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nmisch and others added 30 commits February 15, 2026 10:44
This Perl segfaults if a declaration of the to-be-aliased package
precedes the aliasing itself.  Per buildfarm members lapwing and wrasse.
Like commit 20911775de4ab7ac3ecc68bd714cb3ed0fd68b6a, back-patch to v10
(all supported versions).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220625171533.GA2012493@rfd.leadboat.com
Since commit 6a2a70a, we've used signalfd() to receive latch wakeups
when building with WAIT_USE_EPOLL (default for Linux and illumos), and
our traditional self-pipe when falling back to WAIT_USE_POLL (default
for other Unixes with neither epoll() nor kqueue()).

Unexplained hangs and kernel panics have been reported on illumos
systems, apparently linked to this use of signalfd(), leading illumos
users and build farm members to have to define WAIT_USE_POLL explicitly
as a work-around.  A bug report exists at
https://www.illumos.org/issues/13700 but no fix is available yet.

Let's provide a way for illumos users to go back to self-pipes with
epoll(), like releases before 14, and choose that by default.  No change
for Linux users.  To help with development/debugging, macros
WAIT_USE_{EPOLL,POLL} and WAIT_USE_{SIGNALFD,SELF_PIPE} can be defined
explicitly to override the defaults.

Back-patch to 14, where we started using signalfd().

Reported-by: Japin Li <japinli@hotmail.com>
Reported-by: Olaf Bohlen <olbohlen@eenfach.de> (off-list)
Reviewed-by: Japin Li <japinli@hotmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/MEYP282MB1669C8D88F0997354C2313C1B6CA9%40MEYP282MB1669.AUSP282.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM
TransactionIdIsInProgress had a fast path to return 'false' if the
single-item CLOG cache said that the transaction was known to be
committed. However, that was wrong, because a transaction is first
marked as committed in the CLOG but doesn't become visible to others
until it has removed its XID from the proc array. That could lead to an
error:

    ERROR:  t_xmin is uncommitted in tuple to be updated

or for an UPDATE to go ahead without blocking, before the previous
UPDATE on the same row was made visible.

The window is usually very short, but synchronous replication makes it
much wider, because the wait for synchronous replica happens in that
window.

Another thing that makes it hard to hit is that it's hard to get such
a commit-in-progress transaction into the single item CLOG cache.
Normally, if you call TransactionIdIsInProgress on such a transaction,
it determines that the XID is in progress without checking the CLOG
and without populating the cache. One way to prime the cache is to
explicitly call pg_xact_status() on the XID. Another way is to use a
lot of subtransactions, so that the subxid cache in the proc array is
overflown, making TransactionIdIsInProgress rely on pg_subtrans and
CLOG checks.

This has been broken ever since it was introduced in 2008, but the race
condition is very hard to hit, especially without synchronous
replication. There were a couple of reports of the error starting from
summer 2021, but no one was able to find the root cause then.

TransactionIdIsKnownCompleted() is now unused. In 'master', remove it,
but I left it in place in backbranches in case it's used by extensions.

Also change pg_xact_status() to check TransactionIdIsInProgress().
Previously, it only checked the CLOG, and returned "committed" before
the transaction was actually made visible to other queries. Note that
this also means that you cannot use pg_xact_status() to reproduce the
bug anymore, even if the code wasn't fixed.

Report and analysis by Konstantin Knizhnik. Patch by Simon Riggs, with
the pg_xact_status() change added by me.

Author: Simon Riggs
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/4da7913d-398c-e2ad-d777-f752cf7f0bbb%40garret.ru
ecpglib has been calling it once per SQL query and once per EXEC SQL GET
DESCRIPTOR.  Instead, if newlocale() has not succeeded before, call it
while establishing a connection.  This mitigates three problems:
- If newlocale() failed in EXEC SQL GET DESCRIPTOR, the command silently
  proceeded without the intended locale change.
- On AIX, each newlocale()+freelocale() cycle leaked memory.
- newlocale() CPU usage may have been nontrivial.

Fail the connection attempt if newlocale() fails.  Rearrange
ecpg_do_prologue() to validate the connection before its uselocale().

The sort of program that may regress is one running in an environment
where newlocale() fails.  If that program establishes connections
without running SQL statements, it will stop working in response to this
change.  I'm betting against the importance of such an ECPG use case.
Most SQL execution (any using ECPGdo()) has long required newlocale()
success, so there's little a connection could do without newlocale().

Back-patch to v10 (all supported versions).

Reviewed by Tom Lane.  Reported by Guillaume Lelarge.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220101074055.GA54621@rfd.leadboat.com
Per buildfarm member prairiedog, this platform rejects uninitialized
global variables in shared libraries.  Back-patch to v10, like the
addition of the variable.

Reviewed by Tom Lane.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220703030619.GB2378460@rfd.leadboat.com
We were going into IDLE state too soon when executing queries via
PQsendQuery in pipeline mode, causing several scenarios to misbehave in
different ways -- most notably, as reported by Daniele Varrazzo, that a
warning message is produced by libpq:
  message type 0x33 arrived from server while idle
But it is also possible, if queries are sent and results consumed not in
lockstep, for the expected mediating NULL result values from PQgetResult
to be lost (a problem which has not been reported, but which is more
serious).

Fix this by introducing two new concepts: one is a command queue element
PGQUERY_CLOSE to tell libpq to wait for the CloseComplete server
response to the Close message that is sent by PQsendQuery.  Because the
application is not expecting any PGresult from this, the mechanism to
consume it is a bit hackish.

The other concept, authored by Horiguchi-san, is a PGASYNC_PIPELINE_IDLE
state for libpq's state machine to differentiate "really idle" from
merely "the idle state that occurs in between reading results from the
server for elements in the pipeline".  This makes libpq not go fully
IDLE when the libpq command queue contains entries; in normal cases, we
only go IDLE once at the end of the pipeline, when the server response
to the final SYNC message is received.  (However, there are corner cases
it doesn't fix, such as terminating the query sequence by
PQsendFlushRequest instead of PQpipelineSync; this sort of scenario is
what requires PGQUERY_CLOSE bit above.)

This last bit helps make the libpq state machine clearer; in particular
we can get rid of an ugly hack in pqParseInput3 to avoid considering
IDLE as such when the command queue contains entries.

A new test mode is added to libpq_pipeline.c to tickle some related
problematic cases.

Reported-by: Daniele Varrazzo <daniele.varrazzo@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+mi_8bvD0_CW3sumgwPvWdNzXY32itoG_16tDYRu_1S2gV2iw@mail.gmail.com
When we changed some built-in functions to use anycompatiblearray
instead of anyarray, we created a dump/restore hazard for user-defined
operators and aggregates relying on those functions: the user objects
have to be modified to change their signatures similarly.  This causes
pg_upgrade to fail partway through if the source installation contains
such objects.  We generally try to have pg_upgrade detect such hazards
and fail before it does anything exciting, so add logic to detect
this case too.

Back-patch to v14 where the change was made.

Justin Pryzby, reviewed by Andrey Borodin

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3383880.QJadu78ljV@vejsadalnx
We only need to reject cases when the aggregate or operator is
itself declared with a polymorphic type.  Per buildfarm.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3383880.QJadu78ljV@vejsadalnx
The examples show the output of array_length() and jsonb_array_length()
for empty arrays.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKFQuwaoBmRuWdMLzLHDCFDJDX3wvfQ7egAF0bpik_BFgG1KWg@mail.gmail.com

Author: David G. Johnston

Backpatch-through: 13
Single quotes are not allowed in json internals, double quotes are.

Reported-by: Eric Mutta
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/165715362165.665.3875113264927503997@wrigleys.postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 14
Justin Pryzby reported that some scenarios could cause gathering
of extended statistics to spend many seconds in an un-cancelable
qsort() operation.  To fix, invent qsort_interruptible(), which is
just like qsort_arg() except that it will also do CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS
every so often.  This bloats the backend by a couple of kB, which
seems like a good investment.  (We considered just enabling
CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS in the existing qsort and qsort_arg functions,
but there are some callers for which that'd demonstrably be unsafe.
Opt-in seems like a better way.)

For now, just apply qsort_interruptible() in statistics collection.
There's probably more places where it could be useful, but we can
always change other call sites as we find problems.

Back-patch to v14.  Before that we didn't have extended stats on
expressions, so that the problem was less severe.  Also, this patch
depends on the sort_template infrastructure introduced in v14.

Tom Lane and Justin Pryzby

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220509000108.GQ28830@telsasoft.com
Commit 054325c created a memory leak in PQsendQueryInternal in case
an error occurs while sending the message.  Repair.

Backpatch to 14, like that commit.  Reported by Coverity.
Initial patch by David G. Johnston.

Reported-by: David G. Johnston

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKFQuwZpbdzceO41VE-xt1Xh8rWRRfgopTAK1wL9EhCo0Am-Sw@mail.gmail.com

Backpatch-through: 10
Original patch by David G. Johnston.

Reported-by: David G. Johnston

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKFQuwa4J0+WuO7kW1PLbjoEvzPN+Q_j+P2bXxNnCLaszY7ZdQ@mail.gmail.com

Backpatch-through: 10
Original patch by David G. Johnston.

Reported-by: David G. Johnston

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKFQuwYQCxSSuSL18skCWG8QHFswOJ3hjovHsOZUE346i4OpVQ@mail.gmail.com

Backpatch-through: 10
Clarify that functions/procedures are dropped when any extension that
depends on them is dropped.

Reported-by: David G. Johnston

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKFQuwbPSHMDGkisRUmewopweC1bFvytVqB=a=X4GFg=4ZWxPA@mail.gmail.com

Backpatch-through: 13
Add link to the description of lock levels to avoid confusing "shared locks"
with SHARE locks.

Florin Irion

Reviewed-by: Álvaro Herrera, Tom Lane, and Nathan Bossart
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/d0f30cc2-3c76-1d43-f291-7c4b2872d653@gmail.com

This is a backpatch of 4e2e8d7, applied through version 14
The patch that added regcollation doesn't seem to have been too
thorough about supporting it everywhere that other reg* types
are supported.  Fix that.  (The find_expr_references omission
is moderately serious, since it could result in missing expression
dependencies.  The others are less exciting.)

Noted while fixing bug #17483.  Back-patch to v13 where
regcollation was added.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1423433.1652722406@sss.pgh.pa.us
This fixes an ABI break introduced by
604651880c71c5106a72529b9ce29eaad0cfab27.

Author: Markus Wanner <markus.wanner@enterprisedb.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/defd749a-8410-841d-1126-21398686d63d@enterprisedb.com
Due to lack of concern for the case in the dependency code, it's
possible to drop a column of a composite type even though stored
queries have references to the dropped column via functions-in-FROM
that return the composite type.  There are "soft" references,
namely FROM-clause aliases for such columns, and "hard" references,
that is actual Vars referring to them.  The right fix for hard
references is to add dependencies preventing the drop; something
we've known for many years and not done (and this commit still doesn't
address it).  A "soft" reference shouldn't prevent a drop though.
We've been around on this before (cf. 9b35ddc, 2c4debb), but
nobody had noticed that the current behavior can result in dump/reload
failures, because ruleutils.c can print more column aliases than the
underlying composite type now has.  So we need to rejigger the
column-alias-handling code to treat such columns as dropped and not
print aliases for them.

Rather than writing new code for this, I used expandRTE() which already
knows how to figure out which function result columns are dropped.
I'd initially thought maybe we could use expandRTE() in all cases, but
that fails for EXPLAIN's purposes, because the planner strips a lot of
RTE infrastructure that expandRTE() needs.  So this patch just uses it
for unplanned function RTEs and otherwise does things the old way.

If there is a hard reference (Var), then removing the column alias
causes us to fail to print the Var, since there's no longer a name
to print.  Failing seems less desirable than printing a made-up
name, so I made it print "?dropped?column?" instead.

Per report from Timo Stolz.  Back-patch to all supported branches.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/5c91267e-3b6d-5795-189c-d15a55d61dbb@nullachtvierzehn.de
This is true even for acronyms that are usually upper case, like LDAP.

Reported-by: Alvaro Herrera

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/202205141521.2nodjabmsour@alvherre.pgsql

Backpatch-through: 10
When postgres_fdw begins an asynchronous data fetch, it submits FETCH query
by using PQsendQuery(). If PQsendQuery() fails and returns 0, postgres_fdw
should report an error. But, previously, postgres_fdw reported an error
only when the return value is less than 0, though PQsendQuery() never return
the values other than 0 and 1. Therefore postgres_fdw could not handle
the failure to send FETCH query in an asynchronous data fetch.

This commit fixes postgres_fdw so that it reports an error
when PQsendQuery() returns 0.

Back-patch to v14 where asynchronous execution was supported in postgres_fdw.

Author: Fujii Masao
Reviewed-by: Japin Li, Tom Lane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/b187a7cf-d4e3-5a32-4d01-8383677797f3@oss.nttdata.com
Commit 87e6ed7 added code that intended to report Windows "junction
points" as DT_LNK (the same way we report symlinks on Unix).  Windows
junction points are *also* directories according to the Windows
attributes API, and we were reporting them as as DT_DIR.  Change the
order we check the attribute flags, to prioritize DT_LNK.

If at some point we start using Windows' recently added real symlinks
and need to distinguish them from junction points, we may need to
rethink this, but for now this continues the tradition of wrapper
functions that treat junction points as symlinks.

Back-patch to 14, where get_dirent_type() landed.

Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGLzLK4PUPx0_AwXEWXOYAejU%3D7XpxnYE55Y%2Be7hB2N3FA%40mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220721111751.x7hod2xgrd76xr5c%40alvherre.pgsql
We didn't explicitly say that random() uses a randomly-chosen seed
if you haven't called setseed().  Do so.

Also, remove ref/set.sgml's no-longer-accurate (and never very
relevant) statement that the seed value is multiplied by 2^31-1.

Back-patch to v12 where set.sgml's claim stopped being true.
The claim that we use a source of random bits as seed was debatable
before 4203842, too, so v12 seems like a good place to stop.

Per question from Carl Sopchak.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/f37bb937-9d99-08f0-4de7-80c91a3cfc2e@sopchak.me
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