postgresql/contrib
Noah Misch 85270ac7a2 pgcrypto: Report errant decryption as "Wrong key or corrupt data".
This has been the predominant outcome.  When the output of decrypting
with a wrong key coincidentally resembled an OpenPGP packet header,
pgcrypto could instead report "Corrupt data", "Not text data" or
"Unsupported compression algorithm".  The distinct "Corrupt data"
message added no value.  The latter two error messages misled when the
decrypted payload also exhibited fundamental integrity problems.  Worse,
error message variance in other systems has enabled cryptologic attacks;
see RFC 4880 section "14. Security Considerations".  Whether these
pgcrypto behaviors are likewise exploitable is unknown.

In passing, document that pgcrypto does not resist side-channel attacks.
Back-patch to 9.0 (all supported versions).

Security: CVE-2015-3167
2015-05-18 10:02:31 -04:00
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adminpack Update copyright for 2015 2015-01-06 11:43:47 -05:00
auth_delay Add file version information to most installed Windows binaries. 2014-07-14 14:07:52 -04:00
auto_explain Rearrange explain.c's API so callers need not embed sizeof(ExplainState). 2015-01-15 13:39:33 -05:00
btree_gin Move strategy numbers to include/access/stratnum.h 2015-05-15 17:03:16 -03:00
btree_gist Define integer limits independently from the system definitions. 2015-04-02 17:43:35 +02:00
chkpass Avoid returning undefined bytes in chkpass_in(). 2015-02-14 12:20:56 -05:00
citext Fix incorrect declaration of citext's regexp_matches() functions. 2015-05-05 15:51:22 -04:00
cube Move strategy numbers to include/access/stratnum.h 2015-05-15 17:03:16 -03:00
dblink Fix volatile-safety issue in dblink's materializeQueryResult(). 2015-01-26 15:17:33 -05:00
dict_int Update copyright for 2015 2015-01-06 11:43:47 -05:00
dict_xsyn Update copyright for 2015 2015-01-06 11:43:47 -05:00
earthdistance Improve speed of make check-world 2015-04-23 08:59:52 -04:00
file_fdw TABLESAMPLE, SQL Standard and extensible 2015-05-15 14:37:10 -04:00
fuzzystrmatch Remove dead code. 2015-02-03 09:43:44 +02:00
hstore Move strategy numbers to include/access/stratnum.h 2015-05-15 17:03:16 -03:00
hstore_plperl Enable transforms modules to build and run with Mingw builds. 2015-05-03 09:10:47 -04:00
hstore_plpython Use += not = to set makefile variables after including base makefiles. 2015-05-17 20:04:42 -04:00
intagg Fix typos in some error messages thrown by extension scripts when fed to psql. 2014-08-25 18:30:37 +02:00
intarray Move strategy numbers to include/access/stratnum.h 2015-05-15 17:03:16 -03:00
isn Replace a bunch more uses of strncpy() with safer coding. 2015-01-24 13:05:42 -05:00
lo Fix typos in some error messages thrown by extension scripts when fed to psql. 2014-08-25 18:30:37 +02:00
ltree Move strategy numbers to include/access/stratnum.h 2015-05-15 17:03:16 -03:00
ltree_plpython Use += not = to set makefile variables after including base makefiles. 2015-05-17 20:04:42 -04:00
oid2name Add file version information to most installed Windows binaries. 2014-07-14 14:07:52 -04:00
pageinspect Improve BRIN infra, minmax opclass and regression test 2015-05-07 13:02:22 -03:00
passwordcheck Update copyright for 2015 2015-01-06 11:43:47 -05:00
pg_audit pg_audit Makefile, REINDEX changes 2015-05-17 09:56:57 -04:00
pg_buffercache Align buffer descriptors to cache line boundaries. 2015-01-29 22:48:45 +01:00
pg_freespacemap Fix typos in some error messages thrown by extension scripts when fed to psql. 2014-08-25 18:30:37 +02:00
pg_prewarm Update copyright for 2015 2015-01-06 11:43:47 -05:00
pg_standby pg_standby: Avoid writing one byte beyond the end of the buffer. 2015-01-15 09:26:03 -05:00
pg_stat_statements Support GROUPING SETS, CUBE and ROLLUP. 2015-05-16 03:46:31 +02:00
pg_trgm Move strategy numbers to include/access/stratnum.h 2015-05-15 17:03:16 -03:00
pgcrypto pgcrypto: Report errant decryption as "Wrong key or corrupt data". 2015-05-18 10:02:31 -04:00
pgrowlocks Optimize locking a tuple already locked by another subxact 2015-04-10 13:47:15 -03:00
pgstattuple Add pgstattuple_approx() to the pgstattuple extension. 2015-05-13 07:35:06 +02:00
postgres_fdw TABLESAMPLE, SQL Standard and extensible 2015-05-15 14:37:10 -04:00
seg Move strategy numbers to include/access/stratnum.h 2015-05-15 17:03:16 -03:00
sepgsql Represent columns requiring insert and update privileges indentently. 2015-05-08 00:20:46 +02:00
spi Add new OID alias type regrole 2015-05-09 13:06:49 -04:00
sslinfo Make Port->ssl_in_use available, even when built with !USE_SSL 2014-11-25 09:46:11 +02:00
start-scripts Fix typo in linux startup script. 2015-04-26 09:43:15 -04:00
tablefunc Handle unexpected query results, especially NULLs, safely in connectby(). 2015-01-29 20:18:33 -05:00
tcn Update copyright for 2015 2015-01-06 11:43:47 -05:00
test_decoding Replace some appendStringInfo* calls with more appropriate variants 2015-05-11 20:38:55 -04:00
tsearch2 Update copyright for 2015 2015-01-06 11:43:47 -05:00
tsm_system_rows Fix whitespace 2015-05-16 20:43:32 -04:00
tsm_system_time Fix typos in comments 2015-05-17 14:58:04 +02:00
unaccent Update copyright for 2015 2015-01-06 11:43:47 -05:00
uuid-ossp Update copyright for 2015 2015-01-06 11:43:47 -05:00
vacuumlo vacuumlo: Avoid unlikely memory leak. 2015-01-14 15:14:20 -05:00
xml2 Replace a bunch more uses of strncpy() with safer coding. 2015-01-24 13:05:42 -05:00
Makefile Add to contrib/Makefile 2015-05-15 15:33:37 -04:00
README Rename 'gmake' to 'make' in docs and recommended commands 2014-02-12 17:29:19 -05:00
contrib-global.mk Remove cvs keywords from all files. 2010-09-20 22:08:53 +02:00

README

The PostgreSQL contrib tree
---------------------------

This subtree contains porting tools, analysis utilities, and plug-in
features that are not part of the core PostgreSQL system, mainly
because they address a limited audience or are too experimental to be
part of the main source tree.  This does not preclude their
usefulness.

User documentation for each module appears in the main SGML
documentation.

When building from the source distribution, these modules are not
built automatically, unless you build the "world" target.  You can
also build and install them all by running "make all" and "make
install" in this directory; or to build and install just one selected
module, do the same in that module's subdirectory.

Some directories supply new user-defined functions, operators, or
types.  To make use of one of these modules, after you have installed
the code you need to register the new SQL objects in the database
system by executing a CREATE EXTENSION command.  In a fresh database,
you can simply do

    CREATE EXTENSION module_name;

See the PostgreSQL documentation for more information about this
procedure.