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2008-05-19Remove arbitrary 10MB limit on two-phase state file size. It's not that hardHeikki Linnakangas
to go beoynd 10MB, as demonstrated by Gavin Sharry's example of dropping a schema with ~25000 objects. The really bogus thing about the limit was that it was enforced when a state file file was read in, not when it was written, so you would end up with a prepared transaction that you can't commit or abort, and the only recourse was to shut down the server and remove the file by hand. Raise the limit to MaxAllocSize, and enforce it also when a state file is written. We could've removed the limit altogether, but reading in a file larger than MaxAllocSize would fail anyway because we read it into a palloc'd buffer. Backpatch down to 8.1, where 2PC and this issue was introduced.
2008-05-13Don't try to close negative file descriptors, since this can causeMagnus Hagander
crashes on certain platforms. In particular, the MSVC runtime is known to do this. Fixes bug #4162, reported and diagnosed by Javier Pimas
2008-05-09Fix an ancient oversight in change_varattnos_of_a_node: it neglected to updateTom Lane
varoattno along with varattno. This resulted in having Vars that were not seen as equal(), causing inheritance of the "same" constraint from different parent relations to fail. An example is create table pp1 (f1 int check (f1>0)); create table cc1 (f2 text, f3 int) inherits (pp1); create table cc2(f4 float) inherits(pp1,cc1); Backpatch as far as 7.4. (The test case still fails in 7.4, for reasons that I don't feel like investigating at the moment.) This is a backpatch commit only. The fix will be applied in HEAD as part of the upcoming pg_constraint patch.
2008-04-24Fix ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN ... PRIMARY KEY so that the new column is correctlyTom Lane
checked to see if it's been initialized to all non-nulls. The implicit NOT NULL constraint was not being checked during the ALTER (in fact, not even if there was an explicit NOT NULL too), because ATExecAddColumn neglected to set the flag needed to make the test happen. This has been broken since the capability was first added, in 8.0. Brendan Jurd, per a report from Kaloyan Iliev.
2008-04-11Fix several datatype input functions that were allowing unused bytes in theirTom Lane
results to contain uninitialized, unpredictable values. While this was okay as far as the datatypes themselves were concerned, it's a problem for the parser because occurrences of the "same" literal might not be recognized as equal by datumIsEqual (and hence not by equal()). It seems sufficient to fix this in the input functions since the only critical use of equal() is in the parser's comparisons of ORDER BY and DISTINCT expressions. Per a trouble report from Marc Cousin. Patch all the way back. Interestingly, array_in did not have the bug before 8.2, which may explain why the issue went unnoticed for so long.
2008-04-10Fixed bug in PGTYPEStimestamp_sub that used pointers instead of the values ↵Michael Meskes
to substract.
2008-04-05Defend against JOINs having more than 32K columns altogether. We cannotTom Lane
currently support this because we must be able to build Vars referencing join columns, and varattno is only 16 bits wide. Perhaps this should be improved in future, but considering that it never came up before, I'm not sure the problem is worth much effort. Per bug #4070 from Marcello Ceschia. The problem seems largely academic in 8.0 and 7.4, because they have (different) O(N^2) performance issues with such wide joins, but back-patch all the way anyway.
2008-03-31Fix a number of places that were making file-type tests infelicitously.Tom Lane
The places that did, eg, (statbuf.st_mode & S_IFMT) == S_IFDIR were correct, but there is no good reason not to use S_ISDIR() instead, especially when that's what the other 90% of our code does. The places that did, eg, (statbuf.st_mode & S_IFDIR) were flat out *wrong* and would fail in various platform-specific ways, eg a symlink could be mistaken for a regular file on most Unixen. The actual impact of this is probably small, since the problem cases seem to always involve symlinks or sockets, which are unlikely to be found in the directories that PG code might be scanning. But it's clearly trouble waiting to happen, so patch all the way back anyway. (There seem to be no occurrences of the mistake in 7.4.)
2008-03-25Adjust DatumGetBool macro so that it isn't fooled by garbage in the DatumTom Lane
to the left of the actual bool value. While in most cases there won't be any, our support for old-style user-defined functions violates the C spec to the extent of calling functions that might return char or short through a function pointer declared to return "char *", which we then coerce to Datum. It is not surprising that the result might contain garbage high-order bits ... what is surprising is that we didn't see such cases long ago. Per report from Magnus. This is a back-patch of a change that was made in HEAD almost exactly a year ago. I had refrained from back-patching at the time, but now we find that this is *necessary* for contrib to work with gcc 4.3.
2008-03-20Add the missing cyrillic "Yo" characters ('e' and 'E' with two dots) to theHeikki Linnakangas
ISO_8859-5 <-> MULE_INTERNAL conversion tables. This was discovered when trying to convert a string containing those characters from ISO_8859-5 to Windows-1251, because we use MULE_INTERNAL/KOI8R as an intermediate encoding between those two. While the missing "Yo" was just an omission in the conversion tables, there are a few other characters like the "Numero" sign ("No" as a single character) that exists in all the other cyrillic encodings (win1251, ISO_8859-5 and cp866), but not in KOI8R. Added comments about that. Patch by Sergey Burladyan. Back-patch to 7.4.
2008-03-19Fix regexp substring matching (substring(string from pattern)) for the cornerTom Lane
case where there is a match to the pattern overall but the user has specified a parenthesized subexpression and that subexpression hasn't got a match. An example is substring('foo' from 'foo(bar)?'). This should return NULL, since (bar) isn't matched, but it was mistakenly returning the whole-pattern match instead (ie, 'foo'). Per bug #4044 from Rui Martins. This has been broken since the beginning; patch in all supported versions. The old behavior was sufficiently inconsistent that it's impossible to believe anyone is depending on it.
2008-03-13Update to tzdata 2008a distribution (Chilean DST law change).Tom Lane
2008-03-12Fix LISTEN/NOTIFY race condition reported by Laurent Birtz, by postponingTom Lane
pg_listener modifications commanded by LISTEN and UNLISTEN until the end of the current transaction. This allows us to hold the ExclusiveLock on pg_listener until after commit, with no greater risk of deadlock than there was before. Aside from fixing the race condition, this gets rid of a truly ugly kludge that was there before, namely having to ignore HeapTupleBeingUpdated failures during NOTIFY. There is a small potential incompatibility, which is that if a transaction issues LISTEN or UNLISTEN and then looks into pg_listener before committing, it won't see any resulting row insertion or deletion, where before it would have. It seems unlikely that anyone would be depending on that, though. This patch also disallows LISTEN and UNLISTEN inside a prepared transaction. That case had some pretty undesirable properties already, such as possibly allowing pg_listener entries to be made for PIDs no longer present, so disallowing it seems like a better idea than trying to maintain the behavior.
2008-03-07Change hashscan.c to keep its list of active hash index scans inTom Lane
TopMemoryContext, rather than scattered through executor per-query contexts. This poses no danger of memory leak since the ResourceOwner mechanism guarantees release of no-longer-needed items. It is needed because the per-query context might already be released by the time we try to clean up the hash scan list. Report by ykhuang, diagnosis by Heikki. Back-patch to 8.0, where the ResourceOwner-based cleanup was introduced. The given test case does not fail before 8.2, probably because we rearranged transaction abort processing somehow; but this coding is undoubtedly risky so I'll patch 8.0 and 8.1 anyway.
2008-03-05Add support for dlopen on recent NetBSD/MIPS, per Rémi Zara.Alvaro Herrera
2008-02-27If RelationBuildDesc() fails to open a critical system index, PANIC withTom Lane
a relevant error message instead of just dumping core. Odd that nobody reported this before Darren Reed.
2008-02-25Fix datetime input to behave correctly for Feb 29 in years BC.Tom Lane
Formerly, DecodeDate attempted to verify the day-of-the-month exactly, but it was under the misapprehension that it would know whether we were looking at a BC year or not. In reality this check can't be made until the calling function (eg DecodeDateTime) has processed all the fields. So, split the BC adjustment and validity checks out into a new function ValidateDate that is called only after processing all the fields. In passing, this patch makes DecodeTimeOnly work for BC inputs, which it never did before. (The historical veracity of all this is nonexistent, of course, but if we're going to say we support proleptic Gregorian calendar then we should do it correctly. In any case the unpatched code is broken because it could emit dates that it would then reject on re-inputting.) Per report from Bernd Helmle. Back-patch as far as 8.0; in 7.x we were not using our own calendar support and so this seems a bit too risky to put into 7.4.
2008-02-23Avoid trying to print a NULL char pointer in --describe-config. On someTom Lane
platforms this works, but on some it crashes. Zdenek Kotala
2008-02-20Fix mistakes in pg_ctl's code for "start -w" that tries to cope withTom Lane
non-default settings for the postmaster's port number. The code to parse command line options and postgresql.conf entries wasn't quite right about whitespace or quotes, and it was coded in a not-very-readable way too. Per bug #3969 from Itagaki Takahiro, though this is more extensive than his proposed patch (which fixed only the whitespace problem). This code has been broken since it was put in in 8.0, so patch all the way back.
2008-02-20Put a CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS call into the loops that try to find a unique newTom Lane
OID or new relfilenode. If the existing OIDs are sufficiently densely populated, this could take a long time (perhaps even be an infinite loop), so it seems wise to allow the system to respond to a cancel interrupt here. Per a gripe from Jacky Leng. Backpatch as far as 8.1. Older versions just fail on OID collision, instead of looping.
2008-02-11Repair VACUUM FULL bug introduced by HOT patch: the original way ofTom Lane
calculating a page's initial free space was fine, and should not have been "improved" by letting PageGetHeapFreeSpace do it. VACUUM FULL is going to reclaim LP_DEAD line pointers later, so there is no need for a guard against the page being too full of line pointers, and having one risks rejecting pages that are perfectly good move destinations. This also exposed a second bug, which is that the empty_end_pages logic assumed that any page with no live tuples would get entered into the fraged_pages list automatically (by virtue of having more free space than the threshold in the do_frag calculation). This assumption certainly seems risky when a low fillfactor has been chosen, and even without tunable fillfactor I think it could conceivably fail on a page with many unused line pointers. So fix the code to force do_frag true when notup is true, and patch this part of the fix all the way back. Per report from Tomas Szepe.
2008-02-07Some variants of ALTER OWNER tried to make the "object" field of theTom Lane
statement be a list of bare C strings, rather than String nodes, which is what they need to be for copyfuncs/equalfuncs to work. Fortunately these node types never go out to disk (if they did, we'd likely have noticed the problem sooner), so we can just fix it without creating a need for initdb. This bug has been there since 8.0, but 8.3 exposes it in a more common code path (Parse messages) than prior releases did. Per bug #3940 from Vladimir Kokovic.
2008-01-22Work around for perl 5.10 bug - fix due to perl hacker Simon Cozens.Andrew Dunstan
2008-01-17Backpatch my fix of rev 1.48 to avoid a division-by-zero error in theAlvaro Herrera
cost-limit vacuum code. Per trouble report from Joshua Drake.
2008-01-14Fix an ancient oversight in libpq's handling of V3-protocol COPY OUT mode:Tom Lane
we need to be able to swallow NOTICE messages, and potentially also ParameterStatus messages (although the latter would be a bit weird), without exiting COPY OUT state. Fix it, and adjust the protocol documentation to emphasize the need for this. Per off-list report from Alexander Galler.
2008-01-06A long time ago, Peter pointed out that ruleutils.c didn't dump simpleTom Lane
constant ORDER/GROUP BY entries properly: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2001-04/msg00457.php The original solution to that was in fact no good, as demonstrated by today's report from Martin Pitt: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2008-01/msg00027.php We can't use the column-number-reference format for a constant that is a resjunk targetlist entry, a case that was unfortunately not thought of in the original discussion. What we can do instead (which did not work at the time, but does work in 7.3 and up) is to emit the constant with explicit ::typename decoration, even if it otherwise wouldn't need it. This is sufficient to keep the parser from thinking it's a column number reference, and indeed is probably what the user must have done to get such a thing into the querytree in the first place.
2008-01-03Stamp release 8.1.11.REL8_1_11Tom Lane
Security: CVE-2007-4769, CVE-2007-4772, CVE-2007-6067, CVE-2007-6600, CVE-2007-6601
2008-01-03Make standard maintenance operations (including VACUUM, ANALYZE, REINDEX,Tom Lane
and CLUSTER) execute as the table owner rather than the calling user, using the same privilege-switching mechanism already used for SECURITY DEFINER functions. The purpose of this change is to ensure that user-defined functions used in index definitions cannot acquire the privileges of a superuser account that is performing routine maintenance. While a function used in an index is supposed to be IMMUTABLE and thus not able to do anything very interesting, there are several easy ways around that restriction; and even if we could plug them all, there would remain a risk of reading sensitive information and broadcasting it through a covert channel such as CPU usage. To prevent bypassing this security measure, execution of SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION and SET ROLE is now forbidden within a SECURITY DEFINER context. Thanks to Itagaki Takahiro for reporting this vulnerability. Security: CVE-2007-6600
2008-01-03Fix assorted security-grade bugs in the regex engine. All of these problemsTom Lane
are shared with Tcl, since it's their code to begin with, and the patches have been copied from Tcl 8.5.0. Problems: CVE-2007-4769: Inadequate check on the range of backref numbers allows crash due to out-of-bounds read. CVE-2007-4772: Infinite loop in regex optimizer for pattern '($|^)*'. CVE-2007-6067: Very slow optimizer cleanup for regex with a large NFA representation, as well as crash if we encounter an out-of-memory condition during NFA construction. Part of the response to CVE-2007-6067 is to put a limit on the number of states in the NFA representation of a regex. This seems needed even though the within-the-code problems have been corrected, since otherwise the code could try to use very large amounts of memory for a suitably-crafted regex, leading to potential DOS by driving the system into swap, activating a kernel OOM killer, etc. Although there are certainly plenty of ways to drive the system into effective DOS with poorly-written SQL queries, these problems seem worth treating as security issues because many applications might accept regex search patterns from untrustworthy sources. Thanks to Will Drewry of Google for reporting these problems. Patches by Will Drewry and Tom Lane. Security: CVE-2007-4769, CVE-2007-4772, CVE-2007-6067
2008-01-02Insert ARST into the list of known timezone abbreviations.Tom Lane
2008-01-01Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2007k.Tom Lane
2007-12-18Make path_recv() and poly_recv() reject paths/polygons containing no points.Tom Lane
The zero-point case is sensible so far as the data structure is concerned, so maybe we ought to allow it sometime; but right now the textual input routines for these types don't allow it, and it seems that not all the functions for the types are prepared to cope. Report and patch by Merlin Moncure.
2007-12-01Suppress compiler warnings in recent plperl patch. Avoid uselessly expensiveTom Lane
lookup of the well-known OID of textout().
2007-12-01Workaround for perl problem where evaluating UTF8 regexes can causeAndrew Dunstan
implicit loading of modules, thereby breaking Safe rules. We compile and call a tiny perl function on trusted interpreter init, after which the problem does not occur.
2007-11-23Fix buggy usage of vsnprintf in PL/Python by removing it altogether, insteadAlvaro Herrera
relying on stringinfo.c. This fixes a problem reported by Marko Kreen, but I didn't use his patch, per subsequent discussion.
2007-11-22Prevent Perl from introducing a possibly-incompatible definition of typeTom Lane
"bool" into plperl.c. This has always been a hazard since Perl allows a platform-specific choice to define bool as int rather than char, but evidently this didn't happen on any platform we support ... until OS X 10.5. Per report from Brandon Maust. Back-patch as far as 8.0 --- a bit arbitrary, but it seems unlikely anyone will be trying to port 7.x onto new platforms.
2007-11-15Update timezone data files to release 2007i of the zic database.Tom Lane
2007-11-09Second pass at improving LIKE/regex estimation in non-C locales. It turnsTom Lane
out that it's actually quite likely that a string that is an extension of the given prefix will sort as larger than the "greater" string our previous code created. To provide some defense against that, do the comparisons against a modified string instead of just the bare prefix. We tack on "Z", "z", "y", or "9", whichever is seen as largest in the current locale. Testing suggests that this is sufficient at least for cases involving ASCII data.
2007-11-08If an index depends on no columns of its table, give it a dependency on theTom Lane
whole table instead, to ensure that it goes away when the table is dropped. Per bug #3723 from Sam Mason. Backpatch as far as 7.4; AFAICT 7.3 does not have the issue, because it doesn't have general-purpose expression indexes and so there must be at least one column referenced by an index.
2007-11-07Improve the performance of LIKE/regex estimation in non-C locales, by makingTom Lane
make_greater_string() try harder to generate a string that's actually greater than its input string. Before we just assumed that making a string that was memcmp-greater was enough, but it is easy to generate examples where this is not so when the locale is not C. Instead, loop until the relevant comparison function agrees that the generated string is greater than the input. Unfortunately this is probably not enough to guarantee that the generated string is greater than all extensions of the input, so we cannot relax the restriction to C locale for the LIKE/regex index optimization. But it should at least improve the odds of getting a useful selectivity estimate in prefix_selectivity(). Per example from Guillaume Smet. Backpatch to 8.1, mainly because that's what the complainant is using...
2007-11-06Fixed two parser bugs.Michael Meskes
2007-10-28Fix a couple of issues with pg_dump's handling of inheritance child tablesTom Lane
that have default expressions different from their parent. First, if the parent table's default expression has to be split out as a separate ALTER TABLE command, we need a dependency constraint to ensure that the child's command is given second. This is because the ALTER TABLE on the parent will propagate to the child. (We can't prevent that by using ONLY on the parent's command, since it's possible that other children exist that should receive the inherited default.) Second, if the child has a NULL default where the parent does not, we have to explicitly say DEFAULT NULL on the child in order for this state to be preserved after reload. (The latter actually doesn't work right because of a backend bug, but that is a separate issue.) Backpatch as far as 8.0. 7.x pg_dump has enough issues with altered tables (due to lack of dependency analysis) that trying to fix this one doesn't seem very productive.
2007-10-13Fix ALTER COLUMN TYPE to preserve the tablespace and reloptions of indexesTom Lane
it affects. The original coding neglected tablespace entirely (causing the indexes to move to the database's default tablespace) and for an index belonging to a UNIQUE or PRIMARY KEY constraint, it would actually try to assign the parent table's reloptions to the index :-(. Per bug #3672 and subsequent investigation. 8.0 and 8.1 did not have reloptions, but the tablespace bug is present.
2007-10-11Ensure that the result of evaluating a function during constant-expressionTom Lane
simplification gets detoasted before it is incorporated into a Const node. Otherwise, if an immutable function were to return a TOAST pointer (an unlikely case, but it can be made to happen), we would end up with a plan that depends on the continued existence of the out-of-line toast datum.
2007-10-09Don't try to free pgpassfile since it's a stack variable.Magnus Hagander
Martin Pitt
2007-10-04Keep the planner from failing on "WHERE false AND something IN (SELECT ...)".Tom Lane
eval_const_expressions simplifies this to just "WHERE false", but we have already done pull_up_IN_clauses so the IN join will be done, or at least planned, anyway. The trouble case comes when the sub-SELECT is itself a join and we decide to implement the IN by unique-ifying the sub-SELECT outputs: with no remaining reference to the output Vars in WHERE, we won't have propagated the Vars up to the upper join point, leading to "variable not found in subplan target lists" error. Fix by adding an extra scan of in_info_list and forcing all Vars mentioned therein to be propagated up to the IN join point. Per bug report from Miroslav Sulc.
2007-10-04Update timezone data files to release 2007h of the zic database.Tom Lane
Might as well have the latest when we wrap 8.3beta1.
2007-09-29Make archive recovery always start a new timeline, rather than only when aTom Lane
recovery stop time was used. This avoids a corner-case risk of trying to overwrite an existing archived copy of the last WAL segment, and seems simpler and cleaner all around than the original definition. Per example from Jon Colverson and subsequent analysis by Simon.
2007-09-24Reduce the size of memory allocations by lazy vacuum when processing a smallAlvaro Herrera
table, by allocating just enough for a hardcoded number of dead tuples per page. The current estimate is 200 dead tuples per page. Per reports from Jeff Amiel, Erik Jones and Marko Kreen, and subsequent discussion. CVS: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CVS: Enter Log. Lines beginning with `CVS:' are removed automatically CVS: CVS: Committing in . CVS: CVS: Modified Files: CVS: commands/vacuumlazy.c CVS: ----------------------------------------------------------------------
2007-09-22Fix bogus calculation of potential output string length in translate().Tom Lane