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2007-06-28Fix incorrect tests for undef Perl values in some places in plperl.c.Tom Lane
The correct test for defined-ness is SvOK(sv), not anything involving SvTYPE. Per bug #3415 from Matt Taylor. Back-patch as far as 8.0; no apparent problem in 7.x.
2007-06-20transformColumnDefinition failed to complain aboutTom Lane
create table foo (bar int default null default 3); due to not thinking about the special-case handling of DEFAULT NULL. Problem noticed while investigating bug #3396.
2007-06-20CREATE DOMAIN ... DEFAULT NULL failed because gram.y special-cases DEFAULTTom Lane
NULL and DefineDomain didn't. Bug goes all the way back to original coding of domains. Per bug #3396 from Sergey Burladyan.
2007-06-14Implement a chunking protocol for writes to the syslogger pipe, with messagesAndrew Dunstan
reassembled in the syslogger before writing to the log file. This prevents partial messages from being written, which mucks up log rotation, and messages from different backends being interleaved, which causes garbled logs. Backport as far as 8.0, where the syslogger was introduced. Tom Lane and Andrew Dunstan
2007-06-09Allow numeric_fac() to be interrupted, since it can take quite a while forTom Lane
large inputs. Also cause it to error out immediately if the result will overflow, instead of grinding through a lot of calculation first. Per gripe from Jim Nasby.
2007-06-04On win32, don't use SO_REUSEADDR for TCP sockets.Magnus Hagander
Per failure on buildfarm member baiji and subsequent discussion.
2007-06-02Fix erroneous error reporting for overlength input in text_date(),Tom Lane
text_time(), and text_timetz(). 7.4-vintage bug found by Greg Stark.
2007-06-01Fix aboriginal bug in BufFileDumpBuffer that would cause it to write theTom Lane
wrong data when dumping a bufferload that crosses a component-file boundary. This probably has not been seen in the wild because (a) component files are normally 1GB apiece and (b) non-block-aligned buffer usage is relatively rare. But it's fairly easy to reproduce a problem if one reduces RELSEG_SIZE in a test build. Kudos to Kurt Harriman for spotting the bug.
2007-05-30Fix overly-strict sanity check in BeginInternalSubTransaction that made itTom Lane
fail when used in a deferred trigger. Bug goes back to 8.0; no doubt the reason it hadn't been noticed is that we've been discouraging use of user-defined constraint triggers. Per report from Frank van Vugt.
2007-05-18Remove redundant logging of send failures when SSL is in use. While pqcomm.cTom Lane
had been taught not to do that ages ago, the SSL code was helpfully bleating anyway. Resolves some recent reports such as bug #3266; however the underlying cause of the related bug #2829 is still unclear.
2007-05-01Fix a thinko in my patch of a couple months ago for bug #3116: it did theTom Lane
wrong thing when inlining polymorphic SQL functions, because it was using the function's declared return type where it should have used the actual result type of the current call. In 8.1 and 8.2 this causes obvious failures even if you don't have assertions turned on; in 8.0 and 7.4 it would only be a problem if the inlined expression were used as an input to a function that did run-time type determination on its inputs. Add a regression test, since this is evidently an under-tested area.
2007-04-26Fix dynahash.c to suppress hash bucket splits while a hash_seq_search() scanTom Lane
is in progress on the same hashtable. This seems the least invasive way to fix the recently-recognized problem that a split could cause the scan to visit entries twice or (with much lower probability) miss them entirely. The only field-reported problem caused by this is the "failed to re-find shared lock object" PANIC in COMMIT PREPARED reported by Michel Dorochevsky, which was caused by multiply visited entries. However, it seems certain that mdsync() is vulnerable to missing required fsync's due to missed entries, and I am fearful that RelationCacheInitializePhase2() might be at risk as well. Because of that and the generalized hazard presented by this bug, back-patch all the supported branches. Along the way, fix pg_prepared_statement() and pg_cursor() to not assume that the hashtables they are examining will stay static between calls. This is risky regardless of the newly noted dynahash problem, because hash_seq_search() has never promised to cope with deletion of table entries other than the just-returned one. There may be no bug here because the only supported way to call these functions is via ExecMakeTableFunctionResult() which will cycle them to completion before doing anything very interesting, but it seems best to get rid of the assumption. This affects 8.2 and HEAD only, since those functions weren't there earlier.
2007-04-20Support explicit placement of the temporary-table schema within search_path.Tom Lane
This is needed to allow a security-definer function to set a truly secure value of search_path. Without it, a malicious user can use temporary objects to execute code with the privileges of the security-definer function. Even pushing the temp schema to the back of the search path is not quite good enough, because a function or operator at the back of the path might still capture control from one nearer the front due to having a more exact datatype match. Hence, disable searching the temp schema altogether for functions and operators. Security: CVE-2007-2138
2007-04-19Sync timezone data with 2007e zic release.Tom Lane
2007-04-19Repair PANIC condition in hash indexes when a previous index extension attemptTom Lane
failed (due to lock conflicts or out-of-space). We might have already extended the index's filesystem EOF before failing, causing the EOF to be beyond what the metapage says is the last used page. Hence the invariant maintained by the code needs to be "EOF is at or beyond last used page", not "EOF is exactly the last used page". Problem was created by my patch of 2006-11-19 that attempted to repair bug #2737. Since that was back-patched to 7.4, this needs to be as well. Per report and test case from Vlastimil Krejcir.
2007-04-19Stamp releases 8.2.4, 8.1.9, 8.0.13, 7.4.17, 7.3.19.Bruce Momjian
2007-04-18Translation updatesPeter Eisentraut
2007-04-16Don't write timing output in quiet mode.Magnus Hagander
Merlin Moncure
2007-04-02Fix check_sql_fn_retval to allow the case where a SQL function declared toTom Lane
return void ends with a SELECT, if that SELECT has a single result that is also of type void. Without this, it's hard to write a void function that calls another void function. Per gripe from Peter. Back-patch as far as 8.0.
2007-03-26Fix pg_wchar_table's maxmblen field of EUC_CN, EUC_TW, MULE_INTERNALTatsuo Ishii
and GB18030. patches from ITAGAKI Takahiro.
2007-03-17SPI_cursor_open failed to enforce that only read-only queries could beTom Lane
executed in read_only mode. This could lead to various relatively-subtle failures, such as an allegedly stable function returning non-stable results. Bug goes all the way back to the introduction of read-only mode in 8.0. Per report from Gaetano Mendola.
2007-03-14Fix a longstanding bug in VACUUM FULL's handling of update chains. The codeTom Lane
did not expect that a DEAD tuple could follow a RECENTLY_DEAD tuple in an update chain, but because the OldestXmin rule for determining deadness is a simplification of reality, it is possible for this situation to occur (implying that the RECENTLY_DEAD tuple is in fact dead to all observers, but this patch does not attempt to exploit that). The code would follow a chain forward all the way, but then stop before a DEAD tuple when backing up, meaning that not all of the chain got moved. This could lead to copying the chain multiple times (resulting in duplicate copies of the live tuple at its end), or leaving dangling index entries behind (which, aside from generating warnings from later vacuums, creates a risk of wrong query results or bogus duplicate-key errors once the heap slot the index entry points to is repopulated). The fix is to recheck HeapTupleSatisfiesVacuum while following a chain forward, and to stop if a DEAD tuple is reached. Each contiguous group of RECENTLY_DEAD tuples will therefore be copied as a separate chain. The patch also adds a couple of extra sanity checks to verify correct behavior. Per report and test case from Pavan Deolasee.
2007-03-14Arrange to install a "posixrules" entry in our timezone database, so thatTom Lane
POSIX-style timezone specs that don't exactly match any database entry will be treated as having correct USA DST rules. Also, document that this can be changed if you want to use some other DST rules with a POSIX zone spec. We could consider changing localtime.c's TZDEFRULESTRING, but since that facility can only deal with one DST transition rule, it seems fairly useless now; might as well just plan to override it using a "posixrules" entry. Backpatch as far as 8.0. There isn't much we can do in 7.x ... either your libc gets it right, or it doesn't.
2007-03-06Fix oversight in original coding of inline_function(): sinceTom Lane
check_sql_fn_retval allows binary-compatibility cases, the expression extracted from an inline-able SQL function might have a type that is only binary-compatible with the declared function result type. To avoid possibly changing the semantics of the expression, we should insert a RelabelType node in such cases. This has only been shown to have bad consequences in recent 8.1 and up releases, but I suspect there may be failure cases in the older branches too, so patch it all the way back. Per bug #3116 from Greg Mullane. Along the way, fix an omission in eval_const_expressions_mutator: it failed to copy the relabelformat field when processing a RelabelType. No known observable failures from this, but it definitely isn't intended behavior.
2007-03-01Fix markQueryForLocking() to work correctly in the presence of nested views.Tom Lane
It has been wrong for this case since it was first written for 7.1 :-( Per report from Pavel HanĂ¡k.
2007-02-27Backported bug fix for #2956.Michael Meskes
2007-02-18Fix portal management code to support non-default command completion tags forTom Lane
portals using PORTAL_UTIL_SELECT strategy. This is currently significant only for FETCH queries, which are supposed to include a count in the tag. Seems it's been broken since 7.4, but nobody noticed before Knut Lehre.
2007-02-08Fix an ancient logic error in plpgsql's exec_stmt_block: it thought it couldTom Lane
get away with not (re)initializing a local variable if the variable is marked "isconst" and not "isnull". Unfortunately it makes this decision after having already freed the old value, meaning that something like for i in 1..10 loop declare c constant text := 'hi there'; leads to subsequent accesses to freed memory, and hence probably crashes. (In particular, this is why Asif Ali Rehman's bug leads to crash and not just an unexpectedly-NULL value for SQLERRM: SQLERRM is marked CONSTANT and so triggers this error.) The whole thing seems wrong on its face anyway: CONSTANT means that you can't change the variable inside the block, not that the initializer expression is guaranteed not to change value across successive block entries. Hence, remove the "optimization" instead of trying to fix it.
2007-02-08Rearrange use of plpgsql_add_initdatums() so that only the parsing of aTom Lane
DECLARE section needs to know about it. Formerly, everyplace besides DECLARE that created variables needed to do "plpgsql_add_initdatums(NULL)" to prevent those variables from being sucked up as part of a subsequent DECLARE block. This is obviously error-prone, and in fact the SQLSTATE/SQLERRM patch had failed to do it for those two variables, leading to the bug recently exhibited by Asif Ali Rehman: a DECLARE within an exception handler tried to reinitialize SQLERRM. Although the SQLSTATE/SQLERRM patch isn't in any pre-8.1 branches, and so I can't point to a demonstrable failure there, it seems wise to back-patch this into the older branches anyway, just to keep the logic similar to HEAD.
2007-02-07Stamp releases 8.2.3, 8.1.8, 8.0.12. No release notes yet.Bruce Momjian
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.
2007-02-06Backported va_list handling cleanupMichael Meskes
2007-02-02Stamp release 8.0.11.REL8_0_11Tom Lane
Security: CVE-2007-0555, CVE-2007-0556
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
2007-01-31Translation updatesPeter Eisentraut
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.
2007-01-27Correct an old logic error in btree page splitting: when considering a splitTom Lane
exactly at the point where we need to insert a new item, the calculation used the wrong size for the "high key" of the new left page. This could lead to choosing an unworkable split, resulting in "PANIC: failed to add item to the left sibling" (or "right sibling") failure. Although this bug has been there a long time, it's very difficult to trigger a failure before 8.2, since there was generally a lot of free space on both sides of a chosen split. In 8.2, where the user-selected fill factor determines how much free space the code tries to leave, an unworkable split is much more likely. Report by Joe Conway, diagnosis and fix by Heikki Linnakangas.
2007-01-24Get pg_utf_mblen(), pg_utf2wchar_with_len(), and utf2ucs() all on the sameTom Lane
page about the maximum UTF8 sequence length we support (4 bytes since 8.1, 3 before that). pg_utf2wchar_with_len never got updated to support 4-byte characters at all, and in any case had a buffer-overrun risk in that it could produce multiple pg_wchars from what mblen claims to be just one UTF8 character. The only reason we don't have a major security hole is that most callers allocate worst-case output buffers; the sole exception in released versions appears to be pre-8.2 iwchareq() (ie, ILIKE), which can be crashed due to zeroing out its return address --- but AFAICS that can't be exploited for anything more than a crash, due to inability to control what gets written there. Per report from James Russell and Michael Fuhr. Pre-8.1 the risk is much less, but I still think pg_utf2wchar_with_len's behavior given an incomplete final character risks buffer overrun, so back-patch that logic change anyway. This patch also makes sure that UTF8 sequences exceeding the supported length (whichever it is) are consistently treated as error cases, rather than being treated like a valid shorter sequence in some places.
2007-01-24Relax an Assert() that has been found to be too strict in some situationsTom Lane
involving unions of types having typmods. Variants of the failure are known to occur in 8.1 and up; not sure if it's possible in 8.0 and 7.4, but since the code exists that far back, I'll just patch 'em all. Per report from Brian Hurt.
2007-01-05Stamp release 8.0.10.Bruce Momjian
2007-01-03Fix regex_fixed_prefix() to cope reasonably well with regex patterns of theTom Lane
form '^(foo)$'. Before, these could never be optimized into indexscans. The recent changes to make psql and pg_dump generate such patterns (for \d commands and -t and related switches, respectively) therefore represented a big performance hit for people with large pg_class catalogs, as seen in recent gripe from Erik Jones. While at it, be more paranoid about case-sensitivity checking in multibyte encodings, and fix some other corner cases in which a regex might be interpreted too liberally.
2006-12-26Repair bug #2839: the various ExecReScan functions need to resetTom Lane
ps_TupFromTlist in plan nodes that make use of it. This was being done correctly in join nodes and Result nodes but not in any relation-scan nodes. Bug would lead to bogus results if a set-returning function appeared in the targetlist of a subquery that could be rescanned after partial execution, for example a subquery within EXISTS(). Bug has been around forever :-( ... surprising it wasn't reported before.
2006-11-28Update timezone data to tzdata2006p zic distribution. It seems WesternTom Lane
Australia decided to institute DST with one month's notice ... way to go, politicians.
2006-11-28Mark to_number() and the numeric-type variants of to_char() as stable, notTom Lane
immutable, because their results depend on lc_numeric; this is a longstanding oversight. We cannot force initdb for this in the back branches, but we can at least provide correct catalog entries for future installations.
2006-11-24Fix psql's \copy command to ensure that it cycles libpq back to the idle stateTom Lane
(in particular, causing the ReadyForQuery message to be eaten) before returning from do_copy. The only known consequence of failing to do so is that get_prompt might show a wrong result for the %x transaction status escape, as reported by Bernd Helmle; but it's possible there are other issues. Back-patch as far as 7.4, the oldest version supporting %x.
2006-11-22Fix 1-byte buffer overrun when OID exceeds 1 billion. This probably can'tTom Lane
cause any serious harm in normal cases, but if you have gcc buffer overrun checking turned on, that will notice. Found by Jack Orenstein. Problem was already fixed in CVS HEAD.
2006-11-20When truncating a relation in-place (eg during VACUUM), do not try to unlinkTom Lane
any no-longer-needed segments; just truncate them to zero bytes and leave the files in place for possible future re-use. This avoids problems when the segments are re-used due to relation growth shortly after truncation. Before, the bgwriter, and possibly other backends, could still be holding open file references to the old segment files, and would write dirty blocks into those files where they'd disappear from the view of other processes. Back-patch as far as 8.0. I believe the 7.x branches are not vulnerable, because they had no bgwriter, and "blind" writes by other backends would always be done via freshly-opened file references.
2006-11-19Repair problems with hash indexes that span multiple segments: the hash code'sTom Lane
preference for filling pages out-of-order tends to confuse the sanity checks in md.c, as per report from Balazs Nagy in bug #2737. The fix is to ensure that the smgr-level code always has the same idea of the logical EOF as the hash index code does, by using ReadBuffer(P_NEW) where we are adding a single page to the end of the index, and using smgrextend() to reserve a large batch of pages when creating a new splitpoint. The patch is a bit ugly because it avoids making any changes in md.c, which seems the most prudent approach for a backpatchable beta-period fix. After 8.3 development opens, I'll take a look at a cleaner but more invasive patch, in particular getting rid of the now unnecessary hack to allow reading beyond EOF in mdread(). Backpatch as far as 7.4. The bug likely exists in 7.3 as well, but because of the magnitude of the 7.3-to-7.4 changes in hash, the later-version patch doesn't even begin to apply. Given the other known bugs in the 7.3-era hash code, it does not seem worth trying to develop a separate patch for 7.3.