The catalog view pg_stats_ext fails to consider privileges for
expression statistics. The catalog view pg_stats_ext_exprs fails
to consider privileges and row-level security policies. To fix,
restrict the data in these views to table owners or roles that
inherit privileges of the table owner. It may be possible to apply
less restrictive privilege checks in some cases, but that is left
as a future exercise. Furthermore, for pg_stats_ext_exprs, do not
return data for tables with row-level security enabled, as is
already done for pg_stats_ext.
On the back-branches, a fix-CVE-2024-4317.sql script is provided
that will install into the "share" directory. This file can be
used to apply the fix to existing clusters.
Bumps catversion on 'master' branch only.
Reported-by: Lukas Fittl
Reviewed-by: Noah Misch, Tomas Vondra, Tom Lane
Security: CVE-2024-4317
Backpatch-through: 14
The documentation said that you need to pick a suitable LC_COLLATE
setting in addition to setting the DETERMINISTIC flag. This would
have been correct if the libc provider supported nondeterministic
collations, but since it doesn't, you actually need to set the LOCALE
option.
Reviewed-by: Kashif Zeeshan <kashi.zeeshan@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/a71023c2-0ae0-45ad-9688-cf3b93d0d65b%40eisentraut.org
The paragraph describing the JavaScript string literals allowed in
jsonpath expressions unnecessarily mentions JSON by erroneously
listing \v as allowed by JSON and mentioning the \xNN and \u{N...}
backslash escapes as deviations from JSON when in fact both are
accepted by ECMAScript/JavaScript. Fix this by only referring to
JavaScript.
Author: Erik Wienhold <ewie@ewie.name>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/1EB17DF9-2636-484B-9DD0-3CAB19C4F5C4@justatheory.com
The documents were clear that queryid should not be assumed to be stable
between major versions but said nothing about minor versions and left
the reader to guess if that was implied by the mention of the
instability of queryid between major versions.
Here we give minor versions an explicit mention to indicate queryid can
generally be assumed stable between minor versions.
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvpYGE6h0cD9UO-eHySPynPj1L3J%3DHxT%2BA7Ud8_Yo6AuzA%40mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 12
These operators were removed by 2f70fdb064 in the v14 cycle but they were
accidentally left in the table of build-in operator classes. Backpatch down
to v14 where the operators where removed.
Author: Aleksander Alekseev <aleksander@timescale.com>
Reported-by: Colin Caine <cmcaine@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CADwQTQbbr2UQ_fpbyc+8ay=RwEYgYk=TZxH3+RHDqAQfoG+EWA@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: v14
The code associated with EXEC SQL DEFINE was unreadable and full of
bugs, notably:
* It'd attempt to free a non-malloced string if the ecpg program
tries to redefine a macro that was defined on the command line.
* Possible memory stomp if user writes "-D=foo".
* Undef'ing or redefining a macro defined on the command line would
change the state visible to the next file, when multiple files are
specified on the command line. (While possibly that could have been
an intentional choice, the code clearly intends to revert to the
original macro state; it's just failing to consider this interaction.)
* Missing "break" in defining a new macro meant that redefinition
of an existing name would cause an extra entry to be added to the
definition list. While not immediately harmful, a subsequent undef
would result in the prior entry becoming visible again.
* The interactions with input buffering are subtle and were entirely
undocumented.
It's not that surprising that we hadn't noticed these bugs,
because there was no test coverage at all of either the -D
command line switch or multiple input files. This patch adds
such coverage (in a rather hacky way I guess).
In addition to the code bugs, the user documentation was confused
about whether the -D switch defines a C macro or an ecpg one, and
it failed to mention that you can write "-Dsymbol=value".
These problems are old, so back-patch to all supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/998011.1713217712@sss.pgh.pa.us
The tools.ietf.org site has been decommissioned and replaced by a
number of sites serving various purposes. Links to RFCs and BCPs
are now 301 redirected to their new respective IETF sites. Since
this serves no purpose and only adds network overhead, update our
links to the new locations.
Backpatch to all supported versions.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3C1CEA99-FCED-447D-9858-5A579B4C6687@yesql.se
Backpatch-through: v12
What the documentation calls an exclude_element is an index_elem
according to gram.y, and it allows all the same options that
a CREATE INDEX column specification does. The COLLATE patch
neglected to update the CREATE/ALTER TABLE docs about that,
and later the opclass-parameters patch made the same oversight.
Add those options to the syntax synopses, and polish the
associated text a bit.
Back-patch to v13 where opclass parameters came in. We could
update v12 with just the COLLATE omission, but it doesn't quite
seem worth the trouble at this point.
Shihao Zhong, reviewed by Daniel Vérité, Shubham Khanna and myself
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAGRkXqShbVyB8E3gapfdtuwiWTiK=Q67Qb9qwxu=+-w0w46EBA@mail.gmail.com
In the synopsis, make the syntax for merge_update consistent with the
syntax for a plain UPDATE command. It was missing the optional "ROW"
keyword that can be used in a multi-column assignment, and the option
to assign from a multi-column subquery, both of which have been
supported by MERGE since it was introduced.
In the parameters section for the with_query parameter, mention that
WITH RECURSIVE isn't supported, since this is different from plain
INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE commands. While at it, move that entry to
the top of the list, for consistency with the other pages.
Back-patch to v15, where MERGE was introduced.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEZATCWoQyWkMFfu7JXXQr8dA6%3DgxjhYzgpuBP2oz0QoJTxGWw%40mail.gmail.com
Add a note about the additional privileges required after the fix in
4989ce7264 (wording per Tom Lane); also change marked-up mentions of
"target_table_name" to be simply "the target table" or the like. Also,
note that "join_condition" is scouted for requisite privileges.
Backpatch to 15.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/202402211653.zuh6objy3z72@alvherre.pgsql
The explanation of interval's behavior in datatype.sgml wasn't wrong
exactly, but it was unclear, partly because it buried the lede about
there being three internal fields. Rearrange and wordsmith for more
clarity.
The discussion of extract() claimed that input of type date was
handled by casting, but actually there's been a separate SQL function
taking date for a very long time. Also, it was mostly silent about
how interval inputs are handled, but there are several field types
for which it seems useful to be specific.
Improve discussion of justify_days()/justify_hours() too.
In passing, remove vertical space in some groups of examples,
as there was little consistency about whether to have such space
or not. (I only did this within the datetime functions section;
there are some related inconsistencies elsewhere.)
Per discussion of bug #18348 from Michael Bondarenko. There
may be some code changes coming out of that discussion too,
but we likely won't back-patch them. This docs-only patch
seems useful to back-patch, though I only carried it back to
v13 because it didn't apply easily in v12.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18348-b097a3587dfde8a4@postgresql.org
Commits 1b2c6b756 et al affected the core BRIN "bloom" opclasses,
not contrib/bloom. This only corrected a bad assertion so it's not
too significant to end users, but since we documented it we should
do so accurately.
Spotted by Takatsuka Haruka.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18353-926aa99cfe58aa78@postgresql.org
The pgcrypto docs contained a set of links for useful reading and
technical references. These sets of links were however not actively
curated and had stale content and dead links. Rather than investing
time into maintining these, this removes them altogether since there
are lots of resources online which are actively maintained.
Backpatch to all supported versions since these links have been in
the docs for a long time.
Reported-by: Hanefi Onaldi <hanefi.onaldi@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/170774255387.3279713.2822272755998870925@wrigleys.postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: v12
The macOS Finder application creates .DS_Store files in directories
when opened, which creates problems for serverside utilities which
expect all files to be PostgreSQL specific files. Skip these files
when encountered in pg_checksums, pg_rewind and pg_basebackup.
This was extracted from a larger patchset for skipping hidden files
and system files, where the concencus was to just skip these. Since
this is equally likely to happen in every version, backpatch to all
supported versions.
Reported-by: Mark Guertin <markguertin@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Reviewed-by: Tobias Bussmann <t.bussmann@gmx.net>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E258CE50-AB0E-455D-8AAD-BB4FE8F882FB@gmail.com
Backpatch-through: v12
An OS crash could leave PG_VERSION empty or missing. The same symptom
appeared in a backup by block device snapshot, taken after the next
checkpoint and before the OS flushes the PG_VERSION blocks. Device
snapshots are not a documented backup method, however. Back-patch to
v15, where commit 9c08aea6a3 introduced
STRATEGY=WAL_LOG and made it the default.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20240130195003.0a.nmisch@google.com
The Parameters subsection had an extra TRIGGER in the grammar
for DISABLE/ENABLE which is incorrect. Backpatch down to all
supported versions since it's been like this all along.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/0AFB171E-7E78-4A90-A140-46AB270212CA@yesql.se
Backpatch-through: v12
The openssl command for displaying the DN of a client certificate was
using --subject and not the single-dash option -subject. While recent
versions of openssl handles double dash options, earlier does not so
fix by using just -subject (which is per the openssl documentation).
Backpatch to v14 where this was introduced.
Reported-by: konkove@gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/170672168899.666.10442618407194498217@wrigleys.postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: v14
We seem to have only documented a foreign key can reference the columns of
a primary key or unique constraint. Here we adjust the documentation
to mention columns in a non-partial unique index can be mentioned too.
The header comment for transformFkeyCheckAttrs() also didn't mention
unique indexes, so fix that too. In passing make that header comment
reflect reality in the various other aspects where it deviated from it.
Bug: 18295
Reported-by: Gilles PARC
Author: Laurenz Albe, David Rowley
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/18295-0ed0fac5c9f7b17b%40postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 12
One instance of "WITH clause" was not using <literal> tags around
WITH, while others were, so add markup to the last one to ensure
consistency. Backpatch to v15 where MERGE was added.
Reported-by: jian he <jian.universality@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CACJufxGJKY9ZCPV2WDM6xFsXq9C8r7r3vU6AkScN+p9k6CEpMw@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: v15
UNIQUE and PRIMARY KEY constraints can be created on ONLY the
partitioned table. We already had an example demonstrating that,
but forgot to mention it in the documentation of the limits of
partitioning.
Author: Laurenz Albe
Reviewed-By: shihao zhong, Shubham Khanna, Ashutosh Bapat
Backpatch-through: 12
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/167299368731.659.16130012959616771853@wrigleys.postgresql.org
The note regarding character encoding form in "The Information Schema"
said that LATIN1 character repertoires only use one encoding form
LATIN1. This is not correct because LATIN1 has another encoding form
ISO-2022-JP-2. To fix this, replace LATIN1 with LATIN2, which is not
supported by ISO-2022-JP-2, thus it can be said that LATIN2 only uses
one encoding form.
Back-patch to supported branches.
Author: Tatsuo Ishii
Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/flat/20240102.153925.1147403616414525145.t-ishii%40sranhm.sra.co.jp
The documentation has been missing one value in the list of catalog OIDs
that can be given to the validator function of a FDW, as of
AttributeRelationId, when changing the attribute options of a foreign
table.
Author: Ian Lawrence Barwick
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAB8KJ=i16t2yJU_Pq2Z+hnNGWFhagp_bJmzxHZu3ZkOjZm-+rQ@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 12
The example for dropping an option was incorrectly quoting the
option key thus making it a value turning the command into an
unqualified ADD operation. The result of dropping became adding
a new key/value pair instead:
d=# alter foreign data wrapper f options (drop 'b');
ALTER FOREIGN DATA WRAPPER
d=# select fdwoptions from pg_foreign_data_wrapper where fdwname='f';
fdwoptions
------------
{drop=b}
(1 row)
This has been incorrect for a long time so backpatch to all
supported branches.
Author: Tim <tim.needham2@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/170292280173.1876505.5204623074024041738@wrigleys.postgresql.org
We didn't explain this clearly until somewhere deep in the
"Extending SQL" chapter, but really it ought to be mentioned
in the introductory material too.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/4097442.1694967650@sss.pgh.pa.us
The wording changed here comes from 991bfe11d2, when the only way to
trigger a promotion was with a trigger file. There are more options to
achieve this operation these days, like the SQL function pg_promote() or
the command `pg_ctl promote`, so it is confusing to assume that only a
trigger file is able to do the work.
Note also that promote_trigger_file has been removed as of cd4329d939
in 16~.
Author: Shinya Kato
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/201b08ea29aa61f96162080e75be503c@oss.nttdata.com
Backpatch-through: 12
On the MERGE page, the description of the privileges required could be
taken to imply that the SELECT privilege is required on all columns of
the data source, whereas actually it is only required on the columns
referred to by conditions or expressions in the MERGE command. Re-word
it to make that a little clearer, and mention expressions as well as
conditions.
Also, add a glossary entry for MERGE, and nearby on the glossary page,
mention MERGE in the list of commands that cannot update a
materialized view.
Noted by Jian He. Patch by me, reviewed by Jian He.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CACJufxHuSoRXKwr0MtSFLXuT2nFVWcVfEWhxg7qdP9h%2Bs3a%2BUw%40mail.gmail.com
Tom Lane
Nathan Bossart
Peter Eisentraut
Tomas Vondra
David Rowley
Daniel Gustafsson
Alvaro Herrera
Dean Rasheed
Bruce Momjian
Noah Misch
Magnus Hagander
Tatsuo Ishii
Michael Paquier
Amit Kapila