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	Release notes for 10.4, 9.6.9, 9.5.13, 9.4.18, 9.3.23.
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 <sect1 id="release-9-3-23">
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  <title>Release 9.3.23</title>
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  <formalpara>
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  <title>Release date:</title>
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  <para>2018-05-10</para>
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  </formalpara>
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  <para>
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   This release contains a variety of fixes from 9.3.22.
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   For information about new features in the 9.3 major release, see
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   <xref linkend="release-9-3">.
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  </para>
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  <sect2>
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   <title>Migration to Version 9.3.23</title>
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   <para>
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    A dump/restore is not required for those running 9.3.X.
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   </para>
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   <para>
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    However, if the function marking mistakes mentioned in the first
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    changelog entry below affect you, you will want to take steps to
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    correct your database catalogs.
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   </para>
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   <para>
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    Also, if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 9.3.22,
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    see <xref linkend="release-9-3-22">.
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   </para>
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  <sect2>
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   <title>Changes</title>
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    <listitem>
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     <para>
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      Fix incorrect volatility markings on a few built-in functions
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      (Thomas Munro, Tom Lane)
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     </para>
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     <para>
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      The functions
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      <function>query_to_xml</function>,
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      <function>cursor_to_xml</function>,
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      <function>cursor_to_xmlschema</function>,
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      <function>query_to_xmlschema</function>, and
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      <function>query_to_xml_and_xmlschema</function>
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      should be marked volatile because they execute user-supplied queries
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      that might contain volatile operations.  They were not, leading to a
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      risk of incorrect query optimization.  This has been repaired for new
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      installations by correcting the initial catalog data, but existing
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      installations will continue to contain the incorrect markings.
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      Practical use of these functions seems to pose little hazard, but in
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      case of trouble, it can be fixed by manually updating these
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      functions' <structname>pg_proc</structname> entries.  (Note that that
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      will need to be done in each database of the installation.)  Another
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      option is to <application>pg_upgrade</application> the database to a
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      version containing the corrected initial data.
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     </para>
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    </listitem>
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    <listitem>
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     <para>
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      Avoid re-using TOAST value OIDs that match dead-but-not-yet-vacuumed
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      TOAST entries (Pavan Deolasee)
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     </para>
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     <para>
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      Once the OID counter has wrapped around, it's possible to assign a
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      TOAST value whose OID matches a previously deleted entry in the same
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      TOAST table.  If that entry were not yet vacuumed away, this resulted
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      in <quote>unexpected chunk number 0 (expected 1) for toast
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      value <replaceable>nnnnn</replaceable></quote> errors, which would
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      persist until the dead entry was removed
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      by <command>VACUUM</command>.  Fix by not selecting such OIDs when
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      creating a new TOAST entry.
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     </para>
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    </listitem>
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    <listitem>
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     <para>
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      Change <command>ANALYZE</command>'s algorithm for updating
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      <structname>pg_class</structname>.<structfield>reltuples</structfield>
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      (David Gould)
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     </para>
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     <para>
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      Previously, pages not actually scanned by <command>ANALYZE</command>
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      were assumed to retain their old tuple density.  In a large table
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      where <command>ANALYZE</command> samples only a small fraction of the
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      pages, this meant that the overall tuple density estimate could not
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      change very much, so that <structfield>reltuples</structfield> would
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      change nearly proportionally to changes in the table's physical size
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      (<structfield>relpages</structfield>) regardless of what was actually
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      happening in the table.  This has been observed to result
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      in <structfield>reltuples</structfield> becoming so much larger than
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      reality as to effectively shut off autovacuuming.  To fix, assume
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      that <command>ANALYZE</command>'s sample is a statistically unbiased
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      sample of the table (as it should be), and just extrapolate the
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      density observed within those pages to the whole table.
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     </para>
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    </listitem>
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    <listitem>
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     <para>
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      Fix <literal>UPDATE/DELETE ... WHERE CURRENT OF</literal> to not fail
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      when the referenced cursor uses an index-only-scan plan (Yugo Nagata,
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      Tom Lane)
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     </para>
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    </listitem>
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    <listitem>
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     <para>
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      Fix incorrect planning of join clauses pushed into parameterized
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      paths (Andrew Gierth, Tom Lane)
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     </para>
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     <para>
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      This error could result in misclassifying a condition as
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      a <quote>join filter</quote> for an outer join when it should be a
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      plain <quote>filter</quote> condition, leading to incorrect join
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      output.
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     </para>
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    </listitem>
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    <listitem>
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     <para>
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      Fix misoptimization of <literal>CHECK</literal> constraints having
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      provably-NULL subclauses of
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      top-level <literal>AND</literal>/<literal>OR</literal> conditions
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      (Tom Lane, Dean Rasheed)
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     </para>
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     <para>
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      This could, for example, allow constraint exclusion to exclude a
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      child table that should not be excluded from a query.
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     </para>
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    </listitem>
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    <listitem>
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     <para>
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      Avoid failure if a query-cancel or session-termination interrupt
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      occurs while committing a prepared transaction (Stas Kelvich)
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     </para>
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    </listitem>
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    <listitem>
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     <para>
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      Fix query-lifespan memory leakage in repeatedly executed hash joins
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      (Tom Lane)
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     </para>
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    </listitem>
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    <listitem>
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     <para>
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      Fix overly strict sanity check
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      in <function>heap_prepare_freeze_tuple</function>
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      (Álvaro Herrera)
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     </para>
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     <para>
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      This could result in incorrect <quote>cannot freeze committed
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      xmax</quote> failures in databases that have
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      been <application>pg_upgrade</application>'d from 9.2 or earlier.
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     </para>
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    </listitem>
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    <listitem>
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     <para>
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      Prevent dangling-pointer dereference when a C-coded before-update row
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      trigger returns the <quote>old</quote> tuple (Rushabh Lathia)
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     </para>
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    </listitem>
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    <listitem>
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     <para>
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      Reduce locking during autovacuum worker scheduling (Jeff Janes)
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     </para>
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     <para>
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      The previous behavior caused drastic loss of potential worker
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      concurrency in databases with many tables.
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     </para>
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    </listitem>
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    <listitem>
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     <para>
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      Ensure client hostname is copied while copying
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      <structname>pg_stat_activity</structname> data to local memory
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      (Edmund Horner)
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     </para>
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     <para>
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      Previously the supposedly-local snapshot contained a pointer into
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      shared memory, allowing the client hostname column to change
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      unexpectedly if any existing session disconnected.
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     </para>
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    </listitem>
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    <listitem>
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     <para>
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      Fix incorrect processing of multiple compound affixes
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      in <literal>ispell</literal> dictionaries (Arthur Zakirov)
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     </para>
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    </listitem>
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     <para>
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      Fix collation-aware searches (that is, indexscans using inequality
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      operators) in SP-GiST indexes on text columns (Tom Lane)
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     </para>
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     <para>
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      Such searches would return the wrong set of rows in most non-C
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      locales.
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     </para>
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    </listitem>
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      SP-GiST index (Tomas Vondra)
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      Previously, the tuple count was reported to be the same as that of
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      the underlying table, which is wrong if the index is partial.
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     </para>
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      GiST index (Andrey Borodin)
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      Previously it reported the estimated number of heap tuples,
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      which might be inaccurate, and is certainly wrong if the
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      index is partial.
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     </para>
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     <para>
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      Allow <function>scalarltsel</function>
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      and <function>scalargtsel</function> to be used on non-core datatypes
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      (Tomas Vondra)
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     </para>
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     <para>
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      Reduce <application>libpq</application>'s memory consumption when a
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      server error is reported after a large amount of query output has
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      been collected (Tom Lane)
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     </para>
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      Discard the previous output before, not after, processing the error
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      message.  On some platforms, notably Linux, this can make a
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      difference in the application's subsequent memory footprint.
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     </para>
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     <para>
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      Fix double-free crashes in <application>ecpg</application>
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      (Patrick Krecker, Jeevan Ladhe)
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     </para>
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    </listitem>
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     <para>
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      Fix <application>ecpg</application> to handle <type>long long
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      int</type> variables correctly in MSVC builds (Michael Meskes,
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      Andrew Gierth)
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     </para>
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     <para>
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      Fix mis-quoting of values for list-valued GUC variables in dumps
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      (Michael Paquier, Tom Lane)
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     </para>
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      The <varname>local_preload_libraries</varname>,
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      <varname>session_preload_libraries</varname>,
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      <varname>shared_preload_libraries</varname>,
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      and <varname>temp_tablespaces</varname> variables were not correctly
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      quoted in <application>pg_dump</application> output.  This would
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      cause problems if settings for these variables appeared in
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      <command>CREATE FUNCTION ... SET</command> or <command>ALTER
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     </para>
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    </listitem>
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    <listitem>
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     <para>
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      Fix overflow handling in <application>PL/pgSQL</application>
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      integer <command>FOR</command> loops (Tom Lane)
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     </para>
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     <para>
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      The previous coding failed to detect overflow of the loop variable
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      on some non-gcc compilers, leading to an infinite loop.
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     </para>
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    </listitem>
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    <listitem>
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     <para>
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      Adjust <application>PL/Python</application> regression tests to pass
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      under Python 3.7 (Peter Eisentraut)
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     </para>
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     <para>
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      Support testing <application>PL/Python</application> and related
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      modules when building with Python 3 and MSVC (Andrew Dunstan)
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     </para>
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    <listitem>
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     <para>
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      Rename internal <function>b64_encode</function>
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      and <function>b64_decode</function> functions to avoid conflict with
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      Solaris 11.4 built-in functions (Rainer Orth)
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     </para>
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    </listitem>
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    <listitem>
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     <para>
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      Sync our copy of the timezone library with IANA tzcode release 2018e
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      (Tom Lane)
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     </para>
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     <para>
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      This fixes the <application>zic</application> timezone data compiler
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      to cope with negative daylight-savings offsets.  While
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      the <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> project will not
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      immediately ship such timezone data, <application>zic</application>
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      might be used with timezone data obtained directly from IANA, so it
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      seems prudent to update <application>zic</application> now.
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     </para>
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    </listitem>
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    <listitem>
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     <para>
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      Update time zone data files to <application>tzdata</application>
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      release 2018d for DST law changes in Palestine and Antarctica (Casey
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      Station), plus historical corrections for Portugal and its colonies,
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      as well as Enderbury, Jamaica, Turks & Caicos Islands, and
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      Uruguay.
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     </para>
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    </listitem>
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   </itemizedlist>
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  </sect2>
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  <title>Release 9.3.22</title>
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@@ -1,6 +1,417 @@
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<!-- doc/src/sgml/release-9.4.sgml -->
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<!-- See header comment in release.sgml about typical markup -->
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 <sect1 id="release-9-4-18">
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  <title>Release 9.4.18</title>
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  <formalpara>
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  <title>Release date:</title>
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  <para>2018-05-10</para>
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  </formalpara>
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  <para>
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   This release contains a variety of fixes from 9.4.17.
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   For information about new features in the 9.4 major release, see
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   <xref linkend="release-9-4">.
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  </para>
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  <sect2>
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		||||
   <title>Migration to Version 9.4.18</title>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
   <para>
 | 
			
		||||
    A dump/restore is not required for those running 9.4.X.
 | 
			
		||||
   </para>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
   <para>
 | 
			
		||||
    However, if the function marking mistakes mentioned in the first
 | 
			
		||||
    changelog entry below affect you, you will want to take steps to
 | 
			
		||||
    correct your database catalogs.
 | 
			
		||||
   </para>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
   <para>
 | 
			
		||||
    Also, if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 9.4.17,
 | 
			
		||||
    see <xref linkend="release-9-4-17">.
 | 
			
		||||
   </para>
 | 
			
		||||
  </sect2>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
  <sect2>
 | 
			
		||||
   <title>Changes</title>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
   <itemizedlist>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
    <listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Fix incorrect volatility markings on a few built-in functions
 | 
			
		||||
      (Thomas Munro, Tom Lane)
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      The functions
 | 
			
		||||
      <function>query_to_xml</function>,
 | 
			
		||||
      <function>cursor_to_xml</function>,
 | 
			
		||||
      <function>cursor_to_xmlschema</function>,
 | 
			
		||||
      <function>query_to_xmlschema</function>, and
 | 
			
		||||
      <function>query_to_xml_and_xmlschema</function>
 | 
			
		||||
      should be marked volatile because they execute user-supplied queries
 | 
			
		||||
      that might contain volatile operations.  They were not, leading to a
 | 
			
		||||
      risk of incorrect query optimization.  This has been repaired for new
 | 
			
		||||
      installations by correcting the initial catalog data, but existing
 | 
			
		||||
      installations will continue to contain the incorrect markings.
 | 
			
		||||
      Practical use of these functions seems to pose little hazard, but in
 | 
			
		||||
      case of trouble, it can be fixed by manually updating these
 | 
			
		||||
      functions' <structname>pg_proc</structname> entries.  (Note that that
 | 
			
		||||
      will need to be done in each database of the installation.)  Another
 | 
			
		||||
      option is to <application>pg_upgrade</application> the database to a
 | 
			
		||||
      version containing the corrected initial data.
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
    </listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
    <listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Avoid re-using TOAST value OIDs that match dead-but-not-yet-vacuumed
 | 
			
		||||
      TOAST entries (Pavan Deolasee)
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Once the OID counter has wrapped around, it's possible to assign a
 | 
			
		||||
      TOAST value whose OID matches a previously deleted entry in the same
 | 
			
		||||
      TOAST table.  If that entry were not yet vacuumed away, this resulted
 | 
			
		||||
      in <quote>unexpected chunk number 0 (expected 1) for toast
 | 
			
		||||
      value <replaceable>nnnnn</replaceable></quote> errors, which would
 | 
			
		||||
      persist until the dead entry was removed
 | 
			
		||||
      by <command>VACUUM</command>.  Fix by not selecting such OIDs when
 | 
			
		||||
      creating a new TOAST entry.
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
    </listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
    <listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Change <command>ANALYZE</command>'s algorithm for updating
 | 
			
		||||
      <structname>pg_class</structname>.<structfield>reltuples</structfield>
 | 
			
		||||
      (David Gould)
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Previously, pages not actually scanned by <command>ANALYZE</command>
 | 
			
		||||
      were assumed to retain their old tuple density.  In a large table
 | 
			
		||||
      where <command>ANALYZE</command> samples only a small fraction of the
 | 
			
		||||
      pages, this meant that the overall tuple density estimate could not
 | 
			
		||||
      change very much, so that <structfield>reltuples</structfield> would
 | 
			
		||||
      change nearly proportionally to changes in the table's physical size
 | 
			
		||||
      (<structfield>relpages</structfield>) regardless of what was actually
 | 
			
		||||
      happening in the table.  This has been observed to result
 | 
			
		||||
      in <structfield>reltuples</structfield> becoming so much larger than
 | 
			
		||||
      reality as to effectively shut off autovacuuming.  To fix, assume
 | 
			
		||||
      that <command>ANALYZE</command>'s sample is a statistically unbiased
 | 
			
		||||
      sample of the table (as it should be), and just extrapolate the
 | 
			
		||||
      density observed within those pages to the whole table.
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
    </listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
    <listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Avoid deadlocks in concurrent <command>CREATE INDEX
 | 
			
		||||
      CONCURRENTLY</command> commands that are run
 | 
			
		||||
      under <literal>SERIALIZABLE</literal> or <literal>REPEATABLE
 | 
			
		||||
      READ</literal> transaction isolation (Tom Lane)
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
    </listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
    <listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Fix possible slow execution of <command>REFRESH MATERIALIZED VIEW
 | 
			
		||||
      CONCURRENTLY</command> (Thomas Munro)
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
    </listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
    <listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Fix <literal>UPDATE/DELETE ... WHERE CURRENT OF</literal> to not fail
 | 
			
		||||
      when the referenced cursor uses an index-only-scan plan (Yugo Nagata,
 | 
			
		||||
      Tom Lane)
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
    </listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
    <listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Fix incorrect planning of join clauses pushed into parameterized
 | 
			
		||||
      paths (Andrew Gierth, Tom Lane)
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      This error could result in misclassifying a condition as
 | 
			
		||||
      a <quote>join filter</quote> for an outer join when it should be a
 | 
			
		||||
      plain <quote>filter</quote> condition, leading to incorrect join
 | 
			
		||||
      output.
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
    </listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
    <listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Fix misoptimization of <literal>CHECK</literal> constraints having
 | 
			
		||||
      provably-NULL subclauses of
 | 
			
		||||
      top-level <literal>AND</literal>/<literal>OR</literal> conditions
 | 
			
		||||
      (Tom Lane, Dean Rasheed)
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      This could, for example, allow constraint exclusion to exclude a
 | 
			
		||||
      child table that should not be excluded from a query.
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
    </listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
    <listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Avoid failure if a query-cancel or session-termination interrupt
 | 
			
		||||
      occurs while committing a prepared transaction (Stas Kelvich)
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
    </listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
    <listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Fix query-lifespan memory leakage in repeatedly executed hash joins
 | 
			
		||||
      (Tom Lane)
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
    </listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
    <listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Fix overly strict sanity check
 | 
			
		||||
      in <function>heap_prepare_freeze_tuple</function>
 | 
			
		||||
      (Álvaro Herrera)
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      This could result in incorrect <quote>cannot freeze committed
 | 
			
		||||
      xmax</quote> failures in databases that have
 | 
			
		||||
      been <application>pg_upgrade</application>'d from 9.2 or earlier.
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
    </listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
    <listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Prevent dangling-pointer dereference when a C-coded before-update row
 | 
			
		||||
      trigger returns the <quote>old</quote> tuple (Rushabh Lathia)
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
    </listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
    <listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Reduce locking during autovacuum worker scheduling (Jeff Janes)
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      The previous behavior caused drastic loss of potential worker
 | 
			
		||||
      concurrency in databases with many tables.
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
    </listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
    <listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Ensure client hostname is copied while copying
 | 
			
		||||
      <structname>pg_stat_activity</structname> data to local memory
 | 
			
		||||
      (Edmund Horner)
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Previously the supposedly-local snapshot contained a pointer into
 | 
			
		||||
      shared memory, allowing the client hostname column to change
 | 
			
		||||
      unexpectedly if any existing session disconnected.
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
    </listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
    <listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Fix incorrect processing of multiple compound affixes
 | 
			
		||||
      in <literal>ispell</literal> dictionaries (Arthur Zakirov)
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
    </listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
    <listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Fix collation-aware searches (that is, indexscans using inequality
 | 
			
		||||
      operators) in SP-GiST indexes on text columns (Tom Lane)
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Such searches would return the wrong set of rows in most non-C
 | 
			
		||||
      locales.
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
    </listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
    <listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Count the number of index tuples correctly during initial build of an
 | 
			
		||||
      SP-GiST index (Tomas Vondra)
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Previously, the tuple count was reported to be the same as that of
 | 
			
		||||
      the underlying table, which is wrong if the index is partial.
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
    </listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
    <listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Count the number of index tuples correctly during vacuuming of a
 | 
			
		||||
      GiST index (Andrey Borodin)
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Previously it reported the estimated number of heap tuples,
 | 
			
		||||
      which might be inaccurate, and is certainly wrong if the
 | 
			
		||||
      index is partial.
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
    </listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
    <listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Fix a corner case where a streaming standby gets stuck at a WAL
 | 
			
		||||
      continuation record (Kyotaro Horiguchi)
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
    </listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
    <listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      In logical decoding, avoid possible double processing of WAL data
 | 
			
		||||
      when a walsender restarts (Craig Ringer)
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
    </listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
    <listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Allow <function>scalarltsel</function>
 | 
			
		||||
      and <function>scalargtsel</function> to be used on non-core datatypes
 | 
			
		||||
      (Tomas Vondra)
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
    </listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
    <listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Reduce <application>libpq</application>'s memory consumption when a
 | 
			
		||||
      server error is reported after a large amount of query output has
 | 
			
		||||
      been collected (Tom Lane)
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Discard the previous output before, not after, processing the error
 | 
			
		||||
      message.  On some platforms, notably Linux, this can make a
 | 
			
		||||
      difference in the application's subsequent memory footprint.
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
    </listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
    <listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Fix double-free crashes in <application>ecpg</application>
 | 
			
		||||
      (Patrick Krecker, Jeevan Ladhe)
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
    </listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
    <listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Fix <application>ecpg</application> to handle <type>long long
 | 
			
		||||
      int</type> variables correctly in MSVC builds (Michael Meskes,
 | 
			
		||||
      Andrew Gierth)
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
    </listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
    <listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Fix mis-quoting of values for list-valued GUC variables in dumps
 | 
			
		||||
      (Michael Paquier, Tom Lane)
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      The <varname>local_preload_libraries</varname>,
 | 
			
		||||
      <varname>session_preload_libraries</varname>,
 | 
			
		||||
      <varname>shared_preload_libraries</varname>,
 | 
			
		||||
      and <varname>temp_tablespaces</varname> variables were not correctly
 | 
			
		||||
      quoted in <application>pg_dump</application> output.  This would
 | 
			
		||||
      cause problems if settings for these variables appeared in
 | 
			
		||||
      <command>CREATE FUNCTION ... SET</command> or <command>ALTER
 | 
			
		||||
      DATABASE/ROLE ... SET</command> clauses.
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
    </listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
    <listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Fix <application>pg_recvlogical</application> to not fail against
 | 
			
		||||
      pre-v10 <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> servers
 | 
			
		||||
      (Michael Paquier)
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      A previous fix caused <application>pg_recvlogical</application> to
 | 
			
		||||
      issue a command regardless of server version, but it should only be
 | 
			
		||||
      issued to v10 and later servers.
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
    </listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
    <listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Fix overflow handling in <application>PL/pgSQL</application>
 | 
			
		||||
      integer <command>FOR</command> loops (Tom Lane)
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      The previous coding failed to detect overflow of the loop variable
 | 
			
		||||
      on some non-gcc compilers, leading to an infinite loop.
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
    </listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
    <listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Adjust <application>PL/Python</application> regression tests to pass
 | 
			
		||||
      under Python 3.7 (Peter Eisentraut)
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
    </listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
    <listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Support testing <application>PL/Python</application> and related
 | 
			
		||||
      modules when building with Python 3 and MSVC (Andrew Dunstan)
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
    </listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
    <listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Rename internal <function>b64_encode</function>
 | 
			
		||||
      and <function>b64_decode</function> functions to avoid conflict with
 | 
			
		||||
      Solaris 11.4 built-in functions (Rainer Orth)
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
    </listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
    <listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Sync our copy of the timezone library with IANA tzcode release 2018e
 | 
			
		||||
      (Tom Lane)
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      This fixes the <application>zic</application> timezone data compiler
 | 
			
		||||
      to cope with negative daylight-savings offsets.  While
 | 
			
		||||
      the <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> project will not
 | 
			
		||||
      immediately ship such timezone data, <application>zic</application>
 | 
			
		||||
      might be used with timezone data obtained directly from IANA, so it
 | 
			
		||||
      seems prudent to update <application>zic</application> now.
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
    </listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
    <listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Update time zone data files to <application>tzdata</application>
 | 
			
		||||
      release 2018d for DST law changes in Palestine and Antarctica (Casey
 | 
			
		||||
      Station), plus historical corrections for Portugal and its colonies,
 | 
			
		||||
      as well as Enderbury, Jamaica, Turks & Caicos Islands, and
 | 
			
		||||
      Uruguay.
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
    </listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
   </itemizedlist>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
  </sect2>
 | 
			
		||||
 </sect1>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
 <sect1 id="release-9-4-17">
 | 
			
		||||
  <title>Release 9.4.17</title>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
 
 | 
			
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@@ -1,6 +1,476 @@
 | 
			
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<!-- doc/src/sgml/release-9.5.sgml -->
 | 
			
		||||
<!-- See header comment in release.sgml about typical markup -->
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
 <sect1 id="release-9-5-13">
 | 
			
		||||
  <title>Release 9.5.13</title>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
  <formalpara>
 | 
			
		||||
  <title>Release date:</title>
 | 
			
		||||
  <para>2018-05-10</para>
 | 
			
		||||
  </formalpara>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
  <para>
 | 
			
		||||
   This release contains a variety of fixes from 9.5.12.
 | 
			
		||||
   For information about new features in the 9.5 major release, see
 | 
			
		||||
   <xref linkend="release-9-5">.
 | 
			
		||||
  </para>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
  <sect2>
 | 
			
		||||
   <title>Migration to Version 9.5.13</title>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
   <para>
 | 
			
		||||
    A dump/restore is not required for those running 9.5.X.
 | 
			
		||||
   </para>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
   <para>
 | 
			
		||||
    However, if the function marking mistakes mentioned in the first
 | 
			
		||||
    changelog entry below affect you, you will want to take steps to
 | 
			
		||||
    correct your database catalogs.
 | 
			
		||||
   </para>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
   <para>
 | 
			
		||||
    Also, if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 9.5.12,
 | 
			
		||||
    see <xref linkend="release-9-5-12">.
 | 
			
		||||
   </para>
 | 
			
		||||
  </sect2>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
  <sect2>
 | 
			
		||||
   <title>Changes</title>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
   <itemizedlist>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
    <listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Fix incorrect volatility markings on a few built-in functions
 | 
			
		||||
      (Thomas Munro, Tom Lane)
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      The functions
 | 
			
		||||
      <function>query_to_xml</function>,
 | 
			
		||||
      <function>cursor_to_xml</function>,
 | 
			
		||||
      <function>cursor_to_xmlschema</function>,
 | 
			
		||||
      <function>query_to_xmlschema</function>, and
 | 
			
		||||
      <function>query_to_xml_and_xmlschema</function>
 | 
			
		||||
      should be marked volatile because they execute user-supplied queries
 | 
			
		||||
      that might contain volatile operations.  They were not, leading to a
 | 
			
		||||
      risk of incorrect query optimization.  This has been repaired for new
 | 
			
		||||
      installations by correcting the initial catalog data, but existing
 | 
			
		||||
      installations will continue to contain the incorrect markings.
 | 
			
		||||
      Practical use of these functions seems to pose little hazard, but in
 | 
			
		||||
      case of trouble, it can be fixed by manually updating these
 | 
			
		||||
      functions' <structname>pg_proc</structname> entries.  (Note that that
 | 
			
		||||
      will need to be done in each database of the installation.)  Another
 | 
			
		||||
      option is to <application>pg_upgrade</application> the database to a
 | 
			
		||||
      version containing the corrected initial data.
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
    </listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
    <listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Avoid re-using TOAST value OIDs that match dead-but-not-yet-vacuumed
 | 
			
		||||
      TOAST entries (Pavan Deolasee)
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Once the OID counter has wrapped around, it's possible to assign a
 | 
			
		||||
      TOAST value whose OID matches a previously deleted entry in the same
 | 
			
		||||
      TOAST table.  If that entry were not yet vacuumed away, this resulted
 | 
			
		||||
      in <quote>unexpected chunk number 0 (expected 1) for toast
 | 
			
		||||
      value <replaceable>nnnnn</replaceable></quote> errors, which would
 | 
			
		||||
      persist until the dead entry was removed
 | 
			
		||||
      by <command>VACUUM</command>.  Fix by not selecting such OIDs when
 | 
			
		||||
      creating a new TOAST entry.
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
    </listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
    <listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Change <command>ANALYZE</command>'s algorithm for updating
 | 
			
		||||
      <structname>pg_class</structname>.<structfield>reltuples</structfield>
 | 
			
		||||
      (David Gould)
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Previously, pages not actually scanned by <command>ANALYZE</command>
 | 
			
		||||
      were assumed to retain their old tuple density.  In a large table
 | 
			
		||||
      where <command>ANALYZE</command> samples only a small fraction of the
 | 
			
		||||
      pages, this meant that the overall tuple density estimate could not
 | 
			
		||||
      change very much, so that <structfield>reltuples</structfield> would
 | 
			
		||||
      change nearly proportionally to changes in the table's physical size
 | 
			
		||||
      (<structfield>relpages</structfield>) regardless of what was actually
 | 
			
		||||
      happening in the table.  This has been observed to result
 | 
			
		||||
      in <structfield>reltuples</structfield> becoming so much larger than
 | 
			
		||||
      reality as to effectively shut off autovacuuming.  To fix, assume
 | 
			
		||||
      that <command>ANALYZE</command>'s sample is a statistically unbiased
 | 
			
		||||
      sample of the table (as it should be), and just extrapolate the
 | 
			
		||||
      density observed within those pages to the whole table.
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
    </listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
    <listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Avoid deadlocks in concurrent <command>CREATE INDEX
 | 
			
		||||
      CONCURRENTLY</command> commands that are run
 | 
			
		||||
      under <literal>SERIALIZABLE</literal> or <literal>REPEATABLE
 | 
			
		||||
      READ</literal> transaction isolation (Tom Lane)
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
    </listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
    <listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Fix possible slow execution of <command>REFRESH MATERIALIZED VIEW
 | 
			
		||||
      CONCURRENTLY</command> (Thomas Munro)
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
    </listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
    <listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Fix <literal>UPDATE/DELETE ... WHERE CURRENT OF</literal> to not fail
 | 
			
		||||
      when the referenced cursor uses an index-only-scan plan (Yugo Nagata,
 | 
			
		||||
      Tom Lane)
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
    </listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
    <listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Fix incorrect planning of join clauses pushed into parameterized
 | 
			
		||||
      paths (Andrew Gierth, Tom Lane)
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      This error could result in misclassifying a condition as
 | 
			
		||||
      a <quote>join filter</quote> for an outer join when it should be a
 | 
			
		||||
      plain <quote>filter</quote> condition, leading to incorrect join
 | 
			
		||||
      output.
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
    </listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
    <listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Fix possibly incorrect generation of an index-only-scan plan when the
 | 
			
		||||
      same table column appears in multiple index columns, and only some of
 | 
			
		||||
      those index columns use operator classes that can return the column
 | 
			
		||||
      value (Kyotaro Horiguchi)
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
    </listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
    <listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Fix misoptimization of <literal>CHECK</literal> constraints having
 | 
			
		||||
      provably-NULL subclauses of
 | 
			
		||||
      top-level <literal>AND</literal>/<literal>OR</literal> conditions
 | 
			
		||||
      (Tom Lane, Dean Rasheed)
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      This could, for example, allow constraint exclusion to exclude a
 | 
			
		||||
      child table that should not be excluded from a query.
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
    </listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
    <listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Fix executor crash due to double free in some <literal>GROUPING
 | 
			
		||||
      SET</literal> usages (Peter Geoghegan)
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
    </listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
    <listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Avoid crash if a table rewrite event trigger is added concurrently
 | 
			
		||||
      with a command that could call such a trigger (Álvaro Herrera,
 | 
			
		||||
      Andrew Gierth, Tom Lane)
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
    </listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
    <listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Avoid failure if a query-cancel or session-termination interrupt
 | 
			
		||||
      occurs while committing a prepared transaction (Stas Kelvich)
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
    </listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
    <listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Fix query-lifespan memory leakage in repeatedly executed hash joins
 | 
			
		||||
      (Tom Lane)
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
    </listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
    <listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Fix overly strict sanity check
 | 
			
		||||
      in <function>heap_prepare_freeze_tuple</function>
 | 
			
		||||
      (Álvaro Herrera)
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      This could result in incorrect <quote>cannot freeze committed
 | 
			
		||||
      xmax</quote> failures in databases that have
 | 
			
		||||
      been <application>pg_upgrade</application>'d from 9.2 or earlier.
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
    </listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
    <listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Prevent dangling-pointer dereference when a C-coded before-update row
 | 
			
		||||
      trigger returns the <quote>old</quote> tuple (Rushabh Lathia)
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
    </listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
    <listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Reduce locking during autovacuum worker scheduling (Jeff Janes)
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      The previous behavior caused drastic loss of potential worker
 | 
			
		||||
      concurrency in databases with many tables.
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
    </listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
    <listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Ensure client hostname is copied while copying
 | 
			
		||||
      <structname>pg_stat_activity</structname> data to local memory
 | 
			
		||||
      (Edmund Horner)
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Previously the supposedly-local snapshot contained a pointer into
 | 
			
		||||
      shared memory, allowing the client hostname column to change
 | 
			
		||||
      unexpectedly if any existing session disconnected.
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
    </listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
    <listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Fix incorrect processing of multiple compound affixes
 | 
			
		||||
      in <literal>ispell</literal> dictionaries (Arthur Zakirov)
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
    </listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
    <listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Fix collation-aware searches (that is, indexscans using inequality
 | 
			
		||||
      operators) in SP-GiST indexes on text columns (Tom Lane)
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Such searches would return the wrong set of rows in most non-C
 | 
			
		||||
      locales.
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
    </listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
    <listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Count the number of index tuples correctly during initial build of an
 | 
			
		||||
      SP-GiST index (Tomas Vondra)
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Previously, the tuple count was reported to be the same as that of
 | 
			
		||||
      the underlying table, which is wrong if the index is partial.
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
    </listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
    <listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Count the number of index tuples correctly during vacuuming of a
 | 
			
		||||
      GiST index (Andrey Borodin)
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Previously it reported the estimated number of heap tuples,
 | 
			
		||||
      which might be inaccurate, and is certainly wrong if the
 | 
			
		||||
      index is partial.
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
    </listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
    <listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Fix a corner case where a streaming standby gets stuck at a WAL
 | 
			
		||||
      continuation record (Kyotaro Horiguchi)
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
    </listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
    <listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      In logical decoding, avoid possible double processing of WAL data
 | 
			
		||||
      when a walsender restarts (Craig Ringer)
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
    </listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
    <listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Allow <function>scalarltsel</function>
 | 
			
		||||
      and <function>scalargtsel</function> to be used on non-core datatypes
 | 
			
		||||
      (Tomas Vondra)
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
    </listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
    <listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Reduce <application>libpq</application>'s memory consumption when a
 | 
			
		||||
      server error is reported after a large amount of query output has
 | 
			
		||||
      been collected (Tom Lane)
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Discard the previous output before, not after, processing the error
 | 
			
		||||
      message.  On some platforms, notably Linux, this can make a
 | 
			
		||||
      difference in the application's subsequent memory footprint.
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
    </listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
    <listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Fix double-free crashes in <application>ecpg</application>
 | 
			
		||||
      (Patrick Krecker, Jeevan Ladhe)
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
    </listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
    <listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Fix <application>ecpg</application> to handle <type>long long
 | 
			
		||||
      int</type> variables correctly in MSVC builds (Michael Meskes,
 | 
			
		||||
      Andrew Gierth)
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
    </listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
    <listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Fix mis-quoting of values for list-valued GUC variables in dumps
 | 
			
		||||
      (Michael Paquier, Tom Lane)
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      The <varname>local_preload_libraries</varname>,
 | 
			
		||||
      <varname>session_preload_libraries</varname>,
 | 
			
		||||
      <varname>shared_preload_libraries</varname>,
 | 
			
		||||
      and <varname>temp_tablespaces</varname> variables were not correctly
 | 
			
		||||
      quoted in <application>pg_dump</application> output.  This would
 | 
			
		||||
      cause problems if settings for these variables appeared in
 | 
			
		||||
      <command>CREATE FUNCTION ... SET</command> or <command>ALTER
 | 
			
		||||
      DATABASE/ROLE ... SET</command> clauses.
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
    </listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
    <listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Fix <application>pg_recvlogical</application> to not fail against
 | 
			
		||||
      pre-v10 <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> servers
 | 
			
		||||
      (Michael Paquier)
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      A previous fix caused <application>pg_recvlogical</application> to
 | 
			
		||||
      issue a command regardless of server version, but it should only be
 | 
			
		||||
      issued to v10 and later servers.
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
    </listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
    <listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Ensure that <application>pg_rewind</application> deletes files on the
 | 
			
		||||
      target server if they are deleted from the source server during the
 | 
			
		||||
      run (Takayuki Tsunakawa)
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Failure to do this could result in data inconsistency on the target,
 | 
			
		||||
      particularly if the file in question is a WAL segment.
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
    </listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
    <listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Fix <application>pg_rewind</application> to handle tables in
 | 
			
		||||
      non-default tablespaces correctly (Takayuki Tsunakawa)
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
    </listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
    <listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Fix overflow handling in <application>PL/pgSQL</application>
 | 
			
		||||
      integer <command>FOR</command> loops (Tom Lane)
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      The previous coding failed to detect overflow of the loop variable
 | 
			
		||||
      on some non-gcc compilers, leading to an infinite loop.
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
    </listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
    <listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Adjust <application>PL/Python</application> regression tests to pass
 | 
			
		||||
      under Python 3.7 (Peter Eisentraut)
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
    </listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
    <listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Support testing <application>PL/Python</application> and related
 | 
			
		||||
      modules when building with Python 3 and MSVC (Andrew Dunstan)
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
    </listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
    <listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
<!--
 | 
			
		||||
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
 | 
			
		||||
Branch: REL9_5_STABLE [3c0e07a46] 2018-05-01 12:02:41 -0400
 | 
			
		||||
-->
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Support building with Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 (Michael Paquier)
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Various fixes needed for VS2015 compatibility were previously
 | 
			
		||||
      back-patched into the 9.5 branch, but this one was missed.
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
    </listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
    <listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Rename internal <function>b64_encode</function>
 | 
			
		||||
      and <function>b64_decode</function> functions to avoid conflict with
 | 
			
		||||
      Solaris 11.4 built-in functions (Rainer Orth)
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
    </listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
    <listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Sync our copy of the timezone library with IANA tzcode release 2018e
 | 
			
		||||
      (Tom Lane)
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      This fixes the <application>zic</application> timezone data compiler
 | 
			
		||||
      to cope with negative daylight-savings offsets.  While
 | 
			
		||||
      the <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> project will not
 | 
			
		||||
      immediately ship such timezone data, <application>zic</application>
 | 
			
		||||
      might be used with timezone data obtained directly from IANA, so it
 | 
			
		||||
      seems prudent to update <application>zic</application> now.
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
    </listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
    <listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Update time zone data files to <application>tzdata</application>
 | 
			
		||||
      release 2018d for DST law changes in Palestine and Antarctica (Casey
 | 
			
		||||
      Station), plus historical corrections for Portugal and its colonies,
 | 
			
		||||
      as well as Enderbury, Jamaica, Turks & Caicos Islands, and
 | 
			
		||||
      Uruguay.
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
    </listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
   </itemizedlist>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
  </sect2>
 | 
			
		||||
 </sect1>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
 <sect1 id="release-9-5-12">
 | 
			
		||||
  <title>Release 9.5.12</title>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
 
 | 
			
		||||
@@ -1,6 +1,538 @@
 | 
			
		||||
<!-- doc/src/sgml/release-9.6.sgml -->
 | 
			
		||||
<!-- See header comment in release.sgml about typical markup -->
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
 <sect1 id="release-9-6-9">
 | 
			
		||||
  <title>Release 9.6.9</title>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
  <formalpara>
 | 
			
		||||
  <title>Release date:</title>
 | 
			
		||||
  <para>2018-05-10</para>
 | 
			
		||||
  </formalpara>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
  <para>
 | 
			
		||||
   This release contains a variety of fixes from 9.6.8.
 | 
			
		||||
   For information about new features in the 9.6 major release, see
 | 
			
		||||
   <xref linkend="release-9-6">.
 | 
			
		||||
  </para>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
  <sect2>
 | 
			
		||||
   <title>Migration to Version 9.6.9</title>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
   <para>
 | 
			
		||||
    A dump/restore is not required for those running 9.6.X.
 | 
			
		||||
   </para>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
   <para>
 | 
			
		||||
    However, if the function marking mistakes mentioned in the first two
 | 
			
		||||
    changelog entries below affect you, you will want to take steps to
 | 
			
		||||
    correct your database catalogs.
 | 
			
		||||
   </para>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
   <para>
 | 
			
		||||
    Also, if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 9.6.8,
 | 
			
		||||
    see <xref linkend="release-9-6-8">.
 | 
			
		||||
   </para>
 | 
			
		||||
  </sect2>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
  <sect2>
 | 
			
		||||
   <title>Changes</title>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
   <itemizedlist>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
    <listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Fix incorrect volatility markings on a few built-in functions
 | 
			
		||||
      (Thomas Munro, Tom Lane)
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      The functions
 | 
			
		||||
      <function>query_to_xml</function>,
 | 
			
		||||
      <function>cursor_to_xml</function>,
 | 
			
		||||
      <function>cursor_to_xmlschema</function>,
 | 
			
		||||
      <function>query_to_xmlschema</function>, and
 | 
			
		||||
      <function>query_to_xml_and_xmlschema</function>
 | 
			
		||||
      should be marked volatile because they execute user-supplied queries
 | 
			
		||||
      that might contain volatile operations.  They were not, leading to a
 | 
			
		||||
      risk of incorrect query optimization.  This has been repaired for new
 | 
			
		||||
      installations by correcting the initial catalog data, but existing
 | 
			
		||||
      installations will continue to contain the incorrect markings.
 | 
			
		||||
      Practical use of these functions seems to pose little hazard, but in
 | 
			
		||||
      case of trouble, it can be fixed by manually updating these
 | 
			
		||||
      functions' <structname>pg_proc</structname> entries.  (Note that that
 | 
			
		||||
      will need to be done in each database of the installation.)  Another
 | 
			
		||||
      option is to <application>pg_upgrade</application> the database to a
 | 
			
		||||
      version containing the corrected initial data.
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
    </listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
    <listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Fix incorrect parallel-safety markings on a few built-in functions
 | 
			
		||||
      (Thomas Munro, Tom Lane)
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      The functions
 | 
			
		||||
      <function>brin_summarize_new_values</function>,
 | 
			
		||||
      <function>brin_summarize_range</function>,
 | 
			
		||||
      <function>brin_desummarize_range</function>,
 | 
			
		||||
      <function>gin_clean_pending_list</function>,
 | 
			
		||||
      <function>cursor_to_xml</function>,
 | 
			
		||||
      <function>cursor_to_xmlschema</function>,
 | 
			
		||||
      <function>ts_rewrite</function>,
 | 
			
		||||
      <function>ts_stat</function>,
 | 
			
		||||
      <function>binary_upgrade_create_empty_extension</function>, and
 | 
			
		||||
      <function>pg_import_system_collations</function>
 | 
			
		||||
      should be marked parallel-unsafe; some because they perform database
 | 
			
		||||
      modifications directly, and others because they execute user-supplied
 | 
			
		||||
      queries that might do so.  They were marked parallel-restricted
 | 
			
		||||
      instead, leading to a risk of unexpected query errors.  This has been
 | 
			
		||||
      repaired for new installations by correcting the initial catalog
 | 
			
		||||
      data, but existing installations will continue to contain the
 | 
			
		||||
      incorrect markings.  Practical use of these functions seems to pose
 | 
			
		||||
      little hazard unless <varname>force_parallel_mode</varname> is turned
 | 
			
		||||
      on.  In case of trouble, it can be fixed by manually updating these
 | 
			
		||||
      functions' <structname>pg_proc</structname> entries.  (Note that that
 | 
			
		||||
      will need to be done in each database of the installation.)  Another
 | 
			
		||||
      option is to <application>pg_upgrade</application> the database to a
 | 
			
		||||
      version containing the corrected initial data.
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
    </listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
    <listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Avoid re-using TOAST value OIDs that match dead-but-not-yet-vacuumed
 | 
			
		||||
      TOAST entries (Pavan Deolasee)
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Once the OID counter has wrapped around, it's possible to assign a
 | 
			
		||||
      TOAST value whose OID matches a previously deleted entry in the same
 | 
			
		||||
      TOAST table.  If that entry were not yet vacuumed away, this resulted
 | 
			
		||||
      in <quote>unexpected chunk number 0 (expected 1) for toast
 | 
			
		||||
      value <replaceable>nnnnn</replaceable></quote> errors, which would
 | 
			
		||||
      persist until the dead entry was removed
 | 
			
		||||
      by <command>VACUUM</command>.  Fix by not selecting such OIDs when
 | 
			
		||||
      creating a new TOAST entry.
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
    </listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
    <listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Change <command>ANALYZE</command>'s algorithm for updating
 | 
			
		||||
      <structname>pg_class</structname>.<structfield>reltuples</structfield>
 | 
			
		||||
      (David Gould)
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Previously, pages not actually scanned by <command>ANALYZE</command>
 | 
			
		||||
      were assumed to retain their old tuple density.  In a large table
 | 
			
		||||
      where <command>ANALYZE</command> samples only a small fraction of the
 | 
			
		||||
      pages, this meant that the overall tuple density estimate could not
 | 
			
		||||
      change very much, so that <structfield>reltuples</structfield> would
 | 
			
		||||
      change nearly proportionally to changes in the table's physical size
 | 
			
		||||
      (<structfield>relpages</structfield>) regardless of what was actually
 | 
			
		||||
      happening in the table.  This has been observed to result
 | 
			
		||||
      in <structfield>reltuples</structfield> becoming so much larger than
 | 
			
		||||
      reality as to effectively shut off autovacuuming.  To fix, assume
 | 
			
		||||
      that <command>ANALYZE</command>'s sample is a statistically unbiased
 | 
			
		||||
      sample of the table (as it should be), and just extrapolate the
 | 
			
		||||
      density observed within those pages to the whole table.
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
    </listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
    <listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Avoid deadlocks in concurrent <command>CREATE INDEX
 | 
			
		||||
      CONCURRENTLY</command> commands that are run
 | 
			
		||||
      under <literal>SERIALIZABLE</literal> or <literal>REPEATABLE
 | 
			
		||||
      READ</literal> transaction isolation (Tom Lane)
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
    </listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
    <listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Fix possible slow execution of <command>REFRESH MATERIALIZED VIEW
 | 
			
		||||
      CONCURRENTLY</command> (Thomas Munro)
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
    </listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
    <listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Fix <literal>UPDATE/DELETE ... WHERE CURRENT OF</literal> to not fail
 | 
			
		||||
      when the referenced cursor uses an index-only-scan plan (Yugo Nagata,
 | 
			
		||||
      Tom Lane)
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
    </listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
    <listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Fix incorrect planning of join clauses pushed into parameterized
 | 
			
		||||
      paths (Andrew Gierth, Tom Lane)
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      This error could result in misclassifying a condition as
 | 
			
		||||
      a <quote>join filter</quote> for an outer join when it should be a
 | 
			
		||||
      plain <quote>filter</quote> condition, leading to incorrect join
 | 
			
		||||
      output.
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
    </listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
    <listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Fix possibly incorrect generation of an index-only-scan plan when the
 | 
			
		||||
      same table column appears in multiple index columns, and only some of
 | 
			
		||||
      those index columns use operator classes that can return the column
 | 
			
		||||
      value (Kyotaro Horiguchi)
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
    </listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
    <listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Fix misoptimization of <literal>CHECK</literal> constraints having
 | 
			
		||||
      provably-NULL subclauses of
 | 
			
		||||
      top-level <literal>AND</literal>/<literal>OR</literal> conditions
 | 
			
		||||
      (Tom Lane, Dean Rasheed)
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      This could, for example, allow constraint exclusion to exclude a
 | 
			
		||||
      child table that should not be excluded from a query.
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
    </listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
    <listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Fix executor crash due to double free in some <literal>GROUPING
 | 
			
		||||
      SET</literal> usages (Peter Geoghegan)
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
    </listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
    <listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Avoid crash if a table rewrite event trigger is added concurrently
 | 
			
		||||
      with a command that could call such a trigger (Álvaro Herrera,
 | 
			
		||||
      Andrew Gierth, Tom Lane)
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
    </listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
    <listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Avoid failure if a query-cancel or session-termination interrupt
 | 
			
		||||
      occurs while committing a prepared transaction (Stas Kelvich)
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
    </listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
    <listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Fix query-lifespan memory leakage in repeatedly executed hash joins
 | 
			
		||||
      (Tom Lane)
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
    </listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
    <listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Fix possible leak or double free of visibility map buffer pins
 | 
			
		||||
      (Amit Kapila)
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
    </listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
    <listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Avoid spuriously marking pages as all-visible (Dan Wood,
 | 
			
		||||
      Pavan Deolasee, Álvaro Herrera)
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      This could happen if some tuples were locked (but not deleted).  While
 | 
			
		||||
      queries would still function correctly, vacuum would normally ignore
 | 
			
		||||
      such pages, with the long-term effect that the tuples were never
 | 
			
		||||
      frozen.  In recent releases this would eventually result in errors
 | 
			
		||||
      such as <quote>found multixact <replaceable>nnnnn</replaceable> from
 | 
			
		||||
      before relminmxid <replaceable>nnnnn</replaceable></quote>.
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
    </listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
    <listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Fix overly strict sanity check
 | 
			
		||||
      in <function>heap_prepare_freeze_tuple</function>
 | 
			
		||||
      (Álvaro Herrera)
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      This could result in incorrect <quote>cannot freeze committed
 | 
			
		||||
      xmax</quote> failures in databases that have
 | 
			
		||||
      been <application>pg_upgrade</application>'d from 9.2 or earlier.
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
    </listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
    <listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Prevent dangling-pointer dereference when a C-coded before-update row
 | 
			
		||||
      trigger returns the <quote>old</quote> tuple (Rushabh Lathia)
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
    </listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
    <listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Reduce locking during autovacuum worker scheduling (Jeff Janes)
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      The previous behavior caused drastic loss of potential worker
 | 
			
		||||
      concurrency in databases with many tables.
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
    </listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
    <listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Ensure client hostname is copied while copying
 | 
			
		||||
      <structname>pg_stat_activity</structname> data to local memory
 | 
			
		||||
      (Edmund Horner)
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Previously the supposedly-local snapshot contained a pointer into
 | 
			
		||||
      shared memory, allowing the client hostname column to change
 | 
			
		||||
      unexpectedly if any existing session disconnected.
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
    </listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
    <listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Fix incorrect processing of multiple compound affixes
 | 
			
		||||
      in <literal>ispell</literal> dictionaries (Arthur Zakirov)
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
    </listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
    <listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Fix collation-aware searches (that is, indexscans using inequality
 | 
			
		||||
      operators) in SP-GiST indexes on text columns (Tom Lane)
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Such searches would return the wrong set of rows in most non-C
 | 
			
		||||
      locales.
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
    </listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
    <listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Prevent query-lifespan memory leakage with SP-GiST operator classes
 | 
			
		||||
      that use traversal values (Anton Dignös)
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
    </listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
    <listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Count the number of index tuples correctly during initial build of an
 | 
			
		||||
      SP-GiST index (Tomas Vondra)
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Previously, the tuple count was reported to be the same as that of
 | 
			
		||||
      the underlying table, which is wrong if the index is partial.
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
    </listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
    <listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Count the number of index tuples correctly during vacuuming of a
 | 
			
		||||
      GiST index (Andrey Borodin)
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Previously it reported the estimated number of heap tuples,
 | 
			
		||||
      which might be inaccurate, and is certainly wrong if the
 | 
			
		||||
      index is partial.
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
    </listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
    <listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Fix a corner case where a streaming standby gets stuck at a WAL
 | 
			
		||||
      continuation record (Kyotaro Horiguchi)
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
    </listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
    <listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      In logical decoding, avoid possible double processing of WAL data
 | 
			
		||||
      when a walsender restarts (Craig Ringer)
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
    </listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
    <listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Allow <function>scalarltsel</function>
 | 
			
		||||
      and <function>scalargtsel</function> to be used on non-core datatypes
 | 
			
		||||
      (Tomas Vondra)
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
    </listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
    <listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Reduce <application>libpq</application>'s memory consumption when a
 | 
			
		||||
      server error is reported after a large amount of query output has
 | 
			
		||||
      been collected (Tom Lane)
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Discard the previous output before, not after, processing the error
 | 
			
		||||
      message.  On some platforms, notably Linux, this can make a
 | 
			
		||||
      difference in the application's subsequent memory footprint.
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
    </listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
    <listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Fix double-free crashes in <application>ecpg</application>
 | 
			
		||||
      (Patrick Krecker, Jeevan Ladhe)
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
    </listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
    <listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Fix <application>ecpg</application> to handle <type>long long
 | 
			
		||||
      int</type> variables correctly in MSVC builds (Michael Meskes,
 | 
			
		||||
      Andrew Gierth)
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
    </listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
    <listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Fix mis-quoting of values for list-valued GUC variables in dumps
 | 
			
		||||
      (Michael Paquier, Tom Lane)
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      The <varname>local_preload_libraries</varname>,
 | 
			
		||||
      <varname>session_preload_libraries</varname>,
 | 
			
		||||
      <varname>shared_preload_libraries</varname>,
 | 
			
		||||
      and <varname>temp_tablespaces</varname> variables were not correctly
 | 
			
		||||
      quoted in <application>pg_dump</application> output.  This would
 | 
			
		||||
      cause problems if settings for these variables appeared in
 | 
			
		||||
      <command>CREATE FUNCTION ... SET</command> or <command>ALTER
 | 
			
		||||
      DATABASE/ROLE ... SET</command> clauses.
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
    </listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
    <listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Fix <application>pg_recvlogical</application> to not fail against
 | 
			
		||||
      pre-v10 <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> servers
 | 
			
		||||
      (Michael Paquier)
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      A previous fix caused <application>pg_recvlogical</application> to
 | 
			
		||||
      issue a command regardless of server version, but it should only be
 | 
			
		||||
      issued to v10 and later servers.
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
    </listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
    <listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Ensure that <application>pg_rewind</application> deletes files on the
 | 
			
		||||
      target server if they are deleted from the source server during the
 | 
			
		||||
      run (Takayuki Tsunakawa)
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Failure to do this could result in data inconsistency on the target,
 | 
			
		||||
      particularly if the file in question is a WAL segment.
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
    </listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
    <listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Fix <application>pg_rewind</application> to handle tables in
 | 
			
		||||
      non-default tablespaces correctly (Takayuki Tsunakawa)
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
    </listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
    <listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Fix overflow handling in <application>PL/pgSQL</application>
 | 
			
		||||
      integer <command>FOR</command> loops (Tom Lane)
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      The previous coding failed to detect overflow of the loop variable
 | 
			
		||||
      on some non-gcc compilers, leading to an infinite loop.
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
    </listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
    <listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Adjust <application>PL/Python</application> regression tests to pass
 | 
			
		||||
      under Python 3.7 (Peter Eisentraut)
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
    </listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
    <listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Support testing <application>PL/Python</application> and related
 | 
			
		||||
      modules when building with Python 3 and MSVC (Andrew Dunstan)
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
    </listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
    <listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Fix errors in initial build of <filename>contrib/bloom</filename>
 | 
			
		||||
      indexes (Tomas Vondra, Tom Lane)
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Fix possible omission of the table's last tuple from the index.
 | 
			
		||||
      Count the number of index tuples correctly, in case it is a partial
 | 
			
		||||
      index.
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
    </listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
    <listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Rename internal <function>b64_encode</function>
 | 
			
		||||
      and <function>b64_decode</function> functions to avoid conflict with
 | 
			
		||||
      Solaris 11.4 built-in functions (Rainer Orth)
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
    </listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
    <listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Sync our copy of the timezone library with IANA tzcode release 2018e
 | 
			
		||||
      (Tom Lane)
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      This fixes the <application>zic</application> timezone data compiler
 | 
			
		||||
      to cope with negative daylight-savings offsets.  While
 | 
			
		||||
      the <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> project will not
 | 
			
		||||
      immediately ship such timezone data, <application>zic</application>
 | 
			
		||||
      might be used with timezone data obtained directly from IANA, so it
 | 
			
		||||
      seems prudent to update <application>zic</application> now.
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
    </listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
    <listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
     <para>
 | 
			
		||||
      Update time zone data files to <application>tzdata</application>
 | 
			
		||||
      release 2018d for DST law changes in Palestine and Antarctica (Casey
 | 
			
		||||
      Station), plus historical corrections for Portugal and its colonies,
 | 
			
		||||
      as well as Enderbury, Jamaica, Turks & Caicos Islands, and
 | 
			
		||||
      Uruguay.
 | 
			
		||||
     </para>
 | 
			
		||||
    </listitem>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
   </itemizedlist>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
  </sect2>
 | 
			
		||||
 </sect1>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
		||||
 <sect1 id="release-9-6-8">
 | 
			
		||||
  <title>Release 9.6.8</title>
 | 
			
		||||
 | 
			
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 | 
			
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