From: David E. Wheeler Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2012 23:44:48 +0000 (-0700) Subject: Update Changes since 4.99.5. X-Git-Tag: 4.99.6~52 X-Git-Url: http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/static/gitweb.js?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9967d4d76988d5b98bbd1d3ab192eef1f14d9289;p=bucardo.git Update Changes since 4.99.5. --- diff --git a/Changes b/Changes index 1a7826b77..b9485eb1b 100644 --- a/Changes +++ b/Changes @@ -8,15 +8,21 @@ Bucardo version 5.0.0, released ??, 2012 - Allow alternate targets: Drizzle, MariaDB, MongoDB, MySQL, Oracle, Redis, SQLite, as well as "flat files" [GSM] - - Rename bucardo_ctl to simply bucardo [Jon Jensen, GSM] + - Rename "bucardo_ctl" to simply "bucardo" [Jon Jensen, GSM] + + - Rename "goat" to "relation" or, more commonly, "table" and "sequence". + [David Wheeler] + + - Rename "standard_conflict" option to "conflict_strategy". + + - Rename "herd" to "relgroup". [David Wheeler] - Change the way that swap syncs work: should be much faster [GSM] - Use asynchronous queries when possible [GSM] - - Redo the makedelta system, and break into source_makedelta and target_makedelta - options for both syncs and goats, which inherit from the higher level (goat - inherits from sync inherits from db). Add makedelta as on/off for db. [GSM] + - Redo the makedelta system, and add makedelta option for relations, which + inherit from db. Add makedelta as on/off for db. [GSM] - Overhaul of sequence handling: now allows for all attributes to be replicated, such as INCREMENT_BY and MAXVALUE [GSM] @@ -45,9 +51,9 @@ Bucardo version 5.0.0, released ??, 2012 - Do not replicate null values to MongoDB [Ali Asad Lotia] - - Add 'default_standard_conflict' option, per idea from Franz Dürr. [GSM] + - Add 'default_conflict_strategy' option, per idea from Franz Dürr. [GSM] - - Force time zone to GMT to resolve timestamptz issues with bucardo_delta + - Force time zone to UTC to resolve timestamptz issues with bucardo_delta [GSM, Michelle Sullivan] - Add a log_level parameter, and classify all messages inside Bucardo.pm @@ -99,14 +105,18 @@ Bucardo version 5.0.0, released ??, 2012 - Add 'bucardo list all' feature [Christian Recktenwald] - - Allow removal of tables from herds via bucardo. [GSM] + - Allow removal of tables from relgroups via bucardo. [GSM] - Add create_child_q_table() function. [GSM] - - Allow 'bucardo update herd foo remove ' - and 'bucardo update herd foo add ' [GSM] + - Allow 'bucardo update relgroup foo remove ' + and 'bucardo update relgroup foo add ' [GSM] + + - Rename the default reason_file to bucardo.restart.reason.txt. The reason + log is then named bucardo.restart.reason.log (instead of + bucardo.restart.reason.log.log as before). [David Wheeler] - - Better formatting of bucardo.reason.log, and log startup failures. [GSM] + - Better formatting of bucardo.reason.txt.log, and log startup failures. [GSM] - Log the current configuration settings on startup. [GSM] @@ -114,7 +124,7 @@ Bucardo version 5.0.0, released ??, 2012 - Remove unused 'kick_sleep' config variable. [GSM] - - Show the database name when listing herds via bucardo. [GSM] + - Show the database name when listing relgroups via bucardo. [GSM] - Show the database name when listing sequences via bucardo. [Douglas Tan] @@ -122,6 +132,85 @@ Bucardo version 5.0.0, released ??, 2012 - Change main trigger names to 'bucardo_delta' and 'bucardo_kick' [GSM] + - Allow databases to have the same dsn, as we are moving towards in-database + replication. [GSM] + + - Add complete documentation of all public commands, actions, parameters, + and options to the bucardo Pod (and therefore the man page, as well). + [David Wheeler] + + - Use the Pod docs to show the output of 'help command' and 'help command action' + instead of duplicating that informoatin in code. [David Wheeler] + + - Fixed PostgreSQL 9.2 compatability issues. [David Wheeler] + + - Fix syntax issues to restore support for PostgreSQL 8.1 [GSM] + + - Fix "arguments of row IN must all be row expressions" error [GSM] + + - Fix empty primary key join/split bug [GSM] + + - Add Linux int script and RPM spec file [Devrim GÜNDÜZ and David Wheeler] + + - Add --exit-on-nosync option. Bucardo no longer exits from 'start' when + there are no syncs. Use this option to restore that behavior. [David + Wheeler] + + - Switch to pg_ctl in tests for more reliable (and faster!) Postgres + startup and shutdown. [David Wheeler] + + - Fix incorrect shutdown when Postgres is not running. The pid file is now + properly cleaned up on shutdown even if Postgres is down. [David Wheeler] + + - Tests now properly report the reasons for failed bucardo commands. [David + Wheeler] + + - Revamp retry on serialization failure so that it actually works. The KID + no longer sleeps and exits, but sleeps and retries the sync on its own, + only sending a NOTICE to other processes that it is doing so. [GSM and + David Wheeler] + + - Change the default serialization failure sleep time from 10s to 0.5s. + + - The 'update' command no longer exits with an error code on success. + + - Fixed issue with missing database handles when a KID shuts down. [David + Wheeler] + + - Remove the customselect parameter. Use the customcols command, instead. + [David Wheeler] + + - Remove the do_listen parameter, which was just another name for ping. + + - Rename the 'ping' parameter to 'autokick', to better describe what it does + and to prevent confusion with the 'ping' command, which does something + totally different. [David Wheeler] + + - Rename standard_conflict to conflict_strategy. [David Wheeler] + + - Move conflict_strategy from add/update table to add/update sync. [David Wheeler] + + - Fix issue that prevented the VAC process from shutting down immediately on + 'stop'. [David Wheeler] + + - Fix failure to restart after database disconnections. + + - Add 'remove sequence' [David Wheeler] + + - Rename most --debug* options to --log-*: + + --debugdir is now --log-destination + + --debugfile is deprecated; use '--log-destination none' to disable all logging + + --debugsyslog is deprecated; use --log-destination syslog' + + Allow logging to stderr or stdout via --log-destination + + --log-destination may be specified multiple times for multiple logs + + --debugfilesep is now --log-separate + + --debugname is now --log-extension + + --cleandebus is now --log-clean + [David Wheeler] + + - Eliminated 'Use of "goto" to jump into a construct has been deprecated' + warnings on Perl 5.12 and higher. + Bucardo version 4.4.8, released November 30, 2011