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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 eb213acfe2 Prevent duplicate escape-string warnings when using pg_stat_statements.
contrib/pg_stat_statements will sometimes run the core lexer a second time
on submitted statements.  Formerly, if you had standard_conforming_strings
turned off, this led to sometimes getting two copies of any warnings
enabled by escape_string_warning.  While this is probably no longer a big
deal in the field, it's a pain for regression testing.

To fix, change the lexer so it doesn't consult the escape_string_warning
GUC variable directly, but looks at a copy in the core_yy_extra_type state
struct.  Then, pg_stat_statements can change that copy to disable warnings
while it's redoing the lexing.

It seemed like a good idea to make this happen for all three of the GUCs
consulted by the lexer, not just escape_string_warning.  There's not an
immediate use-case for callers to adjust the other two AFAIK, but making
it possible is easy enough and seems like good future-proofing.

Arguably this is a bug fix, but there doesn't seem to be enough interest to
justify a back-patch.  We'd not be able to back-patch exactly as-is anyway,
for fear of breaking ABI compatibility of the struct.  (We could perhaps
back-patch the addition of only escape_string_warning by adding it at the
end of the struct, where there's currently alignment padding space.)
2015-01-22 18:11:00 -05:00
Tom Lane 8e166e164c Rearrange explain.c's API so callers need not embed sizeof(ExplainState).
The folly of the previous arrangement was just demonstrated: there's no
convenient way to add fields to ExplainState without breaking ABI, even
if callers have no need to touch those fields.  Since we might well need
to do that again someday in back branches, let's change things so that
only explain.c has to have sizeof(ExplainState) compiled into it.  This
costs one extra palloc() per EXPLAIN operation, which is surely pretty
negligible.
2015-01-15 13:39:33 -05:00
Robert Haas 0b49642b99 pg_standby: Avoid writing one byte beyond the end of the buffer.
Previously, read() might have returned a length equal to the buffer
length, and then the subsequent store to buf[len] would write a
zero-byte one byte past the end.  This doesn't seem likely to be
a security issue, but there's some chance it could result in
pg_standby misbehaving.

Spotted by Coverity; patch by Michael Paquier, reviewed by me.
2015-01-15 09:26:03 -05:00
Robert Haas 4a0a5f21fa vacuumlo: Avoid unlikely memory leak.
Spotted by Coverity.  This isn't likely to matter in practice, but
there's no harm in fixing it.

Michael Paquier
2015-01-14 15:14:20 -05:00
Heikki Linnakangas e37d474f91 Silence Coverity warnings about unused return values from pushJsonbValue()
Similar warnings from backend were silenced earlier by commit c8315930,
but there were a few more contrib/hstore.

Michael Paquier
2015-01-13 14:33:05 +02:00
Bruce Momjian ac7009abd2 pg_upgrade: fix one-byte per empty db memory leak
Report by Tatsuo Ishii, Coverity
2015-01-09 12:12:30 -05:00
Bruce Momjian 4baaf863ec Update copyright for 2015
Backpatch certain files through 9.0
2015-01-06 11:43:47 -05:00
Andres Freund 8cadeb792c Correctly handle test durations of more than 2147s in pg_test_timing.
Previously the computation of the total test duration, measured in
microseconds, accidentally overflowed due to accidentally using signed
32bit arithmetic.  As the only consequence is that pg_test_timing
invocations with such, overly large, durations never finished the
practical consequences of this bug are minor.

Pointed out by Coverity.

Backpatch to 9.2 where pg_test_timing was added.
2015-01-04 15:44:49 +01:00
Andres Freund d1c575230d Fix off-by-one in pg_xlogdump's fuzzy_open_file().
In the unlikely case of stdin (fd 0) being closed, the off-by-one
would lead to pg_xlogdump failing to open files.

Spotted by Coverity.

Backpatch to 9.3 where pg_xlogdump was introduced.
2015-01-04 15:35:46 +01:00
Andres Freund 58bc4747be Add missing va_end() call to a early exit in dmetaphone.c's StringAt().
Pointed out by Coverity.

Backpatch to all supported branches, the code has been that way for a
long while.
2015-01-04 15:35:46 +01:00
Tatsuo Ishii 3b5a89c482 Fix resource leak pointed out by Coverity. 2014-12-30 20:33:01 +09:00
Bruce Momjian 83bcc70459 pgbench: remove odd trailing period in init progress output 2014-12-24 09:21:09 -05:00
Heikki Linnakangas 7f0dccaed6 Turn much of the btree_gin macros into real functions.
This makes the functions much nicer to read and edit, and also makes
debugging easier.
2014-12-22 17:11:53 +02:00
Tom Lane 4a14f13a0a Improve hash_create's API for selecting simple-binary-key hash functions.
Previously, if you wanted anything besides C-string hash keys, you had to
specify a custom hashing function to hash_create().  Nearly all such
callers were specifying tag_hash or oid_hash; which is tedious, and rather
error-prone, since a caller could easily miss the opportunity to optimize
by using hash_uint32 when appropriate.  Replace this with a design whereby
callers using simple binary-data keys just specify HASH_BLOBS and don't
need to mess with specific support functions.  hash_create() itself will
take care of optimizing when the key size is four bytes.

This nets out saving a few hundred bytes of code space, and offers
a measurable performance improvement in tidbitmap.c (which was not
exploiting the opportunity to use hash_uint32 for its 4-byte keys).
There might be some wins elsewhere too, I didn't analyze closely.

In future we could look into offering a similar optimized hashing function
for 8-byte keys.  Under this design that could be done in a centralized
and machine-independent fashion, whereas getting it right for keys of
platform-dependent sizes would've been notationally painful before.

For the moment, the old way still works fine, so as not to break source
code compatibility for loadable modules.  Eventually we might want to
remove tag_hash and friends from the exported API altogether, since there's
no real need for them to be explicitly referenced from outside dynahash.c.

Teodor Sigaev and Tom Lane
2014-12-18 13:36:36 -05:00
Noah Misch f6dc6dd5ba Lock down regression testing temporary clusters on Windows.
Use SSPI authentication to allow connections exclusively from the OS
user that launched the test suite.  This closes on Windows the
vulnerability that commit be76a6d39e
closed on other platforms.  Users of "make installcheck" or custom test
harnesses can run "pg_regress --config-auth=DATADIR" to activate the
same authentication configuration that "make check" would use.
Back-patch to 9.0 (all supported versions).

Security: CVE-2014-0067
2014-12-17 22:48:40 -05:00
Tom Lane fc2ac1fb41 Allow CHECK constraints to be placed on foreign tables.
As with NOT NULL constraints, we consider that such constraints are merely
reports of constraints that are being enforced by the remote server (or
other underlying storage mechanism).  Their only real use is to allow
planner optimizations, for example in constraint-exclusion checks.  Thus,
the code changes here amount to little more than removal of the error that
was formerly thrown for applying CHECK to a foreign table.

(In passing, do a bit of cleanup of the ALTER FOREIGN TABLE reference page,
which had accumulated some weird decisions about ordering etc.)

Shigeru Hanada and Etsuro Fujita, reviewed by Kyotaro Horiguchi and
Ashutosh Bapat.
2014-12-17 17:00:53 -05:00
Magnus Hagander cef0ae498c Update .gitignore for pg_upgrade
Add Windows versions of generated scripts, and make sure we only
ignore the scripts int he root directory.

Michael Paquier
2014-12-17 11:55:22 +01:00
Tom Lane de8e46f5f5 Suppress bogus statistics when pgbench failed to complete any transactions.
Code added in 9.4 would attempt to divide by zero in such cases.
Noted while testing fix for missing-pclose problem.
2014-12-16 14:53:55 -05:00
Tom Lane d38e8d30ce Fix file descriptor leak after failure of a \setshell command in pgbench.
If the called command fails to return data, runShellCommand forgot to
pclose() the pipe before returning.  This is fairly harmless in the current
code, because pgbench would then abandon further processing of that client
thread; so no more than nclients descriptors could be leaked this way.  But
it's not hard to imagine future improvements whereby that wouldn't be true.
In any case, it's sloppy coding, so patch all branches.  Found by Coverity.
2014-12-16 13:31:42 -05:00
Tom Lane 8ec8760fc8 Revert misguided change to postgres_fdw FOR UPDATE/SHARE code.
In commit 462bd95705, I changed postgres_fdw
to rely on get_plan_rowmark() instead of get_parse_rowmark().  I still
think that's a good idea in the long run, but as Etsuro Fujita pointed out,
it doesn't work today because planner.c forces PlanRowMarks to have
markType = ROW_MARK_COPY for all foreign tables.  There's no urgent reason
to change this in the back branches, so let's just revert that part of
yesterday's commit rather than trying to design a better solution under
time pressure.

Also, add a regression test case showing what postgres_fdw does with FOR
UPDATE/SHARE.  I'd blithely assumed there was one already, else I'd have
realized yesterday that this code didn't work.
2014-12-12 12:41:49 -05:00
Tom Lane 462bd95705 Fix planning of SELECT FOR UPDATE on child table with partial index.
Ordinarily we can omit checking of a WHERE condition that matches a partial
index's condition, when we are using an indexscan on that partial index.
However, in SELECT FOR UPDATE we must include the "redundant" filter
condition in the plan so that it gets checked properly in an EvalPlanQual
recheck.  The planner got this mostly right, but improperly omitted the
filter condition if the index in question was on an inheritance child
table.  In READ COMMITTED mode, this could result in incorrectly returning
just-updated rows that no longer satisfy the filter condition.

The cause of the error is using get_parse_rowmark() when get_plan_rowmark()
is what should be used during planning.  In 9.3 and up, also fix the same
mistake in contrib/postgres_fdw.  It's currently harmless there (for lack
of inheritance support) but wrong is wrong, and the incorrect code might
get copied to someplace where it's more significant.

Report and fix by Kyotaro Horiguchi.  Back-patch to all supported branches.
2014-12-11 21:02:25 -05:00
Alvaro Herrera dcbfc00aba pg_xlogdump/.gitignore: add committsdesc.c
Author: Michael Paquier
2014-12-09 09:54:14 -03:00
Heikki Linnakangas ebc2b681b8 Fix pg_xlogdump's calculation of full-page image data.
The old formula was completely bogus with the new WAL record format.
2014-12-05 11:40:27 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut 1e95bbc870 Fix SHLIB_PREREQS use in contrib, allowing PGXS builds
dblink and postgres_fdw use SHLIB_PREREQS = submake-libpq to build libpq
first.  This doesn't work in a PGXS build, because there is no libpq to
build.  So just omit setting SHLIB_PREREQS in this case.

Note that PGXS users can still use SHLIB_PREREQS (although it is not
documented).  The problem here is only that contrib modules can be built
in-tree or using PGXS, and the prerequisite is only applicable in the
former case.

Commit 6697aa2bc2 previously attempted to
address this by creating a somewhat fake submake-libpq target in
Makefile.global.  That was not the right fix, and it was also done in a
nonportable way, so revert that.
2014-12-04 07:58:12 -05:00
Alvaro Herrera 73c986adde Keep track of transaction commit timestamps
Transactions can now set their commit timestamp directly as they commit,
or an external transaction commit timestamp can be fed from an outside
system using the new function TransactionTreeSetCommitTsData().  This
data is crash-safe, and truncated at Xid freeze point, same as pg_clog.

This module is disabled by default because it causes a performance hit,
but can be enabled in postgresql.conf requiring only a server restart.

A new test in src/test/modules is included.

Catalog version bumped due to the new subdirectory within PGDATA and a
couple of new SQL functions.

Authors: Álvaro Herrera and Petr Jelínek

Reviewed to varying degrees by Michael Paquier, Andres Freund, Robert
Haas, Amit Kapila, Fujii Masao, Jaime Casanova, Simon Riggs, Steven
Singer, Peter Eisentraut
2014-12-03 11:53:02 -03:00
Andres Freund 0fd38e1370 Don't skip SQL backends in logical decoding for visibility computation.
The logical decoding patchset introduced PROC_IN_LOGICAL_DECODING flag
PGXACT flag, that allows such backends to be skipped when computing
the xmin horizon/snapshots. That's fine and sensible for walsenders
streaming out logical changes, but not at all fine for SQL backends
doing logical decoding. If the latter set that flag any change they
have performed outside of logical decoding will not be regarded as
visible - which e.g. can lead to that change being vacuumed away.

Note that not setting the flag for SQL backends isn't particularly
bothersome - the SQL backend doesn't do streaming, so it only runs for
a limited amount of time.

Per buildfarm member 'tick' and Alvaro.

Backpatch to 9.4, where logical decoding was introduced.
2014-12-02 23:47:08 +01:00
Alvaro Herrera b52cb4690e pageinspect/BRIN: minor tweaks
Michael Paquier

Double-dash additions suggested by Peter Geoghegan
2014-12-02 12:20:50 -03:00
Andrew Dunstan e09996ff8d Fix hstore_to_json_loose's detection of valid JSON number values.
We expose a function IsValidJsonNumber that internally calls the lexer
for json numbers. That allows us to use the same test everywhere,
instead of inventing a broken test for hstore conversions. The new
function is also used in datum_to_json, replacing the code that is now
moved to the new function.

Backpatch to 9.3 where hstore_to_json_loose was introduced.
2014-12-01 11:28:45 -05:00
Alvaro Herrera 22dfd116a1 Move test modules from contrib to src/test/modules
This is advance preparation for introducing even more test modules; the
easy solution is to add them to contrib, but that's bloated enough that
it seems a good time to think of something different.

Moved modules are dummy_seclabel, test_shm_mq, test_parser and
worker_spi.

(test_decoding was also a candidate, but there was too much opposition
to moving that one.  We can always reconsider later.)
2014-11-29 23:55:00 -03:00
Tom Lane f4e031c662 Add bms_next_member(), and use it where appropriate.
This patch adds a way of iterating through the members of a bitmapset
nondestructively, unlike the old way with bms_first_member().  While
bms_next_member() is very slightly slower than bms_first_member()
(at least for typical-size bitmapsets), eliminating the need to palloc
and pfree a temporary copy of the target bitmapset is a significant win.
So this method should be preferred in all cases where a temporary copy
would be necessary.

Tom Lane, with suggestions from Dean Rasheed and David Rowley
2014-11-28 13:37:25 -05:00
Tom Lane c168ba3112 Free libxml2/libxslt resources in a safer order.
Mark Simonetti reported that libxslt sometimes crashes for him, and that
swapping xslt_process's object-freeing calls around to do them in reverse
order of creation seemed to fix it.  I've not reproduced the crash, but
valgrind clearly shows a reference to already-freed memory, which is
consistent with the idea that shutdown of the xsltTransformContext is
trying to reference the already-freed stylesheet or input document.
With this patch, valgrind is no longer unhappy.

I have an inquiry in to see if this is a libxslt bug or if we're just
abusing the library; but even if it's a library bug, we'd want to adjust
our code so it doesn't fail with unpatched libraries.

Back-patch to all supported branches, because we've been doing this in
the wrong(?) order for a long time.
2014-11-27 11:13:29 -05:00
Heikki Linnakangas e453cc2741 Make Port->ssl_in_use available, even when built with !USE_SSL
Code that check the flag no longer need #ifdef's, which is more convenient.
In particular, makes it easier to write extensions that depend on it.

In the passing, modify sslinfo's ssl_is_used function to check ssl_in_use
instead of the OpenSSL specific 'ssl' pointer. It doesn't make any
difference currently, as sslinfo is only compiled when built with OpenSSL,
but seems cleaner anyway.
2014-11-25 09:46:11 +02:00
Robert Haas f5d9698a84 Add infrastructure to save and restore GUC values.
This is further infrastructure for parallelism.

Amit Khandekar, Noah Misch, Robert Haas
2014-11-24 16:37:56 -05:00
Tom Lane 9c58101117 Fix mishandling of system columns in FDW queries.
postgres_fdw would send query conditions involving system columns to the
remote server, even though it makes no effort to ensure that system
columns other than CTID match what the remote side thinks.  tableoid,
in particular, probably won't match and might have some use in queries.
Hence, prevent sending conditions that include non-CTID system columns.

Also, create_foreignscan_plan neglected to check local restriction
conditions while determining whether to set fsSystemCol for a foreign
scan plan node.  This again would bollix the results for queries that
test a foreign table's tableoid.

Back-patch the first fix to 9.3 where postgres_fdw was introduced.
Back-patch the second to 9.2.  The code is probably broken in 9.1 as
well, but the patch doesn't apply cleanly there; given the weak state
of support for FDWs in 9.1, it doesn't seem worth fixing.

Etsuro Fujita, reviewed by Ashutosh Bapat, and somewhat modified by me
2014-11-22 16:01:05 -05:00
Heikki Linnakangas 3a82bc6f8a Add pageinspect functions for inspecting GIN indexes.
Patch by me, Peter Geoghegan and Michael Paquier, reviewed by Amit Kapila.
2014-11-21 11:58:07 +02:00
Heikki Linnakangas 2c03216d83 Revamp the WAL record format.
Each WAL record now carries information about the modified relation and
block(s) in a standardized format. That makes it easier to write tools that
need that information, like pg_rewind, prefetching the blocks to speed up
recovery, etc.

There's a whole new API for building WAL records, replacing the XLogRecData
chains used previously. The new API consists of XLogRegister* functions,
which are called for each buffer and chunk of data that is added to the
record. The new API also gives more control over when a full-page image is
written, by passing flags to the XLogRegisterBuffer function.

This also simplifies the XLogReadBufferForRedo() calls. The function can dig
the relation and block number from the WAL record, so they no longer need to
be passed as arguments.

For the convenience of redo routines, XLogReader now disects each WAL record
after reading it, copying the main data part and the per-block data into
MAXALIGNed buffers. The data chunks are not aligned within the WAL record,
but the redo routines can assume that the pointers returned by XLogRecGet*
functions are. Redo routines are now passed the XLogReaderState, which
contains the record in the already-disected format, instead of the plain
XLogRecord.

The new record format also makes the fixed size XLogRecord header smaller,
by removing the xl_len field. The length of the "main data" portion is now
stored at the end of the WAL record, and there's a separate header after
XLogRecord for it. The alignment padding at the end of XLogRecord is also
removed. This compansates for the fact that the new format would otherwise
be more bulky than the old format.

Reviewed by Andres Freund, Amit Kapila, Michael Paquier, Alvaro Herrera,
Fujii Masao.
2014-11-20 18:46:41 +02:00
Robert Haas a016555361 Avoid file descriptor leak in pg_test_fsync.
This can cause problems on Windows, where files that are still open
can't be unlinked.

Jeff Janes
2014-11-19 12:06:24 -05:00
Alvaro Herrera f9ef578d05 postgres_fdw.h: don't pull in rel.h when relcache.h is enough 2014-11-14 21:48:53 -03:00
Andres Freund 89fd41b390 Fix and improve cache invalidation logic for logical decoding.
There are basically three situations in which logical decoding needs
to perform cache invalidation. During/After replaying a transaction
with catalog changes, when skipping a uninteresting transaction that
performed catalog changes and when erroring out while replaying a
transaction. Unfortunately these three cases were all done slightly
differently - partially because 8de3e410fa, which greatly simplifies
matters, got committed in the midst of the development of logical
decoding.

The actually problematic case was when logical decoding skipped
transaction commits (and thus processed invalidations). When used via
the SQL interface cache invalidation could access the catalog - bad,
because we didn't set up enough state to allow that correctly. It'd
not be hard to setup sufficient state, but the simpler solution is to
always perform cache invalidation outside a valid transaction.

Also make the different cache invalidation cases look as similar as
possible, to ease code review.

This fixes the assertion failure reported by Antonin Houska in
53EE02D9.7040702@gmail.com. The presented testcase has been expanded
into a regression test.

Backpatch to 9.4, where logical decoding was introduced.
2014-11-13 20:34:31 +01:00
Robert Haas c0828b78e9 Move the guts of our Levenshtein implementation into core.
The hope is that we can use this to produce better diagnostics in
some cases.

Peter Geoghegan, reviewed by Michael Paquier, with some further
changes by me.
2014-11-13 12:33:26 -05:00
Andres Freund ec5896aed3 Fix several weaknesses in slot and logical replication on-disk serialization.
Heikki noticed in 544E23C0.8090605@vmware.com that slot.c and
snapbuild.c were missing the FIN_CRC32 call when computing/checking
checksums of on disk files. That doesn't lower the the error detection
capabilities of the checksum, but is inconsistent with other usages.

In a followup mail Heikki also noticed that, contrary to a comment,
the 'version' and 'length' struct fields of replication slot's on disk
data where not covered by the checksum. That's not likely to lead to
actually missed corruption as those fields are cross checked with the
expected version and the actual file length. But it's wrong
nonetheless.

As fixing these issues makes existing on disk files unreadable, bump
the expected versions of on disk files for both slots and logical
decoding historic catalog snapshots.  This means that loading old
files will fail with
ERROR: "replication slot file ... has unsupported version 1"
and
ERROR: "snapbuild state file ... has unsupported version 1 instead of
2" respectively. Given the low likelihood of anybody already using
these new features in a production setup that seems acceptable.

Fixing these issues made me notice that there's no regression test
covering the loading of historic snapshot from disk - so add one.

Backpatch to 9.4 where these features were introduced.
2014-11-12 18:52:49 +01:00
Andres Freund bd4ae0f396 Add interrupt checks to contrib/pg_prewarm.
Currently the extension's pg_prewarm() function didn't check
interrupts once it started "warming" data. Since individual calls can
take a long while it's important for them to be interruptible.

Backpatch to 9.4 where pg_prewarm was introduced.
2014-11-12 18:52:49 +01:00
Tom Lane f2ad2bdd0a Loop when necessary in contrib/pgcrypto's pktreader_pull().
This fixes a scenario in which pgp_sym_decrypt() failed with "Wrong key
or corrupt data" on messages whose length is 6 less than a power of 2.

Per bug #11905 from Connor Penhale.  Fix by Marko Tiikkaja, regression
test case from Jeff Janes.
2014-11-11 17:22:15 -05:00
Robert Haas 99e8f08fab Update pg_xlogdump's .gitignore for brindesc.c. 2014-11-07 15:41:52 -05:00
Alvaro Herrera 7516f52594 BRIN: Block Range Indexes
BRIN is a new index access method intended to accelerate scans of very
large tables, without the maintenance overhead of btrees or other
traditional indexes.  They work by maintaining "summary" data about
block ranges.  Bitmap index scans work by reading each summary tuple and
comparing them with the query quals; all pages in the range are returned
in a lossy TID bitmap if the quals are consistent with the values in the
summary tuple, otherwise not.  Normal index scans are not supported
because these indexes do not store TIDs.

As new tuples are added into the index, the summary information is
updated (if the block range in which the tuple is added is already
summarized) or not; in the latter case, a subsequent pass of VACUUM or
the brin_summarize_new_values() function will create the summary
information.

For data types with natural 1-D sort orders, the summary info consists
of the maximum and the minimum values of each indexed column within each
page range.  This type of operator class we call "Minmax", and we
supply a bunch of them for most data types with B-tree opclasses.
Since the BRIN code is generalized, other approaches are possible for
things such as arrays, geometric types, ranges, etc; even for things
such as enum types we could do something different than minmax with
better results.  In this commit I only include minmax.

Catalog version bumped due to new builtin catalog entries.

There's more that could be done here, but this is a good step forwards.

Loosely based on ideas from Simon Riggs; code mostly by Álvaro Herrera,
with contribution by Heikki Linnakangas.

Patch reviewed by: Amit Kapila, Heikki Linnakangas, Robert Haas.
Testing help from Jeff Janes, Erik Rijkers, Emanuel Calvo.

PS:
  The research leading to these results has received funding from the
  European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under
  grant agreement n° 318633.
2014-11-07 16:38:14 -03:00
Heikki Linnakangas 2076db2aea Move the backup-block logic from XLogInsert to a new file, xloginsert.c.
xlog.c is huge, this makes it a little bit smaller, which is nice. Functions
related to putting together the WAL record are in xloginsert.c, and the
lower level stuff for managing WAL buffers and such are in xlog.c.

Also move the definition of XLogRecord to a separate header file. This
causes churn in the #includes of all the files that write WAL records, and
redo routines, but it avoids pulling in xlog.h into most places.

Reviewed by Michael Paquier, Alvaro Herrera, Andres Freund and Amit Kapila.
2014-11-06 13:55:36 +02:00
Tom Lane 66c029c842 Fix volatility markings of some contrib I/O functions.
In general, datatype I/O functions are supposed to be immutable or at
worst stable.  Some contrib I/O functions were, through oversight, not
marked with any volatility property at all, which made them VOLATILE.
Since (most of) these functions actually behave immutably, the erroneous
marking isn't terribly harmful; but it can be user-visible in certain
circumstances, as per a recent bug report from Joe Van Dyk in which a
cast to text was disallowed in an expression index definition.

To fix, just adjust the declarations in the extension SQL scripts.  If we
were being very fussy about this, we'd bump the extension version numbers,
but that seems like more trouble (for both developers and users) than the
problem is worth.

A fly in the ointment is that chkpass_in actually is volatile, because
of its use of random() to generate a fresh salt when presented with a
not-yet-encrypted password.  This is bad because of the general assumption
that I/O functions aren't volatile: the consequence is that records or
arrays containing chkpass elements may have input behavior a bit different
from a bare chkpass column.  But there seems no way to fix this without
breaking existing usage patterns for chkpass, and the consequences of the
inconsistency don't seem bad enough to justify that.  So for the moment,
just document it in a comment.

Since we're not bumping version numbers, there seems no harm in
back-patching these fixes; at least future installations will get the
functions marked correctly.
2014-11-05 11:34:11 -05:00
Heikki Linnakangas 5028f22f6e Switch to CRC-32C in WAL and other places.
The old algorithm was found to not be the usual CRC-32 algorithm, used by
Ethernet et al. We were using a non-reflected lookup table with code meant
for a reflected lookup table. That's a strange combination that AFAICS does
not correspond to any bit-wise CRC calculation, which makes it difficult to
reason about its properties. Although it has worked well in practice, seems
safer to use a well-known algorithm.

Since we're changing the algorithm anyway, we might as well choose a
different polynomial. The Castagnoli polynomial has better error-correcting
properties than the traditional CRC-32 polynomial, even if we had
implemented it correctly. Another reason for picking that is that some new
CPUs have hardware support for calculating CRC-32C, but not CRC-32, let
alone our strange variant of it. This patch doesn't add any support for such
hardware, but a future patch could now do that.

The old algorithm is kept around for tsquery and pg_trgm, which use the
values in indexes that need to remain compatible so that pg_upgrade works.
While we're at it, share the old lookup table for CRC-32 calculation
between hstore, ltree and core. They all use the same table, so might as
well.
2014-11-04 11:39:48 +02:00
Tom Lane f443de873e Docs: fix incorrect spelling of contrib/pgcrypto option.
pgp_sym_encrypt's option is spelled "sess-key", not "enable-session-key".
Spotted by Jeff Janes.

In passing, improve a comment in pgp-pgsql.c to make it clearer that
the debugging options are intentionally undocumented.
2014-11-03 11:11:34 -05:00