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2012-06-01Avoid early reuse of btree pages, causing incorrect query results.Simon Riggs
When we allowed read-only transactions to skip assigning XIDs we introduced the possibility that a fully deleted btree page could be reused. This broke the index link sequence which could then lead to indexscans silently returning fewer rows than would have been correct. The actual incidence of silent errors from this is thought to be very low because of the exact workload required and locking pre-conditions. Fix is to remove pages only if index page opaque->btpo.xact precedes RecentGlobalXmin. Noah Misch, reviewed and backpatched by Simon Riggs
2012-05-31Stamp 8.4.12.REL8_4_12Tom Lane
2012-05-31Translation updatesPeter Eisentraut
2012-05-31Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2012c.Tom Lane
DST law changes in Antarctica, Armenia, Chile, Cuba, Falkland Islands, Gaza, Haiti, Hebron, Morocco, Syria, Tokelau Islands. Historical corrections for Canada.
2012-05-30Ignore SECURITY DEFINER and SET attributes for a PL's call handler.Tom Lane
It's not very sensible to set such attributes on a handler function; but if one were to do so, fmgr.c went into infinite recursion because it would call fmgr_security_definer instead of the handler function proper. There is no way for fmgr_security_definer to know that it ought to call the handler and not the original function referenced by the FmgrInfo's fn_oid, so it tries to do the latter, causing the whole process to start over again. Ordinarily such misconfiguration of a procedural language's handler could be written off as superuser error. However, because we allow non-superuser database owners to create procedural languages and the handler for such a language becomes owned by the database owner, it is possible for a database owner to crash the backend, which ideally shouldn't be possible without superuser privileges. In 9.2 and up we will adjust things so that the handler functions are always owned by superusers, but in existing branches this is a minor security fix. Problem noted by Noah Misch (after several of us had failed to detect it :-(). This is CVE-2012-2655.
2012-05-30Expand the allowed range of timezone offsets to +/-15:59:59 from Greenwich.Tom Lane
We used to only allow offsets less than +/-13 hours, then it was +/14, then it was +/-15. That's still not good enough though, as per today's bug report from Patric Bechtel. This time I actually looked through the Olson timezone database to find the largest offsets used anywhere. The winners are Asia/Manila, at -15:56:00 until 1844, and America/Metlakatla, at +15:13:42 until 1867. So we'd better allow offsets less than +/-16 hours. Given the history, we are way overdue to have some greppable #define symbols controlling this, so make some ... and also remove an obsolete comment that didn't get fixed the last time. Back-patch to all supported branches.
2012-05-28Teach AbortOutOfAnyTransaction to clean up partially-started transactions.Tom Lane
AbortOutOfAnyTransaction failed to do anything if the state it saw on entry corresponded to failing partway through StartTransaction. I fixed AbortCurrentTransaction to cope with that case way back in commit 60b2444cc3ba037630c9b940c3c9ef01b954b87b, but evidently overlooked that AbortOutOfAnyTransaction should do likewise. Back-patch to all supported branches. It's not clear that this omission has any more-than-cosmetic consequences, but it's also not clear that it doesn't, so back-patching seems the least risky choice.
2012-05-26Prevent synchronized scanning when systable_beginscan chooses a heapscan.Tom Lane
The only interesting-for-performance case wherein we force heapscan here is when we're rebuilding the relcache init file, and the only such case that is likely to be examining a catalog big enough to be syncscanned is RelationBuildTupleDesc. But the early-exit optimization in that code gets broken if we start the scan at a random place within the catalog, so that allowing syncscan is actually a big deoptimization if pg_attribute is large (at least for the normal case where the rows for core system catalogs have never been changed since initdb). Hence, prevent syncscan here. Per my testing pursuant to complaints from Jeff Frost and Greg Sabino Mullane, though neither of them seem to have actually hit this specific problem. Back-patch to 8.3, where syncscan was introduced.
2012-05-25Fix string truncation to be multibyte-aware in text_name and bpchar_name.Tom Lane
Previously, casts to name could generate invalidly-encoded results. Also, make these functions match namein() more exactly, by consistently using palloc0() instead of ad-hoc zeroing code. Back-patch to all supported branches. Karl Schnaitter and Tom Lane
2012-05-25Use binary search instead of brute-force scan in findNamespace().Tom Lane
The previous coding presented a significant bottleneck when dumping databases containing many thousands of schemas, since the total time spent searching would increase roughly as O(N^2) in the number of objects. Noted by Jeff Janes, though I rewrote his proposed patch to use the existing findObjectByOid infrastructure. Since this is a longstanding performance bug, backpatch to all supported versions.
2012-05-22Ensure that seqscans check for interrupts at least once per page.Tom Lane
If a seqscan encounters many consecutive pages containing only dead tuples, it can remain in the loop in heapgettup for a long time, and there was no CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS anywhere in that loop. This meant there were real-world situations where a query would be effectively uncancelable for long stretches. Add a check placed to occur once per page, which should be enough to provide reasonable response time without adding any measurable overhead. Report and patch by Merlin Moncure (though I tweaked it a bit). Back-patch to all supported branches.
2012-05-16Fix bug in to_tsquery().Heikki Linnakangas
We were using memcpy() to copy to a possibly overlapping memory region, which is a no-no. Use memmove() instead.
2012-05-10Fix Windows implementation of PGSemaphoreLock.Tom Lane
The original coding failed to reset ImmediateInterruptOK before returning, which would potentially allow a subsequent query-cancel interrupt to be accepted at an unsafe point. This is a really nasty bug since it's so hard to predict the consequences, but they could be unpleasant. Also, ensure that signal handlers are serviced before this function returns, even if the semaphore is already set. This should make the behavior more like Unix. Back-patch to all supported versions.
2012-05-09PL/pgSQL RETURN NEXT was leaking converted tuples, causingJoe Conway
out of memory when looping through large numbers of rows. Flag the converted tuples to be freed. Complaint and patch by Joe.
2012-04-27Fix printing of whole-row Vars at top level of a SELECT targetlist.Tom Lane
Normally whole-row Vars are printed as "tabname.*". However, that does not work at top level of a targetlist, because per SQL standard the parser will think that the "*" should result in column-by-column expansion; which is not at all what a whole-row Var implies. We used to just print the table name in such cases, which works most of the time; but it fails if the table name matches a column name available anywhere in the FROM clause. This could lead for instance to a view being interpreted differently after dump and reload. Adding parentheses doesn't fix it, but there is a reasonably simple kluge we can use instead: attach a no-op cast, so that the "*" isn't syntactically at top level anymore. This makes the printing of such whole-row Vars a lot more consistent with other Vars, and may indeed fix more cases than just the reported one; I'm suspicious that cases involving schema qualification probably didn't work properly before, either. Per bug report and fix proposal from Abbas Butt, though this patch is quite different in detail from his. Back-patch to all supported versions.
2012-04-27Fix syslogger's rotation disable/re-enable logic.Tom Lane
If it fails to open a new log file, the syslogger assumes there's something wrong with its parameters (such as log_directory), and stops attempting automatic time-based or size-based log file rotations. Sending it SIGHUP is supposed to start that up again. However, the original coding for that was really bogus, involving clobbering a couple of GUC variables and hoping that SIGHUP processing would restore them. Get rid of that technique in favor of maintaining a separate flag showing we've turned rotation off. Per report from Mark Kirkwood. Also, the syslogger will automatically attempt to create the log_directory directory if it doesn't exist, but that was only happening at startup. For consistency and ease of use, it should do the same whenever the value of log_directory is changed by SIGHUP. Back-patch to all supported branches.
2012-04-25Fix edge-case behavior of pg_next_dst_boundary().Tom Lane
Due to rather sloppy thinking (on my part, I'm afraid) about the appropriate behavior for boundary conditions, pg_next_dst_boundary() gave undefined, platform-dependent results when the input time is exactly the last recorded DST transition time for the specified time zone, as a result of fetching values one past the end of its data arrays. Change its specification to be that it always finds the next DST boundary *after* the input time, and adjust code to match that. The sole existing caller, DetermineTimeZoneOffset, doesn't actually care about this distinction, since it always uses a probe time earlier than the instant that it does care about. So it seemed best to me to change the API to make the result=1 and result=0 cases more consistent, specifically to ensure that the "before" outputs always describe the state at the given time, rather than hacking the code to obey the previous API comment exactly. Per bug #6605 from Sergey Burladyan. Back-patch to all supported versions.
2012-04-18Revert recent commit re positional arguments.Andrew Dunstan
2012-04-18Fix copyfuncs/equalfuncs support for ReassignOwnedStmt.Robert Haas
Noah Misch
2012-04-17Don't override arguments set via options with positional arguments.Andrew Dunstan
A number of utility programs were rather careless about paremeters that can be set via both an option argument and a positional argument. This leads to results which can violate the Principal Of Least Astonishment. These changes refuse to use positional arguments to override settings that have been made via positional arguments. The changes are backpatched to all live branches.
2012-04-11Clamp indexscan filter condition cost estimate to be not less than zero.Tom Lane
cost_index tries to estimate the per-tuple costs of evaluating filter conditions (a/k/a qpquals) by subtracting the estimated cost of the indexqual conditions from that of the baserestrictinfo conditions. This is correct so long as the indexquals list is a subset of the baserestrictinfo list. However, in the presence of derived indexable conditions it's completely wrong, leading to bogus or even negative scan cost estimates, as seen for example in bug #6579 from Istvan Endredy. In practice the problem isn't severe except in the specific case of a LIKE optimization on a functional index containing a very expensive function. A proper fix for this might change cost estimates by more than people would like for stable branches, so in the back branches let's just clamp the cost difference to be not less than zero. That will at least prevent completely insane behavior, while not changing the results normally.
2012-04-09Fix an Assert that turns out to be reachable after all.Tom Lane
estimate_num_groups() gets unhappy with create table empty(); select * from empty except select * from empty e2; I can't see any actual use-case for such a query (and the table is illegal per SQL spec), but it seems like a good idea that it not cause an assert failure.
2012-04-08set_stack_base() no longer needs to be called in PostgresMain.Heikki Linnakangas
This was a thinko in previous commit. Now that stack base pointer is now set in PostmasterMain and SubPostmasterMain, it doesn't need to be set in PostgresMain anymore.
2012-04-08Do stack-depth checking in all postmaster children.Heikki Linnakangas
We used to only initialize the stack base pointer when starting up a regular backend, not in other processes. In particular, autovacuum workers can run arbitrary user code, and without stack-depth checking, infinite recursion in e.g an index expression will bring down the whole cluster. The comment about PL/Java using set_stack_base() is not yet true. As the code stands, PL/java still modifies the stack_base_ptr variable directly. However, it's been discussed in the PL/Java mailing list that it should be changed to use the function, because PL/Java is currently oblivious to the register stack used on Itanium. There's another issues with PL/Java, namely that the stack base pointer it sets is not really the base of the stack, it could be something close to the bottom of the stack. That's a separate issue that might need some further changes to this code, but that's a different story. Backpatch to all supported releases.
2012-04-06Fix misleading output from gin_desc().Tom Lane
XLOG_GIN_UPDATE_META_PAGE and XLOG_GIN_DELETE_LISTPAGE records were printed with a list link field labeled as "blkno", which was confusing, especially when the link was empty (InvalidBlockNumber). Print the metapage block number instead, since that's what's actually being updated. We could include the link values too as a separate field, but not clear it's worth the trouble. Back-patch to 8.4 where the dubious code was added.
2012-04-04Fix syslogger to not lose log coherency under high load.Tom Lane
The original coding of the syslogger had an arbitrary limit of 20 large messages concurrently in progress, after which it would just punt and dump message fragments to the output file separately. Our ambitions are a bit higher than that now, so allow the data structure to expand as necessary. Reported and patched by Andrew Dunstan; some editing by Tom
2012-03-31Fix O(N^2) behavior in pg_dump when many objects are in dependency loops.Tom Lane
Combining the loop workspace with the record of already-processed objects might have been a cute trick, but it behaves horridly if there are many dependency loops to repair: the time spent in the first step of findLoop() grows as O(N^2). Instead use a separate flag array indexed by dump ID, which we can check in constant time. The length of the workspace array is now never more than the actual length of a dependency chain, which should be reasonably short in all cases of practical interest. The code is noticeably easier to understand this way, too. Per gripe from Mike Roest. Since this is a longstanding performance bug, backpatch to all supported versions.
2012-03-31Fix O(N^2) behavior in pg_dump for large numbers of owned sequences.Tom Lane
The loop that matched owned sequences to their owning tables required time proportional to number of owned sequences times number of tables; although this work was only expended in selective-dump situations, which is probably why the issue wasn't recognized long since. Refactor slightly so that we can perform this work after the index array for findTableByOid has been set up, reducing the time to O(M log N). Per gripe from Mike Roest. Since this is a longstanding performance bug, backpatch to all supported versions.
2012-03-25Fix COPY FROM for null marker strings that correspond to invalid encoding.Tom Lane
The COPY documentation says "COPY FROM matches the input against the null string before removing backslashes". It is therefore reasonable to presume that null markers like E'\\0' will work ... and they did, until someone put the tests in the wrong order during microoptimization-driven rewrites. Since then, we've been failing if the null marker is something that would de-escape to an invalidly-encoded string. Since null markers generally need to be something that can't appear in the data, this represents a nontrivial loss of functionality; surprising nobody noticed it earlier. Per report from Jeff Davis. Backpatch to 8.4 where this got broken.
2012-03-24Fix planner's handling of outer PlaceHolderVars within subqueries.Tom Lane
For some reason, in the original coding of the PlaceHolderVar mechanism I had supposed that PlaceHolderVars couldn't propagate into subqueries. That is of course entirely possible. When it happens, we need to treat an outer-level PlaceHolderVar much like an outer Var or Aggref, that is SS_replace_correlation_vars() needs to replace the PlaceHolderVar with a Param, and then when building the finished SubPlan we have to provide the PlaceHolderVar expression as an actual parameter for the SubPlan. The handling of the contained expression is a bit delicate but it can be treated exactly like an Aggref's expression. In addition to the missing logic in subselect.c, prepjointree.c was failing to search subqueries for PlaceHolderVars that need their relids adjusted during subquery pullup. It looks like everyplace else that touches PlaceHolderVars got it right, though. Per report from Mark Murawski. In 9.1 and HEAD, queries affected by this oversight would fail with "ERROR: Upper-level PlaceHolderVar found where not expected". But in 9.0 and 8.4, you'd silently get possibly-wrong answers, since the value transmitted into the subquery wouldn't go to null when it should.
2012-03-22Fix GET DIAGNOSTICS for case of assignment to function's first variable.Tom Lane
An incorrect and entirely unnecessary "safety check" in exec_stmt_getdiag() caused the code to treat an assignment to a variable with dno zero as a no-op. Unfortunately, that's a perfectly valid dno. This has been broken since GET DIAGNOSTICS was invented. It's not terribly surprising that the bug went unnoticed for so long, since in most cases you probably wouldn't use the function's first-created variable (normally its first parameter) as a GET DIAGNOSTICS target. Nonetheless, it's broken. Per bug #6551 from Adam Buraczewski.
2012-03-21Don't allow CREATE TABLE AS to put relations in pg_global.Robert Haas
This was never intended to be allowed, and is blocked for an ordinary CREATE TABLE, but CREATE TABLE AS slipped through the cracks. This commit won't do anything to fix existing cases where this has loophole has been exploited, but it still seems prudent to lock it down going forward. Back-branch commit only, as this problem has been refactored away on the master branch. Andres Freund
2012-03-17Honor inputdir and outputdir when converting regression files.Andrew Dunstan
When converting source files, pg_regress' inputdir and outputdir options were ignored when computing the locations of the destination files. In consequence, these options were effectively unusable when the regression inputs need to be adjusted by pg_regress. This patch makes pg_regress put the converted files in the same place that these options specify non-converted input or results files are to be found. Backpatched to all live branches.
2012-03-11psql: Fix invalid memory accessPeter Eisentraut
Due to an apparent thinko, when printing a table in expanded mode (\x), space would be allocated for 1 slot plus 1 byte per line, instead of 1 slot per line plus 1 slot for the NULL terminator. When the line count is small, reading or writing the terminator would therefore access memory beyond what was allocated.
2012-02-26Fix some more bugs in GIN's WAL replay logic.Tom Lane
In commit 4016bdef8aded77b4903c457050622a5a1815c16 I fixed a bunch of ginxlog.c bugs having to do with not handling XLogReadBuffer failures correctly. However, in ginRedoUpdateMetapage and ginRedoDeleteListPages, I unaccountably thought that failure to read the metapage would be impossible and just put in an elog(PANIC) call. This is of course wrong: failure is exactly what will happen if the index got dropped (or rebuilt) between creation of the WAL record and the crash we're trying to recover from. I believe this explains Nicholas Wilson's recent report of these errors getting reached. Also, fix memory leak in forgetIncompleteSplit. This wasn't of much concern when the code was written, but in a long-running standby server page split records could be expected to accumulate indefinitely. Back-patch to 8.4 --- before that, GIN didn't have a metapage.
2012-02-23Stamp 8.4.11.REL8_4_11Tom Lane
2012-02-23Convert newlines to spaces in names written in pg_dump comments.Tom Lane
pg_dump was incautious about sanitizing object names that are emitted within SQL comments in its output script. A name containing a newline would at least render the script syntactically incorrect. Maliciously crafted object names could present a SQL injection risk when the script is reloaded. Reported by Heikki Linnakangas, patch by Robert Haas Security: CVE-2012-0868
2012-02-23Remove arbitrary limitation on length of common name in SSL certificates.Tom Lane
Both libpq and the backend would truncate a common name extracted from a certificate at 32 bytes. Replace that fixed-size buffer with dynamically allocated string so that there is no hard limit. While at it, remove the code for extracting peer_dn, which we weren't using for anything; and don't bother to store peer_cn longer than we need it in libpq. This limit was not so terribly unreasonable when the code was written, because we weren't using the result for anything critical, just logging it. But now that there are options for checking the common name against the server host name (in libpq) or using it as the user's name (in the server), this could result in undesirable failures. In the worst case it even seems possible to spoof a server name or user name, if the correct name is exactly 32 bytes and the attacker can persuade a trusted CA to issue a certificate in which that string is a prefix of the certificate's common name. (To exploit this for a server name, he'd also have to send the connection astray via phony DNS data or some such.) The case that this is a realistic security threat is a bit thin, but nonetheless we'll treat it as one. Back-patch to 8.4. Older releases contain the faulty code, but it's not a security problem because the common name wasn't used for anything interesting. Reported and patched by Heikki Linnakangas Security: CVE-2012-0867
2012-02-23Require execute permission on the trigger function for CREATE TRIGGER.Tom Lane
This check was overlooked when we added function execute permissions to the system years ago. For an ordinary trigger function it's not a big deal, since trigger functions execute with the permissions of the table owner, so they couldn't do anything the user issuing the CREATE TRIGGER couldn't have done anyway. However, if a trigger function is SECURITY DEFINER, that is not the case. The lack of checking would allow another user to install it on his own table and then invoke it with, essentially, forged input data; which the trigger function is unlikely to realize, so it might do something undesirable, for instance insert false entries in an audit log table. Reported by Dinesh Kumar, patch by Robert Haas Security: CVE-2012-0866
2012-02-23Translation updatesPeter Eisentraut
2012-02-21Don't clear btpo_cycleid during _bt_vacuum_one_page.Tom Lane
When "vacuuming" a single btree page by removing LP_DEAD tuples, we are not actually within a vacuum operation, but rather in an ordinary insertion process that could well be running concurrently with a vacuum. So clearing the cycleid is incorrect, and could cause the concurrent vacuum to miss removing tuples that it needs to remove. This is a longstanding bug introduced by commit e6284649b9e30372b3990107a082bc7520325676 of 2006-07-25. I believe it explains Maxim Boguk's recent report of index corruption, and probably some other previously unexplained reports. In 9.0 and up this is a one-line fix; before that we need to introduce a flag to tell _bt_delitems what to do.
2012-02-21Avoid double close of file handle in syslogger on win32Magnus Hagander
This causes an exception when running under a debugger or in particular when running on a debug version of Windows. Patch from MauMau
2012-02-20Fix regex back-references that are directly quantified with *.Tom Lane
The syntax "\n*", that is a backref with a * quantifier directly applied to it, has never worked correctly in Spencer's library. This has been an open bug in the Tcl bug tracker since 2005: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1115587&group_id=10894&atid=110894 The core of the problem is in parseqatom(), which first changes "\n*" to "\n+|" and then applies repeat() to the NFA representing the backref atom. repeat() thinks that any arc leading into its "rp" argument is part of the sub-NFA to be repeated. Unfortunately, since parseqatom() already created the arc that was intended to represent the empty bypass around "\n+", this arc gets moved too, so that it now leads into the state loop created by repeat(). Thus, what was supposed to be an "empty" bypass gets turned into something that represents zero or more repetitions of the NFA representing the backref atom. In the original example, in place of ^([bc])\1*$ we now have something that acts like ^([bc])(\1+|[bc]*)$ At runtime, the branch involving the actual backref fails, as it's supposed to, but then the other branch succeeds anyway. We could no doubt fix this by some rearrangement of the operations in parseqatom(), but that code is plenty ugly already, and what's more the whole business of converting "x*" to "x+|" probably needs to go away to fix another problem I'll mention in a moment. Instead, this patch suppresses the *-conversion when the target is a simple backref atom, leaving the case of m == 0 to be handled at runtime. This makes the patch in regcomp.c a one-liner, at the cost of having to tweak cbrdissect() a little. In the event I went a bit further than that and rewrote cbrdissect() to check all the string-length-related conditions before it starts comparing characters. It seems a bit stupid to possibly iterate through many copies of an n-character backreference, only to fail at the end because the target string's length isn't a multiple of n --- we could have found that out before starting. The existing coding could only be a win if integer division is hugely expensive compared to character comparison, but I don't know of any modern machine where that might be true. This does not fix all the problems with quantified back-references. In particular, the code is still broken for back-references that appear within a larger expression that is quantified (so that direct insertion of the quantification limits into the BACKREF node doesn't apply). I think fixing that will take some major surgery on the NFA code, specifically introducing an explicit iteration node type instead of trying to transform iteration into concatenation of modified regexps. Back-patch to all supported branches. In HEAD, also add a regression test case for this. (It may seem a bit silly to create a regression test file for just one test case; but I'm expecting that we will soon import a whole bunch of regex regression tests from Tcl, so might as well create the infrastructure now.)
2012-02-11Fix I/O-conversion-related memory leaks in plpgsql.Tom Lane
Datatype I/O functions are allowed to leak memory in CurrentMemoryContext, since they are generally called in short-lived contexts. However, plpgsql calls such functions for purposes of type conversion, and was calling them in its procedure context. Therefore, any leaked memory would not be recovered until the end of the plpgsql function. If such a conversion was done within a loop, quite a bit of memory could get consumed. Fix by calling such functions in the transient "eval_econtext", and adjust other logic to match. Back-patch to all supported versions. Andres Freund, Jan UrbaƄski, Tom Lane
2012-02-10Fix brain fade in previous pg_dump patch.Tom Lane
In pre-7.3 databases, pg_attribute.attislocal doesn't exist. The easiest way to make sure the new inheritance logic behaves sanely is to assume it's TRUE, not FALSE. This will result in printing child columns even when they're not really needed. We could work harder at trying to reconstruct a value for attislocal, but there is little evidence that anyone still cares about dumping from such old versions, so just do the minimum necessary to have a valid dump. I had this correct in the original draft of the patch, but for some unaccountable reason decided it wasn't necessary to change the value. Testing against an old server shows otherwise...
2012-02-10Fix pg_dump for better handling of inherited columns.Tom Lane
Revise pg_dump's handling of inherited columns, which was last looked at seriously in 2001, to eliminate several misbehaviors associated with inherited default expressions and NOT NULL flags. In particular make sure that a column is printed in a child table's CREATE TABLE command if and only if it has attislocal = true; the former behavior would sometimes cause a column to become marked attislocal when it was not so marked in the source database. Also, stop relying on textual comparison of default expressions to decide if they're inherited; instead, don't use default-expression inheritance at all, but just install the default explicitly at each level of the hierarchy. This fixes the search-path-related misbehavior recently exhibited by Chester Young, and also removes some dubious assumptions about the order in which ALTER TABLE SET DEFAULT commands would be executed. Back-patch to all supported branches.
2012-02-06Avoid problems with OID wraparound during WAL replay.Tom Lane
Fix a longstanding thinko in replay of NEXTOID and checkpoint records: we tried to advance nextOid only if it was behind the value in the WAL record, but the comparison would draw the wrong conclusion if OID wraparound had occurred since the previous value. Better to just unconditionally assign the new value, since OID assignment shouldn't be happening during replay anyway. The consequences of a failure to update nextOid would be pretty minimal, since we have long had the code set up to obtain another OID and try again if the generated value is already in use. But in the worst case there could be significant performance glitches while such loops iterate through many already-used OIDs before finding a free one. The odds of a wraparound happening during WAL replay would be small in a crash-recovery scenario, and the length of any ensuing OID-assignment stall quite limited anyway. But neither of these statements hold true for a replication slave that follows a WAL stream for a long period; its behavior upon going live could be almost unboundedly bad. Hence it seems worth back-patching this fix into all supported branches. Already fixed in HEAD in commit c6d76d7c82ebebb7210029f7382c0ebe2c558bca.
2012-01-30Accept a non-existent value in "ALTER USER/DATABASE SET ..." command.Heikki Linnakangas
When default_text_search_config, default_tablespace, or temp_tablespaces setting is set per-user or per-database, with an "ALTER USER/DATABASE SET ..." statement, don't throw an error if the text search configuration or tablespace does not exist. In case of text search configuration, even if it doesn't exist in the current database, it might exist in another database, where the setting is intended to have its effect. This behavior is now the same as search_path's. Tablespaces are cluster-wide, so the same argument doesn't hold for tablespaces, but there's a problem with pg_dumpall: it dumps "ALTER USER SET ..." statements before the "CREATE TABLESPACE" statements. Arguably that's pg_dumpall's fault - it should dump the statements in such an order that the tablespace is created first and then the "ALTER USER SET default_tablespace ..." statements after that - but it seems better to be consistent with search_path and default_text_search_config anyway. Besides, you could still create a dump that throws an error, by creating the tablespace, running "ALTER USER SET default_tablespace", then dropping the tablespace and running pg_dumpall on that. Backpatch to all supported versions.
2012-01-07Use __sync_lock_test_and_set() for spinlocks on ARM, if available.Tom Lane
Historically we've used the SWPB instruction for TAS() on ARM, but this is deprecated and not available on ARMv6 and later. Instead, make use of a GCC builtin if available. We'll still fall back to SWPB if not, so as not to break existing ports using older GCC versions. Eventually we might want to try using __sync_lock_test_and_set() on some other architectures too, but for now that seems to present only risk and not reward. Back-patch to all supported versions, since people might want to use any of them on more recent ARM chips. Martin Pitt
2012-01-06Fix pg_restore's direct-to-database mode for INSERT-style table data.Tom Lane
In commit 6545a901aaf84cb05212bb6a7674059908f527c3, I removed the mini SQL lexer that was in pg_backup_db.c, thinking that it had no real purpose beyond separating COPY data from SQL commands, which purpose had been obsoleted by long-ago fixes in pg_dump's archive file format. Unfortunately this was in error: that code was also used to identify command boundaries in INSERT-style table data, which is run together as a single string in the archive file for better compressibility. As a result, direct-to-database restores from archive files made with --inserts or --column-inserts fail in our latest releases, as reported by Dick Visser. To fix, restore the mini SQL lexer, but simplify it by adjusting the calling logic so that it's only required to cope with INSERT-style table data, not arbitrary SQL commands. This allows us to not have to deal with SQL comments, E'' strings, or dollar-quoted strings, none of which have ever been emitted by dumpTableData_insert. Also, fix the lexer to cope with standard-conforming strings, which was the actual bug that the previous patch was meant to solve. Back-patch to all supported branches. The previous patch went back to 8.2, which unfortunately means that the EOL release of 8.2 contains this bug, but I don't think we're doing another 8.2 release just because of that.