Release date: never released
This release contains a variety of fixes from 8.2.7. For information about new features in the 8.2 major release, see Section E.202.
A dump/restore is not required for those running 8.2.X. However, if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 8.2.7, see Section E.195.
Fix ERRORDATA_STACK_SIZE exceeded
crash that
occurred on Windows when using UTF-8 database encoding and a different
client encoding (Tom)
Fix ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN ... PRIMARY KEY
so that the new
column is correctly checked to see if it's been initialized to all
non-nulls (Brendan Jurd)
Previous versions neglected to check this requirement at all.
Fix possible CREATE TABLE
failure when inheriting the
“same” constraint from multiple parent relations that
inherited that constraint from a common ancestor (Tom)
Fix pg_get_ruledef()
to show the alias, if any, attached
to the target table of an UPDATE
or DELETE
(Tom)
Fix GIN bug that could result in a too many LWLocks
taken
failure (Teodor)
Avoid possible crash when decompressing corrupted data (Zdenek Kotala)
Repair two places where SIGTERM exit of a backend could leave corrupted state in shared memory (Tom)
Neither case is very important if SIGTERM is used to shut down the whole database cluster together, but there was a problem if someone tried to SIGTERM individual backends.
Fix conversions between ISO-8859-5 and other encodings to handle
Cyrillic “Yo” characters (e
and E
with
two dots) (Sergey Burladyan)
Fix several datatype input functions, notably array_in()
,
that were allowing unused bytes in their results to contain
uninitialized, unpredictable values (Tom)
This could lead to failures in which two apparently identical literal
values were not seen as equal, resulting in the parser complaining
about unmatched ORDER BY
and DISTINCT
expressions.
Fix a corner case in regular-expression substring matching
(substring(
) (Tom)
string
from
pattern
)
The problem occurs when there is a match to the pattern overall but
the user has specified a parenthesized subexpression and that
subexpression hasn't got a match. An example is
substring('foo' from 'foo(bar)?')
.
This should return NULL, since (bar)
isn't matched, but
it was mistakenly returning the whole-pattern match instead (ie,
foo
).
Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2008c (for DST law changes in Morocco, Iraq, Choibalsan, Pakistan, Syria, Cuba, and Argentina/San_Luis)
Fix incorrect result from ecpg's
PGTYPEStimestamp_sub()
function (Michael)
Fix broken GiST comparison function for contrib/tsearch2
's
tsquery
type (Teodor)
Fix possible crashes in contrib/cube
functions (Tom)
Fix core dump in contrib/xml2
's
xpath_table()
function when the input query returns a
NULL value (Tom)
Fix contrib/xml2
's makefile to not override
CFLAGS
(Tom)
Fix DatumGetBool
macro to not fail with gcc
4.3 (Tom)
This problem affects “old style” (V0) C functions that return boolean. The fix is already in 8.3, but the need to back-patch it was not realized at the time.