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2015-09-24Fix psql's code for locale-aware formatting of numeric output.Tom Lane
This code did the wrong thing entirely for numbers with an exponent but no decimal point (e.g., '1e6'), as reported by Jeff Janes in bug #13636. More generally, it made lots of unverified assumptions about what the input string could possibly look like. Rearrange so that it only fools with leading digits that it's directly verified are there, and an immediately adjacent decimal point. While at it, get rid of some useless inefficiencies, like converting the grouping count string to integer over and over (and over). This has been broken for a long time, so back-patch to all supported branches.
2015-09-24Lower *_freeze_max_age minimum values.Andres Freund
The old minimum values are rather large, making it time consuming to test related behaviour. Additionally the current limits, especially for multixacts, can be problematic in space-constrained systems. 10000000 multixacts can contain a lot of members. Since there's no good reason for the current limits, lower them a good bit. Setting them to 0 would be a bad idea, triggering endless vacuums, so still retain a limit. While at it fix autovacuum_multixact_freeze_max_age to refer to multixact.c instead of varsup.c. Reviewed-By: Robert Haas Discussion: CA+TgmoYmQPHcrc3GSs7vwvrbTkbcGD9Gik=OztbDGGrovkkEzQ@mail.gmail.com Backpatch: 9.0 (in parts)
2015-09-21Fix possible internal overflow in numeric multiplication.Tom Lane
mul_var() postpones propagating carries until it risks overflow in its internal digit array. However, the logic failed to account for the possibility of overflow in the carry propagation step, allowing wrong results to be generated in corner cases. We must slightly reduce the when-to-propagate-carries threshold to avoid that. Discovered and fixed by Dean Rasheed, with small adjustments by me. This has been wrong since commit d72f6c75038d8d37e64a29a04b911f728044d83b, so back-patch to all supported branches.
2015-09-20Restrict file mode creation mask during tmpfile().Noah Misch
Per Coverity. Back-patch to 9.0 (all supported versions). Michael Paquier, reviewed (in earlier versions) by Heikki Linnakangas.
2015-09-20Be more wary about partially-valid LOCALLOCK data in RemoveLocalLock().Tom Lane
RemoveLocalLock() must consider the possibility that LockAcquireExtended() failed to palloc the initial space for a locallock's lockOwners array. I had evidently meant to cope with this hazard when the code was originally written (commit 1785acebf2ed14fd66955e2d9a55d77a025f418d), but missed that the pfree needed to be protected with an if-test. Just to make sure things are left in a clean state, reset numLockOwners as well. Per low-memory testing by Andreas Seltenreich. Back-patch to all supported branches.
2015-09-19Let compiler handle size calculation of bool types.Michael Meskes
Back in the day this did not work, but modern compilers should handle it themselves.
2015-09-18Fix low-probability memory leak in regex execution.Tom Lane
After an internal failure in shortest() or longest() while pinning down the exact location of a match, find() forgot to free the DFA structure before returning. This is pretty unlikely to occur, since we just successfully ran the "search" variant of the DFA; but it could happen, and it would result in a session-lifespan memory leak since this code uses malloc() directly. Problem seems to have been aboriginal in Spencer's library, so back-patch all the way. In passing, correct a thinko in a comment I added awhile back about the meaning of the "ntree" field. I happened across these issues while comparing our code to Tcl's version of the library.
2015-09-12Remove set-but-not-used variable.Tom Lane
In branches before 9.3, commit 8703059c6 caused join_is_legal()'s unique_ified variable to become unused, since its only remaining use is for LATERAL-related tests which don't exist pre-9.3. My compiler didn't complain about that, but Peter's does.
2015-09-11pg_dump, pg_upgrade: allow postgres/template1 tablespace movesBruce Momjian
Modify pg_dump to restore postgres/template1 databases to non-default tablespaces by switching out of the database to be moved, then switching back. Also, to fix potentially cases where the old/new tablespaces might not match, fix pg_upgrade to process new/old tablespaces separately in all cases. Report by Marti Raudsepp Patch by Marti Raudsepp, me Backpatch through 9.0
2015-09-10Fix setrefs.c comment properly.Tom Lane
The "typo" alleged in commit 1e460d4bd was actually a comment that was correct when written, but I missed updating it in commit b5282aa89. Use a slightly less specific (and hopefully more future-proof) description of what is collected. Back-patch to 9.2 where that commit appeared, and revert the comment to its then-entirely-correct state before that.
2015-09-10Fix typo in setrefs.cStephen Frost
We're adding OIDs, not TIDs, to invalItems. Pointed out by Etsuro Fujita. Back-patch to all supported branches.
2015-09-09Fix minor bug in regexp makesearch() function.Tom Lane
The list-wrangling here was done wrong, allowing the same state to get put into the list twice. The following loop then would clone it twice. The second clone would wind up with no inarcs, so that there was no observable misbehavior AFAICT, but a useless state in the finished NFA isn't an especially good thing.
2015-09-09Remove files signaling a standby promotion request at postmaster startupFujii Masao
This commit makes postmaster forcibly remove the files signaling a standby promotion request. Otherwise, the existence of those files can trigger a promotion too early, whether a user wants that or not. This removal of files is usually unnecessary because they can exist only during a few moments during a standby promotion. However there is a race condition: if pg_ctl promote is executed and creates the files during a promotion, the files can stay around even after the server is brought up to new master. Then, if new standby starts by using the backup taken from that master, the files can exist at the server startup and should be removed in order to avoid an unexpected promotion. Back-patch to 9.1 where promote signal file was introduced. Problem reported by Feike Steenbergen. Original patch by Michael Paquier, modified by me. Discussion: 20150528100705.4686.91426@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2015-09-09Add gin_fuzzy_search_limit to postgresql.conf.sample.Fujii Masao
This was forgotten in 8a3631f (commit that originally added the parameter) and 0ca9907 (commit that added the documentation later that year). Back-patch to all supported versions.
2015-09-07Change type of DOW/DOY to UNITSGreg Stark
2015-09-07Make GIN's cleanup pending list process interruptableTeodor Sigaev
Cleanup process could be called by ordinary insert/update and could take a lot of time. Add vacuum_delay_point() to make this process interruptable. Under vacuum this call will also throttle a vacuum process to decrease system load, called from insert/update it will not throttle, and that reduces a latency. Backpatch for all supported branches. Jeff Janes <jeff.janes@gmail.com>
2015-09-06Move DTK_ISODOW DTK_DOW and DTK_DOY to be type UNITS rather thanGreg Stark
RESERV. RESERV is meant for tokens like "now" and having them in that category throws errors like these when used as an input date: stark=# SELECT 'doy'::timestamptz; ERROR: unexpected dtype 33 while parsing timestamptz "doy" LINE 1: SELECT 'doy'::timestamptz; ^ stark=# SELECT 'dow'::timestamptz; ERROR: unexpected dtype 32 while parsing timestamptz "dow" LINE 1: SELECT 'dow'::timestamptz; ^ Found by LLVM's Libfuzzer
2015-09-05Fix misc typos.Heikki Linnakangas
Oskari Saarenmaa. Backpatch to stable branches where applicable.
2015-09-04Fix subtransaction cleanup after an outer-subtransaction portal fails.Tom Lane
Formerly, we treated only portals created in the current subtransaction as having failed during subtransaction abort. However, if the error occurred while running a portal created in an outer subtransaction (ie, a cursor declared before the last savepoint), that has to be considered broken too. To allow reliable detection of which ones those are, add a bookkeeping field to struct Portal that tracks the innermost subtransaction in which each portal has actually been executed. (Without this, we'd end up failing portals containing functions that had called the subtransaction, thereby breaking plpgsql exception blocks completely.) In addition, when we fail an outer-subtransaction Portal, transfer its resources into the subtransaction's resource owner, so that they're released early in cleanup of the subxact. This fixes a problem reported by Jim Nasby in which a function executed in an outer-subtransaction cursor could cause an Assert failure or crash by referencing a relation created within the inner subtransaction. The proximate cause of the Assert failure is that AtEOSubXact_RelationCache assumed it could blow away a relcache entry without first checking that the entry had zero refcount. That was a bad idea on its own terms, so add such a check there, and to the similar coding in AtEOXact_RelationCache. This provides an independent safety measure in case there are still ways to provoke the situation despite the Portal-level changes. This has been broken since subtransactions were invented, so back-patch to all supported branches. Tom Lane and Michael Paquier
2015-08-29Fix s_lock.h PPC assembly code to be compatible with native AIX assembler.Tom Lane
On recent AIX it's necessary to configure gcc to use the native assembler (because the GNU assembler hasn't been updated to handle AIX 6+). This caused PG builds to fail with assembler syntax errors, because we'd try to compile s_lock.h's gcc asm fragment for PPC, and that assembly code relied on GNU-style local labels. We can't substitute normal labels because it would fail in any file containing more than one inlined use of tas(). Fortunately, that code is stable enough, and the PPC ISA is simple enough, that it doesn't seem like too much of a maintenance burden to just hand-code the branch offsets, removing the need for any labels. Note that the AIX assembler only accepts "$" for the location counter pseudo-symbol. The usual GNU convention is "."; but it appears that all versions of gas for PPC also accept "$", so in theory this patch will not break any other PPC platforms. This has been reported by a few people, but Steve Underwood gets the credit for being the first to pursue the problem far enough to understand why it was failing. Thanks also to Noah Misch for additional testing.
2015-08-27Add a small cache of locks owned by a resource owner in ResourceOwner.Tom Lane
Back-patch 9.3-era commit eeb6f37d89fc60c6449ca12ef9e91491069369cb, to improve the older branches' ability to cope with pg_dump dumping a large number of tables. I back-patched into 9.2 and 9.1, but not 9.0 as it would have required a significant amount of refactoring, thus negating the argument that this is by-now-well-tested code. Jeff Janes, reviewed by Amit Kapila and Heikki Linnakangas.
2015-08-21Avoid O(N^2) behavior when enlarging SPI tuple table in spi_printtup().Tom Lane
For no obvious reason, spi_printtup() was coded to enlarge the tuple pointer table by just 256 slots at a time, rather than doubling the size at each reallocation, as is our usual habit. For very large SPI results, this makes for O(N^2) time spent in repalloc(), which of course soon comes to dominate the runtime. Use the standard doubling approach instead. This is a longstanding performance bug, so back-patch to all active branches. Neil Conway
2015-08-21Fix plpython crash when returning string representation of a RECORD result.Tom Lane
PLyString_ToComposite() blithely overwrote proc->result.out.d, even though for a composite result type the other union variant proc->result.out.r is the one that should be valid. This could result in a crash if out.r had in fact been filled in (proc->result.is_rowtype == 1) and then somebody later attempted to use that data; as per bug #13579 from Paweł Michalak. Just to add insult to injury, it didn't work for RECORD results anyway, because record_in() would refuse the case. Fix by doing the I/O function lookup in a local PLyTypeInfo variable, as we were doing already in PLyObject_ToComposite(). This is not a great technique because any fn_extra data allocated by the input function will be leaked permanently (thanks to using TopMemoryContext as fn_mcxt). But that's a pre-existing issue that is much less serious than a crash, so leave it to be fixed separately. This bug would be a potential security issue, except that plpython is only available to superusers and the crash requires coding the function in a way that didn't work before today's patches. Add regression test cases covering all the supported methods of converting composite results. Back-patch to 9.1 where the faulty coding was introduced.
2015-08-21Allow record_in() and record_recv() to work for transient record types.Tom Lane
If we have the typmod that identifies a registered record type, there's no reason that record_in() should refuse to perform input conversion for it. Now, in direct SQL usage, record_in() will always be passed typmod = -1 with type OID RECORDOID, because no typmodin exists for type RECORD, so the case can't arise. However, some InputFunctionCall users such as PLs may be able to supply the right typmod, so we should allow this to support them. Note: the previous coding and comment here predate commit 59c016aa9f490b53. There has been no case since 8.1 in which the passed type OID wouldn't be valid; and if it weren't, this error message wouldn't be apropos anyway. Better to let lookup_rowtype_tupdesc complain about it. Back-patch to 9.1, as this is necessary for my upcoming plpython fix. I'm committing it separately just to make it a bit more visible in the commit history.
2015-08-18Fix a few bogus statement type names in plpgsql error messages.Tom Lane
plpgsql's error location context messages ("PL/pgSQL function fn-name line line-no at stmt-type") would misreport a CONTINUE statement as being an EXIT, and misreport a MOVE statement as being a FETCH. These are clear bugs that have been there a long time, so back-patch to all supported branches. In addition, in 9.5 and HEAD, change the description of EXECUTE from "EXECUTE statement" to just plain EXECUTE; there seems no good reason why this statement type should be described differently from others that have a well-defined head keyword. And distinguish GET STACKED DIAGNOSTICS from plain GET DIAGNOSTICS. These are a bit more of a judgment call, and also affect existing regression-test outputs, so I did not back-patch into stable branches. Pavel Stehule and Tom Lane
2015-08-15Don't use 'bool' as a struct member name in help_config.c.Andres Freund
Doing so doesn't work if bool is a macro rather than a typedef. Although c.h spends some effort to support configurations where bool is a preexisting macro, help_config.c has existed this way since 2003 (b700a6), and there have not been any reports of problems. Backpatch anyway since this is as riskless as it gets. Discussion: 20150812084351.GD8470@awork2.anarazel.de Backpatch: 9.0-master
2015-08-13Improve regression test case to avoid depending on system catalog stats.Tom Lane
In commit 95f4e59c32866716 I added a regression test case that examined the plan of a query on system catalogs. That isn't a terribly great idea because the catalogs tend to change from version to version, or even within a version if someone makes an unrelated regression-test change that populates the catalogs a bit differently. Usually I try to make planner test cases rely on test tables that have not changed since Berkeley days, but I got sloppy in this case because the submitted crasher example queried the catalogs and I didn't spend enough time on rewriting it. But it was a problem waiting to happen, as I was rudely reminded when I tried to port that patch into Salesforce's Postgres variant :-(. So spend a little more effort and rewrite the query to not use any system catalogs. I verified that this version still provokes the Assert if 95f4e59c32866716's code fix is reverted. I also removed the EXPLAIN output from the test, as it turns out that the assertion occurs while considering a plan that isn't the one ultimately selected anyway; so there's no value in risking any cross-platform variation in that printout. Back-patch to 9.2, like the previous patch.
2015-08-13Fix declaration of isarray variable.Michael Meskes
Found and fixed by Andres Freund.
2015-08-12Undo mistaken tightening in join_is_legal().Tom Lane
One of the changes I made in commit 8703059c6b55c427 turns out not to have been such a good idea: we still need the exception in join_is_legal() that allows a join if both inputs already overlap the RHS of the special join we're checking. Otherwise we can miss valid plans, and might indeed fail to find a plan at all, as in recent report from Andreas Seltenreich. That code was added way back in commit c17117649b9ae23d, but I failed to include a regression test case then; my bad. Put it back with a better explanation, and a test this time. The logic does end up a bit different than before though: I now believe it's appropriate to make this check first, thereby allowing such a case whether or not we'd consider the previous SJ(s) to commute with this one. (Presumably, we already decided they did; but it was confusing to have this consideration in the middle of the code that was handling the other case.) Back-patch to all active branches, like the previous patch.
2015-08-12This routine was calling ecpg_alloc to allocate to memory but did notMichael Meskes
actually check the returned pointer allocated, potentially NULL which could be the result of a malloc call. Issue noted by Coverity, fixed by Michael Paquier <michael@otacoo.com>
2015-08-12Fix some possible low-memory failures in regexp compilation.Tom Lane
newnfa() failed to set the regex error state when malloc() fails. Several places in regcomp.c failed to check for an error after calling subre(). Each of these mistakes could lead to null-pointer-dereference crashes in memory-starved backends. Report and patch by Andreas Seltenreich. Back-patch to all branches.
2015-08-10Fix privilege dumping from servers too old to have that type of privilege.Tom Lane
pg_dump produced fairly silly GRANT/REVOKE commands when dumping types from pre-9.2 servers, and when dumping functions or procedural languages from pre-7.3 servers. Those server versions lack the typacl, proacl, and/or lanacl columns respectively, and pg_dump substituted default values that were in fact incorrect. We ended up revoking all the owner's own privileges for the object while granting all privileges to PUBLIC. Of course the owner would then have those privileges again via PUBLIC, so long as she did not try to revoke PUBLIC's privileges; which may explain the lack of field reports. Nonetheless this is pretty silly behavior. The stakes were raised by my recent patch to make pg_dump dump shell types, because 9.2 and up pg_dump would proceed to emit bogus GRANT/REVOKE commands for a shell type if dumping from a pre-9.2 server; and the server will not accept GRANT/REVOKE commands for a shell type. (Perhaps it should, but that's a topic for another day.) So the resulting dump script wouldn't load without errors. The right thing to do is to act as though these objects have default privileges (null ACL entries), which causes pg_dump to print no GRANT/REVOKE commands at all for them. That fixes the silly results and also dodges the problem with shell types. In passing, modify getProcLangs() to be less creatively different about how to handle missing columns when dumping from older server versions. Every other data-acquisition function in pg_dump does that by substituting appropriate default values in the version-specific SQL commands, and I see no reason why this one should march to its own drummer. Its use of "SELECT *" was likewise not conformant with anyplace else, not to mention it's not considered good SQL style for production queries. Back-patch to all supported versions. Although 9.0 and 9.1 pg_dump don't have the issue with typacl, they are more likely than newer versions to be used to dump from ancient servers, so we ought to fix the proacl/lanacl issues all the way back.
2015-08-10Accept alternate spellings of __sparcv7 and __sparcv8.Tom Lane
Apparently some versions of gcc prefer __sparc_v7__ and __sparc_v8__. Per report from Waldemar Brodkorb.
2015-08-10Further mucking with PlaceHolderVar-related restrictions on join order.Tom Lane
Commit 85e5e222b1dd02f135a8c3bf387d0d6d88e669bd turns out not to have taken care of all cases of the partially-evaluatable-PlaceHolderVar problem found by Andreas Seltenreich's fuzz testing. I had set it up to check for risky PHVs only in the event that we were making a star-schema-based exception to the param_source_rels join ordering heuristic. However, it turns out that the problem can occur even in joins that satisfy the param_source_rels heuristic, in which case allow_star_schema_join() isn't consulted. Refactor so that we check for risky PHVs whenever the proposed join has any remaining parameterization. Back-patch to 9.2, like the previous patch (except for the regression test case, which only works back to 9.3 because it uses LATERAL). Note that this discovery implies that problems of this sort could've occurred in 9.2 and up even before the star-schema patch; though I've not tried to prove that experimentally.
2015-08-06Further fixes for degenerate outer join clauses.Tom Lane
Further testing revealed that commit f69b4b9495269cc4 was still a few bricks shy of a load: minor tweaking of the previous test cases resulted in the same wrong-outer-join-order problem coming back. After study I concluded that my previous changes in make_outerjoininfo() were just accidentally masking the problem, and should be reverted in favor of forcing syntactic join order whenever an upper outer join's predicate doesn't mention a lower outer join's LHS. This still allows the chained-outer-joins style that is the normally optimizable case. I also tightened things up some more in join_is_legal(). It seems to me on review that what's really happening in the exception case where we ignore a mismatched special join is that we're allowing the proposed join to associate into the RHS of the outer join we're comparing it to. As such, we should *always* insist that the proposed join be a left join, which eliminates a bunch of rather dubious argumentation. The case where we weren't enforcing that was the one that was already known buggy anyway (it had a violatable Assert before the aforesaid commit) so it hardly deserves a lot of deference. Back-patch to all active branches, like the previous patch. The added regression test case failed in all branches back to 9.1, and I think it's only an unrelated change in costing calculations that kept 9.0 from choosing a broken plan.
2015-08-05Make real sure we don't reassociate joins into or out of SEMI/ANTI joins.Tom Lane
Per the discussion in optimizer/README, it's unsafe to reassociate anything into or out of the RHS of a SEMI or ANTI join. An example from Piotr Stefaniak showed that join_is_legal() wasn't sufficiently enforcing this rule, so lock it down a little harder. I couldn't find a reasonably simple example of the optimizer trying to do this, so no new regression test. (Piotr's example involved the random search in GEQO accidentally trying an invalid case and triggering a sanity check way downstream in clause selectivity estimation, which did not seem like a sequence of events that would be useful to memorialize in a regression test as-is.) Back-patch to all active branches.
2015-08-04Fix pg_dump to dump shell types.Tom Lane
Per discussion, it really ought to do this. The original choice to exclude shell types was probably made in the dark ages before we made it harder to accidentally create shell types; but that was in 7.3. Also, cause the standard regression tests to leave a shell type behind, for convenience in testing the case in pg_dump and pg_upgrade. Back-patch to all supported branches.
2015-08-04Fix bogus "out of memory" reports in tuplestore.c.Tom Lane
The tuplesort/tuplestore memory management logic assumed that the chunk allocation overhead for its memtuples array could not increase when increasing the array size. This is and always was true for tuplesort, but we (I, I think) blindly copied that logic into tuplestore.c without noticing that the assumption failed to hold for the much smaller array elements used by tuplestore. Given rather small work_mem, this could result in an improper complaint about "unexpected out-of-memory situation", as reported by Brent DeSpain in bug #13530. The easiest way to fix this is just to increase tuplestore's initial array size so that the assumption holds. Rather than relying on magic constants, though, let's export a #define from aset.c that represents the safe allocation threshold, and make tuplestore's calculation depend on that. Do the same in tuplesort.c to keep the logic looking parallel, even though tuplesort.c isn't actually at risk at present. This will keep us from breaking it if we ever muck with the allocation parameters in aset.c. Back-patch to all supported versions. The error message doesn't occur pre-9.3, not so much because the problem can't happen as because the pre-9.3 tuplestore code neglected to check for it. (The chance of trouble is a great deal larger as of 9.3, though, due to changes in the array-size-increasing strategy.) However, allowing LACKMEM() to become true unexpectedly could still result in less-than-desirable behavior, so let's patch it all the way back.
2015-08-04Fix a PlaceHolderVar-related oversight in star-schema planning patch.Tom Lane
In commit b514a7460d9127ddda6598307272c701cbb133b7, I changed the planner so that it would allow nestloop paths to remain partially parameterized, ie the inner relation might need parameters from both the current outer relation and some upper-level outer relation. That's fine so long as we're talking about distinct parameters; but the patch also allowed creation of nestloop paths for cases where the inner relation's parameter was a PlaceHolderVar whose eval_at set included the current outer relation and some upper-level one. That does *not* work. In principle we could allow such a PlaceHolderVar to be evaluated at the lower join node using values passed down from the upper relation along with values from the join's own outer relation. However, nodeNestloop.c only supports simple Vars not arbitrary expressions as nestloop parameters. createplan.c is also a few bricks shy of being able to handle such cases; it misplaces the PlaceHolderVar parameters in the plan tree, which is why the visible symptoms of this bug are "plan should not reference subplan's variable" and "failed to assign all NestLoopParams to plan nodes" planner errors. Adding the necessary complexity to make this work doesn't seem like it would be repaid in significantly better plans, because in cases where such a PHV exists, there is probably a corresponding join order constraint that would allow a good plan to be found without using the star-schema exception. Furthermore, adding complexity to nodeNestloop.c would create a run-time penalty even for plans where this whole consideration is irrelevant. So let's just reject such paths instead. Per fuzz testing by Andreas Seltenreich; the added regression test is based on his example query. Back-patch to 9.2, like the previous patch.
2015-08-04Cap wal_buffers to avoid a server crash when it's set very large.Robert Haas
It must be possible to multiply wal_buffers by XLOG_BLCKSZ without overflowing int, or calculations in StartupXLOG will go badly wrong and crash the server. Avoid that by imposing a maximum value on wal_buffers. This will be just under 2GB, assuming the usual value for XLOG_BLCKSZ. Josh Berkus, per an analysis by Andrew Gierth.
2015-08-02Fix incorrect order of lock file removal and failure to close() sockets.Tom Lane
Commit c9b0cbe98bd783e24a8c4d8d8ac472a494b81292 accidentally broke the order of operations during postmaster shutdown: it resulted in removing the per-socket lockfiles after, not before, postmaster.pid. This creates a race-condition hazard for a new postmaster that's started immediately after observing that postmaster.pid has disappeared; if it sees the socket lockfile still present, it will quite properly refuse to start. This error appears to be the explanation for at least some of the intermittent buildfarm failures we've seen in the pg_upgrade test. Another problem, which has been there all along, is that the postmaster has never bothered to close() its listen sockets, but has just allowed them to close at process death. This creates a different race condition for an incoming postmaster: it might be unable to bind to the desired listen address because the old postmaster is still incumbent. This might explain some odd failures we've seen in the past, too. (Note: this is not related to the fact that individual backends don't close their client communication sockets. That behavior is intentional and is not changed by this patch.) Fix by adding an on_proc_exit function that closes the postmaster's ports explicitly, and (in 9.3 and up) reshuffling the responsibility for where to unlink the Unix socket files. Lock file unlinking can stay where it is, but teach it to unlink the lock files in reverse order of creation.
2015-08-01Fix some planner issues with degenerate outer join clauses.Tom Lane
An outer join clause that didn't actually reference the RHS (perhaps only after constant-folding) could confuse the join order enforcement logic, leading to wrong query results. Also, nested occurrences of such things could trigger an Assertion that on reflection seems incorrect. Per fuzz testing by Andreas Seltenreich. The practical use of such cases seems thin enough that it's not too surprising we've not heard field reports about it. This has been broken for a long time, so back-patch to all active branches.
2015-07-30Avoid some zero-divide hazards in the planner.Tom Lane
Although I think on all modern machines floating division by zero results in Infinity not SIGFPE, we still don't want infinities running around in the planner's costing estimates; too much risk of that leading to insane behavior. grouping_planner() failed to consider the possibility that final_rel might be known dummy and hence have zero rowcount. (I wonder if it would be better to set a rows estimate of 1 for dummy relations? But at least in the back branches, changing this convention seems like a bad idea, so I'll leave that for another day.) Make certain that get_variable_numdistinct() produces a nonzero result. The case that can be shown to be broken is with stadistinct < 0.0 and small ntuples; we did not prevent the result from rounding to zero. For good luck I applied clamp_row_est() to all the nonconstant return values. In ExecChooseHashTableSize(), Assert that we compute positive nbuckets and nbatch. I know of no reason to think this isn't the case, but it seems like a good safety check. Per reports from Piotr Stefaniak. Back-patch to all active branches.
2015-07-28Reduce chatter from signaling of autovacuum workers.Tom Lane
Don't print a WARNING if we get ESRCH from a kill() that's attempting to cancel an autovacuum worker. It's possible (and has been seen in the buildfarm) that the worker is already gone by the time we are able to execute the kill, in which case the failure is harmless. About the only plausible reason for reporting such cases would be to help debug corrupted lock table contents, but this is hardly likely to be the most important symptom if that happens. Moreover issuing a WARNING might scare users more than is warranted. Also, since sending a signal to an autovacuum worker is now entirely a routine thing, and the worker will log the query cancel on its end anyway, reduce the message saying we're doing that from LOG to DEBUG1 level. Very minor cosmetic cleanup as well. Since the main practical reason for doing this is to avoid unnecessary buildfarm failures, back-patch to all active branches.
2015-07-28Disable ssl renegotiation by default.Andres Freund
While postgres' use of SSL renegotiation is a good idea in theory, it turned out to not work well in practice. The specification and openssl's implementation of it have lead to several security issues. Postgres' use of renegotiation also had its share of bugs. Additionally OpenSSL has a bunch of bugs around renegotiation, reported and open for years, that regularly lead to connections breaking with obscure error messages. We tried increasingly complex workarounds to get around these bugs, but we didn't find anything complete. Since these connection breakages often lead to hard to debug problems, e.g. spuriously failing base backups and significant latency spikes when synchronous replication is used, we have decided to change the default setting for ssl renegotiation to 0 (disabled) in the released backbranches and remove it entirely in 9.5 and master.. Author: Michael Paquier, with changes by me Discussion: 20150624144148.GQ4797@alap3.anarazel.de Backpatch: 9.0-9.4; 9.5 and master get a different patch
2015-07-28Remove an unsafe Assert, and explain join_clause_is_movable_into() better.Tom Lane
join_clause_is_movable_into() is approximate, in the sense that it might sometimes return "false" when actually it would be valid to push the given join clause down to the specified level. This is okay ... but there was an Assert in get_joinrel_parampathinfo() that's only safe if the answers are always exact. Comment out the Assert, and add a bunch of commentary to clarify what's going on. Per fuzz testing by Andreas Seltenreich. The added regression test is a pretty silly query, but it's based on his crasher example. Back-patch to 9.2 where the faulty logic was introduced.
2015-07-27Don't assume that PageIsEmpty() returns true on an all-zeros page.Heikki Linnakangas
It does currently, and I don't see us changing that any time soon, but we don't make that assumption anywhere else. Per Tom Lane's suggestion. Backpatch to 9.2, like the previous patch that added this assumption.
2015-07-27Reuse all-zero pages in GIN.Heikki Linnakangas
In GIN, an all-zeros page would be leaked forever, and never reused. Just add them to the FSM in vacuum, and they will be reinitialized when grabbed from the FSM. On master and 9.5, attempting to access the page's opaque struct also caused an assertion failure, although that was otherwise harmless. Reported by Jeff Janes. Backpatch to all supported versions.
2015-07-27Fix handling of all-zero pages in SP-GiST vacuum.Heikki Linnakangas
SP-GiST initialized an all-zeros page at vacuum, but that was not WAL-logged, which is not safe. You might get a torn page write, when it gets flushed to disk, and end-up with a half-initialized index page. To fix, leave it in the all-zeros state, and add it to the FSM. It will be initialized when reused. Also don't set the page-deleted flag when recycling an empty page. That was also not WAL-logged, and a torn write of that would cause the page to have an invalid checksum. Backpatch to 9.2, where SP-GiST indexes were added.
2015-07-26Make entirely-dummy appendrels get marked as such in set_append_rel_size.Tom Lane
The planner generally expects that the estimated rowcount of any relation is at least one row, *unless* it has been proven empty by constraint exclusion or similar mechanisms, which is marked by installing a dummy path as the rel's cheapest path (cf. IS_DUMMY_REL). When I split up allpaths.c's processing of base rels into separate set_base_rel_sizes and set_base_rel_pathlists steps, the intention was that dummy rels would get marked as such during the "set size" step; this is what justifies an Assert in indxpath.c's get_loop_count that other relations should either be dummy or have positive rowcount. Unfortunately I didn't get that quite right for append relations: if all the child rels have been proven empty then set_append_rel_size would come up with a rowcount of zero, which is correct, but it didn't then do set_dummy_rel_pathlist. (We would have ended up with the right state after set_append_rel_pathlist, but that's too late, if we generate indexpaths for some other rel first.) In addition to fixing the actual bug, I installed an Assert enforcing this convention in set_rel_size; that then allows simplification of a couple of now-redundant tests for zero rowcount in set_append_rel_size. Also, to cover the possibility that third-party FDWs have been careless about not returning a zero rowcount estimate, apply clamp_row_est to whatever an FDW comes up with as the rows estimate. Per report from Andreas Seltenreich. Back-patch to 9.2. Earlier branches did not have the separation between set_base_rel_sizes and set_base_rel_pathlists steps, so there was no intermediate state where an appendrel would have had inconsistent rowcount and pathlist. It's possible that adding the Assert to set_rel_size would be a good idea in older branches too; but since they're not under development any more, it's likely not worth the trouble.