bae868ca removed a check that was still needed. If you had an
xl_tot_len at the end of a page that was too small for a record header,
but not big enough to span onto the next page, we'd immediately perform
the CRC check using a bogus large length. Because of arbitrary coding
differences between the CRC implementations on different platforms,
nothing very bad happened on common modern systems. On systems using
the _sb8.c fallback we could segfault.
Restore that check, add a new assertion and supply a test for that case.
Back-patch to 12, like bae868ca.
Tested-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Tested-by: Alexander Lakhin <exclusion@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGLCkTT7zYjzOxuLGahBdQ%3DMcF%3Dz5ZvrjSOnW4EDhVjT-g%40mail.gmail.com
For some reason I used not_like = { pg_dumpall_dbprivs => 1, } in the test
condition of one of the tests added in in c66a7d75e6. That doesn't make sense
for two reasons: 1) not_like isn't a valid test condition 2) the database
should not be dumped in any of the tests. Due to 1), the test achieved its
goal, but clearly the formulation is confusing. Instead use like => {}, with
a comment explaining why.
Reported-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3ddf79f2-8b7b-a093-11d2-5c739bc64f86@eisentraut.org
Backpatch: 11-, like c66a7d75e6
Parse analysis of a CallStmt will inject mutable information,
for instance the OID of the called procedure, so that subsequent
DDL may create a need to re-parse the CALL. We failed to detect
this for CALLs in plpgsql routines, because no dependency information
was collected when putting a CallStmt into the plan cache. That
could lead to misbehavior or strange errors such as "cache lookup
failed".
Before commit ee895a655, the issue would only manifest for CALLs
appearing in atomic contexts, because we re-planned non-atomic
CALLs every time through anyway.
It is now apparent that extract_query_dependencies() probably
needs a special case for every utility statement type for which
stmt_requires_parse_analysis() returns true. I wanted to add
something like Assert(!stmt_requires_parse_analysis(...)) when
falling out of extract_query_dependencies_walker without doing
anything, but there are API issues as well as a more fundamental
point: stmt_requires_parse_analysis is supposed to be applied to
raw parser output, so it'd be cheating to assume it will give the
correct answer for post-parse-analysis trees. I contented myself
with adding a comment.
Per bug #18131 from Christian Stork. Back-patch to all supported
branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18131-576854e79c5cd264@postgresql.org
The initial estimate of the number of distinct ParsedWords is just
that: an estimate. Don't let it exceed what palloc is willing to
allocate. If in fact we need more entries, we'll eventually fail
trying to enlarge the array. But if we don't, this allows success on
inputs that currently draw "invalid memory alloc request size".
Per bug #18080 from Uwe Binder. Back-patch to all supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18080-d5c5e58fef8c99b7@postgresql.org
Commit cda6a8d01d removed a few datatypes, but didn't update
pg_upgrade --check to throw error if these types are used. So the users
find that pg_upgrade --check tells them that everything is fine, only to
fail when the real upgrade is attempted.
Reviewed-by: Tristan Partin <tristan@neon.tech>
Reviewed-by: Suraj Kharage <suraj.kharage@enterprisedb.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/202309201654.ng4ksea25mti@alvherre.pgsql
'Q' for 64 bit integers turns out not to work on 32 bit Perl, as
revealed by the build farm. Use 'II' instead, and deal with endianness.
Back-patch to 12, like bae868ca.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ZQ4r1vHcryBsSi_V%40paquier.xyz
xl_tot_len comes first in a WAL record. Usually we don't trust it to be
the true length until we've validated the record header. If the record
header was split across two pages, previously we wouldn't do the
validation until after we'd already tried to allocate enough memory to
hold the record, which was bad because it might actually be garbage
bytes from a recycled WAL file, so we could try to allocate a lot of
memory. Release 15 made it worse.
Since 70b4f82a4b, we'd at least generate an end-of-WAL condition if the
garbage 4 byte value happened to be > 1GB, but we'd still try to
allocate up to 1GB of memory bogusly otherwise. That was an
improvement, but unfortunately release 15 tries to allocate another
object before that, so you could get a FATAL error and recovery could
fail.
We can fix both variants of the problem more fundamentally using
pre-existing page-level validation, if we just re-order some logic.
The new order of operations in the split-header case defers all memory
allocation based on xl_tot_len until we've read the following page. At
that point we know that its first few bytes are not recycled data, by
checking its xlp_pageaddr, and that its xlp_rem_len agrees with
xl_tot_len on the preceding page. That is strong evidence that
xl_tot_len was truly the start of a record that was logged.
This problem was most likely to occur on a standby, because
walreceiver.c recycles WAL files without zeroing out trailing regions of
each page. We could fix that too, but it wouldn't protect us from rare
crash scenarios where the trailing zeroes don't make it to disk.
With reliable xl_tot_len validation in place, the ancient policy of
considering malloc failure to indicate corruption at end-of-WAL seems
quite surprising, but changing that is left for later work.
Also included is a new TAP test to exercise various cases of end-of-WAL
detection by writing contrived data into the WAL from Perl.
Back-patch to 12. We decided not to put this change into the final
release of 11.
Author: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Author: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Reported-by: Alexander Lakhin <exclusion@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com> (the idea, not the code)
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Reviewed-by: Sergei Kornilov <sk@zsrv.org>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Lakhin <exclusion@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17928-aa92416a70ff44a2%40postgresql.org
The previous wording had a faint archaic whiff to it, and more
importantly used "catalogs" as a verb, which while cutely
self-referential seems likely to provoke confusion in this
particular context. Also consistently use "kind" not "type" to
refer to the different kinds of relations distinguished by relkind.
Per gripe from Martin Nash. Back-patch to supported versions.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/169518739902.3727338.4793815593763320945@wrigleys.postgresql.org
In older branches, COMMIT/ROLLBACK AND CHAIN failed to propagate
the current transaction's properties to the new transaction if
there was any open subtransaction (unreleased savepoint).
Instead, some previous transaction's properties would be restored.
This is because the "if (s->chain)" check in CommitTransactionCommand
examined the wrong instance of the "chain" flag and falsely
concluded that it didn't need to save transaction properties.
Our regression tests would have noticed this, except they used
identical transaction properties for multiple tests in a row,
so that the faulty behavior was not distinguishable from correct
behavior.
Commit 12d768e70 fixed the problem in v15 and later, but only rather
accidentally, because I removed the "if (s->chain)" test to avoid a
compiler warning, while not realizing that the warning was flagging a
real bug.
In v14 and before, remove the if-test and save transaction properties
unconditionally; just as in the newer branches, that's not expensive
enough to justify thinking harder.
Add the comment and extra regression test to v15 and later to
forestall any future recurrence, but there's no live bug in those
branches.
Patch by me, per bug #18118 from Liu Xiang. Back-patch to v12 where
the AND CHAIN feature was added.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18118-4b72fcbb903aace6@postgresql.org
The comment introduced by commit e7cb7ee14 was a bit too terse, which
could lead to extensions doing different things within the hook function
than we intend to allow. Extend the comment to explain what they can do
within the hook function.
Back-patch to all supported branches.
In passing, I rephrased a nearby comment that I recently added to the
back branches.
Reviewed by David Rowley and Andrei Lepikhov.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAPmGK15SBPA1nr3Aqsdm%2BYyS-ay0Ayo2BRYQ8_A2To9eLqwopQ%40mail.gmail.com
PLy_elog() was not able to handle correctly cases where a SPI called
failed, which would fill in a DETAIL string able to trigger an
assertion. We may want to improve this infrastructure so as it is able
to provide any extra detail information provided by an error stack, but
this is left as a future improvement as it could impact existing error
stacks and any applications that depend on them. For now, the assertion
is removed and a regression test is added to cover the case of a failure
with a detail string.
This problem exists since 2bd78eb8d5, so backpatch all the way down
with tweaks to the regression tests output added where required.
Author: Alexander Lakhin
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18070-ab9c171cbf4ebb0f@postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 11
cursor_to_xmlschema() assumed that any Portal must have a tupDesc,
which is not so. Add a defensive check.
It's plausible that this mistake occurred because of the rather
poorly chosen name of the lookup function SPI_cursor_find(),
which in such cases is returning something that isn't very much
like a cursor. Add some documentation to try to forestall future
errors of the same ilk.
Report and patch by Boyu Yang (docs changes by me). Back-patch
to all supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/dd343010-c637-434c-a8cb-418f53bda3b8.yangboyu.yby@alibaba-inc.com
expandRecordVariable() failed to adjust the parse nesting structure
correctly when recursing to inspect an outer-level Var. This could
result in assertion failures or core dumps in corner cases.
Likewise, get_name_for_var_field() failed to adjust the deparse
namespace stack correctly when recursing to inspect an outer-level
Var. In this case the likely result was a "bogus varno" error
while deparsing a view.
Per bug #18077 from Jingzhou Fu. Back-patch to all supported
branches.
Richard Guo, with some adjustments by me
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18077-b9db97c6e0ab45d8@postgresql.org
This reverts commit a0d87bcd9b, following a remark from Andres Frend
that the new error can be triggered with an incorrect SET TRANSACTION
SNAPSHOT command without being really helpful for the user as it uses
the internal file name.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230914020724.hlks7vunitvtbbz4@awork3.anarazel.de
Backpatch-through: 11
When a snapshot file fails to be read in ImportSnapshot(), it would
issue an ERROR as "invalid snapshot identifier" when opening a stream
for it in read-only mode. This error message is reworded to be the same
as all the other messages used in this case on failure, which is useful
when debugging this area.
Thinko introduced by bb446b689b where snapshot imports have been
added. A backpatch down to 11 is done as this can improve any work
related to snapshot imports in older branches.
Author: Bharath Rupireddy
Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALj2ACWmr=3KdxDkm8h7Zn1XxBoF6hdzq8WQyMn2y1OL5RYFrg@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 11
Both 50e17ad28 and 29f45e299 mistakenly tried to record a plan dependency
on a function but mistakenly inverted the OidIsValid test. This meant
that we'd record a dependency only when the function's Oid was
InvalidOid. Clearly this was meant to *not* record the dependency in
that case.
50e17ad28 made this mistake first, then in v15 29f45e299 copied the same
mistake.
Reported-by: Tom Lane
Backpatch-through: 14, where 50e17ad28 first made this mistake
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2277537.1694301772@sss.pgh.pa.us
If an out-of-memory error was thrown at an unfortunate time,
ensure_record_cache_typmod_slot_exists() could leak memory and leave
behind a global state that produced an infinite loop on the next call.
Fix by merging RecordCacheArray and RecordIdentifierArray into a single
array. With only one allocation or re-allocation, there is no
intermediate state.
Back-patch to all supported releases.
Reported-by: "James Pang (chaolpan)" <chaolpan@cisco.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/PH0PR11MB519113E738814BDDA702EDADD6EFA%40PH0PR11MB5191.namprd11.prod.outlook.com
The transactions and subtransactions array that was allocated under
snapshot builder memory context and recorded during decoding was not
cleared in case of errors. This can result in an assertion failure if we
attempt to retry logical decoding within the same session. To address this
issue, we register a callback function under the snapshot builder memory
context to clear the recorded transactions and subtransactions array along
with the context.
This problem doesn't exist in PG16 and HEAD as instead of using
InitialRunningXacts, we added the list of transaction IDs and
sub-transaction IDs, that have modified catalogs and are running during
snapshot serialization, to the serialized snapshot (see commit 7f13ac8123).
Author: Hou Zhijie
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila
Backpatch-through: 11
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/18055-ab3beed9f4b7b7d6@postgresql.org
Commit 0668719801 changed XLogPageRead() so that it validated the page
header, if invalid page header was found reset the error message and
retried reading the page, to fix the scenario where streaming standby
got stuck at a continuation record. This change hid the error message
about invalid page header, which would make it harder for users to
investigate what the actual issue was found in WAL.
To fix the issue, this commit makes XLogPageRead() report the error
message when invalid page header is found.
When not in standby mode, an invalid page header should cause recovery
to end, not retry reading the page, so XLogPageRead() doesn't need to
validate the page header for the retry. Instead, ReadPageInternal() should
be responsible for the validation in that case. Therefore this commit
changes XLogPageRead() so that if not in standby mode it doesn't validate
the page header for the retry.
This commit has been originally pushed as of 68601985e6 for 15 and
newer versions, but not to the older branches. A recent investigation
related to WAL replay failures has showed up that the lack of this patch
in 12~14 is an issue, as we want to be able to improve the WAL reader to
make a correct distinction between the end-of-wal and OOM cases when
validating record headers. REL_11_STABLE is left out as it will be
EOL'd soon.
Reported-by: Yugo Nagata
Author: Yugo Nagata, Kyotaro Horiguchi
Reviewed-by: Ranier Vilela, Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210718045505.32f463ed6c227111038d8ae4@sraoss.co.jp
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17928-aa92416a70ff44a2@postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 12
pgbouncer can cause PQbackendPID() to return negative values due to it
filling be_pid with random bytes (even these days pid_max can only be
set up to 2^22 on 64b machines on Linux, for example, so this cannot
happen with normal PID numbers). When this happens, pg_basebackup may
generate a temporary slot name that may not be accepted by the parser,
leading to spurious failures, like:
pg_basebackup: error: could not send replication command
ERROR: replication slot name "pg_basebackup_-1201966863" contains
invalid character
This commit fixes that problem by formatting the result from
PQbackendPID() as an unsigned integer when creating the temporary
replication slot name, so as the invalid character is gone and the
command can be parsed.
Author: Jelte Fennema
Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson, Nishant Sharma
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAGECzQQOGvYfp8ziF4fWQ_o8s2K7ppaoWBQnTmdakn3s-4Z=5g@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 11
This could lead to an imprecise choice when splitting an index page of a
GiST index on a tsvector, deciding which entries should remain on the
old page and which entries should move to a new page.
This is wrong since tsearch2 has been moved into core with commit
140d4ebcb4, so backpatch all the way down. This error has been
spotted by valgrind.
Author: Alexander Lakhin
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17950-6c80a8d2b94ec695@postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 11
nFreeBlocks, defined as a long, stores the number of free blocks in a
logical tape. ltsGetFreeBlock() has been using an int to store the
value of nFreeBlocks, which could lead to overflows on platforms where
long and int are not the same size (in short everything except Windows
where long is 4 bytes).
The problematic intermediate variable is switched to be a long instead
of an int.
Issue introduced by c02fdc9223, so backpatch down to 13.
Author: Ranier vilela
Reviewed-by: Peter Geoghegan, David Rowley
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEudQApLDWCBR_xmwNjGBrDo+f+S4E87x3s7-+hoaKqYdtC4JQ@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 13
After commit b0bea38705, syslogger prints 63 warnings about failing to
close a listen socket at postmaster startup. That's because the
syslogger process forks before the ListenSockets array is initialized,
so ClosePostmasterPorts() calls "close(0)" 64 times. The first call
succeeds, because fd 0 is stdin.
This has been like this since commit 9a86f03b4e in version 13, which
moved the SysLogger_Start() call to before initializing ListenSockets.
We just didn't notice until commit b0bea38705 added the LOG message.
Reported by Michael Paquier and Jeff Janes.
Author: Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/ZOvvuQe0rdj2slA9%40paquier.xyz
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/ZO0fgDwVw2SUJiZx@paquier.xyz#482670177eb4eaf4c9f03c1eed963e5f
Backpatch-through: 13
Revalidation of a plancache entry (after a cache invalidation event)
requires acquiring a snapshot. Normally that is harmless, but not
if the cached statement is one that needs to run without acquiring a
snapshot. We were already aware of that for TransactionStmts,
but for some reason hadn't extrapolated to the other statements that
PlannedStmtRequiresSnapshot() knows mustn't set a snapshot. This can
lead to unexpected failures of commands such as SET TRANSACTION
ISOLATION LEVEL. We can fix it in the same way, by excluding those
command types from revalidation.
However, we can do even better than that: there is no need to
revalidate for any statement type for which parse analysis, rewrite,
and plan steps do nothing interesting, which is nearly all utility
commands. To mechanize this, invent a parser function
stmt_requires_parse_analysis() that tells whether parse analysis does
anything beyond wrapping a CMD_UTILITY Query around the raw parse
tree. If that's what it does, then rewrite and plan will just
skip the Query, so that it is not possible for the same raw parse
tree to produce a different plan tree after cache invalidation.
stmt_requires_parse_analysis() is basically equivalent to the
existing function analyze_requires_snapshot(), except that for
obscure reasons that function omits ReturnStmt and CallStmt.
It is unclear whether those were oversights or intentional.
I have not been able to demonstrate a bug from not acquiring a
snapshot while analyzing these commands, but at best it seems mighty
fragile. It seems safer to acquire a snapshot for parse analysis of
these commands too, which allows making stmt_requires_parse_analysis
and analyze_requires_snapshot equivalent.
In passing this fixes a second bug, which is that ResetPlanCache
would exclude ReturnStmts and CallStmts from revalidation.
That's surely *not* safe, since they contain parsable expressions.
Per bug #18059 from Pavel Kulakov. Back-patch to all supported
branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18059-79c692f036b25346@postgresql.org
The list of external language drivers and procedural languages was
never complete or exhaustive, and rather than attempting to manage
it the content has migrated to the wiki. This replaces the tables
altogether with links to the wiki as we regularly get requests for
adding various projects, which we reject without any clear policy
for why or how the content should be managed.
The threads linked to below are the most recent discussions about
this, the archives contain many more.
Backpatch to all supported branches since the list on the wiki
applies to all branches.
Author: Jonathan Katz <jkatz@postgresql.org>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/169165415312.635.10247434927885764880@wrigleys.postgresql.org
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/169177958824.635.11087800083040275266@wrigleys.postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: v11
Attribute missing values might be needed past the lifetime of the tuple
descriptors from which they are extracted. To avoid possibly using
pointers for by-reference values which might thus be left dangling, we
cache a datumCopy'd version of the datum in the TopMemoryContext. Since
we first search for the value this only needs to be done once per
session for any such value.
Original complaint from Tom Lane, idea for mitigation by Andrew Dunstan,
tweaked by Tom Lane.
Backpatch to version 11 where missing values were introduced.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1306569.1687978174@sss.pgh.pa.us
The fix itself is fine, but the test revealed other problems related
to parallel query that are not easily fixable. Remove the test for
now to fix the buildfarm.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/88825.1691665432@sss.pgh.pa.us
Backpatch-through: 11
Substituting such values in extension scripts facilitated SQL injection
when @extowner@, @extschema@, or @extschema:...@ appeared inside a
quoting construct (dollar quoting, '', or ""). No bundled extension was
vulnerable. Vulnerable uses do appear in a documentation example and in
non-bundled extensions. Hence, the attack prerequisite was an
administrator having installed files of a vulnerable, trusted,
non-bundled extension. Subject to that prerequisite, this enabled an
attacker having database-level CREATE privilege to execute arbitrary
code as the bootstrap superuser. By blocking this attack in the core
server, there's no need to modify individual extensions. Back-patch to
v11 (all supported versions).
Reported by Micah Gate, Valerie Woolard, Tim Carey-Smith, and Christoph
Berg.
Security: CVE-2023-39417
The use of Memoize was already disabled in normal joins when the join
conditions had volatile functions per the code in
match_opclause_to_indexcol(). Ordinarily, the parameterization for the
inner side of a nested loop will be an Index Scan or at least eventually
lead to an index scan (perhaps nested several joins deep). However, for
lateral joins, that's not the case and seq scans can be parameterized
too, so we can't rely on match_opclause_to_indexcol().
Here we explicitly check the parameterization for volatile functions and
don't consider the generation of a Memoize path when such functions
are present.
Author: Richard Guo
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMbWs49nHFnHbpepLsv_yF3qkpCS4BdB-v8HoJVv8_=Oat0u_w@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 14, where Memoize was introduced
This was failing for queries which try to get the .type() of a
jpiLikeRegex. For example:
select jsonb_path_query('["string", "string"]',
'($[0] like_regex ".{7}").type()');
Reported-by: Alexander Kozhemyakin
Bug: #18035
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18035-64af5cdcb5adf2a9@postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 12, where SQL/JSON path was added.
Commit e7cb7ee14, which introduced the infrastructure for FDWs and
custom scan providers to replace joins with scans, failed to add support
handling of pseudoconstant quals assigned to replaced joins in
createplan.c, leading to an incorrect plan without a gating Result node
when postgres_fdw replaced a join with such a qual.
To fix, we could add the support by 1) modifying the ForeignPath and
CustomPath structs to store the list of RestrictInfo nodes to apply to
the join, as in JoinPaths, if they represent foreign and custom scans
replacing a join with a scan, and by 2) modifying create_scan_plan() in
createplan.c to use that list in that case, instead of the
baserestrictinfo list, to get pseudoconstant quals assigned to the join;
but #1 would cause an ABI break. So fix by modifying the infrastructure
to just disallow replacing joins with such quals.
Back-patch to all supported branches.
Reported by Nishant Sharma. Patch by me, reviewed by Nishant Sharma and
Richard Guo.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CADrsxdbcN1vejBaf8a%2BQhrZY5PXL-04mCd4GDu6qm6FigDZd6Q%40mail.gmail.com
Historically, hba.c limited tokens in the authentication configuration
files (pg_hba.conf and pg_ident.conf) to less than 256 bytes. We have
seen a few reports of this limit causing problems; notably, for
moderately-complex LDAP configurations. Increase the limit to 10240
bytes as a low-risk stop-gap solution.
In v13 and earlier, this also requires raising MAX_LINE, the limit
on overall line length. I'm hesitant to make this code consume
too much stack space, so I only raised that to 20480 bytes.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1588937.1690221208@sss.pgh.pa.us
Some of the test_decoding test output was extremely wide, because it
deals with massive toasted values, and the aligned mode causes psql to
produce 200kB of whitespace and dashes. Change to unaligned mode
temporarily to avoid that behavior.
Backpatch to 14, where it applies cleanly.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230405103953.sxleixp3uz5lazst@alvherre.pgsql
If both the passed-in plan pointer and plansource->gplan are
NULL, CachedPlanIsSimplyValid would think that the plan pointer
is possibly-valid and try to dereference it. For the one extant
call site in plpgsql, this situation doesn't normally happen
which is why we've not noticed. However, it appears to be possible
if the previous use of the cached plan failed, as per report from
Justin Pryzby. Add an extra check to prevent crashing.
Back-patch to v13 where this code was added.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ZLlV+STFz1l/WhAQ@telsasoft.com
IN and NOT IN work fine on records and arrays, so just say that
they accept "expressions" not "scalar expressions". I think that
that phrasing was meant to say that they don't work on set-returning
expressions, but that's not the common meaning of "scalar".
Revise the description of row-constructor comparisons to make it
perhaps a bit less confusing. (This partially reverts some
dubious wording changes made by commit f56651519.)
Per gripe from Ilya Nenashev. Back-patch to supported branches.
In HEAD and v16, also drop a NOTE about pre-8.2 behavior, which
is hopefully no longer of interest to anybody.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/168968062460.632.14303906825812821399@wrigleys.postgresql.org
The "count" argument of SPI_exec() only limits execution when
the query is actually returning rows. This was not the case
before PG 9.0, so this example was correct when written; but
we missed updating it in commit 2ddc600f8. Extend the example
to show the behavior both with and without RETURNING.
While here, improve the commentary and markup for the rest
of the example.
David G. Johnston and Tom Lane, per report from Curt Kolovson.
Back-patch to all supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CANhYJV6HWtgz_qjx_APfK0PAgLUzY-2vjLuj7i_o=TZF1LAQew@mail.gmail.com
Michael Paquier