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   2013-02-09 12:19:19 by Adam Ciarcinski | Files touched by this commit (86) | Package updated
Log message:
The PostgreSQL Global Development Group has released a security update to all \ 
current versions of the PostgreSQL database system, including versions 9.2.3, \ 
9.1.8, 9.0.12, 8.4.16, and 8.3.23. This update fixes a denial-of-service (DOS) \ 
vulnerability. All users should update their PostgreSQL installations as soon as \ 
possible.

The security issue fixed in this release, CVE-2013-0255, allows a previously \ 
authenticated user to crash the server by calling an internal function with \ 
invalid arguments. This issue was discovered by independent security researcher \ 
Sumit Soni this week and reported via Secunia SVCRP, and we are grateful for \ 
their efforts in making PostgreSQL more secure.

Today's update also fixes a performance regression which caused a decrease in \ 
throughput when using dynamic queries in stored procedures in version 9.2. \ 
Applications which use PL/pgSQL's EXECUTE are strongly affected by this \ 
regression and should be updated. Additionally, we have fixed intermittent \ 
crashes caused by CREATE/DROP INDEX CONCURRENTLY, and multiple minor issues with \ 
replication.

This release is expected to be the final update for version 8.3, which is now \ 
End-of-Life (EOL). Users of version 8.3 should plan to upgrade to a later \ 
version of PostgreSQL immediately. For more information, see our Versioning \ 
Policy.

This update release also contains fixes for many minor issues discovered and \ 
patched by the PostgreSQL community in the last two months, including:

* Prevent unnecessary table scans during vacuuming
* Prevent spurious cached plan error in PL/pgSQL
* Allow sub-SELECTs to be subscripted
* Prevent DROP OWNED from dropping databases or tablespaces
* Make ECPG use translated messages
* Allow PL/Python to use multi-table trigger functions (again) in 9.1 and 9.2
* Fix several activity log management issues on Windows
* Prevent autovacuum file truncation from being cancelled by deadlock_timeout
* Make extensions build with the .exe suffix automatically on Windows
* Fix concurrency issues with CREATE/DROP DATABASE
* Reject out-of-range values in to_date() conversion function
* Revert cost estimation for large indexes back to pre-9.2 behavior
* Make pg_basebackup tolerate timeline switches
* Cleanup leftover temp table entries during crash recovery
* Prevent infinite loop when COPY inserts a large tuple into a table with a \ 
large fillfactor
* Prevent integer overflow in dynahash creation
* Make pg_upgrade work with INVALID indexes
* Fix bugs in TYPE privileges
* Allow Contrib installchecks to run in their own databases
* Many documentation updates
* Add new timezone "FET".
   2012-12-07 22:19:51 by Adam Ciarcinski | Files touched by this commit (17) | Package updated
Log message:
This release fixes a significant page ordering issue with Hot Standby which \ 
could cause index corruption on the standby under some circumstances. In \ 
addition, this update patches timing issues with checkpoint and transaction ID \ 
wraparound which could cause data corruption in some cases. Today's update also \ 
fixes multiple issues with CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY and DROP INDEX \ 
CONCURRENTLY, which can cause those commands to fail or produce corrupt indexes. \ 
Users who use this feature may want to REINDEX or recreate affected indexes (see \ 
below).

This update release also contains fixes for many minor issues discovered and \ 
patched by the PostgreSQL community in the last month, including several fixes \ 
which are specific to version 9.2. These include:

* Prevent psql crash due to incorrectly encoded input data
* Fix pg_regress gmake build issues
* Make sure correct directory is created for extensions
* Fix some issues with buffer locks and VACUUM
* Multiple fixes and improvements for pg_upgrade
* Fix bugs with end-of-recovery when failing over to a standby
* Avoid bogus "out-of-sequence timeline ID" errors in standby-mode
* Don't launch new child processes during shutdown
* Improve the ability of JOINs to use partial indexes
* Fix assorted integer overflow errors
* Eliminate memory leaks in record_out() and record_send()
* Skip searching for subtransaction logs at COMMIT
* Fix WaitLatch() timing issues
* Fix handling of inherited check constraints in ALTER COLUMN TYPE
* Make ALTER EXTENSION SET SCHEMA behave as documented
* Have SEQUENCE SET statements in the "data" section of sectional dumps
* Prevent parser from believing that VIEWs have system columns
* Fix --clean mode for pg_dump
* Prevent hash table corruption on out-of-memory
* Various query planner and executor fixes and improvements
* Multiple documentation updates
* DST updates for seven timezones
   2012-10-21 15:52:15 by Aleksey Cheusov | Files touched by this commit (5)
Log message:
Register self-CONFLICTS between postgresql modules.
This also fixes some minor pkglint warnings.
   2012-10-08 00:15:27 by John Marino | Files touched by this commit (4) | Package removed
Log message:
databases/postgresql(-client): Revert most of last commit

After discussing gcc47 build problems with postgresql developers, it
became apparent that the error was unique to DragonFly.  It turns out
that DragonFly was using an older offsetof macro instead of the builtin
version provided by GCC.

Fixing the offsetof macro on DragonFly allowed the pre-patched psgsql 91
to build without issue.  While the previous patches certainly don't hurt
anything, they are being removed to ease future maintenance.

The warning suppression fix is still valid, so the change to the pgsql
client makefile is being left in place.
   2012-10-07 12:24:54 by John Marino | Files touched by this commit (5)
Log message:
databases/postgresql91(-client): Fix build for gcc46 and gcc47

Postgresql91 uses non-constant array sizes in record definitions which
gcc enforces starting with 4.6.  These index sizes are defined as macros
using functions such as offsetof.  These patches introduce enums where
the macros become constant expressions which gcc 4.6+ will accept.

GCC 4.7 also introduces the unused-but-set-variable warning which is
popping up all over the place in pgsql91, so silence these warnings -
they are harmless and get optimized out anyway.

No revbump because functionality won't change on binaries generated with
gcc4.5 and below.
   2012-10-06 00:15:37 by Adam Ciarcinski | Files touched by this commit (15) | Package updated
Log message:
The PostgreSQL Global Development Group has released an update to all current \ 
versions of the PostgreSQL database system, including 9.2.1, 9.1.6, 9.0.10, \ 
8.4.14 and 8.3.21. This update fixes critical issues for major versions 9.1 and \ 
9.2, and users running those versions should apply it as soon as possible. Users \ 
of versions 8.3, 8.4 and 9.0 should plan to update at the next scheduled \ 
downtime.

The update fixes two potential data corruption issues present in the PostgreSQL \ 
9.1 and 9.2 for any server which has crashed, been shutdown with \ 
"immediate", or was failed over to a standby. First, the PostgreSQL \ 
development team has discovered a chance of corruption of BTREE and GIN indexes \ 
for databases. Second, there is a significant chance of corruption of the \ 
visibility map. This update fixes both issues.

We strongly advise users of 9.1 and 9.2 to run VACUUM and/or index rebuilds \ 
after applying the update. Please see the 2012-09-24 Update wiki page for \ 
detailed instructions.

This update release also contains fixes for many minor issues discovered and \ 
patched by the PostgreSQL community in the last month, including many fixes for \ 
the newly released version 9.2. These include:

fix sorting issue with IN lists and indexes
fix planner failure when combining GROUP BY with window functions
improve selectivity of text searches using prefixes
prevent rescanning of WITH clauses from giving wrong answers
fix PL/Perl crashing issue
reduce bloat for multi-column GiST indexes
time zone data changes for Fiji
disallow Extensions from circular schema assignment
prevent crashes when default_transaction_isolation is set to "serializable"
several minor fixes to pg_upgrade
   2012-08-23 18:30:34 by Adam Ciarcinski | Files touched by this commit (3)
Log message:
Changes 9.1.5:
* Prevent access to external files/URLs via XML entity references
* Prevent access to external files/URLs via contrib/xml2's xslt_process()
* Prevent too-early recycling of btree index pages
* Fix crash-safety bug with newly-created-or-reset sequences
* Fix race condition in enum-type value comparisons
* Fix txid_current() to report the correct epoch when not in hot standby
* Prevent selection of unsuitable replication connections as the synchronous
  standby
* Fix bug in startup of Hot Standby when a master transaction has many
  subtransactions
* Ensure the backup_label file is fsync'd after pg_start_backup()
* Fix timeout handling in walsender processes
* Wake walsenders after each background flush by walwriter
* Fix LISTEN/NOTIFY to cope better with I/O problems, such as out of disk space
* Only allow autovacuum to be auto-canceled by a directly blocked process
* Improve logging of autovacuum cancels
* Fix WITH attached to a nested set operation (UNION/INTERSECT/EXCEPT)
   2012-07-18 12:19:32 by Jonathan Perkin | Files touched by this commit (1)
Log message:
Don't use sys/ucred.h on Solaris, it causes conflicts between procfs and
largefile support.
   2012-07-16 23:17:12 by Aleksej Saushev | Files touched by this commit (8)
Log message:
Force common shared library version scheme on FreeBSD to avoid PLIST divergence.
   2012-07-01 21:49:26 by Daniel Horecki | Files touched by this commit (19) | Package updated
Log message:
Security update to version 9.1.4.

Changes:

* Fix incorrect password transformation in contrib/pgcrypto's DES crypt()
function (Solar Designer)
* Ignore SECURITY DEFINER and SET attributes for a procedural language's call
handler (Tom Lane)
* Make contrib/citext's upgrade script fix collations of citext arrays and
domains over citext (Tom Lane)
* Allow numeric timezone offsets in timestamp input to be up to 16 hours away
from UTC (Tom Lane)
* Fix timestamp conversion to cope when the given time is exactly the last DST
transition time for the current timezone (Tom Lane)
* Fix text to name and char to name casts to perform string truncation
correctly in multibyte encodings (Karl Schnaitter)
* Fix memory copying bug in to_tsquery() (Heikki Linnakangas)
* Ensure txid_current() reports the correct epoch when executed in hot standby
(Simon Riggs)
* Fix planner's handling of outer PlaceHolderVars within subqueries (Tom Lane)
* Fix planning of UNION ALL subqueries with output columns that are not simple
variables (Tom Lane)
* Fix slow session startup when pg_attribute is very large (Tom Lane)
* Ensure sequential scans check for query cancel reasonably often (Merlin
Moncure)
* Ensure the Windows implementation of PGSemaphoreLock() clears
ImmediateInterruptOK before returning (Tom Lane)
* Show whole-row variables safely when printing views or rules (Abbas Butt, Tom
Lane)
* Fix COPY FROM to properly handle null marker strings that correspond to
invalid encoding (Tom Lane)
* Fix EXPLAIN VERBOSE for writable CTEs containing RETURNING clauses (Tom Lane)
* Fix PREPARE TRANSACTION to work correctly in the presence of advisory locks
(Tom Lane)
* Fix truncation of unlogged tables (Robert Haas)
* Ignore missing schemas during non-interactive assignments of search_path (Tom
Lane)
* Fix bugs with temporary or transient tables used in extension scripts (Tom
Lane)
* Ensure autovacuum worker processes perform stack depth checking properly
(Heikki Linnakangas)
* Fix logging collector to not lose log coherency under high load (Andrew
Dunstan)
* Fix logging collector to ensure it will restart file rotation after receiving
SIGHUP (Tom Lane)
* Fix "too many LWLocks taken" failure in GiST indexes (Heikki Linnakangas)
* Fix WAL replay logic for GIN indexes to not fail if the index was
subsequently dropped (Tom Lane)
* Correctly detect SSI conflicts of prepared transactions after a crash (Dan
Ports)
* Avoid synchronous replication delay when committing a transaction that only
modified temporary tables (Heikki Linnakangas)
* Fix error handling in pg_basebackup (Thomas Ogrisegg, Fujii Masao)
* Fix walsender to not go into a busy loop if connection is terminated (Fujii
Masao)
* Fix memory leak in PL/pgSQL's RETURN NEXT command (Joe Conway)
* Fix PL/pgSQL's GET DIAGNOSTICS command when the target is the function's
first variable (Tom Lane)
* Ensure that PL/Perl package-qualifies the _TD variable (Alex Hunsaker)
* Fix PL/Python functions returning composite types to accept a string for
their result value (Jan Urbanski)
* Fix potential access off the end of memory in psql's expanded display (\x)
mode (Peter Eisentraut)
* Fix several performance problems in pg_dump when the database contains many
objects (Jeff Janes, Tom Lane)
* Fix memory and file descriptor leaks in pg_restore when reading a
directory-format archive (Peter Eisentraut)
* Fix pg_upgrade for the case that a database stored in a non-default
tablespace contains a table in the cluster's default tablespace (Bruce Momjian)
* In ecpg, fix rare memory leaks and possible overwrite of one byte after the
sqlca_t structure (Peter Eisentraut)
* Fix contrib/dblink's dblink_exec() to not leak temporary database connections
upon error (Tom Lane)
* Fix contrib/dblink to report the correct connection name in error messages
(Kyotaro Horiguchi)
* Fix contrib/vacuumlo to use multiple transactions when dropping many large
objects (Tim Lewis, Robert Haas, Tom Lane)
* Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2012c for DST law changes in
Antarctica, Armenia, Chile, Cuba, Falkland Islands, Gaza, Haiti, Hebron,
Morocco, Syria, and Tokelau Islands;

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