Expand the output parameters in pg_walinspect's pg_get_wal_block_info
function to return additional information that was previously only
available from pg_walinspect's pg_get_wal_records_info function. Some
of the details are attributed to individual block references, rather
than aggregated into whole-record values, since the function returns one
row per block reference per WAL record (unlike pg_get_wal_records_info,
which always returns one row per WAL record).
This structure is much easier to work with when writing queries that
track how individual blocks changed over time, or when attributing costs
to individual blocks (not WAL records) is useful.
This is the second time that pg_get_wal_block_info has been enhanced in
recent weeks. Commit 9ecb134a expanded on the original version of the
function added in commit c31cf1c0 (where it first appeared under the
name pg_get_wal_fpi_info). There still hasn't been a stable release
since commit c31cf1c0, so no bump in the pg_walinspect extension
version.
Author: Bharath Rupireddy <bharath.rupireddyforpostgres@gmail.com>
Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Reviewed-By: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Reviewed-By: Kyotaro HORIGUCHI <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALj2ACVRK5=Z+2ZVsjgTTSkfEnQzCuwny7iigpG7g1btk4Ws2A@mail.gmail.com
There's no need for callers to pass aggregate names so that the function
can resolve them to OIDs, when callers can just pass aggregate OIDs
directly to begin with.
We were transferring partPruneInfos from PlannerInfo into PlannerGlobal
wrong, essentially relying on all of them being transferred, and
adjusting their list indexes based on that. But apparently it's
possible that some of them are skipped, so that strategy leads to a
corrupted execution tree. Instead, adjust each Append/MergeAppend's
partpruneinfo index as we copy from one list to the other, which seems
safer anyway. This requires adjusting the RT offset of the RTE
referenced in each partPruneInfo ahead of actually adjusting the RTE
itself, which seems a bit too ad-hoc.
This problem was introduced by commit ec38694894. However, it may be
that we no longer require the change introduced there, so perhaps we
should revert both the present commit and that one.
Problem noticed by sqlsmith.
Author: Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+HiwqG6tbc2oadsbyyy24b2AL295XHQgyLRWghmA7u_SL1K8A@mail.gmail.com
Quoting Melanie:
> Since if buffer is INT_MAX, then the -(buffer + 1) version invokes
> undefined behavior while the -buffer - 1 version doesn't.
All other places were already using the correct version. I (Andres), copied
the code into more places in a patch. Melanie caught it in review, but to
prevent more people from copying the bad code, fix it. Even if it is a
theoretical issue.
We really ought to wrap these accesses in a helper function...
As this is a theoretical issue, don't backpatch.
Reported-by: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAKRu_aW2SX_LWtwHgfnqYpBrunMLfE9PD6-ioPpkh92XH0qpg@mail.gmail.com
This role can be granted to non-superusers to allow them to issue
CREATE SUBSCRIPTION. The non-superuser must additionally have CREATE
permissions on the database in which the subscription is to be
created.
Most forms of ALTER SUBSCRIPTION, including ALTER SUBSCRIPTION .. SKIP,
now require only that the role performing the operation own the
subscription, or inherit the privileges of the owner. However, to
use ALTER SUBSCRIPTION ... RENAME or ALTER SUBSCRIPTION ... OWNER TO,
you also need CREATE permission on the database. This is similar to
what we do for schemas. To change the owner of a schema, you must also
have permission to SET ROLE to the new owner, similar to what we do
for other object types.
Non-superusers are required to specify a password for authentication
and the remote side must use the password, similar to what is required
for postgres_fdw and dblink. A superuser who wants a non-superuser to
own a subscription that does not rely on password authentication may
set the new password_required=false property on that subscription. A
non-superuser may not set password_required=false and may not modify a
subscription that already has password_required=false.
This new password_required subscription property works much like the
eponymous postgres_fdw property. In both cases, the actual semantics
are that a password is not required if either (1) the property is set
to false or (2) the relevant user is the superuser.
Patch by me, reviewed by Andres Freund, Jeff Davis, Mark Dilger,
and Stephen Frost (but some of those people did not fully endorse
all of the decisions that the patch makes).
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoaDH=0Xj7OBiQnsHTKcF2c4L+=gzPBUKSJLh8zed2_+Dg@mail.gmail.com
The original coding of this function paid little attention to the
possibility of overflow. There were actually three different hazards:
1. The range from bound1 to bound2 could exceed DBL_MAX, which on
IEEE-compliant machines produces +Infinity in the subtraction.
At best we'd lose all precision in the result, and at worst
produce NaN due to dividing Inf/Inf. The range can't exceed
twice DBL_MAX though, so we can fix this case by scaling all the
inputs by 0.5.
2. We computed count * (operand - bound1), which is also at risk of
float overflow, before dividing. Safer is to do the division first,
producing a quotient that should be in [0,1), and even after allowing
for roundoff error can't be outside [0,1]; then multiplying by count
can't produce a result overflowing an int. (width_bucket_numeric does
the multiplication first on the grounds that that improves accuracy of
its result, but I don't think that a similar argument can be made in
float arithmetic.)
3. If the division result does round to 1, and count is INT_MAX,
the final addition of 1 would overflow an int. We took care
of that in the operand >= bound2 case but did not consider that
it could be possible in the main path. Fix that by moving the
overflow-aware addition of 1 so it is done that way in all cases.
The fix for point 2 creates a possibility that values very close to
a bucket boundary will be rounded differently than they were before.
I'm not troubled by that for HEAD, but it is an argument against
putting this into the stable branches. Given that the cases being
fixed here are fairly extreme and unlikely to be hit in normal use,
it seems best not to back-patch.
Mats Kindahl and Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17876-61f280d1601f978d@postgresql.org
The fallback seed for when pg_strong_random cannot generate a high
quality seed mixes in the address of the conn object, but the cast
failed to take the word size into consideration. Fix by casting to
a uintptr_t instead. The seed calculation was added in 7f5b19817e.
The code as it stood generated the following warning on mamba and
lapwing in the buildfarm:
fe-connect.c: In function 'libpq_prng_init':
fe-connect.c:1048:11: error: cast from pointer to integer of different size [-Werror=pointer-to-int-cast]
1048 | rseed = ((uint64) conn) ^
| ^
Author: Hayato Kuroda <kuroda.hayato@fujitsu.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/TYAPR01MB58665250EDCD551CCA9AD117F58E9@TYAPR01MB5866.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com
The tts_flag is named TTS_FLAG_SHOULDFREE, so use that instead of
TTS_SHOULDFREE, which is the name of the macro that checks for that flag.
Additionally, 4da597edf got rid of the TupleTableSlot.tts_tuple field but
forgot to update a comment which referenced that field. Fix that.
Reported-by: Zhen Mingyang <zhenmingyang@yeah.net>
Reported-by: Richard Guo <guofenglinux@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1a96696c.9d3.187193989c3.Coremail.zhenmingyang@yeah.net
This adds support for load balancing connections with libpq using a
connection parameter: load_balance_hosts=<string>. When setting the
param to random, hosts and addresses will be connected to in random
order. This then results in load balancing across these addresses and
hosts when multiple clients or frequent connection setups are used.
The randomization employed performs two levels of shuffling:
1. The given hosts are randomly shuffled, before resolving them
one-by-one.
2. Once a host its addresses get resolved, the returned addresses
are shuffled, before trying to connect to them one-by-one.
Author: Jelte Fennema <postgres@jeltef.nl>
Reviewed-by: Aleksander Alekseev <aleksander@timescale.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Banck <mbanck@gmx.net>
Reviewed-by: Andrey Borodin <amborodin86@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/PR3PR83MB04768E2FF04818EEB2179949F7A69@PR3PR83MB0476.EURPRD83.prod.outlook.
This refactors libpq to copy addrinfos returned by getaddrinfo to
memory owned by libpq such that future improvements can alter for
example the order of entries.
As a nice side effect of this refactor the mechanism for iteration
over addresses in PQconnectPoll is now identical to its iteration
over hosts.
Author: Jelte Fennema <postgres@jeltef.nl>
Reviewed-by: Aleksander Alekseev <aleksander@timescale.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Banck <mbanck@gmx.net>
Reviewed-by: Andrey Borodin <amborodin86@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/PR3PR83MB04768E2FF04818EEB2179949F7A69@PR3PR83MB0476.EURPRD83.prod.outlook.com
gistBuildCallback tried to fetch the size of an index tuple that
might have already been freed by gistProcessEmptyingQueue.
While this seems to usually be harmless in production builds,
in principle it could result in a SIGSEGV, or more likely a bogus
value for indtuplesSize leading to poor page-split decisions later
in the build.
The memory management here is confusing and could stand to be
refactored, but for the moment it seems to be enough to fetch
the tuple size sooner. AFAICT the indtuples[Size] totals aren't
used in between these places; even if they were, the updated
values shouldn't be any worse to use. So just move the
incrementing of the totals up.
It's not very clear why our valgrind-using buildfarm animals
haven't noticed this problem, because the relevant code path
does seem to be exercised according to the code coverage report.
I think the reason that we didn't fix this bug after the first
report is that I'd wanted to try to understand that better.
However, now that it's been re-discovered let's just be pragmatic
and fix it already.
Original report by Alexander Lakhin (bug #16329),
later rediscovered by Egor Chindyaskin (bug #17874).
Patch by Alexander Lakhin (commentary by Pavel Borisov and me).
Back-patch to all supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16329-7a6aa9b6fa1118a1@postgresql.org
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17874-63ca6c7ce42d2103@postgresql.org
This function has been a no-op for over a decade. Even if bufmgr
regains a need to be called during commit, it seems unlikely that
the most appropriate call points would be precisely here, so it's not
doing us much good as a placeholder either. Now, removing it probably
doesn't save any noticeable number of cycles --- but the main call is
inside the commit critical section, and the less work done there the
better.
Matthias van de Meent
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEze2Wi1=tLKbxZnXzcD+8fYKyKqBtivVakLQC_mYBsP4Y8qVA@mail.gmail.com
This commit introduces the SQL/JSON standard-conforming constructors for
JSON types:
JSON_ARRAY()
JSON_ARRAYAGG()
JSON_OBJECT()
JSON_OBJECTAGG()
Most of the functionality was already present in PostgreSQL-specific
functions, but these include some new functionality such as the ability
to skip or include NULL values, and to allow duplicate keys or throw
error when they are found, as well as the standard specified syntax to
specify output type and format.
Author: Nikita Glukhov <n.gluhov@postgrespro.ru>
Author: Teodor Sigaev <teodor@sigaev.ru>
Author: Oleg Bartunov <obartunov@gmail.com>
Author: Alexander Korotkov <aekorotkov@gmail.com>
Author: Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com>
Reviewers have included (in no particular order) Andres Freund, Alexander
Korotkov, Pavel Stehule, Andrew Alsup, Erik Rijkers, Zihong Yu,
Himanshu Upadhyaya, Daniel Gustafsson, Justin Pryzby.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAF4Au4w2x-5LTnN_bxky-mq4=WOqsGsxSpENCzHRAzSnEd8+WQ@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/cd0bb935-0158-78a7-08b5-904886deac4b@postgrespro.ru
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220616233130.rparivafipt6doj3@alap3.anarazel.de
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/abd9b83b-aa66-f230-3d6d-734817f0995d%40postgresql.org
The standard collations "ucs_basic" and "unicode" were defined in
initdb, even though pg_collation.dat seems like the correct place for
them. It seems this was just forgotten during various reorganizations
of initdb and pg_collation.dat/.h over time.
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/08b58ecd-0d50-9395-ed51-dc8294e3fd2b%40enterprisedb.com
In ancient times, these belonged to arguments or fields that were
actually of type long, but now they are not anymore, so this "L"
decoration is just confusing. (Some other 0L and other "L" constants
remain, where they are actually associated with a long type.)
When there are multiple publications for a subscription and one of those
publishes via the parent table by using publish_via_partition_root and the
other one directly publishes the child table, we end up copying the same
data twice during initial synchronization. The reason for this was that we
get both the parent and child tables from the publisher and try to copy
the data for both of them.
This patch extends the function pg_get_publication_tables() to take a
publication list as its input parameter. This allows us to exclude a
partition table whose ancestor is published by the same publication list.
This problem does exist in back-branches but we decide to fix it there in
a separate commit if required. The fix for back-branches requires quite
complicated changes to fetch the required table information from the
publisher as we can't update the function pg_get_publication_tables() in
back-branches. We are not sure whether we want to deviate and complicate
the code in back-branches for this problem as there are no field reports
yet.
Author: Wang wei
Reviewed-by: Peter Smith, Jacob Champion, Kuroda Hayato, Vignesh C, Osumi Takamichi, Amit Kapila
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/OS0PR01MB57167F45D481F78CDC5986F794B99@OS0PR01MB5716.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com
Commit ecb696527c added an XML ID attribute to one varlistentry in
create_subscription.sgml. Following 78ee60ed84, this commit adds XML ID
attributes to all varlistentries in create_subscription.sgml.
Additionally, links are added to refer to the subscription options,
enhancing the readability of documents.
Author: Kuroda Hayato
Reviewed-by: Peter Smith, Amit Kapila
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/TYAPR01MB58667AE04D291924671E2051F5879@TYAPR01MB5866.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com
The pg_dump Compressor API has three basic callbacks - Allocate, Write
and End. The gzip implementation (since e9960732a) wrongly assumed the
Write function would always be called, and deferred the initialization
of the internal compression system until the first such call. But when
there's no data to compress (e.g. for empty LO), this would result in
not finalizing the compression state (because it was not actually
initialized), producing invalid dump.
Fixed by initializing the internal compression system in the Allocate
call, whenever the caller provides the Write. For decompression the
state is not needed, so we leave the private_data member unpopulated.
Introduces a pg_dump TAP test compressing an empty large object.
This also rearranges the functions to their original order, to make
diffs against older code simpler to understand. Finally, replace an
unreachable pg_fatal() with a simple assert check.
Reported-by: Justin Pryzby
Author: Justin Pryzby, Georgios Kokolatos
Reviewed-by: Georgios Kokolatos, Tomas Vondra
https://postgr.es/m/20230228235834.GC30529%40telsasoft.com
For ICU collations, ensure that the locale's language exists in ICU,
and that the locale can be opened.
Basic validation helps avoid minor mistakes and misspellings, which
often fall back to the root locale instead of the intended
locale. It's even more important to avoid such mistakes in ICU
versions 54 and earlier, where the same (misspelled) locale string
could fall back to different locales depending on the environment.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/11b1eeb7e7667fdd4178497aeb796c48d26e69b9.camel@j-davis.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/df2efad0cae7c65180df8e5ebb709e5eb4f2a82b.camel@j-davis.com
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut
Commit e88754a196 caused that case
to be reported as corruption, but Peter Geoghegan pointed out that
it can legitimately happen in the case of a speculative insertion
that aborts, so we'd better not flag it as corruption after all.
Back-patch to v14, like the commit that introduced the issue.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAH2-WzmEabzcPTxSY-NXKH6Qt3FkAPYHGQSe2PtvGgj17ZQkCw@mail.gmail.com
Commit 0276ae42dd taught pg_walinspect's pg_get_wal_record_info()
function to output NULLs rather than empty strings for its record
description and block_ref output parameters. However, it inadvertently
moved the function call that sets fpi_length until after it was already
set. As a result, pg_get_wal_record_info() always output spurious
fpi_length values of 0.
Fix by switching the order back (but keep the behavioral change).
Author: Bharath Rupireddy <bharath.rupireddyforpostgres@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-WzkJmgSYkt6-smQ+57SxSmov+EKqFZdSimFewosoL_JKoA@mail.gmail.com
MERGE planning could fail with "variable not found in subplan target
list" if the target table is partitioned and all its partitions are
excluded at plan time, or in the case where it has no partitions but
used to have some. This happened because distribute_row_identity_vars
thought it didn't need to make the target table's reltarget list
fully valid; but if we generate a join plan then that is required
because the dummy Result node's tlist will be made from the reltarget.
The same logic appears in distribute_row_identity_vars in v14,
but AFAICS the problem is unreachable in that branch for lack of
MERGE. In other updating statements, the target table is always
inner-joined to any other tables, so if the target is known dummy
then the whole plan reduces to dummy, so no join nodes are created.
So I'll refrain from back-patching this code change to v14 for now.
Per report from Alvaro Herrera.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230328112248.6as34mlx5sr4kltg@alvherre.pgsql
The extra checks done in check_icu_locale() are not necessary. An
existing comment already pointed out that the checks would be done
during post-bootstrap initialization, when the locale is opened by the
backend. This was a mistake in commit 27b62377b4.
This commit creates a simpler function default_icu_locale() to just
return the locale of the default collator.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/04182066-7655-344a-b8b7-040b1b2490fb%40enterprisedb.com
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut
To support older ICU versions, we rely on
icu_set_collation_attributes() to do error checking that is handled
directly by ucol_open() in newer ICU versions. Commit 3b50275b12
introduced a slight inconsistency, where the error report includes the
fixed-up locale string, rather than the locale string passed to
pg_ucol_open().
Refactor slightly so that pg_ucol_open() handles the errors from both
ucol_open() and icu_set_collation_attributes(), making it easier to
see any differences between the error reports. It also makes
pg_ucol_open() responsible for closing the UCollator on error, which
seems like the right place.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/04182066-7655-344a-b8b7-040b1b2490fb%40enterprisedb.com
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut
Change the columns attndims, attstattarget, and attinhcount from int32
to int16, and reorder a bit. This saves some space (currently 4
bytes) in pg_attribute and tuple descriptors, which translates into
small performance benefits and/or room for new columns in pg_attribute
needed by future features.
attndims and attinhcount are never realistically used with values
larger than int16. Just to be sure, add some overflow checks.
attstattarget is currently limited explicitly to 10000.
For consistency, pg_constraint.coninhcount is also changed like
attinhcount.
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/d07ffc2b-e0e8-77f7-38fb-be921dff71af%40enterprisedb.com
Two new macros are added with their respective functions switched to
use them. These are for functions with millisecond stats, with and
without "xact" in their names (for the stats that can be tracked within
a transaction).
While on it, prefix the macro for float8 on database entries with "_MS",
as it does a us->ms conversion, based on a suggestion from Andres
Freund.
Author: Bertrand Drouvot
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/6e2efb4f-6fd0-807e-f6bf-94207db8183a@gmail.com
find_composite_type_dependencies() ignored indexes, which is a poor
decision because an expression index could have a stored column of
a composite (or other container) type even when the underlying table
does not. Teach it to detect such cases and error out. We have to
work a bit harder than for other relations because the pg_depend entry
won't identify the specific index column of concern, but it's not much
new code.
This does not address bug #17872's original complaint that dropping
a column in such a type might lead to violations of the uniqueness
property that a unique index is supposed to ensure. That seems of
much less concern to me because it won't lead to crashes.
Per bug #17872 from Alexander Lakhin. Back-patch to all supported
branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17872-d0fbb799dc3fd85d@postgresql.org
Commit bbc1376b39 checked that if
a redirected line pointer pointed to a tuple, the tuple should be
marked both HEAP_ONLY_TUPLE and HEAP_UPDATED. But Andres Freund
pointed out that *any* tuple that is marked HEAP_ONLY_TUPLE should
be marked HEAP_UPDATED, not just one that is the target of a
redirected line pointer. Do that instead.
To see why this is better, consider a redirect line pointer A
which points to a heap-only tuple B which points (via CTID)
to another heap-only tuple C. With the old code, we'd complain
if B was not marked HEAP_UPDATED, but with this change, we'll
complain if either B or C is not marked HEAP_UPDATED.
(Note that, with or without this commit, if either B or C were
not marked HEAP_ONLY_TUPLE, we would also complain about that.)
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA%2BTgmobLypZx%3DcOH%2ByY1GZmCruaoucHm77A6y_-Bo%3Dh-_3H28g%40mail.gmail.com
Commit bbc1376b39 added a new lp_valid[]
array which records whether or not a line pointer was thought to be
valid, but entries could sometimes get set to true in cases where that
wasn't actually safe. Fix that.
Suppose A is a redirect line pointer and B is the other line pointer
to which it points. The old code could mishandle this situation in a
couple of different ways. First, if B was unused, we'd complain about
corruption but still set lp_valid[A] = true, causing later code
to try to access the B as if it were pointing to a tuple. Second,
if B was dead, we wouldn't complain about corruption at all, which is
an oversight, and would also set lp_valid[A] = true, which would
again confuse later code. Fix all that.
In the case where B is a redirect, the old code was correct, but
refactor things a bit anyway so that all of these cases are handled
more symmetrically. Also add an Assert() and some comments.
Andres Freund and Robert Haas
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/20230323172607.y3lejpntjnuis5vv%40awork3.anarazel.de
Commit 4c8d65408 incorrectly stated that Homebrew has changed its
prefix for Apple M1 machines, but the prefix change applies to all
Apple Silicon based machines. Fix by writing Apple Silicon instead
of Apple M1.
Reported-by: Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <ilmari@ilmari.org>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/87mt3ys8ng.fsf@wibble.ilmari.org
Replace the hardcoded value with a GUC such that the iteration
count can be raised in order to increase protection against
brute-force attacks. The hardcoded value for SCRAM iteration
count was defined to be 4096, which is taken from RFC 7677, so
set the default for the GUC to 4096 to match. In RFC 7677 the
recommendation is at least 15000 iterations but 4096 is listed
as a SHOULD requirement given that it's estimated to yield a
0.5s processing time on a mobile handset of the time of RFC
writing (late 2015).
Raising the iteration count of SCRAM will make stored passwords
more resilient to brute-force attacks at a higher computational
cost during connection establishment. Lowering the count will
reduce computational overhead during connections at the tradeoff
of reducing strength against brute-force attacks.
There are however platforms where even a modest iteration count
yields a too high computational overhead, with weaker password
encryption schemes chosen as a result. In these situations,
SCRAM with a very low iteration count still gives benefits over
weaker schemes like md5, so we allow the iteration count to be
set to one at the low end.
The new GUC is intentionally generically named such that it can
be made to support future SCRAM standards should they emerge.
At that point the value can be made into key:value pairs with
an undefined key as a default which will be backwards compatible
with this.
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan S. Katz <jkatz@postgresql.org>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/F72E7BC7-189F-4B17-BF47-9735EB72C364@yesql.se
This improves a few things in pg_walinspect:
- Return NULL rather than empty strings in pg_get_wal_records_info() for
the block references and the record description if there is no
information provided by the fallback. This point has been raised by
Peter Geoghegan.
- Add a check on XLogRecHasAnyBlockRefs() for pg_get_wal_block_info(),
to directly skip records that have no block references. This speeds up
the function a bit, depending on the number of records that have no
block references.
Author: Bharath Rupireddy
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALj2ACWL9RG8sGJHinggRNBTxgRWJTSxCkB+cE6=t3Phh=Ey+A@mail.gmail.com
Word-smith section 22.1 ("Database Roles") a little bit in hopes
of removing confusion about how the bootstrap superuser's name
is chosen.
While here, I couldn't help noticing that the claim that the bootstrap
superuser is the only initially-existing role has been a lie since
we started to invent predefined roles. We don't want too much detail
in this very introductory text, but it seems worth changing it to say
that it's the only initially-existing login-capable role.
Per documentation comment from Maja Zaloznik.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/167931662853.3349090.18217722739345182859@wrigleys.postgresql.org
The nested-arrays code path in ExecEvalArrayExpr() used palloc to
allocate the result array, whereas every other array-creating function
has used palloc0 since 18c0b4ecc. This mostly works, but unused bits
past the end of the nulls bitmap may end up undefined. That causes
valgrind complaints with -DWRITE_READ_PARSE_PLAN_TREES, and could
cause planner misbehavior as cited in 18c0b4ecc. There seems no very
good reason why we should strive to avoid palloc0 in just this one case,
so fix it the easy way with s/palloc/palloc0/.
While looking at that I noted that we also failed to check for overflow
of "nbytes" and "nitems" while summing the sizes of the sub-arrays,
potentially allowing a crash due to undersized output allocation.
For "nbytes", follow the policy used by other array-munging code of
checking for overflow after each addition. (As elsewhere, the last
addition of the array's overhead space doesn't need an extra check,
since palloc itself will catch a value between 1Gb and 2Gb.)
For "nitems", there's no very good reason to sum the inputs at all,
since we can perfectly well use ArrayGetNItems' result instead of
ignoring it.
Per discussion of this bug, also remove redundant zeroing of the
nulls bitmap in array_set_element and array_set_slice.
Patch by Alexander Lakhin and myself, per bug #17858 from Alexander
Lakhin; thanks also to Richard Guo. These bugs are a dozen years old,
so back-patch to all supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17858-8fd287fd3663d051@postgresql.org
When extracting an attr from a cached tuple in the syscache with
SysCacheGetAttr the isnull parameter must be checked in case the
attr cannot be NULL. For cases when this is known beforehand, a
wrapper is introduced which perform the errorhandling internally
on behalf of the caller, invoking an elog in case of a NULL attr.
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
Reviewed-by: David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/AD76405E-DB45-46B6-941F-17B1EB3A9076@yesql.se
Peter Geoghegan