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2010-05-20Changes 8.3.11:adam3-8/+31
* Enforce restrictions in plperl using an opmask applied to the whole interpreter, instead of using "Safe.pm" * Prevent PL/Tcl from executing untrustworthy code from pltcl_modules * Fix possible crash if a cache reset message is received during rebuild of a relcache entry * Apply per-function GUC settings while running the language validator for the function * Do not allow an unprivileged user to reset superuser-only parameter settings * Avoid possible crash during backend shutdown if shutdown occurs when a CONTEXT addition would be made to log entries * Ensure the archiver process responds to changes in archive_command as soon as possible * Update pl/perl's "ppport.h" for modern Perl versions * Fix assorted memory leaks in pl/python * Prevent infinite recursion in psql when expanding a variable that refers to itself * Fix psql's \copy to not add spaces around a dot within \copy (select ...) * Fix unnecessary "GIN indexes do not support whole-index scans" errors for unsatisfiable queries using "contrib/intarray" operators * Ensure that "contrib/pgstattuple" functions respond to cancel interrupts promptly * Make server startup deal properly with the case that shmget() returns EINVAL for an existing shared memory segment * Avoid possible crashes in syslogger process on Windows * Deal more robustly with incomplete time zone information in the Windows registry * Update the set of known Windows time zone names * Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2010j for DST law changes in Argentina, Australian Antarctic, Bangladesh, Mexico, Morocco, Pakistan, Palestine, Russia, Syria, Tunisia; also historical corrections for Taiwan. Also, add PKST (Pakistan Summer Time) to the default set of timezone abbreviations.
2010-04-23Fixed meta package buildingadam1-1/+3
2010-04-12Changes 8.3.10:adam4-183/+27
* Add new configuration parameter ssl_renegotiation_limit to control how often we do session key renegotiation for an SSL connection * Fix possible deadlock during backend startup * Fix possible crashes due to not handling errors during relcache reload cleanly * Fix possible crash due to use of dangling pointer to a cached plan * Fix possible crashes when trying to recover from a failure in subtransaction start * Fix server memory leak associated with use of savepoints and a client encoding different from server's encoding * Fix incorrect WAL data emitted during end-of-recovery cleanup of a GIST index page split * Make substring() for bit types treat any negative length as meaning "all the rest of the string" 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 * Fix some cases of pathologically slow regular expression matching * Fix assorted crashes in xml processing caused by sloppy memory management * Fix bug with trying to update a field of an element of a composite-type array column * 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 * Fix some more cases of temporary-file leakage 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 * 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 * Prevent infinite loop on some platforms if a directory is named as an inclusion target in "pg_hba.conf" and related files * Fix possible infinite loop if SSL_read or SSL_write fails without setting errno This is reportedly possible with some Windows versions of openssl. * Disallow GSSAPI authentication on local connections, since it requires a hostname to function correctly * Make ecpg report the proper SQLSTATE if the connection disappears * Fix psql's numericlocale option to not format strings it shouldn't in latex and troff output formats * 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" * Fix plpgsql failure in one case where a composite column is set to NULL * Fix possible failure when calling PL/Perl functions from PL/PerlU or vice versa * Add volatile markings in PL/Python to avoid possible compiler-specific misbehavior * Ensure PL/Tcl initializes the Tcl interpreter fully 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 * Allow zero-dimensional arrays in "contrib/ltree" operations * Fix assorted crashes in "contrib/xml2" caused by sloppy memory management * Make building of "contrib/xml2" more robust on Windows * Fix race condition in Windows signal handling 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.
2010-01-22Added support for gssapi and krb5 authentication as optionsadam1-1/+16
2010-01-21Changes 8.3.9nb2:adam3-19/+84
* Make pgxs.mk and Makefile.shlib compatible with PostgreSQL 8.4.x * Ready for PostGIS
2010-01-16Added LDAP authentication as an optionadam1-1/+9
2009-12-16Changes 8.3.9:adam2-6/+6
* Protect against indirect security threats caused by index functions changing session-local state * Reject SSL certificates containing an embedded null byte in the common name (CN) field * Fix possible crash during backend-startup-time cache initialization * Avoid crash on empty thesaurus dictionary * Prevent signals from interrupting VACUUM at unsafe times * Fix possible crash due to integer overflow in hash table size calculation * Fix very rare crash in inet/cidr comparisons * Ensure that shared tuple-level locks held by prepared transactions are not ignored * Fix premature drop of temporary files used for a cursor that is accessed within a subtransaction * Fix memory leak in syslogger process when rotating to a new CSV logfile * Fix Windows permission-downgrade logic * Fix incorrect logic for GiST index page splits, when the split depends on a non-first column of the index * Don't error out if recycling or removing an old WAL file fails at the end of checkpoint * Ensure WAL files aren't repeatedly archived on Windows * Fix PAM password processing to be more robust * Raise the maximum authentication token (Kerberos ticket) size in GSSAPI and SSPI authentication methods * More...
2009-09-10Changes 8.3.8:adam2-6/+7
* Fix Windows shared-memory allocation code * Force WAL segment switch during pg_start_backup() * Disallow "RESET ROLE" and "RESET SESSION AUTHORIZATION" inside security-definer functions * Make "LOAD" of an already-loaded loadable module into a no-op * Disallow empty passwords during LDAP authentication * Fix handling of sub-SELECTs appearing in the arguments of an outer-level aggregate function * Fix bugs associated with fetching a whole-row value from the output of a Sort or Materialize plan node * Prevent synchronize_seqscans from changing the results of scrollable and WITH HOLD cursors * Revert planner change that disabled partial-index and constraint exclusion optimizations when there were more than 100 clauses in an AND or OR list * Fix hash calculation for data type interval * Treat to_char(..., 'TH') as an uppercase ordinal suffix with 'HH'/'HH12' * Fix overflow for INTERVAL 'x ms' when "x" is more than 2 million and integer datetimes are in use * Fix calculation of distance between a point and a line segment * Fix money data type to work in locales where currency amounts have no fractional digits, e.g. Japan * Fix LIKE for case where pattern contains %_ * Properly round datetime input like 00:12:57.9999999999999999999999999999 * Fix memory leaks in XML operations * Fix poor choice of page split point in GiST R-tree operator classes * Ensure that a "fast shutdown" request will forcibly terminate open sessions, even if a "smart shutdown" was already in progress * Avoid performance degradation in bulk inserts into GIN indexes when the input values are (nearly) in sorted order * Correctly enforce NOT NULL domain constraints in some contexts in PL/pgSQL * Fix portability issues in plperl initialization * Fix pg_ctl to not go into an infinite loop if "postgresql.conf" is empty * Improve pg_dump's efficiency when there are many large objects * Use SIGUSR1, not SIGQUIT, as the failover signal for pg_standby
2009-03-20Changes 8.3.7:adam2-6/+6
* Prevent error recursion crashes when encoding conversion fails. * Disallow "CREATE CONVERSION" with the wrong encodings for the specified conversion function. * Fix xpath() to not modify the path expression unless necessary, and to make a saner attempt at it when necessary. * Fix core dump when to_char() is given format codes that are inappropriate for the type of the data argument. * Fix possible failure in text search when C locale is used with a multi-byte encoding. * Fix extreme inefficiency in text search parser's handling of an email-like string containing multiple @ characters. * Fix planner problem with sub-"SELECT" in the output list of a larger subquery. * Fix decompilation of CASE WHEN with an implicit coercion. * Fix possible misassignment of the owner of a TOAST table's rowtype. * Change "UNLISTEN" to exit quickly if the current session has never executed any "LISTEN" command. * Fix PL/pgSQL to not treat INTO after "INSERT" as an INTO-variables clause anywhere in the string, not only at the start; in particular, don't fail for "INSERT INTO" within "CREATE RULE". * Clean up PL/pgSQL error status variables fully at block exit. * Retry failed calls to CallNamedPipe() on Windows. * Add MUST (Mauritius Island Summer Time) to the default list of known timezone abbreviations.
2009-02-07Changes 8.3.6:adam4-17/+18
* Make "DISCARD ALL" release advisory locks, in addition to everything it already did This was decided to be the most appropriate behavior. This could affect existing applications, however. * Fix whole-index GiST scans to work correctly This error could cause rows to be lost if a table is clustered on a GiST index. * Fix crash of xmlconcat(NULL) * Fix possible crash in ispell dictionary if high-bit-set characters are used as flags This is known to be done by one widely available Norwegian dictionary, and the same condition may exist in others. * Fix misordering of pg_dump output for composite types The most likely problem was for user-defined operator classes to be dumped after indexes or views that needed them. * Improve handling of URLs in headline() function * Improve handling of overlength headlines in headline() function * Prevent possible Assert failure or misconversion if an encoding conversion is created with the wrong conversion function for the specified pair of encodings * Fix possible Assert failure if a statement executed in PL/pgSQL is rewritten into another kind of statement, for example if an "INSERT" is rewritten into an "UPDATE" * Ensure that a snapshot is available to datatype input functions * Make it safer for SPI-using functions to be used within datatype I/O; in particular, to be used in domain check constraints * Avoid unnecessary locking of small tables in "VACUUM" * Fix a problem that sometimes kept "ALTER TABLE ENABLE/DISABLE RULE" from being recognized by active sessions * Fix a problem that made UPDATE RETURNING tableoid return zero instead of the correct OID * Allow functions declared as taking ANYARRAY to work on the pg_statistic columns of that type This used to work, but was unintentionally broken in 8.3. * Fix planner misestimation of selectivity when transitive equality is applied to an outer-join clause This could result in bad plans for queries like ... from a left join b on a.a1 = b.b1 where a.a1 = 42 ... * Improve optimizer's handling of long IN lists This change avoids wasting large amounts of time on such lists when constraint exclusion is enabled. * Prevent synchronous scan during GIN index build Because GIN is optimized for inserting tuples in increasing TID order, choosing to use a synchronous scan could slow the build by a factor of three or more. * Ensure that the contents of a holdable cursor don't depend on the contents of TOAST tables * Fix memory leak when a set-returning function is terminated without reading its whole result * Fix encoding conversion problems in XML functions when the database encoding isn't UTF-8 * Fix "contrib/dblink"'s dblink_get_result(text,bool) function * Fix possible garbage output from "contrib/sslinfo" functions * Fix incorrect behavior of "contrib/tsearch2" compatibility trigger when it's fired more than once in a command * Fix possible mis-signaling in autovacuum * Support running as a service on Windows 7 beta * Fix ecpg's handling of varchar structs * Fix configure script to properly report failure when unable to obtain linkage information for PL/Perl * Make all documentation reference pgsql-bugs and/or pgsql-hackers as appropriate, instead of the now-decommissioned pgsql-ports and pgsql-patches mailing lists * Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2009a (for Kathmandu and historical DST corrections in Switzerland, Cuba)
2008-11-04Changes 8.3.5:adam2-6/+6
* Fix GiST index corruption due to marking the wrong index entry "dead" after a deletion. This would result in index searches failing to find rows they should have found. * Fix backend crash when the client encoding cannot represent a localized error message. We have addressed similar issues before, but it would still fail if the "character has no equivalent" message itself couldn't be converted. The fix is to disable localization and send the plain ASCII error message when we detect such a situation. * Fix possible crash in bytea-to-XML mapping. * Fix possible crash when deeply nested functions are invoked from a trigger. * Improve optimization of "expression" IN ("expression-list") queries. * Fix mis-expansion of rule queries when a sub-SELECT appears in a function call in FROM, a multi-row VALUES list, or a RETURNING list. * Fix Assert failure during rescan of an IS NULL search of a GiST index. * Fix memory leak during rescan of a hashed aggregation plan. * Ensure an error is reported when a newly-defined PL/pgSQL trigger function is invoked as a normal function. * Force a checkpoint before "CREATE DATABASE" starts to copy files. * Prevent possible collision of relfilenode numbers when moving a table to another tablespace with "ALTER SET TABLESPACE". * Fix incorrect text search headline generation when single query item matches first word of text. * Fix improper display of fractional seconds in interval values when using a non-ISO datestyle in an "--enable-integer-datetimes" build. * Make ILIKE compare characters case-insensitively even when they're escaped. * Ensure "DISCARD" is handled properly by statement logging. * Fix incorrect logging of last-completed-transaction time during PITR recovery. * Ensure SPI_getvalue and SPI_getbinval behave correctly when the passed tuple and tuple descriptor have different numbers of columns. * Mark SessionReplicationRole as PGDLLIMPORT so it can be used by Slony on Windows. * Fix small memory leak when using libpq's gsslib parameter. * Ensure libgssapi is linked into libpq if needed. * Fix ecpg's parsing of "CREATE ROLE". * Fix recent breakage of pg_ctl restart. * Ensure "pg_control" is opened in binary mode. * Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2008i (for DST law changes in Argentina, Brazil, Mauritius, Syria)
2008-10-06Changes 8.3.4:adam2-6/+6
Bug-fix release, see HISTORY for details.
2008-06-20Changes 8.3.3:adam3-49/+9
* Make pg_get_ruledef() parenthesize negative constants (Tom) Before this fix, a negative constant in a view or rule might be dumped as, say, -42::integer, which is subtly incorrect: it should be (-42)::integer due to operator precedence rules. Usually this would make little difference, but it could interact with another recent patch to cause PostgreSQL to reject what had been a valid "SELECT DISTINCT" view query. Since this could result in pg_dump output failing to reload, it is being treated as a high-priority fix. The only released versions in which dump output is actually incorrect are 8.3.1 and 8.2.7. * Make "ALTER AGGREGATE ... OWNER TO" update pg_shdepend (Tom) This oversight could lead to problems if the aggregate was later involved in a "DROP OWNED" or "REASSIGN OWNED" operation.
2008-06-12Add DESTDIR support.joerg1-3/+3
2008-04-05Changes 8.3.1:adam4-20/+19
* Fix character string comparison for Windows locales that consider different character combinations as equal * Repair corner-case bugs in "VACUUM FULL" * Fix misbehavior of foreign key checks involving character or bit columns * Avoid needless deadlock failures in no-op foreign-key checks * Fix possible core dump when re-planning a prepared query * Fix possible failure when re-planning a query that calls an SPI-using function * Fix failure in row-wise comparisons involving columns of different datatypes * Fix longstanding "LISTEN"/"NOTIFY" race condition * Disallow "LISTEN" and "UNLISTEN" within a prepared transaction * Disallow dropping a temporary table within a prepared transaction * Fix rare crash when an error occurs during a query using a hash index * Fix incorrect comparison of tsquery values * Fix incorrect behavior of LIKE with non-ASCII characters in single-byte encodings * Disable xmlvalidate
2008-03-13Mark the main postgresql8[0-3] packages as meta packages.joerg1-9/+2
This avoids the problems in PR 34914.
2008-03-04PostgreSQL 8.3adam22-0/+920
With significant new functionality and performance enhancements, this release represents a major leap forward for PostgreSQL. This was made possible by a growing community that has dramatically accelerated the pace of development. This release adds the following major features: * Full text search is integrated into the core database system * Support for the SQL/XML standard, including new operators and an XML data type * Enumerated data types (ENUM) * Arrays of composite types * Universally Unique Identifier (UUID) data type * Add control over whether NULLs sort first or last * Updatable cursors * Server configuration parameters can now be set on a per-function basis * User-defined types can now have type modifiers * Automatically re-plan cached queries when table definitions change or statistics are updated * Numerous improvements in logging and statistics collection * Support Security Service Provider Interface (SSPI) for authentication on Windows * Support multiple concurrent autovacuum processes, and other autovacuum improvements * Allow the whole PostgreSQL distribution to be compiled with Microsoft Visual C++