delta/postgresql.git, branch REL7_3_8

Stamp release 7.3.8.

2004-10-22T00:27:05+00:00

Prevent pg_ctl from being run as root. Since it uses configuration files

2004-10-22T00:24:33+00:00

owned by postgres, doing "pg_ctl start" as root could allow a privilege
escalation attack, as pointed out by iDEFENSE.  Of course the postmaster would
fail, but we ought to fail a little sooner to protect sysadmins unfamiliar
with Postgres.  The chosen fix is to disable root use of pg_ctl in all cases,
just to be confident there are no other holes.

Back-patch make_oidjoins_check security improvement.

2004-10-21T17:12:27+00:00

Repair possible failure to update hint bits back to disk, per

2004-10-13T22:22:22+00:00

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2004-10/msg00464.php.
I plan a more permanent fix in HEAD, but for the back branches it seems
best to just touch the places that actually have a problem.

Fix breakage in hashjoin from recent backpatch of left-join bug fix.

2004-10-13T21:56:06+00:00

(That's what I get for not testing the back branches *before* committing.)

Hashed LEFT JOIN would miss outer tuples with no inner match if the join

2004-09-17T18:29:24+00:00

was large enough to be batched and the tuples fell into a batch where
there were no inner tuples at all.  Thanks to Xiaoyu Wang for finding a
test case that exposed this long-standing bug.

Wups, seem to have used an ungood version of lynx to generate this.

2004-08-15T01:27:47+00:00

Stamp 7.3.7.

2004-08-15T00:52:02+00:00

Fix failure to guarantee that a checkpoint will write out pg_clog updates

2004-08-11T04:08:40+00:00

for transaction commits that occurred just before the checkpoint.  This is
an EXTREMELY serious bug --- kudos to Satoshi Okada for creating a
reproducible test case to prove its existence.

Remove asymetrical word processing in query and text

2004-06-07T16:49:25+00:00