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Tom Lane 202621d047 Handle unexpected query results, especially NULLs, safely in connectby(). 
connectby() didn't adequately check that the constructed SQL query returns
what it's expected to; in fact, since commit 08c33c426b 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
2015-01-29 20:18:37 -05:00
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adminpack Create function prototype as part of PG_FUNCTION_INFO_V1 macro 2014-04-18 00:03:19 -04:00
auth_delay Limit values of archive_timeout, post_auth_delay, auth_delay.milliseconds. 2012-11-18 17:15:06 -05:00
auto_explain Print planning time only in EXPLAIN ANALYZE, not plain EXPLAIN. 2014-10-15 18:50:16 -04:00
btree_gin Fix typos in some error messages thrown by extension scripts when fed to psql. 2014-08-25 18:30:28 +02:00
btree_gist Support timezone abbreviations that sometimes change. 2014-10-16 15:22:13 -04:00
chkpass Fix volatility markings of some contrib I/O functions. 2014-11-05 11:34:13 -05:00
citext Fix citext upgrade script for disallowance of oidvector element assignment. 2014-08-28 18:21:11 -04:00
cube Fix typos in some error messages thrown by extension scripts when fed to psql. 2014-08-25 18:30:28 +02:00
dblink Fix volatile-safety issue in dblink's materializeQueryResult(). 2015-01-26 15:17:36 -05:00
dict_int Fix typos in some error messages thrown by extension scripts when fed to psql. 2014-08-25 18:30:28 +02:00
dict_xsyn Fix typos in some error messages thrown by extension scripts when fed to psql. 2014-08-25 18:30:28 +02:00
dummy_seclabel Update copyright for 2014 2014-01-07 16:05:30 -05:00
earthdistance Fix typos in some error messages thrown by extension scripts when fed to psql. 2014-08-25 18:30:28 +02:00
file_fdw pgindent run for 9.4 2014-05-06 12:12:18 -04:00
fuzzystrmatch Add missing va_end() call to a early exit in dmetaphone.c's StringAt(). 2015-01-04 15:35:46 +01:00
hstore Silence Coverity warnings about unused return values from pushJsonbValue() 2015-01-13 16:01:04 +02:00
intagg Fix typos in some error messages thrown by extension scripts when fed to psql. 2014-08-25 18:30:28 +02:00
intarray Fix typos in some error messages thrown by extension scripts when fed to psql. 2014-08-25 18:30:28 +02:00
isn Fix typos in some error messages thrown by extension scripts when fed to psql. 2014-08-25 18:30:28 +02:00
lo Fix typos in some error messages thrown by extension scripts when fed to psql. 2014-08-25 18:30:28 +02:00
ltree Fix volatility markings of some contrib I/O functions. 2014-11-05 11:34:13 -05:00
oid2name pgindent run for 9.4 2014-05-06 12:12:18 -04:00
pageinspect Fix typos in some error messages thrown by extension scripts when fed to psql. 2014-08-25 18:30:28 +02:00
passwordcheck Update copyright for 2014 2014-01-07 16:05:30 -05:00
pg_archivecleanup pgindent run for 9.4 2014-05-06 12:12:18 -04:00
pg_buffercache Fix typos in some error messages thrown by extension scripts when fed to psql. 2014-08-25 18:30:28 +02:00
pg_freespacemap Fix typos in some error messages thrown by extension scripts when fed to psql. 2014-08-25 18:30:28 +02:00
pg_prewarm Add interrupt checks to contrib/pg_prewarm. 2014-11-12 21:06:32 +01:00
pg_standby pg_standby: Avoid writing one byte beyond the end of the buffer. 2015-01-15 09:29:41 -05:00
pg_stat_statements Fix typos in some error messages thrown by extension scripts when fed to psql. 2014-08-25 18:30:28 +02:00
pg_test_fsync Avoid file descriptor leak in pg_test_fsync. 2014-11-19 12:13:14 -05:00
pg_test_timing Correctly handle test durations of more than 2147s in pg_test_timing. 2015-01-04 15:52:52 +01:00
pg_trgm Fix volatility markings of some contrib I/O functions. 2014-11-05 11:34:13 -05:00
pg_upgrade Lock down regression testing temporary clusters on Windows. 2014-12-17 22:48:45 -05:00
pg_upgrade_support Create function prototype as part of PG_FUNCTION_INFO_V1 macro 2014-04-18 00:03:19 -04:00
pg_xlogdump Fix off-by-one in pg_xlogdump's fuzzy_open_file(). 2015-01-04 15:35:46 +01:00
pgbench Fix resource leak pointed out by Coverity. 2014-12-30 20:27:26 +09:00
pgcrypto Loop when necessary in contrib/pgcrypto's pktreader_pull(). 2014-11-11 17:22:30 -05:00
pgrowlocks Fix typos in some error messages thrown by extension scripts when fed to psql. 2014-08-25 18:30:28 +02:00
pgstattuple Fix typos in some error messages thrown by extension scripts when fed to psql. 2014-08-25 18:30:28 +02:00
postgres_fdw Revert misguided change to postgres_fdw FOR UPDATE/SHARE code. 2014-12-12 12:41:52 -05:00
seg Fix typos in some error messages thrown by extension scripts when fed to psql. 2014-08-25 18:30:28 +02:00
sepgsql pgindent run for 9.4 2014-05-06 12:12:18 -04:00
spi Fix typos in some error messages thrown by extension scripts when fed to psql. 2014-08-25 18:30:28 +02:00
sslinfo Fix typos in some error messages thrown by extension scripts when fed to psql. 2014-08-25 18:30:28 +02:00
start-scripts doc: Reflect renaming of Mac OS X to OS X 2014-09-09 13:58:50 -04:00
tablefunc Handle unexpected query results, especially NULLs, safely in connectby(). 2015-01-29 20:18:37 -05:00
tcn pgindent run for 9.4 2014-05-06 12:12:18 -04:00
test_decoding Don't skip SQL backends in logical decoding for visibility computation. 2014-12-02 23:52:44 +01:00
test_parser Fix typos in some error messages thrown by extension scripts when fed to psql. 2014-08-25 18:30:28 +02:00
test_shm_mq pgindent run for 9.4 2014-05-06 12:12:18 -04:00
tsearch2 Fix typos in some error messages thrown by extension scripts when fed to psql. 2014-08-25 18:30:28 +02:00
unaccent Fix typos in some error messages thrown by extension scripts when fed to psql. 2014-08-25 18:30:28 +02:00
uuid-ossp Fix typos in some error messages thrown by extension scripts when fed to psql. 2014-08-25 18:30:28 +02:00
vacuumlo Centralize getopt-related declarations in a new header file pg_getopt.h. 2014-02-15 14:31:30 -05:00
worker_spi worker_spi: Initialize bgw_notify_pid in all cases. 2014-05-26 22:56:28 -04:00
xml2 Free libxml2/libxslt resources in a safer order. 2014-11-27 11:12:47 -05:00
contrib-global.mk Remove cvs keywords from all files. 2010-09-20 22:08:53 +02:00
Makefile Support BSD and e2fsprogs UUID libraries alongside OSSP UUID library. 2014-05-27 19:42:08 -04:00
README Rename 'gmake' to 'make' in docs and recommended commands 2014-02-12 17:29:19 -05:00

README 

The PostgreSQL contrib tree
---------------------------

This subtree contains porting tools, analysis utilities, and plug-in
features that are not part of the core PostgreSQL system, mainly
because they address a limited audience or are too experimental to be
part of the main source tree.  This does not preclude their
usefulness.

User documentation for each module appears in the main SGML
documentation.

When building from the source distribution, these modules are not
built automatically, unless you build the "world" target.  You can
also build and install them all by running "make all" and "make
install" in this directory; or to build and install just one selected
module, do the same in that module's subdirectory.

Some directories supply new user-defined functions, operators, or
types.  To make use of one of these modules, after you have installed
the code you need to register the new SQL objects in the database
system by executing a CREATE EXTENSION command.  In a fresh database,
you can simply do

    CREATE EXTENSION module_name;

See the PostgreSQL documentation for more information about this
procedure.