- Jun 19, 2016
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Tom Lane authored
Dilian Palauzov pointed out in bug #14201 that the docs failed to mention the possibility of %R producing '(' due to an unmatched parenthesis. He proposed just adding that in the same style as the other options were listed; but it seemed to me that the sentence was already nearly unintelligible, so I rewrote it a bit more extensively. Report: <20160619121113.5789.68274@wrigleys.postgresql.org>
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- Jun 16, 2016
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Tom Lane authored
The inet/cidr types sometimes failed to reject IPv6 inputs with too many colon-separated fields, instead translating them to '::/0'. This is the result of a thinko in the original ISC code that seems to be as yet unreported elsewhere. Per bug #14198 from Stefan Kaltenbrunner. Report: <20160616182222.5798.959@wrigleys.postgresql.org>
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Tom Lane authored
Emit "(null)" instead, which was the behavior all along on platforms that don't crash, eg OS X. Per report from Jehan-Guillaume de Rorthais. Back-patch to 9.2 where -C option was introduced. Michael Paquier Report: <20160615204036.2d35d86a@firost>
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- Jun 13, 2016
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Tom Lane authored
pg_type_aclmask reported the wrong type's OID when complaining that it could not find a type's typelem. It also failed to provide a suitable errcode when the initially given OID doesn't exist (which is a user-facing error, since that OID can be user-specified). pg_foreign_data_wrapper_aclmask and pg_foreign_server_aclmask likewise lacked errcode specifications. Trivial cosmetic adjustments too. The wrong-type-OID problem was reported by Petru-Florin Mihancea in bug #14186; the other issues noted by me while reading the code. These errors all seem to be aboriginal in the respective routines, so back-patch as necessary. Report: <20160613163159.5798.52928@wrigleys.postgresql.org>
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- Jun 09, 2016
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Tom Lane authored
Document these as "nearest integer >= argument" and "nearest integer <= argument", which will hopefully be less confusing than the old formulation. New wording is from Matlab via Dean Rasheed. I changed the pg_description entries as well as the SGML docs. In the back branches, this will only affect installations initdb'd in the future, but it should be harmless otherwise. Discussion: <CAEZATCW3yzJo-NMSiQs5jXNFbTsCEftZS-Og8=FvFdiU+kYuSA@mail.gmail.com>
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- Jun 08, 2016
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Alvaro Herrera authored
In VPATH builds, the build directory was not being searched for files in GETTEXT_FILES, leading to failure to construct the .pot files. This has bit me all along, but never hard enough to get it fixed; I suppose not a lot of people uses VPATH and NLS-enabled builds, and those that do, don't do "make update-po" often. This is a longstanding problem, so backpatch all the way back.
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- Jun 06, 2016
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Tom Lane authored
If we ANALYZE only selected columns of a table, we should not postpone auto-analyze because of that; other columns may well still need stats updates. As committed, the counter is left alone if a column list is given, whether or not it includes all analyzable columns of the table. Per complaint from Tomasz Ostrowski. It's been like this a long time, so back-patch to all supported branches. Report: <ef99c1bd-ff60-5f32-2733-c7b504eb960c@ato.waw.pl>
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- May 26, 2016
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Alvaro Herrera authored
VACUUM FREEZE generated false cancelations of standby queries on an otherwise idle master. Caused by an off-by-one error on cutoff_xid which goes back to original commit. Analysis and report by Marco Nenciarini Bug fix by Simon Riggs This is a correct backpatch of commit 66fbcb0d to branches 9.1 through 9.4. That commit was backpatched to 9.0 originally, but it was immediately reverted in 9.0-9.4 because it didn't compile.
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- May 24, 2016
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Tom Lane authored
Because vac_update_datfrozenxid() updates datfrozenxid and datminmxid in-place, it's unsafe to assume that successive reads of those values will give consistent results. Fetch each one just once to ensure sane behavior in the minimum calculation. Noted while reviewing Alexander Korotkov's patch in the same area. Discussion: <8564.1464116473@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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Tom Lane authored
vac_truncate_clog() uses its own transaction ID as the comparison point in a sanity check that no database's datfrozenxid has already wrapped around "into the future". That was probably fine when written, but in a lazy vacuum we won't have assigned an XID, so calling GetCurrentTransactionId() causes an XID to be assigned when otherwise one would not be. Most of the time that's not a big problem ... but if we are hard up against the wraparound limit, consuming XIDs during antiwraparound vacuums is a very bad thing. Instead, use ReadNewTransactionId(), which not only avoids this problem but is in itself a better comparison point to test whether wraparound has already occurred. Report and patch by Alexander Korotkov. Back-patch to all versions. Report: <CAPpHfdspOkmiQsxh-UZw2chM6dRMwXAJGEmmbmqYR=yvM7-s6A@mail.gmail.com>
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- May 23, 2016
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Tom Lane authored
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>
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- May 20, 2016
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Tom Lane authored
Mention it in the Notes section too, per suggestion from David Johnston. Discussion: <20160520165824.22598.31426@wrigleys.postgresql.org>
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Tom Lane authored
Per bug #14152 from Alejandro Martínez. Back-patch to all supported branches. Discussion: <20160520165824.22598.31426@wrigleys.postgresql.org>
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- May 14, 2016
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Peter Eisentraut authored
From: Alexander Law <exclusion@gmail.com>
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- May 13, 2016
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Tom Lane authored
Buildfarm member skink failed with symptoms suggesting that an auto-analyze had happened and changed the plan displayed for a test query. Although this is evidently of low probability, regression tests that sometimes fail are no fun, so add commands to force a bitmap scan to be chosen.
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- May 10, 2016
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Alvaro Herrera authored
The table-skipping logic in autovacuum would fail to consider that multiple workers could be processing the same shared catalog in different databases. This normally wouldn't be a problem: firstly because autovacuum workers not for wraparound would simply ignore tables in which they cannot acquire lock, and secondly because most of the time these tables are small enough that even if multiple for-wraparound workers are stuck in the same catalog, they would be over pretty quickly. But in cases where the catalogs are severely bloated it could become a problem. Backpatch all the way back, because the problem has been there since the beginning. Reported by Ondřej Světlík Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/572B63B1.3030603%40flexibee.eu https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/572A1072.5080308%40flexibee.eu
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- May 09, 2016
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Peter Eisentraut authored
Source-Git-URL: git://git.postgresql.org/git/pgtranslation/messages.git Source-Git-Hash: 32e77ddc0a1641ccc73056a7c2113264ba2942ff
- May 07, 2016
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Tom Lane authored
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Peter Eisentraut authored
OpenSSL has an unfortunate tendency to mix per-session state error handling with per-thread error handling. This can cause problems when programs that link to libpq with OpenSSL enabled have some other use of OpenSSL; without care, one caller of OpenSSL may cause problems for the other caller. Backend code might similarly be affected, for example when a third party extension independently uses OpenSSL without taking the appropriate precautions. To fix, don't trust other users of OpenSSL to clear the per-thread error queue. Instead, clear the entire per-thread queue ahead of certain I/O operations when it appears that there might be trouble (these I/O operations mostly need to call SSL_get_error() to check for success, which relies on the queue being empty). This is slightly aggressive, but it's pretty clear that the other callers have a very dubious claim to ownership of the per-thread queue. Do this is both frontend and backend code. Finally, be more careful about clearing our own error queue, so as to not cause these problems ourself. It's possibly that control previously did not always reach SSLerrmessage(), where ERR_get_error() was supposed to be called to clear the queue's earliest code. Make sure ERR_get_error() is always called, so as to spare other users of OpenSSL the possibility of similar problems caused by libpq (as opposed to problems caused by a third party OpenSSL library like PHP's OpenSSL extension). Again, do this is both frontend and backend code. See bug #12799 and https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=68276 Based on patches by Dave Vitek and Peter Eisentraut. From: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
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- May 06, 2016
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Tom Lane authored
to_timestamp() handles the TH/th format codes by advancing over two input characters, whatever those are. It failed to notice whether there were two characters available to be skipped, making it possible to advance the pointer past the end of the input string and keep on parsing. A similar risk existed in the handling of "Y,YYY" format: it would advance over three characters after the "," whether or not three characters were available. In principle this might be exploitable to disclose contents of server memory. But the security team concluded that it would be very hard to use that way, because the parsing loop would stop upon hitting any zero byte, and TH/th format codes can't be consecutive --- they have to follow some other format code, which would have to match whatever data is there. So it seems impractical to examine memory very much beyond the end of the input string via this bug; and the input string will always be in local memory not in disk buffers, making it unlikely that anything very interesting is close to it in a predictable way. So this doesn't quite rise to the level of needing a CVE. Thanks to Wolf Roediger for reporting this bug.
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Tom Lane authored
DST law changes in Russia (Magadan, Tomsk regions) and Venezuela. Historical corrections for Russia. There are new zone names Europe/Kirov and Asia/Tomsk reflecting the fact that these regions now have different time zone histories from adjacent regions.
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- May 04, 2016
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Peter Eisentraut authored
From: Alexander Law <exclusion@gmail.com>
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Peter Eisentraut authored
From: Alexander Law <exclusion@gmail.com>
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- May 02, 2016
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Tom Lane authored
awk's equality-comparison operator is "==" not "=". We got this right in many places, but not in configure's checks for supported version numbers of flex and perl. It hadn't been noticed because unsupported versions are so old as to be basically extinct in the wild, and because the only consequence is whether or not a WARNING flies by during configure. Daniel Gustafsson noted the problem with respect to the test for flex, I found the other by reviewing other awk calls.
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Heikki Linnakangas authored
CHECK_PAGE_OFFSET_RANGE() has been unused forever. CHECK_RELATION_BLOCK_RANGE() has been unused in pgstatindex.c ever since bt_page_stats() and bt_page_items() functions were moved from pgstattuple to pageinspect module. It still exists in pageinspect/btreefuncs.c. Daniel Gustafsson
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- Apr 30, 2016
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Tom Lane authored
Given a three-or-more-way equivalence class, such as X.Y = Y.Y = Z.Z, it was possible for the planner to omit one of the quals needed to enforce that all members of the equivalence class are actually equal. This only happened in the case of a parameterized join node for two of the relations, that is a plan tree like Nested Loop -> Scan X -> Nested Loop -> Scan Y -> Scan Z Filter: Z.Z = X.X The eclass machinery normally expects to apply X.X = Y.Y when those two relations are joined, but in this shape of plan tree they aren't joined until the top node --- and, if the lower nested loop is marked as parameterized by X, the top node will assume that the relevant eclass condition(s) got pushed down into the lower node. On the other hand, the scan of Z assumes that it's only responsible for constraining Z.Z to match any one of the other eclass members. So one or another of the required quals sometimes fell between the cracks, depending on whether consideration of the eclass in get_joinrel_parampathinfo() for the lower nested loop chanced to generate X.X = Y.Y or X.X = Z.Z as the appropriate constraint there. If it generated the latter, it'd erroneously suppose that the Z scan would take care of matters. To fix, force X.X = Y.Y to be generated and applied at that join node when this case occurs. This is *extremely* hard to hit in practice, because various planner behaviors conspire to mask the problem; starting with the fact that the planner doesn't really like to generate a parameterized plan of the above shape. (It might have been impossible to hit it before we tweaked things to allow this plan shape for star-schema cases.) Many thanks to Alexander Kirkouski for submitting a reproducible test case. The bug can be demonstrated in all branches back to 9.2 where parameterized paths were introduced, so back-patch that far.
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- Apr 28, 2016
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Tom Lane authored
Commit 23a41573 attempted to fix the DatumGetBool macro to ignore bits in a Datum that are to the left of the actual bool value. But it did that by casting the Datum to bool; and on compilers that use C99 semantics for bool, that ends up being a whole-word test, not a 1-byte test. This seems to be the true explanation for contrib/seg failing in VS2015. To fix, use GET_1_BYTE() explicitly. I think in the previous patch, I'd had some idea of not having to commit to bool being exactly 1 byte wide, but regardless of what the compiler's bool is, boolean columns and Datums are certainly 1 byte wide. The previous fix was (eventually) back-patched into all active versions, so do likewise with this one.
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- Apr 23, 2016
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Tom Lane authored
NetBSD has seen fit to invent a libc function named strtoi(), which conflicts with the long-established static functions of the same name in datetime.c and ecpg's interval.c. While muttering darkly about intrusions on application namespace, we'll rename our functions to avoid the conflict. Back-patch to all supported branches, since this would affect attempts to build any of them on recent NetBSD. Thomas Munro
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- Apr 22, 2016
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Tom Lane authored
Given a left join containing a full join in its righthand side, with the left join's joinclause referencing only one side of the full join (in a non-strict fashion, so that the full join doesn't get simplified), the planner could fail with "failed to build any N-way joins" or related errors. This happened because the full join was seen as overlapping the left join's RHS, and then recent changes within join_is_legal() caused that function to conclude that the full join couldn't validly be formed. Rather than try to rejigger join_is_legal() yet more to allow this, I think it's better to fix initsplan.c so that the required join order is explicit in the SpecialJoinInfo data structure. The previous coding there essentially ignored full joins, relying on the fact that we don't flatten them in the joinlist data structure to preserve their ordering. That's sufficient to prevent a wrong plan from being formed, but as this example shows, it's not sufficient to ensure that the right plan will be formed. We need to work a bit harder to ensure that the right plan looks sane according to the SpecialJoinInfos. Per bug #14105 from Vojtech Rylko. This was apparently induced by commit 8703059c (though now that I've seen it, I wonder whether there are related cases that could have failed before that); so back-patch to all active branches. Unfortunately, that patch also went into 9.0, so this bug is a regression that won't be fixed in that branch.
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- Apr 21, 2016
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Tom Lane authored
The coverage was rather lean for cases that bind() or listen() might return. Add entries for everything that there's a direct equivalent for in the set of Unix errnos that elog.c has heard of.
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Tom Lane authored
There's no longer a need for the MSVC-version-specific code stanza that forcibly redefines errno code symbols, because since commit 73838b52 we're unconditionally redefining them in the stanza before this one anyway. Now it's merely confusing and ugly, so get rid of it; and improve the comment that explains what's going on here. Although this is just cosmetic, back-patch anyway since I'm intending to back-patch some less-cosmetic changes in this same hunk of code.
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Tom Lane authored
When we shoehorned "x op ANY (array)" into the SQL syntax, we created a fundamental ambiguity as to the proper treatment of a sub-SELECT on the righthand side: perhaps what's meant is to compare x against each row of the sub-SELECT's result, or perhaps the sub-SELECT is meant as a scalar sub-SELECT that delivers a single array value whose members should be compared against x. The grammar resolves it as the former case whenever the RHS is a select_with_parens, making the latter case hard to reach --- but you can get at it, with tricks such as attaching a no-op cast to the sub-SELECT. Parse analysis would throw away the no-op cast, leaving a parsetree with an EXPR_SUBLINK SubLink directly under a ScalarArrayOpExpr. ruleutils.c was not clued in on this fine point, and would naively emit "x op ANY ((SELECT ...))", which would be parsed as the first alternative, typically leading to errors like "operator does not exist: text = text[]" during dump/reload of a view or rule containing such a construct. To fix, emit a no-op cast when dumping such a parsetree. This might well be exactly what the user wrote to get the construct accepted in the first place; and even if she got there with some other dodge, it is a valid representation of the parsetree. Per report from Karl Czajkowski. He mentioned only a case involving RLS policies, but actually the problem is very old, so back-patch to all supported branches. Report: <20160421001832.GB7976@moraine.isi.edu>
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Tom Lane authored
In commit 2ffa8696 we made pg_ctl recognize an environment variable PGCTLTIMEOUT to set the default timeout for starting and stopping the postmaster. However, pg_regress uses pg_ctl only for the "stop" end of that; it has bespoke code for starting the postmaster, and that code has historically had a hard-wired 60-second timeout. Further buildfarm experience says it'd be a good idea if that timeout were also controlled by PGCTLTIMEOUT, so let's make it so. Like the previous patch, back-patch to all active branches. Discussion: <13969.1461191936@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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- Apr 18, 2016
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Tom Lane authored
Per discussion, there doesn't seem to be much value in having NUM_SPINLOCK_SEMAPHORES set to 1024: under any scenario where you are running more than a few backends concurrently, you really had better have a real spinlock implementation if you want tolerable performance. And 1024 semaphores is a sizable fraction of the system-wide SysV semaphore limit on many platforms. Therefore, reduce this setting's default value to 128 to make it less likely to cause out-of-semaphores problems.
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Tom Lane authored
My back-patch of the 9.4-era commit 44cd47c1 into 9.2 and 9.3 fixed HPPA builds as expected, but it broke --disable-spinlocks builds, because the dummy spinlock is initialized before the underlying semaphore infrastructure is alive. In 9.4 and up this works because of commit daa7527a, which decoupled initialization of an slock_t variable from access to the actual system semaphore object. The best solution seems to be to back-port that patch, which should be a net win anyway because it improves the usability of --disable-spinlocks builds in the older branches; and it's been out long enough now to not be worrisome from a stability perspective.
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- Apr 16, 2016
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Tom Lane authored
Back-patch 9.4-era commit 44cd47c1 into 9.2 and 9.3. As with my back-patches of yesterday, this was not seen as necessary at the time because we didn't expect barrier.h to need to work before 9.4, but commit 37de8de9 invalidated that theory. Per an attempt to run gaur and pademelon over old branches they've not been run on since ~2013.
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Peter Eisentraut authored
From: Alexander Law <exclusion@gmail.com>
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- Apr 15, 2016
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Tom Lane authored
We weren't particularly maintaining barrier.h before 9.4, because nothing was using it in those branches. Well, nothing until commit 37de8de9 got back-patched. That broke 9.2 and 9.3 for some non-mainstream platforms that we haven't been testing in the buildfarm, including icc on ia64, HPPA, and Alpha. This commit effectively back-patches commits e5592c61, 89779bf2, and 747ca669, though I did it just by copying the file (less copyright date updates) rather than by cherry-picking those commits. Per an attempt to run gaur and pademelon over old branches they've not been run on since ~2013.
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