1. 02 Oct, 2015 11 commits
    • Tom Lane's avatar
      Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2015g. · 241e6844
      Tom Lane authored
      DST law changes in Cayman Islands, Fiji, Moldova, Morocco, Norfolk Island,
      North Korea, Turkey, Uruguay.  New zone America/Fort_Nelson for Canadian
      Northern Rockies.
      241e6844
    • Robert Haas's avatar
      Clarify FDW documentation about ON CONFLICT. · 01bc589a
      Robert Haas authored
      Etsuro Fujita, reviewed by Peter Geoghegan
      01bc589a
    • Tom Lane's avatar
      Add recursion depth protection to LIKE matching. · 2e8cfcf4
      Tom Lane authored
      Since MatchText() recurses, it could in principle be driven to stack
      overflow, although quite a long pattern would be needed.
      2e8cfcf4
    • Tom Lane's avatar
      Add recursion depth protections to regular expression matching. · b63fc287
      Tom Lane authored
      Some of the functions in regex compilation and execution recurse, and
      therefore could in principle be driven to stack overflow.  The Tcl crew
      has seen this happen in practice in duptraverse(), though their fix was
      to put in a hard-wired limit on the number of recursive levels, which is
      not too appetizing --- fortunately, we have enough infrastructure to check
      the actually available stack.  Greg Stark has also seen it in other places
      while fuzz testing on a machine with limited stack space.  Let's put guards
      in to prevent crashes in all these places.
      
      Since the regex code would leak memory if we simply threw elog(ERROR),
      we have to introduce an API that checks for stack depth without throwing
      such an error.  Fortunately that's not difficult.
      b63fc287
    • Tom Lane's avatar
      Fix potential infinite loop in regular expression execution. · f2c4ffc3
      Tom Lane authored
      In cfindloop(), if the initial call to shortest() reports that a
      zero-length match is possible at the current search start point, but then
      it is unable to construct any actual match to that, it'll just loop around
      with the same start point, and thus make no progress.  We need to force the
      start point to be advanced.  This is safe because the loop over "begin"
      points has already tried and failed to match starting at "close", so there
      is surely no need to try that again.
      
      This bug was introduced in commit e2bd9049,
      wherein we allowed continued searching after we'd run out of match
      possibilities, but evidently failed to think hard enough about exactly
      where we needed to search next.
      
      Because of the way this code works, such a match failure is only possible
      in the presence of backrefs --- otherwise, shortest()'s judgment that a
      match is possible should always be correct.  That probably explains how
      come the bug has escaped detection for several years.
      
      The actual fix is a one-liner, but I took the trouble to add/improve some
      comments related to the loop logic.
      
      After fixing that, the submitted test case "()*\1" didn't loop anymore.
      But it reported failure, though it seems like it ought to match a
      zero-length string; both Tcl and Perl think it does.  That seems to be from
      overenthusiastic optimization on my part when I rewrote the iteration match
      logic in commit 173e29aa: we can't just
      "declare victory" for a zero-length match without bothering to set match
      data for capturing parens inside the iterator node.
      
      Per fuzz testing by Greg Stark.  The first part of this is a bug in all
      supported branches, and the second part is a bug since 9.2 where the
      iteration rewrite happened.
      f2c4ffc3
    • Tom Lane's avatar
      Add some more query-cancel checks to regular expression matching. · 9fe8fe9c
      Tom Lane authored
      Commit 9662143f added infrastructure to
      allow regular-expression operations to be terminated early in the event
      of SIGINT etc.  However, fuzz testing by Greg Stark disclosed that there
      are still cases where regex compilation could run for a long time without
      noticing a cancel request.  Specifically, the fixempties() phase never
      adds new states, only new arcs, so it doesn't hit the cancel check I'd put
      in newstate().  Add one to newarc() as well to cover that.
      
      Some experimentation of my own found that regex execution could also run
      for a long time despite a pending cancel.  We'd put a high-level cancel
      check into cdissect(), but there was none inside the core text-matching
      routines longest() and shortest().  Ordinarily those inner loops are very
      very fast ... but in the presence of lookahead constraints, not so much.
      As a compromise, stick a cancel check into the stateset cache-miss
      function, which is enough to guarantee a cancel check at least once per
      lookahead constraint test.
      
      Making this work required more attention to error handling throughout the
      regex executor.  Henry Spencer had apparently originally intended longest()
      and shortest() to be incapable of incurring errors while running, so
      neither they nor their subroutines had well-defined error reporting
      behaviors.  However, that was already broken by the lookahead constraint
      feature, since lacon() can surely suffer an out-of-memory failure ---
      which, in the code as it stood, might never be reported to the user at all,
      but just silently be treated as a non-match of the lookahead constraint.
      Normalize all that by inserting explicit error tests as needed.  I took the
      opportunity to add some more comments to the code, too.
      
      Back-patch to all supported branches, like the previous patch.
      9fe8fe9c
    • Tom Lane's avatar
      Docs: add disclaimer about hazards of using regexps from untrusted sources. · 558d4ada
      Tom Lane authored
      It's not terribly hard to devise regular expressions that take large
      amounts of time and/or memory to process.  Recent testing by Greg Stark has
      also shown that machines with small stack limits can be driven to stack
      overflow by suitably crafted regexps.  While we intend to fix these things
      as much as possible, it's probably impossible to eliminate slow-execution
      cases altogether.  In any case we don't want to treat such things as
      security issues.  The history of that code should already discourage
      prudent DBAs from allowing execution of regexp patterns coming from
      possibly-hostile sources, but it seems like a good idea to warn about the
      hazard explicitly.
      
      Currently, similar_escape() allows access to enough of the underlying
      regexp behavior that the warning has to apply to SIMILAR TO as well.
      We might be able to make it safer if we tightened things up to allow only
      SQL-mandated capabilities in SIMILAR TO; but that would be a subtly
      non-backwards-compatible change, so it requires discussion and probably
      could not be back-patched.
      
      Per discussion among pgsql-security list.
      558d4ada
    • Tom Lane's avatar
      Docs: add another example of creating a range type. · 27fddec1
      Tom Lane authored
      The "floatrange" example is a bit too simple because float8mi can be
      used without any additional type conversion.  Add an example that does
      have to account for that, and do some minor other wordsmithing.
      27fddec1
    • Alvaro Herrera's avatar
      Don't disable commit_ts in standby if enabled locally · e06b2e1d
      Alvaro Herrera authored
      Bug noticed by Fujii Masao
      e06b2e1d
    • Peter Eisentraut's avatar
      pg_rewind: Improve some messages · cdcae2b6
      Peter Eisentraut authored
      The output of a typical pg_rewind run contained a mix of capitalized and
      not-capitalized and punctuated and not-punctuated phrases for no
      apparent reason.  Make that consistent.  Also fix some problems in other
      messages.
      cdcae2b6
    • Peter Eisentraut's avatar
      87c2b517
  2. 01 Oct, 2015 8 commits
    • Tom Lane's avatar
      Fix pg_dump to handle inherited NOT VALID check constraints correctly. · 8ab4a6bd
      Tom Lane authored
      This case seems to have been overlooked when unvalidated check constraints
      were introduced, in 9.2.  The code would attempt to dump such constraints
      over again for each child table, even though adding them to the parent
      table is sufficient.
      
      In 9.2 and 9.3, also fix contrib/pg_upgrade/Makefile so that the "make
      clean" target fully cleans up after a failed test.  This evidently got
      dealt with at some point in 9.4, but it wasn't back-patched.  I ran into
      it while testing this fix ...
      
      Per bug #13656 from Ingmar Brouns.
      8ab4a6bd
    • Alvaro Herrera's avatar
      Fix commit_ts for standby · f12e814b
      Alvaro Herrera authored
      Module initialization was still not completely correct after commit
      6b619551, per crash report from Takashi Ohnishi.  To fix, instead of
      trying to monkey around with the value of the GUC setting directly, add
      a separate boolean flag that enables the feature on a standby, but only
      for the startup (recovery) process, when it sees that its master server
      has the feature enabled.
      Discussion: http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/ca44c6c7f9314868bdc521aea4f77cbf@MP-MSGSS-MBX004.msg.nttdata.co.jp
      
      Also change the deactivation routine to delete all segment files rather
      than leaving the last one around.  (This doesn't need separate
      WAL-logging, because on recovery we execute the same deactivation
      routine anyway.)
      
      In passing, clean up the code structure somewhat, particularly so that
      xlog.c doesn't know so much about when to activate/deactivate the
      feature.
      
      Thanks to Fujii Masao for testing and Petr Jelínek for off-list discussion.
      
      Back-patch to 9.5, where commit_ts was introduced.
      f12e814b
    • Fujii Masao's avatar
      Fix incorrect tab-completion for GRANT and REVOKE · bf4817e4
      Fujii Masao authored
      Previously "GRANT * ON * TO " was tab-completed to add an extra "TO",
      rather than with a list of roles. This is the bug that commit 2f888070
      introduced unexpectedly. This commit fixes that incorrect tab-completion.
      
      Thomas Munro, reviewed by Jeff Janes.
      bf4817e4
    • Tom Lane's avatar
      Fix documentation error in commit 8703059c. · 21995d3f
      Tom Lane authored
      Etsuro Fujita spotted a thinko in the README commentary.
      21995d3f
    • Fujii Masao's avatar
      Fix mention of htup.h in storage.sgml · 3123ee0d
      Fujii Masao authored
      Previously it was documented that the details on HeapTupleHeaderData
      struct could be found in htup.h. This is not correct because it's now
      defined in htup_details.h.
      
      Back-patch to 9.3 where the definition of HeapTupleHeaderData struct
      was moved from htup.h to htup_details.h.
      
      Michael Paquier
      3123ee0d
    • Robert Haas's avatar
      Fix readfuncs/outfuncs problems in last night's Gather patch. · 286a3a68
      Robert Haas authored
      KaiGai Kohei, with one correction by me.
      286a3a68
    • Tom Lane's avatar
      Fix errors in commit a04bb65f. · 5884b92a
      Tom Lane authored
      Not a lot of commentary needed here really.
      5884b92a
    • Tom Lane's avatar
      Improve LISTEN startup time when there are many unread notifications. · 07e4d03f
      Tom Lane authored
      If some existing listener is far behind, incoming new listener sessions
      would start from that session's read pointer and then need to advance over
      many already-committed notification messages, which they have no interest
      in.  This was expensive in itself and also thrashed the pg_notify SLRU
      buffers a lot more than necessary.  We can improve matters considerably
      in typical scenarios, without much added cost, by starting from the
      furthest-ahead read pointer, not the furthest-behind one.  We do have to
      consider only sessions in our own database when doing this, which requires
      an extra field in the data structure, but that's a pretty small cost.
      
      Back-patch to 9.0 where the current LISTEN/NOTIFY logic was introduced.
      
      Matt Newell, slightly adjusted by me
      07e4d03f
  3. 30 Sep, 2015 5 commits
    • Robert Haas's avatar
      Add a Gather executor node. · 3bd909b2
      Robert Haas authored
      A Gather executor node runs any number of copies of a plan in an equal
      number of workers and merges all of the results into a single tuple
      stream.  It can also run the plan itself, if the workers are
      unavailable or haven't started up yet.  It is intended to work with
      the Partial Seq Scan node which will be added in future commits.
      
      It could also be used to implement parallel query of a different sort
      by itself, without help from Partial Seq Scan, if the single_copy mode
      is used.  In that mode, a worker executes the plan, and the parallel
      leader does not, merely collecting the worker's results.  So, a Gather
      node could be inserted into a plan to split the execution of that plan
      across two processes.  Nested Gather nodes aren't currently supported,
      but we might want to add support for that in the future.
      
      There's nothing in the planner to actually generate Gather nodes yet,
      so it's not quite time to break out the champagne.  But we're getting
      close.
      
      Amit Kapila.  Some designs suggestions were provided by me, and I also
      reviewed the patch.  Single-copy mode, documentation, and other minor
      changes also by me.
      3bd909b2
    • Robert Haas's avatar
      Don't dump core when destroying an unused ParallelContext. · 227d57f3
      Robert Haas authored
      If a transaction or subtransaction creates a ParallelContext but ends
      without calling InitializeParallelDSM, the previous code would
      seg fault.  Fix that.
      227d57f3
    • Stephen Frost's avatar
      Include policies based on ACLs needed · 7d8db3e8
      Stephen Frost authored
      When considering which policies should be included, rather than look at
      individual bits of the query (eg: if a RETURNING clause exists, or if a
      WHERE clause exists which is referencing the table, or if it's a
      FOR SHARE/UPDATE query), consider any case where we've determined
      the user needs SELECT rights on the relation while doing an UPDATE or
      DELETE to be a case where we apply SELECT policies, and any case where
      we've deteremind that the user needs UPDATE rights on the relation while
      doing a SELECT to be a case where we apply UPDATE policies.
      
      This simplifies the logic and addresses concerns that a user could use
      UPDATE or DELETE with a WHERE clauses to determine if rows exist, or
      they could use SELECT .. FOR UPDATE to lock rows which they are not
      actually allowed to modify through UPDATE policies.
      
      Use list_append_unique() to avoid adding the same quals multiple times,
      as, on balance, the cost of checking when adding the quals will almost
      always be cheaper than keeping them and doing busywork for each tuple
      during execution.
      
      Back-patch to 9.5 where RLS was added.
      7d8db3e8
    • Tom Lane's avatar
      Small improvements in comments in async.c. · 6057f61b
      Tom Lane authored
      We seem to have lost a line somewhere along the way in the comment block
      that discusses async.c's locks, because it suddenly refers to "both locks"
      without previously having mentioned more than one.  Add a sentence to make
      that read more sanely.  Also, refer to the "pos of the slowest backend"
      not the "tail of the slowest backend", since we have no per-backend value
      called "tail".
      6057f61b
    • Tatsuo Ishii's avatar
      Fix incorrect tps number calculation in "excluding connections establishing". · a16db3a0
      Tatsuo Ishii authored
      The tolerance (larger than actual tps number) increases as the number
      of threads decreases.  The bug has been there since the thread support
      was introduced in 9.0. Because back patching introduces incompatible
      behavior changes regarding the tps number, the fix is committed to
      master and 9.5 stable branches only.
      
      Problem spotted by me and fix proposed by Fabien COELHO. Note that his
      original patch included more than fixes (a code re-factoring) which is
      not related to the problem and I omitted the part.
      a16db3a0
  4. 29 Sep, 2015 4 commits
    • Alvaro Herrera's avatar
      Code review for transaction commit timestamps · 6b619551
      Alvaro Herrera authored
      There are three main changes here:
      
      1. No longer cause a start failure in a standby if the feature is
      disabled in postgresql.conf but enabled in the master.  This reverts one
      part of commit 4f3924d9; what we keep is the ability of the standby
      to activate/deactivate the module (which includes creating and removing
      segments as appropriate) during replay of such actions in the master.
      
      2. Replay WAL records affecting commitTS even if the feature is
      disabled.  This means the standby will always have the same state as the
      master after replay.
      
      3. Have COMMIT PREPARE record the transaction commit time as well.  We
      were previously only applying it in the normal transaction commit path.
      
      Author: Petr Jelínek
      Discussion: http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAHGQGwHereDzzzmfxEBYcVQu3oZv6vZcgu1TPeERWbDc+gQ06g@mail.gmail.com
      Discussion: http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAHGQGwFuzfO4JscM9LCAmCDCxp_MfLvN4QdB+xWsS-FijbjTYQ@mail.gmail.com
      
      Additionally, I cleaned up nearby code related to replication origins,
      which I found a bit hard to follow, and fixed a couple of typos.
      
      Backpatch to 9.5, where this code was introduced.
      
      Per bug reports from Fujii Masao and subsequent discussion.
      6b619551
    • Tom Lane's avatar
      Fix plperl to handle non-ASCII error message texts correctly. · b631a46e
      Tom Lane authored
      We were passing error message texts to croak() verbatim, which turns out
      not to work if the text contains non-ASCII characters; Perl mangles their
      encoding, as reported in bug #13638 from Michal Leinweber.  To fix, convert
      the text into a UTF8-encoded SV first.
      
      It's hard to test this without risking failures in different database
      encodings; but we can follow the lead of plpython, which is already
      assuming that no-break space (U+00A0) has an equivalent in all encodings
      we care about running the regression tests in (cf commit 2dfa15de).
      
      Back-patch to 9.1.  The code is quite different in 9.0, and anyway it seems
      too risky to put something like this into 9.0's final minor release.
      
      Alex Hunsaker, with suggestions from Tim Bunce and Tom Lane
      b631a46e
    • Robert Haas's avatar
      Comment update for join pushdown. · 758fcfdc
      Robert Haas authored
      Etsuro Fujita
      758fcfdc
    • Robert Haas's avatar
      Parallel executor support. · d1b7c1ff
      Robert Haas authored
      This code provides infrastructure for a parallel leader to start up
      parallel workers to execute subtrees of the plan tree being executed
      in the master.  User-supplied parameters from ParamListInfo are passed
      down, but PARAM_EXEC parameters are not.  Various other constructs,
      such as initplans, subplans, and CTEs, are also not currently shared.
      Nevertheless, there's enough here to support a basic implementation of
      parallel query, and we can lift some of the current restrictions as
      needed.
      
      Amit Kapila and Robert Haas
      d1b7c1ff
  5. 28 Sep, 2015 10 commits
  6. 27 Sep, 2015 2 commits