- Apr 16, 2016
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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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Andres Freund authored
These aren't valid C89. Found thanks to gcc's -Wc90-c99-compat. These exist in differing places in most supported branches.
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- Apr 14, 2016
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Tom Lane authored
As reported by Michael Feld, pg_upgrade'ing an installation having extensions with operator families that contain just a single operator class failed to reproduce the extension membership of those operator families. This caused no immediate ill effects, but would create problems when later trying to do a plain dump and restore, because the seemingly-not-part-of- the-extension operator families would appear separately in the pg_dump output, and then would conflict with the families created by loading the extension. This has been broken ever since extensions were introduced, and many of the standard contrib extensions are affected, so it's a bit astonishing nobody complained before. The cause of the problem is a perhaps-ill-considered decision to omit such operator families from pg_dump's output on the grounds that the CREATE OPERATOR CLASS commands could recreate them, and having explicit CREATE OPERATOR FAMILY commands would impede loading the dump script into pre-8.3 servers. Whatever the merits of that decision when 8.3 was being written, it looks like a poor tradeoff now. We can fix the pg_upgrade problem simply by removing that code, so that the operator families are dumped explicitly (and then will be properly made to be part of their extensions). Although this fixes the behavior of future pg_upgrade runs, it does nothing to clean up existing installations that may have improperly-linked operator families. Given the small number of complaints to date, maybe we don't need to worry about providing an automated solution for that; anyone who needs to clean it up can do so with manual "ALTER EXTENSION ADD OPERATOR FAMILY" commands, or even just ignore the duplicate-opfamily errors they get during a pg_restore. In any case we need this fix. Back-patch to all supported branches. Discussion: <20228.1460575691@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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- Apr 12, 2016
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Tom Lane authored
It turns out that those PyErr_Clear() calls I removed from plpy_elog.c in 7e3bb080 et al were not quite as random as they appeared: they mask a Python 2.3.x bug. (Specifically, it turns out that PyType_Ready() can fail if the error indicator is set on entry, and PLy_traceback's fetch of frame.f_code may be the first operation in a session that requires the "frame" type to be readied. Ick.) Put back the clear call, but in a more centralized place closer to what it's protecting, and this time with a comment warning what it's really for. Per buildfarm member prairiedog. Although prairiedog was only failing on HEAD, it seems clearly possible for this to occur in older branches as well, so back-patch to 9.2 the same as the previous patch.
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- Apr 11, 2016
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Tom Lane authored
PLy_elog() could attempt to access strings that Python had already freed, because the strings that PLy_get_spi_error_data() returns are simply pointers into storage associated with the error "val" PyObject. That's fine at the instant PLy_get_spi_error_data() returns them, but just after that PLy_traceback() intentionally releases the only refcount on that object, allowing it to be freed --- so that the strings we pass to ereport() are dangling pointers. In principle this could result in garbage output or a coredump. In practice, I think the risk is pretty low, because there are no Python operations between where we decrement that refcount and where we use the strings (and copy them into PG storage), and thus no reason for Python to recycle the storage. Still, it's clearly hazardous, and it leads to Valgrind complaints when running under a Valgrind that hasn't been lobotomized to ignore Python memory allocations. The code was a mess anyway: we fetched the error data out of Python (clearing Python's error indicator) with PyErr_Fetch, examined it, pushed it back into Python with PyErr_Restore (re-setting the error indicator), then immediately pulled it back out with another PyErr_Fetch. Just to confuse matters even more, there were some gratuitous-and-yet-hazardous PyErr_Clear calls in the "examine" step, and we didn't get around to doing PyErr_NormalizeException until after the second PyErr_Fetch, making it even less clear which object was being manipulated where and whether we still had a refcount on it. (If PyErr_NormalizeException did substitute a different "val" object, it's possible that the problem could manifest for real, because then we'd be doing assorted Python stuff with no refcount on the object we have string pointers into.) So, rearrange all that into some semblance of sanity, and don't decrement the refcount on the Python error objects until the end of PLy_elog(). In HEAD, I failed to resist the temptation to reformat some messy bits from 5c3c3cd0 along the way. Back-patch as far as 9.2, because the code is substantially the same that far back. I believe that 9.1 has the bug as well; but the code around it is rather different and I don't want to take a chance on breaking something for what seems a low-probability problem.
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- Apr 08, 2016
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Teodor Sigaev authored
Found during investigation of failure of skink buildfarm member and its valgrind report. Backpatch to all supported branches
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Andrew Dunstan authored
Most of what is produced by the detailed verbosity level is of no interest at all, so switch to the normal level for more usable output. Christian Ullrich Backpatch to all live branches
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- Apr 06, 2016
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Alvaro Herrera authored
Commit b8a91d9d put the description of the new IF EXISTS clause in the wrong place -- move it where it belongs. Backpatch to 9.2.
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- Apr 04, 2016
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Tom Lane authored
The first iteration of the signal-checking loop would compute sigmask(0) which expands to 1<<(-1) which is undefined behavior according to the C standard. The lack of field reports of trouble suggest that it evaluates to 0 on all existing Windows compilers, but that's hardly something to rely on. Since signal 0 isn't a queueable signal anyway, we can just make the loop iterate from 1 instead, and save a few cycles as well as avoiding the undefined behavior. In passing, avoid evaluating the volatile expression UNBLOCKED_SIGNAL_QUEUE twice in a row; there's no reason to waste cycles like that. Noted by Aleksander Alekseev, though this isn't his proposed fix. Back-patch to all supported branches.
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- Mar 30, 2016
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Tom Lane authored
The server hasn't paid attention to the TZ environment variable since commit ca4af308, but that commit missed removing this documentation reference, as did commit d883b916 which added the reference where it now belongs (initdb). Back-patch to 9.2 where the behavior changed. Also back-patch d883b916 as needed. Matthew Somerville
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- Mar 29, 2016
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Tom Lane authored
Whenever this function is used with the FORMAT_MESSAGE_FROM_SYSTEM flag, it's good practice to include FORMAT_MESSAGE_IGNORE_INSERTS as well. Otherwise, if the message contains any %n insertion markers, the function will try to fetch argument strings to substitute --- which we are not passing, possibly leading to a crash. This is exactly analogous to the rule about not giving printf() a format string you're not in control of. Noted and patched by Christian Ullrich. Back-patch to all supported branches.
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- Mar 28, 2016
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Peter Eisentraut authored
Source-Git-URL: git://git.postgresql.org/git/pgtranslation/messages.git Source-Git-Hash: e6b48ec6c3b5131c5fbfa642b5e56814f088e8d6
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Tom Lane authored
- Mar 27, 2016
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Andres Freund authored
Returning the direct result of bit arithmetic, in a macro intended to be used in a boolean manner, can be problematic if the return value is stored in a variable of type 'bool'. If bool is implemented using C99's _Bool, that can lead to comparison failures if the variable is then compared again with the expression (see ginStepRight() for an example that fails), as _Bool forces the result to be 0/1. That happens in some configurations of newer MSVC compilers. It's also problematic when storing the result of such an expression in a narrower type. Several gin macros have been declared in that style since gin's initial commit in 8a3631f8. There's a lot more macros like this, but this is the only one causing regression test failures; and I don't want to commit and backpatch a larger patch with lots of conflicts just before the next set of minor releases. Discussion: 20150811154237.GD17575@awork2.anarazel.de Backpatch: All supported branches
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- Mar 26, 2016
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Tom Lane authored
We really need to sync all of our IANA-derived timezone code with upstream, but that's going to be a large patch and I certainly don't care to shove such a thing into stable branches immediately before a release. As a stopgap, copy just the tzcode2016c logic that checks validity of timezone abbreviations. This prevents getting multiple "time zone abbreviation differs from POSIX standard" bleats with tzdata 2014b and later.
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Tom Lane authored
DST law changes in Azerbaijan, Chile, Haiti, Palestine, and Russia (Altai, Astrakhan, Kirov, Sakhalin, Ulyanovsk regions). Historical corrections for Lithuania, Moldova, Russia (Kaliningrad, Samara, Volgograd). As of 2015b, the keepers of the IANA timezone database started to use numeric time zone abbreviations (e.g., "+04") instead of inventing abbreviations not found in the wild like "ASTT". This causes our rather old copy of zic to whine "warning: time zone abbreviation differs from POSIX standard" several times during "make install". This warning is harmless according to the IANA folk, and I don't see any problems with these abbreviations in some simple tests; but it seems like now would be a good time to update our copy of the tzcode stuff. I'll look into that soon.
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- Mar 19, 2016
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Andrew Dunstan authored
Modern Perl has removed psed from its core distribution, so it might not be readily available on some build platforms. We therefore replace its use with a Perl script generated by s2p, which is equivalent to the sed script. The latter is retained for non-MSVC builds to avoid creating a new hard dependency on Perl for non-Windows tarball builds. Backpatch to all live branches. Michael Paquier and me.
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- Mar 17, 2016
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Tom Lane authored
This didn't work because when we dropped and re-established a database connection, we did not bother to reset session-specific state such as the statements-are-prepared flags. The st->prepared[] array certainly needs to be flushed, and I cleared a couple of other fields as well that couldn't possibly retain meaningful state for a new connection. In passing, fix some bogus comments and strange field order choices. Per report from Robins Tharakan.
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- Mar 15, 2016
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Tom Lane authored
Previously, we included <xlocale.h> only if necessary to get the definition of type locale_t. According to notes in PGAC_TYPE_LOCALE_T, this is important because on some versions of glibc that file supplies an incompatible declaration of locale_t. (This info may be obsolete, because on my RHEL6 box that seems to be the *only* definition of locale_t; but there may still be glibc's in the wild for which it's a live concern.) It turns out though that on FreeBSD and maybe other BSDen, you can get locale_t from stdlib.h or locale.h but mbstowcs_l() and friends only from <xlocale.h>. This was leaving us compiling calls to mbstowcs_l() and friends with no visible prototype, which causes a warning and could possibly cause actual trouble, since it's not declared to return int. Hence, adjust the configure checks so that we'll include <xlocale.h> either if it's necessary to get type locale_t or if it's necessary to get a declaration of mbstowcs_l(). Report and patch by Aleksander Alekseev, somewhat whacked around by me. Back-patch to all supported branches, since we have been using mbstowcs_l() since 9.1.
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- Mar 14, 2016
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Tom Lane authored
On the machines I tried this on, pressing TAB after SECURITY LABEL led to being offered ON and FOR as intended, plus random other keywords (varying across machines). But if you were a bit more unlucky you'd get a crash, as reported by nummervet@mail.ru in bug #14019. Seems to have been an aboriginal error in the SECURITY LABEL patch, commit 4d355a83. Hence, back-patch to all supported versions. There's no bug in HEAD, though, thanks to our recent tab-completion rewrite.
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- Mar 10, 2016
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Magnus Hagander authored
The Visual Studio 2013 CRT generates invalid code when it makes a 64-bit build that is later used on a CPU that supports AVX2 instructions using a version of Windows before 7SP1/2008R2SP1. Detect this combination, and in those cases turn off the generation of FMA3, per recommendation from the Visual Studio team. The bug is actually in the CRT shipping with Visual Studio 2013, but Microsoft have stated they're only fixing it in newer major versions. The fix is therefor conditioned specifically on being built with this version of Visual Studio, and not previous or later versions. Author: Christian Ullrich
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Andres Freund authored
Renaming a file using rename(2) is not guaranteed to be durable in face of crashes. Use the previously added durable_rename()/durable_link_or_rename() in various places where we previously just renamed files. Most of the changed call sites are arguably not critical, but it seems better to err on the side of too much durability. The most prominent known case where the previously missing fsyncs could cause data loss is crashes at the end of a checkpoint. After the actual checkpoint has been performed, old WAL files are recycled. When they're filled, their contents are fdatasynced, but we did not fsync the containing directory. An OS/hardware crash in an unfortunate moment could then end up leaving that file with its old name, but new content; WAL replay would thus not replay it. Reported-By: Tomas Vondra Author: Michael Paquier, Tomas Vondra, Andres Freund Discussion: 56583BDD.9060302@2ndquadrant.com Backpatch: All supported branches
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Andres Freund authored
Renaming a file using rename(2) is not guaranteed to be durable in face of crashes; especially on filesystems like xfs and ext4 when mounted with data=writeback. To be certain that a rename() atomically replaces the previous file contents in the face of crashes and different filesystems, one has to fsync the old filename, rename the file, fsync the new filename, fsync the containing directory. This sequence is not generally adhered to currently; which exposes us to data loss risks. To avoid having to repeat this arduous sequence, introduce durable_rename(), which wraps all that. Also add durable_link_or_rename(). Several places use link() (with a fallback to rename()) to rename a file, trying to avoid replacing the target file out of paranoia. Some of those rename sequences need to be durable as well. There seems little reason extend several copies of the same logic, so centralize the link() callers. This commit does not yet make use of the new functions; they're used in a followup commit. Author: Michael Paquier, Andres Freund Discussion: 56583BDD.9060302@2ndquadrant.com Backpatch: All supported branches
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- Mar 09, 2016
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Tom Lane authored
An index search using a row comparison such as ROW(a, b) > ROW('x', 'y') would stop upon reaching a NULL entry in the "b" column, ignoring the fact that there might be non-NULL "b" values associated with later values of "a". This happens because _bt_mark_scankey_required() marks the subsidiary scankey for "b" as required, which is just wrong: it's for a column after the one with the first inequality key (namely "a"), and thus can't be considered a required match. This bit of brain fade dates back to the very beginnings of our support for indexed ROW() comparisons, in 2006. Kind of astonishing that no one came across it before Glen Takahashi, in bug #14010. Back-patch to all supported versions. Note: the given test case doesn't actually fail in unpatched 9.1, evidently because the fix for bug #6278 (i.e., stopping at nulls in either scan direction) is required to make it fail. I'm sure I could devise a case that fails in 9.1 as well, perhaps with something involving making a cursor back up; but it doesn't seem worth the trouble.
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- Mar 08, 2016
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Andres Freund authored
ltree/ltree_gist/ltxtquery's headers stores data at MAXALIGN alignment, requiring some padding bytes. So far we left these uninitialized. Zero those by using palloc0. Author: Andres Freund Reported-By: Andres Freund / valgrind / buildarm animal skink Backpatch: 9.1-
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Andres Freund authored
plperl_ref_from_pg_array() didn't consider the case that postgrs arrays can have 0 dimensions (when they're empty) and accessed the first dimension without a check. Fix that by special casing the empty array case. Author: Alex Hunsaker Reported-By: Andres Freund / valgrind / buildfarm animal skink Discussion: 20160308063240.usnzg6bsbjrne667@alap3.anarazel.de Backpatch: 9.1-
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- Mar 07, 2016
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Tom Lane authored
There were two places in spell.c that supposed that they could search for a location in a string produced by lowerstr() and then transpose the offset into the original string. But this fails completely if lowerstr() transforms any characters into characters of different byte length, as can happen in Turkish UTF8 for instance. We'd added some comments about this coding in commit 51e78ab4, but failed to realize that it was not merely confusing but wrong. Coverity complained about this code years ago, but in such an opaque fashion that nobody understood what it was on about. I'm not entirely sure that this issue *is* what it's on about, actually, but perhaps this patch will shut it up -- and in any case the problem is clear. Back-patch to all supported branches.
- Mar 04, 2016
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Robert Haas authored
I wasn't careful enough when back-patching.
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Robert Haas authored
The existing code confuses the byte length of the string (which is relevant when passing it to pg_strncasecmp) with the character length of the string (which is relevant when it is used with the SQL substring function). Separate those two concepts. Report and patch by Kyotaro Horiguchi, reviewed by Thomas Munro and reviewed and further revised by me.
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- Mar 01, 2016
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Tom Lane authored
This error message was written with only ON SELECT rules in mind, but since then we also made RETURNING-clause targetlists go through the same logic. This means that you got a rather off-topic error message if you tried to add a rule with RETURNING to a table having dropped columns. Ideally we'd just support that, but some preliminary investigation says that it might be a significant amount of work. Seeing that Nicklas Avén's complaint is the first one we've gotten about this in the ten years or so that the code's been like that, I'm unwilling to put much time into it. Instead, improve the error report by issuing a different message for RETURNING cases, and revise the associated comment based on this investigation. Discussion: 1456176604.17219.9.camel@jordogskog.no
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- Feb 29, 2016
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Alvaro Herrera authored
Author: Amit Langote
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Alvaro Herrera authored
The docs were advising to use /usr/local/pgsql/man instead, but that's wrong. Reported-By: Slawomir Sudnik Backpatch-To: 9.1 Bug: #13894
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Tom Lane authored
A failure partway through PGLC_localeconv() led to a situation where the next call would call free_struct_lconv() a second time, leading to free() on already-freed strings, typically leading to a core dump. Add a flag to remember whether we need to do that. Per report from Thom Brown. His example case only provokes the failure as far back as 9.4, but nonetheless this code is obviously broken, so back-patch to all supported branches.
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- Feb 21, 2016
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Tatsuo Ishii authored
With suggentions from Tom Lane.
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- Feb 19, 2016
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Simon Riggs authored
StartupSUBTRANS() incorrectly handled cases near the max pageid in the subtrans data structure, which in some cases could lead to errors in startup for Hot Standby. This patch wraps the pageids correctly, avoiding any such errors. Identified by exhaustive crash testing by Jeff Janes. Jeff Janes
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- Feb 18, 2016
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Tom Lane authored
Dead or half-dead index leaf pages were incorrectly reported as live, as a consequence of a code rearrangement I made (during a moment of severe brain fade, evidently) in commit d287818e. The index metapage was not counted in index_size, causing that result to not agree with the actual index size on-disk. Index root pages were not counted in internal_pages, which is inconsistent compared to the case of a root that's also a leaf (one-page index), where the root would be counted in leaf_pages. Aside from that inconsistency, this could lead to additional transient discrepancies between the reported page counts and index_size, since it's possible for pgstatindex's scan to see zero or multiple pages marked as BTP_ROOT, if the root moves due to a split during the scan. With these fixes, index_size will always be exactly one page more than the sum of the displayed page counts. Also, the index_size result was incorrectly documented as being measured in pages; it's always been measured in bytes. (While fixing that, I couldn't resist doing some small additional wordsmithing on the pgstattuple docs.) Including the metapage causes the reported index_size to not be zero for an empty index. To preserve the desired property that the pgstattuple regression test results are platform-independent (ie, BLCKSZ configuration independent), scale the index_size result in the regression tests. The documentation issue was reported by Otsuka Kenji, and the inconsistent root page counting by Peter Geoghegan; the other problems noted by me. Back-patch to all supported branches, because this has been broken for a long time.
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- Feb 17, 2016
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Tom Lane authored
A function name that's double-quoted in SQL can contain almost any characters, but we were using that name directly as part of the name generated for the Python-level function, and Python doesn't like anything that isn't pretty much a standard identifier. To fix, replace anything that isn't an ASCII letter or digit with an underscore in the generated name. This doesn't create any risk of duplicate Python function names because we were already appending the function OID to the generated name to ensure uniqueness. Per bug #13960 from Jim Nasby. Patch by Jim Nasby, modified a bit by me. Back-patch to all supported branches.
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