Programs need execute permission on a DLL file to load it.  MSYS
"install" ignores the mode argument, and our Cygwin build statically
links libpq into programs.  That explains the lack of buildfarm trouble.
Back-patch to 9.0 (all supported versions).

The old text explained what happened if we didn't have working int64
arithmetic.  Since that case has been explicitly rejected by configure
since 8.4.3, documenting it in the 9.x branches can only produce confusion.

PG_RETURN_BOOL() should only be used in functions following the V1 SQL
function API.  This coding accidentally fails to fail since letting the
compiler coerce the Datum representation of bool back to plain bool
does give the right answer; but that doesn't make it a good idea.

Back-patch to older branches just to avoid unnecessary code divergence.

FreeBSD hasn't made any use of kern.ipc.semmap since 1.1, and newer
releases reject attempts to set it altogether; so stop recommending
that it be adjusted.  Per bug #11161.

Back-patch to all supported branches.  Before 9.3, also incorporate
commit 7a42dff4, which touches the same text and for some reason
was not back-patched at the time.

Specifically this commit updates forkname_to_number() so that the HINT
message includes "init" fork, and also adds the description of "init" fork
into pg_relation_size() document.

This is a part of the commit 2d001904
which has fixed the same oversight in master and 9.4. Back-patch to
9.1 where "init" fork was added.

The initialization fork was added in 9.1, but has not been taken into
consideration in documents of get_raw_page function in pageinspect and
storage layout. This commit fixes those oversights.

get_raw_page can read not only a table but also an index, etc. So it
should be documented that the function can read any relation. This commit
also fixes the document of pageinspect that way.

Back-patch to 9.1 where those oversights existed.

Vik Fearing, review by MauMau

The user documentation was vague and not entirely accurate about how
we treat domain inputs for ambiguous operators/functions.  Clarify
that, and add an example and some commentary.  Per a recent question
from Adam Mackler.

It's acted like this ever since we added domains, so back-patch
to all supported branches.

In commit 0ca6bda8, I rewrote the json.c
code that decided how to convert SQL data types into JSON values, so that
it no longer relied on typcategory which is a pretty untrustworthy guide
to the output format of user-defined datatypes.  However, I overlooked the
fact that CREATE DOMAIN inherits typcategory from the base type, so that
the old coding did have the desirable property of treating domains like
their base types --- but only in some cases, because not all its decisions
turned on typcategory.  The version of the patch that went into 9.4 and
up did a getBaseType() call to ensure that domains were always treated
like their base types, but I omitted that from the older branches, because
it would result in a behavioral change for domains over json or hstore;
a change that's arguably a bug fix, but nonetheless a change that users
had not asked for.  What I overlooked was that this meant that domains
over numerics and boolean were no longer treated like their base types,
and that we *did* get a complaint about, ie bug #11103 from David Grelaud.
So let's do the getBaseType() call in the older branches as well, to
restore their previous behavior in these cases.  That means 9.2 and 9.3
will now make these decisions just like 9.4.  We could probably kluge
things to still ignore the domain's base type if it's json etc, but that
seems a bit silly.

Such cases are disallowed by the SQL spec, and even if we wanted to allow
them, the semantics seem ambiguous: how should the FK columns be matched up
with the columns of a unique index?  (The matching could be significant in
the presence of opclasses with different notions of equality, so this issue
isn't just academic.)  However, our code did not previously reject such
cases, but instead would either fail to match to any unique index, or
generate a bizarre opclass-lookup error because of sloppy thinking in the
index-matching code.

David Rowley

When autovacuum is nominally off, we will still launch autovac workers
to vacuum tables that are at risk of XID wraparound.  But after we'd done
that, an autovac worker would proceed to autovacuum every table in the
targeted database, if they meet the usual thresholds for autovacuuming.
This is at best pretty unexpected; at worst it delays response to the
wraparound threat.  Fix it so that if autovacuum is nominally off, we
*only* do forced vacuums and not any other work.

Per gripe from Andrey Zhidenkov.  This has been like this all along,
so back-patch to all supported branches.

There were several oversights in recovery code where COMMIT/ABORT PREPARED
records were ignored:

* pg_last_xact_replay_timestamp() (wasn't updated for 2PC commits)
* recovery_min_apply_delay (2PC commits were applied immediately)
* recovery_target_xid (recovery would not stop if the XID used 2PC)

The first of those was reported by Sergiy Zuban in bug #11032, analyzed by
Tom Lane and Andres Freund. The bug was always there, but was masked before
commit d19bd29f, because COMMIT PREPARED
always created an extra regular transaction that was WAL-logged.

Backpatch to all supported versions (older versions didn't have all the
features and therefore didn't have all of the above bugs).

unix_socket_directories was introduced in 9.3, but the document
in older versions wrongly have mentioned it. This commit replaces
it with the correct older name unix_socket_directory.

This is applied to only 9.2 and older supported versions.

Guillaume Lelarge

findDependencyLoops() was not bright about cases where there are multiple
dependency paths between the same two dumpable objects.  In most scenarios
this did not hurt us too badly; but since the introduction of section
boundary pseudo-objects in commit a1ef01fe,
it was possible for this code to take unreasonable amounts of time (tens
of seconds on a database with a couple thousand objects), as reported in
bug #11033 from Joe Van Dyk.  Joe's particular problem scenario involved
"pg_dump -a" mode with long chains of foreign key constraints, but I think
that similar problems could arise with other situations as long as there
were enough objects.  To fix, add a flag array that lets us notice when we
arrive at the same object again while searching from a given start object.
This simple change seems to be enough to eliminate the performance problem.

Back-patch to 9.1, like the patch that introduced section boundary objects.

Spotted by Tom Lane.

Break the list of available options into an <itemizedlist> instead of
inline sentences.  This is mostly motivated by wanting to ensure that the
cross-references to the FSM and VM docs don't cross page boundaries in PDF
format; but it seems to me to read more easily this way anyway.  I took the
liberty of editorializing a bit further while at it.

Per complaint from Magnus about 9.0.18 docs not building in A4 format.
Patch all active branches so we don't get blind-sided by this particular
issue again in future.

This is consistent with the POSIX verdict that kill() shall not report
ESRCH for a zombie process.  Back-patch to 9.0 (all supported versions).
Test code from commit d7cdf6ee depends
on it, and log messages about kill() reporting "Invalid argument" will
cease to appear for this not-unexpected condition.

Commit d7cdf6ee introduced a usage
thereof.  Back-patch to 9.0, like that commit.

get_raw_page tried to validate the supplied block number against
RelationGetNumberOfBlocks(), which of course is only right when
accessing the main fork.  In most cases, the main fork is longer
than the others, so that the check was too weak (allowing a
lower-level error to be reported, but no real harm to be done).
However, very small tables could have an FSM larger than their heap,
in which case the mistake prevented access to some FSM pages.
Per report from Torsten Foertsch.

In passing, make the bad-block-number error into an ereport not elog
(since it's certainly not an internal error); and fix sloppily
maintained comment for RelationGetNumberOfBlocksInFork.

This has been wrong since we invented relation forks, so back-patch
to all supported branches.

With OpenLDAP versions 2.4.24 through 2.4.31, inclusive, PostgreSQL
backends can crash at exit.  Raise a warning during "configure" based on
the compile-time OpenLDAP version number, and test the crash scenario in
the dblink test suite.  Back-patch to 9.0 (all supported versions).

In commit 631dc390, we started to handle
simple numeric timezone offsets via the zic library instead of the old
CTimeZone/HasCTZSet kluge.  However, we overlooked the fact that the zic
code will reject UTC offsets exceeding a week (which seems a bit arbitrary,
but not because it's too tight ...).  This led to possibly setting
session_timezone to NULL, which results in crashes in most timezone-related
operations as of 9.4, and crashes in a small number of places even before
that.  So check for NULL return from pg_tzset_offset() and report an
appropriate error message.  Per bug #11014 from Duncan Gillis.

Back-patch to all supported branches, like the previous patch.
(Unfortunately, as of today that no longer includes 8.4.)

Rather remarkable that this has been wrong since 9.1 and nobody noticed.

DST law changes in Crimea, Egypt, Morocco.  New zone Antarctica/Troll
for Norwegian base in Queen Maud Land.

~/.pgpass is a sound choice everywhere, and "peer" authentication is
safe on every platform it supports.  Cease to recommend "trust"
authentication, the safety of which is deeply configuration-specific.
Back-patch to 9.0, where pg_upgrade was introduced.

If pg_regcomp failed after having invoked markst/cleanst, it would leak any
"struct subre" nodes it had created.  (We've already detected all regex
syntax errors at that point, so the only likely causes of later failure
would be query cancel or out-of-memory.)  To fix, make sure freesrnode
knows the difference between the pre-cleanst and post-cleanst cleanup
procedures.  Add some documentation of this less-than-obvious point.

Also, newlacon did the wrong thing with an out-of-memory failure from
realloc(), so that the previously allocated array would be leaked.

Both of these are pretty low-probability scenarios, but a bug is a bug,
so patch all the way back.

Per bug #10976 from Arthur O'Dwyer.

Trying to reassign objects owned by a user that had text search
dictionaries or configurations used to fail with:
ERROR:  unexpected classid 3600
or
ERROR:  unexpected classid 3602

Fix by adding cases for those object types in a switch in pg_shdepend.c.

Both REASSIGN OWNED and text search objects go back all the way to 8.1,
so backpatch to all supported branches.  In 9.3 the alter-owner code was
made generic, so the required change in recent branches is pretty
simple; however, for 9.2 and older ones we need some additional
reshuffling to enable specifying objects by OID rather than name.

Text search templates and parsers are not owned objects, so there's no
change required for them.

Per bug #9749 reported by Michal Novotný

If walsender has xmin of standby then ensure we
reset the value to 0 when we change from hot_standby_feedback=on
to hot_standby_feedback=off.

From: Josh Kupershmidt <schmiddy@gmail.com>

Adds support for autocomplete of LC_COLLATE and LC_CTYPE to
the CREATE DATABASE command in psql.

ExecEvalWholeRowVar incorrectly supposed that it could "bless" the source
TupleTableSlot just once per query.  But if the input is coming from an
Append (or, perhaps, other cases?) more than one slot might be returned
over the query run.  This led to "record type has not been registered"
errors when a composite datum was extracted from a non-blessed slot.

This bug has been there a long time; I guess it escaped notice because when
dealing with subqueries the planner tends to expand whole-row Vars into
RowExprs, which don't have the same problem.  It is possible to trigger
the problem in all active branches, though, as illustrated by the added
regression test.

While the x output of "select x from t group by x" can be presumed unique,
this does not hold for "select x, generate_series(1,10) from t group by x",
because we may expand the set-returning function after the grouping step.
(Perhaps that should be re-thought; but considering all the other oddities
involved with SRFs in targetlists, it seems unlikely we'll change it.)
Put a check in query_is_distinct_for() so it's not fooled by such cases.

Back-patch to all supported branches.

David Rowley

Previously, when calculations on the need for toast tables changed,
pg_upgrade could not handle cases where the new cluster needed a TOAST
table and the old cluster did not.  (It already handled the opposite
case.)  This fixes the "OID mismatch" error typically generated in this
case.

Backpatch through 9.2

This function wasn't originally thought to be really user-facing,
because converting a table to a view isn't something we expect people
to do manually.  So not all that much effort was spent on the error
messages; in particular, while the code will complain that you got
the column types wrong it won't say exactly what they are.  But since
we repurposed the code to also check compatibility of rule RETURNING
lists, it's definitely user-facing.  It now seems worthwhile to add
errdetail messages showing exactly what the conflict is when there's
a mismatch of column names or types.  This is prompted by bug #10836
from Matthias Raffelsieper, which might have been forestalled if the
error message had reported the wrong column type as being "record".

Per Alvaro's advice, back-patch to branches before 9.4, but resist
the temptation to rephrase any existing strings there.  Adding new
strings is not really a translation degradation; anyway having the
info presented in English is better than not having it at all.

The output buffer size in unaccent_lexize() was calculated as input string
length times pg_database_encoding_max_length(), which effectively assumes
that replacement strings aren't more than one character.  While that was
all that we previously documented it to support, the code actually has
always allowed replacement strings of arbitrary length; so if you tried
to make use of longer strings, you were at risk of buffer overrun.  To fix,
use an expansible StringInfo buffer instead of trying to determine the
maximum space needed a-priori.

This would be a security issue if unaccent rules files could be installed
by unprivileged users; but fortunately they can't, so in the back branches
the problem can be labeled as improper configuration by a superuser.
Nonetheless, a memory stomp isn't a nice way of reacting to improper
configuration, so let's back-patch the fix.

This function continued to use it after heap_endscan() freed it.  In
passing, don't explicit create a strategy here.  Instead, use the one
created by heap_beginscan_strat(), if any.  Back-patch to 9.2, where use
of a BufferAccessStrategy here was introduced.

When we committed a87c7291, we somehow
failed to notice that it didn't merely improve plan quality for expression
indexes; there were very closely related cases that failed outright with
"could not find pathkey item to sort".  The failing cases seem to be those
where the planner was already capable of selecting a MergeAppend plan,
and there was inheritance involved: the lack of appropriate eclass child
members would prevent prepare_sort_from_pathkeys() from succeeding on the
MergeAppend's child plan nodes for inheritance child tables.

Accordingly, back-patch into 9.1 through 9.3, along with an extra
regression test case covering the problem.

Per trouble report from Michael Glaesemann.

7380b638 changed log_filename so that epoch was not appended to it
when no format specifier is given. But the example of CSV log file name
with epoch still left in log_filename document. This commit removes
such obsolete example.

This commit also documents the defaults of log_directory and
log_filename.

Backpatch to all supported versions.

Christoph Berg