E.2. Release 8.2.4

E.2.1. Migration to version 8.2.4

A dump/restore is not required for those running 8.2.X.

E.2.2. Changes

• Support explicit placement of the temporary-table schema within search_path, and disable searching it for functions and operators (Tom)

  This is needed to allow a security-definer function to set a truly secure value of search_path. Without it, an unprivileged SQL user can use temporary objects to execute code with the privileges of the security-definer function (CVE-2007-2138). See CREATE FUNCTION for more information.

• Fix shared_preload_libraries for Windows by forcing reload in each backend (Korry Douglas)

• Fix to_char() so it properly upper/lower cases localized day or month names (Pavel Stehule)

• /contrib/tsearch2 crash fixes (Teodor)

• Require COMMIT PREPARED to be executed in the same database as the transaction was prepared in (Heikki)

• Allow pg_dump to do binary backups larger than two gigabytes on Windows (Magnus)

• New traditional (Taiwan) Chinese FAQ (Zhou Daojing)

• Prevent the statistics collector from writing to disk too frequently (Tom)

• Fix potential-data-corruption bug in how VACUUM FULL handles UPDATE chains (Tom, Pavan Deolasee)

• Fix bug in domains that use array types (Tom)

• Fix pg_dump so it can dump a serial column's sequence using -t when not also dumping the owning table (Tom)

• Planner fixes, including improving outer join and bitmap scan selection logic (Tom)

• Fix possible wrong answers or crash when a PL/pgSQL function tries to RETURN from within an EXCEPTION block (Tom)

• Fix PANIC during enlargement of a hash index (Tom)

• Fix POSIX-style timezone specs to follow new USA DST rules (Tom)