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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /><title>E.4. Release 15.4</title><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="stylesheet.css" /><link rev="made" href="pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org" /><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets Vsnapshot" /><link rel="prev" href="release-15-5.html" title="E.3. Release 15.5" /><link rel="next" href="release-15-3.html" title="E.5. Release 15.3" /></head><body id="docContent" class="container-fluid col-10"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="5" align="center">E.4. Release 15.4</th></tr><tr><td width="10%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="release-15-5.html" title="E.3. Release 15.5">Prev</a> </td><td width="10%" align="left"><a accesskey="u" href="release.html" title="Appendix E. Release Notes">Up</a></td><th width="60%" align="center">Appendix E. Release Notes</th><td width="10%" align="right"><a accesskey="h" href="index.html" title="PostgreSQL 15.7 Documentation">Home</a></td><td width="10%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="release-15-3.html" title="E.5. Release 15.3">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr /></div><div class="sect1" id="RELEASE-15-4"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both">E.4. Release 15.4</h2></div></div></div><div class="toc"><dl class="toc"><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="release-15-4.html#id-1.11.6.8.4">E.4.1. Migration to Version 15.4</a></span></dt><dt><span class="sect2"><a href="release-15-4.html#id-1.11.6.8.5">E.4.2. Changes</a></span></dt></dl></div><p><strong>Release date: </strong>2023-08-10</p><p>
This release contains a variety of fixes from 15.3.
For information about new features in major release 15, see
<a class="xref" href="release-15.html" title="E.8. Release 15">Section E.8</a>.
</p><div class="sect2" id="id-1.11.6.8.4"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title">E.4.1. Migration to Version 15.4</h3></div></div></div><p>
A dump/restore is not required for those running 15.X.
</p><p>
However, if you use BRIN indexes, it may be advisable to reindex them;
see the third changelog entry below.
</p><p>
Also, if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 15.1,
see <a class="xref" href="release-15-1.html" title="E.7. Release 15.1">Section E.7</a>.
</p></div><div class="sect2" id="id-1.11.6.8.5"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title">E.4.2. Changes</h3></div></div></div><div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; "><li class="listitem"><p>
Disallow substituting a schema or owner name into an extension script
if the name contains a quote, backslash, or dollar sign (Noah Misch)
</p><p>
This restriction guards against SQL-injection hazards for trusted
extensions.
</p><p>
The <span class="productname">PostgreSQL</span> Project thanks Micah Gates,
Valerie Woolard, Tim Carey-Smith, and Christoph Berg for reporting
this problem.
(CVE-2023-39417)
</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>
Fix <code class="command">MERGE</code> to enforce row security policies
properly (Dean Rasheed)
</p><p>
When <code class="command">MERGE</code> performs an <code class="literal">UPDATE</code>
action, it should enforce any <code class="literal">UPDATE</code> or
<code class="literal">SELECT</code> RLS policies defined on the target table,
to be consistent with the way that a plain <code class="command">UPDATE</code>
with a <code class="literal">WHERE</code> clause works. Instead it was
enforcing <code class="literal">INSERT</code> RLS policies for both
<code class="literal">INSERT</code> and <code class="literal">UPDATE</code> actions.
</p><p>
In addition, when <code class="command">MERGE</code> performs a <code class="literal">DO
NOTHING</code> action, it applied the target table's
<code class="literal">DELETE</code> RLS policies to existing rows, even though
those rows are not being deleted. While it's not a security
problem, this could result in unwanted errors.
</p><p>
The <span class="productname">PostgreSQL</span> Project thanks
Dean Rasheed for reporting this problem.
(CVE-2023-39418)
</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>
Fix confusion between empty (no rows) ranges and all-NULL ranges in
BRIN indexes, as well as incorrect merging of all-NULL summaries
(Tomas Vondra)
</p><p>
Each of these oversights could result in forgetting that a BRIN
index range contains any NULL values, potentially allowing
subsequent queries that should return NULL values to miss doing so.
</p><p>
This fix will not in itself correct faulty BRIN entries.
It's recommended to <code class="command">REINDEX</code> any BRIN indexes that
may be used to search for nulls.
</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>
Avoid leaving a corrupted database behind when <code class="command">DROP
DATABASE</code> is interrupted (Andres Freund)
</p><p>
If <code class="command">DROP DATABASE</code> was interrupted after it had
already begun taking irreversible steps, the target database
remained accessible (because the removal of
its <code class="structname">pg_database</code> row would roll back),
but it would have corrupt contents. Fix by marking the database
as inaccessible before we begin to perform irreversible operations.
A failure after that will leave the database still partially
present, but nothing can be done with it except to issue
another <code class="command">DROP DATABASE</code>.
</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>
Ensure that partitioned indexes are correctly marked as valid or not
at creation (Michael Paquier)
</p><p>
If a new partitioned index matches an existing but invalid index on
one of the partitions, the partitioned index could end up being
marked valid prematurely. This could lead to misbehavior or
assertion failures in subsequent queries on the partitioned table.
</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>
Ignore invalid child indexes when matching partitioned indexes to
child indexes during <code class="command">ALTER TABLE ATTACH PARTITION</code>
(Michael Paquier)
</p><p>
Such an index will now be ignored, and a new child index created
instead.
</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>
Fix possible failure when marking a partitioned index valid after
all of its partitions have been attached (Michael Paquier)
</p><p>
The update of the index's <code class="structname">pg_index</code> entry
could use stale data for other columns. One reported symptom is
an <span class="quote">“<span class="quote">attempted to update invisible tuple</span>”</span> error.
</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>
Fix <code class="command">ALTER EXTENSION SET SCHEMA</code> to complain if the
extension contains any objects outside the extension's schema
(Michael Paquier, Heikki Linnakangas)
</p><p>
Erroring out if the extension contains objects in multiple schemas
was always intended; but the check was mis-coded so that it would
fail to detect some cases, leading to surprising behavior.
</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>
Fix tracking of tables' access method dependencies (Michael Paquier)
</p><p>
<code class="command">ALTER TABLE ... SET ACCESS METHOD</code> failed to
update relevant <code class="structname">pg_depend</code> entries when
changing a table's access method. When using non-built-in access
methods, this creates a risk that an access method could be dropped
even though tables still depend on it. This fix corrects the logic
in <code class="command">ALTER TABLE</code>, but it will not adjust any
already-missing <code class="structname">pg_depend</code> entries.
</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>
Don't use partial unique indexes for uniqueness proofs in the
planner (David Rowley)
</p><p>
This could give rise to incorrect plans, since the presumed
uniqueness of rows read from a table might not hold if the index in
question isn't used to scan the table.
</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>
Don't Memoize lateral joins with volatile join conditions
(Richard Guo)
</p><p>
Applying Memoize to a sub-plan that contains volatile filter
conditions is likely to lead to wrong answers. The check to avoid
doing this missed some cases that can arise when
using <code class="literal">LATERAL</code>.
</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>
Avoid producing incorrect plans for foreign joins with
pseudoconstant join clauses (Etsuro Fujita)
</p><p>
The planner currently lacks support for attaching pseudoconstant
join clauses to a pushed-down remote join, so disable generation
of remote joins in such cases. (A better solution will require
ABI-breaking changes of planner data structures, so it will have to
wait for a future major release.)
</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>
Correctly handle sub-SELECTs in RLS policy expressions and
security-barrier views when expanding rule actions (Tom Lane)
</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>
Fix race conditions in conflict detection
for <code class="literal">SERIALIZABLE</code> isolation mode
(Thomas Munro)
</p><p>
Conflicts could be missed when using bitmap heap scans, when using
GIN indexes, and when examining an initially-empty btree index.
All these cases could lead to serializability failures due to
improperly allowing conflicting transactions to commit.
</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>
Fix misbehavior of EvalPlanQual checks with inherited or partitioned
target tables (Tom Lane)
</p><p>
This oversight could lead to update or delete actions
in <code class="literal">READ COMMITTED</code> isolation mode getting
performed when they should have been skipped because of a
conflicting concurrent update.
</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>
Fix hash join with an inner-side hash key that contains Params
coming from an outer nested loop (Tom Lane)
</p><p>
When rescanning the join after the values of such Params have
changed, we must rebuild the hash table, but neglected to do so.
This could result in missing join output rows.
</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>
Fix intermittent failures when trying to update a field of a
composite column (Tom Lane)
</p><p>
If the overall value of the composite column is wide enough to
require out-of-line toasting, then an unluckily-timed cache flush
could cause errors or server crashes.
</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>
Prevent query-lifespan memory leaks in some <code class="command">UPDATE</code>
queries with triggers (Tomas Vondra)
</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>
Prevent query-lifespan memory leaks when an Incremental Sort plan
node is rescanned (James Coleman, Laurenz Albe, Tom Lane)
</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>
Accept fractional seconds in the input to <code class="type">jsonpath</code>'s
<code class="function">datetime()</code> method (Tom Lane)
</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>
Prevent stack-overflow crashes with very complex text search
patterns (Tom Lane)
</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>
Allow tokens up to 10240 bytes long
in <code class="filename">pg_hba.conf</code>
and <code class="filename">pg_ident.conf</code> (Tom Lane)
</p><p>
The previous limit of 256 bytes has been found insufficient for some
use-cases.
</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>
Ensure that all existing placeholders are checked for matches when
an extension declares its GUC prefix to be reserved (Karina
Litskevich, Ekaterina Sokolova)
</p><p>
Faulty loop logic could cause some entries to be skipped.
</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>
Fix mishandling of C++ out-of-memory conditions (Heikki Linnakangas)
</p><p>
If JIT is in use, running out of memory in a
C++ <code class="function">new</code> call would lead to
a <span class="productname">PostgreSQL</span> FATAL error, instead of the
expected C++ exception.
</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>
Fix rare null-pointer crash in <code class="filename">plancache.c</code>
(Tom Lane)
</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>
Avoid leaking a stats entry for a subscription when it is dropped
(Masahiko Sawada)
</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>
Avoid losing track of possibly-useful shared memory segments when a
page free results in coalescing ranges of free space (Dongming Liu)
</p><p>
Ensure that the segment is moved into the
appropriate <span class="quote">“<span class="quote">bin</span>”</span> for its new amount of free space, so
that it will be found by subsequent searches.
</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>
Allow <code class="command">VACUUM</code> to continue after detecting certain
types of b-tree index corruption (Peter Geoghegan)
</p><p>
If an invalid sibling-page link is detected, log the issue and press
on, rather than throwing an error as before. Nothing short
of <code class="command">REINDEX</code> will fix the broken index, but
preventing <code class="command">VACUUM</code> from completing until that is
done risks making matters far worse.
</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>
Ensure that <code class="varname">WrapLimitsVacuumLock</code> is released
after <code class="command">VACUUM</code> detects invalid data
in <code class="structname">pg_database</code>.<code class="structfield">datfrozenxid</code>
or <code class="structname">pg_database</code>.<code class="structfield">datminmxid</code>
(Andres Freund)
</p><p>
Failure to release this lock could lead to a deadlock later,
although the lock would be cleaned up if the session exits or
encounters some other error.
</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>
Avoid double replay of prepared transactions during crash
recovery (suyu.cmj, Michael Paquier)
</p><p>
After a crash partway through a checkpoint with some two-phase
transaction state data already flushed to disk by this checkpoint,
crash recovery could attempt to replay the prepared transaction(s)
twice, leading to a fatal error such as <span class="quote">“<span class="quote">lock is already
held</span>”</span> in the startup process.
</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>
Ensure that a newly created, but still empty table
is <code class="function">fsync</code>'ed at the next checkpoint (Heikki
Linnakangas)
</p><p>
Without this, if there is an operating system crash causing the
empty file to disappear, subsequent operations on the table might
fail with <span class="quote">“<span class="quote">could not open file</span>”</span> errors.
</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>
Ensure that creation of the init fork of an unlogged index is
WAL-logged (Heikki Linnakangas)
</p><p>
While an unlogged index's main data fork is not WAL-logged, its init
fork should be, to ensure that we have a consistent state to restore
the index to after a crash. This step was missed if the init fork
contains no data, which is a case not used by any standard index AM;
but perhaps some extension behaves that way.
</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>
Silence bogus <span class="quote">“<span class="quote">missing contrecord</span>”</span> errors (Thomas Munro)
</p><p>
Treat this case as plain end-of-WAL to avoid logging inaccurate
complaints from <span class="application">pg_waldump</span>
and <span class="application">walsender</span>.
</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>
Fix overly strict assertion in <code class="type">jsonpath</code> code
(David Rowley)
</p><p>
This assertion failed if a query applied
the <code class="literal">.type()</code> operator to
a <code class="literal">like_regex</code> result.
There was no bug in non-assert builds.
</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>
Avoid assertion failure when processing an empty statement via the
extended query protocol in an already-aborted transaction (Tom Lane)
</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>
Avoid assertion failure when
the <code class="varname">stats_fetch_consistency</code> setting is changed
intra-transaction (Kyotaro Horiguchi)
</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>
Fix <code class="filename">contrib/fuzzystrmatch</code>'s
Soundex <code class="function">difference()</code> function to handle empty
input sanely (Alexander Lakhin, Tom Lane)
</p><p>
An input string containing no alphabetic characters resulted in
unpredictable output.
</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>
Tighten whitespace checks in <code class="filename">contrib/hstore</code>
input (Evan Jones)
</p><p>
In some cases, characters would be falsely recognized as whitespace
and hence discarded.
</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>
Disallow oversize input arrays
with <code class="filename">contrib/intarray</code>'s
<code class="literal">gist__int_ops</code> index opclass (Ankit Kumar Pandey,
Alexander Lakhin)
</p><p>
Previously this code would report a <code class="literal">NOTICE</code> but
press on anyway, creating an invalid index entry that presents a
risk of crashes when the index is read.
</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>
Avoid useless double decompression of GiST index entries
in <code class="filename">contrib/intarray</code> (Konstantin Knizhnik,
Matthias van de Meent, Tom Lane)
</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>
Fix <code class="filename">contrib/pageinspect</code>'s
<code class="function">gist_page_items()</code> function to work when there
are included index columns (Alexander Lakhin, Michael Paquier)
</p><p>
Previously, if the index has included
columns, <code class="function">gist_page_items()</code> would fail to
display those values on index leaf pages, or crash outright on
non-leaf pages.
</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>
In <span class="application">psql</span>, ignore
the <code class="envar">PSQL_WATCH_PAGER</code> environment variable when
stdin/stdout are not a terminal (Tom Lane)
</p><p>
This corresponds to the treatment of <code class="envar">PSQL_PAGER</code> in
commands besides <code class="command">\watch</code>.
</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>
Fix <span class="application">pg_dump</span> to correctly handle new-style
SQL-language functions whose bodies require parse-time dependencies
on unique indexes (Tom Lane)
</p><p>
Such cases can arise from <code class="literal">GROUP BY</code>
and <code class="literal">ON CONFLICT</code> clauses, for example. The
function must then be postponed until after the unique index in the
dump output, but <span class="application">pg_dump</span> did not do that
and instead printed a warning about <span class="quote">“<span class="quote">could not resolve
dependency loop</span>”</span>.
</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>
Improve <span class="application">pg_dump</span>'s display of details
about dependency-loop problems (Tom Lane)
</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>
Avoid crash in <span class="application">pgbench</span> with an empty
pipeline and prepared mode (Álvaro Herrera)
</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>
Ensure
that <code class="structname">pg_index</code>.<code class="structfield">indisreplident</code>
is kept up-to-date in relation cache entries (Shruthi Gowda)
</p><p>
This value could be stale in some cases. There is no core code that
relies on the relation cache's copy, so this is only a latent bug as
far as Postgres itself is concerned; but there may be extensions for
which it is a live bug.
</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>
Fix <span class="application">make_etags</span> script to work with
non-Exuberant <span class="application">ctags</span> (Masahiko Sawada)
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