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Draft release notes for 9.1.2, 9.0.6, 8.4.10, 8.3.17, 8.2.23.
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<sect1 id="release-8-2-23">
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<title>Release 8.2.23</title>
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<note>
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<title>Release Date</title>
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<simpara>2011-12-05</simpara>
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This release contains a variety of fixes from 8.2.22.
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For information about new features in the 8.2 major release, see
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<xref linkend="release-8-2">.
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This is expected to be the last <productname>PostgreSQL</> release
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in the 8.2.X series. Users are encouraged to update to a newer
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release branch soon.
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<sect2>
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<title>Migration to Version 8.2.23</title>
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A dump/restore is not required for those running 8.2.X.
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However, a longstanding error was discovered in the definition of the
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<literal>information_schema.referential_constraints</> view. If you
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rely on correct results from that view, you should replace its
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definition as explained in the first changelog item below.
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Also, if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 8.2.14,
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see the release notes for 8.2.14.
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<sect2>
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<title>Changes</title>
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<itemizedlist>
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Fix bugs in <literal>information_schema.referential_constraints</> view
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(Tom Lane)
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This view was being insufficiently careful about matching the
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foreign-key constraint to the depended-on primary or unique key
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constraint. That could result in failure to show a foreign key
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constraint at all, or showing it multiple times, or claiming that it
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depends on a different constraint than the one it really does.
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Since the view definition is installed by <application>initdb</>,
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merely upgrading will not fix the problem. If you need to fix this
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in an existing installation, you can (as a superuser) drop the
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<literal>information_schema</> schema then re-create it by sourcing
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<filename><replaceable>SHAREDIR</>/information_schema.sql</filename>.
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(Run <literal>pg_config --sharedir</> if you're uncertain where
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<replaceable>SHAREDIR</> is.) This must be repeated in each database
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to be fixed.
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Fix TOAST-related data corruption during <literal>CREATE TABLE dest AS
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SELECT * FROM src</> or <literal>INSERT INTO dest SELECT * FROM src</>
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attempts to copy its data verbatim to another table could produce
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corrupt results in certain corner cases.
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The problem can only manifest in this precise form in 8.4 and later,
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but we patched earlier versions as well in case there are other code
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paths that could trigger the same bug.
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Fix race condition during toast table access from stale syscache entries
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The typical symptom was transient errors like <quote>missing chunk
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number 0 for toast value NNNNN in pg_toast_2619</>, where the cited
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toast table would always belong to a system catalog.
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Improve locale support in <type>money</> type's input and output
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Aside from not supporting all standard
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<link linkend="guc-lc-monetary"><varname>lc_monetary</></link>
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formatting options, the input and output functions were inconsistent,
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meaning there were locales in which dumped <type>money</> values could
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not be re-read.
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Don't let <link
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linkend="guc-transform-null-equals"><varname>transform_null_equals</></link>
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affect <literal>CASE foo WHEN NULL ...</> constructs
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<varname>transform_null_equals</> is only supposed to affect
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equality checks generated internally by this form of <literal>CASE</>.
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Change foreign-key trigger creation order to better support
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self-referential foreign keys (Tom Lane)
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will fire both the <literal>ON UPDATE</> trigger and the
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<literal>CHECK</> trigger as one event. The <literal>ON UPDATE</>
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trigger must execute first, else the <literal>CHECK</> will check a
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non-final state of the row and possibly throw an inappropriate error.
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However, the firing order of these triggers is determined by their
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names, which generally sort in creation order since the triggers have
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auto-generated names following the convention
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<quote>RI_ConstraintTrigger_NNNN</>. A proper fix would require
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modifying that convention, which we will do in 9.2, but it seems risky
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to change it in existing releases. So this patch just changes the
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creation order of the triggers. Users encountering this type of error
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should drop and re-create the foreign key constraint to get its
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triggers into the right order.
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Preserve blank lines within commands in <application>psql</>'s command
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history (Robert Haas)
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The former behavior could cause problems if an empty line was removed
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from within a string literal, for example.
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Use the preferred version of <application>xsubpp</> to build PL/Perl,
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not necessarily the operating system's main copy
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Fix interpretation of Windows timezone names for Central America
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Map <quote>Central America Standard Time</> to <literal>CST6</>, not
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Update time zone data files to <application>tzdata</> release 2011n
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for DST law changes in Brazil, Cuba, Fiji, Palestine, Russia, and Samoa;
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also historical corrections for Alaska and British East Africa.
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