postgresql/src/test
Tom Lane f8ace5477e Fix type-safety problem with parallel aggregate serial/deserialization.
The original specification for this called for the deserialization function
to have signature "deserialize(serialtype) returns transtype", which is a
security violation if transtype is INTERNAL (which it always would be in
practice) and serialtype is not (which ditto).  The patch blithely overrode
the opr_sanity check for that, which was sloppy-enough work in itself,
but the indisputable reason this cannot be allowed to stand is that CREATE
FUNCTION will reject such a signature and thus it'd be impossible for
extensions to create parallelizable aggregates.

The minimum fix to make the signature type-safe is to add a second, dummy
argument of type INTERNAL.  But to lock it down a bit more and make misuse
of INTERNAL-accepting functions less likely, let's get rid of the ability
to specify a "serialtype" for an aggregate and just say that the only
useful serialtype is BYTEA --- which, in practice, is the only interesting
value anyway, due to the usefulness of the send/recv infrastructure for
this purpose.  That means we only have to allow "serialize(internal)
returns bytea" and "deserialize(bytea, internal) returns internal" as
the signatures for these support functions.

In passing fix bogus signature of int4_avg_combine, which I found thanks
to adding an opr_sanity check on combinefunc signatures.

catversion bump due to removing pg_aggregate.aggserialtype and adjusting
signatures of assorted built-in functions.

David Rowley and Tom Lane

Discussion: <27247.1466185504@sss.pgh.pa.us>
2016-06-22 16:52:41 -04:00
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examples Update copyright for 2016 2016-01-02 13:33:40 -05:00
isolation Use memmove() not memcpy() to slide some pointers down. 2016-04-27 18:19:28 -04:00
locale Fix omission of -X (--no-psqlrc) in some psql invocations. 2015-12-28 11:46:43 -05:00
mb Revert "Fix broken multibyte regression tests." 2016-01-26 08:29:15 +09:00
modules Finish pgindent run for 9.6: Perl files. 2016-06-12 04:19:56 -04:00
perl Finish pgindent run for 9.6: Perl files. 2016-06-12 04:19:56 -04:00
recovery Finish pgindent run for 9.6: Perl files. 2016-06-12 04:19:56 -04:00
regress Fix type-safety problem with parallel aggregate serial/deserialization. 2016-06-22 16:52:41 -04:00
ssl Clean the last few TAP suite tmp_check directories. 2016-02-24 23:41:54 -05:00
thread Update copyright for 2016 2016-01-02 13:33:40 -05:00
Makefile Add a test framework for recovery 2016-02-26 16:13:30 -03:00
README Minor tweaks for new src/test/recovery 2016-02-29 18:16:59 -03:00

README

PostgreSQL tests
================

This directory contains a variety of test infrastructure as well as some of the
tests in PostgreSQL. Not all tests are here -- in particular, there are more in
individual contrib/ modules and in src/bin.

Not all these tests get run by "make check". Check src/test/Makefile to see
which tests get run automatically.

examples/
  Demonstration programs for libpq that double as regression tests via
  "make check"

isolation/
  Tests for concurrent behavior at the SQL level

locale/
  Sanity checks for locale data, encodings, etc

mb/
  Tests for multibyte encoding (UTF-8) support

modules/
  Extensions used only or mainly for test purposes, generally not suitable
  for installing in production databases

perl/
  Infrastructure for Perl-based TAP tests

recovery/
  Test suite for recovery and replication

regress/
  PostgreSQL's main regression test suite, pg_regress

ssl/
  Tests to exercise and verify SSL certificate handling

thread/
  A thread-safety-testing utility used by configure