[ubuntu/hardy-proposed] postgresql-8.3 8.3.17-0ubuntu0.8.04 (Accepted)

Martin Pitt martin.pitt at ubuntu.com
Thu Dec 15 09:55:15 UTC 2011


postgresql-8.3 (8.3.17-0ubuntu0.8.04) hardy-proposed; urgency=low

  * New upstream bug fix release: (LP: #904631)
    - Fix bugs in information_schema.referential_constraints view.
      This view was being insufficiently careful about matching the
      foreign-key constraint to the depended-on primary or unique key
      constraint. That could result in failure to show a foreign key
      constraint at all, or showing it multiple times, or claiming that
      it depends on a different constraint than the one it really does.
      Since the view definition is installed by initdb, merely upgrading
      will not fix the problem. If you need to fix this in an existing
      installation, you can (as a superuser) drop the information_schema
      schema then re-create it by sourcing
      "SHAREDIR/information_schema.sql". (Run pg_config --sharedir if
      you're uncertain where "SHAREDIR" is.) This must be repeated in
      each database to be fixed.
    - Fix TOAST-related data corruption during CREATE TABLE dest AS
      SELECT - FROM src or INSERT INTO dest SELECT * FROM src.
      If a table has been modified by "ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN", attempts
      to copy its data verbatim to another table could produce corrupt
      results in certain corner cases. The problem can only manifest in
      this precise form in 8.4 and later, but we patched earlier versions
      as well in case there are other code paths that could trigger the
      same bug.
    - Fix race condition during toast table access from stale syscache
      entries. The typical symptom was transient errors like "missing chunk
      number 0 for toast value NNNNN in pg_toast_2619", where the cited toast
      table would always belong to a system catalog.
    - Make DatumGetInetP() unpack inet datums that have a 1-byte header,
      and add a new macro, DatumGetInetPP(), that does not.
    - Improve locale support in money type's input and output.
      Aside from not supporting all standard lc_monetary formatting
      options, the input and output functions were inconsistent, meaning
      there were locales in which dumped money values could not be
      re-read.
    - Don't let transform_null_equals affect CASE foo WHEN NULL ...
      constructs.
    - Change foreign-key trigger creation order to better support
      self-referential foreign keys.
    - Avoid floating-point underflow while tracking buffer allocation
      rate.
    - Preserve blank lines within commands in psql's command history.
      The former behavior could cause problems if an empty line was
      removed from within a string literal, for example.
    - Fix pg_dump to dump user-defined casts between auto-generated
      types, such as table rowtypes.
    - Use the preferred version of xsubpp to build PL/Perl, not
      necessarily the operating system's main copy.
    - Fix incorrect coding in "contrib/dict_int" and "contrib/dict_xsyn".
    - Honor query cancel interrupts promptly in pgstatindex().
    - Ensure VPATH builds properly install all server header files.
    - Shorten file names reported in verbose error messages.
      Regular builds have always reported just the name of the C file
      containing the error message call, but VPATH builds formerly
      reported an absolute path name.

Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2011 17:33:01 +0100
Changed-By: Martin Pitt <martin.pitt at ubuntu.com>
Maintainer: Ubuntu Core Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss at lists.ubuntu.com>
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/hardy/+source/postgresql-8.3/8.3.17-0ubuntu0.8.04
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Format: 1.7
Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2011 17:33:01 +0100
Source: postgresql-8.3
Binary: libpq-dev libpq5 libecpg6 libecpg-dev libecpg-compat3 libpgtypes3 postgresql-8.3 postgresql-client-8.3 postgresql-server-dev-8.3 postgresql-doc-8.3 postgresql-contrib-8.3 postgresql-plperl-8.3 postgresql-plpython-8.3 postgresql-pltcl-8.3 postgresql postgresql-client postgresql-doc postgresql-contrib
Architecture: source
Version: 8.3.17-0ubuntu0.8.04
Distribution: hardy-proposed
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Ubuntu Core Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss at lists.ubuntu.com>
Changed-By: Martin Pitt <martin.pitt at ubuntu.com>
Description: 
 libecpg-compat3 - older version of run-time library for ECPG programs
 libecpg-dev - development files for ECPG (Embedded PostgreSQL for C)
 libecpg6   - run-time library for ECPG programs
 libpgtypes3 - shared library libpgtypes for PostgreSQL 8.3
 libpq-dev  - header files for libpq5 (PostgreSQL library)
 libpq5     - PostgreSQL C client library
 postgresql - object-relational SQL database (latest version)
 postgresql-8.3 - object-relational SQL database, version 8.3 server
 postgresql-client - front-end programs for PostgreSQL (latest version)
 postgresql-client-8.3 - front-end programs for PostgreSQL 8.3
 postgresql-contrib - additional facilities for PostgreSQL (latest version)
 postgresql-contrib-8.3 - additional facilities for PostgreSQL
 postgresql-doc - documentation for the PostgreSQL database management system
 postgresql-doc-8.3 - documentation for the PostgreSQL database management system
 postgresql-plperl-8.3 - PL/Perl procedural language for PostgreSQL 8.3
 postgresql-plpython-8.3 - PL/Python procedural language for PostgreSQL 8.3
 postgresql-pltcl-8.3 - PL/Tcl procedural language for PostgreSQL 8.3
 postgresql-server-dev-8.3 - development files for PostgreSQL 8.3 server-side programming
Launchpad-Bugs-Fixed: 904631
Changes: 
 postgresql-8.3 (8.3.17-0ubuntu0.8.04) hardy-proposed; urgency=low
 .
   * New upstream bug fix release: (LP: #904631)
     - Fix bugs in information_schema.referential_constraints view.
       This view was being insufficiently careful about matching the
       foreign-key constraint to the depended-on primary or unique key
       constraint. That could result in failure to show a foreign key
       constraint at all, or showing it multiple times, or claiming that
       it depends on a different constraint than the one it really does.
       Since the view definition is installed by initdb, merely upgrading
       will not fix the problem. If you need to fix this in an existing
       installation, you can (as a superuser) drop the information_schema
       schema then re-create it by sourcing
       "SHAREDIR/information_schema.sql". (Run pg_config --sharedir if
       you're uncertain where "SHAREDIR" is.) This must be repeated in
       each database to be fixed.
     - Fix TOAST-related data corruption during CREATE TABLE dest AS
       SELECT - FROM src or INSERT INTO dest SELECT * FROM src.
       If a table has been modified by "ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN", attempts
       to copy its data verbatim to another table could produce corrupt
       results in certain corner cases. The problem can only manifest in
       this precise form in 8.4 and later, but we patched earlier versions
       as well in case there are other code paths that could trigger the
       same bug.
     - Fix race condition during toast table access from stale syscache
       entries. The typical symptom was transient errors like "missing chunk
       number 0 for toast value NNNNN in pg_toast_2619", where the cited toast
       table would always belong to a system catalog.
     - Make DatumGetInetP() unpack inet datums that have a 1-byte header,
       and add a new macro, DatumGetInetPP(), that does not.
     - Improve locale support in money type's input and output.
       Aside from not supporting all standard lc_monetary formatting
       options, the input and output functions were inconsistent, meaning
       there were locales in which dumped money values could not be
       re-read.
     - Don't let transform_null_equals affect CASE foo WHEN NULL ...
       constructs.
     - Change foreign-key trigger creation order to better support
       self-referential foreign keys.
     - Avoid floating-point underflow while tracking buffer allocation
       rate.
     - Preserve blank lines within commands in psql's command history.
       The former behavior could cause problems if an empty line was
       removed from within a string literal, for example.
     - Fix pg_dump to dump user-defined casts between auto-generated
       types, such as table rowtypes.
     - Use the preferred version of xsubpp to build PL/Perl, not
       necessarily the operating system's main copy.
     - Fix incorrect coding in "contrib/dict_int" and "contrib/dict_xsyn".
     - Honor query cancel interrupts promptly in pgstatindex().
     - Ensure VPATH builds properly install all server header files.
     - Shorten file names reported in verbose error messages.
       Regular builds have always reported just the name of the C file
       containing the error message call, but VPATH builds formerly
       reported an absolute path name.
Files: 
 05ca1d1fd91aeeb3c008c091c7b60e9d 1942 misc optional postgresql-8.3_8.3.17-0ubuntu0.8.04.dsc
 0866d80adef07a6602e9aa519275231e 14215528 misc optional postgresql-8.3_8.3.17.orig.tar.gz
 f3c70934e0e2a9b3e268c43bae8c56ff 74538 misc optional postgresql-8.3_8.3.17-0ubuntu0.8.04.diff.gz
Original-Maintainer: Martin Pitt <mpitt at debian.org>


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