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2010-10-02Throw an appropriate error if ALTER COLUMN TYPE finds a dependent trigger.Tom Lane
Actually making this case work, if the column is used in the trigger's WHEN condition, will take some new code that probably isn't appropriate to back-patch. For now, just throw a FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED error rather than allowing control to reach the "unexpected object" case. Per bug #5688 from Daniel Grace. Back-patch to 9.0 where the possibility of such a dependency was introduced.
2010-10-01Tag 9.0.1Marc G. Fournier
2010-09-30Use a separate interpreter for each calling SQL userid in plperl and pltcl.Tom Lane
There are numerous methods by which a Perl or Tcl function can subvert the behavior of another such function executed later; for example, by redefining standard functions or operators called by the target function. If the target function is SECURITY DEFINER, or is called by such a function, this means that any ordinary SQL user with Perl or Tcl language usage rights can do essentially anything with the privileges of the target function's owner. To close this security hole, create a separate Perl or Tcl interpreter for each SQL userid under which plperl or pltcl functions are executed within a session. However, all plperlu or pltclu functions run within a session still share a single interpreter, since they all execute at the trust level of a database superuser anyway. Note: this change results in a functionality loss when libperl has been built without the "multiplicity" option: it's no longer possible to call plperl functions under different userids in one session, since such a libperl can't support multiple interpreters in one process. However, such a libperl already failed to support concurrent use of plperl and plperlu, so it's likely that few people use such versions with Postgres. Security: CVE-2010-3433
2010-09-30Translation updates for 9.0.1Peter Eisentraut
2010-09-28Fix another small oversight in command_no_begin patch.Tom Lane
Need a "return false" to prevent tests from continuing after we've moved the "query" pointer. As it stood, it'd accept "DROP DISCARD ALL" as a match.
2010-09-28Fix PlaceHolderVar mechanism's interaction with outer joins.Tom Lane
The point of a PlaceHolderVar is to allow a non-strict expression to be evaluated below an outer join, after which its value bubbles up like a Var and can be forced to NULL when the outer join's semantics require that. However, there was a serious design oversight in that, namely that we didn't ensure that there was actually a correct place in the plan tree to evaluate the placeholder :-(. It may be necessary to delay evaluation of an outer join to ensure that a placeholder that should be evaluated below the join can be evaluated there. Per recent bug report from Kirill Simonov. Back-patch to 8.4 where the PlaceHolderVar mechanism was introduced.
2010-09-28Only DISCARD ALL should be in the command_no_begin list.Itagaki Takahiro
We allowes DISCARD PLANS and TEMP in a transaction.
2010-09-28Add DISCARD to the command_no_begin list for AUTOCOMMIT=off.Itagaki Takahiro
Backpatch to 8.3. Reported by Sergey Burladyan.
2010-09-27Add "(change requires restart)" note to some postgresql.conf parameters.Robert Haas
Devrim GÜNDÜZ
2010-09-25Fix another join removal bug: the check on PlaceHolderVars was wrong.Tom Lane
The previous coding would decide that join removal was unsafe upon finding a PlaceHolderVar that needed to be evaluated at the inner rel and then used above the join. However, this fails to cover the case of PlaceHolderVars that refer to both the inner rel and some other rels. Per bug report from Andrus.
2010-09-25Further fixes to the pg_get_expr() security fix in back branches.Tom Lane
It now emerges that the JDBC driver expects to be able to use pg_get_expr() on an output of a sub-SELECT. So extend the check logic to be able to recurse into a sub-SELECT to see if the argument is ultimately coming from an appropriate column. Per report from Thomas Kellerer.
2010-09-24Still more .gitignore cleanup.Tom Lane
Fix overly-enthusiastic ignores, as identified by git ls-files -i --exclude-standard
2010-09-23ProcessIncomingNotify *must* reset notifyInterruptOccurred when called.Tom Lane
This was broken in 9.0 by careless addition of an early-exit path. Bug report and diagnosis by Jeff Davis.
2010-09-23Prevent show_session_authorization from crashing when session_authorizationTom Lane
hasn't been set. The only known case where this can happen is when show_session_authorization is invoked in an autovacuum process, which is possible if an index function calls it, as for example in bug #5669 from Andrew Geery. We could perhaps try to return a sensible value, such as the name of the cluster-owning superuser; but that seems like much more trouble than the case is worth, and in any case it could create new possible failure modes. Simply returning an empty string seems like the most appropriate fix. Back-patch to all supported versions, even those before autovacuum, just in case there's another way to provoke this crash.
2010-09-23Avoid sharing subpath list structure when flattening nested AppendRels.Tom Lane
In some situations the original coding led to corrupting the child AppendRel's subpaths list, effectively adding other members of the parent's list to it. This was usually masked because we never made any further use of the child's list, but given the right combination of circumstances, we could do so. The visible symptom would be a relation getting scanned twice, as in bug #5673 from David Schmitt. Backpatch to 8.2, which is as far back as the risky coding appears. The example submitted by David only fails in 8.4 and later, but I'm not convinced that there aren't any even-more-obscure cases where 8.2 and 8.3 would fail.
2010-09-23Initialize tableoid field correctly when dumping foreign data wrappers andHeikki Linnakangas
servers. AFAICT it's harmless at the moment because nothing can depend on either, but as soon as we introduce an object type with such dependencies, tableoid needs to be set or pg_dump will fail to interpret the dependencies correctly. In theory, I guess the uninitialized garbage in tableoid could cause the object to be mistaken for some other object with same OID as well.
2010-09-22Re-allow input of Julian dates prior to 0001-01-01 AD.Tom Lane
This was unintentionally broken in 8.4 while tightening up checking of ordinary non-Julian date inputs to forbid references to "year zero". Per bug #5672 from Benjamin Gigot.
2010-09-22More fixes for libpq's .gitignore file.Tom Lane
The previous patches failed to cover a lot of symlinks that are only added in platform-specific cases. Make the lists match what's in the Makefile for each branch.
2010-09-22Fix remaining stray references to CVS.Tom Lane
These are just cosmetic and don't seem worth back-patching far. I put them into 9.0 just because it was trivial to do so.
2010-09-22Some more gitignore cleanups: cover contrib and PL regression test outputs.Tom Lane
Also do some further work in the back branches, where quite a bit wasn't covered by Magnus' original back-patch.
2010-09-22Add gitignore files for ecpg regression tests.Magnus Hagander
Backpatch to 8.2 as that's how far the structure looks the same.
2010-09-22Convert cvsignore to gitignore, and add .gitignore for build targets.Magnus Hagander
2010-09-17tag v9.0.0 ... the big day approachesREL9_0_0Marc G. Fournier
2010-09-16Treat exit code 128 (ERROR_WAIT_NO_CHILDREN) as non-fatal on Win32,Magnus Hagander
since it can happen when a process fails to start when the system is under high load. Per several bug reports and many peoples investigation. Back-patch to 8.4, which is as far back as the "deadman-switch" for shared memory access exists.
2010-09-16Translation updates for 9.0.0Peter Eisentraut
2010-09-14Fix join-removal logic for pseudoconstant and outerjoin-delayed quals.Tom Lane
In these cases a qual can get marked with the removable rel in its required_relids, but this is just to schedule its evaluation correctly, not because it really depends on the rel. We were assuming that, in effect, we could throw away *all* quals so marked, which is nonsense. Tighten up the logic to be a little more paranoid about which quals belong to the outer join being considered for removal, and arrange for all quals that don't belong to be updated so they will still get evaluated correctly. Also fix another problem that happened to be exposed by this test case, which was that make_join_rel() was failing to notice some cases where a constant-false qual could be used to prove a join relation empty. If it's a pushed-down constant false, then the relation is empty even if it's an outer join, because the qual applies after the outer join expansion. Per report from Nathan Grange. Back-patch into 9.0.
2010-09-14Don't warn about an in-progress online backup, when we're recovering fromHeikki Linnakangas
an online backup instead of performing one. pg_ctl can detect that by checking if recovery.conf exists. Backup label file is renamed away early in recovery, so the window where backup label exists during recovery is normally very small, but you can run into it e.g if restore_command is set incorrectly and the startup process never finds even the first WAL segment containing the checkpoint record to start recovery from. Fujii Masao with comments by me.
2010-09-13Remove prototype for non-existent function from walreceiver.h. Tidy up byHeikki Linnakangas
separating prototypes for functions in walreceiver.c and walreceiverfuncs.c with comments.
2010-09-13Process options from the startup packed in walsender. Only few optionsHeikki Linnakangas
make sense for walsender, but for example application_name and client_encoding do. We still don't apply per-role settings from pg_db_role_setting, because that would require connecting to a database to read the table. Fujii Masao
2010-09-07Modify pg_upgrade to set/restore all environment variables related toBruce Momjian
collation/encoding to match English when reading controldata. This now matches the English variable setting used by pg_regress.c. Backpatch to 9.0.X.
2010-09-04Pad the ps_status display with nulls, not blanks, on Darwin.Tom Lane
A long time ago, this didn't work nicely, but it seems to work on all recent versions of OS X. The blank-pad method is less desirable since it results in lots of extra space in ps' output. Per Alexey Klyukin.
2010-09-02Fix up flushing of composite-type typcache entries to be driven directly byTom Lane
SI invalidation events, rather than indirectly through the relcache. In the previous coding, we had to flush a composite-type typcache entry whenever we discarded the corresponding relcache entry. This caused problems at least when testing with RELCACHE_FORCE_RELEASE, as shown in recent report from Jeff Davis, and might result in real-world problems given the kind of unexpected relcache flush that that test mechanism is intended to model. The new coding decouples relcache and typcache management, which is a good thing anyway from a structural perspective. The cost is that we have to search the typcache linearly to find entries that need to be flushed. There are a couple of ways we could avoid that, but at the moment it's not clear it's worth any extra trouble, because the typcache contains very few entries in typical operation. Back-patch to 8.2, the same as some other recent fixes in this general area. The patch could be carried back to 8.0 with some additional work, but given that it's only hypothetical whether we're fixing any problem observable in the field, it doesn't seem worth the work now.
2010-08-30Cosmetic fixes for KnownAssignedXidsGetOldestXmin, per Fujii Masao.Tom Lane
2010-08-30Fix misleading DEBUG2 issued during RemoveOldXlogFiles()Simon Riggs
2010-08-30Truncate subtrans after each restartpoint.Simon Riggs
Issue reported by Harald Kolb, patch by Fujii Masao, review by me.
2010-08-30Teach GetOldestXmin() about KnownAssignedXids during recovery.Simon Riggs
Very minor issue, though this is required for a later patch. Reported by Heikki Linnakangas.
2010-08-30Fix typo in comment.Heikki Linnakangas
2010-08-29Reduce PANIC to ERROR in some occasionally-reported btree failure cases.Tom Lane
This patch changes _bt_split() and _bt_pagedel() to throw a plain ERROR, rather than PANIC, for several cases that are reported from the field from time to time: * right sibling's left-link doesn't match; * PageAddItem failure during _bt_split(); * parent page's next child isn't right sibling during _bt_pagedel(). In addition the error messages for these cases have been made a bit more verbose, with additional values included. The original motivation for PANIC here was to capture core dumps for subsequent analysis. But with so many users whose platforms don't capture core dumps by default, or who are unprepared to analyze them anyway, it's hard to justify a forced database restart when we can fairly easily detect the problems before we've reached the critical sections where PANIC would be necessary. It is not currently known whether the reports of these messages indicate well-hidden bugs in Postgres, or are a result of storage-level malfeasance; the latter possibility suggests that we ought to try to be more robust even if there is a bug here that's ultimately found. Backpatch to 8.2. The code before that is sufficiently different that it doesn't seem worth the trouble to back-port further.
2010-08-27tag rc1 ... final stretch ...REL9_0_RC1Marc G. Fournier
2010-08-26Document the existence of the socket lock file under unix_socket_directory,Tom Lane
which is perhaps not a terribly good spot for it but there doesn't seem to be a better place. Also add a source-code comment pointing out a couple reasons for having a separate lock file. Per suggestion from Greg Smith.
2010-08-26Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2010l: DST law changes inTom Lane
Egypt and Palestine. Added new names for two Micronesian timezones: Pacific/Chuuk is now preferred over Pacific/Truk (and the preferred abbreviation is CHUT not TRUT) and Pacific/Pohnpei is preferred over Pacific/Ponape. Historical corrections for Finland.
2010-08-26Improve wording for privilege description on certain failure messages; theAlvaro Herrera
original misleadingly suggests that only access is meant, causing confusion. Per recent trouble report by Robert McGehee on pgsql-admin.
2010-08-26Remove duplicate translatable phraseAlvaro Herrera
2010-08-26Translation updates for 9.0rc1Peter Eisentraut
2010-08-26Fix ExecMakeTableFunctionResult to verify that all rows returned by a SRFTom Lane
returning "record" actually do have the same rowtype. This is needed because the parser can't realistically enforce that they will all have the same typmod, as seen in a recent example from David Wheeler. Back-patch to 8.0, which is as far back as we have the notion of RECORD subtypes being distinguished by typmod. Wheeler's example depends on 8.4-and-up features, but I suspect there may be ways to provoke similar failures before 8.4.
2010-08-25Improve hint message for ENOMEM failure from shmget().Tom Lane
It turns out that some platforms return ENOMEM for a request that violates SHMALL, whereas we were assuming that ENOSPC would always be used for that. Apparently the latter is a Linuxism while ENOMEM is the BSD tradition. Extend the ENOMEM hint to suggest that raising SHMALL might be needed. Per gripe from A.M. Backpatch to 9.0, but not further, because this doesn't seem important enough to warrant creating extra translation work in the stable branches. (If it were, we'd have figured this out years ago.)
2010-08-25Catch null pointer returns from PyCObject_AsVoidPtr and PyCObject_FromVoidPtrPeter Eisentraut
This is reproducibly possible in Python 2.7 if the user turned PendingDeprecationWarning into an error, but it's theoretically also possible in earlier versions in case of exceptional conditions. backpatched to 8.0
2010-08-23Marginal code cleanup for streaming replication.Tom Lane
There is no reason that proc.c should have to get involved in this dirty hack for letting the postmaster know which children are walsenders. Revert that file to the way it was, and confine the kluge to pmsignal.c and postmaster.c.
2010-08-21Use a non-locale-dependent definition of isspace() in array_in/array_out.Tom Lane
array_in discards unquoted leading and trailing whitespace in array values, while array_out is careful to quote array elements that contain whitespace. This is problematic when the definition of "whitespace" varies between locales: array_in could drop characters that were meant to be part of the value. To avoid that, lock down "whitespace" to mean only the traditional six ASCII space characters. This change also works around a bug in OS X and some older BSD systems, in which isspace() could return true for character fragments in UTF8 locales. (There may be other places in PG where that bug could cause problems, but this is the only one complained of so far; see recent report from Steven Schlansker.) Back-patch to 9.0, but not further. Given the lack of previous reports of trouble, changing this behavior in stable branches seems to offer more risk of breaking applications than reward of avoiding problems.
2010-08-21Improve parallel restore's ability to cope with selective restore (-L option).Tom Lane
The original coding tended to break down in the face of modified restore orders, as shown in bug #5626 from Albert Ullrich, because it would flip over into parallel-restore operation too soon. That causes problems because we don't have sufficient dependency information in dump archives to allow safe parallel processing of SECTION_PRE_DATA items. Even if we did, it's probably undesirable to allow that to override the commanded restore order. To fix the problem of omitted items causing unexpected changes in restore order, tweak SortTocFromFile so that omitted items end up at the head of the list not the tail. This ensures that they'll be examined and their dependencies will be marked satisfied before we get to any interesting items. In HEAD and 9.0, we can easily change restore_toc_entries_parallel so that all SECTION_PRE_DATA items are guaranteed to be processed in the initial serial-restore loop, and hence in commanded order. Only DATA and POST_DATA items are candidates for parallel processing. For them there might be variations from the commanded order because of parallelism, but we should do it in a safe order thanks to dependencies. In 8.4 it's much harder to make such a guarantee. I settled for not letting the initial loop break out into parallel processing mode if it sees a DATA/POST_DATA item that's not to be restored; this at least prevents a non-restorable item from causing premature exit from the loop. This means that 8.4 will be more likely to fail given a badly-ordered -L list than 9.x, but we don't really promise any such thing will work anyway.