It's not really necessary for this function to open or lock the
relation associated with the pg_policy entry it's modifying. The
error checks it's making on the rel are if anything counterproductive
(e.g., if we don't want to allow installation of policies on system
catalogs, here is not the place to prevent that). In particular, it
seems just wrong to insist on an ownership check. That has the net
effect of forcing people to use superuser for DROP OWNED BY, which
surely is not an effect we want. Also there is no point in rebuilding
the dependencies of the policy expressions, which aren't being
changed. Lastly, locking the table also seems counterproductive; it's
not helping to prevent race conditions, since we failed to re-read the
pg_policy row after acquiring the lock. That means that concurrent
DDL would likely result in "tuple concurrently updated/deleted"
errors; which is the same behavior this code will produce, with less
overhead.
Per discussion of bug #17062. Back-patch to all supported versions,
as the failure cases this eliminates seem just as undesirable in 9.6
as in HEAD.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1573181.1624220108@sss.pgh.pa.us
A walsender process that has executed a SQL command left the text of
that command in pg_stat_activity.query indefinitely, which is quite
confusing if it's in RUNNING state but not doing that query. An easy
and useful fix is to treat replication commands as if they were SQL
queries, and show them in pg_stat_activity according to the same rules
as for regular queries. While we're at it, it seems also sensible to
set debug_query_string, allowing error logging and debugging to see
the replication command.
While here, clean up assorted silliness in exec_replication_command:
* Clean up SQLCmd code path, and fix its only-accidentally-not-buggy
memory management.
* Remove useless duplicate call of SnapBuildClearExportedSnapshot().
* replication_scanner_finish() was never called.
Back-patch of commit f560209c6 into v10-v13. I'd originally felt
that this didn't merit back-patching, but subsequent confusion
while debugging walsender problems suggests that it'll be useful.
Also, the original commit has now aged long enough to provide some
comfort that it won't cause problems.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2673480.1624557299@sss.pgh.pa.us
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/880181.1600026471@sss.pgh.pa.us
This fixes a couple of problems within the so-said code of this commit
subject:
- Replace the use of open() with slurp_file(), fixing an issue reported
by buildfarm member fairywren whose perl installation keep around CRLF
characters, causing the matching patterns for the logs to fail.
- Remove the eval block, which is not really necessary.
This set of issues has come into light after fixing a different issue
with c13585fe, and this is wrong since this code has been introduced.
Reported-by: Andrew Dunstan, and buildfarm member fairywren
Author: Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Andrew Dunstan
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/0f49303e-7784-b3ee-200b-cbf67be2eb9e@dunslane.net
Backpatch-through: 11
LLVM 13 (due out in September) has changed the semantics of
LLVMOrcAbsoluteSymbols(), so we need to bump some reference counts to
avoid a double-free that causes crashes and bad query results.
A proactive change seems necessary to avoid having a window of time
where our respective latest releases would interact badly. It's
possible that the situation could change before then, though.
Thanks to Fabien Coelho for monitoring bleeding edge LLVM and Andres
Freund for tracking down the change.
Back-patch to 11, where the JIT code arrived.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGLEy8mgtN7BNp0ooFAjUedDTJj5dME7NxLU-m91b85siA%40mail.gmail.com
The logic checking for the format of per-thread logs used grep() with
directly "$re", which would cause the test to consider all the logs as
a match without caring about their format at all. Using "/$re/" makes
grep() perform a regex test, which is what we want here.
While on it, improve some of the tests to be more picky with the
patterns expected and add more comments to describe the tests.
Issue discovered while digging into a separate patch.
Author: Fabien Coelho, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/YNPsPAUoVDCpPOGk@paquier.xyz
Backpatch-through: 11
Move the newly defined enum value REORDER_BUFFER_CHANGE_INTERNAL_SPEC_ABORT
at the end to avoid ABI break in the back branches. We need to back-patch
this till v11 because before that it is already at the end.
Reported-by: Tomas Vondra
Backpatch-through: 11
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAExHW5sPKF-Oovx_qZe4p5oM6Dvof7_P+XgsNAViug15Fm99jA@mail.gmail.com
Contrary to the comment here, POSIX does not guarantee atomicity of a
read(), if another process calls write() concurrently. Or at least Linux
does not. Add locking to load_relmap_file() to avoid the race condition.
Fixes bug #17064. Thanks to Alexander Lakhin for the report and test case.
Backpatch-through: 9.6, all supported versions.
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/17064-bb0d7904ef72add3@postgresql.org
For no obvious reason, isolationtester has always insisted that
session and step names be written with double quotes. This is
fairly tedious and does little for test readability, especially
since the names that people actually choose almost always look
like normal identifiers. Hence, let's tweak the lexer to allow
SQL-like identifiers not only double-quoted strings.
(They're SQL-like, not exactly SQL, because I didn't add any
case-folding logic. Also there's no provision for U&"..." names,
not that anyone's likely to care.)
There is one incompatibility introduced by this change: if you write
"foo""bar" with no space, that used to be taken as two identifiers,
but now it's just one identifier with an embedded quote mark.
I converted all the src/test/isolation/ specfiles to remove
unnecessary double quotes, but stopped there because my
eyes were glazing over already.
Like 741d7f104, back-patch to all supported branches, so that this
isn't a stumbling block for back-patching isolation test changes.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/759113.1623861959@sss.pgh.pa.us
The syntax summaries for CREATE FUNCTION and allied commands
made it look like LEAKPROOF is an alternative to
IMMUTABLE/STABLE/VOLATILE, when of course it is an orthogonal
option. Improve that.
Per gripe from aazamrafeeque0. Thanks to David Johnston for
suggestions.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/162444349581.694.5818572718530259025@wrigleys.postgresql.org
Our uses of gss_display_status() and gss_display_name() assumed
that the gss_buffer_desc strings returned by those functions are
null-terminated. It appears that they generally are, given the
lack of field complaints up to now. However, the available
documentation does not promise this, and some man pages
for gss_display_status() show examples that rely on the
gss_buffer_desc.length field instead of expecting null
termination. Also, we now have a report that on some
implementations, clang's address sanitizer is of the opinion
that the byte after the specified length is undefined.
Hence, change the code to rely on the length field instead.
This might well be cosmetic rather than fixing any real bug, but
it's hard to be sure, so back-patch to all supported branches.
While here, also back-patch the v12 changes that made pg_GSS_error
deal honestly with multiple messages available from
gss_display_status.
Per report from Sudheer H R.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/5372B6D4-8276-42C0-B8FB-BD0918826FC3@tekenlight.com
Previously, isolationtester displayed SQL query results using some
ad-hoc code that clearly hadn't had much effort expended on it.
Field values longer than 14 characters weren't separated from
the next field, and usually caused misalignment of the columns
too. Also there was no visual separation of a query's result
from subsequent isolationtester output. This made test result
files confusing and hard to read.
To improve matters, let's use libpq's PQprint() function. Although
that's long since unused by psql, it's still plenty good enough
for the purpose here.
Like 741d7f104, back-patch to all supported branches, so that this
isn't a stumbling block for back-patching isolation test changes.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/582362.1623798221@sss.pgh.pa.us
We've long contended with isolation test results that aren't entirely
stable. Some test scripts insert long delays to try to force stable
results, which is not terribly desirable; but other erratic failure
modes remain, causing unrepeatable buildfarm failures. I've spent a
fair amount of time trying to solve this by improving the server-side
support code, without much success: that way is fundamentally unable
to cope with diffs that stem from chance ordering of arrival of
messages from different server processes.
We can improve matters on the client side, however, by annotating
the test scripts themselves to show the desired reporting order
of events that might occur in different orders. This patch adds
three types of annotations to deal with (a) test steps that might or
might not complete their waits before the isolationtester can see them
waiting; (b) test steps in different sessions that can legitimately
complete in either order; and (c) NOTIFY messages that might arrive
before or after the completion of a step in another session. We might
need more annotation types later, but this seems to be enough to deal
with the instabilities we've seen in the buildfarm. It also lets us
get rid of all the long delays that were previously used, cutting more
than a minute off the runtime of the isolation tests.
Back-patch to all supported branches, because the buildfarm
instabilities affect all the branches, and because it seems desirable
to keep isolationtester's capabilities the same across all branches
to simplify possible future back-patching of tests.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/327948.1623725828@sss.pgh.pa.us
Commits 84f5c2908 et al missed the need to cover plpgsql's "simple
expression" code path. If the first thing we execute after a
COMMIT/ROLLBACK is one of those, rather than a full-fledged SPI command,
we must explicitly do EnsurePortalSnapshotExists() to make sure we have
an outer snapshot. Note that it wouldn't be good enough to just push a
snapshot for the duration of the expression execution: what comes back
might be toasted, so we'd better have a snapshot protecting it.
The test case demonstrating this fact cheats a bit by marking a SQL
function immutable even though it fetches from a table. That's
nothing that users haven't been seen to do, though.
Per report from Jim Nasby. Back-patch to v11, like the previous fix.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/378885e4-f85f-fc28-6c91-c4d1c080bf26@amazon.com
Ordinarily, a pg_policy.polroles array wouldn't list the same role
more than once; but CREATE POLICY does not prevent that. If we
perform DROP OWNED BY on a role that is listed more than once,
RemoveRoleFromObjectPolicy either suffered an assertion failure
or encountered a tuple-updated-by-self error. Rewrite it to cope
correctly with duplicate entries, and add a CommandCounterIncrement
call to prevent the other problem.
Per discussion, there's other cleanup that ought to happen here,
but this seems like the minimum essential fix.
Per bug #17062 from Alexander Lakhin. It's been broken all along,
so back-patch to all supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17062-11f471ae3199ca23@postgresql.org
This works fine in the "simple Query" code path; but if the
statement is in the plan cache then it's corrupted for future
re-execution. Apply copyObject() to protect the original
tree from modification, as we've done elsewhere.
This narrow fix is applied only to the back branches. In HEAD,
the problem was fixed more generally by commit 7c337b6b5; but
that changed ProcessUtility's API, so it's infeasible to
back-patch.
Per bug #17053 from Charles Samborski.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/931771.1623893989@sss.pgh.pa.us
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17053-3ca3f501bbc212b4@postgresql.org
The fast default code added in Release 11 omitted to check that the
table a fast default was being added to was a plain table. Thus one
could be added to a foreign table, which predicably blows up. Here we
perform that check.
In addition, on the back branches, since some of these might have
escaped into the wild, if we encounter a missing value for
an attribute of something other than a plain table we ignore it.
Fixes bug #17056
Backpatch to release 11,
Reviewed by: Andres Freund, Álvaro Herrera and Tom Lane
The original patch only targeted Python 2.6 and newer, since that is
what we have supported in PostgreSQL 13 and newer. For older
branches, we need to fix it up for older Python versions.
One of the error paths left *members uninitialized. That's not a live
bug, because most callers don't look at *members when the function
returns -1, but let's be tidy. One caller, in heap_lock_tuple(), does
"if (members != NULL) pfree(members)", but AFAICS it never passes an
invalid 'multi' value so it should not reach that error case.
The callers are also a bit inconsistent in their expectations.
heap_lock_tuple() pfrees the 'members' array if it's not-NULL, others
pfree() it if "nmembers >= 0", and others if "nmembers > 0". That's
not a live bug either, because the function should never return 0, but
add an Assert for that to make it more clear. I left the callers alone
for now.
I also moved the line where we set *nmembers. It wasn't wrong before,
but I like to do that right next to the 'return' statement, to make it
clear that it's always set on return.
Also remove one unreachable return statement after ereport(ERROR), for
brevity and for consistency with the similar if-block right after it.
Author: Greg Nancarrow with the additional changes by me
Backpatch-through: 9.6, all supported versions
In a synchronous logical setup, locking [user] catalog tables can cause
deadlock. This is because logical decoding of transactions can lock
catalog tables to access them so exclusively locking those in transactions
can lead to deadlock. To avoid this users must refrain from having
exclusive locks on catalog tables.
Author: Takamichi Osumi
Reviewed-by: Vignesh C, Amit Kapila
Backpatch-through: 9.6
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20210222222847.tpnb6eg3yiykzpky%40alap3.anarazel.de
This is useful for developers to find out if an isolation spec is
over-engineered or if it needs more work by warning at the end of a
test run if a step is not used, generating a failure with extra diffs.
While on it, clean up all the specs which include steps not used in any
permutations to simplify them.
This is a backpatch of 989d23b and 06fdc4e, as it is becoming useful to
make all the branches consistent for an upcoming patch that will improve
the output generated by isolationtester.
Author: Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Asim Praveen, Melanie Plageman
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190819080820.GG18166@paquier.xyz
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/794820.1623872009@sss.pgh.pa.us
Backpatch-through: 9.6
The original purpose of the dry-run mode is to be able to print all the
possible permutations from a spec file, but it has become less useful
since isolation tests have improved regarding deadlock detection as one
step not wanted by the author could block indefinitely now (originally
the step blocked would have been detected rather quickly). Per
discussion, let's remove it.
This is a backpatch of 9903338 for 9.6~12. It is proving to become
useful to have on those branches so as the code gets consistent across
all supported versions, as a matter of improving the output generated by
isolationtester.
Author: Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Asim Praveen, Melanie Plageman
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190819080820.GG18166@paquier.xyz
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/794820.1623872009@sss.pgh.pa.us
Backpatch-through: 9.6
When stuffing a plan from the plancache into a Portal, one is
not supposed to risk throwing an error between GetCachedPlan and
PortalDefineQuery; if that happens, the plan refcount incremented
by GetCachedPlan will be leaked. I managed to break this rule
while refactoring code in 9dbf2b7d7. There is no visible
consequence other than some memory leakage, and since nobody is
very likely to trigger the relevant error conditions many times
in a row, it's not surprising we haven't noticed. Nonetheless,
it's a bug, so rearrange the order of operations to remove the
hazard.
Noted on the way to looking for a better fix for bug #17053.
This mistake is pretty old, so back-patch to all supported
branches.
TestLib::perl2host can take a file argument as well as a directory
argument, so that code becomes substantially simpler. Also add comments
on why we're using forward slashes, and why we're setting
PERL_BADLANG=0.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/e9947bcd-20ee-027c-f0fe-01f736b7e345@dunslane.net
During decoding for speculative inserts, we were relying for cleaning
toast hash on confirmation records or next change records. But that
could lead to multiple problems (a) memory leak if there is neither a
confirmation record nor any other record after toast insertion for a
speculative insert in the transaction, (b) error and assertion failures
if the next operation is not an insert/update on the same table.
The fix is to start queuing spec abort change and clean up toast hash
and change record during its processing. Currently, we are queuing the
spec aborts for both toast and main table even though we perform cleanup
while processing the main table's spec abort record. Later, if we have a
way to distinguish between the spec abort record of toast and the main
table, we can avoid queuing the change for spec aborts of toast tables.
Reported-by: Ashutosh Bapat
Author: Dilip Kumar
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila
Backpatch-through: 9.6, where it was introduced
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAExHW5sPKF-Oovx_qZe4p5oM6Dvof7_P+XgsNAViug15Fm99jA@mail.gmail.com
Recent glibc versions have made mktime() fail if tm_isdst is
inconsistent with the prevailing timezone; in particular it fails for
tm_isdst = 1 when the zone is UTC. (This seems wildly inconsistent
with the POSIX-mandated treatment of "incorrect" values for the other
fields of struct tm, so if you ask me it's a bug, but I bet they'll
say it's intentional.) This has been observed to cause cosmetic
problems when pg_restore'ing an archive created in a different
timezone.
To fix, do mktime() using the field values from the archive, and if
that fails try again with tm_isdst = -1. This will give a result
that's off by the UTC-offset difference from the original zone, but
that was true before, too. It's not terribly critical since we don't
do anything with the result except possibly print it. (Someday we
should flush this entire bit of logic and record a standard-format
timestamp in the archive instead. That's not okay for a back-patched
bug fix, though.)
Also, guard our only other use of mktime() by having initdb's
build_time_t() set tm_isdst = -1 not 0. This case could only have
an issue in zones that are DST year-round; but I think some do exist,
or could in future.
Per report from Wells Oliver. Back-patch to all supported
versions, since any of them might need to run with a newer glibc.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAOC+FBWDhDHO7G-i1_n_hjRzCnUeFO+H-Czi1y10mFhRWpBrew@mail.gmail.com
Translate path slashes on target directory path. This was confusing old
branches, but is applied to all branches for the sake of uniformity.
Perl is perfectly able to understand paths with forward slashes.
Along the way, restore the previous archive_wait query, for the sake of
uniformity with other tests, per gripe from Tom Lane.
This is similar to the work done in 8279f68 for TestLib.pm, where
environment variables set may cause unwanted failures if using a
temporary installation with pg_regress. The list of variables reset is
adjusted in each stable branch depending on what is supported.
Comments are added to remember that the lists in TestLib.pm and
pg_regress.c had better be kept in sync.
Reviewed-by: Álvaro Herrera
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/YMNR9GYDn+fHlMta@paquier.xyz
Backpatch-through: 9.6
Several TAP tests use poll_query_until() to wait for the postmaster
to restart. They were checking to see if a trivial query
(e.g. "SELECT 1") succeeds. However, that's problematic in the wake
of commit 11e9caff8, because now that we feed said query to psql
via stdin, we risk IPC::Run whining about a SIGPIPE failure if psql
quits before reading the query. Hence, we can't use a nonempty
query in cases where we need to wait for connection failures to
stop happening.
Per the precedent of commits c757a3da0 and 6d41dd045, we can pass
"undef" as the query in such cases to ensure that IPC::Run has
nothing to write. However, then we have to say that the expected
output is empty, and this exposes a deficiency in poll_query_until:
if psql fails altogether and returns empty stdout, poll_query_until
will treat that as a success! That's because, contrary to its
documentation, it makes no actual check for psql failure, looking
neither at the exit status nor at stderr.
To fix that, adjust poll_query_until to insist on empty stderr as
well as a stdout match. (I experimented with checking exit status
instead, but it seems that psql often does exit(1) in cases that we
need to consider successes. That might be something to fix someday,
but it would be a non-back-patchable behavior change.)
Back-patch to v10. The test cases needing this exist only as far
back as v11, but it seems wise to keep poll_query_until's behavior
the same in v10, in case we back-patch another such test case in
future. (9.6 does not currently need this change, because in that
branch poll_query_until can't be told to accept empty stdout as
a success case.)
Per assorted buildfarm failures, mostly on hoverfly.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAA4eK1+zM6L4QSA1XMvXY_qqWwdUmqkOS1+hWvL8QcYEBGA1Uw@mail.gmail.com
Previously, a zero value for the relfilenode resulted in
a confusing error message about "unexpected duplicate".
This function returns NULL for other invalid relfilenode
values, so zero should be treated likewise.
It's been like this all along, so back-patch to all supported
branches.
Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210612023324.GT16435@telsasoft.com
Using an Assert to check the validity of incoming messages is an
extremely poor decision. In a debug build, it should not be that easy
for a broken or malicious remote client to crash the logrep worker.
The consequences could be even worse in non-debug builds, which will
fail to make such checks at all, leading to who-knows-what misbehavior.
Hence, promote every Assert that could possibly be triggered by wrong
or out-of-order replication messages to a full test-and-ereport.
To avoid bloating the set of messages the translation team has to cope
with, establish a policy that replication protocol violation error
reports don't need to be translated. Hence, all the new messages here
use errmsg_internal(). A couple of old messages are changed likewise
for consistency.
Along the way, fix some non-idiomatic or outright wrong uses of
hash_search().
Most of these mistakes are new with the "streaming replication"
patch (commit 464824323), but a couple go back a long way.
Back-patch as appropriate.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1719083.1623351052@sss.pgh.pa.us
Commit caba8f0d43 wasn't quite right for msys, as demonstrated by
several buildfarm animals, including jacana and fairywren. We need to
use the msys perl in the archive command, but call it in such a way that
Windows will understand the path. Furthermore, inside the copy script we
need to convert a Windows path to an msys path.
This variable was present in the list added by 9d660670, but it is not
supported by this branch. Issue noticed while diving into a similar
change for pg_regress.c.
Backpatch-through: 9.6
It turns out that worker.c's code path for TRUNCATE was also
careless about establishing a snapshot while executing user-defined
code, allowing the checks added by commit 84f5c2908 to fail when
a trigger is fired in that context.
We could just wrap Push/PopActiveSnapshot around the truncate call,
but it seems better to establish a policy of holding a snapshot
throughout execution of a replication step. To help with that and
possible future requirements, replace the previous ensure_transaction
calls with pairs of begin/end_replication_step calls.
Per report from Mark Dilger. Back-patch to v11, like the previous
changes.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/B4A3AF82-79ED-4F4C-A4E5-CD2622098972@enterprisedb.com
This only happens if (1) the new standby has no WAL available locally,
(2) the new standby is starting from the old timeline, (3) the promotion
happened in the WAL segment from which the new standby is starting,
(4) the timeline history file for the new timeline is available from
the archive but the WAL files for are not (i.e. this is a race),
(5) the WAL files for the new timeline are available via streaming,
and (6) recovery_target_timeline='latest'.
Commit ee994272ca introduced this
logic and was an improvement over the previous code, but it mishandled
this case. If recovery_target_timeline='latest' and restore_command is
set, validateRecoveryParameters() can change recoveryTargetTLI to be
different from receiveTLI. If streaming is then tried afterward,
expectedTLEs gets initialized with the history of the wrong timeline.
It's supposed to be a list of entries explaining how to get to the
target timeline, but in this case it ends up with a list of entries
explaining how to get to the new standby's original timeline, which
isn't right.
Dilip Kumar and Robert Haas, reviewed by Kyotaro Horiguchi.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAFiTN-sE-jr=LB8jQuxeqikd-Ux+jHiXyh4YDiZMPedgQKup0g@mail.gmail.com
The set of subcommands supported by \dAp, \do and \dy was described
incorrectly in psql's --help. The documentation was already consistent
with the code.
Reported-by: inoas, from IRC
Author: Matthijs van der Vleuten
Reviewed-by: Neil Chen
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/6a984e24-2171-4039-9050-92d55e7b23fe@www.fastmail.com
Backpatch-through: 9.6
Further thought about bug #17050 suggests that it's a good idea
to use CURSOR_OPT_NO_SCROLL for the implicit cursor opened by
a plpgsql FOR-over-query loop. This ensures that, if somebody
commits inside the loop, PersistHoldablePortal won't try to
rewind and re-read the cursor. While we'd have selected NO_SCROLL
anyway if FOR UPDATE/SHARE appears in the query, there are other
hazards with volatile functions; and in any case, it's silly to
expend effort storing rows that we know for certain won't be needed.
(While here, improve the comment in exec_run_select, which was a bit
confused about the rationale for when we can use parallel mode.
Cursor operations aren't a hazard for nameless portals.)
This wasn't an issue until v11, which introduced the possibility
of persisting such cursors. Hence, back-patch to v11.
Per bug #17050 from Алексей Булгаков.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17050-f77aa827dc85247c@postgresql.org
PersistHoldablePortal has long assumed that it should store the
entire output of the query-to-be-persisted, which requires rewinding
and re-reading the output. This is problematic if the query is not
stable: we might get different row contents, or even a different
number of rows, which'd confuse the cursor state mightily.
In the case where the cursor is NO SCROLL, this is very easy to
solve: just store the remaining query output, without any rewinding,
and tweak the portal's cursor state to match. Aside from removing
the semantic problem, this could be significantly more efficient
than storing the whole output.
If the cursor is scrollable, there's not much we can do, but it
was already the case that scrolling a volatile query's result was
pretty unsafe. We can just document more clearly that getting
correct results from that is not guaranteed.
There are already prohibitions in place on using SCROLL with
FOR UPDATE/SHARE, which is one way for a SELECT query to have
non-stable results. We could imagine prohibiting SCROLL when
the query contains volatile functions, but that would be
expensive to enforce. Moreover, it could break applications
that work just fine, if they have functions that are in fact
stable but the user neglected to mark them so. So settle for
documenting the hazard.
While this problem has existed in some guise for a long time,
it got a lot worse in v11, which introduced the possibility
of persisting plpgsql cursors (perhaps implicit ones) even
when they violate the rules for what can be marked WITH HOLD.
Hence, I've chosen to back-patch to v11 but not further.
Per bug #17050 from Алексей Булгаков.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17050-f77aa827dc85247c@postgresql.org
If autovacuum comes along just after we fill table test_seg with
some data, it will update the stats to the point where we prefer
a plain indexscan over a bitmap scan, breaking the expected
output (as well as the point of the test case). To fix, just
force a bitmap scan to be chosen here.
This has evidently been wrong since commit de1d042f5. It's not
clear why we just recently saw any buildfarm failures due to it;
but prairiedog has failed twice on this test in the past week.
Hence, backpatch to v11 where this test case came in.
An incorrectly-encoded multibyte character near the end of a string
could cause various processing loops to run past the string's
terminating NUL, with results ranging from no detectable issue to
a program crash, depending on what happens to be in the following
memory.
This isn't an issue in the server, because we take care to verify
the encoding of strings before doing any interesting processing
on them. However, that lack of care leaked into client-side code
which shouldn't assume that anyone has validated the encoding of
its input.
Although this is certainly a bug worth fixing, the PG security team
elected not to regard it as a security issue, primarily because
any untrusted text should be sanitized by PQescapeLiteral or
the like before being incorporated into a SQL or psql command.
(If an app fails to do so, the same technique can be used to
cause SQL injection, with probably much more dire consequences
than a mere client-program crash.) Those functions were already
made proof against this class of problem, cf CVE-2006-2313.
To fix, invent PQmblenBounded() which is like PQmblen() except it
won't return more than the number of bytes remaining in the string.
In HEAD we can make this a new libpq function, as PQmblen() is.
It seems imprudent to change libpq's API in stable branches though,
so in the back branches define PQmblenBounded as a macro in the files
that need it. (Note that just changing PQmblen's behavior would not
be a good idea; notably, it would completely break the escaping
functions' defense against this exact problem. So we just want a
version for those callers that don't have any better way of handling
this issue.)
Per private report from houjingyi. Back-patch to all supported branches.
The Msys shell mangles certain patterns in its command line, so avoid
handing arbitrary SQL to psql on the command line and instead use
IPC::Run's redirection facility for stdin. This pattern is already
mostly whats used, but query_poll_until() was not doing the right thing.
Problem discovered on the buildfarm when a new TAP test failed on msys.
The internal SQL queries used by REFRESH MATERIALIZED VIEW CONCURRENTLY
include some aliases for its diff and temporary relations with
rather-generic names: diff, newdata, newdata2 and mv. Depending on the
queries used for the materialized view, using CONCURRENTLY could lead to
some internal failures if the query and those internal aliases conflict.
Those names have been chosen in 841c29c8. This commit switches instead
to a naming pattern which is less likely going to cause conflicts, based
on an idea from Thomas Munro, by appending _$ to those aliases. This is
not perfect as those new names could still conflict, but at least it has
the advantage to keep the code readable and simple while reducing the
likelihood of conflicts to be close to zero.
Reported-by: Mathis Rudolf
Author: Bharath Rupireddy
Reviewed-by: Bernd Helmle, Thomas Munro, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/109c267a-10d2-3c53-b60e-720fcf44d9e8@credativ.de
Backpatch-through: 9.6
Various environment variables were not getting reset in the TAP tests,
which would cause failures depending on the tests or the environment
variables involved. For example, PGSSL{MAX,MIN}PROTOCOLVERSION could
cause failures in the SSL tests. Even worse, a junk value of
PGCLIENTENCODING makes a server startup fail. The list of variables
reset is adjusted in each stable branch depending on what is supported.
While on it, simplify a bit the code per a suggestion from Andrew
Dunstan, using a list of variables instead of doing single deletions.
Reviewed-by: Andrew Dunstan, Daniel Gustafsson
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/YLbjjRpucIeZ78VQ@paquier.xyz
Backpatch-through: 9.6