From: Tom Lane Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2018 20:13:44 +0000 (-0500) Subject: Release notes for 10.2, 9.6.7, 9.5.11, 9.4.16, 9.3.21. X-Git-Tag: REL_11_BETA1~825 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=cf1cba3110f339eddecd66cdf7d8f9b4370f34c2;p=postgresql Release notes for 10.2, 9.6.7, 9.5.11, 9.4.16, 9.3.21. --- diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release-9.3.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release-9.3.sgml index 3c540bcc26..4f50bdf5e6 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/release-9.3.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/release-9.3.sgml @@ -1,6 +1,306 @@ + + Release 9.3.21 + + + Release date: + 2018-02-08 + + + + This release contains a variety of fixes from 9.3.20. + For information about new features in the 9.3 major release, see + . + + + + Migration to Version 9.3.21 + + + A dump/restore is not required for those running 9.3.X. + + + + However, if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 9.3.18, + see . + + + + + Changes + + + + + + Fix vacuuming of tuples that were updated while key-share locked + (Andres Freund, Álvaro Herrera) + + + + In some cases VACUUM would fail to remove such + tuples even though they are now dead, leading to assorted data + corruption scenarios. + + + + + + Fix inadequate buffer locking in some LSN fetches (Jacob Champion, + Asim Praveen, Ashwin Agrawal) + + + + These errors could result in misbehavior under concurrent load. + The potential consequences have not been characterized fully. + + + + + + Avoid unnecessary failure in a query on an inheritance tree that + occurs concurrently with some child table being removed from the tree + by ALTER TABLE NO INHERIT (Tom Lane) + + + + + + Repair failure with correlated sub-SELECT + inside VALUES inside a LATERAL + subquery (Tom Lane) + + + + + + Fix could not devise a query plan for the given query + planner failure for some cases involving nested UNION + ALL inside a lateral subquery (Tom Lane) + + + + + + Fix has_sequence_privilege() to + support WITH GRANT OPTION tests, + as other privilege-testing functions do (Joe Conway) + + + + + + In databases using UTF8 encoding, ignore any XML declaration that + asserts a different encoding (Pavel Stehule, Noah Misch) + + + + We always store XML strings in the database encoding, so allowing + libxml to act on a declaration of another encoding gave wrong results. + In encodings other than UTF8, we don't promise to support non-ASCII + XML data anyway, so retain the previous behavior for bug compatibility. + This change affects only xpath() and related + functions; other XML code paths already acted this way. + + + + + + Provide for forward compatibility with future minor protocol versions + (Robert Haas, Badrul Chowdhury) + + + + Up to now, PostgreSQL servers simply + rejected requests to use protocol versions newer than 3.0, so that + there was no functional difference between the major and minor parts + of the protocol version number. Allow clients to request versions 3.x + without failing, sending back a message showing that the server only + understands 3.0. This makes no difference at the moment, but + back-patching this change should allow speedier introduction of future + minor protocol upgrades. + + + + + + Prevent stack-overflow crashes when planning extremely deeply + nested set operations + (UNION/INTERSECT/EXCEPT) + (Tom Lane) + + + + + + Fix null-pointer crashes for some types of LDAP URLs appearing + in pg_hba.conf (Thomas Munro) + + + + + + Fix sample INSTR() functions in the PL/pgSQL + documentation (Yugo Nagata, Tom Lane) + + + + These functions are stated to + be Oracle compatible, but + they weren't exactly. In particular, there was a discrepancy in the + interpretation of a negative third parameter: Oracle thinks that a + negative value indicates the last place where the target substring can + begin, whereas our functions took it as the last place where the + target can end. Also, Oracle throws an error for a zero or negative + fourth parameter, whereas our functions returned zero. + + + + The sample code has been adjusted to match Oracle's behavior more + precisely. Users who have copied this code into their applications + may wish to update their copies. + + + + + + Fix pg_dump to make ACL (permissions), + comment, and security label entries reliably identifiable in archive + output formats (Tom Lane) + + + + The tag portion of an ACL archive entry was usually + just the name of the associated object. Make it start with the object + type instead, bringing ACLs into line with the convention already used + for comment and security label archive entries. Also, fix the + comment and security label entries for the whole database, if present, + to make their tags start with DATABASE so that they + also follow this convention. This prevents false matches in code that + tries to identify large-object-related entries by seeing if the tag + starts with LARGE OBJECT. That could have resulted + in misclassifying entries as data rather than schema, with undesirable + results in a schema-only or data-only dump. + + + + Note that this change has user-visible results in the output + of pg_restore --list. + + + + + + In ecpg, detect indicator arrays that do + not have the correct length and report an error (David Rader) + + + + + + Avoid triggering a libc assertion + in contrib/hstore, due to use + of memcpy() with equal source and destination + pointers (Tomas Vondra) + + + + + + Provide modern examples of how to auto-start Postgres on macOS + (Tom Lane) + + + + The scripts in contrib/start-scripts/osx use + infrastructure that's been deprecated for over a decade, and which no + longer works at all in macOS releases of the last couple of years. + Add a new subdirectory contrib/start-scripts/macos + containing scripts that use the newer launchd + infrastructure. + + + + + + Fix incorrect selection of configuration-specific libraries for + OpenSSL on Windows (Andrew Dunstan) + + + + + + Support linking to MinGW-built versions of libperl (Noah Misch) + + + + This allows building PL/Perl with some common Perl distributions for + Windows. + + + + + + Fix MSVC build to test whether 32-bit libperl + needs -D_USE_32BIT_TIME_T (Noah Misch) + + + + Available Perl distributions are inconsistent about what they expect, + and lack any reliable means of reporting it, so resort to a build-time + test on what the library being used actually does. + + + + + + On Windows, install the crash dump handler earlier in postmaster + startup (Takayuki Tsunakawa) + + + + This may allow collection of a core dump for some early-startup + failures that did not produce a dump before. + + + + + + On Windows, avoid encoding-conversion-related crashes when emitting + messages very early in postmaster startup (Takayuki Tsunakawa) + + + + + + Use our existing Motorola 68K spinlock code on OpenBSD as + well as NetBSD (David Carlier) + + + + + + Add support for spinlocks on Motorola 88K (David Carlier) + + + + + + Update time zone data files to tzdata + release 2018c for DST law changes in Brazil, Sao Tome and Principe, + plus historical corrections for Bolivia, Japan, and South Sudan. + The US/Pacific-New zone has been removed (it was + only an alias for America/Los_Angeles anyway). + + + + + + + + Release 9.3.20 diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release-9.4.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release-9.4.sgml index 4ecf90d691..329e5ec0e6 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/release-9.4.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/release-9.4.sgml @@ -1,6 +1,347 @@ + + Release 9.4.16 + + + Release date: + 2018-02-08 + + + + This release contains a variety of fixes from 9.4.15. + For information about new features in the 9.4 major release, see + . + + + + Migration to Version 9.4.16 + + + A dump/restore is not required for those running 9.4.X. + + + + However, if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 9.4.13, + see . + + + + + Changes + + + + + + Fix vacuuming of tuples that were updated while key-share locked + (Andres Freund, Álvaro Herrera) + + + + In some cases VACUUM would fail to remove such + tuples even though they are now dead, leading to assorted data + corruption scenarios. + + + + + + Fix inadequate buffer locking in some LSN fetches (Jacob Champion, + Asim Praveen, Ashwin Agrawal) + + + + These errors could result in misbehavior under concurrent load. + The potential consequences have not been characterized fully. + + + + + + Avoid unnecessary failure in a query on an inheritance tree that + occurs concurrently with some child table being removed from the tree + by ALTER TABLE NO INHERIT (Tom Lane) + + + + + + Fix spurious deadlock failures when multiple sessions are + running CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY (Jeff Janes) + + + + + + Repair failure with correlated sub-SELECT + inside VALUES inside a LATERAL + subquery (Tom Lane) + + + + + + Fix could not devise a query plan for the given query + planner failure for some cases involving nested UNION + ALL inside a lateral subquery (Tom Lane) + + + + + + Fix logical decoding to correctly clean up disk files for crashed + transactions (Atsushi Torikoshi) + + + + Logical decoding may spill WAL records to disk for transactions + generating many WAL records. Normally these files are cleaned up + after the transaction's commit or abort record arrives; but if + no such record is ever seen, the removal code misbehaved. + + + + + + Fix walsender timeout failure and failure to respond to interrupts + when processing a large transaction (Petr Jelinek) + + + + + + Fix has_sequence_privilege() to + support WITH GRANT OPTION tests, + as other privilege-testing functions do (Joe Conway) + + + + + + In databases using UTF8 encoding, ignore any XML declaration that + asserts a different encoding (Pavel Stehule, Noah Misch) + + + + We always store XML strings in the database encoding, so allowing + libxml to act on a declaration of another encoding gave wrong results. + In encodings other than UTF8, we don't promise to support non-ASCII + XML data anyway, so retain the previous behavior for bug compatibility. + This change affects only xpath() and related + functions; other XML code paths already acted this way. + + + + + + Provide for forward compatibility with future minor protocol versions + (Robert Haas, Badrul Chowdhury) + + + + Up to now, PostgreSQL servers simply + rejected requests to use protocol versions newer than 3.0, so that + there was no functional difference between the major and minor parts + of the protocol version number. Allow clients to request versions 3.x + without failing, sending back a message showing that the server only + understands 3.0. This makes no difference at the moment, but + back-patching this change should allow speedier introduction of future + minor protocol upgrades. + + + + + + Cope with failure to start a parallel worker process + (Amit Kapila, Robert Haas) + + + + Parallel query previously tended to hang indefinitely if a worker + could not be started, as the result of fork() + failure or other low-probability problems. + + + + + + Prevent stack-overflow crashes when planning extremely deeply + nested set operations + (UNION/INTERSECT/EXCEPT) + (Tom Lane) + + + + + + Fix null-pointer crashes for some types of LDAP URLs appearing + in pg_hba.conf (Thomas Munro) + + + + + + Fix sample INSTR() functions in the PL/pgSQL + documentation (Yugo Nagata, Tom Lane) + + + + These functions are stated to + be Oracle compatible, but + they weren't exactly. In particular, there was a discrepancy in the + interpretation of a negative third parameter: Oracle thinks that a + negative value indicates the last place where the target substring can + begin, whereas our functions took it as the last place where the + target can end. Also, Oracle throws an error for a zero or negative + fourth parameter, whereas our functions returned zero. + + + + The sample code has been adjusted to match Oracle's behavior more + precisely. Users who have copied this code into their applications + may wish to update their copies. + + + + + + Fix pg_dump to make ACL (permissions), + comment, and security label entries reliably identifiable in archive + output formats (Tom Lane) + + + + The tag portion of an ACL archive entry was usually + just the name of the associated object. Make it start with the object + type instead, bringing ACLs into line with the convention already used + for comment and security label archive entries. Also, fix the + comment and security label entries for the whole database, if present, + to make their tags start with DATABASE so that they + also follow this convention. This prevents false matches in code that + tries to identify large-object-related entries by seeing if the tag + starts with LARGE OBJECT. That could have resulted + in misclassifying entries as data rather than schema, with undesirable + results in a schema-only or data-only dump. + + + + Note that this change has user-visible results in the output + of pg_restore --list. + + + + + + In ecpg, detect indicator arrays that do + not have the correct length and report an error (David Rader) + + + + + + Avoid triggering a libc assertion + in contrib/hstore, due to use + of memcpy() with equal source and destination + pointers (Tomas Vondra) + + + + + + Provide modern examples of how to auto-start Postgres on macOS + (Tom Lane) + + + + The scripts in contrib/start-scripts/osx use + infrastructure that's been deprecated for over a decade, and which no + longer works at all in macOS releases of the last couple of years. + Add a new subdirectory contrib/start-scripts/macos + containing scripts that use the newer launchd + infrastructure. + + + + + + Fix incorrect selection of configuration-specific libraries for + OpenSSL on Windows (Andrew Dunstan) + + + + + + Support linking to MinGW-built versions of libperl (Noah Misch) + + + + This allows building PL/Perl with some common Perl distributions for + Windows. + + + + + + Fix MSVC build to test whether 32-bit libperl + needs -D_USE_32BIT_TIME_T (Noah Misch) + + + + Available Perl distributions are inconsistent about what they expect, + and lack any reliable means of reporting it, so resort to a build-time + test on what the library being used actually does. + + + + + + On Windows, install the crash dump handler earlier in postmaster + startup (Takayuki Tsunakawa) + + + + This may allow collection of a core dump for some early-startup + failures that did not produce a dump before. + + + + + + On Windows, avoid encoding-conversion-related crashes when emitting + messages very early in postmaster startup (Takayuki Tsunakawa) + + + + + + Use our existing Motorola 68K spinlock code on OpenBSD as + well as NetBSD (David Carlier) + + + + + + Add support for spinlocks on Motorola 88K (David Carlier) + + + + + + Update time zone data files to tzdata + release 2018c for DST law changes in Brazil, Sao Tome and Principe, + plus historical corrections for Bolivia, Japan, and South Sudan. + The US/Pacific-New zone has been removed (it was + only an alias for America/Los_Angeles anyway). + + + + + + + + Release 9.4.15 diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release-9.5.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release-9.5.sgml index d79d953d51..9d18de4be9 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/release-9.5.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/release-9.5.sgml @@ -1,6 +1,399 @@ + + Release 9.5.11 + + + Release date: + 2018-02-08 + + + + This release contains a variety of fixes from 9.5.10. + For information about new features in the 9.5 major release, see + . + + + + Migration to Version 9.5.11 + + + A dump/restore is not required for those running 9.5.X. + + + + However, if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 9.5.10, + see . + + + + + Changes + + + + + + Fix vacuuming of tuples that were updated while key-share locked + (Andres Freund, Álvaro Herrera) + + + + In some cases VACUUM would fail to remove such + tuples even though they are now dead, leading to assorted data + corruption scenarios. + + + + + + Fix inadequate buffer locking in some LSN fetches (Jacob Champion, + Asim Praveen, Ashwin Agrawal) + + + + These errors could result in misbehavior under concurrent load. + The potential consequences have not been characterized fully. + + + + + + Fix incorrect query results from cases involving flattening of + subqueries whose outputs are used in GROUPING SETS + (Heikki Linnakangas) + + + + + + Avoid unnecessary failure in a query on an inheritance tree that + occurs concurrently with some child table being removed from the tree + by ALTER TABLE NO INHERIT (Tom Lane) + + + + + + Fix spurious deadlock failures when multiple sessions are + running CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY (Jeff Janes) + + + + + + Fix failures when an inheritance tree contains foreign child tables + (Etsuro Fujita) + + + + A mix of regular and foreign tables in an inheritance tree resulted in + creation of incorrect plans for UPDATE + and DELETE queries. This led to visible failures in + some cases, notably when there are row-level triggers on a foreign + child table. + + + + + + Repair failure with correlated sub-SELECT + inside VALUES inside a LATERAL + subquery (Tom Lane) + + + + + + Fix could not devise a query plan for the given query + planner failure for some cases involving nested UNION + ALL inside a lateral subquery (Tom Lane) + + + + + + Fix logical decoding to correctly clean up disk files for crashed + transactions (Atsushi Torikoshi) + + + + Logical decoding may spill WAL records to disk for transactions + generating many WAL records. Normally these files are cleaned up + after the transaction's commit or abort record arrives; but if + no such record is ever seen, the removal code misbehaved. + + + + + + Fix walsender timeout failure and failure to respond to interrupts + when processing a large transaction (Petr Jelinek) + + + + + + Fix has_sequence_privilege() to + support WITH GRANT OPTION tests, + as other privilege-testing functions do (Joe Conway) + + + + + + In databases using UTF8 encoding, ignore any XML declaration that + asserts a different encoding (Pavel Stehule, Noah Misch) + + + + We always store XML strings in the database encoding, so allowing + libxml to act on a declaration of another encoding gave wrong results. + In encodings other than UTF8, we don't promise to support non-ASCII + XML data anyway, so retain the previous behavior for bug compatibility. + This change affects only xpath() and related + functions; other XML code paths already acted this way. + + + + + + Provide for forward compatibility with future minor protocol versions + (Robert Haas, Badrul Chowdhury) + + + + Up to now, PostgreSQL servers simply + rejected requests to use protocol versions newer than 3.0, so that + there was no functional difference between the major and minor parts + of the protocol version number. Allow clients to request versions 3.x + without failing, sending back a message showing that the server only + understands 3.0. This makes no difference at the moment, but + back-patching this change should allow speedier introduction of future + minor protocol upgrades. + + + + + + Cope with failure to start a parallel worker process + (Amit Kapila, Robert Haas) + + + + Parallel query previously tended to hang indefinitely if a worker + could not be started, as the result of fork() + failure or other low-probability problems. + + + + + + Avoid unsafe alignment assumptions when working + with __int128 (Tom Lane) + + + + Typically, compilers assume that __int128 variables are + aligned on 16-byte boundaries, but our memory allocation + infrastructure isn't prepared to guarantee that, and increasing the + setting of MAXALIGN seems infeasible for multiple reasons. Adjust the + code to allow use of __int128 only when we can tell the + compiler to assume lesser alignment. The only known symptom of this + problem so far is crashes in some parallel aggregation queries. + + + + + + Prevent stack-overflow crashes when planning extremely deeply + nested set operations + (UNION/INTERSECT/EXCEPT) + (Tom Lane) + + + + + + Fix null-pointer crashes for some types of LDAP URLs appearing + in pg_hba.conf (Thomas Munro) + + + + + + Fix sample INSTR() functions in the PL/pgSQL + documentation (Yugo Nagata, Tom Lane) + + + + These functions are stated to + be Oracle compatible, but + they weren't exactly. In particular, there was a discrepancy in the + interpretation of a negative third parameter: Oracle thinks that a + negative value indicates the last place where the target substring can + begin, whereas our functions took it as the last place where the + target can end. Also, Oracle throws an error for a zero or negative + fourth parameter, whereas our functions returned zero. + + + + The sample code has been adjusted to match Oracle's behavior more + precisely. Users who have copied this code into their applications + may wish to update their copies. + + + + + + Fix pg_dump to make ACL (permissions), + comment, and security label entries reliably identifiable in archive + output formats (Tom Lane) + + + + The tag portion of an ACL archive entry was usually + just the name of the associated object. Make it start with the object + type instead, bringing ACLs into line with the convention already used + for comment and security label archive entries. Also, fix the + comment and security label entries for the whole database, if present, + to make their tags start with DATABASE so that they + also follow this convention. This prevents false matches in code that + tries to identify large-object-related entries by seeing if the tag + starts with LARGE OBJECT. That could have resulted + in misclassifying entries as data rather than schema, with undesirable + results in a schema-only or data-only dump. + + + + Note that this change has user-visible results in the output + of pg_restore --list. + + + + + + Rename pg_rewind's + copy_file_range function to avoid conflict + with new Linux system call of that name (Andres Freund) + + + + This change prevents build failures with newer glibc versions. + + + + + + In ecpg, detect indicator arrays that do + not have the correct length and report an error (David Rader) + + + + + + Avoid triggering a libc assertion + in contrib/hstore, due to use + of memcpy() with equal source and destination + pointers (Tomas Vondra) + + + + + + Provide modern examples of how to auto-start Postgres on macOS + (Tom Lane) + + + + The scripts in contrib/start-scripts/osx use + infrastructure that's been deprecated for over a decade, and which no + longer works at all in macOS releases of the last couple of years. + Add a new subdirectory contrib/start-scripts/macos + containing scripts that use the newer launchd + infrastructure. + + + + + + Fix incorrect selection of configuration-specific libraries for + OpenSSL on Windows (Andrew Dunstan) + + + + + + Support linking to MinGW-built versions of libperl (Noah Misch) + + + + This allows building PL/Perl with some common Perl distributions for + Windows. + + + + + + Fix MSVC build to test whether 32-bit libperl + needs -D_USE_32BIT_TIME_T (Noah Misch) + + + + Available Perl distributions are inconsistent about what they expect, + and lack any reliable means of reporting it, so resort to a build-time + test on what the library being used actually does. + + + + + + On Windows, install the crash dump handler earlier in postmaster + startup (Takayuki Tsunakawa) + + + + This may allow collection of a core dump for some early-startup + failures that did not produce a dump before. + + + + + + On Windows, avoid encoding-conversion-related crashes when emitting + messages very early in postmaster startup (Takayuki Tsunakawa) + + + + + + Use our existing Motorola 68K spinlock code on OpenBSD as + well as NetBSD (David Carlier) + + + + + + Add support for spinlocks on Motorola 88K (David Carlier) + + + + + + Update time zone data files to tzdata + release 2018c for DST law changes in Brazil, Sao Tome and Principe, + plus historical corrections for Bolivia, Japan, and South Sudan. + The US/Pacific-New zone has been removed (it was + only an alias for America/Los_Angeles anyway). + + + + + + + + Release 9.5.10 diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release-9.6.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release-9.6.sgml index ce040f1a5a..26025712be 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/release-9.6.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/release-9.6.sgml @@ -1,6 +1,463 @@ + + Release 9.6.7 + + + Release date: + 2018-02-08 + + + + This release contains a variety of fixes from 9.6.6. + For information about new features in the 9.6 major release, see + . + + + + Migration to Version 9.6.7 + + + A dump/restore is not required for those running 9.6.X. + + + + However, + if you use contrib/cube's ~> + operator, see the entry below about that. + + + + Also, if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 9.6.6, + see . + + + + + Changes + + + + + + Fix vacuuming of tuples that were updated while key-share locked + (Andres Freund, Álvaro Herrera) + + + + In some cases VACUUM would fail to remove such + tuples even though they are now dead, leading to assorted data + corruption scenarios. + + + + + + Ensure that vacuum will always clean up the pending-insertions list of + a GIN index (Masahiko Sawada) + + + + This is necessary to ensure that dead index entries get removed. + The old code got it backwards, allowing vacuum to skip the cleanup if + some other process were running cleanup concurrently, thus risking + invalid entries being left behind in the index. + + + + + + Fix inadequate buffer locking in some LSN fetches (Jacob Champion, + Asim Praveen, Ashwin Agrawal) + + + + These errors could result in misbehavior under concurrent load. + The potential consequences have not been characterized fully. + + + + + + Fix incorrect query results from cases involving flattening of + subqueries whose outputs are used in GROUPING SETS + (Heikki Linnakangas) + + + + + + Avoid unnecessary failure in a query on an inheritance tree that + occurs concurrently with some child table being removed from the tree + by ALTER TABLE NO INHERIT (Tom Lane) + + + + + + Fix spurious deadlock failures when multiple sessions are + running CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY (Jeff Janes) + + + + + + Fix failures when an inheritance tree contains foreign child tables + (Etsuro Fujita) + + + + A mix of regular and foreign tables in an inheritance tree resulted in + creation of incorrect plans for UPDATE + and DELETE queries. This led to visible failures in + some cases, notably when there are row-level triggers on a foreign + child table. + + + + + + Repair failure with correlated sub-SELECT + inside VALUES inside a LATERAL + subquery (Tom Lane) + + + + + + Fix could not devise a query plan for the given query + planner failure for some cases involving nested UNION + ALL inside a lateral subquery (Tom Lane) + + + + + + Fix logical decoding to correctly clean up disk files for crashed + transactions (Atsushi Torikoshi) + + + + Logical decoding may spill WAL records to disk for transactions + generating many WAL records. Normally these files are cleaned up + after the transaction's commit or abort record arrives; but if + no such record is ever seen, the removal code misbehaved. + + + + + + Fix walsender timeout failure and failure to respond to interrupts + when processing a large transaction (Petr Jelinek) + + + + + + Fix has_sequence_privilege() to + support WITH GRANT OPTION tests, + as other privilege-testing functions do (Joe Conway) + + + + + + In databases using UTF8 encoding, ignore any XML declaration that + asserts a different encoding (Pavel Stehule, Noah Misch) + + + + We always store XML strings in the database encoding, so allowing + libxml to act on a declaration of another encoding gave wrong results. + In encodings other than UTF8, we don't promise to support non-ASCII + XML data anyway, so retain the previous behavior for bug compatibility. + This change affects only xpath() and related + functions; other XML code paths already acted this way. + + + + + + Provide for forward compatibility with future minor protocol versions + (Robert Haas, Badrul Chowdhury) + + + + Up to now, PostgreSQL servers simply + rejected requests to use protocol versions newer than 3.0, so that + there was no functional difference between the major and minor parts + of the protocol version number. Allow clients to request versions 3.x + without failing, sending back a message showing that the server only + understands 3.0. This makes no difference at the moment, but + back-patching this change should allow speedier introduction of future + minor protocol upgrades. + + + + + + Cope with failure to start a parallel worker process + (Amit Kapila, Robert Haas) + + + + Parallel query previously tended to hang indefinitely if a worker + could not be started, as the result of fork() + failure or other low-probability problems. + + + + + + Fix collection of EXPLAIN statistics from parallel + workers (Amit Kapila, Thomas Munro) + + + + + + Avoid unsafe alignment assumptions when working + with __int128 (Tom Lane) + + + + Typically, compilers assume that __int128 variables are + aligned on 16-byte boundaries, but our memory allocation + infrastructure isn't prepared to guarantee that, and increasing the + setting of MAXALIGN seems infeasible for multiple reasons. Adjust the + code to allow use of __int128 only when we can tell the + compiler to assume lesser alignment. The only known symptom of this + problem so far is crashes in some parallel aggregation queries. + + + + + + Prevent stack-overflow crashes when planning extremely deeply + nested set operations + (UNION/INTERSECT/EXCEPT) + (Tom Lane) + + + + + + Fix null-pointer crashes for some types of LDAP URLs appearing + in pg_hba.conf (Thomas Munro) + + + + + + Fix sample INSTR() functions in the PL/pgSQL + documentation (Yugo Nagata, Tom Lane) + + + + These functions are stated to + be Oracle compatible, but + they weren't exactly. In particular, there was a discrepancy in the + interpretation of a negative third parameter: Oracle thinks that a + negative value indicates the last place where the target substring can + begin, whereas our functions took it as the last place where the + target can end. Also, Oracle throws an error for a zero or negative + fourth parameter, whereas our functions returned zero. + + + + The sample code has been adjusted to match Oracle's behavior more + precisely. Users who have copied this code into their applications + may wish to update their copies. + + + + + + Fix pg_dump to make ACL (permissions), + comment, and security label entries reliably identifiable in archive + output formats (Tom Lane) + + + + The tag portion of an ACL archive entry was usually + just the name of the associated object. Make it start with the object + type instead, bringing ACLs into line with the convention already used + for comment and security label archive entries. Also, fix the + comment and security label entries for the whole database, if present, + to make their tags start with DATABASE so that they + also follow this convention. This prevents false matches in code that + tries to identify large-object-related entries by seeing if the tag + starts with LARGE OBJECT. That could have resulted + in misclassifying entries as data rather than schema, with undesirable + results in a schema-only or data-only dump. + + + + Note that this change has user-visible results in the output + of pg_restore --list. + + + + + + Rename pg_rewind's + copy_file_range function to avoid conflict + with new Linux system call of that name (Andres Freund) + + + + This change prevents build failures with newer glibc versions. + + + + + + In ecpg, detect indicator arrays that do + not have the correct length and report an error (David Rader) + + + + + + Change the behavior of contrib/cube's + cube ~> int + operator to make it compatible with KNN search (Alexander Korotkov) + + + + The meaning of the second argument (the dimension selector) has been + changed to make it predictable which value is selected even when + dealing with cubes of varying dimensionalities. + + + + This is an incompatible change, but since the point of the operator + was to be used in KNN searches, it seems rather useless as-is. + After installing this update, any expression indexes or materialized + views using this operator will need to be reindexed/refreshed. + + + + + + Avoid triggering a libc assertion + in contrib/hstore, due to use + of memcpy() with equal source and destination + pointers (Tomas Vondra) + + + + + + Fix incorrect display of tuples' null bitmaps + in contrib/pageinspect (Maksim Milyutin) + + + + + + In contrib/postgres_fdw, avoid + outer pathkeys do not match mergeclauses + planner error when constructing a plan involving a remote join + (Robert Haas) + + + + + + Provide modern examples of how to auto-start Postgres on macOS + (Tom Lane) + + + + The scripts in contrib/start-scripts/osx use + infrastructure that's been deprecated for over a decade, and which no + longer works at all in macOS releases of the last couple of years. + Add a new subdirectory contrib/start-scripts/macos + containing scripts that use the newer launchd + infrastructure. + + + + + + Fix incorrect selection of configuration-specific libraries for + OpenSSL on Windows (Andrew Dunstan) + + + + + + Support linking to MinGW-built versions of libperl (Noah Misch) + + + + This allows building PL/Perl with some common Perl distributions for + Windows. + + + + + + Fix MSVC build to test whether 32-bit libperl + needs -D_USE_32BIT_TIME_T (Noah Misch) + + + + Available Perl distributions are inconsistent about what they expect, + and lack any reliable means of reporting it, so resort to a build-time + test on what the library being used actually does. + + + + + + On Windows, install the crash dump handler earlier in postmaster + startup (Takayuki Tsunakawa) + + + + This may allow collection of a core dump for some early-startup + failures that did not produce a dump before. + + + + + + On Windows, avoid encoding-conversion-related crashes when emitting + messages very early in postmaster startup (Takayuki Tsunakawa) + + + + + + Use our existing Motorola 68K spinlock code on OpenBSD as + well as NetBSD (David Carlier) + + + + + + Add support for spinlocks on Motorola 88K (David Carlier) + + + + + + Update time zone data files to tzdata + release 2018c for DST law changes in Brazil, Sao Tome and Principe, + plus historical corrections for Bolivia, Japan, and South Sudan. + The US/Pacific-New zone has been removed (it was + only an alias for America/Los_Angeles anyway). + + + + + + + + Release 9.6.6