Amit Kapila [Wed, 3 Oct 2018 04:24:01 +0000 (09:54 +0530)]
MAXALIGN the target address where we store flattened value.
The API (EOH_flatten_into) that flattens the expanded value representation
expects the target address to be maxaligned. All it's usage adhere to that
principle except when serializing datums for parallel query. Fix that
usage.
Diagnosed-by: Tom Lane
Author: Tom Lane and Amit Kapila
Backpatch-through: 9.6
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/11629.1536550032@sss.pgh.pa.us
Tom Lane [Tue, 2 Oct 2018 16:41:28 +0000 (12:41 -0400)]
Set snprintf.c's maximum number of NL arguments to be 31.
Previously, we used the platform's NL_ARGMAX if any, otherwise 16.
The trouble with this is that the platform value is hugely variable,
ranging from the POSIX-minimum 9 to as much as 64K on recent FreeBSD.
Values of more than a dozen or two have no practical use and slow down
the initialization of the argtypes array. Worse, they cause snprintf.c
to consume far more stack space than was the design intention, possibly
resulting in stack-overflow crashes.
Standardize on 31, which is comfortably more than we need (it looks like
no existing translatable message has more than about 10 parameters).
I chose that, not 32, to make the array sizes powers of 2, for some
possible small gain in speed of the memset.
The lack of reported crashes suggests that the set of platforms we
use snprintf.c on (in released branches) may have no overlap with
the set where NL_ARGMAX has unreasonably large values. But that's
not entirely clear, so back-patch to all supported branches.
Tom Lane [Tue, 2 Oct 2018 15:54:12 +0000 (11:54 -0400)]
Fix corner-case failures in has_foo_privilege() family of functions.
The variants of these functions that take numeric inputs (OIDs or
column numbers) are supposed to return NULL rather than failing
on bad input; this rule reduces problems with snapshot skew when
queries apply the functions to all rows of a catalog.
has_column_privilege() had careless handling of the case where the
table OID didn't exist. You might get something like this:
select has_column_privilege(9999,'nosuchcol','select');
ERROR: column "nosuchcol" of relation "(null)" does not exist
or you might get a crash, depending on the platform's printf's response
to a null string pointer.
In addition, while applying the column-number variant to a dropped
column returned NULL as desired, applying the column-name variant
did not:
select has_column_privilege('mytable','........pg.dropped.2........','select');
ERROR: column "........pg.dropped.2........" of relation "mytable" does not exist
It seems better to make this case return NULL as well.
Also, the OID-accepting variants of has_foreign_data_wrapper_privilege,
has_server_privilege, and has_tablespace_privilege didn't follow the
principle of returning NULL for nonexistent OIDs. Superusers got TRUE,
everybody else got an error.
Per investigation of Jaime Casanova's report of a new crash in HEAD.
These behaviors have been like this for a long time, so back-patch to
all supported branches.
Patch by me; thanks to Stephen Frost for discussion and review
Michael Paquier [Tue, 2 Oct 2018 07:36:11 +0000 (16:36 +0900)]
Fix documentation of pgrowlocks using "lock_type" instead of "modes"
The example used in the documentation is outdated as well. This is an
oversight from 0ac5ad5, which bumped up pgrowlocks but forgot some bits
of the documentation.
Reported-by: Chris Wilson
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/153838692816.2950.12001142346234155699@wrigleys.postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 9.3
Tom Lane [Mon, 1 Oct 2018 15:51:07 +0000 (11:51 -0400)]
Fix tuple_data_split() to not open a relation without any lock.
contrib/pageinspect's tuple_data_split() function thought it could get
away with opening the referenced relation with NoLock. In practice
there's no guarantee that the current session holds any lock on that
rel (even if we just read a page from it), so that this is unsafe.
Switch to using AccessShareLock. Also, postpone closing the relation,
so that we needn't copy its tupdesc. Also, fix unsafe use of
att_isnull() for attributes past the end of the tuple.
Per testing with a patch that complains if we open a relation without
holding any lock on it. I don't plan to back-patch that patch, but we
should close the holes it identifies in all supported branches.
Tom Lane [Mon, 1 Oct 2018 15:39:14 +0000 (11:39 -0400)]
Fix ALTER COLUMN TYPE to not open a relation without any lock.
If the column being modified is referenced by a foreign key constraint
of another table, ALTER TABLE would open the other table (to re-parse
the constraint's definition) without having first obtained a lock on it.
This was evidently intentional, but that doesn't mean it's really safe.
It's especially not safe in 9.3, which pre-dates use of MVCC scans for
catalog reads, but even in current releases it doesn't seem like a good
idea.
We know we'll need AccessExclusiveLock shortly to drop the obsoleted
constraint, so just get that a little sooner to close the hole.
Per testing with a patch that complains if we open a relation without
holding any lock on it. I don't plan to back-patch that patch, but we
should close the holes it identifies in all supported branches.
Tom Lane [Sun, 30 Sep 2018 20:24:56 +0000 (16:24 -0400)]
Fix detection of the result type of strerror_r().
The method we've traditionally used, of redeclaring strerror_r() to
see if the compiler complains of inconsistent declarations, turns out
not to work reliably because some compilers only report a warning,
not an error. Amazingly, this has gone undetected for years, even
though it certainly breaks our detection of whether strerror_r
succeeded.
Let's instead test whether the compiler will take the result of
strerror_r() as a switch() argument. It's possible this won't
work universally either, but it's the best idea I could come up with
on the spur of the moment.
Back-patch of commit 751f532b9. Buildfarm results indicate that only
icc-on-Linux actually has an issue here; perhaps the lack of field
reports indicates that people don't build PG for production that way.
Amit Kapila [Fri, 28 Sep 2018 07:15:00 +0000 (12:45 +0530)]
Fix assertion failure when updating full_page_writes for checkpointer.
When the checkpointer receives a SIGHUP signal to update its configuration,
it may need to update the shared memory for full_page_writes and need to
write a WAL record for it. Now, it is quite possible that the XLOG
machinery has not been initialized by that time and it will lead to
assertion failure while doing that. Fix is to allow the initialization of
the XLOG machinery outside critical section.
This bug has been introduced by the commit 2c03216d83 which added the XLOG
machinery initialization in RecoveryInProgress code path.
Reported-by: Dilip Kumar
Author: Dilip Kumar Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier and Amit Kapila
Backpatch-through: 9.5
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAFiTN-u4BA8KXcQUWDPNgaKAjDXC=C2whnzBM8TAcv=stckYUw@mail.gmail.com
Michael Paquier [Fri, 28 Sep 2018 02:56:04 +0000 (11:56 +0900)]
Fix WAL recycling on standbys depending on archive_mode
A restart point or a checkpoint recycling WAL segments treats segments
marked with neither ".done" (archiving is done) or ".ready" (segment is
ready to be archived) in archive_status the same way for archive_mode
being "on" or "always". While for a primary this is fine, a standby
running a restart point with archive_mode = on would try to mark such a
segment as ready for archiving, which is something that will never
happen except after the standby is promoted.
Note that this problem applies only to WAL segments coming from the
local pg_wal the first time archive recovery is run. Segments part of a
self-contained base backup are the most common case where this could
happen, however even in this case normally the .done markers would be
most likely part of the backup. Segments recovered from an archive are
marked as .ready or .done by the startup process, and segments finished
streaming are marked as such by the WAL receiver, so they are handled
already.
Reported-by: Haruka Takatsuka
Author: Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15402-a453c90ed4cf88b2@postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 9.5, where archive_mode = always has been added.
Peter Eisentraut [Fri, 15 Jun 2018 03:22:14 +0000 (23:22 -0400)]
Recurse to sequences on ownership change for all relkinds
When a table ownership is changed, we must apply that also to any owned
sequences. (Otherwise, it would result in a situation that cannot be
restored, because linked sequences must have the same owner as the
table.) But this was previously only applied to regular tables and
materialized views. But it should also apply to at least foreign
tables. This patch removes the relkind check altogether, because it
doesn't save very much and just introduces the possibility of similar
omissions.
Bug: #15238 Reported-by: Christoph Berg <christoph.berg@credativ.de>
Michael Paquier [Wed, 26 Sep 2018 01:29:49 +0000 (10:29 +0900)]
Rework activation of commit timestamps during recovery
The activation and deactivation of commit timestamp tracking has not
been handled consistently for a primary or standbys at recovery. The
facility can be activated at three different moments of recovery:
- The beginning, where a primary would use the GUC value for the
decision-making, and where a standby relies on the contents of the
control file.
- When replaying a XLOG_PARAMETER_CHANGE record at redo.
- The end, where both primary and standby rely on the GUC value.
Using the GUC value for a primary at the beginning of recovery causes
problems with commit timestamp access when doing crash recovery.
Particularly, when replaying transaction commits, it could be possible
that an attempt to read commit timestamps is done for a transaction
which committed at a moment when track_commit_timestamp was disabled.
A test case is added to reproduce the failure. The test works down to
v11 as it takes advantage of transaction commits within procedures.
Reported-by: Hailong Li
Author: Masahiko Sawasa, Michael Paquier Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/11224478-a782-203b-1f17-e4797b39bdf0@qunar.com
Backpatch-through: 9.5, where commit timestamps have been introduced.
Tom Lane [Tue, 25 Sep 2018 17:23:29 +0000 (13:23 -0400)]
Make some fixes to allow building Postgres on macOS 10.14 ("Mojave").
Apple's latest rearrangements of the system-supplied headers have broken
building of PL/Perl and PL/Tcl. The only practical way to fix PL/Tcl is to
start using the "-isysroot" compiler flag to point to SDK-supplied headers,
as Apple expects. We must also start distinguishing where to find Perl's
headers from where to find its shared library; but that seems like good
cleanup anyway.
Extensions that formerly did something like -I$(perl_archlibexp)/CORE
should now do -I$(perl_includedir)/CORE instead. perl_archlibexp
is still the place to look for libperl.so, though.
If for some reason you don't like the default -isysroot setting, you can
override that by setting PG_SYSROOT in configure's arguments. I don't
currently think people would need to do so, unless maybe for cross-version
build purposes.
In addition, teach configure where to find tclConfig.sh. Our traditional
method of searching $auto_path hasn't worked for the last couple of macOS
releases, and it now seems clear that Apple's not going to change that.
The workaround of manually specifying --with-tclconfig was annoying
already, but Mojave's made it a lot more so because the sysroot path now
has to be included as well. Let's just wire the knowledge into configure
instead. To avoid breaking builds against non-default Tcl installations
(e.g. MacPorts) wherein the $auto_path method probably still works,
arrange to try the additional case only after all else has failed.
Back-patch to all supported versions, since at least the buildfarm
cares about that. The changes are set up to not do anything on macOS
releases that are old enough to not have functional sysroot trees.
Tom Lane [Mon, 24 Sep 2018 15:30:51 +0000 (11:30 -0400)]
Fix over-allocation of space for array_out()'s result string.
array_out overestimated the space needed for its output, possibly by
a very substantial amount if the array is multi-dimensional, because
of wrong order of operations in the loop that counts the number of
curly-brace pairs needed. While the output string is normally
short-lived, this could still cause problems in extreme cases.
An additional minor error was that it counted one more delimiter than
is actually needed.
Repair those errors, add an Assert that the space is now correctly
calculated, and make some minor improvements in the comments.
I also failed to resist the temptation to get rid of an integer
modulus operation per array element; a simple comparison is sufficient.
This bug dates clear back to Berkeley days, so back-patch to all
supported versions.
Initialize random() in bootstrap/stand-alone postgres and in initdb.
This removes a difference between the standard IsUnderPostmaster
execution environment and that of --boot and --single. In a stand-alone
backend, "SELECT random()" always started at the same seed.
On a system capable of using posix shared memory, initdb could still
conclude "selecting dynamic shared memory implementation ... sysv".
Crashed --boot or --single postgres processes orphaned shared memory
objects having names that collided with the not-actually-random names
that initdb probed. The sysv fallback appeared after ten crashes of
--boot or --single postgres. Since --boot and --single are rare in
production use, systems used for PostgreSQL development are the
principal candidate to notice this symptom.
Back-patch to 9.3 (all supported versions). PostgreSQL 9.4 introduced
dynamic shared memory, but 9.3 does share the "SELECT random()" problem.
Tom Lane [Sun, 23 Sep 2018 20:05:45 +0000 (16:05 -0400)]
Fix failure in WHERE CURRENT OF after rewinding the referenced cursor.
In a case where we have multiple relation-scan nodes in a cursor plan,
such as a scan of an inheritance tree, it's possible to fetch from a
given scan node, then rewind the cursor and fetch some row from an
earlier scan node. In such a case, execCurrent.c mistakenly thought
that the later scan node was still active, because ExecReScan hadn't
done anything to make it look not-active. We'd get some sort of
failure in the case of a SeqScan node, because the node's scan tuple
slot would be pointing at a HeapTuple whose t_self gets reset to
invalid by heapam.c. But it seems possible that for other relation
scan node types we'd actually return a valid tuple TID to the caller,
resulting in updating or deleting a tuple that shouldn't have been
considered current. To fix, forcibly clear the ScanTupleSlot in
ExecScanReScan.
Another issue here, which seems only latent at the moment but could
easily become a live bug in future, is that rewinding a cursor does
not necessarily lead to *immediately* applying ExecReScan to every
scan-level node in the plan tree. Upper-level nodes will think that
they can postpone that call if their child node is already marked
with chgParam flags. I don't see a way for that to happen today in
a plan tree that's simple enough for execCurrent.c's search_plan_tree
to understand, but that's one heck of a fragile assumption. So, add
some logic in search_plan_tree to detect chgParam flags being set on
nodes that it descended to/through, and assume that that means we
should consider lower scan nodes to be logically reset even if their
ReScan call hasn't actually happened yet.
Per bug #15395 from Matvey Arye. This has been broken for a long time,
so back-patch to all supported branches.
Andres Freund [Fri, 21 Sep 2018 01:10:52 +0000 (18:10 -0700)]
Error out for clang on x86-32 without SSE2 support, no -fexcess-precision.
As clang currently doesn't support -fexcess-precision=standard,
compiling x86-32 code with SSE2 disabled, can lead to problems with
floating point overflow checks and the like.
This issue was noticed because clang, on at least some BSDs, defaults
to i386 compatibility, whereas it defaults to pentium4 on Linux. Our
forced usage of __builtin_isinf() lead to some overflow checks not
triggering when compiling for i386, e.g. when the result of the
calculation didn't overflow in 80bit registers, but did so in 64bit.
While we could just fall back to a non-builtin isinf, it seems likely
that the use of 80bit registers leads to other problems (which is why
we force the flag for GCC already). Therefore error out when
detecting clang in that situation.
Reported-By: Victor Wagner Analyzed-By: Andrew Gierth and Andres Freund
Author: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180905005130.ewk4xcs5dgyzcy45@alap3.anarazel.de
Backpatch: 9.3-, all supported versions are affected
Thomas Munro [Thu, 20 Sep 2018 02:02:40 +0000 (14:02 +1200)]
Defer restoration of libraries in parallel workers.
Several users of extensions complained of crashes in parallel workers
that turned out to be due to syscache access from their _PG_init()
functions. Reorder the initialization of parallel workers so that
libraries are restored after the caches are initialized, and inside a
transaction.
This was reported in bug #15350 and elsewhere. We don't consider it
to be a bug: extensions shouldn't do that, because then they can't be
used in shared_preload_libraries. However, it's a fairly obscure
hazard and these extensions worked in practice before parallel query
came along. So let's make it work. Later commits might add a warning
message and eventually an error.
Back-patch to 9.6, where parallel query landed.
Author: Thomas Munro Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila Reported-by: Kieran McCusker, Jimmy
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/153512195228.1489.8545997741965926448%40wrigleys.postgresql.org
Tom Lane [Wed, 19 Sep 2018 16:43:51 +0000 (12:43 -0400)]
Don't ignore locktable-full failures in StandbyAcquireAccessExclusiveLock.
Commit 37c54863c removed the code in StandbyAcquireAccessExclusiveLock
that checked the return value of LockAcquireExtended. That created a
bug, because it's still passing reportMemoryError = false to
LockAcquireExtended, meaning that LOCKACQUIRE_NOT_AVAIL will be returned
if we're out of shared memory for the lock table.
In such a situation, the startup process would believe it had acquired an
exclusive lock even though it hadn't, with potentially dire consequences.
To fix, just drop the use of reportMemoryError = false, which allows us
to simplify the call into a plain LockAcquire(). It's unclear that the
locktable-full situation arises often enough that it's worth having a
better recovery method than crash-and-restart. (I strongly suspect that
the only reason the code path existed at all was that it was relatively
simple to do in the pre-37c54863c implementation. But now it's not.)
LockAcquireExtended's reportMemoryError parameter is now dead code and
could be removed. I refrained from doing so, however, because there
was some interest in resurrecting the behavior if we do get reports of
locktable-full failures in the field. Also, it seems unwise to remove
the parameter concurrently with shipping commit f868a8143, which added a
parameter; if there are any third-party callers of LockAcquireExtended,
we want them to get a wrong-number-of-parameters compile error rather
than a possibly-silent misinterpretation of its last parameter.
Thomas Munro [Tue, 18 Sep 2018 10:56:36 +0000 (22:56 +1200)]
Allow DSM allocation to be interrupted.
Chris Travers reported that the startup process can repeatedly try to
cancel a backend that is in a posix_fallocate()/EINTR loop and cause it
to loop forever. Teach the retry loop to give up if an interrupt is
pending. Don't actually check for interrupts in that loop though,
because a non-local exit would skip some clean-up code in the caller.
Back-patch to 9.4 where DSM was added (and posix_fallocate() was later
back-patched).
Author: Chris Travers Reviewed-by: Ildar Musin, Murat Kabilov, Oleksii Kliukin Tested-by: Oleksii Kliukin
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAN-RpxB-oeZve_J3SM_6%3DHXPmvEG%3DHX%2B9V9pi8g2YR7YW0rBBg%40mail.gmail.com
Tom Lane [Sat, 15 Sep 2018 17:42:34 +0000 (13:42 -0400)]
Fix failure with initplans used conditionally during EvalPlanQual rechecks.
The EvalPlanQual machinery assumes that any initplans (that is,
uncorrelated sub-selects) used during an EPQ recheck would have already
been evaluated during the main query; this is implicit in the fact that
execPlan pointers are not copied into the EPQ estate's es_param_exec_vals.
But it's possible for that assumption to fail, if the initplan is only
reached conditionally. For example, a sub-select inside a CASE expression
could be reached during a recheck when it had not been previously, if the
CASE test depends on a column that was just updated.
This bug is old, appearing to date back to my rewrite of EvalPlanQual in
commit 9f2ee8f28, but was not detected until Kyle Samson reported a case.
To fix, force all not-yet-evaluated initplans used within the EPQ plan
subtree to be evaluated at the start of the recheck, before entering the
EPQ environment. This could be inefficient, if such an initplan is
expensive and goes unused again during the recheck --- but that's piling
one layer of improbability atop another. It doesn't seem worth adding
more complexity to prevent that, at least not in the back branches.
It was convenient to use the new-in-v11 ExecEvalParamExecParams function
to implement this, but I didn't like either its name or the specifics of
its API, so revise that.
Back-patch all the way. Rather than rewrite the patch to avoid depending
on bms_next_member() in the oldest branches, I chose to back-patch that
function into 9.4 and 9.3. (This isn't the first time back-patches have
needed that, and it exhausted my patience.) I also chose to back-patch
some test cases added by commits 71404af2a and 342a1ffa2 into 9.4 and 9.3,
so that the 9.x versions of eval-plan-qual.spec are all the same.
Andrew Gierth diagnosed the problem and contributed the added test cases,
though the actual code changes are by me.
Amit Kapila [Fri, 14 Sep 2018 04:47:31 +0000 (10:17 +0530)]
Don't allow LIMIT/OFFSET clause within sub-selects to be pushed to workers.
Allowing sub-select containing LIMIT/OFFSET in workers can lead to
inconsistent results at the top-level as there is no guarantee that the
row order will be fully deterministic. The fix is to prohibit pushing
LIMIT/OFFSET within sub-selects to workers.
Reported-by: Andrew Fletcher
Bug: 15324
Author: Amit Kapila Reviewed-by: Dilip Kumar
Backpatch-through: 9.6
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/153417684333.10284.11356259990921828616@wrigleys.postgresql.org
Amit Kapila [Fri, 14 Sep 2018 03:06:21 +0000 (08:36 +0530)]
Back-patch "Fix parallel hash join path search."
Back-patch commit 655393a022bd653e2b48dbf20b69236981e35195 to 9.6. This
synchronizes the relavant code and helps in generating parallel paths in
some cases in 9.6. This also helps in back-patch of future patches where
we can get the same plan in all branches.
Amit Kapila [Thu, 13 Sep 2018 10:38:55 +0000 (16:08 +0530)]
Attach FPI to the first record after full_page_writes is turned on.
XLogInsert fails to attach a required FPI to the first record after
full_page_writes is turned on by the last checkpoint. This bug got
introduced in 9.5 due to code rearrangement in commits 2c03216d83 and 2076db2aea. Fix it by ensuring that XLogInsertRecord performs a
recomputation when the given record is generated with FPW as off but
found that the flag has been turned on while actually inserting the
record.
Reported-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi
Author: Kyotaro Horiguchi Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila
Backpatch-through: 9.5 where this problem was introduced
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180420.151043.74298611.horiguchi.kyotaro@lab.ntt.co.jp
Andrew Gierth [Wed, 12 Sep 2018 18:31:06 +0000 (19:31 +0100)]
Repair bug in regexp split performance improvements.
Commit c8ea87e4b introduced a temporary conversion buffer for
substrings extracted during regexp splits. Unfortunately the code that
sized it was failing to ignore the effects of ignored degenerate
regexp matches, so for regexp_split_* calls it could under-size the
buffer in such cases.
Fix, and add some regression test cases (though those will only catch
the bug if run in a multibyte encoding).
Backpatch to 9.3 as the faulty code was.
Thanks to the PostGIS project, Regina Obe and Paul Ramsey for the
report (via IRC) and assistance in analysis. Patch by me.
Andrew Gierth [Tue, 11 Sep 2018 17:14:19 +0000 (18:14 +0100)]
Repair double-free in SP-GIST rescan (bug #15378)
spgrescan would first reset traversalCxt, and then traverse a
potentially non-empty stack containing pointers to traversalValues
which had been allocated in those contexts, freeing them a second
time. This bug originates in commit ccd6eb49a where traversalValue was
introduced.
Repair by traversing the stack before the context reset; this isn't
ideal, since it means doing retail pfree in a context that's about to
be reset, but the freeing of a stack entry is also done in other
places in the code during the scan so it's not worth trying to
refactor it further. Regression test added.
Backpatch to 9.6 where the problem was introduced.
Per bug #15378; analysis and patch by me, originally from a report on
IRC by user velix; see also PostGIS ticket #4174; review by Alexander
Korotkov.
ginRedoRecompress() replays actions over compressed segments of posting list
in-place. However, it might lead to write past pg_upper, because intermediate
state during playing the changes can take more space than both original state
and final state. This commit fixes that by refuse from in-place modification.
Instead page tail is copied once modification is started, and then it's used
as the source of original segments. Backpatch to 9.4 where posting list
compression was introduced.
Reported-by: Sivasubramanian Ramasubramanian
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1536091151804.6588%40amazon.com
Author: Alexander Korotkov based on patch from and ideas by Sivasubramanian Ramasubramanian
Review: Sivasubramanian Ramasubramanian
Backpatch-through: 9.4
Tom Lane [Sat, 8 Sep 2018 00:09:57 +0000 (20:09 -0400)]
Save/restore SPI's global variables in SPI_connect() and SPI_finish().
This patch removes two sources of interference between nominally
independent functions when one SPI-using function calls another,
perhaps without knowing that it does so.
Chapman Flack pointed out that xml.c's query_to_xml_internal() expects
SPI_tuptable and SPI_processed to stay valid across datatype output
function calls; but it's possible that such a call could involve
re-entrant use of SPI. It seems likely that there are similar hazards
elsewhere, if not in the core code then in third-party SPI users.
Previously SPI_finish() reset SPI's API globals to zeroes/nulls, which
would typically make for a crash in such a situation. Restoring them
to the values they had at SPI_connect() seems like a considerably more
useful behavior, and it still meets the design goal of not leaving any
dangling pointers to tuple tables of the function being exited.
Also, cause SPI_connect() to reset these variables to zeroes/nulls after
saving them. This prevents interference in the opposite direction: it's
possible that a SPI-using function that's only ever been tested standalone
contains assumptions that these variables start out as zeroes. That was
the case as long as you were the outermost SPI user, but not so much for
an inner user. Now it's consistent.
Report and fix suggestion by Chapman Flack, actual patch by me.
Back-patch to all supported branches.
Tom Lane [Fri, 7 Sep 2018 22:13:29 +0000 (18:13 -0400)]
Limit depth of forced recursion for CLOBBER_CACHE_RECURSIVELY.
It's somewhat surprising that we got away with this before. (Actually,
since nobody tests this routinely AFAIK, it might've been broken for
awhile. But it's definitely broken in the wake of commit f868a8143.)
It seems sufficient to limit the forced recursion to a small number
of levels.
Back-patch to all supported branches, like the preceding patch.
Tom Lane [Fri, 7 Sep 2018 22:04:38 +0000 (18:04 -0400)]
Fix longstanding recursion hazard in sinval message processing.
LockRelationOid and sibling routines supposed that, if our session already
holds the lock they were asked to acquire, they could skip calling
AcceptInvalidationMessages on the grounds that we must have already read
any remote sinval messages issued against the relation being locked.
This is normally true, but there's a critical special case where it's not:
processing inside AcceptInvalidationMessages might attempt to access system
relations, resulting in a recursive call to acquire a relation lock.
Hence, if the outer call had acquired that same system catalog lock, we'd
fall through, despite the possibility that there's an as-yet-unread sinval
message for that system catalog. This could, for example, result in
failure to access a system catalog or index that had just been processed
by VACUUM FULL. This is the explanation for buildfarm failures we've been
seeing intermittently for the past three months. The bug is far older
than that, but commits a54e1f158 et al added a new recursion case within
AcceptInvalidationMessages that is apparently easier to hit than any
previous case.
To fix this, we must not skip calling AcceptInvalidationMessages until
we have *finished* a call to it since acquiring a relation lock, not
merely acquired the lock. (There's already adequate logic inside
AcceptInvalidationMessages to deal with being called recursively.)
Fortunately, we can implement that at trivial cost, by adding a flag
to LOCALLOCK hashtable entries that tracks whether we know we have
completed such a call.
There is an API hazard added by this patch for external callers of
LockAcquire: if anything is testing for LOCKACQUIRE_ALREADY_HELD,
it might be fooled by the new return code LOCKACQUIRE_ALREADY_CLEAR
into thinking the lock wasn't already held. This should be a fail-soft
condition, though, unless something very bizarre is being done in
response to the test.
Also, I added an additional output argument to LockAcquireExtended,
assuming that that probably isn't called by any outside code given
the very limited usefulness of its additional functionality.
Tom Lane [Thu, 6 Sep 2018 14:49:45 +0000 (10:49 -0400)]
Make contrib/unaccent's unaccent() function work when not in search path.
Since the fixes for CVE-2018-1058, we've advised people to schema-qualify
function references in order to fix failures in code that executes under
a minimal search_path setting. However, that's insufficient to make the
single-argument form of unaccent() work, because it looks up the "unaccent"
text search dictionary using the search path.
The most expedient answer seems to be to remove the search_path dependency
by making it look in the same schema that the unaccent() function itself
is declared in. This will definitely work for the normal usage of this
function with the unaccent dictionary provided by the extension.
It's barely possible that there are people who were relying on the
search-path-dependent behavior to select other dictionaries with the same
name; but if there are any such people at all, they can still get that
behavior by writing unaccent('unaccent', ...), or possibly
unaccent('unaccent'::text::regdictionary, ...) if the lookup has to be
postponed to runtime.
Per complaint from Gunnlaugur Thor Briem. Back-patch to all supported
branches.
Tom Lane [Wed, 5 Sep 2018 17:47:16 +0000 (13:47 -0400)]
Make argument names of pg_get_object_address consistent, and fix docs.
pg_get_object_address and pg_identify_object_as_address are supposed
to be inverses, but they disagreed as to the names of the arguments
representing the textual form of an object address. Moreover, the
documented argument names didn't agree with reality at all, either
for these functions or pg_identify_object.
In HEAD and v11, I think we can get away with renaming the input
arguments of pg_get_object_address to match the outputs of
pg_identify_object_as_address. In theory that might break queries
using named-argument notation to call pg_get_object_address, but
it seems really unlikely that anybody is doing that, or that they'd
have much trouble adjusting if they were. In older branches, we'll
just live with the lack of consistency.
Aside from fixing the documentation of these functions to match reality,
I couldn't resist the temptation to do some copy-editing.
Per complaint from Jean-Pierre Pelletier. Back-patch to 9.5 where these
functions were introduced. (Before v11, this is a documentation change
only.)
Bruce Momjian [Wed, 5 Sep 2018 02:34:07 +0000 (22:34 -0400)]
docs: improve AT TIME ZONE description
The previous description was unclear. Also add a third example, change
use of time zone acronyms to more verbose descriptions, and add a
mention that using 'time' with AT TIME ZONE uses the current time zone
rules.
Amit Kapila [Tue, 4 Sep 2018 05:31:25 +0000 (11:01 +0530)]
Prohibit pushing subqueries containing window function calculation to
workers.
Allowing window function calculation in workers leads to inconsistent
results because if the input row ordering is not fully deterministic, the
output of window functions might vary across workers. The fix is to treat
them as parallel-restricted.
In the passing, improve the coding pattern in max_parallel_hazard_walker
so that it has a chain of mutually-exclusive if ... else if ... else if
... else if ... IsA tests.
Reported-by: Marko Tiikkaja
Bug: 15324
Author: Amit Kapila Reviewed-by: Tom Lane
Backpatch-through: 9.6
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAL9smLAnfPJCDUUG4ckX2iznj53V7VSMsYefzZieN93YxTNOcw@mail.gmail.com
Michael Paquier [Sun, 2 Sep 2018 19:40:52 +0000 (12:40 -0700)]
Fix initial sync of slot parent directory when restoring status
At the beginning of recovery, information from replication slots is
recovered from disk to memory. In order to ensure the durability of the
information, the status file as well as its parent directory are
synced. It happens that the sync on the parent directory was done
directly using the status file path, which is logically incorrect, and
the current code has been doing a sync on the same object twice in a
row.
Reported-by: Konstantin Knizhnik Diagnosed-by: Konstantin Knizhnik
Author: Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/9eb1a6d5-b66f-2640-598d-c5ea46b8f68a@postgrespro.ru
Backpatch-through: 9.4-
Tom Lane [Sat, 1 Sep 2018 20:02:47 +0000 (16:02 -0400)]
Doc: fix oversights in "Client/Server Character Set Conversions" table.
This table claimed that JOHAB could be used as a server encoding, which
was true originally but hasn't been true since 8.3. It also lacked
entries for EUC_JIS_2004 and SHIFT_JIS_2004.
JOHAB problem noted by Lars Kanis, the others by me.
Tom Lane [Sat, 1 Sep 2018 19:27:13 +0000 (15:27 -0400)]
Avoid using potentially-under-aligned page buffers.
There's a project policy against using plain "char buf[BLCKSZ]" local
or static variables as page buffers; preferred style is to palloc or
malloc each buffer to ensure it is MAXALIGN'd. However, that policy's
been ignored in an increasing number of places. We've apparently got
away with it so far, probably because (a) relatively few people use
platforms on which misalignment causes core dumps and/or (b) the
variables chance to be sufficiently aligned anyway. But this is not
something to rely on. Moreover, even if we don't get a core dump,
we might be paying a lot of cycles for misaligned accesses.
To fix, invent new union types PGAlignedBlock and PGAlignedXLogBlock
that the compiler must allocate with sufficient alignment, and use
those in place of plain char arrays.
I used these types even for variables where there's no risk of a
misaligned access, since ensuring proper alignment should make
kernel data transfers faster. I also changed some places where
we had been palloc'ing short-lived buffers, for coding style
uniformity and to save palloc/pfree overhead.
Since this seems to be a live portability hazard (despite the lack
of field reports), back-patch to all supported versions.
Patch by me; thanks to Michael Paquier for review.
Ignore server-side delays when enforcing wal_sender_timeout.
Healthy clients of servers having poor I/O performance, such as
buildfarm members hamster and tern, saw unexpected timeouts. That
disagreed with documentation. This fix adds one gettimeofday() call
whenever ProcessRepliesIfAny() finds no client reply messages.
Back-patch to 9.4; the bug's symptom is rare and mild, and the code all
moved between 9.3 and 9.4.
Michael Paquier [Fri, 31 Aug 2018 18:04:33 +0000 (11:04 -0700)]
Ensure correct minimum consistent point on standbys
Startup process has improved its calculation of incorrect minimum
consistent point in 8d68ee6, which ensures that all WAL available gets
replayed when doing crash recovery, and has introduced an incorrect
calculation of the minimum recovery point for non-startup processes,
which can cause incorrect page references on a standby when for example
the background writer flushed a couple of pages on-disk but was not
updating the control file to let a subsequent crash recovery replay to
where it should have.
The only case where this has been reported to be a problem is when a
standby needs to calculate the latest removed xid when replaying a btree
deletion record, so one would need connections on a standby that happen
just after recovery has thought it reached a consistent point. Using a
background worker which is started after the consistent point is reached
would be the easiest way to get into problems if it connects to a
database. Having clients which attempt to connect periodically could
also be a problem, but the odds of seeing this problem are much lower.
The fix used is pretty simple, as the idea is to give access to the
minimum recovery point written in the control file to non-startup
processes so as they use a reference, while the startup process still
initializes its own references of the minimum consistent point so as the
original problem with incorrect page references happening post-promotion
with a crash do not show up.
Reported-by: Alexander Kukushkin Diagnosed-by: Alexander Kukushkin
Author: Michael Paquier Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi, Alexander Kukushkin
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/153492341830.1368.3936905691758473953@wrigleys.postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 9.3
Enforce cube dimension limit in all cube construction functions
contrib/cube has a limit to 100 dimensions for cube datatype. However, it's
not enforced everywhere, and one can actually construct cube with more than
100 dimensions having then trouble with dump/restore. This commit add checks
for dimensions limit in all functions responsible for cube construction.
Backpatch to all supported versions.
Reported-by: Andrew Gierth
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/87va7uybt4.fsf%40news-spur.riddles.org.uk
Author: Andrey Borodin with small additions by me
Review: Tom Lane
Backpatch-through: 9.3
Split contrib/cube platform-depended checks into separate test
We're currently maintaining two outputs for cube regression test. But that
appears to be unsuitable, because these outputs are different in out few checks
involving scientific notation. So, split checks involving scientific notation
into separate test, making contrib/cube easier to maintain. Backpatch to all
supported versions in order to make further backpatching easier.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAPpHfdvJgWjxHsJTtT%2Bo1tz3OR8EFHcLQjhp-d3%2BUcmJLh-fQA%40mail.gmail.com
Author: Alexander Korotkov
Backpatch-through: 9.3
Tom Lane [Fri, 31 Aug 2018 16:26:20 +0000 (12:26 -0400)]
Make checksum_impl.h safe to compile with -fstrict-aliasing.
In general, Postgres requires -fno-strict-aliasing with compilers that
implement C99 strict aliasing rules. There's little hope of getting
rid of that overall. But it seems like it would be a good idea if
storage/checksum_impl.h in particular didn't depend on it, because
that header is explicitly intended to be included by external programs.
We don't have a lot of control over the compiler switches that an
external program might use, as shown by Michael Banck's report of
failure in a privately-modified version of pg_verify_checksums.
Hence, switch to using a union in place of willy-nilly pointer casting
inside this file. I think this makes the code a bit more readable
anyway.
checksum_impl.h hasn't changed since it was introduced in 9.3,
so back-patch all the way.
Michael Paquier [Thu, 30 Aug 2018 00:11:27 +0000 (17:11 -0700)]
Stop bgworkers during fast shutdown with postmaster in startup phase
When a postmaster gets into its phase PM_STARTUP, it would start
background workers using BgWorkerStart_PostmasterStart mode immediately,
which would cause problems for a fast shutdown as the postmaster forgets
to send SIGTERM to already-started background workers. With smart and
immediate shutdowns, this correctly happened, and fast shutdown is the
only mode missing the shot.
Author: Alexander Kukushkin Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAFh8B=mvnD8+DZUfzpi50DoaDfZRDfd7S=gwj5vU9GYn8UvHkA@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 9.5
Tom Lane [Tue, 28 Aug 2018 23:46:59 +0000 (19:46 -0400)]
Make pg_restore's identify_locking_dependencies() more bulletproof.
This function had a blacklist of dump object types that it believed
needed exclusive lock ... but we hadn't maintained that, so that it
was missing ROW SECURITY, POLICY, and INDEX ATTACH items, all of
which need (or should be treated as needing) exclusive lock.
Since the same oversight seems likely in future, let's reverse the
sense of the test so that the code has a whitelist of safe object
types; better to wrongly assume a command can't be run in parallel
than the opposite. Currently the only POST_DATA object type that's
safe is CREATE INDEX ... and that list hasn't changed in a long time.
Andrew Gierth [Tue, 28 Aug 2018 13:43:51 +0000 (14:43 +0100)]
postgres_fdw: don't push ORDER BY with no vars (bug #15352)
Commit aa09cd242 changed a condition in find_em_expr_for_rel from
being a bms_equal comparison of relids to bms_is_subset, in order to
support order by clauses on foreign joins. But this also allows
through the degenerate case of expressions with no Vars at all (and
hence empty relids), including integer constants which will be parsed
unexpectedly on the remote (viz. "ERROR: ORDER BY position 0 is not in
select list" as in the bug report).
Repair by adding an additional !bms_is_empty test.
Backpatch through to 9.6 where the aforementioned change was made.
Per bug #15352 from Maksym Boguk; analysis and patch by me.
Andrew Gierth [Tue, 28 Aug 2018 08:52:25 +0000 (09:52 +0100)]
Avoid quadratic slowdown in regexp match/split functions.
regexp_matches, regexp_split_to_table and regexp_split_to_array all
work by compiling a list of match positions as character offsets (NOT
byte positions) in the source string.
Formerly, they then used text_substr to extract the matched text; but
in a multi-byte encoding, that counts the characters in the string,
and the characters needed to reach the starting byte position, on
every call. Accordingly, the performance degraded as the product of
the input string length and the number of match positions, such that
splitting a string of a few hundred kbytes could take many minutes.
Repair by keeping the wide-character copy of the input string
available (only in the case where encoding_max_length is not 1) after
performing the match operation, and extracting substrings from that
instead. This reduces the complexity to being linear in the number of
result bytes, discounting the actual regexp match itself (which is not
affected by this patch).
In passing, remove cleanup using retail pfree() which was obsoleted by
commit ff428cded (Feb 2008) which made cleanup of SRF multi-call
contexts automatic. Also increase (to ~134 million) the maximum number
of matches and provide an error message when it is reached.
Backpatch all the way because this has been wrong forever.
Tom Lane [Mon, 27 Aug 2018 19:11:12 +0000 (15:11 -0400)]
Fix missing dependency for pg_dump's ENABLE ROW LEVEL SECURITY items.
The archive should show a dependency on the item's table, but it failed
to include one. This could cause failures in parallel restore due to
emitting ALTER TABLE ... ENABLE ROW LEVEL SECURITY before restoring
the table's data. In practice the odds of a problem seem low, since
you would typically need to have set FORCE ROW LEVEL SECURITY as well,
and you'd also need a very high --jobs count to have any chance of this
happening. That probably explains the lack of field reports.
Still, it's a bug, so back-patch to 9.5 where RLS was introduced.
Tom Lane [Sun, 26 Aug 2018 18:21:55 +0000 (14:21 -0400)]
Make syslogger more robust against failures in opening CSV log files.
The previous coding figured it'd be good enough to postpone opening
the first CSV log file until we got a message we needed to write there.
This is unsafe, though, because if the open fails we end up in infinite
recursion trying to report the failure. Instead make the CSV log file
management code look as nearly as possible like the longstanding logic
for the stderr log file. In particular, open it immediately at postmaster
startup (if enabled), or when we get a SIGHUP in which we find that
log_destination has been changed to enable CSV logging.
It seems OK to fail if a postmaster-start-time open attempt fails, as
we've long done for the stderr log file. But we can't die if we fail
to open a CSV log file during SIGHUP, so we're still left with a problem.
In that case, write any output meant for the CSV log file to the stderr
log file. (This will also cover race-condition cases in which backends
send CSV log data before or after we have the CSV log file open.)
This patch also fixes an ancient oversight that, if CSV logging was
turned off during a SIGHUP, we never actually closed the last CSV
log file.
In passing, remember to reset whereToSendOutput = DestNone during syslogger
start, since (unlike all other postmaster children) it's forked before the
postmaster has done that. This made for a platform-dependent difference
in error reporting behavior between the syslogger and other children:
except on Windows, it'd report problems to the original postmaster stderr
as well as the normal error log file(s). It's barely possible that that
was intentional at some point; but it doesn't seem likely to be desirable
in production, and the platform dependency definitely isn't desirable.
Per report from Alexander Kukushkin. It's been like this for a long time,
so back-patch to all supported branches.
Bruce Momjian [Sat, 25 Aug 2018 17:35:14 +0000 (13:35 -0400)]
doc: "Latest checkpoint location" will not match in pg_upgrade
Mention that "Latest checkpoint location" will not match in pg_upgrade
if the standby server is still running during the upgrade, which is
possible. "Match" text first appeared in PG 9.5.
Reported-by: Paul Bonaud
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/c7268794-edb4-1772-3bfd-04c54585c24e@trainline.com
Andrew Gierth [Thu, 23 Aug 2018 17:29:18 +0000 (18:29 +0100)]
Fix lexing of standard multi-character operators in edge cases.
Commits c6b3c939b (which fixed the precedence of >=, <=, <> operators)
and 865f14a2d (which added support for the standard => notation for
named arguments) created a class of lexer tokens which look like
multi-character operators but which have their own token IDs distinct
from Op. However, longest-match rules meant that following any of
these tokens with another operator character, as in (1<>-1), would
cause them to be incorrectly returned as Op.
The error here isn't immediately obvious, because the parser would
usually still find the correct operator via the Op token, but there
were more subtle problems:
1. If immediately followed by a comment or +-, >= <= <> would be given
the old precedence of Op rather than the correct new precedence;
2. If followed by a comment, != would be returned as Op rather than as
NOT_EQUAL, causing it not to be found at all;
3. If followed by a comment or +-, the => token for named arguments
would be lexed as Op, causing the argument to be mis-parsed as a
simple expression, usually causing an error.
Fix by explicitly checking for the operators in the {operator} code
block in addition to all the existing special cases there.
Backpatch to 9.5 where the problem was introduced.
Analysis and patch by me; review by Tom Lane.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/87va851ppl.fsf@news-spur.riddles.org.uk
Andrew Gierth [Thu, 23 Aug 2018 19:00:33 +0000 (20:00 +0100)]
Reduce an unnecessary O(N^3) loop in lexer.
The lexer's handling of operators contained an O(N^3) hazard when
dealing with long strings of + or - characters; it seems hard to
prevent this case from being O(N^2), but the additional N multiplier
was not needed.
Backpatch all the way since this has been there since 7.x, and it
presents at least a mild hazard in that trying to do Bind, PREPARE or
EXPLAIN on a hostile query could take excessive time (without
honouring cancels or timeouts) even if the query was never executed.
Michael Paquier [Tue, 21 Aug 2018 06:18:00 +0000 (15:18 +0900)]
Fix set of NLS translation issues
While monitoring the code, a couple of issues related to string
translation has showed up:
- Some routines for auto-updatable views return an error string, which
sometimes missed the shot. A comment regarding string translation is
added for each routine to help with future features.
- GSSAPI authentication missed two translations.
- vacuumdb handles non-translated strings.
Reported-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi
Author: Kyotaro Horiguchi Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier, Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180810.152131.31921918.horiguchi.kyotaro@lab.ntt.co.jp
Backpatch-through: 9.3
Tom Lane [Fri, 17 Aug 2018 21:12:21 +0000 (17:12 -0400)]
Ensure schema qualification in pg_restore DISABLE/ENABLE TRIGGER commands.
Previously, this code blindly followed the common coding pattern of
passing PQserverVersion(AH->connection) as the server-version parameter
of fmtQualifiedId. That works as long as we have a connection; but in
pg_restore with text output, we don't. Instead we got a zero from
PQserverVersion, which fmtQualifiedId interpreted as "server is too old to
have schemas", and so the name went unqualified. That still accidentally
managed to work in many cases, which is probably why this ancient bug went
undetected for so long. It only became obvious in the wake of the changes
to force dump/restore to execute with restricted search_path.
In HEAD/v11, let's deal with this by ripping out fmtQualifiedId's server-
version behavioral dependency, and just making it schema-qualify all the
time. We no longer support pg_dump from servers old enough to need the
ability to omit schema name, let alone restoring to them. (Also, the few
callers outside pg_dump already didn't work with pre-schema servers.)
In older branches, that's not an acceptable solution, so instead just
tweak the DISABLE/ENABLE TRIGGER logic to ensure it will schema-qualify
its output regardless of server version.
Per bug #15338 from Oleg somebody. Back-patch to all supported branches.
Andrew Gierth [Fri, 17 Aug 2018 14:04:26 +0000 (15:04 +0100)]
Set scan direction appropriately for SubPlans (bug #15336)
When executing a SubPlan in an expression, the EState's direction
field was left alone, resulting in an attempt to execute the subplan
backwards if it was encountered during a backwards scan of a cursor.
Also, though much less likely, it was possible to reach the execution
of an InitPlan while in backwards-scan state.
Repair by saving/restoring estate->es_direction and forcing forward
scan mode in the relevant places.
Backpatch all the way, since this has been broken since 8.3 (prior to
commit c7ff7663e, SubPlans had their own EStates rather than sharing
the parent plan's, so there was no confusion over scan direction).
Per bug #15336 reported by Vladimir Baranoff; analysis and patch by
me, review by Tom Lane.
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 17 Aug 2018 14:25:48 +0000 (10:25 -0400)]
pg_upgrade: issue helpful error message for use on standbys
Commit 777e6ddf1723306bd2bf8fe6f804863f459b0323 checked for a shut down
message from a standby and allowed it to continue. This patch reports a
helpful error message in these cases, suggesting to use rsync as
documented.
Tomas Vondra [Thu, 16 Aug 2018 14:49:10 +0000 (16:49 +0200)]
Close the file descriptor in ApplyLogicalMappingFile
The function was forgetting to close the file descriptor, resulting
in failures like this:
ERROR: 53000: exceeded maxAllocatedDescs (492) while trying to open
file "pg_logical/mappings/map-4000-4eb-1_60DE1E08-5376b5-537c6b"
LOCATION: OpenTransientFile, fd.c:2161
Simply close the file at the end, and backpatch to 9.4 (where logical
decoding was introduced). While at it, fix a nearby typo.
Tom Lane [Wed, 15 Aug 2018 21:25:23 +0000 (17:25 -0400)]
Make snprintf.c follow the C99 standard for snprintf's result value.
C99 says that the result should be the number of bytes that would have
been emitted given a large enough buffer, not the number we actually
were able to put in the buffer. It's time to make our substitute
implementation comply with that. Not doing so results in inefficiency
in buffer-enlargement cases, and also poses a portability hazard for
third-party code that might expect C99-compliant snprintf behavior
within Postgres.
In passing, remove useless tests for str == NULL; neither C99 nor
predecessor standards ever allowed that except when count == 0,
so I see no reason to expend cycles on making that a non-crash case
for this implementation. Also, don't waste a byte in pg_vfprintf's
local I/O buffer; this might have performance benefits by allowing
aligned writes during flushbuffer calls.
Back-patch of commit 805889d7d. There was some concern about this
possibly breaking code that assumes pre-C99 behavior, but there is
much more risk (and reality, in our own code) of code that assumes
C99 behavior and hence fails to detect buffer overrun without this.
Alvaro Herrera [Wed, 15 Aug 2018 21:09:29 +0000 (18:09 -0300)]
Update FSM on WAL replay of page all-visible/frozen
We aren't very strict about keeping FSM up to date on WAL replay,
because per-page freespace values aren't critical in replicas (can't
write to heap in a replica; and if the replica is promoted, the values
would be updated by VACUUM anyway). However, VACUUM since 9.6 can skip
processing pages marked all-visible or all-frozen, and if such pages are
recorded in FSM with wrong values, those values are blindly propagated
to FSM's upper layers by VACUUM's FreeSpaceMapVacuum. (This rationale
assumes that crashes are not very frequent, because those would cause
outdated FSM to occur in the primary.)
Even when the FSM is outdated in standby, things are not too bad
normally, because, most per-page FSM values will be zero (other than
those propagated with the base-backup that created the standby); only
once the remaining free space is less than 0.2*BLCKSZ the per-page value
is maintained by WAL replay of heap ins/upd/del. However, if
wal_log_hints=on causes complete FSM pages to be propagated to a standby
via full-page images, many too-optimistic per-page values can end up
being registered in the standby.
Incorrect per-page values aren't critical in most cases, since an
inserter that is given a page that doesn't actually contain the claimed
free space will update FSM with the correct value, and retry until it
finds a usable page. However, if there are many such updates to do, an
inserter can spend a long time doing them before a usable page is found;
in a heavily trafficked insert-only table with many concurrent inserters
this has been observed to cause several second stalls, causing visible
application malfunction.
To fix this problem, it seems sufficient to have heap_xlog_visible
(replay of setting all-visible and all-frozen VM bits for a heap page)
update the FSM value for the page being processed. This fixes the
per-page counters together with making the page skippable to vacuum, so
when vacuum does FreeSpaceMapVacuum, the values propagated to FSM upper
layers are the correct ones, avoiding the problem.
While at it, apply the same fix to heap_xlog_clean (replay of tuple
removal by HOT pruning and vacuum). This makes any space freed by the
cleaning available earlier than the next vacuum in the promoted replica.
Backpatch to 9.6, where this problem was diagnosed on an insert-only
table with all-frozen pages, which were introduced as a concept in that
release. Theoretically it could apply with all-visible pages to older
branches, but there's been no report of that and it doesn't backpatch
cleanly anyway.
Tom Lane [Wed, 15 Aug 2018 20:29:32 +0000 (16:29 -0400)]
Clean up assorted misuses of snprintf()'s result value.
Fix a small number of places that were testing the result of snprintf()
but doing so incorrectly. The right test for buffer overrun, per C99,
is "result >= bufsize" not "result > bufsize". Some places were also
checking for failure with "result == -1", but the standard only says
that a negative value is delivered on failure.
(Note that this only makes these places correct if snprintf() delivers
C99-compliant results. But at least now these places are consistent
with all the other places where we assume that.)
Also, make psql_start_test() and isolation_start_test() check for
buffer overrun while constructing their shell commands. There seems
like a higher risk of overrun, with more severe consequences, here
than there is for the individual file paths that are made elsewhere
in the same functions, so this seemed like a worthwhile change.
Also fix guc.c's do_serialize() to initialize errno = 0 before
calling vsnprintf. In principle, this should be unnecessary because
vsnprintf should have set errno if it returns a failure indication ...
but the other two places this coding pattern is cribbed from don't
assume that, so let's be consistent.
These errors are all very old, so back-patch as appropriate. I think
that only the shell command overrun cases are even theoretically
reachable in practice, but there's not much point in erroneous error
checks.
Bruce Momjian [Tue, 14 Aug 2018 21:19:02 +0000 (17:19 -0400)]
pg_upgrade: fix shutdown check for standby servers
Commit 244142d32afd02e7408a2ef1f249b00393983822 only tested for the
pg_controldata output for primary servers, but standby servers have
different "Database cluster state" output, so check for that too.
Diagnosed-by: Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180810164240.GM13638@paquier.xyz
Amit Kapila [Mon, 13 Aug 2018 03:26:37 +0000 (08:56 +0530)]
Prohibit shutting down resources if there is a possibility of back up.
Currently, we release the asynchronous resources as soon as it is evident
that no more rows will be needed e.g. when a Limit is filled. This can be
problematic especially for custom and foreign scans where we can scan
backward. Fix that by disallowing the shutting down of resources in such
cases.
Reported-by: Robert Haas Analysed-by: Robert Haas and Amit Kapila
Author: Amit Kapila Reviewed-by: Robert Haas
Backpatch-through: 9.6 where this code was introduced
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/86137f17-1dfb-42f9-7421-82fd786b04a1@anayrat.info
Bruce Momjian [Thu, 9 Aug 2018 14:13:15 +0000 (10:13 -0400)]
docs: Only first instance of a PREPARE parameter sets data type
If the first reference to $1 is "($1 = col) or ($1 is null)", the data
type can be determined, but not for "($1 is null) or ($1 = col)". This
change documents this.
Don't run atexit callbacks in quickdie signal handlers.
exit() is not async-signal safe. Even if the libc implementation is, 3rd
party libraries might have installed unsafe atexit() callbacks. After
receiving SIGQUIT, we really just want to exit as quickly as possible, so
we don't really want to run the atexit() callbacks anyway.
The original report by Jimmy Yih was a self-deadlock in startup_die().
However, this patch doesn't address that scenario; the signal handling
while waiting for the startup packet is more complicated. But at least this
alleviates similar problems in the SIGQUIT handlers, like that reported
by Asim R P later in the same thread.
Tom Lane [Tue, 7 Aug 2018 20:32:50 +0000 (16:32 -0400)]
Don't record FDW user mappings as members of extensions.
CreateUserMapping has a recordDependencyOnCurrentExtension call that's
been there since extensions were introduced (very possibly my fault).
However, there's no support anywhere else for user mappings as members
of extensions, nor are they listed as a possible member object type in
the documentation. Nor does it really seem like a good idea for user
mappings to belong to extensions when roles don't. Hence, remove the
bogus call.
(As we saw in bug #15310, the lack of any pg_dump support for this case
ensures that any such membership record would silently disappear during
pg_upgrade. So there's probably no need for us to do anything else
about cleaning up after this mistake.)
Tom Lane [Tue, 7 Aug 2018 20:00:44 +0000 (16:00 -0400)]
Fix incorrect initialization of BackendActivityBuffer.
Since commit c8e8b5a6e, this has been zeroed out using the wrong length.
In practice the length would always be too small, leading to not zeroing
the whole buffer rather than clobbering additional memory; and that's
pretty harmless, both because shmem would likely start out as zeroes
and because we'd reinitialize any given entry before use. Still,
it's bogus, so fix it.
Tom Lane [Tue, 7 Aug 2018 19:43:49 +0000 (15:43 -0400)]
Fix pg_upgrade to handle event triggers in extensions correctly.
pg_dump with --binary-upgrade must emit ALTER EXTENSION ADD commands
for all objects that are members of extensions. It forgot to do so for
event triggers, as per bug #15310 from Nick Barnes. Back-patch to 9.3
where event triggers were introduced.
Tom Lane [Tue, 7 Aug 2018 17:13:42 +0000 (13:13 -0400)]
Ensure pg_dump_sort.c sorts null vs non-null namespace consistently.
The original coding here (which is, I believe, my fault) supposed that
it didn't need to concern itself with the possibility that one object
of a given type-priority has a namespace while another doesn't. But
that's not reliably true anymore, if it ever was; and if it does happen
then it's possible that DOTypeNameCompare returns self-inconsistent
comparison results. That leads to unspecified behavior in qsort()
and a resultant weird output order from pg_dump.
This should end up being only a cosmetic problem, because any ordering
constraints that actually matter should be enforced by the later
dependency-based sort. Still, it's a bug, so back-patch.
Report and fix by Jacob Champion, though I editorialized on his
patch to the extent of making NULL sort after non-NULL, for consistency
with our usual sorting definitions.
Tom Lane [Mon, 6 Aug 2018 14:53:35 +0000 (10:53 -0400)]
Fix failure to reset libpq's state fully between connection attempts.
The logic in PQconnectPoll() did not take care to ensure that all of
a PGconn's internal state variables were reset before trying a new
connection attempt. If we got far enough in the connection sequence
to have changed any of these variables, and then decided to try a new
server address or server name, the new connection might be completed
with some state that really only applied to the failed connection.
While this has assorted bad consequences, the only one that is clearly
a security issue is that password_needed didn't get reset, so that
if the first server asked for a password and the second didn't,
PQconnectionUsedPassword() would return an incorrect result. This
could be leveraged by unprivileged users of dblink or postgres_fdw
to allow them to use server-side login credentials that they should
not be able to use.
Other notable problems include the possibility of forcing a v2-protocol
connection to a server capable of supporting v3, or overriding
"sslmode=prefer" to cause a non-encrypted connection to a server that
would have accepted an encrypted one. Those are certainly bugs but
it's harder to paint them as security problems in themselves. However,
forcing a v2-protocol connection could result in libpq having a wrong
idea of the server's standard_conforming_strings setting, which opens
the door to SQL-injection attacks. The extent to which that's actually
a problem, given the prerequisite that the attacker needs control of
the client's connection parameters, is unclear.
These problems have existed for a long time, but became more easily
exploitable in v10, both because it introduced easy ways to force libpq
to abandon a connection attempt at a late stage and then try another one
(rather than just giving up), and because it provided an easy way to
specify multiple target hosts.
Fix by rearranging PQconnectPoll's state machine to provide centralized
places to reset state properly when moving to a new target host or when
dropping and retrying a connection to the same host.
Tom Lane, reviewed by Noah Misch. Our thanks to Andrew Krasichkov
for finding and reporting the problem.
Tom Lane [Sat, 4 Aug 2018 23:38:58 +0000 (19:38 -0400)]
Fix INSERT ON CONFLICT UPDATE through a view that isn't just SELECT *.
When expanding an updatable view that is an INSERT's target, the rewriter
failed to rewrite Vars in the ON CONFLICT UPDATE clause. This accidentally
worked if the view was just "SELECT * FROM ...", as the transformation
would be a no-op in that case. With more complicated view targetlists,
this omission would often lead to "attribute ... has the wrong type" errors
or even crashes, as reported by Mario De Frutos Dieguez.
Fix by adding code to rewriteTargetView to fix up the data structure
correctly. The easiest way to update the exclRelTlist list is to rebuild
it from scratch looking at the new target relation, so factor the code
for that out of transformOnConflictClause to make it sharable.
In passing, avoid duplicate permissions checks against the EXCLUDED
pseudo-relation, and prevent useless view expansion of that relation's
dummy RTE. The latter is only known to happen (after this patch) in cases
where the query would fail later due to not having any INSTEAD OF triggers
for the view. But by exactly that token, it would create an unintended
and very poorly tested state of the query data structure, so it seems like
a good idea to prevent it from happening at all.
This has been broken since ON CONFLICT was introduced, so back-patch
to 9.5.
Dean Rasheed, based on an earlier patch by Amit Langote;
comment-kibitzing and back-patching by me
Michael Paquier [Sat, 4 Aug 2018 20:32:27 +0000 (05:32 +0900)]
Reset properly errno before calling write()
6cb3372 enforces errno to ENOSPC when less bytes than what is expected
have been written when it is unset, though it forgot to properly reset
errno before doing a system call to write(), causing errno to
potentially come from a previous system call.
Reported-by: Tom Lane
Author: Michael Paquier Reviewed-by: Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/31797.1533326676@sss.pgh.pa.us
Peter Geoghegan [Fri, 3 Aug 2018 21:44:44 +0000 (14:44 -0700)]
Add table relcache invalidation to index builds.
It's necessary to make sure that owning tables have a relcache
invalidation prior to advancing the command counter to make
newly-entered catalog tuples for the index visible. inval.c must be
able to maintain the consistency of the local caches in the event of
transaction abort. There is usually only a problem when CREATE INDEX
transactions abort, since there is a generic invalidation once we reach
index_update_stats().
This bug is of long standing. Problems were made much more likely by
the addition of parallel CREATE INDEX (commit 9da0cc35284), but it is
strongly suspected that similar problems can be triggered without
involving plan_create_index_workers(). (plan_create_index_workers()
triggers a relcache build or rebuild, which previously only happened in
rare edge cases.)
Author: Peter Geoghegan Reported-By: Luca Ferrari Diagnosed-By: Andres Freund Reviewed-By: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKoxK+5fVodiCtMsXKV_1YAKXbzwSfp7DgDqUmcUAzeAhf=HEQ@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch: 9.3-
Amit Kapila [Fri, 3 Aug 2018 06:13:01 +0000 (11:43 +0530)]
Fix buffer usage stats for parallel nodes.
The buffer usage stats is accounted only for the execution phase of the
node. For Gather and Gather Merge nodes, such stats are accumulated at
the time of shutdown of workers which is done after execution of node due
to which we missed to account them for such nodes. Fix it by treating
nodes as running while we shut down them.
We can also miss accounting for a Limit node when Gather or Gather Merge
is beneath it, because it can finish the execution before shutting down
such nodes. So we allow a Limit node to shut down the resources before it
completes the execution.
In the passing fix the gather node code to allow workers to shut down as
soon as we find that all the tuples from the workers have been retrieved.
The original code use to do that, but is accidently removed by commit 01edb5c7fc.
Reported-by: Adrien Nayrat
Author: Amit Kapila and Robert Haas Reviewed-by: Robert Haas and Andres Freund
Backpatch-through: 9.6 where this code was introduced
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/86137f17-1dfb-42f9-7421-82fd786b04a1@anayrat.info
Amit Kapila [Fri, 3 Aug 2018 04:37:56 +0000 (10:07 +0530)]
Match the buffer usage tracking for leader and worker backends.
In the leader backend, we don't track the buffer usage for ExecutorStart
phase whereas in worker backend we track it for ExecutorStart phase as
well. This leads to different value for buffer usage stats for the
parallel and non-parallel query. Change the code so that worker backend
also starts tracking buffer usage after ExecutorStart.
Author: Amit Kapila and Robert Haas Reviewed-by: Robert Haas and Andres Freund
Backpatch-through: 9.6 where this code was introduced
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/86137f17-1dfb-42f9-7421-82fd786b04a1@anayrat.info
Tom Lane [Tue, 31 Jul 2018 17:00:08 +0000 (13:00 -0400)]
Further fixes for quoted-list GUC values in pg_dump and ruleutils.c.
Commits 742869946 et al turn out to be a couple bricks shy of a load.
We were dumping the stored values of GUC_LIST_QUOTE variables as they
appear in proconfig or setconfig catalog columns. However, although that
quoting rule looks a lot like SQL-identifier double quotes, there are two
critical differences: empty strings ("") are legal, and depending on which
variable you're considering, values longer than NAMEDATALEN might be valid
too. So the current technique fails altogether on empty-string list
entries (as reported by Steven Winfield in bug #15248) and it also risks
truncating file pathnames during dump/reload of GUC values that are lists
of pathnames.
To fix, split the stored value without any downcasing or truncation,
and then emit each element as a SQL string literal.
This is a tad annoying, because we now have three copies of the
comma-separated-string splitting logic in varlena.c as well as a fourth
one in dumputils.c. (Not to mention the randomly-different-from-those
splitting logic in libpq...) I looked at unifying these, but it would
be rather a mess unless we're willing to tweak the API definitions of
SplitIdentifierString, SplitDirectoriesString, or both. That might be
worth doing in future; but it seems pretty unsafe for a back-patched
bug fix, so for now accept the duplication.
Back-patch to all supported branches, as the previous fix was.
Tom Lane [Mon, 30 Jul 2018 16:35:49 +0000 (12:35 -0400)]
Fix pg_dump's failure to dump REPLICA IDENTITY for constraint indexes.
pg_dump knew about printing ALTER TABLE ... REPLICA IDENTITY USING INDEX
for indexes declared as indexes, but it failed to print that for indexes
declared as unique or primary-key constraints. Per report from Achilleas
Mantzios.
This has been broken since the feature was introduced, AFAICS.
Back-patch to 9.4.
Tom Lane [Mon, 30 Jul 2018 15:54:41 +0000 (11:54 -0400)]
Doc: fix oversimplified example for CREATE POLICY.
As written, this policy constrained only the post-image not the pre-image
of rows, meaning that users could delete other users' rows or take
ownership of such rows, contrary to what the docs claimed would happen.
We need two separate policies to achieve the documented effect.
While at it, try to explain what's happening a bit more fully.
Per report from Олег Самойлов. Back-patch to 9.5 where this was added.
Thanks to Stephen Frost for off-list discussion.
Affected test queries have been testing the wrong thing since their
introduction in commit 4c1383efd132e4f532213c8a8cc63a455f55e344.
Back-patch to 9.3 (all supported versions).
Document security implications of qualified names.
Commit 5770172cb0c9df9e6ce27c507b449557e5b45124 documented secure schema
usage, and that advice suffices for using unqualified names securely.
Document, in typeconv-func primarily, the additional issues that arise
with qualified names. Back-patch to 9.3 (all supported versions).
Bruce Momjian [Sat, 28 Jul 2018 19:01:55 +0000 (15:01 -0400)]
pg_upgrade: check for clean server shutdowns
Previously pg_upgrade checked for the pid file and started/stopped the
server to force a clean shutdown. However, "pg_ctl -m immediate"
removes the pid file but doesn't do a clean shutdown, so check
pg_controldata for a clean shutdown too.
Diagnosed-by: Vimalraj A
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAFKBAK5e4Q-oTUuPPJ56EU_d2Rzodq6GWKS3ncAk3xo7hAsOZg@mail.gmail.com
Andres Freund [Tue, 24 Jul 2018 17:51:17 +0000 (10:51 -0700)]
doc: Fix reference to "decoder" to instead be the correct "output plugin".
Author: Jonathan Katz
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/DD02DD86-5989-4BFD-8712-468541F68383@postgresql.org
Backpatch: 9.4-, where logical decoding was added
Tom Lane [Sat, 21 Jul 2018 19:40:51 +0000 (15:40 -0400)]
Further portability hacking in pg_upgrade's test script.
I blew the dust off a Bourne shell (file date 1996, yea verily) and
tried to run test.sh with it. It mostly worked, but I found that the
temp-directory creation code introduced by commit be76a6d39 was not
compatible, for a couple of reasons: this shell thinks "set -e" should
force an exit if a command within backticks fails, and it also thinks code
within braces should be executed by a sub-shell, meaning that variable
settings don't propagate back up to the parent shell. In view of Victor
Wagner's report that Solaris is still using pre-POSIX shells, seems like
we oughta make this case work. It's not like the code is any less
idiomatic this way; the prior coding technique appeared nowhere else.
(There is a remaining bash-ism here, which is that $RANDOM doesn't do
what the code hopes in non-bash shells. But the use of $$ elsewhere in
that path should be enough to ensure uniqueness and some amount of
randomness, so I think it's okay as-is.)
Back-patch to all supported branches, as the previous commit was.
Fix handling of empty uncompressed posting list pages in GIN
PostgreSQL 9.4 introduces posting list compression in GIN. This feature
supports online upgrade, so that after pg_upgrade uncompressed posting
lists are compressed on-the-fly. Underlying code appears to always
expect at least one item on uncompressed posting list page. But there
could be completely empty pages, because VACUUM never deletes leftmost
and rightmost pages from posting trees. This commit fixes that.
I was confused by what "intended to be parallel serially" meant, until
Robert Haas and David G. Johnston explained it. Rephrase the comment to
make it more clear, using David's suggested wording.
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