We implement ON COMMIT DELETE ROWS by truncating tables marked that
way, which requires also truncating/rebuilding their indexes. But
RelationTruncateIndexes asks the relcache for up-to-date copies of any
index expressions, which may cause execution of eval_const_expressions
on them, which can result in actual execution of subexpressions.
This is a bad thing to have happening during ON COMMIT. Manuel Rigger
reported that use of a SQL function resulted in crashes due to
expectations that ActiveSnapshot would be set, which it isn't.
The most obvious fix perhaps would be to push a snapshot during
PreCommit_on_commit_actions, but I think that would just open the door
to more problems: CommitTransaction explicitly expects that no
user-defined code can be running at this point.
Fortunately, since we know that no tuples exist to be indexed, there
seems no need to use the real index expressions or predicates during
RelationTruncateIndexes. We can set up dummy index expressions
instead (we do need something that will expose the right data type,
as there are places that build index tupdescs based on this), and
just ignore predicates and exclusion constraints.
In a green field it'd likely be better to reimplement ON COMMIT DELETE
ROWS using the same "init fork" infrastructure used for unlogged
relations. That seems impractical without catalog changes though,
and even without that it'd be too big a change to back-patch.
So for now do it like this.
Per private report from Manuel Rigger. This has been broken forever,
so back-patch to all supported branches.
This patch providies for support for password protected SSL client
keys in libpq, and for DER format keys, both encrypted and unencrypted.
There is a new connection parameter sslpassword, which is supplied to
the OpenSSL libraries via a callback function. The callback function can
also be set by an application by calling PQgetSSLKeyPassHook(). There is
also a function to retreive the connection setting, PQsslpassword().
Craig Ringer and Andrew Dunstan
Reviewed by: Greg Nancarrow
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/f7ee88ed-95c4-95c1-d4bf-7b415363ab62@2ndQuadrant.com
This commit revert the commits to add a test case that tests the 'force'
option when there is an active backend connected to the database being
dropped.
This feature internally sends SIGTERM to all the backends connected to the
database being dropped and then the same is reported to the client. We
found that on Windows, the client end of the socket is not able to read
the data once we close the socket in the server which leads to loss of
error message which is not what we expect. We also observed similar
behavior in other cases like pg_terminate_backend(),
pg_ctl kill TERM <pid>. There are probably a few others like that. The
fix for this requires further study.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1iaD8h-0004us-K9@gemulon.postgresql.org
Add a regression test file that exercises the kinds of commands that
allow_system_table_mods allows.
This is put in the "unsafe_tests" suite, so it won't accidentally
create a mess if someone runs the normal regression tests against an
instance that they care about.
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/8b00ea5e-28a7-88ba-e848-21528b632354%402ndquadrant.com
When picking the best extended statistics object for a list of clauses,
it's not enough to look at attnums extracted from the clause list as a
whole. Consider for example this query with OR clauses:
SELECT * FROM t WHERE (t.a = 1) OR (t.b = 1) OR (t.c = 1)
with a statistics defined on columns (a,b). Relying on attnums extracted
from the whole OR clause, we'd consider the statistics usable. That does
not work, as we see the conditions as a single OR-clause, referencing an
attribute not covered by the statistic, leading to empty list of clauses
to be estimated using the statistics and an assert failure.
This changes choose_best_statistics to check which clauses are actually
covered, and only using attributes from the fully covered ones. For the
previous example this means the statistics object will not be considered
as compatible with the OR-clause.
Backpatch to 12, where MCVs were introduced. The issue does not affect
older versions because functional dependencies don't handle OR clauses.
Author: Tomas Vondra
Reviewed-by: Dean Rasheed
Reported-By: Manuel Rigger
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+u7OA7H5rcE2=8f263w4NZD6ipO_XOrYB816nuLXbmSTH9pQQ@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 12
The subroutine pump_until provides the functionality to poll until the
given string is matched, or a timeout occurs. This can be used from other
places as well, so moving it to TestLib.pm. The immediate need is for an
upcoming regression test patch for dropdb utility.
Author: Vignesh C
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAP_rwwmLJJbn70vLOZFpxGw3XD7nLB_7+NKz46H5EOO2k5H7OQ@mail.gmail.com
Commit 114541d58e has upset some buildfarm members running Msys, that
weren't previously having problems, so the use of native Windows methods
to open files is restricted by this patch to only MSVC builds.
Commit 9af34f3c6b naively assumed that all non-windows platforms would
have pseudoterminals and that perl would have IO::Pty. Such is not the
case. Instead of assumung anything, test for the presence of IO::Pty and
only use code that might depend on it if it's present. The test result is
exposed in $TestLib::have_io_pty so that it can be conveniently used in
SKIP tests.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20191126044110.GB5435@paquier.xyz
The fix for CVE-2017-7484 disallowed use of pg_statistic data for
planning purposes if the user would not be able to select the associated
column and a non-leakproof function is to be applied to the statistics
values. That turns out to disable use of pg_statistic data in some
common cases involving inheritance/partitioning, where the user does
have permission to select from the parent table that was actually named
in the query, but not from a child table whose stats are needed. Since,
in non-corner cases, the user *can* select the child table's data via
the parent, this restriction is not actually useful from a security
standpoint. Improve the logic so that we also check the permissions of
the originally-named table, and allow access if select permission exists
for that.
When checking access to stats for a simple child column, we can map
the child column number back to the parent, and perform this test
exactly (including not allowing access if the child column isn't
exposed by the parent). For expression indexes, the current logic
just insists on whole-table select access, and this patch allows
access if the user can select the whole parent table. In principle,
if the child table has extra columns, this might allow access to
stats on columns the user can't read. In practice, it's unlikely
that the planner is going to do any stats calculations involving
expressions that are not visible to the query, so we'll ignore that
fine point for now. Perhaps someday we'll improve that logic to
detect exactly which columns are used by an expression index ...
but today is not that day.
Back-patch to v11. The issue was created in 9.2 and up by the
CVE-2017-7484 fix, but this patch depends on the append_rel_array[]
planner data structure which only exists in v11 and up. In
practice the issue is most urgent with partitioned tables, so
fixing v11 and later should satisfy much of the practical need.
Dilip Kumar and Amit Langote, with some kibitzing by me
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3876.1531261875@sss.pgh.pa.us
Revert part of commit 19df1702f5.
Early shutdown was added by that commit so that we could collect
statistics from workers, but unfortunately, it interacted badly with
rescans. The problem is that we ended up destroying the parallel context
which is required for rescans. This leads to rescans of a Limit node over
a Gather node to produce unpredictable results as it tries to access
destroyed parallel context. By reverting the early shutdown code, we
might lose statistics in some cases of Limit over Gather [Merge], but that
will require further study to fix.
Reported-by: Jerry Sievers
Diagnosed-by: Thomas Munro
Author: Amit Kapila, testcase by Vignesh C
Backpatch-through: 9.6
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/87ims2amh6.fsf@jsievers.enova.com
Where possible, do this using a pseudoterminal, so that things like
openssl that want to open /dev/tty if stdin isn't a tty won't.
Elsewhere, i.e. Windows, just close by providing an empty string using
the standard IPC::Run pipe mechanism.
Patch by Andrew Dunstan, based on an idea from Craig Ringer.
Reviewed by Mark Dilger.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/873ebb57-fc98-340d-949d-691b1810bf66@2ndQuadrant.com
It is hoped that this will avoid some errors that we have seen before,
but lately with greater frequency, in buildfarm animals.
For now apply only to master. If this proves effective it can be
backpatched.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/13900.1572839580@sss.pgh.pa.us
Author: Juan José Santamaría Flecha
If LISTEN is the only action in a serializable-mode transaction,
and the session was not previously listening, and the notify queue
is not empty, predicate.c reported an assertion failure. That
happened because we'd acquire the transaction's initial snapshot
during PreCommit_Notify, which was called *after* predicate.c
expects any such snapshot to have been established.
To fix, just swap the order of the PreCommit_Notify and
PreCommit_CheckForSerializationFailure calls during CommitTransaction.
This will imply holding the notify-insertion lock slightly longer,
but the difference could only be meaningful in serializable mode,
which is an expensive option anyway.
It appears that this is just an assertion failure, with no
consequences in non-assert builds. A snapshot used only to scan
the notify queue could not have been involved in any serialization
conflicts, so there would be nothing for
PreCommit_CheckForSerializationFailure to do except assign it a
prepareSeqNo and set the SXACT_FLAG_PREPARED flag. And given no
conflicts, neither of those omissions affect the behavior of
ReleasePredicateLocks. This admittedly once-over-lightly analysis
is backed up by the lack of field reports of trouble.
Per report from Mark Dilger. The bug is old, so back-patch to all
supported branches; but the new test case only goes back to 9.6,
for lack of adequate isolationtester infrastructure before that.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3ac7f397-4d5f-be8e-f354-440020675694@gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/13881.1574557302@sss.pgh.pa.us
It seems pretty unacceptable to have no regression test coverage
for this aspect of the logical replication protocol, especially
given the bugs we've found in related code.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16129-a0c0f48e71741e5f@postgresql.org
slot_modify_cstrings seriously abused the TupleTableSlot API by relying
on a slot's underlying data to stay valid across ExecClearTuple. Since
this abuse was also quite undocumented, it's little surprise that the
case got broken during the v12 slot rewrites. As reported in bug #16129
from Ondřej Jirman, this could lead to crashes or data corruption when
a logical replication subscriber processes a row update. Problems would
only arise if the subscriber's table contained columns of pass-by-ref
types that were not being copied from the publisher.
Fix by explicitly copying the datum/isnull arrays from the source slot
that the old row was in already. This ends up being about the same
thing that happened pre-v12, but hopefully in a less opaque and
fragile way.
We might've caught the problem sooner if there were any test cases
dealing with updates involving non-replicated or dropped columns.
Now there are.
Back-patch to v10 where this code came in. Even though the failure
does not manifest before v12, IMO this code is too fragile to leave
as-is. In any case we certainly want the additional test coverage.
Patch by me; thanks to Tomas Vondra for initial investigation.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16129-a0c0f48e71741e5f@postgresql.org
This adds the statistics about transactions spilled to disk from
ReorderBuffer. Users can query the pg_stat_replication view to check
these stats.
Author: Tomas Vondra, with bug-fixes and minor changes by Dilip Kumar
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/688b0b7f-2f6c-d827-c27b-216a8e3ea700@2ndquadrant.com
The planner's optimization code for LIKE and regex operators could
error out with a complaint like "no = operator for opfamily NNN"
if someone created a binary-compatible index (for example, a
bpchar_ops index on a text column) on the LIKE's left argument.
This is a consequence of careless refactoring in commit 74dfe58a5.
The old code in match_special_index_operator only accepted specific
combinations of the pattern operator and the index opclass, thereby
indirectly guaranteeing that the opclass would have a comparison
operator with the same LHS input type as the pattern operator.
While moving the logic out to a planner support function, I simplified
that test in a way that no longer guarantees that. Really though we'd
like an altogether weaker dependency on the opclass, so rather than
put back exactly the old code, just allow lookup failure. I have in
mind now to rewrite this logic completely, but this is the minimum
change needed to fix the bug in v12.
Per report from Manuel Rigger. Back-patch to v12 where the mistake
came in.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+u7OA7nnGYy8rY0vdTe811NuA+Frr9nbcBO9u2Z+JxqNaud+g@mail.gmail.com
It turns out that commit e9f1c01b7 missed a case: we must print a
VALUES clause in long format if get_query_def is given a resultDesc
that would require the query's output column name(s) to be different
from what the bare VALUES clause would produce.
This applies in case an ALTER ... RENAME COLUMN has been done to
a view that formerly could be printed in simple format, as shown
in the added regression test case. It also explains bug #16119
from Dmitry Telpt, because it turns out that (unlike CREATE VIEW)
CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW fails to apply any column aliases it's
given to the stored ON SELECT rule. So to get them to be printed,
we have to account for the resultDesc renaming. It might be worth
changing the matview code so that it creates the ON SELECT rule
with the correct aliases; but we'd still need these messy checks in
get_simple_values_rte to handle the case of a subsequent column
rename, so any such change would be just neatnik-ism not a bug fix.
Like the previous patch, back-patch to all supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16119-e64823f30a45a754@postgresql.org
Concurrent autovacuums running with the main regression test suite
could cause the tests with VACUUM (SKIP_LOCKED) to generate randomly
WARNING messages. For these tests, set client_min_messages to ERROR to
get rid of those random failures, as disabling autovacuum for the
relations operated would not completely close the failure window.
For isolation tests, disable autovacuum for the relations vacuumed with
SKIP_LOCKED. The tests are designed so as LOCK commands are taken
in a first session before running a concurrent VACUUM (SKIP_LOCKED) in a
second to generate WARNING messages, but a concurrent autovacuum could
cause the tests to be slower.
Reported-by: Tom Lane
Author: Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund, Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/25294.1573077278@sss.pgh.pa.us
Backpatch-through: 12
When estimating number of distinct groups, we failed to ignore system
attributes when matching the group expressions to mvdistinct stats,
causing failures like
ERROR: negative bitmapset member not allowed
Fix that by simply skipping anything that is not a regular attribute.
Backpatch to PostgreSQL 10, where the extended stats were introduced.
Bug: #16111
Reported-by: Tuomas Leikola
Author: Tomas Vondra
Backpatch-through: 10
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16111-687799584c3a7e73@postgresql.org
At least buildfarm member florican doesn't use a material node above a
sort in the mark/restore case. As material is not intended to be
tested with that query, disallow.
Previously significant parts of tuplesort.c were untested. This
commit, while not testing every path, significantly increases
coverage. In particular, this adds tests for abbreviated key logic,
forward/backward scans & scrolling and mark/restore.
I tried to keep the table sizes reasonable, and stress the on-disk
paths by setting work_mem to low values for specific tests. The
buildfarm will tell whether more attention to test time is needed.
Author: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20191013144153.ooxrfglvnaocsrx2@alap3.anarazel.de
This new option terminates the other sessions connected to the target
database and then drop it. To terminate other sessions, the current user
must have desired permissions (same as pg_terminate_backend()). We don't
allow to terminate the sessions if prepared transactions, active logical
replication slots or subscriptions are present in the target database.
Author: Pavel Stehule with changes by me
Reviewed-by: Dilip Kumar, Vignesh C, Ibrar Ahmed, Anthony Nowocien,
Ryan Lambert and Amit Kapila
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAP_rwwmLJJbn70vLOZFpxGw3XD7nLB_7+NKz46H5EOO2k5H7OQ@mail.gmail.com
It is pointless to show in those views auxiliary processes that don't
open network connections.
A small incompatibility is that anybody joining pg_stat_activity and
pg_stat_ssl/pg_stat_gssapi will have to use a left join if they want to
see such auxiliary processes.
Author: Euler Taveira
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190904151535.GA29108@alvherre.pgsql
Commits 4ea03f3f4 et al arranged to filter out row counts in parallel
plans, because those are dependent on the number of workers actually
obtained. Somehow I missed that the 'Rows Removed by Filter' counts
can also vary, so fix that too. Per buildfarm.
This seems worth a last-minute patch because unreliable regression
tests are a serious pain in the rear for packagers.
Like the previous patch, back-patch to v11 where this test was
introduced.
This happens when we add a replica identity column on a subscriber
that does not yet exist on the publisher, according to the mapping
maintained by the subscriber. Code that checks whether the target
relation on the subscriber is updatable would check the replica
identity attribute bitmap with a column number -1, which would result
in an error. To fix, skip such columns in the bitmap lookup and
consider the relation not updatable. The result is consistent with
the rule that the replica identity columns on the subscriber must be a
subset of those on the publisher, since if the column doesn't exist on
the publisher, the column set on the subscriber can't be a subset.
Reported-by: Tim Clarke <tim.clarke@minerva.info>
Analyzed-by: Jehan-Guillaume de Rorthais <jgdr@dalibo.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/a9139c29-7ddd-973b-aa7f-71fed9c38d75%40minerva.info
SET CONSTRAINTS ... DEFERRED failed on partitioned tables, because of a
sanity check that ensures that the affected constraints have triggers.
On partitioned tables, the triggers are in the leaf partitions, not in
the partitioned relations themselves, so the sanity check fails.
Removing the sanity check solves the problem, because the code needed to
support the case is already there.
Backpatch to 11.
Note: deferred unique constraints are not affected by this bug, because
they do have triggers in the parent partitioned table. I did not add a
test for this scenario.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20191105212915.GA11324@alvherre.pgsql
This patch adopts the overflow check logic introduced by commit cbdb8b4c0
into two more places. interval_mul() failed to notice if it computed a
new microseconds value that was one more than INT64_MAX, and pgbench's
double-to-int64 logic had the same sorts of edge-case problems that
cbdb8b4c0 fixed in the core code.
To make this easier to get right in future, put the guts of the checks
into new macros in c.h, and add commentary about how to use the macros
correctly.
Back-patch to all supported branches, as we did with the previous fix.
Yuya Watari
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJ2pMkbkkFw2hb9Qb1Zj8d06EhWAQXFLy73St4qWv6aX=vqnjw@mail.gmail.com
When maintaining or merging patches, one of the most common sources
for conflicts are the list of objects in makefiles. Especially when
the split across lines has been changed on both sides, which is
somewhat common due to attempting to stay below 80 columns, those
conflicts are unnecessarily laborious to resolve.
By splitting, and alphabetically sorting, OBJS style lines into one
object per line, conflicts should be less frequent, and easier to
resolve when they still occur.
Author: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20191029200901.vww4idgcxv74cwes@alap3.anarazel.de
get_relkind_objtype, and hence get_object_type, failed when applied to a
toast table. This is not a good thing, because it prevents reporting of
perfectly legitimate permissions errors. (At present, these functions
are in fact *only* used to determine the ObjectType argument for
acl_error() calls.) It seems best to have them fall back to returning
OBJECT_TABLE in every case where they can't determine an object type
for a pg_class entry, so do that.
In passing, make some edits to alter.c to make it more obvious that
those calls of get_object_type() are used only for error reporting.
This might save a few cycles in the non-error code path, too.
Back-patch to v11 where this issue originated.
John Hsu, Michael Paquier, Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/C652D3DF-2B0C-4128-9420-FB5379F6B1E4@amazon.com
Commit d25ea0127 got rid of what I thought were entirely unnecessary
derived child expressions in EquivalenceClasses for EC members that
mention multiple baserels. But it turns out that some of the child
expressions that code created are necessary for partitionwise joins,
else we fail to find matching pathkeys for Sort nodes. (This happens
only for certain shapes of the resulting plan; it may be that
partitionwise aggregation is also necessary to show the failure,
though I'm not sure of that.)
Reverting that commit entirely would be quite painful performance-wise
for large partition sets. So instead, add code that explicitly
generates child expressions that match only partitionwise child join
rels we have actually generated.
Per report from Justin Pryzby. (Amit Langote noticed the problem
earlier, though it's not clear if he recognized then that it could
result in a planner error, not merely failure to exploit partitionwise
join, in the code as-committed.) Back-patch to v12 where commit
d25ea0127 came in.
Amit Langote, with lots of kibitzing from me
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+HiwqG2WVUGmLJqtR0tPFhniO=H=9qQ+Z3L_ZC+Y3-EVQHFGg@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20191011143703.GN10470@telsasoft.com
Historically, the code to build relation options has been shaped the
same way in multiple code paths by using a set of datums in input with
the options parsed with a static table which is then filled with the
option values. This introduces a new common routine in reloptions.c to
do most of the legwork for the in-core code paths.
Author: Amit Langote
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+HiwqGsoSn_uTPPYT19WrtR7oYpYtv4CdS0xuedTKiHHWuk_g@mail.gmail.com
Using incorrect, or just mismatched, dictionary and affix files
could result in a crash, due to failure to cross-check offsets
obtained from the file. Add necessary validation, as well as
some Asserts for future-proofing.
Per bug #16050 from Alexander Lakhin. Back-patch to 9.6 where the
problem was introduced.
Arthur Zakirov, per initial investigation by Tomas Vondra
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16050-024ae722464ab604@postgresql.org
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20191013012610.2p2fp3zzpoav7jzf@development
When using CREATE TABLE for a new partition, the partitioned indexes of
the parent are created automatically in a fashion similar to LIKE
INDEXES. The new partition and its parent use a mapping for attribute
numbers for this operation, and while the mapping was correctly built,
its length was defined as the number of attributes of the newly-created
child, and not the parent. If the parent includes dropped columns, this
could cause failures.
This is wrong since 8b08f7d which has introduced the concept of
partitioned indexes, so backpatch down to 11.
Reported-by: Wyatt Alt
Author: Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Amit Langote
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAGem3qCcRmhbs4jYMkenYNfP2kEusDXvTfw-q+eOhM0zTceG-g@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 11
Teach get_expr_result_type() to manufacture a tuple descriptor directly
from a RowExpr node. If the RowExpr has type RECORD, this is the only
way to get a tupdesc for its result, since even if the rowtype has been
blessed, we don't have its typmod available at this point. (If the
RowExpr has some named composite type, we continue to let the existing
code handle it, since the RowExpr might well not have the correct column
names embedded in it.)
This fixes assorted corner cases illustrated by the added regression
tests.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/10872.1572202006@sss.pgh.pa.us
Historically, psql consulted COMSPEC to spawn a shell in its \! command,
but we just invoked "cmd" when spawning shells in pg_ctl and pg_regress.
It seems better to rely on the environment variable, if it's set,
in all cases.
It's debatable whether this is a bug fix or just a behavioral change,
so no back-patch.
Juan José Santamaría Flecha
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16080-5d7f03222469f717@postgresql.org
Commit 9556aa01c rearranged the innards of text_position() in a way
that would make it not work for empty search strings. Which is fine,
because all callers of that code special-case an empty pattern in
some way. However, the primary use-case (text_position itself) got
special-cased incorrectly: historically it's returned 1 not 0 for
an empty search string. Restore the historical behavior.
Per complaint from Austin Drenski (via Shay Rojansky).
Back-patch to v12 where it got broken.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CADT4RqAz7oN4vkPir86Kg1_mQBmBxCp-L_=9vRpgSNPJf0KRkw@mail.gmail.com
When swapping the dependencies of the old and new indexes, the code has
been correctly switching all links in pg_depend from the old to the new
index for both referencing and referenced entries. However it forgot
the fact that the new index may itself have existing entries in
pg_depend, like references to the parent table attributes. This
resulted in duplicated entries in pg_depend after running REINDEX
CONCURRENTLY.
Fix this problem by removing any existing entries in pg_depend on the
new index before switching the dependencies of the old index to the new
one. More regression tests are added to check the consistency of
entries in pg_depend for indexes, including partition indexes.
Author: Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20191025064318.GF8671@paquier.xyz
Backpatch-through: 12
Remove SQL_LANGUAGES, which was eliminated in SQL:2008, and
SQL_PACKAGES and SQL_SIZING_PROFILES, which were eliminated in
SQL:2011. Since they were dropped by the SQL standard, the
information in them was no longer updated and therefore no longer
useful.
This also removes the feature-package association information in
sql_feature_packages.txt, but for the time begin we are keeping the
information which features are in the Core package (that is, mandatory
SQL features). Maybe at some point someone wants to invent a way to
store that that does not involve using the "package" mechanism
anymore.
Discussion https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/91334220-7900-071b-9327-0c6ecd012017%402ndquadrant.com
It appears that libxml2 doesn't bother to set the "children" field of
an XML_NAMESPACE_DECL node to null; that field just contains garbage.
In v10 and v11, this can result in a crash in XMLTABLE(). The rewrite
done in commit 251cf2e27 fixed this, somewhat accidentally, in v12.
We're not going to back-patch 251cf2e27, however. The case apparently
doesn't have wide use, so rather than risk introducing other problems,
just add a safety check to throw an error.
Even though no bug manifests in v12/HEAD, add the relevant test case
there too, to prevent future regressions.
Chapman Flack (per private report)
