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petere and others added 30 commits November 25, 2024 12:27
Tcl 9 changed several API functions to take Tcl_Size, which is
ptrdiff_t, instead of int, for 64-bit enablement.  We have to change a
few local variables to be compatible with that.  We also provide a
fallback typedef of Tcl_Size for older Tcl versions.

The affected variables are used for quantities that will not approach
values beyond the range of int, so this doesn't change any
functionality.

Reviewed-by: Tristan Partin <tristan@partin.io>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/bce0fe54-75b4-438e-b42b-8e84bc7c0e9c%40eisentraut.org
On ARM platforms where the baseline CPU target lacks CRC instructions,
we need to supply a -march flag to persuade the compiler to compile
such instructions.  It turns out that our existing choice of
"-march=armv8-a+crc" has not worked for some time, because recent gcc
will interpret that as selecting software floating point, and then
will spit up if the platform requires hard-float ABI, as most do
nowadays.  The end result was to silently fall back to software CRC,
which isn't very desirable since in practice almost all currently
produced ARM chips do have hardware CRC.

We can fix this by using "-march=armv8-a+crc+simd" to enable the
correct ABI choice.  (This has no impact on the code actually
generated, since neither of the files we compile with this flag
does any floating-point stuff, let alone SIMD.)  Keep the test for
"-march=armv8-a+crc" since that's required for soft-float ABI,
but try that second since most platforms we're likely to build on
use hard-float.

Since this isn't working as-intended on the last several years'
worth of gcc releases, back-patch to all supported branches.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/4496616.iHFcN1HehY@portable-bastien
Commit bc5a4dfc accidentally left a check for <stdbool.h> in
meson.build's header_checks.  Synchronize with configure, which no
longer defines HAVE_STDBOOL_H.

There is still a reference to <stdbool.h> in an earlier test to see if
we need -std=c99 to get C99 features, like autoconf 2.69's
AC_PROG_CC_C99.  (Therefore the test remove by this commit was
tautological since day one: you'd have copped "C compiler does not
support C99" before making it this far.)

Back-patch to 16, where meson begins.
This WARNING appeared because SearchSysCacheLocked1() read
cc_relisshared before catcache initialization, when the field is false
unconditionally.  On the basis of reading false there, it constructed a
locktag as though pg_tablespace weren't relisshared.  Only shared
catalogs could be affected, and only GRANT TABLESPACE was affected in
practice.  SearchSysCacheLocked1() callers use one other shared-relation
syscache, DATABASEOID.  DATABASEOID is initialized by the end of
CheckMyDatabase(), making the problem unreachable for pg_database.

Back-patch to v13 (all supported versions).  This has no known impact
before v16, where ExecGrant_common() first appeared.  Earlier branches
avoid trouble by having a separate ExecGrant_Tablespace() that doesn't
use LOCKTAG_TUPLE.  However, leaving this unfixed in v15 could ensnare a
future back-patch of a SearchSysCacheLocked1() call.

Reported by Aya Iwata.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/OS7PR01MB11964507B5548245A7EE54E70EA212@OS7PR01MB11964.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com
If passed a read-write expanded object pointer, the EEOP_NULLIF
code would hand that same pointer to the equality function
and then (unless equality was reported) also return the same
pointer as its value.  This is no good, because a function that
receives a read-write expanded object pointer is fully entitled
to scribble on or even delete the object, thus corrupting the
NULLIF output.  (This problem is likely unobservable with the
equality functions provided in core Postgres, but it's easy to
demonstrate with one coded in plpgsql.)

To fix, make sure the pointer passed to the equality function
is read-only.  We can still return the original read-write
pointer as the NULLIF result, allowing optimization of later
operations.

Per bug #18722 from Alexander Lakhin.  This has been wrong
since we invented expanded objects, so back-patch to all
supported branches.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18722-fd9e645448cc78b4@postgresql.org
constexpr is a keyword in C23.  Rename a conflicting identifier for
future-proofing.

Reviewed-by: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/08abc832-1384-4aca-a535-1a79765b565e%40eisentraut.org
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/87o72eo9iu.fsf%40gentoo.org
The approach of declaring a function pointer with an empty argument
list and hoping that the compiler will not complain about casting it
to another type no longer works with C23, because foo() is now
equivalent to foo(void).

We don't need to do this here.  With a few struct forward declarations
we can supply a correct argument list without having to pull in
another header file.

(This is the only new warning with C23.  Together with the previous
fix a67a49648d9, this makes the whole code compile cleanly under C23.)

Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/95c6a9bf-d306-43d8-b880-664ef08f2944%40eisentraut.org
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/87o72eo9iu.fsf%40gentoo.org
This matches the behavior of the makefiles and the old MSVC build
system.  The main effect is that the build result gets installed into
pkglibdir rather than bindir.  The documentation says to locate the
library in pkglibdir, so this makes the code match the documentation
again.

Reviewed-by: Ryohei Takahashi (Fujitsu) <r.takahashi_2@fujitsu.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/TY3PR01MB118912125614599641CA881B782522%40TY3PR01MB11891.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com
The OSSP uuid.h file includes unistd.h, so to use it with MSVC we need to
include the postgres include directories so it picks up our version of
that in src/include/port/win32_msvc. Adjust the meson test accordingly.

Backported from commit 7c655a04a2, so we can build release 16 with UUID

per request from Marina Polyakova
When using a pipeline, a transaction starts from the first command and
is committed with a Sync message or when the pipeline ends.

Functions like IsInTransactionBlock() or PreventInTransactionBlock()
were already able to understand a pipeline as being in a transaction
block, but it was not the case of CheckTransactionBlock().  This
function is called for example to generate a WARNING for SET LOCAL,
complaining that it is used outside of a transaction block.

The current state of the code caused multiple problems, like:
- SET LOCAL executed at any stage of a pipeline issued a WARNING, even
if the command was at least second in line where the pipeline is in a
transaction state.
- LOCK TABLE failed when invoked at any step of a pipeline, even if it
should be able to work within a transaction block.

The pipeline protocol assumes that the first command of a pipeline is
not part of a transaction block, and that any follow-up commands is
considered as within a transaction block.

This commit changes the backend so as an implicit transaction block is
started each time the first Execute message of a pipeline has finished
processing, with this implicit transaction block ended once a sync is
processed.  The checks based on XACT_FLAGS_PIPELINING in the routines
checking if we are in a transaction block are not necessary: it is
enough to rely on the existing ones.

Some tests are added to pgbench, that can be backpatched down to v17
when \syncpipeline is involved and down to v14 where \startpipeline and
\endpipeline are available.  This is unfortunately limited regarding the
error patterns that can be checked, but it provides coverage for various
pipeline combinations to check if these succeed or fail.  These tests
are able to capture the case of SET LOCAL's WARNING.  The author has
proposed a different feature to improve the coverage by adding similar
meta-commands to psql where error messages could be checked, something
more useful for the cases where commands cannot be used in transaction
blocks, like REINDEX CONCURRENTLY or VACUUM.  This is considered as
future work for v18~.

Author: Anthonin Bonnefoy
Reviewed-by: Jelte Fennema-Nio, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAO6_XqrWO8uNBQrSu5r6jh+vTGi5Oiyk4y8yXDORdE2jbzw8xw@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 13
Commit 9044fc1d45a added some files from upstream LLVM.  These files
have different whitespace rules, which make the git whitespace checks
powered by gitattributes fail.  To fix, add those files to the exclude
list.
from commit 9044fc1d45a
…ing.

During pgbench's table initialization, progress updates could display
leftover characters from the previous message if the new message
was shorter. This commit resolves the issue by appending spaces to
the current message to fully overwrite any remaining characters from
the previous line.

Back-patch to all the supported versions.

Author: Yushi Ogiwara, Tatsuo Ishii, Fujii Masao
Reviewed-by: Tatsuo Ishii, Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/9a9b8b95b6a709877ae48ad5b0c59bb9@oss.nttdata.com
1.  The error reporting of "port setrequested list-of-packages..."
changed, hiding errors we were relying on to know if all packages in our
list were already installed.  Use a loop instead.

2.  The cached MacPorts installation was shared between PostgreSQL
major branches, though each branch wanted different packages.  Add the
list of packages to cache key, so that different branches, when tested
in one github account/repo such as postgres/postgres, stop fighting with
each other, adding and removing packages.

Back-patch to 15 where CI began.

Author: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Author: Nazir Bilal Yavuz <byavuz81@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/au2uqfuy2nf43nwy2txmc5t2emhwij7kzupygto3d2ffgtrdgr%40ckvrlwyflnh2
This reverts commit d77f91214fb7 on all stable branches, due to concerns
regarding the compatility side effects this could create in a minor
release.  The change still exists on HEAD.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoZqRgeFTg4+Yf_CMRRXiHuNz1u6ZC4FvVk+rxw0RmOPnw@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 13
Commit 9044fc1d45a0 skipped SectionMemoryManager.h in headerscheck, and
by extension also cpluspluscheck, because it's C++ and would fail both
tests.  That worked in master and REL_17_STABLE due to 7b8e2ae2fd3b, but
older branches have a separate cpluspluscheck script.  We need to copy
the filtering rule into there too.

This problem was being reported by CI's CompilerWarnings task in the 15
and 16 branches, but was a victim of alert fatigue syndrome (unrelated
problems in the back-branches).

Fix 16, and back-patch to 13, as those are the live branches that have a
separate cpluspluscheck script.
If we are pulling up a subquery that's under an outer join, and
the subquery's target list contains a strict expression that uses
both a subquery variable and a lateral-reference variable, it's okay
to pull up the expression without wrapping it in a PlaceHolderVar.
That's safe because if the subquery variable is forced to NULL
by the outer join, the expression result will come out as NULL too,
so we don't have to force that outcome by evaluating the expression
below the outer join.  It'd be correct to wrap in a PHV, but that can
lead to very significantly worse plans, since we'd then have to use
a nestloop plan to pass down the lateral reference to where the
expression will be evaluated.

However, when we do that, we should not mark the lateral reference
variable as being nulled by the outer join, because it isn't after
we pull up the expression in this way.  So the marking logic added
by cb8e50a4a was incorrect in this detail, leading to "wrong
varnullingrels" errors from the consistency-checking logic in
setrefs.c.  It seems to be sufficient to just not mark lateral
references at all in this case.  (I have a nagging feeling that more
complexity may be needed in cases where there are several levels of
outer join, but some attempts to break it with that didn't succeed.)

Per report from Bertrand Mamasam.  Back-patch to v16, as the previous
patch was.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CACZ67_UA_EVrqiFXJu9XK50baEpH=ofEPJswa2kFxg6xuSw-ww@mail.gmail.com
As I'd feared, commit 5c9d8636d was still a few bricks shy of a load.
We can't just leave pulled-up lateral-reference Vars with no new
nullingrels: we have to carefully compute what subset of the
to-be-replaced Var's nullingrels apply to them, else we still get
"wrong varnullingrels" errors.  This is a bit tedious, but it looks
like we can use the nullingrel data this patch computes for other
purposes, enabling better optimization.  We don't want to inject
unnecessary plan changes into stable branches though, so leave that
idea for a later HEAD-only patch.

Patch by me, but thanks to Richard Guo for devising a test case that
broke 5c9d8636d, and for preliminary investigation about how to fix
it.  As before, back-patch to v16.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1tGn4j-0003zi-MP@gemulon.postgresql.org
The loops over cursor argument variables neglected to ever advance
"prevvar".  The code would accidentally do the right thing anyway
when removing the first or second list entry, but if it had to
remove the third or later entry then it would also remove all
entries between there and the first entry.  AFAICS this would
only matter for cursors that reference out-of-scope variables,
which is a weird Informix compatibility hack; between that and
the lack of impact for short lists, it's not so surprising that
nobody has complained.  Nonetheless it's a pretty obvious bug.

It would have been more obvious if these loops used a more standard
coding style for chasing the linked lists --- this business with the
"prev" pointer sometimes pointing at the current list entry is
confusing and overcomplicated.  So rather than just add a minimal
band-aid, I chose to rewrite the loops in the same style we use
elsewhere, where the "prev" pointer is NULL until we are dealing with
a non-first entry and we save the "next" pointer at the top of the
loop.  (Two of the four loops touched here are not actually buggy,
but it seems better to make them all look alike.)

Coverity discovered this problem, but not until 2b41de4a5 added code
to free no-longer-needed arguments structs.  With that, the incorrect
link updates are possibly touching freed memory, and it complained
about that.  Nonetheless the list corruption hazard is ancient, so
back-patch to all supported branches.
Previously, it set only DELAY_CHKPT_COMPLETE. That was important,
because it meant that if the XLOG_SMGR_TRUNCATE record preceded a
XLOG_CHECKPOINT_ONLINE record in the WAL, then the truncation would also
happen on disk before the XLOG_CHECKPOINT_ONLINE record was
written.

However, it didn't guarantee that the sync request for the truncation
was processed before the XLOG_CHECKPOINT_ONLINE record was written. By
setting DELAY_CHKPT_START, we guarantee that if an XLOG_SMGR_TRUNCATE
record is written to WAL before the redo pointer of a concurrent
checkpoint, the sync request queued by that operation must be processed
by that checkpoint, rather than being left for the following one.

This is a refinement of commit 412ad7a.  Back-patch to all supported
releases, like that commit.

Author: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKG%2B-2rjGZC2kwqr2NMLBcEBp4uf59QT1advbWYF_uc%2B0Aw%40mail.gmail.com
The corresponding read-only server settings have been removed since
in PG16. See commit b0f6c43.

Author: Pierre Giraud <pierre.giraud@dalibo.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/a75a2fb0-f4b3-4c0c-be3d-7a62d266d760%40dalibo.com
These format codes produce or consume strings of digits, so they
should be labeled with is_digit = true, but they were not.
This has effect in only one place, where is_next_separator()
is checked to see if the preceding format code should slurp up
all the available digits.  Thus, with a format such as '...SSFF3'
with remaining input '12345', the 'SS' code would consume all
five digits (and then complain about seconds being out of range)
when it should eat only two digits.

Per report from Nick Davies.  This bug goes back to d589f94
where the FFn codes were introduced, so back-patch to v13.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/AM8PR08MB6356AC979252CFEA78B56678B6312@AM8PR08MB6356.eurprd08.prod.outlook.com
Yoran Heling reported a case where a data type could be dropped
while references to its OID remain behind in pg_amproc.  This
causes getObjectDescription to fail, which blocks dropping the
operator family (since our DROP code likes to construct descriptions
of everything it's dropping).  The proper fix for this requires
adding more pg_depend entries.  But to allow DROP to go through with
already-corrupt catalogs, tweak getObjectDescription to print "???"
for the type instead of failing when it processes such an entry.

I changed the logic for pg_amop similarly, for consistency,
although it is not known that the problem can manifest in pg_amop.

Per report from Yoran Heling.  Back-patch to all supported
branches (although the problem may be unreachable in v13).

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/Z1MVCOh1hprjK5Sf@gmai021
Usually an entry in pg_amop or pg_amproc does not need a dependency on
its amoplefttype/amoprighttype/amproclefttype/amprocrighttype types,
because there is an indirect dependency via the argument types of its
referenced operator or procedure, or via the opclass it belongs to.
However, for some support procedures in some index AMs, the argument
types of the support procedure might not mention the column data type
at all.  Also, the amop/amproc entry might be treated as "loose" in
the opfamily, in which case it lacks a dependency on any particular
opclass; or it might be a cross-type entry having a reference to a
datatype that is not its opclass' opcintype.

The upshot of all this is that there are cases where a datatype can
be dropped while leaving behind amop/amproc entries that mention it,
because there is no path in pg_depend showing that those entries
depend on that type.  Such entries are harmless in normal activity,
because they won't get used, but they cause problems for maintenance
actions such as dropping the operator family.  They also cause pg_dump
to produce bogus output.  The previous commit put a band-aid on the
DROP OPERATOR FAMILY failure, but a real fix is needed.

To fix, add pg_depend entries showing that a pg_amop/pg_amproc entry
depends on its lefttype/righttype.  To avoid bloating pg_depend too
much, skip this if the referenced operator or function has that type
as an input type.  (I did not bother with considering the possible
indirect dependency via the opclass' opcintype; at least in the
reported case, that wouldn't help anyway.)

Probably, the reason this has escaped notice for so long is that
add-on datatypes and relevant opclasses/opfamilies are usually
packaged as extensions nowadays, so that there's no way to drop
a type without dropping the referencing opclasses/opfamilies too.
Still, in the absence of pg_depend entries there's nothing that
constrains DROP EXTENSION to drop the opfamily entries before the
datatype, so it seems possible for a DROP failure to occur anyway.

The specific case that was reported doesn't fail in v13, because
v13 prefers to attach the support procedure to the opclass not the
opfamily.  But it's surely possible to construct other edge cases
that do fail in v13, so patch that too.

Per report from Yoran Heling.  Back-patch to all supported branches.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/Z1MVCOh1hprjK5Sf@gmai021
When short-circuiting WindowAgg node evaluation on the top-level
WindowAgg node using quals on monotonic window functions, because the
WindowAgg run condition can mean there's no need to evaluate subsequent
window function results in the same partition once the run condition
becomes false, it was possible that the executor would use stale results
from the previous invocation of the window function in some cases.

A fix for this was partially done by a5832722, but that commit only
fixed the issue for non-top-level WindowAgg nodes.  I mistakenly thought
that the top-level WindowAgg didn't have this issue, but Jayesh's example
case clearly shows that's incorrect.  At the time, I also thought that
this only affected 32-bit systems as all window functions which then
supported run conditions returned BIGINT, however, that's wrong as
ExecProject is still called and that could cause evaluation of any other
window function belonging to the same WindowAgg node, one of which may
return a byref type.

The only queries affected by this are WindowAggs with a "Run Condition"
which contains at least one window function with a byref result type,
such as lead() or lag() on a byref column.  The window clause must also
contain a PARTITION BY clause (without a PARTITION BY, execution of the
WindowAgg stops immediately when the run condition becomes false and
there's no risk of using the stale results).

Reported-by: Jayesh Dehankar
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/193261e2c4d.3dd3cd7c1842.871636075166132237@zohocorp.com
Backpatch-through: 15, where WindowAgg run conditions were added
818119afccd3 has introduced the "generation" concept in pgstats entries,
incremented a counter when a pgstats entry is reinitialized, but it did
not count on the fact that backends still holding local references to
such entries need to be refreshed if the cache age is outdated.  The
previous logic only updated local references when an entry was dropped,
but it needs also to consider entries that are reinitialized.

This matters for replication slot stats (as well as custom pgstats kinds
in 18~), where concurrent drops and creates of a slot could cause
incorrect stats to be locally referenced.  This would lead to an
assertion failure at shutdown when writing out the stats file, as the
backend holding an outdated local reference would not be able to drop
during its shutdown sequence the stats entry that should be dropped, as
the last process holding a reference to the stats entry.  The
checkpointer was then complaining about such an entry late in the
shutdown sequence, after the shutdown checkpoint is finished with the
control file updated, causing the stats file to not be generated.  In
non-assert builds, the entry would just be skipped with the stats file
written.

Note that only logical replication slots use statistics.

A test case based on TAP is added to test_decoding, where a persistent
connection peeking at a slot's data is kept with concurrent drops and
creates of the same slot.  This is based on the isolation test case that
Anton has sent.  As it requires a node shutdown with a check to make
sure that the stats file is written with this specific sequence of
events, TAP is used instead.

Reported-by: Anton A. Melnikov
Reviewed-by: Bertrand Drouvot
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/56bf8ff9-dd8c-47b2-872a-748ede82af99@postgrespro.ru
Backpatch-through: 15
pgstat_write_statsfile() discards any entries marked as dropped from
being written to the stats file at shutdown, and also included an
assertion based on the same condition.

The intention of the assertion is to track that no pgstats entries
should be left around as terminating backends should drop any entries
they still hold references on before the stats file is written by the
checkpointer, and it not worth taking down the server in this case if
there is a bug making that possible.

Let's improve the comment of this area to document clearly what's
intended.

Based on a discussion with Bertrand Drouvot and Anton A. Melnikov.

Author: Bertrand Drouvot
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/a13e8cdf-b97a-4ecb-8f42-aaa367974e29@postgrespro.ru
Backpatch-through: 15
Our parallel-mode code only works when we are executing a query
in full, so ExecutePlan must disable parallel mode when it is
asked to do partial execution.  The previous logic for this
involved passing down a flag (variously named execute_once or
run_once) from callers of ExecutorRun or PortalRun.  This is
overcomplicated, and unsurprisingly some of the callers didn't
get it right, since it requires keeping state that not all of
them have handy; not to mention that the requirements for it were
undocumented.  That led to assertion failures in some corner
cases.  The only state we really need for this is the existing
QueryDesc.already_executed flag, so let's just put all the
responsibility in ExecutePlan.  (It could have been done in
ExecutorRun too, leading to a slightly shorter patch -- but if
there's ever more than one caller of ExecutePlan, it seems better
to have this logic in the subroutine than the callers.)

This makes those ExecutorRun/PortalRun parameters unnecessary.
In master it seems okay to just remove them, returning the
API for those functions to what it was before parallelism.
Such an API break is clearly not okay in stable branches,
but for them we can just leave the parameters in place after
documenting that they do nothing.

Per report from Yugo Nagata, who also reviewed and tested
this patch.  Back-patch to all supported branches.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20241206062549.710dc01cf91224809dd6c0e1@sraoss.co.jp
Follow-up commit to a9d58bf.  Backpatch down to v16 where
this was added in order to keep the code consistent for future
backpatches.

Author: Tofig Aliev <t.aliev@postgrespro.ru>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
Reviewed-by: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/bba4313fdde9db46db279f96f3b748b1@postgrespro.ru
Backpatch-through: 16
It looks like the example case was once modified to increase the number
of rows but the EXPLAIN ANALYZE output wasn't updated to reflect that.

Also adjust the text which discusses the index sizes.  With the example
table size, the bloom index isn't quite 8 times more space efficient
than the btree indexes.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvovx8kQ0=HTt85gFDAwmTJHpCgiSvRmQZ_6u_g-vQYM_w@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 13, all supported versions
nathan-bossart and others added 14 commits May 30, 2026 10:03
A few functions in this file were incautious about multiplying a
possibly large integer by a factor more than 1 and then using it as
an allocation size.  This is harmless on 64-bit systems where we'd
compute a size exceeding MaxAllocSize and then fail, but on 32-bit
systems we could overflow size_t, leading to an undersized
allocation and buffer overrun.  To fix, use palloc_array() or
mul_size() instead of handwritten multiplication.

Reported-by: Sven Klemm <sven@tigerdata.com>
Reported-by: Xint Code
Author: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Reviewed-by: Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@postgresql.org>
Security: CVE-2026-6473
Backpatch-through: 14
pg_rewind and pg_basebackup could be fed paths from rogue endpoints that
could overwrite the contents of the client when received, achieving path
traversal.

There were two areas in the tree that were sensitive to this problem:
- pg_basebackup, through the astreamer code, where no validation was
performed before building an output path when streaming tar data.  This
is an issue in v15 and newer versions.
- pg_rewind file operations for paths received through libpq, for all
the stable branches supported.

In order to address this problem, this commit adds a helper function in
path.c, that reuses path_is_relative_and_below_cwd() after applying
canonicalize_path().  This can be used to validate the paths received
from a connection point.  A path is considered invalid if any of the two
following conditions is satisfied:
- The path is absolute.
- The path includes a direct parent-directory reference.

Reported-by: XlabAI Team of Tencent Xuanwu Lab
Reported-by: Valery Gubanov <valerygubanov95@gmail.com>
Author: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>
Backpatch-through: 14
Security: CVE-2026-6475
pg_locale_icu.c was full of places where a very long input string
could cause integer overflow while calculating a buffer size,
leading to buffer overruns.

It also was cavalier about using char-type local arrays as buffers
holding arrays of UChar.  The alignment of a char[] variable isn't
guaranteed, so that this risked failure on alignment-picky platforms.
The lack of complaints suggests that such platforms are very rare
nowadays; but it's likely that we are paying a performance price on
rather more platforms.  Declare those arrays as UChar[] instead,
keeping their physical size the same.

pg_locale_libc.c's strncoll_libc_win32_utf8() also had the
disease of assuming it could double or quadruple the input
string length without concern for overflow.

Reported-by: Xint Code
Reported-by: Pavel Kohout <pavel.kohout@aisle.com>
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Backpatch-through: 14
Security: CVE-2026-6473
If you accumulate many arrays full of NULLs, you could overflow
'nitems', before reaching the MaxAllocSize limit on the allocations.
Add an explicit check that the number of items doesn't grow too large.
With more than MaxArraySize items, getting the final result with
makeArrayResultArr() would fail anyway, so better to error out early.

Reported-by: Xint Code
Author: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Backpatch-through: 14
Security: CVE-2026-6473
When result_is_int is set to 0, PQfn() cannot validate that the
result fits in result_buf, so it will write data beyond the end of
the buffer when the server returns more data than requested.  Since
this function is insecurable and obsolete, add a warning to the top
of the pertinent documentation advising against its use.

The only in-tree caller of PQfn() is the frontend large object
interface.  To fix that, add a buf_size parameter to
pqFunctionCall3() that is used to protect against overruns, and use
it in a private version of PQfn() that also accepts a buf_size
parameter.

Reported-by: Yu Kunpeng <yu443940816@live.com>
Reported-by: Martin Heistermann <martin.heistermann@unibe.ch>
Author: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Reviewed-by: Etsuro Fujita <etsuro.fujita@gmail.com>
Security: CVE-2026-6477
Backpatch-through: 14
Maliciously crafted key value updates could achieve SQL injection
within check_foreign_key().  To fix, ensure new key values are
properly quoted and escaped in the internally generated SQL
statements.  While at it, avoid potential buffer overruns by
replacing the stack buffers for internally generated SQL statements
with StringInfo.

Reported-by: Nikolay Samokhvalov <nik@postgres.ai>
Author: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Reviewed-by: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>
Security: CVE-2026-6637
Backpatch-through: 14
These checks are failing in the buildfarm, reporting stack overflows
rather than the expected errors, though seemingly only on ppc64 and
s390x platforms.  Perhaps there is something off about our tests
for stack depth on those architectures?  But there's no time to
debug that right now, and surely these tests aren't too essential.
Revert for now and plan to revisit after the release dust settles.

Backpatch-through: 14
Security: CVE-2026-6473
These could overflow on 32-bit systems.

Backpatch-through: 14
Security: CVE-2026-6473
Sufficiently large "count" arguments could result in undetected
overflow, causing the allocated memory chunk to be much smaller
than what the caller will subsequently write into it.  This is
unlikely to be a hazard with 64-bit size_t but can sometimes
happen on 32-bit builds, primarily where a function allocates
workspace that's significantly larger than its input data.
Rather than trying to patch the at-risk callers piecemeal,
let's just redefine these macros so that they always check.

To do that, move the longstanding add_size() and mul_size() functions
into palloc.h and mcxt.c, and adjust them to not be specific to
shared-memory allocation.  Then invent palloc_mul(), palloc0_mul(),
palloc_mul_extended() to use these functions.  Actually, the latter
use inlined copies to save one function call.  repalloc_array() gets
similar treatment.  I didn't bother trying to inline the calls for
repalloc0_array() though.

In v14 and v15, this also adds repalloc_extended(), which previously
was only available in v16 and up.

We need copies of all this in fe_memutils.[hc] as well, since that
module also provides palloc_array() etc.

Reported-by: Xint Code
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Reviewed-by: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>
Backpatch-through: 14
Security: CVE-2026-6473
Partion. Changes from libpq to be done later.

Commit 600086f47 added (several bespoke copies of) size_t addition with
overflow checks to libpq. Move this to common/int.h, along with
its subtraction and multiplication counterparts.

pg_neg_size_overflow() is intentionally omitted; I'm not sure we should
add SSIZE_MAX to win32_port.h for the sake of a function with no
callers.

Back-patch of commit 8934f2136, done now because pg_add_size_overflow()
and friends are needed more widely for security fixes.

Author: Jacob Champion <jacob.champion@enterprisedb.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
When GPHOME is reached via a symlink whose target is stored as a
relative path (e.g. /opt/database -> database-2.1.0), the previous
logic ran a bare `readlink` on the script's directory and accepted
the link target verbatim.  `readlink` returns the symlink's target
string as-is; for a relative target this leaves GPHOME as a relative
path, so PYTHONPATH becomes `database-2.1.0/lib/python` and gpstart
fails with ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'gppylib' the moment
the shell's cwd is anything other than the symlink's parent.

Replace the symlink-vs-not branch with a single `pwd -P`, which
resolves every symlink component and returns the canonical absolute
path regardless of how the user reached the directory.  This also
removes the unnecessary `[ -L ... ]` test and the dependency on GNU
readlink semantics.
…buffer

CException is ~255KB due to stack_[DEFAULT_STACK_MAX_SIZE]. When
Raise(CException ex, ...) passes by value, two copies (510KB) are
placed on the stack, causing stack overflow in backtrace() -> dlopen().

Fix:
- Change Raise/ReRaise to pass CException by reference instead of value
- Reduce DEFAULT_STACK_MAX_SIZE to 1/4 (255KB -> 63KB)
- Callers now construct a local CException and pass it by reference

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