pqsecure_open_gss() includes a code path handling error messages with
v2-style protocol messages coming from the server. The client-side
buffer holding the error message does not force a NULL-termination, with
the data of the server getting copied to the errorMessage of the
connection. Hence, it would be possible for a server to send an
unterminated string and copy arbitrary bytes in the buffer receiving the
error message in the client, opening the door to a crash or even data
exposure.
As at this stage of the authentication process the exchange has not been
completed yet, this could be abused by an attacker without Kerberos
credentials. Clients that have a valid kerberos cache are vulnerable as
libpq opportunistically requests for it except if gssencmode is
disabled.
Author: Jacob Champion
Backpatch-through: 12
Security: CVE-2022-41862
Breaking <phrase> over two lines is not handled by psql's
create_help.pl. (It creates faulty \help output.)
Undo the formatting change introduced by
9bdad1b515 to fix this for now.
DST law changes in Greenland and Mexico. Notably, a new timezone
America/Ciudad_Juarez has been split off from America/Ojinaga.
Historical corrections for northern Canada, Colombia, and Singapore.
This was only mentioned in the description of the text/label, which
are marked as being in quotes in the synopsis, which can cause
confusion (as witnessed on IRC).
Also separate the literal and NULL cases in the parameter list, per
suggestion from Tom Lane.
Also add an example of dropping a security label.
Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker, with some tweaks by me
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/87sffqk4zp.fsf@wibble.ilmari.org
This test has been added as of 857ee8e that has introduced the SQL
function txid_status(), with the purpose of checking that a transaction
ID still in-progress during a crash is correctly marked as aborted after
recovery finishes.
This test is unstable, and some configuration scenarios may that easier
to reproduce (wal_level=minimal, wal_compression=on) because the WAL
holding the information about the in-progress transaction ID may not
have made it to disk yet, hence a post-crash recovery may cause the same
XID to be reused, triggering a test failure.
We have discussed a few approaches, like making this function force a
WAL flush to make it reliable across crashes, but we don't want to pay a
performance penalty in some scenarios, as well. The test could have
been tweaked to enforce a checkpoint but that actually breaks the
promise of the test to rely on a stable result of txid_status() after
a crash.
This issue has been reported a few times across the past years, with an
original report from Kyotaro Horiguchi. The buildfarm machines tanager,
hachi and gokiburi enable wal_compression, and fail on this test
periodically.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3163112.1674762209@sss.pgh.pa.us
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210305.115011.558061052471425531.horikyota.ntt@gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 11
If the final chunk of an oversized tuple being written out to disk was
exactly 32760 bytes, it would be corrupted due to a fencepost bug.
Bug #17619. Back-patch to 11 where the code arrived.
While testing that (see test module in archives), I (tmunro) noticed
that the per-participant page counter was not initialized to zero as it
should have been; that wasn't a live bug when it was written since DSM
memory was originally always zeroed, but since 14
min_dynamic_shared_memory might be configured and it supplies non-zeroed
memory, so that is also fixed here.
Author: Dmitry Astapov <dastapov@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17619-0de62ceda812b8b5%40postgresql.org
When libpqrcv_connect (also known as walrcv_connect()) failed, it leaked the
libpq connection. In most paths that's fairly harmless, as the calling process
will exit soon after. But e.g. CREATE SUBSCRIPTION could lead to a somewhat
longer lived leak.
Fix by releasing resources, including the libpq connection, on error.
Add a test exercising the error code path. To make it reliable and safe, the
test tries to connect to port=-1, which happens to fail during connection
establishment, rather than during connection string parsing.
Reviewed-by: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230121011237.q52apbvlarfv6jm6@awork3.anarazel.de
Backpatch: 11-
The motivation for this change is that when pg_dump dumps a
partitioned index that's marked REPLICA IDENTITY, it generates a
command sequence that applies REPLICA IDENTITY before the partitioned
index has been marked valid, causing restore to fail. We could
perhaps change pg_dump to not do it like that, but that would be
difficult and would not fix existing dump files with the problem.
There seems to be very little reason for the backend to disallow
this anyway --- the code ignores indisreplident when the index
isn't valid --- so instead let's fix it by allowing the case.
Commit 9511fb37a previously expressed a concern that allowing
indisreplident to be set on invalid indexes might allow us to
wind up in a situation where a table could have indisreplident
set on multiple indexes. I'm not sure I follow that concern
exactly, but in any case the only way that could happen is because
relation_mark_replica_identity is too trusting about the existing set
of markings being valid. Let's just rip out its early-exit code path
(which sure looks like premature optimization anyway; what are we
doing expending code to make redundant ALTER TABLE ... REPLICA
IDENTITY commands marginally faster and not-redundant ones marginally
slower?) and fix it to positively guarantee that no more than one
index is marked indisreplident.
The pg_dump failure can be demonstrated in all supported branches,
so back-patch all the way. I chose to back-patch 9511fb37a as well,
just to keep indisreplident handling the same in all branches.
Per bug #17756 from Sergey Belyashov.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17756-dd50e8e0c8dd4a40@postgresql.org
When the length was too short, the server read outside the allocation.
That yielded the same log noise as sending the correct length with
(backendPID,cancelAuthCode) matching nothing. Change to a message about
the unexpected length. Given the attacker's lack of control over the
memory layout and the general lack of diversity in memory layouts at the
code in question, we doubt a would-be attacker could cause a segfault.
Hence, while the report arrived via security@postgresql.org, this is not
a vulnerability. Back-patch to v11 (all supported versions).
Andrey Borodin, reviewed by Tom Lane. Reported by Andrey Borodin.
Add "#ifndef FRONTEND" where necessary to make pg_waldump build
on compilers that don't elide unused static-inline functions.
This back-patches relevant parts of commit 3e9ca5260, fixing build
breakage from dc7420c2c and back-patching of f10f0ae42.
Per recently-resurrected buildfarm member castoroides. We aren't
expecting castoroides to build anything newer than v11, but we
might as well clean up the intermediate branches while at it.
When ending recovery based on recovery_target_xid matching with
recovery_target_inclusive = off, we printed an incorrect timestamp
(always 2000-01-01) in the "recovery stopping before ... transaction"
log message. This is a consequence of sloppy refactoring in
c945af80c: the code to fetch recordXtime out of the commit/abort
record used to be executed unconditionally, but it was changed
to get called only in the RECOVERY_TARGET_TIME case. We need only
flip the order of operations to restore the intended behavior.
Per report from Torsten Förtsch. Back-patch to all supported
branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKkG4_kUevPqbmyOfLajx7opAQk6Cvwkvx0HRcFjSPfRPTXanA@mail.gmail.com
This is wrong since 88e9823, that has switched the WAL sizing
configuration from checkpoint_segments to min_wal_size and
max_wal_size. This missed the recalculation of the internal value of
the internal "CheckPointSegments", that works as a mapping of the old
GUC checkpoint_segments, on reload, for example, and it controls the
timing of checkpoints depending on the volume of WAL generated.
Most users tend to leave checkpoint_completion_target at 0.9 to smooth
the I/O workload, which is why I guess this has gone unnoticed for so
long, still it can be useful to tweak and reload the value dynamically
in some cases to control the timing of checkpoints.
Author: Bharath Rupireddy
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALj2ACXgPPAm28mruojSBno+F_=9cTOOxHAywu_dfZPeBdybQw@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 11
No buildfarm members have reported that yet, but a recently-refreshed
Debian host did.
Reviewed-by: Andrew Dunstan
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/Y8ey5z4Nav62g4/K@paquier.xyz
Backpatch-through: 11
test_extensions' test_ext_cine extension has the same upgrade hazard
as test_ext7: the regression test leaves it in an updated state
from which no downgrade path to default is provided. This causes
the update_extensions.sql script helpfully provided by pg_upgrade
to fail. So drop it in cross-version-upgrade testing.
Not entirely sure how come I didn't hit this in testing yesterday;
possibly I'd built the upgrade reference databases with
testmodules-install-check disabled.
Backpatch to v10 where this module was introduced.
To test pg_upgrade across major PG versions, we have to be able to
modify or drop any old objects with no-longer-supported properties,
and we have to be able to deal with cosmetic changes in pg_dump output.
Up to now, the buildfarm and pg_upgrade's own test infrastructure had
separate implementations of the former, and we had nothing but very
ad-hoc rules for the latter (including an arbitrary threshold on how
many lines of unchecked diff were okay!). This patch creates a Perl
module that can be shared by both those use-cases, and adds logic
that deals with pg_dump output diffs in a much more tightly defined
fashion.
This largely supersedes previous efforts in commits 0df9641d3,
9814ff550, and 62be9e4cd, which developed a SQL-script-based solution
for the task of dropping old objects. There was nothing fundamentally
wrong with that work in itself, but it had no basis for solving the
output-formatting problem. The most plausible way to deal with
formatting is to build a Perl module that can perform editing on the
dump files; and once we commit to that, it makes more sense for the
same module to also embed the knowledge of what has to be done for
dropping old objects.
Back-patch versions of the helper module as far as 9.2, to
support buildfarm animals that still test that far back.
It's also necessary to back-patch PostgreSQL/Version.pm,
because the new code depends on that. I fixed up pg_upgrade's
002_pg_upgrade.pl in v15, but did not look into back-patching
it further than that.
Tom Lane and Andrew Dunstan
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/891521.1673657296@sss.pgh.pa.us
The WAIT_USE_EPOLL and WAIT_USE_KQUEUE implementations of
WaitEventSetWaitBlock() confused the size of their internal buffer with
the size of the caller's output buffer, and could ask the kernel for too
many events. In fact the set of events retrieved from the kernel needs
to be able to fit in both buffers, so take the smaller of the two.
The WAIT_USE_POLL and WAIT_USE WIN32 implementations didn't have this
confusion.
This probably didn't come up before because we always used the same
number in both places, but commit 7389aad6 calculates a dynamic size at
construction time, while using MAXLISTEN for its output event buffer on
the stack. That seems like a reasonable thing to want to do, so
consider this to be a pre-existing bug worth fixing.
As discovered by valgrind on skink.
Back-patch to all supported releases for epoll, and to release 13 for
the kqueue part, which copied the incorrect epoll code.
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/901504.1673504836%40sss.pgh.pa.us
The current jsonpath code assumes that the referenced variable always exists.
It could only throw an error at the value valuation time. At the same time
existence checking assumes variable is present without valuation, and error
suppression doesn't work for missing variables.
This commit makes existense checking trigger an error for missing variables.
This makes the overall behavior consistent.
Backpatch to 12 where jsonpath was introduced.
Reported-by: David G. Johnston
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKFQuwbeytffJkVnEqDyLZ%3DrQsznoTh1OgDoOF3VmOMkxcTMjA%40mail.gmail.com
Author: Alexander Korotkov, David G. Johnston
Backpatch-through: 12
pg_database.datfrozenxid gets updated using an in-place update at the
end of vacuum or autovacuum. Since 96cdeae, as pg_database has a toast
relation, it is possible for a pg_database tuple to have toast values
if there is a large set of ACLs in place. In such a case, the in-place
update would fail because of the flattening of the toast values done for
the catcache entry fetched. Instead of using a copy from the catcache,
this changes the logic to fetch the copy of the tuple by directly
scanning pg_database.
Note that before 96cdeae, attempting to insert such a tuple to
pg_database would cause a "row is too big" error, so the end-of-vacuum
problem was not reachable.
This issue has been originally fixed in 947789f on v14~, and there have
been reports about this problem on v12 and v13, causing failures at the
end of VACUUM. This completes the fix on all the stable branches where
pg_database can use a toast table, down to 12.
Author: Ashwin Agrawal, Junfeng Yang
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/DM5PR0501MB38800D9E4605BCA72DD35557CCE10@DM5PR0501MB3880.namprd05.prod.outlook.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/Y70XNVbUWQsR2Car@paquier.xyz
Backpatch-through: 12
The ALTER DATABASE|FUNCTION|PROCEDURE|ROLE|ROUTINE|USER ... SET <name>
case in psql tab completion failed to exclude <name> = "SCHEMA", which
caused ALTER FUNCTION|PROCEDURE|ROUTINE ... SET SCHEMA to complete
with "FROM CURRENT" and "TO", which won't work.
Fix that, so that those cases now complete with the list of schemas,
like other ALTER ... SET SCHEMA commands.
Noticed while testing the recent patch to improve tab completion for
ALTER FUNCTION/PROCEDURE/ROUTINE, but this is not directly related to
that patch. Rather, this is a long-standing bug, so back-patch to all
supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALDaNm0s7GQmkLP_mx5Cvk=UzYMnjhPmXBxU8DsHEunFbC5sTg@mail.gmail.com
In user-manag.sgml, document precisely what privileges are conveyed
by CREATEROLE. Make particular note of the fact that it allows
changing passwords and granting access to high-privilege roles.
Also remove the suggestion of using a user with CREATEROLE and
CREATEDB instead of a superuser, as there is no real security
advantage to this approach.
Elsewhere in the documentation, adjust text that suggests that
<literal>CREATEROLE</literal> only allows for role creation, and
refer to the documentation in user-manag.sgml as appropriate.
Patch by me, reviewed by Álvaro Herrera
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoZBsPL8nPhvYecx7iGo5qpDRqa9k_AcaW1SbOjugAY1Ag@mail.gmail.com
While on it, newlines are removed from the end of two elog() strings.
The others are simple grammar mistakes. One comment in pg_upgrade
referred incorrectly to sequences since a7e5457.
Author: Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20221230231257.GI1153@telsasoft.com
Backpatch-through: 11
New versions of perl trigger warnings within perl.h with our compiler
flags. At least -Wdeclaration-after-statement, -Wshadow=compatible-local are
known to be problematic.
To avoid these warnings, conditionally use #pragma GCC system_header before
including plperl.h.
Alternatively, we could add the include paths for problematic headers with
-isystem, but that is a larger hammer and is harder to search for.
A more granular alternative would be to use #pragma GCC diagnostic
push/ignored/pop, but gcc warns about unknown warnings being ignored, so every
to-be-ignored-temporarily compiler warning would require its own pg_config.h
symbol and #ifdef.
As the warnings are voluminous, it makes sense to backpatch this change. But
don't do so yet, we first want gather buildfarm coverage - it's e.g. possible
that some compiler claiming to be gcc compatible has issues with the pragma.
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20221228182455.hfdwd22zztvkojy2@awork3.anarazel.de
When considering an empty grouping set, we fetched
phasedata->eqfunctions[-1]. Because the eqfunctions array is
palloc'd, that would always be an aset pointer in released versions,
and thus the code accidentally failed to malfunction (since it would
do nothing unless it found a null pointer). Nonetheless this seems
like trouble waiting to happen, so add a check for length == 0.
It's depressing that our valgrind testing did not catch this.
Maybe we should reconsider the choice to not mark that word NOACCESS?
Richard Guo
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMbWs4-vZuuPOZsKOYnSAaPYGKhmacxhki+vpOKk0O7rymccXQ@mail.gmail.com
The query used to disable WITH OIDS in all the relations making use of
it was checking for materialized views, but this is not a supported
operation. On the contrary, this needs to be done on foreign tables.
While on it, use quote_ident() in the ALTER TABLE strings built on the
relation name.
Author: Anton A. Melnikov, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/49f389ba-95ce-8a9b-09ae-f60650c0e7c7@inbox.ru
Backpatch-through: 12
Three error strings used with cache lookup failures were referring to
incorrect object types for ACL checks:
- Schemas
- Types
- Foreign Servers
There errors should never be triggered, but if they do incorrect
information would be reported.
Author: Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20221222153041.GN1153@telsasoft.com
Backpatch-through: 11
Andrey Lepikhov demonstrated a case where we spend an unreasonable
amount of time in pull_up_subqueries(). Not only is that recursing
with no explicit check for stack overrun, but the code seems not
interruptable by control-C. Let's stick a CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS
there, along with sprinkling some stack depth checks.
An actual fix for the excessive time consumption seems a bit
risky to back-patch; but this isn't, so let's do so.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/703c09a2-08f3-d2ec-b33d-dbecd62428b8@postgrespro.ru
seg stores the number of significant digits in an input number
in a "char" field. If char is signed, and the input is more than
127 digits long, the count can read out as negative causing
seg_out() to print garbage (or, if you're really unlucky,
even crash).
To fix, clamp the digit count to be not more than FLT_DIG.
(In theory this loses some information about what the original
input was, but it doesn't seem like useful information; it would
not survive dump/restore in any case.)
Also, in case there are stored values of the seg type containing
bad data, add a clamp in seg_out's restore() subroutine.
Per bug #17725 from Robins Tharakan. It's been like this
forever, so back-patch to all supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17725-0a09313b67fbe86e@postgresql.org
Commit 08d2d58a2 added this assertion assuming that the retrieved_rows
estimate for a foreign relation is set to at least one row in
estimate_path_cost_size(), but the assumption isn't correct because if
the relation is a foreign table with tuples=0, the estimate would be set
to 0 in there when using local stats, and if the query's WHERE clause
has a NULL condition, the estimate could be set to 0 in there when using
remote estimates. (Note: even in the latter case the assertion could be
reachable when costing foreign final paths.) Repair.
Per bug #17713 from Robins Tharakan. This patch was already applied to
v13 or later; apply it to v12 as well where the aforementioned commit
was added. Thanks to Richard Guo for investigation.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/17713-92cce66de7e81c04%40postgresql.org
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAEP4nAza%2B0fTCLkgkKYux3JDo3tUBTQORehP%2BaCxSNURpSFpHw%40mail.gmail.com
Commits f92944137 et al. made IsInTransactionBlock() set the
XACT_FLAGS_NEEDIMMEDIATECOMMIT flag before returning "false",
on the grounds that that kept its API promises equivalent to those of
PreventInTransactionBlock(). This turns out to be a bad idea though,
because it allows an ANALYZE in a pipelined series of commands to
cause an immediate commit, which is unexpected.
Furthermore, if we return "false" then we have another issue,
which is that ANALYZE will decide it's allowed to do internal
commit-and-start-transaction sequences, thus possibly unexpectedly
committing the effects of previous commands in the pipeline.
To fix the latter situation, invent another transaction state flag
XACT_FLAGS_PIPELINING, which explicitly records the fact that we
have executed some extended-protocol command and not yet seen a
commit for it. Then, require that flag to not be set before allowing
InTransactionBlock() to return "false".
Having done that, we can remove its setting of NEEDIMMEDIATECOMMIT
without fear of causing problems. This means that the API guarantees
of IsInTransactionBlock now diverge from PreventInTransactionBlock,
which is mildly annoying, but it seems OK given the very limited usage
of IsInTransactionBlock. (In any case, a caller preferring the old
behavior could always set NEEDIMMEDIATECOMMIT for itself.)
For consistency also require XACT_FLAGS_PIPELINING to not be set
in PreventInTransactionBlock. This too is meant to prevent commands
such as CREATE DATABASE from silently committing previous commands
in a pipeline.
Per report from Peter Eisentraut. As before, back-patch to all
supported branches (which sadly no longer includes v10).
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/65a899dd-aebc-f667-1d0a-abb89ff3abf8@enterprisedb.com
We might fail to generate a partitionwise join, because
reparameterize_path_by_child() does not support all path types.
This should not be a hard failure condition: we should just fall back
to a non-partitioned join. However, generate_partitionwise_join_paths
did not consider this possibility and would emit the (misleading)
error "could not devise a query plan for the given query" if we'd
failed to make any paths for a child join. Fix it to give up on
partitionwise joining if so. (The accepted technique for giving up
appears to be to set rel->nparts = 0, which I find pretty bizarre,
but there you have it.)
I have not added a test case because there'd be little point:
any omissions of this sort that we identify would soon get fixed
by extending reparameterize_path_by_child(), so the test would stop
proving anything. However, right now there is a known test case based
on failure to cover MaterialPath, and with that I've found that this
is broken in all supported versions. Hence, patch all the way back.
Original report and patch by me; thanks to Richard Guo for
identifying a test case that works against committed versions.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1854233.1669949723@sss.pgh.pa.us
When updating a relation with a rule whose action performed an INSERT
from a multi-row VALUES list, the rewriter might skip processing the
VALUES list, and therefore fail to replace any DEFAULTs in it. This
would lead to an "unrecognized node type" error.
The reason was that RewriteQuery() assumed that a query doing an
INSERT from a multi-row VALUES list would necessarily only have one
item in its fromlist, pointing to the VALUES RTE to read from. That
assumption is correct for the original query, but not for product
queries produced for rule actions. In such cases, there may be
multiple items in the fromlist, possibly including multiple VALUES
RTEs.
What is required instead is for RewriteQuery() to skip any RTEs from
the product query's originating query, which might include one or more
already-processed VALUES RTEs. What's left should then include at most
one VALUES RTE (from the rule action) to be processed.
Patch by me. Thanks to Tom Lane for reviewing.
Back-patch to all supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEZATCV39OOW7LAR_Xq4i%2BLc1Byux%3DeK3Q%3DHD_pF1o9LBt%3DphA%40mail.gmail.com
When the relkind of a relache entry changes, because a table is converted into
a view, pgstats can get confused in 15+, leading to crashes or assertion
failures.
For HEAD, Tom fixed this in b23cd185fd, by removing support for converting a
table to a view, removing the source of the inconsistency. This commit just
adds an assertion that a relcache entry's relkind does not change, just in
case we end up with another case of that in the future. As there's no cases of
changing relkind anymore, we can't add a test that that's handled correctly.
For 15, fix the problem by not maintaining the association with the old pgstat
entry when the relkind changes during a relcache invalidation processing. In
that case the pgstat entry needs to be unlinked first, to avoid
PgStat_TableStatus->relation getting out of sync. Also add a test reproducing
the issues.
No known problem exists in 11-14, so just add the test there.
Reported-by: vignesh C <vignesh21@gmail.com>
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALDaNm2yXz+zOtv7y5zBd5WKT8O0Ld3YxikuU3dcyCvxF7gypA@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALDaNm3oZA-8Wbps2Jd1g5_Gjrr-x3YWrJPek-mF5Asrrvz2Dg@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch: 15-
Writing "pg_regress --dbname= ..." led to a crash, because
we weren't expecting there to be no database name supplied.
It doesn't seem like a great idea to run regression tests
in whatever is the user's default database; so rather than
supporting this case let's explicitly reject it.
Per report from Xing Guo. Back-patch to all supported
branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CACpMh+A8cRvtvtOWVAZsCM1DU81GK4DL26R83y6ugZ1osV=ifA@mail.gmail.com
This also adds references to this new chapter at relevant sections of
our documentation. Previously much of these internal details were
exposed to users, but not explained. This also updates RELEASE
SAVEPOINT.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CANbhV-E_iy9fmrErxrCh8TZTyenpfo72Hf_XD2HLDppva4dUNA@mail.gmail.com
Author: Simon Riggs, Laurenz Albe
Reviewed-by: Bruce Momjian
Backpatch-through: 11
The frontend-side routine in charge of building a SCRAM verifier
mentioned that the restrictions applying to SASLprep on the password
with the encoding are described at the top of fe-auth-scram.c, but this
information is in auth-scram.c.
This is wrong since 8f8b9be, so backpatch all the way down as this is an
important documentation bit.
Spotted while reviewing a different patch.
Backpatch-through: 11
Previously, we'd compress only when the active range of array entries
reached Max(4 * PROCARRAY_MAXPROCS, 2 * pArray->numKnownAssignedXids).
If max_connections is large, the first term could result in not
compressing for a long time, resulting in much wastage of cycles in
hot-standby backends scanning the array to take snapshots. Get rid
of that term, and just bound it to 2 * pArray->numKnownAssignedXids.
That however creates the opposite risk, that we might spend too much
effort compressing. Hence, consider compressing only once every 128
commit records. (This frequency was chosen by benchmarking. While
we only tried one benchmark scenario, the results seem stable over
a fairly wide range of frequencies.)
Also, force compression when processing RecoveryInfo WAL records
(which should be infrequent); the old code could perform compression
then, but would do so only after the same array-range check as for
the transaction-commit path.
Also, opportunistically run compression if the startup process is about
to wait for WAL, though not oftener than once a second. This should
prevent cases where we waste lots of time by leaving the array
not-compressed for long intervals due to low WAL traffic.
Lastly, add a simple check to keep us from uselessly compressing
when the array storage is already compact.
Back-patch, as the performance problem is worse in pre-v14 branches
than in HEAD.
Simon Riggs and Michail Nikolaev, with help from Tom Lane and
Andres Freund.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALdSSPgahNUD_=pB_j=1zSnDBaiOtqVfzo8Ejt5J_k7qZiU1Tw@mail.gmail.com
The JOIN_SEMI case Assert'ed that there are no PlaceHolderVars that
need to be evaluated at the semijoin's RHS, which is wrong because
there could be some in the semijoin's qual condition. However, there
could not be any references further up than that, and within the qual
there is not any way that such a PHV could have gone to null yet, so
we don't really need the PHV and there is no need to avoid making the
RHS-removal optimization. The upshot is that there's no actual bug
in production code, and we ought to just remove this misguided Assert.
While we're here, also drop the JOIN_RIGHT case, which is dead code
because reduce_outer_joins() already got rid of JOIN_RIGHT.
Per bug #17700 from Xin Wen. Uselessness of the JOIN_RIGHT case
pointed out by Richard Guo. Back-patch to v12 where this code
was added.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17700-2b5c10d917c30687@postgresql.org
When loading plperl built against Strawberry perl or the msys2 ucrt perl
that have been built with gcc, a binary mismatch has been encountered
which looks like this:
loadable library and perl binaries are mismatched (got handshake key 0000000012800080, needed 0000000012900080)
To cure this we bring the handshake keys into sync by adding
NO_THREAD_SAFE_LOCALE to the defines used to build plperl.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20211005004334.tgjmro4kuachwiuc@alap3.anarazel.de
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/c2da86a0-2906-744c-923d-16da6047875e@dunslane.net
Backpatch to all live branches.
Commit 9b4eafcaf4 added creattion of a directory to reserve TAP test
ports at the top of the build tree. In a non-vpath build this means at
the top of the source tree, so it needs to be added to .gitignore.
As suggested by Michael Paquier
Backpatch to all live branches.
Strawberry uses __builtin_expect which Visual C doesn't have. For this
case define it as a noop. Solution taken from vim sources.
Backpatch to all live branches
In commit 272248a0c, we introduced an InitialRunningXacts array to
remember transactions and subtransactions that were running when the
xl_running_xacts record that we decoded was written. This array was
allocated in the snapshot builder memory context after we restore
serialized snapshot but we forgot to reset the array while freeing the
builder memory context. So, the next time when we start decoding in the
same session where we don't restore any serialized snapshot, we ended up
using the uninitialized array and that can lead to unpredictable behavior.
This problem doesn't exist in HEAD as instead of using
InitialRunningXacts, we added the list of transaction IDs and
sub-transaction IDs, that have modified catalogs and are running during
snapshot serialization, to the serialized snapshot (see commit 7f13ac8123).
Reported-by: Maxim Orlov
Author: Masahiko Sawada
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila, Maxim Orlov
Backpatch-through: 11
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CACG=ezZoz_KG+Ryh9MrU_g5e0HiVoHocEvqFF=NRrhrwKmEQJQ@mail.gmail.com
Tom Lane
Peter Eisentraut
Michael Paquier
Thomas Munro
Andres Freund
Noah Misch
Alexander Korotkov
Dean Rasheed
Robert Haas
Bruce Momjian
Etsuro Fujita
Jeff Davis
Andrew Dunstan
Amit Kapila