The original intent in heap_page_items() was to return nulls, not
throw an error or crash, if an item was sufficiently corrupt that
we couldn't safely extract data from it. However, commit d6061f83a
utterly missed that memo, and not only put in an un-length-checked
copy of the tuple's data section, but also managed to break the check
on sane nulls-bitmap length. Either mistake could possibly lead to
a SIGSEGV crash if the tuple is corrupt.
Bug: #18896
Reported-by: Dmitry Kovalenko <d.kovalenko@postgrespro.ru>
Author: Dmitry Kovalenko <d.kovalenko@postgrespro.ru>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18896-add267b8e06663e3@postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 13
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 some (char *) casts related to uses of the pg_checksum_page()
function. These casts are useless, because everything involved
already has the right type. Moreover, these casts actually silently
discarded a const qualifier. The declaration of a higher-level
function needs to be adjusted to fix that.
Reviewed-by: Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <ilmari@ilmari.org>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/fd1fcedb-3492-4fc8-9e3e-74b97f2db6c7%40eisentraut.org
This adds a new variant of generated columns that are computed on read
(like a view, unlike the existing stored generated columns, which are
computed on write, like a materialized view).
The syntax for the column definition is
... GENERATED ALWAYS AS (...) VIRTUAL
and VIRTUAL is also optional. VIRTUAL is the default rather than
STORED to match various other SQL products. (The SQL standard makes
no specification about this, but it also doesn't know about VIRTUAL or
STORED.) (Also, virtual views are the default, rather than
materialized views.)
Virtual generated columns are stored in tuples as null values. (A
very early version of this patch had the ambition to not store them at
all. But so much stuff breaks or gets confused if you have tuples
where a column in the middle is completely missing. This is a
compromise, and it still saves space over being forced to use stored
generated columns. If we ever find a way to improve this, a bit of
pg_upgrade cleverness could allow for upgrades to a newer scheme.)
The capabilities and restrictions of virtual generated columns are
mostly the same as for stored generated columns. In some cases, this
patch keeps virtual generated columns more restricted than they might
technically need to be, to keep the two kinds consistent. Some of
that could maybe be relaxed later after separate careful
considerations.
Some functionality that is currently not supported, but could possibly
be added as incremental features, some easier than others:
- index on or using a virtual column
- hence also no unique constraints on virtual columns
- extended statistics on virtual columns
- foreign-key constraints on virtual columns
- not-null constraints on virtual columns (check constraints are supported)
- ALTER TABLE / DROP EXPRESSION
- virtual column cannot have domain type
- virtual columns are not supported in logical replication
The tests in generated_virtual.sql have been copied over from
generated_stored.sql with the keyword replaced. This way we can make
sure the behavior is mostly aligned, and the differences can be
visible. Some tests for currently not supported features are
currently commented out.
Reviewed-by: Jian He <jian.universality@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Shlok Kyal <shlok.kyal.oss@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/a368248e-69e4-40be-9c07-6c3b5880b0a6@eisentraut.org
Here we convert CompactAttribute.attalign from a char, which is directly
derived from pg_attribute.attalign into a uint8, which stores the number
of bytes to align the column's value by in the tuple.
This allows tuple deformation and tuple size calculations to move away
from using the inefficient att_align_nominal() macro, which manually
checks each TYPALIGN_* char to translate that into the alignment bytes
for the given type. Effectively, this commit changes those to TYPEALIGN
calls, which are branchless and only perform some simple arithmetic with
some bit-twiddling.
The removed branches were often mispredicted by CPUs, especially so in
real-world tables which often contain a mishmash of different types
with different alignment requirements.
Author: David Rowley
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund, Victor Yegorov
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvrBztXP3yx=NKNmo3xwFAFhEdyPnvrDg3=M0RhDs+4vYw@mail.gmail.com
The new compact_attrs array stores a few select fields from
FormData_pg_attribute in a more compact way, using only 16 bytes per
column instead of the 104 bytes that FormData_pg_attribute uses. Using
CompactAttribute allows performance-critical operations such as tuple
deformation to be performed without looking at the FormData_pg_attribute
element in TupleDesc which means fewer cacheline accesses.
For some workloads, tuple deformation can be the most CPU intensive part
of processing the query. Some testing with 16 columns on a table
where the first column is variable length showed around a 10% increase in
transactions per second for an OLAP type query performing aggregation on
the 16th column. However, in certain cases, the increases were much
higher, up to ~25% on one AMD Zen4 machine.
This also makes pg_attribute.attcacheoff redundant. A follow-on commit
will remove it, thus shrinking the FormData_pg_attribute struct by 4
bytes.
Author: David Rowley
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund, Victor Yegorov
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvrBztXP3yx=NKNmo3xwFAFhEdyPnvrDg3=M0RhDs+4vYw@mail.gmail.com
Commit dae761a87e modified brin_page_items() to return the new "empty"
flag for each BRIN range. But the new output parameter was added in the
middle, which may cause crashes when using the new binary with old
function definition.
The ideal solution would be to introduce API versioning similar to what
pg_stat_statements does, but it's too late for that as PG17 was already
released (so we can't introduce a new extension version). We could do
something similar in brin_page_items() by checking the number of output
columns (and ignoring the new flag), but it doesn't seem very nice.
Instead, simply error out and suggest updating the extension to the
latest version. pageinspect is a superuser-only extension, and there's
not much reason to run an older version. Moreover, there's a precedent
for this approach in 691e8b2e18.
Reported by Ľuboslav Špilák, investigation and patch by me. Backpatch to
17, same as dae761a87e.
Reported-by: Ľuboslav Špilák
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier, Hayato Kuroda, Peter Geoghegan
Backpatch-through: 17
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/VI1PR02MB63331C3D90E2104FD12399D38A5D2@VI1PR02MB6333.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/flat/3385a58f-5484-49d0-b790-9a198a0bf236@vondra.me
I managed to break this test in two different ways in commit
05036a3155.
First, the output of the new call to tuple_data_split() on the test
sequence is dependent on endianness. This is fixed by setting a
special start value for the test sequence that produces the same
output regardless of the endianness of the machine.
Second, on versions older than v15, the new test case fails under
"force_parallel_mode = regress" with the following error:
ERROR: cannot access temporary tables during a parallel operation
This is because pageinspect's disk-accessing functions are
incorrectly marked PARALLEL SAFE on versions older than v15 (see
commit aeaaf520f4 for details). This one is fixed by changing the
test sequence to be permanent. The only reason it was previously
marked temporary was to avoid needing a DROP SEQUENCE command at
the end of the test. Unlike some other tests in this file, the use
of a permanent sequence here shouldn't result in any test
instability like what was fixed by commit e2933a6e11.
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ZuOKOut5hhDlf_bP%40nathan
Backpatch-through: 12
Commit 4b82664156 restricted a number of functions provided by
contrib modules to only relations that use the "heap" table access
method. Sequences always use this table access method, but they do
not advertise as such in the pg_class system catalog, so the
aforementioned commit also (presumably unintentionally) removed
support for sequences from some of these functions. This commit
reintroduces said support for sequences to these functions and adds
a couple of relevant tests.
Co-authored-by: Ayush Vatsa
Reviewed-by: Robert Haas, Michael Paquier, Matthias van de Meent
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CACX%2BKaP3i%2Bi9tdPLjF5JCHVv93xobEdcd_eB%2B638VDvZ3i%3DcQA%40mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 12
As explained in 4d916dd876, the test instability is caused by delayed
cleanup of deleted rows. This commit removes the DELETE, stabilizing the
test without accidentally disabling parallel builds.
The intent of the delete however was to produce empty ranges, and test
that the parallel index build populates those correctly. But there's
another way to create empty ranges - partial indexes, which does not
rely on cleanup of deleted rows.
Idea to use partial indexes by Matthias van de Meent, patch by me.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/95d9cd43-5a92-407c-b7e4-54cd303630fe%40enterprisedb.com
The test for parallel create of BRIN indexes added by commit 8225c2fd40
happens to be unstable - a background transaction (e.g. auto-analyze)
may hold back global xmin for the initial VACUUM / CREATE INDEX. If the
cleanup happens before the next CREATE INDEX, the indexes will not be
exactly the same.
This is the same issue as e2933a6e11, so fix it the same way by making
the table TEMPORARY, which uses an up-to-date cutoff xmin that is not
held back by other processes.
Reported by Alexander Lakhin, who also suggested the fix.
Author: Alexander Lakhin
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/b58901cd-a7cc-29c6-e2b1-e3d7317c3c69@gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2892135.1668976646@sss.pgh.pa.us
Adds a regression test for parallel CREATE INDEX for BRIN indexes, to
improve coverage for BRIN code, particularly code to allow parallel
index builds introduced by b437571714.
The test is added to pageinspect, as that allows comparing the index to
one built without parallelism. Another option would be to just build the
index with parallelism and then check it produces correct results. But
checking the index is exactly as if built without parallelism makes
these query checks unnecessary.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1df00a66-db5a-4e66-809a-99b386a06d86%40enterprisedb.com
The new facility makes it easier to optimize bulk loading, as the
logic for buffering, WAL-logging, and syncing the relation only needs
to be implemented once. It's also less error-prone: We have had a
number of bugs in how a relation is fsync'd - or not - at the end of a
bulk loading operation. By centralizing that logic to one place, we
only need to write it correctly once.
The new facility is faster for small relations: Instead of of calling
smgrimmedsync(), we register the fsync to happen at next checkpoint,
which avoids the fsync latency. That can make a big difference if you
are e.g. restoring a schema-only dump with lots of relations.
It is also slightly more efficient with large relations, as the WAL
logging is performed multiple pages at a time. That avoids some WAL
header overhead. The sorted GiST index build did that already, this
moves the buffering to the new facility.
The changes to pageinspect GiST test needs an explanation: Before this
patch, the sorted GiST index build set the LSN on every page to the
special GistBuildLSN value, not the LSN of the WAL record, even though
they were WAL-logged. There was no particular need for it, it just
happened naturally when we wrote out the pages before WAL-logging
them. Now we WAL-log the pages first, like in B-tree build, so the
pages are stamped with the record's real LSN. When the build is not
WAL-logged, we still use GistBuildLSN. To make the test output
predictable, use an unlogged index.
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/30e8f366-58b3-b239-c521-422122dd5150%40iki.fi
This function reads directly a page from a relation, relying on
index_open() to open the index to read from. Unfortunately, this would
crash when using partitioned indexes, as these can be opened with
index_open() but they have no physical pages.
Alexander has fixed the module, while I have written the test.
Author: Alexander Lakhin, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18246-f4d9ff7cb3af77e6@postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 12
When building BRIN indexes, the brinbuildCallback only advances to the
next page range when seeing a tuple that doesn't belong to the current
one. This means that the index may end up missing ranges at the end of
the table, if those pages do not contain any indexable tuples.
We tend not to have completely empty pages at the end of a relation, but
this also applies to partial indexes, where the tuples may simply not
match the index predicate. This results in inefficient scans using the
affected BRIN index - without the summaries, the page ranges have to be
read and processed, which consumes I/O and possibly also CPU time.
The existing code already added empty ranges for earlier parts of the
table, this commit makes sure we add them for the ranges at the end of
the table too.
Patch by Matthias van de Meent, with review/improvements by me.
Author: Matthias van de Meent
Reviewed-by: Tomas Vondra
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEze2WiMsPZg%3DxkvSF_jt4%3D69k6K7gz5B8V2wY3gCGZ%2B1BzCbQ%40mail.gmail.com
Non-leaf pages of GiST indexes contain key attributes, leaf pages
contain both key and non-key attributes, and gist_page_items() ignored
the handling of non-key attributes. This caused a few problems when
using gist_page_items() on a GiST index with INCLUDE:
- On a non-leaf page, the function would crash.
- On a leaf page, the function would work, but miss to display all the
values for included attributes.
This commit fixes gist_page_items() to handle such cases in a more
appropriate way, and now displays the values of key and non-key
attributes for each item separately in a style consistent with what
ruleutils.c would generate for the attribute list, depending on the page
type dealt with. In a way similar to how a record is displayed, values
would be double-quoted for key or non-key attributes if required.
ruleutils.c did not provide a routine able to control if non-key
attributes should be displayed, so an extended() routine for index
definitions is added to work around the leaf and non-leaf page
differences.
While on it, this commit fixes a third problem related to the amount of
data reported for key attributes. The code originally relied on
BuildIndexValueDescription() (used for error reports on constraints)
that would not print all the data stored in the index but the index
opclass's input type, so this limited the amount of information
available. This switch makes gist_page_items() much cheaper as there is
no need to run ACL checks for each item printed, which is not an issue
anyway as superuser rights are required to execute the functions of
pageinspect. Opclasses whose data cannot be displayed can rely on
gist_page_items_bytea().
The documentation of this function was slightly incorrect for the
output results generated on HEAD and v15, so adjust it on these
branches.
Author: Alexander Lakhin, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17884-cb8c326522977acb@postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 14
Commit 3581cbdcd6 added a flag to identify empty BRIN ranges. This adds
the new flag to brin_page_items() output.
This is kept as a separate commit as it should not be backpatched.
Reviewed-by: Justin Pryzby, Matthias van de Meent, Alvaro Herrera
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/402430e4-7d9d-6cf1-09ef-464d80afff3b@enterprisedb.com
Attempting to use this function with a raw page not coming from a GiST
index would cause a crash, as it was missing the same sanity checks as
gist_page_items_bytea(). This slightly refactors the code so as all the
basic validation checks for GiST pages are done in a single routine,
in the same fashion as the pageinspect functions for hash and BRIN.
This fixes an issue similar to 076f4d9. A test is added to stress for
this case. While on it, I have added a similar test for
brin_page_items() with a combination make of a valid GiST index and a
raw btree page. This one was already protected, but it was not tested.
Reported-by: Egor Chindyaskin
Author: Dmitry Koval
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17815-fc4a2d3b74705703@postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 14
This is like the existing bt_page_stats() function, but it can
report on a range of pages rather than just one at a time.
I don't have a huge amount of faith in the portability of the
new test cases, but they do pass in a 32-bit FreeBSD VM here.
Further adjustment may be needed depending on buildfarm results.
Hamid Akhtar, reviewed by Naeem Akhter, Bertrand Drouvot,
Bharath Rupireddy, and myself
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CANugjht-=oGMRmNJKMqnBC69y7vr+wHDmm0ZK6-1pJsxoBKBbA@mail.gmail.com
These functions have been marked parallel safe, but the buildfarm's
response to commit e2933a6e1 exposed the flaw in that thinking:
if you try to use them on a temporary table, and they run inside
a parallel worker, they'll fail with "cannot access temporary tables
during a parallel operation".
Fix that by marking them parallel restricted instead. Maybe someday
we'll have a better answer and can reverse this decision.
Back-patch to v15. To go back further, we'd have to devise variant
versions of pre-1.10 pageinspect versions. Given the lack of field
complaints, it doesn't seem worth the trouble. We'll just deem
this case unsupported pre-v15. (If anyone does complain, it might
be good enough to update the markings manually in their DBs.)
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1ox94a-000EHu-VH@gemulon.postgresql.org
pageinspect has occasionally failed on slow buildfarm members,
with symptoms indicating that the expected effects of VACUUM
FREEZE didn't happen. This is presumably because a background
transaction such as auto-analyze was holding back global xmin.
We can work around that by using a temp table in the test.
Since commit a7212be8b, that will use an up-to-date cutoff xmin
regardless of other processes. And pageinspect itself shouldn't
really care whether the table is temp.
Back-patch to v14. There would be no point in older branches
without back-patching a7212be8b, which seems like more trouble
than the problem is worth.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2892135.1668976646@sss.pgh.pa.us
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
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
Since these macros just cast whatever you give them to the designated
output type, and many normal uses also cast the output type further, a
number of incorrect uses go undiscovered. The fixes in this patch
have been discovered by changing these macros to inline functions,
which is the subject of a future patch.
Reviewed-by: Aleksander Alekseev <aleksander@timescale.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/8528fb7e-0aa2-6b54-85fb-0c0886dbd6ed%40enterprisedb.com
This replaces all MemSet() calls with struct initialization where that
is easily and obviously possible. (For example, some cases have to
worry about padding bits, so I left those.)
(The same could be done with appropriate memset() calls, but this
patch is part of an effort to phase out MemSet(), so it doesn't touch
memset() calls.)
Reviewed-by: Ranier Vilela <ranier.vf@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/9847b13c-b785-f4e2-75c3-12ec77a3b05c@enterprisedb.com
Remove PageIsValid() and PageSizeIsValid(), which weren't used and
seem unnecessary.
Some code using these formerly-macros needs some adjustments because
it was previously playing loose with the Page vs. PageHeader types,
which is no longer possible with the functions instead of macros.
Reviewed-by: Amul Sul <sulamul@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/5b558da8-99fb-0a99-83dd-f72f05388517%40enterprisedb.com
There were many calls to construct_array() and deconstruct_array() for
built-in types, for example, when dealing with system catalog columns.
These all hardcoded the type attributes necessary to pass to these
functions.
To simplify this a bit, add construct_array_builtin(),
deconstruct_array_builtin() as wrappers that centralize this hardcoded
knowledge. This simplifies many call sites and reduces the amount of
hardcoded stuff that is spread around.
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/2914356f-9e5f-8c59-2995-5997fc48bcba%40enterprisedb.com
Getting from get_raw_page() an all-zero page is considered as a valid
case by the buffer manager and it can happen for example when finding a
corrupted page with zero_damaged_pages enabled (using zero_damaged_pages
to look at corrupted pages happens), or after a crash when a relation
file is extended before any WAL for its new data is generated (before a
vacuum or autovacuum job comes in to do some cleanup).
However, all the functions of pageinspect, as of the index AMs (except
hash that has its own idea of new pages), heap, the FSM or the page
header have never worked with all-zero pages, causing various crashes
when going through the page internals.
This commit changes all the pageinspect functions to be compliant with
all-zero pages, where the choice is made to return NULL or no rows for
SRFs when finding a new page. get_raw_page() still works the same way,
returning a batch of zeros in the bytea of the page retrieved. A hard
error could be used but NULL, while more invasive, is useful when
scanning relation files in full to get a batch of results for a single
relation in one query. Tests are added for all the code paths
impacted.
Reported-by: Daria Lepikhova
Author: Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/561e187b-3549-c8d5-03f5-525c14e65bd0@postgrespro.ru
Backpatch-through: 10
These five code paths are the last ones that made use of
PageGetSpecialPointer() to get the special area of such pages, while
those index AMs have already macros to do this job.
Noticed while reviewing the use PageGetSpecialPointer() in the whole
tree, in relation to the recent commit d16773c.
This makes the code more consistent with SpGiST, GiST and GIN, that
already use this style, and the idea is to make easier the introduction
of more sanity checks for each of these AM-specific macros. BRIN uses a
different set of macros to get a page's type and flags, so it has no
need for something similar.
Author: Matthias van de Meent
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEze2WjE3+tGO9Fs9+iZMU+z6mMZKo54W1Zt98WKqbEUHbHOBg@mail.gmail.com
A couple of code paths use the special area on the page passed by the
function caller, expecting to find some data in it. However, feeding
an incorrect page can lead to out-of-bound reads when trying to access
the page special area (like a heap page that has no special area,
leading PageGetSpecialPointer() to grab a pointer outside the allocated
page).
The functions used for hash and btree indexes have some protection
already against that, while some other functions using a relation OID
as argument would make sure that the access method involved is correct,
but functions taking in input a raw page without knowing the relation
the page is attached to would run into problems.
This commit improves the set of checks used in the code paths of BRIN,
btree (including one check if a leaf page is found with a non-zero
level), GIN and GiST to verify that the page given in input has a
special area size that fits with each access method, which is done
though PageGetSpecialSize(), becore calling PageGetSpecialPointer().
The scope of the checks done is limited to work with pages that one
would pass after getting a block with get_raw_page(), as it is possible
to craft byteas that could bypass existing code paths. Having too many
checks would also impact the usability of pageinspect, as the existing
code is very useful to look at the content details in a corrupted page,
so the focus is really to avoid out-of-bound reads as this is never a
good thing even with functions whose execution is limited to
superusers.
The safest approach could be to rework the functions so as these fetch a
block using a relation OID and a block number, but there are also cases
where using a raw page is useful.
Tests are added to cover all the code paths that needed such checks, and
an error message for hash indexes is reworded to fit better with what
this commit adds.
Reported-By: Alexander Lakhin
Author: Julien Rouhaud, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16527-ef7606186f0610a1@postgresql.org
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/561e187b-3549-c8d5-03f5-525c14e65bd0@postgrespro.ru
Backpatch-through: 10
This caused the function to fail, as the aligned copy of the raw page
given by the function caller was not saved in the correct memory
context, which needs to be multi_call_memory_ctx in this case.
Issue introduced by 076f4d9.
Per buildfarm members sifika, mylodon and longfin. I have reproduced
that locally with macos.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/YjFPOtfCW6yLXUeM@paquier.xyz
Backpatch-through: 10
This commit fixes a set of issues related to the use of the SQL
functions in this module when the caller is able to pass down raw page
data as input argument:
- The page size check was fuzzy in a couple of places, sometimes
looking after only a sub-range, but what we are looking for is an exact
match on BLCKSZ. After considering a few options here, I have settled
down to do a generalization of get_page_from_raw(). Most of the SQL
functions already used that, and this is not strictly required if not
accessing an 8-byte-wide value from a raw page, but this feels safer in
the long run for alignment-picky environment, particularly if a code
path begins to access such values. This also reduces the number of
strings that need to be translated.
- The BRIN function brin_page_items() uses a Relation but it did not
check the access method of the opened index, potentially leading to
crashes. All the other functions in need of a Relation already did
that.
- Some code paths could fail on elog(), but we should to use ereport()
for failures that can be triggered by the user.
Tests are added to stress all the cases that are fixed as of this
commit, with some junk raw pages (\set VERBOSITY ensures that this works
across all page sizes) and unexpected index types when functions open
relations.
Author: Michael Paquier, Justin Prysby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220218030020.GA1137@telsasoft.com
Backpatch-through: 10
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
Tom Lane