E.141. Release 8.2.4 #
Release date: 2007-04-23
This release contains a variety of fixes from 8.2.3, including a security fix. For information about new features in the 8.2 major release, see 第 E.145 节.
E.141.1. Migration to Version 8.2.4
A dump/restore is not required for those running 8.2.X.
E.141.2. Changes
Support explicit placement of the temporary-table schema within
search_path, and disable searching it for functions and operators (Tom)This is needed to allow a security-definer function to set a truly secure value of
search_path. Without it, an unprivileged SQL user can use temporary objects to execute code with the privileges of the security-definer function (CVE-2007-2138). SeeCREATE FUNCTIONfor more information.Fix
shared_preload_librariesfor Windows by forcing reload in each backend (Korry Douglas)Fix
to_char()so it properly upper/lower cases localized day or month names (Pavel Stehule)/contrib/tsearch2crash fixes (Teodor)Require
COMMIT PREPAREDto be executed in the same database as the transaction was prepared in (Heikki)Allow
pg_dumpto do binary backups larger than two gigabytes on Windows (Magnus)New traditional (Taiwan) Chinese FAQ (Zhou Daojing)
Prevent the statistics collector from writing to disk too frequently (Tom)
Fix potential-data-corruption bug in how
VACUUM FULLhandlesUPDATEchains (Tom, Pavan Deolasee)Fix bug in domains that use array types (Tom)
Fix
pg_dumpso it can dump a serial column's sequence using-twhen not also dumping the owning table (Tom)Planner fixes, including improving outer join and bitmap scan selection logic (Tom)
Fix possible wrong answers or crash when a PL/pgSQL function tries to
RETURNfrom within anEXCEPTIONblock (Tom)Fix PANIC during enlargement of a hash index (Tom)
Fix POSIX-style timezone specs to follow new USA DST rules (Tom)