--- /dev/null
+<!-- BEGIN page_title_block -->
+Weekly News - July 25 2010
+<!-- END page_title_block -->
+
+<h1>PostgreSQL Weekly News - July 25 2010</h1>
+
+<h2>PostgreSQL Product News</h2>
+<p>
+Another PostgreSQL Diff Tool 2.0 Beta 2, a tool for database diffs, released.
+<a href="https://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/apgdiff/">https://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/apgdiff/</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+JASPA 0.1RC1, a Java GIS which can use PostgreSQL, released.
+<a href="http://forge.osor.eu/projects/jaspa/">http://forge.osor.eu/projects/jaspa/</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+MyJSQLView 3.22, a GUI tool that can be used with PostgreSQL, released.
+<a href="http://dandymadeproductions.com/projects/MyJSQLView/index.html">http://dandymadeproductions.com/projects/MyJSQLView/index.html</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Simpycity 0.3.1, a python mapping system for PostgreSQL, released.
+<a href="http://www.commandprompt.com/blogs/aurynn_shaw/2010/07/announcement_simpycity_031_released/">http://www.commandprompt.com/blogs/aurynn_shaw/2010/07/announcement_simpycity_031_released/</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+tail_n_mail 1.15.0, a Perl program for searching log files and mailing
+the results, released.
+<a href="http://bucardo.org/wiki/Tail_n_mail">http://bucardo.org/wiki/Tail_n_mail</a>
+</p>
+
+<h2>PostgreSQL Jobs for July</h2>
+<p>
+<a href="http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-jobs/2010-07/threads.php">http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-jobs/2010-07/threads.php</a>
+</p>
+
+<h2>PostgreSQL Local</h2>
+<p>
+Reuven Lerner will be teaching a 5-day course in PostgreSQL August
+1-5, 2010 at the Hi-Tech College in Herzliya, Israel.
+<a href="http://www.hi-tech.co.il/college/default.asp?PageID=12&CourseNum=4288">http://www.hi-tech.co.il/college/default.asp?PageID=12&CourseNum=4288</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+FrOSCon 2010 will take place in St. Augustin, Germany on August 21-22,
+2010. The German PostgreSQL User Group got his own devroom and is
+looking for talks. More info:
+<a href="http://andreas.scherbaum.la/blog/archives/711-FrOSCon-2010-PostgreSQL-devroom-Call-for-papers.html">http://andreas.scherbaum.la/blog/archives/711-FrOSCon-2010-PostgreSQL-devroom-Call-for-papers.html</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The Call for Papers for West is open until September 5, 2010. Details at:
+<a href="http://www.postgresqlconference.org/">http://www.postgresqlconference.org/</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>
+KaiGai Kohei reviewed Robert Haas's patch to add get_whatever_oid
+functionality.
+== Applied Patches ==
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Peter Eisentraut committed:
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- In pgsql/src/interfaces/libpq/fe-connect.c, portability fixes for
+ Solaris for requirepeer feature patch per report from Dave Page
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Add more checks against altering typed tables. 1. Prohibit altering
+ column type. 2. Prohibit changing inheritance. 3. Move checks from
+ Exec to Prep phases in ALTER TABLE code. Backpatched to 9.0
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- In pgsql/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml, remove tab from SGML file
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- In pgsql/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml, tidy up boolean data type page.
+ Thom Brown.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- In pgsql/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml, fix typo.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- In pgsql/doc/src/sgml/xfunc.sgml, add INSERT statement to example so
+ that it can be reproduced from John Gage
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Robert Haas committed:
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Change the default value of standard_conforming_strings to on. This
+ change should be publicized to driver maintainers at once and
+ release-noted as an incompatibility with previous releases.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Add restart_after_crash GUC. Normally, we automatically restart
+ after a backend crash, but in some cases when PostgreSQL is invoked
+ by clusterware it may be desirable to suppress this behavior, so we
+ provide an option which does this. Since no existing GUC group
+ quite fits, create a new group called "error handling options" for
+ this and the previously undocumented GUC exit_on_error, which is now
+ documented. Review by Fujii Masao.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Make hstore regression tests independent of
+ standard_conforming_strings. Per buildfarm.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Make ECPG regression tests independent of
+ standard_conforming_strings. Per buildfarm, again.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Add \conninfo command to psql, to show current connection info.
+ David Christensen. Reviewed by Steve Singer. Some further changes
+ by me.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- In pgsql/src/bin/psql/command.c, have \conninfo mention the port
+ even for local sockets. Per discussion with David Christensen,
+ there can be multiple instances of PG accessible via local sockets,
+ and you need the port to see which one you're actually connected to.
+ David's original patch worked this way, but I inadvertently ripped
+ it out during commit.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Centralize DML permissions-checking logic. Remove bespoke code in
+ DoCopy and RI_Initial_Check, which now instead fabricate call
+ ExecCheckRTPerms with a manufactured RangeTblEntry. This is
+ intended to make it feasible for an enhanced security provider to
+ actually make use of ExecutorCheckPerms_hook, but also has the
+ advantage that RI_Initial_Check can allow use of the fast-path when
+ column-level but not table-level permissions are present. KaiGai
+ Kohei. Reviewed (in an earlier version) by Stephen Frost, and by
+ me. Some further changes to the comments by me.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Add options to force quoting of all identifiers. I've added a
+ quote_all_identifiers GUC which affects the behavior of the backend,
+ and a --quote-all-identifiers argument to pg_dump and pg_dumpall
+ which sets the GUC and also affects the quoting done internally by
+ those applications. Design by Tom Lane; review by Alex Hunsaker; in
+ response to bug #5488 filed by Hartmut Goebel.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- In pgsql/src/bin/pg_dump/pg_dumpall.c, fix bogus server version in
+ pg_dumpall --quote-all-identifiers.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- In pgsql/src/backend/replication/walsender.c, add missing function
+ prototype. Fujii Masao.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- In pgsql/src/backend/access/transam/xact.c, avoid deep recursion
+ when assigning XIDs to multiple levels of subxacts. Backpatch to
+ 8.0. Andres Freund, with cleanup and adjustment for older branches
+ by me.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- In pgsql/src/bin/psql/command.c, have psql avoid describing local
+ sockets as host names. We now use the phrase 'via local socket in'
+ rather than 'on host' in both \c and \conninfo output, when
+ applicable. Fujii Masao, with some kibitzing by me.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS. Reviewed by Bernd Helmle.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Bruce Momjian committed:
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Properly replay CREATE TABLESPACE during crash recovery by deleting
+ directory/symlink before creation. Report from Tom Lane. Backpatch
+ to 9.0.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Prevent pg_upgrade from migrating databases that use reg* data types
+ where the oid is not preserved by pg_upgrade (everything but
+ pg_type). Update documentation. Per bug report from
+ depstein@alliedtesting.com.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- In contrib/pg_upgrade, adjust check_for_isn_and_int8_passing_mismatch()
+ so it is called for all migrations. Backpatch to 9.0.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- In pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/create_table.sgml, remove tabs from sgml
+ file.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Magnus Hagander committed:
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Backpatch reservation of shared memory region during backend startup
+ on Windows, so that memory allocated by starting third party DLLs
+ doesn't end up conflicting. The same functionality has been in 8.3
+ and 8.4 for almost a year, and seems to have solved some of the more
+ common shared memory errors on Windows.
+</p>
+
+<h2>Rejected Patches (for now)</h2>
+<p>
+No one was disappointed this week :-)
+</p>
+
+<h2>Pending Patches</h2>
+<p>
+KaiGai Kohei sent in another revision of the patch to rework DML
+permisssion checks.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+ITAGAKI Takahiro sent in another revision of the patch to implement
+more of SQL/MED.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Pavel Stehule sent in two more revisions of the patch to implement
+to_string() and to_array().
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Etienne Dube sent in a patch to fix a "could not attach to shared
+memory" issue on Windows in the 8.2 branch.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+ITAGAKI Takahiro and Pavel Stehule traded revisions of the string
+functions patch.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Marc Cousin sent in a patch to correct a cursor declaration in the
+"migrating from Oracle" section of the PL/pgsql docs.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Daniele Varrazzo sent in a patch to make more links from the libpq
+docs. This came from actual usage in psycopg.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Satoshi Nagayasu sent in another revision of the patch to redo the
+ECPG docs.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Alexander Korotkov sent in two more revisions of the patch to make
+levenshtein functions multibyte-aware.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Leonardo Francalanci sent in another revision of the patch to improve
+the CLUSTER implentation.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Pavel Stehule sent in two more revisions of the patch to enhance \ef
+and add \sf (show function) in psql.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Fujii Masao sent in another revision of the patch to do synchronous
+replication.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Teodor Sigaev sent in another flock of patches implementing
+K-Nearest-Neighbor for GiST indexes.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Alex Hunsaker sent in two more revisions of the patch to add
+functional depency inference to GROUP BY.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Kevin Grittner sent in another revision of the patch to make a more
+correct implementation of hypotenuse.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Joseph Adams sent in a patch to implement the JSON data type.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Mike Fowler sent in another revision of the patch to add XMLEXISTS to
+the grammar.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Joseph Adams sent in a patch to add a utf8_to_unicode() function,
+similar to the corresponding unicode_to_utf8() function. Among other
+things, this smooths the way for the upcoming JSON data type.
+
+</p>
+
projects / pgweb-old.git / commitdiff