An unused variable caused a compiler warning on BF animal fairywren, an
snprintf() call was redundant, and some buffer sizes were inconsistent.
Per code review from Tom Lane.
The Makefile's test ifeq ($(PORTNAME), win32) never succeeded due to a
circularity, so only Meson builds were actually compiling the new test
code, partially explaining why CI didn't tell us about the warning
sooner (the other problem being that CompilerWarnings only makes
world-bin, a problem for another commit). Simplify.
Backpatch-through: 16, like commit c507ba55
Author: Bryan Green <dbryan.green@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Thomas Munro <tmunro@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1086088.1765593851%40sss.pgh.pa.us
PostgreSQL's src/port/open.c has always set bInheritHandle = TRUE
when opening files on Windows, making all file descriptors inheritable
by child processes. This meant the O_CLOEXEC flag, added to many call
sites by commit 1da569ca1f (v16), was silently ignored.
The original commit included a comment suggesting that our open()
replacement doesn't create inheritable handles, but it was a mis-
understanding of the code path. In practice, the code was creating
inheritable handles in all cases.
This hasn't caused widespread problems because most child processes
(archive_command, COPY PROGRAM, etc.) operate on file paths passed as
arguments rather than inherited file descriptors. Even if a child
wanted to use an inherited handle, it would need to learn the numeric
handle value, which isn't passed through our IPC mechanisms.
Nonetheless, the current behavior is wrong. It violates documented
O_CLOEXEC semantics, contradicts our own code comments, and makes
PostgreSQL behave differently on Windows than on Unix. It also creates
potential issues with future code or security auditing tools.
To fix, define O_CLOEXEC to _O_NOINHERIT in master, previously used by
O_DSYNC. We use different values in the back branches to preserve
existing values. In pgwin32_open_handle() we set bInheritHandle
according to whether O_CLOEXEC is specified, for the same atomic
semantics as POSIX in multi-threaded programs that create processes.
Backpatch-through: 16
Author: Bryan Green <dbryan.green@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com> (minor adjustments)
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/e2b16375-7430-4053-bda3-5d2194ff1880%40gmail.com
It's possible to define BRIN indexes on functions that require a
snapshot to run, but the autosummarization feature introduced by commit
7526e10224 fails to provide one. This causes autovacuum to leave a
BRIN placeholder tuple behind after a failed work-item execution, making
such indexes less efficient. Repair by obtaining a snapshot prior to
running the task, and add a test to verify this behavior.
Author: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@kurilemu.de>
Reported-by: Giovanni Fabris <giovanni.fabris@icon.it>
Reported-by: Arthur Nascimento <tureba@gmail.com>
Backpatch-through: 13
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/202511031106.h4fwyuyui6fz@alvherre.pgsql
Some replication slot manipulations (logical decoding via SQL,
advancing) were failing an assertion when releasing a slot in
single-user mode, because active_pid was not set in a ReplicationSlot
when its slot is acquired.
ReplicationSlotAcquire() has some logic to be able to work with the
single-user mode. This commit sets ReplicationSlot->active_pid to
MyProcPid, to let the slot-related logic fall-through, considering the
single process as the one holding the slot.
Some TAP tests are added for various replication slot functions with the
single-user mode, while on it, for slot creation, drop, advancing, copy
and logical decoding with multiple slot types (temporary, physical vs
logical). These tests are skipped on Windows, as direct calls of
postgres --single would fail on permission failures. There is no
platform-specific behavior that needs to be checked, so living with this
restriction should be fine. The CI is OK with that, now let's see what
the buildfarm tells.
Author: Hayato Kuroda <kuroda.hayato@fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul A. Jungwirth <pj@illuminatedcomputing.com>
Reviewed-by: Mutaamba Maasha <maasha@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/OSCPR01MB14966ED588A0328DAEBE8CB25F5FA2@OSCPR01MB14966.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com
Backpatch-through: 13
Attempting to use commit timestamps during bootstrapping leads to an
assertion failure, that can be reached for example with an initdb -c
that enables track_commit_timestamp. It makes little sense to register
a commit timestamp for a BootstrapTransactionId, so let's disable the
activation of the module in this case.
This problem has been independently reported once by each author of this
commit. Each author has proposed basically the same patch, relying on
IsBootstrapProcessingMode() to skip the use of commit_ts during
bootstrap. The test addition is a suggestion by me, and is applied down
to v16.
Author: Hayato Kuroda <kuroda.hayato@fujitsu.com>
Author: Andy Fan <zhihuifan1213@163.com>
Reviewed-by: Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@oss.nttdata.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/OSCPR01MB14966FF9E4C4145F37B937E52F5102@OSCPR01MB14966.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/87plejmnpy.fsf@163.com
Backpatch-through: 13
With GB18030 as source encoding, applications could crash the server via
SQL functions convert() or convert_from(). Applications themselves
could crash after passing unterminated GB18030 input to libpq functions
PQescapeLiteral(), PQescapeIdentifier(), PQescapeStringConn(), or
PQescapeString(). Extension code could crash by passing unterminated
GB18030 input to jsonapi.h functions. All those functions have been
intended to handle untrusted, unterminated input safely.
A crash required allocating the input such that the last byte of the
allocation was the last byte of a virtual memory page. Some malloc()
implementations take measures against that, making the SIGSEGV hard to
reach. Back-patch to v13 (all supported versions).
Author: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-by: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>
Backpatch-through: 13
Security: CVE-2025-4207
Start the file with static functions not specific to pe_test_vectors
tests. This way, new tests can use them without disrupting the file's
layout. Change report_result() PQExpBuffer arguments to plain strings.
Back-patch to v13 (all supported versions), for the next commit.
Reviewed-by: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>
Backpatch-through: 13
Security: CVE-2025-4207
In 5dc1e42b4f I fixed bugs in various escape functions, unfortunately as part
of that I introduced a new bug in PQescapeLiteral()/PQescapeIdentifier(). The
bug is that I made PQescapeInternal() just use strlen(), rather than taking
the specified input length into account.
That's bad, because it can lead to including input that wasn't intended to be
included (in case len is shorter than null termination of the string) and
because it can lead to reading invalid memory if the input string is not null
terminated.
Expand test_escape to this kind of bug:
a) for escape functions with length support, append data that should not be
escaped and check that it is not
b) add valgrind requests to detect access of bytes that should not be touched
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Reviewed-by: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/Z64jD3u46gObCo1p@pryzbyj2023
Backpatch: 13
On machines where char is unsigned this could lead to option parsing looping
endlessly. It's also too narrow a type on other hardware.
Found via Tom Lane's monitoring of the buildfarm.
Reported-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Security: CVE-2025-1094
Backpatch-through: 13
As highlighted by the prior commit, writing correct escape functions is less
trivial than one might hope.
This test module tries to verify that different escaping functions behave
reasonably. It e.g. tests:
- Invalidly encoded input to an escape function leads to invalidly encoded
output
- Trailing incomplete multi-byte characters are handled sensibly
- Escaped strings are parsed as single statement by psql's parser (which
derives from the backend parser)
There are further tests that would be good to add. But even in the current
state it was rather useful for writing the fix in the prior commit.
Reviewed-by: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Backpatch-through: 13
Security: CVE-2025-1094
After commit 5a2fed911a, the catalog state
resulting from these commands ceased to affect sessions. Restore the
longstanding behavior, which is like beginning the session with a SET
ROLE command. If cherry-picking the CVE-2024-10978 fixes, default to
including this, too. (This fixes an unintended side effect of fixing
CVE-2024-10978.) Back-patch to v12, like that commit. The release team
decided to include v12, despite the original intent to halt v12 commits
earlier this week.
Tom Lane and Noah Misch. Reported by Etienne LAFARGE.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CADOZwSb0UsEr4_UTFXC5k7=fyyK8uKXekucd+-uuGjJsGBfxgw@mail.gmail.com
In commit 08c0d6ad6 which introduced "rainbow" arcs in regex NFAs,
I didn't think terribly hard about what to do when creating the color
complement of a rainbow arc. Clearly, the complement cannot match any
characters, and I took the easy way out by just not building any arcs
at all in the complement arc set. That mostly works, but Nikolay
Shaplov found a case where it doesn't: if we decide to delete that
sub-NFA later because it's inside a "{0}" quantifier, delsub()
suffered an assertion failure. That's because delsub() relies on
the target sub-NFA being fully connected. That was always true
before, and the best fix seems to be to restore that property.
Hence, invent a new arc type CANTMATCH that can be generated in
place of an empty color complement, and drop it again later when we
start NFA optimization. (At that point we don't need to do delsub()
any more, and besides there are other cases where NFA optimization can
lead to disconnected subgraphs.)
It appears that this bug has no consequences in a non-assert-enabled
build: there will be some transiently leaked NFA states/arcs, but
they'll get cleaned up eventually. Still, we don't like assertion
failures, so back-patch to v14 where rainbow arcs were introduced.
Per bug #18708 from Nikolay Shaplov.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18708-f94f2599c9d2c005@postgresql.org
This had been disabled because the test "doesn't delete its user".
It doesn't seem like a great idea for the meson tests to act
differently from the makefile tests, though, and the makefiles
had no such exception (which is how come only copperhead noticed
the problem just fixed in 534287403). In any case, the premise
is false since 936e3fa37, so let's remove the restriction.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2857513.1713733688@sss.pgh.pa.us
Project policy is to not leave global objects behind after a regress
test run. This was found as a result of the development of a patch
to make pg_regress detect such leftovers automatically, which in the
end was withdrawn due to issues with parallel runs.
This was originally committed as 936e3fa378, but the issue also exists
in the 12~16 range.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1phvk7-000VAH-7k@gemulon.postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 12
DeleteInitPrivs did not get the memo about how, when dropping a
whole object (with subid == 0), you should drop entries relating
to its sub-objects too. This is visible in the test_pg_dump test
case if one drops the extension at the end: the entry for
GRANT SELECT(col1) ON regress_pg_dump_table TO public;
was still present in pg_init_privs afterwards, although it was
pointing to a dangling table OID.
Noted while fooling with a fix for REASSIGN OWNED for pg_init_privs
entries. This bug is aboriginal in the pg_init_privs feature
though, and there seems no reason not to back-patch the fix.
test_predtest() neglected to consider the possibility that
SPI_plan_get_cached_plan would return NULL. This led to a core
dump if the input (incorrectly) contains more than one SQL
command.
While here, let's expend more than zero effort on the error
message for this case and nearby ones.
Per (half of) bug #18483 from Alexander Kozhemyakin.
Back-patch to all supported branches, not because this is
very significant (it's merely test scaffolding) but to make
our world a bit safer for fuzz testing.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18483-30bfff42de238000@postgresql.org
checkExtensionMembership() set the DUMP_COMPONENT_SECLABEL and
DUMP_COMPONENT_POLICY flags for extension member objects, even though
we lack any infrastructure for tracking extensions' initial settings
of these properties. This is not OK. The result was that a dump
would always include commands to set these properties for extension
objects that have them, with at least three negative consequences:
1. The restoring user might not have privilege to set these properties
on these objects.
2. The properties might be incorrect/irrelevant for the version of the
extension that's installed in the destination database.
3. The dump itself might fail, in the case of RLS properties attached
to extension tables that the dumping user lacks privilege to LOCK.
(That's because we must get at least AccessShareLock to ensure that
we don't fail while trying to decompile the RLS expressions.)
When and if somebody cares to invent initial-state infrastructure for
extensions' RLS policies and security labels, we could think about
finding another way around problem #3. But in the absence of such
infrastructure, this whole thing is just wrong and we shouldn't do it.
(Note: this applies only to ordinary dumps; binary-upgrade dumps
still dump and restore extension member objects separately, with
all properties.)
Tom Lane and Jacob Champion. Back-patch to all supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/00d46a48-3324-d9a0-49bf-e7f0f11d1038@timescale.com
The test missed that custom GUCs need to be ignored from the list of
parameters that can exist in postgresql.conf.sample. This caused the
test to fail on a server where such a module is loaded, when using
EXTRA_INSTALL and TEMP_CONFIG, for instance.
Author: Anton A. Melnikov
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/fc5509ce-5144-4dac-8d13-21793da44fc5@postgrespro.ru
Backpatch-through: 15
Substituting such values in extension scripts facilitated SQL injection
when @extowner@, @extschema@, or @extschema:...@ appeared inside a
quoting construct (dollar quoting, '', or ""). No bundled extension was
vulnerable. Vulnerable uses do appear in a documentation example and in
non-bundled extensions. Hence, the attack prerequisite was an
administrator having installed files of a vulnerable, trusted,
non-bundled extension. Subject to that prerequisite, this enabled an
attacker having database-level CREATE privilege to execute arbitrary
code as the bootstrap superuser. By blocking this attack in the core
server, there's no need to modify individual extensions. Back-patch to
v11 (all supported versions).
Reported by Micah Gate, Valerie Woolard, Tim Carey-Smith, and Christoph
Berg.
Security: CVE-2023-39417
As coded, the code would use as a base comparison the namespace OID from
the first object scanned in pg_depend when switching its namespace
dependency entry to the new one, and use it as a base of comparison for
any follow-up checks. It would also be used as the old namespace OID to
switch *from* for the extension's pg_depend entry. Hence, if the first
object scanned has a namespace different than the one stored in the
extension, we would finish by:
- Not checking that the extension objects map with the extension's
schema.
- Not switching the extension -> namespace dependency entry to the new
namespace provided by the user, making ALTER EXTENSION ineffective.
This issue exists since this command has been introduced in d9572c4 for
relocatable extension, so backpatch all the way down to 11. The test
case has been provided by Heikki, that I have tweaked a bit to show the
effects on pg_depend for the extension.
Reported-by: Heikki Linnakangas
Author: Michael Paquier, Heikki Linnakangas
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20eea594-a05b-4c31-491b-007b6fceef28@iki.fi
Backpatch-through: 11
One of the tests for the pipeline mode with portal description expects a
non-NULL PQgetResult, but used an incorrect error message on failure,
telling that PQgetResult being NULL was the expected result.
Author: Jelte Fennema
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAGECzQTkShHecFF+EZrm94Lbsu2ej569T=bz+PjMbw9Aiioxuw@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 14
Specify --no-locale and --encoding=UTF8 to be consistent with the
Makefile, which specifies NO_LOCALE=1. Fixes test for some locales
when meson is used and ICU is disabled. May have been an oversight in
e6927270cd.
Also switch argument order in unaccent/meson.build to make it
consistent in style.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CABwTF4Wz41pNMJ9q3tpH=6mnvg6aopDU5Lzvers5=6=WJVekww@mail.gmail.com
Author: Gurjeet Singh
Author: Jeff Davis
While executing maintenance operations (ANALYZE, CLUSTER, REFRESH
MATERIALIZED VIEW, REINDEX, or VACUUM), set search_path to
'pg_catalog, pg_temp' to prevent inconsistent behavior.
Functions that are used for functional indexes, in index expressions,
or in materialized views and depend on a different search path must be
declared with CREATE FUNCTION ... SET search_path='...'.
This change addresses a security risk introduced in commit 60684dd834,
where a role with MAINTAIN privileges on a table may be able to
escalate privileges to the table owner. That commit is not yet part of
any release, so no need to backpatch.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/e44327179e5c9015c8dda67351c04da552066017.camel%40j-davis.com
Reviewed-by: Greg Stark
Reviewed-by: Nathan Bossart
Run pgindent, pgperltidy, and reformat-dat-files.
This set of diffs is a bit larger than typical. We've updated to
pg_bsd_indent 2.1.2, which properly indents variable declarations that
have multi-line initialization expressions (the continuation lines are
now indented one tab stop). We've also updated to perltidy version
20230309 and changed some of its settings, which reduces its desire to
add whitespace to lines to make assignments etc. line up. Going
forward, that should make for fewer random-seeming changes to existing
code.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230428092545.qfb3y5wcu4cm75ur@alvherre.pgsql
Commit 3581cbdcd6 added a flag to identify empty BRIN ranges. This adds
the new flag to brin_page_items() output.
This is kept as a separate commit as it should not be backpatched.
Reviewed-by: Justin Pryzby, Matthias van de Meent, Alvaro Herrera
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/402430e4-7d9d-6cf1-09ef-464d80afff3b@enterprisedb.com
BRIN indexes did not properly distinguish between summaries for empty
(no rows) and all-NULL ranges, treating them as essentially the same
thing. Summaries were initialized with allnulls=true, and opclasses
simply reset allnulls to false when processing the first non-NULL value.
This however produces incorrect results if the range starts with a NULL
value (or a sequence of NULL values), in which case we forget the range
contains NULL values when adding the first non-NULL value.
This happens because the allnulls flag is used for two separate
purposes - to mark empty ranges (not representing any rows yet) and
ranges containing only NULL values.
Opclasses don't know which of these cases it is, and so don't know
whether to set hasnulls=true. Setting the flag in both cases would make
it correct, but it would also make BRIN indexes useless for queries with
IS NULL clauses. All ranges start empty (and thus allnulls=true), so all
ranges would end up with either allnulls=true or hasnulls=true.
The severity of the issue is somewhat reduced by the fact that it only
happens when adding values to an existing summary with allnulls=true.
This can happen e.g. for small tables (because a summary for the first
range exists for all BRIN indexes), or for tables with large fraction of
NULL values in the indexed columns.
Bulk summarization (e.g. during CREATE INDEX or automatic summarization)
that processes all values at once is not affected by this issue. In this
case the flags were updated in a slightly different way, not forgetting
the NULL values.
To identify empty ranges we use a new flag, stored in an unused bit in
the BRIN tuple header so the on-disk format remains the same. A matching
flag is added to BrinMemTuple, into a 3B gap after bt_placeholder.
That means there's no risk of ABI breakage, although we don't actually
pass the BrinMemTuple to any public API.
We could also skip storing index tuples for empty summaries, but then
we'd have to always process such ranges - even if there are no rows in
large parts of the table (e.g. after a bulk DELETE), it would still
require reading the pages etc. So we store them, but ignore them when
building the bitmap.
Backpatch to 11. The issue exists since BRIN indexes were introduced in
9.5, but older releases are already EOL.
Backpatch-through: 11
Reviewed-by: Justin Pryzby, Matthias van de Meent, Alvaro Herrera
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/402430e4-7d9d-6cf1-09ef-464d80afff3b@enterprisedb.com
Give the new GUC introduced by d4e71df6 a name that is clearly not
intended for mainstream use quite yet.
Future proposals would drop the prefix only after adding infrastructure
to make it efficient. Having the switch in the tree sooner is good
because it might lead to new discoveries about the hazards awaiting us
on a wide range of systems, but that name was too enticing and could
lead to cross-version confusion in future, per complaints from Noah and
Justin.
Suggested-by: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Reviewed-by: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Reviewed-by: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com> (the idea, not the patch)
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> (ditto)
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230430041106.GA2268796%40rfd.leadboat.com
This fixes many spelling mistakes in comments, but a few references to
invalid parameter names, function names and option names too in comments
and also some in string constants
Also, fix an #undef that was undefining the incorrect definition
Author: Alexander Lakhin
Reviewed-by: Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/d5f68d19-c0fc-91a9-118d-7c6a5a3f5fad@gmail.com
Make sure that function declarations use names that exactly match the
corresponding names from function definitions in a few places. These
inconsistencies were all introduced relatively recently, after the code
base had parameter name mismatches fixed in bulk (see commits starting
with commits 4274dc22 and 035ce1fe).
pg_bsd_indent still has a couple of similar inconsistencies, which I
(pgeoghegan) have left untouched for now.
Like all earlier commits that cleaned up function parameter names, this
commit was written with help from clang-tidy.
The test previously had a list of OSes that direct I/O was expected to
work on. That worked well enough for the systems in our build farm, but
didn't survive contact with the Debian build bots running on tmpfs via
overlayfs. tmpfs does not support O_DIRECT, but we don't want to
exclude Linux generally.
The new approach is to try to create an empty file with O_DIRECT from
Perl first. If that fails, we'll skip the test and report what the
error was.
Reported-by: Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org>
Reviewed-by: Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <ilmari@ilmari.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ZDYd4A78cT2ULxZZ%40msg.df7cb.de
This reverts commit e056c557ae and minor later fixes thereof.
There's a few problems in this new feature -- most notably regarding
pg_upgrade behavior, but others as well. This new feature is not in any
way critical on its own, so instead of scrambling to fix it we revert it
and try again in early 17 with these issues in mind.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3801207.1681057430@sss.pgh.pa.us
The new direct I/O test deliberately uses a very small shared_buffers to
force some disk transfers without making the data set large and slow,
but ran into a problem with wal_level = minimal: log_newpage_range()
pins many buffers, leading to a few intermittent "no unpinned buffers
available" errors.
We could presumably fix that by adjusting shared_buffers, but crake
seems to be trying to tell us something interesting with these settings,
so let's just avoid wal_level = minimal in this test for now.
Reported-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20230408060408.n7xdwk3mxj5oykt6%40awork3.anarazel.de
Previously, a PostgreSQL-specific callback checked by the regex engine
had a way to trigger a special error code REG_CANCEL if it detected that
the next call to CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS() would certainly throw via
ereport().
A later proposed bugfix aims to move some complex logic out of signal
handlers, so that it won't run until the next CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS(),
which makes the above design impossible unless we split
CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS() into two phases, one to run logic and another to
ereport(). We may develop such a system in the future, but for the
regex code it is no longer necessary.
An earlier commit moved regex memory management over to our
MemoryContext system. Given that the purpose of the two-phase interrupt
checking was to free memory before throwing, something we don't need to
worry about anymore, it seems simpler to inject CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS()
directly into cancelation points, and just let it throw.
Since the plan is to keep PostgreSQL-specific concerns separate from the
main regex engine code (with a view to bein able to stay in sync with
other projects), do this with a new macro INTERRUPT(), customizable in
regcustom.h and defaulting to nothing.
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGK3PGKwcKqzoosamn36YW-fsuTdOPPF1i_rtEO%3DnEYKSg%40mail.gmail.com
Provide a way to ask the kernel to use O_DIRECT (or local equivalent)
where available for data and WAL files, to avoid or minimize kernel
caching. This hurts performance currently and is not intended for end
users yet. Later proposed work would introduce our own I/O clustering,
read-ahead, etc to replace the facilities the kernel disables with this
option.
The only user-visible change, if the developer-only GUC is not used, is
that this commit also removes the obscure logic that would activate
O_DIRECT for the WAL when wal_sync_method=open_[data]sync and
wal_level=minimal (which also requires max_wal_senders=0). Those are
non-default and unlikely settings, and this behavior wasn't (correctly)
documented. The same effect can be achieved with io_direct=wal.
Author: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Author: Bharath Rupireddy <bharath.rupireddyforpostgres@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Bharath Rupireddy <bharath.rupireddyforpostgres@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGK1X532hYqJ_MzFWt0n1zt8trz980D79WbjwnT-yYLZpg%40mail.gmail.com
We now create pg_constaint rows for NOT NULL constraints with
contype='n'.
We propagate these constraints during operations such as adding
inheritance relationships, creating and attaching partitions, creating
tables LIKE other tables. We mostly follow the well-known rules of
conislocal and coninhcount that we have for CHECK constraints, with some
adaptations; for example, as opposed to CHECK constraints, we don't
match NOT NULL ones by name when descending a hierarchy to alter it;
instead we match by column number. This means we don't require the
constraint names to be identical across a hierarchy.
For now, we omit them from system catalogs. Maybe this is worth
reconsidering. We don't support NOT VALID nor DEFERRABLE clauses
either; these can be added as separate features later (this patch is
already large and complicated enough.)
This has been very long in the making. The first patch was written by
Bernd Helmle in 2010 to add a new pg_constraint.contype value ('n'),
which I (Álvaro) then hijacked in 2011 and 2012, until that one was
killed by the realization that we ought to use contype='c' instead:
manufactured CHECK constraints. However, later SQL standard
development, as well as nonobvious emergent properties of that design
(mostly, failure to distinguish them from "normal" CHECK constraints as
well as the performance implication of having to test the CHECK
expression) led us to reconsider this choice, so now the current
implementation uses contype='n' again.
In 2016 Vitaly Burovoy also worked on this feature[1] but found no
consensus for his proposed approach, which was claimed to be closer to
the letter of the standard, requiring additional pg_attribute columns to
track the OID of the NOT NULL constraint for that column.
[1] https://postgr.es/m/CAKOSWNkN6HSyatuys8xZxzRCR-KL1OkHS5-b9qd9bf1Rad3PLA@mail.gmail.com
Author: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Author: Bernd Helmle <mailings@oopsware.de>
Reviewed-by: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CACA0E642A0267EDA387AF2B%40%5B172.26.14.62%5D
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/AANLkTinLXMOEMz+0J29tf1POokKi4XDkWJ6-DDR9BKgU@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20110707213401.GA27098@alvh.no-ip.org
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1343682669-sup-2532@alvh.no-ip.org
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKOSWNkN6HSyatuys8xZxzRCR-KL1OkHS5-b9qd9bf1Rad3PLA@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220817181249.q7qvj3okywctra3c@alvherre.pgsql
@extschema:name@ extends the existing @extschema@ feature so that
we can also insert the schema name of some required extension,
thus making cross-extension references robust even if they are in
different schemas.
However, this has the same hazard as @extschema@: if the schema
name is embedded literally in an installed object, rather than being
looked up once during extension script execution, then it's no longer
safe to relocate the other extension to another schema. To deal with
that without restricting things unnecessarily, add a "no_relocate"
option to extension control files. This allows an extension to
specify that it cannot handle relocation of some of its required
extensions, even if in themselves those extensions are relocatable.
We detect "no_relocate" requests of dependent extensions during
ALTER EXTENSION SET SCHEMA.
Regina Obe, reviewed by Sandro Santilli and myself
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/003001d8f4ae$402282c0$c0678840$@pcorp.us
When determining whether an index update may be skipped by using HOT, we
can ignore attributes indexed by block summarizing indexes without
references to individual tuples that need to be cleaned up.
A new type TU_UpdateIndexes provides a signal to the executor to
determine which indexes to update - no indexes, all indexes, or only the
summarizing indexes.
This also removes rd_indexattr list, and replaces it with rd_attrsvalid
flag. The list was not used anywhere, and a simple flag is sufficient.
This was originally committed as 5753d4ee32, but then got reverted by
e3fcca0d0d because of correctness issues.
Original patch by Josef Simanek, various fixes and improvements by Tomas
Vondra and me.
Authors: Matthias van de Meent, Josef Simanek, Tomas Vondra
Reviewed-by: Tomas Vondra, Alvaro Herrera
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/05ebcb44-f383-86e3-4f31-0a97a55634cf@enterprisedb.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAFp7QwpMRGcDAQumN7onN9HjrJ3u4X3ZRXdGFT0K5G2JWvnbWg%40mail.gmail.com
Mainly move some detail from errmsg to errdetail, remove explicit
mention of superuser where appropriate, since that is implied in most
permission checks, and make messages more uniform.
Author: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20230316234701.GA903298@nathanxps13
