https://piware.de/tags/postgresql/ Recent content in Postgresql on Martin Pitt Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Thu, 04 Apr 2013 14:06:04 +0000 https://piware.de/2013/04/urgent-postgresql-security-updates-for-debianubuntu/ Thu, 04 Apr 2013 14:06:04 +0000 https://piware.de/2013/04/urgent-postgresql-security-updates-for-debianubuntu/ PostgreSQL just released security updates. 9.1 (as found in Debian testing and unstable and Ubuntu 11.10 and later) is affected by a critical remote vulnerability which potentially allows anyone who can access the TCP port (without credentials) to corrupt local files. If your PostgreSQL database exposes the TCP port to any potentially untrusted location, please shut down your servers and update now! PostgreSQL 8.4 for Debian stable (squeeze) and Ubuntu 8. https://piware.de/2012/09/postgresql-9-2-final-available-for-debian-and-ubuntu/ Mon, 10 Sep 2012 13:58:20 +0000 https://piware.de/2012/09/postgresql-9-2-final-available-for-debian-and-ubuntu/ PostgreSQL 9.2 has just been released, after a series of betas and a release candidate. See for yourself what’s new, and try it out! Packages are available in Debian experimental as well as my PostgreSQL backports PPA for Ubuntu 10.04 to 12.10, as usual. Please note that 9.2 will not land any more in the feature frozen Debian Wheezy and Ubuntu Quantal (12.10) releases, as none of the server-side extensions are packaged for 9. https://piware.de/2012/08/postgresql-9-2-rc1-available-for-testing/ Tue, 28 Aug 2012 04:57:29 +0000 https://piware.de/2012/08/postgresql-9-2-rc1-available-for-testing/ The unstoppable PostgreSQL team just announced the first release candidate of 9.2, with several bug fixes since the Beta 4. If you haven’t tested 9.2 yet, now is the time! Remember that you can run a copy of your 8.4 or 9.2 cluster in parallel for testing with pg_upgradecluster. If you use Debian, 9.2rc1 will be available in experimental in a few hours. For Ubuntu, you can get packages for all supported releases from my PostgreSQL backports PPA as usual. https://piware.de/2012/06/new-postgresql-microreleases-with-two-security-fixes/ Mon, 04 Jun 2012 11:16:28 +0000 https://piware.de/2012/06/new-postgresql-microreleases-with-two-security-fixes/ New PostgreSQL microreleases with two security fixes and several bug fixes was just announced publically. I spent the morning with the packaging orgy for Debian unstable and experimental (now uploaded), Debian Wheezy (update sent to security team), Ubuntu hardy, lucid, natty, oneiric, precise (LP #1008317) and my backports PPA. I tested these fairly thoroughly, but please let me know if you encounter any problem with these. https://piware.de/2012/05/packages-for-postgresql-9-2-beta-1-now-available/ Tue, 15 May 2012 12:32:42 +0000 https://piware.de/2012/05/packages-for-postgresql-9-2-beta-1-now-available/ The first Beta of the upcoming PostgreSQL 9.2 was released yesterday (see announcement). Your humble maintainer has now created packages for you to test. Please give them a whirl, and report any problems/regressions that you may see to the PostgreSQL developers, so that we can have a rock solid 9.2 release. Remember, with the postgresql-common infrastructure you can use pg_upgradecluster to create a 9.2 cluster from your existing 8.4⁄9.1 cluster and run them both in parallel without endangering your data. https://piware.de/2011/09/postgresql-9-1-final-packages-available-for-debianubuntu/ Tue, 13 Sep 2011 04:19:20 +0000 https://piware.de/2011/09/postgresql-9-1-final-packages-available-for-debianubuntu/ Hot on the heels of the PostgreSQL 9.1.0 release I am happy to announce that the final version is now packaged for Debian unstable, the current Ubuntu development version “Oneiric”, and also in my Ubuntu backports PPA for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, 10.10, and 11.04. Enjoy trying out all the cool new features like builtin synchronous replication or per-column collation settings for correctly handling international strings, or an even finer-grained access control for large environments. https://piware.de/2011/09/dropping-postgresql-9-0-packages-for-debianubuntubackports/ Thu, 08 Sep 2011 14:28:06 +0000 https://piware.de/2011/09/dropping-postgresql-9-0-packages-for-debianubuntubackports/ PostgreSQL 9.1 has had its first release candidate out for some two weeks without major problem reports, so it’s time to promote this more heavily. If you use PostgreSQL, now is the time to try it out and report problems. We always strive to minimize the number of major versions which we have to support. They not only mean more maintenance for developers, but also more upgrade cycles for the users. https://piware.de/2011/06/debianubuntu-packages-for-postgresql-9-1-beta-2/ Tue, 14 Jun 2011 08:29:53 +0000 https://piware.de/2011/06/debianubuntu-packages-for-postgresql-9-1-beta-2/ Hot on the heels of the Announcement of the second 9.1 Beta release there are now packages for it in Debian experimental and backports for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, 10.10. and 11.04 in my PostgreSQL backports for stable Ubuntu releases PPA. Warning for upgrades from Beta 1: The on-disk database format changed since Beta-1. So if you already have the beta-1 packages installed, you need to pg_dumpall your 9.1 clusters (if you still need them), and pg_dropcluster all 9. https://piware.de/2011/05/packages-for-postgresql-9-1-beta-1-now-available/ Wed, 11 May 2011 10:51:48 +0000 https://piware.de/2011/05/packages-for-postgresql-9-1-beta-1-now-available/ Two weeks ago, PostgreSQL announced the first beta version of the new major 9.1 version, with a lot of anticipated new features like synchronous replication or better support for multilingual databases. Please see the release announcement for details. Due to my recent moving and the Ubuntu Developer Summit it took me a bit to package them for Debian and Ubuntu, but here they are at last. I uploaded postgresql-9.1 to Debian experimental; currently they are sitting in the NEW queue, but I’m sure our restless Debian archive admins will get to it in a few days. https://piware.de/2010/09/postgresql-9-0-final-released/ Mon, 20 Sep 2010 15:37:20 +0000 https://piware.de/2010/09/postgresql-9-0-final-released/ After 20 days of final polishing and maturing since the release candidate, the PostgreSQL team released the final 9.0 version today. Hot off the press, I uploaded postgresql-9.0 final into Debian unstable; they will not go into Debian Squeeze, because Squeeze is frozen and it will take a long time to port all the packaged server side extensions to 9.0. If you are on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS or Ubuntu 10.10, you can add my PostgreSQL backports for stable Ubuntu releases PPA, which will carry 9. https://piware.de/2010/09/what-i-do/ Tue, 14 Sep 2010 07:08:49 +0000 https://piware.de/2010/09/what-i-do/ It’s been a decade ago when I did my first steps with contributing to Free Software, about seven years when I joined Debian, and about 6 with Canonical and Ubuntu. Time for some reflection what I have done over these years! Distribution Packaging and Maintenance My first sponsored Debian upload ever was cracklib2, which seriously needed some love and was looking for a new maintainer. So in that upload I managed to close all outstanding bugs. https://piware.de/2010/09/postgresql-9-0-rc1-available-for-testing/ Wed, 01 Sep 2010 10:41:40 +0000 https://piware.de/2010/09/postgresql-9-0-rc1-available-for-testing/ PostgreSQL 9.0 with a whole lot of new features and improvements is nearing completion. The first release candidate was just announced. As with the beta versions, I uploaded RC1 to Debian experimental again. If you want to test/use them on Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx), you can get packages from my “PostgreSQL backports for stable Ubuntu releases” PPA. Please let me know if you need them for other releases. Just for the records, both Debian 6. https://piware.de/2010/05/celebrating-the-1000th-postgresql-common-commit/ Mon, 03 May 2010 15:58:28 +0000 https://piware.de/2010/05/celebrating-the-1000th-postgresql-common-commit/ I just did the 1000th commit of postgresql-common, the Debian/Ubuntu PostgreSQL management utilities. Wow, what started as a small hack in December 2004 to be able to install several major PostgreSQL versions in parallel has turned out to be a > 600 kB project providing a comprehensive tool set for uniformly setting up, upgrading, and maintaining PostgreSQL database instances from version 7.4 up to the just announced 9.0 beta-1, with a comprehensive test suite that I’m really proud of (it tests just about every aspect, option, and corner case of the installation, integration, upgrade, locale support, and error handling, and takes about half an hour on my system). https://piware.de/2010/04/postgresql-bug-fix-releases-up-for-testing-in-ubuntu/ Fri, 09 Apr 2010 08:08:29 +0000 https://piware.de/2010/04/postgresql-bug-fix-releases-up-for-testing-in-ubuntu/ PostgreSQL did microrelease updates three weeks ago: 8.4.3, 8.3.10, and 8.1.20 are the ones relevant for Debian/Ubuntu. There haven’t been reports about regressions in Debian or the upstream lists so far, so it’s time to push these into stable releases. The new releases are in Lucid Beta-2, and hardy/jaunty/karmic-proposed. If you are running PostgreSQL, please upgrade to the proposed versions and give feedback to LP #557408. Updates for Debian Lenny are prepared as well, and await release team ack. https://piware.de/2009/12/new-postgresql-releases-need-testing/ Wed, 16 Dec 2009 19:16:40 +0000 https://piware.de/2009/12/new-postgresql-releases-need-testing/ Yesterday PostgreSQL released new security/bug fix microreleases 8.4.2, 8.3.9, and 8.1.19, which fix two security issues and a whole bunch of bugs. Updates for all supported Ubuntu releases are built in the ubuntu-security-proposed PPA. They pass the upstream and postgresql-common test suites, but more testing is heavily appreciated! Please give feedback in bug LP#496923. Thanks! https://piware.de/2009/09/postgresql-securitybug-fix-update-please-test/ Thu, 17 Sep 2009 22:39:33 +0000 https://piware.de/2009/09/postgresql-securitybug-fix-update-please-test/ PostgreSQL recently published new point releases which fix the usual range of important bugs (data loss/wrong results, etc.) and additionally fix another case of insecure “security definer” functions (the analogon to setuid programs in file system space for SQL functions) (CVE-2007-6600). Please see the complete changes for 8.1.18 (Ubuntu 6.06 LTS), 8.3.8 (Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, 8.10, and 9.04), and 8.4.1 (Ubuntu 9.10). 8.4.1 is already in Ubuntu 9.10 and in my PostgreSQL Backports PPA for Ubuntu 8. https://piware.de/2009/04/postgresql-84beta1-available-for-testing/ Sat, 18 Apr 2009 15:04:39 +0000 https://piware.de/2009/04/postgresql-84beta1-available-for-testing/ Some days ago, the first public beta of PostgreSQL 8.4 was announced. I uploaded a CVS snapshot to Debian experimental two weeks ago, but it didn’t make it out of NEW yet. Packaging the actual 8.4 bits was actually pretty easy, just took me half a day to adapt the 8.3 packaging and eventually figuring out how to build the entire documentation from SGML sources with Debian/Ubuntu’s broken docbook-utils. I spent much more work work on supporting 8.