From: Tom Lane Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 18:27:46 +0000 (-0400) Subject: Update release notes for releases 9.0.1, 8.4.5, 8.3.12, 8.2.18, 8.1.22, X-Git-Tag: REL8_2_18~3 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a3f1f0d90ee7a63061ba1114792d0d06ed6c1087;p=thirdparty%2Fpostgresql.git Update release notes for releases 9.0.1, 8.4.5, 8.3.12, 8.2.18, 8.1.22, 8.0.26, and 7.4.30. --- diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release-7.4.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release-7.4.sgml index 68b0046621f..2c52be70064 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/release-7.4.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/release-7.4.sgml @@ -1,6 +1,103 @@ - + + + Release 7.4.30 + + + Release date + 2010-10-04 + + + + This release contains a variety of fixes from 7.4.29. + For information about new features in the 7.4 major release, see + . + + + + This is expected to be the last PostgreSQL release + in the 7.4.X series. Users are encouraged to update to a newer + release branch soon. + + + + Migration to Version 7.4.30 + + + A dump/restore is not required for those running 7.4.X. + However, if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 7.4.26, + see the release notes for 7.4.26. + + + + + + Changes + + + + + + Prevent possible crashes in pg_get_expr() by disallowing + it from being called with an argument that is not one of the system + catalog columns it's intended to be used with + (Heikki Linnakangas, Tom Lane) + + + + + + Fix cannot handle unplanned sub-select error (Tom Lane) + + + + This occurred when a sub-select contains a join alias reference that + expands into an expression containing another sub-select. + + + + + + Take care to fsync the contents of lockfiles (both + postmaster.pid and the socket lockfile) while writing them + (Tom Lane) + + + + This omission could result in corrupted lockfile contents if the + machine crashes shortly after postmaster start. That could in turn + prevent subsequent attempts to start the postmaster from succeeding, + until the lockfile is manually removed. + + + + + + Improve contrib/dblink's handling of tables containing + dropped columns (Tom Lane) + + + + + + Fix connection leak after duplicate connection name + errors in contrib/dblink (Itagaki Takahiro) + + + + + + Update build infrastructure and documentation to reflect the source code + repository's move from CVS to Git (Magnus Hagander and others) + + + + + + + + Release 7.4.29 @@ -1897,7 +1994,7 @@ enabled files during postmaster startup Various memory leakage fixes Various portability improvements -Fix PL/PgSQL to handle var := var correctly when +Fix PL/pgSQL to handle var := var correctly when the variable is of pass-by-reference type Update contrib/tsearch2 to use current Snowball code diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release-8.0.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release-8.0.sgml index b57bc2e9dbf..ae2b3c04cf7 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/release-8.0.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/release-8.0.sgml @@ -1,6 +1,173 @@ - + + + Release 8.0.26 + + + Release date + 2010-10-04 + + + + This release contains a variety of fixes from 8.0.25. + For information about new features in the 8.0 major release, see + . + + + + This is expected to be the last PostgreSQL release + in the 8.0.X series. Users are encouraged to update to a newer + release branch soon. + + + + Migration to Version 8.0.26 + + + A dump/restore is not required for those running 8.0.X. + However, if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 8.0.22, + see the release notes for 8.0.22. + + + + + + Changes + + + + + + Prevent possible crashes in pg_get_expr() by disallowing + it from being called with an argument that is not one of the system + catalog columns it's intended to be used with + (Heikki Linnakangas, Tom Lane) + + + + + + Fix cannot handle unplanned sub-select error (Tom Lane) + + + + This occurred when a sub-select contains a join alias reference that + expands into an expression containing another sub-select. + + + + + + Defend against functions returning setof record where not all the + returned rows are actually of the same rowtype (Tom Lane) + + + + + + Take care to fsync the contents of lockfiles (both + postmaster.pid and the socket lockfile) while writing them + (Tom Lane) + + + + This omission could result in corrupted lockfile contents if the + machine crashes shortly after postmaster start. That could in turn + prevent subsequent attempts to start the postmaster from succeeding, + until the lockfile is manually removed. + + + + + + Avoid recursion while assigning XIDs to heavily-nested + subtransactions (Andres Freund, Robert Haas) + + + + The original coding could result in a crash if there was limited + stack space. + + + + + + Fix log_line_prefix's %i escape, + which could produce junk early in backend startup (Tom Lane) + + + + + + Fix possible data corruption in ALTER TABLE ... SET + TABLESPACE when archiving is enabled (Jeff Davis) + + + + + + Allow CREATE DATABASE and ALTER DATABASE ... SET + TABLESPACE to be interrupted by query-cancel (Guillaume Lelarge) + + + + + + In PL/Python, defend against null pointer results from + PyCObject_AsVoidPtr and PyCObject_FromVoidPtr + (Peter Eisentraut) + + + + + + Improve contrib/dblink's handling of tables containing + dropped columns (Tom Lane) + + + + + + Fix connection leak after duplicate connection name + errors in contrib/dblink (Itagaki Takahiro) + + + + + + Fix contrib/dblink to handle connection names longer than + 62 bytes correctly (Itagaki Takahiro) + + + + + + Update build infrastructure and documentation to reflect the source code + repository's move from CVS to Git (Magnus Hagander and others) + + + + + + Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2010l + for DST law changes in Egypt and Palestine; also historical corrections + for Finland. + + + + This change also adds new names for two Micronesian timezones: + Pacific/Chuuk is now preferred over Pacific/Truk (and the preferred + abbreviation is CHUT not TRUT) and Pacific/Pohnpei is preferred over + Pacific/Ponape. + + + + + + + + Release 8.0.25 @@ -2512,7 +2679,7 @@ when opening the file fails constraints more reliably Fix password prompting in pg_restore on Windows -Fix PL/PgSQL to handle var := var correctly when +Fix PL/pgSQL to handle var := var correctly when the variable is of pass-by-reference type Fix PL/Perl %_SHARED so it's actually shared diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release-8.1.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release-8.1.sgml index 13fedd01a73..37e3751c0e1 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/release-8.1.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/release-8.1.sgml @@ -1,6 +1,187 @@ - + + + Release 8.1.22 + + + Release date + 2010-10-04 + + + + This release contains a variety of fixes from 8.1.21. + For information about new features in the 8.1 major release, see + . + + + + The PostgreSQL community will stop releasing updates + for the 8.1.X release series in November 2010. + Users are encouraged to update to a newer release branch soon. + + + + Migration to Version 8.1.22 + + + A dump/restore is not required for those running 8.1.X. + However, if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 8.1.18, + see the release notes for 8.1.18. + + + + + + Changes + + + + + + Prevent possible crashes in pg_get_expr() by disallowing + it from being called with an argument that is not one of the system + catalog columns it's intended to be used with + (Heikki Linnakangas, Tom Lane) + + + + + + Fix cannot handle unplanned sub-select error (Tom Lane) + + + + This occurred when a sub-select contains a join alias reference that + expands into an expression containing another sub-select. + + + + + + Prevent show_session_authorization() from crashing within autovacuum + processes (Tom Lane) + + + + + + Defend against functions returning setof record where not all the + returned rows are actually of the same rowtype (Tom Lane) + + + + + + Fix possible failure when hashing a pass-by-reference function result + (Tao Ma, Tom Lane) + + + + + + Take care to fsync the contents of lockfiles (both + postmaster.pid and the socket lockfile) while writing them + (Tom Lane) + + + + This omission could result in corrupted lockfile contents if the + machine crashes shortly after postmaster start. That could in turn + prevent subsequent attempts to start the postmaster from succeeding, + until the lockfile is manually removed. + + + + + + Avoid recursion while assigning XIDs to heavily-nested + subtransactions (Andres Freund, Robert Haas) + + + + The original coding could result in a crash if there was limited + stack space. + + + + + + Fix log_line_prefix's %i escape, + which could produce junk early in backend startup (Tom Lane) + + + + + + Fix possible data corruption in ALTER TABLE ... SET + TABLESPACE when archiving is enabled (Jeff Davis) + + + + + + Allow CREATE DATABASE and ALTER DATABASE ... SET + TABLESPACE to be interrupted by query-cancel (Guillaume Lelarge) + + + + + + In PL/Python, defend against null pointer results from + PyCObject_AsVoidPtr and PyCObject_FromVoidPtr + (Peter Eisentraut) + + + + + + Improve contrib/dblink's handling of tables containing + dropped columns (Tom Lane) + + + + + + Fix connection leak after duplicate connection name + errors in contrib/dblink (Itagaki Takahiro) + + + + + + Fix contrib/dblink to handle connection names longer than + 62 bytes correctly (Itagaki Takahiro) + + + + + + Update build infrastructure and documentation to reflect the source code + repository's move from CVS to Git (Magnus Hagander and others) + + + + + + Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2010l + for DST law changes in Egypt and Palestine; also historical corrections + for Finland. + + + + This change also adds new names for two Micronesian timezones: + Pacific/Chuuk is now preferred over Pacific/Truk (and the preferred + abbreviation is CHUT not TRUT) and Pacific/Pohnpei is preferred over + Pacific/Ponape. + + + + + + + + Release 8.1.21 @@ -1212,7 +1393,7 @@ - Fix PL/PgSQL to not fail when a FOR loop's target variable + Fix PL/pgSQL to not fail when a FOR loop's target variable is a record containing composite-type fields (Tom) @@ -4040,9 +4221,9 @@ psql -t -f fixseq.sql db1 | psql -e db1 Previously, only a predefined list of time zone names were supported by AT TIME ZONE. Now any supported time zone name can be used, e.g.: - - SELECT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP AT TIME ZONE 'Europe/London'; - + +SELECT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP AT TIME ZONE 'Europe/London'; + In the above query, the time zone used is adjusted based on the daylight saving time rules that were in effect on the supplied date. @@ -4116,10 +4297,10 @@ psql -t -f fixseq.sql db1 | psql -e db1 the next day even if a daylight saving time adjustment occurs between, whereas adding 24 hours will give a different local time when this happens. For example, under US DST rules: - - '2005-04-03 00:00:00-05' + '1 day' = '2005-04-04 00:00:00-04' - '2005-04-03 00:00:00-05' + '24 hours' = '2005-04-04 01:00:00-04' - + +'2005-04-03 00:00:00-05' + '1 day' = '2005-04-04 00:00:00-04' +'2005-04-03 00:00:00-05' + '24 hours' = '2005-04-04 01:00:00-04' + @@ -4343,7 +4524,7 @@ psql -t -f fixseq.sql db1 | psql -e db1 - Allow SQL and PL/PgSQL functions to use OUT and + Allow SQL and PL/pgSQL functions to use OUT and INOUT parameters (Tom) @@ -4378,12 +4559,12 @@ psql -t -f fixseq.sql db1 | psql -e db1 - PL/PgSQL Server-Side Language Changes + PL/pgSQL Server-Side Language Changes - Overhaul the memory management of PL/PgSQL functions (Neil) + Overhaul the memory management of PL/pgSQL functions (Neil) The parsetree of each function is now stored in a separate @@ -4426,7 +4607,7 @@ psql -t -f fixseq.sql db1 | psql -e db1 Add support for an optional INTO clause to - PL/PgSQL's EXECUTE statement (Pavel Stehule, Neil) + PL/pgSQL's EXECUTE statement (Pavel Stehule, Neil) diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release-8.2.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release-8.2.sgml index 8e290f7733c..f4b0056f6f8 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/release-8.2.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/release-8.2.sgml @@ -1,6 +1,255 @@ - + + + Release 8.2.18 + + + Release date + 2010-10-04 + + + + This release contains a variety of fixes from 8.2.17. + For information about new features in the 8.2 major release, see + . + + + + Migration to Version 8.2.18 + + + A dump/restore is not required for those running 8.2.X. + However, if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 8.2.14, + see the release notes for 8.2.14. + + + + + + Changes + + + + + + Prevent possible crashes in pg_get_expr() by disallowing + it from being called with an argument that is not one of the system + catalog columns it's intended to be used with + (Heikki Linnakangas, Tom Lane) + + + + + + Fix Windows shared-memory allocation code + (Tsutomu Yamada, Magnus Hagander) + + + + This bug led to the often-reported could not reattach to shared + memory error message. This is a back-patch of a fix that was + applied to newer branches some time ago. + + + + + + Treat exit code 128 (ERROR_WAIT_NO_CHILDREN) as non-fatal on + Windows (Magnus Hagander) + + + + Under high load, Windows processes will sometimes fail at startup with + this error code. Formerly the postmaster treated this as a panic + condition and restarted the whole database, but that seems to be + an overreaction. + + + + + + Fix possible duplicate scans of UNION ALL member relations + (Tom Lane) + + + + + + Fix cannot handle unplanned sub-select error (Tom Lane) + + + + This occurred when a sub-select contains a join alias reference that + expands into an expression containing another sub-select. + + + + + + Reduce PANIC to ERROR in some occasionally-reported btree failure cases, + and provide additional detail in the resulting error messages + (Tom Lane) + + + + This should improve the system's robustness with corrupted indexes. + + + + + + Prevent show_session_authorization() from crashing within autovacuum + processes (Tom Lane) + + + + + + Defend against functions returning setof record where not all the + returned rows are actually of the same rowtype (Tom Lane) + + + + + + Fix possible failure when hashing a pass-by-reference function result + (Tao Ma, Tom Lane) + + + + + + Take care to fsync the contents of lockfiles (both + postmaster.pid and the socket lockfile) while writing them + (Tom Lane) + + + + This omission could result in corrupted lockfile contents if the + machine crashes shortly after postmaster start. That could in turn + prevent subsequent attempts to start the postmaster from succeeding, + until the lockfile is manually removed. + + + + + + Avoid recursion while assigning XIDs to heavily-nested + subtransactions (Andres Freund, Robert Haas) + + + + The original coding could result in a crash if there was limited + stack space. + + + + + + Fix log_line_prefix's %i escape, + which could produce junk early in backend startup (Tom Lane) + + + + + + Fix possible data corruption in ALTER TABLE ... SET + TABLESPACE when archiving is enabled (Jeff Davis) + + + + + + Allow CREATE DATABASE and ALTER DATABASE ... SET + TABLESPACE to be interrupted by query-cancel (Guillaume Lelarge) + + + + + + In PL/Python, defend against null pointer results from + PyCObject_AsVoidPtr and PyCObject_FromVoidPtr + (Peter Eisentraut) + + + + + + Improve contrib/dblink's handling of tables containing + dropped columns (Tom Lane) + + + + + + Fix connection leak after duplicate connection name + errors in contrib/dblink (Itagaki Takahiro) + + + + + + Fix contrib/dblink to handle connection names longer than + 62 bytes correctly (Itagaki Takahiro) + + + + + + Add hstore(text, text) + function to contrib/hstore (Robert Haas) + + + + This function is the recommended substitute for the now-deprecated + => operator. It was back-patched so that future-proofed + code can be used with older server versions. Note that the patch will + be effective only after contrib/hstore is installed or + reinstalled in a particular database. Users might prefer to execute + the CREATE FUNCTION command by hand, instead. + + + + + + Update build infrastructure and documentation to reflect the source code + repository's move from CVS to Git (Magnus Hagander and others) + + + + + + Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2010l + for DST law changes in Egypt and Palestine; also historical corrections + for Finland. + + + + This change also adds new names for two Micronesian timezones: + Pacific/Chuuk is now preferred over Pacific/Truk (and the preferred + abbreviation is CHUT not TRUT) and Pacific/Pohnpei is preferred over + Pacific/Ponape. + + + + + + Make Windows' N. Central Asia Standard Time timezone map to + Asia/Novosibirsk, not Asia/Almaty (Magnus Hagander) + + + + Microsoft changed the DST behavior of this zone in the timezone update + from KB976098. Asia/Novosibirsk is a better match to its new behavior. + + + + + + + + Release 8.2.17 @@ -1661,7 +1910,7 @@ - Fix PL/PgSQL to not fail when a FOR loop's target variable + Fix PL/pgSQL to not fail when a FOR loop's target variable is a record containing composite-type fields (Tom) @@ -4883,7 +5132,7 @@ - PL/PgSQL Server-Side Language Changes + PL/pgSQL Server-Side Language Changes @@ -5448,7 +5697,7 @@ linkend="guc-local-preload-libraries">local_preload_libraries that allows libraries to be loaded into specific sessions without explicit cooperation from the client application. This allows - external add-ons to implement features such as a PL/PgSQL debugger. + external add-ons to implement features such as a PL/pgSQL debugger.