- 05 Jan, 2016 8 commits
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Tom Lane authored
The order of inclusion of .o files makes a difference in linker output; not a functional difference, but still a bitwise difference, which annoys some packagers who would like reproducible builds. Report and patch by Christoph Berg
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Alvaro Herrera authored
A pointless and confusing error message is shown to the user when attempting to identify a 9.3 or older remote server with a 9.5/9.6 pg_receivexlog, because the return signature of IDENTIFY_SYSTEM was changed in 9.4. There's no good reason for the warning message, so shuffle code around to keep it quiet. (pg_recvlogical is also affected by this commit, but since it obviously cannot work with 9.3 that doesn't actually matter much.) Backpatch to 9.5. Reported by Marco Nenciarini, who also wrote the initial patch. Further tweaked by Robert Haas and Fujii Masao; reviewed by Michael Paquier and Craig Ringer.
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Tom Lane authored
In light of commit ea0d494d, it seems like a good idea to add a regression test that will complain about random functions taking or returning cstring. Only I/O support functions and encoding conversion functions should be declared that way. While at it, add some checks that encoding conversion functions are declared properly. Since pg_conversion isn't populated manually, it's not quite as necessary to check its contents as it is for catalogs like pg_proc; but one thing we definitely have not tested in the past is whether the identified conproc for a conversion actually does that conversion vs. some other one.
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Tom Lane authored
Using cstring as the input type was a poor decision, because that's not really a full-fledged type. In particular, it lacks implicit coercions from text or varchar, meaning that usages like to_regproc('foo'||'bar') wouldn't work; basically the only case that did work without explicit casting was a simple literal constant argument. The lack of field complaints about this suggests that hardly anyone is using these functions, so hopefully fixing it won't cause much of a compatibility problem. They've only been there since 9.4, anyway. Petr Korobeinikov
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Alvaro Herrera authored
While the in-core authentication mechanism doesn't need to access pg_shseclabel at all, it's reasonable to think that an authentication hook will want to look at the label for the role logging in, or for rows in other catalogs used during the authentication phase of startup. Catalog version bumped, because this changes the "is nailed" status for pg_shseclabel. Author: Adam Brightwell
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Tom Lane authored
This requires adding some more infrastructure to handle both case-sensitive and case-insensitive matching, as well as the ability to match a prefix of a previous word. So it ends up being about a wash line-count-wise, but it's just as big a readability win here as in the SQL tab completion rules. Michael Paquier, some adjustments by me
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Tom Lane authored
In the refactoring in commit d37b816d, we mostly kept to the original design whereby only the last few words on the line were matched to identify a completable pattern. However, after commit d854118c, there's really no reason to do it like that: where it's sensible, we can use patterns that expect to match the entire input line. And mostly, it's sensible. Matching the entire line greatly reduces the odds of a false match that leads to offering irrelevant completions. Moreover (though I've not tried to measure this), it should make tab completion faster since many of the patterns will be discarded after a single integer comparison that finds that the wrong number of words appear on the line. There are certain identifiable places where we still need to use TailMatches because the statement in question is allowed to appear embedded in a larger statement. These are just a small minority of the existing patterns, though, so the benefit of switching where possible is large. It's possible that this patch has removed some within-line matching behaviors that are in fact desirable, but we can put those back when we get complaints. Most of the removed behaviors are certainly silly. Michael Paquier, with some further adjustments by me
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- 04 Jan, 2016 7 commits
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Tom Lane authored
Commit 43cd468c added some wording to create_policy.sgml purporting to warn users against a race condition of the sort that had been noted some time ago by Peter Geoghegan. However, that warning was far too vague to be useful (or at least, I completely failed to grasp what it was on about). Since the problem case occurs with a security design pattern that lots of people are likely to try to use, we need to be as clear as possible about it. Provide a concrete example in the main-line docs in place of the original warning.
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Tom Lane authored
Some time back we agreed that row_security=off should not be a way to bypass RLS entirely, but only a way to get an error if it was being applied. However, the code failed to act that way for table owners. Per discussion, this is a must-fix bug for 9.5.0. Adjust the logic in rls.c to behave as expected; also, modify the error message to be more consistent with the new interpretation. The regression tests need minor corrections as well. Also update the comments about row_security in ddl.sgml to be correct. (The official description of the GUC in config.sgml is already correct.) I failed to resist the temptation to do some other very minor cleanup as well, such as getting rid of a duplicate extern declaration.
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Robert Haas authored
Masahiko Sawada
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Tom Lane authored
We discussed this but somehow failed to implement it...
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Tom Lane authored
Aside from any consistency arguments, this is logically necessary because the I/O functions for these types also handle numeric OID values. Without a quoting rule it is impossible to distinguish numeric OIDs from role or namespace names that happen to contain only digits. Also change the to_regrole and to_regnamespace functions to dequote their arguments. While not logically essential, this seems like a good idea since the other to_reg* functions do it. Anyone who really wants raw lookup of an uninterpreted name can fall back on the time-honored solution of (SELECT oid FROM pg_namespace WHERE nspname = whatever). Report and patch by Jim Nasby, reviewed by Michael Paquier
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Tom Lane authored
Can't release the AccessExclusiveLock on the target table until commit. Otherwise there is a race condition whereby other backends might service our cache invalidation signals before they can actually see the updated catalog rows. Just to add insult to injury, RemovePolicyById was closing the rel (with incorrect lock drop) and then passing the now-dangling rel pointer to CacheInvalidateRelcache. Probably the reason this doesn't fall over on CLOBBER_CACHE buildfarm members is that some outer level of the DROP logic is still holding the rel open ... but it'd have bit us on the arse eventually, no doubt.
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Tom Lane authored
Clarifications, markup improvements, corrections of misleading or outright wrong statements.
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- 03 Jan, 2016 5 commits
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Tom Lane authored
The CHECK_IS_BINARY_UPGRADE macro is not sufficient security protection if we're going to dereference pass-by-reference arguments before it. But in any case we really need to explicitly check PG_ARGISNULL for all the arguments of a non-strict function, not only the ones we expect null values for. Oversight in commits 30982be4 and f92fc4c9. Found by Andreas Seltenreich. (The other usages in pg_upgrade_support.c seem safe.)
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Tom Lane authored
Minor grammar and markup improvements.
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Tom Lane authored
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Tom Lane authored
pgwin32_recv() has treated a non-error return of zero bytes from WSARecv() as being a reason to block ever since the current implementation was introduced in commit a4c40f14. However, so far as one can tell from Microsoft's documentation, that is just wrong: what it means is graceful connection closure (in stream protocols) or receipt of a zero-length message (in message protocols), and neither case should result in blocking here. The only reason the code worked at all was that control then fell into the retry loop, which did *not* treat zero bytes specially, so we'd get out after only wasting some cycles. But as of 9.5 we do not normally reach the retry loop and so the bug is exposed, as reported by Shay Rojansky and diagnosed by Andres Freund. Remove the unnecessary test on the byte count, and rearrange the code in the retry loop so that it looks identical to the initial sequence. Back-patch to 9.5. The code is wrong all the way back, AFAICS, but since it's relatively harmless in earlier branches we'll leave it alone.
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- 02 Jan, 2016 7 commits
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Tom Lane authored
spg_text_inner_consistent is capable of reconstructing an empty string to pass down to the next index level; this happens if we have an empty string coming in, no prefix, and a dummy node label. (In practice, what is needed to trigger that is insertion of a whole bunch of empty-string values.) Then, we will arrive at the next level with in->level == 0 and a non-NULL (but zero length) in->reconstructedValue, which is valid but the Assert tests weren't expecting it. Per report from Andreas Seltenreich. This has no impact in non-Assert builds, so should not be a problem in production, but back-patch to all affected branches anyway. In passing, remove a couple of useless variable initializations and shorten the code by not duplicating DatumGetPointer() calls.
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Tom Lane authored
As pointed out by Michael Paquier, recovery_min_apply_delay didn't exist in 9.0-9.3, making the release note text not very useful. Instead make it talk about recovery_target_xid, which did exist then. 9.0 is already out of support, but we can fix the text in the newer branches' copies of its release notes.
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Tom Lane authored
The need for this is shown by the files it missed in Bruce's recent run. I fixed it so that it will actually adjust the case when needed. In passing, also make it skip .po files, since those will just get overwritten anyway from the translation repository.
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Tom Lane authored
On closer inspection, the reason copyright.pl was missing files is that it is looking for 'Copyright (c)' and they had 'Copyright (C)'. Fix that, and update a couple more that grepping for that revealed.
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Tom Lane authored
Manually fix some copyright lines missed by the automated script.
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Bruce Momjian authored
Backpatch certain files through 9.1
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Noah Misch authored
Jeff Janes, reviewed by Jim Nasby.
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- 01 Jan, 2016 5 commits
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Tom Lane authored
flatten_reloptions() supposed that it didn't really need to do anything beyond inserting commas between reloption array elements. However, in principle the value of a reloption could be nearly anything, since the grammar allows a quoted string there. Any restrictions on it would come from validity checking appropriate to the particular option, if any. A reloption value that isn't a simple identifier or number could thus lead to dump/reload failures due to syntax errors in CREATE statements issued by pg_dump. We've gotten away with not worrying about this so far with the core-supported reloptions, but extensions might allow reloption values that cause trouble, as in bug #13840 from Kouhei Sutou. To fix, split the reloption array elements explicitly, and then convert any value that doesn't look like a safe identifier to a string literal. (The details of the quoting rule could be debated, but this way is safe and requires little code.) While we're at it, also quote reloption names if they're not safe identifiers; that may not be a likely problem in the field, but we might as well try to be bulletproof here. It's been like this for a long time, so back-patch to all supported branches. Kouhei Sutou, adjusted some by me
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Tom Lane authored
A report from Andy Colson showed that gincostestimate() was not being nearly paranoid enough about whether to believe the statistics it finds in the index metapage. The problem is that the metapage stats (other than the pending-pages count) are only updated by VACUUM, and in the worst case could still reflect the index's original empty state even when it has grown to many entries. We attempted to deal with that by scaling up the stats to match the current index size, but if nEntries is zero then scaling it up still gives zero. Moreover, the proportion of pages that are entry pages vs. data pages vs. pending pages is unlikely to be estimated very well by scaling if the index is now orders of magnitude larger than before. We can improve matters by expanding the use of the rule-of-thumb estimates I introduced in commit 7fb008c5: if the index has grown by more than a cutoff amount (here set at 4X growth) since VACUUM, then use the rule-of-thumb numbers instead of scaling. This might not be exactly right but it seems much less likely to produce insane estimates. I also improved both the scaling estimate and the rule-of-thumb estimate to account for numPendingPages, since it's reasonable to expect that that is accurate in any case, and certainly pages that are in the pending list are not either entry or data pages. As a somewhat separate issue, adjust the estimation equations that are concerned with extra fetches for partial-match searches. These equations suppose that a fraction partialEntries / numEntries of the entry and data pages will be visited as a consequence of a partial-match search. Now, it's physically impossible for that fraction to exceed one, but our estimate of partialEntries is mostly bunk, and our estimate of numEntries isn't exactly gospel either, so we could arrive at a silly value. In the example presented by Andy we were coming out with a value of 100, leading to insane cost estimates. Clamp the fraction to one to avoid that. Like the previous patch, back-patch to all supported branches; this problem can be demonstrated in one form or another in all of them.
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Noah Misch authored
Recovery does not achieve its goal of zeroing all pg_multixact entries whose accompanying WAL records never reached disk. Remove that claim and justify its expendability. Detail the need for TrimMultiXact(), which has little in common with the TrimCLOG() rationale. Merge two tightly-related comments. Stop presenting pg_multixact as specific to heap_lock_tuple(); PostgreSQL 9.3 extended its use to heap_update(). Noticed while investigating a report from Andres Freund.
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Peter Eisentraut authored
Empty ulink elements default to displaying the URL, so there is no need to specify the URL again. This was already done for most occurrences, but some cases didn't follow this convention.
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Peter Eisentraut authored
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- 31 Dec, 2015 2 commits
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Tom Lane authored
postgresImportForeignSchema pays attention to IMPORT's EXCEPT and LIMIT TO options, but only as an efficiency hack, not for correctness' sake. The FDW documentation does explain that, but someone using postgres_fdw.c as a coding guide might not remember it, so let's add a comment here. Per question from Regina Obe.
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Tom Lane authored
Fix an oversight in commit 321eed5f: replacing an operator's selectivity functions needs to result in a corresponding update in pg_depend. We have a function that can handle that, but it was not called by AlterOperator(). To fix this without enlarging pg_operator.h's #include list beyond what clients can safely include, split off the function definitions into a new file pg_operator_fn.h, similarly to what we've done for some other catalog header files. It's not entirely clear whether any client-side code needs to include pg_operator.h, but it seems prudent to assume that there is some such code somewhere.
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- 30 Dec, 2015 3 commits
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Tom Lane authored
In the extreme edge case where contended pages are the only ones that escape being scanned, the previous commit would have allowed us to think that relfrozenxid could be advanced, which is exactly wrong.
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Tom Lane authored
VACUUM can skip heap pages altogether when there's a run of consecutive pages that are all-visible according to the visibility map. This causes it to not update its nonempty_pages count, just as if those pages were empty, which means that at the end we will think they are candidates for deletion. Thus, we may take the table's AccessExclusive lock only to find that no pages are really truncatable. This usually causes no real problems on a master server, thanks to the lock being acquired only conditionally; but on hot-standby servers, the same lock must be acquired unconditionally which can result in unnecessary query cancellations. To improve matters, force examination of the table's last page whenever we reach there with a nonempty_pages count that would allow a truncation attempt. If it's not empty, we'll advance nonempty_pages and thereby prevent the truncation attempt. If we are unable to acquire cleanup lock on that page, there's no need to force it, unless we're doing an anti-wraparound vacuum. We can just check for tuples with a shared buffer lock and then give up. (When we are doing an anti-wraparound vacuum, and decide it's okay to skip the page because it contains no freezable tuples, this patch still improves matters because nonempty_pages is properly updated, which it was not before.) Since only the last page is special-cased in this way, we might attempt a truncation that will release many fewer pages than the normal heuristic would suggest; at worst, only one page would be truncated. But that seems all right, because the situation won't repeat during the next vacuum. The real problem with the old logic is that the useless truncation attempt happens every time we vacuum, so long as the state of the last few dozen pages doesn't change. This is a longstanding deficiency, but since the consequences aren't very severe in most scenarios, I'm not going to risk a back-patch. Jeff Janes and Tom Lane
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Tom Lane authored
Improve markup, particularly of the table of functions; add or improve examples for some of the functions; wordsmith some of the function descriptions.
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- 29 Dec, 2015 2 commits
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Tom Lane authored
The rationale for the way targetlist processing is done wasn't clearly stated anywhere, and I for one had forgotten some of the details. Having just painfully re-learned them, add some breadcrumbs for the next person.
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Tom Lane authored
Commit 6f8cb1e2 tried to centralize rewriteTargetView's copying of a target view's Query struct. However, it ignored the fact that the jointree->quals field was used twice. This only accidentally failed to fail immediately because the same ChangeVarNodes mutation is applied in both cases, so that we end up with logically identical expression trees for both uses (and, as the code stands, the second ChangeVarNodes call actually does nothing). However, we end up linking *physically* identical expression trees into both an RTE's securityQuals list and the WithCheckOption list. That's pretty dangerous, mainly because prepsecurity.c is utterly cavalier about further munging such structures without copying them first. There may be no live bug in HEAD as a consequence of the fact that we apply preprocess_expression in between here and prepsecurity.c, and that will make a copy of the tree anyway. Or it may just be that the regression tests happen to not trip over it. (I noticed this only because things fell over pretty badly when I tried to relocate the planner's call of expand_security_quals to before expression preprocessing.) In any case it's very fragile because if anyone tried to make the securityQuals and WithCheckOption trees diverge before we reach preprocess_expression, it would not work. The fact that the current code will preprocess securityQuals and WithCheckOptions lists at completely different times in different query levels does nothing to increase my trust that that can't happen. In view of the fact that 9.5.0 is almost upon us and the aforesaid commit has seen exactly zero field testing, the prudent course is to make an extra copy of the quals so that the behavior is not different from what has been in the field during beta.
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- 28 Dec, 2015 1 commit
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Joe Conway authored
The variables newestCommitTs and oldestCommitTs sound as if they are timestamps, but in fact they are the transaction Ids that correspond to the newest and oldest timestamps rather than the actual timestamps. Rename these variables to reflect that they are actually xids: to wit newestCommitTsXid and oldestCommitTsXid respectively. Also modify related code in a similar fashion, particularly the user facing output emitted by pg_controldata and pg_resetxlog. Complaint and patch by me, review by Tom Lane and Alvaro Herrera. Backpatch to 9.5 where these variables were first introduced.
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