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Subject: CVS commit: pkgsrc/databases
From: Adam Ciarcinski
Date: 2009-02-07 18:55:42
Message id: 20090207175542.EA990175D0@cvs.netbsd.org
Log Message:
Changes 8.3.6:
* Make "DISCARD ALL" release advisory locks, in addition to
everything it already did
This was decided to be the most appropriate behavior. This could
affect existing applications, however.
* Fix whole-index GiST scans to work correctly
This error could cause rows to be lost if a table is clustered on a
GiST index.
* Fix crash of xmlconcat(NULL)
* Fix possible crash in ispell dictionary if high-bit-set characters
are used as flags
This is known to be done by one widely available Norwegian
dictionary, and the same condition may exist in others.
* Fix misordering of pg_dump output for composite types
The most likely problem was for user-defined operator classes to be
dumped after indexes or views that needed them.
* Improve handling of URLs in headline() function
* Improve handling of overlength headlines in headline() function
* Prevent possible Assert failure or misconversion if an encoding
conversion is created with the wrong conversion function for the
specified pair of encodings
* Fix possible Assert failure if a statement executed in PL/pgSQL is
rewritten into another kind of statement, for example if an
"INSERT" is rewritten into an "UPDATE"
* Ensure that a snapshot is available to datatype input functions
* Make it safer for SPI-using functions to be used within datatype
I/O; in particular, to be used in domain check constraints
* Avoid unnecessary locking of small tables in "VACUUM"
* Fix a problem that sometimes kept "ALTER TABLE ENABLE/DISABLE RULE"
from being recognized by active sessions
* Fix a problem that made UPDATE RETURNING tableoid return zero
instead of the correct OID
* Allow functions declared as taking ANYARRAY to work on the
pg_statistic columns of that type
This used to work, but was unintentionally broken in 8.3.
* Fix planner misestimation of selectivity when transitive equality
is applied to an outer-join clause
This could result in bad plans for queries like ... from a left
join b on a.a1 = b.b1 where a.a1 = 42 ...
* Improve optimizer's handling of long IN lists
This change avoids wasting large amounts of time on such lists when
constraint exclusion is enabled.
* Prevent synchronous scan during GIN index build
Because GIN is optimized for inserting tuples in increasing TID
order, choosing to use a synchronous scan could slow the build by a
factor of three or more.
* Ensure that the contents of a holdable cursor don't depend on the
contents of TOAST tables
* Fix memory leak when a set-returning function is terminated without
reading its whole result
* Fix encoding conversion problems in XML functions when the database
encoding isn't UTF-8
* Fix "contrib/dblink"'s dblink_get_result(text,bool) function
* Fix possible garbage output from "contrib/sslinfo" functions
* Fix incorrect behavior of "contrib/tsearch2" compatibility trigger
when it's fired more than once in a command
* Fix possible mis-signaling in autovacuum
* Support running as a service on Windows 7 beta
* Fix ecpg's handling of varchar structs
* Fix configure script to properly report failure when unable to
obtain linkage information for PL/Perl
* Make all documentation reference pgsql-bugs and/or pgsql-hackers as
appropriate, instead of the now-decommissioned pgsql-ports and
pgsql-patches mailing lists
* Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2009a (for Kathmandu
and historical DST corrections in Switzerland, Cuba)
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