From: David Fetter <david@fetter.org>
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 03:28:46 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: PostgreSQL Weekly News June 13, 2010
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PostgreSQL Weekly News June 13, 2010

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+PostgreSQL 9.0 beta 2 released.  Test!
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-The CfP is open for CHAR(10) in Oxford, England on July 1-3 2010.
-Proposals are due April 20.
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+    <li><a href="/community/weeklynews/pwn20100613">June 13th 2010</a></li>
     <li><a href="/community/weeklynews/pwn20100606">June 6th 2010</a></li>
     <li><a href="/community/weeklynews/pwn20100531">May 31st 2010</a></li>
     <li><a href="/community/weeklynews/pwn20100523">May 23rd 2010</a></li>
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+
+<h1>PostgreSQL Weekly News - June 13 2010</h1>
+
+<p>
+PostgreSQL 9.0 beta 2 released.  Test!
+<a href="http://www.postgresql.org/developer/beta">http://www.postgresql.org/developer/beta</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+New Survey: Which non-replication 9.0 Beta feature is your favorite?
+<a href="http://www.postgresql.org/community/">http://www.postgresql.org/community/</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The video archive for the December 8, 2009 SFPUG meeting, "Operator
+Exclusion Constraints," is now available:
+<a href="http://thebuild.com/blog/2009/12/23/sfpug-operator-exclusion-constraints/">http://thebuild.com/blog/2009/12/23/sfpug-operator-exclusion-constraints/</a>
+</p>
+
+<h2>PostgreSQL Product News</h2>
+<p>
+pgnotifyd v0.1, an asynchronous notification processor for PostgreSQL, released.
+<a href="http://www.pogo.org.uk/~mark/pgnotifyd/">http://www.pogo.org.uk/~mark/pgnotifyd/</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>
+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>
+
+<h2>PostgreSQL in the News</h2>
+<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
+and Josh Berkus
+</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>
+Teodor Sigaev committed:
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- In pgsql/contrib/dblink/uninstall_dblink.sql, add missed function
+  dblink_connect_u(text[,text]) to uninstall script
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Tom Lane committed:
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- In pgsql/src/backend/replication/walreceiver.c, avoid useless
+  snprintf() call when update_process_title is turned off.  Fujii
+  Masao.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- In pgsql/src/pl/plpython/plpython.c, fix quite-bogus handling of
+  arrays in plpython datum-to-PyObject conversion.  Per bug #5497 from
+  David Gardner.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- In pgsql/src/bin/scripts/vacuumdb.c, add missing 'Z' letter to
+  getopt_long call --- the newly added --analyze-only switch did not
+  work in its short form -Z.  Josh Berkus
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- In pgsql/doc/src/sgml/Makefile, Postgres.txt should get cleaned by
+  'make clean'.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Robert Haas committed:
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- In pgsql/doc/src/sgml/plhandler.sgml, make procedural language
+  handler reference C-language function docs.  Based on suggestions
+  from Jonathan Leto and Joshua Tolley.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- In pgsql/src/backend/commands/explain.c, attempt to fix EXPLAIN
+  (FORMAT YAML) quoting to behave sanely.  The previous code failed to
+  quote in many cases where quoting was necessary - YAML has loads of
+  special characters, including -:[]{},"'|*& - so quote much more
+  aggressively, and only refrain from quoting things where it seems
+  fairly clear that it isn't necessary.  Per report from Dean Rasheed.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- In pgsql/src/backend/catalog/pg_largeobject.c, remove stray word
+  from comment.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- In pgsql/src/backend/commands/explain.c, quote all string values in
+  EXPLAIN (FORMAT YAML) output.  While my previous attempt seems to
+  always produce valid YAML, it doesn't always produce YAML that means
+  what it appears to mean, because of tokens like "0xa" and "true",
+  which without quotes will be interpreted as integer or Boolean
+  literals.  So, instead, just quote everything that's not known to be
+  a number, as we do for JSON.  Dean Rasheed, with some changes to the
+  comments by me.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Fix ALTER LARGE OBJECT and GRANT ... ON LARGE OBJECT for large OIDs.
+  The previous coding failed for OIDs too large to be represented by a
+  signed integer.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- In pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release-9.0.sgml, fix typo.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- In pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release-9.0.sgml, fix misplaced modifier.  As
+  suggested by Ian Barwick.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Tatsuo Ishii committed:
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- In pgsql/src/backend/replication/walreceiver.c, fix typo in the
+  header comment.  Per request from Masao Fujii.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+ITAGAKI Takahiro committed:
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- In pgsql/contrib/dblink/dblink.c, fix connection leak in dblink when
+  dblink_connect() or dblink_connect_u() end with "duplicate
+  connection name" errors.  Backported to release 7.4.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- In pgsql/contrib/dblink/dblink.c, avoid "identifier will be
+  truncated" warning in dblink when connection string is longer than
+  NAMEDATALEN.  The previous fix for long connection name broke the
+  behavior.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- In pgsql/contrib/dblink/dblink.c, fix incorrect change in dblink
+  introduced by the previous commit "Fix connection leak in dblink".
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Rename restartpoint_command to archive_cleanup_command.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- In pgsql/src/backend/storage/ipc/standby.c, remove max_standby_delay
+  message from ps display of recovery process in waiting status. The
+  parameter is not so interesting in ps display because it is
+  referable in postgresql.conf.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Magnus Hagander committed:
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- In pgsql/src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c, make the walwriter close
+  its handle to an old xlog segment if it's no longer the current one.
+  Not doing this would leave the walwriter with a handle to a deleted
+  file if there was nothing for it to do for a long period of time,
+  preventing the file from  being completely removed.  Reported by
+  Tollef Fog Heen, and thanks to Heikki for some hand-holding with the
+  patch.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Heikki Linnakangas committed:
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- In standby mode, respect checkpoint_segments in addition to
+  checkpoint_timeout to trigger restartpoints.  We used to
+  deliberately only do time-based restartpoints, because if
+  checkpoint_segments is small we would spend time doing restartpoints
+  more often than really necessary.  But now that restartpoints are
+  done in bgwriter, they're not as disruptive as they used to be.
+  Secondly, because streaming replication stores the streamed WAL
+  files in pg_xlog, we want to clean it up more often to avoid running
+  out of disk space when checkpoint_timeout is large and
+  checkpoint_segments small.  Patch by Fujii Masao, with some minor
+  changes by me.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Return NULL instead of 0/0 in pg_last_xlog_receive_location() and
+  pg_last_xlog_replay_location().  Per Robert Haas's suggestion, after
+  Itagaki Takahiro pointed out an issue in the docs.  Also, some
+  wording changes in the docs by me.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Make TriggerFile variable static.  It's not used outside xlog.c.
+  Fujii Masao.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Alvaro Herrera committed:
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- In pgsql/doc/src/sgml/syntax.sgml, add index entry for ::, per
+  complaint from John Gage.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- In pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/alter_table.sgml, update ALTER TABLE docs
+  to account for exclusion and deferrable uniqueness constraints.
+  Dean Rasheed.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Bruce Momjian committed:
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- In pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release-9.0.sgml, update text of 9.0 release
+  notes.  Josh Berkus.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- In pgsql/doc/src/sgml/Makefile, add space between after ">" in ">$@"
+  in SGML Makefile, for clarity.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- In pgsql/doc/src/sgml/Makefile, add SGML Makefile rule for
+  single-page text, postgres.txt.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Have pg_upgrade create its output files in the current directory,
+  rather than in a subdirectory of the $HOME directory, or $TMP in
+  Windows.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- In pgsql/doc/src/sgml/Makefile, remove lynx -stdin flag for
+  postgres.text.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- In pgsql/src/test/regress/pg_regress.c, add missing --use-existing
+  --help mention from regression binary.  Jan Urbanski
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- In pgsql/contrib/pg_upgrade/pg_upgrade.h, update pg_upgrade C
+  comment about cwd.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Peter Eisentraut committed:
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Add a regression test case for bug #5497.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- In pgsql/src/pl/plpython/expected/README, update Python version
+  information.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- In pgsql/src/backend/access/transam/xlog.c, fix typo/bug, found by
+  Clang compiler.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+- Add target to build HTML documentation as single page.
+</p>
+
+<h2>Rejected Patches (for now)</h2>
+<p>
+No one was disappointed this week :-)
+</p>
+
+<h2>Pending Patches</h2>
+<p>
+Fujii Masao sent in a patch per Andrew Dunstan to clarify that to use
+a pgpass file to connect to Streaming Replica standbys, it is
+necessary to use a * for the database field.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Peter Eisentraut sent in a WIP patch to allow GROUP BY to infer
+functional dependencies and not require that the target list include
+all non-aggregated columns when it finds them, per the SQL standard.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Alexander Korotkov sent in another revision of the patch to allow
+multi-byte character sets in Levenshtein functions in the supplied
+module for fuzzy string matching.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Joel Jacobson sent in another revision of the patch to add
+a pg_stat_transaction system view.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Robert Haas sent in a patch to deprecate => and add ==> to the hstore
+module, per discussion.
+
+</p>
+