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author | Tom Lane | 2012-12-03 20:09:59 +0000 |
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committer | Tom Lane | 2012-12-03 20:09:59 +0000 |
commit | 7510bec607741a6d9de1ff7ecb0b34c7d3f2815f (patch) | |
tree | 6f7867cb68ff8a306fecd5959118b8c242555d7f /doc/src/sgml/release-9.0.sgml | |
parent | fc5c1bbbeb3e00699f87407eebf2933595e9d93b (diff) |
Update release notes for 9.2.2, 9.1.7, 9.0.11, 8.4.15, 8.3.22.
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diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release-9.0.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release-9.0.sgml index af99af82bec..495738cd3cf 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/release-9.0.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/release-9.0.sgml @@ -1,6 +1,384 @@ <!-- doc/src/sgml/release-9.0.sgml --> <!-- See header comment in release.sgml about typical markup --> + <sect1 id="release-9-0-11"> + <title>Release 9.0.11</title> + + <note> + <title>Release Date</title> + <simpara>2012-12-06</simpara> + </note> + + <para> + This release contains a variety of fixes from 9.0.10. + For information about new features in the 9.0 major release, see + <xref linkend="release-9-0">. + </para> + + <sect2> + <title>Migration to Version 9.0.11</title> + + <para> + A dump/restore is not required for those running 9.0.X. + </para> + + <para> + However, if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 9.0.6, + see the release notes for 9.0.6. + </para> + + </sect2> + + <sect2> + <title>Changes</title> + + <itemizedlist> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix multiple bugs associated with <command>CREATE INDEX + CONCURRENTLY</> (Andres Freund, Tom Lane) + </para> + + <para> + Fix <command>CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY</> to use + in-place updates when changing the state of an index's + <structname>pg_index</> row. This prevents race conditions that could + cause concurrent sessions to miss updating the target index, thus + resulting in corrupt concurrently-created indexes. + </para> + + <para> + Also, fix various other operations to ensure that they ignore + invalid indexes resulting from a failed <command>CREATE INDEX + CONCURRENTLY</> command. The most important of these is + <command>VACUUM</>, because an auto-vacuum could easily be launched + on the table before corrective action can be taken to fix or remove + the invalid index. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix buffer locking during WAL replay (Tom Lane) + </para> + + <para> + The WAL replay code was insufficiently careful about locking buffers + when replaying WAL records that affect more than one page. This could + result in hot standby queries transiently seeing inconsistent states, + resulting in wrong answers or unexpected failures. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix an error in WAL generation logic for GIN indexes (Tom Lane) + </para> + + <para> + This could result in index corruption, if a torn-page failure occurred. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Properly remove startup process's virtual XID lock when promoting a + hot standby server to normal running (Simon Riggs) + </para> + + <para> + This oversight could prevent subsequent execution of certain + operations such as <command>CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY</>. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Avoid bogus <quote>out-of-sequence timeline ID</> errors in standby + mode (Heikki Linnakangas) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Prevent the postmaster from launching new child processes after it's + received a shutdown signal (Tom Lane) + </para> + + <para> + This mistake could result in shutdown taking longer than it should, or + even never completing at all without additional user action. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Avoid corruption of internal hash tables when out of memory + (Hitoshi Harada) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix planning of non-strict equivalence clauses above outer joins + (Tom Lane) + </para> + + <para> + The planner could derive incorrect constraints from a clause equating + a non-strict construct to something else, for example + <literal>WHERE COALESCE(foo, 0) = 0</> + when <literal>foo</> is coming from the nullable side of an outer join. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Improve planner's ability to prove exclusion constraints from + equivalence classes (Tom Lane) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix partial-row matching in hashed subplans to handle cross-type cases + correctly (Tom Lane) + </para> + + <para> + This affects multicolumn <literal>NOT IN</> subplans, such as + <literal>WHERE (a, b) NOT IN (SELECT x, y FROM ...)</> + when for instance <literal>b</> and <literal>y</> are <type>int4</> + and <type>int8</> respectively. This mistake led to wrong answers + or crashes depending on the specific datatypes involved. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Acquire buffer lock when re-fetching the old tuple for an + <literal>AFTER ROW UPDATE/DELETE</> trigger (Andres Freund) + </para> + + <para> + In very unusual circumstances, this oversight could result in passing + incorrect data to the precheck logic for a foreign-key enforcement + trigger. That could result in a crash, or in an incorrect decision + about whether to fire the trigger. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix <command>ALTER COLUMN TYPE</> to handle inherited check + constraints properly (Pavan Deolasee) + </para> + + <para> + This worked correctly in pre-8.4 releases, and now works correctly + in 8.4 and later. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix <command>REASSIGN OWNED</> to handle grants on tablespaces + (Álvaro Herrera) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Ignore incorrect <structname>pg_attribute</> entries for system + columns for views (Tom Lane) + </para> + + <para> + Views do not have any system columns. However, we forgot to + remove such entries when converting a table to a view. That's fixed + properly for 9.3 and later, but in previous branches we need to defend + against existing mis-converted views. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix rule printing to dump <literal>INSERT INTO <replaceable>table</> + DEFAULT VALUES</literal> correctly (Tom Lane) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Guard against stack overflow when there are too many + <literal>UNION</>/<literal>INTERSECT</>/<literal>EXCEPT</> clauses + in a query (Tom Lane) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Prevent platform-dependent failures when dividing the minimum possible + integer value by -1 (Xi Wang, Tom Lane) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix possible access past end of string in date parsing + (Hitoshi Harada) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix failure to advance XID epoch if XID wraparound happens during a + checkpoint and <varname>wal_level</> is <literal>hot_standby</> + (Tom Lane, Andres Freund) + </para> + + <para> + While this mistake had no particular impact on + <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> itself, it was bad for + applications that rely on <function>txid_current()</> and related + functions: the TXID value would appear to go backwards. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Produce an understandable error message if the length of the path name + for a Unix-domain socket exceeds the platform-specific limit + (Tom Lane, Andrew Dunstan) + </para> + + <para> + Formerly, this would result in something quite unhelpful, such as + <quote>Non-recoverable failure in name resolution</>. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix memory leaks when sending composite column values to the client + (Tom Lane) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Make <application>pg_ctl</> more robust about reading the + <filename>postmaster.pid</> file (Heikki Linnakangas) + </para> + + <para> + Fix race conditions and possible file descriptor leakage. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix possible crash in <application>psql</> if incorrectly-encoded data + is presented and the <varname>client_encoding</> setting is a + client-only encoding, such as SJIS (Jiang Guiqing) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix bugs in the <filename>restore.sql</> script emitted by + <application>pg_dump</> in <literal>tar</> output format (Tom Lane) + </para> + + <para> + The script would fail outright on tables whose names include + upper-case characters. Also, make the script capable of restoring + data in <option>--inserts</> mode as well as the regular COPY mode. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix <application>pg_restore</> to accept POSIX-conformant + <literal>tar</> files (Brian Weaver, Tom Lane) + </para> + + <para> + The original coding of <application>pg_dump</>'s <literal>tar</> + output mode produced files that are not fully conformant with the + POSIX standard. This has been corrected for version 9.3. This + patch updates previous branches so that they will accept both the + incorrect and the corrected formats, in hopes of avoiding + compatibility problems when 9.3 comes out. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix <application>pg_resetxlog</> to locate <filename>postmaster.pid</> + correctly when given a relative path to the data directory (Tom Lane) + </para> + + <para> + This mistake could lead to <application>pg_resetxlog</> not noticing + that there is an active postmaster using the data directory. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix <application>libpq</>'s <function>lo_import()</> and + <function>lo_export()</> functions to report file I/O errors properly + (Tom Lane) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix <application>ecpg</>'s processing of nested structure pointer + variables (Muhammad Usama) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix <application>ecpg</>'s <function>ecpg_get_data</> function to + handle arrays properly (Michael Meskes) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Make <filename>contrib/pageinspect</>'s btree page inspection + functions take buffer locks while examining pages (Tom Lane) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix <application>pgxs</> support for building loadable modules on AIX + (Tom Lane) + </para> + + <para> + Building modules outside the original source tree didn't work on AIX. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Update time zone data files to <application>tzdata</> release 2012j + for DST law changes in Cuba, Israel, Jordan, Libya, Palestine, Western + Samoa, and portions of Brazil. + </para> + </listitem> + + </itemizedlist> + + </sect2> + </sect1> + <sect1 id="release-9-0-10"> <title>Release 9.0.10</title> |