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- 7. By Martin Pitt
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* Urgency medium due to security fix.
* New upstream security/bug fix release:
- Disallow "RESET ROLE" and "RESET SESSION AUTHORIZATION" inside
security-definer functions. This covers a case that was missed in the
previous patch that disallowed "SET ROLE" and "SET SESSION
AUTHORIZATION" inside security-definer functions. [CVE-2007-6600]
- Fix WAL page header initialization at the end of archive recovery.
This could lead to failure to process the WAL in a subsequent archive
recovery.
- Fix "cannot make new WAL entries during recovery" error.
- Fix problem that could make expired rows visible after a crash.
This bug involved a page status bit potentially not being set
correctly after a server crash.
- Make "LOAD" of an already-loaded loadable module into a no-op.
Formerly, "LOAD" would attempt to unload and re-load the module,
but this is unsafe and not all that useful.
- Make window function PARTITION BY and ORDER BY items always be
interpreted as simple expressions.
In 8.4.0 these lists were parsed following the rules used for
top-level GROUP BY and ORDER BY lists. But this was not correct per
the SQL standard, and it led to possible circularity.
- Fix several errors in planning of semi-joins. These led to wrong query
results in some cases where IN or EXISTS was used together with another
join.
- Fix handling of whole-row references to subqueries that are within
an outer join. An example is SELECT COUNT(ss.-) FROM ... LEFT JOIN
(SELECT ...) ss ON .... Here, ss.- would be treated as
ROW(NULL,NULL, ...) for null-extended join rows, which is not the same as
a simple NULL. Now it is treated as a simple NULL.
- Fix locale handling with plperl. This bug could cause the server's
locale setting to change when a plperl function is called, leading to
data corruption.
- Fix handling of reloptions to ensure setting one option doesn't
force default values for others.
- Ensure that a "fast shutdown" request will forcibly terminate open
sessions, even if a "smart shutdown" was already in progress.
- Avoid memory leak for array_agg() in GROUP BY queries.
- Treat to_char(..., 'TH') as an uppercase ordinal suffix with
'HH'/'HH12'. It was previously handled as 'th'.
- Include the fractional part in the result of EXTRACT(second) and
EXTRACT(milliseconds) for time and time with time zone inputs.
This has always worked for floating-point datetime configurations,
but was broken in the integer datetime code.
- Fix overflow for INTERVAL 'x ms' when "x" is more than 2 million
and integer datetimes are in use.
- Improve performance when processing toasted values in index scans.
This is particularly useful for PostGIS.
- Fix a typo that disabled commit_delay.
- Output early-startup messages to "postmaster.log" if the server is
started in silent mode. Previously such error messages were discarded,
leading to difficulty in debugging.
- Remove translated FAQs. They are now on the wiki. The main FAQ was moved
to the wiki some time ago.
- Fix pg_ctl to not go into an infinite loop if "postgresql.conf" is
empty.
- Fix several errors in pg_dump's --binary-upgrade mode. pg_dump
--binary-upgrade is used by pg_migrator.
- Fix "contrib/xml2"'s xslt_process() to properly handle the maximum
number of parameters (twenty).
- Improve robustness of libpq's code to recover from errors during
"COPY FROM STDIN".
- Avoid including conflicting readline and editline header files when
both libraries are installed.
- Work around gcc bug that causes "floating-point exception" instead
of "division by zero" on some platforms.
* debian/control: Bump Standards-Version to 3.8.3 (no changes necessary). - 6. By Martin Pitt
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* debian/
libpq-dev. install: Ship catalog/genbki.h. (Closes: #536139)
* debian/rules: Drop --enable-cassert for final release. - 5. By Martin Pitt
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* Second public beta of 8.4.
* debian/control: Slightly lower the dependencies for postgresql-common to
>= 98~, so that backports also match. - 3. By Martin Pitt
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* First public beta of 8.4.
* debian/*.install: Add new gettext translations.
* debian/control: Bump p-common dependency to >= 98 to ensure support for
8.4.
* debian/rules: Build with --enable-cassert while in beta. - 2. By Martin Pitt
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* Package current trunk, which will become 8.4 in time. Packaging branched
from 8.3 packaging trunk. Move from cdbs' tarball.mk to bzr-builddeb.
* Drop obsolete patches:
- 03-gettext-domains. patch: Adopted upstream.
- 04-psql-passwordprompt. patch: Obsoleted by new psql -w option.
- 05-check-rlimits- nofile. patch: Adopted upstream.
* Update remaining patches for new upstream version.
* Add debian/docbook2man- sgmlspl/ docbook2man- spec{.pl, _makelinks} : Current
Debian version in docbook-utils is way too old and broken (see #275715,
#271611), locally ship the current ones from upstream, in order to build
manpages.
* debian/rules: Build documentation and manpage tarballs if not present (as
with building from CVS). Add necessary build dependencies docbook-utils,
openjade, and docbook.
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