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diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release-8.2.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release-8.2.sgml index 0a9ee5031af..39bf5da2c9b 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/release-8.2.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/release-8.2.sgml @@ -1,6 +1,313 @@ <!-- doc/src/sgml/release-8.2.sgml --> <!-- See header comment in release.sgml about typical markup --> + <sect1 id="release-8-2-22"> + <title>Release 8.2.22</title> + + <note> + <title>Release Date</title> + <simpara>2011-09-26</simpara> + </note> + + <para> + This release contains a variety of fixes from 8.2.21. + For information about new features in the 8.2 major release, see + <xref linkend="release-8-2">. + </para> + + <para> + The <productname>PostgreSQL</> community will stop releasing updates + for the 8.2.X release series in December 2011. + Users are encouraged to update to a newer release branch soon. + </para> + + <sect2> + <title>Migration to Version 8.2.22</title> + + <para> + 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. + </para> + + </sect2> + + <sect2> + <title>Changes</title> + + <itemizedlist> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix multiple bugs in GiST index page split processing (Heikki + Linnakangas) + </para> + + <para> + The probability of occurrence was low, but these could lead to index + corruption. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Avoid possibly accessing off the end of memory in <command>ANALYZE</> + (Noah Misch) + </para> + + <para> + This fixes a very-low-probability server crash scenario. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix race condition in relcache init file invalidation (Tom Lane) + </para> + + <para> + There was a window wherein a new backend process could read a stale init + file but miss the inval messages that would tell it the data is stale. + The result would be bizarre failures in catalog accesses, typically + <quote>could not read block 0 in file ...</> later during startup. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix memory leak at end of a GiST index scan (Tom Lane) + </para> + + <para> + Commands that perform many separate GiST index scans, such as + verification of a new GiST-based exclusion constraint on a table + already containing many rows, could transiently require large amounts of + memory due to this leak. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix performance problem when constructing a large, lossy bitmap + (Tom Lane) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix array- and path-creating functions to ensure padding bytes are + zeroes (Tom Lane) + </para> + + <para> + This avoids some situations where the planner will think that + semantically-equal constants are not equal, resulting in poor + optimization. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Work around gcc 4.6.0 bug that breaks WAL replay (Tom Lane) + </para> + + <para> + This could lead to loss of committed transactions after a server crash. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix dump bug for <literal>VALUES</> in a view (Tom Lane) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Disallow <literal>SELECT FOR UPDATE/SHARE</> on sequences (Tom Lane) + </para> + + <para> + This operation doesn't work as expected and can lead to failures. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Defend against integer overflow when computing size of a hash table (Tom + Lane) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix portability bugs in use of credentials control messages for + <quote>peer</> authentication (Tom Lane) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix typo in <function>pg_srand48</> seed initialization (Andres Freund) + </para> + + <para> + This led to failure to use all bits of the provided seed. This function + is not used on most platforms (only those without <function>srandom</>), + and the potential security exposure from a less-random-than-expected + seed seems minimal in any case. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Avoid integer overflow when the sum of <literal>LIMIT</> and + <literal>OFFSET</> values exceeds 2^63 (Heikki Linnakangas) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Add overflow checks to <type>int4</> and <type>int8</> versions of + <function>generate_series()</> (Robert Haas) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix trailing-zero removal in <function>to_char()</> (Marti Raudsepp) + </para> + + <para> + In a format with <literal>FM</> and no digit positions + after the decimal point, zeroes to the left of the decimal point could + be removed incorrectly. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix <function>pg_size_pretty()</> to avoid overflow for inputs close to + 2^63 (Tom Lane) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix <application>psql</>'s counting of script file line numbers during + <literal>COPY</> from a different file (Tom Lane) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix <application>pg_restore</>'s direct-to-database mode for + <varname>standard_conforming_strings</> (Tom Lane) + </para> + + <para> + <application>pg_restore</> could emit incorrect commands when restoring + directly to a database server from an archive file that had been made + with <varname>standard_conforming_strings</> set to <literal>on</>. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix write-past-buffer-end and memory leak in <application>libpq</>'s + LDAP service lookup code (Albe Laurenz) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + In <application>libpq</>, avoid failures when using nonblocking I/O + and an SSL connection (Martin Pihlak, Tom Lane) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Improve libpq's handling of failures during connection startup + (Tom Lane) + </para> + + <para> + In particular, the response to a server report of <function>fork()</> + failure during SSL connection startup is now saner. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Make <application>ecpglib</> write <type>double</> values with 15 digits + precision (Akira Kurosawa) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Apply upstream fix for blowfish signed-character bug (CVE-2011-2483) + (Tom Lane) + </para> + + <para> + <filename>contrib/pg_crypto</>'s blowfish encryption code could give + wrong results on platforms where char is signed (which is most), + leading to encrypted passwords being weaker than they should be. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix memory leak in <filename>contrib/seg</> (Heikki Linnakangas) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix <function>pgstatindex()</> to give consistent results for empty + indexes (Tom Lane) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Allow building with perl 5.14 (Alex Hunsaker) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Update configure script's method for probing existence of system + functions (Tom Lane) + </para> + + <para> + The version of autoconf we used in 8.3 and 8.2 could be fooled by + compilers that perform link-time optimization. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix assorted issues with build and install file paths containing spaces + (Tom Lane) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Update time zone data files to <application>tzdata</> release 2011i + for DST law changes in Canada, Egypt, Russia, Samoa, and South Sudan. + </para> + </listitem> + + </itemizedlist> + + </sect2> + </sect1> + <sect1 id="release-8-2-21"> <title>Release 8.2.21</title> @@ -1334,7 +1641,7 @@ </para> <para> - This fix prevents a PANIC if a <literal>VACUUM FULL</> is cancelled + This fix prevents a PANIC if a <literal>VACUUM FULL</> is canceled after it's already committed its tuple movements, as well as transient errors if a plain <literal>VACUUM</> is interrupted after having truncated the table. diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release-8.3.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release-8.3.sgml index bccc141a549..9b809003532 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/release-8.3.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/release-8.3.sgml @@ -1,6 +1,377 @@ <!-- doc/src/sgml/release-8.3.sgml --> <!-- See header comment in release.sgml about typical markup --> + <sect1 id="release-8-3-16"> + <title>Release 8.3.16</title> + + <note> + <title>Release Date</title> + <simpara>2011-09-26</simpara> + </note> + + <para> + This release contains a variety of fixes from 8.3.15. + For information about new features in the 8.3 major release, see + <xref linkend="release-8-3">. + </para> + + <sect2> + <title>Migration to Version 8.3.16</title> + + <para> + 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. + </para> + + </sect2> + + <sect2> + <title>Changes</title> + + <itemizedlist> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix bugs in indexing of in-doubt HOT-updated tuples (Tom Lane) + </para> + + <para> + These bugs could result in index corruption after reindexing a system + catalog. They are not believed to affect user indexes. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix multiple bugs in GiST index page split processing (Heikki + Linnakangas) + </para> + + <para> + The probability of occurrence was low, but these could lead to index + corruption. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix possible buffer overrun in <function>tsvector_concat()</> + (Tom Lane) + </para> + + <para> + The function could underestimate the amount of memory needed for its + result, leading to server crashes. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix crash in <function>xml_recv</> when processing a + <quote>standalone</> parameter (Tom Lane) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Avoid possibly accessing off the end of memory in <command>ANALYZE</> + and in SJIS-2004 encoding conversion (Noah Misch) + </para> + + <para> + This fixes some very-low-probability server crash scenarios. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix race condition in relcache init file invalidation (Tom Lane) + </para> + + <para> + There was a window wherein a new backend process could read a stale init + file but miss the inval messages that would tell it the data is stale. + The result would be bizarre failures in catalog accesses, typically + <quote>could not read block 0 in file ...</> later during startup. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix memory leak at end of a GiST index scan (Tom Lane) + </para> + + <para> + Commands that perform many separate GiST index scans, such as + verification of a new GiST-based exclusion constraint on a table + already containing many rows, could transiently require large amounts of + memory due to this leak. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix performance problem when constructing a large, lossy bitmap + (Tom Lane) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix array- and path-creating functions to ensure padding bytes are + zeroes (Tom Lane) + </para> + + <para> + This avoids some situations where the planner will think that + semantically-equal constants are not equal, resulting in poor + optimization. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Work around gcc 4.6.0 bug that breaks WAL replay (Tom Lane) + </para> + + <para> + This could lead to loss of committed transactions after a server crash. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix dump bug for <literal>VALUES</> in a view (Tom Lane) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Disallow <literal>SELECT FOR UPDATE/SHARE</> on sequences (Tom Lane) + </para> + + <para> + This operation doesn't work as expected and can lead to failures. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Defend against integer overflow when computing size of a hash table (Tom + Lane) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix cases where <command>CLUSTER</> might attempt to access + already-removed TOAST data (Tom Lane) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix portability bugs in use of credentials control messages for + <quote>peer</> authentication (Tom Lane) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix SSPI login when multiple roundtrips are required (Ahmed Shinwari, + Magnus Hagander) + </para> + + <para> + The typical symptom of this problem was <quote>The function requested is + not supported</> errors during SSPI login. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix typo in <function>pg_srand48</> seed initialization (Andres Freund) + </para> + + <para> + This led to failure to use all bits of the provided seed. This function + is not used on most platforms (only those without <function>srandom</>), + and the potential security exposure from a less-random-than-expected + seed seems minimal in any case. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Avoid integer overflow when the sum of <literal>LIMIT</> and + <literal>OFFSET</> values exceeds 2^63 (Heikki Linnakangas) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Add overflow checks to <type>int4</> and <type>int8</> versions of + <function>generate_series()</> (Robert Haas) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix trailing-zero removal in <function>to_char()</> (Marti Raudsepp) + </para> + + <para> + In a format with <literal>FM</> and no digit positions + after the decimal point, zeroes to the left of the decimal point could + be removed incorrectly. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix <function>pg_size_pretty()</> to avoid overflow for inputs close to + 2^63 (Tom Lane) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + In <application>pg_ctl</>, support silent mode for service registrations + on Windows (MauMau) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix <application>psql</>'s counting of script file line numbers during + <literal>COPY</> from a different file (Tom Lane) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix <application>pg_restore</>'s direct-to-database mode for + <varname>standard_conforming_strings</> (Tom Lane) + </para> + + <para> + <application>pg_restore</> could emit incorrect commands when restoring + directly to a database server from an archive file that had been made + with <varname>standard_conforming_strings</> set to <literal>on</>. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix write-past-buffer-end and memory leak in <application>libpq</>'s + LDAP service lookup code (Albe Laurenz) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + In <application>libpq</>, avoid failures when using nonblocking I/O + and an SSL connection (Martin Pihlak, Tom Lane) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Improve libpq's handling of failures during connection startup + (Tom Lane) + </para> + + <para> + In particular, the response to a server report of <function>fork()</> + failure during SSL connection startup is now saner. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Improve <application>libpq</>'s error reporting for SSL failures (Tom + Lane) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Make <application>ecpglib</> write <type>double</> values with 15 digits + precision (Akira Kurosawa) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + In <application>ecpglib</>, be sure <literal>LC_NUMERIC</> setting is + restored after an error (Michael Meskes) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Apply upstream fix for blowfish signed-character bug (CVE-2011-2483) + (Tom Lane) + </para> + + <para> + <filename>contrib/pg_crypto</>'s blowfish encryption code could give + wrong results on platforms where char is signed (which is most), + leading to encrypted passwords being weaker than they should be. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix memory leak in <filename>contrib/seg</> (Heikki Linnakangas) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix <function>pgstatindex()</> to give consistent results for empty + indexes (Tom Lane) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Allow building with perl 5.14 (Alex Hunsaker) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Update configure script's method for probing existence of system + functions (Tom Lane) + </para> + + <para> + The version of autoconf we used in 8.3 and 8.2 could be fooled by + compilers that perform link-time optimization. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix assorted issues with build and install file paths containing spaces + (Tom Lane) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Update time zone data files to <application>tzdata</> release 2011i + for DST law changes in Canada, Egypt, Russia, Samoa, and South Sudan. + </para> + </listitem> + + </itemizedlist> + + </sect2> + </sect1> + <sect1 id="release-8-3-15"> <title>Release 8.3.15</title> @@ -1566,7 +1937,7 @@ </para> <para> - This fix prevents a PANIC if a <literal>VACUUM FULL</> is cancelled + This fix prevents a PANIC if a <literal>VACUUM FULL</> is canceled after it's already committed its tuple movements, as well as transient errors if a plain <literal>VACUUM</> is interrupted after having truncated the table. diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release-8.4.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release-8.4.sgml index ba1afcafe9c..90feb0ecc64 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/release-8.4.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/release-8.4.sgml @@ -1,6 +1,531 @@ <!-- doc/src/sgml/release-8.4.sgml --> <!-- See header comment in release.sgml about typical markup --> + <sect1 id="release-8-4-9"> + <title>Release 8.4.9</title> + + <note> + <title>Release Date</title> + <simpara>2011-09-26</simpara> + </note> + + <para> + This release contains a variety of fixes from 8.4.8. + For information about new features in the 8.4 major release, see + <xref linkend="release-8-4">. + </para> + + <sect2> + <title>Migration to Version 8.4.9</title> + + <para> + A dump/restore is not required for those running 8.4.X. + </para> + + <para> + However, if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 8.4.8, + see the release notes for 8.4.8. + </para> + + </sect2> + + <sect2> + <title>Changes</title> + + <itemizedlist> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix bugs in indexing of in-doubt HOT-updated tuples (Tom Lane) + </para> + + <para> + These bugs could result in index corruption after reindexing a system + catalog. They are not believed to affect user indexes. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix multiple bugs in GiST index page split processing (Heikki + Linnakangas) + </para> + + <para> + The probability of occurrence was low, but these could lead to index + corruption. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix possible buffer overrun in <function>tsvector_concat()</> + (Tom Lane) + </para> + + <para> + The function could underestimate the amount of memory needed for its + result, leading to server crashes. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix crash in <function>xml_recv</> when processing a + <quote>standalone</> parameter (Tom Lane) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Make <function>pg_options_to_table</> return NULL for an option with no + value (Tom Lane) + </para> + + <para> + Previously such cases would result in a server crash. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Avoid possibly accessing off the end of memory in <command>ANALYZE</> + and in SJIS-2004 encoding conversion (Noah Misch) + </para> + + <para> + This fixes some very-low-probability server crash scenarios. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Prevent intermittent hang in interactions of startup process with + bgwriter process (Simon Riggs) + </para> + + <para> + This affected recovery in non-hot-standby cases. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix race condition in relcache init file invalidation (Tom Lane) + </para> + + <para> + There was a window wherein a new backend process could read a stale init + file but miss the inval messages that would tell it the data is stale. + The result would be bizarre failures in catalog accesses, typically + <quote>could not read block 0 in file ...</> later during startup. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix memory leak at end of a GiST index scan (Tom Lane) + </para> + + <para> + Commands that perform many separate GiST index scans, such as + verification of a new GiST-based exclusion constraint on a table + already containing many rows, could transiently require large amounts of + memory due to this leak. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix incorrect memory accounting (leading to possible memory bloat) in + tuplestores supporting holdable cursors and plpgsql's <literal>RETURN + NEXT</> command (Tom Lane) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix performance problem when constructing a large, lossy bitmap + (Tom Lane) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix join selectivity estimation for unique columns (Tom Lane) + </para> + + <para> + This fixes an erroneous planner heuristic that could lead to poor + estimates of the result size of a join. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix nested PlaceHolderVar expressions that appear only in sub-select + target lists (Tom Lane) + </para> + + <para> + This mistake could result in outputs of an outer join incorrectly + appearing as NULL. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Allow nested <literal>EXISTS</> queries to be optimized properly (Tom + Lane) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix array- and path-creating functions to ensure padding bytes are + zeroes (Tom Lane) + </para> + + <para> + This avoids some situations where the planner will think that + semantically-equal constants are not equal, resulting in poor + optimization. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix <command>EXPLAIN</> to handle gating Result nodes within + inner-indexscan subplans (Tom Lane) + </para> + + <para> + The usual symptom of this oversight was <quote>bogus varno</> errors. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Work around gcc 4.6.0 bug that breaks WAL replay (Tom Lane) + </para> + + <para> + This could lead to loss of committed transactions after a server crash. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix dump bug for <literal>VALUES</> in a view (Tom Lane) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Disallow <literal>SELECT FOR UPDATE/SHARE</> on sequences (Tom Lane) + </para> + + <para> + This operation doesn't work as expected and can lead to failures. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix <command>VACUUM</> so that it always updates + <literal>pg_class</>.<literal>reltuples</>/<literal>relpages</> (Tom + Lane) + </para> + + <para> + This fixes some scenarios where autovacuum could make increasingly poor + decisions about when to vacuum tables. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Defend against integer overflow when computing size of a hash table (Tom + Lane) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix cases where <command>CLUSTER</> might attempt to access + already-removed TOAST data (Tom Lane) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix portability bugs in use of credentials control messages for + <quote>peer</> authentication (Tom Lane) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix SSPI login when multiple roundtrips are required (Ahmed Shinwari, + Magnus Hagander) + </para> + + <para> + The typical symptom of this problem was <quote>The function requested is + not supported</> errors during SSPI login. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Throw an error if <filename>pg_hba.conf</> contains <literal>hostssl</> + but SSL is disabled (Tom Lane) + </para> + + <para> + This was concluded to be more user-friendly than the previous behavior + of silently ignoring such lines. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix typo in <function>pg_srand48</> seed initialization (Andres Freund) + </para> + + <para> + This led to failure to use all bits of the provided seed. This function + is not used on most platforms (only those without <function>srandom</>), + and the potential security exposure from a less-random-than-expected + seed seems minimal in any case. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Avoid integer overflow when the sum of <literal>LIMIT</> and + <literal>OFFSET</> values exceeds 2^63 (Heikki Linnakangas) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Add overflow checks to <type>int4</> and <type>int8</> versions of + <function>generate_series()</> (Robert Haas) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix trailing-zero removal in <function>to_char()</> (Marti Raudsepp) + </para> + + <para> + In a format with <literal>FM</> and no digit positions + after the decimal point, zeroes to the left of the decimal point could + be removed incorrectly. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix <function>pg_size_pretty()</> to avoid overflow for inputs close to + 2^63 (Tom Lane) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Weaken plpgsql's check for typmod matching in record values (Tom Lane) + </para> + + <para> + An overly enthusiastic check could lead to discarding length modifiers + that should have been kept. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Correctly handle quotes in locale names during <application>initdb</> + (Heikki Linnakangas) + </para> + + <para> + The case can arise with some Windows locales, such as <quote>People's + Republic of China</>. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix <application>pg_upgrade</> to preserve toast tables' relfrozenxids + during an upgrade from 8.3 (Bruce Momjian) + </para> + + <para> + Failure to do this could lead to <filename>pg_clog</> files being + removed too soon after the upgrade. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + In <application>pg_ctl</>, support silent mode for service registrations + on Windows (MauMau) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix <application>psql</>'s counting of script file line numbers during + <literal>COPY</> from a different file (Tom Lane) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix <application>pg_restore</>'s direct-to-database mode for + <varname>standard_conforming_strings</> (Tom Lane) + </para> + + <para> + <application>pg_restore</> could emit incorrect commands when restoring + directly to a database server from an archive file that had been made + with <varname>standard_conforming_strings</> set to <literal>on</>. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Be more user-friendly about unsupported cases for parallel + <application>pg_restore</> (Tom Lane) + </para> + + <para> + This change ensures that such cases are detected and reported before + any restore actions have been taken. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix write-past-buffer-end and memory leak in <application>libpq</>'s + LDAP service lookup code (Albe Laurenz) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + In <application>libpq</>, avoid failures when using nonblocking I/O + and an SSL connection (Martin Pihlak, Tom Lane) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Improve libpq's handling of failures during connection startup + (Tom Lane) + </para> + + <para> + In particular, the response to a server report of <function>fork()</> + failure during SSL connection startup is now saner. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Improve <application>libpq</>'s error reporting for SSL failures (Tom + Lane) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix <function>PQsetvalue()</> to avoid possible crash when adding a new + tuple to a <structname>PGresult</> originally obtained from a server + query (Andrew Chernow) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Make <application>ecpglib</> write <type>double</> values with 15 digits + precision (Akira Kurosawa) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + In <application>ecpglib</>, be sure <literal>LC_NUMERIC</> setting is + restored after an error (Michael Meskes) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Apply upstream fix for blowfish signed-character bug (CVE-2011-2483) + (Tom Lane) + </para> + + <para> + <filename>contrib/pg_crypto</>'s blowfish encryption code could give + wrong results on platforms where char is signed (which is most), + leading to encrypted passwords being weaker than they should be. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix memory leak in <filename>contrib/seg</> (Heikki Linnakangas) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix <function>pgstatindex()</> to give consistent results for empty + indexes (Tom Lane) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Allow building with perl 5.14 (Alex Hunsaker) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Update configure script's method for probing existence of system + functions (Tom Lane) + </para> + + <para> + The version of autoconf we used in 8.3 and 8.2 could be fooled by + compilers that perform link-time optimization. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix assorted issues with build and install file paths containing spaces + (Tom Lane) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Update time zone data files to <application>tzdata</> release 2011i + for DST law changes in Canada, Egypt, Russia, Samoa, and South Sudan. + </para> + </listitem> + + </itemizedlist> + + </sect2> + </sect1> + <sect1 id="release-8-4-8"> <title>Release 8.4.8</title> @@ -2062,7 +2587,7 @@ </para> <para> - This fix prevents a PANIC if a <literal>VACUUM FULL</> is cancelled + This fix prevents a PANIC if a <literal>VACUUM FULL</> is canceled after it's already committed its tuple movements, as well as transient errors if a plain <literal>VACUUM</> is interrupted after having truncated the table. @@ -5467,7 +5992,7 @@ WITH w AS (SELECT * FROM foo) SELECT * FROM w, bar ... FOR UPDATE <para> Allow <application>pg_dump</>, <application>pg_dumpall</>, and <application>pg_restore</> to use a specified role (Benedek - L�szl�) + László) </para> </listitem> |