7.4.29.
-<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release-7.4.sgml,v 1.1.2.5 2010/03/10 01:58:38 tgl Exp $ -->
+<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release-7.4.sgml,v 1.1.2.6 2010/05/12 23:27:36 tgl Exp $ -->
<!-- See header comment in release.sgml about typical markup -->
+ <sect1 id="release-7-4-29">
+ <title>Release 7.4.29</title>
+
+ <note>
+ <title>Release date</title>
+ <simpara>2010-05-17</simpara>
+ </note>
+
+ <para>
+ This release contains a variety of fixes from 7.4.28.
+ For information about new features in the 7.4 major release, see
+ <xref linkend="release-7-4">.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ The <productname>PostgreSQL</> community will stop releasing updates
+ for the 7.4.X release series in July 2010.
+ Users are encouraged to update to a newer release branch soon.
+ </para>
+
+ <sect2>
+ <title>Migration to Version 7.4.29</title>
+
+ <para>
+ A dump/restore is not required for those running 7.4.X.
+ However, if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 7.4.26,
+ see the release notes for 7.4.26.
+ </para>
+
+ </sect2>
+
+ <sect2>
+ <title>Changes</title>
+
+ <itemizedlist>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Do not allow an unprivileged user to reset superuser-only parameter
+ settings (Alvaro)
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ Previously, if an unprivileged user ran <literal>ALTER USER ... RESET
+ ALL</> for himself, or <literal>ALTER DATABASE ... RESET ALL</> for
+ a database he owns, this would remove all special parameter settings
+ for the user or database, even ones that are only supposed to be
+ changeable by a superuser. Now, the <command>ALTER</> will only
+ remove the parameters that the user has permission to change.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Avoid possible crash during backend shutdown if shutdown occurs
+ when a <literal>CONTEXT</> addition would be made to log entries (Tom)
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ In some cases the context-printing function would fail because the
+ current transaction had already been rolled back when it came time
+ to print a log message.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Update pl/perl's <filename>ppport.h</> for modern Perl versions
+ (Andrew)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Fix assorted memory leaks in pl/python (Andreas Freund, Tom)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Ensure that <filename>contrib/pgstattuple</> functions respond to cancel
+ interrupts promptly (Tatsuhito Kasahara)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Make server startup deal properly with the case that
+ <function>shmget()</> returns <literal>EINVAL</> for an existing
+ shared memory segment (Tom)
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ This behavior has been observed on BSD-derived kernels including OS X.
+ It resulted in an entirely-misleading startup failure complaining that
+ the shared memory request size was too large.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ </itemizedlist>
+
+ </sect2>
+ </sect1>
+
<sect1 id="release-7-4-28">
<title>Release 7.4.28</title>
-<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release-8.0.sgml,v 1.1.2.5 2010/03/10 01:58:38 tgl Exp $ -->
+<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release-8.0.sgml,v 1.1.2.6 2010/05/12 23:27:36 tgl Exp $ -->
<!-- See header comment in release.sgml about typical markup -->
+ <sect1 id="release-8-0-25">
+ <title>Release 8.0.25</title>
+
+ <note>
+ <title>Release date</title>
+ <simpara>2010-05-17</simpara>
+ </note>
+
+ <para>
+ This release contains a variety of fixes from 8.0.24.
+ For information about new features in the 8.0 major release, see
+ <xref linkend="release-8-0">.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ The <productname>PostgreSQL</> community will stop releasing updates
+ for the 8.0.X release series in July 2010.
+ Users are encouraged to update to a newer release branch soon.
+ </para>
+
+ <sect2>
+ <title>Migration to Version 8.0.25</title>
+
+ <para>
+ A dump/restore is not required for those running 8.0.X.
+ However, if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 8.0.22,
+ see the release notes for 8.0.22.
+ </para>
+
+ </sect2>
+
+ <sect2>
+ <title>Changes</title>
+
+ <itemizedlist>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Do not allow an unprivileged user to reset superuser-only parameter
+ settings (Alvaro)
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ Previously, if an unprivileged user ran <literal>ALTER USER ... RESET
+ ALL</> for himself, or <literal>ALTER DATABASE ... RESET ALL</> for
+ a database he owns, this would remove all special parameter settings
+ for the user or database, even ones that are only supposed to be
+ changeable by a superuser. Now, the <command>ALTER</> will only
+ remove the parameters that the user has permission to change.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Avoid possible crash during backend shutdown if shutdown occurs
+ when a <literal>CONTEXT</> addition would be made to log entries (Tom)
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ In some cases the context-printing function would fail because the
+ current transaction had already been rolled back when it came time
+ to print a log message.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Update pl/perl's <filename>ppport.h</> for modern Perl versions
+ (Andrew)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Fix assorted memory leaks in pl/python (Andreas Freund, Tom)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Prevent infinite recursion in <application>psql</> when expanding
+ a variable that refers to itself (Tom)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Ensure that <filename>contrib/pgstattuple</> functions respond to cancel
+ interrupts promptly (Tatsuhito Kasahara)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Make server startup deal properly with the case that
+ <function>shmget()</> returns <literal>EINVAL</> for an existing
+ shared memory segment (Tom)
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ This behavior has been observed on BSD-derived kernels including OS X.
+ It resulted in an entirely-misleading startup failure complaining that
+ the shared memory request size was too large.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Update time zone data files to <application>tzdata</> release 2010j
+ for DST law changes in Argentina, Australian Antarctic, Bangladesh,
+ Mexico, Morocco, Pakistan, Palestine, Russia, Syria, Tunisia;
+ also historical corrections for Taiwan.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ </itemizedlist>
+
+ </sect2>
+ </sect1>
+
<sect1 id="release-8-0-24">
<title>Release 8.0.24</title>
-<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release-8.1.sgml,v 1.1.2.5 2010/03/10 01:58:38 tgl Exp $ -->
+<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release-8.1.sgml,v 1.1.2.6 2010/05/12 23:27:36 tgl Exp $ -->
<!-- See header comment in release.sgml about typical markup -->
+ <sect1 id="release-8-1-21">
+ <title>Release 8.1.21</title>
+
+ <note>
+ <title>Release date</title>
+ <simpara>2010-05-17</simpara>
+ </note>
+
+ <para>
+ This release contains a variety of fixes from 8.1.20.
+ For information about new features in the 8.1 major release, see
+ <xref linkend="release-8-1">.
+ </para>
+
+ <sect2>
+ <title>Migration to Version 8.1.21</title>
+
+ <para>
+ A dump/restore is not required for those running 8.1.X.
+ However, if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 8.1.18,
+ see the release notes for 8.1.18.
+ </para>
+
+ </sect2>
+
+ <sect2>
+ <title>Changes</title>
+
+ <itemizedlist>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Do not allow an unprivileged user to reset superuser-only parameter
+ settings (Alvaro)
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ Previously, if an unprivileged user ran <literal>ALTER USER ... RESET
+ ALL</> for himself, or <literal>ALTER DATABASE ... RESET ALL</> for
+ a database he owns, this would remove all special parameter settings
+ for the user or database, even ones that are only supposed to be
+ changeable by a superuser. Now, the <command>ALTER</> will only
+ remove the parameters that the user has permission to change.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Avoid possible crash during backend shutdown if shutdown occurs
+ when a <literal>CONTEXT</> addition would be made to log entries (Tom)
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ In some cases the context-printing function would fail because the
+ current transaction had already been rolled back when it came time
+ to print a log message.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Update pl/perl's <filename>ppport.h</> for modern Perl versions
+ (Andrew)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Fix assorted memory leaks in pl/python (Andreas Freund, Tom)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Prevent infinite recursion in <application>psql</> when expanding
+ a variable that refers to itself (Tom)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Ensure that <filename>contrib/pgstattuple</> functions respond to cancel
+ interrupts promptly (Tatsuhito Kasahara)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Make server startup deal properly with the case that
+ <function>shmget()</> returns <literal>EINVAL</> for an existing
+ shared memory segment (Tom)
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ This behavior has been observed on BSD-derived kernels including OS X.
+ It resulted in an entirely-misleading startup failure complaining that
+ the shared memory request size was too large.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Update time zone data files to <application>tzdata</> release 2010j
+ for DST law changes in Argentina, Australian Antarctic, Bangladesh,
+ Mexico, Morocco, Pakistan, Palestine, Russia, Syria, Tunisia;
+ also historical corrections for Taiwan.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ </itemizedlist>
+
+ </sect2>
+ </sect1>
+
<sect1 id="release-8-1-20">
<title>Release 8.1.20</title>
-<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release-8.2.sgml,v 1.1.2.5 2010/03/10 01:58:38 tgl Exp $ -->
+<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release-8.2.sgml,v 1.1.2.6 2010/05/12 23:27:36 tgl Exp $ -->
<!-- See header comment in release.sgml about typical markup -->
+ <sect1 id="release-8-2-17">
+ <title>Release 8.2.17</title>
+
+ <note>
+ <title>Release date</title>
+ <simpara>2010-05-17</simpara>
+ </note>
+
+ <para>
+ This release contains a variety of fixes from 8.2.16.
+ For information about new features in the 8.2 major release, see
+ <xref linkend="release-8-2">.
+ </para>
+
+ <sect2>
+ <title>Migration to Version 8.2.17</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>
+ Fix possible crash if a cache reset message is received during
+ rebuild of a relcache entry (Heikki)
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ This error was introduced in 8.2.16 while fixing a related failure.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Do not allow an unprivileged user to reset superuser-only parameter
+ settings (Alvaro)
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ Previously, if an unprivileged user ran <literal>ALTER USER ... RESET
+ ALL</> for himself, or <literal>ALTER DATABASE ... RESET ALL</> for
+ a database he owns, this would remove all special parameter settings
+ for the user or database, even ones that are only supposed to be
+ changeable by a superuser. Now, the <command>ALTER</> will only
+ remove the parameters that the user has permission to change.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Avoid possible crash during backend shutdown if shutdown occurs
+ when a <literal>CONTEXT</> addition would be made to log entries (Tom)
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ In some cases the context-printing function would fail because the
+ current transaction had already been rolled back when it came time
+ to print a log message.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Update pl/perl's <filename>ppport.h</> for modern Perl versions
+ (Andrew)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Fix assorted memory leaks in pl/python (Andreas Freund, Tom)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Prevent infinite recursion in <application>psql</> when expanding
+ a variable that refers to itself (Tom)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Fix <application>psql</>'s <literal>\copy</> to not add spaces around
+ a dot within <literal>\copy (select ...)</> (Tom)
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ Addition of spaces around the decimal point in a numeric literal would
+ result in a syntax error.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Ensure that <filename>contrib/pgstattuple</> functions respond to cancel
+ interrupts promptly (Tatsuhito Kasahara)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Make server startup deal properly with the case that
+ <function>shmget()</> returns <literal>EINVAL</> for an existing
+ shared memory segment (Tom)
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ This behavior has been observed on BSD-derived kernels including OS X.
+ It resulted in an entirely-misleading startup failure complaining that
+ the shared memory request size was too large.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Avoid possible crashes in syslogger process on Windows (Heikki)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Deal more robustly with incomplete time zone information in the
+ Windows registry (Magnus)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Update the set of known Windows time zone names (Magnus)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Update time zone data files to <application>tzdata</> release 2010j
+ for DST law changes in Argentina, Australian Antarctic, Bangladesh,
+ Mexico, Morocco, Pakistan, Palestine, Russia, Syria, Tunisia;
+ also historical corrections for Taiwan.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ Also, add <literal>PKST</> (Pakistan Summer Time) to the default set of
+ timezone abbreviations.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ </itemizedlist>
+
+ </sect2>
+ </sect1>
+
<sect1 id="release-8-2-16">
<title>Release 8.2.16</title>
-<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release-8.3.sgml,v 1.1.2.5 2010/03/10 01:58:38 tgl Exp $ -->
+<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release-8.3.sgml,v 1.1.2.6 2010/05/12 23:27:36 tgl Exp $ -->
<!-- See header comment in release.sgml about typical markup -->
+ <sect1 id="release-8-3-11">
+ <title>Release 8.3.11</title>
+
+ <note>
+ <title>Release date</title>
+ <simpara>2010-05-17</simpara>
+ </note>
+
+ <para>
+ This release contains a variety of fixes from 8.3.10.
+ For information about new features in the 8.3 major release, see
+ <xref linkend="release-8-3">.
+ </para>
+
+ <sect2>
+ <title>Migration to Version 8.3.11</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>
+ Fix possible crash if a cache reset message is received during
+ rebuild of a relcache entry (Heikki)
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ This error was introduced in 8.3.10 while fixing a related failure.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Apply per-function GUC settings while running the language validator
+ for the function (Itagaki Takahiro)
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ This avoids failures if the function's code is invalid without the
+ setting; an example is that SQL functions may not parse if the
+ <varname>search_path</> is not correct.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Do not allow an unprivileged user to reset superuser-only parameter
+ settings (Alvaro)
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ Previously, if an unprivileged user ran <literal>ALTER USER ... RESET
+ ALL</> for himself, or <literal>ALTER DATABASE ... RESET ALL</> for
+ a database he owns, this would remove all special parameter settings
+ for the user or database, even ones that are only supposed to be
+ changeable by a superuser. Now, the <command>ALTER</> will only
+ remove the parameters that the user has permission to change.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Avoid possible crash during backend shutdown if shutdown occurs
+ when a <literal>CONTEXT</> addition would be made to log entries (Tom)
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ In some cases the context-printing function would fail because the
+ current transaction had already been rolled back when it came time
+ to print a log message.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Ensure the archiver process responds to changes in
+ <varname>archive_command</> as soon as possible (Tom)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Update pl/perl's <filename>ppport.h</> for modern Perl versions
+ (Andrew)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Fix assorted memory leaks in pl/python (Andreas Freund, Tom)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Prevent infinite recursion in <application>psql</> when expanding
+ a variable that refers to itself (Tom)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Fix <application>psql</>'s <literal>\copy</> to not add spaces around
+ a dot within <literal>\copy (select ...)</> (Tom)
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ Addition of spaces around the decimal point in a numeric literal would
+ result in a syntax error.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Fix unnecessary <quote>GIN indexes do not support whole-index scans</>
+ errors for unsatisfiable queries using <filename>contrib/intarray</>
+ operators (Tom)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Ensure that <filename>contrib/pgstattuple</> functions respond to cancel
+ interrupts promptly (Tatsuhito Kasahara)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Make server startup deal properly with the case that
+ <function>shmget()</> returns <literal>EINVAL</> for an existing
+ shared memory segment (Tom)
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ This behavior has been observed on BSD-derived kernels including OS X.
+ It resulted in an entirely-misleading startup failure complaining that
+ the shared memory request size was too large.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Avoid possible crashes in syslogger process on Windows (Heikki)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Deal more robustly with incomplete time zone information in the
+ Windows registry (Magnus)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Update the set of known Windows time zone names (Magnus)
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Update time zone data files to <application>tzdata</> release 2010j
+ for DST law changes in Argentina, Australian Antarctic, Bangladesh,
+ Mexico, Morocco, Pakistan, Palestine, Russia, Syria, Tunisia;
+ also historical corrections for Taiwan.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ Also, add <literal>PKST</> (Pakistan Summer Time) to the default set of
+ timezone abbreviations.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ </itemizedlist>
+
+ </sect2>
+ </sect1>
+
<sect1 id="release-8-3-10">
<title>Release 8.3.10</title>
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