diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release-9.2.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release-9.2.sgml index 8077b863d69..f0283ad500f 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/release-9.2.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/release-9.2.sgml @@ -1,6 +1,182 @@ + + Release 9.2.24 + + + Release date: + 2017-11-09 + + + + This release contains a variety of fixes from 9.2.23. + For information about new features in the 9.2 major release, see + . + + + + This is expected to be the last PostgreSQL + release in the 9.2.X series. Users are encouraged to update to a newer + release branch soon. + + + + Migration to Version 9.2.24 + + + A dump/restore is not required for those running 9.2.X. + + + + However, if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 9.2.22, + see . + + + + + + Changes + + + + + + Properly reject attempts to convert infinite float values to + type numeric (Tom Lane, KaiGai Kohei) + + + + Previously the behavior was platform-dependent. + + + + + + Fix corner-case crashes when columns have been added to the end of a + view (Tom Lane) + + + + + + Record proper dependencies when a view or rule + contains FieldSelect + or FieldStore expression nodes (Tom Lane) + + + + Lack of these dependencies could allow a column or data + type DROP to go through when it ought to fail, + thereby causing later uses of the view or rule to get errors. + This patch does not do anything to protect existing views/rules, + only ones created in the future. + + + + + + Correctly detect hashability of range data types (Tom Lane) + + + + The planner mistakenly assumed that any range type could be hashed + for use in hash joins or hash aggregation, but actually it must check + whether the range's subtype has hash support. This does not affect any + of the built-in range types, since they're all hashable anyway. + + + + + + Fix low-probability loss of NOTIFY messages due to + XID wraparound (Marko Tiikkaja, Tom Lane) + + + + If a session executed no queries, but merely listened for + notifications, for more than 2 billion transactions, it started to miss + some notifications from concurrently-committing transactions. + + + + + + Prevent low-probability crash in processing of nested trigger firings + (Tom Lane) + + + + + + Correctly restore the umask setting when file creation fails + in COPY or lo_export() + (Peter Eisentraut) + + + + + + Give a better error message for duplicate column names + in ANALYZE (Nathan Bossart) + + + + + + Fix libpq to not require user's home + directory to exist (Tom Lane) + + + + In v10, failure to find the home directory while trying to + read ~/.pgpass was treated as a hard error, + but it should just cause that file to not be found. Both v10 and + previous release branches made the same mistake when + reading ~/.pg_service.conf, though this was less + obvious since that file is not sought unless a service name is + specified. + + + + + + Fix libpq to guard against integer + overflow in the row count of a PGresult + (Michael Paquier) + + + + + + Sync our copy of the timezone library with IANA release tzcode2017c + (Tom Lane) + + + + This fixes various issues; the only one likely to be user-visible + is that the default DST rules for a POSIX-style zone name, if + no posixrules file exists in the timezone data + directory, now match current US law rather than what it was a dozen + years ago. + + + + + + Update time zone data files to tzdata + release 2017c for DST law changes in Fiji, Namibia, Northern Cyprus, + Sudan, Tonga, and Turks & Caicos Islands, plus historical + corrections for Alaska, Apia, Burma, Calcutta, Detroit, Ireland, + Namibia, and Pago Pago. + + + + + + + + Release 9.2.23 diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release-9.3.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release-9.3.sgml index d11a302d07e..160da1ca8b9 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/release-9.3.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/release-9.3.sgml @@ -1,6 +1,198 @@ + + Release 9.3.20 + + + Release date: + 2017-11-09 + + + + This release contains a variety of fixes from 9.3.19. + For information about new features in the 9.3 major release, see + . + + + + Migration to Version 9.3.20 + + + 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 + + + + + + Properly reject attempts to convert infinite float values to + type numeric (Tom Lane, KaiGai Kohei) + + + + Previously the behavior was platform-dependent. + + + + + + Fix corner-case crashes when columns have been added to the end of a + view (Tom Lane) + + + + + + Record proper dependencies when a view or rule + contains FieldSelect + or FieldStore expression nodes (Tom Lane) + + + + Lack of these dependencies could allow a column or data + type DROP to go through when it ought to fail, + thereby causing later uses of the view or rule to get errors. + This patch does not do anything to protect existing views/rules, + only ones created in the future. + + + + + + Correctly detect hashability of range data types (Tom Lane) + + + + The planner mistakenly assumed that any range type could be hashed + for use in hash joins or hash aggregation, but actually it must check + whether the range's subtype has hash support. This does not affect any + of the built-in range types, since they're all hashable anyway. + + + + + + Fix low-probability loss of NOTIFY messages due to + XID wraparound (Marko Tiikkaja, Tom Lane) + + + + If a session executed no queries, but merely listened for + notifications, for more than 2 billion transactions, it started to miss + some notifications from concurrently-committing transactions. + + + + + + Prevent low-probability crash in processing of nested trigger firings + (Tom Lane) + + + + + + Correctly restore the umask setting when file creation fails + in COPY or lo_export() + (Peter Eisentraut) + + + + + + Give a better error message for duplicate column names + in ANALYZE (Nathan Bossart) + + + + + + Fix mis-parsing of the last line in a + non-newline-terminated pg_hba.conf file + (Tom Lane) + + + + + + Fix libpq to not require user's home + directory to exist (Tom Lane) + + + + In v10, failure to find the home directory while trying to + read ~/.pgpass was treated as a hard error, + but it should just cause that file to not be found. Both v10 and + previous release branches made the same mistake when + reading ~/.pg_service.conf, though this was less + obvious since that file is not sought unless a service name is + specified. + + + + + + Fix libpq to guard against integer + overflow in the row count of a PGresult + (Michael Paquier) + + + + + + Fix ecpg's handling of out-of-scope cursor + declarations with pointer or array variables (Michael Meskes) + + + + + + Make ecpglib's Informix-compatibility mode ignore fractional digits in + integer input strings, as expected (Gao Zengqi, Michael Meskes) + + + + + + Sync our copy of the timezone library with IANA release tzcode2017c + (Tom Lane) + + + + This fixes various issues; the only one likely to be user-visible + is that the default DST rules for a POSIX-style zone name, if + no posixrules file exists in the timezone data + directory, now match current US law rather than what it was a dozen + years ago. + + + + + + Update time zone data files to tzdata + release 2017c for DST law changes in Fiji, Namibia, Northern Cyprus, + Sudan, Tonga, and Turks & Caicos Islands, plus historical + corrections for Alaska, Apia, Burma, Calcutta, Detroit, Ireland, + Namibia, and Pago Pago. + + + + + + + + Release 9.3.19 diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release-9.4.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release-9.4.sgml index 6b329ecce6d..d5621fd1ce7 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/release-9.4.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/release-9.4.sgml @@ -1,6 +1,242 @@ + + Release 9.4.15 + + + Release date: + 2017-11-09 + + + + This release contains a variety of fixes from 9.4.14. + For information about new features in the 9.4 major release, see + . + + + + Migration to Version 9.4.15 + + + 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 crash when logical decoding is invoked from a SPI-using function, + in particular any function written in a PL language + (Tom Lane) + + + + + + Fix json_build_array(), + json_build_object(), and their jsonb + equivalents to handle explicit VARIADIC arguments + correctly (Michael Paquier) + + + + + + Properly reject attempts to convert infinite float values to + type numeric (Tom Lane, KaiGai Kohei) + + + + Previously the behavior was platform-dependent. + + + + + + Fix corner-case crashes when columns have been added to the end of a + view (Tom Lane) + + + + + + Record proper dependencies when a view or rule + contains FieldSelect + or FieldStore expression nodes (Tom Lane) + + + + Lack of these dependencies could allow a column or data + type DROP to go through when it ought to fail, + thereby causing later uses of the view or rule to get errors. + This patch does not do anything to protect existing views/rules, + only ones created in the future. + + + + + + Correctly detect hashability of range data types (Tom Lane) + + + + The planner mistakenly assumed that any range type could be hashed + for use in hash joins or hash aggregation, but actually it must check + whether the range's subtype has hash support. This does not affect any + of the built-in range types, since they're all hashable anyway. + + + + + + Fix low-probability loss of NOTIFY messages due to + XID wraparound (Marko Tiikkaja, Tom Lane) + + + + If a session executed no queries, but merely listened for + notifications, for more than 2 billion transactions, it started to miss + some notifications from concurrently-committing transactions. + + + + + + Avoid SIGBUS crash on Linux when a DSM memory + request exceeds the space available in tmpfs + (Thomas Munro) + + + + + + Prevent low-probability crash in processing of nested trigger firings + (Tom Lane) + + + + + + Allow COPY's FREEZE option to + work when the transaction isolation level is REPEATABLE + READ or higher (Noah Misch) + + + + This case was unintentionally broken by a previous bug fix. + + + + + + Correctly restore the umask setting when file creation fails + in COPY or lo_export() + (Peter Eisentraut) + + + + + + Give a better error message for duplicate column names + in ANALYZE (Nathan Bossart) + + + + + + Fix mis-parsing of the last line in a + non-newline-terminated pg_hba.conf file + (Tom Lane) + + + + + + Fix libpq to not require user's home + directory to exist (Tom Lane) + + + + In v10, failure to find the home directory while trying to + read ~/.pgpass was treated as a hard error, + but it should just cause that file to not be found. Both v10 and + previous release branches made the same mistake when + reading ~/.pg_service.conf, though this was less + obvious since that file is not sought unless a service name is + specified. + + + + + + Fix libpq to guard against integer + overflow in the row count of a PGresult + (Michael Paquier) + + + + + + Fix ecpg's handling of out-of-scope cursor + declarations with pointer or array variables (Michael Meskes) + + + + + + In ecpglib, correctly handle backslashes in string literals depending + on whether standard_conforming_strings is set + (Tsunakawa Takayuki) + + + + + + Make ecpglib's Informix-compatibility mode ignore fractional digits in + integer input strings, as expected (Gao Zengqi, Michael Meskes) + + + + + + Sync our copy of the timezone library with IANA release tzcode2017c + (Tom Lane) + + + + This fixes various issues; the only one likely to be user-visible + is that the default DST rules for a POSIX-style zone name, if + no posixrules file exists in the timezone data + directory, now match current US law rather than what it was a dozen + years ago. + + + + + + Update time zone data files to tzdata + release 2017c for DST law changes in Fiji, Namibia, Northern Cyprus, + Sudan, Tonga, and Turks & Caicos Islands, plus historical + corrections for Alaska, Apia, Burma, Calcutta, Detroit, Ireland, + Namibia, and Pago Pago. + + + + + + + + Release 9.4.14