Change log for postgresql-9.3 package in Debian

postgresql-9.3 (9.3.4-2) unstable; urgency=medium


  * Bump to debhelper 9 to get debug symbol files based on build-ids.
  * Enable multiarch support in libpq and friends. (Closes: #706849)
    Support is automatically disabled when the distribution does not support
    it.
  * Stop providing/replacing/conflicting with postgresql*-dbg.
  * Skip -pie on 32bit archs for performance and stability reasons.
    Closes: #749686; details at
    http://<email address hidden>

 -- Christoph Berg <email address hidden>  Thu, 29 May 2014 20:17:07 +0200

Available diffs

• diff from 9.3.4-1 to 9.3.4-2 (3.1 KiB)

postgresql-9.3 (9.3.4-1) unstable; urgency=medium


  * New upstream bugfix release. Most notable change:

    Fix WAL replay of locking an already-updated tuple (Andres Freund,
    Álvaro Herrera)

    This error caused updated rows to not be found by index scans, resulting
    in inconsistent query results depending on whether an index scan was used.
    Subsequent processing could result in constraint violations, since the
    previously updated row would not be found by later index searches, thus
    possibly allowing conflicting rows to be inserted. Since this error is in
    WAL replay, it would only manifest during crash recovery or on standby
    servers. The improperly-replayed case most commonly arises when a table
    row that is referenced by a foreign-key constraint is updated concurrently
    with creation of a referencing row.

  * Compile with -fno-omit-frame-pointer on amd64 to facilitate hierarchical
    profile generation. (Closes: #730134)
  * Remove obsolete configure option --with-tkconfig.

 -- Christoph Berg <email address hidden>  Tue, 18 Mar 2014 07:19:37 +0100

Available diffs

• diff from 9.3.3-1bzr2 (in Ubuntu) to 9.3.4-1 (578.7 KiB)

postgresql-9.3 (9.3.3-2) unstable; urgency=medium


  [ Martin Pitt ]
  * Add missing build-essential test depends, for 180_ecpg.t.

  [ Christoph Berg ]
  * Don't install server includefiles in libpq-dev. (Closes: #314427)
  * Remove contrib/file_fdw/sql/file_fdw.sql on clean.

 -- Christoph Berg <email address hidden>  Wed, 12 Mar 2014 12:57:20 +0100

postgresql-9.3 (9.3.3-1) unstable; urgency=medium


  [ Christoph Berg ]
  * New upstream security/bugfix release.

    + Shore up GRANT ... WITH ADMIN OPTION restrictions (Noah Misch)

      Granting a role without ADMIN OPTION is supposed to prevent the grantee
      from adding or removing members from the granted role, but this
      restriction was easily bypassed by doing SET ROLE first. The security
      impact is mostly that a role member can revoke the access of others,
      contrary to the wishes of his grantor. Unapproved role member additions
      are a lesser concern, since an uncooperative role member could provide
      most of his rights to others anyway by creating views or SECURITY
      DEFINER functions. (CVE-2014-0060)

    + Prevent privilege escalation via manual calls to PL validator functions
      (Andres Freund)

      The primary role of PL validator functions is to be called implicitly
      during CREATE FUNCTION, but they are also normal SQL functions that a
      user can call explicitly. Calling a validator on a function actually
      written in some other language was not checked for and could be
      exploited for privilege-escalation purposes. The fix involves adding a
      call to a privilege-checking function in each validator function.
      Non-core procedural languages will also need to make this change to
      their own validator functions, if any. (CVE-2014-0061)

    + Avoid multiple name lookups during table and index DDL (Robert Haas,
      Andres Freund)

      If the name lookups come to different conclusions due to concurrent
      activity, we might perform some parts of the DDL on a different table
      than other parts. At least in the case of CREATE INDEX, this can be used
      to cause the permissions checks to be performed against a different
      table than the index creation, allowing for a privilege escalation
      attack. (CVE-2014-0062)

    + Prevent buffer overrun with long datetime strings (Noah Misch)

      The MAXDATELEN constant was too small for the longest possible value of
      type interval, allowing a buffer overrun in interval_out(). Although the
      datetime input functions were more careful about avoiding buffer
      overrun, the limit was short enough to cause them to reject some valid
      inputs, such as input containing a very long timezone name. The ecpg
      library contained these vulnerabilities along with some of its own.
      (CVE-2014-0063)

    + Prevent buffer overrun due to integer overflow in size calculations
      (Noah Misch, Heikki Linnakangas)

      Several functions, mostly type input functions, calculated an allocation
      size without checking for overflow. If overflow did occur, a too-small
      buffer would be allocated and then written past. (CVE-2014-0064)

    + Prevent overruns of fixed-size buffers (Peter Eisentraut, Jozef Mlich)

      Use strlcpy() and related functions to provide a clear guarantee that
      fixed-size buffers are not overrun. Unlike the preceding items, it is
      unclear whether these cases really represent live issues, since in most
      cases there appear to be previous constraints on the size of the input
      string. Nonetheless it seems prudent to silence all Coverity warnings of
      this type. (CVE-2014-0065)

    + Avoid crashing if crypt() returns NULL (Honza Horak, Bruce Momjian)

      There are relatively few scenarios in which crypt() could return NULL,
      but contrib/chkpass would crash if it did. One practical case in which
      this could be an issue is if libc is configured to refuse to execute
      unapproved hashing algorithms (e.g., "FIPS mode"). (CVE-2014-0066)

    + Document risks of make check in the regression testing instructions
      (Noah Misch, Tom Lane)

      Since the temporary server started by make check uses "trust"
      authentication, another user on the same machine could connect to it as
      database superuser, and then potentially exploit the privileges of the
      operating-system user who started the tests. A future release will
      probably incorporate changes in the testing procedure to prevent this
      risk, but some public discussion is needed first. So for the moment,
      just warn people against using make check when there are untrusted users
      on the same machine. (CVE-2014-0067)

    + Rework tuple freezing protocol (Álvaro Herrera, Andres Freund)

      The logic for tuple freezing was unable to handle some cases involving
      freezing of multixact IDs, with the practical effect that shared
      row-level locks might be forgotten once old enough.

      Fixing this required changing the WAL record format for tuple freezing.
      While this is no issue for standalone servers, when using replication it
      means that standby servers must be upgraded to 9.3.3 or later before
      their masters are. An older standby will be unable to interpret freeze
      records generated by a newer master, and will fail with a PANIC message.
      (In such a case, upgrading the standby should be sufficient to let it
      resume execution.)

  * The upstream tarballs no longer contain a plain HISTORY file, but point to
    the html documentation. Note the location of these files in our
    changelog.gz file.
  * Teach configure to find tclsh8.6 where tclsh is not available.

  [ Martin Pitt ]
  * Build with LINUX_OOM_SCORE_ADJ=0 instead of the older LINUX_OOM_ADJ=0. All
    relevant distro releases (>= squeeze/lucid) use kernels which support
    /proc/pid/oom_score_adj, so avoid the dmesg warnings. (Closes: #646245,
    LP: #991725)
  * Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.5 (no changes necessary).
  * Build with tcl8.6 where available (>= Jessie, >= trusty).

 -- Christoph Berg <email address hidden>  Wed, 19 Feb 2014 10:15:39 +0100

Available diffs

• diff from 9.3.2-1ubuntu2 (in Ubuntu) to 9.3.3-1 (1.3 MiB)

postgresql-9.3 (9.3.2-1) unstable; urgency=low


  [ Martin Pitt ]
  * Add 03-config-update.patch: Refresh config.{guess,sub} to latest version
    for enabling ports, in particular the upcoming ppc64el.

  [ Christoph Berg ]
  * New upstream bugfix release.

    + 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. In 9.2.0 and
      later, the probability of loss is higher, and it's also possible to
      get "could not access status of transaction" errors as a
      consequence of this bug. 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 multiple bugs in MultiXactId freezing (Andres Freund, Alvaro
      Herrera)

      These bugs could lead to "could not access status of transaction"
      errors, or to duplicate or vanishing rows. Users upgrading from
      releases prior to 9.3.0 are not affected.
      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 latent corruption but will not be able to fix
      all pre-existing data errors.
      As a separate issue, these bugs can also cause standby servers to
      get out of sync with the primary, thus exhibiting data errors that
      are not in the primary. Therefore, it's recommended that 9.3.0 and
      9.3.1 standby servers be re-cloned from the primary (e.g., with a
      new base backup) after upgrading.

    + 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.

  * Refresh debian/patches/62-pg_upgrade-test-in-tmp.

 -- Christoph Berg <email address hidden>  Tue, 03 Dec 2013 09:18:41 +0100

Available diffs

• diff from 9.3.1-1 to 9.3.2-1 (369.5 KiB)

postgresql-9.3 (9.3.1-1) unstable; urgency=low


  * New upstream release.
    - Update hstore extension with JSON functionality
      Users who installed hstore prior to 9.3.1 must execute:
         ALTER EXTENSION hstore UPDATE;
      to add two new JSON functions and a cast.
    - Some bug fixes, see HISTORY for details.

 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden>  Tue, 08 Oct 2013 10:54:46 +0200

postgresql-9.3 (9.3.0-2) unstable; urgency=low


  [ Martin Pitt ]
  * Drop the "beta" warning from package description, this is the final
    version now.

 -- Christoph Berg <email address hidden>  Tue, 10 Sep 2013 09:34:39 +0200

postgresql-9.3 (9.3.0-1) unstable; urgency=low


  * New upstream release.
  * pgxs.mk: Make the install targets depend on installdirs.

 -- Christoph Berg <email address hidden>  Wed, 04 Sep 2013 18:53:05 +0200

postgresql-9.3 (9.3~rc1-2) unstable; urgency=low


  * Rebuild against Perl 5.18.

 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden>  Tue, 27 Aug 2013 11:27:10 +0200

postgresql-9.3 (9.3~rc1-1) unstable; urgency=low


  [ Martin Pitt ]
  * New upstream release: first 9.3 release candidate.
    - Add locking around SSL_context usage in libpq, to make it thread safe.
      (Closes: #718460)
  * First upload to unstable, 9.3 final will be released soon and now is the
    time for testing and porting extensions.
  * debian/rules: Support multi-arch locations of {tcl,tk}-config.
  * debian/rules: Don't build with kerberos and LDAP support for
    DEB_STAGE=stage1 to aid with bootstrapping.
  * debian/tests/control: Add missing net-tools dependency (for ifconfig).
  * debian/rules: Call dh with --parallel.
  * debian/control: Explicitly Conflicts/Replaces postgresql-9.1-dbg, as that
    did not yet have a "Provides: postgresql-dbg". (Closes: #717982)

  [ Christoph Berg ]
  * Pull 6697aa2bc25c83b88d6165340348a31328c35de6 and
    82b0102650cf85268145a46f0ab488bacf6599a1 from upstream head to better
    support VPATH builds of PGXS modules.
  * debian/rules: Call make check-world without -k and use a random port
    number for pg_regress.

 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden>  Thu, 22 Aug 2013 10:19:13 +0200

postgresql-9.3 (9.3~beta2-2) experimental; urgency=low


  * debian/postgresql-9.3.preinst: Abort upgrade if there are still clusters
    with the 9.3beta1 format, these need to be dumped/dropped first.
    (Closes: #714328)

 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden>  Fri, 28 Jun 2013 14:37:06 +0200

postgresql-9.3 (9.3~beta2-1) experimental; urgency=low


  [ Christoph Berg ]
  * hurd-i386: Ignore testsuite failures so we have a working libpq5 (they
    don't implement semaphores so the server won't even start).
  * Mark postgresql-9.3 as beta in the description, suggested by Joshua D.
    Drake.

  [ Martin Pitt ]
  * New upstream release 9.3 beta2.

 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden>  Wed, 26 Jun 2013 15:13:32 +0200

postgresql-9.3 (9.3~beta1-3) experimental; urgency=low


  * sparc, alpha: Remove -O1 - we have been using this since 2007, but now it
    looks the other way round, "make check" fails on sparc with -O1, but works
    with -O2.
  * kfreebsd-*: Ignore testsuite failures until we resolve the plperl
    failures, see #704802.

 -- Christoph Berg <email address hidden>  Fri, 31 May 2013 16:34:34 -0700

postgresql-9.3 (9.3~beta1-2) experimental; urgency=low


  * Update watch file for 9.3.
  * 64-pg_upgrade-sockdir: If cwd is too long to use as socketdir in
    pg_upgrade, fall back to /tmp. (A Unix socket path must not be longer than
    107 chars.)

 -- Christoph Berg <email address hidden>  Mon, 13 May 2013 23:09:44 -0700

postgresql-9.3 (9.3~beta1-1) experimental; urgency=low


  [ Christoph Berg ]
  * Update for 9.3. Packaging based on 9.2 branch.
  * Remove 03-python-includedirs.patch, implemented upstream.
  * libpq5.symbols: Add new symbols: PQconninfo, lo_lseek64, lo_tell64,
    lo_truncate64.
  * debian/rules: Remove the temporary patches from pg_regress, and teach
    pg_regress to support unix socket dirs in --host.
  * debian/rules: Use "make check-world" to run the regression tests. Thanks
    to Peter Eisentraut for the suggestion.
  * 50-per-version-dirs.patch: Use @MAJORVERSION@ instead of a fixed version.
  * 61-extra_regress_opts: Add EXTRA_REGRESS_OPTS in Makefile.global(.in).
  * 62-pg_upgrade-test-in-tmp: Hardcode /tmp in pg_upgrade's test.sh.
  * 63-pg_upgrade-test-bindir: Pass PSQLDIR to the pg_regress call.
  * postgresql-9.3.install: Add pg_xlogdump.
  * postgresql-client-9.3.install: Add pg_isready.
  * libpq-dev.install: Add usr/lib/libpgcommon.a.
  * libpq-dev.install, libecpg-dev.install: Add pkgconfig files.
  * postgresql-contrib-9.3.install: Add
    usr/lib/postgresql/9.3/lib/postgres_fdw.so.

  [ Martin Pitt ]
  * Bump p-common dependency to >= 142, to ensure compatibility with 9.3,
    particularly for upgrades.

 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden>  Wed, 08 May 2013 05:39:52 +0200