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+Weekly News - January 16 2011
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+
+<h1>PostgreSQL Weekly News - January 16 2011</h1>
+
+<p>
+The final commitfest of 9.1 has begun. Start reviewing those patches!
+</p>
+
+<p>
+In version 9.1, PostgreSQL will have substantial improvements to
+SERIALIZABLE transaction mode. Do you currently use SERIALIZABLE?
+The PostgreSQL development team needs feedback:
+<a href="http://www.postgresql.org/community/">http://www.postgresql.org/community/</a>
+</p>
+
+<h2>PostgreSQL Product News</h2>
+<p>
+pgbouncer 1.4 a lightweight connection pooler for PostgreSQL, released.
+<a href="http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pgbouncer/">http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pgbouncer/</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+repmgr 1.0.0, a Hot Standby and Streaming Replication management
+system, released.
+<a href="http://projects.2ndquadrant.com/repmgr">http://projects.2ndquadrant.com/repmgr</a>
+</p>
+
+<h2>PostgreSQL 9.0 Feature of the Week</h2>
+<h2>PostgreSQL Tip of the Week</h2>
+<h2>PostgreSQL Jobs for January</h2>
+<p>
+<a href="http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-jobs/2011-01/threads.php">http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-jobs/2011-01/threads.php</a>
+</p>
+
+<h2>PostgreSQL Local</h2>
+<p>
+Selena Deckelmann will be speaking on PostgreSQL Community and
+Development February 7, 2010, 4pm at Oregon State University in
+Corvallis, OR.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The Call for Papers for the fourth annual Prague PostgreSQL
+Developers' Day is open. It will be held February 10, 2011 at Charles
+University in Prague.
+<a href="http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-announce/2010-12/msg00009.php">http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-announce/2010-12/msg00009.php</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The PostgreSQLFr Call for Projects is open. Projects must target
+PostgreSQL and the French-speaking community. Mail appel-projets-2010
+AT postgresql DOT fr.
+<a href="http://www.postgresql.fr/appel_a_projets_2010:call_for_projects">http://www.postgresql.fr/appel_a_projets_2010:call_for_projects</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+PGDay is scheduled at this year's Southern California Linux Exposition
+(SCALE) held in the LAX Hilton Hotel in the city of Los Angeles,
+California, on Friday February 25th, 2011. Post your talk submission
+to pgday-submissions AT googlegroups DOT com.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+PostgreSQL Conference East 2011: NYC March 22nd - 25th
+<a href="http://www.postgresqlconference.org">http://www.postgresqlconference.org</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Open Database Camp will be on May 7-9, 2011 in Sardinia, Italy
+<a href="http://datacharmer.blogspot.com/2011/01/announcing-open-database-camp-sardinia.html">http://datacharmer.blogspot.com/2011/01/announcing-open-database-camp-sardinia.html</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+PGCon will be May 19-20, 2011 at the University of Ottawa, preceded by
+two days of tutorials on May 17-18. The Call for Papers is open!
+<a href="http://www.pgcon.org/2011/">http://www.pgcon.org/2011/</a>
+</p>
+
+<h2>PostgreSQL in the News</h2>
+<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>
+<p>
+Steve Singer reviewed Gurjeet Singh's patch to add a primary key using
+an existing index.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Noah Misch reviewed the snapshot synchronization patch.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Hitoshi Harada reviewed the patch to add a PL/Python validator
+function.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Jan Urbanski reveiwed the FDW API patch.
+</p>
+
+<h2>Applied Patches</h2>
+<p>
+Magnus Hagander pushed:
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Backend support for streaming base backups. Add BASE_BACKUP command
+ to walsender, allowing it to stream a base backup to the client (in
+ tar format). The syntax is still far from ideal, that will be fixed
+ in the switch to use a proper grammar for walsender. No client
+ included yet, will come as a separate commit. Magnus Hagander and
+ Heikki Linnakangas.
+ <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=0eb59c4591ecf4f1c69d89e9f043a18e7dce9e47">http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=0eb59c4591ecf4f1c69d89e9f043a18e7dce9e47</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Set process title to indicate base backup is running.
+ <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=2e36343f82377fbb50834bba6557f8f243fecb34">http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=2e36343f82377fbb50834bba6557f8f243fecb34</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Reset walsender ps title in the main loop. When in streaming mode
+ we can never get out, so it will never be required, but after a base
+ backup (or other operations) we can get back to the loop, so the
+ title needs to be cleared.
+ <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=b7ebda9d8c6f78b3bb31247531d0ef0e64b32a16">http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=b7ebda9d8c6f78b3bb31247531d0ef0e64b32a16</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Typo fix. Josh Kupershmidt
+ <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=1c400d330934eb6d70982af522f2bc0458eef48d">http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=1c400d330934eb6d70982af522f2bc0458eef48d</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Revert installation of gram.h in 8.3. To make the buildfarm green
+ again, since there is no file to copy on msvc, and also given
+ discussion about the necessity of the file at all...
+ <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=c1bcb1fb618fbec07b04f16042bcf9ffbf294fec">http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=c1bcb1fb618fbec07b04f16042bcf9ffbf294fec</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Add missing function prototype, for consistency.
+ <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=47a5f3e9dab68f47ebadc759afb97b900c437c54">http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=47a5f3e9dab68f47ebadc759afb97b900c437c54</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Track walsender state in shared memory and expose in
+ pg_stat_replication.
+ <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=4c8e20f815cbdf043d6d27906fd85ae50c9e4870">http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=4c8e20f815cbdf043d6d27906fd85ae50c9e4870</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Make sure walsender state is only read while holding the spinlock.
+ Noted by Robert Haas.
+ <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=9eacd427e811a97337de1fdd61a3cb90604981ad">http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=9eacd427e811a97337de1fdd61a3cb90604981ad</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Exit from base backups when shutdown is requested. When the exit
+ waits until the whole backup completes, it may take a very long
+ time. In passing, add back an error check in the main loop so we
+ detect clients that disconnect much earlier if the backup is large.
+ <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=688423d004f4092aed73c73a3281c281d476436d">http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=688423d004f4092aed73c73a3281c281d476436d</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Use a lexer and grammar for parsing walsender commands Makes it
+ easier to parse mainly the BASE_BACKUP command with it's options,
+ and avoids having to manually deal with quoted identifiers in the
+ label (previously broken), and makes it easier to add new commands
+ and options in the future. In passing, refactor the case statement
+ in the walsender to put each command in it's own function.
+ <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=fcd810c69adf11b6ec1cff35359be0dd27662eff">http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=fcd810c69adf11b6ec1cff35359be0dd27662eff</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Enumerate available tablespaces after starting the backup. This
+ closes a race condition where if a tablespace was created after the
+ enumeration happened but before the do_pg_start_backup() was called,
+ the backup would be incomplete. Now that it's done while we are in
+ backup mode, WAL replay will recreate it during restore. Noted by
+ Heikki Linnakangas.
+ <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=3866ff6149a3b072561e65b3f71f63498e77b6b2">http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=3866ff6149a3b072561e65b3f71f63498e77b6b2</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Bruce Momjian pushed:
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- A toast relid field are no longer needed in pg_upgrade's rel arrays,
+ so remove them. Also other renaming.
+ <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=0a5f11993195d74f23b63cc5c2d7024c6d27d7e2">http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=0a5f11993195d74f23b63cc5c2d7024c6d27d7e2</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Apply libpq documentation patches submitted by Leslie S Satenstein
+ and reviewed by Robert Haas.
+ <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=a0423ec02df3e311d6d5888170cb25a8c14bc6bf">http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=a0423ec02df3e311d6d5888170cb25a8c14bc6bf</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- More libpq documentation adjustments from Leslie S Satenstein,
+ reviewed by Robert Haas.
+ <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=712dd95370fc6c3a8d20f71b8e195a7af3c50f42">http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=712dd95370fc6c3a8d20f71b8e195a7af3c50f42</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Apply patch for test_fsync to add tests for O_DIRECT. Adjusted
+ patch by Josh Berkus.
+ <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=677b06ca462ec6fd98da9369a2eae6085c9d7fed">http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=677b06ca462ec6fd98da9369a2eae6085c9d7fed</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Improve output display of test_fsync.
+ <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=3ab80cfe031b616638eb6956010dcc9cb6426631">http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=3ab80cfe031b616638eb6956010dcc9cb6426631</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Restructure test_fync to use modular C so there is less duplicate
+ code and it can be enhanced easier.
+ <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=169516ad9395e91d206cbf5bf32c5d2fa34d4111">http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=169516ad9395e91d206cbf5bf32c5d2fa34d4111</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Have test_fsync output details that fdatasync is the default
+ wal_sync_method on Linux.
+ <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=001d3664e32c0d156215bbfeccea3272aaf17722">http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=001d3664e32c0d156215bbfeccea3272aaf17722</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- In test_fsync, warn about options without o_direct that are not used
+ by Postgres, and cases where o_direct does not work with certain
+ file systems.
+ <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=431605f666cfb223cd615ec8c63cbdea07295550">http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=431605f666cfb223cd615ec8c63cbdea07295550</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Reverse number of stars used for test_fsync details.
+ <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=3eebb33dddcfe4ac0719b697c1ebd3694038054e">http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=3eebb33dddcfe4ac0719b697c1ebd3694038054e</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Use O_DIRECT in O_SYNC test of different size. Restructure O_DIRECT
+ error reporting to be more consistent.
+ <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=6dc15e3befaa6a3ff72633a2084ad1e1466edcde">http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=6dc15e3befaa6a3ff72633a2084ad1e1466edcde</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- In test_fsync, use #define for printf format of ops/sec.
+ <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=e0c274679cb50064a92472c94c7ef5849a156536">http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=e0c274679cb50064a92472c94c7ef5849a156536</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Heikki Linnakangas pushed:
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Leave temporary files out of streaming base backups.
+ <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=dc1305ce5ffef157410b6e0171d71fa16da4cc9e">http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=dc1305ce5ffef157410b6e0171d71fa16da4cc9e</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Fix the logic in libpqrcv_receive() to determine if there's any
+ incoming data that can be read without blocking. It used to conclude
+ that there isn't, even though there was data in the socket receive
+ buffer. That lead walreceiver to flush the WAL after every received
+ chunk, potentially causing big performance issues. Backpatch to
+ 9.0, because the performance impact can be very significant.
+ <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=a5a02a744555789ab8390dbf57271e9d07127602">http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=a5a02a744555789ab8390dbf57271e9d07127602</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Treat a WAL sender process that hasn't started streaming yet as a
+ regular backend, as far as the postmaster shutdown logic is
+ concerned. That means, fast shutdown will wait for WAL sender
+ processes to exit before signaling bgwriter to finish. This avoids
+ race conditions between a base backup stopping or starting, and
+ bgwriter writing the shutdown checkpoint WAL record. We don't want
+ e.g the end-of-backup WAL record to be written after the shutdown
+ checkpoint.
+ <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=8f5d65e916796aaee1bf7dd66daf45ca56cd13be">http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=8f5d65e916796aaee1bf7dd66daf45ca56cd13be</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Tom Lane pushed:
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Tweak create_index_paths()'s test for whether to consider a bitmap
+ scan. Per my note of a couple days ago, create_index_paths would
+ refuse to consider any path at all for GIN indexes if the
+ selectivity estimate came out as 1.0; not even if you tried to force
+ it with enable_seqscan. While this isn't really a bad outcome in
+ practice, it could be annoying for testing purposes. Adjust the
+ test for "is this path only useful for sorting" so that it doesn't
+ fire on paths with nil pathkeys, which will include all GIN paths.
+ <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=9d1ac2f5fa4043529dbaff5ebdc73405fa73207b">http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=9d1ac2f5fa4043529dbaff5ebdc73405fa73207b</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Adjust basebackup.c to suppress compiler warnings. Some versions of
+ gcc complain about "variable `tablespaces' might be clobbered by
+ `longjmp' or `vfork'" with the original coding. Fix by moving the
+ PG_TRY block into a separate subroutine.
+ <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=e6dce4e439e1d271dad9a95bc4b94147be2fc39a">http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=e6dce4e439e1d271dad9a95bc4b94147be2fc39a</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Fix PlanRowMark/ExecRowMark structures to handle inheritance
+ correctly. In an inherited UPDATE/DELETE, each target table has its
+ own subplan, because it might have a column set different from other
+ targets. This means that the resjunk columns we add to support
+ EvalPlanQual might be at different physical column numbers in each
+ subplan. The EvalPlanQual rewrite I did for 9.0 failed to account
+ for this, resulting in possible misbehavior or even crashes during
+ concurrent updates to the same row, as seen in a recent report from
+ Gordon Shannon. Revise the data structure so that we track resjunk
+ column numbers separately for each subplan. I also chose to move
+ responsibility for identifying the physical column numbers back to
+ executor startup, instead of assuming that numbers derived during
+ preprocess_targetlist would stay valid throughout subsequent
+ massaging of the plan. That's a bit slower, so we might want to
+ consider undoing it someday; but it would complicate the patch
+ considerably and didn't seem justifiable in a bug fix that has to be
+ back-patched to 9.0.
+ <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=d487afbb813b7ca8803e20974b9e45530a1f4ef1">http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=d487afbb813b7ca8803e20974b9e45530a1f4ef1</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Revert incorrect memory-conservation hack in inheritance_planner().
+ This reverts commit d1001a78ce612a16ea622b558f5fc2b68c45ab4c of
+ 2010-12-05, which was broken as reported by Jeff Davis. The problem
+ is that the individual planning steps may have side-effects on
+ substructures of PlannerGlobal, not only the current PlannerInfo
+ root. Arranging to keep all such side effects in the main planning
+ context is probably possible, but it would change this from a quick
+ local hack into a wide-ranging and rather fragile endeavor. Which
+ it's not worth.
+ <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=f0f36045b2e3d037bb7647d84373404fa4ba9588">http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=f0f36045b2e3d037bb7647d84373404fa4ba9588</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Code review for postmaster.pid contents changes. Fix broken test
+ for pre-existing postmaster, caused by wrong code for appending
+ lines to the lockfile; don't write a failed listen_address setting
+ into the lockfile; don't arbitrarily change the location of the data
+ directory in the lockfile compared to previous releases; provide
+ more consistent and useful definitions of the socket path and
+ listen_address entries; avoid assuming that pg_ctl has the same
+ DEFAULT_PGSOCKET_DIR as the postmaster; assorted code style
+ improvements.
+ <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=52948169bcddf443b76d6ff1806259b153a2ac04">http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=52948169bcddf443b76d6ff1806259b153a2ac04</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Add .gitignore to silence git complaints about parser/scanner output
+ files.
+ <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=36750dcef58550c652cfff861f9aad057a391fb9">http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=36750dcef58550c652cfff861f9aad057a391fb9</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Move a couple of declarations to reflect where the routines really
+ are.
+ <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=6ca452ba7fca14dad16425a56ffa1c8a93496b5f">http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=6ca452ba7fca14dad16425a56ffa1c8a93496b5f</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Peter Eisentraut pushed:
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Add some subsection headings.
+ <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=b95ea9dd628a93f564e460b8870228755b520220">http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=b95ea9dd628a93f564e460b8870228755b520220</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Re-add recursive coverage target in src/backend/. This was lost
+ during the recent recursive make change.
+ <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=e3094fd3a8052bb600b287c5dd844b3b0ac2fe11">http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=e3094fd3a8052bb600b287c5dd844b3b0ac2fe11</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Don't run regression tests in SQL_ASCII encoding by default.
+ Instead, run them in the encoding that the locale selects, which is
+ more representative of real use. Also document how locale and
+ encoding for regression test runs can be selected.
+ <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=35eb0958be476d58dcc8ba462d57384e74a62d88">http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=35eb0958be476d58dcc8ba462d57384e74a62d88</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Workaround for recursive make breakage. Changing a file two
+ directory levels deep under src/backend/ would not cause the
+ postgres binary to be rebuilt. This change fixes it, but no one
+ knows why. Branch ------ master Details -------
+ <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=c667cc24e888dc4efe4c2412ad8dd13a190295e3">http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=c667cc24e888dc4efe4c2412ad8dd13a190295e3</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Andrew Dunstan pushed:
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Unbreak regression tests, apparently broken by commit 4c8e20f
+ <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=b7a0b42641e764a1e4abc39cc4311b5c779f5955">http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=b7a0b42641e764a1e4abc39cc4311b5c779f5955</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Robert Haas pushed:
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Add support for logging the current role. Stephen Frost, with some
+ editorialization by me.
+ <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=a8a8867912c46a68c9ac14903b3dba2fab8f7097">http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=a8a8867912c46a68c9ac14903b3dba2fab8f7097</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Revert patch adding support for logging the current role. This
+ reverts commit a8a8867912c46a68c9ac14903b3dba2fab8f7097, committed
+ by me earlier today (2011-01-12). This isn't safe inside an aborted
+ transaction. Noted by Tom Lane.
+ <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=7a32ff97321408afa0ddfcae1a4a060062956d24">http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=7a32ff97321408afa0ddfcae1a4a060062956d24</a>
+</p>
+
+<h2>Rejected Patches (for now)</h2>
+<p>
+No one was disappointed this week :-)
+</p>
+
+<h2>Pending Patches</h2>
+<p>
+Jan Urbanski sent in two more revisions of the patch to add SPI-based
+exceptions to PL/PythonU.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Kevin Grittner sent in five more revisions of the SSI patch.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Kevin Grittner sent in another revision of the patch for READ ONLY.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Magnus Hagander sent in two more revisions of the patch to use a
+parser for walsender commands.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Jan Urbanski sent in a patch which adds PL/PythonU functions for
+quoting strings.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Shigeru HANADA sent in a patch for file_fdw that adds a ResetCopyFrom
+function, which is intended to improve performance.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Cedric Villemain sent in a patch atop the walsender patch which fixes
+and infelicity for absolute paths.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Jeff Davis sent in another WIP patch for range types.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Heikki Linnakangas sent in a two revisions of a patch to allow
+multiple concurrent base backups.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Euler Taveira de Oliveira sent in another revision of the patch to
+expand pgbench's maximum run size.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+ITAGAKI Takahiro sent in another revision of the MULTISET patch.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Shigeru HANADA sent in a patch to unbreak regression tests, apparently
+broken by commit 4c8e20f.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Noah Misch sent in four more revisions of the patch to optimize ALTER
+TYPE.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Stephen Frost sent in five revisions of a patch to allow logging the
+current role.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Alexey Klyukin sent in a patch to allow conversion between PostgreSQL
+arrays and Perl arrays for PL/Perl(U).
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Robert Haas sent in some code to make the background writer compact
+the request queue before fsyncing.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Shigeru HANADA sent in another flock of patches to implement foreign
+data wrappers, part of the SQL/MED system.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Fujii Masao sent in a two revisions of a patch to use latches to
+implement failover in pg_ctl.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Fujii Masao sent in a patch to change pg_last_xlog_receive_location
+not to move backwards.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Hitoshi Harada sent in a patch to check psql better for an encoding
+mismatch.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Jan Urbanski sent in two more revisions of the patch that
+auto-generates error codes from header files.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Andreas Karlsson and Tom Lane traded patches to fix the bug in
+amproctypes in pg_describe_object().
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Shigeru HANADA and ITAGAKI Takahiro traded patches for file data
+wrappers, a part of SQL/MED.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Tatsuo Ishii sent in a patch to ensure error codes for "terminating
+connection due to conflict with recovery" are sensible.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Greg Smith sent in a patch to spread out checkpoint sync.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Marko (johto) Tiikkaja sent in another revision of the writeable CTE
+patch.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Alex Hunsaker sent in two more revisions of a patch to optimize PL/Perl
+function argument passing.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Simon Riggs sent in a patch to add foreign keys which are presumed to
+hold but not checked against existing data.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Marko (johto) Tiikkaja sent in another revision of the patch to add
+transaction-scope advisory locks.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Simon Riggs sent in a WIP patch to add ALTER TABLE ... REPLACE WITH.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Peter Eisentraut sent in a patch to add a client_hostname field to
+pg_stat_activity.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Greg Smith sent in a patch to help with logging aborted autovacuums.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Magnus Hagander sent in a patch to help streaming base backups by
+ordering.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Jeff Davis sent in another revision of the patch to add range types.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Fujii Masao sent in a patch to ensure that all WAL received is flushed
+to disk before walreceiver exits.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Florian Pflug sent in a patch to make backends die sooner after the
+postmaster does.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Dimitri Fontaine sent in another revision of the extensions patch.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Alvaro Herrera sent in a patch to make foreign key checks less
+intrusive.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Greg Smith sent in two revisions of a patch to auto-size wal_buffers.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Robert Haas sent in a patch to limit hint bit I/O.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Marti Raudsepp sent in a patch to add a tag command "REPLACE X" for
+CREATE OR REPLACE statements.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Simon Riggs sent in two revisions of a patch to add recovery control
+functions.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Hitoshi Harada sent in a patch to allow specifying ENCODING in COPY.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Peter Eisentraut sent in another revision of the patch to infer
+client_encoding from client locale.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Jaime Casanova sent in a patch to add named restore points.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Peter Eisentraut sent in another revision of the per-column collation
+patch.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Fujii Masao sent in a patch to help reduce data loss on the standby.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Andrew Dunstan sent in two revisions of a patch to add a textarray
+option for file FDWs.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Per review by Noah Misch, Pavel Stehule sent in another revision of
+the patch to optimize varlena compression in PL/pgsql.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Magnus Hagander sent in two revisions of a patch to add pg_basebackup
+for streaming base backups.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Marko (johto) Tiikkaja sent in another revision of the patch to fix
+snapshot taking inconsistencies.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Marko (johto) Tiikkaja sent in another revision of the patch to sho in
+EXPLAIN ANALYZE the number of rows a plan qual filtered from a node's
+input.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Magnus Hagander sent in a patch to include WAL in the base backup.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Simon Riggs sent in another revision of the patch to add synchronous
+replication.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Andreas Karlsson sent in another revision of the patch to add \dL
+(languages) to psql.
+</p>
+
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