PostgreSQL 15.16 commit log

commit   : 78bc85dd4455c302c345c550e0628a1522df108d    
  
author   : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Mon, 9 Feb 2026 16:55:28 -0500    
  
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Mon, 9 Feb 2026 16:55:28 -0500    

commit   : 749e616b7693cec9baaaf8744d740d436693ac91    
  
author   : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Mon, 9 Feb 2026 14:01:20 -0500    
  
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Mon, 9 Feb 2026 14:01:20 -0500    

Security: CVE-2026-2003, CVE-2026-2004, CVE-2026-2005, CVE-2026-2006, CVE-2026-2007  

commit   : 6f741bcb6aa4d78b2e3c96b6f3830b371c8cdf47    
  
author   : Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>    
date     : Mon, 9 Feb 2026 09:08:10 -0800    
  
committer: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>    
date     : Mon, 9 Feb 2026 09:08:10 -0800    

Backpatch-through: 14  
Security: CVE-2026-2006  

commit   : deb464a40852b381320264a2249b6f7641227db0    
  
author   : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Mon, 9 Feb 2026 10:14:22 -0500    
  
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Mon, 9 Feb 2026 10:14:22 -0500    

While the preceding commit prevented such attachments from occurring  
in future, this one aims to prevent further abuse of any already-  
created operator that exposes _int_matchsel to the wrong data types.  
(No other contrib module has a vulnerable selectivity estimator.)  
  
We need only check that the Const we've found in the query is indeed  
of the type we expect (query_int), but there's a difficulty: as an  
extension type, query_int doesn't have a fixed OID that we could  
hard-code into the estimator.  
  
Therefore, the bulk of this patch consists of infrastructure to let  
an extension function securely look up the OID of a datatype  
belonging to the same extension.  (Extension authors have requested  
such functionality before, so we anticipate that this code will  
have additional non-security uses, and may soon be extended to allow  
looking up other kinds of SQL objects.)  
  
This is done by first finding the extension that owns the calling  
function (there can be only one), and then thumbing through the  
objects owned by that extension to find a type that has the desired  
name.  This is relatively expensive, especially for large extensions,  
so a simple cache is put in front of these lookups.  
  
Reported-by: Daniel Firer as part of zeroday.cloud  
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>  
Reviewed-by: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>  
Security: CVE-2026-2004  
Backpatch-through: 14  

commit   : b764b26f2e0a0a57057f301ca87e6a604f5e708b    
  
author   : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Mon, 9 Feb 2026 10:07:31 -0500    
  
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Mon, 9 Feb 2026 10:07:31 -0500    

Selectivity estimators come in two flavors: those that make specific  
assumptions about the data types they are working with, and those  
that don't.  Most of the built-in estimators are of the latter kind  
and are meant to be safely attachable to any operator.  If the  
operator does not behave as the estimator expects, you might get a  
poor estimate, but it won't crash.  
  
However, estimators that do make datatype assumptions can malfunction  
if they are attached to the wrong operator, since then the data they  
get from pg_statistic may not be of the type they expect.  This can  
rise to the level of a security problem, even permitting arbitrary  
code execution by a user who has the ability to create SQL objects.  
  
To close this hole, establish a rule that built-in estimators are  
required to protect themselves against being called on the wrong type  
of data.  It does not seem practical however to expect estimators in  
extensions to reach a similar level of security, at least not in the  
near term.  Therefore, also establish a rule that superuser privilege  
is required to attach a non-built-in estimator to an operator.  
We expect that this restriction will have little negative impact on  
extensions, since estimators generally have to be written in C and  
thus superuser privilege is required to create them in the first  
place.  
  
This commit changes the privilege checks in CREATE/ALTER OPERATOR  
to enforce the rule about superuser privilege, and fixes a couple  
of built-in estimators that were making datatype assumptions without  
sufficiently checking that they're valid.  
  
Reported-by: Daniel Firer as part of zeroday.cloud  
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>  
Reviewed-by: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>  
Security: CVE-2026-2004  
Backpatch-through: 14  

commit   : 3ecc84cce3c521894d86267df552a2d5f891a409    
  
author   : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Mon, 9 Feb 2026 10:02:23 -0500    
  
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Mon, 9 Feb 2026 10:02:23 -0500    

An upcoming patch requires this cache so that it can track updates  
in the pg_extension catalog.  So far though, the EXTENSIONOID cache  
only exists in v18 and up (see 490f869d9).  We can add it in older  
branches without an ABI break, if we are careful not to disturb the  
numbering of existing syscache IDs.  
  
In v16 and before, that just requires adding the new ID at the end  
of the hand-assigned enum list, ignoring our convention about  
alphabetizing the IDs.  But in v17, genbki.pl enforces alphabetical  
order of the IDs listed in MAKE_SYSCACHE macros.  We can fake it  
out by calling the new cache ZEXTENSIONOID.  
  
Note that adding a syscache does change the required contents of the  
relcache init file (pg_internal.init).  But that isn't problematic  
since we blow those away at postmaster start for other reasons.  
  
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>  
Reviewed-by: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>  
Security: CVE-2026-2004  
Backpatch-through: 14-17  

commit   : 429aeaebd16d8c0e5356d7aa77d25c90b9794a6a    
  
author   : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Mon, 9 Feb 2026 09:57:44 -0500    
  
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Mon, 9 Feb 2026 09:57:44 -0500    

These data types are represented like full-fledged arrays, but  
functions that deal specifically with these types assume that the  
array is 1-dimensional and contains no nulls.  However, there are  
cast pathways that allow general oid[] or int2[] arrays to be cast  
to these types, allowing these expectations to be violated.  This  
can be exploited to cause server memory disclosure or SIGSEGV.  
Fix by installing explicit checks in functions that accept these  
types.  
  
Reported-by: Altan Birler <altan.birler@tum.de>  
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>  
Reviewed-by: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>  
Security: CVE-2026-2003  
Backpatch-through: 14  

commit   : 8f8b1ffac063afb22e3a07bdc6ddcb048116cfbb    
  
author   : Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>    
date     : Mon, 9 Feb 2026 06:14:47 -0800    
  
committer: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>    
date     : Mon, 9 Feb 2026 06:14:47 -0800    

pgp_sym_decrypt() and pgp_pub_decrypt() will raise such errors, while  
bytea variants will not.  The existing "dat3" test decrypted to non-UTF8  
text, so switch that query to bytea.  
  
The long-term intent is for type "text" to always be valid in the  
database encoding.  pgcrypto has long been known as a source of  
exceptions to that intent, but a report about exploiting invalid values  
of type "text" brought this module to the forefront.  This particular  
exception is straightforward to fix, with reasonable effect on user  
queries.  Back-patch to v14 (all supported versions).  
  
Reported-by: Paul Gerste (as part of zeroday.cloud)  
Reported-by: Moritz Sanft (as part of zeroday.cloud)  
Author: shihao zhong <zhong950419@gmail.com>  
Reviewed-by: cary huang <hcary328@gmail.com>  
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAGRkXqRZyo0gLxPJqUsDqtWYBbgM14betsHiLRPj9mo2=z9VvA@mail.gmail.com  
Backpatch-through: 14  
Security: CVE-2026-2006  

commit   : 757bf8145e243b4ad1a76460264f6f4df7e0fb1f    
  
author   : Thomas Munro <tmunro@postgresql.org>    
date     : Mon, 12 Jan 2026 10:20:06 +1300    
  
committer: Thomas Munro <tmunro@postgresql.org>    
date     : Mon, 12 Jan 2026 10:20:06 +1300    

A security patch changed them today, so close the coverage gap now.  
Test that buffer overrun is avoided when pg_mblen*() requires more  
than the number of bytes remaining.  
  
This does not cover the calls in dict_thesaurus.c or in dict_synonym.c.  
That code is straightforward.  To change that code's input, one must  
have access to modify installed OS files, so low-privilege users are not  
a threat.  Testing this would likewise require changing installed  
share/postgresql/tsearch_data, which was enough of an obstacle to not  
bother.  
  
Security: CVE-2026-2006  
Backpatch-through: 14  
Co-authored-by: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>  
Co-authored-by: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>  
Reviewed-by: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>  

commit   : fd82ddb679d71c976e693f6e922cb5a599755f18    
  
author   : Thomas Munro <tmunro@postgresql.org>    
date     : Wed, 7 Jan 2026 22:14:31 +1300    
  
committer: Thomas Munro <tmunro@postgresql.org>    
date     : Wed, 7 Jan 2026 22:14:31 +1300    

A corrupted string could cause code that iterates with pg_mblen() to  
overrun its buffer.  Fix, by converting all callers to one of the  
following:  
  
1. Callers with a null-terminated string now use pg_mblen_cstr(), which  
raises an "illegal byte sequence" error if it finds a terminator in the  
middle of the sequence.  
  
2. Callers with a length or end pointer now use either  
pg_mblen_with_len() or pg_mblen_range(), for the same effect, depending  
on which of the two seems more convenient at each site.  
  
3. A small number of cases pre-validate a string, and can use  
pg_mblen_unbounded().  
  
The traditional pg_mblen() function and COPYCHAR macro still exist for  
backward compatibility, but are no longer used by core code and are  
hereby deprecated.  The same applies to the t_isXXX() functions.  
  
Security: CVE-2026-2006  
Backpatch-through: 14  
Co-authored-by: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>  
Co-authored-by: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>  
Reviewed-by: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>  
Reported-by: Paul Gerste (as part of zeroday.cloud)  
Reported-by: Moritz Sanft (as part of zeroday.cloud)  

commit   : 50863be0b77eeac5c1907ccd46c146eb80524e1a    
  
author   : Thomas Munro <tmunro@postgresql.org>    
date     : Mon, 26 Jan 2026 11:22:32 +1300    
  
committer: Thomas Munro <tmunro@postgresql.org>    
date     : Mon, 26 Jan 2026 11:22:32 +1300    

When converting multibyte to pg_wchar, the UTF-8 implementation would  
silently ignore an incomplete final character, while the other  
implementations would cast a single byte to pg_wchar, and then repeat  
for the remaining byte sequence.  While it didn't overrun the buffer, it  
was surely garbage output.  
  
Make all encodings behave like the UTF-8 implementation.  A later change  
for master only will convert this to an error, but we choose not to  
back-patch that behavior change on the off-chance that someone is  
relying on the existing UTF-8 behavior.  
  
Security: CVE-2026-2006  
Backpatch-through: 14  
Author: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>  
Reported-by: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>  
Reviewed-by: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>  
Reviewed-by: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>  

commit   : b2c81ac8678ce2e570db0843f48f50a971af28c5    
  
author   : Thomas Munro <tmunro@postgresql.org>    
date     : Thu, 5 Feb 2026 01:04:24 +1300    
  
committer: Thomas Munro <tmunro@postgresql.org>    
date     : Thu, 5 Feb 2026 01:04:24 +1300    

While EUC_CN supports only 1- and 2-byte sequences (CS0, CS1), the  
mb<->wchar conversion functions allow 3-byte sequences beginning SS2,  
SS3.  
  
Change pg_encoding_max_length() to return 3, not 2, to close a  
hypothesized buffer overrun if a corrupted string is converted to wchar  
and back again in a newly allocated buffer.  We might reconsider that in  
master (ie harmonizing in a different direction), but this change seems  
better for the back-branches.  
  
Also change pg_euccn_mblen() to report SS2 and SS3 characters as having  
length 3 (following the example of EUC_KR).  Even though such characters  
would not pass verification, it's remotely possible that invalid bytes  
could be used to compute a buffer size for use in wchar conversion.  
  
Security: CVE-2026-2006  
Backpatch-through: 14  
Author: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>  
Reviewed-by: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>  
Reviewed-by: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>  

commit   : 9a9982ec6d40cf13e223ed83de1e5729b6e15720    
  
author   : Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>    
date     : Mon, 9 Feb 2026 08:01:10 +0900    
  
committer: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>    
date     : Mon, 9 Feb 2026 08:01:10 +0900    

pgp_pub_decrypt_bytea() was missing a safeguard for the session key  
length read from the message data, that can be given in input of  
pgp_pub_decrypt_bytea().  This can result in the possibility of a buffer  
overflow for the session key data, when the length specified is longer  
than PGP_MAX_KEY, which is the maximum size of the buffer where the  
session data is copied to.  
  
A script able to rebuild the message and key data that can trigger the  
overflow is included in this commit, based on some contents provided by  
the reporter, heavily editted by me.  A SQL test is added, based on the  
data generated by the script.  
  
Reported-by: Team Xint Code as part of zeroday.cloud  
Author: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>  
Reviewed-by: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>  
Security: CVE-2026-2005  
Backpatch-through: 14  

commit   : 0a98185e203e4966b188ba74d0ae9c6be9ff10c3    
  
author   : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Sun, 8 Feb 2026 13:00:40 -0500    
  
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Sun, 8 Feb 2026 13:00:40 -0500    

commit   : 221a642fd7510113d9425ae9084b92a2647fe8ec    
  
author   : Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>    
date     : Sun, 8 Feb 2026 15:11:05 +0100    
  
committer: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>    
date     : Sun, 8 Feb 2026 15:11:05 +0100    

Source-Git-URL: https://git.postgresql.org/git/pgtranslation/messages.git  
Source-Git-Hash: 6844264538c40560f66c90965bc84206e53a0418  

commit   : 9dcd0b3de14cbcb4f9f13581c10295ce0d60da3c    
  
author   : Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>    
date     : Sat, 7 Feb 2026 22:37:02 +0100    
  
committer: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>    
date     : Sat, 7 Feb 2026 22:37:02 +0100    

Further fix of error message changed in commit 74a116a79b4.  The  
initial fix was not quite correct.  
  
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/tencent_1EE1430B1E6C18A663B8990F%40qq.com  

commit   : ff1d5810e907525b396c67ad900114dd4ef83dc2    
  
author   : Jacob Champion <jchampion@postgresql.org>    
date     : Fri, 6 Feb 2026 11:09:05 -0800    
  
committer: Jacob Champion <jchampion@postgresql.org>    
date     : Fri, 6 Feb 2026 11:09:05 -0800    

(This is a cherry-pick of 390b3cbbb, which I hadn't realized wasn't  
backpatched. It was originally reported to security@ and determined not  
to be a vulnerability; thanks to Stanislav Osipov for noticing the  
omission in the back branches.)  
  
In case of torn UTF8 in the input data we might end up going  
past the end of the string since we don't account for length.  
While validation won't be performed on a sequence with a NULL  
byte it's better to avoid going past the end to beging with.  
Fix by taking the length into consideration.  
  
Reported-by: Stanislav Osipov <stasos24@gmail.com>  
Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>  
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAOYmi+mTnmM172g=_+Yvc47hzzeAsYPy2C4UBY3HK9p-AXNV0g@mail.gmail.com  
Backpatch-through: 14  

commit   : 4ec943f7dcb0acc24a675ea0f9a5f596bb49a537    
  
author   : Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>    
date     : Fri, 6 Feb 2026 15:38:27 +0900    
  
committer: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>    
date     : Fri, 6 Feb 2026 15:38:27 +0900    

These errors are very unlikely going to show up, but in the event that  
they happen, some incorrect information would have been provided:  
- In pg_rewind, a stat() failure was reported as an open() failure.  
- In pg_combinebackup, a check for the new directory of a tablespace  
mapping was referred as the old directory.  
- In pg_combinebackup, a failure in reading a source file when copying  
blocks referred to the destination file.  
  
The changes for pg_combinebackup affect v17 and newer versions.  For  
pg_rewind, all the stable branches are affected.  
  
Author: Man Zeng <zengman@halodbtech.com>  
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/tencent_1EE1430B1E6C18A663B8990F@qq.com  
Backpatch-through: 14  

commit   : d242881bfad12dbbbc8effd418d25ef1367b372b    
  
author   : Fujii Masao <fujii@postgresql.org>    
date     : Thu, 5 Feb 2026 00:46:09 +0900    
  
committer: Fujii Masao <fujii@postgresql.org>    
date     : Thu, 5 Feb 2026 00:46:09 +0900    

Commit 5f13999aa11 added a TAP test for GUC settings passed via the  
CONNECTION string in logical replication, but the buildfarm member  
sungazer reported test failures.  
  
The test incorrectly used the subscriber's log file position as the  
starting offset when reading the publisher's log. As a result, the test  
failed to find the expected log message in the publisher's log and  
erroneously reported a failure.  
  
This commit fixes the test to use the publisher's own log file position  
when reading the publisher's log.  
  
Also, to avoid similar confusion in the future, this commit splits the single  
$log_location variable into $log_location_pub and $log_location_sub,  
clearly distinguishing publisher and subscriber log positions.  
  
Backpatched to v15, where commit 5f13999aa11 introduced the test.  
  
Per buildfarm member sungazer.  
This issue was reported and diagnosed by Alexander Lakhin.  
  
Reported-by: Alexander Lakhin <exclusion@gmail.com>  
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/966ec3d8-1b6f-4f57-ae59-fc7d55bc9a5a@gmail.com  
Backpatch-through: 15  

commit   : 6b81a1c7c9057cda541401509b6dbc30a632410e    
  
author   : John Naylor <john.naylor@postgresql.org>    
date     : Wed, 4 Feb 2026 17:55:49 +0700    
  
committer: John Naylor <john.naylor@postgresql.org>    
date     : Wed, 4 Feb 2026 17:55:49 +0700    

Mostly this involves checking for NULL pointer before doing operations  
that add a non-zero offset.  
  
The exception is an overflow warning in heap_fetch_toast_slice(). This  
was caused by unneeded parentheses forcing an expression to be  
evaluated to a negative integer, which then got cast to size_t.  
  
Per clang 21 undefined behavior sanitizer.  
  
Backpatch to all supported versions.  
  
Co-authored-by: Alexander Lakhin <exclusion@gmail.com>  
Reported-by: Alexander Lakhin <exclusion@gmail.com>  
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/777bd201-6e3a-4da0-a922-4ea9de46a3ee@gmail.com  
Backpatch-through: 14  

commit   : bb6aedeca8d42a6b3263bc0c72f5ef2c06817677    
  
author   : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Fri, 30 Jan 2026 14:59:25 -0500    
  
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Fri, 30 Jan 2026 14:59:25 -0500    

BackgroundPsql needs to wait for all the output from an interactive  
psql command to come back.  To make sure that's happened, it issues  
the command, then issues \echo and \warn psql commands that echo  
a "banner" string (which we assume won't appear in the command's  
output), then waits for the banner strings to appear.  The hazard  
in this approach is that the banner will also appear in the echoed  
psql commands themselves, so we need to distinguish those echoes from  
the desired output.  Commit 8b886a4e3 tried to do that by positing  
that the desired output would be directly preceded and followed by  
newlines, but it turns out that that assumption is timing-sensitive.  
In particular, it tends to fail in builds made --without-readline,  
wherein the command echoes will be made by the pty driver and may  
be interspersed with prompts issued by psql proper.  
  
It does seem safe to assume that the banner output we want will be  
followed by a newline, since that should be the last output before  
things quiesce.  Therefore, we can improve matters by putting quotes  
around the banner strings in the \echo and \warn psql commands, so  
that their echoes cannot include banner directly followed by newline,  
and then checking for just banner-and-newline in the match pattern.  
  
While at it, spruce up the pump() call in sub query() to look like  
the neater version in wait_connect(), and don't die on timeout  
until after printing whatever we got.  
  
Reported-by: Oleg Tselebrovskiy <o.tselebrovskiy@postgrespro.ru>  
Diagnosed-by: Oleg Tselebrovskiy <o.tselebrovskiy@postgrespro.ru>  
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>  
Reviewed-by: Soumya S Murali <soumyamurali.work@gmail.com>  
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/db6fdb35a8665ad3c18be01181d44b31@postgrespro.ru  
Backpatch-through: 14  

commit   : 7023650429e970d7603e398b2b216b8abaf30ec9    
  
author   : Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com>    
date     : Fri, 30 Jan 2026 08:52:06 +0000    
  
committer: Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com>    
date     : Fri, 30 Jan 2026 08:52:06 +0000    

As noted in the commit message for b4307ae2e54, the change to the  
TransitionCaptureState structure is nominally an ABI break, but it is  
not expected to affect any third-party code. Therefore, add it to the  
.abi-compliance-history file.  
  
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/19380-4e293be2b4007248%40postgresql.org  
Backpatch-through: 15-18  

commit   : c5824536e7ca3c5ef5a9db59bd36c4e6beb23f51    
  
author   : Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com>    
date     : Sat, 24 Jan 2026 11:30:51 +0000    
  
committer: Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com>    
date     : Sat, 24 Jan 2026 11:30:51 +0000    

When executing a data-modifying CTE query containing MERGE and some  
other DML operation on a table with statement-level AFTER triggers,  
the transition tables passed to the triggers would fail to include the  
rows affected by the MERGE.  
  
The reason is that, when initializing a ModifyTable node for MERGE,  
MakeTransitionCaptureState() would create a TransitionCaptureState  
structure with a single "tcs_private" field pointing to an  
AfterTriggersTableData structure with cmdType == CMD_MERGE. Tuples  
captured there would then not be included in the sets of tuples  
captured when executing INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE ModifyTable nodes in the  
same query.  
  
Since there are no MERGE triggers, we should only create  
AfterTriggersTableData structures for INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE. Individual  
MERGE actions should then use those, thereby sharing the same capture  
tuplestores as any other DML commands executed in the same query.  
  
This requires changing the TransitionCaptureState structure, replacing  
"tcs_private" with 3 separate pointers to AfterTriggersTableData  
structures, one for each of INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE. Nominally,  
this is an ABI break to a public structure in commands/trigger.h.  
However, since this is a private field pointing to an opaque data  
structure, the only way to create a valid TransitionCaptureState is by  
calling MakeTransitionCaptureState(), and no extensions appear to be  
doing that anyway, so it seems safe for back-patching.  
  
Backpatch to v15, where MERGE was introduced.  
  
Bug: #19380  
Reported-by: Daniel Woelfel <dwwoelfel@gmail.com>  
Author: Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com>  
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>  
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/19380-4e293be2b4007248%40postgresql.org  
Backpatch-through: 15  

commit   : 687533b39ecf437388821eed5e93a277c0170853    
  
author   : Amit Langote <amitlan@postgresql.org>    
date     : Fri, 23 Jan 2026 10:21:16 +0900    
  
committer: Amit Langote <amitlan@postgresql.org>    
date     : Fri, 23 Jan 2026 10:21:16 +0900    

ExecInitModifyTable() unconditionally required a ctid junk column even  
when the target was a partitioned table. This led to spurious "could  
not find junk ctid column" errors when all children were excluded and  
only the dummy root result relation remained.  
  
A partitioned table only appears in the result relations list when all  
leaf partitions have been pruned, leaving the dummy root as the sole  
entry. Assert this invariant (nrels == 1) and skip the ctid requirement.  
Also adjust ExecModifyTable() to tolerate invalid ri_RowIdAttNo for  
partitioned tables, which is safe since no rows will be processed in  
this case.  
  
Bug: #19099  
Reported-by: Alexander Lakhin <exclusion@gmail.com>  
Author: Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com>  
Reviewed-by: Tender Wang <tndrwang@gmail.com>  
Reviewed-by: Kirill Reshke <reshkekirill@gmail.com>  
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>  
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/19099-e05dcfa022fe553d%40postgresql.org  
Backpatch-through: 14  

commit   : 7eb3422eb4f7751518da743b21ac6c5266ddccdd    
  
author   : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Thu, 22 Jan 2026 18:35:31 -0500    
  
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Thu, 22 Jan 2026 18:35:31 -0500    

Commit f16241bef mistakenly supposed that INSERT...ON CONFLICT DO  
UPDATE rejects partitioned target tables.  (This may have been  
accurate when the patch was written, but it was already obsolete  
when committed.)  Hence, there's an assertion that we can't see  
ItemPointerIndicatesMovedPartitions() in that path, but the assertion  
is triggerable.  
  
Some other places throw error if they see a moved-across-partitions  
tuple, but there seems no need for that here, because if we just retry  
then we get the same behavior as in the update-within-partition case,  
as demonstrated by the new isolation test.  So fix by deleting the  
faulty Assert.  (The fact that this is the fix doubtless explains  
why we've heard no field complaints: the behavior of a non-assert  
build is fine.)  
  
The TM_Deleted case contains a cargo-culted copy of the same Assert,  
which I also deleted to avoid confusion, although I believe that one  
is actually not triggerable.  
  
Per our code coverage report, neither the TM_Updated nor the  
TM_Deleted case were reached at all by existing tests, so this  
patch adds tests for both.  
  
Reported-by: Dmitry Koval <d.koval@postgrespro.ru>  
Author: Joseph Koshakow <koshy44@gmail.com>  
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>  
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/f5fffe4b-11b2-4557-a864-3587ff9b4c36@postgrespro.ru  
Backpatch-through: 14  

commit   : 83172d94164a6c327d7306dd9e0906293fd58ca2    
  
author   : Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>    
date     : Thu, 22 Jan 2026 16:35:51 +0900    
  
committer: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>    
date     : Thu, 22 Jan 2026 16:35:51 +0900    

All the other SQL functions reconstructing definitions or commands are  
listed in the documentation, except this one.  
  
Oversight in 1848b73d4576.  
  
Author: Todd Liebenschutz-Jones <todd.liebenschutz-jones@starlingbank.com>  
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAGTRfaD6uRQ9iutASDzc_iDoS25sQTLWgXTtR3ta63uwTxq6bA@mail.gmail.com  
Backpatch-through: 14  

commit   : cbdd09ae1b571e8ecd9dbc7cd9d43600f86b56f6    
  
author   : Thomas Munro <tmunro@postgresql.org>    
date     : Thu, 22 Jan 2026 15:43:13 +1300    
  
committer: Thomas Munro <tmunro@postgresql.org>    
date     : Thu, 22 Jan 2026 15:43:13 +1300    

With LLVM >= 17, transform passes are provided as a string to  
LLVMRunPasses. Only two strings were used: "default<O3>" and  
"default<O0>,mem2reg".  
  
With previous LLVM versions, an additional inline pass was added when  
JIT inlining was enabled without optimization. With LLVM >= 17, the code  
would go through llvm_inline, prepare the functions for inlining, but  
the generated bitcode would be the same due to the missing inline pass.  
  
This patch restores the previous behavior by adding an inline pass when  
inlining is enabled but no optimization is done.  
  
This fixes an oversight introduced by 76200e5e when support for LLVM 17  
was added.  
  
Backpatch-through: 14  
Author: Anthonin Bonnefoy <anthonin.bonnefoy@datadoghq.com>  
Reviewed-by: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>  
Reviewed-by: Andreas Karlsson <andreas@proxel.se>  
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>  
Reviewed-by: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@kurilemu.de>  
Reviewed-by: Pierre Ducroquet <p.psql@pinaraf.info>  
Reviewed-by: Matheus Alcantara <matheusssilv97@gmail.com>  
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAO6_XqrNjJnbn15ctPv7o4yEAT9fWa-dK15RSyun6QNw9YDtKg%40mail.gmail.com  

commit   : dcddd69871976aabf99039b72124cf9a67e86d0f    
  
author   : Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@kurilemu.de>    
date     : Wed, 21 Jan 2026 18:55:43 +0100    
  
committer: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@kurilemu.de>    
date     : Wed, 21 Jan 2026 18:55:43 +0100    

We were using SnapshotAny to do some index checks, but that's wrong and  
causes spurious errors when used on indexes created by CREATE INDEX  
CONCURRENTLY.  Fix it to use an MVCC snapshot, and add a test for it.  
  
Backpatch of 6bd469d26aca to branches 14-16.  I previously misidentified  
the bug's origin: it came in with commit 7f563c09f890 (pg11-era, not  
5ae2087202af as claimed previously), so all live branches are affected.  
  
Also take the opportunity to fix some comments that we failed to update  
in the original commits and apply pgperltidy.  In branch 14, remove the  
unnecessary test plan specification (which would have need to have been  
changed anyway; c.f. commit 549ec201d613.)  
  
Diagnosed-by: Donghang Lin <donghanglin@gmail.com>  
Author: Mihail Nikalayeu <mihailnikalayeu@gmail.com>  
Reviewed-by: Andrey Borodin <x4mmm@yandex-team.ru>  
Backpatch-through: 17  
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CANtu0ojmVd27fEhfpST7RG2KZvwkX=dMyKUqg0KM87FkOSdz8Q@mail.gmail.com  

commit   : 00410b76d5d07bd082eed3f3dfda3ebb02cd0db0    
  
author   : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Sun, 18 Jan 2026 14:54:33 -0500    
  
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Sun, 18 Jan 2026 14:54:33 -0500    

This is pretty pro-forma for our purposes, as the only change  
is a historical correction for pre-1976 DST laws in  
Baja California.  (Upstream made this release mostly to update  
their leap-second data, which we don't use.)  But with minor  
releases coming up, we should be up-to-date.  
  
Backpatch-through: 14  

commit   : fbf8df580aebf2fdba5e495bac508ecdd26c493c    
  
author   : Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>    
date     : Sun, 18 Jan 2026 17:25:03 +0900    
  
committer: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>    
date     : Sun, 18 Jan 2026 17:25:03 +0900    

The code adding the WAL information included in a backup manifest is  
cross-checked with the contents of the timeline history file of the end  
timeline.  A check based on the end timeline, when it fails, reported  
the value of the start timeline in the error message.  This error is  
fixed to show the correct timeline number in the report.  
  
This error report would be confusing for users if seen, because it would  
provide an incorrect information, so backpatch all the way down.  
  
Oversight in 0d8c9c1210c4.  
  
Author: Man Zeng <zengman@halodbtech.com>  
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/tencent_0F2949C4594556F672CF4658@qq.com  
Backpatch-through: 14  

commit   : b926ff1373bbd5bd012c5e4e6465a7fd9d034966    
  
author   : Amit Langote <amitlan@postgresql.org>    
date     : Fri, 16 Jan 2026 13:01:52 +0900    
  
committer: Amit Langote <amitlan@postgresql.org>    
date     : Fri, 16 Jan 2026 13:01:52 +0900    

If a FATAL error occurs while holding a lock in a DSM segment (such  
as a dshash lock) and the process is not in a transaction, a  
segmentation fault can occur during process exit.  
  
The problem sequence is:  
  
 1. Process acquires a lock in a DSM segment (e.g., via dshash)  
 2. FATAL error occurs outside transaction context  
 3. proc_exit() begins, calling before_shmem_exit callbacks  
 4. dsm_backend_shutdown() detaches all DSM segments  
 5. Later, on_shmem_exit callbacks run  
 6. ProcKill() calls LWLockReleaseAll()  
 7. Segfault: the lock being released is in unmapped memory  
  
This only manifests outside transaction contexts because  
AbortTransaction() calls LWLockReleaseAll() during transaction  
abort, releasing locks before DSM cleanup. Background workers and  
other non-transactional code paths are vulnerable.  
  
Fix by calling LWLockReleaseAll() unconditionally at the start of  
shmem_exit(), before any callbacks run. Releasing locks before  
callbacks prevents the segfault - locks must be released before  
dsm_backend_shutdown() detaches their memory. This is safe because  
after an error, held locks are protecting potentially inconsistent  
data anyway, and callbacks can acquire fresh locks if needed.  
  
Also add a comment noting that LWLockReleaseAll() must be safe to  
call before LWLock initialization (which it is, since  
num_held_lwlocks will be 0), plus an Assert for the post-condition.  
  
This fix aligns with the original design intent from commit  
001a573a2, which noted that backends must clean up shared memory  
state (including releasing lwlocks) before unmapping dynamic shared  
memory segments.  
  
Reported-by: Rahila Syed <rahilasyed90@gmail.com>  
Author: Rahila Syed <rahilasyed90@gmail.com>  
Reviewed-by: Amit Langote <amitlangote09@gmail.com>  
Reviewed-by: Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut@gmail.com>  
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>  
Reviewed-by: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@kurilemu.de>  
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2L28uSvyiosL+kaic9249jRVoQiQF6JOnaCitKFq=xiFzX3g@mail.gmail.com  
Backpatch-through: 14  

commit   : ef8465588c988aee7555df4a70ec4e584b9c9fe1    
  
author   : Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>    
date     : Thu, 15 Jan 2026 20:57:12 +0200    
  
committer: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>    
date     : Thu, 15 Jan 2026 20:57:12 +0200    

On restart, a replica can fail with an error like 'unexpected data  
beyond EOF in block 200 of relation T/D/R'. These are the steps to  
reproduce it:  
  
- A relation has a size of 400 blocks.  
  - Blocks 201 to 400 are empty.  
  - Block 200 has two rows.  
  - Blocks 100 to 199 are empty.  
- A restartpoint is done  
- Vacuum truncates the relation to 200 blocks  
- A FPW deletes a row in block 200  
- A checkpoint is done  
- A FPW deletes the last row in block 200  
- Vacuum truncates the relation to 100 blocks  
- The replica restarts  
  
When the replica restarts:  
  
- The relation on disk starts at 100 blocks, because all the  
  truncations were applied before restart.  
- The first truncate to 200 blocks is replayed. It silently fails, but  
  it will still (incorrectly!) update the cache size to 200 blocks  
- The first FPW on block 200 is applied. XLogReadBufferForRead relies  
  on the cached size and incorrectly assumes that the page already  
  exists in the file, and thus won't extend the relation.  
- The online checkpoint record is replayed, calling smgrdestroyall  
  which causes the cached size to be discarded  
- The second FPW on block 200 is applied. This time, the detected size  
  is 100 blocks, an extend is attempted. However, the block 200 is  
  already present in the buffer cache due to the first FPW. This  
  triggers the 'unexpected data beyond EOF'.  
  
To fix, update the cached size in SmgrRelation with the current size  
rather than the requested new size, when the requested new size is  
greater.  
  
Author: Anthonin Bonnefoy <anthonin.bonnefoy@datadoghq.com>  
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAO6_Xqrv-snNJNhbj1KjQmWiWHX3nYGDgAc=vxaZP3qc4g1Siw@mail.gmail.com  
Backpatch-through: 14  

commit   : a563ac619407984319c4d4d59c919e7a170087ca    
  
author   : Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>    
date     : Thu, 15 Jan 2026 16:48:45 +0200    
  
committer: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>    
date     : Thu, 15 Jan 2026 16:48:45 +0200    

If a multixid with zero offset is left behind after a crash, and that  
multixid later becomes the oldest multixid, truncation might try to  
look up its offset and read the zero value. In the worst case, we  
might incorrectly use the zero offset to truncate valid SLRU segments  
that are still needed. I'm not sure if that can happen in practice, or  
if there are some other lower-level safeguards or incidental reasons  
that prevent the caller from passing an unwritten multixid as the  
oldest multi. But better safe than sorry, so let's add an explicit  
check for it.  
  
In stable branches, we should perhaps do the same check for  
'oldestOffset', i.e. the offset of the old oldest multixid (in master,  
'oldestOffset' is gone). But if the old oldest multixid has an invalid  
offset, the damage has been done already, and we would never advance  
past that point. It's not clear what we should do in that case. The  
check that this commit adds will prevent such an multixid with invalid  
offset from becoming the oldest multixid in the first place, which  
seems enough for now.  
  
Reviewed-by: Andrey Borodin <x4mmm@yandex-team.ru>  
Discussion: Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/000301b2-5b81-4938-bdac-90f6eb660843@iki.fi  
Backpatch-through: 14  

commit   : 988612c9c27f8f62bcd8a5e30f3b57e883189308    
  
author   : Jacob Champion <jchampion@postgresql.org>    
date     : Fri, 9 Jan 2026 10:02:36 -0800    
  
committer: Jacob Champion <jchampion@postgresql.org>    
date     : Fri, 9 Jan 2026 10:02:36 -0800    

Reword publish_via_partition_root's opening paragraph. Describe its  
behavior more clearly, and directly state that its default is false.  
  
Per complaint by Peter Smith; final text of the patch made in  
collaboration with Chao Li.  
  
Author: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>  
Author: Peter Smith <peter.b.smith@fujitsu.com>  
Reported-by: Peter Smith <peter.b.smith@fujitsu.com>  
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>  
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHut%2BPu7SpK%2BctOYoqYR3V4w5LKc9sCs6c_qotk9uTQJQ4zp6g%40mail.gmail.com  
Backpatch-through: 14  

commit   : 3ad05640b67f8adb23fae85471ebabaaa6d1ae0e    
  
author   : David Rowley <drowley@postgresql.org>    
date     : Fri, 9 Jan 2026 11:04:12 +1300    
  
committer: David Rowley <drowley@postgresql.org>    
date     : Fri, 9 Jan 2026 11:04:12 +1300    

When creating a partition for a RANGE partitioned table, the reporting  
of errors relating to converting the specified range values into  
constant values for the partition key's type could display the name of a  
previous partition key column when an earlier range was specified as  
MINVALUE or MAXVALUE.  
  
This was caused by the code not correctly incrementing the index that  
tracks which partition key the foreach loop was working on after  
processing MINVALUE/MAXVALUE ranges.  
  
Fix by using foreach_current_index() to ensure the index variable is  
always set to the List element being worked on.  
  
Author: myzhen <zhenmingyang@yeah.net>  
Reviewed-by: zhibin wang <killerwzb@gmail.com>  
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/273cab52.978.19b96fc75e7.Coremail.zhenmingyang@yeah.net  
Backpatch-through: 14  

commit   : aae05622a7cbd17a0081452ef4cc4eeda54e4e2e    
  
author   : Amit Kapila <akapila@postgresql.org>    
date     : Thu, 8 Jan 2026 06:54:52 +0000    
  
committer: Amit Kapila <akapila@postgresql.org>    
date     : Thu, 8 Jan 2026 06:54:52 +0000    

A race condition could cause a newly created replication slot to become  
invalidated between WAL reservation and a checkpoint.  
  
Previously, if the required WAL was removed, we retried the reservation  
process. However, the slot could still be invalidated before the retry if  
the WAL was not yet removed but the checkpoint advanced the redo pointer  
beyond the slot's intended restart LSN and computed the minimum LSN that  
needs to be preserved for the slots.  
  
The fix is to acquire an exclusive lock on ReplicationSlotAllocationLock  
during WAL reservation, and a shared lock during the minimum LSN  
calculation at checkpoints to serialize the process. This ensures that, if  
WAL reservation occurs first, the checkpoint waits until restart_lsn is  
updated before calculating the minimum LSN. If the checkpoint runs first,  
subsequent WAL reservations pick a position at or after the latest  
checkpoint's redo pointer.  
  
We used a similar fix in HEAD (via commit 006dd4b2e5) and 18. The  
difference is that in 17 and prior branches we need to additionally handle  
the race condition with slot's minimum LSN computation during checkpoints.  
  
Reported-by: suyu.cmj <mengjuan.cmj@alibaba-inc.com>  
Author: Hou Zhijie <houzj.fnst@fujitsu.com>  
Author: vignesh C <vignesh21@gmail.com>  
Reviewed-by: Hayato Kuroda <kuroda.hayato@fujitsu.com>  
Reviewed-by: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>  
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>  
Backpatch-through: 14  
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/5e045179-236f-4f8f-84f1-0f2566ba784c.mengjuan.cmj@alibaba-inc.com  

commit   : 39a6a2c0a0a8fc79a05ac78849696311b17c6151    
  
author   : Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>    
date     : Wed, 7 Jan 2026 15:47:02 +0100    
  
committer: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>    
date     : Wed, 7 Jan 2026 15:47:02 +0100    

Reported-by: Xueyu Gao <gaoxueyu_hope@163.com>  
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/42b5c99a.856d.19b73d858e2.Coremail.gaoxueyu_hope%40163.com  

commit   : c813007376c493037302c08e6fc07850763beb76    
  
author   : John Naylor <john.naylor@postgresql.org>    
date     : Wed, 7 Jan 2026 16:02:19 +0700    
  
committer: John Naylor <john.naylor@postgresql.org>    
date     : Wed, 7 Jan 2026 16:02:19 +0700    

Commit c7eab0e97 changed the default password_encryption setting to  
'scram-sha-256', so update the example for creating a user with an  
assigned password.  
  
In addition, commit 08951a7c9 added new options that in turn pass  
default tokens NOBYPASSRLS and NOREPLICATION to the CREATE ROLE  
command, so fix this omission as well for v16 and later.  
  
Reported-by: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>  
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/cff1ea60-c67d-4320-9e33-094637c2c4fb%40iki.fi  
Backpatch-through: 14  

commit   : f20b79059ea392ef3cef084033508d5d43bf20d9    
  
author   : David Rowley <drowley@postgresql.org>    
date     : Tue, 6 Jan 2026 17:30:57 +1300    
  
committer: David Rowley <drowley@postgresql.org>    
date     : Tue, 6 Jan 2026 17:30:57 +1300    

When processing the "publish" options of an ALTER PUBLICATION command,  
we call SplitIdentifierString() to split the options into a List of  
strings.  Since SplitIdentifierString() modifies the delimiter  
character and puts NULs in their place, this would overwrite the memory  
of the AlterPublicationStmt.  Later in AlterPublicationOptions(), the  
modified AlterPublicationStmt is copied for event triggers, which would  
result in the event trigger only seeing the first "publish" option  
rather than all options that were specified in the command.  
  
To fix this, make a copy of the string before passing to  
SplitIdentifierString().  
  
Here we also adjust a similar case in the pgoutput plugin.  There's no  
known issues caused by SplitIdentifierString() here, so this is being  
done out of paranoia.  
  
Thanks to Henson Choi for putting together an example case showing the  
ALTER PUBLICATION issue.  
  
Author: sunil s <sunilfeb26@gmail.com>  
Reviewed-by: Henson Choi <assam258@gmail.com>  
Reviewed-by: zengman <zengman@halodbtech.com>  
Backpatch-through: 14  

commit   : ec8d91c7e78c075a8ab4e8562dfe49ac568e43b4    
  
author   : Fujii Masao <fujii@postgresql.org>    
date     : Tue, 6 Jan 2026 11:57:12 +0900    
  
committer: Fujii Masao <fujii@postgresql.org>    
date     : Tue, 6 Jan 2026 11:57:12 +0900    

Commit d926462d819 restored the behavior of passing GUC settings from  
the CONNECTION string to the publisher's walsender, allowing per-connection  
configuration.  
  
This commit adds a TAP test to verify that behavior works correctly.  
  
Since commit d926462d819 was recently applied and backpatched to v15,  
this follow-up commit is also backpatched accordingly.  
  
Author: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>  
Reviewed-by: Chao Li <lic@highgo.com>  
Reviewed-by: Kirill Reshke <reshkekirill@gmail.com>  
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>  
Reviewed-by: Japin Li <japinli@hotmail.com>  
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHGQGwGYV+-abbKwdrM2UHUe-JYOFWmsrs6=QicyJO-j+-Widw@mail.gmail.com  
Backpatch-through: 15  

commit   : f7eb44e0f0871e13188f50b0f21d52c10337a60a    
  
author   : Fujii Masao <fujii@postgresql.org>    
date     : Tue, 6 Jan 2026 11:54:46 +0900    
  
committer: Fujii Masao <fujii@postgresql.org>    
date     : Tue, 6 Jan 2026 11:54:46 +0900    

Prior to v15, GUC settings supplied in the CONNECTION clause of  
CREATE SUBSCRIPTION were correctly passed through to  
the publisher's walsender. For example:  
  
        CREATE SUBSCRIPTION mysub  
            CONNECTION 'options=''-c wal_sender_timeout=1000'''  
            PUBLICATION ...  
  
would cause wal_sender_timeout to take effect on the publisher's walsender.  
  
However, commit f3d4019da5d changed the way logical replication  
connections are established, forcing the publisher's relevant  
GUC settings (datestyle, intervalstyle, extra_float_digits) to  
override those provided in the CONNECTION string. As a result,  
from v15 through v18, GUC settings in the CONNECTION string were  
always ignored.  
  
This regression prevented per-connection tuning of logical replication.  
For example, using a shorter timeout for walsender connecting  
to a nearby subscriber and a longer one for walsender connecting  
to a remote subscriber.  
  
This commit restores the intended behavior by ensuring that  
GUC settings in the CONNECTION string are again passed through  
and applied by the walsender, allowing per-connection configuration.  
  
Backpatch to v15, where the regression was introduced.  
  
Author: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>  
Reviewed-by: Chao Li <lic@highgo.com>  
Reviewed-by: Kirill Reshke <reshkekirill@gmail.com>  
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>  
Reviewed-by: Japin Li <japinli@hotmail.com>  
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHGQGwGYV+-abbKwdrM2UHUe-JYOFWmsrs6=QicyJO-j+-Widw@mail.gmail.com  
Backpatch-through: 15  

commit   : 4ece4419b496ac45e8fb1ad1fd068cf036dd302b    
  
author   : David Rowley <drowley@postgresql.org>    
date     : Sun, 4 Jan 2026 21:14:33 +1300    
  
committer: David Rowley <drowley@postgresql.org>    
date     : Sun, 4 Jan 2026 21:14:33 +1300    

Author: Daisuke Higuchi <higuchi.daisuke11@gmail.com>  
Reviewed-by: Robert Treat <rob@xzilla.net>  
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEVT6c-yWYstu76YZ7VOxmij2XA8vrOEvens08QLmKHTDjEPBw@mail.gmail.com  
Backpatch-through: 14  

commit   : c89510431af2efe447d3f069d1f6ea417efdf62e    
  
author   : David Rowley <drowley@postgresql.org>    
date     : Sun, 4 Jan 2026 20:34:22 +1300    
  
committer: David Rowley <drowley@postgresql.org>    
date     : Sun, 4 Jan 2026 20:34:22 +1300    

This fixes a poorly written integer comparison function which was  
performing subtraction in an attempt to return a negative value when  
a < b and a positive value when a > b, and 0 when the values were equal.  
Unfortunately that didn't always work correctly due to two's complement  
having the INT_MIN 1 further from zero than INT_MAX.  This could result  
in an overflow and cause the comparison function to return an incorrect  
result, which would result in the binary search failing to find the  
value being searched for.  
  
This could cause poor selectivity estimates when the statistics stored  
the value of INT_MAX (2147483647) and the value being searched for was  
large enough to result in the binary search doing a comparison with that  
INT_MAX value.  
  
Author: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>  
Reviewed-by: David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>  
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEoWx2ng1Ot5LoKbVU-Dh---dFTUZWJRH8wv2chBu29fnNDMaQ@mail.gmail.com  
Backpatch-through: 14  

commit   : 176fd835008a4aeecd3295533d7d7d026bed00d8    
  
author   : Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>    
date     : Thu, 1 Jan 2026 13:24:10 -0500    
  
committer: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>    
date     : Thu, 1 Jan 2026 13:24:10 -0500    

Backpatch-through: 14  

commit   : 4c8208c2b072968bf28b51c97135560980bb32f7    
  
author   : Thomas Munro <tmunro@postgresql.org>    
date     : Wed, 31 Dec 2025 13:24:17 +1300    
  
committer: Thomas Munro <tmunro@postgresql.org>    
date     : Wed, 31 Dec 2025 13:24:17 +1300    

jit_profiling_support=true captures profile data for Linux perf.  On  
other platforms, LLVMCreatePerfJITEventListener() returns NULL and the  
attempt to register the listener would crash.  
  
Fix by ignoring the setting in that case.  The documentation already  
says that it only has an effect if perf support is present, and we  
already did the same for older LLVM versions that lacked support.  
  
No field reports, unsurprisingly for an obscure developer-oriented  
setting.  Noticed in passing while working on commit 1a28b4b4.  
  
Backpatch-through: 14  
Reviewed-by: Matheus Alcantara <matheusssilv97@gmail.com>  
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>  
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGJgB6gvrdDohgwLfCwzVQm%3DVMtb9m0vzQn%3DCwWn-kwG9w%40mail.gmail.com  

commit   : fa557d3005e76998ed463e639312b44d9c053975    
  
author   : Masahiko Sawada <msawada@postgresql.org>    
date     : Tue, 30 Dec 2025 10:56:21 -0800    
  
committer: Masahiko Sawada <msawada@postgresql.org>    
date     : Tue, 30 Dec 2025 10:56:21 -0800    

Previously, ReplicationSlotsComputeRequiredXmin() computed the oldest  
xmin across all slots without holding ProcArrayLock (when  
already_locked is false), acquiring the lock just before updating the  
replication slot xmin.  
  
This could lead to a race condition: if a backend created a new slot  
and updates the global replication slot xmin, another backend  
concurrently running ReplicationSlotsComputeRequiredXmin() could  
overwrite that update with an invalid or stale value. This happens  
because the concurrent backend might have computed the aggregate xmin  
before the new slot was accounted for, but applied the update after  
the new slot had already updated the global value.  
  
In the reported failure, a walsender for an apply worker computed  
InvalidTransactionId as the oldest xmin and overwrote a valid  
replication slot xmin value computed by a walsender for a tablesync  
worker. Consequently, the tablesync worker computed a transaction ID  
via GetOldestSafeDecodingTransactionId() effectively without  
considering the replication slot xmin. This led to the error "cannot  
build an initial slot snapshot as oldest safe xid %u follows  
snapshot's xmin %u", which was an assertion failure prior to commit  
240e0dbacd3.  
  
To fix this, we acquire ReplicationSlotControlLock in exclusive mode  
during slot creation to perform the initial update of the slot  
xmin. In ReplicationSlotsComputeRequiredXmin(), we hold  
ReplicationSlotControlLock in shared mode until the global slot xmin  
is updated in ProcArraySetReplicationSlotXmin(). This prevents  
concurrent computations and updates of the global xmin by other  
backends during the initial slot xmin update process, while still  
permitting concurrent calls to ReplicationSlotsComputeRequiredXmin().  
  
Backpatch to all supported versions.  
  
Author: Zhijie Hou <houzj.fnst@fujitsu.com>  
Reviewed-by: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>  
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>  
Reviewed-by: Pradeep Kumar <spradeepkumar29@gmail.com>  
Reviewed-by: Hayato Kuroda (Fujitsu) <kuroda.hayato@fujitsu.com>  
Reviewed-by: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>  
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>  
Reviewed-by: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>  
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAA4eK1L8wYcyTPxNzPGkhuO52WBGoOZbT0A73Le=ZUWYAYmdfw@mail.gmail.com  
Backpatch-through: 14  

commit   : c38f9731b74c5e56e0fb24911407d9a39b760564    
  
author   : Thomas Munro <tmunro@postgresql.org>    
date     : Tue, 30 Dec 2025 14:11:37 +1300    
  
committer: Thomas Munro <tmunro@postgresql.org>    
date     : Tue, 30 Dec 2025 14:11:37 +1300    

REL_18_STABLE and master have commit ee485912, so they always use the  
newer LLVM opaque pointer functions.  Drop -Wno-deprecated-declarations  
(commit a56e7b660) for code under jit/llvm in those branches, to catch  
any new deprecation warnings that arrive in future version of LLVM.  
  
Older branches continued to use functions marked deprecated in LLVM 14  
and 15 (ie switched to the newer functions only for LLVM 16+), as a  
precaution against unforeseen compatibility problems with bitcode  
already shipped.  In those branches, the comment about warning  
suppression is updated to explain that situation better.  In theory we  
could suppress warnings only for LLVM 14 and 15 specifically, but that  
isn't done here.  
  
Backpatch-through: 14  
Reported-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>  
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1407185.1766682319%40sss.pgh.pa.us  

commit   : 300575fe2e7f0f75bec92682cd9122a72998fd04    
  
author   : Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>    
date     : Sat, 27 Dec 2025 17:23:56 +0900    
  
committer: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>    
date     : Sat, 27 Dec 2025 17:23:56 +0900    

pg_stat_get_backend_activity() calls pgstat_clip_activity() to ensure  
that the reported query string is correctly truncated when it finishes  
with an incomplete multi-byte sequence.  However, the result returned by  
the function was not what pgstat_clip_activity() generated, but the  
non-truncated, original, contents from PgBackendStatus.st_activity_raw.  
  
Oversight in 54b6cd589ac2, so backpatch all the way down.  
  
Author: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>  
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEoWx2mDzwc48q2EK9tSXS6iJMJ35wvxNQnHX+rXjy5VgLvJQw@mail.gmail.com  
Backpatch-through: 14  

commit   : 7e16074e81959ab0cf8d56694a8017b5494eb32d    
  
author   : Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>    
date     : Fri, 26 Dec 2025 15:26:09 +0900    
  
committer: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>    
date     : Fri, 26 Dec 2025 15:26:09 +0900    

Author: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>  
Reviewed-by: vignesh C <vignesh21@gmail.com>  
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/d6d6a800f8b503cd78d5f4fa721198e40eec1677.camel@cybertec.at  
Backpatch-through: 14  

commit   : 5d5487cd256f1865f6364a7e787eb5fcde6ae1b9    
  
author   : Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>    
date     : Tue, 23 Dec 2025 13:37:16 +0200    
  
committer: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>    
date     : Tue, 23 Dec 2025 13:37:16 +0200    

After waiting for a concurrent updater to finish, heap_lock_tuple()  
followed the update chain to lock all tuple versions. However, when  
stepping from the initial tuple to the next one, it failed to check  
that the next tuple's XMIN matches the initial tuple's XMAX. That's an  
important check whenever following an update chain, and the recursive  
part that follows the chain did it, but the initial step missed it.  
Without the check, if the updating transaction aborts, the updated  
tuple is vacuumed away and replaced by an unrelated tuple, the  
unrelated tuple might get incorrectly locked.  
  
Author: Jasper Smit <jasper.smit@servicenow.com>  
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAOG+RQ74x0q=kgBBQ=mezuvOeZBfSxM1qu_o0V28bwDz3dHxLw@mail.gmail.com  
Backpatch-through: 14  

commit   : 90d1beef62deaa2ad21edd8f21470f8756ff4b57    
  
author   : Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>    
date     : Tue, 23 Dec 2025 14:32:24 +0900    
  
committer: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>    
date     : Tue, 23 Dec 2025 14:32:24 +0900    

Since ce0fdbfe9722, a replication slot and an origin are created by each  
tablesync worker, whose information is stored in both a catalog and  
shared memory (once the origin is set up in the latter case).  The  
transaction where the origin is created is the same as the one that runs  
the initial COPY, with the catalog state of the origin becoming visible  
for other sessions only once the COPY transaction has committed.  The  
catalog state is coupled with a state in shared memory, initialized at  
the same time as the origin created in the catalogs.  Note that the  
transaction doing the initial data sync can take a long time, time that  
depends on the amount of data to transfer from a publication node to its  
subscriber node.  
  
Now, when a DROP SUBSCRIPTION is executed, all its workers are stopped  
with the origins removed.  The removal of each origin relies on a  
catalog lookup.  A worker still running the initial COPY would fail its  
transaction, with the catalog state of the origin rolled back while the  
shared memory state remains around.  The session running the DROP  
SUBSCRIPTION should be in charge of cleaning up the catalog and the  
shared memory state, but as there is no data in the catalogs the shared  
memory state is not removed.  This issue would leave orphaned origin  
data in shared memory, leading to a confusing state as it would still  
show up in pg_replication_origin_status.  Note that this shared memory  
data is sticky, being flushed on disk in replorigin_checkpoint at  
checkpoint.  This prevents other origins from reusing a slot position  
in the shared memory data.  
  
To address this problem, the commit moves the creation of the origin at  
the end of the transaction that precedes the one executing the initial  
COPY, making the origin immediately visible in the catalogs for other  
sessions, giving DROP SUBSCRIPTION a way to know about it.  A different  
solution would have been to clean up the shared memory state using an  
abort callback within the tablesync worker.  The solution of this commit  
is more consistent with the apply worker that creates an origin in a  
short transaction.  
  
A test is added in the subscription test 004_sync.pl, which was able to  
display the problem.  The test fails when this commit is reverted.  
  
Reported-by: Tenglong Gu <brucegu@amazon.com>  
Reported-by: Daisuke Higuchi <higudai@amazon.com>  
Analyzed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>  
Author: Hou Zhijie <houzj.fnst@fujitsu.com>  
Reviewed-by: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>  
Reviewed-by: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>  
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/aUTekQTg4OYnw-Co@paquier.xyz  
Backpatch-through: 14  

commit   : 1cf4f781a5198ecbeb833b1bb8ad496ee4ca088b    
  
author   : Thomas Munro <tmunro@postgresql.org>    
date     : Fri, 6 Dec 2024 12:34:33 +1300    
  
committer: Thomas Munro <tmunro@postgresql.org>    
date     : Fri, 6 Dec 2024 12:34:33 +1300    

This is a back-patch of 1319997d to branches 14-17 to fix an old warning  
about a printf type mismatch on MinGW, in anticipation of a potential  
expansion of the scope of CI's CompilerWarnings checks.  Though CI began  
in 15, BF animal fairwren also shows the warning in 14, so we might as  
well fix that too.  
  
Original commit message (except for new "Backpatch-through" tag):  
  
Commit 517bf2d91 changed a printf format string to placate MinGW, which  
at the time warned about "%lld".  Current MinGW is now warning about the  
replacement "%I64d".  Reverting the change clears the warning on the  
MinGW CI task, and hopefully it will clear it on build farm animal  
fairywren too.  
  
Backpatch-through: 14-17  
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>  
Reported-by: "Hayato Kuroda (Fujitsu)" <kuroda.hayato@fujitsu.com>  
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/TYAPR01MB5866A71B744BE01B3BF71791F5AEA%40TYAPR01MB5866.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com  

commit   : 0fc2f533a96ca843474995bc9dfe9392acbc2df2    
  
author   : Fujii Masao <fujii@postgresql.org>    
date     : Fri, 19 Dec 2025 12:08:20 +0900    
  
committer: Fujii Masao <fujii@postgresql.org>    
date     : Fri, 19 Dec 2025 12:08:20 +0900    

Previously, if memory context logging was triggered repeatedly and  
rapidly while a previous request was still being processed, it could  
result in recursive calls to ProcessLogMemoryContextInterrupt().  
This could lead to infinite recursion and potentially crash the process.  
  
This commit adds a guard to prevent such recursion.  
If ProcessLogMemoryContextInterrupt() is already in progress and  
logging memory contexts, subsequent calls will exit immediately,  
avoiding unintended recursive calls.  
  
While this scenario is unlikely in practice, it's not impossible.  
This change adds a safety check to prevent such failures.  
  
Back-patch to v14, where memory context logging was introduced.  
  
Reported-by: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>  
Author: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>  
Reviewed-by: Atsushi Torikoshi <torikoshia@oss.nttdata.com>  
Reviewed-by: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>  
Reviewed-by: Artem Gavrilov <artem.gavrilov@percona.com>  
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+TgmoZMrv32tbNRrFTvF9iWLnTGqbhYSLVcrHGuwZvCtph0NA@mail.gmail.com  
Backpatch-through: 14  

commit   : 460d97020ac1955a293fe79d2789ae8f35ba69cf    
  
author   : Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>    
date     : Thu, 18 Dec 2025 15:08:48 +0200    
  
committer: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>    
date     : Thu, 18 Dec 2025 15:08:48 +0200    

Operations on unlogged relations should not be WAL-logged. The  
brin_initialize_empty_new_buffer() function didn't get the memo.  
  
The function is only called when a concurrent update to a brin page  
uses up space that we're just about to insert to, which makes it  
pretty hard to hit. If you do manage to hit it, a full-page WAL record  
is erroneously emitted for the unlogged index. If you then crash,  
crash recovery will fail on that record with an error like this:  
  
    FATAL:  could not create file "base/5/32819": File exists  
  
Author: Kirill Reshke <reshkekirill@gmail.com>  
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CALdSSPhpZXVFnWjwEBNcySx_vXtXHwB2g99gE6rK0uRJm-3GgQ@mail.gmail.com  
Backpatch-through: 14  

commit   : d88f4535d29f8d5cb50fece06de630984ed78920    
  
author   : Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>    
date     : Wed, 17 Dec 2025 09:48:56 -0800    
  
committer: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>    
date     : Wed, 17 Dec 2025 09:48:56 -0800    

Commit 0f69beddea113dd1d6c5b6f6d82df577ef3c21f2 (v17) anticipated this:  
  
  [C] 'function void PrepareToInvalidateCacheTuple(Relation, HeapTuple, HeapTuple, void (int, typedef uint32, typedef Oid)*)' has some sub-type changes:  
    parameter 5 of type 'void*' was added  
    parameter 4 of type 'void (int, typedef uint32, typedef Oid)*' changed:  
      pointer type changed from: 'void (int, typedef uint32, typedef Oid)*' to: 'void (int, typedef uint32, typedef Oid, void*)*'  
  
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20240523000548.58.nmisch@google.com  
Backpatch-through: 14-17  

commit   : 86091202a8b11f67d42ad8ea97c4f71d36a8f745    
  
author   : Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>    
date     : Tue, 16 Dec 2025 16:13:54 -0800    
  
committer: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>    
date     : Tue, 16 Dec 2025 16:13:54 -0800    

Commit 0bada39c83a150079567a6e97b1a25a198f30ea3 fixed a bug of this kind,  
which existed in all branches for six days before detection.  While the  
probability of reaching the trouble was low, the disruption was extreme.  No  
new backends could start, and service restoration needed an immediate  
shutdown.  Hence, add this to catch the next bug like it.  
  
The new check in RelationIdGetRelation() suffices to make autovacuum detect  
the bug in commit 243e9b40f1b2dd09d6e5bf91ebf6e822a2cd3704 that led to commit  
0bada39.  This also checks in a number of similar places.  It replaces each  
Assert(IsTransactionState()) that pertained to a conditional catalog read.  
  
Back-patch to v14 - v17.  This a back-patch of commit  
f4ece891fc2f3f96f0571720a1ae30db8030681b (from before v18 branched) to  
all supported branches, to accompany the back-patch of commits 243e9b4  
and 0bada39.  For catalog indexes, the bttextcmp() behavior that  
motivated IsCatalogTextUniqueIndexOid() was v18-specific.  Hence, this  
back-patch doesn't need that or its correction from commit  
4a4ee0c2c1e53401924101945ac3d517c0a8a559.  
  
Reported-by: Alexander Lakhin <exclusion@gmail.com>  
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20250410191830.0e.nmisch@google.com  
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/10ec0bc3-5933-1189-6bb8-5dec4114558e@gmail.com  
Backpatch-through: 14-17  

commit   : 20a48c156d6456cea648b04ca2c07143e603133e    
  
author   : Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>    
date     : Tue, 16 Dec 2025 16:13:54 -0800    
  
committer: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>    
date     : Tue, 16 Dec 2025 16:13:54 -0800    

A buffer lock won't stop a reader having already checked tuple  
visibility.  If a vac_update_datfrozenid() and then a crash happened  
during inplace update of a relfrozenxid value, datfrozenxid could  
overtake relfrozenxid.  That could lead to "could not access status of  
transaction" errors.  
  
Back-patch to v14 - v17.  This is a back-patch of commits:  
  
- 8e7e672cdaa6bfec85d4d5dd9be84159df23bb41  
  (main change, on master, before v18 branched)  
- 818013665259d4242ba641aad705ebe5a3e2db8e  
  (defect fix, on master, before v18 branched)  
  
It reverses commit bc6bad88572501aecaa2ac5d4bc900ac0fd457d5, my revert  
of the original back-patch.  
  
In v14, this also back-patches the assertion removal from commit  
7fcf2faf9c7dd473208fd6d5565f88d7f733782b.  
  
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20240620012908.92.nmisch@google.com  
Backpatch-through: 14-17  

commit   : 05d605b6c69f0276ae091ced1ed9082963052550    
  
author   : Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>    
date     : Tue, 16 Dec 2025 16:13:54 -0800    
  
committer: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>    
date     : Tue, 16 Dec 2025 16:13:54 -0800    

The inplace update survives ROLLBACK.  The inval didn't, so another  
backend's DDL could then update the row without incorporating the  
inplace update.  In the test this fixes, a mix of CREATE INDEX and ALTER  
TABLE resulted in a table with an index, yet relhasindex=f.  That is a  
source of index corruption.  
  
Back-patch to v14 - v17.  This is a back-patch of commits:  
  
- 243e9b40f1b2dd09d6e5bf91ebf6e822a2cd3704  
  (main change, on master, before v18 branched)  
- 0bada39c83a150079567a6e97b1a25a198f30ea3  
  (defect fix, on master, before v18 branched)  
- bae8ca82fd00603ebafa0658640d6e4dfe20af92  
  (cosmetics from post-commit review, on REL_18_STABLE)  
  
It reverses commit c1099dd745b0135960895caa8892a1873ac6cbe5, my revert  
of the original back-patch of 243e9b4.  
  
This back-patch omits the non-comment heap_decode() changes.  I find  
those changes removed harmless code that was last necessary in v13.  See  
discussion thread for details.  The back branches aren't the place to  
remove such code.  
  
Like the original back-patch, this doesn't change WAL, because these  
branches use end-of-recovery SIResetAll().  All branches change the ABI  
of extern function PrepareToInvalidateCacheTuple().  No PGXN extension  
calls that, and there's no apparent use case in extensions.  Expect  
".abi-compliance-history" edits to follow.  
  
Reviewed-by: Paul A Jungwirth <pj@illuminatedcomputing.com>  
Reviewed-by: Surya Poondla <s_poondla@apple.com>  
Reviewed-by: Ilyasov Ian <ianilyasov@outlook.com>  
Reviewed-by: Nitin Motiani <nitinmotiani@google.com> (in earlier versions)  
Reviewed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> (in earlier versions)  
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20240523000548.58.nmisch@google.com  
Backpatch-through: 14-17  

commit   : fa7278e745458efdabe99fee6f2230e4e61451f4    
  
author   : Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>    
date     : Tue, 7 Nov 2023 11:55:13 +0900    
  
committer: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>    
date     : Tue, 7 Nov 2023 11:55:13 +0900    

This file separates public and static functions with a separator  
comment, but two routines were not defined in a location reflecting  
that, so reorder them.  
  
Back-patch commit c2bdd2c5b1d48a7e39e1a8d5e1d90b731b53c4c9 to v15 - v16.  
This avoids merge conflicts in the next commit, which modifies a  
function this moved.  Exclude v14, which is so different that the merge  
conflict savings would be immaterial.  
  
Author: Aleksander Alekseev <aleksander@timescale.com>  
Reviewed-by: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@kurilemu.de>  
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>  
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAJ7c6TMX2dd0g91UKvcC+CVygKQYJkKJq1+ZzT4rOK42+b53=w@mail.gmail.com  
Backpatch-through: 15-16  

commit   : 335b2f30b468c133f86891ec3d82a2fd0d50e221    
  
author   : Jeff Davis <jdavis@postgresql.org>    
date     : Tue, 16 Dec 2025 10:35:40 -0800    
  
committer: Jeff Davis <jdavis@postgresql.org>    
date     : Tue, 16 Dec 2025 10:35:40 -0800    

Previously, the API for ltree_strncasecmp() took two inputs but only  
one length (that of the smaller input). It truncated the larger input  
to that length, but that could break a multibyte sequence.  
  
Change the API to be a check for prefix equality (possibly  
case-insensitive) instead, which is all that's needed by the  
callers. Also, provide the lengths of both inputs.  
  
Reviewed-by: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>  
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>  
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/5f65b85740197ba6249ea507cddf609f84a6188b.camel%40j-davis.com  
Backpatch-through: 14  

commit   : bd2726d3e15fdf8245f63bdbaddf4e3700f86577    
  
author   : Robert Haas <rhaas@postgresql.org>    
date     : Tue, 16 Dec 2025 10:40:53 -0500    
  
committer: Robert Haas <rhaas@postgresql.org>    
date     : Tue, 16 Dec 2025 10:40:53 -0500    

We already do this in CreateParallelContext, InitializeParallelDSM, and  
LaunchParallelWorkers. I suspect the reason why the matching logic was  
omitted from ReinitializeParallelDSM is that I failed to realize that  
any memory allocation was happening here -- but shm_mq_attach does  
allocate, which could result in a shm_mq_handle being allocated in a  
shorter-lived context than the ParallelContext which points to it.  
  
That could result in a crash if the shorter-lived context is freed  
before the parallel context is destroyed. As far as I am currently  
aware, there is no way to reach a crash using only code that is  
present in core PostgreSQL, but extensions could potentially trip  
over this. Fixing this in the back-branches appears low-risk, so  
back-patch to all supported versions.  
  
Author: Jakub Wartak <jakub.wartak@enterprisedb.com>  
Co-authored-by: Jeevan Chalke <jeevan.chalke@enterprisedb.com>  
Backpatch-through: 14  
Discussion: http://postgr.es/m/CAKZiRmwfVripa3FGo06=5D1EddpsLu9JY2iJOTgbsxUQ339ogQ@mail.gmail.com  

commit   : 95ef6f4904a53a643590021fbcc27812df169379    
  
author   : Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>    
date     : Tue, 16 Dec 2025 13:29:42 +0900    
  
committer: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>    
date     : Tue, 16 Dec 2025 13:29:42 +0900    

This commit adds an extra check at the beginning of recovery to ensure  
that the redo record of a checkpoint exists before attempting WAL  
replay, logging a PANIC if the redo record referenced by the checkpoint  
record could not be found.  This is the same level of failure as when a  
checkpoint record is missing.  This check is added when a cluster is  
started without a backup_label, after retrieving its checkpoint record.  
The redo LSN used for the check is retrieved from the checkpoint record  
successfully read.  
  
In the case where a backup_label exists, the startup process already  
fails if the redo record cannot be found after reading a checkpoint  
record at the beginning of recovery.  
  
Previously, the presence of the redo record was not checked.  If the  
redo and checkpoint records were located on different WAL segments, it  
would be possible to miss a entire range of WAL records that should have  
been replayed but were just ignored.  The consequences of missing the  
redo record depend on the version dealt with, these becoming worse the  
older the version used:  
- On HEAD, v18 and v17, recovery fails with a pointer dereference at the  
beginning of the redo loop, as the redo record is expected but cannot be  
found.  These versions are good students, because we detect a failure  
before doing anything, even if the failure is misleading in the shape of  
a segmentation fault, giving no information that the redo record is  
missing.  
- In v16 and v15, problems show at the end of recovery within  
FinishWalRecovery(), the startup process using a buggy LSN to decide  
from where to start writing WAL.  The cluster gets corrupted, still it  
is noisy about it.  
- v14 and older versions are worse: a cluster gets corrupted but it is  
entirely silent about the matter.  The redo record missing causes the  
startup process to skip entirely recovery, because a missing record is  
the same as not redo being required at all.  This leads to data loss, as  
everything is missed between the redo record and the checkpoint record.  
  
Note that I have tested that down to 9.4, reproducing the issue with a  
version of the author's reproducer slightly modified.  The code is wrong  
since at least 9.2, but I did not look at the exact point of origin.  
  
This problem has been found by debugging a cluster where the WAL segment  
including the redo segment was missing due to an operator error, leading  
to a crash, based on an investigation in v15.  
  
Requesting archive recovery with the creation of a recovery.signal or  
a standby.signal even without a backup_label would mitigate the issue:  
if the record cannot be found in pg_wal/, the missing segment can be  
retrieved with a restore_command when checking that the redo record  
exists.  This was already the case without this commit, where recovery  
would re-fetch the WAL segment that includes the redo record.  The check  
introduced by this commit makes the segment to be retrieved earlier to  
make sure that the redo record can be found.  
  
On HEAD, the code will be slightly changed in a follow-up commit to not  
rely on a PANIC, to include a test able to emulate the original problem.  
This is a minimal backpatchable fix, kept separated for clarity.  
  
Reported-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>  
Analyzed-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>  
Author: Nitin Jadhav <nitinjadhavpostgres@gmail.com>  
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20231023232145.cmqe73stvivsmlhs@awork3.anarazel.de  
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAMm1aWaaJi2w49c0RiaDBfhdCL6ztbr9m=daGqiOuVdizYWYaA@mail.gmail.com  
Backpatch-through: 14  

commit   : b0b52b7123ae6f26775d35c868f14a5dca7884d0    
  
author   : Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>    
date     : Mon, 15 Dec 2025 11:47:04 +0200    
  
committer: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>    
date     : Mon, 15 Dec 2025 11:47:04 +0200    

Coverity complained that offset cannot be 0 here because there's an  
explicit check for "offset == 0" earlier in the function, but it  
didn't see the possibility that offset could've wrapped around to 0.  
The code is correct, but clarify the comment about it.  
  
The same code exists in backbranches in the server  
GetMultiXactIdMembers() function and in 'master' in the pg_upgrade  
GetOldMultiXactIdSingleMember function. In backbranches Coverity  
didn't complain about it because the check was merely an assertion,  
but change the comment in all supported branches for consistency.  
  
Per Tom Lane's suggestion.  
  
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/1827755.1765752936@sss.pgh.pa.us  

commit   : aa2ec0403d0af0082a8f8a68a5a231c4e62a9c3a    
  
author   : Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>    
date     : Wed, 5 Oct 2022 10:43:13 -0700    
  
committer: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>    
date     : Wed, 5 Oct 2022 10:43:13 -0700    

These cause problems when running installcheck-world USE_MODULE_DB=1 with -j.  
  
Note: This patch has been originally applied to v16 and newer branches  
as of 6a20b04f0408.  Sami Imseih has reported this issue as being  
possible to reach for other branches still supported: REL_15_STABLE and  
REL_14_STABLE.  
  
Reviewed-by: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>  
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20221003234111.4ob7yph6r4g4ywhu@awork3.anarazel.de  
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAA5RZ0soPHUvwXLZ+mf5Q=uJRL5ggnRg1uB0qKVG1bbdA9up6w@mail.gmail.com  
Backpatch-through: 14  

commit   : 07ddf6197b781936b426b498deedef1ba161b7c5    
  
author   : Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>    
date     : Thu, 11 Dec 2025 10:25:50 +0900    
  
committer: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>    
date     : Thu, 11 Dec 2025 10:25:50 +0900    

An array of LLVMBasicBlockRef is allocated with the size used for an  
element being "LLVMBasicBlockRef *" rather than "LLVMBasicBlockRef".  
LLVMBasicBlockRef is a type that refers to a pointer, so this did not  
directly cause a problem because both should have the same size, still  
it is incorrect.  
  
This issue has been spotted while reviewing a different patch, and  
exists since 2a0faed9d702, so backpatch all the way down.  
  
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA+hUKGLngd9cKHtTUuUdEo2eWEgUcZ_EQRbP55MigV2t_zTReg@mail.gmail.com  
Backpatch-through: 14  

commit   : f188bc5145b5c2de3d00d35fba46509fa4ef0f12    
  
author   : Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com>    
date     : Tue, 9 Dec 2025 10:49:19 +0000    
  
committer: Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com>    
date     : Tue, 9 Dec 2025 10:49:19 +0000    

The description of deferrable constraints in create_table.sgml states  
that deferrable constraints cannot be used as conflict arbitrators in  
an INSERT with an ON CONFLICT DO UPDATE clause, but in fact this  
restriction applies to all ON CONFLICT clauses, not just those with DO  
UPDATE. Fix this, and while at it, change the word "arbitrators" to  
"arbiters", to match the terminology used elsewhere.  
  
Author: Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com>  
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEZATCWsybvZP3ce8rGcVNx-QHuDOJZDz8y=p1SzqHwjRXyV4Q@mail.gmail.com  
Backpatch-through: 14  

commit   : 52a95886f7e0ce3d4f4d590777559f0330fb9c1f    
  
author   : David Rowley <drowley@postgresql.org>    
date     : Tue, 9 Dec 2025 14:43:26 +1300    
  
committer: David Rowley <drowley@postgresql.org>    
date     : Tue, 9 Dec 2025 14:43:26 +1300    

Plus a similar fix to the README.  
  
Backpatch as far back as the sgml issue exists.  The README issue does  
exist in v14, but that seems unlikely to harm anyone.  
  
Author: David Geier <geidav.pg@gmail.com>  
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/ed3db7ea-55b4-4809-86af-81ad3bb2c7d3@gmail.com  
Backpatch-through: 15  

commit   : b9a02b9780bc93afef4bc268212960dec2f9c88d    
  
author   : Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>    
date     : Fri, 5 Dec 2025 11:32:38 +0200    
  
committer: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>    
date     : Fri, 5 Dec 2025 11:32:38 +0200    

In commit 789d65364c, we started updating the next multixid's offset  
too when recording a multixid, so that it can always be used to  
calculate the number of members. I got it wrong at offset wraparound:  
we need to skip over offset 0. Fix that.  
  
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/d9996478-389a-4340-8735-bfad456b313c@iki.fi  
Backpatch-through: 14  

commit   : 7e54eacc5c06a53a7d7776170c50ba646c914b31    
  
author   : Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>    
date     : Fri, 5 Dec 2025 09:21:22 +0900    
  
committer: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>    
date     : Fri, 5 Dec 2025 09:21:22 +0900    

This commit adds the version information of a node initialized by  
Cluster.pm, that may vary depending on the install_path given by the  
test.  The code was written so as the node information, that includes  
the version number, was dumped before the version number was set.  
  
This is particularly useful for the pg_upgrade TAP tests, that may mix  
several versions for cross-version runs.  The TAP infrastructure also  
allows mixing nodes with different versions, so this information can be  
useful for out-of-core tests.  
  
Backpatch down to v15, where Cluster.pm and the pg_upgrade TAP tests  
have been introduced.  
  
Author: Potapov Alexander <a.potapov@postgrespro.com>  
Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>  
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/e59bb-692c0a80-5-6f987180@170377126  
Backpatch-through: 15  

commit   : 8cfb174a61ebc9316f8d5c4e8c9ad941acdb3849    
  
author   : Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>    
date     : Wed, 3 Dec 2025 19:15:08 +0200    
  
committer: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>    
date     : Wed, 3 Dec 2025 19:15:08 +0200    

With this commit, the next multixid's offset will always be set on the  
offsets page, by the time that a backend might try to read it, so we  
no longer need the waiting mechanism with the condition variable. In  
other words, this eliminates "corner case 2" mentioned in the  
comments.  
  
The waiting mechanism was broken in a few scenarios:  
  
- When nextMulti was advanced without WAL-logging the next  
  multixid. For example, if a later multixid was already assigned and  
  WAL-logged before the previous one was WAL-logged, and then the  
  server crashed. In that case the next offset would never be set in  
  the offsets SLRU, and a query trying to read it would get stuck  
  waiting for it. Same thing could happen if pg_resetwal was used to  
  forcibly advance nextMulti.  
  
- In hot standby mode, a deadlock could happen where one backend waits  
  for the next multixid assignment record, but WAL replay is not  
  advancing because of a recovery conflict with the waiting backend.  
  
The old TAP test used carefully placed injection points to exercise  
the old waiting code, but now that the waiting code is gone, much of  
the old test is no longer relevant. Rewrite the test to reproduce the  
IPC/MultixactCreation hang after crash recovery instead, and to verify  
that previously recorded multixids stay readable.  
  
Backpatch to all supported versions. In back-branches, we still need  
to be able to read WAL that was generated before this fix, so in the  
back-branches this includes a hack to initialize the next offsets page  
when replaying XLOG_MULTIXACT_CREATE_ID for the last multixid on a  
page. On 'master', bump XLOG_PAGE_MAGIC instead to indicate that the  
WAL is not compatible.  
  
Author: Andrey Borodin <amborodin@acm.org>  
Reviewed-by: Dmitry Yurichev <dsy.075@yandex.ru>  
Reviewed-by: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@kurilemu.de>  
Reviewed-by: Kirill Reshke <reshkekirill@gmail.com>  
Reviewed-by: Ivan Bykov <i.bykov@modernsys.ru>  
Reviewed-by: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>  
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/172e5723-d65f-4eec-b512-14beacb326ce@yandex.ru  
Backpatch-through: 14  

commit   : 7792bdc45860ad9f0e7188ce2113f799a074034d    
  
author   : Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>    
date     : Tue, 2 Dec 2025 21:11:15 +0200    
  
committer: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>    
date     : Tue, 2 Dec 2025 21:11:15 +0200    

amcheck incorrectly reported the following error if there were any  
half-dead pages in the index:  
  
ERROR:  mismatch between parent key and child high key in index  
"amchecktest_id_idx"  
  
It's expected that a half-dead page does not have a downlink in the  
parent level, so skip the test.  
  
Reported-by: Konstantin Knizhnik <knizhnik@garret.ru>  
Reviewed-by: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>  
Reviewed-by: Mihail Nikalayeu <mihailnikalayeu@gmail.com>  
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/33e39552-6a2a-46f3-8b34-3f9f8004451f@garret.ru  
Backpatch-through: 14  

commit   : 721b58fbec5f4a167540177659a2502383bc0c58    
  
author   : Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>    
date     : Tue, 2 Dec 2025 21:10:51 +0200    
  
committer: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>    
date     : Tue, 2 Dec 2025 21:10:51 +0200    

When the root page is being split, it's normal that root page  
according to the metapage is not marked BTP_ROOT. Fix bogus error in  
amcheck about that case.  
  
Reviewed-by: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>  
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/abd65090-5336-42cc-b768-2bdd66738404@iki.fi  
Backpatch-through: 14  

commit   : 134a8ee2240557e8165cffe70d19e48937cece03    
  
author   : Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com>    
date     : Sat, 29 Nov 2025 12:33:35 +0000    
  
committer: Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com>    
date     : Sat, 29 Nov 2025 12:33:35 +0000    

Formerly, when updating an auto-updatable view, or a relation with  
rules, if the original query had any data-modifying CTEs, the rewriter  
would rewrite those CTEs multiple times as RewriteQuery() recursed  
into the product queries. In most cases that was harmless, because  
RewriteQuery() is mostly idempotent. However, if the CTE involved  
updating an always-generated column, it would trigger an error because  
any subsequent rewrite would appear to be attempting to assign a  
non-default value to the always-generated column.  
  
This could perhaps be fixed by attempting to make RewriteQuery() fully  
idempotent, but that looks quite tricky to achieve, and would probably  
be quite fragile, given that more generated-column-type features might  
be added in the future.  
  
Instead, fix by arranging for RewriteQuery() to rewrite each CTE  
exactly once (by tracking the number of CTEs already rewritten as it  
recurses). This has the advantage of being simpler and more efficient,  
but it does make RewriteQuery() dependent on the order in which  
rewriteRuleAction() joins the CTE lists from the original query and  
the rule action, so care must be taken if that is ever changed.  
  
Reported-by: Bernice Southey <bernice.southey@gmail.com>  
Author: Bernice Southey <bernice.southey@gmail.com>  
Author: Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com>  
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>  
Reviewed-by: Kirill Reshke <reshkekirill@gmail.com>  
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEDh4nyD6MSH9bROhsOsuTqGAv_QceU_GDvN9WcHLtZTCYM1kA@mail.gmail.com  
Backpatch-through: 14  

commit   : f19502f04edc97f124db39faa388c9b54b7383cf    
  
author   : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Thu, 27 Nov 2025 13:09:59 -0500    
  
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Thu, 27 Nov 2025 13:09:59 -0500    

Normally, if a WHERE clause is implied by the predicate of a partial  
index, we drop that clause from the set of quals used with the index,  
since it's redundant to test it if we're scanning that index.  
However, if it's a hash index (or any !amoptionalkey index), this  
could result in dropping all available quals for the index's first  
key, preventing us from generating an indexscan.  
  
It's fair to question the practical usefulness of this case.  Since  
hash only supports equality quals, the situation could only arise  
if the index's predicate is "WHERE indexkey = constant", implying  
that the index contains only one hash value, which would make hash  
a really poor choice of index type.  However, perhaps there are  
other !amoptionalkey index AMs out there with which such cases are  
more plausible.  
  
To fix, just don't filter the candidate indexquals this way if  
the index is !amoptionalkey.  That's a bit hokey because it may  
result in testing quals we didn't need to test, but to do it  
more accurately we'd have to redundantly identify which candidate  
quals are actually usable with the index, something we don't know  
at this early stage of planning.  Doesn't seem worth the effort.  
  
Reported-by: Sergei Glukhov <s.glukhov@postgrespro.ru>  
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>  
Reviewed-by: David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>  
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/e200bf38-6b45-446a-83fd-48617211feff@postgrespro.ru  
Backpatch-through: 14  

commit   : f9f928304bb720d5e94651acd6b3e71a6f267430    
  
author   : Fujii Masao <fujii@postgresql.org>    
date     : Thu, 27 Nov 2025 23:30:51 +0900    
  
committer: Fujii Masao <fujii@postgresql.org>    
date     : Thu, 27 Nov 2025 23:30:51 +0900    

The documentation for CREATE/ALTER PUBLICATION previously showed:  
  
        [ ONLY ] table_name [ * ] [ ( column_name [, ... ] ) ] [ WHERE ( expression ) ] [, ... ]  
  
to indicate that the table/column specification could be repeated.  
However, placing [, ... ] directly after a multi-part construct was  
misleading and made it unclear which portion was repeatable.  
  
This commit introduces a new term, table_and_columns, to represent:  
  
        [ ONLY ] table_name [ * ] [ ( column_name [, ... ] ) ] [ WHERE ( expression ) ]  
  
and updates the synopsis to use:  
  
        table_and_columns [, ... ]  
  
which clearly identifies the repeatable element.  
  
Backpatched to v15, where the misleading syntax was introduced.  
  
Author: Peter Smith <smithpb2250@gmail.com>  
Reviewed-by: Chao Li <lic@highgo.com>  
Reviewed-by: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>  
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHut+PtsyvYL3KmA6C8f0ZpXQ=7FEqQtETVy-BOF+cm9WPvfMQ@mail.gmail.com  
Backpatch-through: 15  

commit   : eb7743e3e4f5e2c50fe5ee18a524b2e8a660df77    
  
author   : Daniel Gustafsson <dgustafsson@postgresql.org>    
date     : Wed, 26 Nov 2025 14:24:04 +0100    
  
committer: Daniel Gustafsson <dgustafsson@postgresql.org>    
date     : Wed, 26 Nov 2025 14:24:04 +0100    

When running on Windows (or EXEC_BACKEND) the SSL configuration will  
be reloaded on each backend start, so the passphrase command will be  
reloaded along with it.  This implies that passphrase command reload  
must be enabled on Windows for connections to work at all.  Document  
this since it wasn't mentioned explicitly, and will there add markup  
for parameter value to match the rest of the docs.  
  
Backpatch to all supported versions.  
  
Author: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>  
Reviewed-by: Chao Li <li.evan.chao@gmail.com>  
Reviewed-by: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@kurilemu.de>  
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>  
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/5F301096-921A-427D-8EC1-EBAEC2A35082@yesql.se  
Backpatch-through: 14  

commit   : da39714965318b2856a0de94a4c817948778969c    
  
author   : Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>    
date     : Mon, 24 Nov 2025 17:37:09 -0500    
  
committer: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>    
date     : Mon, 24 Nov 2025 17:37:09 -0500    

Accidentally the code in LWLockWakeup() checked the list of to-be-woken up  
processes to see if LW_FLAG_HAS_WAITERS should be unset. That means that  
HAS_WAITERS would not get unset immediately, but only during the next,  
unnecessary, call to LWLockWakeup().  
  
Luckily, as the code stands, this is just a small efficiency issue.  
  
However, if there were (as in a patch of mine) a case in which LWLockWakeup()  
would not find any backend to wake, despite the wait list not being empty,  
we'd wrongly unset LW_FLAG_HAS_WAITERS, leading to potentially hanging.  
  
While the consequences in the backbranches are limited, the code as-is  
confusing, and it is possible that there are workloads where the additional  
wait list lock acquisitions hurt, therefore backpatch.  
  
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/fvfmkr5kk4nyex56ejgxj3uzi63isfxovp2biecb4bspbjrze7@az2pljabhnff  
Backpatch-through: 14  

commit   : ea757e8012961cd9875c1bfcb16c655c515ce791    
  
author   : David Rowley <drowley@postgresql.org>    
date     : Mon, 24 Nov 2025 17:02:00 +1300    
  
committer: David Rowley <drowley@postgresql.org>    
date     : Mon, 24 Nov 2025 17:02:00 +1300    

The comment incorrectly indicated that indexcollations[] stored  
collations for both key columns and INCLUDE columns, but in reality it  
only has elements for the key columns.  canreturn[] didn't get a mention,  
so add that while we're here.  
  
Author: Junwang Zhao <zhjwpku@gmail.com>  
Reviewed-by: David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>  
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEG8a3LwbZgMKOQ9CmZarX5DEipKivdHp5PZMOO-riL0w%3DL%3D4A%40mail.gmail.com  
Backpatch-through: 14  

commit   : 55164852d3cd9cb828b8b13d357acf27f64e93cc    
  
author   : Thomas Munro <tmunro@postgresql.org>    
date     : Sat, 22 Nov 2025 20:51:16 +1300    
  
committer: Thomas Munro <tmunro@postgresql.org>    
date     : Sat, 22 Nov 2025 20:51:16 +1300    

LLVM 21 changed the arguments of RTDyldObjectLinkingLayer's  
constructor, breaking compilation with the backported  
SectionMemoryManager from commit 9044fc1d.  
  
https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/cd585864c0bbbd74ed2a2b1ccc191eed4d1c8f90  
  
Backpatch-through: 14  
Author: Holger Hoffstätte <holger@applied-asynchrony.com>  
Reviewed-by: Anthonin Bonnefoy <anthonin.bonnefoy@datadoghq.com>  
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/d25e6e4a-d1b4-84d3-2f8a-6c45b975f53d%40applied-asynchrony.com  

commit   : 7c494072bcb27700d9851e719f2acf43cc94b4e1    
  
author   : Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>    
date     : Wed, 19 Nov 2025 18:05:42 +0200    
  
committer: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>    
date     : Wed, 19 Nov 2025 18:05:42 +0200    

Commit 74cf7d46a91d added the --oldest-transaction-id option to  
pg_resetwal, but forgot to update the code that prints all the new  
values that are being set. Fix that.  
  
Reviewed-by: Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>  
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/5461bc85-e684-4531-b4d2-d2e57ad18cba@iki.fi  
Backpatch-through: 14  

commit   : 9f5a58aacf65c77eaa4909763c4119cd453c870e    
  
author   : Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Tue, 18 Nov 2025 12:56:55 -0500    
  
committer: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>    
date     : Tue, 18 Nov 2025 12:56:55 -0500    

The fix for bug #19055 (commit b0cc0a71e) allowed CTE references in  
sub-selects within aggregate functions to affect the semantic levels  
assigned to such aggregates.  It turns out this broke some related  
cases, leading to assertion failures or strange planner errors such  
as "unexpected outer reference in CTE query".  After experimenting  
with some alternative rules for assigning the semantic level in  
such cases, we've come to the conclusion that changing the level  
is more likely to break things than be helpful.  
  
Therefore, this patch undoes what b0cc0a71e changed, and instead  
installs logic to throw an error if there is any reference to a  
CTE that's below the semantic level that standard SQL rules would  
assign to the aggregate based on its contained Var and Aggref nodes.  
(The SQL standard disallows sub-selects within aggregate functions,  
so it can't reach the troublesome case and hence has no rule for  
what to do.)  
  
Perhaps someone will come along with a legitimate query that this  
logic rejects, and if so probably the example will help us craft  
a level-adjustment rule that works better than what b0cc0a71e did.  
I'm not holding my breath for that though, because the previous  
logic had been there for a very long time before bug #19055 without  
complaints, and that bug report sure looks to have originated from  
fuzzing not from real usage.  
  
Like b0cc0a71e, back-patch to all supported branches, though  
sadly that no longer includes v13.  
  
Bug: #19106  
Reported-by: Kamil Monicz <kamil@monicz.dev>  
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>  
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/19106-9dd3668a0734cd72@postgresql.org  
Backpatch-through: 14  

commit   : 3995e4a9d8c6870aa3bc817c62a1b6678f3ad318    
  
author   : Thomas Munro <tmunro@postgresql.org>    
date     : Tue, 18 Nov 2025 10:30:34 +1300    
  
committer: Thomas Munro <tmunro@postgresql.org>    
date     : Tue, 18 Nov 2025 10:30:34 +1300    

This is a backpatch of 32b23664 to v14 and v15.  
  
* Remove ancient test for __hurd__, which intended to activate  
  PS_USE_CHANGE_ARGV in these branches but turned out not to be  
  defined on modern systems.  
  
* Add new test for__GNU__ to activate PS_USE_CLOBBER_ARGV, like the  
  newer branches.  
  
Author: Michael Banck <mbanck@debian.org>  
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BhUKGJMNGUAqf27WbckYFrM-Mavy0RKJvocfJU%3DJ2XcAZyv%2Bw%40mail.gmail.com  
Backpatch-through: 14-15  

commit   : ad5cc3ad8906123b34738e3697f31dacfffc15b7    
  
author   : Nathan Bossart <nathan@postgresql.org>    
date     : Mon, 17 Nov 2025 14:14:41 -0600    
  
committer: Nathan Bossart <nathan@postgresql.org>    
date     : Mon, 17 Nov 2025 14:14:41 -0600    

As noted in the commit message for 5e4fcbe531, the addition of a  
second parameter to CreateStatistics() breaks ABI compatibility,  
but we are unaware of any impacted third-party code.  This commit  
updates .abi-compliance-history accordingly.  
  
Backpatch-through: 14-18  

commit   : 5d5b05c18ef4985114ccc4c66abad91dd39cedfc    
  
author   : David Rowley <drowley@postgresql.org>    
date     : Mon, 17 Nov 2025 10:53:15 +1300    
  
committer: David Rowley <drowley@postgresql.org>    
date     : Mon, 17 Nov 2025 10:53:15 +1300    

Backpatch to 15, where MERGE was introduced.  
  
Reported-by: <emorgunov@mail.ru>  
Author: David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>  
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/176278494385.770.15550176063450771532@wrigleys.postgresql.org  
Backpatch-through: 15  

commit   : d61af52ad1fcb86a6893c27e40aca492a57f35bc    
  
author   : Nathan Bossart <nathan@postgresql.org>    
date     : Fri, 14 Nov 2025 13:20:09 -0600    
  
committer: Nathan Bossart <nathan@postgresql.org>    
date     : Fri, 14 Nov 2025 13:20:09 -0600    

Commit 5e4fcbe531 added a check_rights parameter to this function  
for use by ALTER TABLE commands that re-create statistics objects.  
However, we intentionally ignore check_rights when verifying  
relation ownership because this function's lookup could return a  
different answer than the caller's.  This commit adds a note to  
this effect so that we remember it down the road.  
  
Reviewed-by: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>  
Backpatch-through: 14  

commit   : c663152adcec438c72173e15021b94f54fa618fe    
  
author   : Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com>    
date     : Thu, 13 Nov 2025 12:04:34 +0000    
  
committer: Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com>    
date     : Thu, 13 Nov 2025 12:04:34 +0000    

On the CREATE POLICY page, the "Policies Applied by Command Type"  
table was missing MERGE ... THEN DELETE and some of the policies  
applied during INSERT ... ON CONFLICT and MERGE. Fix that, and try to  
improve readability by listing the various MERGE cases separately,  
rather than together with INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE. Mention COPY ... TO  
along with SELECT, since it behaves in the same way. In addition,  
document which policy violations cause errors to be thrown, and which  
just cause rows to be silently ignored.  
  
Also, a paragraph above the table states that INSERT ... ON CONFLICT  
DO UPDATE only checks the WITH CHECK expressions of INSERT policies  
for rows appended to the relation by the INSERT path, which is  
incorrect -- all rows proposed for insertion are checked, regardless  
of whether they end up being inserted. Fix that, and also mention that  
the same applies to INSERT ... ON CONFLICT DO NOTHING.  
  
In addition, in various other places on that page, clarify how the  
different types of policy are applied to different commands, and  
whether or not errors are thrown when policy checks do not pass.  
  
Backpatch to all supported versions. Prior to v17, MERGE did not  
support RETURNING, and so MERGE ... THEN INSERT would never check new  
rows against SELECT policies. Prior to v15, MERGE was not supported at  
all.  
  
Author: Dean Rasheed <dean.a.rasheed@gmail.com>  
Reviewed-by: Viktor Holmberg <v@viktorh.net>  
Reviewed-by: Jian He <jian.universality@gmail.com>  
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEZATCWqnfeChjK=n1V_dYZT4rt4mnq+ybf9c0qXDYTVMsy8pg@mail.gmail.com  
Backpatch-through: 14  

commit   : 21a9014cf00ab370d7065a7184c1a087bc228b54    
  
author   : Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>    
date     : Wed, 12 Nov 2025 21:19:03 +0200    
  
committer: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>    
date     : Wed, 12 Nov 2025 21:19:03 +0200    

Before we started to freeze async notify entries (commit 8eeb4a0f7c),  
no one looked at the 'xid' on an entry with invalid 'dboid'. But now  
we might actually need to freeze it later. Initialize them with  
InvalidTransactionId to begin with, to avoid that work later.  
  
Álvaro pointed this out in review of commit 8eeb4a0f7c, but I forgot  
to include this change there.  
  
Author: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@kurilemu.de>  
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/202511071410.52ll56eyixx7@alvherre.pgsql  
Backpatch-through: 14  

commit   : 0c862646cf2aeba130222ec587702c331fbf3783    
  
author   : Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>    
date     : Wed, 12 Nov 2025 20:59:44 +0200    
  
committer: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>    
date     : Wed, 12 Nov 2025 20:59:44 +0200    

Previous commit fixed a bug where VACUUM would truncate the CLOG  
that's still needed to check the commit status of XIDs in the async  
notify queue, but as mentioned in the commit message, it wasn't a full  
fix. If a backend is executing asyncQueueReadAllNotifications() and  
has just made a local copy of an async SLRU page which contains old  
XIDs, vacuum can concurrently truncate the CLOG covering those XIDs,  
and the backend still gets an error when it calls  
TransactionIdDidCommit() on those XIDs in the local copy. This commit  
fixes that race condition.  
  
To fix, hold the SLRU bank lock across the TransactionIdDidCommit()  
calls in NOTIFY processing.  
  
Per Tom Lane's idea. Backpatch to all supported versions.  
  
Reviewed-by: Joel Jacobson <joel@compiler.org>  
Reviewed-by: Arseniy Mukhin <arseniy.mukhin.dev@gmail.com>  
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/2759499.1761756503@sss.pgh.pa.us  
Backpatch-through: 14  

commit   : 1a469d7b5b7dac2dfa63835bb8313a6d0f267927    
  
author   : Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>    
date     : Wed, 12 Nov 2025 20:59:36 +0200    
  
committer: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>    
date     : Wed, 12 Nov 2025 20:59:36 +0200    

The async notification queue contains the XID of the sender, and when  
processing notifications we call TransactionIdDidCommit() on the  
XID. But we had no safeguards to prevent the CLOG segments containing  
those XIDs from being truncated away. As a result, if a backend didn't  
for some reason process its notifications for a long time, or when a  
new backend issued LISTEN, you could get an error like:  
  
test=# listen c21;  
ERROR:  58P01: could not access status of transaction 14279685  
DETAIL:  Could not open file "pg_xact/000D": No such file or directory.  
LOCATION:  SlruReportIOError, slru.c:1087  
  
To fix, make VACUUM "freeze" the XIDs in the async notification queue  
before truncating the CLOG. Old XIDs are replaced with  
FrozenTransactionId or InvalidTransactionId.  
  
Note: This commit is not a full fix. A race condition remains, where a  
backend is executing asyncQueueReadAllNotifications() and has just  
made a local copy of an async SLRU page which contains old XIDs, while  
vacuum concurrently truncates the CLOG covering those XIDs. When the  
backend then calls TransactionIdDidCommit() on those XIDs from the  
local copy, you still get the error. The next commit will fix that  
remaining race condition.  
  
This was first reported by Sergey Zhuravlev in 2021, with many other  
people hitting the same issue later. Thanks to:  
- Alexandra Wang, Daniil Davydov, Andrei Varashen and Jacques Combrink  
  for investigating and providing reproducable test cases,  
- Matheus Alcantara and Arseniy Mukhin for review and earlier proposed  
  patches to fix this,  
- Álvaro Herrera and Masahiko Sawada for reviews,  
- Yura Sokolov aka funny-falcon for the idea of marking transactions  
  as committed in the notification queue, and  
- Joel Jacobson for the final patch version. I hope I didn't forget  
  anyone.  
  
Backpatch to all supported versions. I believe the bug goes back all  
the way to commit d1e027221d, which introduced the SLRU-based async  
notification queue.  
  
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/16961-25f29f95b3604a8a@postgresql.org  
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/18804-bccbbde5e77a68c2@postgresql.org  
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAK98qZ3wZLE-RZJN_Y%2BTFjiTRPPFPBwNBpBi5K5CU8hUHkzDpw@mail.gmail.com  
Backpatch-through: 14  

commit   : b1da37de21d4eb86f0bb08f78e31020093ad88f4    
  
author   : Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>    
date     : Wed, 12 Nov 2025 20:59:28 +0200    
  
committer: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>    
date     : Wed, 12 Nov 2025 20:59:28 +0200    

Previously, if async notify processing encountered an error, we would  
report the error to the client and advance our read position past the  
offending entry to prevent trying to process it over and over  
again. Trying to continue after an error has a few problems however:  
  
- We have no way of telling the client that a notification was  
  lost. They get an ERROR, but that doesn't tell you much. As such,  
  it's not clear if keeping the connection alive after losing a  
  notification is a good thing. Depending on the application logic,  
  missing a notification could cause the application to get stuck  
  waiting, for example.  
  
- If the connection is idle, PqCommReadingMsg is set and any ERROR is  
  turned into FATAL anyway.  
  
- We bailed out of the notification processing loop on first error  
  without processing any subsequent notifications. The subsequent  
  notifications would not be processed until another notify interrupt  
  arrives. For example, if there were two notifications pending, and  
  processing the first one caused an ERROR, the second notification  
  would not be processed until someone sent a new NOTIFY.  
  
This commit changes the behavior so that any ERROR while processing  
async notifications is turned into FATAL, causing the client  
connection to be terminated. That makes the behavior more consistent  
as that's what happened in idle state already, and terminating the  
connection is a clear signal to the application that it might've  
missed some notifications.  
  
The reason to do this now is that the next commits will change the  
notification processing code in a way that would make it harder to  
skip over just the offending notification entry on error.  
  
Reviewed-by: Matheus Alcantara <matheusssilv97@gmail.com>  
Reviewed-by: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@kurilemu.de>  
Reviewed-by: Arseniy Mukhin <arseniy.mukhin.dev@gmail.com>  
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/fedbd908-4571-4bbe-b48e-63bfdcc38f64@iki.fi  
Backpatch-through: 14  

commit   : 608566bf17c327976bec647cc28d2996be4c0010    
  
author   : Daniel Gustafsson <dgustafsson@postgresql.org>    
date     : Wed, 12 Nov 2025 17:04:35 +0100    
  
committer: Daniel Gustafsson <dgustafsson@postgresql.org>    
date     : Wed, 12 Nov 2025 17:04:35 +0100    

Explicitly document that privileges are transferred along with the  
ownership. Backpatch to all supported versions since this behavior  
has always been present.  
  
Author: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>  
Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>  
Reviewed-by: David G. Johnston <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>  
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>  
Reviewed-by: Josef Šimánek <josef.simanek@gmail.com>  
Reported-by: Gilles Parc <gparc@free.fr>  
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/2023185982.281851219.1646733038464.JavaMail.root@zimbra15-e2.priv.proxad.net  
Backpatch-through: 14  

commit   : bec78533336543bc9e9b354d0d5daed434cc2d9d    
  
author   : Daniel Gustafsson <dgustafsson@postgresql.org>    
date     : Wed, 12 Nov 2025 13:51:53 +0100    
  
committer: Daniel Gustafsson <dgustafsson@postgresql.org>    
date     : Wed, 12 Nov 2025 13:51:53 +0100    

The range for commit_siblings was incorrectly listed as starting on 1  
instead of 0 in the sample configuration file.  Backpatch down to all  
supported branches.  
  
Author: Man Zeng <zengman@halodbtech.com>  
Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>  
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/tencent_53B70BA72303AE9C6889E78E@qq.com  
Backpatch-through: 14  

commit   : 97cd4b65af6c71b31a9c08f5838c6cdd58c1866c    
  
author   : Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>    
date     : Wed, 12 Nov 2025 12:20:16 +0200    
  
committer: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>    
date     : Wed, 12 Nov 2025 12:20:16 +0200    

pg_resetwal didn't accept multixid 0 or multixact offset UINT32_MAX,  
but they are both valid values that can appear in the control file.  
That caused pg_upgrade to fail if you tried to upgrade a cluster  
exactly at multixid or offset wraparound, because pg_upgrade calls  
pg_resetwal to restore multixid/offset on the new cluster to the  
values from the old cluster. To fix, allow those values in  
pg_resetwal.  
  
Fixes bugs #18863 and #18865 reported by Dmitry Kovalenko.  
  
Backpatch down to v15. Version 14 has the same bug, but the patch  
doesn't apply cleanly there. It could be made to work but it doesn't  
seem worth the effort given how rare it is to hit this problem with  
pg_upgrade, and how few people are upgrading to v14 anymore.  
  
Author: Maxim Orlov <orlovmg@gmail.com>  
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CACG%3DezaApSMTjd%3DM2Sfn5Ucuggd3FG8Z8Qte8Xq9k5-%2BRQis-g@mail.gmail.com  
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/18863-72f08858855344a2@postgresql.org  
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/18865-d4c66cf35c2a67af@postgresql.org  
Backpatch-through: 15  

commit   : 74b26c8c290c81de00c134bf63e315a803f5c259    
  
author   : Fujii Masao <fujii@postgresql.org>    
date     : Wed, 12 Nov 2025 13:41:59 +0900    
  
committer: Fujii Masao <fujii@postgresql.org>    
date     : Wed, 12 Nov 2025 13:41:59 +0900    

The synopsis for the ALTER PUBLICATION ... DROP ... command incorrectly  
implied that a column list and WHERE clause could be specified as part of  
the publication object. However, these options are not allowed for  
DROP operations, making the documentation misleading.  
  
This commit corrects the synopsis  to clearly show only the valid forms  
of publication objects.  
  
Backpatched to v15, where the incorrect synopsis was introduced.  
  
Author: Peter Smith <smithpb2250@gmail.com>  
Reviewed-by: Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>  
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAHut+PsPu+47Q7b0o6h1r-qSt90U3zgbAHMHUag5o5E1Lo+=uw@mail.gmail.com  
Backpatch-through: 15