The following CVEs were listed in the release notes of some stable
branches, but they should not:
- CVE-2026-16238, not on v17 and older
- CVE-2026-14676, not on v17 and older
- CVE-2026-14681, not on v16 and older
- CVE-2026-14672, not on v15 and older
Author: Yogesh Sharma <yogesh.sharma@catprosystems.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/340842e1-31ce-4551-9d79-71de490f67e9@CatProSystems.com
Backpatch-through: 14-17
The VALUES reference page said that an AS clause was required when
VALUES is used in a FROM clause. This was imprecise because AS is
optional when specifying an alias.
In v14 and v15, a table alias is still required in this case, so state
that explicitly instead. In v16 and later, commit bcedd8f5fc made table
aliases for subqueries in FROM clauses optional, so state that the
table alias is optional there. In all branches, continue to recommend
explicit column aliases as good practice.
Backpatch to all supported versions.
Author: Ian Barwick <barwick@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>
Reviewed-by: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAB8KJ=jrvZdNLLhYSiCgbjLTz2LKEjYw+-HVQkaF+kgk61KtHA@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 14
textsearch.sgml neglected to mention that the MAXSTRPOS total-length
limit applies to tsquery as well as tsvector. It also claims that
there is a 32K limit on the total number of nodes in a tsquery, which
is wrong. (I suspect that QueryOperator.left may once have been
int16, which would give rise to such a limit. But it's uint32 now,
so you'd hit the 1GB varlena limit well before overflowing that.)
While at it, re-order the bullet points into an order that makes
more sense, to me anyway.
Reported-by: Claude Code (via Noah Misch)
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Reviewed-by: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/455079.1786897319@sss.pgh.pa.us
Backpatch-through: 14
Presently, the documentation for logging_collector says that the
collector "is designed to never lose messages," which reads as a
stronger promise than we actually make. The collector does not
fsync the log file or retry failed writes, so log messages can go
missing after an operating system crash, power loss, or a write
error. Reword that sentence and add a note about what is not
guaranteed.
Author: Daniel Bauman <danielbaniel@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Zhenwei Shang <a934172442@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Robert Treat <rob@xzilla.net>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMtj0_a86DdDKkW-ReVpQpqjndVS6GMrwXVpQY4G3-SGY7saMQ%40mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 14
This oversight in commit 71ea0d6795 allows a malicious server to
inject shell commands into plain-text dump output that are run at
restore time on the machine running psql. To fix, interpret all
text after \unrestrict until the end of the line as its argument.
Reported-by: Lucas Velgus <velgusgus599@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Filip Janus <fjanus@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Daniel Bakker <daniel@jackds.nl>
Author: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Security: CVE-2026-18408
Backpatch-through: 14
The previous commit raises an ERROR during PGP operations if OpenSSL
does not support the cipher in use. However, any existing messages
created with faulty encryption will no longer be accessible via
pgp_[sym|pub]_decrypt().
To help users out of this situation, add a new ignore-cipher-failure
option which reverts to the broken behavior during decryption only. A
faulty encryption wrapper, created by an OpenSSL configuration that does
not support the cipher, can then be stripped back off by that same
OpenSSL in order to safely reencrypt it. (Note that when OpenSSL does
support the cipher, corrupted messages will not be decrypted regardless
of the ignore-cipher-failure setting; this is unchanged.)
The new tests add a corrupted Blowfish message for both public- and
symmetric-key decryption, resulting in the following test matrix:
- Blowfish supported, default behavior: fails to decrypt
- Blowfish supported, ignore-cipher-failure: fails to decrypt
- Blowfish unsupported, default behavior: fails to load cipher
- Blowfish unsupported, ignore-cipher-failure: strips faulty encryption
The previous commit's change to the pubkey tests is expanded similarly:
correctly encrypted messages cannot be decrypted by an OpenSSL that does
not support the cipher, regardless of the option's setting, though the
failure mode will change.
Suggested-by: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
Reviewed-by: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Security: CVE-2026-14663
Backpatch-through: 14
This omission allowed roles without USAGE on a type to create range
types that depend on it, which could prevent the owner from
changing the type later.
Reported-by: Jingzhou Fu <fuboat@outlook.com>
Author: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Reviewed-by: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Security: CVE-2026-6470
Backpatch-through: 14
REPLICATION users were not previously subject to restrictions on output
plugin paths, so they were able to bypass LOAD-time protections during
logical decoding. Unfortunately, adding the standard LOAD restrictions
now would retroactively require all third-party output plugins to be
installed under the $libdir/plugins directory. This would prevent the
use of dynamic_library_path, introduce a wire incompatibility for
clients, and require all plugin authors to check that their libraries
are safe for use by any unprivileged user; we want to avoid that.
Instead, introduce an output_plugin_libraries GUC so that DBAs can
specify the output plugins that are trusted for use in logical decoding.
For simplicity, superusers are subject to the restriction as well
(though they're free to modify the GUC at will during a session, so no
power is actually lost).
The default setting is 'pgoutput, test_decoding'. If other third-party
plugins are in use, DBAs will need to modify this parameter after they
update. Some pointers have been added to the documentation to assist
with this.
Author: Jacob Champion <jacob.champion@enterprisedb.com>
Reported-by: Vladimir Tokarev <vladimirelitokarev@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Yu Kunpeng <yu443940816@live.com>
Reviewed-by: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@kurilemu.de>
Reviewed-by: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Reviewed-by: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Backpatch-through: 14
Security: CVE-2026-6471
pg_database_size() allows access to users who have either CONNECT
privilege on the target database or privileges of the pg_read_all_stats
role. However, previously, psql's \l+ checked only for CONNECT,
so users with privileges of pg_read_all_stats still saw "No Access" for
databases they could not connect to.
Fix this by making \l+ also check
pg_has_role('pg_read_all_stats', 'USAGE'), matching
pg_database_size()'s permission rules.
For back branches, emit the pg_read_all_stats check only when
connected to PostgreSQL 10 or later, since earlier releases do not have
that predefined role.
Backpatch to all supported versions.
Author: Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org>
Reviewed-by: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@kurilemu.de>
Reviewed-by: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/amCo6qRmnfPVk4-V@msg.df7cb.de
Backpatch-through: 14
It's always been the case that granting these privileges to users that
you don't fully trust was a bad idea, but it hasn't always been
obvious to people reading the documentation that this is the case.
To prevent confusion, and also repeated reports to pgsql-security,
mention it explicitly.
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmobrjCHBuWHrvX3=2vndUCO2thUOdevrCcMDFW86cqCYvw@mail.gmail.com
Reviewed-by: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>
Backpatch-through: 14
The previous text claimed that once the slot is disassociated with
ALTER SUBSCRIPTION ... SET (slot_name = NONE), DROP SUBSCRIPTION "will no
longer attempt any actions on a remote host". That is inaccurate:
DROP SUBSCRIPTION may still connect to the publisher to drop
internally-created table synchronization slots when some table
synchronization is left unfinished. Reword to describe this, and note
that if the publisher is unreachable those slots (and the main slot, if
it still exists) must be dropped manually to avoid indefinitely reserving
WAL.
Reported-by: Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>
Author: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>
Backpatch-through: 14
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAA4eK1+tyYSpPxMBy1974kjivuGeR7YY=yopwRGrK3+vCTysdg@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/D908370F-2695-4231-851D-17179A6A6F2A@gmail.com
The documentation for log_parameter_max_length said it affects messages
generated by log_duration. However, log_duration alone does not log bind
parameter values, so this is misleading.
This commit updates the documentation to reference log_min_duration_statement,
which can log bind parameters, to better reflect actual behavior.
Backpatch to all supported versions.
Author: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Surya Poondla <suryapoondla4@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHGQGwGnCVMVz8-LU9F8Sh57bkQX3jMZzx7age7M0LFEz5=Fog@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 14
Commit aa606b9316 disallowed generated columns in COPY FROM WHERE
expressions, and commit 21c69dc73f disallowed system columns.
However, the COPY reference page still mentions only the restriction
on subqueries.
Update the documentation to also list generated columns and system
columns as unsupported in COPY FROM WHERE expressions.
Backpatch the generated-column documentation change to all supported
versions. Backpatch the system-column documentation change to v19,
where that restriction was introduced.
Author: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Ayush Tiwari <ayushtiwari.slg01@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHGQGwEgxErc54yVOAVWCsr1O=8pgw4oKRPuEQ9mfhkoYGR_XA@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 14
Commit dcb0049523 accidentally changed the final expanded query's
condition to > 2 while rewriting the example into SQL operator notation.
The original query and the preceding rewritten forms all use >= 2,
and view expansion should preserve that qualification. This commit
changes the final condition from > 2 to >= 2.
Backpatch to all supported versions.
Reported-by: Yaroslav Saburov <y.saburov@gmail.com>
Author: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/178248467618.108999.9966122434342474006@wrigleys.postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 14
Previously, MultiXactId wraparound hints suggested dropping stale
replication slots. While that advice is appropriate for transaction ID
wraparound, where replication slots can hold back XID horizons,
it was misleading for MultiXactId wraparound. Following it could lead
users to drop replication slots unnecessarily without helping resolve
the MultiXactId wraparound condition.
MultiXact cleanup is not directly delayed by replication slots.
Instead, it depends on whether old MultiXactIds can still be seen
as live by running transactions.
This commit removes the replication slot advice from MultiXactId
wraparound hints, and documents that stale replication slots are
normally not relevant to resolving MultiXactId wraparound problems.
Backpatch to all supported branches.
BUG #18876
Reported-by: Haruka Takatsuka <harukat@sraoss.co.jp>
Author: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/18876-0d0b53bad5a1f4c1@postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 14
Commit 6678b58d78 fixed a wrong "Prev" link by changing the link
generation code to use [position()=last()] instead of [last()] in
the predicate on the union of reverse axes. Unfortunately, that
caused documentation builds to take much longer. To fix, combine
the "preceding" and "ancestor" steps into one "preceding" step and
one "ancestor" step, and revert the predicate back to [last()].
The smaller union evades the libxml2 bug while avoiding the build
time regression.
Reported-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Tested-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1132496.1781718007%40sss.pgh.pa.us
Backpatch-through: 14
Presently, the "Prev" link on the page for background workers sends
you to the middle of the previous chapter instead of the actual
previous page. This appears to be caused by a libxml2 bug, but
regardless, a minimal fix is to change the link generation code to
use [position()=last()] instead of [last()] in the predicate on the
union of reverse axes.
Reviewed-by: Ayush Tiwari <ayushtiwari.slg01@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/aim4AZorFKaC7Wrf%40nathan
Backpatch-through: 14
Commit a70bce43fb added instructions on how to recover if PostgreSQL
refuses to issue new transaction IDs because of imminent wraparound,
but when describing how to find replication slots that should be dropped,
it referred to pg_stat_replication where it should have referenced
pg_replication_slots.
In passing, decorate references to views with <structname> tags.
Backpatch to all supported versions.
Reported-By: Sanjaya Waruna <sanjaya.waruna@gmail.com>
Author: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>
Reviewed-by: Robert Treat <rob@xzilla.net>
Reviewed-by: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/176767268098.1084085.10345048667224193115@wrigleys.postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 14
The security team has received a couple of reports about potential
SQL injection via refint's trigger arguments. We discussed this
while preparing CVE-2026-6637 and concluded that forcibly quoting
these arguments is more likely to break working code than to
prevent exploits. Unlike data values, the table/column names come
from trigger arguments, and there is little reason for a trigger
author to put hostile inputs into those arguments. So, let's
document it accordingly.
Reported-by: Nikolay Samokhvalov <nik@postgres.ai>
Reported-by: Alex Young <alex000young@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Satyanarayana Narlapuram <satyanarlapuram@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Reviewed-by: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Reviewed-by: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@oss.nttdata.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org>
Reviewed-by: Satyanarayana Narlapuram <satyanarlapuram@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ahXP7z7nsfGPOZ3T%40nathan
Backpatch-through: 14
Previously, ecpg accepted multiple descriptor header items in GET DESCRIPTOR
and SET DESCRIPTOR, but generated broken C code when they were used.
Although the grammar allowed this syntax, the implementation did not actually
support it.
This commit tightens the ecpg grammar so the header form of GET/SET DESCRIPTOR
accepts only a single header item, matching the implementation and preventing
generation of broken C code.
Also update the documentation synopsis accordingly.
Backpatch to all supported versions.
Author: Masashi Kamura <kamura.masashi@fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Hayato Kuroda <kuroda.hayato@fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Lakshmi G <lakshmigcdac@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/OS9PR01MB13174AD7D1829D0644B6BB90E9447A@OS9PR01MB13174.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com
Backpatch-through: 14
Commit c37b3d08ca attempted to preserve group permissions on pg_recvlogical
output files when group access was enabled on the source cluster. However,
the output files were still created with a fixed S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR mode,
preventing group-read permissions from being applied.
This commit fixes the issue by creating output files with pg_file_create_mode
instead of a hard-coded mode. This allows pg_recvlogical to correctly preserve
group permissions from the source cluster.
Backpatch to all supported branches.
Author: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Srinath Reddy Sadipiralla <srinath2133@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHGQGwHhpizYzMo3nFP4GkNMueSNMY3QfC-gBN1VTXtuiANDvw@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 14
When result_is_int is set to 0, PQfn() cannot validate that the
result fits in result_buf, so it will write data beyond the end of
the buffer when the server returns more data than requested. Since
this function is insecurable and obsolete, add a warning to the top
of the pertinent documentation advising against its use.
The only in-tree caller of PQfn() is the frontend large object
interface. To fix that, add a buf_size parameter to
pqFunctionCall3() that is used to protect against overruns, and use
it in a private version of PQfn() that also accepts a buf_size
parameter.
Reported-by: Yu Kunpeng <yu443940816@live.com>
Reported-by: Martin Heistermann <martin.heistermann@unibe.ch>
Author: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Reviewed-by: Etsuro Fujita <etsuro.fujita@gmail.com>
Security: CVE-2026-6477
Backpatch-through: 14
The documentation for jit_debugging_support and jit_profiling_support
previously stated that these parameters can only be set at server start.
However, both parameters use the PGC_SU_BACKEND context, meaning they
can be set at session start by superusers, but cannot be changed within
an active session.
This commit updates the documentation to reflect the actual behavior.
Backpatch to all supported versions.
Author: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHGQGwEpMDpB-K8SSUVRRHg6L6z3pLAkekd9aviOS=ns0EC=+Q@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 14
The documentation stated only that the log file created by pg_ctl -l is
inaccessible to other users by default. However, since commit c37b3d0,
the actual behavior is that only the cluster owner has access by default,
but users in the same group as the cluster owner may also read the file
if group access is enabled in the cluster.
This commit updates the documentation to describe this behavior
more clearly.
Backpatch to all supported versions.
Author: Hayato Kuroda <kuroda.hayato@fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Karlsson <andreas@proxel.se>
Reviewed-by: Xiaopeng Wang <wxp_728@163.com>
Reviewed-by: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/OS9PR01MB1214959BE987B4839E3046050F54BA@OS9PR01MB12149.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com
Backpatch-through: 14
Commit 2cd40adb85 added the IF NOT EXISTS option to ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN.
This also enabled IF NOT EXISTS for ALTER FOREIGN TABLE ADD COLUMN,
but the ALTER FOREIGN TABLE documentation was not updated to mention it.
This commit updates the documentation to describe the IF NOT EXISTS option for
ALTER FOREIGN TABLE ADD COLUMN.
While updating that section, also this commit clarifies that the COLUMN keyword
is optional in ALTER FOREIGN TABLE ADD/DROP COLUMN. Previously, part of
the documentation could be read as if COLUMN were required.
This commit adds regression tests covering these ALTER FOREIGN TABLE syntaxes.
Backpatch to all supported versions.
Suggested-by: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>
Author: Chao Li <lic@highgo.com>
Reviewed-by: Robert Treat <rob@xzilla.net>
Reviewed-by: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHGQGwFk=rrhrwGwPtQxBesbT4DzSZ86Q3ftcwCu3AR5bOiXLw@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 14
In ALTER TABLE ... ADD/DROP COLUMN, the COLUMN keyword is optional. However,
part of the documentation could be read as if COLUMN were required, which may
mislead users about the command syntax.
This commit updates the ALTER TABLE documentation to clearly state that
COLUMN is optional for ADD and DROP.
Also this commit adds regression tests covering ALTER TABLE ... ADD/DROP
without the COLUMN keyword.
Backpatch to all supported versions.
Author: Chao Li <lic@highgo.com>
Reviewed-by: Robert Treat <rob@xzilla.net>
Reviewed-by: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEoWx2n6ShLMOnjOtf63TjjgGbgiTVT5OMsSOFmbjGb6Xue1Bw@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 14
The documentation for the INCLUDING COMMENTS option of the LIKE clause
in CREATE TABLE was inaccurate and incomplete. It stated that comments for
copied columns, constraints, and indexes are copied, but regarding comments
on constraints in reality only comments on CHECK and NOT NULL constraints
are copied; comments on other constraints (such as primary keys) are not.
In addition, comments on extended statistics are copied, but this was not
documented.
The CREATE FOREIGN TABLE documentation had a similar omission: comments
on extended statistics are also copied, but this was not mentioned.
This commit updates the documentation to clarify the actual behavior.
The CREATE TABLE reference now specifies that comments on copied columns,
CHECK constraints, NOT NULL constraints, indexes, and extended statistics are
copied. The CREATE FOREIGN TABLE reference now notes that comments on
extended statistics are copied as well.
Backpatch to all supported versions. Documentation updates related to
CREATE FOREIGN TABLE LIKE and NOT NULL constraint comment copying are
not applied to v17 and earlier, since those features were introduced in v18.
Author: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Matheus Alcantara <matheusssilv97@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHGQGwHSOSGcaYDvHF8EYCUCfGPjbRwGFsJ23cx5KbJ1X6JouQ@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 14
On the CREATE POLICY page, the description of per-command policies
stated that SELECT policies are applied when an INSERT has an ON
CONFLICT DO NOTHING clause. However, that is only the case if it
includes an arbiter clause, so clarify that.
While at it, also clarify the comment in the regression tests that
cover this.
Author: Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Viktor Holmberg <v@viktorh.net>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEZATCXGwMQ+x00YY9XYG46T0kCajH=21QaYL9Xatz0dLKii+g@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 14
We were using SnapshotAny to do some index checks, but that's wrong and
causes spurious errors when used on indexes created by CREATE INDEX
CONCURRENTLY. Fix it to use an MVCC snapshot, and add a test for it.
Backpatch of 6bd469d26a to branches 14-16. I previously misidentified
the bug's origin: it came in with commit 7f563c09f8 (pg11-era, not
5ae2087202 as claimed previously), so all live branches are affected.
Also take the opportunity to fix some comments that we failed to update
in the original commits and apply pgperltidy. In branch 14, remove the
unnecessary test plan specification (which would have need to have been
changed anyway; c.f. commit 549ec201d613.)
Diagnosed-by: Donghang Lin <donghanglin@gmail.com>
Author: Mihail Nikalayeu <mihailnikalayeu@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrey Borodin <x4mmm@yandex-team.ru>
Backpatch-through: 17
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CANtu0ojmVd27fEhfpST7RG2KZvwkX=dMyKUqg0KM87FkOSdz8Q@mail.gmail.com
