PostgreSQL

At the point where CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY waits for all concurrent transactions to complete so that it can see rows they inserted, it must also wait for all prepared transactions to complete, for the same reason. Its failure to do so meant that rows inserted by prepared transactions might be omitted from the new index, causing queries relying on the index to miss such rows. In installations that have enabled prepared transactions (max_prepared_transactions > 0), it’s recommended to reindex any concurrently-built indexes in case this problem occurred when they were built.

This case is unsupported (in general, a cursor using ORDER BY is not guaranteed to be simply updatable); but the code previously did not reject it, and could silently give false matches.

This oversight could lead to “[.quote]#failed to build any `N`-way joins”# planner errors.

This prevents errors about missing support functions in rare edge cases.

Duplicate role or schema names within the same command could lead to “[.quote]#tuple already updated by self”# errors or unique-constraint violations.

This change ensures that permissions-related decisions will promptly reflect the results of ALTER ROLE ... [NO] INHERIT.

A LIKE clause is re-examined after initial creation of the new table, to handle importation of indexes and such. It was possible for this re-examination to find a different table of the same name, causing unexpected behavior; one example is where the new table is a temporary table of the same name as the LIKE target.

This fixes the case where a self-referential foreign key constraint declared in the outer CREATE TABLE depends on an index that’s coming from the LIKE clause.

Previously, if the dropped relation spanned multiple 1GB segments, only the first segment was truncated immediately. Other segments were simply unlinked, which doesn’t authorize the kernel to release the storage so long as any other backends still have the files open.

A backslash followed by a multibyte character was not handled correctly. In some client character encodings, this could lead to misinterpreting part of a multibyte character as a field separator or end-of-copy-data marker.

A newly-listening backend could attempt to read SLRU pages that were in process of being truncated, possibly causing an error.

The queue tail pointer could become set to a value that’s not equal to the queue position of any backend, resulting in effective disabling of the queue truncation logic. Continued use of NOTIFY then led to queue-fill warnings, and eventually to inability to send any more notifies until the server is restarted.

We can concatenate two JSON objects or two JSON arrays. Handle other cases by wrapping non-array inputs in one-element arrays, then performing an array concatenation. Previously, some combinations of inputs followed this rule but others arbitrarily threw an error.

This error could cause the quantifier to act non-greedy, that is behave like a *? quantifier would do in full regular expressions.

Previously, a result with no significant digits was produced.

The wraparound point typically falls in the middle of a page, which must be rounded off to a page boundary, and that was not done correctly. No issue could arise unless an installation had gotten to within one page of SLRU overflow, which is unlikely in a properly-functioning system. If this did happen, it would manifest in later “[.quote]#apparent wraparound”# or “[.quote]#could not access status of transaction”# errors.

The startup process did not run the deadlock detection code, so that in situations where the startup process is last to join a circular wait situation, the deadlock might never be recognized.

Previously, there was a race condition whereby a child process that had requested a background worker just before shutdown could wait indefinitely, preventing shutdown from completing.

The target XID is potentially 64 bits wide, but it was parsed with strtoul(), causing misbehavior on platforms where long is 32 bits (such as Windows).

This used to work, but a recent bug fix caused the password to be ignored (resulting in prompting for a password).

\help with two argument words failed to find a command description using only the first word, for example \help reset all should show the help for RESET but did not. Also, \help often failed to invoke the pager when it should. It also leaked memory.

Previously, these commands would be run by the role that started the restore script; which will usually work, but in corner cases that role might not have adequate permissions.

If an extension’s script creates an object and grants privileges on it with grant option, then later the user revokes such privileges, pg_dump would generate incorrect SQL for reproducing the situation. (Few if any extensions do this today.)

If the database name was defaulted rather than given on the command line, pg_dumpall, pgbench, oid2name, and vacuumlo would produce misleading error messages after a connection failure.

Memory consumed while producing the EXPLAIN output was not freed until the end of the current transaction (for a top-level statement) or the end of the surrounding statement (for a nested statement). This was particularly a problem with log_nested_statements enabled.

Open connections that depend on a dropped user mapping or foreign server can no longer be referenced, but formerly they were kept around anyway for the duration of the local session.

We do not really expect errors here, but this change silences warnings from static analysis tools.

The main loop in contrib/pg_prewarm’s autoprewarm parent process underestimated its desired sleep time by a factor of 1000, causing it to consume much more CPU than intended. When waiting for a result from a remote server, `contrib/postgres_fdw overestimated the desired timeout by a factor of 1000 (though this error had been mitigated by imposing a clamp to 60 seconds).

Both of these errors stemmed from incorrectly converting seconds-and-microseconds to milliseconds. Introduce a new API TimestampDifferenceMilliseconds() to make it easier to get this right in the future.

The new method is more likely to produce desirable results when Xcode is newer than the underlying operating system. Choosing a sysroot that does not match the OS version may result in nonfunctional executables.

This likewise improves the results when Xcode is out of sync with the operating system.

Notably, the Australia/Currie zone has been corrected to the point where it is identical to Australia/Hobart.