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<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release-7.4.sgml,v 1.1.4.7 2010/05/13 21:27:22 tgl Exp $ -->
<!-- doc/src/sgml/release-7.4.sgml -->
<!-- See header comment in release.sgml about typical markup -->
<sect1 id="release-7-4-30">
<title>Release 7.4.30</title>
<note>
<title>Release date</title>
<simpara>2010-10-04</simpara>
</note>
<para>
This release contains a variety of fixes from 7.4.29.
For information about new features in the 7.4 major release, see
<xref linkend="release-7-4">.
</para>
<para>
This is expected to be the last <productname>PostgreSQL</> release
in the 7.4.X series. Users are encouraged to update to a newer
release branch soon.
</para>
<sect2>
<title>Migration to Version 7.4.30</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>
Prevent possible crashes in <function>pg_get_expr()</> by disallowing
it from being called with an argument that is not one of the system
catalog columns it's intended to be used with
(Heikki Linnakangas, Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix <quote>cannot handle unplanned sub-select</quote> error (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
This occurred when a sub-select contains a join alias reference that
expands into an expression containing another sub-select.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Take care to fsync the contents of lockfiles (both
<filename>postmaster.pid</> and the socket lockfile) while writing them
(Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
This omission could result in corrupted lockfile contents if the
machine crashes shortly after postmaster start. That could in turn
prevent subsequent attempts to start the postmaster from succeeding,
until the lockfile is manually removed.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Improve <filename>contrib/dblink</>'s handling of tables containing
dropped columns (Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix connection leak after <quote>duplicate connection name</quote>
errors in <filename>contrib/dblink</> (Itagaki Takahiro)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Update build infrastructure and documentation to reflect the source code
repository's move from CVS to Git (Magnus Hagander and others)
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect2>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="release-7-4-29">
<title>Release 7.4.29</title>
@ -1897,7 +1994,7 @@ enabled</para></listitem>
files during postmaster startup</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Various memory leakage fixes</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Various portability improvements</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix PL/PgSQL to handle <literal>var := var</> correctly when
<listitem><para>Fix PL/pgSQL to handle <literal>var := var</> correctly when
the variable is of pass-by-reference type</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Update <filename>contrib/tsearch2</> to use current Snowball
code</para></listitem>

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<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release-8.0.sgml,v 1.1.4.7 2010/05/13 21:27:22 tgl Exp $ -->
<!-- doc/src/sgml/release-8.0.sgml -->
<!-- See header comment in release.sgml about typical markup -->
<sect1 id="release-8-0-26">
<title>Release 8.0.26</title>
<note>
<title>Release date</title>
<simpara>2010-10-04</simpara>
</note>
<para>
This release contains a variety of fixes from 8.0.25.
For information about new features in the 8.0 major release, see
<xref linkend="release-8-0">.
</para>
<para>
This is expected to be the last <productname>PostgreSQL</> release
in the 8.0.X series. Users are encouraged to update to a newer
release branch soon.
</para>
<sect2>
<title>Migration to Version 8.0.26</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>
Prevent possible crashes in <function>pg_get_expr()</> by disallowing
it from being called with an argument that is not one of the system
catalog columns it's intended to be used with
(Heikki Linnakangas, Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix <quote>cannot handle unplanned sub-select</quote> error (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
This occurred when a sub-select contains a join alias reference that
expands into an expression containing another sub-select.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Defend against functions returning setof record where not all the
returned rows are actually of the same rowtype (Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Take care to fsync the contents of lockfiles (both
<filename>postmaster.pid</> and the socket lockfile) while writing them
(Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
This omission could result in corrupted lockfile contents if the
machine crashes shortly after postmaster start. That could in turn
prevent subsequent attempts to start the postmaster from succeeding,
until the lockfile is manually removed.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Avoid recursion while assigning XIDs to heavily-nested
subtransactions (Andres Freund, Robert Haas)
</para>
<para>
The original coding could result in a crash if there was limited
stack space.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix <varname>log_line_prefix</>'s <literal>%i</> escape,
which could produce junk early in backend startup (Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix possible data corruption in <command>ALTER TABLE ... SET
TABLESPACE</> when archiving is enabled (Jeff Davis)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Allow <command>CREATE DATABASE</> and <command>ALTER DATABASE ... SET
TABLESPACE</> to be interrupted by query-cancel (Guillaume Lelarge)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
In PL/Python, defend against null pointer results from
<function>PyCObject_AsVoidPtr</> and <function>PyCObject_FromVoidPtr</>
(Peter Eisentraut)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Improve <filename>contrib/dblink</>'s handling of tables containing
dropped columns (Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix connection leak after <quote>duplicate connection name</quote>
errors in <filename>contrib/dblink</> (Itagaki Takahiro)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix <filename>contrib/dblink</> to handle connection names longer than
62 bytes correctly (Itagaki Takahiro)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Update build infrastructure and documentation to reflect the source code
repository's move from CVS to Git (Magnus Hagander and others)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Update time zone data files to <application>tzdata</> release 2010l
for DST law changes in Egypt and Palestine; also historical corrections
for Finland.
</para>
<para>
This change also adds new names for two Micronesian timezones:
Pacific/Chuuk is now preferred over Pacific/Truk (and the preferred
abbreviation is CHUT not TRUT) and Pacific/Pohnpei is preferred over
Pacific/Ponape.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect2>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="release-8-0-25">
<title>Release 8.0.25</title>
@ -2512,7 +2679,7 @@ when opening the file fails</para></listitem>
constraints more reliably</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix password prompting in <application>pg_restore</> on
Windows</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix PL/PgSQL to handle <literal>var := var</> correctly when
<listitem><para>Fix PL/pgSQL to handle <literal>var := var</> correctly when
the variable is of pass-by-reference type</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Fix PL/Perl <literal>%_SHARED</> so it's actually
shared</para></listitem>

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<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release-8.1.sgml,v 1.1.4.7 2010/05/13 21:27:22 tgl Exp $ -->
<!-- doc/src/sgml/release-8.1.sgml -->
<!-- See header comment in release.sgml about typical markup -->
<sect1 id="release-8-1-22">
<title>Release 8.1.22</title>
<note>
<title>Release date</title>
<simpara>2010-10-04</simpara>
</note>
<para>
This release contains a variety of fixes from 8.1.21.
For information about new features in the 8.1 major release, see
<xref linkend="release-8-1">.
</para>
<para>
The <productname>PostgreSQL</> community will stop releasing updates
for the 8.1.X release series in November 2010.
Users are encouraged to update to a newer release branch soon.
</para>
<sect2>
<title>Migration to Version 8.1.22</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>
Prevent possible crashes in <function>pg_get_expr()</> by disallowing
it from being called with an argument that is not one of the system
catalog columns it's intended to be used with
(Heikki Linnakangas, Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix <quote>cannot handle unplanned sub-select</quote> error (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
This occurred when a sub-select contains a join alias reference that
expands into an expression containing another sub-select.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Prevent show_session_authorization() from crashing within autovacuum
processes (Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Defend against functions returning setof record where not all the
returned rows are actually of the same rowtype (Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix possible failure when hashing a pass-by-reference function result
(Tao Ma, Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Take care to fsync the contents of lockfiles (both
<filename>postmaster.pid</> and the socket lockfile) while writing them
(Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
This omission could result in corrupted lockfile contents if the
machine crashes shortly after postmaster start. That could in turn
prevent subsequent attempts to start the postmaster from succeeding,
until the lockfile is manually removed.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Avoid recursion while assigning XIDs to heavily-nested
subtransactions (Andres Freund, Robert Haas)
</para>
<para>
The original coding could result in a crash if there was limited
stack space.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix <varname>log_line_prefix</>'s <literal>%i</> escape,
which could produce junk early in backend startup (Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix possible data corruption in <command>ALTER TABLE ... SET
TABLESPACE</> when archiving is enabled (Jeff Davis)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Allow <command>CREATE DATABASE</> and <command>ALTER DATABASE ... SET
TABLESPACE</> to be interrupted by query-cancel (Guillaume Lelarge)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
In PL/Python, defend against null pointer results from
<function>PyCObject_AsVoidPtr</> and <function>PyCObject_FromVoidPtr</>
(Peter Eisentraut)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Improve <filename>contrib/dblink</>'s handling of tables containing
dropped columns (Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix connection leak after <quote>duplicate connection name</quote>
errors in <filename>contrib/dblink</> (Itagaki Takahiro)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix <filename>contrib/dblink</> to handle connection names longer than
62 bytes correctly (Itagaki Takahiro)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Update build infrastructure and documentation to reflect the source code
repository's move from CVS to Git (Magnus Hagander and others)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Update time zone data files to <application>tzdata</> release 2010l
for DST law changes in Egypt and Palestine; also historical corrections
for Finland.
</para>
<para>
This change also adds new names for two Micronesian timezones:
Pacific/Chuuk is now preferred over Pacific/Truk (and the preferred
abbreviation is CHUT not TRUT) and Pacific/Pohnpei is preferred over
Pacific/Ponape.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect2>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="release-8-1-21">
<title>Release 8.1.21</title>
@ -1212,7 +1393,7 @@
<listitem>
<para>
Fix PL/PgSQL to not fail when a <literal>FOR</> loop's target variable
Fix PL/pgSQL to not fail when a <literal>FOR</> loop's target variable
is a record containing composite-type fields (Tom)
</para>
</listitem>
@ -4040,9 +4221,9 @@ psql -t -f fixseq.sql db1 | psql -e db1
Previously, only a predefined list of time zone names were
supported by <command>AT TIME ZONE</>. Now any supported time
zone name can be used, e.g.:
<programlisting>
SELECT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP AT TIME ZONE 'Europe/London';
</programlisting>
<programlisting>
SELECT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP AT TIME ZONE 'Europe/London';
</programlisting>
In the above query, the time zone used is adjusted based on the
daylight saving time rules that were in effect on the supplied
date.
@ -4116,10 +4297,10 @@ psql -t -f fixseq.sql db1 | psql -e db1
the next day even if a daylight saving time adjustment occurs
between, whereas adding <literal>24 hours</> will give a different
local time when this happens. For example, under US DST rules:
<programlisting>
'2005-04-03 00:00:00-05' + '1 day' = '2005-04-04 00:00:00-04'
'2005-04-03 00:00:00-05' + '24 hours' = '2005-04-04 01:00:00-04'
</programlisting>
<programlisting>
'2005-04-03 00:00:00-05' + '1 day' = '2005-04-04 00:00:00-04'
'2005-04-03 00:00:00-05' + '24 hours' = '2005-04-04 01:00:00-04'
</programlisting>
</para>
</listitem>
@ -4343,7 +4524,7 @@ psql -t -f fixseq.sql db1 | psql -e db1
<listitem>
<para>
Allow SQL and PL/PgSQL functions to use <command>OUT</> and
Allow SQL and PL/pgSQL functions to use <command>OUT</> and
<command>INOUT</> parameters (Tom)
</para>
<para>
@ -4378,12 +4559,12 @@ psql -t -f fixseq.sql db1 | psql -e db1
</sect3>
<sect3>
<title>PL/PgSQL Server-Side Language Changes</title>
<title>PL/pgSQL Server-Side Language Changes</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
Overhaul the memory management of PL/PgSQL functions (Neil)
Overhaul the memory management of PL/pgSQL functions (Neil)
</para>
<para>
The parsetree of each function is now stored in a separate
@ -4426,7 +4607,7 @@ psql -t -f fixseq.sql db1 | psql -e db1
<listitem>
<para>
Add support for an optional <command>INTO</> clause to
PL/PgSQL's <command>EXECUTE</> statement (Pavel Stehule, Neil)
PL/pgSQL's <command>EXECUTE</> statement (Pavel Stehule, Neil)
</para>
</listitem>

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<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release-8.2.sgml,v 1.1.4.7 2010/05/13 21:27:22 tgl Exp $ -->
<!-- doc/src/sgml/release-8.2.sgml -->
<!-- See header comment in release.sgml about typical markup -->
<sect1 id="release-8-2-18">
<title>Release 8.2.18</title>
<note>
<title>Release date</title>
<simpara>2010-10-04</simpara>
</note>
<para>
This release contains a variety of fixes from 8.2.17.
For information about new features in the 8.2 major release, see
<xref linkend="release-8-2">.
</para>
<sect2>
<title>Migration to Version 8.2.18</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>
Prevent possible crashes in <function>pg_get_expr()</> by disallowing
it from being called with an argument that is not one of the system
catalog columns it's intended to be used with
(Heikki Linnakangas, Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix Windows shared-memory allocation code
(Tsutomu Yamada, Magnus Hagander)
</para>
<para>
This bug led to the often-reported <quote>could not reattach to shared
memory</quote> error message. This is a back-patch of a fix that was
applied to newer branches some time ago.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Treat exit code 128 (<literal>ERROR_WAIT_NO_CHILDREN</>) as non-fatal on
Windows (Magnus Hagander)
</para>
<para>
Under high load, Windows processes will sometimes fail at startup with
this error code. Formerly the postmaster treated this as a panic
condition and restarted the whole database, but that seems to be
an overreaction.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix possible duplicate scans of <literal>UNION ALL</> member relations
(Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix <quote>cannot handle unplanned sub-select</quote> error (Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
This occurred when a sub-select contains a join alias reference that
expands into an expression containing another sub-select.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Reduce PANIC to ERROR in some occasionally-reported btree failure cases,
and provide additional detail in the resulting error messages
(Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
This should improve the system's robustness with corrupted indexes.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Prevent show_session_authorization() from crashing within autovacuum
processes (Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Defend against functions returning setof record where not all the
returned rows are actually of the same rowtype (Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix possible failure when hashing a pass-by-reference function result
(Tao Ma, Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Take care to fsync the contents of lockfiles (both
<filename>postmaster.pid</> and the socket lockfile) while writing them
(Tom Lane)
</para>
<para>
This omission could result in corrupted lockfile contents if the
machine crashes shortly after postmaster start. That could in turn
prevent subsequent attempts to start the postmaster from succeeding,
until the lockfile is manually removed.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Avoid recursion while assigning XIDs to heavily-nested
subtransactions (Andres Freund, Robert Haas)
</para>
<para>
The original coding could result in a crash if there was limited
stack space.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix <varname>log_line_prefix</>'s <literal>%i</> escape,
which could produce junk early in backend startup (Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix possible data corruption in <command>ALTER TABLE ... SET
TABLESPACE</> when archiving is enabled (Jeff Davis)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Allow <command>CREATE DATABASE</> and <command>ALTER DATABASE ... SET
TABLESPACE</> to be interrupted by query-cancel (Guillaume Lelarge)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
In PL/Python, defend against null pointer results from
<function>PyCObject_AsVoidPtr</> and <function>PyCObject_FromVoidPtr</>
(Peter Eisentraut)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Improve <filename>contrib/dblink</>'s handling of tables containing
dropped columns (Tom Lane)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix connection leak after <quote>duplicate connection name</quote>
errors in <filename>contrib/dblink</> (Itagaki Takahiro)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Fix <filename>contrib/dblink</> to handle connection names longer than
62 bytes correctly (Itagaki Takahiro)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Add <function>hstore(text, text)</>
function to <filename>contrib/hstore</> (Robert Haas)
</para>
<para>
This function is the recommended substitute for the now-deprecated
<literal>=&gt;</> operator. It was back-patched so that future-proofed
code can be used with older server versions. Note that the patch will
be effective only after <filename>contrib/hstore</> is installed or
reinstalled in a particular database. Users might prefer to execute
the <command>CREATE FUNCTION</> command by hand, instead.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Update build infrastructure and documentation to reflect the source code
repository's move from CVS to Git (Magnus Hagander and others)
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Update time zone data files to <application>tzdata</> release 2010l
for DST law changes in Egypt and Palestine; also historical corrections
for Finland.
</para>
<para>
This change also adds new names for two Micronesian timezones:
Pacific/Chuuk is now preferred over Pacific/Truk (and the preferred
abbreviation is CHUT not TRUT) and Pacific/Pohnpei is preferred over
Pacific/Ponape.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
Make Windows' <quote>N. Central Asia Standard Time</> timezone map to
Asia/Novosibirsk, not Asia/Almaty (Magnus Hagander)
</para>
<para>
Microsoft changed the DST behavior of this zone in the timezone update
from KB976098. Asia/Novosibirsk is a better match to its new behavior.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect2>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="release-8-2-17">
<title>Release 8.2.17</title>
@ -1661,7 +1910,7 @@
<listitem>
<para>
Fix PL/PgSQL to not fail when a <literal>FOR</> loop's target variable
Fix PL/pgSQL to not fail when a <literal>FOR</> loop's target variable
is a record containing composite-type fields (Tom)
</para>
</listitem>
@ -4883,7 +5132,7 @@
</sect3>
<sect3>
<title>PL/PgSQL Server-Side Language Changes</title>
<title>PL/pgSQL Server-Side Language Changes</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
@ -5448,7 +5697,7 @@
linkend="guc-local-preload-libraries"><varname>local_preload_libraries</></link>
that allows libraries to be loaded into specific sessions without
explicit cooperation from the client application. This allows
external add-ons to implement features such as a PL/PgSQL debugger.
external add-ons to implement features such as a PL/pgSQL debugger.
</para>
</listitem>