E.162. Release 8.4.7

E.162.1. Migration to Version 8.4.7
E.162.2. Changes

Release date: 2011-01-31

This release contains a variety of fixes from 8.4.6. For information about new features in the 8.4 major release, see Section E.169.

E.162.1. Migration to Version 8.4.7

A dump/restore is not required for those running 8.4.X. However, if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 8.4.2, see Section E.167.

E.162.2. Changes

  • Avoid failures when EXPLAIN tries to display a simple-form CASE expression (Tom Lane)

    If the CASE's test expression was a constant, the planner could simplify the CASE into a form that confused the expression-display code, resulting in unexpected CASE WHEN clause errors.

  • Fix assignment to an array slice that is before the existing range of subscripts (Tom Lane)

    If there was a gap between the newly added subscripts and the first pre-existing subscript, the code miscalculated how many entries needed to be copied from the old array's null bitmap, potentially leading to data corruption or crash.

  • Avoid unexpected conversion overflow in planner for very distant date values (Tom Lane)

    The date type supports a wider range of dates than can be represented by the timestamp types, but the planner assumed it could always convert a date to timestamp with impunity.

  • Fix pg_restore's text output for large objects (BLOBs) when standard_conforming_strings is on (Tom Lane)

    Although restoring directly to a database worked correctly, string escaping was incorrect if pg_restore was asked for SQL text output and standard_conforming_strings had been enabled in the source database.

  • Fix erroneous parsing of tsquery values containing ... & !(subexpression) | ... (Tom Lane)

    Queries containing this combination of operators were not executed correctly. The same error existed in contrib/intarray's query_int type and contrib/ltree's ltxtquery type.

  • Fix buffer overrun in contrib/intarray's input function for the query_int type (Apple)

    This bug is a security risk since the function's return address could be overwritten. Thanks to Apple Inc's security team for reporting this issue and supplying the fix. (CVE-2010-4015)

  • Fix bug in contrib/seg's GiST picksplit algorithm (Alexander Korotkov)

    This could result in considerable inefficiency, though not actually incorrect answers, in a GiST index on a seg column. If you have such an index, consider REINDEXing it after installing this update. (This is identical to the bug that was fixed in contrib/cube in the previous update.)