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@@ -1,13 +1,68 @@ Release Notes + Release 7.4.1 + + Release date: 2003-12-15 + + This has a variety of fixes from 7.4. + _________________________________________________________________ + +Migration to version 7.4 + + A dump/restore is *not* required for those running 7.4. + _________________________________________________________________ + +Changes + + Changes as of 2003-12-14 + + * Fixed bug in CREATE SCHEMA parsing (Michael) + * Fix --enable-thread-safety compile error when used with + --with-perl (Peter) + * Fix for subqueries that used hash joins (Tom) + Certain subqueries that used hash joins would crash because of + improperly shared structures. + * Fix free space map compaction bug (Tom) + This fixes a bug where compaction of the free space map could lead + to a database server shutdown. + * Fix for Borland compiler build of libpq (Bruce) + * Fix netmask() and hostmask() to return the maximum-length masklen + (Tom) + Fix these functions to return values consistent with pre-7.4 + releases. + * Several /contrib/pg_autovacuum fixes + Fixes include improper variable initialization, missing vacuum + after TRUNCATE, and duration computation overflow for long + vacuums. + * Allow compile of /contrib/cube under Cygwin (Jason Tishler) + * Fix Solaris use of password file when no passwords are defined + (Tom) + Fix crash on Solaris caused by use of any type of password + authentication when no passwords were defined. + * JDBC fix for thread problems, other fixes + * Fix for index bytea lookups (Joe) + * Fix information schema for bit data types (Peter) + To enable this fix, an initdb is required. + * Force zero_damaged_pages to be on during recovery from WAL + * Prevent some obscure cases of "variable not in subplan target + lists" + * Make PQescapeBytea and byteaout consistent with each other (Joe) + * Escape bytea output for bytes > 0x7e(Joe) + If different client encodings are used for bytea output and input, + it is possible for bytea values to be corrupted by the differing + encodings. This fix escapes all bytes that might be affected. + * Added missing SPI_finish() calls to dblink's + get_tuple_of_interest() (Joe) + _________________________________________________________________ + Release 7.4 Release date: 2003-11-17 _________________________________________________________________ - Overview - +Overview + Major changes in this release: IN / NOT IN subqueries are now much more efficient @@ -107,8 +162,8 @@ more like fully-supported data types. _________________________________________________________________ - Migration to version 7.4 - +Migration to version 7.4 + A dump/restore using pg_dump is required for those wishing to migrate data from any previous release. @@ -171,8 +226,8 @@ adjacent to operators. _________________________________________________________________ - Changes - +Changes + Below you will find a detailed account of the changes between release 7.4 and the previous major release. _________________________________________________________________ @@ -534,7 +589,7 @@ Data Type and Function Changes values (Tom) Sixty-second values are needed for leap seconds. * Allow cidr data type to be cast to text (Tom) - * Disallow invalid time zone names (Tom) + * Disallow invalid time zone names in SET TIMEZONE * Trim trailing spaces when char is cast to varchar or text (Tom) * Make float(p) measure the precision "p" in binary digits, not decimal digits (Tom) @@ -586,7 +641,7 @@ Server-Side Language Changes environment, so the trusted version of PL/Python was removed. If this situation changes, a version of PL/python that can be used by non-superusers will be readded. - * Allow polymorphic PL/pgSQL functions (Tom, Joe) + * Allow polymorphic PL/pgSQL functions (Joe, Tom) * Allow polymorphic SQL functions (Joe) * Improved compiled function caching mechanism in PL/pgSQL with full support for polymorphism (Joe) @@ -767,6 +822,53 @@ Contrib Changes * Remove array module because features now included by default (Joe) _________________________________________________________________ + Release 7.3.5 + + Release date: 2003-12-03 + + This has a variety of fixes from 7.3.4. + _________________________________________________________________ + +Migration to version 7.3.5 + + A dump/restore is *not* required for those running 7.3.*. + _________________________________________________________________ + +Changes + + * Force zero_damaged_pages to be on during recovery from WAL + * Prevent some obscure cases of "variable not in subplan target + lists" + * Force stats processes to detach from shared memory, ensuring + cleaner shutdown + * Make PQescapeBytea and byteaout consistent with each other (Joe) + * Added missing SPI_finish() calls to dblink's + get_tuple_of_interest() (Joe) + * Fix for possible foreign key violation when rule rewrites INSERT + (Jan) + * Support qualified type names in PL/Tcl's spi_prepare command (Jan) + * Make pg_dump handle a procedural language handler located in + pg_catalog + * Make pg_dump handle cases where a custom opclass is in another + schema + * Make pg_dump dump binary-compatible casts correctly (Jan) + * Fix insertion of expressions containing subqueries into rule + bodies + * Fix incorrect argument processing in clusterdb script (Anand + Ranganathan) + * Fix problems with dropped columns in plpython triggers + * Repair problems with to_char() reading past end of its input + string (Karel) + * Fix GB18030 mapping errors (Tatsuo) + * Fix several problems with SSL error handling and asynchronous SSL + I/O + * Remove ability to bind a list of values to a single parameter in + JDBC (prevents possible SQL-injection attacks) + * Fix some errors in HAVE_INT64_TIMESTAMP code paths + * Fix corner case for btree search in parallel with first root page + split + _________________________________________________________________ + Release 7.3.4 Release date: 2003-07-24 @@ -774,13 +876,13 @@ Contrib Changes This has a variety of fixes from 7.3.3. _________________________________________________________________ - Migration to version 7.3.4 - +Migration to version 7.3.4 + A dump/restore is *not* required for those running 7.3.*. _________________________________________________________________ - Changes - +Changes + * Repair breakage in timestamp-to-date conversion for dates before 2000 * Prevent rare possibility of server startup failure (Tom) @@ -801,13 +903,13 @@ Contrib Changes This release contains of variety of fixes for version 7.3.2. _________________________________________________________________ - Migration to version 7.3.3 - +Migration to version 7.3.3 + A dump/restore is *not* required for those running version 7.3.*. _________________________________________________________________ - Changes - +Changes + * Repair sometimes-incorrect computation of StartUpID after a crash * Avoid slowness with lots of deferred triggers in one transaction (Stephan) @@ -924,13 +1026,13 @@ Contrib Changes This release contains a variety of fixes for version 7.3.1. _________________________________________________________________ - Migration to version 7.3.2 - +Migration to version 7.3.2 + A dump/restore is *not* required for those running version 7.3.*. _________________________________________________________________ - Changes - +Changes + * Restore creation of OID column in CREATE TABLE AS / SELECT INTO * Fix pg_dump core dump when dumping views having comments * Dump DEFERRABLE/INITIALLY DEFERRED constraints properly @@ -980,16 +1082,16 @@ Contrib Changes This release contains a variety of fixes for version 7.3. _________________________________________________________________ - Migration to version 7.3.1 - +Migration to version 7.3.1 + A dump/restore is *not* required for those running version 7.3. However, it should be noted that the main PostgreSQL interface library, libpq, has a new major version number for this release, which may require recompilation of client code in certain cases. _________________________________________________________________ - Changes - +Changes + * Fix a core dump of COPY TO when client/server encodings don't match (Tom) * Allow pg_dump to work with pre-7.2 servers (Philip) @@ -1016,8 +1118,8 @@ Contrib Changes Release date: 2002-11-27 _________________________________________________________________ - Overview - +Overview + Major changes in this release: Schemas @@ -1071,8 +1173,8 @@ Contrib Changes result types. _________________________________________________________________ - Migration to version 7.3 - +Migration to version 7.3 + A dump/restore using pg_dump is required for those wishing to migrate data from any previous release. If your application examines the system catalogs, additional changes will be required due to the @@ -1106,8 +1208,8 @@ Contrib Changes integer field. Formerly, it was silently interpreted as 0. _________________________________________________________________ - Changes - +Changes + Server Operation * Add pg_locks view to show locks (Neil) @@ -1564,13 +1666,13 @@ Contrib fixes to prevent possible data loss. _________________________________________________________________ - Migration to version 7.2.4 - +Migration to version 7.2.4 + A dump/restore is *not* required for those running version 7.2.*. _________________________________________________________________ - Changes - +Changes + * Fix some additional cases of VACUUM "No one parent tuple was found" error * Prevent VACUUM from being called inside a function (Bruce) @@ -1595,13 +1697,13 @@ Contrib fixes to prevent possible data loss. _________________________________________________________________ - Migration to version 7.2.3 - +Migration to version 7.2.3 + A dump/restore is *not* required for those running version 7.2.*. _________________________________________________________________ - Changes - +Changes + * Prevent possible compressed transaction log loss (Tom) * Prevent non-superuser from increasing most recent vacuum info (Tom) @@ -1618,13 +1720,13 @@ Contrib This release contains a variety of fixes for version 7.2.1. _________________________________________________________________ - Migration to version 7.2.2 - +Migration to version 7.2.2 + A dump/restore is *not* required for those running version 7.2.*. _________________________________________________________________ - Changes - +Changes + * Allow EXECUTE of "CREATE TABLE AS ... SELECT" in PL/pgSQL (Tom) * Fix for compressed transaction log id wraparound (Tom) * Fix PQescapeBytea/PQunescapeBytea so that they handle bytes > 0x7f @@ -1649,13 +1751,13 @@ Contrib This release contains a variety of fixes for version 7.2. _________________________________________________________________ - Migration to version 7.2.1 - +Migration to version 7.2.1 + A dump/restore is *not* required for those running version 7.2. _________________________________________________________________ - Changes - +Changes + * Ensure that sequence counters do not go backwards after a crash (Tom) * Fix pgaccess kanji-conversion key binding (Tatsuo) @@ -1684,8 +1786,8 @@ Contrib Release date: 2002-02-04 _________________________________________________________________ - Overview - +Overview + This release improves PostgreSQL for use in high-volume applications. Major changes in this release: @@ -1722,8 +1824,8 @@ Contrib languages. _________________________________________________________________ - Migration to version 7.2 - +Migration to version 7.2 + A dump/restore using "pg_dump" is required for those wishing to migrate data from any previous release. @@ -1751,8 +1853,8 @@ Contrib clauses, e.g. LIMIT 10 OFFSET 20. _________________________________________________________________ - Changes - +Changes + Server Operation * Create temporary files in a separate directory (Bruce) @@ -2150,13 +2252,13 @@ Contrib Release date: 2001-08-15 _________________________________________________________________ - Migration to version 7.1.3 - +Migration to version 7.1.3 + A dump/restore is *not* required for those running 7.1.X. _________________________________________________________________ - Changes - +Changes + Remove unused WAL segements of large transactions (Tom) Multiaction rule fix (Tom) PL/pgSQL memory allocation fix (Jan) @@ -2177,13 +2279,13 @@ Cygwin build (Jason Tishler) This has one fix from 7.1.1. _________________________________________________________________ - Migration to version 7.1.2 - +Migration to version 7.1.2 + A dump/restore is *not* required for those running 7.1.X. _________________________________________________________________ - Changes - +Changes + Fix PL/pgSQL SELECTs when returning no rows Fix for psql backslash core dump Referential integrity privilege fix @@ -2199,13 +2301,13 @@ pg_dump cleanups This has a variety of fixes from 7.1. _________________________________________________________________ - Migration to version 7.1.1 - +Migration to version 7.1.1 + A dump/restore is *not* required for those running 7.1. _________________________________________________________________ - Changes - +Changes + Fix for numeric MODULO operator (Tom) pg_dump fixes (Philip) pg_dump can dump 7.0 databases (Philip) @@ -2267,14 +2369,14 @@ Python fixes (Darcy) default. Subqueries in FROM are now supported. _________________________________________________________________ - Migration to version 7.1 - +Migration to version 7.1 + A dump/restore using pg_dump is required for those wishing to migrate data from any previous release. _________________________________________________________________ - Changes - +Changes + Bug Fixes --------- Many multibyte/Unicode/locale fixes (Tatsuo and others) @@ -2470,13 +2572,13 @@ New FreeBSD tools ipc_check, start-scripts/freebsd This has a variety of fixes from 7.0.2. _________________________________________________________________ - Migration to version 7.0.3 - +Migration to version 7.0.3 + A dump/restore is *not* required for those running 7.0.*. _________________________________________________________________ - Changes - +Changes + Jdbc fixes (Peter) Large object fix (Tom) Fix lean in COPY WITH OIDS leak (Tom) @@ -2526,13 +2628,13 @@ Fix for crash of backend, on abort (Tom) This is a repackaging of 7.0.1 with added documentation. _________________________________________________________________ - Migration to version 7.0.2 - +Migration to version 7.0.2 + A dump/restore is *not* required for those running 7.*. _________________________________________________________________ - Changes - +Changes + Added documentation to tarball. _________________________________________________________________ @@ -2544,13 +2646,13 @@ Added documentation to tarball. This is a cleanup release for 7.0. _________________________________________________________________ - Migration to version 7.0.1 - +Migration to version 7.0.1 + A dump/restore is *not* required for those running 7.0. _________________________________________________________________ - Changes - +Changes + Fix many CLUSTER failures (Tom) Allow ALTER TABLE RENAME works on indexes (Tom) Fix plpgsql to handle datetime->timestamp and timespan->interval (Bruce) @@ -2610,8 +2712,8 @@ ecpg changes (Michael) are available, as are column correlation names. _________________________________________________________________ - Migration to version 7.0 - +Migration to version 7.0 + A dump/restore using pg_dump is required for those wishing to migrate data from any previous release of PostgreSQL. For those upgrading from 6.5.*, you may instead use pg_upgrade to upgrade to this release; @@ -2641,8 +2743,8 @@ ecpg changes (Michael) geometric types. _________________________________________________________________ - Changes - +Changes + Bug Fixes --------- Prevent function calls exceeding maximum number of arguments (Tom) @@ -2974,13 +3076,13 @@ New multibyte encodings PgAccess that was missing in 6.5.2, and installed an NT-specific fix. _________________________________________________________________ - Migration to version 6.5.3 - +Migration to version 6.5.3 + A dump/restore is *not* required for those running 6.5.*. _________________________________________________________________ - Changes - +Changes + Updated version of pgaccess 0.98 NT-specific patch Fix dumping rules on inherited tables @@ -2995,13 +3097,13 @@ Fix dumping rules on inherited tables of problems reported by 6.5.1 users. _________________________________________________________________ - Migration to version 6.5.2 - +Migration to version 6.5.2 + A dump/restore is *not* required for those running 6.5.*. _________________________________________________________________ - Changes - +Changes + subselect+CASE fixes(Tom) Add SHLIB_LINK setting for solaris_i386 and solaris_sparc ports(Daren Sefcik) Fixes for CASE in WHERE join clauses(Tom) @@ -3039,13 +3141,13 @@ Updated version of pgaccess 0.98 of problems reported by 6.5 users. _________________________________________________________________ - Migration to version 6.5.1 - +Migration to version 6.5.1 + A dump/restore is *not* required for those running 6.5. _________________________________________________________________ - Changes - +Changes + Add NT README file Portability fixes for linux_ppc, IRIX, linux_alpha, OpenBSD, alpha Remove QUERY_LIMIT, use SELECT...LIMIT @@ -3142,8 +3244,8 @@ Add Win1250 (Czech) support (Pavel Behal) CVSup. _________________________________________________________________ - Migration to version 6.5 - +Migration to version 6.5 + A dump/restore using pg_dump is required for those wishing to migrate data from any previous release of PostgreSQL. pg_upgrade can *not* be used to upgrade to this release because the on-disk structure of the @@ -3188,8 +3290,8 @@ Multiversion Concurrency Control referential integrity will be implemented. _________________________________________________________________ - Changes - +Changes + Bug Fixes --------- Fix text<->float8 and text<->float4 conversion functions(Thomas) @@ -3365,13 +3467,13 @@ New install commands for plpgsql(Jan) additional bug fix. _________________________________________________________________ - Migration to version 6.4.2 - +Migration to version 6.4.2 + A dump/restore is *not* required for those running 6.4.*. _________________________________________________________________ - Changes - +Changes + Fix for datetime constant problem on some platforms(Thomas) _________________________________________________________________ @@ -3383,13 +3485,13 @@ Fix for datetime constant problem on some platforms(Thomas) of problems reported by 6.4 users. _________________________________________________________________ - Migration to version 6.4.1 - +Migration to version 6.4.1 + A dump/restore is *not* required for those running 6.4. _________________________________________________________________ - Changes - +Changes + Add pg_dump -N flag to force double quotes around identifiers. This is the default(Thomas) Fix for NOT in where clause causing crash(Bruce) @@ -3461,14 +3563,14 @@ Upgrade to PyGreSQL 2.2(D'Arcy) it has ever been. _________________________________________________________________ - Migration to version 6.4 - +Migration to version 6.4 + A dump/restore using pg_dump or pg_dumpall is required for those wishing to migrate data from any previous release of PostgreSQL. _________________________________________________________________ - Changes - +Changes + Bug Fixes --------- Fix for a tiny memory leak in PQsetdb/PQfinish(Bryan) @@ -3690,8 +3792,8 @@ new Makefile.shlib for shared library configuration(Tom) migration instructions for version 6.3. _________________________________________________________________ - Changes - +Changes + Configure detection improvements for tcl/tk(Brook Milligan, Alvin) Manual page improvements(Bruce) BETWEEN and LIKE fix(Thomas) @@ -3733,8 +3835,8 @@ ASSERT fixes(Bruce) migration instructions for version 6.3. _________________________________________________________________ - Changes - +Changes + ecpg cleanup/fixes, now version 1.1(Michael Meskes) pg_user cleanup(Bruce) large object fix for pg_dump and tclsh (alvin) @@ -3846,14 +3948,14 @@ Better identify tcl and tk libs and includes(Bruce) using are no longer needed. _________________________________________________________________ - Migration to version 6.3 - +Migration to version 6.3 + A dump/restore using pg_dump or pg_dumpall is required for those wishing to migrate data from any previous release of PostgreSQL. _________________________________________________________________ - Changes - +Changes + Bug Fixes --------- Fix binary cursors broken by MOVE implementation(Vadim) @@ -4040,8 +4142,8 @@ Remove un-needed malloc() calls and replace with palloc()(Bruce) notes for instructions. _________________________________________________________________ - Migration from version 6.2 to version 6.2.1 - +Migration from version 6.2 to version 6.2.1 + This is a minor bug-fix release. A dump/reload is not required from version 6.2, but is required from any release prior to 6.2. @@ -4058,8 +4160,8 @@ Remove un-needed malloc() calls and replace with palloc()(Bruce) template1. _________________________________________________________________ - Changes - +Changes + Allow TIME and TYPE column names(Thomas) Allow larger range of true/false as boolean values(Thomas) Support output of "now" and "current"(Thomas) @@ -4082,8 +4184,8 @@ Trigger function for inserting user names for INSERT/UPDATE(Brook Milligan) previous releases of PostgreSQL. _________________________________________________________________ - Migration from version 6.1 to version 6.2 - +Migration from version 6.1 to version 6.2 + This migration requires a complete dump of the 6.1 database and a restore of the database in 6.2. @@ -4091,14 +4193,14 @@ Trigger function for inserting user names for INSERT/UPDATE(Brook Milligan) used to dump the 6.1 database. _________________________________________________________________ - Migration from version 1.x to version 6.2 - +Migration from version 1.x to version 6.2 + Those migrating from earlier 1.* releases should first upgrade to 1.09 because the COPY output format was improved from the 1.02 release. _________________________________________________________________ - Changes - +Changes + Bug Fixes --------- Fix problems with pg_dump for inheritance, sequences, archive tables(Bruce) @@ -4218,15 +4320,15 @@ SPI and Trigger programming guides (Vadim & D'Arcy) Release date: 1997-07-22 _________________________________________________________________ - Migration from version 6.1 to version 6.1.1 - +Migration from version 6.1 to version 6.1.1 + This is a minor bug-fix release. A dump/reload is not required from version 6.1, but is required from any release prior to 6.1. Refer to the release notes for 6.1 for more details. _________________________________________________________________ - Changes - +Changes + fix for SET with options (Thomas) allow pg_dump/pg_dumpall to preserve ownership of all tables/objects(Bruce) new psql \connect option allows changing usernames without changing databases @@ -4286,8 +4388,8 @@ pg_dumpall now returns proper status, portability fix(Bruce) on my test machine (Linux/gcc/i686). _________________________________________________________________ - Migration to version 6.1 - +Migration to version 6.1 + This migration requires a complete dump of the 6.0 database and a restore of the database in 6.1. @@ -4295,8 +4397,8 @@ pg_dumpall now returns proper status, portability fix(Bruce) because the COPY output format was improved from the 1.02 release. _________________________________________________________________ - Changes - +Changes + Bug Fixes --------- packet length checking in library routines @@ -4401,20 +4503,20 @@ DG/UX, Ultrix, IRIX, AIX portability fixes previous releases of PostgreSQL. _________________________________________________________________ - Migration from version 1.09 to version 6.0 - +Migration from version 1.09 to version 6.0 + This migration requires a complete dump of the 1.09 database and a restore of the database in 6.0. _________________________________________________________________ - Migration from pre-1.09 to version 6.0 - +Migration from pre-1.09 to version 6.0 + Those migrating from earlier 1.* releases should first upgrade to 1.09 because the COPY output format was improved from the 1.02 release. _________________________________________________________________ - Changes - +Changes + Bug Fixes --------- ALTER TABLE bug - running postgress process needs to re-read table definition @@ -4536,8 +4638,8 @@ Unused/uninialized variables corrected Release date: 1996-08-01 _________________________________________________________________ - Migration from version 1.02 to version 1.02.1 - +Migration from version 1.02 to version 1.02.1 + Here is a new migration file for 1.02.1. It includes the 'copy' change and a script to convert old ASCII files. @@ -4564,8 +4666,8 @@ Unused/uninialized variables corrected present in 1.02. This is not a cause for concern. _________________________________________________________________ - Dump/Reload Procedure - +Dump/Reload Procedure + If you are trying to reload a pg_dump or text-mode, copy tablename to stdout generated with a previous version, you will need to run the attached "sed" script on the ASCII file before loading it into the @@ -4588,8 +4690,8 @@ create operator !~* (leftarg = varchar, rightarg = text, procedure = texticrege xne); _________________________________________________________________ - Changes - +Changes + Source code maintenance and development * worldwide team of volunteers * the source tree now in CVS at ftp.ki.net @@ -4622,8 +4724,8 @@ New Ports Release date: 1996-02-23 _________________________________________________________________ - Migration from version 1.0 to version 1.01 - +Migration from version 1.0 to version 1.01 + The following notes are for the benefit of users who want to migrate databases from Postgres95 1.0 to Postgres95 1.01. @@ -4712,8 +4814,8 @@ create operator !~* (leftarg = text, rightarg = text, procedure = texticregexne ); _________________________________________________________________ - Changes - +Changes + Incompatibilities: * 1.01 is backwards compatible with 1.0 database provided the user follow the steps outlined in the MIGRATION_from_1.0_to_1.01 file. @@ -4753,8 +4855,8 @@ Bug fixes: Release date: 1995-09-05 _________________________________________________________________ - Changes - +Changes + Copyright change: * The copyright of Postgres 1.0 has been loosened to be freely modifiable and modifiable for any purpose. Please read the COPYRIGHT file. @@ -4801,8 +4903,8 @@ Bug fixes: Release date: 1995-07-21 _________________________________________________________________ - Changes - +Changes + Incompatible changes: * BETA-0.3 IS INCOMPATIBLE WITH DATABASES CREATED WITH PREVIOUS VERSIONS (due to system catalog changes and indexing structure changes). @@ -4915,8 +5017,8 @@ New documentation: Release date: 1995-05-25 _________________________________________________________________ - Changes - +Changes + Incompatible changes: * The SQL statement for creating a database is 'CREATE DATABASE' instead of 'CREATEDB'. Similarly, dropping a database is 'DROP DATABASE' instead diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/Makefile b/doc/src/sgml/Makefile index 5ffc026c552..c8c00651e7e 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/Makefile +++ b/doc/src/sgml/Makefile @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ # # PostgreSQL documentation makefile # -# $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/Makefile,v 1.61 2003/12/11 22:10:51 petere Exp $ +# $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/Makefile,v 1.62 2003/12/15 22:24:59 momjian Exp $ # #---------------------------------------------------------------------------- @@ -184,13 +184,13 @@ INSTALL.html: standalone-install.sgml installation.sgml version.sgml $(JADE.text) -V nochunks standalone-install.sgml installation.sgml >$@ HISTORY.html: release.sgml - ( echo '<!doctype appendix PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook V3.1//EN">'; \ + ( echo '<!doctype appendix PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook V4.2//EN">'; \ cat $< ) >tempfile_HISTORY.sgml $(JADE.text) -V nochunks tempfile_HISTORY.sgml >$@ rm tempfile_HISTORY.sgml regress_README.html: regress.sgml - ( echo '<!doctype chapter PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook V3.1//EN" ['; \ + ( echo '<!doctype chapter PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook V4.2//EN" ['; \ echo '<!entity % standalone-ignore "IGNORE"> ]>'; \ cat $< ) >tempfile_regress_README.sgml $(JADE.text) -V nochunks tempfile_regress_README.sgml >$@ diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml index 5401bb17ded..7f4e13319da 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml @@ -1,10 +1,93 @@ <!-- -$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml,v 1.246 2003/12/02 16:14:12 tgl Exp $ +$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml,v 1.247 2003/12/15 22:24:59 momjian Exp $ --> <appendix id="release"> <title>Release Notes</title> + <sect1 id="release-7-4-1"> + <title>Release 7.4.1</title> + + <note> + <title>Release date</title> + <simpara>2003-12-15</simpara> + </note> + + <para> + This has a variety of fixes from 7.4. + </para> + + + <sect2> + <title>Migration to version 7.4</title> + + <para> + A dump/restore is <emphasis>not</emphasis> required for those + running 7.4. + </para> + </sect2> + + <sect2> + <title>Changes</title> + +<para>Changes as of 2003-12-14</para> +<itemizedlist> +<listitem><para>Fixed bug in CREATE SCHEMA parsing (Michael)</para></listitem> +<listitem><para>Fix --enable-thread-safety compile error when used with --with-perl (Peter)</para></listitem> +<listitem><para>Fix for subqueries that used hash joins (Tom)</para> +<para> + Certain subqueries that used hash joins would crash because of + improperly shared structures. +</para></listitem> +<listitem><para>Fix free space map compaction bug (Tom)</para> +<para> + This fixes a bug where compaction of the free space map could lead + to a database server shutdown. +</para> +</listitem> +<listitem><para>Fix for Borland compiler build of libpq (Bruce)</para></listitem> +<listitem><para>Fix netmask() and hostmask() to return the maximum-length masklen (Tom)</para> +<para> + Fix these functions to return values consistent with pre-7.4 + releases. +</para> +</listitem> +<listitem><para>Several /contrib/pg_autovacuum fixes</para> +<para> + Fixes include improper variable initialization, missing vacuum after + TRUNCATE, and duration computation overflow for long vacuums. +</para> +</listitem> +<listitem><para>Allow compile of /contrib/cube under Cygwin (Jason Tishler)</para></listitem> +<listitem><para>Fix Solaris use of password file when no passwords are defined (Tom)</para> +<para> + Fix crash on Solaris caused by use of any type of password + authentication when no passwords were defined. +</para> +</listitem> +<listitem><para>JDBC fix for thread problems, other fixes</para></listitem> +<listitem><para>Fix for index bytea lookups (Joe)</para></listitem> +<listitem><para>Fix information schema for bit data types (Peter)</para> +<para> + To enable this fix, an initdb is required. +</para> +</listitem> +<listitem><para>Force zero_damaged_pages to be on during recovery from WAL</para></listitem> +<listitem><para>Prevent some obscure cases of <quote>variable not in subplan target lists</para></listitem> +<listitem><para>Make PQescapeBytea and byteaout consistent with each other (Joe)</para> +<listitem><para>Escape bytea output for bytes > 0x7e(Joe)</para> +<para> + If different client encodings are used for bytea output and input, it + is possible for bytea values to be corrupted by the differing + encodings. This fix escapes all bytes that might be affected. +</para> +</listitem> +<listitem><para>Added missing SPI_finish() calls to dblink's get_tuple_of_interest() (Joe)</para></listitem> +</itemizedlist> + + </sect2> + </sect1> + <sect1 id="release-7-4"> <title>Release 7.4</title> @@ -1882,64 +1965,26 @@ $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml,v 1.246 2003/12/02 16:14:12 tgl Exp <title>Changes</title> <itemizedlist> -<listitem><para> -Force zero_damaged_pages to be on during recovery from WAL -</para></listitem> -<listitem><para> -Prevent some obscure cases of <quote>variable not in subplan target lists</> -</para></listitem> -<listitem><para> -Force stats processes to detach from shared memory, ensuring cleaner shutdown -</para></listitem> -<listitem><para> -Make PQescapeBytea and byteaout consistent with each other (Joe) -</para></listitem> -<listitem><para> -Added missing SPI_finish() calls to get_tuple_of_interest() (Joe) -</para></listitem> -<listitem><para> -Fix for possible foreign key violation when rule rewrites INSERT (Jan) -</para></listitem> -<listitem><para> -Support qualified type names in PL/Tcl's spi_prepare command (Jan) -</para></listitem> -<listitem><para> -Make pg_dump handle a procedural language handler located in pg_catalog -</para></listitem> -<listitem><para> -Make pg_dump handle cases where a custom opclass is in another schema -</para></listitem> -<listitem><para> -Make pg_dump dump binary-compatible casts correctly (Jan) -</para></listitem> -<listitem><para> -Fix insertion of expressions containing subqueries into rule bodies -</para></listitem> -<listitem><para> -Fix incorrect argument processing in clusterdb script (Anand Ranganathan) -</para></listitem> -<listitem><para> -Fix problems with dropped columns in plpython triggers -</para></listitem> -<listitem><para> -Repair problems with to_char() reading past end of its input string (Karel) -</para></listitem> -<listitem><para> -Fix GB18030 mapping errors (Tatsuo) -</para></listitem> -<listitem><para> -Fix several problems with SSL error handling and asynchronous SSL I/O -</para></listitem> -<listitem><para> -Remove ability to bind a list of values to a single parameter in JDBC -(prevents possible SQL-injection attacks) -</para></listitem> -<listitem><para> -Fix some errors in HAVE_INT64_TIMESTAMP code paths -</para></listitem> -<listitem><para> -Fix corner case for btree search in parallel with first root page split -</para></listitem> +<listitem><para>Force zero_damaged_pages to be on during recovery from WAL</para></listitem> +<listitem><para>Prevent some obscure cases of <quote>variable not in subplan target lists</para></listitem> +<listitem><para>Force stats processes to detach from shared memory, ensuring cleaner shutdown</para></listitem> +<listitem><para>Make PQescapeBytea and byteaout consistent with each other (Joe)</para></listitem> +<listitem><para>Added missing SPI_finish() calls to dblink's get_tuple_of_interest() (Joe)</para></listitem> +<listitem><para>Fix for possible foreign key violation when rule rewrites INSERT (Jan)</para></listitem> +<listitem><para>Support qualified type names in PL/Tcl's spi_prepare command (Jan)</para></listitem> +<listitem><para>Make pg_dump handle a procedural language handler located in pg_catalog</para></listitem> +<listitem><para>Make pg_dump handle cases where a custom opclass is in another schema</para></listitem> +<listitem><para>Make pg_dump dump binary-compatible casts correctly (Jan)</para></listitem> +<listitem><para>Fix insertion of expressions containing subqueries into rule bodies</para></listitem> +<listitem><para>Fix incorrect argument processing in clusterdb script (Anand Ranganathan)</para></listitem> +<listitem><para>Fix problems with dropped columns in plpython triggers</para></listitem> +<listitem><para>Repair problems with to_char() reading past end of its input string (Karel)</para></listitem> +<listitem><para>Fix GB18030 mapping errors (Tatsuo)</para></listitem> +<listitem><para>Fix several problems with SSL error handling and asynchronous SSL I/O</para></listitem> +<listitem><para>Remove ability to bind a list of values to a single parameter in JDBC +(prevents possible SQL-injection attacks)</para></listitem> +<listitem><para>Fix some errors in HAVE_INT64_TIMESTAMP code paths</para></listitem> +<listitem><para>Fix corner case for btree search in parallel with first root page split</para></listitem> </itemizedlist> </sect2> @@ -7351,3 +7396,4 @@ sgml-local-catalogs:("/usr/lib/sgml/catalog") sgml-local-ecat-files:nil End: --> + |