postgresql/src/test
Tom Lane 76123ded6e Fix improper interactions between session_authorization and role.
The SQL spec mandates that SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION implies
SET ROLE NONE.  We tried to implement that within the lowest-level
functions that manipulate these settings, but that was a bad idea.
In particular, guc.c assumes that it doesn't matter in what order
it applies GUC variable updates, but that was not the case for these
two variables.  This problem, compounded by some hackish attempts to
work around it, led to some security-grade issues:

* Rolling back a transaction that had done SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION
would revert to SET ROLE NONE, even if that had not been the previous
state, so that the effective user ID might now be different from what
it had been.

* The same for SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION in a function SET clause.

* If a parallel worker inspected current_setting('role'), it saw
"none" even when it should see something else.

Also, although the parallel worker startup code intended to cope
with the current role's pg_authid row having disappeared, its
implementation of that was incomplete so it would still fail.

Fix by fully separating the miscinit.c functions that assign
session_authorization from those that assign role.  To implement the
spec's requirement, teach set_config_option itself to perform "SET
ROLE NONE" when it sets session_authorization.  (This is undoubtedly
ugly, but the alternatives seem worse.  In particular, there's no way
to do it within assign_session_authorization without incompatible
changes in the API for GUC assign hooks.)  Also, improve
ParallelWorkerMain to directly set all the relevant user-ID variables
instead of relying on some of them to get set indirectly.  That
allows us to survive not finding the pg_authid row during worker
startup.

In v16 and earlier, this includes back-patching 9987a7bf3 which
fixed a violation of GUC coding rules: SetSessionAuthorization
is not an appropriate place to be throwing errors from.

Security: CVE-2024-10978
2024-11-11 10:29:54 -05:00
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authentication Make new authentication test case more robust. 2020-09-04 21:01:59 -04:00
examples Update copyrights for 2020 2020-01-01 12:21:45 -05:00
isolation Revert "For inplace update, send nontransactional invalidations." 2024-11-02 09:05:07 -07:00
kerberos Don't clobber test exit code at cleanup in LDAP/Kerberors tests 2024-04-07 20:26:22 +03:00
ldap Don't clobber test exit code at cleanup in LDAP/Kerberors tests 2024-04-07 20:26:22 +03:00
locale Use perl warnings pragma consistently 2020-04-13 11:55:45 -04:00
mb Fix MB regression tests for WAL-logging of hash indexes. 2017-03-15 07:25:36 -04:00
modules Drop global objects after completed test 2024-09-24 12:10:33 +09:00
perl Teach RPM the package name provided in Perl alias packages. 2024-08-07 11:43:40 -07:00
recovery Avoid 037_invalid_database.pl hang under debug_discard_caches. 2024-09-27 15:29:01 -07:00
regress Fix improper interactions between session_authorization and role. 2024-11-11 10:29:54 -05:00
ssl Force nodes for SSL tests to start in TCP mode 2024-07-08 11:40:58 -04:00
subscription Ignore generated columns during apply of update/delete. 2023-03-23 11:21:13 +05:30
thread Update copyrights for 2020 2020-01-01 12:21:45 -05:00
Makefile Revert "Allow on-line enabling and disabling of data checksums" 2018-04-09 19:03:42 +02:00
README Add TAP tests for password-based authentication methods. 2017-03-17 11:34:16 +02:00

PostgreSQL tests
================

This directory contains a variety of test infrastructure as well as some of the
tests in PostgreSQL. Not all tests are here -- in particular, there are more in
individual contrib/ modules and in src/bin.

Not all these tests get run by "make check". Check src/test/Makefile to see
which tests get run automatically.

authentication/
  Tests for authentication

examples/
  Demonstration programs for libpq that double as regression tests via
  "make check"

isolation/
  Tests for concurrent behavior at the SQL level

locale/
  Sanity checks for locale data, encodings, etc

mb/
  Tests for multibyte encoding (UTF-8) support

modules/
  Extensions used only or mainly for test purposes, generally not suitable
  for installing in production databases

perl/
  Infrastructure for Perl-based TAP tests

recovery/
  Test suite for recovery and replication

regress/
  PostgreSQL's main regression test suite, pg_regress

ssl/
  Tests to exercise and verify SSL certificate handling

subscription/
  Tests for logical replication

thread/
  A thread-safety-testing utility used by configure