Update release notes for releases 9.0.2, 8.4.6, 8.3.13, 8.2.19, and 8.1.23.

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<!-- doc/src/sgml/release-8.1.sgml -->
<!-- See header comment in release.sgml about typical markup -->
<sect1 id="release-8-1-23">
<title>Release 8.1.23</title>
<note>
<title>Release date</title>
<simpara>2010-12-16</simpara>
</note>
<para>
This release contains a variety of fixes from 8.1.22.
For information about new features in the 8.1 major release, see
<xref linkend="release-8-1">.
</para>
<para>
This is expected to be the last <productname>PostgreSQL</> release
in the 8.1.X series. Users are encouraged to update to a newer
release branch soon.
</para>
<sect2>
<title>Migration to Version 8.1.23</title>
<para>
A dump/restore is not required for those running 8.1.X.
However, if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 8.1.18,
see the release notes for 8.1.18.
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2>
<title>Changes</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
Force the default
<link linkend="guc-wal-sync-method"><varname>wal_sync_method</></link>
to be <literal>fdatasync</> on Linux (Tom Lane, Marti Raudsepp)
</para>
<para>
The default on Linux has actually been <literal>fdatasync</> for many
years, but recent kernel changes caused <productname>PostgreSQL</> to
choose <literal>open_datasync</> instead. This choice did not result
in any performance improvement, and caused outright failures on
certain filesystems, notably <literal>ext4</> with the
<literal>data=journal</> mount option.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix recovery from base backup when the starting checkpoint WAL record
is not in the same WAL segment as its redo point (Jeff Davis)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Add support for detecting register-stack overrun on <literal>IA64</>
(Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
The <literal>IA64</> architecture has two hardware stacks. Full
prevention of stack-overrun failures requires checking both.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Add a check for stack overflow in <function>copyObject()</> (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
Certain code paths could crash due to stack overflow given a
sufficiently complex query.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix detection of page splits in temporary GiST indexes (Heikki
Linnakangas)
</para>
<para>
It is possible to have a <quote>concurrent</> page split in a
temporary index, if for example there is an open cursor scanning the
index when an insertion is done. GiST failed to detect this case and
hence could deliver wrong results when execution of the cursor
continued.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Avoid memory leakage while <command>ANALYZE</>'ing complex index
expressions (Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Ensure an index that uses a whole-row Var still depends on its table
(Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
An index declared like <literal>create index i on t (foo(t.*))</>
would not automatically get dropped when its table was dropped.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Do not <quote>inline</> a SQL function with multiple <literal>OUT</>
parameters (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
This avoids a possible crash due to loss of information about the
expected result rowtype.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix constant-folding of <literal>COALESCE()</> expressions (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
The planner would sometimes attempt to evaluate sub-expressions that
in fact could never be reached, possibly leading to unexpected errors.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Add print functionality for <structname>InhRelation</> nodes (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
This avoids a failure when <varname>debug_print_parse</> is enabled
and certain types of query are executed.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix incorrect calculation of distance from a point to a horizontal
line segment (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
This bug affected several different geometric distance-measurement
operators.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix <application>PL/pgSQL</>'s handling of <quote>simple</>
expressions to not fail in recursion or error-recovery cases (Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix bug in <filename>contrib/cube</>'s GiST picksplit algorithm
(Alexander Korotkov)
</para>
<para>
This could result in considerable inefficiency, though not actually
incorrect answers, in a GiST index on a <type>cube</> column.
If you have such an index, consider <command>REINDEX</>ing it after
installing this update.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Don't emit <quote>identifier will be truncated</> notices in
<filename>contrib/dblink</> except when creating new connections
(Itagaki Takahiro)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix potential coredump on missing public key in
<filename>contrib/pgcrypto</> (Marti Raudsepp)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix memory leak in <filename>contrib/xml2</>'s XPath query functions
(Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Update time zone data files to <application>tzdata</> release 2010o
for DST law changes in Fiji and Samoa;
also historical corrections for Hong Kong.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect2>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="release-8-1-22">
<title>Release 8.1.22</title>

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<!-- doc/src/sgml/release-8.2.sgml -->
<!-- See header comment in release.sgml about typical markup -->
<sect1 id="release-8-2-19">
<title>Release 8.2.19</title>
<note>
<title>Release date</title>
<simpara>2010-12-16</simpara>
</note>
<para>
This release contains a variety of fixes from 8.2.18.
For information about new features in the 8.2 major release, see
<xref linkend="release-8-2">.
</para>
<sect2>
<title>Migration to Version 8.2.19</title>
<para>
A dump/restore is not required for those running 8.2.X.
However, if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 8.2.14,
see the release notes for 8.2.14.
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2>
<title>Changes</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
Force the default
<link linkend="guc-wal-sync-method"><varname>wal_sync_method</></link>
to be <literal>fdatasync</> on Linux (Tom Lane, Marti Raudsepp)
</para>
<para>
The default on Linux has actually been <literal>fdatasync</> for many
years, but recent kernel changes caused <productname>PostgreSQL</> to
choose <literal>open_datasync</> instead. This choice did not result
in any performance improvement, and caused outright failures on
certain filesystems, notably <literal>ext4</> with the
<literal>data=journal</> mount option.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix assorted bugs in WAL replay logic for GIN indexes (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
This could result in <quote>bad buffer id: 0</> failures or
corruption of index contents during replication.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix recovery from base backup when the starting checkpoint WAL record
is not in the same WAL segment as its redo point (Jeff Davis)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Add support for detecting register-stack overrun on <literal>IA64</>
(Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
The <literal>IA64</> architecture has two hardware stacks. Full
prevention of stack-overrun failures requires checking both.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Add a check for stack overflow in <function>copyObject()</> (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
Certain code paths could crash due to stack overflow given a
sufficiently complex query.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix detection of page splits in temporary GiST indexes (Heikki
Linnakangas)
</para>
<para>
It is possible to have a <quote>concurrent</> page split in a
temporary index, if for example there is an open cursor scanning the
index when an insertion is done. GiST failed to detect this case and
hence could deliver wrong results when execution of the cursor
continued.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Avoid memory leakage while <command>ANALYZE</>'ing complex index
expressions (Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Ensure an index that uses a whole-row Var still depends on its table
(Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
An index declared like <literal>create index i on t (foo(t.*))</>
would not automatically get dropped when its table was dropped.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Do not <quote>inline</> a SQL function with multiple <literal>OUT</>
parameters (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
This avoids a possible crash due to loss of information about the
expected result rowtype.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Behave correctly if <literal>ORDER BY</>, <literal>LIMIT</>,
<literal>FOR UPDATE</>, or <literal>WITH</> is attached to the
<literal>VALUES</> part of <literal>INSERT ... VALUES</> (Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix constant-folding of <literal>COALESCE()</> expressions (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
The planner would sometimes attempt to evaluate sub-expressions that
in fact could never be reached, possibly leading to unexpected errors.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Add print functionality for <structname>InhRelation</> nodes (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
This avoids a failure when <varname>debug_print_parse</> is enabled
and certain types of query are executed.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix incorrect calculation of distance from a point to a horizontal
line segment (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
This bug affected several different geometric distance-measurement
operators.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix <application>PL/pgSQL</>'s handling of <quote>simple</>
expressions to not fail in recursion or error-recovery cases (Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix <application>PL/Python</>'s handling of set-returning functions
(Jan Urbanski)
</para>
<para>
Attempts to call SPI functions within the iterator generating a set
result would fail.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix bug in <filename>contrib/cube</>'s GiST picksplit algorithm
(Alexander Korotkov)
</para>
<para>
This could result in considerable inefficiency, though not actually
incorrect answers, in a GiST index on a <type>cube</> column.
If you have such an index, consider <command>REINDEX</>ing it after
installing this update.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Don't emit <quote>identifier will be truncated</> notices in
<filename>contrib/dblink</> except when creating new connections
(Itagaki Takahiro)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix potential coredump on missing public key in
<filename>contrib/pgcrypto</> (Marti Raudsepp)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix memory leak in <filename>contrib/xml2</>'s XPath query functions
(Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Update time zone data files to <application>tzdata</> release 2010o
for DST law changes in Fiji and Samoa;
also historical corrections for Hong Kong.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect2>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="release-8-2-18">
<title>Release 8.2.18</title>

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<!-- doc/src/sgml/release-8.3.sgml -->
<!-- See header comment in release.sgml about typical markup -->
<sect1 id="release-8-3-13">
<title>Release 8.3.13</title>
<note>
<title>Release date</title>
<simpara>2010-12-16</simpara>
</note>
<para>
This release contains a variety of fixes from 8.3.12.
For information about new features in the 8.3 major release, see
<xref linkend="release-8-3">.
</para>
<sect2>
<title>Migration to Version 8.3.13</title>
<para>
A dump/restore is not required for those running 8.3.X.
However, if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 8.3.8,
see the release notes for 8.3.8.
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2>
<title>Changes</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
Force the default
<link linkend="guc-wal-sync-method"><varname>wal_sync_method</></link>
to be <literal>fdatasync</> on Linux (Tom Lane, Marti Raudsepp)
</para>
<para>
The default on Linux has actually been <literal>fdatasync</> for many
years, but recent kernel changes caused <productname>PostgreSQL</> to
choose <literal>open_datasync</> instead. This choice did not result
in any performance improvement, and caused outright failures on
certain filesystems, notably <literal>ext4</> with the
<literal>data=journal</> mount option.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix assorted bugs in WAL replay logic for GIN indexes (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
This could result in <quote>bad buffer id: 0</> failures or
corruption of index contents during replication.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix recovery from base backup when the starting checkpoint WAL record
is not in the same WAL segment as its redo point (Jeff Davis)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix persistent slowdown of autovacuum workers when multiple workers
remain active for a long time (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
The effective <varname>vacuum_cost_limit</> for an autovacuum worker
could drop to nearly zero if it processed enough tables, causing it
to run extremely slowly.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Add support for detecting register-stack overrun on <literal>IA64</>
(Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
The <literal>IA64</> architecture has two hardware stacks. Full
prevention of stack-overrun failures requires checking both.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Add a check for stack overflow in <function>copyObject()</> (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
Certain code paths could crash due to stack overflow given a
sufficiently complex query.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix detection of page splits in temporary GiST indexes (Heikki
Linnakangas)
</para>
<para>
It is possible to have a <quote>concurrent</> page split in a
temporary index, if for example there is an open cursor scanning the
index when an insertion is done. GiST failed to detect this case and
hence could deliver wrong results when execution of the cursor
continued.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Avoid memory leakage while <command>ANALYZE</>'ing complex index
expressions (Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Ensure an index that uses a whole-row Var still depends on its table
(Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
An index declared like <literal>create index i on t (foo(t.*))</>
would not automatically get dropped when its table was dropped.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Do not <quote>inline</> a SQL function with multiple <literal>OUT</>
parameters (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
This avoids a possible crash due to loss of information about the
expected result rowtype.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Behave correctly if <literal>ORDER BY</>, <literal>LIMIT</>,
<literal>FOR UPDATE</>, or <literal>WITH</> is attached to the
<literal>VALUES</> part of <literal>INSERT ... VALUES</> (Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix constant-folding of <literal>COALESCE()</> expressions (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
The planner would sometimes attempt to evaluate sub-expressions that
in fact could never be reached, possibly leading to unexpected errors.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix postmaster crash when connection acceptance
(<function>accept()</> or one of the calls made immediately after it)
fails, and the postmaster was compiled with GSSAPI support (Alexander
Chernikov)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix missed unlink of temporary files when <varname>log_temp_files</>
is active (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
If an error occurred while attempting to emit the log message, the
unlink was not done, resulting in accumulation of temp files.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Add print functionality for <structname>InhRelation</> nodes (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
This avoids a failure when <varname>debug_print_parse</> is enabled
and certain types of query are executed.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix incorrect calculation of distance from a point to a horizontal
line segment (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
This bug affected several different geometric distance-measurement
operators.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix <application>PL/pgSQL</>'s handling of <quote>simple</>
expressions to not fail in recursion or error-recovery cases (Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix <application>PL/Python</>'s handling of set-returning functions
(Jan Urbanski)
</para>
<para>
Attempts to call SPI functions within the iterator generating a set
result would fail.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix bug in <filename>contrib/cube</>'s GiST picksplit algorithm
(Alexander Korotkov)
</para>
<para>
This could result in considerable inefficiency, though not actually
incorrect answers, in a GiST index on a <type>cube</> column.
If you have such an index, consider <command>REINDEX</>ing it after
installing this update.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Don't emit <quote>identifier will be truncated</> notices in
<filename>contrib/dblink</> except when creating new connections
(Itagaki Takahiro)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix potential coredump on missing public key in
<filename>contrib/pgcrypto</> (Marti Raudsepp)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix memory leak in <filename>contrib/xml2</>'s XPath query functions
(Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Update time zone data files to <application>tzdata</> release 2010o
for DST law changes in Fiji and Samoa;
also historical corrections for Hong Kong.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect2>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="release-8-3-12">
<title>Release 8.3.12</title>

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<!-- doc/src/sgml/release-8.4.sgml -->
<!-- See header comment in release.sgml about typical markup -->
<sect1 id="release-8-4-6">
<title>Release 8.4.6</title>
<note>
<title>Release date</title>
<simpara>2010-12-16</simpara>
</note>
<para>
This release contains a variety of fixes from 8.4.5.
For information about new features in the 8.4 major release, see
<xref linkend="release-8-4">.
</para>
<sect2>
<title>Migration to Version 8.4.6</title>
<para>
A dump/restore is not required for those running 8.4.X.
However, if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 8.4.2,
see the release notes for 8.4.2.
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2>
<title>Changes</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
Force the default
<link linkend="guc-wal-sync-method"><varname>wal_sync_method</></link>
to be <literal>fdatasync</> on Linux (Tom Lane, Marti Raudsepp)
</para>
<para>
The default on Linux has actually been <literal>fdatasync</> for many
years, but recent kernel changes caused <productname>PostgreSQL</> to
choose <literal>open_datasync</> instead. This choice did not result
in any performance improvement, and caused outright failures on
certain filesystems, notably <literal>ext4</> with the
<literal>data=journal</> mount option.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix assorted bugs in WAL replay logic for GIN indexes (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
This could result in <quote>bad buffer id: 0</> failures or
corruption of index contents during replication.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix recovery from base backup when the starting checkpoint WAL record
is not in the same WAL segment as its redo point (Jeff Davis)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix persistent slowdown of autovacuum workers when multiple workers
remain active for a long time (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
The effective <varname>vacuum_cost_limit</> for an autovacuum worker
could drop to nearly zero if it processed enough tables, causing it
to run extremely slowly.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Add support for detecting register-stack overrun on <literal>IA64</>
(Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
The <literal>IA64</> architecture has two hardware stacks. Full
prevention of stack-overrun failures requires checking both.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Add a check for stack overflow in <function>copyObject()</> (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
Certain code paths could crash due to stack overflow given a
sufficiently complex query.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix detection of page splits in temporary GiST indexes (Heikki
Linnakangas)
</para>
<para>
It is possible to have a <quote>concurrent</> page split in a
temporary index, if for example there is an open cursor scanning the
index when an insertion is done. GiST failed to detect this case and
hence could deliver wrong results when execution of the cursor
continued.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix error checking during early connection processing (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
The check for too many child processes was skipped in some cases,
possibly leading to postmaster crash when attempting to add the new
child process to fixed-size arrays.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Improve efficiency of window functions (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
Certain cases where a large number of tuples needed to be read in
advance, but <varname>work_mem</> was large enough to allow them all
to be held in memory, were unexpectedly slow.
<function>percent_rank()</>, <function>cume_dist()</> and
<function>ntile()</> in particular were subject to this problem.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Avoid memory leakage while <command>ANALYZE</>'ing complex index
expressions (Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Ensure an index that uses a whole-row Var still depends on its table
(Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
An index declared like <literal>create index i on t (foo(t.*))</>
would not automatically get dropped when its table was dropped.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Do not <quote>inline</> a SQL function with multiple <literal>OUT</>
parameters (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
This avoids a possible crash due to loss of information about the
expected result rowtype.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Behave correctly if <literal>ORDER BY</>, <literal>LIMIT</>,
<literal>FOR UPDATE</>, or <literal>WITH</> is attached to the
<literal>VALUES</> part of <literal>INSERT ... VALUES</> (Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix constant-folding of <literal>COALESCE()</> expressions (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
The planner would sometimes attempt to evaluate sub-expressions that
in fact could never be reached, possibly leading to unexpected errors.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix postmaster crash when connection acceptance
(<function>accept()</> or one of the calls made immediately after it)
fails, and the postmaster was compiled with GSSAPI support (Alexander
Chernikov)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix missed unlink of temporary files when <varname>log_temp_files</>
is active (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
If an error occurred while attempting to emit the log message, the
unlink was not done, resulting in accumulation of temp files.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Add print functionality for <structname>InhRelation</> nodes (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
This avoids a failure when <varname>debug_print_parse</> is enabled
and certain types of query are executed.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix incorrect calculation of distance from a point to a horizontal
line segment (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
This bug affected several different geometric distance-measurement
operators.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix incorrect calculation of transaction status in
<application>ecpg</> (Itagaki Takahiro)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix <application>PL/pgSQL</>'s handling of <quote>simple</>
expressions to not fail in recursion or error-recovery cases (Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix <application>PL/Python</>'s handling of set-returning functions
(Jan Urbanski)
</para>
<para>
Attempts to call SPI functions within the iterator generating a set
result would fail.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix bug in <filename>contrib/cube</>'s GiST picksplit algorithm
(Alexander Korotkov)
</para>
<para>
This could result in considerable inefficiency, though not actually
incorrect answers, in a GiST index on a <type>cube</> column.
If you have such an index, consider <command>REINDEX</>ing it after
installing this update.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Don't emit <quote>identifier will be truncated</> notices in
<filename>contrib/dblink</> except when creating new connections
(Itagaki Takahiro)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix potential coredump on missing public key in
<filename>contrib/pgcrypto</> (Marti Raudsepp)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix memory leak in <filename>contrib/xml2</>'s XPath query functions
(Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Update time zone data files to <application>tzdata</> release 2010o
for DST law changes in Fiji and Samoa;
also historical corrections for Hong Kong.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect2>
</sect1>
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<title>Release 8.4.5</title>

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<sect1 id="release-9-0-2">
<title>Release 9.0.2</title>
<note>
<title>Release date</title>
<simpara>2010-12-16</simpara>
</note>
<para>
This release contains a variety of fixes from 9.0.1.
For information about new features in the 9.0 major release, see
<xref linkend="release-9-0">.
</para>
<sect2>
<title>Migration to Version 9.0.2</title>
<para>
A dump/restore is not required for those running 9.0.X.
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2>
<title>Changes</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
Force the default
<link linkend="guc-wal-sync-method"><varname>wal_sync_method</></link>
to be <literal>fdatasync</> on Linux (Tom Lane, Marti Raudsepp)
</para>
<para>
The default on Linux has actually been <literal>fdatasync</> for many
years, but recent kernel changes caused <productname>PostgreSQL</> to
choose <literal>open_datasync</> instead. This choice did not result
in any performance improvement, and caused outright failures on
certain filesystems, notably <literal>ext4</> with the
<literal>data=journal</> mount option.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix <quote>too many KnownAssignedXids</> error during Hot Standby
replay (Heikki Linnakangas)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix race condition in lock acquisition during Hot Standby (Simon Riggs)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Avoid unnecessary conflicts during Hot Standby (Simon Riggs)
</para>
<para>
This fixes some cases where replay was considered to conflict with
standby queries (causing delay of replay or possibly cancellation of
the queries), but there was no real conflict.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix assorted bugs in WAL replay logic for GIN indexes (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
This could result in <quote>bad buffer id: 0</> failures or
corruption of index contents during replication.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix recovery from base backup when the starting checkpoint WAL record
is not in the same WAL segment as its redo point (Jeff Davis)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix corner-case bug when streaming replication is enabled immediately
after creating the master database cluster (Heikki Linnakangas)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix persistent slowdown of autovacuum workers when multiple workers
remain active for a long time (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
The effective <varname>vacuum_cost_limit</> for an autovacuum worker
could drop to nearly zero if it processed enough tables, causing it
to run extremely slowly.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix long-term memory leak in autovacuum launcher (Alvaro Herrera)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Avoid failure when trying to report an impending transaction
wraparound condition from outside a transaction (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
This oversight prevented recovery after transaction wraparound got
too close, because database startup processing would fail.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Add support for detecting register-stack overrun on <literal>IA64</>
(Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
The <literal>IA64</> architecture has two hardware stacks. Full
prevention of stack-overrun failures requires checking both.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Add a check for stack overflow in <function>copyObject()</> (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
Certain code paths could crash due to stack overflow given a
sufficiently complex query.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix detection of page splits in temporary GiST indexes (Heikki
Linnakangas)
</para>
<para>
It is possible to have a <quote>concurrent</> page split in a
temporary index, if for example there is an open cursor scanning the
index when an insertion is done. GiST failed to detect this case and
hence could deliver wrong results when execution of the cursor
continued.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix error checking during early connection processing (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
The check for too many child processes was skipped in some cases,
possibly leading to postmaster crash when attempting to add the new
child process to fixed-size arrays.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Improve efficiency of window functions (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
Certain cases where a large number of tuples needed to be read in
advance, but <varname>work_mem</> was large enough to allow them all
to be held in memory, were unexpectedly slow.
<function>percent_rank()</>, <function>cume_dist()</> and
<function>ntile()</> in particular were subject to this problem.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Avoid memory leakage while <command>ANALYZE</>'ing complex index
expressions (Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Ensure an index that uses a whole-row Var still depends on its table
(Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
An index declared like <literal>create index i on t (foo(t.*))</>
would not automatically get dropped when its table was dropped.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Add missing support in <command>DROP OWNED BY</> for removing foreign
data wrapper/server privileges belonging to a user (Heikki Linnakangas)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Do not <quote>inline</> a SQL function with multiple <literal>OUT</>
parameters (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
This avoids a possible crash due to loss of information about the
expected result rowtype.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix crash when inline-ing a set-returning function whose argument list
contains a reference to an inline-able user function (Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Behave correctly if <literal>ORDER BY</>, <literal>LIMIT</>,
<literal>FOR UPDATE</>, or <literal>WITH</> is attached to the
<literal>VALUES</> part of <literal>INSERT ... VALUES</> (Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Make the <literal>OFF</> keyword unreserved (Heikki Linnakangas)
</para>
<para>
This prevents problems with using <literal>off</> as a variable name in
<application>PL/pgSQL</>. That worked before 9.0, but was now broken
because <application>PL/pgSQL</> now treats all core reserved words
as reserved.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix constant-folding of <literal>COALESCE()</> expressions (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
The planner would sometimes attempt to evaluate sub-expressions that
in fact could never be reached, possibly leading to unexpected errors.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix <quote>could not find pathkey item to sort</> planner failure
with comparison of whole-row Vars (Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix postmaster crash when connection acceptance
(<function>accept()</> or one of the calls made immediately after it)
fails, and the postmaster was compiled with GSSAPI support (Alexander
Chernikov)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Retry after receiving an invalid response packet from a RADIUS
authentication server (Magnus Hagander)
</para>
<para>
This fixes a low-risk potential denial of service condition.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix missed unlink of temporary files when <varname>log_temp_files</>
is active (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
If an error occurred while attempting to emit the log message, the
unlink was not done, resulting in accumulation of temp files.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Add print functionality for <structname>InhRelation</> nodes (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
This avoids a failure when <varname>debug_print_parse</> is enabled
and certain types of query are executed.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix incorrect calculation of distance from a point to a horizontal
line segment (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
This bug affected several different geometric distance-measurement
operators.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix incorrect calculation of transaction status in
<application>ecpg</> (Itagaki Takahiro)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix errors in <application>psql</>'s Unicode-escape support (Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Speed up parallel <application>pg_restore</> when the archive
contains many large objects (blobs) (Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix <application>PL/pgSQL</>'s handling of <quote>simple</>
expressions to not fail in recursion or error-recovery cases (Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix <application>PL/pgSQL</>'s error reporting for no-such-column
cases (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
As of 9.0, it would sometimes report <quote>missing FROM-clause entry
for table foo</> when <quote>record foo has no field bar</> would be
more appropriate.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix <application>PL/Python</> to honor typmod (i.e., length or
precision restrictions) when assigning to tuple fields (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
This fixes a regression from 8.4.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix <application>PL/Python</>'s handling of set-returning functions
(Jan Urbanski)
</para>
<para>
Attempts to call SPI functions within the iterator generating a set
result would fail.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix bug in <filename>contrib/cube</>'s GiST picksplit algorithm
(Alexander Korotkov)
</para>
<para>
This could result in considerable inefficiency, though not actually
incorrect answers, in a GiST index on a <type>cube</> column.
If you have such an index, consider <command>REINDEX</>ing it after
installing this update.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Don't emit <quote>identifier will be truncated</> notices in
<filename>contrib/dblink</> except when creating new connections
(Itagaki Takahiro)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix potential coredump on missing public key in
<filename>contrib/pgcrypto</> (Marti Raudsepp)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix buffer overrun in <filename>contrib/pg_upgrade</> (Hernan Gonzalez)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix memory leak in <filename>contrib/xml2</>'s XPath query functions
(Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Update time zone data files to <application>tzdata</> release 2010o
for DST law changes in Fiji and Samoa;
also historical corrections for Hong Kong.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect2>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="release-9-0-1">
<title>Release 9.0.1</title>