Fix VACUUM's tests to see whether it can
update relfrozenxid (Andres Freund)
In some cases VACUUM (either manual or autovacuum) could
incorrectly advance a table's relfrozenxid value,
allowing tuples to escape freezing, causing those rows to become
invisible once 2^31 transactions have elapsed. The probability of
data loss is fairly low since multiple incorrect advancements would
need to happen before actual loss occurs, but it's not zero. Users
upgrading from releases 9.0.4 or 8.4.8 or earlier are not affected, but
all later versions contain the bug.
The issue can be ameliorated by, after upgrading, vacuuming all tables
in all databases while having vacuum_freeze_table_age
set to zero. This will fix any latent corruption but will not be able
to fix all pre-existing data errors. However, an installation can be
presumed safe after performing this vacuuming if it has executed fewer
than 2^31 update transactions in its lifetime (check this with
SELECT txid_current() < 2^31).
Fix initialization of pg_clog and pg_subtrans
during hot standby startup (Andres Freund, Heikki Linnakangas)
This bug can cause data loss on standby servers at the moment they
start to accept hot-standby queries, by marking committed transactions
as uncommitted. The likelihood of such corruption is small unless, at
the time of standby startup, the primary server has executed many
updating transactions since its last checkpoint. Symptoms include
missing rows, rows that should have been deleted being still visible,
and obsolete versions of updated rows being still visible alongside
their newer versions.
This bug was introduced in versions 9.3.0, 9.2.5, 9.1.10, and 9.0.14.
Standby servers that have only been running earlier releases are not
at risk. It's recommended that standby servers that have ever run any
of the buggy releases be re-cloned from the primary (e.g., with a new
base backup) after upgrading.
Truncate pg_multixact contents during WAL replay
(Andres Freund)
This avoids ever-increasing disk space consumption in standby servers.
Fix race condition in GIN index posting tree page deletion (Heikki
Linnakangas)
This could lead to transient wrong answers or query failures.
Avoid flattening a subquery whose SELECT list contains a
volatile function wrapped inside a sub-SELECT (Tom Lane)
This avoids unexpected results due to extra evaluations of the
volatile function.
Fix planner's processing of non-simple-variable subquery outputs
nested within outer joins (Tom Lane)
This error could lead to incorrect plans for queries involving
multiple levels of subqueries within JOIN syntax.
Fix incorrect generation of optimized MIN()/MAX() plans for
inheritance trees (Tom Lane)
The planner could fail in cases where the MIN()/MAX() argument was an
expression rather than a simple variable.
Fix premature deletion of temporary files (Andres Freund)
Fix possible read past end of memory in rule printing (Peter Eisentraut)
Fix array slicing of int2vector and oidvector values
(Tom Lane)
Expressions of this kind are now implicitly promoted to
regular int2 or oid arrays.
Fix incorrect behaviors when using a SQL-standard, simple GMT offset
timezone (Tom Lane)
In some cases, the system would use the simple GMT offset value when
it should have used the regular timezone setting that had prevailed
before the simple offset was selected. This change also causes
the timeofday function to honor the simple GMT offset
zone.
Prevent possible misbehavior when logging translations of Windows
error codes (Tom Lane)
Properly quote generated command lines in pg_ctl
(Naoya Anzai and Tom Lane)
This fix applies only to Windows.
Fix pg_dumpall to work when a source database
sets default_transaction_read_only
via ALTER DATABASE SET (Kevin Grittner)
Previously, the generated script would fail during restore.
Make ecpg search for quoted cursor names
case-sensitively (Zoltán Böszörményi)
Fix ecpg's processing of lists of variables
declared varchar (Zoltán Böszörményi)
Make contrib/lo defend against incorrect trigger definitions
(Marc Cousin)
Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2013h
for DST law changes in Argentina, Brazil, Jordan, Libya,
Liechtenstein, Morocco, and Palestine. Also, new timezone
abbreviations WIB, WIT, WITA for Indonesia.