== PostgreSQL Weekly News - October 03 2010 ==

== PostgreSQL Weekly News - October 03 2010 ==

PgDay.IT 2010 will be in Rome this year December 10th. The Call for
Papers is now open.
http://www.pgday.it/

Talks for JDCon West have been posted.
https://www.postgresqlconference.org/2010/west/talks

Michael Renner will be doing a talk on Database Replication with PostgreSQL 9.0
on the 12th of October at the Metalab in Vienna, Austria. Link & Info in de_AT:
http://metalab.at/wiki/PostgreSQL_repliziert_9.0

== PostgreSQL Product News ==

Another PostgreSQL Diff Tool 2.1, a tool for database diffs, released.
http://apgdiff.startnet.biz/

phpPgAdmin 5.0-beta2, a web-based administrative tool for PostgreSQL, released.
http://phppgadmin.sourceforge.net/

== PostgreSQL Local ==

Early bird registration for JDCon West 2010 is now open.
https://www.postgresqlconference.org/content/pgwest-2010-registration

Call for Papers for PGDay.EU 2010 held on December 6-8 in Stuttgart,
Germany is open.
http://2010.pgday.eu/callforpapers

== PostgreSQL in the News ==

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== Reviews ==

Dean Rasheed reviewed Andrew Dunstan's patch to extend ENUMs.

Hitoshi Harada reviewed Pavel Stehule's patch to add median and
percentile functions, and suggested ways to implement them in the
context of windowing.

Peter Geoghegan reviewed and sent updated patches for the ISN patch
originally by Jan Otto.
== Applied Patches ==

Robert Haas pushed:

- Add "(change requires restart)" note to some postgresql.conf
parameters. Devrim GÜNDÜZ.
http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=2ce003973db82205cec55d596d51e957293019d1

- Add a SECURITY LABEL command. This is intended as infrastructure to
support integration with label-based mandatory access control
systems such as SE-Linux. Further changes (mostly hooks) will be
needed, but this is a big chunk of it. KaiGai Kohei and Robert
Haas.
http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=4d355a8336e0f2265b31d678ffd1ee5cf9e79fae

- Fix duplicate OIDs introduced by SECURITY LABEL patch. Report by
Shigeru Hanada.
http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=eacb22ec476a7bc49bdb2054a76a2b27a429a295

- Adjust pg_archivecleanup docs to match message changes made
2010-06-17. Erik Rijkers.
http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=1f0eb5de9eb56a2eb71cc538f12861b084e7b03b

ITAGAKI Takahiro pushed:

- Add DISCARD to the command_no_begin list for AUTOCOMMIT=off.
Backpatch to 8.3. Reported by Sergey Burladyan.
http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=d08c698d9d47f9d004fd0bb6212ca80259e2fe9c

- Only DISCARD ALL should be in the command_no_begin list. We allowes
DISCARD PLANS and TEMP in a transaction.
http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=62b6aaa40b2abb26edf18d1cd00dffcac090f67a

Andrew Dunstan pushed:

- Fix MSVC builds for dummy_seclabel breakage.
http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=f00847dc012e9c5219ef0e8e212d173d24700275

Alvaro Herrera pushed:

- In doc/src/sgml/ref/security_label.sgml, add missing agg_type
nonterminal description in new reference page.
http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=3bb27fb503b421dae5c5d95d75842bbc048f2fab

Bruce Momjian pushed:

- Add mention of installing pg_upgrade_support in pg_upgrade doc
section title, per suggestion from Ian Barwick.
http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=9c5f4f6cb50dd22028acc0b6f20291a5edcac62b

- Mention in pg_upgrade docs that the proper Win32 service name should
be used. Per report from Harald Armin Massa.
http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=6b44b9ba56e02d63425a8d950ef141bb007745ff

- Mention that pg_upgrade requires write permission in the current
directory. Per report from Harald Armin Massa.
http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=ae9acb677950cf2afa037349b73fa3351d6e1d31

- Properly close files after read file failure to prevent potential
resource leak. Of course, any such failure aborts pg_upgrade, but
might as well be clean about it. Per patch from Grzegorz
Jaskiewicz.
http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=f175884520949fbc52908d2f4b2baacde5906ebc

- Fix leak patch that was using fclose() instead of close().
http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=a1bb570de97c71eba3c1b7a067063e8ba28c41d5

- In pg_upgrade, properly handle oids > 2^31 by using strtoul()
internally rather than atol(). Per report from Brian Hirt
http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=9340fb80b1dba5528c0d16b24985369659a19377

- Use macro atooid() for conversion of strings to oids, per suggestion
from Tom.
http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=807005c024aa57b5af729d021263cbf179fd5121

- Have pg_upgrade use strtoul(), not strtol().
http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=fe61db6f0ceb508357bcddc39b388e2806cf11d0

Tom Lane pushed:

- Fix PlaceHolderVar mechanism's interaction with outer joins. The
point of a PlaceHolderVar is to allow a non-strict expression to be
evaluated below an outer join, after which its value bubbles up like
a Var and can be forced to NULL when the outer join's semantics
require that. However, there was a serious design oversight in
that, namely that we didn't ensure that there was actually a correct
place in the plan tree to evaluate the placeholder :-(. It may be
necessary to delay evaluation of an outer join to ensure that a
placeholder that should be evaluated below the join can be evaluated
there. Per recent bug report from Kirill Simonov. Back-patch to
8.4 where the PlaceHolderVar mechanism was introduced.
http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=eb229505103eb5494c33832d422584bfdee03fc6

- Fix another small oversight in command_no_begin patch. Need a
"return false" to prevent tests from continuing after we've moved
the "query" pointer. As it stood, it'd accept "DROP DISCARD ALL" as
a match.
http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=112c3fc6db62b39ded8965eddce1f4213308b957

- Fix incorrect usage of non-strict OR joinclauses in appendrel
indexscans. By chance I happened to notice that bug #5076 was still
broken in the 8.3 branch, though it worked everywhere else. The
reason is that 8.3's version of adjust_appendrel_attrs_mutator
neglected to adjust RestrictInfo.nullable_relids. This was an
oversight in my patch of 2009-04-16, which I apparently corrected in
the later branches on 2009-08-13 without realizing that it affected
the 8.3 branch as well. By the time the bug report was filed, it
was not reproducible in 8.4. I don't recall if I wrote it off as
already fixed, or it just fell through the cracks; but anyway it's
been a live bug in 8.3 for a year.

- Improve messages for too many private files/dirs. Per Alexey
Parshin.
http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=5ac144d5c2906cc4b45423ac6575653a8df1b3d0

- Update release notes for releases 9.0.1, 8.4.5, 8.3.12, 8.2.18,
8.1.22, 8.0.26, and 7.4.30.
http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=a5683ea0423752cca323e528cb160273ad794054

- Fix back-branch breakage from ill-advised last-minute commit.

- Throw an appropriate error if ALTER COLUMN TYPE finds a dependent
trigger. Actually making this case work, if the column is used in
the trigger's WHEN condition, will take some new code that probably
isn't appropriate to back-patch. For now, just throw a
FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED error rather than allowing control to reach
the "unexpected object" case. Per bug #5688 from Daniel Grace.
Back-patch to 9.0 where the possibility of such a dependency was
introduced.
http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=1f0b62e8c28026f5d1d3693087f7b4aef6a191af

- Remove excess argument to open(2). Many compilers don't complain
about this, but some do, and it's certainly wrong. Back-patch to
8.4 where the error was introduced. Mark Kirkwood.
http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=e77f605d431c488983d6c96cb3513c691bf1907c

- Behave correctly if INSERT ... VALUES is decorated with additional
clauses. In versions 8.2 and up, the grammar allows attaching ORDER
BY, LIMIT, FOR UPDATE, or WITH to VALUES, and hence to INSERT ...
VALUES. But the special-case code for VALUES in
transformInsertStmt() wasn't expecting any of those, and just
ignored them, leading to unexpected results. Rather than complicate
the special-case path, just ensure that the presence of any of those
clauses makes us treat the query as if it had a general SELECT. Per
report from Hitoshi Harada.
http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=3a13f12b3a18da0a61571cb134fdecea03a10d6f

Peter Eisentraut pushed:

- Update ecpglib error code listing. Satoshi Nagayasu
http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=fe48d9471eea6a5e8f8162bfed7d8f7c264904ab

- Add/fix caching on some configure checks
http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=804a786c958d44fdf3b2e2d4774618f919759dc8

- Translation updates for 9.0.1, 8.4.5, 8.3.12, 8.2.18, 8.1.22,
8.0.26, and 7.4.30.

Marc Fournier pushed:

- Tag 9.0.1, 8.4.5, 8.3.12, 8.2.18, 8.1.22, 8.0.26, and 7.4.30.

== Rejected Patches (for now) ==

No one was disappointed this week :-)

== Pending Patches ==

Tom Lane sent in a patch to fix a bug in subquery JOIN ordering.

ITAGAKI Takahiro sent in another revision of the patch to make CLUSTER
operations more efficient.

Grzegorz Jaskiewicz sent in a patch to fix an issue where it's
possible to dereference a null pointer in byteaout().

Greg Smith sent in an updated version of Boxuan Zhai's patch to
implement MERGE.

Bernd Helmle sent in an updated revision of the patch to add triggers
to views.

Pavel Stehule sent in another revision of the patch to add formatting
functions.

Fujii Masao sent in another revision of the patch to change libpq for
synchronous replication.

Andrew Dunstan sent in another revision of the patch to extend ENUMs.

Robert Haas sent in another revision of the patch to implement
merge-append.

Gurjeet Singh sent in a patch to allow people to replace a primary key
with another index.

Pavel Stehule sent in three revisions of a patch to add FOR...IN
[array] to PL/pgsql.

Pavel Stehule sent in a patch to implement a subscripts function.

Gregory Stark sent in a patch to add gtrusage profiling to EXPLAIN
output.

Pavel Stehule sent in three more revisions of a patch to add median
and percentile functions.

Hitoshi Harada sent in another revision of the patch to add DML
(INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE) to the top level of CTEs.