SUSv3 <netinet/in.h> defines struct sockaddr_in6, and all targeted Unix
systems have it. Windows has it in <ws2ipdef.h>. Remove the configure
probe, the macro and a small amount of dead code.
Also remove a mention of IPv6-less builds from the documentation, since
there aren't any.
This is similar to commits f5580882 and 077bf2f2 for Unix sockets. Even
though AF_INET6 is an "optional" component of SUSv3, there are no known
modern operating system without it, and it seems even less likely to be
omitted from future systems than AF_UNIX.
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+hUKGKErNfhmvb_H0UprEmp4LPzGN06yR2_0tYikjzB-2ECMw@mail.gmail.com
SUSv3, all targeted Unixes and modern Windows have getaddrinfo() and
related interfaces. Drop the replacement implementation, and adjust
some headers slightly to make sure that the APIs are visible everywhere
using standard POSIX headers and names.
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKG%2BL_3brvh%3D8e0BW_VfX9h7MtwgN%3DnFHP5o7X2oZucY9dg%40mail.gmail.com
Since HAVE_UNIX_SOCKETS is now defined unconditionally, remove the macro
and drop a small amount of dead code.
The last known systems not to have them (as far as I know at least) were
QNX, which we de-supported years ago, and Windows, which now has them.
If a new OS ever shows up with the POSIX sockets API but without working
AF_UNIX, it'll presumably still be able to compile the code, and fail at
runtime with an unsupported address family error. We might want to
consider adding a HINT that you should turn off the option to use it if
your network stack doesn't support it at that point, but it doesn't seem
worth making the relevant code conditional at compile time.
Also adjust a couple of places in the docs and comments that referred to
builds without Unix-domain sockets, since there aren't any. Windows
still gets a special mention in those places, though, because we don't
try to use them by default there yet.
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKG%2BL_3brvh%3D8e0BW_VfX9h7MtwgN%3DnFHP5o7X2oZucY9dg%40mail.gmail.com
The original coding did this in pqDropServerData(), which seems
fairly backwards. Pending commands are more like already-queued
output data, which is dropped in pqDropConnection(). Moving the
operation means that we clear the command queue immediately upon
detecting connection drop, which improves the sanity of subsequent
behavior. In particular this eliminates duplicated error message
text as a consequence of code added in b15f25446, which supposed
that a nonempty command queue must mean the prior operation is
still active.
There might be an argument for backpatching this to v14; but as with
b15f25446, I'm unsure about interactions with 618c16707. For now,
given the lack of complaints about v14's behavior, leave it alone.
Per report from Peter Eisentraut.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/de57761c-b99b-3435-b0a6-474c72b1149a@enterprisedb.com
pg_regress reported "Unix socket" as the default location whenever
HAVE_UNIX_SOCKETS is defined. However, that's not been accurate
on Windows since 8f3ec75de. Update this logic to match what libpq
actually does now.
This is just cosmetic, but still it's potentially misleading.
Back-patch to v13 where 8f3ec75de came in.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3894060.1646415641@sss.pgh.pa.us
Oversight in commit 618c16707. This is mainly neatnik-ism, since
if PQrequestCancel is used per its API contract, we should perform
pqClearConnErrorState before reaching any place that would consult
errorReported. But still, it seems like a bad idea to potentially
leave errorReported pointing past errorMessage.len.
Since commit ffa2e4670, libpq accumulates text in conn->errorMessage
across a whole query cycle. In some situations, we may report more
than one error event within a cycle: the easiest case to reach is
where we report a FATAL error message from the server, and then a
bit later we detect loss of connection. Since, historically, each
error PGresult bears the entire content of conn->errorMessage,
this results in duplication of the FATAL message in any output that
concatenates the contents of the PGresults.
Accumulation in errorMessage still seems like a good idea, especially
in view of the number of places that did ad-hoc error concatenation
before ffa2e4670. So to fix this, let's track how much of
conn->errorMessage has been read out into error PGresults, and only
include new text in later PGresults. The tricky part of that is
to be sure that we never discard an error PGresult once made (else
we'd risk dropping some text, a problem much worse than duplication).
While libpq formerly did that in some code paths, a little bit of
rearrangement lets us postpone making an error PGresult at all until
we are about to return it.
A side benefit of that postponement is that it now becomes practical
to return a dummy static PGresult in cases where we hit out-of-memory
while trying to manufacture an error PGresult. This eliminates the
admittedly-very-rare case where we'd return NULL from PQgetResult,
indicating successful query completion, even though what actually
happened was an OOM failure.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ab4288f8-be5c-57fb-2400-e3e857f53e46@enterprisedb.com
As currently implemented, failure of a PGEVT_CONNRESET callback
forces the PGconn into the CONNECTION_BAD state (without closing
the socket, which is inconsistent with other failure paths), and
prevents later callbacks from being called. This seems highly
questionable, and indeed is questioned by comments in the source.
Instead, let's just ignore the result value of PGEVT_CONNRESET
calls. Like the preceding commit, this converts event callbacks
into "pure observers" that cannot affect libpq's processing logic.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3185105.1644960083@sss.pgh.pa.us
The AF_UNIX macro was being used unprotected by HAVE_UNIX_SOCKETS,
apparently since 2008. So the redirection through IS_AF_UNIX() is
apparently no longer necessary. (More generally, all supported
platforms are now HAVE_UNIX_SOCKETS, but even if there were a new
platform in the future, it seems plausible that it would define the
AF_UNIX symbol even without kernel support.) So remove the
IS_AF_UNIX() macro and make the code a bit more consistent.
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/f2d26815-9832-e333-d52d-72fbc0ade896%40enterprisedb.com
If connectivity to the server has been lost or become flaky, the
user might well try to send a query cancel. It's highly annoying
if PQcancel hangs up in such a case, but that's exactly what's likely
to happen. To ameliorate this problem, apply the PGconn's
tcp_user_timeout and keepalives settings to the TCP connection used
to send the cancel. This should be safe on Unix machines, since POSIX
specifies that setsockopt() is async-signal-safe. We are guessing
that WSAIoctl(SIO_KEEPALIVE_VALS) is similarly safe on Windows.
(Note that at least in psql and our other frontend programs, there's
no safety issue involved anyway, since we run PQcancel in its own
thread rather than in a signal handler.)
Most of the value here comes from the expectation that tcp_user_timeout
will be applied as a connection timeout. That appears to happen on
Linux, even though its tcp(7) man page claims differently. The
keepalive options probably won't help much, but as long as we can
apply them for not much code, we might as well.
Jelte Fennema, reviewed by Fujii Masao and myself
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/AM5PR83MB017870DE81FC84D5E21E9D1EF7AA9@AM5PR83MB0178.EURPRD83.prod.outlook.com
PQcancel() is supposed to be safe to call from a signal handler,
and indeed psql uses it that way. All of the library functions
it uses are specified to be async-signal-safe by POSIX ...
except for strerror. Neither plain strerror nor strerror_r
are considered safe. When this code was written, back in the
dark ages, we probably figured "oh, strerror will just index
into a constant array of strings" ... but in any locale except C,
that's unlikely to be true. Probably the reason we've not heard
complaints is that (a) this error-handling code is unlikely to be
reached in normal use, and (b) in many scenarios, localized error
strings would already have been loaded, after which maybe it's
safe to call strerror here. Still, this is clearly unacceptable.
The best we can do without relying on strerror is to print the
decimal value of errno, so make it do that instead. (This is
probably not much loss of user-friendliness, given that it is
hard to get a failure here.)
Back-patch to all supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2937814.1641960929@sss.pgh.pa.us
The point of this patch is to reduce inclusion spam by not needing
to #include <netdb.h> or <pwd.h> in port.h (which is read by every
compile in our tree). To do that, we must remove port.h's
declarations of pqGetpwuid and pqGethostbyname.
pqGethostbyname is only used, and is only ever likely to be used,
in src/port/getaddrinfo.c --- which isn't even built on most
platforms, making pqGethostbyname dead code for most people.
Hence, deal with that by just moving it into getaddrinfo.c.
To clean up pqGetpwuid, invent a couple of simple wrapper
functions with less-messy APIs. This allows removing some
duplicate error-handling code, too.
In passing, remove thread.c from the MSVC build, since it
contains nothing we use on Windows.
Noted while working on 376ce3e40.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1634252654444.90107@mit.edu
When we need to identify the home directory on non-Windows, first
consult getenv("HOME"). If that's empty or unset, fall back
on our previous method of checking the <pwd.h> database.
Preferring $HOME allows the user to intentionally point at some
other directory, and it seems to be in line with the behavior of
most other utilities. However, we shouldn't rely on it completely,
as $HOME is likely to be unset when running as a daemon.
Anders Kaseorg
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1634252654444.90107@mit.edu
This check was used to accommodate a staggering variety in particular
in the type of the third argument of accept(). This is no longer of
concern on currently supported systems. We can just use socklen_t in
the code and put in a simple check that substitutes int for socklen_t
if it's missing, to cover the few stragglers.
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/3538f4c4-1886-64f2-dcff-aaad8267fb82@enterprisedb.com
libpq collects up to a bufferload of data whenever it reads data from
the socket. When SSL or GSS encryption is requested during startup,
any additional data received with the server's yes-or-no reply
remained in the buffer, and would be treated as already-decrypted data
once the encryption handshake completed. Thus, a man-in-the-middle
with the ability to inject data into the TCP connection could stuff
some cleartext data into the start of a supposedly encryption-protected
database session.
This could probably be abused to inject faked responses to the
client's first few queries, although other details of libpq's behavior
make that harder than it sounds. A different line of attack is to
exfiltrate the client's password, or other sensitive data that might
be sent early in the session. That has been shown to be possible with
a server vulnerable to CVE-2021-23214.
To fix, throw a protocol-violation error if the internal buffer
is not empty after the encryption handshake.
Our thanks to Jacob Champion for reporting this problem.
Security: CVE-2021-23222
Commits ffa2e4670 and 52a10224e caused libpq's connection-establishment
functions to usually leave a nonempty string in the connection's
errorMessage buffer, even after a successful connection. While that
was intentional on my part, more sober reflection says that it wasn't
a great idea: the string would be a bit confusing. Also this broke at
least one application that checked for connection success by examining
the errorMessage, instead of using PQstatus() as documented. Let's
clear the buffer at success exit, restoring the pre-v14 behavior.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/4170264.1620321747@sss.pgh.pa.us
Commit ffa2e4670 changed libpq so that multiple error reports
occurring during one operation (a connection attempt or query)
are accumulated in conn->errorMessage, where before new ones
usually replaced any prior error. At least in theory, that makes
us more vulnerable to running out of memory for the errorMessage
buffer. If it did happen, the user would be left with just an
empty-string error report, which is pretty unhelpful.
We can improve this by relying on pqexpbuffer.c's existing "broken
buffer" convention to track whether we've hit OOM for the current
operation's error string, and then substituting a constant "out of
memory" string in the small number of places where the errorMessage
is read out.
While at it, apply the same method to similar OOM cases in
pqInternalNotice and pqGetErrorNotice3.
Back-patch to v14 where ffa2e4670 came in. In principle this could
go back further; but in view of the lack of field reports, the
hazard seems negligible in older branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/530153.1627425648@sss.pgh.pa.us
The code of SCRAM and SASL have been tightly linked together since SCRAM
exists in the core code, making hard to apprehend the addition of new
SASL mechanisms, but these are by design different facilities, with
SCRAM being an option for SASL. This refactors the code related to both
so as the backend and the frontend use a set of callbacks for SASL
mechanisms, documenting while on it what is expected by anybody adding a
new SASL mechanism.
The separation between both layers is neat, using two sets of callbacks
for the frontend and the backend to mark the frontier between both
facilities. The shape of the callbacks is now directly inspired from
the routines used by SCRAM, so the code change is straight-forward, and
the SASL code is moved into its own set of files. These will likely
change depending on how and if new SASL mechanisms get added in the
future.
Author: Jacob Champion
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3d2a6f5d50e741117d6baf83eb67ebf1a8a35a11.camel@vmware.com
Doing an abort() seems all right in development builds, but not in
production builds of general-purpose libraries. However, the functions
that were doing this lack any way to report a failure back up to their
callers. It seems like we can just get away with ignoring failures in
production builds, since (a) no such failures have been reported in the
dozen years that the code's been like this, and (b) failure to enforce
mutual exclusion during fe-auth.c operations would likely not cause any
problems anyway in most cases. (The OpenSSL callbacks that use this
macro are obsolete, so even less likely to cause interesting problems.)
Possibly a better answer would be to break compatibility of the
pgthreadlock_t callback API, but in the absence of field problem
reports, it doesn't really seem worth the trouble.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3131385.1624746109@sss.pgh.pa.us
Commit c0cb87fbb unwisely introduced a dependency on the StringInfo
machinery in fe-connect.c. We must not use that in libpq, because
it will do a summary exit(1) if it hits OOM, and that is not
appropriate behavior for a general-purpose library. The goal of
allowing arbitrary line lengths in service files doesn't seem like
it's worth a lot of effort, so revert back to the previous method
of using a stack-allocated buffer and failing on buffer overflow.
This isn't an exact revert though. I kept that patch's refactoring
to have a single exit path, as that seems cleaner than having each
error path know what to do to clean up. Also, I made the fixed-size
buffer 1024 bytes not 256, just to push off the need for an expandable
buffer some more.
There is more to do here; in particular the lack of any mechanical
check for this type of mistake now seems pretty hazardous. But this
fix gets us back to the level of robustness we had in v13, anyway.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/daeb22ec6ca8ef61e94d766a9b35fb03cabed38e.camel@vmware.com
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
By default, have libpq set the TLS extension "Server Name Indication" (SNI).
This allows an SNI-aware SSL proxy to route connections. (This
requires a proxy that is aware of the PostgreSQL protocol, not just
any SSL proxy.)
In the future, this could also allow the server to use different SSL
certificates for different host specifications. (That would require
new server functionality. This would be the client-side functionality
for that.)
Since SNI makes the host name appear in cleartext in the network
traffic, this might be undesirable in some cases. Therefore, also add
a libpq connection option "sslsni" to turn it off.
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/7289d5eb-62a5-a732-c3b9-438cee2cb709%40enterprisedb.com
Failing to do this can cause a crash, and I suspect is what has happened
with a buildfarm member reporting mysterious failures.
This is an ancient bug, but I'm not backpatching since evidently nobody
cares about PQtrace in older releases.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3333908.1617227066@sss.pgh.pa.us
Transform the PQtrace output format from its ancient (and mostly
useless) byte-level output format to a logical-message-level output,
making it much more usable. This implementation allows the printing
code to be written (as it indeed was) by looking at the protocol
documentation, which gives more confidence that the three (docs, trace
code and actual code) actually match.
Author: 岩田 彩 (Aya Iwata) <iwata.aya@fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: 綱川 貴之 (Takayuki Tsunakawa) <tsunakawa.takay@fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Kirk Jamison <k.jamison@fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Reviewed-by: 黒田 隼人 (Hayato Kuroda) <kuroda.hayato@fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: "Nagaura, Ryohei" <nagaura.ryohei@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Ryo Matsumura <matsumura.ryo@fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Greg Nancarrow <gregn4422@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jim Doty <jdoty@pivotal.io>
Reviewed-by: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/71E660EB361DF14299875B198D4CE5423DE3FBA4@g01jpexmbkw25
Pipeline mode in libpq lets an application avoid the Sync messages in
the FE/BE protocol that are implicit in the old libpq API after each
query. The application can then insert Sync at its leisure with a new
libpq function PQpipelineSync. This can lead to substantial reductions
in query latency.
Co-authored-by: Craig Ringer <craig.ringer@enterprisedb.com>
Co-authored-by: Matthieu Garrigues <matthieu.garrigues@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-by: Aya Iwata <iwata.aya@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Vérité <daniel@manitou-mail.org>
Reviewed-by: David G. Johnston <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Kirk Jamison <k.jamison@fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Nikhil Sontakke <nikhils@2ndquadrant.com>
Reviewed-by: Vaishnavi Prabakaran <VaishnaviP@fast.au.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Zhihong Yu <zyu@yugabyte.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMsr+YFUjJytRyV4J-16bEoiZyH=4nj+sQ7JP9ajwz=B4dMMZw@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJkzx4T5E-2cQe3dtv2R78dYFvz+in8PY7A8MArvLhs_pg75gg@mail.gmail.com
Based on an analysis of the OpenSSL code with Jacob, moving to EVP for
the cryptohash computations makes necessary the setup of the libcrypto
callbacks that were getting set only for SSL connections, but not for
connections without SSL. Not setting the callbacks makes the use of
threads potentially unsafe for connections calling cryptohashes during
authentication, like MD5 or SCRAM, if a failure happens during a
cryptohash computation. The logic setting the libssl and libcrypto
states is then split into two parts, both using the same locking, with
libcrypto being set up for SSL and non-SSL connections, while SSL
connections set any libssl state afterwards as needed.
Prior to this commit, only SSL connections would have set libcrypto
callbacks that are necessary to ensure a proper thread locking when
using multiple concurrent threads in libpq (ENABLE_THREAD_SAFETY). Note
that this is only required for OpenSSL 1.0.2 and 1.0.1 (oldest version
supported on HEAD), as 1.1.0 has its own internal locking and it has
dropped support for CRYPTO_set_locking_callback().
Tests with up to 300 threads with OpenSSL 1.0.1 and 1.0.2, mixing SSL
and non-SSL connection threads did not show any performance impact after
some micro-benchmarking. pgbench can be used here with -C and a
mostly-empty script (with one \set meta-command for example) to stress
authentication requests, and we have mixed that with some custom
programs for testing.
Reported-by: Jacob Champion
Author: Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Jacob Champion
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/fd3ba610085f1ff54623478cf2f7adf5af193cbb.camel@vmware.com
This partially reverts 096bbf7 and 9d2d457, undoing the libpq changes as
it could cause breakages in distributions that share one single libpq
version across multiple major versions of Postgres for extensions and
applications linking to that.
Note that the backend is unchanged here, and it still disables SSL
compression while simplifying the underlying catalogs that tracked if
compression was enabled or not for a SSL connection.
Per discussion with Tom Lane and Daniel Gustafsson.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/YEbq15JKJwIX+S6m@paquier.xyz
The authtype parameter was deprecated and made inactive in commit
d5bbe2aca5, but the environment variable was left defined and thus
tested with a getenv call even though the value is of no use. Also,
if it would exist it would be copied but never freed as the cleanup
code had been removed.
tty was deprecated in commit cb7fb3ca95 but most of the
infrastructure around it remained in place.
Author: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/DDDF36F3-582A-4C02-8598-9B464CC42B34@yesql.se
Per buildfarm member crake, any servers including a postgres_fdw server
with this option set would fail to do a pg_upgrade properly as the
option got hidden in f9264d1 by becoming a debug option, making the
restore of the FDW server fail.
This changes back the option in libpq to be visible, but still inactive
to fix this upgrade issue.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/YEbq15JKJwIX+S6m@paquier.xyz
PostgreSQL disabled compression as of e3bdb2d and the documentation
recommends against using it since. Additionally, SSL compression has
been disabled in OpenSSL since version 1.1.0, and was disabled in many
distributions long before that. The most recent TLS version, TLSv1.3,
disallows compression at the protocol level.
This commit removes the feature itself, removing support for the libpq
parameter sslcompression (parameter still listed for compatibility
reasons with existing connection strings, just ignored), and removes
the equivalent field in pg_stat_ssl and de facto PgBackendSSLStatus.
Note that, on top of removing the ability to activate compression by
configuration, compression is actively disabled in both frontend and
backend to avoid overrides from local configurations.
A TAP test is added for deprecated SSL parameters to check after
backwards compatibility.
Bump catalog version.
Author: Daniel Gustafsson
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut, Magnus Hagander, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/7E384D48-11C5-441B-9EC3-F7DB1F8518F6@yesql.se
Protocol version 3 was introduced in PostgreSQL 7.4. There shouldn't be
many clients or servers left out there without version 3 support. But as
a courtesy, I kept just enough of the old protocol support that we can
still send the "unsupported protocol version" error in v2 format, so that
old clients can display the message properly. Likewise, libpq still
understands v2 ErrorResponse messages when establishing a connection.
The impetus to do this now is that I'm working on a patch to COPY
FROM, to always prefetch some data. We cannot do that safely with the
old protocol, because it requires parsing the input one byte at a time
to detect the end-of-copy marker.
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane, Alvaro Herrera, John Naylor
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/9ec25819-0a8a-d51a-17dc-4150bb3cca3b%40iki.fi
In addition to the existing options of "any" and "read-write", we
now support "read-only", "primary", "standby", and "prefer-standby".
"read-write" retains its previous meaning of "transactions are
read-write by default", and "read-only" inverts that. The other
three modes test specifically for hot-standby status, which is not
quite the same thing. (Setting default_transaction_read_only on
a primary server renders it read-only to this logic, but not a
standby.)
Furthermore, if talking to a v14 or later server, no extra network
round trip is needed to detect the session's status; the GUC_REPORT
variables delivered by the server are enough. When talking to an
older server, a SHOW or SELECT query is issued to detect session
read-only-ness or server hot-standby state, as needed.
Haribabu Kommi, Greg Nancarrow, Vignesh C, Tom Lane; reviewed at
various times by Laurenz Albe, Takayuki Tsunakawa, Peter Smith.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAF3+xM+8-ztOkaV9gHiJ3wfgENTq97QcjXQt+rbFQ6F7oNzt9A@mail.gmail.com
Add another method to specify CRLs, hashed directory method, for both
server and client side. This offers a means for server or libpq to
load only CRLs that are required to verify a certificate. The CRL
directory is specifed by separate GUC variables or connection options
ssl_crl_dir and sslcrldir, alongside the existing ssl_crl_file and
sslcrl, so both methods can be used at the same time.
Author: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/20200731.173911.904649928639357911.horikyota.ntt@gmail.com
"connection to server so-and-so failed:" seems clearer than the
previous wording "could not connect to so-and-so:" (introduced by
52a10224e), because the latter suggests a network-level connection
failure. We're now prefixing this string to all types of connection
failures, for instance authentication failures; so we need wording
that doesn't imply a low-level error.
Per discussion with Robert Haas.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmobssJ6rS22dspWnu-oDxXevGmhMD8VcRBjmj-b9UDqRjw@mail.gmail.com
If a server returns ERRCODE_CANNOT_CONNECT_NOW, try the next host,
if multiple host names have been provided. This allows dealing
gracefully with standby servers that might not be in hot standby mode
yet.
In the wake of the preceding commit, it might be plausible to retry
many more error cases than we do now, but I (tgl) am hesitant to
move too aggressively on that --- it's not clear it'd be desirable
for cases such as bad-password, for example. But this case seems
safe enough.
Hubert Zhang, reviewed by Takayuki Tsunakawa
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Prefix "could not connect to host-or-socket-path:" to all connection
failure cases that occur after the socket() call, and remove the
ad-hoc server identity data that was appended to a few of these
messages. This should produce much more intelligible error reports
in multiple-target-host situations, especially for error cases that
are off the beaten track to any degree (because none of those provided
any server identity info).
As an example of the change, formerly a connection attempt with a bad
port number such as "psql -p 12345 -h localhost,/tmp" might produce
psql: error: could not connect to server: Connection refused
Is the server running on host "localhost" (::1) and accepting
TCP/IP connections on port 12345?
could not connect to server: Connection refused
Is the server running on host "localhost" (127.0.0.1) and accepting
TCP/IP connections on port 12345?
could not connect to server: No such file or directory
Is the server running locally and accepting
connections on Unix domain socket "/tmp/.s.PGSQL.12345"?
Now it looks like
psql: error: could not connect to host "localhost" (::1), port 12345: Connection refused
Is the server running on that host and accepting TCP/IP connections?
could not connect to host "localhost" (127.0.0.1), port 12345: Connection refused
Is the server running on that host and accepting TCP/IP connections?
could not connect to socket "/tmp/.s.PGSQL.12345": No such file or directory
Is the server running locally and accepting connections on that socket?
This requires adjusting a couple of regression tests to allow for
variation in the contents of a connection failure message.
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Previously, we had an undisciplined mish-mash of printfPQExpBuffer and
appendPQExpBuffer calls to report errors within libpq. This commit
establishes a uniform rule that appendPQExpBuffer[Str] should be used.
conn->errorMessage is reset only at the start of an application request,
and then accumulates messages till we're done. We can remove no less
than three different ad-hoc mechanisms that were used to get the effect
of concatenation of error messages within a sequence of operations.
Although this makes things quite a bit cleaner conceptually, the main
reason to do it is to make the world safer for the multiple-target-host
feature that was added awhile back. Previously, there were many cases
in which an error occurring during an individual host connection attempt
would wipe out the record of what had happened during previous attempts.
(The reporting is still inadequate, in that it can be hard to tell which
host got the failure, but that seems like a matter for a separate commit.)
Currently, lo_import and lo_export contain exceptions to the "never
use printfPQExpBuffer" rule. If we changed them, we'd risk reporting
an incidental lo_close failure before the actual read or write
failure, which would be confusing, not least because lo_close happened
after the main failure. We could improve this by inventing an
internal version of lo_close that doesn't reset the errorMessage; but
we'd also need a version of PQfn() that does that, and it didn't quite
seem worth the trouble for now.
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Thomas Munro
Peter Eisentraut
Tom Lane
Alvaro Herrera
Bruce Momjian
Michael Paquier
Heikki Linnakangas