Release 8.2.4
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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 Section E.167 .
E.163.1. Migration to Version 8.2.4
A dump/restore is not required for those running 8.2.X.
E.163.2. Changes
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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). See CREATE FUNCTION for more information.
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Fix shared_preload_libraries for Windows by forcing reload in each backend (Korry Douglas)
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Fix
to_char()so it properly upper/lower cases localized day or month names (Pavel Stehule) -
/contrib/tsearch2 crash fixes (Teodor)
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Require COMMIT PREPARED to be executed in the same database as the transaction was prepared in (Heikki)
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Allow pg_dump to do binary backups larger than two gigabytes on Windows (Magnus)
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New traditional (Taiwan) Chinese FAQ (Zhou Daojing)
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Prevent the statistics collector from writing to disk too frequently (Tom)
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Fix potential-data-corruption bug in how VACUUM FULL handles UPDATE chains (Tom, Pavan Deolasee)
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Fix bug in domains that use array types (Tom)
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Fix pg_dump so it can dump a serial column's sequence using -t when not also dumping the owning table (Tom)
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Planner fixes, including improving outer join and bitmap scan selection logic (Tom)
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Fix possible wrong answers or crash when a PL/pgSQL function tries to RETURN from within an EXCEPTION block (Tom)
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Fix PANIC during enlargement of a hash index (Tom)
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Fix POSIX-style timezone specs to follow new USA DST rules (Tom)