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Next minor changes after #1574

tglsfdc and others added 30 commits March 13, 2026 12:46
The code tried to access ARR_DIMS(v)[0] and ARR_LBOUND(v)[0]
whether or not those values exist.  This made the range check
on the "n" argument unstable --- it might or might not fail, and
if it did it would report garbage for the allowed upper limit.
These bogus accesses would probably annoy Valgrind, and if you
were very unlucky even lead to SIGSEGV.

Report and fix by Martin Kalcher.  Back-patch to v14 where this
function was added.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/baaeb413-b8a8-4656-5757-ef347e5ec11f@aboutsource.net
Commit fac1b47 thought we could check for set-returning functions
by testing only the top-level node in an expression tree.  This is
wrong in itself, and to make matters worse it encouraged others
to make the same mistake, by exporting tlist.c's special-purpose
IS_SRF_CALL() as a widely-visible macro.  I can't find any evidence
that anyone's taken the bait, but it was only a matter of time.

Use expression_returns_set() instead, and stuff the IS_SRF_CALL()
genie back in its bottle, this time with a warning label.  I also
added a couple of cross-reference comments.

After a fair amount of fooling around, I've despaired of making
a robust test case that exposes the bug reliably, so no test case
here.  (Note that the test case added by fac1b47 is itself
broken, in that it doesn't notice if you remove the code change.
The repro given by the bug submitter currently doesn't fail either
in v15 or HEAD, though I suspect that may indicate an unrelated bug.)

Per bug #17564 from Martijn van Oosterhout.  Back-patch to v13,
as the faulty patch was.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17564-c7472c2f90ef2da3@postgresql.org
Remove the test case added by commit fac1b47, which never actually
worked to expose the problem it claimed to test.  Replace it with
a case that does expose the problem, and also covers the SRF-not-
at-the-top deficiency repaired in 1aa8dad.

Richard Guo, with some editorialization by me

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17564-c7472c2f90ef2da3@postgresql.org
When inserting a view referencing a foreign table that has WITH CHECK
OPTION constraints, in single-insert mode postgres_fdw retrieves the
data that was actually inserted on the remote side so that the WITH
CHECK OPTION constraints are enforced with the data locally, but in
batch-insert mode it cannot currently retrieve the data (except for the
row first inserted through the view), resulting in enforcing the WITH
CHECK OPTION constraints with the data passed from the core (except for
the first-inserted row), which led to incorrect results when inserting
into a view referencing a foreign table in which a remote BEFORE ROW
INSERT trigger changes the rows inserted through the view so that they
violate the view's WITH CHECK OPTION constraint.  Also, the query
inserting into the view caused an assertion failure in assert-enabled
builds.

Fix these by disabling batch insertion when inserting into such a view.

Back-patch to v14 where batch insertion was added.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAPmGK17LpbTZs4m4a_6THP54UBeK9fHvX8aVVA%2BC6yEZDZwQcg%40mail.gmail.com
statext_is_compatible_clause_internal() checked that the arguments
of a ScalarArrayOpExpr are one Var and one Const, but it would allow
cases where the Const was on the left.  Subsequent uses of the clause
are not expecting that and would suffer assertion failures or core
dumps.  mcv.c also had not bothered to cope with the case of a NULL
array constant, which seems really unacceptably sloppy of somebody.
(Although our tools failed us there too, since AFAIK neither Coverity
nor any compiler warned of the obvious use-of-uninitialized-variable
condition.)  It seems best to handle that by having
statext_is_compatible_clause_internal() reject it.

Noted while fixing bug #17570.  Back-patch to v13 where the
extended stats code grew some awareness of ScalarArrayOpExpr.
Since v14, the extended stats machinery will try to estimate for
otherwise-unsupported boolean expressions if they match an expression
available from an extended stats object.  mcv.c did not get the memo
about this, and would spit up with "unknown clause type".  Fortunately
the case is easy to handle, since we can expect the expression yields
boolean.

While here, replace some not-terribly-on-point assertions with
simpler runtime tests for lookup failure.  That seems appropriate
so that we get an elog not a crash if we somehow get to the new
it-should-be-a-bool-expression code with a subexpression that
doesn't match any stats column.

Per report from Danny Shemesh.  Thanks to Justin Pryzby for
preliminary investigation.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAFZC=QqD6=27wQPOW1pbRa98KPyuyn+7cL_Ay_Ck-roZV84vHg@mail.gmail.com
On closer inspection, mcv.c isn't as broken for ScalarArrayOpExpr
as I thought.  The Var-on-right issue is real enough, but actually
it does cope fine with a NULL array constant --- I was misled by
an XXX comment suggesting it didn't.  Undo that part of the code
change, and replace the XXX comment with something less misleading.
As usual, the release notes for older branches will be made by cutting
these down, but put them up for community review first.

Due to the out-of-cycle release of 14.4, there are a number of commits
that appeared in 14.4 that are not yet shipped in the earlier branches.
This draft repeats those release note entries for convenience in
preparing the older-branch notes later.  They'll be stripped out of
the 14.5 section after that's done.
fmgr_sql must make expanded-datum arguments read-only, because
it's possible that the function body will pass the argument to
more than one callee function.  If one of those functions takes
the datum's R/W property as license to scribble on it, then later
callees will see an unexpected value, leading to wrong answers.

From a performance standpoint, it'd be nice to skip this in the
common case that the argument value is passed to only one callee.
However, detecting that seems fairly hard, and certainly not
something that I care to attempt in a back-patched bug fix.

Per report from Adam Mackler.  This has been broken since we
invented expanded datums, so back-patch to all supported branches.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/WScDU5qfoZ7PB2gXwNqwGGgDPmWzz08VdydcPFLhOwUKZcdWbblbo-0Lku-qhuEiZoXJ82jpiQU4hOjOcrevYEDeoAvz6nR0IU4IHhXnaCA=@mackler.email
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/187436.1660143060@sss.pgh.pa.us
Previously, we relied on HEAP2_NEW_CID records and XACT_INVALIDATION
records to know if the transaction has modified the catalog, and that
information is not serialized to snapshot. Therefore, after the restart,
if the logical decoding decodes only the commit record of the transaction
that has actually modified a catalog, we will miss adding its XID to the
snapshot. Thus, we will end up looking at catalogs with the wrong
snapshot.

To fix this problem, this changes the snapshot builder so that it
remembers the last-running-xacts list of the decoded RUNNING_XACTS record
after restoring the previously serialized snapshot. Then, we mark the
transaction as containing catalog changes if it's in the list of initial
running transactions and its commit record has XACT_XINFO_HAS_INVALS. To
avoid ABI breakage, we store the array of the initial running transactions
in the static variables InitialRunningXacts and NInitialRunningXacts,
instead of storing those in SnapBuild or ReorderBuffer.

This approach has a false positive; we could end up adding the transaction
that didn't change catalog to the snapshot since we cannot distinguish
whether the transaction has catalog changes only by checking the COMMIT
record. It doesn't have the information on which (sub) transaction has
catalog changes, and XACT_XINFO_HAS_INVALS doesn't necessarily indicate
that the transaction has catalog change. But that won't be a problem since
we use snapshot built during decoding only to read system catalogs.

On the master branch, we took a more future-proof approach by writing
catalog modifying transactions to the serialized snapshot which avoids the
above false positive. But we cannot backpatch it because of a change in
the SnapBuild.

Reported-by: Mike Oh
Author: Masahiko Sawada
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila, Shi yu, Takamichi Osumi, Kyotaro Horiguchi, Bertrand Drouvot, Ahsan Hadi
Backpatch-through: 10
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/81D0D8B0-E7C4-4999-B616-1E5004DBDCD2%40amazon.com
This was originally done in commit 0c20dd3 for 16 only, to eliminate
duplicate code and as an infrastructure that makes it easier to write
future tests. However, it has been suggested that it would be good to
back-patch this testing infrastructure to aid future tests in
back-branches.

Backpatch to all supported versions.

Author: Masahiko Sawada
Reviewed by: Amit Kapila, Shi yu
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAD21AoC-fvAkaKHa4t1urupwL8xbAcWRePeETvshvy80f6WV1A@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1oJBIf-0006sw-SA@gemulon.postgresql.org
Member tracking was added in PG 13.

Reported-by: David G. Johnston

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKFQuwY1YtxQHVWUFYvSnOjZ5VPpXjF33V52bSKEwFjK2K=1Aw@mail.gmail.com

Author: David G. Johnston

Backpatch-through: 13
Reported-by: David G. Johnston

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKFQuwZ24UcfkoyLLSW3PMGQATomOcw1nuYFRuMev-NoOF+mYw@mail.gmail.com

Author: David G. Johnston

Backpatch-through: 14, partial to 13
Mention that the table is not modified if it already exists.

Reported-by: frank_limpert@yahoo.com

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/164441177106.9677.5991676148704507229@wrigleys.postgresql.org

Backpatch-through: 10
Somehow this was in the syntax but had no description.

Reported-by: robertcorrington@gmail.com

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/164228771825.31954.2719791849363756957@wrigleys.postgresql.org

Backpatch-through: 10
The use of file 'config.pl' was not clearly explained.

Reported-by: liambowen@gmail.com

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/164246013804.31952.4958087335645367498@wrigleys.postgresql.org

Backpatch-through: 10
96ef3b8 accidentally copied a not
applicable comment from the float8_pass_by_value code to the
data_checksums code.  Remove that.

87d3b35 changed pg_upgrade to
checking the checksum version rather than just the Boolean presence of
checksums, but didn't change the field type in its ControlData struct
from bool.  So this would not work correctly if there ever is a
checksum version larger than 1.
Most parts of the parser can expect that the stack overflow check
in transformExprRecurse() will trigger before things get desperate.
However, transformFromClauseItem() can recurse directly to self
without having analyzed any expressions, so it's possible to drive
it to a stack-overrun crash.  Add a check to prevent that.

Per bug #17583 from Egor Chindyaskin.  Back-patch to all supported
branches.

Richard Guo

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17583-33be55b9f981f75c@postgresql.org
It's possible to reach this case when work_mem is very small and tupsize
is (relatively) very large.  In that case ExecChooseHashTableSize would
get an assertion failure, or with asserts off it'd compute nbuckets = 0,
which'd likely cause misbehavior later (I've not checked).  To fix,
clamp the number of buckets to be at least 1.

This is due to faulty conversion of old my_log2() coding in 28d9360.
Back-patch to v13, as that was.

Zhang Mingli

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/beb64ca0-91e2-44ac-bf4a-7ea36275ec02@Spark
This option switch supports a total of 8 values, as told by
set_plan_disabling_options() and the documentation, but this was not
reflected in the output generated by --help.

Author: Junwang Zhao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEG8a3+pT3cWzyjzKs184L1XMNm8NDnoJLiSjAYSO7XqpRh_vA@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 10
There's a convention that externally-visible libpq functions should
check for a NULL PGconn pointer, and fail gracefully instead of
crashing.  PQflush() and PQisnonblocking() didn't get that memo
though.  Also add a similar check to PQdefaultSSLKeyPassHook_OpenSSL;
while it's not clear that ordinary usage could reach that with a
null conn pointer, it's cheap enough to check, so let's be consistent.

Daniele Varrazzo and Tom Lane

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+mi_8Zm_mVVyW1iNFgyMd9Oh0Nv8-F+7Y3-BqwMgTMHuo_h2Q@mail.gmail.com
In ref/create_sequence.sgml <literal> tag was used for nextval function name.
This should have been <function> tag.

Author: Noboru Saito
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAM3qnJTDFFfRf5JHJ4AYrNcqXgMmj0pbH0%2Bvm%3DYva%2BpJyGymA%40mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 10
The current publisher code checks if UPDATE or DELETE can be executed with
the replica identity of the table even if it's a partitioned table. We can
skip checking the replica identity for partitioned tables because the
operations are actually performed on the leaf partitions (not the
partitioned table).

Reported-by: Brad Nicholson
Author: Hou Zhijie
Reviewed-by: Peter Smith, Amit Kapila
Backpatch-through: 13
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMMnM%3D8i5DohH%3DYKzV0_wYuYSYvuOJoL9F5nzXTc%2ByzsG1f6rg%40mail.gmail.com
tglsfdc and others added 29 commits March 14, 2026 08:55
On fast machines, it's possible for applications such as pgbench
to issue connection requests so quickly that the postmaster's
listen queue overflows in the kernel, resulting in unexpected
failures (with not-very-helpful error messages).  Most modern OSes
allow the queue size to be increased, so document how to do that.

Per report from Kevin McKibbin.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CADc_NKg2d+oZY9mg4DdQdoUcGzN2kOYXBu-3--RW_hEe0tUV=g@mail.gmail.com
SplitToVariants() in the ispell code, lseg_inside_poly() in geo_ops.c,
and regex_selectivity_sub() in selectivity estimation could recurse
until stack overflow; fix by adding check_stack_depth() calls.
So could next() in the regex compiler, but that case is better fixed by
converting its tail recursion to a loop.  (We probably get better code
that way too, since next() can now be inlined into its sole caller.)

There remains a reachable stack overrun in the Turkish stemmer, but
we'll need some advice from the Snowball people about how to fix that.

Per report from Egor Chindyaskin and Alexander Lakhin.  These mistakes
are old, so back-patch to all supported branches.

Richard Guo and Tom Lane

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1661334672.728714027@f473.i.mail.ru
While waiting for slots to become available in wait_on_slots() in
parallel_slot.c, the cancellation always relied on the first connection
in the set to do the job.  This could cause problems when this slot's
socket is gone as PQgetCancel() would return NULL in this case.  Rather
than always using the first connection, this changes the logic to use
the first valid connection for the cancellation.

Author: Ranier Vilela
Reviewed-by: Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEudQAokk1h_pUwGXsYS4oVOuf35s1O2o3TXGHpV8=AWikvgHA@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 14
Compute total number of sub-parts correctly, per jason@banfelder.net

Simon Riggs

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/166161184718.1235920.6304070286124217754@wrigleys.postgresql.org
When a PostgreSQL instance performing archive recovery but not using
standby mode is promoted, and the last WAL segment that it attempted
to read ended in a partial record, the previous code would create
invalid WAL on the new timeline. The WAL from the previously timeline
would be copied to the new timeline up until the end of the last valid
record, but instead of beginning to write WAL at immediately
afterwards, the promoted server would write an overwrite contrecord at
the beginning of the next segment. The end of the previous segment
would be left as all-zeroes, resulting in failures if anything tried
to read WAL from that file.

The root of the issue is that ReadRecord() decides whether to set
abortedRecPtr and missingContrecPtr based on the value of StandbyMode,
but ReadRecord() switches to a new timeline based on the value of
ArchiveRecoveryRequested. We shouldn't try to write an overwrite
contrecord if we're switching to a new timeline, so change the test in
ReadRecod() to check ArchiveRecoveryRequested instead.

Code fix by Dilip Kumar. Comments by me incorporating suggested
language from Álvaro Herrera. Further review from Kyotaro Horiguchi
and Sami Imseih.

Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAFiTN-t7umki=PK8dT1tcPV=mOUe2vNhHML6b3T7W7qqvvajjg@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/FB0DEA0B-E14E-43A0-811F-C1AE93D00FF3%40amazon.com
The default of lazy symbol resolution means that when the postmaster
first reaches the select() call in ServerLoop, it'll need to resolve
the link to that libc entry point.  NetBSD's dynamic loader takes
an internal lock while doing that, and if a signal interrupts the
operation then there is a risk of self-deadlock should the signal
handler do anything that requires that lock, as several of the
postmaster signal handlers do.  The window for this is pretty narrow,
and timing considerations make it unlikely that a signal would arrive
right then anyway.  But it's semi-repeatable on slow single-CPU
machines, and in principle the race could happen with any hardware.

The least messy solution to this is to force binding of dynamic
symbols at postmaster start, using the "-z now" linker option.
While we're at it, also use "-z relro" so as to provide a small
security gain.

It's not entirely clear whether any other platforms share this
issue, but for now we'll assume it's NetBSD-specific.  (We might
later try to use "-z now" on more platforms for performance
reasons, but that would not likely be something to back-patch.)

Report and patch by me; the idea to fix it this way is from
Andres Freund.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3384826.1661802235@sss.pgh.pa.us
If the input word exceeds 1000 bytes, don't pass it to the stemmer;
just return it as-is after case folding.  Such an input is surely
not a word in any human language, so whatever the stemmer might
do to it would be pretty dubious in the first place.  Adding this
restriction protects us against a known recursion-to-stack-overflow
problem in the Turkish stemmer, and it seems like good insurance
against any other safety or performance issues that may exist in
the Snowball stemmers.  (I note, for example, that they contain no
CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS calls, so we really don't want them running
for a long time.)  The threshold of 1000 bytes is arbitrary.

An alternative definition could have been to treat such words as
stopwords, but that seems like a bigger break from the old behavior.

Per report from Egor Chindyaskin and Alexander Lakhin.
Thanks to Olly Betts for the recommendation to fix it this way.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1661334672.728714027@f473.i.mail.ru
get_database_list() failed to restore the caller's memory context,
instead leaving current context set to TopMemoryContext which is
how CommitTransactionCommand() leaves it.  The callers both think
they are using short-lived contexts, for the express purpose of
not having to worry about cleaning up individual allocations.
The net effect therefore is that supposedly short-lived allocations
could accumulate indefinitely in the launcher's TopMemoryContext.

Although this has been broken for a long time, it seems we didn't
have any obvious memory leak here until v15's rearrangement of the
stats logic.  I (tgl) am not entirely convinced that there's no
other leak at all, though, and we're surely at risk of adding one
in future back-patched fixes.  So back-patch to all supported
branches, even though this may be only a latent bug in pre-v15.

Reid Thompson

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/972a4e12b68b0f96db514777a150ceef7dcd2e0f.camel@crunchydata.com
Reported-by: Rob <rirans@comcast.net>

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20211016171149.yaouvlw5kvux6dvk@localhost

Author: Rob <rirans@comcast.net>

Backpatch-through: 10
It used to show direction was required for FROM/IN.

Reported-by: Rob <rirans@comcast.net>

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20211015165248.isqjceyilelhnu3k@localhost

Author: Rob <rirans@comcast.net>

Backpatch-through: 10
Also mention that time zone abbreviations are not supported.

Reported-by: philippe.godfrin@nov.com

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/163888728952.1269.5167822676466793158@wrigleys.postgresql.org

Backpatch-through: 10
This allows the syntax to be more accurate about what clauses are
supported.  Also switch an example query to use the ANSI join syntax.

Reported-by: Joel Jacobson

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/67b71d3e-0c22-44df-a223-351f14418319@www.fastmail.com

Backpatch-through: 11
Previously it was just marked as a duplicate of the core function.

Reported-by: Andreas Dijkman

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17349-24d61e214429e8c1@postgresql.org

Backpatch-through: 13
Also remove USING erroneously added recently.

Reported-by: Jeff Janes

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMkU=1zhCpC7hottyMWM5Pimr9vRLprSwzLg+7PgajWhKZqRzw@mail.gmail.com

Backpatch-through: 10
Primarily, this fixes an incorrect calculation in SlabCheck which was
looking in the wrong byte for the sentinel check.  The reason that we've
never noticed this before in the form of a failing sentinel check is
because the pre-check to this always fails because all current core users
of slab contexts have a chunk size which is already MAXALIGNed, therefore
there's never any space for the sentinel byte.  It is possible that an
extension needs to use a slab context and if they do with a chunk size
that's not MAXALIGNed, then they'll likely get errors about overwritten
sentinel bytes.

Additionally, this patch changes various calculations which are being done
based on the sizeof(SlabBlock).  Currently, sizeof(SlabBlock) is a
multiple of 8, therefore sizeof(SlabBlock) is the same as
MAXALIGN(sizeof(SlabBlock)), however, if we were to ever have to add any
fields to that struct as part of a bug fix, then SlabAlloc could end up
returning a non-MAXALIGNed pointer.  To be safe, let's ensure we always
MAXALIGN sizeof(SlabBlock) before using it in any calculations.

This patch has already been applied to master in d5ee4db.

Diagnosed-by: Tomas Vondra, Tom Lane
Author: Tomas Vondra, David Rowley
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAA4eK1%2B1JyW5TiL%3DyV-3Uq1CrfnTyn0Xrk5uArt31Z%3D8rgPhXQ%40mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 10
Commit 487e986 added a new field to struct Trigger, but failed to
update the documentation to match; backpatch to v13 where that came in.

Reviewed by Richard Guo.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAPmGK17NY92CyxJ%2BBG7A3JZurmng4jfRfzPiBTtNupGMF0xW1g%40mail.gmail.com
These have been updated by the revert done in 2f2b18b, but the
pre-revert state was correct.  Note that the result was incorrectly
formatted in the first case.

Author: Erik Rijkers
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/13777e96-24b6-396b-cb16-8ad01b6ac130@xs4all.nl
Backpatch-through: 13
Improve documentation regarding the limitations of unique and primary key
constraints on partitioned tables.  The existing documentation didn't make
it clear that the constraint columns had to be present in the partition
key as bare columns.  The reader could be led to believe that it was ok to
include the constraint columns as part of a function call's parameters or
as part of an expression.  Additionally, the documentation didn't mention
anything about the fact that we disallow unique and primary key
constraints if the partition keys contain *any* function calls or
expressions, regardless of if the constraint columns appear as columns
elsewhere in the partition key.

The confusion here was highlighted by a report on the general mailing list
by James Vanns.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH7vdhNF0EdYZz3GLpgE3RSJLwWLhEk7A_fiKS9dPBT3Dz_3eA@mail.gmail.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvoU-u9iTqKjteYRFfi+UNEk7dbSAcyxEQD==vZt9B1KnA@mail.gmail.com
Reviewed-by: Erik Rijkers
Backpatch-through: 11
During ALTER TABLE ATTACH PARTITION, if the name of a parent's foreign
key constraint is already used on the partition, the code tries to
choose another one before the FK attributes list has been populated,
so the resulting constraint name was "<relname>__fkey" instead of
"<relname>_<attrs>_fkey".  Repair, and add a test case.

Backpatch to 12.  In 11, the code to attach a partition was not smart
enough to cope with conflicting constraint names, so the problem doesn't
exist there.

Author: Jehan-Guillaume de Rorthais <jgdr@dalibo.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20220901184156.738ebee5@karst
When using the BSD UUID functions, contrib/uuid-ossp expects
uuid_create() to produce a version-1 UUID.  FreeBSD still does so,
but in recent NetBSD releases that function produces a version-4
(random) UUID instead.  That's not acceptable for our purposes:
if the user wanted v4 she would have asked for v4, not v1.
Hence, check the version digit and complain if it's not '1'.

Also drop the documentation's claim that the NetBSD implementation
is usable.  It might be, depending on which OS version you're using,
but we're not going to get into that kind of detail.

(Maybe someday we should ditch all these external libraries
and just write our own UUID code, but today is not that day.)

Nazir Bilal Yavuz, with cosmetic adjustments and docs by me.
Backpatch to all supported versions.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3848059.1661038772@sss.pgh.pa.us
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17358-89806e7420797025@postgresql.org
The ECPG preprocessor converted code such as

static varchar str1[10], str2[20], str3[30];

into

static  struct varchar_1  { int len; char arr[ 10 ]; }  str1 ;
        struct varchar_2  { int len; char arr[ 20 ]; }  str2 ;
        struct varchar_3  { int len; char arr[ 30 ]; }  str3 ;

thus losing the storage attribute for the later variables.
Repeat the declaration for each such variable.

(Note that this occurred only for variables declared "varchar"
or "bytea", which may help explain how it escaped detection
for so long.)

Andrey Sokolov

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/942241662288242@mail.yandex.ru
Commit c4c3400 changed geometric operators to use float4 and float8
functions, and handle NaN's in a better way. The circle sameness test
had a typo in the code which resulted in all comparisons with the left
circle having a NaN radius considered same.

  postgres=# select '<(0,0),NaN>'::circle ~= '<(0,0),1>'::circle;
  ?column?
  ----------
  t
  (1 row)

This fixes the sameness test to consider the radius of both the left
and right circle.

Backpatch to v12 where this was introduced.

Author: Ranier Vilela <ranier.vf@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEudQAo8dK=yctg2ZzjJuzV4zgOPBxRU5+Kb+yatFiddtQk6Rw@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: v12
The FreeBSD site was changed with a redirect, which in turn seems to
lead to a 404. Replace with the working link.

Author: James Coleman <jtc331@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAAaqYe_JZRj+KPn=hACtwsg1iLRYs=jYvxG1NW4AnDeUL1GD-Q@mail.gmail.com
@reshke reshke force-pushed the rel_2_1566_145_146 branch from 0829842 to 09e574f Compare March 14, 2026 08:59
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