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Tom Lane 1cf96d6c71 Doc: update URL for check_postgres.
Reported by Dan Vianello.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/e6e12f18f70e46848c058084d42fb651@KSTLMEXGP001.CORP.CHARTERCOM.com
2017-11-01 22:07:36 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 4ba0ffaaee pg_basebackup: Fix comparison handling of tablespace mappings on Windows
A candidate path needs to be canonicalized before being checked against
the mappings, because the mappings are also canonicalized.  This is
especially relevant on Windows

Reported-by: nb <nbedxp@gmail.com>
Author: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Ashutosh Sharma <ashu.coek88@gmail.com>
2017-11-01 21:44:55 -04:00
Michael Meskes e0ec1cbffe Make sure ecpglib does accepts digits behind decimal point even for integers in
Informix mode.

Spotted and fixed by 高增琦 <pgf00a@gmail.com>
2017-11-01 13:40:50 +01:00
Robert Haas f74f871b80 Fix problems with the "role" GUC and parallel query.
Without this fix, dropping a role can sometimes result in parallel
query failures in sessions that have used "SET ROLE" to assume the
dropped role, even if that setting isn't active any more.

Report by Pavan Deolasee.  Patch by Amit Kapila, reviewed by me.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CABOikdOomRcZsLsLK+Z+qENM1zxyaWnAvFh3MJZzZnnKiF+REg@mail.gmail.com
2017-10-29 13:14:37 +05:30
Tom Lane 21daada10e Dept of second thoughts: keep aliasp_item in sync with tlistitem.
Commit d5b760ecb wasn't quite right, on second thought: if the
caller didn't ask for column names then it would happily emit
more Vars than if the caller did ask for column names.  This
is surely not a good idea.  Advance the aliasp_item whether or
not we're preparing a colnames list.
2017-10-27 18:16:25 -04:00
Tom Lane 7e5e8b36d4 Fix crash when columns have been added to the end of a view.
expandRTE() supposed that an RTE_SUBQUERY subquery must have exactly
as many non-junk tlist items as the RTE has column aliases for it.
This was true at the time the code was written, and is still true so
far as parse analysis is concerned --- but when the function is used
during planning, the subquery might have appeared through insertion
of a view that now has more columns than it did when the outer query
was parsed.  This results in a core dump if, for instance, we have
to expand a whole-row Var that references the subquery.

To avoid crashing, we can either stop expanding the RTE when we run
out of aliases, or invent new aliases for the added columns.  While
the latter might be more useful, the former is consistent with what
expandRTE() does for composite-returning functions in the RTE_FUNCTION
case, so it seems like we'd better do it that way.

Per bug #14876 from Samuel Horwitz.  This has been busted since commit
ff1ea2173 allowed views to acquire more columns, so back-patch to all
supported branches.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20171026184035.1471.82810@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2017-10-27 17:10:21 -04:00
Tom Lane cf0331a54c Rethink the dependencies recorded for FieldSelect/FieldStore nodes.
On closer investigation, commits f3ea3e3e8 et al were a few bricks
shy of a load.  What we need is not so much to lock down the result
type of a FieldSelect, as to lock down the existence of the column
it's trying to extract.  Otherwise, we can break it by dropping that
column.  The dependency on the result type is then held indirectly
through the column, and doesn't need to be recorded explicitly.

Out of paranoia, I left in the code to record a dependency on the
result type, but it's used only if we can't identify the pg_class OID
for the column.  That shouldn't ever happen right now, AFAICS, but
it seems possible that in future the input node could be marked as
being of type RECORD rather than some specific composite type.

Likewise for FieldStore.

Like the previous patch, back-patch to all supported branches.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/22571.1509064146@sss.pgh.pa.us
2017-10-27 12:18:57 -04:00
Tom Lane 0ff56a59d2 Doc: mention that you can't PREPARE TRANSACTION after NOTIFY.
The NOTIFY page said this already, but the PREPARE TRANSACTION page
missed it.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20171024010602.1488.80066@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2017-10-27 10:46:06 -04:00
Robert Haas 036b6bd503 Fix mistaken failure to allow parallelism in corner case.
If we try to run a parallel plan in serial mode because, for example,
it's going to be scanned via a cursor, but for some reason we're
already in parallel mode (for example because an outer query is
running in parallel), we'd incorrectly try to launch workers.
Fix by adding a flag to the EState, so that we can be certain that
ExecutePlan() and ExecGather()/ExecGatherMerge() will have the same
idea about whether we are executing serially or in parallel.

Report and fix by Amit Kapila with help from Kuntal Ghosh.  A few
tweaks by me.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAA4eK1+_BuZrmVCeua5Eqnm4Co9DAXdM5HPAOE2J19ePbR912Q@mail.gmail.com
2017-10-27 16:12:16 +02:00
Tom Lane 37b4e0fe99 Make setrefs.c match by ressortgroupref even for plain Vars.
Previously, we skipped using search_indexed_tlist_for_sortgroupref()
if the tlist expression being sought in the child plan node was merely
a Var.  This is purely an optimization, based on the theory that
search_indexed_tlist_for_var() is faster, and one copy of a Var should
be as good as another.  However, the GROUPING SETS patch broke the
latter assumption: grouping columns containing the "same" Var can
sometimes have different outputs, as shown in the test case added here.
So do it the hard way whenever a ressortgroupref marking exists.

(If this seems like a bottleneck, we could imagine building a tlist index
data structure for ressortgroupref values, as we do for Vars.  But I'll
let that idea go until there's some evidence it's worthwhile.)

Back-patch to 9.6.  The problem also exists in 9.5 where GROUPING SETS
came in, but this patch is insufficient to resolve the problem in 9.5:
there is some obscure dependency on the upper-planner-pathification
work that happened in 9.6.  Given that this is such a weird corner case,
and no end users have complained about it, it doesn't seem worth the work
to develop a fix for 9.5.

Patch by me, per a report from Heikki Linnakangas.  (This does not fix
Heikki's original complaint, just the follow-on one.)

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/aefc657e-edb2-64d5-6df1-a0828f6e9104@iki.fi
2017-10-26 12:17:40 -04:00
Andrew Dunstan ea8480a249 Improve gendef.pl diagnostic on failure to open sym file
There have been numerous buildfarm failures but the diagnostic is
currently silent about the reason for failure to open the file. Let's
see if we can get to the bottom of it.

Backpatch to all live branches.
2017-10-26 10:10:37 -04:00
Michael Meskes 41753604b3 Fixed handling of escape character in libecpg.
Patch by Tsunakawa Takayuki <tsunakawa.takay@jp.fujitsu.com>
2017-10-26 10:39:46 +02:00
Tom Lane 7dc66a2f6e Fix libpq to not require user's home directory to exist.
Some people like to run libpq-using applications in environments where
there's no home directory.  We've broken that scenario before (cf commits
5b4067798 and bd58d9d88), and commit ba005f193 broke it again, by making
it a hard error if we fail to get the home directory name while looking
for ~/.pgpass.  The previous precedent is that if we can't get the home
directory name, we should just silently act as though the file we hoped
to find there doesn't exist.  Rearrange the new code to honor that.

Looking around, the service-file code added by commit 41a4e4595 had the
same disease.  Apparently, that escaped notice because it only runs when
a service name has been specified, which I guess the people who use this
scenario don't do.  Nonetheless, it's wrong too, so fix that case as well.

Add a comment about this policy to pqGetHomeDirectory, in the probably
vain hope of forestalling the same error in future.  And upgrade the
rather miserable commenting in parseServiceInfo, too.

In passing, also back off parseServiceInfo's assumption that only ENOENT
is an ignorable error from stat() when checking a service file.  We would
need to ignore at least ENOTDIR as well (cf 5b4067798), and seeing that
the far-better-tested code for ~/.pgpass treats all stat() failures alike,
I think this code ought to as well.

Per bug #14872 from Dan Watson.  Back-patch the .pgpass change to v10
where ba005f193 came in.  The service-file bugs are far older, so
back-patch the other changes to all supported branches.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20171025200457.1471.34504@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2017-10-25 19:32:24 -04:00
Andrew Dunstan 98efa5ebf0 Process variadic arguments consistently in json functions
json_build_object and json_build_array and the jsonb equivalents did not
correctly process explicit VARIADIC arguments. They are modified to use
the new extract_variadic_args() utility function which abstracts away
the details of the call method.

Michael Paquier, reviewed by Tom Lane and Dmitry Dolgov.

Backpatch to 9.5 for the jsonb fixes and 9.4 for the json fixes, as
that's where they originated.
2017-10-25 07:48:36 -04:00
Andrew Dunstan 5c3a1bbb47 Add a utility function to extract variadic function arguments
This is epecially useful in the case or "VARIADIC ANY" functions. The
caller can get the artguments and types regardless of whether or not and
explicit VARIADIC array argument has been used. The function also
provides an option to convert arguments on type "unknown" to to "text".

Michael Paquier and me, reviewed by Tom Lane.

Backpatch to 9.4 in order to support the following json bug fix.
2017-10-25 07:19:59 -04:00
Tom Lane fae550e526 Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2017c.
DST law changes in Fiji, Namibia, Northern Cyprus, Sudan, Tonga,
and Turks & Caicos Islands.  Historical corrections for Alaska, Apia,
Burma, Calcutta, Detroit, Ireland, Namibia, and Pago Pago.
2017-10-23 18:15:47 -04:00
Tom Lane 173b7a4a71 Sync our copy of the timezone library with IANA release tzcode2017c.
This is a trivial update containing only cosmetic changes.  The point
is just to get back to being synced with an official release of tzcode,
rather than some ad-hoc point in their commit history, which is where
commit 47f849a3c left it.
2017-10-23 17:54:09 -04:00
Tom Lane 285b850d51 Fix some oversights in expression dependency recording.
find_expr_references() neglected to record a dependency on the result type
of a FieldSelect node, allowing a DROP TYPE to break a view or rule that
contains such an expression.  I think we'd omitted this case intentionally,
reasoning that there would always be a related dependency ensuring that the
DROP would cascade to the view.  But at least with nested field selection
expressions, that's not true, as shown in bug #14867 from Mansur Galiev.
Add the dependency, and for good measure a dependency on the node's exposed
collation.

Likewise add a dependency on the result type of a FieldStore.  I think here
the reasoning was that it'd only appear within an assignment to a field,
and the dependency on the field's column would be enough ... but having
seen this example, I think that's wrong for nested-composites cases.

Looking at nearby code, I notice we're not recording a dependency on the
exposed collation of CoerceViaIO, which seems inconsistent with our choices
for related node types.  Maybe that's OK but I'm feeling suspicious of this
code today, so let's add that; it certainly can't hurt.

This patch does not do anything to protect already-existing views, only
views created after it's installed.  But seeing that the issue has been
there a very long time and nobody noticed till now, that's probably good
enough.

Back-patch to all supported branches.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20171023150118.1477.19174@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2017-10-23 13:57:45 -04:00
Tom Lane b1752c3a7e Fix typcache's failure to treat ranges as container types.
Like the similar logic for arrays and records, it's necessary to examine
the range's subtype to decide whether the range type can support hashing.
We can omit checking the subtype for btree-defined operations, though,
since range subtypes are required to have those operations.  (Possibly
that simplification for btree cases led us to overlook that it does
not apply for hash cases.)

This is only an issue if the subtype lacks hash support, which is not
true of any built-in range type, but it's easy to demonstrate a problem
with a range type over, eg, money: you can get a "could not identify
a hash function" failure when the planner is misled into thinking that
hash join or aggregation would work.

This was born broken, so back-patch to all supported branches.
2017-10-20 17:12:27 -04:00
Tom Lane 2ac5988747 Fix misparsing of non-newline-terminated pg_hba.conf files.
This back-patches the v10-cycle commit 1e5a5d03d into 9.3 - 9.6.
I had noticed at the time that that was fixing a bug, namely that
next_token() might advance *lineptr past the line-terminating '\0',
but given the lack of field complaints I too easily convinced myself
that the problem was only latent.  It's not, because tokenize_file()
decides whether there's more on the line using "strlen(lineptr)".

The bug is indeed latent on a newline-terminated line, because then
the newline-stripping bit in tokenize_file() means we'll have two
or more consecutive '\0's in the buffer, masking the fact that we
accidentally advanced over the first one.  But the last line in
the file might not be null-terminated, allowing the loop to see
and process garbage, as reported by Mark Jones in bug #14859.

The bug doesn't exist in <= 9.2; there next_token() is reading directly
from a file, and termination of the outer loop relies on an feof() test
not a buffer pointer check.  Probably commit 7f49a67f9 can be blamed
for this bug, but I didn't track it down exactly.

Commit 1e5a5d03d does a bit more than the minimum needed to fix the
bug, but I felt the rest of it was good cleanup, so applying it all.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20171017141814.8203.27280@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2017-10-17 12:15:08 -04:00
Tom Lane aa1e9b3a46 Fix AggGetAggref() so it won't lie to aggregate final functions.
If we merge the transition calculations for two different aggregates,
it's reasonable to assume that the transition function should not care
which of those Aggref structs it gets from AggGetAggref().  It is not
reasonable to make the same assumption about an aggregate final function,
however.  Commit 804163bc2 broke this, as it will pass whichever Aggref
was first associated with the transition state in both cases.

This doesn't create an observable bug so far as the core system is
concerned, because the only existing uses of AggGetAggref() are in
ordered-set aggregates that happen to not pay attention to anything
but the input properties of the Aggref; and besides that, we disabled
sharing of transition calculations for OSAs yesterday.  Nonetheless,
if some third-party code were using AggGetAggref() in a normal aggregate,
they would be entitled to call this a bug.  Hence, back-patch the fix
to 9.6 where the problem was introduced.

In passing, improve some of the comments about transition state sharing.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAB4ELO5RZhOamuT9Xsf72ozbenDLLXZKSk07FiSVsuJNZB861A@mail.gmail.com
2017-10-12 15:20:04 -04:00
Tom Lane 96cfc7e19a Prevent sharing transition states between ordered-set aggregates.
This ought to work, but the built-in OSAs are not capable of coping,
because their final-functions destructively modify their transition
state (specifically, the contained tuplesort object).  That was fine
when those functions were written, but commit 804163bc2 moved the
goalposts without telling orderedsetaggs.c.

We should fix the built-in OSAs to support this, but it will take
a little work, especially if we don't want to sacrifice performance
in the normal non-shared-state case.  Given that it took a year after
9.6 release for anyone to notice this bug, we should not prioritize
sharable-state over nonsharable-state performance.  And a proper fix
is likely to be more complicated than we'd want to back-patch, too.

Therefore, let's just put in this stop-gap patch to prevent nodeAgg.c
from choosing to use shared state for OSAs.  We can revert it in HEAD
when we get a better fix.

Report from Lukas Eder, diagnosis by me, patch by David Rowley.
Back-patch to 9.6 where the problem was introduced.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAB4ELO5RZhOamuT9Xsf72ozbenDLLXZKSk07FiSVsuJNZB861A@mail.gmail.com
2017-10-11 22:18:01 -04:00
Andres Freund 0da46d75e3 Prevent idle in transaction session timeout from sometimes being ignored.
The previous coding in ProcessInterrupts() could lead to
idle_in_transaction_session_timeout being ignored, when
statement_timeout occurred earlier.

The problem was that ProcessInterrupts() would return before
processing the transaction timeout if QueryCancelPending was set while
QueryCancelHoldoffCount != 0 - which is the case when reading new
commands from the client. Ergo when the idle transaction timeout would
hit.

Fix that by removing the early return. Alternatively the transaction
timeout code could have been moved up, but that early return seems
like an issue that could hit other cases too.

Author: Lukas Fittl
Bug: #14821
Discussion:
    https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20170921010956.17345.61461%40wrigleys.postgresql.org
    https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAP53PkxQnv3OWJpyNPGJYT62uY=n1=2CF_Lpc6gVOFnc0-gazw@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch: 9.6-, where idle_in_transaction_session_timeout was introduced.
2017-10-11 14:02:41 -07:00
Tom Lane 19989d8480 Doc: fix missing explanation of default object privileges.
The GRANT reference page, which lists the default privileges for new
objects, failed to mention that USAGE is granted by default for data
types and domains.  As a lesser sin, it also did not specify anything
about the initial privileges for sequences, FDWs, foreign servers,
or large objects.  Fix that, and add a comment to acldefault() in the
probably vain hope of getting people to maintain this list in future.

Noted by Laurenz Albe, though I editorialized on the wording a bit.
Back-patch to all supported branches, since they all have this behavior.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1507620895.4152.1.camel@cybertec.at
2017-10-11 16:56:40 -04:00
Tom Lane 36c687a22f Fix low-probability loss of NOTIFY messages due to XID wraparound.
Up to now async.c has used TransactionIdIsInProgress() to detect whether
a notify message's source transaction is still running.  However, that
function has a quick-exit path that reports that XIDs before RecentXmin
are no longer running.  If a listening backend is doing nothing but
listening, and not running any queries, there is nothing that will advance
its value of RecentXmin.  Once 2 billion transactions elapse, the
RecentXmin check causes active transactions to be reported as not running.
If they aren't committed yet according to CLOG, async.c decides they
aborted and discards their messages.  The timing for that is a bit tight
but it can happen when multiple backends are sending notifies concurrently.
The net symptom therefore is that a sufficiently-long-surviving
listen-only backend starts to miss some fraction of NOTIFY traffic,
but only under heavy load.

The only function that updates RecentXmin is GetSnapshotData().
A brute-force fix would therefore be to take a snapshot before
processing incoming notify messages.  But that would add cycles,
as well as contention for the ProcArrayLock.  We can be smarter:
having taken the snapshot, let's use that to check for running
XIDs, and not call TransactionIdIsInProgress() at all.  In this
way we reduce the number of ProcArrayLock acquisitions from one
per message to one per notify interrupt; that's the same under
light load but should be a benefit under heavy load.  Light testing
says that this change is a wash performance-wise for normal loads.

I looked around for other callers of TransactionIdIsInProgress()
that might be at similar risk, and didn't find any; all of them
are inside transactions that presumably have already taken a
snapshot.

Problem report and diagnosis by Marko Tiikkaja, patch by me.
Back-patch to all supported branches, since it's been like this
since 9.0.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170926182935.14128.65278@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2017-10-11 14:28:33 -04:00
Tom Lane 13a8924ecf Increase distance between flush requests during bulk file copies.
copy_file() reads and writes data 64KB at a time (with default BLCKSZ),
and historically has issued a pg_flush_data request after each write.
This turns out to interact really badly with macOS's new APFS file
system: a large file copy takes over 100X longer than it ought to on
APFS, as reported by Brent Dearth.  While that's arguably a macOS bug,
it's not clear whether Apple will do anything about it in the near
future, and in any case experimentation suggests that issuing flushes
a bit less often can be helpful on other platforms too.

Hence, rearrange the logic in copy_file() so that flush requests are
issued once per N writes rather than every time through the loop.
I set the FLUSH_DISTANCE to 32MB on macOS (any less than that still
results in a noticeable speed degradation on APFS), but 1MB elsewhere.
In limited testing on Linux and FreeBSD, this seems slightly faster
than the previous code, and certainly no worse.  It helps noticeably
on macOS even with the older HFS filesystem.

A simpler change would have been to just increase the size of the
copy buffer without changing the loop logic, but that seems likely
to trash the processor cache without really helping much.

Back-patch to 9.6 where we introduced msync() as an implementation
option for pg_flush_data().  The problem seems specific to APFS's
mmap/msync support, so I don't think we need to go further back.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CADkxhTNv-j2jw2g8H57deMeAbfRgYBoLmVuXkC=YCFBXRuCOww@mail.gmail.com
2017-10-08 15:25:26 -04:00
Tom Lane 185279da3f Fix crash when logical decoding is invoked from a PL function.
The logical decoding functions do BeginInternalSubTransaction and
RollbackAndReleaseCurrentSubTransaction to clean up after themselves.
It turns out that AtEOSubXact_SPI has an unrecognized assumption that
we always need to cancel the active SPI operation in the SPI context
that surrounds the subtransaction (if there is one).  That's true
when the RollbackAndReleaseCurrentSubTransaction call is coming from
the SPI-using function itself, but not when it's happening inside
some unrelated function invoked by a SPI query.  In practice the
affected callers are the various PLs.

To fix, record the current subtransaction ID when we begin a SPI
operation, and clean up only if that ID is the subtransaction being
canceled.

Also, remove AtEOSubXact_SPI's assertion that it must have cleaned
up the surrounding SPI context's active tuptable.  That's proven
wrong by the same test case.

Also clarify (or, if you prefer, reinterpret) the calling conventions
for _SPI_begin_call and _SPI_end_call.  The memory context cleanup
in the latter means that these have always had the flavor of a matched
resource-management pair, but they weren't documented that way before.

Per report from Ben Chobot.

Back-patch to 9.4 where logical decoding came in.  In principle,
the SPI changes should go all the way back, since the problem dates
back to commit 7ec1c5a86.  But given the lack of field complaints
it seems few people are using internal subtransactions in this way.
So I don't feel a need to take any risks in 9.2/9.3.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/73FBA179-C68C-4540-9473-71E865408B15@silentmedia.com
2017-10-06 19:18:58 -04:00
Tom Lane 69e931f96e Fix access-off-end-of-array in clog.c.
Sloppy loop coding in set_status_by_pages() resulted in fetching one array
element more than it should from the subxids[] array.  The odds of this
resulting in SIGSEGV are pretty small, but we've certainly seen that happen
with similar mistakes elsewhere.  While at it, we can get rid of an extra
TransactionIdToPage() calculation per loop.

Per report from David Binderman.  Back-patch to all supported branches,
since this code is quite old.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/HE1PR0802MB2331CBA919CBFFF0C465EB429C710@HE1PR0802MB2331.eurprd08.prod.outlook.com
2017-10-06 12:20:13 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera d441cff142 Fix traversal of half-frozen update chains
When some tuple versions in an update chain are frozen due to them being
older than freeze_min_age, the xmax/xmin trail can become broken.  This
breaks HOT (and probably other things).  A subsequent VACUUM can break
things in more serious ways, such as leaving orphan heap-only tuples
whose root HOT redirect items were removed.  This can be seen because
index creation (or REINDEX) complain like
  ERROR:  XX000: failed to find parent tuple for heap-only tuple at (0,7) in table "t"

Because of relfrozenxid contraints, we cannot avoid the freezing of the
early tuples, so we must cope with the results: whenever we see an Xmin
of FrozenTransactionId, consider it a match for whatever the previous
Xmax value was.

This problem seems to have appeared in 9.3 with multixact changes,
though strictly speaking it seems unrelated.

Since 9.4 we have commit 37484ad2a "Change the way we mark tuples as
frozen", so the fix is simple: just compare the raw Xmin (still stored
in the tuple header, since freezing merely set an infomask bit) to the
Xmax.  But in 9.3 we rewrite the Xmin value to FrozenTransactionId, so
the original value is lost and we have nothing to compare the Xmax with.
To cope with that case we need to compare the Xmin with FrozenXid,
assume it's a match, and hope for the best.  Sadly, since you can
pg_upgrade a 9.3 instance containing half-frozen pages to newer
releases, we need to keep the old check in newer versions too, which
seems a bit brittle; I hope we can somehow get rid of that.

I didn't optimize the new function for performance.  The new coding is
probably a bit slower than before, since there is a function call rather
than a straight comparison, but I'd rather have it work correctly than
be fast but wrong.

This is a followup after 20b6552242 fixed a few related problems.
Apparently, in 9.6 and up there are more ways to get into trouble, but
in 9.3 - 9.5 I cannot reproduce a problem anymore with this patch, so
there must be a separate bug.

Reported-by: Peter Geoghegan
Diagnosed-by: Peter Geoghegan, Michael Paquier, Daniel Wood,
	Yi Wen Wong, Álvaro
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-Wznm4rCrhFAiwKPWTpEw2bXDtgROZK7jWWGucXeH3D1fmA@mail.gmail.com
2017-10-06 17:14:42 +02:00
Robert Haas 9d742e19da Fix more user-visible elog() calls.
Michael Paquier discovered that this could be triggered via SQL;
give a nicer message instead.

Patch by Michael Paquier, reviewed by Masahiko Sawada.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAB7nPqQtPg+LKKtzdKN26judHcvPZ0s1gNigzOT4j8CYuuuBYg@mail.gmail.com
2017-10-05 08:03:04 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera 86076395ef Fix coding rules violations in walreceiver.c
1. Since commit b1a9bad9e7 we had pstrdup() inside a
spinlock-protected critical section; reported by Andreas Seltenreich.
Turn those into strlcpy() to stack-allocated variables instead.
Backpatch to 9.6.

2. Since commit 9ed551e0a4 we had a pfree() uselessly inside a
spinlock-protected critical section.  Tom Lane noticed in code review.
Move down.  Backpatch to 9.6.

3. Since commit 64233902d2 we had GetCurrentTimestamp() (a kernel
call) inside a spinlock-protected critical section.  Tom Lane noticed in
code review.  Move it up.  Backpatch to 9.2.

4. Since commit 1bb2558046 we did elog(PANIC) while holding spinlock.
Tom Lane noticed in code review.  Release spinlock before dying.
Backpatch to 9.2.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/87h8vhtgj2.fsf@ansel.ydns.eu
2017-10-03 14:58:25 +02:00
Tom Lane 858e9f27be Use a longer connection timeout in pg_isready test.
Buildfarm members skink and sungazer have both recently failed this
test, with symptoms indicating that the default 3-second timeout
isn't quite enough for those very slow systems.  There's no reason
to be miserly with this timeout, so boost it to 60 seconds.

Back-patch to all versions containing this test.  That may be overkill,
because the failure has only been observed in the v10 branch, but
I don't feel like having to revisit this later.
2017-10-01 12:43:47 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera 3a135bdb1b Fix freezing of a dead HOT-updated tuple
Vacuum calls page-level HOT prune to remove dead HOT tuples before doing
liveness checks (HeapTupleSatisfiesVacuum) on the remaining tuples.  But
concurrent transaction commit/abort may turn DEAD some of the HOT tuples
that survived the prune, before HeapTupleSatisfiesVacuum tests them.
This happens to activate the code that decides to freeze the tuple ...
which resuscitates it, duplicating data.

(This is especially bad if there's any unique constraints, because those
are now internally violated due to the duplicate entries, though you
won't know until you try to REINDEX or dump/restore the table.)

One possible fix would be to simply skip doing anything to the tuple,
and hope that the next HOT prune would remove it.  But there is a
problem: if the tuple is older than freeze horizon, this would leave an
unfrozen XID behind, and if no HOT prune happens to clean it up before
the containing pg_clog segment is truncated away, it'd later cause an
error when the XID is looked up.

Fix the problem by having the tuple freezing routines cope with the
situation: don't freeze the tuple (and keep it dead).  In the cases that
the XID is older than the freeze age, set the HEAP_XMAX_COMMITTED flag
so that there is no need to look up the XID in pg_clog later on.

An isolation test is included, authored by Michael Paquier, loosely
based on Daniel Wood's original reproducer.  It only tests one
particular scenario, though, not all the possible ways for this problem
to surface; it be good to have a more reliable way to test this more
fully, but it'd require more work.
In message https://postgr.es/m/20170911140103.5akxptyrwgpc25bw@alvherre.pgsql
I outlined another test case (more closely matching Dan Wood's) that
exposed a few more ways for the problem to occur.

Backpatch all the way back to 9.3, where this problem was introduced by
multixact juggling.  In branches 9.3 and 9.4, this includes a backpatch
of commit e5ff9fefcd50 (of 9.5 era), since the original is not
correctable without matching the coding pattern in 9.5 up.

Reported-by: Daniel Wood
Diagnosed-by: Daniel Wood
Reviewed-by: Yi Wen Wong, Michaël Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E5711E62-8FDF-4DCA-A888-C200BF6B5742@amazon.com
2017-09-28 16:44:01 +02:00
Tom Lane def03e4bfe Fix behavior when converting a float infinity to numeric.
float8_numeric() and float4_numeric() failed to consider the possibility
that the input is an IEEE infinity.  The results depended on the
platform-specific behavior of sprintf(): on most platforms you'd get
something like

ERROR:  invalid input syntax for type numeric: "inf"

but at least on Windows it's possible for the conversion to succeed and
deliver a finite value (typically 1), due to a nonstandard output format
from sprintf and lack of syntax error checking in these functions.

Since our numeric type lacks the concept of infinity, a suitable conversion
is impossible; the best thing to do is throw an explicit error before
letting sprintf do its thing.

While at it, let's use snprintf not sprintf.  Overrunning the buffer
should be impossible if sprintf does what it's supposed to, but this
is cheap insurance against a stack smash if it doesn't.

Problem reported by Taiki Kondo.  Patch by me based on fix suggestion
from KaiGai Kohei.  Back-patch to all supported branches.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/12A9442FBAE80D4E8953883E0B84E088C8C7A2@BPXM01GP.gisp.nec.co.jp
2017-09-27 17:05:53 -04:00
Dean Rasheed af4bd07591 Improve the CREATE POLICY documentation.
Provide a correct description of how multiple policies are combined,
clarify when SELECT permissions are required, mention SELECT FOR
UPDATE/SHARE, and do some other more minor tidying up.

Reviewed by Stephen Frost

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEZATCVrxyYbOFU8XbGHicz%2BmXPYzw%3DhfNL2XTphDt-53TomQQ%40mail.gmail.com

Back-patch to 9.5.
2017-09-27 17:10:35 +01:00
Noah Misch b5ee5328bd Don't recommend "DROP SCHEMA information_schema CASCADE".
It drops objects outside information_schema that depend on objects
inside information_schema.  For example, it will drop a user-defined
view if the view query refers to information_schema.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170831025345.GE3963697@rfd.leadboat.com
2017-09-26 22:39:47 -07:00
Tom Lane f4aac742c8 Improve wording of error message added in commit 714805010.
Per suggestions from Peter Eisentraut and David Johnston.
Back-patch, like the previous commit.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1dv9jI-0006oT-Fn@gemulon.postgresql.org
2017-09-26 15:25:56 -04:00
Tom Lane 12ac252f90 Fix failure-to-read-man-page in commit 899bd785c.
posix_fallocate() is not quite a drop-in replacement for fallocate(),
because it is defined to return the error code as its function result,
not in "errno".  I (tgl) missed this because RHEL6's version seems
to set errno as well.  That is not the case on more modern Linuxen,
though, as per buildfarm results.

Aside from fixing the return-convention confusion, remove the test
for ENOSYS; we expect that glibc will mask that for posix_fallocate,
though it does not for fallocate.  Keep the test for EINTR, because
POSIX specifies that as a possible result, and buildfarm results
suggest that it can happen in practice.

Back-patch to 9.4, like the previous commit.

Thomas Munro

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1002664500.12301802.1471008223422.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com
2017-09-26 13:43:07 -04:00
Tom Lane 1750612224 Avoid SIGBUS on Linux when a DSM memory request overruns tmpfs.
On Linux, shared memory segments created with shm_open() are backed by
swap files created in tmpfs.  If the swap file needs to be extended,
but there's no tmpfs space left, you get a very unfriendly SIGBUS trap.
To avoid this, force allocation of the full request size when we create
the segment.  This adds a few cycles, but none that we wouldn't expend
later anyway, assuming the request isn't hugely bigger than the actual
need.

Make this code #ifdef __linux__, because (a) there's not currently a
reason to think the same problem exists on other platforms, and (b)
applying posix_fallocate() to an FD created by shm_open() isn't very
portable anyway.

Back-patch to 9.4 where the DSM code came in.

Thomas Munro, per a bug report from Amul Sul

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1002664500.12301802.1471008223422.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com
2017-09-25 16:09:20 -04:00
Andrew Dunstan 10aafbdbe4 Support building with Visual Studio 2017
Haribabu Kommi, reviewed by Takeshi Ideriha and Christian Ullrich

Backpatch to 9.6
2017-09-25 08:08:52 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut a1f30ecc51 Fix saving and restoring umask
In two cases, we set a different umask for some piece of code and
restore it afterwards.  But if the contained code errors out, the umask
is not restored.  So add TRY/CATCH blocks to fix that.
2017-09-23 10:03:36 -04:00
Tom Lane e25f4401da Sync our copy of the timezone library with IANA tzcode master.
This patch absorbs a few unreleased fixes in the IANA code.
It corresponds to commit 2d8b944c1cec0808ac4f7a9ee1a463c28f9cd00a
in https://github.com/eggert/tz.  Non-cosmetic changes include:

TZDEFRULESTRING is updated to match current US DST practice,
rather than what it was over ten years ago.  This only matters
for interpretation of POSIX-style zone names (e.g., "EST5EDT"),
and only if the timezone database doesn't include either an exact
match for the zone name or a "posixrules" entry.  The latter
should not be true in any current Postgres installation, but
this could possibly matter when using --with-system-tzdata.

Get rid of a nonportable use of "++var" on a bool var.
This is part of a larger fix that eliminates some vestigial
support for consecutive leap seconds, and adds checks to
the "zic" compiler that the data files do not specify that.

Remove a couple of ancient compatibility hacks.  The IANA
crew think these are obsolete, and I tend to agree.  But
perhaps our buildfarm will think different.

Back-patch to all supported branches, in line with our policy
that all branches should be using current IANA code.  Before v10,
this includes application of current pgindent rules, to avoid
whitespace problems in future back-patches.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1dsWhf-0000pT-F9@gemulon.postgresql.org
2017-09-22 00:04:21 -04:00
Tom Lane ea31541f56 Give a better error for duplicate entries in VACUUM/ANALYZE column list.
Previously, the code didn't think about this case and would just try to
analyze such a column twice.  That would fail at the point of inserting
the second version of the pg_statistic row, with obscure error messsages
like "duplicate key value violates unique constraint" or "tuple already
updated by self", depending on context and PG version.  We could allow
the case by ignoring duplicate column specifications, but it seems better
to reject it explicitly.

The bogus error messages seem like arguably a bug, so back-patch to
all supported versions.

Nathan Bossart, per a report from Michael Paquier, and whacked
around a bit by me.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E061A8E3-5E3D-494D-94F0-E8A9B312BBFC@amazon.com
2017-09-21 18:13:11 -04:00
Tom Lane 33dd10ef2f Fix erroneous documentation about noise word GROUP.
GRANT, REVOKE, and some allied commands allow the noise word GROUP
before a role name (cf. grantee production in gram.y).  This option
does not exist elsewhere, but it had nonetheless snuck into the
documentation for ALTER ROLE, ALTER USER, and CREATE SCHEMA.

Seems to be a copy-and-pasteo in commit 31eae6028, which did expand the
syntax choices here, but not in that way.  Back-patch to 9.5 where that
came in.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170916123750.8885.66941@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2017-09-20 11:10:42 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 95a231aef9 docs: re-add instructions on setting wal_level for rsync use
This step was erroneously removed four days ago by me.

Reported-by: Magnus via IM

Backpatch-through: 9.5
2017-09-20 09:36:19 -04:00
Magnus Hagander ea96568396 Mention need for --no-inc-recursive in rsync command
Since rsync 3.0.0 (released in 2008), the default way to enumerate
changes was changed in a way that makes it less likely that the hardlink
sync mode works. Since the whole point of the documented procedure is
for the hardlinks to work, change our docs to suggest using the
backwards compatibility switch.
2017-09-20 14:16:19 +02:00
Michael Meskes 59b5a3e5c7 Fixed ECPG to correctly handle out-of-scope cursor declarations with pointers
or array variables.
2017-09-18 23:07:34 +02:00
Tom Lane 86e4ebb9af Allow rel_is_distinct_for() to look through RelabelType below OpExpr.
This lets it do the right thing for, eg, varchar columns.
Back-patch to 9.5 where this logic appeared.

David Rowley, per report from Kim Rose Carlsen

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/VI1PR05MB17091F9A9876528055D6A827C76D0@VI1PR05MB1709.eurprd05.prod.outlook.com
2017-09-17 15:28:51 -04:00
Tom Lane c0d21bdb86 Fix possible dangling pointer dereference in trigger.c.
AfterTriggerEndQuery correctly notes that the query_stack could get
repalloc'd during a trigger firing, but it nonetheless passes the address
of a query_stack entry to afterTriggerInvokeEvents, so that if such a
repalloc occurs, afterTriggerInvokeEvents is already working with an
obsolete dangling pointer while it scans the rest of the events.  Oops.
The only code at risk is its "delete_ok" cleanup code, so we can
prevent unsafe behavior by passing delete_ok = false instead of true.

However, that could have a significant performance penalty, because the
point of passing delete_ok = true is to not have to re-scan possibly
a large number of dead trigger events on the next time through the loop.
There's more than one way to skin that cat, though.  What we can do is
delete all the "chunks" in the event list except the last one, since
we know all events in them must be dead.  Deleting the chunks is work
we'd have had to do later in AfterTriggerEndQuery anyway, and it ends
up saving rescanning of just about the same events we'd have gotten
rid of with delete_ok = true.

In v10 and HEAD, we also have to be careful to mop up any per-table
after_trig_events pointers that would become dangling.  This is slightly
annoying, but I don't think that normal use-cases will traverse this code
path often enough for it to be a performance problem.

It's pretty hard to hit this in practice because of the unlikelihood
of the query_stack getting resized at just the wrong time.  Nonetheless,
it's definitely a live bug of ancient standing, so back-patch to all
supported branches.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2891.1505419542@sss.pgh.pa.us
2017-09-17 14:50:01 -04:00
Bruce Momjian c4c45945e2 docs: clarify pg_upgrade docs regarding standbys and rsync
Document that rsync is an _optional_ way to upgrade standbys, suggest
rsync option --dry-run, and mention a way of upgrading one standby from
another using rsync.  Also clarify some instructions by specifying if
they operate on the old or new clusters.

Reported-by: Stephen Frost, Magnus Hagander

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170914191250.GB6595@momjian.us

Backpatch-through: 9.5
2017-09-16 11:58:00 -04:00