Tom Lane [Thu, 5 Dec 2013 17:48:28 +0000 (12:48 -0500)]
Clear retry flags properly in replacement OpenSSL sock_write function.
Current OpenSSL code includes a BIO_clear_retry_flags() step in the
sock_write() function. Either we failed to copy the code correctly, or
they added this since we copied it. In any case, lack of the clear step
appears to be the cause of the server lockup after connection loss reported
in bug #8647 from Valentine Gogichashvili. Assume that this is correct
coding for all OpenSSL versions, and hence back-patch to all supported
branches.
Alvaro Herrera [Thu, 5 Dec 2013 15:21:55 +0000 (12:21 -0300)]
Avoid resetting Xmax when it's a multi with an aborted update
HeapTupleSatisfiesUpdate can very easily "forget" tuple locks while
checking the contents of a multixact and finding it contains an aborted
update, by setting the HEAP_XMAX_INVALID bit. This would lead to
concurrent transactions not noticing any previous locks held by
transactions that might still be running, and thus being able to acquire
subsequent locks they wouldn't be normally able to acquire.
This bug was introduced in commit 1ce150b7bb; backpatch this fix to 9.3,
like that commit.
This change reverts the change to the delete-abort-savept isolation test
in 1ce150b7bb, because that behavior change was caused by this bug.
Noticed by Andres Freund while investigating a different issue reported
by Noah Misch.
Insertion to a non-leaf GIN page didn't make a full-page image of the page,
which is wrong. The code used to do it correctly, but was changed (commit 853d1c3103fa961ae6219f0281885b345593d101) because the redo-routine didn't
track incomplete splits correctly when the page was restored from a full
page image. Of course, that was not right way to fix it, the redo routine
should've been fixed instead. The redo-routine was surreptitiously fixed
in 2010 (commit 4016bdef8aded77b4903c457050622a5a1815c16), so all we need
to do now is revert the code that creates the record to its original form.
Peter Eisentraut [Wed, 13 Nov 2013 11:38:18 +0000 (06:38 -0500)]
Report exit code from external recovery commands properly
When an external recovery command such as restore_command or
archive_cleanup_command fails, report the exit code properly,
distinguishing signals and normal exists, using the existing
wait_result_to_str() facility, instead of just reporting the return
value from system().
Tom Lane [Mon, 2 Dec 2013 16:33:43 +0000 (11:33 -0500)]
Increase git_changelog's timestamp_slop from 10 min to 1 day.
Many committers seem to now be using a work flow in which back-patched
commits are timestamped minutes or even hours apart in different branches
(most likely because they commit in one branch before starting work on
the next one). git_changelog was failing to merge its reports in such
cases, so increase the max time it's willing to merge commits across.
I considered getting rid of the limit altogether, but that produces
some odd results in terms of how the merged commit gets sorted relative
to unrelated commits.
Robert Haas [Mon, 2 Dec 2013 15:51:06 +0000 (10:51 -0500)]
Make NUM_TOCHAR_prepare and NUM_TOCHAR_finish macros declare "len".
Remove the variable from the enclosing scopes so that nothing can be
relying on it. The net result of this refactoring is that we get rid
of a few unnecessary strlen() calls.
Original patch from Greg Jaskiewicz, substantially expanded by me.
Robert Haas [Mon, 2 Dec 2013 15:40:33 +0000 (10:40 -0500)]
Avoid out-of-bounds read in errfinish if error_stack_depth < 0.
If errordata_stack_depth < 0, we won't find that out and correct the
problem until CHECK_STACK_DEPTH() is invoked. In the meantime,
elevel will be set based on an invalid read. This is probably
harmless in practice, but it seems cleaner this way.
Tom Lane [Sun, 1 Dec 2013 23:46:09 +0000 (18:46 -0500)]
Draft release notes for 9.3.2.
I'm putting these up for review before I start to extract the relevant
subsets for the older branches. It'll be easier to make any suggested
wording improvements at this stage.
Tom Lane [Sat, 30 Nov 2013 21:57:12 +0000 (16:57 -0500)]
Editorial corrections to the October 2013 minor-release notes.
This is mostly to fix incorrect migration instructions: since the preceding
minor releases advised reindexing some GIST indexes, it's important that
we back-link to that advice rather than earlier instances.
Also improve some bug descriptions and fix a few typos.
No back-patch yet; these files will get copied into the back branches
later in the release process.
Kevin Grittner [Sat, 30 Nov 2013 17:24:56 +0000 (11:24 -0600)]
Fix pg_dumpall to work for databases flagged as read-only.
pg_dumpall's charter is to be able to recreate a database cluster's
contents in a virgin installation, but it was failing to honor that
contract if the cluster had any ALTER DATABASE SET
default_transaction_read_only settings. By including a SET command
for the connection for each connection opened by pg_dumpall output,
errors are avoided and the source cluster is successfully
recreated.
There was discussion of whether to also set this for the connection
applying pg_dump output, but it was felt that it was both less
appropriate in that context, and far easier to work around.
Alvaro Herrera [Thu, 28 Nov 2013 22:17:21 +0000 (19:17 -0300)]
Fix a couple of bugs in MultiXactId freezing
Both heap_freeze_tuple() and heap_tuple_needs_freeze() neglected to look
into a multixact to check the members against cutoff_xid. This means
that a very old Xid could survive hidden within a multi, possibly
outliving its CLOG storage. In the distant future, this would cause
clog lookup failures:
ERROR: could not access status of transaction 3883960912
DETAIL: Could not open file "pg_clog/0E78": No such file or directory.
This mostly was problematic when the updating transaction aborted, since
in that case the row wouldn't get pruned away earlier in vacuum and the
multixact could possibly survive for a long time. In many cases, data
that is inaccessible for this reason way can be brought back
heuristically.
As a second bug, heap_freeze_tuple() didn't properly handle multixacts
that need to be frozen according to cutoff_multi, but whose updater xid
is still alive. Instead of preserving the update Xid, it just set Xmax
invalid, which leads to both old and new tuple versions becoming
visible. This is pretty rare in practice, but a real threat
nonetheless. Existing corrupted rows, unfortunately, cannot be repaired
in an automated fashion.
Existing physical replicas might have already incorrectly frozen tuples
because of different behavior than in master, which might only become
apparent in the future once pg_multixact/ is truncated; it is
recommended that all clones be rebuilt after upgrading.
Following code analysis caused by bug report by J Smith in message
CADFUPgc5bmtv-yg9znxV-vcfkb+JPRqs7m2OesQXaM_4Z1JpdQ@mail.gmail.com
and privately by F-Secure.
Backpatch to 9.3, where freezing of MultiXactIds was introduced.
Analysis and patch by Andres Freund, with some tweaks by Álvaro.
Alvaro Herrera [Fri, 29 Nov 2013 19:08:06 +0000 (16:08 -0300)]
Don't TransactionIdDidAbort in HeapTupleGetUpdateXid
It is dangerous to do so, because some code expects to be able to see what's
the true Xmax even if it is aborted (particularly while traversing HOT
chains). So don't do it, and instead rely on the callers to verify for
abortedness, if necessary.
Several race conditions and bugs fixed in the process. One isolation test
changes the expected output due to these.
This also reverts commit c235a6a589b, which is no longer necessary.
Backpatch to 9.3, where this function was introduced.
Alvaro Herrera [Fri, 29 Nov 2013 14:26:41 +0000 (11:26 -0300)]
Truncate pg_multixact/'s contents during crash recovery
Commit 9dc842f08 of 8.2 era prevented MultiXact truncation during crash
recovery, because there was no guarantee that enough state had been
setup, and because it wasn't deemed to be a good idea to remove data
during crash recovery anyway. Since then, due to Hot-Standby, streaming
replication and PITR, the amount of time a cluster can spend doing crash
recovery has increased significantly, to the point that a cluster may
even never come out of it. This has made not truncating the content of
pg_multixact/ not defensible anymore.
To fix, take care to setup enough state for multixact truncation before
crash recovery starts (easy since checkpoints contain the required
information), and move the current end-of-recovery actions to a new
TrimMultiXact() function, analogous to TrimCLOG().
At some later point, this should probably done similarly to the way
clog.c is doing it, which is to just WAL log truncations, but we can't
do that for the back branches.
Back-patch to 9.0. 8.4 also has the problem, but since there's no hot
standby there, it's much less pressing. In 9.2 and earlier, this patch
is simpler than in newer branches, because multixact access during
recovery isn't required. Add appropriate checks to make sure that's not
happening.
Alvaro Herrera [Thu, 28 Nov 2013 19:52:54 +0000 (16:52 -0300)]
Fix full-table-vacuum request mechanism for MultiXactIds
While autovacuum dutifully launched anti-multixact-wraparound vacuums
when the multixact "age" was reached, the vacuum code was not aware that
it needed to make them be full table vacuums. As the resulting
partial-table vacuums aren't capable of actually increasing relminmxid,
autovacuum continued to launch anti-wraparound vacuums that didn't have
the intended effect, until age of relfrozenxid caused the vacuum to
finally be a full table one via vacuum_freeze_table_age.
To fix, introduce logic for multixacts similar to that for plain
TransactionIds, using the same GUCs.
Backpatch to 9.3, where permanent MultiXactIds were introduced.
Alvaro Herrera [Thu, 28 Nov 2013 19:45:29 +0000 (16:45 -0300)]
Replace hardcoded 200000000 with autovacuum_freeze_max_age
Parts of the code used autovacuum_freeze_max_age to determine whether
anti-multixact-wraparound vacuums are necessary, while others used a
hardcoded 200000000 value. This leads to problems when
autovacuum_freeze_max_age is set to a non-default value. Use the latter
everywhere.
Backpatch to 9.3, where vacuuming of multixacts was introduced.
Tom Lane [Fri, 29 Nov 2013 23:34:07 +0000 (18:34 -0500)]
Fix assorted issues in pg_ctl's pgwin32_CommandLine().
Ensure that the invocation command for postgres or pg_ctl runservice
double-quotes the executable's pathname; failure to do this leads to
trouble when the path contains spaces.
Also, ensure that the path ends in ".exe" in both cases and uses
backslashes rather than slashes as directory separators. The latter issue
is reported to confuse some third-party tools such as Symantec Backup Exec.
Also, rewrite the function to avoid buffer overrun issues by using a
PQExpBuffer instead of a fixed-size static buffer. Combinations of
very long executable pathnames and very long data directory pathnames
could have caused trouble before, for example.
Back-patch to all active branches, since this code has been like this
for a long while.
Naoya Anzai and Tom Lane, reviewed by Rajeev Rastogi
Tom Lane [Fri, 29 Nov 2013 22:35:09 +0000 (17:35 -0500)]
Be sure to release proc->backendLock after SetupLockInTable() failure.
The various places that transferred fast-path locks to the main lock table
neglected to release the PGPROC's backendLock if SetupLockInTable failed
due to being out of shared memory. In most cases this is no big deal since
ensuing error cleanup would release all held LWLocks anyway. But there are
some hot-standby functions that don't consider failure of
FastPathTransferRelationLocks to be a hard error, and in those cases this
oversight could lead to system lockup. For consistency, make all of these
places look the same as FastPathTransferRelationLocks.
Noted while looking for the cause of Dan Wood's bugs --- this wasn't it,
but it's a bug anyway.
Tom Lane [Fri, 29 Nov 2013 21:41:00 +0000 (16:41 -0500)]
Fix assorted race conditions in the new timeout infrastructure.
Prevent handle_sig_alarm from losing control partway through due to a query
cancel (either an asynchronous SIGINT, or a cancel triggered by one of the
timeout handler functions). That would at least result in failure to
schedule any required future interrupt, and might result in actual
corruption of timeout.c's data structures, if the interrupt happened while
we were updating those.
We could still lose control if an asynchronous SIGINT arrives just as the
function is entered. This wouldn't break any data structures, but it would
have the same effect as if the SIGALRM interrupt had been silently lost:
we'd not fire any currently-due handlers, nor schedule any new interrupt.
To forestall that scenario, forcibly reschedule any pending timer interrupt
during AbortTransaction and AbortSubTransaction. We can avoid any extra
kernel call in most cases by not doing that until we've allowed
LockErrorCleanup to kill the DEADLOCK_TIMEOUT and LOCK_TIMEOUT events.
Another hazard is that some platforms (at least Linux and *BSD) block a
signal before calling its handler and then unblock it on return. When we
longjmp out of the handler, the unblock doesn't happen, and the signal is
left blocked indefinitely. Again, we can fix that by forcibly unblocking
signals during AbortTransaction and AbortSubTransaction.
These latter two problems do not manifest when the longjmp reaches
postgres.c, because the error recovery code there kills all pending timeout
events anyway, and it uses sigsetjmp(..., 1) so that the appropriate signal
mask is restored. So errors thrown outside any transaction should be OK
already, and cleaning up in AbortTransaction and AbortSubTransaction should
be enough to fix these issues. (We're assuming that any code that catches
a query cancel error and doesn't re-throw it will do at least a
subtransaction abort to clean up; but that was pretty much required already
by other subsystems.)
Lastly, ProcSleep should not clear the LOCK_TIMEOUT indicator flag when
disabling that event: if a lock timeout interrupt happened after the lock
was granted, the ensuing query cancel is still going to happen at the next
CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS, and we want to report it as a lock timeout not a user
cancel.
Per reports from Dan Wood.
Back-patch to 9.3 where the new timeout handling infrastructure was
introduced. We may at some point decide to back-patch the signal
unblocking changes further, but I'll desist from that until we hear
actual field complaints about it.
Robert Haas [Fri, 29 Nov 2013 01:57:20 +0000 (20:57 -0500)]
Refine our definition of what constitutes a system relation.
Although user-defined relations can't be directly created in
pg_catalog, it's possible for them to end up there, because you can
create them in some other schema and then use ALTER TABLE .. SET SCHEMA
to move them there. Previously, such relations couldn't afterwards
be manipulated, because IsSystemRelation()/IsSystemClass() rejected
all attempts to modify objects in the pg_catalog schema, regardless
of their origin. With this patch, they now reject only those
objects in pg_catalog which were created at initdb-time, allowing
most operations on user-created tables in pg_catalog to proceed
normally.
This patch also adds new functions IsCatalogRelation() and
IsCatalogClass(), which is similar to IsSystemRelation() and
IsSystemClass() but with a slightly narrower definition: only TOAST
tables of system catalogs are included, rather than *all* TOAST tables.
This is currently used only for making decisions about when
invalidation messages need to be sent, but upcoming logical decoding
patches will find other uses for this information.
In the GIN incomplete-splits patch, I used BlockIdDatas to store the block
number of left and right children, when inserting a downlink after a split
to an internal page posting list page. But gin_desc thought they were stored
as BlockNumbers.
Tom Lane [Thu, 28 Nov 2013 17:17:46 +0000 (12:17 -0500)]
Fix latent(?) race condition in LockReleaseAll.
We have for a long time checked the head pointer of each of the backend's
proclock lists and skipped acquiring the corresponding locktable partition
lock if the head pointer was NULL. This was safe enough in the days when
proclock lists were changed only by the owning backend, but it is pretty
questionable now that the fast-path patch added cases where backends add
entries to other backends' proclock lists. However, we don't really wish
to revert to locking each partition lock every time, because in simple
transactions that would add a lot of useless lock/unlock cycles on
already-heavily-contended LWLocks. Fortunately, the only way that another
backend could be modifying our proclock list at this point would be if it
was promoting a formerly fast-path lock of ours; and any such lock must be
one that we'd decided not to delete in the previous loop over the locallock
table. So it's okay if we miss seeing it in this loop; we'd just decide
not to delete it again. However, once we've detected a non-empty list,
we'd better re-fetch the list head pointer after acquiring the partition
lock. This guards against possibly fetching a corrupt-but-non-null pointer
if pointer fetch/store isn't atomic. It's not clear if any practical
architectures are like that, but we've never assumed that before and don't
wish to start here. In any case, the situation certainly deserves a code
comment.
While at it, refactor the partition traversal loop to use a for() construct
instead of a while() loop with goto's.
Back-patch, just in case the risk is real and not hypothetical.
Alvaro Herrera [Wed, 27 Nov 2013 20:50:33 +0000 (17:50 -0300)]
Use a more granular approach to follow update chains
Instead of simply checking the KEYS_UPDATED bit, we need to check
whether each lock held on the future version of the tuple conflicts with
the lock we're trying to acquire.
Alvaro Herrera [Wed, 27 Nov 2013 20:49:12 +0000 (17:49 -0300)]
Compare Xmin to previous Xmax when locking an update chain
Not doing so causes us to traverse an update chain that has been broken
by concurrent page pruning. All other code that traverses update chains
uses this check as one of the cases in which to stop iterating, so
replicate it here too. Failure to do so leads to erroneous CLOG,
subtrans or multixact lookups.
Per discussion following the bug report by J Smith in
CADFUPgc5bmtv-yg9znxV-vcfkb+JPRqs7m2OesQXaM_4Z1JpdQ@mail.gmail.com
as diagnosed by Andres Freund.
Alvaro Herrera [Wed, 27 Nov 2013 20:47:16 +0000 (17:47 -0300)]
Don't try to set InvalidXid as page pruning hint
If a transaction updates/deletes a tuple just before aborting, and a
concurrent transaction tries to prune the page concurrently, the pruner
may see HeapTupleSatisfiesVacuum return HEAPTUPLE_DELETE_IN_PROGRESS,
but a later call to HeapTupleGetUpdateXid() return InvalidXid. This
would cause an assertion failure in development builds, but would be
otherwise Mostly Harmless.
Fix by checking whether the updater Xid is valid before trying to apply
it as page prune point.
Reported by Andres in 20131124000203.GA4403@alap2.anarazel.de
Alvaro Herrera [Wed, 27 Nov 2013 20:45:25 +0000 (17:45 -0300)]
Cope with heap_fetch failure while locking an update chain
The reason for the fetch failure is that the tuple was removed because
it was dead; so the failure is innocuous and can be ignored. Moreover,
there's no need for further work and we can return success to the caller
immediately. EvalPlanQualFetch is doing something very similar to this
already.
Report and test case from Andres Freund in 20131124000203.GA4403@alap2.anarazel.de
Tom Lane [Wed, 27 Nov 2013 23:10:00 +0000 (18:10 -0500)]
Fix stale-pointer problem in fast-path locking logic.
When acquiring a lock in fast-path mode, we must reset the locallock
object's lock and proclock fields to NULL. They are not necessarily that
way to start with, because the locallock could be left over from a failed
lock acquisition attempt earlier in the transaction. Failure to do this
led to all sorts of interesting misbehaviors when LockRelease tried to
clean up no-longer-related lock and proclock objects in shared memory.
Per report from Dan Wood.
In passing, modify LockRelease to elog not just Assert if it doesn't find
lock and proclock objects for a formerly fast-path lock, matching the code
in FastPathGetRelationLockEntry and LockRefindAndRelease. This isn't a
bug but it will help in diagnosing any future bugs in this area.
Also, modify FastPathTransferRelationLocks and FastPathGetRelationLockEntry
to break out of their loops over the fastpath array once they've found the
sole matching entry. This was inconsistently done in some search loops
and not others.
Improve assorted related comments, too.
Back-patch to 9.2 where the fast-path mechanism was introduced.
Tom Lane [Wed, 27 Nov 2013 20:07:13 +0000 (15:07 -0500)]
Minor corrections in lmgr/README.
Correct an obsolete statement that no backend touches another backend's
PROCLOCK lists. This was probably wrong even when written (the deadlock
checker looks at everybody's lists), and it's certainly quite wrong now
that fast-path locking can require creation of lock and proclock objects
on behalf of another backend. Also improve some statements in the hot
standby explanation, and do one or two other trivial bits of wordsmithing/
reformatting.
Get rid of the post-recovery cleanup step of GIN page splits.
Replace it with an approach similar to what GiST uses: when a page is split,
the left sibling is marked with a flag indicating that the parent hasn't been
updated yet. When the parent is updated, the flag is cleared. If an insertion
steps on a page with the flag set, it will finish split before proceeding
with the insertion.
The post-recovery cleanup mechanism was never totally reliable, as insertion
to the parent could fail e.g because of running out of memory or disk space,
leaving the tree in an inconsistent state.
This also divides the responsibility of WAL-logging more clearly between
the generic ginbtree.c code, and the parts specific to entry and posting
trees. There is now a common WAL record format for insertions and deletions,
which is written by ginbtree.c, followed by tree-specific payload, which is
returned by the placetopage- and split- callbacks.
Separate the insertion payload from the more static portions of GinBtree.
GinBtree now only contains information related to searching the tree, and
the information of what to insert is passed separately.
Add root block number to GinBtree, instead of passing it around all the
functions as argument.
Split off ginFinishSplit() from ginInsertValue(). ginFinishSplit is
responsible for finding the parent and inserting the downlink to it.
Don't update relfrozenxid if any pages were skipped.
Vacuum recognizes that it can update relfrozenxid by checking whether it has
processed all pages of a relation. Unfortunately it performed that check
after truncating the dead pages at the end of the relation, and used the new
number of pages to decide whether all pages have been scanned. If the new
number of pages happened to be smaller or equal to the number of pages
scanned, it incorrectly decided that all pages were scanned.
This can lead to relfrozenxid being updated, even though some pages were
skipped that still contain old XIDs. That can lead to data loss due to xid
wraparounds with some rows suddenly missing. This likely has escaped notice
so far because it takes a large number (~2^31) of xids being used to see the
effect, while a full-table vacuum before that would fix the issue.
Reviewed-by: Ali Dar <ali.munir.dar@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Amit Khandekar <amit.khandekar@enterprisedb.com> Reviewed-by: Rodolfo Campero <rodolfo.campero@anachronics.com>
Michael Meskes [Tue, 26 Nov 2013 16:12:39 +0000 (17:12 +0100)]
ECPG: Make the preprocessor emit ';' if the variable type for a list of
variables is varchar. This fixes this test case:
int main(void)
{
exec sql begin declare section;
varchar a[50], b[50];
exec sql end declare section;
return 0;
}
Since varchars are internally turned into custom structs and
the type name is emitted for these variable declarations,
the preprocessed code previously had:
struct varchar_1 { ... } a _,_ struct varchar_2 { ... } b ;
The comma in the generated C file was a syntax error.
There are no regression test changes since it's not exercised.
Handle domains over arrays like plain arrays in PL/python.
Domains over arrays are now converted to/from python lists when passed as
arguments or return values. Like regular arrays.
This has some potential to break applications that rely on the old behavior
that they are passed as strings, but in practice there probably aren't many
such applications out there.
Bruce Momjian [Tue, 26 Nov 2013 00:19:40 +0000 (19:19 -0500)]
Change SET LOCAL/CONSTRAINTS/TRANSACTION and ABORT behavior
Change SET LOCAL/CONSTRAINTS/TRANSACTION behavior outside of a
transaction block from error (post-9.3) to warning. (Was nothing in <=
9.3.) Also change ABORT outside of a transaction block from notice to
warning.
Michael Meskes [Mon, 25 Nov 2013 14:29:51 +0000 (15:29 +0100)]
More improvement to comment parsing in ecpg.
ECPG is not supposed to allow and output nested comments in C. These comments
are only allowed in the SQL parts and must not be written into the C file.
Also the different handling of different comments is documented.
Jeff Davis [Sun, 24 Nov 2013 18:50:54 +0000 (10:50 -0800)]
Lessen library-loading log level.
Previously, messages were emitted at the LOG level every time a
backend preloaded a library. That was acceptable (though unnecessary)
for shared_preload_libraries; but it was excessive for
local_preload_libraries and session_preload_libraries. Reduce to
DEBUG1.
Also, there was logic in the EXEC_BACKEND case to avoid repeated
messages for shared_preload_libraries by demoting them to
DEBUG2. DEBUG1 seems more appropriate there, as well, so eliminate
that special case.
Tom Lane [Sun, 24 Nov 2013 18:09:38 +0000 (13:09 -0500)]
Fix new and latent bugs with errno handling in secure_read/secure_write.
These functions must be careful that they return the intended value of
errno to their callers. There were several scenarios where this might
not happen:
1. The recent SSL renegotiation patch added a hunk of code that would
execute after setting errno. In the first place, it's doubtful that we
should consider renegotiation to be successfully completed after a failure,
and in the second, there's no real guarantee that the called OpenSSL
routines wouldn't clobber errno. Fix by not executing that hunk except
during success exit.
2. errno was left in an unknown state in case of an unrecognized return
code from SSL_get_error(). While this is a "can't happen" case, it seems
like a good idea to be sure we know what would happen, so reset errno to
ECONNRESET in such cases. (The corresponding code in libpq's fe-secure.c
already did this.)
3. There was an (undocumented) assumption that client_read_ended() wouldn't
change errno. While true in the current state of the code, this seems less
than future-proof. Add explicit saving/restoring of errno to make sure
that changes in the called functions won't break things.
I see no need to back-patch, since #1 is new code and the other two issues
are mostly hypothetical.
Tom Lane [Sun, 24 Nov 2013 03:45:46 +0000 (22:45 -0500)]
Defend against bad trigger definitions in contrib/lo's lo_manage() trigger.
This function formerly crashed if called as a statement-level trigger,
or if a column-name argument wasn't given.
In passing, add the trigger name to all error messages from the function.
(None of them are expected cases, so this shouldn't pose any compatibility
risk.)
Tom Lane [Sun, 24 Nov 2013 01:03:56 +0000 (20:03 -0500)]
Fix array slicing of int2vector and oidvector values.
The previous coding labeled expressions such as pg_index.indkey[1:3] as
being of int2vector type; which is not right because the subscript bounds
of such a result don't, in general, satisfy the restrictions of int2vector.
To fix, implicitly promote the result of slicing int2vector to int2[],
or oidvector to oid[]. This is similar to what we've done with domains
over arrays, which is a good analogy because these types are very much
like restricted domains of the corresponding regular-array types.
A side-effect is that we now also forbid array-element updates on such
columns, eg while "update pg_index set indkey[4] = 42" would have worked
before if you were superuser (and corrupted your catalogs irretrievably,
no doubt) it's now disallowed. This seems like a good thing since, again,
some choices of subscripting would've led to results not satisfying the
restrictions of int2vector. The case of an array-slice update was
rejected before, though with a different error message than you get now.
We could make these cases work in future if we added a cast from int2[]
to int2vector (with a cast function checking the subscript restrictions)
but it seems unlikely that there's any value in that.
Per report from Ronan Dunklau. Back-patch to all supported branches
because of the crash risks involved.
If logging is enabled, either ereport() or fprintf() might stomp on errno
internally, causing this function to return the wrong result. That might
only end in a misleading error report, but in any code that's examining
errno to decide what to do next, the consequences could be far graver.
This has been broken since the very first version of this file in 2006
... it's a bit astonishing that we didn't identify this long ago.
Reported by Amit Kapila, though this isn't his proposed fix.
Peter Eisentraut [Sat, 23 Nov 2013 14:34:57 +0000 (09:34 -0500)]
Fix thinko in SPI_execute_plan() calls
Two call sites were apparently thinking that the last argument of
SPI_execute_plan() is the number of query parameters, but it is actually
the row limit. Change the calls to 0, since we don't care about the
limit there. The previous code didn't break anything, but it was still
wrong.
Peter Eisentraut [Sat, 23 Nov 2013 12:25:37 +0000 (07:25 -0500)]
Avoid potential buffer overflow crash
A pointer to a C string was treated as a pointer to a "name" datum and
passed to SPI_execute_plan(). This pointer would then end up being
passed through datumCopy(), which would try to copy the entire 64 bytes
of name data, thus running past the end of the C string. Fix by
converting the string to a proper name structure.
Tom Lane [Fri, 22 Nov 2013 19:37:21 +0000 (14:37 -0500)]
Flatten join alias Vars before pulling up targetlist items from a subquery.
pullup_replace_vars()'s decisions about whether a pulled-up replacement
expression needs to be wrapped in a PlaceHolderVar depend on the assumption
that what looks like a Var behaves like a Var. However, if the Var is a
join alias reference, later flattening of join aliases might replace the
Var with something that's not a Var at all, and should have been wrapped.
To fix, do a forcible pass of flatten_join_alias_vars() on the subquery
targetlist before we start to copy items out of it. We'll re-run that
processing on the pulled-up expressions later, but that's harmless.
Per report from Ken Tanzer; the added regression test case is based on his
example. This bug has been there since the PlaceHolderVar mechanism was
invented, but has escaped detection because the circumstances that trigger
it are fairly narrow. You need a flattenable query underneath an outer
join, which contains another flattenable query inside a join of its own,
with a dangerous expression (a constant or something else non-strict)
in that one's targetlist.
Having seen this, I'm wondering if it wouldn't be prudent to do all
alias-variable flattening earlier, perhaps even in the rewriter.
But that would probably not be a back-patchable change.
Tom Lane [Fri, 22 Nov 2013 17:07:53 +0000 (12:07 -0500)]
Fix quoting in help messages in uuid-ossp extension scripts.
The command we're telling people to type needs to include double-quoting
around the unfortunately-chosen extension name. Twiddle the textual
quoting so that it looks somewhat sane. Per gripe from roadrunner6.
Fix Hot-Standby initialization of clog and subtrans.
These bugs can cause data loss on standbys started with hot_standby=on at
the moment they start to accept read only queries, by marking committed
transactions as uncommited. The likelihood of such corruptions is small
unless the primary has a high transaction rate.
5a031a5556ff83b8a9646892715d7fef415b83c3 fixed bugs in HS's startup logic
by maintaining less state until at least STANDBY_SNAPSHOT_PENDING state
was reached, missing the fact that both clog and subtrans are written to
before that. This only failed to fail in common cases because the usage
of ExtendCLOG in procarray.c was superflous since clog extensions are
actually WAL logged.
f44eedc3f0f347a856eea8590730769125964597/I then tried to fix the missing
extensions of pg_subtrans due to the former commit's changes - which are
not WAL logged - by performing the extensions when switching to a state
> STANDBY_INITIALIZED and not performing xid assignments before that -
again missing the fact that ExtendCLOG is unneccessary - but screwed up
twice: Once because latestObservedXid wasn't updated anymore in that
state due to the earlier commit and once by having an off-by-one error in
the loop performing extensions. This means that whenever a
CLOG_XACTS_PER_PAGE (32768 with default settings) boundary was crossed
between the start of the checkpoint recovery started from and the first
xl_running_xact record old transactions commit bits in pg_clog could be
overwritten if they started and committed in that window.
Fix this mess by not performing ExtendCLOG() in HS at all anymore since
it's unneeded and evidently dangerous and by performing subtrans
extensions even before reaching STANDBY_SNAPSHOT_PENDING.
Analysis and patch by Andres Freund. Reported by Christophe Pettus.
Backpatch down to 9.0, like the previous commit that caused this.
Avoid acquiring spinlock when checking if recovery has finished, for speed.
RecoveryIsInProgress() can be called very frequently. During normal
operation, it just checks a backend-local variable and returns quickly,
but during hot standby, it checks a spinlock-protected shared variable.
Those spinlock acquisitions can become a point of contention on a busy
hot standby system.
Replace the spinlock acquisition with a memory barrier.
Per discussion with Andres Freund, Ants Aasma and Merlin Moncure.
Tom Lane [Fri, 22 Nov 2013 00:37:02 +0000 (19:37 -0500)]
Support multi-argument UNNEST(), and TABLE() syntax for multiple functions.
This patch adds the ability to write TABLE( function1(), function2(), ...)
as a single FROM-clause entry. The result is the concatenation of the
first row from each function, followed by the second row from each
function, etc; with NULLs inserted if any function produces fewer rows than
others. This is believed to be a much more useful behavior than what
Postgres currently does with multiple SRFs in a SELECT list.
This syntax also provides a reasonable way to combine use of column
definition lists with WITH ORDINALITY: put the column definition list
inside TABLE(), where it's clear that it doesn't control the ordinality
column as well.
Also implement SQL-compliant multiple-argument UNNEST(), by turning
UNNEST(a,b,c) into TABLE(unnest(a), unnest(b), unnest(c)).
The SQL standard specifies TABLE() with only a single function, not
multiple functions, and it seems to require an implicit UNNEST() which is
not what this patch does. There may be something wrong with that reading
of the spec, though, because if it's right then the spec's TABLE() is just
a pointless alternative spelling of UNNEST(). After further review of
that, we might choose to adopt a different syntax for what this patch does,
but in any case this functionality seems clearly worthwhile.
Andrew Gierth, reviewed by Zoltán Böszörményi and Heikki Linnakangas, and
significantly revised by me
Fujii Masao [Thu, 21 Nov 2013 12:52:03 +0000 (21:52 +0900)]
Fix pg_isready to handle -d option properly.
Previously, -d option for pg_isready was broken. When the name of the
database was specified by -d option, pg_isready failed with an error.
When the conninfo specified by -d option contained the setting of the
host name but not Numeric IP address (i.e., hostaddr), pg_isready
displayed wrong connection message. -d option could not handle a valid
URI prefix at all. This commit fixes these bugs of pg_isready.
Backpatch to 9.3, where pg_isready was introduced.
Per report from Josh Berkus and Robert Haas.
Original patch by Fabrízio de Royes Mello, heavily modified by me.
Split off the portion of ginInsertValue that inserts the tuple to current
level into a separate function, ginPlaceToPage. ginInsertValue's charter
is now to recurse up the tree to insert the downlink, when a page split is
required.
This is in preparation for a patch to change the way incomplete splits are
handled, which will need to do these operations separately. And IMHO makes
the code more readable anyway.
Refactor the internal GIN B-tree interface for forming a downlink.
This creates a new gin-btree callback function for creating a downlink for
a page. Previously, ginxlog.c duplicated the logic used during normal
operation.
Bruce Momjian [Tue, 19 Nov 2013 20:00:49 +0000 (15:00 -0500)]
pg_upgrade: avoid ALTER COLUMN TYPE on inherited columns
This only affects upgrades from 8.3 currently, and is harmless as the
child just generates an error in the script, but we should get it right
in case we ever need this for more complex uses.
Peter Eisentraut [Tue, 19 Nov 2013 02:49:40 +0000 (21:49 -0500)]
pg_upgrade: Report full disk better
Previously, pg_upgrade would abort copy_file() on a short write without
setting errno, which the caller would report as an error with the
message "Success". We assume ENOSPC in that case, as we do elsewhere in
the code. Also set errno in some other error cases in copy_file() to
avoid bogus "Success" error messages.