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Preliminary release notes for releases 8.4.4, 8.3.11, 8.2.17, 8.1.21, 8.0.25,
7.4.29.
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<sect1 id="release-7-4-29">
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<title>Release 7.4.29</title>
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<note>
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<title>Release date</title>
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<simpara>2010-05-17</simpara>
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</note>
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<para>
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This release contains a variety of fixes from 7.4.28.
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For information about new features in the 7.4 major release, see
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<xref linkend="release-7-4">.
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</para>
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<para>
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The <productname>PostgreSQL</> community will stop releasing updates
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for the 7.4.X release series in July 2010.
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Users are encouraged to update to a newer release branch soon.
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</para>
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<sect2>
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<title>Migration to Version 7.4.29</title>
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<para>
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A dump/restore is not required for those running 7.4.X.
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However, if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 7.4.26,
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see the release notes for 7.4.26.
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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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Do not allow an unprivileged user to reset superuser-only parameter
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settings (Alvaro)
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</para>
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<para>
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Previously, if an unprivileged user ran <literal>ALTER USER ... RESET
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ALL</> for himself, or <literal>ALTER DATABASE ... RESET ALL</> for
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a database he owns, this would remove all special parameter settings
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for the user or database, even ones that are only supposed to be
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changeable by a superuser. Now, the <command>ALTER</> will only
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remove the parameters that the user has permission to change.
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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 crash during backend shutdown if shutdown occurs
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when a <literal>CONTEXT</> addition would be made to log entries (Tom)
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</para>
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<para>
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In some cases the context-printing function would fail because the
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current transaction had already been rolled back when it came time
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to print a log message.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Update pl/perl's <filename>ppport.h</> for modern Perl versions
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(Andrew)
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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 assorted memory leaks in pl/python (Andreas Freund, 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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Ensure that <filename>contrib/pgstattuple</> functions respond to cancel
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interrupts promptly (Tatsuhito Kasahara)
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Make server startup deal properly with the case that
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<function>shmget()</> returns <literal>EINVAL</> for an existing
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shared memory segment (Tom)
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</para>
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<para>
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This behavior has been observed on BSD-derived kernels including OS X.
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It resulted in an entirely-misleading startup failure complaining that
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the shared memory request size was too large.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</sect2>
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</sect1>
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<sect1 id="release-7-4-28">
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<title>Release 7.4.28</title>
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<sect1 id="release-8-0-25">
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<title>Release 8.0.25</title>
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<note>
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<title>Release date</title>
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<simpara>2010-05-17</simpara>
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</note>
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<para>
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This release contains a variety of fixes from 8.0.24.
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For information about new features in the 8.0 major release, see
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<xref linkend="release-8-0">.
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</para>
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<para>
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The <productname>PostgreSQL</> community will stop releasing updates
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for the 8.0.X release series in July 2010.
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Users are encouraged to update to a newer release branch soon.
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</para>
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<sect2>
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<title>Migration to Version 8.0.25</title>
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<para>
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A dump/restore is not required for those running 8.0.X.
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However, if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 8.0.22,
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see the release notes for 8.0.22.
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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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Do not allow an unprivileged user to reset superuser-only parameter
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settings (Alvaro)
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</para>
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<para>
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Previously, if an unprivileged user ran <literal>ALTER USER ... RESET
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ALL</> for himself, or <literal>ALTER DATABASE ... RESET ALL</> for
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a database he owns, this would remove all special parameter settings
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for the user or database, even ones that are only supposed to be
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changeable by a superuser. Now, the <command>ALTER</> will only
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remove the parameters that the user has permission to change.
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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 crash during backend shutdown if shutdown occurs
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when a <literal>CONTEXT</> addition would be made to log entries (Tom)
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</para>
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<para>
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In some cases the context-printing function would fail because the
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current transaction had already been rolled back when it came time
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to print a log message.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Update pl/perl's <filename>ppport.h</> for modern Perl versions
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(Andrew)
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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 assorted memory leaks in pl/python (Andreas Freund, 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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Prevent infinite recursion in <application>psql</> when expanding
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a variable that refers to itself (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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Ensure that <filename>contrib/pgstattuple</> functions respond to cancel
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interrupts promptly (Tatsuhito Kasahara)
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Make server startup deal properly with the case that
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<function>shmget()</> returns <literal>EINVAL</> for an existing
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shared memory segment (Tom)
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</para>
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<para>
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This behavior has been observed on BSD-derived kernels including OS X.
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It resulted in an entirely-misleading startup failure complaining that
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the shared memory request size was too large.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Update time zone data files to <application>tzdata</> release 2010j
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for DST law changes in Argentina, Australian Antarctic, Bangladesh,
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Mexico, Morocco, Pakistan, Palestine, Russia, Syria, Tunisia;
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also historical corrections for Taiwan.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</sect2>
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</sect1>
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<sect1 id="release-8-0-24">
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<title>Release 8.0.24</title>
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