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>Release date: </B
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>   This release contains a variety of fixes from 8.0.2, including several
   security-related issues.
   For information about new features in the 8.0 major release, see
   <A
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>    A dump/restore is not required for those running 8.0.X.  However,
    it is one possible way of handling two significant security problems
    that have been found in the initial contents of 8.0.X system
    catalogs.  A dump/initdb/reload sequence using 8.0.3's initdb will
    automatically correct these problems.
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>    The larger security problem is that the built-in character set encoding
    conversion functions can be invoked from SQL commands by unprivileged
    users, but the functions were not designed for such use and are not
    secure against malicious choices of arguments.  The fix involves changing
    the declared parameter list of these functions so that they can no longer
    be invoked from SQL commands.  (This does not affect their normal use
    by the encoding conversion machinery.)
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>    The lesser problem is that the <TT
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>contrib/tsearch2</TT
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    creates several functions that are improperly declared to return
    <TT
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>internal</TT
> when they do not accept <TT
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    This breaks type safety for all functions using <TT
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    arguments.
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>    It is strongly recommended that all installations repair these errors,
    either by initdb or by following the manual repair procedure given
    below.  The errors at least allow unprivileged database users to crash
    their server process, and might allow unprivileged users to gain the
    privileges of a database superuser.
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>    If you wish not to do an initdb, perform the same manual repair
    procedures shown in the <A
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    notes</A
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>Change encoding function signature to prevent
misuse</P
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>Change <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>contrib/tsearch2</TT
> to avoid unsafe use of
<TT
CLASS="TYPE"
>INTERNAL</TT
> function results</P
></LI
><LI
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>Guard against incorrect second parameter to
<CODE
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>record_out</CODE
></P
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>Repair ancient race condition that allowed a transaction to be
seen as committed for some purposes (eg SELECT FOR UPDATE) slightly sooner
than for other purposes</P
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>This is an extremely serious bug since it could lead to apparent
data inconsistencies being briefly visible to applications.</P
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>Repair race condition between relation extension and
VACUUM</P
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>This could theoretically have caused loss of a page's worth of
freshly-inserted data, although the scenario seems of very low probability.
There are no known cases of it having caused more than an Assert failure.</P
></LI
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>Fix comparisons of <TT
CLASS="TYPE"
>TIME WITH TIME ZONE</TT
> values</P
><P
>The comparison code was wrong in the case where the
<TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>--enable-integer-datetimes</TT
> configuration switch had been used.
NOTE: if you have an index on a <TT
CLASS="TYPE"
>TIME WITH TIME ZONE</TT
> column,
it will need to be <TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>REINDEX</TT
>ed after installing this update, because
the fix corrects the sort order of column values.</P
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><P
>Fix <CODE
CLASS="FUNCTION"
>EXTRACT(EPOCH)</CODE
> for
<TT
CLASS="TYPE"
>TIME WITH TIME ZONE</TT
> values</P
></LI
><LI
><P
>Fix mis-display of negative fractional seconds in
<TT
CLASS="TYPE"
>INTERVAL</TT
> values</P
><P
>This error only occurred when the
<TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>--enable-integer-datetimes</TT
> configuration switch had been used.</P
></LI
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><P
>Fix pg_dump to dump trigger names containing <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>%</TT
>
correctly (Neil)</P
></LI
><LI
><P
>Still more 64-bit fixes for
<TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>contrib/intagg</TT
></P
></LI
><LI
><P
>Prevent incorrect optimization of functions returning
<TT
CLASS="TYPE"
>RECORD</TT
></P
></LI
><LI
><P
>Prevent crash on <TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>COALESCE(NULL,NULL)</TT
></P
></LI
><LI
><P
>Fix Borland makefile for libpq</P
></LI
><LI
><P
>Fix <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>contrib/btree_gist</TT
> for <TT
CLASS="TYPE"
>timetz</TT
> type
(Teodor)</P
></LI
><LI
><P
>Make <TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>pg_ctl</TT
> check the PID found in
<TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>postmaster.pid</TT
> to see if it is still a live
process</P
></LI
><LI
><P
>Fix <TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>pg_dump</TT
>/<TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>pg_restore</TT
> problems caused
by addition of dump timestamps</P
></LI
><LI
><P
>Fix interaction between materializing holdable cursors and
firing deferred triggers during transaction commit</P
></LI
><LI
><P
>Fix memory leak in SQL functions returning pass-by-reference
data types</P
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