The dict_int text search dictionary template accepts maxlen parameter,
which is then used to cap the length of input strings. The value was
not properly checked, and the code simply does
txt[d->maxlen] = '\0';
to insert a terminator, leading to segfaults with negative values.
This commit simply rejects values less than 1. The issue was there since
dct_int was introduced in 9.3, so backpatch all the way back to 9.4
which is the oldest supported version.
Reported-by: cili
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16144-a36a5bef7657047d@postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 9.4
We implement ON COMMIT DELETE ROWS by truncating tables marked that
way, which requires also truncating/rebuilding their indexes. But
RelationTruncateIndexes asks the relcache for up-to-date copies of any
index expressions, which may cause execution of eval_const_expressions
on them, which can result in actual execution of subexpressions.
This is a bad thing to have happening during ON COMMIT. Manuel Rigger
reported that use of a SQL function resulted in crashes due to
expectations that ActiveSnapshot would be set, which it isn't.
The most obvious fix perhaps would be to push a snapshot during
PreCommit_on_commit_actions, but I think that would just open the door
to more problems: CommitTransaction explicitly expects that no
user-defined code can be running at this point.
Fortunately, since we know that no tuples exist to be indexed, there
seems no need to use the real index expressions or predicates during
RelationTruncateIndexes. We can set up dummy index expressions
instead (we do need something that will expose the right data type,
as there are places that build index tupdescs based on this), and
just ignore predicates and exclusion constraints.
In a green field it'd likely be better to reimplement ON COMMIT DELETE
ROWS using the same "init fork" infrastructure used for unlogged
relations. That seems impractical without catalog changes though,
and even without that it'd be too big a change to back-patch.
So for now do it like this.
Per private report from Manuel Rigger. This has been broken forever,
so back-patch to all supported branches.
When using %b or %B patterns to format a date, the code was simply using
tm_mon as an index into array of month names. But that is wrong, because
tm_mon is 1-based, while array indexes are 0-based. The result is we
either use name of the next month, or a segfault (for December).
Fix by subtracting 1 from tm_mon for both patterns, and add a regression
test triggering the issue. Backpatch to all supported versions (the bug
is there far longer, since at least 2003).
Reported-by: Paul Spencer
Backpatch-through: 9.4
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16143-0d861eb8688d3fef%40postgresql.org
Revert part of commit 19df1702f5.
Early shutdown was added by that commit so that we could collect
statistics from workers, but unfortunately, it interacted badly with
rescans. The problem is that we ended up destroying the parallel context
which is required for rescans. This leads to rescans of a Limit node over
a Gather node to produce unpredictable results as it tries to access
destroyed parallel context. By reverting the early shutdown code, we
might lose statistics in some cases of Limit over Gather [Merge], but that
will require further study to fix.
Reported-by: Jerry Sievers
Diagnosed-by: Thomas Munro
Author: Amit Kapila, testcase by Vignesh C
Backpatch-through: 9.6
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/87ims2amh6.fsf@jsievers.enova.com
If LISTEN is the only action in a serializable-mode transaction,
and the session was not previously listening, and the notify queue
is not empty, predicate.c reported an assertion failure. That
happened because we'd acquire the transaction's initial snapshot
during PreCommit_Notify, which was called *after* predicate.c
expects any such snapshot to have been established.
To fix, just swap the order of the PreCommit_Notify and
PreCommit_CheckForSerializationFailure calls during CommitTransaction.
This will imply holding the notify-insertion lock slightly longer,
but the difference could only be meaningful in serializable mode,
which is an expensive option anyway.
It appears that this is just an assertion failure, with no
consequences in non-assert builds. A snapshot used only to scan
the notify queue could not have been involved in any serialization
conflicts, so there would be nothing for
PreCommit_CheckForSerializationFailure to do except assign it a
prepareSeqNo and set the SXACT_FLAG_PREPARED flag. And given no
conflicts, neither of those omissions affect the behavior of
ReleasePredicateLocks. This admittedly once-over-lightly analysis
is backed up by the lack of field reports of trouble.
Per report from Mark Dilger. The bug is old, so back-patch to all
supported branches; but the new test case only goes back to 9.6,
for lack of adequate isolationtester infrastructure before that.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3ac7f397-4d5f-be8e-f354-440020675694@gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/13881.1574557302@sss.pgh.pa.us
This patch ensures that, if any notify messages were received during
a just-finished transaction, they get sent to the frontend just before
not just after the ReadyForQuery message. With libpq and other client
libraries that act similarly, this guarantees that the client will see
the notify messages as available as soon as it thinks the transaction
is done.
This probably makes no difference in practice, since in realistic
use-cases the application would have to cope with asynchronous
arrival of notify events anyhow. However, it makes it a lot easier
to build cross-session-notify test cases with stable behavior.
I'm a bit surprised now that we've not seen any buildfarm instability
with the test cases added by commit b10f40bf0. Tests that I intend
to add in an upcoming bug fix are definitely unstable without this.
Back-patch to 9.6, which is as far back as we can do NOTIFY testing
with the isolationtester infrastructure.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/13881.1574557302@sss.pgh.pa.us
Back-patch commit b10f40bf0 into older branches. This adds reporting
of NOTIFY messages to isolationtester.c, and extends the async-notify
test to include direct tests of basic NOTIFY functionality.
This provides useful infrastructure for testing a bug fix I'm about
to back-patch, and there seems no good reason not to have better tests
of LISTEN/NOTIFY in the back branches. The commit's survived long
enough in HEAD to make it unlikely that it will cause problems.
Back-patch as far as 9.6. isolationtester.c changed too much in 9.6
to make it sane to try to fix older branches this way, and I don't
really want to back-patch those changes too.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/31304.1564246011@sss.pgh.pa.us
It seems pretty unacceptable to have no regression test coverage
for this aspect of the logical replication protocol, especially
given the bugs we've found in related code.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16129-a0c0f48e71741e5f@postgresql.org
slot_modify_cstrings seriously abused the TupleTableSlot API by relying
on a slot's underlying data to stay valid across ExecClearTuple. Since
this abuse was also quite undocumented, it's little surprise that the
case got broken during the v12 slot rewrites. As reported in bug #16129
from Ondřej Jirman, this could lead to crashes or data corruption when
a logical replication subscriber processes a row update. Problems would
only arise if the subscriber's table contained columns of pass-by-ref
types that were not being copied from the publisher.
Fix by explicitly copying the datum/isnull arrays from the source slot
that the old row was in already. This ends up being about the same
thing that happened pre-v12, but hopefully in a less opaque and
fragile way.
We might've caught the problem sooner if there were any test cases
dealing with updates involving non-replicated or dropped columns.
Now there are.
Back-patch to v10 where this code came in. Even though the failure
does not manifest before v12, IMO this code is too fragile to leave
as-is. In any case we certainly want the additional test coverage.
Patch by me; thanks to Tomas Vondra for initial investigation.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16129-a0c0f48e71741e5f@postgresql.org
While a self-referential view doesn't actually work, it's possible
to create one, and it turns out that this breaks some of the
information_schema views. Those views call relation_is_updatable(),
which neglected to consider the hazards of being recursive. In
older PG versions you get a "stack depth limit exceeded" error,
but since v10 it'd recurse to the point of stack overrun and crash,
because commit a4c35ea1c took out the expression_returns_set() call
that was incidentally checking the stack depth.
Since this function is only used by information_schema views, it
seems like it'd be better to return "not updatable" than suffer
an error. Hence, add tracking of what views we're examining,
in just the same way that the nearby fireRIRrules() code detects
self-referential views. I added a check_stack_depth() call too,
just to be defensive.
Per private report from Manuel Rigger. Back-patch to all
supported versions.
Trying to use hypothetical indexes with BRIN currently fails when trying
to access a relation that does not exist when looking for the
statistics. With the current API, it is not possible to easily pass
a value for pages_per_range down to the hypothetical index, so this
makes use of the default value of BRIN_DEFAULT_PAGES_PER_RANGE, which
should be fine enough in most cases.
Being able to refine or enforce the hypothetical costs in more
optimistic ways would require more refactoring by filling in the
statistics when building IndexOptInfo in plancat.c. This would involve
ABI breakages around the costing routines, something not fit for stable
branches.
This is broken since 7e534ad, so backpatch down to v10.
Author: Julien Rouhaud, Heikki Linnakangas
Reviewed-by: Álvaro Herrera, Tom Lane, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAOBaU_ZH0LKEA8VFCocr6Lpte1ab0b6FpvgS0y4way+RPSXfYg@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 10
We find GIN concurrency bugs from time to time. One of the problems here is
that concurrency of GIN isn't well-documented in README. So, it might be even
hard to distinguish design bugs from implementation bugs.
This commit revised concurrency section in GIN README providing more details.
Some examples are illustrated in ASCII art.
Also, this commit add the explanation of how is tuple layout in internal GIN
B-tree page different in comparison with nbtree.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAPpHfduXR_ywyaVN4%2BOYEGaw%3DcPLzWX6RxYLBncKw8de9vOkqw%40mail.gmail.com
Author: Alexander Korotkov
Reviewed-by: Peter Geoghegan
Backpatch-through: 9.4
Current GIN code appears to don't handle traversing to the deleted page via
downlink. This commit fixes that by stepping right from the delete page like
we do in nbtree.
This commit also fixes setting 'deleted' flag to the GIN pages. Now other page
flags are not erased once page is deleted. That helps to keep our assertions
true if we arrive deleted page via downlink.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAPpHfdvMvsw-NcE5bRS7R1BbvA4BxoDnVVjkXC5W0Czvy9LVrg%40mail.gmail.com
Author: Alexander Korotkov
Reviewed-by: Peter Geoghegan
Backpatch-through: 9.4
When ginDeletePage() is about to delete page it locks its left sibling to revise
the rightlink. So, it locks pages in right to left manner. Int he same time
ginStepRight() locks pages in left to right manner, and that could cause a
deadlock.
This commit makes ginScanToDelete() keep exclusive lock on left siblings of
currently investigated path. That elimites need to relock left sibling in
ginDeletePage(). Thus, deadlock with ginStepRight() can't happen anymore.
Reported-by: Chen Huajun
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/5c332bd1.87b6.16d7c17aa98.Coremail.chjischj%40163.com
Author: Alexander Korotkov
Reviewed-by: Peter Geoghegan
Backpatch-through: 10
The existing text stated that "Default privileges that are specified
per-schema are added to whatever the global default privileges are for
the particular object type". However, that bare-bones observation is
not quite clear enough, as demonstrated by the complaint in bug #16124.
Flesh it out by stating explicitly that you can't revoke built-in
default privileges this way, and by providing an example to drive
the point home.
Back-patch to all supported branches, since it's been like this
from the beginning.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16124-423d8ee4358421bc@postgresql.org
It turns out that commit e9f1c01b7 missed a case: we must print a
VALUES clause in long format if get_query_def is given a resultDesc
that would require the query's output column name(s) to be different
from what the bare VALUES clause would produce.
This applies in case an ALTER ... RENAME COLUMN has been done to
a view that formerly could be printed in simple format, as shown
in the added regression test case. It also explains bug #16119
from Dmitry Telpt, because it turns out that (unlike CREATE VIEW)
CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW fails to apply any column aliases it's
given to the stored ON SELECT rule. So to get them to be printed,
we have to account for the resultDesc renaming. It might be worth
changing the matview code so that it creates the ON SELECT rule
with the correct aliases; but we'd still need these messy checks in
get_simple_values_rte to handle the case of a subsequent column
rename, so any such change would be just neatnik-ism not a bug fix.
Like the previous patch, back-patch to all supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16119-e64823f30a45a754@postgresql.org
When estimating number of distinct groups, we failed to ignore system
attributes when matching the group expressions to mvdistinct stats,
causing failures like
ERROR: negative bitmapset member not allowed
Fix that by simply skipping anything that is not a regular attribute.
Backpatch to PostgreSQL 10, where the extended stats were introduced.
Bug: #16111
Reported-by: Tuomas Leikola
Author: Tomas Vondra
Backpatch-through: 10
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16111-687799584c3a7e73@postgresql.org
Commit 6b76f1bb5 changed all the RADIUS auth parameters to be lists
rather than single values. But its use of SplitIdentifierString
to parse the list format was not very carefully thought through,
because that function thinks it's parsing SQL identifiers, which
means it will (a) downcase the strings and (b) truncate them to
be shorter than NAMEDATALEN. While downcasing should be harmless
for the server names and ports, it's just wrong for the shared
secrets, and probably for the NAS Identifier strings as well.
The truncation aspect is at least potentially a problem too,
though typical values for these parameters would fit in 63 bytes.
Fortunately, we now have a function SplitGUCList that is exactly
the same except for not doing the two unwanted things, so fixing
this is a trivial matter of calling that function instead.
While here, improve the documentation to show how to double-quote
the parameter values. I failed to resist the temptation to do
some copy-editing as well.
Report and patch from Marcos David (bug #16106); doc changes by me.
Back-patch to v10 where the aforesaid commit came in, since this is
arguably a regression from our previous behavior with RADIUS auth.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16106-7d319e4295d08e70@postgresql.org
The TableFunc node (i.e., XMLTABLE) includes type and collation OIDs
that might not be referenced anywhere else in the expression tree,
so they need to be accounted for when extracting dependencies.
Fortunately, the practical effects of this are limited, since
(a) it's somewhat unlikely that people would be extracting
columns of non-builtin types from an XML document, and (b)
in many scenarios, the query would contain other references
to such types, or functions depending on them. However, it's
not hard to construct examples wherein the existing code lets
one drop a type used in XMLTABLE and thereby break a view.
This is evidently an original oversight in the XMLTABLE patch,
so back-patch to v10 where that came in.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18427.1573508501@sss.pgh.pa.us
pg_upgrade needs to check whether certain non-upgradable data types
appear anywhere on-disk in the source cluster. It knew that it has
to check for these types being contained inside domains and composite
types; but it somehow overlooked that they could be contained in
arrays and ranges, too. Extend the existing recursive-containment
query to handle those cases.
We probably should have noticed this oversight while working on
commit 0ccfc2822 and follow-ups, but we failed to :-(. The whole
thing's possibly a bit overdesigned, since we don't really expect
that any of these types will appear on disk; but if we're going to
the effort of doing a recursive search then it's silly not to cover
all the possibilities.
While at it, refactor so that we have only one copy of the search
logic, not three-and-counting. Also, to keep the branches looking
more alike, back-patch the output wording change of commit 1634d3615.
Back-patch to all supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/31473.1573412838@sss.pgh.pa.us
The example of expansion of multiple views claimed that the resulting
subquery nest would not get fully flattened because of an aggregate
function. There's no aggregate in the example, though, only a user
defined function confusingly named MIN(). In a modern server, the
reason for the non-flattening is that MIN() is volatile, but I'm
unsure whether that was true back when this text was written.
Let's reduce the confusion level by using LEAST() instead (which
we didn't have at the time this example was created). And then
we can just say that the planner will flatten the sub-queries, so
the rewrite system doesn't have to.
Noted by Paul Jungwirth. This text is old enough to vote, so
back-patch to all supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+renyXZFnmp9PcvX1EVR2dR=XG5e6E-AELr8AHCNZ8RYrpnPw@mail.gmail.com
This happens when we add a replica identity column on a subscriber
that does not yet exist on the publisher, according to the mapping
maintained by the subscriber. Code that checks whether the target
relation on the subscriber is updatable would check the replica
identity attribute bitmap with a column number -1, which would result
in an error. To fix, skip such columns in the bitmap lookup and
consider the relation not updatable. The result is consistent with
the rule that the replica identity columns on the subscriber must be a
subset of those on the publisher, since if the column doesn't exist on
the publisher, the column set on the subscriber can't be a subset.
Reported-by: Tim Clarke <tim.clarke@minerva.info>
Analyzed-by: Jehan-Guillaume de Rorthais <jgdr@dalibo.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/a9139c29-7ddd-973b-aa7f-71fed9c38d75%40minerva.info
Currently, postgres_fdw does not support preparing a remote transaction
for two-phase commit even in the case where the remote transaction is
read-only, but the old error message appeared to imply that that was not
supported only if the remote transaction modified remote tables. Change
the message so as to include the case where the remote transaction is
read-only.
Also fix a comment above the message.
Also add a note about the lack of supporting PREPARE TRANSACTION to the
postgres_fdw documentation.
Reported-by: Gilles Darold
Author: Gilles Darold and Etsuro Fujita
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier and Kyotaro Horiguchi
Backpatch-through: 9.4
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/08600ed3-3084-be70-65ba-279ab19618a5%40darold.net
Declaring this in the client-visible header ecpglib.h was a pretty
poor decision. It's not meant to be application-callable (and if
it was, putting it outside the extern "C" { ... } wrapper means
that C++ clients would fail to call it). And the declaration would
not even compile for a client, anyway, since it would not have the
macro pg_attribute_format_arg(). Fortunately, it seems that no
clients have tried to include this header with ENABLE_NLS defined,
or we'd have gotten complaints about that. But we have no business
putting such a restriction on client code.
Move the declaration to ecpglib_extern.h, since in fact nothing
outside src/interfaces/ecpg/ecpglib/ needs to call it.
The practical effect of this is just that clients can now safely
#include ecpglib.h while having ENABLE_NLS defined, but that seems
like enough of a reason to back-patch it.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20590.1573069709@sss.pgh.pa.us
This patch adopts the overflow check logic introduced by commit cbdb8b4c0
into two more places. interval_mul() failed to notice if it computed a
new microseconds value that was one more than INT64_MAX, and pgbench's
double-to-int64 logic had the same sorts of edge-case problems that
cbdb8b4c0 fixed in the core code.
To make this easier to get right in future, put the guts of the checks
into new macros in c.h, and add commentary about how to use the macros
correctly.
Back-patch to all supported branches, as we did with the previous fix.
Yuya Watari
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJ2pMkbkkFw2hb9Qb1Zj8d06EhWAQXFLy73St4qWv6aX=vqnjw@mail.gmail.com
If there is the WAL page that the continuation WAL record just fits within
(i.e., the continuation record ends just at the end of the page) and
the LSN in such page is specified with -s option, previously pg_waldump
caused an assertion failure. The cause of this assertion failure was that
XLogFindNextRecord() that pg_waldump -s calls mistakenly handled
such special WAL page.
This commit changes XLogFindNextRecord() so that it can handle
such WAL page correctly.
Back-patch to all supported versions.
Author: Andrey Lepikhov
Reviewed-by: Fujii Masao, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/99303554-5dd5-06e6-f943-b3005ccd6edd@postgrespro.ru
When sending data for logical decoding using the streaming replication
protocol via a WAL sender, the timestamp of the sent write message is
allocated at the beginning of the message when preparing for the write,
and actually computed when the write message is ready to be sent.
The timestamp was getting computed after sending the message. This
impacts anything using logical decoding, causing for example logical
replication to report mostly NULL for last_msg_send_time in
pg_stat_subscription.
This commit makes sure that the timestamp is computed before sending the
message. This is wrong since 5a991ef, so backpatch down to 9.4.
Author: Jeff Janes
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMkU=1z=WMn8jt7iEdC5sYNaPgAgOASb_OW5JYv-vMdYaJSL-w@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 9.4
WindowAgg will potentially store large numbers of input rows into
tuplestores to allow access to other rows in the frame. If the input
is coming via an explicit Sort node, then unneeded columns will
already have been discarded (since Sort requests a small tlist); but
there are idioms like COUNT(*) OVER () that result in the input not
being sorted at all, and cases where the input is being sorted by some
means other than a Sort; if we don't request a small tlist, then
WindowAgg's storage requirement is inflated by the unneeded columns.
Backpatch back to 9.6, where the current tlist handling was added.
(Prior to that, WindowAgg would always use a small tlist.)
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/87a7ator8n.fsf@news-spur.riddles.org.uk
For a long time (since commit aed378e8d) we have had a policy to log
nothing about a connection if the client disconnects when challenged
for a password. This is because libpq-using clients will typically
do that, and then come back for a new connection attempt once they've
collected a password from their user, so that logging the abandoned
connection attempt will just result in log spam. However, this did
not work well for PAM authentication: the bottom-level function
pam_passwd_conv_proc() was on board with it, but we logged messages
at higher levels anyway, for lack of any reporting mechanism.
Add a flag and tweak the logic so that the case is silent, as it is
for other password-using auth mechanisms.
Per complaint from Yoann La Cancellera. It's been like this for awhile,
so back-patch to all supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CACP=ajbrFFYUrLyJBLV8=q+eNCapa1xDEyvXhMoYrNphs-xqPw@mail.gmail.com
Starting with PostgreSQL 12, pg_restore refuses to run when neither -d
nor -f are specified (c.f. commit 413ccaa74d9a), and it also makes "-f -"
mean the old implicit behavior of dumping to stdout. However, older
branches write to a file called ./- when invoked like that, making it
impossible to write pg_restore scripts that work across versions. This
is a partial backpatch of the aforementioned commit to all older
supported branches, providing an upgrade path.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20191006190839.GE18030@telsasoft.com
This clarifies more how to use and how to take advantage of constraints
when attaching a new partition.
Author: Justin Pryzby
Reviewed-by: Amit Langote, Álvaro Herrera, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20191028001207.GB23808@telsasoft.com
Backpatch-through: 10
The code only compared two triggers' names and namespaces (the latter
being the owning table's schema). This could result in falling back
to an OID-based sort of similarly-named triggers on different tables.
We prefer to avoid that, so add a comparison of the table names too.
(The sort order is thus table namespace, trigger name, table name,
which is a bit odd, but it doesn't seem worth contorting the code
to work around that.)
Likewise for policy objects, in 9.5 and up.
Complaint and fix by Benjie Gillam. Back-patch to all supported
branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMThMzEEt2mvBbPgCaZ1Ap1N-moGn=Edxmadddjq89WG4NpPtQ@mail.gmail.com
Rearrange the logic in record_image_cmp() and record_image_eq() to
error out on unexpected typlens (either not supported there or
completely invalid due to corruption). Barring corruption, this is
not possible today but it seems more future-proof and robust to fix
this.
Reported-by: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Commit 8af1624e3 introduced a warning about possibly returning
without a value, on compilers that don't realize that ereport(ERROR)
doesn't return. Tweak the code to avoid that.
Per buildfarm. Back-patch to 9.6, like the aforesaid commit.
Using incorrect, or just mismatched, dictionary and affix files
could result in a crash, due to failure to cross-check offsets
obtained from the file. Add necessary validation, as well as
some Asserts for future-proofing.
Per bug #16050 from Alexander Lakhin. Back-patch to 9.6 where the
problem was introduced.
Arthur Zakirov, per initial investigation by Tomas Vondra
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16050-024ae722464ab604@postgresql.org
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20191013012610.2p2fp3zzpoav7jzf@development
When a backend exits, it gets deleted from the syncrep queue if present.
The queue was checked without SyncRepLock taken in exclusive mode, so it
would have been possible for a backend to remove itself after a WAL
sender already did the job. Fix this issue based on a suggestion from
Fujii Masao, by first checking the queue without the lock. Then, if the
backend is present in the queue, take the lock and perform an additional
lookup check before doing the element deletion.
Author: Dongming Liu
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi, Fujii Masao, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a0806273-8bbb-43b3-bbe1-c45a58f6ae21.lingce.ldm@alibaba-inc.com
Backpatch-through: 9.4
The additional newline seems to have accidentally been introduced in
2c03216d831, in 9.5. The newline is only issued when an FPW is
present for the block reference.
While there could be an argument that removing the newlines in the
back branches could cause a problem for somebody parsing the
pg_waldump output, the likelihood of that seems small enough. It seems
at least equally likely that the randomness of when newlines are
issued causes problems.
Author: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20191029233341.4gnyau7e5v2lh5sc@alap3.anarazel.de
Backpatch: 9.5, like 2c03216d831.
