I had supposed that the from_char_seq_search() call sites were
all passing the constant arrays you'd expect them to pass ...
but on looking closer, the one for DY format was passing the
days[] array not days_short[]. This accidentally worked because
the day abbreviations in English are all the same as the first
three letters of the full day names. However, once we took out
the "maximum comparison length" logic, it stopped working.
As penance for that oversight, add regression test cases covering
this, as well as every other switch case in DCH_from_char() that
was not reached according to the code coverage report.
Also, fold the DCH_RM and DCH_rm cases into one --- now that
seq_search is case independent, there's no need to pass different
comparison arrays for those cases.
Back-patch, as the previous commit was.
seq_search(), which is used to match input substrings to constants
such as month and day names, had a lot of bizarre and unnecessary
behaviors. It was mostly possible to avert our eyes from that before,
but we don't want to duplicate those behaviors in the upcoming patch
to allow recognition of non-English month and day names. So it's time
to clean this up. In particular:
* seq_search scribbled on the input string, which is a pretty dangerous
thing to do, especially in the badly underdocumented way it was done here.
Fortunately the input string is a temporary copy, but that was being made
three subroutine levels away, making it something easy to break
accidentally. The behavior is externally visible nonetheless, in the form
of odd case-folding in error reports about unrecognized month/day names.
The scribbling is evidently being done to save a few calls to pg_tolower,
but that's such a cheap function (at least for ASCII data) that it's
pretty pointless to worry about. In HEAD I switched it to be
pg_ascii_tolower to ensure it is cheap in all cases; but there are corner
cases in Turkish where this'd change behavior, so leave it as pg_tolower
in the back branches.
* seq_search insisted on knowing the case form (all-upper, all-lower,
or initcap) of the constant strings, so that it didn't have to case-fold
them to perform case-insensitive comparisons. This likewise seems like
excessive micro-optimization, given that pg_tolower is certainly very
cheap for ASCII data. It seems unsafe to assume that we know the case
form that will come out of pg_locale.c for localized month/day names, so
it's better just to define the comparison rule as "downcase all strings
before comparing". (The choice between downcasing and upcasing is
arbitrary so far as English is concerned, but it might not be in other
locales, so follow citext's lead here.)
* seq_search also had a parameter that'd cause it to report a match
after a maximum number of characters, even if the constant string were
longer than that. This was not actually used because no caller passed
a value small enough to cut off a comparison. Replicating that behavior
for localized month/day names seems expensive as well as useless, so
let's get rid of that too.
* from_char_seq_search used the maximum-length parameter to truncate
the input string in error reports about not finding a matching name.
This leads to rather confusing reports in many cases. Worse, it is
outright dangerous if the input string isn't all-ASCII, because we
risk truncating the string in the middle of a multibyte character.
That'd lead either to delivering an illegible error message to the
client, or to encoding-conversion failures that obscure the actual
data problem. Get rid of that in favor of truncating at whitespace
if any (a suggestion due to Alvaro Herrera).
In addition to fixing these things, I const-ified the input string
pointers of DCH_from_char and its subroutines, to make sure there
aren't any other scribbling-on-input problems.
The risk of generating a badly-encoded error message seems like
enough of a bug to justify back-patching, so patch all supported
branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/29432.1579731087@sss.pgh.pa.us
Attempting to use CREATE INDEX, DROP INDEX or REINDEX with CONCURRENTLY
on a temporary relation with ON COMMIT actions triggered unexpected
errors because those operations use multiple transactions internally to
complete their work. Here is for example one confusing error when using
ON COMMIT DELETE ROWS:
ERROR: index "foo" already contains data
Issues related to temporary relations and concurrent indexing are fixed
in this commit by enforcing the non-concurrent path to be taken for
temporary relations even if using CONCURRENTLY, transparently to the
user. Using a non-concurrent path does not matter in practice as locks
cannot be taken on a temporary relation by a session different than the
one owning the relation, and the non-concurrent operation is more
effective.
The problem exists with REINDEX since v12 with the introduction of
CONCURRENTLY, and with CREATE/DROP INDEX since CONCURRENTLY exists for
those commands. In all supported versions, this caused only confusing
error messages to be generated. Note that with REINDEX, it was also
possible to issue a REINDEX CONCURRENTLY for a temporary relation owned
by a different session, leading to a server crash.
The idea to enforce transparently the non-concurrent code path for
temporary relations comes originally from Andres Freund.
Reported-by: Manuel Rigger
Author: Michael Paquier, Heikki Linnakangas
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund, Álvaro Herrera, Heikki Linnakangas
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+u7OA6gP7YAeCguyseusYcc=uR8+ypjCcgDDCTzjQ+k6S9ksQ@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 9.4
The code checking whether an aggregate transition value needs to be
reparented into the current context has always only compared the
transition return value with the previous transition value by datum,
i.e. without regard for NULLness. This normally works, because when
the transition function returns NULL (via fcinfo->isnull), it'll
return a value that won't be the same as its input value.
But there's no hard requirement that that's the case. And it turns
out, it's possible to hit this case (see discussion or reproducers),
leading to a non-null transition value not being reparented, followed
by a crash caused by that.
Instead of adding another comparison of NULLness, instead have
ExecAggTransReparent() ensure that pergroup->transValue ends up as 0
when the new transition value is NULL. That avoids having to add an
additional branch to the much more common cases of the transition
function returning the old transition value (which is a pointer in
this case), and when the new value is different, but not NULL.
In branches since 69c3936a14, also deduplicate the reparenting code
between the expression evaluation based transitions, and the path for
ordered aggregates.
Reported-By: Teodor Sigaev, Nikita Glukhov
Author: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/bd34e930-cfec-ea9b-3827-a8bc50891393@sigaev.ru
Backpatch: 9.4-, this issue has existed since at least 7.4
This helps integration of extensions with Windows. The following
parameters are changed:
- idle_in_transaction_session_timeout (9.6 and newer versions)
- lock_timeout
- statement_timeout
- track_activities
- track_counts
- track_functions
Author: Pascal Legrand
Reviewed-by: Amit Kamila, Julien Rouhaud, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1579298868581-0.post@n3.nabble.com
Backpatch-through: 9.4
sigTermHandler() tried to be careful to invoke only operations that
are safe to do in a signal handler. But for some reason we forgot
that exit(3) is not among those, because it calls atexit handlers
that might do various random things. (pg_dump itself installs no
atexit handlers, but e.g. OpenSSL does.) That led to crashes or
lockups when attempting to terminate a parallel dump or restore
via a signal.
Fix by calling _exit() instead.
Per bug #16199 from Raúl Marín. Back-patch to all supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16199-cb2f121146a96f9b@postgresql.org
The BRIN add_value() and union() functions need to make a longer-lived
copy of the argument, if they want to store it in the BrinValues struct
also passed as argument. The functions for the "inclusion operator
classes" used with box, range and inet types didn't take into account
that the union helper function might return its argument as is, without
making a copy. Check for that case, and make a copy if necessary. That
case arises at least with the range_union() function, when one of the
arguments is an 'empty' range:
CREATE TABLE brintest (n numrange);
CREATE INDEX brinidx ON brintest USING brin (n);
INSERT INTO brintest VALUES ('empty');
INSERT INTO brintest VALUES (numrange(0, 2^1000::numeric));
INSERT INTO brintest VALUES ('(-1, 0)');
SELECT brin_desummarize_range('brinidx', 0);
SELECT brin_summarize_range('brinidx', 0);
Backpatch down to 9.5, where BRIN was introduced.
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/e6e1d6eb-0a67-36aa-e779-bcca59167c14%40iki.fi
Reviewed-by: Emre Hasegeli, Tom Lane, Alvaro Herrera
ecpg_build_params() would crash on a null pointer dereference if
realloc() failed, due to updating the persistent "stmt" struct
too aggressively. (Even without the crash, this would've leaked
the old storage that we were trying to realloc.)
Per Coverity. This seems to have been broken in commit 0cc050794,
so back-patch into v12.
Mixing incorrect bounds set in the SSL context leads to confusing error
messages generated by OpenSSL which are hard to act on. New checks are
added within the GUC machinery to improve the user experience as they
apply to any SSL implementation, not only OpenSSL, and doing the checks
beforehand avoids the creation of a SSL during a reload (or startup)
which we know will never be used anyway.
Backpatch down to 12, as those parameters have been introduced by
e73e67c.
Author: Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200114035420.GE1515@paquier.xyz
Backpatch-through: 12
Commit 9b63c13f0 turns out to have been fundamentally misguided:
the parent node's subPlan list is by no means the only way in which
a child SubPlan node can be hooked into the outer execution state.
As shown in bug #16213 from Matt Jibson, we can also get short-lived
tuple table slots added to the outer es_tupleTable list. At this point
I have little faith that there aren't other possible connections as
well; the long time it took to notice this problem shows that this
isn't a heavily-exercised situation.
Therefore, revert that fix, returning to the coding that passed a
NULL parent plan pointer down to the transiently-built subexpressions.
That gives us a pretty good guarantee that they won't hook into the
outer executor state in any way. But then we need some other solution
to make SubPlans work. Adopt the solution speculated about in the
previous commit's log message: do expression initialization at plan
startup for just those VALUES rows containing SubPlans, abandoning the
goal of reclaiming memory intra-query for those rows. In practice it
seems unlikely that queries containing a vast number of VALUES rows
would be using SubPlans in them, so this should not give up much.
(BTW, this test case also refutes my claim in connection with the prior
commit that the issue only arises with use of LATERAL. That was just
wrong: some variants of SubLink always produce SubPlans.)
As with previous patch, back-patch to all supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16213-871ac3bc208ecf23@postgresql.org
... specifically, set it incrementally as each individual change is
spilled down to disk. This way, it is set correctly when the
transaction disappears without trace, ie. without leaving an XACT_ABORT
wal record. (This happens when the server crashes midway through a
transaction.)
Failing to have final_lsn prevents ReorderBufferRestoreCleanup() from
working, since it needs the final_lsn in order to know the endpoint of
its iteration through spilled files.
Commit df9f682c7b already tried to fix the problem, but it didn't set
the final_lsn in all cases. Revert that, since it's no longer needed.
Author: Vignesh C
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila, Dilip Kumar
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALDaNm2CLk+K9JDwjYST0sPbGg5AQdvhUt0jbKyX_HdAE0jk3A@mail.gmail.com
The bitmap used by SlabCheck to cross-check free chunks in a block used
to be allocated for each SlabCheck call, and was never freed. The memory
leak could be fixed by simply adding a pfree call, but it's actually a
bad idea to do any allocations in SlabCheck at all as it assumes the
state of the memory management as a whole is sane.
So instead we allocate the bitmap as part of SlabContext, which means
we don't need to do any allocations in SlabCheck and the bitmap goes
away together with the SlabContext.
Backpatch to 10, where the Slab context was introduced.
Author: Tomas Vondra
Reported-by: Andres Freund
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane
Backpatch-through: 10
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20200116044119.g45f7pmgz4jmodxj%40alap3.anarazel.de
The logic introduced in this routine as of 246a6c8 would report an
incorrect result when a session calls it to check if the temporary
namespace owned by the session is in use or not. It is possible to
optimize more the routine in this case to avoid a PGPROC lookup, but
let's keep the logic simple. As this routine is used only by autovacuum
for now, there were no live bugs, still let's be correct for any future
code involving it.
Author: Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Julien Rouhaud
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200113093703.GA41902@paquier.xyz
Backpatch-through: 11
A view with conditional INSTEAD rules and no unconditional INSTEAD
rules or INSTEAD OF triggers is not auto-updatable. Previously we
relied on a check in the executor to catch this, but that's
problematic since the planner may fail to properly handle such a query
and thus return a particularly unhelpful error to the user, before
reaching the executor check.
Instead, trap this in the rewriter and report the correct error there.
Doing so also allows us to include more useful error detail than the
executor check can provide. This doesn't change the existing behaviour
of updatable views; it merely ensures that useful error messages are
reported when a view isn't updatable.
Per report from Pengzhou Tang, though not adopting that suggested fix.
Back-patch to all supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAG4reAQn+4xB6xHJqWdtE0ve_WqJkdyCV4P=trYr4Kn8_3_PEA@mail.gmail.com
This test was trying to test the mechanism to release kernel FDs as needed
to get us under the max_safe_fds limit in case of spill files. To do that,
it needs to set max_files_per_process to a very low value which doesn't
even permit starting of the server in the case when there are a few already
opened files. This test also won't work on platforms where we use one FD
per semaphore.
Backpatch-through: 10, till where this test was added
Discussion:
https://postgr.es/m/CAA4eK1LHhERi06Q+MmP9qBXBBboi+7WV3910J0aUgz71LcnKAw@mail.gmail.comhttps://postgr.es/m/6485.1578583522@sss.pgh.pa.us
The use of pg_atoi() for parsing a string into an Oid fails for values
larger than INT32_MAX, since OIDs are unsigned. Instead, use
atooid(). While this has less error checking, the contents of the
data directory are expected to be trustworthy, so we don't need to go
out of our way to do full error checking.
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/dea47fc8-6c89-a2b1-07e3-754ff1ab094b%402ndquadrant.com
When estimating the selectivity of "range_var <@ range_constant" or
"range_var @> range_constant", if the upper (or respectively lower)
bound of the range_constant was above the last bin of the range_var's
histogram, the code would access uninitialized memory and potentially
crash (though it seems the probability of a crash is quite low).
Handle the endpoint cases explicitly to fix that.
While at it, be more paranoid about the possibility of getting NaN
or other silly results from the range type's subdiff function.
And improve some comments.
Ordinarily we'd probably add a regression test case demonstrating
the bug in unpatched code. But it's too hard to get it to crash
reliably because of the uninitialized-memory dependence, so skip that.
Per bug #16122 from Adam Scott. It's been broken from the beginning,
apparently, so backpatch to all supported branches.
Diagnosis by Michael Paquier, patch by Andrey Borodin and Tom Lane.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16122-eb35bc248c806c15@postgresql.org
On the publisher, it was assumed that an INSERT change cannot happen for
a relation with no replica identity. However this is true only for a
change that needs references to old rows, aka UPDATE or DELETE, so
trying to use logical replication with a relation that has no replica
identity led to an assertion failure in the publisher when issuing an
INSERT. This commit removes the incorrect assertion, and adds more
regression tests to provide coverage for relations without replica
identity.
Reported-by: Neha Sharma
Author: Dilip Kumar, Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CANiYTQsL1Hb8_Km08qd32svrqNumXLJeoGo014O7VZymgOhZEA@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 10
Fix assorted bugs in handling of non-blocking I/O when using GSSAPI
encryption. The encryption layer could return the wrong status
information to its caller, resulting in effectively dropping some data
(or possibly in aborting a not-broken connection), or in a "livelock"
situation where data remains to be sent but the upper layers think
transmission is done and just go to sleep. There were multiple small
thinkos contributing to that, as well as one big one (failure to think
through what to do when a send fails after having already transmitted
data). Note that these errors could cause failures whether the client
application asked for non-blocking I/O or not, since both libpq and
the backend always run things in non-block mode at this level.
Also get rid of use of static variables for GSSAPI inside libpq;
that's entirely not okay given that multiple connections could be
open at once inside a single client process.
Also adjust a bunch of random small discrepancies between the frontend
and backend versions of the send/receive functions -- except for error
handling, they should be identical, and now they are.
Also extend the Kerberos TAP tests to exercise cases where nontrivial
amounts of data need to be pushed through encryption. Before, those
tests didn't provide any useful coverage at all for the cases of
interest here. (They still might not, depending on timing, but at
least there's a chance.)
Per complaint from pmc@citylink and subsequent investigation.
Back-patch to v12 where this code was introduced.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200109181822.GA74698@gate.oper.dinoex.org
FileClose() failure ordinarily causes a PANIC. Suppose the user
disables that PANIC via data_sync_retry=on. After mdclose() issued a
FileClose() that failed, calls into md.c raised SIGSEGV. This fix adds
repalloc() calls during mdclose(); update a comment about ignoring
repalloc() cost. The rate of relation segment count change is a minor
factor; more relevant to overall performance is the rate of mdclose()
and subsequent re-opening of segments. Back-patch to v10, where commit
45e191e3aa introduced the bug.
Reviewed by Kyotaro Horiguchi.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20191222091930.GA1280238@rfd.leadboat.com
Make the value null only at pg_stat_activity-output time, as suggested
by Tom Lane, instead of messing with the internal state. This should
appease buildfarm members with force_parallel_mode=regress, which are
running parallel queries on logical replication walsenders.
The fact that walsenders can run parallel queries should perhaps be
studied more carefully, but for the moment let's get rid of the red
blots in buildfarm.
Backpatch to pg10, like the previous commit.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/30804.1578438763@sss.pgh.pa.us
ALTER TABLE failed if a column referenced in a GENERATED expression
had been added or changed in type earlier in the ALTER command.
That's because the GENERATED expression needs to be evaluated
against the table's updated tuples, but it was being evaluated
against the original tuples. (Fortunately the executor has adequate
cross-checks to notice the mismatch, so we just got an obscure error
message and not anything more dangerous.)
Per report from Andreas Joseph Krogh. Back-patch to v12 where
GENERATED was added.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/VisenaEmail.200.231b0a41523275d0.16ea7f800c7@tc7-visena
Returning a non-NULL time is pointless, sinc a walsender is not a
process that would be running normal transactions anyway, but the code
was unintentionally exposing the process start time intermittently,
which was not only bogus but it also confused monitoring systems looking
for idle transactions. Fix by avoiding all updates in walsenders.
Backpatch to 11, where walsenders started appearing in pg_stat_activity.
Reported-by: Tomas Vondra
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20191209234409.exe7osmyalwkt5j4@development
Since the WAL flush position only moves forward, it's safe to cache
its previous value within each walsender process, and update from
shared memory only once we've caught up to the previously-seen value.
When there are many active walsenders, this makes for a very significant
reduction in the amount of contention on the XLogCtl->info_lck spinlock.
This patch also adjusts the logic so that we update our idea of the
flush position after processing a WAL record, rather than beforehand.
This may cause us to realize we're not caught up when the preceding
coding would've thought that we were, but that seems all to the good;
it may avoid a useless sleep-and-wakeup cycle.
Back-patch to v12. The contention problem exists in prior branches,
but it's much less severe (due to inefficiencies elsewhere) so there
seems no need to take any risk of back-patching further.
Pierre Ducroquet, reviewed by Julien Rouhaud
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2931018.Vxl9zapr77@pierred-pdoc
When row triggers exist in partitioned partitions that are not either
part of FKs or deferred unique constraints, they are not correctly
cloned to their partitions. That's because they are marked "internal",
and those are purposefully skipped when doing the clone triggers dance.
Fix by relaxing the condition on which internal triggers are skipped.
Amit Langote initially diagnosed the problem and proposed a fix, but I
used a different approach.
Reported-by: Petr Fedorov
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/6b3f0646-ba8c-b3a9-c62d-1c6651a1920f@phystech.edu
Currently while decoding changes, if the number of changes exceeds a
certain threshold, we spill those to disk. And this happens for each
(sub)transaction. Now, while reading all these files, we don't close them
until we read all the files. While reading these files, if the number of
such files exceeds the maximum number of file descriptors, the operation
errors out.
Use PathNameOpenFile interface to open these files as that internally has
the mechanism to release kernel FDs as needed to get us under the
max_safe_fds limit.
Reported-by: Amit Khandekar
Author: Amit Khandekar
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila
Backpatch-through: 9.4
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJ3gD9c-sECEn79zXw4yBnBdOttacoE-6gAyP0oy60nfs_sabQ@mail.gmail.com
This operation was possible for the owner of the schema or a superuser.
Down to 9.4, doing this operation would cause inconsistencies in a
session whose temporary schema was dropped, particularly if trying to
create new temporary objects after the drop. A more annoying
consequence is a crash of autovacuum on an assertion failure when
logging information about an orphaned temp table dropped. Note that
because of 246a6c8 (present in v11~), which has made the removal of
orphaned temporary tables more aggressive, the failure could be
triggered more easily, but it is possible to reproduce down to 9.4.
Reported-by: Mahendra Singh, Prabhat Sahu
Author: Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi, Mahendra Singh
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKYtNAr9Zq=1-ww4etHo-VCC-k120YxZy5OS01VkaLPaDbv2tg@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 9.4
When revalidate_rectypeid() acts to update a stale record type OID
in plpgsql's data structures, it fixes the active PLpgSQL_rec struct
as well as the PLpgSQL_type struct it references. However, the latter
is shared across function executions while the former is not. In a
later function execution, the PLpgSQL_rec struct would be reinitialized
by copy_plpgsql_datums and would then contain a stale type OID,
typically leading to "could not open relation with OID NNNN" errors.
revalidate_rectypeid() can easily fix this, fortunately, just by
treating typ->typoid as authoritative.
Per report and diagnosis from Ashutosh Sharma, though this is not his
suggested fix. Back-patch to v11 where this code came in.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAE9k0Pkd4dZwt9J5pS9xhJFWpUtqs05C9xk_GEwPzYdV=GxwWg@mail.gmail.com
Our algorithm for choosing batch numbers turned out not to work
effectively for multi-billion key inner relations. We would use
more hash bits than we have, and effectively concentrate all tuples
into a smaller number of batches than we intended. While ideally
we should switch to wider hashes, for now, change the algorithm to
one that effectively gives up bits from the bucket number when we
don't have enough bits. That means we'll finish up with longer
bucket chains than would be ideal, but that's better than having
batches that don't fit in work_mem and can't be divided.
Batch-patch to all supported releases.
Author: Thomas Munro
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane, thanks also to Tomas Vondra, Alvaro Herrera, Andres Freund for testing and discussion
Reported-by: James Coleman
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16104-dc11ed911f1ab9df%40postgresql.org
While building a hash map of categories in load_categories_hash,
resulting category names have not thus far been checked to ensure
they are not null. Prior to pg12 null category names worked to the
extent that they did not crash on some platforms. This is because
those system libraries have an snprintf which can deal with being
passed a null pointer argument for a string. But even in those cases
null categories did nothing useful. And on some platforms it crashed.
As of pg12, our own version of snprintf gets called, and it does
not deal with null pointer arguments at all, and crashes consistently.
Fix that by disallowing null categories. They never worked usefully,
and no one has ever asked for them to work previously. Back-patch to
all supported branches.
Reported-By: Ireneusz Pluta
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16176-7489719b05e4303c@postgresql.org
This wasn't checked originally, but it should have been, because
in general pseudo-types can't be stored to and retrieved from disk.
Notably, partition bound values of type "record" would not be
interpretable by another session.
In v12 and HEAD, add another flag to CheckAttributeType's repertoire
so that it can produce a specific error message for this case. That's
infeasible in older branches without an ABI break, so fall back to
a slightly-less-nicely-worded error message in v10 and v11.
Problem noted by Amit Langote, though this patch is not his initial
solution. Back-patch to v10 where partitioning was introduced.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+HiwqFUzjfj9HEsJtYWcr1SgQ_=iCAvQ=O2Sx6aQxoDu4OiHw@mail.gmail.com
We probably should have thought of this case when ranges were added,
but we didn't. (It's not the fault of commit eb51af71f, because
ranges didn't exist then.)
It's an old bug, so back-patch to all supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/7782.1577051475@sss.pgh.pa.us
If the first transaction block in these tests were entered exactly
at midnight (California time), they'd report a bogus failure due
to 'now' and 'midnight' having the same values. Commit 8c2ac75c5
had dismissed this as being of negligible probability, but we've
now seen it happen in the buildfarm, so let's prevent it. We can
get pretty much the same test coverage without an it's-not-midnight
assumption by moving the does-'now'-work cases into their own test step.
While here, apply commit 47169c255's s/DELETE/TRUNCATE/ change to
timestamptz as well as timestamp (not sure why that didn't
occur to me at the time; the risk of failure is the same).
Back-patch to all supported branches, since the main point is
to get rid of potential buildfarm failures.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/14821.1577031117@sss.pgh.pa.us
This fixes a performance problem introduced by commit 6d7547c21.
ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED is returned in some other cases besides the
delete-pending case considered by that commit; notably, if the
given path names a directory instead of a plain file. In that
case we'll uselessly loop for 1 second before returning the
failure condition. That slows down some usage scenarios enough
to cause test timeout failures on our Windows buildfarm critters.
To fix, try to stat() the file, and sleep/loop only if that fails.
It will fail in the delete-pending case, and also in the case where
the deletion completed before we could stat(), so we have the cases
where we want to loop covered. In the directory case, the stat()
should succeed, letting us exit without a wait.
One case where we'll still wait uselessly is if the access-denied
problem pertains to a directory in the given pathname. But we don't
expect that to happen in any performance-critical code path.
There might be room to refine this further, but I'll push it now
in hopes of making the buildfarm green again.
Back-patch, like the preceding commit.
Alexander Lakhin and Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/23073.1576626626@sss.pgh.pa.us
We realized years ago that it's better for libpq to accept all
connection parameters syntactically, even if some are ignored or
restricted due to lack of the feature in a particular build.
However, that lesson from the SSL support was for some reason never
applied to the GSSAPI support. This is causing various buildfarm
members to have problems with a test case added by commit 6136e94dc,
and it's just a bad idea from a user-experience standpoint anyway,
so fix it.
While at it, fix some places where parameter-related infrastructure
was added with the aid of a dartboard, or perhaps with the aid of
the anti-pattern "add new stuff at the end". It should be safe
to rearrange the contents of struct pg_conn even in released
branches, since that's private to libpq (and we'd have to move
some fields in some builds to fix this, anyway).
Back-patch to all supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/11297.1576868677@sss.pgh.pa.us