More indenting cleanup for release notes.
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@ -804,6 +804,7 @@ do it for earlier branch release files.
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point-in-time recovery.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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New boolean configuration parameter, <varname>archive_mode</>,
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@ -2431,112 +2432,113 @@ do it for earlier branch release files.
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<itemizedlist>
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<para>
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Support explicit placement of the temporary-table schema within
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<varname>search_path</>, and disable searching it for functions
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and operators (Tom)
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</para>
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<para>
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This is needed to allow a security-definer function to set a
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truly secure value of <varname>search_path</>. Without it,
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an unprivileged SQL user can use temporary objects to execute code
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with the privileges of the security-definer function (CVE-2007-2138).
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See <command>CREATE FUNCTION</> for more information.
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</para>
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<para>
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Support explicit placement of the temporary-table schema within
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<varname>search_path</>, and disable searching it for functions
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and operators (Tom)
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</para>
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<para>
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This is needed to allow a security-definer function to set a
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truly secure value of <varname>search_path</>. Without it,
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an unprivileged SQL user can use temporary objects to execute code
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with the privileges of the security-definer function (CVE-2007-2138).
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See <command>CREATE FUNCTION</> for more information.
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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 <varname>shared_preload_libraries</> for Windows
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by forcing reload in each backend (Korry Douglas)
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</para>
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<para>
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Fix <varname>shared_preload_libraries</> for Windows
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by forcing reload in each backend (Korry Douglas)
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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 <function>to_char()</> so it properly upper/lower cases localized day or month
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names (Pavel Stehule)
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</para>
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<para>
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Fix <function>to_char()</> so it properly upper/lower cases localized day or month
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names (Pavel Stehule)
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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<filename>/contrib/tsearch2</> crash fixes (Teodor)
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</para>
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<para>
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<filename>/contrib/tsearch2</> crash fixes (Teodor)
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Require <command>COMMIT PREPARED</> to be executed in the same
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database as the transaction was prepared in (Heikki)
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</para>
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<para>
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Require <command>COMMIT PREPARED</> to be executed in the same
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database as the transaction was prepared in (Heikki)
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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 <command>pg_dump</> to do binary backups larger than two gigabytes
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on Windows (Magnus)
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</para>
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<para>
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Allow <command>pg_dump</> to do binary backups larger than two gigabytes
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on Windows (Magnus)
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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New traditional (Taiwan) Chinese <acronym>FAQ</> (Zhou Daojing)
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</para>
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<para>
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New traditional (Taiwan) Chinese <acronym>FAQ</> (Zhou Daojing)
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<para>
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Prevent the statistics collector from writing to disk too frequently (Tom)
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</para>
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<para>
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Prevent the statistics collector from writing to disk too frequently (Tom)
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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 potential-data-corruption bug in how <command>VACUUM FULL</> handles
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<command>UPDATE</> chains (Tom, Pavan Deolasee)
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</para>
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<para>
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Fix potential-data-corruption bug in how <command>VACUUM FULL</> handles
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<command>UPDATE</> chains (Tom, Pavan Deolasee)
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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 bug in domains that use array types (Tom)
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</para>
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<para>
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Fix bug in domains that use array types (Tom)
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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 <command>pg_dump</> so it can dump a serial column's sequence
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using <option>-t</> when not also dumping the owning table
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(Tom)
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</para>
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<para>
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Fix <command>pg_dump</> so it can dump a serial column's sequence
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using <option>-t</> when not also dumping the owning table
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(Tom)
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Planner fixes, including improving outer join and bitmap scan
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selection logic (Tom)
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</para>
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<para>
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Planner fixes, including improving outer join and bitmap scan
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selection logic (Tom)
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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 wrong answers or crash when a PL/pgSQL function tries
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to <literal>RETURN</> from within an <literal>EXCEPTION</> block
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(Tom)
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</para>
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<para>
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Fix possible wrong answers or crash when a PL/pgSQL function tries
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to <literal>RETURN</> from within an <literal>EXCEPTION</> block
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(Tom)
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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 PANIC during enlargement of a hash index (Tom)
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</para>
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<para>
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Fix PANIC during enlargement of a hash index (Tom)
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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 POSIX-style timezone specs to follow new USA DST rules (Tom)
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</para>
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<para>
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Fix POSIX-style timezone specs to follow new USA DST rules (Tom)
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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@ -2571,16 +2573,16 @@ do it for earlier branch release files.
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Remove overly-restrictive check for type length in constraints and
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functional indexes(Tom)
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</para>
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<para>
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Remove overly-restrictive check for type length in constraints and
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functional indexes(Tom)
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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 optimization so MIN/MAX in subqueries can again use indexes (Tom)
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</para>
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<para>
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Fix optimization so MIN/MAX in subqueries can again use indexes (Tom)
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Remove security vulnerabilities that allowed connected users
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to read backend memory (Tom)
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</para>
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<para>
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The vulnerabilities involve suppressing the normal check that a SQL
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function returns the data type it's declared to, and changing the
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data type of a table column (CVE-2007-0555, CVE-2007-0556). These
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errors can easily be exploited to cause a backend crash, and in
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principle might be used to read database content that the user
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should not be able to access.
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</para>
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<para>
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Remove security vulnerabilities that allowed connected users
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to read backend memory (Tom)
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</para>
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<para>
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The vulnerabilities involve suppressing the normal check that a SQL
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function returns the data type it's declared to, and changing the
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data type of a table column (CVE-2007-0555, CVE-2007-0556). These
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errors can easily be exploited to cause a backend crash, and in
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principle might be used to read database content that the user
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should not be able to access.
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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 not-so-rare-anymore bug wherein btree index page splits could fail
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due to choosing an infeasible split point (Heikki Linnakangas)
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</para>
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<para>
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Fix not-so-rare-anymore bug wherein btree index page splits could fail
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due to choosing an infeasible split point (Heikki Linnakangas)
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<para>
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Fix Borland C compile scripts (L Bayuk)
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<para>
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Fix Borland C compile scripts (L Bayuk)
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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 <function>to_char('CC')</> for years ending in
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<literal>00</> (Tom)
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</para>
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<para>
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Year 2000 is in the twentieth century, not the twenty-first.
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</para>
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<para>
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Properly handle <function>to_char('CC')</> for years ending in
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<literal>00</> (Tom)
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</para>
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<para>
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Year 2000 is in the twentieth century, not the twenty-first.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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<filename>/contrib/tsearch2</> localization improvements (Tatsuo, Teodor)
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</para>
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<para>
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<filename>/contrib/tsearch2</> localization improvements (Tatsuo, Teodor)
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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 incorrect permission check in
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<literal>information_schema.key_column_usage</> view (Tom)
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</para>
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<para>
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The symptom is <quote>relation with OID nnnnn does not exist</> errors.
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To get this fix without using <command>initdb</>, use <command>CREATE OR
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REPLACE VIEW</> to install the corrected definition found in
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<filename>share/information_schema.sql</>. Note you will need to do
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this in each database.
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</para>
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<para>
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Fix incorrect permission check in
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<literal>information_schema.key_column_usage</> view (Tom)
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</para>
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<para>
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The symptom is <quote>relation with OID nnnnn does not exist</> errors.
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To get this fix without using <command>initdb</>, use <command>CREATE OR
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REPLACE VIEW</> to install the corrected definition found in
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<filename>share/information_schema.sql</>. Note you will need to do
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this in each database.
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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 <command>VACUUM</> performance for databases with many tables (Tom)
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</para>
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<para>
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Improve <command>VACUUM</> performance for databases with many tables (Tom)
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</para>
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Fix for rare Assert() crash triggered by <literal>UNION</> (Tom)
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</para>
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Fix for rare Assert() crash triggered by <literal>UNION</> (Tom)
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</para>
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<para>
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Fix potentially incorrect results from index searches using
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<literal>ROW</> inequality conditions (Tom)
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</para>
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<para>
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Fix potentially incorrect results from index searches using
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<literal>ROW</> inequality conditions (Tom)
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<para>
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Tighten security of multi-byte character processing for UTF8 sequences
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over three bytes long (Tom)
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</para>
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<para>
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Tighten security of multi-byte character processing for UTF8 sequences
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over three bytes long (Tom)
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<para>
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Fix bogus <quote>permission denied</> failures occurring on Windows
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due to attempts to fsync already-deleted files (Magnus, Tom)
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</para>
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<para>
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Fix bogus <quote>permission denied</> failures occurring on Windows
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due to attempts to fsync already-deleted files (Magnus, Tom)
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</para>
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</listitem>
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Fix bug that could cause the statistics collector
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to hang on Windows (Magnus)
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</para>
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Fix bug that could cause the statistics collector
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to hang on Windows (Magnus)
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</para>
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This would in turn lead to autovacuum not working.
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</para>
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This would in turn lead to autovacuum not working.
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Fix possible crashes when an already-in-use PL/pgSQL function is
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updated (Tom)
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</para>
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Fix possible crashes when an already-in-use PL/pgSQL function is
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updated (Tom)
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</para>
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Improve PL/pgSQL handling of domain types (Sergiy Vyshnevetskiy, Tom)
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Improve PL/pgSQL handling of domain types (Sergiy Vyshnevetskiy, Tom)
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</para>
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</listitem>
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Fix possible errors in processing PL/pgSQL exception blocks (Tom)
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</para>
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Fix possible errors in processing PL/pgSQL exception blocks (Tom)
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