E.112. Release 8.2.5
Release Date: 2007-09-17
This release contains a variety of fixes from 8.2.4. For information about new features in the 8.2 major release, see Section E.117.
E.112.1. Migration to Version 8.2.5
A dump/restore is not required for those running 8.2.X.
E.112.2. Changes
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Prevent index corruption when a transaction inserts rows and then aborts close to the end of a concurrent VACUUM on the same table (Tom)
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Fix ALTER DOMAIN ADD CONSTRAINT for cases involving domains over domains (Tom)
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Make CREATE DOMAIN ... DEFAULT NULL work properly (Tom)
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Fix some planner problems with outer joins, notably poor size estimation for t1 LEFT JOIN t2 WHERE t2.col IS NULL (Tom)
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Allow the interval data type to accept input consisting only of milliseconds or microseconds (Neil)
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Allow timezone name to appear before the year in timestamp input (Tom)
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Fixes for GIN indexes used by /contrib/tsearch2 (Teodor)
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Speed up rtree index insertion (Teodor)
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Fix excessive logging of SSL error messages (Tom)
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Fix logging so that log messages are never interleaved when using the syslogger process (Andrew)
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Fix crash when log_min_error_statement logging runs out of memory (Tom)
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Fix incorrect handling of some foreign-key corner cases (Tom)
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Fix
stddev_pop(numeric)
andvar_pop(numeric)
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Prevent REINDEX and CLUSTER from failing due to attempting to process temporary tables of other sessions (Alvaro)
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Update the time zone database rules, particularly New Zealand's upcoming changes (Tom)
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Windows socket and semaphore improvements (Magnus)
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Make pg_ctl -w work properly in Windows service mode (Dave Page)
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Fix memory allocation bug when using MIT Kerberos on Windows (Magnus)
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Suppress timezone name (%Z) in log timestamps on Windows because of possible encoding mismatches (Tom)
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Require non-superusers who use /contrib/dblink to use only password authentication, as a security measure (Joe)
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Restrict /contrib/pgstattuple functions to superusers, for security reasons (Tom)
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Do not let /contrib/intarray try to make its GIN opclass the default (this caused problems at dump/restore) (Tom)