Document that though the history file content is marked as bytea, it is
the same a text, and neither is btyea-escaped or encoding converted.
Reported-by: Brar Piening
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/6a1b9cd9-17e3-df67-be55-86102af6bdf5@gmx.de
Backpatch-through: 13 - 9.5 (not master)
Whether from size overflow in gistSplit or from secondary splits,
picksplit is (rarely) called with exactly two items to split.
Formerly, due to special-case handling of the last item, this would
lead to access to an uninitialized cache entry; prior to PG 13 this
might have been harmless or at worst led to an incorrect union datum,
but in 13 onwards it can cause a backend crash from using an
uninitialized pointer.
Repair by removing the special case, which was deemed not to have been
appropriate anyway. Backpatch all the way, because this bug has
existed since pg_trgm was added.
Per report on IRC from user "ftzdomino". Analysis and testing by me,
patch from Alexander Korotkov.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/87k0usfdxg.fsf@news-spur.riddles.org.uk
Commit 8bf74967dab moved some of the code from brin_new_memtuple to
brin_memtuple_initialize, but this resulted in some of the code being
duplicate. Fix by removing the duplicate lines and backpatch to 10.
Author: Tomas Vondra
Backpatch-through: 10
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/5eb50c97-9a8e-b691-8c40-1b2a55611c4c%40enterprisedb.com
Introduce TimestampDifferenceMilliseconds() to simplify callers
that would rather have the difference in milliseconds, instead of
the select()-oriented seconds-and-microseconds format. This gets
rid of at least one integer division per call, and it eliminates
some apparently-easy-to-mess-up arithmetic.
Two of these call sites were in fact wrong:
* pg_prewarm's autoprewarm_main() forgot to multiply the seconds
by 1000, thus ending up with a delay 1000X shorter than intended.
That doesn't quite make it a busy-wait, but close.
* postgres_fdw's pgfdw_get_cleanup_result() thought it needed to compute
microseconds not milliseconds, thus ending up with a delay 1000X longer
than intended. Somebody along the way had noticed this problem but
misdiagnosed the cause, and imposed an ad-hoc 60-second limit rather
than fixing the units. This was relatively harmless in context, because
we don't care that much about exactly how long this delay is; still,
it's wrong.
There are a few more callers of TimestampDifference() that don't
have a direct need for seconds-and-microseconds, but can't use
TimestampDifferenceMilliseconds() either because they do need
microsecond precision or because they might possibly deal with
intervals long enough to overflow 32-bit milliseconds. It might be
worth inventing another API to improve that, but that seems outside
the scope of this patch; so those callers are untouched here.
Given the fact that we are fixing some bugs, and the likelihood
that future patches might want to back-patch code that uses this
new API, back-patch to all supported branches.
Alexey Kondratov and Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3b1c053a21c07c1ed5e00be3b2b855ef@postgrespro.ru
Summarily changing the STYPE of regression-test aggregates that
depend on array_append or array_cat is an issue for the buildfarm's
cross-version-upgrade tests, because those aggregates (as defined
in the back branches) now won't load into HEAD. Although this seems
like only a minimal risk for genuine user-defined aggregates, we
need to do something for the buildfarm. Hence, adjust the aggregate
definitions, in both HEAD and the back branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1401824.1604537031@sss.pgh.pa.us
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1kaQ2c-0005lx-Eg@gemulon.postgresql.org
If an interactive psql session used \gset when querying a compromised
server, the attacker could execute arbitrary code as the operating
system account running psql. Using a prefix not found among specially
treated variables, e.g. every lowercase string, precluded the attack.
Fix by issuing a warning and setting no variable for the column in
question. Users wanting the old behavior can use a prefix and then a
meta-command like "\set HISTSIZE :prefix_HISTSIZE". Back-patch to 9.5
(all supported versions).
Reviewed by Robert Haas. Reported by Nick Cleaton.
Security: CVE-2020-25696
Specifically, this blocks DECLARE ... WITH HOLD and firing of deferred
triggers within index expressions and materialized view queries. An
attacker having permission to create non-temp objects in at least one
schema could execute arbitrary SQL functions under the identity of the
bootstrap superuser. One can work around the vulnerability by disabling
autovacuum and not manually running ANALYZE, CLUSTER, REINDEX, CREATE
INDEX, VACUUM FULL, or REFRESH MATERIALIZED VIEW. (Don't restore from
pg_dump, since it runs some of those commands.) Plain VACUUM (without
FULL) is safe, and all commands are fine when a trusted user owns the
target object. Performance may degrade quickly under this workaround,
however. Back-patch to 9.5 (all supported versions).
Reviewed by Robert Haas. Reported by Etienne Stalmans.
Security: CVE-2020-25695
brin_form_tuple failed to consider the values may be toasted, inserting
the toast pointer into the index. This may easily result in index
corruption, as the toast data may be deleted and cleaned up by vacuum.
The cleanup however does not care about indexes, leaving invalid toast
pointers behind, which triggers errors like this:
ERROR: missing chunk number 0 for toast value 16433 in pg_toast_16426
A less severe consequence are inconsistent failures due to the index row
being too large, depending on whether brin_form_tuple operated on plain
or toasted version of the row. For example
CREATE TABLE t (val TEXT);
INSERT INTO t VALUES ('... long value ...')
CREATE INDEX idx ON t USING brin (val);
would likely succeed, as the row would likely include toast pointer.
Switching the order of INSERT and CREATE INDEX would likely fail:
ERROR: index row size 8712 exceeds maximum 8152 for index "idx"
because this happens before the row values are toasted.
The bug exists since PostgreSQL 9.5 where BRIN indexes were introduced.
So backpatch all the way back.
Author: Tomas Vondra
Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera
Backpatch-through: 9.5
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20201001184133.oq5uq75sb45pu3aw@development
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20201104010544.zexj52mlldagzowv%40development
Revert 59ab4ac32, as well as the followup fix 33862cb9c, in all
branches. We need to think a bit harder about what the behavior
of LOCK TABLE on views should be, and there's no time for that
before next week's releases. We'll take another crack at this
later.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16703-e348f58aab3cf6cc@postgresql.org
Revert 403a3d91c, as well as the followup fix 7f4235032, in all
branches. We need to think a bit harder about what the behavior
of LOCK TABLE on views should be, and there's no time for that
before next week's releases. We'll take another crack at this
later.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16703-e348f58aab3cf6cc@postgresql.org
Commits 59ab4ac32 et al mistakenly copied-and-pasted some text about
how LOCK on a view recurses to referenced tables into pre-v11 branches,
which in fact don't do that. Undo that, and instead state clearly
that they don't. (I also chose to add a note that this behavior
changed in v11. We usually don't back-patch such statements, but
since it's easy to add the warning now, might as well.)
Noted while considering followup fixes for bug #16703.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16703-e348f58aab3cf6cc@postgresql.org
If the planner erroneously puts a non-parallel-safe SubPlan into
a parallelized portion of the query tree, nodeSubplan.c will fail
in the worker processes because it finds a null in es_subplanstates,
which it's unable to cope with. It seems worth a test-and-elog to
make that an error case rather than a core dump case.
This probably should have been included in commit 16ebab688, which
was responsible for allowing nulls to appear in es_subplanstates
to begin with. So, back-patch to v10 where that came in.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/924226.1604422326@sss.pgh.pa.us
The intention in commit 491c029db was to require superuserness to
change the BYPASSRLS property, but the actual effect of the coding
in AlterRole() was to require superuserness to change anything at all
about a BYPASSRLS role. Other properties of a BYPASSRLS role should
be changeable under the same rules as for a normal role, though.
Fix that, and also take care of some documentation omissions related
to BYPASSRLS and REPLICATION role properties.
Tom Lane and Stephen Frost, per bug report from Wolfgang Walther.
Back-patch to all supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a5548a9f-89ee-3167-129d-162b5985fcf8@technowledgy.de
fill_hba_line() thought it could get away with passing sizeof(struct
sockaddr_storage) rather than the actual addrlen previously returned
by getaddrinfo(). While that appears to work on many platforms,
it does not work on FreeBSD 11: you get back a failure, which leads
to the view showing NULL for the address and netmask columns in all
rows. The POSIX spec for getnameinfo() is pretty clearly on
FreeBSD's side here: you should pass the actual address length.
So it seems plausible that there are other platforms where this
coding also fails, and we just hadn't noticed.
Also, IMO the fact that getnameinfo() failure leads to a NULL output
is pretty bogus in itself. Our pg_getnameinfo_all() wrapper is
careful to emit "???" on failure, and we should use that in such
cases. NULL should only be emitted in rows that don't have IP
addresses.
Per bug #16695 from Peter Vandivier. Back-patch to v10 where this
code was added.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16695-a665558e2f630be7@postgresql.org
Although error results received from the backend should always have
a SQLSTATE field, ones generated by libpq won't, making this code
vulnerable to a crash after, say, untimely loss of connection.
Noted by Coverity.
Oversight in commit 403a3d91c. Back-patch to 9.5, as that was.
The timetz test cases I added in commit a9632830b were unintentionally
sensitive to whether or not DST is active in the PST8PDT time zone.
Thus, they'll start failing this coming weekend, as reported by
Bernhard M. Wiedemann in bug #16689. Fortunately, DST-awareness is
not significant to the purpose of these test cases, so we can just
force them all to PDT (DST hours) to preserve stability of the
results.
Back-patch to v10, as the prior patch was.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16689-57701daa23b377bf@postgresql.org
In almost all other places, we use plain "r" or "w" mode in popen()
calls (the exceptions being for COPY data). This one has been
overlooked (possibly because it's buried in a ".l" flex file?),
but it's using PG_BINARY_R.
Kensuke Okamura complained in bug #16688 that we fail to strip \r
when stripping the trailing newline from a backtick result string.
That's true enough, but we'd also fail to convert embedded \r\n
cleanly, which also seems undesirable. Fixing the popen() mode
seems like the best way to deal with this.
It's been like this for a long time, so back-patch to all supported
branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16688-c649c7b69cd7e6f8@postgresql.org
EventTriggerAlterTableEnd neglected to make sure that it built its
output list in the right context. In simple cases this was masked
because the function is called in PortalContext which will be
sufficiently long-lived anyway; but that doesn't make it not a bug.
Commit ced138e8c fixed this in HEAD and v13, but mistakenly chose
not to back-patch further. Back-patch the same code change all
the way (I didn't bother with the test case though, as it would
prove nothing in pre-v13 branches).
Per report from Arseny Sher.
Original fix by Jehan-Guillaume de Rorthais.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/877drcyprb.fsf@ars-thinkpad
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200902193715.6e0269d4@firost
Now that LOCK TABLE can take any relation type, acquire lock on all
relations that are to be dumped. This prevents schema changes or
deadlock errors that could cause a dump to fail after expending much
effort. The server is tested to have the capability and the feature
disabled if it doesn't, so that a patched pg_dump doesn't fail when
connecting to an unpatched server.
Backpatch to 9.5.
Author: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Reported-by: Wells Oliver <wells.oliver@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20201021200659.GA32358@alvherre.pgsql
The restriction that only tables and views can be locked by LOCK TABLE
is quite arbitrary, since the underlying mechanism can lock any relation
type. Drop the restriction so that programs such as pg_dump can lock
all relations they're interested in, preventing schema changes that
could cause a dump to fail after expending much effort.
Backpatch to 9.5.
Author: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Reported-by: Wells Oliver <wells.oliver@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20201021200659.GA32358@alvherre.pgsql
We must not set the "done" flag until after we've executed the
initialization function. Otherwise, other threads can fall through
the initial unlocked test before initialization is really complete.
This has been seen to cause rare failures of ecpg's thread/descriptor
test, and it could presumably cause other sorts of misbehavior in
threaded ECPG-using applications, since ecpglib relies on
pthread_once() in several places.
Diagnosis and patch by me, based on investigation by Alexander Lakhin.
Back-patch to all supported branches (the bug dates to 2007).
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16685-d6cd241872c101d3@postgresql.org
There's no functional change at all here, but I'm curious to see
whether this change successfully shuts up Coverity's warning about
a useless strcmp(), which appeared with the previous update.
Discussion: http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2020-October/029370.html
psql's \connect claims to be able to re-use previous connection
parameters, but in fact it only re-uses the database name, user name,
host name (and possibly hostaddr, depending on version), and port.
This is problematic for assorted use cases. Notably, pg_dump[all]
emits "\connect databasename" commands which we would like to have
re-use all other parameters. If such a script is loaded in a psql run
that initially had "-d connstring" with some non-default parameters,
those other parameters would be lost, potentially causing connection
failure. (Thus, this is the same kind of bug addressed in commits
a45bc8a4f and 8e5793ab6, although the details are much different.)
To fix, redesign do_connect() so that it pulls out all properties
of the old PGconn using PQconninfo(), and then replaces individual
properties in that array. In the case where we don't wish to re-use
anything, get libpq's default settings using PQconndefaults() and
replace entries in that, so that we don't need different code paths
for the two cases.
This does result in an additional behavioral change for cases where
the original connection parameters allowed multiple hosts, say
"psql -h host1,host2", and the \connect request allows re-use of the
host setting. Because the previous coding relied on PQhost(), it
would only permit reconnection to the same host originally selected.
Although one can think of scenarios where that's a good thing, there
are others where it is not. Moreover, that behavior doesn't seem to
meet the principle of least surprise, nor was it documented; nor is
it even clear it was intended, since that coding long pre-dates the
addition of multi-host support to libpq. Hence, this patch is content
to drop it and re-use the host list as given.
Per Peter Eisentraut's comments on bug #16604. Back-patch to all
supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16604-933f4b8791227b15@postgresql.org
In shm_mq_receive(), a huge payload could trigger an unjustified
"invalid memory alloc request size" error due to the way the buffer
size is increased.
Add error checks (documenting the upper limit) and avoid the error by
limiting the allocation size to MaxAllocSize.
Author: Markus Wanner <markus.wanner@2ndquadrant.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/3bb363e7-ac04-0ac4-9fe8-db1148755bfa%402ndquadrant.com
When told to process all databases, clusterdb, reindexdb, and vacuumdb
would reconnect by replacing their --maintenance-db parameter with the
name of the target database. If that parameter is a connstring (which
has been allowed for a long time, though we failed to document that
before this patch), we'd lose any other options it might specify, for
example SSL or GSS parameters, possibly resulting in failure to connect.
Thus, this is the same bug as commit a45bc8a4f fixed in pg_dump and
pg_restore. We can fix it in the same way, by using libpq's rules for
handling multiple "dbname" parameters to add the target database name
separately. I chose to apply the same refactoring approach as in that
patch, with a struct to handle the command line parameters that need to
be passed through to connectDatabase. (Maybe someday we can unify the
very similar functions here and in pg_dump/pg_restore.)
Per Peter Eisentraut's comments on bug #16604. Back-patch to all
supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16604-933f4b8791227b15@postgresql.org
- Misc grammar and punctuation fixes.
- Stylistic cleanup: use spaces between function arguments and JSON fields
in examples. For example "foo(a,b)" -> "foo(a, b)". Add semicolon after
last END in a few PL/pgSQL examples that were missing them.
- Make sentence that talked about "..." and ".." operators more clear,
by avoiding to end the sentence with "..". That makes it look the same
as "..."
- Fix syntax description for HAVING: HAVING conditions cannot be repeated
Patch by Justin Pryzby, per Yaroslav Schekin's report. Backpatch to all
supported versions, to the extent that the patch applies easily.
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20201005191922.GE17626%40telsasoft.com
The Windows documentation insists that every WSAStartup call should
have a matching WSACleanup call. However, if that ever had actual
relevance, it wasn't in this century. Every remotely-modern Windows
kernel is capable of cleaning up when a process exits without doing
that, and must be so to avoid resource leaks in case of a process
crash. Moreover, Postgres backends have done WSAStartup without
WSACleanup since commit 4cdf51e64 in 2004, and we've never seen any
indication of a problem with that.
libpq's habit of doing WSAStartup during connection start and
WSACleanup during shutdown is also rather inefficient, since a
series of non-overlapping connection requests leads to repeated,
quite expensive DLL unload/reload cycles. We document a workaround
for that (having the application call WSAStartup for itself), but
that's just a kluge. It's also worth noting that it's far from
uncommon for applications to exit without doing PQfinish, and
we've not heard reports of trouble from that either.
However, the real reason for acting on this is that recent
experiments by Alexander Lakhin show that calling WSACleanup
during PQfinish is triggering the symptom we occasionally see
that a process using libpq fails to emit expected stdio output.
Therefore, let's change libpq so that it calls WSAStartup only
once per process, during the first connection attempt, and never
calls WSACleanup at all.
While at it, get rid of the only other WSACleanup call in our code
tree, in pg_dump/parallel.c; that presumably is equally useless.
Back-patch of HEAD commit 7d00a6b2d.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ac976d8c-03df-d6b8-025c-15a2de8d9af1@postgrespro.ru
