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Tom Lane
841d0cb0f9 Release notes for 18.6.
Farewell, 18.5; we hardly knew ye.
2026-08-11 14:37:01 -04:00
Tom Lane
cf6c2adec8 Last-minute updates for release notes.
Security: CVE-2026-6464, CVE-2026-6469, CVE-2026-6470, CVE-2026-6471, CVE-2026-14662, CVE-2026-14663, CVE-2026-14664, CVE-2026-14666, CVE-2026-14668, CVE-2026-14669, CVE-2026-14670, CVE-2026-14671, CVE-2026-14672, CVE-2026-14673, CVE-2026-14676, CVE-2026-14677, CVE-2026-14678, CVE-2026-14679, CVE-2026-14680, CVE-2026-14681, CVE-2026-15741, CVE-2026-15742, CVE-2026-16238, CVE-2026-16239, CVE-2026-16241, CVE-2026-18024, CVE-2026-18408, CVE-2026-19385
2026-08-10 12:15:10 -04:00
Nathan Bossart
71ca694c73 psql: Don't do backquote expansion in \unrestrict.
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
2026-08-10 06:38:13 -07:00
Jacob Champion
4c5128ca0b pgcrypto: Add option to revert to prior decryption behavior
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
2026-08-10 06:38:13 -07:00
Daniel Gustafsson
fe32b10fca Fix errorhandling for PGP encryption
PGP encryption was using px_cipher_encrypt without checking if any
error was returned.  When OpenSSL is running in FIPS mode, or when
the legacy provider hasn't been loaded, not all ciphers which are
supported by the PGP code are available and fail the init step in
px_cipher_encrypt.  Since the PGP encryption failed to notice this
it XORed the non-encrypted block with the plaintext, effectively
disabling the encryption.

This was found due to a report of PGP encryption not respecting
the pgcrypto.builtin_crypto_enabled flag and allowing Blowfish
and DES.  This however turned out to be a false positive, since
the PGP code only use ciphers from OpenSSL and not the built in
ciphers.

Bug: #19457
Reported-by: Shishir Sharma <ansh01072001@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jacob Champion <jacob.champion@enterprisedb.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/19457-4bab15c17aea36c7@postgresql.org
Security: CVE-2026-14663
Backpatch-through: 14
2026-08-10 06:38:13 -07:00
Nathan Bossart
2e91f8548d Check for USAGE privilege on the subtype in CREATE TYPE AS RANGE.
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
2026-08-10 06:38:12 -07:00
Jacob Champion
2a29b607db Add an output_plugin_libraries GUC to bless trusted output plugins
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
2026-08-10 06:38:12 -07:00
Nathan Bossart
822143c4d1 Use value of scram_iterations in mock_scram_secret().
Presently, mock_scram_secret() always uses
SCRAM_SHA_256_DEFAULT_ITERATIONS, which poses an observable
response discrepancy hazard when scram_iterations is set to
something else.  To fix, use the value of the configuration
parameter instead, and document that unauthenticated users can
discover the existence of roles with passwords created with
different iteration counts.

Reported-by: Radim Marek <radim@boringsql.com>
Author: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Reviewed-by: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>
Reviewed-by: Jacob Champion <champion.p@gmail.com>
Security: CVE-2026-14672
Backpatch-through: 16
2026-08-10 06:38:12 -07:00
Tom Lane
a4c41bbcc7 Release notes for 18.5, 17.11, 16.15, 15.19, 14.24. 2026-08-09 12:52:47 -04:00
Tom Lane
828d602f21 First-draft release notes for 18.5.
As usual, the release notes for other branches will be made by cutting
these down, but put them up for community review first.
2026-08-07 13:11:52 -04:00
Fujii Masao
13a9be148e doc: Update XID wraparound error example
Commit edee0c621d, and the equivalent v17 commit f2353dd717,
changed the runtime XID wraparound messages to use "transaction IDs"
terminology, but one corresponding error example in maintenance.sgml
still used the older XID wording.

Update that documentation example in line with the current runtime
message.

Backpatch to v17, where the runtime messages were changed.

Author: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Yugo Nagata <nagata@sraoss.co.jp>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHGQGwHTN-Xc5iDtbzNSjfxuab5Y9qAArw8cB4PrrDJpZ+1fgA@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 17
2026-08-05 11:37:39 +09:00
Daniel Gustafsson
050e9d94d8 doc: Add a note that refint will be removed in v20
refint has been removed from the spi contrib module in v20.  Add a note
to the documentation of the still-supported back branches so that users
are aware the module is going away.

Author: Ayush Tiwari <ayushtiwari.slg01@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJTYsWUHq8Ohc6-N-xamOPYz-q3qUYMtwQX-1=Zi=5N1Q_GSEQ@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 14
2026-07-29 21:51:46 +02:00
Fujii Masao
f2d6cf8802 psql: Allow pg_read_all_stats to see database size in \l+
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
2026-07-25 19:10:15 +09:00
Robert Haas
545e2a9d74 doc: Granting TRIGGER or REFERENCES on table is dangerous.
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
2026-07-20 13:44:59 -04:00
Amit Kapila
aa572d521a Doc: Clarify DROP SUBSCRIPTION behavior after SET (slot_name = NONE).
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
2026-07-17 09:33:16 +05:30
Masahiko Sawada
c31b0fca05 Reject infinite and out-of-range interval shifts in uuidv7().
uuidv7(interval) shifts the current time by the given interval before
encoding it into the 48-bit Unix-millisecond timestamp field of the
generated UUID. Two cases were mishandled:

An infinite interval ('infinity' or '-infinity') produced an infinite
timestamp, which overflowed during the conversion to Unix-epoch
microseconds and yielded a garbage UUID. Reject infinite intervals up
front, before any timestamp arithmetic.

A shift that moved the timestamp outside the range representable by
the 48-bit field was silently accepted. Timestamps before the Unix
epoch wrapped when cast to unsigned, and timestamps beyond
approximately year 10889 overflowed the field; both produced UUIDs
with bogus timestamps that break sort ordering. Reject any shifted
timestamp outside the supported range.

Also document that infinite intervals and out-of-range shifts are
rejected.

Although raising a new error changes behavior in a stable branch, this
is back-patched to 18 (where uuidv7(interval) was introduced) because
the previous behavior can silently corrupt data. Failing loudly is far
safer than silently accepting the wraparound; otherwise users may not
discover that their UUIDv7 values are no longer sortable until years
later, when recovery is painful. It also matches how PostgreSQL
already handles timestamp + interval overflow, which raises an
error. The change only affects applications passing an interval large
enough to push the result outside the representable range.

Backpatch to 18, where uuidv7(interval) was introduced.

Reported-by: Christophe Pettus <xof@thebuild.com>
Author: Baji Shaik <baji.pgdev@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Zsolt Parragi <zsolt.parragi@percona.com>
Reviewed-by: Tristan Partin <tristan@partin.io>
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/799A70FA-6E5C-4118-99EB-2FBBE1CBAC54@thebuild.com
Backpatch-through: 18
2026-07-16 11:50:13 -07:00
Daniel Gustafsson
30c0442eb3 doc: Fix link text for data checksums
Commit 67846550dc removed the xreflabels for initdb options, which
turned the sentence "The second field contains the page checksum if
data checksums are enabled" into "The second field contains the page
checksum if -k are enabled", as well "Only has effect if data checksums
are enabled" into "Only has effect if -k are enabled".

Fix by setting an explicit link text, and while there also change the
link to point to the data checksum page which has more information
than just the initdb option.

The original report was for one instance, further inspection turned
up quite a few more cases.  Also redirect the link in the amcheck
docs which albeit was reading right, but will be more helpful if
linking to the main page on data checksums.  Backpatch to v18 where
the xreflabels were removed.

Author: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
Reported-by: y.saburov@gmail.com
Reviewed-by: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/178350739237.73862.4549076173872335741@wrigleys.postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 18
2026-07-16 16:05:36 +02:00
Fujii Masao
4a4d6d1d1d doc: Fix log_parameter_max_length docs to reference log_min_duration_statement
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
2026-07-16 13:36:40 +09:00
Fujii Masao
abecdbc6af doc: Clarify COPY FROM WHERE expression restrictions
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
2026-07-08 12:45:20 +09:00
Fujii Masao
1383cbd031 doc: Fix typo in rule-system view example
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
2026-07-08 09:05:28 +09:00
Fujii Masao
c8d68bfd52 Remove replication slot advice from MultiXact wraparound hints
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
2026-07-03 11:18:57 +09:00
John Naylor
6a6cf80e55 Document wal_compression=on
Commit 4035cd5d4 added LZ4 compression for full-page writes in WAL, and
retained "on" as a backward-compatible way to specify the builtin PGLZ
method. Document this meaning of "on" and update postgresql.conf.sample
to make the equivalence clear.

Author: Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org>
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/akJDHRtXwGLTppsQ@msg.df7cb.de
Backpatch-through: 15
2026-07-01 09:02:36 +07:00
Michael Paquier
d3ff08e66b doc: Describe better handling of indexes in ALTER TABLE ATTACH PARTITION
When ALTER TABLE ... ATTACH PARTITION matches partition indexes to the
parent table's indexes, invalid indexes are skipped.  This commit
improves the documentation to describe what e90e9275f5 has changed:
invalid indexes are skipped, and only valid indexes are considered for a
match.

Author: Mohamed Ali <moali.pg@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Sami Imseih <samimseih@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAGnOmWpAMaE-BOkpwM6mJnHcpS2QZ8yLSSaqmz+vryEsbCWWWA@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 14
2026-06-23 16:52:15 +09:00
Nathan Bossart
5562b2657f doc: Fix "Prev" link, take 2.
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
2026-06-18 09:31:27 -05:00
Nathan Bossart
85e6624c06 doc: Fix "Prev" link.
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
2026-06-15 12:16:38 -05:00
Tom Lane
b4db796b19 Doc: remove stale entry for removed aclitem[] ~ aclitem operator.
Commit 2f70fdb06 removed the deprecated containment operator
~(aclitem[],aclitem) from the catalogs, but missed removing its entry
from the documentation.  (Arguably the blame should fall on c62dd80cd,
which added this entry in contravention of the longstanding policy
that we don't document deprecated aliases in the first place.)

Author: Shinya Kato <shinya11.kato@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAOzEurQSyR5psWukyhUz1LtxyO55C2Vfp0Fmt8w2jGKxhszQmQ@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 14
2026-06-14 11:01:48 -04:00
Fujii Masao
556324c386 doc: fix reference for finding replication slots to drop
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
2026-06-12 11:10:07 +09:00
Nathan Bossart
be176e0a6d doc: Expand on proper use of refint.
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
2026-06-08 10:33:52 -05:00
Fujii Masao
081434b0f5 ecpg: Reject multiple header items in GET/SET DESCRIPTOR
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
2026-06-08 17:10:25 +09:00
Daniel Gustafsson
a5112c9b62 doc: Use groups instead of curves in TLS documentation
With TLS 1.3 the concept of curves was renamed to groups.  Update
our wording to use groups instead of curves to make it clear what
the underlying GUC can support.

This was extracted from a slightly larger patch which also renamed
variables to match the new terminology.  Given that we are in beta
this portion was however left as a future excercise.

Author: Evan Si <evsi@amazon.com>
Reviewed-by: Ewan Young <kdbase.hack@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/23C40DD6-1C47-46FC-A746-8A1D8530AD3E@amazon.com
Backpatch-through: 18
2026-06-05 22:16:42 +02:00
Jacob Champion
380a8b2ea0 doc: Correct the timeline for OAuth's shutdown_cb
During original feature development, the OAuth validator shutdown
callback was invoked via before_shmem_exit(). That was changed to use a
reset callback before commit, but I forgot to update the documentation
for validator developers.

Correct this and backport to 18, where OAuth was introduced. The
callback is invoked whenever the server is "finished" with token
validation. (We make no stronger guarantees here, in the hopes that this
API might successfully navigate future multifactor authentication
support and/or changes to the server threading model.)

Reported-by: Zsolt Parragi <zsolt.parragi@percona.com>
Reviewed-by: Zsolt Parragi <zsolt.parragi@percona.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAN4CZFOuMb_gnLvCwRdMybg_k8WRNJTjcij%2BPoQkuQHDUzxGWg%40mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 18
2026-05-29 14:39:03 -07:00
Fujii Masao
130396e6c0 dblink: Give user mapping precedence for use_scram_passthrough
Commit 97f6fc10ff changed postgres_fdw so that user-mapping settings
override foreign server settings for use_scram_passthrough. This commit
applies the same behavior to dblink.

Backpatch to v18, where use_scram_passthrough was introduced.

Author: Matheus Alcantara <matheusssilv97@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHGQGwEJ8rZjmbOvCicyr4vbuLio082bNTde0WNoSWaWr9wVcg@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 18
2026-05-26 00:52:38 +09:00
Fujii Masao
88d7748d2a postgres_fdw: Give user mapping precedence for use_scram_passthrough
Previously, when use_scram_passthrough was specified on both a foreign server
and a user mapping, the server-level setting took precedence over the
user-mapping setting. This was inconsistent with the usual semantics of
postgres_fdw options, where foreign server options provide shared defaults
and user mapping options override them on a per-user basis.

This commit updates postgres_fdw so that the user-mapping setting takes
precedence when use_scram_passthrough is specified in both places. This
matches the behavior of other connection options such as sslcert and sslkey.

Backpatch to v18, where use_scram_passthrough was introduced. In v18,
this only affects limited configurations that specify conflicting values
at both the foreign server and user-mapping levels. In such cases, users
would naturally expect the user-mapping setting to override the server-level
setting, so changing the behavior should be minimally disruptive.
Also keeping v18 as the only branch with different semantics for
use_scram_passthrough would be unnecessarily confusing, so backpatch
this fix to v18.

Author: Matheus Alcantara <matheusssilv97@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHGQGwEJ8rZjmbOvCicyr4vbuLio082bNTde0WNoSWaWr9wVcg@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 18
2026-05-26 00:47:43 +09:00
Fujii Masao
89b4b3ae35 pg_recvlogical: Honor source cluster file permissions for output files
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
2026-05-20 15:56:58 +09:00
Tom Lane
d472bf14f2 Doc: fix release-note typo.
This mention of memcpy() should of course have said memcmp().

Reported-by: chris@chrullrich.net
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/177883653690.764749.14038057906859461991@wrigleys.postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 14
2026-05-15 18:32:33 -04:00
Tom Lane
bbd12e8010 Last-minute updates for release notes.
Security: CVE-2026-6472, CVE-2026-6473, CVE-2026-6474, CVE-2026-6475, CVE-2026-6476, CVE-2026-6477, CVE-2026-6478, CVE-2026-6479, CVE-2026-6575, CVE-2026-6637, CVE-2026-6638
2026-05-11 14:54:52 -04:00
Nathan Bossart
be01364404 Mark PQfn() unsafe and fix overrun in frontend LO interface.
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
2026-05-11 05:13:48 -07:00
Tom Lane
122adefc94 First-draft release notes for 18.4.
As usual, the release notes for other branches will be made by cutting
these down, but put them up for community review first.
2026-05-08 14:13:13 -04:00
Michael Paquier
7a24fad3d9 doc: Mention validation attempt during ALTER INDEX .. ATTACH PARTITION
Since 9d3e094f12, the command tries to validate the parent index of the
named index, if invalid.  The documentation did not mention this
behavior, which could be confusing.

Author: Mohamed ALi <moali.pg@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAGnOmWpHu25_LpT=zv7KtetQhqV1QEZzFYLd_TDyOLu1Od9fpw@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 14
2026-05-01 13:10:38 +09:00
Michael Paquier
4fe7bac347 doc: Fix grammar in some logical replication pages
Author: Peter Smith <smithpb2250@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHut+PuvY_wYLPJ4DTs7NE9Lu2ty4d-OgZAOJC-NvCM=2wwcQQ@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 14
2026-04-27 16:17:24 +09:00
Fujii Masao
0c9ebb4f7b doc: Correct context description for some JIT support GUCs
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 or users granted the appropriate
SET privilege, 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
2026-04-21 08:45:07 +09:00
Fujii Masao
7a8c4344f7 doc: Improve description of pg_ctl -l log file permissions
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
2026-04-17 15:31:50 +09:00
Nathan Bossart
9ed5015f0d doc: Add missing description for DROP SUBSCRIPTION IF EXISTS.
Oversight in commit 665d1fad99.

Author: Peter Smith <smithpb2250@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHut%2BPv72haFerrCdYdmF6hu6o2jKcGzkXehom%2BsP-JBBmOVDg%40mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 14
2026-04-01 09:48:48 -05:00
Amit Langote
a1baf64589 Doc: fix stale text about partition locking with cached plans
Commit 121d774cae added text to master describing pruning-aware
locking behavior introduced by 525392d57.  That behavior was
reverted in May 2025, making the text incorrect.  Replace it with
the text used in back branches, which correctly describes current
behavior: pruned partitions are still locked at the beginning of
execution.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+HiwqFT0fPPoYBr0iUFWNB-Og7bEXB9hB=6ogk_qD9=OM8Vbw@mail.gmail.com
2026-03-30 10:29:52 +09:00
Fujii Masao
94ff80f49d doc: Document IF NOT EXISTS option for ALTER FOREIGN TABLE ADD COLUMN.
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
2026-03-09 18:24:41 +09:00
Fujii Masao
e46b915db5 doc: Clarify that COLUMN is optional in ALTER TABLE ... ADD/DROP COLUMN.
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
2026-03-05 12:57:23 +09:00
Michael Paquier
1aacba1829 doc: Fix sentence of pg_walsummary page
Author: Peter Smith <smithpb2250@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Robert Treat <rob@xzilla.net>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHut+PvfYBL-ppX-i8DPeRu7cakYCZz+QYBhrmQzicx7z_Tj5w@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 17
2026-03-03 15:27:55 +09:00
Fujii Masao
47ad672a76 doc: Clarify that empty COMMENT string removes the comment.
Clarify the documentation of COMMENT ON to state that specifying an empty
string is treated as NULL, meaning that the comment is removed.

This makes the behavior explicit and avoids possible confusion about how
empty strings are handled.

Also adds regress test cases that use empty string to remove a comment.

Backpatch to all supported versions.

Author: Chao Li <lic@highgo.com>
Reviewed-by: Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh.bapat.oss@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: David G. Johnston <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Shengbin Zhao <zshengbin91@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jim Jones <jim.jones@uni-muenster.de>
Reviewed-by: zhangqiang <zhang_qiang81@163.com>
Reviewed-by: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/26476097-B1C1-4BA8-AA92-0AD0B8EC7190@gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 14
2026-03-03 14:46:25 +09:00
Fujii Masao
315b0f3e87 doc: Clarify INCLUDING COMMENTS behavior in CREATE TABLE LIKE.
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
2026-02-26 09:02:30 +09:00
Tom Lane
24a590112c Release notes for 18.3, 17.9, 16.13, 15.17, 14.22. 2026-02-22 12:22:41 -05:00