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<sect1 id="release-9-2-21">
<title>Release 9.2.21</title>
<note>
<title>Release Date</title>
<simpara>2017-05-11</simpara>
</note>
<para>
This release contains a variety of fixes from 9.2.20.
For information about new features in the 9.2 major release, see
<xref linkend="release-9-2">.
</para>
<para>
The <productname>PostgreSQL</> community will stop releasing updates
for the 9.2.X release series in September 2017.
Users are encouraged to update to a newer release branch soon.
</para>
<sect2>
<title>Migration to Version 9.2.21</title>
<para>
A dump/restore is not required for those running 9.2.X.
</para>
<para>
However, if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 9.2.20,
see <xref linkend="release-9-2-20">.
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2>
<title>Changes</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix possible corruption of <quote>init forks</> of unlogged indexes
(Robert Haas, Michael Paquier)
</para>
<para>
This could result in an unlogged index being set to an invalid state
after a crash and restart. Such a problem would persist until the
index was dropped and rebuilt.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix incorrect reconstruction of <structname>pg_subtrans</> entries
when a standby server replays a prepared but uncommitted two-phase
transaction (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
In most cases this turned out to have no visible ill effects, but in
corner cases it could result in circular references
in <structname>pg_subtrans</>, potentially causing infinite loops
in queries that examine rows modified by the two-phase transaction.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Ensure parsing of queries in extension scripts sees the results of
immediately-preceding DDL (Julien Rouhaud, Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
Due to lack of a cache flush step between commands in an extension
script file, non-utility queries might not see the effects of an
immediately preceding catalog change, such as <command>ALTER TABLE
... RENAME</>.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Skip tablespace privilege checks when <command>ALTER TABLE ... ALTER
COLUMN TYPE</> rebuilds an existing index (Noah Misch)
</para>
<para>
The command failed if the calling user did not currently have
<literal>CREATE</> privilege for the tablespace containing the index.
That behavior seems unhelpful, so skip the check, allowing the
index to be rebuilt where it is.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix <command>ALTER TABLE ... VALIDATE CONSTRAINT</> to not recurse
to child tables when the constraint is marked <literal>NO INHERIT</>
(Amit Langote)
</para>
<para>
This fix prevents unwanted <quote>constraint does not exist</> failures
when no matching constraint is present in the child tables.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix <command>VACUUM</> to account properly for pages that could not
be scanned due to conflicting page pins (Andrew Gierth)
</para>
<para>
This tended to lead to underestimation of the number of tuples in
the table. In the worst case of a small heavily-contended
table, <command>VACUUM</> could incorrectly report that the table
contained no tuples, leading to very bad planning choices.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Ensure that bulk-tuple-transfer loops within a hash join are
interruptible by query cancel requests (Tom Lane, Thomas Munro)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix <function>cursor_to_xml()</> to produce valid output
with <replaceable>tableforest</> = false
(Thomas Munro, Peter Eisentraut)
</para>
<para>
Previously it failed to produce a wrapping <literal>&lt;table&gt;</>
element.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Improve performance of <structname>pg_timezone_names</> view
(Tom Lane, David Rowley)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix sloppy handling of corner-case errors from <function>lseek()</>
and <function>close()</> (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
Neither of these system calls are likely to fail in typical situations,
but if they did, <filename>fd.c</> could get quite confused.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix incorrect check for whether postmaster is running as a Windows
service (Michael Paquier)
</para>
<para>
This could result in attempting to write to the event log when that
isn't accessible, so that no logging happens at all.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix <application>ecpg</> to support <command>COMMIT PREPARED</>
and <command>ROLLBACK PREPARED</> (Masahiko Sawada)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix a double-free error when processing dollar-quoted string literals
in <application>ecpg</> (Michael Meskes)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
In <application>pg_dump</>, fix incorrect schema and owner marking for
comments and security labels of some types of database objects
(Giuseppe Broccolo, Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
In simple cases this caused no ill effects; but for example, a
schema-selective restore might omit comments it should include, because
they were not marked as belonging to the schema of their associated
object.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Avoid emitting an invalid list file in <literal>pg_restore -l</>
when SQL object names contain newlines (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
Replace newlines by spaces, which is sufficient to make the output
valid for <literal>pg_restore -L</>'s purposes.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix <application>pg_upgrade</> to transfer comments and security labels
attached to <quote>large objects</> (blobs) (Stephen Frost)
</para>
<para>
Previously, blobs were correctly transferred to the new database, but
any comments or security labels attached to them were lost.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Improve error handling
in <filename>contrib/adminpack</>'s <function>pg_file_write()</>
function (Noah Misch)
</para>
<para>
Notably, it failed to detect errors reported
by <function>fclose()</>.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
In <filename>contrib/dblink</>, avoid leaking the previous unnamed
connection when establishing a new unnamed connection (Joe Conway)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Support OpenSSL 1.1.0 (Heikki Linnakangas, Andreas Karlsson, Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
This is a back-patch of work previously done in newer branches;
it's needed since many platforms are adopting newer OpenSSL versions.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Support Tcl 8.6 in MSVC builds (&Aacute;lvaro Herrera)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Sync our copy of the timezone library with IANA release tzcode2017b
(Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
This fixes a bug affecting some DST transitions in January 2038.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Update time zone data files to <application>tzdata</> release 2017b
for DST law changes in Chile, Haiti, and Mongolia, plus historical
corrections for Ecuador, Kazakhstan, Liberia, and Spain.
Switch to numeric abbreviations for numerous time zones in South
America, the Pacific and Indian oceans, and some Asian and Middle
Eastern countries.
</para>
<para>
The IANA time zone database previously provided textual abbreviations
for all time zones, sometimes making up abbreviations that have little
or no currency among the local population. They are in process of
reversing that policy in favor of using numeric UTC offsets in zones
where there is no evidence of real-world use of an English
abbreviation. At least for the time being, <productname>PostgreSQL</>
will continue to accept such removed abbreviations for timestamp input.
But they will not be shown in the <structname>pg_timezone_names</>
view nor used for output.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Use correct daylight-savings rules for POSIX-style time zone names
in MSVC builds (David Rowley)
</para>
<para>
The Microsoft MSVC build scripts neglected to install
the <filename>posixrules</> file in the timezone directory tree.
This resulted in the timezone code falling back to its built-in
rule about what DST behavior to assume for a POSIX-style time zone
name. For historical reasons that still corresponds to the DST rules
the USA was using before 2007 (i.e., change on first Sunday in April
and last Sunday in October). With this fix, a POSIX-style zone name
will use the current and historical DST transition dates of
the <literal>US/Eastern</> zone. If you don't want that, remove
the <filename>posixrules</> file, or replace it with a copy of some
other zone file (see <xref linkend="datatype-timezones">). Note that
due to caching, you may need to restart the server to get such changes
to take effect.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect2>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="release-9-2-20">
<title>Release 9.2.20</title>

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<sect1 id="release-9-3-17">
<title>Release 9.3.17</title>
<note>
<title>Release Date</title>
<simpara>2017-05-11</simpara>
</note>
<para>
This release contains a variety of fixes from 9.3.16.
For information about new features in the 9.3 major release, see
<xref linkend="release-9-3">.
</para>
<sect2>
<title>Migration to Version 9.3.17</title>
<para>
A dump/restore is not required for those running 9.3.X.
</para>
<para>
However, if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 9.3.16,
see <xref linkend="release-9-3-16">.
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2>
<title>Changes</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix possible corruption of <quote>init forks</> of unlogged indexes
(Robert Haas, Michael Paquier)
</para>
<para>
This could result in an unlogged index being set to an invalid state
after a crash and restart. Such a problem would persist until the
index was dropped and rebuilt.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix incorrect reconstruction of <structname>pg_subtrans</> entries
when a standby server replays a prepared but uncommitted two-phase
transaction (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
In most cases this turned out to have no visible ill effects, but in
corner cases it could result in circular references
in <structname>pg_subtrans</>, potentially causing infinite loops
in queries that examine rows modified by the two-phase transaction.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Ensure parsing of queries in extension scripts sees the results of
immediately-preceding DDL (Julien Rouhaud, Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
Due to lack of a cache flush step between commands in an extension
script file, non-utility queries might not see the effects of an
immediately preceding catalog change, such as <command>ALTER TABLE
... RENAME</>.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Skip tablespace privilege checks when <command>ALTER TABLE ... ALTER
COLUMN TYPE</> rebuilds an existing index (Noah Misch)
</para>
<para>
The command failed if the calling user did not currently have
<literal>CREATE</> privilege for the tablespace containing the index.
That behavior seems unhelpful, so skip the check, allowing the
index to be rebuilt where it is.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix <command>ALTER TABLE ... VALIDATE CONSTRAINT</> to not recurse
to child tables when the constraint is marked <literal>NO INHERIT</>
(Amit Langote)
</para>
<para>
This fix prevents unwanted <quote>constraint does not exist</> failures
when no matching constraint is present in the child tables.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix <command>VACUUM</> to account properly for pages that could not
be scanned due to conflicting page pins (Andrew Gierth)
</para>
<para>
This tended to lead to underestimation of the number of tuples in
the table. In the worst case of a small heavily-contended
table, <command>VACUUM</> could incorrectly report that the table
contained no tuples, leading to very bad planning choices.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Ensure that bulk-tuple-transfer loops within a hash join are
interruptible by query cancel requests (Tom Lane, Thomas Munro)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix <function>cursor_to_xml()</> to produce valid output
with <replaceable>tableforest</> = false
(Thomas Munro, Peter Eisentraut)
</para>
<para>
Previously it failed to produce a wrapping <literal>&lt;table&gt;</>
element.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Improve performance of <structname>pg_timezone_names</> view
(Tom Lane, David Rowley)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix sloppy handling of corner-case errors from <function>lseek()</>
and <function>close()</> (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
Neither of these system calls are likely to fail in typical situations,
but if they did, <filename>fd.c</> could get quite confused.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix incorrect check for whether postmaster is running as a Windows
service (Michael Paquier)
</para>
<para>
This could result in attempting to write to the event log when that
isn't accessible, so that no logging happens at all.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix <application>ecpg</> to support <command>COMMIT PREPARED</>
and <command>ROLLBACK PREPARED</> (Masahiko Sawada)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix a double-free error when processing dollar-quoted string literals
in <application>ecpg</> (Michael Meskes)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
In <application>pg_dump</>, fix incorrect schema and owner marking for
comments and security labels of some types of database objects
(Giuseppe Broccolo, Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
In simple cases this caused no ill effects; but for example, a
schema-selective restore might omit comments it should include, because
they were not marked as belonging to the schema of their associated
object.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Avoid emitting an invalid list file in <literal>pg_restore -l</>
when SQL object names contain newlines (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
Replace newlines by spaces, which is sufficient to make the output
valid for <literal>pg_restore -L</>'s purposes.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix <application>pg_upgrade</> to transfer comments and security labels
attached to <quote>large objects</> (blobs) (Stephen Frost)
</para>
<para>
Previously, blobs were correctly transferred to the new database, but
any comments or security labels attached to them were lost.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Improve error handling
in <filename>contrib/adminpack</>'s <function>pg_file_write()</>
function (Noah Misch)
</para>
<para>
Notably, it failed to detect errors reported
by <function>fclose()</>.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
In <filename>contrib/dblink</>, avoid leaking the previous unnamed
connection when establishing a new unnamed connection (Joe Conway)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix <filename>contrib/pg_trgm</>'s extraction of trigrams from regular
expressions (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
In some cases it would produce a broken data structure that could never
match anything, leading to GIN or GiST indexscans that use a trigram
index not finding any matches to the regular expression.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
In <filename>contrib/postgres_fdw</>,
transmit query cancellation requests to the remote server
(Michael Paquier, Etsuro Fujita)
</para>
<para>
Previously, a local query cancellation request did not cause an
already-sent remote query to terminate early. This is a back-patch
of work originally done for 9.6.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Support OpenSSL 1.1.0 (Heikki Linnakangas, Andreas Karlsson, Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
This is a back-patch of work previously done in newer branches;
it's needed since many platforms are adopting newer OpenSSL versions.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Support Tcl 8.6 in MSVC builds (&Aacute;lvaro Herrera)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Sync our copy of the timezone library with IANA release tzcode2017b
(Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
This fixes a bug affecting some DST transitions in January 2038.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Update time zone data files to <application>tzdata</> release 2017b
for DST law changes in Chile, Haiti, and Mongolia, plus historical
corrections for Ecuador, Kazakhstan, Liberia, and Spain.
Switch to numeric abbreviations for numerous time zones in South
America, the Pacific and Indian oceans, and some Asian and Middle
Eastern countries.
</para>
<para>
The IANA time zone database previously provided textual abbreviations
for all time zones, sometimes making up abbreviations that have little
or no currency among the local population. They are in process of
reversing that policy in favor of using numeric UTC offsets in zones
where there is no evidence of real-world use of an English
abbreviation. At least for the time being, <productname>PostgreSQL</>
will continue to accept such removed abbreviations for timestamp input.
But they will not be shown in the <structname>pg_timezone_names</>
view nor used for output.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Use correct daylight-savings rules for POSIX-style time zone names
in MSVC builds (David Rowley)
</para>
<para>
The Microsoft MSVC build scripts neglected to install
the <filename>posixrules</> file in the timezone directory tree.
This resulted in the timezone code falling back to its built-in
rule about what DST behavior to assume for a POSIX-style time zone
name. For historical reasons that still corresponds to the DST rules
the USA was using before 2007 (i.e., change on first Sunday in April
and last Sunday in October). With this fix, a POSIX-style zone name
will use the current and historical DST transition dates of
the <literal>US/Eastern</> zone. If you don't want that, remove
the <filename>posixrules</> file, or replace it with a copy of some
other zone file (see <xref linkend="datatype-timezones">). Note that
due to caching, you may need to restart the server to get such changes
to take effect.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect2>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="release-9-3-16">
<title>Release 9.3.16</title>

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<!-- See header comment in release.sgml about typical markup -->
<sect1 id="release-9-4-12">
<title>Release 9.4.12</title>
<note>
<title>Release Date</title>
<simpara>2017-05-11</simpara>
</note>
<para>
This release contains a variety of fixes from 9.4.11.
For information about new features in the 9.4 major release, see
<xref linkend="release-9-4">.
</para>
<sect2>
<title>Migration to Version 9.4.12</title>
<para>
A dump/restore is not required for those running 9.4.X.
</para>
<para>
However, if you are using third-party replication tools that depend
on <quote>logical decoding</>, see the first changelog entry below.
</para>
<para>
Also, if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 9.4.11,
see <xref linkend="release-9-4-11">.
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2>
<title>Changes</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix possibly-invalid initial snapshot during logical decoding
(Petr Jelinek, Andres Freund)
</para>
<para>
The initial snapshot created for a logical decoding replication slot
was potentially incorrect. This could cause third-party tools that
use logical decoding to copy incomplete/inconsistent initial data.
This was more likely to happen if the source server was busy at the
time of slot creation, or if another logical slot already existed.
</para>
<para>
If you are using a replication tool that depends on logical decoding,
and it should have copied a nonempty data set at the start of
replication, it is advisable to recreate the replica after
installing this update, or to verify its contents against the source
server.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix possible corruption of <quote>init forks</> of unlogged indexes
(Robert Haas, Michael Paquier)
</para>
<para>
This could result in an unlogged index being set to an invalid state
after a crash and restart. Such a problem would persist until the
index was dropped and rebuilt.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix incorrect reconstruction of <structname>pg_subtrans</> entries
when a standby server replays a prepared but uncommitted two-phase
transaction (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
In most cases this turned out to have no visible ill effects, but in
corner cases it could result in circular references
in <structname>pg_subtrans</>, potentially causing infinite loops
in queries that examine rows modified by the two-phase transaction.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Avoid possible crash in <application>walsender</> due to failure
to initialize a string buffer (Stas Kelvich, Fujii Masao)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix postmaster's handling of <function>fork()</> failure for a
background worker process (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
Previously, the postmaster updated portions of its state as though
the process had been launched successfully, resulting in subsequent
confusion.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Ensure parsing of queries in extension scripts sees the results of
immediately-preceding DDL (Julien Rouhaud, Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
Due to lack of a cache flush step between commands in an extension
script file, non-utility queries might not see the effects of an
immediately preceding catalog change, such as <command>ALTER TABLE
... RENAME</>.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Skip tablespace privilege checks when <command>ALTER TABLE ... ALTER
COLUMN TYPE</> rebuilds an existing index (Noah Misch)
</para>
<para>
The command failed if the calling user did not currently have
<literal>CREATE</> privilege for the tablespace containing the index.
That behavior seems unhelpful, so skip the check, allowing the
index to be rebuilt where it is.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix <command>ALTER TABLE ... VALIDATE CONSTRAINT</> to not recurse
to child tables when the constraint is marked <literal>NO INHERIT</>
(Amit Langote)
</para>
<para>
This fix prevents unwanted <quote>constraint does not exist</> failures
when no matching constraint is present in the child tables.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix <command>VACUUM</> to account properly for pages that could not
be scanned due to conflicting page pins (Andrew Gierth)
</para>
<para>
This tended to lead to underestimation of the number of tuples in
the table. In the worst case of a small heavily-contended
table, <command>VACUUM</> could incorrectly report that the table
contained no tuples, leading to very bad planning choices.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Ensure that bulk-tuple-transfer loops within a hash join are
interruptible by query cancel requests (Tom Lane, Thomas Munro)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix integer-overflow problems in <type>interval</> comparison (Kyotaro
Horiguchi, Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
The comparison operators for type <type>interval</> could yield wrong
answers for intervals larger than about 296000 years. Indexes on
columns containing such large values should be reindexed, since they
may be corrupt.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix <function>cursor_to_xml()</> to produce valid output
with <replaceable>tableforest</> = false
(Thomas Munro, Peter Eisentraut)
</para>
<para>
Previously it failed to produce a wrapping <literal>&lt;table&gt;</>
element.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix roundoff problems in <function>float8_timestamptz()</>
and <function>make_interval()</> (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
These functions truncated, rather than rounded, when converting a
floating-point value to integer microseconds; that could cause
unexpectedly off-by-one results.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Improve performance of <structname>pg_timezone_names</> view
(Tom Lane, David Rowley)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Reduce memory management overhead for contexts containing many large
blocks (Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix sloppy handling of corner-case errors from <function>lseek()</>
and <function>close()</> (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
Neither of these system calls are likely to fail in typical situations,
but if they did, <filename>fd.c</> could get quite confused.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix incorrect check for whether postmaster is running as a Windows
service (Michael Paquier)
</para>
<para>
This could result in attempting to write to the event log when that
isn't accessible, so that no logging happens at all.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix <application>ecpg</> to support <command>COMMIT PREPARED</>
and <command>ROLLBACK PREPARED</> (Masahiko Sawada)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix a double-free error when processing dollar-quoted string literals
in <application>ecpg</> (Michael Meskes)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
In <application>pg_dump</>, fix incorrect schema and owner marking for
comments and security labels of some types of database objects
(Giuseppe Broccolo, Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
In simple cases this caused no ill effects; but for example, a
schema-selective restore might omit comments it should include, because
they were not marked as belonging to the schema of their associated
object.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Avoid emitting an invalid list file in <literal>pg_restore -l</>
when SQL object names contain newlines (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
Replace newlines by spaces, which is sufficient to make the output
valid for <literal>pg_restore -L</>'s purposes.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix <application>pg_upgrade</> to transfer comments and security labels
attached to <quote>large objects</> (blobs) (Stephen Frost)
</para>
<para>
Previously, blobs were correctly transferred to the new database, but
any comments or security labels attached to them were lost.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Improve error handling
in <filename>contrib/adminpack</>'s <function>pg_file_write()</>
function (Noah Misch)
</para>
<para>
Notably, it failed to detect errors reported
by <function>fclose()</>.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
In <filename>contrib/dblink</>, avoid leaking the previous unnamed
connection when establishing a new unnamed connection (Joe Conway)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix <filename>contrib/pg_trgm</>'s extraction of trigrams from regular
expressions (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
In some cases it would produce a broken data structure that could never
match anything, leading to GIN or GiST indexscans that use a trigram
index not finding any matches to the regular expression.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
In <filename>contrib/postgres_fdw</>,
transmit query cancellation requests to the remote server
(Michael Paquier, Etsuro Fujita)
</para>
<para>
Previously, a local query cancellation request did not cause an
already-sent remote query to terminate early. This is a back-patch
of work originally done for 9.6.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
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<para>
Support OpenSSL 1.1.0 (Heikki Linnakangas, Andreas Karlsson, Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
This is a back-patch of work previously done in newer branches;
it's needed since many platforms are adopting newer OpenSSL versions.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Support Tcl 8.6 in MSVC builds (&Aacute;lvaro Herrera)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Sync our copy of the timezone library with IANA release tzcode2017b
(Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
This fixes a bug affecting some DST transitions in January 2038.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Update time zone data files to <application>tzdata</> release 2017b
for DST law changes in Chile, Haiti, and Mongolia, plus historical
corrections for Ecuador, Kazakhstan, Liberia, and Spain.
Switch to numeric abbreviations for numerous time zones in South
America, the Pacific and Indian oceans, and some Asian and Middle
Eastern countries.
</para>
<para>
The IANA time zone database previously provided textual abbreviations
for all time zones, sometimes making up abbreviations that have little
or no currency among the local population. They are in process of
reversing that policy in favor of using numeric UTC offsets in zones
where there is no evidence of real-world use of an English
abbreviation. At least for the time being, <productname>PostgreSQL</>
will continue to accept such removed abbreviations for timestamp input.
But they will not be shown in the <structname>pg_timezone_names</>
view nor used for output.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Use correct daylight-savings rules for POSIX-style time zone names
in MSVC builds (David Rowley)
</para>
<para>
The Microsoft MSVC build scripts neglected to install
the <filename>posixrules</> file in the timezone directory tree.
This resulted in the timezone code falling back to its built-in
rule about what DST behavior to assume for a POSIX-style time zone
name. For historical reasons that still corresponds to the DST rules
the USA was using before 2007 (i.e., change on first Sunday in April
and last Sunday in October). With this fix, a POSIX-style zone name
will use the current and historical DST transition dates of
the <literal>US/Eastern</> zone. If you don't want that, remove
the <filename>posixrules</> file, or replace it with a copy of some
other zone file (see <xref linkend="datatype-timezones">). Note that
due to caching, you may need to restart the server to get such changes
to take effect.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect2>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="release-9-4-11">
<title>Release 9.4.11</title>

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<sect1 id="release-9-5-7">
<title>Release 9.5.7</title>
<note>
<title>Release Date</title>
<simpara>2017-05-11</simpara>
</note>
<para>
This release contains a variety of fixes from 9.5.6.
For information about new features in the 9.5 major release, see
<xref linkend="release-9-5">.
</para>
<sect2>
<title>Migration to Version 9.5.7</title>
<para>
A dump/restore is not required for those running 9.5.X.
</para>
<para>
However, if you are using third-party replication tools that depend
on <quote>logical decoding</>, see the first changelog entry below.
</para>
<para>
Also, if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 9.5.6,
see <xref linkend="release-9-5-6">.
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2>
<title>Changes</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix possibly-invalid initial snapshot during logical decoding
(Petr Jelinek, Andres Freund)
</para>
<para>
The initial snapshot created for a logical decoding replication slot
was potentially incorrect. This could cause third-party tools that
use logical decoding to copy incomplete/inconsistent initial data.
This was more likely to happen if the source server was busy at the
time of slot creation, or if another logical slot already existed.
</para>
<para>
If you are using a replication tool that depends on logical decoding,
and it should have copied a nonempty data set at the start of
replication, it is advisable to recreate the replica after
installing this update, or to verify its contents against the source
server.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix possible corruption of <quote>init forks</> of unlogged indexes
(Robert Haas, Michael Paquier)
</para>
<para>
This could result in an unlogged index being set to an invalid state
after a crash and restart. Such a problem would persist until the
index was dropped and rebuilt.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix incorrect reconstruction of <structname>pg_subtrans</> entries
when a standby server replays a prepared but uncommitted two-phase
transaction (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
In most cases this turned out to have no visible ill effects, but in
corner cases it could result in circular references
in <structname>pg_subtrans</>, potentially causing infinite loops
in queries that examine rows modified by the two-phase transaction.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Avoid possible crash in <application>walsender</> due to failure
to initialize a string buffer (Stas Kelvich, Fujii Masao)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix possible crash when rescanning a nearest-neighbor index-only scan
on a GiST index (Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix postmaster's handling of <function>fork()</> failure for a
background worker process (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
Previously, the postmaster updated portions of its state as though
the process had been launched successfully, resulting in subsequent
confusion.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
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<para>
Fix crash or wrong answers when a <literal>GROUPING SETS</> column's
data type is hashable but not sortable (Pavan Deolasee)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Avoid applying <quote>physical targetlist</> optimization to custom
scans (Dmitry Ivanov, Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
This optimization supposed that retrieving all columns of a tuple
is inexpensive, which is true for ordinary Postgres tuples; but it
might not be the case for a custom scan provider.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Use the correct sub-expression when applying a <literal>FOR ALL</>
row-level-security policy (Stephen Frost)
</para>
<para>
In some cases the <literal>WITH CHECK</> restriction would be applied
when the <literal>USING</> restriction is more appropriate.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Ensure parsing of queries in extension scripts sees the results of
immediately-preceding DDL (Julien Rouhaud, Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
Due to lack of a cache flush step between commands in an extension
script file, non-utility queries might not see the effects of an
immediately preceding catalog change, such as <command>ALTER TABLE
... RENAME</>.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Skip tablespace privilege checks when <command>ALTER TABLE ... ALTER
COLUMN TYPE</> rebuilds an existing index (Noah Misch)
</para>
<para>
The command failed if the calling user did not currently have
<literal>CREATE</> privilege for the tablespace containing the index.
That behavior seems unhelpful, so skip the check, allowing the
index to be rebuilt where it is.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix <command>ALTER TABLE ... VALIDATE CONSTRAINT</> to not recurse
to child tables when the constraint is marked <literal>NO INHERIT</>
(Amit Langote)
</para>
<para>
This fix prevents unwanted <quote>constraint does not exist</> failures
when no matching constraint is present in the child tables.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Avoid dangling pointer in <command>COPY ... TO</> when row-level
security is active for the source table (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
Usually this had no ill effects, but sometimes it would cause
unexpected errors or crashes.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Avoid accessing an already-closed relcache entry in <command>CLUSTER</>
and <command>VACUUM FULL</> (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
With some bad luck, this could lead to indexes on the target
relation getting rebuilt with the wrong persistence setting.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix <command>VACUUM</> to account properly for pages that could not
be scanned due to conflicting page pins (Andrew Gierth)
</para>
<para>
This tended to lead to underestimation of the number of tuples in
the table. In the worst case of a small heavily-contended
table, <command>VACUUM</> could incorrectly report that the table
contained no tuples, leading to very bad planning choices.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Ensure that bulk-tuple-transfer loops within a hash join are
interruptible by query cancel requests (Tom Lane, Thomas Munro)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix integer-overflow problems in <type>interval</> comparison (Kyotaro
Horiguchi, Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
The comparison operators for type <type>interval</> could yield wrong
answers for intervals larger than about 296000 years. Indexes on
columns containing such large values should be reindexed, since they
may be corrupt.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix <function>cursor_to_xml()</> to produce valid output
with <replaceable>tableforest</> = false
(Thomas Munro, Peter Eisentraut)
</para>
<para>
Previously it failed to produce a wrapping <literal>&lt;table&gt;</>
element.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix roundoff problems in <function>float8_timestamptz()</>
and <function>make_interval()</> (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
These functions truncated, rather than rounded, when converting a
floating-point value to integer microseconds; that could cause
unexpectedly off-by-one results.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix <function>pg_get_object_address()</> to handle members of operator
families correctly (&Aacute;lvaro Herrera)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Improve performance of <structname>pg_timezone_names</> view
(Tom Lane, David Rowley)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Reduce memory management overhead for contexts containing many large
blocks (Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix sloppy handling of corner-case errors from <function>lseek()</>
and <function>close()</> (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
Neither of these system calls are likely to fail in typical situations,
but if they did, <filename>fd.c</> could get quite confused.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix incorrect check for whether postmaster is running as a Windows
service (Michael Paquier)
</para>
<para>
This could result in attempting to write to the event log when that
isn't accessible, so that no logging happens at all.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix <application>ecpg</> to support <command>COMMIT PREPARED</>
and <command>ROLLBACK PREPARED</> (Masahiko Sawada)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix a double-free error when processing dollar-quoted string literals
in <application>ecpg</> (Michael Meskes)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
In <application>pg_dump</>, fix incorrect schema and owner marking for
comments and security labels of some types of database objects
(Giuseppe Broccolo, Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
In simple cases this caused no ill effects; but for example, a
schema-selective restore might omit comments it should include, because
they were not marked as belonging to the schema of their associated
object.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Avoid emitting an invalid list file in <literal>pg_restore -l</>
when SQL object names contain newlines (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
Replace newlines by spaces, which is sufficient to make the output
valid for <literal>pg_restore -L</>'s purposes.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix <application>pg_upgrade</> to transfer comments and security labels
attached to <quote>large objects</> (blobs) (Stephen Frost)
</para>
<para>
Previously, blobs were correctly transferred to the new database, but
any comments or security labels attached to them were lost.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Improve error handling
in <filename>contrib/adminpack</>'s <function>pg_file_write()</>
function (Noah Misch)
</para>
<para>
Notably, it failed to detect errors reported
by <function>fclose()</>.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
In <filename>contrib/dblink</>, avoid leaking the previous unnamed
connection when establishing a new unnamed connection (Joe Conway)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix <filename>contrib/pg_trgm</>'s extraction of trigrams from regular
expressions (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
In some cases it would produce a broken data structure that could never
match anything, leading to GIN or GiST indexscans that use a trigram
index not finding any matches to the regular expression.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
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<para>
In <filename>contrib/postgres_fdw</>,
transmit query cancellation requests to the remote server
(Michael Paquier, Etsuro Fujita)
</para>
<para>
Previously, a local query cancellation request did not cause an
already-sent remote query to terminate early. This is a back-patch
of work originally done for 9.6.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Support Tcl 8.6 in MSVC builds (&Aacute;lvaro Herrera)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Sync our copy of the timezone library with IANA release tzcode2017b
(Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
This fixes a bug affecting some DST transitions in January 2038.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Update time zone data files to <application>tzdata</> release 2017b
for DST law changes in Chile, Haiti, and Mongolia, plus historical
corrections for Ecuador, Kazakhstan, Liberia, and Spain.
Switch to numeric abbreviations for numerous time zones in South
America, the Pacific and Indian oceans, and some Asian and Middle
Eastern countries.
</para>
<para>
The IANA time zone database previously provided textual abbreviations
for all time zones, sometimes making up abbreviations that have little
or no currency among the local population. They are in process of
reversing that policy in favor of using numeric UTC offsets in zones
where there is no evidence of real-world use of an English
abbreviation. At least for the time being, <productname>PostgreSQL</>
will continue to accept such removed abbreviations for timestamp input.
But they will not be shown in the <structname>pg_timezone_names</>
view nor used for output.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Use correct daylight-savings rules for POSIX-style time zone names
in MSVC builds (David Rowley)
</para>
<para>
The Microsoft MSVC build scripts neglected to install
the <filename>posixrules</> file in the timezone directory tree.
This resulted in the timezone code falling back to its built-in
rule about what DST behavior to assume for a POSIX-style time zone
name. For historical reasons that still corresponds to the DST rules
the USA was using before 2007 (i.e., change on first Sunday in April
and last Sunday in October). With this fix, a POSIX-style zone name
will use the current and historical DST transition dates of
the <literal>US/Eastern</> zone. If you don't want that, remove
the <filename>posixrules</> file, or replace it with a copy of some
other zone file (see <xref linkend="datatype-timezones">). Note that
due to caching, you may need to restart the server to get such changes
to take effect.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect2>
</sect1>
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<title>Release 9.5.6</title>

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<!--
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-->
<para>
Fix crash or wrong answers when a <literal>GROUPING SETS</> column's
data type is hashable but not sortable (Pavan Deolasee)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
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Branch: master [89deca582] 2017-04-07 12:18:38 -0400
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<listitem>
<!--
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-->
<para>
In <filename>contrib/postgres_fdw</>,
transmit query cancellation requests to the remote server
(Michael Paquier, Etsuro Fujita)
</para>
<para>
Previously, a local query cancellation request did not cause an
already-sent remote query to terminate early. This is a back-patch
of work originally done for 9.6.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<!--
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Branch: REL9_4_STABLE [bb132cddf] 2017-04-15 20:16:03 -0400
Branch: REL9_3_STABLE [fbfeceb25] 2017-04-17 12:51:40 -0400
Branch: REL9_2_STABLE [58384149b] 2017-04-17 12:51:40 -0400
Branch: REL9_3_STABLE [4e91330da] 2017-04-17 13:52:42 -0400
Branch: REL9_2_STABLE [fb50c38e9] 2017-04-17 13:52:42 -0400
-->
<para>
Support OpenSSL 1.1.0 (Heikki Linnakangas, Andreas Karlsson, Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
This is a back-patch of work previously done in newer branches;
it's needed since many platforms are adopting newer OpenSSL versions.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
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