This reverts commit eae7be600be7, following a discussion with Tom Lane,
due to concerns that this impacts the decisions made by the planner for
the number of workers spawned based on the inlining and const-folding of
index expressions and predicate for cases that would have worked until
this commit.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/162802.1709746091@sss.pgh.pa.us
Backpatch-through: 12
In the corner case where a function returning RECORD has been
simplified to a RECORD constant or an inlined ROW() expression,
ExecInitFunctionScan failed to cross-check the function's result
rowtype against the coldeflist provided by the calling query.
That happened because get_expr_result_type is able to extract a
tupdesc from such expressions, which led ExecInitFunctionScan to
ignore the coldeflist. (Instead, it used the extracted tupdesc
to check the function's output, which of course always succeeds.)
I have not been able to demonstrate any really serious consequences
from this, because if some column of the result is of the wrong
type and is directly referenced by a Var of the calling query,
CheckVarSlotCompatibility will catch it. However, we definitely do
fail to report the case where the function returns more columns than
the coldeflist expects, and in the converse case where it returns
fewer columns, we get an assert failure (but, seemingly, no worse
results in non-assert builds).
To fix, always build the expected tupdesc from the coldeflist if there
is one, and consult get_expr_result_type only when there isn't one.
Also remove the failing Assert, even though it is no longer reached
after this fix. It doesn't seem to be adding anything useful, since
later checking will deal with cases with the wrong number of columns.
The only other place I could find that is doing something similar
is inline_set_returning_function. There's no live bug there because
we cannot be looking at a Const or RowExpr, but for consistency
change that code to agree with ExecInitFunctionScan.
Per report from PetSerAl. After some debate I've concluded that
this should be back-patched. There is a small risk that somebody
has been relying on such a case not throwing an error, but I judge
this outweighed by the risk that I've missed some way in which the
failure to cross-check has worse consequences than sketched above.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKygsHSerA1eXsJHR9wft3Gn3wfHQ5RfP8XHBzF70_qcrrRvEg@mail.gmail.com
As coded, the planner logic that calculates the number of parallel
workers to use for a parallel index build uses expressions and
predicates from the relcache, which are flattened for the planner by
eval_const_expressions().
As reported in the bug, an immutable parallel-unsafe function flattened
in the relcache would become a Const, which would be considered as
parallel-safe, even if the predicate or the expressions including the
function are not safe in parallel workers. Depending on the expressions
or predicate used, this could cause the parallel build to fail.
Tests are included that check parallel index builds with parallel-unsafe
predicate and expressions. Two routines are added to lsyscache.h to be
able to retrieve expressions and predicate of an index from its pg_index
data.
Reported-by: Alexander Lakhin
Author: Tender Wang
Reviewed-by: Jian He, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHewXN=UaAaNn9ruHDH3Os8kxLVmtWqbssnf=dZN_s9=evHUFA@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 12
The error message(s) were reporting the stats kind of 'f', which is not
correct as that's for the "dependencies" statistics kind.
Reported-by: Horst Reiterer
Reviewed-by: Richard Guo
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18375-ba99383eb9062d6a@postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 12, where MCV extended stats were added.
dsa_dump would print a large negative number instead of zero for
segment bin 0. Fix by explicitly checking for underflow and add
special case for bin 0. Backpatch to all supported versions.
Author: Ian Ilyasov <ianilyasov@outlook.com>
Reviewed-by: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/GV1P251MB1004E0D09D117D3CECF9256ECD502@GV1P251MB1004.EURP251.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM
Backpatch-through: v12
In the case where the target timestamp is before the origin timestamp
and their difference is already an exact multiple of the stride, the
code incorrectly subtracted the stride anyway.
Also detect several integer-overflow cases that previously produced
bogus results. (The submitted patch tried to avoid overflow, but
I'm not convinced it's right, and problematic cases are so far out of
the plausibly-useful range that they don't seem worth sweating over.
Let's just use overflow-detecting arithmetic and throw errors.)
timestamp_bin() and timestamptz_bin() are basically identical and
so had identical bugs. Fix both.
Report and patch by Moaaz Assali, adjusted some by me. Back-patch
to v14 where date_bin() was introduced.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALkF+nvtuas-2kydG-WfofbRSJpyODAJWun==W-yO5j2R4meqA@mail.gmail.com
Add a note about the additional privileges required after the fix in
4989ce72644b (wording per Tom Lane); also change marked-up mentions of
"target_table_name" to be simply "the target table" or the like. Also,
note that "join_condition" is scouted for requisite privileges.
Backpatch to 15.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/202402211653.zuh6objy3z72@alvherre.pgsql
This commit fixes the intermittent buildfarm failures in 031_column_list.
I missed to back-patch while committing b6df0798a5 in the HEAD.
Diagnosed-by: Amit Kapila
Author: Vignesh C
Backpatch-through: 15
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3307255.1706911634@sss.pgh.pa.us
When this assertion was installed (in commit d2f60a3ab), I thought
it was only for catching server logic errors that caused accesses to
catalogs that were undergoing index rebuilds. However, it will also
fire in case of a user-defined index expression that attempts to
access its own table. We occasionally see reports of people trying
to do that, and typically getting unintelligible low-level errors
as a result. We can provide a more on-point message by making this
a regular runtime check.
While at it, adjust the similar error check in
systable_beginscan_ordered to use the same message text. That one
is (probably) not reachable without a coding bug, but we might as
well use a translatable message if we have one.
Per bug #18363 from Alexander Lakhin. Back-patch to all supported
branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18363-e3598a5a572d0699@postgresql.org
build_child_join_sjinfo creates a derived SpecialJoinInfo in
the short-lived GEQO context, but afterwards the semi_rhs_exprs
from that may be used in a UniquePath for a child base relation.
This breaks the expectation that all base-relation-level structures
are in the planning-lifespan context, leading to use of a dangling
pointer with probable ensuing crash later on in create_unique_plan.
To fix, copy the expression trees when making a UniquePath.
Per bug #18360 from Alexander Lakhin. This has been broken since
partitionwise joins were added, so back-patch to all supported
branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18360-a23caf3157f34e62@postgresql.org
Verify that a user running MERGE with a DO NOTHING clause has
privileges to read the table, even if no columns are referenced. Such
privileges were already required if the ON clause or any of the WHEN
conditions referenced any column at all, so there's no functional change
in practice.
This change fixes an assertion failure in the case where no column is
referenced by the command and the WHEN clauses are all DO NOTHING.
Backpatch to 15, where MERGE was introduced.
Reported-by: Alena Rybakina <a.rybakina@postgrespro.ru>
Reported-by: Alexander Lakhin <exclusion@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/4d65a385-7efa-4436-a825-0869f89d9d92@postgrespro.ru
The explanation of interval's behavior in datatype.sgml wasn't wrong
exactly, but it was unclear, partly because it buried the lede about
there being three internal fields. Rearrange and wordsmith for more
clarity.
The discussion of extract() claimed that input of type date was
handled by casting, but actually there's been a separate SQL function
taking date for a very long time. Also, it was mostly silent about
how interval inputs are handled, but there are several field types
for which it seems useful to be specific.
Improve discussion of justify_days()/justify_hours() too.
In passing, remove vertical space in some groups of examples,
as there was little consistency about whether to have such space
or not. (I only did this within the datetime functions section;
there are some related inconsistencies elsewhere.)
Per discussion of bug #18348 from Michael Bondarenko. There
may be some code changes coming out of that discussion too,
but we likely won't back-patch them. This docs-only patch
seems useful to back-patch, though I only carried it back to
v13 because it didn't apply easily in v12.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18348-b097a3587dfde8a4@postgresql.org
Commits 1b2c6b756 et al affected the core BRIN "bloom" opclasses,
not contrib/bloom. This only corrected a bad assertion so it's not
too significant to end users, but since we documented it we should
do so accurately.
Spotted by Takatsuka Haruka.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18353-926aa99cfe58aa78@postgresql.org
Partition pruning wrongly assumed that, for a table partitioned on a
boolean column, a clause in the form "boolcol IS NOT false" and "boolcol
IS NOT true" could be inverted to correspondingly become "boolcol IS true"
and "boolcol IS false". These are not equivalent as the NOT version
matches the opposite boolean value *and* NULLs. This incorrect assumption
meant that partition pruning pruned away partitions that could contain
NULL values.
Here we fix this by correctly not pruning partitions which could store
NULLs.
To be affected by this, the table must be partitioned by a NULLable boolean
column and queries would have to contain "boolcol IS NOT false" or "boolcol
IS NOT true". This could result in queries filtering out NULL values
with a LIST partitioned table and "ERROR: invalid strategy number 0"
for RANGE and HASH partitioned tables.
Reported-by: Alexander Lakhin
Bug: #18344
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18344-8d3f00bada6d09c6@postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 12
intoasc(), a wrapper for PGTYPESinterval_to_asc that converts an
interval to its textual representation, used a plain memcpy() when
copying its result. This could miss a zero-termination in the result
string, leading to an incorrect result.
The routines in informix.c do not provide the length of their result
buffer, which would allow a replacement of strcpy() to safer strlcpy()
calls, but this requires an ABI breakage and that cannot happen in
back-branches.
Author: Oleg Tselebrovskiy
Reviewed-by: Ashutosh Bapat
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/bf47888585149f83b276861a1662f7e4@postgrespro.ru
Backpatch-through: 12
The pgcrypto docs contained a set of links for useful reading and
technical references. These sets of links were however not actively
curated and had stale content and dead links. Rather than investing
time into maintining these, this removes them altogether since there
are lots of resources online which are actively maintained.
Backpatch to all supported versions since these links have been in
the docs for a long time.
Reported-by: Hanefi Onaldi <hanefi.onaldi@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/170774255387.3279713.2822272755998870925@wrigleys.postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: v12
The macOS Finder application creates .DS_Store files in directories
when opened, which creates problems for serverside utilities which
expect all files to be PostgreSQL specific files. Skip these files
when encountered in pg_checksums, pg_rewind and pg_basebackup.
This was extracted from a larger patchset for skipping hidden files
and system files, where the concencus was to just skip these. Since
this is equally likely to happen in every version, backpatch to all
supported versions.
Reported-by: Mark Guertin <markguertin@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Reviewed-by: Tobias Bussmann <t.bussmann@gmx.net>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E258CE50-AB0E-455D-8AAD-BB4FE8F882FB@gmail.com
Backpatch-through: v12
Since its introduction, pg_get_expr() has intended to silently
return NULL if called with an invalid relation OID, as can happen
when scanning the catalogs concurrently with relation drops.
However, there is a race condition: we check validity of the OID
at the start, but it could get dropped just afterward, leading to
failures. This is the cause of some intermittent instability we're
seeing in a proposed new test case, and presumably it's a hazard in
the field as well.
We can fix this by AccessShareLock-ing the target relation for the
duration of pg_get_expr(). Since we don't require any permissions
on the target relation, this is semantically a bit undesirable. But
it turns out that the set_relation_column_names() subroutine already
takes a transient AccessShareLock on that relation, and has done since
commit 2ffa740be in 2012. Given the lack of complaints about that, it
seems like there should be no harm in holding the lock a bit longer.
Back-patch to all supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/31ddcc01-a71b-4e8c-9948-01d1c47293ca@eisentraut.org
We previously supposed that it was okay for different threads to
call bindtextdomain() concurrently (cf. commit 1f655fdc3).
It now emerges that there's at least one gettext implementation
in which that triggers an abort() crash, so let's stop doing that.
Add mutexes guarding libpq's and ecpglib's calls, which are the
only ones that need worry about multithreaded callers.
Note: in libpq, we could perhaps have piggybacked on
default_threadlock() to avoid defining a new mutex variable.
I judge that not terribly safe though, since libpq_gettext could
be called from code that is holding the default mutex. If that
were the first such call in the process, it'd fail. An extra
mutex is cheap insurance against unforeseen interactions.
Per bug #18312 from Christian Maurer. Back-patch to all
supported versions.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18312-bbbabc8113592b78@postgresql.org
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/264860.1707163416@sss.pgh.pa.us
Fix pthread-win32.h and pthread-win32.c to provide a more complete
emulation of POSIX pthread mutexes: define PTHREAD_MUTEX_INITIALIZER
and make sure that pthread_mutex_lock() can operate on a mutex
object that's been initialized that way. Then we don't need the
duplicative platform-specific logic in default_threadlock() and
pgtls_init(), which we'd otherwise need yet a third copy of for
an upcoming bug fix.
Also, since default_threadlock() supposes that pthread_mutex_lock()
cannot fail, try to ensure that that's actually true, by getting
rid of the malloc call that was formerly involved in initializing
an emulated mutex. We can define an extra state for the spinlock
field instead.
Also, replace the similar code in ecpglib/misc.c with this version.
While ecpglib's version at least had a POSIX-compliant API, it
also had the potential of failing during mutex init (but here,
because of CreateMutex failure rather than malloc failure). Since
all of misc.c's callers ignore failures, it seems like a wise idea
to avoid failures here too.
A further improvement in this area could be to unify libpq's and
ecpglib's implementations into a src/port/pthread-win32.c file.
But that doesn't seem like a bug fix, so I'll desist for now.
In preparation for the aforementioned bug fix, back-patch to all
supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/264860.1707163416@sss.pgh.pa.us
The TransactionIdInRecentPast() should return false for all the transactions
older than TransamVariables->oldestClogXid. However, the function contains
a bug in comparison FullTransactionId to TransactionID allowing full
transactions between nextXid - 2^32 and oldestClogXid - 2^31.
This commit fixes TransactionIdInRecentPast() by turning the oldestClogXid into
FullTransactionId first, then performing the comparison.
Backpatch to all supported versions.
Reported-by: Egor Chindyaskin
Bug: 18212
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18212-547307f8adf57262%40postgresql.org
Author: Karina Litskevich
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi
Backpatch-through: 12
Fix for 344d62fb9a9: That commit introduced unlogged sequences and
made it so that identity/serial sequences automatically get the
persistence level of their owning table. But this works only for
CREATE TABLE and not for ALTER TABLE / ADD COLUMN. The latter would
always create the sequence as logged (default), independent of the
persistence setting of the table. This is fixed here.
Note: It is allowed to change the persistence of identity sequences
directly using ALTER SEQUENCE. So mistakes in existing databases can
be fixed manually.
Reviewed-by: Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh.bapat.oss@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/c4b6e2ed-bcdf-4ea7-965f-e49761094827%40eisentraut.org
When assertions are disabled, the built SQL statement is invalid and
you get a "syntax error". So this isn't a serious problem, but let's
avoid the assertion failure.
Backpatch to all supported versions.
Reviewed-by: Noah Misch
The internal commands in REFRESH MATERIALIZED VIEW CONCURRENTLY are
correctly executed in SECURITY_RESTRICTED_OPERATION mode, except for
creating the temporary "diff" table, because you cannot create
temporary tables in SRO mode. But creating the temporary "diff" table
is a pretty complex CTAS command that selects from another temporary
table created earlier in the command. If you can cajole that CTAS
command to execute code defined by the table owner, the table owner
can run code with the privileges of the user running the REFRESH
command.
The proof-of-concept reported to the security team relied on CREATE
RULE to convert the internally-built temp table to a view. That's not
possible since commit b23cd185fd, and I was not able to find a
different way to turn the SELECT on the temp table into code
execution, so as far as I know this is only exploitable in v15 and
below. That's a fiddly assumption though, so apply this patch to
master and all stable versions.
Thanks to Pedro Gallegos for the report.
Security: CVE-2023-5869
Reviewed-by: Noah Misch
An OS crash could leave PG_VERSION empty or missing. The same symptom
appeared in a backup by block device snapshot, taken after the next
checkpoint and before the OS flushes the PG_VERSION blocks. Device
snapshots are not a documented backup method, however. Back-patch to
v15, where commit 9c08aea6a3090a396be334cc58c511edab05776a introduced
STRATEGY=WAL_LOG and made it the default.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20240130195003.0a.nmisch@google.com
Restoring a base backup taken in the middle of CreateDirAndVersionFile()
or write_relmap_file() would lose the function's effects. The symptom
was absence of the database directory, PG_VERSION file, or
pg_filenode.map. If missing the directory, recovery would fail. Either
missing file would not fail recovery but would render the new database
unusable. Fix CreateDirAndVersionFile() with the transam/README "action
first and then write a WAL entry" strategy. That has a side benefit of
moving filesystem mutations out of a critical section, reducing the ways
to PANIC. Fix the write_relmap_file() call with a lock acquisition, so
it interacts with checkpoints like non-CREATE DATABASE calls do.
Back-patch to v15, where commit 9c08aea6a3090a396be334cc58c511edab05776a
introduced STRATEGY=WAL_LOG and made it the default.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20240130195003.0a.nmisch@google.com
DST law changes in Ittoqqortoormiit, Greenland (America/Scoresbysund),
Kazakhstan (Asia/Almaty and Asia/Qostanay) and Palestine; as well as
updates for the Antarctic stations Casey and Vostok.
Historical corrections for Vietnam, Toronto, and Miquelon.
Further fallout from commit 6ee26c6a4b. To keep code in sync and avoid
issues on older releases with different package names, simply use the
unqualified name like many other places in our code.
The path we wish to reparameterize is not a standalone object:
in particular, it implicitly references baserestrictinfo clauses
in the associated RelOptInfo, and if it's a SampleScan path then
there is also the TableSampleClause in the RTE to worry about.
Both of those could contain lateral references to the join partner
relation, which would need to be modified to refer to its child.
Since we aren't doing that, affected queries can give wrong answers,
or odd failures such as "variable not found in subplan target list",
or executor crashes. But we can't just summarily modify those
expressions, because they are shared with other paths for the rel.
We'd break things if we modify them and then end up using some
non-partitioned-join path.
In HEAD, we plan to fix this by postponing reparameterization
until create_plan(), when we know that those other paths are
no longer of interest, and then adjusting those expressions along
with the ones in the path itself. That seems like too big a change
for stable branches however. In the back branches, let's just detect
whether any troublesome lateral references actually exist in those
expressions, and fail reparameterization if so. This will result in
not performing a partitioned join in such cases. Given the lack of
field complaints, nobody's likely to miss the optimization.
Report and patch by Richard Guo. Apply to 12-16 only, since
the intended fix for HEAD looks quite different. We're not quite
ready to push the HEAD fix, but with back-branch releases coming
up soon, it seems wise to get this stopgap fix in place there.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMbWs496+N=UAjOc=rcD3P7B6oJe4rZw08e_TZRUsWbPxZW3Tw@mail.gmail.com
The Parameters subsection had an extra TRIGGER in the grammar
for DISABLE/ENABLE which is incorrect. Backpatch down to all
supported versions since it's been like this all along.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/0AFB171E-7E78-4A90-A140-46AB270212CA@yesql.se
Backpatch-through: v12
The openssl command for displaying the DN of a client certificate was
using --subject and not the single-dash option -subject. While recent
versions of openssl handles double dash options, earlier does not so
fix by using just -subject (which is per the openssl documentation).
Backpatch to v14 where this was introduced.
Reported-by: konkove@gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/170672168899.666.10442618407194498217@wrigleys.postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: v14
This impacts the statistics retrieved in transactions for the following
views when updating the value of stats_fetch_consistency, leading to
behaviors contrary to what is documented since 605994651b6a as an update
of this parameter should discard all statistics snapshot data:
- pg_stat_archiver
- pg_stat_bgwriter
- pg_stat_checkpointer
- pg_stat_io
- pg_stat_slru
- pg_stat_wal
For example, updating stats_fetch_consistency from "snapshot" to "cache"
in a transaction did not re-fetch any fresh data, using data cached from
the time when "snapshot" was in use.
Author: Shinya Kato
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/d77fc5190d4dbe1738d77231488e768b@oss.nttdata.com
Backpatch-through: 15
This commit addresses a set of issues when changing token type mappings
in a text search configuration when using duplicated token names:
- ADD MAPPING would fail on insertion because of a constraint failure
after inserting the same mapping.
- ALTER MAPPING with an "overridden" configuration failed with "tuple
already updated by self" when the token mappings are removed.
- DROP MAPPING failed with "tuple already updated by self", like
previously, but in a different code path.
The code is refactored so the token names (with their numbers) are
handled as a List with unique members rather than an array with numbers,
ensuring that no duplicates mess up with the catalog inserts, updates
and deletes. The list is generated by getTokenTypes(), with the same
error handling as previously while duplicated tokens are discarded from
the list used to work on the catalogs.
Regression tests are expanded to cover much more ground for the cases
fixed by this commit, as there was no coverage for the code touched in
this commit. A bit more is done regarding the fact that a token name
not supported by a configuration's parser should result in an error even
if IF EXISTS is used in a DROP MAPPING clause. This is implied in the
code but there was no coverage for that, and it was very easy to miss.
These issues exist since at least their introduction in core with
140d4ebcb46e, so backpatch all the way down.
Reported-by: Alexander Lakhin
Author: Tender Wang, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18310-1eb233c5908189c8@postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 12
File::Find converts backslashes to slashes in the newer Perl versions.
See: 414f14df98
So, do the same conversion for Windows before comparing paths. To
support all Perl versions, always convert them on Windows regardless of
the Perl's version.
Author: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>
Backpatch to all live branches
The code copying the PGP block into the temp buffer failed to
account for the extra 2 bytes in the buffer which are needed
for the prefix. If the block was oversized, subsequent checks
of the prefix would have exceeded the buffer size. Since the
block sizes are hardcoded in the list of supported ciphers it
can be verified that there is no live bug here. Backpatch all
the way for consistency though, as this bug is old.
Author: Mikhail Gribkov <youzhick@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMEv5_uWvcMCMdRFDsJLz2Q8g16HEa9xWyfrkr+FYMMFJhawOw@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: v12
We seem to have only documented a foreign key can reference the columns of
a primary key or unique constraint. Here we adjust the documentation
to mention columns in a non-partial unique index can be mentioned too.
The header comment for transformFkeyCheckAttrs() also didn't mention
unique indexes, so fix that too. In passing make that header comment
reflect reality in the various other aspects where it deviated from it.
Bug: 18295
Reported-by: Gilles PARC
Author: Laurenz Albe, David Rowley
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/18295-0ed0fac5c9f7b17b%40postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 12
This function requires simd.h, which is a rather large dependency
for a widely-used header file like pg_wchar.h. Furthermore, there
is a report of a third-party tool that is struggling to use
pg_wchar.h due to its dependence on simd.h (presumably because
simd.h uses several intrinsics). Moving the function to the much
less popular ascii.h resolves these issues for now.
This commit is back-patched for the benefit of the aforementioned
third-party tool. The simd.h dependency was only added in v16,
but we've opted to back-patch to v15 so that is_valid_ascii() lives
in the same file for all versions where it exists. This could
break existing third-party code that uses the function, but we
couldn't find any examples of such code. It should be possible to
fix any code that this commit breaks by including ascii.h in the
file that uses is_valid_ascii().
Author: Jubilee Young
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane, John Naylor, Andres Freund, Eric Ridge
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAPNHn3oKJJxMsYq%2BqLYzVJOFrUcOr4OF1EC-KtFT-qh8nOOOtQ%40mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 15
libxml2 changed the required signature of error handler callbacks
to make the passed xmlError struct "const". This is causing build
failures on buildfarm member caiman, and no doubt will start showing
up in the field quite soon. Add a version check to adjust the
declaration of xml_errorHandler() according to LIBXML_VERSION.
2.12.x also produces deprecation warnings for contrib/xml2/xpath.c's
assignment to xmlLoadExtDtdDefaultValue. I see no good reason for
that to still be there, seeing that we disabled external DTDs (at a
lower level) years ago for security reasons. Let's just remove it.
Back-patch to all supported branches, since they might all get built
with newer libxml2 once it gets a bit more popular. (The back
branches produce another deprecation warning about xpath.c's use of
xmlSubstituteEntitiesDefault(). We ought to consider whether to
back-patch all or part of commit 65c5864d7 to silence that. It's
less urgent though, since it won't break the buildfarm.)
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1389505.1706382262@sss.pgh.pa.us
