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lo_import() and lo_export() read and write files on the server host, so core revokes EXECUTE on them from PUBLIC. lolor replaces them by renaming the originals, and the ACL stayed with the renamed original while each replacement was created executable by PUBLIC: any user could read or overwrite arbitrary server files. Revoke it on creation, and in the upgrade script for existing installations. Versions 1.0 through 1.3.0 are affected.

Reverse migration rewrote every object through the large object API, on the premise that inserting into pg_catalog.pg_largeobject was not allowed. It is, for the superuser both migration functions already require. Both directions become a tuple copy between the two relations, in C, with the layouts verified at run time; the LOBLKSIZE and 2GB offset handling go away and sparse objects are no longer densified. Ownership and ACLs are recorded in pg_shdepend rather than set by a raw catalog UPDATE, which had left DROP ROLE unable to see migrated objects; comments survive the round trip; and native objects are dropped through performMultipleDeletions(). Migration no longer uses the renamed _orig functions, so it works while lolor is disabled.

Hold ShareRowExclusiveLock on both stores until commit. Large object access takes RowExclusiveLock, which does not conflict with itself, so a concurrent lo_write() could commit between the copy of a page and the emptying of the source store and be lost with no error.

Also run the drop cleanup for DROP SCHEMA and DROP OWNED, which reach the extension by cascade; probe exact signatures in pg_catalog in enable(), disable() and is_enabled(), which matched proname across all schemas and so could be wedged by any user; bound lolor.node by the OID encoding, which holds 0..15 rather than 0..16; and stop marking the extension trusted. Regression coverage is added throughout, and the stale committed expected output is regenerated.

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lolor 1.4.0 migration and hardening

Layer / File(s) Summary
Direct storage migration
lolor--1.3.0--1.4.0.sql, src/lolor_migrate.c, src/lolor.h, Makefile, src/lolor_inv_api.c
Adds relation-to-relation migration with comment parking, layout validation, OID conflict checks, metadata and sparse-page preservation, dependency cleanup, and transaction-scoped locks.
Migration API and replication guards
lolor--1.3.0--1.4.0.sql, README.md, sql/lolor.sql, t/007_migration.pl, t/008_concurrency_and_privileges.pl
Adds guarded migration entry points, peer-OID checks, native OID reporting, digests, orphan checks, and migration fidelity tests.
Lifecycle and security controls
lolor--1.3.0--1.4.0.sql, lolor--1.0.sql, lolor.control, docs/pg_upgrade_with_lolor.md, t/008_concurrency_and_privileges.pl
Hardens enable and disable operations, expands drop cleanup, revokes PUBLIC file-access privileges, disables trusted installation, and documents reconnect requirements.
Catalog integration and OID encoding
src/lolor.c, src/lolor.h, src/lolor_largeobject.c
Adds description-catalog lookups, shared OID-encoding constants, exact node bounds, and cleanup detection for extension, schema, and owner removal.
Regression coverage and release documentation
sql/lolor.sql, t/007_migration.pl, t/008_concurrency_and_privileges.pl, docs/lolor_release_notes.md, README.md, .github/workflows/workflow.yml, docker/entrypoint.sh, .gitignore
Adds regression coverage for migration, cleanup, I/O, security, probe-name isolation, OID bounds, and bounded test execution. Documents the 1.4.0 behavior and ignores regression output files.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 19ed7

The migration hardening remains broadly covered, but users following the documented node range may receive a rejected setting, and unusually slow CI setup can lose the intended timeout diagnostics. These are bounded readiness issues rather than production data-path failures.

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49-49: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Correct the documented lolor.node range.

This line states the value can be from 1 to 2^28. src/lolor.h Line 36 defines LOLOR_MAX_NODE_ID as (1 << 4) - 1, and the new test at sql/lolor.sql Line 441 requires SET lolor.node = 16 to be rejected. A user who follows this line gets an error.

This PR enforces the bound, so the stale range is now reachable as a failed SET.

📝 Proposed documentation fix
-You must set the `lolor.node` parameter before using the extension. The value can be from 1 to 2^28; the value is used to help in generation of new large object OID.
+You must set the `lolor.node` parameter before using the extension. The value can be from 1 to 15. The node id occupies the low 4 bits of every large object OID that lolor generates, so that concurrent creation on different nodes cannot collide.
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In `@README.md` at line 49, Update the README documentation for lolor.node to
state the enforced valid range from 1 through 15, matching LOLOR_MAX_NODE_ID and
the rejected value 16 test. Keep the surrounding usage guidance unchanged.
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sql/lolor.sql (1)

399-411: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add coverage for the DROP OWNED tag.

This block covers DROP SCHEMA only. lolor--1.3.0--1.4.0.sql Line 538 also registers the trigger for DROP OWNED, and no test exercises that tag. The comment on Line 401 states the consequence of the trigger not running: the objects are destroyed and pg_catalog loses a working lo_open(). A regression on the DROP OWNED path would therefore be silent.

💚 Proposed additional test
--
-- DROP OWNED BY the extension owner also reaches the extension by shared
-- dependency, so the cleanup trigger must run for that tag too.
--
CREATE ROLE lolor_ext_owner SUPERUSER;
SET ROLE lolor_ext_owner;
CREATE EXTENSION lolor;
SELECT lo_from_bytea(0, 'rescued from drop owned') AS owned_oid \gset
RESET ROLE;
DROP OWNED BY lolor_ext_owner CASCADE;
SELECT count(*) AS ext_left FROM pg_extension WHERE extname = 'lolor';
SELECT to_regprocedure('pg_catalog.lo_open(oid,int4)') IS NOT NULL AS lo_open_restored;
SELECT convert_from(lo_get(:owned_oid), 'UTF8') AS owned_content;
SELECT lo_unlink(:owned_oid);
DROP ROLE lolor_ext_owner;
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In `@sql/lolor.sql` around lines 399 - 411, Add regression coverage for the DROP
OWNED cleanup-trigger path alongside the existing DROP SCHEMA test. Create a
dedicated extension owner role, create the extension and a large object under
that role, run DROP OWNED BY that role CASCADE, then verify the extension is
removed, pg_catalog.lo_open remains restored, and the large object content is
recoverable and can be unlinked; clean up the role afterward.
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In `@src/lolor_migrate.c`:
- Around line 453-470: Update copy_data_pages and copy_metadata to use a
dedicated per-iteration memory context, resetting it at the end of each row
iteration so detoasted values, index scratch allocations, comment results, and
dependency data do not accumulate. Include utils/memutils.h and preserve the
existing tuple-copy and metadata behavior while ensuring each iteration’s
temporary context is cleaned up before the next.

In `@src/lolor.c`:
- Around line 273-274: Update the remove-type condition in the DDL handling
branch so OBJECT_SCHEMA is classified as extension removal only when
stmt->behavior equals DROP_CASCADE; continue allowing OBJECT_EXTENSION as before
and exclude DROP SCHEMA lolor RESTRICT from this path.

---

Outside diff comments:
In `@README.md`:
- Line 49: Update the README documentation for lolor.node to state the enforced
valid range from 1 through 15, matching LOLOR_MAX_NODE_ID and the rejected value
16 test. Keep the surrounding usage guidance unchanged.

---

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In `@sql/lolor.sql`:
- Around line 399-411: Add regression coverage for the DROP OWNED
cleanup-trigger path alongside the existing DROP SCHEMA test. Create a dedicated
extension owner role, create the extension and a large object under that role,
run DROP OWNED BY that role CASCADE, then verify the extension is removed,
pg_catalog.lo_open remains restored, and the large object content is recoverable
and can be unlinked; clean up the role afterward.

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150-153: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Capture the new OID instead of taking the maximum.

Line 150 discards the OID that lo_from_bytea() returns, and Line 152 recovers it with ORDER BY oid DESC LIMIT 1. lolor encodes the node number into the OID and allocates through LOLOR_GetNewOidWithIndex(), so the newest object is not guaranteed to hold the largest OID once the counter wraps within the node range. At that point the test asserts on an older object and the crash-recovery check passes for the wrong reason.

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-$node->safe_psql('postgres',
-	"SELECT lo_from_bytea(0, 'written before a crash') AS o");
-my $crash_oid = $node->safe_psql('postgres',
-	"SELECT oid FROM lolor.pg_largeobject_metadata ORDER BY oid DESC LIMIT 1");
+my $crash_oid = $node->safe_psql('postgres',
+	"SELECT lo_from_bytea(0, 'written before a crash')");
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In `@t/007_migration.pl` around lines 150 - 153, Update the migration test around
lo_from_bytea() to capture its returned OID directly, then use that value for
the crash-recovery assertions. Remove the pg_largeobject_metadata query that
selects the maximum OID, preserving the existing test flow with the newly
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In `@src/lolor_inv_api.c`:
- Around line 359-365: Update LOLOR_LargeObjectDrop() to delete the matching OID
from lolor.pg_largeobject_description when unlinking an object, while preserving
its existing metadata and data-page deletion behavior. Add an OID-reuse
regression test that verifies a reused OID without a new comment cannot inherit
the previously parked description.

---

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In `@t/007_migration.pl`:
- Around line 150-153: Update the migration test around lo_from_bytea() to
capture its returned OID directly, then use that value for the crash-recovery
assertions. Remove the pg_largeobject_metadata query that selects the maximum
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The migration copy loops allocated per row -- a detoasted page or ACL, the
formed tuple, catalog index scratch, comment text -- and freed only the
formed tuple.  CurrentMemoryContext is not reset within a function call,
so with one row per data page a large database accumulated allocations
until the backend ran out of memory, aborting an all-or-nothing
migration.  Give each row a context and reset it.

DROP SCHEMA defaults to RESTRICT, which cannot remove a schema that still
holds the extension's tables.  The drop trigger nonetheless treated it as
extension removal, so it migrated every large object and took the storage
locks before PostgreSQL rejected the command and rolled the work back.
Require CASCADE on the schema path.

A comment parked while an object lived in lolor storage outlived the
object: lo_unlink() removed the metadata and data pages but not the
parked row, and new OIDs are only checked against pg_largeobject_metadata,
so an object later reusing the OID inherited the stale comment on its way
back to native storage.  Delete the parked row with the object.  The
lookup tolerates the relation being absent, which is the normal state
between installing the package and running ALTER EXTENSION UPDATE.

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lo_import() and lo_export() read and write files on the server host, so
core revokes EXECUTE on them from PUBLIC.  lolor replaces them by
renaming the originals, and the ACL stayed behind while each replacement
was created executable by PUBLIC: any user could read or overwrite
arbitrary server files.  Versions 1.0 through 1.3.0 are affected.

Reverse migration rewrote every object through the large object API, on
the premise that inserting into pg_catalog.pg_largeobject was not
allowed.  It is, for the superuser both migration functions already
require.  Both directions become a tuple copy between the two relations,
in C: sparse objects stay sparse, ownership and ACLs are recorded in
pg_shdepend instead of by a raw catalog UPDATE that DROP ROLE could not
see, comments survive, and migration works while lolor is disabled.  It
holds ShareRowExclusiveLock until commit, since RowExclusiveLock does
not conflict with itself and a concurrent lo_write() could be lost.

Creating a large object also recorded a pg_shdepend row under an
ordinary table's OID, making DROP ROLE fail with "unrecognized object
class" for anyone who had created one.

Also: run the drop cleanup for DROP SCHEMA CASCADE and DROP OWNED; probe
exact signatures in pg_catalog in enable(), disable() and is_enabled();
bound lolor.node by its OID encoding; stop marking the extension
trusted; extend the regression and TAP suites; and name spock's plugin
in output_plugin_libraries, which recent PostgreSQL minors require.
@ibrarahmad ibrarahmad self-assigned this Sep 9, 2026
@ibrarahmad ibrarahmad added the enhancement New feature or request label Sep 9, 2026
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