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diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release-8.2.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release-8.2.sgml index 2dd49d6a06..0a9ee5031a 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/release-8.2.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/release-8.2.sgml @@ -1,11 +1,143 @@ <!-- doc/src/sgml/release-8.2.sgml --> <!-- See header comment in release.sgml about typical markup --> + <sect1 id="release-8-2-21"> + <title>Release 8.2.21</title> + + <note> + <title>Release Date</title> + <simpara>2011-04-18</simpara> + </note> + + <para> + This release contains a variety of fixes from 8.2.20. + For information about new features in the 8.2 major release, see + <xref linkend="release-8-2">. + </para> + + <sect2> + <title>Migration to Version 8.2.21</title> + + <para> + A dump/restore is not required for those running 8.2.X. + However, if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 8.2.14, + see the release notes for 8.2.14. + </para> + + </sect2> + + <sect2> + <title>Changes</title> + + <itemizedlist> + + <listitem> + <para> + Avoid potential deadlock during catalog cache initialization + (Nikhil Sontakke) + </para> + + <para> + In some cases the cache loading code would acquire share lock on a + system index before locking the index's catalog. This could deadlock + against processes trying to acquire exclusive locks in the other, + more standard order. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix dangling-pointer problem in <literal>BEFORE ROW UPDATE</> trigger + handling when there was a concurrent update to the target tuple + (Tom Lane) + </para> + + <para> + This bug has been observed to result in intermittent <quote>cannot + extract system attribute from virtual tuple</> failures while trying to + do <literal>UPDATE RETURNING ctid</>. There is a very small probability + of more serious errors, such as generating incorrect index entries for + the updated tuple. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Disallow <command>DROP TABLE</> when there are pending deferred trigger + events for the table (Tom Lane) + </para> + + <para> + Formerly the <command>DROP</> would go through, leading to + <quote>could not open relation with OID nnn</> errors when the + triggers were eventually fired. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix PL/Python memory leak involving array slices (Daniel Popowich) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix <application>pg_restore</> to cope with long lines (over 1KB) in + TOC files (Tom Lane) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Put in more safeguards against crashing due to division-by-zero + with overly enthusiastic compiler optimization (Aurelien Jarno) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Support use of dlopen() in FreeBSD and OpenBSD on MIPS (Tom Lane) + </para> + + <para> + There was a hard-wired assumption that this system function was not + available on MIPS hardware on these systems. Use a compile-time test + instead, since more recent versions have it. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix compilation failures on HP-UX (Heikki Linnakangas) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix path separator used by <application>pg_regress</> on Cygwin + (Andrew Dunstan) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Update time zone data files to <application>tzdata</> release 2011f + for DST law changes in Chile, Cuba, Falkland Islands, Morocco, Samoa, + and Turkey; also historical corrections for South Australia, Alaska, + and Hawaii. + </para> + </listitem> + + </itemizedlist> + + </sect2> + </sect1> + <sect1 id="release-8-2-20"> <title>Release 8.2.20</title> <note> - <title>Release date</title> + <title>Release Date</title> <simpara>2011-01-31</simpara> </note> @@ -137,7 +269,7 @@ <title>Release 8.2.19</title> <note> - <title>Release date</title> + <title>Release Date</title> <simpara>2010-12-16</simpara> </note> @@ -381,7 +513,7 @@ <title>Release 8.2.18</title> <note> - <title>Release date</title> + <title>Release Date</title> <simpara>2010-10-04</simpara> </note> @@ -667,7 +799,7 @@ <title>Release 8.2.17</title> <note> - <title>Release date</title> + <title>Release Date</title> <simpara>2010-05-17</simpara> </note> @@ -868,7 +1000,7 @@ <title>Release 8.2.16</title> <note> - <title>Release date</title> + <title>Release Date</title> <simpara>2010-03-15</simpara> </note> @@ -1139,7 +1271,7 @@ <title>Release 8.2.15</title> <note> - <title>Release date</title> + <title>Release Date</title> <simpara>2009-12-14</simpara> </note> @@ -1383,7 +1515,7 @@ <title>Release 8.2.14</title> <note> - <title>Release date</title> + <title>Release Date</title> <simpara>2009-09-09</simpara> </note> @@ -1613,7 +1745,7 @@ <title>Release 8.2.13</title> <note> - <title>Release date</title> + <title>Release Date</title> <simpara>2009-03-16</simpara> </note> @@ -1779,7 +1911,7 @@ <title>Release 8.2.12</title> <note> - <title>Release date</title> + <title>Release Date</title> <simpara>2009-02-02</simpara> </note> @@ -1958,7 +2090,7 @@ <title>Release 8.2.11</title> <note> - <title>Release date</title> + <title>Release Date</title> <simpara>2008-11-03</simpara> </note> @@ -2142,7 +2274,7 @@ <title>Release 8.2.10</title> <note> - <title>Release date</title> + <title>Release Date</title> <simpara>2008-09-22</simpara> </note> @@ -2374,7 +2506,7 @@ <title>Release 8.2.9</title> <note> - <title>Release date</title> + <title>Release Date</title> <simpara>2008-06-12</simpara> </note> @@ -2441,7 +2573,7 @@ <title>Release 8.2.8</title> <note> - <title>Release date</title> + <title>Release Date</title> <simpara>never released</simpara> </note> @@ -2636,7 +2768,7 @@ <title>Release 8.2.7</title> <note> - <title>Release date</title> + <title>Release Date</title> <simpara>2008-03-17</simpara> </note> @@ -2905,7 +3037,7 @@ <title>Release 8.2.6</title> <note> - <title>Release date</title> + <title>Release Date</title> <simpara>2008-01-07</simpara> </note> @@ -3196,7 +3328,7 @@ <title>Release 8.2.5</title> <note> - <title>Release date</title> + <title>Release Date</title> <simpara>2007-09-17</simpara> </note> @@ -3373,7 +3505,7 @@ <title>Release 8.2.4</title> <note> - <title>Release date</title> + <title>Release Date</title> <simpara>2007-04-23</simpara> </note> @@ -3517,7 +3649,7 @@ <title>Release 8.2.3</title> <note> - <title>Release date</title> + <title>Release Date</title> <simpara>2007-02-07</simpara> </note> @@ -3563,7 +3695,7 @@ <title>Release 8.2.2</title> <note> - <title>Release date</title> + <title>Release Date</title> <simpara>2007-02-05</simpara> </note> @@ -3721,7 +3853,7 @@ <title>Release 8.2.1</title> <note> - <title>Release date</title> + <title>Release Date</title> <simpara>2007-01-08</simpara> </note> @@ -3856,7 +3988,7 @@ <title>Release 8.2</title> <note> - <title>Release date</title> + <title>Release Date</title> <simpara>2006-12-05</simpara> </note> diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release-8.3.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release-8.3.sgml index c0595ab5df..bccc141a54 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/release-8.3.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/release-8.3.sgml @@ -1,11 +1,174 @@ <!-- doc/src/sgml/release-8.3.sgml --> <!-- See header comment in release.sgml about typical markup --> + <sect1 id="release-8-3-15"> + <title>Release 8.3.15</title> + + <note> + <title>Release Date</title> + <simpara>2011-04-18</simpara> + </note> + + <para> + This release contains a variety of fixes from 8.3.14. + For information about new features in the 8.3 major release, see + <xref linkend="release-8-3">. + </para> + + <sect2> + <title>Migration to Version 8.3.15</title> + + <para> + A dump/restore is not required for those running 8.3.X. + However, if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 8.3.8, + see the release notes for 8.3.8. + </para> + + </sect2> + + <sect2> + <title>Changes</title> + + <itemizedlist> + + <listitem> + <para> + Disallow including a composite type in itself (Tom Lane) + </para> + + <para> + This prevents scenarios wherein the server could recurse infinitely + while processing the composite type. While there are some possible + uses for such a structure, they don't seem compelling enough to + justify the effort required to make sure it always works safely. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Avoid potential deadlock during catalog cache initialization + (Nikhil Sontakke) + </para> + + <para> + In some cases the cache loading code would acquire share lock on a + system index before locking the index's catalog. This could deadlock + against processes trying to acquire exclusive locks in the other, + more standard order. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix dangling-pointer problem in <literal>BEFORE ROW UPDATE</> trigger + handling when there was a concurrent update to the target tuple + (Tom Lane) + </para> + + <para> + This bug has been observed to result in intermittent <quote>cannot + extract system attribute from virtual tuple</> failures while trying to + do <literal>UPDATE RETURNING ctid</>. There is a very small probability + of more serious errors, such as generating incorrect index entries for + the updated tuple. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Disallow <command>DROP TABLE</> when there are pending deferred trigger + events for the table (Tom Lane) + </para> + + <para> + Formerly the <command>DROP</> would go through, leading to + <quote>could not open relation with OID nnn</> errors when the + triggers were eventually fired. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix PL/Python memory leak involving array slices (Daniel Popowich) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix <application>pg_restore</> to cope with long lines (over 1KB) in + TOC files (Tom Lane) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Put in more safeguards against crashing due to division-by-zero + with overly enthusiastic compiler optimization (Aurelien Jarno) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Support use of dlopen() in FreeBSD and OpenBSD on MIPS (Tom Lane) + </para> + + <para> + There was a hard-wired assumption that this system function was not + available on MIPS hardware on these systems. Use a compile-time test + instead, since more recent versions have it. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix compilation failures on HP-UX (Heikki Linnakangas) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix version-incompatibility problem with <application>libintl</> on + Windows (Hiroshi Inoue) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix usage of <application>xcopy</> in Windows build scripts to + work correctly under Windows 7 (Andrew Dunstan) + </para> + + <para> + This affects the build scripts only, not installation or usage. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix path separator used by <application>pg_regress</> on Cygwin + (Andrew Dunstan) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Update time zone data files to <application>tzdata</> release 2011f + for DST law changes in Chile, Cuba, Falkland Islands, Morocco, Samoa, + and Turkey; also historical corrections for South Australia, Alaska, + and Hawaii. + </para> + </listitem> + + </itemizedlist> + + </sect2> + </sect1> + <sect1 id="release-8-3-14"> <title>Release 8.3.14</title> <note> - <title>Release date</title> + <title>Release Date</title> <simpara>2011-01-31</simpara> </note> @@ -137,7 +300,7 @@ <title>Release 8.3.13</title> <note> - <title>Release date</title> + <title>Release Date</title> <simpara>2010-12-16</simpara> </note> @@ -415,7 +578,7 @@ <title>Release 8.3.12</title> <note> - <title>Release date</title> + <title>Release Date</title> <simpara>2010-10-04</simpara> </note> @@ -778,7 +941,7 @@ <title>Release 8.3.11</title> <note> - <title>Release date</title> + <title>Release Date</title> <simpara>2010-05-17</simpara> </note> @@ -1007,7 +1170,7 @@ <title>Release 8.3.10</title> <note> - <title>Release date</title> + <title>Release Date</title> <simpara>2010-03-15</simpara> </note> @@ -1334,7 +1497,7 @@ <title>Release 8.3.9</title> <note> - <title>Release date</title> + <title>Release Date</title> <simpara>2009-12-14</simpara> </note> @@ -1667,7 +1830,7 @@ <title>Release 8.3.8</title> <note> - <title>Release date</title> + <title>Release Date</title> <simpara>2009-09-09</simpara> </note> @@ -1957,7 +2120,7 @@ <title>Release 8.3.7</title> <note> - <title>Release date</title> + <title>Release Date</title> <simpara>2009-03-16</simpara> </note> @@ -2180,7 +2343,7 @@ <title>Release 8.3.6</title> <note> - <title>Release date</title> + <title>Release Date</title> <simpara>2009-02-02</simpara> </note> @@ -2474,7 +2637,7 @@ <title>Release 8.3.5</title> <note> - <title>Release date</title> + <title>Release Date</title> <simpara>2008-11-03</simpara> </note> @@ -2729,7 +2892,7 @@ <title>Release 8.3.4</title> <note> - <title>Release date</title> + <title>Release Date</title> <simpara>2008-09-22</simpara> </note> @@ -3083,7 +3246,7 @@ <title>Release 8.3.3</title> <note> - <title>Release date</title> + <title>Release Date</title> <simpara>2008-06-12</simpara> </note> @@ -3150,7 +3313,7 @@ <title>Release 8.3.2</title> <note> - <title>Release date</title> + <title>Release Date</title> <simpara>never released</simpara> </note> @@ -3515,7 +3678,7 @@ <title>Release 8.3.1</title> <note> - <title>Release date</title> + <title>Release Date</title> <simpara>2008-03-17</simpara> </note> @@ -3828,7 +3991,7 @@ <title>Release 8.3</title> <note> - <title>Release date</title> + <title>Release Date</title> <simpara>2008-02-04</simpara> </note> diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release-8.4.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release-8.4.sgml index 5cabfb4d01..ba1afcafe9 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/release-8.4.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/release-8.4.sgml @@ -1,11 +1,259 @@ <!-- doc/src/sgml/release-8.4.sgml --> <!-- See header comment in release.sgml about typical markup --> + <sect1 id="release-8-4-8"> + <title>Release 8.4.8</title> + + <note> + <title>Release Date</title> + <simpara>2011-04-18</simpara> + </note> + + <para> + This release contains a variety of fixes from 8.4.7. + For information about new features in the 8.4 major release, see + <xref linkend="release-8-4">. + </para> + + <sect2> + <title>Migration to Version 8.4.8</title> + + <para> + A dump/restore is not required for those running 8.4.X. + </para> + + <para> + However, if your installation was upgraded from a previous major + release by running <application>pg_upgrade</>, you should take + action to prevent possible data loss due to a now-fixed bug in + <application>pg_upgrade</>. The recommended solution is to run + <command>VACUUM FREEZE</> on all TOAST tables. + More information is available at <ulink + url="http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/20110408pg_upgrade_fix"> + http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/20110408pg_upgrade_fix</ulink>. + </para> + + <para> + Also, if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 8.4.2, + see the release notes for 8.4.2. + </para> + + </sect2> + + <sect2> + <title>Changes</title> + + <itemizedlist> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix <application>pg_upgrade</>'s handling of TOAST tables + (Bruce Momjian) + </para> + + <para> + The <structname>pg_class</>.<structfield>relfrozenxid</> value for + TOAST tables was not correctly copied into the new installation + during <application>pg_upgrade</>. This could later result in + <literal>pg_clog</> files being discarded while they were still + needed to validate tuples in the TOAST tables, leading to + <quote>could not access status of transaction</> failures. + </para> + + <para> + This error poses a significant risk of data loss for installations + that have been upgraded with <application>pg_upgrade</>. This patch + corrects the problem for future uses of <application>pg_upgrade</>, + but does not in itself cure the issue in installations that have been + processed with a buggy version of <application>pg_upgrade</>. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Suppress incorrect <quote>PD_ALL_VISIBLE flag was incorrectly set</> + warning (Heikki Linnakangas) + </para> + + <para> + <command>VACUUM</> would sometimes issue this warning in cases that + are actually valid. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Disallow including a composite type in itself (Tom Lane) + </para> + + <para> + This prevents scenarios wherein the server could recurse infinitely + while processing the composite type. While there are some possible + uses for such a structure, they don't seem compelling enough to + justify the effort required to make sure it always works safely. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Avoid potential deadlock during catalog cache initialization + (Nikhil Sontakke) + </para> + + <para> + In some cases the cache loading code would acquire share lock on a + system index before locking the index's catalog. This could deadlock + against processes trying to acquire exclusive locks in the other, + more standard order. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix dangling-pointer problem in <literal>BEFORE ROW UPDATE</> trigger + handling when there was a concurrent update to the target tuple + (Tom Lane) + </para> + + <para> + This bug has been observed to result in intermittent <quote>cannot + extract system attribute from virtual tuple</> failures while trying to + do <literal>UPDATE RETURNING ctid</>. There is a very small probability + of more serious errors, such as generating incorrect index entries for + the updated tuple. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Disallow <command>DROP TABLE</> when there are pending deferred trigger + events for the table (Tom Lane) + </para> + + <para> + Formerly the <command>DROP</> would go through, leading to + <quote>could not open relation with OID nnn</> errors when the + triggers were eventually fired. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Prevent crash triggered by constant-false WHERE conditions during + GEQO optimization (Tom Lane) + </para> + + <para> + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Improve planner's handling of semi-join and anti-join cases + (Tom Lane) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix selectivity estimation for text search to account for NULLs + (Jesper Krogh) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Improve PL/pgSQL's ability to handle row types with dropped columns + (Pavel Stehule) + </para> + + <para> + This is a back-patch of fixes previously made in 9.0. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix PL/Python memory leak involving array slices (Daniel Popowich) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix <application>pg_restore</> to cope with long lines (over 1KB) in + TOC files (Tom Lane) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Put in more safeguards against crashing due to division-by-zero + with overly enthusiastic compiler optimization (Aurelien Jarno) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Support use of dlopen() in FreeBSD and OpenBSD on MIPS (Tom Lane) + </para> + + <para> + There was a hard-wired assumption that this system function was not + available on MIPS hardware on these systems. Use a compile-time test + instead, since more recent versions have it. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix compilation failures on HP-UX (Heikki Linnakangas) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix version-incompatibility problem with <application>libintl</> on + Windows (Hiroshi Inoue) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix usage of <application>xcopy</> in Windows build scripts to + work correctly under Windows 7 (Andrew Dunstan) + </para> + + <para> + This affects the build scripts only, not installation or usage. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix path separator used by <application>pg_regress</> on Cygwin + (Andrew Dunstan) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Update time zone data files to <application>tzdata</> release 2011f + for DST law changes in Chile, Cuba, Falkland Islands, Morocco, Samoa, + and Turkey; also historical corrections for South Australia, Alaska, + and Hawaii. + </para> + </listitem> + + </itemizedlist> + + </sect2> + </sect1> + <sect1 id="release-8-4-7"> <title>Release 8.4.7</title> <note> - <title>Release date</title> + <title>Release Date</title> <simpara>2011-01-31</simpara> </note> @@ -137,7 +385,7 @@ <title>Release 8.4.6</title> <note> - <title>Release date</title> + <title>Release Date</title> <simpara>2010-12-16</simpara> </note> @@ -448,7 +696,7 @@ <title>Release 8.4.5</title> <note> - <title>Release date</title> + <title>Release Date</title> <simpara>2010-10-04</simpara> </note> @@ -970,7 +1218,7 @@ <title>Release 8.4.4</title> <note> - <title>Release date</title> + <title>Release Date</title> <simpara>2010-05-17</simpara> </note> @@ -1261,7 +1509,7 @@ <title>Release 8.4.3</title> <note> - <title>Release date</title> + <title>Release Date</title> <simpara>2010-03-15</simpara> </note> @@ -1728,7 +1976,7 @@ <title>Release 8.4.2</title> <note> - <title>Release date</title> + <title>Release Date</title> <simpara>2009-12-14</simpara> </note> @@ -2259,7 +2507,7 @@ WITH w AS (SELECT * FROM foo) SELECT * FROM w, bar ... FOR UPDATE <title>Release 8.4.1</title> <note> - <title>Release date</title> + <title>Release Date</title> <simpara>2009-09-09</simpara> </note> @@ -2558,7 +2806,7 @@ WITH w AS (SELECT * FROM foo) SELECT * FROM w, bar ... FOR UPDATE <title>Release 8.4</title> <note> - <title>Release date</title> + <title>Release Date</title> <simpara>2009-07-01</simpara> </note> diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release-9.0.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release-9.0.sgml index 8fe18cc30e..4b232f065f 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/release-9.0.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/release-9.0.sgml @@ -1,11 +1,355 @@ <!-- doc/src/sgml/release-9.0.sgml --> <!-- See header comment in release.sgml about typical markup --> + <sect1 id="release-9-0-4"> + <title>Release 9.0.4</title> + + <note> + <title>Release Date</title> + <simpara>2011-04-18</simpara> + </note> + + <para> + This release contains a variety of fixes from 9.0.3. + For information about new features in the 9.0 major release, see + <xref linkend="release-9-0">. + </para> + + <sect2> + <title>Migration to Version 9.0.4</title> + + <para> + A dump/restore is not required for those running 9.0.X. + </para> + + <para> + However, if your installation was upgraded from a previous major + release by running <application>pg_upgrade</>, you should take + action to prevent possible data loss due to a now-fixed bug in + <application>pg_upgrade</>. The recommended solution is to run + <command>VACUUM FREEZE</> on all TOAST tables. + More information is available at <ulink + url="http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/20110408pg_upgrade_fix"> + http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/20110408pg_upgrade_fix</ulink>. + </para> + + </sect2> + + <sect2> + <title>Changes</title> + + <itemizedlist> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix <application>pg_upgrade</>'s handling of TOAST tables + (Bruce Momjian) + </para> + + <para> + The <structname>pg_class</>.<structfield>relfrozenxid</> value for + TOAST tables was not correctly copied into the new installation + during <application>pg_upgrade</>. This could later result in + <literal>pg_clog</> files being discarded while they were still + needed to validate tuples in the TOAST tables, leading to + <quote>could not access status of transaction</> failures. + </para> + + <para> + This error poses a significant risk of data loss for installations + that have been upgraded with <application>pg_upgrade</>. This patch + corrects the problem for future uses of <application>pg_upgrade</>, + but does not in itself cure the issue in installations that have been + processed with a buggy version of <application>pg_upgrade</>. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Suppress incorrect <quote>PD_ALL_VISIBLE flag was incorrectly set</> + warning (Heikki Linnakangas) + </para> + + <para> + <command>VACUUM</> would sometimes issue this warning in cases that + are actually valid. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Use better SQLSTATE error codes for hot standby conflict cases + (Tatsuo Ishii and Simon Riggs) + </para> + + <para> + All retryable conflict errors now have an error code that indicates + that a retry is possible. Also, session closure due to the database + being dropped on the master is now reported as + <literal>ERRCODE_DATABASE_DROPPED</>, rather than + <literal>ERRCODE_ADMIN_SHUTDOWN</>, so that connection poolers can + handle the situation correctly. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Prevent intermittent hang in interactions of startup process with + bgwriter process (Simon Riggs) + </para> + + <para> + This affected recovery in non-hot-standby cases. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Disallow including a composite type in itself (Tom Lane) + </para> + + <para> + This prevents scenarios wherein the server could recurse infinitely + while processing the composite type. While there are some possible + uses for such a structure, they don't seem compelling enough to + justify the effort required to make sure it always works safely. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Avoid potential deadlock during catalog cache initialization + (Nikhil Sontakke) + </para> + + <para> + In some cases the cache loading code would acquire share lock on a + system index before locking the index's catalog. This could deadlock + against processes trying to acquire exclusive locks in the other, + more standard order. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix dangling-pointer problem in <literal>BEFORE ROW UPDATE</> trigger + handling when there was a concurrent update to the target tuple + (Tom Lane) + </para> + + <para> + This bug has been observed to result in intermittent <quote>cannot + extract system attribute from virtual tuple</> failures while trying to + do <literal>UPDATE RETURNING ctid</>. There is a very small probability + of more serious errors, such as generating incorrect index entries for + the updated tuple. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Disallow <command>DROP TABLE</> when there are pending deferred trigger + events for the table (Tom Lane) + </para> + + <para> + Formerly the <command>DROP</> would go through, leading to + <quote>could not open relation with OID nnn</> errors when the + triggers were eventually fired. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Allow <quote>replication</> as a user name in + <filename>pg_hba.conf</> (Andrew Dunstan) + </para> + + <para> + <quote>replication</> is special in the database name column, but it + was mistakenly also treated as special in the user name column. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Prevent crash triggered by constant-false WHERE conditions during + GEQO optimization (Tom Lane) + </para> + + <para> + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Improve planner's handling of semi-join and anti-join cases + (Tom Lane) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix handling of <literal>SELECT FOR UPDATE</> in a sub-SELECT + (Tom Lane) + </para> + + <para> + This bug typically led to <quote>cannot extract system attribute from + virtual tuple</> errors. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix selectivity estimation for text search to account for NULLs + (Jesper Krogh) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix get_actual_variable_range() to support hypothetical indexes + injected by an index adviser plugin (Gurjeet Singh) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix PL/Python memory leak involving array slices (Daniel Popowich) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Allow <application>libpq</>'s SSL initialization to succeed when + user's home directory is unavailable (Tom Lane) + </para> + + <para> + If the SSL mode is such that a root certificate file is not required, + there is no need to fail. This change restores the behavior to what + it was in pre-9.0 releases. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix <application>libpq</> to return a useful error message for errors + detected in <function>conninfo_array_parse</> (Joseph Adams) + </para> + + <para> + A typo caused the library to return NULL, rather than the + <structname>PGconn</> structure containing the error message, to the + application. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix <application>ecpg</> preprocessor's handling of float constants + (Heikki Linnakangas) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix parallel <application>pg_restore</> to handle comments on + POST_DATA items correctly (Arnd Hannemann) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix <application>pg_restore</> to cope with long lines (over 1KB) in + TOC files (Tom Lane) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Put in more safeguards against crashing due to division-by-zero + with overly enthusiastic compiler optimization (Aurelien Jarno) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Support use of dlopen() in FreeBSD and OpenBSD on MIPS (Tom Lane) + </para> + + <para> + There was a hard-wired assumption that this system function was not + available on MIPS hardware on these systems. Use a compile-time test + instead, since more recent versions have it. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix compilation failures on HP-UX (Heikki Linnakangas) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Avoid crash when trying to write to the Windows console very early + in process startup (Rushabh Lathia) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Support building with MinGW 64 bit compiler for Windows + (Andrew Dunstan) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix version-incompatibility problem with <application>libintl</> on + Windows (Hiroshi Inoue) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix usage of <application>xcopy</> in Windows build scripts to + work correctly under Windows 7 (Andrew Dunstan) + </para> + + <para> + This affects the build scripts only, not installation or usage. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix path separator used by <application>pg_regress</> on Cygwin + (Andrew Dunstan) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Update time zone data files to <application>tzdata</> release 2011f + for DST law changes in Chile, Cuba, Falkland Islands, Morocco, Samoa, + and Turkey; also historical corrections for South Australia, Alaska, + and Hawaii. + </para> + </listitem> + + </itemizedlist> + + </sect2> + </sect1> + <sect1 id="release-9-0-3"> <title>Release 9.0.3</title> <note> - <title>Release date</title> + <title>Release Date</title> <simpara>2011-01-31</simpara> </note> @@ -181,7 +525,7 @@ <title>Release 9.0.2</title> <note> - <title>Release date</title> + <title>Release Date</title> <simpara>2010-12-16</simpara> </note> @@ -628,7 +972,7 @@ <title>Release 9.0.1</title> <note> - <title>Release date</title> + <title>Release Date</title> <simpara>2010-10-04</simpara> </note> @@ -770,7 +1114,7 @@ <title>Release 9.0</title> <note> - <title>Release date</title> + <title>Release Date</title> <simpara>2010-09-20</simpara> </note> @@ -3521,9 +3865,8 @@ if TG_OP = 'INSERT' and NEW.col1 = ... then <listitem> <para> - Add data and documentation installation location control to <link - linkend="xfunc-c-pgxs"><acronym>PGXS</></link> Makefiles - (Mark Cave-Ayland) + Add data and documentation installation location control to + <acronym>PGXS</> Makefiles (Mark Cave-Ayland) </para> </listitem> |