This longstanding functionality evidently got lost in commit
3d6d1b585524aab6. Noted while studying an OOM report from Jaime
Casanova. Backpatch to 9.5 where the bug was introduced.
Commit a2dabf0e1dda93c8 had the bright idea that it could modify a "const"
global variable if it merely casted away const from a pointer. This does
not work on platforms where the compiler puts "const" variables into
read-only storage. Depressingly, we evidently have no such platforms in
our buildfarm ... an oversight I have now remedied. (The one platform
that is known to catch this is recent OS X with -fno-common.)
Per report from Chris Ruprecht. Back-patch to 9.5 where the bogus
code was introduced.
The chapter "Interfacing Extensions To Indexes" and CREATE OPERATOR
CLASS reference page were missed when BRIN was added. We document
all our other index access methods there, so make sure BRIN complies.
Author: Álvaro Herrera
Reported-By: Julien Rouhaud, Tom Lane
Reviewed-By: Emre Hasegeli
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/56CF604E.9000303%40dalibo.com
Backpatch: 9.5, where BRIN was introduced
The Visual Studio 2013 CRT generates invalid code when it makes a 64-bit
build that is later used on a CPU that supports AVX2 instructions using a
version of Windows before 7SP1/2008R2SP1.
Detect this combination, and in those cases turn off the generation of
FMA3, per recommendation from the Visual Studio team.
The bug is actually in the CRT shipping with Visual Studio 2013, but
Microsoft have stated they're only fixing it in newer major versions.
The fix is therefor conditioned specifically on being built with this
version of Visual Studio, and not previous or later versions.
Author: Christian Ullrich
Renaming a file using rename(2) is not guaranteed to be durable in face
of crashes. Use the previously added durable_rename()/durable_link_or_rename()
in various places where we previously just renamed files.
Most of the changed call sites are arguably not critical, but it seems
better to err on the side of too much durability. The most prominent
known case where the previously missing fsyncs could cause data loss is
crashes at the end of a checkpoint. After the actual checkpoint has been
performed, old WAL files are recycled. When they're filled, their
contents are fdatasynced, but we did not fsync the containing
directory. An OS/hardware crash in an unfortunate moment could then end
up leaving that file with its old name, but new content; WAL replay
would thus not replay it.
Reported-By: Tomas Vondra
Author: Michael Paquier, Tomas Vondra, Andres Freund
Discussion: 56583BDD.9060302@2ndquadrant.com
Backpatch: All supported branches
Renaming a file using rename(2) is not guaranteed to be durable in face
of crashes; especially on filesystems like xfs and ext4 when mounted
with data=writeback. To be certain that a rename() atomically replaces
the previous file contents in the face of crashes and different
filesystems, one has to fsync the old filename, rename the file, fsync
the new filename, fsync the containing directory. This sequence is not
generally adhered to currently; which exposes us to data loss risks. To
avoid having to repeat this arduous sequence, introduce
durable_rename(), which wraps all that.
Also add durable_link_or_rename(). Several places use link() (with a
fallback to rename()) to rename a file, trying to avoid replacing the
target file out of paranoia. Some of those rename sequences need to be
durable as well. There seems little reason extend several copies of the
same logic, so centralize the link() callers.
This commit does not yet make use of the new functions; they're used in
a followup commit.
Author: Michael Paquier, Andres Freund
Discussion: 56583BDD.9060302@2ndquadrant.com
Backpatch: All supported branches
An index search using a row comparison such as ROW(a, b) > ROW('x', 'y')
would stop upon reaching a NULL entry in the "b" column, ignoring the
fact that there might be non-NULL "b" values associated with later values
of "a". This happens because _bt_mark_scankey_required() marks the
subsidiary scankey for "b" as required, which is just wrong: it's for
a column after the one with the first inequality key (namely "a"), and
thus can't be considered a required match.
This bit of brain fade dates back to the very beginnings of our support
for indexed ROW() comparisons, in 2006. Kind of astonishing that no one
came across it before Glen Takahashi, in bug #14010.
Back-patch to all supported versions.
Note: the given test case doesn't actually fail in unpatched 9.1, evidently
because the fix for bug #6278 (i.e., stopping at nulls in either scan
direction) is required to make it fail. I'm sure I could devise a case
that fails in 9.1 as well, perhaps with something involving making a cursor
back up; but it doesn't seem worth the trouble.
Python's allocator does some low-level tricks for efficiency;
unfortunately they trigger valgrind errors. Those tricks can be disabled
making instrumentation easier; but few people testing postgres will have
such a build of python. So add broad suppressions of the resulting
errors.
See also https://svn.python.org/projects/python/trunk/Misc/README.valgrind
This possibly will suppress valid errors, but without it it's basically
impossible to use valgrind with plpython code.
Author: Andres Freund
Backpatch: 9.4, where we started to maintain valgrind suppressions
ltree/ltree_gist/ltxtquery's headers stores data at MAXALIGN alignment,
requiring some padding bytes. So far we left these uninitialized. Zero
those by using palloc0.
Author: Andres Freund
Reported-By: Andres Freund / valgrind / buildarm animal skink
Backpatch: 9.1-
plperl_ref_from_pg_array() didn't consider the case that postgrs arrays
can have 0 dimensions (when they're empty) and accessed the first
dimension without a check. Fix that by special casing the empty array
case.
Author: Alex Hunsaker
Reported-By: Andres Freund / valgrind / buildfarm animal skink
Discussion: 20160308063240.usnzg6bsbjrne667@alap3.anarazel.de
Backpatch: 9.1-
Commit 385f337c9f39b21dca96ca4770552a10a6d5af24 added a new argument
to the FDW GetForeignPlan method, but failed to update the documentation
to match.
Etsuro Fujita
Coverity and inspection for the issue addressed in fd45d16f found some
questionable code.
Specifically coverity noticed that the wrong length was added in
ReorderBufferSerializeChange() - without immediate negative consequences
as the variable isn't used afterwards. During code-review and testing I
noticed that a bit of space was wasted when allocating tuple bufs in
several places. Thirdly, the debug memset()s in
ReorderBufferGetTupleBuf() reduce the error checking valgrind can do.
Backpatch: 9.4, like c8f621c43.
A thinko in a96761391 caused pg_ctl to get it exactly backwards when
deciding whether to report problems to the Windows eventlog or to stderr.
Per bug #14001 from Manuel Mathar, who also identified the fix.
Like the previous patch, back-patch to all supported branches.
In c8f621c43 I forgot to account for MAXALIGN when allocating a new
tuplebuf in ReorderBufferGetTupleBuf(). That happens to currently not
cause active problems on a number of platforms because the affected
pointer is already aligned, but others, like ppc and hppa, trigger this
in the regression test, due to a debug memset clearing memory.
Fix that.
Backpatch: 9.4, like the previous commit.
There were two places in spell.c that supposed that they could search
for a location in a string produced by lowerstr() and then transpose
the offset into the original string. But this fails completely if
lowerstr() transforms any characters into characters of different byte
length, as can happen in Turkish UTF8 for instance.
We'd added some comments about this coding in commit 51e78ab4ff328296,
but failed to realize that it was not merely confusing but wrong.
Coverity complained about this code years ago, but in such an opaque
fashion that nobody understood what it was on about. I'm not entirely
sure that this issue *is* what it's on about, actually, but perhaps
this patch will shut it up -- and in any case the problem is clear.
Back-patch to all supported branches.
When decoding the old version of an UPDATE or DELETE change, and if that
tuple was bigger than MaxHeapTupleSize, we either Assert'ed out, or
failed in more subtle ways in non-assert builds. Normally individual
tuples aren't bigger than MaxHeapTupleSize, with big datums toasted.
But that's not the case for the old version of a tuple for logical
decoding; the replica identity is logged as one piece. With the default
replica identity btree limits that to small tuples, but that's not the
case for FULL.
Change the tuple buffer infrastructure to separate allocate over-large
tuples, instead of always going through the slab cache.
This unfortunately requires changing the ReorderBufferTupleBuf
definition, we need to store the allocated size someplace. To avoid
requiring output plugins to recompile, don't store HeapTupleHeaderData
directly after HeapTupleData, but point to it via t_data; that leaves
rooms for the allocated size. As there's no reason for an output plugin
to look at ReorderBufferTupleBuf->t_data.header, remove the field. It
was just a minor convenience having it directly accessible.
Reported-By: Adam Dratwiński
Discussion: CAKg6ypLd7773AOX4DiOGRwQk1TVOQKhNwjYiVjJnpq8Wo+i62Q@mail.gmail.com
Somehow I managed to flip the order of restoring old & new tuples when
de-spooling a change in a large transaction from disk. This happens to
only take effect when a change is spooled to disk which has old/new
versions of the tuple. That only is the case for UPDATEs where he
primary key changed or where replica identity is changed to FULL.
The tests didn't catch this because either spooled updates, or updates
that changed primary keys, were tested; not both at the same time.
Found while adding tests for the following commit.
Backpatch: 9.4, where logical decoding was added
Logical decoding's reorderbuffer keeps transactions in an LSN ordered
list for efficiency. To make that's efficiently possible upper-level
xids are forced to be logged before nested subtransaction xids. That
only works though if these records are all looked at: Unfortunately we
didn't do so for e.g. row level locks, which are otherwise uninteresting
for logical decoding.
This could lead to errors like:
"ERROR: subxact logged without previous toplevel record".
It's not sufficient to just look at row locking records, the xid could
appear first due to a lot of other types of records (which will trigger
the transaction to be marked logged with MarkCurrentTransactionIdLoggedIfAny).
So invent infrastructure to tell reorderbuffer about xids seen, when
they'd otherwise not pass through reorderbuffer.c.
Reported-By: Jarred Ward
Bug: #13844
Discussion: 20160105033249.1087.66040@wrigleys.postgresql.org
Backpatch: 9.4, where logical decoding was added
Previously recovery_min_apply_delay was applied even before recovery
had reached consistency. This could cause us to wait a long time
unexpectedly for read-only connections to be allowed. It's problematic
because the standby was useless during that wait time.
This patch changes recovery_min_apply_delay so that it's applied once
the database has reached the consistent state. That is, even if the delay
is set, the standby tries to replay WAL records as fast as possible until
it has reached consistency.
Author: Michael Paquier
Reviewed-By: Julien Rouhaud
Reported-By: Greg Clough
Backpatch: 9.4, where recovery_min_apply_delay was added
Bug: #13770
Discussion: http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20151111155006.2644.84564@wrigleys.postgresql.org
The existing code confuses the byte length of the string (which is
relevant when passing it to pg_strncasecmp) with the character length
of the string (which is relevant when it is used with the SQL substring
function). Separate those two concepts.
Report and patch by Kyotaro Horiguchi, reviewed by Thomas Munro and
reviewed and further revised by me.
This makes the flag more visible for testers using the default file as a
template, increasing the likelyhood that the test suite will be run.
Also have the flag be displayed in the fake "configure" output, if set.
This patch is two new lines only, but perltidy decides to shift things
around which makes it appear a bit bigger.
Author: Michaël Paquier
Reviewed-by: Craig Ringer
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAB7nPqRet6UAP2APhZAZw%3DVhJ6w-Q-gGLdZkrOqFgd2vc9-ZDw%40mail.gmail.com
Otherwise running installcheck-force on a server with
synchronous_commit=off will result in the tests failing. All the other
tests already do so...
Backpatch: 9.4, where logical decoding was added
606c0123d627 attempted to reduce cost of index scans using > and <
strategies, though got that completely wrong in a few complex cases.
Revert whole patch until we find a safe optimization.
When adding replication origins in 5aa235042, I somehow managed to set
the timestamp of decoded transactions to InvalidXLogRecptr when decoding
one made without a replication origin. Fix that, and the wrong type of
the new commit_time variable.
This didn't trigger a regression test failure because we explicitly
don't show commit timestamps in the regression tests, as they obviously
are variable. Add a test that checks that a decoded commit's timestamp
is within minutes of NOW() from before the commit.
Reported-By: Weiping Qu
Diagnosed-By: Artur Zakirov
Discussion: 56D4197E.9050706@informatik.uni-kl.de,
56D42918.1010108@postgrespro.ru
Backpatch: 9.5, where 5aa235042 originates.
A thinko concerning nesting depth caused json_to_record() to produce bogus
output if a field of its input object contained a sub-object with a field
name matching one of the requested output column names. Per bug #13996
from Johann Visagie.
I added a regression test case based on his example, plus parallel tests
for json_to_recordset, jsonb_to_record, jsonb_to_recordset. The latter
three do not exhibit the same bug (which suggests that we may be missing
some opportunities to share code...) but testing seems like a good idea
in any case.
Back-patch to 9.4 where these functions were introduced.
This error message was written with only ON SELECT rules in mind, but since
then we also made RETURNING-clause targetlists go through the same logic.
This means that you got a rather off-topic error message if you tried to
add a rule with RETURNING to a table having dropped columns. Ideally we'd
just support that, but some preliminary investigation says that it might be
a significant amount of work. Seeing that Nicklas Avén's complaint is the
first one we've gotten about this in the ten years or so that the code's
been like that, I'm unwilling to put much time into it. Instead, improve
the error report by issuing a different message for RETURNING cases, and
revise the associated comment based on this investigation.
Discussion: 1456176604.17219.9.camel@jordogskog.no
It's harmless, but might confuse readers. Seems to have been introduced
in 6bc8ef0b7f1f1df3. Back-patch, just to avoid cosmetic cross-branch
differences.
Amit Langote
When converting an RTE with securityQuals into a security barrier
subquery RTE, ensure that the Vars in the new subquery's targetlist
all have varlevelsup = 0 so that they correctly refer to the
underlying base relation being wrapped.
The original code was creating new Vars by copying them from existing
Vars referencing the base relation found elsewhere in the query, but
failed to account for the fact that such Vars could come from sublink
subqueries, and hence have varlevelsup > 0. In practice it looks like
this could only happen with nested security barrier views, where the
outer view has a WHERE clause containing a correlated subquery, due to
the order in which the Vars are processed.
Bug: #13988
Reported-by: Adam Guthrie
Backpatch-to: 9.4, where updatable SB views were introduced
A failure partway through PGLC_localeconv() led to a situation where
the next call would call free_struct_lconv() a second time, leading
to free() on already-freed strings, typically leading to a core dump.
Add a flag to remember whether we need to do that.
Per report from Thom Brown. His example case only provokes the failure
as far back as 9.4, but nonetheless this code is obviously broken, so
back-patch to all supported branches.
In 4b4b680c3 I accidentally used sizeof(PrivateRefCountArray) instead of
sizeof(PrivateRefCountEntry) when creating the refcount overflow
hashtable. As the former is bigger than the latter, this luckily only
resulted in a slightly increased memory usage when many buffers are
pinned in a backend.
Reported-By: Takashi Horikawa
Discussion: 73FA3881462C614096F815F75628AFCD035A48C3@BPXM01GP.gisp.nec.co.jp
Backpatch: 9.5, where thew new ref count infrastructure was introduced
Some over-eager copy-and-pasting on my part resulted in a nonsense
result being returned in this case. I have adopted the same pattern for
handling this case as is used in the one argument form of the function,
i.e. we just skip over the code that adds values to the object.
Diagnosis and patch from Michael Paquier, although not quite his
solution.
Fixes bug #13936.
Backpatch to 9.5 where jsonb_object was introduced.
Architecture reference material specifies this order, and s_lock.h
inline assembly agrees. The former order failed to provide mutual
exclusion to lwlock.c and perhaps to other clients. The two xlc
buildfarm members, hornet and mandrill, have failed sixteen times with
duplicate key errors involving pg_class_oid_index or pg_type_oid_index.
Back-patch to 9.5, where commit b64d92f1a5602c55ee8b27a7ac474f03b7aee340
introduced atomics.
Reviewed by Andres Freund and Tom Lane.
StartupSUBTRANS() incorrectly handled cases near the max pageid in the subtrans
data structure, which in some cases could lead to errors in startup for Hot
Standby.
This patch wraps the pageids correctly, avoiding any such errors.
Identified by exhaustive crash testing by Jeff Janes.
Jeff Janes
Suppress creation of the pg_upgrade delete script when the new data
directory is inside the old data directory.
Reported-by: IRC
Backpatch-through: 9.3, where delete script tests were added
Dead or half-dead index leaf pages were incorrectly reported as live, as a
consequence of a code rearrangement I made (during a moment of severe brain
fade, evidently) in commit d287818eb514d431.
The index metapage was not counted in index_size, causing that result to
not agree with the actual index size on-disk.
Index root pages were not counted in internal_pages, which is inconsistent
compared to the case of a root that's also a leaf (one-page index), where
the root would be counted in leaf_pages. Aside from that inconsistency,
this could lead to additional transient discrepancies between the reported
page counts and index_size, since it's possible for pgstatindex's scan to
see zero or multiple pages marked as BTP_ROOT, if the root moves due to
a split during the scan. With these fixes, index_size will always be
exactly one page more than the sum of the displayed page counts.
Also, the index_size result was incorrectly documented as being measured in
pages; it's always been measured in bytes. (While fixing that, I couldn't
resist doing some small additional wordsmithing on the pgstattuple docs.)
Including the metapage causes the reported index_size to not be zero for
an empty index. To preserve the desired property that the pgstattuple
regression test results are platform-independent (ie, BLCKSZ configuration
independent), scale the index_size result in the regression tests.
The documentation issue was reported by Otsuka Kenji, and the inconsistent
root page counting by Peter Geoghegan; the other problems noted by me.
Back-patch to all supported branches, because this has been broken for
a long time.
A function name that's double-quoted in SQL can contain almost any
characters, but we were using that name directly as part of the name
generated for the Python-level function, and Python doesn't like
anything that isn't pretty much a standard identifier. To fix,
replace anything that isn't an ASCII letter or digit with an underscore
in the generated name. This doesn't create any risk of duplicate Python
function names because we were already appending the function OID to
the generated name to ensure uniqueness. Per bug #13960 from Jim Nasby.
Patch by Jim Nasby, modified a bit by me. Back-patch to all
supported branches.
Clarify the description of which transactions will block a CREATE INDEX
CONCURRENTLY command from proceeding, and mention that the index might
still not be usable after CREATE INDEX completes. (This happens if the
index build detected broken HOT chains, so that pg_index.indcheckxmin gets
set, and there are open old transactions preventing the xmin horizon from
advancing past the index's initial creation. I didn't want to explain what
broken HOT chains are, though, so I omitted an explanation of exactly when
old transactions prevent the index from being used.)
Per discussion with Chris Travers. Back-patch to all supported branches,
since the same text appears in all of them.
