From 03bbb02999d11fa160dc99a59d70e763d4d715da Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tom Lane Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 23:28:06 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Preliminary release notes for releases 8.4.4, 8.3.11, 8.2.17, 8.1.21, 8.0.25, 7.4.29. --- doc/src/sgml/release-7.4.sgml | 106 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 105 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release-7.4.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release-7.4.sgml index ad89dbb468..d247eeaf40 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/release-7.4.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/release-7.4.sgml @@ -1,6 +1,110 @@ - + + + Release 7.4.29 + + + Release date + 2010-05-17 + + + + This release contains a variety of fixes from 7.4.28. + For information about new features in the 7.4 major release, see + . + + + + The 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. + + + + Migration to Version 7.4.29 + + + 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 + + + + + + Do not allow an unprivileged user to reset superuser-only parameter + settings (Alvaro) + + + + Previously, if an unprivileged user ran ALTER USER ... RESET + ALL for himself, or 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 ALTER will only + remove the parameters that the user has permission to change. + + + + + + Avoid possible crash during backend shutdown if shutdown occurs + when a CONTEXT addition would be made to log entries (Tom) + + + + 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. + + + + + + Update pl/perl's ppport.h for modern Perl versions + (Andrew) + + + + + + Fix assorted memory leaks in pl/python (Andreas Freund, Tom) + + + + + + Ensure that contrib/pgstattuple functions respond to cancel + interrupts promptly (Tatsuhito Kasahara) + + + + + + Make server startup deal properly with the case that + shmget() returns EINVAL for an existing + shared memory segment (Tom) + + + + 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. + + + + + + + + Release 7.4.28 -- 2.50.0