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2016-08-08Introduce a psql "\connect -reuse-previous=on|off" option.Noah Misch
The decision to reuse values of parameters from a previous connection has been based on whether the new target is a conninfo string. Add this means of overriding that default. This feature arose as one component of a fix for security vulnerabilities in pg_dump, pg_dumpall, and pg_upgrade, so back-patch to 9.1 (all supported versions). In 9.3 and later, comment paragraphs that required update had already-incorrect claims about behavior when no connection is open; fix those problems. Security: CVE-2016-5424
2016-08-08Sort out paired double quotes in \connect, \password and \crosstabview.Noah Misch
In arguments, these meta-commands wrongly treated each pair as closing the double quoted string. Make the behavior match the documentation. This is a compatibility break, but I more expect to find software with untested reliance on the documented behavior than software reliant on today's behavior. Back-patch to 9.1 (all supported versions). Reviewed by Tom Lane and Peter Eisentraut. Security: CVE-2016-5424
2016-08-07Fix misestimation of n_distinct for a nearly-unique column with many nulls.Tom Lane
If ANALYZE found no repeated non-null entries in its sample, it set the column's stadistinct value to -1.0, intending to indicate that the entries are all distinct. But what this value actually means is that the number of distinct values is 100% of the table's rowcount, and thus it was overestimating the number of distinct values by however many nulls there are. This could lead to very poor selectivity estimates, as for example in a recent report from Andreas Joseph Krogh. We should discount the stadistinct value by whatever we've estimated the nulls fraction to be. (That is what will happen if we choose to use a negative stadistinct for a column that does have repeated entries, so this code path was just inconsistent.) In addition to fixing the stadistinct entries stored by several different ANALYZE code paths, adjust the logic where get_variable_numdistinct() forces an "all distinct" estimate on the basis of finding a relevant unique index. Unique indexes don't reject nulls, so there's no reason to assume that the null fraction doesn't apply. Back-patch to all supported branches. Back-patching is a bit of a judgment call, but this problem seems to affect only a few users (else we'd have identified it long ago), and it's bad enough when it does happen that destabilizing plan choices in a worse direction seems unlikely. Patch by me, with documentation wording suggested by Dean Rasheed Report: <VisenaEmail.26.df42f82acae38a58.156463942b8@tc7-visena> Discussion: <16143.1470350371@sss.pgh.pa.us>
2016-08-07Don't propagate a null subtransaction snapshot up to parent transaction.Tom Lane
This oversight could cause logical decoding to fail to decode an outer transaction containing changes, if a subtransaction had an XID but no actual changes. Per bug #14279 from Marko Tiikkaja. Patch by Marko based on analysis by Andrew Gierth. Discussion: <20160804191757.1430.39011@wrigleys.postgresql.org>
2016-08-06In B-tree page deletion, clean up properly after page deletion failure.Tom Lane
In _bt_unlink_halfdead_page(), we might fail to find an immediate left sibling of the target page, perhaps because of corruption of the page sibling links. The code intends to cope with this by just abandoning the deletion attempt; but what actually happens is that it fails outright due to releasing the same buffer lock twice. (And error recovery masks a second problem, which is possible leakage of a pin on another page.) Seems to have been introduced by careless refactoring in commit efada2b8e. Since there are multiple cases to consider, let's make releasing the buffer lock in the failure case the responsibility of _bt_unlink_halfdead_page() not its caller. Also, avoid fetching the leaf page's left-link again after we've dropped lock on the page. This is probably harmless, but it's not exactly good coding practice. Per report from Kyotaro Horiguchi. Back-patch to 9.4 where the faulty code was introduced. Discussion: <20160803.173116.111915228.horiguchi.kyotaro@lab.ntt.co.jp>
2016-08-05Teach libpq to decode server version correctly from future servers.Tom Lane
Beginning with the next development cycle, PG servers will report two-part not three-part version numbers. Fix libpq so that it will compute the correct numeric representation of such server versions for reporting by PQserverVersion(). It's desirable to get this into the field and back-patched ASAP, so that older clients are more likely to understand the new server version numbering by the time any such servers are in the wild. (The results with an old client would probably not be catastrophic anyway for a released server; for example "10.1" would be interpreted as 100100 which would be wrong in detail but would not likely cause an old client to misbehave badly. But "10devel" or "10beta1" would result in sversion==0 which at best would result in disabling all use of modern features.) Extracted from a patch by Peter Eisentraut; comments added by me Patch: <802ec140-635d-ad86-5fdf-d3af0e260c22@2ndquadrant.com>
2016-08-05Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2016f.Tom Lane
DST law changes in Kemerovo and Novosibirsk. Historical corrections for Azerbaijan, Belarus, and Morocco. Asia/Novokuznetsk and Asia/Novosibirsk now use numeric time zone abbreviations instead of invented ones. Zones for Antarctic bases and other locations that have been uninhabited for portions of the time span known to the tzdata database now report "-00" rather than "zzz" as the zone abbreviation for those time spans. Also, I decided to remove some of the timezone/data/ files that we don't use. At one time that subdirectory was a complete copy of what IANA distributes in the tzdata tarballs, but that hasn't been true for a long time. There seems no good reason to keep shipping those specific files but not others; they're just bloating our tarballs.
2016-08-02Fix pg_dump's handling of public schema with both -c and -C options.Tom Lane
Since -c plus -C requests dropping and recreating the target database as a whole, not dropping individual objects in it, we should assume that the public schema already exists and need not be created. The previous coding considered only the state of the -c option, so it would emit "CREATE SCHEMA public" anyway, leading to an unexpected error in restore. Back-patch to 9.2. Older versions did not accept -c with -C so the issue doesn't arise there. (The logic being patched here dates to 8.0, cf commit 2193121fa, so it's not really wrong that it didn't consider the case at the time.) Note that versions before 9.6 will still attempt to emit REVOKE/GRANT on the public schema; but that happens without -c/-C too, and doesn't seem to be the focus of this complaint. I considered extending this stanza to also skip the public schema's ACL, but that would be a misfeature, as it'd break cases where users intentionally changed that ACL. The real fix for this aspect is Stephen Frost's work to not dump built-in ACLs, and that's not going to get back-ported. Per bugs #13804 and #14271. Solution found by David Johnston and later rediscovered by me. Report: <20151207163520.2628.95990@wrigleys.postgresql.org> Report: <20160801021955.1430.47434@wrigleys.postgresql.org>
2016-08-01Don't CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS between WaitLatch and ResetLatch.Tom Lane
This coding pattern creates a race condition, because if an interesting interrupt happens after we've checked InterruptPending but before we reset our latch, the latch-setting done by the signal handler would get lost, and then we might block at WaitLatch in the next iteration without ever noticing the interrupt condition. You can put the CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS before WaitLatch or after ResetLatch, but not between them. Aside from fixing the bugs, add some explanatory comments to latch.h to perhaps forestall the next person from making the same mistake. In HEAD, also replace gather_readnext's direct call of HandleParallelMessages with CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS. It does not seem clean or useful for this one caller to bypass ProcessInterrupts and go straight to HandleParallelMessages; not least because that fails to consider the InterruptPending flag, resulting in useless work both here (if InterruptPending isn't set) and in the next CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS call (if it is). This thinko seems to have been introduced in the initial coding of storage/ipc/shm_mq.c (commit ec9037df2), and then blindly copied into all the subsequent parallel-query support logic. Back-patch relevant hunks to 9.4 to extirpate the error everywhere. Discussion: <1661.1469996911@sss.pgh.pa.us>
2016-08-01Fixed array checking code for "unsigned long long" datatypes in libecpg.Michael Meskes
2016-08-01Fix pg_basebackup so that it accepts 0 as a valid compression level.Fujii Masao
The help message for pg_basebackup specifies that the numbers 0 through 9 are accepted as valid values of -Z option. But, previously -Z 0 was rejected as an invalid compression level. Per discussion, it's better to make pg_basebackup treat 0 as valid compression level meaning no compression, like pg_dump. Back-patch to all supported versions. Reported-By: Jeff Janes Reviewed-By: Amit Kapila Discussion: CAMkU=1x+GwjSayc57v6w87ij6iRGFWt=hVfM0B64b1_bPVKRqg@mail.gmail.com
2016-07-28Guard against empty buffer in gets_fromFile()'s check for a newline.Tom Lane
Per the fgets() specification, it cannot return without reading some data unless it reports EOF or error. So the code here assumed that the data buffer would necessarily be nonempty when we go to check for a newline having been read. However, Agostino Sarubbo noticed that this could fail to be true if the first byte of the data is a NUL (\0). The fgets() API doesn't really work for embedded NULs, which is something I don't feel any great need for us to worry about since we generally don't allow NULs in SQL strings anyway. But we should not access off the end of our own buffer if the case occurs. Normally this would just be a harmless read, but if you were unlucky the byte before the buffer would contain '\n' and we'd overwrite it with '\0', and if you were really unlucky that might be valuable data and psql would crash. Agostino reported this to pgsql-security, but after discussion we concluded that it isn't worth treating as a security bug; if you can control the input to psql you can do far more interesting things than just maybe-crash it. Nonetheless, it is a bug, so back-patch to all supported versions.
2016-07-28Fix assorted fallout from IS [NOT] NULL patch.Tom Lane
Commits 4452000f3 et al established semantics for NullTest.argisrow that are a bit different from its initial conception: rather than being merely a cache of whether we've determined the input to have composite type, the flag now has the further meaning that we should apply field-by-field testing as per the standard's definition of IS [NOT] NULL. If argisrow is false and yet the input has composite type, the construct instead has the semantics of IS [NOT] DISTINCT FROM NULL. Update the comments in primnodes.h to clarify this, and fix ruleutils.c and deparse.c to print such cases correctly. In the case of ruleutils.c, this merely results in cosmetic changes in EXPLAIN output, since the case can't currently arise in stored rules. However, it represents a live bug for deparse.c, which would formerly have sent a remote query that had semantics different from the local behavior. (From the user's standpoint, this means that testing a remote nested-composite column for null-ness could have had unexpected recursive behavior much like that fixed in 4452000f3.) In a related but somewhat independent fix, make plancat.c set argisrow to false in all NullTest expressions constructed to represent "attnotnull" constructs. Since attnotnull is actually enforced as a simple null-value check, this is a more accurate representation of the semantics; we were previously overpromising what it meant for composite columns, which might possibly lead to incorrect planner optimizations. (It seems that what the SQL spec expects a NOT NULL constraint to mean is an IS NOT NULL test, so arguably we are violating the spec and should fix attnotnull to do the other thing. If we ever do, this part should get reverted.) Back-patch, same as the previous commit. Discussion: <10682.1469566308@sss.pgh.pa.us>
2016-07-28Improve documentation about CREATE TABLE ... LIKE.Tom Lane
The docs failed to explain that LIKE INCLUDING INDEXES would not preserve the names of indexes and associated constraints. Also, it wasn't mentioned that EXCLUDE constraints would be copied by this option. The latter oversight seems enough of a documentation bug to justify back-patching. In passing, do some minor copy-editing in the same area, and add an entry for LIKE under "Compatibility", since it's not exactly a faithful implementation of the standard's feature. Discussion: <20160728151154.AABE64016B@smtp.hushmail.com>
2016-07-26Fix constant-folding of ROW(...) IS [NOT] NULL with composite fields.Tom Lane
The SQL standard appears to specify that IS [NOT] NULL's tests of field nullness are non-recursive, ie, we shouldn't consider that a composite field with value ROW(NULL,NULL) is null for this purpose. ExecEvalNullTest got this right, but eval_const_expressions did not, leading to weird inconsistencies depending on whether the expression was such that the planner could apply constant folding. Also, adjust the docs to mention that IS [NOT] DISTINCT FROM NULL can be used as a substitute test if a simple null check is wanted for a rowtype argument. That motivated reordering things so that IS [NOT] DISTINCT FROM is described before IS [NOT] NULL. In HEAD, I went a bit further and added a table showing all the comparison-related predicates. Per bug #14235. Back-patch to all supported branches, since it's certainly undesirable that constant-folding should change the semantics. Report and patch by Andrew Gierth; assorted wordsmithing and revised regression test cases by me. Report: <20160708024746.1410.57282@wrigleys.postgresql.org>
2016-07-23Make the AIX case of Makefile.shlib safe for parallel make.Noah Misch
Use our typical approach, from src/backend/parser. Back-patch to 9.1 (all supported versions).
2016-07-21Make pltcl regression tests safe for Danish locale.Tom Lane
Another peculiarity of Danish locale is that it has an unusual idea of how to sort upper vs. lower case. One of the pltcl test cases has an issue with that. Now that COLLATE works in all supported branches, we can just change the test to be locale-independent, and get rid of the variant expected file that used to support non-C locales.
2016-07-19Remove very-obsolete estimates of shmem usage from postgresql.conf.sample.Tom Lane
runtime.sgml used to contain a table of estimated shared memory consumption rates for max_connections and some other GUCs. Commit 390bfc643 removed that on the well-founded grounds that (a) we weren't maintaining the entries well and (b) it no longer mattered so much once we got out from under SysV shmem limits. But it missed that there were even-more-obsolete versions of some of those numbers in comments in postgresql.conf.sample. Remove those too. Back-patch to 9.3 where the aforesaid commit went in.
2016-07-19Fix MSVC build for changes in zic.Tom Lane
Ooops, I missed back-patching commit f5f15ea6a along with the other stuff.
2016-07-19Sync back-branch copies of the timezone code with IANA release tzcode2016c.Tom Lane
Back-patch commit 1c1a7cbd6a1600c9, along with subsequent portability fixes, into all active branches. Also, back-patch commits 696027727 and 596857043 (addition of zic -P option) into 9.1 and 9.2, just to reduce differences between the branches. src/timezone/ is now largely identical in all active branches, except that in 9.1, pgtz.c retains the initial-timezone-selection code that was moved over to initdb in 9.2. Ordinarily we wouldn't risk this much code churn in back branches, but it seems necessary in this case, because among the changes are two feature additions in the "zic" zone data file compiler (a larger limit on the number of allowed DST transitions, and addition of a "%z" escape in zone abbreviations). IANA have not yet started to use those features in their tzdata files, but presumably they will before too long. If we don't update then we'll be unable to adopt new timezone data. Also, installations built with --with-system-tzdata (which includes most distro-supplied builds, I believe) might fail even if we don't update our copies of the data files. There are assorted bug fixes too, mostly affecting obscure timezones or post-2037 dates. Discussion: <13601.1468868947@sss.pgh.pa.us>
2016-07-16Fix crash in close_ps() for NaN input coordinates.Tom Lane
The Assert() here seems unreasonably optimistic. Andreas Seltenreich found that it could fail with NaNs in the input geometries, and it seems likely to me that it might fail in corner cases due to roundoff error, even for ordinary input values. As a band-aid, make the function return SQL NULL instead of crashing. Report: <87d1md1xji.fsf@credativ.de>
2016-07-15Fix torn-page, unlogged xid and further risks from heap_update().Andres Freund
When heap_update needs to look for a page for the new tuple version, because the current one doesn't have sufficient free space, or when columns have to be processed by the tuple toaster, it has to release the lock on the old page during that. Otherwise there'd be lock ordering and lock nesting issues. To avoid concurrent sessions from trying to update / delete / lock the tuple while the page's content lock is released, the tuple's xmax is set to the current session's xid. That unfortunately was done without any WAL logging, thereby violating the rule that no XIDs may appear on disk, without an according WAL record. If the database were to crash / fail over when the page level lock is released, and some activity lead to the page being written out to disk, the xid could end up being reused; potentially leading to the row becoming invisible. There might be additional risks by not having t_ctid point at the tuple itself, without having set the appropriate lock infomask fields. To fix, compute the appropriate xmax/infomask combination for locking the tuple, and perform WAL logging using the existing XLOG_HEAP_LOCK record. That allows the fix to be backpatched. This issue has existed for a long time. There appears to have been partial attempts at preventing dangers, but these never have fully been implemented, and were removed a long time ago, in 11919160 (cf. HEAP_XMAX_UNLOGGED). In master / 9.6, there's an additional issue, namely that the visibilitymap's freeze bit isn't reset at that point yet. Since that's a new issue, introduced only in a892234f830, that'll be fixed in a separate commit. Author: Masahiko Sawada and Andres Freund Reported-By: Different aspects by Thomas Munro, Noah Misch, and others Discussion: CAEepm=3fWAbWryVW9swHyLTY4sXVf0xbLvXqOwUoDiNCx9mBjQ@mail.gmail.com Backpatch: 9.1/all supported versions
2016-07-15Make HEAP_LOCK/HEAP2_LOCK_UPDATED replay reset HEAP_XMAX_INVALID.Andres Freund
0ac5ad5 started to compress infomask bits in WAL records. Unfortunately the replay routines for XLOG_HEAP_LOCK/XLOG_HEAP2_LOCK_UPDATED forgot to reset the HEAP_XMAX_INVALID (and some other) hint bits. Luckily that's not problematic in the majority of cases, because after a crash/on a standby row locks aren't meaningful. Unfortunately that does not hold true in the presence of prepared transactions. This means that after a crash, or after promotion, row level locks held by a prepared, but not yet committed, prepared transaction might not be enforced. Discussion: 20160715192319.ubfuzim4zv3rqnxv@alap3.anarazel.de Backpatch: 9.3, the oldest branch on which 0ac5ad5 is present.
2016-07-15Avoid serializability errors when locking a tuple with a committed updateAlvaro Herrera
When key-share locking a tuple that has been not-key-updated, and the update is a committed transaction, in some cases we raised serializability errors: ERROR: could not serialize access due to concurrent update Because the key-share doesn't conflict with the update, the error is unnecessary and inconsistent with the case that the update hasn't committed yet. This causes problems for some usage patterns, even if it can be claimed that it's sufficient to retry the aborted transaction: given a steady stream of updating transactions and a long locking transaction, the long transaction can be starved indefinitely despite multiple retries. To fix, we recognize that HeapTupleSatisfiesUpdate can return HeapTupleUpdated when an updating transaction has committed, and that we need to deal with that case exactly as if it were a non-committed update: verify whether the two operations conflict, and if not, carry on normally. If they do conflict, however, there is a difference: in the HeapTupleBeingUpdated case we can just sleep until the concurrent transaction is gone, while in the HeapTupleUpdated case this is not possible and we must raise an error instead. Per trouble report from Olivier Dony. In addition to a couple of test cases that verify the changed behavior, I added a test case to verify the behavior that remains unchanged, namely that errors are raised when a update that modifies the key is used. That must still generate serializability errors. One pre-existing test case changes behavior; per discussion, the new behavior is actually the desired one. Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/560AA479.4080807@odoo.com https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20151014164844.3019.25750@wrigleys.postgresql.org Backpatch to 9.3, where the problem appeared.
2016-07-14Fix GiST index build for NaN values in geometric types.Tom Lane
GiST index build could go into an infinite loop when presented with boxes (or points, circles or polygons) containing NaN component values. This happened essentially because the code assumed that x == x is true for any "double" value x; but it's not true for NaNs. The looping behavior was not the only problem though: we also attempted to sort the items using simple double comparisons. Since NaNs violate the trichotomy law, qsort could (in principle at least) get arbitrarily confused and mess up the sorting of ordinary values as well as NaNs. And we based splitting choices on box size calculations that could produce NaNs, again resulting in undesirable behavior. To fix, replace all comparisons of doubles in this logic with float8_cmp_internal, which is NaN-aware and is careful to sort NaNs consistently, higher than any non-NaN. Also rearrange the box size calculation to not produce NaNs; instead it should produce an infinity for a box with NaN on one side and not-NaN on the other. I don't by any means claim that this solves all problems with NaNs in geometric values, but it should at least make GiST index insertion work reliably with such data. It's likely that the index search side of things still needs some work, and probably regular geometric operations too. But with this patch we're laying down a convention for how such cases ought to behave. Per bug #14238 from Guang-Dih Lei. Back-patch to 9.2; the code used before commit 7f3bd86843e5aad8 is quite different and doesn't lock up on my simple test case, nor on the submitter's dataset. Report: <20160708151747.1426.60150@wrigleys.postgresql.org> Discussion: <28685.1468246504@sss.pgh.pa.us>
2016-07-09Fix TAP tests and MSVC scripts for pathnames with spaces.Tom Lane
Change assorted places in our Perl code that did things like system("prog $path/file"); to do it more like system('prog', "$path/file"); which is safe against spaces and other special characters in the path variable. The latter was already the prevailing style, but a few bits of code hadn't gotten this memo. Back-patch to 9.4 as relevant. Michael Paquier, Kyotaro Horiguchi Discussion: <20160704.160213.111134711.horiguchi.kyotaro@lab.ntt.co.jp>
2016-07-01Be more paranoid in ruleutils.c's get_variable().Tom Lane
We were merely Assert'ing that the Var matched the RTE it's supposedly from. But if the user passes incorrect information to pg_get_expr(), the RTE might in fact not match; this led either to Assert failures or core dumps, as reported by Chris Hanks in bug #14220. To fix, just convert the Asserts to test-and-elog. Adjust an existing test-and-elog elsewhere in the same function to be consistent in wording. (If we really felt these were user-facing errors, we might promote them to ereport's; but I can't convince myself that they're worth translating.) Back-patch to 9.3; the problematic code doesn't exist before that, and a quick check says that 9.2 doesn't crash on such cases. Michael Paquier and Thomas Munro Report: <20160629224349.1407.32667@wrigleys.postgresql.org>
2016-06-30Fix typo in ReorderBufferIterTXNInit().Tom Lane
This looks like it would cause changes from subtransactions to be missed by the iterator being constructed, if those changes had been spilled to disk previously. This implies that large subtransactions might be lost (in whole or in part) by logical replication. Found and fixed by Petru-Florin Mihancea, per bug #14208. Report: <20160622144830.5791.22512@wrigleys.postgresql.org>
2016-06-27Fix CREATE MATVIEW/CREATE TABLE AS ... WITH NO DATA to not plan the query.Tom Lane
Previously, these commands always planned the given query and went through executor startup before deciding not to actually run the query if WITH NO DATA is specified. This behavior is problematic for pg_dump because it may cause errors to be raised that we would rather not see before a REFRESH MATERIALIZED VIEW command is issued. See for example bug #13907 from Marian Krucina. This change is not sufficient to fix that particular bug, because we also need to tweak pg_dump to issue the REFRESH later, but it's a necessary step on the way. A user-visible side effect of doing things this way is that the returned command tag for WITH NO DATA cases will now be "CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW" or "CREATE TABLE AS", not "SELECT 0". We could preserve the old behavior but it would take more code, and arguably that was just an implementation artifact not intended behavior anyhow. In 9.5 and HEAD, also get rid of the static variable CreateAsReladdr, which was trouble waiting to happen; there is not any prohibition on nested CREATE commands. Back-patch to 9.3 where CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW was introduced. Michael Paquier and Tom Lane Report: <20160202161407.2778.24659@wrigleys.postgresql.org>
2016-06-24Fix handling of multixacts predating pg_upgradeAlvaro Herrera
After pg_upgrade, it is possible that some tuples' Xmax have multixacts corresponding to the old installation; such multixacts cannot have running members anymore. In many code sites we already know not to read them and clobber them silently, but at least when VACUUM tries to freeze a multixact or determine whether one needs freezing, there's an attempt to resolve it to its member transactions by calling GetMultiXactIdMembers, and if the multixact value is "in the future" with regards to the current valid multixact range, an error like this is raised: ERROR: MultiXactId 123 has not been created yet -- apparent wraparound and vacuuming fails. Per discussion with Andrew Gierth, it is completely bogus to try to resolve multixacts coming from before a pg_upgrade, regardless of where they stand with regards to the current valid multixact range. It's possible to get from under this problem by doing SELECT FOR UPDATE of the problem tuples, but if tables are large, this is slow and tedious, so a more thorough solution is desirable. To fix, we realize that multixacts in xmax created in 9.2 and previous have a specific bit pattern that is never used in 9.3 and later (we already knew this, per comments and infomask tests sprinkled in various places, but we weren't leveraging this knowledge appropriately). Whenever the infomask of the tuple matches that bit pattern, we just ignore the multixact completely as if Xmax wasn't set; or, in the case of tuple freezing, we act as if an unwanted value is set and clobber it without decoding. This guarantees that no errors will be raised, and that the values will be progressively removed until all tables are clean. Most callers of GetMultiXactIdMembers are patched to recognize directly that the value is a removable "empty" multixact and avoid calling GetMultiXactIdMembers altogether. To avoid changing the signature of GetMultiXactIdMembers() in back branches, we keep the "allow_old" boolean flag but rename it to "from_pgupgrade"; if the flag is true, we always return an empty set instead of looking up the multixact. (I suppose we could remove the argument in the master branch, but I chose not to do so in this commit). This was broken all along, but the error-facing message appeared first because of commit 8e9a16ab8f7f and was partially fixed in a25c2b7c4db3. This fix, backpatched all the way back to 9.3, goes approximately in the same direction as a25c2b7c4db3 but should cover all cases. Bug analysis by Andrew Gierth and Álvaro Herrera. A number of public reports match this bug: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20140330040029.GY4582@tamriel.snowman.net https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/538F3D70.6080902@publicrelay.com https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/556439CF.7070109@pscs.co.uk https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/SG2PR06MB0760098A111C88E31BD4D96FB3540@SG2PR06MB0760.apcprd06.prod.outlook.com https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20160615203829.5798.4594@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2016-06-22Make "postgres -C guc" print "" not "(null)" for null-valued GUCs.Tom Lane
Commit 0b0baf262 et al made this case print "(null)" on the grounds that that's what happened on platforms that didn't crash. But neither behavior was actually intentional. What we should print is just an empty string, for compatibility with the behavior of SHOW and other ways of examining string GUCs. Those code paths don't distinguish NULL from empty strings, so we should not here either. Per gripe from Alain Radix. Like the previous patch, back-patch to 9.2 where -C option was introduced. Discussion: <CA+YdpwxPUADrmxSD7+Td=uOshMB1KkDN7G7cf+FGmNjjxMhjbw@mail.gmail.com>
2016-06-20Add missing check for malloc failure in plpgsql_extra_checks_check_hook().Tom Lane
Per report from Andreas Seltenreich. Back-patch to affected versions. Report: <874m8nn0hv.fsf@elite.ansel.ydns.eu>
2016-06-17Finish up XLOG_HINT renamingAlvaro Herrera
Commit b8fd1a09f3 renamed XLOG_HINT to XLOG_FPI, but neglected two places. Backpatch to 9.3, like that commit.
2016-06-16Fix validation of overly-long IPv6 addresses.Tom Lane
The inet/cidr types sometimes failed to reject IPv6 inputs with too many colon-separated fields, instead translating them to '::/0'. This is the result of a thinko in the original ISC code that seems to be as yet unreported elsewhere. Per bug #14198 from Stefan Kaltenbrunner. Report: <20160616182222.5798.959@wrigleys.postgresql.org>
2016-06-16Avoid crash in "postgres -C guc" for a GUC with a null string value.Tom Lane
Emit "(null)" instead, which was the behavior all along on platforms that don't crash, eg OS X. Per report from Jehan-Guillaume de Rorthais. Back-patch to 9.2 where -C option was introduced. Michael Paquier Report: <20160615204036.2d35d86a@firost>
2016-06-15Widen buffer for headers in psql's \watch command.Tom Lane
This is to make sure there's enough room for translated versions of the message. HEAD's already addressed this issue, but back-patch a simple increase in the array size. Discussion: <20160612145532.GA22965@postgresql.kr>
2016-06-13Fix multiple minor infelicities in aclchk.c error reports.Tom Lane
pg_type_aclmask reported the wrong type's OID when complaining that it could not find a type's typelem. It also failed to provide a suitable errcode when the initially given OID doesn't exist (which is a user-facing error, since that OID can be user-specified). pg_foreign_data_wrapper_aclmask and pg_foreign_server_aclmask likewise lacked errcode specifications. Trivial cosmetic adjustments too. The wrong-type-OID problem was reported by Petru-Florin Mihancea in bug #14186; the other issues noted by me while reading the code. These errors all seem to be aboriginal in the respective routines, so back-patch as necessary. Report: <20160613163159.5798.52928@wrigleys.postgresql.org>
2016-06-09Clarify documentation of ceil/ceiling/floor functions.Tom Lane
Document these as "nearest integer >= argument" and "nearest integer <= argument", which will hopefully be less confusing than the old formulation. New wording is from Matlab via Dean Rasheed. I changed the pg_description entries as well as the SGML docs. In the back branches, this will only affect installations initdb'd in the future, but it should be harmless otherwise. Discussion: <CAEZATCW3yzJo-NMSiQs5jXNFbTsCEftZS-Og8=FvFdiU+kYuSA@mail.gmail.com>
2016-06-07nls-global.mk: search build dir for source files, tooAlvaro Herrera
In VPATH builds, the build directory was not being searched for files in GETTEXT_FILES, leading to failure to construct the .pot files. This has bit me all along, but never hard enough to get it fixed; I suppose not a lot of people uses VPATH and NLS-enabled builds, and those that do, don't do "make update-po" often. This is a longstanding problem, so backpatch all the way back.
2016-06-06Don't reset changes_since_analyze after a selective-columns ANALYZE.Tom Lane
If we ANALYZE only selected columns of a table, we should not postpone auto-analyze because of that; other columns may well still need stats updates. As committed, the counter is left alone if a column list is given, whether or not it includes all analyzable columns of the table. Per complaint from Tomasz Ostrowski. It's been like this a long time, so back-patch to all supported branches. Report: <ef99c1bd-ff60-5f32-2733-c7b504eb960c@ato.waw.pl>
2016-06-03Suppress -Wunused-result warnings about write(), again.Tom Lane
Adopt the same solution as in commit aa90e148ca70a235, but this time let's put the ugliness inside the write_stderr() macro, instead of expecting each call site to deal with it. Back-port that decision into psql/common.c where I got the macro from in the first place. Per gripe from Peter Eisentraut.
2016-06-02Redesign handling of SIGTERM/control-C in parallel pg_dump/pg_restore.Tom Lane
Formerly, Unix builds of pg_dump/pg_restore would trap SIGINT and similar signals and set a flag that was tested in various data-transfer loops. This was prone to errors of omission (cf commit 3c8aa6654); and even if the client-side response was prompt, we did nothing that would cause long-running SQL commands (e.g. CREATE INDEX) to terminate early. Also, the master process would effectively do nothing at all upon receipt of SIGINT; the only reason it seemed to work was that in typical scenarios the signal would also be delivered to the child processes. We should support termination when a signal is delivered only to the master process, though. Windows builds had no console interrupt handler, so they would just fall over immediately at control-C, again leaving long-running SQL commands to finish unmolested. To fix, remove the flag-checking approach altogether. Instead, allow the Unix signal handler to send a cancel request directly and then exit(1). In the master process, also have it forward the signal to the children. On Windows, add a console interrupt handler that behaves approximately the same. The main difference is that a single execution of the Windows handler can send all the cancel requests since all the info is available in one process, whereas on Unix each process sends a cancel only for its own database connection. In passing, fix an old problem that DisconnectDatabase tends to send a cancel request before exiting a parallel worker, even if nothing went wrong. This is at least a waste of cycles, and could lead to unexpected log messages, or maybe even data loss if it happened in pg_restore (though in the current code the problem seems to affect only pg_dump). The cause was that after a COPY step, pg_dump was leaving libpq in PGASYNC_BUSY state, causing PQtransactionStatus() to report PQTRANS_ACTIVE. That's normally harmless because the next PQexec() will silently clear the PGASYNC_BUSY state; but in a parallel worker we might exit without any additional SQL commands after a COPY step. So add an extra PQgetResult() call after a COPY to allow libpq to return to PGASYNC_IDLE state. This is a bug fix, IMO, so back-patch to 9.3 where parallel dump/restore were introduced. Thanks to Kyotaro Horiguchi for Windows testing and code suggestions. Original-Patch: <7005.1464657274@sss.pgh.pa.us> Discussion: <20160602.174941.256342236.horiguchi.kyotaro@lab.ntt.co.jp>
2016-06-01Clean up some minor inefficiencies in parallel dump/restore.Tom Lane
Parallel dump did a totally pointless query to find out the name of each table to be dumped, which it already knows. Parallel restore runs issued lots of redundant SET commands because _doSetFixedOutputState() was invoked once per TOC item rather than just once at connection start. While the extra queries are insignificant if you're dumping or restoring large tables, it still seems worth getting rid of them. Also, give the responsibility for selecting the right client_encoding for a parallel dump worker to setup_connection() where it naturally belongs, instead of having ad-hoc code for that in CloneArchive(). And fix some minor bugs like use of strdup() where pg_strdup() would be safer. Back-patch to 9.3, mostly to keep the branches in sync in an area that we're still finding bugs in. Discussion: <5086.1464793073@sss.pgh.pa.us>
2016-05-31Avoid useless closely-spaced writes of statistics files.Tom Lane
The original intent in the stats collector was that we should not write out stats data oftener than every PGSTAT_STAT_INTERVAL msec. Backends will not make requests at all if they see the existing data is newer than that, and the stats collector is supposed to disregard requests having a cutoff_time older than its most recently written data, so that close-together requests don't result in multiple writes. But the latter part of that got broken in commit 187492b6c2e8cafc, so that if two backends concurrently decide the existing stats are too old, the collector would write the data twice. (In principle the collector's logic would still merge requests as long as the second one arrives before we've actually written data ... but since the message collection loop would write data immediately after processing a single inquiry message, that never happened in practice, and in any case the window in which it might work would be much shorter than PGSTAT_STAT_INTERVAL.) To fix, improve pgstat_recv_inquiry so that it checks whether the cutoff time is too old, and doesn't add a request to the queue if so. This means that we do not need DBWriteRequest.request_time, because the decision is taken before making a queue entry. And that means that we don't really need the DBWriteRequest data structure at all; an OID list of database OIDs will serve and allow removal of some rather verbose and crufty code. In passing, improve the comments in this area, which have been rather neglected. Also change backend_read_statsfile so that it's not silently relying on MyDatabaseId to have some particular value in the autovacuum launcher process. It accidentally worked as desired because MyDatabaseId is zero in that process; but that does not seem like a dependency we want, especially with no documentation about it. Although this patch is mine, it turns out I'd rediscovered a known bug, for which Tomas Vondra had already submitted a patch that's functionally equivalent to the non-cosmetic aspects of this patch. Thanks to Tomas for reviewing this version. Back-patch to 9.3 where the bug was introduced. Prior-Discussion: <1718942738eb65c8407fcd864883f4c8@fuzzy.cz> Patch: <4625.1464202586@sss.pgh.pa.us>
2016-05-29Fix missing abort checks in pg_backup_directory.c.Tom Lane
Parallel restore from directory format failed to respond to control-C in a timely manner, because there were no checkAborting() calls in the code path that reads data from a file and sends it to the backend. If any worker was in the midst of restoring data for a large table, you'd just have to wait. This fix doesn't do anything for the problem of aborting a long-running server-side command, but at least it fixes things for data transfers. Back-patch to 9.3 where parallel restore was introduced.
2016-05-29Remove pg_dump/parallel.c's useless "aborting" flag.Tom Lane
This was effectively dead code, since the places that tested it could not be reached after we entered the on-exit-cleanup routine that would set it. It seems to have been a leftover from a design in which error abort would try to send fresh commands to the workers --- a design which could never have worked reliably, of course. Since the flag is not cross-platform, it complicates reasoning about the code's behavior, which we could do without. Although this is effectively just cosmetic, back-patch anyway, because there are some actual bugs in the vicinity of this behavior. Discussion: <15583.1464462418@sss.pgh.pa.us>
2016-05-28Lots of comment-fixing, and minor cosmetic cleanup, in pg_dump/parallel.c.Tom Lane
The commentary in this file was in extremely sad shape. The author(s) had clearly never heard of the project convention that a function header comment should provide an API spec of some sort for that function. Much of it was flat out wrong, too --- maybe it was accurate when written, but if so it had not been updated to track subsequent code revisions. Rewrite and rearrange to try to bring it up to speed, and annotate some of the places where more work is needed. (I've refrained from actually fixing anything of substance ... yet.) Also, rename a couple of functions for more clarity as to what they do, do some very minor code rearrangement, remove some pointless Asserts, fix an incorrect Assert in readMessageFromPipe, and add a missing socket close in one error exit from pgpipe(). The last would be a bug if we tried to continue after pgpipe() failure, but since we don't, it's just cosmetic at present. Although this is only cosmetic, back-patch to 9.3 where parallel.c was added. It's sufficiently invasive that it'll pose a hazard for future back-patching if we don't. Discussion: <25239.1464386067@sss.pgh.pa.us>
2016-05-27Clean up thread management in parallel pg_dump for Windows.Tom Lane
Since we start the worker threads with _beginthreadex(), we should use _endthreadex() to terminate them. We got this right in the normal-exit code path, but not so much during an error exit from a worker. In addition, be sure to apply CloseHandle to the thread handle after each thread exits. It's not clear that these oversights cause any user-visible problems, since the pg_dump run is about to terminate anyway. Still, it's clearly better to follow Microsoft's API specifications than ignore them. Also a few cosmetic cleanups in WaitForTerminatingWorkers(), including being a bit less random about where to cast between uintptr_t and HANDLE, and being sure to clear the worker identity field for each dead worker (not that false matches should be possible later, but let's be careful). Original observation and patch by Armin Schöffmann, cosmetic improvements by Michael Paquier and me. (Armin's patch also included closing sockets in ShutdownWorkersHard(), but that's been dealt with already in commit df8d2d8c4.) Back-patch to 9.3 where parallel pg_dump was introduced. Discussion: <zarafa.570306bd.3418.074bf1420d8f2ba2@root.aegaeon.de>
2016-05-27Be more predictable about reporting "lock timeout" vs "statement timeout".Tom Lane
If both timeout indicators are set when we arrive at ProcessInterrupts, we've historically just reported "lock timeout". However, some buildfarm members have been observed to fail isolationtester's timeouts test by reporting "lock timeout" when the statement timeout was expected to fire first. The cause seems to be that the process is allowed to sleep longer than expected (probably due to heavy machine load) so that the lock timeout happens before we reach the point of reporting the error, and then this arbitrary tiebreak rule does the wrong thing. We can improve matters by comparing the scheduled timeout times to decide which error to report. I had originally proposed greatly reducing the 1-second window between the two timeouts in the test cases. On reflection that is a bad idea, at least for the case where the lock timeout is expected to fire first, because that would assume that it takes negligible time to get from statement start to the beginning of the lock wait. Thus, this patch doesn't completely remove the risk of test failures on slow machines. Empirically, however, the case this handles is the one we are seeing in the buildfarm. The explanation may be that the other case requires the scheduler to take the CPU away from a busy process, whereas the case fixed here only requires the scheduler to not give the CPU back right away to a process that has been woken from a multi-second sleep (and, perhaps, has been swapped out meanwhile). Back-patch to 9.3 where the isolationtester timeouts test was added. Discussion: <8693.1464314819@sss.pgh.pa.us>
2016-05-26Make pg_dump behave more sanely when built without HAVE_LIBZ.Tom Lane
For some reason the code to emit a warning and switch to uncompressed output was placed down in the guts of pg_backup_archiver.c. This is definitely too late in the case of parallel operation (and I rather wonder if it wasn't too late for other purposes as well). Put it in pg_dump.c's option-processing logic, which seems a much saner place. Also, the default behavior with custom or directory output format was to emit the warning telling you the output would be uncompressed. This seems unhelpful, so silence that case. Back-patch to 9.3 where parallel dump was introduced. Kyotaro Horiguchi, adjusted a bit by me Report: <20160526.185551.242041780.horiguchi.kyotaro@lab.ntt.co.jp>