Release date: 2017-08-31
This release contains a small number of fixes from 9.2.22. For information about new features in the 9.2 major release, see Section E.82.
The PostgreSQL community will stop releasing updates for the 9.2.X release series in September 2017. Users are encouraged to update to a newer release branch soon.
A dump/restore is not required for those running 9.2.X.
However, if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 9.2.22, see Section E.60.
Show foreign tables
in information_schema
.table_privileges
view (Peter Eisentraut)
All other relevant information_schema
views include
foreign tables, but this one ignored them.
Since this view definition is installed by initdb, merely upgrading will not fix the problem. If you need to fix this in an existing installation, you can, as a superuser, do this in psql:
SET search_path TO information_schema; CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW table_privileges AS SELECT CAST(u_grantor.rolname AS sql_identifier) AS grantor, CAST(grantee.rolname AS sql_identifier) AS grantee, CAST(current_database() AS sql_identifier) AS table_catalog, CAST(nc.nspname AS sql_identifier) AS table_schema, CAST(c.relname AS sql_identifier) AS table_name, CAST(c.prtype AS character_data) AS privilege_type, CAST( CASE WHEN -- object owner always has grant options pg_has_role(grantee.oid, c.relowner, 'USAGE') OR c.grantable THEN 'YES' ELSE 'NO' END AS yes_or_no) AS is_grantable, CAST(CASE WHEN c.prtype = 'SELECT' THEN 'YES' ELSE 'NO' END AS yes_or_no) AS with_hierarchy FROM ( SELECT oid, relname, relnamespace, relkind, relowner, (aclexplode(coalesce(relacl, acldefault('r', relowner)))).* FROM pg_class ) AS c (oid, relname, relnamespace, relkind, relowner, grantor, grantee, prtype, grantable), pg_namespace nc, pg_authid u_grantor, ( SELECT oid, rolname FROM pg_authid UNION ALL SELECT 0::oid, 'PUBLIC' ) AS grantee (oid, rolname) WHERE c.relnamespace = nc.oid AND c.relkind IN ('r', 'v', 'f') AND c.grantee = grantee.oid AND c.grantor = u_grantor.oid AND c.prtype IN ('INSERT', 'SELECT', 'UPDATE', 'DELETE', 'TRUNCATE', 'REFERENCES', 'TRIGGER') AND (pg_has_role(u_grantor.oid, 'USAGE') OR pg_has_role(grantee.oid, 'USAGE') OR grantee.rolname = 'PUBLIC');
This must be repeated in each database to be fixed,
including template0
.
Clean up handling of a fatal exit (e.g., due to receipt
of SIGTERM) that occurs while trying to execute
a ROLLBACK
of a failed transaction (Tom Lane)
This situation could result in an assertion failure. In production builds, the exit would still occur, but it would log an unexpected message about “cannot drop active portal”.
Remove assertion that could trigger during a fatal exit (Tom Lane)
Correctly identify columns that are of a range type or domain type over a composite type or domain type being searched for (Tom Lane)
Certain ALTER
commands that change the definition of a
composite type or domain type are supposed to fail if there are any
stored values of that type in the database, because they lack the
infrastructure needed to update or check such values. Previously,
these checks could miss relevant values that are wrapped inside range
types or sub-domains, possibly allowing the database to become
inconsistent.
Change ecpg's parser to allow RETURNING
clauses without attached C variables (Michael Meskes)
This allows ecpg programs to contain SQL constructs
that use RETURNING
internally (for example, inside a CTE)
rather than using it to define values to be returned to the client.
Improve selection of compiler flags for PL/Perl on Windows (Tom Lane)
This fix avoids possible crashes of PL/Perl due to inconsistent
assumptions about the width of time_t
values.
A side-effect that may be visible to extension developers is
that _USE_32BIT_TIME_T
is no longer defined globally
in PostgreSQL Windows builds. This is not expected
to cause problems, because type time_t
is not used
in any PostgreSQL API definitions.