Noah Misch [Fri, 17 Jul 2015 07:01:14 +0000 (03:01 -0400)]
AIX: Test the -qlonglong option before use.
xlc provides "long long" unconditionally at C99-compatible language
levels, and this option provokes a warning. The warning interferes with
"configure" tests that fail in response to any warning. Notably, before
commit
85a2a8903f7e9151793308d0638621003aded5ae, it interfered with the
test for -qnoansialias. Back-patch to 9.0 (all supported versions).
Tom Lane [Fri, 17 Jul 2015 02:57:46 +0000 (22:57 -0400)]
Fix a low-probability crash in our qsort implementation.
It's standard for quicksort implementations, after having partitioned the
input into two subgroups, to recurse to process the smaller partition and
then handle the larger partition by iterating. This method guarantees
that no more than log2(N) levels of recursion can be needed. However,
Bentley and McIlroy argued that checking to see which partition is smaller
isn't worth the cycles, and so their code doesn't do that but just always
recurses on the left partition. In most cases that's fine; but with
worst-case input we might need O(N) levels of recursion, and that means
that qsort could be driven to stack overflow. Such an overflow seems to
be the only explanation for today's report from Yiqing Jin of a SIGSEGV
in med3_tuple while creating an index of a couple billion entries with a
very large maintenance_work_mem setting. Therefore, let's spend the few
additional cycles and lines of code needed to choose the smaller partition
for recursion.
Also, fix up the qsort code so that it properly uses size_t not int for
some intermediate values representing numbers of items. This would only
be a live risk when sorting more than INT_MAX bytes (in qsort/qsort_arg)
or tuples (in qsort_tuple), which I believe would never happen with any
caller in the current core code --- but perhaps it could happen with
call sites in third-party modules? In any case, this is trouble waiting
to happen, and the corrected code is probably if anything shorter and
faster than before, since it removes sign-extension steps that had to
happen when converting between int and size_t.
In passing, move a couple of CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS() calls so that it's
not necessary to preserve the value of "r" across them, and prettify
the output of gen_qsort_tuple.pl a little.
Back-patch to all supported branches. The odds of hitting this issue
are probably higher in 9.4 and up than before, due to the new ability
to allocate sort workspaces exceeding 1GB, but there's no good reason
to believe that it's impossible to crash older branches this way.
Noah Misch [Thu, 16 Jul 2015 01:00:26 +0000 (21:00 -0400)]
AIX: Link the postgres executable with -Wl,-brtllib.
This allows PostgreSQL modules and their dependencies to have undefined
symbols, resolved at runtime. Perl module shared objects rely on that
in Perl 5.8.0 and later. This fixes the crash when PL/PerlU loads such
modules, as the hstore_plperl test suite does. Module authors can link
using -Wl,-G to permit undefined symbols; by default, linking will fail
as it has. Back-patch to 9.0 (all supported versions).
Tom Lane [Sun, 12 Jul 2015 20:25:52 +0000 (16:25 -0400)]
Fix assorted memory leaks.
Per Coverity (not that any of these are so non-obvious that they should not
have been caught before commit). The extent of leakage is probably minor
to unnoticeable, but a leak is a leak. Back-patch as necessary.
Michael Paquier
Tom Lane [Thu, 9 Jul 2015 22:50:31 +0000 (18:50 -0400)]
Improve documentation about array concat operator vs. underlying functions.
The documentation implied that there was seldom any reason to use the
array_append, array_prepend, and array_cat functions directly. But that's
not really true, because they can help make it clear which case is meant,
which the || operator can't do since it's overloaded to represent all three
cases. Add some discussion and examples illustrating the potentially
confusing behavior that can ensue if the parser misinterprets what was
meant.
Per a complaint from Michael Herold. Back-patch to 9.2, which is where ||
started to behave this way.
Tom Lane [Thu, 9 Jul 2015 17:22:23 +0000 (13:22 -0400)]
Fix postmaster's handling of a startup-process crash.
Ordinarily, a failure (unexpected exit status) of the startup subprocess
should be considered fatal, so the postmaster should just close up shop
and quit. However, if we sent the startup process a SIGQUIT or SIGKILL
signal, the failure is hardly "unexpected", and we should attempt restart;
this is necessary for recovery from ordinary backend crashes in hot-standby
scenarios. I attempted to implement the latter rule with a two-line patch
in commit
442231d7f71764b8c628044e7ce2225f9aa43b67, but it now emerges that
that patch was a few bricks shy of a load: it failed to distinguish the
case of a signaled startup process from the case where the new startup
process crashes before reaching database consistency. That resulted in
infinitely respawning a new startup process only to have it crash again.
To handle this properly, we really must track whether we have sent the
*current* startup process a kill signal. Rather than add yet another
ad-hoc boolean to the postmaster's state, I chose to unify this with the
existing RecoveryError flag into an enum tracking the startup process's
state. That seems more consistent with the postmaster's general state
machine design.
Back-patch to 9.0, like the previous patch.
Heikki Linnakangas [Thu, 9 Jul 2015 13:00:14 +0000 (16:00 +0300)]
Fix another broken link in documentation.
Tom fixed another one of these in commit
7f32dbcd, but there was another
almost identical one in libpq docs. Per his comment:
HP's web server has apparently become case-sensitive sometime recently.
Per bug #13479 from Daniel Abraham. Corrected link identified by Alvaro.
Noah Misch [Thu, 9 Jul 2015 00:44:21 +0000 (20:44 -0400)]
Replace use of "diff -q".
POSIX does not specify the -q option, and many implementations do not
offer it. Don't bother changing the MSVC build system, because having
non-GNU diff on Windows is vanishingly unlikely. Back-patch to 9.2,
where this invocation was introduced.
Noah Misch [Thu, 9 Jul 2015 00:44:21 +0000 (20:44 -0400)]
Fix null pointer dereference in "\c" psql command.
The psql crash happened when no current connection existed. (The second
new check is optional given today's undocumented NULL argument handling
in PQhost() etc.) Back-patch to 9.0 (all supported versions).
Tom Lane [Tue, 7 Jul 2015 16:49:18 +0000 (12:49 -0400)]
Fix portability issue in pg_upgrade test script: avoid $PWD.
SUSv2-era shells don't set the PWD variable, though anything more modern
does. In the buildfarm environment this could lead to test.sh executing
with PWD pointing to $HOME or another high-level directory, so that there
were conflicts between concurrent executions of the test in different
branch subdirectories. This appears to be the explanation for recent
intermittent failures on buildfarm members binturong and dingo (and might
well have something to do with the buildfarm script's failure to capture
log files from pg_upgrade tests, too).
To fix, just use `pwd` in place of $PWD. AFAICS test.sh is the only place
in our source tree that depended on $PWD. Back-patch to all versions
containing this script.
Per buildfarm. Thanks to Oskari Saarenmaa for diagnosing the problem.
Heikki Linnakangas [Tue, 7 Jul 2015 15:37:45 +0000 (18:37 +0300)]
Improve handling of out-of-memory in libpq.
If an allocation fails in the main message handling loop, pqParseInput3
or pqParseInput2, it should not be treated as "not enough data available
yet". Otherwise libpq will wait indefinitely for more data to arrive from
the server, and gets stuck forever.
This isn't a complete fix - getParamDescriptions and getCopyStart still
have the same issue, but it's a step in the right direction.
Michael Paquier and me. Backpatch to all supported versions.
Heikki Linnakangas [Tue, 7 Jul 2015 13:31:52 +0000 (16:31 +0300)]
Turn install.bat into a pure one line wrapper fort he perl script.
Build.bat and vcregress.bat got similar treatment years ago. I'm not sure
why install.bat wasn't treated at the same time, but it seems like a good
idea anyway.
The immediate problem with the old install.bat was that it had quoting
issues, and wouldn't work if the target directory's name contained spaces.
This fixes that problem.
I committed this to master yesterday, this is a backpatch of the same for
all supported versions.
Fujii Masao [Mon, 6 Jul 2015 11:58:58 +0000 (20:58 +0900)]
Remove incorrect warning from pg_archivecleanup document.
The .backup file name can be passed to pg_archivecleanup even if
it includes the extension which is specified in -x option.
However, previously the document incorrectly warned a user
not to do that.
Back-patch to 9.2 where pg_archivecleanup's -x option and
the warning were added.
Tom Lane [Sun, 5 Jul 2015 16:01:01 +0000 (12:01 -0400)]
Make numeric form of PG version number readily available in Makefiles.
Expose PG_VERSION_NUM (e.g., "90600") as a Make variable; but for
consistency with the other Make variables holding similar info,
call the variable just VERSION_NUM not PG_VERSION_NUM.
There was some discussion of making this value available as a pg_config
value as well. However, that would entail substantially more work than
this two-line patch. Given that there was not exactly universal consensus
that we need this at all, let's just do a minimal amount of work for now.
Back-patch of commit
a5d489ccb7e613c7ca3be6141092b8c1d2c13fa7, so that this
variable is actually useful for its intended purpose sometime before 2020.
Michael Paquier, reviewed by Pavel Stehule
Peter Eisentraut [Sun, 21 Jun 2015 14:37:24 +0000 (10:37 -0400)]
PL/Perl: Add alternative expected file for Perl 5.22
Heikki Linnakangas [Thu, 2 Jul 2015 09:50:29 +0000 (12:50 +0300)]
Don't emit a spurious space at end of line in pg_dump of event triggers.
Backpatch to 9.3 and above, where event triggers were added.
Tom Lane [Tue, 30 Jun 2015 22:47:32 +0000 (18:47 -0400)]
Fix broken link in documentation.
HP's web server has apparently become case-sensitive sometime recently.
Per bug #13479 from Daniel Abraham. Corrected link identified by Alvaro.
Alvaro Herrera [Tue, 30 Jun 2015 17:20:38 +0000 (14:20 -0300)]
Test -lrt for sched_yield
Apparently, this is needed in some Solaris versions.
Author: Oskari Saarenmaa
Tom Lane [Sun, 28 Jun 2015 22:38:06 +0000 (18:38 -0400)]
Back-patch some minor bug fixes in GUC code.
In 9.4, fix a 9.4.1 regression that allowed multiple entries for a
PGC_POSTMASTER variable to cause bogus complaints in the postmaster log.
(The issue here was that commit
bf007a27acd7b2fb unintentionally reverted
3e3f65973a3c94a6, which suppressed any duplicate entries within
ParseConfigFp. Back-patch the reimplementation just made in HEAD, which
makes use of an "ignore" field to prevent application of superseded items.)
Add missed failure check in AlterSystemSetConfigFile(). We don't really
expect ParseConfigFp() to fail, but that's not an excuse for not checking.
In both 9.3 and 9.4, remove mistaken assignment to ConfigFileLineno that
caused line counting after an include_dir directive to be completely wrong.
Kevin Grittner [Sun, 28 Jun 2015 17:46:03 +0000 (12:46 -0500)]
Fix comment for GetCurrentIntegerTimestamp().
The unit of measure is microseconds, not milliseconds.
Backpatch to 9.3 where the function and its comment were added.
Tatsuo Ishii [Sun, 28 Jun 2015 09:54:27 +0000 (18:54 +0900)]
Fix function declaration style to respect the coding standard.
Simon Riggs [Sat, 27 Jun 2015 01:21:51 +0000 (02:21 +0100)]
Revoke incorrectly applied patch version
Simon Riggs [Fri, 26 Jun 2015 23:46:58 +0000 (00:46 +0100)]
Avoid hot standby cancels from VAC FREEZE
VACUUM FREEZE generated false cancelations of standby queries on an
otherwise idle master. Caused by an off-by-one error on cutoff_xid
which goes back to original commit.
Backpatch to all versions 9.0+
Analysis and report by Marco Nenciarini
Bug fix by Simon Riggs
Robert Haas [Thu, 25 Jun 2015 19:52:13 +0000 (15:52 -0400)]
Allow background workers to connect to no particular database.
The documentation claims that this is supported, but it didn't
actually work. Fix that.
Reported by Pavel Stehule; patch by me.
Tom Lane [Thu, 25 Jun 2015 18:39:05 +0000 (14:39 -0400)]
Fix the logic for putting relations into the relcache init file.
Commit
f3b5565dd4e59576be4c772da364704863e6a835 was a couple of bricks shy
of a load; specifically, it missed putting pg_trigger_tgrelid_tgname_index
into the relcache init file, because that index is not used by any
syscache. However, we have historically nailed that index into cache for
performance reasons. The upshot was that load_relcache_init_file always
decided that the init file was busted and silently ignored it, resulting
in a significant hit to backend startup speed.
To fix, reinstantiate RelationIdIsInInitFile() as a wrapper around
RelationSupportsSysCache(), which can know about additional relations
that should be in the init file despite being unknown to syscache.c.
Also install some guards against future mistakes of this type: make
write_relcache_init_file Assert that all nailed relations get written to
the init file, and make load_relcache_init_file emit a WARNING if it takes
the "wrong number of nailed relations" exit path. Now that we remove the
init files during postmaster startup, that case should never occur in the
field, even if we are starting a minor-version update that added or removed
rels from the nailed set. So the warning shouldn't ever be seen by end
users, but it will show up in the regression tests if somebody breaks this
logic.
Back-patch to all supported branches, like the previous commit.
Tom Lane [Thu, 25 Jun 2015 14:44:03 +0000 (10:44 -0400)]
Docs: fix claim that to_char('FM') removes trailing zeroes.
Of course, what it removes is leading zeroes. Seems to have been a thinko
in commit
ffe92d15d53625d5ae0c23f4e1984ed43614a33d. Noted by Hubert Depesz
Lubaczewski.
Tom Lane [Mon, 22 Jun 2015 22:53:27 +0000 (18:53 -0400)]
Improve inheritance_planner()'s performance for large inheritance sets.
Commit
c03ad5602f529787968fa3201b35c119bbc6d782 introduced a planner
performance regression for UPDATE/DELETE on large inheritance sets.
It required copying the append_rel_list (which is of size proportional to
the number of inherited tables) once for each inherited table, thus
resulting in O(N^2) time and memory consumption. While it's difficult to
avoid that in general, the extra work only has to be done for
append_rel_list entries that actually reference subquery RTEs, which
inheritance-set entries will not. So we can buy back essentially all of
the loss in cases without subqueries in FROM; and even for those, the added
work is mainly proportional to the number of UNION ALL subqueries.
Back-patch to 9.2, like the previous commit.
Tom Lane and Dean Rasheed, per a complaint from Thomas Munro.
Noah Misch [Mon, 22 Jun 2015 00:04:36 +0000 (20:04 -0400)]
Truncate strings in tarCreateHeader() with strlcpy(), not sprintf().
This supplements the GNU libc bug #6530 workarounds introduced in commit
54cd4f04576833abc394e131288bf3dd7dcf4806. On affected systems, a
tar-format pg_basebackup failed when some filename beneath the data
directory was not valid character data in the postmaster/walsender
locale. Back-patch to 9.1, where pg_basebackup was introduced. Extant,
bug-prone conversion specifications receive only ASCII bytes or involve
low-importance messages.
Andres Freund [Sun, 21 Jun 2015 16:57:28 +0000 (18:57 +0200)]
Improve multixact emergency autovacuum logic.
Previously autovacuum was not necessarily triggered if space in the
members slru got tight. The first problem was that the signalling was
tied to values in the offsets slru, but members can advance much
faster. Thats especially a problem if old sessions had been around that
previously prevented the multixact horizon to increase. Secondly the
skipping logic doesn't work if the database was restarted after
autovacuum was triggered - that knowledge is not preserved across
restart. This is especially a problem because it's a common
panic-reaction to restart the database if it gets slow to
anti-wraparound vacuums.
Fix the first problem by separating the logic for members from
offsets. Trigger autovacuum whenever a multixact crosses a segment
boundary, as the current member offset increases in irregular values, so
we can't use a simple modulo logic as for offsets. Add a stopgap for
the second problem, by signalling autovacuum whenver ERRORing out
because of boundaries.
Discussion:
20150608163707.GD20772@alap3.anarazel.de
Backpatch into 9.3, where it became more likely that multixacts wrap
around.
Alvaro Herrera [Sat, 20 Jun 2015 14:45:59 +0000 (11:45 -0300)]
Fix thinko in comment (launcher -> worker)
Alvaro Herrera [Fri, 19 Jun 2015 15:44:34 +0000 (12:44 -0300)]
Clamp autovacuum launcher sleep time to 5 minutes
This avoids the problem that it might go to sleep for an unreasonable
amount of time in unusual conditions like the server clock moving
backwards an unreasonable amount of time.
(Simply moving the server clock forward again doesn't solve the problem
unless you wake up the autovacuum launcher manually, say by sending it
SIGHUP).
Per trouble report from Prakash Itnal in
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAHC5u79-UqbapAABH2t4Rh2eYdyge0Zid-X=Xz-ZWZCBK42S0Q@mail.gmail.com
Analyzed independently by Haribabu Kommi and Tom Lane.
Robert Haas [Fri, 19 Jun 2015 15:28:30 +0000 (11:28 -0400)]
Fix corner case in autovacuum-forcing logic for multixact wraparound.
Since find_multixact_start() relies on SimpleLruDoesPhysicalPageExist(),
and that function looks only at the on-disk state, it's possible for it
to fail to find a page that exists in the in-memory SLRU that has not
been written yet. If that happens, SetOffsetVacuumLimit() will
erroneously decide to force emergency autovacuuming immediately.
We should probably fix find_multixact_start() to consider the data
cached in memory as well as on the on-disk state, but that's no excuse
for SetOffsetVacuumLimit() to be stupid about the case where it can
no longer read the value after having previously succeeded in doing so.
Report by Andres Freund.
Michael Meskes [Mon, 15 Jun 2015 12:21:03 +0000 (14:21 +0200)]
Check for out of memory when allocating sqlca.
Patch by Michael Paquier
Michael Meskes [Mon, 15 Jun 2015 12:20:09 +0000 (14:20 +0200)]
Fix memory leak in ecpglib's connect function.
Patch by Michael Paquier
Michael Meskes [Fri, 12 Jun 2015 12:52:55 +0000 (14:52 +0200)]
Fixed some memory leaks in ECPG.
Patch by Michael Paquier
Conflicts:
src/interfaces/ecpg/preproc/variable.c
Michael Meskes [Fri, 12 Jun 2015 12:50:47 +0000 (14:50 +0200)]
Fix intoasc() in Informix compat lib. This function used to be a noop.
Patch by Michael Paquier
Tom Lane [Fri, 12 Jun 2015 15:54:03 +0000 (11:54 -0400)]
Improve error message and hint for ALTER COLUMN TYPE can't-cast failure.
We already tried to improve this once, but the "improved" text was rather
off-target if you had provided a USING clause. Also, it seems helpful
to provide the exact text of a suggested USING clause, so users can just
copy-and-paste it when needed. Per complaint from Keith Rarick and a
suggestion from Merlin Moncure.
Back-patch to 9.2 where the current wording was adopted.
Tom Lane [Tue, 9 Jun 2015 19:31:32 +0000 (15:31 -0400)]
Stamp 9.3.9.
Tom Lane [Tue, 9 Jun 2015 18:33:43 +0000 (14:33 -0400)]
Release notes for 9.4.4, 9.3.9, 9.2.13, 9.1.18, 9.0.22.
Tom Lane [Tue, 9 Jun 2015 17:37:08 +0000 (13:37 -0400)]
Report more information if pg_perm_setlocale() fails at startup.
We don't know why a few Windows users have seen this fail, but the
taciturnity of the error message certainly isn't helping debug it.
Let's at least find out which LC category isn't working.
Andres Freund [Sun, 7 Jun 2015 22:30:26 +0000 (00:30 +0200)]
Allow HotStandbyActiveInReplay() to be called in single user mode.
HotStandbyActiveInReplay, introduced in
061b079f, only allowed WAL
replay to happen in the startup process, missing the single user case.
This buglet is fairly harmless as it only causes problems when single
user mode in an assertion enabled build is used to replay a btree vacuum
record.
Backpatch to 9.2.
061b079f was backpatched further, but the assertion
was not.
Tom Lane [Sun, 7 Jun 2015 19:32:09 +0000 (15:32 -0400)]
Use a safer method for determining whether relcache init file is stale.
When we invalidate the relcache entry for a system catalog or index, we
must also delete the relcache "init file" if the init file contains a copy
of that rel's entry. The old way of doing this relied on a specially
maintained list of the OIDs of relations present in the init file: we made
the list either when reading the file in, or when writing the file out.
The problem is that when writing the file out, we included only rels
present in our local relcache, which might have already suffered some
deletions due to relcache inval events. In such cases we correctly decided
not to overwrite the real init file with incomplete data --- but we still
used the incomplete initFileRelationIds list for the rest of the current
session. This could result in wrong decisions about whether the session's
own actions require deletion of the init file, potentially allowing an init
file created by some other concurrent session to be left around even though
it's been made stale.
Since we don't support changing the schema of a system catalog at runtime,
the only likely scenario in which this would cause a problem in the field
involves a "vacuum full" on a catalog concurrently with other activity, and
even then it's far from easy to provoke. Remarkably, this has been broken
since 2002 (in commit
786340441706ac1957a031f11ad1c2e5b6e18314), but we had
never seen a reproducible test case until recently. If it did happen in
the field, the symptoms would probably involve unexpected "cache lookup
failed" errors to begin with, then "could not open file" failures after the
next checkpoint, as all accesses to the affected catalog stopped working.
Recovery would require manually removing the stale "pg_internal.init" file.
To fix, get rid of the initFileRelationIds list, and instead consult
syscache.c's list of relations used in catalog caches to decide whether a
relation is included in the init file. This should be a tad more efficient
anyway, since we're replacing linear search of a list with ~100 entries
with a binary search. It's a bit ugly that the init file contents are now
so directly tied to the catalog caches, but in practice that won't make
much difference.
Back-patch to all supported branches.
Tom Lane [Fri, 5 Jun 2015 17:22:27 +0000 (13:22 -0400)]
Fix incorrect order of database-locking operations in InitPostgres().
We should set MyProc->databaseId after acquiring the per-database lock,
not beforehand. The old way risked deadlock against processes trying to
copy or delete the target database, since they would first acquire the lock
and then wait for processes with matching databaseId to exit; that left a
window wherein an incoming process could set its databaseId and then block
on the lock, while the other process had the lock and waited in vain for
the incoming process to exit.
CountOtherDBBackends() would time out and fail after 5 seconds, so this
just resulted in an unexpected failure not a permanent lockup, but it's
still annoying when it happens. A real-world example of a use-case is that
short-duration connections to a template database should not cause CREATE
DATABASE to fail.
Doing it in the other order should be fine since the contract has always
been that processes searching the ProcArray for a database ID must hold the
relevant per-database lock while searching. Thus, this actually removes
the former race condition that required an assumption that storing to
MyProc->databaseId is atomic.
It's been like this for a long time, so back-patch to all active branches.
Robert Haas [Fri, 5 Jun 2015 12:34:52 +0000 (08:34 -0400)]
Cope with possible failure of the oldest MultiXact to exist.
Recent commits, mainly
b69bf30b9bfacafc733a9ba77c9587cf54d06c0c and
53bb309d2d5a9432d2602c93ed18e58bd2924e15, introduced mechanisms to
protect against wraparound of the MultiXact member space: the number
of multixacts that can exist at one time is limited to 2^32, but the
total number of members in those multixacts is also limited to 2^32,
and older code did not take care to enforce the second limit,
potentially allowing old data to be overwritten while it was still
needed.
Unfortunately, these new mechanisms failed to account for the fact
that the code paths in which they run might be executed during
recovery or while the cluster was in an inconsistent state. Also,
they failed to account for the fact that users who used pg_upgrade
to upgrade a PostgreSQL version between 9.3.0 and 9.3.4 might have
might oldestMultiXid = 1 in the control file despite the true value
being larger.
To fix these problems, first, avoid unnecessarily examining the
mmembers of MultiXacts when the cluster is not known to be consistent.
TruncateMultiXact has done this for a long time, and this patch does
not fix that. But the new calls used to prevent member wraparound
are not needed until we reach normal running, so avoid calling them
earlier. (SetMultiXactIdLimit is actually called before InRecovery
is set, so we can't rely on that; we invent our own multixact-specific
flag instead.)
Second, make failure to look up the members of a MultiXact a non-fatal
error. Instead, if we're unable to determine the member offset at
which wraparound would occur, postpone arming the member wraparound
defenses until we are able to do so. If we're unable to determine the
member offset that should force autovacuum, force it continuously
until we are able to do so. If we're unable to deterine the member
offset at which we should truncate the members SLRU, log a message and
skip truncation.
An important consequence of these changes is that anyone who does have
a bogus oldestMultiXid = 1 value in pg_control will experience
immediate emergency autovacuuming when upgrading to a release that
contains this fix. The release notes should highlight this fact. If
a user has no pg_multixact/offsets/0000 file, but has oldestMultiXid = 1
in the control file, they may wish to vacuum any tables with
relminmxid = 1 prior to upgrading in order to avoid an immediate
emergency autovacuum after the upgrade. This must be done with a
PostgreSQL version 9.3.5 or newer and with vacuum_multixact_freeze_min_age
and vacuum_multixact_freeze_table_age set to 0.
This patch also adds an additional log message at each database server
startup, indicating either that protections against member wraparound
have been engaged, or that they have not. In the latter case, once
autovacuum has advanced oldestMultiXid to a sane value, the message
indicating that the guards have been engaged will appear at the next
checkpoint. A few additional messages have also been added at the DEBUG1
level so that the correct operation of this code can be properly audited.
Along the way, this patch fixes another, related bug in TruncateMultiXact
that has existed since PostgreSQL 9.3.0: when no MultiXacts exist at
all, the truncation code looks up NextMultiXactId, which doesn't exist
yet. This can lead to TruncateMultiXact removing every file in
pg_multixact/offsets instead of keeping one around, as it should.
This in turn will cause the database server to refuse to start
afterwards.
Patch by me. Review by Álvaro Herrera, Andres Freund, Noah Misch, and
Thomas Munro.
Alvaro Herrera [Thu, 4 Jun 2015 18:20:28 +0000 (15:20 -0300)]
pgindent run on access/transam/multixact.c
This file has been patched over and over, and the differences to master
caused by pgindent are annoying enough that it seems saner to make the
older branches look the same.
Backpatch to 9.3, which is as far back as backpatching of bugfixes is
necessary.
Fujii Masao [Thu, 4 Jun 2015 04:22:49 +0000 (13:22 +0900)]
Fix some issues in pg_class.relminmxid and pg_database.datminmxid documentation.
- Correct the name of directory which those catalog columns allow to be shrunk.
- Correct the name of symbol which is used as the value of pg_class.relminmxid
when the relation is not a table.
- Fix "ID ID" typo.
Backpatch to 9.3 where those cataog columns were introduced.
Tom Lane [Wed, 3 Jun 2015 15:58:47 +0000 (11:58 -0400)]
Fix planner's cost estimation for SEMI/ANTI joins with inner indexscans.
When the inner side of a nestloop SEMI or ANTI join is an indexscan that
uses all the join clauses as indexquals, it can be presumed that both
matched and unmatched outer rows will be processed very quickly: for
matched rows, we'll stop after fetching one row from the indexscan, while
for unmatched rows we'll have an indexscan that finds no matching index
entries, which should also be quick. The planner already knew about this,
but it was nonetheless charging for at least one full run of the inner
indexscan, as a consequence of concerns about the behavior of materialized
inner scans --- but those concerns don't apply in the fast case. If the
inner side has low cardinality (many matching rows) this could make an
indexscan plan look far more expensive than it actually is. To fix,
rearrange the work in initial_cost_nestloop/final_cost_nestloop so that we
don't add the inner scan cost until we've inspected the indexquals, and
then we can add either the full-run cost or just the first tuple's cost as
appropriate.
Experimentation with this fix uncovered another problem: add_path and
friends were coded to disregard cheap startup cost when considering
parameterized paths. That's usually okay (and desirable, because it thins
the path herd faster); but in this fast case for SEMI/ANTI joins, it could
result in throwing away the desired plain indexscan path in favor of a
bitmap scan path before we ever get to the join costing logic. In the
many-matching-rows cases of interest here, a bitmap scan will do a lot more
work than required, so this is a problem. To fix, add a per-relation flag
consider_param_startup that works like the existing consider_startup flag,
but applies to parameterized paths, and set it for relations that are the
inside of a SEMI or ANTI join.
To make this patch reasonably safe to back-patch, care has been taken to
avoid changing the planner's behavior except in the very narrow case of
SEMI/ANTI joins with inner indexscans. There are places in
compare_path_costs_fuzzily and add_path_precheck that are not terribly
consistent with the new approach, but changing them will affect planner
decisions at the margins in other cases, so we'll leave that for a
HEAD-only fix.
Back-patch to 9.3; before that, the consider_startup flag didn't exist,
meaning that the second aspect of the patch would be too invasive.
Per a complaint from Peter Holzer and analysis by Tomas Vondra.
Tom Lane [Mon, 1 Jun 2015 19:08:17 +0000 (15:08 -0400)]
Stamp 9.3.8.
Tom Lane [Mon, 1 Jun 2015 17:27:43 +0000 (13:27 -0400)]
Release notes for 9.4.3, 9.3.8, 9.2.12, 9.1.17, 9.0.21.
Also sneak entries for commits
97ff2a564 et al into the sections for
the previous releases in the relevant branches. Those fixes did go out
in the previous releases, but missed getting documented.
Tom Lane [Fri, 29 May 2015 21:02:58 +0000 (17:02 -0400)]
initdb -S should now have an explicit check that $PGDATA is valid.
The fsync code from the backend essentially assumes that somebody's already
validated PGDATA, at least to the extent of it being a readable directory.
That's safe enough for initdb's normal code path too, but "initdb -S"
doesn't have any other processing at all that touches the target directory.
To have reasonable error-case behavior, add a pg_check_dir call.
Per gripe from Peter E.
Tom Lane [Fri, 29 May 2015 19:11:36 +0000 (15:11 -0400)]
Remove special cases for ETXTBSY from new fsync'ing logic.
The argument that this is a sufficiently-expected case to be silently
ignored seems pretty thin. Andres had brought it up back when we were
still considering that most fsync failures should be hard errors, and it
probably would be legit not to fail hard for ETXTBSY --- but the same is
true for EROFS and other cases, which is why we gave up on hard failures.
ETXTBSY is surely not a normal case, so logging the failure seems fine
from here.
Tom Lane [Fri, 29 May 2015 17:05:16 +0000 (13:05 -0400)]
Adjust initdb to also not consider fsync'ing failures fatal.
Make initdb's version of this logic look as much like the backend's
as possible. This is much less critical than in the backend since not
so many people use "initdb -S", but we want the same corner-case error
handling in both cases.
Back-patch to 9.3 where initdb -S option was introduced. Before that,
initdb only had to deal with freshly-created data directories, wherein
no failures should be expected.
Abhijit Menon-Sen
Tom Lane [Thu, 28 May 2015 21:33:03 +0000 (17:33 -0400)]
Fix fsync-at-startup code to not treat errors as fatal.
Commit
2ce439f3379aed857517c8ce207485655000fc8e introduced a rather serious
regression, namely that if its scan of the data directory came across any
un-fsync-able files, it would fail and thereby prevent database startup.
Worse yet, symlinks to such files also caused the problem, which meant that
crash restart was guaranteed to fail on certain common installations such
as older Debian.
After discussion, we agreed that (1) failure to start is worse than any
consequence of not fsync'ing is likely to be, therefore treat all errors
in this code as nonfatal; (2) we should not chase symlinks other than
those that are expected to exist, namely pg_xlog/ and tablespace links
under pg_tblspc/. The latter restriction avoids possibly fsync'ing a
much larger part of the filesystem than intended, if the user has left
random symlinks hanging about in the data directory.
This commit takes care of that and also does some code beautification,
mainly moving the relevant code into fd.c, which seems a much better place
for it than xlog.c, and making sure that the conditional compilation for
the pre_sync_fname pass has something to do with whether pg_flush_data
works.
I also relocated the call site in xlog.c down a few lines; it seems a
bit silly to be doing this before ValidateXLOGDirectoryStructure().
The similar logic in initdb.c ought to be made to match this, but that
change is noncritical and will be dealt with separately.
Back-patch to all active branches, like the prior commit.
Abhijit Menon-Sen and Tom Lane
Tom Lane [Thu, 28 May 2015 15:24:37 +0000 (11:24 -0400)]
Fix pg_get_functiondef() to print a function's LEAKPROOF property.
Seems to have been an oversight in the original leakproofness patch.
Per report and patch from Jeevan Chalke.
In passing, prettify some awkward leakproof-related code in AlterFunction.
Tom Lane [Wed, 27 May 2015 23:14:40 +0000 (19:14 -0400)]
Fix portability issue in isolationtester grammar.
specparse.y and specscanner.l used "string" as a token name. Now, bison
likes to define each token name as a macro for the token code it assigns,
which means those names are basically off-limits for any other use within
the grammar file or included headers. So names as generic as "string" are
dangerous. This is what was causing the recent failures on protosciurus:
some versions of Solaris' sys/kstat.h use "string" as a field name.
With late-model bison we don't see this problem because the token macros
aren't defined till later (that is why castoroides didn't show the problem
even though it's on the same machine). But protosciurus uses bison 1.875
which defines the token macros up front.
This land mine has been there from day one; we'd have found it sooner
except that protosciurus wasn't trying to run the isolation tests till
recently.
To fix, rename the token to "string_literal" which is hopefully less
likely to collide with names used by system headers. Back-patch to
all branches containing the isolation tests.
Tom Lane [Wed, 27 May 2015 02:14:59 +0000 (22:14 -0400)]
Remove configure check prohibiting threaded libpython on OpenBSD.
According to recent tests, this case now works fine, so there's no reason
to reject it anymore. (Even if there are still some OpenBSD platforms
in the wild where it doesn't work, removing the check won't break any case
that worked before.)
We can actually remove the entire test that discovers whether libpython
is threaded, since without the OpenBSD case there's no need to know that
at all.
Per report from Davin Potts. Back-patch to all active branches.
Alvaro Herrera [Mon, 25 May 2015 18:09:05 +0000 (15:09 -0300)]
Update README.tuplock
Multixact truncation is now handled differently, and this file hadn't
gotten the memo.
Per note from Amit Langote. I didn't use his patch, though.
Also update the description of infomask bits, which weren't completely up
to date either. This commit also propagates
b01a4f6838 back to 9.3 and
9.4, which apparently I failed to do back then.
Tom Lane [Sun, 24 May 2015 17:03:45 +0000 (13:03 -0400)]
Rename pg_shdepend.c's typedef "objectType" to SharedDependencyObjectType.
The name objectType is widely used as a field name, and it's pure luck that
this conflict has not caused pgindent to go crazy before. It messed up
pg_audit.c pretty good though. Since pg_shdepend.c doesn't export this
typedef and only uses it in three places, changing that seems saner than
changing the field usages.
Back-patch because we're contemplating using the union of all branch
typedefs for future pgindent runs, so this won't fix anything if it
stays the same in back branches.
Tom Lane [Fri, 22 May 2015 00:41:55 +0000 (20:41 -0400)]
Back-patch libpq support for TLS versions beyond v1.
Since 7.3.2, libpq has been coded in such a way that the only SSL protocol
it would allow was TLS v1. That approach is looking increasingly obsolete.
In commit
820f08cabdcbb899 we fixed it to allow TLS >= v1, but did not
back-patch the change at the time, partly out of caution and partly because
the question was confused by a contemporary server-side change to reject
the now-obsolete SSL protocol v3. 9.4 has now been out long enough that
it seems safe to assume the change is OK; hence, back-patch into 9.0-9.3.
(I also chose to back-patch some relevant comments added by commit
326e1d73c476a0b5, but did *not* change the server behavior; hence, pre-9.4
servers will continue to allow SSL v3, even though no remotely modern
client will request it.)
Per gripe from Jan Bilek.
Tom Lane [Tue, 19 May 2015 22:33:58 +0000 (18:33 -0400)]
Last-minute updates for release notes.
Revise description of CVE-2015-3166, in line with scaled-back patch.
Change release date.
Security: CVE-2015-3166
Tom Lane [Tue, 19 May 2015 22:16:58 +0000 (18:16 -0400)]
Revert error-throwing wrappers for the printf family of functions.
This reverts commit
16304a013432931e61e623c8d85e9fe24709d9ba, except
for its changes in src/port/snprintf.c; as well as commit
cac18a76bb6b08f1ecc2a85e46c9d2ab82dd9d23 which is no longer needed.
Fujii Masao reported that the previous commit caused failures in psql on
OS X, since if one exits the pager program early while viewing a query
result, psql sees an EPIPE error from fprintf --- and the wrapper function
thought that was reason to panic. (It's a bit surprising that the same
does not happen on Linux.) Further discussion among the security list
concluded that the risk of other such failures was far too great, and
that the one-size-fits-all approach to error handling embodied in the
previous patch is unlikely to be workable.
This leaves us again exposed to the possibility of the type of failure
envisioned in CVE-2015-3166. However, that failure mode is strictly
hypothetical at this point: there is no concrete reason to believe that
an attacker could trigger information disclosure through the supposed
mechanism. In the first place, the attack surface is fairly limited,
since so much of what the backend does with format strings goes through
stringinfo.c or psprintf(), and those already had adequate defenses.
In the second place, even granting that an unprivileged attacker could
control the occurrence of ENOMEM with some precision, it's a stretch to
believe that he could induce it just where the target buffer contains some
valuable information. So we concluded that the risk of non-hypothetical
problems induced by the patch greatly outweighs the security risks.
We will therefore revert, and instead undertake closer analysis to
identify specific calls that may need hardening, rather than attempt a
universal solution.
We have kept the portion of the previous patch that improved snprintf.c's
handling of errors when it calls the platform's sprintf(). That seems to
be an unalloyed improvement.
Security: CVE-2015-3166
Heikki Linnakangas [Tue, 19 May 2015 16:21:46 +0000 (19:21 +0300)]
Fix off-by-one error in Assertion.
The point of the assertion is to ensure that the arrays allocated in stack
are large enough, but the check was one item short.
This won't matter in practice because MaxIndexTuplesPerPage is an
overestimate, so you can't have that many items on a page in reality.
But let's be tidy.
Spotted by Anastasia Lubennikova. Backpatch to all supported versions, like
the patch that added the assertion.
Tom Lane [Mon, 18 May 2015 18:31:21 +0000 (14:31 -0400)]
Stamp 9.3.7.
Robert Haas [Mon, 18 May 2015 16:53:09 +0000 (12:53 -0400)]
Fix error message in pre_sync_fname.
The old one didn't include %m anywhere, and required extra
translation.
Report by Peter Eisentraut. Fix by me. Review by Tom Lane.
Tom Lane [Mon, 18 May 2015 16:09:02 +0000 (12:09 -0400)]
Last-minute updates for release notes.
Add entries for security issues.
Security: CVE-2015-3165 through CVE-2015-3167
Noah Misch [Mon, 18 May 2015 14:02:31 +0000 (10:02 -0400)]
pgcrypto: Report errant decryption as "Wrong key or corrupt data".
This has been the predominant outcome. When the output of decrypting
with a wrong key coincidentally resembled an OpenPGP packet header,
pgcrypto could instead report "Corrupt data", "Not text data" or
"Unsupported compression algorithm". The distinct "Corrupt data"
message added no value. The latter two error messages misled when the
decrypted payload also exhibited fundamental integrity problems. Worse,
error message variance in other systems has enabled cryptologic attacks;
see RFC 4880 section "14. Security Considerations". Whether these
pgcrypto behaviors are likewise exploitable is unknown.
In passing, document that pgcrypto does not resist side-channel attacks.
Back-patch to 9.0 (all supported versions).
Security: CVE-2015-3167
Noah Misch [Mon, 18 May 2015 14:02:31 +0000 (10:02 -0400)]
Check return values of sensitive system library calls.
PostgreSQL already checked the vast majority of these, missing this
handful that nearly cannot fail. If putenv() failed with ENOMEM in
pg_GSS_recvauth(), authentication would proceed with the wrong keytab
file. If strftime() returned zero in cache_locale_time(), using the
unspecified buffer contents could lead to information exposure or a
crash. Back-patch to 9.0 (all supported versions).
Other unchecked calls to these functions, especially those in frontend
code, pose negligible security concern. This patch does not address
them. Nonetheless, it is always better to check return values whose
specification provides for indicating an error.
In passing, fix an off-by-one error in strftime_win32()'s invocation of
WideCharToMultiByte(). Upon retrieving a value of exactly MAX_L10N_DATA
bytes, strftime_win32() would overrun the caller's buffer by one byte.
MAX_L10N_DATA is chosen to exceed the length of every possible value, so
the vulnerable scenario probably does not arise.
Security: CVE-2015-3166
Noah Misch [Mon, 18 May 2015 14:02:31 +0000 (10:02 -0400)]
Add error-throwing wrappers for the printf family of functions.
All known standard library implementations of these functions can fail
with ENOMEM. A caller neglecting to check for failure would experience
missing output, information exposure, or a crash. Check return values
within wrappers and code, currently just snprintf.c, that bypasses the
wrappers. The wrappers do not return after an error, so their callers
need not check. Back-patch to 9.0 (all supported versions).
Popular free software standard library implementations do take pains to
bypass malloc() in simple cases, but they risk ENOMEM for floating point
numbers, positional arguments, large field widths, and large precisions.
No specification demands such caution, so this commit regards every call
to a printf family function as a potential threat.
Injecting the wrappers implicitly is a compromise between patch scope
and design goals. I would prefer to edit each call site to name a
wrapper explicitly. libpq and the ECPG libraries would, ideally, convey
errors to the caller rather than abort(). All that would be painfully
invasive for a back-patched security fix, hence this compromise.
Security: CVE-2015-3166
Noah Misch [Mon, 18 May 2015 14:02:31 +0000 (10:02 -0400)]
Permit use of vsprintf() in PostgreSQL code.
The next commit needs it. Back-patch to 9.0 (all supported versions).
Noah Misch [Mon, 18 May 2015 14:02:31 +0000 (10:02 -0400)]
Prevent a double free by not reentering be_tls_close().
Reentering this function with the right timing caused a double free,
typically crashing the backend. By synchronizing a disconnection with
the authentication timeout, an unauthenticated attacker could achieve
this somewhat consistently. Call be_tls_close() solely from within
proc_exit_prepare(). Back-patch to 9.0 (all supported versions).
Benkocs Norbert Attila
Security: CVE-2015-3165
Peter Eisentraut [Mon, 18 May 2015 12:40:50 +0000 (08:40 -0400)]
Translation updates
Source-Git-URL: git://git.postgresql.org/git/pgtranslation/messages.git
Source-Git-Hash:
3ce9e5ca72c3948b4c592e82a5ddb9b69b97d14b
Peter Eisentraut [Mon, 18 May 2015 02:21:36 +0000 (22:21 -0400)]
Fix typos
Tom Lane [Sun, 17 May 2015 19:54:20 +0000 (15:54 -0400)]
Release notes for 9.4.2, 9.3.7, 9.2.11, 9.1.16, 9.0.20.
Bruce Momjian [Sat, 16 May 2015 19:16:28 +0000 (15:16 -0400)]
pg_upgrade: properly handle timeline variables
There is no behavior change here as we now always set the timeline to
one.
Report by Tom Lane
Backpatch to 9.3 and 9.4
Tom Lane [Sat, 16 May 2015 17:28:26 +0000 (13:28 -0400)]
Fix docs typo
I don't think "respectfully" is what was meant here ...
Bruce Momjian [Sat, 16 May 2015 04:40:18 +0000 (00:40 -0400)]
pg_upgrade: force timeline 1 in the new cluster
Previously, this prevented promoted standby servers from being upgraded
because of a missing WAL history file. (Timeline 1 doesn't need a
history file, and we don't copy WAL files anyway.)
Report by Christian Echerer(?), Alexey Klyukin
Backpatch through 9.0
Bruce Momjian [Sat, 16 May 2015 04:10:03 +0000 (00:10 -0400)]
pg_upgrade: only allow template0 to be non-connectable
This patch causes pg_upgrade to error out during its check phase if:
(1) template0 is marked connectable
or
(2) any other database is marked non-connectable
This is done because, in the first case, pg_upgrade would fail because
the pg_dumpall --globals restore would fail, and in the second case, the
database would not be restored, leading to data loss.
Report by Matt Landry (1), Stephen Frost (2)
Backpatch through 9.0
Tom Lane [Fri, 15 May 2015 23:35:29 +0000 (19:35 -0400)]
Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2015d.
DST law changes in Egypt, Mongolia, Palestine.
Historical corrections for Canada and Chile.
Revised zone abbreviation for America/Adak (HST/HDT not HAST/HADT).
Tom Lane [Thu, 14 May 2015 18:59:00 +0000 (14:59 -0400)]
Docs: fix erroneous claim about max byte length of GB18030.
This encoding has characters up to 4 bytes long, not 2.
Heikki Linnakangas [Wed, 13 May 2015 06:44:43 +0000 (09:44 +0300)]
Fix RBM_ZERO_AND_LOCK mode to not acquire lock on local buffers.
Commit
81c45081 introduced a new RBM_ZERO_AND_LOCK mode to ReadBuffer, which
takes a lock on the buffer before zeroing it. However, you cannot take a
lock on a local buffer, and you got a segfault instead. The version of that
patch committed to master included a check for !isLocalBuf, and therefore
didn't crash, but oddly I missed that in the back-patched versions. This
patch adds that check to the back-branches too.
RBM_ZERO_AND_LOCK mode is only used during WAL replay, and in hash indexes.
WAL replay only deals with shared buffers, so the only way to trigger the
bug is with a temporary hash index.
Reported by Artem Ignatyev, analysis by Tom Lane.
Tom Lane [Mon, 11 May 2015 16:25:28 +0000 (12:25 -0400)]
Fix incorrect checking of deferred exclusion constraint after a HOT update.
If a row that potentially violates a deferred exclusion constraint is
HOT-updated later in the same transaction, the exclusion constraint would
be reported as violated when the check finally occurs, even if the row(s)
the new row originally conflicted with have since been removed. This
happened because the wrong TID was passed to check_exclusion_constraint(),
causing the live HOT-updated row to be seen as a conflicting row rather
than recognized as the row-under-test.
Per bug #13148 from Evan Martin. It's been broken since exclusion
constraints were invented, so back-patch to all supported branches.
Robert Haas [Mon, 11 May 2015 16:07:13 +0000 (12:07 -0400)]
Increase threshold for multixact member emergency autovac to 50%.
Analysis by Noah Misch shows that the 25% threshold set by commit
53bb309d2d5a9432d2602c93ed18e58bd2924e15 is lower than any other,
similar autovac threshold. While we don't know exactly what value
will be optimal for all users, it is better to err a little on the
high side than on the low side. A higher value increases the risk
that users might exhaust the available space and start seeing errors
before autovacuum can clean things up sufficiently, but a user who
hits that problem can compensate for it by reducing
autovacuum_multixact_freeze_max_age to a value dependent on their
average multixact size. On the flip side, if the emergency cap
imposed by that patch kicks in too early, the user will experience
excessive wraparound scanning and will be unable to mitigate that
problem by configuration. The new value will hopefully reduce the
risk of such bad experiences while still providing enough headroom
to avoid multixact member exhaustion for most users.
Along the way, adjust the documentation to reflect the effects of
commit
04e6d3b877e060d8445eb653b7ea26b1ee5cec6b, which taught
autovacuum to run for multixact wraparound even when autovacuum
is configured off.
Robert Haas [Mon, 11 May 2015 14:51:14 +0000 (10:51 -0400)]
Even when autovacuum=off, force it for members as we do in other cases.
Thomas Munro, with some adjustments by me.
Robert Haas [Mon, 11 May 2015 02:21:20 +0000 (22:21 -0400)]
Advance the stop point for multixact offset creation only at checkpoint.
Commit
b69bf30b9bfacafc733a9ba77c9587cf54d06c0c advanced the stop point
at vacuum time, but this has subsequently been shown to be unsafe as a
result of analysis by myself and Thomas Munro and testing by Thomas
Munro. The crux of the problem is that the SLRU deletion logic may
get confused about what to remove if, at exactly the right time during
the checkpoint process, the head of the SLRU crosses what used to be
the tail.
This patch, by me, fixes the problem by advancing the stop point only
following a checkpoint. This has the additional advantage of making
the removal logic work during recovery more like the way it works during
normal running, which is probably good.
At least one of the calls to DetermineSafeOldestOffset which this patch
removes was already dead, because MultiXactAdvanceOldest is called only
during recovery and DetermineSafeOldestOffset was set up to do nothing
during recovery. That, however, is inconsistent with the principle that
recovery and normal running should work similarly, and was confusing to
boot.
Along the way, fix some comments that previous patches in this area
neglected to update. It's not clear to me whether there's any
concrete basis for the decision to use only half of the multixact ID
space, but it's neither necessary nor sufficient to prevent multixact
member wraparound, so the comments should not say otherwise.
Robert Haas [Mon, 11 May 2015 01:34:26 +0000 (21:34 -0400)]
Fix DetermineSafeOldestOffset for the case where there are no mxacts.
Commit
b69bf30b9bfacafc733a9ba77c9587cf54d06c0c failed to take into
account the possibility that there might be no multixacts in existence
at all.
Report by Thomas Munro; patch by me.
Stephen Frost [Fri, 8 May 2015 23:39:52 +0000 (19:39 -0400)]
Recommend include_realm=1 in docs
As discussed, the default setting of include_realm=0 can be dangerous in
multi-realm environments because it is then impossible to differentiate
users with the same username but who are from two different realms.
Recommend include_realm=1 and note that the default setting may change
in a future version of PostgreSQL and therefore users may wish to
explicitly set include_realm to avoid issues while upgrading.
Robert Haas [Fri, 8 May 2015 16:09:14 +0000 (12:09 -0400)]
Teach autovacuum about multixact member wraparound.
The logic introduced in commit
b69bf30b9bfacafc733a9ba77c9587cf54d06c0c
and repaired in commits
669c7d20e6374850593cb430d332e11a3992bbcf and
7be47c56af3d3013955c91c2877c08f2a0e3e6a2 helps to ensure that we don't
overwrite old multixact member information while it is still needed,
but a user who creates many large multixacts can still exhaust the
member space (and thus start getting errors) while autovacuum stands
idly by.
To fix this, progressively ramp down the effective value (but not the
actual contents) of autovacuum_multixact_freeze_max_age as member space
utilization increases. This makes autovacuum more aggressive and also
reduces the threshold for a manual VACUUM to perform a full-table scan.
This patch leaves unsolved the problem of ensuring that emergency
autovacuums are triggered even when autovacuum=off. We'll need to fix
that via a separate patch.
Thomas Munro and Robert Haas
Robert Haas [Thu, 7 May 2015 15:00:47 +0000 (11:00 -0400)]
Fix incorrect math in DetermineSafeOldestOffset.
The old formula didn't have enough parentheses, so it would do the wrong
thing, and it used / rather than % to find a remainder. The effect of
these oversights is that the stop point chosen by the logic introduced in
commit
b69bf30b9bfacafc733a9ba77c9587cf54d06c0c might be rather
meaningless.
Thomas Munro, reviewed by Kevin Grittner, with a whitespace tweak by me.
Magnus Hagander [Thu, 7 May 2015 13:04:13 +0000 (15:04 +0200)]
Properly send SCM status updates when shutting down service on Windows
The Service Control Manager should be notified regularly during a shutdown
that takes a long time. Previously we would increaes the counter, but forgot
to actually send the notification to the system. The loop counter was also
incorrectly initalized in the event that the startup of the system took long
enough for it to increase, which could cause the shutdown process not to wait
as long as expected.
Krystian Bigaj, reviewed by Michael Paquier
Tom Lane [Tue, 5 May 2015 20:11:01 +0000 (16:11 -0400)]
citext's regexp_matches() functions weren't documented, either.
Tom Lane [Tue, 5 May 2015 19:50:53 +0000 (15:50 -0400)]
Fix incorrect declaration of citext's regexp_matches() functions.
These functions should return SETOF TEXT[], like the core functions they
are wrappers for; but they were incorrectly declared as returning just
TEXT[]. This mistake had two results: first, if there was no match you got
a scalar null result, whereas what you should get is an empty set (zero
rows). Second, the 'g' flag was effectively ignored, since you would get
only one result array even if there were multiple matches, as reported by
Jeff Certain.
While ignoring 'g' is a clear bug, the behavior for no matches might well
have been thought to be the intended behavior by people who hadn't compared
it carefully to the core regexp_matches() functions. So we should tread
carefully about introducing this change in the back branches. Still, it
clearly is a bug and so providing some fix is desirable.
After discussion, the conclusion was to introduce the change in a 1.1
version of the citext extension (as we would need to do anyway); 1.0 still
contains the incorrect behavior. 1.1 is the default and only available
version in HEAD, but it is optional in the back branches, where 1.0 remains
the default version. People wishing to adopt the fix in back branches will
need to explicitly do ALTER EXTENSION citext UPDATE TO '1.1'. (I also
provided a downgrade script in the back branches, so people could go back
to 1.0 if necessary.)
This should be called out as an incompatible change in the 9.5 release
notes, although we'll also document it in the next set of back-branch
release notes. The notes should mention that any views or rules that use
citext's regexp_matches() functions will need to be dropped before
upgrading to 1.1, and then recreated again afterwards.
Back-patch to 9.1. The bug goes all the way back to citext's introduction
in 8.4, but pre-9.1 there is no extension mechanism with which to manage
the change. Given the lack of previous complaints it seems unnecessary to
change this behavior in 9.0, anyway.
Robert Haas [Tue, 5 May 2015 12:30:28 +0000 (08:30 -0400)]
Fix some problems with patch to fsync the data directory.
pg_win32_is_junction() was a typo for pgwin32_is_junction(). open()
was used not only in a two-argument form, which breaks on Windows,
but also where BasicOpenFile() should have been used.
Per reports from Andrew Dunstan and David Rowley.
Robert Haas [Mon, 4 May 2015 16:06:53 +0000 (12:06 -0400)]
Recursively fsync() the data directory after a crash.
Otherwise, if there's another crash, some writes from after the first
crash might make it to disk while writes from before the crash fail
to make it to disk. This could lead to data corruption.
Back-patch to all supported versions.
Abhijit Menon-Sen, reviewed by Andres Freund and slightly revised
by me.
Alvaro Herrera [Thu, 30 Apr 2015 16:55:06 +0000 (13:55 -0300)]
Fix pg_upgrade's multixact handling (again)
We need to create the pg_multixact/offsets file deleted by pg_upgrade
much earlier than we originally were: it was in TrimMultiXact(), which
runs after we exit recovery, but it actually needs to run earlier than
the first call to SetMultiXactIdLimit (before recovery), because that
routine already wants to read the first offset segment.
Per pg_upgrade trouble report from Jeff Janes.
While at it, silence a compiler warning about a pointless assert that an
unsigned variable was being tested non-negative. This was a signed
constant in Thomas Munro's patch which I changed to unsigned before
commit. Pointed out by Andres Freund.
Alvaro Herrera [Tue, 28 Apr 2015 17:52:29 +0000 (14:52 -0300)]
Code review for multixact bugfix
Reword messages, rename a confusingly named function.
Per Robert Haas.
Alvaro Herrera [Tue, 28 Apr 2015 14:32:53 +0000 (11:32 -0300)]
Protect against multixact members wraparound
Multixact member files are subject to early wraparound overflow and
removal: if the average multixact size is above a certain threshold (see
note below) the protections against offset overflow are not enough:
during multixact truncation at checkpoint time, some
pg_multixact/members files would be removed because the server considers
them to be old and not needed anymore. This leads to loss of files that
are critical to interpret existing tuples's Xmax values.
To protect against this, since we don't have enough info in pg_control
and we can't modify it in old branches, we maintain shared memory state
about the oldest value that we need to keep; we use this during new
multixact creation to abort if an old still-needed file would get
overwritten. This value is kept up to date by checkpoints, which makes
it not completely accurate but should be good enough. We start emitting
warnings sometime earlier, so that the eventual multixact-shutdown
doesn't take DBAs completely by surprise (more precisely: once 20
members SLRU segments are remaining before shutdown.)
On troublesome average multixact size: The threshold size depends on the
multixact freeze parameters. The oldest age is related to the greater of
multixact_freeze_table_age and multixact_freeze_min_age: anything
older than that should be removed promptly by autovacuum. If autovacuum
is keeping up with multixact freezing, the troublesome multixact average
size is
(2^32-1) / Max(freeze table age, freeze min age)
or around 28 members per multixact. Having an average multixact size
larger than that will eventually cause new multixact data to overwrite
the data area for older multixacts. (If autovacuum is not able to keep
up, or there are errors in vacuuming, the actual maximum is
multixact_freeeze_max_age instead, at which point multixact generation
is stopped completely. The default value for this limit is 400 million,
which means that the multixact size that would cause trouble is about 10
members).
Initial bug report by Timothy Garnett, bug #12990
Backpatch to 9.3, where the problem was introduced.
Authors: Álvaro Herrera, Thomas Munro
Reviews: Thomas Munro, Amit Kapila, Robert Haas, Kevin Grittner
Noah Misch [Sun, 26 Apr 2015 21:20:10 +0000 (17:20 -0400)]
Build libecpg with -DFRONTEND in all supported versions.
Fix an oversight in commit
151e74719b0cc5c040bd3191b51b95f925773dd1 by
back-patching commit
44c5d387eafb4ba1a032f8d7b13d85c553d69181 to 9.0.
Tom Lane [Sat, 25 Apr 2015 20:44:27 +0000 (16:44 -0400)]
Prevent improper reordering of antijoins vs. outer joins.
An outer join appearing within the RHS of an antijoin can't commute with
the antijoin, but somehow I missed teaching make_outerjoininfo() about
that. In Teodor Sigaev's recent trouble report, this manifests as a
"could not find RelOptInfo for given relids" error within eqjoinsel();
but I think silently wrong query results are possible too, if the planner
misorders the joins and doesn't happen to trigger any internal consistency
checks. It's broken as far back as we had antijoins, so back-patch to all
supported branches.
Noah Misch [Fri, 24 Apr 2015 23:29:02 +0000 (19:29 -0400)]
Build every ECPG library with -DFRONTEND.
Each of the libraries incorporates src/port files, which often check
FRONTEND. Build systems disagreed on whether to build libpgtypes this
way. Only libecpg incorporates files that rely on it today. Back-patch
to 9.0 (all supported versions) to forestall surprises.
Tom Lane [Fri, 24 Apr 2015 19:18:07 +0000 (15:18 -0400)]
Fix obsolete comment in set_rel_size().
The cross-reference to set_append_rel_pathlist() was obsoleted by
commit
e2fa76d80ba571d4de8992de6386536867250474, which split what
had been set_rel_pathlist() and child routines into two sets of
functions. But I (tgl) evidently missed updating this comment.
Back-patch to 9.2 to avoid unnecessary divergence among branches.
Amit Langote