Be a little more vocal about the risks of remote collations not
matching local ones. Actually fixing these risks seems hard,
and I've given up on the idea that it might be back-patchable.
So the best we can do for the back branches is add documentation.
Per discussion of bug #16583 from Jiří Fejfar.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2438715.1632510693@sss.pgh.pa.us
Index vacuums may happen multiple times depending on the number of dead
tuples stored, as of maintenance_work_mem for a manual VACUUM. For
autovacuum, this is controlled by autovacuum_work_mem instead, if set.
The documentation mentioned the former, but not the latter in the
context of autovacuum.
Reported-by: Nikolai Berkoff
Author: Laurenz Albe, Euler Taveira
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/161545365522.10134.12195402324485546870@wrigleys.postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 9.6
Contrary to the output of native perl, Msys perl generates outputs with
CRLFs characters. There are already places in the TAP code where CRLFs
(\r\n) are automatically converted to LF (\n) on Msys, but we missed a
couple of places when running commands and using their output for
comparison, that would lead to failures.
This problem has been found thanks to the test added in 5adb067 using
TestLib::command_checks_all(), but after a closer look more code paths
were missing a filter.
This is backpatched all the way down to prevent any surprises if a new
test is introduced in stable branches.
Reviewed-by: Andrew Dunstan, Álvaro Herrera
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1252480.1631829409@sss.pgh.pa.us
Backpatch-through: 9.6
Casting a value that's already of a type with a specific typmod
to an unspecified typmod doesn't do anything so far as run-time
behavior is concerned. However, it really ought to change the
exposed type of the expression to match. Up to now,
coerce_type_typmod hasn't bothered with that, which creates gotchas
in contexts such as recursive unions. If for example one side of
the union is numeric(18,3), but it needs to be plain numeric to
match the other side, there's no direct way to express that.
This is easy enough to fix, by inserting a RelabelType to update the
exposed type of the expression. However, it's a bit nervous-making
to change this behavior, because it's stood for a really long time.
But no complaints have emerged about 14beta3, so go ahead and
back-patch.
Back-patch of 5c056b0c2 into previous supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CABNQVagu3bZGqiTjb31a8D5Od3fUMs7Oh3gmZMQZVHZ=uWWWfQ@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1488389.1631984807@sss.pgh.pa.us
ProcArrayGroupClearXid function has a parameter named "proc",
but the same name was used for its local variables. This commit fixes
this variable shadowing, to improve code readability.
Back-patch to all supported versions, to make future back-patching
easy though this patch is classified as refactoring only.
Reported-by: Ranier Vilela
Author: Ranier Vilela, Aleksander Alekseev
https://postgr.es/m/CAEudQAqyoTZC670xWi6w-Oe2_Bk1bfu2JzXz6xRfiOUzm7xbyQ@mail.gmail.com
Ordinarily, using EXIT this way would draw "control reached end of
function without RETURN". However, if the function is one where we
don't require an explicit RETURN (such as a DO block), that should
not happen. It did anyway, because add_dummy_return() neglected to
account for the case.
Per report from Herwig Goemans. Back-patch to all supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/868ae948-e3ca-c7ec-95a6-83cfc08ef750@gmail.com
An out-of-memory failure happening when allocating the structures to
store the connection parameter keywords and values would mess up with
the set of connections saved, as on failure the pthread mutex would
still be hold with the new connection object listed but free()'d.
Rather than just unlocking the mutex, which would leave the static list
of connections into an inconsistent state, move the allocation for the
structures of the connection parameters before beginning the test
manipulation. This ensures that the list of connections and the
connection mutex remain consistent all the time in this code path.
This error is unlikely going to happen, but this could mess up badly
with ECPG clients in surprising ways, so backpatch all the way down.
Reported-by: ryancaicse
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17186-b4cfd8f0eb4d1dee@postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 9.6
If search_start is greater than the length of the string, we should just
return REG_NOMATCH immediately. (Note that the equality case should
*not* be rejected, since the pattern might be able to match zero
characters.) This guards various internal assumptions that the min of a
range of string positions is not more than the max. Violation of those
assumptions could allow an attempt to fetch string[search_start-1],
possibly causing a crash.
Jaime Casanova pointed out that this situation is reachable with the
new regexp_xxx functions that accept a user-specified start position.
I don't believe it's reachable via any in-core call site in v14 and
below. However, extensions could possibly call pg_regexec with an
out-of-range search_start, so let's back-patch the fix anyway.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210911180357.GA6870@ahch-to
We don't allow relations to exceed 2^32-1 blocks, because block
numbers are 32 bits and the last possible block number is reserved
to mean InvalidBlockNumber. There is a check for this in mdextend,
but that's really way too late, because the smgr API requires us to
create a buffer for the block-to-be-added, and we do not want to
have any buffer with blocknum InvalidBlockNumber. (Such a case
can trigger assertions in bufmgr.c, plus I think it might confuse
ReadBuffer's logic for data-past-EOF later on.) So put the check
into ReadBuffer.
Per report from Christoph Berg. It's been like this forever,
so back-patch to all supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/YTn1iTkUYBZfcODk@msg.credativ.de
Previously, walreceiver always closed the currently-opened WAL segment
and created its archive notification file, after it finished writing
the current segment up and received any WAL data that should be
written into the next segment. If walreceiver exited just before
any WAL data in the next segment arrived at standby, it did not
create the archive notification file of the current segment
even though that's known completed. This behavior could cause
WAL archiving of the segment to be delayed until subsequent
restartpoints or checkpoints created its notification file.
To fix the issue, this commit changes walreceiver so that it creates
an archive notification file of a current WAL segment immediately
if that's known completed before receiving next WAL data.
Back-patch to all supported branches.
Reported-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi
Author: Fujii Masao
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200630.165503.1465894182551545886.horikyota.ntt@gmail.com
Coverity complained that one caller of getFormattedTypeName() failed
to free the returned string. Which is true, but rather than fixing
that one, let's get rid of this tedious and error-prone requirement.
Now that getFormattedTypeName() caches its result, strdup'ing that
result and expecting the caller to free it accomplishes little except
to waste cycles. We do create a leak in the case where getTypes didn't
make a TypeInfo for the type, but that basically shouldn't ever happen.
Back-patch, as commit 6c450a861 was. This isn't a particularly
interesting bug fix, but the API change seems like a hazard for
future back-patching activity if we don't back-patch it.
If we copy data-modifying CTEs from the original query to a replacement
query (from a DO INSTEAD rule), we must set hasModifyingCTE properly
in the replacement query. Failure to do this can cause various
unpleasantness, such as unsafe usage of parallel plans. The code also
neglected to propagate hasRecursive, though that's only cosmetic at
the moment.
A difficulty arises if the rule action is an INSERT...SELECT. We
attach the original query's RTEs and CTEs to the sub-SELECT Query, but
data-modifying CTEs are only allowed to appear in the topmost Query.
For the moment, throw an error in such cases. It would probably be
possible to avoid this error by attaching the CTEs to the top INSERT
Query instead; but that would require a bunch of new code to adjust
ctelevelsup references. Given the narrowness of the use-case, and
the need to back-patch this fix, it does not seem worth the trouble
for now. We can revisit this if we get field complaints.
Per report from Greg Nancarrow. Back-patch to all supported branches.
(The test case added here does not fail before v10, but there are
plenty of places checking top-level hasModifyingCTE in 9.6, so I have
no doubt that this code change is necessary there too.)
Greg Nancarrow and Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJcOf-f68DT=26YAMz_i0+Au3TcLO5oiHY5=fL6Sfuits6r+_w@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJcOf-fAdj=nDKMsRhQzndm-O13NY4dL6xGcEvdX5Xvbbi0V7g@mail.gmail.com
timetz_zone() delivered completely wrong answers if the zone was
specified by a dynamic TZ abbreviation, because it failed to account
for the difference between the POSIX conventions for field values in
struct pg_tm and the conventions used in PG-specific datetime code.
As a stopgap fix, just adjust the tm_year and tm_mon fields to match
PG conventions. This is fixed in a different way in HEAD (388e71af8)
but I don't want to back-patch the change of reference point.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJ7c6TOMG8zSNEZtCn5SPe+cCk3Lfxb71ZaQwT2F4T7PJ_t=KA@mail.gmail.com
Attempting to make hashfloat4() look as much as possible like
hashfloat8(), I'd figured I could replace NaNs with get_float4_nan()
before widening to float8. However, results from protosciurus
and topminnow show that on some platforms that produces a different
bit-pattern from get_float8_nan(), breaking the intent of ce773f230.
Rearrange so that we use the result of get_float8_nan() for all NaN
cases. As before, back-patch.
Replace fixed-length command buffers with psprintf() calls. We didn't
have anything as convenient as psprintf() when this code was written,
but now that we do, there's little reason for the limitation to
stand. Removing it eliminates some corner cases where (for example)
starting the postmaster with a whole lot of options fails.
Most individual file names that pg_ctl deals with are still restricted
to MAXPGPATH, but we've seldom had complaints about that limitation
so long as it only applies to one filename.
Back-patch to all supported branches.
Phil Krylov
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/567e199c6b97ee19deee600311515b86@krylov.eu
The IEEE 754 standard allows a wide variety of bit patterns for NaNs,
of which at least two ("NaN" and "-NaN") are pretty easy to produce
from SQL on most machines. This is problematic because our btree
comparison functions deem all NaNs to be equal, but our float hash
functions know nothing about NaNs and will happily produce varying
hash codes for them. That causes unexpected results from queries
that hash a column containing different NaN values. It could also
produce unexpected lookup failures when using a hash index on a
float column, i.e. "WHERE x = 'NaN'" will not find all the rows
it should.
To fix, special-case NaN in the float hash functions, not too much
unlike the existing special case that forces zero and minus zero
to hash the same. I arranged for the most vanilla sort of NaN
(that coming from the C99 NAN constant) to still have the same
hash code as before, to reduce the risk to existing hash indexes.
I dithered about whether to back-patch this into stable branches,
but ultimately decided to do so. It's a clear improvement for
queries that hash internally. If there is anybody who has -NaN
in a hash index, they'd be well advised to re-index after applying
this patch ... but the misbehavior if they don't will not be much
worse than the misbehavior they had before.
Per bug #17172 from Ma Liangzhu.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17172-7505bea9e04e230f@postgresql.org
For no particularly good reason, getPolicies() queried pg_policy
separately for each table. We can collect all the policies in
a single query instead, and attach them to the correct TableInfo
objects using findTableByOid() lookups. On the regression
database, this reduces the number of queries substantially, and
provides a visible savings even when running against a local
server.
Per complaint from Hubert Depesz Lubaczewski. Since this is such
a simple fix and can have a visible performance benefit, back-patch
to all supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210826084430.GA26282@depesz.com
There's long been a "TODO: there might be some value in caching
the results" annotation on pg_dump's getFormattedTypeName function;
but we hadn't gotten around to checking what it was costing us to
repetitively look up type names. It turns out that when dumping the
current regression database, about 10% of the total number of queries
issued are duplicative format_type() queries. However, Hubert Depesz
Lubaczewski reported a not-unusual case where these account for over
half of the queries issued by pg_dump. Individually these queries
aren't expensive, but when network lag is a factor, they add up to a
problem. We can very easily add some caching to getFormattedTypeName
to solve it.
Since this is such a simple fix and can have a visible performance
benefit, back-patch to all supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210826084430.GA26282@depesz.com
Most data-corruption reports mention the location of the problem, but
this one failed to. Add it.
Backpatch all the way back. In 12 and older, also assign the
ERRCODE_DATA_CORRUPTED error code as was done in commit fd6ec93bf8 for
13 and later.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/202108191637.oqyzrdtnheir@alvherre.pgsql
If the system crashed between CREATE TABLESPACE and the next checkpoint,
the result could be some files in the tablespace unexpectedly containing
no rows. Affected files would be those for which the system did not
write WAL; see the wal_skip_threshold documentation. Before v13, a
different set of conditions governed the writing of WAL; see v12's
<sect2 id="populate-pitr">. (The v12 conditions were broader in some
ways and narrower in others.) Users may want to audit non-default
tablespaces for unexpected short files. The bug could have truncated an
index without affecting the associated table, and reindexing the index
would fix that particular problem.
This fixes the bug by making create_tablespace_directories() more like
TablespaceCreateDbspace(). create_tablespace_directories() was
recursively removing tablespace contents, reasoning that WAL redo would
recreate everything removed that way. That assumption holds for other
wal_level values. Under wal_level=minimal, the old approach could
delete files for which no other copy existed. Back-patch to 9.6 (all
supported versions).
Reviewed by Robert Haas and Prabhat Sahu. Reported by Robert Haas.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoaLO9ncuwvr2nN-J4VEP5XyAcy=zKiHxQzBbFRxxGxm0w@mail.gmail.com
Somehow, spgist overlooked the need to call pgstat_count_index_scan().
Hence, pg_stat_all_indexes.idx_scan and equivalent columns never
became nonzero for an SP-GiST index, although the related per-tuple
counters worked fine.
This fix works a bit differently from other index AMs, in that the
counter increment occurs in spgrescan not spggettuple/spggetbitmap.
It looks like this won't make the user-visible semantics noticeably
different, so I won't go to the trouble of introducing an is-this-
the-first-call flag just to make the counter bumps happen in the
same places.
Per bug #17163 from Christian Quest. Back-patch to all supported
versions.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17163-b8c5cc88322a5e92@postgresql.org
The distance in phrase operator must be an integer value between zero
and MAXENTRYPOS inclusive. But previously the error message about
its valid value included the information about its upper limit
but not lower limit (i.e., zero). This commit improves the error message
so that it also includes the information about its lower limit.
Back-patch to v9.6 where full-text phrase search was supported.
Author: Kyotaro Horiguchi
Reviewed-by: Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210819.170315.1413060634876301811.horikyota.ntt@gmail.com
Regexps like "(.){0}...\1" drew an "invalid backreference number".
That's not unreasonable on its face, since the capture group will
never be matched if it's iterated zero times. However, other engines
such as Perl's don't complain about this, nor do we throw an error for
related cases such as "(.)|\1", even though that backref can never
succeed either. Also, if the zero-iterations case happens at runtime
rather than compile time --- say, "(x)*...\1" when there's no "x" to
be found --- that's not an error, we just deem the backref to not
match. Making this even less defensible, no error was thrown for
nested cases such as "((.)){0}...\2"; and to add insult to injury,
those cases could result in assertion failures instead. (It seems
that nothing especially bad happened in non-assert builds, though.)
Let's just fix it so that no error is thrown and instead the backref
is deemed to never match, so that compile-time detection of no
iterations behaves the same as run-time detection.
Per report from Mark Dilger. This appears to be an aboriginal error
in Spencer's library, so back-patch to all supported versions.
Pre-v14, it turns out to also be necessary to back-patch one aspect of
commits cb76fbd7e/00116dee5, namely to create capture-node subREs with
the begin/end states of their subexpressions, not the current lp/rp
of the outer parseqatom invocation. Otherwise delsub complains that
we're trying to disconnect a state from itself. This is a bit scary
but code examination shows that it's safe: in the pre-v14 code, if we
want to wrap iteration around the subexpression, the first thing we do
is overwrite the atom's begin/end fields with new states. So the
bogus values didn't survive long enough to be used for anything, except
if no iteration is required, in which case it doesn't matter.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/A099E4A8-4377-4C64-A98C-3DEDDC075502@enterprisedb.com
The recursion in cdissect() was careless about clearing match data
for capturing parentheses after rejecting a partial match. This
could allow a later back-reference to succeed when by rights it
should fail for lack of a defined referent.
To fix, think a little more rigorously about what the contract
between different levels of cdissect's recursion needs to be.
With the right spec, we can fix this using fewer rather than more
resets of the match data; the key decision being that a failed
sub-match is now explicitly responsible for clearing any matches
it may have set.
There are enough other cross-checks and optimizations in the code
that it's not especially easy to exhibit this problem; usually, the
match will fail as-expected. Plus, regexps that are even potentially
vulnerable are most likely user errors, since there's just not much
point in writing a back-ref that doesn't always have a referent.
These facts perhaps explain why the issue hasn't been detected,
even though it's almost certainly a couple of decades old.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/151435.1629733387@sss.pgh.pa.us
WAL records may span multiple segments, but XLogWrite() does not
wait for the entire record to be written out to disk before
creating archive status files. Instead, as soon as the last WAL page of
the segment is written, the archive status file is created, and the
archiver may process it. If PostgreSQL crashes before it is able to
write and flush the rest of the record (in the next WAL segment), the
wrong version of the first segment file lingers in the archive, which
causes operations such as point-in-time restores to fail.
To fix this, keep track of records that span across segments and ensure
that segments are only marked ready-for-archival once such records have
been completely written to disk.
This has always been wrong, so backpatch all the way back.
Author: Nathan Bossart <bossartn@amazon.com>
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Ryo Matsumura <matsumura.ryo@fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrey Borodin <x4mmm@yandex-team.ru>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CBDDFA01-6E40-46BB-9F98-9340F4379505@amazon.com
After detecting a sub-match "dissect" failure (i.e., a backref match
failure) in the i'th sub-match of an iteration node, we should proceed
by adjusting the attempted length of the i'th submatch. As coded,
though, these functions changed the attempted length of the *last*
sub-match, and only after exhausting all possibilities for that would
they back up to adjust the next-to-last sub-match, and then the
second-from-last, etc; all of which is wasted effort, since only
changing the start or length of the i'th sub-match can possibly make
it succeed. This oversight creates the possibility for exponentially
bad performance. Fortunately the problem is masked in most cases by
optimizations or constraints applied elsewhere; which explains why
we'd not noticed it before. But it is possible to reach the problem
with fairly simple, if contrived, regexps.
Oversight in my commit 173e29aa5. That's pretty ancient now,
so back-patch to all supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1808998.1629412269@sss.pgh.pa.us
transformLockingClause neglected to exclude the pseudo-RTEs for
OLD/NEW when processing a rule's query. This led to odd errors
or even crashes later on. This bug is very ancient, but it's
not terribly surprising that nobody noticed, since the use-case
for SELECT FOR UPDATE in a non-view rule is somewhere between
thin and non-existent. Still, crashing is not OK.
Per bug #17151 from Zhiyong Wu. Thanks to Masahiko Sawada
for analysis of the problem.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17151-c03a3e6e4ec9aadb@postgresql.org
Recursion into the FILTER clause was mis-implemented, such that a
relevant Var or Aggref at the very top of the FILTER clause would
be ignored. (Of course, that'd have to be a plain boolean Var or
boolean-returning aggregate.) The consequence would be
mis-identification of the correct semantic level of the aggregate,
which could lead to not-per-spec query behavior. If the FILTER
expression is an aggregate, this could also lead to failure to issue
an expected "aggregate function calls cannot be nested" error, which
would likely result in a core dump later on, since the planner and
executor aren't expecting such cases to appear.
The root cause is that commit b560ec1b0 blindly copied some code
that assumed it's recursing into a List, and thus didn't examine the
top-level node. To forestall questions about why this call doesn't
look like the others, as well as possible future copy-and-paste
mistakes, let's change all three check_agg_arguments_walker calls in
check_agg_arguments, even though only the one for the filter clause
is really broken.
Per bug #17152 from Zhiyong Wu. This has been wrong since we
implemented FILTER, so back-patch to all supported versions.
(Testing suggests that pre-v11 branches manage to avoid crashing
in the bad-Aggref case, thanks to "redundant" checks in ExecInitAgg.
But I'm not sure how thorough that protection is, and anyway the
wrong-behavior issue remains, so fix 9.6 and 10 too.)
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17152-c7f906cc1a88e61b@postgresql.org
In OpenSSL there are two types of BIO's (I/O abstractions):
source/sink and filters. A source/sink BIO is a source and/or
sink of data, ie one acting on a socket or a file. A filter
BIO takes a stream of input from another BIO and transforms it.
In order for BIO_find_type() to be able to traverse the chain
of BIO's and correctly find all BIO's of a certain type they
shall have the type bit set accordingly, source/sink BIO's
(what PostgreSQL implements) use BIO_TYPE_SOURCE_SINK and
filter BIO's use BIO_TYPE_FILTER. In addition to these, file
descriptor based BIO's should have the descriptor bit set,
BIO_TYPE_DESCRIPTOR.
The PostgreSQL implementation didn't set the type bits, which
went unnoticed for a long time as it's only really relevant
for code auditing the OpenSSL installation, or doing similar
tasks. It is required by the API though, so this fixes it.
Backpatch through 9.6 as this has been wrong for a long time.
Author: Itamar Gafni
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/SN6PR06MB39665EC10C34BB20956AE4578AF39@SN6PR06MB3966.namprd06.prod.outlook.com
Backpatch-through: 9.6
This commit ensures that the wait interval in the replay delay loop
waiting for an amount of time defined by recovery_min_apply_delay is
correctly handled on reload, recalculating the delay if this GUC value
is updated, based on the timestamp of the commit record being replayed.
The previous behavior would be problematic for example with replay
still waiting even if the delay got reduced or just cancelled. If the
apply delay was increased to a larger value, the wait would have just
respected the old value set, finishing earlier.
Author: Soumyadeep Chakraborty, Ashwin Agrawal
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAE-ML+93zfr-HLN8OuxF0BjpWJ17O5dv1eMvSE5jsj9jpnAXZA@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 9.6
Like the ARM case, just use gcc's __sync_lock_test_and_set();
that will compile into AMOSWAP.W.AQ which does what we need.
At some point it might be worth doing some work on atomic ops
for RISC-V, but this should be enough for a creditable port.
Back-patch to all supported branches, just in case somebody
wants to try them on RISC-V.
Marek Szuba
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/dea97b6d-f55f-1f6d-9109-504aa7dfa421@gentoo.org
It's hard to disable ASLR on current macOS releases, for testing with
-DEXEC_BACKEND. You could already set the environment variable
PG_SHMEM_ADDR to something not likely to collide with mappings created
earlier in process startup. Let's also provide a default value that
works on current releases and architectures, for developer convenience.
As noted in the pre-existing comment, this is a horrible hack, but
-DEXEC_BACKEND is only used by Unix-based PostgreSQL developers for
testing some otherwise Windows-only code paths, so it seems excusable.
Back-patch to all supported branches.
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210806032944.m4tz7j2w47mant26%40alap3.anarazel.de
As a result of confusion about whether the "char" type is signed or
unsigned, scans for index searches like "col < 'x'" or "col <= 'x'"
would start at the middle of the index not the left end, thus missing
many or all of the entries they should find. Fortunately, this
is not a symptom of index corruption. It's only the search logic
that is broken, and we can fix it without unpleasant side-effects.
Per report from Jason Kim. This has been wrong since btree_gin's
beginning, so back-patch to all supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210810001649.htnltbh7c63re42p@jasonk.me
In ec34040af I added a mention that there was no point in setting
maintenance_work_limit to anything higher than 1GB for vacuum, but that
was incorrect as ginInsertCleanup() also looks at what
maintenance_work_mem is set to during VACUUM and that's not limited to
1GB.
Here I attempt to make it more clear that the limitation is only around
the number of dead tuple identifiers that we can collect during VACUUM.
I've also added a note to autovacuum_work_mem to mention this limitation.
I didn't do that in ec34040af as I'd had some wrong-headed ideas about
just limiting the maximum value for that GUC to 1GB.
Author: David Rowley
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvpGwOAvunp-E-bN_rbAs3hmxMoasm5pzkYDbf36h73s7w@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 9.6, same as ec34040af
Since commit e462856a7a, pg_upgrade automatically creates a script to
update extensions, so mention that instead of ALTER EXTENSION.
Backpatch-through: 9.6
Copy-and-pasteo in 665c5855e, evidently. The 9.6 docs toolchain
whined about duplicate index entries, though our modern toolchain
doesn't. In any case, these GUCs surely are not about the
default settings of these values.
Rather than trying to pick table aliases that won't conflict with
any possible user-defined matview column name, adjust the queries'
syntax so that the aliases are only used in places where they can't be
mistaken for column names. Mostly this consists of writing "alias.*"
not just "alias", which adds clarity for humans as well as machines.
We do have the issue that "SELECT alias.*" acts differently from
"SELECT alias", but we can use the same hack ruleutils.c uses for
whole-row variables in SELECT lists: write "alias.*::compositetype".
We might as well revert to the original aliases after doing this;
they're a bit easier to read.
Like 75d66d10e, back-patch to all supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2488325.1628261320@sss.pgh.pa.us
Formerly, the numeric code tested whether an integer value of a larger
type would fit in a smaller type by casting it to the smaller type and
then testing if the reverse conversion produced the original value.
That's perfectly fine, except that it caused a test failure on
buildfarm animal castoroides, most likely due to a compiler bug.
Instead, do these tests by comparing against PG_INT16/32_MIN/MAX. That
matches existing code in other places, such as int84(), which is more
widely tested, and so is less likely to go wrong.
While at it, add regression tests covering the numeric-to-int8/4/2
conversions, and adjust the recently added tests to the style of
434ddfb79a (on the v11 branch) to make failures easier to diagnose.
Per buildfarm via Tom Lane, reviewed by Tom Lane.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2394813.1628179479%40sss.pgh.pa.us
Michael Paquier
Tom Lane
Fujii Masao
Alvaro Herrera
Amit Kapila
Noah Misch
Daniel Gustafsson
Heikki Linnakangas
Thomas Munro
Peter Eisentraut
David Rowley
Bruce Momjian
Dean Rasheed