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>Release date: </B
>2009-09-09</P
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> This release contains a variety of fixes from 8.3.7.
For information about new features in the 8.3 major release, see
<A
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>Section E.121</A
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> A dump/restore is not required for those running 8.3.X.
However, if you have any hash indexes on <TT
CLASS="TYPE"
>interval</TT
> columns,
you must <TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>REINDEX</TT
> them after updating to 8.3.8.
Also, if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 8.3.5,
see <A
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>Section E.116</A
>.
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><P
> Fix Windows shared-memory allocation code (Tsutomu Yamada, Magnus)
</P
><P
> This bug led to the often-reported <SPAN
CLASS="QUOTE"
>"could not reattach
to shared memory"</SPAN
> error message.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Force WAL segment switch during <CODE
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>pg_start_backup()</CODE
>
(Heikki)
</P
><P
> This avoids corner cases that could render a base backup unusable.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Disallow <TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>RESET ROLE</TT
> and <TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>RESET SESSION
AUTHORIZATION</TT
> inside security-definer functions (Tom, Heikki)
</P
><P
> This covers a case that was missed in the previous patch that
disallowed <TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>SET ROLE</TT
> and <TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>SET SESSION
AUTHORIZATION</TT
> inside security-definer functions.
(See CVE-2007-6600)
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Make <TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>LOAD</TT
> of an already-loaded loadable module
into a no-op (Tom)
</P
><P
> Formerly, <TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>LOAD</TT
> would attempt to unload and re-load the
module, but this is unsafe and not all that useful.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Disallow empty passwords during LDAP authentication (Magnus)
</P
></LI
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><P
> Fix handling of sub-SELECTs appearing in the arguments of
an outer-level aggregate function (Tom)
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Fix bugs associated with fetching a whole-row value from the
output of a Sort or Materialize plan node (Tom)
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Prevent <TT
CLASS="VARNAME"
>synchronize_seqscans</TT
> from changing the results of
scrollable and <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>WITH HOLD</TT
> cursors (Tom)
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Revert planner change that disabled partial-index and constraint
exclusion optimizations when there were more than 100 clauses in
an AND or OR list (Tom)
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Fix hash calculation for data type <TT
CLASS="TYPE"
>interval</TT
> (Tom)
</P
><P
> This corrects wrong results for hash joins on interval values.
It also changes the contents of hash indexes on interval columns.
If you have any such indexes, you must <TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>REINDEX</TT
> them
after updating.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Treat <CODE
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>to_char(..., 'TH')</CODE
> as an uppercase ordinal
suffix with <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>'HH'</TT
>/<TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>'HH12'</TT
> (Heikki)
</P
><P
> It was previously handled as <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>'th'</TT
> (lowercase).
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Fix overflow for <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>INTERVAL '<TT
CLASS="REPLACEABLE"
><I
>x</I
></TT
> ms'</TT
>
when <TT
CLASS="REPLACEABLE"
><I
>x</I
></TT
> is more than 2 million and integer
datetimes are in use (Alex Hunsaker)
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Fix calculation of distance between a point and a line segment (Tom)
</P
><P
> This led to incorrect results from a number of geometric operators.
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Fix <TT
CLASS="TYPE"
>money</TT
> data type to work in locales where currency
amounts have no fractional digits, e.g. Japan (Itagaki Takahiro)
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Fix <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>LIKE</TT
> for case where pattern contains <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>%_</TT
>
(Tom)
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Properly round datetime input like
<TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>00:12:57.9999999999999999999999999999</TT
> (Tom)
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Fix memory leaks in XML operations (Tom)
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Fix poor choice of page split point in GiST R-tree operator classes
(Teodor)
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Ensure that a <SPAN
CLASS="QUOTE"
>"fast shutdown"</SPAN
> request will forcibly terminate
open sessions, even if a <SPAN
CLASS="QUOTE"
>"smart shutdown"</SPAN
> was already in progress
(Fujii Masao)
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Avoid performance degradation in bulk inserts into GIN indexes
when the input values are (nearly) in sorted order (Tom)
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Correctly enforce NOT NULL domain constraints in some contexts in
PL/pgSQL (Tom)
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Fix portability issues in plperl initialization (Andrew Dunstan)
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Fix <SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>pg_ctl</SPAN
> to not go into an infinite loop if
<TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>postgresql.conf</TT
> is empty (Jeff Davis)
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Improve <SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>pg_dump</SPAN
>'s efficiency when there are
many large objects (Tamas Vincze)
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Use <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>SIGUSR1</TT
>, not <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>SIGQUIT</TT
>, as the
failover signal for <SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>pg_standby</SPAN
> (Heikki)
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Make <SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>pg_standby</SPAN
>'s <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>maxretries</TT
> option
behave as documented (Fujii Masao)
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Make <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>contrib/hstore</TT
> throw an error when a key or
value is too long to fit in its data structure, rather than
silently truncating it (Andrew Gierth)
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Fix <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>contrib/xml2</TT
>'s <CODE
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>xslt_process()</CODE
> to
properly handle the maximum number of parameters (twenty) (Tom)
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Improve robustness of <SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>libpq</SPAN
>'s code to recover
from errors during <TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>COPY FROM STDIN</TT
> (Tom)
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Avoid including conflicting readline and editline header files
when both libraries are installed (Zdenek Kotala)
</P
></LI
><LI
><P
> Update time zone data files to <SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>tzdata</SPAN
> release 2009l
for DST law changes in Bangladesh, Egypt, Jordan, Pakistan,
Argentina/San_Luis, Cuba, Jordan (historical correction only),
Mauritius, Morocco, Palestine, Syria, Tunisia.
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