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# E.15. Release 9.5.1

Release date: 2016-02-11

This release contains a variety of fixes from 9.5.0. For information about new features in the 9.5 major release, see Section E.16.

## E.15.1. Migration to Version 9.5.1

A dump/restore is not required for those running 9.5.X.

## E.15.2. Changes

- Fix infinite loops and buffer-overrun problems in regular expressions (Tom Lane)

  Very large character ranges in bracket expressions could cause infinite loops in some cases, and memory overwrites in other cases. (CVE-2016-0773)

- Fix an oversight that caused hash joins to miss joining to some tuples of the inner relation in rare cases (Tomas Vondra, Tom Lane)

- Avoid pushdown of `HAVING` clauses when grouping sets are used (Andrew Gierth)

- Fix deparsing of `ON CONFLICT` arbiter `WHERE` clauses (Peter Geoghegan)

- Make `%h` and `%r` escapes in `log_line_prefix` work for messages emitted due to `log_connections` (Tom Lane)

  Previously, `%h`/`%r` started to work just after a new session had emitted the "connection received" log message; now they work for that message too.

- Avoid leaking a token handle during SSPI authentication (Christian Ullrich)

- Fix psql's `\det` command to interpret its pattern argument the same way as other `\d` commands with potentially schema-qualified patterns do (Reece Hart)

- In pg_ctl on Windows, check service status to decide where to send output, rather than checking if standard output is a terminal (Michael Paquier)

- Fix assorted corner-case bugs in pg_dump's processing of extension member objects (Tom Lane)

- Fix improper quoting of domain constraint names in pg_dump (Elvis Pranskevichus)

- Make pg_dump mark a view's triggers as needing to be processed after its rule, to prevent possible failure during parallel pg_restore (Tom Lane)

- Install guards in pgbench against corner-case overflow conditions during evaluation of script-specified division or modulo operators (Fabien Coelho, Michael Paquier)

- Suppress useless warning message when pg_receivexlog connects to a pre-9.4 server (Marco Nenciarini)

- Avoid dump/reload problems when using both plpython2 and plpython3 (Tom Lane)

  In principle, both versions of PL/Python can be used in the same database, though not in the same session (because the two versions of libpython cannot safely be used concurrently). However, pg_restore and pg_upgrade both do things that can fall foul of the same-session restriction. Work around that by changing the timing of the check.

- Fix PL/Python regression tests to pass with Python 3.5 (Peter Eisentraut)

- Prevent certain PL/Java parameters from being set by non-superusers (Noah Misch)

  This change mitigates a PL/Java security bug (CVE-2016-0766), which was fixed in PL/Java by marking these parameters as superuser-only. To fix the security hazard for sites that update PostgreSQL more frequently than PL/Java, make the core code aware of them also.

- Fix ecpg-supplied header files to not contain comments continued from a preprocessor directive line onto the next line (Michael Meskes)

  Such a comment is rejected by ecpg. It's not yet clear whether ecpg itself should be changed.

- Fix `hstore_to_json_loose()`'s test for whether an `hstore` value can be converted to a JSON number (Tom Lane)

  Previously this function could be fooled by non-alphanumeric trailing characters, leading to emitting syntactically-invalid JSON.

- In `contrib/postgres_fdw`, fix bugs triggered by use of `tableoid` in data-modifying commands (Etsuro Fujita, Robert Haas)

- Fix ill-advised restriction of `NAMEDATALEN` to be less than 256 (Robert Haas, Tom Lane)

- Improve reproducibility of build output by ensuring filenames are given to the linker in a fixed order (Christoph Berg)

  This avoids possible bitwise differences in the produced executable files from one build to the next.

- Ensure that `dynloader.h` is included in the installed header files in MSVC builds (Bruce Momjian, Michael Paquier)

- Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2016a for DST law changes in Cayman Islands, Metlakatla, and Trans-Baikal Territory (Zabaykalsky Krai), plus historical corrections for Pakistan.

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