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Release notes for 11.3, 10.8, 9.6.13, 9.5.17, 9.4.22.

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<sect1 id="release-9-4-22">
<title>Release 9.4.22</title>
<formalpara>
<title>Release date:</title>
<para>2019-05-09</para>
</formalpara>
<para>
This release contains a variety of fixes from 9.4.21.
For information about new features in the 9.4 major release, see
<xref linkend="release-9-4">.
</para>
<para>
The <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> community will stop
releasing updates for the 9.4.X release series in February 2020.
Users are encouraged to update to a newer release branch soon.
</para>
<sect2>
<title>Migration to Version 9.4.22</title>
<para>
A dump/restore is not required for those running 9.4.X.
</para>
<para>
However, if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 9.4.18,
see <xref linkend="release-9-4-18">.
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2>
<title>Changes</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix behavior for an <command>UPDATE</command>
or <command>DELETE</command> on an inheritance tree or partitioned
table in which every table can be excluded (Amit Langote, Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
In such cases, the query did not report the correct set of output
columns when a <literal>RETURNING</literal> clause was present, and
if there were any statement-level triggers that should be fired, it
didn't fire them.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix handling of explicit <literal>DEFAULT</literal> items in
an <command>INSERT ... VALUES</command> command with
multiple <literal>VALUES</literal> rows, if the target relation is
an updatable view (Amit Langote, Dean Rasheed)
</para>
<para>
When the updatable view has no default for the column but its
underlying table has one, a single-row <command>INSERT
... VALUES</command> will use the underlying table's default.
In the multi-row case, however, NULL was always used. Correct it to
act like the single-row case.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix <command>CREATE VIEW</command> to allow zero-column views
(Ashutosh Sharma)
</para>
<para>
We should allow this for consistency with allowing zero-column
tables. Since a table can be converted to a view, zero-column views
could be created even with the restriction in place, leading to
dump/reload failures.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Accept XML documents as valid values of type <type>xml</type>
when <varname>xmloption</varname> is set
to <literal>content</literal>, as required by SQL:2006 and later
(Chapman Flack)
</para>
<para>
Previously <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> followed the
SQL:2003 definition, which doesn't allow this. But that creates a
serious problem for dump/restore: there is no setting
of <varname>xmloption</varname> that will accept all valid XML data.
Hence, switch to the 2006 definition.
</para>
<para>
<application>pg_dump</application> is also modified to emit
<literal>SET xmloption = content</literal> while restoring data,
ensuring that dump/restore works even if the prevailing
setting is <literal>document</literal>.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Improve server's startup-time checks for whether a pre-existing
shared memory segment is still in use (Noah Misch)
</para>
<para>
The postmaster is now more likely to detect that there are still
active processes from a previous postmaster incarnation, even if
the <filename>postmaster.pid</filename> file has been removed.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix incompatibility of GIN-index WAL records (Alexander Korotkov)
</para>
<para>
A fix applied in February's minor releases was not sufficiently
careful about backwards compatibility, leading to problems if a
standby server of that vintage reads GIN page-deletion WAL records
generated by a primary server of a previous minor release.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Tolerate <literal>EINVAL</literal> and <literal>ENOSYS</literal>
error results, where appropriate, for <function>fsync</function>
and <function>sync_file_range</function> calls
(Thomas Munro, James Sewell)
</para>
<para>
The previous change to panic on file synchronization failures turns
out to have been excessively paranoid for certain cases where a
failure is predictable and essentially means <quote>operation not
supported</quote>.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix <quote>failed to build any <replaceable>N</replaceable>-way
joins</quote> planner failures with lateral references leading out
of <literal>FULL</literal> outer joins (Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Avoid O(N^2) performance issue when rolling back a transaction that
created many tables (Tomas Vondra)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix race conditions in management of dynamic shared memory
(Thomas Munro)
</para>
<para>
These could lead to <quote>dsa_area could not attach to
segment</quote> or <quote>cannot unpin a segment that is not
pinned</quote> errors.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix race condition in which a hot-standby postmaster could fail to
shut down after receiving a smart-shutdown request (Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Tighten validation of encoded SCRAM-SHA-256 and MD5 passwords
(Jonathan Katz)
</para>
<para>
A password string that had the right initial characters could be
mistaken for one that is correctly hashed into SCRAM-SHA-256 or MD5
format. The password would be accepted but would be unusable later.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix handling of <varname>lc_time</varname> settings that imply an
encoding different from the database's encoding (Juan Jos&eacute;
Santamar&iacute;a Flecha, Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
Localized month or day names that include non-ASCII characters
previously caused unexpected errors or wrong output in such locales.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Disallow <literal>NaN</literal> as a value for floating-point server
parameters (Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Rearrange <command>REINDEX</command> processing to avoid assertion
failures when reindexing individual indexes
of <structname>pg_class</structname> (Andres Freund, Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix planner assertion failure for parameterized dummy paths (Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Insert correct test function in the result
of <function>SnapBuildInitialSnapshot()</function> (Antonin Houska)
</para>
<para>
No core code cares about this, but some extensions do.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix intermittent <quote>could not reattach to shared memory</quote>
session startup failures on Windows (Noah Misch)
</para>
<para>
A previously unrecognized source of these failures is creation of
thread stacks for a process's default thread pool. Arrange for such
stacks to be allocated in a different memory region.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix error detection in directory scanning on Windows (Konstantin
Knizhnik)
</para>
<para>
Errors, such as lack of permissions to read the directory, were not
detected or reported correctly; instead the code silently acted as
though the directory were empty.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix grammar problems in <application>ecpg</application> (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
A missing semicolon led to mistranslation
of <literal>SET <replaceable>variable</replaceable> =
DEFAULT</literal> (but
not <literal>SET <replaceable>variable</replaceable> TO
DEFAULT</literal>) in <application>ecpg</application> programs,
producing syntactically invalid output that the server would reject.
Additionally, in a <command>DROP TYPE</command> or <command>DROP
DOMAIN</command> command that listed multiple type names, only the
first type name was actually processed.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix possible buffer overruns in <application>ecpg</application>'s
processing of include filenames (Liu Huailing, Fei Wu)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Avoid crash in <filename>contrib/vacuumlo</filename> if
an <function>lo_unlink()</function> call failed (Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Sync our copy of the timezone library with IANA tzcode release 2019a
(Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
This corrects a small bug in <application>zic</application> that
caused it to output an incorrect year-2440 transition in
the <literal>Africa/Casablanca</literal> zone, and adds support
for <application>zic</application>'s new <option>-r</option> option.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Update time zone data files to <application>tzdata</application>
release 2019a for DST law changes in Palestine and Metlakatla,
plus historical corrections for Israel.
</para>
<para>
<literal>Etc/UCT</literal> is now a backward-compatibility link
to <literal>Etc/UTC</literal>, instead of being a separate zone that
generates the abbreviation <literal>UCT</literal>, which nowadays is
typically a typo. <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> will still
accept <literal>UCT</literal> as an input zone abbreviation, but it
won't output it.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect2>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="release-9-4-21">
<title>Release 9.4.21</title>