- 11 Feb, 2016 12 commits
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Tom Lane authored
Historically this message has been emitted at the end of ShutdownXLOG(). That's not an insane place for it in a standalone backend, but in the postmaster environment we've grown a fair amount of stuff that happens later, including archiver/walsender shutdown, stats collector shutdown, etc. Recent buildfarm experimentation showed that on slower machines there could be many seconds' delay between finishing ShutdownXLOG() and actual postmaster exit. That's fairly confusing, both for testing purposes and for DBAs. Hence, move the code that prints this message into UnlinkLockFiles(), so that it comes out just after we remove the postmaster's pidfile. That is a more appropriate definition of "is shut down" from the point of view of "pg_ctl stop", for example. In general, removing the pidfile should be the last externally-visible action of either a postmaster or a standalone backend; compare commit d73d14c2 for instance. So this seems like a reasonably future-proof approach.
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Robert Haas authored
This finishes the work - spread across many commits over the last several months - of putting each type of lock other than the named individual locks into a separate tranche. Amit Kapila
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Tom Lane authored
The original formulation of 4c9864b9 was extremely timing-sensitive, because it arranged for the deadlock detector to be running (and possibly unblocking the current query) at almost exactly the same time as isolationtester would be probing to see if the query is blocked. The committed expected-file assumed that the deadlock detection would finish first, but we see the opposite on both fast and slow buildfarm animals. Adjust the deadlock timeout settings to make it predictable that isolationtester *will* see the query as waiting before deadlock detection unblocks it. I used a 5s timeout for the same reasons mentioned in a7921f71.
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Teodor Sigaev authored
Clarify invalid format conversion type error message and add hint. Author: Jim Nasby
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Robert Haas authored
Commit 0e141c0f introduced a new facility to reduce ProcArrayLock contention by clearing several XIDs from the ProcArray under a single lock acquisition. The names initially chosen were deemed not to be very good choices, so commit 4aec4989 renamed them. But now it seems like we still didn't get it right. A pending patch wants to add similar infrastructure for batching CLOG updates, so the names need to be clear enough to allow a new set of structure members with a related purpose. Amit Kapila
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Robert Haas authored
Previously, we had no test coverage for the deadlock detector.
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Robert Haas authored
This allows testing of deadlock scenarios. Scenarios that would previously have been considered invalid are now simply taken as a scenario in which more than one backend will wait.
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Robert Haas authored
This is a necessary prerequisite for forthcoming changes to allow deadlock scenarios to be tested by the isolation tester. It is also a good idea on general principle, since these scenarios add no useful test coverage not provided by other scenarios, but do to take time to execute.
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Noah Misch authored
Thirty seconds was not consistently enough for promotion to complete on buildfarm members sungazer and tern. Experiments suggest 43s would have been enough. Back-patch to 9.5, where pg_rewind was introduced.
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Noah Misch authored
Many automated test suites call pg_ctl. Buildfarm members axolotl, hornet, mandrill, shearwater, sungazer and tern have failed when server shutdown took longer than the pg_ctl default 60s timeout. This addition permits slow hosts to easily raise the timeout without us editing a --timeout argument into every test suite pg_ctl call. Back-patch to 9.1 (all supported versions) for the sake of automated testing. Reviewed by Tom Lane.
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Tom Lane authored
It turns out that on FreeBSD-derived platforms (including OS X), the *scanf() family of functions is pretty much brain-dead about multibyte characters. In particular it will apply isspace() to individual bytes of input even when those bytes are part of a multibyte character, thus allowing false recognition of a field-terminating space. We appear to have little alternative other than instituting a coding rule that *scanf() is not to be used if the input string might contain multibyte characters. (There was some discussion of relying on "%ls", but that probably just moves the portability problem somewhere else, and besides it doesn't fully prevent BSD *scanf() from using isspace().) This patch is a down payment on that: it gets rid of use of sscanf() to parse ispell dictionary files, which are certainly at great risk of having a problem. The code is cleaner this way anyway, though a bit longer. In passing, improve a few comments. Report and patch by Artur Zakirov, reviewed and somewhat tweaked by me. Back-patch to all supported branches.
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- 10 Feb, 2016 4 commits
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Robert Haas authored
As of commit c1772ad9, there's no longer any way of requesting additional LWLocks in the main tranche, so we don't need NumLWLocks() or LWLockAssign() any more. Also, some of the allocation counters that we had previously aren't needed any more either. Amit Kapila
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Robert Haas authored
It causes warnings in non-Assert-enabled builds. Per report from Jeff Janes.
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Tom Lane authored
Further investigation says that there may be some slow operations after we've finished ShutdownXLOG(), so add some more log messages to try to isolate that. This is all temporary code too.
- 09 Feb, 2016 3 commits
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Robert Haas authored
Per Tom Lane and the buildfarm.
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Robert Haas authored
If we've got a relatively straightforward join between two tables, this pushes that join down to the remote server instead of fetching the rows for each table and performing the join locally. Some cases are not handled yet, such as SEMI and ANTI joins. Also, we don't yet attempt to create presorted join paths or parameterized join paths even though these options do get tried for a base relation scan. Nevertheless, this seems likely to be a very significant win in many practical cases. Shigeru Hanada and Ashutosh Bapat, reviewed by Robert Haas, with additional review at various points by Tom Lane, Etsuro Fujita, KaiGai Kohei, and Jeevan Chalke.
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- 08 Feb, 2016 8 commits
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Tom Lane authored
This is a quick hack, due to be reverted when its purpose has been served, to try to gather information about why some of the buildfarm critters regularly fail with "postmaster does not shut down" complaints. Maybe they are just really overloaded, but maybe something else is going on. Hence, instrument pg_ctl to print the current time when it starts waiting for postmaster shutdown and when it gives up, and add a lot of logging of the current time in the server's checkpoint and shutdown code paths. No attempt has been made to make this pretty. I'm not even totally sure if it will build on Windows, but we'll soon find out.
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Tom Lane authored
Just to make sure previous commit worked ...
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Tom Lane authored
Since pgindent treats typedef names as global, the original coding of b47b4dbf would have had rather nasty effects on the formatting of other files in which "string" is used as a variable or field name. Use a less generic name for this typedef, and rename some other identifiers to match. Peter Geoghegan, per gripe from me
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Tom Lane authored
Security: CVE-2016-0773
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Tom Lane authored
Previously, our regex code defined CHR_MAX as 0xfffffffe, which is a bad choice because it is outside the range of type "celt" (int32). Characters approaching that limit could lead to infinite loops in logic such as "for (c = a; c <= b; c++)" where c is of type celt but the range bounds are chr. Such loops will work safely only if CHR_MAX+1 is representable in celt, since c must advance to beyond b before the loop will exit. Fortunately, there seems no reason not to restrict CHR_MAX to 0x7ffffffe. It's highly unlikely that Unicode will ever assign codes that high, and none of our other backend encodings need characters beyond that either. In addition to modifying the macro, we have to explicitly enforce character range restrictions on the values of \u, \U, and \x escape sequences, else the limit is trivially bypassed. Also, the code for expanding case-independent character ranges in bracket expressions had a potential integer overflow in its calculation of the number of characters it could generate, which could lead to allocating too small a character vector and then overwriting memory. An attacker with the ability to supply arbitrary regex patterns could easily cause transient DOS via server crashes, and the possibility for privilege escalation has not been ruled out. Quite aside from the integer-overflow problem, the range expansion code was unnecessarily inefficient in that it always produced a result consisting of individual characters, abandoning the knowledge that we had a range to start with. If the input range is large, this requires excessive memory. Change it so that the original range is reported as-is, and then we add on any case-equivalent characters that are outside that range. With this approach, we can bound the number of individual characters allowed without sacrificing much. This patch allows at most 100000 individual characters, which I believe to be more than the number of case pairs existing in Unicode, so that the restriction will never be hit in practice. It's still possible for range() to take awhile given a large character code range, so also add statement-cancel detection to its loop. The downstream function dovec() also lacked cancel detection, and could take a long time given a large output from range(). Per fuzz testing by Greg Stark. Back-patch to all supported branches. Security: CVE-2016-0773
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Fujii Masao authored
Commit 7f46eaf0 added the regression test which checks that gin_clean_pending_list() cleans up the GIN pending list and returns >0. This usually works fine. But if autovacuum comes along and cleans the list before gin_clean_pending_list() starts, the function may return 0, and then the regression test may fail. To fix the problem, this commit disables autovacuum on the target index of gin_clean_pending_list() by setting autovacuum_enabled reloption to off when creating the table. Also this commit sets gin_pending_list_limit reloption to 4MB on the target index. Otherwise when running "make installcheck" with small gin_pending_list_limit GUC, insertions of data may trigger the cleanup of pending list before gin_clean_pending_list() starts and the function may return 0. This could cause the regression test to fail. Per buildfarm member spoonbill. Reported-By: Tom Lane
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Andres Freund authored
In 61444bfb we started to allow HAVING clauses to be fully pushed down into WHERE, even when grouping sets are in use. That turns out not to work correctly, because grouping sets can "produce" NULLs, meaning that filtering in WHERE and HAVING can have different results, even when no aggregates or volatile functions are involved. Instead only allow pushdown of empty grouping sets. It'd be nice to do better, but the exact mechanics of deciding which cases are safe are still being debated. It's important to give correct results till we find a good solution, and such a solution might not be appropriate for backpatching anyway. Bug: #13863 Reported-By: 'wrb' Diagnosed-By: Dean Rasheed Author: Andrew Gierth Reviewed-By: Dean Rasheed and Andres Freund Discussion: 20160113183558.12989.56904@wrigleys.postgresql.org Backpatch: 9.5, where grouping sets were introduced
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- 07 Feb, 2016 8 commits
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Tom Lane authored
Get rid of the false implication that PRIMARY KEY is exactly equivalent to UNIQUE + NOT NULL. That was more-or-less true at one time in our implementation, but the standard doesn't say that, and we've grown various features (many of them required by spec) that treat a pkey differently from less-formal constraints. Per recent discussion on pgsql-general. I failed to resist the temptation to do some other wordsmithing in the same area.
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Tom Lane authored
The parser doesn't allow qualification of column names appearing in these clauses, but ruleutils.c would sometimes qualify them, leading to dump/reload failures. Per bug #13891 from Onder Kalaci. (In passing, make stanzas in ruleutils.c that save/restore varprefix more consistent.) Peter Geoghegan
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Tom Lane authored
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Tom Lane authored
Commit 45f6240a added an assumption in ExecHashIncreaseNumBatches and ExecHashIncreaseNumBuckets that they could find all tuples in the main hash table by iterating over the "dense storage" introduced by that patch. However, ExecHashRemoveNextSkewBucket continued its old practice of simply re-linking deleted skew tuples into the main table's hashchains. Hence, such tuples got lost during any subsequent increase in nbatch or nbuckets, and would never get joined, as reported in bug #13908 from Seth P. I (tgl) think that the aforesaid commit has got multiple design issues and should be reworked rather completely; but there is no time for that right now, so band-aid the problem by making ExecHashRemoveNextSkewBucket physically copy deleted skew tuples into the "dense storage" arena. The added test case is able to exhibit the problem by means of fooling the planner with a WHERE condition that it will underestimate the selectivity of, causing the initial nbatch estimate to be too small. Tomas Vondra and Tom Lane. Thanks to David Johnston for initial investigation into the bug report.
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Robert Haas authored
These establish backend-local state which will not be copied to parallel workers, so they must be marked parallel-restricted, not parallel-safe.
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Robert Haas authored
When force_parallel_mode = true, we enable the parallel mode restrictions for all queries for which this is believed to be safe. For the subset of those queries believed to be safe to run entirely within a worker, we spin up a worker and run the query there instead of running it in the original process. When force_parallel_mode = regress, make additional changes to allow the regression tests to run cleanly even though parallel workers have been injected under the hood. Taken together, this facilitates both better user testing and better regression testing of the parallelism code. Robert Haas, with help from Amit Kapila and Rushabh Lathia.
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Robert Haas authored
For locking purposes, we now regard heavyweight locks as mutually non-conflicting between cooperating parallel processes. There are some possible pitfalls to this approach that are not to be taken lightly, but it works OK for now and can be changed later if we find a better approach. Without this, it's very easy for parallel queries to silently self-deadlock if the user backend holds strong relation locks. Robert Haas, with help from Amit Kapila. Thanks to Noah Misch and Andres Freund for extensive discussion of possible issues with this approach.
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Tom Lane authored
It seems that sprintf(), at least in glibc's version, is unreasonably slow compared to hand-rolled code for printing integers. Replacing most uses of sprintf() in the datetime.c output functions with special-purpose code turns out to give more than a 2X speedup in COPY of a table with a single timestamp column; which is pretty impressive considering all the other logic in that code path. David Rowley and Andres Freund, reviewed by Peter Geoghegan and myself
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- 06 Feb, 2016 5 commits
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Tom Lane authored
Commit 30d7ae3c introduced an HJDEBUG stanza that probably didn't compile at the time, and definitely doesn't compile now, because it refers to a nonexistent variable. It doesn't seem terribly useful anyway, so just get rid of it. While I'm fooling with it, use %z modifier instead of the obsolete hack of casting size_t to unsigned long, and include the HashJoinTable's address in each printout so that it's possible to distinguish the activities of multiple hashjoins occurring in one query. Noted while trying to use HJDEBUG to investigate bug #13908. Back-patch to 9.5, because code that doesn't compile is certainly not very helpful.
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Tom Lane authored
Per buildfarm member pademelon.
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Noah Misch authored
Reviewed by Tom Lane and Robert Haas.
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Noah Misch authored
Future PL/Java versions will close CVE-2016-0766 by making these GUCs PGC_SUSET. This PostgreSQL change independently mitigates that PL/Java vulnerability, helping sites that update PostgreSQL more frequently than PL/Java. Back-patch to 9.1 (all supported versions).