== Wöchentlicher PostgreSQL Newsletter - 23. Dezember 2007 ==

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== Wöchentlicher PostgreSQL Newsletter - 23. Dezember 2007 ==

== PostgreSQL Produkt Neuigkeiten ==

Nagios plugin check_postgres 1.1.0 erschienen.
http://bucardo.org/nagios_postgres/

Npgsql 2 Beta2 erschienen.
http://pgfoundry.org/projects/npgsql/

phpPgAdmin 4.2 beta 1 erschienen.
http://phppgadmin.sourceforge.net/

ptop 3.6.1 beta 2 erschienen.
http://ptop.projects.postgresql.org/

== PostgreSQL Jobs im Dezember ==

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-jobs/2007-12/threads.php

== PostgreSQL Lokal ==

PGCon 2008 wird vom 20-23. Mai in Ottawa sein, Talks werden ab jetzt
akzeptiert.
http://www.pgcon.org/2008/papers.php

Die BSD und PostgreSQL Teams haben einen gemeinsamen Developer Room auf
der FOSDEM 2008 in Brüssel. Wenn du einen Vortrag halten möchtest oder
beim Managing des Rooms helfen möchtest, kontaktiere fosdem(at)pgug(dot)eu(dot)
Für mehr Informationen siehe:
http://fosdem.org/2008/schedule/devroom/bsdpostgresql

PostgreSQL Conference East '08 ist am 29. und 30. März an der
Universität von Maryland, College Park.
http://www.postgresqlconference.org/

FISL 9.0 findet vom 17. bis 19. April 2008 auf der PUCRS in Porto
Alegre, Brasilien statt. Vorträge sind bis zum 11. Januar 2008
einzureichen.
https://fisl.softwarelivre.org/9.0/

== PostgreSQL in den News ==

Planet PostgreSQL: http://www.planetpostgresql.org/

General Bits, Archive und gelegentliche News Artikel:
http://www.varlena.com/GeneralBits/

Dieser wöchentliche PostgreSQL Newsletter wurde erstellt von David
Fetter

Sende Neuigkeiten und Ankündigungen bis Sonntag, 15 Uhr Pazifischer
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== Angewandte Patches ==

Michael Meskes committed:

- In ecpg, fixed a few minor glitches pointed out by splint.

Magnus Hagander committed:

- Make all msvc build scripts use buildenv.pl, not buildenv.bat.
Andrew Dunstan

- In pgsql/src/tools/msvc/clean.bat, remove unnecessary logo output
from msbuild when cleaning ecpg regression test outputs.

- On win32, loop when opening files if sharing- or lock-violation
errors occur. Hopefully, this will make it possible to recover from
broken antivirus and/or backup software that locks our files.

- In pgsql/src/interfaces/libpq/Makefile, libpq needs pgsleep on win32
because of the changes to port/open.c.

Andrew Dunstan committed:

- In pgsql/src/backend/utils/adt/oracle_compat.c, fix thinko in
encoding check for chr().

Alvaro Herrera committed:

- In pgsql/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml, improve wording re: OOM killer.

Bruce Momjian committed:

- In pgsql/doc/src/sgml/backup.sgml, update archive_command example to
use || test, rather than if [].

- Remove tab in SGML file.

- Update pg_ctl/kill docs.

- Modify pgindent to use an external typedefs file rather than
included list. Remove pgjindent.

- In pgsql/src/tools/find_typedef, update find_typedefs to handle
simple 'typedef X' cases, per request from Tom Lane.

- Remove paragraph about Linux OOM killer and fork(). Instead link to
article about OOM.

- In pgsql/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml, properly indent SGML paragraph.

Tom Lane committed:

- Some desultory copy-editing on the backup/restore docs.

- Make path_recv() and poly_recv() reject paths/polygons containing no
points. The zero-point case is sensible so far as the data
structure is concerned, so maybe we ought to allow it sometime; but
right now the textual input routines for these types don't allow it,
and it seems that not all the functions for the types are prepared
to cope. Report and patch by Merlin Moncure. Back-patched to 7.4.

- Make archiver process report its progress in PS display. Per
proposal by Simon Riggs, though not exactly his patch.

- When given a nonzero column number, pg_get_indexdef() is only
supposed to print the index key variable or expression for that
column. It was mistakenly printing ASC/DESC/NULLS FIRST/NULLS LAST
decoration too --- and not only for the target column, but all
columns. Someday we should have an option to extract that info (and
the opclass decoration as well) for a single index column ... but
today is not that day. Per bug #3829 and subsequent discussion.

- In pgsql/doc/src/sgml/func.sgml, fix a small typo, per Jan Urbanski.

== Abgelehnte Patches (bis jetzt) ==

Gokulakannan Somasun's patch for NULL bitmap optimization on grounds
of lack of evidence for its efficacy and correctness.

== Eingesandte Patches ==

--
Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum
Deutsche PostgreSQL User Group: http://www.pgug.de
DPWN: http://ads.wars-nicht.de/blog/categories/18-PWN