diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml
index fcb9c01fc008cafa72789bf9094b1967bcddf4bd..80b7b5d4bfced4365d0d250cb8f31fc47922284b 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml,v 1.489 2007/01/05 20:05:02 momjian Exp $ -->
+<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml,v 1.490 2007/01/05 22:34:35 tgl Exp $ -->
<!--
Typical markup:
@@ -62,24 +62,20 @@ links to the main documentation.
<listitem>
<para>
- Fix <literal>SELECT</> ... <literal>LIMIT NULL</> to behave as
- <literal>LIMIT ALL</> (Tom)
- </para>
-
- <para>
- A bug in 8.2.0 caused the server to crash.
+ Fix crash with <literal>SELECT</> ... <literal>LIMIT ALL</> (also
+ <literal>LIMIT NULL</>) (Tom)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- <filename>/contrib/tsearch2</> fixes (Teodor)
+ <filename>Several /contrib/tsearch2</> fixes (Teodor)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Fix WIN32 server log messages coming from the operating system to use
+ On Windows, make log messages coming from the operating system use
<acronym>ASCII</> encoding (Hiroshi Saito)
</para>
@@ -91,14 +87,31 @@ links to the main documentation.
<listitem>
<para>
- Fix WIN32 linking of <application>pg_dump</> using <filename>win32.mak</>
+ Fix Windows linking of <application>pg_dump</> using
+ <filename>win32.mak</>
(Hiroshi Saito)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Various fixes for outer join queries (Tom)
+ Fix planner mistakes for outer join queries (Tom)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Fix several problems in queries involving sub-SELECTs (Tom)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Fix potential crash in SPI during subtransaction abort (Tom)
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ This affects all PL functions since they all use SPI.
</para>
</listitem>
@@ -122,8 +135,8 @@ links to the main documentation.
<listitem>
<para>
- Have <application>psql</> print multi-byte combining characters, rather
- than output as <literal>\u</> (Tom)
+ Have <application>psql</> print multi-byte combining characters as
+ before, rather than output as <literal>\u</> (Tom)
</para>
</listitem>
@@ -133,7 +146,19 @@ links to the main documentation.
</para>
<para>
- This improves <application>psql</> <literal>\d</> performance also.
+ This improves <application>psql</> <literal>\d</> performance also.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Make <application>pg_dumpall</> assume that databases have public
+ <literal>CONNECT</> privilege, when dumping from a pre-8.2 server (Tom)
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ This preserves the previous behavior that anyone can connect to a
+ database if allowed by <filename>pg_hba.conf</>.
</para>
</listitem>
@@ -399,7 +424,9 @@ links to the main documentation.
<para>
This allows the postmaster to pass arguments to each backend
- without using <literal>-o</>.
+ without using <literal>-o</>. Note that some options are now
+ only available as long-form options, because there were conflicting
+ single-letter options.
</para>
</listitem>
@@ -2730,62 +2757,71 @@ links to the main documentation.
<listitem>
<para>
- Fix <application>pg_restore</> so it can restore a tar-format backup
- that contains large object comments (Tom)
+ Fix <application>pg_restore</> to handle a tar-format backup
+ that contains large objects (blobs) with comments (Tom)
</para>
</listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Fix <link linkend="SQL-VACUUM"><command>VACUUM</></link> to recover from
- a rare problem during index page deletion/split (Tom)
- </para>
- </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Fix <quote>failed to re-find parent key</> errors in
+ <command>VACUUM</> (Tom)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Fix point-in-time-recovery bug where stale status files could prevent
- restore (Simon, Tom)
- </para>
- </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Clean out <filename>pg_internal.init</> cache files during server
+ restart (Simon)
+ </para>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Fix error when constructing an <literal>ARRAY[]</> made up of multiple empty
- elements (Tom)
- </para>
- </listitem>
+ <para>
+ This avoids a hazard that the cache files might contain stale
+ data after PITR recovery.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Fix ecpg memory leak during connection (Michael)
- </para>
- </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Fix race condition for truncation of a large relation across a
+ gigabyte boundary by <command>VACUUM</> (Tom)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Fix bug causing needless deadlock errors on row-level locks (Tom)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Fix bugs affecting multi-gigabyte hash indexes (Tom)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Improve savepoint and multi-transction row locking algorithms to avoid
- erroneous deadlock cases (Tom)
+ Fix possible deadlock in Windows signal handling (Teodor)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Fix problem with extending hash indexes that span multiple 1-gigabyte
- segments (Tom)
+ Fix error when constructing an <literal>ARRAY[]</> made up of multiple
+ empty elements (Tom)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Fix problem where truncation of a multi-gigabyte table might cause
- consistency problems with other backends (Tom)
+ Fix ecpg memory leak during connection (Michael)
</para>
- </listitem>
+ </listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Fix for Darwin/OS-X compiles (Tom)
+ Fix for Darwin (OS X) compilation (Tom)
</para>
</listitem>
@@ -2800,32 +2836,28 @@ links to the main documentation.
<para>
This is because <link
linkend="guc-lc-numeric"><varname>lc_numeric</></link> can potentially
- change the output of the functions.
+ change the output of these functions.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Update timezone database, particularly for Western Australia,
- which has a new daylight savings date (Tom)
+ Improve index usage of regular expressions that use parentheses (Tom)
</para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
<para>
- Document a risk that if a row is locked inside multiple sub-transactions
- in the same transaction, and a sub-transaction is rolled back, the row
- lock is lost (Tom)
+ This improves <application>psql</> <literal>\d</> performance also.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Improve index usage of regular expressions that use parentheses (Tom)
+ Update timezone database
</para>
<para>
- This improves <application>psql</> <literal>\d</> performance also.
+ This affects Australian and Canadian daylight-savings rules in
+ particular.
</para>
</listitem>
@@ -5533,10 +5565,29 @@ psql -t -f fixseq.sql db1 | psql -e db1
</para>
</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Fix <quote>failed to re-find parent key</> errors in
+ <command>VACUUM</> (Tom)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Fix race condition for truncation of a large relation across a
+ gigabyte boundary by <command>VACUUM</> (Tom)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Fix bugs affecting multi-gigabyte hash indexes (Tom)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
<listitem>
<para>
- Fix <link linkend="SQL-VACUUM"><command>VACUUM</></link> to recover from
- a rare problem during index page deletion/split (Tom)
+ Fix possible deadlock in Windows signal handling (Teodor)
</para>
</listitem>
@@ -5553,20 +5604,6 @@ psql -t -f fixseq.sql db1 | psql -e db1
</para>
</listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Fix problem with extending hash indexes that span multiple 1-gigabyte
- segments (Tom)
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Fix problem where truncation of a multi-gigabyte table might cause
- consistency problems with other backends (Tom)
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
<listitem>
<para>
<function>to_number()</> and <function>to_char(numeric)</>
@@ -5578,32 +5615,28 @@ psql -t -f fixseq.sql db1 | psql -e db1
<para>
This is because <link
linkend="guc-lc-numeric"><varname>lc_numeric</></link> can potentially
- change the output of the functions.
+ change the output of these functions.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Update timezone database, particularly for Western Australia,
- which has a new daylight savings date (Tom)
+ Improve index usage of regular expressions that use parentheses (Tom)
</para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
<para>
- Document a risk that if a row is locked inside multiple sub-transactions
- in the same transaction, and a sub-transaction is rolled back, the row
- lock is lost (Tom)
+ This improves <application>psql</> <literal>\d</> performance also.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Improve index usage of regular expressions that use parentheses (Tom)
+ Update timezone database
</para>
<para>
- This improves <application>psql</> <literal>\d</> performance also.
+ This affects Australian and Canadian daylight-savings rules in
+ particular.
</para>
</listitem>
@@ -8858,24 +8891,23 @@ typedefs (Michael)</para></listitem>
</para>
</listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Fix <link linkend="SQL-VACUUM"><command>VACUUM</></link> to recover from
- a rare problem during index page deletion/split (Tom)
- </para>
- </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Fix <quote>failed to re-find parent key</> errors in
+ <command>VACUUM</> (Tom)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Fix error when constructing an <literal>ARRAY[]</> made up of multiple empty
- elements (Tom)
- </para>
- </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Fix bugs affecting multi-gigabyte hash indexes (Tom)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Fix problem with extending hash indexes that span multiple 1-gigabyte
- segments (Tom)
+ Fix error when constructing an <literal>ARRAY[]</> made up of multiple
+ empty elements (Tom)
</para>
</listitem>
@@ -8890,7 +8922,7 @@ typedefs (Michael)</para></listitem>
<para>
This is because <link
linkend="guc-lc-numeric"><varname>lc_numeric</></link> can potentially
- change the output of the functions.
+ change the output of these functions.
</para>
</listitem>
@@ -11907,7 +11939,7 @@ DROP SCHEMA information_schema CASCADE;
<para>
This is because <link
linkend="guc-lc-numeric"><varname>lc_numeric</></link> can potentially
- change the output of the functions.
+ change the output of these functions.
</para>
</listitem>