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2010-01-07Make bit/varbit substring() treat any negative length as meaning "all the restTom Lane
of the string". The previous coding treated only -1 that way, and would produce an invalid result value for other negative values. We ought to fix it so that 2-parameter bit substring() is a different C function and the 3-parameter form throws error for negative length, but that takes a pg_proc change which is impractical in the back branches; and in any case somebody might be relying on -1 working this way. So just do this as a back-patchable fix.
2009-12-29Previous fix for temporary file management broke returning a set fromHeikki Linnakangas
PL/pgSQL function within an exception handler. Make sure we use the right resource owner when we create the tuplestore to hold returned tuples. Simplify tuplestore API so that the caller doesn't need to be in the right memory context when calling tuplestore_put* functions. tuplestore.c automatically switches to the memory context used when the tuplestore was created. Tuplesort was already modified like this earlier. This patch also removes the now useless MemoryContextSwitch calls from callers. Report by Aleksei on pgsql-bugs on Dec 22 2009. Backpatch to 8.1, like the previous patch that broke this.
2009-12-12Fix integer-to-bit-string conversions to handle the first fractional byteTom Lane
correctly when the output bit width is wider than the given integer by something other than a multiple of 8 bits. This has been wrong since I first wrote that code for 8.0 :-(. Kudos to Roman Kononov for being the first to notice, though I didn't use his patch. Per bug #5237.
2009-12-10tag 8.1.19REL8_1_19Marc G. Fournier
2009-12-09Prevent indirect security attacks via changing session-local state withinTom Lane
an allegedly immutable index function. It was previously recognized that we had to prevent such a function from executing SET/RESET ROLE/SESSION AUTHORIZATION, or it could trivially obtain the privileges of the session user. However, since there is in general no privilege checking for changes of session-local state, it is also possible for such a function to change settings in a way that might subvert later operations in the same session. Examples include changing search_path to cause an unexpected function to be called, or replacing an existing prepared statement with another one that will execute a function of the attacker's choosing. The present patch secures VACUUM, ANALYZE, and CREATE INDEX/REINDEX against these threats, which are the same places previously deemed to need protection against the SET ROLE issue. GUC changes are still allowed, since there are many useful cases for that, but we prevent security problems by forcing a rollback of any GUC change after completing the operation. Other cases are handled by throwing an error if any change is attempted; these include temp table creation, closing a cursor, and creating or deleting a prepared statement. (In 7.4, the infrastructure to roll back GUC changes doesn't exist, so we settle for rejecting changes of "search_path" in these contexts.) Original report and patch by Gurjeet Singh, additional analysis by Tom Lane. Security: CVE-2009-4136
2009-12-09Reject certificates with embedded NULLs in the commonName field. This stopsMagnus Hagander
attacks where an attacker would put <attack>\0<propername> in the field and trick the validation code that the certificate was for <attack>. This is a very low risk attack since it reuqires the attacker to trick the CA into issuing a certificate with an incorrect field, and the common PostgreSQL deployments are with private CAs, and not external ones. Also, default mode in 8.4 does not do any name validation, and is thus also not vulnerable - but the higher security modes are. Backpatch all the way. Even though versions 8.3.x and before didn't have certificate name validation support, they still exposed this field for the user to perform the validation in the application code, and there is no way to detect this problem through that API. Security: CVE-2009-4034
2009-12-09Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2009s: DST law changes inTom Lane
Antarctica, Argentina, Bangladesh, Fiji, Novokuznetsk, Pakistan, Palestine, Samoa, Syria. Also historical corrections for Hong Kong.
2009-12-08Translation updatesPeter Eisentraut
2009-12-03Fix bug in temporary file management with subtransactions. A cursor openedHeikki Linnakangas
in a subtransaction stays open even if the subtransaction is aborted, so any temporary files related to it must stay alive as well. With the patch, we use ResourceOwners to track open temporary files and don't automatically close them at subtransaction end (though in the normal case temporary files are registered with the subtransaction resource owner and will therefore be closed). At end of top transaction, we still check that there's no temporary files marked as close-at-end-of-transaction open, but that's now just a debugging cross-check as the resource owner cleanup should've closed them already.
2009-12-02Ignore attempts to set "application_name" in the connection startup packet.Tom Lane
This avoids a useless connection retry and complaint in the postmaster log when receiving a connection from 8.5 or later libpq. Backpatch in all supported branches, but of course *not* HEAD.
2009-11-23Fix an old bug in multixact and two-phase commit. Prepared transactions canHeikki Linnakangas
be part of multixacts, so allocate a slot for each prepared transaction in the "oldest member" array in multixact.c. On PREPARE TRANSACTION, transfer the oldest member value from the current backends slot to the prepared xact slot. Also save and recover the value from the 2pc state file. The symptom of the bug was that after a transaction prepared, a shared lock still held by the prepared transaction was sometimes ignored by other transactions. Fix back to 8.1, where both 2PC and multixact were introduced.
2009-11-10Do not build psql's flex module on its own, but instead include it inTom Lane
mainloop.c. This ensures that postgres_fe.h is read before including any system headers, which is necessary to avoid problems on some platforms where we make nondefault selections of feature macros for stdio.h or other headers. We have had this policy for flex modules in the backend for many years, but for some reason it was not applied to psql. Per trouble report from Alexandra Roy and diagnosis by Albe Laurenz.
2009-11-10Fix longstanding problems in VACUUM caused by untimely interruptionsAlvaro Herrera
In VACUUM FULL, an interrupt after the initial transaction has been recorded as committed can cause postmaster to restart with the following error message: PANIC: cannot abort transaction NNNN, it was already committed This problem has been reported many times. In lazy VACUUM, an interrupt after the table has been truncated by lazy_truncate_heap causes other backends' relcache to still point to the removed pages; this can cause future INSERT and UPDATE queries to error out with the following error message: could not read block XX of relation 1663/NNN/MMMM: read only 0 of 8192 bytes The window to this race condition is extremely narrow, but it has been seen in the wild involving a cancelled autovacuum process. The solution for both problems is to inhibit interrupts in both operations until after the respective transactions have been committed. It's not a complete solution, because the transaction could theoretically be aborted by some other error, but at least fixes the most common causes of both problems.
2009-11-03Fix obscure segfault condition in PL/PythonPeter Eisentraut
In PLy_output(), when the elog() call in the TRY branch throws an exception (this can happen when a statement timeout kicks in, for example), the PyErr_SetString() call in the CATCH branch can cause a segfault, because the Py_XDECREF(so) call before it releases memory that is still used by the sv variable that PyErr_SetString() uses as argument, because sv points into memory owned by so. Backpatched back to 8.0, where this code was introduced. I also threw in a couple of volatile declarations for variables that are used before and after the TRY. I don't think they caused the crash that I observed, but they could become issues.
2009-10-30Make the overflow guards in ExecChooseHashTableSize be more protective.Tom Lane
The original coding ensured nbuckets and nbatch didn't exceed INT_MAX, which while not insane on its own terms did nothing to protect subsequent code like "palloc(nbatch * sizeof(BufFile *))". Since enormous join size estimates might well be planner error rather than reality, it seems best to constrain the initial sizes to be not more than work_mem/sizeof(pointer), thus ensuring the allocated arrays don't exceed work_mem. We will allow nbatch to get bigger than that during subsequent ExecHashIncreaseNumBatches calls, but we should still guard against integer overflow in those palloc requests. Per bug #5145 from Bernt Marius Johnsen. Although the given test case only seems to fail back to 8.2, previous releases have variants of this issue, so patch all supported branches.
2009-10-27Fix AfterTriggerSaveEvent to use a test and elog, not just Assert, to checkTom Lane
that it's called within an AfterTriggerBeginQuery/AfterTriggerEndQuery pair. The RI cascade triggers suppress that overhead on the assumption that they are always run non-deferred, so it's possible to violate the condition if someone mistakenly changes pg_trigger to mark such a trigger deferred. We don't really care about supporting that, but throwing an error instead of crashing seems desirable. Per report from Marcelo Costa.
2009-10-16Rewrite pam_passwd_conv_proc to be more robust: avoid assuming that theTom Lane
pam_message array contains exactly one PAM_PROMPT_ECHO_OFF message. Instead, deal with however many messages there are, and don't throw error for PAM_ERROR_MSG and PAM_TEXT_INFO messages. This logic is borrowed from openssh 5.2p1, which hopefully has seen more real-world PAM usage than we have. Per bug #5121 from Ryan Douglas, which turned out to be caused by the conv_proc being called with zero messages. Apparently that is normal behavior given the combination of Linux pam_krb5 with MS Active Directory as the domain controller. Patch all the way back, since this code has been essentially untouched since 7.4. (Surprising we've not heard complaints before.)
2009-10-08Fix off-by-one bug in bitncmp(): When comparing a number of bits divisible byHeikki Linnakangas
8, bitncmp() may dereference a pointer one byte out of bounds. Chris Mikkelson (bug #5101)
2009-10-02Fix erroneous handling of shared dependencies (ie dependencies on roles)Tom Lane
in CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION. The original code would update pg_shdepend as if a new function was being created, even if it wasn't, with two bad consequences: pg_shdepend might record the wrong owner for the function, and any dependencies for roles mentioned in the function's ACL would be lost. The fix is very easy: just don't touch pg_shdepend at all when doing a function replacement. Also update the CREATE FUNCTION reference page, which never explained exactly what changes and doesn't change in a function replacement. In passing, fix the CREATE VIEW reference page similarly; there's no code bug there, but the docs didn't say what happens.
2009-09-28Convert a perl array to a postgres array when returned by Set Returning ↵Andrew Dunstan
Functions as well as non SRFs. Backpatch to 8.1 where these facilities were introduced. with a little help from Abhijit Menon-Sen.
2009-09-26Fix RelationCacheInitializePhase2 (Phase3, in HEAD) to cope with theTom Lane
possibility of shared-inval messages causing a relcache flush while it tries to fill in missing data in preloaded relcache entries. There are actually two distinct failure modes here: 1. The flush could delete the next-to-be-processed cache entry, causing the subsequent hash_seq_search calls to go off into the weeds. This is the problem reported by Michael Brown, and I believe it also accounts for bug #5074. The simplest fix is to restart the hashtable scan after we've read any new data from the catalogs. It appears that pre-8.4 branches have not suffered from this failure, because by chance there were no other catalogs sharing the same hash chains with the catalogs that RelationCacheInitializePhase2 had work to do for. However that's obviously pretty fragile, and it seems possible that derivative versions with additional system catalogs might be vulnerable, so I'm back-patching this part of the fix anyway. 2. The flush could delete the *current* cache entry, in which case the pointer to the newly-loaded data would end up being stored into an already-deleted Relation struct. As long as it was still deleted, the only consequence would be some leaked space in CacheMemoryContext. But it seems possible that the Relation struct could already have been recycled, in which case this represents a hard-to-reproduce clobber of cached data structures, with unforeseeable consequences. The fix here is to pin the entry while we work on it. In passing, also change RelationCacheInitializePhase2 to Assert that formrdesc() set up the relation's cached TupleDesc (rd_att) with the correct type OID and hasoids values. This is more appropriate than silently updating the values, because the original tupdesc might already have been copied into the catcache. However this part of the patch is not in HEAD because it fails due to some questionable recent changes in formrdesc :-(. That will be cleaned up in a subsequent patch.
2009-09-08Remove outside-the-scanner references to "yyleng".Tom Lane
It seems the flex developers have decided to change yyleng from int to size_t. This has already happened in the latest release of OS X, and will start happening elsewhere once the next release of flex appears. Rather than trying to divine how it's declared in any particular build, let's just remove the one existing not-very-necessary external usage. Back-patch to all supported branches; not so much because users in the field are likely to care about building old branches with cutting-edge flex, as to keep OSX-based buildfarm members from having problems with old branches.
2009-09-04Tag 8.1.18REL8_1_18Marc G. Fournier
2009-09-03Disallow RESET ROLE and RESET SESSION AUTHORIZATION inside security-definerTom Lane
functions. This extends the previous patch that forbade SETting these variables inside security-definer functions. RESET is equally a security hole, since it would allow regaining privileges of the caller; furthermore it can trigger Assert failures and perhaps other internal errors, since the code is not expecting these variables to change in such contexts. The previous patch did not cover this case because assign hooks don't really have enough information, so move the responsibility for preventing this into guc.c. Problem discovered by Heikki Linnakangas. Security: no CVE assigned yet, extends CVE-2007-6600
2009-09-03Translation updatesPeter Eisentraut
2009-09-03Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2009l: DST law changes inTom Lane
Egypt, Mauritius, Bangladesh.
2009-09-02Fix pg_ctl's readfile() to not go into infinite loop on an empty fileTom Lane
(could happen if either postgresql.conf or postmaster.opts is empty). It's been broken since the C version was written for 8.0, so patch all the way back. initdb's copy of the function is broken in the same way, but it's less important there since the input files should never be empty. Patch that in HEAD only, and also fix some cosmetic differences that crept into that copy of the function. Per report from Corry Haines and Jeff Davis.
2009-08-24Fix inclusions of readline/editline header files so that we only attempt toTom Lane
#include the version of history.h that is in the same directory as the readline.h we are using. This avoids problems in some scenarios where both readline and editline are installed. Report and patch by Zdenek Kotala.
2009-08-18Fix overflow for INTERVAL 'x ms' where x is more than a couple million,Tom Lane
and integer datetimes are in use. Per bug report from Hubert Depesz Lubaczewski. Alex Hunsaker
2009-08-07Try to defend against the possibility that libpq is still in COPY_IN stateTom Lane
when we reach the post-COPY "pump it dry" error recovery code that was added 2006-11-24. Per a report from Neil Best, there is at least one code path in which this occurs, leading to an infinite loop in code that's supposed to be making it more robust not less so. A reasonable response seems to be to call PQputCopyEnd() again, so let's try that. Back-patch to all versions that contain the cleanup loop.
2009-07-29Fix a thinko introduced into CountActiveBackends by a recent patch:Tom Lane
we should ignore NULL array entries, not non-NULL ones. This had the effect of disabling commit_delay, and could have caused a crash in the rare race condition the patch was intended to fix. Bug report and diagnosis by Jeff Janes, in bug #4952.
2009-07-06Fix ancient bug in handling of to_char modifier 'TH', when used with HH.Heikki Linnakangas
In what seems like an oversight, we used to treat 'TH' the same as lowercase 'th', but only with HH/HH12.
2009-06-23Fix an ancient error in dist_ps (distance from point to line segment), whichTom Lane
a number of other geometric operators also depend on. It miscalculated the slope of the perpendicular to the given line segment anytime that slope was other than 0, infinite, or +/-1. In some cases the error would be masked because the true closest point on the line segment was one of its endpoints rather than the intersection point, but in other cases it could give an arbitrarily bad answer. Per bug #4872 from Nick Roosevelt. Bug goes clear back to Berkeley days, so patch all supported branches. Make a couple of cosmetic adjustments while at it.
2009-06-11Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2009i: DST law changes inTom Lane
Bangladesh, Egypt, Jordan, Pakistan.
2009-06-10Improve capitalization and punctuation in recently added GiST message.Peter Eisentraut
2009-06-10Fix cash_in() to behave properly in locales where frac_digits is zero,Tom Lane
eg Japan. Report and fix by Itagaki Takahiro. Also fix CASHDEBUG printout format for branches with 64-bit money type, and some minor comment cleanup. Back-patch to 7.4, because it's broken all the way back.
2009-06-05Adjust recent PERL_SYS_INIT3 call to avoid platforms where it might fail, ↵Andrew Dunstan
and to remove compilation warning. Backpatch the release 7.4
2009-06-04Initialise perl library as documented in perl API. Backpatch to release 7.4.Andrew Dunstan
2009-05-19Update relpages and reltuples estimates in stand-alone ANALYZE, even ifHeikki Linnakangas
there's no analyzable attributes or indexes. We also used to report 0 live and dead tuples for such tables, which messed with autovacuum threshold calculations. This fixes bug #4812 reported by George Su. Backpatch back to 8.1.
2009-05-03Fix pg_resetxlog to remove archive status files along with WAL segment files.Tom Lane
Fujii Masao
2009-05-01When checking for datetime field overflow, we should allow a fractional-secondTom Lane
part that rounds up to exactly 1.0 second. The previous coding rejected input like "00:12:57.9999999999999999999999999999", with the exact number of nines needed to cause failure varying depending on float-timestamp option and possibly on platform. Obviously this should round up to the next integral second, if we don't have enough precision to distinguish the value from that. Per bug #4789 from Robert Kruus. In passing, fix a missed check for fractional seconds in one copy of the "is it greater than 24:00:00" code. Broken all the way back, so patch all the way back.
2009-04-25Fix the handling of sub-SELECTs appearing in the arguments of an outer-levelTom Lane
aggregate function. By definition, such a sub-SELECT cannot reference any variables of query levels between itself and the aggregate's semantic level (else the aggregate would've been assigned to that lower level instead). So the correct, most efficient implementation is to treat the sub-SELECT as being a sub-select of that outer query level, not the level the aggregate syntactically appears in. Not doing so also confuses the heck out of our parameter-passing logic, as illustrated in bug report from Daniel Grace. Fortunately, we were already copying the whole Aggref expression up to the outer query level, so all that's needed is to delay SS_process_sublinks processing of the sub-SELECT until control returns to the outer level. This has been broken since we introduced spec-compliant treatment of outer aggregates in 7.4; so patch all the way back.
2009-04-25Remove HELIOS Software GmbH name and copyright from AIX dynloader files,Bruce Momjian
per approval from Helmut Tschemernjak, President. Only back branches; files removed from CVS HEAD.
2009-04-09Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2009e: DST law changes inTom Lane
Argentina/San_Luis, Cuba, Jordan (historical correction only), Morocco, Palestine, Syria, Tunisia.
2009-04-07Fix 'all at one page bug' in picksplit method of R-tree emulation. Add defenseTeodor Sigaev
from buggy user-defined picksplit to GiST.
2009-04-04Rewrite interval_hash() so that the hashcodes are equal for values thatTom Lane
interval_eq() considers equal. I'm not sure how that fundamental requirement escaped us through multiple revisions of this hash function, but there it is; it's been wrong since interval_hash was first written for PG 7.1. Per bug #4748 from Roman Kononov. Backpatch to all supported releases. This patch changes the contents of hash indexes for interval columns. That's no particular problem for PG 8.4, since we've broken on-disk compatibility of hash indexes already; but it will require a migration warning note in the next minor releases of all existing branches: "if you have any hash indexes on columns of type interval, REINDEX them after updating".
2009-03-31Don't crash initdb when we fail to get the current username.Magnus Hagander
Give an error message and exit instead, like we do elsewhere... Per report from Wez Furlong and Robert Treat.
2009-03-31Fix a rare race condition when commit_siblings > 0 and a transaction commitsHeikki Linnakangas
at the same instant as a new backend is spawned. Since CountActiveBackends() doesn't hold ProcArrayLock, it needs to be prepared for the case that a pointer at the end of the proc array is still NULL even though numProcs says it should be valid, since it doesn't hold ProcArrayLock. Backpatch to 8.1. 8.0 and earlier had this right, but it was broken in the split of PGPROC and sinval shared memory arrays. Per report and proposal by Marko Kreen.
2009-03-27Fix tab completion of ANALYZE VERBOSE <tab>. It was previously confusedHeikki Linnakangas
with EXPLAIN ANALYZE VERBOSE. Greg Sabino Mullane, reformatted by myself. Backpatch to 8.1, where the bug was introduced.
2009-03-13tag 8.1.17REL8_1_17Marc G. Fournier