From f5ee6a7acc5db0d77f73aa1db531a684179b5478 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tom Lane Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2019 14:47:34 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Doc: update 11.4 release notes through today. Also improve wording of some items (thanks to Noah Misch for suggestions). --- doc/src/sgml/release-11.sgml | 45 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 37 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release-11.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release-11.sgml index 362d68465f9..b11741bfd34 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/release-11.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/release-11.sgml @@ -232,8 +232,15 @@ Branch: master [9b42e7137] 2019-05-13 10:27:59 -0700 Branch: REL_11_STABLE [bf78f50ba] 2019-05-13 10:27:57 -0700 --> - Avoid corruption of a btree index in the unlikely case that a failure - occurs during key truncation during a page split (Peter Geoghegan) + Avoid writing an invalid empty btree index page in the unlikely case + that a failure occurs while processing INCLUDEd columns during a page + split (Peter Geoghegan) + + + + The invalid page would not affect normal index operations, but it + might cause failures in subsequent VACUUMs. If that has happened to + one of your indexes, recover by reindexing the index. @@ -340,17 +347,39 @@ Branch: REL_10_STABLE [8de574aa8] 2019-06-14 11:25:13 -0400 Branch: REL9_6_STABLE [75b0f21e1] 2019-06-14 11:25:13 -0400 Branch: REL9_5_STABLE [77dc741a1] 2019-06-14 11:25:13 -0400 Branch: REL9_4_STABLE [37011bcb3] 2019-06-14 11:25:13 -0400 +Author: Andrew Gierth +Branch: master [e3846a00c] 2019-06-15 18:15:23 +0100 +Branch: REL_11_STABLE [7f28fc8e9] 2019-06-15 18:16:43 +0100 +Branch: REL_10_STABLE [2913a892e] 2019-06-15 18:18:03 +0100 +Branch: REL9_6_STABLE [5f5b6667e] 2019-06-15 18:19:30 +0100 +Branch: REL9_5_STABLE [6335f8a99] 2019-06-15 18:21:41 +0100 +Branch: REL9_4_STABLE [6c66865f3] 2019-06-15 18:23:16 +0100 --> - Make initdb determine the operating - system's time zone from the /etc/localtime - symbolic link, if that exists (Tom Lane) + Improve initdb's handling of multiple + equivalent names for the system time zone (Tom Lane, Andrew Gierth) - This makes initdb more likely to select - the desired time zone string when multiple identical time zones - exist. + Make initdb examine + the /etc/localtime symbolic link, if that + exists, to break ties between equivalent names for the system time + zone. This makes initdb more likely to + select the time zone name that the user would expect when multiple + identical time zones exist. It will not change the behavior + if /etc/localtime is not a symlink to a zone + data file, nor if the time zone is determined from + the TZ environment variable. + + + + Separately, prefer UTC over other spellings of + that time zone, when neither TZ + nor /etc/localtime provide a hint. This fixes + an annoyance introduced by tzdata 2019a's + change to make the UCT and UTC + zone names equivalent: initdb was then + preferring UCT, which almost nobody wants.