Hot_standby_feedback could be reset by reload and worked correctly, but if
the server was restarted rather than reloaded the xmin was not reset.
Force reset always if hot_standby_feedback is enabled at startup.
Ants Aasma, Craig Ringer
Reported-by: Ants Aasma
!foo means "the tsvector does not contain foo", and therefore it should
match an empty tsvector. ts_match_vq() overenthusiastically supposed
that an empty tsvector could never match any query, so it forcibly
returned FALSE, the wrong answer. Remove the premature optimization.
Our behavior on this point was inconsistent, because while seqscans and
GIST index searches both failed to match empty tsvectors, GIN index
searches would find them, since GIN scans don't rely on ts_match_vq().
That makes this certainly a bug, not a debatable definition disagreement,
so back-patch to all supported branches.
Report and diagnosis by Tom Dunstan (bug #14515); added test cases by me.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170126025524.1434.97828@wrigleys.postgresql.org
This reverts commit df9e034f958a5cd092f7f461d7a50156f6d076af, which
tried to fix the comments to reflect the change of API of the function
but actually the change had been made only for 9.5 or later.
The interface for the function was changed in
d72731a70450b5e7084991b9caa15cb58a2820df but the comments of the
function was not updated.
Patch by Yugo Nagata.
When (1) autovacuum = off and (2) there's at least one database with
an XID age greater than autovacuum_freeze_max_age and (3) all tables
in that database that need vacuuming are already being processed by a
worker and (4) the autovacuum launcher is started, a kind of infinite
loop occurs. The launcher starts a worker and immediately exits. The
worker, finding no worker to do, immediately starts the launcher,
supposedly so that the next database can be processed. But because
datfrozenxid for that database hasn't been advanced yet, the new
worker gets put right back into the same database as the old one,
where it once again starts the launcher and exits. High-speed ping
pong ensues.
There are several possible ways to break the cycle; this seems like
the safest one.
Amit Khandekar (code) and Robert Haas (comments), reviewed by
Álvaro Herrera.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAJ3gD9eWejf72HKquKSzax0r+epS=nAbQKNnykkMA0E8c+rMDg@mail.gmail.com
Thinko in commit a4523c5aa. It doesn't really affect anything at
present, but it would be a problem if any tests added later in this
file ought to get index-only-scan plans. Back-patch, like the previous
commit, just to avoid surprises in case we add such a test and then
back-patch it.
Nikita Glukhov
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/8b70135d-ad38-bdd8-ac92-71e2b3c273cf@postgrespro.ru
These macros work fine when they are used directly in an "if" test or
similar, but as soon as the return values are assigned to boolean
variables (or passed as boolean arguments to some function), they become
bugs, hopefully caught by compiler warnings. To avoid future problems,
fix the definitions so that they return actual booleans.
To further minimize the risk that somebody uses them in back-patched
fixes that only work correctly in branches starting from the current
master and not in old ones, back-patch the change to supported branches
as appropriate.
See also commit af4472bcb88ab36b9abbe7fd5858e570a65a2d1a, and the long
discussion (and larger patch) in the thread mentioned in its commit
message.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18672.1483022414@sss.pgh.pa.us
Previously multiple sessions could execute pg_start_backup() and
pg_stop_backup() to start and stop an exclusive backup at the same time.
This could trigger the assertion failure of
"FailedAssertion("!(XLogCtl->Insert.exclusiveBackup)".
This happend because, even while pg_start_backup() was starting
an exclusive backup, other session could run pg_stop_backup()
concurrently and mark the backup as not-in-progress unconditionally.
This patch introduces ExclusiveBackupState indicating the state of
an exclusive backup. This state is used to ensure that there is only
one session running pg_start_backup() or pg_stop_backup() at
the same time, to avoid the assertion failure.
Back-patch to all supported versions.
Author: Michael Paquier
Reviewed-By: Kyotaro Horiguchi and me
Reported-By: Andreas Seltenreich
Discussion: <87mvktojme.fsf@credativ.de>
A client copy can't work inside a function because the FE/BE wire protocol
doesn't support nesting of a COPY operation within query results. (Maybe
it could, but the protocol spec doesn't suggest that clients should support
this, and libpq for one certainly doesn't.)
In most PLs, this prohibition is enforced by spi.c, but SQL functions don't
use SPI. A comparison of _SPI_execute_plan() and init_execution_state()
shows that rejecting client COPY is the only discrepancy in what they
allow, so there's no other similar bugs.
This is an astonishingly ancient oversight, so back-patch to all supported
branches.
Report: https://postgr.es/m/BY2PR05MB2309EABA3DEFA0143F50F0D593780@BY2PR05MB2309.namprd05.prod.outlook.com
pg_restore will currently accept invalid values for the number of
parallel jobs to run (eg: -1), unlike pg_dump which does check that the
value provided is reasonable.
Worse, '-1' is actually a valid, independent, parameter (as an alias for
--single-transaction), leading to potentially completely unexpected
results from a command line such as:
-> pg_restore -j -1
Where a user would get neither parallel jobs nor a single-transaction.
Add in validity checking of the parallel jobs option, as we already have
in pg_dump, before we try to open up the archive. Also move the check
that we haven't been asked to run more parallel jobs than possible on
Windows to the same place, so we do all the option validity checking
before opening the archive.
Back-patch all the way, though for 9.2 we're adding the Windows-specific
check against MAXIMUM_WAIT_OBJECTS as that check wasn't back-patched
originally.
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20170110044815.GC18360%40tamriel.snowman.net
Including the program name twice is not helpful:
-> pg_dump -j -1
pg_dump: pg_dump: invalid number of parallel jobs
Correct by removing the progname from the exit_horribly() call used when
validating the number of parallel jobs.
Noticed while testing various pg_dump error cases.
Back-patch to 9.3 where parallel pg_dump was added.
This fixes problems where a plan must change but fails to do so,
as seen in a bug report from Rajkumar Raghuwanshi.
For ALTER FOREIGN TABLE OPTIONS, do this through the standard method of
forcing a relcache flush on the table. For ALTER FOREIGN DATA WRAPPER
and ALTER SERVER, just flush the whole plan cache on any change in
pg_foreign_data_wrapper or pg_foreign_server. That matches the way
we handle some other low-probability cases such as opclass changes, and
it's unclear that the case arises often enough to be worth working harder.
Besides, that gives a patch that is simple enough to back-patch with
confidence.
Back-patch to 9.3. In principle we could apply the code change to 9.2 as
well, but (a) we lack postgres_fdw to test it with, (b) it's doubtful that
anyone is doing anything exciting enough with FDWs that far back to need
this desperately, and (c) the patch doesn't apply cleanly.
Patch originally by Amit Langote, reviewed by Etsuro Fujita and Ashutosh
Bapat, who each contributed substantial changes as well.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKcux6m5cA6rRPTKkqVdJ-R=KKDfe35Q_ZuUqxDSV_4hwga=og@mail.gmail.com
array_fill(..., array[0]) produced an empty array, which is probably
what users expect, but it was a one-dimensional zero-length array
which is not our standard representation of empty arrays. Also, for
no very good reason, it rejected empty input arrays; that case should
be allowed and produce an empty output array.
In passing, remove the restriction that the input array(s) have lower
bound 1. That seems rather pointless, and it would have needed extra
complexity to make the check deal with empty input arrays.
Per bug #14487 from Andrew Gierth. It's been broken all along, so
back-patch to all supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170105152156.10135.64195@wrigleys.postgresql.org
Inheritance operations must treat the OID column, if any, much like
regular user columns. But MergeAttributesIntoExisting() neglected to
do that, leading to weird results after a table with OIDs is associated
to a parent with OIDs via ALTER TABLE ... INHERIT.
Report and patch by Amit Langote, reviewed by Ashutosh Bapat, some
adjustments by me. It's been broken all along, so back-patch to
all supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/cb13cfe7-a48c-5720-c383-bb843ab28298@lab.ntt.co.jp
That was written when we still had "crypt" authentication, and it was
referring to the fact that an older client might support "crypt"
authentication but not "md5". But we haven't supported "crypt" for years.
(As soon as we add a new authentication mechanism that doesn't work with
MD5 hashes, we'll need a similar notice again. But this text as it's worded
now is just wrong.)
Backpatch to all supported versions.
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/9a7263eb-0980-2072-4424-440bb2513dc7@iki.fi
In GetCachedPlan(), initialize 'plan' to silence a compiler warning, but
also add an Assert() to make sure we don't ever actually fall through
with 'plan' still being set to NULL, since we are about to dereference
it.
Back-patch back to 9.2.
Author: Stephen Frost
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20161129152102.GR13284%40tamriel.snowman.net
Bison >=3.0 issues warnings about
%name-prefix="base_yy"
instead of the now preferred
%name-prefix "base_yy"
but the latter doesn't work with Bison 2.3 or less. So for now we
silence the deprecation warnings.
Back-patch to 9.2 and 9.3 -- the newer branches already have this fix.
Author: Peter Eisentraut
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/677.1483384145%40sss.pgh.pa.us
interval_transform() contained two separate bugs that caused it to
sometimes mistakenly decide that a cast from interval to restricted
interval is a no-op and throw it away.
First, it was wrong to rely on dt.h's field type macros to have an
ordering consistent with the field's significance; in one case they do
not. This led to mistakenly treating YEAR as less significant than MONTH,
so that a cast from INTERVAL MONTH to INTERVAL YEAR was incorrectly
discarded.
Second, fls(1<<k) produces k+1 not k, so comparing its output directly
to SECOND was wrong. This led to supposing that a cast to INTERVAL
MINUTE was really a cast to INTERVAL SECOND and so could be discarded.
To fix, get rid of the use of fls(), and make a function based on
intervaltypmodout to produce a field ID code adapted to the need here.
Per bug #14479 from Piotr Stefaniak. Back-patch to 9.2 where transform
functions were introduced, because this code was born broken.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20161227172307.10135.7747@wrigleys.postgresql.org
In addition to space accounted for by tuple_len, dead_tuple_len and
free_space, the table_len includes page overhead, the item pointers
table and padding bytes.
Backpatch to live branches.
hashname() asserted that the key string it is given is shorter than
NAMEDATALEN. That should surely always be true if the input is in fact a
regular value of type "name". However, for reasons of coding convenience,
we allow plain old C strings to be treated as "name" values in many places.
Some SQL functions accept arbitrary "text" inputs, convert them to C
strings, and pass them otherwise-untransformed to syscache lookups for name
columns, allowing an overlength input value to trigger hashname's Assert.
This would be a DOS problem, except that it only happens in assert-enabled
builds which aren't recommended for production. In a production build,
you'll just get a name lookup error, since regardless of the hash value
computed by hashname, the later equality comparison checks can't match.
Likewise, if the catalog lookup is done by seqscan or indexscan searches,
there will just be a lookup error, since the name comparison functions
don't contain any similar length checks, and will see an overlength input
as unequal to any stored entry.
After discussion we concluded that we should simply remove this Assert.
It's inessential to hashname's own functionality, and having such an
assertion in only some paths for name lookup is more of a foot-gun than
a useful check. There may or may not be a case for the affected callers
to do something other than let the name lookup fail, but we'll consider
that separately; in any case we probably don't want to change such
behavior in the back branches.
Per report from Tushar Ahuja. Back-patch to all supported branches.
Report: https://postgr.es/m/7d0809ee-6f25-c9d6-8e74-5b2967830d49@enterprisedb.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17691.1482523168@sss.pgh.pa.us
The -v/--verbose option was not included in the output from --help for
pg_dumpall even though it's in the pg_dumpall documentation and has
apparently been around since pg_dumpall was reimplemented in C in 2002.
Fix that by adding it.
Pointed out by Daniel Westermann.
Back-patch to all supported branches.
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/2020970042.4589542.1482482101585.JavaMail.zimbra%40dbi-services.com
When providing tab completion for ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES, we are
including the list of roles as possible options for completion after the
GRANT or REVOKE. Further, we accept FOR ROLE/IN SCHEMA at the same time
and in either order, but the tab completion was only working for one or
the other. Lastly, we weren't using the actual list of allowed kinds of
objects for default privileges for completion after the 'GRANT X ON' but
instead were completeing to what 'GRANT X ON' supports, which isn't the
ssame at all.
Address these issues by improving the forward tab-completion for ALTER
DEFAULT PRIVILEGES and then constrain and correct how the tail
completion is done when it is for ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES.
Back-patch the forward/tail tab-completion to 9.6, where we made it easy
to handle such cases.
For 9.5 and earlier, correct the initial tab-completion to at least be
correct as far as it goes and then add a check for GRANT/REVOKE to only
tab-complete when the GRANT/REVOKE is the start of the command, so we
don't try to do tab-completion after we get to the GRANT/REVOKE part of
the ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES command, which is better than providing
incorrect completions.
Initial patch for master and 9.6 by Gilles Darold, though I cleaned it
up and added a few comments. All bugs in the 9.5 and earlier patch are
mine.
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/1614593c-e356-5b27-6dba-66320a9bc68b@dalibo.com
When we are altering a text search configuration, we are getting the
tuple from pg_ts_config and using its OID, so use TSConfigRelationId
when invoking any post-alter hooks and setting the object address.
Further, in the functions called from AlterTSConfiguration(), we're
saving information about the command via
EventTriggerCollectAlterTSConfig(), so we should be setting
commandCollected to true. Also add a regression test to
test_ddl_deparse for ALTER TEXT SEARCH CONFIGURATION.
Author: Artur Zakirov, a few additional comments by me
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/57a71eba-f2c7-e7fd-6fc0-2126ec0b39bd%40postgrespro.ru
Back-patch the fix for the InvokeObjectPostAlterHook() call to 9.3 where
it was introduced, and the fix for the ObjectAddressSet() call and
setting commandCollected to true to 9.5 where those changes to
ProcessUtilitySlow() were introduced.
You can't just cast a HashMetaPage to a Page, because the meta page
data is stored after the page header, not at offset 0. Fortunately,
this didn't break anything because it happens to find hashm_bsize
at the offset at which it expects to find pd_pagesize_version, and
the values are close enough to the same that this works out.
Still, it's a bug, so back-patch to all supported versions.
Mithun Cy, revised a bit by me.
When libpq encounters a connection-level error, e.g. runs out of memory
while forming a result, there will be no error associated with PGresult,
but a message will be placed into PGconn's error buffer. postgres_fdw
takes care to use the PGconn error message when PGresult does not have
one, but dblink has been negligent in that regard. Modify dblink to mirror
what postgres_fdw has been doing.
Back-patch to all supported branches.
Author: Joe Conway
Reviewed-By: Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/02fa2d90-2efd-00bc-fefc-c23c00eb671e%40joeconway.com
When dblink uses a postgres_fdw server name for its connection, it
is possible for the connection to have options that are invalid
with dblink (e.g. "updatable"). The recommended way to avoid this
problem is to use dblink_fdw servers instead. However there are use
cases for using postgres_fdw, and possibly other FDWs, for dblink
connection options, therefore protect against trying to use any
options that do not apply by using is_valid_dblink_option() when
building the connection string from the options.
Back-patch to 9.3. Although 9.2 supports FDWs for connection info,
is_valid_dblink_option() did not yet exist, and neither did
postgres_fdw, at least in the postgres source tree. Given the lack
of previous complaints, fixing that seems too invasive/not worth it.
Author: Corey Huinker
Reviewed-By: Joe Conway
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CADkLM%3DfWyXVEyYcqbcRnxcHutkP45UHU9WD7XpdZaMfe7S%3DRwA%40mail.gmail.com
When dblink or postgres_fdw detects an error on the remote side of the
connection, it will try to construct a local error message as best it
can using libpq's PQresultErrorField(). When no primary message is
available, it was bailing out with an unhelpful "unknown error". Make
that message better and more style guide compliant. Per discussion
on hackers.
Backpatch to 9.2 except postgres_fdw which didn't exist before 9.3.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/19872.1482338965%40sss.pgh.pa.us
The U&'...' and U&"..." syntaxes silently discarded a surrogate pair
start (that is, a code between U+D800 and U+DBFF) if it occurred at
the very end of the string. This seems like an obvious oversight,
since we throw an error for every other invalid combination of surrogate
characters, including the very same situation in E'...' syntax.
This has been wrong since the pair processing was added (in 9.0),
so back-patch to all supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/19113.1482337898@sss.pgh.pa.us
In pg_dump.c dumpCast() and dumpTransform(), we would happily ignore the
cast or transform if it happened to use a built-in function because we
weren't including the information about built-in functions when querying
pg_proc from getFuncs().
Modify the query in getFuncs() to also gather information about
functions which are used by user-defined casts and transforms (where
"user-defined" means "has an OID >= FirstNormalObjectId"). This also
adds to the TAP regression tests for 9.6 and master to cover these
types of objects.
Back-patch all the way for casts, back to 9.5 for transforms.
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/20160504183952.GE10850%40tamriel.snowman.net
We didn't start ensuring that all built-in objects had OIDs less than
16384 until 8.1, so for 8.0 servers we still need to query the value out
of pg_database. We need this, in particular, to distinguish which casts
were built-in and which were user-defined.
For HEAD, we only worry about going back to 8.0, for the back-branches,
we also ensure that 7.0-7.4 work.
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/20160504183952.GE10850%40tamriel.snowman.net
This is a trivial update (consisting in fact only in the addition of
a comment). The point is just to get back to being synced with an
official release of tzcode, rather than some ad-hoc point in their
commit history, which is where commit 1f87181e1 left it.
When there is both a serialization failure and a unique violation,
throw the former rather than the latter. When initially pushed,
this was viewed as a feature to assist application framework
developers, so that they could more accurately determine when to
retry a failed transaction, but a test case presented by Ian
Jackson has shown that this patch can prevent serialization
anomalies in some cases where a unique violation is caught within a
subtransaction, the work of that subtransaction is discarded, and
no error is thrown. That makes this a bug fix, so it is being
back-patched to all supported branches where it is not already
present (i.e., 9.2 to 9.5).
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1481307991-16971-1-git-send-email-ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/22607.56276.807567.924144@mariner.uk.xensource.com
Back-patch commit 92fb64983 into the pre-9.6 branches.
Without this, ecpg fails to build with the latest version of flex.
It's not unreasonable that people would want to compile our old branches
with recent tools. Per report from Дилян Палаузов.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/d845c1af-e18d-6651-178f-9f08cdf37e10@aegee.org
Back-patch commit 72b1e3a21 into the pre-9.6 branches.
As noted in the original commit, this has some extra benefits: we can
narrow the scope of the -Wno-error flag that's forced on scan.c. Also,
since these grammar and lexer files are so large, splitting them into
separate build targets should have some advantages in build speed,
particularly in parallel or ccache'd builds.
However, the real reason for doing this now is that it avoids symbol-
redefinition warnings (or worse) with the latest version of flex.
It's not unreasonable that people would want to compile our old branches
with recent tools. Per report from Дилян Палаузов.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/d845c1af-e18d-6651-178f-9f08cdf37e10@aegee.org
When ts_rewrite()'s replacement argument is an empty tsquery, it's supposed
to simplify any operator nodes whose operand(s) become NULL; but it failed
to do that reliably, because dropvoidsubtree() only examined the top level
of the result tree. Rather than make a second recursive pass, let's just
give the responsibility to dofindsubquery() to simplify while it's doing
the main replacement pass. Per report from Andreas Seltenreich.
Artur Zakirov, with some cosmetic changes by me. Back-patch to all
supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/8737i01dew.fsf@credativ.de
PLy_generate_spi_exceptions neglected to do Py_INCREF on the new exception
objects, evidently supposing that PyModule_AddObject would do that --- but
it doesn't. This left us in a situation where a Python garbage collection
cycle could result in deletion of exception object(s), causing server
crashes or wrong answers if the exception objects are used later in the
session.
In addition, PLy_generate_spi_exceptions didn't bother to test for
a null result from PyErr_NewException, which at best is inconsistent
with the code in PLy_add_exceptions. And PLy_add_exceptions, while it
did do Py_INCREF on the exceptions it makes, waited to do that till
after some PyModule_AddObject calls, creating a similar risk for
failure if garbage collection happened within those calls.
To fix, refactor to have just one piece of code that creates an
exception object and adds it to the spiexceptions module, bumping the
refcount first.
Also, let's add an additional refcount to represent the pointer we're
going to store in a C global variable or hash table. This should only
matter if the user does something weird like delete the spiexceptions
Python module, but lack of paranoia has caused us enough problems in
PL/Python already.
The fact that PyModule_AddObject doesn't do a Py_INCREF of its own
explains the need for the Py_INCREF added in commit 4c966d920, so we
can improve the comment about that; also, this means we really want
to do that before not after the PyModule_AddObject call.
The missing Py_INCREF in PLy_generate_spi_exceptions was reported and
diagnosed by Rafa de la Torre; the other fixes by me. Back-patch
to all supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+Fz15kR1OXZv43mDrJb3XY+1MuQYWhx5kx3ea6BRKQp6ezGkg@mail.gmail.com
expandRTE() and get_rte_attribute_type() reported the exprType() and
exprTypmod() values of the expressions in the first row of the VALUES as
being the column type/typmod returned by the VALUES RTE. That's fine for
the data type, since we coerce all expressions in a column to have the same
common type. But we don't coerce them to have a common typmod, so it was
possible for rows after the first one to return values that violate the
claimed column typmod. This leads to the incorrect result seen in bug
#14448 from Hassan Mahmood, as well as some other corner-case misbehaviors.
The desired behavior is the same as we use in other type-unification
cases: report the common typmod if there is one, but otherwise return -1
indicating no particular constraint.
We fixed this in HEAD by deriving the typmods during transformValuesClause
and storing them in the RTE, but that's not a feasible solution in the back
branches. Instead, just use a brute-force approach of determining the
correct common typmod during expandRTE() and get_rte_attribute_type().
Simple testing says that that doesn't really cost much, at least not in
common cases where expandRTE() is only used once per query. It turns out
that get_rte_attribute_type() is typically never used at all on VALUES
RTEs, so the inefficiency there is of no great concern.
Report: https://postgr.es/m/20161205143037.4377.60754@wrigleys.postgresql.org
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/27429.1480968538@sss.pgh.pa.us
Previously, it was thought that this only needed to be done for the
benefit of possible standbys, so wal_level = minimal skipped it.
But that's not safe, because during crash recovery we might replay
XLOG_DBASE_CREATE or XLOG_TBLSPC_CREATE record which recursively
removes the directory that contains the new init fork. So log it
always.
The user-visible effect of this bug is that if you create a database
or tablespace, then create an unlogged table, then crash without
checkpointing, then restart, accessing the table will fail, because
the it won't have been properly reset. This commit fixes that.
Michael Paquier, per a report from Konstantin Knizhnik. Wording of
the comments per a suggestion from me.
Ancient oversight in PageOutput(): if popen() fails, we'd better reset
the SIGPIPE handler before returning stdout, because ClosePager() won't.
Noticed while fixing the empty-PAGER issue.
If the PAGER environment variable is set but contains an empty string,
psql would pass it to "sh" which would silently exit, causing whatever
query output we were printing to vanish entirely. This is quite
mystifying; it took a long time for us to figure out that this was the
cause of Joseph Brenner's trouble report. Rather than allowing that
to happen, we should treat this as another way to specify "no pager".
(We could alternatively treat it as selecting the default pager, but
it seems more likely that the former is what the user meant to achieve
by setting PAGER this way.)
Nonempty, but all-white-space, PAGER values have the same behavior, and
it's pretty easy to test for that, so let's handle that case the same way.
Most other cases of faulty PAGER values will result in the shell printing
some kind of complaint to stderr, which should be enough to diagnose the
problem, so we don't need to work harder than this. (Note that there's
been an intentional decision not to be very chatty about apparent failure
returns from the pager process, since that may happen if, eg, the user
quits the pager with control-C or some such. I'd just as soon not start
splitting hairs about which exit codes might merit making our own report.)
libpq's old PQprint() function was already on board with ignoring empty
PAGER values, but for consistency, make it ignore all-white-space values
as well.
It's been like this a long time, so back-patch to all supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAFfgvXWLOE2novHzYjmQK8-J6TmHz42G8f3X0SORM44+stUGmw@mail.gmail.com
This has no effect in the most conventional case, where no relevant DLL
uses a debug build. For an example where it does matter, given a debug
build of MIT Kerberos, the krb_server_keyfile parameter usually had no
effect. Since nobody wants a Heisenbug, back-patch to 9.2 (all
supported versions).
Christian Ullrich, reviewed by Michael Paquier.
In accordance with its own documentation, invoke CloseHandle() only when
directed in the documentation for the function that furnished the
handle. GetModuleHandle() does not so direct. We have been issuing
this call only in the rare event that a CRT DLL contains no "_putenv"
symbol, so lack of bug reports is uninformative. Back-patch to 9.2 (all
supported versions).
Christian Ullrich, reviewed by Michael Paquier.
Replace use of plain 0 as a null pointer constant. In comments, update
terminology and lessen redundancy. Back-patch to 9.2 (all supported
versions) for the convenience of back-patching the next two commits.
Christian Ullrich and Noah Misch, reviewed (in earlier versions) by
Michael Paquier.
Per bug #14441 from Mark Pether, the documentation could be misread,
mainly because some of the examples failed to show what happens with
a multicharacter "characters to trim" string. Also, while the text
description in most of these entries was fairly clear that the
"characters" argument is a set of characters not a substring to match,
some of them used variant wording that was a bit less clear.
trim() itself suffered from both deficiencies and was thus pretty
misinterpretable.
Also fix failure to explain which of LEADING/TRAILING/BOTH is the
default.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20161130011710.6539.53657@wrigleys.postgresql.org
The documentation around the -b/--blobs option to pg_dump seemed to
imply that it might be possible to add blobs to a "schema-only" dump or
similar. Clarify that blobs are data and therefore will only be
included in dumps where data is being included, even when -b is used to
request blobs be included.
The -b option has been around since before 9.2, so back-patch to all
supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20161119173316.GA13284@tamriel.snowman.net
