-
postgresql-8.4 (8.4.10-1~hardy1) hardy-backports; urgency=low
* Automated backport upload; no source changes.
postgresql-8.4 (8.4.10-1) unstable; urgency=low
* New upstream bug fix release:
- Fix bugs in information_schema.referential_constraints view.
This view was being insufficiently careful about matching the
foreign-key constraint to the depended-on primary or unique key
constraint. That could result in failure to show a foreign key
constraint at all, or showing it multiple times, or claiming that
it depends on a different constraint than the one it really does.
Since the view definition is installed by initdb, merely upgrading
will not fix the problem. If you need to fix this in an existing
installation, you can (as a superuser) drop the information_schema
schema then re-create it by sourcing
"SHAREDIR/information_schema.sql". (Run pg_config --sharedir if
you're uncertain where "SHAREDIR" is.) This must be repeated in
each database to be fixed.
- Fix incorrect replay of WAL records for GIN index updates.
This could result in transiently failing to find index entries
after a crash, or on a hot-standby server. The problem would be
repaired by the next "VACUUM" of the index, however.
- Fix TOAST-related data corruption during CREATE TABLE dest AS
SELECT - FROM src or INSERT INTO dest SELECT * FROM src.
If a table has been modified by "ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN", attempts
to copy its data verbatim to another table could produce corrupt
results in certain corner cases. The problem can only manifest in
this precise form in 8.4 and later, but we patched earlier versions
as well in case there are other code paths that could trigger the
same bug.
- Fix race condition during toast table access from stale syscache
entries.
- Track dependencies of functions on items used in parameter default
expressions. Previously, a referenced object could be dropped without
having dropped or modified the function, leading to misbehavior when the
function was used. Note that merely installing this update will not fix
the missing dependency entries; to do that, you'd need to "CREATE OR
REPLACE" each such function afterwards. If you have functions whose
defaults depend on non-built-in objects, doing so is recommended.
- Allow inlining of set-returning SQL functions with multiple OUT
parameters.
- Make DatumGetInetP() unpack inet datums that have a 1-byte header,
and add a new macro, DatumGetInetPP(), that does not.
- Improve locale support in money type's input and output.
Aside from not supporting all standard lc_monetary formatting
options, the input and output functions were inconsistent, meaning
there were locales in which dumped money values could not be
re-read.
- Don't let transform_null_equals affect CASE foo WHEN NULL ...
constructs. transform_null_equals is only supposed to affect foo = NULL
expressions written directly by the user, not equality checks
generated internally by this form of CASE.
- Change foreign-key trigger creation order to better support
self-referential foreign keys. For a cascading foreign key that
references its own table, a row update will fire both the ON UPDATE
trigger and the CHECK trigger as one event. The ON UPDATE trigger must
execute first, else the CHECK will check a non-final state of the row
and possibly throw an inappropriate error. However, the firing order of
these triggers is determined by their names, which generally sort in
creation order since the triggers have auto-generated names following
the convention "RI_ConstraintTrigger_NNNN". A proper fix would require
modifying that convention, which we will do in 9.2, but it seems risky
to change it in existing releases. So this patch just changes the
creation order of the triggers. Users encountering this type of error
should drop and re-create the foreign key constraint to get its triggers
into the right order.
- Avoid floating-point underflow while tracking buffer allocation
rate.
- Preserve blank lines within commands in psql's command history.
The former behavior could cause problems if an empty line was
removed from within a string literal, for example.
- Fix pg_dump to dump user-defined casts between auto-generated
types, such as table rowtypes.
- Use the preferred version of xsubpp to build PL/Perl, not
necessarily the operating system's main copy.
- Fix incorrect coding in "contrib/dict_int" and "contrib/dict_xsyn".
- Honor query cancel interrupts promptly in pgstatindex().
- Ensure VPATH builds properly install all server header files.
- Shorten file names reported in verbose error messages.
Regular builds have always reported just the name of the C file
containing the error message call, but VPATH builds formerly
reported an absolute path name.
-- Ubuntu Archive Auto-Backport <email address hidden> Thu, 15 Dec 2011 10:14:04 +0000
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postgresql-8.4 (8.4.9-1~hardy1) hardy-backports; urgency=low
* Automated backport upload; no source changes.
postgresql-8.4 (8.4.9-1) unstable; urgency=low
* New upstream bug fix release:
- Fix bugs in indexing of in-doubt HOT-updated tuples.
These bugs could result in index corruption after reindexing a
system catalog. They are not believed to affect user indexes.
- Fix multiple bugs in GiST index page split processing.
The probability of occurrence was low, but these could lead to
index corruption.
- Fix possible buffer overrun in tsvector_concat().
The function could underestimate the amount of memory needed for
its result, leading to server crashes.
- Fix crash in xml_recv when processing a "standalone" parameter.
- Make pg_options_to_table return NULL for an option with no value.
Previously such cases would result in a server crash.
- Avoid possibly accessing off the end of memory in "ANALYZE" and in
SJIS-2004 encoding conversion.
This fixes some very-low-probability server crash scenarios.
- Prevent intermittent hang in interactions of startup process with
bgwriter process.
This affected recovery in non-hot-standby cases.
- Fix race condition in relcache init file invalidation.
There was a window wherein a new backend process could read a stale
init file but miss the inval messages that would tell it the data
is stale. The result would be bizarre failures in catalog accesses,
typically "could not read block 0 in file ..." later during
startup.
- Fix memory leak at end of a GiST index scan.
Commands that perform many separate GiST index scans, such as
verification of a new GiST-based exclusion constraint on a table
already containing many rows, could transiently require large
amounts of memory due to this leak.
- Fix incorrect memory accounting (leading to possible memory bloat)
in tuplestores supporting holdable cursors and plpgsql's RETURN
NEXT command.
- Fix performance problem when constructing a large, lossy bitmap.
- Fix join selectivity estimation for unique columns.
This fixes an erroneous planner heuristic that could lead to poor
estimates of the result size of a join.
- Fix nested PlaceHolderVar expressions that appear only in
sub-select target lists. This mistake could result in outputs of an
outer join incorrectly appearing as NULL.
- Allow nested EXISTS queries to be optimized properly.
- Fix array- and path-creating functions to ensure padding bytes are
zeroes. This avoids some situations where the planner will think that
semantically-equal constants are not equal, resulting in poor
optimization.
- Fix "EXPLAIN" to handle gating Result nodes within inner-indexscan
subplans. The usual symptom of this oversight was "bogus varno" errors.
- Work around gcc 4.6.0 bug that breaks WAL replay. This could lead to
loss of committed transactions after a server crash.
- Fix dump bug for VALUES in a view.
- Disallow SELECT FOR UPDATE/SHARE on sequences.
This operation doesn't work as expected and can lead to failures.
- Fix "VACUUM" so that it always updates pg_class.reltuples/relpages.
This fixes some scenarios where autovacuum could make increasingly
poor decisions about when to vacuum tables.
- Defend against integer overflow when computing size of a hash table.
- Fix cases where "CLUSTER" might attempt to access already-removed
TOAST data.
- Fix portability bugs in use of credentials control messages for
"peer" authentication.
- Fix SSPI login when multiple roundtrips are required.
The typical symptom of this problem was "The function requested is
not supported" errors during SSPI login.
- Throw an error if "pg_hba.conf" contains hostssl but SSL is
disabled. This was concluded to be more user-friendly than the
previous behavior of silently ignoring such lines.
- Fix typo in pg_srand48 seed initialization.
This led to failure to use all bits of the provided seed. This
function is not used on most platforms (only those without
srandom), and the potential security exposure from a
less-random-than-expected seed seems minimal in any case.
- Avoid integer overflow when the sum of LIMIT and OFFSET values
exceeds 2^63.
- Add overflow checks to int4 and int8 versions of generate_series().
- Fix trailing-zero removal in to_char(). In a format with FM and no
digit positions after the decimal point, zeroes to the left of the
decimal point could be removed incorrectly.
- Fix pg_size_pretty() to avoid overflow for inputs close to 2^63.
- Weaken plpgsql's check for typmod matching in record values.
An overly enthusiastic check could lead to discarding length
modifiers that should have been kept.
- Fix pg_upgrade to preserve toast tables' relfrozenxids during an
upgrade from 8.3. Failure to do this could lead to "pg_clog" files
being removed too soon after the upgrade.
- Fix psql's counting of script file line numbers during COPY from a
different file.
- Fix pg_restore's direct-to-database mode for
standard_conforming_strings. pg_restore could emit incorrect commands
when restoring directly to a database server from an archive file that
had been made with standard_conforming_strings set to on.
- Be more user-friendly about unsupported cases for parallel
pg_restore. This change ensures that such cases are detected and
reported before any restore actions have been taken.
- Fix write-past-buffer-end and memory leak in libpq's LDAP service
lookup code.
- In libpq, avoid failures when using nonblocking I/O and an SSL
connection.
- Improve libpq's handling of failures during connection startup.
In particular, the response to a server report of fork() failure
during SSL connection startup is now saner.
- Improve libpq's error reporting for SSL failures.
- Fix PQsetvalue() to avoid possible crash when adding a new tuple to
a PGresult originally obtained from a server query.
- Make ecpglib write double values with 15 digits precision.
- In ecpglib, be sure LC_NUMERIC setting is restored after an error.
- Apply upstream fix for blowfish signed-character bug
(CVE-2011-2483) (Closes: #631285)
"contrib/pg_crypto"'s blowfish encryption code could give wrong
results on platforms where char is signed (which is most), leading
to encrypted passwords being weaker than they should be.
- Fix memory leak in "contrib/seg".
- Fix pgstatindex() to give consistent results for empty indexes.
- Allow building with perl 5.14. (Closes: #628503)
* Drop 16-cmsgcred-size.patch, fixed upstream in a different way.
postgresql-8.4 (8.4.8-2) unstable; urgency=low
* debian/postgresql-8.4.postrm: Clean up pg_ctl.conf on purge.
* debian/control, debian/rules: Drop usage of pycentral. We don't ship any
Python extension/module, so we don't need a python helper at all.
(Closes: #616948)
* Add 16-cmsgcred-size.patch: Fix size of struct cmsgcred to fix ident
authentication on kFreeBSD 64 bit. Thanks to Petr Salinger for the patch!
(Closes: #612888)
postgresql-8.4 (8.4.8-1) unstable; urgency=medium
Priority medium due to data-loss pg_upgrade bug.
[ Martin Pitt ]
* New upstream bug fix release:
- If your installation was upgraded from a previous major release by
running pg_upgrade, you should take action to prevent possible data loss
due to a now-fixed bug in pg_upgrade. The recommended solution is to run
"VACUUM FREEZE" on all TOAST tables. More information is available at
http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/20110408pg_upgrade_fix.
- Fix pg_upgrade's handling of TOAST tables.
This error poses a significant risk of data loss for installations
that have been upgraded with pg_upgrade. This patch corrects the
problem for future uses of pg_upgrade, but does not in itself cure
the issue in installations that have been processed with a buggy
version of pg_upgrade.
- Suppress incorrect "PD_ALL_VISIBLE flag was incorrectly set"
warning.
- Disallow including a composite type in itself.
- Avoid potential deadlock during catalog cache initialization.
- Fix dangling-pointer problem in BEFORE ROW UPDATE trigger handling
when there was a concurrent update to the target tuple.
- Disallow "DROP TABLE" when there are pending deferred trigger
events for the table.
Formerly the "DROP" would go through, leading to "could not open
relation with OID nnn" errors when the triggers were eventually
fired.
- Prevent crash triggered by constant-false WHERE conditions during
GEQO optimization.
- Improve planner's handling of semi-join and anti-join cases.
- Fix selectivity estimation for text search to account for NULLs.
- Improve PL/pgSQL's ability to handle row types with dropped columns.
- Fix PL/Python memory leak involving array slices.
- Fix pg_restore to cope with long lines (over 1KB) in TOC files.
- Put in more safeguards against crashing due to division-by-zero
with overly enthusiastic compiler optimization. (Closes: #616180)
* debian/control: Stop building the versionless metapackages and client-side
libraries, they are built by postgresql-9.0 now. Add libpq-dev build
dependency.
* debian/rules: Drop check for uninstalled files, since it'd now break the
build due to the uninstalled libraries.
[ Matthias Klose ]
* Add 15-bool-altivec.patch: Fix definition of bool on __APPLE_ALTIVEC__
architecture (ppc64).
postgresql-8.4 (8.4.7-1) unstable; urgency=low
* New upstream security/bug fix release:
- Fix buffer overrun in "contrib/intarray"'s input function for the
query_int type.
This bug is a security risk since the function's return address
could be overwritten. Thanks to Apple Inc's security team for
reporting this issue and supplying the fix. (CVE-2010-4015)
- Avoid failures when "EXPLAIN" tries to display a simple-form CASE
expression.
If the CASE's test expression was a constant, the planner could
simplify the CASE into a form that confused the expression-display
code, resulting in "unexpected CASE WHEN clause" errors.
- Fix assignment to an array slice that is before the existing range
of subscripts.
If there was a gap between the newly added subscripts and the first
pre-existing subscript, the code miscalculated how many entries
needed to be copied from the old array's null bitmap, potentially
leading to data corruption or crash.
- Avoid unexpected conversion overflow in planner for very distant
date values.
The date type supports a wider range of dates than can be
represented by the timestamp types, but the planner assumed it
could always convert a date to timestamp with impunity.
- Fix pg_restore's text output for large objects (BLOBs) when
standard_conforming_strings is on.
Although restoring directly to a database worked correctly, string
escaping was incorrect if pg_restore was asked for SQL text output
and standard_conforming_strings had been enabled in the source
database.
- Fix erroneous parsing of tsquery values containing ... &
!(subexpression) | ... .
Queries containing this combination of operators were not executed
correctly. The same error existed in "contrib/intarray"'s query_int
type and "contrib/ltree"'s ltxtquery type.
- Fix bug in "contrib/seg"'s GiST picksplit algorithm.
This could result in considerable inefficiency, though not actually
incorrect answers, in a GiST index on a seg column. If you have
such an index, consider "REINDEX"ing it after installing this
update. (This is identical to the bug that was fixed in
"contrib/cube" in the previous update.)
-- Ubuntu Archive Auto-Backport <email address hidden> Thu, 27 Oct 2011 06:13:09 +0000
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postgresql-8.4 (8.4.6-1~hardy1) hardy-backports; urgency=low
* Automated backport upload; no source changes.
postgresql-8.4 (8.4.6-1) unstable; urgency=low
* New upstream bug fix release:
- Force the default wal_sync_method to be fdatasync on Linux.
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.
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.
- Fix persistent slowdown of autovacuum workers when multiple workers
remain active for a long time.
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.
The IA64 architecture has two hardware stacks. Full prevention of
stack-overrun failures requires checking both.
- Add a check for stack overflow in copyObject().
Certain code paths could crash due to stack overflow given a
sufficiently complex query.
- Fix detection of page splits in temporary GiST indexes.
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.
- Fix error checking during early connection processing.
The check for too many child processes was skipped in some cases,
possibly leading to postmaster crash when attempting to add the new
child process to fixed-size arrays.
- Improve efficiency of window functions.
Certain cases where a large number of tuples needed to be read in
advance, but work_mem was large enough to allow them all to be held
in memory, were unexpectedly slow. percent_rank(), cume_dist() and
ntile() in particular were subject to this problem.
- Avoid memory leakage while "ANALYZE"'ing complex index expressions.
- Ensure an index that uses a whole-row Var still depends on its
table.
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.
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.
- Fix constant-folding of COALESCE() expressions.
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.
- Fix missed unlink of temporary files when log_temp_files is active.
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.
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.
This bug affected several different geometric distance-measurement
operators.
- Fix incorrect calculation of transaction status in ecpg.
- Fix PL/pgSQL's handling of "simple" expressions to not fail in
recursion or error-recovery cases.
- Fix PL/Python's handling of set-returning functions.
Attempts to call SPI functions within the iterator generating a set
result would fail.
- Fix bug in "contrib/cube"'s GiST picksplit algorithm.
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 "REINDEX"ing it after installing this
update.
- Don't emit "identifier will be truncated" notices in
"contrib/dblink" except when creating new connections.
- Fix potential coredump on missing public key in "contrib/pgcrypto".
- Fix memory leak in "contrib/xml2"'s XPath query functions.
postgresql-8.4 (8.4.5-2) unstable; urgency=low
* debian/control: Build against libedit instead of libreadline. We can't
simultaneously link against readline (GPL) and libssl (incompatible with
GPL). (Closes: #603598)
postgresql-8.4 (8.4.5-1) unstable; urgency=medium
* Urgency medium, since this fixes a security bug (but also a lot of other
bugs, it's not a pinpointed patch).
* New upstream security/bug fix update:
- Use a separate interpreter for each calling SQL userid in PL/Perl
and PL/Tcl.
This change prevents security problems that can be caused by
subverting Perl or Tcl code that will be executed later in the same
session under another SQL user identity (for example, within a
SECURITY DEFINER function). Most scripting languages offer numerous
ways that that might be done, such as redefining standard functions
or operators called by the target function. Without this change,
any SQL user with Perl or Tcl language usage rights can do
essentially anything with the SQL privileges of the target
function's owner.
The cost of this change is that intentional communication among
Perl and Tcl functions becomes more difficult. To provide an escape
hatch, PL/PerlU and PL/TclU functions continue to use only one
interpreter per session. This is not considered a security issue
since all such functions execute at the trust level of a database
superuser already.
It is likely that third-party procedural languages that claim to
offer trusted execution have similar security issues. We advise
contacting the authors of any PL you are depending on for
security-critical purposes.
Our thanks to Tim Bunce for pointing out this issue
(CVE-2010-3433).
- Prevent possible crashes in pg_get_expr() by disallowing it from
being called with an argument that is not one of the system catalog
columns it's intended to be used with.
- Fix incorrect placement of placeholder evaluation.
This bug could result in query outputs being non-null when they
should be null, in cases where the inner side of an outer join is a
sub-select with non-strict expressions in its output list.
- Fix possible duplicate scans of UNION ALL member relations.
- Fix "cannot handle unplanned sub-select" error.
This occurred when a sub-select contains a join alias reference
that expands into an expression containing another sub-select.
- Fix mishandling of whole-row Vars that reference a view or
sub-select and appear within a nested sub-select.
- Fix mishandling of cross-type IN comparisons.
This could result in failures if the planner tried to implement an
IN join with a sort-then-unique-then-plain-join plan.
- Fix computation of "ANALYZE" statistics for tsvector columns.
The original coding could produce incorrect statistics, leading to
poor plan choices later.
- Improve planner's estimate of memory used by array_agg(),
string_agg(), and similar aggregate functions.
The previous drastic underestimate could lead to out-of-memory
failures due to inappropriate choice of a hash-aggregation plan.
- Fix failure to mark cached plans as transient.
If a plan is prepared while "CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY" is in
progress for one of the referenced tables, it is supposed to be
re-planned once the index is ready for use. This was not happening
reliably.
- Reduce PANIC to ERROR in some occasionally-reported btree failure
cases, and provide additional detail in the resulting error
messages.
This should improve the system's robustness with corrupted indexes.
- Fix incorrect search logic for partial-match queries with GIN
indexes.
Cases involving AND/OR combination of several GIN index conditions
didn't always give the right answer, and were sometimes much slower
than necessary.
- Prevent show_session_authorization() from crashing within
autovacuum processes.
- Defend against functions returning setof record where not all the
returned rows are actually of the same rowtype.
- Fix possible corruption of pending trigger event lists during
subtransaction rollback.
This could lead to a crash or incorrect firing of triggers.
- Fix possible failure when hashing a pass-by-reference function
result.
- Improve merge join's handling of NULLs in the join columns.
A merge join can now stop entirely upon reaching the first NULL, if
the sort order is such that NULLs sort high.
- Take care to fsync the contents of lockfiles (both "postmaster.pid"
and the socket lockfile) while writing them.
This omission could result in corrupted lockfile contents if the
machine crashes shortly after postmaster start. That could in turn
prevent subsequent attempts to start the postmaster from
succeeding, until the lockfile is manually removed.
- Avoid recursion while assigning XIDs to heavily-nested
subtransactions.
The original coding could result in a crash if there was limited
stack space.
- Avoid holding open old WAL segments in the walwriter process.
The previous coding would prevent removal of no-longer-needed
segments.
- Fix log_line_prefix's %i escape, which could produce junk early in
backend startup.
- Prevent misinterpretation of partially-specified relation options
for TOAST tables.
In particular, fillfactor would be read as zero if any other
reloption had been set for the table, leading to serious bloat.
- Fix inheritance count tracking in "ALTER TABLE ... ADD CONSTRAINT"
- Fix possible data corruption in "ALTER TABLE ... SET TABLESPACE"
when archiving is enabled.
- Allow "CREATE DATABASE" and "ALTER DATABASE ... SET TABLESPACE" to
be interrupted by query-cancel.
- Improve "CREATE INDEX"'s checking of whether proposed index
expressions are immutable.
- Fix "REASSIGN OWNED" to handle operator classes and families.
- Fix possible core dump when comparing two empty tsquery values.
- Fix LIKE's handling of patterns containing % followed by _.
We've fixed this before, but there were still some
incorrectly-handled cases.
- Re-allow input of Julian dates prior to 0001-01-01 AD.
Input such as 'J100000'::date worked before 8.4, but was
unintentionally broken by added error-checking.
- Fix PL/pgSQL to throw an error, not crash, if a cursor is closed
within a FOR loop that is iterating over that cursor.
- In PL/Python, defend against null pointer results from
PyCObject_AsVoidPtr and PyCObject_FromVoidPtr.
- In libpq, fix full SSL certificate verification for the case where
both host and hostaddr are specified.
- Make psql recognize "DISCARD ALL" as a command that should not be
encased in a transaction block in autocommit-off mode.
- Fix some issues in pg_dump's handling of SQL/MED objects.
Notably, pg_dump would always fail if run by a non-superuser, which
was not intended.
- Improve pg_dump and pg_restore's handling of non-seekable archive
files.
This is important for proper functioning of parallel restore.
- Improve parallel pg_restore's ability to cope with selective
restore (-L option).
The original code tended to fail if the -L file commanded a
non-default restore ordering.
- Fix ecpg to process data from RETURNING clauses correctly.
- Fix some memory leaks in ecpg.
- Improve "contrib/dblink"'s handling of tables containing dropped
columns.
- Fix connection leak after "duplicate connection name" errors in
"contrib/dblink".
- Fix "contrib/dblink" to handle connection names longer than 62
bytes correctly.
- Add hstore(text, text) function to "contrib/hstore".
This function is the recommended substitute for the now-deprecated
=> operator. It was back-patched so that future-proofed code can be
used with older server versions. Note that the patch will be
effective only after "contrib/hstore" is installed or reinstalled
in a particular database. Users might prefer to execute the "CREATE
FUNCTION" command by hand, instead.
- Update build infrastructure and documentation to reflect the source
code repository's move from CVS to Git.
* debian/postgresql-8.4.preinst: Add missing debhelper token.
* debian/control: Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.1 (no changes necessary).
postgresql-8.4 (8.4.4-2) unstable; urgency=low
* Migrate to a common init script for all server versions, to avoid
providing the "postgresql" service in multiple packages (which causes
insserv to complain bitterly):
- Drop debian/postgresql-8.4.init.
- debian/control: Bump dependency to postgresql-common to ensure we have a
common /etc/init.d/postgresql init script.
- debian/postgresql-8.4.preinst: Remove/rename our init script on upgrade.
- debian/postgresql-8.4.prerm: Call stop_version on upgrade.
- debian/rules: Drop dh_installinit arguments.
- (Closes: #585890)
-- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Mon, 03 Jan 2011 08:57:10 +0000
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postgresql-8.4 (8.4.4-1~hardy1) hardy-backports; urgency=low
* Automated backport upload; no source changes.
postgresql-8.4 (8.4.4-1) unstable; urgency=medium
* Urgency medium due to security fixes.
* New upstream security/bug fix release:
- Enforce restrictions in plperl using an opmask applied to the whole
interpreter, instead of using "Safe.pm".
Recent developments have convinced us that "Safe.pm" is too
insecure to rely on for making plperl trustable. This change
removes use of "Safe.pm" altogether, in favor of using a separate
interpreter with an opcode mask that is always applied. Pleasant
side effects of the change include that it is now possible to use
Perl's strict pragma in a natural way in plperl, and that Perl's $a
and $b variables work as expected in sort routines, and that
function compilation is significantly faster. (CVE-2010-1169)
- Prevent PL/Tcl from executing untrustworthy code from pltcl_modules.
PL/Tcl's feature for autoloading Tcl code from a database table
could be exploited for trojan-horse attacks, because there was no
restriction on who could create or insert into that table. This
change disables the feature unless pltcl_modules is owned by a
superuser. (However, the permissions on the table are not checked,
so installations that really need a less-than-secure modules table
can still grant suitable privileges to trusted non-superusers.)
Also, prevent loading code into the unrestricted "normal" Tcl
interpreter unless we are really going to execute a pltclu
function. (CVE-2010-1170)
- Fix data corruption during WAL replay of ALTER ... SET TABLESPACE.
When archive_mode is on, ALTER ... SET TABLESPACE generates a WAL
record whose replay logic was incorrect. It could write the data to
the wrong place, leading to possibly-unrecoverable data corruption.
Data corruption would be observed on standby slaves, and could
occur on the master as well if a database crash and recovery
occurred after committing the ALTER and before the next checkpoint.
- Fix possible crash if a cache reset message is received during
rebuild of a relcache entry.
This error was introduced in 8.4.3 while fixing a related failure.
- Apply per-function GUC settings while running the language
validator for the function. This avoids failures if the function's code
is invalid without the setting; an example is that SQL functions may not
parse if the search_path is not correct.
- Do constraint exclusion for inherited "UPDATE" and "DELETE" target
tables when constraint_exclusion = partition.
Due to an oversight, this setting previously only caused constraint
exclusion to be checked in "SELECT" commands.
- Do not allow an unprivileged user to reset superuser-only parameter
settings.
Previously, if an unprivileged user ran ALTER USER ... RESET ALL
for himself, or ALTER DATABASE ... RESET ALL for a database he
owns, this would remove all special parameter settings for the user
or database, even ones that are only supposed to be changeable by a
superuser. Now, the "ALTER" will only remove the parameters that
the user has permission to change.
- Avoid possible crash during backend shutdown if shutdown occurs
when a CONTEXT addition would be made to log entries.
In some cases the context-printing function would fail because the
current transaction had already been rolled back when it came time
to print a log message.
- Fix erroneous handling of %r parameter in recovery_end_command.
The value always came out zero.
- Ensure the archiver process responds to changes in archive_command
as soon as possible.
- Fix pl/pgsql's CASE statement to not fail when the case expression
is a query that returns no rows.
- Update pl/perl's "ppport.h" for modern Perl versions.
- Fix assorted memory leaks in pl/python.
- Handle empty-string connect parameters properly in ecpg.
- Prevent infinite recursion in psql when expanding a variable that
refers to itself.
- Fix psql's \copy to not add spaces around a dot within \copy
(select ...).
Addition of spaces around the decimal point in a numeric literal
would result in a syntax error.
- Avoid formatting failure in psql when running in a locale context
that doesn't match the client_encoding.
- Fix unnecessary "GIN indexes do not support whole-index scans"
errors for unsatisfiable queries using "contrib/intarray" operators.
- Ensure that "contrib/pgstattuple" functions respond to cancel
interrupts promptly.
-- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Wed, 19 May 2010 09:26:41 +0100
-
postgresql-8.4 (8.4.3-1~hardy1) hardy-backports; urgency=low
* Automated backport upload; no source changes.
postgresql-8.4 (8.4.3-1) unstable; urgency=low
* New upstream bug fix release:
- Add new configuration parameter ssl_renegotiation_limit to control
how often we do session key renegotiation for an SSL connection.
This can be set to zero to disable renegotiation completely, which
may be required if a broken SSL library is used. In particular,
some vendors are shipping stopgap patches for CVE-2009-3555 that
cause renegotiation attempts to fail.
- Fix possible deadlock during backend startup.
- Fix possible crashes due to not handling errors during relcache
reload cleanly.
- Fix possible crash due to use of dangling pointer to a cached plan.
- Fix possible crash due to overenthusiastic invalidation of cached
plan for "ROLLBACK".
- Fix possible crashes when trying to recover from a failure in
subtransaction start.
- Fix server memory leak associated with use of savepoints and a
client encoding different from server's encoding.
- Fix incorrect WAL data emitted during end-of-recovery cleanup of a
GIST index page split.
- Fix bug in WAL redo cleanup method for GIN indexes.
- Fix incorrect comparison of scan key in GIN index search.
- Make substring() for bit types treat any negative length as meaning
"all the rest of the string". The previous coding treated only -1 that
way, and would produce an invalid result value for other negative
values, possibly leading to a crash (CVE-2010-0442).
- Fix integer-to-bit-string conversions to handle the first
fractional byte correctly when the output bit width is wider than
the given integer by something other than a multiple of 8 bits.
- Fix some cases of pathologically slow regular expression matching.
- Fix bug occurring when trying to inline a SQL function that returns
a set of a composite type that contains dropped columns.
- Fix bug with trying to update a field of an element of a
composite-type array column.
- Avoid failure when "EXPLAIN" has to print a FieldStore or
assignment ArrayRef expression.
These cases can arise now that "EXPLAIN VERBOSE" tries to print
plan node target lists.
- Avoid an unnecessary coercion failure in some cases where an
undecorated literal string appears in a subquery within
"UNION"/"INTERSECT"/"EXCEPT".
This fixes a regression for some cases that worked before 8.4.
- Avoid undesirable rowtype compatibility check failures in some
cases where a whole-row Var has a rowtype that contains dropped
columns.
- Fix the STOP WAL LOCATION entry in backup history files to report
the next WAL segment's name when the end location is exactly at a
segment boundary.
- Always pass the catalog ID to an option validator function
specified in "CREATE FOREIGN DATA WRAPPER".
- Fix some more cases of temporary-file leakage.
This corrects a problem introduced in the previous minor release.
One case that failed is when a plpgsql function returning set is
called within another function's exception handler.
- Add support for doing FULL JOIN ON FALSE.
This prevents a regression from pre-8.4 releases for some queries
that can now be simplified to a constant-false join condition.
- Improve constraint exclusion processing of boolean-variable cases,
in particular make it possible to exclude a partition that has a
"bool_column = false" constraint.
- Prevent treating an INOUT cast as representing binary compatibility.
- Include column name in the message when warning about inability to
grant or revoke column-level privileges.
This is more useful than before and helps to prevent confusion when
a "REVOKE" generates multiple messages, which formerly appeared to
be duplicates.
- When reading "pg_hba.conf" and related files, do not treat
@something as a file inclusion request if the @ appears inside
quote marks; also, never treat @ by itself as a file inclusion
request.
This prevents erratic behavior if a role or database name starts
with @. If you need to include a file whose path name contains
spaces, you can still do so, but you must write @"/path to/file"
rather than putting the quotes around the whole construct.
- Prevent infinite loop on some platforms if a directory is named as
an inclusion target in "pg_hba.conf" and related files.
- Fix possible infinite loop if SSL_read or SSL_write fails without
setting errno.
This is reportedly possible with some Windows versions of openssl.
- Disallow GSSAPI authentication on local connections, since it
requires a hostname to function correctly.
- Protect ecpg against applications freeing strings unexpectedly.
- Make ecpg report the proper SQLSTATE if the connection disappears.
- Fix translation of cell contents in psql \d output.
- Fix psql's numericlocale option to not format strings it shouldn't
in latex and troff output formats.
- Fix a small per-query memory leak in psql.
- Make psql return the correct exit status (3) when ON_ERROR_STOP and
--single-transaction are both specified and an error occurs during
the implied "COMMIT".
- Fix pg_dump's output of permissions for foreign servers.
- Fix possible crash in parallel pg_restore due to out-of-range
dependency IDs.
- Fix plpgsql failure in one case where a composite column is set to
NULL.
- Fix possible failure when calling PL/Perl functions from PL/PerlU
or vice versa.
- Add volatile markings in PL/Python to avoid possible
compiler-specific misbehavior>
- Ensure PL/Tcl initializes the Tcl interpreter.
The only known symptom of this oversight is that the Tcl clock
command misbehaves if using Tcl 8.5 or later.
- Prevent ExecutorEnd from being run on portals created within a
failed transaction or subtransaction.
This is known to cause issues when using "contrib/auto_explain".
- Prevent crash in "contrib/dblink" when too many key columns are
specified to a dblink_build_sql_- function.
- Allow zero-dimensional arrays in "contrib/ltree" operations.
This case was formerly rejected as an error, but it's more
convenient to treat it the same as a zero-element array. In
particular this avoids unnecessary failures when an ltree operation
is applied to the result of ARRAY(SELECT ...) and the sub-select
returns no rows.
- Fix assorted crashes in "contrib/xml2" caused by sloppy memory
management.
* Rebuild against libossp-uuid16. (Closes: #570108, LP: #538284)
postgresql-8.4 (8.4.2-2) unstable; urgency=low
[ Alexander Sack ]
* Add 04-armel-tas.patch: Fix ftbfs on armel: Use gcc intrinsics rather
than assembler to implement tas (test and set). (LP: #497331)
[ Martin Pitt ]
* Drop 15-dict-fallback-dir.patch: p-common 104 now directly creates the
names tsearch is looking for. Bump p-common dependency accordingly.
-- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Wed, 14 Apr 2010 10:48:18 +0100
-
postgresql-8.4 (8.4.2-1~hardy1) hardy-backports; urgency=low
* Automated backport upload; no source changes.
postgresql-8.4 (8.4.2-1) unstable; urgency=medium
Medium urgency due to security fixes.
[ Peter Eisentraut ]
* debian/control: Added Homepage
* debian/control: Added ${misc:Depends} on all packages, per lintian
* debian/control: Added versioned dependencies on the shared libraries used
by the libecpg-dev package
* debian/control: Removed obsolete build dependency bzip2
* debian/control: Added Vcs fields
[ Martin Pitt ]
* New upstream security/bug fix release:
- Protect against indirect security threats caused by index functions
changing session-local state. This change prevents allegedly-immutable
index functions from possibly subverting a superuser's session
(CVE-2009-4136).
- Reject SSL certificates containing an embedded null byte in the
common name (CN) field. This prevents unintended matching of a
certificate to a server or client name during SSL validation
(CVE-2009-4034).
- Fix hash index corruption. The 8.4 change that made hash indexes keep
entries sorted by hash value failed to update the bucket splitting and
compaction routines to preserve the ordering. So application of either
of those operations could lead to permanent corruption of an index, in
the sense that searches might fail to find entries that are present. To
deal with this, it is recommended to REINDEX any hash indexes you may
have after installing this update.
- Fix possible crash during backend-startup-time cache initialization.
- Avoid crash on empty thesaurus dictionary.
- Prevent signals from interrupting VACUUM at unsafe times.
- Fix possible crash due to integer overflow in hash table size
calculation.
- Fix crash if a DROP is attempted on an internally-dependent object.
- Fix very rare crash in inet/cidr comparisons.
- Ensure that shared tuple-level locks held by prepared transactions
are not ignored.
- Fix premature drop of temporary files used for a cursor that is
accessed within a subtransaction.
- Fix memory leak in syslogger process when rotating to a new CSV
logfile.
- Fix memory leak in postmaster when re-parsing "pg_hba.conf".
- Make FOR UPDATE/SHARE in the primary query not propagate into WITH
queries.
- Fix bug with a WITH RECURSIVE query immediately inside another one.
- Fix concurrency bug in hash indexes.
- Fix incorrect logic for GiST index page splits, when the split
depends on a non-first column of the index.
- Fix wrong search results for a multi-column GIN index with
fastupdate enabled.
- Fix bugs in WAL entry creation for GIN indexes.
- Don't error out if recycling or removing an old WAL file fails at
the end of checkpoint.
- Fix PAM password processing to be more robust.
The previous code is known to fail with the combination of the
Linux pam_krb5 PAM module with Microsoft Active Directory as the
domain controller. It might have problems elsewhere too, since it
was making unjustified assumptions about what arguments the PAM
stack would pass to it.
- Raise the maximum authentication token (Kerberos ticket) size in
GSSAPI and SSPI authentication methods. While the old 2000-byte limit
was more than enough for Unix Kerberos implementations, tickets issued
by Windows Domain Controllers can be much larger.
- Ensure that domain constraints are enforced in constructs like
ARRAY[...]::domain, where the domain is over an array type.
- Fix foreign-key logic for some cases involving composite-type
columns as foreign keys.
- Ensure that a cursor's snapshot is not modified after it is created.
- Fix CREATE TABLE to properly merge default expressions coming from
different inheritance parent tables. This used to work but was broken in
8.4.
- Re-enable collection of access statistics for sequences. This used to
work but was broken in 8.3.
- Fix processing of ownership dependencies during CREATE OR REPLACE
FUNCTION.
- Fix incorrect handling of WHERE "x"="x" conditions.
In some cases these could get ignored as redundant, but they aren't
-- they're equivalent to "x" IS NOT NULL.
- Fix incorrect plan construction when using hash aggregation to
implement DISTINCT for textually identical volatile expressions
- Fix Assert failure for a volatile SELECT DISTINCT ON expression
- Fix ts_stat() to not fail on an empty tsvector value
- Make text search parser accept underscores in XML attributes
- Fix encoding handling in xml binary input.
If the XML header doesn't specify an encoding, we now assume UTF-8
by default; the previous handling was inconsistent.
- Fix bug with calling plperl from plperlu or vice versa.
- Fix session-lifespan memory leak when a PL/Perl function is
redefined.
- Ensure that Perl arrays are properly converted to PostgreSQL arrays
when returned by a set-returning PL/Perl function.
- Fix rare crash in exception processing in PL/Python.
- Fix ecpg problem with comments in DECLARE CURSOR statements
- Fix ecpg to not treat recently-added keywords as reserved words
This affected the keywords CALLED, CATALOG, DEFINER, ENUM,
FOLLOWING, INVOKER, OPTIONS, PARTITION, PRECEDING, RANGE, SECURITY,
SERVER, UNBOUNDED, and WRAPPER.
- Re-allow regular expression special characters in psql's \df
function name parameter.
- Put FREEZE and VERBOSE options in the right order in the VACUUM
command that "contrib/vacuumdb" produces.
- Fix possible leak of connections when "contrib/dblink" encounters
an error
- Make the postmaster ignore any application_name parameter in
connection request packets, to improve compatibility with future
libpq versions.
* debian/control: libreadline5-dev → libreadline-dev. (Closes: #553831)
* Add 03-sh-architecture.patch: Support Renesas' SuperH architecture, thanks
Nobuhiro Iwamatsu! (Closes: #548847)
-- Ubuntu Archive Auto-Backport <email address hidden> Tue, 19 Jan 2010 08:15:07 +0000
-
postgresql-8.4 (8.4.1-1~hardy1) hardy-backports; urgency=low
* Automated backport upload; no source changes.
-- Ubuntu Archive Backport <email address hidden> Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:46:16 +0000
