From d1e384884caddf3b9bd15a2e4a74c85386597137 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 22:22:24 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Update back-branch release notes.
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diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml
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--- a/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml,v 1.586 2008/09/30 10:52:09 heikki Exp $ -->
+<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml,v 1.587 2008/10/30 22:22:24 tgl Exp $ -->
<!--
Typical markup:
@@ -63,6 +63,258 @@ do it for earlier branch release files.
review, so each item is truly a community effort.
</para>
+ <sect1 id="release-8-3-5">
+ <title>Release 8.3.5</title>
+
+ <note>
+ <title>Release date</title>
+ <simpara>2008-11-03</simpara>
+ </note>
+
+ <para>
+ This release contains a variety of fixes from 8.3.4.
+ For information about new features in the 8.3 major release, see
+ <xref linkend="release-8-3">.
+ </para>
+
+ <sect2>
+ <title>Migration to Version 8.3.5</title>
+
+ <para>
+ A dump/restore is not required for those running 8.3.X.
+ However, if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 8.3.1,
+ see the release notes for 8.3.1.
+ </para>
+
+ </sect2>
+
+ <sect2>
+ <title>Changes</title>
+
+ <itemizedlist>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Fix GiST index corruption due to marking the wrong index entry
+ <quote>dead</> after a deletion (Teodor)
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ This would result in index searches failing to find rows they
+ should have found.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Fix backend crash when the client encoding cannot represent a localized
+ error message (Tom)
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ We have addressed similar issues before, but it would still fail if
+ the <quote>character has no equivalent</> message itself couldn't
+ be converted. The fix is to disable localization and send the plain
+ ASCII error message when we detect such a situation.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Fix possible crash in <type>bytea</>-to-XML mapping (Michael McMaster)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Fix possible crash when deeply nested functions are invoked from
+ a trigger (Tom)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Improve optimization of <replaceable>expression</> <literal>IN</>
+ (<replaceable>expression-list</>) queries (Tom, per an idea from Robert
+ Haas)
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ Cases in which there are query variables on the right-hand side had been
+ handled less efficiently in 8.2.x and 8.3.x than in prior versions.
+ The fix restores 8.1 behavior for such cases.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Fix mis-expansion of rule queries when a sub-<literal>SELECT</> appears
+ in a function call in <literal>FROM</>, a multi-row <literal>VALUES</>
+ list, or a <literal>RETURNING</> list (Tom)
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ The usual symptom of this problem is an <quote>unrecognized node type</>
+ error.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Fix Assert failure during rescan of an <literal>IS NULL</>
+ search of a GiST index (Teodor)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Fix memory leak during rescan of a hashed aggregation plan (Neil)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Ensure an error is reported when a newly-defined PL/pgSQL trigger
+ function is invoked as a normal function (Tom)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Force a checkpoint before <command>CREATE DATABASE</> starts to copy
+ files (Heikki)
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ This prevents a possible failure if files had recently been deleted
+ in the source database.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Prevent possible collision of <structfield>relfilenode</> numbers
+ when moving a table to another tablespace with <command>ALTER SET
+ TABLESPACE</> (Heikki)
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ The command tried to re-use the existing filename, instead of
+ picking one that is known unused in the destination directory.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Fix incorrect text search headline generation when single query
+ item matches first word of text (Sushant Sinha)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Fix improper display of fractional seconds in interval values when
+ using a non-ISO datestyle in an <option>--enable-integer-datetimes</>
+ build (Ron Mayer)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Make <literal>ILIKE</> compare characters case-insensitively
+ even when they're escaped (Andrew)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Ensure <command>DISCARD</> is handled properly by statement logging (Tom)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Fix incorrect logging of last-completed-transaction time during
+ PITR recovery (Tom)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Ensure <function>SPI_getvalue</> and <function>SPI_getbinval</>
+ behave correctly when the passed tuple and tuple descriptor have
+ different numbers of columns (Tom)
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ This situation is normal when a table has had columns added or removed,
+ but these two functions didn't handle it properly.
+ The only likely consequence is an incorrect error indication.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Mark <varname>SessionReplicationRole</> as <literal>PGDLLIMPORT</>
+ so it can be used by <application>Slony</> on Windows (Magnus)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Fix small memory leak when using <application>libpq</>'s
+ <literal>gsslib</> parameter (Magnus)
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ The space used by the parameter string was not freed at connection
+ close.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Ensure <application>libgssapi</> is linked into <application>libpq</>
+ if needed (Markus Schaaf)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Fix <application>ecpg</>'s parsing of <command>CREATE ROLE</> (Michael)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Fix recent breakage of <literal>pg_ctl restart</> (Tom)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Ensure <filename>pg_control</> is opened in binary mode
+ (Itagaki Takahiro)
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ <application>pg_controldata</> and <application>pg_resetxlog</>
+ did this incorrectly, and so could fail on Windows.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Update time zone data files to <application>tzdata</> release 2008i (for
+ DST law changes in Argentina, Brazil, Mauritius, Syria)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ </itemizedlist>
+
+ </sect2>
+ </sect1>
+
<sect1 id="release-8-3-4">
<title>Release 8.3.4</title>
@@ -3764,9 +4016,190 @@ current_date < 2017-11-17
</para>
</listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
+ </itemizedlist>
+
+ </sect3>
+ </sect2>
+ </sect1>
+
+ <sect1 id="release-8-2-11">
+ <title>Release 8.2.11</title>
+
+ <note>
+ <title>Release date</title>
+ <simpara>2008-11-03</simpara>
+ </note>
+
+ <para>
+ This release contains a variety of fixes from 8.2.10.
+ For information about new features in the 8.2 major release, see
+ <xref linkend="release-8-2">.
+ </para>
+
+ <sect2>
+ <title>Migration to Version 8.2.11</title>
+
+ <para>
+ A dump/restore is not required for those running 8.2.X.
+ However, if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 8.2.7,
+ see the release notes for 8.2.7.
+ </para>
+
+ </sect2>
+
+ <sect2>
+ <title>Changes</title>
+
+ <itemizedlist>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Fix GiST index corruption due to marking the wrong index entry
+ <quote>dead</> after a deletion (Teodor)
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ This would result in index searches failing to find rows they
+ should have found.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Fix backend crash when the client encoding cannot represent a localized
+ error message (Tom)
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ We have addressed similar issues before, but it would still fail if
+ the <quote>character has no equivalent</> message itself couldn't
+ be converted. The fix is to disable localization and send the plain
+ ASCII error message when we detect such a situation.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Fix possible crash when deeply nested functions are invoked from
+ a trigger (Tom)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Improve optimization of <replaceable>expression</> <literal>IN</>
+ (<replaceable>expression-list</>) queries (Tom, per an idea from Robert
+ Haas)
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ Cases in which there are query variables on the right-hand side had been
+ handled less efficiently in 8.2.x and 8.3.x than in prior versions.
+ The fix restores 8.1 behavior for such cases.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Fix mis-expansion of rule queries when a sub-<literal>SELECT</> appears
+ in a function call in <literal>FROM</>, a multi-row <literal>VALUES</>
+ list, or a <literal>RETURNING</> list (Tom)
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ The usual symptom of this problem is an <quote>unrecognized node type</>
+ error.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Fix memory leak during rescan of a hashed aggregation plan (Neil)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Ensure an error is reported when a newly-defined PL/pgSQL trigger
+ function is invoked as a normal function (Tom)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Prevent possible collision of <structfield>relfilenode</> numbers
+ when moving a table to another tablespace with <command>ALTER SET
+ TABLESPACE</> (Heikki)
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ The command tried to re-use the existing filename, instead of
+ picking one that is known unused in the destination directory.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Fix incorrect tsearch2 headline generation when single query
+ item matches first word of text (Sushant Sinha)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Fix improper display of fractional seconds in interval values when
+ using a non-ISO datestyle in an <option>--enable-integer-datetimes</>
+ build (Ron Mayer)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Ensure <function>SPI_getvalue</> and <function>SPI_getbinval</>
+ behave correctly when the passed tuple and tuple descriptor have
+ different numbers of columns (Tom)
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ This situation is normal when a table has had columns added or removed,
+ but these two functions didn't handle it properly.
+ The only likely consequence is an incorrect error indication.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Fix <application>ecpg</>'s parsing of <command>CREATE ROLE</> (Michael)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Fix recent breakage of <literal>pg_ctl restart</> (Tom)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Ensure <filename>pg_control</> is opened in binary mode
+ (Itagaki Takahiro)
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ <application>pg_controldata</> and <application>pg_resetxlog</>
+ did this incorrectly, and so could fail on Windows.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Update time zone data files to <application>tzdata</> release 2008i (for
+ DST law changes in Argentina, Brazil, Mauritius, Syria)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ </itemizedlist>
- </sect3>
</sect2>
</sect1>
@@ -8041,6 +8474,155 @@ current_date < 2017-11-17
</sect2>
</sect1>
+ <sect1 id="release-8-1-15">
+ <title>Release 8.1.15</title>
+
+ <note>
+ <title>Release date</title>
+ <simpara>2008-11-03</simpara>
+ </note>
+
+ <para>
+ This release contains a variety of fixes from 8.1.14.
+ For information about new features in the 8.1 major release, see
+ <xref linkend="release-8-1">.
+ </para>
+
+ <sect2>
+ <title>Migration to Version 8.1.15</title>
+
+ <para>
+ A dump/restore is not required for those running 8.1.X.
+ However, if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 8.1.2,
+ see the release notes for 8.1.2.
+ </para>
+
+ </sect2>
+
+ <sect2>
+ <title>Changes</title>
+
+ <itemizedlist>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Fix GiST index corruption due to marking the wrong index entry
+ <quote>dead</> after a deletion (Teodor)
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ This would result in index searches failing to find rows they
+ should have found.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Fix backend crash when the client encoding cannot represent a localized
+ error message (Tom)
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ We have addressed similar issues before, but it would still fail if
+ the <quote>character has no equivalent</> message itself couldn't
+ be converted. The fix is to disable localization and send the plain
+ ASCII error message when we detect such a situation.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Fix possible crash when deeply nested functions are invoked from
+ a trigger (Tom)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Fix mis-expansion of rule queries when a sub-<literal>SELECT</> appears
+ in a function call in <literal>FROM</>, a multi-row <literal>VALUES</>
+ list, or a <literal>RETURNING</> list (Tom)
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ The usual symptom of this problem is an <quote>unrecognized node type</>
+ error.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Ensure an error is reported when a newly-defined PL/pgSQL trigger
+ function is invoked as a normal function (Tom)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Prevent possible collision of <structfield>relfilenode</> numbers
+ when moving a table to another tablespace with <command>ALTER SET
+ TABLESPACE</> (Heikki)
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ The command tried to re-use the existing filename, instead of
+ picking one that is known unused in the destination directory.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Fix incorrect tsearch2 headline generation when single query
+ item matches first word of text (Sushant Sinha)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Fix improper display of fractional seconds in interval values when
+ using a non-ISO datestyle in an <option>--enable-integer-datetimes</>
+ build (Ron Mayer)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Ensure <function>SPI_getvalue</> and <function>SPI_getbinval</>
+ behave correctly when the passed tuple and tuple descriptor have
+ different numbers of columns (Tom)
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ This situation is normal when a table has had columns added or removed,
+ but these two functions didn't handle it properly.
+ The only likely consequence is an incorrect error indication.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Fix <application>ecpg</>'s parsing of <command>CREATE ROLE</> (Michael)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Fix recent breakage of <literal>pg_ctl restart</> (Tom)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Update time zone data files to <application>tzdata</> release 2008i (for
+ DST law changes in Argentina, Brazil, Mauritius, Syria)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ </itemizedlist>
+
+ </sect2>
+ </sect1>
+
<sect1 id="release-8-1-14">
<title>Release 8.1.14</title>
@@ -11962,6 +12544,117 @@ psql -t -f fixseq.sql db1 | psql -e db1
</sect2>
</sect1>
+ <sect1 id="release-8-0-19">
+ <title>Release 8.0.19</title>
+
+ <note>
+ <title>Release date</title>
+ <simpara>2008-11-03</simpara>
+ </note>
+
+ <para>
+ This release contains a variety of fixes from 8.0.18.
+ For information about new features in the 8.0 major release, see
+ <xref linkend="release-8-0">.
+ </para>
+
+ <sect2>
+ <title>Migration to Version 8.0.19</title>
+
+ <para>
+ A dump/restore is not required for those running 8.0.X.
+ However, if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 8.0.6,
+ see the release notes for 8.0.6.
+ </para>
+
+ </sect2>
+
+ <sect2>
+ <title>Changes</title>
+
+ <itemizedlist>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Fix backend crash when the client encoding cannot represent a localized
+ error message (Tom)
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ We have addressed similar issues before, but it would still fail if
+ the <quote>character has no equivalent</> message itself couldn't
+ be converted. The fix is to disable localization and send the plain
+ ASCII error message when we detect such a situation.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Fix possible crash when deeply nested functions are invoked from
+ a trigger (Tom)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Ensure an error is reported when a newly-defined PL/pgSQL trigger
+ function is invoked as a normal function (Tom)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Fix incorrect tsearch2 headline generation when single query
+ item matches first word of text (Sushant Sinha)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Fix improper display of fractional seconds in interval values when
+ using a non-ISO datestyle in an <option>--enable-integer-datetimes</>
+ build (Ron Mayer)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Ensure <function>SPI_getvalue</> and <function>SPI_getbinval</>
+ behave correctly when the passed tuple and tuple descriptor have
+ different numbers of columns (Tom)
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ This situation is normal when a table has had columns added or removed,
+ but these two functions didn't handle it properly.
+ The only likely consequence is an incorrect error indication.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Fix <application>ecpg</>'s parsing of <command>CREATE USER</> (Michael)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Fix recent breakage of <literal>pg_ctl restart</> (Tom)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Update time zone data files to <application>tzdata</> release 2008i (for
+ DST law changes in Argentina, Brazil, Mauritius, Syria)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ </itemizedlist>
+
+ </sect2>
+ </sect1>
+
<sect1 id="release-8-0-18">
<title>Release 8.0.18</title>
@@ -16244,6 +16937,90 @@ typedefs (Michael)</para></listitem>
</sect2>
</sect1>
+ <sect1 id="release-7-4-23">
+ <title>Release 7.4.23</title>
+
+ <note>
+ <title>Release date</title>
+ <simpara>2008-11-03</simpara>
+ </note>
+
+ <para>
+ This release contains a variety of fixes from 7.4.22.
+ For information about new features in the 7.4 major release, see
+ <xref linkend="release-7-4">.
+ </para>
+
+ <sect2>
+ <title>Migration to Version 7.4.23</title>
+
+ <para>
+ A dump/restore is not required for those running 7.4.X.
+ However, if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 7.4.11,
+ see the release notes for 7.4.11.
+ </para>
+
+ </sect2>
+
+ <sect2>
+ <title>Changes</title>
+
+ <itemizedlist>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Fix backend crash when the client encoding cannot represent a localized
+ error message (Tom)
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ We have addressed similar issues before, but it would still fail if
+ the <quote>character has no equivalent</> message itself couldn't
+ be converted. The fix is to disable localization and send the plain
+ ASCII error message when we detect such a situation.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Fix incorrect tsearch2 headline generation when single query
+ item matches first word of text (Sushant Sinha)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Fix improper display of fractional seconds in interval values when
+ using a non-ISO datestyle in an <option>--enable-integer-datetimes</>
+ build (Ron Mayer)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Ensure <function>SPI_getvalue</> and <function>SPI_getbinval</>
+ behave correctly when the passed tuple and tuple descriptor have
+ different numbers of columns (Tom)
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ This situation is normal when a table has had columns added or removed,
+ but these two functions didn't handle it properly.
+ The only likely consequence is an incorrect error indication.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Fix <application>ecpg</>'s parsing of <command>CREATE USER</> (Michael)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ </itemizedlist>
+
+ </sect2>
+ </sect1>
+
<sect1 id="release-7-4-22">
<title>Release 7.4.22</title>
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