Kevin Grittner [Wed, 12 Sep 2012 12:39:07 +0000 (07:39 -0500)]
Fix typo: lexemes misspelled in full text search docs.
Dan Scott
Backpatch original commit
4bc0d2e2cfa8ac523524dccf6f849989c6739083
to 9.1
Tom Lane [Wed, 12 Sep 2012 01:23:20 +0000 (21:23 -0400)]
Fix logical errors in tsquery selectivity estimation for prefix queries.
I made multiple errors in commit
97532f7c29468010b87e40a04f8daa3eb097f654,
stemming mostly from failure to think about the available frequency data
as being element frequencies not value frequencies (so that occurrences of
different elements are not mutually exclusive). This led to sillinesses
such as estimating that "word" would match more rows than "word:*".
The choice to clamp to a minimum estimate of DEFAULT_TS_MATCH_SEL also
seems pretty ill-considered in hindsight, as it would frequently result in
an estimate much larger than the available data suggests. We do need some
sort of clamp, since a pattern not matching any of the MCELEMs probably
still needs a selectivity estimate of more than zero. I chose instead to
clamp to at least what a non-MCELEM word would be estimated as, preserving
the property that "word:*" doesn't get an estimate less than plain "word",
whether or not the word appears in MCELEM.
Per investigation of a gripe from Bill Martin, though I suspect that his
example case actually isn't even reaching the erroneous code.
Back-patch to 9.1 where this code was introduced.
Andrew Dunstan [Mon, 10 Sep 2012 16:51:24 +0000 (12:51 -0400)]
Add vcregress.pl target for checking pg_upgrade.
This follows recent addition of Windows/Mingw testing.
Backpatch to Release 9.2 so we can get some buildfarm testing
going.
Tom Lane [Mon, 10 Sep 2012 00:32:59 +0000 (20:32 -0400)]
Make plperl safe against functions that are redefined while running.
validate_plperl_function() supposed that it could free an old
plperl_proc_desc struct immediately upon detecting that it was stale.
However, if a plperl function is called recursively, this could result
in deleting the struct out from under an outer invocation, leading to
misbehavior or crashes. Add a simple reference-count mechanism to
ensure that such structs are freed only when the last reference goes
away.
Per investigation of bug #7516 from Marko Tiikkaja. I am not certain
that this error explains his report, because he says he didn't have
any recursive calls --- but it's hard to see how else it could have
crashed right there. In any case, this definitely fixes some problems
in the area.
Back-patch to all active branches.
Tom Lane [Sun, 9 Sep 2012 19:08:32 +0000 (15:08 -0400)]
Use .NOTPARALLEL in ecpg/Makefile to avoid a gmake parallelism bug.
Investigation shows that some intermittent build failures in ecpg are the
result of a gmake bug that was reported quite some time ago:
http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?30653
Preventing parallel builds of the ecpg subdirectories seems to dodge the
bug. Per yesterday's pgsql-hackers discussion, there are some other things
in the subdirectory makefiles that seem rather unsafe for parallel builds
too, but there's little point in fixing them as long as we have to work
around a make bug.
Back-patch to 9.1; parallel builds weren't very well supported before
that anyway.
Tom Lane [Sat, 8 Sep 2012 21:39:02 +0000 (17:39 -0400)]
Adjust PL/Python regression tests some more for Python 3.3.
Commit
2cfb1c6f77734db81b6e74bcae630f93b94f69be fixed some issues caused
by Python 3.3 choosing to iterate through dict entries in a different order
than before. But here's another one: the test cases adjusted here made two
bad entries in a dict and expected the one complained of would always be
the same.
Possibly this should be back-patched further than 9.2, but there seems
little point unless the earlier fix is too.
Tom Lane [Sat, 8 Sep 2012 00:38:28 +0000 (20:38 -0400)]
Fix PARAM_EXEC assignment mechanism to be safe in the presence of WITH.
The planner previously assumed that parameter Vars having the same absolute
query level, varno, and varattno could safely be assigned the same runtime
PARAM_EXEC slot, even though they might be different Vars appearing in
different subqueries. This was (probably) safe before the introduction of
CTEs, but the lazy-evalution mechanism used for CTEs means that a CTE can
be executed during execution of some other subquery, causing the lifespan
of Params at the same syntactic nesting level as the CTE to overlap with
use of the same slots inside the CTE. In 9.1 we created additional hazards
by using the same parameter-assignment technology for nestloop inner scan
parameters, but it was broken before that, as illustrated by the added
regression test.
To fix, restructure the planner's management of PlannerParamItems so that
items having different semantic lifespans are kept rigorously separated.
This will probably result in complex queries using more runtime PARAM_EXEC
slots than before, but the slots are cheap enough that this hardly matters.
Also, stop generating PlannerParamItems containing Params for subquery
outputs: all we really need to do is reserve the PARAM_EXEC slot number,
and that now only takes incrementing a counter. The planning code is
simpler and probably faster than before, as well as being more correct.
Per report from Vik Reykja.
Back-patch of commit
46c508fbcf98ac334f1e831d21021d731c882fbb into all
branches that support WITH.
Tom Lane [Thu, 6 Sep 2012 21:26:17 +0000 (17:26 -0400)]
Stamp 9.2.0.
Robert Haas [Thu, 6 Sep 2012 19:43:46 +0000 (15:43 -0400)]
Fix "too many arguments" messages not to index off the end of argv[].
This affects initdb, clusterdb, reindexdb, and vacuumdb in master
and 9.2; in earlier branches, only initdb is affected.
Peter Eisentraut [Thu, 6 Sep 2012 03:33:52 +0000 (23:33 -0400)]
Translation updates
Tom Lane [Thu, 6 Sep 2012 03:37:45 +0000 (23:37 -0400)]
Fix typo in information_schema documentation.
Shigeru Hanada
Andrew Dunstan [Thu, 6 Sep 2012 03:13:14 +0000 (23:13 -0400)]
In pg_upgrade, try a few times to open a log file.
If we call pg_ctl stop, the server might continue and thus
hold a log file for a short time after it has deleted its pid file,
(which is when pg_ctl will exit), and so a subsequent attempt to
open the log file might fail.
We therefore try to open it a few times, sleeping one second between
tries, to give the server time to exit.
This corrects an error that was observed on the buildfarm.
Backpatched to 9.2,
Heikki Linnakangas [Thu, 6 Sep 2012 01:10:15 +0000 (18:10 -0700)]
Fix WAL file replacement during cascading replication on Windows.
When the startup process restores a WAL file from the archive, it deletes
any old file with the same name and renames the new file in its place. On
Windows, however, when a file is deleted, it still lingers as long as a
process holds a file handle open on it. With cascading replication, a
walsender process can hold the old file open, so the rename() in the startup
process would fail. To fix that, rename the old file to a temporary name, to
make the original file name available for reuse, before deleting the old
file.
Tom Lane [Thu, 6 Sep 2012 01:49:11 +0000 (21:49 -0400)]
Fix inappropriate error messages for Hot Standby misconfiguration errors.
Give the correct name of the GUC parameter being complained of.
Also, emit a more suitable SQLSTATE (INVALID_PARAMETER_VALUE,
not the default INTERNAL_ERROR).
Gurjeet Singh, errcode adjustment by me
Tom Lane [Thu, 6 Sep 2012 01:28:27 +0000 (21:28 -0400)]
Make one last copy-editing pass over the 9.2 release notes.
Also, set the release date to 2012-09-10, since we're pretty well
committed to that now.
Andrew Dunstan [Wed, 5 Sep 2012 21:55:47 +0000 (17:55 -0400)]
Fix pg_upgrade test script's line end handling on Windows.
Call pg_dumpall using -f switch instead of redirection, to avoid
writing the output in text mode and generating spurious carriage
returns. Remove to carriage return ignoring hack introduced by
commit
e442b0f0c6fd26738bafdeb5222511b586dfe4b9.
Backpatch to 9.2.
Andrew Dunstan [Wed, 5 Sep 2012 21:48:06 +0000 (17:48 -0400)]
Fix line end mishandling in pg_upgrade on Windows.
pg_upgrade opened the output from pg_dumpall in text mode and
wrote the split files in text mode. This caused unwanted eating
of intended carriage returns on input and production of spurious
carriage returns on output. To avoid this, open all these files
in binary mode. On non-Windows platforms, this change has no
effect.
Backpatch to 9.0. On 9.0 and 9.1, we also switch from redirecting
pg_dumpall's output to using pg_dumpall's -f switch, for the same
reason.
Tom Lane [Wed, 5 Sep 2012 20:43:41 +0000 (16:43 -0400)]
Restore SIGFPE handler after initializing PL/Perl.
Perl, for some unaccountable reason, believes it's a good idea to reset
SIGFPE handling to SIG_IGN. Which wouldn't be a good idea even if it
worked; but on some platforms (Linux at least) it doesn't work at all,
instead resulting in forced process termination if the signal occurs.
Given the lack of other complaints, it seems safe to assume that Perl
never actually provokes SIGFPE and so there is no value in the setting
anyway. Hence, reset it to our normal handler after initializing Perl.
Report, analysis and patch by Andres Freund.
Tom Lane [Wed, 5 Sep 2012 18:36:51 +0000 (14:36 -0400)]
Silence -Wunused-result warning in contrib/pg_upgrade.
This is just neatnik-ism, but since we do it for comparable code in elog.c,
we may as well do it here.
Heikki Linnakangas [Wed, 5 Sep 2012 05:07:35 +0000 (22:07 -0700)]
Fix compiler warnings about unused variables, caused by my previous commit.
Reported by Peter Eisentraut.
Bruce Momjian [Wed, 5 Sep 2012 04:01:13 +0000 (00:01 -0400)]
In pg_upgrade, document why we can't issue \n\n in the command logfile
on Windows. Slightly cleanup log output on Windows given this
restriction.
Backpatch to 9.2.
Heikki Linnakangas [Wed, 5 Sep 2012 01:47:03 +0000 (18:47 -0700)]
Fix bugs in cascading replication with recovery_target_timeline='latest'
The cascading replication code assumed that the current RecoveryTargetTLI
never changes, but that's not true with recovery_target_timeline='latest'.
The obvious upshot of that is that RecoveryTargetTLI in shared memory needs
to be protected by a lock. A less obvious consequence is that when a
cascading standby is connected, and the standby switches to a new target
timeline after scanning the archive, it will continue to stream WAL to the
cascading standby, but from a wrong file, ie. the file of the previous
timeline. For example, if the standby is currently streaming from the middle
of file
000000010000000000000005, and the timeline changes, the standby
will continue to stream from that file. However, the WAL on the new
timeline is in file
000000020000000000000005, so the standby sends garbage
from
000000010000000000000005 to the cascading standby, instead of the
correct WAL from file
000000020000000000000005.
This also fixes a related bug where a partial WAL segment is restored from
the archive and streamed to a cascading standby. The code assumed that when
a WAL segment is copied from the archive, it can immediately be fully
streamed to a cascading standby. However, if the segment is only partially
filled, ie. has the right size, but only N first bytes contain valid WAL,
that's not safe. That can happen if a partial WAL segment is manually copied
to the archive, or if a partial WAL segment is archived because a server is
started up on a new timeline within that segment. The cascading standby will
get confused if the WAL it received is not valid, and will get stuck until
it's restarted. This patch fixes that problem by not allowing WAL restored
from the archive to be streamed to a cascading standby until it's been
replayed, and thus validated.
Kevin Grittner [Wed, 5 Sep 2012 02:14:25 +0000 (21:14 -0500)]
Fix serializable mode with index-only scans.
Serializable Snapshot Isolation used for serializable transactions
depends on acquiring SIRead locks on all heap relation tuples which
are used to generate the query result, so that a later delete or
update of any of the tuples can flag a read-write conflict between
transactions. This is normally handled in heapam.c, with tuple level
locking. Since an index-only scan avoids heap access in many cases,
building the result from the index tuple, the necessary predicate
locks were not being acquired for all tuples in an index-only scan.
To prevent problems with tuple IDs which are vacuumed and re-used
while the transaction still matters, the xmin of the tuple is part of
the tag for the tuple lock. Since xmin is not available to the
index-only scan for result rows generated from the index tuples, it
is not possible to acquire a tuple-level predicate lock in such
cases, in spite of having the tid. If we went to the heap to get the
xmin value, it would no longer be an index-only scan. Rather than
prohibit index-only scans under serializable transaction isolation,
we acquire an SIRead lock on the page containing the tuple, when it
was not necessary to visit the heap for other reasons.
Backpatch to 9.2.
Kevin Grittner and Tom Lane
Kevin Grittner [Wed, 5 Sep 2012 01:40:48 +0000 (20:40 -0500)]
Allow isolation tests to specify multiple setup blocks.
Each setup block is run as a single PQexec submission, and some
statements such as VACUUM cannot be combined with others in such a
block.
Backpatch to 9.2.
Kevin Grittner and Tom Lane
Andrew Dunstan [Tue, 4 Sep 2012 13:40:49 +0000 (09:40 -0400)]
Fix transcription error.
Bruce Momjian [Tue, 4 Sep 2012 13:17:19 +0000 (09:17 -0400)]
Document that pg_upgrade requires PGHOST be set for any pre-9.1 servers
with a socket directory mismatch with the new server.
Backpatch to 9.2.
Magnus Hagander [Tue, 4 Sep 2012 12:37:14 +0000 (14:37 +0200)]
Mention basebackup-from-slave next to cascading replication
Andrew Dunstan [Tue, 4 Sep 2012 09:51:44 +0000 (05:51 -0400)]
Fix command echoing in pg_upgade's analyze script for Windows.
Andrew Dunstan [Tue, 4 Sep 2012 02:58:38 +0000 (22:58 -0400)]
Indent fix_path_separator() header properly.
Andrew Dunstan [Tue, 4 Sep 2012 02:32:56 +0000 (22:32 -0400)]
Allow pg_upgrade "make check" to run on Windows/MSys.
Backpatch to 9.2.
Bruce Momjian [Tue, 4 Sep 2012 02:15:09 +0000 (22:15 -0400)]
In pg_upgrade, pull the port number from postpid, like we do for
socket location. Also, prevent putting the socket in the current
directory for pre-9.1 servers in live check and non-live check mode,
because pre-9.1 pg_ctl -w can't handle it.
Backpatch to 9.2.
Andrew Dunstan [Mon, 3 Sep 2012 22:11:02 +0000 (18:11 -0400)]
Use correct path separator for Windows builtin commands.
pg_upgrade produces a platform-specific script to remove the old
directory, but on Windows it has not been making sure that the
paths it writes as arguments for rmdir and del use the backslash
path separator, which will cause these scripts to fail.
The fix is backpatched to Release 9.0.
Andrew Dunstan [Mon, 3 Sep 2012 19:32:58 +0000 (15:32 -0400)]
Fix bugs in exec.c that prevented pg_upgrade working in Windows.
Backpatch to 9.2 - code before that is quite different and should
not have these defects.
Tom Lane [Mon, 3 Sep 2012 19:03:08 +0000 (15:03 -0400)]
Back-patch recent pg_upgrade fixes into 9.2.
This syncs contrib/pg_upgrade in the 9.2 branch with HEAD, except for the
HEAD changes related to converting XLogRecPtr to 64-bit int. It includes
back-patching these commits:
666d494d19dbd5dc7a177709a2f7069913f8ab89
pg_upgrade: abstract out copying of files from old cluster to new
7afa8bed65ea925208f128048f3a528a64e1319a
pg_upgrade: Run the created scripts in the test suite
ab577e63faf792593ca728625a8ef0b1dfaf7500
Remove analyze_new_cluster.sh on make clean, too
34c02044ed7e7defde5a853b26dcd806c872d974
Fix thinko in comment
088c065ce8e405fafbfa966937184ece9defcf20
pg_upgrade: Fix exec_prog API to be less flaky
f763b77193b04eba03a1f4ce46df34dc0348419e
Fix pg_upgrade to cope with non-default unix_socket_directory scenarios.
Tom Lane [Mon, 3 Sep 2012 15:24:36 +0000 (11:24 -0400)]
Make psql's \d+ show reloptions for all relkinds.
Formerly it would only show them for relkinds 'r' and 'f' (plain tables
and foreign tables). However, as of 9.2, views can also have reloptions,
namely security_barrier. The relkind restriction seems pointless and
not at all future-proof, so just print reloptions whenever there are any.
In passing, make some cosmetic improvements to the code that pulls the
"tableinfo" fields out of the PGresult.
Noted and patched by Dean Rasheed, with adjustment for all relkinds by me.
Andrew Dunstan [Sat, 1 Sep 2012 00:50:31 +0000 (20:50 -0400)]
Restore setting of _USE_32BIT_TIME_T to 32 bit MSVC builds.
This was removed in commit
cd004067742ee16ee63e55abfb4acbd5f09fbaab,
we're not quite sure why, but there have been reports of crashes due
to AS Perl being built with it when we are not, and it certainly
seems like the right thing to do. There is still some uncertainty
as to why it sometimes fails and sometimes doesn't.
Original patch from Owais Khani, substantially reworked and
extended by Andrew Dunstan.
Tom Lane [Fri, 31 Aug 2012 18:18:02 +0000 (14:18 -0400)]
Make configure probe for mbstowcs_l as well as wcstombs_l.
We previously supposed that any given platform would supply both or neither
of these functions, so that one configure test would be sufficient. It now
appears that at least on AIX this is not the case ... which is likely an
AIX bug, but nonetheless we need to cope with it. So use separate tests.
Per bug #6758; thanks to Andrew Hastie for doing the followup testing
needed to confirm what was happening.
Backpatch to 9.1, where we began using these functions.
Tom Lane [Fri, 31 Aug 2012 03:47:46 +0000 (23:47 -0400)]
Back-patch recent fixes for gistchoose and gistRelocateBuildBuffersOnSplit.
This back-ports commits
c8ba697a4bdb934f0c51424c654e8db6133ea255 and
e5db11c5582b469c04a11f217a0f32c827da5dd7, which fix one definite and one
speculative bug in gistchoose, and make the code a lot more intelligible as
well. In 9.2 only, this also affects the largely-copied-and-pasted logic
in gistRelocateBuildBuffersOnSplit.
The impact of the bugs was that the functions might make poor decisions
as to which index tree branch to push a new entry down into, resulting in
GiST index bloat and poor performance. The fixes rectify these decisions
for future insertions, but a REINDEX would be needed to clean up any
existing index bloat.
Alexander Korotkov, Robert Haas, Tom Lane
Robert Haas [Thu, 30 Aug 2012 19:06:55 +0000 (15:06 -0400)]
Fix checkpoint_timeout documentation to reflect current behavior.
Jeff Janes
Robert Haas [Thu, 30 Aug 2012 18:14:22 +0000 (14:14 -0400)]
Document how to prevent PostgreSQL itself from exhausting memory.
The existing documentation in Linux Memory Overcommit seemed to
assume that PostgreSQL itself could never be the problem, or at
least it didn't tell you what to do about it.
Per discussion with Craig Ringer and Kevin Grittner.
Robert Haas [Thu, 30 Aug 2012 17:26:45 +0000 (13:26 -0400)]
Add missing period to detail message.
Per note from Peter Eisentraut.
Alvaro Herrera [Tue, 28 Aug 2012 20:11:44 +0000 (16:11 -0400)]
add #includes to plpy_subxactobject.h to make it compile standalone
Alvaro Herrera [Tue, 28 Aug 2012 13:46:08 +0000 (09:46 -0400)]
syncrep.h must include xlogdefs.h
Peter Eisentraut [Tue, 28 Aug 2012 07:10:04 +0000 (03:10 -0400)]
Small punctuation fixes
Tom Lane [Tue, 28 Aug 2012 00:54:00 +0000 (20:54 -0400)]
Improve a couple of 9.2 release note entries.
Clarify the compatibility notes about EXTRACT() and about statistics
timing columns.
Tom Lane [Tue, 28 Aug 2012 00:17:16 +0000 (20:17 -0400)]
Add section IDs to subsections of syntax.sgml that lacked them.
This is so that these sections will have stable HTML tags that one can
link to, rather than things like "AEN1902". Perhaps we should mount a
campaign to do this everywhere, but I've found myself pointing at
syntax.sgml subsections often enough to be sure it's useful here.
Tom Lane [Mon, 27 Aug 2012 16:45:51 +0000 (12:45 -0400)]
Fix DROP INDEX CONCURRENTLY IF EXISTS.
This threw ERROR, not the expected NOTICE, if the index didn't exist.
The bug was actually visible in not-as-expected regression test output,
so somebody wasn't paying too close attention in commit
8cb53654dbdb4c386369eb988062d0bbb6de725e.
Per report from Brendan Byrd.
Peter Eisentraut [Mon, 27 Aug 2012 04:49:39 +0000 (00:49 -0400)]
pg_basebackup: Correct error message
It still thought that the --xlog-method option argument could be
empty, as in a previous version of this feature.
Peter Eisentraut [Sat, 25 Aug 2012 02:36:24 +0000 (22:36 -0400)]
Some spelling adjustments in release notes
Peter Eisentraut [Sat, 25 Aug 2012 02:35:53 +0000 (22:35 -0400)]
Normalize some British spellings
Tom Lane [Fri, 24 Aug 2012 17:09:12 +0000 (13:09 -0400)]
Fix issues with checks for unsupported transaction states in Hot Standby.
The GUC check hooks for transaction_read_only and transaction_isolation
tried to check RecoveryInProgress(), so as to disallow setting read/write
mode or serializable isolation level (respectively) in hot standby
sessions. However, GUC check hooks can be called in many situations where
we're not connected to shared memory at all, resulting in a crash in
RecoveryInProgress(). Among other cases, this results in EXEC_BACKEND
builds crashing during child process start if default_transaction_isolation
is serializable, as reported by Heikki Linnakangas. Protect those calls
by silently allowing any setting when not inside a transaction; which is
okay anyway since these GUCs are always reset at start of transaction.
Also, add a check to GetSerializableTransactionSnapshot() to complain
if we are in hot standby. We need that check despite the one in
check_XactIsoLevel() because default_transaction_isolation could be
serializable. We don't want to complain any sooner than this in such
cases, since that would prevent running transactions at all in such a
state; but a transaction can be run, if SET TRANSACTION ISOLATION is done
before setting a snapshot. Per report some months ago from Robert Haas.
Back-patch to 9.1, since these problems were introduced by the SSI patch.
Kevin Grittner and Tom Lane, with ideas from Heikki Linnakangas
Peter Eisentraut [Fri, 24 Aug 2012 04:06:59 +0000 (00:06 -0400)]
Put options on man page and in help output in slightly better order
Peter Eisentraut [Fri, 24 Aug 2012 02:33:04 +0000 (22:33 -0400)]
libpq: Fix memory leak in URI parser
When an invalid query parameter is reported, some memory leaks.
found by Coverity
Peter Eisentraut [Fri, 24 Aug 2012 01:24:06 +0000 (21:24 -0400)]
Translation updates
Tom Lane [Thu, 23 Aug 2012 22:06:49 +0000 (18:06 -0400)]
Stamp 9.2rc1.
Tom Lane [Thu, 23 Aug 2012 21:25:17 +0000 (17:25 -0400)]
Fix cascading privilege revoke to notice when privileges are still held.
If we revoke a grant option from some role X, but X still holds the option
via another grant, we should not recursively revoke the privilege from
role(s) Y that X had granted it to. This was supposedly fixed as one
aspect of commit
4b2dafcc0b1a579ef5daaa2728223006d1ff98e9, but I must not
have tested it, because in fact that code never worked: it forgot to shift
the grant-option bits back over when masking the bits being revoked.
Per bug #6728 from Daniel German. Back-patch to all active branches,
since this has been wrong since 8.0.
Heikki Linnakangas [Thu, 23 Aug 2012 08:57:34 +0000 (11:57 +0300)]
Fix typo in example.
Tom Lane [Thu, 23 Aug 2012 03:55:34 +0000 (23:55 -0400)]
Remove overly-pessimistic statement about constraint exclusion.
As of 9.2, constraint exclusion should work okay with prepared statements:
the planner will try custom plans with actual values of the parameters,
and observe that they are a lot cheaper than the generic plan, and thus
never fall back to using the generic plan. Noted by Tatsuhito Kasahara.
Tom Lane [Wed, 22 Aug 2012 21:58:06 +0000 (17:58 -0400)]
Make a cut at a major-features list for 9.2.
This is open to debate of course, but it's past time we had *something*
here.
Tom Lane [Wed, 22 Aug 2012 21:37:02 +0000 (17:37 -0400)]
Make an editorial pass over the 9.2 release notes.
A very large number of small improvements ...
Tom Lane [Wed, 22 Aug 2012 18:04:02 +0000 (14:04 -0400)]
Fix erroneous documentation of synchronous_commit = remote_write.
The docs claimed that this mode only waits for the standby to receive WAL
data, but actually it waits for the data to be written out to the standby's
OS; which is a pretty significant difference because it removes the risk of
crash of the walreceiver process.
Tom Lane [Wed, 22 Aug 2012 02:56:10 +0000 (22:56 -0400)]
Update 9.2 release notes to reflect commits to date.
I was unable to entirely resist the temptation to copy-edit related
entries, but will save most of that for a separate pass.
Tom Lane [Tue, 21 Aug 2012 19:18:36 +0000 (15:18 -0400)]
Fix dumping of security_barrier views with circular dependencies.
If a view has circular dependencies, pg_dump splits it into a CREATE TABLE
and a CREATE RULE command to break the dependency loop. However, if the
view has reloptions, those options cannot be applied in the CREATE TABLE
command, because views and tables have different allowed reloptions so
CREATE TABLE would reject them. Instead apply the reloptions after the
CREATE RULE, using ALTER VIEW SET.
Tom Lane [Mon, 20 Aug 2012 17:24:58 +0000 (13:24 -0400)]
Fix bugs in contrib/pg_trgm's LIKE pattern analysis code.
Extraction of trigrams did not process LIKE escape sequences properly,
leading to possible misidentification of trigrams near escapes, resulting
in incorrect index search results.
Fujii Masao
Tom Lane [Fri, 17 Aug 2012 04:05:33 +0000 (00:05 -0400)]
Check LIBXML_VERSION instead of testing in configure script.
We had put a test for libxml2's xmlStructuredErrorContext variable in
configure, but of course that doesn't work on Windows builds. The next
best alternative seems to be to test the LIBXML_VERSION symbol provided
by xmlversion.h.
Per report from Talha Bin Rizwan, though this fixes it in a different way
than his proposed patch.
Tom Lane [Thu, 16 Aug 2012 17:04:03 +0000 (13:04 -0400)]
Allow create_index_paths() to consider multiple join bitmapscan paths.
In the initial cut at the "parameterized paths" feature, I'd simplified
create_index_paths() to the point where it would only generate a single
parameterized bitmap path per relation. Experimentation with an example
supplied by Josh Berkus convinces me that that's not good enough: we really
need to consider a bitmap path for each possible outer relation. Otherwise
we have regressions relative to pre-9.2 versions, in which the planner
picks a plain indexscan where it should have used a bitmap scan in queries
involving three or more tables. Indeed, after fixing this, several queries
in the regression tests show improved plans as a result of using bitmap not
plain indexscans.
Heikki Linnakangas [Thu, 16 Aug 2012 09:42:11 +0000 (12:42 +0300)]
Fix GiST buffering build bug, which caused "failed to re-find parent" errors.
We use a hash table to track the parents of inner pages, but when inserting
to a leaf page, the caller of gistbufferinginserttuples() must pass a
correct block number of the leaf's parent page. Before gistProcessItup()
descends to a child page, it checks if the downlink needs to be adjusted to
accommodate the new tuple, and updates the downlink if necessary. However,
updating the downlink might require splitting the page, which might move the
downlink to a page to the right. gistProcessItup() doesn't realize that, so
when it descends to the leaf page, it might pass an out-of-date parent block
number as a result. Fix that by returning the block a tuple was inserted to
from gistbufferinginserttuples().
This fixes the bug reported by Zdeněk Jílovec.
Tom Lane [Wed, 15 Aug 2012 23:01:23 +0000 (19:01 -0400)]
Fix rescan logic in nodeCtescan.
The previous coding essentially assumed that nodes would be rescanned in
the same order they were initialized in; or at least that the "leader" of
a group of CTEscans would be rescanned before any others were required to
execute. Unfortunately, that isn't even a little bit true. It's possible
to devise queries in which the leader isn't rescanned until other CTEscans
on the same CTE have run to completion, or even in which the leader never
gets a rescan call at all.
The fix makes the leader specially responsible only for initial creation
and final destruction of the tuplestore; rescan resets are now a
symmetrically shared responsibility. This means that we might reset the
tuplestore multiple times when restarting a plan subtree containing
multiple CTEscans; but resetting an already-empty tuplestore is cheap
enough that that doesn't seem like a problem.
Per report from Adam Mackler; the new regression test cases are based on
his example query.
Back-patch to 8.4 where CTE scans were introduced.
Tom Lane [Wed, 15 Aug 2012 15:27:00 +0000 (11:27 -0400)]
Disallow extensions from owning the schema they are assigned to.
This situation creates a dependency loop that confuses pg_dump and probably
other things. Moreover, since the mental model is that the extension
"contains" schemas it owns, but "is contained in" its extschema (even
though neither is strictly true), having both true at once is confusing for
people too. So prevent the situation from being set up.
Reported and patched by Thom Brown. Back-patch to 9.1 where extensions
were added.
Tom Lane [Wed, 15 Aug 2012 04:07:15 +0000 (00:07 -0400)]
Resurrect the "last ditch" code path in join_search_one_level().
This essentially reverts commit
e54b10a62db2991235fe800c629baef4531a6d67,
in which I'd decided that the "last ditch" join logic was useless. The
folly of that is now exposed by a report from Pavel Stehule: although the
function should always find at least one join in a self-contained join
problem, it can still fail to do so in a sub-problem created by artificial
from_collapse_limit or join_collapse_limit constraints. Adjust the
comments to describe this, and simplify the code a bit to match the new
coding of the earlier loop in the function.
I'm not terribly happy about this: I still subscribe to the opinion stated
in the previous commit message that the "last ditch" code can obscure logic
bugs elsewhere. But the alternative seems to be to complicate the earlier
tests for does-this-relation-have-a-join-clause to the point where they can
tell whether the join clauses link outside the current join sub-problem.
And that looks messy, slow, and possibly a source of bugs in itself.
In any case, now is not the time to be inserting experimental code into
9.2, so let's just go back to the time-tested solution.
Tom Lane [Tue, 14 Aug 2012 22:38:49 +0000 (18:38 -0400)]
Stamp 9.2beta4.
Tom Lane [Tue, 14 Aug 2012 22:24:11 +0000 (18:24 -0400)]
Update release notes for 9.1.5, 9.0.9, 8.4.13, 8.3.20.
Tom Lane [Tue, 14 Aug 2012 22:28:37 +0000 (18:28 -0400)]
Prevent access to external files/URLs via contrib/xml2's xslt_process().
libxslt offers the ability to read and write both files and URLs through
stylesheet commands, thus allowing unprivileged database users to both read
and write data with the privileges of the database server. Disable that
through proper use of libxslt's security options.
Also, remove xslt_process()'s ability to fetch documents and stylesheets
from external files/URLs. While this was a documented "feature", it was
long regarded as a terrible idea. The fix for CVE-2012-3489 broke that
capability, and rather than expend effort on trying to fix it, we're just
going to summarily remove it.
While the ability to write as well as read makes this security hole
considerably worse than CVE-2012-3489, the problem is mitigated by the fact
that xslt_process() is not available unless contrib/xml2 is installed,
and the longstanding warnings about security risks from that should have
discouraged prudent DBAs from installing it in security-exposed databases.
Reported and fixed by Peter Eisentraut.
Security: CVE-2012-3488
Tom Lane [Tue, 14 Aug 2012 22:25:39 +0000 (18:25 -0400)]
Prevent access to external files/URLs via XML entity references.
xml_parse() would attempt to fetch external files or URLs as needed to
resolve DTD and entity references in an XML value, thus allowing
unprivileged database users to attempt to fetch data with the privileges
of the database server. While the external data wouldn't get returned
directly to the user, portions of it could be exposed in error messages
if the data didn't parse as valid XML; and in any case the mere ability
to check existence of a file might be useful to an attacker.
The ideal solution to this would still allow fetching of references that
are listed in the host system's XML catalogs, so that documents can be
validated according to installed DTDs. However, doing that with the
available libxml2 APIs appears complex and error-prone, so we're not going
to risk it in a security patch that necessarily hasn't gotten wide review.
So this patch merely shuts off all access, causing any external fetch to
silently expand to an empty string. A future patch may improve this.
In HEAD and 9.2, also suppress warnings about undefined entities, which
would otherwise occur as a result of not loading referenced DTDs. Previous
branches don't show such warnings anyway, due to different error handling
arrangements.
Credit to Noah Misch for first reporting the problem, and for much work
towards a solution, though this simplistic approach was not his preference.
Also thanks to Daniel Veillard for consultation.
Security: CVE-2012-3489
Peter Eisentraut [Tue, 14 Aug 2012 20:37:40 +0000 (16:37 -0400)]
Translation updates
Bruce Momjian [Tue, 14 Aug 2012 16:36:34 +0000 (12:36 -0400)]
In documentation, change "recommendable" to "recommended", per
consultation with word definitions.
Backpatch to 9.2.
Tom Lane [Tue, 14 Aug 2012 14:54:30 +0000 (10:54 -0400)]
Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2012e.
DST law changes in Morocco; Tokelau has relocated to the other side of
the International Date Line; and apparently Olson had Tokelau's GMT
offset wrong by an hour even before that.
There are also a large number of non-significant changes in this update.
Upstream took the opportunity to remove trailing whitespace, and the
SCCS-style version numbers on the individual files are gone too.
Tom Lane [Sat, 11 Aug 2012 17:51:22 +0000 (13:51 -0400)]
Add link from COPY ref page to psql \copy.
Jeff Janes
Tom Lane [Sat, 11 Aug 2012 16:51:30 +0000 (12:51 -0400)]
Fix dependencies generated during ALTER TABLE ADD CONSTRAINT USING INDEX.
This command generated new pg_depend entries linking the index to the
constraint and the constraint to the table, which match the entries made
when a unique or primary key constraint is built de novo. However, it did
not bother to get rid of the entries linking the index directly to the
table. We had considered the issue when the ADD CONSTRAINT USING INDEX
patch was written, and concluded that we didn't need to get rid of the
extra entries. But this is wrong: ALTER COLUMN TYPE wasn't expecting such
redundant dependencies to exist, as reported by Hubert Depesz Lubaczewski.
On reflection it seems rather likely to break other things as well, since
there are many bits of code that crawl pg_depend for one purpose or
another, and most of them are pretty naive about what relationships they're
expecting to find. Fortunately it's not that hard to get rid of the extra
dependency entries, so let's do that.
Back-patch to 9.1, where ALTER TABLE ADD CONSTRAINT USING INDEX was added.
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 10 Aug 2012 21:14:47 +0000 (17:14 -0400)]
Prevent pg_upgrade from crashing if it can't write to the current
directory.
Backpatch to 9.2.
Magnus Hagander [Fri, 10 Aug 2012 12:49:03 +0000 (14:49 +0200)]
Fix upper limit of superuser_reserved_connections, add limit for wal_senders
Should be limited to the maximum number of connections excluding
autovacuum workers, not including.
Add similar check for max_wal_senders, which should never be higher than
max_connections.
Simon Riggs [Thu, 9 Aug 2012 16:06:47 +0000 (17:06 +0100)]
Turn off WalSender keepalives by default, users can enable if desired
Simon Riggs [Thu, 9 Aug 2012 16:03:10 +0000 (17:03 +0100)]
Ensure all replication message info is available and correct via WalRcv
Simon Riggs [Wed, 8 Aug 2012 22:58:49 +0000 (23:58 +0100)]
Force archive_status of .done for xlogs created by dearchival/replication.
This prevents spurious attempts to archive xlog files after promotion of
standby, a bug introduced by cascading replication patch in 9.2.
Fujii Masao, simplified and extended to cover streaming by Simon Riggs
Alvaro Herrera [Wed, 8 Aug 2012 21:34:20 +0000 (17:34 -0400)]
Fix typo in comment
Simon Riggs [Wed, 8 Aug 2012 21:36:55 +0000 (22:36 +0100)]
Doc correction to point out that 9.2+ can overwrite pg_xlog files.
Noted by Noah Misch, patch by Fujii Masao
Simon Riggs [Wed, 8 Aug 2012 20:28:41 +0000 (21:28 +0100)]
Fix minor bug in XLogFileRead() that accidentally worked.
Cascading replication copied the incoming file into pg_xlog but
didn't set path correctly, so the first attempt to open file failed
causing it to loop around and look for file in pg_xlog. So the
earlier coding worked, but accidentally rather than by design.
Spotted by Fujii Masao, fix by Fujii Masao and Simon Riggs
Tom Lane [Wed, 8 Aug 2012 16:02:11 +0000 (12:02 -0400)]
Update isolation tests' README file.
The directions explaining about running the prepared-transactions test
were not updated in commit
ae55d9fbe3871a5e6309d9b91629f1b0ff2b8cba.
Tom Lane [Wed, 8 Aug 2012 15:52:06 +0000 (11:52 -0400)]
Fix TwoPhaseGetDummyBackendId().
This was broken in commit
ed0b409d22346b1b027a4c2099ca66984d94b6dd,
which revised the GlobalTransactionData struct to not include the
associated PGPROC as its first member, but overlooked one place where
a cast was used in reliance on that equivalence.
The most effective way of fixing this seems to be to create a new function
that looks up the GlobalTransactionData struct given the XID, and make
both TwoPhaseGetDummyBackendId and TwoPhaseGetDummyProc rely on that.
Per report from Robert Ross.
Bruce Momjian [Tue, 7 Aug 2012 17:10:44 +0000 (13:10 -0400)]
Fix pg_upgrade file share violation on Windows created by the commit
4741e9afb93f0d769655b2d18c2b73b86f281010. This was done by adding an
optional second log file parameter to exec_prog(), and closing and
reopening the log file between system() calls.
Backpatch to 9.2.
Alvaro Herrera [Tue, 7 Aug 2012 15:02:53 +0000 (11:02 -0400)]
Fix redundant wording
Simon Riggs [Tue, 7 Aug 2012 15:20:32 +0000 (16:20 +0100)]
fsync backup_label after pg_start_backup()
Dave Kerr
Robert Haas [Mon, 6 Aug 2012 20:12:17 +0000 (16:12 -0400)]
Typo fixes for previous commit.
Noted by Thom Brown.
Robert Haas [Mon, 6 Aug 2012 19:18:00 +0000 (15:18 -0400)]
Warn more vigorously about the non-transactional behavior of sequences.
Craig Ringer, edited fairly heavily by me
Alvaro Herrera [Mon, 6 Aug 2012 16:45:08 +0000 (12:45 -0400)]
Make strings identical
Magnus Hagander [Mon, 6 Aug 2012 11:53:46 +0000 (13:53 +0200)]
Complain with proper error message if streaming stops prematurely
In particular, with a controlled shutdown of the master, pg_basebackup
with streaming log could terminate without an error message, even though
the backup is not consistent.
In passing, fix a few cases where walfile wasn't properly set to -1 after
closing.
Fujii Masao
Heikki Linnakangas [Mon, 6 Aug 2012 10:02:15 +0000 (13:02 +0300)]
Perform conversion from Python unicode to string/bytes object via UTF-8.
We used to convert the unicode object directly to a string in the server
encoding by calling Python's PyUnicode_AsEncodedString function. In other
words, we used Python's routines to do the encoding. However, that has a
few problems. First of all, it required keeping a mapping table of Python
encoding names and PostgreSQL encodings. But the real killer was that Python
doesn't support EUC_TW and MULE_INTERNAL encodings at all.
Instead, convert the Python unicode object to UTF-8, and use PostgreSQL's
encoding conversion functions to convert from UTF-8 to server encoding. We
were already doing the same in the other direction in PLyUnicode_FromString,
so this is more consistent, too.
Note: This makes SQL_ASCII to behave more leniently. We used to map
SQL_ASCII to Python's 'ascii', which on Python means strict 7-bit ASCII
only, so you got an error if the python string contained anything but pure
ASCII. You no longer get an error; you get the UTF-8 representation of the
string instead.
Backpatch to 9.0, where these conversions were introduced.
Jan Urbański
Bruce Momjian [Sat, 4 Aug 2012 14:35:37 +0000 (10:35 -0400)]
Reword documentation for concurrent index rebuilds to be clearer.
Backpatch to 9.1 and 9.2.
Tom Lane [Fri, 3 Aug 2012 21:39:45 +0000 (17:39 -0400)]
Fix bugs with parsing signed hh:mm and hh:mm:ss fields in interval input.
DecodeInterval() failed to honor the "range" parameter (the special SQL
syntax for indicating which fields appear in the literal string) if the
time was signed. This seems inappropriate, so make it work like the
not-signed case. The inconsistency was introduced in my commit
f867339c0148381eb1d01f93ab5c79f9d10211de, which as noted in its log message
was only really focused on making SQL-compliant literals work per spec.
Including a sign here is not per spec, but if we're going to allow it
then it's reasonable to expect it to work like the not-signed case.
Also, remove bogus setting of tmask, which caused subsequent processing to
think that what had been given was a timezone and not an hh:mm(:ss) field,
thus confusing checks for redundant fields. This seems to be an aboriginal
mistake in Lockhart's commit
2cf1642461536d0d8f3a1cf124ead0eac04eb760.
Add regression test cases to illustrate the changed behaviors.
Back-patch as far as 8.4, where support for spec-compliant interval
literals was added.
Range problem reported and diagnosed by Amit Kapila, tmask problem by me.
Bruce Momjian [Fri, 3 Aug 2012 20:33:09 +0000 (16:33 -0400)]
Add link to synchronous_commit variables in high availability docs.
Backpatch to 9.2
Erik Rijkers