A PostgreSQL release tarball contains a number of prebuilt files, in
particular files produced by bison, flex, perl, and well as html and
man documentation. We have done this consistent with established
practice at the time to not require these tools for building from a
tarball. Some of these tools were hard to get, or get the right
version of, from time to time, and shipping the prebuilt output was a
convenience to users.
Now this has at least two problems:
One, we have to make the build system(s) work in two modes: Building
from a git checkout and building from a tarball. This is pretty
complicated, but it works so far for autoconf/make. It does not
currently work for meson; you can currently only build with meson from
a git checkout. Making meson builds work from a tarball seems very
difficult or impossible. One particular problem is that since meson
requires a separate build directory, we cannot make the build update
files like gram.h in the source tree. So if you were to build from a
tarball and update gram.y, you will have a gram.h in the source tree
and one in the build tree, but the way things work is that the
compiler will always use the one in the source tree. So you cannot,
for example, make any gram.y changes when building from a tarball.
This seems impossible to fix in a non-horrible way.
Second, there is increased interest nowadays in precisely tracking the
origin of software. We can reasonably track contributions into the
git tree, and users can reasonably track the path from a tarball to
packages and downloads and installs. But what happens between the git
tree and the tarball is obscure and in some cases non-reproducible.
The solution for both of these issues is to get rid of the step that
adds prebuilt files to the tarball. The tarball now only contains
what is in the git tree (*). Getting the additional build
dependencies is no longer a problem nowadays, and the complications to
keep these dual build modes working are significant. And of course we
want to get the meson build system working universally.
This commit removes the make distprep target altogether. The make
dist target continues to do its job, it just doesn't call distprep
anymore.
(*) - The tarball also contains the INSTALL file that is built at make
dist time, but not by distprep. This is unchanged for now.
The make maintainer-clean target, whose job it is to remove the
prebuilt files in addition to what make distclean does, is now just an
alias to make distprep. (In practice, it is probably obsolete given
that git clean is available.)
The following programs are now hard build requirements in configure
(they were already required by meson.build):
- bison
- flex
- perl
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/e07408d9-e5f2-d9fd-5672-f53354e9305e@eisentraut.org
It was always false in single-user mode, in autovacuum workers, and in
background workers. This had no specifically-identified security
consequences, but non-core code or future work might make it
security-relevant. Back-patch to v11 (all supported versions).
Jelte Fennema-Nio. Reported by Jelte Fennema-Nio.
Documentation says it cannot signal "a backend owned by a superuser".
On the contrary, it could signal background workers, including the
logical replication launcher. It could signal autovacuum workers and
the autovacuum launcher. Block all that. Signaling autovacuum workers
and those two launchers doesn't stall progress beyond what one could
achieve other ways. If a cluster uses a non-core extension with a
background worker that does not auto-restart, this could create a denial
of service with respect to that background worker. A background worker
with bugs in its code for responding to terminations or cancellations
could experience those bugs at a time the pg_signal_backend member
chooses. Back-patch to v11 (all supported versions).
Reviewed by Jelte Fennema-Nio. Reported by Hemanth Sandrana and
Mahendrakar Srinivasarao.
Security: CVE-2023-5870
This function implements the standard XMLTest function, which
converts text into xml text nodes. It uses the libxml2 function
xmlEncodeSpecialChars to escape predefined entities (&"<>), so
that those do not cause any conflict when concatenating the text
node output with existing xml documents.
This also adds a note in features.sgml about not supporting
XML(SEQUENCE). The SQL specification defines a RETURNING clause
to a set of XML functions, where RETURNING CONTENT or RETURNING
SEQUENCE can be defined. Since PostgreSQL doesn't support
XML(SEQUENCE) all of these functions operate with an
implicit RETURNING CONTENT.
Author: Jim Jones <jim.jones@uni-muenster.de>
Reviewed-by: Vik Fearing <vik@postgresfriends.org>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/86617a66-ec95-581f-8d54-08059cca8885@uni-muenster.de
pg_resetwal had poor test coverage. There are some TAP tests, but
they all run with -n, so they don't actually test the full
functionality. (There is a non-dry-run call of pg_resetwal in the
recovery test suite, but that is incidental.)
This adds a bunch of more tests to test all the different options and
scenarios.
Reviewed-by: Aleksander Alekseev <aleksander@timescale.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/0f3ab4a1-ae80-56e8-3426-6b4a02507687@eisentraut.org
On Windows, GetDataDirectoryCreatePerm() just did nothing. The way
the code in some callers is structured, this is the first function
that tries to access the data directory. So it also ends up the place
that is responsible for reporting that a data directory does not exist
or similar. Therefore, on Windows, these scenarios end up on
potentially completely different code paths.
To unify this, to make testing more consistent across platforms, have
GetDataDirectoryCreatePerm() run the stat() call on Windows as well,
even though it won't do anything with the result. That way, file
system errors are reporting to callers in the same way as on
non-Windows.
Reviewed-by: Aleksander Alekseev <aleksander@timescale.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/15a59bca-0383-183c-9383-0446da9b87e1%40eisentraut.org
recurse_set_operations() uses the parse tree for the group number estimation,
because of the "varno 0" hack. At the same time 2489d76c49 made root->parse
and corresponding parent_root->simple_rte_array[]->subquery distinct copies
of the parse tree, while d3d55ce571 introduced self-join removal replacing
relid of removed relation only in one of the copies.
The present commit fixes this bug by making recurse_set_operations() call
estimate_num_groups() with the copy of the parse tree processed by self-join
removal.
In future, we may think about maintaining just one copy of the parse tree
and/or keeping removed relids as aliases.
Reported-by: Zuming Jiang
Bug: #18170
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/flat/18170-f1d17bf9a0d58b24%40postgresql.org
Author: Richard Guo, Alexander Korotkov
Reviewed-by: Andrei Lepikhov
As per the preceding commit, GUC APIs generally expose NULL-valued
string variables as empty strings. Extend that policy to
GetConfigOption() and GetConfigOptionResetString(), eliminating
a crash hazard for unwary callers, as well as a fundamental
ambiguity in GetConfigOption()'s API.
No back-patch, since this is an API change and conceivably somebody
somewhere is depending on this corner case.
Xing Guo, Aleksander Alekseev, Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CACpMh+AyDx5YUpPaAgzVwC1d8zfOL4JoD-uyFDnNSa1z0EsDQQ@mail.gmail.com
get_explain_guc_options() crashed if a string GUC marked GUC_EXPLAIN
has a NULL boot_val. Nosing around found a couple of other places
that seemed insufficiently cautious about NULL string values, although
those are likely unreachable in practice. Add some commentary
defining the expectations for NULL values of string variables,
in hopes of forestalling future additions of more such bugs.
Xing Guo, Aleksander Alekseev, Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CACpMh+AyDx5YUpPaAgzVwC1d8zfOL4JoD-uyFDnNSa1z0EsDQQ@mail.gmail.com
Introduce unicode_version(), icu_unicode_version(), and
unicode_assigned().
The latter requires introducing a new lookup table for the Unicode
General Category, which is generated along with the other Unicode
lookup tables.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoYzYR-yhU6k1XFCADeyj=Oyz2PkVsa3iKv+keM8wp-F_A@mail.gmail.com
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut
The logical replication launcher may start apply workers during an
upgrade. This could be the cause of corruptions on a new cluster if
these are able to apply changes before the physical files are copied
over to the new cluster.
The chance of being able to do so is small as pg_upgrade uses its own
port and unix domain directory (the latter is customizable with
--socketdir), but just preventing the launcher to start is safer at the
end, because we are then sure that no changes will be applied. Like
29d0a77fa6 for max_slot_wal_keep_size, this is only set when a cluster
uses v17 or newer.
Author: Vignesh C
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALDaNm2g9ZKf=y8X6z6MsLCuh8WwU-=Q6pLj35NFi2M5BZNS_A@mail.gmail.com
The test missed that custom GUCs need to be ignored from the list of
parameters that can exist in postgresql.conf.sample. This caused the
test to fail on a server where such a module is loaded, when using
EXTRA_INSTALL and TEMP_CONFIG, for instance.
Author: Anton A. Melnikov
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/fc5509ce-5144-4dac-8d13-21793da44fc5@postgrespro.ru
Backpatch-through: 15
pgstatindex failed with ERRCODE_DATA_CORRUPTED, of the "can't-happen"
class XX. The other functions succeeded on an empty index; they might
have malfunctioned if the failed index build left torn I/O or other
complex state. Report an ERROR in statistics functions pgstatindex,
pgstatginindex, pgstathashindex, and pgstattuple. Report DEBUG1 and
skip all index I/O in maintenance functions brin_desummarize_range,
brin_summarize_new_values, brin_summarize_range, and
gin_clean_pending_list. Back-patch to v11 (all supported versions).
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20231001195309.a3@google.com
When beginning recovery, a LOG is displayed by the startup process to
show which recovery mode will be used depending on the .signal file(s)
set in the data folder, like "standby mode", recovery up to a given
target type and value, or archive recovery.
A different patch is under discussion to simplify the startup code by
requiring the presence of recovery.signal and/or standby.signal when a
backup_label file is read. Delaying a bit this LOG ensures that the
correct recovery mode would be reported, and putting it at this position
does not make it lose its value.
While on it, this commit adds a few comments documenting a bit more the
initial recovery steps and their dependencies, and fixes an incorrect
comment format. This introduces no behavior changes.
Extracted from a larger patch by me.
Reviewed-by: David Steele, Bowen Shi
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ZArVOMifjzE7f8W7@paquier.xyz
When beginning recovery from a base backup by reading a backup_label
file, it may be possible that no checkpoint record is available
depending on the method used when the case backup was taken, which would
prevent recovery from beginning. In this case, the FATAL messages
issued, initially added by c900c15269, mentioned recovery.signal as
an option to do recovery but not standby.signal. Let's add it as an
available option, for clarity.
Per suggestion from Bowen Shi, extracted from a larger patch by me.
Author: Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAM_vCudkSjr7NsNKSdjwtfAm9dbzepY6beZ5DP177POKy8=2aw@mail.gmail.com
Historically, the statistics of the checkpointer have been always part
of pg_stat_bgwriter. This commit removes a few columns from
pg_stat_bgwriter, and introduces pg_stat_checkpointer with equivalent,
renamed columns (plus a new one for the reset timestamp):
- checkpoints_timed -> num_timed
- checkpoints_req -> num_requested
- checkpoint_write_time -> write_time
- checkpoint_sync_time -> sync_time
- buffers_checkpoint -> buffers_written
The fields of PgStat_CheckpointerStats and its SQL functions are renamed
to match with the new field names, for consistency. Note that
background writer and checkpointer have been split into two different
processes in commits 806a2aee37 and bf405ba8e4. The pgstat
structures were already split, making this change straight-forward.
Bump catalog version.
Author: Bharath Rupireddy
Reviewed-by: Bertrand Drouvot, Andres Freund, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALj2ACVxX2ii=66RypXRweZe2EsBRiPMj0aHfRfHUeXJcC7kHg@mail.gmail.com
This commit refactors find_tabstat_entry() so as transaction counters
for inserted, updated and deleted tuples are included in the result
returned. If a shared entry is found for a relation, its result is now
a copy of the PgStat_TableStatus entry retrieved from shared memory.
This idea has been proposed by Andres Freund.
While on it, the following SQL functions, used in system views, are
refactored with macros, in the same spirit as 83a1a1b566, reducing the
amount of code:
- pg_stat_get_xact_tuples_deleted()
- pg_stat_get_xact_tuples_inserted()
- pg_stat_get_xact_tuples_updated()
There is now only one caller of find_tabstat_entry() in the tree.
Author: Bertrand Drouvot
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/b9e1f543-ee93-8168-d530-d961708ad9d3@gmail.com
Handling of login trigger FATAL error could cause a timing-dependant panic of
IPC::Run. This commit excludes checks which involves handling of such errors.
Reported-by: Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2268825.1698618066%40sss.pgh.pa.us
Among numerous other oversights, commit 482675987 neglected to fix
pg_dump to dump this new subscription option. Since the new default
is "false" while the previous behavior corresponds to "true", this
would cause legacy subscriptions to silently change behavior during
dump/reload or pg_upgrade. That seems like a bad idea. Even if it
was intended, failing to preserve the option once set in a new
installation is certainly not OK.
While here, reorder associated stanzas in pg_dump to match the
field order in pg_subscription, in hopes of reducing the impression
that all this code was written with the aid of a dartboard.
Back-patch to v16 where this new field was added.
Philip Warner (cosmetic tweaks by me)
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20231027042539.01A3A220F0A@thebes.rime.com.au
The original code did very little to guard against integer or floating
point overflow when computing the interval's fields. Detect any such
overflows and error out, rather than silently returning bogus results.
Joseph Koshakow, reviewed by Ashutosh Bapat and me.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAvxfHcm1TPwH_zaGWuFoL8pZBestbRZTU6Z%3D-RvAdSXTPbKfg%40mail.gmail.com
When looping around after finding that the set-returning function
returned zero rows for the current input tuple, ExecProjectSet
neglected to reset either of the two memory contexts it's
responsible for cleaning out. Typically this wouldn't cause much
problem, because once the SRF does return at least one row, the
contexts would get reset on the next call. However, if the SRF
returns no rows for many input tuples in succession, quite a lot
of memory could be transiently consumed.
To fix, make sure we reset both contexts while looping around.
Per bug #18172 from Sergei Kornilov. Back-patch to all supported
branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18172-9b8c5fc1d676ded3@postgresql.org
Debian recently decided to split out a bunch of "obsolete" timezone
names into a new tzdata-legacy package, which isn't installed by
default. One of these zone names is Pacific/Enderbury, and that
breaks our regression tests (on --with-system-tzdata builds)
because our default timezone abbreviations list defines PHOT as
Pacific/Enderbury.
Pacific/Enderbury got renamed to Pacific/Kanton in tzdata 2021b,
so that in distros that still have this entry it's just a symlink
to Pacific/Kanton anyway. So one answer would be to redefine PHOT
as Pacific/Kanton. However, then things would fail if the
installed tzdata predates 2021b, which is recent enough that that
seems like a real problem.
Instead, let's just remove PHOT from the default list. That seems
likely to affect nobody in the real world, because (a) it was an
abbreviation that the tzdb crew made up in the first place, with
no evidence of real-world usage, and (b) the total human population
of the Phoenix Islands is less than two dozen persons, per Wikipedia.
If anyone does use this zone abbreviation they can easily put it back
via a custom abbreviations file.
We'll keep PHOT in the Pacific.txt reference file, but change it
to Pacific/Kanton there, as that definition seems more likely to
be useful to future readers of that file.
Per report from Victor Wagner. Back-patch to all supported
branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20231027152049.4b5c8044@wagner.wagner.home
Add the 'checkunique' argument to bt_index_check() and bt_index_parent_check().
When the flag is specified the procedures will check the unique constraint
violation for unique indexes. Only one heap entry for all equal keys in
the index should be visible (including posting list entries). Report an error
otherwise.
pg_amcheck called with the --checkunique option will do the same check for all
the indexes it checks.
Author: Anastasia Lubennikova <lubennikovaav@gmail.com>
Author: Pavel Borisov <pashkin.elfe@gmail.com>
Author: Maxim Orlov <orlovmg@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Mark Dilger <mark.dilger@enterprisedb.com>
Reviewed-by: Zhihong Yu <zyu@yugabyte.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Reviewed-by: Aleksander Alekseev <aleksander@timescale.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALT9ZEHRn5xAM5boga0qnrCmPV52bScEK2QnQ1HmUZDD301JEg%40mail.gmail.com
When calculating distance for interval values, the code mostly mimicked
interval_mi, i.e. it built a new interval value for the difference.
That however does not work for sufficiently distant interval values,
when the difference overflows the interval range.
Instead, we can calculate the distance directly, without constructing
the intermediate (and unnecessary) interval value.
Backpatch to 14, where minmax-multi indexes were introduced.
Reported-by: Dean Rasheed
Reviewed-by: Ashutosh Bapat, Dean Rasheed
Backpatch-through: 14
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/eef0ea8c-4aaa-8d0d-027f-58b1f35dd170@enterprisedb.com
Make sure that infinite values in date/timestamp columns are treated as
if in infinite distance. Infinite values should not be merged with other
values, leaving them as outliers. The code however returned distance 0
in this case, so that infinite values were merged first. While this does
not break the index (i.e. it still produces correct query results), it
may make it much less efficient.
We don't need explicit handling of infinite date/timestamp values when
calculating distances, because those values are represented as extreme
but regular values (e.g. INT64_MIN/MAX for the timestamp type).
We don't need an exact distance, just a value that is much larger than
distanced between regular values. With the added cast to double values,
we can simply subtract the values.
The regression test queries a value in the "gap" and checks the range
was properly eliminated by the BRIN index.
This only affects minmax-multi indexes on timestamp/date columns with
infinite values, which is not very common in practice. The affected
indexes may need to be rebuilt.
Backpatch to 14, where minmax-multi indexes were introduced.
Reported-by: Ashutosh Bapat
Reviewed-by: Ashutosh Bapat, Dean Rasheed
Backpatch-through: 14
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/eef0ea8c-4aaa-8d0d-027f-58b1f35dd170@enterprisedb.com
When calculating the distance between date values, make sure to subtract
them in the right order, i.e. (larger - smaller).
The distance is used to determine which values to merge, and is expected
to be a positive value. The code unfortunately did the subtraction in
the opposite order, i.e. (smaller - larger), thus producing negative
values and merging values the most distant values first.
The resulting index is correct (i.e. produces correct results), but may
be significantly less efficient. This affects all minmax-multi indexes
on date columns.
Backpatch to 14, where minmax-multi indexes were introduced.
Reported-by: Ashutosh Bapat
Reviewed-by: Ashutosh Bapat, Dean Rasheed
Backpatch-through: 14
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/eef0ea8c-4aaa-8d0d-027f-58b1f35dd170@enterprisedb.com
When calculating distances for timestamp values for BRIN minmax-multi
indexes, we need to be careful about overflows for extreme values. If
the value overflows into a negative value, the index may be inefficient.
The new regression test checks this for the timestamp type by adding a
table with enough values to force range compaction/merging. The values
are close to min/max, which means a risk of overflow.
Fixed by converting the int64 values to double first, before calculating
the distance. This prevents the overflow. We may lose some precision, of
course, but that's good enough. In the worst case we build a slightly
less efficient index, but for large distances this won't matter.
This only affects minmax-multi indexes on timestamp columns, with ranges
containing values sufficiently distant to cause an overflow. That seems
like a fairly rare case in practice.
Backpatch to 14, where minmax-multi indexes were introduced.
Reported-by: Ashutosh Bapat
Reviewed-by: Ashutosh Bapat, Dean Rasheed
Backpatch-through: 14
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/eef0ea8c-4aaa-8d0d-027f-58b1f35dd170@enterprisedb.com
d3d55ce571 changed RelOptInfo.unique_for_rels from the list of Relid sets to
the list of UniqueRelInfo's. But it didn't make UniqueRelInfo a node.
This commit makes UniqueRelInfo a node. Also this commit revises some
comments related to RelOptInfo.unique_for_rels.
Reported-by: Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/flat/1189851.1698340331%40sss.pgh.pa.us
Two attributes related to checkpointer statistics are removed in this
commit:
- buffers_backend, that counts the number of buffers written directly by
a backend.
- buffers_backend_fsync, that counts the number of times a backend had
to do fsync() by its own.
These are actually not checkpointer properties but backend properties.
Also, pg_stat_io provides a more accurate and equivalent report of these
numbers, by tracking all the I/O stats related to backends, including
writes and fsyncs, so storing them in pg_stat_checkpointer was
redundant.
Thanks also to Robert Haas and Amit Kapila for their input.
Bump catalog version.
Author: Bharath Rupireddy
Reviewed-by: Bertrand Drouvot, Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230210004604.mcszbscsqs3bc5nx@awork3.anarazel.de
f0efa5aec added initReadOnlyStringInfo to allow a StringInfo to be
initialized from an existing buffer and also relaxed the requirement
that a StringInfo's buffer must be NUL terminated at data[len]. Now
that we have that, there's no need for these aggregate deserial
functions to use appendBinaryStringInfo() as that rather wastefully
palloc'd a new buffer and memcpy'd in the bytea's buffer. Instead, we can
just use the bytea's buffer and point the StringInfo directly to that
using the new initializer function.
In Amdahl's law, this speeds up the serial portion of parallel
aggregates and makes sum(numeric), avg(numeric), var_pop(numeric),
var_samp(numeric), variance(numeric), stddev_pop(numeric),
stddev_samp(numeric), stddev(numeric), array_agg(anyarray),
string_agg(text) and string_agg(bytea) scale better in parallel queries.
Author: David Rowley
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvr%3De-YOigriSHHm324a40HPqcUhSp6pWWgjz5WwegR%3DcQ%40mail.gmail.com
Peter Eisentraut
Noah Misch
Daniel Gustafsson
Alexander Korotkov
David Rowley
Bruce Momjian
Tom Lane
Jeff Davis
Michael Paquier
Dean Rasheed
Tomas Vondra
Amit Kapila
Amit Langote