postgresql/contrib
Peter Geoghegan 691e8b2e18 pageinspect: Fix types used for bt_metap() columns.
The data types that contrib/pageinspect's bt_metap() function were
declared to return as OUT arguments were wrong in some cases.  For
example, the oldest_xact column (a TransactionId/xid field) was declared
integer/int4 within the pageinspect extension's sql file.  This led to
errors when an oldest_xact value that exceeded 2^31-1 was encountered.
Some of the other columns were defined incorrectly ever since
pageinspect was first introduced, though they were far less likely to
produce problems in practice.

Fix these issues by changing the declaration of bt_metap() to
consistently use data types that can reliably represent all possible
values.  This fixes things on HEAD only.  No backpatch, since it doesn't
seem like there is a safe way to fix the issue without including a new
version of the pageinspect extension (HEAD/Postgres 13 already
introduced a new version of the extension).  Besides, the oldest_xact
issue has been around since the release of Postgres 11, and we haven't
heard any complaints about it before now.

Also, throw an error when we detect a bt_metap() declaration that must
be from an old version of the pageinspect extension by examining the
number of attributes from the tuple descriptor for the return tuples.
It seems better to throw an error in a reliable and obvious way
following a Postgres upgrade, rather than letting bt_metap() fail
unpredictably.  The problem is fundamentally with the CREATE FUNCTION
declared data types themselves, so I see no sensible alternative.

Reported-By: Victor Yegorov
Bug: #16285
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16285-df8fc1000ab3d5fc@postgresql.org
2020-03-07 16:44:53 -08:00
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adminpack
amcheck Add deduplication to nbtree. 2020-02-26 13:05:30 -08:00
auth_delay
auto_explain
bloom
bool_plperl Create contrib/bool_plperl to provide a bool transform for PL/Perl[U]. 2020-03-06 17:11:23 -05:00
btree_gin Remove support for upgrading extensions from "unpackaged" state. 2020-02-19 16:59:14 -05:00
btree_gist Remove support for upgrading extensions from "unpackaged" state. 2020-02-19 16:59:14 -05:00
citext Move src/backend/utils/hash/hashfn.c to src/common 2020-02-27 09:25:41 +05:30
cube Remove support for upgrading extensions from "unpackaged" state. 2020-02-19 16:59:14 -05:00
dblink Fix compile failure. 2020-02-24 18:43:40 -05:00
dict_int Remove support for upgrading extensions from "unpackaged" state. 2020-02-19 16:59:14 -05:00
dict_xsyn Remove support for upgrading extensions from "unpackaged" state. 2020-02-19 16:59:14 -05:00
earthdistance Remove support for upgrading extensions from "unpackaged" state. 2020-02-19 16:59:14 -05:00
file_fdw
fuzzystrmatch Remove support for upgrading extensions from "unpackaged" state. 2020-02-19 16:59:14 -05:00
hstore Introduce macros for typalign and typstorage constants. 2020-03-04 10:34:25 -05:00
hstore_plperl
hstore_plpython
intagg Remove support for upgrading extensions from "unpackaged" state. 2020-02-19 16:59:14 -05:00
intarray Remove support for upgrading extensions from "unpackaged" state. 2020-02-19 16:59:14 -05:00
isn Remove support for upgrading extensions from "unpackaged" state. 2020-02-19 16:59:14 -05:00
jsonb_plperl
jsonb_plpython
lo Remove support for upgrading extensions from "unpackaged" state. 2020-02-19 16:59:14 -05:00
ltree Remove support for upgrading extensions from "unpackaged" state. 2020-02-19 16:59:14 -05:00
ltree_plpython
oid2name Add PostgreSQL home page to --help output 2020-02-28 13:12:21 +01:00
pageinspect pageinspect: Fix types used for bt_metap() columns. 2020-03-07 16:44:53 -08:00
passwordcheck
pg_buffercache Remove support for upgrading extensions from "unpackaged" state. 2020-02-19 16:59:14 -05:00
pg_freespacemap Remove support for upgrading extensions from "unpackaged" state. 2020-02-19 16:59:14 -05:00
pg_prewarm
pg_standby pg_standby: Don't use HAVE_WORKING_LINK 2020-03-03 08:54:44 +01:00
pg_stat_statements Fix possibly-uninitialized variable. 2020-03-02 18:41:50 -05:00
pg_trgm Introduce macros for typalign and typstorage constants. 2020-03-04 10:34:25 -05:00
pg_visibility
pgcrypto Introduce macros for typalign and typstorage constants. 2020-03-04 10:34:25 -05:00
pgrowlocks Remove support for upgrading extensions from "unpackaged" state. 2020-02-19 16:59:14 -05:00
pgstattuple Remove support for upgrading extensions from "unpackaged" state. 2020-02-19 16:59:14 -05:00
postgres_fdw Fix compile failure. 2020-02-24 18:43:40 -05:00
seg Remove support for upgrading extensions from "unpackaged" state. 2020-02-19 16:59:14 -05:00
sepgsql Represent command completion tags as structs 2020-03-02 18:19:51 -03:00
spi Remove support for upgrading extensions from "unpackaged" state. 2020-02-19 16:59:14 -05:00
sslinfo Remove support for upgrading extensions from "unpackaged" state. 2020-02-19 16:59:14 -05:00
start-scripts
tablefunc Remove support for upgrading extensions from "unpackaged" state. 2020-02-19 16:59:14 -05:00
tcn
test_decoding
tsm_system_rows
tsm_system_time
unaccent Remove support for upgrading extensions from "unpackaged" state. 2020-02-19 16:59:14 -05:00
uuid-ossp Remove support for upgrading extensions from "unpackaged" state. 2020-02-19 16:59:14 -05:00
vacuumlo Add PostgreSQL home page to --help output 2020-02-28 13:12:21 +01:00
xml2 Remove support for upgrading extensions from "unpackaged" state. 2020-02-19 16:59:14 -05:00
contrib-global.mk
Makefile Create contrib/bool_plperl to provide a bool transform for PL/Perl[U]. 2020-03-06 17:11:23 -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.