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2015-01-29Properly terminate the array returned by GetLockConflicts().Andres Freund
GetLockConflicts() has for a long time not properly terminated the returned array. During normal processing the returned array is zero initialized which, while not pretty, is sufficient to be recognized as a invalid virtual transaction id. But the HotStandby case is more than aesthetically broken: The allocated (and reused) array is neither zeroed upon allocation, nor reinitialized, nor terminated. Not having a terminating element means that the end of the array will not be recognized and that recovery conflict handling will thus read ahead into adjacent memory. Only terminating when hitting memory content that looks like a invalid virtual transaction id. Luckily this seems so far not have caused significant problems, besides making recovery conflict more expensive. Discussion: 20150127142713.GD29457@awork2.anarazel.de Backpatch into all supported branches.
2015-01-29Fix bug where GIN scan keys were not initialized with gin_fuzzy_search_limit.Heikki Linnakangas
When gin_fuzzy_search_limit was used, we could jump out of startScan() without calling startScanKey(). That was harmless in 9.3 and below, because startScanKey()() didn't do anything interesting, but in 9.4 it initializes information needed for skipping entries (aka GIN fast scans), and you readily get a segfault if it's not done. Nevertheless, it was clearly wrong all along, so backpatch all the way to 9.1 where the early return was introduced. (AFAICS startScanKey() did nothing useful in 9.3 and below, because the fields it initialized were already initialized in ginFillScanKey(), but I don't dare to change that in a minor release. ginFillScanKey() is always called in gingetbitmap() even though there's a check there to see if the scan keys have already been initialized, because they never are; ginrescan() free's them.) In the passing, remove unnecessary if-check from the second inner loop in startScan(). We already check in the first loop that the condition is true for all entries. Reported by Olaf Gawenda, bug #12694, Backpatch to 9.1 and above, although AFAICS it causes a live bug only in 9.4.
2015-01-28Clean up range-table building in copy.cStephen Frost
Commit 804b6b6db4dcfc590a468e7be390738f9f7755fb added the build of a range table in copy.c to initialize the EState es_range_table since it can be needed in error paths. Unfortunately, that commit didn't appreciate that some code paths might end up not initializing the rte which is used to build the range table. Fix that and clean up a couple others things along the way- build it only once and don't explicitly set it on the !is_from path as it doesn't make any sense there (cstate is palloc0'd, so this isn't an issue from an initializing standpoint either). The prior commit went back to 9.0, but this only goes back to 9.1 as prior to that the range table build happens immediately after building the RTE and therefore doesn't suffer from this issue. Pointed out by Robert.
2015-01-28Fix column-privilege leak in error-message pathsStephen Frost
While building error messages to return to the user, BuildIndexValueDescription and ri_ReportViolation would happily include the entire key or entire row in the result returned to the user, even if the user didn't have access to view all of the columns being included. Instead, include only those columns which the user is providing or which the user has select rights on. If the user does not have any rights to view the table or any of the columns involved then no detail is provided and a NULL value is returned from BuildIndexValueDescription. Note that, for key cases, the user must have access to all of the columns for the key to be shown; a partial key will not be returned. Back-patch all the way, as column-level privileges are now in all supported versions. This has been assigned CVE-2014-8161, but since the issue and the patch have already been publicized on pgsql-hackers, there's no point in trying to hide this commit.
2015-01-27Fix NUMERIC field access macros to treat NaNs consistently.Tom Lane
Commit 145343534c153d1e6c3cff1fa1855787684d9a38 arranged to store numeric NaN values as short-header numerics, but the field access macros did not get the memo: they thought only "SHORT" numerics have short headers. Most of the time this makes no difference because we don't access the weight or dscale of a NaN; but numeric_send does that. As pointed out by Andrew Gierth, this led to fetching uninitialized bytes. AFAICS this could not have any worse consequences than that; in particular, an unaligned stored numeric would have been detoasted by PG_GETARG_NUMERIC, so that there's no risk of a fetch off the end of memory. Still, the code is wrong on its own terms, and it's not hard to foresee future changes that might expose us to real risks. So back-patch to all affected branches.
2015-01-26Fix volatile-safety issue in pltcl_SPI_execute_plan().Tom Lane
The "callargs" variable is modified within PG_TRY and then referenced within PG_CATCH, which is exactly the coding pattern we've now found to be unsafe. Marking "callargs" volatile would be problematic because it is passed by reference to some Tcl functions, so fix the problem by not modifying it within PG_TRY. We can just postpone the free() till we exit the PG_TRY construct, as is already done elsewhere in this same file. Also, fix failure to free(callargs) when exiting on too-many-arguments error. This is only a minor memory leak, but a leak nonetheless. In passing, remove some unnecessary "volatile" markings in the same function. Those doubtless are there because gcc 2.95.3 whinged about them, but we now know that its algorithm for complaining is many bricks shy of a load. This is certainly a live bug with compilers that optimize similarly to current gcc, so back-patch to all active branches.
2015-01-26Fix volatile-safety issue in asyncQueueReadAllNotifications().Tom Lane
The "pos" variable is modified within PG_TRY and then referenced within PG_CATCH, so for strict POSIX conformance it must be marked volatile. Superficially the code looked safe because pos's address was taken, which was sufficient to force it into memory ... but it's not sufficient to ensure that the compiler applies updates exactly where the program text says to. The volatility marking has to extend into a couple of subroutines too, but I think that's probably a good thing because the risk of out-of-order updates is mostly in those subroutines not asyncQueueReadAllNotifications() itself. In principle the compiler could have re-ordered operations such that an error could be thrown while "pos" had an incorrect value. It's unclear how real the risk is here, but for safety back-patch to all active branches.
2015-01-24Replace a bunch more uses of strncpy() with safer coding.Tom Lane
strncpy() has a well-deserved reputation for being unsafe, so make an effort to get rid of nearly all occurrences in HEAD. A large fraction of the remaining uses were passing length less than or equal to the known strlen() of the source, in which case no null-padding can occur and the behavior is equivalent to memcpy(), though doubtless slower and certainly harder to reason about. So just use memcpy() in these cases. In other cases, use either StrNCpy() or strlcpy() as appropriate (depending on whether padding to the full length of the destination buffer seems useful). I left a few strncpy() calls alone in the src/timezone/ code, to keep it in sync with upstream (the IANA tzcode distribution). There are also a few such calls in ecpg that could possibly do with more analysis. AFAICT, none of these changes are more than cosmetic, except for the four occurrences in fe-secure-openssl.c, which are in fact buggy: an overlength source leads to a non-null-terminated destination buffer and ensuing misbehavior. These don't seem like security issues, first because no stack clobber is possible and second because if your values of sslcert etc are coming from untrusted sources then you've got problems way worse than this. Still, it's undesirable to have unpredictable behavior for overlength inputs, so back-patch those four changes to all active branches.
2015-01-19In pg_regress, remove the temporary installation upon successful exit.Tom Lane
This results in a very substantial reduction in disk space usage during "make check-world", since that sequence involves creation of numerous temporary installations. It should also help a bit in the buildfarm, even though the buildfarm script doesn't create as many temp installations, because the current script misses deleting some of them; and anyway it seems better to do this once in one place rather than expecting that script to get it right every time. In 9.4 and HEAD, also undo the unwise choice in commit b1aebbb6a86e96d7 to report strerror(errno) after a rmtree() failure. rmtree has already reported that, possibly for multiple failures with distinct errnos; and what's more, by the time it returns there is no good reason to assume that errno still reflects the last reportable error. So reporting errno here is at best redundant and at worst badly misleading. Back-patch to all supported branches, so that future revisions of the buildfarm script can rely on this behavior.
2015-01-19Adjust "pgstat wait timeout" message to be a translatable LOG message.Tom Lane
Per discussion, change the log level of this message to be LOG not WARNING. The main point of this change is to avoid causing buildfarm run failures when the stats collector is exceptionally slow to respond, which it not infrequently is on some of the smaller/slower buildfarm members. This change does lose notice to an interactive user when his stats query is looking at out-of-date stats, but the majority opinion (not necessarily that of yours truly) is that WARNING messages would probably not get noticed anyway on heavily loaded production systems. A LOG message at least ensures that the problem is recorded somewhere where bulk auditing for the issue is possible. Also, instead of an untranslated "pgstat wait timeout" message, provide a translatable and hopefully more understandable message "using stale statistics instead of current ones because stats collector is not responding". The original text was written hastily under the assumption that it would never really happen in practice, which we now know to be unduly optimistic. Back-patch to all active branches, since we've seen the buildfarm issue in all branches.
2015-01-17Fix namespace handling in xpath functionPeter Eisentraut
Previously, the xml value resulting from an xpath query would not have namespace declarations if the namespace declarations were attached to an ancestor element in the input xml value. That means the output value was not correct XML. Fix that by running the result value through xmlCopyNode(), which produces the correct namespace declarations. Author: Ali Akbar <the.apaan@gmail.com>
2015-01-16Update "pg_regress --no-locale" for Darwin and Windows.Noah Misch
Commit 894459e59ffa5c7fee297b246c17e1f72564db1d revealed this option to be broken for NLS builds on Darwin, but "make -C contrib/unaccent check" and the buildfarm client rely on it. Fix that configuration by redefining the option to imply LANG=C on Darwin. In passing, use LANG=C instead of LANG=en on Windows; since only postmaster startup uses that value, testers are unlikely to notice the change. Back-patch to 9.0, like the predecessor commit.
2015-01-15Fix use-of-already-freed-memory problem in EvalPlanQual processing.Tom Lane
Up to now, the "child" executor state trees generated for EvalPlanQual rechecks have simply shared the ResultRelInfo arrays used for the original execution tree. However, this leads to dangling-pointer problems, because ExecInitModifyTable() is all too willing to scribble on some fields of the ResultRelInfo(s) even when it's being run in one of those child trees. This trashes those fields from the perspective of the parent tree, because even if the generated subtree is logically identical to what was in use in the parent, it's in a memory context that will go away when we're done with the child state tree. We do however want to share information in the direction from the parent down to the children; in particular, fields such as es_instrument *must* be shared or we'll lose the stats arising from execution of the children. So the simplest fix is to make a copy of the parent's ResultRelInfo array, but not copy any fields back at end of child execution. Per report from Manuel Kniep. The added isolation test is based on his example. In an unpatched memory-clobber-enabled build it will reliably fail with "ctid is NULL" errors in all branches back to 9.1, as a consequence of junkfilter->jf_junkAttNo being overwritten with $7f7f. This test cannot be run as-is before that for lack of WITH syntax; but I have no doubt that some variant of this problem can arise in older branches, so apply the code change all the way back.
2015-01-14Make logging_collector=on work with non-windows EXEC_BACKEND again.Andres Freund
Commit b94ce6e80 reordered postmaster's startup sequence so that the tempfile directory is only cleaned up after all the necessary state for pg_ctl is collected. Unfortunately the chosen location is after the syslogger has been started; which normally is fine, except for !WIN32 EXEC_BACKEND builds, which pass information to children via files in the temp directory. Move the call to RemovePgTempFiles() to just before the syslogger has started. That's the first child we fork. Luckily EXEC_BACKEND is pretty much only used by endusers on windows, which has a separate method to pass information to children. That means the real world impact of this bug is very small. Discussion: 20150113182344.GF12272@alap3.anarazel.de Backpatch to 9.1, just as the previous commit was.
2015-01-12Avoid unexpected slowdown in vacuum regression test.Tom Lane
I noticed the "vacuum" regression test taking really significantly longer than it used to on a slow machine. Investigation pointed the finger at commit e415b469b33ba328765e39fd62edcd28f30d9c3c, which added creation of an index using an extremely expensive index function. That function was evidently meant to be applied only twice ... but the test re-used an existing test table, which up till a couple lines before that had had over two thousand rows. Depending on timing of the concurrent regression tests, the intervening VACUUMs might have been unable to remove those recently-dead rows, and then the index build would need to create index entries for them too, leading to the wrap_do_analyze() function being executed 2000+ times not twice. Avoid this by using a different table that is guaranteed to have only the intended two rows in it. Back-patch to 9.0, like the commit that created the problem.
2015-01-07On Darwin, detect and report a multithreaded postmaster.Noah Misch
Darwin --enable-nls builds use a substitute setlocale() that may start a thread. Buildfarm member orangutan experienced BackendList corruption on account of different postmaster threads executing signal handlers simultaneously. Furthermore, a multithreaded postmaster risks undefined behavior from sigprocmask() and fork(). Emit LOG messages about the problem and its workaround. Back-patch to 9.0 (all supported versions).
2015-01-07Always set the six locale category environment variables in main().Noah Misch
Typical server invocations already achieved that. Invalid locale settings in the initial postmaster environment interfered, as could malloc() failure. Setting "LC_MESSAGES=pt_BR.utf8 LC_ALL=invalid" in the postmaster environment will now choose C-locale messages, not Brazilian Portuguese messages. Most localized programs, including all PostgreSQL frontend executables, do likewise. Users are unlikely to observe changes involving locale categories other than LC_MESSAGES. CheckMyDatabase() ensures that we successfully set LC_COLLATE and LC_CTYPE; main() sets the remaining three categories to locale "C", which almost cannot fail. Back-patch to 9.0 (all supported versions).
2015-01-07Reject ANALYZE commands during VACUUM FULL or another ANALYZE.Noah Misch
vacuum()'s static variable handling makes it non-reentrant; an ensuing null pointer deference crashed the backend. Back-patch to 9.0 (all supported versions).
2015-01-07Improve relcache invalidation handling of currently invisible relations.Andres Freund
The corner case where a relcache invalidation tried to rebuild the entry for a referenced relation but couldn't find it in the catalog wasn't correct. The code tried to RelationCacheDelete/RelationDestroyRelation the entry. That didn't work when assertions are enabled because the latter contains an assertion ensuring the refcount is zero. It's also more generally a bad idea, because by virtue of being referenced somebody might actually look at the entry, which is possible if the error is trapped and handled via a subtransaction abort. Instead just error out, without deleting the entry. As the entry is marked invalid, the worst that can happen is that the invalid (and at some point unused) entry lingers in the relcache. Discussion: 22459.1418656530@sss.pgh.pa.us There should be no way to hit this case < 9.4 where logical decoding introduced a bug that can hit this. But since the code for handling the corner case is there it should do something halfway sane, so backpatch all the the way back. The logical decoding bug will be handled in a separate commit.
2015-01-06Fix thinko in plpython error messageAlvaro Herrera
2015-01-03Prevent WAL files created by pg_basebackup -x/X from being archived again.Andres Freund
WAL (and timeline history) files created by pg_basebackup did not maintain the new base backup's archive status. That's currently not a problem if the new node is used as a standby - but if that node is promoted all still existing files can get archived again. With a high wal_keep_segment settings that can happen a significant time later - which is quite confusing. Change both the backend (for the -x/-X fetch case) and pg_basebackup (for -X stream) itself to always mark WAL/timeline files included in the base backup as .done. That's in line with walreceiver.c doing so. The verbosity of the pg_basebackup changes show pretty clearly that it needs some refactoring, but that'd result in not be backpatchable changes. Backpatch to 9.1 where pg_basebackup was introduced. Discussion: 20141205002854.GE21964@awork2.anarazel.de
2014-12-31Improve consistency of parsing of psql's magic variables.Tom Lane
For simple boolean variables such as ON_ERROR_STOP, psql has for a long time recognized variant spellings of "on" and "off" (such as "1"/"0"), and it also made a point of warning you if you'd misspelled the setting. But these conveniences did not exist for other keyword-valued variables. In particular, though ECHO_HIDDEN and ON_ERROR_ROLLBACK include "on" and "off" as possible values, none of the alternative spellings for those were recognized; and to make matters worse the code would just silently assume "on" was meant for any unrecognized spelling. Several people have reported getting bitten by this, so let's fix it. In detail, this patch: * Allows all spellings recognized by ParseVariableBool() for ECHO_HIDDEN and ON_ERROR_ROLLBACK. * Reports a warning for unrecognized values for COMP_KEYWORD_CASE, ECHO, ECHO_HIDDEN, HISTCONTROL, ON_ERROR_ROLLBACK, and VERBOSITY. * Recognizes all values for all these variables case-insensitively; previously there was a mishmash of case-sensitive and case-insensitive behaviors. Back-patch to all supported branches. There is a small risk of breaking existing scripts that were accidentally failing to malfunction; but the consensus is that the chance of detecting real problems and preventing future mistakes outweighs this.
2014-12-29Backpatch variable renaming in formatting.cBruce Momjian
Backpatch a9c22d1480aa8e6d97a000292d05ef2b31bbde4e to make future backpatching easier. Backpatch through 9.0
2014-12-25Have config_sspi_auth() permit IPv6 localhost connections.Noah Misch
Windows versions later than Windows Server 2003 map "localhost" to ::1. Account for that in the generated pg_hba.conf, fixing another oversight in commit f6dc6dd5ba54d52c0733aaafc50da2fbaeabb8b0. Back-patch to 9.0, like that commit. David Rowley and Noah Misch
2014-12-24Add CST (China Standard Time) to our lists of timezone abbreviations.Tom Lane
For some reason this seems to have been missed when the lists in src/timezone/tznames/ were first constructed. We can't put it in Default because of the conflict with US CST, but we should certainly list it among the alternative entries in Asia.txt. (I checked for other oversights, but all the other abbreviations that are in current use according to the IANA files seem to be accounted for.) Noted while responding to bug #12326.
2014-12-19Prevent potentially hazardous compiler/cpu reordering during lwlock release.Andres Freund
In LWLockRelease() (and in 9.4+ LWLockUpdateVar()) we release enqueued waiters using PGSemaphoreUnlock(). As there are other sources of such unlocks backends only wake up if MyProc->lwWaiting is set to false; which is only done in the aforementioned functions. Before this commit there were dangers because the store to lwWaitLink could become visible before the store to lwWaitLink. This could both happen due to compiler reordering (on most compilers) and on some platforms due to the CPU reordering stores. The possible consequence of this is that a backend stops waiting before lwWaitLink is set to NULL. If that backend then tries to acquire another lock and has to wait there the list could become corrupted once the lwWaitLink store is finally performed. Add a write memory barrier to prevent that issue. Unfortunately the barrier support has been only added in 9.2. Given that the issue has not knowingly been observed in praxis it seems sufficient to prohibit compiler reordering using volatile for 9.0 and 9.1. Actual problems due to compiler reordering are more likely anyway. Discussion: 20140210134625.GA15246@awork2.anarazel.de
2014-12-18Recognize Makefile line continuations in fetchRegressOpts().Noah Misch
Back-patch to 9.0 (all supported versions). This is mere future-proofing in the context of the master branch, but commit f6dc6dd5ba54d52c0733aaafc50da2fbaeabb8b0 requires it of older branches.
2014-12-17Lock down regression testing temporary clusters on Windows.Noah Misch
Use SSPI authentication to allow connections exclusively from the OS user that launched the test suite. This closes on Windows the vulnerability that commit be76a6d39e2832d4b88c0e1cc381aa44a7f86881 closed on other platforms. Users of "make installcheck" or custom test harnesses can run "pg_regress --config-auth=DATADIR" to activate the same authentication configuration that "make check" would use. Back-patch to 9.0 (all supported versions). Security: CVE-2014-0067
2014-12-16Fix off-by-one loop count in MapArrayTypeName, and get rid of static array.Tom Lane
MapArrayTypeName would copy up to NAMEDATALEN-1 bytes of the base type name, which of course is wrong: after prepending '_' there is only room for NAMEDATALEN-2 bytes. Aside from being the wrong result, this case would lead to overrunning the statically allocated work buffer. This would be a security bug if the function were ever used outside bootstrap mode, but it isn't, at least not in any currently supported branches. Aside from fixing the off-by-one loop logic, this patch gets rid of the static work buffer by having MapArrayTypeName pstrdup its result; the sole caller was already doing that, so this just requires moving the pstrdup call. This saves a few bytes but mainly it makes the API a lot cleaner. Back-patch on the off chance that there is some third-party code using MapArrayTypeName with less-secure input. Pushing pstrdup into the function should not cause any serious problems for such hypothetical code; at worst there might be a short term memory leak. Per Coverity scanning.
2014-12-11Fix planning of SELECT FOR UPDATE on child table with partial index.Tom Lane
Ordinarily we can omit checking of a WHERE condition that matches a partial index's condition, when we are using an indexscan on that partial index. However, in SELECT FOR UPDATE we must include the "redundant" filter condition in the plan so that it gets checked properly in an EvalPlanQual recheck. The planner got this mostly right, but improperly omitted the filter condition if the index in question was on an inheritance child table. In READ COMMITTED mode, this could result in incorrectly returning just-updated rows that no longer satisfy the filter condition. The cause of the error is using get_parse_rowmark() when get_plan_rowmark() is what should be used during planning. In 9.3 and up, also fix the same mistake in contrib/postgres_fdw. It's currently harmless there (for lack of inheritance support) but wrong is wrong, and the incorrect code might get copied to someplace where it's more significant. Report and fix by Kyotaro Horiguchi. Back-patch to all supported branches.
2014-12-11Fix corner case where SELECT FOR UPDATE could return a row twice.Tom Lane
In READ COMMITTED mode, if a SELECT FOR UPDATE discovers it has to redo WHERE-clause checking on rows that have been updated since the SELECT's snapshot, it invokes EvalPlanQual processing to do that. If this first occurs within a non-first child table of an inheritance tree, the previous coding could accidentally re-return a matching row from an earlier, already-scanned child table. (And, to add insult to injury, I think this could make it miss returning a row that should have been returned, if the updated row that this happens on should still have passed the WHERE qual.) Per report from Kyotaro Horiguchi; the added isolation test is based on his test case. This has been broken for quite awhile, so back-patch to all supported branches.
2014-12-05Give a proper error message if initdb password file is empty.Heikki Linnakangas
Used to say just "could not read password from file "...": Success", which isn't very informative. Mats Erik Andersson. Backpatch to all supported versions.
2014-12-01Guard against bad "dscale" values in numeric_recv().Tom Lane
We were not checking to see if the supplied dscale was valid for the given digit array when receiving binary-format numeric values. While dscale can validly be more than the number of nonzero fractional digits, it shouldn't be less; that case causes fractional digits to be hidden on display even though they're there and participate in arithmetic. Bug #12053 from Tommaso Sala indicates that there's at least one broken client library out there that sometimes supplies an incorrect dscale value, leading to strange behavior. This suggests that simply throwing an error might not be the best response; it would lead to failures in applications that might seem to be working fine today. What seems the least risky fix is to truncate away any digits that would be hidden by dscale. This preserves the existing behavior in terms of what will be printed for the transmitted value, while preventing subsequent arithmetic from producing results inconsistent with that. In passing, throw a specific error for the case of dscale being outside the range that will fit into a numeric's header. Before you got "value overflows numeric format", which is a bit misleading. Back-patch to all supported branches.
2014-11-30Fix minor bugs in commit 30bf4689a96cd283af33edcdd6b7210df3f20cd8 et al.Tom Lane
Coverity complained that the "else" added to fillPGconn() was unreachable, which it was. Remove the dead code. In passing, rearrange the tests so as not to bother trying to fetch values for options that can't be assigned. Pre-9.3 did not have that issue, but it did have a "return" that should be "goto oom_error" to ensure that a suitable error message gets filled in.
2014-11-25Allow "dbname" from connection string to be overridden in PQconnectDBParamsHeikki Linnakangas
If the "dbname" attribute in PQconnectDBParams contained a connection string or URI (and expand_dbname = TRUE), the database name from the connection string could not be overridden by a subsequent "dbname" keyword in the array. That was not intentional; all other options can be overridden. Furthermore, any subsequent "dbname" caused the connection string from the first dbname value to be processed again, overriding any values for the same options that were given between the connection string and the second dbname option. In the passing, clarify in the docs that only the first dbname option in the array is parsed as a connection string. Alex Shulgin. Backpatch to all supported versions.
2014-11-25Check return value of strdup() in libpq connection option parsing.Heikki Linnakangas
An out-of-memory in most of these would lead to strange behavior, like connecting to a different database than intended, but some would lead to an outright segfault. Alex Shulgin and me. Backpatch to all supported versions.
2014-11-18Don't require bleeding-edge timezone data in timestamptz regression test.Tom Lane
The regression test cases added in commits b2cbced9e et al depended in part on the Russian timezone offset changes of Oct 2014. While this is of no particular concern for a default Postgres build, it was possible for a build using --with-system-tzdata to fail the tests if the system tzdata database wasn't au courant. Bjorn Munch and Christoph Berg both complained about this while packaging 9.4rc1, so we probably shouldn't insist on the system tzdata being up-to-date. Instead, make an equivalent test using a zone change that occurred in Venezuela in 2007. With this patch, the regression tests should pass using any tzdata set from 2012 or later. (I can't muster much sympathy for somebody using --with-system-tzdata on a machine whose system tzdata is more than three years out-of-date.)
2014-11-17Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2014j.Tom Lane
DST law changes in the Turks & Caicos Islands (America/Grand_Turk) and in Fiji. New zone Pacific/Bougainville for portions of Papua New Guinea. Historical changes for Korea and Vietnam.
2014-11-15Sync unlogged relations to disk after they have been reset.Andres Freund
Unlogged relations are only reset when performing a unclean restart. That means they have to be synced to disk during clean shutdowns. During normal processing that's achieved by registering a buffer's file to be fsynced at the next checkpoint when flushed. But ResetUnloggedRelations() doesn't go through the buffer manager, so nothing will force reset relations to disk before the next shutdown checkpoint. So just make ResetUnloggedRelations() fsync the newly created main forks to disk. Discussion: 20140912112246.GA4984@alap3.anarazel.de Backpatch to 9.1 where unlogged tables were introduced. Abhijit Menon-Sen and Andres Freund
2014-11-15Ensure unlogged tables are reset even if crash recovery errors out.Andres Freund
Unlogged relations are reset at the end of crash recovery as they're only synced to disk during a proper shutdown. Unfortunately that and later steps can fail, e.g. due to running out of space. This reset was, up to now performed after marking the database as having finished crash recovery successfully. As out of space errors trigger a crash restart that could lead to the situation that not all unlogged relations are reset. Once that happend usage of unlogged relations could yield errors like "could not open file "...": No such file or directory". Luckily clusters that show the problem can be fixed by performing a immediate shutdown, and starting the database again. To fix, just call ResetUnloggedRelations(UNLOGGED_RELATION_INIT) earlier, before marking the database as having successfully recovered. Discussion: 20140912112246.GA4984@alap3.anarazel.de Backpatch to 9.1 where unlogged tables were introduced. Abhijit Menon-Sen and Andres Freund
2014-11-15Backport "Expose fsync_fname as a public API".Andres Freund
Backport commit cc52d5b33ff5df29de57dcae9322214cfe9c8464 back to 9.1 to allow backpatching some unlogged table fixes that use fsync_fname.
2014-11-13Fix pg_dumpall to restore its ability to dump from ancient servers.Tom Lane
Fix breakage induced by commits d8d3d2a4f37f6df5d0118b7f5211978cca22091a and 463f2625a5fb183b6a8925ccde98bb3889f921d9: pg_dumpall has crashed when attempting to dump from pre-8.1 servers since then, due to faulty construction of the query used for dumping roles from older servers. The query was erroneous as of the earlier commit, but it wasn't exposed unless you tried to use --binary-upgrade, which you presumably wouldn't with a pre-8.1 server. However commit 463f2625a made it fail always. In HEAD, also fix additional breakage induced in the same query by commit 491c029dbc4206779cf659aa0ff986af7831d2ff, which evidently wasn't tested against pre-8.1 servers either. The bug is only latent in 9.1 because 463f2625a hadn't landed yet, but it seems best to back-patch all branches containing the faulty query. Gilles Darold
2014-11-13Fix race condition between hot standby and restoring a full-page image.Heikki Linnakangas
There was a window in RestoreBackupBlock where a page would be zeroed out, but not yet locked. If a backend pinned and locked the page in that window, it saw the zeroed page instead of the old page or new page contents, which could lead to missing rows in a result set, or errors. To fix, replace RBM_ZERO with RBM_ZERO_AND_LOCK, which atomically pins, zeroes, and locks the page, if it's not in the buffer cache already. In stable branches, the old RBM_ZERO constant is renamed to RBM_DO_NOT_USE, to avoid breaking any 3rd party extensions that might use RBM_ZERO. More importantly, this avoids renumbering the other enum values, which would cause even bigger confusion in extensions that use ReadBufferExtended, but haven't been recompiled. Backpatch to all supported versions; this has been racy since hot standby was introduced.
2014-11-11Fix dependency searching for case where column is visited before table.Tom Lane
When the recursive search in dependency.c visits a column and then later visits the whole table containing the column, it needs to propagate the drop-context flags for the table to the existing target-object entry for the column. Otherwise we might refuse the DROP (if not CASCADE) on the incorrect grounds that there was no automatic drop pathway to the column. Remarkably, this has not been reported before, though it's possible at least when an extension creates both a datatype and a table using that datatype. Rather than just marking the column as allowed to be dropped, it might seem good to skip the DROP COLUMN step altogether, since the later DROP of the table will surely get the job done. The problem with that is that the datatype would then be dropped before the table (since the whole situation occurred because we visited the datatype, and then recursed to the dependent column, before visiting the table). That seems pretty risky, and the case is rare enough that it doesn't seem worth expending a lot of effort or risk to make the drops happen in a safe order. So we just play dumb and delete the column separately according to the existing drop ordering rules. Per report from Petr Jelinek, though this is different from his proposed patch. Back-patch to 9.1, where extensions were introduced. There's currently no evidence that such cases can arise before 9.1, and in any case we would also need to back-patch cb5c2ba2d82688d29b5902d86b993a54355cad4d to 9.0 if we wanted to back-patch this.
2014-11-06Cope with more than 64K phrases in a thesaurus dictionary.Tom Lane
dict_thesaurus stored phrase IDs in uint16 fields, so it would get confused and even crash if there were more than 64K entries in the configuration file. It turns out to be basically free to widen the phrase IDs to uint32, so let's just do so. This was complained of some time ago by David Boutin (in bug #7793); he later submitted an informal patch but it was never acted on. We now have another complaint (bug #11901 from Luc Ouellette) so it's time to make something happen. This is basically Boutin's patch, but for future-proofing I also added a defense against too many words per phrase. Note that we don't need any explicit defense against overflow of the uint32 counters, since before that happens we'd hit array allocation sizes that repalloc rejects. Back-patch to all supported branches because of the crash risk.
2014-11-06Prevent the unnecessary creation of .ready file for the timeline history file.Fujii Masao
Previously .ready file was created for the timeline history file at the end of an archive recovery even when WAL archiving was not enabled. This creation is unnecessary and causes .ready file to remain infinitely. This commit changes an archive recovery so that it creates .ready file for the timeline history file only when WAL archiving is enabled. Backpatch to all supported versions.
2014-11-04Drop no-longer-needed buffers during ALTER DATABASE SET TABLESPACE.Tom Lane
The previous coding assumed that we could just let buffers for the database's old tablespace age out of the buffer arena naturally. The folly of that is exposed by bug #11867 from Marc Munro: the user could later move the database back to its original tablespace, after which any still-surviving buffers would match lookups again and appear to contain valid data. But they'd be missing any changes applied while the database was in the new tablespace. This has been broken since ALTER SET TABLESPACE was introduced, so back-patch to all supported branches.
2014-10-30Test IsInTransactionChain, not IsTransactionBlock, in vac_update_relstats.Tom Lane
As noted by Noah Misch, my initial cut at fixing bug #11638 didn't cover all cases where ANALYZE might be invoked in an unsafe context. We need to test the result of IsInTransactionChain not IsTransactionBlock; which is notationally a pain because IsInTransactionChain requires an isTopLevel flag, which would have to be passed down through several levels of callers. I chose to pass in_outer_xact (ie, the result of IsInTransactionChain) rather than isTopLevel per se, as that seemed marginally more apropos for the intermediate functions to know about.
2014-10-29Avoid corrupting tables when ANALYZE inside a transaction is rolled back.Tom Lane
VACUUM and ANALYZE update the target table's pg_class row in-place, that is nontransactionally. This is OK, more or less, for the statistical columns, which are mostly nontransactional anyhow. It's not so OK for the DDL hint flags (relhasindex etc), which might get changed in response to transactional changes that could still be rolled back. This isn't a problem for VACUUM, since it can't be run inside a transaction block nor in parallel with DDL on the table. However, we allow ANALYZE inside a transaction block, so if the transaction had earlier removed the last index, rule, or trigger from the table, and then we roll back the transaction after ANALYZE, the table would be left in a corrupted state with the hint flags not set though they should be. To fix, suppress the hint-flag updates if we are InTransactionBlock(). This is safe enough because it's always OK to postpone hint maintenance some more; the worst-case consequence is a few extra searches of pg_index et al. There was discussion of instead using a transactional update, but that would change the behavior in ways that are not all desirable: in most scenarios we're better off keeping ANALYZE's statistical values even if the ANALYZE itself rolls back. In any case we probably don't want to change this behavior in back branches. Per bug #11638 from Casey Shobe. This has been broken for a good long time, so back-patch to all supported branches. Tom Lane and Michael Paquier, initial diagnosis by Andres Freund
2014-10-29Reset error message at PQreset()Heikki Linnakangas
If you call PQreset() repeatedly, and the connection cannot be re-established, the error messages from the failed connection attempts kept accumulating in the error string. Fixes bug #11455 reported by Caleb Epstein. Backpatch to all supported versions.