Release notes for 10.1, 9.6.6, 9.5.10, 9.4.15, 9.3.20, 9.2.24.

In the v10 branch, also back-patch the effects of 1ff01b3 and c29c578
on these files, to reduce future maintenance issues.  (I'd do it further
back, except that the 9.X branches differ anyway due to xlog-to-wal
link tag renaming.)

Author: tglsfdc

doc/src/sgml/release-10.sgml

@@ -128,8 +128,8 @@ Branch: REL_10_STABLE [799037099] 2017-10-16 17:56:43 -0400
      <para>
       Ignore CTEs when looking up the target table for
       <command>INSERT</command>/<command>UPDATE</command>/<command>DELETE</command>,
-      and prevent matching qualified target-table names to trigger transition
-      table names (Thomas Munro)
+      and prevent matching schema-qualified target table names to trigger
+      transition table names (Thomas Munro)
      </para>
 
      <para>
@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ Branch: REL_10_STABLE [69125c883] 2017-10-29 13:04:37 +0530
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      <para>
-      Fix parallel query handling to not fail when a recently-active role is
+      Fix parallel query handling to not fail when a recently-used role is
       dropped (Amit Kapila)
      </para>
     </listitem>
@@ -253,27 +253,6 @@ Branch: REL9_4_STABLE [9cb28e98b] 2017-10-25 07:52:45 -0400
 
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-     <para>
-      Properly reject attempts to convert infinite float values to
-      type <type>numeric</type> (Tom Lane, KaiGai Kohei)
-     </para>
-
-     <para>
-      Previously the behavior was platform-dependent.
-     </para>
-    </listitem>
-
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-     <para>
-      Correctly ignore <structname>RelabelType</structname> expression nodes
-      when determining relation distinctness (David Rowley)
-     </para>
-    </listitem>
-
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--->
-     <para>
-      Avoid <systemitem>SIGBUS</systemitem> crash on Linux when a DSM memory
-      request exceeds the space available in <systemitem>tmpfs</systemitem>
-      (Thomas Munro)
-     </para>
-    </listitem>
-
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-     <para>
-      Prevent low-probability crash in processing of nested trigger firings
-      (Tom Lane)
-     </para>
-    </listitem>
-
-    <listitem>
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--->
-     <para>
-      Correctly restore the umask setting when file creation fails
-      in <command>COPY</command> or <function>lo_export()</function>
-      (Peter Eisentraut)
-     </para>
-    </listitem>
-
-    <listitem>
-<!--
-Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
-Branch: master [714805010] 2017-09-21 18:13:11 -0400
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--->
-     <para>
-      Give a better error message for duplicate column names
-      in <command>ANALYZE</command> (Nathan Bossart)
-     </para>
-    </listitem>
-
-    <listitem>
-<!--
-Author: Robert Haas <rhaas@postgresql.org>
-Branch: master [81276fdd3] 2017-09-14 17:19:04 -0400
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+Author: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
+Branch: master [bab3a714b] 2017-11-05 09:25:52 -0800
+Branch: REL_10_STABLE [2168f37c4] 2017-11-05 09:25:59 -0800
+Branch: REL9_6_STABLE [1cac62dac] 2017-11-05 09:26:28 -0800
+Branch: REL9_5_STABLE [7932891ab] 2017-11-05 09:26:43 -0800
+Branch: REL9_4_STABLE [2a2e2e85e] 2017-11-05 09:26:47 -0800
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      <para>
-      Add missing cases in <function>GetCommandLogLevel()</function>,
-      preventing errors when certain SQL commands are used while
-      <varname>log_statement</varname> is set to <literal>ddl</literal>
-      (Michael Paquier)
+      Allow <command>COPY</command>'s <literal>FREEZE</literal> option to
+      work when the transaction isolation level is <literal>REPEATABLE
+      READ</literal> or higher (Noah Misch)
      </para>
-    </listitem>
 
-    <listitem>
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--->
      <para>
-      Fix mis-parsing of the last line in a
-      non-newline-terminated <filename>pg_hba.conf</filename> file
-      (Tom Lane)
+      This case was unintentionally broken by a previous bug fix.
      </para>
     </listitem>
 
@@ -588,20 +469,6 @@ Branch: REL9_6_STABLE [aa1e9b3a4] 2017-10-12 15:20:04 -0400
 
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--->
-     <para>
-      Fix <application>pg_dump</application> to ensure that it
-      emits <command>GRANT</command> commands in a valid order
-      (Stephen Frost)
-     </para>
-    </listitem>
-
-    <listitem>
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@@ -631,7 +498,7 @@ Branch: REL_10_STABLE [852e3224e] 2017-10-22 16:45:26 -0400
 
      <para>
       This prevents problems when the <application>parray_gin</application>
-      extension is installed, since it defines a conflicting operator.
+      extension is installed, since that defines a conflicting operator.
      </para>
     </listitem>
 
@@ -682,48 +549,6 @@ Branch: REL9_2_STABLE [caeae886e] 2017-10-25 19:32:25 -0400
 
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--->
-     <para>
-      Fix <application>libpq</application> to guard against integer
-      overflow in the row count of a <structname>PGresult</structname>
-      (Michael Paquier)
-     </para>
-    </listitem>
-
-    <listitem>
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--->
-     <para>
-      Fix <application>ecpg</application>'s handling of out-of-scope cursor
-      declarations with pointer or array variables (Michael Meskes)
-     </para>
-    </listitem>
-
-    <listitem>
-<!--
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--->
-     <para>
-      Fix <application>ecpg</application>'s regression tests to work reliably
-      on Windows (Christian Ullrich, Michael Meskes)
-     </para>
-    </listitem>
-
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--->
-     <para>
-      Sync our copy of the timezone library with IANA release tzcode2017c
-      (Tom Lane)
-     </para>
-
-     <para>
-      This fixes various issues; the only one likely to be user-visible
-      is that the default DST rules for a POSIX-style zone name, if
-      no <filename>posixrules</filename> file exists in the timezone data
-      directory, now match current US law rather than what it was a dozen
-      years ago.
-     </para>
-    </listitem>
-
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