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0eaa5118ae Improve pg_dump/pg_restore --create --if-exists logic.
Teach it not to complain if the dropStmt attached to an archive entry
is actually spelled CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW, since that will happen due to
an upcoming bug fix.  Also, if it doesn't recognize a dropStmt, have it
print a WARNING and then emit the dropStmt unmodified.  That seems like a
much saner behavior than Assert'ing or dumping core due to a null-pointer
dereference, which is what would happen before :-(.

Back-patch to 9.4 where this option was introduced.

Discussion: <19092.1479325184@sss.pgh.pa.us>
2016-11-17 14:59:19 -05:00
f5d8944320 Avoid pin scan for replay of XLOG_BTREE_VACUUM in all cases
Replay of XLOG_BTREE_VACUUM during Hot Standby was previously thought to
require complex interlocking that matched the requirements on the
master. This required an O(N) operation that became a significant
problem with large indexes, causing replication delays of seconds or in
some cases minutes while the XLOG_BTREE_VACUUM was replayed.

This commit skips the “pin scan” that was previously required, by
observing in detail when and how it is safe to do so, with full
documentation. The pin scan is skipped only in replay; the VACUUM code
path on master is not touched here.

No tests included. Manual tests using an additional patch to view WAL records
and their timing have shown the change in WAL records and their handling has
successfully reduced replication delay.

This is a back-patch of commits 687f2cd7a0, 3e4b7d8798, b602842613
by Simon Riggs, to branches 9.4 and 9.5.  No further backpatch is
possible because this depends on catalog scans being MVCC.  I (Álvaro)
additionally updated a slight problem in the README, which explains why
this touches the 9.6 and master branches.
2016-11-17 13:31:30 -03:00
a69e6d9a6c Allow DOS-style line endings in ~/.pgpass files.
On Windows, libc will mask \r\n line endings for us, since we read the
password file in text mode.  But that doesn't happen on Unix.  People
who share password files across both systems might have \r\n line endings
in a file they use on Unix, so as a convenience, ignore trailing \r.
Per gripe from Josh Berkus.

In passing, put the existing check for empty line somewhere where it's
actually useful, ie after stripping the newline not before.

Vik Fearing, adjusted a bit by me

Discussion: <0de37763-5843-b2cc-855e-5d0e5df25807@agliodbs.com>
2016-11-15 16:17:19 -05:00
8aa3e47510 Account for catalog snapshot in PGXACT->xmin updates.
The CatalogSnapshot was not plugged into SnapshotResetXmin()'s accounting
for whether MyPgXact->xmin could be cleared or advanced.  In normal
transactions this was masked by the fact that the transaction snapshot
would be older, but during backend startup and certain utility commands
it was possible to re-use the CatalogSnapshot after MyPgXact->xmin had
been cleared, meaning that recently-deleted rows could be pruned even
though this snapshot could still see them, causing unexpected catalog
lookup failures.  This effect appears to be the explanation for a recent
failure on buildfarm member piculet.

To fix, add the CatalogSnapshot to the RegisteredSnapshots heap whenever
it is valid.

In the previous logic, it was possible for the CatalogSnapshot to remain
valid across waits for client input, but with this change that would mean
it delays advance of global xmin in cases where it did not before.  To
avoid possibly causing new table-bloat problems with clients that sit idle
for long intervals, add code to invalidate the CatalogSnapshot before
waiting for client input.  (When the backend is busy, it's unlikely that
the CatalogSnapshot would be the oldest snap for very long, so we don't
worry about forcing early invalidation of it otherwise.)

In passing, remove the CatalogSnapshotStale flag in favor of using
"CatalogSnapshot != NULL" to represent validity, as we do for the other
special snapshots in snapmgr.c.  And improve some obsolete comments.

No regression test because I don't know a deterministic way to cause this
failure.  But the stress test shown in the original discussion provokes
"cache lookup failed for relation 1255" within a few dozen seconds for me.

Back-patch to 9.4 where MVCC catalog scans were introduced.  (Note: it's
quite easy to produce similar failures with the same test case in branches
before 9.4.  But MVCC catalog scans were supposed to fix that.)

Discussion: <16447.1478818294@sss.pgh.pa.us>
2016-11-15 15:55:35 -05:00
7fcaec032f Fix typo in comment
The function was renamed in 908e23473, but the comment never learned
about it.
2016-11-14 17:32:32 +01:00
cd2ec8aaa1 Fix duplication in ALTER MATERIALIZE VIEW synopsis
Commit 3c4cf08087 should have removed SET TABLESPACE from the synopsis
of ALTER MATERIALIZE VIEW as a possible "action" when it added a
separate line for it in the main command listing, but failed to.
Repair.

Backpatch to 9.4, like the aforementioned commit.
2016-11-14 11:14:34 -03:00
6f932cac7a Doc: remove obsolete example.
The documentation for ts_headline() recommends using a sub-select to
avoid extra evaluations of ts_headline() in a query with ORDER BY+LIMIT.
Since commit 9118d03a8 this contortionism is unnecessary, so remove the
recommendation.  Noted by Oleg Bartunov.

Discussion: <CAF4Au4w6rrH_j1bvVhzpOsRiHCog7sGJ3LSX0tY8ZdwhHT88LQ@mail.gmail.com>
2016-11-13 13:12:50 -05:00
cc302f375a Doc: fix data types of FuncCallContext's call_cntr and max_calls fields.
Commit 23a27b039 widened these from uint32 to uint64, but I overlooked
that the documentation explicitly showed them as uint32.  Per report
from Vicky Vergara.

Report: <20161111135422.8761.36733@wrigleys.postgresql.org>
2016-11-11 12:03:58 -05:00
05a6e87289 Re-allow user_catalog_table option for materialized views.
The reloptions stuff allows this option to be set on a matview.
While it's questionable whether that is useful or was really intended,
it does work, and we shouldn't change that in minor releases.  Commit
e3e66d8a9 disabled the option since I didn't realize that it was
possible for it to be set on a matview.  Tweak the test to re-allow it.

Discussion: <19749.1478711862@sss.pgh.pa.us>
2016-11-10 15:00:58 -05:00
7defc3b97a Fix partial aggregation for the case of a degenerate GROUP BY clause.
The plan generated for sorted partial aggregation with "GROUP BY constant"
included a Sort node with no sort keys, which the executor does not like.

Per report from Steve Randall.  I'd add a regression test case if I could
think of a compact one, but it doesn't seem worth expending lots of cycles
on.

Report: <CABVd52UAdGXpg_rCk46egpNKYdXOzCjuJ1zG26E2xBe_8bj+Fg@mail.gmail.com>
2016-11-10 11:31:56 -05:00
c32e05bce7 Fix typo 2016-11-08 18:37:48 +01:00
91ba77c722 Change qr/foo$/m to qr/foo\n/m, for Perl 5.8.8.
In each case, absence of a trailing newline would itself constitute a
PostgreSQL bug.  Therefore, this slightly enhances the changed tests.
This works around a bug that last appeared in Perl 5.8.8, fixing
src/test/modules/test_pg_dump when run against that version.  Commit
e7293e3271 worked around the bug, but the
subsequent addition of test_pg_dump introduced affected code.  As that
commit had shown, slight increases in pattern complexity can suppress
the bug.  This commit edits qr/foo$/m patterns too complex to encounter
the bug today, for style consistency and robustness against unrelated
pattern changes.  Back-patch to 9.6, where test_pg_dump was introduced.

As of this writing, a fresh MSYS installation includes an affected Perl
5.8.8.  The Perl 5.8.8 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.11 carries a patch
that renders it unaffected, but the Perl 5.8.5 of Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 4.4 is affected.
2016-11-07 20:27:35 -05:00
5ee3a7453a Band-aid fix for incorrect use of view options as StdRdOptions.
We really ought to make StdRdOptions and the other decoded forms of
reloptions self-identifying, but for the moment, assume that only plain
relations could possibly be user_catalog_tables.  Fixes problem with bogus
"ON CONFLICT is not supported on table ... used as a catalog table" error
when target is a view with cascade option.

Discussion: <26681.1477940227@sss.pgh.pa.us>
2016-11-07 12:08:19 -05:00
674f7015ca pg_rewing pg_upgrade: Fix translation markers
In pg_log_v(), we need to translate the fmt before processing, not the
formatted message afterwards.
2016-11-07 09:53:55 -05:00
b6a323a8c9 Fix handling of symlinked pg_stat_tmp and pg_replslot
This was already fixed in HEAD as part of 6ad8ac60 but was not
backpatched.

Also change the way pg_xlog is handled to be the same as the other
directories.

Patch from me with pg_xlog addition from Michael Paquier, test updates
from David Steele.
2016-11-07 14:47:30 +01:00
3af8467e9a Rationalize and document pltcl's handling of magic ".tupno" array element.
For a very long time, pltcl's spi_exec and spi_execp commands have had
a behavior of storing the current row number as an element of output
arrays, but this was never documented.  Fix that.

For an equally long time, pltcl_trigger_handler had a behavior of silently
ignoring ".tupno" as an output column name, evidently so that the result
of spi_exec could be used directly as a trigger result tuple.  Not sure
how useful that really is, but in any case it's bad that it would break
attempts to use ".tupno" as an actual column name.  We can fix it by not
checking for ".tupno" until after we check for a column name match.  This
comports with the effective behavior of spi_exec[p] that ".tupno" is only
magic when you don't have an actual column named that.

In passing, wordsmith the description of returning modified tuples from
a pltcl trigger.

Noted while working on Jim Nasby's patch to support composite results
from pltcl.  The inability to return trigger tuples using ".tupno" as
a column name is a bug, so back-patch to all supported branches.
2016-11-06 14:43:13 -05:00
a5b153ff51 Need to do SPI_push/SPI_pop around expression evaluation in plpgsql.
We must do this in case the expression evaluation results in calling
another plpgsql function (or, really, anything using SPI).  I missed
the need for this when I converted exec_cast_value() from doing a
simple InputFunctionCall() to doing ExecEvalExpr() in commit 1345cc67b.
There is a SPI_push_conditional in InputFunctionCall(), so that there
was no bug before that.

Per bug #14414 from Marcos Castedo.  Add a regression test based on his
example, which was that a plpgsql function in a domain check constraint
didn't work when assigning to a domain-type variable within plpgsql.

Report: <20161106010947.1387.66380@wrigleys.postgresql.org>
2016-11-06 12:09:36 -05:00
20559a8546 More zic cleanup.
The workaround the IANA guys chose to get rid of the clang warning
we'd silenced in commit 23ed2ba81 turns out not to satisfy Coverity.
Go back to the previous solution, ie, remove the useless comparison
to SIZE_MAX.  (In principle, there could be machines out there where
it's not useless because ptrdiff_t is wider than size_t.  But the whole
thing is pretty academic anyway, as we could never approach this limit
for any sane estimate of the amount of data that zic will ever be asked
to work with.)

Also, s/lineno/lineno_t/g, because if we accept their decision to start
using "lineno" as a typedef, it is going to have very unpleasant
consequences in our next pgindent run.  Noted that while fooling with
pltcl yesterday.
2016-11-06 10:46:08 -05:00
5c24c61273 Remove duplicate macro definition.
Seems to be a copy-and-pasteo.  Odd that we heard no reports of
compiler warnings about it.

Thomas Munro
2016-11-05 11:51:46 -04:00
4774f61830 Back-patch portability fixes for contrib/pageinspect/ginfuncs.c.
Back-patch commits 84ad68d64 and 367b99bbb.
2016-11-04 12:37:29 -04:00
7afafe8af3 Sync our copy of the timezone library with IANA tzcode master.
This patch absorbs some unreleased fixes for symlink manipulation bugs
introduced in tzcode 2016g.  Ordinarily I'd wait around for a released
version, but in this case it seems like we could do with extra testing,
in particular checking whether it works in EDB's VMware build environment.
This corresponds to commit aec59156abbf8472ba201b6c7ca2592f9c10e077 in
https://github.com/eggert/tz.

Per a report from Sandeep Thakkar, building in an environment where hard
links are not supported in the timezone data installation directory failed,
because upstream code refactoring had broken the case of symlinking from an
existing symlink.  Further experimentation also showed that the symlinks
were sometimes made incorrectly, with too many or too few "../"'s in the
symlink contents.

Back-patch of commit 1f87181e12.

Report: <CANFyU94_p6mqRQc2i26PFp5QAOQGB++AjGX=FO8LDpXw0GSTjw@mail.gmail.com>
Discussion: http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2016-November/024431.html
2016-11-04 10:44:16 -04:00
23c6c437f9 Don't make FK-based selectivity estimates in inheritance situations.
The foreign-key-aware logic for estimation of join sizes (added in commit
100340e2d) blindly tried to apply the concept to rels that are actually
parents of inheritance trees.  This is just plain wrong so far as the
referenced relation is concerned, since the inheritance scan may well
produce lots of rows that are not participating in the constraint.  It's
wrong for the referencing relation too, for the same reason; although on
that end we could conceivably detect whether all members of the inheritance
tree have equivalent FK constraints pointing to the same referenced rel,
and then proceed more or less as we do now.  But pending somebody writing
code to do that, we must disable this, because it's producing completely
silly estimates when there's an FK linking the heads of inheritance trees.

Per bug #14404 from Clinton Adams.  Back-patch to 9.6 where the new
estimation logic came in.

Report: <20161028200412.15987.96482@wrigleys.postgresql.org>
2016-11-02 15:50:21 -04:00
f4d865f22d Don't convert Consts into Vars during setrefs.c processing.
While converting expressions in an upper-level plan node so that they
reference Vars and expressions provided by the input plan node(s),
don't convert plain Const items, even if there happens to be a matching
Const in the input.  It's silly to do so because a Var is more expensive to
execute than a Const.  Moreover, converting can fool ExecCheckPlanOutput's
check that an insert or update query inserts nulls into dropped columns,
leading to "query provides a value for a dropped column" errors during
INSERT or UPDATE on a table with a dropped column.  We could solve this
by making that check more complicated, but I don't see the point; this fix
should save a marginal number of cycles, and it also makes for less messy
EXPLAIN output, as shown by the ensuing regression test result changes.

Per report from Pavel Hanák.  I have not incorporated a test case based
on that example, as there doesn't seem to be a simple way of checking
this in isolation without making a bunch of assumptions about other
planner and SQL-function behavior.

Back-patch to 9.6.  This setrefs.c behavior exists much further back,
but there is not currently reason to think that it causes problems
before 9.6.

Discussion: <83shraampf.fsf@is-it.eu>
2016-11-02 14:32:13 -04:00
2a8783e440 Fix portability bug in gin_page_opaque_info().
Somebody apparently thought that "if Int32GetDatum is good,
Int64GetDatum must be better".  Per buildfarm failures now
that Peter has added some regression tests here.
2016-11-02 00:09:28 -04:00
b0034e7198 Fix typo in sources.sgml.
Per Shinichi Matsuda.
2016-10-31 07:33:53 +09:00
464326e83b Fix nasty performance problem in tsquery_rewrite().
tsquery_rewrite() tries to find matches to subsets of AND/OR conditions;
for example, in the query 'a | b | c' the substitution subquery 'a | c'
should match and lead to replacement of the first and third items.
That's fine, but the matching algorithm apparently takes about O(2^N)
for an N-clause query (I say "apparently" because the code is also both
unintelligible and uncommented).  We could probably do better than that
even without any extra assumptions --- but actually, we know that the
subclauses are sorted, indeed are depending on that elsewhere in this very
same function.  So we can just scan the two lists a single time to detect
matches, as though we were doing a merge join.

Also do a re-flattening call (QTNTernary()) in tsquery_rewrite_query, just
to make sure that the tree fits the expectations of the next search cycle.
I didn't try to devise a test case for this, but I'm pretty sure that the
oversight could have led to failure to match in some cases where a match
would be expected.

Improve comments, and also stick a CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS into
dofindsubquery, just in case it's still too slow for somebody.

Per report from Andreas Seltenreich.  Back-patch to all supported branches.

Discussion: <8760oasf2y.fsf@credativ.de>
2016-10-30 17:35:42 -04:00
2a2b439cc1 Fix bogus tree-flattening logic in QTNTernary().
QTNTernary() contains logic to flatten, eg, '(a & b) & c' into 'a & b & c',
which is all well and good, but it tries to do that to NOT nodes as well,
so that '!!a' gets changed to '!a'.  Explicitly restrict the conversion to
be done only on AND and OR nodes, and add a test case illustrating the bug.

In passing, provide some comments for the sadly naked functions in
tsquery_util.c, and simplify some baroque logic in QTNFree(), which
I think may have been leaking some items it intended to free.

Noted while investigating a complaint from Andreas Seltenreich.
Back-patch to all supported versions.
2016-10-30 15:24:40 -04:00
48a6592dae Improve speed of aggregates that use array_append as transition function.
In the previous coding, if an aggregate's transition function returned an
expanded array, nodeAgg.c and nodeWindowAgg.c would always copy it and thus
force it into the flat representation.  This led to ping-ponging between
flat and expanded formats, which costs a lot.  For an aggregate using
array_append as transition function, I measured about a 15X slowdown
compared to the pre-9.5 code, when working on simple int[] arrays.
Of course, the old code was already O(N^2) in this usage due to copying
flat arrays all the time, but it wasn't quite this inefficient.

To fix, teach nodeAgg.c and nodeWindowAgg.c to allow expanded transition
values without copying, so long as the transition function takes care to
return the transition value already properly parented under the aggcontext.
That puts a bit of extra responsibility on the transition function, but
doing it this way allows us to not need any extra logic in the fast path
of advance_transition_function (ie, with a pass-by-value transition value,
or with a modified-in-place pass-by-reference value).  We already know
that that's a hot spot so I'm loath to add any cycles at all there.  Also,
while only array_append currently knows how to follow this convention,
this solution allows other transition functions to opt-in without needing
to have a whitelist in the core aggregation code.

(The reason we would need a whitelist is that currently, if you pass a
R/W expanded-object pointer to an arbitrary function, it's allowed to do
anything with it including deleting it; that breaks the core agg code's
assumption that it should free discarded values.  Returning a value under
aggcontext is the transition function's signal that it knows it is an
aggregate transition function and will play nice.  Possibly the API rules
for expanded objects should be refined, but that would not be a
back-patchable change.)

With this fix, an aggregate using array_append is no longer O(N^2), so it's
much faster than pre-9.5 code rather than much slower.  It's still a bit
slower than the bespoke infrastructure for array_agg, but the differential
seems to be only about 10%-20% rather than orders of magnitude.

Discussion: <6315.1477677885@sss.pgh.pa.us>
2016-10-30 12:27:41 -04:00
4a43a6244d If the stats collector dies during Hot Standby, restart it.
This bug exists as far back as 9.0, when Hot Standby was introduced,
so back-patch to all supported branches.

Report and patch by Takayuki Tsunakawa, reviewed by Michael Paquier
and Kuntal Ghosh.
2016-10-27 14:54:35 -04:00
05e2293f4c Fix possible pg_basebackup failure on standby with "include WAL".
If a restartpoint flushed no dirty buffers, it could fail to update
the minimum recovery point, leading to a minimum recovery point prior
to the starting REDO location.  perform_base_backup() would interpret
that as meaning that no WAL files at all needed to be included in the
backup, failing an internal sanity check.  To fix, have restartpoints
always update the minimum recovery point to just after the checkpoint
record itself, so that the file (or files) containing the checkpoint
record will always be included in the backup.

Code by Amit Kapila, per a design suggestion by me, with some
additional work on the code comment by me.  Test case by Michael
Paquier.  Report by Kyotaro Horiguchi.
2016-10-27 11:34:28 -04:00
445035a6ed Fix incorrect trigger-property updating in ALTER CONSTRAINT.
The code to change the deferrability properties of a foreign-key constraint
updated all the associated triggers to match; but a moment's examination of
the code that creates those triggers in the first place shows that only
some of them should track the constraint's deferrability properties.  This
leads to odd failures in subsequent exercise of the foreign key, as the
triggers are fired at the wrong times.  Fix that, and add a regression test
comparing the trigger properties produced by ALTER CONSTRAINT with those
you get by creating the constraint as-intended to begin with.

Per report from James Parks.  Back-patch to 9.4 where this ALTER
functionality was introduced.

Report: <CAJ3Xv+jzJ8iNNUcp4RKW8b6Qp1xVAxHwSXVpjBNygjKxcVuE9w@mail.gmail.com>
2016-10-26 17:05:06 -04:00
99f13d1617 Fix not-HAVE_SYMLINK code in zic.c.
I broke this in commit f3094920a.  Apparently it's dead code anyway,
at least as far as our buildfarm is concerned (and the upstream IANA
code doesn't worry at all about symlink() not being present).
But as long as the rest of our code is willing to guard against not
having symlink(), this should too.  Noted while investigating a
tangentially-related complaint from Sandeep Thakkar.

Back-patch to keep branches in sync.
2016-10-26 13:40:55 -04:00
fab220b415 Doc: improve documentation about inheritance.
Clarify documentation about inheritance of check constraints, in
particular mentioning the NO INHERIT option, which didn't exist when
this text was written.

Document that in an inherited query, the applicable row security policies
are those of the explicitly-named table, not its children.  This is the
intended behavior (per off-list discussion with Stephen Frost), and there
are regression tests for it, but it wasn't documented anywhere user-facing
as far as I could find.

Do a bit of wordsmithing on the description of inherited access-privilege
checks.

Back-patch to 9.5 where RLS was added.
2016-10-26 11:46:25 -04:00
e9c0335c33 Fix typos in comments.
Vinayak Pokale
2016-10-26 11:13:17 +03:00
e3c5e48bb8 Fix typo in comment.
Daniel Gustafsson
2016-10-26 11:13:11 +03:00
16e7c02c42 Stamp 9.6.1. REL9_6_1 2016-10-24 16:08:51 -04:00
681fdbbff1 Translation updates
Source-Git-URL: git://git.postgresql.org/git/pgtranslation/messages.git
Source-Git-Hash: e4e428572533133cac4ecefd69d251a0b5674fa3
2016-10-24 11:15:25 -04:00
b9a728ef45 Update release notes for last-minute commit timestamp fix. 2016-10-24 09:37:23 -04:00
c8329f934e Preserve commit timestamps across clean restart
An oversight in setting the boundaries of known commit timestamps during
startup caused old commit timestamps to become inaccessible after a
server restart.

Author and reporter: Julien Rouhaud
Review, test code: Craig Ringer
2016-10-24 09:46:49 -03:00
6beb8c75ce Release notes for 9.6.1, 9.5.5, 9.4.10, 9.3.15, 9.2.19, 9.1.24. 2016-10-23 22:13:28 -04:00
fdcee9f1fc Avoid testing tuple visibility without buffer lock.
INSERT ... ON CONFLICT (specifically ExecCheckHeapTupleVisible) contains
another example of this unsafe coding practice.  It is much harder to get
a failure out of it than the case fixed in commit 6292c2339, because in
most scenarios any hint bits that could be set would have already been set
earlier in the command.  However, Konstantin Knizhnik reported a failure
with a custom transaction manager, and it's clearly possible to get a
failure via a race condition in async-commit mode.

For lack of a reproducible example, no regression test case in this
commit.

I did some testing with Asserts added to tqual.c's functions, and can say
that running "make check-world" exposed these two bugs and no others.
The Asserts are messy enough that I've not added them to the code for now.

Report: <57EE93C8.8080504@postgrespro.ru>
Related-Discussion: <CAO3NbwOycQjt2Oqy2VW-eLTq2M5uGMyHnGm=RNga4mjqcYD7gQ@mail.gmail.com>
2016-10-23 19:14:32 -04:00
c4016fcb1f Don't throw serialization errors for self-conflicts in INSERT ON CONFLICT.
A transaction that conflicts against itself, for example
	INSERT INTO t(pk) VALUES (1),(1) ON CONFLICT DO NOTHING;
should behave the same regardless of isolation level.  It certainly
shouldn't throw a serialization error, as retrying will not help.
We got this wrong due to the ON CONFLICT logic not considering the case,
as reported by Jason Dusek.

Core of this patch is by Peter Geoghegan (based on an earlier patch by
Thomas Munro), though I didn't take his proposed code refactoring for fear
that it might have unexpected side-effects.  Test cases by Thomas Munro
and myself.

Report: <CAO3NbwOycQjt2Oqy2VW-eLTq2M5uGMyHnGm=RNga4mjqcYD7gQ@mail.gmail.com>
Related-Discussion: <57EE93C8.8080504@postgrespro.ru>
2016-10-23 18:36:13 -04:00
5beb73b495 Avoid testing tuple visibility without buffer lock in RI_FKey_check().
Despite the argumentation I wrote in commit 7a2fe85b0, it's unsafe to do
this, because in corner cases it's possible for HeapTupleSatisfiesSelf
to try to set hint bits on the target tuple; and at least since 8.2 we
have required the buffer content lock to be held while setting hint bits.

The added regression test exercises one such corner case.  Unpatched, it
causes an assertion failure in assert-enabled builds, or otherwise would
cause a hint bit change in a buffer we don't hold lock on, which given
the right race condition could result in checksum failures or other data
consistency problems.  The odds of a problem in the field are probably
pretty small, but nonetheless back-patch to all supported branches.

Report: <19391.1477244876@sss.pgh.pa.us>
2016-10-23 15:01:24 -04:00
dc04be21d6 Improve documentation about use of Linux huge pages.
Show how to get the system's huge page size, rather than misleadingly
referring to PAGE_SIZE (which is usually understood to be the regular
page size).  Show how to confirm whether huge pages have been allocated.
Minor wordsmithing.  Back-patch to 9.4 where this section appeared.
2016-10-22 14:04:51 -04:00
a92c0f695b Doc: wording tweak for PERL, PYTHON, TCLSH configuration variables.
Replace "Full path to ..." with "Full path name of ...".  At least one
user has misinterpreted the existing wording as meaning "Directory
containing ...".
2016-10-21 11:01:40 -04:00
0336665151 Fix EXPLAIN so that it doesn't emit invalid XML in corner cases.
With track_io_timing = on, EXPLAIN (ANALYZE, BUFFERS) will emit fields
named like "I/O Read Time".  The slash makes that invalid as an XML
element name, so that adding FORMAT XML would produce invalid XML.

We already have code in there to translate spaces to dashes, so let's
generalize that to convert anything that isn't a valid XML name character,
viz letters, digits, hyphens, underscores, and periods.  We could just
reject slashes, which would run a bit faster.  But the fact that this went
unnoticed for so long doesn't give me a warm feeling that we'd notice the
next creative violation, so let's make it a permanent fix.

Reported by Markus Winand, though this isn't his initial patch proposal.

Back-patch to 9.2 where track_io_timing was added.  The problem is only
latent in 9.1, so I don't feel a need to fix it there.

Discussion: <E0BF6A45-68E8-45E6-918F-741FB332C6BB@winand.at>
2016-10-20 17:17:57 -04:00
845a8ea3e1 Sync our copy of the timezone library with IANA release tzcode2016h.
This absorbs a fix for a symlink-manipulation bug in zic that was
introduced in 2016g.  It probably isn't interesting for our use-case,
but I'm not quite sure, so let's update while we're at it.
2016-10-20 15:40:14 -04:00
80ba149b05 Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2016h.
(Didn't I just do this?  Oh well.)

DST law changes in Palestine.  Historical corrections for Turkey.
Switch to numeric abbreviations for Asia/Colombo.
2016-10-20 15:20:17 -04:00
9937088b26 Another portability fix for tzcode2016g update.
clang points out that SIZE_MAX wouldn't fit into an int, which means
this comparison is pretty useless.  Per report from Thomas Munro.
2016-10-19 23:32:43 -04:00
9ee22f1ff6 Windows portability fix.
Per buildfarm.
2016-10-19 19:28:18 -04:00