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2007-02-06Fix an error in the original coding of holdable cursors: PersistHoldablePortalTom Lane
thought that it didn't have to reposition the underlying tuplestore if the portal is atEnd. But this is not so, because tuplestores have separate read and write cursors ... and the read cursor hasn't moved from the start. This mistake explains bug #2970 from William Zhang. Note: the coding here is pretty inefficient, but given that no one has noticed this bug until now, I'd say hardly anyone uses the case where the cursor has been advanced before being persisted. So maybe it's not worth worrying about.
2007-02-06Remove typmod checking from the recent security-related patches. It turnsTom Lane
out that ExecEvalVar and friends don't necessarily have access to a tuple descriptor with correct typmod: it definitely can contain -1, and possibly might contain other values that are different from the Var's value. Arguably this should be cleaned up someday, but it's not a simple change, and in any case typmod discrepancies don't pose a security hazard. Per reports from numerous people :-( I'm not entirely sure whether the failure can occur in 8.0 --- the simple test cases reported so far don't trigger it there. But back-patch the change all the way anyway.
2007-02-06Fix typo in comment.Tom Lane
2007-02-06Remove some dead code, per Heikki.Tom Lane
2007-02-06Move NAMEDATALEN definition from postgres_ext.h to pg_config_manual.h. ItPeter Eisentraut
used to be part of libpq's exported interface many releases ago, but now it's no longer necessary to make it accessible to clients.
2007-02-06Fix a performance regression in 8.2: optimization of MIN/MAX into indexscansTom Lane
had stopped working for tables buried inside views or sub-selects. This is because I had gotten rid of the simplify_jointree() preprocessing step, and optimize_minmax_aggregates() wasn't smart enough to deal with a non-canonical FromExpr. Per gripe from Bill Howe.
2007-02-06Come to think of it, we should check that commutator pairs have the sameTom Lane
merges/hashes property settings.
2007-02-06Add support for cross-type hashing in hashed subplans (hashed IN/NOT IN casesTom Lane
that aren't turned into true joins). Since this is the last missing bit of infrastructure, go ahead and fill out the hash integer_ops and float_ops opfamilies with cross-type operators. The operator family project is now DONE ... er, except for documentation ...
2007-02-05Pass modern COPY syntax to backend, since copy (query) does not accept old ↵Andrew Dunstan
syntax. Per complaint from Michael Fuhr.
2007-02-05Rename MaxTupleSize to MaxHeapTupleSize to clarify that it's not meant toTom Lane
describe the maximum size of index tuples (which is typically AM-dependent anyway); and consequently remove the bogus deduction for "special space" that was built into it. Adjust TOAST_TUPLE_THRESHOLD and TOAST_MAX_CHUNK_SIZE to avoid wasting two bytes per toast chunk, and to ensure that the calculation correctly tracks any future changes in page header size. The computation had been inaccurate in a way that didn't cause any harm except space wastage, but future changes could have broken it more drastically. Fix the calculation of BTMaxItemSize, which was formerly computed as 1 byte more than it could safely be. This didn't cause any harm in practice because it's only compared against maxalign'd lengths, but future changes in the size of page headers or btree special space could have exposed the problem. initdb forced because of change in TOAST_MAX_CHUNK_SIZE, which alters the storage of toast tables.
2007-02-04Don't MAXALIGN in the checks to decide whether a tuple is over TOAST'sTom Lane
threshold for tuple length. On 4-byte-MAXALIGN machines, the toast code creates tuples that have t_len exactly TOAST_TUPLE_THRESHOLD ... but this number is not itself maxaligned, so if heap_insert maxaligns t_len before comparing to TOAST_TUPLE_THRESHOLD, it'll uselessly recurse back to tuptoaster.c, wasting cycles. (It turns out that this does not happen on 8-byte-MAXALIGN machines, because for them the outer MAXALIGN in the TOAST_MAX_CHUNK_SIZE macro reduces TOAST_MAX_CHUNK_SIZE so that toast tuples will be less than TOAST_TUPLE_THRESHOLD in size. That MAXALIGN is really incorrect, but we can't remove it now, see below.) There isn't any particular value in maxaligning before comparing to the thresholds, so just don't do that, which saves a small number of cycles in itself. These numbers should be rejiggered to minimize wasted space on toast-relation pages, but we can't do that in the back branches because changing TOAST_MAX_CHUNK_SIZE would force an initdb (by changing the contents of toast tables). We can move the toast decision thresholds a bit, though, which is what this patch effectively does. Thanks to Pavan Deolasee for discovering the unintended recursion. Back-patch into 8.2, but not further, pending more testing. (HEAD is about to get a further patch modifying the thresholds, so it won't help much for testing this form of the patch.)
2007-02-04Change vacuum lazy "compacting" warning message to:Bruce Momjian
errhint("Consider using VACUUM FULL on this relation or increasing the configuration parameter \"max_fsm_pages\".")));
2007-02-03Update SQL conformance information about XML features.Peter Eisentraut
2007-02-03Implement XMLSERIALIZE for real. Analogously, make the xml to text castPeter Eisentraut
observe the xmloption. Reorganize the representation of the XML option in the parse tree and the API to make it easier to manage and understand. Add regression tests for parsing back XML expressions.
2007-02-02This patch changes the installscript for vcbuild to actually parse theNeil Conway
generated solution files for what to install, instead of blindly copying everything as it previously did. With the previous quick-n-dirty version, it would copy old DLLs if you reconfigured in a way that didn't include subprojects like a PL for example. Magnus Hagander.
2007-02-02Applied Magnus Hagander's patch to take away some compiler warnings.Michael Meskes
2007-02-02Cleaned up va_list handling. Hopefully this now works on all archs.Michael Meskes
2007-02-02Repair failure to check that a table is still compatible with a previouslyTom Lane
made query plan. Use of ALTER COLUMN TYPE creates a hazard for cached query plans: they could contain Vars that claim a column has a different type than it now has. Fix this by checking during plan startup that Vars at relation scan level match the current relation tuple descriptor. Since at that point we already have at least AccessShareLock, we can be sure the column type will not change underneath us later in the query. However, since a backend's locks do not conflict against itself, there is still a hole for an attacker to exploit: he could try to execute ALTER COLUMN TYPE while a query is in progress in the current backend. Seal that hole by rejecting ALTER TABLE whenever the target relation is already open in the current backend. This is a significant security hole: not only can one trivially crash the backend, but with appropriate misuse of pass-by-reference datatypes it is possible to read out arbitrary locations in the server process's memory, which could allow retrieving database content the user should not be able to see. Our thanks to Jeff Trout for the initial report. Security: CVE-2007-0556
2007-02-02Repair insufficiently careful type checking for SQL-language functions:Tom Lane
we should check that the function code returns the claimed result datatype every time we parse the function for execution. Formerly, for simple scalar result types we assumed the creation-time check was sufficient, but this fails if the function selects from a table that's been redefined since then, and even more obviously fails if check_function_bodies had been OFF. This is a significant security hole: not only can one trivially crash the backend, but with appropriate misuse of pass-by-reference datatypes it is possible to read out arbitrary locations in the server process's memory, which could allow retrieving database content the user should not be able to see. Our thanks to Jeff Trout for the initial report. Security: CVE-2007-0555
2007-02-01Update some of the "expected" regression test results for Bruce'sNeil Conway
recent may/might cleanup, in the hopes that this will unbreak the buildfarm. Per report from Stefan Kaltenbrunner.
2007-02-01Fix plpgsql so that when a local variable has no initial-value expression,Tom Lane
an error will be thrown correctly if the variable is of a NOT NULL domain. Report and almost-correct fix from Sergiy Vyshnevetskiy (bug #2948).
2007-02-01Wording cleanup for error messages. Also change can't -> cannot.Bruce Momjian
Standard English uses "may", "can", and "might" in different ways: may - permission, "You may borrow my rake." can - ability, "I can lift that log." might - possibility, "It might rain today." Unfortunately, in conversational English, their use is often mixed, as in, "You may use this variable to do X", when in fact, "can" is a better choice. Similarly, "It may crash" is better stated, "It might crash".
2007-02-01Fix a few typos in comments in GiN.Neil Conway
2007-01-31Update comment.Bruce Momjian
2007-01-31Revert error message change for may/can/might --- needs discussion.Bruce Momjian
2007-01-31Update documentation on may/can/might:Bruce Momjian
Standard English uses "may", "can", and "might" in different ways: may - permission, "You may borrow my rake." can - ability, "I can lift that log." might - possibility, "It might rain today." Unfortunately, in conversational English, their use is often mixed, as in, "You may use this variable to do X", when in fact, "can" is a better choice. Similarly, "It may crash" is better stated, "It might crash". Also update two error messages mentioned in the documenation to match.
2007-01-31Add missing Makefile dependencies for the "bigtest" and "bigcheck"Neil Conway
targets, and refactor the tablespace setup code into a separate Makefile target.
2007-01-31Rewrite uuid input and output routines to avoid dependency on theNeil Conway
nonportable "hh" sprintf(3) length modifier. Instead, do the parsing and output by hand. The code to do this isn't ideal, but this is an interim measure anyway: the uuid type should probably use the in-memory struct layout specified by RFC 4122. For now, this patch should hopefully rectify the buildfarm failures for the uuid test. Along the way, re-add pg_cast entries for uuid <-> varchar, which I mistakenly removed earlier, and bump the catversion.
2007-01-31Fix initdb to not generate misleading error messages when postgres.bkiTom Lane
or other share-directory files are inaccessible for some reason other than not existing. Inspired by trouble report from Simon Kinsella.
2007-01-31Revert gincostestimate changes.Teodor Sigaev
2007-01-31Allow GIN's extractQuery method to signal that nothing can satisfy the query.Teodor Sigaev
In this case extractQuery should returns -1 as nentries. This changes prototype of extractQuery method to use int32* instead of uint32* for nentries argument. Based on that gincostestimate may see two corner cases: nothing will be found or seqscan should be used. Per proposal at http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-01/msg01581.php PS tsearch_core patch should be sightly modified to support changes, but I'm waiting a verdict about reviewing of tsearch_core patch.
2007-01-30Repair oversights in the mechanism used to store compiled plpgsql functions.Tom Lane
The original coding failed (tried to access deallocated memory) if there were two active call sites (fn_extra pointers) for the same function and the function definition was updated. Also, if an update of a recursive function was detected upon nested entry to the function, the existing compiled version was summarily deallocated, resulting in crash upon return to the outer instance. Problem observed while studying a bug report from Sergiy Vyshnevetskiy. Bug does not exist before 8.1 since older versions just leaked the memory of obsoleted compiled functions, rather than trying to reclaim it.
2007-01-30Add SPI_push/SPI_pop calls so that datatype input and output functions calledTom Lane
by plpgsql can themselves use SPI --- possibly indirectly, as in the case of domain_in() invoking plpgsql functions in a domain check constraint. Per bug #2945 from Sergiy Vyshnevetskiy. Somewhat arbitrarily, I've chosen to back-patch this as far as 8.0. Given the lack of prior complaints, it doesn't seem critical for 7.x.
2007-01-30Update documentation for pg_get_serial_sequence() function.Bruce Momjian
2007-01-30Add support for cross-type hashing in hash index searches and hash joins.Tom Lane
Hashing for aggregation purposes still needs work, so it's not time to mark any cross-type operators as hashable for general use, but these cases work if the operators are so marked by hand in the system catalogs.
2007-01-29Add comment noting that hashm_procid in a hash index's metapage isn'tTom Lane
actually used for anything.
2007-01-29Use sizeof() for snprintf() buffer length.Bruce Momjian
2007-01-29Update process termination message to display signal number and nameBruce Momjian
from exec.c and postmaster.c.
2007-01-28Improve hash join to discard input tuples immediately if they can'tTom Lane
match because they contain a null join key (and the join operator is known strict). Improves performance significantly when the inner relation contains a lot of nulls, as per bug #2930.
2007-01-28Remove unnecessary checkpoint from PL regression tests. This was onceTom Lane
handy to prevent core dump files from disappearing, but it's useless now because (a) we don't drop core in individual DB subdirectories anymore, and (b) CREATE DATABASE forces an internal checkpoint anyway.
2007-01-28Rename the uuid_t type to pg_uuid_t, to avoid a conflict with anyNeil Conway
definitions of uuid_t that may be provided by the system headers. This should hopefully fix the Win32 build problems reported by Magnus.
2007-01-28Fix plpython MSVC build in non-debug mode.Andrew Dunstan
2007-01-28Remove some unnecessary conversion work in build_regtype_array().Tom Lane
2007-01-28Repair oversight in creation of "append relations": we should set upTom Lane
rel->tuples as well as rel->rows, since some estimation functions expect both to be valid in every baserel. Per report from Dave Dutcher.
2007-01-28Make some small improvements in the accuracy of plpgsql's error locationTom Lane
reports; inspired by the misleading CONTEXT lines shown in recent bug report from Stefan Kaltenbrunner. Also, allow statement-type names shown in these messages to be translated.
2007-01-28Fix path problem in MSVC bison wrapper. per Joachim Wieland.Andrew Dunstan
2007-01-28Add a new builtin type, "uuid". This implements a UUID type, similar toNeil Conway
that defined in RFC 4122. This patch includes the basic implementation, plus regression tests. Documentation and perhaps some additional functionality will come later. Catversion bumped. Patch from Gevik Babakhani; review from Peter, Tom, and myself.
2007-01-28Fix up plpgsql's "simple expression" evaluation mechanism so that it behavesTom Lane
safely in the presence of subtransactions. To ensure that any ExprContext shutdown callbacks are called at the right times, we have to have a separate EState for each level of subtransaction. Per "TupleDesc reference leak" bug report from Stefan Kaltenbrunner. Although I'm convinced the code is wrong as far back as 8.0, it doesn't seem that there are any ways for the problem to really manifest before 8.2: AFAICS, 8.0 and 8.1 only use the ExprContextCallback mechanism to handle set-returning functions, which cannot usefully be executed in a "simple expression" anyway. Hence, no backpatch before 8.2 --- the risk of unforeseen breakage seems to outweigh the chance of fixing something.
2007-01-28Drat, can't fit an additional argument into log_error. Is it worth anTom Lane
sprintf pushup to be sure we can report something useful for out-of-range exitstatus?
2007-01-28Clean up broken usage of HAVE_DECL_SYS_SIGLIST and inconsistent/poorlyTom Lane
formatted error messages.