E.3. Release 10.5
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## E.3. Release 10.5

Release date: 2018-08-09

This release contains a variety of fixes from 10.4. For information about new features in major release 10, see Section E.8.

### E.3.1. Migration to Version 10.5

A dump/restore is not required for those running 10.X.

However, if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 10.4, see Section E.4.

### E.3.2. Changes

- Fix failure to reset libpq's state fully between connection attempts (Tom Lane)

  An unprivileged user of `dblink` or `postgres_fdw` could bypass the checks intended to prevent use of server-side credentials, such as a `~/.pgpass` file owned by the operating-system user running the server. Servers allowing peer authentication on local connections are particularly vulnerable. Other attacks such as SQL injection into a `postgres_fdw` session are also possible. Attacking `postgres_fdw` in this way requires the ability to create a foreign server object with selected connection parameters, but any user with access to `dblink` could exploit the problem. In general, an attacker with the ability to select the connection parameters for a libpq-using application could cause mischief, though other plausible attack scenarios are harder to think of. Our thanks to Andrew Krasichkov for reporting this issue. (CVE-2018-10915)

- Fix `INSERT ... ON CONFLICT UPDATE` through a view that isn't just `SELECT * FROM ...` (Dean Rasheed, Amit Langote)

  Erroneous expansion of an updatable view could lead to crashes or “attribute ... has the wrong type” errors, if the view's `SELECT` list doesn't match one-to-one with the underlying table's columns. Furthermore, this bug could be leveraged to allow updates of columns that an attacking user lacks `UPDATE` privilege for, if that user has `INSERT` and `UPDATE` privileges for some other column(s) of the table. Any user could also use it for disclosure of server memory. (CVE-2018-10925)

- Ensure that updates to the `relfrozenxid` and `relminmxid` values for “nailed” system catalogs are processed in a timely fashion (Andres Freund)

  Overoptimistic caching rules could prevent these updates from being seen by other sessions, leading to spurious errors and/or data corruption. The problem was significantly worse for shared catalogs, such as `pg_authid`, because the stale cache data could persist into new sessions as well as existing ones.

- Fix case where a freshly-promoted standby crashes before having completed its first post-recovery checkpoint (Michael Paquier, Kyotaro Horiguchi, Pavan Deolasee, Álvaro Herrera)

  This led to a situation where the server did not think it had reached a consistent database state during subsequent WAL replay, preventing restart.

- Avoid emitting a bogus WAL record when recycling an all-zero btree page (Amit Kapila)

  This mistake has been seen to cause assertion failures, and potentially it could result in unnecessary query cancellations on hot standby servers.

- During WAL replay, guard against corrupted record lengths exceeding 1GB (Michael Paquier)

  Treat such a case as corrupt data. Previously, the code would try to allocate space and get a hard error, making recovery impossible.

- When ending recovery, delay writing the timeline history file as long as possible (Heikki Linnakangas)

  This avoids some situations where a failure during recovery cleanup (such as a problem with a two-phase state file) led to inconsistent timeline state on-disk.

- Improve performance of WAL replay for transactions that drop many relations (Fujii Masao)

  This change reduces the number of times that shared buffers are scanned, so that it is of most benefit when that setting is large.

- Improve performance of lock releasing in standby server WAL replay (Thomas Munro)

- Make logical WAL senders report streaming state correctly (Simon Riggs, Sawada Masahiko)

  The code previously mis-detected whether or not it had caught up with the upstream server.

- Ensure that a snapshot is provided when executing data type input functions in logical replication subscribers (Minh-Quan Tran, Álvaro Herrera)

  This omission led to failures in some cases, such as domains with constraints using SQL-language functions.

- Fix bugs in snapshot handling during logical decoding, allowing wrong decoding results in rare cases (Arseny Sher, Álvaro Herrera)

- Add subtransaction handling in logical-replication table synchronization workers (Amit Khandekar, Robert Haas)

  Previously, table synchronization could misbehave if any subtransactions were aborted after modifying a table being synchronized.

- Ensure a table's cached index list is correctly rebuilt after an index creation fails partway through (Peter Geoghegan)

  Previously, the failed index's OID could remain in the list, causing problems later in the same session.

- Fix mishandling of empty uncompressed posting list pages in GIN indexes (Sivasubramanian Ramasubramanian, Alexander Korotkov)

  This could result in an assertion failure after pg_upgrade of a pre-9.4 GIN index (9.4 and later will not create such pages).

- Pad arrays of unnamed POSIX semaphores to reduce cache line sharing (Thomas Munro)

  This reduces contention on many-CPU systems, fixing a performance regression (compared to previous releases) on Linux and FreeBSD.

- Ensure that a process doing a parallel index scan will respond to signals (Amit Kapila)

  Previously, parallel workers could get stuck waiting for a lock on an index page, and not notice requests to abort the query.

- Ensure that `VACUUM` will respond to signals within btree page deletion loops (Andres Freund)

  Corrupted btree indexes could result in an infinite loop here, and that previously wasn't interruptible without forcing a crash.

- Fix hash-join costing mistake introduced with inner_unique optimization (David Rowley)

  This could lead to bad plan choices in situations where that optimization was applicable.

- Fix misoptimization of equivalence classes involving composite-type columns (Tom Lane)

  This resulted in failure to recognize that an index on a composite column could provide the sort order needed for a mergejoin on that column.

- Fix planner to avoid “ORDER/GROUP BY expression not found in targetlist” errors in some queries with set-returning functions (Tom Lane)

- Fix handling of partition keys whose data type uses a polymorphic btree operator class, such as arrays (Amit Langote, Álvaro Herrera)

- Fix SQL-standard `FETCH FIRST` syntax to allow parameters (`$`n``), as the standard expects (Andrew Gierth)

- Remove undocumented restriction against duplicate partition key columns (Yugo Nagata)

- Disallow temporary tables from being partitions of non-temporary tables (Amit Langote, Michael Paquier)

  While previously allowed, this case didn't work reliably.

- Fix `EXPLAIN`'s accounting for resource usage, particularly buffer accesses, in parallel workers (Amit Kapila, Robert Haas)

- Fix `SHOW ALL` to show all settings to roles that are members of `pg_read_all_settings`, and also allow such roles to see source filename and line number in the `pg_settings` view (Laurenz Albe, Álvaro Herrera)

- Fix failure to schema-qualify some object names in `getObjectDescription` and `getObjectIdentity` output (Kyotaro Horiguchi, Tom Lane)

  Names of collations, conversions, text search objects, publication relations, and extended statistics objects were not schema-qualified when they should be.

- Fix `CREATE AGGREGATE` type checking so that parallelism support functions can be attached to variadic aggregates (Alexey Bashtanov)

- Widen `COPY FROM`'s current-line-number counter from 32 to 64 bits (David Rowley)

  This avoids two problems with input exceeding 4G lines: `COPY FROM WITH HEADER` would drop a line every 4G lines, not only the first line, and error reports could show a wrong line number.

- Allow replication slots to be dropped in single-user mode (Álvaro Herrera)

  This use-case was accidentally broken in release 10.0.

- Fix incorrect results from `variance(int4)` and related aggregates when run in parallel aggregation mode (David Rowley)

- Process `TEXT` and `CDATA` nodes correctly in `xmltable()` column expressions (Markus Winand)

- Cope with possible failure of OpenSSL's `RAND_bytes()` function (Dean Rasheed, Michael Paquier)

  Under rare circumstances, this oversight could result in “could not generate random cancel key” failures that could only be resolved by restarting the postmaster.

- Fix libpq's handling of some cases where `hostaddr` is specified (Hari Babu, Tom Lane, Robert Haas)

  `PQhost()` gave misleading or incorrect results in some cases. Now, it uniformly returns the host name if specified, or the host address if only that is specified, or the default host name (typically `/tmp` or `localhost`) if both parameters are omitted.

  Also, the wrong value might be compared to the server name when verifying an SSL certificate.

  Also, the wrong value might be compared to the host name field in `~/.pgpass`. Now, that field is compared to the host name if specified, or the host address if only that is specified, or `localhost` if both parameters are omitted.

  Also, an incorrect error message was reported for an unparseable `hostaddr` value.

  Also, when the `host`, `hostaddr`, or `port` parameters contain comma-separated lists, libpq is now more careful to treat empty elements of a list as selecting the default behavior.

- Add a string freeing function to ecpg's `pgtypes` library, so that cross-module memory management problems can be avoided on Windows (Takayuki Tsunakawa)

  On Windows, crashes can ensue if the `free` call for a given chunk of memory is not made from the same DLL that `malloc`'ed the memory. The `pgtypes` library sometimes returns strings that it expects the caller to free, making it impossible to follow this rule. Add a `PGTYPESchar_free()` function that just wraps `free`, allowing applications to follow this rule.

- Fix ecpg's support for `long long` variables on Windows, as well as other platforms that declare `strtoll`/`strtoull` nonstandardly or not at all (Dang Minh Huong, Tom Lane)

- Fix misidentification of SQL statement type in PL/pgSQL, when a rule change causes a change in the semantics of a statement intra-session (Tom Lane)

  This error led to assertion failures, or in rare cases, failure to enforce the `INTO STRICT` option as expected.

- Fix password prompting in client programs so that echo is properly disabled on Windows when `stdin` is not the terminal (Matthew Stickney)

- Further fix mis-quoting of values for list-valued GUC variables in dumps (Tom Lane)

  The previous fix for quoting of `search_path` and other list-valued variables in pg_dump output turned out to misbehave for empty-string list elements, and it risked truncation of long file paths.

- Fix pg_dump's failure to dump `REPLICA IDENTITY` properties for constraint indexes (Tom Lane)

  Manually created unique indexes were properly marked, but not those created by declaring `UNIQUE` or `PRIMARY KEY` constraints.

- Make pg_upgrade check that the old server was shut down cleanly (Bruce Momjian)

  The previous check could be fooled by an immediate-mode shutdown.

- Fix `contrib/hstore_plperl` to look through Perl scalar references, and to not crash if it doesn't find a hash reference where it expects one (Tom Lane)

- Fix crash in `contrib/ltree`'s `lca()` function when the input array is empty (Pierre Ducroquet)

- Fix various error-handling code paths in which an incorrect error code might be reported (Michael Paquier, Tom Lane, Magnus Hagander)

- Rearrange makefiles to ensure that programs link to freshly-built libraries (such as `libpq.so`) rather than ones that might exist in the system library directories (Tom Lane)

  This avoids problems when building on platforms that supply old copies of PostgreSQL libraries.

- Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2018e for DST law changes in North Korea, plus historical corrections for Czechoslovakia.

  This update includes a redefinition of “daylight savings” in Ireland, as well as for some past years in Namibia and Czechoslovakia. In those jurisdictions, legally standard time is observed in summer, and daylight savings time in winter, so that the daylight savings offset is one hour behind standard time not one hour ahead. This does not affect either the actual UTC offset or the timezone abbreviations in use; the only known effect is that the `is_dst` column in the `pg_timezone_names` view will now be true in winter and false in summer in these cases.

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