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Release notes for 9.5.2, 9.4.7, 9.3.12, 9.2.16, 9.1.21.
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<sect1 id="release-9-1-21">
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<title>Release 9.1.21</title>
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<note>
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<title>Release Date</title>
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<simpara>2016-03-31</simpara>
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</note>
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<para>
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This release contains a variety of fixes from 9.1.20.
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For information about new features in the 9.1 major release, see
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<xref linkend="release-9-1">.
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</para>
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<sect2>
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<title>Migration to Version 9.1.21</title>
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<para>
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A dump/restore is not required for those running 9.1.X.
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</para>
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<para>
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However, if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 9.1.16,
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see <xref linkend="release-9-1-16">.
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</para>
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</sect2>
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<sect2>
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<title>Changes</title>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Fix incorrect handling of NULL index entries in
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indexed <literal>ROW()</> comparisons (Tom Lane)
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</para>
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<para>
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An index search using a row comparison such as <literal>ROW(a, b) >
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ROW('x', 'y')</> would stop upon reaching a NULL entry in
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the <structfield>b</> column, ignoring the fact that there might be
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non-NULL <structfield>b</> values associated with later values
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of <structfield>a</>.
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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 unlikely data-loss scenarios due to renaming files without
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adequate <function>fsync()</> calls before and after (Michael Paquier,
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Tomas Vondra, Andres Freund)
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Correctly handle cases where <literal>pg_subtrans</> is close to XID
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wraparound during server startup (Jeff Janes)
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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 corner-case crash due to trying to free <function>localeconv()</>
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output strings more than once (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 parsing of affix files for <literal>ispell</> dictionaries
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(Tom Lane)
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</para>
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<para>
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The code could go wrong if the affix file contained any characters
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whose byte length changes during case-folding, for
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example <literal>I</> in Turkish UTF8 locales.
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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 use of <function>sscanf()</> to parse <literal>ispell</>
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dictionary files (Artur Zakirov)
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</para>
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<para>
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This dodges a portability problem on FreeBSD-derived platforms
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(including OS X).
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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 a crash on old Windows versions (before 7SP1/2008R2SP1) with an
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AVX2-capable CPU and a Postgres build done with Visual Studio 2013
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(Christian Ullrich)
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</para>
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<para>
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This is a workaround for a bug in Visual Studio 2013's runtime
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library, which Microsoft have stated they will not fix in that
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version.
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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 <application>psql</>'s tab completion logic to handle multibyte
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characters properly (Kyotaro Horiguchi, Robert Haas)
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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 <application>psql</>'s tab completion for
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<literal>SECURITY LABEL</> (Tom Lane)
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</para>
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<para>
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Pressing TAB after <literal>SECURITY LABEL</> might cause a crash
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or offering of inappropriate keywords.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Make <application>pg_ctl</> accept a wait timeout from the
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<envar>PGCTLTIMEOUT</> environment variable, if none is specified on
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the command line (Noah Misch)
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</para>
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<para>
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This eases testing of slower buildfarm members by allowing them
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to globally specify a longer-than-normal timeout for postmaster
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startup and shutdown.
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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 test for Windows service status
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in <application>pg_ctl</> (Manuel Mathar)
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</para>
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<para>
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The previous set of minor releases attempted to
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fix <application>pg_ctl</> to properly determine whether to send log
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messages to Window's Event Log, but got the test backwards.
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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 <application>pgbench</> to correctly handle the combination
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of <literal>-C</> and <literal>-M prepared</> options (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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In PL/Perl, properly translate empty Postgres arrays into empty Perl
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arrays (Alex Hunsaker)
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Make PL/Python cope with function names that aren't valid Python
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identifiers (Jim Nasby)
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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 multiple mistakes in the statistics returned
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by <filename>contrib/pgstattuple</>'s <function>pgstatindex()</>
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function (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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Remove dependency on <literal>psed</> in MSVC builds, since it's no
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longer provided by core Perl (Michael Paquier, Andrew Dunstan)
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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</> release 2016c
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for DST law changes in Azerbaijan, Chile, Haiti, Palestine, and Russia
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(Altai, Astrakhan, Kirov, Sakhalin, Ulyanovsk regions), plus
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historical corrections for Lithuania, Moldova, and Russia
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(Kaliningrad, Samara, Volgograd).
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</sect2>
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</sect1>
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<sect1 id="release-9-1-20">
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<title>Release 9.1.20</title>
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<sect1 id="release-9-2-16">
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<title>Release 9.2.16</title>
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<note>
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<title>Release Date</title>
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<simpara>2016-03-31</simpara>
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</note>
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<para>
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This release contains a variety of fixes from 9.2.15.
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For information about new features in the 9.2 major release, see
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<xref linkend="release-9-2">.
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</para>
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<sect2>
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<title>Migration to Version 9.2.16</title>
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<para>
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A dump/restore is not required for those running 9.2.X.
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</para>
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<para>
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However, if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 9.2.11,
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see <xref linkend="release-9-2-11">.
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</para>
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</sect2>
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<sect2>
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<title>Changes</title>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Fix incorrect handling of NULL index entries in
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indexed <literal>ROW()</> comparisons (Tom Lane)
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</para>
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<para>
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An index search using a row comparison such as <literal>ROW(a, b) >
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ROW('x', 'y')</> would stop upon reaching a NULL entry in
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the <structfield>b</> column, ignoring the fact that there might be
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non-NULL <structfield>b</> values associated with later values
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of <structfield>a</>.
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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 unlikely data-loss scenarios due to renaming files without
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adequate <function>fsync()</> calls before and after (Michael Paquier,
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Tomas Vondra, Andres Freund)
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Correctly handle cases where <literal>pg_subtrans</> is close to XID
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wraparound during server startup (Jeff Janes)
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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 corner-case crash due to trying to free <function>localeconv()</>
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output strings more than once (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 parsing of affix files for <literal>ispell</> dictionaries
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(Tom Lane)
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</para>
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<para>
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The code could go wrong if the affix file contained any characters
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whose byte length changes during case-folding, for
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example <literal>I</> in Turkish UTF8 locales.
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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 use of <function>sscanf()</> to parse <literal>ispell</>
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dictionary files (Artur Zakirov)
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</para>
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<para>
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This dodges a portability problem on FreeBSD-derived platforms
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(including OS X).
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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 a crash on old Windows versions (before 7SP1/2008R2SP1) with an
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AVX2-capable CPU and a Postgres build done with Visual Studio 2013
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(Christian Ullrich)
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</para>
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<para>
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This is a workaround for a bug in Visual Studio 2013's runtime
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library, which Microsoft have stated they will not fix in that
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version.
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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 <application>psql</>'s tab completion logic to handle multibyte
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characters properly (Kyotaro Horiguchi, Robert Haas)
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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 <application>psql</>'s tab completion for
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<literal>SECURITY LABEL</> (Tom Lane)
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</para>
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<para>
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Pressing TAB after <literal>SECURITY LABEL</> might cause a crash
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or offering of inappropriate keywords.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Make <application>pg_ctl</> accept a wait timeout from the
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<envar>PGCTLTIMEOUT</> environment variable, if none is specified on
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the command line (Noah Misch)
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</para>
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<para>
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This eases testing of slower buildfarm members by allowing them
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to globally specify a longer-than-normal timeout for postmaster
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startup and shutdown.
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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 test for Windows service status
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in <application>pg_ctl</> (Manuel Mathar)
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</para>
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<para>
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The previous set of minor releases attempted to
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fix <application>pg_ctl</> to properly determine whether to send log
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messages to Window's Event Log, but got the test backwards.
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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 <application>pgbench</> to correctly handle the combination
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of <literal>-C</> and <literal>-M prepared</> options (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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arrays (Alex Hunsaker)
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Make PL/Python cope with function names that aren't valid Python
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identifiers (Jim Nasby)
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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by <filename>contrib/pgstattuple</>'s <function>pgstatindex()</>
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function (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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Remove dependency on <literal>psed</> in MSVC builds, since it's no
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longer provided by core Perl (Michael Paquier, Andrew Dunstan)
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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</> release 2016c
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for DST law changes in Azerbaijan, Chile, Haiti, Palestine, and Russia
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(Altai, Astrakhan, Kirov, Sakhalin, Ulyanovsk regions), plus
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historical corrections for Lithuania, Moldova, and Russia
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(Kaliningrad, Samara, Volgograd).
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</sect2>
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</sect1>
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<sect1 id="release-9-2-15">
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<title>Release 9.2.15</title>
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