Force the default
wal_sync_method
to be fdatasync on Linux (Tom Lane, Marti Raudsepp)
The default on Linux has actually been fdatasync for many
years, but recent kernel changes caused PostgreSQL to
choose open_datasync instead. This choice did not result
in any performance improvement, and caused outright failures on
certain filesystems, notably ext4 with the
data=journal mount option.
Fix assorted bugs in WAL replay logic for GIN indexes (Tom Lane)
This could result in "bad buffer id: 0" failures or
corruption of index contents during replication.
Fix recovery from base backup when the starting checkpoint WAL record
is not in the same WAL segment as its redo point (Jeff Davis)
Fix persistent slowdown of autovacuum workers when multiple workers
remain active for a long time (Tom Lane)
The effective vacuum_cost_limit for an autovacuum worker
could drop to nearly zero if it processed enough tables, causing it
to run extremely slowly.
Add support for detecting register-stack overrun on IA64
(Tom Lane)
The IA64 architecture has two hardware stacks. Full
prevention of stack-overrun failures requires checking both.
Add a check for stack overflow in copyObject() (Tom Lane)
Certain code paths could crash due to stack overflow given a
sufficiently complex query.
Fix detection of page splits in temporary GiST indexes (Heikki
Linnakangas)
It is possible to have a "concurrent" page split in a
temporary index, if for example there is an open cursor scanning the
index when an insertion is done. GiST failed to detect this case and
hence could deliver wrong results when execution of the cursor
continued.
Avoid memory leakage while ANALYZE'ing complex index
expressions (Tom Lane)
Ensure an index that uses a whole-row Var still depends on its table
(Tom Lane)
An index declared like create index i on t (foo(t.*))
would not automatically get dropped when its table was dropped.
Do not "inline" a SQL function with multiple OUT
parameters (Tom Lane)
This avoids a possible crash due to loss of information about the
expected result rowtype.
Behave correctly if ORDER BY, LIMIT,
FOR UPDATE, or WITH is attached to the
VALUES part of INSERT ... VALUES (Tom Lane)
Fix constant-folding of COALESCE() expressions (Tom Lane)
The planner would sometimes attempt to evaluate sub-expressions that
in fact could never be reached, possibly leading to unexpected errors.
Fix postmaster crash when connection acceptance
(accept() or one of the calls made immediately after it)
fails, and the postmaster was compiled with GSSAPI support (Alexander
Chernikov)
Fix missed unlink of temporary files when log_temp_files
is active (Tom Lane)
If an error occurred while attempting to emit the log message, the
unlink was not done, resulting in accumulation of temp files.
Add print functionality for InhRelation nodes (Tom Lane)
This avoids a failure when debug_print_parse is enabled
and certain types of query are executed.
Fix incorrect calculation of distance from a point to a horizontal
line segment (Tom Lane)
This bug affected several different geometric distance-measurement
operators.
Fix PL/pgSQL's handling of "simple"
expressions to not fail in recursion or error-recovery cases (Tom Lane)
Fix PL/Python's handling of set-returning functions
(Jan Urbanski)
Attempts to call SPI functions within the iterator generating a set
result would fail.
Fix bug in contrib/cube's GiST picksplit algorithm
(Alexander Korotkov)
This could result in considerable inefficiency, though not actually
incorrect answers, in a GiST index on a cube column.
If you have such an index, consider REINDEXing it after
installing this update.
Don't emit "identifier will be truncated" notices in
contrib/dblink except when creating new connections
(Itagaki Takahiro)
Fix potential coredump on missing public key in
contrib/pgcrypto (Marti Raudsepp)
Fix memory leak in contrib/xml2's XPath query functions
(Tom Lane)
Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2010o
for DST law changes in Fiji and Samoa;
also historical corrections for Hong Kong.