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2013-09-11Ignore interrupts during quickdie().Noah Misch
Once the administrator has called for an immediate shutdown or a backend crash has triggered a reinitialization, no mere SIGINT or SIGTERM should change that course. Such derailment remains possible when the signal arrives before quickdie() blocks signals. That being a narrow race affecting most PostgreSQL signal handlers in some way, leave it for another patch. Back-patch this to all supported versions.
2013-09-08Return error if allocation of new element was not possible.Michael Meskes
Found by Coverity.
2013-09-03Don't fail for bad GUCs in CREATE FUNCTION with check_function_bodies off.Tom Lane
The previous coding attempted to activate all the GUC settings specified in SET clauses, so that the function validator could operate in the GUC environment expected by the function body. However, this is problematic when restoring a dump, since the SET clauses might refer to database objects that don't exist yet. We already have the parameter check_function_bodies that's meant to prevent forward references in function definitions from breaking dumps, so let's change CREATE FUNCTION to not install the SET values if check_function_bodies is off. Authors of function validators were already advised not to make any "context sensitive" checks when check_function_bodies is off, if indeed they're checking anything at all in that mode. But extend the documentation to point out the GUC issue in particular. (Note that we still check the SET clauses to some extent; the behavior with !check_function_bodies is now approximately equivalent to what ALTER DATABASE/ROLE have been doing for awhile with context-dependent GUCs.) This problem can be demonstrated in all active branches, so back-patch all the way.
2013-09-02Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2013d.Tom Lane
DST law changes in Israel, Morocco, Palestine, Paraguay. Historical corrections for Macquarie Island.
2013-08-23In locate_grouping_columns(), don't expect an exact match of Var typmods.Tom Lane
It's possible that inlining of SQL functions (or perhaps other changes?) has exposed typmod information not known at parse time. In such cases, Vars generated by query_planner might have valid typmod values while the original grouping columns only have typmod -1. This isn't a semantic problem since the behavior of grouping only depends on type not typmod, but it breaks locate_grouping_columns' use of tlist_member to locate the matching entry in query_planner's result tlist. We can fix this without an excessive amount of new code or complexity by relying on the fact that locate_grouping_columns only gets called when make_subplanTargetList has set need_tlist_eval == false, and that can only happen if all the grouping columns are simple Vars. Therefore we only need to search the sub_tlist for a matching Var, and we can reasonably define a "match" as being a match of the Var identity fields varno/varattno/varlevelsup. The code still Asserts that vartype matches, but ignores vartypmod. Per bug #8393 from Evan Martin. The added regression test case is basically the same as his example. This has been broken for a very long time, so back-patch to all supported branches.
2013-08-03Make sure float4in/float8in accept all standard spellings of "infinity".Tom Lane
The C99 and POSIX standards require strtod() to accept all these spellings (case-insensitively): "inf", "+inf", "-inf", "infinity", "+infinity", "-infinity". However, pre-C99 systems might accept only some or none of these, and apparently Windows still doesn't accept "inf". To avoid surprising cross-platform behavioral differences, manually check for each of these spellings if strtod() fails. We were previously handling just "infinity" and "-infinity" that way, but since C99 is most of the world now, it seems likely that applications are expecting all these spellings to work. Per bug #8355 from Basil Peace. It turns out this fix won't actually resolve his problem, because Python isn't being this careful; but that doesn't mean we shouldn't be.
2013-08-02Fix old visibility bug in HeapTupleSatisfiesDirtyAlvaro Herrera
If a tuple is locked but not updated by a concurrent transaction, HeapTupleSatisfiesDirty would return that transaction's Xid in xmax, causing callers to wait on it, when it is not necessary (in fact, if the other transaction had used a multixact instead of a plain Xid to mark the tuple, HeapTupleSatisfiesDirty would have behave differently and *not* returned the Xmax). This bug was introduced in commit 3f7fbf85dc5b42, dated December 1998, so it's almost 15 years old now. However, it's hard to see this misbehave, because before we had NOWAIT the only consequence of this is that transactions would wait for slightly more time than necessary; so it's not surprising that this hasn't been reported yet. Craig Ringer and Andres Freund
2013-07-31Fix regexp_matches() handling of zero-length matches.Tom Lane
We'd find the same match twice if it was of zero length and not immediately adjacent to the previous match. replace_text_regexp() got similar cases right, so adjust this search logic to match that. Note that even though the regexp_split_to_xxx() functions share this code, they did not display equivalent misbehavior, because the second match would be considered degenerate and ignored. Jeevan Chalke, with some cosmetic changes by me.
2013-07-24Fix booltestsel() for case where we have NULL stats but not MCV stats.Tom Lane
In a boolean column that contains mostly nulls, ANALYZE might not find enough non-null values to populate the most-common-values stats, but it would still create a pg_statistic entry with stanullfrac set. The logic in booltestsel() for this situation did the wrong thing for "col IS NOT TRUE" and "col IS NOT FALSE" tests, forgetting that null values would satisfy these tests (so that the true selectivity would be close to one, not close to zero). Per bug #8274. Fix by Andrew Gierth, some comment-smithing by me.
2013-07-23Check for NULL result from strdupAlvaro Herrera
Per Coverity Scan
2013-07-23Change post-rewriter representation of dropped columns in joinaliasvars.Tom Lane
It's possible to drop a column from an input table of a JOIN clause in a view, if that column is nowhere actually referenced in the view. But it will still be there in the JOIN clause's joinaliasvars list. We used to replace such entries with NULL Const nodes, which is handy for generation of RowExpr expansion of a whole-row reference to the view. The trouble with that is that it can't be distinguished from the situation after subquery pull-up of a constant subquery output expression below the JOIN. Instead, replace such joinaliasvars with null pointers (empty expression trees), which can't be confused with pulled-up expressions. expandRTE() still emits the old convention, though, for convenience of RowExpr generation and to reduce the risk of breaking extension code. In HEAD and 9.3, this patch also fixes a problem with some new code in ruleutils.c that was failing to cope with implicitly-casted joinaliasvars entries, as per recent report from Feike Steenbergen. That oversight was because of an inadequate description of the data structure in parsenodes.h, which I've now corrected. There were some pre-existing oversights of the same ilk elsewhere, which I believe are now all fixed.
2013-07-19Initialize day of year value.Michael Meskes
There are cases where the day of year value in struct tm is used, but it never got calculated. Problem found by Coverity scan.
2013-07-18Fix regex match failures for backrefs combined with non-greedy quantifiers.Tom Lane
An ancient logic error in cfindloop() could cause the regex engine to fail to find matches that begin later than the start of the string. This function is only used when the regex pattern contains a back reference, and so far as we can tell the error is only reachable if the pattern is non-greedy (i.e. its first quantifier uses the ? modifier). Furthermore, the actual match must begin after some potential match that satisfies the DFA but then fails the back-reference's match test. Reported and fixed by Jeevan Chalke, with cosmetic adjustments by me.
2013-07-14Ensure 64bit arithmetic when calculating tapeSpaceStephen Frost
In tuplesort.c:inittapes(), we calculate tapeSpace by first figuring out how many 'tapes' we can use (maxTapes) and then multiplying the result by the tape buffer overhead for each. Unfortunately, when we are on a system with an 8-byte long, we allow work_mem to be larger than 2GB and that allows maxTapes to be large enough that the 32bit arithmetic can overflow when multiplied against the buffer overhead. When this overflow happens, we end up adding the overflow to the amount of space available, causing the amount of memory allocated to be larger than work_mem. Note that to reach this point, you have to set work mem to at least 24GB and be sorting a set which is at least that size. Given that a user who can set work_mem to 24GB could also set it even higher, if they were looking to run the system out of memory, this isn't considered a security issue. This overflow risk was found by the Coverity scanner. Back-patch to all supported branches, as this issue has existed since before 8.4.
2013-07-06Also escape double quotes for ECPG's #line statement.Michael Meskes
2013-07-05Applied patch by MauMau <maumau307@gmail.com> to escape filenames in #line ↵Michael Meskes
statements.
2013-06-27Mark index-constraint comments with correct dependency in pg_dump.Tom Lane
When there's a comment on an index that was created with UNIQUE or PRIMARY KEY constraint syntax, we need to label the comment as depending on the constraint not the index, since only the constraint object actually appears in the dump. This incorrect dependency can lead to parallel pg_restore trying to restore the comment before the index has been created, per bug #8257 from Lloyd Albin. This patch fixes pg_dump to produce the right dependency in dumps made in the future. Usually we also try to hack pg_restore to work around bogus dependencies, so that existing (wrong) dumps can still be restored in parallel mode; but that doesn't seem practical here since there's no easy way to relate the constraint dump entry to the comment after the fact. Andres Freund
2013-06-27Expect EWOULDBLOCK from a non-blocking connect() call only on Windows.Tom Lane
On Unix-ish platforms, EWOULDBLOCK may be the same as EAGAIN, which is *not* a success return, at least not on Linux. We need to treat it as a failure to avoid giving a misleading error message. Per the Single Unix Spec, only EINPROGRESS and EINTR returns indicate that the connection attempt is in progress. On Windows, on the other hand, EWOULDBLOCK (WSAEWOULDBLOCK) is the expected case. We must accept EINPROGRESS as well because Cygwin will return that, and it doesn't seem worth distinguishing Cygwin from native Windows here. It's not very clear whether EINTR can occur on Windows, but let's leave that part of the logic alone in the absence of concrete trouble reports. Also, remove the test for errno == 0, effectively reverting commit da9501bddb42222dc33c031b1db6ce2133bcee7b, which AFAICS was just a thinko; or at best it might have been a workaround for a platform-specific bug, which we can hope is gone now thirteen years later. In any case, since libpq makes no effort to reset errno to zero before calling connect(), it seems unlikely that that test has ever reliably done anything useful. Andres Freund and Tom Lane
2013-06-13Only install a portal's ResourceOwner if it actually has one.Tom Lane
In most scenarios a portal without a ResourceOwner is dead and not subject to any further execution, but a portal for a cursor WITH HOLD remains in existence with no ResourceOwner after the creating transaction is over. In this situation, if we attempt to "execute" the portal directly to fetch data from it, we were setting CurrentResourceOwner to NULL, leading to a segfault if the datatype output code did anything that required a resource owner (such as trying to fetch system catalog entries that weren't already cached). The case appears to be impossible to provoke with stock libpq, but psqlODBC at least is able to cause it when working with held cursors. Simplest fix is to just skip the assignment to CurrentResourceOwner, so that any resources used by the data output operations will be managed by the transaction-level resource owner instead. For consistency I changed all the places that install a portal's resowner as current, even though some of them are probably not reachable with a held cursor's portal. Per report from Joshua Berry (with thanks to Hiroshi Inoue for developing a self-contained test case). Back-patch to all supported versions.
2013-06-09Remove unnecessary restrictions about RowExprs in transformAExprIn().Tom Lane
When the existing code here was written, it made sense to special-case RowExprs because that was the only way that we could handle row comparisons at all. Now that we have record_eq() and arrays of composites, the generic logic for "scalar" types will in fact work on RowExprs too, so there's no reason to throw error for combinations of RowExprs and other ways of forming composite values, nor to ignore the possibility of using a ScalarArrayOpExpr. But keep using the old logic when comparing two RowExprs, for consistency with the main transformAExprOp() logic. (This allows some cases with not-quite-identical rowtypes to succeed, so we might get push-back if we removed it.) Per bug #8198 from Rafal Rzepecki. Back-patch to all supported branches, since this works fine as far back as 8.4. Rafal Rzepecki and Tom Lane
2013-06-08Don't downcase non-ascii identifier chars in multi-byte encodings.Andrew Dunstan
Long-standing code has called tolower() on identifier character bytes with the high bit set. This is clearly an error and produces junk output when the encoding is multi-byte. This patch therefore restricts this activity to cases where there is a character with the high bit set AND the encoding is single-byte. There have been numerous gripes about this, most recently from Martin Schäfer. Backpatch to all live releases.
2013-06-05Prevent pushing down WHERE clauses into unsafe UNION/INTERSECT nests.Tom Lane
The planner is aware that it mustn't push down upper-level quals into subqueries if the quals reference subquery output columns that contain set-returning functions or volatile functions, or are non-DISTINCT outputs of a DISTINCT ON subquery. However, it missed making this check when there were one or more levels of UNION or INTERSECT above the dangerous expression. This could lead to "set-valued function called in context that cannot accept a set" errors, as seen in bug #8213 from Eric Soroos, or to silently wrong answers in the other cases. To fix, refactor the checks so that we make the column-is-unsafe checks during subquery_is_pushdown_safe(), which already has to recursively inspect all arms of a set-operation tree. This makes qual_is_pushdown_safe() considerably simpler, at the cost that we will spend some cycles checking output columns that possibly aren't referenced in any upper qual. But the cases where this code gets executed at all are already nontrivial queries, so it's unlikely anybody will notice any slowdown of planning. This has been broken since commit 05f916e6add9726bf4ee046e4060c1b03c9961f2, which makes the bug over ten years old. A bit surprising nobody noticed it before now.
2013-05-16Fix fd.c to preserve errno where needed.Tom Lane
PathNameOpenFile failed to ensure that the correct value of errno was returned to its caller after a failure (because it incorrectly supposed that free() can never change errno). In some cases this would result in a user-visible failure because an expected ENOENT errno was replaced with something else. Bogus EINVAL failures have been observed on OS X, for example. There were also a couple of places that could mangle an important value of errno if FDDEBUG was defined. While the usefulness of that debug support is highly debatable, we might as well make it safe to use, so add errno save/restore logic to the DO_DB macro. Per bug #8167 from Nelson Minar, diagnosed by RhodiumToad. Back-patch to all supported branches.
2013-05-13Fix handling of OID wraparound while in standalone mode.Tom Lane
If OID wraparound should occur while in standalone mode (unlikely but possible), we want to advance the counter to FirstNormalObjectId not FirstBootstrapObjectId. Otherwise, user objects might be created with OIDs in the system-reserved range. That isn't immediately harmful but it poses a risk of conflicts during future pg_upgrade operations. Noted by Andres Freund. Back-patch to all supported branches, since all of them are supported sources for pg_upgrade operations.
2013-05-10Guard against input_rows == 0 in estimate_num_groups().Tom Lane
This case doesn't normally happen, because the planner usually clamps all row estimates to at least one row; but I found that it can arise when dealing with relations excluded by constraints. Without a defense, estimate_num_groups() can return zero, which leads to divisions by zero inside the planner as well as assertion failures in the executor. An alternative fix would be to change set_dummy_rel_pathlist() to make the size estimate for a dummy relation 1 row instead of 0, but that seemed pretty ugly; and probably someday we'll want to drop the convention that the minimum rowcount estimate is 1 row. Back-patch to 8.4, as the problem can be demonstrated that far back.
2013-04-25Avoid deadlock between concurrent CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY commands.Tom Lane
There was a high probability of two or more concurrent C.I.C. commands deadlocking just before completion, because each would wait for the others to release their reference snapshots. Fix by releasing the snapshot before waiting for other snapshots to go away. Per report from Paul Hinze. Back-patch to all active branches.
2013-04-20Fix longstanding race condition in plancache.c.Tom Lane
When creating or manipulating a cached plan for a transaction control command (particularly ROLLBACK), we must not perform any catalog accesses, since we might be in an aborted transaction. However, plancache.c busily saved or examined the search_path for every cached plan. If we were unlucky enough to do this at a moment where the path's expansion into schema OIDs wasn't already cached, we'd do some catalog accesses; and with some more bad luck such as an ill-timed signal arrival, that could lead to crashes or Assert failures, as exhibited in bug #8095 from Nachiket Vaidya. Fortunately, there's no real need to consider the search path for such commands, so we can just skip the relevant steps when the subject statement is a TransactionStmt. This is somewhat related to bug #5269, though the failure happens during initial cached-plan creation rather than revalidation. This bug has been there since the plan cache was invented, so back-patch to all supported branches.
2013-04-04Fix crash on compiling a regular expression with more than 32k colors.Heikki Linnakangas
Throw an error instead. Backpatch to all supported branches.
2013-04-01Stamp 8.4.17.REL8_4_17Tom Lane
2013-03-31Translation updatesPeter Eisentraut
2013-03-31Translation updatesAlvaro Herrera
2013-03-28Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2013b.Tom Lane
DST law changes in Chile, Haiti, Morocco, Paraguay, some Russian areas. Historical corrections for numerous places.
2013-03-27Reset OpenSSL randomness state in each postmaster child process.Tom Lane
Previously, if the postmaster initialized OpenSSL's PRNG (which it will do when ssl=on in postgresql.conf), the same pseudo-random state would be inherited by each forked child process. The problem is masked to a considerable extent if the incoming connection uses SSL encryption, but when it does not, identical pseudo-random state is made available to functions like contrib/pgcrypto. The process's PID does get mixed into any requested random output, but on most systems that still only results in 32K or so distinct random sequences available across all Postgres sessions. This might allow an attacker who has database access to guess the results of "secure" operations happening in another session. To fix, forcibly reset the PRNG after fork(). Each child process that has need for random numbers from OpenSSL's generator will thereby be forced to go through OpenSSL's normal initialization sequence, which should provide much greater variability of the sequences. There are other ways we might do this that would be slightly cheaper, but this approach seems the most future-proof against SSL-related code changes. This has been assigned CVE-2013-1900, but since the issue and the patch have already been publicized on pgsql-hackers, there's no point in trying to hide this commit. Back-patch to all supported branches. Marko Kreen
2013-03-26Ignore invalid indexes in pg_dump.Tom Lane
Dumping invalid indexes can cause problems at restore time, for example if the reason the index creation failed was because it tried to enforce a uniqueness condition not satisfied by the table's data. Also, if the index creation is in fact still in progress, it seems reasonable to consider it to be an uncommitted DDL change, which pg_dump wouldn't be expected to dump anyway. Back-patch to all active versions, and teach them to ignore invalid indexes in servers back to 8.2, where the concept was introduced. Michael Paquier
2013-03-23Update time zone abbreviation lists for changes missed since 2006.Tom Lane
Most (all?) of Russia has moved to what's effectively year-round daylight savings time, so that the "standard" zone names now mean an hour later than they used to. Update that, notably changing MSK as per recent complaint from Sergey Konoplev, but also CHOT, GET, IRKT, KGT, KRAT, MAGT, NOVT, OMST, VLAT, YAKT, YEKT. The corresponding DST abbreviations are presumably now obsolete, but I left them in place with their old definitions, just to reduce any possible breakage from this change. Also add VOLT (Europe/Volgograd), which for some reason we never had before, as well as MIST (Antarctica/Macquarie), and fix obsolete definitions of MAWT, TKT, and WST.
2013-03-07Fix infinite-loop risk in fixempties() stage of regex compilation.Tom Lane
The previous coding of this function could get into situations where it would never terminate, because successive passes would re-add EMPTY arcs that had been removed by the previous pass. Rewrite the function completely using a new algorithm that is guaranteed to terminate, and also seems to be usually faster than the old one. Per Tcl bugs 3604074 and 3606683. Tom Lane and Don Porter
2013-03-05Fix to_char() to use ASCII-only case-folding rules where appropriate.Tom Lane
formatting.c used locale-dependent case folding rules in some code paths where the result isn't supposed to be locale-dependent, for example to_char(timestamp, 'DAY'). Since the source data is always just ASCII in these cases, that usually didn't matter ... but it does matter in Turkish locales, which have unusual treatment of "i" and "I". To confuse matters even more, the misbehavior was only visible in UTF8 encoding, because in single-byte encodings we used pg_toupper/pg_tolower which don't have locale-specific behavior for ASCII characters. Fix by providing intentionally ASCII-only case-folding functions and using these where appropriate. Per bug #7913 from Adnan Dursun. Back-patch to all active branches, since it's been like this for a long time.
2013-03-04Fix overflow check in tm2timestamp (this time for sure).Tom Lane
I fixed this code back in commit 841b4a2d5, but didn't think carefully enough about the behavior near zero, which meant it improperly rejected 1999-12-31 24:00:00. Per report from Magnus Hagander.
2013-03-01Eliminate memory leaks in plperl's spi_prepare() function.Tom Lane
Careless use of TopMemoryContext for I/O function data meant that repeated use of spi_prepare and spi_freeplan would leak memory at the session level, as per report from Christian Schröder. In addition, spi_prepare leaked a lot of transient data within the current plperl function's SPI Proc context, which would be a problem for repeated use of spi_prepare within a single plperl function call; and it wasn't terribly careful about releasing permanent allocations in event of an error, either. In passing, clean up some copy-and-pasteos in query-lookup error messages. Alex Hunsaker and Tom Lane
2013-02-27Add missing error check in regexp parser.Tom Lane
parseqatom() failed to check for an error return (NULL result) from its recursive call to parsebranch(), and in consequence could crash with a null-pointer dereference after an error return. This bug has been there since day one, but wasn't noticed before, probably because most error cases in parsebranch() didn't actually lead to returning NULL. Add the missing error check, and also tweak parsebranch() to exit in a less indirect fashion after a call to parseqatom() fails. Report by Tomasz Karlik, fix by me.
2013-02-20Fix pg_dumpall with database names containing =Heikki Linnakangas
If a database name contained a '=' character, pg_dumpall failed. The problem was in the way pg_dumpall passes the database name to pg_dump on the command line. If it contained a '=' character, pg_dump would interpret it as a libpq connection string instead of a plain database name. To fix, pass the database name to pg_dump as a connection string, "dbname=foo", with the database name escaped if necessary. Back-patch to all supported branches.
2013-02-20Don't pass NULL to fprintf, if a bogus connection string is given to pg_dump.Heikki Linnakangas
Back-patch to all supported branches.
2013-02-10Further cleanup of gistsplit.c.Tom Lane
After further reflection I was unconvinced that the existing coding is guaranteed to return valid union datums in every code path for multi-column indexes. Fix that by forcing a gistunionsubkey() call at the end of the recursion. Having done that, we can remove some clearly-redundant calls elsewhere. This should be a little faster for multi-column indexes (since the previous coding would uselessly do such a call for each column while unwinding the recursion), as well as much harder to break. Also, simplify the handling of cases where one side or the other of a primary split contains only don't-care tuples. The previous coding used a very ugly hack in removeDontCares() that essentially forced one random tuple to be treated as non-don't-care, providing a random initial choice of seed datum for the secondary split. It seems unlikely that that method will give better-than-random splits. Instead, treat such a split as degenerate and just let the next column determine the split, the same way that we handle fully degenerate cases where the two sides produce identical union datums.
2013-02-10Remove useless picksplit-doesn't-support-secondary-split log spam.Tom Lane
This LOG message was put in over five years ago with the evident expectation that we'd make all GiST opclasses support secondary split directly. However, no such thing ever happened, and indeed the number of opclasses supporting it decreased to zero in 9.2. The reason is that improving on the default implementation isn't that easy --- the opclass-specific code that did exist, before 9.2, doesn't appear to have been any improvement over the default. Hence, remove the message altogether. There's certainly no point in nagging users about this in released branches, but I doubt that we'll ever implement complete opclass-specific support anyway.
2013-02-10Document and clean up gistsplit.c.Tom Lane
Improve comments, rename some variables and functions, slightly simplify a couple of APIs, in an attempt to make this code readable by people other than its original author. Even though this is essentially just cosmetic, back-patch to all active branches, because otherwise it's going to make back-patching future fixes in this file very painful.
2013-02-08Fix gist_box_same and gist_point_consistent to handle fuzziness correctly.Tom Lane
While there's considerable doubt that we want fuzzy behavior in the geometric operators at all (let alone as currently implemented), nobody is stepping forward to redesign that stuff. In the meantime it behooves us to make sure that index searches agree with the behavior of the underlying operators. This patch fixes two problems in this area. First, gist_box_same was using fuzzy equality, but it really needs to use exact equality to prevent not-quite-identical upper index keys from being treated as identical, which for example would prevent an existing upper key from being extended by an amount less than epsilon. This would result in inconsistent indexes. (The next release notes will need to recommend that users reindex GiST indexes on boxes, polygons, circles, and points, since all four opclasses use gist_box_same.) Second, gist_point_consistent used exact comparisons for upper-page comparisons in ~= searches, when it needs to use fuzzy comparisons to ensure it finds all matches; and it used fuzzy comparisons for point <@ box searches, when it needs to use exact comparisons because that's what the <@ operator (rather inconsistently) does. The added regression test cases illustrate all three misbehaviors. Back-patch to all active branches. (8.4 did not have GiST point_ops, but it still seems prudent to apply the gist_box_same patch to it.) Alexander Korotkov, reviewed by Noah Misch
2013-02-07Repair bugs in GiST page splitting code for multi-column indexes.Tom Lane
When considering a non-last column in a multi-column GiST index, gistsplit.c tries to improve on the split chosen by the opclass-specific pickSplit function by considering penalties for the next column. However, there were two bugs in this code: it failed to recompute the union keys for the leftmost index columns, even though these might well change after reassigning tuples; and it included the old union keys in the recomputation for the columns it did recompute, so that those keys couldn't get smaller even if they should. The first problem could result in an invalid index in which searches wouldn't find index entries that are in fact present; the second would make the index less efficient to search. Both of these errors were caused by misuse of gistMakeUnionItVec, whose API was designed in a way that just begged such errors to be made. There is no situation in which it's safe or useful to compute the union keys for a subset of the index columns, and there is no caller that wants any previous union keys to be included in the computation; so the undocumented choice to treat the union keys as in/out rather than pure output parameters is a waste of code as well as being dangerous. Hence, rather than just making a minimal patch, I've changed the API of gistMakeUnionItVec to remove the "startkey" parameter (it now always processes all index columns) and treat the attr/isnull arrays as purely output parameters. In passing, also get rid of a couple of unnecessary and dangerous uses of static variables in gistutil.c. It's remarkable that the one in gistMakeUnionKey hasn't given us portability troubles before now, because in addition to posing a re-entrancy hazard, it was unsafely assuming that a static char[] array would have at least Datum alignment. Per investigation of a trouble report from Tomas Vondra. (There are also some bugs in contrib/btree_gist to be fixed, but that seems like material for a separate patch.) Back-patch to all supported branches.
2013-02-07Fix possible failure to send final transaction counts to stats collector.Tom Lane
Normally, we suppress sending a tabstats message to the collector unless there were some actual table stats to send. However, during backend exit we should force out the message if there are any transaction commit/abort counts to send, else the session's last few commit/abort counts will never get reported at all. We had logic for this, but the short-circuit test at the top of pgstat_report_stat() ignored the "force" flag, with the consequence that session-ending transactions that touched no database-local tables would not get counted. Seems to be an oversight in my commit 641912b4d17fd214a5e5bae4e7bb9ddbc28b144b, which added the "force" flag. That was back in 8.3, so back-patch to all supported versions.
2013-02-04Stamp 8.4.16.REL8_4_16Tom Lane
2013-02-04Prevent execution of enum_recv() from SQL.Tom Lane
This function was misdeclared to take cstring when it should take internal. This at least allows crashing the server, and in principle an attacker might be able to use the function to examine the contents of server memory. The correct fix is to adjust the system catalog contents (and fix the regression tests that should have caught this but failed to). However, asking users to correct the catalog contents in existing installations is a pain, so as a band-aid fix for the back branches, install a check in enum_recv() to make it throw error if called with a cstring argument. We will later revert this in HEAD in favor of correcting the catalogs. Our thanks to Sumit Soni (via Secunia SVCRP) for reporting this issue. Security: CVE-2013-0255