E.16. Release 9.5.10
Release date: 2017-11-09
This release contains a variety of fixes from 9.5.9. For information about new features in the 9.5 major release, see Section E.26.
E.16.1. Migration to Version 9.5.10
A dump/restore is not required for those running 9.5.X.
However, if you use BRIN indexes, see the fourth changelog entry below.
Also, if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 9.5.8, see Section E.18.
E.16.2. Changes
Ensure that
INSERT ... ON CONFLICT DO UPDATEchecks table permissions and RLS policies in all cases (Dean Rasheed)The update path of
INSERT ... ON CONFLICT DO UPDATErequiresSELECTpermission on the columns of the arbiter index, but it failed to check for that in the case of an arbiter specified by constraint name. In addition, for a table with row level security enabled, it failed to check updated rows against the table'sSELECTpolicies (regardless of how the arbiter index was specified). (CVE-2017-15099)Fix crash due to rowtype mismatch in
json{b}_populate_recordset()(Michael Paquier, Tom Lane)These functions used the result rowtype specified in the
FROM ... ASclause without checking that it matched the actual rowtype of the supplied tuple value. If it didn't, that would usually result in a crash, though disclosure of server memory contents seems possible as well. (CVE-2017-15098)Fix sample server-start scripts to become
$PGUSERbefore opening$PGLOG(Noah Misch)Previously, the postmaster log file was opened while still running as root. The database owner could therefore mount an attack against another system user by making
$PGLOGbe a symbolic link to some other file, which would then become corrupted by appending log messages.By default, these scripts are not installed anywhere. Users who have made use of them will need to manually recopy them, or apply the same changes to their modified versions. If the existing
$PGLOGfile is root-owned, it will need to be removed or renamed out of the way before restarting the server with the corrected script. (CVE-2017-12172)Fix BRIN index summarization to handle concurrent table extension correctly (Álvaro Herrera)
Previously, a race condition allowed some table rows to be omitted from the index. It may be necessary to reindex existing BRIN indexes to recover from past occurrences of this problem.
Fix possible failures during concurrent updates of a BRIN index (Tom Lane)
These race conditions could result in errors like “invalid index offnum” or “inconsistent range map”.
Fix crash when logical decoding is invoked from a SPI-using function, in particular any function written in a PL language (Tom Lane)
Fix
json_build_array(),json_build_object(), and theirjsonbequivalents to handle explicitVARIADICarguments correctly (Michael Paquier)Properly reject attempts to convert infinite float values to type
numeric(Tom Lane, KaiGai Kohei)Previously the behavior was platform-dependent.
Fix corner-case crashes when columns have been added to the end of a view (Tom Lane)
Record proper dependencies when a view or rule contains
FieldSelectorFieldStoreexpression nodes (Tom Lane)Lack of these dependencies could allow a column or data type
DROPto go through when it ought to fail, thereby causing later uses of the view or rule to get errors. This patch does not do anything to protect existing views/rules, only ones created in the future.Correctly detect hashability of range data types (Tom Lane)
The planner mistakenly assumed that any range type could be hashed for use in hash joins or hash aggregation, but actually it must check whether the range's subtype has hash support. This does not affect any of the built-in range types, since they're all hashable anyway.
Correctly ignore
RelabelTypeexpression nodes when determining relation distinctness (David Rowley)This allows the intended optimization to occur when a subquery has a result column of type
varchar.Fix low-probability loss of
NOTIFYmessages due to XID wraparound (Marko Tiikkaja, Tom Lane)If a session executed no queries, but merely listened for notifications, for more than 2 billion transactions, it started to miss some notifications from concurrently-committing transactions.
Avoid SIGBUS crash on Linux when a DSM memory request exceeds the space available in tmpfs (Thomas Munro)
Prevent low-probability crash in processing of nested trigger firings (Tom Lane)
Allow
COPY'sFREEZEoption to work when the transaction isolation level isREPEATABLE READor higher (Noah Misch)This case was unintentionally broken by a previous bug fix.
Correctly restore the umask setting when file creation fails in
COPYorlo_export()(Peter Eisentraut)Give a better error message for duplicate column names in
ANALYZE(Nathan Bossart)Fix mis-parsing of the last line in a non-newline-terminated
pg_hba.conffile (Tom Lane)Fix pg_basebackup's matching of tablespace paths to canonicalize both paths before comparing (Michael Paquier)
This is particularly helpful on Windows.
Fix libpq to not require user's home directory to exist (Tom Lane)
In v10, failure to find the home directory while trying to read
~/.pgpasswas treated as a hard error, but it should just cause that file to not be found. Both v10 and previous release branches made the same mistake when reading~/.pg_service.conf, though this was less obvious since that file is not sought unless a service name is specified.Fix libpq to guard against integer overflow in the row count of a
PGresult(Michael Paquier)Fix ecpg's handling of out-of-scope cursor declarations with pointer or array variables (Michael Meskes)
In ecpglib, correctly handle backslashes in string literals depending on whether
standard_conforming_stringsis set (Tsunakawa Takayuki)Make ecpglib's Informix-compatibility mode ignore fractional digits in integer input strings, as expected (Gao Zengqi, Michael Meskes)
Fix missing temp-install prerequisites for
check-like Make targets (Noah Misch)Some non-default test procedures that are meant to work like
make checkfailed to ensure that the temporary installation was up to date.Sync our copy of the timezone library with IANA release tzcode2017c (Tom Lane)
This fixes various issues; the only one likely to be user-visible is that the default DST rules for a POSIX-style zone name, if no
posixrulesfile exists in the timezone data directory, now match current US law rather than what it was a dozen years ago.Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2017c for DST law changes in Fiji, Namibia, Northern Cyprus, Sudan, Tonga, and Turks & Caicos Islands, plus historical corrections for Alaska, Apia, Burma, Calcutta, Detroit, Ireland, Namibia, and Pago Pago.