This makes the -? and -V options work consistently with other binaries.
--help and --version are now only recognized as the first option, i.e.
"ecpg --foobar --help" no longer prints the help, but that's consistent
with most of our other binaries, too.
Backpatch to all supported versions.
Haribabu Kommi
Discussion: <CAJrrPGfnRXvmCzxq6Dy=stAWebfNHxiL+Y_z7uqksZUCkW_waQ@mail.gmail.com>
lazy_truncate_heap() was waiting for
VACUUM_TRUNCATE_LOCK_WAIT_INTERVAL, but in microseconds
not milliseconds as originally intended.
Found by code inspection.
Simon Riggs
mdtruncate() forgot to FileClose() a segment's mdfd_vfd, when deleting
it. That lead to a fd.c handle to a truncated file being kept open until
backend exit.
The issue appears to have been introduced way back in 1a5c450f3024ac5,
before that the handle was closed inside FileUnlink().
The impact of this bug is limited - only VACUUM and ON COMMIT TRUNCATE
for temporary tables, truncate files in place (i.e. TRUNCATE itself is
not affected), and the relation has to be bigger than 1GB. The
consequences of a leaked fd.c handle aren't severe either.
Discussion: <20160908220748.oqh37ukwqqncbl3n@alap3.anarazel.de>
Backpatch: all supported releases
After further reflection about the mess cleaned up in commit 39b691f25,
I decided the main bit of test coverage that was still missing was to
check that the non-default abbreviation-set files we supply are usable.
Add that.
Back-patch to supported branches, just because it seems like a good
idea to keep this all in sync.
Commit b2cbced9e instituted a policy of referring to the timezone database
as the "IANA timezone database" in our user-facing documentation.
Propagate that wording into a couple of places that were still using "zic"
to refer to the database, which is definitely not right (zic is the
compilation tool, not the data).
Back-patch, not because this is very important in itself, but because
we routinely cherry-pick updates to the tznames files and I don't want
to risk future merge failures.
Previously, we threw an error if a dynamic timezone abbreviation did not
match any abbreviation recorded in the referenced IANA time zone entry.
That seemed like a good consistency check at the time, but it turns out
that a number of the abbreviations in the IANA database are things that
Olson and crew made up out of whole cloth. Their current policy is to
remove such names in favor of using simple numeric offsets. Perhaps
unsurprisingly, a lot of these made-up abbreviations have varied in meaning
over time, which meant that our commit b2cbced9e and later changes made
them into dynamic abbreviations. So with newer IANA database versions
that don't mention these abbreviations at all, we fail, as reported in bug
#14307 from Neil Anderson. It's worse than just a few unused-in-the-wild
abbreviations not working, because the pg_timezone_abbrevs view stops
working altogether (since its underlying function tries to compute the
whole view result in one call).
We considered deleting these abbreviations from our abbreviations list, but
the problem with that is that we can't stay ahead of possible future IANA
changes. Instead, let's leave the abbreviations list alone, and treat any
"orphaned" dynamic abbreviation as just meaning the referenced time zone.
It will behave a bit differently than it used to, in that you can't any
longer override the zone's standard vs. daylight rule by using the "wrong"
abbreviation of a pair, but that's better than failing entirely. (Also,
this solution can be interpreted as adding a small new feature, which is
that any abbreviation a user wants can be defined as referencing a time
zone name.)
Back-patch to all supported branches, since this problem affects all
of them when using tzdata 2016f or newer.
Report: <20160902031551.15674.67337@wrigleys.postgresql.org>
Discussion: <6189.1472820913@sss.pgh.pa.us>
This can't really work because standby_mode expects there to be more
WAL arriving, which there will not ever be because there's no WAL
receiver process to fetch it. Moreover, if standby_mode is on then
hot standby might also be turned on, causing even more strangeness
because that expects read-only sessions to be executing in parallel.
Bernd Helmle reported a case where btree_xlog_delete_get_latestRemovedXid
got confused, but rather than band-aiding individual problems it seems
best to prevent getting anywhere near this state in the first place.
Back-patch to all supported branches.
In passing, also fix some omissions of errcodes in other ereport's in
readRecoveryCommandFile().
Michael Paquier (errcode hacking by me)
Discussion: <00F0B2CEF6D0CEF8A90119D4@eje.credativ.lan>
Commit f0c7b789a added a test case in case.sql that creates and then drops
both an '=' operator and the type it's for. Given the right timing, that
can cause a "cache lookup failed for type" failure in concurrent sessions,
which see the '=' operator as a potential match for '=' in a query, but
then the type is gone by the time they inquire into its properties.
It might be nice to make that behavior more robust someday, but as a
back-patchable solution, adjust the new test case so that the operator
is never visible to other sessions. Like the previous commit, back-patch
to all supported branches.
Discussion: <5983.1471371667@sss.pgh.pa.us>
ExecReScanAgg's check for whether it could re-use a previously calculated
hashtable neglected the possibility that the Agg node might reference
PARAM_EXEC Params that are not referenced by its input plan node. That's
okay if the Params are in upper tlist or qual expressions; but if one
appears in aggregate input expressions, then the hashtable contents need
to be recomputed when the Param's value changes.
To avoid unnecessary performance degradation in the case of a Param that
isn't within an aggregate input, add logic to the planner to determine
which Params are within aggregate inputs. This requires a new field in
struct Agg, but fortunately we never write plans to disk, so this isn't
an initdb-forcing change.
Per report from Jeevan Chalke. This has been broken since forever,
so back-patch to all supported branches.
Andrew Gierth, with minor adjustments by me
Report: <CAM2+6=VY8ykfLT5Q8vb9B6EbeBk-NGuLbT6seaQ+Fq4zXvrDcA@mail.gmail.com>
As implemented, -e ran an EXPLAIN but then discarded the output, which
certainly seems pointless. Make it print to stdout instead. It's been
like that forever, so back-patch to all supported branches.
Daniel Gustafsson, reviewed by Andreas Scherbaum
Patch: <B97BDCB7-A3B3-4734-90B5-EDD586941629@yesql.se>
NUMERIC_MAX_PRECISION is a purely arbitrary constraint on the precision
and scale you can write in a numeric typmod. It might once have had
something to do with the allowed range of a typmod-less numeric value,
but at least since 9.1 we've allowed, and documented that we allowed,
any value that would physically fit in the numeric storage format;
which is something over 100000 decimal digits, not 1000.
Hence, get rid of numeric_in()'s use of NUMERIC_MAX_PRECISION as a limit
on the allowed range of the exponent in scientific-format input. That was
especially silly in view of the fact that you can enter larger numbers as
long as you don't use 'e' to do it. Just constrain the value enough to
avoid localized overflow, and let make_result be the final arbiter of what
is too large. Likewise adjust ecpg's equivalent of this code.
Also get rid of numeric_recv()'s use of NUMERIC_MAX_PRECISION to limit the
number of base-NBASE digits it would accept. That created a dump/restore
hazard for binary COPY without doing anything useful; the wire-format
limit on number of digits (65535) is about as tight as we would want.
In HEAD, also get rid of pg_size_bytes()'s unnecessary intimacy with what
the numeric range limit is. That code doesn't exist in the back branches.
Per gripe from Aravind Kumar. Back-patch to all supported branches,
since they all contain the documentation claim about allowed range of
NUMERIC (cf commit cabf5d84b).
Discussion: <2895.1471195721@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Back-patch 9.4-era commit 384f933046dc9e9a2b416f5f7b3be30b93587c63 into
the previous branches. Although that was only advertised as repairing a
problem with missed header-file dependencies, it turns out to also be
important for parallel make safety. The previous coding allowed two
independent make jobs to get launched concurrently in contrib/spi.
Normally this would be OK, because they are building independent targets;
but if --enable-depend is in use, it's unsafe, because one make run might
try to read a .deps file that the other one is in process of rewriting.
This is evidently the cause of buildfarm member francolin's recent failure
in the 9.2 branch. I believe this patch will result in only one subsidiary
make run, making it safe(r).
Report: http://buildfarm.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/show_log.pl?nm=francolin&dt=2016-08-12%2017%3A12%3A52
Several places in NUM_numpart_from_char(), which is called from the SQL
function to_number(text, text), could accidentally read one byte past
the end of the input buffer (which comes from the input text datum and
is not null-terminated).
1. One leading space character would be skipped, but there was no check
that the input was at least one byte long. This does not happen in
practice, but for defensiveness, add a check anyway.
2. Commit 4a3a1e2cf apparently accidentally doubled that code that skips
one space character (so that two spaces might be skipped), but there
was no overflow check before skipping the second byte. Fix by
removing that duplicate code.
3. A logic error would allow a one-byte over-read when looking for a
trailing sign (S) placeholder.
In each case, the extra byte cannot be read out directly, but looking at
it might cause a crash.
The third item was discovered by Piotr Stefaniak, the first two were
found and analyzed by Tom Lane and Peter Eisentraut.
ExecEvalCase() tried to save a cycle or two by passing
&econtext->caseValue_isNull as the isNull argument to its sub-evaluation of
the CASE value expression. If that subexpression itself contained a CASE,
then *isNull was an alias for econtext->caseValue_isNull within the
recursive call of ExecEvalCase(), leading to confusion about whether the
inner call's caseValue was null or not. In the worst case this could lead
to a core dump due to dereferencing a null pointer. Fix by not assigning
to the global variable until control comes back from the subexpression.
Also, avoid using the passed-in isNull pointer transiently for evaluation
of WHEN expressions. (Either one of these changes would have been
sufficient to fix the known misbehavior, but it's clear now that each of
these choices was in itself dangerous coding practice and best avoided.
There do not seem to be any similar hazards elsewhere in execQual.c.)
Also, it was possible for inlining of a SQL function that implements the
equality operator used for a CASE comparison to result in one CASE
expression's CaseTestExpr node being inserted inside another CASE
expression. This would certainly result in wrong answers since the
improperly nested CaseTestExpr would be caused to return the inner CASE's
comparison value not the outer's. If the CASE values were of different
data types, a crash might result; moreover such situations could be abused
to allow disclosure of portions of server memory. To fix, teach
inline_function to check for "bare" CaseTestExpr nodes in the arguments of
a function to be inlined, and avoid inlining if there are any.
Heikki Linnakangas, Michael Paquier, Tom Lane
Report: https://github.com/greenplum-db/gpdb/pull/327
Report: <4DDCEEB8.50602@enterprisedb.com>
Security: CVE-2016-5423
Due to simplistic quoting and confusion of database names with conninfo
strings, roles with the CREATEDB or CREATEROLE option could escalate to
superuser privileges when a superuser next ran certain maintenance
commands. The new coding rule for PQconnectdbParams() calls, documented
at conninfo_array_parse(), is to pass expand_dbname=true and wrap
literal database names in a trivial connection string. Escape
zero-length values in appendConnStrVal(). Back-patch to 9.1 (all
supported versions).
Nathan Bossart, Michael Paquier, and Noah Misch. Reviewed by Peter
Eisentraut. Reported by Nathan Bossart.
Security: CVE-2016-5424
Rename these newly-extern functions with terms more typical of their new
neighbors. No functional changes; a subsequent commit will use them in
more places. Back-patch to 9.1 (all supported versions). Back branches
lack src/fe_utils, so instead rename the functions in place; the
subsequent commit will copy them into the other programs using them.
Security: CVE-2016-5424
Back-patch commit 2953cd6d17210935098c803c52c6df5b12a725b9 and certain
runPgDump() bits of 3dee636e0404885d07885d41c0d70e50c784f324 to 9.2 and
9.1. This synchronizes their doConnStrQuoting() implementations with
later releases. Subsequent security patches will modify that function.
Security: CVE-2016-5424
The incorrect quoting may have permitted arbitrary command execution.
At a minimum, it gave broader control over the command line to actors
supposed to have control over a single argument. Back-patch to 9.1 (all
supported versions).
Security: CVE-2016-5424
These characters prematurely terminate Windows shell command processing,
causing the shell to execute a prefix of the intended command. The
chief alternative to rejecting these characters was to bypass the
Windows shell with CreateProcess(), but the ability to use such names
has little value. Back-patch to 9.1 (all supported versions).
This change formally revokes support for these characters in database
names and roles names. Don't document this; the error message is
self-explanatory, and too few users would benefit. A future major
release may forbid creation of databases and roles so named. For now,
check only at known weak points in pg_dumpall. Future commits will,
without notice, reject affected names from other frontend programs.
Also extend the restriction to pg_dumpall --dbname=CONNSTR arguments and
--file arguments. Unlike the effects on role name arguments and
database names, this does not reflect a broad policy change. A
migration to CreateProcess() could lift these two restrictions.
Reviewed by Peter Eisentraut.
Security: CVE-2016-5424
These programs nominally accepted conninfo strings, but they would
proceed to use the original dbname parameter as though it were an
unadorned database name. This caused "reindexdb dbname=foo" to issue an
SQL command that always failed, and other programs printed a conninfo
string in error messages that purported to print a database name. Fix
both problems by using PQdb() to retrieve actual database names.
Continue to print the full conninfo string when reporting a connection
failure. It is informative there, and if the database name is the sole
problem, the server-side error message will include the name. Beyond
those user-visible fixes, this allows a subsequent commit to synthesize
and use conninfo strings without that implementation detail leaking into
messages. As a side effect, the "vacuuming database" message now
appears after, not before, the connection attempt. Back-patch to 9.1
(all supported versions).
Reviewed by Michael Paquier and Peter Eisentraut.
Security: CVE-2016-5424
The decision to reuse values of parameters from a previous connection
has been based on whether the new target is a conninfo string. Add this
means of overriding that default. This feature arose as one component
of a fix for security vulnerabilities in pg_dump, pg_dumpall, and
pg_upgrade, so back-patch to 9.1 (all supported versions). In 9.3 and
later, comment paragraphs that required update had already-incorrect
claims about behavior when no connection is open; fix those problems.
Security: CVE-2016-5424
In arguments, these meta-commands wrongly treated each pair as closing
the double quoted string. Make the behavior match the documentation.
This is a compatibility break, but I more expect to find software with
untested reliance on the documented behavior than software reliant on
today's behavior. Back-patch to 9.1 (all supported versions).
Reviewed by Tom Lane and Peter Eisentraut.
Security: CVE-2016-5424
If ANALYZE found no repeated non-null entries in its sample, it set the
column's stadistinct value to -1.0, intending to indicate that the entries
are all distinct. But what this value actually means is that the number
of distinct values is 100% of the table's rowcount, and thus it was
overestimating the number of distinct values by however many nulls there
are. This could lead to very poor selectivity estimates, as for example
in a recent report from Andreas Joseph Krogh. We should discount the
stadistinct value by whatever we've estimated the nulls fraction to be.
(That is what will happen if we choose to use a negative stadistinct for
a column that does have repeated entries, so this code path was just
inconsistent.)
In addition to fixing the stadistinct entries stored by several different
ANALYZE code paths, adjust the logic where get_variable_numdistinct()
forces an "all distinct" estimate on the basis of finding a relevant unique
index. Unique indexes don't reject nulls, so there's no reason to assume
that the null fraction doesn't apply.
Back-patch to all supported branches. Back-patching is a bit of a judgment
call, but this problem seems to affect only a few users (else we'd have
identified it long ago), and it's bad enough when it does happen that
destabilizing plan choices in a worse direction seems unlikely.
Patch by me, with documentation wording suggested by Dean Rasheed
Report: <VisenaEmail.26.df42f82acae38a58.156463942b8@tc7-visena>
Discussion: <16143.1470350371@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Beginning with the next development cycle, PG servers will report two-part
not three-part version numbers. Fix libpq so that it will compute the
correct numeric representation of such server versions for reporting by
PQserverVersion(). It's desirable to get this into the field and
back-patched ASAP, so that older clients are more likely to understand the
new server version numbering by the time any such servers are in the wild.
(The results with an old client would probably not be catastrophic anyway
for a released server; for example "10.1" would be interpreted as 100100
which would be wrong in detail but would not likely cause an old client to
misbehave badly. But "10devel" or "10beta1" would result in sversion==0
which at best would result in disabling all use of modern features.)
Extracted from a patch by Peter Eisentraut; comments added by me
Patch: <802ec140-635d-ad86-5fdf-d3af0e260c22@2ndquadrant.com>
DST law changes in Kemerovo and Novosibirsk. Historical corrections for
Azerbaijan, Belarus, and Morocco. Asia/Novokuznetsk and Asia/Novosibirsk
now use numeric time zone abbreviations instead of invented ones. Zones
for Antarctic bases and other locations that have been uninhabited for
portions of the time span known to the tzdata database now report "-00"
rather than "zzz" as the zone abbreviation for those time spans.
Also, I decided to remove some of the timezone/data/ files that we don't
use. At one time that subdirectory was a complete copy of what IANA
distributes in the tzdata tarballs, but that hasn't been true for a long
time. There seems no good reason to keep shipping those specific files
but not others; they're just bloating our tarballs.
The help message for pg_basebackup specifies that the numbers 0 through 9
are accepted as valid values of -Z option. But, previously -Z 0 was rejected
as an invalid compression level.
Per discussion, it's better to make pg_basebackup treat 0 as valid
compression level meaning no compression, like pg_dump.
Back-patch to all supported versions.
Reported-By: Jeff Janes
Reviewed-By: Amit Kapila
Discussion: CAMkU=1x+GwjSayc57v6w87ij6iRGFWt=hVfM0B64b1_bPVKRqg@mail.gmail.com
This text was added by commit ff213239c, and not long thereafter obsoleted
by commit 4adc2f72a (which made the test depend on NBuffers instead); but
nobody noticed the need for an update. Commit 9563d5b5e adds some further
dependency on maintenance_work_mem, but the existing verbiage seems to
cover that with about as much precision as we really want here. Let's
just take it all out rather than leaving ourselves open to more errors of
omission in future. (That solution makes this change back-patchable, too.)
Noted by Peter Geoghegan.
Discussion: <CAM3SWZRVANbj9GA9j40fAwheQCZQtSwqTN1GBTVwRrRbmSf7cg@mail.gmail.com>
Per the fgets() specification, it cannot return without reading some data
unless it reports EOF or error. So the code here assumed that the data
buffer would necessarily be nonempty when we go to check for a newline
having been read. However, Agostino Sarubbo noticed that this could fail
to be true if the first byte of the data is a NUL (\0). The fgets() API
doesn't really work for embedded NULs, which is something I don't feel
any great need for us to worry about since we generally don't allow NULs
in SQL strings anyway. But we should not access off the end of our own
buffer if the case occurs. Normally this would just be a harmless read,
but if you were unlucky the byte before the buffer would contain '\n'
and we'd overwrite it with '\0', and if you were really unlucky that
might be valuable data and psql would crash.
Agostino reported this to pgsql-security, but after discussion we concluded
that it isn't worth treating as a security bug; if you can control the
input to psql you can do far more interesting things than just maybe-crash
it. Nonetheless, it is a bug, so back-patch to all supported versions.
Commits 4452000f3 et al established semantics for NullTest.argisrow that
are a bit different from its initial conception: rather than being merely
a cache of whether we've determined the input to have composite type,
the flag now has the further meaning that we should apply field-by-field
testing as per the standard's definition of IS [NOT] NULL. If argisrow
is false and yet the input has composite type, the construct instead has
the semantics of IS [NOT] DISTINCT FROM NULL. Update the comments in
primnodes.h to clarify this, and fix ruleutils.c and deparse.c to print
such cases correctly. In the case of ruleutils.c, this merely results in
cosmetic changes in EXPLAIN output, since the case can't currently arise
in stored rules. However, it represents a live bug for deparse.c, which
would formerly have sent a remote query that had semantics different
from the local behavior. (From the user's standpoint, this means that
testing a remote nested-composite column for null-ness could have had
unexpected recursive behavior much like that fixed in 4452000f3.)
In a related but somewhat independent fix, make plancat.c set argisrow
to false in all NullTest expressions constructed to represent "attnotnull"
constructs. Since attnotnull is actually enforced as a simple null-value
check, this is a more accurate representation of the semantics; we were
previously overpromising what it meant for composite columns, which might
possibly lead to incorrect planner optimizations. (It seems that what the
SQL spec expects a NOT NULL constraint to mean is an IS NOT NULL test, so
arguably we are violating the spec and should fix attnotnull to do the
other thing. If we ever do, this part should get reverted.)
Back-patch, same as the previous commit.
Discussion: <10682.1469566308@sss.pgh.pa.us>
The docs failed to explain that LIKE INCLUDING INDEXES would not preserve
the names of indexes and associated constraints. Also, it wasn't mentioned
that EXCLUDE constraints would be copied by this option. The latter
oversight seems enough of a documentation bug to justify back-patching.
In passing, do some minor copy-editing in the same area, and add an entry
for LIKE under "Compatibility", since it's not exactly a faithful
implementation of the standard's feature.
Discussion: <20160728151154.AABE64016B@smtp.hushmail.com>
start_postmaster() registered stop_postmaster_atexit as an atexit(3)
callback each time through, although the obvious intention was to do
so only once per program run. The extra registrations were harmless,
so long as we didn't exceed ATEXIT_MAX, but still it's a bug.
Artur Zakirov, with bikeshedding by Kyotaro Horiguchi and me
Discussion: <d279e817-02b5-caa6-215f-cfb05dce109a@postgrespro.ru>
The SQL standard appears to specify that IS [NOT] NULL's tests of field
nullness are non-recursive, ie, we shouldn't consider that a composite
field with value ROW(NULL,NULL) is null for this purpose.
ExecEvalNullTest got this right, but eval_const_expressions did not,
leading to weird inconsistencies depending on whether the expression
was such that the planner could apply constant folding.
Also, adjust the docs to mention that IS [NOT] DISTINCT FROM NULL can be
used as a substitute test if a simple null check is wanted for a rowtype
argument. That motivated reordering things so that IS [NOT] DISTINCT FROM
is described before IS [NOT] NULL. In HEAD, I went a bit further and added
a table showing all the comparison-related predicates.
Per bug #14235. Back-patch to all supported branches, since it's certainly
undesirable that constant-folding should change the semantics.
Report and patch by Andrew Gierth; assorted wordsmithing and revised
regression test cases by me.
Report: <20160708024746.1410.57282@wrigleys.postgresql.org>
In btree_gin and citext, avoid some not-particularly-interesting
dependencies on the sorting of 'aa'. In tsearch2, use COLLATE "C" to
remove an uninteresting dependency on locale sort order (and thereby
allow removal of a variant expected-file).
Also, in citext, avoid assuming that lower('I') = 'i'. This isn't relevant
to Danish but it does fail in Turkish.
Another peculiarity of Danish locale is that it has an unusual idea
of how to sort upper vs. lower case. One of the pltcl test cases has
an issue with that. Now that COLLATE works in all supported branches,
we can just change the test to be locale-independent, and get rid of
the variant expected file that used to support non-C locales.
Back-patch commit 1c1a7cbd6a1600c9, along with subsequent portability
fixes, into all active branches. Also, back-patch commits 696027727 and
596857043 (addition of zic -P option) into 9.1 and 9.2, just to reduce
differences between the branches. src/timezone/ is now largely identical
in all active branches, except that in 9.1, pgtz.c retains the
initial-timezone-selection code that was moved over to initdb in 9.2.
Ordinarily we wouldn't risk this much code churn in back branches, but it
seems necessary in this case, because among the changes are two feature
additions in the "zic" zone data file compiler (a larger limit on the
number of allowed DST transitions, and addition of a "%z" escape in zone
abbreviations). IANA have not yet started to use those features in their
tzdata files, but presumably they will before too long. If we don't update
then we'll be unable to adopt new timezone data. Also, installations built
with --with-system-tzdata (which includes most distro-supplied builds, I
believe) might fail even if we don't update our copies of the data files.
There are assorted bug fixes too, mostly affecting obscure timezones or
post-2037 dates.
Discussion: <13601.1468868947@sss.pgh.pa.us>
The old code used SEQ_MINVALUE to get the smallest int64 value. This
was done as a convenience to avoid having to deal with INT64_IS_BUSTED,
but that is obsolete now. Also, it is incorrect because the smallest
int64 value is actually SEQ_MINVALUE-1. Fix by writing out the constant
the long way, as it is done elsewhere in the code.
