Commit Graph

15762 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Stephen Frost 86ebf30fd6 Reset plan->row_security_env and planUserId
In the plancache, we check if the environment we planned the query under
has changed in a way which requires us to re-plan, such as when the user
for whom the plan was prepared changes and RLS is being used (and,
therefore, there may be different policies to apply).

Unfortunately, while those values were set and checked, they were not
being reset when the query was re-planned and therefore, in cases where
we change role, re-plan, and then change role again, we weren't
re-planning again.  This leads to potentially incorrect policies being
applied in cases where role-specific policies are used and a given query
is planned under one role and then executed under other roles, which
could happen under security definer functions or when a common user and
query is planned initially and then re-used across multiple SET ROLEs.

Further, extensions which made use of CopyCachedPlan() may suffer from
similar issues as the RLS-related fields were not properly copied as
part of the plan and therefore RevalidateCachedQuery() would copy in the
current settings without invalidating the query.

Fix by using the same approach used for 'search_path', where we set the
correct values in CompleteCachedPlan(), check them early on in
RevalidateCachedQuery() and then properly reset them if re-planning.
Also, copy through the values during CopyCachedPlan().

Pointed out by Ashutosh Bapat.  Reviewed by Michael Paquier.

Back-patch to 9.5 where RLS was introduced.

Security: CVE-2016-2193
2016-03-28 09:03:20 -04:00
Tom Lane d12e5bb79b Code and docs review for commit 3187d6de0e.
Fix up check for high-bit-set characters, which provoked "comparison is
always true due to limited range of data type" warnings on some compilers,
and was unlike the way we do it elsewhere anyway.  Fix omission of "$"
from the set of valid identifier continuation characters.  Get rid of
sanitize_text(), which was utterly inconsistent with any other error report
anywhere in the system, and wasn't even well designed on its own terms
(double-quoting the result string without escaping contained double quotes
doesn't seem very well thought out).  Fix up error messages, which didn't
follow the message style guidelines very well, and were overly specific in
situations where the actual mistake might not be what they said.  Improve
documentation.

(I started out just intending to fix the compiler warning, but the more
I looked at the patch the less I liked it.)
2016-03-28 01:00:30 -04:00
Tom Lane d65b665d52 Guard against zero vardata.rel->tuples in estimate_hash_bucketsize().
If the referenced rel was proven empty, we'd compute 0/0 here, which
results in the function returning NaN.  That's a bit more serious
than the other zero-divide case.  Still, it only seems to be possible
in HEAD, so no back-patch.

Per report from Piotr Stefaniak.  I looked through the rest of selfuncs.c
and found no other likely trouble spots.
2016-03-27 18:21:03 -04:00
Tom Lane fa09f89351 Clamp adjusted ndistinct to positive integer in estimate_hash_bucketsize().
This avoids a possible divide-by-zero in the following calculation,
and rounding the number to an integer seems like saner behavior anyway.
Assuming IEEE math, the division would yield +Infinity which would get
replaced by 1.0 at the bottom of the function, so nothing really
interesting would ensue; but avoiding divide-by-zero seems like a
good idea on general principles.

Per report from Piotr Stefaniak.  No back-patch since this seems
mostly cosmetic.
2016-03-27 18:07:16 -04:00
Andres Freund 9f7c527af3 Fix LWLockReportWaitEnd() parameter list to be (void).
Previously it was an "old style" function declaration.
2016-03-27 22:53:31 +02:00
Andres Freund 1a7a43672b Don't use !! but != 0/NULL to force boolean evaluation.
I introduced several uses of !! to force bit arithmetic to be boolean,
but per discussion the project prefers != 0/NULL.

Discussion: CA+TgmoZP5KakLGP6B4vUjgMBUW0woq_dJYi0paOz-My0Hwt_vQ@mail.gmail.com
2016-03-27 18:10:19 +02:00
Tom Lane 76281aa964 Avoid a couple of zero-divide scenarios in the planner.
cost_subplan() supposed that the given subplan must have plan_rows > 0,
which as far as I can tell was true until recent refactoring of the
code in createplan.c; but now that code allows the Result for a provably
empty subquery to have plan_rows = 0.  Rather than undo that change,
put in a clamp to prevent zero divide.

get_cheapest_fractional_path() likewise supposed that best_path->rows > 0.
This assumption has been wrong for longer.  It's actually harmless given
IEEE float math, because a positive value divided by zero gives +Infinity
and compare_fractional_path_costs() will do the right thing with that.
Still, best not to assume that.

final_cost_nestloop() also seems to have some risks in this area, so
borrow the clamping logic already present in the mergejoin cost functions.

Lastly, remove unnecessary clamp_row_est() in planner.c's calls to
get_number_of_groups().  The only thing that function does with path_rows
is pass it to estimate_num_groups() which already has an internal clamp,
so we don't need the extra call; and if we did, the callers are arguably
the wrong place for it anyway.

First two items reported by Piotr Stefaniak, the others are products
of my nosing around for similar problems.  No back-patch since there's
no evidence that problems arise in the back branches.
2016-03-26 12:03:12 -04:00
Tom Lane cd37bb7859 Improve PL/Tcl errorCode facility by providing decoded name for SQLSTATE.
We don't really want to encourage people to write numeric SQLSTATEs in
programs; that's unreadable and error-prone.  Copy plpgsql's infrastructure
for converting between SQLSTATEs and exception names shown in Appendix A,
and modify examples in tests and documentation to do it that way.
2016-03-25 16:54:52 -04:00
Tom Lane c94959d411 Fix DROP OPERATOR to reset oprcom/oprnegate links to the dropped operator.
This avoids leaving dangling links in pg_operator; which while fairly
harmless are also unsightly.

While we're at it, simplify OperatorUpd, which went through
heap_modify_tuple for no very good reason considering it had already made
a tuple copy it could just scribble on.

Roma Sokolov, reviewed by Tomas Vondra, additional hacking by Robert Haas
and myself.
2016-03-25 12:33:16 -04:00
Tom Lane d543170f2f Don't split up SRFs when choosing to postpone SELECT output expressions.
In commit 9118d03a8c we taught the planner to postpone evaluation of
set-returning functions in a SELECT's targetlist until after any sort done
to satisfy ORDER BY.  However, if we postpone some SRFs this way while
others do not get postponed (because they're sort or group key columns)
we will break the traditional behavior by which all SRFs in the tlist run
in-step during ExecTargetList(), so that you get the least common multiple
of their periods not the product.  Fix make_sort_input_target() so it will
not split up SRF evaluation in such cases.

There is still a hazard of similar odd behavior if there's a SRF in a
grouping column and another one that isn't, but that was true before
and we're just trying to preserve bug-compatibility with the traditional
behavior.  This whole area is overdue to be rethought and reimplemented,
but we'll try to avoid changing behavior until then.

Per report from Regina Obe.
2016-03-25 11:19:51 -04:00
Tom Lane c1156411ad Move psql's psqlscan.l into src/fe_utils.
This completes (at least for now) the project of getting rid of ad-hoc
linkages among the src/bin/ subdirectories.  Everything they share is now
in src/fe_utils/ and is included from a static library at link time.

A side benefit is that we can restore the FLEX_NO_BACKUP check for
psqlscanslash.l.  We might need to think of another way to do that check
if we ever need to build two lexers with that property in the same source
directory, but there's no foreseeable reason to need that.
2016-03-24 20:28:47 -04:00
Tom Lane a376960c8f Suppress compiler warning for get_am_type_string().
Compilers that don't know that elog(ERROR) doesn't return complained
that this function might fail to return a value.  Per buildfarm.

While at it, const-ify the function's declaration, since the intent
is evidently to always return a constant string.
2016-03-24 17:22:24 -04:00
Robert Haas 59a02815e2 Use correct GetDatum function.
Oops.
2016-03-24 08:57:48 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera 473b932870 Support CREATE ACCESS METHOD
This enables external code to create access methods.  This is useful so
that extensions can add their own access methods which can be formally
tracked for dependencies, so that DROP operates correctly.  Also, having
explicit support makes pg_dump work correctly.

Currently only index AMs are supported, but we expect different types to
be added in the future.

Authors: Alexander Korotkov, Petr Jelínek
Reviewed-By: Teodor Sigaev, Petr Jelínek, Jim Nasby
Commitfest-URL: https://commitfest.postgresql.org/9/353/
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAPpHfdsXwZmojm6Dx+TJnpYk27kT4o7Ri6X_4OSWcByu1Rm+VA@mail.gmail.com
2016-03-23 23:01:35 -03:00
Tom Lane 2c6af4f442 Move keywords.c/kwlookup.c into src/common/.
Now that we have src/common/ for code shared between frontend and backend,
we can get rid of (most of) the klugy ways that the keyword table and
keyword lookup code were formerly shared between different uses.
This is a first step towards a more general plan of getting rid of
special-purpose kluges for sharing code in src/bin/.

I chose to merge kwlookup.c back into keywords.c, as it once was, and
always has been so far as keywords.h is concerned.  We could have
kept them separate, but there is noplace that uses ScanKeywordLookup
without also wanting access to the backend's keyword list, so there
seems little point.

ecpg is still a bit weird, but at least now the trickiness is documented.

I think that the MSVC build script should require no adjustments beyond
what's done here ... but we'll soon find out.
2016-03-23 20:22:08 -04:00
Robert Haas 3df9c374e2 Disable abbreviated keys for string-sorting in non-C locales.
Unfortunately, every version of glibc thus far tested has bugs whereby
strcoll() ordering does not match strxfrm() ordering as required by
the standard.  This can result in, for example, corrupted indexes.
Disabling abbreviated keys in these cases slows down non-C-collation
string sorting considerably, but there seems to be no practical
alternative.  Users who are confident that their libc implementations
are solid in this regard can re-enable the optimization by compiling
with TRUST_STRXFRM.

Users who have built indexes using PostgreSQL 9.5 or PostgreSQL 9.5.1
should REINDEX if there is a possibility that they may have been
affected by this problem.

Report by Marc-Olaf Jaschke.  Investigation mostly by Tom Lane, with
help from Peter Geoghegan, Noah Misch, Stephen Frost, and me.  Patch
by me, reviewed by Peter Geoghegan and Tom Lane.
2016-03-23 16:03:13 -04:00
Robert Haas 44ca4022f3 Partition the freelist for shared dynahash tables.
Without this, contention on the freelist can become a pretty serious
problem on large servers.

Aleksander Alekseev, reviewed by Anastasia Lubennikova, Dilip Kumar,
and me.
2016-03-23 11:00:54 -04:00
Tom Lane ea4b8bd618 Code review for error reports in jsonb_set().
User-facing (even tested by regression tests) error conditions were thrown
with elog(), hence had wrong SQLSTATE and were untranslatable.  And the
error message texts weren't up to project style, either.
2016-03-23 11:00:39 -04:00
Tom Lane 384dfbde19 Fix unsafe use of strtol() on a non-null-terminated Text datum.
jsonb_set() could produce wrong answers or incorrect error reports, or in
the worst case even crash, when trying to convert a path-array element into
an integer for use as an array subscript.  Per report from Vitaly Burovoy.
Back-patch to 9.5 where the faulty code was introduced (in commit
c6947010ce).

Michael Paquier
2016-03-23 10:43:13 -04:00
Simon Riggs 8320c625d9 Change comment to describe correct lock level used 2016-03-23 11:32:34 +00:00
Tom Lane 71404af2a2 Fix EvalPlanQual bug when query contains both locked and not-locked rels.
In commit afb9249d06, we (probably I) made ExecLockRows assign
null test tuples to all relations of the query while setting up to do an
EvalPlanQual recheck for a newly-updated locked row.  This was sheerest
brain fade: we should only set test tuples for relations that are lockable
by the LockRows node, and in particular empty test tuples are only sensible
for inheritance child relations that weren't the source of the current
tuple from their inheritance tree.  Setting a null test tuple for an
unrelated table causes it to return NULLs when it should not, as exhibited
in bug #14034 from Bronislav Houdek.  To add insult to injury, doing it the
wrong way required two loops where one would suffice; so the corrected code
is even a bit shorter and faster.

Add a regression test case based on his example, and back-patch to 9.5
where the bug was introduced.
2016-03-22 17:56:20 -04:00
Robert Haas ae507d9222 Make max_parallel_degree PGC_USERSET.
It was intended to be this way all along, just like other planner
GUCs such as work_mem.  But I goofed.
2016-03-21 10:54:36 -04:00
Robert Haas e06a38965b Support parallel aggregation.
Parallel workers can now partially aggregate the data and pass the
transition values back to the leader, which can combine the partial
results to produce the final answer.

David Rowley, based on earlier work by Haribabu Kommi.  Reviewed by
Álvaro Herrera, Tomas Vondra, Amit Kapila, James Sewell, and me.
2016-03-21 09:30:18 -04:00
Andres Freund 7fa0064092 Properly declare FeBeWaitSet.
Surprising that this worked on a number of systems. Reported by
buildfarm member longfin.
2016-03-21 12:58:18 +01:00
Andres Freund 98a64d0bd7 Introduce WaitEventSet API.
Commit ac1d794 ("Make idle backends exit if the postmaster dies.")
introduced a regression on, at least, large linux systems. Constantly
adding the same postmaster_alive_fds to the OSs internal datastructures
for implementing poll/select can cause significant contention; leading
to a performance regression of nearly 3x in one example.

This can be avoided by using e.g. linux' epoll, which avoids having to
add/remove file descriptors to the wait datastructures at a high rate.
Unfortunately the current latch interface makes it hard to allocate any
persistent per-backend resources.

Replace, with a backward compatibility layer, WaitLatchOrSocket with a
new WaitEventSet API. Users can allocate such a Set across multiple
calls, and add more than one file-descriptor to wait on. The latter has
been added because there's upcoming postgres features where that will be
helpful.

In addition to the previously existing poll(2), select(2),
WaitForMultipleObjects() implementations also provide an epoll_wait(2)
based implementation to address the aforementioned performance
problem. Epoll is only available on linux, but that is the most likely
OS for machines large enough (four sockets) to reproduce the problem.

To actually address the aforementioned regression, create and use a
long-lived WaitEventSet for FE/BE communication.  There are additional
places that would benefit from a long-lived set, but that's a task for
another day.

Thanks to Amit Kapila, who helped make the windows code I blindly wrote
actually work.

Reported-By: Dmitry Vasilyev Discussion:
CAB-SwXZh44_2ybvS5Z67p_CDz=XFn4hNAD=CnMEF+QqkXwFrGg@mail.gmail.com
20160114143931.GG10941@awork2.anarazel.de
2016-03-21 12:22:54 +01:00
Andres Freund 72e2d21c12 Combine win32 and unix latch implementations.
Previously latches for windows and unix had been implemented in
different files. A later patch introduce an expanded wait
infrastructure, keeping the implementation separate would introduce too
much duplication.

This basically just moves the functions, without too much change. The
reason to keep this separate is that it allows blame to continue working
a little less badly; and to make review a tiny bit easier.

Discussion: 20160114143931.GG10941@awork2.anarazel.de
2016-03-21 11:03:26 +01:00
Andrew Dunstan 5d03201056 Remove dependency on psed for MSVC builds.
Modern Perl has removed psed from its core distribution, so it might not
be readily available on some build platforms. We therefore replace its
use with a Perl script generated by s2p, which is equivalent to the sed
script. The latter is retained for non-MSVC builds to avoid creating a
new hard dependency on Perl for non-Windows tarball builds.

Backpatch to all live branches.

Michael Paquier and me.
2016-03-19 18:36:35 -04:00
Tom Lane 21c8ee7946 Sync backend/parser/scan.l with bin/psql/psqlscan.l.
Make some minor formatting adjustments to make it easier to diff these
files and see that they indeed implement the same flex rules (at least
to the extent that we want them to be the same).

(Someday it'd be nice to make ecpg's pgc.l more easily diff'able too,
but today is not that day.)

Also run relevant parts of these files and psqlscanslash.l through
pgindent.

No actual behavioral changes here, just obsessive neatnik-ism.
2016-03-19 14:36:22 -04:00
Tom Lane 72b1e3a21f Build backend/parser/scan.l and interfaces/ecpg/preproc/pgc.l standalone.
Now that we know about the %top{} trick, we can revert to building flex
lexers as separate .o files.  This is worth doing for a couple of reasons
besides sheer cleanliness.  We can narrow the scope of the -Wno-error flag
that's forced on scan.c.  Also, since these grammar and lexer files are
so large, splitting them into separate build targets should have some
advantages in build speed, particularly in parallel or ccache'd builds.

We have quite a few other .l files that could be changed likewise, but the
above arguments don't apply to them, so the benefit of fixing them seems
pretty minimal.  Leave the rest for some other day.
2016-03-19 12:07:24 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 9a83564c58 Allow SSL server key file to have group read access if owned by root
We used to require the server key file to have permissions 0600 or less
for best security.  But some systems (such as Debian) have certificate
and key files managed by the operating system that can be shared with
other services.  In those cases, the "postgres" user is made a member of
a special group that has access to those files, and the server key file
has permissions 0640.  To accommodate that kind of setup, also allow the
key file to have permissions 0640 but only if owned by root.

From: Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org>
Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
2016-03-19 11:03:22 +01:00
Andres Freund 6eb2be15b5 Fix stupid omission in c4901a1e.
Reported-By: Jeff Janes
Discussion: CAMkU=1zGxREwoyaCrp_CHadEB+dPgpVyKBysCJ+6xP9gCOvAuw@mail.gmail.com
2016-03-18 22:37:59 -07:00
Tom Lane 07aed46a6b Fix missed update in _readForeignScan().
Blatant fail in 0bf3ae88af.
Caught by buildfarm member mandrill.
2016-03-19 01:20:34 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut b555ed8102 Merge wal_level "archive" and "hot_standby" into new name "replica"
The distinction between "archive" and "hot_standby" existed only because
at the time "hot_standby" was added, there was some uncertainty about
stability.  This is now a long time ago.  We would like to move forward
with simplifying the replication configuration, but this distinction is
in the way, because a primary server cannot tell (without asking a
standby or predicting the future) which one of these would be the
appropriate level.

Pick a new name for the combined setting to make it clearer that it
covers all (non-logical) backup and replication uses.  The old values
are still accepted but are converted internally.

Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>
2016-03-18 23:56:03 +01:00
Robert Haas 08a6d36dcb Use INT64_FORMAT instead of %ld for int64.
Commit 0011c0091e introduced this
mistake.

Patch by me.  Reported by Andres Freund, who also reviewed the
patch.
2016-03-18 14:54:09 -04:00
Andres Freund c4901a1e03 Only clear latch self-pipe/event if there is a pending notification.
This avoids a good number of, individually quite fast, system calls in
scenarios with many quick queries. Besides the aesthetic benefit of
seing fewer superflous system calls with strace, it also improves
performance by ~2% measured by pgbench -M prepared -c 96 -j 8 -S (scale
100).

Without having benchmarked it, this patch also adjust the windows code,
as that makes it easier to unify the unix/windows codepaths in a later
patch. There's little reason to diverge in behaviour between the
platforms.

Discussion: CA+TgmoYc1Zm+Szoc_Qbzi92z2c1vRHZmjhfPn5uC=w8bXv6Avg@mail.gmail.com
Reviewed-By: Robert Haas
2016-03-18 11:47:05 -07:00
Andres Freund c17966201c Make it easier to choose the used waiting primitive in unix_latch.c.
This allows for easier testing of the different primitives; in
preparation for adding a new primitive.

Discussion: 20160114143931.GG10941@awork2.anarazel.de
Reviewed-By: Robert Haas
2016-03-18 11:46:54 -07:00
Andres Freund 6bc4d95fcc Error out if waiting on socket readiness without a specified socket.
Previously we just ignored such an attempt, but that seems to serve no
purpose but making things harder to debug.

Discussion: 20160114143931.GG10941@awork2.anarazel.de
    20151230173734.hx7jj2fnwyljfqek@alap3.anarazel.de
Reviewed-By: Robert Haas
2016-03-18 11:46:45 -07:00
Robert Haas 0bf3ae88af Directly modify foreign tables.
postgres_fdw can now sent an UPDATE or DELETE statement directly to
the foreign server in simple cases, rather than sending a SELECT FOR
UPDATE statement and then updating or deleting rows one-by-one.

Etsuro Fujita, reviewed by Rushabh Lathia, Shigeru Hanada, Kyotaro
Horiguchi, Albe Laurenz, Thom Brown, and me.
2016-03-18 13:55:52 -04:00
Teodor Sigaev 3187d6de0e Introduce parse_ident()
SQL-layer function to split qualified identifier into array parts.

Author: Pavel Stehule with minor editorization by me and Jim Nasby
2016-03-18 18:16:14 +03:00
Robert Haas 992b5ba30d Push scan/join target list beneath Gather when possible.
This means that, for example, "SELECT expensive_func(a) FROM bigtab
WHERE something" can compute expensive_func(a) in the workers rather
than the leader if it happens to be parallel-safe, which figures to be
a big win in some practical cases.

Currently, we can only do this if the entire target list is
parallel-safe.  If we worked harder, we might be able to evaluate
parallel-safe targets in the worker and any parallel-restricted
targets in the leader, but that would be more complicated, and there
aren't that many parallel-restricted functions that people are likely
to use in queries anyway.  I think.  So just do the simple thing for
the moment.

Robert Haas, Amit Kapila, and Tom Lane
2016-03-18 09:50:05 -04:00
Robert Haas 2d8a1e22b1 Various minor corrections of and improvements to comments.
Aleksander Alekseev
2016-03-18 09:38:59 -04:00
Tom Lane bd0ab28912 Remove useless double calls of make_parsestate().
Aleksander Alekseev
2016-03-17 16:46:35 -04:00
Robert Haas c27033ff7c Update tuplesort.c comments for memory mangement improvements.
I'm committing these changes separately so that it's clear what is
Peter's original work versus what I changed.  This is a followup to
commit 0011c0091e, and these changes
are all by me.
2016-03-17 16:11:14 -04:00
Robert Haas 0011c0091e Improve memory management for external sorts.
Introduce a new memory context which stores tuple data, and reset it
at the end of each merge pass; this helps avoid memory fragmentation
and, consequently, overallocation.  Also, for the final merge patch,
eliminate memory context chunk header overhead entirely by allocating
all of the memory used for buffering tuples during the merge in a
single chunk.  Since this modestly increases the number of tuples we
can store, grow the memtuples array a bit so that we're less likely to
run short of slots there.

Peter Geoghegan.  Review and testing of patches in this series by
Jeff Janes, Greg Stark, Mithun Cy, and me.
2016-03-17 16:10:41 -04:00
Tom Lane 55c3a04d60 Fix assorted breakage in to_char()'s OF format option.
In HEAD, fix incorrect field width for hours part of OF when tm_gmtoff is
negative.  This was introduced by commit 2d87eedc1d as a result of
falsely applying a pattern that's correct when + signs are omitted, which
is not the case for OF.

In 9.4, fix missing abs() call that allowed a sign to be attached to the
minutes part of OF.  This was fixed in 9.5 by 9b43d73b3f, but for
inscrutable reasons not back-patched.

In all three versions, ensure that the sign of tm_gmtoff is correctly
reported even when the GMT offset is less than 1 hour.

Add regression tests, which evidently we desperately need here.

Thomas Munro and Tom Lane, per report from David Fetter
2016-03-17 15:50:33 -04:00
Teodor Sigaev f4ceed6ceb Improve support of Hunspell
- allow to use non-ascii characters as affix flag. Non-numeric affix flags now
  are stored as string instead of numeric value of character.
- allow to use 0 as affix flag in numeric encoded affixes

That adds support for arabian, hungarian, turkish and
brazilian portuguese languages.

Author: Artur Zakirov with heavy editorization by me
2016-03-17 17:23:38 +03:00
Robert Haas 0218e8b3fa Fix typos.
Jim Nasby
2016-03-17 07:26:20 -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
Tom Lane 5db5146431 Fix j2day() to behave sanely for negative Julian dates.
Somebody had apparently once figured that casting to unsigned int would
produce the right output for negative inputs, but that would only be
true if 2^32 were a multiple of 7, which of course it ain't.  We need
to use a signed division and then correct the sign of the remainder.

AFAICT, the only case where this would arise currently is when doing
ISO-week calculations for dates in 4714BC, where we'd compute a
negative Julian date representing 4714-01-04BC and then do some
arithmetic with it.  Since we don't even really document support for
such dates, this is not of much consequence.  But we may as well
get it right.

Per report from Vitaly Burovoy.
2016-03-16 20:57:45 -04:00