Tom Lane [Thu, 8 Feb 2007 18:38:19 +0000 (18:38 +0000)]
Fix an ancient logic error in plpgsql's exec_stmt_block: it thought it could
get away with not (re)initializing a local variable if the variable is marked
"isconst" and not "isnull". Unfortunately it makes this decision after having
already freed the old value, meaning that something like
for i in 1..10 loop
declare c constant text := 'hi there';
leads to subsequent accesses to freed memory, and hence probably crashes.
(In particular, this is why Asif Ali Rehman's bug leads to crash and not
just an unexpectedly-NULL value for SQLERRM: SQLERRM is marked CONSTANT
and so triggers this error.)
The whole thing seems wrong on its face anyway: CONSTANT means that you can't
change the variable inside the block, not that the initializer expression is
guaranteed not to change value across successive block entries. Hence,
remove the "optimization" instead of trying to fix it.
Tom Lane [Thu, 8 Feb 2007 18:38:16 +0000 (18:38 +0000)]
Rearrange use of plpgsql_add_initdatums() so that only the parsing of a
DECLARE section needs to know about it. Formerly, everyplace besides DECLARE
that created variables needed to do "plpgsql_add_initdatums(NULL)" to prevent
those variables from being sucked up as part of a subsequent DECLARE block.
This is obviously error-prone, and in fact the SQLSTATE/SQLERRM patch had
failed to do it for those two variables, leading to the bug recently exhibited
by Asif Ali Rehman: a DECLARE within an exception handler tried to reinitialize
SQLERRM.
Although the SQLSTATE/SQLERRM patch isn't in any pre-8.1 branches, and so
I can't point to a demonstrable failure there, it seems wise to back-patch
this into the older branches anyway, just to keep the logic similar to HEAD.
Tom Lane [Tue, 6 Feb 2007 22:49:48 +0000 (22:49 +0000)]
Fix an error in the original coding of holdable cursors: PersistHoldablePortal
thought that it didn't have to reposition the underlying tuplestore if the
portal is atEnd. But this is not so, because tuplestores have separate read
and write cursors ... and the read cursor hasn't moved from the start.
This mistake explains bug #2970 from William Zhang.
Note: the coding here is pretty inefficient, but given that no one has noticed
this bug until now, I'd say hardly anyone uses the case where the cursor has
been advanced before being persisted. So maybe it's not worth worrying about.
Tom Lane [Fri, 2 Feb 2007 00:04:02 +0000 (00:04 +0000)]
Repair insufficiently careful type checking for SQL-language functions:
we should check that the function code returns the claimed result datatype
every time we parse the function for execution. Formerly, for simple
scalar result types we assumed the creation-time check was sufficient, but
this fails if the function selects from a table that's been redefined since
then, and even more obviously fails if check_function_bodies had been OFF.
This is a significant security hole: not only can one trivially crash the
backend, but with appropriate misuse of pass-by-reference datatypes it is
possible to read out arbitrary locations in the server process's memory,
which could allow retrieving database content the user should not be able
to see. Our thanks to Jeff Trout for the initial report.
Tom Lane [Sat, 27 Jan 2007 20:53:52 +0000 (20:53 +0000)]
Correct an old logic error in btree page splitting: when considering a split
exactly at the point where we need to insert a new item, the calculation used
the wrong size for the "high key" of the new left page. This could lead to
choosing an unworkable split, resulting in "PANIC: failed to add item to the
left sibling" (or "right sibling") failure. Although this bug has been there
a long time, it's very difficult to trigger a failure before 8.2, since there
was generally a lot of free space on both sides of a chosen split. In 8.2,
where the user-selected fill factor determines how much free space the code
tries to leave, an unworkable split is much more likely. Report by Joe
Conway, diagnosis and fix by Heikki Linnakangas.
Tom Lane [Wed, 24 Jan 2007 17:12:41 +0000 (17:12 +0000)]
Get pg_utf_mblen(), pg_utf2wchar_with_len(), and utf2ucs() all on the same
page about the maximum UTF8 sequence length we support (4 bytes since 8.1,
3 before that). pg_utf2wchar_with_len never got updated to support 4-byte
characters at all, and in any case had a buffer-overrun risk in that it
could produce multiple pg_wchars from what mblen claims to be just one UTF8
character. The only reason we don't have a major security hole is that most
callers allocate worst-case output buffers; the sole exception in released
versions appears to be pre-8.2 iwchareq() (ie, ILIKE), which can be crashed
due to zeroing out its return address --- but AFAICS that can't be exploited
for anything more than a crash, due to inability to control what gets written
there. Per report from James Russell and Michael Fuhr.
Pre-8.1 the risk is much less, but I still think pg_utf2wchar_with_len's
behavior given an incomplete final character risks buffer overrun, so
back-patch that logic change anyway.
This patch also makes sure that UTF8 sequences exceeding the supported
length (whichever it is) are consistently treated as error cases, rather
than being treated like a valid shorter sequence in some places.
Tom Lane [Wed, 24 Jan 2007 01:26:08 +0000 (01:26 +0000)]
Relax an Assert() that has been found to be too strict in some situations
involving unions of types having typmods. Variants of the failure are known
to occur in 8.1 and up; not sure if it's possible in 8.0 and 7.4, but since
the code exists that far back, I'll just patch 'em all. Per report from
Brian Hurt.
Tatsuo Ishii [Sat, 13 Jan 2007 03:24:55 +0000 (03:24 +0000)]
Back port patch.
Call srandom() instead of srand().
pgbench calls random() later, so it should have called srandom().
On most platforms except Windows srandom() is actually identical
to srand(), so the bug only bites Windows users.
per bug report from Akio Ishida.
Tom Lane [Wed, 3 Jan 2007 22:39:57 +0000 (22:39 +0000)]
Fix regex_fixed_prefix() to cope reasonably well with regex patterns of the
form '^(foo)$'. Before, these could never be optimized into indexscans.
The recent changes to make psql and pg_dump generate such patterns (for \d
commands and -t and related switches, respectively) therefore represented
a big performance hit for people with large pg_class catalogs, as seen in
recent gripe from Erik Jones. While at it, be more paranoid about
case-sensitivity checking in multibyte encodings, and fix some other
corner cases in which a regex might be interpreted too liberally.
Tom Lane [Tue, 26 Dec 2006 19:27:20 +0000 (19:27 +0000)]
Repair bug #2839: the various ExecReScan functions need to reset
ps_TupFromTlist in plan nodes that make use of it. This was being done
correctly in join nodes and Result nodes but not in any relation-scan nodes.
Bug would lead to bogus results if a set-returning function appeared in the
targetlist of a subquery that could be rescanned after partial execution,
for example a subquery within EXISTS(). Bug has been around forever :-(
... surprising it wasn't reported before.
Tom Lane [Tue, 28 Nov 2006 19:19:16 +0000 (19:19 +0000)]
Mark to_number() and the numeric-type variants of to_char() as stable, not
immutable, because their results depend on lc_numeric; this is a longstanding
oversight. We cannot force initdb for this in the back branches, but we can
at least provide correct catalog entries for future installations.
Tom Lane [Fri, 24 Nov 2006 23:07:07 +0000 (23:07 +0000)]
Fix psql's \copy command to ensure that it cycles libpq back to the idle state
(in particular, causing the ReadyForQuery message to be eaten) before
returning from do_copy. The only known consequence of failing to do so is
that get_prompt might show a wrong result for the %x transaction status
escape, as reported by Bernd Helmle; but it's possible there are other issues.
Back-patch as far as 7.4, the oldest version supporting %x.
Tom Lane [Wed, 22 Nov 2006 21:13:11 +0000 (21:13 +0000)]
Fix 1-byte buffer overrun when OID exceeds 1 billion. This probably can't
cause any serious harm in normal cases, but if you have gcc buffer overrun
checking turned on, that will notice. Found by Jack Orenstein. Problem
was already fixed in CVS HEAD.
Tom Lane [Sun, 19 Nov 2006 21:33:46 +0000 (21:33 +0000)]
Repair problems with hash indexes that span multiple segments: the hash code's
preference for filling pages out-of-order tends to confuse the sanity checks
in md.c, as per report from Balazs Nagy in bug #2737. The fix is to ensure
that the smgr-level code always has the same idea of the logical EOF as the
hash index code does, by using ReadBuffer(P_NEW) where we are adding a single
page to the end of the index, and using smgrextend() to reserve a large batch
of pages when creating a new splitpoint. The patch is a bit ugly because it
avoids making any changes in md.c, which seems the most prudent approach for a
backpatchable beta-period fix. After 8.3 development opens, I'll take a look
at a cleaner but more invasive patch, in particular getting rid of the now
unnecessary hack to allow reading beyond EOF in mdread().
Backpatch as far as 7.4. The bug likely exists in 7.3 as well, but because
of the magnitude of the 7.3-to-7.4 changes in hash, the later-version patch
doesn't even begin to apply. Given the other known bugs in the 7.3-era hash
code, it does not seem worth trying to develop a separate patch for 7.3.
Tom Lane [Mon, 6 Nov 2006 18:21:58 +0000 (18:21 +0000)]
Repair bug #2694 concerning an ARRAY[] construct whose inputs are empty
sub-arrays. Per discussion, if all inputs are empty arrays then result
must be an empty array too, whereas a mix of empty and nonempty arrays
should (and already did) draw an error. In the back branches, the
construct was strict: any NULL input immediately yielded a NULL output;
so I left that behavior alone. HEAD was simply ignoring NULL sub-arrays,
which doesn't seem very sensible. For lack of a better idea it now
treats NULL sub-arrays the same as empty ones.
Tom Lane [Wed, 1 Nov 2006 19:50:15 +0000 (19:50 +0000)]
Fix "failed to re-find parent key" btree VACUUM failure by tweaking
_bt_pagedel to recover from the failure: just search the whole parent level
if searching to the right fails. This does nothing for the underlying problem
that index keys became out-of-order in the grandparent level. However, we
believe that there is no other consequence worse than slightly inefficient
searching, so this narrow patch seems like the safest solution for the back
branches.
Tom Lane [Thu, 19 Oct 2006 17:26:51 +0000 (17:26 +0000)]
Work around reported problem that AIX's getaddrinfo() doesn't seem to zero
sin_port in the returned IP address struct when servname is NULL. This has
been observed to cause failure to bind the stats collection socket, and
could perhaps cause other issues too. Per reports from Brad Nicholson
and Chris Browne.
Tom Lane [Wed, 11 Oct 2006 20:21:28 +0000 (20:21 +0000)]
Repair incorrect check for coercion of unknown literal to ANYARRAY, a bug
I introduced in 7.4.1 :-(. It's correct to allow unknown to be coerced to
ANY or ANYELEMENT, since it's a real-enough data type, but it most certainly
isn't an array datatype. This can cause a backend crash but AFAICT is not
exploitable as a security hole. Per report from Michael Fuhr.
Note: as fixed in HEAD, this changes a constant in the pg_stats view,
resulting in a change in the expected regression outputs. The back-branch
patches have been hacked to avoid that, so that pre-existing installations
won't start failing their regression tests.
Tom Lane [Wed, 11 Oct 2006 20:03:26 +0000 (20:03 +0000)]
CREATE TABLE ... LIKE ... should mark the columns it creates with
attislocal = true, since they are not really inherited but merely copied
from the original table. I'm not sure if there are any cases where it makes
a real difference given the existing uses of the flag, but wrong is wrong.
This was fixed in passing in HEAD by the LIKE INCLUDING CONSTRAINTS patch,
but never back-patched.
Tom Lane [Tue, 10 Oct 2006 16:15:37 +0000 (16:15 +0000)]
Fix psql \d commands to behave properly when a pattern using regex | is given.
Formerly they'd emit '^foo|bar$' which is wrong because the anchors are
parsed as part of the alternatives; must emit '^(foo|bar)$' to get expected
behavior. Same as bug found previously in similar_escape(). Already fixed
in HEAD, this is just back-porting the part of that patch that was a bug fix.
Tom Lane [Mon, 9 Oct 2006 01:45:57 +0000 (01:45 +0000)]
Fix back-branch pg_regress scripts to try the "canonical" expected file if we
tried a variant file from resultmap and it didn't match. This is already done
in HEAD's C-code version, and is needed because OpenBSD has recently migrated
to a more standard handling of float underflow --- see buildfarm results
from emu.
Tom Lane [Sat, 7 Oct 2006 22:21:57 +0000 (22:21 +0000)]
Fix ancient oversight in psql's \d pattern processing code: when seeing two
quote chars inside quote marks, should emit one quote *and stay in inquotes
mode*. No doubt the lack of reports of this have something to do with the
poor documentation of the feature ...
Tom Lane [Sat, 7 Oct 2006 00:12:12 +0000 (00:12 +0000)]
Fix string_to_array() to correctly handle the case where there are
overlapping possible matches for the separator string, such as
string_to_array('123xx456xxx789', 'xx').
Also, revise the logic of replace(), split_part(), and string_to_array()
to avoid O(N^2) work from redundant searches and conversions to pg_wchar
format when there are N matches to the separator string.
Backpatched the full patch as far as 8.0. 7.4 also has the bug, but the
code has diverged a lot, so I just went for a quick-and-dirty fix of the
bug itself in that branch.
Tom Lane [Thu, 31 Aug 2006 17:31:55 +0000 (17:31 +0000)]
Clean up rather sloppy fix in HEAD for the ancient bug that CREATE CONVERSION
didn't create a dependency from the new conversion to its schema. Back-patch
to all supported releases.
Bruce Momjian [Thu, 6 Jul 2006 02:02:48 +0000 (02:02 +0000)]
Fix dbmirror for new backslash escaping:
Martin Pitt [2006-06-16 0:15 +0200]:
> Upstream confirmed my reply in the last mail in [1]: the complete
> escaping logic in DBMirror.pl is seriously screwew.
>
> [1] http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2006-06/msg00065.php
I finally found some time to debug this, and I think I found a better
patch than the one you proposed. Mine is still hackish and is still a
workaround around a proper quoting solution, but at least it repairs
the parsing without introducing the \' quoting again.
I consider this a band-aid patch to fix the recent security update.
PostgreSQL gurus, would you consider applying this until a better
solution is found for DBMirror.pl?
Tom Lane [Thu, 1 Jun 2006 04:10:25 +0000 (04:10 +0000)]
Pre-8.0 branches need to cope with possibility that the system libc knows
about the recent changes in US DST law. Add a variant horology file, so
that either the old or new rules will be considered valid test results.
Tom Lane [Sun, 21 May 2006 20:20:24 +0000 (20:20 +0000)]
Modify libpq's string-escaping routines to be aware of encoding considerations
and standard_conforming_strings. The encoding changes are needed for proper
escaping in multibyte encodings, as per the SQL-injection vulnerabilities
noted in CVE-2006-2313 and CVE-2006-2314. Concurrent fixes are being applied
to the server to ensure that it rejects queries that may have been corrupted
by attempted SQL injection, but this merely guarantees that unpatched clients
will fail rather than allow injection. An actual fix requires changing the
client-side code. While at it we have also fixed these routines to understand
about standard_conforming_strings, so that the upcoming changeover to SQL-spec
string syntax can be somewhat transparent to client code.
Since the existing API of PQescapeString and PQescapeBytea provides no way to
inform them which settings are in use, these functions are now deprecated in
favor of new functions PQescapeStringConn and PQescapeByteaConn. The new
functions take the PGconn to which the string will be sent as an additional
parameter, and look inside the connection structure to determine what to do.
So as to provide some functionality for clients using the old functions,
libpq stores the latest encoding and standard_conforming_strings values
received from the backend in static variables, and the old functions consult
these variables. This will work reliably in clients using only one Postgres
connection at a time, or even multiple connections if they all use the same
encoding and string syntax settings; which should cover many practical
scenarios.
Clients that use homebrew escaping methods, such as PHP's addslashes()
function or even hardwired regexp substitution, will require extra effort
to fix :-(. It is strongly recommended that such code be replaced by use of
PQescapeStringConn/PQescapeByteaConn if at all feasible.
Tom Lane [Sun, 21 May 2006 20:11:58 +0000 (20:11 +0000)]
Add a new GUC parameter backslash_quote, which determines whether the SQL
parser will allow "\'" to be used to represent a literal quote mark. The
"\'" representation has been deprecated for some time in favor of the
SQL-standard representation "''" (two single quote marks), but it has been
used often enough that just disallowing it immediately won't do. Hence
backslash_quote allows the settings "on", "off", and "safe_encoding",
the last meaning to allow "\'" only if client_encoding is a valid server
encoding. That is now the default, and the reason is that in encodings
such as SJIS that allow 0x5c (ASCII backslash) to be the last byte of a
multibyte character, accepting "\'" allows SQL-injection attacks as per
CVE-2006-2314 (further details will be published after release). The
"on" setting is available for backward compatibility, but it must not be
used with clients that are exposed to untrusted input.
Thanks to Akio Ishida and Yasuo Ohgaki for identifying this security issue.
Tom Lane [Sun, 21 May 2006 20:06:45 +0000 (20:06 +0000)]
Change the backend to reject strings containing invalidly-encoded multibyte
characters in all cases. Formerly we mostly just threw warnings for invalid
input, and failed to detect it at all if no encoding conversion was required.
The tighter check is needed to defend against SQL-injection attacks as per
CVE-2006-2313 (further details will be published after release). Embedded
zero (null) bytes will be rejected as well. The checks are applied during
input to the backend (receipt from client or COPY IN), so it no longer seems
necessary to check in textin() and related routines; any string arriving at
those functions will already have been validated. Conversion failure
reporting (for characters with no equivalent in the destination encoding)
has been cleaned up and made consistent while at it.
Also, fix a few longstanding errors in little-used encoding conversion
routines: win1251_to_iso, win866_to_iso, euc_tw_to_big5, euc_tw_to_mic,
mic_to_euc_tw were all broken to varying extents.
Patches by Tatsuo Ishii and Tom Lane. Thanks to Akio Ishida and Yasuo Ohgaki
for identifying the security issues.
Tom Lane [Fri, 19 May 2006 16:31:05 +0000 (16:31 +0000)]
Fix nasty bug in nodeIndexscan.c's detection of duplicate tuples during
a multiple (OR'ed) indexscan. It was checking for duplicate
tuple->t_data->t_ctid, when what it should be checking is tuple->t_self.
The trouble situation occurs when a live tuple has t_ctid not pointing to
itself, which can happen if an attempted UPDATE was rolled back. After a
VACUUM, an unrelated tuple could be installed where the failed update tuple
was, leading to one live tuple's t_ctid pointing to an unrelated tuple.
If one of these tuples is fetched by an earlier OR'ed indexscan and the other
by a later indexscan, nodeIndexscan.c would incorrectly ignore the second
tuple. The bug exists in all 7.4.* and 8.0.* versions, but not in earlier
or later branches because this code was only used in those releases. Per
trouble report from Rafael Martinez Guerrero.
Tom Lane [Fri, 12 May 2006 22:44:58 +0000 (22:44 +0000)]
Fix the sense of the test on DH_check()'s return value. This was preventing
custom-generated DH parameters from actually being used by the server.
Found by Michael Fuhr.
Tom Lane [Wed, 19 Apr 2006 16:15:52 +0000 (16:15 +0000)]
Fix ancient memory leak in PQprintTuples(); our code no longer uses this
routine, but perhaps some applications do. Found by Martijn van Oosterhout
using Coverity.
Tom Lane [Thu, 13 Apr 2006 18:01:53 +0000 (18:01 +0000)]
Fix similar_escape() so that SIMILAR TO works properly for patterns involving
alternatives ("|" symbol). The original coding allowed the added ^ and $
constraints to be absorbed into the first and last alternatives, producing
a pattern that would match more than it should. Per report from Eric Noriega.
I also changed the pattern to add an ARE director ("***:"), ensuring that
SIMILAR TO patterns do not change behavior if regex_flavor is changed. This
is necessary to make the non-capturing parentheses work, and seems like a
good idea on general principles.
Back-patched as far as 7.4. 7.3 also has the bug, but a fix seems impractical
because that version's regex engine doesn't have non-capturing parens.
Tom Lane [Tue, 28 Mar 2006 21:17:58 +0000 (21:17 +0000)]
Repair longstanding error in btree xlog replay: XLogReadBuffer should be
passed extend = true whenever we are reading a page we intend to reinitialize
completely, even if we think the page "should exist". This is because it
might indeed not exist, if the relation got truncated sometime after the
current xlog record was made and before the crash we're trying to recover
from. These two thinkos appear to explain both of the old bug reports
discussed here:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2005-05/msg01369.php
Neil Conway [Mon, 20 Feb 2006 20:10:45 +0000 (20:10 +0000)]
Fix three Python reference leaks in PLy_traceback(). This would result
in leaking memory when invoking a PL/Python procedure that raises an
exception. Unfortunately this still leaks memory, but at least the
largest leak has been plugged.
This patch also fixes a reference counting mistake in PLy_modify_tuple()
for 8.0, 8.1 and HEAD: we don't actually own a reference to `platt', so
we shouldn't Py_DECREF() it.
Neil Conway [Sat, 18 Feb 2006 20:49:00 +0000 (20:49 +0000)]
Patch from Marko Kreen:
pgcrypto crypt()/md5 and hmac() leak memory when compiled against
OpenSSL as openssl.c digest ->reset will do two DigestInit calls
against a context. This happened to work with OpenSSL 0.9.6
but not with 0.9.7+.
Reason for the messy code was that I tried to avoid creating
wrapper structure to transport algorithm info and tried to use
OpenSSL context for it. The fix is to create wrapper structure.
It also uses newer digest API to avoid memory allocations
on reset with newer OpenSSLs.
Tom Lane [Sun, 12 Feb 2006 22:33:29 +0000 (22:33 +0000)]
Fix bug in SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION that allows unprivileged users to crash
the server, if it has been compiled with Asserts enabled (CVE-2006-0553).
Thanks to Akio Ishida for reporting this problem.
Tom Lane [Sat, 21 Jan 2006 04:38:46 +0000 (04:38 +0000)]
Repair longstanding bug in slru/clog logic: it is possible for two backends
to try to create a log segment file concurrently, but the code erroneously
specified O_EXCL to open(), resulting in a needless failure. Before 7.4,
it was even a PANIC condition :-(. Correct code is actually simpler than
what we had, because we can just say O_CREAT to start with and not need a
second open() call. I believe this accounts for several recent reports of
hard-to-reproduce "could not create file ...: File exists" errors in both
pg_clog and pg_subtrans.
Tom Lane [Thu, 12 Jan 2006 21:49:32 +0000 (21:49 +0000)]
Repair "Halloween problem" in EvalPlanQual: a tuple that's been inserted by
our own command (or more generally, xmin = our xact and cmin >= current
command ID) should not be seen as good. Else we may try to update rows
we already updated. This error was inserted last August while fixing the
even bigger problem that the old coding wouldn't see *any* tuples inserted
by our own transaction as good. Per report from Euler Taveira de Oliveira.
Tom Lane [Thu, 12 Jan 2006 19:24:27 +0000 (19:24 +0000)]
Use a more bulletproof test for whether finite() and isinf() are present.
It seems that recent gcc versions can optimize away calls to these functions
even when the functions do not exist on the platform, resulting in a bogus
positive result. Avoid this by using a non-constant argument and ensuring
that the function result is not simply discarded. Per report from
François Laupretre.
Tom Lane [Mon, 9 Jan 2006 21:16:46 +0000 (21:16 +0000)]
Fix pg_dump to add the required OPERATOR() decoration to schema-qualified
operator names. This is needed when dumping operator definitions that have
COMMUTATOR (or similar) links to operators in other schemas.
Apparently Daniel Whitter is the first person ever to try this :-(
Joe Conway [Tue, 3 Jan 2006 23:48:04 +0000 (23:48 +0000)]
When the remote query result has a different number of columns
than the local query specifies (e.g. in the FROM clause),
throw an ERROR (instead of crashing). Fix for bug #2129 reported
by Akio Iwaasa.
Tom Lane [Tue, 3 Jan 2006 23:46:51 +0000 (23:46 +0000)]
There is a signedness bug in Openwall gen_salt code that pgcrypto uses.
This makes the salt space for md5 and xdes algorithms a lot smaller than
it should be.
Neil Conway [Sun, 1 Jan 2006 10:14:27 +0000 (10:14 +0000)]
Remove DOS line endings ("\r\n") from several .po files. DOS line endings
are inconsistent with the rest of the .po files, and apparently cause
problems for Sun's cc. Per report on IRC from "bitvector2".
Tatsuo Ishii [Sat, 24 Dec 2005 10:40:55 +0000 (10:40 +0000)]
Fix long standing Asian multibyte charsets bug.
See:
Subject: [HACKERS] bugs with certain Asian multibyte charsets
From: Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@sraoss.co.jp>
To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2005 18:25:33 +0900 (JST)
Tom Lane [Thu, 22 Dec 2005 22:50:22 +0000 (22:50 +0000)]
Adjust string comparison so that only bitwise-equal strings are considered
equal: if strcoll claims two strings are equal, check it with strcmp, and
sort according to strcmp if not identical. This fixes inconsistent
behavior under glibc's hu_HU locale, and probably under some other locales
as well. Also, take advantage of the now-well-defined behavior to speed up
texteq, textne, bpchareq, bpcharne: they may as well just do a bitwise
comparison and not bother with strcoll at all.
NOTE: affected databases may need to REINDEX indexes on text columns to be
sure they are self-consistent.
Tom Lane [Wed, 14 Dec 2005 17:07:00 +0000 (17:07 +0000)]
Defend against crash while processing Describe Statement or Describe Portal
messages, when client attempts to execute these outside a transaction (start
one) or in a failed transaction (reject message, except for COMMIT/ROLLBACK
statements which we can handle). Per report from Francisco Figueiredo Jr.