postgresql/contrib
Tom Lane 4c9bf947a9 Replace usages of xmlXPathCompile() with xmlXPathCtxtCompile().
In existing releases of libxml2, xmlXPathCompile can be driven
to stack overflow because it fails to protect itself against
too-deeply-nested input.  While there is an upstream fix as of
yesterday, it will take years for that to propagate into all
shipping versions.  In the meantime, we can protect our own
usages basically for free by calling xmlXPathCtxtCompile instead.

(The actual bug is that libxml2 keeps its nesting counter in the
xmlXPathContext, and its parsing code was willing to just skip
counting nesting levels if it didn't have a context.  So if we supply
a context, all is well.  It seems odd actually that it works at all
to not supply a context, because this means that XPath parsing does
not have access to XML namespace info.  Apparently libxml2 never
checks namespaces until runtime?  Anyway, this seems like good
future-proofing even if its only immediate effect is to dodge a bug.)

Sadly, this hack only offers protection with libxml2 2.9.11 and newer.
Before that there are multiple similar problems, so if you are
processing untrusted XML it behooves you to get a newer version.
But we have some pretty old libxml2 in the buildfarm, so it seems
impractical to add a regression test to verify this fix.

Per bug #18617 from Jingzhou Fu.  Back-patch to all supported
versions.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18617-1cee4d2ed1f4e7ae@postgresql.org
Discussion: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/issues/799
2024-09-15 13:33:09 -04:00
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adminpack Use "data directory" not "current directory" in error messages. 2023-03-16 12:04:08 -04:00
amcheck amcheck: Normalize index tuples containing uncompressed varlena 2024-03-23 23:02:30 +02:00
auth_delay Fix copy-pasto in contrib/auth_delay/meson.build variable name. 2023-04-02 09:31:10 -07:00
auto_explain Pre-beta mechanical code beautification. 2023-05-19 17:24:48 -04:00
basebackup_to_shell Pre-beta mechanical code beautification. 2023-05-19 17:24:48 -04:00
basic_archive Pre-beta mechanical code beautification. 2023-05-19 17:24:48 -04:00
bloom Use the buffer cache when initializing an unlogged index. 2023-08-23 17:23:18 +03:00
bool_plperl Update copyright for 2023 2023-01-02 15:00:37 -05:00
btree_gin btree_gin: Fix calculation of leftmost interval value. 2023-10-29 11:14:36 +00:00
btree_gist Remove useless casts to (void *) in arguments of some system functions 2023-02-07 06:57:59 +01:00
citext Skip citext_utf8 test on Windows. 2024-08-02 10:03:45 +12:00
cube Rework pg_input_error_message(), now renamed pg_input_error_info() 2023-02-28 08:04:13 +09:00
dblink rename "gss_accept_deleg" to "gss_accept_delegation". 2023-05-20 21:32:54 -04:00
dict_int Update copyright for 2023 2023-01-02 15:00:37 -05:00
dict_xsyn Update copyright for 2023 2023-01-02 15:00:37 -05:00
earthdistance Doc: improve commentary about providing our own definitions of M_PI. 2023-01-08 16:25:33 -05:00
file_fdw Improve several permission-related error messages. 2023-03-17 10:33:09 +01:00
fuzzystrmatch Ensure Soundex difference() function handles empty input sanely. 2023-05-16 10:53:42 -04:00
hstore hstore: Tighten key/value parsing check for whitespaces 2023-06-12 09:14:03 +09:00
hstore_plperl Update copyright for 2023 2023-01-02 15:00:37 -05:00
hstore_plpython In hstore_plpython, avoid crashing when return value isn't a mapping. 2023-04-27 11:55:06 -04:00
intagg Update copyright for 2023 2023-01-02 15:00:37 -05:00
intarray Fix integer-overflow problem in intarray's g_int_decompress(). 2024-01-07 15:19:50 -05:00
isn Rework pg_input_error_message(), now renamed pg_input_error_info() 2023-02-28 08:04:13 +09:00
jsonb_plperl Update copyright for 2023 2023-01-02 15:00:37 -05:00
jsonb_plpython Update copyright for 2023 2023-01-02 15:00:37 -05:00
lo Update copyright for 2023 2023-01-02 15:00:37 -05:00
ltree Pre-beta mechanical code beautification. 2023-05-19 17:24:48 -04:00
ltree_plpython Update copyright for 2023 2023-01-02 15:00:37 -05:00
oid2name Mark options as deprecated in usage output 2023-03-02 14:36:37 +01:00
old_snapshot Update copyright for 2023 2023-01-02 15:00:37 -05:00
pageinspect Fix contrib/pageinspect's test for sequences. 2024-09-13 10:16:40 -05:00
passwordcheck Update copyright for 2023 2023-01-02 15:00:37 -05:00
pg_buffercache Add pg_buffercache_usage_counts() to contrib/pg_buffercache. 2023-04-07 14:25:53 -04:00
pg_freespacemap Update copyright for 2023 2023-01-02 15:00:37 -05:00
pg_prewarm Pre-beta mechanical code beautification. 2023-05-19 17:24:48 -04:00
pg_stat_statements Propagate query IDs of utility statements in functions 2024-07-19 10:21:24 +09:00
pg_surgery Remove useless casts to (void *) in arguments of some system functions 2023-02-07 06:57:59 +01:00
pg_trgm Update contrib/trgm_regexp's memory management. 2023-04-08 22:09:17 +12:00
pg_visibility Avoid edge case in pg_visibility test with small shared_buffers 2024-03-25 20:20:34 -07:00
pg_walinspect Pre-beta mechanical code beautification. 2023-05-19 17:24:48 -04:00
pgcrypto pgcrypto: Fix check for buffer size 2024-01-30 11:15:46 +01:00
pgrowlocks Adjust the order of the prechecks in pgrowlocks() 2023-10-31 16:42:35 +13:00
pgstattuple Reintroduce support for sequences in pgstattuple and pageinspect. 2024-09-12 16:31:29 -05:00
postgres_fdw Restrict accesses to non-system views and foreign tables during pg_dump. 2024-08-05 06:05:28 -07:00
seg seg: Add test "security" in meson.build 2024-01-18 10:12:51 +09:00
sepgsql meson: Fix missing dependency from install-quiet to sepgsql.sql 2023-11-17 16:34:01 -08:00
spi Update copyright for 2023 2023-01-02 15:00:37 -05:00
sslinfo Update copyright for 2023 2023-01-02 15:00:37 -05:00
start-scripts Remove gratuitous references to postmaster program 2023-01-26 10:48:32 +01:00
tablefunc Update copyright for 2023 2023-01-02 15:00:37 -05:00
tcn Update copyright for 2023 2023-01-02 15:00:37 -05:00
test_decoding Fix possibility of logical decoding partial transaction changes. 2024-07-11 22:48:18 +09:00
tsm_system_rows Update copyright for 2023 2023-01-02 15:00:37 -05:00
tsm_system_time Update copyright for 2023 2023-01-02 15:00:37 -05:00
unaccent unaccent: Tweak value of PYTHON when building without Python support 2023-09-27 14:41:15 +09:00
uuid-ossp New header varatt.h split off from postgres.h 2023-01-10 05:54:36 +01:00
vacuumlo Update copyright for 2023 2023-01-02 15:00:37 -05:00
xml2 Replace usages of xmlXPathCompile() with xmlXPathCtxtCompile(). 2024-09-15 13:33:09 -04:00
contrib-global.mk Respect TEMP_CONFIG when pg_regress_check and friends are called 2016-02-27 12:28:21 -05:00
Makefile Revert "Rename contrib module basic_archive to basic_wal_module" 2023-01-26 09:13:39 +09:00
meson.build Revert "Rename contrib module basic_archive to basic_wal_module" 2023-01-26 09:13:39 +09:00
README Rename 'gmake' to 'make' in docs and recommended commands 2014-02-12 17:29:19 -05:00

The PostgreSQL contrib tree
---------------------------

This subtree contains porting tools, analysis utilities, and plug-in
features that are not part of the core PostgreSQL system, mainly
because they address a limited audience or are too experimental to be
part of the main source tree.  This does not preclude their
usefulness.

User documentation for each module appears in the main SGML
documentation.

When building from the source distribution, these modules are not
built automatically, unless you build the "world" target.  You can
also build and install them all by running "make all" and "make
install" in this directory; or to build and install just one selected
module, do the same in that module's subdirectory.

Some directories supply new user-defined functions, operators, or
types.  To make use of one of these modules, after you have installed
the code you need to register the new SQL objects in the database
system by executing a CREATE EXTENSION command.  In a fresh database,
you can simply do

    CREATE EXTENSION module_name;

See the PostgreSQL documentation for more information about this
procedure.