From a7a3d0f0d9ebb6adb434a778e11fa1143ed0fe94 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 23:31:55 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Update release notes for RC1.
---
doc/src/sgml/release.sgml | 119 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
1 file changed, 79 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml
index 87dab74eeb5..230e55036e5 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 1.484 2006/11/23 03:30:49 momjian Exp $ -->
+<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml,v 1.485 2006/11/24 23:31:55 tgl Exp $ -->
<!--
Typical markup:
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ non-ASCII characters convert to HTML4 entity (&) escapes
http://www.zipcon.net/~swhite/docs/computers/browsers/entities_page.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_XML_and_HTML_character_entity_references
- we cannot use UTF8 because SGML Docbook
+ we cannot use UTF8 because SGML Docbook
does not support it
http://www.pemberley.com/janeinfo/latin1.html#latexta
@@ -40,12 +40,12 @@ links to the main documentation.
<note>
<title>Release date</title>
<simpara>2006-1?-??</simpara>
- <para>CURRENT AS OF 2006-11-05</>
+ <para>CURRENT AS OF 2006-11-24</>
</note>
<sect2>
<title>Overview</title>
-
+
<para>
This release adds many functionality and performance improvements that
were requested by users, including:
@@ -156,16 +156,16 @@ links to the main documentation.
</para>
</sect2>
-
+
<sect2>
<title>Migration to version 8.2</title>
-
+
<para>
A dump/restore using <application>pg_dump</application> is
required for those wishing to migrate data from any previous
release.
</para>
-
+
<para>
Observe the following incompatibilities:
</para>
@@ -407,19 +407,22 @@ links to the main documentation.
</para>
</listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Data can no longer be shared between a PL/Perl function and a
- PL/PerlU function, and modules used by a /PerlU function are no
- longer available to PL/Perl functions.
- </para>
- <para>
- Some perl installations have not been compiled with the correct flags
- to allow multiple interpreters to exist within a single process.
- In this situation PL/Perl and PL/PerlU cannot both be used in a
- single backend. The solution is to get a Perl installation which
- supports multiple interpreters. (Andrew)
- </para>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ For security's sake, modules used by a PL/PerlU function are no
+ longer available to PL/Perl functions (Andrew)
+ </para>
+ <note>
+ <para>
+ This also implies that data can no longer be shared between a PL/Perl
+ function and a PL/PerlU function.
+ Some perl installations have not been compiled with the correct flags
+ to allow multiple interpreters to exist within a single process.
+ In this situation PL/Perl and PL/PerlU cannot both be used in a
+ single backend. The solution is to get a Perl installation which
+ supports multiple interpreters.
+ </para>
+ </note>
</listitem>
<listitem>
@@ -469,16 +472,16 @@ links to the main documentation.
</itemizedlist>
</sect2>
-
+
<sect2>
<title>Changes</title>
-
+
<para>
Below you will find a detailed account of the
changes between <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> 8.2 and
the previous major release.
</para>
-
+
<sect3>
<title>Performance Improvements</title>
<itemizedlist>
@@ -938,6 +941,36 @@ links to the main documentation.
</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>
+ Each backend process is now its own process group leader (Tom)
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ This allows query cancel to abort subprocesses invoked from a
+ backend or archive/recovery process.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
</itemizedlist>
</sect3>
@@ -1758,21 +1791,21 @@ links to the main documentation.
<para>
Previously, it was lexical, which caused unexpected sharing
violations.
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Run PL/Perl and PL/PerlU in separate interpreters, for security
- reasons.
- </para>
- <para>
- In consequence, they can no longer share data nor loaded modules.
- Also, if Perl has not been compiled with the requisite flags to
- allow multiple interpreters, only one of these lamguages can be used
- in any given backend process. (Andrew)
- </para>
- </listitem>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Run PL/Perl and PL/PerlU in separate interpreters, for security
+ reasons (Andrew)
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ In consequence, they can no longer share data nor loaded modules.
+ Also, if Perl has not been compiled with the requisite flags to
+ allow multiple interpreters, only one of these languages can be used
+ in any given backend process.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
</itemizedlist>
@@ -1815,6 +1848,12 @@ links to the main documentation.
</para>
</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Python 2.5 is now supported (Tom)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
</itemizedlist>
</sect3>
@@ -2106,7 +2145,7 @@ links to the main documentation.
<listitem>
<para>
- Drop privileges on startup, so that the server can be started from
+ Drop privileges on startup, so that the server can be started from
an administrative account (Magnus)
</para>
</listitem>
@@ -2483,7 +2522,7 @@ links to the main documentation.
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- New function gen_random_bytes() that returns cryptographically strong
+ New function gen_random_bytes() that returns cryptographically strong
randomness. Useful for generating encryption keys.
</para>
</listitem>
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