Backport the new BackgroundPsql modules and the constructor functions,
background_psql() and interactive_psql, to all supported
branches. That makes it easier to backpatch tests that use it.
BackgroundPsql was introduced in version 16. On version 16, this
commit backports just the new timeout argument from master (commit
334f512f45). On older branches, the whole facility. This includes the
change to `use warnings FATAL => 'all'`, which we haven't otherwise
backported, but it seems good to keep the file identical across
branches.
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/b7c64f20-ea01-4f15-9088-0cd6832af149@iki.fi
Commit 4c1532763a removed some redundant uses of 'use 5.008001;' in perl
scripts, including in plperl's plc_perlboot.pl. Because it made other
changes it wasn't backpatched. However, now this is causing a failure on
back branches when built with bleeding edge perl. Therefore, backpatch
just that part of it which removed those uses, from 15 all the way down
to 9.2, which is the earliest version currently built in the buildfarm.
per report from Alexander Lakhin
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/4cc2ee93-e03c-8e13-61ed-412e7e6ff19d@gmail.com
afterTriggerInvokeEvents and AfterTriggerExecute have always
treated it as an error if the trigger OID mentioned in a queued
after-trigger event can't be found. However, that fails to
account for the edge case where the trigger's been dropped in
the current transaction since queueing the event. There seems
no very good reason to disallow that case, so instead silently
do nothing if the trigger OID can't be found.
This does give up a little bit of bug-detection ability, but I don't
recall that these error messages have ever actually revealed a bug,
so it seems mostly theoretical. Alternatives such as marking
pending events DONE at the time of dropping a trigger would be
complicated and perhaps introduce bugs of their own.
Per bug #18517 from Alexander Lakhin. Back-patch to all
supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18517-af2d19882240902c@postgresql.org
Reconstruction of an SP-GiST index by REINDEX CONCURRENTLY may
insert some REDIRECT tuples. This will typically happen in
a transaction that lacks an XID, which leads either to assertion
failure in spgFormDeadTuple or to insertion of a REDIRECT tuple
with zero xid. The latter's not good either, since eventually
VACUUM will apply GlobalVisTestIsRemovableXid() to the zero xid,
resulting in either an assertion failure or a garbage answer.
In practice, since REINDEX CONCURRENTLY locks out index scans
till it's done, it doesn't matter whether it inserts REDIRECTs
or PLACEHOLDERs; and likewise it doesn't matter how soon VACUUM
reduces such a REDIRECT to a PLACEHOLDER. So in non-assert builds
there's no observable problem here, other than perhaps a little
index bloat. But it's not behaving as intended.
To fix, remove the failing Assert in spgFormDeadTuple, acknowledging
that we might sometimes insert a zero XID; and guard VACUUM's
GlobalVisTestIsRemovableXid() call with a test for valid XID,
ensuring that we'll reduce such a REDIRECT the first time VACUUM
sees it. (Versions before v14 use TransactionIdPrecedes here,
which won't fail on zero xid, so they really have no bug at all
in non-assert builds.)
Another solution could be to not create REDIRECTs at all during
REINDEX CONCURRENTLY, making the relevant code paths treat that
case like index build (which likewise knows that no concurrent
index scans can be happening). That would allow restoring the
Assert in spgFormDeadTuple, but we'd still need the VACUUM change
because redirection tuples with zero xid may be out there already.
But there doesn't seem to be a nice way for spginsert() to tell that
it's being called in REINDEX CONCURRENTLY without some API changes,
so we'll leave that as a possible future improvement.
In HEAD, also rename the SpGistState.myXid field to redirectXid,
which seems less misleading (since it might not in fact be our
transaction's XID) and is certainly less uninformatively generic.
Per bug #18499 from Alexander Lakhin. Back-patch to all supported
branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18499-8a519c280f956480@postgresql.org
DeleteInitPrivs did not get the memo about how, when dropping a
whole object (with subid == 0), you should drop entries relating
to its sub-objects too. This is visible in the test_pg_dump test
case if one drops the extension at the end: the entry for
GRANT SELECT(col1) ON regress_pg_dump_table TO public;
was still present in pg_init_privs afterwards, although it was
pointing to a dangling table OID.
Noted while fooling with a fix for REASSIGN OWNED for pg_init_privs
entries. This bug is aboriginal in the pg_init_privs feature
though, and there seems no reason not to back-patch the fix.
The manual says clearly that punctuation in the input of
websearch_to_tsquery() is ignored, except for the special cases
of dashes and quotes. However, this failed for cases like
"(foo bar) or something", or in general an ISOPERATOR character
in front of the "or". We'd switch back to WAITOPERAND state,
then ignore the operator character while remaining in that state,
and then reach the "or" in WAITOPERAND state which (intentionally)
makes us treat it as data.
The fix is simple enough: if we see an ISOPERATOR character while in
WAITOPERATOR state, we have to skip it while staying in that state.
(We don't need to worry about other punctuation characters: those will
be consumed as though they were words, but then rejected by lexizing.)
In v14 and up (since commit eb086056f) we can simplify the code a bit
more too, because there is no longer a reason for the WAITOPERAND
state to distinguish between quoted and unquoted operands.
Per bug #18479 from Manos Emmanouilidis. Back-patch to all supported
branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18479-d9b46e2fc242c33e@postgresql.org
The previous coding here assumed that we didn't need to recheck any
of the querytree tests made in exec_simple_check_plan(). I think
we supposed that those properties were fully determined by the
syntax of the source text and hence couldn't change. That is true
for most of them, but at least hasTargetSRFs and hasAggs can change
by dint of forcibly dropping an originally-referenced function and
recreating it with new properties. That leads to "unexpected plan
node type" or similar failures.
These tests are pretty cheap compared to the cost of replanning, so
rather than sweat over exactly which properties need to be rechecked,
let's just recheck them all. Hence, factor out those tests into a new
function exec_is_simple_query(), and rearrange callers as needed.
A second problem in the same area was that if we failed during
replanning or during exec_save_simple_expr(), we'd potentially
leave behind now-dangling pointers to the old simple expression,
potentially resulting in crashes later. To fix, clear those pointers
before replanning.
The v12 code looks quite different in this area but still has the
bug about needing to recheck query simplicity. I chose to back-patch
all of the plpgsql_simple.sql test script, which formerly didn't exist
in this branch.
Per bug #18497 from Nikita Kalinin. Back-patch to all supported
branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18497-fe93b6da82ce31d4@postgresql.org
The purpose of the function is to reduce the effective
autovacuum_multixact_freeze_max_age if the multixact members SLRU is
approaching wraparound, to make multixid freezing more aggressive.
The returned value should therefore never be greater than plain
autovacuum_multixact_freeze_max_age.
Reviewed-by: Robert Haas
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/85fb354c-f89f-4d47-b3a2-3cbd461c90a3@iki.fi
Backpatch-through: 12, all supported versions
infer_arbiter_indexes failed to renumber varnos in index expressions
or predicates that it got from the catalogs. This escaped detection
up to now because the stored varnos in such trees will be 1, and an
INSERT's result relation is usually the first rangetable entry,
so that that was fine. However, in cases such as inserting through
an updatable view, it's not fine, leading to failure to match the
expressions to the query with ensuing "there is no unique or exclusion
constraint matching the ON CONFLICT specification" errors.
Fix by copy-and-paste from get_relation_info().
Per bug #18502 from Michael Wang. Back-patch to all supported
versions.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18502-545b53f5b81e54e0@postgresql.org
test_predtest() neglected to consider the possibility that
SPI_plan_get_cached_plan would return NULL. This led to a core
dump if the input (incorrectly) contains more than one SQL
command.
While here, let's expend more than zero effort on the error
message for this case and nearby ones.
Per (half of) bug #18483 from Alexander Kozhemyakin.
Back-patch to all supported branches, not because this is
very significant (it's merely test scaffolding) but to make
our world a bit safer for fuzz testing.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18483-30bfff42de238000@postgresql.org
Normally this case isn't even reachable by non-superusers, since
permissions checks prevent naming such a table. However, it is
possible to make it happen by altering a parent table whose child
is another session's temp table.
We definitely can't support any such ALTER that requires modifying
the contents of such a table, since we lack access to the other
session's temporary-buffer pool. But there seems no good reason
to allow it even if it'd only require changing catalog contents.
One reason not to allow it is that we'd rather not expose the
implementation-dependent behavior of whether a specific ALTER
requires touching the table contents. Another is that there may
be (in future, even if not today) optimizations that assume that
a session's own temp tables won't be modified by other sessions.
Hence, add a RELATION_IS_OTHER_TEMP() check to all the places
where ALTER TABLE currently does CheckTableNotInUse(). (I looked
through all other callers of CheckTableNotInUse(), and they seem
OK already.)
Per bug #18492 from Alexander Lakhin. Back-patch to all supported
branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18492-c7a2634bf4968763@postgresql.org
If the CALL is within an atomic context (e.g. there's an outer
transaction block), _SPI_execute_plan should acquire a fresh snapshot
to execute any such functions with. We failed to do that and instead
passed them the Portal snapshot, which had been acquired at the start
of the current SQL command. This'd lead to seeing stale values of
rows modified since the start of the command.
This is arguably a bug in 84f5c2908: I failed to see that "are we in
non-atomic mode" needs to be defined the same way as it is further
down in _SPI_execute_plan, i.e. check !_SPI_current->atomic not just
options->allow_nonatomic. Alternatively the blame could be laid on
plpgsql, which is unconditionally passing allow_nonatomic = true
for CALL/DO even when it knows it's in an atomic context. However,
fixing it in spi.c seems like a better idea since that will also fix
the problem for any extensions that may have copied plpgsql's coding
pattern.
While here, update an obsolete comment about _SPI_execute_plan's
snapshot management.
Per report from Victor Yegorov. Back-patch to all supported versions.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAGnEboiRe+fG2QxuBO2390F7P8e2MQ6UyBjZSL_w1Cej+E4=Vw@mail.gmail.com
Previously, when considering LIMIT pushdown, postgres_fdw failed to
check whether the query has this clause, which led to pushing false
LIMIT clauses, causing incorrect results.
This clause has been supported since v13, so we need to do a
remote-version check before deciding that it will be safe to push such a
clause, but we do not currently have a way to do the check (without
accessing the remote server); disable pushing such a clause for now.
Oversight in commit 357889eb1. Back-patch to v13, where that commit
added the support.
Per bug #18467 from Onder Kalaci.
Patch by Japin Li, per a suggestion from Tom Lane, with some changes to
the comments by me. Review by Onder Kalaci, Alvaro Herrera, and me.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18467-7bb89084ff03a08d%40postgresql.org
Before the v13-era commit 913bbd88d, check_sql_fn_retval fails to
resolve polymorphic output types and then just throws up its hands and
assumes the check will be made at runtime. I think that's true for
ordinary functions returning RECORD, but it doesn't happen in CALL,
potentially resulting in crashes if the actual output of the SQL
procedure's SELECT doesn't match the type inferred from polymorphism.
With a little bit of rearrangement, we can use get_call_result_type
instead of get_func_result_type and thereby infer the correct types.
I'm still unwilling to back-patch all of 913bbd88d, so if the types
don't match you'll get an error rather than perhaps silently inserting
a cast as v13 and later can. That's consistent with prior behavior
though, so it seems fine.
Prior to 70ffb27b2, you'd typically get other errors due to other
shortcomings of CALL's management of polymorphism. Nonetheless,
this is an independent bug.
Although there is no bug in v13 and up, it seems prudent to add
the test case for this to the newer branches too. It's clearly
an under-tested area.
Per report from Andrew Bille.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJnzarw9EeWHAQRm76dXd=7j+rgw6ERqC=nCay8jeFqTwKwhqQ@mail.gmail.com
The documentation for POSIX semaphores is missing a reference to
max_wal_senders. This commit fixes that in the same way that
commit 4ebe51a5fb fixed the same issue in the documentation for
System V semaphores.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20240517164452.GA1914161%40nathanxps13
Backpatch-through: 12
In a procedure or function returning tuple, we use that function to
parse the Tcl script's result, which is supposed to be a Tcl list.
If it isn't, you get an error. Commit 26abb50c4 incautiously
supposed that we could use throw_tcl_error() to report such an error.
That doesn't actually work, because low-level functions like
Tcl_ListObjGetElements() don't fill Tcl's errorInfo variable.
The result is either a null-pointer-dereference crash or emission
of misleading context information describing the previous Tcl error.
Back off to just reporting the interpreter's result string, and
improve throw_tcl_error()'s comment to explain when to use it.
Also, although the similar code in pltcl_trigger_handler() avoided
this mistake, it was using a fairly confusing wording of the
error message. Improve that while we're here.
Per report from A. Kozhemyakin. Back-patch to all supported
branches.
Erik Wienhold and Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/6a2a1c40-2b2c-4a33-8b72-243c0766fcda@postgrespro.ru
The formulas for SEMMNI and SEMMNS do not include the archiver
process, which was converted to an auxiliary process in v14, and
the WAL summarizer process, which was introduced in v17. This
commit corrects these formulas and adds a missing reference to
max_wal_senders nearby. Since this section of the documentation
tends to be incorrect quite often, we should likely give up on
documenting the exact formulas in favor of something less fragile,
but that is left as a future exercise.
Reported-by: Sami Imseih
Reviewed-by: Sami Imseih
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20240517164452.GA1914161%40nathanxps13
Backpatch-through: 12
Coverity complains that ECPGdebug is accessing debugstream without
holding debug_mutex, which is a fair complaint: we should take
debug_mutex while changing the settings ecpg_log looks at.
In some branches it also complains about unlocked use of simple_debug.
I think it's intentional and safe to have a quick unlocked check of
simple_debug at the start of ecpg_log, since that early exit will
always be taken in non-debug cases. But we should recheck
simple_debug after acquiring the mutex. In the worst case, calling
ECPGdebug concurrently with ecpg_log in another thread could result
in a null-pointer dereference due to debugstream transiently being
NULL while simple_debug isn't 0.
This is largely hypothetical, since it's unlikely anybody uses
ECPGdebug() at all in the field, and our own regression tests
don't seem to be hitting the theoretical race conditions either.
Still, if we're going to the trouble of having mutexes here, we ought
to be using them in a way that's actually safe not just almost safe.
Hence, back-patch to all supported branches.
Parameter column_name must be an existing column because ALTER
MATERIALIZED VIEW cannot add new columns. The old description was
likely copied from ALTER TABLE.
Author: Erik Wienhold
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/6880ca53-7961-4eeb-86d5-6bd05fc2027e@ewie.name
Backpatch-through: 12
We are capable of optimizing MIN() and MAX() aggregates on indexed
columns into subqueries that exploit the index, rather than the normal
thing of scanning the whole table. When we do this, we replace the
Aggref node(s) with Params referencing subquery outputs. Such Params
really ought to be included in the per-plan-node extParam/allParam
sets computed by SS_finalize_plan. However, we've never done so
up to now because of an ancient implementation choice to perform
that substitution during set_plan_references, which runs after
SS_finalize_plan, so that SS_finalize_plan never sees these Params.
The cleanest fix would be to perform a separate tree walk to do
these substitutions before SS_finalize_plan runs. That seems
unattractive, first because a whole-tree mutation pass is expensive,
and second because we lack infrastructure for visiting expression
subtrees in a Plan tree, so that we'd need a new function knowing
as much as SS_finalize_plan knows about that. I also considered
swapping the order of SS_finalize_plan and set_plan_references,
but that fell foul of various assumptions that seem tricky to fix.
So the approach adopted here is to teach SS_finalize_plan itself
to check for such Aggrefs. I refactored things a bit in setrefs.c
to avoid having three copies of the code that does that.
Back-patch of v17 commits d0d44049d and 779ac2c74. When d0d44049d
went in, there was no evidence that it was fixing a reachable bug,
so I refrained from back-patching. Now we have such evidence.
Per bug #18465 from Hal Takahara. Back-patch to all supported
branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18465-2fae927718976b22@postgresql.org
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2391880.1689025003@sss.pgh.pa.us
Commit 695b4a113a added a dependency on retrieving oldestxid from
pg_control, which only exists in 9.0 and onwards, but the check for
8.4 as the oldest version was retained. Since there has been few if
any complaints of 8.4 upgrades not working, fix by setting 9.0 as
the oldest version supported rather than resurrecting 8.4 support.
Backpatch to all supported versions.
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1973418.1657040382@sss.pgh.pa.us
Backpatch-through: v12
Specifically, it terminates a background worker even if the caller
couldn't terminate the background worker with pg_terminate_backend().
Commit 3a9b18b309 neglected to update
this. Back-patch to v13, which introduced DROP DATABASE FORCE.
Reviewed by Amit Kapila. Reported by Kirill Reshke.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20240429212756.60.nmisch@google.com
Most of the infrastructure for procedure arguments was already
okay with polymorphic output arguments, but it turns out that
CallStmtResultDesc() was a few bricks shy of a load here. It thought
all it needed to do was call build_function_result_tupdesc_t, but
that function specifically disclaims responsibility for resolving
polymorphic arguments. Failing to handle that doesn't seem to be
a problem for CALL in plpgsql, but CALL from plain SQL would get
errors like "cannot display a value of type anyelement", or even
crash outright.
In v14 and later we can simply examine the exposed types of the
CallStmt.outargs nodes to get the right type OIDs. But it's a lot
more complicated to fix in v12/v13, because those versions don't
have CallStmt.outargs, nor do they do expand_function_arguments
until ExecuteCallStmt runs. We have to duplicatively run
expand_function_arguments, and then re-determine which elements
of the args list are output arguments.
Per bug #18463 from Drew Kimball. Back-patch to all supported
versions, since it's busted in all of them.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18463-f8cd77e12564d8a2@postgresql.org
Presently, when this function is called for an unlogged sequence on
a standby server, it will error out with a message like
ERROR: could not open file "base/5/16388": No such file or directory
Since the pg_sequences system view uses pg_sequence_last_value(),
it can error similarly. To fix, modify the function to return NULL
for unlogged sequences on standby servers. Since this bug is
present on all versions since v15, this approach is preferable to
making the ERROR nicer because we need to repair the pg_sequences
view without modifying its definition on released versions. For
consistency, this commit also modifies the function to return NULL
for other sessions' temporary sequences. The pg_sequences view
already appropriately filters out such sequences, so there's no bug
there, but we might as well offer some defense in case someone
invokes this function directly.
Unlogged sequences were first introduced in v15, but temporary
sequences are much older, so while the fix for unlogged sequences
is only back-patched to v15, the temporary sequence portion is
back-patched to all supported versions.
We could also remove the privilege check in the pg_sequences view
definition in v18 if we modify this function to return NULL for
sequences for which the current user lacks privileges, but that is
left as a future exercise for when v18 development begins.
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20240501005730.GA594666%40nathanxps13
Backpatch-through: 12
If we recursed to a new call of the same function, with a different
coldeflist (AS clause), it would fail because the inner call would
overwrite the outer call's idea of what to return. This is vaguely
like 1d2fe56e4 and c5bec5426, but it's not due to any API decisions:
it's just that we computed the actual output rowtype at the start of
the call, and saved it in the per-procedure data structure. We can
fix it at basically zero cost by doing the computation at the end
of each call instead of the start.
It's not clear that there's any real-world use-case for such a
function, but given that it doesn't cost anything to fix,
it'd be silly not to.
Per report from Andreas Karlsson. Back-patch to all supported
branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1651a46d-3c15-4028-a8c1-d74937b54e19@proxel.se
json_lex_string() relies on pg_encoding_mblen_bounded() to point to the
end of a JSON string when generating an error message, and the input it
uses is not guaranteed to be null-terminated.
It was possible to walk off the end of the input buffer by a few bytes
when the last bytes consist of an incomplete multi-byte sequence, as
token_terminator would point to a location defined by
pg_encoding_mblen_bounded() rather than the end of the input. This
commit switches token_terminator so as the error uses data up to the
end of the JSON input.
More work should be done so as this code could rely on an equivalent of
report_invalid_encoding() so as incorrect byte sequences can show in
error messages in a readable form. This requires work for at least two
cases in the JSON parsing API: an incomplete token and an invalid escape
sequence. A more complete solution may be too invasive for a backpatch,
so this is left as a future improvement, taking care of the overread
first.
A test is added on HEAD as test_json_parser makes this issue
straight-forward to check.
Note that pg_encoding_mblen_bounded() no longer has any callers. This
will be removed on HEAD with a separate commit, as this is proving to
encourage unsafe coding.
Author: Jacob Champion
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAOYmi+ncM7pwLS3AnKCSmoqqtpjvA8wmCdoBtKA3ZrB2hZG6zA@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 13
If -l was specified together with selective-restore options such as -n
or -N, dependent TOC entries such as comments would be omitted from
the listing, even when an actual restore would have selected them.
This happened because PrintTOCSummary neglected to update the te->reqs
marking of the entry they depended on.
Per report from Justin Pryzby. This has been wrong since 0d4e6ed30
taught _tocEntryRequired to sometimes look at the "reqs" marking of
other TOC entries, so back-patch to all supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ZjoeirG7yxODdC4P@pryzbyj2023
If a plpython-language trigger caused another one to be invoked,
the "TD" dictionary created for the inner one would overwrite the
outer one's "TD" dictionary. This is more or less the same problem
that 1d2fe56e4 fixed for ordinary functions in plpython, so fix it
the same way, by saving and restoring "TD" during a recursive
invocation.
This fix makes an ABI-incompatible change in struct PLySavedArgs.
I'm not too worried about that because it seems highly unlikely that
any extension is messing with those structs. We could imagine doing
something weird to preserve nominal ABI compatibility in the back
branches, like keeping the saved TD object in an extra element of
namedargs[]. However, that would only be very nominal compatibility:
if anything *is* touching PLySavedArgs, it would likely do the wrong
thing due to not knowing about the additional value. So I judge it
not worth the ugliness to do something different there.
(I also changed struct PLyProcedure, but its added field fits
into formerly-padding space, so that should be safe.)
Per bug #18456 from Jacques Combrink. This bug is very ancient,
so back-patch to all supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3008982.1714853799@sss.pgh.pa.us
The documentation said that you need to pick a suitable LC_COLLATE
setting in addition to setting the DETERMINISTIC flag. This would
have been correct if the libc provider supported nondeterministic
collations, but since it doesn't, you actually need to set the LOCALE
option.
Reviewed-by: Kashif Zeeshan <kashi.zeeshan@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/a71023c2-0ae0-45ad-9688-cf3b93d0d65b%40eisentraut.org
As an optimization, we store "name" columns as cstrings in btree
indexes.
Here we modify it so that Index Only Scans convert these cstrings back
to names with NAMEDATALEN bytes rather than storing the cstring in the
tuple slot, as was happening previously.
Bug: #17855
Reported-by: Alexander Lakhin
Reviewed-by: Alexander Lakhin, Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17855-5f523e0f9769a566@postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 12, all supported versions
We have long disallowed all forms of ALTER TABLE if the table is
already opened by some outer SQL command in the same session.
This has the same purpose as obtaining AccessExclusiveLock, but
since a session's own locks don't conflict the lock only blocks use
of the table by other sessions, not our own. Without this check,
the ALTER might confuse the outer SQL command since any previous
inspection of the table would potentially become invalid.
However, the RelisBecomingView code path in DefineQueryRewrite never
got that memo, and assumed that AccessExclusiveLock is sufficient
for performing something morally equivalent to a rather invasive
ALTER TABLE. Unsurprisingly, this can confuse an outer command
that is trying to do something with the table.
This was submitted as a security issue, but the security team
has been unable to identify any consequence worse than a null
pointer dereference (from trying to access rd_tableam methods
that the relation no longer has). Therefore, in accordance
with our usual policy, it's not security material and should
just be fixed as a routine bug.
Fix by disallowing the operation if the table is open locally,
exactly as ALTER TABLE does it.
Per an anonymous security researcher, via Bundesamt für Sicherheit
in der Informationstechnik.
Patch v12-v15 only. In v16 and later, we removed this code
altogether (cf. commit b23cd185f), so that there's no issue.
vac_update_datfrozenxid() did multiple loads of relfrozenxid and
relminmxid from buffer memory, and it assumed each would get the same
value. Not so if a concurrent vac_update_relstats() did an inplace
update. Commit 2d2e40e3be fixed the same
kind of bug in vac_truncate_clog(). Today's bug could cause the
rel-level field and XIDs in the rel's rows to precede the db-level
field. A cluster having such values should VACUUM affected tables.
Back-patch to v12 (all supported versions).
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20240423003956.e7.nmisch@google.com
In commit 25cd2d640 I (tgl) opined that "The additions of the months
and microseconds fields could also overflow, of course. However,
I believe we need no additional checks there; the existing range
checks should catch such cases". This is demonstrably wrong however
for the microseconds field, and given that discovery it seems prudent
to be paranoid about the months addition as well.
Report and patch by Joseph Koshakow. As before, back-patch to all
supported branches. (However, the test case doesn't work before
v15 because we didn't allow wider-than-int32 numbers in interval
literals. A variant test could probably be built that fits within
that restriction, but it didn't seem worth the trouble.)
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAvxfHf77sRHKoEzUw9_cMYSpbpNS2C+J_+8Dq4+0oi8iKopeA@mail.gmail.com
The paragraph describing the JavaScript string literals allowed in
jsonpath expressions unnecessarily mentions JSON by erroneously
listing \v as allowed by JSON and mentioning the \xNN and \u{N...}
backslash escapes as deviations from JSON when in fact both are
accepted by ECMAScript/JavaScript. Fix this by only referring to
JavaScript.
Author: Erik Wienhold <ewie@ewie.name>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/1EB17DF9-2636-484B-9DD0-3CAB19C4F5C4@justatheory.com
This should have the same results for all practical purposes.
The advantage of selecting 'GMT' is that it's guaranteed to work
even when the remote system's timezone database is missing
entries, because pg_tzset() hard-wires handling of that,
at least in 9.2 and later.
(It seems like it would be a good idea to similarly hard-wire
correct handling of 'UTC', but that'll be a little more invasive
than I want to consider back-patching. Leave that for another
day when we're not in feature freeze.)
Per trouble report from Adnan Dautovic. Back-patch to all
supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/465248.1712211585@sss.pgh.pa.us
The documents were clear that queryid should not be assumed to be stable
between major versions but said nothing about minor versions and left
the reader to guess if that was implied by the mention of the
instability of queryid between major versions.
Here we give minor versions an explicit mention to indicate queryid can
generally be assumed stable between minor versions.
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvpYGE6h0cD9UO-eHySPynPj1L3J%3DHxT%2BA7Ud8_Yo6AuzA%40mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 12
While back-patching commit 6f0cef935, I forgot that the MSVC
build scripts would also need adjustment in the back branches.
This is a blind attempt at a fix, but it's basically copying
nearby code so I think it will work.
Per buildfarm (via Andrew Dunstan)
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/4cc4dc47-ca2b-4129-8784-db69b5f82777@dunslane.net
The code associated with EXEC SQL DEFINE was unreadable and full of
bugs, notably:
* It'd attempt to free a non-malloced string if the ecpg program
tries to redefine a macro that was defined on the command line.
* Possible memory stomp if user writes "-D=foo".
* Undef'ing or redefining a macro defined on the command line would
change the state visible to the next file, when multiple files are
specified on the command line. (While possibly that could have been
an intentional choice, the code clearly intends to revert to the
original macro state; it's just failing to consider this interaction.)
* Missing "break" in defining a new macro meant that redefinition
of an existing name would cause an extra entry to be added to the
definition list. While not immediately harmful, a subsequent undef
would result in the prior entry becoming visible again.
* The interactions with input buffering are subtle and were entirely
undocumented.
It's not that surprising that we hadn't noticed these bugs,
because there was no test coverage at all of either the -D
command line switch or multiple input files. This patch adds
such coverage (in a rather hacky way I guess).
In addition to the code bugs, the user documentation was confused
about whether the -D switch defines a C macro or an ecpg one, and
it failed to mention that you can write "-Dsymbol=value".
These problems are old, so back-patch to all supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/998011.1713217712@sss.pgh.pa.us
get_baserel_parampathinfo previously assumed without checking that
the results of generate_join_implied_equalities "necessarily satisfy
join_clause_is_movable_into". This turns out to be wrong in the
presence of outer joins, because the generated clauses could include
Vars that mustn't be evaluated below a relevant outer join. That
led to applying clauses at the wrong plan level and possibly getting
incorrect query results. We must check each clause's nullable_relids,
and really the right thing to do is test join_clause_is_movable_into.
However, trying to fix it that way exposes an oversight in
equivclass.c: it wasn't careful about marking join clauses for
appendrel children with the correct clause_relids. That caused the
modified get_baserel_parampathinfo code to reject some clauses it
still needs to accept. (See parallel commit for HEAD/v16 for more
commentary about that.)
Per bug #18429 from Benoît Ryder. This misbehavior existed for
a long time before commit 2489d76c4, so patch v12-v15 this way.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18429-8982d4a348cc86c6@postgresql.org
Some functions are used in the tree and are currently marked as
deprecated by upstream. This commit refreshes the code to use the
recommended functions, leading to the following changes:
- xmlSubstituteEntitiesDefault() is gone, and needs to be replaced with
XML_PARSE_NOENT for the paths doing the parsing.
- xmlParseMemory() -> xmlReadMemory().
These functions, as well as more functions setting global states, have
been officially marked as deprecated by upstream in August 2022. Their
replacements exist since the 2001-ish area, as far as I have checked,
so that should be safe.
This has been originally applied as 65c5864d7f without a backpatch,
and this has come up as well when working on 400928b83. Per request
from Tom Lane, for new buildfarm member indri that is able to see
deprecation warnings with xmlSubstituteEntitiesDefault() in 16 and older
stable branches.
Author: Dmitry Koval
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18274-98d16bc03520665f@postgresql.org
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1012981.1713222862@sss.pgh.pa.us
Bakpatch-through: 12
Commit 2ed8f9a01 intended to institute a policy that if a
RangeTblFunction has a coldeflist, then the function return type is
certainly RECORD, and we should use the coldeflist as the source of
truth about what the columns of the record type are. When the
original function has been folded to a constant, inspection of the
constant might give a different answer. This situation will lead to
a tuple-type-mismatch error at execution, but up until that point we
need to consistently believe the coldeflist, or we'll have problems
from different bits of code reaching different conclusions.
expandRTE didn't get that memo though, and would try to produce a
tupdesc based on the constant in this situation, leading to an
assertion failure. (Desultory testing suggests that non-assert
builds often manage to give the expected error, although I also
saw a "cache lookup failed for type 0" error, and it seems at
least possible that a crash could happen.)
Some other callers of get_expr_result_type and get_expr_result_tupdesc
were also being incautious about this. While none of them seem to
have actual bugs, they're working harder than necessary in this case,
besides which it seems safest to have an explicit policy of not using
those functions on an RTE with a coldeflist. Adjust the code
accordingly, and add commentary to funcapi.c about this policy.
Also fix an obsolete comment that claimed "get_expr_result_type()
doesn't know how to extract type info from a RECORD constant".
That hasn't been true since commit d57534740.
Per bug #18422 from Alexander Lakhin.
As with the previous commit, back-patch to all supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18422-89ca86c8eac5246d@postgresql.org
Heikki Linnakangas