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<appendix id="release">
<title>Release Notes</title>
+ <sect1 id="release-8-0-2">
+ <title>Release 8.0.2</title>
+
+ <note>
+ <title>Release date</title>
+ <simpara>2005-04-07</simpara>
+ </note>
+
+ <para>
+ This release contains a variety of fixes from 8.0.1.
+ </para>
+
+ <sect2>
+ <title>Migration to version 8.0.2</title>
+
+ <para>
+ A dump/restore is not required for those running 8.0.*.
+ This release does update the major version number of the
+ <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> libraries so it might be
+ necessary to re-link some user applications if they cannot
+ find the properly-numbered shared library.
+ </para>
+ </sect2>
+
+ <sect2>
+ <title>Changes</title>
+
+<itemizedlist>
+<listitem><para>Use the proper default mask length for <type>INET</> data types with class
+ <literal>D</> addresses (Tom)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Allow plpgsql to assign a value to an array that is initially
+ <literal>NULL</> (Tom)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Fix <command>CLUSTER</> failure after <command>ALTER TABLE
+ SET WITHOUT OIDS</> (Tom)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Fix ecpg bugs in parsing of <command>CREATE</> statement
+ (Michael)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Reduce memory usage of <command>ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN</>
+ (Neil)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Allow SPI to handle utility commands like <command>EXPLAIN</>
+ that return rows (Tom)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Fix <command>ALTER LANGUAGE RENAME</> (Tom)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Document the Win32 <literal>register</> and <literal>
+ unregister</>
+ <application>pg_ctl</> options (Magnus)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Several <filename>/contrib/btree_gist</> fixes (Teodor)
+ </para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>New cache replacement policy <acronym>2Q</> replaces
+ <acronym>ARC</> (Tom)</para>
+<para>
+ This was done to void a pending US patent on <acronym>ARC</>. The
+ <acronym>2Q</> code might be a few percentage points slower than
+ <acronym>ARC</> for busy sites. Another new cache replacement
+ policy will appear in 8.1.
+</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Change the Win32 default for config variable
+ <varname>log_destination</> to <option>eventlog</> (Magnus)</para>
+<para>
+ This, by default, will send all Win32 server log output to the Win32 event
+ logger rather than standard error.
+</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Fix crash of some <filename>/contrib/pgcrypto</>
+ functions on some platforms (Neil)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Allow <command>ALTER DATABASE RENAME</> by superusers
+ who can't create databases (Tom)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Increment the major version number of all interface
+ libraries (Bruce)</para>
+<para>
+ This should have been done in 8.0.0. It is required so 7.4.X versions
+ of PostgreSQL client applications, like <application>psql</>,
+ can be used on the same machine as 8.0.X applications. This might require
+ re-linking user applications that use these libraries.
+</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Do not use locale-aware versions of <function>upper()</>,
+ <function>lower()</>, and <function>initcap()</> when the locale is <literal>C</>.
+ (Bruce)</para>
+<para>
+ This allows these functions to work on platforms that sometimes
+ generate errors with a locale of <literal>C</> and a non-<literal>SQL_ASCII</>
+ encoding.
+</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Enable the <varname>wal_sync_method</> variable value of
+ <option>open_datasync</> on Win32, and make it the default for that
+ platform. (Magnus, Bruce)</para>
+<para>
+ This makes Win32 behave like other supported platforms that require the
+ administrator to make sure that data is guarantted to be written to permanent
+ storage after a sync operation. To turn off the write cache on Win32,
+ from the <application>Device Manager</>, chose the drive properties,
+ then <literal>Policies</>.
+</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Add Win32-only <varname>wal_sync_method</> value of <option>
+ fsync_writethrough</> to write through any write cache between the
+ operating system and the drive when doing a sync.
+ (Magnus, Bruce)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Fix crash from a backend exiting an open transaction
+ with a <command>CREATE</> and a <command>FETCH</> (Tom)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Work around gcc bug on powerpc and amd64 causing problems in
+ ecpg (Christof Petig)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Modify WAL log entries for <command>CREATE</> and <command>
+ DROP DATABASE</> to not specify absolute paths</para>
+ <para>This allows point-in-time recovery on a different machine. (Tom)
+</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Fix <filename>/contrib/intagg</> for 64-bit platforms
+ (Tom)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Convert plpython function bodies containing <literal>\r\n</>
+ and <literal>\r</> to <literal>\n</> (Michael Fuhr)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Allow Kerberos to work on Win32 (Magnus)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Fix <function>to_date()</> to behave reasonably when
+ <literal>CC</> and <literal>YY</> fields are both used (Karel)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Prevent <function>to_char(interval)</> from failing
+ when given a zero-month interval (Tom)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>Fix wrong week returned by <function>date_trunc('week')</para>
+<para>
+ This was a problem for early January dates. <function>date_trunc('week')</>
+ returned the wrong year for <literal> 2005-01-01</> and <literal>2006-01-01</>
+ (Bruce)
+</para></listitem>
+</itemizedlist>
+
+ </sect2>
+ </sect1>
+
<sect1 id="release-8-0-1">
<title>Release 8.0.1</title>
backend executables too (Bruce)
</para>
<para>
- Unixware can not mix threaded and non-threaded object files in the
+ Unixware cannot mix threaded and non-threaded object files in the
same executable, so everything must be compiled as threaded.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem><para>Make ALTER TABLE / RENAME COLUMN update column names of indexes (Brent Verner)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix for ALTER TABLE / ADD CONSTRAINT ... CHECK with inherited tables (Stephan Szabo)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>ALTER TABLE RENAME update foreign-key trigger arguments correctly (Brent Verner)</para></listitem>
-<listitem><para>DROP AGGREGATE and COMMENT ON AGGREGATE now accept an aggtype (Tom)</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>DROP AGGREGATE and COMMENT ON AGGREGATE now accepts an aggtype (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Add automatic return type data casting for SQL functions (Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Allow GiST indexes to handle NULLs and multikey indexes (Oleg Bartunov, Teodor Sigaev, Tom)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Enable partial indexes (Martijn van Oosterhout)</para></listitem>
<para>
There are some general 6.3 issues that I want to mention. These are
- only the big items that can not be described in one sentence. A review
+ only the big items that cannot be described in one sentence. A review
of the detailed changes list is still needed.
</para>
<para>
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