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First-draft release notes for 9.3.4. 

As usual, the release notes for older branches will be made by cutting
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<!-- doc/src/sgml/release-9.3.sgml -->
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<sect1 id="release-9-3-4">
<title>Release 9.3.4</title>
<note>
<title>Release Date</title>
<simpara>2014-03-20</simpara>
</note>
<para>
This release contains a variety of fixes from 9.3.3.
For information about new features in the 9.3 major release, see
<xref linkend="release-9-3">.
</para>
<sect2>
<title>Migration to Version 9.3.4</title>
<para>
A dump/restore is not required for those running 9.3.X.
</para>
<para>
However, the error fixed in the first changelog entry below could have
resulted in corrupt data on standby servers. It may be prudent to
reinitialize standby servers from fresh base backups after installing
this update.
</para>
<para>
Also, the error fixed in the second changelog entry below could have
caused some bloat in statistics data. Users who have done
many <command>DROP DATABASE</> commands since upgrading to 9.3 may wish
to manually remove files in <filename>$PGDATA/pg_stat_tmp</>
(or <filename>$PGDATA/pg_stat</> if the server is not running) that
have old modification times and do not correspond to any database OID
present in <filename>$PGDATA/base</>. If you do this, note that the
file <filename>db_0.stat</> is a valid file even though it does not
correspond to any <filename>$PGDATA/base</> subdirectory.
</para>
<para>
Also, if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 9.3.3,
see <xref linkend="release-9-3-3">.
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2>
<title>Changes</title>
<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
<para>
Fix WAL replay of locking an already-updated tuple (Andres Freund,
&Aacute;lvaro Herrera)
</para>
<para>
This error allowed multiple versions of the same row to become
visible to queries, resulting in apparent duplicates. Since the
error is in WAL replay, it would only manifest during crash recovery
or on standby servers.
</para>
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<listitem>
<para>
Remove the correct per-database statistics file during <command>DROP
DATABASE</> (Tomas Vondra)
</para>
<para>
This fix prevents a permanent leak of statistics file space.
</para>
</listitem>
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<listitem>
<para>
Restore GIN metapages unconditionally to avoid torn-page risk
(Heikki Linnakangas)
</para>
<para>
Although this oversight could theoretically result in a corrupted
index, it is unlikely to have caused any problems in practice, since
the active part of a GIN metapage is smaller than a standard 512-byte
disk sector.
</para>
</listitem>
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<listitem>
<para>
Avoid race condition in checking transaction commit status during
receipt of a <command>NOTIFY</> message (Marko Tiikkaja)
</para>
<para>
This prevents a scenario wherein a sufficiently fast client might
respond to a notification before database updates made by the
notifier have become visible to the recipient.
</para>
</listitem>
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<listitem>
<para>
Allow materialized views to be referenced in <command>UPDATE</>
and <command>DELETE</> commands (Michael Paquier)
</para>
<para>
Previously such queries failed with a complaint about not being able
to lock rows in the materialized view.
</para>
</listitem>
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<listitem>
<para>
Allow regular-expression operators to be terminated early by query
cancel requests (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
This prevents scenarios wherein a pathological regular expression
could lock up a server process uninterruptably for a long time.
</para>
</listitem>
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<listitem>
<para>
Remove incorrect code that tried to allow <literal>OVERLAPS</> with
single-element row arguments (Joshua Yanovski)
</para>
<para>
This code never worked correctly, and since the case is neither
specified by the SQL standard nor documented, it seemed better to
remove it than fix it.
</para>
</listitem>
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<listitem>
<para>
Avoid getting more than <literal>AccessShareLock</> when de-parsing a
rule or view (Dean Rasheed)
</para>
<para>
This oversight resulted in <application>pg_dump</> unexpectedly
acquiring <literal>RowExclusiveLock</> locks on tables mentioned as
the targets of <literal>INSERT</>/<literal>UPDATE</>/<literal>DELETE</>
commands in rules. While usually harmless, that could interfere with
concurrent transactions that tried to acquire, for example,
<literal>ShareLock</> on those tables.
</para>
</listitem>
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<listitem>
<para>
Improve performance of index endpoint probes during planning (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
This change fixes a significant performance problem that occurred
when there were many not-yet-committed rows at the end of the index,
which is a common situation for indexes on sequentially-assigned
values such as timestamps or sequence-generated identifiers.
</para>
</listitem>
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<listitem>
<para>
Use non-default selectivity estimates for
<literal><replaceable>value</> IN (<replaceable>list</>)</literal> and
<literal><replaceable>value</> <replaceable>operator</> ANY
(<replaceable>array</>)</literal>
expressions when the righthand side is a stable expression (Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
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<listitem>
<para>
Fix <application>walsender</> ping logic to avoid inappropriate
disconnects under continuous load (Andres Freund, Heikki Linnakangas)
</para>
<para>
<application>walsender</> failed to send ping messages to the client
if it was constantly busy sending WAL data; but it expected to see
ping responses despite that, and would therefore disconnect
once <xref linkend="guc-wal-sender-timeout"> elapsed.
</para>
</listitem>
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<listitem>
<para>
Check WAL level and hot standby parameters correctly when doing crash
recovery that will be followed by archive recovery (Heikki Linnakangas)
</para>
</listitem>
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<listitem>
<para>
Fix test to see if hot standby connections can be allowed immediately
after a crash (Heikki Linnakangas)
</para>
</listitem>
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<listitem>
<para>
Add read-only <xref linkend="guc-data-checksums"> parameter to
display whether page checksums are enabled (Heikki Linnakangas)
</para>
<para>
Without this parameter, determining the state of checksum
processing was difficult.
</para>
</listitem>
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<listitem>
<para>
Prevent interrupts while reporting non-<literal>ERROR</> messages
(Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
This guards against rare server-process freezeups due to recursive
entry to <function>syslog()</>, and perhaps other related problems.
</para>
</listitem>
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<listitem>
<para>
Fix tracking of <application>psql</> script line numbers
during <literal>\copy</> from out-of-line data
(Kumar Rajeev Rastogi, Amit Khandekar)
</para>
<para>
<literal>\copy ... from</> incremented the script file line number
for each data line, even if the data was not coming from the script
file. This mistake resulted in wrong line numbers being reported for
any errors occurring later in the same script file.
</para>
</listitem>
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<listitem>
<para>
Fix <application>contrib/postgres_fdw</> to handle multiple join
conditions properly (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
This oversight could result in sending <literal>WHERE</> clauses to
the remote server for execution even though the clauses are not known
to have the same semantics on the remote server (for example, clauses
that use non-built-in operators). The query might succeed anyway,
but it could also fail with errors from the remote server, or worse
give silently wrong answers.
</para>
</listitem>
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<listitem>
<para>
Prevent intermittent <quote>could not reserve shared memory region</>
failures on recent Windows versions (MauMau)
</para>
</listitem>
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<listitem>
<para>
Update time zone data files to <application>tzdata</> release 2014a
for DST law changes in Fiji and Turkey, plus historical changes in
Israel and Ukraine.
</para>
<para>
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect2>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="release-9-3-3">
<title>Release 9.3.3</title>