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+Weekly News - June 06 2010
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+
+<h1>PostgreSQL Weekly News - June 06 2010</h1>
+
+<p>
+On June 11, 2010, Gabriele Bartolini of 2ndQuadrant Italia will speak
+at the Italian conference for Free Software in Cagliari, Sardinia
+about "High Availability of business databases with PostgreSQL"
+<a href="http://www.confsl.org/">http://www.confsl.org/</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+On June 12, 2010, the Italian PostgreSQL Users Group (ITPUG) will
+promote PostgreSQL at the Italian conference for Free Software in
+Cagliari, Sardinia with a day-long session of workshops about
+PostgreSQL from Introduction to High Availability.
+<a href="http://www.confsl.org/">http://www.confsl.org/</a>
+</p>
+
+<h2>PostgreSQL Product News</h2>
+<p>
+ChronicDB v2.2.2, a schema deployment tool, released.
+<a href="http://chronicdb.com">http://chronicdb.com</a>
+</p>
+
+<h2>PostgreSQL Jobs for June</h2>
+<p>
+<a href="http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-jobs/2010-06/threads.php">http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-jobs/2010-06/threads.php</a>
+</p>
+
+<h2>PostgreSQL Local</h2>
+<p>
+SouthEast LinuxFest 2010 will take place in Spartanburg, SC USA on
+June 11-13. PostgreSQL gurus Joshua Drake and Andrew Dunstan will be
+giving some must-see PostgreSQL-related presentations.
+<a href="http://southeastlinuxfest.org/">http://southeastlinuxfest.org/</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Michael Renner will be speaking at Netways OSDC in Nuremberg, Germany,
+which will be June 23-24, 2010.
+<a href="http://www.netways.de/osdc/y2010/programm/">http://www.netways.de/osdc/y2010/programm/</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+CHAR(10), the PostgreSQL Conference on Clustering, High Availability
+and Replication is now open for online registration and bookings.
+July 2-3 2010, Oriel College, Oxford University, UK
+<a href="http://www.char10.org/">http://www.char10.org/</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+PDXPUG Day will be July 18, 2010 at the Oregon Convention Center in
+Portland, OR. For more information, see:
+<a href="http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/PDXPUGDay2010">http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/PDXPUGDay2010</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>
+Heikki Linnakangas committed:
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- In pgsql/src/backend/replication/walsender.c, send all outstanding
+ WAL before exiting when smart shutdown is requested. This was
+ broken by my previous patch to send WAL in smaller batches. Patch
+ by Fujii Masao.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- In pgsql/src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c, fix obsolete comments
+ that I neglected to update in a previous patch. Fujii Masao.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Bruce Momjian committed:
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- In pgsql/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml, reword fsync and full_page_writes
+ docs to be clearer about when to turn them off. Josh Berkus, with
+ slight wording changes by me.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- In pgsql/src/pl/plpgsql/src/pl_exec.c, add error hint that PL/pgSQL
+ "EXECUTE of SELECT ... INTO" can be performed by "EXECUTE ... INTO".
+ Jaime Casanova.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- In pgsql/doc/src/sgml/docguide.sgml, document how to find TeX
+ overflow boxes in our documentation build, per details from Alvaro
+ Herrera.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- In pgsql/doc/src/sgml/docguide.sgml, update TeX overflow
+ documentation page pattern mask, in docs.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- In pgsql/doc/src/sgml/docguide.sgml, overflow box is on page after
+ listed page number, per Alvaro.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- In pgsql/src/backend/commands/indexcmds.c, show schema name for
+ REINDEX. Greg Sabino Mullane.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- In pgsql/doc/src/sgml/extend.sgml, add documentation section "Using
+ C++ for Extensibility". Craig Ringer
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- In pgsql/doc/src/sgml/extend.sgml, fix SGML markup for tag title.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- In pgsql/doc/src/sgml/extend.sgml, mention palloc/pfree for C++
+ memory allocation in docs.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Comment out C++ docs for later user. Tone down C++ compatibility in
+ 9.0 release notes.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- In pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release-9.0.sgml, update C++ release note item
+ wording.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- In pgsql/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml, document that && geometric operator
+ is true even if only a point overlaps. David Fetter.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- In pgsql/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml, clarify array generate_subscripts()
+ documentation example. Tim Landscheidt.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- In pgsql/doc/src/sgml/citext.sgml, document that citext operators
+ must be in the current search path.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- In pgsql/doc/src/sgml/extend.sgml, document use of C++ for extension
+ use.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- In pgsql/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml, document regexp_matches() better
+ and show example of single-row usage.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- In pgsql/doc/src/sgml/extend.sgml, markup fix.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- In pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release-9.0.sgml, update 9.0 release notes to
+ current.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- In pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release-9.0.sgml, fix CREATE TRIGGER release
+ mention, WHERE -> WHEN.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Alvaro Herrera committed:
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- In pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/reassign_owned.sgml, add note about
+ database ownership to REASSIGN OWNED command documentation, per Josh
+ Berkus. Add ALTER DATABASE to the "see also" section, too.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- In pgsql/src/include/catalog/pg_control.h, add comments about
+ definitions that may affect PG_CONTROL_VERSION, per recent
+ unintended-initdb-forcing fiasco
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Andrew Dunstan committed:
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- In pgsql/src/tools/msvc/vcregress.pl, run recently backported
+ plperlu_plperl regression tests when building with MSVC on releases
+ 8.4 and 8.3. Regression tests weren't supported before that.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- In pgsql/src/tools/msvc/vcregress.pl, fix regression test name for
+ plperlu_plperl in msvc.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Robert Haas committed:
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- On clean shutdown during recovery, don't warn about possible
+ corruption. Fujii Masao. Review by Heikki Linnakangas and myself.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+ITAGAKI Takahiro committed:
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- In pgsql/contrib/dblink/dblink.c, fix dblink to treat connection
+ names longer than NAMEDATALEN-2 (62 bytes). Now long names are
+ adjusted with truncate_identifier() and NOTICE messages are raised
+ if names are actually truncated. Backported to release 8.0.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Replace "slave" to "standby" in documentation for consistent
+ terminology. Almost all of the terms in docs and messages were
+ replaced, but still remains in a few comments and README files in
+ codes.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Ensure default-only storage parameters for TOAST relations to be
+ initialized with proper values. Affected parameters are fillfactor,
+ analyze_threshold, and analyze_scale_factor. Especially
+ uninitialized fillfactor caused inefficient page usage because we
+ built a StdRdOptions struct in which fillfactor is zero if any
+ reloption is set for the toast table. In addition, we disallow
+ toast.autovacuum_analyze_threshold and
+ toast.autovacuum_analyze_scale_factor because we didn't actually
+ support them; they are always ignored. Report by Rumko on
+ pgsql-bugs on 12 May 2010. Analysis by Tom Lane and Alvaro Herrera.
+ Patch by me. Backpatch to 8.4.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Tom Lane committed:
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- In pgsql/src/include/catalog/pg_control.h, bump PG_CONTROL_VERSION
+ to account for the incompatible change committed earlier.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- In pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release-9.0.sgml, remove link that breaks
+ HISTORY file generation.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Add current WAL end (as seen by walsender, ie, GetWriteRecPtr()
+ result) and current server clock time to Streaming Replication data
+ messages. These are not currently used on the slave side but seem
+ likely to be useful in future, and it'd be better not to change the
+ Streaming Replication protocol after release. Per discussion. Also
+ do some minor code review and cleanup on walsender.c, and improve
+ the protocol documentation.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- In pgsql/src/backend/replication/walsender.c, adjust misleading
+ comment in walsender.c. We try to send all WAL data that's been
+ written out from shared memory, but the previous phrasing might be
+ read to say that we send only what's been fsync'd.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- In pgsql/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml, improve our explanation of the
+ OVERLAPS operator. Per gripe from Frank van Vugt.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Peter Eisentraut committed:
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Fix some inconsistent quoting of wal_level values in messages.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Translation updates for 9.0beta2.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+When referring to postgresql.conf syntax, then it's without quotes
+(wal_level=archive); in narrative it's with double quotes. But never
+single quotes.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- In pgsql/src/backend/libpq/hba.c, fix reference to nonexistent
+ configure option --enable-ssl -> --with-openssl
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Marc Fournier committed:
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Tag 9.0beta2.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Michael Meskes committed:
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Added variable handling for RETURNING clause to ecpg. While the
+ values were correctly returned they were not moved into C variables
+ as they should be. Closes: Bug #5489.
+</p>
+
+<h2>Rejected Patches (for now)</h2>
+<p>
+Bruce Momjian's patches to allow setting wal_keep_segments to -1,
+which would mean, "never get rid of any." This was agreed not to be a
+good idea.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Pavel Stehule's patch to add new custom GUCs for date and time
+formats. Too many GUCs.
+</p>
+
+<h2>Pending Patches</h2>
+<p>
+Fujii Masao sent in three patches to fix streaming replication.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Jan Urbanski and Tom Lane traded patches to fix tsvector stats.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Peter Eisentraut sent in a patch to allow a client to authenticate a
+server over unix-domain sockets.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Tom Lane sent in a WIP patch to fix some some misbehavior on
+INSERT-only tables.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Andy Balholm sent in a WIP patch to allow dividing money by money.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Daniele Varrazzo sent in a patch to implement a regexp_match()
+function which returns an array rather than a SETOF matches as
+regexp_matches() does.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+KaiGai Kohei sent two different patches intended to close some
+information leaks in VIEWs.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Dean Rasheed sent in a patch to fix the docs for ALTER TABLE ...
+DISABLE/ENABLE TRIGGER. They are out of date.
+</p>
+
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