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+Weekly News - October 03 2010
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+
+<h1>PostgreSQL Weekly News - October 03 2010</h1>
+
+<p>
+PgDay.IT 2010 will be in Rome this year December 10th. The Call for
+Papers is now open.
+<a href="http://www.pgday.it/">http://www.pgday.it/</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Talks for JDCon West have been posted.
+<a href="https://www.postgresqlconference.org/2010/west/talks">https://www.postgresqlconference.org/2010/west/talks</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Michael Renner will be doing a talk on Database Replication with PostgreSQL 9.0
+on the 12th of October at the Metalab in Vienna, Austria. Link & Info in de_AT:
+<a href="http://metalab.at/wiki/PostgreSQL_repliziert_9.0">http://metalab.at/wiki/PostgreSQL_repliziert_9.0</a>
+</p>
+
+<h2>PostgreSQL Product News</h2>
+<p>
+Another PostgreSQL Diff Tool 2.1, a tool for database diffs, released.
+<a href="http://apgdiff.startnet.biz/">http://apgdiff.startnet.biz/</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+phpPgAdmin 5.0-beta2, a web-based administrative tool for PostgreSQL, released.
+<a href="http://phppgadmin.sourceforge.net/">http://phppgadmin.sourceforge.net/</a>
+</p>
+
+<h2>PostgreSQL Local</h2>
+<p>
+Early bird registration for JDCon West 2010 is now open.
+<a href="https://www.postgresqlconference.org/content/pgwest-2010-registration">https://www.postgresqlconference.org/content/pgwest-2010-registration</a>
+</p>
+
+<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>
+<p>
+Dean Rasheed reviewed Andrew Dunstan's patch to extend ENUMs.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Hitoshi Harada reviewed Pavel Stehule's patch to add median and
+percentile functions, and suggested ways to implement them in the
+context of windowing.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Peter Geoghegan reviewed and sent updated patches for the ISN patch
+originally by Jan Otto.
+== Applied Patches ==
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Robert Haas pushed:
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Add "(change requires restart)" note to some postgresql.conf
+ parameters. Devrim GÜNDÜZ.
+ <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=2ce003973db82205cec55d596d51e957293019d1">http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=2ce003973db82205cec55d596d51e957293019d1</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Add a SECURITY LABEL command. This is intended as infrastructure to
+ support integration with label-based mandatory access control
+ systems such as SE-Linux. Further changes (mostly hooks) will be
+ needed, but this is a big chunk of it. KaiGai Kohei and Robert
+ Haas.
+ <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=4d355a8336e0f2265b31d678ffd1ee5cf9e79fae">http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=4d355a8336e0f2265b31d678ffd1ee5cf9e79fae</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Fix duplicate OIDs introduced by SECURITY LABEL patch. Report by
+ Shigeru Hanada.
+ <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=eacb22ec476a7bc49bdb2054a76a2b27a429a295">http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=eacb22ec476a7bc49bdb2054a76a2b27a429a295</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Adjust pg_archivecleanup docs to match message changes made
+ 2010-06-17. Erik Rijkers.
+ <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=1f0eb5de9eb56a2eb71cc538f12861b084e7b03b">http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=1f0eb5de9eb56a2eb71cc538f12861b084e7b03b</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+ITAGAKI Takahiro pushed:
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Add DISCARD to the command_no_begin list for AUTOCOMMIT=off.
+ Backpatch to 8.3. Reported by Sergey Burladyan.
+ <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=d08c698d9d47f9d004fd0bb6212ca80259e2fe9c">http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=d08c698d9d47f9d004fd0bb6212ca80259e2fe9c</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Only DISCARD ALL should be in the command_no_begin list. We allowes
+ DISCARD PLANS and TEMP in a transaction.
+ <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=62b6aaa40b2abb26edf18d1cd00dffcac090f67a">http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=62b6aaa40b2abb26edf18d1cd00dffcac090f67a</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Andrew Dunstan pushed:
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Fix MSVC builds for dummy_seclabel breakage.
+ <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=f00847dc012e9c5219ef0e8e212d173d24700275">http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=f00847dc012e9c5219ef0e8e212d173d24700275</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Alvaro Herrera pushed:
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- In doc/src/sgml/ref/security_label.sgml, add missing agg_type
+ nonterminal description in new reference page.
+ <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=3bb27fb503b421dae5c5d95d75842bbc048f2fab">http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=3bb27fb503b421dae5c5d95d75842bbc048f2fab</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Bruce Momjian pushed:
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Add mention of installing pg_upgrade_support in pg_upgrade doc
+ section title, per suggestion from Ian Barwick.
+ <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=9c5f4f6cb50dd22028acc0b6f20291a5edcac62b">http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=9c5f4f6cb50dd22028acc0b6f20291a5edcac62b</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Mention in pg_upgrade docs that the proper Win32 service name should
+ be used. Per report from Harald Armin Massa.
+ <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=6b44b9ba56e02d63425a8d950ef141bb007745ff">http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=6b44b9ba56e02d63425a8d950ef141bb007745ff</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Mention that pg_upgrade requires write permission in the current
+ directory. Per report from Harald Armin Massa.
+ <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=ae9acb677950cf2afa037349b73fa3351d6e1d31">http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=ae9acb677950cf2afa037349b73fa3351d6e1d31</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Properly close files after read file failure to prevent potential
+ resource leak. Of course, any such failure aborts pg_upgrade, but
+ might as well be clean about it. Per patch from Grzegorz
+ Jaskiewicz.
+ <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=f175884520949fbc52908d2f4b2baacde5906ebc">http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=f175884520949fbc52908d2f4b2baacde5906ebc</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Fix leak patch that was using fclose() instead of close().
+ <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=a1bb570de97c71eba3c1b7a067063e8ba28c41d5">http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=a1bb570de97c71eba3c1b7a067063e8ba28c41d5</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- In pg_upgrade, properly handle oids > 2^31 by using strtoul()
+ internally rather than atol(). Per report from Brian Hirt
+ <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=9340fb80b1dba5528c0d16b24985369659a19377">http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=9340fb80b1dba5528c0d16b24985369659a19377</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Use macro atooid() for conversion of strings to oids, per suggestion
+ from Tom.
+ <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=807005c024aa57b5af729d021263cbf179fd5121">http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=807005c024aa57b5af729d021263cbf179fd5121</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Have pg_upgrade use strtoul(), not strtol().
+ <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=fe61db6f0ceb508357bcddc39b388e2806cf11d0">http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=fe61db6f0ceb508357bcddc39b388e2806cf11d0</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Tom Lane pushed:
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Fix PlaceHolderVar mechanism's interaction with outer joins. The
+ point of a PlaceHolderVar is to allow a non-strict expression to be
+ evaluated below an outer join, after which its value bubbles up like
+ a Var and can be forced to NULL when the outer join's semantics
+ require that. However, there was a serious design oversight in
+ that, namely that we didn't ensure that there was actually a correct
+ place in the plan tree to evaluate the placeholder :-(. It may be
+ necessary to delay evaluation of an outer join to ensure that a
+ placeholder that should be evaluated below the join can be evaluated
+ there. Per recent bug report from Kirill Simonov. Back-patch to
+ 8.4 where the PlaceHolderVar mechanism was introduced.
+ <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=eb229505103eb5494c33832d422584bfdee03fc6">http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=eb229505103eb5494c33832d422584bfdee03fc6</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Fix another small oversight in command_no_begin patch. Need a
+ "return false" to prevent tests from continuing after we've moved
+ the "query" pointer. As it stood, it'd accept "DROP DISCARD ALL" as
+ a match.
+ <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=112c3fc6db62b39ded8965eddce1f4213308b957">http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=112c3fc6db62b39ded8965eddce1f4213308b957</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Fix incorrect usage of non-strict OR joinclauses in appendrel
+ indexscans. By chance I happened to notice that bug #5076 was still
+ broken in the 8.3 branch, though it worked everywhere else. The
+ reason is that 8.3's version of adjust_appendrel_attrs_mutator
+ neglected to adjust RestrictInfo.nullable_relids. This was an
+ oversight in my patch of 2009-04-16, which I apparently corrected in
+ the later branches on 2009-08-13 without realizing that it affected
+ the 8.3 branch as well. By the time the bug report was filed, it
+ was not reproducible in 8.4. I don't recall if I wrote it off as
+ already fixed, or it just fell through the cracks; but anyway it's
+ been a live bug in 8.3 for a year.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Improve messages for too many private files/dirs. Per Alexey
+ Parshin.
+ <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=5ac144d5c2906cc4b45423ac6575653a8df1b3d0">http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=5ac144d5c2906cc4b45423ac6575653a8df1b3d0</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Update release notes for releases 9.0.1, 8.4.5, 8.3.12, 8.2.18,
+ 8.1.22, 8.0.26, and 7.4.30.
+ <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=a5683ea0423752cca323e528cb160273ad794054">http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=a5683ea0423752cca323e528cb160273ad794054</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Fix back-branch breakage from ill-advised last-minute commit.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Throw an appropriate error if ALTER COLUMN TYPE finds a dependent
+ trigger. Actually making this case work, if the column is used in
+ the trigger's WHEN condition, will take some new code that probably
+ isn't appropriate to back-patch. For now, just throw a
+ FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED error rather than allowing control to reach
+ the "unexpected object" case. Per bug #5688 from Daniel Grace.
+ Back-patch to 9.0 where the possibility of such a dependency was
+ introduced.
+ <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=1f0b62e8c28026f5d1d3693087f7b4aef6a191af">http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=1f0b62e8c28026f5d1d3693087f7b4aef6a191af</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Remove excess argument to open(2). Many compilers don't complain
+ about this, but some do, and it's certainly wrong. Back-patch to
+ 8.4 where the error was introduced. Mark Kirkwood.
+ <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=e77f605d431c488983d6c96cb3513c691bf1907c">http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=e77f605d431c488983d6c96cb3513c691bf1907c</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Behave correctly if INSERT ... VALUES is decorated with additional
+ clauses. In versions 8.2 and up, the grammar allows attaching ORDER
+ BY, LIMIT, FOR UPDATE, or WITH to VALUES, and hence to INSERT ...
+ VALUES. But the special-case code for VALUES in
+ transformInsertStmt() wasn't expecting any of those, and just
+ ignored them, leading to unexpected results. Rather than complicate
+ the special-case path, just ensure that the presence of any of those
+ clauses makes us treat the query as if it had a general SELECT. Per
+ report from Hitoshi Harada.
+ <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=3a13f12b3a18da0a61571cb134fdecea03a10d6f">http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=3a13f12b3a18da0a61571cb134fdecea03a10d6f</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Peter Eisentraut pushed:
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Update ecpglib error code listing. Satoshi Nagayasu
+ <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=fe48d9471eea6a5e8f8162bfed7d8f7c264904ab">http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=fe48d9471eea6a5e8f8162bfed7d8f7c264904ab</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Add/fix caching on some configure checks
+ <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=804a786c958d44fdf3b2e2d4774618f919759dc8">http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=804a786c958d44fdf3b2e2d4774618f919759dc8</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Translation updates for 9.0.1, 8.4.5, 8.3.12, 8.2.18, 8.1.22,
+ 8.0.26, and 7.4.30.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Marc Fournier pushed:
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Tag 9.0.1, 8.4.5, 8.3.12, 8.2.18, 8.1.22, 8.0.26, and 7.4.30.
+</p>
+
+<h2>Rejected Patches (for now)</h2>
+<p>
+No one was disappointed this week :-)
+</p>
+
+<h2>Pending Patches</h2>
+<p>
+Tom Lane sent in a patch to fix a bug in subquery JOIN ordering.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+ITAGAKI Takahiro sent in another revision of the patch to make CLUSTER
+operations more efficient.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Grzegorz Jaskiewicz sent in a patch to fix an issue where it's
+possible to dereference a null pointer in byteaout().
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Greg Smith sent in an updated version of Boxuan Zhai's patch to
+implement MERGE.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Bernd Helmle sent in an updated revision of the patch to add triggers
+to views.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Pavel Stehule sent in another revision of the patch to add formatting
+functions.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Fujii Masao sent in another revision of the patch to change libpq for
+synchronous replication.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Andrew Dunstan sent in another revision of the patch to extend ENUMs.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Robert Haas sent in another revision of the patch to implement
+merge-append.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Gurjeet Singh sent in a patch to allow people to replace a primary key
+with another index.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Pavel Stehule sent in three revisions of a patch to add FOR...IN
+[array] to PL/pgsql.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Pavel Stehule sent in a patch to implement a subscripts function.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Gregory Stark sent in a patch to add gtrusage profiling to EXPLAIN
+output.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Pavel Stehule sent in three more revisions of a patch to add median
+and percentile functions.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Hitoshi Harada sent in another revision of the patch to add DML
+(INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE) to the top level of CTEs.
+
+</p>
+
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