aboutsummaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
-rw-r--r--doc/src/sgml/release-9.1.sgml165
-rw-r--r--doc/src/sgml/release-9.2.sgml196
-rw-r--r--doc/src/sgml/release-9.3.sgml232
-rw-r--r--doc/src/sgml/release-9.4.sgml263
4 files changed, 855 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release-9.1.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release-9.1.sgml
index 09811c1a4f1..cf87c520d6c 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/release-9.1.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/release-9.1.sgml
@@ -1,6 +1,171 @@
<!-- doc/src/sgml/release-9.1.sgml -->
<!-- See header comment in release.sgml about typical markup -->
+ <sect1 id="release-9-1-22">
+ <title>Release 9.1.22</title>
+
+ <note>
+ <title>Release Date</title>
+ <simpara>2016-05-12</simpara>
+ </note>
+
+ <para>
+ This release contains a variety of fixes from 9.1.21.
+ For information about new features in the 9.1 major release, see
+ <xref linkend="release-9-1">.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ The <productname>PostgreSQL</> community will stop releasing updates
+ for the 9.1.X release series in September 2016.
+ Users are encouraged to update to a newer release branch soon.
+ </para>
+
+ <sect2>
+ <title>Migration to Version 9.1.22</title>
+
+ <para>
+ A dump/restore is not required for those running 9.1.X.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ However, if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 9.1.16,
+ see <xref linkend="release-9-1-16">.
+ </para>
+
+ </sect2>
+
+ <sect2>
+ <title>Changes</title>
+
+ <itemizedlist>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Clear the OpenSSL error queue before OpenSSL calls, rather than
+ assuming it's clear already; and make sure we leave it clear
+ afterwards (Peter Geoghegan, Dave Vitek, Peter Eisentraut)
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ This change prevents problems when there are multiple connections
+ using OpenSSL within a single process and not all the code involved
+ follows the same rules for when to clear the error queue.
+ Failures have been reported specifically when a client application
+ uses SSL connections in <application>libpq</> concurrently with
+ SSL connections using the PHP, Python, or Ruby wrappers for OpenSSL.
+ It's possible for similar problems to arise within the server as well,
+ if an extension module establishes an outgoing SSL connection.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Fix <quote>failed to build any <replaceable>N</>-way joins</quote>
+ planner error with a full join enclosed in the right-hand side of a
+ left join (Tom Lane)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Fix possible misbehavior of <literal>TH</>, <literal>th</>,
+ and <literal>Y,YYY</> format codes in <function>to_timestamp()</>
+ (Tom Lane)
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ These could advance off the end of the input string, causing subsequent
+ format codes to read garbage.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Fix dumping of rules and views in which the <replaceable>array</>
+ argument of a <literal><replaceable>value</> <replaceable>operator</>
+ ANY (<replaceable>array</>)</literal> construct is a sub-SELECT
+ (Tom Lane)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Make <application>pg_regress</> use a startup timeout from the
+ <envar>PGCTLTIMEOUT</> environment variable, if that's set (Tom Lane)
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ This is for consistency with a behavior recently added
+ to <application>pg_ctl</>; it eases automated testing on slow machines.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Fix <application>pg_upgrade</> to correctly restore extension
+ membership for operator families containing only one operator class
+ (Tom Lane)
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ In such a case, the operator family was restored into the new database,
+ but it was no longer marked as part of the extension. This had no
+ immediate ill effects, but would cause later <application>pg_dump</>
+ runs to emit output that would cause (harmless) errors on restore.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Rename internal function <function>strtoi()</>
+ to <function>strtoint()</> to avoid conflict with a NetBSD library
+ function (Thomas Munro)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Fix reporting of errors from <function>bind()</>
+ and <function>listen()</> system calls on Windows (Tom Lane)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Reduce verbosity of compiler output when building with Microsoft Visual
+ Studio (Christian Ullrich)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Avoid possibly-unsafe use of Windows' <function>FormatMessage()</>
+ function (Christian Ullrich)
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ Use the <literal>FORMAT_MESSAGE_IGNORE_INSERTS</> flag where
+ appropriate. No live bug is known to exist here, but it seems like a
+ good idea to be careful.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Update time zone data files to <application>tzdata</> release 2016d
+ for DST law changes in Russia and Venezuela. There are new zone
+ names <literal>Europe/Kirov</> and <literal>Asia/Tomsk</> to reflect
+ the fact that these regions now have different time zone histories from
+ adjacent regions.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ </itemizedlist>
+
+ </sect2>
+ </sect1>
+
<sect1 id="release-9-1-21">
<title>Release 9.1.21</title>
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release-9.2.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release-9.2.sgml
index 95a7f23cc38..cde1c4e7c75 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/release-9.2.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/release-9.2.sgml
@@ -1,6 +1,202 @@
<!-- doc/src/sgml/release-9.2.sgml -->
<!-- See header comment in release.sgml about typical markup -->
+ <sect1 id="release-9-2-17">
+ <title>Release 9.2.17</title>
+
+ <note>
+ <title>Release Date</title>
+ <simpara>2016-05-12</simpara>
+ </note>
+
+ <para>
+ This release contains a variety of fixes from 9.2.16.
+ For information about new features in the 9.2 major release, see
+ <xref linkend="release-9-2">.
+ </para>
+
+ <sect2>
+ <title>Migration to Version 9.2.17</title>
+
+ <para>
+ A dump/restore is not required for those running 9.2.X.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ However, if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 9.2.11,
+ see <xref linkend="release-9-2-11">.
+ </para>
+
+ </sect2>
+
+ <sect2>
+ <title>Changes</title>
+
+ <itemizedlist>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Clear the OpenSSL error queue before OpenSSL calls, rather than
+ assuming it's clear already; and make sure we leave it clear
+ afterwards (Peter Geoghegan, Dave Vitek, Peter Eisentraut)
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ This change prevents problems when there are multiple connections
+ using OpenSSL within a single process and not all the code involved
+ follows the same rules for when to clear the error queue.
+ Failures have been reported specifically when a client application
+ uses SSL connections in <application>libpq</> concurrently with
+ SSL connections using the PHP, Python, or Ruby wrappers for OpenSSL.
+ It's possible for similar problems to arise within the server as well,
+ if an extension module establishes an outgoing SSL connection.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Fix <quote>failed to build any <replaceable>N</>-way joins</quote>
+ planner error with a full join enclosed in the right-hand side of a
+ left join (Tom Lane)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Fix incorrect handling of equivalence-class tests in multilevel
+ nestloop plans (Tom Lane)
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ Given a three-or-more-way equivalence class of variables, such
+ as <literal>X.X = Y.Y = Z.Z</>, it was possible for the planner to omit
+ some of the tests needed to enforce that all the variables are actually
+ equal, leading to join rows being output that didn't satisfy
+ the <literal>WHERE</> clauses. For various reasons, erroneous plans
+ were seldom selected in practice, so that this bug has gone undetected
+ for a long time.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Fix possible misbehavior of <literal>TH</>, <literal>th</>,
+ and <literal>Y,YYY</> format codes in <function>to_timestamp()</>
+ (Tom Lane)
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ These could advance off the end of the input string, causing subsequent
+ format codes to read garbage.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Fix dumping of rules and views in which the <replaceable>array</>
+ argument of a <literal><replaceable>value</> <replaceable>operator</>
+ ANY (<replaceable>array</>)</literal> construct is a sub-SELECT
+ (Tom Lane)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Make <application>pg_regress</> use a startup timeout from the
+ <envar>PGCTLTIMEOUT</> environment variable, if that's set (Tom Lane)
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ This is for consistency with a behavior recently added
+ to <application>pg_ctl</>; it eases automated testing on slow machines.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Fix <application>pg_upgrade</> to correctly restore extension
+ membership for operator families containing only one operator class
+ (Tom Lane)
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ In such a case, the operator family was restored into the new database,
+ but it was no longer marked as part of the extension. This had no
+ immediate ill effects, but would cause later <application>pg_dump</>
+ runs to emit output that would cause (harmless) errors on restore.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Back-port 9.4-era memory-barrier code changes into 9.2 and 9.3 (Tom Lane)
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ These changes were not originally needed in pre-9.4 branches, but we
+ recently back-patched a fix that expected the barrier code to work
+ properly. Only IA64 (when using icc), HPPA, and Alpha platforms are
+ affected.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Reduce the number of SysV semaphores used by a build configured with
+ <option>--disable-spinlocks</> (Tom Lane)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Rename internal function <function>strtoi()</>
+ to <function>strtoint()</> to avoid conflict with a NetBSD library
+ function (Thomas Munro)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Fix reporting of errors from <function>bind()</>
+ and <function>listen()</> system calls on Windows (Tom Lane)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Reduce verbosity of compiler output when building with Microsoft Visual
+ Studio (Christian Ullrich)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Avoid possibly-unsafe use of Windows' <function>FormatMessage()</>
+ function (Christian Ullrich)
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ Use the <literal>FORMAT_MESSAGE_IGNORE_INSERTS</> flag where
+ appropriate. No live bug is known to exist here, but it seems like a
+ good idea to be careful.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Update time zone data files to <application>tzdata</> release 2016d
+ for DST law changes in Russia and Venezuela. There are new zone
+ names <literal>Europe/Kirov</> and <literal>Asia/Tomsk</> to reflect
+ the fact that these regions now have different time zone histories from
+ adjacent regions.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ </itemizedlist>
+
+ </sect2>
+ </sect1>
+
<sect1 id="release-9-2-16">
<title>Release 9.2.16</title>
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release-9.3.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release-9.3.sgml
index 9cb59b0cb34..77b5f80dcb0 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/release-9.3.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/release-9.3.sgml
@@ -1,6 +1,236 @@
<!-- doc/src/sgml/release-9.3.sgml -->
<!-- See header comment in release.sgml about typical markup -->
+ <sect1 id="release-9-3-13">
+ <title>Release 9.3.13</title>
+
+ <note>
+ <title>Release Date</title>
+ <simpara>2016-05-12</simpara>
+ </note>
+
+ <para>
+ This release contains a variety of fixes from 9.3.12.
+ For information about new features in the 9.3 major release, see
+ <xref linkend="release-9-3">.
+ </para>
+
+ <sect2>
+ <title>Migration to Version 9.3.13</title>
+
+ <para>
+ A dump/restore is not required for those running 9.3.X.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ However, if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 9.3.9,
+ see <xref linkend="release-9-3-9">.
+ </para>
+
+ </sect2>
+
+ <sect2>
+ <title>Changes</title>
+
+ <itemizedlist>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Clear the OpenSSL error queue before OpenSSL calls, rather than
+ assuming it's clear already; and make sure we leave it clear
+ afterwards (Peter Geoghegan, Dave Vitek, Peter Eisentraut)
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ This change prevents problems when there are multiple connections
+ using OpenSSL within a single process and not all the code involved
+ follows the same rules for when to clear the error queue.
+ Failures have been reported specifically when a client application
+ uses SSL connections in <application>libpq</> concurrently with
+ SSL connections using the PHP, Python, or Ruby wrappers for OpenSSL.
+ It's possible for similar problems to arise within the server as well,
+ if an extension module establishes an outgoing SSL connection.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Fix <quote>failed to build any <replaceable>N</>-way joins</quote>
+ planner error with a full join enclosed in the right-hand side of a
+ left join (Tom Lane)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Fix incorrect handling of equivalence-class tests in multilevel
+ nestloop plans (Tom Lane)
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ Given a three-or-more-way equivalence class of variables, such
+ as <literal>X.X = Y.Y = Z.Z</>, it was possible for the planner to omit
+ some of the tests needed to enforce that all the variables are actually
+ equal, leading to join rows being output that didn't satisfy
+ the <literal>WHERE</> clauses. For various reasons, erroneous plans
+ were seldom selected in practice, so that this bug has gone undetected
+ for a long time.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Fix possible misbehavior of <literal>TH</>, <literal>th</>,
+ and <literal>Y,YYY</> format codes in <function>to_timestamp()</>
+ (Tom Lane)
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ These could advance off the end of the input string, causing subsequent
+ format codes to read garbage.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Fix dumping of rules and views in which the <replaceable>array</>
+ argument of a <literal><replaceable>value</> <replaceable>operator</>
+ ANY (<replaceable>array</>)</literal> construct is a sub-SELECT
+ (Tom Lane)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Make <application>pg_regress</> use a startup timeout from the
+ <envar>PGCTLTIMEOUT</> environment variable, if that's set (Tom Lane)
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ This is for consistency with a behavior recently added
+ to <application>pg_ctl</>; it eases automated testing on slow machines.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Fix <application>pg_upgrade</> to correctly restore extension
+ membership for operator families containing only one operator class
+ (Tom Lane)
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ In such a case, the operator family was restored into the new database,
+ but it was no longer marked as part of the extension. This had no
+ immediate ill effects, but would cause later <application>pg_dump</>
+ runs to emit output that would cause (harmless) errors on restore.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Fix <application>pg_upgrade</> to not fail when new-cluster TOAST rules
+ differ from old (Tom Lane)
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ <application>pg_upgrade</> had special-case code to handle the
+ situation where the new <productname>PostgreSQL</> version thinks that
+ a table should have a TOAST table while the old version did not. That
+ code was broken, so remove it, and instead do nothing in such cases;
+ there seems no reason to believe that we can't get along fine without
+ a TOAST table if that was okay according to the old version's rules.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+<!--
+Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
+Branch: REL9_3_STABLE [f4f4f6990] 2016-04-15 16:49:48 -0400
+Branch: REL9_2_STABLE [d7dbc882d] 2016-04-15 16:49:48 -0400
+Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
+Branch: REL9_3_STABLE [992df9658] 2016-04-16 10:42:07 -0400
+Branch: REL9_2_STABLE [9008922bf] 2016-04-16 10:41:57 -0400
+Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
+Branch: REL9_3_STABLE [35166fd76] 2016-04-18 13:19:52 -0400
+Branch: REL9_2_STABLE [37f30b251] 2016-04-18 13:19:52 -0400
+-->
+ <para>
+ Back-port 9.4-era memory-barrier code changes into 9.2 and 9.3 (Tom Lane)
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ These changes were not originally needed in pre-9.4 branches, but we
+ recently back-patched a fix that expected the barrier code to work
+ properly. Only IA64 (when using icc), HPPA, and Alpha platforms are
+ affected.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Reduce the number of SysV semaphores used by a build configured with
+ <option>--disable-spinlocks</> (Tom Lane)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Rename internal function <function>strtoi()</>
+ to <function>strtoint()</> to avoid conflict with a NetBSD library
+ function (Thomas Munro)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Fix reporting of errors from <function>bind()</>
+ and <function>listen()</> system calls on Windows (Tom Lane)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Reduce verbosity of compiler output when building with Microsoft Visual
+ Studio (Christian Ullrich)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Fix <function>putenv()</> to work properly with Visual Studio 2013
+ (Michael Paquier)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Avoid possibly-unsafe use of Windows' <function>FormatMessage()</>
+ function (Christian Ullrich)
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ Use the <literal>FORMAT_MESSAGE_IGNORE_INSERTS</> flag where
+ appropriate. No live bug is known to exist here, but it seems like a
+ good idea to be careful.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Update time zone data files to <application>tzdata</> release 2016d
+ for DST law changes in Russia and Venezuela. There are new zone
+ names <literal>Europe/Kirov</> and <literal>Asia/Tomsk</> to reflect
+ the fact that these regions now have different time zone histories from
+ adjacent regions.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ </itemizedlist>
+
+ </sect2>
+ </sect1>
+
<sect1 id="release-9-3-12">
<title>Release 9.3.12</title>
@@ -9689,7 +9919,7 @@ ALTER EXTENSION hstore UPDATE;
<listitem>
<para>
- Remove <filename>src/tool/backend</>, now that the content is on
+ Remove <filename>src/tools/backend</>, now that the content is on
the <productname>PostgreSQL</> wiki (Bruce Momjian)
</para>
</listitem>
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release-9.4.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release-9.4.sgml
index eb1b686535a..3c0f4ab7362 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/release-9.4.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/release-9.4.sgml
@@ -1,6 +1,269 @@
<!-- doc/src/sgml/release-9.4.sgml -->
<!-- See header comment in release.sgml about typical markup -->
+ <sect1 id="release-9-4-8">
+ <title>Release 9.4.8</title>
+
+ <note>
+ <title>Release Date</title>
+ <simpara>2016-05-12</simpara>
+ </note>
+
+ <para>
+ This release contains a variety of fixes from 9.4.7.
+ For information about new features in the 9.4 major release, see
+ <xref linkend="release-9-4">.
+ </para>
+
+ <sect2>
+ <title>Migration to Version 9.4.8</title>
+
+ <para>
+ A dump/restore is not required for those running 9.4.X.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ However, if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 9.4.6,
+ see <xref linkend="release-9-4-6">.
+ </para>
+ </sect2>
+
+ <sect2>
+ <title>Changes</title>
+
+ <itemizedlist>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Clear the OpenSSL error queue before OpenSSL calls, rather than
+ assuming it's clear already; and make sure we leave it clear
+ afterwards (Peter Geoghegan, Dave Vitek, Peter Eisentraut)
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ This change prevents problems when there are multiple connections
+ using OpenSSL within a single process and not all the code involved
+ follows the same rules for when to clear the error queue.
+ Failures have been reported specifically when a client application
+ uses SSL connections in <application>libpq</> concurrently with
+ SSL connections using the PHP, Python, or Ruby wrappers for OpenSSL.
+ It's possible for similar problems to arise within the server as well,
+ if an extension module establishes an outgoing SSL connection.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Fix <quote>failed to build any <replaceable>N</>-way joins</quote>
+ planner error with a full join enclosed in the right-hand side of a
+ left join (Tom Lane)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Fix incorrect handling of equivalence-class tests in multilevel
+ nestloop plans (Tom Lane)
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ Given a three-or-more-way equivalence class of variables, such
+ as <literal>X.X = Y.Y = Z.Z</>, it was possible for the planner to omit
+ some of the tests needed to enforce that all the variables are actually
+ equal, leading to join rows being output that didn't satisfy
+ the <literal>WHERE</> clauses. For various reasons, erroneous plans
+ were seldom selected in practice, so that this bug has gone undetected
+ for a long time.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Fix query-lifespan memory leak in GIN index scans (Julien Rouhaud)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Fix query-lifespan memory leak and potential index corruption hazard in
+ GIN index insertion (Tom Lane)
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ The memory leak would typically not amount to much in simple queries,
+ but it could be very substantial during a large GIN index build with
+ high <varname>maintenance_work_mem</>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Fix possible misbehavior of <literal>TH</>, <literal>th</>,
+ and <literal>Y,YYY</> format codes in <function>to_timestamp()</>
+ (Tom Lane)
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ These could advance off the end of the input string, causing subsequent
+ format codes to read garbage.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Fix dumping of rules and views in which the <replaceable>array</>
+ argument of a <literal><replaceable>value</> <replaceable>operator</>
+ ANY (<replaceable>array</>)</literal> construct is a sub-SELECT
+ (Tom Lane)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Disallow newlines in <command>ALTER SYSTEM</> parameter values
+ (Tom Lane)
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ The configuration-file parser doesn't support embedded newlines in
+ string literals, so we mustn't allow them in values to be inserted
+ by <command>ALTER SYSTEM</>.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Fix <command>ALTER TABLE ... REPLICA IDENTITY USING INDEX</> to
+ work properly if an index on OID is selected (David Rowley)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Fix crash in logical decoding on alignment-picky platforms (Tom Lane,
+ Andres Freund)
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ The failure occurred only with a transaction large enough to spill to
+ disk and a primary-key change within that transaction.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Avoid repeated requests for feedback from receiver while shutting down
+ walsender (Nick Cleaton)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Make <application>pg_regress</> use a startup timeout from the
+ <envar>PGCTLTIMEOUT</> environment variable, if that's set (Tom Lane)
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ This is for consistency with a behavior recently added
+ to <application>pg_ctl</>; it eases automated testing on slow machines.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Fix <application>pg_upgrade</> to correctly restore extension
+ membership for operator families containing only one operator class
+ (Tom Lane)
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ In such a case, the operator family was restored into the new database,
+ but it was no longer marked as part of the extension. This had no
+ immediate ill effects, but would cause later <application>pg_dump</>
+ runs to emit output that would cause (harmless) errors on restore.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Fix <application>pg_upgrade</> to not fail when new-cluster TOAST rules
+ differ from old (Tom Lane)
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ <application>pg_upgrade</> had special-case code to handle the
+ situation where the new <productname>PostgreSQL</> version thinks that
+ a table should have a TOAST table while the old version did not. That
+ code was broken, so remove it, and instead do nothing in such cases;
+ there seems no reason to believe that we can't get along fine without
+ a TOAST table if that was okay according to the old version's rules.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Reduce the number of SysV semaphores used by a build configured with
+ <option>--disable-spinlocks</> (Tom Lane)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Rename internal function <function>strtoi()</>
+ to <function>strtoint()</> to avoid conflict with a NetBSD library
+ function (Thomas Munro)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Fix reporting of errors from <function>bind()</>
+ and <function>listen()</> system calls on Windows (Tom Lane)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Reduce verbosity of compiler output when building with Microsoft Visual
+ Studio (Christian Ullrich)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Fix <function>putenv()</> to work properly with Visual Studio 2013
+ (Michael Paquier)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Avoid possibly-unsafe use of Windows' <function>FormatMessage()</>
+ function (Christian Ullrich)
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ Use the <literal>FORMAT_MESSAGE_IGNORE_INSERTS</> flag where
+ appropriate. No live bug is known to exist here, but it seems like a
+ good idea to be careful.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Update time zone data files to <application>tzdata</> release 2016d
+ for DST law changes in Russia and Venezuela. There are new zone
+ names <literal>Europe/Kirov</> and <literal>Asia/Tomsk</> to reflect
+ the fact that these regions now have different time zone histories from
+ adjacent regions.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ </itemizedlist>
+
+ </sect2>
+ </sect1>
+
<sect1 id="release-9-4-7">
<title>Release 9.4.7</title>