diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml
index 02090731cd2..4dce0dbfe39 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-
+
+
+
+
+ The name appearing next to each item represents the major developer for
+ that item. Of course all changes involve community discussion and patch
+ review, so each item is truly a community effort.
+
+
+
+ Release 8.1.12
+
+
+ Release date
+ 2008-06-09
+
+
+
+ This release contains a variety of fixes from 8.1.11.
+ For information about new features in the 8.1 major release, see
+ .
+
+
+
+ Migration to Version 8.1.12
+
+
+ A dump/restore is not required for those running 8.1.X.
+ However, if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 8.1.2,
+ see the release notes for 8.1.2.
+
+
+
+
+
+ Changes
+
+
+
+
+
+ Fix ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN ... PRIMARY KEY so that the new
+ column is correctly checked to see if it's been initialized to all
+ non-nulls (Brendan Jurd)
+
+
+
+ Previous versions neglected to check this requirement at all.
+
+
+
+
+
+ Fix possible CREATE TABLE failure when inheriting the
+ same constraint from multiple parent relations that
+ inherited that constraint from a common ancestor (Tom)
+
+
+
+
+
+ Fix conversions between ISO-8859-5 and other encodings to handle
+ Cyrillic Yo characters (e and E with
+ two dots) (Sergey Burladyan)
+
+
+
+
+
+ Fix a few datatype input functions
+ that were allowing unused bytes in their results to contain
+ uninitialized, unpredictable values (Tom)
+
+
+
+ This could lead to failures in which two apparently identical literal
+ values were not seen as equal, resulting in the parser complaining
+ about unmatched ORDER BY and DISTINCT
+ expressions.
+
+
+
+
+
+ Fix a corner case in regular-expression substring matching
+ (substring(string from
+ pattern)) (Tom)
+
+
+
+ The problem occurs when there is a match to the pattern overall but
+ the user has specified a parenthesized subexpression and that
+ subexpression hasn't got a match. An example is
+ substring('foo' from 'foo(bar)?').
+ This should return NULL, since (bar) isn't matched, but
+ it was mistakenly returning the whole-pattern match instead (ie,
+ foo).
+
+
+
+
+
+ Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2008c (for
+ DST law changes in Morocco, Iraq, Choibalsan, Pakistan, Syria, Cuba,
+ Argentina/San_Luis, and Chile)
+
+
+
+
+
+ Fix incorrect result from ecpg's
+ PGTYPEStimestamp_sub() function (Michael)
+
+
+
+
+
+ Fix core dump in contrib/xml2's
+ xpath_table() function when the input query returns a
+ NULL value (Tom)
+
+
+
+
+
+ Fix contrib/xml2's makefile to not override
+ CFLAGS (Tom)
+
+
+
+
+
+ Fix DatumGetBool macro to not fail with gcc
+ 4.3 (Tom)
+
+
+
+ This problem affects old style (V0) C functions that
+ return boolean. The fix is already in 8.3, but the need to
+ back-patch it was not realized at the time.
+
+
+
+
+
+ Fix longstanding LISTEN/NOTIFY
+ race condition (Tom)
+
+
+
+ In rare cases a session that had just executed a
+ LISTEN might not get a notification, even though
+ one would be expected because the concurrent transaction executing
+ NOTIFY was observed to commit later.
+
+
+
+ A side effect of the fix is that a transaction that has executed
+ a not-yet-committed LISTEN command will not see any
+ row in pg_listener for the LISTEN,
+ should it choose to look; formerly it would have. This behavior
+ was never documented one way or the other, but it is possible that
+ some applications depend on the old behavior.
+
+
+
+
+
+ Disallow LISTEN and UNLISTEN within a
+ prepared transaction (Tom)
+
+
+
+ This was formerly allowed but trying to do it had various unpleasant
+ consequences, notably that the originating backend could not exit
+ as long as an UNLISTEN remained uncommitted.
+
+
+
+
+
+ Fix rare crash when an error occurs during a query using a hash index
+ (Heikki)
+
+
+
+
+
+ Fix input of datetime values for February 29 in years BC (Tom)
+
+
+
+ The former coding was mistaken about which years were leap years.
+
+
+
+
+
+ Fix unrecognized node type error in some variants of
+ ALTER OWNER (Tom)
+
+
+
+
+
+ Fix pg_ctl to correctly extract the postmaster's port
+ number from command-line options (Itagaki Takahiro, Tom)
+
+
+
+ Previously, pg_ctl start -w could try to contact the
+ postmaster on the wrong port, leading to bogus reports of startup
+ failure.
+
+
+
+
+
+ Use
+
+
+ This is known to be necessary when building PostgreSQL
+ with gcc 4.3 or later.
+
+
+
+
+
+ Fix display of constant expressions in ORDER BY
+ and GROUP BY (Tom)
+
+
+
+ An explictly casted constant would be shown incorrectly. This could
+ for example lead to corruption of a view definition during
+ dump and reload.
+
+
+
+
+
+ Fix libpq to handle NOTICE messages correctly
+ during COPY OUT (Tom)
+
+
+
+ This failure has only been observed to occur when a user-defined
+ datatype's output routine issues a NOTICE, but there is no
+ guarantee it couldn't happen due to other causes.
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
Release 8.1.11
@@ -3463,6 +3741,243 @@ psql -t -f fixseq.sql db1 | psql -e db1
+
+ Release 8.0.16
+
+
+ Release date
+ 2008-06-09
+
+
+
+ This release contains a variety of fixes from 8.0.15.
+ For information about new features in the 8.0 major release, see
+ .
+
+
+
+ Migration to Version 8.0.16
+
+
+ A dump/restore is not required for those running 8.0.X.
+ However, if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 8.0.6,
+ see the release notes for 8.0.6.
+
+
+
+
+
+ Changes
+
+
+
+
+
+ Fix ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN ... PRIMARY KEY so that the new
+ column is correctly checked to see if it's been initialized to all
+ non-nulls (Brendan Jurd)
+
+
+
+ Previous versions neglected to check this requirement at all.
+
+
+
+
+
+ Fix possible CREATE TABLE failure when inheriting the
+ same constraint from multiple parent relations that
+ inherited that constraint from a common ancestor (Tom)
+
+
+
+
+
+ Fix conversions between ISO-8859-5 and other encodings to handle
+ Cyrillic Yo characters (e and E with
+ two dots) (Sergey Burladyan)
+
+
+
+
+
+ Fix a few datatype input functions
+ that were allowing unused bytes in their results to contain
+ uninitialized, unpredictable values (Tom)
+
+
+
+ This could lead to failures in which two apparently identical literal
+ values were not seen as equal, resulting in the parser complaining
+ about unmatched ORDER BY and DISTINCT
+ expressions.
+
+
+
+
+
+ Fix a corner case in regular-expression substring matching
+ (substring(string from
+ pattern)) (Tom)
+
+
+
+ The problem occurs when there is a match to the pattern overall but
+ the user has specified a parenthesized subexpression and that
+ subexpression hasn't got a match. An example is
+ substring('foo' from 'foo(bar)?').
+ This should return NULL, since (bar) isn't matched, but
+ it was mistakenly returning the whole-pattern match instead (ie,
+ foo).
+
+
+
+
+
+ Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2008c (for
+ DST law changes in Morocco, Iraq, Choibalsan, Pakistan, Syria, Cuba,
+ Argentina/San_Luis, and Chile)
+
+
+
+
+
+ Fix incorrect result from ecpg's
+ PGTYPEStimestamp_sub() function (Michael)
+
+
+
+
+
+ Fix core dump in contrib/xml2's
+ xpath_table() function when the input query returns a
+ NULL value (Tom)
+
+
+
+
+
+ Fix contrib/xml2's makefile to not override
+ CFLAGS (Tom)
+
+
+
+
+
+ Fix DatumGetBool macro to not fail with gcc
+ 4.3 (Tom)
+
+
+
+ This problem affects old style (V0) C functions that
+ return boolean. The fix is already in 8.3, but the need to
+ back-patch it was not realized at the time.
+
+
+
+
+
+ Fix longstanding LISTEN/NOTIFY
+ race condition (Tom)
+
+
+
+ In rare cases a session that had just executed a
+ LISTEN might not get a notification, even though
+ one would be expected because the concurrent transaction executing
+ NOTIFY was observed to commit later.
+
+
+
+ A side effect of the fix is that a transaction that has executed
+ a not-yet-committed LISTEN command will not see any
+ row in pg_listener for the LISTEN,
+ should it choose to look; formerly it would have. This behavior
+ was never documented one way or the other, but it is possible that
+ some applications depend on the old behavior.
+
+
+
+
+
+ Fix rare crash when an error occurs during a query using a hash index
+ (Heikki)
+
+
+
+
+
+ Fix input of datetime values for February 29 in years BC (Tom)
+
+
+
+ The former coding was mistaken about which years were leap years.
+
+
+
+
+
+ Fix unrecognized node type error in some variants of
+ ALTER OWNER (Tom)
+
+
+
+
+
+ Fix pg_ctl to correctly extract the postmaster's port
+ number from command-line options (Itagaki Takahiro, Tom)
+
+
+
+ Previously, pg_ctl start -w could try to contact the
+ postmaster on the wrong port, leading to bogus reports of startup
+ failure.
+
+
+
+
+
+ Use
+
+
+ This is known to be necessary when building PostgreSQL
+ with gcc 4.3 or later.
+
+
+
+
+
+ Fix display of constant expressions in ORDER BY
+ and GROUP BY (Tom)
+
+
+
+ An explictly casted constant would be shown incorrectly. This could
+ for example lead to corruption of a view definition during
+ dump and reload.
+
+
+
+
+
+ Fix libpq to handle NOTICE messages correctly
+ during COPY OUT (Tom)
+
+
+
+ This failure has only been observed to occur when a user-defined
+ datatype's output routine issues a NOTICE, but there is no
+ guarantee it couldn't happen due to other causes.
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
Release 8.0.15
@@ -7320,6 +7835,151 @@ typedefs (Michael)
+
+ Release 7.4.20
+
+
+ Release date
+ 2008-06-09
+
+
+
+ This release contains a variety of fixes from 7.4.19.
+ For information about new features in the 7.4 major release, see
+ .
+
+
+
+ Migration to Version 7.4.20
+
+
+ A dump/restore is not required for those running 7.4.X.
+ However, if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 7.4.11,
+ see the release notes for 7.4.11.
+
+
+
+
+
+ Changes
+
+
+
+
+
+ Fix conversions between ISO-8859-5 and other encodings to handle
+ Cyrillic Yo characters (e and E with
+ two dots) (Sergey Burladyan)
+
+
+
+
+
+ Fix a few datatype input functions
+ that were allowing unused bytes in their results to contain
+ uninitialized, unpredictable values (Tom)
+
+
+
+ This could lead to failures in which two apparently identical literal
+ values were not seen as equal, resulting in the parser complaining
+ about unmatched ORDER BY and DISTINCT
+ expressions.
+
+
+
+
+
+ Fix a corner case in regular-expression substring matching
+ (substring(string from
+ pattern)) (Tom)
+
+
+
+ The problem occurs when there is a match to the pattern overall but
+ the user has specified a parenthesized subexpression and that
+ subexpression hasn't got a match. An example is
+ substring('foo' from 'foo(bar)?').
+ This should return NULL, since (bar) isn't matched, but
+ it was mistakenly returning the whole-pattern match instead (ie,
+ foo).
+
+
+
+
+
+ Fix incorrect result from ecpg's
+ PGTYPEStimestamp_sub() function (Michael)
+
+
+
+
+
+ Fix DatumGetBool macro to not fail with gcc
+ 4.3 (Tom)
+
+
+
+ This problem affects old style (V0) C functions that
+ return boolean. The fix is already in 8.3, but the need to
+ back-patch it was not realized at the time.
+
+
+
+
+
+ Fix longstanding LISTEN/NOTIFY
+ race condition (Tom)
+
+
+
+ In rare cases a session that had just executed a
+ LISTEN might not get a notification, even though
+ one would be expected because the concurrent transaction executing
+ NOTIFY was observed to commit later.
+
+
+
+ A side effect of the fix is that a transaction that has executed
+ a not-yet-committed LISTEN command will not see any
+ row in pg_listener for the LISTEN,
+ should it choose to look; formerly it would have. This behavior
+ was never documented one way or the other, but it is possible that
+ some applications depend on the old behavior.
+
+
+
+
+
+ Fix display of constant expressions in ORDER BY
+ and GROUP BY (Tom)
+
+
+
+ An explictly casted constant would be shown incorrectly. This could
+ for example lead to corruption of a view definition during
+ dump and reload.
+
+
+
+
+
+ Fix libpq to handle NOTICE messages correctly
+ during COPY OUT (Tom)
+
+
+
+ This failure has only been observed to occur when a user-defined
+ datatype's output routine issues a NOTICE, but there is no
+ guarantee it couldn't happen due to other causes.
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
Release 7.4.19