Release notes for 9.4.1, 9.3.6, 9.2.10, 9.1.15, 9.0.19.
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<sect1 id="release-9-0-19">
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<title>Release 9.0.19</title>
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<note>
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<title>Release Date</title>
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<simpara>2015-02-05</simpara>
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</note>
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<para>
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This release contains a variety of fixes from 9.0.18.
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For information about new features in the 9.0 major release, see
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<xref linkend="release-9-0">.
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</para>
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<sect2>
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<title>Migration to Version 9.0.19</title>
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<para>
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A dump/restore is not required for those running 9.0.X.
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</para>
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<para>
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However, if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 9.0.18,
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see <xref linkend="release-9-0-18">.
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</para>
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</sect2>
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<sect2>
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<title>Changes</title>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Fix information leak via constraint-violation error messages
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(Stephen Frost)
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</para>
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<para>
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Some server error messages show the values of columns that violate
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a constraint, such as a unique constraint. If the user does not have
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<literal>SELECT</> privilege on all columns of the table, this could
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mean exposing values that the user should not be able to see. Adjust
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the code so that values are displayed only when they came from the SQL
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command or could be selected by the user.
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(CVE-2014-8161)
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Lock down regression testing's temporary installations on Windows
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(Noah Misch)
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</para>
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<para>
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Use SSPI authentication to allow connections only from the OS user
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who launched the test suite. This closes on Windows the same
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vulnerability previously closed on other platforms, namely that other
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users might be able to connect to the test postmaster.
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(CVE-2014-0067)
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Avoid possible data corruption if <command>ALTER DATABASE SET
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TABLESPACE</> is used to move a database to a new tablespace and then
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shortly later move it back to its original tablespace (Tom Lane)
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Avoid corrupting tables when <command>ANALYZE</> inside a transaction
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is rolled back (Andres Freund, Tom Lane, Michael Paquier)
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</para>
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<para>
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If the failing transaction had earlier removed the last index, rule, or
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trigger from the table, the table would be left in a corrupted state
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with the relevant <structname>pg_class</> flags not set though they
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should be.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Fix use-of-already-freed-memory problem in EvalPlanQual processing
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(Tom Lane)
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</para>
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<para>
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In <literal>READ COMMITTED</> mode, queries that lock or update
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recently-updated rows could crash as a result of this bug.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Fix planning of <command>SELECT FOR UPDATE</> when using a partial
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index on a child table (Kyotaro Horiguchi)
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</para>
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<para>
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In <literal>READ COMMITTED</> mode, <command>SELECT FOR UPDATE</> must
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also recheck the partial index's <literal>WHERE</> condition when
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rechecking a recently-updated row to see if it still satisfies the
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query's <literal>WHERE</> condition. This requirement was missed if the
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index belonged to an inheritance child table, so that it was possible
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to incorrectly return rows that no longer satisfy the query condition.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Fix corner case wherein <command>SELECT FOR UPDATE</> could return a row
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twice, and possibly miss returning other rows (Tom Lane)
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</para>
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<para>
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In <literal>READ COMMITTED</> mode, a <command>SELECT FOR UPDATE</>
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that is scanning an inheritance tree could incorrectly return a row
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from a prior child table instead of the one it should return from a
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later child table.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Reject duplicate column names in the referenced-columns list of
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a <literal>FOREIGN KEY</> declaration (David Rowley)
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</para>
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<para>
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This restriction is per SQL standard. Previously we did not reject
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the case explicitly, but later on the code would fail with
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bizarre-looking errors.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Fix bugs in raising a <type>numeric</> value to a large integral power
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(Tom Lane)
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</para>
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<para>
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The previous code could get a wrong answer, or consume excessive
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amounts of time and memory before realizing that the answer must
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overflow.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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In <function>numeric_recv()</>, truncate away any fractional digits
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that would be hidden according to the value's <literal>dscale</> field
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(Tom Lane)
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</para>
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<para>
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A <type>numeric</> value's display scale (<literal>dscale</>) should
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never be less than the number of nonzero fractional digits; but
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apparently there's at least one broken client application that
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transmits binary <type>numeric</> values in which that's true.
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This leads to strange behavior since the extra digits are taken into
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account by arithmetic operations even though they aren't printed.
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The least risky fix seems to be to truncate away such <quote>hidden</>
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digits on receipt, so that the value is indeed what it prints as.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Reject out-of-range numeric timezone specifications (Tom Lane)
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</para>
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<para>
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Simple numeric timezone specifications exceeding +/- 168 hours (one
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week) would be accepted, but could then cause null-pointer dereference
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crashes in certain operations. There's no use-case for such large UTC
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offsets, so reject them.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Fix bugs in <type>tsquery</> <literal>@></> <type>tsquery</>
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operator (Heikki Linnakangas)
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</para>
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<para>
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Two different terms would be considered to match if they had the same
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CRC. Also, if the second operand had more terms than the first, it
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would be assumed not to be contained in the first; which is wrong
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since it might contain duplicate terms.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Improve ispell dictionary's defenses against bad affix files (Tom Lane)
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Allow more than 64K phrases in a thesaurus dictionary (David Boutin)
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</para>
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<para>
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The previous coding could crash on an oversize dictionary, so this was
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deemed a back-patchable bug fix rather than a feature addition.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Fix namespace handling in <function>xpath()</> (Ali Akbar)
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</para>
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<para>
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Previously, the <type>xml</> value resulting from
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an <function>xpath()</> call would not have namespace declarations if
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the namespace declarations were attached to an ancestor element in the
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input <type>xml</> value, rather than to the specific element being
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returned. Propagate the ancestral declaration so that the result is
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correct when considered in isolation.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Fix planner problems with nested append relations, such as inherited
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tables within <literal>UNION ALL</> subqueries (Tom Lane)
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Fail cleanly when a GiST index tuple doesn't fit on a page, rather
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than going into infinite recursion (Andrew Gierth)
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Exempt tables that have per-table <varname>cost_limit</>
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and/or <varname>cost_delay</> settings from autovacuum's global cost
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balancing rules (Álvaro Herrera)
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</para>
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<para>
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The previous behavior resulted in basically ignoring these per-table
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settings, which was unintended. Now, a table having such settings
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will be vacuumed using those settings, independently of what is going
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on in other autovacuum workers. This may result in heavier total I/O
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load than before, so such settings should be re-examined for sanity.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Avoid wholesale autovacuuming when autovacuum is nominally off
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(Tom Lane)
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</para>
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<para>
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Even when autovacuum is nominally off, we will still launch autovacuum
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worker processes to vacuum tables that are at risk of XID wraparound.
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However, such a worker process then proceeded to vacuum all tables in
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the target database, if they met the usual thresholds for
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autovacuuming. This is at best pretty unexpected; at worst it delays
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response to the wraparound threat. Fix it so that if autovacuum is
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turned off, workers <emphasis>only</> do anti-wraparound vacuums and
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not any other work.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Fix race condition between hot standby queries and replaying a
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full-page image (Heikki Linnakangas)
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</para>
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<para>
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This mistake could result in transient errors in queries being
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executed in hot standby.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Fix several cases where recovery logic improperly ignored WAL records
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for <literal>COMMIT/ABORT PREPARED</> (Heikki Linnakangas)
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</para>
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<para>
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The most notable oversight was
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that <varname>recovery_min_apply_delay</> failed to delay application
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of a two-phase commit.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Avoid creating unnecessary <filename>.ready</> marker files for
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timeline history files (Fujii Masao)
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Fix possible null pointer dereference when an empty prepared statement
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is used and the <varname>log_statement</> setting is <literal>mod</>
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or <literal>ddl</> (Fujii Masao)
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<para>
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Change <quote>pgstat wait timeout</> warning message to be LOG level,
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and rephrase it to be more understandable (Tom Lane)
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</para>
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<para>
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This message was originally thought to be essentially a can't-happen
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case, but it occurs often enough on our slower buildfarm members to be
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a nuisance. Reduce it to LOG level, and expend a bit more effort on
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the wording: it now reads <quote>using stale statistics instead of
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current ones because stats collector is not responding</>.
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</para>
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<para>
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Fix SPARC spinlock implementation to ensure correctness if the CPU is
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being run in a non-TSO coherency mode, as some non-Solaris kernels do
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(Andres Freund)
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</para>
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<para>
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Warn if OS X's <function>setlocale()</> starts an unwanted extra
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thread inside the postmaster (Noah Misch)
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</para>
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<para>
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Fix processing of repeated <literal>dbname</> parameters
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in <function>PQconnectdbParams()</> (Alex Shulgin)
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</para>
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<para>
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Unexpected behavior ensued if the first occurrence
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of <literal>dbname</> contained a connection string or URI to be
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expanded.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<para>
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Ensure that <application>libpq</> reports a suitable error message on
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unexpected socket EOF (Marko Tiikkaja, Tom Lane)
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</para>
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<para>
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Depending on kernel behavior, <application>libpq</> might return an
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empty error string rather than something useful when the server
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unexpectedly closed the socket.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<para>
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Clear any old error message during <function>PQreset()</>
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(Heikki Linnakangas)
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</para>
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<para>
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If <function>PQreset()</> is called repeatedly, and the connection
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cannot be re-established, error messages from the failed connection
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attempts kept accumulating in the <structname>PGconn</>'s error
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string.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Properly handle out-of-memory conditions while parsing connection
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options in <application>libpq</> (Alex Shulgin, Heikki Linnakangas)
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<para>
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Fix array overrun in <application>ecpg</>'s version
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of <function>ParseDateTime()</> (Michael Paquier)
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</para>
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<para>
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In <application>initdb</>, give a clearer error message if a password
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file is specified but is empty (Mats Erik Andersson)
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</para>
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<para>
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Fix <application>psql</>'s <command>\s</> command to work nicely with
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libedit, and add pager support (Stepan Rutz, Tom Lane)
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</para>
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<para>
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When using libedit rather than readline, <command>\s</> printed the
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command history in a fairly unreadable encoded format, and on recent
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libedit versions might fail altogether. Fix that by printing the
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history ourselves rather than having the library do it. A pleasant
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side-effect is that the pager is used if appropriate.
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</para>
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<para>
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This patch also fixes a bug that caused newline encoding to be applied
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inconsistently when saving the command history with libedit.
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Multiline history entries written by older <application>psql</>
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versions will be read cleanly with this patch, but perhaps not
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vice versa, depending on the exact libedit versions involved.
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</para>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Improve consistency of parsing of <application>psql</>'s special
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variables (Tom Lane)
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<para>
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Allow variant spellings of <literal>on</> and <literal>off</> (such
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as <literal>1</>/<literal>0</>) for <literal>ECHO_HIDDEN</>
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and <literal>ON_ERROR_ROLLBACK</>. Report a warning for unrecognized
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values for <literal>COMP_KEYWORD_CASE</>, <literal>ECHO</>,
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<literal>ECHO_HIDDEN</>, <literal>HISTCONTROL</>,
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<literal>ON_ERROR_ROLLBACK</>, and <literal>VERBOSITY</>. Recognize
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all values for all these variables case-insensitively; previously
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there was a mishmash of case-sensitive and case-insensitive behaviors.
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</para>
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<para>
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Fix <application>psql</>'s expanded-mode display to work
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consistently when using <literal>border</> = 3
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and <literal>linestyle</> = <literal>ascii</> or <literal>unicode</>
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(Stephen Frost)
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</para>
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<para>
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Fix possible deadlock during parallel restore of a schema-only dump
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(Robert Haas, Tom Lane)
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<para>
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Fix core dump in <literal>pg_dump --binary-upgrade</> on zero-column
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composite type (Rushabh Lathia)
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<para>
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Fix block number checking
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in <filename>contrib/pageinspect</>'s <function>get_raw_page()</>
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(Tom Lane)
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</para>
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<para>
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The incorrect checking logic could prevent access to some pages in
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non-main relation forks.
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Fix <filename>contrib/pgcrypto</>'s <function>pgp_sym_decrypt()</>
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to not fail on messages whose length is 6 less than a power of 2
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(Marko Tiikkaja)
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</para>
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<para>
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Handle unexpected query results, especially NULLs, safely in
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<filename>contrib/tablefunc</>'s <function>connectby()</>
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(Michael Paquier)
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</para>
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<para>
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<function>connectby()</> previously crashed if it encountered a NULL
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key value. It now prints that row but doesn't recurse further.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
|
||||
Avoid a possible crash in <filename>contrib/xml2</>'s
|
||||
<function>xslt_process()</> (Mark Simonetti)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
<application>libxslt</> seems to have an undocumented dependency on
|
||||
the order in which resources are freed; reorder our calls to avoid a
|
||||
crash.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Numerous cleanups of warnings from Coverity static code analyzer
|
||||
(Andres Freund, Tatsuo Ishii, Marko Kreen, Tom Lane, Michael Paquier)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
These changes are mostly cosmetic but in some cases fix corner-case
|
||||
bugs, for example a crash rather than a proper error report after an
|
||||
out-of-memory failure. None are believed to represent security
|
||||
issues.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Detect incompatible OpenLDAP versions during build (Noah Misch)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
With OpenLDAP versions 2.4.24 through 2.4.31,
|
||||
inclusive, <productname>PostgreSQL</> backends can crash at exit.
|
||||
Raise a warning during <application>configure</> based on the
|
||||
compile-time OpenLDAP version number, and test the crashing scenario
|
||||
in the <filename>contrib/dblink</> regression test.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
In non-MSVC Windows builds, ensure <filename>libpq.dll</> is installed
|
||||
with execute permissions (Noah Misch)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Make <application>pg_regress</> remove any temporary installation it
|
||||
created upon successful exit (Tom Lane)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
This results in a very substantial reduction in disk space usage
|
||||
during <literal>make check-world</>, since that sequence involves
|
||||
creation of numerous temporary installations.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Support time zone abbreviations that change UTC offset from time to
|
||||
time (Tom Lane)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Previously, <productname>PostgreSQL</> assumed that the UTC offset
|
||||
associated with a time zone abbreviation (such as <literal>EST</>)
|
||||
never changes in the usage of any particular locale. However this
|
||||
assumption fails in the real world, so introduce the ability for a
|
||||
zone abbreviation to represent a UTC offset that sometimes changes.
|
||||
Update the zone abbreviation definition files to make use of this
|
||||
feature in timezone locales that have changed the UTC offset of their
|
||||
abbreviations since 1970 (according to the IANA timezone database).
|
||||
In such timezones, <productname>PostgreSQL</> will now associate the
|
||||
correct UTC offset with the abbreviation depending on the given date.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Update time zone abbreviations lists (Tom Lane)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Add CST (China Standard Time) to our lists.
|
||||
Remove references to ADT as <quote>Arabia Daylight Time</>, an
|
||||
abbreviation that's been out of use since 2007; therefore, claiming
|
||||
there is a conflict with <quote>Atlantic Daylight Time</> doesn't seem
|
||||
especially helpful.
|
||||
Fix entirely incorrect GMT offsets for CKT (Cook Islands), FJT, and FJST
|
||||
(Fiji); we didn't even have them on the proper side of the date line.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Update time zone data files to <application>tzdata</> release 2015a.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
The IANA timezone database has adopted abbreviations of the form
|
||||
<literal>A<replaceable>x</>ST</literal>/<literal>A<replaceable>x</>DT</literal>
|
||||
for all Australian time zones, reflecting what they believe to be
|
||||
current majority practice Down Under. These names do not conflict
|
||||
with usage elsewhere (other than ACST for Acre Summer Time, which has
|
||||
been in disuse since 1994). Accordingly, adopt these names into
|
||||
our <quote>Default</> timezone abbreviation set.
|
||||
The <quote>Australia</> abbreviation set now contains only CST, EAST,
|
||||
EST, SAST, SAT, and WST, all of which are thought to be mostly
|
||||
historical usage. Note that SAST has also been changed to be South
|
||||
Africa Standard Time in the <quote>Default</> abbreviation set.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Also, add zone abbreviations SRET (Asia/Srednekolymsk) and XJT
|
||||
(Asia/Urumqi), and use WSST/WSDT for western Samoa. Also, there were
|
||||
DST law changes in Chile, Mexico, the Turks & Caicos Islands
|
||||
(America/Grand_Turk), and Fiji. There is a new zone
|
||||
Pacific/Bougainville for portions of Papua New Guinea. Also, numerous
|
||||
corrections for historical (pre-1970) time zone data.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
</itemizedlist>
|
||||
|
||||
</sect2>
|
||||
</sect1>
|
||||
|
||||
<sect1 id="release-9-0-18">
|
||||
<title>Release 9.0.18</title>
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
@ -1,6 +1,731 @@
|
||||
<!-- doc/src/sgml/release-9.1.sgml -->
|
||||
<!-- See header comment in release.sgml about typical markup -->
|
||||
|
||||
<sect1 id="release-9-1-15">
|
||||
<title>Release 9.1.15</title>
|
||||
|
||||
<note>
|
||||
<title>Release Date</title>
|
||||
<simpara>2015-02-05</simpara>
|
||||
</note>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
This release contains a variety of fixes from 9.1.14.
|
||||
For information about new features in the 9.1 major release, see
|
||||
<xref linkend="release-9-1">.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<sect2>
|
||||
<title>Migration to Version 9.1.15</title>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
A dump/restore is not required for those running 9.1.X.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
However, if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 9.1.14,
|
||||
see <xref linkend="release-9-1-14">.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
|
||||
</sect2>
|
||||
|
||||
<sect2>
|
||||
<title>Changes</title>
|
||||
|
||||
<itemizedlist>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Fix information leak via constraint-violation error messages
|
||||
(Stephen Frost)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Some server error messages show the values of columns that violate
|
||||
a constraint, such as a unique constraint. If the user does not have
|
||||
<literal>SELECT</> privilege on all columns of the table, this could
|
||||
mean exposing values that the user should not be able to see. Adjust
|
||||
the code so that values are displayed only when they came from the SQL
|
||||
command or could be selected by the user.
|
||||
(CVE-2014-8161)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Lock down regression testing's temporary installations on Windows
|
||||
(Noah Misch)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Use SSPI authentication to allow connections only from the OS user
|
||||
who launched the test suite. This closes on Windows the same
|
||||
vulnerability previously closed on other platforms, namely that other
|
||||
users might be able to connect to the test postmaster.
|
||||
(CVE-2014-0067)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Avoid possible data corruption if <command>ALTER DATABASE SET
|
||||
TABLESPACE</> is used to move a database to a new tablespace and then
|
||||
shortly later move it back to its original tablespace (Tom Lane)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Avoid corrupting tables when <command>ANALYZE</> inside a transaction
|
||||
is rolled back (Andres Freund, Tom Lane, Michael Paquier)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
If the failing transaction had earlier removed the last index, rule, or
|
||||
trigger from the table, the table would be left in a corrupted state
|
||||
with the relevant <structname>pg_class</> flags not set though they
|
||||
should be.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Ensure that unlogged tables are copied correctly
|
||||
during <command>CREATE DATABASE</> or <command>ALTER DATABASE SET
|
||||
TABLESPACE</> (Pavan Deolasee, Andres Freund)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Fix <command>DROP</>'s dependency searching to correctly handle the
|
||||
case where a table column is recursively visited before its table
|
||||
(Petr Jelinek, Tom Lane)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
This case is only known to arise when an extension creates both a
|
||||
datatype and a table using that datatype. The faulty code might
|
||||
refuse a <command>DROP EXTENSION</> unless <literal>CASCADE</> is
|
||||
specified, which should not be required.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Fix use-of-already-freed-memory problem in EvalPlanQual processing
|
||||
(Tom Lane)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
In <literal>READ COMMITTED</> mode, queries that lock or update
|
||||
recently-updated rows could crash as a result of this bug.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Fix planning of <command>SELECT FOR UPDATE</> when using a partial
|
||||
index on a child table (Kyotaro Horiguchi)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
In <literal>READ COMMITTED</> mode, <command>SELECT FOR UPDATE</> must
|
||||
also recheck the partial index's <literal>WHERE</> condition when
|
||||
rechecking a recently-updated row to see if it still satisfies the
|
||||
query's <literal>WHERE</> condition. This requirement was missed if the
|
||||
index belonged to an inheritance child table, so that it was possible
|
||||
to incorrectly return rows that no longer satisfy the query condition.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Fix corner case wherein <command>SELECT FOR UPDATE</> could return a row
|
||||
twice, and possibly miss returning other rows (Tom Lane)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
In <literal>READ COMMITTED</> mode, a <command>SELECT FOR UPDATE</>
|
||||
that is scanning an inheritance tree could incorrectly return a row
|
||||
from a prior child table instead of the one it should return from a
|
||||
later child table.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Reject duplicate column names in the referenced-columns list of
|
||||
a <literal>FOREIGN KEY</> declaration (David Rowley)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
This restriction is per SQL standard. Previously we did not reject
|
||||
the case explicitly, but later on the code would fail with
|
||||
bizarre-looking errors.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Fix bugs in raising a <type>numeric</> value to a large integral power
|
||||
(Tom Lane)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
The previous code could get a wrong answer, or consume excessive
|
||||
amounts of time and memory before realizing that the answer must
|
||||
overflow.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
In <function>numeric_recv()</>, truncate away any fractional digits
|
||||
that would be hidden according to the value's <literal>dscale</> field
|
||||
(Tom Lane)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
A <type>numeric</> value's display scale (<literal>dscale</>) should
|
||||
never be less than the number of nonzero fractional digits; but
|
||||
apparently there's at least one broken client application that
|
||||
transmits binary <type>numeric</> values in which that's true.
|
||||
This leads to strange behavior since the extra digits are taken into
|
||||
account by arithmetic operations even though they aren't printed.
|
||||
The least risky fix seems to be to truncate away such <quote>hidden</>
|
||||
digits on receipt, so that the value is indeed what it prints as.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Reject out-of-range numeric timezone specifications (Tom Lane)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Simple numeric timezone specifications exceeding +/- 168 hours (one
|
||||
week) would be accepted, but could then cause null-pointer dereference
|
||||
crashes in certain operations. There's no use-case for such large UTC
|
||||
offsets, so reject them.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Fix bugs in <type>tsquery</> <literal>@></> <type>tsquery</>
|
||||
operator (Heikki Linnakangas)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Two different terms would be considered to match if they had the same
|
||||
CRC. Also, if the second operand had more terms than the first, it
|
||||
would be assumed not to be contained in the first; which is wrong
|
||||
since it might contain duplicate terms.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Improve ispell dictionary's defenses against bad affix files (Tom Lane)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Allow more than 64K phrases in a thesaurus dictionary (David Boutin)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
The previous coding could crash on an oversize dictionary, so this was
|
||||
deemed a back-patchable bug fix rather than a feature addition.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Fix namespace handling in <function>xpath()</> (Ali Akbar)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Previously, the <type>xml</> value resulting from
|
||||
an <function>xpath()</> call would not have namespace declarations if
|
||||
the namespace declarations were attached to an ancestor element in the
|
||||
input <type>xml</> value, rather than to the specific element being
|
||||
returned. Propagate the ancestral declaration so that the result is
|
||||
correct when considered in isolation.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Fix planner problems with nested append relations, such as inherited
|
||||
tables within <literal>UNION ALL</> subqueries (Tom Lane)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Fail cleanly when a GiST index tuple doesn't fit on a page, rather
|
||||
than going into infinite recursion (Andrew Gierth)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Exempt tables that have per-table <varname>cost_limit</>
|
||||
and/or <varname>cost_delay</> settings from autovacuum's global cost
|
||||
balancing rules (Álvaro Herrera)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
The previous behavior resulted in basically ignoring these per-table
|
||||
settings, which was unintended. Now, a table having such settings
|
||||
will be vacuumed using those settings, independently of what is going
|
||||
on in other autovacuum workers. This may result in heavier total I/O
|
||||
load than before, so such settings should be re-examined for sanity.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Avoid wholesale autovacuuming when autovacuum is nominally off
|
||||
(Tom Lane)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Even when autovacuum is nominally off, we will still launch autovacuum
|
||||
worker processes to vacuum tables that are at risk of XID wraparound.
|
||||
However, such a worker process then proceeded to vacuum all tables in
|
||||
the target database, if they met the usual thresholds for
|
||||
autovacuuming. This is at best pretty unexpected; at worst it delays
|
||||
response to the wraparound threat. Fix it so that if autovacuum is
|
||||
turned off, workers <emphasis>only</> do anti-wraparound vacuums and
|
||||
not any other work.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
During crash recovery, ensure that unlogged relations are rewritten as
|
||||
empty and are synced to disk before recovery is considered complete
|
||||
(Abhijit Menon-Sen, Andres Freund)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
This prevents scenarios in which unlogged relations might contain
|
||||
garbage data following database crash recovery.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Fix race condition between hot standby queries and replaying a
|
||||
full-page image (Heikki Linnakangas)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
This mistake could result in transient errors in queries being
|
||||
executed in hot standby.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Fix several cases where recovery logic improperly ignored WAL records
|
||||
for <literal>COMMIT/ABORT PREPARED</> (Heikki Linnakangas)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
The most notable oversight was
|
||||
that <varname>recovery_min_apply_delay</> failed to delay application
|
||||
of a two-phase commit.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Avoid creating unnecessary <filename>.ready</> marker files for
|
||||
timeline history files (Fujii Masao)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Fix possible null pointer dereference when an empty prepared statement
|
||||
is used and the <varname>log_statement</> setting is <literal>mod</>
|
||||
or <literal>ddl</> (Fujii Masao)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Change <quote>pgstat wait timeout</> warning message to be LOG level,
|
||||
and rephrase it to be more understandable (Tom Lane)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
This message was originally thought to be essentially a can't-happen
|
||||
case, but it occurs often enough on our slower buildfarm members to be
|
||||
a nuisance. Reduce it to LOG level, and expend a bit more effort on
|
||||
the wording: it now reads <quote>using stale statistics instead of
|
||||
current ones because stats collector is not responding</>.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Fix SPARC spinlock implementation to ensure correctness if the CPU is
|
||||
being run in a non-TSO coherency mode, as some non-Solaris kernels do
|
||||
(Andres Freund)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Warn if OS X's <function>setlocale()</> starts an unwanted extra
|
||||
thread inside the postmaster (Noah Misch)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Fix processing of repeated <literal>dbname</> parameters
|
||||
in <function>PQconnectdbParams()</> (Alex Shulgin)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Unexpected behavior ensued if the first occurrence
|
||||
of <literal>dbname</> contained a connection string or URI to be
|
||||
expanded.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Ensure that <application>libpq</> reports a suitable error message on
|
||||
unexpected socket EOF (Marko Tiikkaja, Tom Lane)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Depending on kernel behavior, <application>libpq</> might return an
|
||||
empty error string rather than something useful when the server
|
||||
unexpectedly closed the socket.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Clear any old error message during <function>PQreset()</>
|
||||
(Heikki Linnakangas)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
If <function>PQreset()</> is called repeatedly, and the connection
|
||||
cannot be re-established, error messages from the failed connection
|
||||
attempts kept accumulating in the <structname>PGconn</>'s error
|
||||
string.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Properly handle out-of-memory conditions while parsing connection
|
||||
options in <application>libpq</> (Alex Shulgin, Heikki Linnakangas)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Fix array overrun in <application>ecpg</>'s version
|
||||
of <function>ParseDateTime()</> (Michael Paquier)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
In <application>initdb</>, give a clearer error message if a password
|
||||
file is specified but is empty (Mats Erik Andersson)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Fix <application>psql</>'s <command>\s</> command to work nicely with
|
||||
libedit, and add pager support (Stepan Rutz, Tom Lane)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
When using libedit rather than readline, <command>\s</> printed the
|
||||
command history in a fairly unreadable encoded format, and on recent
|
||||
libedit versions might fail altogether. Fix that by printing the
|
||||
history ourselves rather than having the library do it. A pleasant
|
||||
side-effect is that the pager is used if appropriate.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
This patch also fixes a bug that caused newline encoding to be applied
|
||||
inconsistently when saving the command history with libedit.
|
||||
Multiline history entries written by older <application>psql</>
|
||||
versions will be read cleanly with this patch, but perhaps not
|
||||
vice versa, depending on the exact libedit versions involved.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Improve consistency of parsing of <application>psql</>'s special
|
||||
variables (Tom Lane)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Allow variant spellings of <literal>on</> and <literal>off</> (such
|
||||
as <literal>1</>/<literal>0</>) for <literal>ECHO_HIDDEN</>
|
||||
and <literal>ON_ERROR_ROLLBACK</>. Report a warning for unrecognized
|
||||
values for <literal>COMP_KEYWORD_CASE</>, <literal>ECHO</>,
|
||||
<literal>ECHO_HIDDEN</>, <literal>HISTCONTROL</>,
|
||||
<literal>ON_ERROR_ROLLBACK</>, and <literal>VERBOSITY</>. Recognize
|
||||
all values for all these variables case-insensitively; previously
|
||||
there was a mishmash of case-sensitive and case-insensitive behaviors.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Fix <application>psql</>'s expanded-mode display to work
|
||||
consistently when using <literal>border</> = 3
|
||||
and <literal>linestyle</> = <literal>ascii</> or <literal>unicode</>
|
||||
(Stephen Frost)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Improve performance of <application>pg_dump</> when the database
|
||||
contains many instances of multiple dependency paths between the same
|
||||
two objects (Tom Lane)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Fix possible deadlock during parallel restore of a schema-only dump
|
||||
(Robert Haas, Tom Lane)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Fix core dump in <literal>pg_dump --binary-upgrade</> on zero-column
|
||||
composite type (Rushabh Lathia)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Prevent WAL files created by <literal>pg_basebackup -x/-X</> from
|
||||
being archived again when the standby is promoted (Andres Freund)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Fix upgrade-from-unpackaged script for <filename>contrib/citext</>
|
||||
(Tom Lane)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Fix block number checking
|
||||
in <filename>contrib/pageinspect</>'s <function>get_raw_page()</>
|
||||
(Tom Lane)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
The incorrect checking logic could prevent access to some pages in
|
||||
non-main relation forks.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Fix <filename>contrib/pgcrypto</>'s <function>pgp_sym_decrypt()</>
|
||||
to not fail on messages whose length is 6 less than a power of 2
|
||||
(Marko Tiikkaja)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Fix file descriptor leak in <filename>contrib/pg_test_fsync</>
|
||||
(Jeff Janes)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
This could cause failure to remove temporary files on Windows.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Handle unexpected query results, especially NULLs, safely in
|
||||
<filename>contrib/tablefunc</>'s <function>connectby()</>
|
||||
(Michael Paquier)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
<function>connectby()</> previously crashed if it encountered a NULL
|
||||
key value. It now prints that row but doesn't recurse further.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Avoid a possible crash in <filename>contrib/xml2</>'s
|
||||
<function>xslt_process()</> (Mark Simonetti)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
<application>libxslt</> seems to have an undocumented dependency on
|
||||
the order in which resources are freed; reorder our calls to avoid a
|
||||
crash.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Mark some <filename>contrib</> I/O functions with correct volatility
|
||||
properties (Tom Lane)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
The previous over-conservative marking was immaterial in normal use,
|
||||
but could cause optimization problems or rejection of valid index
|
||||
expression definitions. Since the consequences are not large, we've
|
||||
just adjusted the function definitions in the extension modules'
|
||||
scripts, without changing version numbers.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Numerous cleanups of warnings from Coverity static code analyzer
|
||||
(Andres Freund, Tatsuo Ishii, Marko Kreen, Tom Lane, Michael Paquier)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
These changes are mostly cosmetic but in some cases fix corner-case
|
||||
bugs, for example a crash rather than a proper error report after an
|
||||
out-of-memory failure. None are believed to represent security
|
||||
issues.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Detect incompatible OpenLDAP versions during build (Noah Misch)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
With OpenLDAP versions 2.4.24 through 2.4.31,
|
||||
inclusive, <productname>PostgreSQL</> backends can crash at exit.
|
||||
Raise a warning during <application>configure</> based on the
|
||||
compile-time OpenLDAP version number, and test the crashing scenario
|
||||
in the <filename>contrib/dblink</> regression test.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
In non-MSVC Windows builds, ensure <filename>libpq.dll</> is installed
|
||||
with execute permissions (Noah Misch)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Make <application>pg_regress</> remove any temporary installation it
|
||||
created upon successful exit (Tom Lane)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
This results in a very substantial reduction in disk space usage
|
||||
during <literal>make check-world</>, since that sequence involves
|
||||
creation of numerous temporary installations.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Support time zone abbreviations that change UTC offset from time to
|
||||
time (Tom Lane)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Previously, <productname>PostgreSQL</> assumed that the UTC offset
|
||||
associated with a time zone abbreviation (such as <literal>EST</>)
|
||||
never changes in the usage of any particular locale. However this
|
||||
assumption fails in the real world, so introduce the ability for a
|
||||
zone abbreviation to represent a UTC offset that sometimes changes.
|
||||
Update the zone abbreviation definition files to make use of this
|
||||
feature in timezone locales that have changed the UTC offset of their
|
||||
abbreviations since 1970 (according to the IANA timezone database).
|
||||
In such timezones, <productname>PostgreSQL</> will now associate the
|
||||
correct UTC offset with the abbreviation depending on the given date.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Update time zone abbreviations lists (Tom Lane)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Add CST (China Standard Time) to our lists.
|
||||
Remove references to ADT as <quote>Arabia Daylight Time</>, an
|
||||
abbreviation that's been out of use since 2007; therefore, claiming
|
||||
there is a conflict with <quote>Atlantic Daylight Time</> doesn't seem
|
||||
especially helpful.
|
||||
Fix entirely incorrect GMT offsets for CKT (Cook Islands), FJT, and FJST
|
||||
(Fiji); we didn't even have them on the proper side of the date line.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Update time zone data files to <application>tzdata</> release 2015a.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
The IANA timezone database has adopted abbreviations of the form
|
||||
<literal>A<replaceable>x</>ST</literal>/<literal>A<replaceable>x</>DT</literal>
|
||||
for all Australian time zones, reflecting what they believe to be
|
||||
current majority practice Down Under. These names do not conflict
|
||||
with usage elsewhere (other than ACST for Acre Summer Time, which has
|
||||
been in disuse since 1994). Accordingly, adopt these names into
|
||||
our <quote>Default</> timezone abbreviation set.
|
||||
The <quote>Australia</> abbreviation set now contains only CST, EAST,
|
||||
EST, SAST, SAT, and WST, all of which are thought to be mostly
|
||||
historical usage. Note that SAST has also been changed to be South
|
||||
Africa Standard Time in the <quote>Default</> abbreviation set.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Also, add zone abbreviations SRET (Asia/Srednekolymsk) and XJT
|
||||
(Asia/Urumqi), and use WSST/WSDT for western Samoa. Also, there were
|
||||
DST law changes in Chile, Mexico, the Turks & Caicos Islands
|
||||
(America/Grand_Turk), and Fiji. There is a new zone
|
||||
Pacific/Bougainville for portions of Papua New Guinea. Also, numerous
|
||||
corrections for historical (pre-1970) time zone data.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
</itemizedlist>
|
||||
|
||||
</sect2>
|
||||
</sect1>
|
||||
|
||||
<sect1 id="release-9-1-14">
|
||||
<title>Release 9.1.14</title>
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
@ -1,6 +1,838 @@
|
||||
<!-- doc/src/sgml/release-9.2.sgml -->
|
||||
<!-- See header comment in release.sgml about typical markup -->
|
||||
|
||||
<sect1 id="release-9-2-10">
|
||||
<title>Release 9.2.10</title>
|
||||
|
||||
<note>
|
||||
<title>Release Date</title>
|
||||
<simpara>2015-02-05</simpara>
|
||||
</note>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
This release contains a variety of fixes from 9.2.9.
|
||||
For information about new features in the 9.2 major release, see
|
||||
<xref linkend="release-9-2">.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<sect2>
|
||||
<title>Migration to Version 9.2.10</title>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
A dump/restore is not required for those running 9.2.X.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
However, if you are a Windows user and are using the <quote>Norwegian
|
||||
(Bokmål)</> locale, manual action is needed after the upgrade to
|
||||
replace any <quote>Norwegian (Bokmål)_Norway</> locale names stored
|
||||
in <productname>PostgreSQL</> system catalogs with the plain-ASCII
|
||||
alias <quote>Norwegian_Norway</>. For details see
|
||||
<ulink url="http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Changes_To_Norwegian_Locale"></>
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Also, if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 9.2.9,
|
||||
see <xref linkend="release-9-2-9">.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
|
||||
</sect2>
|
||||
|
||||
<sect2>
|
||||
<title>Changes</title>
|
||||
|
||||
<itemizedlist>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Fix information leak via constraint-violation error messages
|
||||
(Stephen Frost)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Some server error messages show the values of columns that violate
|
||||
a constraint, such as a unique constraint. If the user does not have
|
||||
<literal>SELECT</> privilege on all columns of the table, this could
|
||||
mean exposing values that the user should not be able to see. Adjust
|
||||
the code so that values are displayed only when they came from the SQL
|
||||
command or could be selected by the user.
|
||||
(CVE-2014-8161)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Lock down regression testing's temporary installations on Windows
|
||||
(Noah Misch)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Use SSPI authentication to allow connections only from the OS user
|
||||
who launched the test suite. This closes on Windows the same
|
||||
vulnerability previously closed on other platforms, namely that other
|
||||
users might be able to connect to the test postmaster.
|
||||
(CVE-2014-0067)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Cope with the Windows locale named <quote>Norwegian (Bokmål)</>
|
||||
(Heikki Linnakangas)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Non-ASCII locale names are problematic since it's not clear what
|
||||
encoding they should be represented in. Map the troublesome locale
|
||||
name to a plain-ASCII alias, <quote>Norwegian_Norway</>.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Avoid possible data corruption if <command>ALTER DATABASE SET
|
||||
TABLESPACE</> is used to move a database to a new tablespace and then
|
||||
shortly later move it back to its original tablespace (Tom Lane)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Avoid corrupting tables when <command>ANALYZE</> inside a transaction
|
||||
is rolled back (Andres Freund, Tom Lane, Michael Paquier)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
If the failing transaction had earlier removed the last index, rule, or
|
||||
trigger from the table, the table would be left in a corrupted state
|
||||
with the relevant <structname>pg_class</> flags not set though they
|
||||
should be.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Ensure that unlogged tables are copied correctly
|
||||
during <command>CREATE DATABASE</> or <command>ALTER DATABASE SET
|
||||
TABLESPACE</> (Pavan Deolasee, Andres Freund)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Fix <command>DROP</>'s dependency searching to correctly handle the
|
||||
case where a table column is recursively visited before its table
|
||||
(Petr Jelinek, Tom Lane)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
This case is only known to arise when an extension creates both a
|
||||
datatype and a table using that datatype. The faulty code might
|
||||
refuse a <command>DROP EXTENSION</> unless <literal>CASCADE</> is
|
||||
specified, which should not be required.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Fix use-of-already-freed-memory problem in EvalPlanQual processing
|
||||
(Tom Lane)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
In <literal>READ COMMITTED</> mode, queries that lock or update
|
||||
recently-updated rows could crash as a result of this bug.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Fix planning of <command>SELECT FOR UPDATE</> when using a partial
|
||||
index on a child table (Kyotaro Horiguchi)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
In <literal>READ COMMITTED</> mode, <command>SELECT FOR UPDATE</> must
|
||||
also recheck the partial index's <literal>WHERE</> condition when
|
||||
rechecking a recently-updated row to see if it still satisfies the
|
||||
query's <literal>WHERE</> condition. This requirement was missed if the
|
||||
index belonged to an inheritance child table, so that it was possible
|
||||
to incorrectly return rows that no longer satisfy the query condition.
|
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</para>
|
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</listitem>
|
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|
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<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Fix corner case wherein <command>SELECT FOR UPDATE</> could return a row
|
||||
twice, and possibly miss returning other rows (Tom Lane)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
In <literal>READ COMMITTED</> mode, a <command>SELECT FOR UPDATE</>
|
||||
that is scanning an inheritance tree could incorrectly return a row
|
||||
from a prior child table instead of the one it should return from a
|
||||
later child table.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Reject duplicate column names in the referenced-columns list of
|
||||
a <literal>FOREIGN KEY</> declaration (David Rowley)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
This restriction is per SQL standard. Previously we did not reject
|
||||
the case explicitly, but later on the code would fail with
|
||||
bizarre-looking errors.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Restore previous behavior of conversion of domains to JSON
|
||||
(Tom Lane)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
This change causes domains over numeric and boolean to be treated
|
||||
like their base types for purposes of conversion to JSON. It worked
|
||||
like that before 9.3.5 and 9.2.9, but was unintentionally changed
|
||||
while fixing a related problem.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Fix bugs in raising a <type>numeric</> value to a large integral power
|
||||
(Tom Lane)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
The previous code could get a wrong answer, or consume excessive
|
||||
amounts of time and memory before realizing that the answer must
|
||||
overflow.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
In <function>numeric_recv()</>, truncate away any fractional digits
|
||||
that would be hidden according to the value's <literal>dscale</> field
|
||||
(Tom Lane)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
A <type>numeric</> value's display scale (<literal>dscale</>) should
|
||||
never be less than the number of nonzero fractional digits; but
|
||||
apparently there's at least one broken client application that
|
||||
transmits binary <type>numeric</> values in which that's true.
|
||||
This leads to strange behavior since the extra digits are taken into
|
||||
account by arithmetic operations even though they aren't printed.
|
||||
The least risky fix seems to be to truncate away such <quote>hidden</>
|
||||
digits on receipt, so that the value is indeed what it prints as.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Fix incorrect search for shortest-first regular expression matches
|
||||
(Tom Lane)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Matching would often fail when the number of allowed iterations is
|
||||
limited by a <literal>?</> quantifier or a bound expression.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Reject out-of-range numeric timezone specifications (Tom Lane)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Simple numeric timezone specifications exceeding +/- 168 hours (one
|
||||
week) would be accepted, but could then cause null-pointer dereference
|
||||
crashes in certain operations. There's no use-case for such large UTC
|
||||
offsets, so reject them.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Fix bugs in <type>tsquery</> <literal>@></> <type>tsquery</>
|
||||
operator (Heikki Linnakangas)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Two different terms would be considered to match if they had the same
|
||||
CRC. Also, if the second operand had more terms than the first, it
|
||||
would be assumed not to be contained in the first; which is wrong
|
||||
since it might contain duplicate terms.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Improve ispell dictionary's defenses against bad affix files (Tom Lane)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Allow more than 64K phrases in a thesaurus dictionary (David Boutin)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
The previous coding could crash on an oversize dictionary, so this was
|
||||
deemed a back-patchable bug fix rather than a feature addition.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Fix namespace handling in <function>xpath()</> (Ali Akbar)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Previously, the <type>xml</> value resulting from
|
||||
an <function>xpath()</> call would not have namespace declarations if
|
||||
the namespace declarations were attached to an ancestor element in the
|
||||
input <type>xml</> value, rather than to the specific element being
|
||||
returned. Propagate the ancestral declaration so that the result is
|
||||
correct when considered in isolation.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Ensure that whole-row variables expose nonempty column names
|
||||
to functions that pay attention to column names within composite
|
||||
arguments (Tom Lane)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
In some contexts, constructs like <literal>row_to_json(tab.*)</> may
|
||||
not produce the expected column names. This is fixed properly as of
|
||||
9.4; in older branches, just ensure that we produce some nonempty
|
||||
name. (In some cases this will be the underlying table's column name
|
||||
rather than the query-assigned alias that should theoretically be
|
||||
visible.)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Fix mishandling of system columns,
|
||||
particularly <structfield>tableoid</>, in FDW queries (Etsuro Fujita)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Avoid doing <literal><replaceable>indexed_column</> = ANY
|
||||
(<replaceable>array</>)</literal> as an index qualifier if that leads
|
||||
to an inferior plan (Andrew Gierth)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
In some cases, <literal>= ANY</> conditions applied to non-first index
|
||||
columns would be done as index conditions even though it would be
|
||||
better to use them as simple filter conditions.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Fix planner problems with nested append relations, such as inherited
|
||||
tables within <literal>UNION ALL</> subqueries (Tom Lane)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Fail cleanly when a GiST index tuple doesn't fit on a page, rather
|
||||
than going into infinite recursion (Andrew Gierth)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Exempt tables that have per-table <varname>cost_limit</>
|
||||
and/or <varname>cost_delay</> settings from autovacuum's global cost
|
||||
balancing rules (Álvaro Herrera)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
The previous behavior resulted in basically ignoring these per-table
|
||||
settings, which was unintended. Now, a table having such settings
|
||||
will be vacuumed using those settings, independently of what is going
|
||||
on in other autovacuum workers. This may result in heavier total I/O
|
||||
load than before, so such settings should be re-examined for sanity.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Avoid wholesale autovacuuming when autovacuum is nominally off
|
||||
(Tom Lane)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Even when autovacuum is nominally off, we will still launch autovacuum
|
||||
worker processes to vacuum tables that are at risk of XID wraparound.
|
||||
However, such a worker process then proceeded to vacuum all tables in
|
||||
the target database, if they met the usual thresholds for
|
||||
autovacuuming. This is at best pretty unexpected; at worst it delays
|
||||
response to the wraparound threat. Fix it so that if autovacuum is
|
||||
turned off, workers <emphasis>only</> do anti-wraparound vacuums and
|
||||
not any other work.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
During crash recovery, ensure that unlogged relations are rewritten as
|
||||
empty and are synced to disk before recovery is considered complete
|
||||
(Abhijit Menon-Sen, Andres Freund)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
This prevents scenarios in which unlogged relations might contain
|
||||
garbage data following database crash recovery.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Fix race condition between hot standby queries and replaying a
|
||||
full-page image (Heikki Linnakangas)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
This mistake could result in transient errors in queries being
|
||||
executed in hot standby.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Fix several cases where recovery logic improperly ignored WAL records
|
||||
for <literal>COMMIT/ABORT PREPARED</> (Heikki Linnakangas)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
The most notable oversight was
|
||||
that <varname>recovery_min_apply_delay</> failed to delay application
|
||||
of a two-phase commit.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Prevent latest WAL file from being archived a second time at completion
|
||||
of crash recovery (Fujii Masao)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Avoid creating unnecessary <filename>.ready</> marker files for
|
||||
timeline history files (Fujii Masao)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Fix possible null pointer dereference when an empty prepared statement
|
||||
is used and the <varname>log_statement</> setting is <literal>mod</>
|
||||
or <literal>ddl</> (Fujii Masao)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Change <quote>pgstat wait timeout</> warning message to be LOG level,
|
||||
and rephrase it to be more understandable (Tom Lane)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
This message was originally thought to be essentially a can't-happen
|
||||
case, but it occurs often enough on our slower buildfarm members to be
|
||||
a nuisance. Reduce it to LOG level, and expend a bit more effort on
|
||||
the wording: it now reads <quote>using stale statistics instead of
|
||||
current ones because stats collector is not responding</>.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Fix SPARC spinlock implementation to ensure correctness if the CPU is
|
||||
being run in a non-TSO coherency mode, as some non-Solaris kernels do
|
||||
(Andres Freund)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Warn if OS X's <function>setlocale()</> starts an unwanted extra
|
||||
thread inside the postmaster (Noah Misch)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Fix processing of repeated <literal>dbname</> parameters
|
||||
in <function>PQconnectdbParams()</> (Alex Shulgin)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Unexpected behavior ensued if the first occurrence
|
||||
of <literal>dbname</> contained a connection string or URI to be
|
||||
expanded.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Ensure that <application>libpq</> reports a suitable error message on
|
||||
unexpected socket EOF (Marko Tiikkaja, Tom Lane)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Depending on kernel behavior, <application>libpq</> might return an
|
||||
empty error string rather than something useful when the server
|
||||
unexpectedly closed the socket.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Clear any old error message during <function>PQreset()</>
|
||||
(Heikki Linnakangas)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
If <function>PQreset()</> is called repeatedly, and the connection
|
||||
cannot be re-established, error messages from the failed connection
|
||||
attempts kept accumulating in the <structname>PGconn</>'s error
|
||||
string.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Properly handle out-of-memory conditions while parsing connection
|
||||
options in <application>libpq</> (Alex Shulgin, Heikki Linnakangas)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Fix array overrun in <application>ecpg</>'s version
|
||||
of <function>ParseDateTime()</> (Michael Paquier)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
In <application>initdb</>, give a clearer error message if a password
|
||||
file is specified but is empty (Mats Erik Andersson)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Fix <application>psql</>'s <command>\s</> command to work nicely with
|
||||
libedit, and add pager support (Stepan Rutz, Tom Lane)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
When using libedit rather than readline, <command>\s</> printed the
|
||||
command history in a fairly unreadable encoded format, and on recent
|
||||
libedit versions might fail altogether. Fix that by printing the
|
||||
history ourselves rather than having the library do it. A pleasant
|
||||
side-effect is that the pager is used if appropriate.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
This patch also fixes a bug that caused newline encoding to be applied
|
||||
inconsistently when saving the command history with libedit.
|
||||
Multiline history entries written by older <application>psql</>
|
||||
versions will be read cleanly with this patch, but perhaps not
|
||||
vice versa, depending on the exact libedit versions involved.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Improve consistency of parsing of <application>psql</>'s special
|
||||
variables (Tom Lane)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Allow variant spellings of <literal>on</> and <literal>off</> (such
|
||||
as <literal>1</>/<literal>0</>) for <literal>ECHO_HIDDEN</>
|
||||
and <literal>ON_ERROR_ROLLBACK</>. Report a warning for unrecognized
|
||||
values for <literal>COMP_KEYWORD_CASE</>, <literal>ECHO</>,
|
||||
<literal>ECHO_HIDDEN</>, <literal>HISTCONTROL</>,
|
||||
<literal>ON_ERROR_ROLLBACK</>, and <literal>VERBOSITY</>. Recognize
|
||||
all values for all these variables case-insensitively; previously
|
||||
there was a mishmash of case-sensitive and case-insensitive behaviors.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Fix <application>psql</>'s expanded-mode display to work
|
||||
consistently when using <literal>border</> = 3
|
||||
and <literal>linestyle</> = <literal>ascii</> or <literal>unicode</>
|
||||
(Stephen Frost)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Improve performance of <application>pg_dump</> when the database
|
||||
contains many instances of multiple dependency paths between the same
|
||||
two objects (Tom Lane)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Fix <application>pg_dumpall</> to restore its ability to dump from
|
||||
pre-8.1 servers (Gilles Darold)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Fix possible deadlock during parallel restore of a schema-only dump
|
||||
(Robert Haas, Tom Lane)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Fix core dump in <literal>pg_dump --binary-upgrade</> on zero-column
|
||||
composite type (Rushabh Lathia)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Prevent WAL files created by <literal>pg_basebackup -x/-X</> from
|
||||
being archived again when the standby is promoted (Andres Freund)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Fix failure of <filename>contrib/auto_explain</> to print per-node
|
||||
timing information when doing <command>EXPLAIN ANALYZE</> (Tom Lane)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Fix upgrade-from-unpackaged script for <filename>contrib/citext</>
|
||||
(Tom Lane)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Fix block number checking
|
||||
in <filename>contrib/pageinspect</>'s <function>get_raw_page()</>
|
||||
(Tom Lane)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
The incorrect checking logic could prevent access to some pages in
|
||||
non-main relation forks.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Fix <filename>contrib/pgcrypto</>'s <function>pgp_sym_decrypt()</>
|
||||
to not fail on messages whose length is 6 less than a power of 2
|
||||
(Marko Tiikkaja)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Fix file descriptor leak in <filename>contrib/pg_test_fsync</>
|
||||
(Jeff Janes)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
This could cause failure to remove temporary files on Windows.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Handle unexpected query results, especially NULLs, safely in
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<filename>contrib/tablefunc</>'s <function>connectby()</>
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(Michael Paquier)
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</para>
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<para>
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<function>connectby()</> previously crashed if it encountered a NULL
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key value. It now prints that row but doesn't recurse further.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Avoid a possible crash in <filename>contrib/xml2</>'s
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<function>xslt_process()</> (Mark Simonetti)
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</para>
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<para>
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<application>libxslt</> seems to have an undocumented dependency on
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the order in which resources are freed; reorder our calls to avoid a
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crash.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Mark some <filename>contrib</> I/O functions with correct volatility
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properties (Tom Lane)
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</para>
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<para>
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The previous over-conservative marking was immaterial in normal use,
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but could cause optimization problems or rejection of valid index
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expression definitions. Since the consequences are not large, we've
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just adjusted the function definitions in the extension modules'
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scripts, without changing version numbers.
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</para>
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</listitem>
|
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Numerous cleanups of warnings from Coverity static code analyzer
|
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(Andres Freund, Tatsuo Ishii, Marko Kreen, Tom Lane, Michael Paquier)
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</para>
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<para>
|
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These changes are mostly cosmetic but in some cases fix corner-case
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bugs, for example a crash rather than a proper error report after an
|
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out-of-memory failure. None are believed to represent security
|
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issues.
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</para>
|
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</listitem>
|
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|
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<listitem>
|
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<para>
|
||||
Detect incompatible OpenLDAP versions during build (Noah Misch)
|
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</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
With OpenLDAP versions 2.4.24 through 2.4.31,
|
||||
inclusive, <productname>PostgreSQL</> backends can crash at exit.
|
||||
Raise a warning during <application>configure</> based on the
|
||||
compile-time OpenLDAP version number, and test the crashing scenario
|
||||
in the <filename>contrib/dblink</> regression test.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
In non-MSVC Windows builds, ensure <filename>libpq.dll</> is installed
|
||||
with execute permissions (Noah Misch)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Make <application>pg_regress</> remove any temporary installation it
|
||||
created upon successful exit (Tom Lane)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
This results in a very substantial reduction in disk space usage
|
||||
during <literal>make check-world</>, since that sequence involves
|
||||
creation of numerous temporary installations.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Support time zone abbreviations that change UTC offset from time to
|
||||
time (Tom Lane)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Previously, <productname>PostgreSQL</> assumed that the UTC offset
|
||||
associated with a time zone abbreviation (such as <literal>EST</>)
|
||||
never changes in the usage of any particular locale. However this
|
||||
assumption fails in the real world, so introduce the ability for a
|
||||
zone abbreviation to represent a UTC offset that sometimes changes.
|
||||
Update the zone abbreviation definition files to make use of this
|
||||
feature in timezone locales that have changed the UTC offset of their
|
||||
abbreviations since 1970 (according to the IANA timezone database).
|
||||
In such timezones, <productname>PostgreSQL</> will now associate the
|
||||
correct UTC offset with the abbreviation depending on the given date.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Update time zone abbreviations lists (Tom Lane)
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Add CST (China Standard Time) to our lists.
|
||||
Remove references to ADT as <quote>Arabia Daylight Time</>, an
|
||||
abbreviation that's been out of use since 2007; therefore, claiming
|
||||
there is a conflict with <quote>Atlantic Daylight Time</> doesn't seem
|
||||
especially helpful.
|
||||
Fix entirely incorrect GMT offsets for CKT (Cook Islands), FJT, and FJST
|
||||
(Fiji); we didn't even have them on the proper side of the date line.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
<listitem>
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Update time zone data files to <application>tzdata</> release 2015a.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
The IANA timezone database has adopted abbreviations of the form
|
||||
<literal>A<replaceable>x</>ST</literal>/<literal>A<replaceable>x</>DT</literal>
|
||||
for all Australian time zones, reflecting what they believe to be
|
||||
current majority practice Down Under. These names do not conflict
|
||||
with usage elsewhere (other than ACST for Acre Summer Time, which has
|
||||
been in disuse since 1994). Accordingly, adopt these names into
|
||||
our <quote>Default</> timezone abbreviation set.
|
||||
The <quote>Australia</> abbreviation set now contains only CST, EAST,
|
||||
EST, SAST, SAT, and WST, all of which are thought to be mostly
|
||||
historical usage. Note that SAST has also been changed to be South
|
||||
Africa Standard Time in the <quote>Default</> abbreviation set.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
|
||||
<para>
|
||||
Also, add zone abbreviations SRET (Asia/Srednekolymsk) and XJT
|
||||
(Asia/Urumqi), and use WSST/WSDT for western Samoa. Also, there were
|
||||
DST law changes in Chile, Mexico, the Turks & Caicos Islands
|
||||
(America/Grand_Turk), and Fiji. There is a new zone
|
||||
Pacific/Bougainville for portions of Papua New Guinea. Also, numerous
|
||||
corrections for historical (pre-1970) time zone data.
|
||||
</para>
|
||||
</listitem>
|
||||
|
||||
</itemizedlist>
|
||||
|
||||
</sect2>
|
||||
</sect1>
|
||||
|
||||
<sect1 id="release-9-2-9">
|
||||
<title>Release 9.2.9</title>
|
||||
|
||||
|
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