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22. By Martin Pitt on 2014-07-24

* New upstream bug fix release: (LP: #1348176)
  - Various data integrity and other bug fixes.
  - Secure Unix-domain sockets of temporary postmasters started during make
     check.
     Any local user able to access the socket file could connect as the
     server's bootstrap superuser, then proceed to execute arbitrary code as
     the operating-system user running the test, as we previously noted in
     CVE-2014-0067. This change defends against that risk by placing the
     server's socket in a temporary, mode 0700 subdirectory of /tmp.
  - See release notes for details:
    http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release-8-4-22.html
* Drop pg_regress patch to run tests with socket in /tmp, obsolete with
  above upstream changes and not applicable any more.
* Add debian/postgresql-8.4.NEWS to point out that upstream support ends
  now.

21. By Martin Pitt on 2014-03-18

New upstream bug fix release. No security issues or major data loss fixes
this time, see release.html for details. (LP: #1294006)

20. By Martin Pitt on 2013-12-03

* New upstream bug fix release (LP: #1257211)
  - Fix "VACUUM"'s tests to see whether it can update relfrozenxid.
    In some cases "VACUUM" (either manual or autovacuum) could
    incorrectly advance a table's relfrozenxid value, allowing tuples
    to escape freezing, causing those rows to become invisible once
    2^31 transactions have elapsed. The probability of data loss is
    fairly low since multiple incorrect advancements would need to
    happen before actual loss occurs, but it's not zero. Users
    upgrading from release 8.4.8 or earlier are not affected, but all
    later versions contain the bug.
    The issue can be ameliorated by, after upgrading, vacuuming all
    tables in all databases while having vacuum_freeze_table_age set to
    zero. This will fix any latent corruption but will not be able to
    fix all pre-existing data errors. However, an installation can be
    presumed safe after performing this vacuuming if it has executed
    fewer than 2^31 update transactions in its lifetime (check this
    with SELECT txid_current() < 2^31).
  - See HISTORY/changelog.gz for details about bug fixes.

19. By Martin Pitt on 2013-10-09

New upstream bug fix release (LP: #1237248). No security issues or
critical issues this time; see HISTORY/changelog.gz for details about bug
fixes.

18. By Martin Pitt on 2012-12-10

* New upstream bug fix release: (LP: #1088393)
  - Fix multiple bugs associated with "CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY"
    Fix "CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY" to use in-place updates when
    changing the state of an index's pg_index row. This prevents race
    conditions that could cause concurrent sessions to miss updating
    the target index, thus resulting in corrupt concurrently-created
    indexes.
    Also, fix various other operations to ensure that they ignore
    invalid indexes resulting from a failed "CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY"
    command. The most important of these is "VACUUM", because an
    auto-vacuum could easily be launched on the table before corrective
    action can be taken to fix or remove the invalid index.
  - See HISTORY/changelog.gz for details about other bug fixes.

17. By Martin Pitt on 2012-09-25

* New upstream bug fix release: (LP: #1055944)
  - Fix planner's assignment of executor parameters, and fix executor's
    rescan logic for CTE plan nodes.
    These errors could result in wrong answers from queries that scan
    the same WITH subquery multiple times.
  - Improve page-splitting decisions in GiST indexes.
    Multi-column GiST indexes might suffer unexpected bloat due to this
    error.
  - Fix cascading privilege revoke to stop if privileges are still held.
    If we revoke a grant option from some role "X", but "X" still holds
    that option via a grant from someone else, we should not
    recursively revoke the corresponding privilege from role(s) "Y"
    that "X" had granted it to.
  - Fix handling of SIGFPE when PL/Perl is in use.
    Perl resets the process's SIGFPE handler to SIG_IGN, which could
    result in crashes later on. Restore the normal Postgres signal
    handler after initializing PL/Perl.
  - Prevent PL/Perl from crashing if a recursive PL/Perl function is
    redefined while being executed.
  - Work around possible misoptimization in PL/Perl.
    Some Linux distributions contain an incorrect version of
    "pthread.h" that results in incorrect compiled code in PL/Perl,
    leading to crashes if a PL/Perl function calls another one that
    throws an error.

16. By Martin Pitt on 2012-01-05

* Add 00git_inet_cidr_unpack.patch: Revert the behavior of inet/cidr
  functions to not unpack the arguments. This fixes the memory leak when
  sorting inet values. Patch taken from upstream git HEAD. Spotted during
  testing in LP #904631.
* 01-armel-tas.patch: Turn slock_t datatype into an int, and define
  S_UNLOCK() to call __sync_lock_release() instead of using the default
  implementation. This complies to the gcc built-in atomic operations
  specifiction more strictly and now also works on the Panda boards.
  (LP: #904828)

15. By Martin Pitt on 2011-12-03

* New upstream release: (LP: #904631)
  - Fix bugs in information_schema.referential_constraints view.
    This view was being insufficiently careful about matching the
    foreign-key constraint to the depended-on primary or unique key
    constraint. That could result in failure to show a foreign key
    constraint at all, or showing it multiple times, or claiming that
    it depends on a different constraint than the one it really does.
    Since the view definition is installed by initdb, merely upgrading
    will not fix the problem. If you need to fix this in an existing
    installation, you can (as a superuser) drop the information_schema
    schema then re-create it by sourcing
    "SHAREDIR/information_schema.sql". (Run pg_config --sharedir if
    you're uncertain where "SHAREDIR" is.) This must be repeated in
    each database to be fixed.
  - Fix incorrect replay of WAL records for GIN index updates.
    This could result in transiently failing to find index entries
    after a crash, or on a hot-standby server. The problem would be
    repaired by the next "VACUUM" of the index, however.
  - Fix TOAST-related data corruption during CREATE TABLE dest AS
    SELECT - FROM src or INSERT INTO dest SELECT * FROM src.
    If a table has been modified by "ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN", attempts
    to copy its data verbatim to another table could produce corrupt
    results in certain corner cases. The problem can only manifest in
    this precise form in 8.4 and later, but we patched earlier versions
    as well in case there are other code paths that could trigger the
    same bug.
  - Fix race condition during toast table access from stale syscache
    entries.
  - Track dependencies of functions on items used in parameter default
    expressions. Previously, a referenced object could be dropped without
    having dropped or modified the function, leading to misbehavior when the
    function was used. Note that merely installing this update will not fix
    the missing dependency entries; to do that, you'd need to "CREATE OR
    REPLACE" each such function afterwards. If you have functions whose
    defaults depend on non-built-in objects, doing so is recommended.
  - Allow inlining of set-returning SQL functions with multiple OUT
    parameters.
  - Make DatumGetInetP() unpack inet datums that have a 1-byte header,
    and add a new macro, DatumGetInetPP(), that does not.
  - Improve locale support in money type's input and output.
    Aside from not supporting all standard lc_monetary formatting
    options, the input and output functions were inconsistent, meaning
    there were locales in which dumped money values could not be
    re-read.
  - Don't let transform_null_equals affect CASE foo WHEN NULL ...
    constructs. transform_null_equals is only supposed to affect foo = NULL
    expressions written directly by the user, not equality checks
    generated internally by this form of CASE.
  - Change foreign-key trigger creation order to better support
    self-referential foreign keys. For a cascading foreign key that
    references its own table, a row update will fire both the ON UPDATE
    trigger and the CHECK trigger as one event. The ON UPDATE trigger must
    execute first, else the CHECK will check a non-final state of the row
    and possibly throw an inappropriate error. However, the firing order of
    these triggers is determined by their names, which generally sort in
    creation order since the triggers have auto-generated names following
    the convention "RI_ConstraintTrigger_NNNN". A proper fix would require
    modifying that convention, which we will do in 9.2, but it seems risky
    to change it in existing releases. So this patch just changes the
    creation order of the triggers. Users encountering this type of error
    should drop and re-create the foreign key constraint to get its triggers
    into the right order.
  - Avoid floating-point underflow while tracking buffer allocation
    rate.
  - Preserve blank lines within commands in psql's command history.
    The former behavior could cause problems if an empty line was
    removed from within a string literal, for example.
  - Fix pg_dump to dump user-defined casts between auto-generated
    types, such as table rowtypes.
  - Use the preferred version of xsubpp to build PL/Perl, not
    necessarily the operating system's main copy.
  - Fix incorrect coding in "contrib/dict_int" and "contrib/dict_xsyn".
  - Honor query cancel interrupts promptly in pgstatindex().
  - Ensure VPATH builds properly install all server header files.
  - Shorten file names reported in verbose error messages.
    Regular builds have always reported just the name of the C file
    containing the error message call, but VPATH builds formerly
    reported an absolute path name.

14. By Martin Pitt on 2011-04-20

* New upstream bug fix release: (LP: #767165)
  - If your installation was upgraded from a previous major release by
    running pg_upgrade, you should take action to prevent possible data loss
    due to a now-fixed bug in pg_upgrade. The recommended solution is to run
    "VACUUM FREEZE" on all TOAST tables. More information is available at
    http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/20110408pg_upgrade_fix.
  - Fix pg_upgrade's handling of TOAST tables.
    This error poses a significant risk of data loss for installations
    that have been upgraded with pg_upgrade. This patch corrects the
    problem for future uses of pg_upgrade, but does not in itself cure
    the issue in installations that have been processed with a buggy
    version of pg_upgrade.
  - Suppress incorrect "PD_ALL_VISIBLE flag was incorrectly set"
    warning.
  - Disallow including a composite type in itself.
  - Avoid potential deadlock during catalog cache initialization.
  - Fix dangling-pointer problem in BEFORE ROW UPDATE trigger handling
    when there was a concurrent update to the target tuple.
  - Disallow "DROP TABLE" when there are pending deferred trigger
    events for the table.
    Formerly the "DROP" would go through, leading to "could not open
    relation with OID nnn" errors when the triggers were eventually
    fired.
  - Prevent crash triggered by constant-false WHERE conditions during
    GEQO optimization.
  - Improve planner's handling of semi-join and anti-join cases.
  - Fix selectivity estimation for text search to account for NULLs.
  - Improve PL/pgSQL's ability to handle row types with dropped columns.
  - Fix PL/Python memory leak involving array slices.
  - Fix pg_restore to cope with long lines (over 1KB) in TOC files.
  - Put in more safeguards against crashing due to division-by-zero
    with overly enthusiastic compiler optimization. (Closes: #616180)

13. By Martin Pitt on 2010-12-21

* New upstream bug fix release: (LP: #693157)
  - Force the default wal_sync_method to be fdatasync on Linux.
    The default on Linux has actually been fdatasync for many years,
    but recent kernel changes caused PostgreSQL to choose open_datasync
    instead. This choice did not result in any performance improvement,
    and caused outright failures on certain filesystems, notably ext4
    with the data=journal mount option.
  - Fix assorted bugs in WAL replay logic for GIN indexes.
    This could result in "bad buffer id: 0" failures or corruption of
    index contents during replication.
  - Fix recovery from base backup when the starting checkpoint WAL
    record is not in the same WAL segment as its redo point.
  - Fix persistent slowdown of autovacuum workers when multiple workers
    remain active for a long time.
    The effective vacuum_cost_limit for an autovacuum worker could drop
    to nearly zero if it processed enough tables, causing it to run
    extremely slowly.
  - Add support for detecting register-stack overrun on IA64.
    The IA64 architecture has two hardware stacks. Full prevention of
    stack-overrun failures requires checking both.
  - Add a check for stack overflow in copyObject().
    Certain code paths could crash due to stack overflow given a
    sufficiently complex query.
  - Fix detection of page splits in temporary GiST indexes.
    It is possible to have a "concurrent" page split in a temporary
    index, if for example there is an open cursor scanning the index
    when an insertion is done. GiST failed to detect this case and
    hence could deliver wrong results when execution of the cursor
    continued.
  - Fix error checking during early connection processing.
    The check for too many child processes was skipped in some cases,
    possibly leading to postmaster crash when attempting to add the new
    child process to fixed-size arrays.
  - Improve efficiency of window functions.
    Certain cases where a large number of tuples needed to be read in
    advance, but work_mem was large enough to allow them all to be held
    in memory, were unexpectedly slow. percent_rank(), cume_dist() and
    ntile() in particular were subject to this problem.
  - Avoid memory leakage while "ANALYZE"'ing complex index expressions.
  - Ensure an index that uses a whole-row Var still depends on its
    table.
    An index declared like create index i on t (foo(t.-)) would not
    automatically get dropped when its table was dropped.
  - Do not "inline" a SQL function with multiple OUT parameters.
    This avoids a possible crash due to loss of information about the
    expected result rowtype.
  - Behave correctly if ORDER BY, LIMIT, FOR UPDATE, or WITH is
    attached to the VALUES part of INSERT ... VALUES.
  - Fix constant-folding of COALESCE() expressions.
    The planner would sometimes attempt to evaluate sub-expressions
    that in fact could never be reached, possibly leading to unexpected
    errors.
  - Fix postmaster crash when connection acceptance (accept() or one of
    the calls made immediately after it) fails, and the postmaster was
    compiled with GSSAPI support.
  - Fix missed unlink of temporary files when log_temp_files is active.
    If an error occurred while attempting to emit the log message, the
    unlink was not done, resulting in accumulation of temp files.
  - Add print functionality for InhRelation nodes.
    This avoids a failure when debug_print_parse is enabled and certain
    types of query are executed.
  - Fix incorrect calculation of distance from a point to a horizontal
    line segment.
    This bug affected several different geometric distance-measurement
    operators.
  - Fix incorrect calculation of transaction status in ecpg.
  - Fix PL/pgSQL's handling of "simple" expressions to not fail in
    recursion or error-recovery cases.
  - Fix PL/Python's handling of set-returning functions.
    Attempts to call SPI functions within the iterator generating a set
    result would fail.
  - Fix bug in "contrib/cube"'s GiST picksplit algorithm.
    This could result in considerable inefficiency, though not actually
    incorrect answers, in a GiST index on a cube column. If you have
    such an index, consider "REINDEX"ing it after installing this
    update.
  - Don't emit "identifier will be truncated" notices in
    "contrib/dblink" except when creating new connections.
  - Fix potential coredump on missing public key in "contrib/pgcrypto".
  - Fix memory leak in "contrib/xml2"'s XPath query functions.