Release date: 2011-12-05
This release contains a variety of fixes from 8.2.22. For information about new features in the 8.2 major release, see Section E.202.
This is expected to be the last PostgreSQL release in the 8.2.X series. Users are encouraged to update to a newer release branch soon.
A dump/restore is not required for those running 8.2.X.
However, a longstanding error was discovered in the definition of the
information_schema.referential_constraints
view. If you
rely on correct results from that view, you should replace its
definition as explained in the first changelog item below.
Also, if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 8.2.14, see Section E.188.
Fix bugs in information_schema.referential_constraints
view
(Tom Lane)
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
.
(Run SHAREDIR
/information_schema.sqlpg_config --sharedir
if you're uncertain where
SHAREDIR
is.) This must be repeated in each database
to be fixed.
Fix TOAST-related data corruption during CREATE TABLE dest AS
SELECT * FROM src
or INSERT INTO dest SELECT * FROM src
(Tom Lane)
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 (Tom Lane)
The typical symptom was transient errors like “missing chunk number 0 for toast value NNNNN in pg_toast_2619”, where the cited toast table would always belong to a system catalog.
Improve locale support in money
type's input and output
(Tom Lane)
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
(Heikki Linnakangas)
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 (Tom Lane)
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.
Preserve blank lines within commands in psql's command history (Robert Haas)
The former behavior could cause problems if an empty line was removed from within a string literal, for example.
Use the preferred version of xsubpp to build PL/Perl, not necessarily the operating system's main copy (David Wheeler and Alex Hunsaker)
Honor query cancel interrupts promptly in pgstatindex()
(Robert Haas)
Ensure VPATH builds properly install all server header files (Peter Eisentraut)
Shorten file names reported in verbose error messages (Peter Eisentraut)
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.
Fix interpretation of Windows timezone names for Central America (Tom Lane)
Map “Central America Standard Time” to CST6
, not
CST6CDT
, because DST is generally not observed anywhere in
Central America.
Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2011n for DST law changes in Brazil, Cuba, Fiji, Palestine, Russia, and Samoa; also historical corrections for Alaska and British East Africa.