Peter Geoghegan [Fri, 1 May 2020 15:39:51 +0000 (08:39 -0700)]
Fix bug in nbtree VACUUM "skip full scan" feature.
Commit
857f9c36cda (which taught nbtree VACUUM to skip a scan of the
index from btcleanup in situations where it doesn't seem worth it) made
VACUUM maintain the oldest btpo.xact among all deleted pages for the
index as a whole. It failed to handle all the details surrounding pages
that are deleted by the current VACUUM operation correctly (though pages
deleted by some previous VACUUM operation were processed correctly).
The most immediate problem was that the special area of the page was
examined without a buffer pin at one point. More fundamentally, the
handling failed to account for the full range of _bt_pagedel()
behaviors. For example, _bt_pagedel() sometimes deletes internal pages
in passing, as part of deleting an entire subtree with btvacuumpage()
caller's page as the leaf level page. The original leaf page passed to
_bt_pagedel() might not be the page that it deletes first in cases where
deletion can take place.
It's unclear how disruptive this bug may have been, or what symptoms
users might want to look out for. The issue was spotted during
unrelated code review.
To fix, push down the logic for maintaining the oldest btpo.xact to
_bt_pagedel(). btvacuumpage() is now responsible for pages that were
fully deleted by a previous VACUUM operation, while _bt_pagedel() is now
responsible for pages that were deleted by the current VACUUM operation
(this includes half-dead pages from a previous interrupted VACUUM
operation that become fully deleted in _bt_pagedel()). Note that
_bt_pagedel() should never encounter an existing deleted page.
This commit theoretically breaks the ABI of a stable release by changing
the signature of _bt_pagedel(). However, if any third party extension
is actually affected by this, then it must already be completely broken
(since there are numerous assumptions made in _bt_pagedel() that cannot
be met outside of VACUUM). It seems highly unlikely that such an
extension actually exists, in any case.
Author: Peter Geoghegan
Reviewed-By: Masahiko Sawada
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-WzkrXBcMQWAYUJMFTTvzx_r4q=pYSjDe07JnUXhe+OZnJA@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch: 11-, where the "skip full scan" feature was introduced.
Robert Haas [Mon, 27 Apr 2020 17:04:35 +0000 (13:04 -0400)]
Fix bogus tar-file padding logic for standby.signal.
When pg_basebackup -R is used, we inject standby.signal into the
tar file for the main tablespace. The proper thing to do is to pad
each file injected into the tar file out to a 512-byte boundary
by appending nulls, but here the file is of length 0 and we add
511 zero bytes. Since 0 is already a multiple of 512, we should
not add any zero bytes. Do that instead.
Patch by me, reviewed by Tom Lane.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmobWbfReO9-XFk8urR1K4wTNwqoHx_v56t7=T8KaiEoKNw@mail.gmail.com
Tom Lane [Mon, 27 Apr 2020 16:21:04 +0000 (12:21 -0400)]
Fix full text search to handle NOT above a phrase search correctly.
Queries such as '!(foo<->bar)' failed to find matching rows when
implemented as a GiST or GIN index search. That's because of
failing to handle phrase searches as tri-valued when considering
a query without any position information for the target tsvector.
We can only say that the phrase operator might match, not that it
does match; and therefore its NOT also might match. The previous
coding incorrectly inverted the approximate phrase result to
decide that there was certainly no match.
To fix, we need to make TS_phrase_execute return a real ternary result,
and then bubble that up accurately in TS_execute. As long as we have
to do that anyway, we can simplify the baroque things TS_phrase_execute
was doing internally to manage tri-valued searching with only a bool
as explicit result.
For now, I left the externally-visible result of TS_execute as a plain
bool. There do not appear to be any outside callers that need to
distinguish a three-way result, given that they passed in a flag
saying what to do in the absence of position data. This might need
to change someday, but we wouldn't want to back-patch such a change.
Although tsginidx.c has its own TS_execute_ternary implementation for
use at upper index levels, that sadly managed to get this case wrong
as well :-(. Fixing it is a lot easier fortunately.
Per bug #16388 from Charles Offenbacher. Back-patch to 9.6 where
phrase search was introduced.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16388-
98cffba38d0b7e6e@postgresql.org
Andrew Gierth [Sat, 25 Apr 2020 04:10:24 +0000 (05:10 +0100)]
Fix error case for CREATE ROLE ... IN ROLE.
CreateRole() was passing a Value node, not a RoleSpec node, for the
newly-created role name when adding the role as a member of existing
roles for the IN ROLE syntax.
This mistake went unnoticed because the node in question is used only
for error messages and is not accessed on non-error paths.
In older pg versions (such as 9.5 where this was found), this results
in an "unexpected node type" error in place of the real error. That
node type check was removed at some point, after which the code would
accidentally fail to fail on 64-bit platforms (on which accessing the
Value node as if it were a RoleSpec would be mostly harmless) or give
an "unexpected role type" error on 32-bit platforms.
Fix the code to pass the correct node type, and add an lfirst_node
assertion just in case.
Per report on irc from user m1chelangelo.
Backpatch all the way, because this error has been around for a long
time.
Tom Lane [Fri, 24 Apr 2020 21:53:23 +0000 (17:53 -0400)]
Update Windows timezone name list to include currently-known zones.
Thanks to Juan José Santamaría Flecha.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/5752.
1587740484@sss.pgh.pa.us
Tom Lane [Fri, 24 Apr 2020 21:21:44 +0000 (17:21 -0400)]
Improve placement of "display name" comment in win32_tzmap[] entries.
Sticking this comment at the end of the last line was a bad idea: it's
not particularly readable, and it tempts pgindent to mess with line
breaks within the comment, which in turn reveals that win32tzlist.pl's
clean_displayname() does the wrong thing to clean up such line breaks.
While that's not hard to fix, there's basically no excuse for this
arrangement to begin with, especially since it makes the table layout
needlessly vary across back branches with different pgindent rules.
Let's just put the comment inside the braces, instead.
This commit just moves and reformats the comments, and updates
win32tzlist.pl to match; there's no actual data change.
Per odd-looking results from Juan José Santamaría Flecha.
Back-patch, since the point is to make win32_tzmap[] look the
same in all supported branches again.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/5752.
1587740484@sss.pgh.pa.us
Tom Lane [Fri, 24 Apr 2020 16:02:36 +0000 (12:02 -0400)]
Repair performance regression in information_schema.triggers view.
Commit
32ff26911 introduced use of rank() into the triggers view to
calculate the spec-mandated action_order column. As written, this
prevents query constraints on the table-name column from being pushed
below the window aggregate step. That's bad for performance of this
typical usage pattern, since the view now has to be evaluated for all
tables not just the one(s) the user wants to see. It's also the cause
of some recent buildfarm failures, in which trying to evaluate the view
rows for triggers in process of being dropped resulted in "cache lookup
failed for function NNN" errors. Those rows aren't of interest to the
test script doing the query, but the filter that would eliminate them
is being applied too late. None of this happened before the rank()
call was there, so it's a regression compared to v10 and before.
We can improve matters by changing the rank() call so that instead of
partitioning by OIDs, it partitions by nspname and relname, casting
those to sql_identifier so that they match the respective view output
columns exactly. The planner has enough intelligence to know that
constraints on partitioning columns are safe to push down, so this
eliminates the performance problem and the regression test failure
risk. We could make the other partitioning columns match view outputs
as well, but it'd be more complicated and the performance benefits
are questionable.
Side note: as this stands, the planner will push down constraints on
event_object_table and trigger_schema, but not on event_object_schema,
because it checks for ressortgroupref matches not expression
equivalence. That might be worth improving someday, but it's not
necessary to fix the immediate concern.
Back-patch to v11 where the rank() call was added. Ordinarily we'd not
change information_schema in released branches, but the test failure has
been seen in v12 and presumably could happen in v11 as well, so we need
to do this to keep the buildfarm happy. The change is harmless so far
as users are concerned. Some might wish to apply it to existing
installations if performance of this type of query is of concern,
but those who don't are no worse off.
I bumped catversion in HEAD as a pro forma matter (there's no
catalog incompatibility that would really require a re-initdb).
Obviously that can't be done in the back branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/5891.
1587594470@sss.pgh.pa.us
Tom Lane [Fri, 24 Apr 2020 14:54:47 +0000 (10:54 -0400)]
Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2020a.
DST law changes in Morocco and the Canadian Yukon.
Historical corrections for Shanghai.
The America/Godthab zone is renamed to America/Nuuk to reflect
current English usage; however, the old name remains available as a
compatibility link.
Michael Paquier [Fri, 24 Apr 2020 02:33:58 +0000 (11:33 +0900)]
Remove some unstable parts from new TAP test for archive status check
The test is proving to have timing issues when looking at archive status
files on standbys after crash recovery, while other parts of the test
rely on pg_stat_archiver as a wait point to make sure that a given state
of the archiving is reached. The coverage is not heavily impacted by
the removal those extra tests.
Per reports from several buildfarm animals, like crake, piculet,
culicidae and francolin.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/
20200424005929[email protected]
Backpatch-through: 9.5
Michael Paquier [Thu, 23 Apr 2020 23:48:35 +0000 (08:48 +0900)]
Fix handling of WAL segments ready to be archived during crash recovery
78ea8b5 has fixed an issue related to the recycling of WAL segments on
standbys depending on archive_mode. However, it has introduced a
regression with the handling of WAL segments ready to be archived during
crash recovery, causing those files to be recycled without getting
archived.
This commit fixes the regression by tracking in shared memory if a live
cluster is either in crash recovery or archive recovery as the handling
of WAL segments ready to be archived is different in both cases (those
WAL segments should not be removed during crash recovery), and by using
this new shared memory state to decide if a segment can be recycled or
not. Previously, it was not possible to know if a cluster was in crash
recovery or archive recovery as the shared state was able to track only
if recovery was happening or not, leading to the problem.
A set of TAP tests is added to close the gap here, making sure that WAL
segments ready to be archived are correctly handled when a cluster is in
archive or crash recovery with archive_mode set to "on" or "always", for
both standby and primary.
Reported-by: Benoît Lobréau
Author: Jehan-Guillaume de Rorthais
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi, Fujii Masao, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/
20200331172229.
40ee00dc@firost
Backpatch-through: 9.5
Andres Freund [Thu, 23 Apr 2020 02:52:07 +0000 (19:52 -0700)]
Fix transient memory leak for SRFs in FROM.
In
a9c35cf85ca I changed ExecMakeTableFunctionResult() to dynamically
allocate the FunctionCallInfo used to call the SRF. Unfortunately I
did not account for the fact that the surrounding memory context has
query lifetime, leading to a leak till the end of the query.
In most cases the leak is fairly inconsequential, but if the
FunctionScan is done many times in the query, the leak can add
up. This happens e.g. if the function scan is on the inner side of a
nested loop, due to a lateral join.
EXPLAIN SELECT sum(f) FROM generate_series(1,
100000000) g(i), generate_series(i, i+1) f;
quickly shows the leak.
Instead of explicitly freeing the FunctionCallInfo it seems better to
make sure all the per-set temporary state in
ExecMakeTableFunctionResult() is cleaned up wholesale. Currently
that's probably just the FunctionCallInfo allocation, but since
there's some initialization work, and since there's already an
appropriate context, this seems like a more robust approach.
Bug: #16112
Reported-By: Ben Cornett
Author: Andres Freund
Reviewed-By: Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16112-
4448bbf55a404189%40postgresql.org
Backpatch: 12,
a9c35cf85ca
Bruce Momjian [Wed, 22 Apr 2020 20:23:19 +0000 (16:23 -0400)]
docs: land height is "elevation", not "altitude"
See https://mapscaping.com/blogs/geo-candy/what-is-the-difference-between-elevation-relief-and-altitude
No patching of regression tests.
Reported-by: [email protected]
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/
158506544539.679.
2278386310645558048@wrigleys.postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 9.5
Michael Paquier [Tue, 21 Apr 2020 22:27:45 +0000 (07:27 +0900)]
Fix memory leak in libpq when using sslmode=verify-full
Checking if Subject Alternative Names (SANs) from a certificate match
with the hostname connected to leaked memory after each lookup done.
This is broken since
acd08d7 that added support for SANs in SSL
certificates, so backpatch down to 9.5.
Author: Roman Peshkurov
Reviewed-by: Hamid Akhtar, Michael Paquier, David Steele
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALLDf-pZ-E3mjxd5=bnHsDu9zHEOnpgPgdnO84E2RuwMCjjyPw@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 9.5
Alvaro Herrera [Tue, 21 Apr 2020 21:14:18 +0000 (17:14 -0400)]
Document partitiong tables ancillary object handling some more
Add a couple of lines to make it explicit that indexes, constraints,
triggers are added, removed, or left alone.
Backpatch to pg11.
Author: Álvaro Herrera
Reviewed-by: Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200421162038[email protected]
Tom Lane [Tue, 21 Apr 2020 19:58:42 +0000 (15:58 -0400)]
Fix possible crash during FATAL exit from reindexing.
index.c supposed that it could just use a PG_TRY block to clean up the
state associated with an active REINDEX operation. However, that code
doesn't run if we do a FATAL exit --- for example, due to a SIGTERM
shutdown signal --- while the REINDEX is happening. And that state does
get consulted during catalog accesses, which makes it problematic if we
do any catalog accesses during shutdown --- for example, to clean up any
temp tables created in the session.
If this combination of circumstances occurred, we could find ourselves
trying to access already-freed memory. In debug builds that'd fairly
reliably cause an assertion failure. In production we might often
get away with it, but with some bad luck it could cause a core dump.
Another possible bad outcome is an erroneous conclusion that an
index-to-be-accessed is being reindexed; but it looks like that would
be unlikely to have any consequences worse than failing to drop temp
tables right away. (They'd still get dropped by the next session that
uses that temp schema.)
To fix, get rid of the use of PG_TRY here, and instead hook into
the transaction abort mechanisms to clean up reindex state.
Per bug #16378 from Alexander Lakhin. This has been wrong for a
very long time, so back-patch to all supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16378-
7a70ca41b3ec2009@postgresql.org
Tom Lane [Tue, 21 Apr 2020 18:23:42 +0000 (14:23 -0400)]
Fix minor violations of FunctionCallInvoke usage protocol.
Working on commit
1c455078b led me to check through FunctionCallInvoke
call sites to see if every one was being honest about (a) making sure
that fcinfo.isnull is initially false, and (b) checking its state after
the call. Sure enough, I found some violations.
The main one is that finalize_partialaggregate re-used serialfn_fcinfo
without resetting isnull, even though it clearly intends to cater for
serialfns that return NULL. There would only be an issue with a
non-strict serialfn, since it's unlikely that a serialfn would return
NULL for non-null input. We have no non-strict serialfns in core, and
there may be none in the wild either, which would account for the lack
of complaints. Still, it's clearly wrong, so back-patch that fix to
9.6 where finalize_partialaggregate was introduced.
Also, arrayfuncs.c and rowtypes.c contained various callers that were
not bothering to check for result nulls. While what's being called is
a comparison or hash function that probably *shouldn't* return null,
that's a lousy excuse for not having any check at all. There are
existing places that just Assert(!fcinfo->isnull) in comparable
situations, so I added that to the places that were calling btree
comparison or hash support functions. In the places calling
boolean-returning equality functions, it's quite cheap to have them
treat isnull as FALSE, so make those places do that. Also remove some
"locfcinfo->isnull = false" assignments that are unnecessary given the
assumption that no previous call returned null. These changes seem like
mostly neatnik-ism or debugging support, so I didn't back-patch.
Alvaro Herrera [Tue, 21 Apr 2020 17:57:00 +0000 (13:57 -0400)]
Fix detaching partitions with cloned row triggers
When a partition is detached, any triggers that had been cloned from its
parent were not properly disentangled from its parent triggers.
This resulted in triggers that could not be dropped because they
depended on the trigger in the trigger in the no-longer-parent table:
ALTER TABLE t DETACH PARTITION t1;
DROP TRIGGER trig ON t1;
ERROR: cannot drop trigger trig on table t1 because trigger trig on table t requires it
HINT: You can drop trigger trig on table t instead.
Moreover the table can no longer be re-attached to its parent, because
the trigger name is already taken:
ALTER TABLE t ATTACH PARTITION t1 FOR VALUES FROM (1)TO(2);
ERROR: trigger "trig" for relation "t1" already exists
The former is a bug introduced in commit
86f575948c77. (The latter is
not necessarily a bug, but it makes the bug more uncomfortable.)
To avoid the complexity that would be needed to tell whether the trigger
has a local definition that has to be merged with the one coming from
the parent table, establish the behavior that the trigger is removed
when the table is detached.
Backpatch to pg11.
Author: Justin Pryzby
Reviewed-by: Amit Langote
Reviewed-by: Álvaro Herrera
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/20200408152412[email protected]
Bruce Momjian [Tue, 21 Apr 2020 01:41:13 +0000 (21:41 -0400)]
doc: change SGML markup "figure" to "example"
Reported-by: Jürgen Purtz
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/
709d7809-d7f4-8175-47f3-
4d131341bba8@purtz.de
Author: Jürgen Purtz
Backpatch-through: 9.5
Magnus Hagander [Mon, 20 Apr 2020 10:53:40 +0000 (12:53 +0200)]
Allow pg_read_all_stats to access all stats views again
The views pg_stat_progress_* had not gotten the memo that
pg_read_all_stats is supposed to be able to read all statistics. Also
make a pass over all text-returning pg_stat_xyz functions that could
return "insufficient privilege" and make sure they also respect
pg_read_all_status.
Reported-by: Andrey M. Borodin
Reviewed-by: Andrey M. Borodin, Kyotaro Horiguchi
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/
13145F2F-8458-4977-9D2D-
7B2E862E5722@yandex-team.ru
Tom Lane [Sat, 18 Apr 2020 18:02:44 +0000 (14:02 -0400)]
Fix race conditions in synchronous standby management.
We have repeatedly seen the buildfarm reach the Assert(false) in
SyncRepGetSyncStandbysPriority. This apparently is due to failing to
consider the possibility that the sync_standby_priority values in
shared memory might be inconsistent; but they will be whenever only
some of the walsenders have updated their values after a change in
the synchronous_standby_names setting. That function is vastly too
complex for what it does, anyway, so rewriting it seems better than
trying to apply a band-aid fix.
Furthermore, the API of SyncRepGetSyncStandbys is broken by design:
it returns a list of WalSnd array indexes, but there is nothing
guaranteeing that the contents of the WalSnd array remain stable.
Thus, if some walsender exits and then a new walsender process
takes over that WalSnd array slot, a caller might make use of
WAL position data that it should not, potentially leading to
incorrect decisions about whether to release transactions that
are waiting for synchronous commit.
To fix, replace SyncRepGetSyncStandbys with a new function
SyncRepGetCandidateStandbys that copies all the required data
from shared memory while holding the relevant mutexes. If the
associated walsender process then exits, this data is still safe to
make release decisions with, since we know that that much WAL *was*
sent to a valid standby server. This incidentally means that we no
longer need to treat sync_standby_priority as protected by the
SyncRepLock rather than the per-walsender mutex.
SyncRepGetSyncStandbys is no longer used by the core code, so remove
it entirely in HEAD. However, it seems possible that external code is
relying on that function, so do not remove it from the back branches.
Instead, just remove the known-incorrect Assert. When the bug occurs,
the function will return a too-short list, which callers should treat
as meaning there are not enough sync standbys, which seems like a
reasonably safe fallback until the inconsistent state is resolved.
Moreover it's bug-compatible with what has been happening in non-assert
builds. We cannot do anything about the walsender-replacement race
condition without an API/ABI break.
The bogus assertion exists back to 9.6, but 9.6 is sufficiently
different from the later branches that the patch doesn't apply at all.
I chose to just remove the bogus assertion in 9.6, feeling that the
probability of a bad outcome from the walsender-replacement race
condition is too low to justify rewriting the whole patch for 9.6.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/21519.
1585272409@sss.pgh.pa.us
David Rowley [Sat, 18 Apr 2020 02:11:21 +0000 (14:11 +1200)]
Fix possible crash with GENERATED ALWAYS columns
In some corner cases, this could also lead to corrupted values being
included in the tuple.
Users who are concerned that they are affected by this should first
upgrade and then perform a base backup of their database and restore onto
an off-line server. They should then query each table with generated
columns to ensure there are no rows where the generated expression does
not match a newly calculated version of the GENERATED ALWAYS expression.
If no crashes occur and no rows are returned then you're not affected.
Fixes bug #16369.
Reported-by: Cameron Ezell
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16369-
5845a6f1bef59884@postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 12 (where GENERATED ALWAYS columns were added.)
Andrew Dunstan [Fri, 17 Apr 2020 18:52:42 +0000 (14:52 -0400)]
Use a slightly more liberal regex to detect Visual Studio version
Apparently in some language versions of Visual Studio nmake outputs some
material after the version number and before the end of the line. This
has been seen in Chinese versions. Therefore, we no longer demand that
the version string comes at the end of a line.
Per complaint from Cuiping Lin.
Backpatch to all live branches.
Michael Paquier [Fri, 17 Apr 2020 01:45:15 +0000 (10:45 +0900)]
Fix minor memory leak in pg_basebackup and pg_receivewal
The result of the query used to retrieve the WAL segment size from the
backend was not getting freed in two code paths. Both pg_basebackup and
pg_receivewal exit immediately if a failure happened on this query, so
this was not an actual problem, but it could be an issue if this code
gets used for other tools in different ways, be they future tools in
this code tree or external, existing, ones.
Oversight in commit
fc49e24, so backpatch down to 11.
Author: Jie Zhang
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/
970ad9508461469b9450b64027842331@G08CNEXMBPEKD06.g08.fujitsu.local
Backpatch-through: 11
Tom Lane [Thu, 16 Apr 2020 18:45:54 +0000 (14:45 -0400)]
Fix cache reference leak in contrib/sepgsql.
fixup_whole_row_references() did the wrong thing with a dropped column,
resulting in a commit-time warning about a cache reference leak.
I (tgl) added a test case exercising this, but back-patched the test
only as far as v10; the patch didn't apply cleanly to 9.6 and it
didn't seem worth the trouble to adapt it. The bug is pretty old
though, so apply the code change all the way back.
Michael Luo, with cosmetic improvements by me
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/BYAPR08MB5606D1453D7F50E2AF4D2FD29AD80@BYAPR08MB5606.namprd08.prod.outlook.com
Michael Paquier [Wed, 15 Apr 2020 06:56:43 +0000 (15:56 +0900)]
Fix minor memory leak in pg_dump
A query used to read default ACL information from the catalogs did not
free a set of PQExpBuffer.
Oversight in commit
e2090d9, so backpatch down to 9.6.
Author: Jie Zhang
Reviewed-by: Sawada Masahiko
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/
05bcbc5857f948efa0b451b85a48ae10@G08CNEXMBPEKD06.g08.fujitsu.local
Backpatch-through: 9.6
Noah Misch [Tue, 14 Apr 2020 01:47:28 +0000 (18:47 -0700)]
Add a wait_for_catchup() before immediate stop of a test
Per buildfarm member hoverfly, a slow walsender could make the test
fail. Back-patch to v10, where the test was introduced.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/
20200414013849[email protected]
Tom Lane [Sat, 11 Apr 2020 16:29:06 +0000 (12:29 -0400)]
Clear dangling pointer to avoid bogus EXPLAIN printout in a corner case.
ExecReScanHashJoin will destroy the join's hash table if it expects
that the inner relation will produce different rows on rescan.
Up to now it's not bothered to clear the additional pointer to that
hash table that exists in the child HashState node. However, it's
possible for the query to terminate without building a fresh hash
table (this happens if the outer relation is found to be empty
during the final rescan). So we can end with a dangling pointer
to a deleted hash table. That was harmless originally, but since
9.0 EXPLAIN ANALYZE has used that pointer to print hash table
statistics. In debug builds this reproducibly results in garbage
statistics. In non-debug builds there's frequently no ill effects,
but in principle one could get wrong EXPLAIN ANALYZE output, or
perhaps even a crash if free() has released the hashtable memory
back to the OS.
To fix, just make sure we clear the additional pointer when destroying
the hash table. In problematic cases, EXPLAIN ANALYZE will then print
no hashtable statistics (reverting to its pre-9.0 behavior). This isn't
ideal, but since the problem manifests only in unusual corner cases,
it's hard to justify taking any risks to do better in the back
branches. A follow-on patch will improve matters in HEAD.
Konstantin Knizhnik and Tom Lane, per diagnosis by Thomas Munro
of a trouble report from Alvaro Herrera.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/
20200323165059[email protected]
Andrew Gierth [Sat, 11 Apr 2020 07:04:57 +0000 (08:04 +0100)]
doc: restore intentional typo
Commit
ac8623760 "fixed" a typo in an example of what would happen in
the event of a typo. Restore the original typo and add a comment about
its intentionality. Backpatch to 12 where the error was introduced.
Per report from irc user Nicolás Alvarez.
Tom Lane [Fri, 10 Apr 2020 17:12:58 +0000 (13:12 -0400)]
Doc: clarify locking requirements for ALTER TABLE ADD FOREIGN KEY.
The docs explained that a SHARE ROW EXCLUSIVE lock is needed on the
referenced table, but failed to say the same about the table being
altered. Since the page says that ACCESS EXCLUSIVE lock is taken
unless otherwise stated, this left readers with the wrong conclusion.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/
834603375.
3470346.
1586482852542@mail.yahoo.com
Tom Lane [Fri, 10 Apr 2020 14:44:10 +0000 (10:44 -0400)]
Doc: sync CREATE GROUP syntax synopsis with CREATE ROLE.
CREATE GROUP is an exact alias for CREATE ROLE, and CREATE USER is
almost an exact alias, as can easily be confirmed by checking the
code. So the man page syntax descriptions ought to match up. The
last few additions of role options seem to have forgotten to update
create_group.sgml, though. Fix that, and add a naggy reminder to
create_role.sgml in hopes of not forgetting again.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/
158647836143.655.
9853963229391401576@wrigleys.postgresql.org
Tom Lane [Thu, 9 Apr 2020 19:38:43 +0000 (15:38 -0400)]
Further cleanup of ts_headline code.
Suppress a probably-meaningless uninitialized-variable warning
(induced by my previous patch, I'm sorry to say).
Improve mark_hl_fragments()'s test for overlapping cover strings:
it failed to consider the possibility that the current string is
strictly within another one. That's unlikely given the preceding
splitting into MaxWords fragments, but I don't think it's impossible.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16345-
2e0cf5cddbdcd3b4@postgresql.org
Tom Lane [Thu, 9 Apr 2020 19:11:08 +0000 (15:11 -0400)]
Doc: improve documentation about ts_headline() function.
Now that I've had my nose in that code, I thought the docs about
it left something to be desired.
Tom Lane [Thu, 9 Apr 2020 17:19:23 +0000 (13:19 -0400)]
Fix default text search parser's ts_headline code for phrase queries.
This code could produce very poor results when asked to highlight a
string based on a query using phrase-match operators. The root cause
is that hlCover(), which is supposed to find a minimal substring that
matches the query, was written assuming that word position is not
significant. I'm only 95% convinced that its algorithm was correct even
for plain AND/OR queries; but it definitely fails completely for phrase
matches, causing it to possibly not identify a cover string at all.
Hence, rewrite hlCover() with a less-tense algorithm that just tries
all the possible substrings, earlier and shorter ones first. (This is
not as bad as it sounds performance-wise, because all of the string
matching has been done already: the repeated tsquery match checks
boil down to pointer comparisons.)
Unfortunately, since that approach produces more candidate cover
strings than before, it also exposes that there were bugs in the
heuristics in mark_hl_words() for selecting a best cover string.
Fixes there include:
* Do not apply the ShortWord filter to words that appear in the query.
* Remove a misguided optimization for quickly rejecting a cover.
* Fix order-of-operation bug that could cause computation of a
wrong figure of merit (poslen) when shortening a cover.
* Change the preference rule so that candidate headlines that do not
include their whole cover string (after MaxWords trimming) are lowest
priority, since they may not actually satisfy the user's query.
This results in some changes in existing regression test cases,
but they all seem reasonable. Note in particular that the tests
involving strings like "1 2 3" were previously being affected by
the ShortWord filter, masking the normal matching behavior.
Per bug #16345 from Augustinas Jokubauskas; the new test cases are
based on that example. Back-patch to 9.6 where phrase search was
added to tsquery.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16345-
2e0cf5cddbdcd3b4@postgresql.org
Tom Lane [Thu, 9 Apr 2020 16:36:59 +0000 (12:36 -0400)]
Cosmetic improvements for default text search parser's ts_headline code.
This code was woefully unreadable and under-commented. Try to improve
matters by adding comments, using some macros to make complicated
if-tests more readable, using boolean type where appropriate, etc.
There are a couple of tiny coding improvements too, but this commit
includes (I hope) no behavioral change.
Nonetheless, back-patch as far as 9.6, because a followup bug-fixing
commit depends on this.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16345-
2e0cf5cddbdcd3b4@postgresql.org
Peter Eisentraut [Thu, 9 Apr 2020 14:17:55 +0000 (16:17 +0200)]
Fix CREATE TABLE LIKE INCLUDING GENERATED column order issue
CREATE TABLE LIKE INCLUDING GENERATED would fail if a generated column
referred to a column with a higher attribute number. This is because
the column mapping mechanism created the mapping incrementally as
columns are added. This was sufficient for previous uses of that
mechanism (omitting dropped columns), and it also happened to work if
generated columns only referred to columns with lower attribute
numbers, but here it failed.
This fix is to build the attribute mapping in a separate loop before
processing the columns in detail.
Bug: #16342
Reported-by: Ethan Waldo
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane
Amit Kapila [Thu, 9 Apr 2020 03:41:24 +0000 (09:11 +0530)]
Allow parallel create index to accumulate buffer usage stats.
Currently, we don't account for buffer usage incurred by parallel workers
for parallel create index. This commit allows each worker to record the
buffer usage stats and leader backend to accumulate that stats at the
end of the operation. This will allow pg_stat_statements to display
correct buffer usage stats for (parallel) create index command.
Reported-by: Julien Rouhaud
Author: Sawada Masahiko
Reviewed-by: Dilip Kumar, Julien Rouhaud and Amit Kapila
Backpatch-through: 11, where this was introduced
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/
20200328151721.GB12854@nol
Peter Eisentraut [Wed, 8 Apr 2020 17:19:45 +0000 (19:19 +0200)]
createuser: Change a fprintf to pg_log_error
Tom Lane [Wed, 8 Apr 2020 15:23:39 +0000 (11:23 -0400)]
Fix pg_dump/pg_restore to restore event trigger comments later.
Repair an oversight in commit
8728b2c70: if we're postponing restore
of event triggers to the end, we must also postpone restoring any
comments on them, since of course we cannot create the comments first.
(This opens yet another opportunity for an event trigger to bollix
the restore, but there's no help for that.)
Per bug #16346 from Alexander Lakhin.
Like the previous commit, back-patch to all supported branches.
Hamid Akhtar and Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16346-
6210ad7a0ea81be1@postgresql.org
Michael Paquier [Wed, 8 Apr 2020 06:04:57 +0000 (15:04 +0900)]
Fix crash when using COLLATE in partition bound expressions
Attempting to use a COLLATE clause with a type that it not collatable in
a partition bound expression could crash the server. This commit fixes
the code by adding more checks similar to what is done when computing
index or partition attributes by making sure that there is a collation
iff the type is collatable.
Backpatch down to 12, as
7c079d7 introduced this problem.
Reported-by: Alexander Lakhin
Author: Dmitry Dolgov
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16325-
809194cf742313ab@postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 12
Tom Lane [Wed, 8 Apr 2020 00:50:02 +0000 (20:50 -0400)]
Fix circle_in to accept "(x,y),r" as it's advertised to do.
Our documentation describes four allowed input syntaxes for circles,
but the regression tests tried only three ... with predictable
consequences. Remarkably, this has been wrong since the circle
datatype was added in 1997, but nobody noticed till now.
David Zhang, with some help from me
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/
332c47fa-d951-7574-b5cc-
a8f7f7201202@highgo.ca
Tom Lane [Tue, 7 Apr 2020 20:30:55 +0000 (16:30 -0400)]
Adjust bytea get_bit/set_bit to cope with bytea strings > 256MB.
Since the existing bit number argument can't exceed INT32_MAX, it's
not possible for these functions to manipulate bits beyond the first
256MB of a bytea value. However, it'd be good if they could do at
least that much, and not fall over entirely for longer bytea values.
Adjust the comparisons to be done in int64 arithmetic so that works.
Also tweak the error reports to show sane values in case of overflow.
Also add some test cases to improve the miserable code coverage
of these functions.
Apply patch to back branches only; HEAD has a better solution
as of commit
26a944cf2.
Extracted from a much larger patch by Movead Li
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/
20200312115135445367128@highgo.ca
Michael Paquier [Mon, 6 Apr 2020 02:05:47 +0000 (11:05 +0900)]
Preserve clustered index after rewrites with ALTER TABLE
A table rewritten by ALTER TABLE would lose tracking of an index usable
for CLUSTER. This setting is tracked by pg_index.indisclustered and is
controlled by ALTER TABLE, so some extra work was needed to restore it
properly. Note that ALTER TABLE only marks the index that can be used
for clustering, and does not do the actual operation.
Author: Amit Langote, Justin Pryzby
Reviewed-by: Ibrar Ahmed, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/
20200202161718[email protected]
Backpatch-through: 9.5
Andres Freund [Mon, 6 Apr 2020 00:47:30 +0000 (17:47 -0700)]
Use TransactionXmin instead of RecentGlobalXmin in heap_abort_speculative().
There's a very low risk that RecentGlobalXmin could be far enough in
the past to be older than relfrozenxid, or even wrapped
around. Luckily the consequences of that having happened wouldn't be
too bad - the page wouldn't be pruned for a while.
Avoid that risk by using TransactionXmin instead. As that's announced
via MyPgXact->xmin, it is protected against wrapping around (see code
comments for details around relfrozenxid).
Author: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/
20200328213023[email protected]
Backpatch: 9.5-
Peter Eisentraut [Sun, 5 Apr 2020 08:02:00 +0000 (10:02 +0200)]
Save errno across LWLockRelease() calls
Fixup for "Drop slot's LWLock before returning from SaveSlotToPath()"
Reported-by: Michael Paquier
Tom Lane [Fri, 3 Apr 2020 17:15:30 +0000 (13:15 -0400)]
Fix bugs in gin_fuzzy_search_limit processing.
entryGetItem()'s three code paths each contained bugs associated
with filtering the entries for gin_fuzzy_search_limit.
The posting-tree path failed to advance "advancePast" after having
decided to filter an item. If we ran out of items on the current
page and needed to advance to the next, what would actually happen
is that entryLoadMoreItems() would re-load the same page. Eventually,
the random dropItem() test would accept one of the same items it'd
previously rejected, and we'd move on --- but it could take awhile
with small gin_fuzzy_search_limit. To add insult to injury, this
case would inevitably cause entryLoadMoreItems() to decide it needed
to re-descend from the root, making things even slower.
The posting-list path failed to implement gin_fuzzy_search_limit
filtering at all, so that all entries in the posting list would
be returned.
The bitmap-result path used a "gotitem" variable that it failed to
update in the one place where it'd actually make a difference, ie
at the one "continue" statement. I think this was unreachable in
practice, because if we'd looped around then it shouldn't be the
case that the entries on the new page are before advancePast.
Still, the "gotitem" variable was contributing nothing to either
clarity or correctness, so get rid of it.
Refactor all three loops so that the termination conditions are
more alike and less unreadable.
The code coverage report showed that we had no coverage at all for
the re-descend-from-root code path in entryLoadMoreItems(), which
seems like a very bad thing, so add a test case that exercises it.
We also had exactly no coverage for gin_fuzzy_search_limit, so add a
simplistic test case that at least hits those code paths a little bit.
Back-patch to all supported branches.
Adé Heyward and Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEknJCdS-dE1Heddptm7ay2xTbSeADbkaQ8bU2AXRCVC2LdtKQ@mail.gmail.com
Tom Lane [Fri, 3 Apr 2020 15:24:56 +0000 (11:24 -0400)]
Fix bogus CALLED_AS_TRIGGER() defenses.
contrib/lo's lo_manage() thought it could use
trigdata->tg_trigger->tgname in its error message about
not being called as a trigger. That naturally led to a core dump.
unique_key_recheck() figured it could Assert that fcinfo->context
is a TriggerData node in advance of having checked that it's
being called as a trigger. That's harmless in production builds,
and perhaps not that easy to reach in any case, but it's logically
wrong.
The first of these per bug #16340 from William Crowell;
the second from manual inspection of other CALLED_AS_TRIGGER
call sites.
Back-patch the lo.c change to all supported branches, the
other to v10 where the thinko crept in.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16340-
591c7449dc7c8c47@postgresql.org
Bruce Momjian [Thu, 2 Apr 2020 21:42:09 +0000 (17:42 -0400)]
doc: remove unnecessary INNER keyword
A join that was added in commit
9b2009c4cf that did not use the INNER
keyword but the existing query used it. It was cleaner to remove the
existing INNER keyword.
Reported-by: Peter Eisentraut
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/
a1ffbfda-59d2-5732-e5fb-
3df8582b6434@2ndquadrant.com
Backpatch-through: 9.5
Bruce Momjian [Thu, 2 Apr 2020 21:27:43 +0000 (17:27 -0400)]
doc: remove comma, related to commit
92d31085e9
Reported-by: Peter Eisentraut
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/
750b8832-d123-7f9b-931e-
43ce8321b2d7@2ndquadrant.com
Backpatch-through: 9.5
Tom Lane [Wed, 1 Apr 2020 18:49:49 +0000 (14:49 -0400)]
Check equality semantics for unique indexes on partitioned tables.
We require the partition key to be a subset of the set of columns
being made unique, so that physically-separate indexes on the different
partitions are sufficient to enforce the uniqueness constraint.
The existing code checked that the listed columns appear, but did not
inquire into the index semantics, which is a serious oversight given
that different index opclasses might enforce completely different
notions of uniqueness.
Ideally, perhaps, we'd just match the partition key opfamily to the
index opfamily. But hash partitioning uses hash opfamilies which we
can't directly match to btree opfamilies. Hence, look up the equality
operator in each family, and accept if it's the same operator. This
should be okay in a fairly general sense, since the equality operator
ought to precisely represent the opfamily's notion of uniqueness.
A remaining weak spot is that we don't have a cross-index-AM notion of
which opfamily member is "equality". But we know which one to use for
hash and btree AMs, and those are the only two that are relevant here
at present. (Any non-core AMs that know how to enforce equality are
out of luck, for now.)
Back-patch to v11 where this feature was introduced.
Guancheng Luo, revised a bit by me
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/
D9C3CEF7-04E8-47A1-8300-
CA1DCD5ED40D@gmail.com
Michael Paquier [Wed, 1 Apr 2020 05:45:57 +0000 (14:45 +0900)]
Fix crash in psql when attempting to reuse old connection
In a psql session, if the connection to the server is abruptly cut, the
referenced connection would become NULL as of CheckConnection(). This
could cause a hard crash with psql if attempting to connect by reusing
the past connection's data because of a null-pointer dereference with
either PQhost() or PQdb(). This issue is fixed by making sure that no
reuse of the past connection is done if it does not exist.
Issue has been introduced by
6e5f8d4, so backpatch down to 12.
Reported-by: Hugh Wang
Author: Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Álvaro Herrera, Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16330-
b34835d83619e25d@postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 12
Bruce Momjian [Wed, 1 Apr 2020 03:01:33 +0000 (23:01 -0400)]
psql: do file completion for \gx
This was missed when the feature was added.
Reported-by: Vik Fearing
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/
eca20529-0b06-b493-ee38-
f071a75dcd5b@postgresfriends.org
Backpatch-through: 10
Bruce Momjian [Tue, 31 Mar 2020 22:44:29 +0000 (18:44 -0400)]
doc: remove mention of bitwise operators as solely type-limited
There are other operators that have limited number data type support, so
just remove the sentence.
Reported-by: Sergei Agalakov
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/
158032651854.19851.
16261832706661813796@wrigleys.postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 9.5
Bruce Momjian [Tue, 31 Mar 2020 22:10:39 +0000 (18:10 -0400)]
doc: clarify hierarchy of objects: global, db, schema, etc.
The previous wording was confusing because it wasn't in decreasing order
and had to backtrack. Also clarify role/user wording.
Reported-by: [email protected]
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/
158057750885.1123.
2806779262588618988@wrigleys.postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 9.5
Bruce Momjian [Tue, 31 Mar 2020 21:52:48 +0000 (17:52 -0400)]
doc: restore wording from recent patch "rolled back to"
Reported-by: Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/31072.
1585690490@sss.pgh.pa.us
Backpatch-through: 9.5 - 12
Bruce Momjian [Tue, 31 Mar 2020 21:27:32 +0000 (17:27 -0400)]
doc: clarify when row-level locks are released
They are released just like table-level locks. Also clean up wording.
Reported-by: [email protected]
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/
158074944048.1095.
4309647363871637715@wrigleys.postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 9.5
Bruce Momjian [Tue, 31 Mar 2020 21:16:33 +0000 (17:16 -0400)]
doc: add namespace column to pg_buffercache example query
Without the namespace, the table name could be ambiguous.
Reported-by: [email protected]
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/
158155175140.23798.
2189464781144503491@wrigleys.postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 9.5
Bruce Momjian [Tue, 31 Mar 2020 21:07:43 +0000 (17:07 -0400)]
doc: clarify which table creation is used for inheritance part.
Previously people might assume that the partition syntax version of
CREATE TABLE is to be used for the inheritance partition table example;
mention that the non-partitioned version should be used.
Reported-by: [email protected]
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/
158089540905.1098.
15071165437284409576@wrigleys.postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 10
Tom Lane [Tue, 31 Mar 2020 21:06:22 +0000 (17:06 -0400)]
Fix race condition in statext_store().
Must hold some lock on the pg_statistic_ext_data catalog *before*
we look up the tuple we aim to replace. Otherwise a concurrent
VACUUM FULL or similar operation could move it to a different TID,
leaving us trying to replace the wrong tuple.
Back-patch to v12 where this got broken.
Credit goes to Dean Rasheed; I'm just doing the clerical work.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEZATCU0zHMDiQV0g8P2U+YSP9C1idUPrn79DajsbonwkN0xvQ@mail.gmail.com
Bruce Momjian [Tue, 31 Mar 2020 20:31:44 +0000 (16:31 -0400)]
doc: adjust UPDATE/DELETE's FROM/USING to match SELECT's FROM
Previously the syntax and wording were unclear.
Reported-by: Alexey Bashtanov
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/
968d4724-8e58-788f-7c45-
f7b1813824cc@imap.cc
Backpatch-through: 9.5
Bruce Momjian [Tue, 31 Mar 2020 18:17:32 +0000 (14:17 -0400)]
Allow ecpg to be built stand-alone, allow parallel libpq make
This change defines SHLIB_PREREQS for the libpgport dependency, rather
than using a makefile rule. This was broken in PG 12.
Reported-by: Filip Janus
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/
[email protected]
Author: Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker (for libpq)
Backpatch-through: 12
Tom Lane [Tue, 31 Mar 2020 16:57:55 +0000 (12:57 -0400)]
Teach pg_ls_dir_files() to ignore ENOENT failures from stat().
Buildfarm experience shows that this function can fail with ENOENT
if some other process unlinks a file between when we read the directory
entry and when we try to stat() it. The problem is old but we had
not noticed it until
085b6b667 added regression test coverage.
To fix, just ignore ENOENT failures. There is one other case that
this might hide: a symlink that points to nowhere. That seems okay
though, at least better than erroring.
Back-patch to v10 where this function was added, since the regression
test cases were too.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/
20200308173103[email protected]
Tom Lane [Tue, 31 Mar 2020 15:37:44 +0000 (11:37 -0400)]
Back-patch addition of stack overflow and interrupt checks for lquery.
Experimentation shows that it's not hard at all to drive the
old implementation of "ltree ~ lquery" match to stack overflow,
so throw in a check_stack_depth() call, as I just did in HEAD.
I wasn't able to make it take a long time, because all the
pathological cases I tried hit stack overflow first; but
I bet there are some others that do take a long time, so add
CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS() too.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAP_rww=waX2Oo6q+MbMSiZ9ktdj6eaJj0cQzNu=Ry2cCDij5fw@mail.gmail.com
Michael Paquier [Mon, 30 Mar 2020 23:27:54 +0000 (08:27 +0900)]
Revert "Skip redundant anti-wraparound vacuums"
This reverts commit
2aa6e33, that added a fast path to skip
anti-wraparound and non-aggressive autovacuum jobs (these have no sense
as anti-wraparound implies aggressive). With a cluster using a high
amount of relations with a portion of them being heavily updated, this
could cause autovacuum to lock down, with autovacuum workers attempting
repeatedly those jobs on the same relations for the same database, that
just kept being skipped. This lock down can be solved with a manual
VACUUM FREEZE.
Justin King has reported one environment where the issue happened, and
Julien Rouhaud and I have been able to reproduce it in a second
environment. With a very aggressive autovacuum_freeze_max_age,
triggering those jobs with pgbench is a matter of minutes, and hitting
the lock down is a lot harder (my local tests failed to do that).
Note that anti-wraparound and non-aggressive jobs can only be triggered
on a subset of shared catalogs:
- pg_auth_members
- pg_authid
- pg_database
- pg_replication_origin
- pg_shseclabel
- pg_subscription
- pg_tablespace
While the lock down was possible down to v12, the root cause of those
jobs is a much older issue, which needs more analysis.
Bonus thanks to Andres Freund for the discussion.
Reported-by: Justin King
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAE39h22zPLrkH17GrkDgAYL3kbjvySYD1io+rtnAUFnaJJVS4g@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 12
Peter Geoghegan [Mon, 30 Mar 2020 19:03:57 +0000 (12:03 -0700)]
Consistently truncate non-key suffix columns.
INCLUDE indexes failed to have their non-key attributes physically
truncated away in certain rare cases. This led to physically larger
pivot tuples that contained useless non-key attribute values. The
impact on users should be negligible, but this is still clearly a
regression (Postgres 11 supports INCLUDE indexes, and yet was not
affected).
The bug appeared in commit
dd299df8, which introduced "true" suffix
truncation of key attributes.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-Wz=E8pkV9ivRSFHtv812H5ckf8s1-yhx61_WrJbKccGcrQ@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch: 12-, where "true" suffix truncation was introduced.
Tom Lane [Mon, 30 Mar 2020 15:14:58 +0000 (11:14 -0400)]
Be more careful about extracting encoding from locale strings on Windows.
GetLocaleInfoEx() can fail on strings that setlocale() was perfectly
happy with. A common way for that to happen is if the locale string
is actually a Unix-style string, say "et_EE.UTF-8". In that case,
what's after the dot is an encoding name, not a Windows codepage number;
blindly treating it as a codepage number led to failure, with a fairly
silly error message. Hence, check to see if what's after the dot is
all digits, and if not, treat it as a literal encoding name rather than
a codepage number. This will do the right thing with many Unix-style
locale strings, and produce a more sensible error message otherwise.
Somewhat independently of that, treat a zero (CP_ACP) result from
GetLocaleInfoEx() as meaning that we must use UTF-8 encoding.
Back-patch to all supported branches.
Juan José Santamaría Flecha
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/24905.
1585445371@sss.pgh.pa.us
Tom Lane [Sun, 29 Mar 2020 22:54:19 +0000 (18:54 -0400)]
Doc: correct misstatement about ltree label maximum length.
The documentation says that the max length is 255 bytes, but
code inspection says it's actually 255 characters; and relevant
lengths are stored as uint16 so that that works.
Tom Lane [Sat, 28 Mar 2020 21:09:51 +0000 (17:09 -0400)]
Protect against overflow of ltree.numlevel and lquery.numlevel.
These uint16 fields could be overflowed by excessively long input,
producing strange results. Complain for invalid input.
Likewise check for out-of-range values of the repeat counts in lquery.
(We don't try too hard on that one, notably not bothering to detect
if atoi's result has overflowed.)
Also detect length overflow in ltree_concat.
In passing, be more consistent about whether "syntax error" messages
include the type name. Also, clarify the documentation about what
the size limit is.
This has been broken for a long time, so back-patch to all supported
branches.
Nikita Glukhov, reviewed by Benjie Gillam and Tomas Vondra
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAP_rww=waX2Oo6q+MbMSiZ9ktdj6eaJj0cQzNu=Ry2cCDij5fw@mail.gmail.com
Andres Freund [Sat, 28 Mar 2020 18:52:11 +0000 (11:52 -0700)]
Ensure snapshot is registered within ScanPgRelation().
In 9.4 I added support to use a historical snapshot in
ScanPgRelation(), while adding logical decoding. Unfortunately a
conflict with the concurrent removal of SnapshotNow was incorrectly
resolved, leading to an unregistered snapshot being used.
It is not correct to use an unregistered (or non-active) snapshot for
anything non-trivial, because catalog invalidations can cause the
snapshot to be invalidated.
Luckily it seems unlikely to actively cause problems in practice, as
ScanPgRelation() requires that we already have a lock on the relation,
we only look for a single row, and we don't appear to rely on the
result's tid to be correct. It however is clearly wrong and potential
negative consequences would likely be hard to find. So it seems worth
backpatching the fix, even without a concrete hazard.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/
20200229052459[email protected]
Backpatch: 9.5-
Tom Lane [Thu, 26 Mar 2020 22:06:55 +0000 (18:06 -0400)]
Ensure that plpgsql cleans up cleanly during parallel-worker exit.
plpgsql_xact_cb ought to treat events XACT_EVENT_PARALLEL_COMMIT and
XACT_EVENT_PARALLEL_ABORT like XACT_EVENT_COMMIT and XACT_EVENT_ABORT
respectively, since its goal is to do process-local cleanup. This
oversight caused plpgsql's end-of-transaction cleanup to not get done
in parallel workers. Since a parallel worker will exit just after the
transaction cleanup, the effects of this are limited. I couldn't find
any case in the core code with user-visible effects, but perhaps there
are some in extensions. In any case it's wrong, so let's fix it before
it bites us not after.
In passing, add some comments around the handling of expression
evaluation resources in DO blocks. There's no live bug there, but it's
quite unobvious what's happening; at least I thought so. This isn't
related to the other issue, except that I found both things while poking
at expression-evaluation performance.
Back-patch the plpgsql_xact_cb fix to 9.5 where those event types
were introduced, and the DO-block commentary to v11 where DO blocks
gained the ability to issue COMMIT/ROLLBACK.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/10353.
1585247879@sss.pgh.pa.us
Peter Eisentraut [Thu, 26 Mar 2020 10:51:39 +0000 (11:51 +0100)]
Drop slot's LWLock before returning from SaveSlotToPath()
When SaveSlotToPath() is called with elevel=LOG, the early exits didn't
release the slot's io_in_progress_lock.
This could result in a walsender being stuck on the lock forever. A
possible way to get into this situation is if the offending code paths
are triggered in a low disk space situation.
Author: Pavan Deolasee
Reported-by: Craig Ringer
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/56a138c5-de61-f553-7e8f-6789296de785%402ndquadrant.com
Tom Lane [Tue, 24 Mar 2020 15:48:33 +0000 (11:48 -0400)]
Re-implement the ereport() macro using __VA_ARGS__.
Now that we require C99, we can depend on __VA_ARGS__ to work, and
revising ereport() to use it has several significant benefits:
* The extra parentheses around the auxiliary function calls are now
optional. Aside from being a bit less ugly, this removes a common
gotcha for new contributors, because in some cases the compiler errors
you got from forgetting them were unintelligible.
* The auxiliary function calls are now evaluated as a comma expression
list rather than as extra arguments to errfinish(). This means that
compilers can be expected to warn about no-op expressions in the list,
allowing detection of several other common mistakes such as forgetting
to add errmsg(...) when converting an elog() call to ereport().
* Unlike the situation with extra function arguments, comma expressions
are guaranteed to be evaluated left-to-right, so this removes platform
dependency in the order of the auxiliary function calls. While that
dependency hasn't caused us big problems in the past, this change does
allow dropping some rather shaky assumptions around errcontext() domain
handling.
There's no intention to make wholesale changes of existing ereport
calls, but as proof-of-concept this patch removes the extra parens
from a couple of calls in postgres.c.
While new code can be written either way, code intended to be
back-patched will need to use extra parens for awhile yet. It seems
worth back-patching this change into v12, so as to reduce the window
where we have to be careful about that by one year. Hence, this patch
is careful to preserve ABI compatibility; a followup HEAD-only patch
will make some additional simplifications.
Andres Freund and Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+fd4k6N8EjNvZpM8nme+y+05mz-SM8Z_BgkixzkA34R+ej0Kw@mail.gmail.com
Andres Freund [Mon, 23 Mar 2020 21:50:20 +0000 (14:50 -0700)]
Add regression tests for constraint errors in partitioned tables.
While #16293 only applied to 11 (and 10 to some degree), it seems best
to add tests to all branches with partitioning support.
Reported-By: Daniel WM
Author: Andres Freund
Bug: #16293
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16293-
26f5777d10143a66@postgresql.org
Backpatch: 10-
Tom Lane [Mon, 23 Mar 2020 16:42:15 +0000 (12:42 -0400)]
Doc: explain that LIKE et al can be used in ANY (sub-select) etc.
This wasn't stated anywhere, and it's perhaps not that obvious,
since we get questions about it from time to time. Also undocumented
was that the parser actually translates these into operators.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAFj8pRBkvZ71BqGKZnBBG4=0cKG+s50Dy+DYmrizUKEpAtdc+w@mail.gmail.com
Tom Lane [Mon, 23 Mar 2020 15:58:01 +0000 (11:58 -0400)]
Fix our getopt_long's behavior for a command line argument of just "-".
src/port/getopt_long.c failed on such an argument, always seeing it
as an unrecognized switch. This is unhelpful; better is to treat such
an item as a non-switch argument. That behavior is what we find in
GNU's getopt_long(); it's what src/port/getopt.c does; and it is
required by POSIX for getopt(), which getopt_long() ought to be
generally a superset of. Moreover, it's expected by ecpg, which
intends an argument of "-" to mean "read from stdin". So fix it.
Also add some documentation about ecpg's behavior in this area, since
that was miserably underdocumented. I had to reverse-engineer it
from the code.
Per bug #16304 from James Gray. Back-patch to all supported branches,
since this has been broken forever.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16304-
c662b00a1322db7f@postgresql.org
Michael Paquier [Mon, 23 Mar 2020 04:38:10 +0000 (13:38 +0900)]
Doc: Fix type of some storage parameters in CREATE TABLE page
autovacuum_vacuum_scale_factor and autovacuum_analyze_scale_factor have
been documented as "float4", but "floating type" is used in this case
for GUCs and relation options in the documentation.
Author: Atsushi Torikoshi
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CACZ0uYFf_p9BpbjLccx3CA=eM1Hk2Te=ULY4iptGLUhL-JxCPA@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 9.5
Noah Misch [Sun, 22 Mar 2020 16:24:09 +0000 (09:24 -0700)]
Revert "Skip WAL for new relfilenodes, under wal_level=minimal."
This reverts commit
cb2fd7eac285b1b0a24eeb2b8ed4456b66c5a09f. Per
numerous buildfarm members, it was incompatible with parallel query, and
a test case assumed LP64. Back-patch to 9.5 (all supported versions).
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/
20200321224920[email protected]
Noah Misch [Sat, 21 Mar 2020 16:38:26 +0000 (09:38 -0700)]
Skip WAL for new relfilenodes, under wal_level=minimal.
Until now, only selected bulk operations (e.g. COPY) did this. If a
given relfilenode received both a WAL-skipping COPY and a WAL-logged
operation (e.g. INSERT), recovery could lose tuples from the COPY. See
src/backend/access/transam/README section "Skipping WAL for New
RelFileNode" for the new coding rules. Maintainers of table access
methods should examine that section.
To maintain data durability, just before commit, we choose between an
fsync of the relfilenode and copying its contents to WAL. A new GUC,
wal_skip_threshold, guides that choice. If this change slows a workload
that creates small, permanent relfilenodes under wal_level=minimal, try
adjusting wal_skip_threshold. Users setting a timeout on COMMIT may
need to adjust that timeout, and log_min_duration_statement analysis
will reflect time consumption moving to COMMIT from commands like COPY.
Internally, this requires a reliable determination of whether
RollbackAndReleaseCurrentSubTransaction() would unlink a relation's
current relfilenode. Introduce rd_firstRelfilenodeSubid. Amend the
specification of rd_createSubid such that the field is zero when a new
rel has an old rd_node. Make relcache.c retain entries for certain
dropped relations until end of transaction.
Back-patch to 9.5 (all supported versions). This introduces a new WAL
record type, XLOG_GIST_ASSIGN_LSN, without bumping XLOG_PAGE_MAGIC. As
always, update standby systems before master systems. This changes
sizeof(RelationData) and sizeof(IndexStmt), breaking binary
compatibility for affected extensions. (The most recent commit to
affect the same class of extensions was
089e4d405d0f3b94c74a2c6a54357a84a681754b.)
Kyotaro Horiguchi, reviewed (in earlier, similar versions) by Robert
Haas. Heikki Linnakangas and Michael Paquier implemented earlier
designs that materially clarified the problem. Reviewed, in earlier
designs, by Andrew Dunstan, Andres Freund, Alvaro Herrera, Tom Lane,
Fujii Masao, and Simon Riggs. Reported by Martijn van Oosterhout.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/
20150702220524[email protected]
Noah Misch [Sat, 21 Mar 2020 16:38:26 +0000 (09:38 -0700)]
In log_newpage_range(), heed forkNum and page_std arguments.
The function assumed forkNum=MAIN_FORKNUM and page_std=true, ignoring
the actual arguments. Existing callers passed exactly those values, so
there's no live bug. Back-patch to v12, where the function first
appeared, because another fix needs this.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/
20191118045434[email protected]
Noah Misch [Sat, 21 Mar 2020 16:38:26 +0000 (09:38 -0700)]
During heap rebuild, lock any TOAST index until end of transaction.
swap_relation_files() calls toast_get_valid_index() to find and lock
this index, just before swapping with the rebuilt TOAST index. The
latter function releases the lock before returning. Potential for
mischief is low; a concurrent session can issue ALTER INDEX ... SET
(fillfactor = ...), which is not alarming. Nonetheless, changing
pg_class.relfilenode without a lock is unconventional. Back-patch to
9.5 (all supported versions), because another fix needs this.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/
20191226001521[email protected]
Noah Misch [Sat, 21 Mar 2020 16:38:26 +0000 (09:38 -0700)]
Fix cosmetic blemishes involving rd_createSubid.
Remove an obsolete comment from AtEOXact_cleanup(). Restore formatting
of a comment in struct RelationData, mangled by the pgindent run in
commit
9af4159fce6654aa0e081b00d02bca40b978745c. Back-patch to 9.5 (all
supported versions), because another fix stacks on this.
Bruce Momjian [Sat, 21 Mar 2020 00:19:32 +0000 (20:19 -0400)]
docs: use alias in WHERE clause of full text search example
The current doc query specified an alias in the FROM clause and used in
it the target list, but not in the WHERE clause.
Reported-by: [email protected]
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/
158316348159.30450.
16075357948244298217@wrigleys.postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 9.5
Andrew Dunstan [Fri, 20 Mar 2020 17:55:15 +0000 (13:55 -0400)]
Turn off deprecated bison warnings under MSVC
These are disabled by the configure code, so this is just fixing an
inconsistency in the MSVC code.
Backpatch to all live branches.
Bruce Momjian [Thu, 19 Mar 2020 19:20:55 +0000 (15:20 -0400)]
pg_upgrade: make get_major_server_version() err msg consistent
This patch fixes the error message in get_major_server_version() to be
"could not parse version file", and uses the full file path name, rather
than just the data directory path.
Also, commit
4109bb5de4 added the cause of the failure to the "could
not open" error message, and improved quoting. This patch backpatches
the "could not open" cause to PG 12, where it was first widely used, and
backpatches the quoting fix in that patch to all supported releases.
Reported-by: Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/
[email protected]
Author: Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker
Backpatch-through: 9.5
Michael Paquier [Thu, 19 Mar 2020 00:51:40 +0000 (09:51 +0900)]
Fix comment related to concurrent index swapping in index.c
A comment about switching indisvalid of the new and old indexes swapped
in REINDEX CONCURRENTLY got this backwards.
Issue introduced by
5dc92b8, the original commit of REINDEX
CONCURRENTLY.
Author: Julien Rouhaud
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/
20200318143340.GA46897@nol
Backpatch-through: 12
Fujii Masao [Wed, 18 Mar 2020 14:07:17 +0000 (23:07 +0900)]
Correct the descriptions of recovery-related wait events in docs.
This commit corrects the descriptions of RecoveryWalAll and RecoveryWalStream
wait events in the documentation.
Back-patch to v10 where those wait events were added.
Author: Fujii Masao
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi, Atsushi Torikoshi
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/
124997ee-096a-5d09-d8da-
2c7a57d0816e@oss.nttdata.com
Amit Kapila [Wed, 18 Mar 2020 04:03:01 +0000 (09:33 +0530)]
Add missing errcode() in a few ereport calls.
This will allow to specifying SQLSTATE error code for the errors in the
missing places.
Reported-by: Sawada Masahiko
Author: Sawada Masahiko
Backpatch-through: 9.5
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+fd4k6N8EjNvZpM8nme+y+05mz-SM8Z_BgkixzkA34R+ej0Kw@mail.gmail.com
Michael Paquier [Wed, 18 Mar 2020 02:13:12 +0000 (11:13 +0900)]
Fix typo in indexcmds.c
Introduced by
61d7c7b.
Backpatch-through: 12
Alvaro Herrera [Tue, 17 Mar 2020 19:13:18 +0000 (16:13 -0300)]
Fix consistency issues with replication slot copy
Commit
9f06d79ef831's replication slot copying failed to
properly reserve the WAL that the slot is expecting to see
during DecodingContextFindStartpoint (to set the confirmed_flush
LSN), so concurrent activity could remove that WAL and cause the
copy process to error out. But it doesn't actually *need* that
WAL anyway: instead of running decode to find confirmed_flush, it
can be copied from the source slot. Fix this by rearranging things
to avoid DecodingContextFindStartpoint() (leaving the target slot's
confirmed_flush_lsn to invalid), and set that up afterwards by copying
from the target slot's value.
Also ensure the source slot's confirmed_flush_lsn is valid.
Reported-by: Arseny Sher
Author: Masahiko Sawada, Arseny Sher
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/871rr3ohbo.fsf@ars-thinkpad
Tom Lane [Tue, 17 Mar 2020 19:05:17 +0000 (15:05 -0400)]
Doc: clarify behavior of "anyrange" pseudo-type.
I noticed that we completely failed to document the restriction
that an "anyrange" result type has to be inferred from an "anyrange"
input. The docs also were less clear than they could be about the
relationship between "anyrange" and "anyarray".
It's been like this all along, so back-patch.
Tom Lane [Tue, 17 Mar 2020 16:09:26 +0000 (12:09 -0400)]
Use pkg-config, if available, to locate libxml2 during configure.
If pkg-config is installed and knows about libxml2, use its information
rather than asking xml2-config. Otherwise proceed as before. This
patch allows "configure --with-libxml" to succeed on platforms that
have pkg-config but not xml2-config, which is likely to soon become
a typical situation.
The old mechanism can be forced by setting XML2_CONFIG explicitly
(hence, build processes that were already doing so will certainly
not need adjustment). Also, it's now possible to set XML2_CFLAGS
and XML2_LIBS explicitly to override both programs.
There is a small risk of this breaking existing build processes,
if there are multiple libxml2 installations on the machine and
pkg-config disagrees with xml2-config about which to use. The
only case where that seems really likely is if a builder has tried
to select a non-default xml2-config by putting it early in his PATH
rather than setting XML2_CONFIG. Plan to warn against that in the
minor release notes.
Back-patch to v10; before that we had no pkg-config infrastructure,
and it doesn't seem worth adding it for this.
Hugh McMaster and Tom Lane; Peter Eisentraut also made an earlier
attempt at this, from which I lifted most of the docs changes.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAN9BcdvfUwc9Yx5015bLH2TOiQ-M+t_NADBSPhMF7dZ=pLa_iw@mail.gmail.com
Tom Lane [Tue, 17 Mar 2020 01:05:29 +0000 (21:05 -0400)]
Avoid holding a directory FD open across assorted SRF calls.
This extends the fixes made in commit
085b6b667 to other SRFs with the
same bug, namely pg_logdir_ls(), pgrowlocks(), pg_timezone_names(),
pg_ls_dir(), and pg_tablespace_databases().
Also adjust various comments and documentation to warn against
expecting to clean up resources during a ValuePerCall SRF's final
call.
Back-patch to all supported branches, since these functions were
all born broken.
Justin Pryzby, with cosmetic tweaks by me
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/
20200308173103[email protected]
Alvaro Herrera [Mon, 16 Mar 2020 22:12:14 +0000 (19:12 -0300)]
Document pg_ls_*dir hiding of directories and special files
It's strange that a directory-listing function does not list all entries
in a directory, so let's at least document it. This involves
pg_ls_logdir
pg_ls_waldir
pg_ls_archive_statusdir
pg_ls_tmpdir
Backpatch as far back as it applies cleanly (and as far as as each
function exists). REL_10_STABLE uses different wording, but hopefully
people are not reading docs so old to write new apps anyway.
Author: Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200305161838[email protected]
Alvaro Herrera [Mon, 16 Mar 2020 19:27:13 +0000 (16:27 -0300)]
Plug memory leak
Introduced by
b08dee24a557. Noted by Coverity.
Tom Lane [Sat, 14 Mar 2020 18:42:22 +0000 (14:42 -0400)]
Restructure polymorphic-type resolution in funcapi.c.
resolve_polymorphic_tupdesc() and resolve_polymorphic_argtypes() failed to
cover the case of having to resolve anyarray given only an anyrange input.
The bug was masked if anyelement was also used (as either input or
output), which probably helps account for our not having noticed.
While looking at this I noticed that resolve_generic_type() would produce
the wrong answer if asked to make that same resolution. ISTM that
resolve_generic_type() is confusingly defined and overly complex, so
rather than fix it, let's just make funcapi.c do the specific lookups
it requires for itself.
With this change, resolve_generic_type() is not used anywhere, so remove
it in HEAD. In the back branches, leave it alone (complete with bug)
just in case any external code is using it.
While we're here, make some other refactoring adjustments in funcapi.c
with an eye to upcoming future expansion of the set of polymorphic types:
* Simplify quick-exit tests by adding an overall have_polymorphic_result
flag. This is about a wash now but will be a win when there are more
flags.
* Reduce duplication of code between resolve_polymorphic_tupdesc() and
resolve_polymorphic_argtypes().
* Don't bother to validate correct matching of anynonarray or anyenum;
the parser should have done that, and even if it didn't, just doing
"return false" here would lead to a very confusing, off-point error
message. (Really, "return false" in these two functions should only
occur if the call_expr isn't supplied or we can't obtain data type
info from it.)
* For the same reason, throw an elog rather than "return false" if
we fail to resolve a polymorphic type.
The bug's been there since we added anyrange, so back-patch to
all supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/6093.
1584202130@sss.pgh.pa.us
Tom Lane [Fri, 13 Mar 2020 16:49:10 +0000 (12:49 -0400)]
Doc: fix mistaken reference to "PG_ARGNULL_xxx()" macro.
This should of course be just "PG_ARGISNULL()".
Also reorder a couple of paras to make the discussion of PG_ARGISNULL
less disjointed.
Back-patch to v10 where the error was introduced.
Laurenz Albe and Tom Lane, per an anonymous docs comment
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/
158399487096.5708.
10696365251766477013@wrigleys.postgresql.org
Peter Eisentraut [Fri, 13 Mar 2020 10:28:11 +0000 (11:28 +0100)]
Preserve replica identity index across ALTER TABLE rewrite
If an index was explicitly set as replica identity index, this setting
was lost when a table was rewritten by ALTER TABLE. Because this
setting is part of pg_index but actually controlled by ALTER
TABLE (not part of CREATE INDEX, say), we have to do some extra work
to restore it.
Based-on-patch-by: Quan Zongliang
Reviewed-by: Euler Taveira
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/
c70fcab2-4866-0d9f-1d01-
e75e189db342@gmail.com
Tom Lane [Wed, 11 Mar 2020 22:23:57 +0000 (18:23 -0400)]
Fix test case instability introduced in
085b6b667.
I forgot that the WAL directory might hold other files besides WAL
segments, notably including new segments still being filled.
That means a blind test for the first file's size being 16MB can
fail. Restrict based on file name length to make it more robust.
Per buildfarm.
Peter Geoghegan [Wed, 11 Mar 2020 21:15:02 +0000 (14:15 -0700)]
Paper over bt_metap() oldest_xact bug in backbranches.
The data types that contrib/pageinspect's bt_metap() function were
declared to return as OUT arguments were wrong in some cases. In
particular, the oldest_xact column (a TransactionId/xid field) was
declared integer/int4 within the pageinspect extension's sql file. This
led to errors when an oldest_xact value that exceeded 2^31-1 was
encountered.
We cannot fix the declaration on Postgres 11 or 12. All we can do is
ameliorate the problem. Use "%d" instead of "%u" to format the output
of the oldest_xact value. This makes the C code match the declaration,
suppressing unhelpful error messages that might otherwise make
bt_metap() totally unusable. A bogus negative oldest_xact value will be
displayed instead of raising an error.
This commit addresses the same issue as master branch commit
691e8b2e18,
which actually fixed the problem. Backpatch to the 11 and 12 branches
only, since they are the only branches (other than master) that have
oldest_xact. All of the other problematic columns already display bogus
output for out of range values.
Reported-By: Victor Yegorov
Bug: #16285
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/
20200309223557[email protected]
Backpatch: 11 and 12 only
Alvaro Herrera [Wed, 11 Mar 2020 19:54:54 +0000 (16:54 -0300)]
Add pg_dump support for ALTER obj DEPENDS ON EXTENSION
pg_dump is oblivious to this kind of dependency, so they're lost on
dump/restores (and pg_upgrade). Have pg_dump emit ALTER lines so that
they're preserved. Add some pg_dump tests for the whole thing, also.
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane (offlist)
Reviewed-by: Ibrar Ahmed
Reviewed-by: Ahsan Hadi (who also reviewed commit 899a04f5ed61)
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/
20200217225333[email protected]
Tom Lane [Wed, 11 Mar 2020 19:27:59 +0000 (15:27 -0400)]
Avoid holding a directory FD open across pg_ls_dir_files() calls.
This coding technique is undesirable because (a) it leaks the FD for
the rest of the transaction if the SRF is not run to completion, and
(b) allocated FDs are a scarce resource, but multiple interleaved
uses of the relevant functions could eat many such FDs.
In v11 and later, a query such as "SELECT pg_ls_waldir() LIMIT 1"
yields a warning about the leaked FD, and the only reason there's
no warning in earlier branches is that fd.c didn't whine about such
leaks before commit
9cb7db3f0. Even disregarding the warning, it
wouldn't be too hard to run a backend out of FDs with careless use
of these SQL functions.
Hence, rewrite the function so that it reads the directory within
a single call, returning the results as a tuplestore rather than
via value-per-call mode.
There are half a dozen other built-in SRFs with similar problems,
but let's fix this one to start with, just to see if the buildfarm
finds anything wrong with the code.
In passing, fix bogus error report for stat() failure: it was
whining about the directory when it should be fingering the
individual file. Doubtless a copy-and-paste error.
Back-patch to v10 where this function was added.
Justin Pryzby, with cosmetic tweaks and test cases by me
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/
20200308173103[email protected]