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2014-03-16Fix advertised dispsize for libpq's sslmode connection parameter.Tom Lane
"8" was correct back when "disable" was the longest allowed value, but since "verify-full" was added, it should be "12". Given the lack of complaints, I wouldn't be surprised if nobody is actually using these values ... but still, if they're in the API, they should be right. Noticed while pursuing a different problem. It's been wrong for quite a long time, so back-patch to all supported branches.
2014-03-15Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2014a.Tom Lane
DST law changes in Fiji, Turkey; historical changes in Israel, Ukraine.
2014-03-13Prevent interrupts while reporting non-ERROR elog messages.Tom Lane
This should eliminate the risk of recursive entry to syslog(3), which appears to be the cause of the hang reported in bug #9551 from James Morton. Arguably, the real problem here is auth.c's willingness to turn on ImmediateInterruptOK while executing fairly wide swaths of backend code. We may well need to work at narrowing the code ranges in which the authentication_timeout interrupt is enabled. For the moment, though, this is a cheap and reasonably noninvasive fix for a field-reported failure; the other approach would be complex and not necessarily bug-free itself. Back-patch to all supported branches.
2014-03-13Avoid transaction-commit race condition while receiving a NOTIFY message.Tom Lane
Use TransactionIdIsInProgress, then TransactionIdDidCommit, to distinguish whether a NOTIFY message's originating transaction is in progress, committed, or aborted. The previous coding could accept a message from a transaction that was still in-progress according to the PGPROC array; if the client were fast enough at starting a new transaction, it might fail to see table rows added/updated by the message-sending transaction. Which of course would usually be the point of receiving the message. We noted this type of race condition long ago in tqual.c, but async.c overlooked it. The race condition probably cannot occur unless there are multiple NOTIFY senders in action, since an individual backend doesn't send NOTIFY signals until well after it's done committing. But if two senders commit in close succession, it's certainly possible that we could see the second sender's message within the race condition window while responding to the signal from the first one. Per bug #9557 from Marko Tiikkaja. This patch is slightly more invasive than what he proposed, since it removes the now-redundant TransactionIdDidAbort call. Back-patch to 9.0, where the current NOTIFY implementation was introduced.
2014-03-12In WAL replay, restore GIN metapage unconditionally to avoid torn page.Heikki Linnakangas
We don't take a full-page image of the GIN metapage; instead, the WAL record contains all the information required to reconstruct it from scratch. But to avoid torn page hazards, we must re-initialize it from the WAL record every time, even if it already has a greater LSN, similar to how normal full page images are restored. This was highly unlikely to cause any problems in practice, because the GIN metapage is small. We rely on an update smaller than a 512 byte disk sector to be atomic elsewhere, at least in pg_control. But better safe than sorry, and this would be easy to overlook if more fields are added to the metapage so that it's no longer small. Reported by Noah Misch. Backpatch to all supported versions.
2014-03-10Fix tracking of psql script line numbers during \copy from another place.Tom Lane
Commit 08146775acd8bfe0fcc509c71857abb928697171 changed do_copy() to temporarily scribble on pset.cur_cmd_source. That was a mighty ugly bit of code in any case, but in particular it broke handleCopyIn's ability to tell whether it was reading from the current script source file (in which case pset.lineno should be incremented for each line of COPY data), or from someplace else (in which case it shouldn't). The former case still worked, the latter not so much. The visible effect was that line numbers reported for errors in a script file would be wrong if there were an earlier \copy that was reading anything other than inline-in-the-script-file data. To fix, introduce another pset field that holds the file do_copy wants the COPY code to use. This is a little bit ugly, but less so than passing the file down explicitly through several layers that aren't COPY-specific. Extracted from a larger patch by Kumar Rajeev Rastogi; that patch also changes printing of COPY command tags, which is not a bug fix and shouldn't get back-patched. This particular idea was from a suggestion by Amit Khandekar, if I'm reading the thread correctly. Back-patch to 9.2 where the faulty code was introduced.
2014-03-07Fix dangling smgr_owner pointer when a fake relcache entry is freed.Heikki Linnakangas
A fake relcache entry can "own" a SmgrRelation object, like a regular relcache entry. But when it was free'd, the owner field in SmgrRelation was not cleared, so it was left pointing to free'd memory. Amazingly this apparently hasn't caused crashes in practice, or we would've heard about it earlier. Andres found this with Valgrind. Report and fix by Andres Freund, with minor modifications by me. Backpatch to all supported versions.
2014-03-07Avoid memcpy() with same source and destination address.Heikki Linnakangas
The behavior of that is undefined, although unlikely to lead to problems in practice. Found by running regression tests with Valgrind.
2014-03-06Avoid getting more than AccessShareLock when deparsing a query.Tom Lane
In make_ruledef and get_query_def, we have long used AcquireRewriteLocks to ensure that the querytree we are about to deparse is up-to-date and the schemas of the underlying relations aren't changing. Howwever, that function thinks the query is about to be executed, so it acquires locks that are stronger than necessary for the purpose of deparsing. Thus for example, if pg_dump asks to deparse a rule that includes "INSERT INTO t", we'd acquire RowExclusiveLock on t. That results in interference with concurrent transactions that might for example ask for ShareLock on t. Since pg_dump is documented as being purely read-only, this is unexpected. (Worse, it used to actually be read-only; this behavior dates back only to 8.1, cf commit ba4200246.) Fix this by adding a parameter to AcquireRewriteLocks to tell it whether we want the "real" execution locks or only AccessShareLock. Report, diagnosis, and patch by Dean Rasheed. Back-patch to all supported branches.
2014-03-05Do wal_level and hot standby checks when doing crash-then-archive recovery.Heikki Linnakangas
CheckRequiredParameterValues() should perform the checks if archive recovery was requested, even if we are going to perform crash recovery first. Reported by Kyotaro HORIGUCHI. Backpatch to 9.2, like the crash-then-archive recovery mode.
2014-03-05Fix lastReplayedEndRecPtr calculation when starting from shutdown checkpoint.Heikki Linnakangas
When entering crash recovery followed by archive recovery, and the latest checkpoint is a shutdown checkpoint, and there are no more WAL records to replay before transitioning from crash to archive recovery, we would not immediately allow read-only connections in hot standby mode even if we could. That's because when starting from a shutdown checkpoint, we set lastReplayedEndRecPtr incorrectly to the record before the checkpoint record, instead of the checkpoint record itself. We don't run the redo routine of the shutdown checkpoint record, but starting recovery from it goes through the same motions, so it should be considered as replayed. Reported by Kyotaro HORIGUCHI. All versions with hot standby are affected, so backpatch to 9.0.
2014-03-01Allow regex operations to be terminated early by query cancel requests.Tom Lane
The regex code didn't have any provision for query cancel; which is unsurprising given its non-Postgres origin, but still problematic since some operations can take a long time. Introduce a callback function to check for a pending query cancel or session termination request, and call it in a couple of strategic spots where we can make the regex code exit with an error indicator. If we ever actually split out the regex code as a standalone library, some additional work will be needed to let the cancel callback function be specified externally to the library. But that's straightforward (certainly so by comparison to putting the locale-dependent character classification logic on a similar arms-length basis), and there seems no need to do it right now. A bigger issue is that there may be more places than these two where we need to check for cancels. We can always add more checks later, now that the infrastructure is in place. Since there are known examples of not-terribly-long regexes that can lock up a backend for a long time, back-patch to all supported branches. I have hopes of fixing the known performance problems later, but adding query cancel ability seems like a good idea even if they were all fixed.
2014-02-25Use SnapshotDirty rather than an active snapshot to probe index endpoints.Tom Lane
If there are lots of uncommitted tuples at the end of the index range, get_actual_variable_range() ends up fetching each one and doing an MVCC visibility check on it, until it finally hits a visible tuple. This is bad enough in isolation, considering that we don't need an exact answer only an approximate one. But because the tuples are not yet committed, each visibility check does a TransactionIdIsInProgress() test, which involves scanning the ProcArray. When multiple sessions do this concurrently, the ensuing contention results in horrid performance loss. 20X overall throughput loss on not-too-complicated queries is easy to demonstrate in the back branches (though someone's made it noticeably less bad in HEAD). We can dodge the problem fairly effectively by using SnapshotDirty rather than a normal MVCC snapshot. This will cause the index probe to take uncommitted tuples as good, so that we incur only one tuple fetch and test even if there are many such tuples. The extent to which this degrades the estimate is debatable: it's possible the result is actually a more accurate prediction than before, if the endmost tuple has become committed by the time we actually execute the query being planned. In any case, it's not very likely that it makes the estimate a lot worse. SnapshotDirty will still reject tuples that are known committed dead, so we won't give bogus answers if an invalid outlier has been deleted but not yet vacuumed from the index. (Because btrees know how to mark such tuples dead in the index, we shouldn't have a big performance problem in the case that there are many of them at the end of the range.) This consideration motivates not using SnapshotAny, which was also considered as a fix. Note: the back branches were using SnapshotNow instead of an MVCC snapshot, but the problem and solution are the same. Per performance complaints from Bartlomiej Romanski, Josh Berkus, and others. Back-patch to 9.0, where the issue was introduced (by commit 40608e7f949fb7e4025c0ddd5be01939adc79eec).
2014-02-18Remove broken code that tried to handle OVERLAPS with a single argument.Tom Lane
The SQL standard says that OVERLAPS should have a two-element row constructor on each side. The original coding of OVERLAPS support in our grammar attempted to extend that by allowing a single-element row constructor, which it internally duplicated ... or tried to, anyway. But that code has certainly not worked since our List infrastructure was rewritten in 2004, and I'm none too sure it worked before that. As it stands, it ends up building a List that includes itself, leading to assorted undesirable behaviors later in the parser. Even if it worked as intended, it'd be a bit evil because of the possibility of duplicate evaluation of a volatile function that the user had written only once. Given the lack of documentation, test cases, or complaints, let's just get rid of the idea and only support the standard syntax. While we're at it, improve the error cursor positioning for the wrong-number-of-arguments errors, and inline the makeOverlaps() function since it's only called in one place anyway. Per bug #9227 from Joshua Yanovski. Initial patch by Joshua Yanovski, extended a bit by me.
2014-02-18Disable RandomizedBaseAddress on MSVC buildsMagnus Hagander
The ASLR in Windows 8/Windows 2012 can break PostgreSQL's shared memory. It doesn't fail every time (which is explained by the Random part in ASLR), but can fail with errors abut failing to reserve shared memory region. MauMau, reviewed by Craig Ringer
2014-02-18Fix comment; checkpointer, not bgwriter, performs checkpoints since 9.2.Heikki Linnakangas
Amit Langote
2014-02-17Translation updatesPeter Eisentraut
2014-02-17Stamp 9.2.7.REL9_2_7Tom Lane
2014-02-17Prevent potential overruns of fixed-size buffers.Tom Lane
Coverity identified a number of places in which it couldn't prove that a string being copied into a fixed-size buffer would fit. We believe that most, perhaps all of these are in fact safe, or are copying data that is coming from a trusted source so that any overrun is not really a security issue. Nonetheless it seems prudent to forestall any risk by using strlcpy() and similar functions. Fixes by Peter Eisentraut and Jozef Mlich based on Coverity reports. In addition, fix a potential null-pointer-dereference crash in contrib/chkpass. The crypt(3) function is defined to return NULL on failure, but chkpass.c didn't check for that before using the result. The main practical case in which this could be an issue is if libc is configured to refuse to execute unapproved hashing algorithms (e.g., "FIPS mode"). This ideally should've been a separate commit, but since it touches code adjacent to one of the buffer overrun changes, I included it in this commit to avoid last-minute merge issues. This issue was reported by Honza Horak. Security: CVE-2014-0065 for buffer overruns, CVE-2014-0066 for crypt()
2014-02-17Predict integer overflow to avoid buffer overruns.Noah Misch
Several functions, mostly type input functions, calculated an allocation size such that the calculation wrapped to a small positive value when arguments implied a sufficiently-large requirement. Writes past the end of the inadvertent small allocation followed shortly thereafter. Coverity identified the path_in() vulnerability; code inspection led to the rest. In passing, add check_stack_depth() to prevent stack overflow in related functions. Back-patch to 8.4 (all supported versions). The non-comment hstore changes touch code that did not exist in 8.4, so that part stops at 9.0. Noah Misch and Heikki Linnakangas, reviewed by Tom Lane. Security: CVE-2014-0064
2014-02-17Fix handling of wide datetime input/output.Noah Misch
Many server functions use the MAXDATELEN constant to size a buffer for parsing or displaying a datetime value. It was much too small for the longest possible interval output and slightly too small for certain valid timestamp input, particularly input with a long timezone name. The long input was rejected needlessly; the long output caused interval_out() to overrun its buffer. ECPG's pgtypes library has a copy of the vulnerable functions, which bore the same vulnerabilities along with some of its own. In contrast to the server, certain long inputs caused stack overflow rather than failing cleanly. Back-patch to 8.4 (all supported versions). Reported by Daniel Schüssler, reviewed by Tom Lane. Security: CVE-2014-0063
2014-02-17Avoid repeated name lookups during table and index DDL.Robert Haas
If the name lookups come to different conclusions due to concurrent activity, we might perform some parts of the DDL on a different table than other parts. At least in the case of CREATE INDEX, this can be used to cause the permissions checks to be performed against a different table than the index creation, allowing for a privilege escalation attack. This changes the calling convention for DefineIndex, CreateTrigger, transformIndexStmt, transformAlterTableStmt, CheckIndexCompatible (in 9.2 and newer), and AlterTable (in 9.1 and older). In addition, CheckRelationOwnership is removed in 9.2 and newer and the calling convention is changed in older branches. A field has also been added to the Constraint node (FkConstraint in 8.4). Third-party code calling these functions or using the Constraint node will require updating. Report by Andres Freund. Patch by Robert Haas and Andres Freund, reviewed by Tom Lane. Security: CVE-2014-0062
2014-02-17Prevent privilege escalation in explicit calls to PL validators.Noah Misch
The primary role of PL validators is to be called implicitly during CREATE FUNCTION, but they are also normal functions that a user can call explicitly. Add a permissions check to each validator to ensure that a user cannot use explicit validator calls to achieve things he could not otherwise achieve. Back-patch to 8.4 (all supported versions). Non-core procedural language extensions ought to make the same two-line change to their own validators. Andres Freund, reviewed by Tom Lane and Noah Misch. Security: CVE-2014-0061
2014-02-17Shore up ADMIN OPTION restrictions.Noah Misch
Granting a role without ADMIN OPTION is supposed to prevent the grantee from adding or removing members from the granted role. Issuing SET ROLE before the GRANT bypassed that, because the role itself had an implicit right to add or remove members. Plug that hole by recognizing that implicit right only when the session user matches the current role. Additionally, do not recognize it during a security-restricted operation or during execution of a SECURITY DEFINER function. The restriction on SECURITY DEFINER is not security-critical. However, it seems best for a user testing his own SECURITY DEFINER function to see the same behavior others will see. Back-patch to 8.4 (all supported versions). The SQL standards do not conflate roles and users as PostgreSQL does; only SQL roles have members, and only SQL users initiate sessions. An application using PostgreSQL users and roles as SQL users and roles will never attempt to grant membership in the role that is the session user, so the implicit right to add or remove members will never arise. The security impact was mostly that a role member could revoke access from others, contrary to the wishes of his own grantor. Unapproved role member additions are less notable, because the member can still largely achieve that by creating a view or a SECURITY DEFINER function. Reviewed by Andres Freund and Tom Lane. Reported, independently, by Jonas Sundman and Noah Misch. Security: CVE-2014-0060
2014-02-14Ooops, forgot to remove solar87 and friends from src/timezone/Makefile.Tom Lane
Per buildfarm.
2014-02-14Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2013i.Tom Lane
DST law changes in Jordan; historical changes in Cuba. Also, remove the zones Asia/Riyadh87, Asia/Riyadh88, and Asia/Riyadh89. Per the upstream announcement: The files solar87, solar88, and solar89 are no longer distributed. They were a negative experiment -- that is, a demonstration that tz data can represent solar time only with some difficulty and error. Their presence in the distribution caused confusion, as Riyadh civil time was generally not solar time in those years.
2014-02-13Clean up error cases in psql's COPY TO STDOUT/FROM STDIN code.Tom Lane
Adjust handleCopyOut() to stop trying to write data once it's failed one time. For typical cases such as out-of-disk-space or broken-pipe, additional attempts aren't going to do anything but waste time, and in any case clean truncation of the output seems like a better behavior than randomly dropping blocks in the middle. Also remove dubious (and misleadingly documented) attempt to force our way out of COPY_OUT state if libpq didn't do that. If we did have a situation like that, it'd be a bug in libpq and would be better fixed there, IMO. We can hope that commit fa4440f51628d692f077d54b8313aea31af087ea took care of any such problems, anyway. Also fix longstanding bug in handleCopyIn(): PQputCopyEnd() only supports a non-null errormsg parameter in protocol version 3, and will actively fail if one is passed in version 2. This would've made our attempts to get out of COPY_IN state after a failure into infinite loops when talking to pre-7.4 servers. Back-patch the COPY_OUT state change business back to 9.2 where it was introduced, and the other two fixes into all supported branches.
2014-02-13Fix length checking for Unicode identifiers containing escapes (U&"...").Tom Lane
We used the length of the input string, not the de-escaped string, as the trigger for NAMEDATALEN truncation. AFAICS this would only result in sometimes printing a phony truncation warning; but it's just luck that there was no worse problem, since we were violating the API spec for truncate_identifier(). Per bug #9204 from Joshua Yanovski. This has been wrong since the Unicode-identifier support was added, so back-patch to all supported branches.
2014-02-12Improve libpq's error recovery for connection loss during COPY.Tom Lane
In pqSendSome, if the connection is already closed at entry, discard any queued output data before returning. There is no possibility of ever sending the data, and anyway this corresponds to what we'd do if we'd detected a hard error while trying to send(). This avoids possible indefinite bloat of the output buffer if the application keeps trying to send data (or even just keeps trying to do PQputCopyEnd, as psql indeed will). Because PQputCopyEnd won't transition out of PGASYNC_COPY_IN state until it's successfully queued the COPY END message, and pqPutMsgEnd doesn't distinguish a queuing failure from a pqSendSome failure, this omission allowed an infinite loop in psql if the connection closure occurred when we had at least 8K queued to send. It might be worth refactoring so that we can make that distinction, but for the moment the other changes made here seem to offer adequate defenses. To guard against other variants of this scenario, do not allow PQgetResult to return a PGRES_COPY_XXX result if the connection is already known dead. Make sure it returns PGRES_FATAL_ERROR instead. Per report from Stephen Frost. Back-patch to all active branches.
2014-02-12In XLogReadBufferExtended, don't assume P_NEW yields consecutive pages.Tom Lane
In a database that's not yet reached consistency, it's possible that some segments of a relation are not full-size but are not the last ones either. Because of the way smgrnblocks() works, asking for a new page with P_NEW will fill in the last not-full-size segment --- and if that makes it full size, the apparent EOF of the relation will increase by more than one page, so that the next P_NEW request will yield a page past the next consecutive one. This breaks the relation-extension logic in XLogReadBufferExtended, possibly allowing a page update to be applied to some page far past where it was intended to go. This appears to be the explanation for reports of table bloat on replication slaves compared to their masters, and probably explains some corrupted-slave reports as well. Fix the loop to check the page number it actually got, rather than merely Assert()'ing that dead reckoning got it to the desired place. AFAICT, there are no other places that make assumptions about exactly which page they'll get from P_NEW. Problem identified by Greg Stark, though this is not the same as his proposed patch. It's been like this for a long time, so back-patch to all supported branches.
2014-02-12Add missing include, required on some platformsMagnus Hagander
Noted by the buildfarm and Andres Freund
2014-02-12Kill pg_basebackup background process when exitingMagnus Hagander
If an error occurs in the foreground (backup) process of pg_basebackup, and we exit in a controlled way, the background process (streaming xlog process) would stay around and keep streaming.
2014-02-10Don't generate plain-text HISTORY and src/test/regress/README anymore.Tom Lane
Providing this information as plain text was doubtless worth the trouble ten years ago, but it seems likely that hardly anyone reads it in this format anymore. And the effort required to maintain these files (in the form of extra-complex markup rules in the relevant parts of the SGML documentation) is significant. So, let's stop doing that and rely solely on the other documentation formats. Per discussion, the plain-text INSTALL instructions might still be worth their keep, so we continue to generate that file. Rather than remove HISTORY and src/test/regress/README from distribution tarballs entirely, replace them with simple stub files that tell the reader where to find the relevant documentation. This is mainly to avoid possibly breaking packaging recipes that expect these files to exist. Back-patch to all supported branches, because simplifying the markup requirements for release notes won't help much unless we do it in all branches.
2014-02-10Use memmove() instead of memcpy() for copying overlapping regions.Heikki Linnakangas
In commit d2495f272cd164ff075bee5c4ce95aed11338a36, I fixed this bug in to_tsquery(), but missed the fact that plainto_tsquery() has the same bug.
2014-02-09Avoid printing uninitialized filename variable in verbose modeMagnus Hagander
When using verbose mode for pg_basebackup, in tar format sent to stdout, we'd print an unitialized buffer as the filename. Reported by Pontus Lundkvist
2014-02-03Fix *-qualification of named parameters in SQL-language functions.Tom Lane
Given a composite-type parameter named x, "$1.*" worked fine, but "x.*" not so much. This has been broken since named parameter references were added in commit 9bff0780cf5be2193a5bad0d3df2dbe143085264, so patch back to 9.2. Per bug #9085 from Hardy Falk.
2014-02-01Fix makefile syntax.Andrew Dunstan
2014-02-01Fix some wide-character bugs in the text-search parser.Tom Lane
In p_isdigit and other character class test functions generated by the p_iswhat macro, the code path for non-C locales with multibyte encodings contained a bogus pointer cast that would accidentally fail to malfunction if types wchar_t and wint_t have the same width. Apparently that is true on most platforms, but not on recent Cygwin releases. Remove the cast, as it seems completely unnecessary (I think it arose from a false analogy to the need to cast to unsigned char when dealing with the <ctype.h> functions). Per bug #8970 from Marco Atzeri. In the same functions, the code path for C locale with a multibyte encoding simply ANDed each wide character with 0xFF before passing it to the corresponding <ctype.h> function. This could result in false positive answers for some non-ASCII characters, so use a range test instead. Noted by me while investigating Marco's complaint. Also, remove some useless though not actually buggy maskings and casts in the hand-coded p_isalnum and p_isalpha functions, which evidently got tested a bit more carefully than the macro-generated functions.
2014-02-01fix whitespaceAndrew Dunstan
2014-02-01Fix some more bugs in signal handlers and process shutdown logic.Tom Lane
WalSndKill was doing things exactly backwards: it should first clear MyWalSnd (to stop signal handlers from touching MyWalSnd->latch), then disown the latch, and only then mark the WalSnd struct unused by clearing its pid field. Also, WalRcvSigUsr1Handler and worker_spi_sighup failed to preserve errno, which is surely a requirement for any signal handler. Per discussion of recent buildfarm failures. Back-patch as far as the relevant code exists.
2014-02-01Don't use deprecated dllwrap on Cygwin.Andrew Dunstan
The preferred method is to use "cc -shared", and this allows binaries to be rebased if required, unlike dllwrap. Backpatch to 9.0 where we have buildfarm coverage. There are still some issues with Cygwin, especially modern Cygwin, but this helps us get closer to good support. Marco Atzeri.
2014-02-01Copy the libpq DLL to the bin directory on Mingw and Cygwin.Andrew Dunstan
This has long been done by the MSVC build system, and has caused confusion in the past when programs like psql have failed to start because they can't find the DLL. If it's in the same directory as it now will be they will find it. Backpatch to all live branches.
2014-01-31Clear MyProc and MyProcSignalState before they become invalid.Robert Haas
Evidence from buildfarm member crake suggests that the new test_shm_mq module is routinely crashing the server due to the arrival of a SIGUSR1 after the shared memory segment has been unmapped. Although processes using the new dynamic background worker facilities are more likely to receive a SIGUSR1 around this time, the problem is also possible on older branches, so I'm back-patching the parts of this change that apply to older branches as far as they apply. It's already generally the case that code checks whether these pointers are NULL before deferencing them, so the important thing is mostly to make sure that they do get set to NULL before they become invalid. But in master, there's one case in procsignal_sigusr1_handler that lacks a NULL guard, so add that. Patch by me; review by Tom Lane.
2014-01-29Fix unsafe references to errno within error messaging logic.Tom Lane
Various places were supposing that errno could be expected to hold still within an ereport() nest or similar contexts. This isn't true necessarily, though in some cases it accidentally failed to fail depending on how the compiler chanced to order the subexpressions. This class of thinko explains recent reports of odd failures on clang-built versions, typically missing or inappropriate HINT fields in messages. Problem identified by Christian Kruse, who also submitted the patch this commit is based on. (I fixed a few issues in his patch and found a couple of additional places with the same disease.) Back-patch as appropriate to all supported branches.
2014-01-23Fix bugs in PQhost().Fujii Masao
In the platform that doesn't support Unix-domain socket, when neither host nor hostaddr are specified, the default host 'localhost' is used to connect to the server and PQhost() must return that, but it didn't. This patch fixes PQhost() so that it returns the default host in that case. Also this patch fixes PQhost() so that it doesn't return Unix-domain socket directory path in the platform that doesn't support Unix-domain socket. Back-patch to all supported versions.
2014-01-21Allow type_func_name_keywords in even more placesStephen Frost
A while back, 2c92edad48796119c83d7dbe6c33425d1924626d allowed type_func_name_keywords to be used in more places, including role identifiers. Unfortunately, that commit missed out on cases where name_list was used for lists-of-roles, eg: for DROP ROLE. This resulted in the unfortunate situation that you could CREATE a role with a type_func_name_keywords-allowed identifier, but not DROP it (directly- ALTER could be used to rename it to something which could be DROP'd). This extends allowing type_func_name_keywords to places where role lists can be used. Back-patch to 9.0, as 2c92edad48796119c83d7dbe6c33425d1924626d was.
2014-01-21Tweak parse location assignment for CURRENT_DATE and related constructs.Tom Lane
All these constructs generate parse trees consisting of a Const and a run-time type coercion (perhaps a FuncExpr or a CoerceViaIO). Modify the raw parse output so that we end up with the original token's location attached to the type coercion node while the Const has location -1; before, it was the other way around. This makes no difference in terms of what exprLocation() will say about the parse tree as a whole, so it should not have any user-visible impact. The point of changing it is that we do not want contrib/pg_stat_statements to treat these constructs as replaceable constants. It will do the right thing if the Const has location -1 rather than a valid location. This is a pretty ugly hack, but then this code is ugly already; we should someday replace this translation with special-purpose parse node(s) that would allow ruleutils.c to reconstruct the original query text. (See also commit 5d3fcc4c2e137417ef470d604fee5e452b22f6a7, which also hacked location assignment rules for the benefit of pg_stat_statements.) Back-patch to 9.2 where pg_stat_statements grew the ability to recognize replaceable constants. Kyotaro Horiguchi
2014-01-18Allow SET TABLESPACE to database defaultStephen Frost
We've always allowed CREATE TABLE to create tables in the database's default tablespace without checking for CREATE permissions on that tablespace. Unfortunately, the original implementation of ALTER TABLE ... SET TABLESPACE didn't pick up on that exception. This changes ALTER TABLE ... SET TABLESPACE to allow the database's default tablespace without checking for CREATE rights on that tablespace, just as CREATE TABLE works today. Users could always do this through a series of commands (CREATE TABLE ... AS SELECT * FROM ...; DROP TABLE ...; etc), so let's fix the oversight in SET TABLESPACE's original implementation.
2014-01-17Fix client-only installationPeter Eisentraut
The psql Makefile was not creating $(datadir) before installing psqlrc.sample there. In most cases, the directory would be created in some other way, but for the documented from-source client-only installation procedure, it could fail. Reported-by: Mike Blackwell <mike.blackwell@rrd.com>
2014-01-14Improve FILES section of psql reference page.Tom Lane
Primarily, explain where to find the system-wide psqlrc file, per recent gripe from John Sutton. Do some general wordsmithing and improve the markup, too. Also adjust psqlrc.sample so its comments about file location are somewhat trustworthy. (Not sure why we bother with this file when it's empty, but whatever.) Back-patch to 9.2 where the startup file naming scheme was last changed.