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Update release notes for 9.1.1, 9.0.5, 8.4.9, 8.3.16, 8.2.22.
Man, we fixed a lotta bugs since April.
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<sect1 id="release-8-2-22">
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<title>Release 8.2.22</title>
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<note>
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<title>Release Date</title>
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<simpara>2011-09-26</simpara>
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</note>
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<para>
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This release contains a variety of fixes from 8.2.21.
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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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</para>
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<para>
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The <productname>PostgreSQL</> community will stop releasing updates
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for the 8.2.X release series in December 2011.
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Users are encouraged to update to a newer release branch soon.
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</para>
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<sect2>
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<title>Migration to Version 8.2.22</title>
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<para>
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A dump/restore is not required for those running 8.2.X.
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However, 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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</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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<para>
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Fix multiple bugs in GiST index page split processing (Heikki
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Linnakangas)
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</para>
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The probability of occurrence was low, but these could lead to index
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corruption.
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Avoid possibly accessing off the end of memory in <command>ANALYZE</>
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(Noah Misch)
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</para>
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This fixes a very-low-probability server crash scenario.
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</para>
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Fix race condition in relcache init file invalidation (Tom Lane)
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There was a window wherein a new backend process could read a stale init
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file but miss the inval messages that would tell it the data is stale.
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The result would be bizarre failures in catalog accesses, typically
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<quote>could not read block 0 in file ...</> later during startup.
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</para>
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Fix memory leak at end of a GiST index scan (Tom Lane)
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Commands that perform many separate GiST index scans, such as
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verification of a new GiST-based exclusion constraint on a table
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already containing many rows, could transiently require large amounts of
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memory due to this leak.
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</para>
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Fix performance problem when constructing a large, lossy bitmap
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(Tom Lane)
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Fix array- and path-creating functions to ensure padding bytes are
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zeroes (Tom Lane)
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</para>
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This avoids some situations where the planner will think that
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semantically-equal constants are not equal, resulting in poor
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optimization.
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Work around gcc 4.6.0 bug that breaks WAL replay (Tom Lane)
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</para>
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This could lead to loss of committed transactions after a server crash.
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Fix dump bug for <literal>VALUES</> in a view (Tom Lane)
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Disallow <literal>SELECT FOR UPDATE/SHARE</> on sequences (Tom Lane)
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</para>
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This operation doesn't work as expected and can lead to failures.
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Defend against integer overflow when computing size of a hash table (Tom
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Lane)
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Fix portability bugs in use of credentials control messages for
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<quote>peer</> authentication (Tom Lane)
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Fix typo in <function>pg_srand48</> seed initialization (Andres Freund)
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This led to failure to use all bits of the provided seed. This function
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is not used on most platforms (only those without <function>srandom</>),
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and the potential security exposure from a less-random-than-expected
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seed seems minimal in any case.
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Avoid integer overflow when the sum of <literal>LIMIT</> and
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<literal>OFFSET</> values exceeds 2^63 (Heikki Linnakangas)
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Add overflow checks to <type>int4</> and <type>int8</> versions of
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<function>generate_series()</> (Robert Haas)
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Fix trailing-zero removal in <function>to_char()</> (Marti Raudsepp)
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In a format with <literal>FM</> and no digit positions
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after the decimal point, zeroes to the left of the decimal point could
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be removed incorrectly.
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Fix <function>pg_size_pretty()</> to avoid overflow for inputs close to
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Fix <application>psql</>'s counting of script file line numbers during
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<literal>COPY</> from a different file (Tom Lane)
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Fix <application>pg_restore</>'s direct-to-database mode for
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<varname>standard_conforming_strings</> (Tom Lane)
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<application>pg_restore</> could emit incorrect commands when restoring
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directly to a database server from an archive file that had been made
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with <varname>standard_conforming_strings</> set to <literal>on</>.
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Fix write-past-buffer-end and memory leak in <application>libpq</>'s
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LDAP service lookup code (Albe Laurenz)
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In <application>libpq</>, avoid failures when using nonblocking I/O
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and an SSL connection (Martin Pihlak, Tom Lane)
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Improve libpq's handling of failures during connection startup
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In particular, the response to a server report of <function>fork()</>
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failure during SSL connection startup is now saner.
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precision (Akira Kurosawa)
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Apply upstream fix for blowfish signed-character bug (CVE-2011-2483)
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<filename>contrib/pg_crypto</>'s blowfish encryption code could give
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wrong results on platforms where char is signed (which is most),
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leading to encrypted passwords being weaker than they should be.
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Fix memory leak in <filename>contrib/seg</> (Heikki Linnakangas)
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Fix <function>pgstatindex()</> to give consistent results for empty
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Allow building with perl 5.14 (Alex Hunsaker)
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Update configure script's method for probing existence of system
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functions (Tom Lane)
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compilers that perform link-time optimization.
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Fix assorted issues with build and install file paths containing spaces
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Update time zone data files to <application>tzdata</> release 2011i
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for DST law changes in Canada, Egypt, Russia, Samoa, and South Sudan.
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