delta/postgresql.git, branch REL7_4_6

Stamp release 7.4.6.

2004-10-22T00:26:24+00:00

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

2004-10-22T00:24:27+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.

Update obsolete comments about COPY vs INSERT options, per Uwe Schroeder.

2004-10-21T22:49:04+00:00

Correctly cast the return value of a CallableStatement when getShort

2004-10-21T19:13:55+00:00

is called.  getByte presents a can't happen situation as no function
can return a TINYINT because pg doesn't have an equivalent type.
Make this throw an exception if we get to this point.

Thanks to Christian Niles.

Back-patch make_oidjoins_check security improvement.

2004-10-21T17:12:19+00:00

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

2004-10-13T22:22:03+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.

Translation update

2004-10-12T17:54:24+00:00

'::' is no longer interpreted as a variable in a prepare statement.

2004-10-05T10:48:45+00:00

Convert pg_stat_get_backend_idset to use the existing SRF support.

2004-10-01T21:09:46+00:00

This seems the cleanest way of fixing its lack of a shutdown callback,
which was preventing it from working correctly in a query that didn't
run it to completion.  Per bug report from Szima GÄbor.

Translation update

2004-09-27T20:27:58+00:00