diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release-8.2.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release-8.2.sgml index 2dd49d6a063..0a9ee5031af 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/release-8.2.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/release-8.2.sgml @@ -1,11 +1,143 @@ + + Release 8.2.21 + + + Release Date + 2011-04-18 + + + + This release contains a variety of fixes from 8.2.20. + For information about new features in the 8.2 major release, see + . + + + + Migration to Version 8.2.21 + + + 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. + + + + + + Changes + + + + + + Avoid potential deadlock during catalog cache initialization + (Nikhil Sontakke) + + + + In some cases the cache loading code would acquire share lock on a + system index before locking the index's catalog. This could deadlock + against processes trying to acquire exclusive locks in the other, + more standard order. + + + + + + Fix dangling-pointer problem in BEFORE ROW UPDATE trigger + handling when there was a concurrent update to the target tuple + (Tom Lane) + + + + This bug has been observed to result in intermittent cannot + extract system attribute from virtual tuple failures while trying to + do UPDATE RETURNING ctid. There is a very small probability + of more serious errors, such as generating incorrect index entries for + the updated tuple. + + + + + + Disallow DROP TABLE when there are pending deferred trigger + events for the table (Tom Lane) + + + + Formerly the DROP would go through, leading to + could not open relation with OID nnn errors when the + triggers were eventually fired. + + + + + + Fix PL/Python memory leak involving array slices (Daniel Popowich) + + + + + + Fix pg_restore to cope with long lines (over 1KB) in + TOC files (Tom Lane) + + + + + + Put in more safeguards against crashing due to division-by-zero + with overly enthusiastic compiler optimization (Aurelien Jarno) + + + + + + Support use of dlopen() in FreeBSD and OpenBSD on MIPS (Tom Lane) + + + + There was a hard-wired assumption that this system function was not + available on MIPS hardware on these systems. Use a compile-time test + instead, since more recent versions have it. + + + + + + Fix compilation failures on HP-UX (Heikki Linnakangas) + + + + + + Fix path separator used by pg_regress on Cygwin + (Andrew Dunstan) + + + + + + Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2011f + for DST law changes in Chile, Cuba, Falkland Islands, Morocco, Samoa, + and Turkey; also historical corrections for South Australia, Alaska, + and Hawaii. + + + + + + + + Release 8.2.20 - Release date + Release Date 2011-01-31 @@ -137,7 +269,7 @@ Release 8.2.19 - Release date + Release Date 2010-12-16 @@ -381,7 +513,7 @@ Release 8.2.18 - Release date + Release Date 2010-10-04 @@ -667,7 +799,7 @@ Release 8.2.17 - Release date + Release Date 2010-05-17 @@ -868,7 +1000,7 @@ Release 8.2.16 - Release date + Release Date 2010-03-15 @@ -1139,7 +1271,7 @@ Release 8.2.15 - Release date + Release Date 2009-12-14 @@ -1383,7 +1515,7 @@ Release 8.2.14 - Release date + Release Date 2009-09-09 @@ -1613,7 +1745,7 @@ Release 8.2.13 - Release date + Release Date 2009-03-16 @@ -1779,7 +1911,7 @@ Release 8.2.12 - Release date + Release Date 2009-02-02 @@ -1958,7 +2090,7 @@ Release 8.2.11 - Release date + Release Date 2008-11-03 @@ -2142,7 +2274,7 @@ Release 8.2.10 - Release date + Release Date 2008-09-22 @@ -2374,7 +2506,7 @@ Release 8.2.9 - Release date + Release Date 2008-06-12 @@ -2441,7 +2573,7 @@ Release 8.2.8 - Release date + Release Date never released @@ -2636,7 +2768,7 @@ Release 8.2.7 - Release date + Release Date 2008-03-17 @@ -2905,7 +3037,7 @@ Release 8.2.6 - Release date + Release Date 2008-01-07 @@ -3196,7 +3328,7 @@ Release 8.2.5 - Release date + Release Date 2007-09-17 @@ -3373,7 +3505,7 @@ Release 8.2.4 - Release date + Release Date 2007-04-23 @@ -3517,7 +3649,7 @@ Release 8.2.3 - Release date + Release Date 2007-02-07 @@ -3563,7 +3695,7 @@ Release 8.2.2 - Release date + Release Date 2007-02-05 @@ -3721,7 +3853,7 @@ Release 8.2.1 - Release date + Release Date 2007-01-08 @@ -3856,7 +3988,7 @@ Release 8.2 - Release date + Release Date 2006-12-05 diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release-8.3.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release-8.3.sgml index c0595ab5df0..bccc141a549 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/release-8.3.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/release-8.3.sgml @@ -1,11 +1,174 @@ + + Release 8.3.15 + + + Release Date + 2011-04-18 + + + + This release contains a variety of fixes from 8.3.14. + For information about new features in the 8.3 major release, see + . + + + + Migration to Version 8.3.15 + + + 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. + + + + + + Changes + + + + + + Disallow including a composite type in itself (Tom Lane) + + + + This prevents scenarios wherein the server could recurse infinitely + while processing the composite type. While there are some possible + uses for such a structure, they don't seem compelling enough to + justify the effort required to make sure it always works safely. + + + + + + Avoid potential deadlock during catalog cache initialization + (Nikhil Sontakke) + + + + In some cases the cache loading code would acquire share lock on a + system index before locking the index's catalog. This could deadlock + against processes trying to acquire exclusive locks in the other, + more standard order. + + + + + + Fix dangling-pointer problem in BEFORE ROW UPDATE trigger + handling when there was a concurrent update to the target tuple + (Tom Lane) + + + + This bug has been observed to result in intermittent cannot + extract system attribute from virtual tuple failures while trying to + do UPDATE RETURNING ctid. There is a very small probability + of more serious errors, such as generating incorrect index entries for + the updated tuple. + + + + + + Disallow DROP TABLE when there are pending deferred trigger + events for the table (Tom Lane) + + + + Formerly the DROP would go through, leading to + could not open relation with OID nnn errors when the + triggers were eventually fired. + + + + + + Fix PL/Python memory leak involving array slices (Daniel Popowich) + + + + + + Fix pg_restore to cope with long lines (over 1KB) in + TOC files (Tom Lane) + + + + + + Put in more safeguards against crashing due to division-by-zero + with overly enthusiastic compiler optimization (Aurelien Jarno) + + + + + + Support use of dlopen() in FreeBSD and OpenBSD on MIPS (Tom Lane) + + + + There was a hard-wired assumption that this system function was not + available on MIPS hardware on these systems. Use a compile-time test + instead, since more recent versions have it. + + + + + + Fix compilation failures on HP-UX (Heikki Linnakangas) + + + + + + Fix version-incompatibility problem with libintl on + Windows (Hiroshi Inoue) + + + + + + Fix usage of xcopy in Windows build scripts to + work correctly under Windows 7 (Andrew Dunstan) + + + + This affects the build scripts only, not installation or usage. + + + + + + Fix path separator used by pg_regress on Cygwin + (Andrew Dunstan) + + + + + + Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2011f + for DST law changes in Chile, Cuba, Falkland Islands, Morocco, Samoa, + and Turkey; also historical corrections for South Australia, Alaska, + and Hawaii. + + + + + + + + Release 8.3.14 - Release date + Release Date 2011-01-31 @@ -137,7 +300,7 @@ Release 8.3.13 - Release date + Release Date 2010-12-16 @@ -415,7 +578,7 @@ Release 8.3.12 - Release date + Release Date 2010-10-04 @@ -778,7 +941,7 @@ Release 8.3.11 - Release date + Release Date 2010-05-17 @@ -1007,7 +1170,7 @@ Release 8.3.10 - Release date + Release Date 2010-03-15 @@ -1334,7 +1497,7 @@ Release 8.3.9 - Release date + Release Date 2009-12-14 @@ -1667,7 +1830,7 @@ Release 8.3.8 - Release date + Release Date 2009-09-09 @@ -1957,7 +2120,7 @@ Release 8.3.7 - Release date + Release Date 2009-03-16 @@ -2180,7 +2343,7 @@ Release 8.3.6 - Release date + Release Date 2009-02-02 @@ -2474,7 +2637,7 @@ Release 8.3.5 - Release date + Release Date 2008-11-03 @@ -2729,7 +2892,7 @@ Release 8.3.4 - Release date + Release Date 2008-09-22 @@ -3083,7 +3246,7 @@ Release 8.3.3 - Release date + Release Date 2008-06-12 @@ -3150,7 +3313,7 @@ Release 8.3.2 - Release date + Release Date never released @@ -3515,7 +3678,7 @@ Release 8.3.1 - Release date + Release Date 2008-03-17 @@ -3828,7 +3991,7 @@ Release 8.3 - Release date + Release Date 2008-02-04 diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release-8.4.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release-8.4.sgml index 5cabfb4d014..ba1afcafe9c 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/release-8.4.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/release-8.4.sgml @@ -1,11 +1,259 @@ + + Release 8.4.8 + + + Release Date + 2011-04-18 + + + + This release contains a variety of fixes from 8.4.7. + For information about new features in the 8.4 major release, see + . + + + + Migration to Version 8.4.8 + + + A dump/restore is not required for those running 8.4.X. + + + + However, if your installation was upgraded from a previous major + release by running pg_upgrade, you should take + action to prevent possible data loss due to a now-fixed bug in + pg_upgrade. The recommended solution is to run + VACUUM FREEZE on all TOAST tables. + More information is available at + http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/20110408pg_upgrade_fix. + + + + Also, if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 8.4.2, + see the release notes for 8.4.2. + + + + + + Changes + + + + + + Fix pg_upgrade's handling of TOAST tables + (Bruce Momjian) + + + + The pg_class.relfrozenxid value for + TOAST tables was not correctly copied into the new installation + during pg_upgrade. This could later result in + pg_clog files being discarded while they were still + needed to validate tuples in the TOAST tables, leading to + could not access status of transaction failures. + + + + This error poses a significant risk of data loss for installations + that have been upgraded with pg_upgrade. This patch + corrects the problem for future uses of pg_upgrade, + but does not in itself cure the issue in installations that have been + processed with a buggy version of pg_upgrade. + + + + + + Suppress incorrect PD_ALL_VISIBLE flag was incorrectly set + warning (Heikki Linnakangas) + + + + VACUUM would sometimes issue this warning in cases that + are actually valid. + + + + + + Disallow including a composite type in itself (Tom Lane) + + + + This prevents scenarios wherein the server could recurse infinitely + while processing the composite type. While there are some possible + uses for such a structure, they don't seem compelling enough to + justify the effort required to make sure it always works safely. + + + + + + Avoid potential deadlock during catalog cache initialization + (Nikhil Sontakke) + + + + In some cases the cache loading code would acquire share lock on a + system index before locking the index's catalog. This could deadlock + against processes trying to acquire exclusive locks in the other, + more standard order. + + + + + + Fix dangling-pointer problem in BEFORE ROW UPDATE trigger + handling when there was a concurrent update to the target tuple + (Tom Lane) + + + + This bug has been observed to result in intermittent cannot + extract system attribute from virtual tuple failures while trying to + do UPDATE RETURNING ctid. There is a very small probability + of more serious errors, such as generating incorrect index entries for + the updated tuple. + + + + + + Disallow DROP TABLE when there are pending deferred trigger + events for the table (Tom Lane) + + + + Formerly the DROP would go through, leading to + could not open relation with OID nnn errors when the + triggers were eventually fired. + + + + + + Prevent crash triggered by constant-false WHERE conditions during + GEQO optimization (Tom Lane) + + + + + + + + + Improve planner's handling of semi-join and anti-join cases + (Tom Lane) + + + + + + Fix selectivity estimation for text search to account for NULLs + (Jesper Krogh) + + + + + + Improve PL/pgSQL's ability to handle row types with dropped columns + (Pavel Stehule) + + + + This is a back-patch of fixes previously made in 9.0. + + + + + + Fix PL/Python memory leak involving array slices (Daniel Popowich) + + + + + + Fix pg_restore to cope with long lines (over 1KB) in + TOC files (Tom Lane) + + + + + + Put in more safeguards against crashing due to division-by-zero + with overly enthusiastic compiler optimization (Aurelien Jarno) + + + + + + Support use of dlopen() in FreeBSD and OpenBSD on MIPS (Tom Lane) + + + + There was a hard-wired assumption that this system function was not + available on MIPS hardware on these systems. Use a compile-time test + instead, since more recent versions have it. + + + + + + Fix compilation failures on HP-UX (Heikki Linnakangas) + + + + + + Fix version-incompatibility problem with libintl on + Windows (Hiroshi Inoue) + + + + + + Fix usage of xcopy in Windows build scripts to + work correctly under Windows 7 (Andrew Dunstan) + + + + This affects the build scripts only, not installation or usage. + + + + + + Fix path separator used by pg_regress on Cygwin + (Andrew Dunstan) + + + + + + Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2011f + for DST law changes in Chile, Cuba, Falkland Islands, Morocco, Samoa, + and Turkey; also historical corrections for South Australia, Alaska, + and Hawaii. + + + + + + + + Release 8.4.7 - Release date + Release Date 2011-01-31 @@ -137,7 +385,7 @@ Release 8.4.6 - Release date + Release Date 2010-12-16 @@ -448,7 +696,7 @@ Release 8.4.5 - Release date + Release Date 2010-10-04 @@ -970,7 +1218,7 @@ Release 8.4.4 - Release date + Release Date 2010-05-17 @@ -1261,7 +1509,7 @@ Release 8.4.3 - Release date + Release Date 2010-03-15 @@ -1728,7 +1976,7 @@ Release 8.4.2 - Release date + Release Date 2009-12-14 @@ -2259,7 +2507,7 @@ WITH w AS (SELECT * FROM foo) SELECT * FROM w, bar ... FOR UPDATE Release 8.4.1 - Release date + Release Date 2009-09-09 @@ -2558,7 +2806,7 @@ WITH w AS (SELECT * FROM foo) SELECT * FROM w, bar ... FOR UPDATE Release 8.4 - Release date + Release Date 2009-07-01 diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release-9.0.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release-9.0.sgml index 8fe18cc30ef..4b232f065f6 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/release-9.0.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/release-9.0.sgml @@ -1,11 +1,355 @@ + + Release 9.0.4 + + + Release Date + 2011-04-18 + + + + This release contains a variety of fixes from 9.0.3. + For information about new features in the 9.0 major release, see + . + + + + Migration to Version 9.0.4 + + + A dump/restore is not required for those running 9.0.X. + + + + However, if your installation was upgraded from a previous major + release by running pg_upgrade, you should take + action to prevent possible data loss due to a now-fixed bug in + pg_upgrade. The recommended solution is to run + VACUUM FREEZE on all TOAST tables. + More information is available at + http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/20110408pg_upgrade_fix. + + + + + + Changes + + + + + + Fix pg_upgrade's handling of TOAST tables + (Bruce Momjian) + + + + The pg_class.relfrozenxid value for + TOAST tables was not correctly copied into the new installation + during pg_upgrade. This could later result in + pg_clog files being discarded while they were still + needed to validate tuples in the TOAST tables, leading to + could not access status of transaction failures. + + + + This error poses a significant risk of data loss for installations + that have been upgraded with pg_upgrade. This patch + corrects the problem for future uses of pg_upgrade, + but does not in itself cure the issue in installations that have been + processed with a buggy version of pg_upgrade. + + + + + + Suppress incorrect PD_ALL_VISIBLE flag was incorrectly set + warning (Heikki Linnakangas) + + + + VACUUM would sometimes issue this warning in cases that + are actually valid. + + + + + + Use better SQLSTATE error codes for hot standby conflict cases + (Tatsuo Ishii and Simon Riggs) + + + + All retryable conflict errors now have an error code that indicates + that a retry is possible. Also, session closure due to the database + being dropped on the master is now reported as + ERRCODE_DATABASE_DROPPED, rather than + ERRCODE_ADMIN_SHUTDOWN, so that connection poolers can + handle the situation correctly. + + + + + + Prevent intermittent hang in interactions of startup process with + bgwriter process (Simon Riggs) + + + + This affected recovery in non-hot-standby cases. + + + + + + Disallow including a composite type in itself (Tom Lane) + + + + This prevents scenarios wherein the server could recurse infinitely + while processing the composite type. While there are some possible + uses for such a structure, they don't seem compelling enough to + justify the effort required to make sure it always works safely. + + + + + + Avoid potential deadlock during catalog cache initialization + (Nikhil Sontakke) + + + + In some cases the cache loading code would acquire share lock on a + system index before locking the index's catalog. This could deadlock + against processes trying to acquire exclusive locks in the other, + more standard order. + + + + + + Fix dangling-pointer problem in BEFORE ROW UPDATE trigger + handling when there was a concurrent update to the target tuple + (Tom Lane) + + + + This bug has been observed to result in intermittent cannot + extract system attribute from virtual tuple failures while trying to + do UPDATE RETURNING ctid. There is a very small probability + of more serious errors, such as generating incorrect index entries for + the updated tuple. + + + + + + Disallow DROP TABLE when there are pending deferred trigger + events for the table (Tom Lane) + + + + Formerly the DROP would go through, leading to + could not open relation with OID nnn errors when the + triggers were eventually fired. + + + + + + Allow replication as a user name in + pg_hba.conf (Andrew Dunstan) + + + + replication is special in the database name column, but it + was mistakenly also treated as special in the user name column. + + + + + + Prevent crash triggered by constant-false WHERE conditions during + GEQO optimization (Tom Lane) + + + + + + + + + Improve planner's handling of semi-join and anti-join cases + (Tom Lane) + + + + + + Fix handling of SELECT FOR UPDATE in a sub-SELECT + (Tom Lane) + + + + This bug typically led to cannot extract system attribute from + virtual tuple errors. + + + + + + Fix selectivity estimation for text search to account for NULLs + (Jesper Krogh) + + + + + + Fix get_actual_variable_range() to support hypothetical indexes + injected by an index adviser plugin (Gurjeet Singh) + + + + + + Fix PL/Python memory leak involving array slices (Daniel Popowich) + + + + + + Allow libpq's SSL initialization to succeed when + user's home directory is unavailable (Tom Lane) + + + + If the SSL mode is such that a root certificate file is not required, + there is no need to fail. This change restores the behavior to what + it was in pre-9.0 releases. + + + + + + Fix libpq to return a useful error message for errors + detected in conninfo_array_parse (Joseph Adams) + + + + A typo caused the library to return NULL, rather than the + PGconn structure containing the error message, to the + application. + + + + + + Fix ecpg preprocessor's handling of float constants + (Heikki Linnakangas) + + + + + + Fix parallel pg_restore to handle comments on + POST_DATA items correctly (Arnd Hannemann) + + + + + + Fix pg_restore to cope with long lines (over 1KB) in + TOC files (Tom Lane) + + + + + + Put in more safeguards against crashing due to division-by-zero + with overly enthusiastic compiler optimization (Aurelien Jarno) + + + + + + Support use of dlopen() in FreeBSD and OpenBSD on MIPS (Tom Lane) + + + + There was a hard-wired assumption that this system function was not + available on MIPS hardware on these systems. Use a compile-time test + instead, since more recent versions have it. + + + + + + Fix compilation failures on HP-UX (Heikki Linnakangas) + + + + + + Avoid crash when trying to write to the Windows console very early + in process startup (Rushabh Lathia) + + + + + + Support building with MinGW 64 bit compiler for Windows + (Andrew Dunstan) + + + + + + Fix version-incompatibility problem with libintl on + Windows (Hiroshi Inoue) + + + + + + Fix usage of xcopy in Windows build scripts to + work correctly under Windows 7 (Andrew Dunstan) + + + + This affects the build scripts only, not installation or usage. + + + + + + Fix path separator used by pg_regress on Cygwin + (Andrew Dunstan) + + + + + + Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2011f + for DST law changes in Chile, Cuba, Falkland Islands, Morocco, Samoa, + and Turkey; also historical corrections for South Australia, Alaska, + and Hawaii. + + + + + + + + Release 9.0.3 - Release date + Release Date 2011-01-31 @@ -181,7 +525,7 @@ Release 9.0.2 - Release date + Release Date 2010-12-16 @@ -628,7 +972,7 @@ Release 9.0.1 - Release date + Release Date 2010-10-04 @@ -770,7 +1114,7 @@ Release 9.0 - Release date + Release Date 2010-09-20 @@ -3521,9 +3865,8 @@ if TG_OP = 'INSERT' and NEW.col1 = ... then - Add data and documentation installation location control to PGXS Makefiles - (Mark Cave-Ayland) + Add data and documentation installation location control to + PGXS Makefiles (Mark Cave-Ayland)