Some authentication methods allowed it, others did not. In the client-side,
libpq does not even try to authenticate with an empty password, which makes
using empty passwords hazardous: an administrator might think that an
account with an empty password cannot be used to log in, because psql
doesn't allow it, and not realize that a different client would in fact
allow it. To clear that confusion and to be be consistent, disallow empty
passwords in all authentication methods.
All the authentication methods that used plaintext authentication over the
wire, except for BSD authentication, already checked that the password
received from the user was not empty. To avoid forgetting it in the future
again, move the check to the recv_password_packet function. That only
forbids using an empty password with plaintext authentication, however.
MD5 and SCRAM need a different fix:
* In stable branches, check that the MD5 hash stored for the user does not
not correspond to an empty string. This adds some overhead to MD5
authentication, because the server needs to compute an extra MD5 hash, but
it is not noticeable in practice.
* In HEAD, modify CREATE and ALTER ROLE to clear the password if an empty
string, or a password hash that corresponds to an empty string, is
specified. The user-visible behavior is the same as in the stable branches,
the user cannot log in, but it seems better to stop the empty password from
entering the system in the first place. Secondly, it is fairly expensive to
check that a SCRAM hash doesn't correspond to an empty string, because
computing a SCRAM hash is much more expensive than an MD5 hash by design,
so better avoid doing that on every authentication.
We could clear the password on CREATE/ALTER ROLE also in stable branches,
but we would still need to check at authentication time, because even if we
prevent empty passwords from being stored in pg_authid, there might be
existing ones there already.
Reported by Jeroen van der Ham, Ben de Graaff and Jelte Fennema.
Security: CVE-2017-7546
We're planning to put an underscore before the major version number in
branch names for v10 and later. Make sure the recipe in RELEASE_CHANGES
reflects that.
In passing, add a reminder to consider doing pgindent right before
the branch.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1dAkjZ-0003MG-0U@gemulon.postgresql.org
The callers for GetOldestSafeDecodingTransactionId() all inverted the
argument for the argument introduced in 2bef06d516. Luckily this
appears to be inconsequential for the moment, as we wait for
concurrent in-progress transaction when assembling a
snapshot. Additionally this could only make a difference when adding a
second logical slot, because only a pre-existing slot could cause an
issue by lowering the returned xid dangerously much.
Reported-By: Antonin Houska
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/32704.1496993134@localhost
Backport: 9.4-, where 2bef06d516 was backpatched to.
Without ICU's header files, "configure --with-icu" would succeed anyway,
at least when using the non-pkgconfig-based setup. Then you got a bunch of
ugly failures at build. Add an explicit header check to tighten that up.
Previously, it had no effect. Now, if archive_mode=always, it will
work, and if not, you'll get a warning.
Masahiko Sawada, Michael Paquier, and Robert Haas. The patch as
submitted also changed the behavior so that we would write and remove
history files on standbys, but that seems like material for a separate
patch to me.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAD21AoC2Xw6M=ZJyejq_9d_iDkReC_=rpvQRw5QsyzKQdfYpkw@mail.gmail.com
Supporting ICU 4.2 seems useful because it ships with CentOS 6.
Versions before ICU 4.6 don't support pkg-config, so document an
installation method without using pkg-config.
In ICU 4.2, ucol_getKeywordsForLocale() sometimes returns values that
will not be accepted by uloc_toLanguageTag(). Skip loading keyword
variants in that version.
Reported-by: Victor Wagner <vitus@wagner.pp.ru>
If it works, then we won't be storing two copies of all the tuples
that were just moved. If not, VACUUM will still take care of it
eventually. Per a report from AP and analysis from Amit Kapila, it
seems that a bulk load can cause splits fast enough that VACUUM won't
deal with the problem in time to prevent bloat.
Amit Kapila; I rewrote the comment.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/20170704105728.mwb72jebfmok2nm2@zip.com.au
Per a report from AP, it's not that hard to exhaust the supply of
bitmap pages if you create a table with a hash index and then insert a
few billion rows - and then you start getting errors when you try to
insert additional rows. In the particular case reported by AP,
there's another fix that we can make to improve recycling of overflow
pages, which is another way to avoid the error, but there may be other
cases where this problem happens and that fix won't help. So let's
buy ourselves as much headroom as we can without rearchitecting
anything.
The comments claim that the old limit was 64GB, but it was really
only 32GB, because we didn't use all the bits in the page for bitmap
bits - only the largest power of 2 that could fit after deducting
space for the page header and so forth. Thus, we have 4kB per page
for bitmap bits, not 8kB. The new limit is thus actually 8 times the
old *real* limit but only 4 times the old *purported* limit.
Since this breaks on-disk compatibility, bump HASH_VERSION. We've
already done this earlier in this release cycle, so this doesn't cause
any incremental inconvenience for people using pg_upgrade from
releases prior to v10. However, users who use pg_upgrade to reach
10beta3 or later from 10beta2 or earlier will need to REINDEX any hash
indexes again.
Amit Kapila and Robert Haas
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/20170704105728.mwb72jebfmok2nm2@zip.com.au
If you do ALTER COLUMN SET NOT NULL against an inheritance parent table,
it will recurse to mark all the child columns as NOT NULL as well. This
is necessary for consistency: if the column is labeled NOT NULL then
reading it should never produce nulls.
However, that didn't happen in the case where ALTER ... ADD PRIMARY KEY
marks a target column NOT NULL that wasn't before. That was questionable
from the beginning, and now Tushar Ahuja points out that it can lead to
dump/restore failures in some cases. So let's make that case recurse too.
Although this is meant to fix a bug, it's enough of a behavioral change
that I'm pretty hesitant to back-patch, especially in view of the lack
of similar field complaints. It doesn't seem to be too late to put it
into v10 though.
Michael Paquier, editorialized on slightly by me
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/b8794d6a-38f0-9d7c-ad4b-e85adf860fc9@enterprisedb.com
We don't actually support session tickets, since we do not create an SSL
session identifier. But it seems that OpenSSL will issue a session ticket
on-demand anyway, which will then fail when used. This results in
reconnection failures when using ticket-aware client-side SSL libraries
(such as the Npgsql .NET driver), as reported by Shay Rojansky.
To fix, just tell OpenSSL not to issue tickets. At some point in the
far future, we might consider enabling tickets instead. But the security
implications of that aren't entirely clear; and besides it would have
little benefit except for very short-lived database connections, which is
Something We're Bad At anyhow. It would take a lot of other work to get
to a point where that would really be an exciting thing to do.
While at it, also tell OpenSSL not to use a session cache. This doesn't
really do anything, since a backend would never populate the cache anyway,
but it might gain some micro-efficiencies and/or reduce security
exposures.
Patch by me, per discussion with Heikki Linnakangas and Shay Rojansky.
Back-patch to all supported versions.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CADT4RqBU8N-csyZuzaook-c795dt22Zcwg1aHWB6tfVdAkodZA@mail.gmail.com
ALTER USER ... SET did not support all the syntax variants of ALTER ROLE
... SET. Fix that, and to avoid further deviations of this kind, unify
many the grammar rules for ROLE/USER/GROUP commands.
Reported-by: Pavel Golub <pavel@microolap.com>
Because we push all ACL (i.e. GRANT/REVOKE) restore steps to the end,
materialized view refreshes were occurring while the permissions on
referenced objects were still at defaults. This led to failures if,
say, an MV owned by user A reads from a table owned by user B, even
if B had granted the necessary privileges to A. We've had multiple
complaints about that type of restore failure, most recently from
Jordan Gigov.
The ideal fix for this would be to start treating ACLs as dependency-
sortable objects, rather than hard-wiring anything about their dump order
(the existing approach is a messy kluge dating to commit dc0e76ca3).
But that's going to be a rather major change, and it certainly wouldn't
lead to a back-patchable fix. As a short-term solution, convert the
existing two-pass hack (ie, normal objects then ACLs) to a three-pass hack,
ie, normal objects then ACLs then matview refreshes. Because this happens
in RestoreArchive(), it will also fix the problem when restoring from an
existing archive-format dump.
(Note this means that if a matview refresh would have failed under the
permissions prevailing at dump time, it'll fail during restore as well.
We'll define that as user error rather than something we should try
to work around.)
To avoid performance loss in parallel restore, we need the matview
refreshes to still be parallelizable. Hence, clean things up enough
so that both ACLs and matviews are handled by the parallel restore
infrastructure, instead of reverting back to serial restore for ACLs.
There is still a final serial step, but it shouldn't normally have to
do anything; it's only there to try to recover if we get stuck due to
some problem like unresolved circular dependencies.
Patch by me, but it owes something to an earlier attempt by Kevin Grittner.
Back-patch to 9.3 where materialized views were introduced.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/28572.1500912583@sss.pgh.pa.us
Commit 4d57e83816 added support for getting I/O errors out of zlib,
but it introduced a portability problem for systems without zlib.
Repair by wrapping the zlib call inside #ifdef and restore the original
code in the other branch.
This serves to illustrate the inadequacy of the zlib abstraction in
pg_backup_archiver: there is no way to call gzerror() in that
abstraction. This means that the several places that call GZREAD and
GZWRITE are currently doing error reporting wrongly, but ENOTIME to get
it fixed before next week's release set.
Backpatch to 9.4, like the commit that introduced the problem.
Some of these comments wrongly implied that only an AFTER ROW trigger
will cause a 'wholerow' attribute to be present for a foreign table,
but a BEFORE ROW trigger can have the same effect. Others implied
that it would always be present for a foreign table, but that's not
true either.
Etsuro Fujita and Robert Haas
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/10026bc7-1403-ef85-9e43-c6100c1cc0e3@lab.ntt.co.jp
Otherwise, partitioned tables with RETURNING expressions or subject
to a WITH CHECK OPTION do not work properly.
Amit Langote, reviewed by Amit Khandekar and Etsuro Fujita. A few
comment changes by me.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/9a39df80-871e-6212-0684-f93c83be4097@lab.ntt.co.jp
Some error reports were reporting strerror(errno), which for some error
conditions coming from zlib are wrong, resulting in confusing reports
such as
pg_restore: [compress_io] could not read from input file: Success
which makes no sense. To correctly extract the error message we need to
use gzerror(), so let's do that.
This isn't as comprehensive or as neat as I would like, but at least it
should improve things in many common cases. The zlib abstraction in
compress_io does not seem to be applied consistently enough; we could
perhaps improve that, but it seems master-only material, not a bug fix
for back-patching.
This problem goes back all the way, but I decided to apply back to 9.4
only, because older branches don't contain commit 14ea89366 which this
change depends on.
Authors: Vladimir Kunschikov, Álvaro Herrera
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1498120508308.9826@infotecs.ru
FlightAware is still maintaining this, and indeed is seemingly being
more active with it than the pgtclng fork is. List both, for the
time being anyway.
In the back branches, also back-port commit e20f679f6 and other
recent updates to the client-interfaces list. I think these are
probably of current interest to users of back branches. I did
not touch the list of externally maintained PLs in the back
branches, though. Those are much more likely to be server version
sensitive, and I don't know which of these PLs work all the way back.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170730162612.1449.58796@wrigleys.postgresql.org
init_htab(), with #define HASH_DEBUG, prints a bunch of hashtable
parameters. It used to also print nentries, but commit 44ca4022f changed
that to "hash_get_num_entries(hctl)", which is wrong (the parameter should
be "hashp").
Rather than correct the coding, though, let's just remove that field from
the printout. The table must be empty, since we just finished building
it, so expensively calculating the number of entries is rather pointless.
Moreover hash_get_num_entries makes assumptions (about not needing locks)
which we could do without in debugging code.
Noted by Choi Doo-Won in bug #14764. Back-patch to 9.6 where the
faulty code was introduced.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170802032353.8424.12274@wrigleys.postgresql.org
This fixes a crash if the local table has a function index and the
function makes non-immutable calls.
Reported-by: Scott Milliken <scott@deltaex.com>
Author: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>
Commit c0a15e07c moved the setting of OpenSSL's SSL_OP_SINGLE_DH_USE option
into a new subroutine initialize_dh(), but forgot to remove it from where
it was. SSL_CTX_set_options() is a trivial function, amounting indeed to
just "ctx->options |= op", hence there's no reason to contort the code or
break separation of concerns to avoid calling it twice. So separating the
DH setup from disabling of old protocol versions is a good change, but we
need to finish the job.
Noted while poking into the question of SSL session tickets.
This doesn't have a significant impact except that now SECURITY LABEL ON
DOMAIN rejects types that are not domains.
Reported-by: 高增琦 <pgf00a@gmail.com>
The buildfarm is still showing at least three distinct behaviors for
a bad locale name in CREATE COLLATION. Although this test was helpful
for getting the error reporting code into some usable shape, it doesn't
seem worth carrying multiple expected-files in order to support the
test in perpetuity. So pull it back out.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKKotZS-wcDcofXDCH=sidiuajE+nqHn2CGjLLX78anyDmi3gQ@mail.gmail.com
The early buildfarm returns for commit 1e165d05f are pretty awful:
not only does Windows not return a useful error, but it looks like
a lot of Unix-ish platforms don't either. Given the number of
different errnos seen so far, guess that what's really going on is
that some newlocale() implementations fail to set errno at all.
Hence, let's try zeroing errno just before newlocale() and then
if it's still zero report as though it's ENOENT. That should cover
the Windows case too.
It's clear that we'll have to drop the regression test case, unless
we want to maintain a separate expected-file for platforms without
HAVE_LOCALE_T. But I'll leave it there awhile longer to see if this
actually improves matters or not.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKKotZS-wcDcofXDCH=sidiuajE+nqHn2CGjLLX78anyDmi3gQ@mail.gmail.com
DROP CASCADE doesn't currently promise to visit dependent objects in
a fixed order, so when the regression tests use it, we typically need
to suppress the details of which objects get dropped in order to have
predictable test output. Traditionally we've done that by setting
client_min_messages higher than NOTICE, but there's a better way:
we can "\set VERBOSITY terse" in psql. That suppresses the DETAIL
message with the object list, but we still get the basic notice telling
how many objects were dropped. So at least the test case can verify
that the expected number of objects were dropped.
The VERBOSITY method was already in use in a few places, but run
around and use it wherever it makes sense.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/10766.1501608885@sss.pgh.pa.us
We were just printing errno, which is certainly not gonna work on
Windows. Now, it's not entirely clear from Microsoft's documentation
whether _create_locale() adheres to standard Windows error reporting
conventions, but let's assume it does and try to map the GetLastError
result to an errno. If this turns out not to work, probably the best
thing to do will be to assume the error is always ENOENT on Windows.
This is a longstanding bug, but given the lack of previous field
complaints, I'm not excited about back-patching it.
Per report from Murtuza Zabuawala.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKKotZS-wcDcofXDCH=sidiuajE+nqHn2CGjLLX78anyDmi3gQ@mail.gmail.com
Most of our collations code has special handling for the locale names
"C" and "POSIX", allowing those collations to be used whether or not
the system libraries think those locale names are valid, or indeed
whether said libraries even have any locale support. But we missed
handling things that way in CREATE COLLATION. This meant you couldn't
clone the C/POSIX collations, nor explicitly define a new collation
using those locale names, unless the libraries allow it. That's pretty
pointless, as well as being a violation of pg_newlocale_from_collation's
API specification.
The practical effect of this change is quite limited: it allows creating
such collations even on platforms that don't HAVE_LOCALE_T, and it allows
making "POSIX" collation objects on Windows, which before this would only
let you make "C" collation objects. Hence, even though this is a bug fix
IMO, it doesn't seem worth the trouble to back-patch.
In passing, suppress the DROP CASCADE detail messages at the end of the
collation regression test. I'm surprised we've never been bit by
message ordering issues there.
Per report from Murtuza Zabuawala.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKKotZS-wcDcofXDCH=sidiuajE+nqHn2CGjLLX78anyDmi3gQ@mail.gmail.com
Peter Eisentraut noted that commit 40b9f1921 had broken a configure
behavior that some people might rely on: AC_CHECK_PROGS(FOO,...) will
allow the search to be overridden by specifying a value for FOO on
configure's command line or in its environment, but AC_PATH_PROGS(FOO,...)
accepts such an override only if it's an absolute path. We had worked
around that behavior for some, but not all, of the pre-existing uses
of AC_PATH_PROGS by just skipping the macro altogether when FOO is
already set. Let's standardize on that workaround for all uses of
AC_PATH_PROGS, new and pre-existing, by wrapping AC_PATH_PROGS in a
new macro PGAC_PATH_PROGS. While at it, fix a deficiency of the old
workaround code by making sure we report the setting to configure's log.
Eventually I'd like to improve PGAC_PATH_PROGS so that it converts
non-absolute override inputs to absolute form, eg "PYTHON=python3"
becomes, say, PYTHON = /usr/bin/python3. But that will take some
nontrivial coding so it doesn't seem like a thing to do in late beta.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/90a92a7d-938e-507a-3bd7-ecd2b4004689@2ndquadrant.com
XLByteToSeg and XLByteToPrevSeg calculate only a segment number. The
definition of these macros were modified by commit
dfda6ebaec but the comment remain
unchanged.
Patch by Yugo Nagata. Back patched to 9.3 and beyond.
1024 bits is considered weak these days, but OpenSSL always passes 1024 as
the key length to the tmp_dh callback. All the code to handle other key
lengths is, in fact, dead.
To remedy those issues:
* Only include hard-coded 2048-bit parameters.
* Set the parameters directly with SSL_CTX_set_tmp_dh(), without the
callback
* The name of the file containing the DH parameters is now a GUC. This
replaces the old hardcoded "dh1024.pem" filename. (The files for other
key lengths, dh512.pem, dh2048.pem, etc. were never actually used.)
This is not a new problem, but it doesn't seem worth the risk and churn to
backport. If you care enough about the strength of the DH parameters on
old versions, you can create custom DH parameters, with as many bits as you
wish, and put them in the "dh1024.pem" file.
Per report by Nicolas Guini and Damian Quiroga. Reviewed by Michael Paquier.
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAMxBoUyjOOautVozN6ofzym828aNrDjuCcOTcCquxjwS-L2hGQ@mail.gmail.com
Previously the docs just said "5.8 or later". Experimentation shows
that while you can build on Unix from a git checkout with 5.8.0,
compiling recent PL/Perl requires at least 5.8.1, and you won't be
able to run the TAP tests with less than 5.8.3 because that's when
they added "prove". (I do not have any information on just what the
MSVC build scripts require.)
Since all these versions are quite ancient, let's not split hairs
in the docs, but just say that 5.8.3 is the minimum requirement.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16894.1501392088@sss.pgh.pa.us