While poking into initdb's performance, I noticed that this query
wasn't being done very intelligently. By forcing it to execute
obj_description() for each pg_proc/pg_operator join row, we were
essentially setting up a nestloop join to pg_description, which
is not a bright query plan when there are hundreds of outer rows.
Convert the check for a "deprecated" operator into a NOT EXISTS
so that it can be done as a hashed antijoin. On my workstation
this reduces the time for this query from ~ 35ms to ~ 10ms.
Which is not a huge win, but it adds up over buildfarm runs.
In passing, insert forced query breaks (\n\n, in single-user mode)
after each SQL-query file that initdb sources, and after some
relatively new queries in setup_privileges(). This doesn't make
a lot of difference normally, but it will result in briefer, saner
error messages if anything goes wrong.
Brown-paper-bag bug in commit 7c91a0364: when we rearranged the placement
of "reltuples += 1" statements, we missed including one in this code path.
The net effect of that was that CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY would set the
table's pg_class.reltuples to zero, as would index builds done during
bootstrap mode. (It seems like parallel index builds ought to fail
similarly, but they don't, perhaps because reltuples is computed in some
other way. You certainly couldn't figure that out from the abysmally
underdocumented parallelism code in this area.)
I was led to this by wondering why initdb seemed to have slowed down as
a result of 7c91a0364, as is evident in the buildfarm's timing history.
The reason is that every system catalog with indexes had pg_class.reltuples
= 0 after bootstrap, causing the planner to make some terrible choices for
queries in the post-bootstrap steps. On my workstation, this fix causes
the runtime of "initdb -N" to drop from ~2.0 sec to ~1.4 sec, which is
almost though not quite back to where it was in v10. That's not much of
a deal for production use perhaps, but it makes a noticeable difference
for buildfarm and "make check-world" runs, which do a lot of initdbs.
In Catalog.pm, mark eval of a string instead of a block as allowed.
Disallow perlcritic completely in Gen_dummy_probes.pl, as it's
generated code.
Protect a couple of lines in plperl code from perltidy, so that the
annotation for perlcritic stays on the same line as the construct it
would otherwise object to.
Commit 6271fceb8 changed PostgresNode.pm to force log_min_messages = debug1
in all TAP tests, without any discussion and without a concrete need for
it. This makes some of the TAP tests noticeably slower (although much of
that may be due to poorly-written regexes), and for certain it's bloating
the buildfarm logs. Revert the change.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/32459.1525657786@sss.pgh.pa.us
Commit 86f575948 already manually updated the oidjoins test for the
new pg_constraint.conparentid => pg_constraint.oid relationship, but
failed to update findoidjoins/README, thus the apparent inconsistency
here.
Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180507001811.GA27389@paquier.xyz
Most versions of "dtrace -h" drop const qualifiers from the declarations
of probe functions (though macOS gets it right). This causes compiler
warnings when we pass in pointers to const. Repair by extending our
existing post-processing of the probes.h file. To do so, assume that all
"char *" arguments should be "const char *"; that seems reasonably safe.
Thomas Munro
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=2j1pWSruQJqJ91ZDzD8w9ZZDsM4j2C6x75C-VryWg-_w@mail.gmail.com
The set of functions that need parallel-safety adjustments isn't the
same in 9.6 as 10, so I shouldn't have blindly back-patched that list.
Adjust as needed. Also, provide examples of the commands to issue.
There shouldn't be a line break between two adjacent tags, because that
will appear as whitespace in the output. (The rendering engine might in
turn collapse that whitespace away, so it might not actually make a
difference, but it's more correct this way.)
In 9.6, we moved a number of functions over to using the GRANT system to
control access instead of having hard-coded superuser checks.
As it turns out, adminpack was creating another function in the catalog
for one of those backend functions where the superuser check was
removed, specifically pg_rotate_logfile(), but it didn't get the memo
about having to REVOKE EXECUTE on the alternative-name function
(pg_logfile_rotate()), meaning that in any installations with adminpack
on 9.6 and higher, any user is able to run the pg_logfile_rotate()
function, which then calls pg_rotate_logfile() and rotates the logfile.
Fix by adding a new version of adminpack (1.1) which handles the REVOKE.
As this function should have only been available to the superuser, this
is a security issue, albeit a minor one.
In HEAD, move the changes implemented for adminpack up to be adminpack
2.0 instead of 1.1.
Security: CVE-2018-1115
Mark Dilger pointed out that the bootstrap parser does not allow
any of its keywords to appear as column values unless they're quoted,
and proposed dealing with that by quoting such values in genbki.pl.
Looking closer, though, we also have that problem with respect to table,
column, and type names appearing in the .bki file: the parser would fail
if any of those matched any of its keywords. While so far there have
been no conflicts (that I've heard of), this seems like a booby trap
waiting to catch somebody. Rather than clutter genbki.pl with enough
quoting logic to handle all that, let's make the bootstrap parser grow
up a little bit and treat its keywords as unreserved.
Experimentation shows that it's fairly easy to do so with the exception
of _null_, which I don't have a big problem with keeping as a reserved
word. The only change needed is that we can't have the "close" command
take an optional table name: it has to either require or forbid the
table name to avoid shift/reduce conflicts. genbki.pl has historically
always included the table name, so I took that option.
The implementation has bootscanner.l passing forward the string value
of each keyword, in case bootparse.y needs that. This avoids needing to
know the precise spelling of each keyword in bootparse.y, which is good
because that's not always obvious from the token name.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3024FC91-DB6D-4732-B31C-DF772DF039A0@gmail.com
This reverts commit 55e0e45817.
It's served its purpose of demonstrating what was wrong on
buildfarm member opossum. We could consider putting some kind
of single-purpose hack into ftod() to make the test pass there;
but I don't think it's worth the trouble, since there are surely
many other places whether this platform bug could manifest.
In commit 8b29e88cd, I'd dithered about whether to make
in_range_float4_float8 be a standalone copy of the float in-range logic
or have it punt to in_range_float8_float8. I went with the latter, which
saves code space though at the cost of performance and readability.
However, it emerges that this tickles a compiler or hardware bug on
buildfarm member opossum. Test results from commit 55e0e4581 show
conclusively that widening a float4 NaN to float8 produces Inf, not NaN,
on that machine; which accounts perfectly for the window RANGE test
failures it's been showing. We can dodge this problem by making
in_range_float4_float8 be an independent function, so that it checks
for NaN inputs before widening them.
Ordinarily I'd not be very excited about working around such obviously
broken functionality; but given that this was a judgment call to begin
with, I don't mind reversing it.
If a continuation record is split so that its first half has already been
removed from the master, and is only present in pg_wal, and there is a
recycled WAL segment in the standby server that looks like it would
contain the second half, recovery would get stuck. The code in
XLogPageRead() incorrectly started streaming at the beginning of the
WAL record, even if we had already read the first page.
Backpatch to 9.4. In principle, older versions have the same problem, but
without replication slots, there was no straightforward mechanism to
prevent the master from recycling old WAL that was still needed by standby.
Without such a mechanism, I think it's reasonable to assume that there's
enough slack in how many old segments are kept around to not run into this,
or you have a WAL archive.
Reported by Jonathon Nelson. Analysis and patch by Kyotaro HORIGUCHI, with
some extra comments by me.
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CACJqAM3xVz0JY1XFDKPP%2BJoJAjoGx%3DGNuOAshEDWCext7BFvCQ%40mail.gmail.com
Dan Wood diagnosed a long-standing problem that pages containing tuples
that are locked by multixacts containing live lockers may spuriously end
up as candidates for getting their all-visible flag set. This has the
long-term effect that multixacts remain unfrozen; this may previously
pass undetected, but since commit XYZ it would be reported as
"ERROR: found multixact 134100944 from before relminmxid 192042633"
because when a later vacuum tries to freeze the page it detects that a
multixact that should have gotten frozen, wasn't.
Dan proposed a (correct) patch that simply sets a variable to its
correct value, after a bogus initialization. But, per discussion, it
seems better coding to avoid the bogus initializations altogether, since
they could give rise to more bugs later. Therefore this fix rewrites
the logic a little bit to avoid depending on the bogus initializations.
This bug was part of a family introduced in 9.6 by commit a892234f830e;
later, commit 38e9f90a22 fixed most of them, but this one was
unnoticed.
Authors: Dan Wood, Pavan Deolasee, Álvaro Herrera
Reviewed-by: Masahiko Sawada, Pavan Deolasee, Álvaro Herrera
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/84EBAC55-F06D-4FBE-A3F3-8BDA093CE3E3@amazon.com
This should have been done some years ago as promised in commit
c4dcdd0c2. However, better late than never.
Along the way do a little housekeeping, including using a simpler test
for the python version being tested, and removing a redundant subroutine
parameter. These changes only apply back to release 9.5.
Backpatch to all live releases.
Msys2's uname -s outputs a string beginning MSYS rather than MINGW as is
output by Msys. Allow either in pg_upgrade's test.sh.
Backpatch to all live branches.
The non-cosmetic changes involve teaching the "zic" tzdata compiler about
negative DST. While I'm not currently intending that we start using
negative-DST data right away, it seems possible that somebody would try
to use our copy of zic with bleeding-edge IANA data. So we'd better be
out in front of this change code-wise, even though it doesn't matter for
the data file we're shipping.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/30996.1525445902@sss.pgh.pa.us
For querying pg_database about information about the database being
dumped, look up by using current_database() instead of the value
obtained from PQdb(). When using a connection proxy, the value from
PQdb() might not be the real name of the database.
nbtsort.c does not need to truncate away non-key attributes for the
minimum key of the leftmost page on a level, since this is only used to
build a minus infinity downlink for the level's leftmost page.
Truncating away non-key attributes in advance of truncating away all
attributes in _bt_sortaddtup() does not affect the correctness of CREATE
INDEX, but it is misleading.
Author: Peter Geoghegan
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAH2-WzkAS2M3ussHG-s_Av=Zo6dPjOxyu5fNRkYnxQV+YzGQ4w@mail.gmail.com
The principle behind the locking was not very well thought-out, and not
documented. Add a section in the README to explain how it's supposed to
work, and change the code so that it actually works that way.
This fixes two bugs:
1. If fast update was turned on concurrently, subsequent inserts to the
pending list would not conflict with predicate locks that were acquired
earlier, on entry pages. The included 'predicate-gin-fastupdate' test
demonstrates that. To fix, make all scans acquire a predicate lock on
the metapage. That lock represents a scan of the pending list, whether
or not there is a pending list at the moment. Forget about the
optimization to skip locking/checking for locks, when fastupdate=off.
2. If a scan finds no match, it still needs to lock the entry page. The
point of predicate locks is to lock the gabs between values, whether
or not there is a match. The included 'predicate-gin-nomatch' test
tests that case.
In addition to those two bug fixes, this removes some unnecessary locking,
following the principle laid out in the README. Because all items in
a posting tree have the same key value, a lock on the posting tree root is
enough to cover all the items. (With a very large posting tree, it would
possibly be better to lock the posting tree leaf pages instead, so that a
"skip scan" with a query like "A & B", you could avoid unnecessary conflict
if a new tuple is inserted with A but !B. But let's keep this simple.)
Also, some spelling fixes.
Author: Heikki Linnakangas with some editorization by me
Review: Andrey Borodin, Alexander Korotkov
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/0b3ad2c2-2692-62a9-3a04-5724f2af9114@iki.fi
We need to use a stamp file to record the runs of these scripts, as
is done on the Unix side. I think I got it right, but can't test.
While at it, extend this handmade dependency logic to also check the
generating script files, as the makefiles do.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16925.1525376229@sss.pgh.pa.us
If a particular output file already exists with the contents it should
have, leave it alone, so that its mod timestamp is not advanced.
In builds using --enable-depend, this can avoid the need to recompile .c
files whose included files didn't actually change. It's not clear whether
it saves much of anything for users of ccache; but the cost of doing the
file comparisons seems to be negligible, so we might as well do it.
For developers using the MSVC toolchain, this will create a regression:
msvc/Solution.pm will sometimes run genbki.pl or Gen_fmgrtab.pl
unnecessarily. I'll look into fixing that separately.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16925.1525376229@sss.pgh.pa.us
Make these rules look more like the ones associated with genbki.pl,
to wit:
* Use a stamp file to record when we last ran the script, instead of
relying on the timestamps of the individual output files.
* Take the knowledge out of backend/Makefile and put it in utils/Makefile
where it belongs. I moved down the handling of errcodes.h and probes.h
too, although those continue to be built by separate processes.
In itself, this is just much-needed cleanup with little practical effect.
However, by decoupling these makefile rules from the timestamps of the
generated header files, we open the door to not advancing those timestamps
unnecessarily, which will be taken advantage of by the next commit.
msvc/Solution.pm should be taught to do things similarly, but I'll leave
that for another commit.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16925.1525376229@sss.pgh.pa.us
Python 3.7 removes the trailing comma in the repr() of
BaseException (see <https://bugs.python.org/issue30399>), leading to
test output differences. Work around that by composing the equivalent
test output in a more manual way.
If an interrupt arrives in the middle of FinishPreparedTransaction
and any callback decide to call CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS (e.g.
RemoveTwoPhaseFile can write a warning with ereport, which checks for
interrupts) then it's possible to leave current GXact undeleted.
Backpatch to all supported branches
Stas Kelvich
Discussion: ihttps://www.postgresql.org/message-id/3AD85097-A3F3-4EBA-99BD-C38EDF8D2949@postgrespro.ru
autoprewarm.c mostly considered the number of blocks it might be dealing
with as being int64. This is unnecessary, because NBuffers is declared
as int, and there's been no suggestion that we might widen it in the
foreseeable future. Moreover, using int64 is problematic because the
code expected INT64_FORMAT to work with fscanf(), something we don't
guarantee, and which indeed fails on some older buildfarm members.
On top of that, the module randomly used uint32 rather than int64 variables
to hold block counters in several places, so it would fail anyway if we
ever did have NBuffers wider than that; and it also supposed that pg_qsort
could sort an int64 number of elements, which is wrong on 32-bit machines
(though no doubt a 32-bit machine couldn't actually have that many
buffers).
Hence, change all these variables to plain int.
In passing, avoid shadowing one variable named i with another,
and avoid casting away const in apw_compare_blockinfo.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/7773.1525288909@sss.pgh.pa.us
Unify indnkeys/indnatts/indnkeyatts usage for all version of query to get
index information, remove indnkeys column from query as unused.
Author: Marina Polyakova
Noticed by: Peter Eisentraut
Andrew Gierth pointed out that commit 1c72ec6f4 would yield the wrong
answer on big-endian ARM systems, because the data being CRC'd would be
different. To fix that, and avoid the rather unsightly hard-wired
constant, simply compare the hardware and software implementations'
results.
While we're at it, also log the resulting decision at DEBUG1, and error
out if the hw and sw results unexpectedly differ. Also, since this
file must compile for both frontend and backend, avoid incorrect
dependencies on backend-only headers.
In passing, add a comment to postmaster.c about when the CRC function
pointer will get initialized.
Thomas Munro, based on complaints from Andrew Gierth and Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/HE1PR0801MB1323D171938EABC04FFE7FA9E3110@HE1PR0801MB1323.eurprd08.prod.outlook.com
Since the SPI stack has been moved from TopTransactionContext to
TopMemoryContext, setting _SPI_stack to NULL in AtEOXact_SPI() leaks
memory. In fact, we don't need to do that anymore: We just leave the
allocated stack around for the next SPI use.
Also, refactor the SPI cleanup so that it is run both at transaction end
and when returning to the main loop on an exception. The latter is
necessary when a procedure calls a COMMIT or ROLLBACK command that
itself causes an error.
As in e348e7ae57 for jsonb/plperl, prevent
putting a NaN into a jsonb numeric field.
Tests for this had been removed in
6278a2a262, but in case they are ever
resurrected: This would change the output of the test1nan() function to
an error.
Failure to use DatumGetFoo/FooGetDatum macros correctly, or at all,
causes some warnings about sign conversion. This is just cosmetic
at the moment but in principle it's a type violation, so clean up
the instances I could find.
autoprewarm.c and sharedfileset.c contained code that unportably
assumed that pid_t is the same size as int. We've variously dealt
with this by casting pid_t to int or to unsigned long for printing
purposes; I went with the latter.
Fix uninitialized-variable warning in RestoreGUCState. This is
a live bug in some sense, but of no great significance given that
nobody is very likely to care what "line number" is associated with
a GUC that hasn't got a source file recorded.
statext_dependencies_load and statext_ndistinct_load were not up to snuff,
in addition to being randomly different from each other. In detail:
* Deserialize the fetched bytea value before releasing the syscache
entry, not after. This mistake causes visible regression test failures
when running with -DCATCACHE_FORCE_RELEASE. Since it's not exposed by
-DCLOBBER_CACHE_ALWAYS, I think there may be no production hazard here
at present, but it's at least a latent bug.
* Use DatumGetByteaPP not DatumGetByteaP to save a detoasting cycle
for short stats values; the deserialize function has to be, and is,
prepared for short-header values since its other caller uses PP.
* Use a test-and-elog for null stats values in both functions, rather
than a test-and-elog in one case and an Assert in the other. Perhaps
Asserts would be sufficient in both cases, but I don't see a good
argument for them being different.
* Minor cosmetic changes to make these functions more visibly alike.
Backpatch to v10 where this code came in.
Amit Langote, minor additional hacking by me
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1349aabb-3a1f-6675-9fc0-65e2ce7491dd@lab.ntt.co.jp
There were three related issues:
* BufFileAppend() incorrectly reset the seek position on the 'source' file.
As a result, if you had called BufFileRead() on the file before calling
BufFileAppend(), it got confused, and subsequent calls would read/write
at wrong position.
* BufFileSize() did not work with files opened with BufFileOpenShared().
* FileGetSize() only worked on temporary files.
To fix, change the way BufFileSize() works so that it works on shared
files. Remove FileGetSize() altogether, as it's no longer needed. Remove
buffilesize from TapeShare struct, as the leader process can simply call
BufFileSize() to get the tape's size, there's no need to pass it through
shared memory anymore.
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAH2-WznEDYe_NZXxmnOfsoV54oFkTdMy7YLE2NPBLuttO96vTQ@mail.gmail.com
Tom Lane
Peter Eisentraut
Andrew Dunstan
Stephen Frost
Robert Haas
Heikki Linnakangas
Alvaro Herrera
Teodor Sigaev
Bruce Momjian