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Tom Lane
185279da3f Fix crash when logical decoding is invoked from a PL function.
The logical decoding functions do BeginInternalSubTransaction and
RollbackAndReleaseCurrentSubTransaction to clean up after themselves.
It turns out that AtEOSubXact_SPI has an unrecognized assumption that
we always need to cancel the active SPI operation in the SPI context
that surrounds the subtransaction (if there is one).  That's true
when the RollbackAndReleaseCurrentSubTransaction call is coming from
the SPI-using function itself, but not when it's happening inside
some unrelated function invoked by a SPI query.  In practice the
affected callers are the various PLs.

To fix, record the current subtransaction ID when we begin a SPI
operation, and clean up only if that ID is the subtransaction being
canceled.

Also, remove AtEOSubXact_SPI's assertion that it must have cleaned
up the surrounding SPI context's active tuptable.  That's proven
wrong by the same test case.

Also clarify (or, if you prefer, reinterpret) the calling conventions
for _SPI_begin_call and _SPI_end_call.  The memory context cleanup
in the latter means that these have always had the flavor of a matched
resource-management pair, but they weren't documented that way before.

Per report from Ben Chobot.

Back-patch to 9.4 where logical decoding came in.  In principle,
the SPI changes should go all the way back, since the problem dates
back to commit 7ec1c5a86.  But given the lack of field complaints
it seems few people are using internal subtransactions in this way.
So I don't feel a need to take any risks in 9.2/9.3.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/73FBA179-C68C-4540-9473-71E865408B15@silentmedia.com
2017-10-06 19:18:58 -04:00
Alvaro Herrera
d441cff142 Fix traversal of half-frozen update chains
When some tuple versions in an update chain are frozen due to them being
older than freeze_min_age, the xmax/xmin trail can become broken.  This
breaks HOT (and probably other things).  A subsequent VACUUM can break
things in more serious ways, such as leaving orphan heap-only tuples
whose root HOT redirect items were removed.  This can be seen because
index creation (or REINDEX) complain like
  ERROR:  XX000: failed to find parent tuple for heap-only tuple at (0,7) in table "t"

Because of relfrozenxid contraints, we cannot avoid the freezing of the
early tuples, so we must cope with the results: whenever we see an Xmin
of FrozenTransactionId, consider it a match for whatever the previous
Xmax value was.

This problem seems to have appeared in 9.3 with multixact changes,
though strictly speaking it seems unrelated.

Since 9.4 we have commit 37484ad2a "Change the way we mark tuples as
frozen", so the fix is simple: just compare the raw Xmin (still stored
in the tuple header, since freezing merely set an infomask bit) to the
Xmax.  But in 9.3 we rewrite the Xmin value to FrozenTransactionId, so
the original value is lost and we have nothing to compare the Xmax with.
To cope with that case we need to compare the Xmin with FrozenXid,
assume it's a match, and hope for the best.  Sadly, since you can
pg_upgrade a 9.3 instance containing half-frozen pages to newer
releases, we need to keep the old check in newer versions too, which
seems a bit brittle; I hope we can somehow get rid of that.

I didn't optimize the new function for performance.  The new coding is
probably a bit slower than before, since there is a function call rather
than a straight comparison, but I'd rather have it work correctly than
be fast but wrong.

This is a followup after 20b6552242 fixed a few related problems.
Apparently, in 9.6 and up there are more ways to get into trouble, but
in 9.3 - 9.5 I cannot reproduce a problem anymore with this patch, so
there must be a separate bug.

Reported-by: Peter Geoghegan
Diagnosed-by: Peter Geoghegan, Michael Paquier, Daniel Wood,
	Yi Wen Wong, Álvaro
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-Wznm4rCrhFAiwKPWTpEw2bXDtgROZK7jWWGucXeH3D1fmA@mail.gmail.com
2017-10-06 17:14:42 +02:00
Heikki Linnakangas
6fd9930e68 Fix typo in comment.
Etsuro Fujita
2017-06-21 11:55:21 +03:00
Tom Lane
9c225acf0b Avoid passing function pointers across process boundaries.
This back-patches commit 32470825d3
into 9.6, primarily to make buildfarm member culicidae happy.
Unlike the HEAD patch, avoid changing the existing API of
CreateParallelContext; instead we just switch to using
CreateParallelContextForExternalFunction, even for core functions.

Petr Jelinek, with a bunch of basically-cosmetic adjustments by me

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/548f9c1d-eafa-e3fa-9da8-f0cc2f654e60@2ndquadrant.com
2017-04-15 16:23:27 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut
18dc2aee5f Spelling fixes
From: Josh Soref <jsoref@gmail.com>
2017-03-14 13:45:54 -04:00
Tom Lane
354dfa235b Make sure that hash join's bulk-tuple-transfer loops are interruptible.
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
2017-02-15 16:40:05 -05:00
Heikki Linnakangas
90e8599219 Fix typos in comments.
Backpatch to all supported versions, where applicable, to make backpatching
of future fixes go more smoothly.

Josh Soref

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CACZqfqCf+5qRztLPgmmosr-B0Ye4srWzzw_mo4c_8_B_mtjmJQ@mail.gmail.com
2017-02-06 11:34:15 +02:00
Tom Lane
8a70d8ae75 Throw suitable error for COPY TO STDOUT/FROM STDIN in a SQL function.
A client copy can't work inside a function because the FE/BE wire protocol
doesn't support nesting of a COPY operation within query results.  (Maybe
it could, but the protocol spec doesn't suggest that clients should support
this, and libpq for one certainly doesn't.)

In most PLs, this prohibition is enforced by spi.c, but SQL functions don't
use SPI.  A comparison of _SPI_execute_plan() and init_execution_state()
shows that rejecting client COPY is the only discrepancy in what they
allow, so there's no other similar bugs.

This is an astonishingly ancient oversight, so back-patch to all supported
branches.

Report: https://postgr.es/m/BY2PR05MB2309EABA3DEFA0143F50F0D593780@BY2PR05MB2309.namprd05.prod.outlook.com
2017-01-14 13:27:47 -05:00
Tom Lane
77cd0dc7e0 Fix handling of expanded objects in CoerceToDomain and CASE execution.
When the input value to a CoerceToDomain expression node is a read-write
expanded datum, we should pass a read-only pointer to any domain CHECK
expressions and then return the original read-write pointer as the
expression result.  Previously we were blindly passing the same pointer to
all the consumers of the value, making it possible for a function in CHECK
to modify or even delete the expanded value.  (Since a plpgsql function
will absorb a passed-in read-write expanded array as a local variable
value, it will in fact delete the value on exit.)

A similar hazard of passing the same read-write pointer to multiple
consumers exists in domain_check() and in ExecEvalCase, so fix those too.

The fix requires adding MakeExpandedObjectReadOnly calls at the appropriate
places, which is simple enough except that we need to get the data type's
typlen from somewhere.  For the domain cases, solve this by redefining
DomainConstraintRef.tcache as okay for callers to access; there wasn't any
reason for the original convention against that, other than not wanting the
API of typcache.c to be any wider than it had to be.  For CASE, there's
no good solution except to add a syscache lookup during executor start.

Per bug #14472 from Marcos Castedo.  Back-patch to 9.5 where expanded
values were introduced.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15225.1482431619@sss.pgh.pa.us
2016-12-22 15:01:38 -05:00
Heikki Linnakangas
ce92fc4e25 Fix sharing Agg transition state of DISTINCT or ordered aggs.
If a query contained two aggregates that could share the transition value,
we would correctly collect the input into a tuplesort only once, but
incorrectly run the transition function over the accumulated input twice,
in finalize_aggregates(). That caused a crash, when we tried to call
tuplesort_performsort() on an already-freed NULL tuplestore.

Backport to 9.6, where sharing of transition state and this bug were
introduced.

Analysis by Tom Lane.

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/ac5b0b69-744c-9114-6218-8300ac920e61@iki.fi
2016-12-20 09:20:30 +02:00
Robert Haas
86c6aaff6e Fix bogus comment.
Commit 4212cb7326 rendered a comment
in execMain.c incorrect.  Per complaint from Tom Lane, repair.

Patch from Amit Kapila, per wording suggested by Tom Lane and me.
2016-12-08 15:03:07 -05:00
Robert Haas
ebe5dc9e02 Fix interaction of parallel query with prepared statements.
Previously, a prepared statement created via a Parse message could get
a parallel plan, but one created with a PREPARE statement could not.
This state of affairs was due to confusion on my (rhaas) part: I
erroneously believed that a CREATE TABLE .. AS EXECUTE statement could
only be performed with a prepared statement by PREPARE, but in fact
one created by a Prepare message works just as well.  Therefore, it
makes no sense to allow parallel query in one case but not the other.

To fix, allow parallel query with all prepared statements, but run
the parallel plan serially (i.e. without workers) in the case of
CREATE TABLE .. AS EXECUTE.  Also, document this.

Amit Kapila and Tobias Bussman, plus an extra sentence of
documentation by me.
2016-12-06 11:43:12 -05:00
Robert Haas
06fa6670fb Ensure gatherstate->nextreader is properly initialized.
The previously code worked OK as long as a Gather node was never
rescanned, or if it was rescanned, as long as it got at least as
many workers on rescan as it had originally.  But if the number
of workers ever decreased on a rescan, then it could crash.

Andreas Seltenreich
2016-12-05 15:59:02 -05:00
Magnus Hagander
81f92a55c7 Fix typo in comment
Thomas Munro
2016-11-25 13:06:35 +01:00
Tom Lane
48a6592dae Improve speed of aggregates that use array_append as transition function.
In the previous coding, if an aggregate's transition function returned an
expanded array, nodeAgg.c and nodeWindowAgg.c would always copy it and thus
force it into the flat representation.  This led to ping-ponging between
flat and expanded formats, which costs a lot.  For an aggregate using
array_append as transition function, I measured about a 15X slowdown
compared to the pre-9.5 code, when working on simple int[] arrays.
Of course, the old code was already O(N^2) in this usage due to copying
flat arrays all the time, but it wasn't quite this inefficient.

To fix, teach nodeAgg.c and nodeWindowAgg.c to allow expanded transition
values without copying, so long as the transition function takes care to
return the transition value already properly parented under the aggcontext.
That puts a bit of extra responsibility on the transition function, but
doing it this way allows us to not need any extra logic in the fast path
of advance_transition_function (ie, with a pass-by-value transition value,
or with a modified-in-place pass-by-reference value).  We already know
that that's a hot spot so I'm loath to add any cycles at all there.  Also,
while only array_append currently knows how to follow this convention,
this solution allows other transition functions to opt-in without needing
to have a whitelist in the core aggregation code.

(The reason we would need a whitelist is that currently, if you pass a
R/W expanded-object pointer to an arbitrary function, it's allowed to do
anything with it including deleting it; that breaks the core agg code's
assumption that it should free discarded values.  Returning a value under
aggcontext is the transition function's signal that it knows it is an
aggregate transition function and will play nice.  Possibly the API rules
for expanded objects should be refined, but that would not be a
back-patchable change.)

With this fix, an aggregate using array_append is no longer O(N^2), so it's
much faster than pre-9.5 code rather than much slower.  It's still a bit
slower than the bespoke infrastructure for array_agg, but the differential
seems to be only about 10%-20% rather than orders of magnitude.

Discussion: <6315.1477677885@sss.pgh.pa.us>
2016-10-30 12:27:41 -04:00
Tom Lane
fdcee9f1fc Avoid testing tuple visibility without buffer lock.
INSERT ... ON CONFLICT (specifically ExecCheckHeapTupleVisible) contains
another example of this unsafe coding practice.  It is much harder to get
a failure out of it than the case fixed in commit 6292c2339, because in
most scenarios any hint bits that could be set would have already been set
earlier in the command.  However, Konstantin Knizhnik reported a failure
with a custom transaction manager, and it's clearly possible to get a
failure via a race condition in async-commit mode.

For lack of a reproducible example, no regression test case in this
commit.

I did some testing with Asserts added to tqual.c's functions, and can say
that running "make check-world" exposed these two bugs and no others.
The Asserts are messy enough that I've not added them to the code for now.

Report: <57EE93C8.8080504@postgrespro.ru>
Related-Discussion: <CAO3NbwOycQjt2Oqy2VW-eLTq2M5uGMyHnGm=RNga4mjqcYD7gQ@mail.gmail.com>
2016-10-23 19:14:32 -04:00
Tom Lane
c4016fcb1f Don't throw serialization errors for self-conflicts in INSERT ON CONFLICT.
A transaction that conflicts against itself, for example
	INSERT INTO t(pk) VALUES (1),(1) ON CONFLICT DO NOTHING;
should behave the same regardless of isolation level.  It certainly
shouldn't throw a serialization error, as retrying will not help.
We got this wrong due to the ON CONFLICT logic not considering the case,
as reported by Jason Dusek.

Core of this patch is by Peter Geoghegan (based on an earlier patch by
Thomas Munro), though I didn't take his proposed code refactoring for fear
that it might have unexpected side-effects.  Test cases by Thomas Munro
and myself.

Report: <CAO3NbwOycQjt2Oqy2VW-eLTq2M5uGMyHnGm=RNga4mjqcYD7gQ@mail.gmail.com>
Related-Discussion: <57EE93C8.8080504@postgrespro.ru>
2016-10-23 18:36:13 -04:00
Tom Lane
dca25c2562 Fix incorrect handling of polymorphic aggregates used as window functions.
The transfunction was told that its first argument and result were
of the window function output type, not the aggregate state type.
This'd only matter if the transfunction consults get_fn_expr_argtype,
which typically only polymorphic functions would do.

Although we have several regression tests around polymorphic aggs,
none of them detected this mistake --- in fact, they still didn't
fail when I injected the same mistake into nodeAgg.c.  So add some
more tests covering both plain agg and window-function-agg cases.

Per report from Sebastian Luque.  Back-patch to 9.6 where the error
was introduced (by sloppy refactoring in commit 804163bc2, looks like).

Report: <87int2qkat.fsf@gmail.com>
2016-10-09 12:49:37 -04:00
Tom Lane
a88fe25f50 Be sure to rewind the tuplestore read pointer in non-leader CTEScan nodes.
ExecInitCteScan supposed that it didn't have to do anything to the extra
tuplestore read pointer it gets from tuplestore_alloc_read_pointer.
However, it needs this read pointer to be positioned at the start of the
tuplestore, while tuplestore_alloc_read_pointer is actually defined as
cloning the current position of read pointer 0.  In normal situations
that accidentally works because we initialize the whole plan tree at once,
before anything gets read.  But it fails in an EvalPlanQual recheck, as
illustrated in bug #14328 from Dima Pavlov.  To fix, just forcibly rewind
the pointer after tuplestore_alloc_read_pointer.  The cost of doing so is
negligible unless the tuplestore is already in TSS_READFILE state, which
wouldn't happen in normal cases.  We could consider altering tuplestore's
API to make that case cheaper, but that would make for a more invasive
back-patch and it doesn't seem worth it.

This has been broken probably for as long as we've had CTEs, so back-patch
to all supported branches.

Discussion: <32468.1474548308@sss.pgh.pa.us>
2016-09-22 11:34:44 -04:00
Tom Lane
b9fe6cbc81 Add macros to make AllocSetContextCreate() calls simpler and safer.
I found that half a dozen (nearly 5%) of our AllocSetContextCreate calls
had typos in the context-sizing parameters.  While none of these led to
especially significant problems, they did create minor inefficiencies,
and it's now clear that expecting people to copy-and-paste those calls
accurately is not a great idea.  Let's reduce the risk of future errors
by introducing single macros that encapsulate the common use-cases.
Three such macros are enough to cover all but two special-purpose contexts;
those two calls can be left as-is, I think.

While this patch doesn't in itself improve matters for third-party
extensions, it doesn't break anything for them either, and they can
gradually adopt the simplified notation over time.

In passing, change TopMemoryContext to use the default allocation
parameters.  Formerly it could only be extended 8K at a time.  That was
probably reasonable when this code was written; but nowadays we create
many more contexts than we did then, so that it's not unusual to have a
couple hundred K in TopMemoryContext, even without considering various
dubious code that sticks other things there.  There seems no good reason
not to let it use growing blocks like most other contexts.

Back-patch to 9.6, mostly because that's still close enough to HEAD that
it's easy to do so, and keeping the branches in sync can be expected to
avoid some future back-patching pain.  The bugs fixed by these changes
don't seem to be significant enough to justify fixing them further back.

Discussion: <21072.1472321324@sss.pgh.pa.us>
2016-08-27 17:50:38 -04:00
Tom Lane
616be05dfe Fix improper repetition of previous results from a hashed aggregate.
ExecReScanAgg's check for whether it could re-use a previously calculated
hashtable neglected the possibility that the Agg node might reference
PARAM_EXEC Params that are not referenced by its input plan node.  That's
okay if the Params are in upper tlist or qual expressions; but if one
appears in aggregate input expressions, then the hashtable contents need
to be recomputed when the Param's value changes.

To avoid unnecessary performance degradation in the case of a Param that
isn't within an aggregate input, add logic to the planner to determine
which Params are within aggregate inputs.  This requires a new field in
struct Agg, but fortunately we never write plans to disk, so this isn't
an initdb-forcing change.

Per report from Jeevan Chalke.  This has been broken since forever,
so back-patch to all supported branches.

Andrew Gierth, with minor adjustments by me

Report: <CAM2+6=VY8ykfLT5Q8vb9B6EbeBk-NGuLbT6seaQ+Fq4zXvrDcA@mail.gmail.com>
2016-08-24 14:38:13 -04:00
Robert Haas
0aa1e9a44d Fix possible crash due to incorrect allocation context.
Commit af33039317 aimed to reduce
leakage from tqueue.c, which is good.  Unfortunately, by changing the
memory context in which all of gather_readnext() executes, it also
changed the context in which ExecShutdownGatherWorkers executes, which
is not good, because that function eventually causes a call to
ExecParallelRetrieveInstrumentation, which proceeds to allocate
planstate->worker_instrument in a short-lived context, causing a
crash.

Rushabh Lathia, reviewed by Amit Kapila and by me.
2016-08-16 13:28:10 -04:00
Tom Lane
ed0097e4f9 Add SQL-accessible functions for inspecting index AM properties.
Per discussion, we should provide such functions to replace the lost
ability to discover AM properties by inspecting pg_am (cf commit
65c5fcd35).  The added functionality is also meant to displace any code
that was looking directly at pg_index.indoption, since we'd rather not
believe that the bit meanings in that field are part of any client API
contract.

As future-proofing, define the SQL API to not assume that properties that
are currently AM-wide or index-wide will remain so unless they logically
must be; instead, expose them only when inquiring about a specific index
or even specific index column.  Also provide the ability for an index
AM to override the behavior.

In passing, document pg_am.amtype, overlooked in commit 473b93287.

Andrew Gierth, with kibitzing by me and others

Discussion: <87mvl5on7n.fsf@news-spur.riddles.org.uk>
2016-08-13 18:31:14 -04:00
Tom Lane
0f249fe5f5 Fix busted Assert for CREATE MATVIEW ... WITH NO DATA.
Commit 874fe3aea changed the command tag returned for CREATE MATVIEW/CREATE
TABLE AS ... WITH NO DATA, but missed that there was code in spi.c that
expected the command tag to always be "SELECT".  Fortunately, the
consequence was only an Assert failure, so this oversight should have no
impact in production builds.

Since this code path was evidently un-exercised, add a regression test.

Per report from Shivam Saxena. Back-patch to 9.3, like the previous commit.

Michael Paquier

Report: <97218716-480B-4527-B5CD-D08D798A0C7B@dresources.com>
2016-08-11 11:22:25 -04:00
Tom Lane
f0c7b789ab Fix two errors with nested CASE/WHEN constructs.
ExecEvalCase() tried to save a cycle or two by passing
&econtext->caseValue_isNull as the isNull argument to its sub-evaluation of
the CASE value expression.  If that subexpression itself contained a CASE,
then *isNull was an alias for econtext->caseValue_isNull within the
recursive call of ExecEvalCase(), leading to confusion about whether the
inner call's caseValue was null or not.  In the worst case this could lead
to a core dump due to dereferencing a null pointer.  Fix by not assigning
to the global variable until control comes back from the subexpression.
Also, avoid using the passed-in isNull pointer transiently for evaluation
of WHEN expressions.  (Either one of these changes would have been
sufficient to fix the known misbehavior, but it's clear now that each of
these choices was in itself dangerous coding practice and best avoided.
There do not seem to be any similar hazards elsewhere in execQual.c.)

Also, it was possible for inlining of a SQL function that implements the
equality operator used for a CASE comparison to result in one CASE
expression's CaseTestExpr node being inserted inside another CASE
expression.  This would certainly result in wrong answers since the
improperly nested CaseTestExpr would be caused to return the inner CASE's
comparison value not the outer's.  If the CASE values were of different
data types, a crash might result; moreover such situations could be abused
to allow disclosure of portions of server memory.  To fix, teach
inline_function to check for "bare" CaseTestExpr nodes in the arguments of
a function to be inlined, and avoid inlining if there are any.

Heikki Linnakangas, Michael Paquier, Tom Lane

Report: https://github.com/greenplum-db/gpdb/pull/327
Report: <4DDCEEB8.50602@enterprisedb.com>
Security: CVE-2016-5423
2016-08-08 10:33:46 -04:00
Tom Lane
887feefe87 Don't CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS between WaitLatch and ResetLatch.
This coding pattern creates a race condition, because if an interesting
interrupt happens after we've checked InterruptPending but before we reset
our latch, the latch-setting done by the signal handler would get lost,
and then we might block at WaitLatch in the next iteration without ever
noticing the interrupt condition.  You can put the CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS
before WaitLatch or after ResetLatch, but not between them.

Aside from fixing the bugs, add some explanatory comments to latch.h
to perhaps forestall the next person from making the same mistake.

In HEAD, also replace gather_readnext's direct call of
HandleParallelMessages with CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS.  It does not seem clean
or useful for this one caller to bypass ProcessInterrupts and go straight
to HandleParallelMessages; not least because that fails to consider the
InterruptPending flag, resulting in useless work both here
(if InterruptPending isn't set) and in the next CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS call
(if it is).

This thinko seems to have been introduced in the initial coding of
storage/ipc/shm_mq.c (commit ec9037df2), and then blindly copied into all
the subsequent parallel-query support logic.  Back-patch relevant hunks
to 9.4 to extirpate the error everywhere.

Discussion: <1661.1469996911@sss.pgh.pa.us>
2016-08-01 15:13:53 -04:00
Tom Lane
a9ed875fdc Code review for tqueue.c: fix memory leaks, speed it up, other fixes.
When doing record typmod remapping, tqueue.c did fresh catalog lookups
for each tuple it processed, which was pretty horrible performance-wise
(it seemed to about halve the already none-too-quick speed of bulk reads
in parallel mode).  Worse, it insisted on putting bits of that data into
TopMemoryContext, from where it never freed them, causing a
session-lifespan memory leak.  (I suppose this was coded with the idea
that the sender process would quit after finishing the query ---
but the receiver uses the same code.)

Restructure to avoid repetitive catalog lookups and to keep that data
in a query-lifespan context, in or below the context where the
TQueueDestReceiver or TupleQueueReader itself lives.

Fix some other bugs such as continuing to use a tupledesc after
releasing our refcount on it.  Clean up cavalier datatype choices
(typmods are int32, please, not int, and certainly not Oid).  Improve
comments and error message wording.
2016-07-31 16:05:12 -04:00
Tom Lane
af33039317 Fix worst memory leaks in tqueue.c.
TupleQueueReaderNext() leaks like a sieve if it has to do any tuple
disassembly/reconstruction.  While we could try to clean up its allocations
piecemeal, it seems like a better idea just to insist that it should be run
in a short-lived memory context, so that any transient space goes away
automatically.  I chose to have nodeGather.c switch into its existing
per-tuple context before the call, rather than inventing a separate
context inside tqueue.c.

This is sufficient to stop all leakage in the simple case I exhibited
earlier today (see link below), but it does not deal with leaks induced
in more complex cases by tqueue.c's insistence on using TopMemoryContext
for data that it's not actually trying hard to keep track of.  That issue
is intertwined with another major source of inefficiency, namely failure
to cache lookup results across calls, so it seems best to deal with it
separately.

In passing, improve some comments, and modify gather_readnext's method for
deciding when it's visited all the readers so that it's more obviously
correct.  (I'm not actually convinced that the previous code *is*
correct in the case of a reader deletion; it certainly seems fragile.)

Discussion: <32763.1469821037@sss.pgh.pa.us>
2016-07-29 19:31:06 -04:00
Tom Lane
bf4ae685ae Fix tqueue.c's range-remapping code.
It's depressingly clear that nobody ever tested this.
2016-07-29 14:13:19 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut
ef5d4a3cfa Message style improvements 2016-07-28 16:34:44 -04:00
Tom Lane
e1a93dd6ae tqueue.c's record-typmod hashtables need the HASH_BLOBS option.
The keys are integers, not strings.  The code accidentally worked on
little-endian machines, at least up to 256 distinct record types within
a session, but failed utterly on big-endian.  This was unexpectedly
exposed by a test case added by commit 4452000f3, which apparently is the
only parallelizable query in the regression suite that uses more than one
anonymous record type.  Fortunately, buildfarm member mandrill is
big-endian and is running with force_parallel_mode on, so it failed.
2016-07-28 02:08:52 -04:00
Tom Lane
d8411a6c8b Allow functions that return sets of tuples to return simple NULLs.
ExecMakeTableFunctionResult(), which is used in SELECT FROM function(...)
cases, formerly treated a simple NULL output from a function that both
returnsSet and returnsTuple as a violation of the SRF protocol.  What seems
better is to treat a NULL output as equivalent to ROW(NULL,NULL,...).
Without this, cases such as SELECT FROM unnest(...) on an array of
composite are vulnerable to unexpected and not-very-helpful failures.
Old code comments here suggested an alternative of just ignoring
simple-NULL outputs, but that doesn't seem very principled.

This change had been hung up for a long time due to uncertainty about
how much we wanted to buy into the equivalence of simple NULL and
ROW(NULL,NULL,...).  I think that's been mostly resolved by the discussion
around bug #14235, so let's go ahead and do it.

Per bug #7808 from Joe Van Dyk.  Although this is a pretty old report,
fixing it smells a bit more like a new feature than a bug fix, and the
lack of other similar complaints suggests that we shouldn't take much risk
of destabilization by back-patching.  (Maybe that could be revisited once
this patch has withstood some field usage.)

Andrew Gierth and Tom Lane

Report: <E1TurJE-0006Es-TK@wrigleys.postgresql.org>
2016-07-26 21:34:02 -04:00
Tom Lane
4452000f31 Fix constant-folding of ROW(...) IS [NOT] NULL with composite fields.
The SQL standard appears to specify that IS [NOT] NULL's tests of field
nullness are non-recursive, ie, we shouldn't consider that a composite
field with value ROW(NULL,NULL) is null for this purpose.
ExecEvalNullTest got this right, but eval_const_expressions did not,
leading to weird inconsistencies depending on whether the expression
was such that the planner could apply constant folding.

Also, adjust the docs to mention that IS [NOT] DISTINCT FROM NULL can be
used as a substitute test if a simple null check is wanted for a rowtype
argument.  That motivated reordering things so that IS [NOT] DISTINCT FROM
is described before IS [NOT] NULL.  In HEAD, I went a bit further and added
a table showing all the comparison-related predicates.

Per bug #14235.  Back-patch to all supported branches, since it's certainly
undesirable that constant-folding should change the semantics.

Report and patch by Andrew Gierth; assorted wordsmithing and revised
regression test cases by me.

Report: <20160708024746.1410.57282@wrigleys.postgresql.org>
2016-07-26 15:25:02 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut
40fcfec82c Message style improvements 2016-07-25 22:07:44 -04:00
Tom Lane
45639a0525 Avoid invalidating all foreign-join cached plans when user mappings change.
We must not push down a foreign join when the foreign tables involved
should be accessed under different user mappings.  Previously we tried
to enforce that rule literally during planning, but that meant that the
resulting plans were dependent on the current contents of the
pg_user_mapping catalog, and we had to blow away all cached plans
containing any remote join when anything at all changed in pg_user_mapping.
This could have been improved somewhat, but the fact that a syscache inval
callback has very limited info about what changed made it hard to do better
within that design.  Instead, let's change the planner to not consider user
mappings per se, but to allow a foreign join if both RTEs have the same
checkAsUser value.  If they do, then they necessarily will use the same
user mapping at runtime, and we don't need to know specifically which one
that is.  Post-plan-time changes in pg_user_mapping no longer require any
plan invalidation.

This rule does give up some optimization ability, to wit where two foreign
table references come from views with different owners or one's from a view
and one's directly in the query, but nonetheless the same user mapping
would have applied.  We'll sacrifice the first case, but to not regress
more than we have to in the second case, allow a foreign join involving
both zero and nonzero checkAsUser values if the nonzero one is the same as
the prevailing effective userID.  In that case, mark the plan as only
runnable by that userID.

The plancache code already had a notion of plans being userID-specific,
in order to support RLS.  It was a little confused though, in particular
lacking clarity of thought as to whether it was the rewritten query or just
the finished plan that's dependent on the userID.  Rearrange that code so
that it's clearer what depends on which, and so that the same logic applies
to both RLS-injected role dependency and foreign-join-injected role
dependency.

Note that this patch doesn't remove the other issue mentioned in the
original complaint, which is that while we'll reliably stop using a foreign
join if it's disallowed in a new context, we might fail to start using a
foreign join if it's now allowed, but we previously created a generic
cached plan that didn't use one.  It was agreed that the chance of winning
that way was not high enough to justify the much larger number of plan
invalidations that would have to occur if we tried to cause it to happen.

In passing, clean up randomly-varying spelling of EXPLAIN commands in
postgres_fdw.sql, and fix a COSTS ON example that had been allowed to
leak into the committed tests.

This reverts most of commits fbe5a3fb7 and 5d4171d1c, which were the
previous attempt at ensuring we wouldn't push down foreign joins that
span permissions contexts.

Etsuro Fujita and Tom Lane

Discussion: <d49c1e5b-f059-20f4-c132-e9752ee0113e@lab.ntt.co.jp>
2016-07-15 17:23:02 -04:00
Tom Lane
9c810a2edc Fix failure to handle conflicts in non-arbiter exclusion constraints.
ExecInsertIndexTuples treated an exclusion constraint as subject to
noDupErr processing even when it was not listed in arbiterIndexes, and
would therefore not error out for a conflict in such a constraint, instead
returning it as an arbiter-index failure.  That led to an infinite loop in
ExecInsert, since ExecCheckIndexConstraints ignored the index as-intended
and therefore didn't throw the expected error.  To fix, make the exclusion
constraint code path use the same condition as the index_insert call does
to decide whether no-error-for-duplicates behavior is appropriate.  While
at it, refactor a little bit to avoid unnecessary list_member_oid calls.
(That surely wouldn't save anything worth noticing, but I find the code
a bit clearer this way.)

Per bug report from Heikki Rauhala.  Back-patch to 9.5 where ON CONFLICT
was introduced.

Report: <4C976D6B-76B4-434C-8052-D009F7B7AEDA@reaktor.fi>
2016-07-04 16:09:11 -04:00
Tom Lane
19e972d558 Rethink node-level representation of partial-aggregation modes.
The original coding had three separate booleans representing partial
aggregation behavior, which was confusing, unreadable, and error-prone,
not least because the booleans weren't always listed in the same order.
It was also inadequate for the allegedly-desirable future extension to
support intermediate partial aggregation, because we'd need separate
markers for serialization and deserialization in such a case.

Merge these bools into an enum "AggSplit" to provide symbolic names for
the supported operating modes (and document what those are).  By assigning
the values of the enum constants carefully, we can treat AggSplit values
as options bitmasks so that tests of what to do aren't noticeably more
expensive than before.

While at it, get rid of Aggref.aggoutputtype.  That's not needed since
commit 59a3795c2 got rid of setrefs.c's special-purpose Aggref comparison
code, and it likewise seemed more confusing than helpful.

Assorted comment cleanup as well (there's still more that I want to do
in that line).

catversion bump for change in Aggref node contents.  Should be the last
one for partial-aggregation changes.

Discussion: <29309.1466699160@sss.pgh.pa.us>
2016-06-26 14:33:38 -04:00
Tom Lane
f8ace5477e Fix type-safety problem with parallel aggregate serial/deserialization.
The original specification for this called for the deserialization function
to have signature "deserialize(serialtype) returns transtype", which is a
security violation if transtype is INTERNAL (which it always would be in
practice) and serialtype is not (which ditto).  The patch blithely overrode
the opr_sanity check for that, which was sloppy-enough work in itself,
but the indisputable reason this cannot be allowed to stand is that CREATE
FUNCTION will reject such a signature and thus it'd be impossible for
extensions to create parallelizable aggregates.

The minimum fix to make the signature type-safe is to add a second, dummy
argument of type INTERNAL.  But to lock it down a bit more and make misuse
of INTERNAL-accepting functions less likely, let's get rid of the ability
to specify a "serialtype" for an aggregate and just say that the only
useful serialtype is BYTEA --- which, in practice, is the only interesting
value anyway, due to the usefulness of the send/recv infrastructure for
this purpose.  That means we only have to allow "serialize(internal)
returns bytea" and "deserialize(bytea, internal) returns internal" as
the signatures for these support functions.

In passing fix bogus signature of int4_avg_combine, which I found thanks
to adding an opr_sanity check on combinefunc signatures.

catversion bump due to removing pg_aggregate.aggserialtype and adjusting
signatures of assorted built-in functions.

David Rowley and Tom Lane

Discussion: <27247.1466185504@sss.pgh.pa.us>
2016-06-22 16:52:41 -04:00
Tom Lane
915b703e16 Fix handling of argument and result datatypes for partial aggregation.
When doing partial aggregation, the args list of the upper (combining)
Aggref node is replaced by a Var representing the output of the partial
aggregation steps, which has either the aggregate's transition data type
or a serialized representation of that.  However, nodeAgg.c blindly
continued to use the args list as an indication of the user-level argument
types.  This broke resolution of polymorphic transition datatypes at
executor startup (though it accidentally failed to fail for the ANYARRAY
case, which is likely the only one anyone had tested).  Moreover, the
constructed FuncExpr passed to the finalfunc contained completely wrong
information, which would have led to bogus answers or crashes for any case
where the finalfunc examined that information (which is only likely to be
with polymorphic aggregates using a non-polymorphic transition type).

As an independent bug, apply_partialaggref_adjustment neglected to resolve
a polymorphic transition datatype before assigning it as the output type
of the lower-level Aggref node.  This again accidentally failed to fail
for ANYARRAY but would be unlikely to work in other cases.

To fix the first problem, record the user-level argument types in a
separate OID-list field of Aggref, and look to that rather than the args
list when asking what the argument types were.  (It turns out to be
convenient to include any "direct" arguments in this list too, although
those are not currently subject to being overwritten.)

Rather than adding yet another resolve_aggregate_transtype() call to fix
the second problem, add an aggtranstype field to Aggref, and store the
resolved transition type OID there when the planner first computes it.
(By doing this in the planner and not the parser, we can allow the
aggregate's transition type to change from time to time, although no DDL
support yet exists for that.)  This saves nothing of consequence for
simple non-polymorphic aggregates, but for polymorphic transition types
we save a catalog lookup during executor startup as well as several
planner lookups that are new in 9.6 due to parallel query planning.

In passing, fix an error that was introduced into count_agg_clauses_walker
some time ago: it was applying exprTypmod() to something that wasn't an
expression node at all, but a TargetEntry.  exprTypmod silently returned
-1 so that there was not an obvious failure, but this broke the intended
sensitivity of aggregate space consumption estimates to the typmod of
varchar and similar data types.  This part needs to be back-patched.

Catversion bump due to change of stored Aggref nodes.

Discussion: <8229.1466109074@sss.pgh.pa.us>
2016-06-17 21:44:37 -04:00
Robert Haas
4bc424b968 pgindent run for 9.6 2016-06-09 18:02:36 -04:00
Robert Haas
c6dbf1fe79 Stop the executor if no more tuples can be sent from worker to leader.
If a Gather node has read as many tuples as it needs (for example, due
to Limit) it may detach the queue connecting it to the worker before
reading all of the worker's tuples.  Rather than let the worker
continue to generate and send all of the results, have it stop after
sending the next tuple.

More could be done here to stop the worker even quicker, but this is
about as well as we can hope to do for 9.6.

This is in response to a problem report from Andreas Seltenreich.
Commit 44339b892a should be actually be
sufficient to fix that example even without this change, but it seems
better to do this, too, since we might otherwise waste quite a large
amount of effort in one or more workers.

Discussion: CAA4eK1KOKGqmz9bGu+Z42qhRwMbm4R5rfnqsLCNqFs9j14jzEA@mail.gmail.com

Amit Kapila
2016-06-06 14:52:58 -04:00
Tom Lane
8a859691d5 Properly initialize SortSupport for ORDER BY rechecks in nodeIndexscan.c.
Fix still another bug in commit 35fcb1b3d: it failed to fully initialize
the SortSupport states it introduced to allow the executor to re-check
ORDER BY expressions containing distance operators.  That led to a null
pointer dereference if the sortsupport code tried to use ssup_cxt.  The
problem only manifests in narrow cases, explaining the lack of previous
field reports.  It requires a GiST-indexable distance operator that lacks
SortSupport and is on a pass-by-ref data type, which among core+contrib
seems to be only btree_gist's interval opclass; and it requires the scan
to be done as an IndexScan not an IndexOnlyScan, which explains how
btree_gist's regression test didn't catch it.  Per bug #14134 from
Jihyun Yu.

Peter Geoghegan

Report: <20160511154904.2603.43889@wrigleys.postgresql.org>
2016-06-05 11:53:06 -04:00
Tom Lane
9eaf5be506 Mark read/write expanded values as read-only in ValuesNext(), too.
Further thought about bug #14174 motivated me to try the case of a
R/W datum being returned from a VALUES list, and sure enough it was
broken.  Fix that.

Also add a regression test case exercising the same scenario for
FunctionScan.  That's not broken right now, because the function's
result will get shoved into a tuplestore between generation and use;
but it could easily become broken whenever we get around to optimizing
FunctionScan better.

There don't seem to be any other places where we put the result of
expression evaluation into a virtual tuple slot that could then be
the source for Vars of further expression evaluation, so I think
this is the end of this bug.
2016-06-03 18:07:14 -04:00
Tom Lane
69f526aa49 Mark read/write expanded values as read-only in ExecProject().
If a plan node output expression returns an "expanded" datum, and that
output column is referenced in more than one place in upper-level plan
nodes, we need to ensure that what is returned is a read-only reference
not a read/write reference.  Otherwise one of the referencing sites could
scribble on or even delete the expanded datum before we have evaluated the
others.  Commit 1dc5ebc907, which introduced this feature, supposed
that it'd be sufficient to make SubqueryScan nodes force their output
columns to read-only state.  The folly of that was revealed by bug #14174
from Andrew Gierth, and really should have been immediately obvious
considering that the planner will happily optimize SubqueryScan nodes
out of the plan without any regard for this issue.

The safest fix seems to be to make ExecProject() force its results into
read-only state; that will cover every case where a plan node returns
expression results.  Actually we can delegate this to ExecTargetList()
since we can recursively assume that plain Vars will not reference
read-write datums.  That should keep the extra overhead down to something
minimal.  We no longer need ExecMakeSlotContentsReadOnly(), which was
introduced only in support of the idea that just a few plan node types
would need to do this.

In the future it would be nice to have the planner account for this problem
and inject force-to-read-only expression evaluation nodes into only the
places where there's a risk of multiple evaluation.  That's not a suitable
solution for 9.5 or even 9.6 at this point, though.

Report: <20160603124628.9932.41279@wrigleys.postgresql.org>
2016-06-03 15:14:50 -04:00
Tom Lane
8a4930e3fa Fix latent crash in do_text_output_multiline().
do_text_output_multiline() would fail (typically with a null pointer
dereference crash) if its input string did not end with a newline.  Such
cases do not arise in our current sources; but it certainly could happen
in future, or in extension code's usage of the function, so we should fix
it.  To fix, replace "eol += len" with "eol = text + len".

While at it, make two cosmetic improvements: mark the input string const,
and rename the argument from "text" to "txt" to dodge pgindent strangeness
(since "text" is a typedef name).

Even though this problem is only latent at present, it seems like a good
idea to back-patch the fix, since it's a very simple/safe patch and it's
not out of the realm of possibility that we might in future back-patch
something that expects sane behavior from do_text_output_multiline().

Per report from Hao Lee.

Report: <CAGoxFiFPAGyPAJLcFxTB5cGhTW2yOVBDYeqDugYwV4dEd1L_Ag@mail.gmail.com>
2016-05-23 14:16:40 -04:00
Robert Haas
06bd458cb8 Use mul_size when multiplying by the number of parallel workers.
That way, if the result overflows size_t, you'll get an error instead
of undefined behavior, which seems like a plus.  This also has the
effect of casting the number of workers from int to Size, which is
better because it's harder to overflow int than size_t.

Dilip Kumar reported this issue and provided a patch upon which this
patch is based, but his version did use mul_size.
2016-05-06 14:32:58 -04:00
Robert Haas
8826d85078 Tweak a few more things in preparation for upcoming pgindent run.
These adjustments adjust code and comments in minor ways to prevent
pgindent from mangling them.  Among other things, I tried to avoid
situations where pgindent would emit "a +b" instead of "a + b", and I
tried to avoid having it break up inline comments across multiple
lines.
2016-05-03 10:52:25 -04:00
Robert Haas
cf402ba734 Tighten up sanity checks for parallel aggregate in execQual.c.
David Rowley
2016-04-27 12:05:35 -04:00
Robert Haas
8126eaee2f Clean up a few parallelism-related things that pgindent wants to mangle.
In nodeFuncs.c, pgindent wants to introduce spurious indentation into
the definitions of planstate_tree_walker and planstate_walk_subplans.
Fix that by spreading the definition out across several lines, similar
to what is already done for other walker functions in that file.

In execParallel.c, in the definition of SharedExecutorInstrumentation,
pgindent wants to insert more whitespace between the type name and the
member name.  That causes it to mangle comments later on the line.  Fix
by moving the comments out of line.  Now that we have a bit more room,
add some more details that may be useful to the next person reading
this code.
2016-04-27 11:29:45 -04:00
Magnus Hagander
b7351ced42 Fix typo in comment
Author: Daniel Gustafsson
2016-04-26 10:38:32 +02:00