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Tom Lane dddfc4cb2e Prevent accidental linking of system-supplied copies of libpq.so etc.
We were being careless in some places about the order of -L switches in
link command lines, such that -L switches referring to external directories
could come before those referring to directories within the build tree.
This made it possible to accidentally link a system-supplied library, for
example /usr/lib/libpq.so, in place of the one built in the build tree.
Hilarity ensued, the more so the older the system-supplied library is.

To fix, break LDFLAGS into two parts, a sub-variable LDFLAGS_INTERNAL
and the main LDFLAGS variable, both of which are "recursively expanded"
so that they can be incrementally adjusted by different makefiles.
Establish a policy that -L switches for directories in the build tree
must always be added to LDFLAGS_INTERNAL, while -L switches for external
directories must always be added to LDFLAGS.  This is sufficient to
ensure a safe search order.  For simplicity, we typically also put -l
switches for the respective libraries into those same variables.
(Traditional make usage would have us put -l switches into LIBS, but
cleaning that up is a project for another day, as there's no clear
need for it.)

This turns out to also require separating SHLIB_LINK into two variables,
SHLIB_LINK and SHLIB_LINK_INTERNAL, with a similar rule about which
switches go into which variable.  And likewise for PG_LIBS.

Although this change might appear to affect external users of pgxs.mk,
I think it doesn't; they shouldn't have any need to touch the _INTERNAL
variables.

In passing, tweak src/common/Makefile so that the value of CPPFLAGS
recorded in pg_config lacks "-DFRONTEND" and the recorded value of
LDFLAGS lacks "-L../../../src/common".  Both of those things are
mistakes, apparently introduced during prior code rearrangements,
as old versions of pg_config don't print them.  In general we don't
want anything that's specific to the src/common subdirectory to
appear in those outputs.

This is certainly a bug fix, but in view of the lack of field
complaints, I'm unsure whether it's worth the risk of back-patching.
In any case it seems wise to see what the buildfarm makes of it first.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/25214.1522604295@sss.pgh.pa.us
2018-04-03 16:26:05 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera 8d1b805fcc restrict -> pg_restrict
So that it works on MSVC, too.

Author: Michaël Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/29889.1520968202@sss.pgh.pa.us
2018-03-15 10:02:59 -03:00
Peter Eisentraut 17bb625017 Move strtoint() to common
Several places used similar code to convert a string to an int, so take
the function that we already had and make it globally available.

Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
2018-03-13 10:21:09 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 9d4649ca49 Update copyright for 2018
Backpatch-through: certain files through 9.3
2018-01-02 23:30:12 -05:00
Peter Eisentraut 2eb4a831e5 Change TRUE/FALSE to true/false
The lower case spellings are C and C++ standard and are used in most
parts of the PostgreSQL sources.  The upper case spellings are only used
in some files/modules.  So standardize on the standard spellings.

The APIs for ICU, Perl, and Windows define their own TRUE and FALSE, so
those are left as is when using those APIs.

In code comments, we use the lower-case spelling for the C concepts and
keep the upper-case spelling for the SQL concepts.

Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
2017-11-08 11:37:28 -05:00
Andres Freund fffd651e83 Rewrite strnlen replacement implementation from 8a241792f9.
The previous placement of the fallback implementation in libpgcommon
was problematic, because libpqport functions need strnlen
functionality.

Move replacement into libpgport. Provide strnlen() under its posix
name, instead of pg_strnlen(). Fix stupid configure bug, executing the
test only when compiled with threading support.

Author: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1e1gR2-0005fB-SI@gemulon.postgresql.org
2017-10-10 14:50:30 -07:00
Andres Freund 8a241792f9 Add pg_strnlen() a portable implementation of strlen.
As the OS version is likely going to be more optimized, fall back to
it if available, as detected by configure.
2017-10-09 15:20:42 -07:00
Andres Freund 0ba99c84e8 Replace most usages of ntoh[ls] and hton[sl] with pg_bswap.h.
All postgres internal usages are replaced, it's just libpq example
usages that haven't been converted. External users of libpq can't
generally rely on including postgres internal headers.

Note that this includes replacing open-coded byte swapping of 64bit
integers (using two 32 bit swaps) with a single 64bit swap.

Where it looked applicable, I have removed netinet/in.h and
arpa/inet.h usage, which previously provided the relevant
functionality. It's perfectly possible that I missed other reasons for
including those, the buildfarm will tell.

Author: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170927172019.gheidqy6xvlxb325@alap3.anarazel.de
2017-10-01 15:36:14 -07:00
Alvaro Herrera 5e3254f086 Update copyright in recently added files 2017-07-26 18:17:18 -04:00
Tom Lane f13ea95f9e Change pg_ctl to detect server-ready by watching status in postmaster.pid.
Traditionally, "pg_ctl start -w" has waited for the server to become
ready to accept connections by attempting a connection once per second.
That has the major problem that connection issues (for instance, a
kernel packet filter blocking traffic) can't be reliably told apart
from server startup issues, and the minor problem that if server startup
isn't quick, we accumulate "the database system is starting up" spam
in the server log.  We've hacked around many of the possible connection
issues, but it resulted in ugly and complicated code in pg_ctl.c.

In commit c61559ec3, I changed the probe rate to every tenth of a second.
That prompted Jeff Janes to complain that the log-spam problem had become
much worse.  In the ensuing discussion, Andres Freund pointed out that
we could dispense with connection attempts altogether if the postmaster
were changed to report its status in postmaster.pid, which "pg_ctl start"
already relies on being able to read.  This patch implements that, teaching
postmaster.c to report a status string into the pidfile at the same
state-change points already identified as being of interest for systemd
status reporting (cf commit 7d17e683f).  pg_ctl no longer needs to link
with libpq at all; all its functions now depend on reading server files.

In support of this, teach AddToDataDirLockFile() to allow addition of
postmaster.pid lines in not-necessarily-sequential order.  This is needed
on Windows where the SHMEM_KEY line will never be written at all.  We still
have the restriction that we don't want to truncate the pidfile; document
the reasons for that a bit better.

Also, fix the pg_ctl TAP tests so they'll notice if "start -w" mode
is broken --- before, they'd just wait out the sixty seconds until
the loop gives up, and then report success anyway.  (Yes, I found that
out the hard way.)

While at it, arrange for pg_ctl to not need to #include miscadmin.h;
as a rather low-level backend header, requiring that to be compilable
client-side is pretty dubious.  This requires moving the #define's
associated with the pidfile into a new header file, and moving
PG_BACKEND_VERSIONSTR someplace else.  For lack of a clearly better
"someplace else", I put it into port.h, beside the declaration of
find_other_exec(), since most users of that macro are passing the value to
find_other_exec().  (initdb still depends on miscadmin.h, but at least
pg_ctl and pg_upgrade no longer do.)

In passing, fix main.c so that PG_BACKEND_VERSIONSTR actually defines the
output of "postgres -V", which remarkably it had never done before.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMkU=1xJW8e+CTotojOMBd-yzUvD0e_JZu2xHo=MnuZ4__m7Pg@mail.gmail.com
2017-06-28 17:31:32 -04:00
Tom Lane 382ceffdf7 Phase 3 of pgindent updates.
Don't move parenthesized lines to the left, even if that means they
flow past the right margin.

By default, BSD indent lines up statement continuation lines that are
within parentheses so that they start just to the right of the preceding
left parenthesis.  However, traditionally, if that resulted in the
continuation line extending to the right of the desired right margin,
then indent would push it left just far enough to not overrun the margin,
if it could do so without making the continuation line start to the left of
the current statement indent.  That makes for a weird mix of indentations
unless one has been completely rigid about never violating the 80-column
limit.

This behavior has been pretty universally panned by Postgres developers.
Hence, disable it with indent's new -lpl switch, so that parenthesized
lines are always lined up with the preceding left paren.

This patch is much less interesting than the first round of indent
changes, but also bulkier, so I thought it best to separate the effects.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1dAmxK-0006EE-1r@gemulon.postgresql.org
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/30527.1495162840@sss.pgh.pa.us
2017-06-21 15:35:54 -04:00
Tom Lane c7b8998ebb Phase 2 of pgindent updates.
Change pg_bsd_indent to follow upstream rules for placement of comments
to the right of code, and remove pgindent hack that caused comments
following #endif to not obey the general rule.

Commit e3860ffa4d wasn't actually using
the published version of pg_bsd_indent, but a hacked-up version that
tried to minimize the amount of movement of comments to the right of
code.  The situation of interest is where such a comment has to be
moved to the right of its default placement at column 33 because there's
code there.  BSD indent has always moved right in units of tab stops
in such cases --- but in the previous incarnation, indent was working
in 8-space tab stops, while now it knows we use 4-space tabs.  So the
net result is that in about half the cases, such comments are placed
one tab stop left of before.  This is better all around: it leaves
more room on the line for comment text, and it means that in such
cases the comment uniformly starts at the next 4-space tab stop after
the code, rather than sometimes one and sometimes two tabs after.

Also, ensure that comments following #endif are indented the same
as comments following other preprocessor commands such as #else.
That inconsistency turns out to have been self-inflicted damage
from a poorly-thought-through post-indent "fixup" in pgindent.

This patch is much less interesting than the first round of indent
changes, but also bulkier, so I thought it best to separate the effects.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1dAmxK-0006EE-1r@gemulon.postgresql.org
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/30527.1495162840@sss.pgh.pa.us
2017-06-21 15:19:25 -04:00
Tom Lane e3860ffa4d Initial pgindent run with pg_bsd_indent version 2.0.
The new indent version includes numerous fixes thanks to Piotr Stefaniak.
The main changes visible in this commit are:

* Nicer formatting of function-pointer declarations.
* No longer unexpectedly removes spaces in expressions using casts,
  sizeof, or offsetof.
* No longer wants to add a space in "struct structname *varname", as
  well as some similar cases for const- or volatile-qualified pointers.
* Declarations using PG_USED_FOR_ASSERTS_ONLY are formatted more nicely.
* Fixes bug where comments following declarations were sometimes placed
  with no space separating them from the code.
* Fixes some odd decisions for comments following case labels.
* Fixes some cases where comments following code were indented to less
  than the expected column 33.

On the less good side, it now tends to put more whitespace around typedef
names that are not listed in typedefs.list.  This might encourage us to
put more effort into typedef name collection; it's not really a bug in
indent itself.

There are more changes coming after this round, having to do with comment
indentation and alignment of lines appearing within parentheses.  I wanted
to limit the size of the diffs to something that could be reviewed without
one's eyes completely glazing over, so it seemed better to split up the
changes as much as practical.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1dAmxK-0006EE-1r@gemulon.postgresql.org
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/30527.1495162840@sss.pgh.pa.us
2017-06-21 14:39:04 -04:00
Bruce Momjian ce55481032 Post-PG 10 beta1 pgperltidy run 2017-05-17 19:01:23 -04:00
Bruce Momjian a6fd7b7a5f Post-PG 10 beta1 pgindent run
perltidy run not included.
2017-05-17 16:31:56 -04:00
Tom Lane c079673dcb Preventive maintenance in advance of pgindent run.
Reformat various places in which pgindent will make a mess, and
fix a few small violations of coding style that I happened to notice
while perusing the diffs from a pgindent dry run.

There is one actual bug fix here: the need-to-enlarge-the-buffer code
path in icu_convert_case was obviously broken.  Perhaps it's unreachable
in our usage?  Or maybe this is just sadly undertested.
2017-05-16 20:36:35 -04:00
Heikki Linnakangas 8f8b9be51f Add PQencryptPasswordConn function to libpq, use it in psql and createuser.
The new function supports creating SCRAM verifiers, in addition to md5
hashes. The algorithm is chosen based on password_encryption, by default.

This fixes the issue reported by Jeff Janes, that there was previously
no way to create a SCRAM verifier with "\password".

Michael Paquier and me

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAMkU%3D1wfBgFPbfAMYZQE78p%3DVhZX7nN86aWkp0QcCp%3D%2BKxZ%3Dbg%40mail.gmail.com
2017-05-03 11:19:07 +03:00
Heikki Linnakangas d981074c24 Misc SCRAM code cleanups.
* Move computation of SaltedPassword to a separate function from
  scram_ClientOrServerKey(). This saves a lot of cycles in libpq, by
  computing SaltedPassword only once per authentication. (Computing
  SaltedPassword is expensive by design.)

* Split scram_ClientOrServerKey() into two functions. Improves
  readability, by making the calling code less verbose.

* Rename "server proof" to "server signature", to better match the
  nomenclature used in RFC 5802.

* Rename SCRAM_SALT_LEN to SCRAM_DEFAULT_SALT_LEN, to make it more clear
  that the salt can be of any length, and the constant only specifies how
  long a salt we use when we generate a new verifier. Also rename
  SCRAM_ITERATIONS_DEFAULT to SCRAM_DEFAULT_ITERATIONS, for consistency.

These things caught my eye while working on other upcoming changes.
2017-04-28 15:22:38 +03:00
Peter Eisentraut 6275f5d28a Fix new warnings from GCC 7
This addresses the new warning types -Wformat-truncation
-Wformat-overflow that are part of -Wall, via -Wformat, in GCC 7.
2017-04-17 13:59:46 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 0e8286d354 Fix perlcritic warnings 2017-04-17 13:49:34 -04:00
Magnus Hagander a4777f3556 Remove symbol WIN32_ONLY_COMPILER
This used to mean "Visual C++ except in those parts where Borland C++
was supported where it meant one of those". Now that we don't support
Borland C++ anymore, simplify by using _MSC_VER which is the normal way
to detect Visual C++.
2017-04-11 15:22:21 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut 0cb2e51992 Avoid using a C++ keyword in header file
per cpluspluscheck
2017-04-07 16:32:02 -04:00
Heikki Linnakangas 60f11b87a2 Use SASLprep to normalize passwords for SCRAM authentication.
An important step of SASLprep normalization, is to convert the string to
Unicode normalization form NFKC. Unicode normalization requires a fairly
large table of character decompositions, which is generated from data
published by the Unicode consortium. The script to generate the table is
put in src/common/unicode, as well test code for the normalization.
A pre-generated version of the tables is included in src/include/common,
so you don't need the code in src/common/unicode to build PostgreSQL, only
if you wish to modify the normalization tables.

The SASLprep implementation depends on the UTF-8 functions from
src/backend/utils/mb/wchar.c. So to use it, you must also compile and link
that. That doesn't change anything for the current users of these
functions, the backend and libpq, as they both already link with wchar.o.
It would be good to move those functions into a separate file in
src/commmon, but I'll leave that for another day.

No documentation changes included, because there is no details on the
SCRAM mechanism in the docs anyway. An overview on that in the protocol
specification would probably be good, even though SCRAM is documented in
detail in RFC5802. I'll write that as a separate patch. An important thing
to mention there is that we apply SASLprep even on invalid UTF-8 strings,
to support other encodings.

Patch by Michael Paquier and me.

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAB7nPqSByyEmAVLtEf1KxTRh=PWNKiWKEKQR=e1yGehz=wbymQ@mail.gmail.com
2017-04-07 14:56:05 +03:00
Andrew Dunstan 96a7128b7b Sync pg_dump and pg_dumpall output
Before exiting any files are fsync'ed. A --no-sync option is also
provided for a faster exit if desired.

Michael Paquier.

Reviewed by Albe Laurenz

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAB7nPqS1uZ=Ov+UruW6jr3vB-S_DLVMPc0dQpV-fTDjmm0ZQMg@mail.gmail.com
2017-03-22 10:20:13 -04:00
Heikki Linnakangas 95c1dbcdff A collection of small fixes for the SCRAM patch.
* Add required #includes for htonl. Per buildfarm members pademelon/gaur.

* Remove unnecessary "#include <utils/memutils>".

* Fix checking for empty string in pg_SASL_init. (Reported by Peter
  Eisentraut and his compiler)

* Move code in pg_SASL_init to match the recent changes (commit ba005f193d)
  to pg_fe_sendauth() function, where it's copied from.

* Return value of malloc() was not checked for NULL in
  scram_SaltedPassword(). Fix by avoiding the malloc().
2017-03-07 19:00:22 +02:00
Heikki Linnakangas 55acfcbffd Fix comments in SCRAM-SHA-256 patch.
Amit Kapila.
2017-03-07 15:24:27 +02:00
Heikki Linnakangas 818fd4a67d Support SCRAM-SHA-256 authentication (RFC 5802 and 7677).
This introduces a new generic SASL authentication method, similar to the
GSS and SSPI methods. The server first tells the client which SASL
authentication mechanism to use, and then the mechanism-specific SASL
messages are exchanged in AuthenticationSASLcontinue and PasswordMessage
messages. Only SCRAM-SHA-256 is supported at the moment, but this allows
adding more SASL mechanisms in the future, without changing the overall
protocol.

Support for channel binding, aka SCRAM-SHA-256-PLUS is left for later.

The SASLPrep algorithm, for pre-processing the password, is not yet
implemented. That could cause trouble, if you use a password with
non-ASCII characters, and a client library that does implement SASLprep.
That will hopefully be added later.

Authorization identities, as specified in the SCRAM-SHA-256 specification,
are ignored. SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION provides more or less the same
functionality, anyway.

If a user doesn't exist, perform a "mock" authentication, by constructing
an authentic-looking challenge on the fly. The challenge is derived from
a new system-wide random value, "mock authentication nonce", which is
created at initdb, and stored in the control file. We go through these
motions, in order to not give away the information on whether the user
exists, to unauthenticated users.

Bumps PG_CONTROL_VERSION, because of the new field in control file.

Patch by Michael Paquier and Heikki Linnakangas, reviewed at different
stages by Robert Haas, Stephen Frost, David Steele, Aleksander Alekseev,
and many others.

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAB7nPqRbR3GmFYdedCAhzukfKrgBLTLtMvENOmPrVWREsZkF8g%40mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAB7nPqSMXU35g%3DW9X74HVeQp0uvgJxvYOuA4A-A3M%2B0wfEBv-w%40mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/55192AFE.6080106@iki.fi
2017-03-07 14:25:40 +02:00
Heikki Linnakangas 273c458a2b Refactor SHA2 functions and move them to src/common/.
This way both frontend and backends can use them. The functions are taken
from pgcrypto, which now fetches the source files it needs from
src/common/.

A new interface is designed for the SHA2 functions, which allow linking
to either OpenSSL or the in-core stuff taken from KAME as needed.

Michael Paquier, reviewed by Robert Haas.

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAB7nPqTGKuTM5jiZriHrNaQeVqp5e_iT3X4BFLWY_HyHxLvySQ%40mail.gmail.com
2017-03-07 14:23:49 +02:00
Tom Lane 9e3755ecb2 Remove useless duplicate inclusions of system header files.
c.h #includes a number of core libc header files, such as <stdio.h>.
There's no point in re-including these after having read postgres.h,
postgres_fe.h, or c.h; so remove code that did so.

While at it, also fix some places that were ignoring our standard pattern
of "include postgres[_fe].h, then system header files, then other Postgres
header files".  While there's not any great magic in doing it that way
rather than system headers last, it's silly to have just a few files
deviating from the general pattern.  (But I didn't attempt to enforce this
globally, only in files I was touching anyway.)

I'd be the first to say that this is mostly compulsive neatnik-ism,
but over time it might save enough compile cycles to be useful.
2017-02-25 16:12:55 -05:00
Bruce Momjian 1d25779284 Update copyright via script for 2017 2017-01-03 13:48:53 -05:00
Robert Haas f82ec32ac3 Rename "pg_xlog" directory to "pg_wal".
"xlog" is not a particularly clear abbreviation for "write-ahead log",
and it sometimes confuses users into believe that the contents of the
"pg_xlog" directory are not critical data, leading to unpleasant
consequences.  So, rename the directory to "pg_wal".

This patch modifies pg_upgrade and pg_basebackup to understand both
the old and new directory layouts; the former is necessary given the
purpose of the tool, while the latter merely avoids an unnecessary
backward-compatibility break.

We may wish to consider renaming other programs, switches, and
functions which still use the old "xlog" naming to also refer to
"wal".  However, that's still under discussion, so let's do just this
much for now.

Discussion: CAB7nPqTeC-8+zux8_-4ZD46V7YPwooeFxgndfsq5Rg8ibLVm1A@mail.gmail.com

Michael Paquier
2016-10-20 11:32:18 -04:00
Tom Lane 728ceba938 Avoid leaking FDs after an fsync failure.
Fixes errors introduced in commit bc34223bc, as detected by Coverity.

In passing, report ENOSPC for a short write while padding a new wal file in
open_walfile, make certain that close_walfile closes walfile in all cases,
and improve a couple of comments.

Michael Paquier and Tom Lane
2016-10-02 12:33:46 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut f2af8dc5ba Fix compiler warnings
This was missed in bf5bb2e85b, because the
code is only visible under PG_FLUSH_DATA_WORKS.
2016-09-29 12:00:00 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut bc34223bc1 pg_basebackup pg_receivexlog: Issue fsync more carefully
Several places weren't careful about fsyncing in the way.  See 1d4a0ab1
and 606e0f98 for details about required fsyncs.

This adds a couple of functions in src/common/ that have an equivalent
in the backend: durable_rename(), fsync_parent_path()

From: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
2016-09-29 12:00:00 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut bf5bb2e85b Move fsync routines of initdb into src/common/
The intention is to used those in other utilities such as pg_basebackup
and pg_receivexlog.

From: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
2016-09-29 12:00:00 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut e79e6c4da1 Fix CRC check handling in get_controlfile
The previous patch broke this by returning NULL for a failed CRC check,
which pg_controldata would then try to read.  Fix by returning the
result of the CRC check in a separate argument.

Michael Paquier and myself
2016-09-28 12:00:00 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut c1dc51d484 pg_ctl: Detect current standby state from pg_control
pg_ctl used to determine whether a server was in standby mode by looking
for a recovery.conf file.  With this change, it instead looks into
pg_control, which is potentially more accurate.  There are also
occasional discussions about removing recovery.conf, so this removes one
dependency.

Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
2016-09-21 12:00:00 -04:00
Heikki Linnakangas ec136d19b2 Move code shared between libpq and backend from backend/libpq/ to common/.
When building libpq, ip.c and md5.c were symlinked or copied from
src/backend/libpq into src/interfaces/libpq, but now that we have a
directory specifically for routines that are shared between the server and
client binaries, src/common/, move them there.

Some routines in ip.c were only used in the backend. Keep those in
src/backend/libpq, but rename to ifaddr.c to avoid confusion with the file
that's now in common.

Fix the comment in src/common/Makefile to reflect how libpq actually links
those files.

There are two more files that libpq symlinks directly from src/backend:
encnames.c and wchar.c. I don't feel compelled to move those right now,
though.

Patch by Michael Paquier, with some changes by me.

Discussion: <69938195-9c76-8523-0af8-eb718ea5b36e@iki.fi>
2016-09-02 13:49:59 +03:00
Tom Lane 052cc223d5 Fix a bunch of places that called malloc and friends with no NULL check.
Where possible, use palloc or pg_malloc instead; otherwise, insert
explicit NULL checks.

Generally speaking, these are places where an actual OOM is quite
unlikely, either because they're in client programs that don't
allocate all that much, or they're very early in process startup
so that we'd likely have had a fork() failure instead.  Hence,
no back-patch, even though this is nominally a bug fix.

Michael Paquier, with some adjustments by me

Discussion: <CAB7nPqRu07Ot6iht9i9KRfYLpDaF2ZuUv5y_+72uP23ZAGysRg@mail.gmail.com>
2016-08-30 18:22:43 -04:00
Robert Haas 4bc424b968 pgindent run for 9.6 2016-06-09 18:02:36 -04:00
Noah Misch 33d3fc5e2a Remove redundant message in AddUserToTokenDacl().
GetTokenUser() will have reported an adequate error message.  These
error conditions almost can't happen, so users are unlikely to observe
this change.

Reviewed by Tom Lane and Stephen Frost.
2016-04-06 23:40:51 -04:00
Noah Misch c22650cd64 Refer to a TOKEN_USER payload as a "token user," not as a "user token".
This corrects messages for can't-happen errors.  The corresponding "user
token" appears in the HANDLE argument of GetTokenInformation().
2016-04-01 21:53:18 -04:00
Tom Lane 2c6af4f442 Move keywords.c/kwlookup.c into src/common/.
Now that we have src/common/ for code shared between frontend and backend,
we can get rid of (most of) the klugy ways that the keyword table and
keyword lookup code were formerly shared between different uses.
This is a first step towards a more general plan of getting rid of
special-purpose kluges for sharing code in src/bin/.

I chose to merge kwlookup.c back into keywords.c, as it once was, and
always has been so far as keywords.h is concerned.  We could have
kept them separate, but there is noplace that uses ScanKeywordLookup
without also wanting access to the backend's keyword list, so there
seems little point.

ecpg is still a bit weird, but at least now the trickiness is documented.

I think that the MSVC build script should require no adjustments beyond
what's done here ... but we'll soon find out.
2016-03-23 20:22:08 -04:00
Joe Conway 7b077af500 Make get_controlfile() error logging consistent with src/common
As originally committed, get_controlfile() used a non-standard approach
to error logging. Make it consistent with the majority of error logging
done in src/common.

Applies to master only.
2016-03-07 15:14:20 -08:00
Joe Conway dc7d70ea05 Expose control file data via SQL accessible functions.
Add four new SQL accessible functions: pg_control_system(),
pg_control_checkpoint(), pg_control_recovery(), and pg_control_init()
which expose a subset of the control file data.

Along the way move the code to read and validate the control file to
src/common, where it can be shared by the new backend functions
and the original pg_controldata frontend program.

Patch by me, significant input, testing, and review by Michael Paquier.
2016-03-05 11:10:19 -08:00
Tom Lane c7a1c5a6b6 Cosmetic improvements in new config_info code.
Coverity griped about use of unchecked strcpy() into a local variable.
There's unlikely to be any actual bug there, since no caller would be
passing a path longer than MAXPGPATH, but nonetheless use of strlcpy()
seems preferable.

While at it, get rid of unmaintainable separation between list of
field names and list of field values in favor of initializing them
in parallel.  And we might as well declare get_configdata()'s path
argument as const char *, even though no current caller needs that.
2016-02-21 11:38:24 -05:00
Joe Conway a5c43b8869 Add new system view, pg_config
Move and refactor the underlying code for the pg_config client
application to src/common in support of sharing it with a new
system information SRF called pg_config() which makes the same
information available via SQL. Additionally wrap the SRF with a
new system view, as called pg_config.

Patch by me with extensive input and review by Michael Paquier
and additional review by Alvaro Herrera.
2016-02-17 09:12:06 -08:00
Magnus Hagander e51ab85cd9 Fix typos in comments
Author: Michael Paquier
2016-02-01 11:43:48 +01:00
Bruce Momjian ee94300446 Update copyright for 2016
Backpatch certain files through 9.1
2016-01-02 13:33:40 -05:00
Bruce Momjian 807b9e0dff pgindent run for 9.5 2015-05-23 21:35:49 -04:00
Heikki Linnakangas 4f700bcd20 Reorganize our CRC source files again.
Now that we use CRC-32C in WAL and the control file, the "traditional" and
"legacy" CRC-32 variants are not used in any frontend programs anymore.
Move the code for those back from src/common to src/backend/utils/hash.

Also move the slicing-by-8 implementation (back) to src/port. This is in
preparation for next patch that will add another implementation that uses
Intel SSE 4.2 instructions to calculate CRC-32C, where available.
2015-04-14 17:03:42 +03:00
Fujii Masao 8c8a886268 Add palloc_extended for frontend and backend.
This commit also adds pg_malloc_extended for frontend. These interfaces
can be used to control at a lower level memory allocation using an interface
similar to MemoryContextAllocExtended. For example, the callers can specify
MCXT_ALLOC_NO_OOM if they want to suppress the "out of memory" error while
allocating the memory and handle a NULL return value.

Michael Paquier, reviewed by me.
2015-04-03 17:36:12 +09:00
Robert Haas 4cd639baf4 Revert "psql: fix \connect with URIs and conninfo strings"
This reverts commit fcef161729, about
which both the buildfarm and my local machine are very unhappy.
2015-04-02 10:10:22 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera fcef161729 psql: fix \connect with URIs and conninfo strings
psql was already accepting conninfo strings as the first parameter in
\connect, but the way it worked wasn't sane; some of the other
parameters would get the previous connection's values, causing it to
connect to a completely unexpected server or, more likely, not finding
any server at all because of completely wrong combinations of
parameters.

Fix by explicitely checking for a conninfo-looking parameter in the
dbname position; if one is found, use its complete specification rather
than mix with the other arguments.  Also, change tab-completion to not
try to complete conninfo/URI-looking "dbnames" and document that
conninfos are accepted as first argument.

There was a weak consensus to backpatch this, because while the behavior
of using the dbname as a conninfo is nowhere documented for \connect, it
is reasonable to expect that it works because it does work in many other
contexts.  Therefore this is backpatched all the way back to 9.0.

To implement this, routines previously private to libpq have been
duplicated so that psql can decide what looks like a conninfo/URI
string.  In back branches, just duplicate the same code all the way back
to 9.2, where URIs where introduced; 9.0 and 9.1 have a simpler version.
In master, the routines are moved to src/common and renamed.

Author: David Fetter, Andrew Dunstan.  Some editorialization by me
(probably earning a Gierth's "Sloppy" badge in the process.)
Reviewers: Andrew Gierth, Erik Rijkers, Pavel Stěhule, Stephen Frost,
Robert Haas, Andrew Dunstan.
2015-04-01 20:00:07 -03:00
Andrew Dunstan fa1e5afa8a Run pg_upgrade and pg_resetxlog with restricted token on Windows
As with initdb these programs need to run with a restricted token, and
if they don't pg_upgrade will fail when run as a user with Adminstrator
privileges.

Backpatch to all live branches. On the development branch the code is
reorganized so that the restricted token code is now in a single
location. On the stable bramches a less invasive change is made by
simply copying the relevant code to pg_upgrade.c and pg_resetxlog.c.

Patches and bug report from Muhammad Asif Naeem, reviewed by Michael
Paquier, slightly edited by me.
2015-03-30 17:07:52 -04:00
Noah Misch 424793fa5d Unlink static libraries before rebuilding them.
When the library already exists in the build directory, "ar" preserves
members not named on its command line.  This mattered when, for example,
a "configure" rerun dropped a file from $(LIBOBJS).  libpgport carried
the obsolete member until "make clean".  Back-patch to 9.0 (all
supported versions).
2015-03-01 13:05:23 -05:00
Heikki Linnakangas 025c02420d Speed up CRC calculation using slicing-by-8 algorithm.
This speeds up WAL generation and replay. The new algorithm is
significantly faster with large inputs, like full-page images or when
inserting wide rows. It is slower with tiny inputs, i.e. less than 10 bytes
or so, but the speedup with longer inputs more than make up for that. Even
small WAL records at least have 24 byte header in the front.

The output is identical to the current byte-at-a-time computation, so this
does not affect compatibility. The new algorithm is only used for the
CRC-32C variant, not the legacy version used in tsquery or the
"traditional" CRC-32 used in hstore and ltree. Those are not as performance
critical, and are usually only applied over small inputs, so it seems
better to not carry around the extra lookup tables to speed up those rare
cases.

Abhijit Menon-Sen
2015-02-10 10:54:40 +02:00
Heikki Linnakangas c619c2351f Move pg_crc.c to src/common, and remove pg_crc_tables.h
To get CRC functionality in a client program, you now need to link with
libpgcommon instead of libpgport. The CRC code has nothing to do with
portability, so libpgcommon is a better home. (libpgcommon didn't exist
when pg_crc.c was originally moved to src/port.)

Remove the possibility to get CRC functionality by just #including
pg_crc_tables.h. I'm not aware of any extensions that actually did that and
couldn't simply link with libpgcommon.

This also moves the pg_crc.h header file from src/include/utils to
src/include/common, which will require changes to any external programs
that currently does #include "utils/pg_crc.h". That seems acceptable, as
include/common is clearly the right home for it now, and the change needed
to any such programs is trivial.
2015-02-09 11:17:56 +02:00
Fujii Masao 40bede5477 Move pg_lzcompress.c to src/common.
The meta data of PGLZ symbolized by PGLZ_Header is removed, to make
the compression and decompression code independent on the backend-only
varlena facility. PGLZ_Header is being used to store some meta data
related to the data being compressed like the raw length of the uncompressed
record or some varlena-related data, making it unpluggable once PGLZ is
stored in src/common as it contains some backend-only code paths with
the management of varlena structures. The APIs of PGLZ are reworked
at the same time to do only compression and decompression of buffers
without the meta-data layer, simplifying its use for a more general usage.

On-disk format is preserved as well, so there is no incompatibility with
previous major versions of PostgreSQL for TOAST entries.

Exposing compression and decompression APIs of pglz makes possible its
use by extensions and contrib modules. Especially this commit is required
for upcoming WAL compression feature so that the WAL reader facility can
decompress the WAL data by using pglz_decompress.

Michael Paquier, reviewed by me.
2015-02-09 15:15:24 +09:00
Tom Lane 080eabe2e8 Fix libpq's behavior when /etc/passwd isn't readable.
Some users run their applications in chroot environments that lack an
/etc/passwd file.  This means that the current UID's user name and home
directory are not obtainable.  libpq used to be all right with that,
so long as the database role name to use was specified explicitly.
But commit a4c8f14364 broke such cases by
causing any failure of pg_fe_getauthname() to be treated as a hard error.
In any case it did little to advance its nominal goal of causing errors
in pg_fe_getauthname() to be reported better.  So revert that and instead
put some real error-reporting code in place.  This requires changes to the
APIs of pg_fe_getauthname() and pqGetpwuid(), since the latter had
departed from the POSIX-specified API of getpwuid_r() in a way that made
it impossible to distinguish actual lookup errors from "no such user".

To allow such failures to be reported, while not failing if the caller
supplies a role name, add a second call of pg_fe_getauthname() in
connectOptions2().  This is a tad ugly, and could perhaps be avoided with
some refactoring of PQsetdbLogin(), but I'll leave that idea for later.
(Note that the complained-of misbehavior only occurs in PQsetdbLogin,
not when using the PQconnect functions, because in the latter we will
never bother to call pg_fe_getauthname() if the user gives a role name.)

In passing also clean up the Windows-side usage of GetUserName(): the
recommended buffer size is 257 bytes, the passed buffer length should
be the buffer size not buffer size less 1, and any error is reported
by GetLastError() not errno.

Per report from Christoph Berg.  Back-patch to 9.4 where the chroot
failure case was introduced.  The generally poor reporting of errors
here is of very long standing, of course, but given the lack of field
complaints about it we won't risk changing these APIs further back
(even though they're theoretically internal to libpq).
2015-01-11 12:35:44 -05:00
Noah Misch 894459e59f On Darwin, detect and report a multithreaded postmaster.
Darwin --enable-nls builds use a substitute setlocale() that may start a
thread.  Buildfarm member orangutan experienced BackendList corruption
on account of different postmaster threads executing signal handlers
simultaneously.  Furthermore, a multithreaded postmaster risks undefined
behavior from sigprocmask() and fork().  Emit LOG messages about the
problem and its workaround.  Back-patch to 9.0 (all supported versions).
2015-01-07 22:35:44 -05:00
Bruce Momjian 4baaf863ec Update copyright for 2015
Backpatch certain files through 9.0
2015-01-06 11:43:47 -05:00
Andres Freund ccb161b66a Add pg_string_endswith as the start of a string helper library in src/common.
Backpatch to 9.3 where src/common was introduce, because a bugfix that
needs to be backpatched, requires the function. Earlier branches will
have to duplicate the code.
2015-01-03 20:54:12 +01:00
Tom Lane 966115c305 Temporarily revert "Move pg_lzcompress.c to src/common."
This reverts commit 60838df922.
That change needs a bit more thought to be workable.  In view of
the potentially machine-dependent stuff that went in today,
we need all of the buildfarm to be testing those other changes.
2014-12-25 13:22:55 -05:00
Fujii Masao 60838df922 Move pg_lzcompress.c to src/common.
Exposing compression and decompression APIs of pglz makes possible its
use by extensions and contrib modules. pglz_decompress contained a call
to elog to emit an error message in case of corrupted data. This function
is changed to return a status code to let its callers return an error instead.

This commit is required for upcoming WAL compression feature so that
the WAL reader facility can decompress the WAL data by using pglz_decompress.

Michael Paquier
2014-12-25 20:46:14 +09:00
Peter Eisentraut f25e0bf5e0 Small message fixes 2014-08-09 00:07:00 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 0a78320057 pgindent run for 9.4
This includes removing tabs after periods in C comments, which was
applied to back branches, so this change should not effect backpatching.
2014-05-06 12:12:18 -04:00
Tom Lane 2d00190495 Rationalize common/relpath.[hc].
Commit a730183926 created rather a mess by
putting dependencies on backend-only include files into include/common.
We really shouldn't do that.  To clean it up:

* Move TABLESPACE_VERSION_DIRECTORY back to its longtime home in
catalog/catalog.h.  We won't consider this symbol part of the FE/BE API.

* Push enum ForkNumber from relfilenode.h into relpath.h.  We'll consider
relpath.h as the source of truth for fork numbers, since relpath.c was
already partially serving that function, and anyway relfilenode.h was
kind of a random place for that enum.

* So, relfilenode.h now includes relpath.h rather than vice-versa.  This
direction of dependency is fine.  (That allows most, but not quite all,
of the existing explicit #includes of relpath.h to go away again.)

* Push forkname_to_number from catalog.c to relpath.c, just to centralize
fork number stuff a bit better.

* Push GetDatabasePath from catalog.c to relpath.c; it was rather odd
that the previous commit didn't keep this together with relpath().

* To avoid needing relfilenode.h in common/, redefine the underlying
function (now called GetRelationPath) as taking separate OID arguments,
and make the APIs using RelFileNode or RelFileNodeBackend into macro
wrappers.  (The macros have a potential multiple-eval risk, but none of
the existing call sites have an issue with that; one of them had such a
risk already anyway.)

* Fix failure to follow the directions when "init" fork type was added;
specifically, the errhint in forkname_to_number wasn't updated, and neither
was the SGML documentation for pg_relation_size().

* Fix tablespace-path-too-long check in CreateTableSpace() to account for
fork-name component of maximum-length pathnames.  This requires putting
FORKNAMECHARS into a header file, but it was rather useless (and
actually unreferenced) where it was.

The last couple of items are potentially back-patchable bug fixes,
if anyone is sufficiently excited about them; but personally I'm not.

Per a gripe from Christoph Berg about how include/common wasn't
self-contained.
2014-04-30 17:30:50 -04:00
Tom Lane 528c454b2a Don't #include utils/palloc.h in common/fe_memutils.h.
This breaks the principle that common/ ought not depend on anything in the
server, not only code-wise but in the headers.  The only arguable advantage
is avoidance of duplication of half a dozen extern declarations, and even
that is rather dubious, considering that the previous coding was wrong
about which declarations to duplicate: it exposed pnstrdup() to frontend
code even though no such function is provided in fe_memutils.c.

On the same principle, don't #include utils/memutils.h in the frontend
build of psprintf.c.  This requires duplicating the definition of
MaxAllocSize, but that seems fine to me: there's no a-priori reason why
frontend code should use the same size limit as the backend anyway.

In passing, clean up some rather odd layout and ordering choices that
were imposed on palloc.h to reduce the number of #ifdefs required by
the previous approach.

Per gripe from Christoph Berg.  There's still more work to do to make
include/common/ clean, but this part seems reasonably noncontroversial.
2014-04-26 14:14:28 -04:00
Tom Lane b777be0d48 Un-break peer authentication.
Commit 613c6d26bd sloppily replaced a
lookup of the UID obtained from getpeereid() with a lookup of the
server's own user name, thus totally destroying peer authentication.
Revert.  Per report from Christoph Berg.

In passing, make sure get_user_name() zeroes *errstr on success on
Windows as well as non-Windows.  I don't think any callers actually
depend on this ATM, but we should be consistent across platforms.
2014-03-28 10:30:37 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 1494931d73 Remove MinGW readdir/errno bug workaround fixed on 2003-10-10 2014-03-21 13:47:37 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 6f03927fce Properly check for readdir/closedir() failures
Clear errno before calling readdir() and handle old MinGW errno bug
while adding full test coverage for readdir/closedir failures.

Backpatch through 8.4.
2014-03-21 13:45:11 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 242c2737fb C comments: remove odd blank lines after #ifdef WIN32 lines
A few more
2014-03-13 01:42:24 -04:00
Tom Lane 01824385ae Prevent potential overruns of fixed-size buffers.
Coverity identified a number of places in which it couldn't prove that a
string being copied into a fixed-size buffer would fit.  We believe that
most, perhaps all of these are in fact safe, or are copying data that is
coming from a trusted source so that any overrun is not really a security
issue.  Nonetheless it seems prudent to forestall any risk by using
strlcpy() and similar functions.

Fixes by Peter Eisentraut and Jozef Mlich based on Coverity reports.

In addition, fix a potential null-pointer-dereference crash in
contrib/chkpass.  The crypt(3) function is defined to return NULL on
failure, but chkpass.c didn't check for that before using the result.
The main practical case in which this could be an issue is if libc is
configured to refuse to execute unapproved hashing algorithms (e.g.,
"FIPS mode").  This ideally should've been a separate commit, but
since it touches code adjacent to one of the buffer overrun changes,
I included it in this commit to avoid last-minute merge issues.
This issue was reported by Honza Horak.

Security: CVE-2014-0065 for buffer overruns, CVE-2014-0066 for crypt()
2014-02-17 11:20:21 -05:00
Tom Lane 571addd729 Fix unsafe references to errno within error messaging logic.
Various places were supposing that errno could be expected to hold still
within an ereport() nest or similar contexts.  This isn't true necessarily,
though in some cases it accidentally failed to fail depending on how the
compiler chanced to order the subexpressions.  This class of thinko
explains recent reports of odd failures on clang-built versions, typically
missing or inappropriate HINT fields in messages.

Problem identified by Christian Kruse, who also submitted the patch this
commit is based on.  (I fixed a few issues in his patch and found a couple
of additional places with the same disease.)

Back-patch as appropriate to all supported branches.
2014-01-29 20:04:43 -05:00
Tom Lane 0d79c0a8cc Make various variables const (read-only).
These changes should generally improve correctness/maintainability.
A nice side benefit is that several kilobytes move from initialized
data to text segment, allowing them to be shared across processes and
probably reducing copy-on-write overhead while forking a new backend.
Unfortunately this doesn't seem to help libpq in the same way (at least
not when it's compiled with -fpic on x86_64), but we can hope the linker
at least collects all nominally-const data together even if it's not
actually part of the text segment.

Also, make pg_encname_tbl[] static in encnames.c, since there seems
no very good reason for any other code to use it; per a suggestion
from Wim Lewis, who independently submitted a patch that was mostly
a subset of this one.

Oskari Saarenmaa, with some editorialization by me
2014-01-18 16:04:32 -05:00
Bruce Momjian 111022eac6 Move username lookup functions from /port to /common
Per suggestion from Peter E and Alvaro
2014-01-10 18:03:28 -05:00
Bruce Momjian 7e04792a1c Update copyright for 2014
Update all files in head, and files COPYRIGHT and legal.sgml in all back
branches.
2014-01-07 16:05:30 -05:00
Tom Lane 3147acd63e Use improved vsnprintf calling logic in more places.
When we are using a C99-compliant vsnprintf implementation (which should be
most places, these days) it is worth the trouble to make use of its report
of how large the buffer needs to be to succeed.  This patch adjusts
stringinfo.c and some miscellaneous usages in pg_dump to do that, relying
on the logic recently added in libpgcommon's psprintf.c.  Since these
places want to know the number of bytes written once we succeed, modify the
API of pvsnprintf() to report that.

There remains near-duplicate logic in pqexpbuffer.c, but since that code
is in libpq, psprintf.c's approach of exit()-on-error isn't appropriate
for use there.  Also note that I didn't bother touching the multitude
of places that call (v)snprintf without any attempt to provide a resizable
buffer.

Release-note-worthy incompatibility: the API of appendStringInfoVA()
changed.  If there's any third-party code that's calling that directly,
it will need tweaking along the same lines as in this patch.

David Rowley and Tom Lane
2013-10-24 21:43:57 -04:00
Tom Lane 2c66f9924c Replace pg_asprintf() with psprintf().
This eliminates an awkward coding pattern that's also unnecessarily
inconsistent with backend coding.  psprintf() is now the thing to
use everywhere.
2013-10-22 19:40:26 -04:00
Tom Lane 09a89cb5fc Get rid of use of asprintf() in favor of a more portable implementation.
asprintf(), aside from not being particularly portable, has a fundamentally
badly-designed API; the psprintf() function that was added in passing in
the previous patch has a much better API choice.  Moreover, the NetBSD
implementation that was borrowed for the previous patch doesn't work with
non-C99-compliant vsnprintf, which is something we still have to cope with
on some platforms; and it depends on va_copy which isn't all that portable
either.  Get rid of that code in favor of an implementation similar to what
we've used for many years in stringinfo.c.  Also, move it into libpgcommon
since it's not really libpgport material.

I think this patch will be enough to turn the buildfarm green again, but
there's still cosmetic work left to do, namely get rid of pg_asprintf()
in favor of using psprintf().  That will come in a followon patch.
2013-10-22 18:42:13 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 2e6bc4b806 Move rmtree() from libpgport to libpgcommon
It requires pgfnames() from libpgcommon.
2013-10-19 10:20:51 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut ba7c5975ad Move pgfnames() from libpgport to libpgcommon
It requires pstrdup() from libpgcommon.
2013-10-18 21:28:15 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut f39418e9b3 Switch dependency order of libpgcommon and libpgport
Continuing 63f32f3416, libpgcommon should
depend on libpgport, but not vice versa.  But wait_result_to_str() in
wait_error.c depends on pstrdup() in libpgcommon.  So move exec.c and
wait_error.c from libpgport to libpgcommon.  Also switch the link order
in the place that's actually used by the failing ecpg builds.

The function declarations have been left in port.h for now.  That should
perhaps be separated sometime.
2013-10-17 22:02:35 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 5b6d08cd29 Add use of asprintf()
Add asprintf(), pg_asprintf(), and psprintf() to simplify string
allocation and composition.  Replacement implementations taken from
NetBSD.

Reviewed-by: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
Reviewed-by: Asif Naeem <anaeem.it@gmail.com>
2013-10-13 00:09:18 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 9af4159fce pgindent run for release 9.3
This is the first run of the Perl-based pgindent script.  Also update
pgindent instructions.
2013-05-29 16:58:43 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera a730183926 Move relpath() to libpgcommon
This enables non-backend code, such as pg_xlogdump, to use it easily.
The previous location, in src/backend/catalog/catalog.c, made that
essentially impossible because that file depends on many backend-only
facilities; so this needs to live separately.
2013-02-21 22:46:17 -03:00
Alvaro Herrera 0e81ddde2c Rename "string" pstrdup argument to "in"
The former name collides with a symbol also used in the isolation test's
parser, causing assorted failures in certain platforms.
2013-02-12 12:43:09 -03:00
Alvaro Herrera 0f980b0e17 Don't build libpgcommon_srv.a just yet
It's empty, and some archivers do not support that case.
2013-02-12 12:21:27 -03:00
Alvaro Herrera 8396447cdb Create libpgcommon, and move pg_malloc et al to it
libpgcommon is a new static library to allow sharing code among the
various frontend programs and backend; this lets us eliminate duplicate
implementations of common routines.  We avoid libpgport, because that's
intended as a place for porting issues; per discussion, it seems better
to keep them separate.

The first use case, and the only implemented by this patch, is pg_malloc
and friends, which many frontend programs were already using.

At the same time, we can use this to provide palloc emulation functions
for the frontend; this way, some palloc-using files in the backend can
also be used by the frontend cleanly.  To do this, we change palloc() in
the backend to be a function instead of a macro on top of
MemoryContextAlloc().  This was previously believed to cause loss of
performance, but this implementation has been tweaked by Tom and Andres
so that on modern compilers it provides a slight improvement over the
previous one.

This lets us clean up some places that were already with
localized hacks.

Most of the pg_malloc/palloc changes in this patch were authored by
Andres Freund. Zoltán Böszörményi also independently provided a form of
that.  libpgcommon infrastructure was authored by Álvaro.
2013-02-12 11:21:05 -03:00