libzstd allows transparent parallel compression just by setting
an option when creating the compression context, so permit that
for both client and server-side backup compression. To use this,
use something like pg_basebackup --compress WHERE-zstd:workers=N
where WHERE is "client" or "server" and N is an integer.
When compression is performed on the server side, this will spawn
threads inside the PostgreSQL backend. While there is almost no
PostgreSQL server code which is thread-safe, the threads here are used
internally by libzstd and touch only data structures controlled by
libzstd.
Patch by me, based in part on earlier work by Dipesh Pandit
and Jeevan Ladhe. Reviewed by Justin Pryzby.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+Tgmobj6u-nWF-j=FemygUhobhryLxf9h-wJN7W-2rSsseHNA@mail.gmail.com
There are more compression parameters that can be specified than just
an integer compression level, so rename the new COMPRESSION_LEVEL
option to COMPRESSION_DETAIL before it gets released. Introduce a
flexible syntax for that option to allow arbitrary options to be
specified without needing to adjust the main replication grammar,
and common code to parse it that is shared between the client and
the server.
This commit doesn't actually add any new compression parameters,
so the only user-visible change is that you can now type something
like pg_basebackup --compress gzip:level=5 instead of writing just
pg_basebackup --compress gzip:5. However, it should make it easy to
add new options. If for example gzip starts offering fries, we can
support pg_basebackup --compress gzip:level=5,fries=true for the
benefit of users who want fries with that.
Along the way, this fixes a few things in pg_basebackup so that the
pg_basebackup can be used with a server-side compression algorithm
that pg_basebackup itself does not understand. For example,
pg_basebackup --compress server-lz4 could still succeed even if
only the server and not the client has LZ4 support, provided that
the other options to pg_basebackup don't require the client to
decompress the archive.
Patch by me. Reviewed by Justin Pryzby and Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoYvpetyRAbbg1M8b3-iHsaN4nsgmWPjOENu5-doHuJ7fA@mail.gmail.com
There were a number of places in the code that used bespoke bit-twiddling
expressions to do bitwise rotation. While we've had pg_rotate_right32()
for a while now, we hadn't gotten around to standardizing on that. Do so
now. Since many potential call sites look more natural with the "left"
equivalent, add that function too.
Reviewed by Tom Lane and Yugo Nagata
Discussion:
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAFBsxsH7c1LC0CGZ0ADCBXLHU5-%3DKNXx-r7tHYPAW51b2HK4Qw%40mail.gmail.com
On AIX 7.1, struct sockaddr_un is declared to be 1025 bytes long,
but the sun_len field that should hold the length is only a byte.
Clamp the value we try to store to ensure it will fit in the field.
(This coding might need adjustment if there are any machines out
there where sun_len is as wide as size_t; but a preliminary survey
suggests there's not, so let's keep it simple.)
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2781112.1644819528@sss.pgh.pa.us
The previous coding was correct, but the style and commentary were a bit
vague about which operations had to happen, in what circumstances, and
in what order. Rearrange so that the epilogue does nothing in the DFA END
state. That allows turning some conditional statements in the backtracking
logic into asserts. With that, we can be more explicit about needing
to backtrack at least one byte in non-END states to ensure checking the
current byte sequence in the slow path. No change to the regression tests,
since they should be able catch deficiencies here already.
In passing, improve the comments around DFA states where the first
continuation byte has a restricted range.
This is similar to b69aba7, except that this completes the work for
HMAC with a new routine called pg_hmac_error() that would provide more
context about the type of error that happened during a HMAC computation:
- The fallback HMAC implementation in hmac.c relies on cryptohashes, so
in some code paths it is necessary to return back the error generated by
cryptohashes.
- For the OpenSSL implementation (hmac_openssl.c), the logic is very
similar to cryptohash_openssl.c, where the error context comes from
OpenSSL if one of its internal routines failed, with different error
codes if something internal to hmac_openssl.c failed or was incorrect.
Any in-core code paths that use the centralized HMAC interface are
related to SCRAM, for errors that are unlikely going to happen, with
only SHA-256. It would be possible to see errors when computing some
HMACs with MD5 for example and OpenSSL FIPS enabled, and this commit
would help in reporting the correct errors but nothing in core uses
that. So, at the end, no backpatch to v14 is done, at least for now.
Errors in SCRAM related to the computation of the server key, stored
key, etc. need to pass down the potential error context string across
more layers of their respective call stacks for the frontend and the
backend, so each surrounding routine is adapted for this purpose.
Reviewed-by: Sergey Shinderuk
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/Yd0N9tSAIIkFd+qi@paquier.xyz
The existing cryptohash facility was causing problems in some code paths
related to MD5 (frontend and backend) that relied on the fact that the
only type of error that could happen would be an OOM, as the MD5
implementation used in PostgreSQL ~13 (the in-core implementation is
used when compiling with or without OpenSSL in those older versions),
could fail only under this circumstance.
The new cryptohash facilities can fail for reasons other than OOMs, like
attempting MD5 when FIPS is enabled (upstream OpenSSL allows that up to
1.0.2, Fedora and Photon patch OpenSSL 1.1.1 to allow that), so this
would cause incorrect reports to show up.
This commit extends the cryptohash APIs so as callers of those routines
can fetch more context when an error happens, by using a new routine
called pg_cryptohash_error(). The error states are stored within each
implementation's internal context data, so as it is possible to extend
the logic depending on what's suited for an implementation. The default
implementation requires few error states, but OpenSSL could report
various issues depending on its internal state so more is needed in
cryptohash_openssl.c, and the code is shaped so as we are always able to
grab the necessary information.
The core code is changed to adapt to the new error routine, painting
more "const" across the call stack where the static errors are stored,
particularly in authentication code paths on variables that provide
log details. This way, any future changes would warn if attempting to
free these strings. The MD5 authentication code was also a bit blurry
about the handling of "logdetail" (LOG sent to the postmaster), so
improve the comments related that, while on it.
The origin of the problem is 87ae969, that introduced the centralized
cryptohash facility. Extra changes are done for pgcrypto in v14 for the
non-OpenSSL code path to cope with the improvements done by this
commit.
Reported-by: Michael Mühlbeyer
Author: Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/89B7F072-5BBE-4C92-903E-D83E865D9367@trivadis.com
Backpatch-through: 14
Try to disable ASLR when building in EXEC_BACKEND mode, to avoid random
memory mapping failures while testing. For developer use only, no
effect on regular builds.
Suggested-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Tested-by: Bossart, Nathan <bossartn@amazon.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210806032944.m4tz7j2w47mant26%40alap3.anarazel.de
Our previous validator used a traditional algorithm that performed
comparison and branching one byte at a time. It's useful in that
we always know exactly how many bytes we have validated, but that
precision comes at a cost. Input validation can show up prominently
in profiles of COPY FROM, and future improvements to COPY FROM such
as parallelism or faster line parsing will put more pressure on input
validation. Hence, add fast paths for both ASCII and multibyte UTF-8:
Use bitwise operations to check 16 bytes at a time for ASCII. If
that fails, use a "shift-based" DFA on those bytes to handle the
general case, including multibyte. These paths are relatively free
of branches and thus robust against all kinds of byte patterns. With
these algorithms, UTF-8 validation is several times faster, depending
on platform and the input byte distribution.
The previous coding in pg_utf8_verifystr() is retained for short
strings and for when the fast path returns an error.
Review, performance testing, and additional hacking by: Heikki
Linakangas, Vladimir Sitnikov, Amit Khandekar, Thomas Munro, and
Greg Stark
Discussion:
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAFBsxsEV_SzH%2BOLyCiyon%3DiwggSyMh_eF6A3LU2tiWf3Cy2ZQg%40mail.gmail.com
This commit moves the timestamp computation of the control file within
the routine of src/common/ in charge of updating the backend's control
file, which is shared by multiple frontend tools (pg_rewind,
pg_checksums and pg_resetwal) and the backend itself.
This change has as direct effect to update the control file's timestamp
when writing the control file in pg_rewind and pg_checksums, something
that is helpful to keep track of control file updates for those
operations, something also tracked by the backend at startup within its
logs. This part is arguably a bug, as ControlFileData->time should be
updated each time a new version of the control file is written, but this
is a behavior change so no backpatch is done.
Author: Amul Sul
Reviewed-by: Nathan Bossart, Michael Paquier, Bharath Rupireddy
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAJ_b97nd_ghRpyFV9Djf9RLXkoTbOUqnocq11WGq9TisX09Fw@mail.gmail.com
Standardize on xoroshiro128** as our basic PRNG algorithm, eliminating
a bunch of platform dependencies as well as fundamentally-obsolete PRNG
code. In addition, this API replacement will ease replacing the
algorithm again in future, should that become necessary.
xoroshiro128** is a few percent slower than the drand48 family,
but it can produce full-width 64-bit random values not only 48-bit,
and it should be much more trustworthy. It's likely to be noticeably
faster than the platform's random(), depending on which platform you
are thinking about; and we can have non-global state vectors easily,
unlike with random(). It is not cryptographically strong, but neither
are the functions it replaces.
Fabien Coelho, reviewed by Dean Rasheed, Aleksander Alekseev, and myself
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/alpine.DEB.2.22.394.2105241211230.165418@pseudo
This fills in the work left un-done by 5f1148224. \prompt can
be canceled out of now, and so can password prompts issued during
\connect. (We don't need to do anything for password prompts
issued during startup, because we aren't yet trapping SIGINT
at that point.)
Nathan Bossart
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/747443.1635536754@sss.pgh.pa.us
Up to now, you couldn't escape out of psql's \password command
by typing control-C (or other local spelling of SIGINT). This
is pretty user-unfriendly, so improve it. To do so, we have to
modify the functions provided by pg_get_line.c; but we don't
want to mess with psql's SIGINT handler setup, so provide an
API that lets that handler cause the cancel to occur.
This relies on the assumption that we won't do any major harm by
longjmp'ing out of fgets(). While that's obviously a little shaky,
we've long had the same assumption in the main input loop, and few
issues have been reported.
psql has some other simple_prompt() calls that could usefully
be improved the same way; for now, just deal with \password.
Nathan Bossart, minor tweaks by me
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/747443.1635536754@sss.pgh.pa.us
PostgreSQL 13 and newer versions are directly impacted by that through
the SQL function normalize(), which would cause a call of this function
to write one byte past its allocation if using in input an empty
string after recomposing the string with NFC and NFKC. Older versions
(v10~v12) are not directly affected by this problem as the only code
path using normalization is SASLprep in SCRAM authentication that
forbids the case of an empty string, but let's make the code more robust
anyway there so as any out-of-core callers of this function are covered.
The solution chosen to fix this issue is simple, with the addition of a
fast-exit path if the decomposed string is found as empty. This would
only happen for an empty string as at its lowest level a codepoint would
be decomposed as itself if it has no entry in the decomposition table or
if it has a decomposition size of 0.
Some tests are added to cover this issue in v13~. Note that an empty
string has always been considered as normalized (grammar "IS NF[K]{C,D}
NORMALIZED", through the SQL function is_normalized()) for all the
operations allowed (NFC, NFD, NFKC and NFKD) since this feature has been
introduced as of 2991ac5. This behavior is unchanged but some tests are
added in v13~ to check after that.
I have also checked "make normalization-check" in src/common/unicode/,
while on it (works in 13~, and breaks in older stable branches
independently of this commit).
The release notes should just mention this commit for v13~.
Reported-by: Matthijs van der Vleuten
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17277-0c527a373794e802@postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 10
The intermittent h buffer was not freed, causing it to leak. Backpatch
through 14 where HMAC was refactored to the current API.
Author: Sergey Shinderuk <s.shinderuk@postgrespro.ru>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/af07e620-7e28-a742-4637-2bc44aa7c2be@postgrespro.ru
Backpatch-through: 14
Several mistakes have piled in the code comments over the time,
including incorrect grammar, function names and simple typos. This
commit takes care of a portion of these.
No backpatch is done as this is only cosmetic.
Author: Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210924215827.GS831@telsasoft.com
The hardcoded "wide character" set in ucs_wcwidth() was last updated
around the Unicode 5.0 era. This led to misalignment when printing
emojis and other codepoints that have since been designated
wide or full-width.
To fix and keep up to date, extend update-unicode to download the list
of wide and full-width codepoints from the offical sources.
In passing, remove some comments about non-spacing characters that
haven't been accurate since we removed the former hardcoded logic.
Jacob Champion
Reported and reviewed by Pavel Stehule
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CAFj8pRCeX21O69YHxmykYySYyprZAqrKWWg0KoGKdjgqcGyygg@mail.gmail.com
This is a combined revert of the following commits:
- c3826f8, a refactoring piece that moved the hex decoding code to
src/common/. This code was cleaned up by aef8948, as it originally
included no overflow checks in the same way as the base64 routines in
src/common/ used by SCRAM, making it unsafe for its purpose.
- aef8948, a more advanced refactoring of the hex encoding/decoding code
to src/common/ that added sanity checks on the result buffer for hex
decoding and encoding. As reported by Hans Buschmann, those overflow
checks are expensive, and it is possible to see a performance drop in
the decoding/encoding of bytea or LOs the longer they are. Simple SQLs
working on large bytea values show a clear difference in perf profile.
- ccf4e27, a cleanup made possible by aef8948.
The reverts of all those commits bring back the performance of hex
decoding and encoding back to what it was in ~13. Fow now and
post-beta3, this is the simplest option.
Reported-by: Hans Buschmann
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1629039545467.80333@nidsa.net
Backpatch-through: 14
This commit removes a dependency to the central logging facilities in
the JSON parsing routines of src/common/, which existed to log errors
when seeing error codes that do not match any existing values in
JsonParseErrorType, which is not something that should never happen.
The routine providing a detailed error message based on the error code
is made backend-only, the existing code being unsafe to use in the
frontend as the error message may finish by being palloc'd or point to a
static string, so there is no way to know if the memory of the message
should be pfree'd or not. The only user of this routine in the frontend
was pg_verifybackup, that is changed to use a more generic error message
on parsing failure.
Note that making this code more resilient to OOM failures if used in
shared libraries would require much more work as a lot of code paths
still rely on palloc() & friends, but we are not sure yet if we need to
go down to that. Still, removing the dependency to logging is a step
toward more portability.
This cleans up the handling of check_stack_depth() while on it, as it
exists only in the backend.
Per discussion with Jacob Champion and Tom Lane.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/YNwL7kXwn3Cckbd6@paquier.xyz
An incorrectly-encoded multibyte character near the end of a string
could cause various processing loops to run past the string's
terminating NUL, with results ranging from no detectable issue to
a program crash, depending on what happens to be in the following
memory.
This isn't an issue in the server, because we take care to verify
the encoding of strings before doing any interesting processing
on them. However, that lack of care leaked into client-side code
which shouldn't assume that anyone has validated the encoding of
its input.
Although this is certainly a bug worth fixing, the PG security team
elected not to regard it as a security issue, primarily because
any untrusted text should be sanitized by PQescapeLiteral or
the like before being incorporated into a SQL or psql command.
(If an app fails to do so, the same technique can be used to
cause SQL injection, with probably much more dire consequences
than a mere client-program crash.) Those functions were already
made proof against this class of problem, cf CVE-2006-2313.
To fix, invent PQmblenBounded() which is like PQmblen() except it
won't return more than the number of bytes remaining in the string.
In HEAD we can make this a new libpq function, as PQmblen() is.
It seems imprudent to change libpq's API in stable branches though,
so in the back branches define PQmblenBounded as a macro in the files
that need it. (Note that just changing PQmblen's behavior would not
be a good idea; notably, it would completely break the escaping
functions' defense against this exact problem. So we just want a
version for those callers that don't have any better way of handling
this issue.)
Per private report from houjingyi. Back-patch to all supported branches.
Instead, put them in via a format placeholder. This reduces the
number of distinct translatable messages and also reduces the chances
of typos during translation. We already did this for the system call
arguments in a number of cases, so this is just the same thing taken a
bit further.
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/92d6f545-5102-65d8-3c87-489f71ea0a37%40enterprisedb.com
Similarly to the cryptohash implementations, this refactors the existing
HMAC code into a single set of APIs that can be plugged with any crypto
libraries PostgreSQL is built with (only OpenSSL currently). If there
is no such libraries, a fallback implementation is available. Those new
APIs are designed similarly to the existing cryptohash layer, so there
is no real new design here, with the same logic around buffer bound
checks and memory handling.
HMAC has a dependency on cryptohashes, so all the cryptohash types
supported by cryptohash{_openssl}.c can be used with HMAC. This
refactoring is an advantage mainly for SCRAM, that included its own
implementation of HMAC with SHA256 without relying on the existing
crypto libraries even if PostgreSQL was built with their support.
This code has been tested on Windows and Linux, with and without
OpenSSL, across all the versions supported on HEAD from 1.1.1 down to
1.0.1. I have also checked that the implementations are working fine
using some sample results, a custom extension of my own, and doing
cross-checks across different major versions with SCRAM with the client
and the backend.
Author: Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Bruce Momjian
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/X9m0nkEJEzIPXjeZ@paquier.xyz
This expands the binary validation in pg_upgrade with a version
check per binary to ensure that the target cluster installation
only contains binaries from the target version.
In order to reduce duplication, validate_exec is exported from
port.h and the local copy in pg_upgrade is removed.
Author: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/9328.1552952117@sss.pgh.pa.us
Point to the specific line where the error was detected; the
previous code tended to include several preceding lines as well.
Avoid re-scanning the entire input to recompute which line that
was. Simplify the logic a bit. Add test cases.
Simon Riggs and Hamid Akhtar, reviewed by Daniel Gustafsson and myself
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CANbhV-EPBnXm3MF_TTWBwwqgn1a1Ghmep9VHfqmNBQ8BT0f+_g@mail.gmail.com
With its current design, a careless use of pg_cryptohash_final() could
would result in an out-of-bound write in memory as the size of the
destination buffer to store the result digest is not known to the
cryptohash internals, without the caller knowing about that. This
commit adds a new argument to pg_cryptohash_final() to allow such sanity
checks, and implements such defenses.
The internals of SCRAM for HMAC could be tightened a bit more, but as
everything is based on SCRAM_KEY_LEN with uses particular to this code
there is no need to complicate its interface more than necessary, and
this comes back to the refactoring of HMAC in core. Except that, this
minimizes the uses of the existing DIGEST_LENGTH variables, relying
instead on sizeof() for the result sizes. In ossp-uuid, this also makes
the code more defensive, as it already relied on dce_uuid_t being at
least the size of a MD5 digest.
This is in philosophy similar to cfc40d3 for base64.c and aef8948 for
hex.c.
Reported-by: Ranier Vilela
Author: Michael Paquier, Ranier Vilela
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEudQAoqEGmcff3J4sTSV-R_16Monuz-UpJFbf_dnVH=APr02Q@mail.gmail.com
This is a replacement for the existing --with-openssl, extending the
logic to make easier the addition of new SSL libraries. The grammar is
chosen to be similar to --with-uuid, where multiple values can be
chosen, with "openssl" as the only supported value for now.
The original switch, --with-openssl, is kept for compatibility.
Author: Daniel Gustafsson, Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Jacob Champion
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/FAB21FC8-0F62-434F-AA78-6BD9336D630A@yesql.se
This makes pg_verify_mbstr() function faster, by allowing more efficient
encoding-specific implementations. All the implementations included in
this commit are pretty naive, they just call the same encoding-specific
verifychar functions that were used previously, but that already gives a
performance boost because the tight character-at-a-time loop is simpler.
Reviewed-by: John Naylor
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/e7861509-3960-538a-9025-b75a61188e01@iki.fi
With this commit, SHA1 goes through the implementation provided by
OpenSSL via EVP when building the backend with it, and uses as fallback
implementation KAME which was located in pgcrypto and already shaped for
an integration with a set of init, update and final routines.
Structures and routines have been renamed to make things consistent with
the fallback implementations of MD5 and SHA2.
uuid-ossp has used for ages a shortcut with pgcrypto to fetch a copy of
SHA1 if needed. This was built depending on the build options within
./configure, so this cleans up some code and removes the build
dependency between pgcrypto and uuid-ossp.
Note that this will help with the refactoring of HMAC, as pgcrypto
offers the option to use MD5, SHA1 or SHA2, so only the second option
was missing to make that possible.
Author: Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Heikki Linnakangas
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/X9HXKTgrvJvYO7Oh@paquier.xyz
This commit addresses some issues with c3826f83 that moved the hex
decoding routine to src/common/:
- The decoding function lacked overflow checks, so when used for
security-related features it was an open door to out-of-bound writes if
not carefully used that could remain undetected. Like the base64
routines already in src/common/ used by SCRAM, this routine is reworked
to check for overflows by having the size of the destination buffer
passed as argument, with overflows checked before doing any writes.
- The encoding routine was missing. This is moved to src/common/ and
it gains the same overflow checks as the decoding part.
On failure, the hex routines of src/common/ issue an error as per the
discussion done to make them usable by frontend tools, but not by shared
libraries. Note that this is why ECPG is left out of this commit, and
it still includes a duplicated logic doing hex encoding and decoding.
While on it, this commit uses better variable names for the source and
destination buffers in the existing escape and base64 routines in
encode.c and it makes them more robust to overflow detection. The
previous core code issued a FATAL after doing out-of-bound writes if
going through the SQL functions, which would be enough to detect
problems when working on changes that impacted this area of the
code. Instead, an error is issued before doing an out-of-bound write.
The hex routines were being directly called for bytea conversions and
backup manifests without such sanity checks. The current calls happen
to not have any problems, but careless uses of such APIs could easily
lead to CVE-class bugs.
Author: Bruce Momjian, Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Sehrope Sarkuni
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20201231003557.GB22199@momjian.us
This commit addresses two issues:
- In pgcrypto, MD5 computation called pg_cryptohash_{init,update,final}
without checking for the result status.
- Simplify pg_checksum_raw_context to use only one variable for all the
SHA2 options available in checksum manifests.
Reported-by: Heikki Linnakangas
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/f62f26bb-47a5-8411-46e5-4350823e06a5@iki.fi
The allocation of the cryptohash context data when building with OpenSSL
was happening in the memory context of the caller of
pg_cryptohash_create(), which could lead to issues with resowner cleanup
if cascading resources are cleaned up on an error. Like other
facilities using resowners, move the base allocation to TopMemoryContext
to ensure a correct cleanup on failure.
The resulting code gets simpler with this commit as the context data is
now hold by a unique opaque pointer, so as there is only one single
allocation done in TopMemoryContext.
After discussion, also change the cryptohash subroutines to return an
error if the caller provides NULL for the context data to ease error
detection on OOM.
Author: Heikki Linnakangas
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/X9xbuEoiU3dlImfa@paquier.xyz
Since at least 2001 we've used putenv() and avoided setenv(), on the
grounds that the latter was unportable and not in POSIX. However,
POSIX added it that same year, and by now the situation has reversed:
setenv() is probably more portable than putenv(), since POSIX now
treats the latter as not being a core function. And setenv() has
cleaner semantics too. So, let's reverse that old policy.
This commit adds a simple src/port/ implementation of setenv() for
any stragglers (we have one in the buildfarm, but I'd not be surprised
if that code is never used in the field). More importantly, extend
win32env.c to also support setenv(). Then, replace usages of putenv()
with setenv(), and get rid of some ad-hoc implementations of setenv()
wannabees.
Also, adjust our src/port/ implementation of unsetenv() to follow the
POSIX spec that it returns an error indicator, rather than returning
void as per the ancient BSD convention. I don't feel a need to make
all the call sites check for errors, but the portability stub ought
to match real-world practice.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2065122.1609212051@sss.pgh.pa.us
The patch needs test cases, reorganization, and cfbot testing.
Technically reverts commits 5c31afc49d..e35b2bad1a (exclusive/inclusive)
and 08db7c63f3..ccbe34139b.
Reported-by: Tom Lane, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1ktAAG-0002V2-VB@gemulon.postgresql.org
Robert Haas
Peter Eisentraut
John Naylor
Tom Lane
Michael Paquier
Thomas Munro
Bruce Momjian
Daniel Gustafsson
David Rowley
Heikki Linnakangas