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+Weekly News - April 11 2010
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+
+<h1>PostgreSQL Weekly News - April 11 2010</h1>
+
+<h2>PostgreSQL Product News</h2>
+<p>
+Versions 1.2.21 and 2.0.3 of Slony1, a master-slave cascading
+replication system for PostgreSQL, released.
+<a href="http://www.slony.info/">http://www.slony.info/</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Postgre-XC, a synchronous multi-master cluster for PostgreSQL, released.
+<a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/postgres-xc/">https://sourceforge.net/projects/postgres-xc/</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+py-postgresql version 1.0, a pure Python 3 driver for PostgreSQL, released.
+<a href="http://python.projects.postgresql.org/docs/1.0/changes.html">http://python.projects.postgresql.org/docs/1.0/changes.html</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+ODBC-Link 1.0, and ODBC-based database link system, released.
+<a href="http://www.cybertec.at/en/postgresql_downloads">http://www.cybertec.at/en/postgresql_downloads</a>
+</p>
+
+<h2>PostgreSQL 9.0 Feature of the Week</h2>
+<p>
+You can now GRANT and REVOKE on objects schema-wide in a single
+command.
+</p>
+
+<h2>PostgreSQL Jobs for April</h2>
+<p>
+<a href="http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-jobs/2010-04/threads.php">http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-jobs/2010-04/threads.php</a>
+</p>
+
+<h2>PostgreSQL Local</h2>
+<p>
+The CfP is open for CHAR(10) in Oxford, England on July 1-3 2010.
+Proposals are due April 20.
+<a href="http://www.char10.org">http://www.char10.org</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Bruce Momjian will be speaking about PostgreSQL Replication Solutions
+at the NYPUG meeting on April 20th at 6:30-8:30pm at Penn Plaza.
+Details and RSVP below.
+<a href="http://postgresql.meetup.com/3/calendar/12788352/">http://postgresql.meetup.com/3/calendar/12788352/</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Linuxfest Northwest 2010 will take place in Bellingham, Washington,
+USA on April 24 and 25. Session, Booth and Sponsorship are available.
+<a href="http://linuxfestnorthwest.org/">http://linuxfestnorthwest.org/</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Andreas (ads) Scherbaum will be teaching a "PostgreSQL for Corporate
+Use" course at the adult education center in Magdeburg, Germany May
+3-7, 2010. Details below:
+<a href="http://andreas.scherbaum.la/blog/archives/650-PostgreSQL-Schulung-als-Bildungsurlaub-03.-07.05.2010-in-Magdeburg.html">http://andreas.scherbaum.la/blog/archives/650-PostgreSQL-Schulung-als-Bildungsurlaub-03.-07.05.2010-in-Magdeburg.html</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+PgCon 2010 will be held May 20-21 2010 in Ottawa with tutorials before
+on the 18th and 19th.
+<a href="http://www.pgcon.org/2010/registration.php">http://www.pgcon.org/2010/registration.php</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The CfP for OSBridge is open! OSBridge will be June 1-4, 2010 in
+Portland, Oregon.
+<a href="http://opensourcebridge.org/events/2010/proposals/">http://opensourcebridge.org/events/2010/proposals/</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Southeast Linuxfest 2010 will take place in Spartanburg, SC, USA on
+June 12-13. Booths and sponsorships are still available.
+<a href="http://southeastlinuxfest.org/">http://southeastlinuxfest.org/</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+OSCON will take place in Portland, Oregon July 19-23, 2010.
+<a href="http://www.oscon.com/oscon2010">http://www.oscon.com/oscon2010</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>
+ITAGAKI Takahiro committed:
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Assorted tab-completion improvements in psql. Added missing
+ completions for ALTER SEQUENCE name OWNER TO, ALTER TYPE name RENAME
+ TO, ALTER VIEW name ALTER COLUMN, ALTER VIEW name OWNER TO, and
+ ALTER VIEW name SET SCHEMA. Fix wrong completions for ALTER
+ FUNCTION/AGGREGATE name (arguments) where the "arguments" part was
+ ignored, and ALTER ... SET SCHEMA, where "SCHEMA" was considered to
+ be a variable name.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- In pgsql/src/bin/pg_ctl/pg_ctl.c, add cygwin version check before
+ using cygwin_conv_path(), and use cygwin_conv_to_full_win32_path()
+ in older versions.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- In pgsql/src/bin/psql/tab-complete.c, psql tab completion for ALTER
+ DEFAULT PRIVILEGES and USER MAPPING FOR PUBLIC.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Bruce Momjian committed:
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- In pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ddl.sgml, reword exclusion constriants to
+ mention that the operator can return false or null, per Tom.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Simon Riggs committed:
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Change some debug ereports to elogs, as requested by translation
+ team.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- In pgsql/src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c, further message changes
+ when recovery.conf parameters missing.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Heikki Linnakangas committed:
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- In pgsql/src/backend/access/transam/recovery.conf.sample, rename
+ "Log-streaming replication parameters" header to "Standby server
+ parameters" in recovery.conf, to match the grouping in the
+ documentation. Fujii Masao.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Forbid using pg_xlogfile_name() and pg_xlogfile_name_offset() during
+ recovery. We might want to relax this in the future, but
+ ThisTimeLineID isn't currently correct in backends during recovery,
+ so the filename returned was wrong. Fujii Masao.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Allow quotes to be escaped in recovery.conf, by doubling them. This
+ patch also makes the parsing a little bit stricter, rejecting
+ garbage after the parameter value and values with missing ending
+ quotes, for example.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Magnus Hagander committed:
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- In pgsql/src/timezone/pgtz.c, log the actual timezone name that we
+ fail to look up the values for in case the registry data doesn't
+ follow the format we expect, to facilitate debugging.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- In pgsql/src/timezone/pgtz.c, proceed to look for the next timezone
+ when matching a localized Windows timezone name where the
+ information in the registry is incomplete, instead of aborting.
+ This fixes cases when the registry information is incomplete for a
+ timezone that is alphabetically before the one that is in use. Per
+ report from Alexander Forschner
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- In pgsql/src/timezone/pgtz.c, update list of Windows timezones we
+ try to match localized names against to one that's up to date with
+ Windows 2003R2.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- In pgsql/src/timezone/pgtz.c, clean up inconsistent commas.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Perltidy run over the MSVC build system files, to clean up code
+ formatting and indentation styles.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Tom Lane committed:
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Fix to_char YYY, YY, Y format codes so that FM zero-suppression
+ really works, rather than only sort-of working as the previous
+ attempt had left it. Clean up some unnecessary differences between
+ the way these were coded and the way the YYYY case was coded.
+ Update the regression test cases that proved that it wasn't working.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Robert Haas committed:
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Make smart shutdown work in combination with Hot Standby/Streaming
+ Replication. At present, killing the startup process does not
+ release any locks it holds, so we must wait to stop the startup and
+ walreceiver processes until all read-only backends have exited.
+ Without this patch, the startup and walreceiver processes never
+ exit, so the server gets permanently stuck in a half-shutdown state.
+ Fujii Masao, with review, docs, and comment adjustments by me.
+</p>
+
+<h2>Rejected Patches (for now)</h2>
+<p>
+No one was disappointed this week :-)
+</p>
+
+<h2>Pending Patches</h2>
+<p>
+Simon Riggs sent in two revisions of a patch to downgrade a FATAL
+message to a WARNING for hot standby when primary_conninfo or
+restore_command are left out.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Greg Sabino Mullane sent in a patch to show schema name for each table
+when REINDEX DATABASE is called.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Simon Riggs sent in a patch for Hot Standby to recover prepared
+transactions when starting up from shutdown.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Heikki Linnakangas sent in a patch to add signaling between
+walreceiver and startup process.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Heikki Linnakangas sent in a patch to keep a variable in shared memory
+to track the latest removed WAL segment. This can help with streaming
+replication in the case of a "disk full" condition on the primary.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Heikki Linnakangas sent in a patch to fix unsafe threading for
+syslogger on Windows.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Simon Riggs and Heikki Linnakangas traded patches to fix the issue
+where Hot Standby doesn't work right with shutdowns at an inopportune
+moment.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Jaime Casanova sent in a WIP patch to fix "make standbycheck".
+
+</p>
+
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