From: David Fetter <david@fetter.org>
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 12:53:35 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: PostgreSQL Weekly News September 25, 2011
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PostgreSQL Weekly News September 25, 2011

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+Security releases 9.1.1, 9.0.5, 8.4.9, 8.3.16 and 8.2.22 are out.
+Update ASAP if you&#x27;re affected.  Details below.
+&#x3C;a href=&#x22;http://www.postgresql.org/about/news.1355&#x22;&#x3E;http://www.postgresql.org/about/news.1355&#x3C;/a&#x3E;
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+    <li><a href="/community/weeklynews/pwn20110925">September 25th 2011</a></li>
     <li><a href="/community/weeklynews/pwn20110918">September 18th 2011</a></li>
     <li><a href="/community/weeklynews/pwn20110911">September 11th 2011</a></li>
     <li><a href="/community/weeklynews/pwn20110904">September 4th 2011</a></li>
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+<h1>PostgreSQL Weekly News - September 25 2011</h1>
+
+<p>
+Security releases 9.1.1, 9.0.5, 8.4.9, 8.3.16 and 8.2.22 are out.
+Update ASAP if you're affected.  Details below.
+<a href="http://www.postgresql.org/about/news.1355">http://www.postgresql.org/about/news.1355</a>
+</p>
+
+<h2>PostgreSQL Product News</h2>
+<p>
+MicroOLAP Database Designer 1.8.1 for PostgreSQL released, now with
+support for PostgreSQL 9.1.
+<a href="http://microolap.com/products/database/postgresql-designer/">http://microolap.com/products/database/postgresql-designer/</a>
+</p>
+
+<h2>PostgreSQL Jobs for September</h2>
+<p>
+<a href="http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-jobs/2011-09/threads.php">http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-jobs/2011-09/threads.php</a>
+</p>
+
+<h2>PostgreSQL Local</h2>
+<p>
+PostgreSQL Conference West (#PgWest) will be held September 27th-30th,
+2011 at the San Jose Convention center in San Jose, California, USA.
+<a href="http://www.postgresqlconference.org">http://www.postgresqlconference.org</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+PostgreSQL Conference Europe 2011 will be held on October 18-21 in
+Amsterdam.
+<a href="http://2011.pgconf.eu/">http://2011.pgconf.eu/</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+PG-Day Denver 2011 will be held on Friday, October 21st, 2011 at
+the Auraria Campus near downtown Denver, Colorado.
+<a href="http://pgday.consistentstate.com/">http://pgday.consistentstate.com/</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+pgbr will be in Sao Paulo, Brazil November 3-4, 2011.
+<a href="http://pgbr.postgresql.org.br/">http://pgbr.postgresql.org.br/</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+PGConf.DE 2011 is the German-speaking PostgreSQL Conference and will
+take place on November 11th in the Rheinisches Industriemuseum in
+Oberhausen, Germany.  Call for Papers is open.
+<a href="http://2011.pgconf.de/">http://2011.pgconf.de/</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The fifth edition of the Italian PostgreSQL Day (PGDay.IT 2011) will
+be held on November 25, 2011 in Prato, Italy.
+<a href="http://2011.pgday.it/">http://2011.pgday.it/</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The Call for Papers for is open for FLOSS UK, which will be held in
+Edinburgh from the 20th to the 22nd March 2012.  The deadline for
+proposals is the 18th November 2011 and selected speakers will be
+notified by the 25th November 2011.  Proposals should be submitted to
+postgresql2012 AT flossuk DOT org.  More information at:
+<a href="http://www.flossuk.org/Events/Spring2012">http://www.flossuk.org/Events/Spring2012</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>Applied Patches</h2>
+<p>
+Tom Lane pushed:
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Improve reporting of newlocale() failures in CREATE COLLATION.  The
+  standardized errno code for "no such locale" failures is ENOENT,
+  which we were just reporting at face value, viz "No such file or
+  directory".  Per gripe from Thom Brown, this might confuse users, so
+  add an errdetail message to clarify what it means.  Also, report
+  newlocale() failures as ERRCODE_INVALID_PARAMETER_VALUE rather than
+  using errcode_for_file_access(), since newlocale()'s errno values
+  aren't necessarily tied directly to file access failures.
+  <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/37d4fd2b9d331076292201ab988fe54f09640850">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/37d4fd2b9d331076292201ab988fe54f09640850</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Suppress "unused function" warning when not HAVE_LOCALE_T.  Forgot
+  to consider this case ...
+  <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/2562dcea811eb642e1c5442e1ede9fe268278157">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/2562dcea811eb642e1c5442e1ede9fe268278157</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Make EXPLAIN ANALYZE report the numbers of rows rejected by filter
+  steps.  This provides information about the numbers of tuples that
+  were visited but not returned by table scans, as well as the numbers
+  of join tuples that were considered and discarded within a join plan
+  node.  There is still some discussion going on about the best way to
+  report counts for outer-join situations, but I think most of what's
+  in the patch would not change if we revise that, so I'm going to go
+  ahead and commit it as-is.  Documentation changes to follow (they
+  weren't in the submitted patch either).  Marko Tiikkaja, reviewed by
+  Marc Cousin, somewhat revised by Tom Lane
+  <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/f1972723654947f70409716757aa83f3d93c8fab">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/f1972723654947f70409716757aa83f3d93c8fab</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Update release notes for 9.1.1, 9.0.5, 8.4.9, 8.3.16, 8.2.22.  Man,
+  we fixed a lotta bugs since April.
+  <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/7f70f35031b4dea40ab4fa20638befc430e8ebaa">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/7f70f35031b4dea40ab4fa20638befc430e8ebaa</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Stamp 8.2.22, 8.3.16, 8.4.9, 9.0.5, 9.1.1.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Update win32tzlist.pl for the new location of our Windows timezone
+  map.  I wasn't aware of this script till Magnus Hagander mentioned
+  it just now ...
+  <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/14a183261a1f9b15dc73ad34295d118ada538b5b">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/14a183261a1f9b15dc73ad34295d118ada538b5b</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Fix our mapping of Windows timezones for Central America.  We were
+  mapping "Central America Standard Time" to "CST6CDT", which seems
+  entirely wrong, because according to the Olson timezone database
+  noplace in Central America observes daylight savings time on any
+  regular basis --- and certainly not according to the USA DST rules
+  that are implied by "CST6CDT".  (Mexico is an exception, but they
+  can be disregarded since they have a separate timezone name in
+  Windows.)  So, map this zone name to plain "CST6", which will
+  provide a fixed UTC offset.  As written, this patch will also result
+  in mapping "Central America Daylight Time" to CST6.  I considered
+  hacking things so that would still map to CST6CDT, but it seems it
+  would confuse win32tzlist.pl to put those two names in separate
+  entries.  Since there's little evidence that any such zone name is
+  used in the wild, much less that CST6CDT would be a good match for
+  it, I'm not too worried about what we do with it.  Per complaint
+  from Pratik Chirania.
+  <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/4c5d837e69cf92e906acfa3000d848d4524beee9">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/4c5d837e69cf92e906acfa3000d848d4524beee9</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Recognize self-contradictory restriction clauses for non-table
+  relations.  The constraint exclusion feature checks for
+  contradictions among scan restriction clauses, as well as
+  contradictions between those clauses and a table's CHECK
+  constraints.  The first aspect of this testing can be useful for
+  non-table relations (such as subqueries or functions-in-FROM), but
+  the feature was coded with only the CHECK case in mind so we were
+  applying it only to plain-table RTEs.  Move the
+  relation_excluded_by_constraints call so that it is applied to all
+  RTEs not just plain tables.  With the default setting of
+  constraint_exclusion this results in no extra work, but with
+  constraint_exclusion = ON we will detect optimizations that we
+  missed before (at the cost of more planner cycles than we expended
+  before).  Per a gripe from Gunnlaugur Þór Briem.  Experimentation
+  with his example also showed we were not being very bright about the
+  case where constraint exclusion is proven within a subquery within
+  UNION ALL, so tweak the code to allow set_append_rel_pathlist to
+  recognize such cases.
+  <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/7741dd6590073719688891898e85f0cb73453159">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/7741dd6590073719688891898e85f0cb73453159</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Un-break compression of plain-text output format in pg_dump.
+  pg_dump has historically understood -Z with no -F switch to mean
+  that it should emit a gzip-compressed version of its plain text
+  output.  This got broken through a misunderstanding in the 9.1 patch
+  that added directory output format.  Restore the former behavior.
+  Per complaint from Roger Niederland and diagnosis by Adrian Klaver.
+  <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/23fe7a74777eba01835389263418cbe8a546e772">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/23fe7a74777eba01835389263418cbe8a546e772</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Avoid unnecessary snapshot-acquisitions in BuildCachedPlan.  I had
+  copied-and-pasted a claim that we couldn't reach this point when
+  dealing with utility statements, but that was a leftover from when
+  the caller was required to supply a plan to start with.  We now will
+  go through here at least once when handling a utility statement, so
+  it seems worth a check to see whether a snapshot is actually needed.
+  (Note that analyze_requires_snapshot is quite a cheap test.) Per
+  suggestion from Yamamoto Takashi.  I don't think I believe that this
+  resolves his reported assertion failure; but it's worth changing
+  anyway, just to save a cycle or two.
+  <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/d5aa7a9fe68b2017362421bd853faeb8199a472c">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/d5aa7a9fe68b2017362421bd853faeb8199a472c</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Fully const-ify PQconnectdbParams, PQconnectStartParams, and
+  PQpingParams.  The keywords and values arguments of these functions
+  are more properly declared "const char * const *" than just "const
+  char **".  Lionel Elie Mamane, reviewed by Craig Ringer
+  <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/2a571bc233821023afdf8729a3ae5071b2343f65">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/2a571bc233821023afdf8729a3ae5071b2343f65</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Robert Haas pushed:
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Fix another bit of unlogged-table-induced breakage.  Per bug #6205,
+  reported by Abel Abraham Camarillo Ojeda.  This isn't a particularly
+  elegant fix, but I'm trying to minimize the chances of causing yet
+  another round of breakage.  Adjust regression tests to exercise this
+  case.
+  <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/4893552e21b93149bb60f6204673cce855881a05">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/4893552e21b93149bb60f6204673cce855881a05</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Add --{no-,}replication flags to createuser.  Fujii Masao, reviewed
+  by Cédric Villemain, with some doc changes by me.
+  <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/b056b716e28562f5c53dfb143725294d44f14d38">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/b056b716e28562f5c53dfb143725294d44f14d38</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Add missing brackets to chkselinuxenv.
+  <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/e50b052a3bc5611dbf1a521ac7bc3611695a5f22">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/e50b052a3bc5611dbf1a521ac7bc3611695a5f22</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Document some more apparently-harmless error messages.
+  <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/a5e94ea52b002a049ffa52849f2958c096cc0f92">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/a5e94ea52b002a049ffa52849f2958c096cc0f92</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Teach sepgsql about database labels.  This is still a bit of a hack,
+  but it's better than the old way, for sure.  KaiGai Kohei, with one
+  change by me to make it compile
+  <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/291873c1554ceecc71a81c25aef4f1260c15c222">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/291873c1554ceecc71a81c25aef4f1260c15c222</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Memory barrier support for PostgreSQL.  This is not actually used
+  anywhere yet, but it gets the basic infrastructure in place.  It is
+  fairly likely that there are bugs, and support for some important
+  platforms may be missing, so we'll need to refine this as we go
+  along.
+  <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/0c8eda6258805223fa412ab55a1f130fbc51afa0">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/0c8eda6258805223fa412ab55a1f130fbc51afa0</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Peter Eisentraut pushed:
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Translation updates
+  <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/f992679318ceea10f785e8653932f04b4003eef0">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/f992679318ceea10f785e8653932f04b4003eef0</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Simon Riggs pushed:
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- synchronous_commit is an enum not a boolean.  Jaime Casanova
+  <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/e5e2f7b0546c0409323af262bdd17a8e19ca3836">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/e5e2f7b0546c0409323af262bdd17a8e19ca3836</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Magnus Hagander pushed:
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Note that sslmode=require verifies the CA if root cert is present
+  This mode still exists for backwards compatibility, making
+  sslmode=require the same as sslmode=verify-ca when the file is
+  present, but not causing an error when it isn't.  Per bug 6189,
+  reported by Srinivas Aji
+  <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/33e81fdfaf6a8d92451cd780e5619ac5be0b44c9">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/33e81fdfaf6a8d92451cd780e5619ac5be0b44c9</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Fix typo
+  <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/0126db2a469c7dbe540354f4ac6691a6c1e3b94e">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/0126db2a469c7dbe540354f4ac6691a6c1e3b94e</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Bruce Momjian pushed:
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Expand pgrminclude to exclude use of macros CppAsString and
+  CppConcat.
+  <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/337c0b03614c45516f2c3ec956405713bb264d54">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/337c0b03614c45516f2c3ec956405713bb264d54</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Document pgrminclude limitations.
+  <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/84bbe57dc128df224614c61f88c350ee9ed92123">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/84bbe57dc128df224614c61f88c350ee9ed92123</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- In pgrminclude, document requirement to use pgcompinclude, and sort
+  files so include removal is more predictable.
+  <a href="http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/2594ad74360c647edfd0645c4097d78ff83b4c3b">http://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/2594ad74360c647edfd0645c4097d78ff83b4c3b</a>
+</p>
+
+<h2>Rejected Patches (for now)</h2>
+<p>
+No one was disappointed this week :-)
+</p>
+
+<h2>Pending Patches</h2>
+<p>
+Jeff Davis sent in another revision of the patch to create range
+types.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Peter Geoghegan sent in three revisions of a patch to speed up
+comparators by inlining them.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Muhammad Asif sent in two revisions of a patch to fix an issue with
+BSD sockets on HP-UX.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Alexander Korotkov sent in two more revisions of the double sorting
+split patch.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Fujii Masao sent in another revision of the patch to allow doing a
+backup from a hot standby.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Pavel Stehule sent in another revision of the patch to remove
+unnecessary ccache search when an array variable is updated in
+PL/pgsql.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Yeb Havinga sent in a patch to refine dependency checking in
+EXTENSIONs.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Magnus Hagander sent in two revisions of a patch to make the TABLE
+command tab-complete both tables and views in psql.  Before, it only
+tab-completed tables.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Magnus Hagander sent in a patch to add a call to posix_fadvise with
+POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED on all the files being read when doing a base
+backup, to help the kernel not to trash the filesystem cache.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Oleg Bartunov sent in another revision of the patch to enable
+space-partitioned GiST indexes.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Marti Raudsepp sent in another revision of the patch to cache stable
+expressions with constant arguments.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+ITAGAKI Takahiro sent in a patch to allow COPY to support UTF8 files
+with a byte order mark (BOM).
+
+</p>
+