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2008-01-03The original patch to disallow non-passworded connections to non-superusersTom Lane
failed to cover all the ways in which a connection can be initiated in dblink. Plug the remaining holes. Also, disallow transient connections in functions for which that feature makes no sense (because they are only sensible as part of a sequence of operations on the same connection). Joe Conway Security: CVE-2007-6601
2008-01-03Make standard maintenance operations (including VACUUM, ANALYZE, REINDEX,Tom Lane
and CLUSTER) execute as the table owner rather than the calling user, using the same privilege-switching mechanism already used for SECURITY DEFINER functions. The purpose of this change is to ensure that user-defined functions used in index definitions cannot acquire the privileges of a superuser account that is performing routine maintenance. While a function used in an index is supposed to be IMMUTABLE and thus not able to do anything very interesting, there are several easy ways around that restriction; and even if we could plug them all, there would remain a risk of reading sensitive information and broadcasting it through a covert channel such as CPU usage. To prevent bypassing this security measure, execution of SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION and SET ROLE is now forbidden within a SECURITY DEFINER context. Thanks to Itagaki Takahiro for reporting this vulnerability. Security: CVE-2007-6600
2008-01-03Fix assorted security-grade bugs in the regex engine. All of these problemsTom Lane
are shared with Tcl, since it's their code to begin with, and the patches have been copied from Tcl 8.5.0. Problems: CVE-2007-4769: Inadequate check on the range of backref numbers allows crash due to out-of-bounds read. CVE-2007-4772: Infinite loop in regex optimizer for pattern '($|^)*'. CVE-2007-6067: Very slow optimizer cleanup for regex with a large NFA representation, as well as crash if we encounter an out-of-memory condition during NFA construction. Part of the response to CVE-2007-6067 is to put a limit on the number of states in the NFA representation of a regex. This seems needed even though the within-the-code problems have been corrected, since otherwise the code could try to use very large amounts of memory for a suitably-crafted regex, leading to potential DOS by driving the system into swap, activating a kernel OOM killer, etc. Although there are certainly plenty of ways to drive the system into effective DOS with poorly-written SQL queries, these problems seem worth treating as security issues because many applications might accept regex search patterns from untrustworthy sources. Thanks to Will Drewry of Google for reporting these problems. Patches by Will Drewry and Tom Lane. Security: CVE-2007-4769, CVE-2007-4772, CVE-2007-6067
2008-01-02Insert ARST into the list of known timezone abbreviations.Tom Lane
2008-01-02Fix invalid ipv6 address in example. Per doc comment 7211.Magnus Hagander
2008-01-01Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2007k.Tom Lane
2007-12-31Provide a more helpful error message when there is an autoconf versionBruce Momjian
mismatch; backpatch.
2007-12-18Make path_recv() and poly_recv() reject paths/polygons containing no points.Tom Lane
The zero-point case is sensible so far as the data structure is concerned, so maybe we ought to allow it sometime; but right now the textual input routines for these types don't allow it, and it seems that not all the functions for the types are prepared to cope. Report and patch by Merlin Moncure.
2007-11-26Require a specific Autoconf version, instead of a lower bound only.Peter Eisentraut
2007-11-23Fix buggy usage of vsnprintf in PL/Python by removing it altogether, insteadAlvaro Herrera
relying on stringinfo.c. This fixes a problem reported by Marko Kreen, but I didn't use his patch, per subsequent discussion.
2007-11-23Fix "Overall Page Layout" table. The second row should be ItemIdData, notTatsuo Ishii
ItemPointerData.
2007-11-22Prevent Perl from introducing a possibly-incompatible definition of typeTom Lane
"bool" into plperl.c. This has always been a hazard since Perl allows a platform-specific choice to define bool as int rather than char, but evidently this didn't happen on any platform we support ... until OS X 10.5. Per report from Brandon Maust. Back-patch as far as 8.0 --- a bit arbitrary, but it seems unlikely anyone will be trying to port 7.x onto new platforms.
2007-11-16Backpatch: Fix tsvector_out() and tsquery_out() to escape backslesh, add ↵Teodor Sigaev
test of that. Patch by Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
2007-11-15Update timezone data files to release 2007i of the zic database.Tom Lane
2007-11-10Have crosstab variants treat NULL rowid as a category in its own right,Joe Conway
per suggestion from Tom Lane. This fixes crash-bug reported by Stefan Schwarzer.
2007-11-08If an index depends on no columns of its table, give it a dependency on theTom Lane
whole table instead, to ensure that it goes away when the table is dropped. Per bug #3723 from Sam Mason. Backpatch as far as 7.4; AFAICT 7.3 does not have the issue, because it doesn't have general-purpose expression indexes and so there must be at least one column referenced by an index.
2007-11-06Added missing clause to parser.Michael Meskes
2007-10-28Fix a couple of issues with pg_dump's handling of inheritance child tablesTom Lane
that have default expressions different from their parent. First, if the parent table's default expression has to be split out as a separate ALTER TABLE command, we need a dependency constraint to ensure that the child's command is given second. This is because the ALTER TABLE on the parent will propagate to the child. (We can't prevent that by using ONLY on the parent's command, since it's possible that other children exist that should receive the inherited default.) Second, if the child has a NULL default where the parent does not, we have to explicitly say DEFAULT NULL on the child in order for this state to be preserved after reload. (The latter actually doesn't work right because of a backend bug, but that is a separate issue.) Backpatch as far as 8.0. 7.x pg_dump has enough issues with altered tables (due to lack of dependency analysis) that trying to fix this one doesn't seem very productive.
2007-10-13Fix ALTER COLUMN TYPE to preserve the tablespace and reloptions of indexesTom Lane
it affects. The original coding neglected tablespace entirely (causing the indexes to move to the database's default tablespace) and for an index belonging to a UNIQUE or PRIMARY KEY constraint, it would actually try to assign the parent table's reloptions to the index :-(. Per bug #3672 and subsequent investigation. 8.0 and 8.1 did not have reloptions, but the tablespace bug is present.
2007-10-11Ensure that the result of evaluating a function during constant-expressionTom Lane
simplification gets detoasted before it is incorporated into a Const node. Otherwise, if an immutable function were to return a TOAST pointer (an unlikely case, but it can be made to happen), we would end up with a plan that depends on the continued existence of the out-of-line toast datum.
2007-10-04Keep the planner from failing on "WHERE false AND something IN (SELECT ...)".Tom Lane
eval_const_expressions simplifies this to just "WHERE false", but we have already done pull_up_IN_clauses so the IN join will be done, or at least planned, anyway. The trouble case comes when the sub-SELECT is itself a join and we decide to implement the IN by unique-ifying the sub-SELECT outputs: with no remaining reference to the output Vars in WHERE, we won't have propagated the Vars up to the upper join point, leading to "variable not found in subplan target lists" error. Fix by adding an extra scan of in_info_list and forcing all Vars mentioned therein to be propagated up to the IN join point. Per bug report from Miroslav Sulc.
2007-10-04Update timezone data files to release 2007h of the zic database.Tom Lane
Might as well have the latest when we wrap 8.3beta1.
2007-09-29Make archive recovery always start a new timeline, rather than only when aTom Lane
recovery stop time was used. This avoids a corner-case risk of trying to overwrite an existing archived copy of the last WAL segment, and seems simpler and cleaner all around than the original definition. Per example from Jon Colverson and subsequent analysis by Simon.
2007-09-26Fix crash of to_tsvector() function on huge input: compareWORD()Teodor Sigaev
function didn't return correct result for word position greate than limit. Per report from Stuart Bishop <stuart@stuartbishop.net>
2007-09-24Reduce the size of memory allocations by lazy vacuum when processing a smallAlvaro Herrera
table, by allocating just enough for a hardcoded number of dead tuples per page. The current estimate is 200 dead tuples per page. Per reports from Jeff Amiel, Erik Jones and Marko Kreen, and subsequent discussion. CVS: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CVS: Enter Log. Lines beginning with `CVS:' are removed automatically CVS: CVS: Committing in . CVS: CVS: Modified Files: CVS: commands/vacuumlazy.c CVS: ----------------------------------------------------------------------
2007-09-22Fix bogus calculation of potential output string length in translate().Tom Lane
2007-09-16Update release notes for last-minute fix.REL8_0_14Tom Lane
2007-09-16Fix aboriginal mistake in lazy VACUUM's code for truncating awayTom Lane
no-longer-needed pages at the end of a table. We thought we could throw away pages containing HEAPTUPLE_DEAD tuples; but this is not so, because such tuples very likely have index entries pointing at them, and we wouldn't have removed the index entries. The problem only emerges in a somewhat unlikely race condition: the dead tuples have to have been inserted by a transaction that later aborted, and this has to have happened between VACUUM's initial scan of the page and then rechecking it for empty in count_nondeletable_pages. But that timespan will include an index-cleaning pass, so it's not all that hard to hit. This seems to explain a couple of previously unsolved bug reports.
2007-09-14tag configure for 8.0.14Marc G. Fournier
2007-09-14Fix markup that doesn't work in back branches.Tom Lane
2007-09-14Minor editorialization on release notes.Tom Lane
2007-09-13Translation updatesPeter Eisentraut
2007-09-12Fix the database-wide version of CLUSTER to silently skip temp tables ofAlvaro Herrera
remote sessions, instead of erroring out in the middle of the operation. This is a backpatch of a previous fix applied to CLUSTER to HEAD and 8.2, all the way back that it is relevant to.
2007-09-12Add a CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS call in the site where the vacuum delay pointAlvaro Herrera
was removed.
2007-09-11Sync timezone data with 2007g zic release.Tom Lane
2007-09-11Stamp releases 8.2.5, 8.1.10, 8.0.14, 7.4.18, 7.3.20.Bruce Momjian
Update FAQs for 8.2.5.
2007-09-11StampBruce Momjian
2007-09-11Make sure that open hash table scans are cleaned up when bgwriter tries toTom Lane
recover from elog(ERROR). Problem was created by introduction of hash seq search tracking awhile back, and affects all branches that have bgwriter; in HEAD the disease has snuck into autovacuum and walwriter too. (Not sure that the latter two use hash_seq_search at the moment, but surely they might someday.) Per report from Sergey Koposov.
2007-09-11Fix header's size of structs defines in ispell.Teodor Sigaev
2007-09-10Remove the vacuum_delay_point call in count_nondeletable_pages, because we holdAlvaro Herrera
an exclusive lock on the table at this point, which we want to release as soon as possible. This is called in the phase of lazy vacuum where we truncate the empty pages at the end of the table. An alternative solution would be to lower the vacuum delay settings before starting the truncating phase, but this doesn't work very well in autovacuum due to the autobalancing code (which can cause other processes to change our cost delay settings). This case could be considered in the balancing code, but it is simpler this way.
2007-08-29Fix aboriginal bug in _tarAddFile(): when complaining that the amount of dataTom Lane
read from the temp file didn't match the file length reported by ftello(), the wrong variable's value was printed, and so the message made no sense. Clean up a couple other coding infelicities while at it.
2007-08-29Fixed bug in Informix define handling.Michael Meskes
2007-08-25Fix brain fade in DefineIndex(): it was continuing to access the table'sTom Lane
relcache entry after having heap_close'd it. This could lead to misbehavior if a relcache flush wiped out the cache entry meanwhile. In 8.2 there is a very real risk of CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY using the wrong relid for locking and waiting purposes. I think the bug is only cosmetic in 8.0 and 8.1, because their transgression is limited to using RelationGetRelationName(rel) in an ereport message immediately after heap_close, and there's no way (except with special debugging options) for a cache flush to occur in that interval. Not quite sure that it's cosmetic in 7.4, but seems best to patch anyway. Found by trying to run the regression tests with CLOBBER_CACHE_ALWAYS enabled. Maybe we should try to do that on a regular basis --- it's awfully slow, but perhaps some fast buildfarm machine could do it once in awhile.
2007-08-23Fix combo_decrypt() to throw an error for zero-length input when using aTom Lane
padded encryption scheme. Formerly it would try to access res[(unsigned) -1], which resulted in core dumps on 64-bit machines, and was certainly trouble waiting to happen on 32-bit machines (though in at least the known case it was harmless because that byte would be overwritten after return). Per report from Ken Colson; fix by Marko Kreen.
2007-08-21Fix potential access-off-the-end-of-memory in varbit_out(): it fetched theTom Lane
byte after the last full byte of the bit array, regardless of whether that byte was part of the valid data or not. Found by buildfarm testing. Thanks to Stefan Kaltenbrunner for nailing down the cause.
2007-08-15Repair problems occurring when multiple RI updates have to be done to the sameTom Lane
row within one query: we were firing check triggers before all the updates were done, leading to bogus failures. Fix by making the triggers queued by an RI update go at the end of the outer query's trigger event list, thereby effectively making the processing "breadth-first". This was indeed how it worked pre-8.0, so the bug does not occur in the 7.x branches. Per report from Pavel Stehule.
2007-08-08Fix a gradual memory leak in ExecReScanAgg(). Because the aggregationNeil Conway
hash table is allocated in a child context of the agg node's memory context, MemoryContextReset() will reset but *not* delete the child context. Since ExecReScanAgg() proceeds to build a new hash table from scratch (in a new sub-context), this results in leaking the header for the previous memory context. Therefore, use MemoryContextResetAndDeleteChildren() instead. Credit: My colleague Sailesh Krishnamurthy at Truviso for isolating the cause of the leak.
2007-08-06Fix pg_restore to guard against unexpected EOF while reading an archive file.Tom Lane
Per report and partial patch from Chad Wagner.
2007-08-04Suppress time zone name (%Z) when logging timestamps in xlog.c startupTom Lane
on Windows. This is yet another manifestation of the problem that Windows returns time zone names that may be in a different encoding than we are using. I've put a better solution in HEAD, but the back branches need a simple patch. Per report from Hiroshi Saito.
2007-08-02Make sure syslogPipe runs in binary mode on Windows to avoid corrupting the ↵Andrew Dunstan
pipe chunking protocol. Backport to 8.0