E.167. Release 7.3.8

Repair possible failure to update hint bits on disk

Under rare circumstances this oversight could lead to « could not access transaction status » failures, which qualifies it as a potential-data-loss bug.

Ensure that hashed outer join does not miss tuples

Very large left joins using a hash join plan could fail to output unmatched left-side rows given just the right data distribution.

Disallow running pg_ctl as root

This is to guard against any possible security issues.

Avoid using temp files in /tmp in make_oidjoins_check

This has been reported as a security issue, though it's hardly worthy of concern since there is no reason for non-developers to use this script anyway.