This section claims that each backend executes the
shmem_startup_hook shortly after attaching to shared memory, which
is true for EXEC_BACKEND builds, but not for others. This commit
adds this important detail.
Oversight in commit 964152c476.
Reported-by: Sami Imseih <samimseih@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Sami Imseih <samimseih@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAA5RZ0vEGT1eigGbVt604LkXP6mUPMwPMxQoRCbFny44w%2B9EUQ%40mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 17
A new pgstats entry is created as a two-step process:
- The entry is looked at in the shared hashtable of pgstats, and is
inserted if not found.
- When not found and inserted, its fields are then initialized. This
part include a DSA chunk allocation for the stats data of the new entry.
As currently coded, if the DSA chunk allocation fails due to an
out-of-memory failure, an ERROR is generated, leaving in the pgstats
shared hashtable an inconsistent entry due to the first step, as the
entry has already been inserted in the hashtable. These broken entries
can then be found by other backends, crashing them.
There are only two callers of pgstat_init_entry(), when loading the
pgstats file at startup and when creating a new pgstats entry. This
commit changes pgstat_init_entry() so as we use dsa_allocate_extended()
with DSA_ALLOC_NO_OOM, making it return NULL on allocation failure
instead of failing. This way, a backend failing an entry creation can
take appropriate cleanup actions in the shared hashtable before throwing
an error. Currently, this means removing the entry from the shared
hashtable before throwing the error for the allocation failure.
Out-of-memory errors unlikely happen in the wild, and we do not bother
with back-patches when these are fixed, usually. However, the problem
dealt with here is a degree worse as it breaks the shared memory state
of pgstats, impacting other processes that may look at an inconsistent
entry that a different process has failed to create.
Author: Mikhail Kot <mikhail.kot@databricks.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAi9E7jELo5_-sBENftnc2E8XhW2PKZJWfTC3i2y-GMQd2bcqQ@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 15
When executing a MERGE UPDATE action, if there is more than one
concurrent update of the target row, the lock-and-retry code would
sometimes incorrectly identify the latest version of the target tuple,
leading to incorrect results.
This was caused by using the ctid field from the TM_FailureData
returned by table_tuple_lock() in a case where the result was TM_Ok,
which is unsafe because the TM_FailureData struct is not guaranteed to
be fully populated in that case. Instead, it should use the tupleid
passed to (and updated by) table_tuple_lock().
To reduce the chances of similar errors in the future, improve the
commentary for table_tuple_lock() and TM_FailureData to make it
clearer that table_tuple_lock() updates the tid passed to it, and most
fields of TM_FailureData should not be relied on in non-failure cases.
An exception to this is the "traversed" field, which is set in both
success and failure cases.
Reported-by: Dmitry <dsy.075@yandex.ru>
Author: Yugo Nagata <nagata@sraoss.co.jp>
Reviewed-by: Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1570d30e-2b95-4239-b9c3-f7bf2f2f8556@yandex.ru
Backpatch-through: 15
SlruRecentlyUsed() is an inline function since 53c2a97a92, not a
macro. The description of long_segment_names was missing at the top of
SimpleLruInit(), part forgotten in 4ed8f0913b.
Author: Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/aLpBLMOYwEQkaleF@jrouhaud
Backpatch-through: 17
When executing a MERGE, check that the target relation supports all
actions mentioned in the MERGE command. Specifically, check that it
has a REPLICA IDENTITY if it publishes updates or deletes and the
MERGE command contains update or delete actions. Failing to do this
can silently break replication.
Author: Zhijie Hou <houzj.fnst@fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh.bapat.oss@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/OS3PR01MB57180C87E43A679A730482DF94B62@OS3PR01MB5718.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com
Backpatch-through: 15
If an INSERT has an ON CONFLICT DO UPDATE clause, the executor must
check that the target relation supports UPDATE as well as INSERT. In
particular, it must check that the target relation has a REPLICA
IDENTITY if it publishes updates. Formerly, it was not doing this
check, which could lead to silently breaking replication.
Fix by adding such a check to CheckValidResultRel(), which requires
adding a new onConflictAction argument. In back-branches, preserve ABI
compatibility by introducing a wrapper function with the original
signature.
Author: Zhijie Hou <houzj.fnst@fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh.bapat.oss@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/OS3PR01MB57180C87E43A679A730482DF94B62@OS3PR01MB5718.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com
Backpatch-through: 13
The counters saved from pgWalUsage, used for the difference calculations
when flushing the backend WAL stats, are updated when calling
pgstat_flush_backend() under PGSTAT_BACKEND_FLUSH_WAL, and not
pgstat_report_wal(). The comment updated in this commit referenced the
latter, but it is perfectly OK to flush the backend stats independently
of the WAL stats.
Noticed while looking at this area of the code, introduced by
76def4cdd7 as a copy-pasto.
Backpatch-through: 18
SubPlan nodes are typically built very early, before any RelOptInfos
have been constructed for the parent query level. As a result, the
simple_rel_array in the parent root has not yet been initialized.
Currently, during cost estimation of a SubPlan's testexpr, we may call
examine_variable() to look up statistical data about the expressions.
This can lead to "no relation entry for relid" errors.
To fix, pass root as NULL to cost_qual_eval() in cost_subplan(), since
the root does not yet contain enough information to safely consult
statistics.
One exception is SubPlan nodes built for the initplans of MIN/MAX
aggregates from indexes. In this case, having a NULL root is safe
because testexpr will be NULL. Additionally, an initplan will by
definition not consult anything from the parent plan.
Backpatch to all supported branches. Although the reported call path
that triggers this error is not reachable prior to v17, there's no
guarantee that other code paths -- especially in extensions -- could
not encounter the same issue when cost_qual_eval() is called with a
root that lacks a valid simple_rel_array. The test case is not
included in pre-v17 branches though.
Bug: #19037
Reported-by: Alexander Lakhin <exclusion@gmail.com>
Diagnosed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Author: Richard Guo <guofenglinux@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/19037-3d1c7bb553c7ce84@postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 13
PQtrace() was generating its output for non-printable characters without
casting the characters printed with unsigned char, leading to some extra
"\xffffff" generated in the output due to the fact that char may be
signed.
Oversights introduced by commit 198b3716db, so backpatch down to v14.
Author: Ran Benita <ran@unusedvar.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a3383211-4539-459b-9d51-95c736ef08e0@app.fastmail.com
Backpatch-through: 14
SLRU bank locks are referred as "bank locks" or "SLRU bank locks" in the
code comments. The comments updated in this commit use the latter term.
Oversight in 53c2a97a92, that has replaced the single ControlLock by
the bank control locks.
Author: Julien Rouhaud <julien.rouhaud@free.fr>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/aLUT2UO8RjJOzZNq@jrouhaud
Backpatch-through: 17
Compression in pg_dump is abstracted using an API with multiple
implementations which can be selected at runtime by the user.
The API and its implementations have evolved over time, notable
commits include bf9aa490db, e9960732a9, 84adc8e20, and 0da243fed.
The errorhandling defined by the API was however problematic and
the implementations had a few bugs and/or were not following the
API specification. This commit modifies the API to ensure that
callers can perform errorhandling efficiently and fixes all the
implementations such that they all implement the API in the same
way. A full list of the changes can be seen below.
* write_func:
- Make write_func throw an error on all error conditions. All
callers of write_func were already checking for success and
calling pg_fatal on all errors, so we might as well make the
API support that case directly with simpler errorhandling as
a result.
* open_func:
- zstd: move stream initialization from the open function to
the read and write functions as they can have fatal errors.
Also ensure to dup the file descriptor like none and gzip.
- lz4: Ensure to dup the file descriptor like none and gzip.
* close_func:
- zstd: Ensure to close the file descriptor even if closing
down the compressor fails, and clean up state allocation on
fclose failures. Make sure to capture errors set by fclose.
- lz4: Ensure to close the file descriptor even if closing
down the compressor fails, and instead of calling pg_fatal
log the failures using pg_log_error. Make sure to capture
errors set by fclose.
- none: Make sure to catch errors set by fclose.
* read_func / gets_func:
- Make read_func unconditionally return the number of read
bytes instead of making it optional per implementation.
- lz4: Make sure to call throw an error and not return -1
- gzip: gzread returning zero cannot be assumed to indicate
EOF as it is documented to return zero for some types of
errors.
- lz4, zstd: Convert the _read_internal helper functions to
not call pg_fatal on errors to be able to handle gets_func
returning NULL on error.
* getc_func:
- zstd: Use an unsigned char rather than an int to read char
into.
* LZ4Stream_init:
- Make sure to not switch to inited state until we know that
initialization succeeded and reset errno just in case.
On top of these changes there are minor comment cleanups and
improvements as well as an attempt to consistently reset errno
in codepaths where it is inspected.
This work was initiated by a report of API misuse, which turned
into a larger body of work. As this is an internal API these
changes can be backpatched into all affected branches.
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Author: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
Reported-by: Evgeniy Gorbanev <gorbanyoves@basealt.ru>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/517794.1750082166@sss.pgh.pa.us
Backpatch-through: 16
It's possible that if the only live partition is concurrently dropped
and try_table_open() fails, that the bms_del_member() will pfree the
live_parts Bitmapset. Since the bms_del_member() call does not assign
the result back to the live_parts local variable, the while loop could
segfault as that variable would still reference the pfree'd Bitmapset.
Backpatch to 15. 52f3de874 was backpatched to 14, but there's no
bms_del_member() there due to live_parts not yet existing in RelOptInfo in
that version. Technically there's no bug in version 15 as
bms_del_member() didn't pfree when the set became empty prior to
00b41463c (from v16). Applied to v15 anyway to keep the code similar and
to avoid the bad coding pattern.
Author: Bernd Reiß <bd_reiss@gmx.at>
Reviewed-by: David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/6b88f27a-c45c-4826-8e37-d61a04d90182@gmx.at
Backpatch-through: 15
I think the error message for a different condition was inadvertently
copied.
This problem seems to have been introduced by commit a4d75c86bf.
Author: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@kurilemu.de>
Reported-by: jian he <jian.universality@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Backpatch-through: 14
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CACJufxEZ48toGH0Em_6vdsT57Y3L8pLF=DZCQ_gCii6=C3MeXw@mail.gmail.com
For a child relation, we should not assume that its parent's
unique-ified relation (or unique-ified path in v18) always exists. In
cases where all RHS columns that need to be unique-ified are equated
to constants, the unique-ified relation/path for the parent table is
not built, as there are no columns left to unique-ify. Failing to
account for this can result in a SIGSEGV crash during planning.
This patch checks whether the parent's unique-ified relation or path
exists and skips unique-ification of the child relation if it does
not.
Author: Richard Guo <guofenglinux@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMbWs49MOdLW2c+qbLHHBt8VBu=4ONpM91D19=AWeW93eFUF6A@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 18
Previously, we used LW_EXCLUSIVE in several places despite only reading
WalSummarizerCtl fields. This patch reduces the lock level to LW_SHARED
where we are only reading the shared fields.
Backpatch to 17, where wal summarization was introduced.
Reviewed-by: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAD21AoDdKhf_9oriEYxY-JCdF+Oe_muhca3pcdkMEdBMzyHyKw@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 17
One mechanism we have for implementing semi-joins is to de-duplicate
the output of the RHS and then treat the join as a plain inner join.
Initial construction of the join's SpecialJoinInfo identifies the
RHS columns that need to be de-duplicated, but later we may find that
some of those don't need to be handled explicitly, either because
they're known to be constant or because they are redundant with some
previous column.
Up to now, while sort-based de-duplication handled such cases well,
hash-based de-duplication didn't: we'd still hash on all of the
originally-identified columns. This is probably not a very big
deal performance-wise, but in the wake of commit a3179ab69 it can
cause planner errors. That happens when join elimination causes
recalculation of variables' attr_needed bitmapsets, and we decide
that a variable mentioned in a semijoin clause doesn't need to be
propagated up to the join level anymore.
There are a number of ways we could slice the blame for this, but the
only fix that doesn't result in pessimizing plans for loosely-related
cases is to be more careful about not hashing columns we don't
actually need to de-duplicate. We can install that consideration
into create_unique_paths in master, or the predecessor code in
create_unique_path in v18, without much refactoring.
(As follow-up work, it might be a good idea to look at more-invasive
refactoring, in hopes of preventing other bugs in this area. But
with v18 release so close, there's not time for that now, nor would
we be likely to want to put such refactoring into v18 anyway.)
Reported-by: Sergey Soloviev <sergey.soloviev@tantorlabs.ru>
Diagnosed-by: Richard Guo <guofenglinux@gmail.com>
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Reviewed-by: Richard Guo <guofenglinux@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1fd1a421-4609-4d46-a1af-ab74d5de504a@tantorlabs.ru
Backpatch-through: 18
During an investigation into rather odd aio related errors on macos, observed
by Alexander and Konstantin, we started to wonder if bitfield access is
related to the error. At the moment it looks like it is related, we cannot
reproduce the failures when replacing the bitfields. In addition, the problem
can only be reproduced with some compiler [versions] and not everyone has been
able to reproduce the issue.
The observed problem is that, very rarely, PgAioHandle->{state,target} are in
an inconsistent state, after having been checked to be in a valid state not
long before, triggering an assertion failure. Unfortunately, this could be
caused by wrong compiler code generation or somehow of missing memory barriers
- we don't really know. In theory there should not be any concurrent write
access to the handle in the state the bug is triggered, as the handle was idle
and is just being initialized.
Separately from the bug, we observed that at least gcc and clang generate
rather terrible code for the bitfield access. Even if it's not clear if the
observed assertion failure is actually caused by the bitfield somehow, the bad
code generation alone is sufficient reason to stop using bitfields.
Therefore, replace the enum bitfields with uint8s and instead cast in each
switch statement.
Reported-by: Alexander Lakhin <exclusion@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Konstantin Knizhnik <knizhnik@garret.ru>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1500090.1745443021@sss.pgh.pa.us
Backpatch-through: 18
Commit d31bbfb659 lost some test coverage, because the situation
being tested, a concurrent DROP, cannot happen anymore. Put the test
coverage back with a bit of a trick, by deleting directly from the
catalog table.
Co-authored-by: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Reviewed-by: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/bf72b82c-124d-4efa-a484-bb928e9494e4@eisentraut.org
Commit d31bbfb659 removed the comment at objectNamesToOids() that
there is no locking, because that commit added locking. But to fix
all the problems, we'd still need a stronger lock. So put the comment
back with more a detailed explanation.
Co-authored-by: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Reviewed-by: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/bf72b82c-124d-4efa-a484-bb928e9494e4@eisentraut.org
This patch fixes a bug in how 'load_external_function' handles
'$libdir/ prefixes in module paths.
Previously, 'load_external_function' would unconditionally strip
'$libdir/' from the beginning of the 'filename' string. This caused
an issue when the path was nested, such as "$libdir/nested/my_lib".
Stripping the prefix resulted in a path of "nested/my_lib", which
would fail to be found by the expand_dynamic_library_name function
because the original '$libdir' macro was removed.
To fix this, the code now checks for the presence of an additional
directory separator ('/' or '\') after the '$libdir/' prefix. The
prefix is only stripped if the remaining string does not contain a
separator. This ensures that simple filenames like '"$libdir/my_lib"'
are correctly handled, while nested paths are left intact for
'expand_dynamic_library_name' to process correctly.
Reported-by: Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Matheus Alcantara <matheusssilv97@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Srinath Reddy Sadipiralla <srinath2133@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CAFiTN-uKNzAro4tVwtJhF1UqcygfJ%2BR%2BRL%3Db-_ZMYE3LdHoGhA%40mail.gmail.com
When checking for expression indexes that may be affected by a Unicode
update during upgrade, check for a few more functions. Specifically,
check for documented regexp functions, as well as the new CASEFOLD()
function.
Also, fully-qualify references to pg_catalog.text and
pg_catalog.regtype.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/399b656a3abb0c9283538a040f72199c0601525c.camel@j-davis.com
Backpatch-through: 18
Followup to 4e1e41733 and 52ecd05ae. oauth-utils.c uses
pthread_sigmask(), requiring -pthread on Debian bullseye at minimum.
Reported-by: Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org>
Tested-by: Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/aK4PZgC0wuwQ5xSK%40msg.df7cb.de
Backpatch-through: 18
When vacuumdb's --missing-stats-only option is used, the catalog
query for retrieving the list of relations to process must read
pg_statistic and pg_statistic_ext_data. However, those catalogs
can only be read by superusers by default, so --missing-stats-only
is effectively superuser-only. This is unfortunate, but since the
option is primarily intended for use by administrators after
running pg_upgrade, let's just live with it for v18. This commit
adds a note about the aforementioned privilege requirements to the
documentation for --missing-stats-only.
We first tried to improve matters by modifying the query to read
the pg_stats and pg_stats_ext system views instead. While that is
indeed more lenient from a privilege standpoint, it is also
borderline incomprehensible. pg_stats shows rows for which the
user has the SELECT privilege on the corresponding column, and
pg_stats_ext shows rows for tables the user owns. Meanwhile,
ANALYZE requires either MAINTAIN on the table or, for non-shared
relations, ownership of the database. But even if the privilege
discrepancies were tolerable, the performance impact was not.
Ultimately, the modified query was substantially more expensive, so
we abandoned the idea.
For v19, perhaps we could introduce a simple, inexpensive way to
discover which relations are missing statistics, such as a system
function or view with similar privilege requirements to ANALYZE.
Unfortunately, it is far too late for anything like that in v18.
Reviewed-by: Yugo Nagata <nagata@sraoss.co.jp>
Reviewed-by: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHGQGwHh43suEfss1wvBsk7vqiou%3DUY0zcy8HGyE5hBp%2BHZ7SQ%40mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 18
Commit 4b754d6c1 introduced the concept of an excludeOnly scan key,
which cannot select matching index entries but can reject
non-matching tuples, for example a tsquery such as '!term'. There are
poorly-documented assumptions that such scan keys do not appear as the
first scan key. ginNewScanKey did nothing to ensure that, however,
with the result that certain GIN index searches could go into an
infinite loop while apparently-equivalent queries with the clauses in
a different order were fine.
Fix by teaching ginNewScanKey to place all excludeOnly scan keys
after all not-excludeOnly ones. So far as we know at present,
it might be sufficient to avoid the case where the very first
scan key is excludeOnly; but I'm not very convinced that there
aren't other dependencies on the ordering.
Bug: #19031
Reported-by: Tim Wood <washwithcare@gmail.com>
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/19031-0638148643d25548@postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 13
The CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS call in gingetbitmap turns out to be
inadequate to prevent a long uninterruptible loop, because
we now know a case where looping occurs within scanGetItem.
While the next patch will fix the bug that caused that, it
seems foolish to assume that no similar patterns are possible.
Let's do the CFI within scanGetItem's retry loop, instead.
This demonstrably allows canceling out of the loop exhibited
in bug #19031.
Bug: #19031
Reported-by: Tim Wood <washwithcare@gmail.com>
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/19031-0638148643d25548@postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 13
The Self-Join Elimination SJE feature messes up keeping and removing RowMark's
in remove_self_joins_one_group(). That didn't lead to user-level error,
because the planned RowMark is only used to reference a rtable entry in later
execution stages. An RTE entry for keeping and removing relations is
identical and refers to the same relation OID.
To reduce confusion and prevent future issues, this commit cleans up the code
and fixes the incorrect behaviour. Furthermore, it includes sanity checks in
setrefs.c on existing non-null RTE and RelOptInfo entries for each RowMark.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18c6bd6c-6d2a-419a-b0da-dfedef34b585%40gmail.com
Author: Andrei Lepikhov <lepihov@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Greg Sabino Mullane <htamfids@gmail.com>
Backpatch-through: 18
Rename inner and outer to rrel and krel, respectively, to highlight their
connection to r and k indexes. For the same reason, rename imark and omark
to rmark and kmark.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18c6bd6c-6d2a-419a-b0da-dfedef34b585%40gmail.com
Author: Andrei Lepikhov <lepihov@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Greg Sabino Mullane <htamfids@gmail.com>
Backpatch-through: 18
libpq-oauth uses floor() but did not link against libm. Since libpq
itself uses -lm, nothing in the buildfarm has had problems with
libpq-oauth yet, and it seems difficult to hit a failure in practice.
But commit 1443b6c0e attempted to add an executable based on
libpq-oauth, which ran into link-time failures with Clang due to this
omission. It seems prudent to fix this for both the module and the
executable simultaneously so that no one trips over it in the future.
This is a Makefile-only change. The Meson side already pulls in libm,
through the os_deps dependency.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAOYmi%2Bn6ORcmV10k%2BdAs%2Bp0b9QJ4bfpk0WuHQaF5ODXxM8Y36A%40mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 18
v17 introduced the MAINTAIN ON TABLES privilege. That changed the
applicable "baseacls" reaching buildACLCommands(). That yielded
spurious TestUpgradeXversion diffs. Change to use a TYPES privilege.
Types have the same one privilege in all supported versions, so they
avoid the problem. Per buildfarm. Back-patch to v13, like that commit.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20250823144505.88.nmisch@google.com
Backpatch-through: 13
Commit 0decd5e89d missed DO_DEFAULT_ACL,
leading to assertion failures, potential dump order instability, and
spurious schema diffs. Back-patch to v13, like that commit.
Reported-by: Alexander Lakhin <exclusion@gmail.com>
Author: Kirill Reshke <reshkekirill@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/d32aaa8d-df7c-4f94-bcb3-4c85f02bea21@gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 13
This reverts commit bc22dc0e0d.
It appears that conditional variables are not suitable for use inside
critical sections. If WaitLatch()/WaitEventSetWaitBlock() face postmaster
death, they exit, releasing all locks instead of PANIC. In certain
situations, this leads to data corruption.
Reported-by: Andrey Borodin <x4mmm@yandex-team.ru>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/B3C69B86-7F82-4111-B97F-0005497BB745%40yandex-team.ru
Reviewed-by: Andrey Borodin <x4mmm@yandex-team.ru>
Reviewed-by: Aleksander Alekseev <aleksander@tigerdata.com>
Reviewed-by: Kirill Reshke <reshkekirill@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Tomas Vondra <tomas@vondra.me>
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-by: Yura Sokolov <y.sokolov@postgrespro.ru>
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Backpatch-through: 18
Statistics aren't created for virtual generated columns, so
"vacuumdb --missing-stats-only" always chooses to analyze tables
that have them. To fix, modify vacuumdb's query for retrieving
relations that are missing statistics to exclude those columns.
Oversight in commit edba754f05.
Author: Yugo Nagata <nagata@sraoss.co.jp>
Reviewed-by: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Corey Huinker <corey.huinker@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20250820104226.8ba51e43164cd590b863ce41%40sraoss.co.jp
Backpatch-through: 18
The protocol documentation states that the maximum length of a cancel
key is 256 bytes. This starts checking for that limit in libpq.
Otherwise third party backend implementations will probably start
using more bytes anyway. We also start requiring that a protocol 3.0
connection does not send a longer cancel key, to make sure that
servers don't start breaking old 3.0-only clients by accident. Finally
this also restricts the minimum key length to 4 bytes (both in the
protocol spec and in the libpq implementation).
Author: Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres@jeltef.nl>
Reviewed-by: Jacob Champion <jchampion@postgresql.org>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/df892f9f-5923-4046-9d6f-8c48d8980b50@iki.fi
Backpatch-through: 18
In most cases, if an out-of-memory situation happens, we attach the
error message to the connection and report it at the next
PQgetResult() call. However, there are a few cases, while processing
messages that are not associated with any particular query, where we
handled failed allocations differently and not very nicely:
- If we ran out of memory while processing an async notification,
getNotify() either returned EOF, which stopped processing any
further data until more data was received from the server, or
silently dropped the notification. Returning EOF is problematic
because if more data never arrives, e.g. because the connection was
used just to wait for the notification, or because the next
ReadyForQuery was already received and buffered, it would get stuck
forever. Silently dropping a notification is not nice either.
- (New in v18) If we ran out of memory while receiving BackendKeyData
message, getBackendKeyData() returned EOF, which has the same issues
as in getNotify().
- If we ran out of memory while saving a received a ParameterStatus
message, we just skipped it. A later call to PQparameterStatus()
would return NULL, even though the server did send the status.
Change all those cases to terminate the connnection instead. Our
options for reporting those errors are limited, but it seems better to
terminate than try to soldier on. Applications should handle
connection loss gracefully, whereas silently missing a notification,
parameter status, or cancellation key could cause much weirder
problems.
This also changes the error message on OOM while expanding the input
buffer. It used to report "cannot allocate memory for input buffer",
followed by "lost synchronization with server: got message type ...".
The "lost synchronization" message seems unnecessary, so remove that
and report only "cannot allocate memory for input buffer". (The
comment speculated that the out of memory could indeed be caused by
loss of sync, but that seems highly unlikely.)
This evolved from a more narrow patch by Jelte Fennema-Nio, which was
reviewed by Jacob Champion.
Somewhat arbitrarily, backpatch to v18 but no further. These are
long-standing issues, but we haven't received any complaints from the
field. We can backpatch more later, if needed.
Co-authored-by: Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres@jeltef.nl>
Reviewed-by: Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres@jeltef.nl>
Reviewed-by: Jacob Champion <jchampion@postgresql.org>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/df892f9f-5923-4046-9d6f-8c48d8980b50@iki.fi
Backpatch-through: 18
Commit 1585ff7387 changed GetTransactionSnapshot() to throw an error
if it's called during logical decoding, instead of returning the
historic snapshot. I made that change for extra protection, because a
historic snapshot can only be used to access catalog tables while
GetTransactionSnapshot() is usually called when you're executing
arbitrary queries. You might get very subtle visibility problems if
you tried to use the historic snapshot for arbitrary queries.
There's no built-in code in PostgreSQL that calls
GetTransactionSnapshot() during logical decoding, but it turns out
that the pglogical extension does just that, to evaluate row filter
expressions. You would get weird results if the row filter runs
arbitrary queries, but it is sane as long as you don't access any
non-catalog tables. Even though there are no checks to enforce that in
pglogical, a typical row filter expression does not access any tables
and works fine. Accessing tables marked with the user_catalog_table =
true option is also OK.
To fix pglogical with row filters, and any other extensions that might
do similar things, revert GetTransactionSnapshot() to return a
historic snapshot during logical decoding.
To try to still catch the unsafe usage of historic snapshots, add
checks in heap_beginscan() and index_beginscan() to complain if you
try to use a historic snapshot to scan a non-catalog table. We're very
close to the version 18 release however, so add those new checks only
in master.
Backpatch-through: 18
Reported-by: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Reviewed-by: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20250809222338.cc.nmisch@google.com
Temporary relations may share the same RelFileNumber with a permanent
relation, or other temporary relations associated with other sessions.
Being able to uniquely identify a temporary relation would require
RelidByRelfilenumber() to know about the proc number of the temporary
relation it wants to identify, something it is not designed for since
its introduction in f01d1ae3a1.
There are currently three callers of RelidByRelfilenumber():
- autoprewarm.
- Logical decoding, reorder buffer.
- pg_filenode_relation(), that attempts to find a relation OID based on
a tablespace OID and a RelFileNumber.
This makes the situation problematic particularly for the first two
cases, leading to the possibility of random ERRORs due to
inconsistencies that temporary relations can create in the cache
maintained by RelidByRelfilenumber(). The third case should be less of
an issue, as I suspect that there are few direct callers of
pg_filenode_relation().
The window where the ERRORs are happen is very narrow, requiring an OID
wraparound to create a lookup conflict in RelidByRelfilenumber() with a
temporary table reusing the same OID as another relation already cached.
The problem is easier to reach in workloads with a high OID consumption
rate, especially with a higher number of temporary relations created.
We could get pg_filenode_relation() and RelidByRelfilenumber() to work
with temporary relations if provided the means to identify them with an
optional proc number given in input, but the years have also shown that
we do not have a use case for it, yet. Note that this could not be
backpatched if pg_filenode_relation() needs changes. It is simpler to
ignore temporary relations.
Reported-by: Shenhao Wang <wangsh.fnst@fujitsu.com>
Author: Vignesh C <vignesh21@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh.bapat.oss@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Takamichi Osumi <osumi.takamichi@fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-By: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Reviewed-By: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>
Reported-By: Shenhao Wang <wangsh.fnst@fujitsu.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/bbaaf9f9-ebb2-645f-54bb-34d6efc7ac42@fujitsu.com
Backpatch-through: 13
Nathan Bossart