What we want in these places is "xmlChar *volatile ptr",
not "volatile xmlChar *ptr". The former means that the
pointer variable itself needs to be treated as volatile,
while the latter says that what it points to is volatile.
Since the point here is to ensure that the pointer variables
don't go crazy after a longjmp, it's the former semantics
that we need. The misplacement of "volatile" also led
to needing to cast away volatile in some places.
Also fix a number of places where variables that are assigned to
within a PG_TRY and then used after it were not initialized or
not marked as volatile. (A few buildfarm members were issuing
"may be used uninitialized" warnings about some of these variables,
which is what drew my attention to this area.) In most cases
these variables were being set as the last step within the PG_TRY
block, which might mean that we could get away without the "volatile"
marking. But doing that seems unsafe and is definitely not per our
coding conventions.
These problems seem to have come in with 732061150, so no need
for back-patch.
libxml2 has deprecated the members of xmlBuffer, and it is recommended
to access them with dedicated routines. We have only one case in the
tree where this shows an impact: xml2/xpath.c where "content" was
getting directly accessed. The rest of the code looked fine, checking
the PostgreSQL code with libxml2 close to the top of its "2.14" branch.
xmlBufferContent() exists since year 2000 based on a check of the
upstream libxml2 tree, so let's switch to it.
Like 400928b83b, backpatch all the way down as this can have an impact
on all the branches already released once newer versions of libxml2 get
more popular.
Reported-by: Walid Ibrahim <walidib@amazon.com>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/aGdSdcR4QTjEHX6s@paquier.xyz
Backpatch-through: 13
The contrib module xml2/ has always been fuzzy with the cleanup of the
memory allocated by the calls internal to libxml2, even if there are
APIs in place giving a lot of control over the error behavior, all
located in the backend's xml.c.
The code paths fixed in the commit address multiple defects, while
sanitizing the code:
- In xpath.c, several allocations are done by libxml2 for
xpath_workspace, whose memory cleanup could go out of sight as it relied
on a single TRY/CATCH block done in pgxml_xpath(). workspace->res is
allocated by libxml2, and may finish by not being freed at all upon a
failure outside of a TRY area. This code is refactored so as the
TRY/CATCH block of pgxml_xpath() is moved one level higher to its
callers, which are responsible for cleaning up the contents of a
workspace on failure. cleanup_workspace() now requires a volatile
workspace, forcing as a rule that a TRY/CATCH block should be used.
- Several calls, like xmlStrdup(), xmlXPathNewContext(),
xmlXPathCtxtCompile(), etc. can return NULL on failures (for most of
them allocation failures. These forgot to check for failures, or missed
that pg_xml_error_occurred() should be called, to check if an error is
already on the stack.
- Some memory allocated by libxml2 calls was freed in an incorrect way,
"resstr" in xslt_process() being one example.
The class of errors fixed here are for problems that are unlikely going
to happen in practice, so no backpatch is done. The changes have
finished by being rather invasive, so it is perhaps not a bad thing to
be conservative and to keep these changes only on HEAD anyway.
Author: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Reported-by: Karavaev Alexey <maralist86@mail.ru>
Reviewed-by: Jim Jones <jim.jones@uni-muenster.de>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18943-2f2a04ab03904598@postgresql.org
It seems potentially useful to label our shared libraries with version
information, now that a facility exists for retrieving that. This
patch labels them with the PG_VERSION string. There was some
discussion about using semantic versioning conventions, but that
doesn't seem terribly helpful for modules with no SQL-level presence;
and for those that do have SQL objects, we typically expect them
to support multiple revisions of the SQL definitions, so it'd still
not be very helpful.
I did not label any of src/test/modules/. It seems unnecessary since
we don't install those, and besides there ought to be someplace that
still provides test coverage for the original PG_MODULE_MAGIC macro.
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/dd4d1b59-d0fe-49d5-b28f-1e463b68fa32@gmail.com
Remove (char *) casts around memory functions such as memcmp(),
memcpy(), or memset() where the cast is useless. Since these
functions don't take char * arguments anyway, these casts are at best
complicated casts to (void *), about which see commit 7f798aca1d.
Reviewed-by: Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <ilmari@ilmari.org>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/fd1fcedb-3492-4fc8-9e3e-74b97f2db6c7%40eisentraut.org
These two functions with their different argument lists have never been
tested in this module, so let's add something.
Author: Ronan Dunklau
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ZzMSJkiNZhimjXWx@paquier.xyz
When our XML-handling modules were first written, the SQL standard
lacked any error codes that were particularly intended for XML
error conditions. Unsurprisingly, this led to some rather random
choices of errcodes in those modules. Now the standard has a whole
SQLSTATE class, "Class 10 - XQuery Error", with a reasonably large
selection of relevant-looking errcodes.
In this patch I've chosen one fairly generic code defined by the
standard, 10608 = invalid_argument_for_xquery, and used it where
it seemed appropriate. I've also made an effort to replace
ERRCODE_INTERNAL_ERROR everywhere it was not clearly reporting
a coding problem; in particular, many of the existing uses look
like they can fairly be reported as ERRCODE_OUT_OF_MEMORY.
It might be interesting to try to map libxml2's error codes into
the standard's new collection, but I've not undertaken that here.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/417250.1726341268@sss.pgh.pa.us
In existing releases of libxml2, xmlXPathCompile can be driven
to stack overflow because it fails to protect itself against
too-deeply-nested input. While there is an upstream fix as of
yesterday, it will take years for that to propagate into all
shipping versions. In the meantime, we can protect our own
usages basically for free by calling xmlXPathCtxtCompile instead.
(The actual bug is that libxml2 keeps its nesting counter in the
xmlXPathContext, and its parsing code was willing to just skip
counting nesting levels if it didn't have a context. So if we supply
a context, all is well. It seems odd actually that it works at all
to not supply a context, because this means that XPath parsing does
not have access to XML namespace info. Apparently libxml2 never
checks namespaces until runtime? Anyway, this seems like good
future-proofing even if its only immediate effect is to dodge a bug.)
Sadly, this hack only offers protection with libxml2 2.9.11 and newer.
Before that there are multiple similar problems, so if you are
processing untrusted XML it behooves you to get a newer version.
But we have some pretty old libxml2 in the buildfarm, so it seems
impractical to add a regression test to verify this fix.
Per bug #18617 from Jingzhou Fu. Back-patch to all supported
versions.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18617-1cee4d2ed1f4e7ae@postgresql.org
Discussion: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/issues/799
SPI_connect/SPI_connect_ext have not returned any value other than
SPI_OK_CONNECT since commit 1833f1a1c in v10; any errors are thrown
via ereport. (The most likely failure is out-of-memory, which has
always been thrown that way, so callers had better be prepared for
such errors.) This makes it somewhat pointless to check these
functions' result, and some callers within our code haven't been
bothering; indeed, the only usage example within spi.sgml doesn't
bother. So it's likely that the omission has propagated into
extensions too.
Hence, let's standardize on not checking, and document the return
value as historical, while not actually changing these functions'
behavior. (The original proposal was to change their return type
to "void", but that would needlessly break extensions that are
conforming to the old practice.) This saves a small amount of
boilerplate code in a lot of places.
Stepan Neretin
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMaYL5Z9Uk8cD9qGz9QaZ2UBJFOu7jFx5Mwbznz-1tBbPDQZow@mail.gmail.com
libxml2 changed the required signature of error handler callbacks
to make the passed xmlError struct "const". This is causing build
failures on buildfarm member caiman, and no doubt will start showing
up in the field quite soon. Add a version check to adjust the
declaration of xml_errorHandler() according to LIBXML_VERSION.
2.12.x also produces deprecation warnings for contrib/xml2/xpath.c's
assignment to xmlLoadExtDtdDefaultValue. I see no good reason for
that to still be there, seeing that we disabled external DTDs (at a
lower level) years ago for security reasons. Let's just remove it.
Back-patch to all supported branches, since they might all get built
with newer libxml2 once it gets a bit more popular. (The back
branches produce another deprecation warning about xpath.c's use of
xmlSubstituteEntitiesDefault(). We ought to consider whether to
back-patch all or part of commit 65c5864d7 to silence that. It's
less urgent though, since it won't break the buildfarm.)
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1389505.1706382262@sss.pgh.pa.us
This reverts commit 2197d06224, following a discussion over a Coverity
report where issues like the "Billion laugh attack" could cause the
backend to waste CPU and memory even if a client applied checks on the
size of the data given in input, and libxml2 does not offer guarantees
that input limits are respected under XML_PARSE_HUGE.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ZbHlgrPLtBZyr_QW@paquier.xyz
This commit adds XML_PARSE_HUGE to the libxml2 functions used in core
for the parsing of XML objects, raising up the original limit of 10MB
supported by libxml2.
In most code paths of upstream, XML_MAX_TEXT_LENGTH (10^7) is the
historical limit that gets upgraded to XML_MAX_HUGE_LENGTH (10^9) once
XML_PARSE_HUGE is given to the parser calls. These are still limited by
any palloc() calls for text, up to 1GB.
This offers the possibility to handle within the backend XML objects
larger than 10MB in general, with also a higher depth limit. This
change affects the contrib module xml2, the xml data type and SQL/XML.
Author: Dmitry Koval
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18274-98d16bc03520665f@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.
Author: Dmitry Koval
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18274-98d16bc03520665f@postgresql.org
Per discussion, the existing routine name able to initialize a SRF
function with materialize mode is unpopular, so rename it. Equally, the
flags of this function are renamed, as of:
- SRF_SINGLE_USE_EXPECTED -> MAT_SRF_USE_EXPECTED_DESC
- SRF_SINGLE_BLESS -> MAT_SRF_BLESS
The previous function and flags introduced in 9e98583 are kept around
for compatibility purposes, so as any extension code already compiled
with v15 continues to work as-is. The declarations introduced here for
compatibility will be removed from HEAD in a follow-up commit.
The new names have been suggested by Andres Freund and Melanie
Plageman.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20221013194820.ciktb2sbbpw7cljm@awork3.anarazel.de
Backpatch-through: 15
This substantially speeds up building for windows, due to the vast amount of
headers included via windows.h. A cross build from linux targetting mingw goes
from
994.11user 136.43system 0:31.58elapsed 3579%CPU
to
422.41user 89.05system 0:14.35elapsed 3562%CPU
The wins on windows are similar-ish (but I don't have a system at hand just
now for actual numbers). Targetting other operating systems the wins are far
smaller (tested linux, macOS, FreeBSD).
For now precompiled headers are disabled by default, it's not clear how well
they work on all platforms. E.g. on FreeBSD gcc doesn't seem to have working
support, but clang does.
When doing a full build precompiled headers are only beneficial for targets
with multiple .c files, as meson builds a separate precompiled header for each
target (so that different compilation options take effect). This commit
therefore only changes target with at least two .c files to use precompiled
headers.
Because this commit adds b_pch=false to the default_options new build
directories will have precompiled headers disabled by default, however
existing build directories will continue use the default value of b_pch, which
is true.
Note that using precompiled headers with ccache requires setting
CCACHE_SLOPPINESS=pch_defines,time_macros to get hits.
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
Reviewed-by: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+hUKG+50eOUbN++ocDc0Qnp9Pvmou23DSXu=ZA6fepOcftKqA@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/c5736f70-bb6d-8d25-e35c-e3d886e4e905@enterprisedb.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190826054000.GE7005%40paquier.xyz
The generated resource files aren't exactly the same ones as the old
buildsystems generate. Previously "InternalName" and "OriginalFileName" were
mostly wrong / not set (despite being required), but that was hard to fix in
at least the make build. Additionally, the meson build falls back to a
"auto-generated" description when not set, and doesn't set it in a few cases -
unlikely that anybody looks at these descriptions in detail.
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Author: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
Autoconf is showing its age, fewer and fewer contributors know how to wrangle
it. Recursive make has a lot of hard to resolve dependency issues and slow
incremental rebuilds. Our home-grown MSVC build system is hard to maintain for
developers not using Windows and runs tests serially. While these and other
issues could individually be addressed with incremental improvements, together
they seem best addressed by moving to a more modern build system.
After evaluating different build system choices, we chose to use meson, to a
good degree based on the adoption by other open source projects.
We decided that it's more realistic to commit a relatively early version of
the new build system and mature it in tree.
This commit adds an initial version of a meson based build system. It supports
building postgres on at least AIX, FreeBSD, Linux, macOS, NetBSD, OpenBSD,
Solaris and Windows (however only gcc is supported on aix, solaris). For
Windows/MSVC postgres can now be built with ninja (faster, particularly for
incremental builds) and msbuild (supporting the visual studio GUI, but
building slower).
Several aspects (e.g. Windows rc file generation, PGXS compatibility, LLVM
bitcode generation, documentation adjustments) are done in subsequent commits
requiring further review. Other aspects (e.g. not installing test-only
extensions) are not yet addressed.
When building on Windows with msbuild, builds are slower when using a visual
studio version older than 2019, because those versions do not support
MultiToolTask, required by meson for intra-target parallelism.
The plan is to remove the MSVC specific build system in src/tools/msvc soon
after reaching feature parity. However, we're not planning to remove the
autoconf/make build system in the near future. Likely we're going to keep at
least the parts required for PGXS to keep working around until all supported
versions build with meson.
Some initial help for postgres developers is at
https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Meson
With contributions from Thomas Munro, John Naylor, Stone Tickle and others.
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Author: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>
Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
Reviewed-By: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20211012083721.hvixq4pnh2pixr3j@alap3.anarazel.de
9e98583 introduced a helper to centralize building their needed state
(tuplestore, tuple descriptors, etc.), checking for any errors. This
commit updates all places of contrib/ that can be switched to use
SetSingleFuncCall() as a drop-in replacement, resulting in the removal
of a lot of boilerplate code in all the modules updated by this commit.
Per analysis, some places remain as they are:
- pg_logdir_ls() in adminpack/ uses historically TYPEFUNC_RECORD as
return type, and I suspect that changing it may cause issues at run-time
with some of its past versions, down to 1.0.
- dblink/ uses a wrapper function doing exactly the work of
SetSingleFuncCall(). Here the switch should be possible, but rather
invasive so it does not seem the extra backpatch maintenance cost.
- tablefunc/, similarly, uses multiple helper functions with portions of
SetSingleFuncCall() spread across the code paths of this module.
Author: Melanie Plageman
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAKRu_bvDPJoL9mH6eYwvBpPtTGQwbDzfJbCM-OjkSZDu5yTPg@mail.gmail.com
This routine is a no-op since dd04e95 from 2003, with a macro kept
around for compatibility purposes. This has led to the same code
patterns being copy-pasted around for no effect, sometimes in confusing
ways like in pg_logical_slot_get_changes_guts() from logical.c where the
code was actually incorrect.
This issue has been discussed on two different threads recently, so
rather than living with this legacy, remove any uses of this routine in
the C code to simplify things. The compatibility macro is kept to avoid
breaking any out-of-core modules that depend on it.
Reported-by: Tatsuhito Kasahara, Justin Pryzby
Author: Tatsuhito Kasahara
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20211217200419.GQ17618@telsasoft.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAP0=ZVJeeYfAeRfmzqAF2Lumdiv4S4FewyBnZd4DPTrsSQKJKw@mail.gmail.com
This function is unreferenced in modern usage; it was superseded in 9.1
by a core function of the same name. It has been left in place in the C
code only so that pre-9.1 SQL definitions of the contrib/xml2 functions
would continue to work. Eleven years seems like enough time for people
to have updated to the extension-style version of the xml2 module, so
let's drop this.
We did this once before, in 20540710e, and then reverted it because
the intended change of PGDLLEXPORT markings didn't happen. This
time the reason is to suppress link-time duplicate-symbol warnings
on AIX. That's not worth a lot perhaps, but the value of keeping
this function has surely dropped to about zero by now.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2717731.1644778752@sss.pgh.pa.us
Andres Freund pointed out that allowing non-superusers to run
"CREATE EXTENSION ... FROM unpackaged" has security risks, since
the unpackaged-to-1.0 scripts don't try to verify that the existing
objects they're modifying are what they expect. Just attaching such
objects to an extension doesn't seem too dangerous, but some of them
do more than that.
We could have resolved this, perhaps, by still requiring superuser
privilege to use the FROM option. However, it's fair to ask just what
we're accomplishing by continuing to lug the unpackaged-to-1.0 scripts
forward. None of them have received any real testing since 9.1 days,
so they may not even work anymore (even assuming that one could still
load the previous "loose" object definitions into a v13 database).
And an installation that's trying to go from pre-9.1 to v13 or later
in one jump is going to have worse compatibility problems than whether
there's a trivial way to convert their contrib modules into extension
style.
Hence, let's just drop both those scripts and the core-code support
for "CREATE EXTENSION ... FROM".
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200213233015.r6rnubcvl4egdh5r@alap3.anarazel.de
When maintaining or merging patches, one of the most common sources
for conflicts are the list of objects in makefiles. Especially when
the split across lines has been changed on both sides, which is
somewhat common due to attempting to stay below 80 columns, those
conflicts are unnecessarily laborious to resolve.
By splitting, and alphabetically sorting, OBJS style lines into one
object per line, conflicts should be less frequent, and easier to
resolve when they still occur.
Author: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20191029200901.vww4idgcxv74cwes@alap3.anarazel.de
Don't move parenthesized lines to the left, even if that means they
flow past the right margin.
By default, BSD indent lines up statement continuation lines that are
within parentheses so that they start just to the right of the preceding
left parenthesis. However, traditionally, if that resulted in the
continuation line extending to the right of the desired right margin,
then indent would push it left just far enough to not overrun the margin,
if it could do so without making the continuation line start to the left of
the current statement indent. That makes for a weird mix of indentations
unless one has been completely rigid about never violating the 80-column
limit.
This behavior has been pretty universally panned by Postgres developers.
Hence, disable it with indent's new -lpl switch, so that parenthesized
lines are always lined up with the preceding left paren.
This patch is much less interesting than the first round of indent
changes, but also bulkier, so I thought it best to separate the effects.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1dAmxK-0006EE-1r@gemulon.postgresql.org
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/30527.1495162840@sss.pgh.pa.us
Change pg_bsd_indent to follow upstream rules for placement of comments
to the right of code, and remove pgindent hack that caused comments
following #endif to not obey the general rule.
Commit e3860ffa4d wasn't actually using
the published version of pg_bsd_indent, but a hacked-up version that
tried to minimize the amount of movement of comments to the right of
code. The situation of interest is where such a comment has to be
moved to the right of its default placement at column 33 because there's
code there. BSD indent has always moved right in units of tab stops
in such cases --- but in the previous incarnation, indent was working
in 8-space tab stops, while now it knows we use 4-space tabs. So the
net result is that in about half the cases, such comments are placed
one tab stop left of before. This is better all around: it leaves
more room on the line for comment text, and it means that in such
cases the comment uniformly starts at the next 4-space tab stop after
the code, rather than sometimes one and sometimes two tabs after.
Also, ensure that comments following #endif are indented the same
as comments following other preprocessor commands such as #else.
That inconsistency turns out to have been self-inflicted damage
from a poorly-thought-through post-indent "fixup" in pgindent.
This patch is much less interesting than the first round of indent
changes, but also bulkier, so I thought it best to separate the effects.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1dAmxK-0006EE-1r@gemulon.postgresql.org
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/30527.1495162840@sss.pgh.pa.us
The new indent version includes numerous fixes thanks to Piotr Stefaniak.
The main changes visible in this commit are:
* Nicer formatting of function-pointer declarations.
* No longer unexpectedly removes spaces in expressions using casts,
sizeof, or offsetof.
* No longer wants to add a space in "struct structname *varname", as
well as some similar cases for const- or volatile-qualified pointers.
* Declarations using PG_USED_FOR_ASSERTS_ONLY are formatted more nicely.
* Fixes bug where comments following declarations were sometimes placed
with no space separating them from the code.
* Fixes some odd decisions for comments following case labels.
* Fixes some cases where comments following code were indented to less
than the expected column 33.
On the less good side, it now tends to put more whitespace around typedef
names that are not listed in typedefs.list. This might encourage us to
put more effort into typedef name collection; it's not really a bug in
indent itself.
There are more changes coming after this round, having to do with comment
indentation and alignment of lines appearing within parentheses. I wanted
to limit the size of the diffs to something that could be reviewed without
one's eyes completely glazing over, so it seemed better to split up the
changes as much as practical.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1dAmxK-0006EE-1r@gemulon.postgresql.org
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/30527.1495162840@sss.pgh.pa.us
This makes almost all core code follow the policy introduced in the
previous commit. Specific decisions:
- Text search support functions with char* and length arguments, such as
prsstart and lexize, may receive unaligned strings. I doubt
maintainers of non-core text search code will notice.
- Use plain VARDATA() on values detoasted or synthesized earlier in the
same function. Use VARDATA_ANY() on varlenas sourced outside the
function, even if they happen to always have four-byte headers. As an
exception, retain the universal practice of using VARDATA() on return
values of SendFunctionCall().
- Retain PG_GETARG_BYTEA_P() in pageinspect. (Page images are too large
for a one-byte header, so this misses no optimization.) Sites that do
not call get_page_from_raw() typically need the four-byte alignment.
- For now, do not change btree_gist. Its use of four-byte headers in
memory is partly entangled with storage of 4-byte headers inside
GBT_VARKEY, on disk.
- For now, do not change gtrgm_consistent() or gtrgm_distance(). They
incorporate the varlena header into a cache, and there are multiple
credible implementation strategies to consider.
This partly reverts commit 20540710e8.
Since we've given up on adding PGDLLEXPORT markers to PG_FUNCTION_INFO_V1,
there's no need to remove the legacy compatibility function. I kept the
documentation changes, though, as they seem appropriate anyway.
This function is unreferenced in modern usage; it was superseded in 9.1
by a core function of the same name. It has been left in place in the C
code only so that pre-9.1 SQL definitions of the contrib/xml2 functions
would continue to work. Six years seems like enough time for people to
have updated to the extension-style version of the xml2 module, so let's
drop this.
The key reason for not keeping it any longer is that we want to stick
an explicit PGDLLEXPORT into PG_FUNCTION_INFO_V1(), and the similarity
of name to the core function creates a conflict that compilers will
complain about.
Extracted from a larger patch for that purpose. I'm committing this
change separately to give it more visibility in the commit logs.
While at it, remove the documentation entry that claimed that
xml_is_well_formed() is a function provided by contrib/xml2, and
instead mention the even more ancient alias xml_valid().
Laurenz Albe, doc change by me
Patch: <A737B7A37273E048B164557ADEF4A58B53962ED8@ntex2010a.host.magwien.gv.at>
This patch widens SPI_processed, EState's es_processed field, PortalData's
portalPos field, FuncCallContext's call_cntr and max_calls fields,
ExecutorRun's count argument, PortalRunFetch's result, and the max number
of rows in a SPITupleTable to uint64, and deals with (I hope) all the
ensuing fallout. Some of these values were declared uint32 before, and
others "long".
I also removed PortalData's posOverflow field, since that logic seems
pretty useless given that portalPos is now always 64 bits.
The user-visible results are that command tags for SELECT etc will
correctly report tuple counts larger than 4G, as will plpgsql's GET
GET DIAGNOSTICS ... ROW_COUNT command. Queries processing more tuples
than that are still not exactly the norm, but they're becoming more
common.
Most values associated with FETCH/MOVE distances, such as PortalRun's count
argument and the count argument of most SPI functions that have one, remain
declared as "long". It's not clear whether it would be worth promoting
those to int64; but it would definitely be a large dollop of additional
API churn on top of this, and it would only help 32-bit platforms which
seem relatively less likely to see any benefit.
Andreas Scherbaum, reviewed by Christian Ullrich, additional hacking by me
strncpy() has a well-deserved reputation for being unsafe, so make an
effort to get rid of nearly all occurrences in HEAD.
A large fraction of the remaining uses were passing length less than or
equal to the known strlen() of the source, in which case no null-padding
can occur and the behavior is equivalent to memcpy(), though doubtless
slower and certainly harder to reason about. So just use memcpy() in
these cases.
In other cases, use either StrNCpy() or strlcpy() as appropriate (depending
on whether padding to the full length of the destination buffer seems
useful).
I left a few strncpy() calls alone in the src/timezone/ code, to keep it
in sync with upstream (the IANA tzcode distribution). There are also a
few such calls in ecpg that could possibly do with more analysis.
AFAICT, none of these changes are more than cosmetic, except for the four
occurrences in fe-secure-openssl.c, which are in fact buggy: an overlength
source leads to a non-null-terminated destination buffer and ensuing
misbehavior. These don't seem like security issues, first because no stack
clobber is possible and second because if your values of sslcert etc are
coming from untrusted sources then you've got problems way worse than this.
Still, it's undesirable to have unpredictable behavior for overlength
inputs, so back-patch those four changes to all active branches.
Mark Simonetti reported that libxslt sometimes crashes for him, and that
swapping xslt_process's object-freeing calls around to do them in reverse
order of creation seemed to fix it. I've not reproduced the crash, but
valgrind clearly shows a reference to already-freed memory, which is
consistent with the idea that shutdown of the xsltTransformContext is
trying to reference the already-freed stylesheet or input document.
With this patch, valgrind is no longer unhappy.
I have an inquiry in to see if this is a libxslt bug or if we're just
abusing the library; but even if it's a library bug, we'd want to adjust
our code so it doesn't fail with unpatched libraries.
Back-patch to all supported branches, because we've been doing this in
the wrong(?) order for a long time.
Some of the many error messages introduced in 458857cc missed 'FROM
unpackaged'. Also e016b724 and 45ffeb7e forgot to quote extension
version numbers.
Backpatch to 9.1, just like 458857cc which introduced the messages. Do
so because the error messages thrown when the wrong command is copy &
pasted aren't easy to understand.
Prominent binaries already had this metadata. A handful of minor
binaries, such as pg_regress.exe, still lack it; efforts to eliminate
such exceptions are welcome.
Michael Paquier, reviewed by MauMau.
Because of gcc -Wmissing-prototypes, all functions in dynamically
loadable modules must have a separate prototype declaration. This is
meant to detect global functions that are not declared in header files,
but in cases where the function is called via dfmgr, this is redundant.
Besides filling up space with boilerplate, this is a frequent source of
compiler warnings in extension modules.
We can fix that by creating the function prototype as part of the
PG_FUNCTION_INFO_V1 macro, which such modules have to use anyway. That
makes the code of modules cleaner, because there is one less place where
the entry points have to be listed, and creates an additional check that
functions have the right prototype.
Remove now redundant prototypes from contrib and other modules.
This reduces unnecessary exposure of other headers through htup.h, which
is very widely included by many files.
I have chosen to move the function prototypes to the new file as well,
because that means htup.h no longer needs to include tupdesc.h. In
itself this doesn't have much effect in indirect inclusion of tupdesc.h
throughout the tree, because it's also required by execnodes.h; but it's
something to explore in the future, and it seemed best to do the htup.h
change now while I'm busy with it.
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
It failed to check for error return from xsltApplyStylesheet(), as reported
by Peter Gagarinov. (So far as I can tell, libxslt provides no convenient
way to get a useful error message in failure cases. There might be some
inconvenient way, but considering that this code is deprecated it's hard to
get enthusiastic about putting lots of work into it. So I just made it say
"failed to apply stylesheet", in line with the existing error checks.)
While looking at the code I also noticed that the string returned by
xsltSaveResultToString was never freed, resulting in a session-lifespan
memory leak.
Back-patch to all supported versions.
We have seen one too many reports of people trying to use 9.1 extension
files in the old-fashioned way of sourcing them in psql. Not only does
that usually not work (due to failure to substitute for MODULE_PATHNAME
and/or @extschema@), but if it did work they'd get a collection of loose
objects not an extension. To prevent this, insert an \echo ... \quit
line that prints a suitable error message into each extension script file,
and teach commands/extension.c to ignore lines starting with \echo.
That should not only prevent any adverse consequences of loading a script
file the wrong way, but make it crystal clear to users that they need to
do it differently now.
Tom Lane, following an idea of Andrew Dunstan's. Back-patch into 9.1
... there is not going to be much value in this if we wait till 9.2.
Tom Lane