+
+
Release 9.3.21
+
+
+
Release date:
+
+
+ This release contains a variety of fixes from 9.3.20.
+ For information about new features in the 9.3 major release, see
+ .
+
+
+
+
Migration to Version 9.3.21
+
+ A dump/restore is not required for those running 9.3.X.
+
+
+ However, if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 9.3.18,
+ see .
+
+
+
+
+
Changes
+
+
+
+
+ Fix vacuuming of tuples that were updated while key-share locked
+ (Andres Freund, Álvaro Herrera)
+
+
+ In some cases VACUUM would fail to remove such
+ tuples even though they are now dead, leading to assorted data
+ corruption scenarios.
+
+
+
+
+ Fix inadequate buffer locking in some LSN fetches (Jacob Champion,
+ Asim Praveen, Ashwin Agrawal)
+
+
+ These errors could result in misbehavior under concurrent load.
+ The potential consequences have not been characterized fully.
+
+
+
+
+ Avoid unnecessary failure in a query on an inheritance tree that
+ occurs concurrently with some child table being removed from the tree
+ by ALTER TABLE NO INHERIT (Tom Lane)
+
+
+
+
+ Repair failure with correlated sub-SELECT
+ inside VALUES inside a LATERAL
+ subquery (Tom Lane)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix could not devise a query plan for the given query
+ planner failure for some cases involving nested UNION
+ ALL inside a lateral subquery (Tom Lane)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix has_sequence_privilege() to
+ support WITH GRANT OPTION tests,
+ as other privilege-testing functions do (Joe Conway)
+
+
+
+
+ In databases using UTF8 encoding, ignore any XML declaration that
+ asserts a different encoding (Pavel Stehule, Noah Misch)
+
+
+ We always store XML strings in the database encoding, so allowing
+ libxml to act on a declaration of another encoding gave wrong results.
+ In encodings other than UTF8, we don't promise to support non-ASCII
+ XML data anyway, so retain the previous behavior for bug compatibility.
+ This change affects only xpath() and related
+ functions; other XML code paths already acted this way.
+
+
+
+
+ Provide for forward compatibility with future minor protocol versions
+ (Robert Haas, Badrul Chowdhury)
+
+
+ Up to now,
PostgreSQL servers simply
+ rejected requests to use protocol versions newer than 3.0, so that
+ there was no functional difference between the major and minor parts
+ of the protocol version number. Allow clients to request versions 3.x
+ without failing, sending back a message showing that the server only
+ understands 3.0. This makes no difference at the moment, but
+ back-patching this change should allow speedier introduction of future
+ minor protocol upgrades.
+
+
+
+
+ Prevent stack-overflow crashes when planning extremely deeply
+ nested set operations
+ (UNION/INTERSECT/EXCEPT)
+ (Tom Lane)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix null-pointer crashes for some types of LDAP URLs appearing
+ in pg_hba.conf (Thomas Munro)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix sample INSTR() functions in the PL/pgSQL
+ documentation (Yugo Nagata, Tom Lane)
+
+
+ These functions are stated to
+ be Oracle compatible, but
+ they weren't exactly. In particular, there was a discrepancy in the
+ interpretation of a negative third parameter: Oracle thinks that a
+ negative value indicates the last place where the target substring can
+ begin, whereas our functions took it as the last place where the
+ target can end. Also, Oracle throws an error for a zero or negative
+ fourth parameter, whereas our functions returned zero.
+
+
+ The sample code has been adjusted to match Oracle's behavior more
+ precisely. Users who have copied this code into their applications
+ may wish to update their copies.
+
+
+
+
+ Fix
pg_dump to make ACL (permissions),
+ comment, and security label entries reliably identifiable in archive
+ output formats (Tom Lane)
+
+
+ The tag
portion of an ACL archive entry was usually
+ just the name of the associated object. Make it start with the object
+ type instead, bringing ACLs into line with the convention already used
+ for comment and security label archive entries. Also, fix the
+ comment and security label entries for the whole database, if present,
+ to make their tags start with DATABASE so that they
+ also follow this convention. This prevents false matches in code that
+ tries to identify large-object-related entries by seeing if the tag
+ starts with LARGE OBJECT. That could have resulted
+ in misclassifying entries as data rather than schema, with undesirable
+ results in a schema-only or data-only dump.
+
+
+ Note that this change has user-visible results in the output
+ of pg_restore --list.
+
+
+
+
+ In
ecpg, detect indicator arrays that do
+ not have the correct length and report an error (David Rader)
+
+
+
+
+ Avoid triggering a libc assertion
+ in contrib/hstore, due to use
+ of memcpy() with equal source and destination
+ pointers (Tomas Vondra)
+
+
+
+
+ Provide modern examples of how to auto-start Postgres on macOS
+ (Tom Lane)
+
+
+ The scripts in contrib/start-scripts/osx use
+ infrastructure that's been deprecated for over a decade, and which no
+ longer works at all in macOS releases of the last couple of years.
+ Add a new subdirectory contrib/start-scripts/macos
+ containing scripts that use the newer
launchd+ infrastructure.
+
+
+
+
+ Fix incorrect selection of configuration-specific libraries for
+ OpenSSL on Windows (Andrew Dunstan)
+
+
+
+
+ Support linking to MinGW-built versions of libperl (Noah Misch)
+
+
+ This allows building PL/Perl with some common Perl distributions for
+ Windows.
+
+
+
+
+ Fix MSVC build to test whether 32-bit libperl
+ needs -D_USE_32BIT_TIME_T (Noah Misch)
+
+
+ Available Perl distributions are inconsistent about what they expect,
+ and lack any reliable means of reporting it, so resort to a build-time
+ test on what the library being used actually does.
+
+
+
+
+ On Windows, install the crash dump handler earlier in postmaster
+ startup (Takayuki Tsunakawa)
+
+
+ This may allow collection of a core dump for some early-startup
+ failures that did not produce a dump before.
+
+
+
+
+ On Windows, avoid encoding-conversion-related crashes when emitting
+ messages very early in postmaster startup (Takayuki Tsunakawa)
+
+
+
+
+ Use our existing Motorola 68K spinlock code on OpenBSD as
+ well as NetBSD (David Carlier)
+
+
+
+
+ Add support for spinlocks on Motorola 88K (David Carlier)
+
+
+
+
+ Update time zone data files to
tzdata+ release 2018c for DST law changes in Brazil, Sao Tome and Principe,
+ plus historical corrections for Bolivia, Japan, and South Sudan.
+ The US/Pacific-New zone has been removed (it was
+ only an alias for America/Los_Angeles anyway).
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
Release 9.3.20
+
+
Release 9.4.16
+
+
+
Release date:
+
+
+ This release contains a variety of fixes from 9.4.15.
+ For information about new features in the 9.4 major release, see
+ .
+
+
+
+
Migration to Version 9.4.16
+
+ A dump/restore is not required for those running 9.4.X.
+
+
+ However, if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 9.4.13,
+ see .
+
+
+
+
+
Changes
+
+
+
+
+ Fix vacuuming of tuples that were updated while key-share locked
+ (Andres Freund, Álvaro Herrera)
+
+
+ In some cases VACUUM would fail to remove such
+ tuples even though they are now dead, leading to assorted data
+ corruption scenarios.
+
+
+
+
+ Fix inadequate buffer locking in some LSN fetches (Jacob Champion,
+ Asim Praveen, Ashwin Agrawal)
+
+
+ These errors could result in misbehavior under concurrent load.
+ The potential consequences have not been characterized fully.
+
+
+
+
+ Avoid unnecessary failure in a query on an inheritance tree that
+ occurs concurrently with some child table being removed from the tree
+ by ALTER TABLE NO INHERIT (Tom Lane)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix spurious deadlock failures when multiple sessions are
+ running CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY (Jeff Janes)
+
+
+
+
+ Repair failure with correlated sub-SELECT
+ inside VALUES inside a LATERAL
+ subquery (Tom Lane)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix could not devise a query plan for the given query
+ planner failure for some cases involving nested UNION
+ ALL inside a lateral subquery (Tom Lane)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix logical decoding to correctly clean up disk files for crashed
+ transactions (Atsushi Torikoshi)
+
+
+ Logical decoding may spill WAL records to disk for transactions
+ generating many WAL records. Normally these files are cleaned up
+ after the transaction's commit or abort record arrives; but if
+ no such record is ever seen, the removal code misbehaved.
+
+
+
+
+ Fix walsender timeout failure and failure to respond to interrupts
+ when processing a large transaction (Petr Jelinek)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix has_sequence_privilege() to
+ support WITH GRANT OPTION tests,
+ as other privilege-testing functions do (Joe Conway)
+
+
+
+
+ In databases using UTF8 encoding, ignore any XML declaration that
+ asserts a different encoding (Pavel Stehule, Noah Misch)
+
+
+ We always store XML strings in the database encoding, so allowing
+ libxml to act on a declaration of another encoding gave wrong results.
+ In encodings other than UTF8, we don't promise to support non-ASCII
+ XML data anyway, so retain the previous behavior for bug compatibility.
+ This change affects only xpath() and related
+ functions; other XML code paths already acted this way.
+
+
+
+
+ Provide for forward compatibility with future minor protocol versions
+ (Robert Haas, Badrul Chowdhury)
+
+
+ Up to now,
PostgreSQL servers simply
+ rejected requests to use protocol versions newer than 3.0, so that
+ there was no functional difference between the major and minor parts
+ of the protocol version number. Allow clients to request versions 3.x
+ without failing, sending back a message showing that the server only
+ understands 3.0. This makes no difference at the moment, but
+ back-patching this change should allow speedier introduction of future
+ minor protocol upgrades.
+
+
+
+
+ Cope with failure to start a parallel worker process
+ (Amit Kapila, Robert Haas)
+
+
+ Parallel query previously tended to hang indefinitely if a worker
+ could not be started, as the result of fork()
+ failure or other low-probability problems.
+
+
+
+
+ Prevent stack-overflow crashes when planning extremely deeply
+ nested set operations
+ (UNION/INTERSECT/EXCEPT)
+ (Tom Lane)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix null-pointer crashes for some types of LDAP URLs appearing
+ in pg_hba.conf (Thomas Munro)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix sample INSTR() functions in the PL/pgSQL
+ documentation (Yugo Nagata, Tom Lane)
+
+
+ These functions are stated to
+ be Oracle compatible, but
+ they weren't exactly. In particular, there was a discrepancy in the
+ interpretation of a negative third parameter: Oracle thinks that a
+ negative value indicates the last place where the target substring can
+ begin, whereas our functions took it as the last place where the
+ target can end. Also, Oracle throws an error for a zero or negative
+ fourth parameter, whereas our functions returned zero.
+
+
+ The sample code has been adjusted to match Oracle's behavior more
+ precisely. Users who have copied this code into their applications
+ may wish to update their copies.
+
+
+
+
+ Fix
pg_dump to make ACL (permissions),
+ comment, and security label entries reliably identifiable in archive
+ output formats (Tom Lane)
+
+
+ The tag
portion of an ACL archive entry was usually
+ just the name of the associated object. Make it start with the object
+ type instead, bringing ACLs into line with the convention already used
+ for comment and security label archive entries. Also, fix the
+ comment and security label entries for the whole database, if present,
+ to make their tags start with DATABASE so that they
+ also follow this convention. This prevents false matches in code that
+ tries to identify large-object-related entries by seeing if the tag
+ starts with LARGE OBJECT. That could have resulted
+ in misclassifying entries as data rather than schema, with undesirable
+ results in a schema-only or data-only dump.
+
+
+ Note that this change has user-visible results in the output
+ of pg_restore --list.
+
+
+
+
+ In
ecpg, detect indicator arrays that do
+ not have the correct length and report an error (David Rader)
+
+
+
+
+ Avoid triggering a libc assertion
+ in contrib/hstore, due to use
+ of memcpy() with equal source and destination
+ pointers (Tomas Vondra)
+
+
+
+
+ Provide modern examples of how to auto-start Postgres on macOS
+ (Tom Lane)
+
+
+ The scripts in contrib/start-scripts/osx use
+ infrastructure that's been deprecated for over a decade, and which no
+ longer works at all in macOS releases of the last couple of years.
+ Add a new subdirectory contrib/start-scripts/macos
+ containing scripts that use the newer
launchd+ infrastructure.
+
+
+
+
+ Fix incorrect selection of configuration-specific libraries for
+ OpenSSL on Windows (Andrew Dunstan)
+
+
+
+
+ Support linking to MinGW-built versions of libperl (Noah Misch)
+
+
+ This allows building PL/Perl with some common Perl distributions for
+ Windows.
+
+
+
+
+ Fix MSVC build to test whether 32-bit libperl
+ needs -D_USE_32BIT_TIME_T (Noah Misch)
+
+
+ Available Perl distributions are inconsistent about what they expect,
+ and lack any reliable means of reporting it, so resort to a build-time
+ test on what the library being used actually does.
+
+
+
+
+ On Windows, install the crash dump handler earlier in postmaster
+ startup (Takayuki Tsunakawa)
+
+
+ This may allow collection of a core dump for some early-startup
+ failures that did not produce a dump before.
+
+
+
+
+ On Windows, avoid encoding-conversion-related crashes when emitting
+ messages very early in postmaster startup (Takayuki Tsunakawa)
+
+
+
+
+ Use our existing Motorola 68K spinlock code on OpenBSD as
+ well as NetBSD (David Carlier)
+
+
+
+
+ Add support for spinlocks on Motorola 88K (David Carlier)
+
+
+
+
+ Update time zone data files to
tzdata+ release 2018c for DST law changes in Brazil, Sao Tome and Principe,
+ plus historical corrections for Bolivia, Japan, and South Sudan.
+ The US/Pacific-New zone has been removed (it was
+ only an alias for America/Los_Angeles anyway).
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
Release 9.4.15
+
+
Release 9.5.11
+
+
+
Release date:
+
+
+ This release contains a variety of fixes from 9.5.10.
+ For information about new features in the 9.5 major release, see
+ .
+
+
+
+
Migration to Version 9.5.11
+
+ A dump/restore is not required for those running 9.5.X.
+
+
+ However, if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 9.5.10,
+ see .
+
+
+
+
+
Changes
+
+
+
+
+ Fix vacuuming of tuples that were updated while key-share locked
+ (Andres Freund, Álvaro Herrera)
+
+
+ In some cases VACUUM would fail to remove such
+ tuples even though they are now dead, leading to assorted data
+ corruption scenarios.
+
+
+
+
+ Fix inadequate buffer locking in some LSN fetches (Jacob Champion,
+ Asim Praveen, Ashwin Agrawal)
+
+
+ These errors could result in misbehavior under concurrent load.
+ The potential consequences have not been characterized fully.
+
+
+
+
+ Fix incorrect query results from cases involving flattening of
+ subqueries whose outputs are used in GROUPING SETS
+ (Heikki Linnakangas)
+
+
+
+
+ Avoid unnecessary failure in a query on an inheritance tree that
+ occurs concurrently with some child table being removed from the tree
+ by ALTER TABLE NO INHERIT (Tom Lane)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix spurious deadlock failures when multiple sessions are
+ running CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY (Jeff Janes)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix failures when an inheritance tree contains foreign child tables
+ (Etsuro Fujita)
+
+
+ A mix of regular and foreign tables in an inheritance tree resulted in
+ creation of incorrect plans for UPDATE
+ and DELETE queries. This led to visible failures in
+ some cases, notably when there are row-level triggers on a foreign
+ child table.
+
+
+
+
+ Repair failure with correlated sub-SELECT
+ inside VALUES inside a LATERAL
+ subquery (Tom Lane)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix could not devise a query plan for the given query
+ planner failure for some cases involving nested UNION
+ ALL inside a lateral subquery (Tom Lane)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix logical decoding to correctly clean up disk files for crashed
+ transactions (Atsushi Torikoshi)
+
+
+ Logical decoding may spill WAL records to disk for transactions
+ generating many WAL records. Normally these files are cleaned up
+ after the transaction's commit or abort record arrives; but if
+ no such record is ever seen, the removal code misbehaved.
+
+
+
+
+ Fix walsender timeout failure and failure to respond to interrupts
+ when processing a large transaction (Petr Jelinek)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix has_sequence_privilege() to
+ support WITH GRANT OPTION tests,
+ as other privilege-testing functions do (Joe Conway)
+
+
+
+
+ In databases using UTF8 encoding, ignore any XML declaration that
+ asserts a different encoding (Pavel Stehule, Noah Misch)
+
+
+ We always store XML strings in the database encoding, so allowing
+ libxml to act on a declaration of another encoding gave wrong results.
+ In encodings other than UTF8, we don't promise to support non-ASCII
+ XML data anyway, so retain the previous behavior for bug compatibility.
+ This change affects only xpath() and related
+ functions; other XML code paths already acted this way.
+
+
+
+
+ Provide for forward compatibility with future minor protocol versions
+ (Robert Haas, Badrul Chowdhury)
+
+
+ Up to now,
PostgreSQL servers simply
+ rejected requests to use protocol versions newer than 3.0, so that
+ there was no functional difference between the major and minor parts
+ of the protocol version number. Allow clients to request versions 3.x
+ without failing, sending back a message showing that the server only
+ understands 3.0. This makes no difference at the moment, but
+ back-patching this change should allow speedier introduction of future
+ minor protocol upgrades.
+
+
+
+
+ Cope with failure to start a parallel worker process
+ (Amit Kapila, Robert Haas)
+
+
+ Parallel query previously tended to hang indefinitely if a worker
+ could not be started, as the result of fork()
+ failure or other low-probability problems.
+
+
+
+
+ Avoid unsafe alignment assumptions when working
+ with __int128 (Tom Lane)
+
+
+ Typically, compilers assume that __int128 variables are
+ aligned on 16-byte boundaries, but our memory allocation
+ infrastructure isn't prepared to guarantee that, and increasing the
+ setting of MAXALIGN seems infeasible for multiple reasons. Adjust the
+ code to allow use of __int128 only when we can tell the
+ compiler to assume lesser alignment. The only known symptom of this
+ problem so far is crashes in some parallel aggregation queries.
+
+
+
+
+ Prevent stack-overflow crashes when planning extremely deeply
+ nested set operations
+ (UNION/INTERSECT/EXCEPT)
+ (Tom Lane)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix null-pointer crashes for some types of LDAP URLs appearing
+ in pg_hba.conf (Thomas Munro)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix sample INSTR() functions in the PL/pgSQL
+ documentation (Yugo Nagata, Tom Lane)
+
+
+ These functions are stated to
+ be Oracle compatible, but
+ they weren't exactly. In particular, there was a discrepancy in the
+ interpretation of a negative third parameter: Oracle thinks that a
+ negative value indicates the last place where the target substring can
+ begin, whereas our functions took it as the last place where the
+ target can end. Also, Oracle throws an error for a zero or negative
+ fourth parameter, whereas our functions returned zero.
+
+
+ The sample code has been adjusted to match Oracle's behavior more
+ precisely. Users who have copied this code into their applications
+ may wish to update their copies.
+
+
+
+
+ Fix
pg_dump to make ACL (permissions),
+ comment, and security label entries reliably identifiable in archive
+ output formats (Tom Lane)
+
+
+ The tag
portion of an ACL archive entry was usually
+ just the name of the associated object. Make it start with the object
+ type instead, bringing ACLs into line with the convention already used
+ for comment and security label archive entries. Also, fix the
+ comment and security label entries for the whole database, if present,
+ to make their tags start with DATABASE so that they
+ also follow this convention. This prevents false matches in code that
+ tries to identify large-object-related entries by seeing if the tag
+ starts with LARGE OBJECT. That could have resulted
+ in misclassifying entries as data rather than schema, with undesirable
+ results in a schema-only or data-only dump.
+
+
+ Note that this change has user-visible results in the output
+ of pg_restore --list.
+
+
+
+
+ copy_file_range function to avoid conflict
+ with new Linux system call of that name (Andres Freund)
+
+
+ This change prevents build failures with newer glibc versions.
+
+
+
+
+ In
ecpg, detect indicator arrays that do
+ not have the correct length and report an error (David Rader)
+
+
+
+
+ Avoid triggering a libc assertion
+ in contrib/hstore, due to use
+ of memcpy() with equal source and destination
+ pointers (Tomas Vondra)
+
+
+
+
+ Provide modern examples of how to auto-start Postgres on macOS
+ (Tom Lane)
+
+
+ The scripts in contrib/start-scripts/osx use
+ infrastructure that's been deprecated for over a decade, and which no
+ longer works at all in macOS releases of the last couple of years.
+ Add a new subdirectory contrib/start-scripts/macos
+ containing scripts that use the newer
launchd+ infrastructure.
+
+
+
+
+ Fix incorrect selection of configuration-specific libraries for
+ OpenSSL on Windows (Andrew Dunstan)
+
+
+
+
+ Support linking to MinGW-built versions of libperl (Noah Misch)
+
+
+ This allows building PL/Perl with some common Perl distributions for
+ Windows.
+
+
+
+
+ Fix MSVC build to test whether 32-bit libperl
+ needs -D_USE_32BIT_TIME_T (Noah Misch)
+
+
+ Available Perl distributions are inconsistent about what they expect,
+ and lack any reliable means of reporting it, so resort to a build-time
+ test on what the library being used actually does.
+
+
+
+
+ On Windows, install the crash dump handler earlier in postmaster
+ startup (Takayuki Tsunakawa)
+
+
+ This may allow collection of a core dump for some early-startup
+ failures that did not produce a dump before.
+
+
+
+
+ On Windows, avoid encoding-conversion-related crashes when emitting
+ messages very early in postmaster startup (Takayuki Tsunakawa)
+
+
+
+
+ Use our existing Motorola 68K spinlock code on OpenBSD as
+ well as NetBSD (David Carlier)
+
+
+
+
+ Add support for spinlocks on Motorola 88K (David Carlier)
+
+
+
+
+ Update time zone data files to
tzdata+ release 2018c for DST law changes in Brazil, Sao Tome and Principe,
+ plus historical corrections for Bolivia, Japan, and South Sudan.
+ The US/Pacific-New zone has been removed (it was
+ only an alias for America/Los_Angeles anyway).
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
Release 9.5.10
+
+
Release 9.6.7
+
+
+
Release date:
+
+
+ This release contains a variety of fixes from 9.6.6.
+ For information about new features in the 9.6 major release, see
+ .
+
+
+
+
Migration to Version 9.6.7
+
+ A dump/restore is not required for those running 9.6.X.
+
+
+ However,
+ if you use contrib/cube's ~>
+ operator, see the entry below about that.
+
+
+ Also, if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 9.6.6,
+ see .
+
+
+
+
+
Changes
+
+
+
+
+ Fix vacuuming of tuples that were updated while key-share locked
+ (Andres Freund, Álvaro Herrera)
+
+
+ In some cases VACUUM would fail to remove such
+ tuples even though they are now dead, leading to assorted data
+ corruption scenarios.
+
+
+
+
+ Ensure that vacuum will always clean up the pending-insertions list of
+ a GIN index (Masahiko Sawada)
+
+
+ This is necessary to ensure that dead index entries get removed.
+ The old code got it backwards, allowing vacuum to skip the cleanup if
+ some other process were running cleanup concurrently, thus risking
+ invalid entries being left behind in the index.
+
+
+
+
+ Fix inadequate buffer locking in some LSN fetches (Jacob Champion,
+ Asim Praveen, Ashwin Agrawal)
+
+
+ These errors could result in misbehavior under concurrent load.
+ The potential consequences have not been characterized fully.
+
+
+
+
+ Fix incorrect query results from cases involving flattening of
+ subqueries whose outputs are used in GROUPING SETS
+ (Heikki Linnakangas)
+
+
+
+
+ Avoid unnecessary failure in a query on an inheritance tree that
+ occurs concurrently with some child table being removed from the tree
+ by ALTER TABLE NO INHERIT (Tom Lane)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix spurious deadlock failures when multiple sessions are
+ running CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY (Jeff Janes)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix failures when an inheritance tree contains foreign child tables
+ (Etsuro Fujita)
+
+
+ A mix of regular and foreign tables in an inheritance tree resulted in
+ creation of incorrect plans for UPDATE
+ and DELETE queries. This led to visible failures in
+ some cases, notably when there are row-level triggers on a foreign
+ child table.
+
+
+
+
+ Repair failure with correlated sub-SELECT
+ inside VALUES inside a LATERAL
+ subquery (Tom Lane)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix could not devise a query plan for the given query
+ planner failure for some cases involving nested UNION
+ ALL inside a lateral subquery (Tom Lane)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix logical decoding to correctly clean up disk files for crashed
+ transactions (Atsushi Torikoshi)
+
+
+ Logical decoding may spill WAL records to disk for transactions
+ generating many WAL records. Normally these files are cleaned up
+ after the transaction's commit or abort record arrives; but if
+ no such record is ever seen, the removal code misbehaved.
+
+
+
+
+ Fix walsender timeout failure and failure to respond to interrupts
+ when processing a large transaction (Petr Jelinek)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix has_sequence_privilege() to
+ support WITH GRANT OPTION tests,
+ as other privilege-testing functions do (Joe Conway)
+
+
+
+
+ In databases using UTF8 encoding, ignore any XML declaration that
+ asserts a different encoding (Pavel Stehule, Noah Misch)
+
+
+ We always store XML strings in the database encoding, so allowing
+ libxml to act on a declaration of another encoding gave wrong results.
+ In encodings other than UTF8, we don't promise to support non-ASCII
+ XML data anyway, so retain the previous behavior for bug compatibility.
+ This change affects only xpath() and related
+ functions; other XML code paths already acted this way.
+
+
+
+
+ Provide for forward compatibility with future minor protocol versions
+ (Robert Haas, Badrul Chowdhury)
+
+
+ Up to now,
PostgreSQL servers simply
+ rejected requests to use protocol versions newer than 3.0, so that
+ there was no functional difference between the major and minor parts
+ of the protocol version number. Allow clients to request versions 3.x
+ without failing, sending back a message showing that the server only
+ understands 3.0. This makes no difference at the moment, but
+ back-patching this change should allow speedier introduction of future
+ minor protocol upgrades.
+
+
+
+
+ Cope with failure to start a parallel worker process
+ (Amit Kapila, Robert Haas)
+
+
+ Parallel query previously tended to hang indefinitely if a worker
+ could not be started, as the result of fork()
+ failure or other low-probability problems.
+
+
+
+
+ Fix collection of EXPLAIN statistics from parallel
+ workers (Amit Kapila, Thomas Munro)
+
+
+
+
+ Avoid unsafe alignment assumptions when working
+ with __int128 (Tom Lane)
+
+
+ Typically, compilers assume that __int128 variables are
+ aligned on 16-byte boundaries, but our memory allocation
+ infrastructure isn't prepared to guarantee that, and increasing the
+ setting of MAXALIGN seems infeasible for multiple reasons. Adjust the
+ code to allow use of __int128 only when we can tell the
+ compiler to assume lesser alignment. The only known symptom of this
+ problem so far is crashes in some parallel aggregation queries.
+
+
+
+
+ Prevent stack-overflow crashes when planning extremely deeply
+ nested set operations
+ (UNION/INTERSECT/EXCEPT)
+ (Tom Lane)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix null-pointer crashes for some types of LDAP URLs appearing
+ in pg_hba.conf (Thomas Munro)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix sample INSTR() functions in the PL/pgSQL
+ documentation (Yugo Nagata, Tom Lane)
+
+
+ These functions are stated to
+ be Oracle compatible, but
+ they weren't exactly. In particular, there was a discrepancy in the
+ interpretation of a negative third parameter: Oracle thinks that a
+ negative value indicates the last place where the target substring can
+ begin, whereas our functions took it as the last place where the
+ target can end. Also, Oracle throws an error for a zero or negative
+ fourth parameter, whereas our functions returned zero.
+
+
+ The sample code has been adjusted to match Oracle's behavior more
+ precisely. Users who have copied this code into their applications
+ may wish to update their copies.
+
+
+
+
+ Fix
pg_dump to make ACL (permissions),
+ comment, and security label entries reliably identifiable in archive
+ output formats (Tom Lane)
+
+
+ The tag
portion of an ACL archive entry was usually
+ just the name of the associated object. Make it start with the object
+ type instead, bringing ACLs into line with the convention already used
+ for comment and security label archive entries. Also, fix the
+ comment and security label entries for the whole database, if present,
+ to make their tags start with DATABASE so that they
+ also follow this convention. This prevents false matches in code that
+ tries to identify large-object-related entries by seeing if the tag
+ starts with LARGE OBJECT. That could have resulted
+ in misclassifying entries as data rather than schema, with undesirable
+ results in a schema-only or data-only dump.
+
+
+ Note that this change has user-visible results in the output
+ of pg_restore --list.
+
+
+
+
+ copy_file_range function to avoid conflict
+ with new Linux system call of that name (Andres Freund)
+
+
+ This change prevents build failures with newer glibc versions.
+
+
+
+
+ In
ecpg, detect indicator arrays that do
+ not have the correct length and report an error (David Rader)
+
+
+
+
+ Change the behavior of contrib/cube's
+ cube ~> int
+ operator to make it compatible with KNN search (Alexander Korotkov)
+
+
+ The meaning of the second argument (the dimension selector) has been
+ changed to make it predictable which value is selected even when
+ dealing with cubes of varying dimensionalities.
+
+
+ This is an incompatible change, but since the point of the operator
+ was to be used in KNN searches, it seems rather useless as-is.
+ After installing this update, any expression indexes or materialized
+ views using this operator will need to be reindexed/refreshed.
+
+
+
+
+ Avoid triggering a libc assertion
+ in contrib/hstore, due to use
+ of memcpy() with equal source and destination
+ pointers (Tomas Vondra)
+
+
+
+
+ Fix incorrect display of tuples' null bitmaps
+ in contrib/pageinspect (Maksim Milyutin)
+
+
+
+
+ In contrib/postgres_fdw, avoid
+ outer pathkeys do not match mergeclauses
+ planner error when constructing a plan involving a remote join
+ (Robert Haas)
+
+
+
+
+ Provide modern examples of how to auto-start Postgres on macOS
+ (Tom Lane)
+
+
+ The scripts in contrib/start-scripts/osx use
+ infrastructure that's been deprecated for over a decade, and which no
+ longer works at all in macOS releases of the last couple of years.
+ Add a new subdirectory contrib/start-scripts/macos
+ containing scripts that use the newer
launchd+ infrastructure.
+
+
+
+
+ Fix incorrect selection of configuration-specific libraries for
+ OpenSSL on Windows (Andrew Dunstan)
+
+
+
+
+ Support linking to MinGW-built versions of libperl (Noah Misch)
+
+
+ This allows building PL/Perl with some common Perl distributions for
+ Windows.
+
+
+
+
+ Fix MSVC build to test whether 32-bit libperl
+ needs -D_USE_32BIT_TIME_T (Noah Misch)
+
+
+ Available Perl distributions are inconsistent about what they expect,
+ and lack any reliable means of reporting it, so resort to a build-time
+ test on what the library being used actually does.
+
+
+
+
+ On Windows, install the crash dump handler earlier in postmaster
+ startup (Takayuki Tsunakawa)
+
+
+ This may allow collection of a core dump for some early-startup
+ failures that did not produce a dump before.
+
+
+
+
+ On Windows, avoid encoding-conversion-related crashes when emitting
+ messages very early in postmaster startup (Takayuki Tsunakawa)
+
+
+
+
+ Use our existing Motorola 68K spinlock code on OpenBSD as
+ well as NetBSD (David Carlier)
+
+
+
+
+ Add support for spinlocks on Motorola 88K (David Carlier)
+
+
+
+
+ Update time zone data files to
tzdata+ release 2018c for DST law changes in Brazil, Sao Tome and Principe,
+ plus historical corrections for Bolivia, Japan, and South Sudan.
+ The US/Pacific-New zone has been removed (it was
+ only an alias for America/Los_Angeles anyway).
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
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