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Preliminary release notes for releases 8.4.3, 8.3.10, 8.2.16, 8.1.20, 8.0.24,
7.4.28.
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This release contains a variety of fixes from 8.0.23.
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Users are encouraged to update to a newer release branch soon.
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<title>Migration to Version 8.0.24</title>
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A dump/restore is not required for those running 8.0.X.
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Add new configuration parameter <varname>ssl_renegotiation_limit</> to
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control how often we do session key renegotiation for an SSL connection
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(Magnus)
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This can be set to zero to disable renegotiation completely, which may
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be required if a broken SSL library is used. In particular, some
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vendors are shipping stopgap patches for CVE-2009-3555 that cause
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renegotiation attempts to fail.
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</para>
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subtransaction start (Tom)
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The previous coding treated only -1 that way, and would produce an
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a crash (CVE-2010-0442).
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</para>
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This can be set to zero to disable renegotiation completely, which may
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be required if a broken SSL library is used. In particular, some
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vendors are shipping stopgap patches for CVE-2009-3555 that cause
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</para>
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The previous coding treated only -1 that way, and would produce an
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report the next WAL segment's name when the end location is exactly at a
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appears inside quote marks; also, never treat <literal>@</> by itself
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as a file inclusion request (Tom)
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This prevents erratic behavior if a role or database name starts with
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<literal>@</>. If you need to include a file whose path name
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contains spaces, you can still do so, but you must write
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<literal>@"/path to/file"</> rather than putting the quotes around
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the whole construct.
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an inclusion target in <filename>pg_hba.conf</> and related files
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format strings it shouldn't in latex and troff output formats (Heikki)
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|
(Tom)
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|
</para>
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Add <literal>volatile</> markings in PL/Python to avoid possible
|
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|
compiler-specific misbehavior (Zdenek Kotala)
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</para>
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<para>
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</para>
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|
The only known symptom of this oversight is that the Tcl
|
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<literal>clock</> command misbehaves if using Tcl 8.5 or later.
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Prevent crash in <filename>contrib/dblink</> when too many key
|
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|
columns are specified to a <function>dblink_build_sql_*</> function
|
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|
(Rushabh Lathia, Joe Conway)
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</para>
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|
<para>
|
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|
Fix assorted crashes in <filename>contrib/xml2</> caused by sloppy
|
||||||
|
memory management (Tom)
|
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|
</para>
|
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|
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|
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|
<para>
|
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|
Update time zone data files to <application>tzdata</> release 2010e
|
||||||
|
for DST law changes in Bangladesh, Chile, Fiji, Mexico, Paraguay, Samoa.
|
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|
</para>
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<sect1 id="release-8-1-19">
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<title>Release 8.1.19</title>
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<title>Release 8.2.16</title>
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|
<note>
|
||||||
|
<title>Release date</title>
|
||||||
|
<simpara>2010-03-15</simpara>
|
||||||
|
</note>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<para>
|
||||||
|
This release contains a variety of fixes from 8.2.15.
|
||||||
|
For information about new features in the 8.2 major release, see
|
||||||
|
<xref linkend="release-8-2">.
|
||||||
|
</para>
|
||||||
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<sect2>
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|
<title>Migration to Version 8.2.16</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>
|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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<title>Changes</title>
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|
Add new configuration parameter <varname>ssl_renegotiation_limit</> to
|
||||||
|
control how often we do session key renegotiation for an SSL connection
|
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|
(Magnus)
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|
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|
||||||
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|
||||||
|
<para>
|
||||||
|
This can be set to zero to disable renegotiation completely, which may
|
||||||
|
be required if a broken SSL library is used. In particular, some
|
||||||
|
vendors are shipping stopgap patches for CVE-2009-3555 that cause
|
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|
renegotiation attempts to fail.
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|
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|
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|
Fix possible deadlock during backend startup (Tom)
|
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|
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|
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|
<listitem>
|
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|
<para>
|
||||||
|
Fix possible crashes due to not handling errors during relcache reload
|
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|
cleanly (Tom)
|
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|
</para>
|
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|
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|
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|
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|
<para>
|
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|
Fix possible crashes when trying to recover from a failure in
|
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|
subtransaction start (Tom)
|
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|
</para>
|
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|
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|
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|
|
||||||
|
<listitem>
|
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|
<para>
|
||||||
|
Fix server memory leak associated with use of savepoints and a client
|
||||||
|
encoding different from server's encoding (Tom)
|
||||||
|
</para>
|
||||||
|
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|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<listitem>
|
||||||
|
<para>
|
||||||
|
Fix incorrect WAL data emitted during end-of-recovery cleanup of a GIST
|
||||||
|
index page split (Yoichi Hirai)
|
||||||
|
</para>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<para>
|
||||||
|
This would result in index corruption, or even more likely an error
|
||||||
|
during WAL replay, if we were unlucky enough to crash during
|
||||||
|
end-of-recovery cleanup after having completed an incomplete GIST
|
||||||
|
insertion.
|
||||||
|
</para>
|
||||||
|
</listitem>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<listitem>
|
||||||
|
<para>
|
||||||
|
Make <function>substring()</> for <type>bit</> types treat any negative
|
||||||
|
length as meaning <quote>all the rest of the string</> (Tom)
|
||||||
|
</para>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<para>
|
||||||
|
The previous coding treated only -1 that way, and would produce an
|
||||||
|
invalid result value for other negative values, possibly leading to
|
||||||
|
a crash (CVE-2010-0442).
|
||||||
|
</para>
|
||||||
|
</listitem>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<listitem>
|
||||||
|
<para>
|
||||||
|
Fix integer-to-bit-string conversions to handle the first fractional
|
||||||
|
byte correctly when the output bit width is wider than the given
|
||||||
|
integer by something other than a multiple of 8 bits (Tom)
|
||||||
|
</para>
|
||||||
|
</listitem>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<listitem>
|
||||||
|
<para>
|
||||||
|
Fix some cases of pathologically slow regular expression matching (Tom)
|
||||||
|
</para>
|
||||||
|
</listitem>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<listitem>
|
||||||
|
<para>
|
||||||
|
Fix the <literal>STOP WAL LOCATION</> entry in backup history files to
|
||||||
|
report the next WAL segment's name when the end location is exactly at a
|
||||||
|
segment boundary (Itagaki Takahiro)
|
||||||
|
</para>
|
||||||
|
</listitem>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<listitem>
|
||||||
|
<para>
|
||||||
|
Fix some more cases of temporary-file leakage (Heikki)
|
||||||
|
</para>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<para>
|
||||||
|
This corrects a problem introduced in the previous minor release.
|
||||||
|
One case that failed is when a plpgsql function returning set is
|
||||||
|
called within another function's exception handler.
|
||||||
|
</para>
|
||||||
|
</listitem>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<listitem>
|
||||||
|
<para>
|
||||||
|
Improve constraint exclusion processing of boolean-variable cases,
|
||||||
|
in particular make it possible to exclude a partition that has a
|
||||||
|
<quote>bool_column = false</> constraint (Tom)
|
||||||
|
</para>
|
||||||
|
</listitem>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<listitem>
|
||||||
|
<para>
|
||||||
|
When reading <filename>pg_hba.conf</> and related files, do not treat
|
||||||
|
<literal>@something</> as a file inclusion request if the <literal>@</>
|
||||||
|
appears inside quote marks; also, never treat <literal>@</> by itself
|
||||||
|
as a file inclusion request (Tom)
|
||||||
|
</para>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<para>
|
||||||
|
This prevents erratic behavior if a role or database name starts with
|
||||||
|
<literal>@</>. If you need to include a file whose path name
|
||||||
|
contains spaces, you can still do so, but you must write
|
||||||
|
<literal>@"/path to/file"</> rather than putting the quotes around
|
||||||
|
the whole construct.
|
||||||
|
</para>
|
||||||
|
</listitem>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<listitem>
|
||||||
|
<para>
|
||||||
|
Prevent infinite loop on some platforms if a directory is named as
|
||||||
|
an inclusion target in <filename>pg_hba.conf</> and related files
|
||||||
|
(Tom)
|
||||||
|
</para>
|
||||||
|
</listitem>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<listitem>
|
||||||
|
<para>
|
||||||
|
Fix possible infinite loop if <function>SSL_read</> or
|
||||||
|
<function>SSL_write</> fails without setting <varname>errno</> (Tom)
|
||||||
|
</para>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<para>
|
||||||
|
This is reportedly possible with some Windows versions of
|
||||||
|
<application>openssl</>.
|
||||||
|
</para>
|
||||||
|
</listitem>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<listitem>
|
||||||
|
<para>
|
||||||
|
Fix <application>psql</>'s <literal>numericlocale</> option to not
|
||||||
|
format strings it shouldn't in latex and troff output formats (Heikki)
|
||||||
|
</para>
|
||||||
|
</listitem>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<listitem>
|
||||||
|
<para>
|
||||||
|
Make <application>psql</> return the correct exit status (3) when
|
||||||
|
<literal>ON_ERROR_STOP</> and <literal>--single-transaction</> are
|
||||||
|
both specified and an error occurs during the implied <command>COMMIT</>
|
||||||
|
(Bruce)
|
||||||
|
</para>
|
||||||
|
</listitem>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<listitem>
|
||||||
|
<para>
|
||||||
|
Fix plpgsql failure in one case where a composite column is set to NULL
|
||||||
|
(Tom)
|
||||||
|
</para>
|
||||||
|
</listitem>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<listitem>
|
||||||
|
<para>
|
||||||
|
Fix possible failure when calling PL/Perl functions from PL/PerlU
|
||||||
|
or vice versa (Tim Bunce)
|
||||||
|
</para>
|
||||||
|
</listitem>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<listitem>
|
||||||
|
<para>
|
||||||
|
Add <literal>volatile</> markings in PL/Python to avoid possible
|
||||||
|
compiler-specific misbehavior (Zdenek Kotala)
|
||||||
|
</para>
|
||||||
|
</listitem>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<listitem>
|
||||||
|
<para>
|
||||||
|
Ensure PL/Tcl initializes the Tcl interpreter fully (Tom)
|
||||||
|
</para>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<para>
|
||||||
|
The only known symptom of this oversight is that the Tcl
|
||||||
|
<literal>clock</> command misbehaves if using Tcl 8.5 or later.
|
||||||
|
</para>
|
||||||
|
</listitem>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<listitem>
|
||||||
|
<para>
|
||||||
|
Prevent crash in <filename>contrib/dblink</> when too many key
|
||||||
|
columns are specified to a <function>dblink_build_sql_*</> function
|
||||||
|
(Rushabh Lathia, Joe Conway)
|
||||||
|
</para>
|
||||||
|
</listitem>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<listitem>
|
||||||
|
<para>
|
||||||
|
Fix assorted crashes in <filename>contrib/xml2</> caused by sloppy
|
||||||
|
memory management (Tom)
|
||||||
|
</para>
|
||||||
|
</listitem>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<listitem>
|
||||||
|
<para>
|
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|
Make building of <filename>contrib/xml2</> more robust on Windows
|
||||||
|
(Andrew)
|
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|
</para>
|
||||||
|
</listitem>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<listitem>
|
||||||
|
<para>
|
||||||
|
Fix race condition in Windows signal handling (Radu Ilie)
|
||||||
|
</para>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<para>
|
||||||
|
One known symptom of this bug is that rows in <structname>pg_listener</>
|
||||||
|
could be dropped under heavy load.
|
||||||
|
</para>
|
||||||
|
</listitem>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<listitem>
|
||||||
|
<para>
|
||||||
|
Update time zone data files to <application>tzdata</> release 2010e
|
||||||
|
for DST law changes in Bangladesh, Chile, Fiji, Mexico, Paraguay, Samoa.
|
||||||
|
</para>
|
||||||
|
</listitem>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
</itemizedlist>
|
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|
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|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<sect1 id="release-8-2-15">
|
<sect1 id="release-8-2-15">
|
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<title>Release 8.2.15</title>
|
<title>Release 8.2.15</title>
|
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|
||||||
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|
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|
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|
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<title>Release 8.3.10</title>
|
||||||
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|
||||||
|
<note>
|
||||||
|
<title>Release date</title>
|
||||||
|
<simpara>2010-03-15</simpara>
|
||||||
|
</note>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<para>
|
||||||
|
This release contains a variety of fixes from 8.3.9.
|
||||||
|
For information about new features in the 8.3 major release, see
|
||||||
|
<xref linkend="release-8-3">.
|
||||||
|
</para>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<sect2>
|
||||||
|
<title>Migration to Version 8.3.10</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>
|
||||||
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|
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|
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|
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Add new configuration parameter <varname>ssl_renegotiation_limit</> to
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control how often we do session key renegotiation for an SSL connection
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(Magnus)
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This can be set to zero to disable renegotiation completely, which may
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be required if a broken SSL library is used. In particular, some
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vendors are shipping stopgap patches for CVE-2009-3555 that cause
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renegotiation attempts to fail.
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Fix possible crashes due to not handling errors during relcache reload
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cleanly (Tom)
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Fix possible crash due to use of dangling pointer to a cached plan
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(Tatsuo)
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Fix possible crashes when trying to recover from a failure in
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subtransaction start (Tom)
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Fix server memory leak associated with use of savepoints and a client
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encoding different from server's encoding (Tom)
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Fix incorrect WAL data emitted during end-of-recovery cleanup of a GIST
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index page split (Yoichi Hirai)
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<para>
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This would result in index corruption, or even more likely an error
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during WAL replay, if we were unlucky enough to crash during
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end-of-recovery cleanup after having completed an incomplete GIST
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insertion.
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Make <function>substring()</> for <type>bit</> types treat any negative
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length as meaning <quote>all the rest of the string</> (Tom)
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The previous coding treated only -1 that way, and would produce an
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invalid result value for other negative values, possibly leading to
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a crash (CVE-2010-0442).
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Fix integer-to-bit-string conversions to handle the first fractional
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|
byte correctly when the output bit width is wider than the given
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|
integer by something other than a multiple of 8 bits (Tom)
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Fix some cases of pathologically slow regular expression matching (Tom)
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|
</para>
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<para>
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|
Fix assorted crashes in <type>xml</> processing caused by sloppy
|
||||||
|
memory management (Tom)
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|
</para>
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<para>
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|
This is a back-patch of changes first applied in 8.4. The 8.3 code
|
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|
was known buggy, but the new code was sufficiently different to not
|
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|
want to back-patch it until it had gotten some field testing.
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|
</para>
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<para>
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|
Fix bug with trying to update a field of an element of a
|
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|
composite-type array column (Tom)
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|
</para>
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|
<para>
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|
Fix the <literal>STOP WAL LOCATION</> entry in backup history files to
|
||||||
|
report the next WAL segment's name when the end location is exactly at a
|
||||||
|
segment boundary (Itagaki Takahiro)
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|
</para>
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|
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<para>
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|
Fix some more cases of temporary-file leakage (Heikki)
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|
</para>
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|
<para>
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||||||
|
This corrects a problem introduced in the previous minor release.
|
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|
One case that failed is when a plpgsql function returning set is
|
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|
called within another function's exception handler.
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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 constraint exclusion processing of boolean-variable cases,
|
||||||
|
in particular make it possible to exclude a partition that has a
|
||||||
|
<quote>bool_column = false</> constraint (Tom)
|
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|
</para>
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</listitem>
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|
<para>
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|
When reading <filename>pg_hba.conf</> and related files, do not treat
|
||||||
|
<literal>@something</> as a file inclusion request if the <literal>@</>
|
||||||
|
appears inside quote marks; also, never treat <literal>@</> by itself
|
||||||
|
as a file inclusion request (Tom)
|
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|
</para>
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|
||||||
|
<para>
|
||||||
|
This prevents erratic behavior if a role or database name starts with
|
||||||
|
<literal>@</>. If you need to include a file whose path name
|
||||||
|
contains spaces, you can still do so, but you must write
|
||||||
|
<literal>@"/path to/file"</> rather than putting the quotes around
|
||||||
|
the whole construct.
|
||||||
|
</para>
|
||||||
|
</listitem>
|
||||||
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|
<listitem>
|
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|
<para>
|
||||||
|
Prevent infinite loop on some platforms if a directory is named as
|
||||||
|
an inclusion target in <filename>pg_hba.conf</> and related files
|
||||||
|
(Tom)
|
||||||
|
</para>
|
||||||
|
</listitem>
|
||||||
|
|
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|
<listitem>
|
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|
<para>
|
||||||
|
Fix possible infinite loop if <function>SSL_read</> or
|
||||||
|
<function>SSL_write</> fails without setting <varname>errno</> (Tom)
|
||||||
|
</para>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<para>
|
||||||
|
This is reportedly possible with some Windows versions of
|
||||||
|
<application>openssl</>.
|
||||||
|
</para>
|
||||||
|
</listitem>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<listitem>
|
||||||
|
<para>
|
||||||
|
Disallow <acronym>GSSAPI</> authentication on local connections,
|
||||||
|
since it requires a hostname to function correctly (Magnus)
|
||||||
|
</para>
|
||||||
|
</listitem>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<listitem>
|
||||||
|
<para>
|
||||||
|
Make <application>ecpg</> report the proper SQLSTATE if the connection
|
||||||
|
disappears (Michael)
|
||||||
|
</para>
|
||||||
|
</listitem>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<listitem>
|
||||||
|
<para>
|
||||||
|
Fix <application>psql</>'s <literal>numericlocale</> option to not
|
||||||
|
format strings it shouldn't in latex and troff output formats (Heikki)
|
||||||
|
</para>
|
||||||
|
</listitem>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<listitem>
|
||||||
|
<para>
|
||||||
|
Make <application>psql</> return the correct exit status (3) when
|
||||||
|
<literal>ON_ERROR_STOP</> and <literal>--single-transaction</> are
|
||||||
|
both specified and an error occurs during the implied <command>COMMIT</>
|
||||||
|
(Bruce)
|
||||||
|
</para>
|
||||||
|
</listitem>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<listitem>
|
||||||
|
<para>
|
||||||
|
Fix plpgsql failure in one case where a composite column is set to NULL
|
||||||
|
(Tom)
|
||||||
|
</para>
|
||||||
|
</listitem>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<listitem>
|
||||||
|
<para>
|
||||||
|
Fix possible failure when calling PL/Perl functions from PL/PerlU
|
||||||
|
or vice versa (Tim Bunce)
|
||||||
|
</para>
|
||||||
|
</listitem>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<listitem>
|
||||||
|
<para>
|
||||||
|
Add <literal>volatile</> markings in PL/Python to avoid possible
|
||||||
|
compiler-specific misbehavior (Zdenek Kotala)
|
||||||
|
</para>
|
||||||
|
</listitem>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<listitem>
|
||||||
|
<para>
|
||||||
|
Ensure PL/Tcl initializes the Tcl interpreter fully (Tom)
|
||||||
|
</para>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<para>
|
||||||
|
The only known symptom of this oversight is that the Tcl
|
||||||
|
<literal>clock</> command misbehaves if using Tcl 8.5 or later.
|
||||||
|
</para>
|
||||||
|
</listitem>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<listitem>
|
||||||
|
<para>
|
||||||
|
Prevent crash in <filename>contrib/dblink</> when too many key
|
||||||
|
columns are specified to a <function>dblink_build_sql_*</> function
|
||||||
|
(Rushabh Lathia, Joe Conway)
|
||||||
|
</para>
|
||||||
|
</listitem>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<listitem>
|
||||||
|
<para>
|
||||||
|
Allow zero-dimensional arrays in <filename>contrib/ltree</> operations
|
||||||
|
(Tom)
|
||||||
|
</para>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<para>
|
||||||
|
This case was formerly rejected as an error, but it's more convenient to
|
||||||
|
treat it the same as a zero-element array. In particular this avoids
|
||||||
|
unnecessary failures when an <type>ltree</> operation is applied to the
|
||||||
|
result of <literal>ARRAY(SELECT ...)</> and the sub-select returns no
|
||||||
|
rows.
|
||||||
|
</para>
|
||||||
|
</listitem>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<listitem>
|
||||||
|
<para>
|
||||||
|
Fix assorted crashes in <filename>contrib/xml2</> caused by sloppy
|
||||||
|
memory management (Tom)
|
||||||
|
</para>
|
||||||
|
</listitem>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<listitem>
|
||||||
|
<para>
|
||||||
|
Make building of <filename>contrib/xml2</> more robust on Windows
|
||||||
|
(Andrew)
|
||||||
|
</para>
|
||||||
|
</listitem>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<listitem>
|
||||||
|
<para>
|
||||||
|
Fix race condition in Windows signal handling (Radu Ilie)
|
||||||
|
</para>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<para>
|
||||||
|
One known symptom of this bug is that rows in <structname>pg_listener</>
|
||||||
|
could be dropped under heavy load.
|
||||||
|
</para>
|
||||||
|
</listitem>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<listitem>
|
||||||
|
<para>
|
||||||
|
Update time zone data files to <application>tzdata</> release 2010e
|
||||||
|
for DST law changes in Bangladesh, Chile, Fiji, Mexico, Paraguay, Samoa.
|
||||||
|
</para>
|
||||||
|
</listitem>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
</itemizedlist>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
</sect2>
|
||||||
|
</sect1>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<sect1 id="release-8-3-9">
|
<sect1 id="release-8-3-9">
|
||||||
<title>Release 8.3.9</title>
|
<title>Release 8.3.9</title>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
|||||||
@ -1,6 +1,473 @@
|
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<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release-8.4.sgml,v 1.16 2009/12/10 00:31:14 tgl Exp $ -->
|
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|
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|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<sect1 id="release-8-4-3">
|
||||||
|
<title>Release 8.4.3</title>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<note>
|
||||||
|
<title>Release date</title>
|
||||||
|
<simpara>2010-03-15</simpara>
|
||||||
|
</note>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<para>
|
||||||
|
This release contains a variety of fixes from 8.4.2.
|
||||||
|
For information about new features in the 8.4 major release, see
|
||||||
|
<xref linkend="release-8-4">.
|
||||||
|
</para>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<sect2>
|
||||||
|
<title>Migration to Version 8.4.3</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>
|
||||||
|
|
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|
<listitem>
|
||||||
|
<para>
|
||||||
|
Add new configuration parameter <varname>ssl_renegotiation_limit</> to
|
||||||
|
control how often we do session key renegotiation for an SSL connection
|
||||||
|
(Magnus)
|
||||||
|
</para>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<para>
|
||||||
|
This can be set to zero to disable renegotiation completely, which may
|
||||||
|
be required if a broken SSL library is used. In particular, some
|
||||||
|
vendors are shipping stopgap patches for CVE-2009-3555 that cause
|
||||||
|
renegotiation attempts to fail.
|
||||||
|
</para>
|
||||||
|
</listitem>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<listitem>
|
||||||
|
<para>
|
||||||
|
Fix possible deadlock during backend startup (Tom)
|
||||||
|
</para>
|
||||||
|
</listitem>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<listitem>
|
||||||
|
<para>
|
||||||
|
Fix possible crashes due to not handling errors during relcache reload
|
||||||
|
cleanly (Tom)
|
||||||
|
</para>
|
||||||
|
</listitem>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<listitem>
|
||||||
|
<para>
|
||||||
|
Fix possible crash due to use of dangling pointer to a cached plan
|
||||||
|
(Tatsuo)
|
||||||
|
</para>
|
||||||
|
</listitem>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<listitem>
|
||||||
|
<para>
|
||||||
|
Fix possible crash due to overenthusiastic invalidation of cached
|
||||||
|
plan for <command>ROLLBACK</> (Tom)
|
||||||
|
</para>
|
||||||
|
</listitem>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<listitem>
|
||||||
|
<para>
|
||||||
|
Fix possible crashes when trying to recover from a failure in
|
||||||
|
subtransaction start (Tom)
|
||||||
|
</para>
|
||||||
|
</listitem>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<listitem>
|
||||||
|
<para>
|
||||||
|
Fix server memory leak associated with use of savepoints and a client
|
||||||
|
encoding different from server's encoding (Tom)
|
||||||
|
</para>
|
||||||
|
</listitem>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<listitem>
|
||||||
|
<para>
|
||||||
|
Fix incorrect WAL data emitted during end-of-recovery cleanup of a GIST
|
||||||
|
index page split (Yoichi Hirai)
|
||||||
|
</para>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<para>
|
||||||
|
This would result in index corruption, or even more likely an error
|
||||||
|
during WAL replay, if we were unlucky enough to crash during
|
||||||
|
end-of-recovery cleanup after having completed an incomplete GIST
|
||||||
|
insertion.
|
||||||
|
</para>
|
||||||
|
</listitem>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<listitem>
|
||||||
|
<para>
|
||||||
|
Fix bug in WAL redo cleanup method for GIN indexes (Heikki)
|
||||||
|
</para>
|
||||||
|
</listitem>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<listitem>
|
||||||
|
<para>
|
||||||
|
Fix incorrect comparison of scan key in GIN index search (Teodor)
|
||||||
|
</para>
|
||||||
|
</listitem>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<listitem>
|
||||||
|
<para>
|
||||||
|
Make <function>substring()</> for <type>bit</> types treat any negative
|
||||||
|
length as meaning <quote>all the rest of the string</> (Tom)
|
||||||
|
</para>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<para>
|
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compatibility (Heikki)
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grant or revoke column-level privileges (Stephen Frost)
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a <command>REVOKE</> generates multiple messages, which formerly
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<literal>@something</> as a file inclusion request if the <literal>@</>
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<literal>@</>. If you need to include a file whose path name
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the whole construct.
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an inclusion target in <filename>pg_hba.conf</> and related files
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Fix possible infinite loop if <function>SSL_read</> or
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<function>SSL_write</> fails without setting <varname>errno</> (Tom)
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This is reportedly possible with some Windows versions of
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<application>openssl</>.
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|
since it requires a hostname to function correctly (Magnus)
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|
Protect <application>ecpg</> against applications freeing strings
|
||||||
|
unexpectedly (Michael)
|
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|
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|
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|
|
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|
<listitem>
|
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|
<para>
|
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|
Make <application>ecpg</> report the proper SQLSTATE if the connection
|
||||||
|
disappears (Michael)
|
||||||
|
</para>
|
||||||
|
</listitem>
|
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|
|
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|
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|
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|
<para>
|
||||||
|
Fix translation of cell contents in <application>psql</> <literal>\d</>
|
||||||
|
output (Heikki)
|
||||||
|
</para>
|
||||||
|
</listitem>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<listitem>
|
||||||
|
<para>
|
||||||
|
Fix <application>psql</>'s <literal>numericlocale</> option to not
|
||||||
|
format strings it shouldn't in latex and troff output formats (Heikki)
|
||||||
|
</para>
|
||||||
|
</listitem>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<listitem>
|
||||||
|
<para>
|
||||||
|
Fix a small per-query memory leak in <application>psql</> (Tom)
|
||||||
|
</para>
|
||||||
|
</listitem>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<listitem>
|
||||||
|
<para>
|
||||||
|
Make <application>psql</> return the correct exit status (3) when
|
||||||
|
<literal>ON_ERROR_STOP</> and <literal>--single-transaction</> are
|
||||||
|
both specified and an error occurs during the implied <command>COMMIT</>
|
||||||
|
(Bruce)
|
||||||
|
</para>
|
||||||
|
</listitem>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<listitem>
|
||||||
|
<para>
|
||||||
|
Fix <application>pg_dump</>'s output of permissions for foreign servers
|
||||||
|
(Heikki)
|
||||||
|
</para>
|
||||||
|
</listitem>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<listitem>
|
||||||
|
<para>
|
||||||
|
Fix possible crash in parallel <application>pg_restore</> due to
|
||||||
|
out-of-range dependency IDs (Tom)
|
||||||
|
</para>
|
||||||
|
</listitem>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<listitem>
|
||||||
|
<para>
|
||||||
|
Fix plpgsql failure in one case where a composite column is set to NULL
|
||||||
|
(Tom)
|
||||||
|
</para>
|
||||||
|
</listitem>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<listitem>
|
||||||
|
<para>
|
||||||
|
Fix possible failure when calling PL/Perl functions from PL/PerlU
|
||||||
|
or vice versa (Tim Bunce)
|
||||||
|
</para>
|
||||||
|
</listitem>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<listitem>
|
||||||
|
<para>
|
||||||
|
Add <literal>volatile</> markings in PL/Python to avoid possible
|
||||||
|
compiler-specific misbehavior (Zdenek Kotala)
|
||||||
|
</para>
|
||||||
|
</listitem>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<listitem>
|
||||||
|
<para>
|
||||||
|
Ensure PL/Tcl initializes the Tcl interpreter fully (Tom)
|
||||||
|
</para>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<para>
|
||||||
|
The only known symptom of this oversight is that the Tcl
|
||||||
|
<literal>clock</> command misbehaves if using Tcl 8.5 or later.
|
||||||
|
</para>
|
||||||
|
</listitem>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<listitem>
|
||||||
|
<para>
|
||||||
|
Prevent <function>ExecutorEnd</> from being run on portals created
|
||||||
|
within a failed transaction or subtransaction (Tom)
|
||||||
|
</para>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<para>
|
||||||
|
This is known to cause issues when using
|
||||||
|
<filename>contrib/auto_explain</>.
|
||||||
|
</para>
|
||||||
|
</listitem>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<listitem>
|
||||||
|
<para>
|
||||||
|
Prevent crash in <filename>contrib/dblink</> when too many key
|
||||||
|
columns are specified to a <function>dblink_build_sql_*</> function
|
||||||
|
(Rushabh Lathia, Joe Conway)
|
||||||
|
</para>
|
||||||
|
</listitem>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<listitem>
|
||||||
|
<para>
|
||||||
|
Allow zero-dimensional arrays in <filename>contrib/ltree</> operations
|
||||||
|
(Tom)
|
||||||
|
</para>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<para>
|
||||||
|
This case was formerly rejected as an error, but it's more convenient to
|
||||||
|
treat it the same as a zero-element array. In particular this avoids
|
||||||
|
unnecessary failures when an <type>ltree</> operation is applied to the
|
||||||
|
result of <literal>ARRAY(SELECT ...)</> and the sub-select returns no
|
||||||
|
rows.
|
||||||
|
</para>
|
||||||
|
</listitem>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<listitem>
|
||||||
|
<para>
|
||||||
|
Fix assorted crashes in <filename>contrib/xml2</> caused by sloppy
|
||||||
|
memory management (Tom)
|
||||||
|
</para>
|
||||||
|
</listitem>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<listitem>
|
||||||
|
<para>
|
||||||
|
Make building of <filename>contrib/xml2</> more robust on Windows
|
||||||
|
(Andrew)
|
||||||
|
</para>
|
||||||
|
</listitem>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<listitem>
|
||||||
|
<para>
|
||||||
|
Fix race condition in Windows signal handling (Radu Ilie)
|
||||||
|
</para>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<para>
|
||||||
|
One known symptom of this bug is that rows in <structname>pg_listener</>
|
||||||
|
could be dropped under heavy load.
|
||||||
|
</para>
|
||||||
|
</listitem>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<listitem>
|
||||||
|
<para>
|
||||||
|
Make the configure script report failure if the C compiler does
|
||||||
|
not provide a working 64-bit integer datatype (Tom)
|
||||||
|
</para>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<para>
|
||||||
|
This case has been broken for some time, and no longer seems worth
|
||||||
|
supporting, so just reject it at configure time instead.
|
||||||
|
</para>
|
||||||
|
</listitem>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<listitem>
|
||||||
|
<para>
|
||||||
|
Update time zone data files to <application>tzdata</> release 2010e
|
||||||
|
for DST law changes in Bangladesh, Chile, Fiji, Mexico, Paraguay, Samoa.
|
||||||
|
</para>
|
||||||
|
</listitem>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
</itemizedlist>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
</sect2>
|
||||||
|
</sect1>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<sect1 id="release-8-4-2">
|
<sect1 id="release-8-4-2">
|
||||||
<title>Release 8.4.2</title>
|
<title>Release 8.4.2</title>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
@ -451,6 +918,13 @@ WITH w AS (SELECT * FROM foo) SELECT * FROM w, bar ... FOR UPDATE
|
|||||||
</para>
|
</para>
|
||||||
</listitem>
|
</listitem>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
|
<listitem>
|
||||||
|
<para>
|
||||||
|
In <filename>contrib/fuzzystrmatch</>, correct the calculation of
|
||||||
|
<function>levenshtein</> distances with non-default costs (Marcin Mank)
|
||||||
|
</para>
|
||||||
|
</listitem>
|
||||||
|
|
||||||
<listitem>
|
<listitem>
|
||||||
<para>
|
<para>
|
||||||
In <filename>contrib/pg_standby</>, disable triggering failover with a
|
In <filename>contrib/pg_standby</>, disable triggering failover with a
|
||||||
|
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