E.36. Release 9.2.8

E.36.1. Migration to Version 9.2.8

A dump/restore is not required for those running 9.2.X.

However, if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 9.2.6, see Section E.38.

E.36.2. Changes

• Restore GIN metapages unconditionally to avoid torn-page risk (Heikki Linnakangas)

  Although this oversight could theoretically result in a corrupted index, it is unlikely to have caused any problems in practice, since the active part of a GIN metapage is smaller than a standard 512-byte disk sector.

• Avoid race condition in checking transaction commit status during receipt of a NOTIFY message (Marko Tiikkaja)

  This prevents a scenario wherein a sufficiently fast client might respond to a notification before database updates made by the notifier have become visible to the recipient.

• Allow regular-expression operators to be terminated early by query cancel requests (Tom Lane)

  This prevents scenarios wherein a pathological regular expression could lock up a server process uninterruptably for a long time.

• Remove incorrect code that tried to allow OVERLAPS with single-element row arguments (Joshua Yanovski)

  This code never worked correctly, and since the case is neither specified by the SQL standard nor documented, it seemed better to remove it than fix it.

• Avoid getting more than AccessShareLock when de-parsing a rule or view (Dean Rasheed)

  This oversight resulted in pg_dump unexpectedly acquiring RowExclusiveLock locks on tables mentioned as the targets of INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE commands in rules. While usually harmless, that could interfere with concurrent transactions that tried to acquire, for example, ShareLock on those tables.

• Improve performance of index endpoint probes during planning (Tom Lane)

  This change fixes a significant performance problem that occurred when there were many not-yet-committed rows at the end of the index, which is a common situation for indexes on sequentially-assigned values such as timestamps or sequence-generated identifiers.

• Fix walsender's failure to shut down cleanly when client is pg_receivexlog (Fujii Masao)

• Check WAL level and hot standby parameters correctly when doing crash recovery that will be followed by archive recovery (Heikki Linnakangas)

• Fix test to see if hot standby connections can be allowed immediately after a crash (Heikki Linnakangas)

• Prevent interrupts while reporting non-ERROR messages (Tom Lane)

  This guards against rare server-process freezeups due to recursive entry to syslog(), and perhaps other related problems.

• Fix memory leak in PL/Perl when returning a composite result, including multiple-OUT-parameter cases (Alex Hunsaker)

• Fix tracking of psql script line numbers during \copy from out-of-line data (Kumar Rajeev Rastogi, Amit Khandekar)

  \copy ... from incremented the script file line number for each data line, even if the data was not coming from the script file. This mistake resulted in wrong line numbers being reported for any errors occurring later in the same script file.

• Prevent intermittent "could not reserve shared memory region" failures on recent Windows versions (MauMau)

• Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2014a for DST law changes in Fiji and Turkey, plus historical changes in Israel and Ukraine.