To test pg_upgrade across major PG versions, we have to be able to
modify or drop any old objects with no-longer-supported properties,
and we have to be able to deal with cosmetic changes in pg_dump output.
Up to now, the buildfarm and pg_upgrade's own test infrastructure had
separate implementations of the former, and we had nothing but very
ad-hoc rules for the latter (including an arbitrary threshold on how
many lines of unchecked diff were okay!). This patch creates a Perl
module that can be shared by both those use-cases, and adds logic
that deals with pg_dump output diffs in a much more tightly defined
fashion.
This largely supersedes previous efforts in commits 0df9641d3,
9814ff550, and 62be9e4cd, which developed a SQL-script-based solution
for the task of dropping old objects. There was nothing fundamentally
wrong with that work in itself, but it had no basis for solving the
output-formatting problem. The most plausible way to deal with
formatting is to build a Perl module that can perform editing on the
dump files; and once we commit to that, it makes more sense for the
same module to also embed the knowledge of what has to be done for
dropping old objects.
Back-patch versions of the helper module as far as 9.2, to
support buildfarm animals that still test that far back.
It's also necessary to back-patch PostgreSQL/Version.pm,
because the new code depends on that. I fixed up pg_upgrade's
002_pg_upgrade.pl in v15, but did not look into back-patching
it further than that.
Tom Lane and Andrew Dunstan
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/891521.1673657296@sss.pgh.pa.us
Upstream SELinux has recently marked security_context_t as officially
deprecated, causing warnings with -Wdeprecated-declarations. This is
considered as legacy code for some time now by upstream as
security_context_t got removed from most of the code tree during the
development of 2.3 back in 2014.
This removes all the references to security_context_t in sepgsql/ to be
consistent with SELinux, fixing the warnings. Note that this does not
impact the minimum version of libselinux supported.
This has been applied first as 1f32136 for 14~, but no other branches
got the call. This is in line with the recent project policy to have no
warnings in branches where builds should still be supported (9.2~ as of
today). Per discussion with Tom Lane and Álvaro Herrera.
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200813012735.GC11663@paquier.xyz
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20221103181028.raqta27jcuypor4l@alvherre.pgsql
Backpatch-through: 9.2
In the latest version of Apple's macOS SDK, <sys/socket.h>
fails to compile if "REF" is #define'd as something.
Apple may or may not agree that this is a bug, and even if
they do accept the bug report I filed, they probably won't
fix it very quickly. In the meantime, our back branches will all
fail to compile gram.y. v15 and HEAD currently escape the problem
thanks to the refactoring done in 98e93a1fc, but that's purely
accidental. Moreover, since that patch removed a widely-visible
inclusion of <netdb.h>, back-patching it seems too likely to break
third-party code.
Instead, change the token's code name to REF_P, following our usual
convention for naming parser tokens that are likely to have symbol
conflicts. The effects of that should be localized to the grammar
and immediately surrounding files, so it seems like a safer answer.
Per project policy that we want to keep recently-out-of-support
branches buildable on modern systems, back-patch all the way to 9.2.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1803927.1665938411@sss.pgh.pa.us
Mop up assorted set-but-not-used warnings in the back branches.
This includes back-patching relevant fixes from commit 152c9f7b8
the rest of the way, but there are also several cases that did not
appear in HEAD. Some of those we'd fixed in a retail way but not
back-patched, and others I think just got rewritten out of existence
during nearby refactoring.
While here, also back-patch b1980f6d0 (PL/Tcl: Fix compiler warnings
with Tcl 8.6) into 9.2, so that that branch compiles warning-free
with modern Tcl.
Per project policy, this is a candidate for back-patching into
out-of-support branches: it suppresses annoying compiler warnings
but changes no behavior. Hence, back-patch all the way to 9.2.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/514615.1663615243@sss.pgh.pa.us
There doesn't seem to be any good ABI-preserving way to silence
clang 15's -Wdeprecated-non-prototype warnings about our tree-walk
APIs. While we've fixed it properly in HEAD, the only way to not
see hundreds of these in the back branches is to disable the
warnings. We're not going to do anything about them, so we might
as well disable them.
I noticed that we also get some of these warnings about fmgr.c's
support for V0 function call convention, in branches before v10
where we removed that. That's another area we aren't going to
change, so turning off the warning seems fine for that too.
Per project policy, this is a candidate for back-patching into
out-of-support branches: it suppresses annoying compiler warnings
but changes no behavior. Hence, back-patch all the way to 9.2.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+hUKGKpHPDTv67Y+s6yiC8KH5OXeDg6a-twWo_xznKTcG0kSA@mail.gmail.com
Perl 5.36 has reclassified the warning condition that this test
case used, so that the expected error fails to appear. Tweak
the test so it instead exercises a case that's handled the same
way in all Perl versions of interest.
This appears to meet our standards for back-patching into
out-of-support branches: it changes no user-visible behavior
but enables testing of old branches with newer tools.
Hence, back-patch as far as 9.2.
Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker, per report from Jitka Plesníková.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/564579.1654093326@sss.pgh.pa.us
In the normal configuration where GEQO_DEBUG isn't defined,
recent clang versions have started to complain that geqo_main.c
accumulates the edge_failures count but never does anything
with it. As a minimal back-patchable fix, insert a void cast
to silence this warning. (I'd speculated about ripping out the
GEQO_DEBUG logic altogether, but I don't think we'd wish to
back-patch that.)
Per recently-established project policy, this is a candidate
for back-patching into out-of-support branches: it suppresses
an annoying compiler warning but changes no behavior. Hence,
back-patch all the way to 9.2.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+hUKGLTSZQwES8VNPmWO9AO0wSeLt36OCPDAZTccT1h7Q7kTQ@mail.gmail.com
Per buildfarm and local experimentation, bleeding-edge gcc isn't
convinced that the MemSet in reorder_function_arguments() is safe.
Shut it up by adding an explicit check that pronargs isn't negative,
and by changing MemSet to memset. (It appears that either change is
enough to quiet the warning at -O2, but let's do both to be sure.)
This back-patches commit 1046dbedd into out-of-support branches,
pursuant to newly-established project policy. The point is to
suppress scary-looking warnings so that people building these
branches needn't expend brain cells verifying that it's safe
to ignore the warnings.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/d0316012-ece7-7b7e-2d36-9c38cb77cb3b@enterprisedb.com
This is exactly the same problem as commit 1b242f42b fixed in ecpg,
but in contrib/pgcrypto. Commit 273c458a2 eliminated the problem
here for v10 and up. We hadn't noticed for exactly the same reasons
enumerated in bbbf22cf3.
Back-patch down to 9.2, pursuant to newly-established project policy
about keeping out-of-support branches buildable.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/d0316012-ece7-7b7e-2d36-9c38cb77cb3b@enterprisedb.com
Recent versions of gcc whine about the admittedly-completely-illegible
formatting of this macro. We've not noticed for a few reasons:
* In v12 and up, the problem is gone thanks to 48e24ba6b.
(Back-patching that doesn't seem prudent, though, so this patch
just manually improves the macro's formatting.)
* Buildfarm animals that might have complained, such as caiman,
do not because they use --with-openssl and so don't build imath.c.
* In a manual run such as "make all check-world", you won't see the
warning because it gets buried in an install.log file. You have to
do "make -C contrib all" or the like to see it.
I noticed this because in older branches, the last bit doesn't
happen so "check-world" actually does spew the warnings to stderr.
Maybe we should rethink how that works, because the newer behavior
is not an improvement IMO.
Back-patch down to 9.2, pursuant to newly-established project policy
about keeping out-of-support branches buildable.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/d0316012-ece7-7b7e-2d36-9c38cb77cb3b@enterprisedb.com
clang-12 has introduced -Wcompound-token-split-by-macro, that is causing
a large amount of warnings when building PL/Perl because of its
interactions with upstream Perl. This commit adds one -Wno to CFLAGS at
./configure time if the flag is supported by the compiler to silence all
those warnings.
This back-patches commit 9ff47ea41 into out-of-support branches,
pursuant to newly-established project policy. The point is to
suppress scary-looking warnings so that people building these
branches needn't expend brain cells verifying that it's safe
to ignore the warnings.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/d0316012-ece7-7b7e-2d36-9c38cb77cb3b@enterprisedb.com
We had "short *mdy" in the extern declarations, but "short mdy[3]"
in the actual function definitions. Per C99 these are equivalent,
but recent versions of gcc have started to issue warnings about
the inconsistency. Clean it up before the warnings get any more
widespread.
This back-patches commit 1b242f42b into out-of-support branches,
pursuant to newly-established project policy. The point is to
suppress scary-looking warnings so that people building these
branches needn't expend brain cells verifying that it's safe
to ignore the warnings.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/d0316012-ece7-7b7e-2d36-9c38cb77cb3b@enterprisedb.com
Using exit() requires stdlib.h, which is not included. Use return
instead. Also add return type for main().
This back-patches commit 1c0cf52b3 into out-of-support branches,
pursuant to a newly-established project policy that we'll try to keep
out-of-support branches buildable on modern platforms for at least
ten major releases back, ensuring people can test pg_dump and psql
compatibility against servers that far back. With the current
development branch being v15, that works out to keeping 9.2 and up
buildable as of today.
This fix is needed to get through 'configure' when using recent
macOS (and possibly other clang-based toolchains). It seems to
be sufficient to get through 'check-world', although there are
annoyances such as compiler warnings, which will be dealt with
separately.
Original patch by Peter Eisentraut
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/d0316012-ece7-7b7e-2d36-9c38cb77cb3b@enterprisedb.com
Inherited queries perform access permission checks on the parent
table only. But there are two exceptions to this rule in v12 or before;
TRUNCATE and LOCK TABLE commands through a parent table check
the permissions on not only the parent table but also the children
tables. Previously these exceptions were not documented.
This commit adds the note about these exceptions, into the document.
Back-patch to v9.4. But we don't apply this commit to the master
because commit e6f1e560e4 already got rid of the exception about
inherited TRUNCATE and upcoming commit will do for the exception
about inherited LOCK TABLE.
Author: Amit Langote
Reviewed-by: Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+HiwqHfTnMU6SUkyHxCmpHUKk7ERLHCR3vZVq19ZOQBjPBLmQ@mail.gmail.com
This commit reverts the fix "Make inherited TRUNCATE perform access
permission checks on parent table only" only in the back branches.
It's not hard to imagine that there are some applications expecting
the old behavior and the fix breaks their security. To avoid this
compatibility problem, we decided to apply the fix only in HEAD and
revert it in all supported back branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/21015.1580400165@sss.pgh.pa.us
If we attempt to create a DSM segment when no slots are available,
we should return the memory to the operating system. Previously
we did that if the DSM_CREATE_NULL_IF_MAXSEGMENTS flag was
passed in, but we didn't do it if an error was raised. Repair.
Back-patch to 9.4, where DSM segments arrived.
Author: Thomas Munro
Reviewed-by: Robert Haas
Reported-by: Julian Backes
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGKAAoEw-R4om0d2YM4eqT1eGEi6%3DQot-3ceDR-SLiWVDw%40mail.gmail.com
Commit fc7695891 changed CheckAttributeType to recurse into ranges,
but made it pass down the wrong collation (always InvalidOid, since
ranges as such have no collation). This would result in guaranteed
failure when considering a range type whose subtype is collatable.
Embarrassingly, we lack any regression tests that would expose such
a problem (but fortunately, somebody noticed before we shipped this
bug in any release).
Fix it to pass down the range's subtype collation property instead,
and add some regression test cases to exercise collatable-subtype
ranges a bit more. Back-patch to all supported branches, as the
previous patch was.
Report and patch by Julien Rouhaud, test cases tweaked by me
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAOBaU_aBWqNweiGUFX0guzBKkcfJ8mnnyyGC_KBQmO12Mj5f_A@mail.gmail.com
If we failed to fork a worker process, or create a communication pipe
for one, WaitForTerminatingWorkers would suffer an assertion failure
if assert-enabled, otherwise crash or go into an infinite loop. This
was a consequence of not accounting for the startup condition where
we've not yet forked all the workers.
The original bug was that ParallelBackupStart would set workerStatus to
WRKR_IDLE before it had successfully forked a worker. I made things
worse in commit b7b8cc0cf by not understanding the undocumented fact
that the WRKR_TERMINATED state was also meant to represent the case
where a worker hadn't been started yet: I changed enum T_WorkerStatus
so that *all* the worker slots were initially in WRKR_IDLE state. But
this wasn't any more broken in practice, since even one slot in the
wrong state would keep WaitForTerminatingWorkers from terminating.
In v10 and later, introduce an explicit T_WorkerStatus value for
worker-not-started, in hopes of preventing future oversights of the
same ilk. Before that, just document that WRKR_TERMINATED is supposed
to cover that case (partly because it wasn't actively broken, and
partly because the enum is exposed outside parallel.c in those branches,
so there's microscopically more risk involved in changing it).
In all branches, introduce a WORKER_IS_RUNNING status test macro
to hide which T_WorkerStatus values mean that, and be more careful
not to access ParallelSlot fields till we're sure they're valid.
Per report from Vignesh C, though this is my patch not his.
Back-patch to all supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALDaNm1Luv-E3sarR+-unz-BjchquHHyfP+YC+2FS2pt_J+wxg@mail.gmail.com
Previously, TRUNCATE command through a parent table checked the
permissions on not only the parent table but also the children tables
inherited from it. This was a bug and inherited queries should perform
access permission checks on the parent table only. This commit fixes
that bug.
Back-patch to all supported branches.
Author: Amit Langote
Reviewed-by: Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHGQGwFHdSvifhJE+-GSNqUHSfbiKxaeQQ7HGcYz6SC2n_oDcg@mail.gmail.com
I had supposed that the from_char_seq_search() call sites were
all passing the constant arrays you'd expect them to pass ...
but on looking closer, the one for DY format was passing the
days[] array not days_short[]. This accidentally worked because
the day abbreviations in English are all the same as the first
three letters of the full day names. However, once we took out
the "maximum comparison length" logic, it stopped working.
As penance for that oversight, add regression test cases covering
this, as well as every other switch case in DCH_from_char() that
was not reached according to the code coverage report.
Also, fold the DCH_RM and DCH_rm cases into one --- now that
seq_search is case independent, there's no need to pass different
comparison arrays for those cases.
Back-patch, as the previous commit was.
seq_search(), which is used to match input substrings to constants
such as month and day names, had a lot of bizarre and unnecessary
behaviors. It was mostly possible to avert our eyes from that before,
but we don't want to duplicate those behaviors in the upcoming patch
to allow recognition of non-English month and day names. So it's time
to clean this up. In particular:
* seq_search scribbled on the input string, which is a pretty dangerous
thing to do, especially in the badly underdocumented way it was done here.
Fortunately the input string is a temporary copy, but that was being made
three subroutine levels away, making it something easy to break
accidentally. The behavior is externally visible nonetheless, in the form
of odd case-folding in error reports about unrecognized month/day names.
The scribbling is evidently being done to save a few calls to pg_tolower,
but that's such a cheap function (at least for ASCII data) that it's
pretty pointless to worry about. In HEAD I switched it to be
pg_ascii_tolower to ensure it is cheap in all cases; but there are corner
cases in Turkish where this'd change behavior, so leave it as pg_tolower
in the back branches.
* seq_search insisted on knowing the case form (all-upper, all-lower,
or initcap) of the constant strings, so that it didn't have to case-fold
them to perform case-insensitive comparisons. This likewise seems like
excessive micro-optimization, given that pg_tolower is certainly very
cheap for ASCII data. It seems unsafe to assume that we know the case
form that will come out of pg_locale.c for localized month/day names, so
it's better just to define the comparison rule as "downcase all strings
before comparing". (The choice between downcasing and upcasing is
arbitrary so far as English is concerned, but it might not be in other
locales, so follow citext's lead here.)
* seq_search also had a parameter that'd cause it to report a match
after a maximum number of characters, even if the constant string were
longer than that. This was not actually used because no caller passed
a value small enough to cut off a comparison. Replicating that behavior
for localized month/day names seems expensive as well as useless, so
let's get rid of that too.
* from_char_seq_search used the maximum-length parameter to truncate
the input string in error reports about not finding a matching name.
This leads to rather confusing reports in many cases. Worse, it is
outright dangerous if the input string isn't all-ASCII, because we
risk truncating the string in the middle of a multibyte character.
That'd lead either to delivering an illegible error message to the
client, or to encoding-conversion failures that obscure the actual
data problem. Get rid of that in favor of truncating at whitespace
if any (a suggestion due to Alvaro Herrera).
In addition to fixing these things, I const-ified the input string
pointers of DCH_from_char and its subroutines, to make sure there
aren't any other scribbling-on-input problems.
The risk of generating a badly-encoded error message seems like
enough of a bug to justify back-patching, so patch all supported
branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/29432.1579731087@sss.pgh.pa.us
Attempting to use CREATE INDEX, DROP INDEX or REINDEX with CONCURRENTLY
on a temporary relation with ON COMMIT actions triggered unexpected
errors because those operations use multiple transactions internally to
complete their work. Here is for example one confusing error when using
ON COMMIT DELETE ROWS:
ERROR: index "foo" already contains data
Issues related to temporary relations and concurrent indexing are fixed
in this commit by enforcing the non-concurrent path to be taken for
temporary relations even if using CONCURRENTLY, transparently to the
user. Using a non-concurrent path does not matter in practice as locks
cannot be taken on a temporary relation by a session different than the
one owning the relation, and the non-concurrent operation is more
effective.
The problem exists with REINDEX since v12 with the introduction of
CONCURRENTLY, and with CREATE/DROP INDEX since CONCURRENTLY exists for
those commands. In all supported versions, this caused only confusing
error messages to be generated. Note that with REINDEX, it was also
possible to issue a REINDEX CONCURRENTLY for a temporary relation owned
by a different session, leading to a server crash.
The idea to enforce transparently the non-concurrent code path for
temporary relations comes originally from Andres Freund.
Reported-by: Manuel Rigger
Author: Michael Paquier, Heikki Linnakangas
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund, Álvaro Herrera, Heikki Linnakangas
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+u7OA6gP7YAeCguyseusYcc=uR8+ypjCcgDDCTzjQ+k6S9ksQ@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 9.4
The code checking whether an aggregate transition value needs to be
reparented into the current context has always only compared the
transition return value with the previous transition value by datum,
i.e. without regard for NULLness. This normally works, because when
the transition function returns NULL (via fcinfo->isnull), it'll
return a value that won't be the same as its input value.
But there's no hard requirement that that's the case. And it turns
out, it's possible to hit this case (see discussion or reproducers),
leading to a non-null transition value not being reparented, followed
by a crash caused by that.
Instead of adding another comparison of NULLness, instead have
ExecAggTransReparent() ensure that pergroup->transValue ends up as 0
when the new transition value is NULL. That avoids having to add an
additional branch to the much more common cases of the transition
function returning the old transition value (which is a pointer in
this case), and when the new value is different, but not NULL.
In branches since 69c3936a14, also deduplicate the reparenting code
between the expression evaluation based transitions, and the path for
ordered aggregates.
Reported-By: Teodor Sigaev, Nikita Glukhov
Author: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/bd34e930-cfec-ea9b-3827-a8bc50891393@sigaev.ru
Backpatch: 9.4-, this issue has existed since at least 7.4
This helps integration of extensions with Windows. The following
parameters are changed:
- idle_in_transaction_session_timeout (9.6 and newer versions)
- lock_timeout
- statement_timeout
- track_activities
- track_counts
- track_functions
Author: Pascal Legrand
Reviewed-by: Amit Kamila, Julien Rouhaud, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1579298868581-0.post@n3.nabble.com
Backpatch-through: 9.4
sigTermHandler() tried to be careful to invoke only operations that
are safe to do in a signal handler. But for some reason we forgot
that exit(3) is not among those, because it calls atexit handlers
that might do various random things. (pg_dump itself installs no
atexit handlers, but e.g. OpenSSL does.) That led to crashes or
lockups when attempting to terminate a parallel dump or restore
via a signal.
Fix by calling _exit() instead.
Per bug #16199 from Raúl Marín. Back-patch to all supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16199-cb2f121146a96f9b@postgresql.org
Commit 9b63c13f0 turns out to have been fundamentally misguided:
the parent node's subPlan list is by no means the only way in which
a child SubPlan node can be hooked into the outer execution state.
As shown in bug #16213 from Matt Jibson, we can also get short-lived
tuple table slots added to the outer es_tupleTable list. At this point
I have little faith that there aren't other possible connections as
well; the long time it took to notice this problem shows that this
isn't a heavily-exercised situation.
Therefore, revert that fix, returning to the coding that passed a
NULL parent plan pointer down to the transiently-built subexpressions.
That gives us a pretty good guarantee that they won't hook into the
outer executor state in any way. But then we need some other solution
to make SubPlans work. Adopt the solution speculated about in the
previous commit's log message: do expression initialization at plan
startup for just those VALUES rows containing SubPlans, abandoning the
goal of reclaiming memory intra-query for those rows. In practice it
seems unlikely that queries containing a vast number of VALUES rows
would be using SubPlans in them, so this should not give up much.
(BTW, this test case also refutes my claim in connection with the prior
commit that the issue only arises with use of LATERAL. That was just
wrong: some variants of SubLink always produce SubPlans.)
As with previous patch, back-patch to all supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16213-871ac3bc208ecf23@postgresql.org
... specifically, set it incrementally as each individual change is
spilled down to disk. This way, it is set correctly when the
transaction disappears without trace, ie. without leaving an XACT_ABORT
wal record. (This happens when the server crashes midway through a
transaction.)
Failing to have final_lsn prevents ReorderBufferRestoreCleanup() from
working, since it needs the final_lsn in order to know the endpoint of
its iteration through spilled files.
Commit df9f682c7b already tried to fix the problem, but it didn't set
the final_lsn in all cases. Revert that, since it's no longer needed.
Author: Vignesh C
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila, Dilip Kumar
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALDaNm2CLk+K9JDwjYST0sPbGg5AQdvhUt0jbKyX_HdAE0jk3A@mail.gmail.com
A view with conditional INSTEAD rules and no unconditional INSTEAD
rules or INSTEAD OF triggers is not auto-updatable. Previously we
relied on a check in the executor to catch this, but that's
problematic since the planner may fail to properly handle such a query
and thus return a particularly unhelpful error to the user, before
reaching the executor check.
Instead, trap this in the rewriter and report the correct error there.
Doing so also allows us to include more useful error detail than the
executor check can provide. This doesn't change the existing behaviour
of updatable views; it merely ensures that useful error messages are
reported when a view isn't updatable.
Per report from Pengzhou Tang, though not adopting that suggested fix.
Back-patch to all supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAG4reAQn+4xB6xHJqWdtE0ve_WqJkdyCV4P=trYr4Kn8_3_PEA@mail.gmail.com
When estimating the selectivity of "range_var <@ range_constant" or
"range_var @> range_constant", if the upper (or respectively lower)
bound of the range_constant was above the last bin of the range_var's
histogram, the code would access uninitialized memory and potentially
crash (though it seems the probability of a crash is quite low).
Handle the endpoint cases explicitly to fix that.
While at it, be more paranoid about the possibility of getting NaN
or other silly results from the range type's subdiff function.
And improve some comments.
Ordinarily we'd probably add a regression test case demonstrating
the bug in unpatched code. But it's too hard to get it to crash
reliably because of the uninitialized-memory dependence, so skip that.
Per bug #16122 from Adam Scott. It's been broken from the beginning,
apparently, so backpatch to all supported branches.
Diagnosis by Michael Paquier, patch by Andrey Borodin and Tom Lane.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16122-eb35bc248c806c15@postgresql.org
Currently while decoding changes, if the number of changes exceeds a
certain threshold, we spill those to disk. And this happens for each
(sub)transaction. Now, while reading all these files, we don't close them
until we read all the files. While reading these files, if the number of
such files exceeds the maximum number of file descriptors, the operation
errors out.
Use PathNameOpenFile interface to open these files as that internally has
the mechanism to release kernel FDs as needed to get us under the
max_safe_fds limit.
Reported-by: Amit Khandekar
Author: Amit Khandekar
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila
Backpatch-through: 9.4
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJ3gD9c-sECEn79zXw4yBnBdOttacoE-6gAyP0oy60nfs_sabQ@mail.gmail.com
This operation was possible for the owner of the schema or a superuser.
Down to 9.4, doing this operation would cause inconsistencies in a
session whose temporary schema was dropped, particularly if trying to
create new temporary objects after the drop. A more annoying
consequence is a crash of autovacuum on an assertion failure when
logging information about an orphaned temp table dropped. Note that
because of 246a6c8 (present in v11~), which has made the removal of
orphaned temporary tables more aggressive, the failure could be
triggered more easily, but it is possible to reproduce down to 9.4.
Reported-by: Mahendra Singh, Prabhat Sahu
Author: Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi, Mahendra Singh
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKYtNAr9Zq=1-ww4etHo-VCC-k120YxZy5OS01VkaLPaDbv2tg@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 9.4
Our algorithm for choosing batch numbers turned out not to work
effectively for multi-billion key inner relations. We would use
more hash bits than we have, and effectively concentrate all tuples
into a smaller number of batches than we intended. While ideally
we should switch to wider hashes, for now, change the algorithm to
one that effectively gives up bits from the bucket number when we
don't have enough bits. That means we'll finish up with longer
bucket chains than would be ideal, but that's better than having
batches that don't fit in work_mem and can't be divided.
Batch-patch to all supported releases.
Author: Thomas Munro
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane, thanks also to Tomas Vondra, Alvaro Herrera, Andres Freund for testing and discussion
Reported-by: James Coleman
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16104-dc11ed911f1ab9df%40postgresql.org
While building a hash map of categories in load_categories_hash,
resulting category names have not thus far been checked to ensure
they are not null. Prior to pg12 null category names worked to the
extent that they did not crash on some platforms. This is because
those system libraries have an snprintf which can deal with being
passed a null pointer argument for a string. But even in those cases
null categories did nothing useful. And on some platforms it crashed.
As of pg12, our own version of snprintf gets called, and it does
not deal with null pointer arguments at all, and crashes consistently.
Fix that by disallowing null categories. They never worked usefully,
and no one has ever asked for them to work previously. Back-patch to
all supported branches.
Reported-By: Ireneusz Pluta
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16176-7489719b05e4303c@postgresql.org
We probably should have thought of this case when ranges were added,
but we didn't. (It's not the fault of commit eb51af71f, because
ranges didn't exist then.)
It's an old bug, so back-patch to all supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/7782.1577051475@sss.pgh.pa.us
This eliminates many seconds of test duration and the cause to invoke
"rm -rf", which is typically unavailable on Windows.
This is a backpatch of 1a629c1 which has never been applied to
REL9_4_STABLE. Per complain from buildarm member drongo.
Reported-by: Tom Lane
Author: Michael Paquier, Noah Misch
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/11800.1577060649@sss.pgh.pa.us
If the first transaction block in these tests were entered exactly
at midnight (California time), they'd report a bogus failure due
to 'now' and 'midnight' having the same values. Commit 8c2ac75c5
had dismissed this as being of negligible probability, but we've
now seen it happen in the buildfarm, so let's prevent it. We can
get pretty much the same test coverage without an it's-not-midnight
assumption by moving the does-'now'-work cases into their own test step.
While here, apply commit 47169c255's s/DELETE/TRUNCATE/ change to
timestamptz as well as timestamp (not sure why that didn't
occur to me at the time; the risk of failure is the same).
Back-patch to all supported branches, since the main point is
to get rid of potential buildfarm failures.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/14821.1577031117@sss.pgh.pa.us
This fixes a performance problem introduced by commit 6d7547c21.
ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED is returned in some other cases besides the
delete-pending case considered by that commit; notably, if the
given path names a directory instead of a plain file. In that
case we'll uselessly loop for 1 second before returning the
failure condition. That slows down some usage scenarios enough
to cause test timeout failures on our Windows buildfarm critters.
To fix, try to stat() the file, and sleep/loop only if that fails.
It will fail in the delete-pending case, and also in the case where
the deletion completed before we could stat(), so we have the cases
where we want to loop covered. In the directory case, the stat()
should succeed, letting us exit without a wait.
One case where we'll still wait uselessly is if the access-denied
problem pertains to a directory in the given pathname. But we don't
expect that to happen in any performance-critical code path.
There might be room to refine this further, but I'll push it now
in hopes of making the buildfarm green again.
Back-patch, like the preceding commit.
Alexander Lakhin and Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/23073.1576626626@sss.pgh.pa.us
Tom Lane
Noah Misch
Michael Paquier
Andrew Dunstan
Alvaro Herrera
Peter Eisentraut
Fujii Masao
Thomas Munro
Andres Freund
Dean Rasheed
Amit Kapila
Bruce Momjian
Joe Conway