In the test query I added for ALTER TABLE retaining comments, the order of
the result rows was not stable, and varied across systems. Add an ORDER BY
to make the order predictable. This should fix the buildfarm failures.
When a column's datatype is changed, ATExecAlterColumnType() rebuilds all
the affected indexes and constraints, and the comments from the old
indexes/constraints were not carried over.
To fix, create a synthetic COMMENT ON command in the work queue, to re-add
any comments on constraints. For indexes, there's a comment field in
IndexStmt that is used.
This fixes bug #13126, reported by Kirill Simonov. Original patch by
Michael Paquier, reviewed by Petr Jelinek and me. This bug is present in
all versions, but only backpatch to 9.5. Given how minor the issue is, it
doesn't seem worth the work and risk to backpatch further than that.
The code in ATPostAlterTypeParse was very deeply indented, mostly because
there were two nested switch-case statements, which add a lot of
indentation. Use if-else blocks instead, to make the code less indented
and more readable.
This is in preparation for next patch that makes some actualy changes to
the function. These cosmetic parts have been separated to make it easier
to see the real changes in the other patch.
Per Coverity (not that any of these are so non-obvious that they should not
have been caught before commit). The extent of leakage is probably minor
to unnoticeable, but a leak is a leak. Back-patch as necessary.
Michael Paquier
pg_receivexlog and pg_recvlogical error out when --create-slot is
specified and a slot with the same name already exists. In some cases,
especially with pg_receivexlog, that's rather annoying and requires
additional scripting.
Backpatch to 9.5 as slot control functions have newly been added to
pg_receivexlog, and there doesn't seem much point leaving it in a less
useful state.
Discussion: 20150619144755.GG29350@alap3.anarazel.de
As noted by Noah Misch, CreatePolicy() and AlterPolicy() omit to call
assign_expr_collations() on the node trees. Fix the omission and add
his test case to the rowsecurity regression test.
Commit 31eae602 added new syntax to many DDL commands to use CURRENT_USER
or SESSION_USER instead of role name in ALTER ... OWNER TO, but because
of a misplaced '{', the syntax in the docs implied that the syntax was
"ALTER ... CURRENT_USER", instead of "ALTER ... OWNER TO CURRENT_USER".
Fix that, and also the funny indentation in some of the modified syntax
blurps.
The documentation implied that there was seldom any reason to use the
array_append, array_prepend, and array_cat functions directly. But that's
not really true, because they can help make it clear which case is meant,
which the || operator can't do since it's overloaded to represent all three
cases. Add some discussion and examples illustrating the potentially
confusing behavior that can ensue if the parser misinterprets what was
meant.
Per a complaint from Michael Herold. Back-patch to 9.2, which is where ||
started to behave this way.
Ordinarily, a failure (unexpected exit status) of the startup subprocess
should be considered fatal, so the postmaster should just close up shop
and quit. However, if we sent the startup process a SIGQUIT or SIGKILL
signal, the failure is hardly "unexpected", and we should attempt restart;
this is necessary for recovery from ordinary backend crashes in hot-standby
scenarios. I attempted to implement the latter rule with a two-line patch
in commit 442231d7f7, but it now emerges that
that patch was a few bricks shy of a load: it failed to distinguish the
case of a signaled startup process from the case where the new startup
process crashes before reaching database consistency. That resulted in
infinitely respawning a new startup process only to have it crash again.
To handle this properly, we really must track whether we have sent the
*current* startup process a kill signal. Rather than add yet another
ad-hoc boolean to the postmaster's state, I chose to unify this with the
existing RecoveryError flag into an enum tracking the startup process's
state. That seems more consistent with the postmaster's general state
machine design.
Back-patch to 9.0, like the previous patch.
When enabling wal_compression, there is a risk to leak data similarly to
the BREACH and CRIME attacks on SSL where the compression ratio of
a full page image gives a hint of what is the existing data of this page.
This vulnerability is quite cumbersome to exploit in practice, but doable.
So this patch makes wal_compression PGC_SUSET in order to prevent
non-superusers from enabling it and exploiting the vulnerability while
DBA thinks the risk very seriously and disables it in postgresql.conf.
Back-patch to 9.5 where wal_compression was introduced.
Tom fixed another one of these in commit 7f32dbcd, but there was another
almost identical one in libpq docs. Per his comment:
HP's web server has apparently become case-sensitive sometime recently.
Per bug #13479 from Daniel Abraham. Corrected link identified by Alvaro.
Create a log file for each test run. Stdout and stderr of the test script,
as well as any subprocesses run as part of the test, are redirected to
the log file. This makes it a lot easier to debug test failures. Also print
the test output (ok 12 - ... messages) to the log file, and the command
line of any external programs executed with the system_or_bail and run_log
functions. This makes it a lot easier to debug failing tests.
Modify some of the pg_ctl and other command invocations to not use 'silent'
or 'quiet' options, and don't redirect output to /dev/null, so that you get
all the information in the log instead.
In the passing, construct some command lines in a way that works if $tempdir
contains quote-characters. I haven't systematically gone through all of
them or tested that, so I don't know if this is enough to make that work.
pg_rewind tests had a custom mechanism for creating a similar log file. Use
the new generic facility instead.
Michael Paquier and me.
Autoconf generates additional code for the first AC_CHECK_HEADERS call in
the script. If the first call is within an if-block, the additional code is
put inside the if-block too, even though it is needed by subsequent
AC_CHECK_HEADERS checks and should always be executed. When I moved the
pthread-related checks earlier in the script, the pthread.h test inside
the block became the very first AC_CHECK_HEADERS call in the script,
triggering that problem.
To fix, use AS_IF instead of plain shell if. AS_IF knows about that issue,
and makes sure the additional code is always executed. To be completely
safe from this issue (and others), we should always be using AS_IF instead
of plain if, but that seems like excessive caution given that this is the
first time we have trouble like this. Plain if-then is more readable than
AS_IF.
This should fix compilation with --disable-thread-safety, and hopefully the
buildfarm failure on forgmouth, related to mingw standard headers, too.
I backpatched the previous fixes to 9.5, but it's starting to look like
these changes are too fiddly to backpatch, so commit this to master only,
and revert all the pthread-related configure changes in 9.5.
The AIX 7.1 libm is static, and AIX postgres executables do not export
symbols acquired from libraries. Back-patch to 9.5, where commit
cfe12763c3 added a sqrt() call.
This formalizes a decision implicit in commit
4ea51cdfe8 and adds clean detection of
affected systems. Vendor updates are available for each such known bug.
Back-patch to 9.5, where the aforementioned commit first appeared.
POSIX does not specify the -q option, and many implementations do not
offer it. Don't bother changing the MSVC build system, because having
non-GNU diff on Windows is vanishingly unlikely. Back-patch to 9.2,
where this invocation was introduced.
The psql crash happened when no current connection existed. (The second
new check is optional given today's undocumented NULL argument handling
in PQhost() etc.) Back-patch to 9.0 (all supported versions).
On some Linux systems, "-lrt" exposed pthread-functions, so that linking
with -lrt was seemingly enough to make a program that uses pthreads to
work. However, when linking libpq, the dependency to libpthread was not
marked correctly, so that when an executable was linked with -lpq but
without -pthread, you got errors about undefined pthread_* functions from
libpq.
To fix, test for the flags required to use pthreads earlier in the autoconf
script, before checking any other libraries.
This should fix the failure on buildfarm member shearwater. gharial is also
failing; hopefully this fixes that too although the failure looks somewhat
different.
Our version was different from the upstream version in that we tried to use
all possible pthread-related flags that the compiler accepts, rather than
just the first one that works. That change was made in commit
e48322a6d6, to work-around a bug affecting GCC
versions 3.2 and below (https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=8888),
although we didn't realize that it was a GCC bug at the time. We hardly care
about that old GCC versions anymore, so we no longer need that workaround.
This fixes the macro for compilers that print warnings with the chosen
flags. That's pretty annoying on its own right, but it also inconspicuously
disabled thread-safety, because we refused to use any pthread-related flags
if the compiler produced warnings. Max Filippov reported that problem when
linking with uClibc and OpenSSL. The warnings-check was added because the
workaround for the GCC bug caused warnings otherwise, so it's no longer
needed either. We can just use the upstream version as is.
If you really want to compile with GCC version 3.2 or older, you can still
work-around it manually by setting PTHREAD_CFLAGS="-pthread -lpthread"
manually on the configure command line.
Backpatch to 9.5. I don't want to unnecessarily rock the boat on stable
branches, but 9.5 seems like fair game.
Test the interactions with permissions and LOCK TABLE. Specifically
ROW EXCLUSIVE, ACCESS SHARE, and ACCESS EXCLUSIVE modes against
SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, and TRUNCATE permissions. Discussed
by Stephen Frost and Michael Paquier, patch by the latter. Backpatch
to 9.5 where matching behavior was first committed.
SUSv2-era shells don't set the PWD variable, though anything more modern
does. In the buildfarm environment this could lead to test.sh executing
with PWD pointing to $HOME or another high-level directory, so that there
were conflicts between concurrent executions of the test in different
branch subdirectories. This appears to be the explanation for recent
intermittent failures on buildfarm members binturong and dingo (and might
well have something to do with the buildfarm script's failure to capture
log files from pg_upgrade tests, too).
To fix, just use `pwd` in place of $PWD. AFAICS test.sh is the only place
in our source tree that depended on $PWD. Back-patch to all versions
containing this script.
Per buildfarm. Thanks to Oskari Saarenmaa for diagnosing the problem.
If an allocation fails in the main message handling loop, pqParseInput3
or pqParseInput2, it should not be treated as "not enough data available
yet". Otherwise libpq will wait indefinitely for more data to arrive from
the server, and gets stuck forever.
This isn't a complete fix - getParamDescriptions and getCopyStart still
have the same issue, but it's a step in the right direction.
Michael Paquier and me. Backpatch to all supported versions.
When spilling transaction data to disk a simple typo caused the output
file to be closed and reopened for every serialized change. That happens
to not have a huge impact on linux, which is why it probably wasn't
noticed so far, but on windows that appears to trigger actual disk
writes after every change. Not fun.
The bug fortunately does not have any impact besides speed. A change
could end up being in the wrong segment (last instead of next), but
since we read all files to the end, that's just ugly, not really
problematic. It's not a problem to upgrade, since transaction spill
files do not persist across restarts.
Bug: #13484
Reported-By: Olivier Gosseaume
Discussion: 20150703090217.1190.63940@wrigleys.postgresql.org
Backpatch to 9.4, where logical decoding was added.
The previous coding tried to handle possible failures when fsyncing a
tty or pipe fd by accepting EINVAL - but apparently some
platforms (windows, OSX) don't reliably return that. So instead check
whether the output fd refers to a pipe or a tty when opening it.
Reported-By: Olivier Gosseaume, Marko Tiikkaja
Discussion: 559AF98B.3050901@joh.to
Backpatch to 9.4, where pg_recvlogical was added.
Build.bat and vcregress.bat got similar treatment years ago. I'm not sure
why install.bat wasn't treated at the same time, but it seems like a good
idea anyway.
The immediate problem with the old install.bat was that it had quoting
issues, and wouldn't work if the target directory's name contained spaces.
This fixes that problem.
We're interested in the buffer size of the socket that's connected to the
client, not the one that's listening for new connections. It happened to
work, as default buffer size is the same on both, but it was clearly not
wrong.
Spotted by Tom Lane
It's unnecessary to set it if the default is higher in the first place.
Furthermore, setting SO_SNDBUF disables the so-called "dynamic send
buffering" feature, which hurts performance further. This can be seen
especially when the network between the client and the server has high
latency.
Chen Huajun
The .backup file name can be passed to pg_archivecleanup even if
it includes the extension which is specified in -x option.
However, previously the document incorrectly warned a user
not to do that.
Back-patch to 9.2 where pg_archivecleanup's -x option and
the warning were added.
This builds on commit 21dcda2713 by keeping
a plpgsql function's shared ParamListInfo's entries for simple variables
(PLPGSQL_DTYPE_VARs) valid at all times. That adds a few cycles to each
assignment to such variables, but saves significantly more cycles each time
they are used; so except in the pathological case of many dead stores, this
should always be a win. Initial testing says it's good for about a 10%
speedup of simple calculations; more in large functions with many datums.
We can't use this method for row/record references unfortunately, so what
we do for those is reset those ParamListInfo slots after use; which we
can skip doing unless some of them were actually evaluated during the
previous evaluation call. So this should frequently be a win as well,
while worst case is that it's similar cost to the previous approach.
Also, closer study suggests that the previous method of instantiating a
new ParamListInfo array per evaluation is actually probably optimal for
cursor-opening executor calls. The reason is that whatever is visible in
the array is going to get copied into the cursor portal via copyParamList.
So if we used the function's main ParamListInfo for those calls, we'd end
up with all of its DTYPE_VAR vars getting copied, which might well include
large pass-by-reference values that the cursor actually has no need for.
To avoid a possible net degradation in cursor cases, go back to creating
and filling a private ParamListInfo in those cases (which therefore will be
exactly the same speed as before 21dcda2713). We still get some benefit
out of this though, because this approach means that we only have to defend
against copyParamList's try-to-fetch-every-slot behavior in the case of an
unshared ParamListInfo; so plpgsql_param_fetch() can skip testing
expr->paramnos in the common case.
To ensure that the main ParamListInfo's image of a DTYPE_VAR datum is
always valid, all assignments to such variables are now funneled through
assign_simple_var(). But this makes for cleaner and shorter code anyway.
You can no longer use pgbench with multiple threads when compiled without
--enable-thread-safety. That's an acceptable limitation these days; it
still works fine with -j1, and all modern platforms support threads anyway.
This makes future maintenance and development of the code easier.
Fabien Coelho
Fujii Masao
Heikki Linnakangas
Bruce Momjian
Tom Lane
Andres Freund
Joe Conway
Noah Misch