PLy_spi_execute_plan (PLyPlan.execute) and PLy_cursor_plan
(plpy.cursor) use PLy_output_convert to convert Python values
into Datums that can be passed to the query-to-execute. But they
failed to pay much attention to its warning that it can leave "cruft
generated along the way" behind. Repeated use of these methods can
result in a substantial memory leak for the duration of the calling
plpython function.
To fix, make a temporary memory context to invoke PLy_output_convert
in. This also lets us get rid of the rather fragile code that was
here for retail pfree's of the converted Datums. Indeed, we don't
need the PLyPlanObject.values field anymore at all, though I left it
in place in the back branches in the name of ABI stability.
Mat Arye and Tom Lane, per report from Mat Arye. Back-patch to all
supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CADsUR0DvVgnZYWwnmKRK65MZg7YLUSTDLV61qdnrwtrAJgU6xw@mail.gmail.com
Change our ftruncate() macro to use the 64-bit variant of chsize(), and
add a new macro to redirect lseek() to _lseeki64().
Back-patch to all supported releases, in preparation for a bug fix.
Tested-by: Davinder Singh <davinder.singh@enterprisedb.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKZiRmyM4YnokK6Oenw5JKwAQ3rhP0YTz2T-tiw5dAQjGRXE3Q%40mail.gmail.com
Tcl 9 changed several API functions to take Tcl_Size, which is
ptrdiff_t, instead of int, for 64-bit enablement. We have to change a
few local variables to be compatible with that. We also provide a
fallback typedef of Tcl_Size for older Tcl versions.
The affected variables are used for quantities that will not approach
values beyond the range of int, so this doesn't change any
functionality.
Reviewed-by: Tristan Partin <tristan@partin.io>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/bce0fe54-75b4-438e-b42b-8e84bc7c0e9c%40eisentraut.org
TestUpgradeXversion knows how to make the main regression database's
references to pg_regress.so be version-independent. But it doesn't
do that for plperl's database, so that the C function added by
commit b7e3a52a8 is causing cross-version upgrade test failures.
Path of least resistance is to just drop the function at the end
of the new test.
In <= v14, also take the opportunity to clean up the generated
test files.
Security: CVE-2024-10979
Many process environment variables (e.g. PATH), bypass the containment
expected of a trusted PL. Hence, trusted PLs must not offer features
that achieve setenv(). Otherwise, an attacker having USAGE privilege on
the language often can achieve arbitrary code execution, even if the
attacker lacks a database server operating system user.
To fix PL/Perl, replace trusted PL/Perl %ENV with a tied hash that just
replaces each modification attempt with a warning. Sites that reach
these warnings should evaluate the application-specific implications of
proceeding without the environment modification:
Can the application reasonably proceed without the modification?
If no, switch to plperlu or another approach.
If yes, the application should change the code to stop attempting
environment modifications. If that's too difficult, add "untie
%main::ENV" in any code executed before the warning. For example,
one might add it to the start of the affected function or even to
the plperl.on_plperl_init setting.
In passing, link to Perl's guidance about the Perl features behind the
security posture of PL/Perl.
Back-patch to v12 (all supported versions).
Andrew Dunstan and Noah Misch
Security: CVE-2024-10979
Commit 2dc1deaea turns out to have been still a brick shy of a load,
because CALL statements executing within a plpgsql exception block
could still pass the wrong snapshot to stable functions within the
CALL's argument list. That happened because standard_ProcessUtility
forces isAtomicContext to true if IsTransactionBlock is true, which
it always will be inside a subtransaction. Then ExecuteCallStmt
would think it does not need to push a new snapshot --- but
_SPI_execute_plan didn't do so either, since it thought it was in
nonatomic mode.
The best fix for this seems to be for _SPI_execute_plan to operate
in atomic execution mode if IsSubTransaction() is true, even when the
SPI context as a whole is non-atomic. This makes _SPI_execute_plan
have the same rules about when non-atomic execution is allowed as
_SPI_commit/_SPI_rollback have about when COMMIT/ROLLBACK are allowed,
which seems appropriately symmetric. (If anyone ever tries to allow
COMMIT/ROLLBACK inside a subtransaction, this would all need to be
rethought ... but I'm unconvinced that such a thing could be logically
consistent at all.)
For further consistency, also check IsSubTransaction() in
SPI_inside_nonatomic_context. That does not matter for its
one present-day caller StartTransaction, which can't be reached
inside a subtransaction. But if any other callers ever arise,
they'd presumably want this definition.
Per bug #18656 from Alexander Alehin. Back-patch to all
supported branches, like previous fixes in this area.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18656-cade1780866ef66c@postgresql.org
If the plancache entry for the CALL statement is already stale,
it's possible for us to fetch an old procedure OID out of it,
and then fail with "cache lookup failed for function NNN".
In ordinary usage this never happens because make_callstmt_target
is called just once immediately after building the plancache
entry. It can be forced however by setting up an erroneous CALL
(that causes make_callstmt_target itself to report an error),
then dropping/recreating the target procedure, then repeating
the erroneous CALL.
To fix, use SPI_plan_get_cached_plan() to fetch the plancache's
plan, rather than assuming we can use SPI_plan_get_plan_sources().
This shouldn't add any noticeable overhead in the normal case,
and in the stale-plan case we'd have had to replan anyway a little
further down.
The other callers of SPI_plan_get_plan_sources() seem OK, because
either they don't need up-to-date plans or they know that the
query was just (re) planned. But add some commentary in hopes
of not falling into this trap again.
Per bug #18574 from Song Hongyu. Back-patch to v14 where this coding
was introduced. (Older branches have comparable code, but it's run
after any required replanning, so there's no issue.)
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18574-2ce7ba3249221389@postgresql.org
We were not being clear about which variants of the "direction"
clause are permitted in MOVE. Also, the text seemed to be
written with only the FETCH/MOVE NEXT case in mind, so it
didn't apply very well to other variants.
Also, document that "MOVE count IN cursor" only works if count
is a constant. This is not the whole truth, because some other
cases such as a parenthesized expression will also work, but
we want to push people to use "MOVE FORWARD count" instead.
The constant case is enough to cover what we allow in plain SQL,
and that seems sufficient to claim support for.
Update a comment in pl_gram.y claiming that we don't document
that point.
Per gripe from Philipp Salvisberg.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/172155553388.702.7932496598218792085@wrigleys.postgresql.org
Commit 4c1532763a removed some redundant uses of 'use 5.008001;' in perl
scripts, including in plperl's plc_perlboot.pl. Because it made other
changes it wasn't backpatched. However, now this is causing a failure on
back branches when built with bleeding edge perl. Therefore, backpatch
just that part of it which removed those uses, from 15 all the way down
to 9.2, which is the earliest version currently built in the buildfarm.
per report from Alexander Lakhin
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/4cc2ee93-e03c-8e13-61ed-412e7e6ff19d@gmail.com
The previous coding here assumed that we didn't need to recheck any
of the querytree tests made in exec_simple_check_plan(). I think
we supposed that those properties were fully determined by the
syntax of the source text and hence couldn't change. That is true
for most of them, but at least hasTargetSRFs and hasAggs can change
by dint of forcibly dropping an originally-referenced function and
recreating it with new properties. That leads to "unexpected plan
node type" or similar failures.
These tests are pretty cheap compared to the cost of replanning, so
rather than sweat over exactly which properties need to be rechecked,
let's just recheck them all. Hence, factor out those tests into a new
function exec_is_simple_query(), and rearrange callers as needed.
A second problem in the same area was that if we failed during
replanning or during exec_save_simple_expr(), we'd potentially
leave behind now-dangling pointers to the old simple expression,
potentially resulting in crashes later. To fix, clear those pointers
before replanning.
The v12 code looks quite different in this area but still has the
bug about needing to recheck query simplicity. I chose to back-patch
all of the plpgsql_simple.sql test script, which formerly didn't exist
in this branch.
Per bug #18497 from Nikita Kalinin. Back-patch to all supported
branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18497-fe93b6da82ce31d4@postgresql.org
If the CALL is within an atomic context (e.g. there's an outer
transaction block), _SPI_execute_plan should acquire a fresh snapshot
to execute any such functions with. We failed to do that and instead
passed them the Portal snapshot, which had been acquired at the start
of the current SQL command. This'd lead to seeing stale values of
rows modified since the start of the command.
This is arguably a bug in 84f5c2908: I failed to see that "are we in
non-atomic mode" needs to be defined the same way as it is further
down in _SPI_execute_plan, i.e. check !_SPI_current->atomic not just
options->allow_nonatomic. Alternatively the blame could be laid on
plpgsql, which is unconditionally passing allow_nonatomic = true
for CALL/DO even when it knows it's in an atomic context. However,
fixing it in spi.c seems like a better idea since that will also fix
the problem for any extensions that may have copied plpgsql's coding
pattern.
While here, update an obsolete comment about _SPI_execute_plan's
snapshot management.
Per report from Victor Yegorov. Back-patch to all supported versions.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAGnEboiRe+fG2QxuBO2390F7P8e2MQ6UyBjZSL_w1Cej+E4=Vw@mail.gmail.com
In a procedure or function returning tuple, we use that function to
parse the Tcl script's result, which is supposed to be a Tcl list.
If it isn't, you get an error. Commit 26abb50c4 incautiously
supposed that we could use throw_tcl_error() to report such an error.
That doesn't actually work, because low-level functions like
Tcl_ListObjGetElements() don't fill Tcl's errorInfo variable.
The result is either a null-pointer-dereference crash or emission
of misleading context information describing the previous Tcl error.
Back off to just reporting the interpreter's result string, and
improve throw_tcl_error()'s comment to explain when to use it.
Also, although the similar code in pltcl_trigger_handler() avoided
this mistake, it was using a fairly confusing wording of the
error message. Improve that while we're here.
Per report from A. Kozhemyakin. Back-patch to all supported
branches.
Erik Wienhold and Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/6a2a1c40-2b2c-4a33-8b72-243c0766fcda@postgrespro.ru
Most of the infrastructure for procedure arguments was already
okay with polymorphic output arguments, but it turns out that
CallStmtResultDesc() was a few bricks shy of a load here. It thought
all it needed to do was call build_function_result_tupdesc_t, but
that function specifically disclaims responsibility for resolving
polymorphic arguments. Failing to handle that doesn't seem to be
a problem for CALL in plpgsql, but CALL from plain SQL would get
errors like "cannot display a value of type anyelement", or even
crash outright.
In v14 and later we can simply examine the exposed types of the
CallStmt.outargs nodes to get the right type OIDs. But it's a lot
more complicated to fix in v12/v13, because those versions don't
have CallStmt.outargs, nor do they do expand_function_arguments
until ExecuteCallStmt runs. We have to duplicatively run
expand_function_arguments, and then re-determine which elements
of the args list are output arguments.
Per bug #18463 from Drew Kimball. Back-patch to all supported
versions, since it's busted in all of them.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18463-f8cd77e12564d8a2@postgresql.org
If we recursed to a new call of the same function, with a different
coldeflist (AS clause), it would fail because the inner call would
overwrite the outer call's idea of what to return. This is vaguely
like 1d2fe56e4 and c5bec5426, but it's not due to any API decisions:
it's just that we computed the actual output rowtype at the start of
the call, and saved it in the per-procedure data structure. We can
fix it at basically zero cost by doing the computation at the end
of each call instead of the start.
It's not clear that there's any real-world use-case for such a
function, but given that it doesn't cost anything to fix,
it'd be silly not to.
Per report from Andreas Karlsson. Back-patch to all supported
branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1651a46d-3c15-4028-a8c1-d74937b54e19@proxel.se
If a plpython-language trigger caused another one to be invoked,
the "TD" dictionary created for the inner one would overwrite the
outer one's "TD" dictionary. This is more or less the same problem
that 1d2fe56e4 fixed for ordinary functions in plpython, so fix it
the same way, by saving and restoring "TD" during a recursive
invocation.
This fix makes an ABI-incompatible change in struct PLySavedArgs.
I'm not too worried about that because it seems highly unlikely that
any extension is messing with those structs. We could imagine doing
something weird to preserve nominal ABI compatibility in the back
branches, like keeping the saved TD object in an extra element of
namedargs[]. However, that would only be very nominal compatibility:
if anything *is* touching PLySavedArgs, it would likely do the wrong
thing due to not knowing about the additional value. So I judge it
not worth the ugliness to do something different there.
(I also changed struct PLyProcedure, but its added field fits
into formerly-padding space, so that should be safe.)
Per bug #18456 from Jacques Combrink. This bug is very ancient,
so back-patch to all supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3008982.1714853799@sss.pgh.pa.us
Up to now, read_sql_construct() has collected all the source text from
the statement or expression's initial token up to the character just
before the "until" token. It normally tries to strip trailing
whitespace from that, largely for neatness. If there was a "-- text"
comment after the expression, this resulted in removing the newline
that terminates the comment, which creates a hazard if we try to paste
the collected text into a larger SQL construct without inserting a
newline after it. In particular this caused our handling of CASE
constructs to fail if there's a comment after a WHEN expression.
Commit 4adead1d2 noticed a similar problem with cursor arguments,
and worked around it through the rather crude hack of suppressing
the whitespace-trimming behavior for those. Rather than do that
and leave the hazard open for future hackers to trip over, let's
fix it properly. pl_scanner.c already has enough infrastructure
to report the end location of the expression's last token, so
we can copy up to that location and never collect any trailing
whitespace or comment to begin with.
Erik Wienhold and Tom Lane, per report from Michal Bartak.
Back-patch to all supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAVzF_FjRoi8fOVuLCZhQJx6HATQ7MKm=aFOHWZODFnLmjX-xA@mail.gmail.com
The "pltargs" variable wasn't marked volatile, which makes it unsafe
to change its value within the PG_TRY block. It looks like the worst
outcome would be to fail to release a refcount on Py_None during an
(improbable) error exit, which would likely go unnoticed in the field.
Still, it's a bug. A one-liner fix could be to mark pltargs volatile,
but on the whole it seems cleaner to arrange things so that we don't
change its value within PG_TRY.
Per report from Xing Guo. This has been there for quite awhile,
so back-patch to all supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CACpMh+DLrk=fDv07MNpBT4J413fDAm+gmMXgi8cjPONE+jvzuw@mail.gmail.com
plpgsql fails on new-style CREATE FUNCTION/PROCEDURE commands within
a routine or DO block, because make_execsql_stmt believes that a
semicolon token always terminates a SQL command. Now, that's actually
been wrong since the day it was written, because CREATE RULE has long
allowed multiple rule actions separated by semicolons. But there are
few enough people using multi-action rules that there was never an
attempt to fix it. New-style SQL functions, though, are popular.
psql has this same problem of "does this semicolon really terminate
the command?". It deals with CREATE RULE by counting parenthesis
nesting depth: a semicolon within parens doesn't end a command.
Commits e717a9a18 and 029c5ac03 created a similar heuristic to count
matching BEGIN/END pairs (but only within CREATEs, so as not to be
fooled by plain BEGIN). That's survived several releases now without
trouble reports, so let's just absorb those heuristics into plpgsql.
Per report from Samuel Dussault. Back-patch to v14 where new-style
SQL function syntax came in.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/YT2PR01MB88552C3E9AD40A6C038774A781722@YT2PR01MB8855.CANPRD01.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM
Like commit 388e80132, use "#pragma GCC system_header" to silence
warnings appearing within the Python headers, since newer Python
versions no longer worry about some restrictions we still use like
-Wdeclaration-after-statement.
This patch improves on 388e80132 by inventing a separate wrapper
header file, allowing the pragma to be tightly scoped to just
the Python headers and not other stuff we have laying about in
plpython.h. I applied the same technique to plperl for the same
reason: the original patch suppressed warnings for a good deal
of our own code, not only the Perl headers.
Like the previous commit, back-patch to supported branches.
Peter Eisentraut and Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ae523163-6d2a-4b81-a875-832e48dec502@eisentraut.org
Add "-gmt 1" to our test invocations of the Tcl "clock" command,
so that they do not consult the timezone environment. While it
doesn't really matter which timezone is used here, it does
matter that the command not fall over entirely. We've now
discovered that at least on FreeBSD, "clock scan" will fail if
/etc/localtime is missing. It seems worth making the test
insensitive to that.
Per Tomas Vondras' buildfarm animal dikkop. Thanks to
Thomas Munro for the diagnosis.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/316d304a-1dcd-cea1-3d6c-27f794727a06@enterprisedb.com
Parse analysis of a CallStmt will inject mutable information,
for instance the OID of the called procedure, so that subsequent
DDL may create a need to re-parse the CALL. We failed to detect
this for CALLs in plpgsql routines, because no dependency information
was collected when putting a CallStmt into the plan cache. That
could lead to misbehavior or strange errors such as "cache lookup
failed".
Before commit ee895a655, the issue would only manifest for CALLs
appearing in atomic contexts, because we re-planned non-atomic
CALLs every time through anyway.
It is now apparent that extract_query_dependencies() probably
needs a special case for every utility statement type for which
stmt_requires_parse_analysis() returns true. I wanted to add
something like Assert(!stmt_requires_parse_analysis(...)) when
falling out of extract_query_dependencies_walker without doing
anything, but there are API issues as well as a more fundamental
point: stmt_requires_parse_analysis is supposed to be applied to
raw parser output, so it'd be cheating to assume it will give the
correct answer for post-parse-analysis trees. I contented myself
with adding a comment.
Per bug #18131 from Christian Stork. Back-patch to all supported
branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18131-576854e79c5cd264@postgresql.org
PLy_elog() was not able to handle correctly cases where a SPI called
failed, which would fill in a DETAIL string able to trigger an
assertion. We may want to improve this infrastructure so as it is able
to provide any extra detail information provided by an error stack, but
this is left as a future improvement as it could impact existing error
stacks and any applications that depend on them. For now, the assertion
is removed and a regression test is added to cover the case of a failure
with a detail string.
This problem exists since 2bd78eb8d5, so backpatch all the way down
with tweaks to the regression tests output added where required.
Author: Alexander Lakhin
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18070-ab9c171cbf4ebb0f@postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 11
Revalidation of a plancache entry (after a cache invalidation event)
requires acquiring a snapshot. Normally that is harmless, but not
if the cached statement is one that needs to run without acquiring a
snapshot. We were already aware of that for TransactionStmts,
but for some reason hadn't extrapolated to the other statements that
PlannedStmtRequiresSnapshot() knows mustn't set a snapshot. This can
lead to unexpected failures of commands such as SET TRANSACTION
ISOLATION LEVEL. We can fix it in the same way, by excluding those
command types from revalidation.
However, we can do even better than that: there is no need to
revalidate for any statement type for which parse analysis, rewrite,
and plan steps do nothing interesting, which is nearly all utility
commands. To mechanize this, invent a parser function
stmt_requires_parse_analysis() that tells whether parse analysis does
anything beyond wrapping a CMD_UTILITY Query around the raw parse
tree. If that's what it does, then rewrite and plan will just
skip the Query, so that it is not possible for the same raw parse
tree to produce a different plan tree after cache invalidation.
stmt_requires_parse_analysis() is basically equivalent to the
existing function analyze_requires_snapshot(), except that for
obscure reasons that function omits ReturnStmt and CallStmt.
It is unclear whether those were oversights or intentional.
I have not been able to demonstrate a bug from not acquiring a
snapshot while analyzing these commands, but at best it seems mighty
fragile. It seems safer to acquire a snapshot for parse analysis of
these commands too, which allows making stmt_requires_parse_analysis
and analyze_requires_snapshot equivalent.
In passing this fixes a second bug, which is that ResetPlanCache
would exclude ReturnStmts and CallStmts from revalidation.
That's surely *not* safe, since they contain parsable expressions.
Per bug #18059 from Pavel Kulakov. Back-patch to all supported
branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18059-79c692f036b25346@postgresql.org
Like plperl before f47004add, plpython wasn't being sufficiently
careful about checking that list-of-list structures represent
rectangular arrays, so that it would accept some cases in which
different parts of the "array" are nested to different depths.
This was exacerbated by Python's weak distinction between
sequences and lists, so that in some cases strings could get
treated as though they are lists (and burst into individual
characters) even though a different ordering of the upper-level
list would give a different result.
Some of this behavior was unreachable (without risking a crash)
before 81eaaf65e. It seems like a good idea to clean it all up
in the same releases, rather than shipping a non-crashing but
nonetheless visibly buggy behavior in the name of minimal change.
Hence, back-patch.
Per bug #17912 and further testing by Alexander Lakhin.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17912-82ceed78731d9cdc@postgresql.org
plperl_array_to_datum() wasn't sufficiently careful about checking
that nested lists represent a rectangular array structure; it would
accept inputs such as "[1, []]". This is a bit related to the
PL/Python bug fixed in commit 81eaaf65e, but it doesn't seem to
provide any direct route to a memory stomp. Instead the likely
failure mode is for makeMdArrayResult to be passed fewer Datums than
the claimed array dimensionality requires, possibly leading to a wild
pointer dereference and SIGSEGV.
Per report from Alexander Lakhin. It's been broken for a long
time, so back-patch to all supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/5ebae5e4-d401-fadf-8585-ac3eaf53219c@gmail.com
If PLySequence_ToArray came across a zero-length sublist, it'd compute
the overall array size as zero, possibly leading to a memory clobber.
(This would likely qualify as a security bug, were it not that plpython
is an untrusted language already.)
I think there are other corner-case issues in this code as well, notably
that the error messages don't match the core code and for some ranges
of array sizes you'd get "invalid memory alloc request size" rather than
the intended message about array size.
Really this code has no business doing its own array size calculation
at all, so remove the faulty code in favor of using ArrayGetNItems().
Per bug #17912 from Alexander Lakhin. Bug seems to have come in with
commit 94aceed31, so back-patch to all supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17912-82ceed78731d9cdc@postgresql.org
Commit 04fe805a1 modified plpgsql so that datatype casts make use of
expressions cached by plancache.c, in place of older code where these
expression trees were managed by plpgsql itself. However, I (tgl)
forgot that we use a separate, shorter-lived cast info hashtable in
DO blocks. The new mechanism thus resulted in session-lifespan
leakage of the plancache data once a DO block containing one or more
casts terminated. To fix, split the cast hash table into two parts,
one that tracks only the plancache's CachedExpressions and one that
tracks the expression state trees generated from them. DO blocks need
their own expression state trees and hence their own version of the
second hash table, but there's no reason they can't share the
CachedExpressions with regular plpgsql functions.
Per report from Ajit Awekar. Back-patch to v12 where the issue
was introduced.
Ajit Awekar and Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHv6PyrNaqdvyWUspzd3txYQguFTBSnhx+m6tS06TnM+KWc_LQ@mail.gmail.com
New versions of perl trigger warnings within perl.h with our compiler
flags. At least -Wdeclaration-after-statement, -Wshadow=compatible-local are
known to be problematic.
To avoid these warnings, conditionally use #pragma GCC system_header before
including plperl.h.
Alternatively, we could add the include paths for problematic headers with
-isystem, but that is a larger hammer and is harder to search for.
A more granular alternative would be to use #pragma GCC diagnostic
push/ignored/pop, but gcc warns about unknown warnings being ignored, so every
to-be-ignored-temporarily compiler warning would require its own pg_config.h
symbol and #ifdef.
As the warnings are voluminous, it makes sense to backpatch this change. But
don't do so yet, we first want gather buildfarm coverage - it's e.g. possible
that some compiler claiming to be gcc compatible has issues with the pragma.
Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20221228182455.hfdwd22zztvkojy2@awork3.anarazel.de
Strawberry uses __builtin_expect which Visual C doesn't have. For this
case define it as a noop. Solution taken from vim sources.
Backpatch to all live branches
Treat arguments declared as RECORD as if that were a polymorphic type
(which it is, sort of), in that we substitute the actual argument type
while forming the function cache lookup key. This allows the specific
composite type to be known in some cases where it was not before,
at the cost of making a separate function cache entry for each named
composite type that's passed to the function during a session. The
particular symptom discussed in bug #17610 could be solved in other
more-efficient ways, but only at the cost of considerable development
work, and there are other cases where we'd still fail without this.
Per bug #17610 from Martin Jurča. Back-patch to v11 where we first
allowed plpgsql functions to be declared as taking type RECORD.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17610-fb1eef75bf6c2364@postgresql.org
We allow users to set the values of not-yet-loaded extension GUCs,
remembering those values in "placeholder" GUC entries. When/if
the extension is loaded later in the session, we need to verify that
the user had permissions to set the GUC. That was done correctly
before commit a0ffa885e, but as of that commit, we'd check the
permissions of the active role when the LOAD happens, not the role
that had set the value. (This'd be a security bug if it had made it
into a released version.)
In principle this is simple enough to fix: we just need to remember
the exact role OID that set each GUC value, and use that not
GetUserID() when verifying permissions. Maintaining that data in
the guc.c data structures is slightly tedious, but fortunately it's
all basically just copy-n-paste of the logic for tracking the
GucSource of each setting, as we were already doing.
Another oversight is that validate_option_array_item() hadn't
been taught to check for granted GUC privileges. This appears
to manifest only in that ALTER ROLE/DATABASE RESET ALL will
fail to reset settings that the user should be allowed to reset.
Patch by myself and Nathan Bossart, per report from Nathan Bossart.
Back-patch to v15 where the faulty code came in.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220706224727.GA2158260@nathanxps13
plpython_unicode_3.out was already removed a long time ago, so it
being listed here was very out of date.
plpython_types_3.out was removed with the Python 2 removal.
It has been reported that PL/Tcl built on macOS with GCC >=11 crashes.
The reason is that there is a hash_search() function in the operating
system's libraries, and that ends up being called instead of the one
in postgres. This has something to do with how the linker resolves
references between the various possibilities it has been given, and
somehow something changed that it is now picking that one in this
configuration.
We found that removing the -lc from the link command line fixes this
problem. The -lc was introduced a long time ago in commit
e3909672f1, and we think the reasons
might be obsolete, so we decided that we'll try to just remove it and
see if any problems arise.
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/a78c847a-4f79-9286-be99-e819e9e4139e%40enterprisedb.com
Perl 5.36 has reclassified the warning condition that this test
case used, so that the expected error fails to appear. Tweak
the test so it instead exercises a case that's handled the same
way in all Perl versions of interest.
This appears to meet our standards for back-patching into
out-of-support branches: it changes no user-visible behavior
but enables testing of old branches with newer tools.
Hence, back-patch as far as 9.2.
Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker, per report from Jitka Plesníková.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/564579.1654093326@sss.pgh.pa.us
