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+Weekly News - September 12 2010
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+
+<h1>PostgreSQL Weekly News - September 12 2010</h1>
+
+<p>
+Jonathan S. Katz will be speaking on ORMs: The Good, The Bad, and the
+Necessary (with PostgreSQL Considerations) at NYPUG on September 13th
+at Yodle's offices. Details and RSVP below.
+<a href="http://www.meetup.com/postgresql-3/calendar/14472452/">http://www.meetup.com/postgresql-3/calendar/14472452/</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Surge 2010, the scalability and performance conference will be in
+Baltimore, MD, USA on September 30 - October 1st, 2010.
+<a href="http://omniti.com/surge/2010">http://omniti.com/surge/2010</a>
+</p>
+
+<h2>PostgreSQL Product News</h2>
+<p>
+Dataware Quick Application Suite 1.5, a RAD tool which supports
+PostgreSQL, released.
+<a href="http://www.datawarestudio.com">http://www.datawarestudio.com</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+pgbouncer 1.3.4, a lightweight connection pooler for PostgreSQL, released.
+<a href="http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pgbouncer/">http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pgbouncer/</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+pgpool-II 3.0, a connection pooler and more, and pgpoolAdmin 3.0, a
+GUI for pgpool, released.
+<a href="http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pgpool/">http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pgpool/</a>
+</p>
+
+<h2>PostgreSQL Jobs for September</h2>
+<p>
+<a href="http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-jobs/2010-09/threads.php">http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-jobs/2010-09/threads.php</a>
+</p>
+
+<h2>PostgreSQL Local</h2>
+<p>
+Call for Papers for PGDay.EU 2010 held on December 6-8 in Stuttgart,
+Germany is open.
+<a href="http://2010.pgday.eu/callforpapers">http://2010.pgday.eu/callforpapers</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+
+== PostgreSQL in the News ==
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Planet PostgreSQL: <a href="http://planet.postgresql.org/">http://planet.postgresql.org/</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+PostgreSQL Weekly News is brought to you this week by David Fetter
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Submit news and announcements by Sunday at 3:00pm Pacific time.
+Please send English language ones to david@fetter.org, German language
+to pwn@pgug.de, Italian language to pwn@itpug.org. Spanish language
+to pwn@arpug.com.ar.
+</p>
+
+<h2>Reviews</h2>
+<h2>Applied Patches</h2>
+<p>
+Bruce Momjian committed:
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Modify pg_upgrade to set/restore all environment variables related
+ to collation/encoding to match English when reading controldata.
+ This now matches the English variable setting used by pg_regress.c.
+ Backpatch to 9.0.X.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Doc fixes: 1. Remove excessive table cells. 2. Moving function
+ parameters into function tags rather than having them being
+ considered separate. 3. Add return type column on XML2 contrib
+ module functions list and removing return types from function. 4.
+ Add table header to XML2 contrib parameter table. Thom Brown.
+ Backpatch to 9.0.X.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- In pgsql/doc/src/sgml/backup.sgml, re-add documentation for Win32
+ copy syntax for archive_command. Backpatch to 9.0.X.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- In pgsql/doc/src/sgml/backup.sgml, don't try aligning comments for
+ new archive_command Win32 doc example; it doesn't work. Backpatch
+ to 9.0.X.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Peter Eisentraut committed:
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- In pgsql/doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml, clarify that surrogate pairs are
+ not encoded in UTF-8 directly.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Add tip about building plpython 2 and 3. Fix link to Python docs.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Tom Lane committed:
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- In pgsql/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml, remove obsolete claim that
+ gzip is needed while installing PG's documentation. It isn't, now
+ that we ship the docs as loose files rather than a sub-tarball.
+ Also adjust the wording in a couple of places to make the lists of
+ required software read more consistently.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Michael Meskes committed:
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Cursor names in the backend are not case-sensitve. This change
+ makes sure that ecpg also does not regard cursor names as
+ case-sensitive. Thanks to Zoltan Boszormenyi for the patch.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Heikki Linnakangas committed:
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Introduce latches. A latch is a boolean variable, with the
+ capability to wait until it is set. Latches can be used to reliably
+ wait until a signal arrives, which is hard otherwise because signals
+ don't interrupt select() on some platforms, and even when they do,
+ there's race conditions. On Unix, latches use the so called
+ self-pipe trick under the covers to implement the sleep until the
+ latch is set, without race conditions. On Windows, Windows events
+ are used. Use the new latch abstraction to sleep in walsender, so
+ that as soon as a transaction finishes, walsender is woken up to
+ immediately send the WAL to the standby. This reduces the latency
+ between master and standby, which is good. Preliminary work by
+ Fujii Masao. The latch implementation is by me, with helpful
+ comments from many people.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- In pgsql/src/backend/port/unix_latch.c, add missing #includes,
+ needed on some platforms. This should make the unixware buildfarm
+ animals happy again.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Joe Conway committed:
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- SERIALIZABLE transactions are actually implemented beneath the
+ covers with transaction snapshots, i.e. a snapshot registered at the
+ beginning of a transaction. Change variable naming and comments to
+ reflect this reality in preparation for a future, truly serializable
+ mode, e.g. Serializable Snapshot Isolation (SSI). For the moment
+ transaction snapshots are still used to implement SERIALIZABLE, but
+ hopefully not for too much longer. Patch by Kevin Grittner and Dan
+ Ports with review and some minor wording changes by me.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Robert Haas committed:
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- In pgsql/doc/src/sgml/catalogs.sgml, link from pg_shadow docs to
+ pg_authid docs. Per discussion with Josh Kupershmidt.
+</p>
+
+<h2>Rejected Patches (for now)</h2>
+<p>
+No one was disappointed this week :-)
+</p>
+
+<h2>Pending Patches</h2>
+<p>
+Dean Rasheed sent in two more revisions of the patch to add triggers
+to views.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Thom Brown sent in a doc patch to fix some layout and markup issues.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Alvaro Herrera sent in a patch to fix a shortcoming in the
+has_*_privilege() functions where PUBLIC wasn't a recognized role.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+KaiGai Kohei sent in another patch to fix leaky views.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Teodor Sigaev sent in another revision of the patch for
+gincostestimate.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Marko (johto) Tiikkaja sent in another revision of the patch to make
+all query list snapshot handling work like EXPLAIN ANALYZE's code
+does.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Pavel Stehule sent in a patch intended to reduce the persistent
+allocated memory for tsearch and ispell dictionaries.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Sushant Sinha sent in another revision of the patch to add support for
+multiple words in the same position in text search.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Hans-Juergen Schoenig sent in a patch to add an RB tree library in a
+place where it can help with searching large numbers of partitions.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Pavel Stehule sent in new versions of the format() and stringfunc
+patches.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Joe Conway sent in another revision of the patch to differentiate
+transaction isolation from serializable isolation in code and
+comments.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Magnus Hagander sent in two revisions of a patch to fix the issue
+where sometimes Windows processes return 128.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Tom Lane sent in a patch intended to help fix an issue with phantom
+files for the CVS to git migration.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Fujii Masao sent in another revision of the patch to add synchronous
+replication.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Fujii Masao sent in two revisions of a patch intended to fix an issue
+where walsender doesn't process options passed in the startup packet.
+
+</p>
+
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