+
+
Release 8.4.18
+
+
+
Release Date
+ 2013-10-10
+
+
+ This release contains a variety of fixes from 8.4.17.
+ For information about new features in the 8.4 major release, see
+ .
+
+
+
+
Migration to Version 8.4.18
+
+ A dump/restore is not required for those running 8.4.X.
+
+
+ Also, if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 8.4.10,
+ see the release notes for 8.4.10.
+
+
+
+
+
+
Changes
+
+
+
+
+ Prevent downcasing of non-ASCII non-double-quoted identifiers in
+ multi-byte encodings (Andrew Dunstan)
+
+
+ The previous behavior was wrong and confusing.
+
+
+
+
+ Fix memory leak caused by lo_open() failure
+ (Heikki Linnakangas)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix memory overcommit bug when work_mem is using more
+ than 24GB of memory (Stephen Frost)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix libpq SSL deadlock bug (Stephen Frost)
+
+
+
+
+ Properly compute row estimates for boolean columns containing many NULL
+ values (Andrew Gierth)
+
+
+ Previously tests like col IS NOT TRUE and col IS
+ NOT FALSE did not properly factor in NULL values when estimating
+ plan costs.
+
+
+
+
+ Prevent pushing down WHERE clauses into unsafe
+ UNION/INTERSECT subqueries (Tom Lane)
+
+
+ Previously such push downs could generate errors.
+
+
+
+
+ Fix rare GROUP BY query error caused by improperly processed date type
+ modifiers (Tom Lane)
+
+
+
+
+ Allow view dump code to better handle dropped columns on base tables
+ (Tom Lane)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix possible deadlock during concurrent CREATE INDEX
+ CONCURRENTLY operations (Tom Lane)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix regexp_matches() handling of zero-length matches
+ (Jeevan Chalke)
+
+
+ Previously, zero-length matches like '^' could return too many matches.
+
+
+
+
+ Fix crash for overly-complex regular expressions (Heikki Linnakangas)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix regular expression match failures for back references combined with
+ non-greedy quantifiers (Jeevan Chalke)
+
+
+
+
+ Prevent CREATE FUNCTION from checking SET
+ variables unless function body checking is enabled (Tom Lane)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix pgp_pub_decrypt() so it works for secret keys with
+ passwords (Marko Kreen)
+
+
+
+
+ Remove rare inaccurate warning during vacuum of index-less tables
+ (Heikki Linnakangas)
+
+
+
+
+ Avoid possible failure when performing transaction control commands (e.g
+ ROLLBACK) in prepared queries (Tom Lane)
+
+
+
+
+ Allow various spellings of infinity on all platforms (Tom Lane)
+
+
+ Supported infinity values are "inf", "+inf", "-inf", "infinity",
+ "+infinity", and "-infinity".
+
+
+
+
+ Expand ability to compare rows to records and arrays (Rafal Rzepecki,
+ Tom Lane)
+
+
+
+
+ Update time zone data files to
tzdata release 2013d+ for DST law changes in DST law changes in Israel, Morocco, Palestine,
+ Paraguay. Also, historical zone data corrections for Macquarie Island
+ (Tom Lane)
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
Release 8.4.17
+
+
Release 9.0.14
+
+
+
Release Date
+ 2013-10-10
+
+
+ This release contains a variety of fixes from 9.0.13.
+ For information about new features in the 9.0 major release, see
+ .
+
+
+
+
Migration to Version 9.0.14
+
+ A dump/restore is not required for those running 9.0.X.
+
+
+ Also, if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 9.0.6,
+ see the release notes for 9.0.6.
+
+
+
+
+
+
Changes
+
+
+
+
+ Prevent downcasing of non-ASCII non-double-quoted identifiers in
+ multi-byte encodings (Andrew Dunstan)
+
+
+ The previous behavior was wrong and confusing.
+
+
+
+
+ Fix checkpoint memory leak in background writer when wal_level =
+ hot_standby (Naoya Anzai)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix memory leak caused by lo_open() failure
+ (Heikki Linnakangas)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix memory overcommit bug when work_mem is using more
+ than 24GB of memory (Stephen Frost)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix libpq SSL deadlock bug (Stephen Frost)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix possible SSL network stack corruption in threaded libpq applications
+ (Nick Phillips, Stephen Frost)
+
+
+
+
+ Properly compute row estimates for boolean columns containing many NULL
+ values (Andrew Gierth)
+
+
+ Previously tests like col IS NOT TRUE and col IS
+ NOT FALSE did not properly factor in NULL values when estimating
+ plan costs.
+
+
+
+
+ Prevent pushing down WHERE clauses into unsafe
+ UNION/INTERSECT subqueries (Tom Lane)
+
+
+ Previously such push downs could generate errors.
+
+
+
+
+ Fix rare GROUP BY query error caused by improperly processed date type
+ modifiers (Tom Lane)
+
+
+
+
+ Allow view dump code to better handle dropped columns on base tables
+ (Tom Lane)
+
+
+
+
+ Properly record index comments created using UNIQUE
+ and PRIMARY KEY syntax (Andres Freund)
+
+
+ This fixes a parallel
pg_restore failure.+
+
+
+
+ Fix REINDEX TABLE and REINDEX DATABASE
+ to properly revalidate constraints and mark invalidated indexes as
+ valid (Noah Misch)
+
+
+ REINDEX INDEX has always worked properly.
+
+
+
+
+ Fix possible deadlock during concurrent CREATE INDEX
+ CONCURRENTLY operations (Tom Lane)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix regexp_matches() handling of zero-length matches
+ (Jeevan Chalke)
+
+
+ Previously, zero-length matches like '^' could return too many matches.
+
+
+
+
+ Fix crash for overly-complex regular expressions (Heikki Linnakangas)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix regular expression match failures for back references combined with
+ non-greedy quantifiers (Jeevan Chalke)
+
+
+
+
+ Prevent CREATE FUNCTION from checking SET
+ variables unless function body checking is enabled (Tom Lane)
+
+
+
+
+ Allow ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES to operate on schemas
+ without requiring CREATE permission (Tom Lane)
+
+
+
+
+ Loosen restriction on keywords used in queries (Tom Lane)
+
+
+ Specifically, lessen keyword restrictions for role names, language
+ names, EXPLAIN and COPY options, and
+ SET values. This allows COPY ... (FORMAT
+ BINARY) previously BINARY required single-quotes.
+
+
+
+
+ Fix pgp_pub_decrypt() so it works for secret keys with
+ passwords (Marko Kreen)
+
+
+
+
+ Remove rare inaccurate warning during vacuum of index-less tables
+ (Heikki Linnakangas)
+
+
+
+
+ Improve analyze statistics generation after a cancelled file truncate
+ request (Kevin Grittner)
+
+
+
+
+ Avoid possible failure when performing transaction control commands (e.g
+ ROLLBACK) in prepared queries (Tom Lane)
+
+
+
+
+ Allow various spellings of infinity on all platforms (Tom Lane)
+
+
+ Supported infinity values are "inf", "+inf", "-inf", "infinity",
+ "+infinity", and "-infinity".
+
+
+
+
+ Expand ability to compare rows to records and arrays (Rafal Rzepecki,
+ Tom Lane)
+
+
+
+
+ Update time zone data files to
tzdata release 2013d+ for DST law changes in DST law changes in Israel, Morocco, Palestine,
+ Paraguay. Also, historical zone data corrections for Macquarie Island
+ (Tom Lane)
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
Release 9.0.13
+
+
Release 9.1.10
+
+
+
Release Date
+ 2013-10-10
+
+
+ This release contains a variety of fixes from 9.1.9.
+ For information about new features in the 9.1 major release, see
+ .
+
+
+
+
Migration to Version 9.1.10
+
+ A dump/restore is not required for those running 9.1.X.
+
+
+ Also, if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 9.1.6,
+ see the release notes for 9.1.6.
+
+
+
+
+
+
Changes
+
+
+
+
+ Prevent downcasing of non-ASCII non-double-quoted identifiers in
+ multi-byte encodings (Andrew Dunstan)
+
+
+ The previous behavior was wrong and confusing.
+
+
+
+
+ Fix checkpoint memory leak in background writer when wal_level =
+ hot_standby (Naoya Anzai)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix memory leak caused by lo_open() failure
+ (Heikki Linnakangas)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix memory overcommit bug when work_mem is using more
+ than 24GB of memory (Stephen Frost)
+
+
+
+
+ Serializable snapshot fixes (Kevin Grittner, Heikki Linnakangas)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix libpq SSL deadlock bug (Stephen Frost)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix possible SSL network stack corruption in threaded libpq applications
+ (Nick Phillips, Stephen Frost)
+
+
+
+
+ Properly compute row estimates for boolean columns containing many NULL
+ values (Andrew Gierth)
+
+
+ Previously tests like col IS NOT TRUE and col IS
+ NOT FALSE did not properly factor in NULL values when estimating
+ plan costs.
+
+
+
+
+ Prevent pushing down WHERE clauses into unsafe
+ UNION/INTERSECT subqueries (Tom Lane)
+
+
+ Previously such push downs could generate errors.
+
+
+
+
+ Fix rare GROUP BY query error caused by improperly processed date type
+ modifiers (Tom Lane)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix
pg_dump of foreign tables with dropped columns (Andrew Dunstan)+
+
+ Previously such cases could cause a
pg_upgrade error.+
+
+
+
+ Reorder
pg_dump processing of extension-related+ rules and event triggers (Joe Conway)
+
+
+
+
+ Force dumping of extension tables if specified by pg_dump
+ -t or -n (Joe Conway)
+
+
+
+
+ Allow view dump code to better handle dropped columns on base tables
+ (Tom Lane)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix pg_restore -l with the directory archive to display
+ the correct format name (Fujii Masao)
+
+
+
+
+ Properly record index comments created using UNIQUE
+ and PRIMARY KEY syntax (Andres Freund)
+
+
+ This fixes a parallel
pg_restore failure.+
+
+
+
+ Properly guarantee transmission of WAL files before clean switchover
+ (Fujii Masao)
+
+
+ Previously, the streaming replication connection might close before all
+ WAL files had been replayed on the standby.
+
+
+
+
+ Improve WAL segment timeline handling during recovery (Heikki
+ Linnakangas)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix REINDEX TABLE and REINDEX DATABASE
+ to properly revalidate constraints and mark invalidated indexes as
+ valid (Noah Misch)
+
+
+ REINDEX INDEX has always worked properly.
+
+
+
+
+ Fix possible deadlock during concurrent CREATE INDEX
+ CONCURRENTLY operations (Tom Lane)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix regexp_matches() handling of zero-length matches
+ (Jeevan Chalke)
+
+
+ Previously, zero-length matches like '^' could return too many matches.
+
+
+
+
+ Fix crash for overly-complex regular expressions (Heikki Linnakangas)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix regular expression match failures for back references combined with
+ non-greedy quantifiers (Jeevan Chalke)
+
+
+
+
+ Prevent CREATE FUNCTION from checking SET
+ variables unless function body checking is enabled (Tom Lane)
+
+
+
+
+ Allow ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES to operate on schemas
+ without requiring CREATE permission (Tom Lane)
+
+
+
+
+ Loosen restriction on keywords used in queries (Tom Lane)
+
+
+ Specifically, lessen keyword restrictions for role names, language
+ names, EXPLAIN and COPY options, and
+ SET values. This allows COPY ... (FORMAT
+ BINARY) previously BINARY required single-quotes.
+
+
+
+
+ Fix pgp_pub_decrypt() so it works for secret keys with
+ passwords (Marko Kreen)
+
+
+
+
+ Have
pg_upgrade use >pg_dump+ --quote-all-identifiers to avoid problems with keyword changes
+ between releases (Tom Lane)
+
+
+
+
+ Remove rare inaccurate warning during vacuum of index-less tables
+ (Heikki Linnakangas)
+
+
+
+
+ Improve analyze statistics generation after a cancelled file truncate
+ request (Kevin Grittner)
+
+
+
+
+ Avoid possible failure when performing transaction control commands (e.g
+ ROLLBACK) in prepared queries (Tom Lane)
+
+
+
+
+ Allow various spellings of infinity on all platforms (Tom Lane)
+
+
+ Supported infinity values are "inf", "+inf", "-inf", "infinity",
+ "+infinity", and "-infinity".
+
+
+
+
+ Expand ability to compare rows to records and arrays (Rafal Rzepecki,
+ Tom Lane)
+
+
+
+
+ Update time zone data files to
tzdata release 2013d+ for DST law changes in DST law changes in Israel, Morocco, Palestine,
+ Paraguay. Also, historical zone data corrections for Macquarie Island
+ (Tom Lane)
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
Release 9.1.9
+
+
Release 9.2.5
+
+
+
Release Date
+ 2013-10-10
+
+
+ This release contains a variety of fixes from 9.2.4.
+ For information about new features in the 9.2 major release, see
+ .
+
+
+
+
Migration to Version 9.2.5
+
+ A dump/restore is not required for those running 9.2.X.
+
+
+ Also, if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 9.2.2,
+ see the release notes for 9.2.2.
+
+
+
+
+
+
Changes
+
+
+
+
+ Prevent downcasing of non-ASCII non-double-quoted identifiers in
+ multi-byte encodings (Andrew Dunstan)
+
+
+ The previous behavior was wrong and confusing.
+
+
+
+
+ Fix memory leak when creating range indexes (Heikki Linnakangas)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix checkpoint memory leak in background writer when wal_level =
+ hot_standby (Naoya Anzai)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix memory leak caused by lo_open() failure
+ (Heikki Linnakangas)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix memory overcommit bug when work_mem is using more
+ than 24GB of memory (Stephen Frost)
+
+
+
+
+ Serializable snapshot fixes (Kevin Grittner, Heikki Linnakangas)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix libpq SSL deadlock bug (Stephen Frost)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix possible SSL network stack corruption in threaded libpq applications
+ (Nick Phillips, Stephen Frost)
+
+
+
+
+ Improve estimate of planner cost when choosing between generic and
+ custom plans (Tom Lane)
+
+
+ This change will favor generic plans when planning cost is high.
+
+
+
+
+ Properly compute row estimates for boolean columns containing many NULL
+ values (Andrew Gierth)
+
+
+ Previously tests like col IS NOT TRUE and col IS
+ NOT FALSE did not properly factor in NULL values when estimating
+ plan costs.
+
+
+
+
+ Fix UNION ALL and inheritance queries to properly
+ recheck parameterized paths (Tom Lane)
+
+
+ This fixes cases where suboptimal query plans could potentially be
+ chosen.
+
+
+
+
+ Prevent pushing down WHERE clauses into unsafe
+ UNION/INTERSECT subqueries (Tom Lane)
+
+
+ Previously such push downs could generate errors.
+
+
+
+
+ Fix rare GROUP BY query error caused by improperly processed date type
+ modifiers (Tom Lane)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix
pg_dump of foreign tables with dropped columns (Andrew Dunstan)+
+
+ Previously such cases could cause a
pg_upgrade error.+
+
+
+
+ Reorder
pg_dump processing of extension-related+ rules and event triggers (Joe Conway)
+
+
+
+
+ Force dumping of extension tables if specified by pg_dump
+ -t or -n (Joe Conway)
+
+
+
+
+ Allow view dump code to better handle dropped columns on base tables
+ (Tom Lane)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix pg_restore -l with the directory archive to display
+ the correct format name (Fujii Masao)
+
+
+
+
+ Properly record index comments created using UNIQUE
+ and PRIMARY KEY syntax (Andres Freund)
+
+
+ This fixes a parallel
pg_restore failure.+
+
+
+
+ Cause pg_basebackup -x with an empty xlog directory
+ to throw an error rather than crashing (Magnus Hagander, Haruka
+ Takatsuka)
+
+
+
+
+ Properly guarantee transmission of WAL files before clean switchover
+ (Fujii Masao)
+
+
+ Previously, the streaming replication connection might close before all
+ WAL files had been replayed on the standby.
+
+
+
+
+ Improve WAL segment timeline handling during recovery (Heikki
+ Linnakangas)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix REINDEX TABLE and REINDEX DATABASE
+ to properly revalidate constraints and mark invalidated indexes as
+ valid (Noah Misch)
+
+
+ REINDEX INDEX has always worked properly.
+
+
+
+
+ Avoid deadlocks during insertion into SP-GiST indexes (Teodor Sigaev)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix possible deadlock during concurrent CREATE INDEX
+ CONCURRENTLY operations (Tom Lane)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix GiST index lookup crash (Tom Lane)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix regexp_matches() handling of zero-length matches
+ (Jeevan Chalke)
+
+
+ Previously, zero-length matches like '^' could return too many matches.
+
+
+
+
+ Fix crash for overly-complex regular expressions (Heikki Linnakangas)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix regular expression match failures for back references combined with
+ non-greedy quantifiers (Jeevan Chalke)
+
+
+
+
+ Prevent CREATE FUNCTION from checking SET
+ variables unless function body checking is enabled (Tom Lane)
+
+
+
+
+ Allow ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES to operate on schemas
+ without requiring CREATE permission (Tom Lane)
+
+
+
+
+ Loosen restriction on keywords used in queries (Tom Lane)
+
+
+ Specifically, lessen keyword restrictions for role names, language
+ names, EXPLAIN and COPY options, and
+ SET values. This allows COPY ... (FORMAT
+ BINARY) previously BINARY required single-quotes.
+
+
+
+
+ Print proper line number during COPY failure (Heikki
+ Linnakangas)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix pgp_pub_decrypt() so it works for secret keys with
+ passwords (Marko Kreen)
+
+
+
+
+ Have
pg_upgrade use >pg_dump+ --quote-all-identifiers to avoid problems with keyword changes
+ between releases (Tom Lane)
+
+
+
+
+ Remove rare inaccurate warning during vacuum of index-less tables
+ (Heikki Linnakangas)
+
+
+
+
+ Improve analyze statistics generation after a cancelled file truncate
+ request (Kevin Grittner)
+
+
+
+
+ Avoid possible failure when performing transaction control commands (e.g
+ ROLLBACK) in prepared queries (Tom Lane)
+
+
+
+
+ Allow various spellings of infinity on all platforms (Tom Lane)
+
+
+ Supported infinity values are "inf", "+inf", "-inf", "infinity",
+ "+infinity", and "-infinity".
+
+
+
+
+ Avoid unnecessary reporting when track_activities is off
+ (Tom Lane)
+
+
+
+
+ Expand ability to compare rows to records and arrays (Rafal Rzepecki,
+ Tom Lane)
+
+
+
+
+ Prevent crash when
psql's PSQLRC variable+ contains a tilde (Bruce Momjian)
+
+
+
+
+ Add spinlock support for ARM64 (Mark Salter)
+
+
+
+
+ Update time zone data files to
tzdata release 2013d+ for DST law changes in DST law changes in Israel, Morocco, Palestine,
+ Paraguay. Also, historical zone data corrections for Macquarie Island
+ (Tom Lane)
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
Release 9.2.4
+
+
Release 9.3.1
+
+
+
Release Date
+ 2013-10-10
+
+
+ This release contains a variety of fixes from 9.3.0.
+ For information about new features in the 9.3 major release, see
+ .
+
+
+
+
Migration to Version 9.3.1
+
+ A dump/restore is not required for those running 9.3.X.
+
+
+
+
+
+
Changes
+
+
+
+
+ Update hstore extension with JSON functionality (Andrew Dunstan)
+
+
+ Users who installed hstore prior to 9.3.1 must execute:
+ALTER EXTENSION hstore UPDATE;
+
+ to add two new JSON functions and a cast.
+
+
+
+
+ Fix memory leak when creating range indexes (Heikki Linnakangas)
+
+
+
+
+ Serializable snapshot fixes (Kevin Grittner, Heikki Linnakangas)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix libpq SSL deadlock bug (Stephen Frost)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix timeline handling bugs in
pg_receivexlog+ (Heikki Linnakangas, Andrew Gierth)
+
+
+
+
+ Prevent CREATE FUNCTION from checking SET
+ variables unless function body checking is enabled (Tom Lane)
+
+
+
+
+ Remove rare inaccurate warning during vacuum of index-less tables
+ (Heikki Linnakangas)
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
Release 9.3
projects / postgresql.git / commitdiff