7.4.28.
-
+
+
+
Release 7.4.28
+
+
+
Release date
+ 2010-03-15
+
+
+ This release contains a variety of fixes from 7.4.27.
+ For information about new features in the 7.4 major release, see
+ .
+
+
+ The
PostgreSQL community will stop releasing updates+ for the 7.4.X release series in July 2010.
+ Users are encouraged to update to a newer release branch soon.
+
+
+
+
Migration to Version 7.4.28
+
+ A dump/restore is not required for those running 7.4.X.
+ However, if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 7.4.26,
+ see the release notes for 7.4.26.
+
+
+
+
+
+
Changes
+
+
+
+
+ Add new configuration parameter ssl_renegotiation_limit to
+ control how often we do session key renegotiation for an SSL connection
+ (Magnus)
+
+
+ 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.
+
+
+
+
+ Make substring() for bit types treat any negative
+ length as meaning all the rest of the string (Tom)
+
+
+ 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).
+
+
+
+
+ Fix some cases of pathologically slow regular expression matching (Tom)
+
+
+
+
+ When reading pg_hba.conf and related files, do not treat
+ @something as a file inclusion request if the @
+ appears inside quote marks; also, never treat @ by itself
+ as a file inclusion request (Tom)
+
+
+ This prevents erratic behavior if a role or database name starts with
+ @. If you need to include a file whose path name
+ contains spaces, you can still do so, but you must write
+ @"/path to/file" rather than putting the quotes around
+ the whole construct.
+
+
+
+
+ Prevent infinite loop on some platforms if a directory is named as
+ an inclusion target in pg_hba.conf and related files
+ (Tom)
+
+
+
+
+ Ensure PL/Tcl initializes the Tcl interpreter fully (Tom)
+
+
+ The only known symptom of this oversight is that the Tcl
+ clock command misbehaves if using Tcl 8.5 or later.
+
+
+
+
+ Prevent crash in contrib/dblink when too many key
+ columns are specified to a dblink_build_sql_* function
+ (Rushabh Lathia, Joe Conway)
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
Release 7.4.27
-
+
+
+
Release 8.0.24
+
+
+
Release date
+ 2010-03-15
+
+
+ This release contains a variety of fixes from 8.0.23.
+ For information about new features in the 8.0 major release, see
+ .
+
+
+ The
PostgreSQL community will stop releasing updates+ for the 8.0.X release series in July 2010.
+ Users are encouraged to update to a newer release branch soon.
+
+
+
+
Migration to Version 8.0.24
+
+ A dump/restore is not required for those running 8.0.X.
+ However, if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 8.0.22,
+ see the release notes for 8.0.22.
+
+
+
+
+
+
Changes
+
+
+
+
+ Add new configuration parameter ssl_renegotiation_limit to
+ control how often we do session key renegotiation for an SSL connection
+ (Magnus)
+
+
+ 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.
+
+
+
+
+ Fix possible crashes when trying to recover from a failure in
+ subtransaction start (Tom)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix server memory leak associated with use of savepoints and a client
+ encoding different from server's encoding (Tom)
+
+
+
+
+ Make substring() for bit types treat any negative
+ length as meaning all the rest of the string (Tom)
+
+
+ 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).
+
+
+
+
+ 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)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix some cases of pathologically slow regular expression matching (Tom)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix the 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)
+
+
+
+
+ When reading pg_hba.conf and related files, do not treat
+ @something as a file inclusion request if the @
+ appears inside quote marks; also, never treat @ by itself
+ as a file inclusion request (Tom)
+
+
+ This prevents erratic behavior if a role or database name starts with
+ @. If you need to include a file whose path name
+ contains spaces, you can still do so, but you must write
+ @"/path to/file" rather than putting the quotes around
+ the whole construct.
+
+
+
+
+ Prevent infinite loop on some platforms if a directory is named as
+ an inclusion target in pg_hba.conf and related files
+ (Tom)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix plpgsql failure in one case where a composite column is set to NULL
+ (Tom)
+
+
+
+
+ Add volatile markings in PL/Python to avoid possible
+ compiler-specific misbehavior (Zdenek Kotala)
+
+
+
+
+ Ensure PL/Tcl initializes the Tcl interpreter fully (Tom)
+
+
+ The only known symptom of this oversight is that the Tcl
+ clock command misbehaves if using Tcl 8.5 or later.
+
+
+
+
+ Prevent crash in contrib/dblink when too many key
+ columns are specified to a dblink_build_sql_* function
+ (Rushabh Lathia, Joe Conway)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix assorted crashes in contrib/xml2 caused by sloppy
+ memory management (Tom)
+
+
+
+
+ Update time zone data files to
tzdata release 2010e+ for DST law changes in Bangladesh, Chile, Fiji, Mexico, Paraguay, Samoa.
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
Release 8.0.23
-
+
+
+
Release 8.1.20
+
+
+
Release date
+ 2010-03-15
+
+
+ This release contains a variety of fixes from 8.1.19.
+ For information about new features in the 8.1 major release, see
+ .
+
+
+
+
Migration to Version 8.1.20
+
+ A dump/restore is not required for those running 8.1.X.
+ However, if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 8.1.18,
+ see the release notes for 8.1.18.
+
+
+
+
+
+
Changes
+
+
+
+
+ Add new configuration parameter ssl_renegotiation_limit to
+ control how often we do session key renegotiation for an SSL connection
+ (Magnus)
+
+
+ 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.
+
+
+
+
+ Fix possible crashes when trying to recover from a failure in
+ subtransaction start (Tom)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix server memory leak associated with use of savepoints and a client
+ encoding different from server's encoding (Tom)
+
+
+
+
+ Make substring() for bit types treat any negative
+ length as meaning all the rest of the string (Tom)
+
+
+ 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).
+
+
+
+
+ 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)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix some cases of pathologically slow regular expression matching (Tom)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix the 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)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix some more cases of temporary-file leakage (Heikki)
+
+
+ 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.
+
+
+
+
+ When reading pg_hba.conf and related files, do not treat
+ @something as a file inclusion request if the @
+ appears inside quote marks; also, never treat @ by itself
+ as a file inclusion request (Tom)
+
+
+ This prevents erratic behavior if a role or database name starts with
+ @. If you need to include a file whose path name
+ contains spaces, you can still do so, but you must write
+ @"/path to/file" rather than putting the quotes around
+ the whole construct.
+
+
+
+
+ Prevent infinite loop on some platforms if a directory is named as
+ an inclusion target in pg_hba.conf and related files
+ (Tom)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix
psql's numericlocale option to not+ format strings it shouldn't in latex and troff output formats (Heikki)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix plpgsql failure in one case where a composite column is set to NULL
+ (Tom)
+
+
+
+
+ Add volatile markings in PL/Python to avoid possible
+ compiler-specific misbehavior (Zdenek Kotala)
+
+
+
+
+ Ensure PL/Tcl initializes the Tcl interpreter fully (Tom)
+
+
+ The only known symptom of this oversight is that the Tcl
+ clock command misbehaves if using Tcl 8.5 or later.
+
+
+
+
+ Prevent crash in contrib/dblink when too many key
+ columns are specified to a dblink_build_sql_* function
+ (Rushabh Lathia, Joe Conway)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix assorted crashes in contrib/xml2 caused by sloppy
+ memory management (Tom)
+
+
+
+
+ Update time zone data files to
tzdata release 2010e+ for DST law changes in Bangladesh, Chile, Fiji, Mexico, Paraguay, Samoa.
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
Release 8.1.19
-
+
+
+
Release 8.2.16
+
+
+
Release date
+ 2010-03-15
+
+
+ This release contains a variety of fixes from 8.2.15.
+ For information about new features in the 8.2 major release, see
+ .
+
+
+
+
Migration to Version 8.2.16
+
+ 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.
+
+
+
+
+
+
Changes
+
+
+
+
+ Add new configuration parameter ssl_renegotiation_limit to
+ control how often we do session key renegotiation for an SSL connection
+ (Magnus)
+
+
+ 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.
+
+
+
+
+ Fix possible deadlock during backend startup (Tom)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix possible crashes due to not handling errors during relcache reload
+ cleanly (Tom)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix possible crashes when trying to recover from a failure in
+ subtransaction start (Tom)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix server memory leak associated with use of savepoints and a client
+ encoding different from server's encoding (Tom)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix incorrect WAL data emitted during end-of-recovery cleanup of a GIST
+ index page split (Yoichi Hirai)
+
+
+ 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.
+
+
+
+
+ Make substring() for bit types treat any negative
+ length as meaning all the rest of the string (Tom)
+
+
+ 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).
+
+
+
+
+ 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)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix some cases of pathologically slow regular expression matching (Tom)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix the 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)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix some more cases of temporary-file leakage (Heikki)
+
+
+ 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.
+
+
+
+
+ Improve constraint exclusion processing of boolean-variable cases,
+ in particular make it possible to exclude a partition that has a
+ bool_column = false constraint (Tom)
+
+
+
+
+ When reading pg_hba.conf and related files, do not treat
+ @something as a file inclusion request if the @
+ appears inside quote marks; also, never treat @ by itself
+ as a file inclusion request (Tom)
+
+
+ This prevents erratic behavior if a role or database name starts with
+ @. If you need to include a file whose path name
+ contains spaces, you can still do so, but you must write
+ @"/path to/file" rather than putting the quotes around
+ the whole construct.
+
+
+
+
+ Prevent infinite loop on some platforms if a directory is named as
+ an inclusion target in pg_hba.conf and related files
+ (Tom)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix possible infinite loop if SSL_read or
+ SSL_write fails without setting errno (Tom)
+
+
+ This is reportedly possible with some Windows versions of
+
+
+
+
+ Fix
psql's numericlocale option to not+ format strings it shouldn't in latex and troff output formats (Heikki)
+
+
+
+
+ Make
psql return the correct exit status (3) when+ ON_ERROR_STOP and --single-transaction are
+ both specified and an error occurs during the implied COMMIT
+ (Bruce)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix plpgsql failure in one case where a composite column is set to NULL
+ (Tom)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix possible failure when calling PL/Perl functions from PL/PerlU
+ or vice versa (Tim Bunce)
+
+
+
+
+ Add volatile markings in PL/Python to avoid possible
+ compiler-specific misbehavior (Zdenek Kotala)
+
+
+
+
+ Ensure PL/Tcl initializes the Tcl interpreter fully (Tom)
+
+
+ The only known symptom of this oversight is that the Tcl
+ clock command misbehaves if using Tcl 8.5 or later.
+
+
+
+
+ Prevent crash in contrib/dblink when too many key
+ columns are specified to a dblink_build_sql_* function
+ (Rushabh Lathia, Joe Conway)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix assorted crashes in contrib/xml2 caused by sloppy
+ memory management (Tom)
+
+
+
+
+ Make building of contrib/xml2 more robust on Windows
+ (Andrew)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix race condition in Windows signal handling (Radu Ilie)
+
+
+ One known symptom of this bug is that rows in pg_listener
+ could be dropped under heavy load.
+
+
+
+
+ Update time zone data files to
tzdata release 2010e+ for DST law changes in Bangladesh, Chile, Fiji, Mexico, Paraguay, Samoa.
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
Release 8.2.15
-
+
+
+
Release 8.3.10
+
+
+
Release date
+ 2010-03-15
+
+
+ This release contains a variety of fixes from 8.3.9.
+ For information about new features in the 8.3 major release, see
+ .
+
+
+
+
Migration to Version 8.3.10
+
+ 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.
+
+
+
+
+
+
Changes
+
+
+
+
+ Add new configuration parameter ssl_renegotiation_limit to
+ control how often we do session key renegotiation for an SSL connection
+ (Magnus)
+
+
+ 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.
+
+
+
+
+ Fix possible deadlock during backend startup (Tom)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix possible crashes due to not handling errors during relcache reload
+ cleanly (Tom)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix possible crash due to use of dangling pointer to a cached plan
+ (Tatsuo)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix possible crashes when trying to recover from a failure in
+ subtransaction start (Tom)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix server memory leak associated with use of savepoints and a client
+ encoding different from server's encoding (Tom)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix incorrect WAL data emitted during end-of-recovery cleanup of a GIST
+ index page split (Yoichi Hirai)
+
+
+ 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.
+
+
+
+
+ Make substring() for bit types treat any negative
+ length as meaning all the rest of the string (Tom)
+
+
+ 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).
+
+
+
+
+ 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)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix some cases of pathologically slow regular expression matching (Tom)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix assorted crashes in xml processing caused by sloppy
+ memory management (Tom)
+
+
+ This is a back-patch of changes first applied in 8.4. The 8.3 code
+ was known buggy, but the new code was sufficiently different to not
+ want to back-patch it until it had gotten some field testing.
+
+
+
+
+ Fix bug with trying to update a field of an element of a
+ composite-type array column (Tom)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix the 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)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix some more cases of temporary-file leakage (Heikki)
+
+
+ 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.
+
+
+
+
+ Improve constraint exclusion processing of boolean-variable cases,
+ in particular make it possible to exclude a partition that has a
+ bool_column = false constraint (Tom)
+
+
+
+
+ When reading pg_hba.conf and related files, do not treat
+ @something as a file inclusion request if the @
+ appears inside quote marks; also, never treat @ by itself
+ as a file inclusion request (Tom)
+
+
+ This prevents erratic behavior if a role or database name starts with
+ @. If you need to include a file whose path name
+ contains spaces, you can still do so, but you must write
+ @"/path to/file" rather than putting the quotes around
+ the whole construct.
+
+
+
+
+ Prevent infinite loop on some platforms if a directory is named as
+ an inclusion target in pg_hba.conf and related files
+ (Tom)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix possible infinite loop if SSL_read or
+ SSL_write fails without setting errno (Tom)
+
+
+ This is reportedly possible with some Windows versions of
+
+
+
+
+ Disallow
GSSAPI authentication on local connections,+ since it requires a hostname to function correctly (Magnus)
+
+
+
+
+ Make
ecpg report the proper SQLSTATE if the connection+ disappears (Michael)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix
psql's numericlocale option to not+ format strings it shouldn't in latex and troff output formats (Heikki)
+
+
+
+
+ Make
psql return the correct exit status (3) when+ ON_ERROR_STOP and --single-transaction are
+ both specified and an error occurs during the implied COMMIT
+ (Bruce)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix plpgsql failure in one case where a composite column is set to NULL
+ (Tom)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix possible failure when calling PL/Perl functions from PL/PerlU
+ or vice versa (Tim Bunce)
+
+
+
+
+ Add volatile markings in PL/Python to avoid possible
+ compiler-specific misbehavior (Zdenek Kotala)
+
+
+
+
+ Ensure PL/Tcl initializes the Tcl interpreter fully (Tom)
+
+
+ The only known symptom of this oversight is that the Tcl
+ clock command misbehaves if using Tcl 8.5 or later.
+
+
+
+
+ Prevent crash in contrib/dblink when too many key
+ columns are specified to a dblink_build_sql_* function
+ (Rushabh Lathia, Joe Conway)
+
+
+
+
+ Allow zero-dimensional arrays in contrib/ltree operations
+ (Tom)
+
+
+ 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 ltree operation is applied to the
+ result of ARRAY(SELECT ...) and the sub-select returns no
+ rows.
+
+
+
+
+ Fix assorted crashes in contrib/xml2 caused by sloppy
+ memory management (Tom)
+
+
+
+
+ Make building of contrib/xml2 more robust on Windows
+ (Andrew)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix race condition in Windows signal handling (Radu Ilie)
+
+
+ One known symptom of this bug is that rows in pg_listener
+ could be dropped under heavy load.
+
+
+
+
+ Update time zone data files to
tzdata release 2010e+ for DST law changes in Bangladesh, Chile, Fiji, Mexico, Paraguay, Samoa.
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
Release 8.3.9
-
+
+
+
Release 8.4.3
+
+
+
Release date
+ 2010-03-15
+
+
+ This release contains a variety of fixes from 8.4.2.
+ For information about new features in the 8.4 major release, see
+ .
+
+
+
+
Migration to Version 8.4.3
+
+ 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.
+
+
+
+
+
+
Changes
+
+
+
+
+ Add new configuration parameter ssl_renegotiation_limit to
+ control how often we do session key renegotiation for an SSL connection
+ (Magnus)
+
+
+ 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.
+
+
+
+
+ Fix possible deadlock during backend startup (Tom)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix possible crashes due to not handling errors during relcache reload
+ cleanly (Tom)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix possible crash due to use of dangling pointer to a cached plan
+ (Tatsuo)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix possible crash due to overenthusiastic invalidation of cached
+ plan for ROLLBACK (Tom)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix possible crashes when trying to recover from a failure in
+ subtransaction start (Tom)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix server memory leak associated with use of savepoints and a client
+ encoding different from server's encoding (Tom)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix incorrect WAL data emitted during end-of-recovery cleanup of a GIST
+ index page split (Yoichi Hirai)
+
+
+ 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.
+
+
+
+
+ Fix bug in WAL redo cleanup method for GIN indexes (Heikki)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix incorrect comparison of scan key in GIN index search (Teodor)
+
+
+
+
+ Make substring() for bit types treat any negative
+ length as meaning all the rest of the string (Tom)
+
+
+ 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).
+
+
+
+
+ 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)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix some cases of pathologically slow regular expression matching (Tom)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix bug occurring when trying to inline a SQL function that returns
+ a set of a composite type that contains dropped columns (Tom)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix bug with trying to update a field of an element of a
+ composite-type array column (Tom)
+
+
+
+
+ Avoid failure when EXPLAIN has to print a FieldStore or
+ assignment ArrayRef expression (Tom)
+
+
+ These cases can arise now that EXPLAIN VERBOSE tries to
+ print plan node target lists.
+
+
+
+
+ Avoid an unnecessary coercion failure in some cases where an undecorated
+ literal string appears in a subquery within
+ UNION/INTERSECT/EXCEPT (Tom)
+
+
+ This fixes a regression for some cases that worked before 8.4.
+
+
+
+
+ Avoid undesirable rowtype compatibility check failures in some cases
+ where a whole-row Var has a rowtype that contains dropped columns (Tom)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix the 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)
+
+
+
+
+ Always pass the catalog ID to an option validator function specified in
+ CREATE FOREIGN DATA WRAPPER (Martin Pihlak)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix some more cases of temporary-file leakage (Heikki)
+
+
+ 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.
+
+
+
+
+ Add support for doing FULL JOIN ON FALSE (Tom)
+
+
+ This prevents a regression from pre-8.4 releases for some queries that
+ can now be simplified to a constant-false join condition.
+
+
+
+
+ Improve constraint exclusion processing of boolean-variable cases,
+ in particular make it possible to exclude a partition that has a
+ bool_column = false constraint (Tom)
+
+
+
+
+ Prevent treating an INOUT cast as representing binary
+ compatibility (Heikki)
+
+
+
+
+ Include column name in the message when warning about inability to
+ grant or revoke column-level privileges (Stephen Frost)
+
+
+ This is more useful than before and helps to prevent confusion when
+ a REVOKE generates multiple messages, which formerly
+ appeared to be duplicates.
+
+
+
+
+ When reading pg_hba.conf and related files, do not treat
+ @something as a file inclusion request if the @
+ appears inside quote marks; also, never treat @ by itself
+ as a file inclusion request (Tom)
+
+
+ This prevents erratic behavior if a role or database name starts with
+ @. If you need to include a file whose path name
+ contains spaces, you can still do so, but you must write
+ @"/path to/file" rather than putting the quotes around
+ the whole construct.
+
+
+
+
+ Prevent infinite loop on some platforms if a directory is named as
+ an inclusion target in pg_hba.conf and related files
+ (Tom)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix possible infinite loop if SSL_read or
+ SSL_write fails without setting errno (Tom)
+
+
+ This is reportedly possible with some Windows versions of
+
+
+
+
+ Disallow
GSSAPI authentication on local connections,+ since it requires a hostname to function correctly (Magnus)
+
+
+
+
+ Protect
ecpg against applications freeing strings+ unexpectedly (Michael)
+
+
+
+
+ Make
ecpg report the proper SQLSTATE if the connection+ disappears (Michael)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix translation of cell contents in
psql \d+ output (Heikki)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix
psql's numericlocale option to not+ format strings it shouldn't in latex and troff output formats (Heikki)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix a small per-query memory leak in
psql (Tom)+
+
+
+
+ Make
psql return the correct exit status (3) when+ ON_ERROR_STOP and --single-transaction are
+ both specified and an error occurs during the implied COMMIT
+ (Bruce)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix
pg_dump's output of permissions for foreign servers+ (Heikki)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix possible crash in parallel
pg_restore due to+ out-of-range dependency IDs (Tom)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix plpgsql failure in one case where a composite column is set to NULL
+ (Tom)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix possible failure when calling PL/Perl functions from PL/PerlU
+ or vice versa (Tim Bunce)
+
+
+
+
+ Add volatile markings in PL/Python to avoid possible
+ compiler-specific misbehavior (Zdenek Kotala)
+
+
+
+
+ Ensure PL/Tcl initializes the Tcl interpreter fully (Tom)
+
+
+ The only known symptom of this oversight is that the Tcl
+ clock command misbehaves if using Tcl 8.5 or later.
+
+
+
+
+ Prevent ExecutorEnd from being run on portals created
+ within a failed transaction or subtransaction (Tom)
+
+
+ This is known to cause issues when using
+ contrib/auto_explain.
+
+
+
+
+ Prevent crash in contrib/dblink when too many key
+ columns are specified to a dblink_build_sql_* function
+ (Rushabh Lathia, Joe Conway)
+
+
+
+
+ Allow zero-dimensional arrays in contrib/ltree operations
+ (Tom)
+
+
+ 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 ltree operation is applied to the
+ result of ARRAY(SELECT ...) and the sub-select returns no
+ rows.
+
+
+
+
+ Fix assorted crashes in contrib/xml2 caused by sloppy
+ memory management (Tom)
+
+
+
+
+ Make building of contrib/xml2 more robust on Windows
+ (Andrew)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix race condition in Windows signal handling (Radu Ilie)
+
+
+ One known symptom of this bug is that rows in pg_listener
+ could be dropped under heavy load.
+
+
+
+
+ Make the configure script report failure if the C compiler does
+ not provide a working 64-bit integer datatype (Tom)
+
+
+ This case has been broken for some time, and no longer seems worth
+ supporting, so just reject it at configure time instead.
+
+
+
+
+ Update time zone data files to
tzdata release 2010e+ for DST law changes in Bangladesh, Chile, Fiji, Mexico, Paraguay, Samoa.
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
Release 8.4.2
+
+ In contrib/fuzzystrmatch, correct the calculation of
+ levenshtein distances with non-default costs (Marcin Mank)
+
+
+
In contrib/pg_standby, disable triggering failover with a
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