SQL "SET search_path = 'pg_catalog, pg_temp'" is silently equivalent to
"SET search_path = pg_temp, pg_catalog, "pg_catalog, pg_temp"" instead
of the intended "SET search_path = pg_catalog, pg_temp". (The intent
was a two-element search path. With the single quotes, it instead
specifies one element with a comma and a space in the middle of the
element.) In addition to the SET statement, this affects SET clauses of
CREATE FUNCTION, ALTER ROLE, and ALTER DATABASE. It does not affect the
set_config() SQL function.
Though the documentation did not show an insecure command, remove single
quotes that could entice a reader to write an insecure command.
Back-patch to v13 (all supported versions).
Reported-by: Sven Klemm <sven@timescale.com>
Author: Sven Klemm <sven@timescale.com>
Backpatch-through: 13
Add a documentation warning to ts_headline() pointing out that, when
working with untrusted input documents, the output is not guaranteed
to be safe for direct inclusion in web pages. This is because, while
it does remove some XML tags from the input, it doesn't remove all
HTML markup, and so the result may be unsafe (e.g., it might permit
XSS attacks).
To guard against that, all HTML markup should be removed from the
input, making it plain text, or the output should be passed through an
HTML sanitizer.
In addition, document precisely what the default text search parser
recognises as valid XML tags, since that's what determines which XML
tags ts_headline() will remove.
Reported-by: Richard Neill <richard.neill@telos.digital>
Author: Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Backpatch-through: 13
Previously, a space was missing between "<option>--exclude-schema</option>"
and "for" in the pg_restore documentation. This commit fixes the typo by
adding the missing whitespace.
Back-patch to v17 where the typo was added.
Author: Lele Gaifax <lele@metapensiero.it>
Reviewed-by: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/87lds3ysm0.fsf@metapensiero.it
Backpatch-through: 17
A PG 17 optimization allowed columns with NOT NULL constraints to skip
table scans for IS NULL queries, and to skip IS NOT NULL checks for IS
NOT NULL queries. This didn't work for domain types, since domain types
don't follow the IS NULL/IS NOT NULL constraint logic. To fix, disable
this optimization for domains for PG 17+.
Reported-by: Jan Behrens
Diagnosed-by: Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/Z37p0paENWWUarj-@momjian.us
Backpatch-through: 17
The documentation for the special value "system" for sslrootcert could
be misinterpreted to mean the default operating system CA store, which
it may be, but it's defined to be the default CA store of the SSL lib
used.
Backpatch down to v16 where support for the system value was added.
Author: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
Reviewed-by: George MacKerron <george@mackerron.co.uk>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/B3CBBAA3-6EA3-4AB7-8619-4BBFAB93DDB4@yesql.se
Backpatch-through: 16
Previously, invalidated logical and physical replication slots could
be copied using the pg_copy_logical_replication_slot and
pg_copy_physical_replication_slot functions. Replication slots that
were invalidated for reasons other than WAL removal retained their
restart_lsn. This meant that a new slot copied from an invalidated
slot could have a restart_lsn pointing to a WAL segment that might
have already been removed.
This commit restricts the copying of invalidated replication slots.
Backpatch to v16, where slots could retain their restart_lsn when
invalidated for reasons other than WAL removal.
For v15 and earlier, this check is not required since slots can only
be invalidated due to WAL removal, and existing checks already handle
this issue.
Author: Shlok Kyal <shlok.kyal.oss@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: vignesh C <vignesh21@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Zhijie Hou <houzj.fnst@fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Smith <smithpb2250@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CANhcyEU65aH0VYnLiu%3DOhNNxhnhNhwcXBeT-jvRe1OiJTo_Ayg%40mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 16
The implementation of FSM for indexes is simpler than heap, where 0 is
used to track if a page is in-use and (BLCKSZ - 1) if a page is free.
One comment in indexfsm.c and one description in the documentation of
pg_freespacemap were incorrect about that.
Author: Alex Friedman <alexf01@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/71eef655-c192-453f-ac45-2772fec2cb04@gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 13
pg_drop_replication_slot() can drop replication slots created on
a different database than the one where it is executed. This behavior
has been in place since PostgreSQL 9.4, when pg_drop_replication_slot()
was introduced.
However, commit ff539d mistakenly added the following incorrect
description in the documentation:
For logical slots, this must be called when connected to
the same database the slot was created on.
This commit removes that incorrect statement. A similar mistake was
also present in the documentation for the DROP_REPLICATION_SLOT
command, which has now been corrected as well.
Back-patch to all supported versions.
Author: Hayato Kuroda <kuroda.hayato@fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/OSCPR01MB14966C6BE304B5BB2E58D4009F5DE2@OSCPR01MB14966.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com
Backpatch-through: 13
The previous wording talked about a "single pass over the data",
which can be read as promising more than intended (to wit, that only
one WindowAgg plan node will be used). What we promise is only what
the SQL spec requires, namely that the data not get re-sorted between
window functions with compatible PARTITION BY/ORDER BY clauses.
Adjust the wording in hopes of making this clearer.
Reported-by: Christopher Inokuchi <cinokuchi@gmail.com>
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Reviewed-by: David G. Johnston <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CABde6B5va2wMsnM79u_x=n9KUgfKQje_pbLROEBmA9Ru5XWidw@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 13
Previously, a WARNING was issued at the time of defining a subscription
with origin=NONE only when the publisher subscribed to the same table from
other publishers, indicating potential data origination from different
origins. However, the publisher can subscribe to the partition ancestors
or partition children of the table from other publishers, which could also
result in mixed-origin data inclusion. So, give a WARNING in those cases
as well.
Reported-by: Sergey Tatarintsev <s.tatarintsev@postgrespro.ru>
Author: Hou Zhijie <houzj.fnst@fujitsu.com>
Author: Shlok Kyal <shlok.kyal.oss@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Vignesh C <vignesh21@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>
Backpatch-through: 16, where it was introduced
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/5eda6a9c-63cf-404d-8a49-8dcb116a29f3@postgrespro.ru
Two links in the isn module documentation were pointing to tools
which had been moved, resulting in 404 error responses. Update
to the new URLs for the tools. The link to the Sequoia 2000 page
in the history section was no longer working, and since the page
is no longer available online update our link to point at the
paper instead which is on a stable URL.
These links exist in all versions of the documentation so backpatch
to all supported branches.
Author: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
Reported-by: charukiewicz@protonmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/173679670185.705.8565555804465055355@wrigleys.postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 13
Slightly faulty logic in the original jsonb code (commit d9134d0a35)
results in an empty top level array sorting less than a json null. We
can't change the sort order now since it would affect btree indexes over
jsonb, so document the anomaly.
Backpatch to all live branches (13 .. 17)
In master, also add a code comment noting the anomaly.
Reported-by: Yan Chengpen
Reviewed-by: Jian He
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/OSBPR01MB45199DD8DA2D1CECD50518188E272@OSBPR01MB4519.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com
These two platforms have a remarkably tight default limit on the
number of SysV semaphores in the system: SEMMNS is only 60
out-of-the-box. Unless manual action is taken to raise that,
we'll only be able to allocate 3 sets of 16 usable semaphores
each, leading to initdb setting max_connections to just 20.
That's problematic because the core regression tests expect
to be able to launch 20 concurrent sessions, leaving us with
no headroom. This seems to be the cause of intermittent
buildfarm failures on some machines.
While there's no getting around the fact that you'd better raise
SEMMNS for production use on these platforms, it does seem desirable
for "make check" to pass reliably without that. We can make that
happen, at least for awhile longer, with two small changes:
* Change sysv_sema.c's SEMAS_PER_SET to 19, so that we can eat up
all of the available semas not just most of them.
* Change initdb to make the smallest max_connections value it will
consider be 25 not 20.
This is a back-patch of recent HEAD commit 38da05346 into v17.
The motivation for doing this now is that an upcoming bug-fix
patch will give the new-in-17 slotsync worker process its own
reserved PGPROC and hence also semaphore. With that patch but
without this change, v17 would fail to start at all under the
default SEMMNS on these platforms.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/db2773a2-aca0-43d0-99c1-060efcd9954e@gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1808397.1735156190@sss.pgh.pa.us
Two places in the documentation suggest B-tree is the only index access
method allowing parallel builds. Commit b4375717 added parallel builds
for BRIN too, but failed to update the docs. So fix that, and backpatch
to 17, where parallel BRIN builds were introduced.
Author: Egor Rogov
Backpatch-through: 17
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/114e2d5d-125e-07d8-94aa-5ad175fb7443@postgrespro.ru
The documentation in wal.sgml explains that old WAL files cannot be
removed or recycled until they are archived (when WAL archiving is used)
or replicated (when using replication slots). However, it did not mention
that, similarly, old WAL files are also kept until they are summarized
if WAL summarization is enabled. This commit adds that clarification
to the documentation.
Back-patch to v17 where WAL summarization was added.
Author: Fujii Masao
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/fd0eb0a5-f43b-4e06-b450-cbca011b6cff@oss.nttdata.com
It looks like the example case was once modified to increase the number
of rows but the EXPLAIN ANALYZE output wasn't updated to reflect that.
Also adjust the text which discusses the index sizes. With the example
table size, the bloom index isn't quite 8 times more space efficient
than the btree indexes.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvovx8kQ0=HTt85gFDAwmTJHpCgiSvRmQZ_6u_g-vQYM_w@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 13, all supported versions
The last section of pg_createsubscriber used the terms
"publication-name", "replication-slot-name", and "subscription-name".
These terms are not defined on the page, which was confusing, and the
intention is clearly to refer to the values one would give to the
options --publication, --subscription and --replication-slot. Let's
simplify the documentation by mentioning the option switches, instead of
these terms.
Reported-by: Christophe Courtois
Author: Shubham Khanna
Reviewed-by: Vignesh C, Peter Smith
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/173288198026.714.15127074046508836738@wrigleys.postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 17
