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diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release-8.2.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release-8.2.sgml index 2dd49d6a063..0a9ee5031af 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/release-8.2.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/release-8.2.sgml @@ -1,11 +1,143 @@ <!-- doc/src/sgml/release-8.2.sgml --> <!-- See header comment in release.sgml about typical markup --> + <sect1 id="release-8-2-21"> + <title>Release 8.2.21</title> + + <note> + <title>Release Date</title> + <simpara>2011-04-18</simpara> + </note> + + <para> + This release contains a variety of fixes from 8.2.20. + For information about new features in the 8.2 major release, see + <xref linkend="release-8-2">. + </para> + + <sect2> + <title>Migration to Version 8.2.21</title> + + <para> + A dump/restore is not required for those running 8.2.X. + However, if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 8.2.14, + see the release notes for 8.2.14. + </para> + + </sect2> + + <sect2> + <title>Changes</title> + + <itemizedlist> + + <listitem> + <para> + Avoid potential deadlock during catalog cache initialization + (Nikhil Sontakke) + </para> + + <para> + In some cases the cache loading code would acquire share lock on a + system index before locking the index's catalog. This could deadlock + against processes trying to acquire exclusive locks in the other, + more standard order. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix dangling-pointer problem in <literal>BEFORE ROW UPDATE</> trigger + handling when there was a concurrent update to the target tuple + (Tom Lane) + </para> + + <para> + This bug has been observed to result in intermittent <quote>cannot + extract system attribute from virtual tuple</> failures while trying to + do <literal>UPDATE RETURNING ctid</>. There is a very small probability + of more serious errors, such as generating incorrect index entries for + the updated tuple. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Disallow <command>DROP TABLE</> when there are pending deferred trigger + events for the table (Tom Lane) + </para> + + <para> + Formerly the <command>DROP</> would go through, leading to + <quote>could not open relation with OID nnn</> errors when the + triggers were eventually fired. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix PL/Python memory leak involving array slices (Daniel Popowich) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix <application>pg_restore</> to cope with long lines (over 1KB) in + TOC files (Tom Lane) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Put in more safeguards against crashing due to division-by-zero + with overly enthusiastic compiler optimization (Aurelien Jarno) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Support use of dlopen() in FreeBSD and OpenBSD on MIPS (Tom Lane) + </para> + + <para> + There was a hard-wired assumption that this system function was not + available on MIPS hardware on these systems. Use a compile-time test + instead, since more recent versions have it. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix compilation failures on HP-UX (Heikki Linnakangas) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix path separator used by <application>pg_regress</> on Cygwin + (Andrew Dunstan) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Update time zone data files to <application>tzdata</> release 2011f + for DST law changes in Chile, Cuba, Falkland Islands, Morocco, Samoa, + and Turkey; also historical corrections for South Australia, Alaska, + and Hawaii. + </para> + </listitem> + + </itemizedlist> + + </sect2> + </sect1> + <sect1 id="release-8-2-20"> <title>Release 8.2.20</title> <note> - <title>Release date</title> + <title>Release Date</title> <simpara>2011-01-31</simpara> </note> @@ -137,7 +269,7 @@ <title>Release 8.2.19</title> <note> - <title>Release date</title> + <title>Release Date</title> <simpara>2010-12-16</simpara> </note> @@ -381,7 +513,7 @@ <title>Release 8.2.18</title> <note> - <title>Release date</title> + <title>Release Date</title> <simpara>2010-10-04</simpara> </note> @@ -667,7 +799,7 @@ <title>Release 8.2.17</title> <note> - <title>Release date</title> + <title>Release Date</title> <simpara>2010-05-17</simpara> </note> @@ -868,7 +1000,7 @@ <title>Release 8.2.16</title> <note> - <title>Release date</title> + <title>Release Date</title> <simpara>2010-03-15</simpara> </note> @@ -1139,7 +1271,7 @@ <title>Release 8.2.15</title> <note> - <title>Release date</title> + <title>Release Date</title> <simpara>2009-12-14</simpara> </note> @@ -1383,7 +1515,7 @@ <title>Release 8.2.14</title> <note> - <title>Release date</title> + <title>Release Date</title> <simpara>2009-09-09</simpara> </note> @@ -1613,7 +1745,7 @@ <title>Release 8.2.13</title> <note> - <title>Release date</title> + <title>Release Date</title> <simpara>2009-03-16</simpara> </note> @@ -1779,7 +1911,7 @@ <title>Release 8.2.12</title> <note> - <title>Release date</title> + <title>Release Date</title> <simpara>2009-02-02</simpara> </note> @@ -1958,7 +2090,7 @@ <title>Release 8.2.11</title> <note> - <title>Release date</title> + <title>Release Date</title> <simpara>2008-11-03</simpara> </note> @@ -2142,7 +2274,7 @@ <title>Release 8.2.10</title> <note> - <title>Release date</title> + <title>Release Date</title> <simpara>2008-09-22</simpara> </note> @@ -2374,7 +2506,7 @@ <title>Release 8.2.9</title> <note> - <title>Release date</title> + <title>Release Date</title> <simpara>2008-06-12</simpara> </note> @@ -2441,7 +2573,7 @@ <title>Release 8.2.8</title> <note> - <title>Release date</title> + <title>Release Date</title> <simpara>never released</simpara> </note> @@ -2636,7 +2768,7 @@ <title>Release 8.2.7</title> <note> - <title>Release date</title> + <title>Release Date</title> <simpara>2008-03-17</simpara> </note> @@ -2905,7 +3037,7 @@ <title>Release 8.2.6</title> <note> - <title>Release date</title> + <title>Release Date</title> <simpara>2008-01-07</simpara> </note> @@ -3196,7 +3328,7 @@ <title>Release 8.2.5</title> <note> - <title>Release date</title> + <title>Release Date</title> <simpara>2007-09-17</simpara> </note> @@ -3373,7 +3505,7 @@ <title>Release 8.2.4</title> <note> - <title>Release date</title> + <title>Release Date</title> <simpara>2007-04-23</simpara> </note> @@ -3517,7 +3649,7 @@ <title>Release 8.2.3</title> <note> - <title>Release date</title> + <title>Release Date</title> <simpara>2007-02-07</simpara> </note> @@ -3563,7 +3695,7 @@ <title>Release 8.2.2</title> <note> - <title>Release date</title> + <title>Release Date</title> <simpara>2007-02-05</simpara> </note> @@ -3721,7 +3853,7 @@ <title>Release 8.2.1</title> <note> - <title>Release date</title> + <title>Release Date</title> <simpara>2007-01-08</simpara> </note> @@ -3856,7 +3988,7 @@ <title>Release 8.2</title> <note> - <title>Release date</title> + <title>Release Date</title> <simpara>2006-12-05</simpara> </note> diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release-8.3.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release-8.3.sgml index c0595ab5df0..bccc141a549 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/release-8.3.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/release-8.3.sgml @@ -1,11 +1,174 @@ <!-- doc/src/sgml/release-8.3.sgml --> <!-- See header comment in release.sgml about typical markup --> + <sect1 id="release-8-3-15"> + <title>Release 8.3.15</title> + + <note> + <title>Release Date</title> + <simpara>2011-04-18</simpara> + </note> + + <para> + This release contains a variety of fixes from 8.3.14. + For information about new features in the 8.3 major release, see + <xref linkend="release-8-3">. + </para> + + <sect2> + <title>Migration to Version 8.3.15</title> + + <para> + A dump/restore is not required for those running 8.3.X. + However, if you are upgrading from a version earlier than 8.3.8, + see the release notes for 8.3.8. + </para> + + </sect2> + + <sect2> + <title>Changes</title> + + <itemizedlist> + + <listitem> + <para> + Disallow including a composite type in itself (Tom Lane) + </para> + + <para> + This prevents scenarios wherein the server could recurse infinitely + while processing the composite type. While there are some possible + uses for such a structure, they don't seem compelling enough to + justify the effort required to make sure it always works safely. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Avoid potential deadlock during catalog cache initialization + (Nikhil Sontakke) + </para> + + <para> + In some cases the cache loading code would acquire share lock on a + system index before locking the index's catalog. This could deadlock + against processes trying to acquire exclusive locks in the other, + more standard order. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix dangling-pointer problem in <literal>BEFORE ROW UPDATE</> trigger + handling when there was a concurrent update to the target tuple + (Tom Lane) + </para> + + <para> + This bug has been observed to result in intermittent <quote>cannot + extract system attribute from virtual tuple</> failures while trying to + do <literal>UPDATE RETURNING ctid</>. There is a very small probability + of more serious errors, such as generating incorrect index entries for + the updated tuple. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Disallow <command>DROP TABLE</> when there are pending deferred trigger + events for the table (Tom Lane) + </para> + + <para> + Formerly the <command>DROP</> would go through, leading to + <quote>could not open relation with OID nnn</> errors when the + triggers were eventually fired. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix PL/Python memory leak involving array slices (Daniel Popowich) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix <application>pg_restore</> to cope with long lines (over 1KB) in + TOC files (Tom Lane) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Put in more safeguards against crashing due to division-by-zero + with overly enthusiastic compiler optimization (Aurelien Jarno) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Support use of dlopen() in FreeBSD and OpenBSD on MIPS (Tom Lane) + </para> + + <para> + There was a hard-wired assumption that this system function was not + available on MIPS hardware on these systems. Use a compile-time test + instead, since more recent versions have it. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix compilation failures on HP-UX (Heikki Linnakangas) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix version-incompatibility problem with <application>libintl</> on + Windows (Hiroshi Inoue) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix usage of <application>xcopy</> in Windows build scripts to + work correctly under Windows 7 (Andrew Dunstan) + </para> + + <para> + This affects the build scripts only, not installation or usage. + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Fix path separator used by <application>pg_regress</> on Cygwin + (Andrew Dunstan) + </para> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para> + Update time zone data files to <application>tzdata</> release 2011f + for DST law changes in Chile, Cuba, Falkland Islands, Morocco, Samoa, + and Turkey; also historical corrections for South Australia, Alaska, + and Hawaii. + </para> + </listitem> + + </itemizedlist> + + </sect2> + </sect1> + <sect1 id="release-8-3-14"> <title>Release 8.3.14</title> <note> - <title>Release date</title> + <title>Release Date</title> <simpara>2011-01-31</simpara> </note> @@ -137,7 +300,7 @@ <title>Release 8.3.13</title> <note> - <title>Release date</title> + <title>Release Date</title> <simpara>2010-12-16</simpara> </note> @@ -415,7 +578,7 @@ <title>Release 8.3.12</title> <note> - <title>Release date</title> + <title>Release Date</title> <simpara>2010-10-04</simpara> </note> @@ -778,7 +941,7 @@ <title>Release 8.3.11</title> <note> - <title>Release date</title> + <title>Release Date</title> <simpara>2010-05-17</simpara> </note> @@ -1007,7 +1170,7 @@ <title>Release 8.3.10</title> <note> - <title>Release date</title> + <title>Release Date</title> <simpara>2010-03-15</simpara> </note> @@ -1334,7 +1497,7 @@ <title>Release 8.3.9</title> <note> - <title>Release date</title> + <title>Release Date</title> <simpara>2009-12-14</simpara> </note> @@ -1667,7 +1830,7 @@ <title>Release 8.3.8</title> <note> - <title>Release date</title> + <title>Release Date</title> <simpara>2009-09-09</simpara> </note> @@ -1957,7 +2120,7 @@ <title>Release 8.3.7</title> <note> - <title>Release date</title> + <title>Release Date</title> <simpara>2009-03-16</simpara> </note> @@ -2180,7 +2343,7 @@ <title>Release 8.3.6</title> <note> - <title>Release date</title> + <title>Release Date</title> <simpara>2009-02-02</simpara> </note> @@ -2474,7 +2637,7 @@ <title>Release 8.3.5</title> <note> - <title>Release date</title> + <title>Release Date</title> <simpara>2008-11-03</simpara> </note> @@ -2729,7 +2892,7 @@ <title>Release 8.3.4</title> <note> - <title>Release date</title> + <title>Release Date</title> <simpara>2008-09-22</simpara> </note> @@ -3083,7 +3246,7 @@ <title>Release 8.3.3</title> <note> - <title>Release date</title> + <title>Release Date</title> <simpara>2008-06-12</simpara> </note> @@ -3150,7 +3313,7 @@ <title>Release 8.3.2</title> <note> - <title>Release date</title> + <title>Release Date</title> <simpara>never released</simpara> </note> @@ -3515,7 +3678,7 @@ <title>Release 8.3.1</title> <note> - <title>Release date</title> + <title>Release Date</title> <simpara>2008-03-17</simpara> </note> @@ -3828,7 +3991,7 @@ <title>Release 8.3</title> <note> - <title>Release date</title> + <title>Release Date</title> <simpara>2008-02-04</simpara> </note> |