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2007-09-24Reduce the size of memory allocations by lazy vacuum when processing a smallAlvaro Herrera
table, by allocating just enough for a hardcoded number of dead tuples per page. The current estimate is 200 dead tuples per page. Per reports from Jeff Amiel, Erik Jones and Marko Kreen, and subsequent discussion. CVS: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CVS: Enter Log. Lines beginning with `CVS:' are removed automatically CVS: CVS: Committing in . CVS: CVS: Modified Files: CVS: commands/vacuumlazy.c CVS: ----------------------------------------------------------------------
2007-09-22Fix bogus calculation of potential output string length in translate().Tom Lane
2007-09-16Fix aboriginal mistake in lazy VACUUM's code for truncating awayTom Lane
no-longer-needed pages at the end of a table. We thought we could throw away pages containing HEAPTUPLE_DEAD tuples; but this is not so, because such tuples very likely have index entries pointing at them, and we wouldn't have removed the index entries. The problem only emerges in a somewhat unlikely race condition: the dead tuples have to have been inserted by a transaction that later aborted, and this has to have happened between VACUUM's initial scan of the page and then rechecking it for empty in count_nondeletable_pages. But that timespan will include an index-cleaning pass, so it's not all that hard to hit. This seems to explain a couple of previously unsolved bug reports.
2007-09-13Translation updatesPeter Eisentraut
2007-09-12Fix the database-wide version of CLUSTER to silently skip temp tables ofAlvaro Herrera
remote sessions, instead of erroring out in the middle of the operation. This is a backpatch of a previous fix applied to CLUSTER to HEAD and 8.2, all the way back that it is relevant to.
2007-09-12Add a CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS call in the site where the vacuum delay pointAlvaro Herrera
was removed.
2007-09-11Sync timezone data with 2007g zic release.Tom Lane
2007-09-11Stamp releases 8.2.5, 8.1.10, 8.0.14, 7.4.18, 7.3.20.Bruce Momjian
Update FAQs for 8.2.5.
2007-09-11Make sure that open hash table scans are cleaned up when bgwriter tries toTom Lane
recover from elog(ERROR). Problem was created by introduction of hash seq search tracking awhile back, and affects all branches that have bgwriter; in HEAD the disease has snuck into autovacuum and walwriter too. (Not sure that the latter two use hash_seq_search at the moment, but surely they might someday.) Per report from Sergey Koposov.
2007-09-10Remove the vacuum_delay_point call in count_nondeletable_pages, because we holdAlvaro Herrera
an exclusive lock on the table at this point, which we want to release as soon as possible. This is called in the phase of lazy vacuum where we truncate the empty pages at the end of the table. An alternative solution would be to lower the vacuum delay settings before starting the truncating phase, but this doesn't work very well in autovacuum due to the autobalancing code (which can cause other processes to change our cost delay settings). This case could be considered in the balancing code, but it is simpler this way.
2007-08-29Fix aboriginal bug in _tarAddFile(): when complaining that the amount of dataTom Lane
read from the temp file didn't match the file length reported by ftello(), the wrong variable's value was printed, and so the message made no sense. Clean up a couple other coding infelicities while at it.
2007-08-29Fixed bug in Informix define handling.Michael Meskes
2007-08-25Fix brain fade in DefineIndex(): it was continuing to access the table'sTom Lane
relcache entry after having heap_close'd it. This could lead to misbehavior if a relcache flush wiped out the cache entry meanwhile. In 8.2 there is a very real risk of CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY using the wrong relid for locking and waiting purposes. I think the bug is only cosmetic in 8.0 and 8.1, because their transgression is limited to using RelationGetRelationName(rel) in an ereport message immediately after heap_close, and there's no way (except with special debugging options) for a cache flush to occur in that interval. Not quite sure that it's cosmetic in 7.4, but seems best to patch anyway. Found by trying to run the regression tests with CLOBBER_CACHE_ALWAYS enabled. Maybe we should try to do that on a regular basis --- it's awfully slow, but perhaps some fast buildfarm machine could do it once in awhile.
2007-08-21Fix potential access-off-the-end-of-memory in varbit_out(): it fetched theTom Lane
byte after the last full byte of the bit array, regardless of whether that byte was part of the valid data or not. Found by buildfarm testing. Thanks to Stefan Kaltenbrunner for nailing down the cause.
2007-08-15Repair problems occurring when multiple RI updates have to be done to the sameTom Lane
row within one query: we were firing check triggers before all the updates were done, leading to bogus failures. Fix by making the triggers queued by an RI update go at the end of the outer query's trigger event list, thereby effectively making the processing "breadth-first". This was indeed how it worked pre-8.0, so the bug does not occur in the 7.x branches. Per report from Pavel Stehule.
2007-08-08Fix a gradual memory leak in ExecReScanAgg(). Because the aggregationNeil Conway
hash table is allocated in a child context of the agg node's memory context, MemoryContextReset() will reset but *not* delete the child context. Since ExecReScanAgg() proceeds to build a new hash table from scratch (in a new sub-context), this results in leaking the header for the previous memory context. Therefore, use MemoryContextResetAndDeleteChildren() instead. Credit: My colleague Sailesh Krishnamurthy at Truviso for isolating the cause of the leak.
2007-08-06Fix pg_restore to guard against unexpected EOF while reading an archive file.Tom Lane
Per report and partial patch from Chad Wagner.
2007-08-04Suppress time zone name (%Z) when logging timestamps in xlog.c startupTom Lane
on Windows. This is yet another manifestation of the problem that Windows returns time zone names that may be in a different encoding than we are using. I've put a better solution in HEAD, but the back branches need a simple patch. Per report from Hiroshi Saito.
2007-08-02Make sure syslogPipe runs in binary mode on Windows to avoid corrupting the ↵Andrew Dunstan
pipe chunking protocol. Backport to 8.0
2007-08-02Fix a memory leak in tuplestore_end(). Unlikely to be significant duringNeil Conway
normal operation, but tuplestore_end() ought to do what it claims to do.
2007-07-31Fix a bug in the original implementation of redundant-join-clause removal:Tom Lane
clauses in which one side or the other references both sides of the join cannot be removed as redundant, because that expression won't have been constrained below the join. Per report from Sergey Burladyan.
2007-07-31Fix security definer functions with polymorphic arguments. This case hasTom Lane
never worked because fmgr_security_definer() neglected to pass the fn_expr information through. Per report from Viatcheslav Kalinin.
2007-07-23The correct min buffer size isMagnus Hagander
INITIAL_EXPBUFFER_SIZE, not PQERRORMSG_LENGTH. Backpatch only, the proper fix in HEAD is to use PQExpBuffers everywhere.
2007-07-21Fix elog.c to avoid infinite recursion (leading to backend crash) whenTom Lane
log_min_error_statement is active and there is some problem in logging the current query string; for example, that it's too long to include in the log message without running out of memory. This problem has existed since the log_min_error_statement feature was introduced. No doubt the reason it wasn't detected long ago is that 8.2 is the first release that defaults log_min_error_statement to less than PANIC level. Per report from Bill Moran.
2007-07-20Fix WAL replay of truncate operations to cope with the possibility that theTom Lane
truncated relation was deleted later in the WAL sequence. Since replay normally auto-creates a relation upon its first reference by a WAL log entry, failure is seen only if the truncate entry happens to be the first reference after the checkpoint we're restarting from; which is a pretty unusual case but of course not impossible. Fix by making truncate entries auto-create like the other ones do. Per report and test case from Dharmendra Goyal.
2007-07-19Make replace(), split_part(), and string_to_array() behave somewhat sanelyTom Lane
when handed an invalidly-encoded pattern. The previous coding could get into an infinite loop if pg_mb2wchar_with_len() returned a zero-length string after we'd tested for nonempty pattern; which is exactly what it will do if the string consists only of an incomplete multibyte character. This led to either an out-of-memory error or a backend crash depending on platform. Per report from Wiktor Wodecki.
2007-07-19Only use the pipe chunking protocol if we know the syslogger shouldAndrew Dunstan
be catching stderr output, and we are not ourselves the syslogger. Otherwise, go directly to stderr. Bug noticed by Tom Lane. Backpatch as far as 8.0.
2007-07-17Fix incorrect optimization of foreign-key checks. When an UPDATE on theTom Lane
referencing table does not change the tuple's FK column(s), we don't bother to check the PK table since the constraint was presumably already valid. However, the check is still necessary if the tuple was inserted by our own transaction, since in that case the INSERT trigger will conclude it need not make the check (since its version of the tuple has been deleted). We got this right for simple cases, but not when the insert and update are in different subtransactions of the current top-level transaction; in such cases the FK check would never be made at all. (Hence, problem dates back to 8.0 when subtransactions were added --- it's actually the subtransaction version of a bug fixed in 7.3.5.) Fix, and add regression test cases. Report and fix by Affan Salman.
2007-07-17Fix outfuncs.c to dump A_Const nodes representing NULLs correctly. This hasTom Lane
been broken since forever, but was not noticed because people seldom look at raw parse trees. AFAIK, no impact on users except that debug_print_parse might fail; but patch it all the way back anyway. Per report from Jeff Ross.
2007-07-02Fix failure to restart Postgres when Linux kernel returns EIDRM for shmctl().Tom Lane
This is a Linux kernel bug that apparently exists in every extant kernel version: sometimes shmctl() will fail with EIDRM when EINVAL is correct. We were assuming that EIDRM indicates a possible conflict with pre-existing backends, and refusing to start the postmaster when this happens. Fortunately, there does not seem to be any case where Linux can legitimately return EIDRM (it doesn't track shmem segments in a way that would allow that), so we can get away with just assuming that EIDRM means EINVAL on this platform. Per reports from Michael Fuhr and Jon Lapham --- it's a bit surprising we have not seen more reports, actually.
2007-06-29Fix a passel of ancient bugs in to_char(), including two distinct bufferTom Lane
overruns (neither of which seem likely to be exploitable as security holes, fortunately, since the provoker can't control the data written). One of these is due to choosing to stomp on the output of a called function, which is bad news in any case; make it treat the called functions' results as read-only. Avoid some unnecessary palloc/pfree traffic too; it's not really helpful to free small temporary objects, and again this is presuming more than it ought to about the nature of the results of called functions. Per report from Patrick Welche and additional code-reading by Imad.
2007-06-28Fix incorrect tests for undef Perl values in some places in plperl.c.Tom Lane
The correct test for defined-ness is SvOK(sv), not anything involving SvTYPE. Per bug #3415 from Matt Taylor. Back-patch as far as 8.0; no apparent problem in 7.x.
2007-06-20transformColumnDefinition failed to complain aboutTom Lane
create table foo (bar int default null default 3); due to not thinking about the special-case handling of DEFAULT NULL. Problem noticed while investigating bug #3396.
2007-06-20CREATE DOMAIN ... DEFAULT NULL failed because gram.y special-cases DEFAULTTom Lane
NULL and DefineDomain didn't. Bug goes all the way back to original coding of domains. Per bug #3396 from Sergey Burladyan.
2007-06-14Implement a chunking protocol for writes to the syslogger pipe, with messagesAndrew Dunstan
reassembled in the syslogger before writing to the log file. This prevents partial messages from being written, which mucks up log rotation, and messages from different backends being interleaved, which causes garbled logs. Backport as far as 8.0, where the syslogger was introduced. Tom Lane and Andrew Dunstan
2007-06-09Allow numeric_fac() to be interrupted, since it can take quite a while forTom Lane
large inputs. Also cause it to error out immediately if the result will overflow, instead of grinding through a lot of calculation first. Per gripe from Jim Nasby.
2007-06-04On win32, don't use SO_REUSEADDR for TCP sockets.Magnus Hagander
Per failure on buildfarm member baiji and subsequent discussion.
2007-06-02Fix erroneous error reporting for overlength input in text_date(),Tom Lane
text_time(), and text_timetz(). 7.4-vintage bug found by Greg Stark.
2007-06-01Fix aboriginal bug in BufFileDumpBuffer that would cause it to write theTom Lane
wrong data when dumping a bufferload that crosses a component-file boundary. This probably has not been seen in the wild because (a) component files are normally 1GB apiece and (b) non-block-aligned buffer usage is relatively rare. But it's fairly easy to reproduce a problem if one reduces RELSEG_SIZE in a test build. Kudos to Kurt Harriman for spotting the bug.
2007-05-30Fix overly-strict sanity check in BeginInternalSubTransaction that made itTom Lane
fail when used in a deferred trigger. Bug goes back to 8.0; no doubt the reason it hadn't been noticed is that we've been discouraging use of user-defined constraint triggers. Per report from Frank van Vugt.
2007-05-18Remove redundant logging of send failures when SSL is in use. While pqcomm.cTom Lane
had been taught not to do that ages ago, the SSL code was helpfully bleating anyway. Resolves some recent reports such as bug #3266; however the underlying cause of the related bug #2829 is still unclear.
2007-05-01Fix a thinko in my patch of a couple months ago for bug #3116: it did theTom Lane
wrong thing when inlining polymorphic SQL functions, because it was using the function's declared return type where it should have used the actual result type of the current call. In 8.1 and 8.2 this causes obvious failures even if you don't have assertions turned on; in 8.0 and 7.4 it would only be a problem if the inlined expression were used as an input to a function that did run-time type determination on its inputs. Add a regression test, since this is evidently an under-tested area.
2007-04-26Fix dynahash.c to suppress hash bucket splits while a hash_seq_search() scanTom Lane
is in progress on the same hashtable. This seems the least invasive way to fix the recently-recognized problem that a split could cause the scan to visit entries twice or (with much lower probability) miss them entirely. The only field-reported problem caused by this is the "failed to re-find shared lock object" PANIC in COMMIT PREPARED reported by Michel Dorochevsky, which was caused by multiply visited entries. However, it seems certain that mdsync() is vulnerable to missing required fsync's due to missed entries, and I am fearful that RelationCacheInitializePhase2() might be at risk as well. Because of that and the generalized hazard presented by this bug, back-patch all the supported branches. Along the way, fix pg_prepared_statement() and pg_cursor() to not assume that the hashtables they are examining will stay static between calls. This is risky regardless of the newly noted dynahash problem, because hash_seq_search() has never promised to cope with deletion of table entries other than the just-returned one. There may be no bug here because the only supported way to call these functions is via ExecMakeTableFunctionResult() which will cycle them to completion before doing anything very interesting, but it seems best to get rid of the assumption. This affects 8.2 and HEAD only, since those functions weren't there earlier.
2007-04-20Support explicit placement of the temporary-table schema within search_path.Tom Lane
This is needed to allow a security-definer function to set a truly secure value of search_path. Without it, a malicious user can use temporary objects to execute code with the privileges of the security-definer function. Even pushing the temp schema to the back of the search path is not quite good enough, because a function or operator at the back of the path might still capture control from one nearer the front due to having a more exact datatype match. Hence, disable searching the temp schema altogether for functions and operators. Security: CVE-2007-2138
2007-04-19Sync timezone data with 2007e zic release.Tom Lane
2007-04-19Repair PANIC condition in hash indexes when a previous index extension attemptTom Lane
failed (due to lock conflicts or out-of-space). We might have already extended the index's filesystem EOF before failing, causing the EOF to be beyond what the metapage says is the last used page. Hence the invariant maintained by the code needs to be "EOF is at or beyond last used page", not "EOF is exactly the last used page". Problem was created by my patch of 2006-11-19 that attempted to repair bug #2737. Since that was back-patched to 7.4, this needs to be as well. Per report and test case from Vlastimil Krejcir.
2007-04-19Stamp releases 8.2.4, 8.1.9, 8.0.13, 7.4.17, 7.3.19.Bruce Momjian
2007-04-18Translation updatesPeter Eisentraut
2007-04-16Don't write timing output in quiet mode.Magnus Hagander
Merlin Moncure
2007-04-02Fix check_sql_fn_retval to allow the case where a SQL function declared toTom Lane
return void ends with a SELECT, if that SELECT has a single result that is also of type void. Without this, it's hard to write a void function that calls another void function. Per gripe from Peter. Back-patch as far as 8.0.