E.184. Release 8.3.21
Release date: 2012-09-24
This release contains a variety of fixes from 8.3.20. For information about new features in the 8.3 major release, see Section E.205 .
The PostgreSQL community will stop releasing updates for the 8.3.X release series in February 2013. Users are encouraged to update to a newer release branch soon.
E.184.1. Migration to Version 8.3.21
A dump/restore is not required for those running 8.3.X.
However, if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 8.3.17, see Section E.188 .
E.184.2. Changes
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Improve page-splitting decisions in GiST indexes (Alexander Korotkov, Robert Haas, Tom Lane)
Multi-column GiST indexes might suffer unexpected bloat due to this error.
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Fix cascading privilege revoke to stop if privileges are still held (Tom Lane)
If we revoke a grant option from some role
X, butXstill holds that option via a grant from someone else, we should not recursively revoke the corresponding privilege from role(s)YthatXhad granted it to. -
Fix handling of
SIGFPEwhen PL/Perl is in use (Andres Freund)Perl resets the process's
SIGFPEhandler toSIG_IGN, which could result in crashes later on. Restore the normal Postgres signal handler after initializing PL/Perl. -
Prevent PL/Perl from crashing if a recursive PL/Perl function is redefined while being executed (Tom Lane)
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Work around possible misoptimization in PL/Perl (Tom Lane)
Some Linux distributions contain an incorrect version of
pthread.hthat results in incorrect compiled code in PL/Perl, leading to crashes if a PL/Perl function calls another one that throws an error. -
Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2012f for DST law changes in Fiji