Two important things:
+ Fix bugs in information_schema.referential_constraints view
If you need to fix this in an existing installation, you
can (as a superuser) drop the information_schema schema then re-create it
by sourcing /usr/local/share/postgresql/information_schema.sql.
This must be repeated in each database to be fixed.
+ Make contrib/citext's upgrade script fix collations of
citext columns and indexes.
If you have a previously-upgraded database that is suffering
from this problem, and you already ran the CREATE EXTENSION command,
you can manually run (as superuser) the UPDATE commands found
at the end of /usr/local/share/postgresql/extension/citext--unpackaged--1.0.sql.
ok jeremy@
- use /etc/rc.d to stop and start the daemon.
- use sudo rather than keep jumping between root/_postgresql users.
- use pkg_add -ui rather than just -u (allow it to ask if you've backed
up, rather than just terminating).
ok pea@
+ CVE fix (CVE-2010-4015)
+ fix nasty behavior:
- Before exiting walreceiver, ensure all the received WAL is fsync'd to disk.
Otherwise the standby server could replay some un-synced WAL, conceivably leading
to data corruption if the system crashes just at that point.
- Make ALTER TABLE revalidate uniqueness and exclusion constraints when needed
Tested in a bulk by landry@
ok ajacoutot@, landry@, sthen@
Initial diff (for rc and beta) from simon@
ok mbalmer@, simon@
commitski jasper@
BE CAREFULL: it's a major upgrade !
You MUST dump/restore all your data for this upgrade.
you apply this and restore afterwards!
Additionally, implicit typecasts are history and not supported anymore.
Versions prior to 8.3 had the feature (some say bug) that functions,
expecting an argument to be of a certain type, have casted a variable of
any other type to the expected type, if possible.
This has changed now. Tests surfaced rare occurrences of regressions,
which were then fixed in about ten minutes - and that code was not even
in the ports tree; no issues found there.
A few more things have changed, namely tsearch2 went from contrib to the
core and native uuid type support was added; for details read the
release announcement at
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/release-8-3.html.
tests & ok mbalmer@ (maintainer)
