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2015-01-20Disable -faggressive-loop-optimizations in gcc 4.8+ for pre-9.2 branches.REL8_2_STABLEAlvaro Herrera
With this optimization flag enabled, recent versions of gcc can generate incorrect code that assumes variable-length arrays (such as oidvector) are actually fixed-length because they're embedded in some larger struct. The known instance of this problem was fixed in 9.2 and up by commit 8137f2c32322c624e0431fac1621e8e9315202f9 and followon work, which hides actually-variable-length catalog fields from the compiler altogether. And we plan to gradually convert variable-length fields to official "flexible array member" notation over time, which should prevent this type of bug from reappearing as gcc gets smarter. We're not going to try to back-port those changes into older branches, though, so apply this band-aid instead. Andres Freund This is a backpatch of commit 649839dd9 to unsupported branches REL8_2_STABLE and REL8_3_STABLE, so that they work with newer toolsets.
2011-12-14Disable excessive FP optimization by recent versions of gcc.Andrew Dunstan
Suggested solution from Tom Lane. Problem discovered, probably not for the first time, while testing the mingw-w64 32 bit compiler. Backpatched to all live branches.
2011-12-01Stamp 8.2.23.REL8_2_23Tom Lane
Hail and farewell, 8.2.
2011-12-01Update information about configuring SysV IPC parameters on NetBSD.Tom Lane
Per Emmanuel Kasper, sysctl works fine as of NetBSD 5.0.
2011-12-01Draft release notes for 9.1.2, 9.0.6, 8.4.10, 8.3.17, 8.2.23.Tom Lane
2011-11-30Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2011n.Tom Lane
DST law changes in Brazil, Cuba, Fiji, Palestine, Russia, Samoa. Historical corrections for Alaska and British East Africa.
2011-11-30Tweak previous patch to ensure edata->filename always gets initialized.Tom Lane
On a platform that isn't supplying __FILE__, previous coding would either crash or give a stale result for the filename string. Not sure how likely that is, but the original code catered for it, so let's keep doing so.
2011-11-30Strip file names reported in error messages in vpath buildsPeter Eisentraut
In vpath builds, the __FILE__ macro that is used in verbose error reports contains the full absolute file name, which makes the error messages excessively verbose. So keep only the base name, thus matching the behavior of non-vpath builds.
2011-11-28Backpatch "Use the preferred version of xsubpp."Andrew Dunstan
As requested this is backpatched all the way to release 8.2.
2011-11-16Don't elide blank lines when accumulating psql command history.Robert Haas
This can change the meaning of queries, if the blank line happens to occur in the middle of a quoted literal, as per complaint from Tomas Vondra. Back-patch to all supported branches.
2011-11-10Fix server header file installation with vpath buildsPeter Eisentraut
Several server header files would not be installed in vpath builds because they live in the build directory.
2011-11-05Don't assume that a tuple's header size is unchanged during toasting.Tom Lane
This assumption can be wrong when the toaster is passed a raw on-disk tuple, because the tuple might pre-date an ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN operation that added columns without rewriting the table. In such a case the tuple's natts value is smaller than what we expect from the tuple descriptor, and so its t_hoff value could be smaller too. In fact, the tuple might not have a null bitmap at all, and yet our current opinion of it is that it contains some trailing nulls. In such a situation, toast_insert_or_update did the wrong thing, because to save a few lines of code it would use the old t_hoff value as the offset where heap_fill_tuple should start filling data. This did not leave enough room for the new nulls bitmap, with the result that the first few bytes of data could be overwritten with null flag bits, as in a recent report from Hubert Depesz Lubaczewski. The particular case reported requires ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN followed by CREATE TABLE AS SELECT * FROM ... or INSERT ... SELECT * FROM ..., and further requires that there be some out-of-line toasted fields in one of the tuples to be copied; else we'll not reach the troublesome code. The problem can only manifest in this form in 8.4 and later, because before commit a77eaa6a95009a3441e0d475d1980259d45da072, CREATE TABLE AS or INSERT/SELECT wouldn't result in raw disk tuples getting passed directly to heap_insert --- there would always have been at least a junkfilter in between, and that would reconstitute the tuple header with an up-to-date t_natts and hence t_hoff. But I'm backpatching the tuptoaster change all the way anyway, because I'm not convinced there are no older code paths that present a similar risk.
2011-11-01Fix race condition with toast table access from a stale syscache entry.Tom Lane
If a tuple in a syscache contains an out-of-line toasted field, and we try to fetch that field shortly after some other transaction has committed an update or deletion of the tuple, there is a race condition: vacuum could come along and remove the toast tuples before we can fetch them. This leads to transient failures like "missing chunk number 0 for toast value NNNNN in pg_toast_2619", as seen in recent reports from Andrew Hammond and Tim Uckun. The design idea of syscache is that access to stale syscache entries should be prevented by relation-level locks, but that fails for at least two cases where toasted fields are possible: ANALYZE updates pg_statistic rows without locking out sessions that might want to plan queries on the same table, and CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION updates pg_proc rows without any meaningful lock at all. The least risky fix seems to be an idea that Heikki suggested when we were dealing with a related problem back in August: forcibly detoast any out-of-line fields before putting a tuple into syscache in the first place. This avoids the problem because at the time we fetch the parent tuple from the catalog, we should be holding an MVCC snapshot that will prevent removal of the toast tuples, even if the parent tuple is outdated immediately after we fetch it. (Note: I'm not convinced that this statement holds true at every instant where we could be fetching a syscache entry at all, but it does appear to hold true at the times where we could fetch an entry that could have a toasted field. We will need to be a bit wary of adding toast tables to low-level catalogs that don't have them already.) An additional benefit is that subsequent uses of the syscache entry should be faster, since they won't have to detoast the field. Back-patch to all supported versions. The problem is significantly harder to reproduce in pre-9.0 releases, because of their willingness to flush every entry in a syscache whenever the underlying catalog is vacuumed (cf CatalogCacheFlushRelation); but there is still a window for trouble.
2011-10-29Fix assorted bogosities in cash_in() and cash_out().Tom Lane
cash_out failed to handle multiple-byte thousands separators, as per bug #6277 from Alexander Law. In addition, cash_in didn't handle that either, nor could it handle multiple-byte positive_sign. Both routines failed to support multiple-byte mon_decimal_point, which I did not think was worth changing, but at least now they check for the possibility and fall back to using '.' rather than emitting invalid output. Also, make cash_in handle trailing negative signs, which formerly it would reject. Since cash_out generates trailing negative signs whenever the locale tells it to, this last omission represents a fail-to-reload-dumped-data bug. IMO that justifies patching this all the way back.
2011-10-28Update docs to point to the timezone library's new home at IANA.Tom Lane
The recent unpleasantness with copyrights has accelerated a move that was already in planning.
2011-10-26Change FK trigger creation order to better support self-referential FKs.Tom Lane
When a foreign-key constraint references another column of the same table, row updates will queue both the PK's ON UPDATE action and the FK's CHECK action in the same event. The ON UPDATE action must execute first, else the CHECK will check a non-final state of the row and possibly throw an inappropriate error, as seen in bug #6268 from Roman Lytovchenko. Now, the firing order of multiple triggers for the same event is determined by the sort order of their pg_trigger.tgnames, and the auto-generated names we use for FK triggers are "RI_ConstraintTrigger_NNNN" where NNNN is the trigger OID. So most of the time the firing order is the same as creation order, and so rearranging the creation order fixes it. This patch will fail to fix the problem if the OID counter wraps around or adds a decimal digit (eg, from 99999 to 100000) while we are creating the triggers for an FK constraint. Given the small odds of that, and the low usage of self-referential FKs, we'll live with that solution in the back branches. A better fix is to change the auto-generated names for FK triggers, but it seems unwise to do that in stable branches because there may be client code that depends on the naming convention. We'll fix it that way in HEAD in a separate patch. Back-patch to all supported branches, since this bug has existed for a long time.
2011-10-15Fix bugs in information_schema.referential_constraints view.Tom Lane
This view was being insufficiently careful about matching the FK constraint to the depended-on primary or unique key constraint. That could result in failure to show an FK constraint at all, or showing it multiple times, or claiming that it depended on a different constraint than the one it really does. Fix by joining via pg_depend to ensure that we find only the correct dependency. Back-patch, but don't bump catversion because we can't force initdb in back branches. The next minor-version release notes should explain that if you need to fix this in an existing installation, you can drop the information_schema schema then re-create it by sourcing $SHAREDIR/information_schema.sql in each database (as a superuser of course).
2011-10-12Improve documentation of psql's \q command.Tom Lane
The documentation neglected to explain its behavior in a script file (it only ends execution of the script, not psql as a whole), and failed to mention the long form \quit either.
2011-10-08Don't let transform_null_equals=on affect CASE foo WHEN NULL ... constructs.Heikki Linnakangas
transform_null_equals is only supposed to affect "foo = NULL" expressions given directly by the user, not the internal "foo = NULL" expression generated from CASE-WHEN. This fixes bug #6242, reported by Sergey. Backpatch to all supported branches.
2011-10-06Make pgstatindex respond to cancel interrupts.Robert Haas
A similar problem for pgstattuple() was fixed in April of 2010 by commit 33065ef8bc52253ae855bc959576e52d8a28ba06, but pgstatindex() seems to have been overlooked. Back-patch all the way, as with that commit, though not to 7.4 through 8.1, since those are now EOL.
2011-09-24Fix our mapping of Windows timezones for Central America.Tom Lane
We were mapping "Central America Standard Time" to "CST6CDT", which seems entirely wrong, because according to the Olson timezone database noplace in Central America observes daylight savings time on any regular basis --- and certainly not according to the USA DST rules that are implied by "CST6CDT". (Mexico is an exception, but they can be disregarded since they have a separate timezone name in Windows.) So, map this zone name to plain "CST6", which will provide a fixed UTC offset. As written, this patch will also result in mapping "Central America Daylight Time" to CST6. I considered hacking things so that would still map to CST6CDT, but it seems it would confuse win32tzlist.pl to put those two names in separate entries. Since there's little evidence that any such zone name is used in the wild, much less that CST6CDT would be a good match for it, I'm not too worried about what we do with it. Per complaint from Pratik Chirania.
2011-09-22Stamp 8.2.22.REL8_2_22Tom Lane
2011-09-22Update release notes for 9.1.1, 9.0.5, 8.4.9, 8.3.16, 8.2.22.Tom Lane
Man, we fixed a lotta bugs since April.
2011-09-22Translation updatesPeter Eisentraut
2011-09-16gistendscan() forgot to free so->giststate.Tom Lane
This oversight led to a massive memory leak --- upwards of 10KB per tuple --- during creation-time verification of an exclusion constraint based on a GIST index. In most other scenarios it'd just be a leak of 10KB that would be recovered at end of query, so not too significant; though perhaps the leak would be noticeable in a situation where a GIST index was being used in a nestloop inner indexscan. In any case, it's a real leak of long standing, so patch all supported branches. Per report from Harald Fuchs.
2011-09-08Add missing format argument to ecpg_log() callPeter Eisentraut
2011-09-07Fix corner case bug in numeric to_char().Tom Lane
Trailing-zero stripping applied by the FM specifier could strip zeroes to the left of the decimal point, for a format with no digit positions after the decimal point (such as "FM999."). Reported and diagnosed by Marti Raudsepp, though I didn't use his patch.
2011-09-06Avoid possibly accessing off the end of memory in examine_attribute().Tom Lane
Since the last couple of columns of pg_type are often NULL, sizeof(FormData_pg_type) can be an overestimate of the actual size of the tuple data part. Therefore memcpy'ing that much out of the catalog cache, as analyze.c was doing, poses a small risk of copying past the end of memory and incurring SIGSEGV. No such crash has been identified in the field, but we've certainly seen the equivalent happen in other code paths, so patch this one all the way back. Per valgrind testing by Noah Misch, though this is not his proposed patch. I chose to use SearchSysCacheCopy1 rather than inventing special-purpose infrastructure for copying only the minimal part of a pg_type tuple.
2011-09-06Update type-conversion documentation for long-ago changes.Tom Lane
This example wasn't updated when we changed the behavior of bpcharlen() in 8.0, nor when we changed the number of parameters taken by the bpchar() cast function in 7.3. Per report from lsliang.
2011-09-05Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2011i.Tom Lane
DST law changes in Canada, Egypt, Russia, Samoa, South Sudan.
2011-09-03Fix typo in pg_srand48 (srand48 in older branches).Tom Lane
">" should be ">>". This typo results in failure to use all of the bits of the provided seed. This might rise to the level of a security bug if we were relying on srand48 for any security-critical purposes, but we are not --- in fact, it's not used at all unless the platform lacks srandom(), which is improbable. Even on such a platform the exposure seems minimal. Reported privately by Andres Freund.
2011-08-29Replace obsolete AC_LANG_FUNC_LINK_TRY autoconf macro.Tom Lane
The version of this macro used in autoconf 2.59 is capable of incorrectly succeeding (ie, reporting that a library function is available when it isn't), if the compiler performs link-time optimization and decides that it can optimize the function reference away entirely. Replace it with the coding used in autoconf 2.61 and later, which forces the program result to depend on the function's result so that it cannot be optimized away. This should fix build failures currently being seen on buildfarm member anchovy. This patch affects the 8.2 and 8.3 branches only, since later branches are using autoconf versions that don't have this problem.
2011-08-27Don't assume that "E" response to NEGOTIATE_SSL_CODE means pre-7.0 server.Tom Lane
These days, such a response is far more likely to signify a server-side problem, such as fork failure. Reporting "server does not support SSL" (in sslmode=require) could be quite misleading. But the results could be even worse in sslmode=prefer: if the problem was transient and the next connection attempt succeeds, we'll have silently fallen back to protocol version 2.0, possibly disabling features the user needs. Hence, it seems best to just eliminate the assumption that backing off to non-SSL/2.0 protocol is the way to recover from an "E" response, and instead treat the server error the same as we would in non-SSL cases. I tested this change against a pre-7.0 server, and found that there was a second logic bug in the "prefer" path: the test to decide whether to make a fallback connection attempt assumed that we must have opened conn->ssl, which in fact does not happen given an "E" response. After fixing that, the code does indeed connect successfully to pre-7.0, as long as you didn't set sslmode=require. (If you did, you get "Unsupported frontend protocol", which isn't completely off base given the server certainly doesn't support SSL.) Since there seems no reason to believe that pre-7.0 servers exist anymore in the wild, back-patch to all supported branches.
2011-08-27Ensure we discard unread/unsent data when abandoning a connection attempt.Tom Lane
There are assorted situations wherein PQconnectPoll() will abandon a connection attempt and try again with different parameters (eg, SSL versus not SSL). However, the code forgot to discard any pending data in libpq's I/O buffers when doing this. In at least one case (server returns E message during SSL negotiation), there is unread input data which bollixes the next connection attempt. I have not checked to see whether this is possible in the other cases where we close the socket and retry, but it seems like a matter of good defensive programming to add explicit buffer-flushing code to all of them. This is one of several issues exposed by Daniel Farina's report of misbehavior after a server-side fork failure. This has been wrong since forever, so back-patch to all supported branches.
2011-08-25Fix pgstatindex() to give consistent results for empty indexes.Tom Lane
For an empty index, the pgstatindex() function would compute 0.0/0.0 for its avg_leaf_density and leaf_fragmentation outputs. On machines that follow the IEEE float arithmetic standard with any care, that results in a NaN. However, per report from Rushabh Lathia, Microsoft couldn't manage to get this right, so you'd get a bizarre error on Windows. Fix by forcing the results to be NaN explicitly, rather than relying on the division operator to give that or the snprintf function to print it correctly. I have some doubts that this is really the most useful definition, but it seems better to remain backward-compatible with those platforms for which the behavior wasn't completely broken. Back-patch to 8.2, since the code is like that in all current releases.
2011-08-20Fix performance problem when building a lossy tidbitmap.Tom Lane
As pointed out by Sergey Koposov, repeated invocations of tbm_lossify can make building a large tidbitmap into an O(N^2) operation. To fix, make sure we remove more than the minimum amount of information per call, and add a fallback path to behave sanely if we're unable to fit the bitmap within the requested amount of memory. This has been wrong since the tidbitmap code was written, so back-patch to all supported branches.
2011-08-16Fix race condition in relcache init file invalidation.Tom Lane
The previous code tried to synchronize by unlinking the init file twice, but that doesn't actually work: it leaves a window wherein a third process could read the already-stale init file but miss the SI messages that would tell it the data is stale. The result would be bizarre failures in catalog accesses, typically "could not read block 0 in file ..." later during startup. Instead, hold RelCacheInitLock across both the unlink and the sending of the SI messages. This is more straightforward, and might even be a bit faster since only one unlink call is needed. This has been wrong since it was put in (in 2002!), so back-patch to all supported releases.
2011-08-02Avoid integer overflow when LIMIT + OFFSET >= 2^63.Heikki Linnakangas
This fixes bug #6139 reported by Hitoshi Harada.
2011-07-28Fix pg_restore's direct-to-database mode for standard_conforming_strings.Tom Lane
pg_backup_db.c contained a mini SQL lexer with which it tried to identify boundaries between SQL commands, but that code was not designed to cope with standard_conforming_strings, and would get the wrong answer if a backslash immediately precedes a closing single quote in such a string, as per report from Julian Mehnle. The bug only affects direct-to-database restores from archive files made with standard_conforming_strings = on. Rather than complicating the code some more to try to fix that, let's just rip it all out. The only reason it was needed was to cope with COPY data embedded into ordinary archive entries, which was a layout that was used only for about the first three weeks of the archive format's existence, and never in any production release of pg_dump. Instead, just rely on the archive file layout to tell us whether we're printing COPY data or not. This bug represents a data corruption hazard in all releases in which standard_conforming_strings can be turned on, ie 8.2 and later, so back-patch to all supported branches.
2011-07-26Add missing newlines at end of error messagesPeter Eisentraut
2011-07-24Use OpenSSL's SSL_MODE_ACCEPT_MOVING_WRITE_BUFFER flag.Tom Lane
This disables an entirely unnecessary "sanity check" that causes failures in nonblocking mode, because OpenSSL complains if we move or compact the write buffer. The only actual requirement is that we not modify pending data once we've attempted to send it, which we don't. Per testing and research by Martin Pihlak, though this fix is a lot simpler than his patch. I put the same change into the backend, although it's less clear whether it's necessary there. We do use nonblock mode in some situations in streaming replication, so seems best to keep the same behavior in the backend as in libpq. Back-patch to all supported releases.
2011-07-18Adapted expected result for latest change to ecpglib.Michael Meskes
2011-07-18Made ecpglib write double with a precision of 15 digits.Michael Meskes
Patch by Akira Kurosawa <[email protected]>.
2011-07-15Fix two ancient bugs in GiST code to re-find a parent after page split:Heikki Linnakangas
First, when following a right-link, we incorrectly marked the current page as the parent of the right sibling. In reality, the parent of the right page is the same as the parent of the current page (or some page to the right of it, gistFindCorrectParent() will sort that out). Secondly, when we follow a right-link, we must prepend, not append, the right page to our list of pages to visit. That's because we assume that once we hit a leaf page in the list, all the rest are leaf pages too, and give up. To hit these bugs, you need concurrent actions and several unlucky accidents. Another backend must split the root page, while you're in process of splitting a lower-level page. Furthermore, while you scan the internal nodes to re-find the parent, another backend needs to again split some more internal pages. Even then, the bugs don't necessarily manifest as user-visible errors or index corruption. While we're at it, make the error reporting a bit better if gistFindPath() fails to re-find the parent. It used to be an assertion, but an elog() seems more appropriate. Backpatch to all supported branches.
2011-07-11Remove excessively backpatched gitignore filesPeter Eisentraut
These caused directories from future releases to appear in the backbranch tree.
2011-07-05Fix psql's counting of script file line numbers during COPY.Tom Lane
handleCopyIn incremented pset.lineno for each line of COPY data read from a file. This is correct when reading from the current script file (i.e., we are doing COPY FROM STDIN followed by in-line data), but it's wrong if the data is coming from some other file. Per bug #6083 from Steve Haslam. Back-patch to all supported versions.
2011-07-03Back-patch creation of tar.bz2 tarball during "make dist".Tom Lane
Since commit a4d03bbcdaf7739d7e9073ee76bb186f68ddc163, "make dist" has built both gzip- and bzip2-compressed tarballs. However, this was pretty useless, because our tarball build script didn't know about it and proceeded to overwrite the bz2 file with new data. Back-patch the change to all active branches, so that creation of the tar.bz2 file can be removed from the build script.
2011-06-21Apply upstream fix for blowfish signed-character bug (CVE-2011-2483).Tom Lane
A password containing a character with the high bit set was misprocessed on machines where char is signed (which is most). This could cause the preceding one to three characters to fail to affect the hashed result, thus weakening the password. The result was also unportable, and failed to match some other blowfish implementations such as OpenBSD's. Since the fix changes the output for such passwords, upstream chose to provide a compatibility hack: password salts beginning with $2x$ (instead of the usual $2a$ for blowfish) are intentionally processed "wrong" to give the same hash as before. Stored password hashes can thus be modified if necessary to still match, though it'd be better to change any affected passwords. In passing, sync a couple other upstream changes that marginally improve performance and/or tighten error checking. Back-patch to all supported branches. Since this issue is already public, no reason not to commit the fix ASAP.
2011-06-20Fix missed use of "cp -i" in an example, per Fujii Masao.Tom Lane
Also be more careful about markup: use &amp; not just &.
2011-06-17Don't use "cp -i" in the example WAL archive_command.Tom Lane
This is a dangerous example to provide because on machines with GNU cp, it will silently do the wrong thing and risk archive corruption. Worse, during the 9.0 cycle somebody "improved" the discussion by removing the warning that used to be there about that, and instead leaving the impression that the command would work as desired on most Unixen. It doesn't. Try to rectify the damage by providing an example that is safe most everywhere, and then noting that you can try cp -i if you want but you'd better test that. In back-patching this to all supported branches, I also added an example command for Windows, which wasn't provided before 9.0.