Previously a detailed activity report by VACUUM VERBOSE ANALYZE was
described as an example of VACUUM in docs. But it had been obsolete
for a long time. For example, commit feb4f44d29
updated the content of that activity report in 2003, but we had
forgotten to update the example.
So basically we need to update the example. But since no one cared
about the details of VACUUM output and complained about that mistake
for such long time, per discussion on hackers, we decided to get rid
of the detailed activity report from the example and simplify it.
Back-patch to all supported versions.
Reported by Masahiko Sawada, patch by me.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAD21AoAGA2pB3p-CWmTkxBsbkZS1bcDGBLcYVcvcDxspG_XAfA@mail.gmail.com
The compiler is entitled to store a char[] local variable with no
particular alignment requirement. Our RADIUS code cavalierly took such
a local variable and cast its address to a struct type that does have
alignment requirements. On an alignment-picky machine this would lead
to bus errors. To fix, declare the local variable honestly, and then
cast its address to char * for use in the I/O calls.
Given the lack of field complaints, there must be very few if any
people affected; but nonetheless this is a clear portability issue,
so back-patch to all supported branches.
Noted while looking at a Coverity complaint in the same code.
This reverts commit 38bdba54a6, "Fix and
simplify check for whether we're running as Windows service". It turns out
that older versions of MinGW - like that on buildfarm member narwhal - do
not support the CheckTokenMembership() function. This replaces the
refactoring with a much smaller fix, to add a check for SE_GROUP_ENABLED to
pgwin32_is_service().
Only apply to back-branches, and keep the refactoring in HEAD. It's
unlikely that anyone is still really using such an old version of MinGW -
aside from narwhal - but let's not change the minimum requirements in
minor releases.
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/16609.1489773427@sss.pgh.pa.us
Patch: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAB7nPqSvfu%3DKpJ%3DNX%2BYAHmgAmQdzA7N5h31BjzXeMgczhGCC%2BQ%40mail.gmail.com
If the process token contains SECURITY_SERVICE_RID, but it has been
disabled by the SE_GROUP_USE_FOR_DENY_ONLY attribute, win32_is_service()
would incorrectly report that we're running as a service. That situation
arises, e.g. if postmaster is launched with a restricted security token,
with the "Log in as Service" privilege explicitly removed.
Replace the broken code with CheckProcessTokenMembership(), which does
this correctly. Also replace similar code in win32_is_admin(), even
though it got this right, for simplicity and consistency.
Per bug #13755, reported by Breen Hagan. Back-patch to all supported
versions. Patch by Takayuki Tsunakawa, reviewed by Michael Paquier.
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20151104062315.2745.67143%40wrigleys.postgresql.org
presence of page pins, which leads to serious estimation errors in the
planner. This particularly affects small heavily-accessed tables,
especially where locking (e.g. from FK constraints) forces frequent
vacuums for mxid cleanup.
Fix by keeping separate track of pages whose live tuples were actually
counted vs. pages that were only scanned for freezing purposes. Thus,
reltuples can only be set to 0 if all pages of the relation were
actually counted.
Backpatch to all supported versions.
Per bug #14057 from Nicolas Baccelli, analyzed by me.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20160331103739.8956.94469@wrigleys.postgresql.org
This could result in corruption of the init fork of an unlogged index
if the ambuildempty routine for that index used shared buffers to
create the init fork, which was true for gin, gist, and hash indexes.
Patch by me, based on an earlier patch by Michael Paquier, who also
reviewed this one. This also incorporates an idea from Artur
Zakirov.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CACYUyc8yccE4xfxhqxfh_Mh38j7dRFuxfaK1p6dSNAEUakxUyQ@mail.gmail.com
Rather than waiting around for statement_timeout to expire, we can just
try to take the table's lock in nowait mode. This saves some fraction
under 4 seconds when running this test with prepared xacts available,
and it guards against timeout-expired-anyway failures on very slow
machines when prepared xacts are not available, as seen in a recent
failure on axolotl for instance.
This approach could fail if autovacuum were to take an exclusive lock
on the test table concurrently, but there's no reason for it to do so.
Since the main point here is to improve stability in the buildfarm,
back-patch to all supported branches.
The problem was that "begin transaction" was issued automatically
before executing COMMIT/ROLLBACK PREPARED if not in auto commit. This fix by
Masahiko Sawada fixes this.
Detect fclose() failures; given "ln -s /dev/full $PGDATA/devfull",
"pg_file_write('devfull', 'x', true)" now fails as it should. Don't
leak a stream when fwrite() fails. Remove a born-ineffective test that
aimed to skip zero-length writes. Back-patch to 9.2 (all supported
versions).
Commits 89e0bac86 et al replaced newlines with spaces in object names
printed in SQL comments, but we neglected to consider that the same
names are also printed by "pg_restore -l", and a newline would render
the output unparseable by "pg_restore -L". Apply the same replacement
in "-l" output. Since "pg_restore -L" doesn't actually examine any
object names, only the dump ID field that starts each line, this is
enough to fix things for its purposes.
The previous fix was treated as a security issue, and we might have
done that here as well, except that the issue was reported publicly
to start with. Anyway it's hard to see how this could be exploited
for SQL injection; "pg_restore -L" doesn't do much with the file
except parse it for leading integers.
Per bug #14587 from Milos Urbanek. Back-patch to all supported versions.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170310155318.1425.30483@wrigleys.postgresql.org
The IANA timezone crew continues to chip away at their project of removing
timezone abbreviations that have no real-world currency from their
database. The tzdata2017a update removes all such abbreviations for
South American zones, as well as much of the Pacific. This breaks some
test cases in timestamptz.sql that were expecting America/Santiago and
America/Caracas to have non-numeric abbreviations.
The test cases involving America/Santiago seem to have selected that
zone more or less at random, so just replace it with America/New_York,
which is of similar longitude. The cases involving America/Caracas are
harder since they were chosen to test a time-varying zone abbreviation
around a point where it changed meaning in the backwards direction.
Fortunately, Europe/Moscow has a similar case in 2014, and the MSK/MSD
abbreviations are well enough attested that IANA seems unlikely to
decide to remove them from the database in future.
With these changes, this regression test should pass when using any IANA
zone database from 2015 or later. One could wish that there were a few
years more daylight on how out-of-date your zone database can be ... but
really the --with-system-tzdata option is only meant for use on platforms
where the zone database is kept up-to-date pretty faithfully, so I do not
think this is a big objection.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/6749.1489087470@sss.pgh.pa.us
Large chunks (those too large for any palloc freelist) are managed as
separate blocks. Formerly, realloc'ing or pfree'ing such a chunk required
O(N) time in a context with N blocks, since we had to traipse down the
singly-linked block list to locate the block's predecessor before we could
fix the list links. This can result in O(N^2) runtime in situations where
large numbers of such chunks are manipulated within one context. Cases
like that were not foreseen in the original design of aset.c, and indeed
didn't arise until fairly recently. But such problems can now occur in
reorderbuffer.c and in hash joining, both of which make repeated large
requests without scaling up their request size as they do so, and which
will free their requests in not-necessarily-LIFO order.
To fix, change the block list from singly-linked to doubly-linked.
This adds another 4 or 8 bytes to ALLOC_BLOCKHDRSZ, but that doesn't
seem like unacceptable overhead, since aset.c's blocks are normally
8K or more, and never less than 1K in current practice.
In passing, get rid of some redundant AllocChunkGetPointer() calls in
AllocSetRealloc (the compiler might be smart enough to optimize these
away anyway, but no need to assume that) and improve AllocSetCheck's
checking of block header fields.
Back-patch to 9.4 where reorderbuffer.c appeared. We could take this
further back, but currently there's no evidence that it would be useful.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMkU=1x1hvue1XYrZoWk_omG0Ja5nBvTdvgrOeVkkeqs71CV8g@mail.gmail.com
We attached no schema label to comments for procedural languages, casts,
transforms, operator classes, operator families, or text search objects.
The first three categories of objects don't really have schemas, but
pg_dump treats them as if they do, and it seems like the TocEntry fields
for their comments had better match the TocEntry fields for the parent
objects. (As an example of a possible hazard, the type names in a CAST
will be formatted with the assumption of a particular search_path, so
failing to ensure that this same path is active for the COMMENT ON command
could lead to an error or to attaching the comment to the wrong cast.)
In the last six cases, this was a flat-out error --- possibly mine to
begin with, but it was a long time ago.
The security label for a procedural language was likewise not correctly
labeled as to schema, and both the comment and security label for a
procedural language were not correctly labeled as to owner.
In simple cases the restore would accidentally work correctly anyway, since
these comments and security labels would normally get emitted right after
the owning object, and so the search path and active user would be correct
anyhow. But it could fail in corner cases; for example a schema-selective
restore would omit comments it should include.
Giuseppe Broccolo noted the oversight, and proposed the correct fix, for
text search dictionary objects; I found the rest by cross-checking other
dumpComment() calls. These oversights are ancient, so back-patch all
the way.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAFzmHiWwwzLjzwM4x5ki5s_PDMR6NrkipZkjNnO3B0xEpBgJaA@mail.gmail.com
When performing a pg_upgrade, we copy the files behind pg_largeobject
and pg_largeobject_metadata, allowing us to avoid having to dump out and
reload the actual data for large objects and their ACLs.
Unfortunately, that isn't all of the information which can be associated
with large objects. Currently, we also support COMMENTs and SECURITY
LABELs with large objects and these were being silently dropped during a
pg_upgrade as pg_dump would skip everything having to do with a large
object and pg_upgrade only copied the tables mentioned to the new
cluster.
As the file copies happen after the catalog dump and reload, we can't
simply include the COMMENTs and SECURITY LABELs in pg_dump's binary-mode
output but we also have to include the actual large object definition as
well. With the definition, comments, and security labels in the pg_dump
output and the file copies performed by pg_upgrade, all of the data and
metadata associated with large objects is able to be successfully pulled
forward across a pg_upgrade.
In 9.6 and master, we can simply adjust the dump bitmask to indicate
which components we don't want. In 9.5 and earlier, we have to put
explciit checks in in dumpBlob() and dumpBlobs() to not include the ACL
or the data when in binary-upgrade mode.
Adjustments made to the privileges regression test to allow another test
(large_object.sql) to be added which explicitly leaves a large object
with a comment in place to provide coverage of that case with
pg_upgrade.
Back-patch to all supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170221162655.GE9812@tamriel.snowman.net
Previously the pg_upgrade standby upgrade instructions said not to
execute pgcrypto.sql, but it should have referenced the extension
command "CREATE EXTENSION pgcrypto". This patch makes that doc change.
Reported-by: a private bug report
Backpatch-through: 9.4, where standby instructions were added
The logic for removing excess trigrams from the result was faulty.
It intends to avoid merging the initial and final states of the NFA,
which is necessary, but in testing whether removal of a specific trigram
would cause that, it failed to consider the combined effects of all the
state merges that that trigram's removal would cause. This could result
in a broken final graph that would never match anything, leading to GIN
or GiST indexscans not finding anything.
To fix, add a "tentParent" field that is used only within this loop,
and set it to show state merges that we are tentatively going to do.
While examining a particular arc, we must chase up through tentParent
links as well as regular parent links (the former can only appear atop
the latter), and we must account for state init/fin flag merges that
haven't actually been done yet.
To simplify the latter, combine the separate init and fin bool fields
into a bitmap flags field. I also chose to get rid of the "children"
state list, which seems entirely inessential.
Per bug #14563 from Alexey Isayko, which the added test cases are based on.
Back-patch to 9.3 where this code was added.
Report: https://postgr.es/m/20170222111446.1256.67547@wrigleys.postgresql.org
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/8816.1487787594@sss.pgh.pa.us
Walsender uses the local buffers for each outgoing and incoming message.
Previously when creating replication slot, walsender forgot to initialize
one of them and which can cause the segmentation fault error. To fix this
issue, this commit changes walsender so that it always initialize them
before it executes the requested replication command.
Back-patch to 9.4 where replication slot was introduced.
Problem report and initial patch by Stas Kelvich, modified by me.
Report: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/A1E9CB90-1FAC-4CAD-8DBA-9AA62A6E97C5@postgrespro.ru
Several places in fd.c had badly-thought-through handling of error returns
from lseek() and close(). The fact that those would seldom fail on valid
FDs is probably the reason we've not noticed this up to now; but if they
did fail, we'd get quite confused.
LruDelete and LruInsert actually just Assert'd that lseek never fails,
which is pretty awful on its face.
In LruDelete, we indeed can't throw an error, because that's likely to get
called during error abort and so throwing an error would probably just lead
to an infinite loop. But by the same token, throwing an error from the
close() right after that was ill-advised, not to mention that it would've
left the LRU state corrupted since we'd already unlinked the VFD from the
list. I also noticed that really, most of the time, we should know the
current seek position and it shouldn't be necessary to do an lseek here at
all. As patched, if we don't have a seek position and an lseek attempt
doesn't give us one, we'll close the file but then subsequent re-open
attempts will fail (except in the somewhat-unlikely case that a
FileSeek(SEEK_SET) call comes between and allows us to re-establish a known
target seek position). This isn't great but it won't result in any state
corruption.
Meanwhile, having an Assert instead of an honest test in LruInsert is
really dangerous: if that lseek failed, a subsequent read or write would
read or write from the start of the file, not where the caller expected,
leading to data corruption.
In both LruDelete and FileClose, if close() fails, just LOG that and mark
the VFD closed anyway. Possibly leaking an FD is preferable to getting
into an infinite loop or corrupting the VFD list. Besides, as far as I can
tell from the POSIX spec, it's unspecified whether or not the file has been
closed, so treating it as still open could be the wrong thing anyhow.
I also fixed a number of other places that were being sloppy about
behaving correctly when the seekPos is unknown.
Also, I changed FileSeek to return -1 with EINVAL for the cases where it
detects a bad offset, rather than throwing a hard elog(ERROR). It seemed
pretty inconsistent that some bad-offset cases would get a failure return
while others got elog(ERROR). It was missing an offset validity check for
the SEEK_CUR case on a closed file, too.
Back-patch to all supported branches, since all this code is fundamentally
identical in all of them.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2982.1487617365@sss.pgh.pa.us
These are only supported in to_char, not in the other direction, but the
documentation failed to mention that. Also, describe TZ/tz as printing the
time zone "abbreviation", not "name", because what they print is elsewhere
referred to that way. Per bug #14558.
One case in the PL/Tcl tests is observed to fail on RHEL5 with a Turkish
time zone setting. It's not clear if this is an old Tcl bug or something
odd about the zone data, but in any case that test is meant to see if the
Tcl [clock] command works at all, not what its corner-case behaviors are.
Therefore we have no need to test exactly which week a Sunday midnight is
considered to fall into. Probe the following Tuesday instead.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/797.1487517822@sss.pgh.pa.us
The recovery.conf file that's generated is specifically for
replication, and not needed (or wanted) for regular backup restore, so
indicate that in the message.
Also add to the existing rather half-baked description of PROFILE,
which does exactly the same thing, but I think people use it differently.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16461.1487361849@sss.pgh.pa.us
This causes a warning with the old html-docs toolchain, though not with the
new. I had originally supposed that we needed both <indexterm> entries to
get both a primary index entry and a see-also link; but evidently not,
as pointed out by Fabien Coelho.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/alpine.DEB.2.20.1702161616060.5445@lancre
Make the typedefs for output plugins consistent with project style;
they were previously not even consistent with each other as to layout
or inclusion of parameter names. Make the documentation look the same,
and fix errors therein (missing and misdescribed parameters).
Back-patch because of the documentation bugs.
The loops in ExecHashJoinNewBatch(), ExecHashIncreaseNumBatches(), and
ExecHashRemoveNextSkewBucket() are all capable of iterating over many
tuples without ever doing a CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS, so that the backend
might fail to respond to SIGINT or SIGTERM for an unreasonably long time.
Fix that. In the case of ExecHashJoinNewBatch(), it seems useful to put
the added CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS into ExecHashJoinGetSavedTuple() rather
than directly in the loop, because that will also ensure that both
principal code paths through ExecHashJoinOuterGetTuple() will do a
CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS, which seems like a good idea to avoid surprises.
Back-patch to all supported branches.
Tom Lane and Thomas Munro
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/6044.1487121720@sss.pgh.pa.us
The ALTER TABLE ALTER TYPE implementation can issue DROP INDEX and
CREATE INDEX to refit existing indexes for the new column type. Since
this CREATE INDEX is an implementation detail of an index alteration,
the ensuing DefineIndex() should skip ACL checks specific to index
creation. It already skips the namespace ACL check. Make it skip the
tablespace ACL check, too. Back-patch to 9.2 (all supported versions).
Reviewed by Tom Lane.
The S/390 members of the buildfarm are showing failures indicating
that they're having trouble with the rint() calls I added yesterday.
There's no good reason for that, and I wonder if it is a compiler bug
similar to the one we worked around in d9476b838. Try to fix it using
the same method as before, namely to store the result of rint() back
into a "double" variable rather than immediately converting to int64.
(This isn't entirely waving a dead chicken, since on machines with
wider-than-double float registers, the extra store forces a width
conversion. I don't know if S/390 is like that, but it seems worth
trying.)
In passing, merge duplicate ereport() calls in float8_timestamptz().
Per buildfarm.
When converting a float value to integer microseconds, we should be careful
to round the value to the nearest integer, typically with rint(); simply
assigning to an int64 variable will truncate, causing apparently off-by-one
values in cases that should work. Most places in the datetime code got
this right, but not these two.
float8_timestamptz() is new as of commit e511d878f (9.6). Previous
versions effectively depended on interval_mul() to do roundoff correctly,
which it does, so this fixes an accuracy regression in 9.6.
The problem in make_interval() dates to its introduction in 9.4. Aside
from being careful to round not truncate, let's incorporate the hours and
minutes inputs into the result with exact integer arithmetic, rather than
risk introducing roundoff error where there need not have been any.
float8_timestamptz() problem reported by Erik Nordström, though this is
not his proposed patch. make_interval() problem found by me.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHuQZDS76jTYk3LydPbKpNfw9KbACmD=49dC4BrzHcfPv6yA1A@mail.gmail.com
The CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY bug can only be triggered by row updates,
not inserts, since the problem would arise from an update incorrectly
being made HOT. Noted by Alvaro.
The problem with the original coding here is that we might receive (and
clear) a relcache invalidation signal for the target relation down inside
one of the index_open calls we're doing. Since the target is open, we
would not drop the relcache entry, just reset its rd_indexvalid and
rd_indexlist fields. But RelationGetIndexAttrBitmap() kept going, and
would eventually cache and return potentially-obsolete attribute bitmaps.
The case where this matters is where the inval signal was from a CREATE
INDEX CONCURRENTLY telling us about a new index on a formerly-unindexed
column. (In all other cases, the lock we hold on the target rel should
prevent any concurrent change in index state.) Even just returning the
stale attribute bitmap is not such a problem, because it shouldn't matter
during the transaction in which we receive the signal. What hurts is
caching the stale data, because it can survive into later transactions,
breaking CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY's expectation that later transactions
will not create new broken HOT chains. The upshot is that there's a window
for building corrupted indexes during CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY.
This patch fixes the problem by rechecking that the set of index OIDs
is still the same at the end of RelationGetIndexAttrBitmap() as it was
at the start. If not, we loop back and try again. That's a little
more than is strictly necessary to fix the bug --- in principle, we
could return the stale data but not cache it --- but it seems like a
bad idea on general principles for relcache to return data it knows
is stale.
There might be more hazards of the same ilk, or there might be a better
way to fix this one, but this patch definitely improves matters and seems
unlikely to make anything worse. So let's push it into today's releases
even as we continue to study the problem.
Pavan Deolasee and myself
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CABOikdM2MUq9cyZJi1KyLmmkCereyGp5JQ4fuwKoyKEde_mzkQ@mail.gmail.com
DST law changes in northern Cyprus (new zone Asia/Famagusta), Russia (new
zone Europe/Saratov), Tonga, Antarctica/Casey. Historical corrections for
Asia/Aqtau, Asia/Atyrau, Asia/Gaza, Asia/Hebron, Italy, Malta. Replace
invented zone abbreviation "TOT" for Tonga with numeric UTC offset; but
as in the past, we'll keep accepting "TOT" for input.
