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2016-09-27Include <sys/select.h> where neededAlvaro Herrera
<sys/select.h> is required by POSIX.1-2001 to get the prototype of select(2), but nearly no systems enforce that because older standards let you get away with including some other headers. Recent OpenBSD hacking has removed that frail touch of friendliness, however, which broke some compiles; fix all the way back to 9.1 by adding the required standard. Only vacuumdb.c was reported to fail, but it seems easier to fix the whole lot in a fell swoop. Per bug #14334 by Sean Farrell.
2016-09-23Fix incorrect logic for excluding range constructor functions in pg_dump.Tom Lane
Faulty AND/OR nesting in the WHERE clause of getFuncs' SQL query led to dumping range constructor functions if they are part of an extension and we're in binary-upgrade mode. Actually, we don't want to dump them separately even then, since CREATE TYPE AS RANGE will create the range's constructor functions regardless. Per report from Andrew Dunstan. It looks like this mistake was introduced by me, in commit b985d4877, in perhaps-overzealous refactoring to reduce code duplication. I'm suitably embarrassed. Report: <34854939-02d7-f591-5677-ce2994104599@dunslane.net>
2016-09-22Be sure to rewind the tuplestore read pointer in non-leader CTEScan nodes.Tom Lane
ExecInitCteScan supposed that it didn't have to do anything to the extra tuplestore read pointer it gets from tuplestore_alloc_read_pointer. However, it needs this read pointer to be positioned at the start of the tuplestore, while tuplestore_alloc_read_pointer is actually defined as cloning the current position of read pointer 0. In normal situations that accidentally works because we initialize the whole plan tree at once, before anything gets read. But it fails in an EvalPlanQual recheck, as illustrated in bug #14328 from Dima Pavlov. To fix, just forcibly rewind the pointer after tuplestore_alloc_read_pointer. The cost of doing so is negligible unless the tuplestore is already in TSS_READFILE state, which wouldn't happen in normal cases. We could consider altering tuplestore's API to make that case cheaper, but that would make for a more invasive back-patch and it doesn't seem worth it. This has been broken probably for as long as we've had CTEs, so back-patch to all supported branches. Discussion: <32468.1474548308@sss.pgh.pa.us>
2016-09-18Fix ecpg -? option on Windows, add -V alias for --version.Heikki Linnakangas
This makes the -? and -V options work consistently with other binaries. --help and --version are now only recognized as the first option, i.e. "ecpg --foobar --help" no longer prints the help, but that's consistent with most of our other binaries, too. Backpatch to all supported versions. Haribabu Kommi Discussion: <CAJrrPGfnRXvmCzxq6Dy=stAWebfNHxiL+Y_z7uqksZUCkW_waQ@mail.gmail.com>
2016-09-10Improve unreachability recognition in elog() macro.Tom Lane
Some experimentation with an older version of gcc showed that it is able to determine whether "if (elevel_ >= ERROR)" is compile-time constant if elevel_ is declared "const", but otherwise not so much. We had accounted for that in ereport() but were too miserly with braces to make it so in elog(). I don't know how many currently-interesting compilers have the same quirk, but in case it will save some code space, let's make sure that elog() is on the same footing as ereport() for this purpose. Back-patch to 9.3 where we introduced pg_unreachable() calls into elog/ereport.
2016-09-09Fix locking a tuple updated by an aborted (sub)transactionAlvaro Herrera
When heap_lock_tuple decides to follow the update chain, it tried to also lock any version of the tuple that was created by an update that was subsequently rolled back. This is pointless, since for all intents and purposes that tuple exists no more; and moreover it causes misbehavior, as reported independently by Marko Tiikkaja and Marti Raudsepp: some SELECT FOR UPDATE/SHARE queries may fail to return the tuples, and assertion-enabled builds crash. Fix by having heap_lock_updated_tuple test the xmin and return success immediately if the tuple was created by an aborted transaction. The condition where tuples become invisible occurs when an updated tuple chain is followed by heap_lock_updated_tuple, which reports the problem as HeapTupleSelfUpdated to its caller heap_lock_tuple, which in turn propagates that code outwards possibly leading the calling code (ExecLockRows) to believe that the tuple exists no longer. Backpatch to 9.3. Only on 9.5 and newer this leads to a visible failure, because of commit 27846f02c176; before that, heap_lock_tuple skips the whole dance when the tuple is already locked by the same transaction, because of the ancient HeapTupleSatisfiesUpdate behavior. Still, the buggy condition may also exist in more convoluted scenarios involving concurrent transactions, so it seems safer to fix the bug in the old branches too. Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CABRT9RC81YUf1=jsmWopcKJEro=VoeG2ou6sPwyOUTx_qteRsg@mail.gmail.com https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/48d3eade-98d3-8b9a-477e-1a8dc32a724d@joh.to
2016-09-09Fix VACUUM_TRUNCATE_LOCK_WAIT_INTERVALSimon Riggs
lazy_truncate_heap() was waiting for VACUUM_TRUNCATE_LOCK_WAIT_INTERVAL, but in microseconds not milliseconds as originally intended. Found by code inspection. Simon Riggs
2016-09-08Fix mdtruncate() to close fd.c handle of deleted segments.Andres Freund
mdtruncate() forgot to FileClose() a segment's mdfd_vfd, when deleting it. That lead to a fd.c handle to a truncated file being kept open until backend exit. The issue appears to have been introduced way back in 1a5c450f3024ac5, before that the handle was closed inside FileUnlink(). The impact of this bug is limited - only VACUUM and ON COMMIT TRUNCATE for temporary tables, truncate files in place (i.e. TRUNCATE itself is not affected), and the relation has to be bigger than 1GB. The consequences of a leaked fd.c handle aren't severe either. Discussion: <20160908220748.oqh37ukwqqncbl3n@alap3.anarazel.de> Backpatch: all supported releases
2016-09-04Add regression test coverage for non-default timezone abbreviation sets.Tom Lane
After further reflection about the mess cleaned up in commit 39b691f25, I decided the main bit of test coverage that was still missing was to check that the non-default abbreviation-set files we supply are usable. Add that. Back-patch to supported branches, just because it seems like a good idea to keep this all in sync.
2016-09-04Remove vestigial references to "zic" in favor of "IANA database".Tom Lane
Commit b2cbced9e instituted a policy of referring to the timezone database as the "IANA timezone database" in our user-facing documentation. Propagate that wording into a couple of places that were still using "zic" to refer to the database, which is definitely not right (zic is the compilation tool, not the data). Back-patch, not because this is very important in itself, but because we routinely cherry-pick updates to the tznames files and I don't want to risk future merge failures.
2016-09-02Don't require dynamic timezone abbreviations to match underlying time zone.Tom Lane
Previously, we threw an error if a dynamic timezone abbreviation did not match any abbreviation recorded in the referenced IANA time zone entry. That seemed like a good consistency check at the time, but it turns out that a number of the abbreviations in the IANA database are things that Olson and crew made up out of whole cloth. Their current policy is to remove such names in favor of using simple numeric offsets. Perhaps unsurprisingly, a lot of these made-up abbreviations have varied in meaning over time, which meant that our commit b2cbced9e and later changes made them into dynamic abbreviations. So with newer IANA database versions that don't mention these abbreviations at all, we fail, as reported in bug #14307 from Neil Anderson. It's worse than just a few unused-in-the-wild abbreviations not working, because the pg_timezone_abbrevs view stops working altogether (since its underlying function tries to compute the whole view result in one call). We considered deleting these abbreviations from our abbreviations list, but the problem with that is that we can't stay ahead of possible future IANA changes. Instead, let's leave the abbreviations list alone, and treat any "orphaned" dynamic abbreviation as just meaning the referenced time zone. It will behave a bit differently than it used to, in that you can't any longer override the zone's standard vs. daylight rule by using the "wrong" abbreviation of a pair, but that's better than failing entirely. (Also, this solution can be interpreted as adding a small new feature, which is that any abbreviation a user wants can be defined as referencing a time zone name.) Back-patch to all supported branches, since this problem affects all of them when using tzdata 2016f or newer. Report: <20160902031551.15674.67337@wrigleys.postgresql.org> Discussion: <6189.1472820913@sss.pgh.pa.us>
2016-09-01Suppress GCC 6 warning about self-comparisonTom Lane
Back-patch commit a2fd62dd53fb606dee69e0f4eb12289c87f5c8b1 into older branches. Per complaint from Pavel Stehule.
2016-08-31Prevent starting a standalone backend with standby_mode on.Tom Lane
This can't really work because standby_mode expects there to be more WAL arriving, which there will not ever be because there's no WAL receiver process to fetch it. Moreover, if standby_mode is on then hot standby might also be turned on, causing even more strangeness because that expects read-only sessions to be executing in parallel. Bernd Helmle reported a case where btree_xlog_delete_get_latestRemovedXid got confused, but rather than band-aiding individual problems it seems best to prevent getting anywhere near this state in the first place. Back-patch to all supported branches. In passing, also fix some omissions of errcodes in other ereport's in readRecoveryCommandFile(). Michael Paquier (errcode hacking by me) Discussion: <00F0B2CEF6D0CEF8A90119D4@eje.credativ.lan>
2016-08-29Fix pg_xlogdump so that it handles cross-page XLP_FIRST_IS_CONTRECORD record.Fujii Masao
Previously pg_xlogdump failed to dump the contents of the WAL file if the file starts with the continuation WAL record which spans more than one pages. Since pg_xlogdump assumed that the continuation record always fits on a page, it could not find the valid WAL record to start reading from in that case. This patch changes pg_xlogdump so that it can handle a continuation WAL record which crosses a page boundary and find the valid record to start reading from. Back-patch to 9.3 where pg_xlogdump was introduced. Author: Pavan Deolasee Reviewed-By: Michael Paquier and Craig Ringer Discussion: CABOikdPsPByMiG6J01DKq6om2+BNkxHTPkOyqHM2a4oYwGKsqQ@mail.gmail.com
2016-08-25Fix instability in parallel regression tests.Tom Lane
Commit f0c7b789a added a test case in case.sql that creates and then drops both an '=' operator and the type it's for. Given the right timing, that can cause a "cache lookup failed for type" failure in concurrent sessions, which see the '=' operator as a potential match for '=' in a query, but then the type is gone by the time they inquire into its properties. It might be nice to make that behavior more robust someday, but as a back-patchable solution, adjust the new test case so that the operator is never visible to other sessions. Like the previous commit, back-patch to all supported branches. Discussion: <5983.1471371667@sss.pgh.pa.us>
2016-08-24Fix improper repetition of previous results from a hashed aggregate.Tom Lane
ExecReScanAgg's check for whether it could re-use a previously calculated hashtable neglected the possibility that the Agg node might reference PARAM_EXEC Params that are not referenced by its input plan node. That's okay if the Params are in upper tlist or qual expressions; but if one appears in aggregate input expressions, then the hashtable contents need to be recomputed when the Param's value changes. To avoid unnecessary performance degradation in the case of a Param that isn't within an aggregate input, add logic to the planner to determine which Params are within aggregate inputs. This requires a new field in struct Agg, but fortunately we never write plans to disk, so this isn't an initdb-forcing change. Per report from Jeevan Chalke. This has been broken since forever, so back-patch to all supported branches. Andrew Gierth, with minor adjustments by me Report: <CAM2+6=VY8ykfLT5Q8vb9B6EbeBk-NGuLbT6seaQ+Fq4zXvrDcA@mail.gmail.com>
2016-08-18Update Windows timezone mapping from Windows 7 and 10Magnus Hagander
This adds a couple of new timezones that are present in the newer versions of Windows. It also updates comments to reference UTC rather than GMT, as this change has been made in Windows. Michael Paquier
2016-08-16Fix assorted places in psql to print version numbers >= 10 in new style.Tom Lane
This is somewhat cosmetic, since as long as you know what you are looking at, "10.0" is a serviceable substitute for "10". But there is a potential for confusion between version numbers with minor numbers and those without --- we don't want people asking "why is psql saying 10.0 when my server is 10.2". Therefore, back-patch as far as practical, which turns out to be 9.3. I could have redone the patch to use fprintf(stderr) in place of psql_error(), but it seems more work than is warranted for branches that will be EOL or nearly so by the time v10 comes out. Although only psql seems to contain any code that needs this, I chose to put the support function into fe_utils, since it seems likely we'll need it in other client programs in future. (In 9.3-9.5, use dumputils.c, the predecessor of fe_utils/string_utils.c.) In HEAD, also fix the backend code that whines about loadable-library version mismatch. I don't see much need to back-patch that.
2016-08-14Remove bogus dependencies on NUMERIC_MAX_PRECISION.Tom Lane
NUMERIC_MAX_PRECISION is a purely arbitrary constraint on the precision and scale you can write in a numeric typmod. It might once have had something to do with the allowed range of a typmod-less numeric value, but at least since 9.1 we've allowed, and documented that we allowed, any value that would physically fit in the numeric storage format; which is something over 100000 decimal digits, not 1000. Hence, get rid of numeric_in()'s use of NUMERIC_MAX_PRECISION as a limit on the allowed range of the exponent in scientific-format input. That was especially silly in view of the fact that you can enter larger numbers as long as you don't use 'e' to do it. Just constrain the value enough to avoid localized overflow, and let make_result be the final arbiter of what is too large. Likewise adjust ecpg's equivalent of this code. Also get rid of numeric_recv()'s use of NUMERIC_MAX_PRECISION to limit the number of base-NBASE digits it would accept. That created a dump/restore hazard for binary COPY without doing anything useful; the wire-format limit on number of digits (65535) is about as tight as we would want. In HEAD, also get rid of pg_size_bytes()'s unnecessary intimacy with what the numeric range limit is. That code doesn't exist in the back branches. Per gripe from Aravind Kumar. Back-patch to all supported branches, since they all contain the documentation claim about allowed range of NUMERIC (cf commit cabf5d84b). Discussion: <2895.1471195721@sss.pgh.pa.us>
2016-08-12Fix regression test parallel-make hazard.Tom Lane
Back-patch 9.4-era commit 384f933046dc9e9a2b416f5f7b3be30b93587c63 into the previous branches. Although that was only advertised as repairing a problem with missed header-file dependencies, it turns out to also be important for parallel make safety. The previous coding allowed two independent make jobs to get launched concurrently in contrib/spi. Normally this would be OK, because they are building independent targets; but if --enable-depend is in use, it's unsafe, because one make run might try to read a .deps file that the other one is in process of rewriting. This is evidently the cause of buildfarm member francolin's recent failure in the 9.2 branch. I believe this patch will result in only one subsidiary make run, making it safe(r). Report: http://buildfarm.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=francolin&dt=2016-08-12%2017%3A12%3A52
2016-08-12Fix inappropriate printing of never-measured times in EXPLAIN.Tom Lane
EXPLAIN (ANALYZE, TIMING OFF) would print an elapsed time of zero for a trigger function, because no measurement has been taken but it printed the field anyway. This isn't what EXPLAIN does elsewhere, so suppress it. In the same vein, EXPLAIN (ANALYZE, BUFFERS) with non-text output format would print buffer I/O timing numbers even when no measurement has been taken because track_io_timing is off. That seems not per policy, either, so change it. Back-patch to 9.2 where these features were introduced. Maksim Milyutin Discussion: <081c0540-ecaa-bd29-3fd2-6358f3b359a9@postgrespro.ru>
2016-08-11Fix busted Assert for CREATE MATVIEW ... WITH NO DATA.Tom Lane
Commit 874fe3aea changed the command tag returned for CREATE MATVIEW/CREATE TABLE AS ... WITH NO DATA, but missed that there was code in spi.c that expected the command tag to always be "SELECT". Fortunately, the consequence was only an Assert failure, so this oversight should have no impact in production builds. Since this code path was evidently un-exercised, add a regression test. Per report from Shivam Saxena. Back-patch to 9.3, like the previous commit. Michael Paquier Report: <97218716-480B-4527-B5CD-D08D798A0C7B@dresources.com>
2016-08-08Stamp 9.3.14.REL9_3_14Tom Lane
2016-08-08Fix several one-byte buffer over-reads in to_numberPeter Eisentraut
Several places in NUM_numpart_from_char(), which is called from the SQL function to_number(text, text), could accidentally read one byte past the end of the input buffer (which comes from the input text datum and is not null-terminated). 1. One leading space character would be skipped, but there was no check that the input was at least one byte long. This does not happen in practice, but for defensiveness, add a check anyway. 2. Commit 4a3a1e2cf apparently accidentally doubled that code that skips one space character (so that two spaces might be skipped), but there was no overflow check before skipping the second byte. Fix by removing that duplicate code. 3. A logic error would allow a one-byte over-read when looking for a trailing sign (S) placeholder. In each case, the extra byte cannot be read out directly, but looking at it might cause a crash. The third item was discovered by Piotr Stefaniak, the first two were found and analyzed by Tom Lane and Peter Eisentraut.
2016-08-08Translation updatesPeter Eisentraut
Source-Git-URL: git://git.postgresql.org/git/pgtranslation/messages.git Source-Git-Hash: 27a0ac4549d67fb3e07f19d15cdad9f8695b7e7c
2016-08-08Fix two errors with nested CASE/WHEN constructs.Tom Lane
ExecEvalCase() tried to save a cycle or two by passing &econtext->caseValue_isNull as the isNull argument to its sub-evaluation of the CASE value expression. If that subexpression itself contained a CASE, then *isNull was an alias for econtext->caseValue_isNull within the recursive call of ExecEvalCase(), leading to confusion about whether the inner call's caseValue was null or not. In the worst case this could lead to a core dump due to dereferencing a null pointer. Fix by not assigning to the global variable until control comes back from the subexpression. Also, avoid using the passed-in isNull pointer transiently for evaluation of WHEN expressions. (Either one of these changes would have been sufficient to fix the known misbehavior, but it's clear now that each of these choices was in itself dangerous coding practice and best avoided. There do not seem to be any similar hazards elsewhere in execQual.c.) Also, it was possible for inlining of a SQL function that implements the equality operator used for a CASE comparison to result in one CASE expression's CaseTestExpr node being inserted inside another CASE expression. This would certainly result in wrong answers since the improperly nested CaseTestExpr would be caused to return the inner CASE's comparison value not the outer's. If the CASE values were of different data types, a crash might result; moreover such situations could be abused to allow disclosure of portions of server memory. To fix, teach inline_function to check for "bare" CaseTestExpr nodes in the arguments of a function to be inlined, and avoid inlining if there are any. Heikki Linnakangas, Michael Paquier, Tom Lane Report: https://github.com/greenplum-db/gpdb/pull/327 Report: <4DDCEEB8.50602@enterprisedb.com> Security: CVE-2016-5423
2016-08-08Obstruct shell, SQL, and conninfo injection via database and role names.Noah Misch
Due to simplistic quoting and confusion of database names with conninfo strings, roles with the CREATEDB or CREATEROLE option could escalate to superuser privileges when a superuser next ran certain maintenance commands. The new coding rule for PQconnectdbParams() calls, documented at conninfo_array_parse(), is to pass expand_dbname=true and wrap literal database names in a trivial connection string. Escape zero-length values in appendConnStrVal(). Back-patch to 9.1 (all supported versions). Nathan Bossart, Michael Paquier, and Noah Misch. Reviewed by Peter Eisentraut. Reported by Nathan Bossart. Security: CVE-2016-5424
2016-08-08Promote pg_dumpall shell/connstr quoting functions to src/fe_utils.Noah Misch
Rename these newly-extern functions with terms more typical of their new neighbors. No functional changes; a subsequent commit will use them in more places. Back-patch to 9.1 (all supported versions). Back branches lack src/fe_utils, so instead rename the functions in place; the subsequent commit will copy them into the other programs using them. Security: CVE-2016-5424
2016-08-08Fix Windows shell argument quoting.Noah Misch
The incorrect quoting may have permitted arbitrary command execution. At a minimum, it gave broader control over the command line to actors supposed to have control over a single argument. Back-patch to 9.1 (all supported versions). Security: CVE-2016-5424
2016-08-08Reject, in pg_dumpall, names containing CR or LF.Noah Misch
These characters prematurely terminate Windows shell command processing, causing the shell to execute a prefix of the intended command. The chief alternative to rejecting these characters was to bypass the Windows shell with CreateProcess(), but the ability to use such names has little value. Back-patch to 9.1 (all supported versions). This change formally revokes support for these characters in database names and roles names. Don't document this; the error message is self-explanatory, and too few users would benefit. A future major release may forbid creation of databases and roles so named. For now, check only at known weak points in pg_dumpall. Future commits will, without notice, reject affected names from other frontend programs. Also extend the restriction to pg_dumpall --dbname=CONNSTR arguments and --file arguments. Unlike the effects on role name arguments and database names, this does not reflect a broad policy change. A migration to CreateProcess() could lift these two restrictions. Reviewed by Peter Eisentraut. Security: CVE-2016-5424
2016-08-08Field conninfo strings throughout src/bin/scripts.Noah Misch
These programs nominally accepted conninfo strings, but they would proceed to use the original dbname parameter as though it were an unadorned database name. This caused "reindexdb dbname=foo" to issue an SQL command that always failed, and other programs printed a conninfo string in error messages that purported to print a database name. Fix both problems by using PQdb() to retrieve actual database names. Continue to print the full conninfo string when reporting a connection failure. It is informative there, and if the database name is the sole problem, the server-side error message will include the name. Beyond those user-visible fixes, this allows a subsequent commit to synthesize and use conninfo strings without that implementation detail leaking into messages. As a side effect, the "vacuuming database" message now appears after, not before, the connection attempt. Back-patch to 9.1 (all supported versions). Reviewed by Michael Paquier and Peter Eisentraut. Security: CVE-2016-5424
2016-08-08Introduce a psql "\connect -reuse-previous=on|off" option.Noah Misch
The decision to reuse values of parameters from a previous connection has been based on whether the new target is a conninfo string. Add this means of overriding that default. This feature arose as one component of a fix for security vulnerabilities in pg_dump, pg_dumpall, and pg_upgrade, so back-patch to 9.1 (all supported versions). In 9.3 and later, comment paragraphs that required update had already-incorrect claims about behavior when no connection is open; fix those problems. Security: CVE-2016-5424
2016-08-08Sort out paired double quotes in \connect, \password and \crosstabview.Noah Misch
In arguments, these meta-commands wrongly treated each pair as closing the double quoted string. Make the behavior match the documentation. This is a compatibility break, but I more expect to find software with untested reliance on the documented behavior than software reliant on today's behavior. Back-patch to 9.1 (all supported versions). Reviewed by Tom Lane and Peter Eisentraut. Security: CVE-2016-5424
2016-08-07Fix misestimation of n_distinct for a nearly-unique column with many nulls.Tom Lane
If ANALYZE found no repeated non-null entries in its sample, it set the column's stadistinct value to -1.0, intending to indicate that the entries are all distinct. But what this value actually means is that the number of distinct values is 100% of the table's rowcount, and thus it was overestimating the number of distinct values by however many nulls there are. This could lead to very poor selectivity estimates, as for example in a recent report from Andreas Joseph Krogh. We should discount the stadistinct value by whatever we've estimated the nulls fraction to be. (That is what will happen if we choose to use a negative stadistinct for a column that does have repeated entries, so this code path was just inconsistent.) In addition to fixing the stadistinct entries stored by several different ANALYZE code paths, adjust the logic where get_variable_numdistinct() forces an "all distinct" estimate on the basis of finding a relevant unique index. Unique indexes don't reject nulls, so there's no reason to assume that the null fraction doesn't apply. Back-patch to all supported branches. Back-patching is a bit of a judgment call, but this problem seems to affect only a few users (else we'd have identified it long ago), and it's bad enough when it does happen that destabilizing plan choices in a worse direction seems unlikely. Patch by me, with documentation wording suggested by Dean Rasheed Report: <VisenaEmail.26.df42f82acae38a58.156463942b8@tc7-visena> Discussion: <16143.1470350371@sss.pgh.pa.us>
2016-08-05Teach libpq to decode server version correctly from future servers.Tom Lane
Beginning with the next development cycle, PG servers will report two-part not three-part version numbers. Fix libpq so that it will compute the correct numeric representation of such server versions for reporting by PQserverVersion(). It's desirable to get this into the field and back-patched ASAP, so that older clients are more likely to understand the new server version numbering by the time any such servers are in the wild. (The results with an old client would probably not be catastrophic anyway for a released server; for example "10.1" would be interpreted as 100100 which would be wrong in detail but would not likely cause an old client to misbehave badly. But "10devel" or "10beta1" would result in sversion==0 which at best would result in disabling all use of modern features.) Extracted from a patch by Peter Eisentraut; comments added by me Patch: <802ec140-635d-ad86-5fdf-d3af0e260c22@2ndquadrant.com>
2016-08-05Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2016f.Tom Lane
DST law changes in Kemerovo and Novosibirsk. Historical corrections for Azerbaijan, Belarus, and Morocco. Asia/Novokuznetsk and Asia/Novosibirsk now use numeric time zone abbreviations instead of invented ones. Zones for Antarctic bases and other locations that have been uninhabited for portions of the time span known to the tzdata database now report "-00" rather than "zzz" as the zone abbreviation for those time spans. Also, I decided to remove some of the timezone/data/ files that we don't use. At one time that subdirectory was a complete copy of what IANA distributes in the tzdata tarballs, but that hasn't been true for a long time. There seems no good reason to keep shipping those specific files but not others; they're just bloating our tarballs.
2016-08-02Fix pg_dump's handling of public schema with both -c and -C options.Tom Lane
Since -c plus -C requests dropping and recreating the target database as a whole, not dropping individual objects in it, we should assume that the public schema already exists and need not be created. The previous coding considered only the state of the -c option, so it would emit "CREATE SCHEMA public" anyway, leading to an unexpected error in restore. Back-patch to 9.2. Older versions did not accept -c with -C so the issue doesn't arise there. (The logic being patched here dates to 8.0, cf commit 2193121fa, so it's not really wrong that it didn't consider the case at the time.) Note that versions before 9.6 will still attempt to emit REVOKE/GRANT on the public schema; but that happens without -c/-C too, and doesn't seem to be the focus of this complaint. I considered extending this stanza to also skip the public schema's ACL, but that would be a misfeature, as it'd break cases where users intentionally changed that ACL. The real fix for this aspect is Stephen Frost's work to not dump built-in ACLs, and that's not going to get back-ported. Per bugs #13804 and #14271. Solution found by David Johnston and later rediscovered by me. Report: <20151207163520.2628.95990@wrigleys.postgresql.org> Report: <20160801021955.1430.47434@wrigleys.postgresql.org>
2016-08-01Fixed array checking code for "unsigned long long" datatypes in libecpg.Michael Meskes
2016-08-01Fix pg_basebackup so that it accepts 0 as a valid compression level.Fujii Masao
The help message for pg_basebackup specifies that the numbers 0 through 9 are accepted as valid values of -Z option. But, previously -Z 0 was rejected as an invalid compression level. Per discussion, it's better to make pg_basebackup treat 0 as valid compression level meaning no compression, like pg_dump. Back-patch to all supported versions. Reported-By: Jeff Janes Reviewed-By: Amit Kapila Discussion: CAMkU=1x+GwjSayc57v6w87ij6iRGFWt=hVfM0B64b1_bPVKRqg@mail.gmail.com
2016-07-28Guard against empty buffer in gets_fromFile()'s check for a newline.Tom Lane
Per the fgets() specification, it cannot return without reading some data unless it reports EOF or error. So the code here assumed that the data buffer would necessarily be nonempty when we go to check for a newline having been read. However, Agostino Sarubbo noticed that this could fail to be true if the first byte of the data is a NUL (\0). The fgets() API doesn't really work for embedded NULs, which is something I don't feel any great need for us to worry about since we generally don't allow NULs in SQL strings anyway. But we should not access off the end of our own buffer if the case occurs. Normally this would just be a harmless read, but if you were unlucky the byte before the buffer would contain '\n' and we'd overwrite it with '\0', and if you were really unlucky that might be valuable data and psql would crash. Agostino reported this to pgsql-security, but after discussion we concluded that it isn't worth treating as a security bug; if you can control the input to psql you can do far more interesting things than just maybe-crash it. Nonetheless, it is a bug, so back-patch to all supported versions.
2016-07-28Fix assorted fallout from IS [NOT] NULL patch.Tom Lane
Commits 4452000f3 et al established semantics for NullTest.argisrow that are a bit different from its initial conception: rather than being merely a cache of whether we've determined the input to have composite type, the flag now has the further meaning that we should apply field-by-field testing as per the standard's definition of IS [NOT] NULL. If argisrow is false and yet the input has composite type, the construct instead has the semantics of IS [NOT] DISTINCT FROM NULL. Update the comments in primnodes.h to clarify this, and fix ruleutils.c and deparse.c to print such cases correctly. In the case of ruleutils.c, this merely results in cosmetic changes in EXPLAIN output, since the case can't currently arise in stored rules. However, it represents a live bug for deparse.c, which would formerly have sent a remote query that had semantics different from the local behavior. (From the user's standpoint, this means that testing a remote nested-composite column for null-ness could have had unexpected recursive behavior much like that fixed in 4452000f3.) In a related but somewhat independent fix, make plancat.c set argisrow to false in all NullTest expressions constructed to represent "attnotnull" constructs. Since attnotnull is actually enforced as a simple null-value check, this is a more accurate representation of the semantics; we were previously overpromising what it meant for composite columns, which might possibly lead to incorrect planner optimizations. (It seems that what the SQL spec expects a NOT NULL constraint to mean is an IS NOT NULL test, so arguably we are violating the spec and should fix attnotnull to do the other thing. If we ever do, this part should get reverted.) Back-patch, same as the previous commit. Discussion: <10682.1469566308@sss.pgh.pa.us>
2016-07-28Improve documentation about CREATE TABLE ... LIKE.Tom Lane
The docs failed to explain that LIKE INCLUDING INDEXES would not preserve the names of indexes and associated constraints. Also, it wasn't mentioned that EXCLUDE constraints would be copied by this option. The latter oversight seems enough of a documentation bug to justify back-patching. In passing, do some minor copy-editing in the same area, and add an entry for LIKE under "Compatibility", since it's not exactly a faithful implementation of the standard's feature. Discussion: <20160728151154.AABE64016B@smtp.hushmail.com>
2016-07-26Fix constant-folding of ROW(...) IS [NOT] NULL with composite fields.Tom Lane
The SQL standard appears to specify that IS [NOT] NULL's tests of field nullness are non-recursive, ie, we shouldn't consider that a composite field with value ROW(NULL,NULL) is null for this purpose. ExecEvalNullTest got this right, but eval_const_expressions did not, leading to weird inconsistencies depending on whether the expression was such that the planner could apply constant folding. Also, adjust the docs to mention that IS [NOT] DISTINCT FROM NULL can be used as a substitute test if a simple null check is wanted for a rowtype argument. That motivated reordering things so that IS [NOT] DISTINCT FROM is described before IS [NOT] NULL. In HEAD, I went a bit further and added a table showing all the comparison-related predicates. Per bug #14235. Back-patch to all supported branches, since it's certainly undesirable that constant-folding should change the semantics. Report and patch by Andrew Gierth; assorted wordsmithing and revised regression test cases by me. Report: <20160708024746.1410.57282@wrigleys.postgresql.org>
2016-07-23Make the AIX case of Makefile.shlib safe for parallel make.Noah Misch
Use our typical approach, from src/backend/parser. Back-patch to 9.1 (all supported versions).
2016-07-21Make pltcl regression tests safe for Danish locale.Tom Lane
Another peculiarity of Danish locale is that it has an unusual idea of how to sort upper vs. lower case. One of the pltcl test cases has an issue with that. Now that COLLATE works in all supported branches, we can just change the test to be locale-independent, and get rid of the variant expected file that used to support non-C locales.
2016-07-19Remove very-obsolete estimates of shmem usage from postgresql.conf.sample.Tom Lane
runtime.sgml used to contain a table of estimated shared memory consumption rates for max_connections and some other GUCs. Commit 390bfc643 removed that on the well-founded grounds that (a) we weren't maintaining the entries well and (b) it no longer mattered so much once we got out from under SysV shmem limits. But it missed that there were even-more-obsolete versions of some of those numbers in comments in postgresql.conf.sample. Remove those too. Back-patch to 9.3 where the aforesaid commit went in.
2016-07-19Fix MSVC build for changes in zic.Tom Lane
Ooops, I missed back-patching commit f5f15ea6a along with the other stuff.
2016-07-19Sync back-branch copies of the timezone code with IANA release tzcode2016c.Tom Lane
Back-patch commit 1c1a7cbd6a1600c9, along with subsequent portability fixes, into all active branches. Also, back-patch commits 696027727 and 596857043 (addition of zic -P option) into 9.1 and 9.2, just to reduce differences between the branches. src/timezone/ is now largely identical in all active branches, except that in 9.1, pgtz.c retains the initial-timezone-selection code that was moved over to initdb in 9.2. Ordinarily we wouldn't risk this much code churn in back branches, but it seems necessary in this case, because among the changes are two feature additions in the "zic" zone data file compiler (a larger limit on the number of allowed DST transitions, and addition of a "%z" escape in zone abbreviations). IANA have not yet started to use those features in their tzdata files, but presumably they will before too long. If we don't update then we'll be unable to adopt new timezone data. Also, installations built with --with-system-tzdata (which includes most distro-supplied builds, I believe) might fail even if we don't update our copies of the data files. There are assorted bug fixes too, mostly affecting obscure timezones or post-2037 dates. Discussion: <13601.1468868947@sss.pgh.pa.us>
2016-07-16Fix crash in close_ps() for NaN input coordinates.Tom Lane
The Assert() here seems unreasonably optimistic. Andreas Seltenreich found that it could fail with NaNs in the input geometries, and it seems likely to me that it might fail in corner cases due to roundoff error, even for ordinary input values. As a band-aid, make the function return SQL NULL instead of crashing. Report: <87d1md1xji.fsf@credativ.de>
2016-07-15Fix torn-page, unlogged xid and further risks from heap_update().Andres Freund
When heap_update needs to look for a page for the new tuple version, because the current one doesn't have sufficient free space, or when columns have to be processed by the tuple toaster, it has to release the lock on the old page during that. Otherwise there'd be lock ordering and lock nesting issues. To avoid concurrent sessions from trying to update / delete / lock the tuple while the page's content lock is released, the tuple's xmax is set to the current session's xid. That unfortunately was done without any WAL logging, thereby violating the rule that no XIDs may appear on disk, without an according WAL record. If the database were to crash / fail over when the page level lock is released, and some activity lead to the page being written out to disk, the xid could end up being reused; potentially leading to the row becoming invisible. There might be additional risks by not having t_ctid point at the tuple itself, without having set the appropriate lock infomask fields. To fix, compute the appropriate xmax/infomask combination for locking the tuple, and perform WAL logging using the existing XLOG_HEAP_LOCK record. That allows the fix to be backpatched. This issue has existed for a long time. There appears to have been partial attempts at preventing dangers, but these never have fully been implemented, and were removed a long time ago, in 11919160 (cf. HEAP_XMAX_UNLOGGED). In master / 9.6, there's an additional issue, namely that the visibilitymap's freeze bit isn't reset at that point yet. Since that's a new issue, introduced only in a892234f830, that'll be fixed in a separate commit. Author: Masahiko Sawada and Andres Freund Reported-By: Different aspects by Thomas Munro, Noah Misch, and others Discussion: CAEepm=3fWAbWryVW9swHyLTY4sXVf0xbLvXqOwUoDiNCx9mBjQ@mail.gmail.com Backpatch: 9.1/all supported versions