Introduce TimestampDifferenceMilliseconds() to simplify callers
that would rather have the difference in milliseconds, instead of
the select()-oriented seconds-and-microseconds format. This gets
rid of at least one integer division per call, and it eliminates
some apparently-easy-to-mess-up arithmetic.
Two of these call sites were in fact wrong:
* pg_prewarm's autoprewarm_main() forgot to multiply the seconds
by 1000, thus ending up with a delay 1000X shorter than intended.
That doesn't quite make it a busy-wait, but close.
* postgres_fdw's pgfdw_get_cleanup_result() thought it needed to compute
microseconds not milliseconds, thus ending up with a delay 1000X longer
than intended. Somebody along the way had noticed this problem but
misdiagnosed the cause, and imposed an ad-hoc 60-second limit rather
than fixing the units. This was relatively harmless in context, because
we don't care that much about exactly how long this delay is; still,
it's wrong.
There are a few more callers of TimestampDifference() that don't
have a direct need for seconds-and-microseconds, but can't use
TimestampDifferenceMilliseconds() either because they do need
microsecond precision or because they might possibly deal with
intervals long enough to overflow 32-bit milliseconds. It might be
worth inventing another API to improve that, but that seems outside
the scope of this patch; so those callers are untouched here.
Given the fact that we are fixing some bugs, and the likelihood
that future patches might want to back-patch code that uses this
new API, back-patch to all supported branches.
Alexey Kondratov and Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3b1c053a21c07c1ed5e00be3b2b855ef@postgrespro.ru
Summarily changing the STYPE of regression-test aggregates that
depend on array_append or array_cat is an issue for the buildfarm's
cross-version-upgrade tests, because those aggregates (as defined
in the back branches) now won't load into HEAD. Although this seems
like only a minimal risk for genuine user-defined aggregates, we
need to do something for the buildfarm. Hence, adjust the aggregate
definitions, in both HEAD and the back branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1401824.1604537031@sss.pgh.pa.us
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1kaQ2c-0005lx-Eg@gemulon.postgresql.org
If an interactive psql session used \gset when querying a compromised
server, the attacker could execute arbitrary code as the operating
system account running psql. Using a prefix not found among specially
treated variables, e.g. every lowercase string, precluded the attack.
Fix by issuing a warning and setting no variable for the column in
question. Users wanting the old behavior can use a prefix and then a
meta-command like "\set HISTSIZE :prefix_HISTSIZE". Back-patch to 9.5
(all supported versions).
Reviewed by Robert Haas. Reported by Nick Cleaton.
Security: CVE-2020-25696
Specifically, this blocks DECLARE ... WITH HOLD and firing of deferred
triggers within index expressions and materialized view queries. An
attacker having permission to create non-temp objects in at least one
schema could execute arbitrary SQL functions under the identity of the
bootstrap superuser. One can work around the vulnerability by disabling
autovacuum and not manually running ANALYZE, CLUSTER, REINDEX, CREATE
INDEX, VACUUM FULL, or REFRESH MATERIALIZED VIEW. (Don't restore from
pg_dump, since it runs some of those commands.) Plain VACUUM (without
FULL) is safe, and all commands are fine when a trusted user owns the
target object. Performance may degrade quickly under this workaround,
however. Back-patch to 9.5 (all supported versions).
Reviewed by Robert Haas. Reported by Etienne Stalmans.
Security: CVE-2020-25695
Fractional colwidths seem not to work in the openjade toolchain.
Since we have no colwidth specs anywhere else in pre-v10 branches,
let's just drop the ones introduced by commits ee59f669b/35b12948a.
brin_form_tuple failed to consider the values may be toasted, inserting
the toast pointer into the index. This may easily result in index
corruption, as the toast data may be deleted and cleaned up by vacuum.
The cleanup however does not care about indexes, leaving invalid toast
pointers behind, which triggers errors like this:
ERROR: missing chunk number 0 for toast value 16433 in pg_toast_16426
A less severe consequence are inconsistent failures due to the index row
being too large, depending on whether brin_form_tuple operated on plain
or toasted version of the row. For example
CREATE TABLE t (val TEXT);
INSERT INTO t VALUES ('... long value ...')
CREATE INDEX idx ON t USING brin (val);
would likely succeed, as the row would likely include toast pointer.
Switching the order of INSERT and CREATE INDEX would likely fail:
ERROR: index row size 8712 exceeds maximum 8152 for index "idx"
because this happens before the row values are toasted.
The bug exists since PostgreSQL 9.5 where BRIN indexes were introduced.
So backpatch all the way back.
Author: Tomas Vondra
Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera
Backpatch-through: 9.5
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20201001184133.oq5uq75sb45pu3aw@development
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20201104010544.zexj52mlldagzowv%40development
Revert 59ab4ac32, as well as the followup fix 33862cb9c, in all
branches. We need to think a bit harder about what the behavior
of LOCK TABLE on views should be, and there's no time for that
before next week's releases. We'll take another crack at this
later.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16703-e348f58aab3cf6cc@postgresql.org
Revert 403a3d91c, as well as the followup fix 7f4235032, in all
branches. We need to think a bit harder about what the behavior
of LOCK TABLE on views should be, and there's no time for that
before next week's releases. We'll take another crack at this
later.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16703-e348f58aab3cf6cc@postgresql.org
Commits 59ab4ac32 et al mistakenly copied-and-pasted some text about
how LOCK on a view recurses to referenced tables into pre-v11 branches,
which in fact don't do that. Undo that, and instead state clearly
that they don't. (I also chose to add a note that this behavior
changed in v11. We usually don't back-patch such statements, but
since it's easy to add the warning now, might as well.)
Noted while considering followup fixes for bug #16703.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16703-e348f58aab3cf6cc@postgresql.org
The intention in commit 491c029db was to require superuserness to
change the BYPASSRLS property, but the actual effect of the coding
in AlterRole() was to require superuserness to change anything at all
about a BYPASSRLS role. Other properties of a BYPASSRLS role should
be changeable under the same rules as for a normal role, though.
Fix that, and also take care of some documentation omissions related
to BYPASSRLS and REPLICATION role properties.
Tom Lane and Stephen Frost, per bug report from Wolfgang Walther.
Back-patch to all supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a5548a9f-89ee-3167-129d-162b5985fcf8@technowledgy.de
Although error results received from the backend should always have
a SQLSTATE field, ones generated by libpq won't, making this code
vulnerable to a crash after, say, untimely loss of connection.
Noted by Coverity.
Oversight in commit 403a3d91c. Back-patch to 9.5, as that was.
In almost all other places, we use plain "r" or "w" mode in popen()
calls (the exceptions being for COPY data). This one has been
overlooked (possibly because it's buried in a ".l" flex file?),
but it's using PG_BINARY_R.
Kensuke Okamura complained in bug #16688 that we fail to strip \r
when stripping the trailing newline from a backtick result string.
That's true enough, but we'd also fail to convert embedded \r\n
cleanly, which also seems undesirable. Fixing the popen() mode
seems like the best way to deal with this.
It's been like this for a long time, so back-patch to all supported
branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16688-c649c7b69cd7e6f8@postgresql.org
EventTriggerAlterTableEnd neglected to make sure that it built its
output list in the right context. In simple cases this was masked
because the function is called in PortalContext which will be
sufficiently long-lived anyway; but that doesn't make it not a bug.
Commit ced138e8c fixed this in HEAD and v13, but mistakenly chose
not to back-patch further. Back-patch the same code change all
the way (I didn't bother with the test case though, as it would
prove nothing in pre-v13 branches).
Per report from Arseny Sher.
Original fix by Jehan-Guillaume de Rorthais.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/877drcyprb.fsf@ars-thinkpad
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200902193715.6e0269d4@firost
Now that LOCK TABLE can take any relation type, acquire lock on all
relations that are to be dumped. This prevents schema changes or
deadlock errors that could cause a dump to fail after expending much
effort. The server is tested to have the capability and the feature
disabled if it doesn't, so that a patched pg_dump doesn't fail when
connecting to an unpatched server.
Backpatch to 9.5.
Author: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Reported-by: Wells Oliver <wells.oliver@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20201021200659.GA32358@alvherre.pgsql
The restriction that only tables and views can be locked by LOCK TABLE
is quite arbitrary, since the underlying mechanism can lock any relation
type. Drop the restriction so that programs such as pg_dump can lock
all relations they're interested in, preventing schema changes that
could cause a dump to fail after expending much effort.
Backpatch to 9.5.
Author: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Reported-by: Wells Oliver <wells.oliver@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20201021200659.GA32358@alvherre.pgsql
We must not set the "done" flag until after we've executed the
initialization function. Otherwise, other threads can fall through
the initial unlocked test before initialization is really complete.
This has been seen to cause rare failures of ecpg's thread/descriptor
test, and it could presumably cause other sorts of misbehavior in
threaded ECPG-using applications, since ecpglib relies on
pthread_once() in several places.
Diagnosis and patch by me, based on investigation by Alexander Lakhin.
Back-patch to all supported branches (the bug dates to 2007).
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16685-d6cd241872c101d3@postgresql.org
There's no functional change at all here, but I'm curious to see
whether this change successfully shuts up Coverity's warning about
a useless strcmp(), which appeared with the previous update.
Discussion: http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2020-October/029370.html
psql's \connect claims to be able to re-use previous connection
parameters, but in fact it only re-uses the database name, user name,
host name (and possibly hostaddr, depending on version), and port.
This is problematic for assorted use cases. Notably, pg_dump[all]
emits "\connect databasename" commands which we would like to have
re-use all other parameters. If such a script is loaded in a psql run
that initially had "-d connstring" with some non-default parameters,
those other parameters would be lost, potentially causing connection
failure. (Thus, this is the same kind of bug addressed in commits
a45bc8a4f and 8e5793ab6, although the details are much different.)
To fix, redesign do_connect() so that it pulls out all properties
of the old PGconn using PQconninfo(), and then replaces individual
properties in that array. In the case where we don't wish to re-use
anything, get libpq's default settings using PQconndefaults() and
replace entries in that, so that we don't need different code paths
for the two cases.
This does result in an additional behavioral change for cases where
the original connection parameters allowed multiple hosts, say
"psql -h host1,host2", and the \connect request allows re-use of the
host setting. Because the previous coding relied on PQhost(), it
would only permit reconnection to the same host originally selected.
Although one can think of scenarios where that's a good thing, there
are others where it is not. Moreover, that behavior doesn't seem to
meet the principle of least surprise, nor was it documented; nor is
it even clear it was intended, since that coding long pre-dates the
addition of multi-host support to libpq. Hence, this patch is content
to drop it and re-use the host list as given.
Per Peter Eisentraut's comments on bug #16604. Back-patch to all
supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16604-933f4b8791227b15@postgresql.org
In shm_mq_receive(), a huge payload could trigger an unjustified
"invalid memory alloc request size" error due to the way the buffer
size is increased.
Add error checks (documenting the upper limit) and avoid the error by
limiting the allocation size to MaxAllocSize.
Author: Markus Wanner <markus.wanner@2ndquadrant.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/3bb363e7-ac04-0ac4-9fe8-db1148755bfa%402ndquadrant.com
When told to process all databases, clusterdb, reindexdb, and vacuumdb
would reconnect by replacing their --maintenance-db parameter with the
name of the target database. If that parameter is a connstring (which
has been allowed for a long time, though we failed to document that
before this patch), we'd lose any other options it might specify, for
example SSL or GSS parameters, possibly resulting in failure to connect.
Thus, this is the same bug as commit a45bc8a4f fixed in pg_dump and
pg_restore. We can fix it in the same way, by using libpq's rules for
handling multiple "dbname" parameters to add the target database name
separately. I chose to apply the same refactoring approach as in that
patch, with a struct to handle the command line parameters that need to
be passed through to connectDatabase. (Maybe someday we can unify the
very similar functions here and in pg_dump/pg_restore.)
Per Peter Eisentraut's comments on bug #16604. Back-patch to all
supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16604-933f4b8791227b15@postgresql.org
- Misc grammar and punctuation fixes.
- Stylistic cleanup: use spaces between function arguments and JSON fields
in examples. For example "foo(a,b)" -> "foo(a, b)". Add semicolon after
last END in a few PL/pgSQL examples that were missing them.
- Make sentence that talked about "..." and ".." operators more clear,
by avoiding to end the sentence with "..". That makes it look the same
as "..."
- Fix syntax description for HAVING: HAVING conditions cannot be repeated
Patch by Justin Pryzby, per Yaroslav Schekin's report. Backpatch to all
supported versions, to the extent that the patch applies easily.
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20201005191922.GE17626%40telsasoft.com
The Windows documentation insists that every WSAStartup call should
have a matching WSACleanup call. However, if that ever had actual
relevance, it wasn't in this century. Every remotely-modern Windows
kernel is capable of cleaning up when a process exits without doing
that, and must be so to avoid resource leaks in case of a process
crash. Moreover, Postgres backends have done WSAStartup without
WSACleanup since commit 4cdf51e64 in 2004, and we've never seen any
indication of a problem with that.
libpq's habit of doing WSAStartup during connection start and
WSACleanup during shutdown is also rather inefficient, since a
series of non-overlapping connection requests leads to repeated,
quite expensive DLL unload/reload cycles. We document a workaround
for that (having the application call WSAStartup for itself), but
that's just a kluge. It's also worth noting that it's far from
uncommon for applications to exit without doing PQfinish, and
we've not heard reports of trouble from that either.
However, the real reason for acting on this is that recent
experiments by Alexander Lakhin show that calling WSACleanup
during PQfinish is triggering the symptom we occasionally see
that a process using libpq fails to emit expected stdio output.
Therefore, let's change libpq so that it calls WSAStartup only
once per process, during the first connection attempt, and never
calls WSACleanup at all.
While at it, get rid of the only other WSACleanup call in our code
tree, in pg_dump/parallel.c; that presumably is equally useless.
Back-patch of HEAD commit 7d00a6b2d.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ac976d8c-03df-d6b8-025c-15a2de8d9af1@postgrespro.ru
In the planner, it was possible, given an extreme enough case containing a
large number of joins for the number of estimated rows to become infinite.
This could cause problems in initial_cost_mergejoin() where we perform
some calculations based on those row estimates.
A problem case, presented by Onder Kalaci showed an Assert failure from
an Assert checking outerstartsel <= outerendsel. In his test case this
was effectively NaN <= Inf, which is false. The NaN outerstartsel came
from multiplying the infinite outer_path_rows by 0.0.
In master, this problem was fixed by a90c950fc, however, that fix was too
invasive for the backbranches. Here we just relax the Asserts to allow
them to pass. The worst that appears to happen from this is that we show
NaN cost values and infinite row estimates in EXPLAIN. add_path() would
have had a hard time doing anything useful with such costs, but that does
not really matter as if the row estimates were even close to accurate,
such plan would not complete this side of the heat death of the universe.
Reported-by: Onder Kalaci
Backpatch: 9.5 to 13
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/DM6PR21MB1211FF360183BCA901B27F04D80B0@DM6PR21MB1211.namprd21.prod.outlook.com
When allocating a EVP context, it would have been possible to leak some
memory allocated directly by OpenSSL, that PostgreSQL lost track of if
the initialization of the context allocated failed. The cleanup can be
done with EVP_MD_CTX_destroy().
Note that EVP APIs exist since OpenSSL 0.9.7 and we have in the tree
equivalent implementations for older versions since ce9b75d (code
removed with 9b7cd59a as of 10~). However, in 9.5 and 9.6, the existing
code makes use of EVP_MD_CTX_destroy() and EVP_MD_CTX_create() without
an equivalent implementation when building the tree with OpenSSL 0.9.6
or older, meaning that this code is in reality broken with such versions
since it got introduced in e2838c5. As we have heard no complains about
that, it does not seem worth bothering with in 9.5 and 9.6, so I have
left that out for simplicity.
Author: Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20201015072212.GC2305@paquier.xyz
Backpatch-through: 9.5
Section 8.5.1.4, which defines these literals, made only a vague
reference to the fact that they might be evaluated too soon to be
safe in non-interactive contexts. Provide a more explicit caution
against misuse. Also, generalize the wording in the related tip in
section 9.9.4: while it clearly described this problem, it implied
(or really, stated outright) that the problem only applies to table
DEFAULT clauses.
Per gripe from Tijs van Dam. Back-patch to all supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/c2LuRv9BiRT3bqIo5mMQiVraEXey_25B4vUn0kDqVqilwOEu_iVF1tbtvLnyQK7yDG3PFaz_GxLLPil2SDkj1MCObNRVaac-7j1dVdFERk8=@thalex.com
This changes zic's default output format from "-b fat" to "-b slim".
We were already using "slim" in v13/HEAD, so those branches drop
the explicit -b switch in the Makefiles. Instead, add an explicit
"-b fat" in v12 and before, so that we don't change the output file
format in those branches. (This is perhaps excessively conservative,
but we decided not to do so in a12079109, and I'll stick with that.)
Other non-cosmetic changes are to drop support for zic's long-obsolete
"-y" switch, and to ensure that strftime() does not change errno
unless it fails.
As usual with tzcode changes, back-patch to all supported branches.
In theory, the second px_find_digest call in px_crypt_md5 could fail
even though the first one succeeded, since resource allocation is
required. Don't skip testing for a failure. (If one did happen,
the likely result would be a crash rather than clean recovery from
an OOM failure.)
The code's been like this all along, so back-patch to all supported
branches.
Daniel Gustafsson
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/AA8D6FE9-4AB2-41B4-98CB-AE64BA668C03@yesql.se
Commit a97e85f2b caused "exceed the available area" warnings in PDF
builds. Fine-tune colwidth values to avoid that.
Back-patch to 9.6, like the prior patch. (This is of dubious value
before v13, since we were far from free of such warnings in older
branches. But we might as well keep the SGML looking the same in all
branches.)
Per buildfarm.
This commit required support for inline variable definition, which is
not a requirement.
RELEASE NOTE AUTHOR: the author of commit 3c0471b5fd
(pg_upgrade/tablespaces) was Justin Pryzby, not me.
Reported-by: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20201016001959.h24fkywfubkv2pc5@alap3.anarazel.de
Backpatch-through: 9.5
Previously, if pg_upgrade failed, and the user recreated the cluster but
did not remove the new cluster tablespace directory, a later pg_upgrade
would fail since the new tablespace directory would already exists.
This adds error reporting for this during check.
Reported-by: Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200925005531.GJ23631@telsasoft.com
Backpatch-through: 9.5
POSIX sigaction(2) can be told to block a set of signals while a
signal handler executes. Make use of that instead of manually
blocking and unblocking signals in the postmaster's signal handlers.
This should save a few cycles, but more importantly it prevents
recursive invocation of signal handlers when many signals arrive in
close succession. (Assuming that the platform's signal infrastructure
is designed to avoid consuming stack space in that case, but this is
demonstrably true at least on Linux.) The existing code has been seen
to recurse to the point of stack overflow, either in the postmaster
or in a forked-off child.
Back-patch of commit 9abb2bfc0. At the time, we'd only seen excess
postmaster stack consumption in the buildfarm; but we now have a
user report of it, and that commit has aged enough to have a fair
amount of confidence that it doesn't break anything.
This still doesn't change anything about the way that it works on
Windows. Perhaps someone else would like to fix that?
Per bug #16673 from David Geier. Back-patch to 9.6. Although
the problem exists in principle before that, we've only seen it
actually materialize in connection with heavy use of parallel
workers, so it doesn't seem necessary to do anything in 9.5;
and the relevant code is different there, too.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16673-d278c604f8e34ec0@postgresql.org
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/14878.1570820201@sss.pgh.pa.us
The prohibitValueChange code paths in set_config_option(), which
are executed whenever we re-read a PGC_POSTMASTER variable from
postgresql.conf, neglected to free anything before exiting. Thus
we'd leak the proposed new value of a PGC_STRING variable, as noted
by BoChen in bug #16666. For all variable types, if the check hook
creates an "extra" chunk, we'd also leak that.
These are malloc not palloc chunks, so there is no mechanism for
recovering the leaks before process exit. Fortunately, the values
are typically not very large, meaning you'd have to go through an
awful lot of SIGHUP configuration-reload cycles to make the leakage
amount to anything. Still, for a long-lived postmaster process it
could potentially be a problem.
Oversight in commit 2594cf0e8. Back-patch to all supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16666-2c41a4eec61b03e1@postgresql.org
It appears that commit cf63c641c, which intended to prevent
misoptimization of the result-building step in makeOrderedSetArgs,
didn't go far enough: buildfarm member hornet's version of xlc
is now optimizing back to the old, broken behavior in which
list_length(directargs) is fetched only after list_concat() has
changed that value. I'm not entirely convinced whether that's
an undeniable compiler bug or whether it can be justified by a
sufficiently aggressive interpretation of C sequence points.
So let's just change the code to make it harder to misinterpret.
Back-patch to all supported versions, just in case.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1830491.1601944935@sss.pgh.pa.us
Tom Lane