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First-draft release notes for 9.3.5. 

As usual, the release notes for older branches will be made by cutting
these down, but put them up for community review first.

Note: a few of these items actually don't apply to 9.3, but only to older
branches.  I'll sort that out when copying the text into the older
release-X.Y.sgml files.
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<sect1 id="release-9-3-5">
<title>Release 9.3.5</title>
<note>
<title>Release Date</title>
<simpara>2014-07-24</simpara>
</note>
<para>
This release contains a variety of fixes from 9.3.4.
For information about new features in the 9.3 major release, see
<xref linkend="release-9-3">.
</para>
<sect2>
<title>Migration to Version 9.3.5</title>
<para>
A dump/restore is not required for those running 9.3.X.
</para>
<para>
However, this release corrects a logic error
in <application>pg_upgrade</>, as well as an index corruption problem in
some GiST indexes. See the first two changelog entries below to find out
whether your installation has been affected and what steps you should take
if so.
</para>
<para>
Also, if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 9.3.4,
see <xref linkend="release-9-3-4">.
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2>
<title>Changes</title>
<itemizedlist>
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<para>
In <application>pg_upgrade</>, remove <filename>pg_multixact</> files
left behind by <application>initdb</> (Bruce Momjian)
</para>
<para>
If you used a pre-9.3.5 version of <application>pg_upgrade</> to
upgrade a database cluster to 9.3, it might have left behind a file
<filename>$PGDATA/pg_multixact/offsets/0000</> that should not be
there and will eventually cause problems in <command>VACUUM</>.
<emphasis>However, in common cases this file is actually valid and
must not be removed.</emphasis>
To determine whether your installation has this problem, run this
query as superuser, in any database of the cluster:
<programlisting>
WITH list(file) AS (SELECT * FROM pg_ls_dir('pg_multixact/offsets'))
SELECT EXISTS (SELECT * FROM list WHERE file = '0000') AND
NOT EXISTS (SELECT * FROM list WHERE file = '0001') AND
NOT EXISTS (SELECT * FROM list WHERE file = 'FFFF') AND
EXISTS (SELECT * FROM list WHERE file != '0000')
AS file_0000_removal_required;
</programlisting>
If this query returns <literal>t</>, manually remove the file
<filename>$PGDATA/pg_multixact/offsets/0000</>.
Do nothing if the query returns <literal>f</>.
</para>
</listitem>
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<listitem>
<para>
Correctly initialize padding bytes in <filename>contrib/btree_gist</>
indexes on <type>bit</> columns (Heikki Linnakangas)
</para>
<para>
This error could result in incorrect query results due to values that
should compare equal not being seen as equal.
Users with GiST indexes on <type>bit</> or <type>bit varying</>
columns should <command>REINDEX</> those indexes after installing this
update.
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<listitem>
<para>
Protect against torn pages when deleting GIN list pages (Heikki
Linnakangas)
</para>
<para>
This fix prevents possible index corruption if a system crash occurs
while the page update is being written to disk.
</para>
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<listitem>
<para>
Don't clear the right-link of a GiST index page while replaying
updates from WAL (Heikki Linnakangas)
</para>
<para>
This is unnecessary, and what's worse is it could lead to wrong
answers from concurrent scans of the index. That was not an issue
when the code was written, but in Hot Standby operation it's important
to leave the link in place.
</para>
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<listitem>
<para>
Fix corner-case infinite loop during insertion into an SP-GiST text
index (Tom Lane)
</para>
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<listitem>
<para>
Fix incorrect answers from SP-GiST index searches
with <literal>-|-</literal> (range adjacency) operator
(Heikki Linnakangas)
</para>
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<listitem>
<para>
Fix wraparound handling for <filename>pg_multixact/members</>
(&Aacute;lvaro Herrera)
</para>
</listitem>
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<para>
Truncate <structname>pg_multixact</> during checkpoints, not
during <command>VACUUM</> (&Aacute;lvaro Herrera)
</para>
<para>
This change ensures that <structname>pg_multixact</> segments can't be
removed if they'd still be needed during WAL replay after a crash.
</para>
</listitem>
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<listitem>
<para>
Fix possible inconsistency of all-visible flags after WAL recovery
(Heikki Linnakangas)
</para>
</listitem>
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<para>
Fix feedback status when <xref linkend="guc-hot-standby-feedback"> is
turned off on-the-fly (Simon Riggs)
</para>
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<listitem>
<para>
Fix possibly-incorrect cache invalidation during nested calls
to <function>ReceiveSharedInvalidMessages</> (Andres Freund)
</para>
</listitem>
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<para>
Fix race condition when updating a tuple concurrently locked by
another process (Andres Freund, &Aacute;lvaro Herrera)
</para>
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<para>
Fix planner's mishandling of nested PlaceHolderVars generated in
nested-nestloop plans (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
This oversight could result in <quote>variable not found in subplan
target lists</> errors, or in silently wrong query results.
</para>
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<para>
Fix <quote>could not find pathkey item to sort</> planner failures
with <literal>UNION ALL</> over subqueries reading from tables with
inheritance children (Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
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<listitem>
<para>
Don't assume a subquery's output is unique if there's a set-returning
function in its targetlist (David Rowley)
</para>
<para>
This oversight could lead to misoptimization of constructs
like <literal>WHERE x IN (SELECT y, generate_series(1,10) FROM t GROUP
BY y)</literal>.
</para>
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<para>
Improve planner to drop constant-NULL inputs
of <literal>AND</>/<literal>OR</> when possible (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
This change fixes some cases where the more aggressive parameter
substitution done by 9.2 and later can lead to a worse plan than
older versions produced.
</para>
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<para>
Ensure that the planner sees equivalent <literal>VARIADIC</> and
non-<literal>VARIADIC</> function calls as equivalent (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
This bug could for example result in failure to use expression indexes
involving variadic functions. It might be necessary to re-create such
indexes, and/or re-create views including variadic function calls that
should match the indexes, for the fix to be effective for existing 9.3
installations.
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<para>
Fix handling of nested <type>JSON</> objects
in <function>json_populate_recordset()</> and friends
(Michael Paquier, Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
A nested <type>JSON</> object could result in previous fields of the
parent object not being shown in the output.
</para>
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<para>
Fix identification of input type category in <function>to_json()</>
and friends (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
This is known to have led to inadequate quoting of <type>money</>
fields in the <type>JSON</> result, and there may have been wrong
results for other data types as well.
</para>
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<listitem>
<para>
Fix failure to detoast fields in composite elements of structured
types (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
This corrects cases where TOAST pointers could be copied into other
tables without being dereferenced. If the original data is later
deleted, it would lead to errors like <quote>missing chunk number 0
for toast value ...</> when the now-dangling pointer is used.
</para>
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Fix <quote>record type has not been registered</> failures with
whole-row references to the output of Append plan nodes (Tom Lane)
</para>
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Fix possible crash when invoking a user-defined function while
rewinding a cursor (Tom Lane)
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Fix query-lifespan memory leak while evaluating the arguments for a
function in <literal>FROM</> (Tom Lane)
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Fix session-lifespan memory leaks in regular-expression processing
(Tom Lane, Arthur O'Dwyer, Greg Stark)
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Fix data encoding error in <filename>hungarian.stop</> (Tom Lane)
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<para>
Prevent foreign tables from being created with OIDS
when <xref linkend="guc-default-with-oids"> is true
(Etsuro Fujita)
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<para>
Fix liveness checks for rows that were inserted in the current
transaction and then deleted by a now-rolled-back subtransaction
(Andres Freund)
</para>
<para>
This could cause problems (at least spurious warnings, and at worst an
infinite loop) if <command>CREATE INDEX</> or <command>CLUSTER</> were
done later in the same transaction.
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<para>
Clear <structname>pg_stat_activity</>.<structfield>xact_start</>
during <command>PREPARE TRANSACTION</> (Andres Freund)
</para>
<para>
After the <command>PREPARE</>, the originating session is no longer in
a transaction, so it should not continue to display a transaction
start time.
</para>
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Fix <command>REASSIGN OWNED</> to not fail for text search objects
(&Aacute;lvaro Herrera)
</para>
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<para>
Prevent <structname>pg_class</>.<structfield>relminmxid</> values from
going backwards during <command>VACUUM FULL</> (&Aacute;lvaro Herrera)
</para>
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<listitem>
<para>
Reduce indentation in rule/view dumps to improve readability and avoid
excessive whitespace (Greg Stark, Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
This change reduces the amount of indentation applied to nested
constructs, including some cases that the user probably doesn't think
of as nested, such as UNION lists. Previously, deeply nested
constructs were printed with an amount of whitespace growing as
O(N^2), which created a performance problem and even risk of
out-of-memory failures. Now the indentation is reduced modulo 40,
which is initially odd to look at but seems to preserve readability
better than simply limiting the indentation would do.
Redundant parenthesization of UNION lists has been reduced as well.
</para>
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<listitem>
<para>
Fix dumping of rules/views when subsequent addition of a column has
resulted in multiple input columns matching a <literal>USING</>
specification (Tom Lane)
</para>
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<listitem>
<para>
Repair view printing for some cases involving functions
in <literal>FROM</> that return a composite type containing dropped
columns (Tom Lane)
</para>
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<listitem>
<para>
Block signals during postmaster startup (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
This ensures that the postmaster will properly clean up after itself
if, for example, it receives <systemitem>SIGINT</> while still
starting up.
</para>
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<para>
Fix client host name lookup when processing <filename>pg_hba.conf</>
entries that specify host names instead of IP addresses (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
Ensure that reverse-DNS lookup failures are reported, instead of just
silently not matching such entries. Also ensure that we make only
one reverse-DNS lookup attempt per connection, not one per host name
entry, which is what previously happened if the lookup attempts failed.
</para>
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<para>
Allow the root user to use <literal>postgres -C variable</> and
<literal>postgres --describe-config</> (MauMau)
</para>
<para>
The prohibition on starting the server as root does not need to extend
to these operations, and relaxing it prevents failure
of <application>pg_ctl</> in some scenarios.
</para>
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<listitem>
<para>
Secure Unix-domain sockets of temporary postmasters started during
<literal>make check</> (Noah Misch)
</para>
<para>
Any local user able to access the socket file could connect as the
server's bootstrap superuser, then proceed to execute arbitrary code as
the operating-system user running the test, as we previously noted in
CVE-2014-0067. This change defends against that risk by placing the
server's socket in a temporary, mode 0700 subdirectory
of <filename>/tmp</>. The hazard remains however on platforms where
Unix sockets are not supported, notably Windows, because then the
temporary postmaster must accept local TCP connections.
</para>
<para>
A useful side effect of this change is to simplify
<literal>make check</> testing in builds that
override <literal>DEFAULT_PGSOCKET_DIR</>. Popular non-default values
like <filename>/var/run/postgresql</> are often not writable by the
build user, requiring workarounds that will no longer be necessary.
</para>
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<para>
Fix tablespace creation WAL replay to work on Windows (MauMau)
</para>
</listitem>
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<listitem>
<para>
Fix detection of socket creation failures on Windows (Bruce Momjian)
</para>
</listitem>
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<listitem>
<para>
On Windows, allow new sessions to absorb values of PGC_BACKEND
parameters (such as <xref linkend="guc-log-connections">) from the
configuration file (Amit Kapila)
</para>
<para>
Previously, if such a parameter were changed in the file post-startup,
the change would have no effect.
</para>
</listitem>
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<listitem>
<para>
Properly quote executable path names on Windows (Nikhil Deshpande)
</para>
<para>
This oversight could cause <application>initdb</>
and <application>pg_upgrade</> to fail on Windows, if the installation
path contained both spaces and <literal>@</> signs.
</para>
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<listitem>
<para>
Fix linking of <application>libpython</> on OS X (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
The method we previously used can fail with the Python library
supplied by Xcode 5.0 and later.
</para>
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<para>
Avoid buffer bloat in <application>libpq</> when the server
consistently sends data faster than the client can absorb it
(Shin-ichi Morita, Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
<application>libpq</> could be coerced into enlarging its input buffer
until it runs out of memory (which would be reported misleadingly
as <quote>lost synchronization with server</>). Under ordinary
circumstances it's quite far-fetched that data could be continuously
transmitted more quickly than the <function>recv()</> loop can
absorb it, but this has been observed when the client is artificially
slowed by scheduler constraints.
</para>
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<listitem>
<para>
Ensure that LDAP lookup attempts in <application>libpq</> time out as
intended (Laurenz Albe)
</para>
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<listitem>
<para>
Fix <application>ecpg</> to do the right thing when an array
of <type>char *</> is the target for a FETCH statement returning more
than one row, as well as some other array-handling fixes
(Ashutosh Bapat)
</para>
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<listitem>
<para>
Fix <application>pg_dump</> to cope with a materialized view that
depends on a table's primary key (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
This occurs if the view's query relies on functional dependency to
abbreviate a <literal>GROUP BY</> list. <application>pg_dump</> got
sufficiently confused that it dumped the materialized view as a
regular view.
</para>
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<listitem>
<para>
Fix parsing of <application>pg_dumpall</>'s <option>-i</> switch
(Tom Lane)
</para>
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<listitem>
<para>
Fix <application>pg_restore</>'s processing of old-style large object
comments (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
A direct-to-database restore from an archive file generated by a
pre-9.0 version of <application>pg_dump</> would usually fail if the
archive contained more than a few comments for large objects.
</para>
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<listitem>
<para>
Fix <application>pg_upgrade</> for cases where the new server creates
a TOAST table but the old version did not (Bruce Momjian)
</para>
<para>
This rare situation would manifest as <quote>relation OID mismatch</>
errors.
</para>
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<listitem>
<para>
In <application>pg_upgrade</>,
preserve <structname>pg_database</>.<structfield>datminmxid</>
and <structname>pg_class</>.<structfield>relminmxid</> values from the
old cluster, or insert reasonable values when upgrading from pre-9.3
(Bruce Momjian, &Aacute;lvaro Herrera)
</para>
<para>
This avoids a scenario in which autovacuum might insist on scanning the
entire cluster's contents immediately upon starting the new cluster.
</para>
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<listitem>
<para>
Prevent <filename>contrib/auto_explain</> from changing the output of
a user's <command>EXPLAIN</> (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
If <filename>auto_explain</> is active, it could cause
an <literal>EXPLAIN (ANALYZE, TIMING OFF)</> command to nonetheless
print timing information.
</para>
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<listitem>
<para>
Fix query-lifespan memory leak in <filename>contrib/dblink</>
(MauMau, Joe Conway)
</para>
</listitem>
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<listitem>
<para>
In <filename>contrib/pgcrypto</> functions, ensure sensitive
information is cleared from stack variables before returning
(Marko Kreen)
</para>
</listitem>
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<listitem>
<para>
Prevent use of already-freed memory in
<filename>contrib/pgstattuple</>'s <function>pgstat_heap()</>
(Noah Misch)
</para>
</listitem>
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<listitem>
<para>
In <filename>contrib/uuid-ossp</>, cache the state of the OSSP UUID
library across calls (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
This improves the efficiency of UUID generation and reduces the amount
of entropy drawn from <filename>/dev/urandom</>, on platforms that
have that.
</para>
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<listitem>
<para>
Update time zone data files to <application>tzdata</> release 2014e
for DST law changes in Crimea, Egypt, and Morocco.
</para>
</listitem>
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for DST law changes in Fiji and Turkey, plus historical changes in
Israel and Ukraine.
</para>
<para>
</para>
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some <application>psql</> <literal>\d</> commands
(Peter Eisentraut, Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
</para>
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