes into all active branches, as well.
2016-01-09Clean up code for widget_in() and widget_out().Tom Lane
Given syntactically wrong input, widget_in() could call atof() with an indeterminate pointer argument, typically leading to a crash; or if it didn't do that, it might return a NULL pointer, which again would lead to a crash since old-style C functions aren't supposed to do things that way. Fix that by correcting the off-by-one syntax test and throwing a proper error rather than just returning NULL. Also, since widget_in and widget_out have been marked STRICT for a long time, their tests for null inputs are just dead code; remove 'em. In the oldest branches, also improve widget_out to use snprintf not sprintf, just to be sure. In passing, get rid of a long-since-useless sprintf into a local buffer that nothing further is done with, and make some other minor coding style cleanups. In the intended regression-testing usage of these functions, none of this is very significant; but if the regression test database were left around in a production installation, these bugs could amount to a minor security hazard. Piotr Stefaniak, Michael Paquier, and Tom Lane
2016-01-09Add STRICT to some C functions created by the regression tests.Tom Lane
These functions readily crash when passed a NULL input value. The tests themselves do not pass NULL values to them; but when the regression database is used as a basis for fuzz testing, they cause a lot of noise. Also, if someone were to leave a regression database lying about in a production installation, these would create a minor security hazard. Andreas Seltenreich
2016-01-07Fix unobvious interaction between -X switch and subdirectory creation.Tom Lane
Turns out the only reason initdb -X worked is that pg_mkdir_p won't whine if you point it at something that's a symlink to a directory. Otherwise, the attempt to create pg_xlog/ just like all the other subdirectories would have failed. Let's be a little more explicit about what's happening. Oversight in my patch for bug #13853 (mea culpa for not testing -X ...)
2016-01-07Use plain mkdir() not pg_mkdir_p() to create subdirectories of PGDATA.Tom Lane
When we're creating subdirectories of PGDATA during initdb, we know darn well that the parent directory exists (or should exist) and that the new subdirectory doesn't (or shouldn't). There is therefore no need to use anything more complicated than mkdir(). Using pg_mkdir_p() just opens us up to unexpected failure modes, such as the one exhibited in bug #13853 from Nuri Boardman. It's not very clear why pg_mkdir_p() went wrong there, but it is clear that we didn't need to be trying to create parent directories in the first place. We're not even saving any code, as proven by the fact that this patch nets out at minus five lines. Since this is a response to a field bug report, back-patch to all branches.
2016-01-07Windows: Make pg_ctl reliably detect service statusAlvaro Herrera
pg_ctl is using isatty() to verify whether the process is running in a terminal, and if not it sends its output to Windows' Event Log ... which does the wrong thing when the output has been redirected to a pipe, as reported in bug #13592. To fix, make pg_ctl use the code we already have to detect service-ness: in the master branch, move src/backend/port/win32/security.c to src/port (with suitable tweaks so that it runs properly in backend and frontend environments); pg_ctl already has access to pgport so it Just Works. In older branches, that's likely to cause trouble, so instead duplicate the required code in pg_ctl.c. Author: Michael Paquier Bug report and diagnosis: Egon Kocjan Backpatch: all supported branches
2016-01-04Fix treatment of *lpNumberOfBytesRecvd == 0: that's a completion condition.Tom Lane
pgwin32_recv() has treated a non-error return of zero bytes from WSARecv() as being a reason to block ever since the current implementation was introduced in commit a4c40f140d23cefb. However, so far as one can tell from Microsoft's documentation, that is just wrong: what it means is graceful connection closure (in stream protocols) or receipt of a zero-length message (in message protocols), and neither case should result in blocking here. The only reason the code worked at all was that control then fell into the retry loop, which did *not* treat zero bytes specially, so we'd get out after only wasting some cycles. But as of 9.5 we do not normally reach the retry loop and so the bug is exposed, as reported by Shay Rojansky and diagnosed by Andres Freund. Remove the unnecessary test on the byte count, and rearrange the code in the retry loop so that it looks identical to the initial sequence. Back-patch of commit 90e61df8130dc7051a108ada1219fb0680cb3eb6. The original plan was to apply this only to 9.5 and up, but after discussion and buildfarm testing, it seems better to back-patch. The noblock code path has been at risk of this problem since it was introduced (in 9.0); if it did happen in pre-9.5 branches, the symptom would be that a walsender would wait indefinitely rather than noticing a loss of connection. While we lack proof that the case has been seen in the field, it seems possible that it's happened without being reported.
2016-01-02Teach pg_dump to quote reloption values safely.Tom Lane
Commit c7e27becd2e6eb93 fixed this on the backend side, but we neglected the fact that several code paths in pg_dump were printing reloptions values that had not gotten massaged by ruleutils. Apply essentially the same quoting logic in those places, too.
2016-01-02Fix overly-strict assertions in spgtextproc.c.Tom Lane
spg_text_inner_consistent is capable of reconstructing an empty string to pass down to the next index level; this happens if we have an empty string coming in, no prefix, and a dummy node label. (In practice, what is needed to trigger that is insertion of a whole bunch of empty-string values.) Then, we will arrive at the next level with in->level == 0 and a non-NULL (but zero length) in->reconstructedValue, which is valid but the Assert tests weren't expecting it. Per report from Andreas Seltenreich. This has no impact in non-Assert builds, so should not be a problem in production, but back-patch to all affected branches anyway. In passing, remove a couple of useless variable initializations and shorten the code by not duplicating DatumGetPointer() calls.
2016-01-01Teach flatten_reloptions() to quote option values safely.Tom Lane
flatten_reloptions() supposed that it didn't really need to do anything beyond inserting commas between reloption array elements. However, in principle the value of a reloption could be nearly anything, since the grammar allows a quoted string there. Any restrictions on it would come from validity checking appropriate to the particular option, if any. A reloption value that isn't a simple identifier or number could thus lead to dump/reload failures due to syntax errors in CREATE statements issued by pg_dump. We've gotten away with not worrying about this so far with the core-supported reloptions, but extensions might allow reloption values that cause trouble, as in bug #13840 from Kouhei Sutou. To fix, split the reloption array elements explicitly, and then convert any value that doesn't look like a safe identifier to a string literal. (The details of the quoting rule could be debated, but this way is safe and requires little code.) While we're at it, also quote reloption names if they're not safe identifiers; that may not be a likely problem in the field, but we might as well try to be bulletproof here. It's been like this for a long time, so back-patch to all supported branches. Kouhei Sutou, adjusted some by me
2016-01-01Add some more defenses against silly estimates to gincostestimate().Tom Lane
A report from Andy Colson showed that gincostestimate() was not being nearly paranoid enough about whether to believe the statistics it finds in the index metapage. The problem is that the metapage stats (other than the pending-pages count) are only updated by VACUUM, and in the worst case could still reflect the index's original empty state even when it has grown to many entries. We attempted to deal with that by scaling up the stats to match the current index size, but if nEntries is zero then scaling it up still gives zero. Moreover, the proportion of pages that are entry pages vs. data pages vs. pending pages is unlikely to be estimated very well by scaling if the index is now orders of magnitude larger than before. We can improve matters by expanding the use of the rule-of-thumb estimates I introduced in commit 7fb008c5ee59b040: if the index has grown by more than a cutoff amount (here set at 4X growth) since VACUUM, then use the rule-of-thumb numbers instead of scaling. This might not be exactly right but it seems much less likely to produce insane estimates. I also improved both the scaling estimate and the rule-of-thumb estimate to account for numPendingPages, since it's reasonable to expect that that is accurate in any case, and certainly pages that are in the pending list are not either entry or data pages. As a somewhat separate issue, adjust the estimation equations that are concerned with extra fetches for partial-match searches. These equations suppose that a fraction partialEntries / numEntries of the entry and data pages will be visited as a consequence of a partial-match search. Now, it's physically impossible for that fraction to exceed one, but our estimate of partialEntries is mostly bunk, and our estimate of numEntries isn't exactly gospel either, so we could arrive at a silly value. In the example presented by Andy we were coming out with a value of 100, leading to insane cost estimates. Clamp the fraction to one to avoid that. Like the previous patch, back-patch to all supported branches; this problem can be demonstrated in one form or another in all of them.
2015-12-28Fix translation domain in pg_basebackupAlvaro Herrera
For some reason, we've been overlooking the fact that pg_receivexlog and pg_recvlogical are using wrong translation domains all along, so their output hasn't ever been translated. The right domain is pg_basebackup, not their own executable names. Noticed by Ioseph Kim, who's been working on the Korean translation. Backpatch pg_receivexlog to 9.2 and pg_recvlogical to 9.4.
2015-12-21Rework internals of changing a type's ownershipAlvaro Herrera
This is necessary so that REASSIGN OWNED does the right thing with composite types, to wit, that it also alters ownership of the type's pg_class entry -- previously, the pg_class entry remained owned by the original user, which caused later other failures such as the new owner's inability to use ALTER TYPE to rename an attribute of the affected composite. Also, if the original owner is later dropped, the pg_class entry becomes owned by a non-existant user which is bogus. To fix, create a new routine AlterTypeOwner_oid which knows whether to pass the request to ATExecChangeOwner or deal with it directly, and use that in shdepReassignOwner rather than calling AlterTypeOwnerInternal directly. AlterTypeOwnerInternal is now simpler in that it only modifies the pg_type entry and recurses to handle a possible array type; higher-level tasks are handled by either AlterTypeOwner directly or AlterTypeOwner_oid. I took the opportunity to add a few more objects to the test rig for REASSIGN OWNED, so that more cases are exercised. Additional ones could be added for superuser-only-ownable objects (such as FDWs and event triggers) but I didn't want to push my luck by adding a new superuser to the tests on a backpatchable bug fix. Per bug #13666 reported by Chris Pacejo. This is a backpatch of commit 756e7b4c9db1 to branches 9.1 -- 9.4.
2015-12-21some bullshitAlvaro Herrera
2015-12-21adjust ACL owners for REASSIGN and ALTER OWNER TOAlvaro Herrera
When REASSIGN and ALTER OWNER TO are used, both the object owner and ACL list should be changed from the old owner to the new owner. This patch fixes types, foreign data wrappers, and foreign servers to change their ACL list properly; they already changed owners properly. Report by Alexey Bashtanov This is a backpatch of commit 59367fdf97c (for bug #9923) by Bruce Momjian to branches 9.1 - 9.4; it wasn't backpatched originally out of concerns that it would create a backwards compatibility problem, but per discussion related to bug #13666 that turns out to have been misguided. (Therefore, the entry in the 9.5 release notes should be removed.) Note that 9.1 didn't have privileges on types (which were introduced by commit 729205571e81), so this commit only changes foreign-data related objects in that branch. Discussion: http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20151216224004.GL2618@alvherre.pgsql http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/10227.1450373793@sss.pgh.pa.us
2015-12-20Remove silly completion for "DELETE FROM tabname ...".Tom Lane
psql offered USING, WHERE, and SET in this context, but SET is not a valid possibility here. Seems to have been a thinko in commit f5ab0a14ea83eb6c which added DELETE's USING option.
2015-12-17Fix improper initialization order for readline.Tom Lane
Turns out we must set rl_basic_word_break_characters *before* we call rl_initialize() the first time, because it will quietly copy that value elsewhere --- but only on the first call. (Love these undocumented dependencies.) I broke this yesterday in commit 2ec477dc8108339d; like that commit, back-patch to all active branches. Per report from Pavel Stehule.
2015-12-16Cope with Readline's failure to track SIGWINCH events outside of input.Tom Lane
It emerges that libreadline doesn't notice terminal window size change events unless they occur while collecting input. This is easy to stumble over if you resize the window while using a pager to look at query output, but it can be demonstrated without any pager involvement. The symptom is that queries exceeding one line are misdisplayed during subsequent input cycles, because libreadline has the wrong idea of the screen dimensions. The safest, simplest way to fix this is to call rl_reset_screen_size() just before calling readline(). That causes an extra ioctl(TIOCGWINSZ) for every command; but since it only happens when reading from a tty, the performance impact should be negligible. A more valid objection is that this still leaves a tiny window during entry to readline() wherein delivery of SIGWINCH will be missed; but the practical consequences of that are probably negligible. In any case, there doesn't seem to be any good way to avoid the race, since readline exposes no functions that seem safe to call from a generic signal handler --- rl_reset_screen_size() certainly isn't. It turns out that we also need an explicit rl_initialize() call, else rl_reset_screen_size() dumps core when called before the first readline() call. rl_reset_screen_size() is not present in old versions of libreadline, so we need a configure test for that. (rl_initialize() is present at least back to readline 4.0, so we won't bother with a test for it.) We would need a configure test anyway since libedit's emulation of libreadline doesn't currently include such a function. Fortunately, libedit seems not to have any corresponding bug. Merlin Moncure, adjusted a bit by me
2015-12-14Add missing CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS in lseg_inside_polyAlvaro Herrera
Apparently, there are bugs in this code that cause it to loop endlessly. That bug still needs more research, but in the meantime it's clear that the loop is missing a check for interrupts so that it can be cancelled timely. Backpatch to 9.1 -- this has been missing since 49475aab8d0d.
2015-12-14Fix out-of-memory error handling in ParameterDescription message processing.Heikki Linnakangas
If libpq ran out of memory while constructing the result set, it would hang, waiting for more data from the server, which might never arrive. To fix, distinguish between out-of-memory error and not-enough-data cases, and give a proper error message back to the client on OOM. There are still similar issues in handling COPY start messages, but let's handle that as a separate patch. Michael Paquier, Amit Kapila and me. Backpatch to all supported versions.
2015-12-14Correct statement to actually be the intended assert statement.Andres Freund
e3f4cfc7 introduced a LWLockHeldByMe() call, without the corresponding Assert() surrounding it. Spotted by Coverity. Backpatch: 9.1+, like the previous commit
2015-12-12Fix ALTER TABLE ... SET TABLESPACE for unlogged relations.Andres Freund
Changing the tablespace of an unlogged relation did not WAL log the creation and content of the init fork. Thus, after a standby is promoted, unlogged relation cannot be accessed anymore, with errors like: ERROR: 58P01: could not open file "pg_tblspc/...": No such file or directory Additionally the init fork was not synced to disk, independent of the configured wal_level, a relatively small durability risk. Investigation of that problem also brought to light that, even for permanent relations, the creation of !main forks was not WAL logged, i.e. no XLOG_SMGR_CREATE record were emitted. That mostly turns out not to be a problem, because these files were created when the actual relation data is copied; nonexistent files are not treated as an error condition during replay. But that doesn't work for empty files, and generally feels a bit haphazard. Luckily, outside init and main forks, empty forks don't occur often or are not a problem. Add the required WAL logging and syncing to disk. Reported-By: Michael Paquier Author: Michael Paquier and Andres Freund Discussion: 20151210163230.GA11331@alap3.anarazel.de Backpatch: 9.1, where unlogged relations were introduced
2015-12-11Add an expected-file to match behavior of latest libxml2.Tom Lane
Recent releases of libxml2 do not provide error context reports for errors detected at the very end of the input string. This appears to be a bug, or at least an infelicity, introduced by the fix for libxml2's CVE-2015-7499. We can hope that this behavioral change will get undone before too long; but the security patch is likely to spread a lot faster/further than any follow-on cleanup, which means this behavior is likely to be present in the wild for some time to come. As a stopgap, add a variant regression test expected-file that matches what you get with a libxml2 that acts this way.
2015-12-11For REASSIGN OWNED for foreign user mappingsAlvaro Herrera
As reported in bug #13809 by Alexander Ashurkov, the code for REASSIGN OWNED hadn't gotten word about user mappings. Deal with them in the same way default ACLs do, which is to ignore them altogether; they are handled just fine by DROP OWNED. The other foreign object cases are already handled correctly by both commands. Also add a REASSIGN OWNED statement to foreign_data test to exercise the foreign data objects. (The changes are just before the "cleanup" phase, so it shouldn't remove any existing live test.) Reported by Alexander Ashurkov, then independently by Jaime Casanova.
2015-12-10Fix bug leading to restoring unlogged relations from empty files.Andres Freund
At the end of crash recovery, unlogged relations are reset to the empty state, using their init fork as the template. The init fork is copied to the main fork without going through shared buffers. Unfortunately WAL replay so far has not necessarily flushed writes from shared buffers to disk at that point. In normal crash recovery, and before the introduction of 'fast promotions' in fd4ced523 / 9.3, the END_OF_RECOVERY checkpoint flushes the buffers out in time. But with fast promotions that's not the case anymore. To fix, force WAL writes targeting the init fork to be flushed immediately (using the new FlushOneBuffer() function). In 9.5+ that flush can centrally be triggered from the code dealing with restoring full page writes (XLogReadBufferForRedoExtended), in earlier releases that responsibility is in the hands of XLOG_HEAP_NEWPAGE's replay function. Backpatch to 9.1, even if this currently is only known to trigger in 9.3+. Flushing earlier is more robust, and it is advantageous to keep the branches similar. Typical symptoms of this bug are errors like 'ERROR: index "..." contains unexpected zero page at block 0' shortly after promoting a node. Reported-By: Thom Brown Author: Andres Freund and Michael Paquier Discussion: 20150326175024.GJ451@alap3.anarazel.de Backpatch: 9.1-
2015-12-10Accept flex > 2.5.x on Windows, too.Tom Lane
Commit 32f15d05c fixed this in configure, but missed the similar check in the MSVC scripts. Michael Paquier, per report from Victor Wagner
2015-12-01Make gincostestimate() cope with hypothetical GIN indexes.Tom Lane
We tried to fetch statistics data from the index metapage, which does not work if the index isn't actually present. If the index is hypothetical, instead extrapolate some plausible internal statistics based on the index page count provided by the index-advisor plugin. There was already some code in gincostestimate() to invent internal stats in this way, but since it was only meant as a stopgap for pre-9.1 GIN indexes that hadn't been vacuumed since upgrading, it was pretty crude. If we want it to support index advisors, we should try a little harder. A small amount of testing says that it's better to estimate the entry pages as 90% of the index, not 100%. Also, estimating the number of entries (keys) as equal to the heap tuple count could be wildly wrong in either direction. Instead, let's estimate 100 entries per entry page. Perhaps someday somebody will want the index advisor to be able to provide these numbers more directly, but for the moment this should serve. Problem report and initial patch by Julien Rouhaud; modified by me to invent less-bogus internal statistics. Back-patch to all supported branches, since we've supported index advisors since 9.0.
2015-12-01Use "g" not "f" format in ecpg's PGTYPESnumeric_from_double().Tom Lane
The previous coding could overrun the provided buffer size for a very large input, or lose precision for a very small input. Adopt the methodology that's been in use in the equivalent backend code for a long time. Per private report from Bas van Schaik. Back-patch to all supported branches.
2015-11-26Fix failure to consider failure cases in GetComboCommandId().Tom Lane
Failure to initially palloc the comboCids array, or to realloc it bigger when needed, left combocid's data structures in an inconsistent state that would cause trouble if the top transaction continues to execute. Noted while examining a user complaint about the amount of memory used for this. (There's not much we can do about that, but it does point up that repalloc failure has a non-negligible chance of occurring here.) In HEAD/9.5, also avoid possible invocation of memcpy() with a null pointer in SerializeComboCIDState; cf commit 13bba0227.
2015-11-25Be more paranoid about null return values from libpq status functions.Tom Lane
PQhost() can return NULL in non-error situations, namely when a Unix-socket connection has been selected by default. That behavior is a tad debatable perhaps, but for the moment we should make sure that psql copes with it. Unfortunately, do_connect() failed to: it could pass a NULL pointer to strcmp(), resulting in crashes on most platforms. This was reported as a security issue by ChenQin of Topsec Security Team, but the consensus of the security list is that it's just a garden-variety bug with no security implications. For paranoia's sake, I made the keep_password test not trust PQuser or PQport either, even though I believe those will never return NULL given a valid PGconn. Back-patch to all supported branches.
2015-11-23Fix Windows builds in back branches.Tom Lane
I missed adding src/port/tar.c to the Windows build files when back-patching the addition of that file to 9.2 and 9.1. Per buildfarm.
2015-11-21Adopt the GNU convention for handling tar-archive members exceeding 8GB.Tom Lane
The POSIX standard for tar headers requires archive member sizes to be printed in octal with at most 11 digits, limiting the representable file size to 8GB. However, GNU tar and apparently most other modern tars support a convention in which oversized values can be stored in base-256, allowing any practical file to be a tar member. Adopt this convention to remove two limitations: * pg_dump with -Ft output format failed if the contents of any one table exceeded 8GB. * pg_basebackup failed if the data directory contained any file exceeding 8GB. (This would be a fatal problem for installations configured with a table segment size of 8GB or more, and it has also been seen to fail when large core dump files exist in the data directory.) File sizes under 8GB are still printed in octal, so that no compatibility issues are created except in cases that would have failed entirely before. In addition, this patch fixes several bugs in the same area: * In 9.3 and later, we'd defined tarCreateHeader's file-size argument as size_t, which meant that on 32-bit machines it would write a corrupt tar header for file sizes between 4GB and 8GB, even though no error was raised. This broke both "pg_dump -Ft" and pg_basebackup for such cases. * pg_restore from a tar archive would fail on tables of size between 4GB and 8GB, on machines where either "size_t" or "unsigned long" is 32 bits. This happened even with an archive file not affected by the previous bug. * pg_basebackup would fail if there were files of size between 4GB and 8GB, even on 64-bit machines. * In 9.3 and later, "pg_basebackup -Ft" failed entirely, for any file size, on 64-bit big-endian machines. In view of these potential data-loss bugs, back-patch to all supported branches, even though removal of the documented 8GB limit might otherwise be considered a new feature rather than a bug fix.
2015-11-20Fix handling of inherited check constraints in ALTER COLUMN TYPE (again).Tom Lane
The previous way of reconstructing check constraints was to do a separate "ALTER TABLE ONLY tab ADD CONSTRAINT" for each table in an inheritance hierarchy. However, that way has no hope of reconstructing the check constraints' own inheritance properties correctly, as pointed out in bug #13779 from Jan Dirk Zijlstra. What we should do instead is to do a regular "ALTER TABLE", allowing recursion, at the topmost table that has a particular constraint, and then suppress the work queue entries for inherited instances of the constraint. Annoyingly, we'd tried to fix this behavior before, in commit 5ed6546cf, but we failed to notice that it wasn't reconstructing the pg_constraint field values correctly. As long as I'm touching pg_get_constraintdef_worker anyway, tweak it to always schema-qualify the target table name; this seems like useful backup to the protections installed by commit 5f173040. In HEAD/9.5, get rid of get_constraint_relation_oids, which is now unused. (I could alternatively have modified it to also return conislocal, but that seemed like a pretty single-purpose API, so let's not pretend it has some other use.) It's unused in the back branches as well, but I left it in place just in case some third-party code has decided to use it. In HEAD/9.5, also rename pg_get_constraintdef_string to pg_get_constraintdef_command, as the previous name did nothing to explain what that entry point did differently from others (and its comment was equally useless). Again, that change doesn't seem like material for back-patching. I did a bit of re-pgindenting in tablecmds.c in HEAD/9.5, as well. Otherwise, back-patch to all supported branches.
2015-11-17Fix possible internal overflow in numeric division.Tom Lane
div_var_fast() postpones propagating carries in the same way as mul_var(), so it has the same corner-case overflow risk we fixed in 246693e5ae8a36f0, namely that the size of the carries has to be accounted for when setting the threshold for executing a carry propagation step. We've not devised a test case illustrating the brokenness, but the required fix seems clear enough. Like the previous fix, back-patch to all active branches. Dean Rasheed
2015-11-15Fix ruleutils.c's dumping of whole-row Vars in ROW() and VALUES() contexts.Tom Lane
Normally ruleutils prints a whole-row Var as "foo.*". We already knew that that doesn't work at top level of a SELECT list, because the parser would treat the "*" as a directive to expand the reference into separate columns, not a whole-row Var. However, Joshua Yanovski points out in bug #13776 that the same thing happens at top level of a ROW() construct; and some nosing around in the parser shows that the same is true in VALUES(). Hence, apply the same workaround already devised for the SELECT-list case, namely to add a forced cast to the appropriate rowtype in these cases. (The alternative of just printing "foo" was rejected because it is difficult to avoid ambiguity against plain columns named "foo".) Back-patch to all supported branches.
2015-11-14PL/Python: Make tests pass with Python 3.5Peter Eisentraut
The error message wording for AttributeError has changed in Python 3.5. For the plpython_error test, add a new expected file. In the plpython_subtransaction test, we didn't really care what the exception is, only that it is something coming from Python. So use a generic exception instead, which has a message that doesn't vary across versions.
2015-11-08Don't connect() to a wildcard address in test_postmaster_connection().Noah Misch
At least OpenBSD, NetBSD, and Windows don't support it. This repairs pg_ctl for listen_addresses='0.0.0.0' and listen_addresses='::'. Since pg_ctl prefers to test a Unix-domain socket, Windows users are most likely to need this change. Back-patch to 9.1 (all supported versions). This could change pg_ctl interaction with loopback-interface firewall rules. Therefore, in 9.4 and earlier (released branches), activate the change only on known-affected platforms. Reported (bug #13611) and designed by Kondo Yuta.
2015-11-07Fix enforcement of restrictions inside regexp lookaround constraints.Tom Lane
Lookahead and lookbehind constraints aren't allowed to contain backrefs, and parentheses within them are always considered non-capturing. Or so says the manual. But the regexp parser forgot about these rules once inside a parenthesized subexpression, so that constructs like (\w)(?=(\1)) were accepted (but then not correctly executed --- a case like this acted like (\w)(?=\w), without any enforcement that the two \w's match the same text). And in (?=((foo))) the innermost parentheses would be counted as capturing parentheses, though no text would ever be captured for them. To fix, properly pass down the "type" argument to the recursive invocation of parse(). Back-patch to all supported branches; it was agreed that silent misexecution of such patterns is worse than throwing an error, even though new errors in minor releases are generally not desirable.
2015-10-31Fix serialization anomalies due to race conditions on INSERT.Kevin Grittner
On insert the CheckForSerializableConflictIn() test was performed before the page(s) which were going to be modified had been locked (with an exclusive buffer content lock). If another process acquired a relation SIReadLock on the heap and scanned to a page on which an insert was going to occur before the page was so locked, a rw-conflict would be missed, which could allow a serialization anomaly to be missed. The window between the check and the page lock was small, so the bug was generally not noticed unless there was high concurrency with multiple processes inserting into the same table. This was reported by Peter Bailis as bug #11732, by Sean Chittenden as bug #13667, and by others. The race condition was eliminated in heap_insert() by moving the check down below the acquisition of the buffer lock, which had been the very next statement. Because of the loop locking and unlocking multiple buffers in heap_multi_insert() a check was added after all inserts were completed. The check before the start of the inserts was left because it might avoid a large amount of work to detect a serialization anomaly before performing the all of the inserts and the related WAL logging. While investigating this bug, other SSI bugs which were even harder to hit in practice were noticed and fixed, an unnecessary check (covered by another check, so redundant) was removed from heap_update(), and comments were improved. Back-patch to all supported branches. Kevin Grittner and Thomas Munro
2015-10-20Fix back-patch of commit 8e3b4d9d40244c037bbc6e182ea3fabb9347d482.Noah Misch
master emits an extra context message compared to 9.5 and earlier.
2015-10-20Eschew "RESET statement_timeout" in tests.Noah Misch
Instead, use transaction abort. Given an unlucky bout of latency, the timeout would cancel the RESET itself. Buildfarm members gharial, lapwing, mereswine, shearwater, and sungazer witness that. Back-patch to 9.1 (all supported versions). The query_canceled test still could timeout before entering its subtransaction; for whatever reason, that has yet to happen on the buildfarm.
2015-10-19Fix incorrect handling of lookahead constraints in pg_regprefix().Tom Lane
pg_regprefix was doing nothing with lookahead constraints, which would be fine if it were the right kind of nothing, but it isn't: we have to terminate our search for a fixed prefix, not just pretend the LACON arc isn't there. Otherwise, if the current state has both a LACON outarc and a single plain-color outarc, we'd falsely conclude that the color represents an addition to the fixed prefix, and generate an extracted index condition that restricts the indexscan too much. (See added regression test case.) Terminating the search is conservative: we could traverse the LACON arc (thus assuming that the constraint can be satisfied at runtime) and then examine the outarcs of the linked-to state. But that would be a lot more work than it seems worth, because writing a LACON followed by a single plain character is a pretty silly thing to do. This makes a difference only in rather contrived cases, but it's a bug, so back-patch to all supported branches.
2015-10-18Fix order of arguments in ecpg generated typedef command.Michael Meskes
2015-10-16Miscellaneous cleanup of regular-expression compiler.Tom Lane
Revert our previous addition of "all" flags to copyins() and copyouts(); they're no longer needed, and were never anything but an unsightly hack. Improve a couple of infelicities in the REG_DEBUG code for dumping the NFA data structure, including adding code to count the total number of states and arcs. Add a couple of missed error checks. Add some more documentation in the README file, and some regression tests illustrating cases that exceeded the state-count limit and/or took unreasonable amounts of time before this set of patches. Back-patch to all supported branches.
2015-10-16Improve memory-usage accounting in regular-expression compiler.Tom Lane
This code previously counted the number of NFA states it created, and complained if a limit was exceeded, so as to prevent bizarre regex patterns from consuming unreasonable time or memory. That's fine as far as it went, but the code paid no attention to how many arcs linked those states. Since regexes can be contrived that have O(N) states but will need O(N^2) arcs after fixempties() processing, it was still possible to blow out memory, and take a long time doing it too. To fix, modify the bookkeeping to count space used by both states and arcs. I did not bother with including the "color map" in the accounting; it can only grow to a few megabytes, which is not a lot in comparison to what we're allowing for states+arcs (about 150MB on 64-bit machines or half that on 32-bit machines). Looking at some of the larger real-world regexes captured in the Tcl regression test suite suggests that the most that is likely to be needed for regexes found in the wild is under 10MB, so I believe that the current limit has enough headroom to make it okay to keep it as a hard-wired limit. In connection with this, redefine REG_ETOOBIG as meaning "regular expression is too complex"; the previous wording of "nfa has too many states" was already somewhat inapropos because of the error code's use for stack depth overrun, and it was not very user-friendly either. Back-patch to all supported branches.
2015-10-16Improve performance of pullback/pushfwd in regular-expression compiler.Tom Lane
The previous coding would create a new intermediate state every time it wanted to interchange the ordering of two constraint arcs. Certain regex features such as \Y can generate large numbers of parallel constraint arcs, and if we needed to reorder the results of that, we created unreasonable numbers of intermediate states. To improve matters, keep a list of already-created intermediate states associated with the state currently being considered by the outer loop; we can re-use such states to place all the new arcs leading to the same destination or source. I also took the trouble to redefine push() and pull() to have a less risky API: they no longer delete any state or arc that the caller might possibly have a pointer to, except for the specifically-passed constraint arc. This reduces the risk of re-introducing the same type of error seen in the failed patch for CVE-2007-4772. Back-patch to all supported branches.
2015-10-16Improve performance of fixempties() pass in regular-expression compiler.Tom Lane
The previous coding took something like O(N^4) time to fully process a chain of N EMPTY arcs. We can't really do much better than O(N^2) because we have to insert about that many arcs, but we can do lots better than what's there now. The win comes partly from using mergeins() to amortize de-duplication of arcs across multiple source states, and partly from exploiting knowledge of the ordering of arcs for each state to avoid looking at arcs we don't need to consider during the scan. We do have to be a bit careful of the possible reordering of arcs introduced by the sort-merge coding of the previous commit, but that's not hard to deal with. Back-patch to all supported branches.
2015-10-16Fix O(N^2) performance problems in regular-expression compiler.Tom Lane
Change the singly-linked in-arc and out-arc lists to be doubly-linked, so that arc deletion is constant time rather than having worst-case time proportional to the number of other arcs on the connected states. Modify the bulk arc transfer operations copyins(), copyouts(), moveins(), moveouts() so that they use a sort-and-merge algorithm whenever there's more than a small number of arcs to be copied or moved. The previous method is O(N^2) in the number of arcs involved, because it performs duplicate checking independently for each copied arc. The new method may change the ordering of existing arcs for the destination state, but nothing really cares about that. Provide another bulk arc copying method mergeins(), which is unused as of this commit but is needed for the next one. It basically is like copyins(), but the source arcs might not all come from the same state. Replace the O(N^2) bubble-sort algorithm used in carcsort() with a qsort() call. These changes greatly improve the performance of regex compilation for large or complex regexes, at the cost of extra space for arc storage during compilation. The original tradeoff was probably fine when it was made, but now we care more about speed and less about memory consumption. Back-patch to all supported branches.
2015-10-16Fix regular-expression compiler to handle loops of constraint arcs.Tom Lane
It's possible to construct regular expressions that contain loops of constraint arcs (that is, ^ $ AHEAD BEHIND or LACON arcs). There's no use in fully traversing such a loop at execution, since you'd just end up in the same NFA state without having consumed any input. Worse, such a loop leads to infinite looping in the pullback/pushfwd stage of compilation, because we keep pushing or pulling the same constraints around the loop in a vain attempt to move them to the pre or post state. Such looping was previously recognized in CVE-2007-4772; but the fix only handled the case of trivial single-state loops (that is, a constraint arc leading back to its source state) ... and not only that, it was incorrect even for that case, because it broke the admittedly-not-very-clearly-stated API contract of the pull() and push() subroutines. The first two regression test cases added by this commit exhibit patterns that result in assertion failures because of that (though there seem to be no ill effects in non-assert builds). The other new test cases exhibit multi-state constraint loops; in an unpatched build they will run until the NFA state-count limit is exceeded. To fix, remove the code added for CVE-2007-4772, and instead create a general-purpose constraint-loop-breaking phase of regex compilation that executes before we do pullback/pushfwd. Since we never need to traverse a constraint loop fully, we can just break the loop at any chosen spot, if we add clone states that can replicate any sequence of arc transitions that would've traversed just part of the loop. Also add some commentary clarifying why we have to have all these machinations in the first place. This class of problems has been known for some time --- we had a report from Marc Mamin about two years ago, for example, and there are related complaints in the Tcl bug tracker. I had discussed a fix of this kind off-list with Henry Spencer, but didn't get around to doing something about it until the issue was rediscovered by Greg Stark recently. Back-patch to all supported branches.
2015-10-13On Windows, ensure shared memory handle gets closed if not being used.Tom Lane
Postmaster child processes that aren't supposed to be attached to shared memory were not bothering to close the shared memory mapping handle they inherit from the postmaster process. That's mostly harmless, since the handle vanishes anyway when the child process exits -- but the syslogger process, if used, doesn't get killed and restarted during recovery from a backend crash. That meant that Windows doesn't see the shared memory mapping as becoming free, so it doesn't delete it and the postmaster is unable to create a new one, resulting in failure to recover from crashes whenever logging_collector is turned on. Per report from Dmitry Vasilyev. It's a bit astonishing that we'd not figured this out long ago, since it's been broken from the very beginnings of out native Windows support; probably some previously-unexplained trouble reports trace to this. A secondary problem is that on Cygwin (perhaps only in older versions?), exec() may not detach from the shared memory segment after all, in which case these child processes did remain attached to shared memory, posing the risk of an unexpected shared memory clobber if they went off the rails somehow. That may be a long-gone bug, but we can deal with it now if it's still live, by detaching within the infrastructure introduced here to deal with closing the handle. Back-patch to all supported branches. Tom Lane and Amit Kapila