postgresql/src/backend/parser
Tom Lane 9146d0d650 Compute aggregate argument types correctly in transformAggregateCall().
transformAggregateCall() captures the datatypes of the aggregate's
arguments immediately to construct the Aggref.aggargtypes list.
This seems reasonable because the arguments have already been
transformed --- but there is an edge case where they haven't been.
Specifically, if we have an unknown-type literal in an ANY argument
position, nothing will have been done with it earlier.  But if we
also have DISTINCT, then addTargetToGroupList() converts the literal
to "text" type, resulting in the aggargtypes list not matching the
actual runtime type of the argument.  The end result is that the
aggregate tries to interpret a "text" value as being of type
"unknown", that is a zero-terminated C string.  If the text value
contains no zero bytes, this could result in disclosure of server
memory following the text literal value.

To fix, move the collection of the aggargtypes list to the end
of transformAggregateCall(), after DISTINCT has been handled.
This requires slightly more code, but not a great deal.

Our thanks to Jingzhou Fu for reporting this problem.

Security: CVE-2023-5868
2023-11-06 10:38:00 -05:00
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.gitignore Convert cvsignore to gitignore, and add .gitignore for build targets. 2010-09-22 12:57:04 +02:00
Makefile Split all OBJS style lines in makefiles into one-line-per-entry style. 2019-11-05 14:41:07 -08:00
README Move keywords.c/kwlookup.c into src/common/. 2016-03-23 20:22:08 -04:00
analyze.c Avoid unnecessary plancache revalidation of utility statements. 2023-08-24 12:02:40 -04:00
check_keywords.pl Update copyright for 2021 2021-01-02 13:06:25 -05:00
gram.y Rename parser token REF to REF_P to avoid a symbol conflict. 2022-10-16 15:27:04 -04:00
parse_agg.c Compute aggregate argument types correctly in transformAggregateCall(). 2023-11-06 10:38:00 -05:00
parse_clause.c Catch stack overflow when recursing in transformFromClauseItem(). 2022-08-13 15:21:28 -04:00
parse_coerce.c Fix failure to validate the result of select_common_type(). 2022-01-29 11:41:18 -05:00
parse_collate.c Update copyright for 2021 2021-01-02 13:06:25 -05:00
parse_cte.c Fix inability to reference CYCLE column from inside its CTE. 2022-12-16 13:07:42 -05:00
parse_enr.c Update copyright for 2021 2021-01-02 13:06:25 -05:00
parse_expr.c In transformRowExpr(), check for too many columns in the row. 2022-07-29 13:30:50 -04:00
parse_func.c Avoid O(N^2) behavior in SyncPostCheckpoint(). 2021-11-02 11:31:54 -04:00
parse_node.c In transformRowExpr(), check for too many columns in the row. 2022-07-29 13:30:50 -04:00
parse_oper.c Reconsider the handling of procedure OUT parameters. 2021-06-10 17:11:36 -04:00
parse_param.c Update copyright for 2021 2021-01-02 13:06:25 -05:00
parse_relation.c Fix more bugs caused by adding columns to the end of a view. 2023-03-07 18:21:37 -05:00
parse_target.c Track nesting depth correctly when drilling down into RECORD Vars. 2023-09-15 17:01:26 -04:00
parse_type.c Add the ability for the core grammar to have more than one parse target. 2021-01-04 11:03:22 -05:00
parse_utilcmd.c Fix crashes with CREATE SCHEMA AUTHORIZATION and schema elements 2023-04-28 19:29:38 +09:00
parser.c Re-implement pl/pgsql's expression and assignment parsing. 2021-01-04 11:52:00 -05:00
scan.l Update copyright for 2021 2021-01-02 13:06:25 -05:00
scansup.c Update copyright for 2021 2021-01-02 13:06:25 -05:00

README

src/backend/parser/README

Parser
======

This directory does more than tokenize and parse SQL queries.  It also
creates Query structures for the various complex queries that are passed
to the optimizer and then executor.

parser.c	things start here
scan.l		break query into tokens
scansup.c	handle escapes in input strings
gram.y		parse the tokens and produce a "raw" parse tree
analyze.c	top level of parse analysis for optimizable queries
parse_agg.c	handle aggregates, like SUM(col1),  AVG(col2), ...
parse_clause.c	handle clauses like WHERE, ORDER BY, GROUP BY, ...
parse_coerce.c	handle coercing expressions to different data types
parse_collate.c	assign collation information in completed expressions
parse_cte.c	handle Common Table Expressions (WITH clauses)
parse_expr.c	handle expressions like col, col + 3, x = 3 or x = 4
parse_func.c	handle functions, table.column and column identifiers
parse_node.c	create nodes for various structures
parse_oper.c	handle operators in expressions
parse_param.c	handle Params (for the cases used in the core backend)
parse_relation.c support routines for tables and column handling
parse_target.c	handle the result list of the query
parse_type.c	support routines for data type handling
parse_utilcmd.c	parse analysis for utility commands (done at execution time)

See also src/common/keywords.c, which contains the table of standard
keywords and the keyword lookup function.  We separated that out because
various frontend code wants to use it too.