Andres Freund [Wed, 5 Aug 2015 16:19:52 +0000 (18:19 +0200)]
Rely on inline functions even if that causes warnings in older compilers.
So far we have worked around the fact that some very old compilers do
not support 'inline' functions by only using inline functions
conditionally (or not at all). Since such compilers are very rare by
now, we have decided to rely on inline functions from 9.6 onwards.
To avoid breaking these old compilers inline is defined away when not
supported. That'll cause "function x defined but not used" type of
warnings, but since nobody develops on such compilers anymore that's
ok.
This change in policy will allow us to more easily employ inline
functions.
I chose to remove code previously conditional on PG_USE_INLINE as it
seemed confusing to have code dependent on a define that's always
defined.
Blacklisting of compilers, like in c53f73879f, now has to be done
differently. A platform template can define PG_FORCE_DISABLE_INLINE to
force inline to be defined empty.
Andres Freund [Wed, 5 Aug 2015 11:06:04 +0000 (13:06 +0200)]
Fix comment atomics.h.
I appear to accidentally have switched the comments for
pg_atomic_write_u32 and pg_atomic_read_u32 around. Also fix some minor
typos I found while fixing.
Tom Lane [Tue, 4 Aug 2015 23:34:12 +0000 (19:34 -0400)]
Fix pg_dump to dump shell types.
Per discussion, it really ought to do this. The original choice to
exclude shell types was probably made in the dark ages before we made
it harder to accidentally create shell types; but that was in 7.3.
Also, cause the standard regression tests to leave a shell type behind,
for convenience in testing the case in pg_dump and pg_upgrade.
Tom Lane [Tue, 4 Aug 2015 22:18:46 +0000 (18:18 -0400)]
Fix bogus "out of memory" reports in tuplestore.c.
The tuplesort/tuplestore memory management logic assumed that the chunk
allocation overhead for its memtuples array could not increase when
increasing the array size. This is and always was true for tuplesort,
but we (I, I think) blindly copied that logic into tuplestore.c without
noticing that the assumption failed to hold for the much smaller array
elements used by tuplestore. Given rather small work_mem, this could
result in an improper complaint about "unexpected out-of-memory situation",
as reported by Brent DeSpain in bug #13530.
The easiest way to fix this is just to increase tuplestore's initial
array size so that the assumption holds. Rather than relying on magic
constants, though, let's export a #define from aset.c that represents
the safe allocation threshold, and make tuplestore's calculation depend
on that.
Do the same in tuplesort.c to keep the logic looking parallel, even though
tuplesort.c isn't actually at risk at present. This will keep us from
breaking it if we ever muck with the allocation parameters in aset.c.
Back-patch to all supported versions. The error message doesn't occur
pre-9.3, not so much because the problem can't happen as because the
pre-9.3 tuplestore code neglected to check for it. (The chance of
trouble is a great deal larger as of 9.3, though, due to changes in the
array-size-increasing strategy.) However, allowing LACKMEM() to become
true unexpectedly could still result in less-than-desirable behavior,
so let's patch it all the way back.
Tom Lane [Tue, 4 Aug 2015 18:55:32 +0000 (14:55 -0400)]
Fix a PlaceHolderVar-related oversight in star-schema planning patch.
In commit b514a7460d9127ddda6598307272c701cbb133b7, I changed the planner
so that it would allow nestloop paths to remain partially parameterized,
ie the inner relation might need parameters from both the current outer
relation and some upper-level outer relation. That's fine so long as we're
talking about distinct parameters; but the patch also allowed creation of
nestloop paths for cases where the inner relation's parameter was a
PlaceHolderVar whose eval_at set included the current outer relation and
some upper-level one. That does *not* work.
In principle we could allow such a PlaceHolderVar to be evaluated at the
lower join node using values passed down from the upper relation along with
values from the join's own outer relation. However, nodeNestloop.c only
supports simple Vars not arbitrary expressions as nestloop parameters.
createplan.c is also a few bricks shy of being able to handle such cases;
it misplaces the PlaceHolderVar parameters in the plan tree, which is why
the visible symptoms of this bug are "plan should not reference subplan's
variable" and "failed to assign all NestLoopParams to plan nodes" planner
errors.
Adding the necessary complexity to make this work doesn't seem like it
would be repaid in significantly better plans, because in cases where such
a PHV exists, there is probably a corresponding join order constraint that
would allow a good plan to be found without using the star-schema exception.
Furthermore, adding complexity to nodeNestloop.c would create a run-time
penalty even for plans where this whole consideration is irrelevant.
So let's just reject such paths instead.
Per fuzz testing by Andreas Seltenreich; the added regression test is based
on his example query. Back-patch to 9.2, like the previous patch.
Robert Haas [Tue, 4 Aug 2015 16:58:54 +0000 (12:58 -0400)]
Cap wal_buffers to avoid a server crash when it's set very large.
It must be possible to multiply wal_buffers by XLOG_BLCKSZ without
overflowing int, or calculations in StartupXLOG will go badly wrong
and crash the server. Avoid that by imposing a maximum value on
wal_buffers. This will be just under 2GB, assuming the usual value
for XLOG_BLCKSZ.
Share transition state between different aggregates when possible.
If there are two different aggregates in the query with same inputs, and
the aggregates have the same initial condition and transition function,
only calculate the state value once, and only call the final functions
separately. For example, AVG(x) and SUM(x) aggregates have the same
transition function, which accumulates the sum and number of input tuples.
For a query like "SELECT AVG(x), SUM(x) FROM x", we can therefore
accumulate the state function only once, which gives a nice speedup.
Stephen Frost [Mon, 3 Aug 2015 19:32:49 +0000 (15:32 -0400)]
RLS: Keep deny policy when only restrictive exist
Only remove the default deny policy when a permissive policy exists
(either from the hook or defined by the user). If only restrictive
policies exist then no rows will be visible, as restrictive policies
shouldn't make rows visible. To address this requirement, a single
"USING (true)" permissive policy can be created.
Update the test_rls_hooks regression tests to create the necessary
"USING (true)" permissive policy.
Fujii Masao [Mon, 3 Aug 2015 14:04:41 +0000 (23:04 +0900)]
Make recovery rename tablespace_map to *.old if backup_label is not present.
If tablespace_map file is present without backup_label file, there is
no use of such file. There is no harm in retaining it, but it is better
to get rid of the map file so that we don't have any redundant file
in data directory and it will avoid any sort of confusion. It seems
prudent though to just rename the file out of the way rather than
delete it completely, also we ignore any error that occurs in rename
operation as even if map file is present without backup_label file,
it is harmless.
Back-patch to 9.5 where tablespace_map file was introduced.
Amit Kapila, reviewed by Robert Haas, Alvaro Herrera and me.
pg_xlog is often a symlink, typically to a different filesystem. Don't
get confused and comlain about by that, and just always pretend that it's a
normal directory, even if it's really a symlink.
Tom Lane [Mon, 3 Aug 2015 03:49:19 +0000 (23:49 -0400)]
Fix a number of places that produced XX000 errors in the regression tests.
It's against project policy to use elog() for user-facing errors, or to
omit an errcode() selection for errors that aren't supposed to be "can't
happen" cases. Fix all the violations of this policy that result in
ERRCODE_INTERNAL_ERROR log entries during the standard regression tests,
as errors that can reliably be triggered from SQL surely should be
considered user-facing.
I also looked through all the files touched by this commit and fixed
other nearby problems of the same ilk. I do not claim to have fixed
all violations of the policy, just the ones in these files.
In a few places I also changed existing ERRCODE choices that didn't
seem particularly appropriate; mainly replacing ERRCODE_SYNTAX_ERROR
by something more specific.
Back-patch to 9.5, but no further; changing ERRCODE assignments in
stable branches doesn't seem like a good idea.
Andrew Dunstan [Mon, 3 Aug 2015 00:58:18 +0000 (20:58 -0400)]
Allow TAP tests to run under Msys
The Msys DTK perl, which is required to run TAP tests under Msys as a
native perl won't recognize the correct virtual paths, has its osname
recorded in the Config module as 'msys' instead of 'MSWin32'. To avoid
having to repeat the test a variable is created that is true iff the
osname is either of these values, and is then used everywhere that
matters.
Tom Lane [Sun, 2 Aug 2015 19:48:27 +0000 (15:48 -0400)]
Avoid calling memcpy() with a NULL source pointer and count == 0.
As in commit 0a52d378b03b7d5a, avoid doing something that has undefined
results according to the C standard, even though in practice there does
not seem to be any problem with it.
This fixes two places in numeric.c that demonstrably could call memcpy()
with such arguments. I looked through that file and didn't see any other
places with similar hazards; this is not to claim that there are not such
places in other files.
Per report from Piotr Stefaniak. Back-patch to 9.5 which is where the
previous commit was added. We're more or less setting a precedent that
we will not worry about this type of issue in pre-9.5 branches unless
someone demonstrates a problem in the field.
An EAN beginning with 979 (but not 9790 - those are ISMN's) are accepted
as ISBN numbers, but they cannot be represented in the old, 10-digit ISBN
format. They must be output in the new 13-digit ISBN-13 format. We printed
out an incorrect value for those.
Also add a regression test, to test this and some other basic functionality
of the module.
Patch by Fabien Coelho. This fixes bug #13442, reported by B.Z. Backpatch
to 9.1, where we started to recognize ISBN-13 numbers.
Tom Lane [Sun, 2 Aug 2015 18:54:44 +0000 (14:54 -0400)]
Fix incorrect order of lock file removal and failure to close() sockets.
Commit c9b0cbe98bd783e24a8c4d8d8ac472a494b81292 accidentally broke the
order of operations during postmaster shutdown: it resulted in removing
the per-socket lockfiles after, not before, postmaster.pid. This creates
a race-condition hazard for a new postmaster that's started immediately
after observing that postmaster.pid has disappeared; if it sees the
socket lockfile still present, it will quite properly refuse to start.
This error appears to be the explanation for at least some of the
intermittent buildfarm failures we've seen in the pg_upgrade test.
Another problem, which has been there all along, is that the postmaster
has never bothered to close() its listen sockets, but has just allowed them
to close at process death. This creates a different race condition for an
incoming postmaster: it might be unable to bind to the desired listen
address because the old postmaster is still incumbent. This might explain
some odd failures we've seen in the past, too. (Note: this is not related
to the fact that individual backends don't close their client communication
sockets. That behavior is intentional and is not changed by this patch.)
Fix by adding an on_proc_exit function that closes the postmaster's ports
explicitly, and (in 9.3 and up) reshuffling the responsibility for where
to unlink the Unix socket files. Lock file unlinking can stay where it
is, but teach it to unlink the lock files in reverse order of creation.
Fix race condition that lead to WALInsertLock deadlock with commit_delay.
If a call to WaitForXLogInsertionsToFinish() returned a value in the middle
of a page, and another backend then started to insert a record to the same
page, and then you called WaitXLogInsertionsToFinish() again, the second
call might return a smaller value than the first call. The problem was in
GetXLogBuffer(), which always updated the insertingAt value to the
beginning of the requested page, not the actual requested location. Because
of that, the second call might return a xlog pointer to the beginning of
the page, while the first one returned a later position on the same page.
XLogFlush() performs two calls to WaitXLogInsertionsToFinish() in
succession, and holds WALWriteLock on the second call, which can deadlock
if the second call to WaitXLogInsertionsToFinish() blocks.
Reported by Spiros Ioannou. Backpatch to 9.4, where the more scalable
WALInsertLock mechanism, and this bug, was introduced.
Andres Freund [Fri, 31 Jul 2015 18:50:35 +0000 (20:50 +0200)]
Micro optimize LWLockAttemptLock() a bit.
LWLockAttemptLock pointlessly read the lock's state in every loop
iteration, even though pg_atomic_compare_exchange_u32() returns the old
value. Instead do that only once before the loop iteration.
Additionally there's no need to have the expected_state variable,
old_state mostly had the same value anyway.
Noticed-By: Heikki Linnakangas
Backpatch: 9.5, no reason to let the branches diverge at this point
Andres Freund [Fri, 31 Jul 2015 18:20:43 +0000 (20:20 +0200)]
Fix issues around the "variable" support in the lwlock infrastructure.
The lwlock scalability work introduced two race conditions into the
lwlock variable support provided for xlog.c. First, and harmlessly on
most platforms, it set/read the variable without the spinlock in some
places. Secondly, due to the removal of the spinlock, it was possible
that a backend missed changes to the variable's state if it changed in
the wrong moment because checking the lock's state, the variable's state
and the queuing are not protected by a single spinlock acquisition
anymore.
To fix first move resetting the variable's from LWLockAcquireWithVar to
WALInsertLockRelease, via a new function LWLockReleaseClearVar. That
prevents issues around waiting for a variable's value to change when a
new locker has acquired the lock, but not yet set the value. Secondly
re-check that the variable hasn't changed after enqueing, that prevents
the issue that the lock has been released and already re-acquired by the
time the woken up backend checks for the lock's state.
Reported-By: Jeff Janes Analyzed-By: Heikki Linnakangas Reviewed-By: Heikki Linnakangas
Discussion: 5592DB35.2060401@iki.fi
Backpatch: 9.5, where the lwlock scalability went in
Tom Lane [Sun, 2 Aug 2015 00:57:41 +0000 (20:57 -0400)]
Fix some planner issues with degenerate outer join clauses.
An outer join clause that didn't actually reference the RHS (perhaps only
after constant-folding) could confuse the join order enforcement logic,
leading to wrong query results. Also, nested occurrences of such things
could trigger an Assertion that on reflection seems incorrect.
Per fuzz testing by Andreas Seltenreich. The practical use of such cases
seems thin enough that it's not too surprising we've not heard field
reports about it.
This has been broken for a long time, so back-patch to all active branches.
Tom Lane [Sat, 1 Aug 2015 18:31:46 +0000 (14:31 -0400)]
Teach predtest.c that "foo" implies "foo IS NOT NULL".
Per complaint from Peter Holzer. It's useful to cover this special case,
since for a boolean variable "foo", earlier parts of the planner will have
reduced variants like "foo = true" to just "foo", and thus we may fail
to recognize the applicability of a partial index with predicate
"foo IS NOT NULL".
Back-patch to 9.5, but not further; given the lack of previous complaints
this doesn't seem like behavior to change in stable branches.
Tom Lane [Fri, 31 Jul 2015 23:26:33 +0000 (19:26 -0400)]
Fix an oversight in checking whether a join with LATERAL refs is legal.
In many cases, we can implement a semijoin as a plain innerjoin by first
passing the righthand-side relation through a unique-ification step.
However, one of the cases where this does NOT work is where the RHS has
a LATERAL reference to the LHS; that makes the RHS dependent on the LHS
so that unique-ification is meaningless. joinpath.c understood this,
and so would not generate any join paths of this kind ... but join_is_legal
neglected to check for the case, so it would think that we could do it.
The upshot would be a "could not devise a query plan for the given query"
failure once we had failed to generate any join paths at all for the bogus
join pair.
The PGXS-case directory does not exist in the non-PGXS case, and vice
versa. Add one or the other, not both. This is essentially cosmetic.
It makes Makefile.win32 more like the similar Makefile.global code.
Consolidate makefile code for setting top_srcdir, srcdir and VPATH.
Responsibility was formerly split between Makefile.global and pgxs.mk.
As a result of commit b58233c71b93a32fcab7219585cafc25a27eb769, in the
PGXS case, these variables were unset while parsing Makefile.global and
callees. Inclusion of Makefile.custom did not work from PGXS, and the
subtle difference seemed like a recipe for future bugs. Back-patch to
9.4, where that commit first appeared.
Fix volatility marking of commit timestamp functions
They are marked stable, but since they act on instantaneous state and it
is possible to consult state of transactions as they commit, the results
could change mid-query. They need to be marked volatile, and this
commit does so.
There would normally be a catversion bump here, but this is so much a
niche feature and I don't believe there's real damage from the incorrect
marking, that I refrained.
Backpatch to 9.5, where commit timestamps where introduced.
The code was assuming that any NULL value in scan keys was due to IS
NULL or IS NOT NULL, but it turns out to be possible to get them with
other operators too, if they are used in contrived-enough ways. Easiest
way out of the problem seems to check explicitely for the IS NOT NULL
flag, instead of assuming it must be set if the IS NULL flag is not set,
when a null scan key is found; if neither flag is set, follow the lead
of other index AMs and assume that all indexable operators must be
strict, and thus the query is never satisfiable.
Also, add a comment to try and lure some future hacker into improving
analysis of scan keys in brin.
Per report from Andreas Seltenreich; diagnosis by Tom Lane.
Backpatch to 9.5.
Joe Conway [Thu, 30 Jul 2015 16:38:15 +0000 (09:38 -0700)]
Use appropriate command type when retrieving relation's policies.
When retrieving policies, if not working on the root target relation,
we actually want the relation's SELECT policies, regardless of
the top level query command type. For example in UPDATE t1...FROM t2
we need to apply t1's UPDATE policies and t2's SELECT policies.
Previously top level query command type was applied to all relations,
which was wrong. Add some regression coverage to ensure we don't
violate this principle in the future.
Report and patch by Dean Rasheed. Cherry picked from larger refactoring
patch and tweaked by me. Back-patched to 9.5 where RLS was introduced.
Tom Lane [Thu, 30 Jul 2015 16:11:23 +0000 (12:11 -0400)]
Avoid some zero-divide hazards in the planner.
Although I think on all modern machines floating division by zero
results in Infinity not SIGFPE, we still don't want infinities
running around in the planner's costing estimates; too much risk
of that leading to insane behavior.
grouping_planner() failed to consider the possibility that final_rel
might be known dummy and hence have zero rowcount. (I wonder if it
would be better to set a rows estimate of 1 for dummy relations?
But at least in the back branches, changing this convention seems
like a bad idea, so I'll leave that for another day.)
Make certain that get_variable_numdistinct() produces a nonzero result.
The case that can be shown to be broken is with stadistinct < 0.0 and
small ntuples; we did not prevent the result from rounding to zero.
For good luck I applied clamp_row_est() to all the nonconstant return
values.
In ExecChooseHashTableSize(), Assert that we compute positive nbuckets
and nbatch. I know of no reason to think this isn't the case, but it
seems like a good safety check.
Per reports from Piotr Stefaniak. Back-patch to all active branches.
Fix calculation of latency of pgbench backslash commands.
When we loop back to the top of doCustom after processing a backslash
command, we must reset the "now" timestamp, because that's used to
calculate the time spent executing the previous command.
Report and fix by Fabien Coelho. Backpatch to 9.5, where this was broken.
Update ax_pthread.m4 to an experimental draft version from upstream.
The current version is adding a spurious -pthread option on some Darwin
systems that don't need it, which leads to a bunch of "unrecognized option
'-pthread'" warnings. There is a proposed fix for that in the upstream
autoconf archive's bug tracker, see https://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?8186.
This commit updates our version of ax_pthread.m4 to the "draft2" version
proposed there by Daniel Richard G. I'm using our buildfarm to help Daniel
to test this, before he commits this to the upstream repository.
Per a suggestion from Tom Lane. Back-patch to 9.0 (all supported
versions). While only 9.4 and up have code known to elicit this
compiler bug, we were disabling inlining by accident until commit 43d89a23d59c487bc9258fad7a6187864cb8c0c0.
MSVC: Revert most 9.5 changes to pre-9.5 vcregress.pl tests.
The reverted changes did not narrow the semantic gap between the MSVC
build system and the GNU make build system. For targets old and new
that run multiple suites (contribcheck, modulescheck, tapcheck), restore
vcregress.pl to mimicking "make -k" rather than the "make -S" default.
Lack of "-k" would be more burdensome than lack of "-S". Keep changes
reflecting contemporary changes to the GNU make build system, and keep
updates to Makefile parsing. Keep the loss of --psqldir in "check" and
"ecpgcheck" targets; it had been a no-op when used alongside
--temp-install. No log message mentioned any of the reverted changes.
Based on a germ by Michael Paquier. Back-patch to 9.5.
This code relied on knowing exactly where in the source tree temporary
installations might appear. A reasonable hacker may not think to update
this code when adding use of a temporary installation, making it
fragile. Observe that commit 9fa8b0ee90c44c0f97d16bf65e94322988c94864
broke it unnoticed, and commit dcae5faccab64776376d354decda0017c648bb53
fixed it unnoticed. Back-patch to 9.5 only; use of temporary
installations is unlikely to change in released versions.
Joe Conway [Wed, 29 Jul 2015 22:37:48 +0000 (15:37 -0700)]
Create new ParseExprKind for use by policy expressions.
Policy USING and WITH CHECK expressions were using EXPR_KIND_WHERE for
parse analysis, which results in inappropriate ERROR messages when
the expression contains unsupported constructs such as aggregates.
Create a new ParseExprKind called EXPR_KIND_POLICY and tailor the
related messages to fit.
Reported by Noah Misch. Reviewed by Dean Rasheed, Alvaro Herrera,
and Robert Haas. Back-patch to 9.5 where RLS was introduced.
Robert Haas [Wed, 29 Jul 2015 18:41:07 +0000 (14:41 -0400)]
Flesh out the background worker documentation.
Make it more clear that bgw_main is usually not what you want. Put the
background worker flags in a variablelist rather than having them as
part of a paragraph. Explain important limits on how bgw_main_arg can
be used.
Tom Lane [Wed, 29 Jul 2015 17:27:15 +0000 (13:27 -0400)]
Add some test coverage of EvalPlanQual with non-locked tables.
A Salesforce colleague of mine griped that the regression tests don't
exercise EvalPlanQualFetchRowMarks() and allied routines. Which is
a fair complaint. Add test cases that go through the REFERENCE and COPY
code paths. Unfortunately we don't have sufficient infrastructure right
now to exercise the FDW code path in the isolation tests, but this is
surely better than before.
Joe Conway [Wed, 29 Jul 2015 16:47:49 +0000 (09:47 -0700)]
Add missing post create and alter hooks to policy objects.
AlterPolicy() and CreatePolicy() lacked their respective hook invocations.
Noted by Noah Misch, review by Dean Rasheed. Back-patch to 9.5 where
RLS was introduced.
On Windows, use listen_address=127.0.0.1 to allow TCP connections. We were
already using "pg_regress --config-auth" to set up HBA appropriately. The
standard_initdb helper function now sets up the server's
unix_socket_directories or listen_addresses in the config file, so that
they don't need to be specified in the pg_ctl command line anymore. That
way, the pg_ctl invocations in test programs don't need to differ between
Windows and Unix.
Add another helper function to configure the server's pg_hba.conf to allow
replication connections. The configuration is done similarly to "pg_regress
--config-auth": trust on domain sockets on Unix, and SSPI authentication on
Windows.
Replace calls to "cat" and "touch" programs with built-in perl code, as
those programs don't normally exist on Windows.
Add instructions in the docs on how to install IPC::Run on Windows. Adjust
vcregress.pl to not replace PERL5LIB completely in vcregress.pl, because
otherwise cannot install IPC::Run in a non-standard location easily.
Michael Paquier, reviewed by Noah Misch, some additional tweaking by me.
Peter Eisentraut [Wed, 22 Jul 2015 01:06:45 +0000 (21:06 -0400)]
pg_basebackup: Add --slot option
This option specifies a replication slot for WAL streaming (-X stream),
so that there can be continuous replication slot use between WAL
streaming during the base backup and the start of regular streaming
replication.
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
Joe Conway [Tue, 28 Jul 2015 23:24:01 +0000 (16:24 -0700)]
Disallow converting a table to a view if row security is present.
When DefineQueryRewrite() is about to convert a table to a view, it checks
the table for features unavailable to views. For example, it rejects tables
having triggers. It omits to reject tables having relrowsecurity or a
pg_policy record. Fix that. To faciliate the repair, invent
relation_has_policies() which indicates the presence of policies on a
relation even when row security is disabled for that relation.
Reported by Noah Misch. Patch by me, review by Stephen Frost. Back-patch
to 9.5 where RLS was introduced.
Joe Conway [Tue, 28 Jul 2015 23:01:53 +0000 (16:01 -0700)]
Create a pg_shdepend entry for each role in TO clause of policies.
CreatePolicy() and AlterPolicy() omit to create a pg_shdepend entry for
each role in the TO clause. Fix this by creating a new shared dependency
type called SHARED_DEPENDENCY_POLICY and assigning it to each role.
Reported by Noah Misch. Patch by me, reviewed by Alvaro Herrera.
Back-patch to 9.5 where RLS was introduced.
Tom Lane [Tue, 28 Jul 2015 22:42:59 +0000 (18:42 -0400)]
Update our documentation concerning where to create data directories.
Although initdb has long discouraged use of a filesystem mount-point
directory as a PG data directory, this point was covered nowhere in the
user-facing documentation. Also, with the popularity of pg_upgrade,
we really need to recommend that the PG user own not only the data
directory but its parent directory too. (Without a writable parent
directory, operations such as "mv data data.old" fail immediately.
pg_upgrade itself doesn't do that, but wrapper scripts for it often do.)
Hence, adjust the "Creating a Database Cluster" section to address
these points. I also took the liberty of wordsmithing the discussion
of NFS a bit.
These considerations aren't by any means new, so back-patch to all
supported branches.
Andrew Dunstan [Tue, 28 Jul 2015 21:54:13 +0000 (17:54 -0400)]
Only adjust negative indexes in json_get up to the length of the path.
The previous code resulted in memory access beyond the path bounds. The
cure is to move it into a code branch that checks the value of lex_level
is within the correct bounds.
Tom Lane [Tue, 28 Jul 2015 21:34:00 +0000 (17:34 -0400)]
Reduce chatter from signaling of autovacuum workers.
Don't print a WARNING if we get ESRCH from a kill() that's attempting
to cancel an autovacuum worker. It's possible (and has been seen in the
buildfarm) that the worker is already gone by the time we are able to
execute the kill, in which case the failure is harmless. About the only
plausible reason for reporting such cases would be to help debug corrupted
lock table contents, but this is hardly likely to be the most important
symptom if that happens. Moreover issuing a WARNING might scare users
more than is warranted.
Also, since sending a signal to an autovacuum worker is now entirely a
routine thing, and the worker will log the query cancel on its end anyway,
reduce the message saying we're doing that from LOG to DEBUG1 level.
Very minor cosmetic cleanup as well.
Since the main practical reason for doing this is to avoid unnecessary
buildfarm failures, back-patch to all active branches.
Joe Conway [Tue, 28 Jul 2015 20:59:23 +0000 (13:59 -0700)]
Bump catversion so that HEAD is beyond 9.5
As pointed out by Tom, since HEAD has progressed beyond 9.5 in terms of
its catalog, we need to be sure catversion of HEAD is advanced beyond
that of 9.5. Corrects my mistake in the pg_stats view commit cfa928ff.
Joe Conway [Tue, 28 Jul 2015 20:21:22 +0000 (13:21 -0700)]
Plug RLS related information leak in pg_stats view.
The pg_stats view is supposed to be restricted to only show rows
about tables the user can read. However, it sometimes can leak
information which could not otherwise be seen when row level security
is enabled. Fix that by not showing pg_stats rows to users that would
be subject to RLS on the table the row is related to. This is done
by creating/using the newly introduced SQL visible function,
row_security_active().
Along the way, clean up three call sites of check_enable_rls(). The second
argument of that function should only be specified as other than
InvalidOid when we are checking as a different user than the current one,
as in when querying through a view. These sites were passing GetUserId()
instead of InvalidOid, which can cause the function to return incorrect
results if the current user has the BYPASSRLS privilege and row_security
has been set to OFF.
Additionally fix a bug causing RI Trigger error messages to unintentionally
leak information when RLS is enabled, and other minor cleanup and
improvements. Also add WITH (security_barrier) to the definition of pg_stats.
Bumped CATVERSION due to new SQL functions and pg_stats view definition.
Back-patch to 9.5 where RLS was introduced. Reported by Yaroslav.
Patch by Joe Conway and Dean Rasheed with review and input by
Michael Paquier and Stephen Frost.
Andres Freund [Tue, 28 Jul 2015 19:39:32 +0000 (21:39 +0200)]
Remove ssl renegotiation support.
While postgres' use of SSL renegotiation is a good idea in theory, it
turned out to not work well in practice. The specification and openssl's
implementation of it have lead to several security issues. Postgres' use
of renegotiation also had its share of bugs.
Additionally OpenSSL has a bunch of bugs around renegotiation, reported
and open for years, that regularly lead to connections breaking with
obscure error messages. We tried increasingly complex workarounds to get
around these bugs, but we didn't find anything complete.
Since these connection breakages often lead to hard to debug problems,
e.g. spuriously failing base backups and significant latency spikes when
synchronous replication is used, we have decided to change the default
setting for ssl renegotiation to 0 (disabled) in the released
backbranches and remove it entirely in 9.5 and master.
Author: Andres Freund
Discussion: 20150624144148.GQ4797@alap3.anarazel.de
Backpatch: 9.5 and master, 9.0-9.4 get a different patch
Robert Haas [Tue, 28 Jul 2015 18:51:57 +0000 (14:51 -0400)]
Centralize decision-making about where to get a backend's PGPROC.
This code was originally written as part of parallel query effort, but
it seems to have independent value, because if we make one decision
about where to get a PGPROC when we allocate and then put it back on a
different list at backend-exit time, bad things happen. This isn't
just a theoretical risk; we fixed an actual problem of this type in
commit e280c630a87e1b8325770c6073097d109d79a00f.
Tom Lane [Tue, 28 Jul 2015 17:20:39 +0000 (13:20 -0400)]
Remove an unsafe Assert, and explain join_clause_is_movable_into() better.
join_clause_is_movable_into() is approximate, in the sense that it might
sometimes return "false" when actually it would be valid to push the given
join clause down to the specified level. This is okay ... but there was
an Assert in get_joinrel_parampathinfo() that's only safe if the answers
are always exact. Comment out the Assert, and add a bunch of commentary
to clarify what's going on.
Per fuzz testing by Andreas Seltenreich. The added regression test is
a pretty silly query, but it's based on his crasher example.
Back-patch to 9.2 where the faulty logic was introduced.
Fix bug in collecting total_latencies from all threads in pgbench.
This was broken in 1bc90f7a, which removed the thread-emulation. With modest
-j and -c settings the result were usually close enough that you wouldn't
notice it easily, but with a high enough thread count it would access
uninitialized memory and crash.
Stephen Frost [Mon, 27 Jul 2015 20:48:26 +0000 (16:48 -0400)]
Improve RLS handling in copy.c
To avoid a race condition where the relation being COPY'd could be
changed into a view or otherwise modified, keep the original lock
on the relation. Further, fully qualify the relation when building
the query up.
Also remove the poorly thought-out Assert() and check the entire
relationOids list as, post-RLS, there can certainly be multiple
relations involved and the planner does not guarantee their ordering.
Tom Lane [Mon, 27 Jul 2015 20:29:14 +0000 (16:29 -0400)]
Further code review for pg_stat_ssl patch.
Fix additional bogosity in commit 9029f4b37406b21a. Include the
BackendSslStatusBuffer in the BackendStatusShmemSize calculation,
avoid ugly and error-prone casts to char* and back, put related
code stanzas into a consistent order (and fix a couple of previous
instances of that sin). All cosmetic except for the size oversight.
In GIN, an all-zeros page would be leaked forever, and never reused. Just
add them to the FSM in vacuum, and they will be reinitialized when grabbed
from the FSM. On master and 9.5, attempting to access the page's opaque
struct also caused an assertion failure, although that was otherwise
harmless.
Reported by Jeff Janes. Backpatch to all supported versions.
SP-GiST initialized an all-zeros page at vacuum, but that was not
WAL-logged, which is not safe. You might get a torn page write, when it gets
flushed to disk, and end-up with a half-initialized index page. To fix,
leave it in the all-zeros state, and add it to the FSM. It will be
initialized when reused. Also don't set the page-deleted flag when recycling
an empty page. That was also not WAL-logged, and a torn write of that would
cause the page to have an invalid checksum.
Backpatch to 9.2, where SP-GiST indexes were added.
There is no full discussion of speculative insertions in the executor
README. There is a high-level explanation in execIndexing.c, but it doesn't
seem necessary to refer it from here.
Tom Lane [Sun, 26 Jul 2015 21:44:27 +0000 (17:44 -0400)]
Fix oversight in flattening of subqueries with empty FROM.
I missed a restriction that commit f4abd0241de20d5d6a79b84992b9e88603d44134
should have enforced: we can't pull up an empty-FROM subquery if it's under
an outer join, because then we'd need to wrap its output columns in
PlaceHolderVars. As the code currently stands, the PHVs end up with empty
relid sets, which doesn't work (and is correctly caught by an Assert).
It's possible that this could be fixed by assigning the PHVs the relid
sets of the parent FromExpr/JoinExpr, but getting that to work is more
complication than I care to add right now; indeed it's likely that
we'll never bother, since pulling up empty-FROM subqueries is a rather
marginal optimization anyway.
Per report from Andreas Seltenreich. Back-patch to 9.5 where the faulty
code was added.
Tom Lane [Sun, 26 Jul 2015 20:19:08 +0000 (16:19 -0400)]
Make entirely-dummy appendrels get marked as such in set_append_rel_size.
The planner generally expects that the estimated rowcount of any relation
is at least one row, *unless* it has been proven empty by constraint
exclusion or similar mechanisms, which is marked by installing a dummy path
as the rel's cheapest path (cf. IS_DUMMY_REL). When I split up
allpaths.c's processing of base rels into separate set_base_rel_sizes and
set_base_rel_pathlists steps, the intention was that dummy rels would get
marked as such during the "set size" step; this is what justifies an Assert
in indxpath.c's get_loop_count that other relations should either be dummy
or have positive rowcount. Unfortunately I didn't get that quite right
for append relations: if all the child rels have been proven empty then
set_append_rel_size would come up with a rowcount of zero, which is
correct, but it didn't then do set_dummy_rel_pathlist. (We would have
ended up with the right state after set_append_rel_pathlist, but that's
too late, if we generate indexpaths for some other rel first.)
In addition to fixing the actual bug, I installed an Assert enforcing this
convention in set_rel_size; that then allows simplification of a couple
of now-redundant tests for zero rowcount in set_append_rel_size.
Also, to cover the possibility that third-party FDWs have been careless
about not returning a zero rowcount estimate, apply clamp_row_est to
whatever an FDW comes up with as the rows estimate.
Per report from Andreas Seltenreich. Back-patch to 9.2. Earlier branches
did not have the separation between set_base_rel_sizes and
set_base_rel_pathlists steps, so there was no intermediate state where an
appendrel would have had inconsistent rowcount and pathlist. It's possible
that adding the Assert to set_rel_size would be a good idea in older
branches too; but since they're not under development any more, it's likely
not worth the trouble.
Andres Freund [Sun, 26 Jul 2015 16:20:41 +0000 (18:20 +0200)]
Check the relevant index element in ON CONFLICT unique index inference.
ON CONFLICT unique index inference had a thinko that could affect cases
where the user-supplied inference clause required that an attribute
match a particular (user specified) collation and/or opclass.
infer_collation_opclass_match() has to check for opclass and/or
collation matches and that the attribute is in the list of attributes or
expressions known to be in the definition of the index under
consideration. The bug was that these two conditions weren't necessarily
evaluated for the same index attribute.
Author: Peter Geoghegan
Discussion: CAM3SWZR4uug=WvmGk7UgsqHn2MkEzy9YU-+8jKGO4JPhesyeWg@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch: 9.5, where ON CONFLICT was introduced
Andres Freund [Sun, 26 Jul 2015 14:37:49 +0000 (16:37 +0200)]
Fix flattening of nested grouping sets.
Previously nested grouping set specifications accidentally weren't
flattened, but instead contained the nested specification as a element
in the outer list.
Fix this by, as actually documented in comments, concatenating the
nested set specification into the outer one. Also add tests to prevent
this from breaking again.
Author: Andrew Gierth, with tests from Jeevan Chalke Reported-By: Jeevan Chalke
Discussion: CAM2+6=V5YvuxB+EyN4iH=GbD-XTA435TCNvnDFSD--YvXs+pww@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch: 9.5, where grouping sets were introduced
Andres Freund [Sun, 26 Jul 2015 13:56:26 +0000 (15:56 +0200)]
Allow to push down clauses from HAVING to WHERE when grouping sets are used.
Previously we disallowed pushing down quals to WHERE in the presence of
grouping sets. That's overly restrictive.
We now instead copy quals to WHERE if applicable, leaving the
one in HAVING in place. That's because, at that stage of the planning
process, it's nontrivial to determine if it's safe to remove the one in
HAVING.
Author: Andrew Gierth
Discussion: 874mkt3l59.fsf@news-spur.riddles.org.uk
Backpatch: 9.5, where grouping sets were introduced. This isn't exactly
a bugfix, but it seems better to keep the branches in sync at this point.
Andres Freund [Sun, 26 Jul 2015 13:34:29 +0000 (15:34 +0200)]
Recognize GROUPING() as a aggregate expression.
Previously GROUPING() was not recognized as a aggregate expression,
erroneously allowing the planner to move it from HAVING to WHERE.
Author: Jeevan Chalke Reviewed-By: Andrew Gierth
Discussion: CAM2+6=WG9omG5rFOMAYBweJxmpTaapvVp5pCeMrE6BfpCwr4Og@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch: 9.5, where grouping sets were introduced
Andres Freund [Sun, 26 Jul 2015 13:17:44 +0000 (15:17 +0200)]
Build column mapping for grouping sets in all required cases.
The previous coding frequently failed to fail because for one it's
unusual to have rollup clauses with one column, and for another
sometimes the wrong mapping didn't cause obvious problems.
Author: Jeevan Chalke Reviewed-By: Andrew Gierth
Discussion: CAM2+6=W=9=hQOipH0HAPbkun3Z3TFWij_EiHue0_6UX=oR=1kw@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch: 9.5, where grouping sets were introduced
Tom Lane [Sat, 25 Jul 2015 23:42:32 +0000 (19:42 -0400)]
Dodge portability issue (apparent compiler bug) in new tablesample code.
Some of the older OS X critters in the buildfarm are failing regression,
with symptoms showing that a request for 100% sampling in BERNOULLI or
SYSTEM methods actually gets only around 50% of the table. gdb revealed
that the computation of the "cutoff" number was producing 0x7FFFFFFF
rather than the expected 0x100000000. Inspecting the assembly code,
it looks like gcc is trying to use lrint() instead of rint() and then
fumbling the conversion from long double to uint64. This seems like a
clear compiler bug, but assigning the intermediate result into a plain
double variable works around it, so let's just do that. (Another idea
would be to give up one bit of hash width so that we don't need to use
a uint64 cutoff, but let's see if this is enough.)
Andrew Dunstan [Sat, 25 Jul 2015 21:14:36 +0000 (17:14 -0400)]
Restore use of zlib default compression in pg_dump directory mode.
This was broken by commit 0e7e355f27302b62af3e1add93853ccd45678443 and
friends, which ignored the fact that gzopen() will treat "-1" in the
mode argument as an invalid character, which it ignores, and a flag for
compression level 1. Now, when this value is encountered no compression
level flag is passed to gzopen, leaving it to use the zlib default.
Also, enforce the documented allowed range for pg_dump's -Z option,
namely 0 .. 9, and remove some consequently dead code from
pg_backup_tar.c.
Problem reported by Marc Mamin.
Backpatch to 9.1, like the patch that introduced the bug.
Tom Lane [Sat, 25 Jul 2015 19:58:14 +0000 (15:58 -0400)]
In pg_ctl, report unexpected failure to stat() the postmaster.pid file.
Any error other than ENOENT is a bit suspicious here, and perhaps should
not be grounds for assuming the postmaster has failed. For the moment
though, just report it, and don't change the behavior otherwise. The
intent is mainly to try to determine why we are seeing intermittent
failures in this area on some buildfarm members.
Back-patch to 9.5 where some of these failures have happened.
Tom Lane [Sat, 25 Jul 2015 19:46:26 +0000 (15:46 -0400)]
Update oidjoins regression test for 9.5.
New FK relationships for pg_transform. Also findoidjoins now detects a few
relationships it didn't before for pre-existing catalogs, as a result of
new regression tests leaving entries in those catalogs that weren't there
before.
Tom Lane [Sat, 25 Jul 2015 18:39:00 +0000 (14:39 -0400)]
Redesign tablesample method API, and do extensive code review.
The original implementation of TABLESAMPLE modeled the tablesample method
API on index access methods, which wasn't a good choice because, without
specialized DDL commands, there's no way to build an extension that can
implement a TSM. (Raw inserts into system catalogs are not an acceptable
thing to do, because we can't undo them during DROP EXTENSION, nor will
pg_upgrade behave sanely.) Instead adopt an API more like procedural
language handlers or foreign data wrappers, wherein the only SQL-level
support object needed is a single handler function identified by having
a special return type. This lets us get rid of the supporting catalog
altogether, so that no custom DDL support is needed for the feature.
Adjust the API so that it can support non-constant tablesample arguments
(the original coding assumed we could evaluate the argument expressions at
ExecInitSampleScan time, which is undesirable even if it weren't outright
unsafe), and discourage sampling methods from looking at invisible tuples.
Make sure that the BERNOULLI and SYSTEM methods are genuinely repeatable
within and across queries, as required by the SQL standard, and deal more
honestly with methods that can't support that requirement.
Make a full code-review pass over the tablesample additions, and fix
assorted bugs, omissions, infelicities, and cosmetic issues (such as
failure to put the added code stanzas in a consistent ordering).
Improve EXPLAIN's output of tablesample plans, too.
Back-patch to 9.5 so that we don't have to support the original API
in production.
Joe Conway [Fri, 24 Jul 2015 19:55:30 +0000 (12:55 -0700)]
Make RLS work with UPDATE ... WHERE CURRENT OF
UPDATE ... WHERE CURRENT OF would not work in conjunction with
RLS. Arrange to allow the CURRENT OF expression to be pushed down.
Issue noted by Peter Geoghegan. Patch by Dean Rasheed. Back patch
to 9.5 where RLS was introduced.
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