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2007-03-01Fix markQueryForLocking() to work correctly in the presence of nested views.Tom Lane
It has been wrong for this case since it was first written for 7.1 :-( Per report from Pavel Hanák.
2007-02-27Backported bug fix for #2956.Michael Meskes
2007-02-25Update 7.x variant horology files to match the new US DST rules. It seemsTom Lane
likely that anyone wanting to run the regression tests in the future will have up-to-date system timezone files, so this is more likely to work than the old contents.
2007-02-18Fix portal management code to support non-default command completion tags forTom Lane
portals using PORTAL_UTIL_SELECT strategy. This is currently significant only for FETCH queries, which are supposed to include a count in the tag. Seems it's been broken since 7.4, but nobody noticed before Knut Lehre.
2007-02-12Fix backend crash in parsing incorrect tsquery.Teodor Sigaev
Per report from Jon Rosebaugh <jon@inklesspen.com>
2007-02-08Fix an ancient logic error in plpgsql's exec_stmt_block: it thought it couldTom Lane
get away with not (re)initializing a local variable if the variable is marked "isconst" and not "isnull". Unfortunately it makes this decision after having already freed the old value, meaning that something like for i in 1..10 loop declare c constant text := 'hi there'; leads to subsequent accesses to freed memory, and hence probably crashes. (In particular, this is why Asif Ali Rehman's bug leads to crash and not just an unexpectedly-NULL value for SQLERRM: SQLERRM is marked CONSTANT and so triggers this error.) The whole thing seems wrong on its face anyway: CONSTANT means that you can't change the variable inside the block, not that the initializer expression is guaranteed not to change value across successive block entries. Hence, remove the "optimization" instead of trying to fix it.
2007-02-08Rearrange use of plpgsql_add_initdatums() so that only the parsing of aTom Lane
DECLARE section needs to know about it. Formerly, everyplace besides DECLARE that created variables needed to do "plpgsql_add_initdatums(NULL)" to prevent those variables from being sucked up as part of a subsequent DECLARE block. This is obviously error-prone, and in fact the SQLSTATE/SQLERRM patch had failed to do it for those two variables, leading to the bug recently exhibited by Asif Ali Rehman: a DECLARE within an exception handler tried to reinitialize SQLERRM. Although the SQLSTATE/SQLERRM patch isn't in any pre-8.1 branches, and so I can't point to a demonstrable failure there, it seems wise to back-patch this into the older branches anyway, just to keep the logic similar to HEAD.
2007-02-06Fix an error in the original coding of holdable cursors: PersistHoldablePortalTom Lane
thought that it didn't have to reposition the underlying tuplestore if the portal is atEnd. But this is not so, because tuplestores have separate read and write cursors ... and the read cursor hasn't moved from the start. This mistake explains bug #2970 from William Zhang. Note: the coding here is pretty inefficient, but given that no one has noticed this bug until now, I'd say hardly anyone uses the case where the cursor has been advanced before being persisted. So maybe it's not worth worrying about.
2007-02-03Use -Wl for linker switches on freebsd --- back-port of an 8.0 change.Tom Lane
I think this will make buildfarm member herring go green in this branch.
2007-02-02Stamp release 7.4.16.REL7_4_16Tom Lane
Security: CVE-2007-0555, CVE-2007-0556
2007-02-02Update release notes for security-related releases in all active branches.Tom Lane
Security: CVE-2007-0555, CVE-2007-0556
2007-02-02Repair insufficiently careful type checking for SQL-language functions:Tom Lane
we should check that the function code returns the claimed result datatype every time we parse the function for execution. Formerly, for simple scalar result types we assumed the creation-time check was sufficient, but this fails if the function selects from a table that's been redefined since then, and even more obviously fails if check_function_bodies had been OFF. This is a significant security hole: not only can one trivially crash the backend, but with appropriate misuse of pass-by-reference datatypes it is possible to read out arbitrary locations in the server process's memory, which could allow retrieving database content the user should not be able to see. Our thanks to Jeff Trout for the initial report. Security: CVE-2007-0555
2007-01-31Translation updatesPeter Eisentraut
2007-01-27Correct an old logic error in btree page splitting: when considering a splitTom Lane
exactly at the point where we need to insert a new item, the calculation used the wrong size for the "high key" of the new left page. This could lead to choosing an unworkable split, resulting in "PANIC: failed to add item to the left sibling" (or "right sibling") failure. Although this bug has been there a long time, it's very difficult to trigger a failure before 8.2, since there was generally a lot of free space on both sides of a chosen split. In 8.2, where the user-selected fill factor determines how much free space the code tries to leave, an unworkable split is much more likely. Report by Joe Conway, diagnosis and fix by Heikki Linnakangas.
2007-01-24Get pg_utf_mblen(), pg_utf2wchar_with_len(), and utf2ucs() all on the sameTom Lane
page about the maximum UTF8 sequence length we support (4 bytes since 8.1, 3 before that). pg_utf2wchar_with_len never got updated to support 4-byte characters at all, and in any case had a buffer-overrun risk in that it could produce multiple pg_wchars from what mblen claims to be just one UTF8 character. The only reason we don't have a major security hole is that most callers allocate worst-case output buffers; the sole exception in released versions appears to be pre-8.2 iwchareq() (ie, ILIKE), which can be crashed due to zeroing out its return address --- but AFAICS that can't be exploited for anything more than a crash, due to inability to control what gets written there. Per report from James Russell and Michael Fuhr. Pre-8.1 the risk is much less, but I still think pg_utf2wchar_with_len's behavior given an incomplete final character risks buffer overrun, so back-patch that logic change anyway. This patch also makes sure that UTF8 sequences exceeding the supported length (whichever it is) are consistently treated as error cases, rather than being treated like a valid shorter sequence in some places.
2007-01-24Relax an Assert() that has been found to be too strict in some situationsTom Lane
involving unions of types having typmods. Variants of the failure are known to occur in 8.1 and up; not sure if it's possible in 8.0 and 7.4, but since the code exists that far back, I'll just patch 'em all. Per report from Brian Hurt.
2007-01-13Back port patch.Tatsuo Ishii
Call srandom() instead of srand(). pgbench calls random() later, so it should have called srandom(). On most platforms except Windows srandom() is actually identical to srand(), so the bug only bites Windows users. per bug report from Akio Ishida.
2007-01-06commit before tag ...REL7_4_15PostgreSQL Daemon
2007-01-06Fix markup because older releases couldn't link to the reference section.Bruce Momjian
2007-01-06Remove extra character added to top.Bruce Momjian
2007-01-06Fix markup because lc_numeric didn't have an SGML tag in this release.Bruce Momjian
2007-01-05Minor copy-editing for release note updates.Tom Lane
2007-01-05Stamp release 7.4.15.Bruce Momjian
2007-01-05Create release notes for 7.4.15.Bruce Momjian
2007-01-03Fix regex_fixed_prefix() to cope reasonably well with regex patterns of theTom Lane
form '^(foo)$'. Before, these could never be optimized into indexscans. The recent changes to make psql and pg_dump generate such patterns (for \d commands and -t and related switches, respectively) therefore represented a big performance hit for people with large pg_class catalogs, as seen in recent gripe from Erik Jones. While at it, be more paranoid about case-sensitivity checking in multibyte encodings, and fix some other corner cases in which a regex might be interpreted too liberally.
2006-12-26Repair bug #2839: the various ExecReScan functions need to resetTom Lane
ps_TupFromTlist in plan nodes that make use of it. This was being done correctly in join nodes and Result nodes but not in any relation-scan nodes. Bug would lead to bogus results if a set-returning function appeared in the targetlist of a subquery that could be rescanned after partial execution, for example a subquery within EXISTS(). Bug has been around forever :-( ... surprising it wasn't reported before.
2006-11-28Mark to_number() and the numeric-type variants of to_char() as stable, notTom Lane
immutable, because their results depend on lc_numeric; this is a longstanding oversight. We cannot force initdb for this in the back branches, but we can at least provide correct catalog entries for future installations.
2006-11-24Fix psql's \copy command to ensure that it cycles libpq back to the idle stateTom Lane
(in particular, causing the ReadyForQuery message to be eaten) before returning from do_copy. The only known consequence of failing to do so is that get_prompt might show a wrong result for the %x transaction status escape, as reported by Bernd Helmle; but it's possible there are other issues. Back-patch as far as 7.4, the oldest version supporting %x.
2006-11-22Fix 1-byte buffer overrun when OID exceeds 1 billion. This probably can'tTom Lane
cause any serious harm in normal cases, but if you have gcc buffer overrun checking turned on, that will notice. Found by Jack Orenstein. Problem was already fixed in CVS HEAD.
2006-11-19Repair problems with hash indexes that span multiple segments: the hash code'sTom Lane
preference for filling pages out-of-order tends to confuse the sanity checks in md.c, as per report from Balazs Nagy in bug #2737. The fix is to ensure that the smgr-level code always has the same idea of the logical EOF as the hash index code does, by using ReadBuffer(P_NEW) where we are adding a single page to the end of the index, and using smgrextend() to reserve a large batch of pages when creating a new splitpoint. The patch is a bit ugly because it avoids making any changes in md.c, which seems the most prudent approach for a backpatchable beta-period fix. After 8.3 development opens, I'll take a look at a cleaner but more invasive patch, in particular getting rid of the now unnecessary hack to allow reading beyond EOF in mdread(). Backpatch as far as 7.4. The bug likely exists in 7.3 as well, but because of the magnitude of the 7.3-to-7.4 changes in hash, the later-version patch doesn't even begin to apply. Given the other known bugs in the 7.3-era hash code, it does not seem worth trying to develop a separate patch for 7.3.
2006-11-06Repair bug #2694 concerning an ARRAY[] construct whose inputs are emptyTom Lane
sub-arrays. Per discussion, if all inputs are empty arrays then result must be an empty array too, whereas a mix of empty and nonempty arrays should (and already did) draw an error. In the back branches, the construct was strict: any NULL input immediately yielded a NULL output; so I left that behavior alone. HEAD was simply ignoring NULL sub-arrays, which doesn't seem very sensible. For lack of a better idea it now treats NULL sub-arrays the same as empty ones.
2006-11-01Fix "failed to re-find parent key" btree VACUUM failure by tweakingTom Lane
_bt_pagedel to recover from the failure: just search the whole parent level if searching to the right fails. This does nothing for the underlying problem that index keys became out-of-order in the grandparent level. However, we believe that there is no other consequence worse than slightly inefficient searching, so this narrow patch seems like the safest solution for the back branches.
2006-10-20Back-patch second version of AIX getaddrinfo fix.Tom Lane
2006-10-19Work around reported problem that AIX's getaddrinfo() doesn't seem to zeroTom Lane
sin_port in the returned IP address struct when servname is NULL. This has been observed to cause failure to bind the stats collection socket, and could perhaps cause other issues too. Per reports from Brad Nicholson and Chris Browne.
2006-10-12Stamp 7.4.14.REL7_4_14Tom Lane
2006-10-11A bit of copy-editing on back-branch release notes.Tom Lane
2006-10-11Repair incorrect check for coercion of unknown literal to ANYARRAY, a bugTom Lane
I introduced in 7.4.1 :-(. It's correct to allow unknown to be coerced to ANY or ANYELEMENT, since it's a real-enough data type, but it most certainly isn't an array datatype. This can cause a backend crash but AFAICT is not exploitable as a security hole. Per report from Michael Fuhr. Note: as fixed in HEAD, this changes a constant in the pg_stats view, resulting in a change in the expected regression outputs. The back-branch patches have been hacked to avoid that, so that pre-existing installations won't start failing their regression tests.
2006-10-11CREATE TABLE ... LIKE ... should mark the columns it creates withTom Lane
attislocal = true, since they are not really inherited but merely copied from the original table. I'm not sure if there are any cases where it makes a real difference given the existing uses of the flag, but wrong is wrong. This was fixed in passing in HEAD by the LIKE INCLUDING CONSTRAINTS patch, but never back-patched.
2006-10-10Fix psql \d commands to behave properly when a pattern using regex | is given.Tom Lane
Formerly they'd emit '^foo|bar$' which is wrong because the anchors are parsed as part of the alternatives; must emit '^(foo|bar)$' to get expected behavior. Same as bug found previously in similar_escape(). Already fixed in HEAD, this is just back-porting the part of that patch that was a bug fix.
2006-10-10Update libpq.rc for 7.3.16 and 7.4.14. Later releases use libpq.rc.in,Bruce Momjian
which was already updated.
2006-10-09Stamp releases 7.3.16, 7.4.14, 8.0.9, and 8.1.5.Bruce Momjian
2006-10-09Update release notes for releases 7.3.16, 7.4.14, 8.0.9, and 8.1.5.Bruce Momjian
2006-10-09Fix back-branch pg_regress scripts to try the "canonical" expected file if weTom Lane
tried a variant file from resultmap and it didn't match. This is already done in HEAD's C-code version, and is needed because OpenBSD has recently migrated to a more standard handling of float underflow --- see buildfarm results from emu.
2006-10-07Fix ancient oversight in psql's \d pattern processing code: when seeing twoTom Lane
quote chars inside quote marks, should emit one quote *and stay in inquotes mode*. No doubt the lack of reports of this have something to do with the poor documentation of the feature ...
2006-10-07Fix string_to_array() to correctly handle the case where there areTom Lane
overlapping possible matches for the separator string, such as string_to_array('123xx456xxx789', 'xx'). Also, revise the logic of replace(), split_part(), and string_to_array() to avoid O(N^2) work from redundant searches and conversions to pg_wchar format when there are N matches to the separator string. Backpatched the full patch as far as 8.0. 7.4 also has the bug, but the code has diverged a lot, so I just went for a quick-and-dirty fix of the bug itself in that branch.
2006-10-01date_trunc also accepts 'quarter'. Noted by Yoshihisa Nakano.Tom Lane
2006-08-31Clean up rather sloppy fix in HEAD for the ancient bug that CREATE CONVERSIONTom Lane
didn't create a dependency from the new conversion to its schema. Back-patch to all supported releases.
2006-08-29Fix mistypingTeodor Sigaev
2006-08-08Fix bug introduced by last patch, thanks again to Mario Weilguni ↵Teodor Sigaev
<mweilguni@sime.com>
2006-08-07fix bug about modifying value in shared buffer,Teodor Sigaev
what was a reason to corrupt index. Thank to Mario Weilguni <mweilguni@sime.com> to discover a bug.