- Feb 02, 2015
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Tom Lane authored
The variable name isn't optional --- looks like a copy-and-paste-o from the \set command, where it is. Dilip Kumar
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Peter Eisentraut authored
Source-Git-URL: git://git.postgresql.org/git/pgtranslation/messages.git Source-Git-Hash: 47199c5813321fac9558fe6629fcb48989a28e44
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Peter Eisentraut authored
The previous wording claimed that the file was always in /etc, but of course this varies with the installation layout. Write instead that it can be found via `pg_config --sysconfdir`. Even though this is still somewhat incorrect because it doesn't account of moved installations, it at least conveys that the location depends on the installation.
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- Feb 01, 2015
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Tom Lane authored
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Tom Lane authored
"ECHO all" is ignored for interactive input, and has been for a very long time, though possibly not for as long as the documentation has claimed the opposite. Fix that, and also note that empty lines aren't echoed, which while dubious is another longstanding behavior (it's embedded in our regression test files for one thing). Per bug #12721 from Hans Ginzel. In HEAD, also improve the code comments in this area, and suppress an unnecessary fflush(stdout) when we're not echoing. That would likely be safe to back-patch, but I'll not risk it mere hours before a release wrap.
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- Jan 31, 2015
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Tom Lane authored
DST law changes in Chile and Mexico (state of Quintana Roo). Historical changes for Iceland.
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- Jan 30, 2015
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Tom Lane authored
Coverity points out that mdc_finish returns a pointer to a local buffer (which of course is gone as soon as the function returns), leaving open a risk of misbehaviors possibly as bad as a stack overwrite. In reality, the only possible call site is in process_data_packets() which does not examine the returned pointer at all. So there's no live bug, but nonetheless the code is confusing and risky. Refactor to avoid the issue by letting process_data_packets() call mdc_finish() directly instead of going through the pullf_read() API. Although this is only cosmetic, it seems good to back-patch so that the logic in pgp-decrypt.c stays in sync across all branches. Marko Kreen
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Stephen Frost authored
In 804b6b6d we modified BuildIndexValueDescription to pay attention to which columns are visible to the user, but unfortunatley that commit neglected to consider indexes which are built on expressions. Handle error-reporting of violations of constraint indexes based on expressions by not returning any detail when the user does not have table-level SELECT rights. Backpatch to 9.0, as the prior commit was. Pointed out by Tom.
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Tom Lane authored
connectby() didn't adequately check that the constructed SQL query returns what it's expected to; in fact, since commit 08c33c42 it wasn't checking that at all. This could result in a null-pointer-dereference crash if the constructed query returns only one column instead of the expected two. Less excitingly, it could also result in surprising data conversion failures if the constructed query returned values that were not I/O-conversion-compatible with the types specified by the query calling connectby(). In all branches, insist that the query return at least two columns; this seems like a minimal sanity check that can't break any reasonable use-cases. In HEAD, insist that the constructed query return the types specified by the outer query, including checking for typmod incompatibility, which the code never did even before it got broken. This is to hide the fact that the implementation does a conversion to text and back; someday we might want to improve that. In back branches, leave that alone, since adding a type check in a minor release is more likely to break things than make people happy. Type inconsistencies will continue to work so long as the actual type and declared type are I/O representation compatible, and otherwise will fail the same way they used to. Also, in all branches, be on guard for NULL results from the constructed query, which formerly would cause null-pointer dereference crashes. We now print the row with the NULL but don't recurse down from it. In passing, get rid of the rather pointless idea that build_tuplestore_recursively() should return the same tuplestore that's passed to it. Michael Paquier, adjusted somewhat by me
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- Jan 29, 2015
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Andres Freund authored
GetLockConflicts() has for a long time not properly terminated the returned array. During normal processing the returned array is zero initialized which, while not pretty, is sufficient to be recognized as a invalid virtual transaction id. But the HotStandby case is more than aesthetically broken: The allocated (and reused) array is neither zeroed upon allocation, nor reinitialized, nor terminated. Not having a terminating element means that the end of the array will not be recognized and that recovery conflict handling will thus read ahead into adjacent memory. Only terminating when hitting memory content that looks like a invalid virtual transaction id. Luckily this seems so far not have caused significant problems, besides making recovery conflict more expensive. Discussion: 20150127142713.GD29457@awork2.anarazel.de Backpatch into all supported branches.
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Heikki Linnakangas authored
When gin_fuzzy_search_limit was used, we could jump out of startScan() without calling startScanKey(). That was harmless in 9.3 and below, because startScanKey()() didn't do anything interesting, but in 9.4 it initializes information needed for skipping entries (aka GIN fast scans), and you readily get a segfault if it's not done. Nevertheless, it was clearly wrong all along, so backpatch all the way to 9.1 where the early return was introduced. (AFAICS startScanKey() did nothing useful in 9.3 and below, because the fields it initialized were already initialized in ginFillScanKey(), but I don't dare to change that in a minor release. ginFillScanKey() is always called in gingetbitmap() even though there's a check there to see if the scan keys have already been initialized, because they never are; ginrescan() free's them.) In the passing, remove unnecessary if-check from the second inner loop in startScan(). We already check in the first loop that the condition is true for all entries. Reported by Olaf Gawenda, bug #12694, Backpatch to 9.1 and above, although AFAICS it causes a live bug only in 9.4.
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- Jan 28, 2015
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Stephen Frost authored
Commit 804b6b6d added the build of a range table in copy.c to initialize the EState es_range_table since it can be needed in error paths. Unfortunately, that commit didn't appreciate that some code paths might end up not initializing the rte which is used to build the range table. Fix that and clean up a couple others things along the way- build it only once and don't explicitly set it on the !is_from path as it doesn't make any sense there (cstate is palloc0'd, so this isn't an issue from an initializing standpoint either). The prior commit went back to 9.0, but this only goes back to 9.1 as prior to that the range table build happens immediately after building the RTE and therefore doesn't suffer from this issue. Pointed out by Robert.
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Stephen Frost authored
While building error messages to return to the user, BuildIndexValueDescription, ExecBuildSlotValueDescription and ri_ReportViolation would happily include the entire key or entire row in the result returned to the user, even if the user didn't have access to view all of the columns being included. Instead, include only those columns which the user is providing or which the user has select rights on. If the user does not have any rights to view the table or any of the columns involved then no detail is provided and a NULL value is returned from BuildIndexValueDescription and ExecBuildSlotValueDescription. Note that, for key cases, the user must have access to all of the columns for the key to be shown; a partial key will not be returned. Back-patch all the way, as column-level privileges are now in all supported versions. This has been assigned CVE-2014-8161, but since the issue and the patch have already been publicized on pgsql-hackers, there's no point in trying to hide this commit.
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- Jan 27, 2015
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Tom Lane authored
Commit 14534353 arranged to store numeric NaN values as short-header numerics, but the field access macros did not get the memo: they thought only "SHORT" numerics have short headers. Most of the time this makes no difference because we don't access the weight or dscale of a NaN; but numeric_send does that. As pointed out by Andrew Gierth, this led to fetching uninitialized bytes. AFAICS this could not have any worse consequences than that; in particular, an unaligned stored numeric would have been detoasted by PG_GETARG_NUMERIC, so that there's no risk of a fetch off the end of memory. Still, the code is wrong on its own terms, and it's not hard to foresee future changes that might expose us to real risks. So back-patch to all affected branches.
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- Jan 26, 2015
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Tom Lane authored
Some fields of the sinfo struct are modified within PG_TRY and then referenced within PG_CATCH, so as with recent patch to async.c, "volatile" is necessary for strict POSIX compliance; and that propagates to a couple of subroutines as well as materializeQueryResult() itself. I think the risk of actual issues here is probably higher than in async.c, because storeQueryResult() is likely to get inlined into materializeQueryResult(), leaving the compiler free to conclude that its stores into sinfo fields are dead code.
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Tom Lane authored
The "callargs" variable is modified within PG_TRY and then referenced within PG_CATCH, which is exactly the coding pattern we've now found to be unsafe. Marking "callargs" volatile would be problematic because it is passed by reference to some Tcl functions, so fix the problem by not modifying it within PG_TRY. We can just postpone the free() till we exit the PG_TRY construct, as is already done elsewhere in this same file. Also, fix failure to free(callargs) when exiting on too-many-arguments error. This is only a minor memory leak, but a leak nonetheless. In passing, remove some unnecessary "volatile" markings in the same function. Those doubtless are there because gcc 2.95.3 whinged about them, but we now know that its algorithm for complaining is many bricks shy of a load. This is certainly a live bug with compilers that optimize similarly to current gcc, so back-patch to all active branches.
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Tom Lane authored
The "pos" variable is modified within PG_TRY and then referenced within PG_CATCH, so for strict POSIX conformance it must be marked volatile. Superficially the code looked safe because pos's address was taken, which was sufficient to force it into memory ... but it's not sufficient to ensure that the compiler applies updates exactly where the program text says to. The volatility marking has to extend into a couple of subroutines too, but I think that's probably a good thing because the risk of out-of-order updates is mostly in those subroutines not asyncQueueReadAllNotifications() itself. In principle the compiler could have re-ordered operations such that an error could be thrown while "pos" had an incorrect value. It's unclear how real the risk is here, but for safety back-patch to all active branches.
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- Jan 24, 2015
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Tom Lane authored
strncpy() has a well-deserved reputation for being unsafe, so make an effort to get rid of nearly all occurrences in HEAD. A large fraction of the remaining uses were passing length less than or equal to the known strlen() of the source, in which case no null-padding can occur and the behavior is equivalent to memcpy(), though doubtless slower and certainly harder to reason about. So just use memcpy() in these cases. In other cases, use either StrNCpy() or strlcpy() as appropriate (depending on whether padding to the full length of the destination buffer seems useful). I left a few strncpy() calls alone in the src/timezone/ code, to keep it in sync with upstream (the IANA tzcode distribution). There are also a few such calls in ecpg that could possibly do with more analysis. AFAICT, none of these changes are more than cosmetic, except for the four occurrences in fe-secure-openssl.c, which are in fact buggy: an overlength source leads to a non-null-terminated destination buffer and ensuing misbehavior. These don't seem like security issues, first because no stack clobber is possible and second because if your values of sslcert etc are coming from untrusted sources then you've got problems way worse than this. Still, it's undesirable to have unpredictable behavior for overlength inputs, so back-patch those four changes to all active branches.
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- Jan 21, 2015
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Tom Lane authored
Move random() and setseed() to a separate table, to have them grouped together. Also add a notice that random() is not cryptographically secure. Back-patch of commit 75fdcec1 into all supported versions, per discussion of the need to document that random() is just a wrapper around random(3).
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- Jan 20, 2015
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Tom Lane authored
This results in a very substantial reduction in disk space usage during "make check-world", since that sequence involves creation of numerous temporary installations. It should also help a bit in the buildfarm, even though the buildfarm script doesn't create as many temp installations, because the current script misses deleting some of them; and anyway it seems better to do this once in one place rather than expecting that script to get it right every time. In 9.4 and HEAD, also undo the unwise choice in commit b1aebbb6 to report strerror(errno) after a rmtree() failure. rmtree has already reported that, possibly for multiple failures with distinct errnos; and what's more, by the time it returns there is no good reason to assume that errno still reflects the last reportable error. So reporting errno here is at best redundant and at worst badly misleading. Back-patch to all supported branches, so that future revisions of the buildfarm script can rely on this behavior.
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Tom Lane authored
Per discussion, change the log level of this message to be LOG not WARNING. The main point of this change is to avoid causing buildfarm run failures when the stats collector is exceptionally slow to respond, which it not infrequently is on some of the smaller/slower buildfarm members. This change does lose notice to an interactive user when his stats query is looking at out-of-date stats, but the majority opinion (not necessarily that of yours truly) is that WARNING messages would probably not get noticed anyway on heavily loaded production systems. A LOG message at least ensures that the problem is recorded somewhere where bulk auditing for the issue is possible. Also, instead of an untranslated "pgstat wait timeout" message, provide a translatable and hopefully more understandable message "using stale statistics instead of current ones because stats collector is not responding". The original text was written hastily under the assumption that it would never really happen in practice, which we now know to be unduly optimistic. Back-patch to all active branches, since we've seen the buildfarm issue in all branches.
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- Jan 18, 2015
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Andres Freund authored
pg_dump.c:dumDatabase() called ArchiveEntry() with the results of a a query that was PQclear()ed a couple lines earlier. Backpatch to 9.2 where security labels for shared objects where introduced.
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Peter Eisentraut authored
Previously, the xml value resulting from an xpath query would not have namespace declarations if the namespace declarations were attached to an ancestor element in the input xml value. That means the output value was not correct XML. Fix that by running the result value through xmlCopyNode(), which produces the correct namespace declarations. Author: Ali Akbar <the.apaan@gmail.com>
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- Jan 16, 2015
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Heikki Linnakangas authored
Previous fix mapped "Norwegian (Bokmål)" locale, which contains a non-ASCII character, to the pure ASCII alias "norwegian-bokmal". However, it turns out that more recent versions of the CRT library, in particular MSVCR110 (Visual Studio 2012), changed the behaviour of setlocale() so that if you pass "norwegian-bokmal" to setlocale, it returns "Norwegian_Norway". That meant trouble, when setlocale(..., NULL) first returned "Norwegian (Bokmål)_Norway", which we mapped to "norwegian-bokmal_Norway", but another call to setlocale(..., "norwegian-bokmal_Norway") returned "Norwegian_Norway". That caused PostgreSQL to think that they are different locales, and therefore not compatible. That caused initdb to fail at CREATE DATABASE. Older CRT versions seem to accept "Norwegian_Norway" too, so change the mapping to return "Norwegian_Norway" instead of "norwegian-bokmal". Backpatch to 9.2 like the previous attempt. We haven't made a release that includes the previous fix yet, so we don't need to worry about changing the locale of existing clusters from "norwegian-bokmal" to "Norwegian_Norway". (Doing any mapping like this at all requires changing the locale of existing databases; the release notes need to include instructions for that).
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Noah Misch authored
Commit 894459e5 revealed this option to be broken for NLS builds on Darwin, but "make -C contrib/unaccent check" and the buildfarm client rely on it. Fix that configuration by redefining the option to imply LANG=C on Darwin. In passing, use LANG=C instead of LANG=en on Windows; since only postmaster startup uses that value, testers are unlikely to notice the change. Back-patch to 9.0, like the predecessor commit.
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Tom Lane authored
Up to now, the "child" executor state trees generated for EvalPlanQual rechecks have simply shared the ResultRelInfo arrays used for the original execution tree. However, this leads to dangling-pointer problems, because ExecInitModifyTable() is all too willing to scribble on some fields of the ResultRelInfo(s) even when it's being run in one of those child trees. This trashes those fields from the perspective of the parent tree, because even if the generated subtree is logically identical to what was in use in the parent, it's in a memory context that will go away when we're done with the child state tree. We do however want to share information in the direction from the parent down to the children; in particular, fields such as es_instrument *must* be shared or we'll lose the stats arising from execution of the children. So the simplest fix is to make a copy of the parent's ResultRelInfo array, but not copy any fields back at end of child execution. Per report from Manuel Kniep. The added isolation test is based on his example. In an unpatched memory-clobber-enabled build it will reliably fail with "ctid is NULL" errors in all branches back to 9.1, as a consequence of junkfilter->jf_junkAttNo being overwritten with $7f7f. This test cannot be run as-is before that for lack of WITH syntax; but I have no doubt that some variant of this problem can arise in older branches, so apply the code change all the way back.
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- Jan 15, 2015
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Robert Haas authored
Previously, read() might have returned a length equal to the buffer length, and then the subsequent store to buf[len] would write a zero-byte one byte past the end. This doesn't seem likely to be a security issue, but there's some chance it could result in pg_standby misbehaving. Spotted by Coverity; patch by Michael Paquier, reviewed by me.
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- Jan 14, 2015
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Andres Freund authored
Commit b94ce6e8 reordered postmaster's startup sequence so that the tempfile directory is only cleaned up after all the necessary state for pg_ctl is collected. Unfortunately the chosen location is after the syslogger has been started; which normally is fine, except for !WIN32 EXEC_BACKEND builds, which pass information to children via files in the temp directory. Move the call to RemovePgTempFiles() to just before the syslogger has started. That's the first child we fork. Luckily EXEC_BACKEND is pretty much only used by endusers on windows, which has a separate method to pass information to children. That means the real world impact of this bug is very small. Discussion: 20150113182344.GF12272@alap3.anarazel.de Backpatch to 9.1, just as the previous commit was.
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- Jan 12, 2015
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Tom Lane authored
Per testing with a compiler that whines about this.
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Tom Lane authored
I noticed the "vacuum" regression test taking really significantly longer than it used to on a slow machine. Investigation pointed the finger at commit e415b469, which added creation of an index using an extremely expensive index function. That function was evidently meant to be applied only twice ... but the test re-used an existing test table, which up till a couple lines before that had had over two thousand rows. Depending on timing of the concurrent regression tests, the intervening VACUUMs might have been unable to remove those recently-dead rows, and then the index build would need to create index entries for them too, leading to the wrap_do_analyze() function being executed 2000+ times not twice. Avoid this by using a different table that is guaranteed to have only the intended two rows in it. Back-patch to 9.0, like the commit that created the problem.
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Stephen Frost authored
Back in ed0b409d, PGPROC was split and moved to static variables in procarray.c, with procs in ProcArrayStruct replaced by an array of integers representing process numbers (pgprocnos), with -1 indicating a dead process which has yet to be removed. Access to procArray is generally done under ProcArrayLock and therefore most code does not have to concern itself with -1 entries. However, MinimumActiveBackends intentionally does not take ProcArrayLock, which means it has to be extra careful when accessing procArray. Prior to ed0b409d, this was handled by checking for a NULL in the pointer array, but that check was no longer valid after the split. Coverity pointed out that the check could never happen and so it was removed in 5592ebac. That didn't make anything worse, but it didn't fix the issue either. The correct fix is to check for pgprocno == -1 and skip over that entry if it is encountered. Back-patch to 9.2, since there can be attempts to access the arrays prior to their start otherwise. Note that the changes prior to 9.4 will look a bit different due to the change in 5592ebac. Note that MinimumActiveBackends only returns a bool for heuristic purposes and any pre-array accesses are strictly read-only and so there is no security implication and the lack of fields complaints indicates it's very unlikely to run into issues due to this. Pointed out by Noah.
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- Jan 08, 2015
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Noah Misch authored
Darwin --enable-nls builds use a substitute setlocale() that may start a thread. Buildfarm member orangutan experienced BackendList corruption on account of different postmaster threads executing signal handlers simultaneously. Furthermore, a multithreaded postmaster risks undefined behavior from sigprocmask() and fork(). Emit LOG messages about the problem and its workaround. Back-patch to 9.0 (all supported versions).
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Noah Misch authored
Typical server invocations already achieved that. Invalid locale settings in the initial postmaster environment interfered, as could malloc() failure. Setting "LC_MESSAGES=pt_BR.utf8 LC_ALL=invalid" in the postmaster environment will now choose C-locale messages, not Brazilian Portuguese messages. Most localized programs, including all PostgreSQL frontend executables, do likewise. Users are unlikely to observe changes involving locale categories other than LC_MESSAGES. CheckMyDatabase() ensures that we successfully set LC_COLLATE and LC_CTYPE; main() sets the remaining three categories to locale "C", which almost cannot fail. Back-patch to 9.0 (all supported versions).
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Noah Misch authored
vacuum()'s static variable handling makes it non-reentrant; an ensuing null pointer deference crashed the backend. Back-patch to 9.0 (all supported versions).
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- Jan 07, 2015
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Andres Freund authored
The corner case where a relcache invalidation tried to rebuild the entry for a referenced relation but couldn't find it in the catalog wasn't correct. The code tried to RelationCacheDelete/RelationDestroyRelation the entry. That didn't work when assertions are enabled because the latter contains an assertion ensuring the refcount is zero. It's also more generally a bad idea, because by virtue of being referenced somebody might actually look at the entry, which is possible if the error is trapped and handled via a subtransaction abort. Instead just error out, without deleting the entry. As the entry is marked invalid, the worst that can happen is that the invalid (and at some point unused) entry lingers in the relcache. Discussion: 22459.1418656530@sss.pgh.pa.us There should be no way to hit this case < 9.4 where logical decoding introduced a bug that can hit this. But since the code for handling the corner case is there it should do something halfway sane, so backpatch all the the way back. The logical decoding bug will be handled in a separate commit.
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- Jan 06, 2015
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Alvaro Herrera authored
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Bruce Momjian authored
Backpatch certain files through 9.0
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- Jan 04, 2015
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Andres Freund authored
Previously the computation of the total test duration, measured in microseconds, accidentally overflowed due to accidentally using signed 32bit arithmetic. As the only consequence is that pg_test_timing invocations with such, overly large, durations never finished the practical consequences of this bug are minor. Pointed out by Coverity. Backpatch to 9.2 where pg_test_timing was added.
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Andres Freund authored
Pointed out by Coverity. Backpatch to all supported branches, the code has been that way for a long while.
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Andres Freund authored
As every error in mark_file_as_archived() will lead to a failure of pg_basebackup the FD leak couldn't ever lead to a real problem. It seems better to fix the leak anyway though, rather than silence Coverity, as the usage of the function might get extended or copied at some point in the future. Pointed out by Coverity. Backpatch to 9.2, like the relevant part of the previous patch.
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