Back-patch commit dddfc4cb2, which broke LDFLAGS and related Makefile
variables into two parts, one for within-build-tree library references and
one for external libraries, to ensure that the order of -L flags has all
of the former before all of the latter. This turns out to fix a problem
recently noted on buildfarm member peripatus, that we attempted to
incorporate code from libpgport.a into a shared library. That will fail on
platforms that are sticky about putting non-PIC code into shared libraries.
(It's quite surprising we hadn't seen such failures before, since the code
in question has been like that for a long time.)
I think that peripatus' problem could have been fixed with just a subset
of this patch; but since the previous issue of accidentally linking to the
wrong copy of a Postgres shlib seems likely to bite people in the field,
let's just back-patch the whole change. Now that commit dddfc4cb2 has
survived some beta testing, I'm less afraid to back-patch it than I was
at the time.
This also fixes undesired inclusion of "-DFRONTEND" in pg_config's CPPFLAGS
output (in 9.6 and up) and undesired inclusion of "-L../../src/common" in
its LDFLAGS output (in all supported branches).
Back-patch to v10 and older branches; this is already in v11.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180704234304.bq2dxispefl65odz@ler-imac.local
System calls mixed up in error code paths are causing two issues which
several code paths have not correctly handled:
1) For write() calls, sometimes the system may return less bytes than
what has been written without errno being set. Some paths were careful
enough to consider that case, and assumed that errno should be set to
ENOSPC, other calls missed that.
2) errno generated by a system call is overwritten by other system calls
which may succeed once an error code path is taken, causing what is
reported to the user to be incorrect.
This patch uses the brute-force approach of correcting all those code
paths. Some refactoring could happen in the future, but this is let as
future work, which is not targeted for back-branches anyway.
Author: Michael Paquier
Reviewed-by: Ashutosh Sharma
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180622061535.GD5215@paquier.xyz
For years, our makefiles have correctly observed that "there is no correct
way to write a rule that generates two files". However, what we did is to
provide empty rules that "generate" the secondary output files from the
primary one, and that's not right either. Depending on the details of
the creating process, the primary file might end up timestamped later than
one or more secondary files, causing subsequent make runs to consider the
secondary file(s) out of date. That's harmless in a plain build, since
make will just re-execute the empty rule and nothing happens. But it's
fatal in a VPATH build, since make will expect the secondary file to be
rebuilt in the build directory. This would manifest as "file not found"
failures during VPATH builds from tarballs, if we were ever unlucky enough
to ship a tarball with apparently out-of-date secondary files. (It's not
clear whether that has ever actually happened, but it definitely could.)
To ensure that secondary output files have timestamps >= their primary's,
change our makefile convention to be that we provide a "touch $@" action
not an empty rule. Also, make sure that this rule actually gets invoked
during a distprep run, else the hazard remains.
It's been like this a long time, so back-patch to all supported branches.
In HEAD, I skipped the changes in src/backend/catalog/Makefile, because
those rules are due to get replaced soon in the bootstrap data format
patch, and there seems no need to create a merge issue for that patch.
If for some reason we fail to land that patch in v11, we'll need to
back-fill the changes in that one makefile from v10.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18556.1521668179@sss.pgh.pa.us
Code that prints out the contents of setconfig or proconfig arrays in
SQL format needs to handle GUC_LIST_QUOTE variables differently from
other ones, because for those variables, flatten_set_variable_args()
already applied a layer of quoting. The value can therefore safely
be printed as-is, and indeed must be, or flatten_set_variable_args()
will muck it up completely on reload. For all other GUC variables,
it's necessary and sufficient to quote the value as a SQL literal.
We'd recognized the need for this long ago, but mis-analyzed the
need slightly, thinking that all GUC_LIST_INPUT variables needed
the special treatment. That's actually wrong, since a valid value
of a LIST variable might include characters that need quoting,
although no existing variables accept such values.
More to the point, we hadn't made any particular effort to keep the
various places that deal with this up-to-date with the set of variables
that actually need special treatment, meaning that we'd do the wrong
thing with, for example, temp_tablespaces values. This affects dumping
of SET clauses attached to functions, as well as ALTER DATABASE/ROLE SET
commands.
In ruleutils.c we can fix it reasonably honestly by exporting a guc.c
function that allows discovering the flags for a given GUC variable.
But pg_dump doesn't have easy access to that, so continue the old method
of having a hard-wired list of affected variable names. At least we can
fix it to have just one list not two, and update the list to match
current reality.
A remaining problem with this is that it only works for built-in
GUC variables. pg_dump's list obvious knows nothing of third-party
extensions, and even the "ask guc.c" method isn't bulletproof since
the relevant extension might not be loaded. There's no obvious
solution to that, so for now, we'll just have to discourage extension
authors from inventing custom GUCs that need GUC_LIST_QUOTE.
This has been busted for a long time, so back-patch to all supported
branches.
Michael Paquier and Tom Lane, reviewed by Kyotaro Horiguchi and
Pavel Stehule
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20180111064900.GA51030@paquier.xyz
The Makefile portion of 91f3ffc524 broke
the MSVC build. This patch reverts the changes to the Makefile and
adjusts it to work with the new code, while keeping the actual code
changes from the original patch.
Author: Victor Wagner <vitus@wagner.pp.ru>
This makes the client programs behave as documented regardless of the
connect-time search_path and regardless of user-created objects. Today,
a malicious user with CREATE permission on a search_path schema can take
control of certain of these clients' queries and invoke arbitrary SQL
functions under the client identity, often a superuser. This is
exploitable in the default configuration, where all users have CREATE
privilege on schema "public".
This changes behavior of user-defined code stored in the database, like
pg_index.indexprs and pg_extension_config_dump(). If they reach code
bearing unqualified names, "does not exist" or "no schema has been
selected to create in" errors might appear. Users may fix such errors
by schema-qualifying affected names. After upgrading, consider watching
server logs for these errors.
The --table arguments of src/bin/scripts clients have been lax; for
example, "vacuumdb -Zt pg_am\;CHECKPOINT" performed a checkpoint. That
now fails, but for now, "vacuumdb -Zt 'pg_am(amname);CHECKPOINT'" still
performs a checkpoint.
Back-patch to 9.3 (all supported versions).
Reviewed by Tom Lane, though this fix strategy was not his first choice.
Reported by Arseniy Sharoglazov.
Security: CVE-2018-1058
Historically, pg_dump has "set search_path = foo, pg_catalog" when
dumping an object in schema "foo", and has also caused that setting
to be used while restoring the object. This is problematic because
functions and operators in schema "foo" could capture references meant
to refer to pg_catalog entries, both in the queries issued by pg_dump
and those issued during the subsequent restore run. That could
result in dump/restore misbehavior, or in privilege escalation if a
nefarious user installs trojan-horse functions or operators.
This patch changes pg_dump so that it does not change the search_path
dynamically. The emitted restore script sets the search_path to what
was used at dump time, and then leaves it alone thereafter. Created
objects are placed in the correct schema, regardless of the active
search_path, by dint of schema-qualifying their names in the CREATE
commands, as well as in subsequent ALTER and ALTER-like commands.
Since this change requires a change in the behavior of pg_restore
when processing an archive file made according to this new convention,
bump the archive file version number; old versions of pg_restore will
therefore refuse to process files made with new versions of pg_dump.
Security: CVE-2018-1058
This oversight led to data corruption in matviews, manifesting as
"could not access status of transaction" before our most recent releases,
and "found xmin from before relfrozenxid" errors since then.
The proximate cause of the problem seems to have been confusion between
the task of preserving dropped-column status and the task of preserving
frozenxid status. Those are required for distinct sets of relkinds,
and the reasoning was entirely undocumented in the source code. In hopes
of forestalling future errors of the same kind, try to improve the
commentary in this area.
In passing, also improve the remarkably unhelpful comments around
pg_upgrade's set_frozenxids(). That's not actually buggy AFAICS,
but good luck figuring out what it does from the old comments.
Per report from Claudio Freire. It appears that bug #14852 from Alexey
Ermakov is an earlier report of the same issue, and there may be other
cases that we failed to identify at the time.
Patch by me based on analysis by Andres Freund. The bug dates back
to the introduction of matviews, so back-patch to all supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAGTBQpbrY9CdRGGhyBZ9yqY4jWaGC85rUF4X+R7d-aim=mBNsw@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20171013115320.28049.86457@wrigleys.postgresql.org
_tocEntryRequired() expects that it can identify ACL, SECURITY LABEL,
and COMMENT TOC entries that are for large objects by seeing whether
the tag for them starts with "LARGE OBJECT ". While that works fine
for actual large objects, which are indeed tagged that way, it's
subject to false positives unless every such entry's tag starts with an
appropriate type ID. And in fact it does not work for ACLs, because
up to now we customarily tagged those entries with just the bare name
of the object. This means that an ACL for an object named
"LARGE OBJECT something" would be misclassified as data not schema,
with undesirable results in a schema-only or data-only dump ---
although pg_upgrade seems unaffected, due to the special case for
binary-upgrade mode further down in _tocEntryRequired().
We can fix this by changing all the dumpACL calls to use the label
strings already in use for comments and security labels, which do
follow the convention of starting with an object type indicator.
Well, mostly they follow it. dumpDatabase() got it wrong, using
just the bare database name for those purposes, so that a database
named "LARGE OBJECT something" would similarly be subject to having
its comment or security label dropped or included when not wanted.
Bring that into line too. (Note that up to now, database ACLs have
not been processed by pg_dump, so that this issue doesn't affect them.)
_tocEntryRequired() itself is not free of fault: it was overly liberal
about matching object tags to "LARGE OBJECT " in binary-upgrade mode.
This looks like it is probably harmless because there would be no data
component to strip anyway in that mode, but at best it's trouble
waiting to happen, so tighten that up too.
The possible misclassification of SECURITY LABEL entries for databases is
in principle a security problem, but the opportunities for actual exploits
seem too narrow to be interesting. The other cases seem like just bugs,
since an object owner can change its ACL or comment for himself, he needn't
try to trick someone else into doing it by choosing a strange name.
This has been broken since per-large-object TOC entries were introduced
in 9.0, so back-patch to all supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/21714.1516553459@sss.pgh.pa.us
Commit 3eb9a5e7c unintentionally introduced an ordering dependency
into restore_toc_entries_prefork(). The existing coding of
reduce_dependencies() contains a check to skip moving a TOC entry
to the ready_list if it wasn't initially in the pending_list.
This used to suffice to prevent reduce_dependencies() from trying to
move anything into the ready_list during restore_toc_entries_prefork(),
because the pending_list stayed empty throughout that phase; but it no
longer does. The problem doesn't manifest unless the TOC has been
reordered by SortTocFromFile, which is how I missed it in testing.
To fix, just add a test for ready_list == NULL, converting the call
with NULL from a poor man's sanity check into an explicit command
not to touch TOC items' list membership. Clarify some of the comments
around this; in particular, note the primary purpose of the check for
pending_list membership, which is to ensure that we can't try to restore
the same item twice, in case a TOC list forces it to be restored before
its dependency count goes to zero.
Per report from Fabrízio de Royes Mello. Back-patch to 9.3, like the
previous commit.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAFcNs+pjuv0JL_x4+=71TPUPjdLHOXA4YfT32myj_OrrZb4ohA@mail.gmail.com
Because we push all ACL (i.e. GRANT/REVOKE) restore steps to the end,
materialized view refreshes were occurring while the permissions on
referenced objects were still at defaults. This led to failures if,
say, an MV owned by user A reads from a table owned by user B, even
if B had granted the necessary privileges to A. We've had multiple
complaints about that type of restore failure, most recently from
Jordan Gigov.
The ideal fix for this would be to start treating ACLs as dependency-
sortable objects, rather than hard-wiring anything about their dump order
(the existing approach is a messy kluge dating to commit dc0e76ca3).
But that's going to be a rather major change, and it certainly wouldn't
lead to a back-patchable fix. As a short-term solution, convert the
existing two-pass hack (ie, normal objects then ACLs) to a three-pass hack,
ie, normal objects then ACLs then matview refreshes. Because this happens
in RestoreArchive(), it will also fix the problem when restoring from an
existing archive-format dump.
(Note this means that if a matview refresh would have failed under the
permissions prevailing at dump time, it'll fail during restore as well.
We'll define that as user error rather than something we should try
to work around.)
To avoid performance loss in parallel restore, we need the matview
refreshes to still be parallelizable. Hence, clean things up enough
so that both ACLs and matviews are handled by the parallel restore
infrastructure, instead of reverting back to serial restore for ACLs.
There is still a final serial step, but it shouldn't normally have to
do anything; it's only there to try to recover if we get stuck due to
some problem like unresolved circular dependencies.
Patch by me, but it owes something to an earlier attempt by Kevin Grittner.
Back-patch to 9.3 where materialized views were introduced.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/28572.1500912583@sss.pgh.pa.us
Fix assorted places that had not bothered with the convention of
prefixing catalog and function names with "pg_catalog.". That
could possibly result in query failure when running with a nondefault
search_path. Also fix two places that weren't quoting OID literals.
I think the latter hasn't mattered much since about 7.3, but it's still
a bad idea to be doing it in 99 places and not in 2 others.
Also remove a useless EXISTS sub-select that someone had stuck into
describeOneTableDetails' queries for child tables. We just got the OID
out of pg_class, so I hardly see how checking that it exists in pg_class
was doing anything helpful.
In passing, try to improve the emitted formatting of a couple of
these queries, though I didn't work really hard on that. And merge
unnecessarily duplicative coding in some other places.
Much of this was new in HEAD, but some was quite old; back-patch
as appropriate.
pg_dump with the --clean option failed to emit DROP EVENT TRIGGER
commands for event triggers. In a closely related oversight,
it also did not emit ALTER OWNER commands for event triggers.
Since only superusers can create event triggers, the latter oversight
is of little practical consequence ... but if we're going to record
an owner for event triggers, then surely pg_dump should preserve it.
Per complaint from Greg Atkins. Back-patch to 9.3 where event triggers
were introduced.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170722191142.yi4e7tzcg3iacclg@gmail.com
When writing a backup to stdout with pg_basebackup on Windows, put stdout
to binary mode. Any CR bytes in the output will otherwise be output
incorrectly as CR+LF.
In the passing, standardize on using "_setmode" instead of "setmode", for
the sake of consistency. They both do the same thing, but according to
MSDN documentation, setmode is deprecated.
Fixes bug #14634, reported by Henry Boehlert. Patch by Haribabu Kommi.
Backpatch to all supported versions.
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20170428082818.24366.13134@wrigleys.postgresql.org
When materialized views were added, psql's \d commands were made to
treat them as a separate object category ... but not everyplace in the
documentation or comments got the memo.
Noted by David Johnston. Back-patch to 9.3 where matviews came in.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKFQuwb27M3VXRhHErjCpkWwN9eKThbqWb1=trtoXi9_ejqPXQ@mail.gmail.com
The combination of -Z -Fp and output to stdout resulted in corrupted
output data, because we left stdout in text mode, resulting in newline
conversion being done on the compressed stream. Switch stdout to binary
mode for this case, at the same place where we do it for non-text output
formats.
Report and patch by Kuntal Ghosh, tested by Ashutosh Sharma and Neha
Sharma. Back-patch to all supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAGz5QCJPvbBjXAmJuGx1B_41yVCetAJhp7rtaDf7XQGWuB1GSw@mail.gmail.com
pg_resetwal (formerly pg_resetxlog) doesn't insist on finding a matching
version number in pg_control, and that seems like an important thing to
preserve since recovering from corrupt pg_control is a prime reason to
need to run it. However, that means you can try to run it against a
data directory of a different major version, which is at best useless
and at worst disastrous. So as to provide some protection against that
type of pilot error, inspect PG_VERSION at startup and refuse to do
anything if it doesn't match. PG_VERSION is read-only after initdb,
so it's unlikely to get corrupted, and even if it were corrupted it would
be easy to fix by hand.
This hazard has been there all along, so back-patch to all supported
branches.
Michael Paquier, with some kibitzing by me
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/f4b8eb91-b934-8a0d-b3cc-68f06e2279d1@enterprisedb.com
If an operator class has no operators or functions, and doesn't need
a STORAGE clause, we emitted "CREATE OPERATOR CLASS ... AS ;" which
is syntactically invalid. Fix by forcing a STORAGE clause to be
emitted anyway in this case.
(At some point we might consider changing the grammar to allow CREATE
OPERATOR CLASS without an opclass_item_list. But probably we'd want to
omit the AS in that case, so that wouldn't fix this pg_dump issue anyway.)
It's been like this all along, so back-patch to all supported branches.
Daniel Gustafsson, tweaked by me to avoid a dangling-pointer bug
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/D9E5FC64-7A37-4F3D-B946-7E4FB468F88A@yesql.se
When stdin is a terminal, it's possible to end a COPY FROM STDIN with
a keyboard EOF signal (typically control-D), and then keep on issuing
SQL commands. One would expect another COPY FROM STDIN to work as well,
but on some platforms it did not. This turns out to be because we were
not resetting the stream's feof() flag, and BSD-ish versions of fread()
and fgets() won't attempt to read more data if that's set.
The misbehavior is observed on BSDen (including macOS), but not Linux,
Windows, or SysV-ish Unixen, which makes this a portability bug not
just a missing feature.
Add a clearerr() call to fix the behavior, and improve the prompt that's
issued when copying from a TTY to mention that EOF signals work.
It's been like this forever, so back-patch to all supported branches.
Thomas Munro
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEepm=0MCGfYf=JAMiYhO6JPtv9-3ZfBo8fcGeCZ8oMzaw+Z+Q@mail.gmail.com
Commits 89e0bac86 et al replaced newlines with spaces in object names
printed in SQL comments, but we neglected to consider that the same
names are also printed by "pg_restore -l", and a newline would render
the output unparseable by "pg_restore -L". Apply the same replacement
in "-l" output. Since "pg_restore -L" doesn't actually examine any
object names, only the dump ID field that starts each line, this is
enough to fix things for its purposes.
The previous fix was treated as a security issue, and we might have
done that here as well, except that the issue was reported publicly
to start with. Anyway it's hard to see how this could be exploited
for SQL injection; "pg_restore -L" doesn't do much with the file
except parse it for leading integers.
Per bug #14587 from Milos Urbanek. Back-patch to all supported versions.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170310155318.1425.30483@wrigleys.postgresql.org
We attached no schema label to comments for procedural languages, casts,
transforms, operator classes, operator families, or text search objects.
The first three categories of objects don't really have schemas, but
pg_dump treats them as if they do, and it seems like the TocEntry fields
for their comments had better match the TocEntry fields for the parent
objects. (As an example of a possible hazard, the type names in a CAST
will be formatted with the assumption of a particular search_path, so
failing to ensure that this same path is active for the COMMENT ON command
could lead to an error or to attaching the comment to the wrong cast.)
In the last six cases, this was a flat-out error --- possibly mine to
begin with, but it was a long time ago.
The security label for a procedural language was likewise not correctly
labeled as to schema, and both the comment and security label for a
procedural language were not correctly labeled as to owner.
In simple cases the restore would accidentally work correctly anyway, since
these comments and security labels would normally get emitted right after
the owning object, and so the search path and active user would be correct
anyhow. But it could fail in corner cases; for example a schema-selective
restore would omit comments it should include.
Giuseppe Broccolo noted the oversight, and proposed the correct fix, for
text search dictionary objects; I found the rest by cross-checking other
dumpComment() calls. These oversights are ancient, so back-patch all
the way.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAFzmHiWwwzLjzwM4x5ki5s_PDMR6NrkipZkjNnO3B0xEpBgJaA@mail.gmail.com
When performing a pg_upgrade, we copy the files behind pg_largeobject
and pg_largeobject_metadata, allowing us to avoid having to dump out and
reload the actual data for large objects and their ACLs.
Unfortunately, that isn't all of the information which can be associated
with large objects. Currently, we also support COMMENTs and SECURITY
LABELs with large objects and these were being silently dropped during a
pg_upgrade as pg_dump would skip everything having to do with a large
object and pg_upgrade only copied the tables mentioned to the new
cluster.
As the file copies happen after the catalog dump and reload, we can't
simply include the COMMENTs and SECURITY LABELs in pg_dump's binary-mode
output but we also have to include the actual large object definition as
well. With the definition, comments, and security labels in the pg_dump
output and the file copies performed by pg_upgrade, all of the data and
metadata associated with large objects is able to be successfully pulled
forward across a pg_upgrade.
In 9.6 and master, we can simply adjust the dump bitmask to indicate
which components we don't want. In 9.5 and earlier, we have to put
explciit checks in in dumpBlob() and dumpBlobs() to not include the ACL
or the data when in binary-upgrade mode.
Adjustments made to the privileges regression test to allow another test
(large_object.sql) to be added which explicitly leaves a large object
with a comment in place to provide coverage of that case with
pg_upgrade.
Back-patch to all supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170221162655.GE9812@tamriel.snowman.net
The recovery.conf file that's generated is specifically for
replication, and not needed (or wanted) for regular backup restore, so
indicate that in the message.
pg_restore will currently accept invalid values for the number of
parallel jobs to run (eg: -1), unlike pg_dump which does check that the
value provided is reasonable.
Worse, '-1' is actually a valid, independent, parameter (as an alias for
--single-transaction), leading to potentially completely unexpected
results from a command line such as:
-> pg_restore -j -1
Where a user would get neither parallel jobs nor a single-transaction.
Add in validity checking of the parallel jobs option, as we already have
in pg_dump, before we try to open up the archive. Also move the check
that we haven't been asked to run more parallel jobs than possible on
Windows to the same place, so we do all the option validity checking
before opening the archive.
Back-patch all the way, though for 9.2 we're adding the Windows-specific
check against MAXIMUM_WAIT_OBJECTS as that check wasn't back-patched
originally.
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20170110044815.GC18360%40tamriel.snowman.net
Including the program name twice is not helpful:
-> pg_dump -j -1
pg_dump: pg_dump: invalid number of parallel jobs
Correct by removing the progname from the exit_horribly() call used when
validating the number of parallel jobs.
Noticed while testing various pg_dump error cases.
Back-patch to 9.3 where parallel pg_dump was added.
The -v/--verbose option was not included in the output from --help for
pg_dumpall even though it's in the pg_dumpall documentation and has
apparently been around since pg_dumpall was reimplemented in C in 2002.
Fix that by adding it.
Pointed out by Daniel Westermann.
Back-patch to all supported branches.
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/2020970042.4589542.1482482101585.JavaMail.zimbra%40dbi-services.com
When providing tab completion for ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES, we are
including the list of roles as possible options for completion after the
GRANT or REVOKE. Further, we accept FOR ROLE/IN SCHEMA at the same time
and in either order, but the tab completion was only working for one or
the other. Lastly, we weren't using the actual list of allowed kinds of
objects for default privileges for completion after the 'GRANT X ON' but
instead were completeing to what 'GRANT X ON' supports, which isn't the
ssame at all.
Address these issues by improving the forward tab-completion for ALTER
DEFAULT PRIVILEGES and then constrain and correct how the tail
completion is done when it is for ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES.
Back-patch the forward/tail tab-completion to 9.6, where we made it easy
to handle such cases.
For 9.5 and earlier, correct the initial tab-completion to at least be
correct as far as it goes and then add a check for GRANT/REVOKE to only
tab-complete when the GRANT/REVOKE is the start of the command, so we
don't try to do tab-completion after we get to the GRANT/REVOKE part of
the ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES command, which is better than providing
incorrect completions.
Initial patch for master and 9.6 by Gilles Darold, though I cleaned it
up and added a few comments. All bugs in the 9.5 and earlier patch are
mine.
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/1614593c-e356-5b27-6dba-66320a9bc68b@dalibo.com
In pg_dump.c dumpCast() and dumpTransform(), we would happily ignore the
cast or transform if it happened to use a built-in function because we
weren't including the information about built-in functions when querying
pg_proc from getFuncs().
Modify the query in getFuncs() to also gather information about
functions which are used by user-defined casts and transforms (where
"user-defined" means "has an OID >= FirstNormalObjectId"). This also
adds to the TAP regression tests for 9.6 and master to cover these
types of objects.
Back-patch all the way for casts, back to 9.5 for transforms.
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/20160504183952.GE10850%40tamriel.snowman.net
We didn't start ensuring that all built-in objects had OIDs less than
16384 until 8.1, so for 8.0 servers we still need to query the value out
of pg_database. We need this, in particular, to distinguish which casts
were built-in and which were user-defined.
For HEAD, we only worry about going back to 8.0, for the back-branches,
we also ensure that 7.0-7.4 work.
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/20160504183952.GE10850%40tamriel.snowman.net
Ancient oversight in PageOutput(): if popen() fails, we'd better reset
the SIGPIPE handler before returning stdout, because ClosePager() won't.
Noticed while fixing the empty-PAGER issue.
If the PAGER environment variable is set but contains an empty string,
psql would pass it to "sh" which would silently exit, causing whatever
query output we were printing to vanish entirely. This is quite
mystifying; it took a long time for us to figure out that this was the
cause of Joseph Brenner's trouble report. Rather than allowing that
to happen, we should treat this as another way to specify "no pager".
(We could alternatively treat it as selecting the default pager, but
it seems more likely that the former is what the user meant to achieve
by setting PAGER this way.)
Nonempty, but all-white-space, PAGER values have the same behavior, and
it's pretty easy to test for that, so let's handle that case the same way.
Most other cases of faulty PAGER values will result in the shell printing
some kind of complaint to stderr, which should be enough to diagnose the
problem, so we don't need to work harder than this. (Note that there's
been an intentional decision not to be very chatty about apparent failure
returns from the pager process, since that may happen if, eg, the user
quits the pager with control-C or some such. I'd just as soon not start
splitting hairs about which exit codes might merit making our own report.)
libpq's old PQprint() function was already on board with ignoring empty
PAGER values, but for consistency, make it ignore all-white-space values
as well.
It's been like this a long time, so back-patch to all supported branches.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAFfgvXWLOE2novHzYjmQK8-J6TmHz42G8f3X0SORM44+stUGmw@mail.gmail.com
