should always succeed, but in the likely event of a failure we would
previously fall through *without locking* - the new code will exit(1).
Printing the error message on stderr will not work for all applications, but
it's better than nothing at all - and our API doesn't provide a way to return
the error to the caller.
key files that are similar to the one for the postmaster's data directory
permissions check. (I chose to standardize on that one since it's the most
heavily used and presumably best-wordsmithed by now.) Also eliminate explicit
tests on file ownership in these places, since the ensuing read attempt must
fail anyway if it's wrong, and there seems no value in issuing the same error
message for distinct problems. (But I left in the explicit ownership test in
postmaster.c, since it had its own error message anyway.) Also be more
specific in the documentation's descriptions of these checks. Per a gripe
from Kevin Hunter.
verify_peer_name_matches_certificate(), clarify some of the function's
variables and logic, and update a comment. This should make SSL
improvements easier in the future.
are known to write on the socket sometimes and thus we are vulnerable to
being killed by the signal if the server happens to go away unexpectedly.
Noticed while trying (futilely) to reproduce bug #3902.
This bug has been there all along, but since the situation is usually
only of interest to developers, I chose not to back-patch the changes.
trying BIO functions.
Helps problem with older versions of OpenSSL that lacks error
stack functions and would show an incorrect error message for
file-not-found-or-not-openable. The problem may still exist for
other errors, but file open error is by far the most common one.
OpenSSL libraries --- just don't call them if they're not there. This
might possibly lead to misleading error messages, but we'll just have
to live with that.
This fixes potential crashes on old versions of OpenSSL and the requirement on
"Applink" in new versions when building with MSVC and using different
runtimes.
Dave Page with fixes from me.
o read global SSL configuration file
o add GUC "ssl_ciphers" to control allowed ciphers
o add libpq environment variable PGSSLKEY to control SSL hardware keys
Victor B. Wagner
where possible, and fix some sites that apparently thought that fgets()
will overwrite the buffer by one byte.
Also add some strlcpy() to eliminate some weird memory handling.
suffix, to distinguish them from doubles. Make some function declarations
and definitions use the "const" qualifier for arguments consistently.
Ignore warning 4102 ("unreferenced label"), because such warnings
are always emitted by bison-generated code. Patch from Magnus Hagander.
In the SSL code in libpq it does some processing with DH parameters:
SSL_CTX_set_tmp_dh_callback()
This function is marked as server use only[1], the client always uses
the DH parameters in the server, so all the code in the client dealing
with the DH parameters is useless. This patch removes it.
It's not clear why the code was added in the first place, it's been
there almost since the beginning[2]. At the time there was a suggestion
of merging the front-end and backend SSL code, but looking at the
changes since, that seems unlikely.
As a further example, the s_server program allows you to specify DH
params, but s_client doesn't. In the GnuTLS documentation under
gnutls_dh_params_generate2() it says[3]:
Also note that the DH parameters are only useful to servers. Since
clients use the parameters sent by the server, it's of no use to call
this in client side.
PQregisterThreadLock().
I also remove the crypt() mention in the libpq threading section and
added a single sentence in the client-auth manual page under crypt().
Crypt authentication is so old now that a separate paragraph about it
seemed unwise.
I also added a comment about our use of locking around pqGetpwuid().
Windows. The test itself is bypassed in configure as discussed, and
libpq has been updated appropriately to allow it to build in thread-safe
mode.
Dave Page
discussion on pgsql-hackers-win32 list. Documentation still needs to
be tweaked --- I'm not sure how to refer to the APPDATA folder in
user documentation.
consistent. On Unix we now always consult getpwuid(); $HOME isn't used
at all. On Windows the code currently consults $USERPROFILE, or $HOME
if that's not defined, but I expect this will change as soon as the win32
hackers come to a consensus. Nothing done yet about changing the file
names used underneath $USERPROFILE.
subroutine that can hide platform dependencies. The WIN32 path is still
a stub, but I await a fix from one of the win32 hackers.
Also clean up unnecessary #ifdef WIN32 ugliness in a couple of places.
Also performed an initial run through of upgrading our Copyright date to
extend to 2005 ... first run here was very simple ... change everything
where: grep 1996-2004 && the word 'Copyright' ... scanned through the
generated list with 'less' first, and after, to make sure that I only
picked up the right entries ...
global variables are problematic on this platform. Simplest solution
seems to be to initialize pthread key variable to 0. Also, rename this
variable and check_sigpipe_handler to something involving "pq" to
avoid gratuitous pollution of application namespace.
> user must initialize the lock. The problem are concurrent "first" users
> - the pthread_mutex_t initialization must be synchronized.
> The current implementation is broken, the attached patches fixes that:
> mutex_initlock is a spinlock. If the pthread_mutex_t mutex is not
> initialized, then the spinlock is acquired, if the pthread_mutex_t is
> initialized if it's not yet initialized and then the spinlock is dropped.
Manfred Spraul
user must initialize the lock. The problem are concurrent "first" users
- the pthread_mutex_t initialization must be synchronized.
The current implementation is broken, the attached patches fixes that:
mutex_initlock is a spinlock. If the pthread_mutex_t mutex is not
initialized, then the spinlock is acquired, if the pthread_mutex_t is
initialized if it's not yet initialized and then the spinlock is
dropped.
Manfred Spraul
conversion of basic ASCII letters. Remove all uses of strcasecmp and
strncasecmp in favor of new functions pg_strcasecmp and pg_strncasecmp;
remove most but not all direct uses of toupper and tolower in favor of
pg_toupper and pg_tolower. These functions use the same notions of
case folding already developed for identifier case conversion. I left
the straight locale-based folding in place for situations where we are
just manipulating user data and not trying to match it to built-in
strings --- for example, the SQL upper() function is still locale
dependent. Perhaps this will prove not to be what's wanted, but at
the moment we can initdb and pass regression tests in Turkish locale.
ignore SIGPIPE from send() in libpq, but terminate on any other SIGPIPE,
unless the user installs their own signal handler.
This is a minor fix because the only time you get SIGPIPE from libpq's
send() is when the backend dies.
protocol 3, then falls back to 2 if postmaster rejects the startup packet
with an old-format error message. A side benefit of the rewrite is that
SSL-encrypted connections can now be made without blocking. (I think,
anyway, but do not have a good way to test.)
believe I didn't notice this before -- once 64k was sent to/from the
server the client would crash. Basicly, in 7.3 the server SSL code set
the initial state to "about to renegotiate" without actually starting
the renegotiation. In addition, the server and client didn't properly
handle the SSL_ERROR_WANT_(READ|WRITE) error. This is fixed in the
second patch.
Nathan Mueller
first, that I missed when checking over 7.3.1, was that the client
method was switched to SSLv23 along with the server. The SSLv23 client
method does SSLv2 by default, but can also understand SSLv3. In our
situation the SSLv2 backwords compatibility is really only needed on the
server. This is the first patch.
The last thing is that I found a way for the server to understand SSLv2
HELLO messages (sent by pre-7.3 clients) but then get them to talk
SSLv3. This is the last one.
Nathan Mueller
"SSLv23_method(void), SSLv23_server_method(void), SSLv23_client_method(void)
A TLS/SSL connection established with these methods will understand the SSLv2,
SSLv3, and TLSv1 protocol. A client will send out SSLv2 client hello messages
and will indicate that it also understands SSLv3 and TLSv1. A server will
understand SSLv2, SSLv3, and TLSv1 client hello messages. This is the best
choice when compatibility is a concern."
This will maintain backwards compatibility for those us that don't use
TLS connections ...
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So i took the opportunity to fix some stuff:
1. Made the thing compile (typos & needed definitions) with the new pqsecure_* s
tuff, and added fe-secure.c to the win32.mak makefile.
2. Fixed some MULTIBYTE compile errors (when building without MB support).
3. Made it do that you can build with debug info: "nmake -f win32.mak DEBUG=1".
4. Misc small compiler speedup changes.
The resulting .dll has been tested in production, and everything seems ok.
I CC:ed -hackers because i'm not sure about two things:
1. In libpq-int.h I typedef ssize_t as an int because Visual C (v6.0)
doesn't de fine ssize_t. Is that ok, or is there any standard about what
type should be use d for ssize_t?
2. To keep the .dll api consistent regarding MULTIBYTE I just return -1
in fe-connect.c:PQsetClientEncoding() instead of taking away the whole
function. I wonder if i should do any compares with the
conn->client_encoding and return 0 if not hing would have changed (if so
how do i check that?).
Regards
Magnus Naeslund
Magnus Hagander
Tom Lane
Bruce Momjian
Neil Conway
Peter Eisentraut
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