After further review, we want to move in the direction of always
quoting GUC names in error messages, rather than the previous (PG16)
wildly mixed practice or the intermittent (mid-PG17) idea of doing
this depending on how possibly confusing the GUC name is.
This commit applies appropriate quotes to (almost?) all mentions of
GUC names in error messages. It partially supersedes a243569bf6 and
8d9978a717, which had moved things a bit in the opposite direction
but which then were abandoned in a partial state.
Author: Peter Smith <smithpb2250@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CAHut%2BPv-kSN8SkxSdoHano_wPubqcg5789ejhCDZAcLFceBR-w%40mail.gmail.com
Specifically, it terminates a background worker even if the caller
couldn't terminate the background worker with pg_terminate_backend().
Commit 3a9b18b309 neglected to update
this. Back-patch to v13, which introduced DROP DATABASE FORCE.
Reviewed by Amit Kapila. Reported by Kirill Reshke.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20240429212756.60.nmisch@google.com
There were three problems with the sslnegotiation options:
1. The sslmode=prefer and sslnegotiation=requiredirect combination was
somewhat dangerous, as you might unintentionally fall back to
plaintext authentication when connecting to a pre-v17 server.
2. There was an asymmetry between 'postgres' and 'direct'
options. 'postgres' meant "try only traditional negotiation", while
'direct' meant "try direct first, and fall back to traditional
negotiation if it fails". That was apparent only if you knew that the
'requiredirect' mode also exists.
3. The "require" word in 'requiredirect' suggests that it's somehow
more strict or more secure, similar to sslmode. However, I don't
consider direct SSL connections to be a security feature.
To address these problems:
- Only allow sslnegotiation='direct' if sslmode='require' or
stronger. And for the record, Jacob and Robert felt that we should do
that (or have sslnegotiation='direct' imply sslmode='require') anyway,
regardless of the first issue.
- Remove the 'direct' mode that falls back to traditional negotiation,
and rename what was called 'requiredirect' to 'direct' instead. In
other words, there is no "try both methods" option anymore, 'postgres'
now means the traditional negotiation and 'direct' means a direct SSL
connection.
Reviewed-by: Jelte Fennema-Nio, Robert Haas, Jacob Champion
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/d3b1608a-a1b6-4eda-9ec5-ddb3e4375808%40iki.fi
The CREATE SUBSCRIPTION documentation mentions "false" is the default
option, so let's use true|false rather than on|off in the text which
talks about this option in the ALTER SUBSCRIPTION page.
The other boolean options mentioned in create_subscription.sgml use true
and false so it makes sense to be consistent with these. The "failover"
option is new to v17.
Author: Peter Smith
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHut+Ps-RqrggaJU5w85BbeQzw9CLmmLgADVJoJ=xx_4D5CWvw@mail.gmail.com
This feature set did not handle empty ranges correctly, and it's now
too late for PostgreSQL 17 to fix it.
The following commits are reverted:
6db4598fcb Add stratnum GiST support function
46a0cd4cef Add temporal PRIMARY KEY and UNIQUE constraints
86232a49a4 Fix comment on gist_stratnum_btree
030e10ff1a Rename pg_constraint.conwithoutoverlaps to conperiod
a88c800deb Use daterange and YMD in without_overlaps tests instead of tsrange.
5577a71fb0 Use half-open interval notation in without_overlaps tests
34768ee361 Add temporal FOREIGN KEY contraints
482e108cd3 Add test for REPLICA IDENTITY with a temporal key
c3db1f30cb doc: clarify PERIOD and WITHOUT OVERLAPS in CREATE TABLE
144c2ce0cc Fix ON CONFLICT DO NOTHING/UPDATE for temporal indexes
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/d0b64a7a-dfe4-4b84-a906-c7dedfa40a3e@eisentraut.org
postgres --name=value and -c name=value are equivalents. This commit
expands the documentation of libpq's "option" connection parameter and
the server startup sequence for shell interactions to mention both
rather than only -c.
Extracted from a larger patch by the same authors.
Reported-by: Alexey Palazhchenko
Author: David Johnston, Aleksander Alekseev
Reviewed-by: Nathan Bossart, Peter Eisentraut, Álvaro Herrera
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJ7c6TMkuLiLfrA+EFCPYfhXoMKRxxssB5c86+ibxfaz6+=Sdg@mail.gmail.com
One is about subqueries becoming joins and the other is about optimizing
LIMIT by improving startup cost.
Reported-by: Andy Fan
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/87h6f4ncc6.fsf@163.com
Reviewed-by: David Rowley
Backpatch-through: master
Presently, when this function is called for an unlogged sequence on
a standby server, it will error out with a message like
ERROR: could not open file "base/5/16388": No such file or directory
Since the pg_sequences system view uses pg_sequence_last_value(),
it can error similarly. To fix, modify the function to return NULL
for unlogged sequences on standby servers. Since this bug is
present on all versions since v15, this approach is preferable to
making the ERROR nicer because we need to repair the pg_sequences
view without modifying its definition on released versions. For
consistency, this commit also modifies the function to return NULL
for other sessions' temporary sequences. The pg_sequences view
already appropriately filters out such sequences, so there's no bug
there, but we might as well offer some defense in case someone
invokes this function directly.
Unlogged sequences were first introduced in v15, but temporary
sequences are much older, so while the fix for unlogged sequences
is only back-patched to v15, the temporary sequence portion is
back-patched to all supported versions.
We could also remove the privilege check in the pg_sequences view
definition in v18 if we modify this function to return NULL for
sequences for which the current user lacks privileges, but that is
left as a future exercise for when v18 development begins.
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20240501005730.GA594666%40nathanxps13
Backpatch-through: 12
There are some problems with the new way to handle these constraints
that were detected at the last minute, and require fixes that appear too
invasive to be doing this late in the cycle. Revert this (again) for
now, we'll try again with these problems fixed.
The following commits are reverted:
b0e96f3119 Catalog not-null constraints
9b581c5341 Disallow changing NO INHERIT status of a not-null constraint
d0ec2ddbe0 Fix not-null constraint test
ac22a9545c Move privilege check to the right place
b0f7dd915b Check stack depth in new recursive functions
3af7217942 Update information_schema definition for not-null constraints
c3709100be Fix propagating attnotnull in multiple inheritance
d9f686a72e Fix restore of not-null constraints with inheritance
d72d32f52d Don't try to assign smart names to constraints
0cd711271d Better handle indirect constraint drops
13daa33fa5 Disallow NO INHERIT not-null constraints on partitioned tables
d45597f72f Disallow direct change of NO INHERIT of not-null constraints
21ac38f498 Fix inconsistencies in error messages
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/202405110940.joxlqcx4dogd@alvherre.pgsql
This commit extends the backend-side infrastructure of injection points
so as it becomes possible to register some input data when attaching a
point. This private data can be registered with the function name and
the library name of the callback when attaching a point, then it is
given as input argument to the callback. This gives the possibility for
modules to pass down custom data at runtime when attaching a point
without managing that internally, in a manner consistent with the
callback entry retrieved from the hash shmem table storing the injection
point data.
InjectionPointAttach() gains two arguments, to be able to define the
private data contents and its size.
A follow-up commit will rely on this infrastructure to close a race
condition with the injection point detach in the module
injection_points.
While on it, this changes InjectionPointDetach() to return a boolean,
returning false if a point cannot be detached. This has been mentioned
by Noah as useful when it comes to implement more complex tests with
concurrent point detach, solid with the automatic detach done for local
points in the test module.
Documentation is adjusted in consequence.
Per discussion with Noah Misch.
Reviewed-by: Noah Misch
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20240509031553.47@rfd.leadboat.com
A lot of the examples in this section are quite ancient and no
longer match the system's current behavior. I ran through them
and updated the sample output to match what I get today.
Notably, it seems that the tenk1 table got a few pages smaller back
around v12, so that a lot of the cost estimates for queries on that
table are a little different now. (This also caused some examples
to surprisingly not match others, depending on when they were made.)
One mergejoin-based example no longer produces the same plan at all,
so I had to work around that, including switching to a different
example of using an enable_xxx setting.
I also changed a couple of examples that were relying on nonexistent
tables or indexes. IMO the premise of this section is that the
examples should be more-or-less reproducible against the regression
database, so that these examples were unhelpful as given. It's not
that hard to find a corresponding example with the tables we do have.
Some of the EXPLAIN ANALYZE examples were out of date in that we show
more numbers than we did at the time.
Possibly chapter 68 could use similar review, but I'm out of
energy for today.
User-written triggers can modify or block the effects of SQL update
and delete operations. That includes operations that are executed
to implement foreign keys' referential integrity actions (such as
ON UPDATE SET NULL or ON DELETE CASCADE). Therefore it's possible
for a misdesigned trigger to result in a database state that violates
the foreign key constraint.
While this isn't great, the alternatives seem worse: in particular,
refusing to fire triggers for such updates would break many valuable
use-cases. We could also try to recheck the constraint after the
action, but that'd roughly double the already-high cost of FK
constraint enforcement, for no benefit in normal cases. So we've
always considered that it's on the trigger programmer's head to
avoid breaking RI actions. This was never documented anywhere,
though. Add a para to the Triggers chapter to explain it.
Laurenz Albe, David Johnston, Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/b81fe38fcc25a81be6e2e5b3fc1ff624130762fa.camel@cybertec.at
Both the pgbench --help output and the reference page have sections
for initialization options, benchmarking options, and common options.
But the --debug option ended up in the wrong place on the reference
page. Fix that by making the documentation match the --help output.
The catalog view pg_stats_ext fails to consider privileges for
expression statistics. The catalog view pg_stats_ext_exprs fails
to consider privileges and row-level security policies. To fix,
restrict the data in these views to table owners or roles that
inherit privileges of the table owner. It may be possible to apply
less restrictive privilege checks in some cases, but that is left
as a future exercise. Furthermore, for pg_stats_ext_exprs, do not
return data for tables with row-level security enabled, as is
already done for pg_stats_ext.
On the back-branches, a fix-CVE-2024-4317.sql script is provided
that will install into the "share" directory. This file can be
used to apply the fix to existing clusters.
Bumps catversion on 'master' branch only.
Reported-by: Lukas Fittl
Reviewed-by: Noah Misch, Tomas Vondra, Tom Lane
Security: CVE-2024-4317
Backpatch-through: 14
Both the initdb --help output and the reference page have a section
for options and a section for less commonly used options. But some
recently added options were sprinkled around inconsistently. Fix that
by making the documentation match the --help output.
We support changing NO INHERIT constraint to INHERIT for constraints in
child relations when adding a constraint to some ancestor relation, and
also during pg_upgrade's schema restore; but other than those special
cases, command ALTER TABLE ADD CONSTRAINT should not be allowed to
change an existing constraint from NO INHERIT to INHERIT, as that would
require to process child relations so that they also acquire an
appropriate constraint, which we may not be in a position to do. (It'd
also be surprising behavior.)
It is conceivable that we want to allow ALTER TABLE SET NOT NULL to make
such a change; but in that case some more code is needed to implement it
correctly, so for now I've made that throw the same error message.
Also, during the prep phase of ALTER TABLE ADD CONSTRAINT, acquire locks
on all descendant tables; otherwise we might operate on child tables on
which no locks are held, particularly in the mode where a primary key
causes not-null constraints to be created on children.
Reported-by: Alexander Lakhin <exclusion@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/7d923a66-55f0-3395-cd40-81c142b5448b@gmail.com
Bruce Momjian
Peter Eisentraut
Noah Misch
Heikki Linnakangas
Robert Haas
David Rowley
Michael Paquier
Nathan Bossart
Alvaro Herrera
Tom Lane
Alexander Korotkov