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First-draft release notes for 11.4. 

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these down, but put them up for community review first.
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<sect1 id="release-11-4">
<title>Release 11.4</title>
<formalpara>
<title>Release date:</title>
<para>2019-06-20</para>
</formalpara>
<para>
This release contains a variety of fixes from 11.3.
For information about new features in major release 11, see
<xref linkend="release-11"/>.
</para>
<sect2>
<title>Migration to Version 11.4</title>
<para>
A dump/restore is not required for those running 11.X.
</para>
<para>
However, if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 11.1,
see <xref linkend="release-11-1"/>.
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2>
<title>Changes</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
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<para>
Fix assorted errors in run-time partition pruning logic
(Tom Lane, Amit Langote, David Rowley)
</para>
<para>
These mistakes could lead to wrong answers in queries on partitioned
tables, if the comparison value used for pruning is dynamically
determined, or if multiple range-partitioned columns are involved in
pruning decisions, or if stable (not immutable) comparison operators
are involved.
</para>
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<para>
Fix possible crash while trying to copy trigger definitions to a new
partition (Tom Lane)
</para>
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<para>
Fix failure of <command>ALTER TABLE ... ALTER COLUMN TYPE</command>
when the table has a partial exclusion constraint (Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
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<para>
Fix failure of <command>COMMENT</command> command for comments on
domain constraints (Daniel Gustafsson, Michael Paquier)
</para>
</listitem>
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<para>
Prevent possible memory clobber when there are duplicate columns in a
hash aggregate's hash key list (Andrew Gierth)
</para>
</listitem>
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<para>
Fix incorrect argument null-ness checking during partial aggregation
of aggregates with zero or multiple arguments (David Rowley, Kyotaro
Horiguchi, Andres Freund)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
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<para>
Avoid spurious deadlock failures when upgrading a tuple lock (Oleksii
Kliukin)
</para>
</listitem>
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<para>
Fix faulty generation of merge-append plans (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
This mistake could lead to <quote>could not find pathkey item to
sort</quote> errors.
</para>
</listitem>
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<para>
Fix incorrect printing of queries with duplicate join names
(Philip Dub&eacute;)
</para>
<para>
This oversight caused a dump/restore failure for views containing
such queries.
</para>
</listitem>
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<para>
Fix conversion of JSON string literals to JSON-type output columns
in <function>json_to_record()</function>
and <function>json_populate_record()</function> (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
Such cases should produce the literal as a standalone JSON value, but
the code misbehaved if the literal contained any characters requiring
escaping.
</para>
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<para>
Fix misoptimization of <literal>{1,1}</literal> quantifiers in
regular expressions (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
Such quantifiers were treated as no-ops and optimized away;
but the documentation specifies that they impose greediness, or
non-greediness in the case of the non-greedy
variant <literal>{1,1}?</literal>, on the subexpression they're
attached to, and this did not happen. The misbehavior occurred
only if the subexpression contained capturing parentheses or a
back-reference.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
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<para>
Avoid corruption of a btree index in the unlikely case that a failure
occurs during key truncation during a page split (Peter Geoghegan)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
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<para>
Avoid possible failures while initializing a new
process's <structname>pg_stat_activity</structname> data (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
Certain operations that could fail, such as converting strings
extracted from an SSL certificate into the database encoding, were
being performed inside a critical section. Failure there would
result in database-wide lockup due to violating the access protocol
for shared <structname>pg_stat_activity</structname> data.
</para>
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<para>
Fix race condition in check to see whether a pre-existing shared
memory segment is still in use by a conflicting postmaster (Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
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<para>
Fix unsafe coding in walreceiver's signal handler (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
This avoids rare problems in which the walreceiver process would
crash or deadlock when commanded to shut down.
</para>
</listitem>
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<para>
Avoid attempting to do database accesses for parameter checking in
processes that are not connected to a specific database (Vignesh C,
Andres Freund)
</para>
<para>
This error could result in failures like <quote>cannot read pg_class
without having selected a database</quote>.
</para>
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<para>
Avoid possible hang in <application>libpq</application> if using SSL
and OpenSSL's pending-data buffer contains an exact multiple of 256
bytes (David Binderman)
</para>
</listitem>
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<para>
Make <application>initdb</application> determine the operating
system's time zone from the <filename>/etc/localtime</filename>
symbolic link, if that exists (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
This makes <application>initdb</application> more likely to select
the desired time zone string when multiple identical time zones
exist.
</para>
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<para>
Fix ordering of <command>GRANT</command> commands emitted
by <application>pg_dump</application>
and <application>pg_dumpall</application> for databases and
tablespaces (Nathan Bossart, Michael Paquier)
</para>
<para>
If cascading grants had been issued, restore might fail due to
the <command>GRANT</command> commands being given in an order that
didn't respect their interdependencies.
</para>
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<para>
Make <application>pg_dump</application> recreate table partitions
using <command>CREATE TABLE</command> then <command>ATTACH
PARTITION</command>, rather than including <literal>PARTITION
OF</literal> in the creation command (&Aacute;lvaro Herrera, David
Rowley)
</para>
<para>
This avoids problems with the partition's column order possibly being
changed to match the parent's. Also, a partition is now restorable
from the dump (as a standalone table) even if its parent table isn't
restored; the <command>ATTACH</command> will fail, but that can just
be ignored.
</para>
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<para>
Fix misleading error reports
from <application>reindexdb</application> (Julien Rouhaud)
</para>
</listitem>
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<para>
Ensure that <application>vacuumdb</application> returns correct
status if an error occurs while using parallel jobs
(Julien Rouhaud)
</para>
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<para>
Fix <filename>contrib/auto_explain</filename> to not cause problems
in parallel queries (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
Previously, a parallel worker might try to log its query even if the
parent query were not being logged
by <filename>auto_explain</filename>. This would work sometimes, but
it's confusing, and in some cases it resulted in failures
like <quote>could not find key N in shm TOC</quote>.
</para>
<para>
Also, fix an off-by-one error that resulted in not necessarily
logging every query even when the sampling rate is set to 1.0.
</para>
</listitem>
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<para>
In <filename>contrib/postgres_fdw</filename>, account for possible
data modifications by local <literal>BEFORE ROW UPDATE</literal>
triggers (Shohei Mochizuki)
</para>
<para>
If a trigger modified a column that was otherwise not changed by the
<command>UPDATE</command>, the new value was not transmitted to the
remote server.
</para>
</listitem>
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<para>
On Windows, avoid failure when the database encoding is set to
SQL_ASCII and we attempt to log a non-ASCII string (Noah Misch)
</para>
<para>
The code had been assuming that such strings must be in UTF-8, and
would throw an error if they didn't appear to be validly encoded.
Now, just transmit the untranslated bytes to the log.
</para>
</listitem>
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<para>
Make <application>PL/pgSQL</application>'s header files C++-safe
(George Tarasov)
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect2>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="release-11-3">
<title>Release 11.3</title>
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