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2009-02-28Fix buffer allocations in encoding conversion routines so that they won'tTom Lane
fail on zero-length inputs. This isn't an issue in normal use because the conversion infrastructure skips calling the converters for empty strings. However a problem was created by yesterday's patch to check whether the right conversion function is supplied in CREATE CONVERSION. The most future-proof fix seems to be to make the converters safe for this corner case.
2009-02-27In CREATE CONVERSION, test that the given function is a valid conversionHeikki Linnakangas
function for the specified source and destination encodings. We do that by calling the function with an empty string. If it can't perform the requested conversion, it will throw an error. Backport to 7.4 - 8.3. Per bug report #4680 by Denis Afonin.
2009-01-30tag 7.4.24REL7_4_24Marc G. Fournier
2009-01-29Translation updatesPeter Eisentraut
2009-01-29Replace argument-checking Asserts with regular test-and-elog checks in allTom Lane
encoding conversion functions. These are not can't-happen cases because it's possible to create a conversion with the wrong conversion function for the specified encoding pair. That would lead to an Assert crash in an Assert-enabled build, or incorrect conversion otherwise, neither of which is desirable. This would be a DOS issue if production databases were customarily built with asserts enabled, but fortunately that's not so. Per an observation by Heikki. Back-patch to all supported branches.
2009-01-28Go over all OpenSSL return values and make sure we compare themMagnus Hagander
to the documented API value. The previous code got it right as it's implemented, but accepted too much/too little compared to the API documentation. Per comment from Zdenek Kotala.
2009-01-13Backpatch to 7.4 the part of 1.84 (from the 8.0 timeline) that wasn't alreadyAlvaro Herrera
patched, viz. str_numth(). The rest of that patch was already applied as part of 1.69.2.1. Per report and patch from Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum. The involved revisions were: revision 1.84 date: 2005-01-12 22:40:13 -0300; author: tgl; state: Exp; lines: +9 -7; branches: 1.84.4; Remove unportable assumption that it's okay to use the target buffer of an sprintf() as a source string. Demonstrably does not work with recent gcc and/or glibc on some platforms. and revision 1.69.2.1 date: 2005-03-25 20:42:21 -0400; author: tgl; state: Exp; lines: +24 -8; Prevent to_char(interval) from dumping core on month-related formats when a zero-month interval is given. Per discussion with Karel.
2009-01-06Fix logic in lazy vacuum to decide if it's worth trying to truncate the heap.Heikki Linnakangas
If the table was smaller than REL_TRUNCATE_FRACTION (= 16) pages, we always tried to acquire AccessExclusiveLock on it even if there was no empty pages at the end. Report by Simon Riggs. Back-patch all the way to 7.4.
2008-10-31tag 7.4.23REL7_4_23Marc G. Fournier
2008-10-30Translation updatesPeter Eisentraut
2008-10-27Install a more robust solution for the problem of infinite error-processingTom Lane
recursion when we are unable to convert a localized error message to the client's encoding. We've been over this ground before, but as reported by Ibrar Ahmed, it still didn't work in the case of conversion failures for the conversion-failure message itself :-(. Fix by installing a "circuit breaker" that disables attempts to localize this message once we get into recursion trouble. Patch all supported branches, because it is in fact broken in all of them; though I had to add some missing translations to the older branches in order to expose the failure in the particular test case I was using.
2008-10-16Fix SPI_getvalue and SPI_getbinval to range-check the given attribute numberTom Lane
according to the TupleDesc's natts, not the number of physical columns in the tuple. The previous coding would do the wrong thing in cases where natts is different from the tuple's column count: either incorrectly report error when it should just treat the column as null, or actually crash due to indexing off the end of the TupleDesc's attribute array. (The second case is probably not possible in modern PG versions, due to more careful handling of inheritance cases than we once had. But it's still a clear lack of robustness here.) The incorrect error indication is ignored by all callers within the core PG distribution, so this bug has no symptoms visible within the core code, but it might well be an issue for add-on packages. So patch all the way back.
2008-10-10Optional argument should be optional.Michael Meskes
2008-10-02Fix improper display of fractional seconds in interval valuesTom Lane
when using --enable-integer-datetimes and a non-ISO datestyle. Ron Mayer
2008-09-19tag for 7.4.22REL7_4_22Marc G. Fournier
2008-08-16Fix pg_dump/pg_restore's ExecuteSqlCommand() to behave suitably if PQexecTom Lane
returns NULL instead of a PGresult. The former coding would fail, which is OK, but it neglected to give you the PQerrorMessage that might tell you why. In the oldest branches, there was another problem: it'd sometimes report PQerrorMessage from the wrong connection.
2008-08-05Do not allow Unique nodes to be scanned backwards. The code claimed that itTom Lane
would work, but in fact it didn't return the same rows when moving backwards as when moving forwards. This would have no visible effect in a DISTINCT query (at least assuming the column datatypes use a strong definition of equality), but it gave entirely wrong answers for DISTINCT ON queries.
2008-07-08Fix performance bug in write_syslog(): the code to preferentially break theTom Lane
log message at newlines cost O(N^2) for very long messages with few or no newlines. For messages in the megabyte range this became the dominant cost. Per gripe from Achilleas Mantzios. Patch all the way back, since this is a safe change with no portability risks. I am also thinking of increasing PG_SYSLOG_LIMIT, but that should be done separately.
2008-07-07Fix estimate_num_groups() to assume that GROUP BY expressions yielding booleanTom Lane
results always contribute two groups, regardless of the expression contents. This is very substantially more accurate than the regular heuristic for certain boolean tests like "col IS NULL". Per gripe from Sam Mason. Back-patch to all supported releases, since the behavior of estimate_num_groups() hasn't changed all that much since 7.4.
2008-06-10Create a script to handle stamping release version numbers into files,Tom Lane
replacing the tedious and error-prone manual process we've been using.
2008-06-09Fix datetime input functions to correctly detect integer overflow whenTom Lane
running on a 64-bit platform ... strtol() will happily return 64-bit output in that case. Per bug #4231 from Geoff Tolley.
2008-06-08Stamp 7.4.21 (except for configure.in/configure)Tom Lane
2008-06-06Fix pg_get_ruledef() so that negative numeric constants are parenthesized.Tom Lane
This is needed because :: casting binds more tightly than minus, so for example -1::integer is not the same as (-1)::integer, and there are cases where the difference is important. In particular this caused a failure in SELECT DISTINCT ... ORDER BY ... where expressions that should have matched were seen as different by the parser; but I suspect that there could be other cases where failure to parenthesize leads to subtler semantic differences in reloaded rules. Per report from Alexandr Popov.
2008-06-05Stamp 7.4.20 (except for configure.in/configure)Tom Lane
2008-06-05Translation updates.Tom Lane
2008-05-27Back-patch the 8.3 fix that prohibits TRUNCATE, CLUSTER, and REINDEX when theTom Lane
current transaction has any open references to the target relation or index (implying it has an active query using the relation). Also back-patch the 8.2 fix that prohibits TRUNCATE and CLUSTER when there are pending AFTER-trigger events. Per suggestion from Heikki.
2008-05-25Adjust timestamp regression tests to prevent two low-probability failureTom Lane
cases. Recent buildfarm experience shows that it is sometimes possible to execute several SQL commands in less time than the granularity of Windows' not-very-high-resolution gettimeofday(), leading to a failure because the tests expect the value of now() to change and it doesn't. Also, it was recognized some time ago that the same area of the tests could fail if local midnight passes between the insertion and the checking of the values for 'yesterday', 'tomorrow', etc. Clean all this up per ideas from myself and Greg Stark. There remains a window for failure if the transaction block is entered exactly at local midnight (so that 'now' and 'today' have the same value), but that seems low-probability enough to live with. Since the point of this change is mostly to eliminate buildfarm noise, back-patch to all versions we are still actively testing.
2008-05-13Don't try to close negative file descriptors, since this can causeMagnus Hagander
crashes on certain platforms. In particular, the MSVC runtime is known to do this. Fixes bug #4162, reported and diagnosed by Javier Pimas
2008-05-09Fix an ancient oversight in change_varattnos_of_a_node: it neglected to updateTom Lane
varoattno along with varattno. This resulted in having Vars that were not seen as equal(), causing inheritance of the "same" constraint from different parent relations to fail. An example is create table pp1 (f1 int check (f1>0)); create table cc1 (f2 text, f3 int) inherits (pp1); create table cc2(f4 float) inherits(pp1,cc1); Backpatch as far as 7.4. (The test case still fails in 7.4, for reasons that I don't feel like investigating at the moment.) This is a backpatch commit only. The fix will be applied in HEAD as part of the upcoming pg_constraint patch.
2008-04-11Fix several datatype input functions that were allowing unused bytes in theirTom Lane
results to contain uninitialized, unpredictable values. While this was okay as far as the datatypes themselves were concerned, it's a problem for the parser because occurrences of the "same" literal might not be recognized as equal by datumIsEqual (and hence not by equal()). It seems sufficient to fix this in the input functions since the only critical use of equal() is in the parser's comparisons of ORDER BY and DISTINCT expressions. Per a trouble report from Marc Cousin. Patch all the way back. Interestingly, array_in did not have the bug before 8.2, which may explain why the issue went unnoticed for so long.
2008-04-10Fixed bug in PGTYPEStimestamp_sub that used pointers instead of the values ↵Michael Meskes
to substract.
2008-04-05Defend against JOINs having more than 32K columns altogether. We cannotTom Lane
currently support this because we must be able to build Vars referencing join columns, and varattno is only 16 bits wide. Perhaps this should be improved in future, but considering that it never came up before, I'm not sure the problem is worth much effort. Per bug #4070 from Marcello Ceschia. The problem seems largely academic in 8.0 and 7.4, because they have (different) O(N^2) performance issues with such wide joins, but back-patch all the way anyway.
2008-03-25Adjust DatumGetBool macro so that it isn't fooled by garbage in the DatumTom Lane
to the left of the actual bool value. While in most cases there won't be any, our support for old-style user-defined functions violates the C spec to the extent of calling functions that might return char or short through a function pointer declared to return "char *", which we then coerce to Datum. It is not surprising that the result might contain garbage high-order bits ... what is surprising is that we didn't see such cases long ago. Per report from Magnus. This is a back-patch of a change that was made in HEAD almost exactly a year ago. I had refrained from back-patching at the time, but now we find that this is *necessary* for contrib to work with gcc 4.3.
2008-03-20Add the missing cyrillic "Yo" characters ('e' and 'E' with two dots) to theHeikki Linnakangas
ISO_8859-5 <-> MULE_INTERNAL conversion tables. This was discovered when trying to convert a string containing those characters from ISO_8859-5 to Windows-1251, because we use MULE_INTERNAL/KOI8R as an intermediate encoding between those two. While the missing "Yo" was just an omission in the conversion tables, there are a few other characters like the "Numero" sign ("No" as a single character) that exists in all the other cyrillic encodings (win1251, ISO_8859-5 and cp866), but not in KOI8R. Added comments about that. Patch by Sergey Burladyan. Back-patch to 7.4.
2008-03-19Fix regexp substring matching (substring(string from pattern)) for the cornerTom Lane
case where there is a match to the pattern overall but the user has specified a parenthesized subexpression and that subexpression hasn't got a match. An example is substring('foo' from 'foo(bar)?'). This should return NULL, since (bar) isn't matched, but it was mistakenly returning the whole-pattern match instead (ie, 'foo'). Per bug #4044 from Rui Martins. This has been broken since the beginning; patch in all supported versions. The old behavior was sufficiently inconsistent that it's impossible to believe anyone is depending on it.
2008-03-12Fix LISTEN/NOTIFY race condition reported by Laurent Birtz, by postponingTom Lane
pg_listener modifications commanded by LISTEN and UNLISTEN until the end of the current transaction. This allows us to hold the ExclusiveLock on pg_listener until after commit, with no greater risk of deadlock than there was before. Aside from fixing the race condition, this gets rid of a truly ugly kludge that was there before, namely having to ignore HeapTupleBeingUpdated failures during NOTIFY. There is a small potential incompatibility, which is that if a transaction issues LISTEN or UNLISTEN and then looks into pg_listener before committing, it won't see any resulting row insertion or deletion, where before it would have. It seems unlikely that anyone would be depending on that, though.
2008-03-05Add support for dlopen on recent NetBSD/MIPS, per Rémi Zara.Alvaro Herrera
2008-02-27If RelationBuildDesc() fails to open a critical system index, PANIC withTom Lane
a relevant error message instead of just dumping core. Odd that nobody reported this before Darren Reed.
2008-02-23Avoid trying to print a NULL char pointer in --describe-config. On someTom Lane
platforms this works, but on some it crashes. Zdenek Kotala
2008-02-11Repair VACUUM FULL bug introduced by HOT patch: the original way ofTom Lane
calculating a page's initial free space was fine, and should not have been "improved" by letting PageGetHeapFreeSpace do it. VACUUM FULL is going to reclaim LP_DEAD line pointers later, so there is no need for a guard against the page being too full of line pointers, and having one risks rejecting pages that are perfectly good move destinations. This also exposed a second bug, which is that the empty_end_pages logic assumed that any page with no live tuples would get entered into the fraged_pages list automatically (by virtue of having more free space than the threshold in the do_frag calculation). This assumption certainly seems risky when a low fillfactor has been chosen, and even without tunable fillfactor I think it could conceivably fail on a page with many unused line pointers. So fix the code to force do_frag true when notup is true, and patch this part of the fix all the way back. Per report from Tomas Szepe.
2008-01-14Fix an ancient oversight in libpq's handling of V3-protocol COPY OUT mode:Tom Lane
we need to be able to swallow NOTICE messages, and potentially also ParameterStatus messages (although the latter would be a bit weird), without exiting COPY OUT state. Fix it, and adjust the protocol documentation to emphasize the need for this. Per off-list report from Alexander Galler.
2008-01-06A long time ago, Peter pointed out that ruleutils.c didn't dump simpleTom Lane
constant ORDER/GROUP BY entries properly: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2001-04/msg00457.php The original solution to that was in fact no good, as demonstrated by today's report from Martin Pitt: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2008-01/msg00027.php We can't use the column-number-reference format for a constant that is a resjunk targetlist entry, a case that was unfortunately not thought of in the original discussion. What we can do instead (which did not work at the time, but does work in 7.3 and up) is to emit the constant with explicit ::typename decoration, even if it otherwise wouldn't need it. This is sufficient to keep the parser from thinking it's a column number reference, and indeed is probably what the user must have done to get such a thing into the querytree in the first place.
2008-01-03Stamp release 7.4.19.REL7_4_19Tom Lane
Security: CVE-2007-4769, CVE-2007-4772, CVE-2007-6067, CVE-2007-6600, CVE-2007-6601
2008-01-03Make standard maintenance operations (including VACUUM, ANALYZE, REINDEX,Tom Lane
and CLUSTER) execute as the table owner rather than the calling user, using the same privilege-switching mechanism already used for SECURITY DEFINER functions. The purpose of this change is to ensure that user-defined functions used in index definitions cannot acquire the privileges of a superuser account that is performing routine maintenance. While a function used in an index is supposed to be IMMUTABLE and thus not able to do anything very interesting, there are several easy ways around that restriction; and even if we could plug them all, there would remain a risk of reading sensitive information and broadcasting it through a covert channel such as CPU usage. To prevent bypassing this security measure, execution of SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION and SET ROLE is now forbidden within a SECURITY DEFINER context. Thanks to Itagaki Takahiro for reporting this vulnerability. Security: CVE-2007-6600
2008-01-03Fix assorted security-grade bugs in the regex engine. All of these problemsTom Lane
are shared with Tcl, since it's their code to begin with, and the patches have been copied from Tcl 8.5.0. Problems: CVE-2007-4769: Inadequate check on the range of backref numbers allows crash due to out-of-bounds read. CVE-2007-4772: Infinite loop in regex optimizer for pattern '($|^)*'. CVE-2007-6067: Very slow optimizer cleanup for regex with a large NFA representation, as well as crash if we encounter an out-of-memory condition during NFA construction. Part of the response to CVE-2007-6067 is to put a limit on the number of states in the NFA representation of a regex. This seems needed even though the within-the-code problems have been corrected, since otherwise the code could try to use very large amounts of memory for a suitably-crafted regex, leading to potential DOS by driving the system into swap, activating a kernel OOM killer, etc. Although there are certainly plenty of ways to drive the system into effective DOS with poorly-written SQL queries, these problems seem worth treating as security issues because many applications might accept regex search patterns from untrustworthy sources. Thanks to Will Drewry of Google for reporting these problems. Patches by Will Drewry and Tom Lane. Security: CVE-2007-4769, CVE-2007-4772, CVE-2007-6067
2008-01-02Insert ARST into the list of known timezone abbreviations.Tom Lane
2007-12-18Make path_recv() and poly_recv() reject paths/polygons containing no points.Tom Lane
The zero-point case is sensible so far as the data structure is concerned, so maybe we ought to allow it sometime; but right now the textual input routines for these types don't allow it, and it seems that not all the functions for the types are prepared to cope. Report and patch by Merlin Moncure.
2007-11-23Fix buggy usage of vsnprintf in PL/Python by removing it altogether, insteadAlvaro Herrera
relying on stringinfo.c. This fixes a problem reported by Marko Kreen, but I didn't use his patch, per subsequent discussion.
2007-11-08If an index depends on no columns of its table, give it a dependency on theTom Lane
whole table instead, to ensure that it goes away when the table is dropped. Per bug #3723 from Sam Mason. Backpatch as far as 7.4; AFAICT 7.3 does not have the issue, because it doesn't have general-purpose expression indexes and so there must be at least one column referenced by an index.
2007-11-06Added missing clause to parser.Michael Meskes