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Release notes for 9.3.3, 9.2.7, 9.1.12, 9.0.16, 8.4.20.

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<sect1 id="release-8-4-20">
<title>Release 8.4.20</title>
<note>
<title>Release Date</title>
<simpara>2014-02-20</simpara>
</note>
<para>
This release contains a variety of fixes from 8.4.19.
For information about new features in the 8.4 major release, see
<xref linkend="release-8-4">.
</para>
<para>
The <productname>PostgreSQL</> community will stop releasing updates
for the 8.4.X release series in July 2014.
Users are encouraged to update to a newer release branch soon.
</para>
<sect2>
<title>Migration to Version 8.4.20</title>
<para>
A dump/restore is not required for those running 8.4.X.
</para>
<para>
However, if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 8.4.19,
see <xref linkend="release-8-4-19">.
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2>
<title>Changes</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix possible mis-replay of WAL records when some segments of a
relation aren't full size (Greg Stark, Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
The WAL update could be applied to the wrong page, potentially many
pages past where it should have been. Aside from corrupting data,
this error has been observed to result in significant <quote>bloat</>
of standby servers compared to their masters, due to updates being
applied far beyond where the end-of-file should have been. This
failure mode does not appear to be a significant risk during crash
recovery, only when initially synchronizing a standby created from a
base backup taken from a quickly-changing master.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Ensure that insertions into non-leaf GIN index pages write a full-page
WAL record when appropriate (Heikki Linnakangas)
</para>
<para>
The previous coding risked index corruption in the event of a
partial-page write during a system crash.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix race conditions during server process exit (Robert Haas)
</para>
<para>
Ensure that signal handlers don't attempt to use the
process's <varname>MyProc</> pointer after it's no longer valid.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix unsafe references to <varname>errno</> within error reporting
logic (Christian Kruse)
</para>
<para>
This would typically lead to odd behaviors such as missing or
inappropriate <literal>HINT</> fields.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix possible crashes from using <function>ereport()</> too early
during server startup (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
The principal case we've seen in the field is a crash if the server
is started in a directory it doesn't have permission to read.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Clear retry flags properly in OpenSSL socket write
function (Alexander Kukushkin)
</para>
<para>
This omission could result in a server lockup after unexpected loss
of an SSL-encrypted connection.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix length checking for Unicode identifiers (<literal>U&amp;"..."</>
syntax) containing escapes (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
A spurious truncation warning would be printed for such identifiers
if the escaped form of the identifier was too long, but the
identifier actually didn't need truncation after de-escaping.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix possible crash due to invalid plan for nested sub-selects, such
as <literal>WHERE (... x IN (SELECT ...) ...) IN (SELECT ...)</>
(Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Ensure that <command>ANALYZE</> creates statistics for a table column
even when all the values in it are <quote>too wide</> (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
<command>ANALYZE</> intentionally omits very wide values from its
histogram and most-common-values calculations, but it neglected to do
something sane in the case that all the sampled entries are too wide.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
In <literal>ALTER TABLE ... SET TABLESPACE</>, allow the database's
default tablespace to be used without a permissions check
(Stephen Frost)
</para>
<para>
<literal>CREATE TABLE</> has always allowed such usage,
but <literal>ALTER TABLE</> didn't get the memo.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix <quote>cannot accept a set</> error when some arms of
a <literal>CASE</> return a set and others don't (Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix checks for all-zero client addresses in pgstat functions (Kevin
Grittner)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix possible misclassification of multibyte characters by the text
search parser (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
Non-ASCII characters could be misclassified when using C locale with
a multibyte encoding. On Cygwin, non-C locales could fail as well.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix possible misbehavior in <function>plainto_tsquery()</>
(Heikki Linnakangas)
</para>
<para>
Use <function>memmove()</> not <function>memcpy()</> for copying
overlapping memory regions. There have been no field reports of
this actually causing trouble, but it's certainly risky.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Accept <literal>SHIFT_JIS</> as an encoding name for locale checking
purposes (Tatsuo Ishii)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix misbehavior of <function>PQhost()</> on Windows (Fujii Masao)
</para>
<para>
It should return <literal>localhost</> if no host has been specified.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Improve error handling in <application>libpq</> and <application>psql</>
for failures during <literal>COPY TO STDOUT/FROM STDIN</> (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
In particular this fixes an infinite loop that could occur in 9.2 and
up if the server connection was lost during <literal>COPY FROM
STDIN</>. Variants of that scenario might be possible in older
versions, or with other client applications.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix misaligned descriptors in <application>ecpg</> (MauMau)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
In <application>ecpg</>, handle lack of a hostname in the connection
parameters properly (Michael Meskes)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix performance regression in <filename>contrib/dblink</> connection
startup (Joe Conway)
</para>
<para>
Avoid an unnecessary round trip when client and server encodings match.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
In <filename>contrib/isn</>, fix incorrect calculation of the check
digit for ISMN values (Fabien Coelho)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Ensure client-code-only installation procedure works as documented
(Peter Eisentraut)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
In Mingw and Cygwin builds, install the <application>libpq</> DLL
in the <filename>bin</> directory (Andrew Dunstan)
</para>
<para>
This duplicates what the MSVC build has long done. It should fix
problems with programs like <application>psql</> failing to start
because they can't find the DLL.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Don't generate plain-text <filename>HISTORY</>
and <filename>src/test/regress/README</> files anymore (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
These text files duplicated the main HTML and PDF documentation
formats. The trouble involved in maintaining them greatly outweighs
the likely audience for plain-text format. Distribution tarballs
will still contain files by these names, but they'll just be stubs
directing the reader to consult the main documentation.
The plain-text <filename>INSTALL</> file will still be maintained, as
there is arguably a use-case for that.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Update time zone data files to <application>tzdata</> release 2013i
for DST law changes in Jordan and historical changes in Cuba.
</para>
<para>
In addition, the zones <literal>Asia/Riyadh87</>,
<literal>Asia/Riyadh88</>, and <literal>Asia/Riyadh89</> have been
removed, as they are no longer maintained by IANA, and never
represented actual civil timekeeping practice.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect2>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="release-8-4-19">
<title>Release 8.4.19</title>
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<sect1 id="release-9-0-16">
<title>Release 9.0.16</title>
<note>
<title>Release Date</title>
<simpara>2014-02-20</simpara>
</note>
<para>
This release contains a variety of fixes from 9.0.15.
For information about new features in the 9.0 major release, see
<xref linkend="release-9-0">.
</para>
<sect2>
<title>Migration to Version 9.0.16</title>
<para>
A dump/restore is not required for those running 9.0.X.
</para>
<para>
However, if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 9.0.15,
see <xref linkend="release-9-0-15">.
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2>
<title>Changes</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix possible mis-replay of WAL records when some segments of a
relation aren't full size (Greg Stark, Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
The WAL update could be applied to the wrong page, potentially many
pages past where it should have been. Aside from corrupting data,
this error has been observed to result in significant <quote>bloat</>
of standby servers compared to their masters, due to updates being
applied far beyond where the end-of-file should have been. This
failure mode does not appear to be a significant risk during crash
recovery, only when initially synchronizing a standby created from a
base backup taken from a quickly-changing master.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix bug in determining when recovery has reached consistency
(Tomonari Katsumata, Heikki Linnakangas)
</para>
<para>
In some cases WAL replay would mistakenly conclude that the database
was already consistent at the start of replay, thus possibly allowing
hot-standby queries before the database was really consistent. Other
symptoms such as <quote>PANIC: WAL contains references to invalid
pages</> were also possible.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix improper locking of btree index pages while replaying
a <literal>VACUUM</> operation in hot-standby mode (Andres Freund,
Heikki Linnakangas, Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
This error could result in <quote>PANIC: WAL contains references to
invalid pages</> failures.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Ensure that insertions into non-leaf GIN index pages write a full-page
WAL record when appropriate (Heikki Linnakangas)
</para>
<para>
The previous coding risked index corruption in the event of a
partial-page write during a system crash.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix race conditions during server process exit (Robert Haas)
</para>
<para>
Ensure that signal handlers don't attempt to use the
process's <varname>MyProc</> pointer after it's no longer valid.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix unsafe references to <varname>errno</> within error reporting
logic (Christian Kruse)
</para>
<para>
This would typically lead to odd behaviors such as missing or
inappropriate <literal>HINT</> fields.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix possible crashes from using <function>ereport()</> too early
during server startup (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
The principal case we've seen in the field is a crash if the server
is started in a directory it doesn't have permission to read.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Clear retry flags properly in OpenSSL socket write
function (Alexander Kukushkin)
</para>
<para>
This omission could result in a server lockup after unexpected loss
of an SSL-encrypted connection.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix length checking for Unicode identifiers (<literal>U&amp;"..."</>
syntax) containing escapes (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
A spurious truncation warning would be printed for such identifiers
if the escaped form of the identifier was too long, but the
identifier actually didn't need truncation after de-escaping.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Allow keywords that are type names to be used in lists of roles
(Stephen Frost)
</para>
<para>
A previous patch allowed such keywords to be used without quoting
in places such as role identifiers; but it missed cases where a
list of role identifiers was permitted, such as <literal>DROP ROLE</>.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix possible crash due to invalid plan for nested sub-selects, such
as <literal>WHERE (... x IN (SELECT ...) ...) IN (SELECT ...)</>
(Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Ensure that <command>ANALYZE</> creates statistics for a table column
even when all the values in it are <quote>too wide</> (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
<command>ANALYZE</> intentionally omits very wide values from its
histogram and most-common-values calculations, but it neglected to do
something sane in the case that all the sampled entries are too wide.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
In <literal>ALTER TABLE ... SET TABLESPACE</>, allow the database's
default tablespace to be used without a permissions check
(Stephen Frost)
</para>
<para>
<literal>CREATE TABLE</> has always allowed such usage,
but <literal>ALTER TABLE</> didn't get the memo.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix <quote>cannot accept a set</> error when some arms of
a <literal>CASE</> return a set and others don't (Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix checks for all-zero client addresses in pgstat functions (Kevin
Grittner)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix possible misclassification of multibyte characters by the text
search parser (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
Non-ASCII characters could be misclassified when using C locale with
a multibyte encoding. On Cygwin, non-C locales could fail as well.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix possible misbehavior in <function>plainto_tsquery()</>
(Heikki Linnakangas)
</para>
<para>
Use <function>memmove()</> not <function>memcpy()</> for copying
overlapping memory regions. There have been no field reports of
this actually causing trouble, but it's certainly risky.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Accept <literal>SHIFT_JIS</> as an encoding name for locale checking
purposes (Tatsuo Ishii)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix misbehavior of <function>PQhost()</> on Windows (Fujii Masao)
</para>
<para>
It should return <literal>localhost</> if no host has been specified.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Improve error handling in <application>libpq</> and <application>psql</>
for failures during <literal>COPY TO STDOUT/FROM STDIN</> (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
In particular this fixes an infinite loop that could occur in 9.2 and
up if the server connection was lost during <literal>COPY FROM
STDIN</>. Variants of that scenario might be possible in older
versions, or with other client applications.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix misaligned descriptors in <application>ecpg</> (MauMau)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
In <application>ecpg</>, handle lack of a hostname in the connection
parameters properly (Michael Meskes)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix performance regression in <filename>contrib/dblink</> connection
startup (Joe Conway)
</para>
<para>
Avoid an unnecessary round trip when client and server encodings match.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
In <filename>contrib/isn</>, fix incorrect calculation of the check
digit for ISMN values (Fabien Coelho)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Ensure client-code-only installation procedure works as documented
(Peter Eisentraut)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
In Mingw and Cygwin builds, install the <application>libpq</> DLL
in the <filename>bin</> directory (Andrew Dunstan)
</para>
<para>
This duplicates what the MSVC build has long done. It should fix
problems with programs like <application>psql</> failing to start
because they can't find the DLL.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Avoid using the deprecated <literal>dllwrap</> tool in Cygwin builds
(Marco Atzeri)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Don't generate plain-text <filename>HISTORY</>
and <filename>src/test/regress/README</> files anymore (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
These text files duplicated the main HTML and PDF documentation
formats. The trouble involved in maintaining them greatly outweighs
the likely audience for plain-text format. Distribution tarballs
will still contain files by these names, but they'll just be stubs
directing the reader to consult the main documentation.
The plain-text <filename>INSTALL</> file will still be maintained, as
there is arguably a use-case for that.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Update time zone data files to <application>tzdata</> release 2013i
for DST law changes in Jordan and historical changes in Cuba.
</para>
<para>
In addition, the zones <literal>Asia/Riyadh87</>,
<literal>Asia/Riyadh88</>, and <literal>Asia/Riyadh89</> have been
removed, as they are no longer maintained by IANA, and never
represented actual civil timekeeping practice.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect2>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="release-9-0-15">
<title>Release 9.0.15</title>
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<sect1 id="release-9-1-12">
<title>Release 9.1.12</title>
<note>
<title>Release Date</title>
<simpara>2014-02-20</simpara>
</note>
<para>
This release contains a variety of fixes from 9.1.11.
For information about new features in the 9.1 major release, see
<xref linkend="release-9-1">.
</para>
<sect2>
<title>Migration to Version 9.1.12</title>
<para>
A dump/restore is not required for those running 9.1.X.
</para>
<para>
However, if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 9.1.11,
see <xref linkend="release-9-1-11">.
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2>
<title>Changes</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix possible mis-replay of WAL records when some segments of a
relation aren't full size (Greg Stark, Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
The WAL update could be applied to the wrong page, potentially many
pages past where it should have been. Aside from corrupting data,
this error has been observed to result in significant <quote>bloat</>
of standby servers compared to their masters, due to updates being
applied far beyond where the end-of-file should have been. This
failure mode does not appear to be a significant risk during crash
recovery, only when initially synchronizing a standby created from a
base backup taken from a quickly-changing master.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix bug in determining when recovery has reached consistency
(Tomonari Katsumata, Heikki Linnakangas)
</para>
<para>
In some cases WAL replay would mistakenly conclude that the database
was already consistent at the start of replay, thus possibly allowing
hot-standby queries before the database was really consistent. Other
symptoms such as <quote>PANIC: WAL contains references to invalid
pages</> were also possible.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix improper locking of btree index pages while replaying
a <literal>VACUUM</> operation in hot-standby mode (Andres Freund,
Heikki Linnakangas, Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
This error could result in <quote>PANIC: WAL contains references to
invalid pages</> failures.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Ensure that insertions into non-leaf GIN index pages write a full-page
WAL record when appropriate (Heikki Linnakangas)
</para>
<para>
The previous coding risked index corruption in the event of a
partial-page write during a system crash.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
When <literal>pause_at_recovery_target</>
and <literal>recovery_target_inclusive</> are both set, ensure the
target record is applied before pausing, not after (Heikki
Linnakangas)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix race conditions during server process exit (Robert Haas)
</para>
<para>
Ensure that signal handlers don't attempt to use the
process's <varname>MyProc</> pointer after it's no longer valid.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix race conditions in walsender shutdown logic and walreceiver
SIGHUP signal handler (Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix unsafe references to <varname>errno</> within error reporting
logic (Christian Kruse)
</para>
<para>
This would typically lead to odd behaviors such as missing or
inappropriate <literal>HINT</> fields.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix possible crashes from using <function>ereport()</> too early
during server startup (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
The principal case we've seen in the field is a crash if the server
is started in a directory it doesn't have permission to read.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Clear retry flags properly in OpenSSL socket write
function (Alexander Kukushkin)
</para>
<para>
This omission could result in a server lockup after unexpected loss
of an SSL-encrypted connection.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix length checking for Unicode identifiers (<literal>U&amp;"..."</>
syntax) containing escapes (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
A spurious truncation warning would be printed for such identifiers
if the escaped form of the identifier was too long, but the
identifier actually didn't need truncation after de-escaping.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Allow keywords that are type names to be used in lists of roles
(Stephen Frost)
</para>
<para>
A previous patch allowed such keywords to be used without quoting
in places such as role identifiers; but it missed cases where a
list of role identifiers was permitted, such as <literal>DROP ROLE</>.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix parser crash for <literal>EXISTS(SELECT * FROM
zero_column_table)</literal> (Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix possible crash due to invalid plan for nested sub-selects, such
as <literal>WHERE (... x IN (SELECT ...) ...) IN (SELECT ...)</>
(Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Ensure that <command>ANALYZE</> creates statistics for a table column
even when all the values in it are <quote>too wide</> (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
<command>ANALYZE</> intentionally omits very wide values from its
histogram and most-common-values calculations, but it neglected to do
something sane in the case that all the sampled entries are too wide.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
In <literal>ALTER TABLE ... SET TABLESPACE</>, allow the database's
default tablespace to be used without a permissions check
(Stephen Frost)
</para>
<para>
<literal>CREATE TABLE</> has always allowed such usage,
but <literal>ALTER TABLE</> didn't get the memo.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix <quote>cannot accept a set</> error when some arms of
a <literal>CASE</> return a set and others don't (Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix checks for all-zero client addresses in pgstat functions (Kevin
Grittner)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix possible misclassification of multibyte characters by the text
search parser (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
Non-ASCII characters could be misclassified when using C locale with
a multibyte encoding. On Cygwin, non-C locales could fail as well.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix possible misbehavior in <function>plainto_tsquery()</>
(Heikki Linnakangas)
</para>
<para>
Use <function>memmove()</> not <function>memcpy()</> for copying
overlapping memory regions. There have been no field reports of
this actually causing trouble, but it's certainly risky.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix placement of permissions checks in <function>pg_start_backup()</>
and <function>pg_stop_backup()</> (Andres Freund, Magnus Hagander)
</para>
<para>
The previous coding might attempt to do catalog access when it
shouldn't.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Accept <literal>SHIFT_JIS</> as an encoding name for locale checking
purposes (Tatsuo Ishii)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix misbehavior of <function>PQhost()</> on Windows (Fujii Masao)
</para>
<para>
It should return <literal>localhost</> if no host has been specified.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Improve error handling in <application>libpq</> and <application>psql</>
for failures during <literal>COPY TO STDOUT/FROM STDIN</> (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
In particular this fixes an infinite loop that could occur in 9.2 and
up if the server connection was lost during <literal>COPY FROM
STDIN</>. Variants of that scenario might be possible in older
versions, or with other client applications.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix possible incorrect printing of filenames
in <application>pg_basebackup</>'s verbose mode (Magnus Hagander)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Avoid including tablespaces inside PGDATA twice in base backups
(Dimitri Fontaine, Magnus Hagander)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix misaligned descriptors in <application>ecpg</> (MauMau)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
In <application>ecpg</>, handle lack of a hostname in the connection
parameters properly (Michael Meskes)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix performance regression in <filename>contrib/dblink</> connection
startup (Joe Conway)
</para>
<para>
Avoid an unnecessary round trip when client and server encodings match.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
In <filename>contrib/isn</>, fix incorrect calculation of the check
digit for ISMN values (Fabien Coelho)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Ensure client-code-only installation procedure works as documented
(Peter Eisentraut)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
In Mingw and Cygwin builds, install the <application>libpq</> DLL
in the <filename>bin</> directory (Andrew Dunstan)
</para>
<para>
This duplicates what the MSVC build has long done. It should fix
problems with programs like <application>psql</> failing to start
because they can't find the DLL.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Avoid using the deprecated <literal>dllwrap</> tool in Cygwin builds
(Marco Atzeri)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Don't generate plain-text <filename>HISTORY</>
and <filename>src/test/regress/README</> files anymore (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
These text files duplicated the main HTML and PDF documentation
formats. The trouble involved in maintaining them greatly outweighs
the likely audience for plain-text format. Distribution tarballs
will still contain files by these names, but they'll just be stubs
directing the reader to consult the main documentation.
The plain-text <filename>INSTALL</> file will still be maintained, as
there is arguably a use-case for that.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Update time zone data files to <application>tzdata</> release 2013i
for DST law changes in Jordan and historical changes in Cuba.
</para>
<para>
In addition, the zones <literal>Asia/Riyadh87</>,
<literal>Asia/Riyadh88</>, and <literal>Asia/Riyadh89</> have been
removed, as they are no longer maintained by IANA, and never
represented actual civil timekeeping practice.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect2>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="release-9-1-11">
<title>Release 9.1.11</title>
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<sect1 id="release-9-2-7">
<title>Release 9.2.7</title>
<note>
<title>Release Date</title>
<simpara>2014-02-20</simpara>
</note>
<para>
This release contains a variety of fixes from 9.2.6.
For information about new features in the 9.2 major release, see
<xref linkend="release-9-2">.
</para>
<sect2>
<title>Migration to Version 9.2.7</title>
<para>
A dump/restore is not required for those running 9.2.X.
</para>
<para>
However, if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 9.2.6,
see <xref linkend="release-9-2-6">.
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2>
<title>Changes</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix possible mis-replay of WAL records when some segments of a
relation aren't full size (Greg Stark, Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
The WAL update could be applied to the wrong page, potentially many
pages past where it should have been. Aside from corrupting data,
this error has been observed to result in significant <quote>bloat</>
of standby servers compared to their masters, due to updates being
applied far beyond where the end-of-file should have been. This
failure mode does not appear to be a significant risk during crash
recovery, only when initially synchronizing a standby created from a
base backup taken from a quickly-changing master.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix bug in determining when recovery has reached consistency
(Tomonari Katsumata, Heikki Linnakangas)
</para>
<para>
In some cases WAL replay would mistakenly conclude that the database
was already consistent at the start of replay, thus possibly allowing
hot-standby queries before the database was really consistent. Other
symptoms such as <quote>PANIC: WAL contains references to invalid
pages</> were also possible.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix improper locking of btree index pages while replaying
a <literal>VACUUM</> operation in hot-standby mode (Andres Freund,
Heikki Linnakangas, Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
This error could result in <quote>PANIC: WAL contains references to
invalid pages</> failures.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Ensure that insertions into non-leaf GIN index pages write a full-page
WAL record when appropriate (Heikki Linnakangas)
</para>
<para>
The previous coding risked index corruption in the event of a
partial-page write during a system crash.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
When <literal>pause_at_recovery_target</>
and <literal>recovery_target_inclusive</> are both set, ensure the
target record is applied before pausing, not after (Heikki
Linnakangas)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix race conditions during server process exit (Robert Haas)
</para>
<para>
Ensure that signal handlers don't attempt to use the
process's <varname>MyProc</> pointer after it's no longer valid.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix race conditions in walsender shutdown logic and walreceiver
SIGHUP signal handler (Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix unsafe references to <varname>errno</> within error reporting
logic (Christian Kruse)
</para>
<para>
This would typically lead to odd behaviors such as missing or
inappropriate <literal>HINT</> fields.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix possible crashes from using <function>ereport()</> too early
during server startup (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
The principal case we've seen in the field is a crash if the server
is started in a directory it doesn't have permission to read.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Clear retry flags properly in OpenSSL socket write
function (Alexander Kukushkin)
</para>
<para>
This omission could result in a server lockup after unexpected loss
of an SSL-encrypted connection.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix length checking for Unicode identifiers (<literal>U&amp;"..."</>
syntax) containing escapes (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
A spurious truncation warning would be printed for such identifiers
if the escaped form of the identifier was too long, but the
identifier actually didn't need truncation after de-escaping.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Allow keywords that are type names to be used in lists of roles
(Stephen Frost)
</para>
<para>
A previous patch allowed such keywords to be used without quoting
in places such as role identifiers; but it missed cases where a
list of role identifiers was permitted, such as <literal>DROP ROLE</>.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix parser crash for <literal>EXISTS(SELECT * FROM
zero_column_table)</literal> (Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix possible crash due to invalid plan for nested sub-selects, such
as <literal>WHERE (... x IN (SELECT ...) ...) IN (SELECT ...)</>
(Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix <literal>UPDATE/DELETE</> of an inherited target table
that has <literal>UNION ALL</> subqueries (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
Without this fix, <literal>UNION ALL</> subqueries aren't correctly
inserted into the update plans for inheritance child tables after the
first one, typically resulting in no update happening for those child
table(s).
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Ensure that <command>ANALYZE</> creates statistics for a table column
even when all the values in it are <quote>too wide</> (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
<command>ANALYZE</> intentionally omits very wide values from its
histogram and most-common-values calculations, but it neglected to do
something sane in the case that all the sampled entries are too wide.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
In <literal>ALTER TABLE ... SET TABLESPACE</>, allow the database's
default tablespace to be used without a permissions check
(Stephen Frost)
</para>
<para>
<literal>CREATE TABLE</> has always allowed such usage,
but <literal>ALTER TABLE</> didn't get the memo.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix <quote>cannot accept a set</> error when some arms of
a <literal>CASE</> return a set and others don't (Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Properly distinguish numbers from non-numbers when generating JSON
output (Andrew Dunstan)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix checks for all-zero client addresses in pgstat functions (Kevin
Grittner)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix possible misclassification of multibyte characters by the text
search parser (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
Non-ASCII characters could be misclassified when using C locale with
a multibyte encoding. On Cygwin, non-C locales could fail as well.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix possible misbehavior in <function>plainto_tsquery()</>
(Heikki Linnakangas)
</para>
<para>
Use <function>memmove()</> not <function>memcpy()</> for copying
overlapping memory regions. There have been no field reports of
this actually causing trouble, but it's certainly risky.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix placement of permissions checks in <function>pg_start_backup()</>
and <function>pg_stop_backup()</> (Andres Freund, Magnus Hagander)
</para>
<para>
The previous coding might attempt to do catalog access when it
shouldn't.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Accept <literal>SHIFT_JIS</> as an encoding name for locale checking
purposes (Tatsuo Ishii)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix <literal>*</>-qualification of named parameters in SQL-language
functions (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
Given a composite-type parameter
named <literal>foo</>, <literal>$1.*</> worked fine,
but <literal>foo.*</> not so much.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix misbehavior of <function>PQhost()</> on Windows (Fujii Masao)
</para>
<para>
It should return <literal>localhost</> if no host has been specified.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Improve error handling in <application>libpq</> and <application>psql</>
for failures during <literal>COPY TO STDOUT/FROM STDIN</> (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
In particular this fixes an infinite loop that could occur in 9.2 and
up if the server connection was lost during <literal>COPY FROM
STDIN</>. Variants of that scenario might be possible in older
versions, or with other client applications.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix incorrect translation handling in
some <application>psql</> <literal>\d</> commands
(Peter Eisentraut, Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Ensure <application>pg_basebackup</>'s background process is killed
when exiting its foreground process (Magnus Hagander)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix possible incorrect printing of filenames
in <application>pg_basebackup</>'s verbose mode (Magnus Hagander)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Avoid including tablespaces inside PGDATA twice in base backups
(Dimitri Fontaine, Magnus Hagander)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix misaligned descriptors in <application>ecpg</> (MauMau)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
In <application>ecpg</>, handle lack of a hostname in the connection
parameters properly (Michael Meskes)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix performance regression in <filename>contrib/dblink</> connection
startup (Joe Conway)
</para>
<para>
Avoid an unnecessary round trip when client and server encodings match.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
In <filename>contrib/isn</>, fix incorrect calculation of the check
digit for ISMN values (Fabien Coelho)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix <filename>contrib/pg_stat_statement</>'s handling
of <literal>CURRENT_DATE</> and related constructs (Kyotaro
Horiguchi)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Ensure client-code-only installation procedure works as documented
(Peter Eisentraut)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
In Mingw and Cygwin builds, install the <application>libpq</> DLL
in the <filename>bin</> directory (Andrew Dunstan)
</para>
<para>
This duplicates what the MSVC build has long done. It should fix
problems with programs like <application>psql</> failing to start
because they can't find the DLL.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Avoid using the deprecated <literal>dllwrap</> tool in Cygwin builds
(Marco Atzeri)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Don't generate plain-text <filename>HISTORY</>
and <filename>src/test/regress/README</> files anymore (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
These text files duplicated the main HTML and PDF documentation
formats. The trouble involved in maintaining them greatly outweighs
the likely audience for plain-text format. Distribution tarballs
will still contain files by these names, but they'll just be stubs
directing the reader to consult the main documentation.
The plain-text <filename>INSTALL</> file will still be maintained, as
there is arguably a use-case for that.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Update time zone data files to <application>tzdata</> release 2013i
for DST law changes in Jordan and historical changes in Cuba.
</para>
<para>
In addition, the zones <literal>Asia/Riyadh87</>,
<literal>Asia/Riyadh88</>, and <literal>Asia/Riyadh89</> have been
removed, as they are no longer maintained by IANA, and never
represented actual civil timekeeping practice.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect2>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="release-9-2-6">
<title>Release 9.2.6</title>
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