- 07 Jun, 2012 1 commit
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Robert Haas authored
In lazy_scan_heap, we could issue bogus warnings about incorrect information in the visibility map, because we checked the visibility map bit before locking the heap page, creating a race condition. Fix by rechecking the visibility map bit before we complain. Rejigger some related logic so that we rely on the possibly-outdated all_visible_according_to_vm value as little as possible. In heap_multi_insert, it's not safe to clear the visibility map bit before beginning the critical section. The visibility map is not crash-safe unless we treat clearing the bit as a critical operation. Specifically, if the transaction were to error out after we set the bit and before entering the critical section, we could end up writing the heap page to disk (with the bit cleared) and crashing before the visibility map page made it to disk. That would be bad. heap_insert has this correct, but somehow the order of operations got rearranged when heap_multi_insert was added. Also, add some more comments to visibilitymap_test, lazy_scan_heap, and IndexOnlyNext, expounding on concurrency issues. Per extensive code review by Andres Freund, and further review by Tom Lane, who also made the original report about the bogus warnings.
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- 05 Jun, 2012 5 commits
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Magnus Hagander authored
Found by Fujii Masao
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Magnus Hagander authored
Noted by Erik Rijkers
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Magnus Hagander authored
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Tom Lane authored
The original coding misbehaved if "char" is signed, and also made the extremely poor decision to print control characters literally when trying to complain about them. Report and patch by Shigeru Hanada. In passing, also fix core dump risk in report_parse_error() should the parse state be something other than what it expects.
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Tom Lane authored
It failed to check for error return from xsltApplyStylesheet(), as reported by Peter Gagarinov. (So far as I can tell, libxslt provides no convenient way to get a useful error message in failure cases. There might be some inconvenient way, but considering that this code is deprecated it's hard to get enthusiastic about putting lots of work into it. So I just made it say "failed to apply stylesheet", in line with the existing error checks.) While looking at the code I also noticed that the string returned by xsltSaveResultToString was never freed, resulting in a session-lifespan memory leak. Back-patch to all supported versions.
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- 03 Jun, 2012 1 commit
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Tom Lane authored
This is currently only cosmetic, since all the call sites just curl up and die in event of a failure return. It might be important for some future use-case, though, and in any case it quiets warnings from the clang static analyzer (as reported by Anna Zaks). Josh Kupershmidt
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- 01 Jun, 2012 8 commits
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Bruce Momjian authored
public schema that no longer point to valid shared object libraries, and suggest a solution.
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Simon Riggs authored
When we allowed read-only transactions to skip assigning XIDs we introduced the possibility that a fully deleted btree page could be reused. This broke the index link sequence which could then lead to indexscans silently returning fewer rows than would have been correct. The actual incidence of silent errors from this is thought to be very low because of the exact workload required and locking pre-conditions. Fix is to remove pages only if index page opaque->btpo.xact precedes RecentGlobalXmin. Noah Misch, reviewed by Simon Riggs
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Simon Riggs authored
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Simon Riggs authored
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Simon Riggs authored
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Simon Riggs authored
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Simon Riggs authored
Noted while testing Hot Standby startup.
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Simon Riggs authored
Re-implements similar functionality in 9.1 and previously which was removed during split of checkpointer and bgwriter. Requested/spotted by Magnus Hagander
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- 31 May, 2012 7 commits
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Tom Lane authored
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Tom Lane authored
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Tom Lane authored
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Simon Riggs authored
patch to allow Index Only Scans on Hot Standby. Bug report from Jaime Casanova
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Tom Lane authored
DST law changes in Antarctica, Armenia, Chile, Cuba, Falkland Islands, Gaza, Haiti, Hebron, Morocco, Syria, Tokelau Islands. Historical corrections for Canada.
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Tom Lane authored
We allow non-superusers to create procedural languages (with restrictions) and range datatypes. Previously, the automatically-created support functions for these objects ended up owned by the creating user. This represents a rather considerable security hazard, because the owning user might be able to alter a support function's definition in such a way as to crash the server, inject trojan-horse SQL code, or even execute arbitrary C code directly. It appears that right now the only actually exploitable problem is the infinite-recursion bug fixed in the previous patch for CVE-2012-2655. However, it's not hard to imagine that future additions of more ALTER FUNCTION capability might unintentionally open up new hazards. To forestall future problems, cause these support functions to be owned by the bootstrap superuser, not the user creating the parent object.
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Tom Lane authored
It's not very sensible to set such attributes on a handler function; but if one were to do so, fmgr.c went into infinite recursion because it would call fmgr_security_definer instead of the handler function proper. There is no way for fmgr_security_definer to know that it ought to call the handler and not the original function referenced by the FmgrInfo's fn_oid, so it tries to do the latter, causing the whole process to start over again. Ordinarily such misconfiguration of a procedural language's handler could be written off as superuser error. However, because we allow non-superuser database owners to create procedural languages and the handler for such a language becomes owned by the database owner, it is possible for a database owner to crash the backend, which ideally shouldn't be possible without superuser privileges. In 9.2 and up we will adjust things so that the handler functions are always owned by superusers, but in existing branches this is a minor security fix. Problem noted by Noah Misch (after several of us had failed to detect it :-(). This is CVE-2012-2655.
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- 30 May, 2012 6 commits
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Tom Lane authored
We used to only allow offsets less than +/-13 hours, then it was +/14, then it was +/-15. That's still not good enough though, as per today's bug report from Patric Bechtel. This time I actually looked through the Olson timezone database to find the largest offsets used anywhere. The winners are Asia/Manila, at -15:56:00 until 1844, and America/Metlakatla, at +15:13:42 until 1867. So we'd better allow offsets less than +/-16 hours. Given the history, we are way overdue to have some greppable #define symbols controlling this, so make some ... and also remove an obsolete comment that didn't get fixed the last time. Back-patch to all supported branches.
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Robert Haas authored
First, the previous code failed to account for the fact that, during Hot Standby operation, the startup process takes AccessExclusiveLocks on relations without setting MyDatabaseId. This resulted in fast path strong lock counts failing to be incremented with the startup process took locks, which in turn allowed conflicting lock requests to succeed when they should not have. Report by Erik Rijkers, diagnosis by Heikki Linnakangas. Second, LockReleaseAll() failed to honor the allLocks and lockmethodid restrictions with respect to fast-path locks. It's not clear to me whether this produces any user-visible breakage at the moment, but it's certainly wrong. Rearrange order of operations in LockReleaseAll to fix. Noted by Tom Lane.
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Tom Lane authored
Overly tight coding caused the password transformation loop to stop examining input once it had processed a byte equal to 0x80. Thus, if the given password string contained such a byte (which is possible though not highly likely in UTF8, and perhaps also in other non-ASCII encodings), all subsequent characters would not contribute to the hash, making the password much weaker than it appears on the surface. This would only affect cases where applications used DES crypt() to encode passwords before storing them in the database. If a weak password has been created in this fashion, the hash will stop matching after this update has been applied, so it will be easy to tell if any passwords were unexpectedly weak. Changing to a different password would be a good idea in such a case. (Since DES has been considered inadequately secure for some time, changing to a different encryption algorithm can also be recommended.) This code, and the bug, are shared with at least PHP, FreeBSD, and OpenBSD. Since the other projects have already published their fixes, there is no point in trying to keep this commit private. This bug has been assigned CVE-2012-2143, and credit for its discovery goes to Rubin Xu and Joseph Bonneau.
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Heikki Linnakangas authored
We used to mimic the way a stack is constructed when descending the tree during normal GiST inserts, but that was quite complicated during a buffered build. It was also wrong: in GiST, the left-to-right relationships on different levels might not match each other, so that when you know the parent of a child page, you won't necessarily find the parent of the page to the right of the child page by following the rightlinks at the parent level. This sometimes led to "could not re-find parent" errors while building a GiST index. We now use a simple hash table to track the parent of every internal page. Whenever a page is split, and downlinks are moved from one page to another, we update the hash table accordingly. This is also better for performance than the old method, as we never need to move right to re-find the parent page, which could take a significant amount of time for buffers that were created much earlier in the index build.
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Heikki Linnakangas authored
There were two bugs here: We forgot to call gistFreeBuildBuffers() function at the end of build, and we passed interXact == true to BufFileCreateTemp, so the file wasn't automatically cleaned up at end-of-transaction either.
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Tom Lane authored
The initial implementation of pg_dump's --section option supposed that the existing --schema-only and --data-only options could be made equivalent to --section settings. This is wrong, though, due to dubious but long since set-in-stone decisions about where to dump SEQUENCE SET items, as seen in bug report from Martin Pitt. (And I'm not totally convinced there weren't other bugs, either.) Undo that coupling and instead drive --section filtering off current-section state tracked as we scan through the TOC list to call _tocEntryRequired(). To make sure those decisions don't shift around and hopefully save a few cycles, run _tocEntryRequired() only once per TOC entry and save the result in a new TOC field. This required minor rejiggering of ACL handling but also allows a far cleaner implementation of inhibit_data_for_failed_table. Also, to ensure that pg_dump and pg_restore have the same behavior with respect to the --section switches, add _tocEntryRequired() filtering to WriteToc() and WriteDataChunks(), rather than trying to implement section filtering in an entirely orthogonal way in dumpDumpableObject(). This required adjusting the handling of the special ENCODING and STDSTRINGS items, but they were pretty weird before anyway. Minor other code review for the patch, too.
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- 29 May, 2012 3 commits
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Heikki Linnakangas authored
The result of (maintenance_work_mem * 1024) / BLCKSZ doesn't fit in a signed 32-bit integer, if maintenance_work_mem >= 2GB. Use double instead. And while we're at it, write the calculations in an easier to understand form, with the intermediary steps written out and commented.
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Tom Lane authored
AbortOutOfAnyTransaction failed to do anything if the state it saw on entry corresponded to failing partway through StartTransaction. I fixed AbortCurrentTransaction to cope with that case way back in commit 60b2444c, but evidently overlooked that AbortOutOfAnyTransaction should do likewise. Back-patch to all supported branches. It's not clear that this omission has any more-than-cosmetic consequences, but it's also not clear that it doesn't, so back-patching seems the least risky choice.
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Tom Lane authored
This patch fixes three places (which AFAICT is all of them) where runtime was O(N^2) in the number of TOC entries, by using an index array to replace linear searches of the TOC list. This performance issue is a bit less bad than those recently fixed, because it depends on the number of items dumped not the number in the source database, so the problem can be dodged by doing partial dumps. The previous coding already had an instance of one of the two index arrays needed, but it was only calculated in parallel-restore cases; now we need it all the time. I also chose to move the arrays into the ArchiveHandle data structure, to make this code a bit more ready for the day that we try to sling multiple ArchiveHandles around in pg_dump or pg_restore. Since we still need some server-side work before pg_dump can really cope nicely with tens of thousands of tables, there's probably little point in back-patching.
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- 28 May, 2012 1 commit
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Peter Eisentraut authored
Drop special handling of host component with slashes to mean Unix-domain socket. Specify it as separate parameter or using percent-encoding now. Allow omitting username, password, and port even if the corresponding designators are present in URI. Handle percent-encoding in query parameter keywords. Alex Shulgin some documentation improvements by myself
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- 27 May, 2012 8 commits
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Peter Eisentraut authored
Set E081 Basic Privileges to supported, since by the letter of it, we support it, even though not all possible forms of USAGE privileges are implemented.
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Peter Eisentraut authored
This was from a time when readline support wasn't standard. And it doesn't help analyzing current line editing library problems.
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Peter Eisentraut authored
This is related to aa90e148, but this code is only used under -DLINUX_OOM_ADJ, so it was apparently overlooked then.
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Peter Eisentraut authored
Use SvREFCNT_inc_simple_void() instead of SvREFCNT_inc() to avoid warning about unused return value.
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Bruce Momjian authored
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Bruce Momjian authored
pg_catalog schema, even though they are not explicitly dumped (they are implicitly dumped, e.g. create language plperl).
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Bruce Momjian authored
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Magnus Hagander authored
Avoids the need for an external script in the most common scenario. Behavior can be overridden using the -n/--noloop commandline parameter.
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