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2009-04-02plpgsql's exec_simple_cast_value() mistakenly supposed that it could bypassTom Lane
casting effort whenever the input value was NULL. However this prevents application of not-null domain constraints in the cases that use this function, as illustrated in bug #4741. Since this function isn't meant for use in performance-critical paths anyway, this certainly seems like another case of "premature optimization is the root of all evil". Back-patch as far as 8.2; older versions made no effort to enforce domain constraints here anyway.
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.
2009-03-30Fix an oversight in the support for storing/retrieving "minimal tuples" inTom Lane
TupleTableSlots. We have functions for retrieving a minimal tuple from a slot after storing a regular tuple in it, or vice versa; but these were implemented by converting the internal storage from one format to the other. The problem with that is it invalidates any pass-by-reference Datums that were already fetched from the slot, since they'll be pointing into the just-freed version of the tuple. The known problem cases involve fetching both a whole-row variable and a pass-by-reference value from a slot that is fed from a tuplestore or tuplesort object. The added regression tests illustrate some simple cases, but there may be other failure scenarios traceable to the same bug. Note that the added tests probably only fail on unpatched code if it's built with --enable-cassert; otherwise the bug leads to fetching from freed memory, which will not have been overwritten without additional conditions. Fix by allowing a slot to contain both formats simultaneously; which turns out not to complicate the logic much at all, if anything it seems less contorted than before. Back-patch to 8.2, where minimal tuples were introduced.
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.
2009-03-24Install a search tree depth limit in GIN bulk-insert operations, to preventTom Lane
them from degrading badly when the input is sorted or nearly so. In this scenario the tree is unbalanced to the point of becoming a mere linked list, so insertions become O(N^2). The easiest and most safely back-patchable solution is to stop growing the tree sooner, ie limit the growth of N. We might later consider a rebalancing tree algorithm, but it's not clear that the benefit would be worth the cost and complexity. Per report from Sergey Burladyan and an earlier complaint from Heikki. Back-patch to 8.2; older versions didn't have GIN indexes.
2009-03-13tag 8.2.13REL8_2_13Marc G. Fournier
2009-03-12Fix core dump due to null-pointer dereference in to_char() when datetimeTom Lane
format codes are misapplied to a numeric argument. (The code still produces a pretty bogus error message in such cases, but I'll settle for stopping the crash for now.) Per bug #4700 from Sergey Burladyan. Problem exists in all supported branches, so patch all the way back. In HEAD, also clean up some ugly coding in the nearby cache management code.
2009-03-05Add MUST (Mauritius Island Summer Time) to the list of known abbreviations.Heikki Linnakangas
Mauritius began using DST in the summer 2008-2009; the Olson library has been updated already. Xavier Bugaud
2009-03-04Put back our old workaround for machines that declare cbrt() in math.h butTom Lane
fail to provide the function itself. Not sure how we escaped testing anything later than 7.3 on such cases, but they still exist, as per André Volpato's report about AIX 5.3.
2009-03-03Ooops ... fix some confusion between gettext() and _() in my previous patch.Tom Lane
This has moved around in past releases, so just copying-and-pasting from HEAD didn't work as intended.
2009-03-02When we are in error recursion trouble, arrange to suppress translation andTom Lane
encoding conversion of any elog/ereport message being sent to the frontend. This generalizes a patch that I put in last October, which suppressed translation of only specific messages known to be associated with recursive can't-translate-the-message behavior. As shown in bug #4680, we need a more general answer in order to have some hope of coping with broken encoding conversion setups. This approach seems a good deal less klugy anyway. Patch in all supported branches.
2009-02-28Fix buffer allocations in encoding conversion routines so that they won'tTom Lane
fail on zero-length inputs. This isn't an issue in normal use because the conversion infrastructure skips calling the converters for empty strings. However a problem was created by yesterday's patch to check whether the right conversion function is supplied in CREATE CONVERSION. The most future-proof fix seems to be to make the converters safe for this corner case.
2009-02-27In CREATE CONVERSION, test that the given function is a valid conversionHeikki Linnakangas
function for the specified source and destination encodings. We do that by calling the function with an empty string. If it can't perform the requested conversion, it will throw an error. Backport to 7.4 - 8.3. Per bug report #4680 by Denis Afonin.
2009-02-27Set isnull for errm and sqlstate local variables when they're free'd. BecauseHeikki Linnakangas
they are out of scope for any code after that anyway, leaving isnull true should be harmless. However, PL/pgSQL Debugger doesn't seem to care about the scoping and crashed, per report by Robert Walker (bug #4635). And it's good to be tidy for debugging purposes too. Fix in 8.3, 8.2 and 8.1 branches, CVS HEAD was fixed earlier already. Analysis and fix by Ashesh Vashi and Dave Page.
2009-02-25Fix an old problem in decompilation of CASE constructs: the ruleutils.c codeTom Lane
looks for a CaseTestExpr to figure out what the parser did, but it failed to consider the possibility that an implicit coercion might be inserted above the CaseTestExpr. This could result in an Assert failure in some cases (but correct results if Asserts weren't enabled), or an "unexpected CASE WHEN clause" error in other cases. Per report from Alan Li. Back-patch to 8.1; problem doesn't exist before that because CASE was implemented differently.
2009-02-24Repair a longstanding bug in CLUSTER and the rewriting variants of ALTERTom Lane
TABLE: if the command is executed by someone other than the table owner (eg, a superuser) and the table has a toast table, the toast table's pg_type row ends up with the wrong typowner, ie, the command issuer not the table owner. This is quite harmless for most purposes, since no interesting permissions checks consult the pg_type row. However, it could lead to unexpected failures if one later tries to drop the role that issued the command (in 8.1 or 8.2), or strange warnings from pg_dump afterwards (in 8.3 and up, which will allow the DROP ROLE because we don't create a "redundant" owner dependency for table rowtypes). Problem identified by Cott Lang. Back-patch to 8.1. The problem is actually far older --- the CLUSTER variant can be demonstrated in 7.0 --- but it's mostly cosmetic before 8.1 because we didn't track ownership dependencies before 8.1. Also, fixing it before 8.1 would require changing the call signature of heap_create_with_catalog(), which seems to carry a nontrivial risk of breaking add-on modules.
2009-02-15Loop calling CallNamedPipe() several times in case it fails,Magnus Hagander
since it can be transient failures, causing kill() to not properly send signals. Original patch from Steve Marshall, modified by me.
2009-02-02Fix plpgsql to not treat INSERT INTO as an INTO-variables clause anywhereTom Lane
in the string, not just at the start. Per bug #4629 from Martin Blazek. Back-patch to 8.2; prior versions don't have the problem, at least not in the reported case, because they don't try to recognize INTO in non-SELECT statements. (IOW, this is really fallout from the RETURNING patch.)
2009-01-30Defend against null input in analyze_requires_snapshot(), per reportTom Lane
from Rushabh Lathia. Back-patch of patch of 2009-01-08. This is necessary in 8.3, as reported by Bjorn Munch. It's not currently necessary in 8.2, AFAICS, but seems best to include it there too.
2009-01-30tag 8.2.12REL8_2_12Marc G. Fournier
2009-01-29Translation updatesPeter Eisentraut
2009-01-29Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2009a: introduces Asia/KathmanduTom Lane
as the preferred spelling of that zone name, corrects historical DST information for Switzerland and Cuba.
2009-01-29Replace argument-checking Asserts with regular test-and-elog checks in allTom Lane
encoding conversion functions. These are not can't-happen cases because it's possible to create a conversion with the wrong conversion function for the specified encoding pair. That would lead to an Assert crash in an Assert-enabled build, or incorrect conversion otherwise, neither of which is desirable. This would be a DOS issue if production databases were customarily built with asserts enabled, but fortunately that's not so. Per an observation by Heikki. Back-patch to all supported branches.
2009-01-28Go over all OpenSSL return values and make sure we compare themMagnus Hagander
to the documented API value. The previous code got it right as it's implemented, but accepted too much/too little compared to the API documentation. Per comment from Zdenek Kotala.
2009-01-20Fix erroneous memory context switch in autovacuum, which was returning to aAlvaro Herrera
context long after it had been destroyed. Per problem report from Justin Pasher. Patch by Tom Lane and me. 8.3 and later do not have this bug, because this code has been restructured for unrelated reasons. In 8.2 it does not manifest as a crash, but it still seems safer fixing it nonetheless.
2009-01-14Remove broken Assertions that failed if a statement executed in PL/pgSQL isHeikki Linnakangas
rewritten into another kind of statement, for example if an INSERT is rewritten into an UPDATE. Back-patch to 8.3 and 8.2. For HEAD, Tom suggested inventing a new SPI_OK_REWRITTEN return code, but that's not a backportable solution. I'll do that as a separate patch, this patch will do as a stopgap measure for HEAD too in the meanwhile.
2009-01-13Throw an error when using -C and -1 at the same time in pg_restore.Magnus Hagander
It's not possible to do CREATE DATABASE inside a transaction, so previously we just got a server error instead. Backpatch to 8.2, which is where the -1 feature appeared.
2009-01-07Insert conditional SPI_push/SPI_pop calls into InputFunctionCall,Tom Lane
OutputFunctionCall, and friends. This allows SPI-using functions to invoke datatype I/O without concern for the possibility that a SPI-using function will be called (which could be either the I/O function itself, or a function used in a domain check constraint). It's a tad ugly, but not nearly as ugly as what'd be needed to make this work via retail insertion of push/pop operations in all the PLs. This reverts my patch of 2007-01-30 that inserted some retail SPI_push/pop calls into plpgsql; that approach only fixed plpgsql, and not any other PLs. But the other PLs have the issue too, as illustrated by a recent gripe from Christian Schröder. Back-patch to 8.2, which is as far back as this solution will work. It's also as far back as we need to worry about the domain-constraint case, since earlier versions did not attempt to check domain constraints within datatype input. I'm not aware of any old I/O functions that use SPI themselves, so this should be sufficient for a back-patch.
2009-01-06Fix logic in lazy vacuum to decide if it's worth trying to truncate the heap.Heikki Linnakangas
If the table was smaller than REL_TRUNCATE_FRACTION (= 16) pages, we always tried to acquire AccessExclusiveLock on it even if there was no empty pages at the end. Report by Simon Riggs. Back-patch all the way to 7.4.
2008-12-16Make heap_update() set newtup->t_tableOid correctly, for consistency withTom Lane
the other major heapam.c functions. The only known consequence of this omission is that UPDATE RETURNING failed to return the correct value for "tableoid", as per report from KaiGai Kohei. Back-patch to 8.2. Arguably it's wrong all the way back; but without evidence of visible breakage before RETURNING was added, I'll desist from patching the older branches.
2008-12-13Fix failure to ensure that a snapshot is available to datatype input functionsTom Lane
when they are invoked by the parser. We had been setting up a snapshot at plan time but really it needs to be done earlier, before parse analysis. Per report from Dmitry Koterov. Also fix two related problems discovered while poking at this one: exec_bind_message called datatype input functions without establishing a snapshot, and SET CONSTRAINTS IMMEDIATE could call trigger functions without establishing a snapshot. Backpatch to 8.2. The underlying problem goes much further back, but it is masked in 8.1 and before because we didn't attempt to invoke domain check constraints within datatype input. It would only be exposed if a C-language datatype input function used the snapshot; which evidently none do, or we'd have heard complaints sooner. Since this code has changed a lot over time, a back-patch is hardly risk-free, and so I'm disinclined to patch further than absolutely necessary.
2008-12-01Fix an oversight in the code that makes transitive-equality deductions fromTom Lane
outer join clauses. Given, say, ... from a left join b on a.a1 = b.b1 where a.a1 = 42; we'll deduce a clause b.b1 = 42 and then mark the original join clause redundant (we can't remove it completely for reasons I don't feel like squeezing into this log entry). However the original implementation of that wasn't bulletproof, because clause_selectivity() wouldn't honor this_selec if given nonzero varRelid --- which in practice meant that it worked as desired *except* when considering index scan quals. Which resulted in bogus underestimation of the size of the indexscan result for an inner indexscan in an outer join, and consequently a possibly bad choice of indexscan vs. bitmap scan. Fix by introducing an explicit test into clause_selectivity(). Also, to make sure we don't trigger that test in corner cases, change the convention to be that this_selec > 1, not this_selec = 1, means it's been marked redundant. Per trouble report from Scara Maccai. Back-patch to 8.2, where the problem was introduced.
2008-12-01Ensure that the contents of a holdable cursor don't depend on out-of-lineTom Lane
toasted values, since those could get dropped once the cursor's transaction is over. Per bug #4553 from Andrew Gierth. Back-patch as far as 8.1. The bug actually exists back to 7.4 when holdable cursors were introduced, but this patch won't work before 8.1 without significant adjustments. Given the lack of field complaints, it doesn't seem worth the work (and risk of introducing new bugs) to try to make a patch for the older branches.
2008-11-30Remove inappropriate memory context switch in shutdown_MultiFuncCall().Tom Lane
This was a thinko introduced in a patch from last February; it results in memory leakage if an SRF is shut down before the actual end of query, because subsequent code will be running in a longer-lived context than it's expecting to be.
2008-11-12In predtest.c, install a limit on the number of branches we will process inTom Lane
AND, OR, or equivalent clauses: if there are too many (more than 100) just exit without proving anything. This ensures that we don't spend O(N^2) time trying (and most likely failing) to prove anything about very long IN lists and similar cases. Also, install a couple of CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS calls to ensure that a long proof attempt can be interrupted. Per gripe from Sergey Konoplev. Back-patch the whole patch to 8.2 and just the CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS addition to 8.1. (The rest of the patch doesn't apply cleanly, and since 8.1 doesn't show the complained-of behavior anyway, it doesn't seem necessary to work hard on it.)
2008-11-11Get rid of adjust_appendrel_attr_needed(), which has been broken ever sinceTom Lane
we extended the appendrel mechanism to support UNION ALL optimization. The reason nobody noticed was that we are not actually using attr_needed data for appendrel children; hence it seems more reasonable to rip it out than fix it. Back-patch to 8.2 because an Assert failure is possible in corner cases. Per examination of an example from Jim Nasby. In HEAD, also get rid of AppendRelInfo.col_mappings, which is quite inadequate to represent UNION ALL situations; depend entirely on translated_vars instead.
2008-10-31tag 8.2.11REL8_2_11Marc G. Fournier
2008-10-30Translation updatesPeter Eisentraut
2008-10-30Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2008i (DST law changes inTom Lane
Argentina, Brazil, Mauritius, Syria).
2008-10-27Install a more robust solution for the problem of infinite error-processingTom Lane
recursion when we are unable to convert a localized error message to the client's encoding. We've been over this ground before, but as reported by Ibrar Ahmed, it still didn't work in the case of conversion failures for the conversion-failure message itself :-(. Fix by installing a "circuit breaker" that disables attempts to localize this message once we get into recursion trouble. Patch all supported branches, because it is in fact broken in all of them; though I had to add some missing translations to the older branches in order to expose the failure in the particular test case I was using.
2008-10-26Better solution to the IN-list issue: instead of having an arbitrary cutoff,Tom Lane
treat Var and non-Var IN-list items differently. Only non-Var items are candidates to go into an ANY(ARRAY) construct --- we put all Vars as separate OR conditions on the grounds that that leaves more scope for optimization. Per suggestion from Robert Haas.
2008-10-25Add a heuristic to transformAExprIn() to make it prefer expanding "x IN (list)"Tom Lane
into an OR of equality comparisons, rather than x = ANY(ARRAY[...]), when there are Vars in the right-hand side. This avoids a performance regression compared to pre-8.2 releases, in cases where the OR form can be optimized into scans of multiple indexes. Limit the possible downside by preferring this form only when the list isn't very long (I set the cutoff at 32 elements, which is a bit arbitrary but in the right ballpark). Per discussion with Jim Nasby. In passing, also make it try the OR form if it cannot select a common type for the array elements; we've seen a complaint or two about how the OR form worked for such cases and ARRAY doesn't.
2008-10-25Fix an old bug in after-trigger handling: AfterTriggerEndQuery took theTom Lane
address of afterTriggers->query_stack[afterTriggers->query_depth] and hung onto it through all its firings of triggers. However, if a trigger causes sufficiently many nested query executions, query_stack will get repalloc'd bigger, leaving AfterTriggerEndQuery --- and hence afterTriggerInvokeEvents --- using a stale pointer. So far as I can find, the only consequence of this error is to stomp on a couple of words of already-freed memory; which would lead to a failure only if that chunk had already gotten re-allocated for something else. So it's hard to exhibit a simple failure case, but this is surely a bug. I noticed this while working on my recent patch to reduce pending-trigger space usage. The present patch is mighty ugly, because it requires making afterTriggerInvokeEvents know about all the possible event lists it might get called on. Fortunately, this is only needed in back branches because CVS HEAD avoids the problem in a different way: afterTriggerInvokeEvents only touches the passed AfterTriggerEventList pointer once at startup. Back branches are stable enough that wiring in knowledge of all possible call usages doesn't seem like a killer problem. Back-patch to 8.0. 7.4's trigger code is completely different and doesn't seem to have the problem (it doesn't even use repalloc).
2008-10-22Fix GiST's killing tuple: GISTScanOpaque->curpos wasn'tTeodor Sigaev
correctly set. As result, killtuple() marks as dead wrong tuple on page. Bug was introduced by me while fixing possible duplicates during GiST index scan.
2008-10-16Fix a small memory leak in ExecReScanAgg() in the hashed aggregation case.Neil Conway
In the previous coding, the list of columns that needed to be hashed on was allocated in the per-query context, but we reallocated every time the Agg node was rescanned. Since this information doesn't change over a rescan, just construct the list of columns once during ExecInitAgg().
2008-10-16Fix SPI_getvalue and SPI_getbinval to range-check the given attribute numberTom Lane
according to the TupleDesc's natts, not the number of physical columns in the tuple. The previous coding would do the wrong thing in cases where natts is different from the tuple's column count: either incorrectly report error when it should just treat the column as null, or actually crash due to indexing off the end of the TupleDesc's attribute array. (The second case is probably not possible in modern PG versions, due to more careful handling of inheritance cases than we once had. But it's still a clear lack of robustness here.) The incorrect error indication is ignored by all callers within the core PG distribution, so this bug has no symptoms visible within the core code, but it might well be an issue for add-on packages. So patch all the way back.
2008-10-10Optional arguments should be optional.Michael Meskes
2008-10-09Fix overly tense optimization of PLpgSQL_func_hashkey: we must representTom Lane
the isTrigger state explicitly, not rely on nonzero-ness of trigrelOid to indicate trigger-hood, because trigrelOid will be left zero when compiling for validation. The (useless) function hash entry built by the validator was able to match an ordinary non-trigger call later in the same session, thereby bypassing the check that is supposed to prevent such a call. Per report from Alvaro. It might be worth suppressing the useless hash entry altogether, but that's a bigger change than I want to consider back-patching. Back-patch to 8.0. 7.4 doesn't have the problem because it doesn't have validation mode.
2008-10-07When a relation is moved to another tablespace, we can't assume that we canHeikki Linnakangas
use the old relfilenode in the new tablespace. There might be another relation in the new tablespace with the same relfilenode, so we must generate a fresh relfilenode in the new tablespace. The 8.3 patch to let deleted relation files linger as zero-length files until the next checkpoint made this more obvious: moving a relation from one table space another, and then back again, caused a collision with the lingering file. Back-patch to 8.1. The issue is present in 8.0 as well, but it doesn't seem worth fixing there, because we didn't have protection from OID collisions after OID wraparound before 8.1. Report by Guillaume Lelarge.