E.224. 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.229 .
E.224.1. Migration to Version 8.2.5
A dump/restore is not required for those running 8.2.X.
E.224.2. Changes
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Prevent index corruption when a transaction inserts rows and then aborts close to the end of a concurrent
VACUUMon the same table (Tom) - 
     
Fix
ALTER DOMAIN ADD CONSTRAINTfor cases involving domains over domains (Tom) - 
     
Make
CREATE DOMAIN ... DEFAULT NULLwork properly (Tom) - 
     
Fix some planner problems with outer joins, notably poor size estimation for
t1 LEFT JOIN t2 WHERE t2.col IS NULL(Tom) - 
     
Allow the
intervaldata type to accept input consisting only of milliseconds or microseconds (Neil) - 
     
Allow timezone name to appear before the year in
timestampinput (Tom) - 
     
Fixes for GIN indexes used by
/contrib/tsearch2(Teodor) - 
     
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_statementlogging runs out of memory (Tom) - 
     
Fix incorrect handling of some foreign-key corner cases (Tom)
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Fix
stddev_pop(numeric)andvar_pop(numeric)(Tom) - 
     
Prevent
REINDEXandCLUSTERfrom failing due to attempting to process temporary tables of other sessions (Alvaro) - 
     
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 -wwork properly in Windows service mode (Dave Page) - 
     
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) - 
     
Require non-superusers who use
/contrib/dblinkto use only password authentication, as a security measure (Joe) - 
     
Restrict
/contrib/pgstattuplefunctions to superusers, for security reasons (Tom) - 
     
Do not let
/contrib/intarraytry to make its GIN opclass the default (this caused problems at dump/restore) (Tom)