Tom Lane [Sun, 1 May 2011 21:57:46 +0000 (17:57 -0400)]
Make CLUSTER lock the old table's toast table before copying data.
We must lock out autovacuuming of the old toast table before computing the
OldestXmin horizon we will use. Otherwise, autovacuum could start on the
toast table later, compute a later OldestXmin horizon, and remove as DEAD
toast tuples that we still need (because we think their parent tuples are
only RECENTLY_DEAD). Per further thought about bug #5998.
Tom Lane [Fri, 29 Apr 2011 20:29:56 +0000 (16:29 -0400)]
Remove special case for xmin == xmax in HeapTupleSatisfiesVacuum().
VACUUM was willing to remove a committed-dead tuple immediately if it was
deleted by the same transaction that inserted it. The idea is that such a
tuple could never have been visible to any other transaction, so we don't
need to keep it around to satisfy MVCC snapshots. However, there was
already an exception for tuples that are part of an update chain, and this
exception created a problem: we might remove TOAST tuples (which are never
part of an update chain) while their parent tuple stayed around (if it was
part of an update chain). This didn't pose a problem for most things,
since the parent tuple is indeed dead: no snapshot will ever consider it
visible. But MVCC-safe CLUSTER had a problem, since it will try to copy
RECENTLY_DEAD tuples to the new table. It then has to copy their TOAST
data too, and would fail if VACUUM had already removed the toast tuples.
Easiest fix is to get rid of the special case for xmin == xmax. This may
delay reclaiming dead space for a little bit in some cases, but it's by far
the most reliable way to fix the issue.
Per bug #5998 from Mark Reid. Back-patch to 8.3, which is the oldest
version with MVCC-safe CLUSTER.
Tom Lane [Fri, 29 Apr 2011 05:45:13 +0000 (01:45 -0400)]
Rewrite pg_size_pretty() to avoid compiler bug.
Convert it to use successive shifts right instead of increasing a divisor.
This is probably a tad more efficient than the original coding, and it's
nicer-looking than the previous patch because we don't need a special case
to avoid overflow in the last branch. But the real reason to do it is to
avoid a Solaris compiler bug, as per results from buildfarm member moa.
Heikki Linnakangas [Thu, 28 Apr 2011 09:51:02 +0000 (12:51 +0300)]
The arguments to pg_ctl kill are not optional - remove brackets in the docs.
Fujii Masao
Tom Lane [Wed, 27 Apr 2011 17:58:49 +0000 (13:58 -0400)]
Fix array- and path-creating functions to ensure padding bytes are zeroes.
Per recent discussion, it's important for all computed datums (not only the
results of input functions) to not contain any ill-defined (uninitialized)
bits. Failing to ensure that can result in equal() reporting that
semantically indistinguishable Consts are not equal, which in turn leads to
bizarre and undesirable planner behavior, such as in a recent example from
David Johnston. We might eventually try to fix this in a general manner by
allowing datatypes to define identity-testing functions, but for now the
path of least resistance is to expect datatypes to force all unused bits
into consistent states.
Per some testing by Noah Misch, array and path functions seem to be the
only ones presenting risks at the moment, so I looked through all the
functions in adt/array*.c and geo_ops.c and fixed them as necessary. In
the array functions, the easiest/safest fix is to allocate result arrays
with palloc0 instead of palloc. Possibly in future someone will want to
look into whether we can just zero the padding bytes, but that looks too
complex for a back-patchable fix. In the path functions, we already had a
precedent in path_in for just zeroing the one known pad field, so duplicate
that code as needed.
Back-patch to all supported branches.
Tom Lane [Tue, 26 Apr 2011 19:40:18 +0000 (15:40 -0400)]
Complain if pg_hba.conf contains "hostssl" but SSL is disabled.
Most commenters agreed that this is more friendly than silently failing
to match the line during actual connection attempts. Also, this will
prevent corner cases that might arise when trying to handle such a line
when the SSL code isn't turned on. An example is that specifying
clientcert=1 in such a line would formerly result in a completely
misleading complaint that root.crt wasn't present, as seen in a recent
report from Marc-Andre Laverdiere. While we could have instead fixed
that specific behavior, it seems likely that we'd have a continuing stream
of such bizarre behaviors if we keep on allowing hostssl lines when SSL is
disabled.
Back-patch to 8.4, where clientcert was introduced. Earlier versions don't
have this specific issue, and the code is enough different to make this
patch not applicable without more work than it seems worth.
Tom Lane [Mon, 25 Apr 2011 20:22:20 +0000 (16:22 -0400)]
Fix pg_size_pretty() to avoid overflow for inputs close to INT64_MAX.
The expression that tried to round the value to the nearest TB could
overflow, leading to bogus output as reported in bug #5993 from Nicola
Cossu. This isn't likely to ever happen in the intended usage of the
function (if it could, we'd be needing to use a wider datatype instead);
but it's not hard to give the expected output, so let's do so.
Tom Lane [Thu, 21 Apr 2011 00:34:22 +0000 (20:34 -0400)]
Fix bugs in indexing of in-doubt HOT-updated tuples.
If we find a DELETE_IN_PROGRESS HOT-updated tuple, it is impossible to know
whether to index it or not except by waiting to see if the deleting
transaction commits. If it doesn't, the tuple might again be LIVE, meaning
we have to index it. So wait and recheck in that case.
Also, we must not rely on ii_BrokenHotChain to decide that it's possible to
omit tuples from the index. That could result in omitting tuples that we
need, particularly in view of yesterday's fixes to not necessarily set
indcheckxmin (but it's broken even without that, as per my analysis today).
Since this is just an extremely marginal performance optimization, dropping
the test shouldn't hurt.
These cases are only expected to happen in system catalogs (they're
possible there due to early release of RowExclusiveLock in most
catalog-update code paths). Since reindexing of a system catalog isn't a
particularly performance-critical operation anyway, there's no real need to
be concerned about possible performance degradation from these changes.
The worst aspects of this bug were introduced in 9.0 --- 8.x will always
wait out a DELETE_IN_PROGRESS tuple. But I think dropping index entries
on the strength of ii_BrokenHotChain is dangerous even without that, so
back-patch removal of that optimization to 8.3 and 8.4.
Tom Lane [Wed, 20 Apr 2011 23:01:30 +0000 (19:01 -0400)]
Set indcheckxmin true when REINDEX fixes an invalid or not-ready index.
Per comment from Greg Stark, it's less clear that HOT chains don't conflict
with the index than it would be for a valid index. So, let's preserve the
former behavior that indcheckxmin does get set when there are
potentially-broken HOT chains in this case. This change does not cause any
pg_index update that wouldn't have happened anyway, so we're not
re-introducing the previous bug with pg_index updates, and surely the case
is not significant from a performance standpoint; so let's be as
conservative as possible.
Heikki Linnakangas [Wed, 20 Apr 2011 06:49:44 +0000 (09:49 +0300)]
Quotes in strings injected into bki file need to escaped. In particular,
"People's Republic of China" locale on Windows was causing initdb to fail.
This fixes bug #5818 reported by yulei. On master, this makes the mapping
of "People's Republic of China" to just "China" obsolete. In 9.0 and 8.4,
just fix the escaping. Earlier versions didn't have locale names in bki
file.
Tom Lane [Tue, 19 Apr 2011 22:51:08 +0000 (18:51 -0400)]
Avoid changing an index's indcheckxmin horizon during REINDEX.
There can never be a need to push the indcheckxmin horizon forward, since
any HOT chains that are actually broken with respect to the index must
pre-date its original creation. So we can just avoid changing pg_index
altogether during a REINDEX operation.
This offers a cleaner solution than my previous patch for the problem
found a few days ago that we mustn't try to update pg_index while we are
reindexing it. System catalog indexes will always be created with
indcheckxmin = false during initdb, and with this modified code we should
never try to change their pg_index entries. This avoids special-casing
system catalogs as the former patch did, and should provide a performance
benefit for many cases where REINDEX formerly caused an index to be
considered unusable for a short time.
Back-patch to 8.3 to cover all versions containing HOT. Note that this
patch changes the API for index_build(), but I believe it is unlikely that
any add-on code is calling that directly.
Tom Lane [Tue, 19 Apr 2011 20:58:53 +0000 (16:58 -0400)]
Revert "Prevent incorrect updates of pg_index while reindexing pg_index itself."
This reverts commit
8835284e0d903156632f76eea941cf5c592717ec of 2011-04-15.
There's a better way to do it, which will follow shortly.
Tom Lane [Sat, 16 Apr 2011 00:19:10 +0000 (20:19 -0400)]
Prevent incorrect updates of pg_index while reindexing pg_index itself.
The places that attempt to change pg_index.indcheckxmin during a reindexing
operation cannot be executed safely if pg_index itself is the subject of
the operation. This is the explanation for a couple of recent reports of
VACUUM FULL failing with
ERROR: duplicate key value violates unique constraint "pg_index_indexrelid_index"
DETAIL: Key (indexrelid)=(2678) already exists.
However, there isn't any real need to update indcheckxmin in such a
situation, if we assume that pg_index can never contain a truly broken HOT
chain. This assumption holds if new indexes are never created on it during
concurrent operations, which is something we don't consider safe for any
system catalog, not just pg_index. Accordingly, modify the code to not
manipulate indcheckxmin when reindexing any system catalog.
Back-patch to 8.3, where HOT was introduced. The known failure scenarios
involve 9.0-style VACUUM FULL, so there might not be any real risk before
9.0, but let's not assume that.
Marc G. Fournier [Fri, 15 Apr 2011 03:17:14 +0000 (00:17 -0300)]
Tag 8.4.8.
Peter Eisentraut [Thu, 14 Apr 2011 19:43:11 +0000 (22:43 +0300)]
Translation updates
Tom Lane [Thu, 14 Apr 2011 19:51:45 +0000 (15:51 -0400)]
Update release notes for releases 9.0.4, 8.4.8, 8.3.15, and 8.2.21.
Tom Lane [Wed, 13 Apr 2011 22:56:54 +0000 (18:56 -0400)]
Ensure mark_dummy_rel doesn't create dangling pointers in RelOptInfos.
When we are doing GEQO join planning, the current memory context is a
short-lived context that will be reset at the end of geqo_eval(). However,
the RelOptInfos for base relations are set up before that and then re-used
across many GEQO cycles. Hence, any code that modifies a baserel during
join planning has to be careful not to put pointers to the short-lived
context into the baserel struct. mark_dummy_rel got this wrong, leading to
easy-to-reproduce-once-you-know-how crashes in 8.4, as reported off-list by
Leo Carson of SDSC. Some improvements made in 9.0 make it difficult to
demonstrate the crash in 9.0 or HEAD; but there's no doubt that there's
still a risk factor here, so patch all branches that have the function.
(Note: 8.3 has a similar function, but it's only applied to joinrels and
thus is not a hazard.)
Tom Lane [Wed, 13 Apr 2011 22:03:23 +0000 (18:03 -0400)]
Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2011f.
DST law changes in Chile, Cuba, Falkland Islands, Morocco, Samoa, Turkey.
Historical corrections for South Australia, Alaska, Hawaii.
Heikki Linnakangas [Wed, 13 Apr 2011 08:43:22 +0000 (11:43 +0300)]
On IA64 architecture, we check the depth of the register stack in addition
to the regular stack. The code to do that is platform and compiler specific,
add support for the HP-UX native compiler.
Tom Lane [Wed, 13 Apr 2011 04:39:19 +0000 (00:39 -0400)]
Fix broken pg_dump query.
The 8.4 branch failed when talking to 7.0 servers. Per testing requested
by Bruce.
Tom Lane [Tue, 12 Apr 2011 05:59:51 +0000 (01:59 -0400)]
Be more wary of missing statistics in eqjoinsel_semi().
In particular, if we don't have real ndistinct estimates for both sides,
fall back to assuming that half of the left-hand rows have join partners.
This is what was done in 8.2 and 8.3 (cf nulltestsel() in those versions).
It's pretty stupid but it won't lead us to think that an antijoin produces
no rows out, as seen in recent example from Uwe Schroeder.
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 8 Apr 2011 16:07:48 +0000 (12:07 -0400)]
Have pg_upgrade properly preserve relfrozenxid in toast tables.
This fixes a pg_upgrade bug that could lead to query errors when clog
files are improperly removed.
Andrew Dunstan [Fri, 8 Apr 2011 02:16:43 +0000 (22:16 -0400)]
Avoid use of mixed slash style paths in arguments to xcopy in MSVC builds.
Some versions of xcopy, notably on Windows 7 don't like it. Backpatch
to 8.3, where we first used xcopy.
Tom Lane [Thu, 7 Apr 2011 19:14:51 +0000 (15:14 -0400)]
Modernize dlopen interface code for FreeBSD and OpenBSD.
Remove the hard-wired assumption that __mips__ (and only __mips__) lacks
dlopen in FreeBSD and OpenBSD. This assumption is outdated at least for
OpenBSD, as per report from an anonymous 9.1 tester. We can perfectly well
use HAVE_DLOPEN instead to decide which code to use.
Some other cosmetic adjustments to make freebsd.c, netbsd.c, and openbsd.c
exactly alike.
Tom Lane [Thu, 7 Apr 2011 17:55:28 +0000 (13:55 -0400)]
Fix plpgsql's issues with dropped columns in rowtypes in 8.4 branch.
This is a back-patch of commit
dcb2bda9b7042dbf43f876c94ebf35d951de10e9 of
Aug 6 2009, which fixed assorted cases in which plpgsql would fail to cope
with composite types that contain any dropped columns. Per discussion,
this fix has been out in 9.0 for long enough to make it improbable that it
creates any new bugs, so this is a low-risk fix. To make it even lower
risk, I did not back-patch the changes in execQual.c, but just accepted
the duplication of code between there and tupconvert.c. The added files
tupconvert.h and tupconvert.c match their current states in HEAD.
Tom Lane [Thu, 7 Apr 2011 15:40:33 +0000 (11:40 -0400)]
Fix SortTocFromFile() to cope with lines that are too long for its buffer.
The original coding supposed that a dump TOC file could never contain lines
longer than 1K. The folly of that was exposed by a recent report from
Per-Olov Esgard. We only really need to see the first dozen or two bytes
of each line, since we're just trying to read off the numeric ID at the
start of the line; so there's no need for a particularly huge buffer.
What there is a need for is logic to not process continuation bufferloads.
Back-patch to all supported branches, since it's always been like this.
Tom Lane [Mon, 28 Mar 2011 19:45:08 +0000 (15:45 -0400)]
Prevent a rowtype from being included in itself.
Eventually we might be able to allow that, but it's not clear how many
places need to be fixed to prevent infinite recursion when there's a direct
or indirect inclusion of a rowtype in itself. One such place is
CheckAttributeType(), which will recurse to stack overflow in cases such as
those exhibited in bug #5950 from Alex Perepelica. If we were sure it was
the only such place, we could easily modify the code added by this patch to
stop the recursion without a complaint ... but it probably isn't the only
such place. Hence, throw error until such time as someone is excited
enough about this type of usage to put work into making it safe.
Back-patch as far as 8.3. 8.2 doesn't have the recursive call in
CheckAttributeType in the first place, so I see no need to add code there
in the absence of clear evidence of a problem elsewhere.
Robert Haas [Mon, 28 Mar 2011 01:28:15 +0000 (21:28 -0400)]
Correct "characters" to "bytes" in createdb docs.
Susanne Ebrecht
Tom Lane [Wed, 23 Mar 2011 20:57:33 +0000 (16:57 -0400)]
Improve user-defined-aggregates documentation.
On closer inspection, that two-element initcond value seems to have been
a little white lie to avoid explaining the full behavior of float8_accum.
But if people are going to expect the examples to be exactly correct,
I suppose we'd better explain. Per comment from Thom Brown.
Tom Lane [Wed, 23 Mar 2011 16:33:14 +0000 (12:33 -0400)]
Fix ancient typo in user-defined-aggregates documentation.
The description of the initcond value for the built-in avg(float8)
aggregate has been wrong since it was written. Noted by Disc Magnet.
Tom Lane [Tue, 22 Mar 2011 17:01:12 +0000 (13:01 -0400)]
Avoid potential deadlock in InitCatCachePhase2().
Opening a catcache's index could require reading from that cache's own
catalog, which of course would acquire AccessShareLock on the catalog.
So the original coding here risks locking index before heap, which could
deadlock against another backend trying to get exclusive locks in the
normal order. Because InitCatCachePhase2 is only called when a backend
has to start up without a relcache init file, the deadlock was seldom seen
in the field. (And by the same token, there's no need to worry about any
performance disadvantage; so not much point in trying to distinguish
exactly which catalogs have the risk.)
Bug report, diagnosis, and patch by Nikhil Sontakke. Additional commentary
by me. Back-patch to all supported branches.
Alvaro Herrera [Thu, 17 Mar 2011 15:28:46 +0000 (12:28 -0300)]
Fix PL/Python memory leak involving array slices
Report and patch from Daniel Popowich, bug #5842
(with some debugging help from Alex Hunsaker)
Andrew Dunstan [Thu, 17 Mar 2011 04:13:11 +0000 (00:13 -0400)]
Use correct PATH separator for Cygwin in pg_regress.c.
This has been broken for years, and I'm not sure why it has not been
noticed before, but now a very modern Cygwin breaks on it, and the fix
is clearly correct. Backpatching to all live branches.
Tom Lane [Sat, 12 Mar 2011 00:04:10 +0000 (19:04 -0500)]
On further reflection, we'd better do the same in int.c.
We previously heard of the same problem in int24div(), so there's not a
good reason to suppose the problem is confined to cases involving int8.
Tom Lane [Fri, 11 Mar 2011 23:19:03 +0000 (18:19 -0500)]
Put in some more safeguards against executing a division-by-zero.
Add dummy returns before every potential division-by-zero in int8.c,
because apparently further "improvements" in gcc's optimizer have
enabled it to break functions that weren't broken before.
Aurelien Jarno, via Martin Pitt
Heikki Linnakangas [Tue, 8 Mar 2011 18:13:52 +0000 (20:13 +0200)]
Don't throw a warning if vacuum sees PD_ALL_VISIBLE flag set on a page that
contains newly-inserted tuples that according to our OldestXmin are not
yet visible to everyone. The value returned by GetOldestXmin() is conservative,
and it can move backwards on repeated calls, so if we see that contradiction
between the PD_ALL_VISIBLE flag and status of tuples on the page, we have to
assume it's because an earlier vacuum calculated a higher OldestXmin value,
and all the tuples really are visible to everyone.
We have received several reports of this bug, with the "PD_ALL_VISIBLE flag
was incorrectly set in relation ..." warning appearing in logs. We were
finally able to hunt it down with David Gould's help to run extra diagnostics
in an environment where this happened frequently.
Also reword the warning, per Robert Haas' suggestion, to not imply that the
PD_ALL_VISIBLE flag is necessarily at fault, as it might also be a symptom
of corruption on a tuple header.
Backpatch to 8.4, where the PD_ALL_VISIBLE flag was introduced.
Tom Lane [Tue, 22 Feb 2011 02:18:19 +0000 (21:18 -0500)]
Fix dangling-pointer problem in before-row update trigger processing.
ExecUpdate checked for whether ExecBRUpdateTriggers had returned a new
tuple value by seeing if the returned tuple was pointer-equal to the old
one. But the "old one" was in estate->es_junkFilter's result slot, which
would be scribbled on if we had done an EvalPlanQual update in response to
a concurrent update of the target tuple; therefore we were comparing a
dangling pointer to a live one. Given the right set of circumstances we
could get a false match, resulting in not forcing the tuple to be stored in
the slot we thought it was stored in. In the case reported by Maxim Boguk
in bug #5798, this led to "cannot extract system attribute from virtual
tuple" failures when trying to do "RETURNING ctid". I believe there is a
very-low-probability chance of more serious errors, such as generating
incorrect index entries based on the original rather than the
trigger-modified version of the row.
In HEAD, change all of ExecBRInsertTriggers, ExecIRInsertTriggers,
ExecBRUpdateTriggers, and ExecIRUpdateTriggers so that they continue to
have similar APIs. In the back branches I just changed
ExecBRUpdateTriggers, since there is no bug in the ExecBRInsertTriggers
case.
Tom Lane [Fri, 18 Feb 2011 00:01:01 +0000 (19:01 -0500)]
Fix tsmatchsel() to account properly for null rows.
ts_typanalyze.c computes MCE statistics as fractions of the non-null rows,
which seems fairly reasonable, and anyway changing it in released versions
wouldn't be a good idea. But then ts_selfuncs.c has to account for that.
Failure to do so results in overestimates in columns with a significant
fraction of null documents. Back-patch to 8.4 where this stuff was
introduced.
Jesper Krogh
Tom Lane [Tue, 15 Feb 2011 20:50:06 +0000 (15:50 -0500)]
Add CheckTableNotInUse calls in DROP TABLE and DROP INDEX.
Recent releases had a check on rel->rd_refcnt in heap_drop_with_catalog,
but failed to cover the possibility of pending trigger events at DROP time.
(Before 8.4 we didn't even check the refcnt.) When the trigger events were
eventually fired, you'd get "could not open relation with OID nnn" errors,
as in recent report from strk. Better to throw a suitable error when the
DROP is attempted.
Also add a similar check in DROP INDEX.
Back-patch to all supported branches.
Magnus Hagander [Thu, 3 Feb 2011 10:24:47 +0000 (11:24 +0100)]
Fix typo.
Thom Brown
Magnus Hagander [Tue, 1 Feb 2011 12:19:18 +0000 (13:19 +0100)]
Undefine setlocale() macro on Win32
New versions of libintl redefine setlocale() to a macro
which causes problems when the backend and libintl are
linked against different versions of the runtime, which
is often the case in msvc builds.
Hiroshi Inoue, slightly updated comment by me
Itagaki Takahiro [Tue, 1 Feb 2011 06:21:32 +0000 (15:21 +0900)]
Fix wrong error reports in 'number of array dimensions exceeds the
maximum allowed' messages, that have reported one-less dimensions.
Alexey Klyukin
Tom Lane [Sun, 30 Jan 2011 22:04:31 +0000 (17:04 -0500)]
Make reduce_outer_joins() smarter about semijoins.
reduce_outer_joins() mistakenly treated a semijoin like a left join for
purposes of deciding whether not-null constraints created by the join's
quals could be passed down into the join's left-hand side (possibly
resulting in outer-join simplification there). Actually, semijoin works
like inner join for this purpose, ie, we do not need to see any rows that
can't possibly satisfy the quals. Hence, two-line fix to treat semi and
inner joins alike. Per observation by Andres Freund about a performance
gripe from Yazan Suleiman.
Back-patch to 8.4, since this oversight has been there since the current
handling of semijoins was implemented.
Marc G. Fournier [Fri, 28 Jan 2011 02:23:36 +0000 (22:23 -0400)]
Tag 8.4.7
Tom Lane [Thu, 27 Jan 2011 22:45:47 +0000 (17:45 -0500)]
Update release notes.
Security: CVE-2010-4015
Tom Lane [Thu, 27 Jan 2011 22:41:51 +0000 (17:41 -0500)]
Prevent buffer overrun while parsing an integer in a "query_int" value.
contrib/intarray's gettoken() uses a fixed-size buffer to collect an
integer's digits, and did not guard against overrunning the buffer.
This is at least a backend crash risk, and in principle might allow
arbitrary code execution. The code didn't check for overflow of the
integer value either, which while not presenting a crash risk was still
bad.
Thanks to Apple Inc's security team for reporting this issue and supplying
the fix.
Security: CVE-2010-4015
Tom Lane [Thu, 27 Jan 2011 21:27:27 +0000 (16:27 -0500)]
Don't include <asm/ia64regs.h> unnecessarily.
We only need that header when compiling with icc, since the gcc variant of
ia64_get_bsp() uses in-line assembly code. Per report from Frank Brendel,
the header doesn't exist on all IA64 platforms; so don't include it unless
we need it.
Peter Eisentraut [Thu, 27 Jan 2011 19:21:11 +0000 (21:21 +0200)]
Translation updates for release 8.4.7
Tom Lane [Thu, 27 Jan 2011 21:10:00 +0000 (16:10 -0500)]
Update release notes for releases 9.0.3, 8.4.7, 8.3.14, and 8.2.20.
Tom Lane [Fri, 21 Jan 2011 21:22:21 +0000 (16:22 -0500)]
Fix pg_restore to do the right thing when escaping large objects.
Specifically, this makes the workflow pg_dump -Fc -> pg_restore -> file
produce correct output for BLOBs when the source database has
standard_conforming_strings turned on. It was already okay when that was
off, or if pg_restore was told to restore directly into a database.
This is a back-port of commit
b1732111f233bbb72788e92a627242ec28a85631 of
2009-08-04, with additional changes to emit old-style escaped bytea data
instead of hex-style. At the time, we had not heard of anyone encountering
the problem in the field, so I judged it not worth the risk of changing
back branches. Now we do have a report, from Bosco Rama, so back-patch
into 8.2 through 8.4. 9.0 and up are okay already.
Robert Haas [Thu, 20 Jan 2011 02:21:33 +0000 (21:21 -0500)]
Document that WITH queries are also called Common Table Expressions.
Peter Geoghegan, reviewed by Stephen Frost
Tom Lane [Mon, 17 Jan 2011 17:38:52 +0000 (12:38 -0500)]
Fix miscalculation of itemsafter in array_set_slice().
If the slice to be assigned to was before the existing array lower bound
(requiring at least one null element to spring into existence to fill the
gap), the code miscalculated how many entries needed to be copied from
the old array's null bitmap. This could result in trashing the array's
data area (as seen in bug #5840 from Karsten Loesing), or worse.
This has been broken since we first allowed the behavior of assigning to
non-adjacent slices, in 8.2. Back-patch to all affected versions.
Magnus Hagander [Sun, 9 Jan 2011 16:01:15 +0000 (17:01 +0100)]
Ensure the directory for gram.h is created on win32
Result of bad testing of my last commit.
Magnus Hagander [Sun, 9 Jan 2011 14:38:08 +0000 (15:38 +0100)]
Properly install gram.h on MSVC builds
This file is now needed by pgAdmin builds, which started
failing since it was missing in the installer builds.
Andrew Dunstan [Tue, 4 Jan 2011 21:06:30 +0000 (16:06 -0500)]
Allow older branches to be built with Visual Studio 2008. This is a backport of commit
df0cdd53 to the 8.2, 8.3 and 8.4 branches.
Andrew Dunstan [Tue, 4 Jan 2011 14:42:04 +0000 (09:42 -0500)]
Work around header misdefines in modern Windows SDK when _WIN32_WINNT is less than 0x0501. Only required for versions 8.2, 8.3 and 8.4., as we defined _WIN32_WINNT as 0x0501 after that.
Tom Lane [Wed, 29 Dec 2010 03:49:57 +0000 (22:49 -0500)]
Avoid unexpected conversion overflow in planner for distant date values.
The "date" type supports a wider range of dates than int64 timestamps do.
However, there is pre-int64-timestamp code in the planner that assumes that
all date values can be converted to timestamp with impunity. Fortunately,
what we really need out of the conversion is always a double (float8)
value; so even when the date is out of timestamp's range it's possible to
produce a sane answer. All we need is a code path that doesn't try to
force the result into int64. Per trouble report from David Rericha.
Back-patch to all supported versions. Although this is surely a corner
case, there's not much point in advertising a date range wider than
timestamp's if we will choke on such values in unexpected places.
Andrew Dunstan [Fri, 24 Dec 2010 18:32:20 +0000 (13:32 -0500)]
Allow vpath builds and regression tests to succeed on Mingw. Backpatch to release 8.4 - earlier releases would require more changes and it's not worth the trouble.
Tom Lane [Sun, 19 Dec 2010 20:30:44 +0000 (15:30 -0500)]
Fix up handling of simple-form CASE with constant test expression.
eval_const_expressions() can replace CaseTestExprs with constants when
the surrounding CASE's test expression is a constant. This confuses
ruleutils.c's heuristic for deparsing simple-form CASEs, leading to
Assert failures or "unexpected CASE WHEN clause" errors. I had put in
a hack solution for that years ago (see commit
514ce7a331c5bea8e55b106d624e55732a002295 of 2006-10-01), but bug #5794
from Peter Speck shows that that solution failed to cover all cases.
Fortunately, there's a much better way, which came to me upon reflecting
that Peter's "CASE TRUE WHEN" seemed pretty redundant: we can "simplify"
the simple-form CASE to the general form of CASE, by simply omitting the
constant test expression from the rebuilt CASE construct. This is
intuitively valid because there is no need for the executor to evaluate
the test expression at runtime; it will never be referenced, because any
CaseTestExprs that would have referenced it are now replaced by constants.
This won't save a whole lot of cycles, since evaluating a Const is pretty
cheap, but a cycle saved is a cycle earned. In any case it beats kluging
ruleutils.c still further. So this patch improves const-simplification
and reverts the previous change in ruleutils.c.
Back-patch to all supported branches. The bug exists in 8.1 too, but it's
out of warranty.
Tom Lane [Sun, 19 Dec 2010 17:48:48 +0000 (12:48 -0500)]
Fix erroneous parsing of tsquery input "... & !(subexpression) | ..."
After parsing a parenthesized subexpression, we must pop all pending
ANDs and NOTs off the stack, just like the case for a simple operand.
Per bug #5793.
Also fix clones of this routine in contrib/intarray and contrib/ltree,
where input of types query_int and ltxtquery had the same problem.
Back-patch to all supported versions.
Magnus Hagander [Sat, 18 Dec 2010 15:30:00 +0000 (16:30 +0100)]
Document unavailable parameters in some configurations
Add a note to user-facing parameters that can be removed completely
(and not just empty) by #ifdef's depending on build configuration.
Tom Lane [Thu, 16 Dec 2010 21:22:18 +0000 (16:22 -0500)]
Remove optreset from src/port/ implementations of getopt and getopt_long.
We don't actually need optreset, because we can easily fix the code to
ensure that it's cleanly restartable after having completed a scan over the
argv array; which is the only case we need to restart in. Getting rid of
it avoids a class of interactions with the system libraries and allows
reversion of my change of yesterday in postmaster.c and postgres.c.
Back-patch to 8.4. Before that the getopt code was a bit different anyway.
Tom Lane [Thu, 16 Dec 2010 04:50:56 +0000 (23:50 -0500)]
Fix up getopt() reset management so it works on recent mingw.
The mingw people don't appear to care about compatibility with non-GNU
versions of getopt, so force use of our own copy of getopt on Windows.
Also, ensure that we make use of optreset when using our own copy.
Per report from Andrew Dunstan. Back-patch to all versions supported
on Windows.
Tom Lane [Thu, 16 Dec 2010 02:22:38 +0000 (21:22 -0500)]
Fix contrib/seg's GiST picksplit method.
Fix the same size_alpha versus size_beta typo that was recently fixed
in contrib/cube. Noted by Alexander Korotkov.
Back-patch to all supported branches (there is a more invasive fix in
HEAD).
Marc G. Fournier [Tue, 14 Dec 2010 02:59:19 +0000 (22:59 -0400)]
Tag 8.4.6.
Tom Lane [Tue, 14 Dec 2010 01:22:01 +0000 (20:22 -0500)]
Update release notes for releases 9.0.2, 8.4.6, 8.3.13, 8.2.19, and 8.1.23.
Peter Eisentraut [Mon, 13 Dec 2010 20:40:15 +0000 (22:40 +0200)]
Translation updates for release 8.4.6
Tom Lane [Mon, 13 Dec 2010 17:41:57 +0000 (12:41 -0500)]
Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2010o: DST law changes in
Fiji and Samoa. Historical corrections for Hong Kong.
Tom Lane [Fri, 10 Dec 2010 16:33:38 +0000 (11:33 -0500)]
Fix efficiency problems in tuplestore_trim().
The original coding in tuplestore_trim() was only meant to work efficiently
in cases where each trim call deleted most of the tuples in the store.
Which, in fact, was the pattern of the original usage with a Material node
supporting mark/restore operations underneath a MergeJoin. However,
WindowAgg now uses tuplestores and it has considerably less friendly
trimming behavior. In particular it can attempt to trim one tuple at a
time off a large tuplestore. tuplestore_trim() had O(N^2) runtime in this
situation because of repeatedly shifting its tuple pointer array. Fix by
avoiding shifting the array until a reasonably large number of tuples have
been deleted. This can waste some pointer space, but we do still reclaim
the tuples themselves, so the percentage wastage should be pretty small.
Per Jie Li's report of slow percent_rank() evaluation. cume_dist() and
ntile() would certainly be affected as well, along with any other window
function that has a moving frame start and requires reading substantially
ahead of the current row.
Back-patch to 8.4, where window functions were introduced. There's no
need to tweak it before that.
Tom Lane [Thu, 9 Dec 2010 01:01:19 +0000 (20:01 -0500)]
Force default wal_sync_method to be fdatasync on Linux.
Recent versions of the Linux system header files cause xlogdefs.h to
believe that open_datasync should be the default sync method, whereas
formerly fdatasync was the default on Linux. open_datasync is a bad
choice, first because it doesn't actually outperform fdatasync (in fact
the reverse), and second because we try to use O_DIRECT with it, causing
failures on certain filesystems (e.g., ext4 with data=journal option).
This part of the patch is largely per a proposal from Marti Raudsepp.
More extensive changes are likely to follow in HEAD, but this is as much
change as we want to back-patch.
Also clean up confusing code and incorrect documentation surrounding the
fsync_writethrough option. Those changes shouldn't result in any actual
behavioral change, but I chose to back-patch them anyway to keep the
branches looking similar in this area.
In 9.0 and HEAD, also do some copy-editing on the WAL Reliability
documentation section.
Back-patch to all supported branches, since any of them might get used
on modern Linux versions.
Tom Lane [Tue, 7 Dec 2010 03:55:56 +0000 (22:55 -0500)]
Add a stack overflow check to copyObject().
There are some code paths, such as SPI_execute(), where we invoke
copyObject() on raw parse trees before doing parse analysis on them. Since
the bison grammar is capable of building heavily nested parsetrees while
itself using only minimal stack depth, this means that copyObject() can be
the front-line function that hits stack overflow before anything else does.
Accordingly, it had better have a check_stack_depth() call. I did a bit of
performance testing and found that this slows down copyObject() by only a
few percent, so the hit ought to be negligible in the context of complete
processing of a query.
Per off-list report from Toshihide Katayama. Back-patch to all supported
branches.
Tom Lane [Wed, 1 Dec 2010 05:53:29 +0000 (00:53 -0500)]
Prevent inlining a SQL function with multiple OUT parameters.
There were corner cases in which the planner would attempt to inline such
a function, which would result in a failure at runtime due to loss of
information about exactly what the result record type is. Fix by disabling
inlining when the function's recorded result type is RECORD. There might
be some sub-cases where inlining could still be allowed, but this is a
simple and backpatchable fix, so leave refinements for another day.
Per bug #5777 from Nate Carson.
Back-patch to all supported branches. 8.1 happens to avoid a core-dump
here, but it still does the wrong thing.
Tom Lane [Fri, 26 Nov 2010 20:21:00 +0000 (15:21 -0500)]
Fix significant memory leak in contrib/xml2 functions.
Most of the functions that execute XPath queries leaked the data structures
created by libxml2. This memory would not be recovered until end of
session, so it mounts up pretty quickly in any serious use of the feature.
Per report from Pavel Stehule, though this isn't his patch.
Back-patch to all supported branches.
Itagaki Takahiro [Thu, 25 Nov 2010 10:40:58 +0000 (19:40 +0900)]
Don't raise "identifier will be truncated" messages in dblink
except creating new connections.
Tom Lane [Sat, 20 Nov 2010 03:28:30 +0000 (22:28 -0500)]
Fix leakage of cost_limit when multiple autovacuum workers are active.
When using default autovacuum_vac_cost_limit, autovac_balance_cost relied
on VacuumCostLimit to contain the correct global value ... but after the
first time through in a particular worker process, it didn't, because we'd
trashed it in previous iterations. Depending on the state of other autovac
workers, this could result in a steady reduction of the effective
cost_limit setting as a particular worker processed more and more tables,
causing it to go slower and slower. Spotted by Simon Poole (bug #5759).
Fix by saving and restoring the GUC variables in the loop in do_autovacuum.
In passing, improve a few comments.
Back-patch to 8.3 ... the cost rebalancing code has been buggy since it was
put in.
Heikki Linnakangas [Tue, 16 Nov 2010 09:02:11 +0000 (11:02 +0200)]
The GiST scan algorithm uses LSNs to detect concurrent pages splits, but
temporary indexes are not WAL-logged. We used a constant LSN for temporary
indexes, on the assumption that we don't need to worry about concurrent page
splits in temporary indexes because they're only visible to the current
session. But that assumption is wrong, it's possible to insert rows and
split pages in the same session, while a scan is in progress. For example,
by opening a cursor and fetching some rows, and INSERTing new rows before
fetching some more.
Fix by generating fake increasing LSNs, used in place of real LSNs in
temporary GiST indexes.
Tom Lane [Mon, 15 Nov 2010 19:27:04 +0000 (14:27 -0500)]
Fix aboriginal mistake in plpython's set-returning-function support.
We must stay in the function's SPI context until done calling the iterator
that returns the set result. Otherwise, any attempt to invoke SPI features
in the python code called by the iterator will malfunction. Diagnosis and
patch by Jan Urbanski, per bug report from Jean-Baptiste Quenot.
Back-patch to 8.2; there was no support for SRFs in previous versions of
plpython.
Robert Haas [Mon, 15 Nov 2010 02:27:34 +0000 (21:27 -0500)]
Fix bug in cube picksplit algorithm.
Alexander Korotkov
Tom Lane [Sun, 14 Nov 2010 20:57:51 +0000 (15:57 -0500)]
Fix canAcceptConnections() bugs introduced by replication-related patches.
We must not return any "okay to proceed" result code without having checked
for too many children, else we might fail later on when trying to add the
new child to one of the per-child state arrays. It's not clear whether
this oversight explains Stefan Kaltenbrunner's recent report, but it could
certainly produce a similar symptom.
Back-patch to 8.4; the logic was not broken before that.
Tom Lane [Sat, 13 Nov 2010 05:34:57 +0000 (00:34 -0500)]
Add missing outfuncs.c support for struct InhRelation.
This is needed to support debug_print_parse, per report from Jon Nelson.
Cursory testing via the regression tests suggests we aren't missing
anything else.
Tom Lane [Fri, 12 Nov 2010 20:14:51 +0000 (15:14 -0500)]
Fix old oversight in const-simplification of COALESCE() expressions.
Once we have found a non-null constant argument, there is no need to
examine additional arguments of the COALESCE. The previous coding got it
right only if the constant was in the first argument position; otherwise
it tried to simplify following arguments too, leading to unexpected
behavior like this:
regression=# select coalesce(f1, 42, 1/0) from int4_tbl;
ERROR: division by zero
It's a minor corner case, but a bug is a bug, so back-patch all the way.
Heikki Linnakangas [Thu, 11 Nov 2010 17:21:49 +0000 (19:21 +0200)]
Fix bug introduced by the recent patch to check that the checkpoint redo
location read from backup label file can be found: wasShutdown was set
incorrectly when a backup label file was found.
Jeff Davis, with a little tweaking by me.
Tom Lane [Wed, 10 Nov 2010 21:51:39 +0000 (16:51 -0500)]
Fix line_construct_pm() for the case of "infinite" (DBL_MAX) slope.
This code was just plain wrong: what you got was not a line through the
given point but a line almost indistinguishable from the Y-axis, although
not truly vertical. The only caller that tries to use this function with
m == DBL_MAX is dist_ps_internal for the case where the lseg is horizontal;
it would end up producing the distance from the given point to the place
where the lseg's line crosses the Y-axis. That function is used by other
operators too, so there are several operators that could compute wrong
distances from a line segment to something else. Per bug #5745 from
jindiax.
Back-patch to all supported branches.
Tom Lane [Tue, 9 Nov 2010 16:28:18 +0000 (11:28 -0500)]
Repair memory leakage while ANALYZE-ing complex index expressions.
The general design of memory management in Postgres is that intermediate
results computed by an expression are not freed until the end of the tuple
cycle. For expression indexes, ANALYZE has to re-evaluate each expression
for each of its sample rows, and it wasn't bothering to free intermediate
results until the end of processing of that index. This could lead to very
substantial leakage if the intermediate results were large, as in a recent
example from Jakub Ouhrabka. Fix by doing ResetExprContext for each sample
row. This necessitates adding a datumCopy step to ensure that the final
expression value isn't recycled too. Some quick testing suggests that this
change adds at worst about 10% to the time needed to analyze a table with
an expression index; which is annoying, but seems a tolerable price to pay
to avoid unexpected out-of-memory problems.
Back-patch to all supported branches.
Heikki Linnakangas [Tue, 9 Nov 2010 15:40:09 +0000 (17:40 +0200)]
In rewriteheap.c (used by VACUUM FULL and CLUSTER), calculate the tuple
length stored in the line pointer the same way it's calculated in the normal
heap_insert() codepath. As noted by Jeff Davis, the length stored by
raw_heap_insert() included padding but the one stored by the normal codepath
did not. While the mismatch seems to be harmless, inconsistency isn't good,
and the normal codepath has received a lot more testing over the years.
Backpatch to 8.3 where the heap rewrite code was introduced.
Tom Lane [Tue, 9 Nov 2010 03:15:02 +0000 (22:15 -0500)]
Fix error handling in temp-file deletion with log_temp_files active.
The original coding in FileClose() reset the file-is-temp flag before
unlinking the file, so that if control came back through due to an error,
it wouldn't try to unlink the file twice. This was correct when written,
but when the log_temp_files feature was added, the logging action was put
in between those two steps. An error occurring during the logging action
--- such as a query cancel --- would result in the unlink not getting done
at all, as in recent report from Michael Glaesemann.
To fix this, make sure that we do both the stat and the unlink before doing
anything that could conceivably CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS. There is a judgment
call here, which is which log message to emit first: if you can see only
one, which should it be? I chose to log unlink failure at the risk of
losing the log_temp_files log message --- after all, if the unlink does
fail, the temp file is still there for you to see.
Back-patch to all versions that have log_temp_files. The code was OK
before that.
Tom Lane [Sun, 7 Nov 2010 02:59:15 +0000 (22:59 -0400)]
Add support for detecting register-stack overrun on IA64.
Per recent investigation, the register stack can grow faster than the
regular stack depending on compiler and choice of options. To avoid
crashes we must check both stacks in check_stack_depth().
Back-patch to all supported versions.
Tom Lane [Wed, 3 Nov 2010 17:42:04 +0000 (13:42 -0400)]
Reduce recursion depth in recently-added regression test.
Some buildfarm members fail the test with the original depth of 10 levels,
apparently because they are running at the minimum max_stack_depth setting
of 100kB and using ~ 10k per recursion level. While it might be
interesting to try to figure out why they're eating so much stack, it isn't
likely that any fix for that would be back-patchable. So just change the
test to recurse only 5 levels. The extra levels don't prove anything
correctness-wise anyway.
Tom Lane [Tue, 2 Nov 2010 22:45:50 +0000 (18:45 -0400)]
Fix adjust_semi_join to be more cautious about clauseless joins.
It was reporting that these were fully indexed (hence cheap), when of
course they're the exact opposite of that. I'm not certain if the case
would arise in practice, since a clauseless semijoin is hard to produce
in SQL, but if it did happen we'd make some dumb decisions.
Tom Lane [Tue, 2 Nov 2010 21:15:19 +0000 (17:15 -0400)]
Ensure an index that uses a whole-row Var still depends on its table.
We failed to record any dependency on the underlying table for an index
declared like "create index i on t (foo(t.*))". This would create trouble
if the table were dropped without previously dropping the index. To fix,
simplify some overly-cute code in index_create(), accepting the possibility
that sometimes the whole-table dependency will be redundant. Also document
this hazard in dependency.c. Per report from Kevin Grittner.
In passing, prevent a core dump in pg_get_indexdef() if the index's table
can't be found. I came across this while experimenting with Kevin's
example. Not sure it's a real issue when the catalogs aren't corrupt, but
might as well be cautious.
Back-patch to all supported versions.
Tom Lane [Thu, 28 Oct 2010 17:01:07 +0000 (13:01 -0400)]
Fix plpgsql's handling of "simple" expression evaluation.
In general, expression execution state trees aren't re-entrantly usable,
since functions can store private state information in them.
For efficiency reasons, plpgsql tries to cache and reuse state trees for
"simple" expressions. It can get away with that most of the time, but it
can fail if the state tree is dirty from a previous failed execution (as
in an example from Alvaro) or is being used recursively (as noted by me).
Fix by tracking whether a state tree is in use, and falling back to the
"non-simple" code path if so. This results in a pretty considerable speed
hit when the non-simple path is taken, but the available alternatives seem
even more unpleasant because they add overhead in the simple path. Per
idea from Heikki.
Back-patch to all supported branches.
Heikki Linnakangas [Wed, 27 Oct 2010 17:03:00 +0000 (20:03 +0300)]
Fix long-standing segfault when accept() or one of the calls made right
after accepting a connection fails, and the server is compiled with GSSAPI
support. Report and patch by Alexander V. Chernikov, bug #5731.
Heikki Linnakangas [Tue, 26 Oct 2010 18:15:42 +0000 (21:15 +0300)]
Before removing backup_label and irrevocably changing pg_control file, check
that WAL file containing the checkpoint redo-location can be found. This
avoids making the cluster irrecoverable if the redo location is in an earlie
WAL file than the checkpoint record.
Report, analysis and patch by Jeff Davis, with small changes by me.
Heikki Linnakangas [Wed, 20 Oct 2010 19:20:33 +0000 (22:20 +0300)]
If pk is NULL, the backend would segfault when accessing ->algo and the
following NULL check was never reached.
This problem was found by Coccinelle (null_ref.cocci from coccicheck).
Marti Raudsepp
Tom Lane [Wed, 20 Oct 2010 04:55:07 +0000 (00:55 -0400)]
Fix ecpg test building process to not generate *.dSYM junk on Macs.
The trick is to not try to build executables directly from .c files,
but to always build the intermediate .o files. For obscure reasons,
Darwin's version of gcc will leave debug cruft behind in the first
case but not the second. Per complaint from Robert Haas.
Bruce Momjian [Tue, 19 Oct 2010 15:49:53 +0000 (15:49 +0000)]
Add mention of using tools/fsync to test fsync methods. Restructure
recent wal_sync_method doc paragraph to be clearer.
Robert Haas [Thu, 14 Oct 2010 23:12:24 +0000 (19:12 -0400)]
Add pg_user_mappings to the table of system views.
Peter Eisentraut [Thu, 14 Oct 2010 17:36:42 +0000 (20:36 +0300)]
Complete the documentation of the USAGE privilege for foreign servers
The GRANT reference page failed to mention that the USAGE privilege
allows modifying associated user mappings, although this was already
documented on the CREATE/ALTER/DROP USER MAPPING pages.
Michael Meskes [Thu, 14 Oct 2010 15:51:53 +0000 (17:51 +0200)]
Applied patch by Itagaki Takahiro to fix incorrect status calculation in
ecpglib. Instead of parsing the statement just as ask the database server.
Tom Lane [Mon, 11 Oct 2010 23:04:53 +0000 (19:04 -0400)]
Fix assorted bugs in GIN's WAL replay logic.
The original coding was quite sloppy about handling the case where
XLogReadBuffer fails (because the page has since been deleted). This
would result in either "bad buffer id: 0" or an Assert failure during
replay, if indeed the page were no longer there. In a couple of places
it also neglected to check whether the change had already been applied,
which would probably result in corrupted index contents. I believe that
bug #5703 is an instance of the first problem. These issues could show up
without replication, but only if you were unfortunate enough to crash
between modification of a GIN index and the next checkpoint.
Back-patch to 8.2, which is as far back as GIN has WAL support.