Release date: 2026-02-26
This release contains a small number of fixes from 18.2. For information about new features in major release 18, see Section E.4.
A dump/restore is not required for those running 18.X.
However, if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 18.2, see Section E.2.
Fix failure after replaying a multixid truncation record from WAL that was generated by an older minor version (Heikki Linnakangas) §
Erroneous logic for coping with the way that previous versions handled multixid wraparound led to replay failure, with messages like “could not access status of transaction”. A typical scenario in which this could occur is a standby server of the latest minor version consuming WAL from a primary server of an older version.
Avoid incorrect complaint of invalid encoding
when substring() is applied
to “toasted” data (Noah Misch)
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The fix for CVE-2026-2006 was too aggressive and could raise an error about an incomplete character in cases that are actually valid.
Fix oversight in the fix for CVE-2026-2007 (Zsolt Parragi) §
If the “bounds” array needed to be expanded, because
the input contained more trigrams than the initial guess,
generate_trgm_only didn't return the modified
array pointer to its caller. That would lead to incorrect output
from strict_word_similarity() and related
functions, or in rare cases a crash. The faulty code is reached if
the input string becomes longer when it's converted to lower case.
The only known instances of that occur when an ICU locale is used
with certain single-byte encodings.
Fix the volatility marking
of json_strip_nulls()
and jsonb_strip_nulls() (Andrew Dunstan)
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These functions have always been considered immutable, but refactoring in version 18 accidentally marked them stable instead. That prevents their use in index expressions and could cause unnecessary repeat evaluations in queries. This fix corrects the marking in newly-initialized database clusters (including clusters that are pg_upgrade'd to 18.3 or later). However it will not help existing clusters made using 18.0 through 18.2.
If this mistake affects your usage of these functions, the recommended fix for an existing cluster is a manual catalog update. As superuser, perform
UPDATE pg_catalog.pg_proc SET provolatile = 'i' WHERE oid IN ('3261','3262');
in each affected database. Update template0
and template1 as well, so that databases made in
future will have the fix.
Fix computation of the set of potentially-nulling outer joins for
the output of a LATERAL UNION ALL subquery
(Richard Guo)
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This error could lead to skipping NOT NULL tests
in the mistaken belief that they were unnecessary, resulting in
wrong query output.
Avoid name collisions between user-written constraints and
automatically-named NOT NULL constraints
(Laurenz Albe)
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As of version 18, NOT NULL constraints have
full-fledged pg_constraint entries, and
therefore require names. The logic for choosing a name for an
unnamed NOT NULL constraint failed to avoid
conflicts with user-written constraints elsewhere in the
same CREATE TABLE statement.
Fix pg_stat_get_backend_wait_event()
and pg_stat_get_backend_wait_event_type()
to report values for auxiliary processes (Heikki Linnakangas)
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Previously these functions returned NULL for auxiliary processes,
but that's inconsistent with
the pg_stat_activity view.
Fix casting a composite-type variable to a domain type when returning its value from a PL/pgSQL function (Tom Lane) §
If the variable's value is NULL, a “cache lookup failed for type 0” error resulted.
Fix potential null pointer dereference
in contrib/hstore's binary input function
(Michael Paquier)
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hstore's receive function crashed on input containing
duplicate keys. hstore values generated by Postgres
would never contain duplicate keys, so this mistake has gone
unnoticed. The crash could be provoked by malicious or corrupted
data.