We had two occurrences of "Mitteleuropäische Zeit" in Europe.txt,
though the corresponding entries in Default were spelled
"Mitteleuropaeische Zeit". Standardize on the latter spelling to
avoid questions of which encoding to use.
While here, correct a couple of other trivial inconsistencies between
the Default file and the supposedly-matching entries in the *.txt
files, as exposed by some checking with comm(1). Also, add BDST to
the Europe.txt file; it previously was only listed in Default.
None of this has any direct functional effect.
Per complaint from Christoph Berg. As usual for timezone data patches,
apply to all branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200716100743.GE3534683@msg.df7cb.de
pg_test_fsync has always opened files using the text mode on Windows, as
this is the default mode used if not enforced by _setmode().
This fixes a failure when running pg_test_fsync down to 12 because
O_DSYNC and the text mode are not able to work together nicely. We
fixed the handling of O_DSYNC in 12~ for the tool by switching to the
concurrent-safe version of fopen() in src/port/ with 0ba06e0. And
40cfe86, by enforcing the text mode for compatibility reasons if O_TEXT
or O_BINARY are not specified by the caller, broke pg_test_fsync. For
all versions, this avoids any translation overhead, and pg_test_fsync
should test binary writes, so it is a gain in all cases.
Note that O_DSYNC is still not handled correctly in ~11, leading to
pg_test_fsync to show insanely high numbers for open_datasync() (using
this property it is easy to notice that the binary mode is much
faster). This would require a backpatch of 0ba06e0 and 40cfe86, which
could potentially break existing applications, so this is left out.
There are no TAP tests for this tool yet, so I have checked all builds
manually using MSVC. We could invent a new option to run a single
transaction instead of using a duration of 1s to make the tests a
maximum short, but this is left as future work.
Thanks to Bruce Momjian for the discussion.
Reported-by: Jeff Janes
Author: Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16526-279ded30a230d275@postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 9.5
When working with an online source cluster, pg_rewind gets a list of all
the files in the source data directory using a WITH RECURSIVE query,
returning a NULL result for a file's metadata if it gets removed between
the moment it is listed in a directory and the moment its metadata is
obtained with pg_stat_file() (say a recycled WAL segment). The query
result was processed in such a way that for each tuple we checked only
that the first file's metadata was NULL. This could have two
consequences, both resulting in a failure of the rewind:
- If the first tuple referred to a removed file, all files from the
source would be ignored.
- Any file actually missing would not be considered as such.
While on it, rework slightly the code so as no values are saved if we
know that a file is going to be skipped.
Issue introduced by b36805f, so backpatch down to 9.5.
Author: Justin Pryzby, Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson, Masahiko Sawada
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200713061010.GC23581@telsasoft.com
Backpatch-through: 9.5
reparameterize_path_by_child() failed to reparameterize BitmapAnd
and BitmapOr paths. This matters only if such a path is chosen as
the inside of a nestloop partition-wise join, where we have to pass
in parameters from the outside of the nestloop. If that did happen,
we generated a bad plan that would likely lead to crashes at execution.
This is not entirely reparameterize_path_by_child()'s fault though;
it's the victim of an ancient decision (my ancient decision, I think)
to not bother filling in param_info in BitmapAnd/Or path nodes. That
caused the function to believe that such nodes and their children
contain no parameter references and so need not be processed.
In hindsight that decision looks pretty penny-wise and pound-foolish:
while it saves a few cycles during path node setup, we do commonly
need the information later. In particular, by reversing the decision
and requiring valid param_info data in all nodes of a bitmap path
tree, we can get rid of indxpath.c's get_bitmap_tree_required_outer()
function, which computed the data on-demand. It's not unlikely that
that nets out as a savings of cycles in many scenarios. A couple
of other things in indxpath.c can be simplified as well.
While here, get rid of some cases in reparameterize_path_by_child()
that are visibly dead or useless, given that we only care about
reparameterizing paths that can be on the inside of a parameterized
nestloop. This case reminds one of the maxim that untested code
probably does not work, so I'm unwilling to leave unreachable code
in this function. (I did leave the T_Gather case in place even
though it's not reached in the regression tests. It's not very
clear to me when the planner might prefer to put Gather below
rather than above a nestloop, but at least in principle the case
might be interesting.)
Per bug #16536, originally from Arne Roland but with a test case
by Andrew Gierth. Back-patch to v11 where this code came in.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16536-2213ee0b3aad41fd@postgresql.org
An ALTER TABLE to validate a foreign key in which another subcommand
already caused a pending table rewrite could fail due to ALTER TABLE
attempting to validate the foreign key before the actual table rewrite
takes place. This situation could result in an error such as:
ERROR: could not read block 0 in file "base/nnnnn/nnnnn": read only 0 of 8192 bytes
The failure here was due to the SPI call which validates the foreign key
trying to access an index which is yet to be rebuilt.
Similarly, we also incorrectly tried to validate CHECK constraints before
the heap had been rewritten.
The fix for both is to delay constraint validation until phase 3, after
the table has been rewritten. For CHECK constraints this means a slight
behavioral change. Previously ALTER TABLE VALIDATE CONSTRAINT on
inheritance tables would be validated from the bottom up. This was
different from the order of evaluation when a new CHECK constraint was
added. The changes made here aligns the VALIDATE CONSTRAINT evaluation
order for inheritance tables to be the same as ADD CONSTRAINT, which is
generally top-down.
Reported-by: Nazli Ugur Koyluoglu, using SQLancer
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvp%3DZXv8wiRyk_0rWr00skhGkt8vXDrHJYXRMft3TjkxCA%40mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 9.5 (all supported versions)
Incorrect function names were referenced. As this fixes some portions
of tableam.h, that is mentioned in the docs as something to look at when
implementing a table AM, backpatch down to 12 where this has been
introduced.
Author: Hironobu Suzuki
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/8fe6d672-28dd-3f1d-7aed-ac2f6d599d3f@interdb.jp
Backpatch-through: 12
The qual pushdown logic assumed that all Vars in a restriction clause
must be Vars referencing subquery outputs; but since we introduced
LATERAL, it's possible for such a Var to be a lateral reference instead.
This led to an assertion failure in debug builds. In a non-debug
build, there might be no ill effects (if qual_is_pushdown_safe decided
the qual was unsafe anyway), or we could get failures later due to
construction of an invalid plan. I've not gone to much length to
characterize the possible failures, but at least segfaults in the
executor have been observed.
Given that this has been busted since 9.3 and it took this long for
anybody to notice, I judge that the case isn't worth going to great
lengths to optimize. Hence, fix by just teaching qual_is_pushdown_safe
that such quals are unsafe to push down, matching the previous behavior
when it accidentally didn't fail.
Per report from Tom Ellis. Back-patch to all supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200713175124.GQ8220@cloudinit-builder
GSS-related resources should be cleaned up in pqDropConnection,
not freePGconn, else the wrong things happen when resetting
a connection or trying to switch to a different server.
It's also critical to reset conn->gssenc there.
During connection setup, initialize conn->try_gss at the correct
place, else switching to a different server won't work right.
Remove now-redundant cleanup of GSS resources around one (and, for
some reason, only one) pqDropConnection call in connectDBStart.
Per report from Kyotaro Horiguchi that psql would freeze up,
rather than successfully resetting a GSS-encrypted connection
after a server restart.
This is YA oversight in commit b0b39f72b, so back-patch to v12.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200710.173803.435804731896516388.horikyota.ntt@gmail.com
Parallel pg_restore has always supposed that ACL items for different
objects are independent and can be restored in parallel without
conflicts. However, there is one case where this fails: because
REVOKE on a table is defined to also revoke the privilege(s) at
column level, we can't restore per-column ACLs till after we restore
any table-level privileges on their table. Failure to honor this
restriction can lead to "tuple concurrently updated" errors during
parallel restore, or even to the per-column ACLs silently disappearing
because the table-level REVOKE is executed afterwards.
To fix, add a dependency from each column-level ACL item to its table's
ACL item, if there is one. Note that this doesn't fix the hazard
for pre-existing archive files, only for ones made with a corrected
pg_dump. Given that the bug's been there quite awhile without
field reports, I think this is acceptable.
This requires changing the API of pg_dump's dumpACL() function.
To keep its argument list from getting even longer, I removed the
"CatalogId objCatId" argument, which has been unused for ages.
Per report from Justin Pryzby. Back-patch to all supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200706050129.GW4107@telsasoft.com
SQL standard doesn't define numeric Inf or NaN values. It appears even more
ridiculous to support then in jsonpath assuming JSON doesn't support these
values as well. This commit forbids returning NaN from .double(), which was
previously allowed. NaN can't be result of inner-jsonpath computation over
non-NaNs. So, we can not expect NaN in the jsonpath output.
Reported-by: Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/203949.1591879542%40sss.pgh.pa.us
Author: Alexander Korotkov
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane
Backpatch-through: 12
When jsonpath .double() method detects that numeric or string can't be
converted to double precision, it throws an error. This commit makes these
errors explicitly express the reason of failure.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAPpHfdtqJtiSXkP7tOXez18NxhLUH_-75bL8%3DOce4Ki%2Bbv7V6Q%40mail.gmail.com
Author: Alexander Korotkov
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane
Backpatch-through: 12
Re-point comp.ai.genetic FAQ link to a more stable address.
Remove stale links to AIX documentation; we don't really need to
tell AIX users how to use their systems.
Remove stale links to HP documentation about SSL. We've had to
update those twice before, making it increasingly obvious that
HP does not intend them to be stable landing points. They're
not particularly authoritative, either. (This change effectively
reverts bbd3bdba3.)
Daniel Gustafsson and Álvaro Herrera, per a gripe from
Kyotaro Horiguchi. Back-patch, since these links are
just as dead in the back branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200709.161226.204639179120026914.horikyota.ntt@gmail.com
This message was being emitted on the grounds that only crashed
summarization could cause it, but in reality even an aborted vacuum
could do it ... which makes it way too noisy, particularly since it
shows up in regression tests and makes them die.
Reported by Tom Lane.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/489091.1593534251@sss.pgh.pa.us
Due to not having our signals straight about CRLF vs. LF line
termination, the output of pg_current_logfile() included a trailing
\r on Windows. To fix, force the file descriptor it uses into text
mode.
While here, move a couple of local variable declarations to make
the function's logic clearer.
In v12 and v13, also back-patch the test added by 1c4e88e2f so that
this function has some test coverage. However, the 004_logrotate.pl
test script doesn't exist before v12, and it didn't seem worth adding
to older branches just for this.
Per report from Thomas Kellerer. Back-patch to v10 where this
function was added.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/412ae8da-76bb-640f-039a-f3513499e53d@gmx.net
pg_stat_activity.query text is truncated at 1024 bytes. But previously
the document described that it's truncated at 1024 characters.
This was not accurate when considering multibyte characters.
Back-patch to v10 where this inaccurate description was added.
Author: Atsushi Torikoshi
Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson, Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/cd5b49a5a14e887542f5f569c1c6bde2@oss.nttdata.com
The cfbot and some BF animals are complaining about the previous
read_binary_file commit because of ignoring return value of ‘fread’.
So let's make everyone happy by testing the return value even though
not strictly needed.
Reported by Justin Pryzby, and suggested patch by Tom Lane. Backpatched
to v11 same as the previous commit.
Reported-By: Justin Pryzby
Reviewed-By: Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/flat/969b8d82-5bb2-5fa8-4eb1-f0e685c5d736%40joeconway.com
Backpatch-through: 11
read_binary_file(), used by SQL functions pg_read_file() and friends,
uses stat to determine file length to read, when not passed an explicit
length as an argument. This is problematic, for example, if the file
being read is a virtual file with a stat-reported length of zero.
Arrange to read until EOF, or StringInfo data string lenth limit, is
reached instead.
Original complaint and patch by me, with significant review, corrections,
advice, and code optimizations by Tom Lane. Backpatched to v11. Prior to
that only paths relative to the data and log dirs were allowed for files,
so no "zero length" files were reachable anyway.
Reviewed-By: Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/flat/969b8d82-5bb2-5fa8-4eb1-f0e685c5d736%40joeconway.com
Backpatch-through: 11
After running GetForeignRelSize for a foreign table, adjust rel->tuples
to be at least as large as rel->rows. This prevents bizarre behavior
in estimate_num_groups() and perhaps other places, especially in the
scenario where rel->tuples is zero because pg_class.reltuples is
(suggesting that ANALYZE has never been run for the table). As things
stood, we'd end up estimating one group out of any GROUP BY on such a
table, whereas the default group-count estimate is more likely to result
in a sane plan.
Also, clarify in the documentation that GetForeignRelSize has the option
to override the rel->tuples value if it has a better idea of what to use
than what is in pg_class.reltuples.
Per report from Jeff Janes. Back-patch to all supported branches.
Patch by me; thanks to Etsuro Fujita for review
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMkU=1xNo9cnan+Npxgz0eK7394xmjmKg-QEm8wYG9P5-CcaqQ@mail.gmail.com
Commit ecd9e9f0b fixed the problem in the wrong place, causing unwanted
side-effects on the behavior of GetNextTempTableSpace(). Instead,
let's make SharedFileSetInit() responsible for subbing in the value
of MyDatabaseTableSpace when the default tablespace is called for.
The convention about what is in the tempTableSpaces[] array is
evidently insufficiently documented, so try to improve that.
It also looks like SharedFileSetInit() is doing the wrong thing in the
case where temp_tablespaces is empty. It was hard-wiring use of the
pg_default tablespace, but it seems like using MyDatabaseTableSpace
is more consistent with what happens for other temp files.
Back-patch the reversion of PrepareTempTablespaces()'s behavior to
9.5, as ecd9e9f0b was. The changes in SharedFileSetInit() go back
to v11 where that was introduced. (Note there is net zero code change
before v11 from these two patch sets, so nothing to release-note.)
Magnus Hagander and Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CABUevExg5YEsOvqMxrjoNvb3ApVyH+9jggWGKwTDFyFCVWczGQ@mail.gmail.com
A likely copy/paste error in 98e8b48053 from back in 2004 would
cause temp tablespace to be reset to InvalidOid if temp_tablespaces
was set to the same value as the primary tablespace in the database.
This would cause shared filesets (such as for parallel hash joins)
to ignore them, putting the temporary files in the default tablespace
instead of the configured one. The bug is in the old code, but it
appears to have been exposed only once we had shared filesets.
Reviewed-By: Daniel Gustafsson
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CABUevExg5YEsOvqMxrjoNvb3ApVyH+9jggWGKwTDFyFCVWczGQ@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 9.5
Warnings start 10M transactions before xidStopLimit, which is 11M
transactions before wraparound. The sample WARNING output showed a
value greater than 11M, and its HINT message predated commit
25ec228ef7. Hence, the sample was
impossible. Back-patch to 9.5 (all supported versions).
I forgot that INT64_FORMAT can't be used with sscanf on Windows.
Use the same trick of sscanf'ing into a temp variable as we do in
some other places in zic.c.
The upstream IANA code avoids the portability problem by relying on
<inttypes.h>'s SCNdFAST64 macro. Once we're requiring C99 in all
branches, we should do likewise and drop this set of diffs from
upstream. For now, though, a hack seems fine, since we do not
actually care about leapseconds anyway.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/4e5d1a5b-143e-e70e-a99d-a3b01c1ae7c3@2ndquadrant.com
The current definition is dangerous. No bugs exist in our code at
present, but backpatch to 11 nonetheless where it was introduced.
Author: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
explain_get_index_name() applied quote_identifier() to the index name.
This is fine for text output, but the non-text output formats all have
their own quoting conventions and would much rather start from the
actual index name. For example in JSON you'd get something like
"Index Name": "\"My Index\"",
which is surely not desirable, especially when the same does not
happen for table names. Hence, move the responsibility for applying
quoting out to the callers, where it can go into already-existing
special code paths for text format.
This changes the API spec for users of explain_get_index_name_hook:
before, they were supposed to apply quote_identifier() if necessary,
now they should not. Research suggests that the only publicly
available user of the hook is hypopg, and it actually forgot to
apply quoting anyway, so it's fine. (In any case, there's no
behavioral change for the output of a hook as seen in non-text
EXPLAIN formats, so this won't break any case that programs should
be relying on.)
Digging in the commit logs, it appears that quoting was included in
explain_get_index_name's duties when commit 604ffd280 invented it;
and that was fine at the time because we only had text output format.
This should have been rethought when non-text formats were invented,
but it wasn't.
This is a fairly clear bug for users of non-text EXPLAIN formats,
so back-patch to all supported branches.
Per bug #16502 from Maciek Sakrejda. Patch by me (based on
investigation by Euler Taveira); thanks to Julien Rouhaud for review.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16502-57bd1c9f913ed1d1@postgresql.org
spg_mask() didn't take into account that pd_lower equal to SizeOfPageHeaderData
is still valid value. This commit fixes that. Backpatch to 11, where
spg_mask() pg_lower check was introduced.
Reported-by: Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200615131405.GM52676%40paquier.xyz
Backpatch-through: 11
A few places calling fwrite and gzwrite were not setting errno to ENOSPC
when reporting errors, as is customary; this led to some failures being
reported as
"could not write file: Success"
which makes us look silly. Make a few of these places in pg_dump and
pg_basebackup use our customary pattern.
Backpatch-to: 9.5
Author: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Author: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200611153753.GU14879@telsasoft.com
The IANA time zone folk have deprecated use of a "posixrules" file in
the tz database. While for now it's our choice whether to keep
supplying one in our own builds, installations built with
--with-system-tzdata will soon be needing to cope with that file not
being present, at least on some platforms.
This causes a problem for the horology test, which expected the
nonstandard POSIX zone spec "CST7CDT" to apply pre-2007 US daylight
savings rules. That does happen if the posixrules file supplies such
information, but otherwise the test produces undesired results.
To fix, add an explicit transition date rule that matches 2005 practice.
(We could alternatively have switched the test to use some real time
zone, but it seems useful to have coverage of this type of zone spec.)
While at it, update a documentation example that also relied on
"CST7CDT"; use a real-world zone name instead. Also, document why
the zone names EST5EDT, CST6CDT, MST7MDT, PST8PDT aren't subject to
similar failures when "posixrules" is missing.
Back-patch to all supported branches, since the hazard is the same
for all.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1665379.1592581287@sss.pgh.pa.us
This was a danger only for --disable-spinlocks in combination with
atomic operations unsupported by the current platform.
While atomics.c was careful to signal that a separate semaphore ought
to be used when spinlock emulation is active, spin.c didn't actually
implement that mechanism. That's my (Andres') fault, it seems to have
gotten lost during the development of the atomic operations support.
Fix that issue and add test for nesting atomic operations inside a
spinlock.
Author: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200605023302.g6v3ydozy5txifji@alap3.anarazel.de
Backpatch: 9.5-
As s_lock_test, the already existing test for spinlocks, isn't run in
an automated fashion (and doesn't test a normal backend environment),
adding tests that are run as part of a normal regression run is a good
idea. Particularly in light of several recent and upcoming spinlock
related fixes.
Currently the new tests are run as part of the pre-existing
test_atomic_ops() test. That perhaps can be quibbled about, but for
now seems ok.
The only operations that s_lock_test tests but the new tests don't are
the detection of a stuck spinlock and S_LOCK_FREE (which is otherwise
unused, not implemented on all platforms, and will be removed).
This currently contains a test for more than INT_MAX spinlocks (only
run with --disable-spinlocks), to ensure the recent commit fixing a
bug with more than INT_MAX spinlock initializations is correct. That
test is somewhat slow, so we might want to disable it after a few
days.
It might be worth retiring s_lock_test after this. The added coverage
of a stuck spinlock probably isn't worth the added complexity?
Author: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200606023103.avzrctgv7476xj7i@alap3.anarazel.de
We'd glossed over most of this complexity for years, but it's hard
to avoid writing it all down now, so that we can explain what happens
when there's no "posixrules" file in the IANA time zone database.
That was at best a tiny minority situation till now, but it's likely
to become quite common in the future, so we'd better explain it.
Nonetheless, we don't really encourage people to use POSIX zone specs;
picking a named zone is almost always what you really want, unless
perhaps you're stuck with an out-of-date zone database. Therefore,
let's shove all this detail into an appendix.
Patch by me; thanks to Robert Haas for help with some awkward wording.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1390.1562258309@sss.pgh.pa.us
Advancing a replication slot did not recompute the oldest xmin and LSN
values across replication slots, preventing resource removal like
segments not recycled at checkpoint time. The original commit that
introduced the slot advancing in 9c7d06d never did the update of those
oldest values, and b0afdca removed this code.
This commit adds a TAP test to check segment recycling with advancing
for physical slots, enforcing an extra segment switch before advancing
to check if the segment gets correctly recycled after a checkpoint.
Reported-by: Andres Freund
Reviewed-by: Alexey Kondratov, Kyptaro Horiguchi
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200609171904.kpltxxvjzislidks@alap3.anarazel.de
Backpatch-through: 11
This absorbs a leap-second-related bug fix in localtime.c, and
teaches zic to handle an expiration marker in the leapseconds file.
Neither are of any interest to us (for the foreseeable future
anyway), but we need to stay more or less in sync with upstream.
Also adjust some over-eager changes in the README from commit 957338418.
I have no intention of making changes that require C99 in this code,
until such time as all the live back branches require C99. Otherwise
back-patching will get too exciting.
For the same reason, absorb assorted whitespace and other cosmetic
changes from HEAD into the back branches; mostly this reflects use of
improved versions of pgindent.
All in all then, quite a boring update. But I figured I'd get it
done while I was looking at this code.
Convert buffile.c error handling to use ereport. This fixes cases where
I/O errors were indistinguishable from EOF or not reported. Also remove
"%m" from error messages where errno would be bogus. While we're
modifying those strings, add block numbers and short read byte counts
where appropriate.
Back-patch to all supported releases.
Reported-by: Amit Khandekar <amitdkhan.pg@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
Reviewed-by: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Ibrar Ahmed <ibrar.ahmad@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGJE04G%3D8TLK0DLypT_27D9dR8F1RQgNp0jK6qR0tZGWOw%40mail.gmail.com
Non-zero vacuum_defer_cleanup_age values cause pg_upgrade freezing of
the system catalogs to be incomplete, or do nothing. This will cause
the upgrade to fail in confusing ways.
Reported-by: Laurenz Albe
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/7d6f6c22ba05ce0c526e9e8b7bfa8105e7da45e6.camel@cybertec.at
Backpatch-through: 9.5
Our documentation failed to point out that REPEATABLE READ is really
snapshot isolation, which might be important to some users. Point to
the standard reference paper for this complicated topic.
Likewise, add a reference to the VLDB paper about PostgreSQL SSI, for
technical information about our SSI implementation and how it compares
to S2PL.
While here, add a note about catalog access using a lower isolation
level, per recent user complaint.
Back-patch to all releases.
Reported-by: Kyle Kingsbury <aphyr@jepsen.io>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-by: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Reviewed-by: Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@sraoss.co.jp>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/db7b729d-0226-d162-a126-8a8ab2dc4443%40jepsen.io
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16454-9408996bb1750faf%40postgresql.org
When there is just one non-null input value, and it is infinity or NaN,
aggregates such as stddev_pop and covar_pop should produce a NaN
result, because the calculation is not well-defined. They used to do
so, but since we adopted Youngs-Cramer aggregation in commit e954a727f,
they produced zero instead. That's an oversight, so fix it. Add tests
exercising these edge cases.
Affected aggregates are
var_pop(double precision)
stddev_pop(double precision)
var_pop(real)
stddev_pop(real)
regr_sxx(double precision,double precision)
regr_syy(double precision,double precision)
regr_sxy(double precision,double precision)
regr_r2(double precision,double precision)
regr_slope(double precision,double precision)
regr_intercept(double precision,double precision)
covar_pop(double precision,double precision)
corr(double precision,double precision)
Back-patch to v12 where the behavior change was accidentally introduced.
Report and patch by me; thanks to Dean Rasheed for review.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/353062.1591898766@sss.pgh.pa.us
When merging two NumericAggStates, the code missed adding the new
state's NaNcount unless its N was also nonzero; since those counts
are independent, this is wrong.
This would only have visible effect if some partial aggregate scans
found only NaNs while earlier ones found only non-NaNs; then we could
end up falsely deciding that there were no NaNs and fail to return a
NaN final result as expected. That's pretty improbable, so it's no
surprise this hasn't been reported from the field. Still, it's a bug.
I didn't try to produce a regression test that would show the bug,
but I did notice that these functions weren't being reached at all
in our regression tests, so I improved the tests to at least
exercise them. With these additions, I see pretty complete code
coverage on the aggregation-related functions in numeric.c.
Back-patch to 9.6 where this code was introduced. (I only added
the improved test case as far back as v10, though, since the
relevant part of aggregates.sql isn't there at all in 9.6.)
SSI's HeapCheckForSerializableConflictOut() test failed to correctly
handle conditions involving a concurrently inserted tuple which is later
concurrently updated by a separate transaction . A SELECT statement
that called HeapCheckForSerializableConflictOut() could end up using the
same XID (updater's XID) for both the original tuple, and the successor
tuple, missing the XID of the xact that created the original tuple
entirely. This only happened when neither tuple from the chain was
visible to the transaction's MVCC snapshot.
The observable symptoms of this bug were subtle. A pair of transactions
could commit, with the later transaction failing to observe the effects
of the earlier transaction (because of the confusion created by the
update to the non-visible row). This bug dates all the way back to
commit dafaa3ef, which added SSI.
To fix, make sure that we check the xmin of concurrently inserted tuples
that happen to also have been updated concurrently.
Author: Peter Geoghegan
Reported-By: Kyle Kingsbury
Reviewed-By: Thomas Munro
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/db7b729d-0226-d162-a126-8a8ab2dc4443@jepsen.io
Backpatch: All supported versions
