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author | Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> | 2016-02-07 14:16:31 -0500 |
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committer | Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> | 2016-02-07 14:16:31 -0500 |
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Release notes for 9.5.1, 9.4.6, 9.3.11, 9.2.15, 9.1.20.
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diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release-9.1.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release-9.1.sgml index f5dab31608b..4ab11e25a7d 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/release-9.1.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/release-9.1.sgml @@ -1,6 +1,506 @@ <!-- doc/src/sgml/release-9.1.sgml --> <!-- See header comment in release.sgml about typical markup --> + <sect1 id="release-9-1-20"> + <title>Release 9.1.20</title> + + <note> + <title>Release Date</title> + <simpara>2016-02-11</simpara> + </note> + + <para> + This release contains a variety of fixes from 9.1.19. + For information about new features in the 9.1 major release, see + <xref linkend="release-9-1">. + </para> + + <sect2> + <title>Migration to Version 9.1.20</title> + + <para> + A dump/restore is not required for those running 9.1.X. + </para> + + <para> + However, if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 9.1.16, + see <xref linkend="release-9-1-16">. + </para> + + </sect2> + + <sect2> + <title>Changes</title> + + <itemizedlist> + + <listitem> + <para> + Perform an immediate shutdown if the <filename>postmaster.pid</> file + is removed (Tom Lane) + </para> + + <para> + The postmaster now checks every minute or so + that <filename>postmaster.pid</> is still there and still contains its + own PID. If not, it performs an immediate shutdown, as though it had + received <systemitem>SIGQUIT</>. The main motivation for this change + is to ensure that failed buildfarm runs will get cleaned up without + manual intervention; but it also serves to limit the bad effects if a + DBA forcibly removes <filename>postmaster.pid</> and then starts a new + postmaster. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + In <literal>SERIALIZABLE</> transaction isolation mode, serialization + anomalies could be missed due to race conditions during insertions + (Kevin Grittner, Thomas Munro) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix failure to emit appropriate WAL records when doing <literal>ALTER + TABLE ... SET TABLESPACE</> for unlogged relations (Michael Paquier, + Andres Freund) + </para> + + <para> + Even though the relation's data is unlogged, the move must be logged or + the relation will be inaccessible after a standby is promoted to master. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix possible misinitialization of unlogged relations at the end of + crash recovery (Andres Freund, Michael Paquier) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix <command>ALTER COLUMN TYPE</> to reconstruct inherited check + constraints properly (Tom Lane) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix <command>REASSIGN OWNED</> to change ownership of composite types + properly (Álvaro Herrera) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix <command>REASSIGN OWNED</> and <command>ALTER OWNER</> to correctly + update granted-permissions lists when changing owners of data types, + foreign data wrappers, or foreign servers (Bruce Momjian, + Álvaro Herrera) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix <command>REASSIGN OWNED</> to ignore foreign user mappings, + rather than fail (Álvaro Herrera) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Add more defenses against bad planner cost estimates for GIN index + scans when the index's internal statistics are very out-of-date + (Tom Lane) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Make planner cope with hypothetical GIN indexes suggested by an index + advisor plug-in (Julien Rouhaud) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix dumping of whole-row Vars in <literal>ROW()</> + and <literal>VALUES()</> lists (Tom Lane) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix possible internal overflow in <type>numeric</> division + (Dean Rasheed) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix enforcement of restrictions inside parentheses within regular + expression lookahead constraints (Tom Lane) + </para> + + <para> + Lookahead constraints aren't allowed to contain backrefs, and + parentheses within them are always considered non-capturing, according + to the manual. However, the code failed to handle these cases properly + inside a parenthesized subexpression, and would give unexpected + results. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Conversion of regular expressions to indexscan bounds could produce + incorrect bounds from regexps containing lookahead constraints + (Tom Lane) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix regular-expression compiler to handle loops of constraint arcs + (Tom Lane) + </para> + + <para> + The code added for CVE-2007-4772 was both incomplete, in that it didn't + handle loops involving more than one state, and incorrect, in that it + could cause assertion failures (though there seem to be no bad + consequences of that in a non-assert build). Multi-state loops would + cause the compiler to run until the query was canceled or it reached + the too-many-states error condition. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Improve memory-usage accounting in regular-expression compiler + (Tom Lane) + </para> + + <para> + This causes the code to emit <quote>regular expression is too + complex</> errors in some cases that previously used unreasonable + amounts of time and memory. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Improve performance of regular-expression compiler (Tom Lane) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Make <literal>%h</> and <literal>%r</> escapes + in <varname>log_line_prefix</> work for messages emitted due + to <varname>log_connections</> (Tom Lane) + </para> + + <para> + Previously, <literal>%h</>/<literal>%r</> started to work just after a + new session had emitted the <quote>connection received</> log message; + now they work for that message too. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + On Windows, ensure the shared-memory mapping handle gets closed in + child processes that don't need it (Tom Lane, Amit Kapila) + </para> + + <para> + This oversight resulted in failure to recover from crashes + whenever <varname>logging_collector</> is turned on. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix possible failure to detect socket EOF in non-blocking mode on + Windows (Tom Lane) + </para> + + <para> + It's not entirely clear whether this problem can happen in pre-9.5 + branches, but if it did, the symptom would be that a walsender process + would wait indefinitely rather than noticing a loss of connection. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Avoid leaking a token handle during SSPI authentication + (Christian Ullrich) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + In <application>psql</>, ensure that <application>libreadline</>'s idea + of the screen size is updated when the terminal window size changes + (Merlin Moncure) + </para> + + <para> + Previously, <application>libreadline</> did not notice if the window + was resized during query output, leading to strange behavior during + later input of multiline queries. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix <application>psql</>'s <literal>\det</> command to interpret its + pattern argument the same way as other <literal>\d</> commands with + potentially schema-qualified patterns do (Reece Hart) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Avoid possible crash in <application>psql</>'s <literal>\c</> command + when previous connection was via Unix socket and command specifies a + new hostname and same username (Tom Lane) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + In <literal>pg_ctl start -w</>, test child process status directly + rather than relying on heuristics (Tom Lane, Michael Paquier) + </para> + + <para> + Previously, <application>pg_ctl</> relied on an assumption that the new + postmaster would always create <filename>postmaster.pid</> within five + seconds. But that can fail on heavily-loaded systems, + causing <application>pg_ctl</> to report incorrectly that the + postmaster failed to start. + </para> + + <para> + Except on Windows, this change also means that a <literal>pg_ctl start + -w</> done immediately after another such command will now reliably + fail, whereas previously it would report success if done within two + seconds of the first command. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + In <literal>pg_ctl start -w</>, don't attempt to use a wildcard listen + address to connect to the postmaster (Kondo Yuta) + </para> + + <para> + On Windows, <application>pg_ctl</> would fail to detect postmaster + startup if <varname>listen_addresses</> is set to <literal>0.0.0.0</> + or <literal>::</>, because it would try to use that value verbatim as + the address to connect to, which doesn't work. Instead assume + that <literal>127.0.0.1</> or <literal>::1</>, respectively, is the + right thing to use. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + In <application>pg_ctl</> on Windows, check service status to decide + where to send output, rather than checking if standard output is a + terminal (Michael Paquier) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + In <application>pg_dump</> and <application>pg_basebackup</>, adopt + the GNU convention for handling tar-archive members exceeding 8GB + (Tom Lane) + </para> + + <para> + The POSIX standard for <literal>tar</> file format does not allow + archive member files to exceed 8GB, but most modern implementations + of <application>tar</> support an extension that fixes that. Adopt + this extension so that <application>pg_dump</> with <option>-Ft</> no + longer fails on tables with more than 8GB of data, and so + that <application>pg_basebackup</> can handle files larger than 8GB. + In addition, fix some portability issues that could cause failures for + members between 4GB and 8GB on some platforms. Potentially these + problems could cause unrecoverable data loss due to unreadable backup + files. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix assorted corner-case bugs in <application>pg_dump</>'s processing + of extension member objects (Tom Lane) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Make <application>pg_dump</> mark a view's triggers as needing to be + processed after its rule, to prevent possible failure during + parallel <application>pg_restore</> (Tom Lane) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Ensure that relation option values are properly quoted + in <application>pg_dump</> (Kouhei Sutou, Tom Lane) + </para> + + <para> + A reloption value that isn't a simple identifier or number could lead + to dump/reload failures due to syntax errors in CREATE statements + issued by <application>pg_dump</>. This is not an issue with any + reloption currently supported by core <productname>PostgreSQL</>, but + extensions could allow reloptions that cause the problem. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix <application>pg_upgrade</>'s file-copying code to handle errors + properly on Windows (Bruce Momjian) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Install guards in <application>pgbench</> against corner-case overflow + conditions during evaluation of script-specified division or modulo + operators (Fabien Coelho, Michael Paquier) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Prevent certain <application>PL/Java</> parameters from being set by + non-superusers (Noah Misch) + </para> + + <para> + This change mitigates a <application>PL/Java</> security bug + (CVE-2016-0766), which was fixed in <application>PL/Java</> by marking + these parameters as superuser-only. To fix the security hazard for + sites that update <productname>PostgreSQL</> more frequently + than <application>PL/Java</>, make the core code aware of them also. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Improve <application>libpq</>'s handling of out-of-memory situations + (Michael Paquier, Amit Kapila, Heikki Linnakangas) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix order of arguments + in <application>ecpg</>-generated <literal>typedef</> statements + (Michael Meskes) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Use <literal>%g</> not <literal>%f</> format + in <application>ecpg</>'s <function>PGTYPESnumeric_from_double()</> + (Tom Lane) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix <application>ecpg</>-supplied header files to not contain comments + continued from a preprocessor directive line onto the next line + (Michael Meskes) + </para> + + <para> + Such a comment is rejected by <application>ecpg</>. It's not yet clear + whether <application>ecpg</> itself should be changed. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Ensure that <filename>contrib/pgcrypto</>'s <function>crypt()</> + function can be interrupted by query cancel (Andreas Karlsson) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Accept <application>flex</> versions later than 2.5.x + (Tom Lane, Michael Paquier) + </para> + + <para> + Now that flex 2.6.0 has been released, the version checks in our build + scripts needed to be adjusted. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Install our <filename>missing</> script where PGXS builds can find it + (Jim Nasby) + </para> + + <para> + This allows sane behavior in a PGXS build done on a machine where build + tools such as <application>bison</> are missing. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Ensure that <filename>dynloader.h</> is included in the installed + header files in MSVC builds (Bruce Momjian, Michael Paquier) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Add variant regression test expected-output file to match behavior of + current <application>libxml2</> (Tom Lane) + </para> + + <para> + The fix for <application>libxml2</>'s CVE-2015-7499 causes it not to + output error context reports in some cases where it used to do so. + This seems to be a bug, but we'll probably have to live with it for + some time, so work around it. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Update time zone data files to <application>tzdata</> release 2016a for + DST law changes in Cayman Islands, Metlakatla, and Trans-Baikal + Territory (Zabaykalsky Krai), plus historical corrections for Pakistan. + </para> + </listitem> + + </itemizedlist> + + </sect2> + </sect1> + <sect1 id="release-9-1-19"> <title>Release 9.1.19</title> diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release-9.2.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release-9.2.sgml index bee0c9e6235..78154cb8eca 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/release-9.2.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/release-9.2.sgml @@ -1,6 +1,537 @@ <!-- doc/src/sgml/release-9.2.sgml --> <!-- See header comment in release.sgml about typical markup --> + <sect1 id="release-9-2-15"> + <title>Release 9.2.15</title> + + <note> + <title>Release Date</title> + <simpara>2016-02-11</simpara> + </note> + + <para> + This release contains a variety of fixes from 9.2.14. + For information about new features in the 9.2 major release, see + <xref linkend="release-9-2">. + </para> + + <sect2> + <title>Migration to Version 9.2.15</title> + + <para> + A dump/restore is not required for those running 9.2.X. + </para> + + <para> + However, if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 9.2.11, + see <xref linkend="release-9-2-11">. + </para> + + </sect2> + + <sect2> + <title>Changes</title> + + <itemizedlist> + + <listitem> + <para> + Perform an immediate shutdown if the <filename>postmaster.pid</> file + is removed (Tom Lane) + </para> + + <para> + The postmaster now checks every minute or so + that <filename>postmaster.pid</> is still there and still contains its + own PID. If not, it performs an immediate shutdown, as though it had + received <systemitem>SIGQUIT</>. The main motivation for this change + is to ensure that failed buildfarm runs will get cleaned up without + manual intervention; but it also serves to limit the bad effects if a + DBA forcibly removes <filename>postmaster.pid</> and then starts a new + postmaster. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + In <literal>SERIALIZABLE</> transaction isolation mode, serialization + anomalies could be missed due to race conditions during insertions + (Kevin Grittner, Thomas Munro) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix failure to emit appropriate WAL records when doing <literal>ALTER + TABLE ... SET TABLESPACE</> for unlogged relations (Michael Paquier, + Andres Freund) + </para> + + <para> + Even though the relation's data is unlogged, the move must be logged or + the relation will be inaccessible after a standby is promoted to master. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix possible misinitialization of unlogged relations at the end of + crash recovery (Andres Freund, Michael Paquier) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix <command>ALTER COLUMN TYPE</> to reconstruct inherited check + constraints properly (Tom Lane) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix <command>REASSIGN OWNED</> to change ownership of composite types + properly (Álvaro Herrera) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix <command>REASSIGN OWNED</> and <command>ALTER OWNER</> to correctly + update granted-permissions lists when changing owners of data types, + foreign data wrappers, or foreign servers (Bruce Momjian, + Álvaro Herrera) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix <command>REASSIGN OWNED</> to ignore foreign user mappings, + rather than fail (Álvaro Herrera) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Add more defenses against bad planner cost estimates for GIN index + scans when the index's internal statistics are very out-of-date + (Tom Lane) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Make planner cope with hypothetical GIN indexes suggested by an index + advisor plug-in (Julien Rouhaud) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix dumping of whole-row Vars in <literal>ROW()</> + and <literal>VALUES()</> lists (Tom Lane) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix possible internal overflow in <type>numeric</> division + (Dean Rasheed) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix enforcement of restrictions inside parentheses within regular + expression lookahead constraints (Tom Lane) + </para> + + <para> + Lookahead constraints aren't allowed to contain backrefs, and + parentheses within them are always considered non-capturing, according + to the manual. However, the code failed to handle these cases properly + inside a parenthesized subexpression, and would give unexpected + results. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Conversion of regular expressions to indexscan bounds could produce + incorrect bounds from regexps containing lookahead constraints + (Tom Lane) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix regular-expression compiler to handle loops of constraint arcs + (Tom Lane) + </para> + + <para> + The code added for CVE-2007-4772 was both incomplete, in that it didn't + handle loops involving more than one state, and incorrect, in that it + could cause assertion failures (though there seem to be no bad + consequences of that in a non-assert build). Multi-state loops would + cause the compiler to run until the query was canceled or it reached + the too-many-states error condition. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Improve memory-usage accounting in regular-expression compiler + (Tom Lane) + </para> + + <para> + This causes the code to emit <quote>regular expression is too + complex</> errors in some cases that previously used unreasonable + amounts of time and memory. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Improve performance of regular-expression compiler (Tom Lane) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Make <literal>%h</> and <literal>%r</> escapes + in <varname>log_line_prefix</> work for messages emitted due + to <varname>log_connections</> (Tom Lane) + </para> + + <para> + Previously, <literal>%h</>/<literal>%r</> started to work just after a + new session had emitted the <quote>connection received</> log message; + now they work for that message too. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + On Windows, ensure the shared-memory mapping handle gets closed in + child processes that don't need it (Tom Lane, Amit Kapila) + </para> + + <para> + This oversight resulted in failure to recover from crashes + whenever <varname>logging_collector</> is turned on. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix possible failure to detect socket EOF in non-blocking mode on + Windows (Tom Lane) + </para> + + <para> + It's not entirely clear whether this problem can happen in pre-9.5 + branches, but if it did, the symptom would be that a walsender process + would wait indefinitely rather than noticing a loss of connection. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Avoid leaking a token handle during SSPI authentication + (Christian Ullrich) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + In <application>psql</>, ensure that <application>libreadline</>'s idea + of the screen size is updated when the terminal window size changes + (Merlin Moncure) + </para> + + <para> + Previously, <application>libreadline</> did not notice if the window + was resized during query output, leading to strange behavior during + later input of multiline queries. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix <application>psql</>'s <literal>\det</> command to interpret its + pattern argument the same way as other <literal>\d</> commands with + potentially schema-qualified patterns do (Reece Hart) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Avoid possible crash in <application>psql</>'s <literal>\c</> command + when previous connection was via Unix socket and command specifies a + new hostname and same username (Tom Lane) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + In <literal>pg_ctl start -w</>, test child process status directly + rather than relying on heuristics (Tom Lane, Michael Paquier) + </para> + + <para> + Previously, <application>pg_ctl</> relied on an assumption that the new + postmaster would always create <filename>postmaster.pid</> within five + seconds. But that can fail on heavily-loaded systems, + causing <application>pg_ctl</> to report incorrectly that the + postmaster failed to start. + </para> + + <para> + Except on Windows, this change also means that a <literal>pg_ctl start + -w</> done immediately after another such command will now reliably + fail, whereas previously it would report success if done within two + seconds of the first command. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + In <literal>pg_ctl start -w</>, don't attempt to use a wildcard listen + address to connect to the postmaster (Kondo Yuta) + </para> + + <para> + On Windows, <application>pg_ctl</> would fail to detect postmaster + startup if <varname>listen_addresses</> is set to <literal>0.0.0.0</> + or <literal>::</>, because it would try to use that value verbatim as + the address to connect to, which doesn't work. Instead assume + that <literal>127.0.0.1</> or <literal>::1</>, respectively, is the + right thing to use. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + In <application>pg_ctl</> on Windows, check service status to decide + where to send output, rather than checking if standard output is a + terminal (Michael Paquier) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + In <application>pg_dump</> and <application>pg_basebackup</>, adopt + the GNU convention for handling tar-archive members exceeding 8GB + (Tom Lane) + </para> + + <para> + The POSIX standard for <literal>tar</> file format does not allow + archive member files to exceed 8GB, but most modern implementations + of <application>tar</> support an extension that fixes that. Adopt + this extension so that <application>pg_dump</> with <option>-Ft</> no + longer fails on tables with more than 8GB of data, and so + that <application>pg_basebackup</> can handle files larger than 8GB. + In addition, fix some portability issues that could cause failures for + members between 4GB and 8GB on some platforms. Potentially these + problems could cause unrecoverable data loss due to unreadable backup + files. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix assorted corner-case bugs in <application>pg_dump</>'s processing + of extension member objects (Tom Lane) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Make <application>pg_dump</> mark a view's triggers as needing to be + processed after its rule, to prevent possible failure during + parallel <application>pg_restore</> (Tom Lane) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Ensure that relation option values are properly quoted + in <application>pg_dump</> (Kouhei Sutou, Tom Lane) + </para> + + <para> + A reloption value that isn't a simple identifier or number could lead + to dump/reload failures due to syntax errors in CREATE statements + issued by <application>pg_dump</>. This is not an issue with any + reloption currently supported by core <productname>PostgreSQL</>, but + extensions could allow reloptions that cause the problem. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix <application>pg_upgrade</>'s file-copying code to handle errors + properly on Windows (Bruce Momjian) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Install guards in <application>pgbench</> against corner-case overflow + conditions during evaluation of script-specified division or modulo + operators (Fabien Coelho, Michael Paquier) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix failure to localize messages emitted + by <application>pg_receivexlog</> and <application>pg_recvlogical</> + (Ioseph Kim) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Avoid dump/reload problems when using both <application>plpython2</> + and <application>plpython3</> (Tom Lane) + </para> + + <para> + In principle, both versions of <application>PL/Python</> can be used in + the same database, though not in the same session (because the two + versions of <application>libpython</> cannot safely be used concurrently). + However, <application>pg_restore</> and <application>pg_upgrade</> both + do things that can fall foul of the same-session restriction. Work + around that by changing the timing of the check. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix <application>PL/Python</> regression tests to pass with Python 3.5 + (Peter Eisentraut) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Prevent certain <application>PL/Java</> parameters from being set by + non-superusers (Noah Misch) + </para> + + <para> + This change mitigates a <application>PL/Java</> security bug + (CVE-2016-0766), which was fixed in <application>PL/Java</> by marking + these parameters as superuser-only. To fix the security hazard for + sites that update <productname>PostgreSQL</> more frequently + than <application>PL/Java</>, make the core code aware of them also. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Improve <application>libpq</>'s handling of out-of-memory situations + (Michael Paquier, Amit Kapila, Heikki Linnakangas) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix order of arguments + in <application>ecpg</>-generated <literal>typedef</> statements + (Michael Meskes) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Use <literal>%g</> not <literal>%f</> format + in <application>ecpg</>'s <function>PGTYPESnumeric_from_double()</> + (Tom Lane) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix <application>ecpg</>-supplied header files to not contain comments + continued from a preprocessor directive line onto the next line + (Michael Meskes) + </para> + + <para> + Such a comment is rejected by <application>ecpg</>. It's not yet clear + whether <application>ecpg</> itself should be changed. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Ensure that <filename>contrib/pgcrypto</>'s <function>crypt()</> + function can be interrupted by query cancel (Andreas Karlsson) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Accept <application>flex</> versions later than 2.5.x + (Tom Lane, Michael Paquier) + </para> + + <para> + Now that flex 2.6.0 has been released, the version checks in our build + scripts needed to be adjusted. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Install our <filename>missing</> script where PGXS builds can find it + (Jim Nasby) + </para> + + <para> + This allows sane behavior in a PGXS build done on a machine where build + tools such as <application>bison</> are missing. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Ensure that <filename>dynloader.h</> is included in the installed + header files in MSVC builds (Bruce Momjian, Michael Paquier) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Add variant regression test expected-output file to match behavior of + current <application>libxml2</> (Tom Lane) + </para> + + <para> + The fix for <application>libxml2</>'s CVE-2015-7499 causes it not to + output error context reports in some cases where it used to do so. + This seems to be a bug, but we'll probably have to live with it for + some time, so work around it. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Update time zone data files to <application>tzdata</> release 2016a for + DST law changes in Cayman Islands, Metlakatla, and Trans-Baikal + Territory (Zabaykalsky Krai), plus historical corrections for Pakistan. + </para> + </listitem> + + </itemizedlist> + + </sect2> + </sect1> + <sect1 id="release-9-2-14"> <title>Release 9.2.14</title> diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release-9.3.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release-9.3.sgml index b637908f592..0f4907daa99 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/release-9.3.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/release-9.3.sgml @@ -1,6 +1,616 @@ <!-- doc/src/sgml/release-9.3.sgml --> <!-- See header comment in release.sgml about typical markup --> + <sect1 id="release-9-3-11"> + <title>Release 9.3.11</title> + + <note> + <title>Release Date</title> + <simpara>2016-02-11</simpara> + </note> + + <para> + This release contains a variety of fixes from 9.3.10. + For information about new features in the 9.3 major release, see + <xref linkend="release-9-3">. + </para> + + <sect2> + <title>Migration to Version 9.3.11</title> + + <para> + A dump/restore is not required for those running 9.3.X. + </para> + + <para> + However, if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 9.3.9, + see <xref linkend="release-9-3-9">. + </para> + + </sect2> + + <sect2> + <title>Changes</title> + + <itemizedlist> + + <listitem> + <para> + Perform an immediate shutdown if the <filename>postmaster.pid</> file + is removed (Tom Lane) + </para> + + <para> + The postmaster now checks every minute or so + that <filename>postmaster.pid</> is still there and still contains its + own PID. If not, it performs an immediate shutdown, as though it had + received <systemitem>SIGQUIT</>. The main motivation for this change + is to ensure that failed buildfarm runs will get cleaned up without + manual intervention; but it also serves to limit the bad effects if a + DBA forcibly removes <filename>postmaster.pid</> and then starts a new + postmaster. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + In <literal>SERIALIZABLE</> transaction isolation mode, serialization + anomalies could be missed due to race conditions during insertions + (Kevin Grittner, Thomas Munro) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix failure to emit appropriate WAL records when doing <literal>ALTER + TABLE ... SET TABLESPACE</> for unlogged relations (Michael Paquier, + Andres Freund) + </para> + + <para> + Even though the relation's data is unlogged, the move must be logged or + the relation will be inaccessible after a standby is promoted to master. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix possible misinitialization of unlogged relations at the end of + crash recovery (Andres Freund, Michael Paquier) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Ensure walsender slots are fully re-initialized when being re-used + (Magnus Hagander) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix <command>ALTER COLUMN TYPE</> to reconstruct inherited check + constraints properly (Tom Lane) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix <command>REASSIGN OWNED</> to change ownership of composite types + properly (Álvaro Herrera) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix <command>REASSIGN OWNED</> and <command>ALTER OWNER</> to correctly + update granted-permissions lists when changing owners of data types, + foreign data wrappers, or foreign servers (Bruce Momjian, + Álvaro Herrera) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix <command>REASSIGN OWNED</> to ignore foreign user mappings, + rather than fail (Álvaro Herrera) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix possible crash after doing query rewrite for an updatable view + (Stephen Frost) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix planner's handling of <literal>LATERAL</> references (Tom + Lane) + </para> + + <para> + This fixes some corner cases that led to <quote>failed to build any + N-way joins</> or <quote>could not devise a query plan</> planner + failures. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Add more defenses against bad planner cost estimates for GIN index + scans when the index's internal statistics are very out-of-date + (Tom Lane) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Make planner cope with hypothetical GIN indexes suggested by an index + advisor plug-in (Julien Rouhaud) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Speed up generation of unique table aliases in <command>EXPLAIN</> and + rule dumping, and ensure that generated aliases do not + exceed <literal>NAMEDATALEN</> (Tom Lane) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix dumping of whole-row Vars in <literal>ROW()</> + and <literal>VALUES()</> lists (Tom Lane) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix possible internal overflow in <type>numeric</> division + (Dean Rasheed) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix enforcement of restrictions inside parentheses within regular + expression lookahead constraints (Tom Lane) + </para> + + <para> + Lookahead constraints aren't allowed to contain backrefs, and + parentheses within them are always considered non-capturing, according + to the manual. However, the code failed to handle these cases properly + inside a parenthesized subexpression, and would give unexpected + results. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Conversion of regular expressions to indexscan bounds could produce + incorrect bounds from regexps containing lookahead constraints + (Tom Lane) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix regular-expression compiler to handle loops of constraint arcs + (Tom Lane) + </para> + + <para> + The code added for CVE-2007-4772 was both incomplete, in that it didn't + handle loops involving more than one state, and incorrect, in that it + could cause assertion failures (though there seem to be no bad + consequences of that in a non-assert build). Multi-state loops would + cause the compiler to run until the query was canceled or it reached + the too-many-states error condition. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Improve memory-usage accounting in regular-expression compiler + (Tom Lane) + </para> + + <para> + This causes the code to emit <quote>regular expression is too + complex</> errors in some cases that previously used unreasonable + amounts of time and memory. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Improve performance of regular-expression compiler (Tom Lane) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Make <literal>%h</> and <literal>%r</> escapes + in <varname>log_line_prefix</> work for messages emitted due + to <varname>log_connections</> (Tom Lane) + </para> + + <para> + Previously, <literal>%h</>/<literal>%r</> started to work just after a + new session had emitted the <quote>connection received</> log message; + now they work for that message too. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + On Windows, ensure the shared-memory mapping handle gets closed in + child processes that don't need it (Tom Lane, Amit Kapila) + </para> + + <para> + This oversight resulted in failure to recover from crashes + whenever <varname>logging_collector</> is turned on. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix possible failure to detect socket EOF in non-blocking mode on + Windows (Tom Lane) + </para> + + <para> + It's not entirely clear whether this problem can happen in pre-9.5 + branches, but if it did, the symptom would be that a walsender process + would wait indefinitely rather than noticing a loss of connection. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Avoid leaking a token handle during SSPI authentication + (Christian Ullrich) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + In <application>psql</>, ensure that <application>libreadline</>'s idea + of the screen size is updated when the terminal window size changes + (Merlin Moncure) + </para> + + <para> + Previously, <application>libreadline</> did not notice if the window + was resized during query output, leading to strange behavior during + later input of multiline queries. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix <application>psql</>'s <literal>\det</> command to interpret its + pattern argument the same way as other <literal>\d</> commands with + potentially schema-qualified patterns do (Reece Hart) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Avoid possible crash in <application>psql</>'s <literal>\c</> command + when previous connection was via Unix socket and command specifies a + new hostname and same username (Tom Lane) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + In <literal>pg_ctl start -w</>, test child process status directly + rather than relying on heuristics (Tom Lane, Michael Paquier) + </para> + + <para> + Previously, <application>pg_ctl</> relied on an assumption that the new + postmaster would always create <filename>postmaster.pid</> within five + seconds. But that can fail on heavily-loaded systems, + causing <application>pg_ctl</> to report incorrectly that the + postmaster failed to start. + </para> + + <para> + Except on Windows, this change also means that a <literal>pg_ctl start + -w</> done immediately after another such command will now reliably + fail, whereas previously it would report success if done within two + seconds of the first command. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + In <literal>pg_ctl start -w</>, don't attempt to use a wildcard listen + address to connect to the postmaster (Kondo Yuta) + </para> + + <para> + On Windows, <application>pg_ctl</> would fail to detect postmaster + startup if <varname>listen_addresses</> is set to <literal>0.0.0.0</> + or <literal>::</>, because it would try to use that value verbatim as + the address to connect to, which doesn't work. Instead assume + that <literal>127.0.0.1</> or <literal>::1</>, respectively, is the + right thing to use. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + In <application>pg_ctl</> on Windows, check service status to decide + where to send output, rather than checking if standard output is a + terminal (Michael Paquier) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + In <application>pg_dump</> and <application>pg_basebackup</>, adopt + the GNU convention for handling tar-archive members exceeding 8GB + (Tom Lane) + </para> + + <para> + The POSIX standard for <literal>tar</> file format does not allow + archive member files to exceed 8GB, but most modern implementations + of <application>tar</> support an extension that fixes that. Adopt + this extension so that <application>pg_dump</> with <option>-Ft</> no + longer fails on tables with more than 8GB of data, and so + that <application>pg_basebackup</> can handle files larger than 8GB. + In addition, fix some portability issues that could cause failures for + members between 4GB and 8GB on some platforms. Potentially these + problems could cause unrecoverable data loss due to unreadable backup + files. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix assorted corner-case bugs in <application>pg_dump</>'s processing + of extension member objects (Tom Lane) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Make <application>pg_dump</> mark a view's triggers as needing to be + processed after its rule, to prevent possible failure during + parallel <application>pg_restore</> (Tom Lane) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Ensure that relation option values are properly quoted + in <application>pg_dump</> (Kouhei Sutou, Tom Lane) + </para> + + <para> + A reloption value that isn't a simple identifier or number could lead + to dump/reload failures due to syntax errors in CREATE statements + issued by <application>pg_dump</>. This is not an issue with any + reloption currently supported by core <productname>PostgreSQL</>, but + extensions could allow reloptions that cause the problem. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Avoid repeated password prompts during parallel <application>pg_dump</> + (Zeus Kronion) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix <application>pg_upgrade</>'s file-copying code to handle errors + properly on Windows (Bruce Momjian) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Install guards in <application>pgbench</> against corner-case overflow + conditions during evaluation of script-specified division or modulo + operators (Fabien Coelho, Michael Paquier) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix failure to localize messages emitted + by <application>pg_receivexlog</> and <application>pg_recvlogical</> + (Ioseph Kim) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Avoid dump/reload problems when using both <application>plpython2</> + and <application>plpython3</> (Tom Lane) + </para> + + <para> + In principle, both versions of <application>PL/Python</> can be used in + the same database, though not in the same session (because the two + versions of <application>libpython</> cannot safely be used concurrently). + However, <application>pg_restore</> and <application>pg_upgrade</> both + do things that can fall foul of the same-session restriction. Work + around that by changing the timing of the check. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix <application>PL/Python</> regression tests to pass with Python 3.5 + (Peter Eisentraut) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix premature clearing of <application>libpq</>'s input buffer when + socket EOF is seen (Tom Lane) + </para> + + <para> + This mistake caused <application>libpq</> to sometimes not report the + backend's final error message before reporting <quote>server closed the + connection unexpectedly</>. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Prevent certain <application>PL/Java</> parameters from being set by + non-superusers (Noah Misch) + </para> + + <para> + This change mitigates a <application>PL/Java</> security bug + (CVE-2016-0766), which was fixed in <application>PL/Java</> by marking + these parameters as superuser-only. To fix the security hazard for + sites that update <productname>PostgreSQL</> more frequently + than <application>PL/Java</>, make the core code aware of them also. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Improve <application>libpq</>'s handling of out-of-memory situations + (Michael Paquier, Amit Kapila, Heikki Linnakangas) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix order of arguments + in <application>ecpg</>-generated <literal>typedef</> statements + (Michael Meskes) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Use <literal>%g</> not <literal>%f</> format + in <application>ecpg</>'s <function>PGTYPESnumeric_from_double()</> + (Tom Lane) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix <application>ecpg</>-supplied header files to not contain comments + continued from a preprocessor directive line onto the next line + (Michael Meskes) + </para> + + <para> + Such a comment is rejected by <application>ecpg</>. It's not yet clear + whether <application>ecpg</> itself should be changed. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix <function>hstore_to_json_loose()</>'s test for whether + an <type>hstore</> value can be converted to a JSON number (Tom Lane) + </para> + + <para> + Previously this function could be fooled by non-alphanumeric trailing + characters, leading to emitting syntactically-invalid JSON. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Ensure that <filename>contrib/pgcrypto</>'s <function>crypt()</> + function can be interrupted by query cancel (Andreas Karlsson) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Accept <application>flex</> versions later than 2.5.x + (Tom Lane, Michael Paquier) + </para> + + <para> + Now that flex 2.6.0 has been released, the version checks in our build + scripts needed to be adjusted. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Improve reproducibility of build output by ensuring filenames are given + to the linker in a fixed order (Christoph Berg) + </para> + + <para> + This avoids possible bitwise differences in the produced executable + files from one build to the next. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Install our <filename>missing</> script where PGXS builds can find it + (Jim Nasby) + </para> + + <para> + This allows sane behavior in a PGXS build done on a machine where build + tools such as <application>bison</> are missing. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Ensure that <filename>dynloader.h</> is included in the installed + header files in MSVC builds (Bruce Momjian, Michael Paquier) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Add variant regression test expected-output file to match behavior of + current <application>libxml2</> (Tom Lane) + </para> + + <para> + The fix for <application>libxml2</>'s CVE-2015-7499 causes it not to + output error context reports in some cases where it used to do so. + This seems to be a bug, but we'll probably have to live with it for + some time, so work around it. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Update time zone data files to <application>tzdata</> release 2016a for + DST law changes in Cayman Islands, Metlakatla, and Trans-Baikal + Territory (Zabaykalsky Krai), plus historical corrections for Pakistan. + </para> + </listitem> + + </itemizedlist> + + </sect2> + </sect1> + <sect1 id="release-9-3-10"> <title>Release 9.3.10</title> diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release-9.4.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release-9.4.sgml index 2c4c6422525..7ba54a924ee 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/release-9.4.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/release-9.4.sgml @@ -491,16 +491,6 @@ Branch: REL9_1_STABLE [b00c79b5b] 2015-10-16 14:43:18 -0400 </para> </listitem> -<!-- -Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> -Branch: master [b8682a715] 2016-01-26 15:38:33 -0500 -Branch: REL9_5_STABLE [2acb682f6] 2016-01-26 15:38:33 -0500 -Branch: REL9_4_STABLE [2b3983158] 2016-01-26 15:38:33 -0500 -Branch: REL9_3_STABLE [9bbfca8fd] 2016-01-26 15:38:33 -0500 -Branch: REL9_2_STABLE [3a7af9d73] 2016-01-26 15:38:33 -0500 -Branch: REL9_1_STABLE [b043df093] 2016-01-26 15:38:33 -0500 ---> - <listitem> <para> Make <literal>%h</> and <literal>%r</> escapes @@ -558,16 +548,6 @@ Branch: REL9_1_STABLE [d05103b77] 2016-01-04 17:41:33 -0500 </para> </listitem> -<!-- -Author: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> -Branch: master [6a61d1ff9] 2016-01-14 13:06:03 +0100 -Branch: REL9_5_STABLE [3276ca303] 2016-01-14 13:07:20 +0100 -Branch: REL9_4_STABLE [ab49f87d5] 2016-01-14 13:07:35 +0100 -Branch: REL9_3_STABLE [77d8edcf5] 2016-01-14 13:07:45 +0100 -Branch: REL9_2_STABLE [df0bd5a0f] 2016-01-14 13:07:55 +0100 -Branch: REL9_1_STABLE [b1c0f92eb] 2016-01-14 13:08:10 +0100 ---> - <listitem> <para> Avoid leaking a token handle during SSPI authentication @@ -605,16 +585,6 @@ Branch: REL9_1_STABLE [db462a44e] 2015-12-17 16:55:51 -0500 </para> </listitem> -<!-- -Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> -Branch: master [7e2247047] 2016-01-29 10:28:02 +0100 -Branch: REL9_5_STABLE [56251f396] 2016-01-29 10:28:02 +0100 -Branch: REL9_4_STABLE [5849b6e32] 2016-01-29 10:28:02 +0100 -Branch: REL9_3_STABLE [db678ca16] 2016-01-29 10:28:03 +0100 -Branch: REL9_2_STABLE [a362cc2e3] 2016-01-29 10:28:03 +0100 -Branch: REL9_1_STABLE [ed5f57218] 2016-01-29 10:28:03 +0100 ---> - <listitem> <para> Fix <application>psql</>'s <literal>\det</> command to interpret its @@ -699,16 +669,6 @@ Branch: REL9_1_STABLE [87deb55a4] 2015-11-08 17:31:24 -0500 </para> </listitem> -<!-- -Author: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> -Branch: master [a96761391] 2016-01-07 11:59:08 -0300 -Branch: REL9_5_STABLE [744d01c9a] 2016-01-07 11:59:08 -0300 -Branch: REL9_4_STABLE [c7aca3d45] 2016-01-07 11:59:08 -0300 -Branch: REL9_3_STABLE [74d4009b8] 2016-01-07 11:59:08 -0300 -Branch: REL9_2_STABLE [5c4cbd5d1] 2016-01-07 11:59:08 -0300 -Branch: REL9_1_STABLE [b96f6f444] 2016-01-07 11:59:08 -0300 ---> - <listitem> <para> In <application>pg_ctl</> on Windows, check service status to decide @@ -750,16 +710,6 @@ Branch: REL9_1_STABLE [6df62ef43] 2015-11-23 00:32:01 -0500 </para> </listitem> -<!-- -Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> -Branch: master [e72d7d853] 2016-01-13 18:55:27 -0500 -Branch: REL9_5_STABLE [c42df2d46] 2016-01-13 18:55:27 -0500 -Branch: REL9_4_STABLE [7393208b5] 2016-01-13 18:55:27 -0500 -Branch: REL9_3_STABLE [b87403f70] 2016-01-13 18:55:27 -0500 -Branch: REL9_2_STABLE [be2b27651] 2016-01-13 18:55:27 -0500 -Branch: REL9_1_STABLE [5108013db] 2016-01-13 18:55:27 -0500 ---> - <listitem> <para> Fix assorted corner-case bugs in <application>pg_dump</>'s processing @@ -767,29 +717,6 @@ Branch: REL9_1_STABLE [5108013db] 2016-01-13 18:55:27 -0500 </para> </listitem> -<!-- -Author: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> -Branch: master [df43fcf45] 2016-01-22 20:04:35 -0300 -Branch: REL9_5_STABLE [1e910cf5b] 2016-01-22 20:04:35 -0300 ---> - - <listitem> - <para> - Fix improper quoting of domain constraint names - in <application>pg_dump</> (Elvis Pranskevichus) - </para> - </listitem> - -<!-- -Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> -Branch: master [0ed707e9b] 2016-02-04 00:26:10 -0500 -Branch: REL9_5_STABLE [b99dd7170] 2016-02-04 00:26:10 -0500 -Branch: REL9_4_STABLE [411e2b0d5] 2016-02-04 00:26:10 -0500 -Branch: REL9_3_STABLE [aefbc208b] 2016-02-04 00:26:10 -0500 -Branch: REL9_2_STABLE [4f58a7003] 2016-02-04 00:26:10 -0500 -Branch: REL9_1_STABLE [9c704632c] 2016-02-04 00:26:10 -0500 ---> - <listitem> <para> Make <application>pg_dump</> mark a view's triggers as needing to be @@ -867,16 +794,6 @@ Branch: REL9_1_STABLE [c36064e43] 2015-11-24 17:18:27 -0500 </para> </listitem> -<!-- -Author: Robert Haas <rhaas@postgresql.org> -Branch: master [64f5edca2] 2016-02-01 08:23:41 -0500 -Branch: REL9_5_STABLE [829757c8a] 2016-02-01 08:26:07 -0500 -Branch: REL9_4_STABLE [c33d1a8d5] 2016-02-03 09:15:29 -0500 -Branch: REL9_3_STABLE [014796aa3] 2016-02-03 09:19:58 -0500 -Branch: REL9_2_STABLE [b63a4f418] 2016-02-03 09:21:44 -0500 -Branch: REL9_1_STABLE [4c8b07d3c] 2016-02-03 09:25:34 -0500 ---> - <listitem> <para> Install guards in <application>pgbench</> against corner-case overflow @@ -887,19 +804,6 @@ Branch: REL9_1_STABLE [4c8b07d3c] 2016-02-03 09:25:34 -0500 <!-- Author: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> -Branch: master [4aecd22d3] 2016-01-05 17:25:12 -0300 -Branch: REL9_5_STABLE [7ef311eb4] 2016-01-05 17:25:12 -0300 ---> - - <listitem> - <para> - Suppress useless warning message when <application>pg_receivexlog</> - connects to a pre-9.4 server (Marco Nenciarini) - </para> - </listitem> - -<!-- -Author: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> Branch: master [fc995bfdb] 2015-12-28 10:50:35 -0300 Branch: REL9_5_STABLE Release: REL9_5_0 [c3e068b26] 2015-12-28 10:50:35 -0300 Branch: REL9_4_STABLE [f98bc20dd] 2015-12-28 10:50:35 -0300 @@ -915,17 +819,6 @@ Branch: REL9_2_STABLE [4fb9e6109] 2015-12-28 10:50:35 -0300 </para> </listitem> -<!-- -Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> -Branch: master [866566a69] 2016-01-11 19:55:39 -0500 -Branch: REL9_5_STABLE [db8fa56d6] 2016-01-11 19:55:39 -0500 -Branch: REL9_4_STABLE [22815752e] 2016-01-11 19:55:40 -0500 -Branch: REL9_3_STABLE [0ddeaba7e] 2016-01-11 19:55:40 -0500 -Branch: REL9_2_STABLE [3843ba510] 2016-01-11 19:55:40 -0500 -Branch: master [fb6fcbd33] 2016-01-11 20:06:36 -0500 -Branch: REL9_5_STABLE [5ef26b8de] 2016-01-11 20:06:47 -0500 ---> - <listitem> <para> Avoid dump/reload problems when using both <application>plpython2</> @@ -933,15 +826,22 @@ Branch: REL9_5_STABLE [5ef26b8de] 2016-01-11 20:06:47 -0500 </para> <para> - In principle, both versions of PL/Python can be used in the same - database, though not in the same session (because the two versions of - <application>libpython</> cannot safely be used concurrently). + In principle, both versions of <application>PL/Python</> can be used in + the same database, though not in the same session (because the two + versions of <application>libpython</> cannot safely be used concurrently). However, <application>pg_restore</> and <application>pg_upgrade</> both do things that can fall foul of the same-session restriction. Work around that by changing the timing of the check. </para> </listitem> + <listitem> + <para> + Fix <application>PL/Python</> regression tests to pass with Python 3.5 + (Peter Eisentraut) + </para> + </listitem> + <!-- Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> Branch: master [c40591885] 2015-11-12 13:03:52 -0500 @@ -950,22 +850,6 @@ Branch: REL9_4_STABLE [40879a92b] 2015-11-12 13:03:52 -0500 Branch: REL9_3_STABLE [db6e8e162] 2015-11-12 13:03:53 -0500 --> -<!-- -Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> -Branch: REL9_4_STABLE [f1b898759] 2015-11-14 13:43:43 -0500 -Branch: REL9_3_STABLE [a37ab812c] 2015-11-14 13:44:09 -0500 -Branch: REL9_2_STABLE [82076c1e4] 2015-11-14 13:53:26 -0500 -Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> -Branch: REL9_5_STABLE [a66c1fcdd] 2016-01-08 11:39:28 -0500 ---> - - <listitem> - <para> - Fix PL/Python regression tests to pass with Python 3.5 - (Peter Eisentraut) - </para> - </listitem> - <listitem> <para> Fix premature clearing of <application>libpq</>'s input buffer when @@ -979,6 +863,21 @@ Branch: REL9_5_STABLE [a66c1fcdd] 2016-01-08 11:39:28 -0500 </para> </listitem> + <listitem> + <para> + Prevent certain <application>PL/Java</> parameters from being set by + non-superusers (Noah Misch) + </para> + + <para> + This change mitigates a <application>PL/Java</> security bug + (CVE-2016-0766), which was fixed in <application>PL/Java</> by marking + these parameters as superuser-only. To fix the security hazard for + sites that update <productname>PostgreSQL</> more frequently + than <application>PL/Java</>, make the core code aware of them also. + </para> + </listitem> + <!-- Author: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi> Branch: master [7b96bf445] 2015-12-14 18:19:10 +0200 @@ -1031,15 +930,6 @@ Branch: REL9_1_STABLE [84387496f] 2015-12-01 11:42:52 -0500 </para> </listitem> -<!-- -Author: Michael Meskes <meskes@postgresql.org> -Branch: master [7a58d19b0] 2016-02-01 13:21:00 +0100 -Branch: REL9_5_STABLE [40482e606] 2016-02-01 13:20:37 +0100 -Branch: REL9_3_STABLE [0b55fef39] 2016-02-01 13:19:10 +0100 -Branch: REL9_2_STABLE [d9ce5d201] 2016-02-01 13:19:34 +0100 -Branch: REL9_1_STABLE [79782b407] 2016-02-01 13:19:43 +0100 ---> - <listitem> <para> Fix <application>ecpg</>-supplied header files to not contain comments @@ -1053,14 +943,6 @@ Branch: REL9_1_STABLE [79782b407] 2016-02-01 13:19:43 +0100 </para> </listitem> -<!-- -Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> -Branch: master [e6ecc93a1] 2016-02-03 01:39:48 -0500 -Branch: REL9_5_STABLE [1c291624b] 2016-02-03 01:39:08 -0500 -Branch: REL9_4_STABLE [aa223a037] 2016-02-03 01:39:08 -0500 -Branch: REL9_3_STABLE [1f2b195eb] 2016-02-03 01:39:08 -0500 ---> - <listitem> <para> Fix <function>hstore_to_json_loose()</>'s test for whether @@ -1090,16 +972,6 @@ Branch: REL9_1_STABLE [1b6102eb7] 2015-12-27 13:03:19 -0300 </para> </listitem> -<!-- -Author: Robert Haas <rhaas@postgresql.org> -Branch: master [9418d79a7] 2016-02-04 21:17:53 -0500 -Branch: REL9_5_STABLE [453d40817] 2016-02-04 21:17:46 -0500 -Branch: REL9_4_STABLE [1f3294c22] 2016-02-04 21:15:57 -0500 -Branch: master [37c84570b] 2016-02-04 22:27:13 -0500 -Branch: REL9_5_STABLE [d160e2a34] 2016-02-04 22:27:38 -0500 -Branch: REL9_4_STABLE [2099b911d] 2016-02-04 22:27:47 -0500 ---> - <listitem> <para> In <filename>contrib/postgres_fdw</>, fix bugs triggered by use @@ -1135,27 +1007,6 @@ Branch: REL9_2_STABLE [7f94a5c10] 2015-12-10 10:19:31 -0500 </para> </listitem> -<!-- -Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> -Branch: master [a396144ac] 2016-01-22 11:53:06 -0500 -Branch: REL9_5_STABLE [47acf3add] 2016-01-22 11:53:06 -0500 ---> - - <listitem> - <para> - Fix ill-advised restriction of <literal>NAMEDATALEN</> to be less - than 256 (Robert Haas, Tom Lane) - </para> - </listitem> - -<!-- -Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> -Branch: master [3343ea9e8] 2016-01-05 15:47:05 -0500 -Branch: REL9_5_STABLE [8805af088] 2016-01-05 15:47:05 -0500 -Branch: REL9_4_STABLE [8c558b2e9] 2016-01-05 15:47:05 -0500 -Branch: REL9_3_STABLE [6d899f098] 2016-01-05 15:47:05 -0500 ---> - <listitem> <para> Improve reproducibility of build output by ensuring filenames are given @@ -1190,20 +1041,10 @@ Branch: REL9_1_STABLE [2a37a103b] 2015-12-11 16:14:48 -0500 </para> </listitem> -<!-- -Author: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> -Branch: master [216d56843] 2016-01-19 23:30:29 -0500 -Branch: REL9_5_STABLE [34bda20ae] 2016-01-19 23:30:29 -0500 -Branch: REL9_4_STABLE [8b3d52801] 2016-01-19 23:30:29 -0500 -Branch: REL9_3_STABLE [7a47262ce] 2016-01-19 23:30:28 -0500 -Branch: REL9_2_STABLE [49d65e857] 2016-01-19 23:30:28 -0500 -Branch: REL9_1_STABLE [b1bc38144] 2016-01-19 23:30:28 -0500 ---> - <listitem> <para> Ensure that <filename>dynloader.h</> is included in the installed - header files in MSVC builds (Michael Paquier) + header files in MSVC builds (Bruce Momjian, Michael Paquier) </para> </listitem> @@ -1231,16 +1072,6 @@ Branch: REL9_1_STABLE [386dcd539] 2015-12-11 19:08:40 -0500 </para> </listitem> -<!-- -Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> -Branch: master [a73311e52] 2016-02-05 10:59:09 -0500 -Branch: REL9_5_STABLE [37e694632] 2016-02-05 10:59:21 -0500 -Branch: REL9_4_STABLE [31b792f61] 2016-02-05 10:59:26 -0500 -Branch: REL9_3_STABLE [9a3475b84] 2016-02-05 10:59:31 -0500 -Branch: REL9_2_STABLE [32f17a2e7] 2016-02-05 10:59:35 -0500 -Branch: REL9_1_STABLE [6887d72d0] 2016-02-05 10:59:39 -0500 ---> - <listitem> <para> Update time zone data files to <application>tzdata</> release 2016a for diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release-9.5.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release-9.5.sgml index f47b7c262e2..6639be53bf3 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/release-9.5.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/release-9.5.sgml @@ -1,6 +1,403 @@ <!-- doc/src/sgml/release-9.5.sgml --> <!-- See header comment in release.sgml about typical markup --> + <sect1 id="release-9-5-1"> + <title>Release 9.5.1</title> + + <note> + <title>Release Date</title> + <simpara>2016-02-11</simpara> + </note> + + <para> + This release contains a variety of fixes from 9.5.0. + For information about new features in the 9.5 major release, see + <xref linkend="release-9-5">. + </para> + + <sect2> + <title>Migration to Version 9.5.1</title> + + <para> + A dump/restore is not required for those running 9.5.X. + </para> + </sect2> + + <sect2> + <title>Changes</title> + + <itemizedlist> + +<!-- +Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> +Branch: master [f867ce551] 2016-02-07 12:29:32 -0500 +Branch: REL9_5_STABLE [129db3cbe] 2016-02-07 12:29:17 -0500 +--> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix an oversight that caused hash joins to miss joining to some tuples + of the inner relation in rare cases (Tomas Vondra, Tom Lane) + </para> + </listitem> + +<!-- +Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> +Branch: master [b8682a715] 2016-01-26 15:38:33 -0500 +Branch: REL9_5_STABLE [2acb682f6] 2016-01-26 15:38:33 -0500 +Branch: REL9_4_STABLE [2b3983158] 2016-01-26 15:38:33 -0500 +Branch: REL9_3_STABLE [9bbfca8fd] 2016-01-26 15:38:33 -0500 +Branch: REL9_2_STABLE [3a7af9d73] 2016-01-26 15:38:33 -0500 +Branch: REL9_1_STABLE [b043df093] 2016-01-26 15:38:33 -0500 +--> + + <listitem> + <para> + Make <literal>%h</> and <literal>%r</> escapes + in <varname>log_line_prefix</> work for messages emitted due + to <varname>log_connections</> (Tom Lane) + </para> + + <para> + Previously, <literal>%h</>/<literal>%r</> started to work just after a + new session had emitted the <quote>connection received</> log message; + now they work for that message too. + </para> + </listitem> + +<!-- +Author: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> +Branch: master [6a61d1ff9] 2016-01-14 13:06:03 +0100 +Branch: REL9_5_STABLE [3276ca303] 2016-01-14 13:07:20 +0100 +Branch: REL9_4_STABLE [ab49f87d5] 2016-01-14 13:07:35 +0100 +Branch: REL9_3_STABLE [77d8edcf5] 2016-01-14 13:07:45 +0100 +Branch: REL9_2_STABLE [df0bd5a0f] 2016-01-14 13:07:55 +0100 +Branch: REL9_1_STABLE [b1c0f92eb] 2016-01-14 13:08:10 +0100 +--> + + <listitem> + <para> + Avoid leaking a token handle during SSPI authentication + (Christian Ullrich) + </para> + </listitem> + +<!-- +Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> +Branch: master [7e2247047] 2016-01-29 10:28:02 +0100 +Branch: REL9_5_STABLE [56251f396] 2016-01-29 10:28:02 +0100 +Branch: REL9_4_STABLE [5849b6e32] 2016-01-29 10:28:02 +0100 +Branch: REL9_3_STABLE [db678ca16] 2016-01-29 10:28:03 +0100 +Branch: REL9_2_STABLE [a362cc2e3] 2016-01-29 10:28:03 +0100 +Branch: REL9_1_STABLE [ed5f57218] 2016-01-29 10:28:03 +0100 +--> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix <application>psql</>'s <literal>\det</> command to interpret its + pattern argument the same way as other <literal>\d</> commands with + potentially schema-qualified patterns do (Reece Hart) + </para> + </listitem> + +<!-- +Author: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> +Branch: master [a96761391] 2016-01-07 11:59:08 -0300 +Branch: REL9_5_STABLE [744d01c9a] 2016-01-07 11:59:08 -0300 +Branch: REL9_4_STABLE [c7aca3d45] 2016-01-07 11:59:08 -0300 +Branch: REL9_3_STABLE [74d4009b8] 2016-01-07 11:59:08 -0300 +Branch: REL9_2_STABLE [5c4cbd5d1] 2016-01-07 11:59:08 -0300 +Branch: REL9_1_STABLE [b96f6f444] 2016-01-07 11:59:08 -0300 +--> + + <listitem> + <para> + In <application>pg_ctl</> on Windows, check service status to decide + where to send output, rather than checking if standard output is a + terminal (Michael Paquier) + </para> + </listitem> + +<!-- +Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> +Branch: master [e72d7d853] 2016-01-13 18:55:27 -0500 +Branch: REL9_5_STABLE [c42df2d46] 2016-01-13 18:55:27 -0500 +Branch: REL9_4_STABLE [7393208b5] 2016-01-13 18:55:27 -0500 +Branch: REL9_3_STABLE [b87403f70] 2016-01-13 18:55:27 -0500 +Branch: REL9_2_STABLE [be2b27651] 2016-01-13 18:55:27 -0500 +Branch: REL9_1_STABLE [5108013db] 2016-01-13 18:55:27 -0500 +--> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix assorted corner-case bugs in <application>pg_dump</>'s processing + of extension member objects (Tom Lane) + </para> + </listitem> + +<!-- +Author: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> +Branch: master [df43fcf45] 2016-01-22 20:04:35 -0300 +Branch: REL9_5_STABLE [1e910cf5b] 2016-01-22 20:04:35 -0300 +--> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix improper quoting of domain constraint names + in <application>pg_dump</> (Elvis Pranskevichus) + </para> + </listitem> + +<!-- +Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> +Branch: master [0ed707e9b] 2016-02-04 00:26:10 -0500 +Branch: REL9_5_STABLE [b99dd7170] 2016-02-04 00:26:10 -0500 +Branch: REL9_4_STABLE [411e2b0d5] 2016-02-04 00:26:10 -0500 +Branch: REL9_3_STABLE [aefbc208b] 2016-02-04 00:26:10 -0500 +Branch: REL9_2_STABLE [4f58a7003] 2016-02-04 00:26:10 -0500 +Branch: REL9_1_STABLE [9c704632c] 2016-02-04 00:26:10 -0500 +--> + + <listitem> + <para> + Make <application>pg_dump</> mark a view's triggers as needing to be + processed after its rule, to prevent possible failure during + parallel <application>pg_restore</> (Tom Lane) + </para> + </listitem> + +<!-- +Author: Robert Haas <rhaas@postgresql.org> +Branch: master [64f5edca2] 2016-02-01 08:23:41 -0500 +Branch: REL9_5_STABLE [829757c8a] 2016-02-01 08:26:07 -0500 +Branch: REL9_4_STABLE [c33d1a8d5] 2016-02-03 09:15:29 -0500 +Branch: REL9_3_STABLE [014796aa3] 2016-02-03 09:19:58 -0500 +Branch: REL9_2_STABLE [b63a4f418] 2016-02-03 09:21:44 -0500 +Branch: REL9_1_STABLE [4c8b07d3c] 2016-02-03 09:25:34 -0500 +--> + + <listitem> + <para> + Install guards in <application>pgbench</> against corner-case overflow + conditions during evaluation of script-specified division or modulo + operators (Fabien Coelho, Michael Paquier) + </para> + </listitem> + +<!-- +Author: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> +Branch: master [4aecd22d3] 2016-01-05 17:25:12 -0300 +Branch: REL9_5_STABLE [7ef311eb4] 2016-01-05 17:25:12 -0300 +--> + + <listitem> + <para> + Suppress useless warning message when <application>pg_receivexlog</> + connects to a pre-9.4 server (Marco Nenciarini) + </para> + </listitem> + +<!-- +Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> +Branch: master [866566a69] 2016-01-11 19:55:39 -0500 +Branch: REL9_5_STABLE [db8fa56d6] 2016-01-11 19:55:39 -0500 +Branch: REL9_4_STABLE [22815752e] 2016-01-11 19:55:40 -0500 +Branch: REL9_3_STABLE [0ddeaba7e] 2016-01-11 19:55:40 -0500 +Branch: REL9_2_STABLE [3843ba510] 2016-01-11 19:55:40 -0500 +Branch: master [fb6fcbd33] 2016-01-11 20:06:36 -0500 +Branch: REL9_5_STABLE [5ef26b8de] 2016-01-11 20:06:47 -0500 +--> + + <listitem> + <para> + Avoid dump/reload problems when using both <application>plpython2</> + and <application>plpython3</> (Tom Lane) + </para> + + <para> + In principle, both versions of <application>PL/Python</> can be used in + the same database, though not in the same session (because the two + versions of <application>libpython</> cannot safely be used concurrently). + However, <application>pg_restore</> and <application>pg_upgrade</> both + do things that can fall foul of the same-session restriction. Work + around that by changing the timing of the check. + </para> + </listitem> + +<!-- +Author: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> +Branch: REL9_4_STABLE [f1b898759] 2015-11-14 13:43:43 -0500 +Branch: REL9_3_STABLE [a37ab812c] 2015-11-14 13:44:09 -0500 +Branch: REL9_2_STABLE [82076c1e4] 2015-11-14 13:53:26 -0500 +Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> +Branch: REL9_5_STABLE [a66c1fcdd] 2016-01-08 11:39:28 -0500 +--> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix <application>PL/Python</> regression tests to pass with Python 3.5 + (Peter Eisentraut) + </para> + </listitem> + +<!-- +Author: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com> +Branch: master [f4aa3a18a] 2016-02-05 20:22:51 -0500 +Branch: REL9_5_STABLE [0089dd34a] 2016-02-05 20:23:04 -0500 +Branch: REL9_4_STABLE [ed6deeb7a] 2016-02-05 20:23:07 -0500 +Branch: REL9_3_STABLE [34e91736b] 2016-02-05 20:23:11 -0500 +Branch: REL9_2_STABLE [de9766d39] 2016-02-05 20:23:14 -0500 +Branch: REL9_1_STABLE [b1f591c50] 2016-02-05 20:23:19 -0500 +--> + + <listitem> + <para> + Prevent certain <application>PL/Java</> parameters from being set by + non-superusers (Noah Misch) + </para> + + <para> + This change mitigates a <application>PL/Java</> security bug + (CVE-2016-0766), which was fixed in <application>PL/Java</> by marking + these parameters as superuser-only. To fix the security hazard for + sites that update <productname>PostgreSQL</> more frequently + than <application>PL/Java</>, make the core code aware of them also. + </para> + </listitem> + +<!-- +Author: Michael Meskes <meskes@postgresql.org> +Branch: master [7a58d19b0] 2016-02-01 13:21:00 +0100 +Branch: REL9_5_STABLE [40482e606] 2016-02-01 13:20:37 +0100 +Branch: REL9_3_STABLE [0b55fef39] 2016-02-01 13:19:10 +0100 +Branch: REL9_2_STABLE [d9ce5d201] 2016-02-01 13:19:34 +0100 +Branch: REL9_1_STABLE [79782b407] 2016-02-01 13:19:43 +0100 +--> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix <application>ecpg</>-supplied header files to not contain comments + continued from a preprocessor directive line onto the next line + (Michael Meskes) + </para> + + <para> + Such a comment is rejected by <application>ecpg</>. It's not yet clear + whether <application>ecpg</> itself should be changed. + </para> + </listitem> + +<!-- +Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> +Branch: master [e6ecc93a1] 2016-02-03 01:39:48 -0500 +Branch: REL9_5_STABLE [1c291624b] 2016-02-03 01:39:08 -0500 +Branch: REL9_4_STABLE [aa223a037] 2016-02-03 01:39:08 -0500 +Branch: REL9_3_STABLE [1f2b195eb] 2016-02-03 01:39:08 -0500 +--> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix <function>hstore_to_json_loose()</>'s test for whether + an <type>hstore</> value can be converted to a JSON number (Tom Lane) + </para> + + <para> + Previously this function could be fooled by non-alphanumeric trailing + characters, leading to emitting syntactically-invalid JSON. + </para> + </listitem> + +<!-- +Author: Robert Haas <rhaas@postgresql.org> +Branch: master [9418d79a7] 2016-02-04 21:17:53 -0500 +Branch: REL9_5_STABLE [453d40817] 2016-02-04 21:17:46 -0500 +Branch: REL9_4_STABLE [1f3294c22] 2016-02-04 21:15:57 -0500 +Branch: master [37c84570b] 2016-02-04 22:27:13 -0500 +Branch: REL9_5_STABLE [d160e2a34] 2016-02-04 22:27:38 -0500 +Branch: REL9_4_STABLE [2099b911d] 2016-02-04 22:27:47 -0500 +--> + + <listitem> + <para> + In <filename>contrib/postgres_fdw</>, fix bugs triggered by use + of <literal>tableoid</> in data-modifying commands (Etsuro Fujita, + Robert Haas) + </para> + </listitem> + +<!-- +Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> +Branch: master [a396144ac] 2016-01-22 11:53:06 -0500 +Branch: REL9_5_STABLE [47acf3add] 2016-01-22 11:53:06 -0500 +--> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix ill-advised restriction of <literal>NAMEDATALEN</> to be less + than 256 (Robert Haas, Tom Lane) + </para> + </listitem> + +<!-- +Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> +Branch: master [3343ea9e8] 2016-01-05 15:47:05 -0500 +Branch: REL9_5_STABLE [8805af088] 2016-01-05 15:47:05 -0500 +Branch: REL9_4_STABLE [8c558b2e9] 2016-01-05 15:47:05 -0500 +Branch: REL9_3_STABLE [6d899f098] 2016-01-05 15:47:05 -0500 +--> + + <listitem> + <para> + Improve reproducibility of build output by ensuring filenames are given + to the linker in a fixed order (Christoph Berg) + </para> + + <para> + This avoids possible bitwise differences in the produced executable + files from one build to the next. + </para> + </listitem> + +<!-- +Author: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> +Branch: master [216d56843] 2016-01-19 23:30:29 -0500 +Branch: REL9_5_STABLE [34bda20ae] 2016-01-19 23:30:29 -0500 +Branch: REL9_4_STABLE [8b3d52801] 2016-01-19 23:30:29 -0500 +Branch: REL9_3_STABLE [7a47262ce] 2016-01-19 23:30:28 -0500 +Branch: REL9_2_STABLE [49d65e857] 2016-01-19 23:30:28 -0500 +Branch: REL9_1_STABLE [b1bc38144] 2016-01-19 23:30:28 -0500 +--> + + <listitem> + <para> + Ensure that <filename>dynloader.h</> is included in the installed + header files in MSVC builds (Bruce Momjian, Michael Paquier) + </para> + </listitem> + +<!-- +Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> +Branch: master [a73311e52] 2016-02-05 10:59:09 -0500 +Branch: REL9_5_STABLE [37e694632] 2016-02-05 10:59:21 -0500 +Branch: REL9_4_STABLE [31b792f61] 2016-02-05 10:59:26 -0500 +Branch: REL9_3_STABLE [9a3475b84] 2016-02-05 10:59:31 -0500 +Branch: REL9_2_STABLE [32f17a2e7] 2016-02-05 10:59:35 -0500 +Branch: REL9_1_STABLE [6887d72d0] 2016-02-05 10:59:39 -0500 +--> + + <listitem> + <para> + Update time zone data files to <application>tzdata</> release 2016a for + DST law changes in Cayman Islands, Metlakatla, and Trans-Baikal + Territory (Zabaykalsky Krai), plus historical corrections for Pakistan. + </para> + </listitem> + + </itemizedlist> + + </sect2> + </sect1> + <sect1 id="release-9-5"> <title>Release 9.5</title> |