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Tom Lane bda6dedbea Go back to returning int from ereport auxiliary functions.
This reverts the parts of commit 17a28b0364
that changed ereport's auxiliary functions from returning dummy integer
values to returning void.  It turns out that a minority of compilers
complain (not entirely unreasonably) about constructs such as

	(condition) ? errdetail(...) : 0

if errdetail() returns void rather than int.  We could update those
call sites to say "(void) 0" perhaps, but the expectation for this
patch set was that ereport callers would not have to change anything.
And this aspect of the patch set was already the most invasive and
least compelling part of it, so let's just drop it.

Per buildfarm.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+fd4k6N8EjNvZpM8nme+y+05mz-SM8Z_BgkixzkA34R+ej0Kw@mail.gmail.com
2020-03-25 11:57:36 -04:00
Tom Lane 17a28b0364 Improve the internal implementation of ereport().
Change all the auxiliary error-reporting routines to return void,
now that we no longer need to pretend they are passing something
useful to errfinish().  While this probably doesn't save anything
significant at the machine-code level, it allows detection of some
additional types of mistakes.

Pass the error location details (__FILE__, __LINE__, PG_FUNCNAME_MACRO)
to errfinish not errstart.  This shaves a few cycles off the case where
errstart decides we're not going to emit anything.

Re-implement elog() as a trivial wrapper around ereport(), removing
the separate support infrastructure it used to have.  Aside from
getting rid of some now-surplus code, this means that elog() now
really does have exactly the same semantics as ereport(), in particular
that it can skip evaluation work if the message is not to be emitted.

Andres Freund and Tom Lane

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+fd4k6N8EjNvZpM8nme+y+05mz-SM8Z_BgkixzkA34R+ej0Kw@mail.gmail.com
2020-03-24 12:08:48 -04:00
Tom Lane e3a87b4991 Re-implement the ereport() macro using __VA_ARGS__.
Now that we require C99, we can depend on __VA_ARGS__ to work, and
revising ereport() to use it has several significant benefits:

* The extra parentheses around the auxiliary function calls are now
optional.  Aside from being a bit less ugly, this removes a common
gotcha for new contributors, because in some cases the compiler errors
you got from forgetting them were unintelligible.

* The auxiliary function calls are now evaluated as a comma expression
list rather than as extra arguments to errfinish().  This means that
compilers can be expected to warn about no-op expressions in the list,
allowing detection of several other common mistakes such as forgetting
to add errmsg(...) when converting an elog() call to ereport().

* Unlike the situation with extra function arguments, comma expressions
are guaranteed to be evaluated left-to-right, so this removes platform
dependency in the order of the auxiliary function calls.  While that
dependency hasn't caused us big problems in the past, this change does
allow dropping some rather shaky assumptions around errcontext() domain
handling.

There's no intention to make wholesale changes of existing ereport
calls, but as proof-of-concept this patch removes the extra parens
from a couple of calls in postgres.c.

While new code can be written either way, code intended to be
back-patched will need to use extra parens for awhile yet.  It seems
worth back-patching this change into v12, so as to reduce the window
where we have to be careful about that by one year.  Hence, this patch
is careful to preserve ABI compatibility; a followup HEAD-only patch
will make some additional simplifications.

Andres Freund and Tom Lane

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+fd4k6N8EjNvZpM8nme+y+05mz-SM8Z_BgkixzkA34R+ej0Kw@mail.gmail.com
2020-03-24 11:49:00 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 70a7b4776b Add backend type to csvlog and optionally log_line_prefix
The backend type, which corresponds to what
pg_stat_activity.backend_type shows, is added as a column to the
csvlog and can optionally be added to log_line_prefix using the new %b
placeholder.

Reviewed-by: Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Kuntal Ghosh <kuntalghosh.2007@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
Reviewed-by: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/c65e5196-4f04-4ead-9353-6088c19615a3@2ndquadrant.com
2020-03-15 11:20:21 +01:00
Peter Eisentraut d90bd24391 Remove am_syslogger global variable
Use the new MyBackendType instead.  More similar changes for other "am
something" variables are possible.  This one was just particularly
simple.

Reviewed-by: Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Kuntal Ghosh <kuntalghosh.2007@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/c65e5196-4f04-4ead-9353-6088c19615a3@2ndquadrant.com
2020-03-13 14:01:15 +01:00
Bruce Momjian 7559d8ebfa Update copyrights for 2020
Backpatch-through: update all files in master, backpatch legal files through 9.4
2020-01-01 12:21:45 -05:00
Alvaro Herrera 45ff049e28 Remove debugging aid
This Assert(false) was not supposed to be in the committed copy.

Reported by: Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/26476.1574525468@sss.pgh.pa.us
2019-11-23 13:19:20 -03:00
Alvaro Herrera 71a8a4f6e3 Add backtrace support for error reporting
Add some support for automatically showing backtraces in certain error
situations in the server.  Backtraces are shown on assertion failure;
also, a new setting backtrace_functions can be set to a list of C
function names, and all ereport()s and elog()s from the mentioned
functions will have backtraces generated.  Finally, the function
errbacktrace() can be manually added to an ereport() call to generate a
backtrace for that call.

Authors: Peter Eisentraut, Álvaro Herrera
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m//5f48cb47-bf1e-05b6-7aae-3bf2cd01586d@2ndquadrant.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMsr+YGL+yfWE=JvbUbnpWtrRZNey7hJ07+zT4bYJdVp4Szdrg@mail.gmail.com
2019-11-08 15:44:20 -03:00
Andres Freund 01368e5d9d Split all OBJS style lines in makefiles into one-line-per-entry style.
When maintaining or merging patches, one of the most common sources
for conflicts are the list of objects in makefiles. Especially when
the split across lines has been changed on both sides, which is
somewhat common due to attempting to stay below 80 columns, those
conflicts are unnecessarily laborious to resolve.

By splitting, and alphabetically sorting, OBJS style lines into one
object per line, conflicts should be less frequent, and easier to
resolve when they still occur.

Author: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20191029200901.vww4idgcxv74cwes@alap3.anarazel.de
2019-11-05 14:41:07 -08:00
Bruce Momjian 97c39498e5 Update copyright for 2019
Backpatch-through: certain files through 9.4
2019-01-02 12:44:25 -05:00
Tom Lane 3d360e20c9 Disallow setting client_min_messages higher than ERROR.
Previously it was possible to set client_min_messages to FATAL or PANIC,
which had the effect of suppressing transmission of regular ERROR messages
to the client.  Perhaps that seemed like a useful option in the past, but
the trouble with it is that it breaks guarantees that are explicitly made
in our FE/BE protocol spec about how a query cycle can end.  While libpq
and psql manage to cope with the omission, that's mostly because they
are not very bright; client libraries that have more semantic knowledge
are likely to get confused.  Notably, pgODBC doesn't behave very sanely.
Let's fix this by getting rid of the ability to set client_min_messages
above ERROR.

In HEAD, just remove the FATAL and PANIC options from the set of allowed
enum values for client_min_messages.  (This change also affects
trace_recovery_messages, but that's OK since these aren't useful values
for that variable either.)

In the back branches, there was concern that rejecting these values might
break applications that are explicitly setting things that way.  I'm
pretty skeptical of that argument, but accommodate it by accepting these
values and then internally setting the variable to ERROR anyway.

In all branches, this allows a couple of tiny simplifications in the
logic in elog.c, so do that.

Also respond to the point that was made that client_min_messages has
exactly nothing to do with the server's logging behavior, and therefore
does not belong in the "When To Log" subsection of the documentation.
The "Statement Behavior" subsection is a better match, so move it there.

Jonah Harris and Tom Lane

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/7809.1541521180@sss.pgh.pa.us
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15479-ef0f4cc2fd995ca2@postgresql.org
2018-11-08 17:33:43 -05:00
Tom Lane d6c55de1f9 Implement %m in src/port/snprintf.c, and teach elog.c to rely on that.
I started out with the idea that we needed to detect use of %m format specs
in contexts other than elog/ereport calls, because we couldn't rely on that
working in *printf calls.  But a better answer is to fix things so that it
does work.  Now that we're using snprintf.c all the time, we can implement
%m in that and we've fixed the problem.

This requires also adjusting our various printf-wrapping functions so that
they ensure "errno" is preserved when they call snprintf.c.

Remove elog.c's handmade implementation of %m, and let it rely on
snprintf to support the feature.  That should provide some performance
gain, though I've not attempted to measure it.

There are a lot of places where we could now simplify 'printf("%s",
strerror(errno))' into 'printf("%m")', but I'm not in any big hurry
to make that happen.

Patch by me, reviewed by Michael Paquier

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2975.1526862605@sss.pgh.pa.us
2018-09-26 13:31:56 -04:00
Tom Lane 26e9d4d4ef Convert elog.c's useful_strerror() into a globally-used strerror wrapper.
elog.c has long had a private strerror wrapper that handles assorted
possible failures or deficiencies of the platform's strerror.  On Windows,
it also knows how to translate Winsock error codes, which the native
strerror does not.  Move all this code into src/port/strerror.c and
define strerror() as a macro that invokes it, so that both our frontend
and backend code will have all of this behavior.

I believe this constitutes an actual bug fix on Windows, since AFAICS
our frontend code did not report Winsock error codes properly before this.
However, the main point is to lay the groundwork for implementing %m
in src/port/snprintf.c: the behavior we want %m to have is this one,
not the native strerror's.

Note that this throws away the prior use of src/port/strerror.c,
which was to implement strerror() on platforms lacking it.  That's
been dead code for nigh twenty years now, since strerror() was
already required by C89.

We should likewise cause strerror_r to use this behavior, but
I'll tackle that separately.

Patch by me, reviewed by Michael Paquier

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2975.1526862605@sss.pgh.pa.us
2018-09-26 11:06:42 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 9d4649ca49 Update copyright for 2018
Backpatch-through: certain files through 9.3
2018-01-02 23:30:12 -05:00
Noah Misch e02571b73f Don't call pgwin32_message_to_UTF16() without CurrentMemoryContext.
PostgreSQL running as a Windows service crashed upon calling
write_stderr() before MemoryContextInit().  This fix completes work
started in 5735efee15.  Messages this
early contain only ASCII bytes; if we removed the CurrentMemoryContext
requirement, the ensuing conversions would have no effect.  Back-patch
to 9.3 (all supported versions).

Takayuki Tsunakawa, reviewed by Michael Paquier.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/0A3221C70F24FB45833433255569204D1F80CC73@G01JPEXMBYT05
2017-11-12 13:03:15 -08:00
Peter Eisentraut 2eb4a831e5 Change TRUE/FALSE to true/false
The lower case spellings are C and C++ standard and are used in most
parts of the PostgreSQL sources.  The upper case spellings are only used
in some files/modules.  So standardize on the standard spellings.

The APIs for ICU, Perl, and Windows define their own TRUE and FALSE, so
those are left as is when using those APIs.

In code comments, we use the lower-case spelling for the C concepts and
keep the upper-case spelling for the SQL concepts.

Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
2017-11-08 11:37:28 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut 1356f78ea9 Reduce excessive dereferencing of function pointers
It is equivalent in ANSI C to write (*funcptr) () and funcptr().  These
two styles have been applied inconsistently.  After discussion, we'll
use the more verbose style for plain function pointer variables, to make
it clear that it's a variable, and the shorter style when the function
pointer is in a struct (s.func() or s->func()), because then it's clear
that it's not a plain function name, and otherwise the excessive
punctuation makes some of those invocations hard to read.

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/f52c16db-14ed-757d-4b48-7ef360b1631d@2ndquadrant.com
2017-09-07 13:56:09 -04:00
Tom Lane 382ceffdf7 Phase 3 of pgindent updates.
Don't move parenthesized lines to the left, even if that means they
flow past the right margin.

By default, BSD indent lines up statement continuation lines that are
within parentheses so that they start just to the right of the preceding
left parenthesis.  However, traditionally, if that resulted in the
continuation line extending to the right of the desired right margin,
then indent would push it left just far enough to not overrun the margin,
if it could do so without making the continuation line start to the left of
the current statement indent.  That makes for a weird mix of indentations
unless one has been completely rigid about never violating the 80-column
limit.

This behavior has been pretty universally panned by Postgres developers.
Hence, disable it with indent's new -lpl switch, so that parenthesized
lines are always lined up with the preceding left paren.

This patch is much less interesting than the first round of indent
changes, but also bulkier, so I thought it best to separate the effects.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1dAmxK-0006EE-1r@gemulon.postgresql.org
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/30527.1495162840@sss.pgh.pa.us
2017-06-21 15:35:54 -04:00
Tom Lane c7b8998ebb Phase 2 of pgindent updates.
Change pg_bsd_indent to follow upstream rules for placement of comments
to the right of code, and remove pgindent hack that caused comments
following #endif to not obey the general rule.

Commit e3860ffa4d wasn't actually using
the published version of pg_bsd_indent, but a hacked-up version that
tried to minimize the amount of movement of comments to the right of
code.  The situation of interest is where such a comment has to be
moved to the right of its default placement at column 33 because there's
code there.  BSD indent has always moved right in units of tab stops
in such cases --- but in the previous incarnation, indent was working
in 8-space tab stops, while now it knows we use 4-space tabs.  So the
net result is that in about half the cases, such comments are placed
one tab stop left of before.  This is better all around: it leaves
more room on the line for comment text, and it means that in such
cases the comment uniformly starts at the next 4-space tab stop after
the code, rather than sometimes one and sometimes two tabs after.

Also, ensure that comments following #endif are indented the same
as comments following other preprocessor commands such as #else.
That inconsistency turns out to have been self-inflicted damage
from a poorly-thought-through post-indent "fixup" in pgindent.

This patch is much less interesting than the first round of indent
changes, but also bulkier, so I thought it best to separate the effects.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1dAmxK-0006EE-1r@gemulon.postgresql.org
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/30527.1495162840@sss.pgh.pa.us
2017-06-21 15:19:25 -04:00
Tom Lane e3860ffa4d Initial pgindent run with pg_bsd_indent version 2.0.
The new indent version includes numerous fixes thanks to Piotr Stefaniak.
The main changes visible in this commit are:

* Nicer formatting of function-pointer declarations.
* No longer unexpectedly removes spaces in expressions using casts,
  sizeof, or offsetof.
* No longer wants to add a space in "struct structname *varname", as
  well as some similar cases for const- or volatile-qualified pointers.
* Declarations using PG_USED_FOR_ASSERTS_ONLY are formatted more nicely.
* Fixes bug where comments following declarations were sometimes placed
  with no space separating them from the code.
* Fixes some odd decisions for comments following case labels.
* Fixes some cases where comments following code were indented to less
  than the expected column 33.

On the less good side, it now tends to put more whitespace around typedef
names that are not listed in typedefs.list.  This might encourage us to
put more effort into typedef name collection; it's not really a bug in
indent itself.

There are more changes coming after this round, having to do with comment
indentation and alignment of lines appearing within parentheses.  I wanted
to limit the size of the diffs to something that could be reviewed without
one's eyes completely glazing over, so it seemed better to split up the
changes as much as practical.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1dAmxK-0006EE-1r@gemulon.postgresql.org
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/30527.1495162840@sss.pgh.pa.us
2017-06-21 14:39:04 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 6275f5d28a Fix new warnings from GCC 7
This addresses the new warning types -Wformat-truncation
-Wformat-overflow that are part of -Wall, via -Wformat, in GCC 7.
2017-04-17 13:59:46 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut f97a028d8e Spelling fixes in code comments
From: Josh Soref <jsoref@gmail.com>
2017-03-14 12:58:39 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 1d25779284 Update copyright via script for 2017 2017-01-03 13:48:53 -05:00
Tom Lane 0645dacc37 Fix unsafe assumption that struct timeval.tv_sec is a "long".
It typically is a "long", but it seems possible that on some platforms
it wouldn't be.  In any case, this silences a compiler warning on
OpenBSD (cf buildfarm member curculio).

While at it, use snprintf not sprintf.  This format string couldn't
possibly overrun the supplied buffer, but that doesn't seem like
a good reason not to use the safer style.

Oversight in commit f828654e1.  Back-patch to 9.6 where that came in.
2016-12-06 19:52:34 -05:00
Tom Lane 26fa446da6 Add a nonlocalized version of the severity field to client error messages.
This has been requested a few times, but the use-case for it was never
entirely clear.  The reason for adding it now is that transmission of
error reports from parallel workers fails when NLS is active, because
pq_parse_errornotice() wrongly assumes that the existing severity field
is nonlocalized.  There are other ways we could have fixed that, but the
other options were basically kluges, whereas this way provides something
that's at least arguably a useful feature along with the bug fix.

Per report from Jakob Egger.  Back-patch into 9.6, because otherwise
parallel query is essentially unusable in non-English locales.  The
problem exists in 9.5 as well, but we don't want to risk changing
on-the-wire behavior in 9.5 (even though the possibility of new error
fields is specifically called out in the protocol document).  It may
be sufficient to leave the issue unfixed in 9.5, given the very limited
usefulness of pq_parse_errornotice in that version.

Discussion: <A88E0006-13CB-49C6-95CC-1A77D717213C@eggerapps.at>
2016-08-26 16:20:17 -04:00
Tom Lane 45a36e6853 Put static forward declarations in elog.c back into same order as code.
The guiding principle for the last few patches in this area apparently
involved throwing darts.

Cosmetic only, but back-patch to 9.6 because there is no reason for
9.6 and HEAD to diverge yet in this file.
2016-08-26 14:19:03 -04:00
Tom Lane 8529036b53 Fix assorted small bugs in ThrowErrorData().
Copy the palloc'd strings into the correct context, ie ErrorContext
not wherever the source ErrorData is.  This would be a large bug,
except that it appears that all catchers of thrown errors do either
EmitErrorReport or CopyErrorData before doing anything that would
cause transient memory contexts to be cleaned up.  Still, it's wrong
and it will bite somebody someday.

Fix failure to copy cursorpos and internalpos.

Utter the appropriate incantations involving recursion_depth, so that
we'll behave sanely if we get an error inside pstrdup.  (In general,
the body of this function ought to act like, eg, errdetail().)

Per code reading induced by Jakob Egger's report.
2016-08-26 14:15:47 -04:00
Robert Haas 4bc424b968 pgindent run for 9.6 2016-06-09 18:02:36 -04:00
Tom Lane 66229ac004 Introduce a LOG_SERVER_ONLY ereport level, which is never sent to client.
This elevel is useful for logging audit messages and similar information
that should not be passed to the client.  It's equivalent to LOG in terms
of decisions about logging priority in the postmaster log, but messages
with this elevel will never be sent to the client.

In the current implementation, it's just an alias for the longstanding
COMMERROR elevel (or more accurately, we've made COMMERROR an alias for
this).  At some point it might be interesting to allow a LOG_ONLY flag to
be attached to any elevel, but that would be considerably more complicated,
and it's not clear there's enough use-cases to justify the extra work.
For now, let's just take the easy 90% solution.

David Steele, reviewed by Fabien Coelho, Petr Jelínek, and myself
2016-04-04 12:32:42 -04:00
Tom Lane e5a4dea80f Document errhidecontext() where it ought to be documented.
Seems to have been missed when this function was added.  Noted while
looking at David Steele's proposal to add another similar function.
2016-03-28 14:18:14 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut fc201dfd95 Add syslog_split_messages parameter
Reviewed-by: Andreas Karlsson <andreas@proxel.se>
2016-03-16 23:21:44 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut f4c454e9ba Add syslog_sequence_numbers parameter
Reviewed-by: Andreas Karlsson <andreas@proxel.se>
2016-03-16 23:21:44 -04:00
Simon Riggs 73e7e49da3 Allow emit_log_hook to see original message text
emit_log_hook could only see the translated text, making it harder to identify
which message was being sent. Pass original text to allow the exact message to
be identified, whichever language is used for logging.

Discussion: 20160216.184755.59721141.horiguchi.kyotaro@lab.ntt.co.jp
Author: Kyotaro Horiguchi
2016-03-11 09:53:06 +00:00
Bruce Momjian ee94300446 Update copyright for 2016
Backpatch certain files through 9.1
2016-01-02 13:33:40 -05:00
Jeff Davis b1e1862a12 Coordinate log_line_prefix options 'm' and 'n' to share a timeval.
Commit f828654e introduced the 'n' option, but it invoked
gettimeofday() independently of the 'm' option. If both options were
in use (or multiple 'n' options), or if 'n' was in use along with
csvlog, then the reported times could be different for the same log
message.

To fix, initialize a global variable with gettimeofday() once per log
message, and use that for both formats.

Don't bother coordinating the time for the 't' option, which has much
lower resolution.

Per complaint by Alvaro Herrera.
2015-09-07 15:40:49 -07:00
Jeff Davis f828654e10 Add log_line_prefix option 'n' for Unix epoch.
Prints time as Unix epoch with milliseconds.

Tomas Vondra, reviewed by Fabien Coelho.
2015-09-07 13:46:31 -07:00
Bruce Momjian 807b9e0dff pgindent run for 9.5 2015-05-23 21:35:49 -04:00
Tom Lane 785941cdc3 Tweak __attribute__-wrapping macros for better pgindent results.
This improves on commit bbfd7edae5 by
making two simple changes:

* pg_attribute_noreturn now takes parentheses, ie pg_attribute_noreturn().
Likewise pg_attribute_unused(), pg_attribute_packed().  This reduces
pgindent's tendency to misformat declarations involving them.

* attributes are now always attached to function declarations, not
definitions.  Previously some places were taking creative shortcuts,
which were not merely candidates for bad misformatting by pgindent
but often were outright wrong anyway.  (It does little good to put a
noreturn annotation where callers can't see it.)  In any case, if
we would like to believe that these macros can be used with non-gcc
compilers, we should avoid gratuitous variance in usage patterns.

I also went through and manually improved the formatting of a lot of
declarations, and got rid of excessively repetitive (and now obsolete
anyway) comments informing the reader what pg_attribute_printf is for.
2015-03-26 14:03:25 -04:00
Andres Freund bbfd7edae5 Add macros wrapping all usage of gcc's __attribute__.
Until now __attribute__() was defined to be empty for all compilers but
gcc. That's problematic because it prevents using it in other compilers;
which is necessary e.g. for atomics portability.  It's also just
generally dubious to do so in a header as widely included as c.h.

Instead add pg_attribute_format_arg, pg_attribute_printf,
pg_attribute_noreturn macros which are implemented in the compilers that
understand them. Also add pg_attribute_noreturn and pg_attribute_packed,
but don't provide fallbacks, since they can affect functionality.

This means that external code that, possibly unwittingly, relied on
__attribute__ defined to be empty on !gcc compilers may now run into
warnings or errors on those compilers. But there shouldn't be many
occurances of that and it's hard to work around...

Discussion: 54B58BA3.8040302@ohmu.fi
Author: Oskari Saarenmaa, with some minor changes by me.
2015-03-11 14:30:01 +01:00
Andres Freund 2505ce0be0 Remove remnants of ImmediateInterruptOK handling.
Now that nothing sets ImmediateInterruptOK to true anymore, we can
remove all the supporting code.

Reviewed-By: Heikki Linnakangas
2015-02-03 23:25:47 +01:00
Heikki Linnakangas 2b3a8b20c2 Be more careful to not lose sync in the FE/BE protocol.
If any error occurred while we were in the middle of reading a protocol
message from the client, we could lose sync, and incorrectly try to
interpret a part of another message as a new protocol message. That will
usually lead to an "invalid frontend message" error that terminates the
connection. However, this is a security issue because an attacker might
be able to deliberately cause an error, inject a Query message in what's
supposed to be just user data, and have the server execute it.

We were quite careful to not have CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS() calls or other
operations that could ereport(ERROR) in the middle of processing a message,
but a query cancel interrupt or statement timeout could nevertheless cause
it to happen. Also, the V2 fastpath and COPY handling were not so careful.
It's very difficult to recover in the V2 COPY protocol, so we will just
terminate the connection on error. In practice, that's what happened
previously anyway, as we lost protocol sync.

To fix, add a new variable in pqcomm.c, PqCommReadingMsg, that is set
whenever we're in the middle of reading a message. When it's set, we cannot
safely ERROR out and continue running, because we might've read only part
of a message. PqCommReadingMsg acts somewhat similarly to critical sections
in that if an error occurs while it's set, the error handler will force the
connection to be terminated, as if the error was FATAL. It's not
implemented by promoting ERROR to FATAL in elog.c, like ERROR is promoted
to PANIC in critical sections, because we want to be able to use
PG_TRY/CATCH to recover and regain protocol sync. pq_getmessage() takes
advantage of that to prevent an OOM error from terminating the connection.

To prevent unnecessary connection terminations, add a holdoff mechanism
similar to HOLD/RESUME_INTERRUPTS() that can be used hold off query cancel
interrupts, but still allow die interrupts. The rules on which interrupts
are processed when are now a bit more complicated, so refactor
ProcessInterrupts() and the calls to it in signal handlers so that the
signal handlers always call it if ImmediateInterruptOK is set, and
ProcessInterrupts() can decide to not do anything if the other conditions
are not met.

Reported by Emil Lenngren. Patch reviewed by Noah Misch and Andres Freund.
Backpatch to all supported versions.

Security: CVE-2015-0244
2015-02-02 17:09:53 +02:00
Tom Lane 586dd5d6a5 Replace a bunch more uses of strncpy() with safer coding.
strncpy() has a well-deserved reputation for being unsafe, so make an
effort to get rid of nearly all occurrences in HEAD.

A large fraction of the remaining uses were passing length less than or
equal to the known strlen() of the source, in which case no null-padding
can occur and the behavior is equivalent to memcpy(), though doubtless
slower and certainly harder to reason about.  So just use memcpy() in
these cases.

In other cases, use either StrNCpy() or strlcpy() as appropriate (depending
on whether padding to the full length of the destination buffer seems
useful).

I left a few strncpy() calls alone in the src/timezone/ code, to keep it
in sync with upstream (the IANA tzcode distribution).  There are also a
few such calls in ecpg that could possibly do with more analysis.

AFAICT, none of these changes are more than cosmetic, except for the four
occurrences in fe-secure-openssl.c, which are in fact buggy: an overlength
source leads to a non-null-terminated destination buffer and ensuing
misbehavior.  These don't seem like security issues, first because no stack
clobber is possible and second because if your values of sslcert etc are
coming from untrusted sources then you've got problems way worse than this.
Still, it's undesirable to have unpredictable behavior for overlength
inputs, so back-patch those four changes to all active branches.
2015-01-24 13:05:42 -05:00
Tom Lane 1f9bf05e53 Use correct text domain for errcontext() appearing within ereport().
The mechanism added in commit dbdf9679d7
for associating the correct translation domain with errcontext strings
potentially fails in cases where errcontext() is used within an ereport()
macro.  Such usage was not originally envisioned for errcontext(), but we
do have a few places that do it.  In this situation, the intended comma
expression becomes just a couple of arguments to errfinish(), which the
compiler might choose to evaluate right-to-left.

Fortunately, in such cases the textdomain for the errcontext string must
be the same as for the surrounding ereport.  So we can fix this by letting
errstart initialize context_domain along with domain; then it will have
the correct value no matter which order the calls occur in.  (Note that
error stack callback functions are not invoked until errfinish, so normal
usage of errcontext won't affect what happens for errcontext calls within
the ereport macro.)

In passing, make sure that errcontext calls within the main backend set
context_domain to something non-NULL.  This isn't a live bug because
NULL would select the current textdomain() setting which should be the
right thing anyway --- but it seems better to handle this completely
consistently with the regular domain field.

Per report from Dmitry Voronin.  Backpatch to 9.3; before that, there
wasn't any attempt to ensure that errcontext strings were translated
in an appropriate domain.
2015-01-12 12:40:29 -05:00
Bruce Momjian 4baaf863ec Update copyright for 2015
Backpatch certain files through 9.0
2015-01-06 11:43:47 -05:00
Fujii Masao 9f1d7313aa Fix typo in comment.
Report by Amit Kapila
2015-01-05 16:35:26 +09:00
Andres Freund 570bd2b3fd Add capability to suppress CONTEXT: messages to elog machinery.
Hiding context messages usually is not a good idea - except for rather
verbose debugging/development utensils like LOG_DEBUG. There the
amount of repeated context messages just bloat the log without adding
information.
2014-12-25 17:24:30 +01:00
Robert Haas 2bd9e412f9 Support frontend-backend protocol communication using a shm_mq.
A background worker can use pq_redirect_to_shm_mq() to direct protocol
that would normally be sent to the frontend to a shm_mq so that another
process may read them.

The receiving process may use pq_parse_errornotice() to parse an
ErrorResponse or NoticeResponse from the background worker and, if
it wishes, ThrowErrorData() to propagate the error (with or without
further modification).

Patch by me.  Review by Andres Freund.
2014-10-31 12:02:40 -04:00
Magnus Hagander c0e4520b16 Add option to pg_ctl to choose event source for logging
pg_ctl will log to the Windows event log when it is running as a service,
which is the primary way of running PostgreSQL on Windows. This option
makes it possible to specify which event source to use for this, in order
to separate different instances. The server logging itself is still controlled
by the regular logging parameters, including a separate setting for the event
source. The parameter to pg_ctl only controlls the logging from pg_ctl itself.

MauMau, review in many iterations by Amit Kapila and me.
2014-07-17 12:42:08 +02:00
Bruce Momjian 0a78320057 pgindent run for 9.4
This includes removing tabs after periods in C comments, which was
applied to back branches, so this change should not effect backpatching.
2014-05-06 12:12:18 -04:00
Tom Lane 6c461cb92f Prevent interrupts while reporting non-ERROR elog messages.
This should eliminate the risk of recursive entry to syslog(3), which
appears to be the cause of the hang reported in bug #9551 from James
Morton.

Arguably, the real problem here is auth.c's willingness to turn on
ImmediateInterruptOK while executing fairly wide swaths of backend code.
We may well need to work at narrowing the code ranges in which the
authentication_timeout interrupt is enabled.  For the moment, though,
this is a cheap and reasonably noninvasive fix for a field-reported
failure; the other approach would be complex and not necessarily
bug-free itself.

Back-patch to all supported branches.
2014-03-13 20:59:42 -04:00